June 18, 2012

Top Headline Comments 6-18-12
— Gabriel Malor

Happy Monday.

European markets' initially rally this morning (after the pro-Euro Greek election this weekend) was brief.

Friday, Russia was sending attack helicopters to Syria. Today, they're sending two troop ships with marines.

Here's some sunscreen and sunburn treatment tips if, like me, you burn easy.

That's all I got. Maybe Vic I'll be by in a bit.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:56 AM | Comments (313)
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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is June 18, 2012.  On this day in 1812 the United States declared war on Great Britain in what became known as the War of 1812.  Neither country needed this war but in the end it did help cement the notion that the U.S. was, in fact, an independent country.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

2 McCain calls lack of aid to Syrian rebels “shameful”.   He and his butt buddy Graham have done everything they can do to get us involved in that civil war. I say kiss my ass you to shit-for-brains.  We donÂ’t have a dog in that fight and the days of us getting involved in every pissant conflict in the world need to come to an end.  What is really shameful is the fact that you are still in office despite being dumber than a bagful of cheap Chinese hammers.

http://is.gd/TPdcX1

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

3 Conservatives win the election in Greece.  What does this mean in the end?  Only time will tell but something tells me that the myth of austerity will continue and any bailout will just delay the inevitable and help drag down Germany.  It is time people realized that socialism and communism do not work.  Either learn and end it, or suffer the consequences.

http://is.gd/eF2FMY

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

4 Parents sue TX school alleging that school officials called their 8 year old son “smelly” and forcibly gave him a shower.  I suspect that all is not as alleged in this suit and we have a case of “jackpot lawyering” here but it does remind me of one thing.  When I was on the Saratoga CV-60 we had an individual who was “smelly” and refused to take a shower.  He got a fire hose shower on the lower level of the machinery spaces.  

http://is.gd/8XPHJI

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

5 Senate Democraps moving forward on yet another home mortgage refinancing bill.  Shit why not?  All the others did not work and are only throwing money in a hole.  LetÂ’s do some more.  The housing market is never going to recover until the government gets its commie hands out of it.  And Fannie and Freddie need to be allowed to go under and the government get out of that business as well.  The big question is how many RINOs will sign on with them.

http://is.gd/EipBbv

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

6 Black racists posing as journalists say the WH is not doing enough to support Holder.  Hey assholes, he isnÂ’t in jail yet, so what more do you want?

http://is.gd/ehdh3t

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

7 Weasel Zippers calling France a socialist State now that the socialists have taken a sizable majority. I have some news for you guys, France has been a socialist State since they cut off Louis XVIÂ’s head in 1793.

http://is.gd/InT093

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

8 Egyptian Hamas now firing missiles at Israel.  And we are giving them money.

http://is.gd/YRRP99

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

9 WaPO crying bloody crocodile tears over lack of chicken workers in Alabama since new law on illegal migrants. These kinds of articles always make me laugh as they complain about workers and “jobs Americans will not do”.  None of these liberal assholes will say the real problem.  Americans will not do it for peanuts.  What really gets me is the damn liberal papers should be praising these laws because it helps raise the wages of poor unskilled people in this country.   It just shows that the average knowledge base of liberals is lower than the pay scale for illegals in chicken plants.

http://is.gd/qJbh3t

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:59 AM (YdQQY)

10 ThatÂ’s about it for news this morning.  So no Gabe, there is just not a lot out there on Mondays.


One thing to keep in mind is that the Supreme Court may release decisions on Obamacare and the AZ illegals law today.  Last Monday SCOTUSBLOG did live blogging for the decisions released then.  I suspect they will do it again today.  Here is a link.

http://is.gd/1fEacL

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 02:59 AM (YdQQY)

11 Morning Vic, and apparently no one else yet.

Posted by: Gmac at June 18, 2012 02:59 AM (gvsEu)

12 Washington Times (the "good" Times): Unemployed lawyers sue schools over promises of jobs Awww...the class of 2012 graduates with Class Action status. No cush law firm job? Sue your school! http://bit.ly/MlbkfE

Posted by: BP NJ at June 18, 2012 03:02 AM (ph70Q)

13 I guess not.  There were still a couple over on the ONT which looks like it will not make 400.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:02 AM (YdQQY)

14 we need rain in Southern Virginia

Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 18, 2012 03:04 AM (p3a8+)

15 You can have some of ours.  We have had a lot.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:04 AM (YdQQY)

16 Pardon my manners. Good Morning news fans.

Posted by: BP NJ at June 18, 2012 03:04 AM (ph70Q)

17 Good Morning Vic. Thanks for the first laugh of the day. Not just dumber than a bag of hammers but cheap chinese hammers? Wow.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 03:05 AM (9TTOe)

18 Yeah, and contaminated with lead paint too!

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:05 AM (YdQQY)

19 McCain calls lack of aid to Syrian rebels “shameful”. He and his butt buddy Graham have done everything they can do to get us involved in that civil war. I say kiss my ass you to shit-for-brains. We don’t have a dog in that fight and the days of us getting involved in every pissant conflict in the world need to come to an end. What is really shameful is the fact that you are still in office despite being dumber than a bagful of cheap Chinese hammers.

http://is.gd/TPdcX1

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:57 AM (YdQQY)

Hey, there's no reason to sully our good name by comparing us to that loser.

Posted by: Chinese Hammers at June 18, 2012 03:06 AM (lxc0s)

20 I'm glad I got educated and am now considered a smart hammer

Posted by: Expensive Japanese Hammers at June 18, 2012 03:08 AM (YdQQY)

21 BTW folks those SCOTUS announcements usually occur at 10 a.m.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:10 AM (YdQQY)

22 Black racists posing as journalists say the WH is not doing enough to support Holder.


My question is where are the La Raza cocksuckers bitching about at least a couple hundred dead Mexicans thanks to the chinless pinworm trying to gin up support for disarming the citizenry.  First the fucking beandips didn't support George Zimmerman for whatever bullshit reason and now can't generate one iota of outrage about arming the drug cartel shitheads so that innocent Mexicans get aerated.  Just who the fuck's interests are these pricks representing other than donk cumdumpsters.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 03:18 AM (fpjlD)

23 Posted by: BP NJ at June 18, 2012 07:02 AM (ph70Q)


Good to see that those lawyers have learned something useful--sue everything in sight and hope a case or two sticks.  I bet they will not want to go to a jury trial.

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 18, 2012 03:18 AM (i3+c5)

24

Thanks, Gabe and Vic.

 

Today is the birthday of  Mae Busch, an Austrailian actress who began her career at the Keystone studio in a number of Mack Sennett two-reelers.  Famously, she broke up the engagement between Sennett and his star comedienne Mabel Normand when Normand found the two of them in bed together.  She then moved on to MGM, but walked out on her contract in 1926 and had a nervous breakdown.  If you've ever seen the Laurel and Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert, she's Hardy's wife.

 

Like they said - not much today.  Hope all you 'rons and 'ronettes have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Clitoris at June 18, 2012 03:19 AM (zF6Iw)

25 Greetings. "Enjoying" my delicious breakfast of white cranberry juice and miralax. Num num. So far, this hasn't been that bad except for the unpredictability of it, ahem, and the sleep deprivation. My freckles protect me from most bad burns, but I got a really bad one a couple of decades ago when my old lab was fishing on lake Michigan. Not fun.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:19 AM (5H6zj)

26 I'm not for rushing into Syria either, but we seem rather placid about Russian troop deployment to the Middle East. Given our own constant intervention lately, we don't exactly have legal high ground, but I recall in 73 Nixon had a much tougher response--something like a DEFCON 3 nuclear alert.

Was that appropriate then or would it be appropriate now? I'm not the Prez, but it certainly seems as though we shouldn't be saying, "Whatever. Knock yourself out."

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at June 18, 2012 03:19 AM (KDWMI)

27 So what's the Wawa reference I keep seeing on Twitter? Something about Mitt. IIRC Wawa is a regional version of 7-11. What happened?

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:23 AM (5H6zj)

28 Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at June 18, 2012 07:19 AM (KDWMI)

Comrade, Vlad asked me to be a bit more flexible BEFORE the election, so...

Posted by: Barky O at June 18, 2012 03:23 AM (i3+c5)

29 but I recall in 73 Nixon had a much tougher response--something like a DEFCON 3 nuclear alert.


Yeah we sealed up the ship and headed that way at a flank bell that time.  It wasn't just troops, they have had "ground advisers" over there for a long time.  The word then was that they were supplying pilots and flying missions against Israel.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:23 AM (YdQQY)

30 20 I'm glad I got educated and am now considered a smart hammer
Posted by: Expensive Japanese Hammer

I thought I was smart, but as it turns out, not so much.

Posted by: MC Hammer at June 18, 2012 03:24 AM (YXmuI)

31 well, the important thing is this: now that Russia is getting involved in Syria (if true), we can say, well, if you'll stay out, we'll stay out. Putin says "Da", Hillary proudly shows off a meaningless agreement, and Kelly Conlon say his/her professor said it was the right thing to do. Jerks and kudos all around.

Posted by: mallfly at June 18, 2012 03:24 AM (NI3M5)

32 Via twitter: @lr3031 Romney wonÂ’t say heÂ’ll overturn immigration order? @CowboyByte http://t.co/uAQJWqXF

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:28 AM (5H6zj)

33 My question is where are the La Raza cocksuckers bitching about at least a couple hundred dead Mexicans thanks to the chinless pinworm trying to gin up support for disarming the citizenry.


And people like Rubio think that if we pander to these shitheads we can get them to vote Republican. Almost all of the Hispanics flooding across the border now are Mexicans and a smattering of other from Central and South America.  They are not the anti-communist Cubans of the 50s and 60s.


90% of the current flood love them some welfare and Democrats which is why we need to end this flow of bullshit.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:28 AM (YdQQY)

34 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 07:18 AM (fpjlD) What I have noticed about La Raza and other orgs like them is after you scrape away the bullshit it's someone wanting something for free. They will support someone if there is something in it for them. Free money, land, education, citizenship, healthcare always something for free. A couple hundred Dead mexicans and a controversial half breed mexican working class vigilante don't get others paid, they do not give a crap.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 03:29 AM (9TTOe)

35 Morning, 'rons..

Colonoscopy, Y-Not? The prep is the worst part of it..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 18, 2012 03:31 AM (UTq/I)

36 States would not have to waste their time passing laws dealing with illegal workers if the Feds would do their job in the first place.  And the Federal Government sticks their nose into State business all the damn time.  Seems like Washington wants to do everything but the jobs they are suppose to do.

Posted by: Case at June 18, 2012 03:32 AM (GxTMf)

37 The MFM is hitting Romney on no response because they figured no matter what he said they could twist it to support for Obama.

Romney should restrict all comments about it to nothing more than Obama's XO is illegal and bypasses congress. Of course the MFM will not report that.


As I said way back in the beginning of the primnaries, the MFM will always support the Republican moderates in the primaries and then tuurn on them like rabid dogs once the primary is over. 

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:33 AM (YdQQY)

38 Here's something: Ewok arrested for flashing on train. http://tinyurl.com/7e6nrdk

Posted by: real joe at June 18, 2012 03:34 AM (PD2ad)

39 @35 Yep, today at noon. Took a long time (>4 hrs) for the miralax to kick in yesterday. Really not that bad so far, just annoying. I think for a guy it wouldn't be much of a problem, but drinking that huge volume of fluid is a pain in the... well, you know!

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:34 AM (5H6zj)

40 #12  That is interesting.  I know it sounds like whiny lawyer types suing,  but there is something to be said about holding schools accountable for their recruiting tactics.  Back in the 1970's I took a beginning education course as an elective and was heavily recruited by the head of the department to declare education as my major.  He blatantly lied to me and said there were plenty of good jobs available.

My mother was the dean of a small private college at the time and she had education graduates,  good students,  who could only get jobs at Indian reservations in North Dakota or southside Chicago.  I had no prospects of moving as my husband was employed,  and those were NOT good jobs.  I realized then that they will LIE about jobs in order to keep their numbers of students large and the budget money rolling in.

My daughter has a useless Masters in Library Science through this same trap.   I did not know she was entering grad school until it was a done deal (she was married at the time) and I asked her if she had checked out job prospects.  Again,  the university lied about the number of placements they got,  and I didn't realize she had not investigated independently.  (We parents tend to try not to interfere when children are grown and married.) 

So my personal position is that if this lawsuit makes schools a bit nervous,  it's a good thing.  And for parents,  before your child invests heavily in a major,  check out the job prospects through scources other than the college or university.

Posted by: Miss Marple at June 18, 2012 03:34 AM (GoIUi)

41 As far as Americans not working for the same wages as illegals is say.. No.. DUH!

The flood of millions of illegal workers have kept prices artificially low for decades.  Do you think there would be a "Dollar Menu" at McDonalds if their kitchen wasn't filled with illegals?

So, I say pay Americans to cut up your chickens and I'll pay the real price... more than likely, you will find a way to automate most of the process, something your industry hasn't wanted to invest in because you have cheap immigrant labor.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 18, 2012 03:34 AM (UTq/I)

42 90% of the current flood love them some welfare and Democrats which is why we need to end this flow of bullshit.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 07:28 AM (YdQQY)


When a Republican candidate (Gov Perry) called an attempt to reign in a minimal aspect of the problems caused by illegal immigration heartless, the fate of our erstwhile national integrity was sealed.

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 18, 2012 03:35 AM (i3+c5)

43 "He(Romney) explained the order would become irrelevant “by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution, with legislation which creates law that relates to these individuals such that they know what their setting is going to be, not just for the term of a president but on a permanent basis.”

Sounds reasonable. Seal the border(which he has stated will be his priority) then deal with the illegals here through legislation. No one will be happy entirely, but there it is.

I don't see how he could have played this differently, without being pegged as a 'racist'. He's not falling for the trap.  Good for him, although I know this can drive some folks nuts.

Posted by: Lizabth at June 18, 2012 03:36 AM (JZBti)

44 Y-not they are giving you miralax for a colonoscapy???

That seems a little weak. They cave me a big jug of stuff plus two pills.  I was on the toilet all afternoon.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:36 AM (YdQQY)

45 Romney should restrict all comments about it to nothing more than Obama's XO is illegal and bypasses congress. ---- Trouble with that is Mitt's promise to us stupid conservatives that he'll use XO on Obamacare. I think he needs to point out the lunacy of adding people to the unemployment rolls.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:36 AM (5H6zj)

46 controversial half breed mexican working class vigilante

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 07:29 AM (9TTOe)


Cuban.


And everyone knows when shouting "Viva la Raza" that doesn't mean including the Cubans.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2012 03:36 AM (4ixH5)

47 >>That seems a little weak. Half a bottle yesterday with 4 dulcolax (two doses over four hours) and now another half bottle of miralax today. Seems to be a pretty standard type of prep from what I've read.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:37 AM (5H6zj)

48 I am certain that the Obamacare decision will come down today.  Why?  Because I'm going to be stuck in an all day meeting sans access to you jackwagons, that's why.  Stupid having to work at work.



Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 03:37 AM (Gk3SS)

49 22 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 07:18 AM (fpjlD) Wow! Like a machine gun of pejoratives! Me likey!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 03:37 AM (MCDCp)

50 Y-not--MoviPrep beats the heck out of Miralax.  But it's prescription and not covered by many insurance programs.

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 18, 2012 03:38 AM (i3+c5)

51 Trouble with that is Mitt's promise to us stupid conservatives that he'll use XO on Obamacare.


He already has an Obama precedent for that. OBama has issued waivers for nearly every union group in the country.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:38 AM (YdQQY)

52 @42 That's an interesting spin on the issue. I think I'll leave this thread for something more pleasant.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 03:39 AM (5H6zj)

53 The stuff I got was prescription.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:40 AM (YdQQY)

54 Weasel Zippers has some hilarious pictures of the First Dysfunctional Family showing up for Lizard Queen Jarrett's spawn's marriage.  Leaving aside the extremely poor taste of Mooch trying to cover her fat ass with something inappropriate for the occasion and Satchel and Malaria looking miserable, the JEF obviously wants to be somewhere else where he's the center of attention.  Plus 200 police being deployed for security?  Good thing Shitcargo is so fucking crime free that all those doughnut consumption devices could be spared::rolleyes::

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 03:40 AM (fpjlD)

55 @48: haven't you mastered multislacking?

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 03:41 AM (bhCXu)

56 Today's celebrity birthdays: Sammy Cahn E.G. Marshall (hated cockroaches) Red Adair (good with his hose) Michael Sheard ("Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of light speed and we're preparing to **arrghhh**") Roger Ebert (irrelevant reviews) Paul McCartney (too much weed) Nick Tate (Commander Koenig's best Eagle pilot, also an accomplished voice-over artist) Carol Kane ("Myth! Myth!" "Yes?") Isabella Rossellini (her mom was awesome) Brian Benben (Dream On) Alison Moyet (nice pipes) Alana de la Garza (Law & Order) Blake Shelton

Posted by: Gran at June 18, 2012 03:42 AM (p8FXV)

57 Posted by: Miss Marple at June 18, 2012 07:34 AM (GoIUi) Yep, as hard as it is to admit. I got suckered by the UNC Wilmington Watson School of Education. I spent a bunch of money and ended up with a Teaching certification. When I went to look for full time jobs the Schools would not hire anyone from the program I was involved in, the NC Teach program. I thought it was just me but there were so many others. A few people did get jobs but it was very incestuous. Husbands and wives of current teachers and administrators. I don't believe in suing for my own dumbass mistakes. I trusted a University. That was a dumbass mistake.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 03:43 AM (9TTOe)

58 44 Y-not they are giving you miralax for a colonoscapy??? That seems a little weak. They cave me a big jug of stuff plus two pills. I was on the toilet all afternoon. Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 07:36 AM (YdQQY) Miralax was brilliant. Cheap, over the counter and no taste at all; just mix it with Gatorade. My new doctor prescribed something called Movie-Prep which tastes like Sweet 'n Low mixed with seawater. Utterly vile and you have to chug a liter of it at one sitting. By the way, the reason I switched doctors was because the anesthesiologist was implicated in using dirty needles and spreading cases of Hep A,B,C and HIV. I'll never forget the day I got a letter from the Dept. of Health...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 03:43 AM (MCDCp)

59

via Drudge, different Idiot alert:

The Prince of Wales has warned of the "catastrophic" consequences of inaction on issues such as climate change, at a UN sustainability conference in Brazil.

Prince Charles said he had "watched in despair" at the slow pace of progress on the "critical issues of the day," in a pre-recorded video address in Rio.

He urged world leaders to adopt a more integrated approach to issues such as climate change and food security

Posted by: mallfly at June 18, 2012 03:44 AM (NI3M5)

60 By the way, the reason I switched doctors was because the anesthesiologist was implicated in using dirty needles and spreading cases of Hep A,B,C and HIV.


WOW, why wasn't he sued out of existence?

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:44 AM (YdQQY)

61 Today's celebrity deaths: Roald Amundsen (brrrrr) Pedro Armendáriz (From Russia With Love) Nancy Marchand (Tony Soprano's mom) Clarence Clemons (1 yr ago today) RIP.

Posted by: Gran at June 18, 2012 03:47 AM (p8FXV)

62 I think the anesthesiologist was de-frocked. The doc didn't know about it evidently as the guy worked all over the tri-state area. I had to get a couple of extra blood tests but I dodged a bullet. I was thinking about suing for mental distress, but ultimately let it go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 03:48 AM (MCDCp)

63 By the way, the reason I switched doctors was because the anesthesiologist was implicated in using dirty needles and spreading cases of Hep A,B,C and HIV.

I'll never forget the day I got a letter from the Dept. of Health...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 07:43 AM (MCDCp)



Holy fucking shit; what kind of lowlife would do something like that?  The hospitals provide the needles gratis, no?  If I was one of his victims I don't think I could control myself from killing the cocksucker on my own.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 03:48 AM (fpjlD)

64 Cuban. And everyone knows when shouting "Viva la Raza" that doesn't mean including the Cubans. Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2012 07:36 AM (4ixH5) Cuban? Should have known. It intresting that black orgs are not racist like that. Jamaican, nigerian or south American. Black is black. The fact that La Raza parses the Latino community is intresting.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 03:48 AM (9TTOe)

65 61 Posted by: Gran at June 18, 2012 07:47 AM (p8FXV) I like your commentary; like very concise bios/obits. And it should have been the bastard Armendariz from the EPA.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 03:49 AM (MCDCp)

66

saw on Yahoo:

"One of the most lasting legacies President Obama will likely hand over to his successor, whether in 2013 or in 2017, is the use of drone aircrafts for targeted killings."

Wasn't Bush doing that before O got into office..? Maybe when Bush did it, it didn't count, because he was selected, not elected.

Posted by: mallfly at June 18, 2012 03:49 AM (NI3M5)

67 64 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 07:48 AM (9TTOe) American Black folk here in NYC do not really mix well with Hatians and Jamaicans. The immigrants are generally hard working and have strong Christian and family values. At least when they first get here. About the only time they give a shit is when Sharpton and company smell an opportunity - Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 03:52 AM (MCDCp)

68 The fact that La Raza parses the Latino community is intresting.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 07:48 AM (9TTOe)


Yeah, black is black because it's a real race.  "Latino" or "hispanic" or whatever, it's made up BS.  If I made up my own race I'd be pretty selective, too.


Females with cup sizes smaller than C would automatically be rejected.  Viva la Breastesses!

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2012 03:53 AM (4ixH5)

69 Should we be on the lookout for SCOTUS decisions starting today?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 03:53 AM (MCDCp)

70 "One of the most lasting legacies President Obama will likely hand over to his successor, whether in 2013 or in 2017, is the use ofdrone aircrafts for targeted killings."
Wasn't Bush doing that before O got into office..? Maybe when Bush did it, it didn't count was an outrageous war crime, because he was selected, not elected.

Posted by: mallfly at June 18, 2012 07:49 AM (NI3M5)

 

FTFY

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 03:54 AM (Iaxlk)

71

speaking of Idiots in Rio:

"An international body claiming to represent the world's scientists has issued a set of demands ahead of the "Rio+20" summit this month. In essence the would-be spokesmen say that people should largely stop having babies, old folk should be put to work and most modern technology should be suppressed. The rich nations of the world should accept a much lower standard of living, while poor ones should accept that their scope for improving their lot will be sharply limited, forever."

from the Register, link in name

Posted by: mallfly at June 18, 2012 03:55 AM (NI3M5)

72 So at 10:01AM Eastern we should see Chrissy Matthews suffer a meltdown?  I need more popcorn.

As for the Greek vote, so what.  Hollande's France wants to print more money and there is a G20 meeting.  So the EU house of fraud still stands an excellent chance of collapsing.

Meanwhile Facebook agrees to pay $10 million to charity to head off a class action.  You see people sued Facebook because of the Like function for companies like Wal-Mart and Target meanth their freinds got ad spam for such companies and there was no opt-out function.  $10 million to charity.  Talk about cheap.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 03:56 AM (sdna4)

73 The immigrants are generally hard working and have strong Christian and family values. At least when they first get here.


Troo 'dat.  At least a significant percentage of them come regarding this as the land of opportunity for the right reasons until popular culture, commiecrats and the MFM leach it out of them.  The dogshit public indoctrination centers don't help either.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 03:56 AM (fpjlD)

74 Females with cup sizes smaller than C would automatically be rejected. Viva la Breastesses!

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2012 07:53 AM (4ixH5)

 

I susbscribe to the view that mammaries size B or below tend to be more sensitive and responsive.  Also, it seems that what more modestly endowed gals lack in cup size tends to be compensated for in their caboose section.

You have to weigh these different factors judiciously, Robert.  Preferably, using both hands.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 03:56 AM (Iaxlk)

75 Yeah, black is black because it's a real race. "Latino" or "hispanic" or whatever, it's made up BS. If I made up my own race I'd be pretty selective, too. Females with cup sizes smaller than C would automatically be rejected. Viva la Breastesses! Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2012 07:53 AM (4ixH5) Didn't some Austrian guy in the late 30's try that?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 03:57 AM (9TTOe)

76 Should we be on the lookout for SCOTUS decisions starting today?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 07:53 AM (MCDCp)


See post #10

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 03:57 AM (YdQQY)

77

Well... any predictions about the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling?  Looks like it may well come forth today...

Based on Ginsburg's coy preening in the front of the media... I get the feeling that Kennedy sided with her and her fellow lefties and NOTHING will get thrown out.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 03:58 AM (Iaxlk)

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

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 03:59 AM (8y9MW)

79 #44 - That's cause your turds are industrial, Vic. No lie, that anesthesiologist should have been up on criminal charges.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 03:59 AM (noqys)

80 I get the feeling that Kennedy sided with her and her fellow lefties and NOTHING will get thrown out.

Please don't harsh my mellow this early in the morning.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:00 AM (8y9MW)

81 Based on Ginsburg's coy preening in the front of the media... I get the feeling that Kennedy sided with her and her fellow lefties and NOTHING will get thrown out.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 07:58 AM (Iaxlk)


I got the opposite feeling because of her "sharp disagreement" statement.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:00 AM (YdQQY)

82 Amusing Schadenfreude would be a world in which the FBI arrested the DoJ leadership under RICO for Fast and Furious.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:00 AM (sdna4)

83 In other news this Monday morning, Rodney King: Still Dead.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 04:01 AM (Iaxlk)

84 I get the feeling that Kennedy sided with her and her fellow lefties and NOTHING will get thrown out. I didn't get that vibe watching her. I got just the opposite vibe. Like she had failed.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 04:01 AM (9TTOe)

85 Industrial SAR?  Hah, that afternoon there were no turds, only squirts.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:01 AM (YdQQY)

86

also from yahoo: how many of us have been saying this for some months now? (By the way, I got a response here that "yahoo has been banned." Really)

Golfer in Chief? Obama Hits 100th Time on the Links

Posted by: mallfly at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (NI3M5)

87 Syria is a choice between rebel islamists and secular socialists in the service to Islamists in Tehran. SS, DD.

Posted by: nickless at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (MMC8r)

88 BTW, I had to do that again and not for a colonoscapy, for a lower GI scan.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (YdQQY)

89 We should stay the heck out of Syria.

Its cruel and heartless, but as long as that country is wracked by civil war Baby Doc Assad is not screwing other countries like Lebanon.  And it deprives Iran of one cats-paw.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (sdna4)

90 #77 Yeah, that's my feeling too. Things have been looking too positive. Oh hi everyone and good morning from Mexican Drug Cartel war zone, ie, South Texas. Still holding the fort. Got a bit of rain last night, much needed and appreciated. Need about ten inches more.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (noqys)

91 So, for those interested- Friday's emergency exit was because my wife's BP was so high she was being checked into the ER in Abilene (she was there with my kids so they could see my parents).  Apparently it reached 190-something over 90-something.

And I was 4 hours away.

Not a fun position in which to find oneself.

Things are more or less under control now, and she already had an appointment with a cardiologist for her high BP set for this Friday.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (8y9MW)

92 I got the opposite feeling because of her "sharp disagreement" statement.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 08:00 AM (YdQQY)

 

I sure you hope you're right, Vic.  However, Ruth seemed to be taking pleasure in asserting that all "the speculation" about different parts of Obamacare being repealed is wrong.

Well... there's been very little speculation about the law NOT being repealed.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 04:02 AM (Iaxlk)

93 So the gubmint is experimenting on humans once again, this time by that bastion of dumfuks known as the EPA:
 
A full report on the research study shows that 41 other people were exposed to what the EPA says are harmful or lethal levels of small particles, with some enduring up to 10 times the EPAÂ’s declared safe level of 35 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The EPA human experiments described were conducted from January 2010 to June 2011, according to the information obtained by JunkScience.com on a Freedom of Information Act request, and ended three months before Ms. JacksonÂ’s congressional testimony, but she still asserted dramatic claims of PM2.5′s lethality — thousands of deaths at stake and hundreds of billions in economic consequences from the deaths and disabilities caused by small particles.

According to the congressional testimony of Lisa Jackson, these experiments risked the lives of these 42 people.<snip>
 
http://tinyurl.com/794z7v2 (wuwt link)
 

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 18, 2012 04:03 AM (ccXZP)

94 >>What really gets me is the damn liberal papers should be praising these laws because it helps raise the wages of poor unskilled people in this country.

And all those social programs they love so much that get funded with payroll taxes don't get funded when illegal workers are paid under the table.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 18, 2012 04:03 AM (hO8IJ)

95 Golfer in Chief? Obama Hits 100th Time on the Links Had to pretend to be Web Simpson. BTW, Congrats Web, great Job.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 04:03 AM (9TTOe)

96 None of these liberal assholes will say the real problem. Americans will not do it for peanuts.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:59 AM (YdQQY)

 

-----------------

 

Well said Vic. That's the root of it.

 

Also, does anyone know of any site that has an ongoing list up, preferably with links, of all of Obama's law breaking?  Granted, it may not be possible to construct a site so large, but it would be nice. 

 

Posted by: Reactionary at June 18, 2012 04:03 AM (xUM1Q)

97 Based on Ginsburg's coy preening in the front of the media... I get the feeling that Kennedy sided with her and her fellow lefties and NOTHING will get thrown out.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 07:58 AM (Iaxlk)



If that's the case Boehner should immediately submit a bill to defund the fucking thing into obliteration.  It would be perfect in an election year to get every fucking one of the reps to step up and let the voters know exactly where they stand on this deeply unpopular law.  If that weepy fuckhead doesn't do that he should just resign in disgrace for being an inept pile of shit with no leadership skills.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 04:04 AM (fpjlD)

98 That seems a little weak. They cave me a big jug of stuff plus two pills. I was on the toilet all afternoon.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 07:36 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

Maybe some people are just more full of crap than others...  ;-)

Posted by: Insomniac at June 18, 2012 04:04 AM (UH0ly)

99 Man, Vic to have to do that stuff a second time.... geez you have my sincere sympathies. Though when my husband got his first colonoscopy he asked the doc if he found any hamsters. He was so cute under anesthesia.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:05 AM (noqys)

100 Nick Tate (Commander Koenig's best Eagle pilot, also an accomplished voice-over artist) Hey, nice fellow. I've got a pic with him somewhere under a Apollo Command Module at Kennedy Space Center...

Posted by: nickless at June 18, 2012 04:06 AM (MMC8r)

101 So if we don't get the healthcare ruling today, does that mean we definitely get it next Monday? I'm getting a little sick of them sitting on it for months on end.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 04:06 AM (HethX)

102 If that weepy fuckhead doesn't do that he should just resign in disgrace for being an inept pile of shit with no leadership skills. Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 08:04 AM (fpjlD) That weepy fornicatingcranium. IS a useless pile of poop no matter what he does.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 04:06 AM (9TTOe)

103 Syria is a choice between rebel islamists and secular socialists in the service to Islamists in Tehran. SS, DD.

Posted by: nickless at June 18, 2012 08:02 AM (MMC8r)

 

 

 

Exactly.  The more they bleed each other the better.  The only kind of intervention that would make any sense would be to arm both sides and stir up the hate. 

Posted by: Reactionary at June 18, 2012 04:07 AM (xUM1Q)

104 Posted by: GnuBreed at June 18, 2012 08:03 AM (ccXZP)


Sounds like some people,in the EPA need to go to jail too, and not just for scientific fraud.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:07 AM (YdQQY)

105 My gut tells me at least the mandate is getting tossed, and as Scalia said during orals, it would be ridiculous to expect them to re-write the entire 3,000 page abomination and do Congress' work for them. I think Rosie O'Kagan and/or Wiseass Latina spilled the beans last month when SCOAMF told donors at a closed-door fundraiser that "I'll have to fix healthcare in my next term." Ruth Bader-Meinhoff was trying to stoke the anger of the leftists. At least that is what I HOPE is going to happen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:08 AM (MCDCp)

106 Exactly. The more they bleed each other the better. The only kind of intervention that would make any sense would be to arm both sides and stir up the hate. Posted by: Reactionary at June 18, 2012 08:07 AM (xUM1Q) Send in some Aids infected Liberal Reporters for them to rape while your at it. Shep Smith comes to mind.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 04:09 AM (9TTOe)

107

Ruth Bader-Meinhoff

 

 

 

Love it.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 18, 2012 04:09 AM (UH0ly)

108 101 So if we don't get the healthcare ruling today, does that mean we definitely get it next Monday? I'm getting a little sick of them sitting on it for months on end. Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 08:06 AM (HethX) It is supposed to be late this month, so I guess starting today we are more or less in that time frame. By the way, how does the decision come down? Is it like a trial when the jury comes in and the defendant (in this case the Solicitor General) rises as the Chief Justice reads it to his face? Or is it just a press release?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:11 AM (MCDCp)

109 If they don't give it today it will almost have to be next Monday.


Or they could change their policy of only giving rulings on Monday but that is not likely.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:11 AM (YdQQY)

110 Gnubreed re: EPA.  Just substitute syphilis in there and guess what, the Democrats are recreating a piece of shameful history.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:11 AM (sdna4)

111 @107 I had to look that up, I didn't get the reference... now that I do, it's oh so appropriate.

Posted by: Gran at June 18, 2012 04:11 AM (p8FXV)

112 One Rodney King question has finally been answered. M'fkr couldn't swim.

Posted by: BP NJ at June 18, 2012 04:11 AM (ph70Q)

113 I was living just outside of NOLA during Katrina. Once the cleanup started crews advertised for workers at $15-$20/hr. After a few weeks hundreds of illegals were shipped in by subcontractors and on their own to work and live 12 to a room. The work crews quit advertising and the pay dropped to $9-$10/hr. A lot of that work was government subsidized and *wink wink* against the law to hire illegals. A lot of New Orleans natives had lost their income and could have used the work.

Posted by: Hopped up on Something at June 18, 2012 04:11 AM (3Eijz)

114 Oh hi everyone and good morning from Mexican Drug Cartel war zone, ie, South Texas. Still holding the fort

Stay safe.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:12 AM (8y9MW)

115 There's a story out there about Biden's son saying something dumb. Weasel Zippers and the Daily Caller. LOL.

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 04:12 AM (SUKHu)

116 Or is it just a press release?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 08:11 AM (MCDCp)


A clerk reads the opinions I think.  Follow the link at post 10 and they will be live blogging all the rulings released this morning.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:12 AM (YdQQY)

117 107 Posted by: Insomniac at June 18, 2012 08:09 AM (UH0ly) Thanks. It such an obvious name, I was shocked to never see it, so "first!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:12 AM (MCDCp)

118 116 Thanks Vic. Fascinated by the protocol of it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:13 AM (MCDCp)

119 In my country we go to prison first and then become President. . Nelson Mandela.

In Barry's country, we become a Precedent first, then break all kinds of laws, then go go prison after not being re-elected.

Posted by: Barry Hussein StoolPusher at June 18, 2012 04:13 AM (51Nv7)

120

Fingers crossed that it comes today. Another week of pre-emptive whining from the Left will be the death of me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 04:15 AM (HethX)

121 Ah Allen I hope she's okay.

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 04:16 AM (SUKHu)

122 14 we need rain in Southern Virginia

Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 18, 2012 07:04 AM (p3a8+)

**

Nakid rain dance should do the trick. Send pics, unless of course your an old guy with moobs who looks like Brian Dennehy.

**

Morn' Rons.

 

Posted by: dananjcon at June 18, 2012 04:16 AM (eavT+)

123 Posted by: Barry Hussein StoolPusher at June 18, 2012 08:13 AM (51Nv7) More like Barry Hussein, Stool-Pushee.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:18 AM (MCDCp)

124 Beau Biden made fun of Romney for not running for reelection ...in front of Bev Purdue.

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 04:19 AM (SUKHu)

125 I just noticed something at that blog announcement.  They ARE going to change their normal thing and release some rulings on Thursday.


We also expect one or more opinions to be issued this Thursday. We will be live blogging both Monday and Thursday beginning shortly before ten oÂ’clock.


That is unusual so maybe that is the healthcare thingy coming in.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:19 AM (YdQQY)

126 Allen I hope she's okay.

Thanks.

She's had BP problems for a while, but just in the last couple of months they've stopped responding to medication.  Needless to say, when she told me on Friday that her limbs were going numb and she'd nearly passed out a couple of times, I completely freaked.

Honestly, I'm not sure how I managed to get home and get some stuff thrown together and then out to Abilene without having a wreck.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:21 AM (8y9MW)

127 Over at SCOTUS Blog, the press is requesting that the audio of the decision-reading be broadcast live and/or recorded. So, that might be a tip-off as to when it could come down.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:21 AM (MCDCp)

128 Thanks Allen. Going to get my concealed carry hopefully within a month if all works out. We have a lot of vacant lots out here (plots bought by out of state folks then never developed) and we get some weird people spilling over from the more urban areas. I don't mind the skateboarders (though how the hell they find these deserted streets I dont know) or even the kids parking and necking, it's the drug guys that scare me. My husband had a run in with them walking the dog a while ago. Fortunately our dog is a German Shepherd who can really scare you. Since then we have added a 130lb white German Shepherd to the family. Pisses me off that I cant let my daughter go for a run in our small subdivision by herself.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:22 AM (noqys)

129 I'm getting palpitations with this SCOTUS thing. Either that or too much coffee.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:22 AM (MCDCp)

130 J.J. - I agree.  It sounded like she was pushing libs to read the dissenting opinion and get fired up.

Here's another opinion.. He thinks the decision won't come until next Monday and that SCOTUS may still be working out the severability questions.

http://tinyurl.com/c8bzcf2

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 18, 2012 04:22 AM (UTq/I)

131 Hopped Up, speaking as someone who worked the shelters after Katrina and Rita, it was very eye opening.

New Orleans area advertising those jobs and no one local stepping up for them.  Houston crime rate went through the roof due to New Orleans refugees.  And I got to personally see evacuees get bored and call in a false fire and then there were the folk who would travel from one shelter to another and try to take the better donations.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:24 AM (sdna4)

132 Also, thoughts and prayers with you Allen.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:24 AM (noqys)

133 IIRC, my personal best on BP was 208 over some other absurd number, like 185 or some such.

Though it's always stayed under control with medication. I just hate that all three drugs I'm on make me sleepy. I spent most of yesterday unconscious while occasionally getting through another chunk of the last volume of this SF trilogy I'm slogging through.

Posted by: epobirs at June 18, 2012 04:25 AM (kcfmt)

134 Ugh. The weasel zippers pics of the Obamas going to the wedding show him walking a few steps behind the rest of them. Weird family dynamics.

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 04:25 AM (SUKHu)

135 Shoot Anna P, the crime rate for the whole state of Texas went up after Katrina. I don't mind helping my neighbor, but damn talk about biting the hands that feed.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:26 AM (noqys)

136 Mama AJ, Bev Perdue is a piece of work.  She called her constituents idiots.  IE she did a Murtha.  And yes after only one term in office not running for re-election.  And Beau Biden, what a name to saddle a kid with why I think its worse than a middle name of Robinette, has to stick his own foot in his mouth with that not running for re-election gaffe.

AllenG  hope things get better.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:26 AM (sdna4)

137 12 "Unemployed lawyers sue schools over promises of jobs"

A sure-fire winner for the Romney campaign: Allow the children of illegal aliens to stay.  Deport the lawyers.

Posted by: Peregrine Took, Hobbit S.O.B. at June 18, 2012 04:27 AM (qx6Fe)

138 #134

Hey, pesky family gets in the way of the cameras. Can't have that.

Posted by: epobirs at June 18, 2012 04:27 AM (kcfmt)

139 (Commander Koenig's best Eagle pilot, also an accomplished voice-over artist) --- I thought I was the only one who remembered Space: 1999 http://youtu.be/Ooo1m9A4S4Y

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at June 18, 2012 04:27 AM (gPDxp)

140 Yep San Antonio Rose it was like a swarm of locusts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:27 AM (sdna4)

141 Space 1999 where the Earth has dumped nuclear waste on the Moon.  Looks like Harry Reid could not stop those dumps.  And the dumps manage to go critical, cause a surge, and blast the Moon out of orbit.  Lovers and certain fish on Earth hardest hit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:29 AM (sdna4)

142 Yep San Antonio Rose it was like a swarm of locusts.

Worse: we invited them here.  Often into our own homes (not my family, I'm rather more cynical than that, but people I know).  And then they don't even have the decency to find work or leave. 

I remember about a year after Katrina, some hotel in Plano (I think) was catching all kinds of flack for finally kicking out some of the "displaced" NO residents who would neither leave nor pay.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:30 AM (8y9MW)

143 And Beau Biden, what a name to saddle a kid with


God knows what other imbecilic monikers that addled ignoramus came up with while drooling over the thought of lactating cans.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 04:31 AM (fpjlD)

144 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 08:02 AM (8y9MW)

Good to hear that things are under control.

And...thanks for the rec for Ender's Game. It's a fun read. Not fantastically well written, but the premise is interesting.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 18, 2012 04:31 AM (nEUpB)

145 I remember that Allen! Are you in DFW area??

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:32 AM (noqys)

146 AllenG and San Antonio Rose, it seemed the New Orleans evacuees were our own version of Palestinians in refugee camps.  Luckily they only lasted about a year as opposed to the Palestinians after 60 years still in the camps.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:32 AM (sdna4)

147 God knows what other imbecilic monikers that addled ignoramus came up with while drooling over the thought of lactating cans. Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 08:31 AM (fpjlD) That's funny right there.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 04:32 AM (9TTOe)

148 Heck, Texas even got that stupid Mayor.  Did he ever leave?

Posted by: Case at June 18, 2012 04:34 AM (GxTMf)

149 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at June 18, 2012 08:31 AM (fpjlD)

If Beau is any indication, four letters and one syllable were the requirements. 
Faux, Deau, Beau ....

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:35 AM (sdna4)

150 130 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 18, 2012 08:22 AM (UTq/I) Great article, thanks. How the hell did Scalia vote in that case while still (rightly) decrying Wickard v. Filburn? One thing he said really stuck in my mind; that (paraphrasing) as distasteful as the precedent may be, he had to stick with it. With that kind of reasoning, why not stick with the precedent set by Dred Scott?! Sheesh. Anyway, as for severability, the idjits who concocted this monster left it out. So, what's to argue? In know, I know. I distinctly remember Bader-Meinhoff sounding so desperate to at least keep the mandate in. The analogy of chopping up broccoli and keeping the head was particularly ironic, given Scalia's and Kennedy's argument about the government being able to force us to eat it. HAH!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 18, 2012 04:37 AM (MCDCp)

151 Not fantastically well written, but the premise is interesting. -CBD

It was his first novel, if I recall.  Also, when you read it as a child (and later, via nostalgia) it's incredibly well written.  That is, it captures the modes of thought of children (especially bright children) very well.

Are you in DFW area?? - SAR

Yep.  I actually lived in Plano at the time.  I'm down in South Arlington (see also: Mansfield) now.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:37 AM (8y9MW)

152 If you are talking of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the Feds are after him.

http://tinyurl.com/8yswrsz

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:37 AM (sdna4)

153

Harvard Law School professor Roberto Unger, who taught President Barack Obama classes such as Jurisprudence and Reinventing Democracy, said last month that his former student has betrayed liberals and should lose the presidency in November.

“President Obama must be defeated in the coming election,” Unger said in a sit-down video posted to his YouTube account in May, which also attacked the Republican party.

“If [The Republicans] had their way, inequality would be even greater than it is now,” Unger said, before acknowledging that a Romney win would lead to some undesirable “judicial and administrative appointments.”

But those costs, to Unger, pale in comparison to the risks of an Obama second term.

“The Democratic Party has no new direction. … [Obama] has failed to advance the progressive cause,” Unger said. “He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.”



Nothing beats a good Ivy League education leftist indoctrination. Poor Barry he's trying to do his best Hugo impersonation and it's just not good enough for his old commie professor

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 18, 2012 04:39 AM (1Jaio)

154 Obama is so desperate for re-election votes, he not only spent his administration prohibiting border patrol enforcement, suing any sovereign State for effecting protection from illegal alien crime, prosecuting any law enforcement agency or officer for enforcing law. He not only provided the Mexican criminal terrorists with firearms to kill Americans and US Border Patrol agents. He not only advertised internationally how "easy" it is to visit the USA. He not only awarded employment opportunity specifically for ILLEGAL ALIENS stateside.

It would not be unreasonable to expect that his administration and re-election campaigners are providing the transportation for illegal aliens. Obama Express.

US Citizenship is tossed under the Obama bus.

Posted by: panzernashorn at June 18, 2012 04:40 AM (BAnPT)

155 I know where that is, which is saying something! I go to DFW quite a bit, since my dad is there and refuses to move. I hope the feds nail his ass, Anna P, for all the shit he spewed during Katrina. The biggest problem NO has is the 100 years or more of corruption in local government. Kinda like Chicago....

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at June 18, 2012 04:41 AM (noqys)

156 141 Space 1999 where the Earth has dumped nuclear waste on the Moon. Looks like Harry Reid could not stop those dumps. And the dumps manage to go critical, cause a surge, and blast the Moon out of orbit. Lovers and certain fish on Earth hardest hit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 08:29 AM (sdna4)

If only they had dumped the nuclear waste at Yuca Mountain we might have blasted California into deep space.

I blame Sen. Reid.

By the way, a drawback of being married to Maya would be that eventually she'd get pissed if you kept asking her to morph into your favorite porn stars in bed.

 

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 04:45 AM (Iaxlk)

157 Chocolate City Nagin needs to pay for multiple crimes San Antonio Rose.  For example not using, on his own authority, all those school buses that were mere blocks from the Super Dome.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:45 AM (sdna4)

158 Is there any obvious Rhyme or Reason to how the SCOTUS determines the order that its decisions are handed down?  Would a very high profile case be released first, or is it based strictly on first heard, first announced?

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 04:46 AM (Iaxlk)

159 G'mornin y'all!

Posted by: jakeman at June 18, 2012 04:47 AM (96M6e)

160 CoolCzech, Catherine Schell was gorgeous in that show.  She would have reason to morph into a gorilla and give you the Hulk patented Loki treatment if you demanded she transform into say Kate Upton.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 04:48 AM (sdna4)

161 Roxxxxxx-aaaanne..........you don't have to turn on the red light.........

Posted by: Will be in your head all day now. You're welcome. at June 18, 2012 04:49 AM (AzwZn)

162 Thanks for the news Vic. You sound really fed up with the crap today.

Posted by: SurferDoc at June 18, 2012 04:49 AM (6H6FZ)

163 thanks for the news Vic. You sound really fed up with the crap today.

Posted by: SurferDoc at June 18, 2012 08:49 AM (6H6FZ)



I'm fed up with the crap every day.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:53 AM (YdQQY)

164 Today will be one good day though.  This is the last day for rad treatments for wifey.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 04:55 AM (YdQQY)

165

Made pickled beets with my wife and daughter until late, so i'm just having my first cup of joe.

 

George Washingington warned against getting involved in foreign conflict.
It's past time for us ignoring every little conflict in the world.

Posted by: Cicerokid at June 18, 2012 04:56 AM (GeHmJ)

166 Flew Joe Kennedy and one of his guys from MCC-BED last week on a charter. For a Lib he was one funny S.O.B. tipped us both a whole twenty dollars.

Posted by: Hawker Flyer at June 18, 2012 04:56 AM (kheK+)

167 And the ALL-TIME worst female Username on a dating web site is............................... POPPED CHERRY !

Posted by: Why Not Just "Sloppy Seconds"? at June 18, 2012 04:56 AM (AzwZn)

168 CNN...The curmudgeon news network!

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 04:56 AM (SUKHu)

169 Worse: we invited them here. Often into our own homes (not my family, I'm rather more cynical than that, but people I know). And then they don't even have the decency to find work or leave.

I remember about a year after Katrina, some hotel in Plano (I think) was catching all kinds of flack for finally kicking out some of the "displaced" NO residents who would neither leave nor pay.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 08:30 AM (8y9MW) <<<<<Remember the axiom: No good deed ever goes unpunished. I couldn't believe Texas opened it's collective arms to the New Orleans trash. What did they expect, gratitude? Completely predictable outcome.

Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2012 04:56 AM (OlN4e)

170 New Anti-Lockheed Martin Strike post up at my place, for anyone interested.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 04:57 AM (8y9MW)

171 Here's something: Ewok arrested for flashing on train.

If this was a real cube farm there'd be major prairie dogging, chattering and snerks going on.  Followed by the bosses usual late entrance, a wave of silence and then guffaws following him into the corner office.

Posted by: DaveA at June 18, 2012 04:58 AM (NqmTy)

172 And the ALL-TIME worst female Username on a dating web site is...............................

I don't see the humor in this.


Posted by: Incontinentia Buttocks at June 18, 2012 04:59 AM (Y6J63)

173 What did they expect, gratitude?

Honestly, no one (well, very few) really "expected" anything.  Charity that done looking for gratitude isn't charity at all.  If we "expected" anything, it was simply that they would be good guests, and would work honestly to get back on their feet.

No such luck, in all too many cases.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 05:00 AM (8y9MW)

174 #170 AllenG.  Its a union.  What's best for the workers is never their first interest.  Their bank account is.

And playing off your earlier post.  You know who else wore a hoodie besides Treyvon?  The Unabomber.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 05:00 AM (sdna4)

175 Via Urban Survival, which appears to have been down last week, :  "Hats off to Sen. Sanders: Your $4-Trillion Bailout Tab"   http://tinyurl.com/86ad3mg

Sanders own site:  http://tinyurl.com/6mlhald

Be prepared to get aggravated. 

Posted by: zinnia at June 18, 2012 05:01 AM (oZfic)

176 Original whistle blower for fast and furious still seeking answers.

http://is.gd/VCRwkS

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:01 AM (YdQQY)

177 I know I'm one of the few that remembers GDW's Space 1899.

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 05:02 AM (a9Izx)

178 167 And the ALL-TIME worst female Username on a dating web site is...............................
POPPED CHERRY !   I would think Itchy Rash would be worse.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 05:02 AM (Iaxlk)

179 We who opened our arms to the evacuees of south Louisiana were not expecting to be rewarded.  What we were really NOT expecting was how many grifters tried to loot the Good Samaritans.  From scamming the Red Cross of emergency money, to trying to steal donations, and finally over-staying their welcome.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 05:03 AM (sdna4)

180 Its a union. What's best for the workers is never their first interest. Their bank account is.

I know that.  I'm just hoping I can get the word out so the striking union workers take a step back and figure it out, too.

The LM Strike may be a major theme at my place for a while.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 05:03 AM (8y9MW)

181 OTD in 1815: Waterloo

Posted by: Retread at June 18, 2012 05:04 AM (I2fq9)

182 167 And the ALL-TIME worst female Username on a dating web site is............................... John

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 05:04 AM (a9Izx)

183 Like I said, Anna, a completely predictable outcome.

Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2012 05:04 AM (OlN4e)

184 and finally over-staying their welcome

And the state in which they left the quarters they were so graciously lent.  More than one apartment complex had to do full on renovations to units after just a few weeks of some of the "refugees" staying there.

It was beyond disgusting.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 05:05 AM (8y9MW)

185 Countdown until SC decisions is at 53 minutes. Unless they do it Thursday (which does seem like something they'd do, make it a "special" announcement because it's such a biggie) or next Monday. So on the outside, we've got 168 hours and 53 minutes.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 05:07 AM (HethX)

186 #59  The best thing for the monarchy would be for Charles to get buried under about 2 tons or organic fertilizer down at his "sustainable" property at Highcote.

Camilla would become the Dowager Duchess and  Will and Kate could take the throne.

Charles has the IQ of McCain.  He is susceptible to the carnival barkers of climate change because he is stupid in science and numbers.

I wish he would go back to criticizing modern architecture.

Posted by: Miss Marple at June 18, 2012 05:10 AM (GoIUi)

187 “The Democratic Party has no new direction. … [Obama] has failed to
advance the progressive cause,” Unger said. “He has spent trillions of
dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners
to their own devices.”

As if Hugo did anything to benefit workers and homeowners, either.

Promises aren't worth spit, regardless of who makes them. Politicians parrot whatever they think will buy a vote, placate the masses, or brow beat the masses into submission with a Patriot Act when "kinder, gentler" doesn't sell well enough.

Don't stay stuck on stupid. Bailouts will always be usurped by the most corrupt and powerful forces on earth, the parasitic organizations that cause and produce rampant demise.

Bailouts are NEVER going to benefit or "rescue" the small businesses that are domestically invested, nor the citizen tax payers ("earning less than $250K" according to Obama & to Romney's calculated rhetoric regarding tax breaks). We the People comprise the government's target, squeezing blood out of turnips.

The business of superimposing the word "population" over the identity of "citizen" or "people" is nothing new given Marxism. "There are no more 'peoples' but only 'populations'. There are no more 'States' but merely continental regions." The Soviets did it, and such remains the ploy of the EU as well. (Meanwhile, Americans want to think the cold war is over, when it is the EU that has replaced the USSR with a kinder, gentler version.)

Posted by: panzernashorn at June 18, 2012 05:11 AM (BAnPT)

188 Hmm. I know people who moved up here after Katrina and people who had people stay with them through their church but I've never heard complaints. I guess Texas got the hoards who didn't have family or church in state.

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 05:12 AM (SUKHu)

189

@48: haven't you mastered multislacking?

 

Oh I am the Queen of multislacking. I'll just have no internet access. I know, I know it's the dark ages over here. (Okay, fine, even if I did I would have to stay away because it's something to which I must pay attention but I suffer, oh how I suffer)

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 05:12 AM (VtjlW)

190 If you are to the left of Obama then if the world was flat you would fall off the fucking left side of it

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 18, 2012 05:13 AM (EkAgm)

191

What bothers me, seriously, is some of the talk on the Right that Obama's naked power grab to his issue his pseudo-amnesty Executive Order has provoked.

The issue shouldn't be Romney - is anyone surprised that he is not hard core anti-amnesty? - but the way Obama has once against utterly shredded the US Constitution with seeming immunity from any consequences whatsoever. 

To read some bloggers or hear some radio hosts, we may as well just hand the election over to Obama at this point and go about enjoying what little time we have left.  All because of a carefully calculated political stunt meant to put Romney in an embarrassing position.  I wish the Right would resist this sort of obvious manipulation by a Leftist that would as soon hand the administration of America to the UN.   

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 05:16 AM (Iaxlk)

192 56 Today's celebrity birthdays:

Michael Sheard ("Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of light speed and we're preparing to **arrghhh**")

Not to mention meeting several of the Classic Doctors, usually ending up dead in the course of the story.  "Why, this is like something Mr. Wells would come up with!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 18, 2012 05:17 AM (i0App)

193 189 @48: haven't you mastered multislacking?

Oh I am the Queen of multislacking. I'll just have no internet access. I know, I know it's the dark ages over here. (Okay, fine, even if I did I would have to stay away because it's something to which I must pay attention but I suffer, oh how I suffer)

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 09:12 AM (VtjlW)

 

One word: Smartphone.

Nothing beats mobileslacking!

 

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 05:18 AM (Iaxlk)

194
I hyperventilated, held my breath, tensed my buttock and abdominal muscles, stomped my feet and swung my left arm and broke the blood pressure machine at a Sam's Club.

Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at June 18, 2012 05:18 AM (7+pP9)

195 Mama AJ, shelters I was at we had families living there.  Extended families also.

For every idiot like the ones who called in a false vehicle fire there was also the family patiently pulling muddy money out of their grand-daughter's jar and cleaning it.

For the family that had healthy young males in it, it was the mother who found work at Wal-Mart.  As there was the woman who tried to salvage all her diplomas and certificates before the mud ate them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 05:19 AM (sdna4)

196 Interesting speculation at Legal insurrection about Elizabeth Warren fallout ...third post I think.

Posted by: Mama AJ on phone at June 18, 2012 05:20 AM (SUKHu)

197 194
I hyperventilated, held my breath, tensed my buttock and abdominal muscles, stomped my feet and swung my left arm and broke the blood pressure machine at a Sam's Club.

Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at June 18, 2012 09:18 AM (7+pP9)

 

For a sec there I thought you were going to say you did all that to fluff yourself for your gay porn role...

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 05:23 AM (Iaxlk)

198 I cant quite recall the details, but didnt Texas get screwed out of several millions of federal dollars that we were entitled to because we took in all those refuges?

Posted by: Lauren at June 18, 2012 05:24 AM (eILPG)

199 Speaking of the Karina freeloaders, as of last year there were still some 500 or so "victims" living in those temporary trailers that FEMA provided.


They were told then to get out and I wonder if they are still there.  They are probably staying so they can get some more money from all that exaggerated hype about the "formaldehyde" toxic crap in the trailers.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:25 AM (YdQQY)

200 I cant quite recall the details, but didnt Texas get screwed out of several millions of federal dollars that we were entitled to because we took in all those refuges?

I can't recall the details, either, but that sounds somewhat familiar...

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at June 18, 2012 05:25 AM (8y9MW)

201 What bothers me, seriously, is some of the talk on the Right that Obama's naked power grab to his issue his pseudo-amnesty Executive Order has provoked.
The issue shouldn't be Romney....Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 09:16 AM

^^^^This!^^^^

Let's face it: we're a long, long way from getting the kind of Repub candidate we need. Mutt Romney isn't even close, nor is he likely to improve as time goes on.

But the major issue is Bark Obama, who has taken for himself the power of a banana-republic dictator. He's Papa Doc Duvalier with a much larger stage to perform on, and with infinitely more resources to squander.

When a criminal is on a spree, you don't worry about the shortcomings of a cop who's chasing him. You simply want the cop to prevail, and see the crook hauled away in handcuffs.

Posted by: MrScribbler at June 18, 2012 05:27 AM (MQc8e)

202 >>If we "expected" anything, it was simply that they would be good guests, and would work honestly to get back on their feet.

Well, now you know better.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 18, 2012 05:32 AM (ZKzrr)

203 Dana Perino (who I think jumped the gun last week) is saying (via Twitter) that the decision will come today. It's Twitter, so I have no idea what it is she thinks she knows. Fingers still crossed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 05:33 AM (HethX)

204 When a criminal is on a spree, you don't worry about the shortcomings of a cop who's chasing him. You simply want the cop to prevail, and see the crook hauled away in handcuffs.

Posted by: MrScribbler at June 18, 2012 09:27 AM (MQc8e)

 

 

This says it all. We will have to stay diligent and keep Mitts feet to the fire but at least we have the advantage that Mitt does not hate this country and will not purposely try to destroy it.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at June 18, 2012 05:35 AM (mFxQX)

205 Actually, Perino said she "thinks" it will come today. Damn tension is killing me.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 05:37 AM (HethX)

206 164Today will be one good day though. This is the last day for rad treatments for wifey.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 08:55 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

 

That's great news, Vic.  I'm sure that's a tremendous relief for your wife and you as well!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 18, 2012 05:37 AM (UH0ly)

207 I got a lot of "romney agrees with the president's thoughts on amnesty" kind of comments at a bbq this weekend.  I was initially caught unawares by the first commenter thinking they had me in a gotcha moment and assuming I was a romney person if I didn't have a BO bumper sticker.  My answer evolved to "well I'm not sure who I'm voting for but it seems to me that romney has his priorities straight since, if the economy tanks worse than it already has, we won't have to worry about illegal aliens, they'll go home to the place that has their passport as fast as their little legs can carry them.  So why engage in "what if's" until the major problem of the economy is secure"....

The person decided they needed to find the "little boys room"....and the others that said similar stuff to me, had hasty excuses too.  I felt proud of myself.

Posted by: zinnia at June 18, 2012 05:37 AM (oZfic)

208 Good Morning. I'm wondering why no MSM type ever interviews the winner of any of the Dinner with O raffles. Does anyone ever win or are they purely fictional, like most of O's past? 

Posted by: Pecos, at June 18, 2012 05:41 AM (2Gb0y)

209 Seriously,

What's the big deal about walking a wire across Niagara Falls,

tethered to the wire?

Posted by: franksalterego at June 18, 2012 05:42 AM (9XykO)

210 @ 208 Maybe one or two winners have been interviewed and didn't tell the story the MFM wanted to hear about SCOAMT.

Posted by: Retread at June 18, 2012 05:44 AM (I2fq9)

211 @ 208 Maybe one or two winners have been interviewed and didn't tell the story the MFM wanted to hear about SCOAMT.
Posted by: Retread at June 18, 2012 09:44 AM

Would you tell the truth about it? Imagine you've spent the last $3 in your food stamp account on a chance at a dinner with Bark Obama (instead of a six-pack of Colt 45) and got it, only to find out that the Traitor-in-Chief is a self-absorbed fuckwit who spent two minutes with you and left you to finish the box of Popeye's by yourself while he went off to suck up to a Real Celebrity.

Posted by: MrScribbler at June 18, 2012 05:49 AM (MQc8e)

212

Actually, Perino said she "thinks" it will come today

**

Every time I see Perino I have the same exact thought.

 

 

Posted by: dananjcon at June 18, 2012 05:49 AM (eavT+)

213 Could be Retread, I think if there are any winners, they are purposely chosen for entries at the far corners of the Kingdom. A trip to DC has to be wildly expensive. Too costly for any $3 ticket.

Posted by: Pecos, at June 18, 2012 05:49 AM (2Gb0y)

214 Seriously, What's the big deal about walking a wire across Niagara Falls, tethered to the wire? ------------------------------------ Walenda may have cheated me this time, but I'll win in the end.

Posted by: Death at June 18, 2012 05:50 AM (AzwZn)

215 Vic. I'm sure that's a tremendous relief for your wife and you as well!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 18, 2012 09:37 AM (UH0ly)



Well we still have to find out if they did any good or not.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:51 AM (YdQQY)

216 SCOTUSBLOG has their live blog up now for orders.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:53 AM (YdQQY)

217 Oh, HAI THERE citizen! A good morning to you! Any gold to declare before we search?

Posted by: IRS Dynamic Asset Recovery Team ALPHA at June 18, 2012 05:54 AM (Y6J63)

218 Statement from the live blog:

Just to front the questions that so many people are thinking about: it is very unlikely weÂ’ll get the health care cases today; and the odds are good that we will get an order granting certiorari in the so-called Citizens United II case from Montana.

\
Bad news folks

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:54 AM (YdQQY)

219 IÂ’ve always thought that based on the CourtÂ’s past practice the term would finish on Thursday, June 28. IÂ’m sticking with that as the last day, with health care as the only opinion to come out. Drama.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:55 AM (YdQQY)

220 218 Statement from the live blog:

Just to front the questions that so many people
are thinking about: it is very unlikely weÂ’ll get the health care cases
today; and the odds are good that we will get an order granting
certiorari in the so-called Citizens United II case from Montana.

\
Bad news folks

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 09:54 AM (YdQQY)

 

I'm angry!  You would think with a premium membership Vic would come over and comfort me when there is bad news reported.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at June 18, 2012 05:57 AM (YYyqq)

221 Dana Perino just predicted Health Care Ruling from The Supremes comes out today

Posted by: Bill Burkett at June 18, 2012 05:57 AM (e8kgV)

222 They are expecting the AZ case next Monday.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:58 AM (YdQQY)

223 Dana Perino just predicted Health Care Ruling from The Supremes comes out today

Posted by: Bill Burkett at June 18, 2012 09:57 AM (e8kgV)


Well it appears she is FOS.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 05:58 AM (YdQQY)

224 Hi all, there' s a great article by heather whatshername who writes for the city journal talking about the differing criminal justice systems in new Orleans and Houston. The new Orleans transplants were shocked, shocked! When they committed crimes in Texas and actually were incarcerated and had to serve time.

Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 05:59 AM (2CxxI)

225 certiorari?  That means they're going to review it?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 18, 2012 05:59 AM (ZKzrr)

226 Maybe?

Today we expect to issue orders and opinions. We are live-blogging now:

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 18, 2012 05:59 AM (pLTLS)

227 yes

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:00 AM (YdQQY)

228 And the link didn't copy - it's scotusblog .com

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 18, 2012 06:00 AM (pLTLS)

229 See post 10 for a link.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:01 AM (YdQQY)

230 Of course Vic already linked this about three hours ago

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 18, 2012 06:02 AM (pLTLS)

231 "Ann Romney Heckles Hecklers: “We Can Be Just as Loud About How Much We Love This Country” (Video)"  http://tinyurl.com/6qcx39m

This is a classic example of "mom feistyness",  she's being nice, but you know she's going to have her say...

Posted by: zinnia at June 18, 2012 06:03 AM (oZfic)

232 Mornin' 'rons and 'ronettes.  Another wasted Monday, which I guess is better than being wasted on a Monday.  Never saw the appeal to such, but that's me.

The Katrina stuff reminds me of the former NOLAites I've run into that evac'd and never went back.  Several told me, point-blank, it was the best thing that ever happened to them.  Each was a good, productive, solid person.  I visited myself in '10, and you could still see signs of it--including those spray-painted diagrams the S&R folks put on buildings so they knew which had survivors...or corpses...in them.  The place just looked, I don't know, trashed, and not just because of tourist/party traffic.

Sad.  Reminder, Mr. Nagin, it's not just chocolate in that shade.  Whole lotta folks in that town need to rethink their life choices.

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 18, 2012 06:03 AM (GBXon)

233 Another GITMO case denied cert in sealed papers.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:05 AM (YdQQY)

234 Yet another random, racial beat down of whites in Portland, Oregon. Question #1 Are the black mobs using their free Obama phones to arrange the beat downs? Question #2 We know the Justice Department isn't interested, but will the cowards in Congress address, in the words of Thomas Sowell, this "censored race war"?

Posted by: It's Time To Name The Elephant In The Room at June 18, 2012 06:05 AM (AzwZn)

235 I think we should start sucking each others diks about now.

Posted by: Baracka Winston Wolf Obama at June 18, 2012 06:07 AM (sNs2j)

236 212 "Actually, Perino said she "thinks" it will come today"
**
Every time I see Perino I have the sameexact thought.

Posted by: dananjcon at June 18, 2012 09:49 AM (eavT+)

 

I am SO glad I didn't see what you just did there.

Posted by: CoolCzech at June 18, 2012 06:07 AM (Iaxlk)

237 Some WTF

Second opinion is in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter. The Court rules that the federal government must pay each Tribe's contract support costs in full even when Congress has put a ceiling on those costs.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:07 AM (YdQQY)

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

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2012 06:10 AM (Xb3hu)

239 So, yesterday at the Romney rally there was a heckler inside the crowd of supporters.

He started yelling at Romney and this old, frail (I thought) short woman started beating the shit out of him with her purse.

It was awesome.

My kid said he wanted me to be just like that when I get old.  She kicked as....butt mom!

Posted by: momma at June 18, 2012 06:11 AM (sYijI)

240 At a time when every minority grievance is shouted from the floor of the House of Rep's, who will speak up for the victims of black mob assaults taking place all over the country?

Posted by: It's Time To Name The Elephant In The Room at June 18, 2012 06:12 AM (AzwZn)

241 "EPA Science Writer Celebrates Andrew BreitbartÂ’s Death"  http://tinyurl.com/76wpm5d

Now here's a guy who seems to have everything going for him, not.


Posted by: zinnia at June 18, 2012 06:12 AM (oZfic)

242 @IngrahamAngle Rep Allen West on Romney's immig response: I felt dejected. A man must stand for something or fall for anything.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 06:15 AM (5H6zj)

243 240 At a time when every minority grievance is shouted from the floor of the House of Rep's, who will speak up for the victims of black mob assaults taking place all over the country? Posted by: It's Time To Name The Elephant In The Room at June 18, 2012 10:12 AM (AzwZn) Two things. The first, Gun ownership will continue to rise. The second, any business located in an area where black or and other form of wilding utes conglomerate will suffer.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 06:16 AM (9TTOe)

244 No decision today.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 06:17 AM (9TTOe)

245 @9 WaPO crying bloody crocodile tears over lack of chicken workers in Alabama since new law on illegal migrants. These kinds of articles always make me laugh as they complain about workers and “jobs Americans will not do”. None of these liberal assholes will say the real problem. Americans will not do it for peanuts

This quote nails it down for me:

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin


Work based visas were intended to fill actual labor shortages and were never intended to provide a cheap source of labor.

The procurement of these visas have become a racket in the same vein as La Cosa Nostra.

Good luck getting DOJ to prosecute , though. 

Posted by: reality check at June 18, 2012 06:17 AM (zsgo8)

246 Well, the last of the opinions and no healthcare and no AZ.

Lot of 5-4 cases with most of them being "inside baseball" type stuff.  It also appears that Kennedy is on the conservative side for now.


Don't know if that is good or bad.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:17 AM (YdQQY)

247 No ruling on Obamacare or Immigration coming out today. Shucks.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 18, 2012 06:17 AM (pLTLS)

248 No ACA decision today. I would expect it is coming on Thursday the 28th.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at June 18, 2012 06:19 AM (vAdLX)

249 I get the impression SCOTUS really likes the spotlight.

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2012 06:19 AM (Xb3hu)

250 More opinions of Thursday. 

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:19 AM (YdQQY)

251 Damn it.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 18, 2012 06:20 AM (HethX)

252 I don't want to take any action in Syria but the Russians and Chinese thumbing their noses at us really pisses me off.Obama is a big,weeping pussy and they know it.

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2012 06:21 AM (Xb3hu)

253 SCOTUS to announce lunch order at 11:25.

Posted by: nickless at June 18, 2012 06:21 AM (MMC8r)

254 also - think of the Depression-era Grapes of Wrath scenario.

If unemployment insurance checks keep going out and government-approved foreign indentured servants keep taking  jobs for lower pay, what incentive exists for Americans to work their way out of unemployment? 

Posted by: reality check at June 18, 2012 06:21 AM (zsgo8)

255 I really wanted to see the Mount Soledad Decision. When I was a young Sailor stationed at Miramar I fell in love for the first time sitting on those steps below the cross, drinking Orange California Coolers with an Iranian girl named Niki.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 06:22 AM (9TTOe)

256 Romney should just say 'The President said JUST LAST YEAR that he could not legally do this, and yet here he is breaking the laws he said he couldn't.' 'Maybe he should arrest himself' or something snarky would be awesome too.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at June 18, 2012 06:22 AM (UU0OF)

257 Perhaps Thursday will be hot dipping pudding day

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 06:23 AM (sdna4)

258 Females with cup sizes smaller than C would automatically be rejected. Viva la Breastesses!

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2012 07:53 AM (4ixH5)

 

well thanks, and g'morning to you too!

 

o, and pfft!

Posted by: willow at June 18, 2012 06:23 AM (TomZ9)

259 I really wanted to see the Mount Soledad Decision. Don't do it. She's a lousy lay.

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at June 18, 2012 06:24 AM (MMC8r)

260 The general consensus among the lawyers at SCOTUSBLOG is that we will not get healthcare until next week on Thursday which is the end of the term.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:24 AM (YdQQY)

261 Well, I have closed the site.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:25 AM (YdQQY)

262

Captain hate , yes i think the mask has been pretty much ripped off of N.O.W and La Raza type groups, and  we now see they are only the vehicle for agitations of the Progessives.

they actually have no morals or stanards if it won't assist proggresive power.

Posted by: willow at June 18, 2012 06:26 AM (TomZ9)

263 Also just in case people don't know, Enders game is being made into a movie, OSCard has a really interesting little write up on how they are doing the zero gravity scenes in his newsletter on his hatrack river website. Sorry I can't link, I'm at the hospital and I hate doing this stuff on my cell. I don't know why I bother, I'm sure there's a new thread up now. Oh well.

Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 06:26 AM (2CxxI)

264 I don't know why I bother, I'm sure there's a new thread up now. Oh well. Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 10:26 AM (2CxxI) You would be wrong.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 06:28 AM (9TTOe)

265 Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egyptian Presidency Suck it, bitchez! Oops, did I say that out loud?

Posted by: Baraka Hussein Obama at June 18, 2012 06:29 AM (FcR7P)

266 Anyone with an interest in higher education, there is a huge brouhaha over the sudden ouster of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan last week.  Good reporting by the Washington Post.  Since Virginia is maybe the last state that has actual conservative Democrats, liberals are blaming conservatives (the Rector, i.e. chair of the board of visitors) is a conservative Democrat real estate  developer, appointed by previous Dem governor, and she engineered the ouster.)  

Posted by: rockmom at June 18, 2012 06:32 AM (qE3AR)

267 Syria is an old Soviet client state and Russia is just a new name for their old buddy. Putin has drawn a line and has said you stay over there. We should do exactly that. Let the Russians navigate that minefield.

Posted by: eman at June 18, 2012 06:32 AM (ejmiE)

268 Posted by: rockmom at June 18, 2012 10:32 AM (qE3AR) Why?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 06:33 AM (9TTOe)

269 267 - will Russia emerge as a protector for the Orthodox Christians in Syria?

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 06:34 AM (WkuV6)

270 Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth... lynyrd skynyrd

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:35 AM (Ho2rs)

271 elizabeth saw that a while ago....very cool

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:36 AM (Ho2rs)

272 New Orleans depravity continues apace.  Exotic dancer's dismembered body washes ashore in Bay St. Louis, MS.  Two now being held in case.

http://tinyurl.com/cmlbety

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 06:37 AM (sdna4)

273 266 Anyone with an interest in higher education, there is a huge brouhaha over the sudden ouster of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan last week. ---- I read up on it last week at a couple of places. My read on it was that the Board of Trustees was not happy with her leadership. They referred to needing bolder leadership and there was also criticism of her efforts in fundraising. She was very popular with faculty, students -- that can be a sign (when coupled with failure on fundraising) of a president who doesn't want to really *do* anything. Lack of vision/leadership is usually code for "you don't have any big ideas that are going to attract external funding." One year is a pretty quick time to pull the ripcord on a university president, otoh Purdue waited far too long with their failed President Cordova (also happens to be a woman fwiw), who I know for a fact did not want to do any fundraising or even stewardship of gifts from their last campaign. So my gut says to applaud UVa's BoT for getting rid of her sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 06:37 AM (5H6zj)

274 267 I don't want to do anything.I hope the Russians get a nice bloody nose and we can laugh at them.

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2012 06:37 AM (Xb3hu)

275 What wonderfall especially with pres Bama as our leader. We loves you Pres Bama and hope you enjoyed your well earned golfing this weekend. We loves  so much..

Posted by: The People of Brattleboro, Vermont at June 18, 2012 06:38 AM (48wze)

276 264 I don't know why I bother, I'm sure there's a new thread up now. Oh well. Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 10:26 AM (2CxxI) You would be wrong. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 18, 2012 10:28 AM (9TTOe) I Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking, it's before 1:00.

Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 06:39 AM (14c6Y)

277 chopping up people is really creepy....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:39 AM (Ho2rs)

278

And the ALL-TIME worst female Username on a dating website is. . .

 

Sandra Fluke.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Clitoris at June 18, 2012 06:40 AM (zF6Iw)

279 278 lorena bobbit

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:41 AM (Ho2rs)

280 saw that a while ago....very cool Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 10:36 AM (Ho2rs) Hi phoenixgirl. Why are all these commenters in team dagny? Is there another team competing?

Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 06:42 AM (14c6Y)

281 277chopping up people is really creepy....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 10:39 AM (Ho2rs) <<<<Well, after brutally murdering a fellow human being, chopping them up isn't much of a leap.

Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2012 06:43 AM (OlN4e)

282 277, exactly - when a few feet of chickenwire, a couple of cinderblocks, and the crabs will do all your work for you. It must be the drugs, criminals are getting dumber.

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 06:43 AM (WkuV6)

283 elizabeth the kardashian thread on friday kind of explains it....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:43 AM (Ho2rs)

284 I posted a link last week regarding that UVA case and it looked like her and Elizabeth "big chief" Warren were involved in some kind of academic fraud in a project they had done together a few years ago and that was the reason she was being given the boot.

Posted by: Vic at June 18, 2012 06:43 AM (YdQQY)

285

@280

There was a kerfluffel, dagney split for a long vacation.  It's a show of solidarity but less obnoxious than "rasing awareness".

Posted by: Warthog, team dagney at June 18, 2012 06:44 AM (WDySP)

286 She was also wrapped into the Mann debacle - bringing that clown back to UVA and the email scandal.

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 06:44 AM (WkuV6)

287 WUWT had a post up on her firing as well. I call it a firing because people don't "resign" on Sunday mornings.

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 06:46 AM (WkuV6)

288 "Wrapped in the Mann debacle" with manacles?  Ooohh...  those swinging progressives in how they treat the truth....

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 06:46 AM (sdna4)

289 yep vic...they falsified information

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:46 AM (Ho2rs)

290 Thx for the tip, Vic. I had missed that. Here's a blow by blow at Breitbart: http://tinyurl.com/849ztwa They seem to think it's a coincidence.

Posted by: Y-not of the fearless freckles at June 18, 2012 06:46 AM (5H6zj)

291 What did I miss with Dagny?

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2012 06:48 AM (WkuV6)

292 "team dagny" i guess

Posted by: Jean, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:48 AM (WkuV6)

293 anyone seen the new shoes by adidas? they have....shackles.... http://tinyurl.com/7nxa4mc

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:49 AM (Ho2rs)

294 293, the perfect opposite of stompy boots has been achieved

Posted by: Jean, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:50 AM (WkuV6)

295 Check out WUWT now.

Nature has decided to publish a letter showing Climate Deniers and Climate Believers.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise Gaia and her High Priest AlGore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 06:50 AM (sdna4)

296 jean i just can't imagine who thought that would be a good idea....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:51 AM (Ho2rs)

297

1994: David Axelrod, President Obama’s chief campaign strategist, called former President George H.W. Bush “out of touch” for “tastelessly” playing golf while trying to convince voters that the economy is improving. To date, Pres. Obama has been known to hit the links nearly every week.
The Daily Caller, Pappas
--

Though thoroughly insulated, cheap shot Obama is not the Teflon president unless referencing his inability to grasp hold of "in touch".

Easy pickin's, juxtaposing Obama'08 demands and criticisms with Obama's record in office, make pseudo geniuses of Youtube posters "donating" to the Republican Ticket.  Give obi his reset out of office.

Posted by: panzernashorn at June 18, 2012 06:52 AM (BAnPT)

298 293 anyone seen the new shoes by adidas? they have....shackles.... http://tinyurl.com/7nxa4mc Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 10:49 AM (Ho2rs) Sounds like a time saver.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 18, 2012 06:52 AM (9TTOe)

299 PG, well that proves people who buy those shoes are fashion slaves....

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 06:52 AM (sdna4)

300 299 PG, well that proves people who buy those shoes are fashion slaves.... Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 10:52 AM (sdna4) LOL

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 18, 2012 06:53 AM (9TTOe)

301 100 rounds of golf at 5 hours per game.  500 hours.  As HillBuzz calculates that means 3.5 months of Obama's Presidency has been spent on the links.  And not doing the job he was elected to do, be the President.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 06:53 AM (sdna4)

302 297 oldsailors poet you were reading my mind

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:54 AM (Ho2rs)

303 lol anna

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 06:54 AM (Ho2rs)

304

299PG, well that proves people who buy those shoes are fashion slaves....


Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2012 10:52 AM (sdna4)

 

Your account has been credited +10 interetz.

Posted by: Warthog, treasurer of team dagney at June 18, 2012 06:56 AM (WDySP)

305 "EPA Science Writer Celebrates Andrew BreitbartÂ’s Death" http://tinyurl.com/76wpm5d Now here's a guy who seems to have everything going for him, not. --- I read his Twitter feed. He's actually proud of his douchebaggery.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at June 18, 2012 07:07 AM (gPDxp)

306 Not sure what happened w/ dagny - it was edited and shut down by the time I saw it.  (Why all the drama when I'm away from Intarwebs, Moron Horde?)  Still, you have to be careful at the moment--the Ewok's justifiably twitchy right now, so don't expect a lot of leeway on certain subjects.

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 18, 2012 07:11 AM (GBXon)

307 Will this be the day you finally accept our President into your hearts, you right-wing haters?

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at June 18, 2012 07:12 AM (1pJbs)

308 307 no

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 18, 2012 07:13 AM (Ho2rs)

309 Thx for the update. I missed that thread altogether.

Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at June 18, 2012 07:16 AM (HJLWl)

310 http://tinyurl.com/7oy5fz8

Playing with sparklers.


Posted by: sTevo at June 18, 2012 07:30 AM (19w1W)

311 @ 307 make him your President..

Posted by: Clemenza at June 18, 2012 08:05 AM (fCSfn)

312 Now go back to the poppy's Elvira..@ 307

Posted by: Clemenza at June 18, 2012 08:06 AM (fCSfn)

313 Yo, Mary, I'll be passing through Brattleboro on Wednesday. Please stand in the middle of the road.

Posted by: Damn Sockpupet at June 18, 2012 09:30 AM (YmPwQ)

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