1 Morining Morons.

2 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, July 11, 2012.  On this day in History Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton.  Of course the liberal history writer McDougal didnÂ’t have a lot to say about Burr or his boy judge who excused his later treason despite the overwhelming evidence against him.

3 House set to waste time on another symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare. Thanks again Roberts.

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4 The stupid is epic.  Wasserman Schultz: "It Would Be Nice If We Had A Candidate for President Who Was Committed To America"


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5 Greedy government selling peopleÂ’s homes under tax liens for as little as $400 in back taxes.  Recall the last time this shit went on.  According to the great media myth it was Simon Legree taking little NellÂ’s house for overdue mortgage. In fact, the odds were more likely that it was Simon Tax Collector.


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6 NAACP requires ID to see Holder speak.  Ironic column from Townhall babe Katie Pavlich.


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7 Neither Holder nor The Hill see any “irony” in him attacking the TX voter ID law while speaking at an event that requires two forms of ID to get in.


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8 New chemical that eradicates tooth decay???  Sounds  too good to be true, so probably is.


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9 9-11 assholes want their trial postponed during Ramadan. I suspect they will get it.


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10 JJ Jr. did not attempt suicide, heÂ’s just exhausted from all the ethics violations.  I guess we will get to see just how good blackdemocratium is.  It kept his daddy out of jail, will it keep him too?


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11 Egyptian Muzzies not only want to destroy the pyramids, they want sex slaves.


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12 MO Democrat Muslim says no Jews died on 9-11.  HeÂ’s also a “truther”.  Will he be elected in MO?  I doubt it.


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13 Allstate in SC dropping coverage for 10K homes that do not also carry auto insurance with them. SC has some of the shittyist insurance laws in the country.  Auto insurance in this State is more than double neighboring NC.  My insurance doubled moving here from GA and is almost double what I was paying in the Bay Area of CA. The insurance companies own this State.


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14 Want to carry beer and booze to the beach with you.  Well donÂ’t go to Charleston. Folly Beach was the last area that allowed it and they just banned it. Beaches there are definitely not Moron friendly.


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15 The anti-smoking zealots have even taken over small Southern towns.  New law in Podunk, SC bans smoking in ALL public accommodations including bars.


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ThatÂ’s it for the news this morning.

16 @7

Because nothing is ever done from a base of principle.

It's all about gaining advantage over rivals.

You don't hear much from the left about Gitmo, rendition, or any of the other made up nonsense and outrages when Bush was President.

17 Where's everybody at?

18 Smoking has been banned in bars up here in CT for some time. The shithole city next to my town is now moving on to banning in public parks and beaches. I have no doubt that they'll pass it.

19 Where's everybody at? I've been up since 3am. Power problems at work. One whole hospital UPS is offline, the other shaky. Every once in a while I have to earn my pay.

20 When you see it banned in bars and public venues in Podunk, SC (population < 7K) you know the zealots have taken over.

21 Obama closes nine Border Patrol Stations, six in Texas: Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Angelo, Abilene and San Antonio. [Remember the Alamo?] The other three closures are in Billings, Mont.; Twin Falls, Idaho; and Riverside, Calif.

22 They banned it "outside" in Florence, SC already but that is a bigger city.

23 A couple things about the tax-lien story.

1) No one truly owns their home so the faster you realize that the better

2) Not knowing the full story, I have to assume this was long process and the homeowner had ample opportunity to come to an accomodation.

3) We need a movement to decouple the funding of local government and municipalities from home ownership so that a homeowner can literally be a homeowner.

24 The Mobile city council rejected more smoking restrictions day before yesterday so, some sanity prevails.

25 #3 So long as the opposition doesn't relent until repeal is won.

Dish back socialist persistence.

26

14Want to carry beer and booze to the beach with you. Well donÂ’t go to Charleston. Folly Beach was the last area that allowed it and they just banned it. Beaches there are definitely not Moron friendly.


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NOOO!  No more sand in my box of Valu-Rite I guess...

27 #10  Durbin weighed in yesterday and said he needs to provide an explanation.

I figure it's a bad scandal and he's hiding out hoping to make it until the election.  And I figure Durbin saying something means that whatever it is,  it will hurt democrats in general and this was a hint that he should resign.

What could the scandal be?  My guess is it is more than bribes or an illegitimate child,  as we have seen that those things don't bother democrats.

So,  it has to be something really big,  like selling arms to Syria or child molesting or something like that.

28 We need a movement to decouple the funding of local government and municipalities from home ownership so that a homeowner can literally be a homeowner.

Posted by: General Woundwort at July 11, 2012 07:09 AM (06lNq)



Be careful with that wish.  They did that here too.  The problem is they did not get rid of property tax, they just added on a lot of new sales taxes to "keep property tax from going up higher".


The sales tax over in that little Podunk town < 7K is now 10.5%.  Its 8.5% in the county.  And property taxes are still 4 times higher than they were when I first bought my house 31 years ago.

29 The Mobile city council rejected more smoking restrictions day before yesterday so, some sanity prevails.


How did that happen?  Mobile is > 30K!!!

30 The sales tax over in that little Podunk town < 7K is now 10.5%. Holy cow. When I lived in SC, property taxes were high but sales taxes were low. Then I moved to Alabama and it was reversed.

31 I figure it's a bad scandal and he's hiding out hoping to make it until the election.


He is being "investigated" by the ethics committee and one of his close buddies and associates has just been arrested by the FBI.

32 Nine border patrol offices in Texas being closed by the Admin? So the Prick-In-Chief is stomping his feet and punishing Texas again. If we get under his skin that much, we must be doing something right.

33

Good morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.  Was offline for a few days, so no Hollywood stories.  Hope you missed me.  If not, don't tell me; my ego is flimsier than one of Ace's alibis after a weekend of hobo-skinning.

 

I'm in Massachusetts, so of course, smoking is banned here.  At times I wish Philip Morris would play hardball and just say to every community that bans smoking: "OK, you don't want people to use our LEGAL product?  Fine.  As of this moment, we are pulling all cigarettes from your shelves and will not provide them to you any more."  Then sit back and watch the states howl as that sweet, sweet tax money dries up.

 

Hell, since I'm wishing, why don't I wish that Romney's campaign would agree to release 20-odd years of tax returns AFTER the dog-eating retard releases his certificate of live birth, his academic transcripts, his real SS number and so on.  Just shove this 'transparency' crap right down his throat.

 

Oh, well.  Sorry about that.  Coming back on line and catching up on news after nearly a week gives me agita.  So here's a John Barrymore story:

 

At one point, Barrymore was making a movie in which a monkey also appeared, and he took a liking to her.  He called the chimp's trainer and said he would like to buy the monkey and keep her as a pet.  "How much do you make, Mr. Barrymore?" the trainer asked.  "I make $3000 a week," the great man answered.

 

"Well, she likes you, too," said the monkey's trainer, "and she makes $5000 a week.  She'd like to buy you."

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

34 Holy cow. When I lived in SC, property taxes were high but sales taxes were low. Then I moved to Alabama and it was reversed.

Posted by: toby928© at July 11, 2012 07:17 AM (QupBk)

When I first bought my house (I am out in the county) property tax was $200/year and sales tax was 3%.  Property tax is now $1,000/year and sales tax is 8.5%.

What I find amazing is that they NEVER talk about decreasing spending to balance the books. I don't think a year has gone by that they haven't raised taxes.  Last year I paid $100 taxes for my 14 year old F-150.  If I was in neighboring GA it would be tag fees only because the taxes would be so low they would be noncollectable.

35 He is being "investigated" by the ethics committee and one of his close buddies and associates has just been arrested by the FBI.
Posted by: Vic at July 11, 2012 07:18 AM

He's a damn dummy. If he paid attention, he'd realize that the ethnics committee is too bust ignoring a shitload of other Democrats (e.g. Maxine Waters) to have time to waste on him.

36 #31  I didn't know about the buddy being arrested.  I think Durbin's statement is therefore even more of a hint that they want him to go.

37 @28

Understood, but the people are the government.

Unfortunately we seed too much control and authority to "the government"
be it state, local or federal.

When they say, hey we are going to raise your sales tax, we should say emphatically, NO!!!

When they say you can't smoke in this place or that place, we should say in a full scream, NO!

We just acquiesce to their designs and schemes because they are "the government"

38 Alabama has "current use" valuation on property, rather than FMV, so the large landowners plant some pine trees and call it a tree farm to get the much much lower rate. Even when it's in the middle of a large city.

39 Excellent question from a reader, via Geraghty:

"If offshoring is so bad, Mr. President, why are we paying the Russians to take our astronauts to the ISS?"

If only some enterprising reporter would ask that question.  If only I had discovered the Higgs Boson all by my lonesome.

40 There were a few undeveloped acres next to one of the existing malls in Mobile that had a few scraggly "pupwood" pines on it just for that purpose.

41 Good morning to all.  Thanks for the news Vic; always appreciated even if it's all doomyish

42 I didn't know about the buddy being arrested. I think Durbin's statement is therefore even more of a hint that they want him to go.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 11, 2012 07:24 AM (GoIUi)

He still has not been cleared in that Obama Senate Seat sale.

43 Doom is as mother's milk to morons. The electricians have almost finished wiring around the failed UPS so I guess all the grandma's-breathy-breathy machines will keep running.

44 @28

And I am not talking about anarchy, I am just saying that we give too much
license to these Ralph Kramden politicians to realize their schemes and ambitions with resignation.

It is high time we fought back against our ruling class and put them in their proper place.

45 When they say, hey we are going to raise your sales tax, we should say emphatically, NO!!!


The last big sales tax increase we had (2 cents) went down like this.  The school board wanted to sell bonds for "new construction" and raise taxes by 2 cents.

Because it involved bond sales they had to put it to the voters.  It was defeated by a wide margin in the normal Nov election. Not to be deterred they held a "special election 3 months later and gave all county employees the day off so they could vote.  They also didn't pass a lot of word about the vote.


It passed 600 to 300 in a county with 70,000 people.


So 600 county employees got us a 2% sales tax increase. But it was for the chilluns.

46 My gripe about property taxes is well founded as I have seen my property taxes rise 75% in the last ten years to the point that I am now paying $7k for 1/2 an acre.

Some places in "the city" are paying more than that for just the outline of their homes.

It's F'ing ridiculous and must not only stop but be reversed.

47 So 600 county employees got us a 2% sales tax increase. But it was for the chilluns. Posted by: Vic at July 11, 2012 07:32 AM (YdQQY) Did their test scores rise with the new injection of money?

48 To previous posters in regards to JJJ, if Dirty Dick Durbin is being used as a stalking horse to question the whereabouts of the Congress Critter, whatever it is must be BAD, very, very BAD.  Blago could be singing in hopes of getting an early release.  What makes it really laughable is to even suggest that JJJ has done enough work to be exhausted.

49 Property taxes were shooting up like that in CA until they passed proposition 13. They passed that about a year after I left if I recall correctly.

50 Somebody has to pick up the tab so public employees can retire at 50 and start double-dipping. 

51
My insurance doubled moving here from GA and is almost double what I was paying in the Bay Area of CA.

Have you tried switching to Progressive?

52 @45

And this is the problem with our enemy is that they literally do as they please.

Will of the people be damned.

53 Did their test scores rise with the new injection of money?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 11, 2012 07:35 AM (9TTOe)

No but they had a shiny new building to do bad in.

54 #48  That is what I thought,  too.

I wonder if Jackson has gone into the witness protection program?  Maybe HE is singing about Obama!  Maybe Durbin is trying to figure out where he is.

(This is one of my days when I am a gullible optimist.)

55 Have you tried switching to Progressive?

Posted by: Ed Anger at July 11, 2012 07:36 AM (7+pP9)

They are ALL high here. And I don't want that thing from he ads coming around.

56 When I first bought my house (I am out in the county) property tax was $200/year and sales tax was 3%. Property tax is now $1,000/year and sales tax is 8.5%.

Posted by: Vic at July 11, 2012 07:22 AM (YdQQY)

 

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I feel your pain.  I live in a modest 1600 sq. ft. house, no swimming pool or other fancy accoutrements, and my property taxes are about $2200.  Sales tax is now 6%.  The property taxes are down - before the bubble burst they were upward of $2400. 

 

 

 

Part of the problem is that they've convinced the locals that the only way to preserve property values is to max out school spending.  All too often the locals agree to buy things that are not needed.  They recently build a palace-like high school, claiming that the old one was unmaintainable due to being built on swamp land.  Guess what - as soon as the new high school was built, old "unmaintainable" high school building was made into a middle school and is still used.

 

 

Grrrrr....

 

57 Of course to be fair I must admit that property taxes do have one great benefit - they keep out the riff raff.  High property taxes are more effective than regular police patrols when it comes to keeping the underclass scum out of the neighborhood.

58 1600 ft2 modest???  That is average around here.

59 #56  Mitch Daniels made property tax increases dependent on referendums within school districts.  He also froze school buildings,  pointing out that soehow our little state is building schools that look like palaces.  (My own school district has an astro-turf football field and a huge "Hall of Excellence" aka giant trophy display room.  Also 3 gyms.)

60

San Bernadino CA filing for bankruptcy..? from Fox news a little while ago, so maybe last night's news. Can't make payroll.

still...

61 No but they had a shiny new building to do bad in. Posted by: Vic at July 11, 2012 07:37 AM (YdQQY) Now, if you were to do the research. I would bet the pol pushing for that tax recieved money from the teachers org. NC doesn't have a "union", but they do have a unionesque org. Then find out who the contractor is. I bet he's hooked in somehow too. Keep going till you get to the guy selling the nails, screws bolts and nuts. I bet the School system paid top dollar for chinese shit and everyones pockets got full. Except the unconnected tax payer.

62 It passed 600 to 300 in a county with 70,000 people.

Posted by: Vic at July 11, 2012 07:32 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

 

This is a distressingly common practice throughout the nation.  This kind of bull crap should be banned in every state.  And when it is accomplished, some local patriots should find out who the main culprits are, and publish their pictures and addresses (and phone numbers if possible) in the local rag sheet and on line.  Do that a few times and these petty tyrants will think twice.

63 When I grew up the city schools were separate from the county schools. The city had two high schools and the county had two.  They were the normal red bri k buildings you saw in the 50s.  No a/c and crappy heat from steam radiators.


Now that same county has schools all over it and they ARE veritable palaces with a.c and all the frills.


And no education.

64 Mark Steyn, NRO, on US Government converting citizenship into taxable entity anywhere in the world, and the FATCAT tax code set for Jan.1, 2013 "makes it not worth a foreign bank's while to do business with Americans."

"America claims the right to tax you simply for being American — even if you, say, live in Belgium but drive over the border to work in Luxembourg every day. This is unique to the United States...You’re at permanent risk of double taxation, and the fines for minor and accidental infraction are arbitrary and confiscatory.

"As I say, no other developed country does this — although Eritrea does.

[Foreign investors in US interests pay the IRS a lower tax rate on the same investment than US citizens pay.] "U.S. tax law makes U.S. citizens second-class citizens in their own country. What bit of 'American ideology' does that come under?

[Krakorian determined that American citizenship is determined by 'ideology'.] "But if American nationality is based on 'ideology' rather than blood, then pray tell in what sense is this ever more onerous global tax regime compatible with American ideology?"

...goodbye and good luck

65 Now that same county has schools all over it and they ARE veritable palaces with a.c and all the frills.

And no education.

Posted by: Vic at July 11, 2012 07:44 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

Just as the libtards plan it.  I hate them with hot, hot hate...

66 @57

Something has got to give as literally everything is going up and up and up.

Property taxes, sales taxes, fees, tolls, gas and their concomitant taxes, water bills, garbage bills.

Federal Taxes, Municipal taxes, State Taxes.

You will soon be taxed for in-action, isn't that lovely!!

Thank you John Roberts.

67 They allowed slot machine gambling (and later table games) in PA promising property tax relief.

The average township gets around $500 annually in relief.

68 Today's celebrity birthdays: Robert the Bruce (good friends with David the Steve) John Quincy Adams (POTUS #8, Sec of State #8 ) Big Ben (still ringin') Yul Brynner (creepy robot cowboy) Brett Somers (big ol' specs) Tab Hunter (confused bartenders when he tried to pay his bill... "but you are Tab...") Giorgio Armani (hot threads) Bruce McGill ("ramming speed!") Ed Ott (70's Pirates catcher) Leon Spinks (1976 Olympic gold) Sela Ward (still smokin') Suzanne Vega (Luka was a boy?) Nadya Suleman (a mess) Lil' Kim (another mess) Lil' Zane (that reminds me, I need to DVR my favorite reality show, "The Lil' People")

69 Today's celebrity deathdays: George Gershwin (an American original) Skylab (blaze of glory) Laurence Olivier (sorry dude, but Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy kicked your ass) Barnard Hughes (took out Lorelai's dad with a forklift) Lady Bird Johnson (Lyndon's chick - well, the one he was married to, anyway) RIP.

70 "America claims the right to tax you simply for being American — even if
you, say, live in Belgium but drive over the border to work in
Luxembourg every day. This is unique to the United States...

Posted by: bottom dollar at July 11, 2012 07:45 AM (BAnPT)

 

 

 

Yep.  Been this way for a long time.  Not only that, the State Dept does not have to accept your renunciation of citizenship should you choose to move away forever.  They can decide that you're just too damn rich to lose, and demand that you pay tax no matter where you go.  And most nations will just go along with it.

 

 

 

The only thing that moderates this somewhat is that you take a credit for foreign taxes paid.  But there's no escape from the US tax rate.

 

 

 

While this irks me, what bothers me way more is that the US is one of the few nations that does damn little to help its citizens when they are over seas.  Even rinky dink nations like Norway or Finland will go to great lengths to help their own people when they are in trouble over seas.  Uncle Sam says "Why are you bothering me peasant?  Go get yourself out of trouble.  You're making my job of kissing the local potentate's ass a lot harder.  Piss off."

71 They tried to sell that gamboling shit here as well with a State Lotto.  The only people getting anything are the people that run it and the a little to the State.


Ain't it amazing when you can't make money with a gamboling operation?

72 I hope the muzzies start blowing up the pyramids real soon. THAT will wake up lots of Americans to how insane they really are.

73 @67

Listen to that!

They allowed!

As if they were your mother allowing you to have a cookie for being a good little tax payer.

You should have said, we will damn well gamble as we please!!

You will get no tribute.

They allowed you with the reward of crumbs as they reaped the largesse.

74 72 I hope the muzzies start blowing up the pyramids real soon. THAT will wake up lots of Americans to how insane they really are.

Posted by: Ed Anger at July 11, 2012 07:52 AM (7+pP9)

 

 

 

Agreed.  But alas - I am sickened by the fact that the heaps of aged stone are of greater importance to most Americans than the millions of people oppressed and/or murdered every year by those vile scum.  The muslims bring death and horror to EVERY SINGLE PLACE that they live, without even 1 exception.  They are the slime of humanity, and yet we tolerate them.  As I have repeatedly said, the constitution should be altered to strip those people of all rights.  America should be wholly rid of them.

 

The world will not be safe until the last muslim is gone. 

 

75 The world will not be safe until the last muslim is gone. Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 07:56 AM (xUM1Q) WORD!! 3000 dead people on 9/11. Video of the muzztards dancing in the streets didn't send a clear enough message to the brainless among us. Every Mosque built in this country is like putting a cancer cell in a lab rat.

76 As if they were your mother allowing you to have a cookie for being a good little tax payer.

Posted by: General Woundwort at July 11, 2012 07:54 AM (06lNq)

 

 

 

Most of the trouble in the US comes from what I like to call "the damn do-gooders."  These are the mommy-state people.  Most are libtards, but sadly there are many on the Right who fall into this camp.  Moralizers. 

 

 

I say, if you want people to act like Christians, spread the gospel.  Don't try to pass laws to make people good.  Convince them to be good.  Instead we have nonsense like the temperance movements, drug bans, FDA approval for everything under the sun (they'd NEVER allow asprin on the market as an OTC if it were invented today).  Seat belt laws, helment laws, health insurance mandates, etc. etc. etc.  It is all the fault of the do-gooders.

 

77 WORD!! 3000 dead people on 9/11. Video of the muzztards dancing in the streets didn't send a clear enough message to the brainless among us. Every Mosque built in this country is like putting a cancer cell in a lab rat.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 11, 2012 08:00 AM (9TTOe)

 

 

 

 

Amen.  The cancer analogy is apt.  There is but one proper response. 

78 Reuters poll has Obama +6 "as people are feeling more confident about the economy." Anyone know more about this poll?

79 Crap, the breakers aren't holding trying to run everything vital through the surviving UPS. Plan C is in formulation. The hospital is running under "Hurricane prep". We had hoped to have everything straight by now so the doctors wouldn't bitch.

80 72-

No it wont. It wont wake up the Shruggers. The Shruggers will shrug and say, as they always do, "That's just their culture. Who am I to judge?".

Then they will scream at the reports that the Tea Party is keeping them from a free chance at eternal life.

81 >>I say, if you want people to act like Christians,

Eh? That's the last thing our totalitarian collectivist rulers want, all that "work or you don't eat" and giving freely to the poor instead of begging the government to steal other people's stuff and give a small fraction of the proceeds to their voting blocs.

82 As an example, I absolutely hate smoking, the smell of smoke and the litter it creates when people can't seem to discard their butts properly.

What I hate and despise more is a government telling people you can't smoke here, you can't smoke there and we will tax you until you relent from this dirty filthy habit, for your own good.

For we are the government and we do this not out of malice but out of love and concern.

Do as we say or else!!

83 the polls in Virginia show Bambi up by 7 at least.  While I work my fingers to the bone for Republicans (Cong Robert Hurt 5CD, George Allen & Romney), don't count on Northern Virginia doing anything but bringing in big #s for the Dems

84 Anyone know more about this poll? Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 11, 2012 08:04 AM (3oX3m) Nope, and there won't be a breakdown of it either. No sample size, no mix of parties, nothin. It's a lie.

85 Sort of early for a call to genocide isn't it ?

86 Crap, the breakers aren't holding trying to run everything vital through the surviving UPS. Trees/forest: Are you *absolutely* sure there isn't something downstream doing it?

87 No C.S. Lewis quotes yet?

88 61 I bet the School system paid top dollar for chinese shit and everyones pockets got full. Except the unconnected tax payer.
--
We located here originally for the low taxes. After the 1980 economy slumps before the dot.com bang, during the massive building boom gone bust given the epic derivative scam and global economic fail permeating the globe, our local ISD originally kept focus on low taxes by building the functional architectural strategically located schools keeping up with the region's population boom, but not overextending expectations of growth. But given the huge influx of new taxpayers, the big bucks went to the School Boards' heads. And of course they determined to line their pockets and their friends' pockets with contracts and kickbacks. One high school was designed to resemble an architectural "temple" as if to inspire the students to study more. That affluent neighborhood school's scores are lower than the other high schools of normal appearance. It's pedestrian but "authentic" locally manufactured/installed light fixtures in the hallways cost $300. each though they match what utilitarian designs you find at Home Depot. Easy come, easy go. Needless to say, there's a budget short fall now and a huge debt growing with interest which rising taxes won't cover.

/Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

89 Trees/forest: Are you *absolutely* sure there isn't something downstream doing it? Me? No. I have to trust the techs, but the engineers are looking at it.

90 How could Barrack The Magnificent be anything but up by 7 in NOVA?

He's handing out DC jobs and raises like the local beauty  queen throws candy in the parade. In other words, like somebody else paid for it.

91 85 Sort of early for a call to genocide isn't it ? Posted by: Dick Nixon at July 11, 2012 08:07 AM (VrVBw) No tricky, it seems that a call for geocide went out centuries ago against the infidel. We're just catching up.

92 This is some goood shit.

93 Me? No. I have to trust the techs, but the engineers are looking at it. Posted by: toby928© at July 11, 2012 08:10 AM (QupBk) Engineers? Now you are screwed.

94 Trees/forest: Are you *absolutely* sure there isn't something downstream doing it? Never mind. My insufficiently caffeinated self read: Crap, the breakers aren't holding trying to run everything vital through the surviving UPS. As: Crap, the breakers aren't holding. Trying to run everything vital through the surviving UPS. I think the earlier comment @43 about routing around the UPS threw me into thinking bypass without UPS. But that's still no excuse.

95 You can never trust any poll done by a news organization. They over sample Dems by a wide margin.

96 72 Hell, no. Obliterating Afghanistan's mountainside giant Buddha sculptures already "proved" the radical point that there is no such thing to be tolerated as memory.

97 oops John Quincy Adams (POTUS #6, Sec of State #8 )

98 #54 It is a bit odd to see the Demonrat long knives out for a Jackson, OTOH, JJ has trampled a lot of dims in his long career as a race pimp.  Just because he was a useful tool in keeping Blacks in lockstep with the party does not mean that anyone actually likes or respects him.  I am sure that he is cordially loathed by everyone that he has ever beaten to a microphone, a shakedown for money, or the pulpit in a Black church.

To use the moron lexicon, there is a whole lot of schadenboner in seeing the fat complacent life of a second generation race pimp being carved up by his competition and compadres in the dim ranks.  I do not wish JJJ or even JJ any ill, I would just like both of them off the national stage, but, until they are dead and buried that is not going to happen.

99 >>(My own school district has an astro-turf football field and a huge "Hall of Excellence" aka giant trophy display room. Also 3 gyms.)

The K-12 free daycare/sports camp back in my hometown in Iowa had to build a third gym because they couldn't schedule all the students into their federally-mandated 300 minutes of phys ed per week in the two existing gyms. 85% of kids grades 7-12 participate in interscholastic athletics--they're already getting more than 300 minutes of activity every week. But some dipshits in Washington got all "ZOMG! FATTIES!" and passed an unfunded mandate.

That's 300 minutes they're not in a classroom, btw, and you know they're going to cut into the reading/writing/math time, not the Social Justice or Sex Ed or Gaia Worship time.

...so they can't read, but changing into shorts every day is in the curriculum.  No wonder India and Korea are kicking our asses.

100 Obviously, the only problem for JJJ is racism.

101 If VA is now a given for the Dems in Presidential elections, they basically have a lock on the electoral college.

102 101 If VA is now a given for the Dems in Presidential elections, they basically have a lock on the electoral college. Posted by: DrSmith at July 11, 2012 08:20 AM (/zlEe) If my Aunt had a dick she would be my Uncle.

103 San Bernardino joins the Officially Boned...ho long before a cascade runs like a wildfire across the Land of Fruits and Nuts?

104 So let me get this straight:  holding a House vote to repeal Obamacare is pointless political theater on an issue from which Americans want to move on, but the President is asking for a tax hike over 250K for what, the sixth or seventh time of his first term?

105 102 If my Aunt had a dick she would be my Uncle. Aye... and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.

106 John Quincy Adams (POTUS #6, Sec of State #8 )

Great statesmen, the Adams.

"This will be my last political campaign no matter what. I've got nothing else to run for." Baroque Hussein Obama

As if Obama would keep any campaign promise.

Truth be told, he knows he's a loser dependent on handouts from his puppet masters. He'll accept appointments to assuage his bruised ego. For starters, simply note which if any institution of higher learning will provide him safe haven. As President or as Professor? Perhaps he'll simply bask in the international investors' profits from scammed US tax payers. More of the same.

107
Posted by: DrSmith at July 11, 2012 08:20 AM (/zlEe)

We're shoving you out the airlock.

108

B

109 The Democratic controlled Senate is not going to bother passing a single appropriations bill this year.  But the President says he's planning on running against "do-nothing" Republicans blocking his every move. 

And I bet he gets away with it.

110 Sort of early for a call to genocide isn't it ?

Posted by: Dick Nixon at July 11, 2012 08:07 AM (VrVBw)

 

 

 

Way overdue, in my opinion.  But then there are always the soft-hearts who think that the best time to take action is when the enemy already has hit boot on your throat. 

 

Well, look at Europe.  Cities already have muslim no-go zones across the continent.  They systemically rape the local, native, non-muz women.  100% of the recent increase in rapes in Sweden, for example, has been by the muz, and that rise has been massive.  We now have what is nearly a muz no-go zone here in Dearbornistan, in Michigan.  The cops allowed Christians,who were doing nothing illegal, to be stoned and beaten with no response at all other than to tell the Christians that THEY were the problem.

 

 

Muz are devoid of worth.  They contribute zero.  Zilch.  The few that simply call themselves muslims, yet act decently, would be killed by their own kind for apostacy. 

 

 

If the world woke up tomorrow and aliens had taken all the muz, no one remaining here would miss them.  At all.

111 38 Alabama has "current use" valuation on property, rather than FMV, so the large landowners plant some pine trees and call it a tree farm to get the much much lower rate. Even when it's in the middle of a large city.

Posted by: toby928© at July 11, 2012 07:25 AM (QupBk)

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NJ has a similar loophole as well. Bon Jovi and Bruce Springstein are chicken and bee farmers. They pay the same rate on their 1000+ acre "farms" as their neighbors on 1 acre lots.

 

 

 

112 Time to go folks.  Back this afternoon.

113 C.

114 Posted by: dananjcon at July 11, 2012 08:27 AM (eavT+)

That can't possibly be true! You lie! Bruce Springsteen is a man of the people and is a champion of the common man! You dirty filthy fascists have to tear down all of the good people!

115 D...?

116 #112 Way overdue, in my opinion. But then there are always the soft-hearts who think that the best time to take action is when the enemy already has hit boot on your throat. Poste by Reactionary at July 11, 2012 08:27 AM (xUM1Q)

The cherry on top of the muslim sundae is the fact that they are exempt from obamacare because of their religion.  So they are exempt, but, Sebelius is using obamacare to beat the Catholic hospitals and institutions into providing contraception and abortions to their employees as a health insurance benefit.  Is this a great country or what/

117 Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 08:03 AM (xUM1Q)

Ah...the Nazi rears his ugly head.

118 101 If VA is now a given for the Dems in Presidential elections, they basically have a lock on the electoral college.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 11, 2012 08:20 AM (/zlEe)

 

...

 

Riiiiiiight.

 

(Back away slowly from this one, folks.  With a screw that loose, it's just a matter of time before he throws a wheel and t-bones himself on a tree)

119 Damage uncertain but engine room reports 110% power possible, but not recommended. If we can get off hurricane procedures we can avoid losing too much money today. *crosses fingers*

120 US Trade Deficit $48.7 billion in may.

april was revised upward to $50.6 billion from $50.1 billion.

http://tinyurl.com/7bo4g4v

121

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 11, 2012 08:04 AM (3oX3m)

1154 adults

 

 

 

 

542 Democrats; 439 Republicans; 173 Independents

122 The macaque is back! Young girl's dog was going crazy at something up a tree yesterday, lo and behold there she was. Animal control hit it with a tranq, returned her to Wake Forest. She had a good riun.

123

Damage uncertain but engine room reports 110% power possible, but not recommended.

<<<<

 

***slow drag on cigarette ***

 

Tell him to go to 110%.

124

They're just innocent    flowers of youth who    are speaking truth to power!

 

Oh, and who've murdered people.  But whatevs.

 

DNA From Chains Used By Occupy Wall Street Protest Linked To 2004 Murder CaseÂ…

 

Officials have linked forensic evidence from the 2004 murder scene of a 21-year-old Juilliard student to the scene of a recent Occupy Wall Street subway protest, NBC 4 New York has learned.

 

...

 

[Sarah]   Fox was found nude and strangled in the park in May 2004, days after she disappeared during a daytime jog. Investigators recovered her pink CD player in the woods just yards from her body.

 

Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player matches DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012...

 

 

Link to WZ: http://tiny.cc/u479gw

125 "LIBOR Manipulation Leads To Questions Regarding Gold Manipulation"   http://tinyurl.com/8849aqw

126
>>>The cherry on top of the muslim sundae is the fact that they are exempt from obamacare because of their religion. So they are exempt, but, Sebelius is using obamacare to beat the Catholic hospitals and institutions into providing contraception and abortions to their employees as a health insurance benefit. Is this a great country or what/


If there were any Muslim hospitals, the Muslims might not have been exempted. The point of the thing is to control medicine in all its aspects. You can't allow another entity (Religious Group) to provide medicinal care when your goal is 100  percent government ownership.

127 with the best intentions for our own good, of course

75% of the ObamaCare UNAFFORDABLE tax burden falls on Americans at the bottom of the wage scale of earnings, with the punitive IRS waiting in the wings enforcing 21st Century robber baron Uncle Sam confiscation of private property from those without funds for either "insurance" or legal recourse, concluding with imprisonment of our bodies, at which point our minds are medically altered.  Those who pay still pay.

Consider well what the cost of "insurance" entails.
Ãœber-hyperinflation
Arbeit Macht Frei

128 Don't put on Paul Krugman on CNBC unless you want your blood pressure up first thing in the morning. 

129 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 08:33 AM (nEUpB)

Ah...the Nazi rears his ugly head. So, is it a requirement that everyone in NJ have Mohammed's islamic salty balls in their mouth... or is it just you? Do you get a tax break for defending the devil?

130 >>If there were any Muslim hospitals, the Muslims might not have been exempted.

Heh.  Good point, but I thought the reason they're exempted from the insurance mandate is that insurance is haraam because it's considered a form of not accepting the will of Allah.  If he wants you to die from a treatable illness...meh. Submit.

So they get to practice their religion, but any Christian who believes killing babies is wrong...meh.  Submit.

131 @123:
"542 Democrats; 439 Republicans; 173 Independents"

In other words-

47 D, 38 R, 15 I

So the results of this poll are worth less than a souvenir baraka o'downgrade chia pet.

132 #118  That is one thing that is a guaranteed thing to get people angry.   I tell everyone about that,  and if they didn't hate Obamacare before,  they do after hearing that little gem.

I make sure to inject it into every conversation about Obamacare,  Obama,  or the election.  Then I use the liberal phrase, "It's not FAIR."

Works pretty well.

133 If the world woke up tomorrow and aliens had taken all the muz, no one remaining here would miss them. At all.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 08:27 AM (xUM1Q)

 

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Oh come on.  After a few weeks, don't you think Biden would notice Obama was missing?

134 As I understand it,  the Muslims were exempt because they consider insurance a form of gambling,  which is forbidden (except for wealthy Saudis betting on camel  races and such). 

I believe we will see a cottage industry rise with Muslims as nominal heads of small businesses, so that the law can be skirted.   Also,  does the law exempt non-Muslim employers from having to pay a fine for non-coverage of Muslim employees?  That would give Muslims a leg up in some industries (hospitality,  especially).

135

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 11, 2012 08:45 AM (ksERZ)

 

 

And he was still only +6

 

Romney will crush this motherfucker, and I mean that in the kindest way

136 ((vic))

137 #134 Yes, it makes them angry as it should.  It is unequal protection under the Bill of Rights.  If you are Amish, Christian Scientists, and I believe, Seventh Day Adventists, you are also exempt from obamacare, but, you also do not consume much health care, so it makes sense.  OTOH, the muslims do consume health care, they just do not want to be forced to pay for haraam health insurance.  They get around the submission angle by saying it is the will of Allah that provided the availability of the treatment.  One of the most modern and futuristic hospitals in the world is opening this year in Qatar--of course, all care there is free because they are the richest people in the world.

It is not just Catholic hospitals that Sebelius is trying to force into paying for things against their religious beliefs, it is all Catholic institutions that provide group insurance for their employees.

It is a slippery slope to exempt any religion from a set of laws and regulations while forcing other religious groups to comply.

138

Sooo...just checking...the sun is still there, right?

 

It's been cloudy for days and I'm getting S.A.D...

 

Grumble grumble need a sun lamp in July grumble grumble. 

 

 

139 Another day, another poll showing Obama ahead. This time, it's Quinnipiac with Obama up 46-43 over hapless Mitt.

140 Ha. The engineers are robbing power from the kitchen. Some of our cross-campus busses are going to be glowing before this is over. OR is back online so we probably won't have to cancel elective surgeries, which are big money makers.

141 Damage uncertain but engine room reports 110% power possible, but not recommended.

The dilithium crystals are disinegrrrrating!

142 I wish I understood Tesla's genji better than I do. Mostly I just nod when the electrical guys are talking.

143 It's turtles, all the way down.

144 126

That's scary.

145

If the world woke up tomorrow and aliens had taken all the muz, no one remaining here would miss them. At all.
Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 08:27 AM (xUM1Q)

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But then who would give us advances in science and math??

146 mama aj ugh....that's the worst

147 Posted by: Chef's Dad at July 11, 2012 08:44 AM (VB3qu)

Espousing genocide is not a civilized response to anything.

I'll call him a Nazi because that's what he sounds like.

148 #136 Asks about giving the muslims a leg up with regards to this exemption.  That is a reasonable question.  What I keep asking is, how about everyone saying they are muslim and therefore exempt, so they pay no tax penalty?  You go to your tax audit and plop a 20 Koran on the auditor's desk and dare them to object.  If the auditor asks, what about you attending Mass or church each week, and you calmly reply, "I am keeping an eye on the Infidels and working to bring them to the one true Faith."

So overnight, we are exempt from the ACA and no longer the Great Satan!

149 So Muslims get to practice their religion, but any Christian who believes killing babies is wrong...meh. Submit.

Christian Scientists (faith healing dogma) are not exempt from Obama's mandate.

150 This morning on NPR:

It's July.  It's hot.  IT'S GLOBAL WARMING!  And don't forget that anthropogenic climate change causes all sorts of extreme weather, like tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes.

*Please update your style guide to reflect the use of climate change in association with extreme weather and global warming with regards to summer heat.

151 Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player matches DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012...

Aside from the obvious protestors, everyone and their dog had access to that area.

152 Reuters poll has Obama +6 "as people are feeling more confident about the economy."
Anyone know more about this poll?

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 11, 2012 08:04 AM (3oX3m)

They must have polled people who got into Barry's choom. Who in the hell is feeling more confident about the economy?

153 So now we're going to get an IRS that's about religious verification? Oh, that's comforting.

154

DrSmith is still here?  I thought he died.

 

Oh, no, that was the actor, Jonathan Harris.   I make the mistake because he was actually WORTH something.  Unlike our troll DrSmith, who wouldn't sell on the blackmarket if the asking price was a bottle of rancid urine.

155 November.Bitches.

156 charliebrownsdildo chef's dad will find out soon enough what a whack job reactionary is.....

157 DrSmith = Greg = Average Joe

158 Posted by: nickless at July 11, 2012 09:03 AM (MMC8r)

Wouldn't a truly egalitarian society be fun!

I suggested to our girl brat that she list herself on college applications as Pacific Islander/African American.

How would the colleges prove that she isn't?

159 "Espousing genocide is not a civilized response to anything."

better late than never conversion 

160 So now we're going to get an IRS that's about religious verification? Oh, that's comforting.

Enter the confessional:

"Forgive me, father, for I have earned."

161 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 11, 2012 09:04 AM (4df7R)

The problem is that our current crop (troop? Coven? herd?) of trolls is really, really boring. That is the unforgivable part.

162 That Quinnipiac poll that Dr Smith is so proud was sampled at 10 points higher for Demos

163

If my aunt had a dik, she would be my uncle.

 

I do have a dick.  Your uncle.

164 11 Egyptian Muzzies not only want to destroy the pyramids, they want sex slaves.


Damn. If you didn't have to stop drinking this could be a hell of a recruiting tool.

165 Another day, another poll showing Obama ahead. This time, it's Quinnipiac with Obama up 46-43 over hapless Mitt.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 11, 2012 08:57 AM (nRxw3)

An AofS poll shows that 100% of the people think that Dr. Smith is a douchebag loser

166 Posted by: Saul of Tarsus at July 11, 2012 09:06 AM (BAnPT)

Apparently reactionary is still blind.

167 New York Federal Reserve knew about Libor rate-fixing issues as far back as 2007 and proposed changes but were ignored

Questions over whether Fed did enough over Libor concerns

Then-New York Federal Reserve chairman Tim Geithner calendar included 'Fixing LIBOR' meeting in 2008


The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known as early as August 2007 that the setting of global benchmark interest rates was flawed.

Following an inquiry with British banking group Barclays Plc in the spring of 2008, it shared proposals for reform of the system with British authorities.

The role of the Fed is likely to raise questions about whether it and other authorities took enough action to address concerns they had about the way Libor rates were set, or whether their struggle to keep the banking system afloat through the financial crisis meant the issue took a backseat.

168 Fuck.  165 was me.  Time to cut down on the morning jolt of Elmer's.

169 Check out Rasmussen's Election 2012 page ... btw he has it all tied up in Virginia at 47%  a piece

170 Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at July 11, 2012 09:05 AM (Ho2rs)

Hopefully...which is why I was polite in my response to his rude comment.

171 I'll call him a Nazi because that's what he sounds like. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:01 AM (nEUpB) I respectfully disagree with those that equate the Nazis with those that want to stamp out the planetary poison that is the Muslim religion. The jews never beheaded innocents, they never mutilated the genitalia of young girls, they never attacked Germany in a cowardly terrorist act. They didn't murder they're daughters because they fell in love with a Christian boy. Although I'm sure a good Jewish mother could make it feel that way. Nope, unlike the Nazis, those of us that want the blood cult eradicated have a recent history of barbaric behavior to point to. Something the Nazis never had.

172 "My mother said, and by the way, it was wonderful for children by the way--having your grandpop living with you, having your great aunt, your uncle, for real," Biden said. "Those walls were awful thin, I wonder how the hell my parents did it! But that's a different story. I know you don't anything about that. I know none of you in your families have done the same thing."

173 He also froze school buildings, pointing out that somehow our little state is building schools that look like palaces. --- My son's high school is such a palace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakdale_High_School_(Maryland)

174 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 11, 2012 09:10 AM (zF6Iw)

Heh.

And...edit your URL. It has a "minx.cc" that screws up everything.

175 #156   I suggest that the "hapless Mitt" meme is drawn from the constant backseat campaigning of various talk show hosts and print columnists (Limbaugh and Kristol,  I am looking at you).

The effort will be made to fan the flames of dissatisfaction.  It begins with trolls,  and in a day or two you see articles about "Republican doubts" and "GOP anger at Romney campaign."

I suggest that perhaps all of our print and talk people try to dial things down a bit instead of acting like Romney doesn't know what he's doing.  It might also be helpful if they took the time to point out things that would anger Americans at Obama,  like the Muslim exemption. Of course,  if their  most important goal is to prove that they are smarter than Romney and always right,  even if we lose the election,  then I guess they will keep it up.

176 174

Good thing we dodged that Palin bullet.

177 It's July. It's hot. IT'S GLOBAL WARMING! --- And all the warmists who chant, "Weather isn't climate" whenever there's a cold snap have suddenly decided that weather is climate after all.

178

>>And...edit your URL. It has a "minx.cc" that screws up everything.

 

Put in your own "http://" and it won't automatically add the minx part.

179 I suggest that perhaps all of our print and talk people try to dial things down a bit instead of acting like Romney doesn't know what he's doing. I don't think they are acting. I have yet to see something really impressive.

180 @177: Limbaugh spent all day on his show yesterday slamming Eeyores and defending Romney.  Please direct the friendly fire elsewhere.

181
139 #134 Yes, it makes them angry as it should. It is unequal protection under the Bill of Rights. If you are Amish, Christian Scientists, and I believe, Seventh Day Adventists, you are also exempt from obamacare...

Scientologists are exempt, too.

182 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 11, 2012 09:11 AM (9TTOe)

I am all for an aggressive response to the Muslim expansionist tendencies.

But...Reactionary has stated that genocide is an appropriate response to Islam. That is so far beyond the pale that I am a little surprised that he hasn't been banned.

183 I suggested to our girl brat that she list herself on college applications as Pacific Islander/African American.

How would the colleges prove that she isn't?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:06 AM (nEUpB)

 

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Well If your last name is, Chin, Leibowitz or O'mally that will be an immediate tip-off that your daughter is the wrong religion and race. Affirmative action, racial profiling is a perfectly legitimate process in the colledge admission process. Better change her last name to Mitumbo or Guitierez asap.

184 dagny got scolded for her post being read wrong by the ewok.....yet reactionary can call for GENOCIDE and not even get a second look.....good to know.....i won't even go into the whole cat piss troll who's allowed here.....

185 I'll call him a Nazi because that's what he sounds like.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:01 AM (nEUpB)

 

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Yeah - I guess you're right.  Better to just practice a never-ending policy of containment - eternal warfare.  Fend them off, with minimal force, allowing them to spread the faith in the US (especially in all the prisons, and in the military).  Until, of course, they catch up and figure out a way to end us.  That's the end-game, if there ever IS an end to the global misery that those people generate.  No matter what we do, Iran will have nukes sooner or later.  Then more will have them. And somebody is going to start leaking them.  One day a cargo ship is going to sail into the harbor of a major US city, and then that city will burn.

 

 

We are incredibly spoiled here in the US, because the muz are so few.  We are not constantly victimized by them - yet.  The Europeans are not so lucky, and even their leftist press is hard pressed to keep a lid on the stories of near-daily attrocities. 

 

 

Check out thereligionofpeace (dot) com.  If you need any more convincing than what facts are contained there, then you are either a fool or a muz sympathizer.

186 #182  Well,  good.  Then I retract it.  I have spent so many days turning him off when he started the slams against Romney that I gave up listening to him.

Kristol,  however,  is in print and I stand by my comment.

Also,  as I was tooling around I noted Politico is reviving the "evangelicals won't be as enthusiastic for Romney as they would for  XXX".   This is just more of the division thing and I expect we will see more.

Infighting is always the worst fault in the GOP.  Independent minds often have trouble being team players,  which is both a blessing and a curse. 

187 MK Ham has joined Tepid Air. Will it make Tepid Air better or MK Ham worse?

188 Maryland Pepco, BGE Customers Will See Extra Bill For Lost Storm Income In Form Of Bill Stabilization Adjustment. So we lose power for 3 days or more, and we have to pay for their lost income, sounds about right for the People's Republic of Maryland http://tinyurl.com/7ve9j3e

189 He still has not been cleared in that Obama Senate Seat sale.

It's the flaming skull toupee .gif itself, one conviction will not do for such an awesome piece of the blogosphere.

190 BTW, anyone see the thing at Insty about Obama wanting to mandate Title IX to apply to admissions in STEM majors at any university that accepts Federal student loan money?  That can't possibly end badly.

191 Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 09:19 AM (xUM1Q)

Cut. Jib. Newsletter.

192 So, even when we include the payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, which disproportionately hit lower-income workers, the U.S. tax code is already sharply progressive. What liberal/progressivists have yet to tell us is exactly how much more progressive they think it should be.

Well, sort of. We do have an idea of what they think it should be, at least for starters, in the form of Obama’s raise-taxes-on-the-rich proposal. Part of his usual argument for raising taxes on the rich is that we’ve been going down the wrong path for the past three decades — which is shorthand for: since Ronald Reagan was elected and sharply lowered marginal income-tax rates.

Conveniently, the CBOÂ’s report includes data going all the way back to 1979. So, how did things change over the course of 30 years?

One of the ways the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (or OECD, the Paris-based club of industrialized nations) measures tax-code progressivity is by calculating the ratio of the tax burden to income earned for each income group. For example, if one quintile earns 20% of the income and pays 10% of the taxes, its ratio would be 10/20, or 0.50. The higher the ratios for the upper-income groups, and the lower the ratios for the lower-income groups, the more progressive the tax code. By this measure, the OECD has determined the U.S. has the most progressive tax code in the industrialized world.

193 Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 09:19 AM (xUM1Q)

The mark of an ignorant man is the inability to see more than one answer.

And...your straw man is burning.

194 193 Ian S. I dream of a day when my children will be judged on the content of their minds, not their underwear.

195 I think its time for some mead ...

196 Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at July 11, 2012 09:19 AM (Ho2rs)

Ace's chaotic method of policing this blog is odd, to say the least!

197 #195  I am pretty sure Joe Biden couldn't have penned that response.  It had numbers in it and no ethnic jokes.

198 Infighting is always the worst fault in the GOP. Independent minds often have trouble being team players, which is both a blessing and a curse.

An actual giant fistfight concluded with sloppy drunken "I love you mans" after the McCain disaster might have helped.

199 Hey, Vic, did you get that rain last night?  Cooled down CLT 20 degrees.  Also Duke to test Nuclear power warning sirens today.  How many people hear them?

200 >>BTW, anyone see the thing at Insty about Obama wanting to mandate Title IX to apply to admissions in STEM majors at any university that accepts Federal student loan money?

It's on the top of the last post.  *heh*

201 A couple of days ago some people were bashing GM, saying their stock was near an all time low, around $35 per share.

They were all wrong.

Yesterday GM stock was trading for under $20 per share.

202 So I was thinking of Mitt's 1st day exemptions the other day and thought every church except Rev. Wrights might be an amusing start.

203 Romney speaks to NAACP at 10:30.

I know it will get coverage,  because the networks all think he will flop.

We will see.

204 So now we're going to get an IRS that's about religious verification? Oh, that's comforting.
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No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matt6:24

Give unto Obama bloody lucre and Obama will sacrifice your body to that same master, no distinction between God as Money. Obama just wants to "help" by playing Allah to remove free will.

"How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: 'Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?'  All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb. But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people."   Isaiah 14:12-20

205 Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2012 09:22 AM (9YUug)

Wow. Just....wow.

The last bastion of a truly free and equal society.

Why not just give minorities a 200 point bonus on the math SAT? Because, after all, math is racist!

206 spypeach man...that sucks....

207

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:25 AM (nEUpB)

 

 

 

So what's your answer?  I've read the words "aggressive response."  What else ya got?  I suspect your answer is "ignore it and hope it goes away and doesn't get worse."

208 Off to get some work done.   Hope there is a thread for Romney's speech.

209 spypeach and it should be a warning for anyone who thinks that any kind of energy efficiency is going to save you money.....these companies are in the business to make money......the use less pay less is a myth....

210 "That Quinnipiac poll that Dr Smith is so proud was sampled at 10 points higher for Demos" Wrong again, lol. The partisan breakdown was Dems +4, which is certainly possible.

211 @208: As has already been suggested, on the plus side you can always pretend to be teh ghey and there's currently no biological test to prove otherwise.  But yeah, that's ridiculous.

212 Quinnipiac had the breakdown of D/R/I at 31/27/36:

213 But damn this morning thread is full of DOOM!

214 spypeach and phoenixgirl

Fixed costs will bite you in the ass every time.  Use less - pay more per KWH.  It's a dirty little secret that we don't want the plebes to know.

215

Speaking before the NAACP, Attorney General Eric Holder departed from his prepared speech on Tuesday, decrying voter ID laws, that have been proposed in 10 states so far. Talking Points Memo reports:

"Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not," Holder said. "Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. We call those poll taxes."

Holder isn't the first to say such laws are racist. Benjamin Todd Jealous, CEO and president of the NCAAP, evoked the civil rights movement Monday, comparing the moment to "Selma and Montgomery times."






If this were an Attorney General appointed by a Republican the MFM would be screaming about politicizing the office and demanding that he resign. But because he's a race baiting clown who loves to stomp all over the law the MFM has no problem with him. And how in the hell is showing an ID to vote racist?

216
Here's a story I almost forgot to spring on the moron horde:

Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past

Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded in a scandal described by Mitt Romney as an example of the White House’s ”crony capitalism.” Now Prabhakar has a new job, this one in the Obama administration: running the Pentagon’s most important research agency. But being the geek-in-chief requires investing billions on risky, high-tech bets that aren’t so different from Solyndra.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/darpa-solyndra/

217

ll the dems have just told the llegals where to get in to the US through tx in order to vote in our election.  Why doesn't the administration just be clear and declare war on Texas.  .

 

 

I want my preference cascade.  Get Obama out of office

218 206 I doubt that Romney would flop speaking to the NAACP or any other special interest organization. If there's one thing Mitt's learned in life, it's public address per audience.

The "keeping his powder dry" reticence to address America at large with his potus platform is that he's reached a point beyond his experience, to address all of America rather than one contingency at a time. Compound that with his own indecision as to his platform, and from there, how to sell all his eggs from his own basket.

He's had years to go figure since determining to campaign for POTUS. It's one thing to have been pliable en route to reaching determination; another to be indecisive in doubt.

219 @218: The bonus hilarity is that NAACP required two forms of ID (including a drivers license/state ID) to be able to get in and see Holder say that.

220 IIRC Reactionary and maybe Romeo13 have gotten red-flagged before.

IIRC there's 3 answers to God @THE END re. where our are muslim neighbors, his children, who call him Allah.

Right here.
We tried EVERYTHING else 1st but they would take no other road.
Or they just pissed us off.

#3 probably won't go over so well.

221 Posted by: Reactionary at July 11, 2012 09:32 AM (xUM1Q)

I'll use small words because you are just too stupid to get it.

Genocide is a bad thing. In all instances. No exceptions.

Now fuck off.

222 >>Why not just give minorities a 200 point bonus on the math SAT?

That's pretty much how college admissions work already (Asians not considered minorities, of course).

Title IX isn't about Teh Ghey or Teh Melanin, though.  It's about genitalia.

And as a woman with an engineering degree (absolute moral authority, bitchez), my advice to my niece is to listen to her Mimi and skip that shit and go for the MRS.

223 I wish all of you who throw up barriers for Obama because you hate ni**as and want to see a black man fail...........I just wish that you racist honkies would remember ONE THING............. ............ Barack's Mama was a CRACKA just like YOU ARE! A Cracka from the plains of Kansas for god's sake! So PLEASE, racist white America...........give Obama a break! Do it for his white......white......and I do mean WHI

224 I like Ike!

225

"Genocide is a bad thing. In all instances. No exceptions."

 

Excluding hobos and midgets, right?

226 >>And how in the hell is showing an ID to vote racist?

Opponents of requiring ID to vote believe black people are too stupid and/or lazy to obtain a photo ID; thus, those of us who believe otherwise are racists.

Kind of like "liberal" means "totalitarian."

227 Turn that frown upside down!

228

How do the hoards of people without photo ID cash a check?

229

It appears JJJ has become the Fredo of the race crowd, and they my have to dump him in the  lake Godfather style.

 

NAACP lives for identity politics.  Somebody needs to tell the NAACP that the influx of illegal immigrants is going to replace black politicians with hispanic ones.  Thats what nearly happened to Charlie Rangel, what has been happening in Texas. 

 

 

230 Posted by: jwest at July 11, 2012 09:50 AM (ZDsRL)

Or buy a beer or open a checking account or pick up tickets at will-call or....

231 How do the hoards of people without photo ID cash a check?>>

Well duh they have IDs for the several fake/stolen identities used to scam the govt for checks. Just not one in their real name.

232 Or buy a beer or open a checking account or pick up tickets at will-call or.... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:53 AM (nEUpB) or... buy an IPhone a flat screen TV or a Escalade.

233 Holder definitely gets downtwinkles!!!!!

234 ...or go on a flight or a cruise, or visit Canada or Mexico, or buy cigarettes...

235 Or buy a beer or open a checking account or pick up tickets at will-call or....>>

Cash a winning lotto ticket...

236 Ace's chaotic method of policing this blog is odd, to say the least!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:27 AM (nEUpB)

It's similar to his thread posting behavior.  Nothing until 1 pm, then look out.....all hell breaks loose and you can't even keep up with all the threads.

237

"Or buy a beer or open a checking account or pick up tickets at will-call or....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 09:53 AM (nEUpB)

or... buy an IPhone a flat screen TV or a Escalade."

Or get concealed hand gun license ...

238 Or enroll Taqusishia, LaVaughan, or Juarnelle in HeadStart

239 Officials have linked forensic evidence from the 2004 murder scene of a 21-year-old Juilliard student to the scene of a recent Occupy Wall Street subway protest, NBC 4 New York has learned.

DNA evidence from the scene of Sarah Fox's murder in Inwood Hill Park eight years ago has been connected to DNA from a chain left in a subway station by Occupy protesters in March, NBC 4 New York first reported Tuesday.

Fox was found nude and strangled in the park in May 2004, days after she disappeared during a daytime jog. Investigators recovered her pink CD player in the woods just yards from her body.

Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player matches DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012.

240 242 downtwinkles for sure ...

241 You need an ID to make a straw gun purchase right Holder?

242 244 You need an ID to make a straw gun purchase right Holder?

Only if it's a Mexican ID.....

243 Genocide is a bad thing. In all instances. No exceptions.

Indeed!

244 The stupid reactionary kneejerk liberal response to Voter ID blithely and completely ignores the fact that for all practical purposes everyone in America has a photo ID.  You are required to get a SSN for a new born now.  Combine that with a birth certificate and you have enough documentation at age six weeks or so, to get just about anything--a bank account for G'Ma and G'Pa to put money in for college, open a brokerage account, a trust fund, and so on and so forth.  Do not tell me that the Black lady with 4 inch acrylic nails, an iPhone, and an Escalade can't whip out photo ID to get anything her little heart desires.

Nope, the angst and hoopla about Voter ID is about fraud and nothing but fraud, because getting enough fake IDs for a cadre of miscreants to cast fraudulent votes all over a major metropolitan city is a big damn hassle. 

How in hell you gonna make sure the correct aldermen, councilors, and Congress Critters get elected if you damn snippy verifiers are gonna bitch up the process?

245 Genocide is a bad thing. In all instances. No exceptions. Tell us about it.

246 The more the dems want to know who the running mate is, the more I want romney to wait until the last day of the convention.

Wasn't it always done that way?  Wasn't mccain the guy who changed that with Sarah Palin.

Heck keep em waiting and on pins and needles worrying that they don't have stuff on the person.

247 Yes, genocide is a very bad thing.  OTOH, the muslims been practicing it for a long time without a whole lot of downside for them!  Sucks to be the moral good guys when you are dealing with the muslim hordes.  Still, I want to be one of the good guys and gals, so two wrongs do not make a left or a right.

248 Heck keep em waiting and on pins and needles worrying that they don't have stuff on the person. Posted by: shocka at July 11, 2012 10:06 AM (oZfic) I'm sure that crew has a team on every possible candidate as we type. The name of the game is to place the blame.

249

Greetin's and salutin's,   y'all.

250 Saaaaaaaaaaaaalute!

251 Genocide is a bad thing. In all instances. No exceptions.

Preach it, brother!

252

I saw the name Hans Zimmer the other day, I think it was attached to the Lion King soundtrack.  I thought it was the same guy who did the Miami Vice theme, but that was Jan Hammer. 

 

All sounds the same to me. 

253 "‘Don’t Fall for the Jedi Mind Trick’: Beck Takes on Progressives‘ New ’Little Blue Book’" http://tinyurl.com/bo2kf5k

With a headline like this, had to be written by one of you guys....

254 @179 It's July. It's hot. IT'S GLOBAL WARMING!

"And all the warmists who chant, "Weather isn't climate" whenever there's a cold snap have suddenly decided that weather is climate after all. "
________________________________________________

The above is #2 on my current list of things to point out when playing the mildly amusing game of  "stump the stumps that are lefties."

#1 being - "Do you agree or disagree with Hilary Clinton when she says the highest form of patriotism is dissent?"

255 All sounds the same to me. Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2012 10:13 AM (TOk1P) Those Europeans sure can write the soundtracks.

256 The key to discussing GLOBAL WARMING is to sound sincere when you say things like "last week we were having GLOBAL WARMING, this week not so much," or "we're having GLOBAL WARMING here, but I understand those people in (fill in the name of somewhere else here) aren't." 

257

258 -

 

Yes they can.  Especially Elton John and Phil Collins.  Their sound is so... continental!

258 #betting on America

NOAA scientist: 80 percent chance recent heat records due to climate change

http://tinyurl.com/865owmw link to Washington post

259 I was trying to come up with a reason to be positive about the Romney nomination. I began to imagine what the debates are going to be like. Romney is smart and stately. Obama is cute and a little witty, but he's not that smart. Romney has negotiated professionally. He knows how to set up a verbal trap. I now have something positive to look forward to.

260

"In speaking to ABC News Wednesday, Portman inadvertently let slip that he had been engaged in several “intense” meetings with Romney campaign advisers, including Beth Myers, the woman who is widely known to be influencing the selection process. The meetings reportedly lasted six hours, each lasting a single hour. Portman reportedly said this:

“You know, I talk to those guys all the time on how things are going in Ohio and what the message ought to be back home in Ohio, so it was a good-good day.'"   http://tinyurl.com/bq4ju7w

Those "romney is whiter than white bread" guys would have a field day with portman as vp

261 From the sidebar story on Roseanne Barr:

“It’s a sign of the maturity of the Green Party that we have attracted somebody as well known as Roseanne Barr and as admired for her acting career and activism.”

Yes.  Yes, it is.

262 Those "romney is whiter than white bread" guys would have a field day with portman as vp Posted by: shocka at July 11, 2012 10:21 AM (oZfic) If he would just pick Alan West we could sew this thing up.

263 I wouldn't fuck oZfic's dick with Andy Dick's pussy.

264 JJ the older and JJ Jr. are known for their distain of Obama. I am pretty sure I know why Jr. is being disappeared, but it is not for what most people think

265

262 -

 

Why am I thinking there's about an 80% chance that NOAA "scientist" pulled that 80% figure out of his backside? 

266

Yes they can. Especially Elton John and Phil Collins. Their sound is so... continental!

 

Well, if you want  to hear some good, ol' American country music, click over to my little slice  of Intarwebz  heaven and check out Hank Jr.'s new ditty We're Gonna Take  Our Country Back.  It's a good 'un. He tells teh SCOAMF to  pack up for Chicago, and be sure to take the teleprompter so he'll know how to   get there.

 

Click on my nic...

267 I would like to see Alan West just for the one liners.

268 Genocide is a bad thing. In all instances. No exceptions.

Word!

269

265 -

 

I'm especially fond of her "mature" rendition of the National Anthem a few years back. 

270 273 uptwinkles!

271 OK, this is a relatively minor point, but it grates. 'Genocide' regards ethnic groups, not cultural/political divisions. If the call was against Arabs, or Persians, or some specific ethnic group, the use of the term would be appropriate, but it's misapplied here. I'm totally going to leave y'all to your flamewar on the subject aside from that.

272

269 -

 

I'm trying to be a kinder, gentler Burt, so I should probably keep my opinion of Hank Jr. to myself. 

273 I'd like to see Alan West because...Alan West!  He's not afraid to call a spade a fucking shovel.

274

NOAA scientist: 80 percent chance recent heat records due to climate change

 

This word : 'Scientist'...

275 If he would just pick Alan West we could sew this thing up.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 11, 2012 10:22 AM (9TTOe)

yep

276 Who is this Higgs that's got the bossom everybody is talking about?

277 I would like to see Alan West just for the one liners.

Posted by: Honey Skullduggery Badgerwitz, drinker of mead at July 11, 2012 10:24 AM (GvYeG)

Just think of the debate he'd have with Slow Joe

278

Edit your URL.  It has a mix.cc that screws up everything.

 

Don't know how.  So I'll just pull it.

279

I'm trying to be a kinder, gentler Burt, so I should probably keep my opinion of Hank Jr. to myself.

 

The song is what's good.  It coulda been  done  by Charlie Daniels,  it's in the same vein as some of his patriotic songs.

 

For the record, I'm not a big country music fan either, which is one of the  reasons I was excommunicated from Alabama. That, and I could speak the King's English, which  my cousins   had difficulty understanding...

280

Put in your own http

 

OK.  Does it work now?

281 Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 11, 2012 10:30 AM (OWjjx)

He either needs to pick West or Christie.

Or Carly Fiorina or Susannah Martinez.

Portmann is same old, same old yawn....

282

I'm a big country music fan. If someone doesn't like it ... tough shit.

283 Hank Jr. used to have a place right down the road from me.

284 No, you stupid clanking Cylon. Get with the program. (ha! a pun!) "Genocide" now means the same thing as the modern use of "racism" or "Nazi". It really means "that with which I do not agree because I'm a big liberal pussy". Thusly, refusing to bow down and kiss the toes of the rapacious murdering islamic agressors becomes : NAZI RACIST GENOCIDE!!!!!!1!! ELEVENTY!!!!!!

285 193 BTW, anyone see the thing at Insty about Obama wanting to mandate Title IX to apply to admissions in STEM majors at any university that accepts Federal student loan money? --- Truly bizarre. I doubt it will go anywhere. In my experience in graduate admissions, running a lab, sitting on committees, and teaching, the male students and female students are equally poorly prepared. Foreign students (those who've completed undergrad degrees overseas), particularly Asians, can be extremely focussed, but they tend to not be independent thinkers. There's also a higher than usual rate of plagiarism in that group. None of them can write worth a lick. The problem, and I do think it's a problem if we don't have enough scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, is the K-12 preparation. Undergraduates, and even grad students in some cases, don't have the basics in the three Rs and seem woefully unprepared for grasping how the scientific method works. The latter can be taught, but not after 12-16 years of kids being spoon-fed. "Tell me what I need to know for the test" is not the attitude you need when doing discovery/research.

286 But in the spirit of the new civility at AOSHQ

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 11, 2012 10:36 AM (OWjjx)

Wait....there's  a 'new civility' here?!  I missed a memo....so f*ck it.

287 I wondered why so many of the commenters on the blaze article said the staff has to go, so I googled Beth Myers and wasn't impressed:  http://tinyurl.com/7pfzwn9

288

284 -

 

I like some country, but it tends to be the less "rocky" stuff, if that makes sense.  So for example, I like some Hank Sr., but can't think of anything Hank Jr. did that I like.  And it's certainly not about the politics, just the style.

 

289 I like both kinds of music. Country and Westen.

290

I'm a big country music fan. Ifsomeone doesn't like it ... tough shit.

 

I like folks like Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, and Jason Aldean,  sorta fringe country, IMO. I really liked  CDB when  that band was more Southern rock and sounded like the Allman Bros back in the '70's.

 

Talk about a genre that's changed a lot over the past 20 years or so,  Jason Aldean, if you took his vocals and guitar out of the mix, would sound like a heavy metal band,  at least to me.

291 Re: genocide... I wouldn't lose any sleep if every single yellowjacket on this planet were eradicated. Nasty, useless, and a pestilence. I know, I know, they're probably some vital link in the food chain to some other species, although I don't what that would be.

292 289: Dear has-been: Your son was a more convincing character after he was recast. Kind of like you. Funny, that's a pattern for you. If you'll excuse me, some of the Sixes and Eights need 'maintenance'. A euphemism of much higher stature, I assure you...

293
Electoral deadlock between Romney, Obama not so far-fetched this year

Los Angeles Times





"Today, in a stunning move, Chief Justice Roberts joined with court liberals in a 5 to 4 opinion that Barack Obama had won the state of Florida despite Republican accusations of extensive voting irregularities. The now reelected President made a brief statement..."

294 Nood thread...

295 So, guys (and gals), is this latest round of class-warfare against Mitt working? Personally, I am not bothered by the overseas bank account stuff - and I think they've effectively countered it by pointing to the administration's outsourcing and DWS's overseas funds - but I am getting the sense that some Republicans/conservatives think Mitt has not countered the tax returns thing effectively. I am a little surprised that he didn't prepare further in advance for that aspect, particularly given how McCain stumbled over that stuff and he had to know he (Mitt) would be targeted on it. Seems like he could have done some symbolic things with his personal finances several years ago that would have reduced this line of attack. Should he do some sort of presser where he holds up, for example, his tax returns (the ones he's released) and Obama's, then his college transcripts and nothing for Obama, and then his medical records and very little (?) released by Obama... Would that be effective? I've lost track of what Romney has released vis a vis his taxes, although I do remember him taking a while to release some during the primaries.

296 >>300 Nood thread... Naturally, after my long question!

297 Re: genocide... I wouldn't lose any sleep if every single yellowjacket on this planet were eradicated.

Nasty, useless, and a pestilence.  Posted by Gran at July 11, 2012 10:40 AM (p8FXV)

For the second summer in a row, my backyard is being colonized by hornets the size of hummingbirds who are building underground nests just outside the back door.  Been using a foam insecticide on them.  I do not care where in the food chain they are.  I am allergic to wasp stings and have no desire to find out what a sting from one of these monsters would do to me.  So it is all genocide all the time on the in-ground hornets.

298 San Bernadino CA filing for bankruptcy..? from Fox news a little while ago, so maybe last night's news. Can't make payroll.
still...

----

Chickens.  Roost.  You do the math.

299

Jesus H on an a...Frickin Yahoo/ATT is all in for Barky, every fucking click brings up another ad with his and/or the mooch's face on it...my eyes...MY EYES!!!

***

"Happy Birthday Barak"

"Sign the Card"

**PUKE**

300 @303 Try some aerosol spray glue on them. Glues their wings shut in midair, or so I've read. My brother swears by brake cleaner. Boom, down in one shot, dead.

301 This word : 'Scientist'... Along those lines: On the afternoon of Friday, June 29th, I went out for groceries. The DJ on the country station was talking with the local NBC weatherfag on the air about the heat, and he asked the stupid "is this global warming?" question. The weatherfag, Doug Kammerer, picked it up and ran with his spiel on global warming. Pissed me off, so I changed the station. That night, we got the badass storm that nobody saw coming. Maybe if the weatherfag spent more time poring over weather data like the "meteorologist" he claims to be and less time hamming-it-up on the radio, pushing that marxist-rooted AGW misinformation campaign like the empty-headed, teleprompter-reading, greenscreen-blocking celebutard he really is, he could have had a clue that the shit was coming. Maybe if he had been doing his job, those eleven people who died in those storms in Virginia would have had a chance. We will never know. One thing weatherfags like Kammerer rightfully control is the amount of effort and expertise they apply to interpreting weather data to keep us from getting caught by storms like that without warning. Instead, Kammerer was busy pissing away his time and energy shoring the foundations from which he and the rest of his collectivist kind can grab the power they want to wrongfully control how everyone else lives.

302

CharlieBrown'sDildo-

You're all for an aggressive response to the Muslim expansionist Tendencies?

Excellent. Because they have a proven aggressive response towards YOU as a non-muslim.

With that said, I also object to the use of the word "genocide".

However, we are in a fight to the Death.

There are no other Religions that call for the death of those who do not believe as they do.

How do you reconcile this?

303

>>OK. Does it work now?

Yep!

304 Posted by: USMC8541 at July 11, 2012 10:56 AM (v3pYe)

I have no need to reconcile Muslims' desire to kill me with my desire to keep them from killing me.

Muslims are entitled to ruin their own third-world shitholes. They can continue to kill each other for the next 10,000 years. I don't care. But when they try to kill me or members of my society then we have a moral imperative to kick the shit out of them and drive them back to their third-world cesspits.

Notice...I did not say, "we should kill all of them."

305 “What the American people need right now isn’t a lecture on fairness but some certainty. And that’s why today I’m going to call on the Senate to provide just that.

“I have already called for a one-year extension of all of the current income tax rates.

“Today, I’ll go further by asking for consent that we set up two votes in the Senate.

“One on the President’s proposal to raise taxes on nearly one million business owners in the middle of the worst economic recovery in modern times, and one that would extend current income tax rates for one year and task the Finance Committee to produce a bill that would enact fundamental, pro-growth tax reform.

“The Senate should make itself clear which policy it supports. This is our chance to do it.

306 Thanks, Mama!

307 Is this the gay Dr. Smith from Lost in Space?

308

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 11, 2012 11:13 AM (nEUpB)

I know we're posting in a dead-thread...I hope you see this.

"I have no need to reconcile Muslims' desire to kill me with my desire to keep them from killing me."

-ok, this is a tough one for me; "The purpose of War is to destroy the Enemy and his ability to wage war" This Tenet was taught to me all my young adult, Military life. And, although I am no longer young, the Tenet remains instilled in my basic conscious thought processes.

"But when they try to kill me or members of my society then we have a moral imperative to kick the shit out of them and drive them back to their third-world cesspits."

They have Already begun killing members of your (and my) society.

I don't have a good answer.

309 There are no other Religions that call for the death of those who do not believe as they do. How do you reconcile this? Reconciliation begins with recognizing that islam is not a religion. It is a totalitarian *political* system. It dictates in detail what its followers *must* believe and how its followers *must* behave. Rather than relegate reward and punishment to a higher power, islam gives anyone with the might an easy excuse for twisted barbarism by claiming it was done on behalf of their moon god. Again, islam is *not* a religion. It is an extended Manson family with a billion and a half members around the world. As intractable as this sounds, this actually *helps* with crafting a non-genocidal solution to the islam problem. Mustafa Kemal and Reza Pahlavi figured it out in the 1920s: Authoritarian secularism. Nasser tried the same in Egypt and Saddam Hussein did it in Iraq (except these two dipshits aligned with the USSR). People are not meant to be draft animals, but if the backwards totalitarian system dominating their cultures for centuries made them into draft animals, then lead them by their noses until they can be straightened out. After all, if nobody ever needed a strong pimp hand, then WTF did somebody coin the expression, "strong pimp hand?"

310

FRONT TOWARD LEFT

Well Written post. Thank you.

311 Ta Daaaa!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7hwmpsu

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