1 So according to theSCOAMF Romney can run Bain and save the Olympics at the same time without breaking a sweat.

2 Good Morning Morons today is late day.  Just woke up, no news today, sorry.

3 I want to be able to find Romney's balls without the aid of an electron microscope.

4 Morning Gabe. Good post. I agree.

5 Here is something Pastor Sonnenberg, told us in church yesterday christians and catholics are being slaughtered in the middle east and North Africa...welcome to a warm Arab spring in case you missed this omMSNBC.

6 Romney is on Fox this morning using the president's refusal to apologize to attack Obama's record on the economy.

7 So according to theSCOAMF Romney can run Bain and save the Olympics at the same time without breaking a sweat.


That's nothing. I'm a retarded chimp that is an evil genius in my spare time.

8 And now Romney goes after the cronies getting contracts while people are suffering and without work.

Says it stinks to high heaven.

9

<i>" Obama would be more than happy to make the rest of the campaign, all four months, be about Romney and Bain. I don't see any benefit to indulging him in that. "</i>

 

But you ARE indulging him in that, as long as he gets to set the agenda for the day's conversation.  And he is.  By "go on the attack", people mean, "Make Obama respond to US", don't let him sally forth every day to 'tell his story'.  HE should be the one responding to accusations; instead, he's being allowed to vent noxious fumes into the air, then everyone turns expectantly to Romney: "Well, what do you have to say to THAT?"  That's not the way to win.  It makes Romney look like a leashed animal, trotting wherever the master decides to lead him.  It doesn't matter what Obama is saying, whether it's true or catchy or clever or anything.  What matters is that he still looks like he's in charge, and THAT'S the perception that must be changed first and foremost.  If Romney can change that, then he can criticize what Obama ate for breakfast in the morning and look and sound like he's a winner.

10 Finally, some antidote to DrewM's constant Romney Eeyorism.  Good post, Gabe.

11 And using the "transparency" cahrge,  he brings up executive privilege and Fast and Furious!

12 First of all, how many people screaming about "offshoring" and "outsourcing" are driving around in Toyotas, Lexuses, BMW's, Subarus....

13 If people had Fox on this morning they would have seen Romney on offense,  using the openings Obama gave him.

14 Romeny and the GOP should attack the Obama campaign over his remarks over the week-end about nobody who is successful has done it on their own.

This rhetoric is the antithesis of the America I know.

He must be made to answer for this vile calumny!!!

15

"The Romney campaign is doing the smart thing and holding fire until it really counts: the last eight weeks of the campaign."

 

 

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Yes - this, exactly.  Thank you.  This has to be continually repeated to the Eeyors.  Everything going on right now is the skirmishing before the main battle lines hit.  Happily Obastard, fool that he is, is already in the process of exhausting his forces, charging with too great a distance to cover.  In the last few weeks when the know-nothing indies decide they better catch themselves up on the "current events" our side will be ready to hammer and hammer.

16

The 'go on offense' freakout seems to be at root a crisis of confidence.

 

Spot on, Gabe.  It's also, if I may add, shell-shock from McStain's piss-poor excuse of a campaign.  We're expecting the GOP to fold; we know they're a bunch of gutless pricks who would whore out their own daughters before giving up on their precious 'comity.'  So when the SCOAMF lies and we don't see a Mornon-strength pushback from Romney - "listen, you dog-eating retard, you couldn't even spell 'Bain' if I spotted you the B, the A and the N and let you pick a vowel." - we see 2008 all over again.

 

I hope you're right and that Romney will blast the jug-eared crackhead with both barrels come October.  It's just that we still hear that "my friends, you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency" hiss and it still chills us.

 

Today is the birthday of Mary Philbin and Barbara Stanwyck.  I'm tied up at the moment, but I'll try to dig out a Stanwyck story in the next hour. 

 

Later, 'rons and 'ronettes.

17 "The Romney campaign is doing the smart thing and holding fire until it really counts:"

keeping his powder dry for the hill worth whatever.

One liners don't cost a penny and don't require powder, fire or forgetting your overall message.

Cut to the quick.

18 That's "Moron-strength pushback."  PIMF.

19 Second, it's a shame that Romney can't use the Bain debate as an object lesson in tough choices. Yes, sometimes you have to sacrifice 50 jobs now to keep 200 people working long term, instead of letting an unsustainable business model crash and burn and take all 250 jobs. It would be such a contrast to Obama's fantasyland where there are never consequences.

20 Today's celebrity birthdays: Samuel Huntington (Founding Father) Roald Amundsen (brrrrr) Shoeless Joe Jackson (told Ty Cobb to stick it) Orville Redenbacher (pop but no snap or crackle) Barbara Stanwyck (Nick! Heath! Jarrod! There's a fire in the barn!) Ginger Rogers (dancin' on air) Barnard Hughes (Mr. Merlin!) Dick Thornburgh (41st PA Gov, 76th US Atty Gen) Stewart Copeland (http://youtu.be/uB1NiNKwueE) Camille Saviola (DS9's Kai Opaka) Michael Flatley (over) Phoebe Cates (still livin' in stereo) Will Ferrell (peaked) Corey Feldman (this Corey's still with us, thankfully) Chris Pontius (Jackass) Jamie Oliver (sorry, I like my food preparers to know a little about personal hygiene)

21 This is not the hill to die on.

22

Sometimes I hate when I agree with Gabe.  This is one of those times. 

 

Obama excels at frustrating opponents (when he's not actively trying to keep them off the ballot) and goading them into pointless and diversionary arguments.  Let Obama keep trying to change the subject, because the subject for the voters will always return to "why doesn't Daddy have a job yet...?"

23 Could someone tell me how in the hell Odumbass can do fundraisers in China? How can this not be the #1 story, not being mentioned by MSM. Maybe I am in the dark but this should be front and center of the next Romney ad

24 @15

In my opinion, you can never overplay offense.

This administration is a GIGANTIC HORROR, and Obama is a thin skinned
jack ass.

It's hubris and arrogance can be used against them by attacking them day in and day out.

They will begin to panic and start revealing themselves for what they are, Marxists and Socialist.

Obamas comments over the weekend should be used over and over to hammer home this point, so that only the most deluded and dependent of this nation would vote for them.

25 The snark-free guy has a thread on the JEF's Bain contributions. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

26 Today's celebrity deathdays: Anne of Cleves (Henry VIII's squeeze #4) Mary Todd Lincoln (Abe's love muffin) Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish Schindler) Harry Chapin (5th cousin to Mary Chapin Carpenter) Frank Rizzo (Philly mayor) JFK Jr. ("rating schmating... I can fly at night without a visible horizon!") Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy ("thanks a lot, Mr. Confidence -- I always wanted to see the sea floor up close") Lauren Bessette ("yeah, you're a real Chuck Yeager there, Junior - did your Uncle Ted teach you how to fly?") James Gammon ("Nice catch, Hayes! Don't ever f***in' do it again!") RIP.

27 Is Romney still on vacation?

'If youÂ’ve got a business -- you didnÂ’t build that. Somebody else made that happen' says Obama.
If it's YOUR business, gonna roll over and play dead for Barky?

28

I'm not too anxious to interrupt Otard during his latest round of dancing on his own dick wearing golf cleats. By all means, continue to insult and infuriate every business owner in the country with this idea that all their personal sacrifice and hard work means nothing. That all the 7-day workweeks, the years without vacations or even paying yourself a salary so you can make payroll - all of that is meaningless. Because it was your government that allowed you to succeed. PLEASE let this motherfucker continue for as long as he wants.

29 ATTENTION:  For all of the Eeyores,  please watch television news once in a while.  Romney was on Fox this morning talking to Eric Bolling.

1. In response to the president's refusal to apologize,  he pointed out that the entire thing is an attempt to distract from Obama's terrible record on jobs.
2. On Rahm saying he should quit whining,  he said when someone falsely accuses you of a crime,  you get a bit upset.  He is proubd of his ethical business record
3. On business in general, he pointed out the forgiveness of government loans to political donors (Solyndra, etc.) stinks to high heaven.
4. On transparency,  he pointed out the executive orders regarding Fast and Furious, which he said was unprecedented and something else (maybe suspicious).

So,  he used the openings Obama gave him to talk about Obama's terrible jobs record, the fake accusations and his own excellent ethical record, the graft and corruption with companies like Solyndra, and the White House involvement in Fast and Furious.

Still,  the Eeyores will be complaining,  I imagine.

30 Morning All. Another week and more obama lies.

31 The "go on offense" freakout seems at root to be a crisis of confidence.


It's that but not just from Romney. I know that for me a part of it lies in the utter hair pulling frustration that Pres. Bush refused to push back on all the lies told about him. Add to that the concern that conservatives have that Romney is only giving lip service to the notion that conservative ideas should be implemented then top that with the Dread Justice Roberts and it all combines to a toxic mix of oh no here we go again.

32 Trump is on there saying Obamby should put out college records before Romney does anything.

33 Still, the Eeyores will be complaining, I imagine.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 16, 2012 07:34 AM (GoIUi) <<<<

 

Haters gonna hate.  Like when I was accused of being "pro-Mitt."  Like it's an insult.  Yes, I'm pro-Mitt, now.

 

BECAUSE HE'S THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO OBAMA, YOU FUCKING CHILD.

34 Trump is on there saying Obamby should put out college records before Romney does anything.  Posted by: Vic

Anytime - and I do mean anytime - Trump opens his yap, it's bad news for our side.  He's a buffoon, and the entire nation knows it. 

35 So, anybody got anything funny to say about Hilldawg being pelted with tomaters in Egypt?

36 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 16, 2012 07:41 AM (JDIKC)

Don't hold back now Jeff, tell me how you really feel.

Damn, I love this place.

37 Romney should not sing anymore.  But at least he knows the words to "America".  I doubt Prez Obummer does.

38 So, anybody got anything funny to say about Hilldawg being pelted with tomaters in Egypt? Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 16, 2012 07:42 AM (aGX9l) Ya gotta breaka few tomatoes to makea a gooda gravey

39 If Obama's offensive statement 'If you've got a business you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen' were true then we wouldn't have 47% of the country not paying income taxes. His constituents didn't make it happen.

40 But at least he knows the words to "America". I doubt Prez Obummer does.Posted by: Case at July 16, 2012 07:43 AM (FKGw9)

But he does know the words when the muezzin calls to prayer five times a day.

So he's got that goin' for him.  Which is nice.

41 One other thing Fox had this morning was a judge in NY who ruled that a school system must pay for private school for some girl who was "bullied".  Knowing what courts and schools consider "bullying" it strikes me as outlandish bullshit.  But, for the sake of argument, lets assume she was "bullied".



Why should the taxpayers or the rest of the students in this school system pay the price for this?


How about we make the teachers and the principal pay for her private schooling?  Have the parents of the bullies also kick in at least 51%.  After all, they are the ones responsible.

42 I missed a birthday yesterday: Joe Turkel (Lloyd the bartender in The Shining, Dr. Tyrell in Blade Runner)

43 I think a lot of it is frustration. We want to see our candidate be as fed up and angry as we are about the current administration, but forget sometimes that anger does not go over well with the general public. It is hard to see your country being so blatantly torn down and feel so helpless about it. Like all we can do is stand here and watch and rely on people we don't really trust (Repubs) to try and save us.

44 Romney should not sing anymore. But at least he knows the words to "America". I doubt Prez Obummer does. Posted by: Case at July 16, 2012 07:43 AM (FKGw9) No singing, No pics in Tanks or Cockpits, no pics hunting. And NO pics sitting in back letting your wife drive!

45 How fake are those transcripts gonna be when he finally releases them tho? I fully expect a 6.a jillion GPA and a reference letter from Jesus

46 I fully expect a 6.a jillion GPA and a reference letter from Jesus  Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 16, 2012 07:45 AM (J6kXj)

I gave him an A+ in Intro to Marxist Theology.

47 Has any president in modern history been this demonstrably pathetic?

48 How fake are those transcripts gonna be when he finally releases them tho? I fully expect a 6.a jillion GPA and a reference letter from Jesus Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 16, 2012 07:45 AM (J6kXj) It's not his grades ( they are all inflated ) but that he probably registered and received Federal Money as a foreign Student

49 Good morning Morons. Thanks for the Romney news Gabe. Secretary of State Cankles Clinton was over in Egypt this weekend to hang out with the Mooselimb Brotherhood government folks. It seems that the Egyptian Army is still holding out against the MB Islamists. Keep in mind that many (most?) of their officers were trained at US War Colleges and they're most likely sympathetic to the west and not viewed as friends by the "Arab Spring" Islamists. Shrillary urged the Egyptian Army commander to stand down and turn authority over to the newly elected President Morsi so he can get the new genocide plans for Israel and Egyptian Christians under way. Of course she most likely didn't phrase it like that but it is the truth nonetheless. Associated Potatoes (AP) has the story of Egypt's Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi telling Shrillary that he's not planning on allowing a "certain group" to dominate the country. http://scoamf.us/x6

50 In my opinion, you can never overplay offense.

Posted by: General Woundwort at July 16, 2012 07:30 AM (06lNq)

 

 

 

 

I agree with the principle, but there are limited resources.  Romney can't buy an unlimited amount of air time.  Nor can he hope to hold the attention span of the feeble minded low-info voter that determines the election for more than a short time.

 

 

We all like a butt-kicking offense because it feels great, and it's effective.  But we can't wear down too early.  There has to be enough budget for an all out blitz toward the end.  We have to hammer the most damaging stuff home late in the game, so that Obie has no time to react.  You can bet the enemy is holding something back for the end to slime Romney with - we need to be doing the same.

51 Has any president in modern history been this demonstrably pathetic? Posted by: Highsmith at July 16, 2012 07:46 AM (uwaMU) Say what?

52 35 "Monica! Monica!"

You just know the malice churning in Hillary, after all she did for those Egyptian ingrates.

No love lost so far as they're concerned.

53 Yeah, I agree Gabe.

And one other thing I hadn't thought of til now.. I have been wondering why Obama is doing this Bain attack so early.. and perhaps it is because they think Romney will take the bait and start spending millions defending it.

Well, since, as you say, Obama's numbers are not improving, the last laugh is on Obama.. he's the one who ends up spending millions for naught.

54

Anytime - and I do mean anytime - Trump opens his yap, it's bad news for our side. He's a buffoon, and the entire nation knows it.

--------

I beg to disagree. Trump was 100% correct in his argument that Obingo should put out his college transcripts AND applications before Romney meets any demands for  voluntary documents from him. Trump knows  that those papers show him claiming to be a foreign exchange student.

Trump was correct on the BC issue, and forced him to put out a forged BC (again).

Trump may be a little blunt and a little misinformed on things, but nowhere near as stupid as the other side. Shutting up so you don't make waves among the stupid isn't a good policy.

55 Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 16, 2012 07:42 AM (aGX9l)

Tomatoes and chants of "Monica!Monica!" IIRC.  Didn't get much coverage--wonder why?

56

@ alexthechick,

 

I get what you are saying, but blaming Bush (or McCain) for the current political climate doesn't make any more sense when we do it.

57 The George Washington Bridge: She be dead to me for the next 3 months or more

58 I guess Hilldog can say she came under fire....now.

59 There are two different things going on here. First, Romney has been, and needs to be focused on winning an election. He's done a great job of that all along, all through the primaries, and obviously since then. Secondly though, there are a large number of HIS voters who want to feel good about this process. Now, we might say it's not his job to make them feel good, but a lot of the grumbling we hear is exactly that. They aren't satisfied with the manner in which he is both hitting the President and selling himself. It may not matter when it comes to winning this election, but I think it matters a lot when it comes to how satisfied people will be with the way he governs.

60 "Ya gotta breaka few tomatoes to makea a gooda gravey"

My six year old says tomato gravey sounds plain yucky and she will have nothing to do with it.

I have to agree.

61 The Egyptians were chanting "monica" to Hillary. Thats pretty f'n harsh. Funny too.

62 Just because you are a buffoon, doesn't mean you can't frame a good question.  Even low info voters have to view Trump as a Republican leaning businessman, not as a Republican mainstream candidate.  I think a sly dig now and again by Trump about the "transparency" of the Obama transcripts  is nice entertainment--and raises just the same type of questions as did the Romney felon remark.

63 I guess Hilldog can say she came under fire....now. Posted by: Case at July 16, 2012 07:51 AM (FKGw9) Outstanding

64 I beg to disagree. Trump was 100% correct in his argument that Obingo should put out his college transcripts AND applications before Romney meets any demands for voluntary documents from him. Posted by: Hal Burton at July 16, 2012 07:48 AM (iYvMQ)

Yes, absolutely right.  But Trump is not the guy to be delivering the message because....he's a buffoon and everyone in the nation knows it.

He talks, people point and laugh.  He will not sway a single vote, he will not move poll numbers and the only part about him that's an asset to the conservative cause is his checkbook.  Period.

If he wants to held he can STFU, write very large checks, and recruit people who are not buffoons.

65 Just because you are a buffoon, doesn't mean you can't frame a good question. Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 16, 2012 07:52 AM (Cnqmv)


See?!?!  That's what I've been saying!  God love ya!

66 Instead of Egyptians, I'm imagining Al Pacino in 'Dog Day Afternoon' shouting "Monica! Monica!"

67 Mitt is fishing for Obama.

He's got his hook in him.  Now it's just a matter of letting him run himself tired so he can be reeled in.

68 All Rombley needs to say is "I made the money, the JEF took the money."

69 The Egyptians were chanting "monica" to Hillary. Thats pretty f'n harsh. --- Given her face and propensity for sucking away the human life force, I would have expected them to chant "Imhotep! Imhotep!"

70 Posted by: sTevo's Obsolete Crackberry at July 16, 2012 07:55 AM (hiMsy)
Or

While CEO of  Bain, I invested my money.
While CEO of the US, Obama invested your money!
I think I did a better job!

71 After Romney is elected using this strategy can you and Ann Coulter make sure he stays true to his conservative message?

72 It's to bad the Egyptian protesters didn't throw cigars at Hillary.

73 Amazing what the Media are doing to prop up Obama.  A headline over at Yahoo reads something to the effect of how this is a "terrible time for Romney" and how his campaign is struggling to answer Obama's attack.  Good lord.

74 Dick Thornburgh could have become the president of the United States.  Too bad, things could be different.

75 58 I guess Hilldog can say she came under fire....now. Posted by: Case at July 16, 2012 07:51 AM (FKGw9) ---- LOL, wiping coffee off of monitor.

76 Really the take home message about the Bain attack is that Mittens IS responding vigorously but the top MFM outlets (excepting FOX) are not covering the details that would put it to bed and in addition going further than they ever have before by sending out their panelists to say that Romney HASN'T responded.

77 58 I guess Hilldog can say she came under fire....now.<<<< Booyah!

78 How come the story about Americans being taken hostage in the Sinai--meaning in EGYPT- isn't bigger? Is it because they are only Christians?

79 He's got his hook in him. Now it's just a matter of letting him run himself tired so he can be reeled in.
Posted by: nickless at July 16, 2012 07:55 AM

Would be nice if you were right about this, but I doubt it.

Was forced to watch NBC News last night, when gave prime reporting space to sucking Bark Obama's toes and sniping at Romney. Mainstream newspapers are doing likewise, as President Historic First's© campaign says "fuck no, we won't apologize!"

Every time SCoaMF's minions slap Romney and he replies with "but...but...Obama is bein' mean!" we lose votes, IMO.

We can't win with tepid "responses." It's time to go full-tilt nuclear on the Traitor-in-Chief, demanding the release of everything from his old passport records to his ties to terrorists, felons and America-haters.

In short, we have to demand -- incessantly -- that Obama plays by the same rules he expects Romney to follow.

I know it won't happen. Too many "Poppin' Freshes" on our side.

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

81 Taunting Hillary with chants of "Monica, Monica" is a nice touch though. At least not everyone in Egypt is happy with her cosying up to the MB and the oncoming theocracy there.

82 I guess Hilldog can say she came under fire....now.

Her next speech will probably start with, "This is no shit.  There I was, ankle deep in grenade pins and empty magazines...."

83 MSNBC is close to officially being no more. Microsoft, NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service. It'll be left wing liberal also, so who cares

84 58 I guess Hilldog can say she came under fire....now. Slipper Fire!

85 "but the top MFM outlets (excepting FOX) are not covering the details that would put it to bed and in addition going further than they ever have before by sending out their panelists to say that Romney HASN'T responded."

This is where this hand-wringing drives me nuts. On one hand the media is so far up Obama's ass that there is no way Romney can use the media to respond efficiently and on the other hand Romney is weak because he doesn't use the media to respond.  How the fuck does that work?

86 They were not yelling, "Monica" at Secretary Clinton, they were clearly saying, "Yooooooooook" for God's sake!

87 Gabriel, thank you so much for confirming what I've been thinking (and saying, although I really havent had the chance to say it here): Romney is on offense, he's on offense in exactly the right way and in the exact right amount, and calls to he contrary are incorrect. Nobody whose vote is still up for grabs is paying attention yet. Throwing money at TV carpet bombing is worthless. The people he has to reach are the MFM, to keep deflating the Obama heat engine of inevitability. What he needs to do, and is doing, is keep up the cock-blocking whenever the press tries to fellate the JEF. What I think is the origin of the calls for more offense is those folks who really know and dislike the president wanting to hear Mitt confirm all the terrible things about him. But that's not going to get people who are undecided to vote for Mitt. At best it will depress turnout on both sides as low-info voters get thrned off both by the attacks and the information they contain. That only helps Obama. There is something though that Mitt is missing: giving undecideds a reason, not only to vote against Obama, but for him. Swing state turnout will be critical, as we well know. That GOTV will be much more effective if people are already inclined to vote in the positive, not just in the negative.

88 She says tomato, I say tomatto.

89 It's time to go full-tilt nuclear on the Traitor-in-Chief, demanding the release of everything from his old passport records to his ties to terrorists, felons and America-haters.

I think this misses the point.  It's been past time to got "full-tilt nuclear" on the SCOAMT for a while now.  For the Conservative Media.  Let blogs and right-leaning news agencies (which are, admittedly, few and far between) throw bombs at Obama.  Let Romney remain aloof and "on message."

Then, in the last few weeks of the campaign (Gabe says 8, I think it's more like 12) Romney can bring out his own big guns. 

It's easy to forget, and we have to remind ourselves, that most people aren't paying attention.  Even most people who "take the New York Times" aren't reading it for anything but the Style section, the Funnies, and the crossword puzzle (which they complete, if at all, in pencil, then go over in Pen to "prove" how smart they are).  Most people are completely missing this- it's just setting the landscape for August - October.

90 81 Taunting Hillary with chants of "Monica, Monica" is a nice touch though. At least not everyone in Egypt is happy with her cosying up to the MB and the oncoming theocracy there. I loved the anti-Obama signage in the protest crowd. Those pics gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Looks like those people weren't impressed with his naive, stupid, little, Cairo speech.

91 Microsoft, NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture --- Microsoft was tired of the good name of 'Vista' being soiled by association with a crappy product.

92

Mitt should use these questions about his tax returns to focus on transparency.

 

He can say that he will release his tax returns the day after Obama releases his full college transcripts.

93 MSNBC is close to officially being no more.


When are these stupid cocksuckers gonna realize that their shit doesn't fly in the marketplace?

94 @lowandslow I dunno. It's just like Gitmo: "It has to be closed...because...well, er...the media wants it closed." Makes me want to do things that I'd be arrested for.

95 At least not everyone in Egypt is happy with her cosying up to the MB and the oncoming theocracy there. Actually NO ONE is. 1) The Muslim Brotherhood and it's followers hate women, especially western women, so... 2) The Non- Muslim Brotherhood types hate that obama/hillary are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. 3) The Christians in Egypt feel abandoned by obama/hillary 4) The Egyptian Army wants obama/hillary to STFU

96 I am struggling with what my country has become. Everyone tiptoes around obama's lies because they are afraid of racial violence. The race war is here. One of my co-workers was murdered on Saturday walking out of a Best Buy store. He was holding the hand of his 10 year old daughter. He caught a stray bullet because he was beside the guy the Black gang member was trying to kill. This was in a nice part of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

97

Hmm.  No Barbara Stanwyck stories right to hand, so many apologies.  Instead, let me offer some viewing selections:

 

Mary Philbin (born 1903) is best known for her role as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera (1925), playing opposite the great Lon Chaney.  When the movie was dubbed for sound, she did her own voice, but her talkie career was, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.  A lifelong spinster, she was also a recluse after leaving films; one of her few public appearances was at the LA premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom.

 

The gorgeous Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Stevens, 1907), was a Ziegfled Girl during the 1922-23 seasons.  She's best known for Double Indemnity, Sorry, Wrong Number and The Lady Eve, but I prefer her in the pre-Code movie Baby Face (get the uncut version released by TCM in their "Forbidden Hollywood" series of DVDs) and with Gary Cooper in the modern-dress retelling of "Snow White," Ball of Fire.

98 Throwing money at TV carpet bombing is worthless.

It's worse than worthless, if you expect positive results.  What Romney ads do right now is make the President play defense.  Realize, the sitting President does not normally start active campaigning until right around the Convention.

Now, the SCOAMT has been on a years-long campaign anyway, which should surprise precisely no one who reads this blog, but the fact is he has to be campaigning right now.  He doesn't have a choice.  He can't wait until after the DNC.  And that means he's more vulnerable than he looks at the moment.  Since the only people really paying attention are those who pay attention all the time, the only people BHO is "reaching" with his advertising is his own base- whose support he shouldn't have to be ginning up.

I think the reason we're not seeing a huge number of Romney ads, even in battle ground states (though they are on the air- I just don't think they're being carpet bombed, yet) is that Romney doesn't need to kick it into overdrive yet.  He just wants to get his name out there, and knows that will be enough to force the President to respond.

99 Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at July 16, 2012 08:13 AM (N+zMB)

"How horrible" does not begin to cover it.  Condolences to you and to his family.

100 "Romney Adviser: Sarah Palin Will Not Be Speaking at GOP Convention Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, July 15, 2012, 9:40 PM"

http://tiny.cc/begjhw

If you don't think this will affect how the tea party and women are thinking about romney then you're not thinking.

101 Other news the MFM is not reporting: at an Obama campaign event in VA (temperature 75 degrees) 21 people fainted. Whereupon our brilliant, golden orator President called on Paralegals to come render them aid. I kid you not! Can you imagine how this would have been broadcasted had GWB, Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman would have uttered such a thing?

102 You mean "ing", not "ed".

103 I think the reason we're not seeing a huge number of Romney ads, even in battle ground states (though they are on the air- I just don't think they're being carpet bombed, yet)


For at least the last month, there have been so many fucking ads by both sides in NE Ahia that you can't avoid them.  Frankly I think they're over saturated to the point of turning people off on both sides.

104 http://tiny.cc/begjhw
If you don't think this will affect how the tea party and women are thinking about romney then you're not thinking.

Posted by: annoyed at July 16, 2012 08:18 AM (oZfic<<<<

 

I'm thinking you should fuck off, troll.

105 Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at July 16, 2012 08:13 AM (N+zMB)


Very sorry to hear that.  Glorifying thug culture is what brought us to this point.

106 Will Not Assimilate, I'm so sorry.  My prayers.

107 "They are some of the same people who anonymously disparaged Palin as a clueless bumpkin, and some of them are now helping to run RomneyÂ’s campaign"

"What blew in later was even more distracting: the red, white, and blue bus bearing Sarah Palin on her “One Nation” tour. Palin stole the headlines, and Romney’s buzz, that day (“Coincidence,” she said), and beyond. …"http://tiny.cc/begjhw

Everyone here is always calling the office holder petty and petulant...well here you go, another petty and petulant ....man, romney

108 Some of the freak out may stem from relatively few of us being in swing states, and getting the impression Romney is doing less than he is?

109 Realize, the sitting President does not normally start active campaigning until right around the Convention.

That's exactly what I was talking about with the Romney fishing analogy.  Making Obama work so hard to accomplish so little for so much longer is going to have him get to Obama played-out and weak.

110 109

Whoops-- 'get to November played out and weak,' I mean.

111 Thanks, AllenG, we are shocked and grieving. Our IT group has about 100 people in it. He was quiet, personable, and hardworking guy. The daughter was a late in life baby and the light of his life. His cube is covered with her drawings and things she made him. He was 58 and just living his nice life when gang violence murdered him.

112 People have made the case here, some with links, that BO is still using democratic primary money.  Romney, cause of the length of the republican primary season hasn't any primary season cash left to use.  Ergo, he'd be using his cash for the regular election cycle.

113 Thanks for your Concern, curious.  Now go take a flying fuck at a rolling hobo's dick.

114 Love Barbara Stanwyck.  Baby Face is a great movie. Ginger Rogers is another of my all time favorites too.

115 Keep in mind that many (most?) of their officers were trained at US War Colleges and they're most likely sympathetic to the west and not viewed as friends by the "Arab Spring" Islamists.
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What we got here -- is failure -- to communicate.

Just as Egyptian officers are frequently trained abroad, often in the USA Military Institutions, the "Arab Spring" Islamists also were trained abroad in Western institutions of higher education, and of course, in the ways of secret service.

It was never "Mubarak" to be removed, but the entire Egyptian Military stabilization of the region. If Hillary/Obama presumed that by removing Mubarak, the entire Egyptian Military would fold like a house of cards, it would not be the first time she's been absolutely wrong. Their current new President is from that same Military Regime formerly governed by Mubarak.

To lose the sanity factor that Egypt provided its Arab neighbors, and its own indigenous complexion of multiple religions, will bring no good. (#5 above)

Radical Islamists are not the only ones ranting to rule the world. It won't benefit Peace or America to feed Islamist's rabid Cerberus, whether the House of Saud Sunni Brotherhood or their counterpart in Syria or Tehran.

"The 'go on offense' freakout seems at root to be a crisis of confidence."

Then again, "the best defense is a good offense." Romney does not need to fund commercials in order to cut to the chase with one liners that catch on and spread of their own impulse. With facts, cut the MSM to the quick, down to size. The truth hurts cutting both ways on the razor's edge. Whittle Obama agenda to his core; it's rot. And what Romney offers instead must not require or enable the downfall of Syria to the House of Saud, bringing the US Military to war against Russia and China. If Netanyahu is advising Romney to take down Syria, what has Condi to advise in this current 'go on offense' international freakout? What is the Republican 2012 platform agenda on the Middle East if not more Bush "Doctrine"?

116 Will Not, how awful about your coworker.  Prayers.

117 The Romney campaign has been mortally wounded by the stench of catpiss.

118 New plan to make heads explode on the left:  If Romney releases prior year tax returns - RELEASE THEM AS PDF DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN SCANNED AND PHOTOSHOPPED.   Make sure they have the same markings as the ones Obama had when he released his birth certificate.  

119 The stench of cat urine n stale semen is in the thread

120 June retail sales down 0.5%.
Without autos down 0.4%
May figures stand.  May down 0.2%

121 What Ruby said.

122 Sure. The Romney campaign always does the "smart" thing. Just like McCain and all those tactical genius Republicans who are already talking about backing off on Obamacare repeal talk because the NAACP did a rehearsed boo about it.

123 Ergo, he'd be using his cash for the regular election cycle.
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...God bless the man who's got his own, who's got his own...

Attack Obama's foreign sourced campaign funding. /chirp/

124 Last week we saw a coordinated effort by Barky's lackeys to change-the-subject. Romney really kicked ass at the NAACP, and League of Extraordinary Asshats freaked right the fuck out. The easiest way to tell they were in change-the-narrative mode is that's the charge they were throwing at Mitt. Bain Cap- really? VP Speculation- really? God help me, I'm with Gabe on this one.

125 (oZfic)



Your nic really should read 'annoying'.

126 Dead hobos roll better down the mountain.

127

"I get what you are saying, but blaming Bush (or McCain) for the current political climate doesn't make any more sense when we do it."

 

Oh I didn't say it made sense, it's simply the wellspring for the arrrggghhhh factor.  It's not precisely unheard of for the RNC and the Republican candidate to roll over and play dead.  As a result, any possible maybe sort of kind of indication of that tends to press the now is the perfect time to panic button.

 

"I think the reason we're not seeing a huge number of Romney ads, even in battle ground states (though they are on the air- I just don't think they're being carpet bombed, yet)"

 

It sure as hell feels like I'm being carpet bombed.  I will say that I'm seeing probably 50/50 Obama and Romney bumper stickers.  I've only seen one Obama lawn sign and no Romney ones yet. 

128 "Kerry Kennedy May Have Had Seizure" notes Kennedy aide. New York Post - http://tinyurl.com/7qlt8rb While sloshed on Vodka and Percocet? Posted by: Doctor Fish at July 16, 2012 08:30 AM (hvwLi) Imagine that. Anyone else sick of lying drug addled alcoholic public figures? JJJ comes to mind.

129 So gasoline wholesale went down and people didn't spend that money.  Not a good sign.

130 119

Maybe he caught it from the Commerce Secretary.

131 Dead hobos roll better down the mountain.

Naa.  The live ones try to avoid the obstacles.  The dead ones hang up on the trees too easily.

Apropos of nothing, the Sacramento Mountains (in NM) are very nice this time of year.  That's where our cabins are (Cloudcroft, NM, for those familiar with the area).

132 Life here in post-racism America is a mess. Lies are truth. Evil flourishes at the highest levels.

133 Ah, Will Not, so sorry about that.

134 So curious is hijacking another thread?  What a wonderful fucking place where she does that garbage with nary a peep yet dagny got multiple bruised vag comments.

135

Allen, how was vacation?

136 Well I do declare that Obama is "offensive".  He's a preening narcissist and the ladies down at the local  tea and crumpets society would cut him dead.   I mean it's one thing to lift a pinkie while sipping tea, but lifting a pinkie while drinking beer?

137 Wouldn't it be nice if... "Mr. President, will you submit a sample for a paternity test? The American People have a right to know whether you were sired by a card-carrying Communist/pornographer (who photographed your nude mother), or a foreign Muslim."

138 The JEF is not just randomly scattershotting these ads; out of the supposed $100 million ad buys over the last month, $20 million of that went into Ohio alone.

139 96 I am struggling with what my country has become. Everyone tiptoes around obama's lies because they are afraid of racial violence. The race war is here. One of my co-workers was murdered on Saturday walking out of a Best Buy store. He was holding the hand of his 10 year old daughter. He caught a stray bullet because he was beside the guy the Black gang member was trying to kill. This was in a nice part of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jesus. Sorry for the loss of your friend. I can't believe that people like you and me who bust our asses and pay taxes co-exist with loser gang members.

140 Okay, since I was out of the loop last week- what happened to Gas Prices?

For most of the week, gas in NM was about $3.09/gal (if you didn't go to the stations catering specifically to tourists, where it was generally about 10 cents higher).  Then, on Thursday, the price jumped by about 15 cents.  Did I miss another illegal war or something?

141 I will say that I'm seeing probably 50/50 Obama and Romney bumper stickers. I've only seen one Obama lawn sign and no Romney ones yet.Posted by: alexthechick SMOD. Taste the rainbow. at July 16, 2012 08:34 AM (VtjlW)

An "Obama 2008" sticker I can understand.  Those folks were gullible, hopeful, wanted the see the black dude do well.  They were wrong, I'd knew they'd be wrong, but sometimes you gotta get burned once to learn.

But at this point in time, "Obama 2012" stickers are a whole 'nother matter.  It's nothing more than a sign you don't read the papers and don't understand economics.  "Willful ignorance" is not an attractive trait.  Pick a metric, any metric GDP, unemployment, foreclosures, etc. etc. etc., you name it, and Obama is the worst President ever.  If anyone is voting for him at this point they're either mind-numbingly stupid (likely), or picking him based on the color of his skin.  In which case they'd be racists.

142 Let's remain civil on the platform while we board the cattle cars.

143 Their current new President is from that same Military Regime formerly governed by Mubarak. Posted by: Captain, Road Prison 36 at July 16, 2012 08:28 AM (BAnPT) ???? The "current new President" was NOT a member of the Military Regime but was and is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who were put in jail by the Military Regime?

144

Allen, the gas station I pass daily has had a diff . price every day, from $2.99 to $3.29. I asked if other people were seeing changes like that and I got a few "yes" responses.

 

No clue why.

145 Ah, but Lies are not Truth, so long as recognized and rejected. 133

Whereas when choosing the Lie v. Truth, "in that day, you shall surely die." Beguiled or not, O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

146 Allen, how was vacation?

Really nice.  Though I'll say the ER in Alamogordo needs a hefty dose of professionalism and efficiency.  Other than that: highs in the high 70s, rain every day but one (usually for about 15 - 20 minutes), fun with family at White Sands National Monument and Carlsbad Caverns.  A great time all around (well, except the ER experience).

147 (well, except the ER experience). Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 16, 2012 08:41 AM (8y9MW) OK, spill it. What ER spuriance?

148 For the umptheenth time, for the panic stricken: apply 2010 turn-out numbers (sure Wlaker recall, too) to the crap polling we are spammed with constantly. Yeah, it means epic defeat for our SCOAMF. Keep your tear bucket ready.

149 @96 Will Not That is horrible beyond words. Thoughts & prayers are with you all.

150

>> Though I'll say the ER in Alamogordo needs a hefty dose of professionalism and efficiency.

 

Uh oh.

 

My mom just moved to ABQ and I'm thinking about driving there. It's way too expensive to fly, but it's quite a drive. (Takes about 3 hours to get to DFW from here.)

151 Did I miss another illegal war or something?

Syria threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz.

There's an interesting article linked by Drudge in FT.com. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are opening and converting pipelines to mitigate the closing of the Strait:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4203f88c-ce83-11e1-9fa7-00144feabdc0.html

152 Axelrod does negative ads because they work. I saw one here. Let's say there isn't a lot of nuance. President good, Romney evil. If you are an undecided voter, what do you hear. I know that Republicans like to say that it drives moderates away, but if you hear enough negative things about a person it doesn't matter. I think it is wrong to say that it isn't helping the President - with the current economy he should be down about 10 points right now against Ronald McDonald. That spend is keeping him afloat. I get the keeping the powder dry argument, but rest assured that TARP money and ARRA money and ACA will buy ads. Oh, sure, they won't be expressly political. But they will be out there.

153 135 So curious is hijacking another thread? What a wonderful fucking place where she does that garbage with nary a peep yet dagny got multiple bruised vag comments.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 16, 2012 08:37 AM (wEUzA)

Where is the hijacking?  The topic is romney and the romney campaign.  Did you net read gabe's post vacation post?

154 Obama is spending his war chest and getting absolutely no traction in the polls. It's the Obamamites who should be nervous right now--about the "first-class temperament" of their guy. He has never been in this position, never in his life. Cracks in the facade and unforced errors will begin appearing soon.

155 144 Thanks on detail. You're correct, I wasn't speaking of Morsi, but had been reading over the weekend Egyptian diplomatic news from one of the two "J" last names who had been competing to replace Mubarak before he stepped down (Prime Minister now?). I'd have to go back to check why he was being quoted as Egypt's representative).

156 Oh, and while we are at it, since we are all up in arms about the Caribbean , maybe there should be someone visiting Ms. V e r a B a k e r for an interview?

157 OK, spill it. What ER spuriance?

My daughter (3, next week) has had Nursemaids Elbow (for those unfamiliar- as I was- this is a "minor dislocation" of the elbow common in infants and toddlers) in the past.  Actually, the only time she had it was a time she was throwing a fit while I was holding her hand and managed to pop her own elbow out of joint.  That was about a year ago.

Sunday evening, we were in the Alamogordo Walmart picking up a few things.  My parents were off in one section of the store with my son, while my wife, daughter, brother and I were in a different section of the store.  Brother was watching Daughter, and she tried to run off.  He grabbed her, she pulled harder, he heard a "pop" and she started screaming bloody murder.

We immediately concluded Nursemaids Elbow again, since it was the same arm, and if it's happened once its more likely to happen again.  So we drove to the hospital.

The entire stay- that evening- is worthy of its own post.  Short version: they didn't fix it, and they wanted us to come back the next morning if it didn't get better on its own.  It didn't.  So we got to go back to the ER the next day.  That visit, too, is worthy of its own post.  Short version: they still didn't fix it.

On the up-side, it turns out not to have been Nursemaids Elbow, she probably just strained or sprained it, because a couple of days later it was better all on its own.  On the down side, I'm now responsible for a couple of ER visits with less-than-confidence-inspiring staff.

158

New plan to make heads explode on the left: If Romney releases prior year taxreturns - RELEASE THEM AS PDF DOCUMENTS THAT HAVEBEEN SCANNED AND PHOTOSHOPPED. Make sure they have the same markings as the ones Obama had when he released his birth certificate.

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That'll definitely make heads explode. And then they'll ask for a signed IRS  form 4506 which is an authorization to the IRS to release the form directly, then the other side can ask for the same type of authorization for the BC and transcripts.

159 What a damn dirty shame that a man cannot walk out of a store in peace. Horrible. Just horrible. I have an idea. Maybe instead of staking out dips in roads waiting to give speeding tickets to every motorist possible, the police could patrol shopping centers and other places where people gather to actually "protect and serve". I remember seeing those words on the side of a car once. Everybody knows mall security is a joke.

160 And one other thing I hadn't thought of til now.. I have been wondering why Obama is doing this Bain attack so early.. and perhaps it is because they think Romney will take the bait and start spending millions defending it. This is my hunch, too. Obama's trying to level the campaign cash playing field by trying to provoke Romney into spending lots of his now.

161 I think Romney has played this situation very smartly. He ain't McCain.

162

Well, Allen, it was definitely less SCOAMF-y around here without you.

 

Wait, that didn't come out right...

163 Maybe instead of staking out dips in roads waiting to give speeding tickets to every motorist possible, the police could patrol shopping centers and other places where people gather to actually "protect and serve".

You mistake the job of the average police department as serving the peace.  That's a common misconception.  They're actually a revenue generating arm of your local government.

164 Well, Allen, it was definitely less SCOAMF-y around here without you.

Ahh.  How sweet.

I think.

165 Will not Assimilate... My thoughts and prayers for your co-worker and his family.

166

"Moron-sweet".

 

It's the best you can hope for here.

167 November can't get here soon enough...

168

Week 2 of "take the kids somewhere good that's in a really iffy neighborhood."

 

The weird part is that in the middle of a run-down neighborhood, there's a bottled water factory.

 

They bring in ARK spring water. Really. Saw the tankers.

169

Did everyone already talk about Axelrod whining about Romney using tax shelters? Patterico has that plus the statement about Obama using them.

 

For the children or something.

170 >>Short version: they didn't fix it, and they wanted us to come back the next morning if it didn't get better on its own.

Sounds like my whole childhood. 

[Friday]
Me: Dad, I fell and broke my arm.
Dad: I doubt it. If it still hurts Monday, we'll look at it before school.
[Monday, still dark outside]
Dad: [After running the X-Ray machine himself, so he wouldn't have to pay the nurse to come in early]:  Huh. Looks like you broke your arm.
Me: [whatever 12-year-olds in the 80s said instead of "No shit?"]

171 Getting ready to take the kids to Six Flags today for another dip into the melting pot! Oh, the humanity!!!

172 Maybe instead of staking out dips in roads waiting to give speeding tickets to every motorist possible, the police could patrol shopping centers

How about staking out these punks corners and goading them into a shootout with police?

173 So curious is hijacking another thread? What a wonderful fucking place where she does that garbage with nary a peep yet dagny got multiple bruised vag comments.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 16, 2012 08:37 AM (wEUzA)

 

We'd  off   the  bitch  ourselves  but  we  don't  have  opposable  thumbs,  curse  the  luck.

174 Over last weekend I helped my friend do an estate sale at her grandmother's house in the city. My parents were both raised in that part of the city. It used to be nice. I left with the thought that a giant wall from space should be dropped around it. Is that bad of me?

175 Dad: I doubt it. If it still hurts Monday, we'll look at it before school.

We actually had a "3 day rule."  If something hurt, you waited 3 days.  If it still hurt, then you could go to the doctor.  I actually still observe it for me and the wife, and my son will be introduced to it in the next couple of years, probably.  I don't think applies to toddlers and small children, though.

176 How about eliminating the "tax loophole" that lets 50% of people pay no federal income tax?

177 For those interested: A couple of new posts up at my place.

178 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 16, 2012 08:53 AM (8y9MW)

Find a pediatric orthopedic surgeon with good credentials (good medical school and excellent residency and fellowship). Make an office appointment with him for your daughter and find out how he will respond to possible future injuries. Will he or one of his partners meet you at the emergency room? Will he respond to phone calls, etc.

Physicians are becoming more and more passive (gee, I wonder why?) and unwilling to do what was expected of them just a few years ago. It is imperative that we all hold them accountable and demand excellence.

179 Out, damned sock!

180 "OOF: JUNE RETAIL SALES FALL UGLY 0.5%"  http://tiny.cc/kajjhw

Expect to hear it's because republicans, previously clinging to their guns and bibles are now clinging to their money.

181 Ugh.  Only thing worse than an amusement park is a water park.  I took my kiddos to Six Flags the day after Independence Day.  Temperature was around 105, but we only waited in line for one water ride.  The rest we walked right on, so that was good.  My kiddos are used to being outside, so they didn't really complain.  I did find out that the day after riding rollercoasters hurts more than it did when I was a teen.  Go figure.

182 @157 Look at the timing of the V e r a B a k e r thing. Whether it's true or not L'il Barry's people let it out to counter the Sinclair affair, as well as some of the "playful madrassah talib" stuff. Baker is a beard. The First Wookie is not believable.

183 With a good shoulder holster, you can cling to all three.

184

"The Romney camp will not comment on Palin, or on plans for the convention, but one adviser associated with the campaign suggested that Palin would be prohibited from speaking at the Republican convention by her contract with Fox News. “It’s true I’m prohibited from doing some things,” Palin says, “but this is the first I’ve heard anyone suggest that as an excuse, er, reason to stay away from engaging in the presidential race. I’m quite confident Fox’s top brass would never strip anyone of their First Amendment rights in this regard.” (Fox says her contract would not prohibit speaking at the convention if she sought permission.) "

 

I refuse to believe that the Romney campaign could have anyone that stupid associated with it.

185 For most things, nothing wrong with a three-day rule. When your kid falls out of a pyramid at cheerleader practice and heard the crack, you should probably listen to them.


(Do cheerleaders still do pyramids, or have those gone the way of wearing sweaters and cheering for the team?)

186 Paterno family directed its attorneys to form a fact-finding committee that will counter the Freeh report.

187 Where is the hijacking? The topic is romney and the romney campaign. Did you net read gabe's post vacation post?

Posted by: annoyed at July 16, 2012 08:50 AM (oZfic)

Shut your ignorant upper jizz hole.  You troll the fuck around finding links, when they aren't gay porn, that get shitheads like Poppin Fresh all butt-hurt that things aren't going 100% smooth in a perfect world which this obviously is not.  Gatewaypundit should be lashed in the public square for posting rumor mongering shit like that for you to feast on like it's tuna that's way past its expiration date and laced with mercury.  But don't worry; ace nor the coblogs will ever come down on you for the stupid shit you post.  You're somehow in a protected class.

188 How about eliminating the "tax loophole" that lets 50% of people pay no federal income tax?

How about we just reduce our spending to the point where 50% of the citizens could not pay federal income tax and no one would notice or care?

How about both?  Everyone pays something, and we keep the spending under that amount?


I also want a pony.

189 Britain is dead.
http://is.gd/bhIQdF
On the bright side, they're primed for the "no music in Islam".

190 @179 - Actually, we like our pediatrician, he's been great.  Unfortunately, we live in Arlington, TX and we were in Alamogordo, NM.  I can't really expect him to meet us at the ER 13 hours away.  Well, 11 or so with no stops.

191 Paterno family directed its attorneys to form a fact-finding committee that will counter the Freeh report.

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2012 09:23 AM (jm/9g)

The Paterno family should realize that nobody, outside of the cult of Shittany Lyin' fans who hate every one of Sandusky's victims for staining the purity of their foorball sacrament, gives a shit about any self-serving tripe they come up with.

192 (ABC) -Somehow, the summer of national economic discontent morphed into the summer of when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital and how many years' worth of tax returns he's released to the public.

Along the way, Romney has lost control of his campaign message, and lost perhaps his best opportunity to define himself to undecided voters.

Gee, I wonder why the MFM thinks the campaign is allegedly about this. Could it be the MFM is pumping Barry's message for him?

193 "...You're somehow in a protected class."

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 16, 2012 09:23 AM (wEUzA)

Not protected, just ignored. It really is just profoundly stupid.

194

Great post  Gabe, welcome back.  I guess people just want Romney to grind O under his heel, such is the state of anxiety especially since the SCOTUS decision on health care.  We want him gone.  Now.

195 192
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Springsteen quite often runs over curfews in Europe. I think this is the first time the mics have been cut off though.

196 The most pathetic aspect of Obowbow's serial lying and constant  BS wall tossing is that some of it sticks with anymore than a 10 percent fringe sample of supposed Americans.

This clown is a monumental fucking embarrassment to which ever race that he happens to be currently pandering to.

197 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 16, 2012 09:27 AM (8y9MW)

Ah, everything is clear now. The coffee is helping my reading comprehension.

198 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 16, 2012 09:27 AM (wEUzA)

What?  You don't go on twitter?  You haven't seen the comments about this?  Maybe google "let sarah palin speak at the convention" and see what comes up.

199 what is amazing is the catpiss troll was in the top number of comments last week......and it didn't have the same nic for the whole week i guess zerohedge banned it's original commenter so it's spending extra time here....

200 186 as if to blame a Palin plant ?

201 Now go take a flying fuck at a rolling hobo's dick. This is the poetry that keeps me coming back to this wretched hive of scum and villainy.

202 You guys have been trying to run curious off for months now. She is still here. Give it a rest for crissakes.

203 http://tinyurl.com/cz5ukby is an article about my co-worker.

204 I also want a pony.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 16, 2012 09:24 AM

Then why are you wasting your time supporting Mutt Romney?

There's only ONE candidate for you!

Check him out:  http://bit.ly/977bkK

205 Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 16, 2012 09:24 AM (ZKzrr)

I'm confused. Your plan seems to be that everyone participates in the tax system, regardless of how they vote, and budgets are created that keep expenditures at or below revenues?

How will the Democrat (and, unfortunately, many Republicans) party get any votes?

206 @194: here's a comment from ESPN story -   "Let's be fair. That Freeh report was way too "independant", "fact-based" and "unbiased". We clearly need an investigation which has some Happy Valley special sauce."   ___    Maybe it's a little bit of poetic justice that so much of Paterno's PSU haul is now going to be spent on trying to remedy an irredeemably tarnished legacy.

207 “If we want to talk about transparency, the real issue is, why has this president used his presidential power and executive privilege to keep the information about the Fast and Furious program from being explained to the American people?”-Mitt Romney  Moar of this, please.  He could also throw in a "there's no way to know if a felony has been committed" for good measure.  Nothing like throwing their attacks right back at them. 

208 A Quebec activist who fought the stereotyping of Muslims was charged with supporting terrorism on Friday after an RCMP investigation linked her to an alleged scheme to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Mouna Diab, 26, was charged with committing a crime “for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group,” the RCMP said in a statement. She faces a possible life sentence if convicted.

The Laval woman was arrested at MontrealÂ’s Trudeau airport last year and accused of violating an international arms embargo targeting Lebanon, but police added the far more serious terrorism charge on Friday.

While Canadian police have laid dozens of charges under the anti-terrorism laws enacted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Ms. Diab is the first woman to face charges related to a foreign terrorist organization.

The case also marks the first time Canada has laid charges in connection with Hezbollah, and comes amid concerns Tehran is preparing to unleash the Iranian-sponsored terrorist group in the event of a strike on its nuclear program.

209 Okay, what's this "Freeh report?"  I heard something on the radio this morning, but they didn't even reveal what it said (I guess it came out last week or something?)

210

Posted by: lowandslow at July 16, 2012 08:06 AM (GZitp)

 

 

This times 1000, plus saying Trump is a buffoon so no one pays any attention to him, but we need to reach those American idol fans???

211 kallisto poetic justice imho would be penn having to spend more in payouts to the victims than paterno ever brought in.......

212 Captain Hate, you are En Fuego today.

213 213 Okay, what's this "Freeh report?" I heard something on the radio this morning, but they didn't even reveal what it said (I guess it came out last week or something?) Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 16, 2012 09:37 AM (8y9MW) Readers digest condensed version, They all knew about Sandusky, they are all dirty.

214 Posted by: maddogg at July 16, 2012 09:32 AM (OlN4e)

I think most people use curious' idiocy as an excuse to have a bit of fun with a particularly stupid troll. The high dudgeon is an act.

215 113 days until election day. That's 16.14 weeks. That's 4.04 months. That's...not a lot. Still plenty of time for the SCOAMF to pull a strategy out of this ass, though.

216 Americans cut their spending at retail businesses for a third straight month, as a weak job market has made consumers more cautious.

Retail sales fell 0.5 percent in June from May, the Commerce Department said Monday. Consumers spent less on autos, furniture, appliances, on building and garden supplies and at department stores.

The drop in sales followed declines in the previous two months. Retail sales haven't fallen for three straight months since the fall of 2008, at the height of the financial crisis.

Some of the weakness in recent months reflects falling gas prices. But even excluding sales at gas stations, retail spending fell 0.3 percent in June from May.

217 REp Tim Griffin (R) Arkansas....

on MSNBC....doing very well as he's being grilled about mitt romney's taxes...

way better than kelly ayotte and the other female surrogate on morning joe, this morning.  That surrogate was thrown by little question.  Griffin just played the host big time...good entertainment...

218 Readers digest condensed version

Oh, geez.  I can't say I'm terribly surprised, though.

219 He could also throw in a "there's no way to know if a felony has been committed" for good measure.

We actually do know the whole thing was full of crimes.  I'm not sure if the ATF driven violations of existing gun laws was a felony or a misdemeanor though.

220 The reason Obama still has a chance is because the ignorant takers in our Country now exceed the responsible makers. That is a phenomenon that will be hard to reverse. Previously we were able to rely on their laziness not to participate in politics. Unfortunately the goodies being handed out made them like ET following the trail of Reeses Pieces to the voting booth. We need to take away the goodies to make them indifferent and make them have to exert some effort for the privilege that is voting, ie Voter ID, elimination of same day registering, etc.

221 600+ town have gone bankrupt since 1937.  I'm just saying...

222 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 16, 2012 09:37 AM (8y9MW)

Louis Freeh (ex FBI director) headed an investigation that found a planned, concerted effort to protect Sandusky. All of the usual suspects were involved, including Paterno himself.

It was a damning report, and it has been suggested that on the basis of the report, PAterno would be in handcuffs if he weren't dead (and in hell already).

223 Clinton to Peres: Friends like us must act together By GREER FAY CASHMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF07/16/2012 12:33US secretary of state meets president in J'lem, praising him for "knowing the inextricable link between security and peace." Photo: REUTERS US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Monday, saying that the transformations which the Middle East is undergoing require "friends like us to think together and act together." Arriving in Israel Sunday night for a 24-hour visit, Clinton said that the region was in the midst of a "time of uncertainty, but opportunity." She posited that the changes in the Middle East have given the US and Israel the chance to advance their shared goals of security, stability and democracy. It sure takes a big tool to shovel that much bullshit

224 The Bain attack may have failed due to a media own goal.  Viacom (parent of MTV/VH1/Logo/BET/Comedy Central/Nickelodeon) saw ratings dropping on all their channels and chose to raise their fee to DirecTV by a billion dollars (I guess Krugman is their economics advisor).  DTV pointed out that their ratings were down and they were streaming all their shows for free online.  So Viacom pulled all their channels from DTV *and* shut down all their streaming.  As a result, a lot of low-information voters haven't seen Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert deliver DNC talking points for the last 2 weeks.

225 212 Given his government's prosecutorial attack on Mark Steyn, Canadian law enforcement and courts show time and again under threat how arbitrarily intolerant that government is.

226 Kudos. Probably the best post you've had in ages, Gabe.

227 Hillary is a Clinton  When Clintons sling shit they use a D9 Cat.

228 Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:42 AM (05RcU)

If only Israel were to give up just a little bit more land, she will surely have peace!

229

Freeh report more or less proves Paterno and the rest committed perjury, and knew all the way back to 1998 and probably earlier. 

 

After thegrand jury investigation came out, "Joe Pa" negotiated a 3 mill parachute for himself even tho his contract was not up.  Board approved it.  Penn State now have to demolish and redo the showers where the rape took place.  What student would ever want to use those?

 

Paterno's clan needs to drink a big tall glass of shut the fuck up.

230 Posted by: @PurpAv at July 16, 2012 09:44 AM (aS5TC)

That's not funny!

231

Ok, I've HAD a wonderful business for 30+ years. I'm a dentist. *I* built the practice. It's now going bankrupt because GM moved out of the localcommunity taking 62% of my patients with it.

You want to take credit for the business I built Odumbass....so are *YOU* going to take credit for destroying the community that helped me build it?

232 Oh,

MSNBC ist kaput.  Microsoft is pulling out of the venture.  Apparently the koolaid was mixed a little stoo strong and they weren't happy with the content they were contractually forced to swallow on MSN.

Two year transition period where MSN still has to swallow the happy pills

233 5Here is something Pastor Sonnenberg, told us in church yesterday christians and catholics are being slaughtered in the middle east and North Africa...welcome to a warm Arab spring in case you missed this omMSNBC.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 16, 2012 07:16 AM (qA9lG)

In case you missed it, Chatholics ARE Christians.

234 Ok, I've HAD a wonderful business for 30+ years. I'm a dentist. *I* built the practice. It's now going bankrupt because GM moved out of the localcommunity taking 62% of my patients with it. You want to take credit for the business I built Odumbass....so are *YOU* going to take credit for destroying the community that helped me build it? Posted by: MrObvious at July 16, 2012 09:46 AM (t4++D) Hi. Another Dentist. Good. And I hear ya. Do what I did, join the Navy. If nothing else it keeps me sane, sort of

235 A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a Trojan horse!

236 We should be waging a holy war on every org that has decided Christians need to die. First they came for the Coptics, and I said nothing......

237

We should be waging a holy war on every org that has decided Christians need to die.

 

 

 

And the Catholics too

238 The idea was broached by a group of West Coast financiers who suggest using the power of eminent domain, which lets the government seize private property for public use. In this case, they would condemn troubled mortgages so they could seize them from the investors who own them. Then the mortgages would be rewritten so the borrowers would have significantly lower monthly payments.

239 We should be waging a holy war on every org that has decided Christians need to die. Well we can start with the Muslims and pretty much get the job done.

240 @194:
here's a comment from ESPN story -




"Let's be fair. That Freeh report was way too "independant", "fact-based" and "unbiased". We clearly need an investigation which has some Happy Valley special sauce."

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2012 09:34 AM (jm/9g)

The cocksuckers at ESPN aren't exactly objective sources on this.  Turds like Bayless and Musberger have been shilling for JoePa every fucking step of the way as "doing things the right way and not just settling for doing the minimum amount" when it was apparent even, before the Sandusky stuff was revealed, that it was indistinguishable from any large Div 1 program.  And if the NCAA doesn't nuke the fucking program and the cult is allowed their football fix uninterrupted, the world's leader in sports entertainment broadcasting will be right there to serve up maggot-gagging garbage about the redemptive power of kollidge football.

241 19Second, it's a shame that Romney can't use the Bain debate as an object lesson in tough choices. Yes, sometimes you have to sacrifice 50 jobs now to keep 200 people working long term, instead of letting an unsustainable business model crash and burn and take all 250 jobs. It would be such a contrast to Obama's fantasyland where there are never consequences.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 16, 2012 07:27 AM (aGX9l)

You know there is a truth here that has gone unutilized forever and I don't know why. When our office (state) was cutting us all back little by little in our pay, I always maintained at some point people had to go. Plain and simple, you cannot keep everyone and just lower pay untill they all lose their homes/can't pay their bills...let a few go and keep the rest employed. But I guess that flies in the face of the fundelental philosophy of the nanny state where we keep all workers despite both their ability to do the job and our ability to pay them.

242 Well we can start with the Muslims and pretty much get the job done. Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:51 AM (05RcU) Careful, Muzzie sympathizers accusing you of genocide in 3,2,1....

243 They've only, according to my football obsessed friend, shut down two football programs, ever.

Penn State should be completely shutdown, shunned so to speak.

244 Well we can start with the Muslims and pretty much get the job done. Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:51 AM (05RcU) Careful, Muzzie sympathizers accusing you of genocide in 3,2,1.... Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 16, 2012 09:53 AM (9TTOe) I'm only talking about re-education classes. The left loves re-education don't they?

245 "Over the next four months the other side will spend more money than we have ever seen in history and they don't really have a good argument for how they'd do better but they're thinking they can win the election if they just remind people that a lot of people are still out of work and the economy is not growing as fast as it needs to and it's all Obama's fault. That's basically their pitch," Can you imagine that? Trying to blame the guy in office for what's going wrong. Take responsibility and be a leader, like I am.

246 You know there is a truth here that has gone unutilized forever andI don't know why.

Because, when you're the one who is losing a job, you don't care much about the people keeping theirs.

People are selfish, and aren't largely given to introspection.  So when you say, "Pay cuts or Job cuts" most people say, "Pay cut, please!"  And, in some cases, that's actually the best answer.

Now, that's true even in the private sector.  In the public sector, where perception is more important than reality, it's even worse.

247 O/T but does anyone know whats the definition of full time employee? Thinking about the 50 employee  level in Obama care

248 Well we can start with the Muslims and pretty much get the job done.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:51 AM (05RcU)
I'm only talking about re-education classes. The left loves re-education don't they?Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:54 AM (05RcU)
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Still won't pass. The left thinks the Christians need the re-education, not the Mooselems. Getting closer though.

249 I'm only talking about re-education classes. The left loves re-education don't they?Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:54 AM (05RcU) That takes time and costs money. We have very little of both.

250 does anyone know whats the definition of full time employee?Thinking about the 50 employee level in Obama care Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 16, 2012 09:56 AM (mFxQX) The definition of a full time employee is the poor guy who gets laid off or fired to keep the company at 49 employees.

251 O/T but does anyone know whats the definition of full time employee?Thinking about the 50 employee level in Obama care

I think its 38 hours a week, but your employees can sue to be considered "Full Time" if you're giving less than that just to keep people classified as "part time" to avoid government regs and mandates.

252 Bridgeport CT filed bankruptcy in 1991.  Precedent...

253 "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky right now they will probably put Cleveland State on 3 years probation" Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 16, 2012 09:55 AM (OWjjx) Good one. The NCAA is kind of like the United Nations, they'll "attempt" to TALK a good game, but ultimately might is right. No fucking way that behemoth will get a death sentence.

254 The definition of a full time employee is the poor guy who gets laid off or fired to keep the company at 49 employees. Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2012 09:59 AM (05RcU) I'm thinkin with the taxes, regs and general bullshit I'm thinkin of a black market carreer. Maybe a cigerrette rolling machine and a room to make assorted fruit wines.

255 From DoL:

"How many hours is full-time employment? How many hours is part-time employment?

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer. Whether an employee is considered full-time or part-time does not change the application of the FLSA."
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That should clear it up for you.

256 Thanks guys

257

The NCAA is run like the mob.  Its an extortion racket, "we hate to see something happen to your little college here, you better change the name.  Kids getting anally raped?  Nothing to see here"

258 A successful post, Gabe, but you know damn well it wasn't you who made it successful. It was the tireless and unappreciated electrons who nade it work, not you. Now, get down on your knees and thank then, you ingrate!

259 I remember when MSNBC was going to be the new wave of a blending between content and delivery-- MicroSoft would bring technology and the Internet, NBC would bring news and audience infrastructure.

It's just so 90s.

260 Weiner running for mayor. Apparently also Alec Baldwin. Now how awesome would that be? Exit question: are there any candidates who are not totally arrogant pricks interested in NYC mayor?

261 This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer.

It may be set by the States, then.  Which means that 38 hour mark may be just for Texas.

262 black markets thrive under repressive regimes

263 Jen Rubin (pig found a acorn) has a good point: The reason the JEF is doing all the negative attacks early is because that's all he has. It's been his gameplan for every election--make the other guy toxic so that he can run on mindless platitudes and slogans instead of results and conviction.

The JEF will not, can not and dares not to run on his record.

He had hoped that these early attacks--and lies he knew his media friends wouldn't make a big deal out of--were going to make Romney a pariah; define him early and coast to the election.

But, it hasn't worked and won't work--negative attack ads only work in good times. In bad times, thanks to the Dems campaigns of 1992, 2004, 2008, you are supposed to blame the President--their own bullshit has come home to roost.

264 I'm surprised those old coots Springsteen and McCartney can stay up past curfew anyway.  I expect they're more Early Bird Dinner/6:30 News/Bedtime types.

265 are there any candidates who are not totally arrogant pricks interested in NYC mayor?

I got nothing...

266 Exit question: are there any candidates who are not totally arrogant pricks interested in NYC mayor?

Hard to believe, but in that field Rudy was the 'nice, quiet guy.'

267 I think there's something else going on here that's keeping Mitt in the react vs. proact mode.

He really wants to avoid sounding angry or giving Obummer any more fodder he can use in negative ads. Like "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me."

Mittens has stepped on it a couple of times and knows the power of a soundbite in your opponent's negative ad.

After all, that was the way Mitt won the primary, by demonizing the successive front runners.

268 The reason the JEF is doing all the negative attacks early is because that's all he has.

He'll burn through all his cash fast and be gasping at the end.  I think Romney is holding back.

269 After all, that was the way Mitt won the primary, by demonizing the successive front runners. Hmm.

270 The Freeh report:  http://tiny.cc/toljhw

271 One thing Romney has going for him is his Christian temperment. I've seen him get pissed without looking like an asshole. He needs to do more of that.

272 "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky right now they will probably put Cleveland State on 3 years probation"

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 16, 2012 09:55 AM (OWjjx)

The NCAA is really on the spot with this.  Strictly speaking, this falls outside their guidelines of what to punish, which are usually set up to prevent an unfair competitive advantage.  But this is the largest sport related scandal of all time and turning a blind eye to it was done to protect the cash cow of football.  If the football program is allowed to proceed uninterrupted, there will be heckling at away games as if there was a stadium full of Westboro Baptist Church.  Or maybe everybody's so fucking jaded that nobody will care; I've said for a while if a Black Sox scandal occurred today people would probably just shrug their shoulders and keep watching.

273 Obama's $100+ mil summer ad blitz = San Diego's 15 sec fireworks fail.

274 The more Obama is allowed to say shit, the more ammunition presents itself.  That virulent anti-small business Liz Warren rip off diatribe recently isn't gonna play well at all.

275
Report: Obama Sent His National Security Adviser To Israel To Stop Them From Attacking IranÂ…

President Barack ObamaÂ’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon visited Israel secretly over the weekend in what one Israeli newspaper says was an attempt to convince Israel not to attack IranÂ’s nuclear facilities.

He met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defe nse Minister Ehud Barak and National Security Advisor Gen. Yaakov Amidror.
...
Maariv-NRG says DonilonÂ’s visit reflects heightened U.S. concern that Israel intends to attack Iran sometime during the summer or early autumn. That concern has been heightened by the recent failure of talks between western powers and Iran. The news site estimated that the visit was intended to convince Israel not to launch an attack anytime soon.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/76bp8kk

276

251

Because, when you're the one who is losing a job, you don't care much about the people keeping theirs.

 

I do. I just think it's time people put on their big kid pants and realized a job...any job...is not an entitlement. A pay cut is ok, I have taken three since this all began. I cannot take a bit more and I am not strapped by debt. So yeah, maybe I am like them and want to keep my job...but I cannot take more cuts so that we can all keep our jobs. To what end? To say we have jobs, yet the cost to drive there along with the pay cuts means I have to choose bills not to pay? Cut people at this point. Just reducing pay creates a different kind of nighmare in the economy.

277 Heard over the weekend that Reagan only made one, one single tax return public.  It was a bunch of old republicans who told me so I believe them.  They also told me they think they want the tax returns cause the next form of attack is romney's contributions. 

These guys are strongly connected politically their entire lives, they usually aren't wrong.

278 267 black markets thrive under repressive regimes Yes, some right wing people claim that it's the so called "free market" in action. Could not disagree more. Think about it like this: Are original ideas even possible? No, it's collective thought and everyone should be rewarded, whenever a new technology or process makes some lucky person rich. When some individual succeeds, it's at the expense of everyone else, it's theft since that money belongs to everyone. Now there's something that should be in the constitution.

279 "time of uncertainty, but opportunity."

232 Opposition in all things?

What we have here -- is failure -- to communicate.

UN mantra media doesn't post journalists within Syria, but reproduces releases promoting "Arab Spring" Islamists. How many have read this debunk of the MSM smear job v. the Syrian government, setting blame for THE civilian massacre that the UN/NATO use? Given the general media bias exposed below, reconsider the recent propaganda sources this week regarding biological weapons and closing the Strait of Hormuz. As if the global gluts owning media don't have their own agenda. We're so well trained, swallowing deceit and rejecting truth staring us in the face.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung confirms: Houla massacre committed by Syrian “rebels” [May], by Rainer Hermann, 7 June 2012, 13 June confirmation. [The victims had refused to join the rebels. Go figure.]

The Houla plains region, Hermann writes, “is burdened by a long history of sectarian tensions. ... Of the names of the civilians killed, 84 are known. These are the fathers, mothers and 49 children of the Al Sayyid family and two branches of the Abdarrazzaq family. … Additionally killed in Taldou were relatives of the … member of parliament Abdalmuti Mashlab. The family members were targeted and killed with only one exception. No neighbour was injured. One had to have knowledge of the place to carry out these well-planned executions”.

11-year-old Ali, the only member of the Al Sayyid family to survive the bloodbath: “Those responsible had shaved heads and long beards”...this points to “fanatical jihadists” and not the “Shabiha militia”.

“After the Friday prayers on May 25 more than 700 armed people led by Abdurrazzaq Tlass and Yahya Yusuf, forming three groups from Rastan, Kafr Laha and Akraba, attacked three army checkpoints around Taldou. The numerically superior rebels and the (mostly also Sunni) soldiers fought bloody battles in which two dozen soldiers, mostly conscripts, were killed. During and after the fighting the rebels, supported by residents of Taldou, wiped out the Al Sayyid and Abdarrazzaq families. They had refused to join the opposition”.

In his article, Hermann refers to earlier reports by other journalists and nuns from the Jacob Monastery in Qara. Nuns had described to Dutch journalist Martin Jannsen how the rebels piled the bodies of dead soldiers and civilians in front of the mosque and told UN observers their version of the alleged massacre in front of cameras from rebel-friendly television channels.

The nun Agnès-Maryam had already described the escalation of sectarian violence around Homs in an open letter toward the end of April. She warned of a step-by-step liquidation of all minorities by the Sunni rebels and described the displacement of Christians and Alawites from their homes and the rape of young girls who had been given to the rebels as spoils of war.

Russian journalist Marat Musin who works for the Anna news agency and was in Houla on May 25 and 26, was an eyewitness of the events as well as a reporter. So far Musin seems to have given the most detailed description of what took place. His version coincides with HermannÂ’s and that of the nuns on all decisive points.

http://tinyurl.com/d7xxgja

'nuff's enough.

280 Gabe must read the comments.  I made all those points this weekend. 

Hold your powder dry.  Rope a dope. 

When the shit hits, Barry will have fits.

281 Posted by: Captain, Road Prison 36 at July 16, 2012 10:16 AM (BAnPT) Coming to an HOA near you. Unless we stop it over there.

282 oZfic<<<<I'm thinking you should fuck off, troll.
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cannot be said enough.

283 Did I tell you about my imaginary friends who are a bunch of old republicans?

284 O/T but does anyone know whats the definition of full time employee?

I'm full time at 37.5 hours/week. I think the states define that for their own purposes. Practically speaking it seems to be some number over 20 hours per week.

285 That's not funny! Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 16, 2012 09:46 AM (nEUpB) Personally, I thought this fell a little flat.

286 Success has gone to Walt's head. He has threatened Saul and he has really really pissed off his wife. It will be his downfall.

287 Houla massacre committed by Syrian “rebels”

The Reichstag fire ploy is a time tested one. 

288 Any American or Westerner that travels to the middle east or North Africa and is not wearing a Uniform surrounded by the like minded, is an idiot.

289 That's not funny!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 16, 2012 09:46 AM (nEUpB)

Personally, I thought this fell a little flat.

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at July 16, 2012 10:23 AM (GBXon)

I'm concerned about Saint Pancake; she has that rundown look.

290 ex. The Soviet NKVD did the Katyn Forest massacre which was blamed on the Nazis for a very long time.

291
289 O/T but does anyone know whats the definition of full time employee?

There's no federal definition, it varies from state to state. In PA employers are allowed to define it for themselves.

292 Posted by: annoyed at July 16, 2012 10:15 AM (oZfic)

Wow. What a combination: stupid, pompous and tone deaf.

293 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 16, 2012 10:28 AM (wEUzA)

Rachel Corrie...."A" cup?

294 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 16, 2012 10:27 AM (9TTOe)

Yeah....the kidnappings in Tel Aviv are out of control.

295
Wow. What a combination: stupid, pompous and tone deaf.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 16, 2012 10:31 AM (nEUpB)

Aw, you're not that bad.  You don't have to admit this all now, we knew.

296 Yeah....the kidnappings in Tel Aviv are out of control. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 16, 2012 10:33 AM (nEUpB) OK, you have a point. Just wear a helmet so the rockets bounce off your head.

297 The Rubber-Glue Gambit. Devastating.

298 oZ "for the first time in my [adult] life..."

I don't care how much over the expected 15% contributions to his church Mitt has paid through life. It doesn't make him any more righteous than the widow with her mite. It doesn't make him any more evil than the Democrat like VP Biden who doesn't contribute to charity or his church. I don't care how Mitt Romney spends his personal income so long as he's not spending mine, so long as my taxes are CUT and our economy improves via a solid frame of value reference, if not gold, then a century based on natural gas, whatever. And that ain't gonna happen with Mitt, no revelation or prediction required.

No one is worse than Obama who STEALS not only from US taxpayers throughout his life, but who threw the most vulnerable, destitute black senior citizens into Chicago streets to survive after ransacking their public housing project. He organized the pinstripe crime, personally directing all public funds to improve the Altgeld Housing Project refurbishment into his attorneys' firms who aligned the reconstruction contracts to corrupt unions that went into the housing project and STRIPPED it of all wiring and piping and fixtures, tearing the place down, leaving the indigent literally on the streets without even that decrepit run down unit for shelter from the elements. There's Obama's "compassion" -- death panels in housing prior to medicine.

You just can't DO THAT to the most indigent elderly in America. No matter how he sells himself as the pied pipin' foodstamp preznit piper, Obama is evil to the core.  AS IF he would keep any campaign promise once re-elected. Even the Pied Piper had scruples maintaining contract law, whereas Obama has none.

299 302 The Rubber-Glue Gambit. Devastating. Posted by: toby928© at July 16, 2012 10:34 AM (evdj2) I was always partial to the sticks and stones song, with a back up of "I know you are, but what am I?"

300 The IRS is currently seeking public comments on issuing rules to determine 'full time employment" for the purposes of Obamacare.

301 302 Jerry Doyle's lead-in to his show cracks me up every time..."and here's Mr. Know It All!" /

outa here.

302 "Income tax-delinquent FCC employees owe more than $1 million"http://tiny.cc/0ymjhw

Maybe you guys can explain this to me.  Before I even get my paycheck, which I don't get physically cause no one gets a physical check anymore, anyway, before I even get my pay, all, and I mean all the taxes have been taken out and I get what's left after they've taken their "fair share".   Now, I have taken out more taxes now cause I don't want to have to write a check later which has been happening on a regular basis, but I have been doing that every year including the years I have to write a check, no matter how much extra I instruct HR to take. 

But anyway, does the government not do this?  Do they not take the taxes out of pay?

303 305 dammit, box of chocolates. Everyone is considered full-time employed with regards to paying into the system. No one is considered eligible with regards to benefits.

304 Part time employment is only useful when reporting the jobs' numbers and in the insurance industry for certain products.  Oh and for your employer not to have to give you any perks (like health insurance and a 401K), cause well, "you're just part time".

305 Re SCOAMF's assertion that business owners owe it all to others, remember this?

“I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it,”

Link to NRO: http://tinyurl.com/8ye9q7w

306 "PJTV: Bill Whittle on the Sarah Palin Haters"http://tiny.cc/38njhw

Someone on twitter is linking to this video.  I'd never seen it.  It's a good video.  He covers a lot, says a lot and it doesn't only apply to Sarah Palin.

Watching the republicans respond to the romney debacle this weekend, made me see that this video is applicable to them. 

It's interesting to watch the republican party come to the aid of romney, not.  They aren't doing it cause they don't trust that the dems aren't right and they won't risk their own future, political and journalistic, on defending a man they themselves aren't quite sure about.

They should be ashamed of themselves....they're doing to romney what they did to sarah palin but on a smaller scale.

The folks on here who saw this a month ago are really smart. 

But, of course, if he hired those same "operatives" that helped McCain to lose his lead after his sarah palin announcement and he doesn't fire them, then he probably will lose.

307 Sounds like Romney is doing to Obama like Reagan did to Russia -- bleeding them dry in the arms race and letting them disintegrate without firing a shot.

308 Obama - runs America off the cliff
Romney - walks America off the cliff

reality sucks , but it's preferable to self-delusion

309 50% + of Americans are getting government handouts.

Most American voters are not business owners.

read Voltaire

310 Obama - runs America off the cliff Romney - walks America off the cliff reality sucks , but it's preferable to self-delusion I'd rather discover I have a partial opened parachute instead of a backpack.

311 @112: Mornin' catpiss... Just a question- Why do you keep changing your nic if you're not socking for humor? Everyone knows it's you. Or haven't you figured out hash tags yet? Silly bugger.

312 STFU.  Everyone is annoyed with you!

313 Speaking of which, I have been off and on for the last few weeks, what the hell is with the Team Dagny stuff? Did something happen to Dagny?

314

It's all well and good for Romney's taking heads to point out that the Obama talking heads' Bain meme are channeling Donald Trump's birther meme.

But they seem to be missing the most effective jujitsu move.  That Romney cashed in his chips at Bain for a life of public service. 

A largely flattering article describng this transition appeared in none other than the NY Times!  (Of course, that was during the last election cycle, when the Times tried to swift boat McCain with the bogus infidelity smear.)

The Long Run

In Olympics Success, Romney Found New  Edge

By Kirk Johnson Published: September 19, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/c8mc2m8

"In a recent interview, Mr. Romney said the Games had prepared him for the complexity of public life.

“I never saw a more difficult turnaround situation than the one at the Olympics,” he said. “And the team, not just me, but a remarkable team of public leaders and Olympic leaders pulled off something which was a massive undertaking and which had a crisis written all over it.”

Asked how he put together the effort, Mr. Romney checked off his list: hire the right people, motivate them, make decisions on the basis of analysis and debate, set bench marks to measure success. '

He always has an objective in mind and a goal that he works toward,” said Randy L. Dryer, a lawyer and a former member of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee who worked closely with Mr. Romney and described himself as a Democrat, but also an admirer of Mr. Romney’s. “But he’s not unwilling to modify that objective if it’s an uphill battle and not worth the fight to get there — he is not bullheaded.” '

<snip>

'...Mr. Romney, the persuasive businessman, also defanged some critics. Stephen Pace knows about that. He was a business consultant who believed the Games would spell ruin for Utah and had made great sport of eviscerating Mr. RomneyÂ’s predecessors.

After the scandal broke in 1998, Mr. Pace and his friends paraded in front of news cameras with T-shirts that read, “Slalom and Gomorrah.” Organizing Committee leaders barred Mr. Pace from meetings, which of course only gave him even more ammunition.

Mr. Romney, however, was a different kind of foe. Instead of shunning Mr. Pace, he invited him to come to a committee meeting, and about the same time announced that all meetings would be open to the public. And when Mr. Pace arrived, with the cameras rolling, Mr. Romney proposed a trade — he wanted a “Slalom and Gomorrah” shirt and would give Mr. Pace a regular Olympics booster shirt...'

 

 

 

 

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