1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Thursday, July 19, 2012. On this day in 1553 Lady Jane Grey was deposed after only 9 days of reign.  She was later executed for treason at the ripe old age of 16.  It didnÂ’t take much in those days to be executed for treason.  Privy Council, hum???

2 “Alledged” bomber who killed Israelis in the Bulgarian bus was carrying a fake  MI driverÂ’s license.   Hum, what is going on in Michiganistan now?

http://is.gd/kCLF3F

3 Looming default at Post Office. The Senate has already passed a bailout package and the House has not acted.  Nearly 100% of the problems we currently have in the post office are due to congressional meddling.

http://is.gd/cu7vM2

4 TerroristÂ’s family file lawsuit against US government in wrongful death without due process.  I say impeach every judge who had anything to do with allowing this to be filed.

http://is.gd/ApJpPl

5 Except, of course, Romney did go on offense.

6 What could go “further” wrong here. WA to allow voter registration by Facebook.  The already allow voting by mail.  Lets watch the vote totals soar to levels greater than the population.

http://is.gd/ArsXEf

7 Dodd-Frank snares its first victim.  Capitol One, home of the Germanic thugs, is fined for making stupid people buy things they did not need or “want”?  Alec Baldnose hardest hit.

http://is.gd/gX344n

8 And on Scalia, what do you expect him to say?

9 McShitty defends HillaryÂ’s muzzie aid against attacks by other Republicans.  

http://is.gd/bsqHWL

10 LOL, we discussed the outrageous prices for bras a few days ago.  One wonders what the price was 600 years ago?

http://is.gd/XeShJY

11 Another Obamanite crony corruption recipient goes belly up  as economic reality overcomes stupid government corruption in the watermelon business.

http://is.gd/nYSkiS

12 Democrats try another stupid PR stunt and campaign crappola by introducing a blatantly unconstitutional bill to require Romney to reveal 10 years of income tax returns.  Clearly this bill has zero chance of going anywhere but The Hill doesnÂ’t recognize this.  They stress the efforts of purely altruistic commies in forcing rich candidates to toe the line if they wish to be President of the “peeeepollles”.

http://is.gd/5TdhG6

13 Outrage of the day. USDA has quit the Spanish ads hawking food stamps, but they are partnering with the Mexican Government to push food stamps to illegals.  It is time to fire everyone of these stupid assholes and eliminate the agency.  If I recall correctly the last farm bill was 80% food stamps.  Clearly time to get out the ax.

http://is.gd/u7IYq1

14 I don't care what pushup bras cost, I don't pay for them, they are worth every penny.

15 Obama labor nominee sent kids to communist summer camp.  Why are we shocked by this?  Commies just got to be commies said Sebastian the crab.

http://is.gd/ytY7ay

16 Movie to show how Occupy was planned in advance.  I hope they name names.

http://is.gd/eRhHRP

17 The Republican National Committee is continuing its counterattack on President Barack Obama, releasing emails and videos to bolster Romney’s recent claims that the White House’s efforts to invest in “green energy” amounted to a form of “crony capitalism.”

IÂ’m all for attacking the shit out of ObamaÂ’s illegal crap.  But lets get rid of this bullshit liberal invented term.  This kind of activity has NOTHING to do with capitalism and is pure out corruption.  Call it what it is “crony corruption”.  That is what we called it when the local council member got his nephew a job doing nothing for the county.

http://is.gd/nR7LzH

18 If what Scalia says is true and that he bears no animosity towards CJ Roberts after his treachery then your a fool and this is just a mental game to you and not an actual struggle against an enemy sworn to destroy the document you have sworn to protect.

19 BB: Exclusive - The Vetting: Like My 'Compressed' Ex-Girlfriend, Obama Was 'An Ardent Marxist Socialist' in College


Well I have some news, things havenÂ’t changed.  If anything he has gotten worse.

http://is.gd/dJgkGb

20 AK town knows how to keep crony corruption down.  They elect cat as mayor.  After all, how much can you waste on kitty toys?

http://is.gd/ANYG7T

21 WaPO knows no bounds when it comes to trying to trash anything good.

North Dakota is in the grip of the biggest U.S. oil rush in decades, but it is taking a toll on the rural towns and residentsÂ’ lifestyles.

http://is.gd/cdjmiP

22 That's it fr this morning. Slept later than usual and had to rush through it.

23 Romney polling even!

24 McShitty defends HillaryÂ’s muzzie aid against attacks by other Republicans.

http://is.gd/bsqHWL

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 07:03 AM (YdQQY)

Of course McRINO comes to the defense of Muffer's assistant who's also Weiner's wife.  It's not like he's expending any effort for a conservative.

25 7 Dodd-Frank snares its first victim. Capitol One, home of the Germanic thugs, is fined for making stupid people buy things they did not need or “want”? Alec Baldnose hardest hit. http://is.gd/gX344n Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 07:03 AM (YdQQY ------- Capitar Won? I still have Arec Barwin. Yes. I stirr Dead.

26 Scalia says there's been no falling out with the Chief Justice.


That story was in a lot of the news sources today.  My reaction was that the Supremes will NEVER show an open split or animosity in public.  If they do it will be a sign of the end-tmes for the USA.

27 Mornin' Vic. Thanks for all you do. Placed my breakfast order on ONT Robert. RE: CBS poll - I can see November from here. And if we get the folks we want, I sure hope they get it right. First executive order should simply state all of barky's eo's are hereby rescinded.

28 @26

It already is, as the CJ has shown he can be bullied and swayed by what the MSM/Liberals say about him and his court.

He has proven he is a craven political operator and not really the umpire he claimed to be.

He rewrote the law that was before him. That is the epitome of judicial activism. And as far as I'm concerned the liberals no have a 5-4 majority on the court 6-3 when Kennedy wakes up on the wrong side of history.

29 All of you people fretting over these back-and-forth polls should remember the Carter-Reagan polls.  They showed Carter either slightly ahead or even all the way up to the election.


It was a 47 State blowout for RR.

30 Well, late to hit the shower. Guess I'll only be 15 minutes early to work. Good day all.

31 Morning all.

32 Here's a Vic-worthy nibble from the Boston Herald: it seems our illustrious governor, Devil Patrick, doesn't think the cushioning effect of all that lard will protect Moo-Chelle Obama's fat ass as she rides (in a gubmint limo, natch) to Patrick's modest little pad for a campaign fundraiser. So he asked that the potholes on the road in question....

Never mind that MA has potholes on its streets that would make NYC blush. Never mind that peasants' cars wear out shock absorbers as fast as Bark Obama spends taxpayer dough. We have shitty roads, but we can't let ol' Moo-Chelle get all jiggy now, can we?

Read it heah: http://bit.ly/NIsFoV

33 It already is, as the CJ has shown he can be bullied and swayed by what the MSM/Liberals say about him and his court.


No, no member of the court has come forward and said anything about that decision and how Roberts did anything. What we have is rumors and innuendo.

34 "That's just astonishing. After a month of unanswered Obama attack ads, with the campaign uttering smear after smear, as Obama makes targeted panders on gay rights and immigration policy, Obama's favorability dropped six points!" Not at all astonishing, nor even surprising. This is summer. The people who actually vote in elections (married folks in their 40's, 50's and 60's) are busy with summer stuff or they're desperately trying to find or retain employment and still are busy with summer stuff. They're not paying attention to the Obama attack machine. The gay rights thing is a net negative for Obama. For every gay liberal reporter on the coasts who's swooning with glee over that pitch there are half a dozen working class folks in the heartland who are disgusted with it. If you believe the media you'd think the entire country supported Obama's immigration pander. Well, the media has an agenda, not actual facts. The immigration issue is not so cut and dried. The other elephant in the room is that immigration is a giant red herring outside of a very few select states, three of which (CA, TX, NY) already are spoken for and one of which (Fla.) has a Latino demographic that's far different and far more conservative than the South and Central American demographic that's represented in NV, CO, NM and AZ. Lastly, the final elephant in the room -- which for obvious reasons is not featured in the media -- is that the economy has been tanking over the past several weeks. The job market went from weak to in the crapper. Growth noticeably has slowed down. It's the stupidity, economy, not the media's memes that'll decide this election. Unless conservatives themselves give it away.

35 thanks vic.

36 An IAF C-130 Hercules aircraft landed in Burgas, Bulgaria, Thursday morning in order to retrieve the Israelis injured in Wednesday's terror attack. By noon, the plane was en route to Israel, carrying 32 of the wounded. Three of the Israelis, who suffered serious injuries, are hospitalized in Sofia. A second C-130, carrying Magen David Adom specialists landed in the Bulgarian capital in the early hours of the morning, in order to evaluate their condition and ascertain whether it is safe for them to fly. A military source on the mission told Ynet that it includes military medical personnel, members of the Air Force 669 Search and Rescue Unit, Home Front Command officers and a cadre of IDF officers. "We are working with MDA officials on the ground in order to facilitate the rapid transfer of the wounded to the planes and then to Israel," he said. Meanwhile, a plane provided by the Bulgarians landed in Ben Gurion International Airport, carrying about 70 Israelis who escaped the attack Some 24 ambulances and medical teams are making their way to the airport ahead of the plane's planned arrival in the early hours of the afternoon. According to MDA, once in Israel, 11 of the wounded would be transferred to the Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, seven to Haemek Medical Center in Afula, six to Laniado Hospital in Netanya, two to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Zerifinm, Edith Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv each, and the remaining two will be admitted to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya. Israel moves Heaven and Earth to care for it's citizens and victims of Terror. And just for the record, Bulgaria has been a good Allie of Israel and a Good friend for many years and in no way should be blamed for this tragedy.

37

Good morning, 'rons and 'ronettes and thanks for the news, Gabe and Vic.  You may call it a 'crisis of confidence,' Gabe, but as I said before, it's shell shock from McStain's abortion of a campaign.  My confidence won't return until I hear the words "so help me God" from Romney just before he orders the Secret Service to arrest the dog-eating Indonesian Idiot for treason.

 

Well, a man can dream, can't he?

 

Anyway. . .today is the birthday of silent star Lily Damita, but nobody remembers her.  They do remember her second husband, Errol Flynn, though.  The two had a son, Sean Flynn, who disappeared (and was most likely executed) in 1970 while working as a freelance photographer during the Cambodian civil war. 

 

It's also the day in 1918 when Beverly Bayne married Francis X. Bushman.  They were an extremely popular screen couple back in the day, seeing each other secretly because Bushman was married to another woman.  Bayne is mostly forgotten today; Bushman had a lease on life when he was cast as Messala the Roman opposite Ramon Navarro's Judah Ben-Hur in the 1927 film.  He also, towards the end of his life, appeared in a Batman episode as a collector of silent films; I've searched, but can't find it on YouTube.  He owned and lived on an extensive parcel of land on Hollywood Boulevard, which is now the site of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

 

When Ben-Hur was remade in 1959, Charlton Heston had many difficulties learning how to drive a chariot, and said, "The only man in Hollywood who can drive a chariot is Francis X. Bushman - and he's too old!" (Parenthetically, I've always wondered why they didn't cast Bushman as Quintus Arrius in the remake; he would have been great in the role.)

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

38 Today's deathdays: Mary Boleyn (1/3 of the sandwich) Joe Flynn (McHale's Navy) The 112 victims of the crash landing of United 232 Jack Warden (served with the 101st Airborne) RIP.

39 Good morning and thank you Vic for the news round-up. We really miss you when you you are not here. Not a good thing to leave a bunch of morons to themselves so early in the morning.

40 Ben-Hur has always been one of my favorite movies. And my wife worshiped Charlton Heston. 

41 @33

Yeah, ok.

We'll see where the CJ comes down on the big important cases after the NY times starts talking about assaults on the constitution and the need for an impartial court.

42 Wouldn't it be nice... "Mr. putative-Republican, why are you so afraid of calling a spade a spade? Is it because, like Carl Sandburg's liberal, you are so fair-minded you won't take your own side in a fight?" http://tinyurl.com/7afqymg

43

Gabe,

 

Regarding the horse ads being pulled, I think Obama put his foot down.  He doesn't want to open Michelle to ridicule, and it would be all to easy to contrast Ann Romney's dressage horse with Mooch's expensive vacations and shopping sprees.

 

The contrast:  Ann Romney paid for her horse with her money.  Mooch paid for her vacations with OUR money.

44 Posted by: General Woundwort at July 19, 2012 07:26 AM (06lNq)


Don't misunderstand what I am saying Robert;s decision was awful and it may very well have been to various reasons cited and he may very well have changed his vote because of the venerability issue.  But, no one justice has come out and publicly stated
any of that.


They have never done that in the history of the court despite many times being much more divided than they are now.

45 venerability= severability

46 No, no member of the court has come forward and said anything about that decision and how Roberts did anything. What we have is rumors and innuendo.

A bunch of union guys stopped by at 3 AM, called him dirty names, and slapped him around like a little bitch - just like what went on at your mother's house last night, Trebek.

47 Also worth noting is that the CBS/NYT's poll gives the Dem's an ABSURD +6.5 point advantage over Republicans. As most will recall, the party id split betwixt D's & R's in 2008 WAS around 7 pts, but in 2010 it was an even 35/35 split. So CBS/NYT's expects people to believe the Dem. party now enjoys the same advantage it did in 2008. This is simply delusional. Gabriel is exactly right: these poll results are HORRIBLE for Team Obama and this is AFTER they gave the Dem's as big a weighting advantage in the sample as they dared. PS - anybody else notice in weighting the samples the Dems went from unweighted Dems 341 to weighted Dems 350 a GAIN of +9, while they went from 304 unweighted Republicans to 274 weighted Republicans, a DROP of -30? How in the world do they justify that? Then in the weighting of the registered voters they go from 302 Dems unweighted to 292 weighted, a drop of only -10. Republican reg. voters go from 275 down to 237 after the weighting, a drop of -38. Remember the Dem's actually STARTED in the weighting with a +9 gain. With all these tricks they can't massage this damn thing to get the answers they want. If this is what they are forced into in July just to keep Obama afloat, the REAL fun is coming around the end of August. They'll likely go back to giving Dem's absurd double digit leads in the weighting just to keep Obama from drowning. Yes, I'm a Conservative pundit. Here's my blog: drawandstrike.blogspot.com Here's my Twitter handle: @drawandstrike I'm followed by Dana Loesch, Adam Baldwin, Dan Reihl, Mary Chastain, Lee Stranahan and about 15 other people fighting the #WAR, so you might as well follow me too!

48 I'd love to see some ads comparing a genteel, sympathetic Ann Romney (she's got MS fercheissakes) with the vulgar, grasping social climber that is Mooch.

49 On the horse issue, I wonder how much of the harm is because the whole horses as therapy animals is fairly well known, at least to those outside of the DNC.  This is one of those issues where people who otherwise don't pay attention know that it's a lie to claim otherwise.  There's an additional fact that I think many people who are not utter partisans recoil from attacks on the wives and children of politicians. 

50 @45

I know you are on the side of the angels but for Scalia to come out and say there is no animosity on the court after what Roberts did is a little too much for me.

I would love to get Thomas's take on this.

51 My niece went to commie camp summer, with money my SIL got from her mother who suffers from dementia and has no idea what she paid for. woo hoo. I look forward to being stuck supporting her and her looney family for the rest of their natural born days because God forbid they live with the consequences of their terrible decision making. I am the 1 per cent. FML.

52 Yep, it's piling-on. Go ahead and throw the flag. We know it's your kid-sister's undies anyway. http://tinyurl.com/d9y9v6s Personally, I'd like to see L'il Barry exposed not only as the felon he is, but as the kind of felon that gets raped in prison for what he did that he is.

53 What's the story on expensive bras?

Posted by: Kate Upton at July 19, 2012 07:33 AM (hvwLi)

Come on over and model your bras for us and we will discuss. Especially if you jiggle around a little.

54 Great piece at American Thinker this morning: http://www.americanthinker.com/ 2012/07/infantilizing_leftist_morality.html

55 Weird! Flippin' Commies in the Ogabe administration?!? http://tinyurl.com/7tbjprb

56 I don't know why anyone is expecting a SC justice to badmouth another justice.  None of them will do that, regardless of how they feel.  Not even the liberal ones. 

57 As I said, when the justices come out and start trashing each other in public it will be a sign of the end-times.  As far as I have seen in my reading of history they did not do that even in the run-up to the war of 1861 despite there being deep divisions.  Divions much deeper than anything we have now.



I would much rather see an Article V convention to give a chance at a more ordered retake than a civil war between the statist commies and the rest of us.

58 Posted by: Thorvald at July 19, 2012 07:42 AM (1V6Pv)

Repeat of 15

59 There are two "commie camps". Kinder Camp in upstate NY and Kinder Ring in MA. Kinder Ring used to be at the NY location but in the 50's there was a falling out with some wanting the camp to be just socialist, and others wanting to be totally communist. The communist faction moved the MA location, while the socialist faction stayed in upstate NY. The two camps reconciled their differences in the 70's and are now both full on commie. The labor nominee sent her kids to the more hard core MA camp, which sent people to OWS. Great place for kids. So, to sum up, the labor nominee sent their kids to the more hard-core commie version of commie camp. Super.

60 Hum, what is going on in Michiganistan now?

http://is.gd/kCLF3F

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 07:02 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

Hey now - it's just Dearbornistan.  Most of the rest of our state is not so muz infested.  The rest of us Michiganders know that place is a festering, puss-filled ulcer.  If we could tie it to Detroit and throw both in the lake we'd do so. 

61 There's got to be a good double-check your registration joke re. al-Awlaki's families lawsuit, court clerk and drone surveillance (tan Buick, wave out the window, Ah there you are).  I'm not awake enough to assemble it though.

62 So, to sum up, the labor nominee sent their kids to the more hard-core commie version of commie camp. Super. Posted by: Thunderb at July 19, 2012 07:51 AM (Dnbau) Putin does not even have such hard core commies surrounding him

63 Read in that a Dearborn family has been asked to provide DNA in order to confirm that the bomber was their little angel. How long until we hear from CAIR about this unfair "profiling".

64

"Democrats try another stupid PR stunt and campaign crappola by introducing a blatantly unconstitutional bill to require Romney to reveal 10 years of income tax returns."

 

Democrats: Because we know what's truly important

65 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 07:04 AM (YdQQY)
Maybe if the Repubs proposed a counter bill with a proviso to require Turbo Tax Tim Geithner to release all his tax returns and Fed notes?  Wouldn't that be FAIR?

66 I would much rather see an Article V convention to give a chance at a more ordered retake than a civil war between the statist commies and the rest of us.

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 07:43 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

 

I don't trust most fellow Americans to know what the hell to do, and any process that includes the libtards will be tainted and diseased.  I don't trust an Article V convention.  Further, I think the time of getting a 2/3 majority on ANYTHING other than a resolution saying "pie is good" is over.  Better that the Left and Right settle things once and for all, and the mushy middle sit by and wait to see who wins. 

67

"On the horse issue, I wonder how much of the harm is because the whole horses as therapy animals is fairly well known, at least to those outside of the DNC. This is one of those issues where people who otherwise don't pay attention know that it's a lie to claim otherwise."

 

Here's my thing - I don't care if she does it for therapy or not.  What the fuck does that have to do with the unemployment rate?

68 I wish Issa and the Govt Oversight Committee would go after the Administration's granting of DOE loans to "green" companies who then act as bundlers as part of a "pay for play" scheme.

69 Posted by: Reactionary at July 19, 2012 07:56 AM (xUM1Q)

I don't see how you can say that about your fellow Americans when they have voted to be represented by men of integrity like John McCain and Chuck Schumer.

70 Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 19, 2012 07:58 AM (rX1N2)

Agree, the creepy part of the attack to me is that


"We don't approve of what you do with YOUR money!  So we should confiscate it via higher taxes and make sure it is spent correctly (on our union buddies and campaign contributor cronies)."

 is really the message.

71 Hey I wonder if the bastard homicide bomber with the fake Michigan ID has ever used it to vote for his favorite Democrat?

72 As long as I am not breaking the law, its none of the government's f**king business what I do with my money.

73 Maybe the IDF will carpet bomb Dearborn?

74 Hey I wonder if the bastard homicide bomber with the fake Michigan ID has ever used it to vote for his favorite Democrat?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 08:01 AM (05RcU)

 

 

 

 

Don't be absurd.  You don't need ID to vote Democrat.

75 >>This kind of activity has NOTHING to do with capitalism and is pure out corruption. Call it what it is “crony corruption”.

Isn't it pretty much fascism, in the Italian sense?

76 I don't trust most fellow Americans to know what the hell to do, and any process that includes the libtards will be tainted and diseased. I don't trust an Article V convention.


You would prefer open civil war and 1 million dead with the likely outcome a new "leader for life" to the Article V convention in which each State gets one vote?

77 >>Don't be absurd. You don't need ID to vote Democrat.

You don't even need a pulse.

78 Maybe the IDF will carpet bomb Dearborn?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 08:02 AM (05RcU)

 

 

 

Oh please oh please oh please...

79 Don't be absurd. You don't need ID to vote Democrat. Posted by: Reactionary at July 19, 2012 08:03 AM (xUM1Q) yeah your right. My bad

80 Isn't it pretty much fascism, in the Italian sense?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 19, 2012 08:03 AM (hO8IJ)

No, Fascism is takeover of industry and business control via government order with the owners still maintaining nominal ownership.

We do have that, its called government regulation by executive agencies.

81 @79


You would prefer open civil war and 1 million dead with the likely outcome a new "leader for life" to the Article V convention in which each State gets one vote?

Holds hands out to his side as if weighing the pros and cons...

Hmmm...

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

83 Truly truly truly can't be said enough

84 15 Obama labor nominee sent kids to communist summer camp. Why are we shocked by this? Commies just got to be commies said Sebastian the crab. Posted by: Vic I'm so fucking sick of this. Every single person this administration nominates to head a cabinet or agency is either a Communist, Socialist or supports the agenda. Every. Single. One.

85 @87

And that's how we have gotten to the sorry state we are in.

Democrats install true believers.

Republicans install squishes.

It's as simple as that.

86 All it takes for an Art V convention is 2/3 of the Sate legislatures voting to hold one.  In fact, any Const Amendment we want can be voted in directly by 2/3 of the State legislatures calling for it.

This so scares the assholes in Washington every time it has been called for with a likely outcome Congress has reacted by voting in what they wanted before the States acted.


The last time that happened was when SCOTUS did that infamous ruling on the Migrant Bird Treaty superseding the Constitution.

87 #70  Furthermore,  there is a book out RIGHT NOW which is all about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her lifelong love of horses and horseback riding.  Including while she was First Lady.

So the entire thing is an example of not only not knowing about riding as therapy and picking on a candidate's wife,  it is grade A hypocrisy in captial letters and underlined.

88 Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 08:07 AM (YdQQY)

Fascism is more properly described as a political ideology rather than an economic system.

89 I'm so fucking sick of this. Every single person this administration nominates to head a cabinet or agency is either a Communist, Socialist or supports the agenda. Every. Single. One.

Posted by: Daybrother at July 19, 2012 08:09 AM (qbLVn)

That is because every single Democrat is either a Socialist or a Communist. Half the Republicans are Socialists (if not more)

90

Morning, all!

 

Driving to work today I had a    lightbulb moment.    According to Obama and Elizabeth Warren, the only reason anyone is successful is because of government and its propensity to build and maintain roads.       But   by forcing a dependency on paved roads and interstate highway systems onto the American people, government   has   singlehandedly blocked    any meaningful development    of     a     FLYING CAR.

 

The bastards.   I want my flying car!

91 You would prefer open civil war and 1 million dead with the likely outcome a new "leader for life" to the Article V convention in which each State gets one vote?

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 08:03 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

If forced to pick between the two, neither of which sounds all that desirable, I'd say the open civil war will probably be more favorable to our side.  We're smarter, WAY better armed, and in the right.  Most casualties will not be ours.  And if the new leader for life is a Rightist who purges the Lefties and subjects them to a vigorous pogrom, so much the better.  Then we could begin to undo the root problem - severe cultural damage and degradation that the Left has fashioned over the years.  Without them choking the various institutions things could be put right again.

 

 

Whereas if we go the convention route, we may lose outright, or have to compromise away so much to keep a few core freedoms that in the end it will be self defeating.  It will give the Left a legal fig leaf to cover them when they institute full blown dictatorship.  Of course - this assumes that something comes out of it at all - I still don't see much that any 2/3 of the various state reps will agree on.  We're too evenly split between right and left. 

 

 

The best solution is a peaceful split up.  We should divide up the territory and go our separate ways.

92 Posted by: General Woundwort at July 19, 2012 08:11 AM (06lNq)

Ah, but they're moderate squishes that know how to reach across the aisle and get things done for the American people.

Things like continued EPA funding, foreign aid to muz countries, amnesty (by another name), etc.

93 but it is taking a toll on the rural towns and residentsÂ’ lifestyles.

Yes, the old fogies (as opposed to mere curmudgeons) always complain about progress.  I would say "Go look at Abilene, TX" but they got rid of their old fogy Mayor and City Council a couple of years ago and are experiencing a relative boom.

The fact is that the Commies don't really like anything about the "rural" lifestyle any more than the rest of us, but it's a lot easier to control people when they don't have as many modern conveniences: they have to be more concerned with day-to-day survival (or at least maintenance) than on pesky things like philosophy and politics.

94 Why is everyone focusing on just the CBS/NYT poll? The Fox News poll out yesterday shows Obama ahead by 45-41%. Cherry picking polls is silly, imo. If the Fox poll had backed up the CBS one, then there would be reason for optimism.

95 Six of one, half dozen of the other. The problem is all these broke down, failed and crap political philosophies are taught in high schools and universities as being equal to or superior to capitalism and representative democracy by idiot teachers and profs with no real world experience. And one of them is president.

96 Fascism is more properly described as a political ideology rather than an economic system.

Posted by: Progressive Liberal Leftist at July 19, 2012 08:12 AM (nEUpB)

I am guessing that that was a serious post and not snark so I will say this.  Both Fascism and Communism are forms of both a government with that ideology and an economic system. 

That is because you can jot have either without a strong central government with almost absolute power.  Sometimes that takes the form of an all powerful oligarchy such as congress and sometimes it takes the form of a one man fits all dictator such as  FDR, Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. 

97 If forced to pick between the two, neither of which sounds all that desirable, I'd say the open civil war will probably be more favorable to our side.



I guess that is all you need to say then.  There is no need for further discussion. Good luck with that proposition.

98

Okay, I love this headline at Drudge:  "Weiner Pulls Out."

 

Such a pity. 

 

Also, WTF?   So Washington is planning to allow voter registration on Facebook.  Yeah, that can't POSSIBLY go wrong.

99 Obama is going to bury Romney.

100 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 19, 2012 08:13 AM (4df7R)

Along new technology lines, I expect a boom in small scale solar and wind energy systems (as well as other alternative approaches to providing "local" power.  This is because the EPA regulations will eventually wreck the stability and availability of the power grid forcing individuals to fend for themselves (or learn how to make candles and smoke meat).

101 "All of you people fretting over these back-and-forth polls should remember the Carter-Reagan polls. They showed Carter either slightly ahead or even all the way up to the election." Actually, the final polls (except gallup) showed Reagan surging ahead and were good predictors of the blowout to come. It's a myth that the polling didn't catch Reagan's momentum.

102 The fact is that the Commies don't really like anything about the "rural" lifestyle any more than the rest of us, but it's a lot easier to control people when they don't have as many modern conveniences: they have to be more concerned with day-to-day survival (or at least maintenance) than on pesky things like philosophy and politics.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 08:15 AM (8y9MW)

 

 

 

 

Errr... who is still so backward in "rural" America that they don't have modern conveniences?  Regardless, give me rural life over urban life any day.  Cities are the breeding hives for Leftists, criminals, and social detritus of every sort.  Cities of more than, say, 50K people are simply a necessary evil, not the proper way for human beings to live.  They are part of the curse of modern life.  And when it comes to philosophy and politics, I'll trust the country gentleman over the urban sophisticate any day.

103 Morning, all.  Thanks as always to Vic for the news.

104 all these broke down, failed and crap political philosophies are taught in high schools and universities as being equal to or superior to capitalism and representative democracy

This will continue to be a problem with Academia until Conservatives take it back over.  And even then we'll have to have constant vigilance, because they sound (on paper) like they are equal.  If the real world didn't intrude, or there really was no such thing as objective, knowable truth, they would be equal.

On paper communism sounds superior to capitalism. That's because, on paper, it ignores inconvenient things like finite resources and human nature.

On paper fascism sounds superior to capitalism.  That's because, on paper, it ignores inconvenient things like competing national interests and human nature.

On paper anarchism sounds superior to capitalism.  That's because, on paper, it ignores things like competing personal interests and (you guessed it) human nature.

The problem is that Academia is (now) chiefly concerned with how things sound on paper, not with how they work in the real world.

105 And when it comes to philosophy and politics, I'll trust the country gentleman over the urban sophisticate any day.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 19, 2012 08:20 AM (xUM1Q)

Amen brother!

106

I haven't read all the comments, so I'm guessing y'all have already    dissected the story about the solar plant, Amonix, in North Las Vegas that just shut down after only 14 months.   But if you haven't, please, have at it:

 

Amonix closes North Las Vegas solar plant after 14 months, heavy federal subsidies

 

The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, subsidized by more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants, has closed its 214,000-square-foot facility about a year after it opened.

 

Officials at Amonix headquarters in Seal Beach, Calif., have not responded to repeated calls for comment this week, but the company began selling equipment, from automated tooling systems to robotic welding cells, in an online auction Wednesday...

 

The story is at the Las Vegas Review Journal, found via Drudge.

107 Along new technology lines, I expect a boom in small scale solar and wind energy systems (as well as other alternative approaches to providing "local" power.


That is exactly what they want and what they are pushing this towards.  The problem is the only place where it could even remotely work is a small area in Southern CA, close enough to the sea to remain relatively cool.


Some homes in the North that do not require A/C may be able to do it as well.

108 who is still so backward in "rural" America that they don't have modern conveniences?

Depends on the modern convenience.  I didn't say it was working, just what they like.  Se my previous post about "on paper."

The fact is, though, that the rural "family farmer" still exists, and still doesn't have much time for anything beyond keeping up the farm.

109

>>Alledged” bomber who killed Israelis in the Bulgarian bus was carrying a fake MI driver’s license

 

The countdown to whining about potential theoretical backlash starts now...

110 having been compelled to attend a family event that was sponsored by Kinder Camp, I can tell you the vast majority of the parents sending children there were teachers or administrators in schools. You would be amazed. And that is who is indoctrinating your kids.

111 I guess that is all you need to say then. There is no need for further discussion. Good luck with that proposition.

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 08:19 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

 

Meh.  Whatever.  Neither one is going to happen.  We're not going to have a civil war, and we're not going to have an Art. 5 Convention.  There is no "solution" to anything.  It's just going to be a long slow muddle-through, and none of us will see the end of it. 

 

 

Maybe we'll toss out Barky, but his goons still run every major institution.  They're winning the culture war, and that's why our side will be doomed in the end.  They will not have to round us up and send us to camps.  They're turning most of the kids to their vile ideology, so all they have to do is wait.  They're breeding a replacement population in the slums.  They're making it hard for normal, hard working people to justify more than 1 or 2 kids.  Demographics is destiny.

112 DEM REP: IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT AMERICA ANYMORE WE HAVE TO BE WORLD CITIZENS Congressman Hank Johnson's Speech to the Turk American Alliance. No word on the current status of the island of Guam. My head starts to throb when thinking about the stupidity of this asshole

113 Actually, the final polls (except gallup) showed Reagan surging ahead and were good predictors of the blowout to come. It's a myth that the polling didn't catch Reagan's momentum.

Posted by: dragonfly at July 19, 2012 08:20 AM (oGyUC)

That is the way "final" polls always do just before the election when it is too late to really have much impact on voters. They do that to try to maintain some kind of respectability with gullible voters. (after the fact)

114 And that is who is indoctrinating your kids.

Not my kids.  I feel sorry for the teacher who tries to indoctrinate my kids.

Also, the only reason my son isn't already saying "Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant" is that my language is far more coarse here than it is at home.

115 The countdown to whining about potential theoretical backlash starts now...

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 19, 2012 08:24 AM (SUKHu)

 

 

 

Alas - the actual (well deserved) backlash never comes.

116 Had a lady say "world citizens" to me last week. My response was that I have seen some of the world and I'm not interested in being a citizen there.

117 The vast majority of Americans still send their kids to public schools and I do not think they have any idea that Jonnie's school teacher, that nice Ms Smith, is a hard core commie intent on indoctrinating him.

118 Had a lady say "world citizens" to me last week. My response was that I have seen some of the world and I'm not interested in being a citizen there.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at July 19, 2012 08:29 AM (78gUL)

99% of the people who talk about "world citizens" have never been outside of the country.  The other 1% are communists.

119 Gabe has the poll up now.

120

You would prefer open civil war and 1 million dead. . .

 

If it came to that, yes.  For now, I'd just settle for hanging every third elected Democrat and every tenth Republican pour encourager les autres, IYKWIM.

121

Pretty good piece on Gov. Bobby linked in my name.

122 Why would any sane person want to be a world citizen?  Oh wait, I put that "sane" qualifier in there.

The closest thing to an observable world forum is the UN which is so unbelievably corrupt, evil, and incompetent that it alone should scare every American citizen into falling on their knees and giving thanks just for being an American!

123 Report says Army did not investigate Ft. Hood shooter despite signs because of PC.

http://is.gd/pgyoML

124

>>99% of the people who talk about "world citizens" have never been outside of the country.

 

Did you see the article linked in my name the other day?

125 Report says Army did not investigate Ft. Hood shooter despite signs because of PC.

http://is.gd/pgyoML

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 08:35 AM (YdQQY)

Senior heads should roll over this atrocity, but they won't!  Hasan should already have been shot, wrapped in pigskin, and buried in a vat of bacon grease, but that won't happen either.  He will spend the rest of his life reading that koran and living on our dime.

126 Did you see the article linked in my name the other day?

No but I just read it.  Typical moonbat loon.

127 The closest thing to an observable world forum is the UN which is so unbelievably corrupt, evil, and incompetent that it alone should scare every American citizen into falling on their knees and giving thanks just for being an American!

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 19, 2012 08:33 AM (Cnqmv)

 

 

 

Amen, and Amen.  The only people who can afford to be "citizens of the world" are the very wealthy.  Those people don't have to worry so much about corruption, crime, political oppression, etc.  They just buy their local politicos and call it a day.  The rest of us are not likely to have such a happy outcome.

 

128 Herpa derp dur hurr. Yadda yadda. Fubba dub tir tiddly tee.

Flibby flooby floo : ht tp://ti           nyu rl.co    m/5   srj b


(In b4 "Not me.")

129 He will spend the rest of his life reading that koran and living on our dime.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 19, 2012 08:39 AM (Cnqmv)

Seeing as how he killed a lot of people I think they may in fact execute the worthless shit.

130 Hasan should already have been shot, wrapped in pigskin, and buried in a vat of bacon grease,

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 19, 2012 08:39 AM (Cnqmv)

 

 

 

 

This.  And the same for every damn one like him. 

131 Report says Army did not investigate Ft. Hood shooter despite signs because of PC. http://is.gd/pgyoML Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 08:35 AM (YdQQY) You did not really need a report to know that did ya?

132 You did not really need a report to know that did ya?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 08:44 AM (05RcU)

NO, but it is damn good that some politicians are now saying it.

133 Seeing as how he killed a lot of people I think they may in fact execute the worthless shit.

Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2012 08:43 AM (YdQQY)

Think of the muslim street's reaction!

134 "Initial jobless claims jumped to 386K, missing analyst expectations for 365K.

Last week's numbers were revised slightly higher, from 350K to 352K."

http://tiny.cc/qz1ohw

135 It was fascinating watching the initial jobless claims on CNBC and the emmy nominations at the same time.

136 Every single person this administration nominates to head a cabinet or agency is either a Communist, Socialist or supports the agenda. Every. Single. One.

Maybe the Soviets didn't *really* lose the cold war?

I'm just saying...

137 Jimmy Kimmel finally got a nomination:  http://tiny.cc/zk2ohw

Oh yeah, and besides the usual suspects, mr. million dollar donation got one too

138 "Mittenwalde will Berlin ausnehmen"  http://tiny.cc/5q2ohw

hahhahahahhahahhahahhahhahahha

139

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rebounded last week, pushing them back to levels consistent with modest job growth after a seasonal quirk caused a sharp drop the prior period.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 34,000 to a seasonally adjusted 386,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The prior week's figure was revised up to 352,000 from the previously reported 350,000.

Unemployment claims up = modest job growth. FORWARD comrades

140 This doesn't affect our releasing those Pelosi in Tijuana donkey videos I hope.

141 My mother also adored Heston.  My wife and her were at a political rally with Mr. Heston and were getting their picture taken with them.  My mother was fumbling with her purse and Heston said to her, "Let me position you".  My 70 year old, 5'2" mother looks up beaming said,"Honey, you can position me any way you want."  My wife is blushing  blood red in the pic.

142

On Monday, I wrote about the conservative voices claiming that Romney was blowing it by not "going on offense." I said they were having a crisis of confidence, that Obama's attacks were not working, and that Romney should stay the course. I'm feeling pretty good about that post now.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:59 AM Comments

I still disagree. In my view, Romney can't employ a purely reactive, counterpunching strategy as he did in the primaries and expect to beat the Chicago Machine. President Obama made a grave tactical error by moving Left rather than going for a Clintonesque play for the center, but the reason his class war-oriented Bain attacks didn't work wasn't because of anything Romney did; the Bain attacks didn't work because there wasn't any there there. The logic of the Bain attacks was too hard to follow, the details too convoluted. The Democrats forgot to keep it simple. Right now, the Obama campaign is probing, throwing out jabs, looking for an opening, and as long as they stay on the offensive, they set the tempo. That opening wasn't Bain and it isn't Ann Romney's horse, but if they're allowed to keep the initiative, they'll find that opening eventually.

143 Posted by: Ohio Dan at July 19, 2012 09:22 AM (JKNDp)


I just read that post to my wife who needs some good humor right now.  Thanks.

144 That's 'doubleunplusgood' thinking, possibly crimethink, of course Julianne's Bender, got three Emmy nominations, Brian Jones should have gotten a screen writing credit.

145 "And if the new leader for life isa Rightist who purges the Lefties and subjects them to a vigorous pogrom, so much the better.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 19, 2012 08:13 AM (xUM1Q)"

 

Jesus Christ. Skip out on civics class in high school, or what?

 

I got your vigorous pogrom right here, sport. 

146 We'll know if there is a falling out in a few short months when the next set of opinions is released. Scalia delighted in mocking on of the libs (Souter or Stephens). If he blows up Roberts like that, we'll know there's bad blood between at least two of the justices.

147 A Romney victory is not a win for conservatives, it is simply less of a loss.

148 "“I think, as I think the framers thought, that the more speech the better. Now, you are entitled to know where the speech is coming from. You know, information as to who contributed what. That’s something else.” This is a bit of a concern...ok a lot of a concern. You AREN'T entitled to know where the speech is coming from; some of our founders wrote with Pen names to disguise who they really were. I doubt Jefferson, Madison, et al, would agree you are entitled to know who donated what - that's a receipe for mischief: 'Oh you donated to Republicans last cycle, well the CEO is a staunch Democrat, you're fired', or how about the REAL incidences of SWATting we have seen? Talk about chilling free speech...

149 Beck just called the misinformation team of crystal/mcshame "weinnie azzes"...
he was speaking to Michelle Bachman, missed it, but was stressing she and the other congress folks should be supported...

150 "Mittenwalde will Berlin ausnehmen" ...Eniglish, moronfracker! Do you speak it?

151 That's funny, Ohio Dan.  Heston got a lot of crap thrown at him, but that was after the Commies in Hollywood decided to come out of the closet.  If I could be half the man he was, I'd be proud.

152 "Big Banks Prepare Another Round of Cuts Six Largest U.S. Firms Have Shed Over 18,000 Jobs In the Past Year"

http://tiny.cc/9z7ohw

153 153 "Mittenwalde will Berlin ausnehmen"

...Eniglish, moronfracker! Do you speak it?

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at July 19, 2012 10:57 AM (GBXon)

I got that in an email from a WS guy and the explanation and the comments were so funny but not anything I could post here. 

Finally found an article on nbc:  "Berlin may owe trillions from 450-year-old debt ... may

http://tiny.cc/l77ohw

154

"A certificate of debt, found in a regional archive, attests that Mittenwalde lent Berlin 400 guilders on May 28 1562, to be repaid with six percent interest per year.

According to Radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), the debt would amount to 11,200 guilders today, which is roughly equivalent to 112 million euros ($136.79 million).

Adjusting for compound interest and inflation, the total debt now lies in the trillions, by RBB's estimates."  http://tiny.cc/l77ohw

even they don't want to do the math.....

155 The DNC's horse preoccupation was petty and pointless and, in light of this decision, apparently hurting them more than it was helping.

--Gabe, I believe that if it *had* been politically effective, they'd keep at it no matter how scummy it was.

156 I wonder if the Russians and the Chinese would even veto a resolution to secure the chemical weapons storage facilities in Syria. Why don't we go for something simple like that, instead of trying for the whole enchilada of intervention and sanctions every time. Gives me the creeps to think of that stuff getting into the wrong hands. Maybe we will get some motion out of the braindead U.N. if the regime goes insane and uses that stuff against a population center.

157 "Another Obamanite crony corruption recipient goes belly up as economic reality overcomes stupid government corruption in the watermelon business." Watermelons are racist, teabagger.

158 4² + 16

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

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