1 Good Morning Morons. Today is Wednesday, July 25, 2012. On this day in 1956 the Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, killing 51 people. One would think that with modern equipment, like radar, available in 1956 this accident could have been avoided.  One would be correct assuming said modern equipment was operated properly.  It wasnÂ’t.  A number of rules violations and personal error on both ships caused this collision. It was luck and design of the Andrea Doria which enabled it to stay afloat for 11 hours which prevented major loss of life.

2 Feinstein walks back her statement on WH leaks.  One assumes she was reminded that one does not blame Obama for anything even when everyone in the country knows he is guilty.


http://is.gd/nLL94b

3 Is there no end to the Obamanite stupidity and illegal behavior?


The Obama administration's plan to let thousands of young illegal immigrants stay in the country and apply for work permits reportedly could cost more than $585 million to carry out.


Perhaps the costs should come out of his pocket.  

http://is.gd/UELcHL


Here is an opinion piece at Fox that describes how he has flouted the law and granted defacto amnesty via executive orders and just willful violation.  So let it be written so let it be done.  A Republican would have been impeached after the first year in office.

http://is.gd/i0REwh

4 House Republicans are about to sell us out with another bill to allow States to collect taxes on internet sales.  Something long ruled unconstitutional by the courts if there is no presence in the State by merchants.  This wasnÂ’t a major issue as long as State sales taxes were in the 3% range.  Now that most States have raised sales taxes to rates between 8 and 10 percent it has become an issue. If the States do not want to make sales tax and issue, then eliminate sales tax and go to a flat tax on all sources of income, no exceptions, no deductions.  But that will not happen as voters may not like truth in taxes.  The real solution is to quit spending so much damn money but that will not happen either.


http://is.gd/zNUaH2

5 Article at BB discuses why on-line sales tax is a very bad idea (besides the damn taxes in itself).

http://is.gd/apCz8s

6 http://tinyurl.com/bqea6ux

Palin at an NBC party.

http://tinyurl.com/d3n8vkv

Things a bit nipply out, er, I mean nippy out.

7 There was a lot of speculation regarding where the CO shooter got all the money to buy the guns and equipment.  I said he probably got federal money and college loans.  Others said no, canÂ’t spend that money on non-college items. Well, we now know he got $26K from the feds.  And since money is fungible that is all it takes.

http://is.gd/tlVfBe

8 Gee, imagine that, business to “unexpectedly” pay $4B MORE in taxes than originally calculated by the CBO for Obamacare.   Only “unexpected” if you are a frakin idiot in the press sucking ObamaÂ’s wang.  And all should keep in mind that ultimately, businesses do not pay taxes, consumers do.  Thank you John Roberts.

http://is.gd/GVrBTE

9 Meanwhile, thanks to Roberts, 10% of those businesses will drop health coverage and pay the fine non-coverage tax.

http://is.gd/LW7771

10 Here is the “Tea Party” candidate in the MI Republican primary.

http://is.gd/jwqKKS

11 ObamaÂ’s daughters are now fair game for political invective.

http://is.gd/SSrTUL

12 Baltimore puts out the welcome mat for illegals, offering them food aid and other welfare benefits and giving them Spanish language classes.  And the WaPo is all fine with this. 

Will the Obamanite ICE department go after them the way they do AZ for actually enforcing the law? Hahahahaha. 


According to the Obamanite theory it is “illegal” to enforce the law when it deals with migration and voting.   How much fungible federal aid is Baltimore getting?  And how much more will they ask for to support these illegal leeches?


http://is.gd/9zl7pf

13 Despite the CO shootings, court strikes the defacto ban on CCW permits in MD.


http://is.gd/8rG9bo

14 "Came out" of what, her coffin?

15 And Wa Times debunks the call by the leftists to ban guns again.  Every time one of these scum bag shooters does something the gun banners crawl out of their woodwork like the cockroaches they are.  This article hits them on the facts, but the leftists are fond of emotion and they hate facts. 


Lets hit them with some emotion that maybe they can understand.  Lets make it a class “A” felony punishable by 1 year in jail to publicly call for any type of gun control legislation.  After all, if we can ignore and violate a plainly worded second amendment, why not the first amendment as well?  When you hear a libtard calling for gun control, hit them with this.

http://is.gd/UlxZgN

16 Senate Conservatives develop plan to prevent Harry Reid from shutting down the Senate and blaming Republicans over budget fights.  The problem is they will agree to increased spending as part of the plan.  Perhaps they have made a back door deal with the House to shut it down afterwards?  And DeMint is in the thick of this.  He still plans on quitting in 2016 to satisfy “term limits” in a unilateral disarming of conservative act.

http://is.gd/q42784

17 John Roberts the idiot that keeps on giving.

18 In the meantime Reid plans political Kabuki on taxes.

http://is.gd/OJrt2s

19 Obama is selling guns again.  Gee, he has probably sold more guns than any president in history.

http://is.gd/qd7I4F

20 Who would have thunk it?   NY has a naval militia that assists border patrol in patrolling lakes and waterways.

http://is.gd/bHZzCu

21 Heritage article looks at treaties and how they are implemented in the U.S. In short, we have had a bunch of assholes violating the Constitution for a long time.  They routinely enforce treaties without them being ratified.

http://is.gd/8fzleM


And thatÂ’s it for the news this morning.

22 Doom. http://is.gd/eVhS8x

23

Thanks for the news, Vic.

 

Rose, how are you doing?

24 Reason has a roundup on Baby Boomers screwing over Gen Y.



I get so sick of seeing that shit.  Anyone who comes up with these blanket accusations is full of shit.

25 Today's celebrity birthdays: Walter Brennan (My Darling Clementine) Gavrilo Princip (one man who made a difference, and not in a good way) Joe Kennedy Jr. (Operation Aphrodite didn't go so well ) Estelle Getty (stop or she'll shoot) Frank Church (thanks for cutting off the funds, asshole) Barbara Harris ("You're a handsome devil. What's your name?") Pilar Seurat ("There is evil here... Redjac! Redjac!") Walter Payton (110 TD's) Iman (last actress to kiss the Shat in Trek) Matt LeBlanc (45 today) Jay R. Ferguson ("It's involuntary...") Louise Brown (primo in vitro, 34 today) Brad Renfro (took the Belushi express)

26 Just got a Glock 19. Goal is to get my CHL in two weeks or so. Then onto a smaller Ruger for my concealed carry, and use the Glock for home. This is my first venture into handguns (shotguns and rifles have been what I use to kill hobos), and I am having a lot of fun!

27 Today's deathdays: William Livingston (1st NJ Gov) The 51 victims of the Andrea Doria disaster Steve Rubell (drugs + alcohol + AZT = DOA) Charlie Rich (http://youtu.be/gzr2v9yNiEk) Ben Hogan (2x Masters, 4x US Open) John Schlesinger (3 Oscar Noms, 1 win) The 113 victims of the Air France Flight 4590 (Concorde) crash Tracy Hall (invented synthetic diamonds) RIP.

28 Morning y'all. Did ya see where that raging asshat Toure says Colorado shooting was...racist? What a surprise.

29 Palin at an NBC party.

I thought she looked older and a bit thick in the middle.  Probably just a hangover from that Australian hurdler. 

30 NY has a naval militia that assists border patrol in patrolling lakes and waterways.


Top priority: Prevent Indians from smuggling in untaxed cigarettes.

31 Doing okay Mama AJ, still dealing with the whole mouth surgery thing, but at least I can eat some solid food every now and then. Can't complain. Thanks for asking. How is it going up there?

32 "Something long ruled unconstitutional by the courts if there is no presence in the State by merchants."

Does this also open up merchants to lawsuits to fraud, misrepresentation, etc. across state lines now also? Right now to sue you're kind of limited to filing action in the state the merchant is located somewhat. I got a felling this will make it so merchants will be chasing all over the country defending themselves. Lawyers will love it though.

33 Jonah G on Twitter linked a great catalog. Shut Up and Take my Money dot com.

34 Regarding generational warfare,  I offer my perspective as one who was once on the other side.  Generational warfare benefits only those who wish to keep the status quo,  by deflecting blame onto Boomers (who,  by the way,  were not the architects of Social Security). 

All I can say is that when I was a young woman,  we were constantly bombarded with media crap, movies,  and songs which extolled the wisdom of youth and the corruptness of anyone over 30.

Now, as an older person in my 60's,  the same exact tactic has been dredged up again.  The idea is to divide the generations so that leftist goals can be accomplished,  the exact same goal as the 60's and 70's.

After all,  when all of us older people are gone,  who will have memories of how this country once was?

35

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

 

Since yesterday's ONT finished off (as it were) with pictures of Grace Kelly and today has no Hollywood births of interest (except for William DeMille, screenwriter / director brother of C.B.), Your Hollywood Anecdotist will mention the known-to-everybody-in-Hollywood-but-Rainier that Kelly was a complete mattress back.

 

She was notorious for fucking on the first date (her signature move was to bring a fellow home, excuse herself for a moment, then come back completely naked) and had affairs with nearly every leading man in Tinseltown - Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, William Holden and Marlon Brando, to name a few, as well as that paragon of men, JFK.  Apparently only two men put a kink in her style -

 

One was Jimmy Stewart, whose wife was constantly on set during the filming of Rear Window, having heard about Kelly's roundheel reputation.

 

Another man who gave her a bit of trouble was Clark Gable, who really wanted to sleep with Ava Gardner, but was scared of Sinatra's wrath.  Kelly not only stripped for Gable on various occasions, she even got down on her knees - not for what you'd think, but to beg Gable to sleep with her.  One suspects that after she got her wish she was quite disappointed, as Carole Lombard (Gable's wife and one true love, who died in an airplane crash in 1942) confessed that her clit was bigger than Clark's gable.

 

She did not sleep with Alfred Hitchcock, though the director made no secret of his desire.  She did, apparently, allow him to peep at her through a window as she undressed, the closest she ever came to granting him the ultimate favor.

 

When finally engaged to Prince Rainier, a notorious story going around town was that the Prince, in Hollywood to meet some of Kelly's friends, cornered a star (the identity varies; most often, it's Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and asked him who was the best cocksucker in Hollywood.

 

"Oh, everybody knows Grace -" Fairbanks began before stopping in horror, "Grace - Darling" he finally managed to blurt, pulling a name from the air, "is the best."  And before Rainier could ask for an introduction, Fairbanks headed for the nearest drink.

 

And that's it for this morning.  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

36 Don't trust anyone over thirty. Don't trust anyone under 40 either.

37 #32 Yet another reason to implement tort reform. I am getting more and more convinced a flat tax based on consumption or sale of goods is the way to go. I just am concerned there will be the same old abuse of the system or a black market will spring up. And how would you prevent a sophisticated barter system from circumventing it?

38 @35 Wow... thanks for that insight. I had no idea she was such a floozy.

39

>>How is it going up there?

 

Hanging in there. Bursitis in my shoulder had made driving painful this week. Having to drive all over the place has hurt my shoulder.

 

It's like there's a connection somewhere...

40 Thanks for the news roundup, Vic.  Maybe it's just the low-res of the pictures, but I didn't even recognize that as Palin.  She looks awful.

41 Tracy Hall (invented synthetic diamonds)

He was the first to verifiably make high pressure, high-temperature synthetic diamonds.  However, synthetic diamonds are now also made by a gas phase process called chemical vapor deposition.  That process for making diamonds was discovered by a Russian, IIRC.  The process is best for making semiconductor grade diamond in a thin film, although it is (and has been for some time) on the cusp of being usable to make large gems.  A 3rd method uses explosives, but the diamonds are tiny (< 10 nm).

Yeah, I used to work in this area.

42 Oh man Mama AJ talk about "chicken, egg" situation! I hope it gets better or the need to drive so much decreases.

43 I didn't know Democrats thought the KKK was bad in 1964. They probably didn't - that's probably why LBJ spiked the ad. It would have looked bad if Senator Byrd had voted for Goldwater.

44 Always happy to shatter people's illusions, Gran.  I got a million of 'em. . .

45 Somebody else hit that snooze button cause you did not build it.

46 >>ObamaÂ’s daughters are now fair game for political invective.

What kind of a man hopes his daughters will get knocked up inconveniently and kill his grandchildren? Think they'll choose* to have their abortions at the Chicago PP that killed a woman earlier this week?

http://is.gd/LvwzAY

It's across the street from Millennium Park. You can get your baby dismembered and sucked out, then hit up Taste.  Saves on bus transfers.

* I have never envisioned them having any choice, really, until about age 27.  Mooch will physically haul them off to a celebrity spa/clinic whether they want the baby or not, for appearances' sake.

47

Two kids are at diff. camps this week, which means 3 trips into Shreveport daily. That city is making me nuts.

 

 

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

49 Johnson was a major scumbag, and a rampant racist.

50

@MamaAJ,

 

My neighbor is an oncologist and said a colleague is leaning on him to open a practice with him in Shreveport.

 

Thing is, he and his wife are big foodies and avant grade big city folk who complain about the slow pace of life here. So he asks me what I think since I'm from LA.

 

"Maybe you should visit Shreveport first, Bobby."

51 listening to one of the victims...he's explaining why he ran away...leaving his 4 month old and girlfriend behind then after he left them to die at the hands of some red-haired fanook, he meets up with them at the hospital...and proposes marriage she says yes btw, she was helped out of the theater by a 19yo stranger

52 oh theres more... not only did you drop the baby and run, he sprinted...all the way to his car... and drove away

53 @53 & 54 W...O...W

54

@53

 

What a fucking hero.  No wonder she said yes.  Better snap him up before the ladies find out about him.

55 The so-called "counter-culture flower-child hippy movement" with the yoots of the USA filled with a bunch of "Easy Rider" types was a myth created by the MFM.  The youths of the 60s were just like the youths of all the other years. They went to HS, graduated and either went to college or went to the draft.  And almost ALL went willingly.  Only a few scumbags went to Canada to avoid the draft.



I would like to spend the time to take apart that stupid article line by line but I don't have the time.  I have to go into town this morning.

bbl

56

Yeh, they might not like it here, Jeff.

 

It's a medium size city* and there's just a lot of stuff that isn't here.

 

People like to hunt and fish and wear purple and gold.

 

The people here are wonderful. I have never met nicer people. I think I've had one person in one store be almost rude in nearly 3 years.

 

*Cities, really.

57

Mornin', y'all. Looks like I just missed Vic.

 

Hope everybody's doing well.

58 So, some punk evading arrest (apparently some drug gang SWATed another drug gang in Dallas) gets into (if I understand the reporting properly) three separate fights with the officer pursuing him and ends up shot dead.

Obviously this is the police's fault.  Or, as the person I heard interviewed this morning said, "Poe-leese."

http://dallasne.ws/O6V20h

59 53, 54 - Good Heavens.  All I can think of is the Bible phrase: He is "a worm and no man."

60 Well, we now know he got $26K from the feds. And since money is fungible that is all it takes. http://is.gd/tlVfBe Posted by: Vic at July 25, 2012 07:50 AM (YdQQY Now we know Vic doesn't mind an occasional, Told ya so. I knew you were right. I recieved a state funded cash stipend from a University. Happens all the time.

61 So that post here yesterday about Holmes wearing a "bulletproof vest"?  Yeah, not.  Just as we suspected.

http://claytonecramer.blogspot.com/2012/07/not-bulletproof.html

62 29 Palin at an NBC party.

I thought she looked older and a bit thick in the middle. Probably just a hangover from that Australian hurdler.

You take that back you damned dirty blasphemer!

63

Good morning, all!

 

I'm thinking of starting up my own blog (which will probably get updated even less frequently than the sidebar link list here at the HQ), but I'm not sure which platform to use.  Any recommendations?  I'm leaning toward Wordpress.

64 my friends son, Alex Teves, died a hero...protecting his girlfriend, that guy lives a coward.......

65

We have enough oil here to last us through this century, but we're still using food for fuel to appease Gaia?

 

Also, Ayn Rand and Johnny Carson discuss philosophy, bumping Buster Keaton's segment  in  the process.  Priorities!

 

Click my nic...

66

What a bunch of pussies.  The picketers parted like the Red Sea when they saw my truck.

 

Now I understand why General Zod was so depressed once he conquered the USA.

67 btw, the 19yo stranger who helped "Patricia" and her two kids out of theater took a bullet in the leg while doing so (yes, 2 kids: a baby and a toddler, my mistake)

68 Football season can't get here fast enough.

I await, in giddy anticipation, to see Peyton Manning get Sanduskied by the Pittsburgh Steelers or Chicago Bears defensive front to the tune of 96 million indulgences.

69 68
What a bunch of pussies. The picketers parted like the Red Sea when they saw my truck.

Now I understand why General Zod was so depressed once he conquered the USA.

Damn, I missed it. Who was picketing what? And if they parted, that just means you should've been driving faster.

70

@8.  Obamacare to "unexpectedly" cost $4Billion more in taxes than originally calculated by the CBO.  (Congressional Budget Office)

Douglas Elmendorf is the Director of the CBO.  Went to Princeton and Harvard.  Has a staff of 20.  He should be fired along with his staff of 20.  What do we pay these people for?  Off by $4Billion!  Shit!  No wonder this country is going to hell, with clowns like this running it.

71

Shit, phoenixgirl. Prayers and condolences to his family.

 

We don't often get to see  or  hear about a  noble death.

72 San Antonio Rose
If it hasn't already been said, you may want to consider picking up a Glock 26 for your CC.  It can accept Glock 19 (and 17, for that matter) magazines, giving you some options.  I often carry a G17 magazine as a backup, giving me 27 shots.

On the other hand it is a bit chunky so the Ruger might be a better choice.  Just thought I'd suggest another option.

73

The so-called "counter-culture flower-child hippy movement" with the yoots of the USA filled with a bunch of "Easy Rider" types was a myth created by the MFM. The youths of the 60s were just like the youths of all the other years. They went to HS, graduated and either went to college or went to the draft. And almost ALL went willingly. Only a few scumbags went to Canada to avoid the draft.

 

This.   My parents are always remarking on how     hippies were the exception, not the norm.   As my mother says, "Hippies were the spoiled children of rich parents who were able to waste a decade playing 'flower children' because mommy and daddy    gave them an indulgent allowance.    They were aberrant circus freaks."

 

I'm pretty sure if my father had ever met a hippy, he would have punched him/her/it     square in the nose.      Well, he probably wouldn't have punched a woman.   But he'd have punched the nearest     guy.

74

She was helped out of the theater by a 19yo stranger

 

And then decides to marry the coward who left her to die.  I guess no good deed goes unpunished, as they say.  I'd at least see if I could get a "thanks for saving my life" BJ, at least.  Wouldn't even have to swallow.

75
RIP Sally K. Ride, America's first female astronaut, a great woman of science and loyal friend to her associates.

Sally Ride's headline link does injustice. How many of us can boast her professional achievements? She chose her personal life to remain private, so RIP. As if her sexual preference mattered or matters and should be the focus of her obituary, coloring her professional accomplishments and her public life, all defined by who shared her home life? If her surviving companion is making it out "all about me, " our condolences to the bereaved. Yes, socialist public educators (including the media) with their own agenda will continue using sexual orientation to propagandize. That is not Sally Ride's legacy, but their own.

76 Umm...I don't see any nipplage in that pic of Palin.  You've got to really wish it to be there.

77 @ 53-54: Somebody tell that cockholster that "women and children first" doesn't mean "let them take the bullet first."

78 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Reporter at July 25, 2012 08:43 AM (4df7R)

Just make sure the comments section lets you use ampersands!

79

Football season can't get here fast enough.

 

Amen, brother.  My Crimson Tide will defend their national championship, but they lost a lot of good players to the NFL draft,  so it's iffy at best. But hey, I'll settle for a natchamp every other year.

 

I'm not greedy.

80 The article on baby boomers discusses how older workers at GM tier one workers have a much better deal over the span of a lifetime than the younger tier two workers will over a life time.  No mention of easy rider, the draft, or anything else.  Don't be so defensive.

81

Mann-made global warning.

 

<snort>

 

link in the name

82 What a bunch of pussies. The picketers parted like the Red Sea when they saw my truck.


So my idea of stringing up a protestor to the hood of your truck worked like a charm?

"JUST WALK AWAY AND I'LL GRANT YOU SAFE PASSAGE!  JUST WALK AWAY!"

83

phoenixgirl:   Indeed, Teves was a hero.     He was    the epitome of what a man should be, just as      the loser @ 53 & 54 is the complete antithesis of masculinity.   

 

Please express the condolences of the HQ to your friend    on the loss of    their son.      May      God bless him and grant his family comfort.

84 Hurray! A good old fashioned generational warfare thread! Look, here's the thing, whether or not the Boomers intend to screw over the next generations, the practical effect of SS and Medicare and the like is going to screw Gens X and Y. I am upper end Gen X and I've been told basically all my life that Something Must Be Done about SS and also that I should presume that I'm never going to get a penny of my SS "contributions". Nothing has been done and I'm watching my money being thrown into a yawning pit while knowing I will never see any of those benefits. Yes, I do blame the Boomers and the Greatest Generation for knowing this was going to happen for going on 30 years and doing not one fucking thing about it. It's not Gen X who have been Senators and Congressthings for the last few decades. Toss in the unions screwing over the younger workers to protect the pensions of the older workers, the problems with people not retiring and thus not freeing up upper level positions for younger workers and the massive, massive problems with public sector pensions and it's not exactly a recipe for kind and gracious inter-generational relations.

85 link for coward in name he doesnt even realize it

86

@71 http://empireofjeff.wordpress.com/ 

 

Scroll down to July 17

87 backwardsboy he was a good kid and he came from a great family and leaves two younger brothers along with his mother and father behind.....please keep them in your thoughts and prayers along with all of the other victims and their families...

88 While Cnooc Ltd.Â’s (CEO, 0883.HK) $15.1-billion takeover offer for Nexen Inc. (NXY.T, NXY) would give the Chinese energy producer operational control of a significant Canadian oil-sands-field operator, the deal also (....)

89

. It's not Gen X who have been Senators and Congressthings for the last few decades.

 

SS  has long been the "third rail" of politics. Touch it at your peril.

 

Funny how a robust economy, which seems to be the very last thing on the minds of politicians, would cure a lot of our   current ills. I'd like to see an option to either have a personal retirement account OR SS. But that  would be waaaay too much freedom for us to have, now wouldn't it?

90 Yes, socialist public educators (including the media) with their own agenda will continue using sexual orientation to propagandize. That is not Sally Ride's legacy, but their own.

Posted by: maverick muse at July 25, 2012 08:48 AM (BAnPT)

 

This.  Sally Ride was one of my heroes growing up.   She's the reason   I would say I wanted to be an astronaut when asked what i wanted to be when I grew up, unlike the other little girls around me who wanted to be princesses or ballerinas.    Then and now I couldn't care less about her sexual orientation.   It had nothing to do with     what made her a great role model for little girls (and boys!) everywhere.

91

Will do, phoenixgirl.

92 I just wanted to warn everyone I'll be using Ballistic Pixels today. Loaded into an extra long 60 megapixel cartridge. So, if any of that intergenerational warfare breaks out. Well...you know....

93 I would drink myself to sleep and forget last night ever happened...but I have to work tonight, too.  FML. It's been a shitty week.



Drive by comment. Going to sleep now.

94

Revisit the attack ads of old, where it was apparently okay to accuse your opponent of being a member of the KKK.

 

 

 You act like this isn't still common practice from the regressives.   Let's not forget, anyone who isn't a regressive tool is automatically tarred with one or more of the following brushes:

 

1) RAAAAACISSSSST

2) Moneygrubbing fat cat who would evict orphans    in the dead of winter

3) Woman-hating misogynist    who thinks all women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen,   or dying in childbirth

4) Bloodthirsty warmonger

5) Hitler

 

And they're not exactly coy about any of those distinctions.

95 Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 25, 2012 08:59 AM (d0Tfm)

Problem is that a personal retirement account OR SS offers you a choice and the possibility of getting out from under the thumb of the all-caring, all-wise gummint (not a good thing in the eyes of almost any politician, be they R, D or I).

The other political non-starter would be to separate medical insurance from employment and make all medical expenses (including insurance) tax deductible.  This coupled with Health Savings Accounts would go a long way to solving health care, but again the government would lose control of your live so it will never happen.

96

#53-54 - I actually hadn't heard this story until I read it here, but did a search.  Apparently it's been touted as a "heartwarming romance" by oblivious (or maybe just ignorant) newswriters.  Here are the names:

 

The 19 year old Hero:  Jarell Brooks

The Coward:  Jamie Rohrs

His Stupid Girlfriend:  Patricia Legarreta

 

As soon as people hear the details, they draw the appropriate conclusions.  The two "sweethearts" probably deserve each other.

 

http://tinyurl.com/cnt8r6o
  

97 EoJ, as for ideas to further screw with the morons (little "m"), tell them you're their replacement. Hilarious screaming ensues.

98 87 link for coward in name

he doesnt even realize it

Posted by: soothsayer at July 25, 2012 08:56 AM (b8TXQ)

 

God that's disgusting.   But you know what?   I could have guessed that     would be his modus operandi.       You know why?    Because he and his girlfriend    already have two children,     and it took a mass murder in a dark theater showing     a Batman movie   in the middle of the night       to get the asshole to propose.  

 

That's a man whose first thought is and will continue to be, "Me first, everyone else second, including my own flesh and blood."

99 New Lib Bashing post up at my place.

100 Sally Ride had a sister named Bear Ride??? Oy! Yeah, I wonder how the guy she married felt being used as a beard.

101 48 And by Friday, Romney will have an ad that says, "Taken out of context? Really? Let's go to the tape."

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 24, 2012 05:11 PM (kSaUf)

Actually, after thinking about it, he could probably put an easy-to-remember URL in the ad that links directly to the full, unedited, uncut Roanoke speech and invite people to watch it for themselves and say, "He says we took his words out of context. But here we are, giving you complete context. This wasn't a slip-up. He's explaining his beliefs thoroughly," (quick cut to a clip from his new ad) "and then telling you you didn't see what you saw."

They could do this with a bunch of speeches where he's talking to his more fervent supporters. Make it clear that you want people to see Obama explain his actual beliefs in their complete original context, and that you don't need to stoop to clever editing or semantic tricks to make him look like he's telling liberal donors one thing, and then trying to tell everyone else no, no, he's not like that distorted attack ad caricature at all.

102 Because he and his girlfriend already have two children,





We were talking about this loser the other day here.  I think only the infant is his....well, if you believe the news reports.  They referred to the older child as 'her daughter'.



The shocking part is that he not only left them in the theater, he DROVE THE FUCK AWAY!  Drove.Away.  Seriously, how do you get to be that scummy?  That takes practice.

103

41 Expected to be 106 today in the Metro St. Louis area.

 

*******

 

Happy Birthday!

104 So I see the President's team is threatening to "go nuclear" over the next couple of days about Obama's recent statements that "If you've got a business, you didn't build that," and that "somebody else made that happen." Their arguments are apparently (1) Obama didn't say that at all, it's a cut tape job (even though we've seen it with our own eyes and the transcript is on the White House web site right now); and (2) if you consider a different part of the speech where Obama said something slightly different, it is clear that wasn't what he meant at all. Obviously Romney's folks are only too happy to have that conversation again, as they're emphasizing a verbatim quote that can easily be shown on tape any old time, and even if you do what Obama spokes-harpy Stephanie Cutter is asking you to do (reconsider the context) Obama actually comes off even worse. It's like watching someone who can't swim drown in the shallow end of the pool. I have no idea what they don't just say he misspoke and then Move On (tm).

105

@EC, yeah. I guess that could explain it.

 

@MWR, I've used Blogger and WordPress. I much prefer WordPress.  Writing is sometimes a slog - your software shouldn't be part of it.  Blogger often gave me fits, WordPress makes it super easy to drop in pics and bids before I forget why I wanted them in the first place.

106 Morning morons! http://tinyurl.com/c2g8wed That goes to Tepid Air, where they have a clip of one of the victim's relatives smacking down some MSM idiot who asked him about gun control. Why these jackasses think this is an appropriate time to ask mourning family members about controversial political positions is beyond me. But this guy does a good job of politely telling the MSM lackey to shove it and good on him for insisting on keeping the interview about celebrating the lives of the fallen.

107 Mitchell has a new poll out of MI (last one had Obama up 1) showing Romney up 1. I am sure PPP cannot wait to come round with a ridiculous double-digit lead post there. All is well.

108 Just painfully stupid: an Australian leftard doco-maker gives his hair-raising first-hand account of "living in gun-crazed America" - http://tinyurl.com/c2uohft

An example:  Did you know that American children take AK-47Â’s to school for show-and-tell, and teachers are more or less fine with this?

And there's more.  Oh, so much more.

(via Tim Blair)

109

Alexthechick @86

 

HARRUMPH!

110 Posted by: Charvanek at July 25, 2012 09:11 AM (c32CV)

After the fact, I don't know if it is possible to enable the frame count indicator on video, but if it were that would also refute the edited tape fallacy.

Obamao has graciously offered up so many telling video clips, I just hope that the Romney is preparing a series of montages for distribution.

111 I have no idea what they don't just say he misspoke and then Move On (tm).

Posted by: Blacksheep at July 25, 2012 09:12 AM (ZEloy)

 

My guess?   Because this is what Obama believes.   When he goes off TOTUS, he tends to blab his TRUE beliefs, and during campaign season he goes off    teleprompter more often than otherwise.  So he's going to say something openly Marxist like this again, and they can't keep claimng he misspoke when he consistently misspeaks the same damn thing.   So instead they have to try to recontextualize the comments.  Which is perfect, because context just makes    what he said    even    worse.      

 

It's like     Bammy's mouth is equipped with a tiny shovel, and everytime he opens his yap he digs himself a little deeper     into a growing pile of shit.

112 Posted by: Charvanek at July 25, 2012 09:11 AM (c32CV) That's a good idea, call it "Lets go to the tape . com" or "Watch the tape . com" (sans spaces of course) or something like that. Use it every time Obama gets caught in a whopper that the media won't report. Basically Al Gore his sorry lying ass. Heh.

113 @MWR, I've used Blogger and WordPress. I much prefer WordPress. Writing is sometimes a slog - your software shouldn't be part of it. Blogger often gave me fits, WordPress makes it super easy to drop in pics and bids before I forget why I wanted them in the first place.

I've never used WordPress, but I hear its pretty good.  I picked Blogger because a) I do most of my writing in notepad anyway and b) I already had a Google account.

That said, I wish I had a real host (that is: a dedicated host with a customized blogging engine installed) instead of a free host.  The main advantage of free is that it's, well, free.

114

The other political non-starter would be to separate medical insurance from employment and make all medical expenses (including insurance) tax deductible. This coupled with Health Savings Accounts would go a long way to solving health care, but again the government would lose control of your live so it will never happen.

 

No shit.

 

I'm wondering in my little black heart if it   isn't about time for some activism on our part, starting with the ballot box. We're past the point of asking nicely for those we elect to do our bidding in DC.

 

Muffins and lime Jello ain't cuttin' it any more. We need  to start telling these creatures that if they like their jobs, they'd better start listening to the conservative   majority of the country  or they will be replaced.

 

And right about here is  where I encourage MWR to start  a  blog. There's strength in numbers, and teh  Intarwebz gives us a voice we never had before.  I'm considering doing as much with mine as I can, including maybe monetizing  it  for my fourteen readers. At this point,  writing  is about the only marketable skill I have open to me,  despite my suckitude. I may as well try it, until manufacturing comes back, if it ever does.

115

Palin at an NBC party:

Those fun-bags are almost bovine!

Huuuge tracts...

(I'd still hit it so hard her mom would feel it.)

116 Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 25, 2012 09:17 AM (d0Tfm)

Conservative activism is way overdue!

117 Posted by: Blacksheep at July 25, 2012 09:12 AM (ZEloy) Yeah, the admin needs to just move on from that. The full context is actually worse than the clip. He's not likely to get much traction with that, and honestly even the non-political folks I know are abuzz with annoyance and disdain at what he said and they know exactly what he meant. We all know what he meant. He's just digging himself in deeper with the pushback. (Which I fine with, BTW. Keep digging, buddy! The further he digs in, the bigger the loss for him in November.)

118 I'm considering doing as much with mine as I can, including maybe monetizing it for my fourteen readers. At this point, writing is about the only marketable skill I have open to me, despite my suckitude. I may as well try it, until manufacturing comes back, if it ever does.

If you want to monetize and market it, I'd be willing to chip in with occasional writing, if you'd like.  Actually, I think several of the Morons starting a joint blog might be a Good Thing.

119 Empire of Jeff, I suspect your windshield will need some cleaning of when you pass through these fools at lunchtime today. With the wipers on super fast as you press the fluid button.

120

Thanks, AllenG and EoJ!   Yeah, the "free" part is most important to me at the moment.  I know it's not terribly expensive to get your own domain, but since I go through phases of "writewritewritewrite!" and phases of "*crickets*," free is probably the way to go for now.

 

BackwardsBoy:  Aww, thanks for the encouragement!   The fact that so many of the 'rons and 'ronettes already have blogs of their own is what's gotten me interested in starting my own.    There is definitely strength in numbers.

 

And you do NOT suck.    So you can just knock that off right now.    *stern glare*   

121 And you do NOT suck. So you can just knock that off right now. *stern glare* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Reporter at July 25, 2012 09:23 AM (4df7R) Agreed, you do not suck.

122 Actually, I think several of the Morons starting a joint blog might be a Good Thing.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 25, 2012 09:20 AM (8y9MW)

 

*head tilt*  Martha Stewart? 

 

 

Would    the HQ already sort of count as a joint blog?   Since     everyone    just reads      the    comments anyway.

123

That's not a bad idea, AllenG. I   posted DrewM's post this past weekend  on the Aurora shootings. Maybe we could just do that for a while  as the market comes to us (nyuk, nyuk).

 

In the meantime, we could also   make sure we have all the other Moron Blogs linked in our  own.  I've got as many as I'm  aware of on mine, including yours.

124 @109 wait until Greg/dragonfly comes around to parrot the PPP poll over the Mitchell one

125

Sure, Palin can still pack stadiums, excite the base and influence senate, house and governor's races across the country, but the smart move is to have Rob Portman explain to moderates why they should vote republican.  30 people at a time.  Renting the Velvet Room at Holiday Inns across the land. 

 

Winning is better when done the hard way.

 

126 Would the HQ already sort of count as a joint blog? Since everyone just reads the comments anyway.

Well, there's that. 

No, the problem with that (if I may discuss it in seriousness for a moment) is that following a single thread through the comments can be tough.  Especially in the 200+ comment threads.  Also, we're at least sort of limited to talking about whatever Ace (or the Cob-Loggers) want to talk about.  Sometimes we may hijack a thread, but that's really only for the people who read the comments anyway (and, let me assure you, there are plenty of people who read the blog but don't look at the comments.  The hit counts of the two posts I've ever had can attest to that).

A real joint blog lets us get our own headlines (and therefore thoughts) "out there" more effectively.  But it takes a lot of time and effort to market a blog effectively.

127 Actually, I think several of the Morons starting a joint blog might be a Good Thing. --- The Blogmocracy spun off from LFG when Charlie began to go bonkers, and they are doing pretty well.

128 Posted by: jwest at July 25, 2012 09:31 AM (ZDsRL)

The RNC doesn't want to make it look easy!

129

@122,

 

Done.

130 Actually, I think several of the Morons starting a joint blog might be a Good Thing. --- Also, there's the Acebook Colony.

131

OK, OK,  y'all.   Message received and understood. I guess that's just "writer's anxiety."  I'm never sure  if anyone "gets it" or not over at my place.

 

I keep   thinking that one of these days, I'll accidentally post something that gets picked up and  goes viral. 

 

Thanks for the  kind  words.  That's all I need, well, that and this ashtray...

132 I keep thinking that one of these days, I'll accidentally post something that gets picked up and goes viral.

I've found (I think, anyway, please inform me if I'm wrong so I can fix it) that I get better at writing as I do it more.  Also, the more posts you have in a day, the more Google will find your blog- increasing your hit count.

That's why I try to have at least 3 posts during the work day, if I can.

133 Gack! My comment above was meant to be a riff off the "ballistic nylon" from yesterday and the Baby boomers vs genx/y stuff. But positioned below the stuff about Teves, one of the heroes in Aurora, it just looks weird and insensitive. I denounce myself.

134 And almost ALL went willingly.

Yes, commendably our finest young men answered the call. But being DRAFTED is not "willingly" enlisting.

135

Also, there's the Acebook Colony.

 

Go on...

136 Get your own blog, Vic.

137

That's why I try to have at least 3 posts during the work day, if I can.

 

I've been testing that theory myself this past week or so. Hits have increased somewhat.   I'll stick with it for a while longer to see if there's a delayed reaction.   Back when I was working, I only had time for one post a day. Now that I'm funemployed again, I've got more time to devote to this decidedly unhealthy compulsion  to blog.

138 I've been testing that theory myself this past week or so.

Twitter is useful, too.  Make sure you follow as many of the Morons as you can- we're pretty good (mostly) about following back, and some of the 'Rons and 'Ettes (not me) actually have fairly large followings- which means when they'll Retweet your messages (like, say, an announcement of a blog post) they're getting that in front of more eyes that you otherwise would.

139 Good stuff. I also enjoyed your TSA post. As a flight crewmember, I battle those bastards frequently. Very inconsistent they are. Some airports require us to take shoes off, some do not, etc. I'm glad I can't take my water through. One agent didn't like the fact that I told him I have a crash axe in the cockpit, and that I'm glad he's taking my shaving cream. We're all so much safer now.

140 Sorry. Responding to Allan G's blog. Oops.

141 87 = 404

142 So is the Sally Ride revelation going to inspire lesbians to go into science, or is it going to tell hetero girls that science stuff is only for lesbians?

143 Hippies may be obnoxious and embarrassingly stupid but they are not the cause of our fiscal dilemma.

Does anyone know how to do third grade math?   Or open a history book?

Medicare and Medicaid were passed by LBJ in 1965.   The oldest boomer then was 20 years old (some were off fighting in southeast Asia).  The voting age was 21 until 1970.  And, not that I personally witnessed this myself, but frankly they were too stoned or preoccupied with womanizing to make an impact in a voting booth until 1976.

The entitlement crisis was created by the greatest generation, as was the concept of limited war.  They were great and we owe them a lot, but they were human and made some dumb mistakes.

So did boomers (e.g. Jimmy Carter).

144

Sounds like a Mel Brooks gag:

 

L E S B I A N S

 

I N

 

S P A C E

145 I keep thinking that one of these days, I'll accidentally post something that gets picked up and goes viral. --- Yeah, I used to think that. And I got to be a cob-logger at Moonbattery for a while. But eventually I just had to concede I'm not as funny as Iowahawk, I'm not as insightful as Yid-w.Lid, I'm not as nice as Nice Deb, and I'm not as monkey-shit-throwing-crazy as Andrew Sullivan. There are nice parts to obscurity.

146 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 25, 2012 09:31 AM (8y9MW)

A blog that focused more on a specific topic for a while might be nice (there is never anu telling where any AoS thread might lead). Of course, I speak more as a commenter than a blogger (although I have thought about trying the free software entre to blogging).

147

Ah, nothing engenders good old fashioned generational warfare like fighting over gummint handouts. 

148 Alright EoJ, you win. Read a couple of the posts at your place. Sucked. In.

149 Hey Gabe, congratulations on the coverage of your Tea Party story.

It was sort of sad to find out that you have no life, AKA you are a lawyer.

You sound so smart.

150 Vic for co-blogger!  Ace, give him the keys!

151 Ang Lee directing film version of "Life of Pi." In this version, Pi will be brutally sodomized. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/ 57243

152

It was damn luck than the Andrea Doria disaster wasn't worse than it was.   Italian Line practice was to discourage the ballasting of empty fuel tanks with seawater to avoid cleaning them causing a extremely topheavy ship than acquired a viscious list almost immediately after the collision.   There was an grave threat of the liner capsizing well before passengers could be evacuated.

153 He was the first to verifiably make high pressure, high-temperature synthetic diamonds.

Since a discovery necessarily has to be verifiable, that's why his name shows upas the discoverer.  I also work in the sciences...

154 Assol who wasn't injured in Aurora shooting sues Warner Brothers for making a violent movie: http://tinyurl.com/d8fz4kj

155 65 I'm thinking of starting up my own blog Hmm...

156 Obviously Romney's folks are only too happy to have that conversation again, as they're emphasizing a verbatim quote that can easily be shown on tape any old time, and even if you do what Obama spokes-harpy Stephanie Cutter is asking you to do (reconsider the context) Obama actually comes off even worse.
And you can see in the video of the JEF making the first speech that's he's happy as a pig in shit saying it as it's what he really believes but in his walkback his heart isn't in it.

157 I await, in giddy anticipation, to see Peyton Manning get

1. Not gonna verb that, wouldn't be right.
2.  I expect everybody will be told to take it easy on him.  If his head comes right off on TV the NFL is done.

158 Yes, I do blame the Boomers and the Greatest Generation for knowing this was going to happen for going on 30 years and doing not one fucking thing about it. It's not Gen X who have been Senators and Congressthings for the last few decades.
--
Tackle Authoritarianism

No argument that Wilson and FDR were WRONG to promise utopia via centralization of power, requiring public trust in the elitists who of course with the best intentions knew best. My WWII dad just passed away this month. He benefited immensely from the 1944 GI Bill of Rights that enabled his educational and professional achievements including government subsidized insurance benefits and retirement packages. His generation is the only one that "got it all" from FDR's multiple New Deals including the full package from Social Security and every other socialized federal program thereafter. Those benefit-entitlements aren't there for the children of the aggrandized "Greatest Generation" nor the grandchildren or posterity.

Hey, I've been voting against corruption all along, and because of principle, never participate in such opportunistic tax fund heist bribes as "Cash for Clunkers". I pay my taxes, bills, and debts with interest. So much for the mighty vote and personal integrity.

You think GenXY Senators and Critters will do better?

159 Re Dr. Ride. I gotta agree with maverick muse on this one. It seems she lived her life well. She pursued her dreams and accomplished so much, both for herself and her country. Few of us can say that, I think. I do wonder how true it is to say that she came out in her obituary. When I checked her Wiki page a couple of days ago, it seems she married (a man) whom she divorced five years later... but her relationship with her woman partner started a couple of years before that. Obviously she was not completely closeted. In any event, I'm sure her loved ones are hurting at losing her so young. I hope they find comfort and that the politicization of her life is kept to a minimum, for everyone's sake.

160 150 Astronaut Ride was strictly professional, unlike the hetero-female NASA-naut attacking the wife of an obsession. Either way, orientation being a private matter belongs at home, not at work.

161

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

163 What