1 Morning 'Rons.  I got nothing.

2 derecho, sounds like something a lib douche would name there kid. It's called a storm pussies, shit happens.

3 In Nancy Pelosi's socialist utopia, escalators clogged with human excrement:

http://tinyurl.com/ckt36oj

4 Yeah, like the walls of derecho gonna come tumbling down, or something ?

5 Police are investigating the phone harassment of the businessman featured in Romney's first "you didn't build that" ad. Pure thug/organized crime behavior. That's our Gov. now.

6 Brits - spit. In five years their women will be wearing burkahs. Be an improvement.

7 Drudge posted a photo of the GIANT HORROR DERECHO, and it looked like a still out of the first Ghost Busters movie, but, you know, without the StayPuft Marshmallow man.

8 I feel like this thread is drifting a little without Vic's guidance on where to focus our rage.  Longbows: More effective than the Springfield Rifle?  Discuss.

9 Either they took down the article or the link is bad, but it's hardly a surprise Obama 's minions are harrassing a businessman who was in a Romney ad. It's the Chicago Way!! The loving liberals also did it in 2008. I guess the man will tell his friends and neighbors and customers and they'll all vote for Obama now because Obama loves business. These people are all putzs, malicious and obsessive-but still putzs

10 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2012 06:59 AM (rgtBW) The way I have heard it explained best is that we are in the middle of a Civil Cold War.

11 I was almost hoping my power would go out last night so I could power up my new generator, crank the guitar amp to 11, and really piss off the neighbors sitting in the dark. Oh well, maybe next time.

12 Either they took down the article or the link is bad

Hmm, they must have switched the URL last night. Try it now.

13 It's a counter revolution OSP. A revolution against the true revolutionaries who freed us from the European aristocracies. And the useful idiots have no idea what is really going on.

14 The last time I lost power it was for three days. I had plenty of gas and a generator. The neighbors were begging me for water because the well pumps were electric. I was happy to help them. A couple of months later my Lawnmower bit shit. I asked to borrow my neighbors push mower. He said he was sorry, he didn't loan his tools. Yep, libtard.

15 MC just getting straight up schooled by all in base rushes

16 That's a good descriptionI l loathe these people which is not very spiritually advanced of me. I pray for them for their healing and redemption but I still loathe them, If they want to express their opinion-fine, but harrassing a person because they want a different President than you do? Not allowing them building permits for a legitimate business. I have never prayed for the specific outcome of a Presidential election in my life. It's just that God would bless and help our nation; I may start praying for a Romney victory in this election.

17 it is fucking hilarious though, GOM spent a shit ton of money setting up a arena right on the beach and it's 3-0 in under an hour

18 Thanks, Gabe; It works now. Since Obama features donors to the Romney campaign on his website I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's coordinated through the Obama campaign. “I don't want to be paranoid. I don't want to cower to cowards but I really think it is a dark day for our country when this stuff goes on,” Gilchrist said. “It's so extreme and one of my attractions to Governor Romney is that he is not an extremist.”

19 .05 inches of rain at the old homestead yesterday. We don't care what you call the storm down here in southwest Ga., we just need some rain.

20 19 .05 inches of rain at the old homestead yesterday. We don't care what you call the storm down here in southwest Ga., we just need some rain. Posted by: wierd flunky at July 27, 2012 07:14 AM (X+nFp) If I could give you some of ours I would. I've been mowing damn near twice a week. The Fing grass won't stop growing.

21 They're mostly calling last night's storms in the Northeast a derecho.

I live in NE PA, and we call this rare weather phenomenon a "Thunder Storm". It blew in, power went out for twenty minutes, it blew out, power came back on.

22 The Telegraph has an article up shooting more holes in Peak Oil, with the US becoming the second largest producer by 2020. That's with the SCoaMF's policies still in effect, which hopefully will be null and void soon.
 
http://tinyurl.com/c5qudgb

23 #2

derecho, sounds like something a lib douche would name there kid. It's called a storm pussies, shit happens.

The word 'Derecho' has gravitas!

24 21 Calling what is obviously doomsday weather a "thunderstorm" proves you are a right wing, earth hating, warmongering racist! Glad I'm not the only one left.

25 Jack Gilchrist Metal Fabricating in Hudson

"The latest development ratcheted up the war of words between the Romney and Obama campaigns over the role of government in helping businesses."

Rather, the role of government strangling American businesses and terrorizing citizen businessmen.

this should go viral:
http://tinyurl.com/bqjvejp
(h/t to The Blaze.)
Posted by: Thorvald at July 27, 2012 06:24 AM

Cost to business of green tape, yellow tape, RED TAPE
costs paid by American consumers
mounting higher unemployment

26 This American Spectator piece is a good read about how capitalists are fighting back in PA. It's a long post, but a good reminder that the fight for sanity in gubmint isn't only about DC.
 
http://tinyurl.com/clzme6k

27 hey, I went to RCP yest & looked at the electoral map.  I could not see where Mitt could win.  Can someone give me some hope?  even if Mitt wins Va (which I find an uphill climb) & Florida, he still needs what?  Ohio?  Could he get Pa?

28 last night's Northeast storm

had to be there to say whether it qualified as "derecho"?

http://tinyurl.com/9rho9y

So did the cloud formation come in straight or not?

29 Barky sucks, plain as pie. I find it more than a little disconcerting that even after 3.5 years of rank ineptitude and him pretty much stepping on his Johnson in spectacular fashion this campaign...he is still relatively a 50/50 shot to win.

30 New Obama Ad: ‘It’s a Scary Time to Be a Woman’http://is.gd/rZN0p9

I'm scared of a lot of things right now, but insurance companies hiking everyone's premiums $75/mo so a fifth of their customers don't have to drop a $10 co-pay on their oral contraceptives isn't on my list.

31 The way I have heard it explained best is that we are in the middle of a Civil Cold War.



Yup.   What has the Left furious is that the Right is finally fighting back.  I just pray that it doesn't become a Civil Hot War.   I'm getting my longbows ready just in case. 

32 Posted by: Gran at July 27, 2012 07:33 AM (mw0FO) Hey, I look forward to the snark. Where the hell is the snark?

33 Today's deathdays: The 231 victims of the SS Golden Gate sinking Gertrude Stein (Francophile) Claire Chennault (flew with Pappy) Adam Walsh (John's little boy ) James Mason (punched Cmdr. Koenig!) Frank Zamboni (icy smooth) Miklós Rózsa (http://youtu.be/OBIhtRm3K4g) The 85 victims of the Sknyliv airshow disaster Bob Hope (patriot) Maury Chaykin (died on his 61st) RIP.

34 I've said this before, I have never in my life heard the term "derecho" used, EVER.

There is a specific reason for this. Thunder Storm doesn't sound exotic enough I guess.

You very rarely hear el nino used anymore either.

35 New Obama Ad: ‘It’s a Scary Time to Be a Woman’http://is.gd/rZN0p9


If I see that ad on my tv, well, I can't begin to think of what I will do.



Where's my batteries, bitch?  Oh, hey, since apparently it's just fine to harass the hell out of people in political ads, can anyone tell me who that woman is so that I can send her the bills for my dental dams and batteries?  Because, after all, I'm sure that she firmly believes in equality and all that and she would be horrified to discover that she's being a heteronormative bigot by acting as if contraception and abortion rights are the central women's issues.  How dare she exclude those of us who are queer?  I find that very offensive and demeaning of my experiences as a self-identified queer woman and I'm certain that must be a civil rights crime of some type.  I demand that the DoJ open an investigation into this hate crime as soon as possible. 

36 The word 'Derecho' has gravitas!

Posted by: MFM lib douche at July 27, 2012 07:21 AM (L7hol)

Ah, but we demonstrate our world citizenship status by using the gravitasian terms, old chap!

37 @33 Gotta work with what the fates have handed me.

38 Posted by: Gran at July 27, 2012 07:40 AM (mw0FO) OK, try again tomorrow.

39 The way I have heard it explained best is that we are in the middle of a Civil Cold War.

...It ain't that civil.

40

>>> Jack Gilchrist Metal Fabricating

 

Oh. Probably Steelworker-aligned Union thugs somewhere behind it. Look up Leo Gerard sometime - guy seems unremarkable until you see how he's lining up all the unions into some worldwide megaunion. [Which, needless to say, makes him heap big commie power player].

41 insurance companies hiking everyone's premiums $75/mo so a fifth of their customers don't have to drop a $10 co-pay on...
...
insurance industry profit margin increases regardless

and prices inflate accordingly

Barak's government deserving 100% of your income in order to provide you what government determines your worth to be...

Obama's Scary

And Breitbart.com is five years tardy reporting Sr's 1960s Marxist publication.

That McCain would have delivered much if not all Obama's administration is scary. You have no right to be concerned about Obama's ideology; he is not an ideologue. Suspend the GOP '08  while we fund foreign central banks on the premise of aiding US tax payers. Require doctor visits for mandated prescriptions for vitamins and mineral nutritional supplements and over the counter pharmaceuticals. Grow red tape bureaucracy too big to fail, being too disinterested to compete at market price.
Rep. Kelly's Rousing Floor Speech Receives Standing Ovation and Chants of "USA!"

In 2011 we came to this House for one reason. We were going to change the way that business is done in this town.

42

I demand that the DoJ open an investigation into this hate crime as soon as possible.

Posted by: alexthechick at July 27, 2012 07:38 AM (Gk3SS)

 

 

You're forgetting how it works around here:

1.  Non-whites can't be racist (except maybe Asians)
2.  Hispanic immigrants are better, harder working citizens than any natural-born person
3.  Democrats/Libtards are incapable of any form of hate,  hate crime, descrimination, or other un-goodness. 

 

 

 

43

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.  Here in northern MA, we got nothing from the storm.  A little sprinkle, but that's about all.  I was hoping to hop on the Harley and ride tomorrow, but it looks like crappy weather most of the weekend.  God must be telling me to get to work and write.

 

In keeping with the sex theme of this week's posts, I was going to write a bit about Marilyn Monroe, having seen one new and two fairly new books about her final days, but I just don't feel like it.  So here's a heads-up for some birthdays over the weekend -

 

On Saturday, we celebrate the birthday of Barbara LaMarr, known as "The Girl Too Beautiful To Live.".  Born Reatha Watson in 1896, there has always been a persistent rumor that, as a prepubescent lovely, she was willingly initiated into sex by Charlie Chaplin (whose taste for pre-teen pink was notorious throughout Hollywood).  She had a fairly successful silent career, but was also addicted to partying and cocaine, finally dying of tuberculosis and nephritis in 1926.

 

Sunday is a big day; not only was William "Nick Charles" Powell born on that day in 1892, it's also the birthday of "It" girl Clara Bow (who was waspishly dismissed by flat-chested Dorothy Parker with the remark, "The hell with 'It.' - she had THOSE.").

 

Also, in 1905, the day saw the birth of the "Ice Cream Blonde" Thelma Todd, a gorgeous comedienne who appeared in films with the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy and Wheeler and Woolsey as well as starring in her own series of working-girl-makes-good comedy shorts, first with ZaSu Pitts and then Patsy Kelly.  Her death is a famous Hollywood mystery, she being found dead in her car inside a closed garage.  Put down as due to carbon monoxide poisoning, it has ben debated for years whether she was actually murdered by her lover, director Roland West, or at the orders of Lucky Luciano, who was at the time attempting to gain a controlling interest in Todd's bistro, Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe.

 

Finally, July 28, 1895 saw the birth of the first real sex symbol of the movies, Theda Bara, a self-described "nice Jewish girl from Cincinnati" who was, during her five years at the Fox Film Corporation, one of the top three box-office draws in the country, behind only Chaplin and Mary Pickford.

 

I'm going to do a little self-promotion about Bara; click on my nic to visit my mystery series website.

 

Hope to pop in and out through the day, but if I don't, I wish all of you a very happy weekend and will see you on Monday.

44 41 organized crime posing interest in workers -- fodder for pirates

45 It's a scary time to be Obama. GDP report is imminent.

46

. . .can anyone tell me who that woman is so I can send her the bill for my dental dams and batteries?

 

Alex, you wouldn't happen to have an illustrated version of your newsletter, would you?  You know, with stompy boots and merry widows and soft focus and all that?  Because I could certainly see my way to buying a platinum-level subscription. . .

47 GDP report is imminent.domain

as if any government figures aren't propaganda fabrications (2012)

48

Yup. What has the Left furious is that the Right is finally fighting back. I just pray that it doesn't become a Civil Hot War. I'm getting my longbows ready just in case.

Posted by: alexthechick at July 27, 2012 07:32 AM (Gk3SS)

 

At least in a hot civil war there's some hope of victory, in that the Leftist herd would be greatly thinned by our superior longbow fire power.  Right now the only reason they're mad is because they are not winning fast enough to suit their tastes.

49 memes, you have to keep up with them

50 derecho, sounds like something a lib douche would name there kid. It's called a storm pussies, shit happens.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 27, 2012 06:52 AM (9TTOe)

Speaking of something a lib douche would name their kid.  I have an acquaintance who has a friend.  The friend and his wife are big into unions - members of the IWW, believe there's such a thing as wage slavery, hate job creators but demand jobs, etc.

They recently had a child.  They named the child Sabo.  Sabo is short for "sabotage."

51 Whatever GDP is, it will be revised down.

52

They recently had a child. They named the child Sabo. Sabo is short for "sabotage."

 
Posted by: FUBAR at July 27, 2012 07:58 AM (mdhVr)

 

 

 

Why can't we at least deport these kinds of scum? 

Clearly the democratic republic system has failed.  I say, bring on a few decades of right wing dictatorship.  This town needs an enema.

53 "54 Whatever GDP is, it will be revised down."

Agreed. And on the way down, it will pass by last week's unemployment claims, which will be moving up.

54 someone theorized that Bernanke might use a lousy GDP to push for more stimulus we'll see

55 "They recently had a child. They named the child Sabo. Sabo is short for "sabotage."

Posted by: FUBAR at July 27, 2012 07:58 AM (mdhVr)"

Wait, don't tell me- the parents' names were Commu and Reta, right?

56

>>>At least in a hot civil war there's some hope of victory

The cold civil war can be won but the way its fought needs to be understood. Being a civil fracas, its more focused on the social than the material - which industries, agencies, power groups, interests line up with which side. I'd say it was stable, if biased, prior to the advent of the interwebs and the TEA Party - those two 'forces', plus several smaller ones like Julian Assange's group - destabilized a lot of the structure and here we are.

Anyway it all puts us at a disadvantage because at base a conservative tends to focus on merit and real capitalism rathar than favors and social capitalism.

57

someone theorized that Bernanke might use a lousy GDP to push for more stimulus

we'll see

Posted by: soothsayer jumps in without reading at July 27, 2012 08:05 AM (F/kuF)
 

 

Bernanke hasn't been pushing stimulus of late - his more recent pronouncements were admonitions to congress to get their shit together.  However, ongoing weak GDP may prompt more easing.  That would not surprise me, and he would not be doing his job if he didn't do that.

58 29 Barky sucks, plain as pie. I find it more than a little disconcerting that even after 3.5 years of rank ineptitude and him pretty much stepping on his Johnson in spectacular fashion this campaign...he is still relatively a 50/50 shot to win. Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 27, 2012 07:28 AM (zCxoi) Then our plan is finally working... and you're paying for it... suckers!

59 Bernanke admitted that his bag is out of tricks. He's been urging Congress to act. Congress, in turn, threw the ball back to Bernanke.

60 Another lie revealed -- this time it's about the DREAM Act executive order by the SCoaMF. He said that to be eligible to not be deported, the detainee would have to have verifiable documentation of attending high school, a GED, etc. Yet the ICE agents and BP people have been told to just take their word on it. Daily Caller has the details:
 
http://tinyurl.com/cydlwdl

61

Anyway it all puts us at a disadvantage because at base a conservative tends to focus on merit and real capitalism rathar than favors and social capitalism.

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at July 27, 2012 08:06 AM (3ZtZW)
 

 

We're also at a disadvantage because:
1.  We generally obey the law
2.  We don't spend our entire lives obsessing about poltics (well, most of us)
3.  We don't lie, to ourselves or others
4.  We have a stake in preserving what is still good -whereas the leftists only want to burn everything down, then tap their feet impatiently as they wait for people like us to rebuild it all
5.  We have shame - there are some things we just will not do
6.  We have to appeal to reason and good judgement - they appeal to man's lowest, basest instincts and the logic of fools
7.  We expect people to using their minds - thinking.  The left appeals only to emotion, at times dressed up in the clothes of pseudointellectualism

 

The only thing in our favor is this - they are, as individuals, foolish, evil, and self-serving.  Most of them (not all) are cowards.  If our predecessors had had the balls to say NO MORE we would not be in this vile predicament.

62 and the illegal's age will also not be verified King Obama's Dream Act covers all illegals.

63 King Obama's Dream Act covers all illegals. Posted by: soothsayer jumps in without reading at July 27, 2012 08:14 AM (hA+ft) That bastard opened to the floodgates to any criminal, terrorist, and deadbeat who wants to come here. This cock sucker has to go

64

King Obama's Dream Act covers all illegals.
 
Posted by: soothsayer jumps in without reading at July 27, 2012 08:14 AM (hA+ft)
 

 

This is, of course, upsetting - but who really thought it would be otherwise?  Nobody who knows about this issue in the first place ever doubted that it would be a virtually unrestrticed pass.

65 RIP Ric Locke.

66 in Italian the word "testa" means head so if your last name is Testa, don't name your kid Richard like the president of MA's South Shore Bank (Ferrari Testarossa - red head)

67 >>That bastard opened to the floodgates to any criminal, terrorist, and deadbeat who wants to come here. At least I limited it to the ones who could swim here.

68

Thank you Slub, for the take down of the Brits in the previous post. I've been wondering what the BFD was. Could have been worse, Romney could have bought a boom-box or something to the queen. Hand wringing hypocrisy now seems to be the English way.

**

Morn ya'll

 

69 I think Ferrari chose that name because the engine heads were painted red. But I dunno if that's accurate.

70 At least I limited it to the ones who could swim here. Posted by: Jimmy Carter at July 27, 2012 08:19 AM (SUKHu) yes jimmah your right, now go get your shine box

71 Since Allen seems to be tardy this morning...

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

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

73 Morning AllenG.

74 A Monkey on Crack can make Allen appear!!

75 By calling it a "Derecho" it sounds scarier, so they can blame it on Global Warming.

76 Morning, Crack Monkey.

77 I think the Brits were all wound up by their own recreational naysaying of the Games. And now that the Games are here, they're freaked out that they might've been right.

78 You know, on that "London isn't ready," thing, I wish Romney had stuck to his original answer.  Maybe even backed it up with, "I know a little something about running an Olympic Games.  Based on my experience, I look at London and I, as the organizer, would not be confident that things would go smoothly.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe they'll be fine.  I was asked my opinion and I gave it."

79 It may not have a fancy name, but there's a bunch of red, yellow and green on the weather map. It's lurking just north of here, waiting for me to get in the car.

80 the Left is now spinning Menino's attack on Chik an issue of Free Speech... for Menino.

81 In actual news, however, it appears that The Obama Administrations lawlessness continues unabated. 

WRT the pseudo-DREAM EO, it turns out that ICE and Border Patrol have been told that suspects (that is: illegal aliens) bear no burden of proof that they meet the requirements even of the Executive Order, let alone the law that was never passed.  So an illegal can claim they have a diploma or GED, and the agent just has to believe them and let them go.

I heard the story this morning on the radio, but it's over at Fox News, too.

82 Sooth, So bullying and threatening is now free speech? Good to know.

83 A quote, to whet your appetite:

"Prosecutorial discretion for dreamers is solely based on the individual's claims. Our orders are if an alien says they went to high school, then let them go," he said at a press conference with GOP senators. "Officers have been told that there is no burden for the alien to prove anything. ... At this point we don't even know why DHS has criteria at all, as there is no requirement or burden to prove anything on the part of the alien. 

"We believe that significant numbers of people who are not dreamers are taking advantage of this practice to avoid arrest," he said.

84 So bullying and threatening is now free speech?

When wasn't it?

85 Northeast a derecho...

Y'all don't get too many storms up there do you?  That's called spring in the midwest and southeast.

86

"Derecho" mean "Right" in Spanish. So when someone gets hurt or worse, the Libs have someone to blame it on.

87 Taking dad to the urologist this morning. Should be fun. Not.

88 The mayor of Baltimore was just on TV, talking about how Baltimore will welcome all immigrants. Read "sanctuary city". She says immigrants will start businesses and hire locals, and Baltimore is on the same path to a great future as Philly, Detroit and Chicago.

89 Baltimore is on the same path to a great future as Philly, Detroit and Chicago.

Don't forget us!

90

28

 

There was a huge dark grey cloud that looked like a blanket, and there was a clear demarcation from the sky that looked cloudless behind it. But I don't know if I'd call it a shelf. It actually looked like a tornado sky to me, since that weird greenish color didn't happen so I figured that wasn't in the cards.

 

I was in a parking lot waiting for someone to come out of the store and was mesmerized by watching the cloud "shelf". It would assimilate little wisps of clouds that formed underneath it.The wind whipped up and folks who were walking or biking were speeding up trying to find cover.

91 By calling it a "Derecho" it sounds scarier, so they can blame it on Global Warming. After the last 3 years, the first thing I think is that they're going to build the hype up until they can justify sending Federal aid to blue states hit by these things. Everything the media does, including the weather, is a money run for connected pols.

92 Northeast a derecho... Y'all don't get too many storms up there do you? That's called spring in the midwest and southeast. Posted by: dogfish at July 27, 2012 08:35 AM (N2yhW) So do we in the Northeast, I don't know what all the hubbub was about.

93 Good luck with that, Ed.

94 Fighter jet, tanker jet perform emergency landing Published: 07.27.12, 11:53 / Israel News An F-16 fighter jet and an IAF tanker jet were forced to perform an emergency landing at the Ovda base in southern Israel over a malfunction during a drill held on Friday. The fighter jet's pilot was unable to refuel causing the fuel pipe to hit the aircraft. No injuries were reported. The IDF has launched an inquiry. (Yoav Zitun) Hum? Wonder what they were practicing for?

95 Hum? Wonder what they were practicing for?

Well, it's possible they were practicing for a strike on Iran.  Given the fact our own pilots practice exactly this maneuver all the time, it could also just have been standard drill.

96

http://tinyurl.com/ckrpalu

 

***

 

We are witnessing the willfull destruction of America. Cloward-Piven on steroids.

97 Just when I'm ready to forget all the foolishness and move on to enjoying the Olympics not being held in a Commie dictatorship, I read in the WSJ that tonigh'ts Opening Ceremony will include "...tributes to the industrial revolution and Britain's state health care system...". Fantastic.

98 Hudson, NH, is already a crappy enough place to live, being so close to Massachusetts.  The last thing Gilchrist needs is to get harassed by regressive assholes.    He probably gets that enough from all the dickweeds who slouch over the border from Lowell.

99

My foster son just texted me this.

 

http://tinyurl.com/cwths5m

100 Q2 GDP is out: 1.5%

The US economy has grown just 1.9% over the past four quarters

We tried our plan and it worked!

101 The u.s. is considering dipping the flag at the opening ceremonies. Of course.

102 Immigration post up at my place, for those interested.

103 WASHINGTON (AP) -- US economic growth slows to 1.5 percent annual rate from April-June, consumer spending weakens.





Barry's plan worked!!!!

104 This morning on NPR:  Budget cuts cause AIDS.

In Greece an increase in AIDS among IV drug users and prostitutes is being blamed on the termination of government needle exchanges and condom handouts.

They have taken the concept of beyond parody to a whole nuther level.

105 Barry: You see this shitty GDP? It didn't get there on its own. It had help. My plan helped to get it there

106  "...tributes to the industrial revolution and Britain's state health care system..."

The NHS has become like the royal family in Britain. It's antiquated, serves no useful purpose, costs a lot of money, causes endless complaints by the people and yet is an indispensable national symbol.

107 In Greece an increase in AIDS among IV drug users and prostitutes is being blamed on the termination of government needle exchanges and condom handouts.

That sentence encapsulates the Liberal world-view so well, doesn't it?

108 The NHS has become like the royal family in Britain. It's antiquated, serves no useful purpose, costs a lot of money, causes endless complaints by the people and yet is therefore an indispensable national symbol.

FIFY

109 I read in the WSJ that tonigh'ts Opening Ceremony will include "...tributes to the industrial revolution and Britain's state health care system...". Fantastic. Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2012 08:45 AM

Since everyone in this house is addicted to the "Toady Show" and and gets their TV news from WHDH (NBC in Baaaahstaaahn), I've already had a major hype overload on the friggin' Olympics. Can't wait for it to be over.

Gotta wonder what Londonistan is going to do with all those zillion-dollar purpose-built "Olympic Venues" after everyone has gone home. I'm guessing conversion to mosques....

110 What will GDP be revised down to?

111 I read in the WSJ that tonigh'ts Opening Ceremony will include "...tributes to the industrial revolution and Britain's state health care system...". Fantastic.

Yet the Olympic Committee objected to "the candidates" using their footage in campaign ads.

Barky thinks we should the thanking him for driving our country in to debt. The Olympics really ought to be thanking Romney for putting Salt Lake in the black.

112 I just pray that it doesn't become a Civil Hot War.
...

Public acknowledgement is after the fact. The cold civility was 2008.

Combine the analogy of the live critter in the pot not noticing the rising heat until it's done/dead with the thought "jumping out of the pan into the fire." Remember "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and get out of that wildfire, working smarter and harder when fighting fire with fire, knowing when and not to fire in order to win this civil war and not merely a battle, or worse, the "ashes to ashes" American doom after 2012. United We Stand, Divided We Fall.

Restore America Now, Believe in America
Reinstate Constitutional Governance

It ain't some newly revised extension of authoritarian revisionism that Americans demand this round. It's back to basics: Integrity 101. Ironic that the FDR collective grounds the GOP offensive defense against the 2012 WTF Marxist DNC agenda. I pray the GOP drops its compassionately-interventionist benevolent-authoritarian conservatism. And no one working hard is holding his breath.

Romney's website is smart: "America, Built By US" aligns with Scott Brown's "He's for US!"  Excellent rallying banners.

113

By calling it a "Derecho" it sounds scarier, so they can blame it on Global Warming.

 

They do a disservice calling it a derecho unless it actually WAS a derecho.  A derecho is a powerful   line of thunderstorms with sustained     straight-line winds    that can be very destructive   ("Derecho" from the spanish for "straight," "Tornado" from the spanish for "twisted").     Sometimes the winds exceed hurricane force.  They tend to    spring up very suddenly, unlike thunderstorms that you can literally see and hear as they approach, and that makes them dangerous if you're outside working or hiking or even driving.     In urban areas,     like the entire Eastern seaboard, they can wreak havoc on the electrical system; hence Maryland.

 

If it WAS a derecho (or series of derechos), then I'm glad the damage wasn't worse.   If it WASN'T a derecho, then the media has to stop saying it was.  It undermines    the actual destructiveness and danger a derecho can cause   and makes people more likely to ignore any legitimate warnings.

114 Gotta wonder what Londonistan is going to do with all those zillion-dollar purpose-built "Olympic Venues" after everyone has gone home. I'm guessing conversion to mosques....

They'll use them for the circus part of bread and circuses to keep the population mollified.

115 This morning on NPR: Budget cuts cause AIDS.

108, someone cut off his dick?

116 What will GDP be revised down to?

Shockingly, Q1 was revised up from 1.9 to 2.0.

117
Shockingly, Q1 was revised up from 1.9 to 2.0.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 27, 2012 08:56 AM (J5tI6)

 

Well that makes the drop to 1.5 worse then.

118

Alex, you wouldn't happen to have an illustrated version of your newsletter, would you? You know, with stompy boots and merry widows and soft focus and all that? Because I could certainly see my way to buying a platinum-level subscription. .

 

I shall take that idea under advisement. 

 

I was talking to dpud last night about Romney's Olympic comments and I guess I'm finding it hard to be outraged about it.  I mean, sure, he could have been more diplomatic about it but if there's anything that Romney has proven he can discuss, I think it's running an Olympics.  I'm too lazy to look it up but didn't the Salt Lake Olympics end up turning a profit? 

 

 

 

119 2010 GDP growth was slashed to 2.4% from 3.0%

120 Actually, they revised Q42011 up from 3.0% to 4.1%.

121 117 MWR, yep.
words, just words...more revisionism, please

Media white-guilt personalities are just big titty babies who think they've "learned" a new word. The smugly stupid repeat "derecho" erroneously in vain to sound politically correct on air -- as if "I speak Spanish."

122 Every snowstorm is now a "nor'easter" and every thunderstorm a "derecho." I fracking hate the media and their hype.

123 FYI- All athletes at the Olympic Village are being fed throat-slit meat to satisfy the demands of muslims.

124

Previously little known or used words that someone in the media used and everyone else in the media noticed and thought were cool and suddenly they were all using it like it was the newest blingy fashion at the mall:

 

El nino, horrific, vitriol, outsourcing, derecho

125 I love the Brits, I do.  My mom's a Brit.  But they have fallen so    far so fast since     WWII that they're almost indistinguishable from the    country and the people who my mother remembers.    "Stiff upper lip"    has given way to    "wobbly chin."

126 I was talking to dpud last night about Romney's Olympic comments and I guess I'm finding it hard to be outraged about it.

I'm not even trying.  It's not like he was talking about something with which he had no experience.  As I just pointed out to Drew on twitter: I can go into someones IT group and make a really quick assessment of it- I have experience doing that.

Mitt was deeply involved with running an Olympics, a very successful one at that, I'm fairly certain he knows the difference between what "ready" and "not ready" looks like.

127 118 Gotta wonder what Londonistan is going to do with all those
zillion-dollar purpose-built "Olympic Venues" after everyone has gone
home. I'm guessing conversion to mosques....

They'll use them for the circus part of bread and circuses to keep the population mollified.

QUEUES...

128 Romney: "disconcerting" and "not encouraging" Obama: "the police acted stupidly".

129 Many Brits thought we were awesome for electing Barky so it's not like I really care what they think of us.

130 London Olympic Carnival

see Politico's video of Mitt interviewed by the London Press

Romney made his statement, then took three questions. The first two questions allowed him to reiterate his statement. The third referenced his discussions with the British government's world leaders, to which he only verified he'd spoken with, and that until he returned to America, he would not make foreign policy statements as a candidate on foreign soil. Mitt reminded the press to do their homework as to his policy on Syria from his previous statements made in the USA.

/ohne totus/

131 I rarely watch news talk shows, but I turned on the TV late last night and was subjected to a man named Bob Beckel. At least I think he is a man: he looks like a slightly slimmer version of Jabba The Hutt, but without Jabba's charm.

What. A. Fucking. Ignorant. Asshole.

132 I'm disappointed that Romney had to go and say anything that could be taken in any context as to criticize Britain's preparedness for the games. He should know better what we are up against. If he was going to go into that, why didn't he mention the fact that the reason for all the security surrounding the games is the Muslim terrorists??? That the reason the rest of the world must must expend enormous efforts, wealth and freedom protecting innocents from their 7th century barbarian mindset?

133 Heads up to all you facebook fans.  It's trading around $22.50 prior to the market open.

134 110 "...tributes to the industrial revolution and Britain's state health care system..." The NHS has become like the royal family in Britain. It's antiquated, serves no useful purpose, costs a lot of money, causes endless complaints by the people and yet is an indispensable national symbol. Posted by: AmishDude at July 27, 2012 08:51 AM (J5tI6) Yeah, but ask a Brit about it and all you get is, "Well, the NHS has loads of issues, but at least we're guaranteed emergency treatment." Seriously, for some reason a lot of the folks over there are convinced that hospitals will refuse to treat you if you don't have insurance. I'm sure that's a result of the idiots in the media, but there it is.

135 facebook stock is like already chewed bubblegum

136 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 27, 2012 09:05 AM (8y9MW)

His criticism was a bit tone-deaf, but he certainly has the expertise to judge whether they are ready.

That they reacted so petulantly speaks volumes about their own questions of whether they are, indeed, ready!

137 dagny lurking under another name yet or still hybernating?

138

Previously little known or used words that someone in the media used and everyone else in the medial noticed and thought  were cool and suddenly they were using it like it was the the newest blingy fashion in the mall:

 

El nino, horrific, vitriol, outsourcing, dericho.

 

Ahem.

139 Posted by: coulda shoulda woulda at July 27, 2012 09:18 AM (BAnPT)

Damn! You caught me.

140 NOTICE!


Wednesday has been declared national eat at Chick Fil A day.

Piss off a liberal go!

141 facebook stock is like already chewed bubblegum

Posted by: coulda shoulda woulda at July 27, 2012 09:16 AM (BAnPT)

The invisible hand just drew a dirty Sanchez on Fuckerberg.

142 I just watched the video clip of Mitt Romney's 'brutal assessment' of Britain's preparations for the Olympic Games.

If the Brits are upset over those comments, which were damn near completely benign, then the UK is officially A Nation Of Pussies.

It's been steadily downhill since the summer of 1940.

143 Mitt was deeply involved with running an Olympics, a very successful one at that, I'm fairly certain he knows the difference between what "ready" and "not ready" looks like.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 27, 2012 09:05 AM (8y9MW)

Any estimates on how deep in the red Great Britain is going on these money draining games?  I'd ask about China except those cocksuckers would never tell the truth about it.

144 Sold my facebook put options.  Proceeds going into the new car jar.

145 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 27, 2012 09:40 AM (7GYr3)

I read a few weeks ago that China spent 30+ Billion on the games, and the venues are pretty much abandoned.

My wife has several employees in London, and they are all aghast at the clusterfuck that is London, and will be for at least one month. Don't forget, the para-Olympics follows the regular mess.

146 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 27, 2012 09:43 AM (nEUpB)


That Romney made money on the winter games speaks volumes of his executive skills and ability to deal with corrupt political fucks and work things to local advantage.

147 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 27, 2012 09:49 AM (7GYr3)

Romney is simply a fascist interloper who has taken advantage of the glorious American experiment and profitted on the backs of the worker.

Money, Money, Money. That's all you fascists think about.

No Justice...No Peace!

148 Had never seen this until today: "Obama at the Bat" http://tinyurl.com/cqq67jh

149 AtC, I didn't get a chance to hop on the ONT, so Happy belated Birthday!

And I'm with Mary Poppins', put me down for a platinum membership.

150 4 Yeah, like the walls of derecho gonna come tumbling down, or something ?

---------

Derecho, when the walls fell?

151 Sold my facebook put options. Proceeds going into the new car jar. --- Enjoy your 1992 Geo Prizm.

152
If the Brits are upset over those comments, which were damn near completely benign, then the UK is officially A Nation Of Pussies.
...

Great Brittle
UK Home of PC

153 Enjoy your 1992 Geo Prizm.
...
O, gee I wish my Geo'd go.

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

155

Romney ran an Olympics.

Obama ran for office.

156 Yeah, like the walls of derecho gonna come tumbling down, or something ?

cue John Philip Sousa ... civil ain't Seville
http://tinyurl.com/cenggbl
Stars and Stripes

157 Obama ran for office.

and never knew when to stop...RUN, FORREST, RUN!!!

158 The invisible hand just drew a dirty Sanchez on Fuckerberg. Would it be bad form to try to high-five the invisible hand?

159

Well, as the commie mayor of London said, it's "easy" to run the Olympics when they're held in the "middle of nowhere" (Salt Lake City).

All that this UK business proves is that boorish behavior by leftards is universal.

 

160 Gun control advocate stops knife attacks ... or not: http://is.gd/HrupYA

161 I  hope it blows another month of 100 degree days in our nations capitol.

162 A derecho huh? Well, it was a very strong storm, but I dunno about this derecho diagnosis. My metal lawn furniture (quite heavy) did get blown over and pushed several yards away from where it had been. Usually the wind does not come from that direction either. The other single chair, about 25 feet away from the grouping, didn't move at all. Since they had called for tornadoes, I decided to get a lovely, bracing triple rum cocktail and hang out down cellar. I sang a little song as I constructed it, it went like this: "A drinking I will go, a drinking I will go, hi ho the derecho, a drinking I will go." I was not attempting to be a clairvoyant, but it really was a weird ass storm. For one thing the wind came in from the opposite direction than our usual nor'easter and heavy storms. Also, while hanging out down cellar I could hear a constant heavy rumble - and I mean constant - that went on for over half an hour. Huge thunder claps would happen every minute or two in addition to the rumble. It certainly did have some unique characteristics, but it wasn't all that bad. Lost power for about 14 hours, no biggy.