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July 03, 2012

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— Gabriel Malor

Happy Tuesday.

I got nuthin', mostly because I couldn't sleep last night and then got up to play Civ V: Gods and Kings until the wee hours and then overslept just now. Life.

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1 Foist!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 03, 2012 02:51 AM (d0Tfm)

2 Good Morning Morons. Today is Tuesday, July 03, 2012. Today marks the beginning of Dog Days (by reckoning of the Old FarmerÂ’s Almanac). These are said to be the hottest most sultry days of Summer. They were originally named by the Romans after Sirius, the dog star. The Romans sacrificed a brown dog to appease the evil gods of the star. Dog Days were popularly believed to be an evil time "the Sea boiled, the Wine turned sour, Dogs grew mad, and all other creatures became languid; causing to man, among other diseases, burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies." according to BradyÂ’s Clavis Calendarium, 1813. Dog Days run until August, 11.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

3 Romney has some balls. Calls Obama a liar. Its about time someone called that bastard on his lies.

http://is.gd/LZc1DA

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

4 And speaking of the lying asshole, he still plans on unilaterally disarming the U.S. Good thing this bastard will be gone before he can do too much damage here.

http://is.gd/3DkVE6

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

5 More warmies pushing recent weather as warming. As I said the other day, despite several triple digit days here toward the end of June, the average high temperature for June this year was 8Â° lower than last year. In short, it is a cool Summer so far.

http://is.gd/okLkMz

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

6 SS going bankrupt early??? Here is the reason, and it has been estimated to be > 50% fraud.

http://is.gd/0lRH59

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

7 Feds claim the AZ wildfire caused by shooting a special shotgun shell at a bachelor party. 50 years ago I would have believed them. Not any more. There have been too many lies form our government in the past 50 years and in the past 4 years the number has increased exponentially. Especially in regard to anything dealing with guns.

http://is.gd/XHc6zG

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

8 The Hill looks at winners and losers on the highway bill boondoggle. They left out the biggest loser, the taxpayer and Republican conservatives who have been sold out again.

http://is.gd/aCEGM6

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

9 And speaking of the beleaguered taxpayer Abound Solar hits us up for 68M, thanks to the communist pushing of this rotten business. I wouldnÂ’t mind if they passed a law that said Democrats had to pay for this out of their own pocket because it is pure crony corruption.

http://is.gd/3ZHVoF

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

10 Liars lie, and water is wet. Lisa Jackson says there has never been a loss of jobs because of EPA rulings. It is time to totally eliminate the EPA. Fire everyone there and forbid any of them from ever holding a government paid job and start over with a new group with strict limitations on authority.

http://is.gd/mMi5NW

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

11 MI auto company specializing in making van bodies for businesses moving to North Charleston.

http://is.gd/MPAIzO

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

12 Corrupt Holder once again halts SC voter ID drawing the process out in order to get it past the election this fall. This is one reason why Section V of the VRA should be struck down. Besides being unconstitutional has become an illegal political tool for the left. The court has had ample opportunity to fix this as well as the mess that has been made of the CRA but due to liberals on the court has not each time. It is high time for an Article V convention to fix the courts. Take them away from Washington DC and give nominating authority to the States directly.

http://is.gd/shNFIg

ThatÂ’s it for news this morning.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

13 Sounds like there were unfounded claims of seasonal disaster even in ancient times.

Ah the human condition.

50% of us are rabbit assed crazy while the rest are mostly unhinged.

Those of you who protest the most of your rationality and sanity are the ones most highly suspect.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at July 03, 2012 02:56 AM (CP+yl)

14 I got nuthin', mostly because I couldn't sleep last night and then got up to play Civ V: Gods and Kings until the wee hours and then overslept just now. Life.

How is Civ V? I loved II and III but IV kinda blew chunks. It bogged my machine down and it seemed like they sacrificed game play for graphics.

I went back to III.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

15 Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 06:55 AM (YdQQY) Thank God for John Roberts' mastery of 9 dimensional chess so that way the court can overturn section five of the VRA. Or...wait, what?

Posted by: Bob at July 03, 2012 02:58 AM (4ixH5)

16 Okay, I'm really out now.

Good mornin', ever'wun!

Posted by: Bob at July 03, 2012 02:59 AM (4ixH5)

17 Here' Alan West outlining just a few of the regulations that are currently strangling our economyhttp://tinyurl.com/7u7ogse

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 03, 2012 02:59 AM (d0Tfm)

18 Â“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.Â” Dorothy Parker

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2012 02:59 AM (PJefv)

19 LOL, BION I had a couple of paragraph breaks in that narration about dog days.

The problem isn't just the lack of formatting ability. It is the inconsistency between one entry and the next.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:00 AM (YdQQY)

20 Well, again no rain here in my section of central Indiana. I have seen thunderstorms in Illinois die out when they cross the border, or they go south of us down towards Louisville, or they sweep across the northern part of the state in the Ft. Wayne area.

I am tired of dragging hoses around my garden. My water bil is going to be enormous, and all I am doing is trying to keep stuff alive.

And if I hear one more newscaster hook this to global warming, I am going to explode.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 03, 2012 03:00 AM (GoIUi)

21 Morning! Finally got electricity back on sometime during the night. Been out since the storms on Sunday morning. The western burbs of Chicago look like a nuke went off with all the trees down.

It'll be nice to sleep in my own bed tonight!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 03, 2012 03:01 AM (UTq/I)

22 These may be the dog days but please don't sacrifice my pooch Barky. He's tight.

Posted by: Barney F at July 03, 2012 03:03 AM (VswEk)

23 Frankly, I am just jealous that I haven't been able to get in on the solar energy scam. In my proposal for Solaripoff LLC, to Sec Chu of DoE, I clearly stated that I would immediately contribute 5% of the loan guarantee money to the DNC and another 5% to Obama; put 30% in the Caymans, and stiff the taxpayers for the rest. Sadly, my original plan was not progressive enough, but after hiring Van Jones as a technical consultant, I really think I have a shot at some big bucks this time.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:03 AM (i3+c5)

24 1st how about some accuracy.

SS isn't fraudulent it's the Disability section that is. With lawyers and Federal workers in the mix how could it be otherwise.

I'm afraid that an Article 5 convention is likely out of the question due to the risks of the process being highjacked from the start and turned into a power grab worse than the situation we're in now.

With all that would be at stake it's almost guaranteed it would make things worse.

A massive repudiation of Obama and the party giving him cover may get us back on track. Only if Republicans actually implement the supposed ideals and don't try to fix the government on the people who have been thrown out of work will they survive to continue the process.

It's a crapshoot from now until 2020.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at July 03, 2012 03:04 AM (CP+yl)

Sadly, my original plan was not progressive enough, but after hiring Van Jones as a technical consultant, I really think I have a shot at some big bucks this time.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I hear it's the latest thing, all the kids are doing it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 03, 2012 03:05 AM (d0Tfm)

26 Posted by: Bob at July 03, 2012 06:58 AM (4ixH5)

When I heard George Will spouting this nonsense on Fox Sunday, I knew there must be some really good choom served up at those Georgetown dinner parties.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:06 AM (i3+c5)

27 Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf)

Chump change pal. think higher.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at July 03, 2012 03:07 AM (CP+yl)

28 Thank God for John Roberts' mastery of 9 dimensional chess so that way the court can overturn section five of the VRA.

The VRA is a major fail, but it is not just the courts who are selling us out. The Republicans just joined forces with the CBC to renew it for another 25 years. This section of the law was supposed to expire in 5 years and they have renewed it every time. Heaven forbid that Republicans be labeled as racist by the CBC.

They have had 3 opportunities to get rid of the CRA which has similar problems and failed every time. The last case was one from TX who thought because of Sandra Day O'Conners said the time for discrimination based on race was over and there should be no more need for "affirmative action" soon.

They were wrong. It is OK to discriminate based on race as long as white males are the ones being discriminated. This despite plain wording that says it is illegal.

That in addition to the blatant disregard for private property.

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

29 Eliminate the EPA? The EPA prevents Americans from BEING MURDERED every day!

Posted by: Van Jones at July 03, 2012 03:08 AM (ph70Q)

30 Sadly, my original plan was not progressive enough, but after hiring Van Jones as a technical consultant, I really think I have a shot at some big bucks this time. Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) I'm setting up a Solar credit exchange. Every energy using company must buy credits for every Watt of electricity used or created from non-solar sources. I'm thinking bonds printed with a smiley sun face. My business plan says I will donate 10% of the gross to the CPUSA. I think just by posting it here I'll get a call that it has been pre-approved for a grant.

Posted by: Daybrother at July 03, 2012 03:08 AM (JRepv)

31 SS isn't fraudulent it's the Disability section that is. With lawyers and Federal workers in the mix how could it be otherwise.

I'm afraid that an Article 5 convention is likely out of the question due to the risks of the process being highjacked from the start and turned into a power grab worse than the situation we're in now.

That is what I said. As for the convention we stand a lot better chance of that working than anything else. There are a lot more red states than there are blue states and each state gets one vote on stuff.

In short, you are wrong.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:09 AM (YdQQY)

32 Miss M: in NW IL, we finally got a drencher(about 1.5 inches) last week, which helped the drought enough that the grass is no longer crunchy. The crops look better, too. But now I am going to have to mow soon. Hardly had to, through most of June.

Of course, we have the Japanese beetle plague going on. Bleh.

Posted by: Lizabth at July 03, 2012 03:10 AM (JZBti)

33 The "fear" of an Art5 convention getting "out of control" is statist agit-prop. Hell, after Robert's backstab, how could what we have be worse.

Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 03:11 AM (wwZVW)

34 And if I hear one more newscaster hook this to global warming, I am going to explode.

It is verboten. You might start a fire.

Posted by: pep at July 03, 2012 03:12 AM (YXmuI)

35 I see the War of Northern Agresssion continues

Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 03:14 AM (wwZVW)

36 In ten days, I will have a computer capable of running CivV. I've been playing the hell out of IV since 2006.

>>In short, it is a cool Summer so far.

I lol'd. It's been too hot to go outside since Memorial Day weekend, and hit triple digits here in June. Low humidity, though.

Just remember, when they talk about "all-time" highs, they mean since they started keeping data in the late 19th century, and "normal" means "the average between 1970 and 2000"...or have they switched to 1980-2010 already? It's just a thirty year average, either way. It's a bullshit word. "Normal" high for today might be 89, but 95 is not "abnormal" in July.

Proggs could never have pushed this global warming crap so successfully if "educators" hadn't spent the last 40 years replacing math curricula with social justice. Harrumph.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 03, 2012 03:14 AM (hO8IJ)

37 #32 The only good thing is that the Japanese beetles are absent. My son, who works in landscape, has seen nary a one. We think they cannot burrow out through the rock hard soil. This is the 3rd year we have had a prolonged hot and dry spell when they are supposed to emerge, so we are hoping it has wiped them out for a while.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 03, 2012 03:14 AM (GoIUi)

38 Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 07:11 AM (wwZVW)

Exactly and I believe it is our only and last chance to fix things. Supreme Court rulings and the sackless Republican Party, as demonstrated with the highway bill among others, shows that they will NOT fix things in Washington. So we must move outside of Washington.

Continuing on the present course will either result in collapse and degeneration into mass violent upheaval or revolution which will accomplish the same thing.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:15 AM (YdQQY)

39 And if I hear one more newscaster hook this to global warming, I am going to explode. When I was a kid in the '50s everything was caused by nuclear testing: "Sure has been rainy this year." "It's all that atomic bomb stuff."

Posted by: Daybrother at July 03, 2012 03:15 AM (JRepv)

40 Top o' the mornin', teabaggers!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at July 03, 2012 03:15 AM (ph70Q)

Oh, so it's Algonquin stories today? Other than Dorothy Parker's comment after a miscarriage - "Looks like I put all my eggs in one bastard" - I got nothing. But here's a Hollywood story about language:

Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Studios (and the man who gypped the Three Stooges out of a fortune) stormed into a story conference one morning totally pissed off. "Goddammit!" he shouted, "do I have to do everything around here?" When asked what was wrong, he raged, "I may not be a college man, but I know goddamn well people in Bible times didn't go around saying 'yes, siree' and 'no, siree!" The writers agreed. "Well, then, what's it doing in the script?" Cohn fumed. An astonished Clifford Odets, who happened to be at the conference, asked "Where?. Cohn slapped the script down on the table and pointed to a page. As the writers gathered around, they followed Cohn's finger to read yes, sire and no, sire.

There was a long silence before one of the writers finally said, "We'll fix it, Harry."

Vic, I can't get that link on Romney to open. Did he really say 'liar' about the dog-eating retard? Because he better get used to saying that 24/7.

OK, off to work. See you morons later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 03, 2012 03:17 AM (zF6Iw)

42 My daughter picked up a TIME special issue about conspiracy theories as a joke for a guy she dates.

She was horrified to see it written in juvenile and almost moronic language, like something for a 5th grader.

I told her she needs to read some of the reporters who post on Twitter, and then she wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 03, 2012 03:17 AM (GoIUi)

43 Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 07:11 AM (wwZVW)

Art 5 couldn't take us to a worse place than our current politicians and courts are trying to take us. The agit-prop is loudest from the pols that have the most to lose if the people reclaim some of their power.

I keep thinking of the Gulliver's Travels analogy where the people have been slowly and incrementally tied down by millions of tiny threads (regulation/laws/"penalties) until they can no longer move at all.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:17 AM (i3+c5)

44 #39 OMG! You reminded me of my dad, who always said stuff like that! Sometimes he blamed it on the moon shots!

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 03, 2012 03:19 AM (GoIUi)

45 Oh, and while I was at the hospital last night (with a friend, I'm fine, resolved to eat more vegetables though), gas went from $3.11 to $3.45, which is an 11% increase. Did something happen, or just gouging for the holiday?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 03, 2012 03:20 AM (hO8IJ)

46 I'll get my bit of pollyannaish sunshine in early. For those who are wailing, gnashing teeth, and rending garments, try reading the post about VDH's last column. It's at datechguyblog.com.

Proof positive? Of course not, but a needed dose of all is not lost.

Posted by: pep at July 03, 2012 03:20 AM (YXmuI)

47 Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 03, 2012 07:14 AM (hO8IJ)

Government statistics are prepared by a Civil Service employee that couldn't pass a math class, based on inaccurate data and faulty estimates, and released by an unaccountable bureaucrat with a political agenda.

What could possibly go wrong!

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:20 AM (i3+c5)

48 Vic, I can't get that link on Romney to open. Did he really say 'liar' about the dog-eating retard?

I just checked it and it works fine for me. What he said was Obama's statements about Bain were "vicious lies".

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:21 AM (YdQQY)

49 News Alert: 6.2 earthquake off the coast of NZ. Standby for some Tsunamis.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:22 AM (YdQQY)

50 Well "r" doesn't make red.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:23 AM (YdQQY)

51 The founders should have required an Art5 convention every twenty years. I guess they thought they had it covered with the Senators being beholden to the States.

Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 03:24 AM (wwZVW)

52 Posted by: Anderson Cooper at July 03, 2012 07:15 AM (ph70Q)

Better to be a tea-bagger than a tea-bag-e, eh Mrs. Cooper?

Posted by: Samuel Adams at July 03, 2012 03:24 AM (ZOf1l)

53 @37 Yep, we thought we escaped 'em, too. Then came the rain. So, there's the sunny side of drought, I guess.

Posted by: Lizabth at July 03, 2012 03:24 AM (JZBti)

54 Red-white-and-blue kittehs!
http://is.gd/AMYD9R

#4 made me lol.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 03, 2012 03:27 AM (hO8IJ)

55 Looks like Obama would rather start a war than talk about the economy. We' re about to defend the Straits of Hormooz from Iranian blockades or some shit.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 03, 2012 03:29 AM (QVBzT)

Feds claim the AZ wildfire caused by shooting a special shotgun shell at a bachelor party. 50 years ago I would have believed them. Not any more. There have been too many lies form our government in the past 50 years and in the past 4 years the number has increased exponentially. Especially in regard to anything dealing with guns.<<<<<

Google Image search "dragon's breath shotgun" and see if you still think that.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 03, 2012 03:29 AM (JDIKC)

57 In a prepared statement, Mammoth Lakes officials said "bankruptcy, unfortunately, is the only option left" for the town, whose largest creditor, Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition, had won a state court order requiring full payment by June 30, 2012. The developer, which had invested in some improvements at the airport, filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the town after it refused to move forward with the hotel project until the FAA policy issues were resolved. The court found the city had not lived up to its end of the bargain. The town plans to ask the bankruptcy court to approve a payment plan it claims is the most it can afford without jeopardizing the safety of residents and tourists: $500,000 a year over the next 10 years.

Posted by: LA Times at July 03, 2012 03:30 AM (BAnPT)

58 Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 07:24 AM (wwZVW)

As far as I can tell, the Founders put all the necessary tools in the Constitution to allow the people to redirect the course of the federal government. Unfortunately, the political class soon figured out that they could do quite well for themselves by using other people's money for redistribution. The Founders knew that government power attracts evil people (having seen a mostly monarchical Europ, but I think even they underestimated the sheer venality of this century's (1900-2012) political class!

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:32 AM (i3+c5)

59 Google Image search "dragon's breath shotgun" and see if you still think that.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 03, 2012 07:29 AM (JDIKC)

Oh I don't doubt that such a shell exists. I just will not take the fed's saying that it caused the big fire as gospel.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:34 AM (YdQQY)

60 Do I get it?

A CA land developer sues a town because the FAA enforced a newer policy preventing the development as contracted. The developer does not negotiate with the town of 600 residents over terms of repayment, preferring to squeeze blood from rock turnips.

Given that it's the FAA policy, sue the FAA for causing breach of contract. Fat chance.

Why is the onus on the town and not the developers to complete as contracted v. FAA policy? The developers are responsible for abiding by land restrictions and codes, that includes whatever FAA policy.

Posted by: maverick muse at July 03, 2012 03:37 AM (BAnPT)

61 Hrothgar, the disconnection of the Federal and State governments is one they didnt foresee. How in the world did that amendment get passed?

Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 03:37 AM (wwZVW)

62 3 "You Lie!" Joe Wilson precedence.

So is McCain appalled by Romney's pronouncement?

Posted by: maverick muse at July 03, 2012 03:39 AM (BAnPT)

63 Today's celebrity birthdays: Adm. Ray Spruance (bushwhacker) Richard Mellon Scaife (beau coup bucks) Harrison "Jack" Schmidt (Apollo 17) Lamar Alexander (flannel-wearin' RINO) Gloria Allred (commie lawyer) Kurtwood Smith ("take a look at my face, Dick!") Dave Barry (still brings teh funneh) Betty Buckley (don't eye her lemon drink) Jam Smithers (WKRP) Montel Williams (nice earrings) Laura Branigan (80's pipes) Tom Cruise (L. Ron would be proud) Yeardley Smith (funny voice) Julian Assange (squeal, piggy!)

Posted by: Gran at July 03, 2012 03:41 AM (p8FXV)

64 Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 07:37 AM (wwZVW)

They thought the States would be more diligent in protecting their individual 10th Amendment rights, and that the States would never be so ignorant that they would open the polls to those that had "no skin in the game", i.e., non-landowners and non-taxpayers.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:41 AM (i3+c5)

65 I know without looking it's Davis-Montham AFB outside Tucson.

Posted by: Grant S at July 03, 2012 03:42 AM (dsCnE)

66 Hrothgar, the disconnection of the Federal and State governments is one they didnt foresee. How in the world did that amendment get passed?

Posted by: Jean at July 03, 2012 07:37 AM (wwZVW)

The federal government became supreme after the war of 1861. That as when the Constitution as written and understood by the founders ceased to exist. But it actually started falling apart much sooner than that in the 1850s.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:42 AM (YdQQY)

@59

The guy admitted he started the fire and that it got out of control. He called 911 and said "I started the fire and it got out of control."

When the cops showed up to question him, he handed them a box of shotgun shells and said, "This is what I used to start the fire that got out of control."

I've been involved in no less than a dozen large range fires started by a wee bit of phosphorous from a tracer round. It is not at all far-fetched to assume that a 12-gauge shell that belches fire could do the same.

Especially when the guy fessed up.

"We knew nothing about gunwalking" = good example of government lying.

Confession from private citizen who started a fire = not an example of government lying.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 03, 2012 03:43 AM (JDIKC)

68 From Heather's kitteh link:

"I WANT YOU ... TO GIVE ME CHICKEN."

Must not have tuna in that household.

Posted by: Retread at July 03, 2012 03:44 AM (I2fq9)

69 And if I hear one more newscaster hook this to global warming, I am going to explode.

--

Imagine the talking heads as fireworks set off by their own hand.

Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 03, 2012 03:44 AM (BAnPT)

70 .......... and that the States would never be so ignorant that they would open the polls to those that had "no skin in the game", i.e., non-landowners and non-taxpayers.

The requirement to own property for voting had pretty much disappeared by the time the Constitution went into effect in 1789.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:45 AM (YdQQY)

71 new post up

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:46 AM (YdQQY)

72 Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 07:42 AM (YdQQY)

Yes, the unraveling of the Constitution started earlier, but 1861 was the beginning of the transformative event that continues to this day.

Is it any wonder why liberals don't like the Second Amendment?

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 03, 2012 03:46 AM (i3+c5)

73 Has anyone else read/seen "Civilization, The West and the Rest", by Niall Ferguson? Man, that guy is spot on regarding the rise and collapse of Western Civilization. Premise is based on why the West became great, while other regions did not, and why turning our back on those values is dooming us to failure (duh, I know). Can't believe PBS sponsored it though. I want to make every leftist puke read it due to is straight-forward approach. Forgive me if its been covered here already, but thought it was worth recommending. Carry on.

Posted by: Shannon at July 03, 2012 03:46 AM (QxDuX)

74 I have not been able to talk to the guy who "confessed". I don't believe them.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 03:49 AM (YdQQY)

75 Possible long-term good news for East Coast users of petroleum products, if there are any left: Carlyle takes over Sun Philadelphia for free, with future twinkie-vendor Sunoco retaining 1/3 of any profit they may someday make. Over $200 mil to bring her back up, PA govt to contribute $25 mil of that to save the 850 jobs, possible 200 more.

Sun's former Toledo plant was scooped up by former Phillips guys, the labor honeymoon ain't over yet, and it's making $5 mil a day.

Philly's the largest refinery on the coast, dumped because (1) Sun ran it to death (2) presumed insufficient pipeline to get Bakken crude, committing it to high-price EuroBrent. New operator will use tank cars (!) lots of them, but let's not forget that Phil (and Marcus Hook) were there because that's where the oil was, and by god sir there is still oil down there. Sweet, paraffin-base, Pennsylvania oil. Prettiest oil in the world. You can wash your hands in it.

Posted by: comatus at July 03, 2012 03:52 AM (ZOlM3)

76 US Forest Service moved in last night and turned the high school into a tent city. We have a wildfire raging thru beetlekill forest and crunchy grass about 30 miles SW of town with 0% containment.

Posted by: small town girl at July 03, 2012 03:54 AM (q7YYY)

77 58 ...I think even they underestimated the sheer venality of this century's (1900-2012) political class! -- Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf)

--

HONOR
Men of honor, an age when one's honor/integrity was integral to being acceptable, gone.

Clinton endorsed today's Era as "Because I Could" enjoy authoritarian depravity.

And the SCOTUS endorsed "Stolen Valor" as a "constitutional right" for anyone to abuse.

Posted by: maverick muse at July 03, 2012 03:54 AM (BAnPT)

78 Info beg: Can any Northeast morons give me the scoop on Bates College? and yes, I know it's a good place to get a Master's.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 03, 2012 03:54 AM (G9qZk)

79 Today's celebrity deathdays: AndrÃ© CitroÃ«n (shitty French cars, but I repeat myself) Trigger (bonding kindergartners' construction paper together since 1965) Brian Jones Jim Morrison ("big fat dead guy in a bathtub" - D. Leary) James Daly ("What is loneliness?" "It is thirst. It is a flower dying in the desert.") Jim Backus ("road hog!") Don Drysdale (Dodgers #53) RIP.

Posted by: Gran at July 03, 2012 03:55 AM (p8FXV)

80 Philly's the largest refinery on the coast, dumped because (1) Sun ran it to death (2) presumed insufficient pipeline to get Bakken crude, committing it to high-price EuroBrent. New operator will use tank cars (!) lots of them, but let's not forget that Phil (and Marcus Hook) were there because that's where the oil was, and by god sir there is still oil down there. Sweet, paraffin-base, Pennsylvania oil. Prettiest oil in the world. You can wash your hands in it.

Posted by: comatus at July 03, 2012 07:52 AM (ZOlM3)

Thanks for that post. It's nice to hear something positive for once. Every bit of refining capacity is precious.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 03, 2012 03:58 AM (xUM1Q)

81 Oops - that's Jan Smithers.

Posted by: Gran at July 03, 2012 03:58 AM (p8FXV)

74I have not been able to talk to the guy who "confessed". I don't believe them.<<<

Well, that's certainly a reasonable standard of proof. Be sure to contact his lawyer.

I look at that article and think, "Nice going dickhead. Irresponsible gun users like you make us all work harder on the Pro-2A side."

Lots of gun owners are dumbfucks. By his own admission, this is one of them. Not the guy you want to rally around in furtherance of the Second Amendment.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 03, 2012 04:01 AM (JDIKC)

Oh, great - I check in at Ann Barnhardt's blog and see that the worthless dicksmoke McConnell saying that even with repeal, Obastardcare is going to be 'hard to unwind.'

Well, that gets my "Independence" Day off to a good start. Dammit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 03, 2012 04:01 AM (zF6Iw)

84 @39, I had a neighbor, b.ca.1890 in England, who would say, every hot or snowy day, "It's all them damn rackets they're a-shootin orf." He died in 1965. FF almost 20 years, and a proto-warming activist owlishly informed me that every shuttle shot tore a 20-mile hole in the ozone.

I laughed in his face, and have not looked back. AFAIC, every day is The Day After.

Posted by: comatus at July 03, 2012 04:02 AM (ZOlM3)

85 SS isn't fraudulent

It sure as any entitlement turd is.
Govt. cannot invest in anything.
All it's predictions have always been BS.
They've "fixed" it twice and its still BS.

It may be popular but it's BS soup to nuts.

Any ArtV reboot ought to include a financial section reworked by some Luap Nor (what he says, not does) - honey badger permanently chasing politicos around their office. And a non-immunity section regarding Pineapples and the unfriendly ignited introduction thereof.

Posted by: DaveA at July 03, 2012 04:06 AM (864A5)

86 Morning folks.

Today I'm trying to battle depression over the ObamaTax by remembering that somehow we managed to overturn prohibition and the Wilson administration.

But every time I see one of these polls showing Obama leading, it makes me nuts.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 03, 2012 04:14 AM (FJP6/)

87 The press is still making a big deal out of $2M people being without power still. What was the phrase Gabe had about all caps STUPENDOUS etc?

What we are seeing here is a LOT of people in the Midwest experiencing what we in the SE routinely experience when a hurricane comes through and does widespread damage.

When large swathes of the grid are knocked out it can take a long long time to restore power. How fast you personally get power back depends on three things. (1) Are your local neighborhood lines intact. (2) How far are you from a feeder line (3) Are yuo in a densely populated area.

When Hugo came through I got power back in 4 or 5 days. My neighborhood wires are underground and I am only a block away from a feeder line. Most people outside of town took 10 days or so to get power back. Some people who lived in remote areas were without power for months.

Of course if you are one of the few people who are on the "immediate restore" list you will get it back as soon as they can get it.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 04:21 AM (YdQQY)

88 We have to stop looking for the easy fix. There are no easy answers.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 03, 2012 08:16 AM (OWjjx)

You had best pray that it is an answer because the worthless bastards in DC are sure as hell not the answer.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 04:23 AM (YdQQY)

89 Yahoo's front page has this "news" story

Every politician's spouse is scrutinized once he or she steps onto the national stage, and Ann Romney, wife of Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, is next to come under the lens. In the months leading up to the election, what Mrs. Romney wears will be examined as much as what she says. So far, we've seen her wearing everything from bold patterns to form fitting sheaths, but a clear style has not yet emerged. We wondered: Does Ann Romney need a fashion makeover? Â“The ShineÂ” sat down with stylist-to-the-stars Robert Verdi to find out.

Yes, a big news story is to ask some queen how Anne Romney should dress and be more stylish. Maybe if Anne went for the boob belts she'd be as fashionable as Aunt Esther Obama. Now that it appears that candidate's wives are fair game how about looking into Esther's $300,000 job that didn't exist before or after or her law license.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 03, 2012 04:28 AM (1Jaio)

90 Yes, the federal power grab in the 1860's started this "slippery slope" which stripped states of their Constitutional rights. Washington, for all purposes controls the country. The states did grant the federal gov. some powers and retained the rest. What little powers the states have today is only what the feds let the states keep. If the feds ever want them they will take them. This is why the federal gov. tells us now what kind of light bulb we may use or what speed limits should be.

Posted by: Case at July 03, 2012 04:30 AM (gyQY/)

91 Surely you jest. Only Republican wives and children have anything that should be "investigated".

Posted by: Anderson "Gay" Cooper at July 03, 2012 04:31 AM (YdQQY)

92 Surely you jest. Only Republican wives and children have anything that should be "investigated".

Posted by: Anderson "Gay" Cooper at July 03, 2012 08:31 AM (YdQQY)

I'm not. And don't call me Shirley

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 03, 2012 04:35 AM (1Jaio)

93 74 Healthy skepticism allows an ounce of prevention...

One thing leads to another. Bad intentions have usurped the good, small scale to wholesale.

It is FAR TOO EASY for villains to use current law to destroy the innocent with Alinsky methodology, for sadistic pleasure if for no other reason, "Because I Could".

Federal and State officials have abused authority to the extent that our civil liberties no longer exist by laws "intended" to protect us from ourselves, empowering officials to afflict misery "for our own good" and their profit at taxpayer citizenry's incomprehensible expense; ex: ObamaCare.

We are our only hope. We must not relent in our demand for Constitutional Governance.

Posted by: maverick muse at July 03, 2012 04:38 AM (BAnPT)

94 Roberts changed his vote because he is a queer. The Administration threatened to out him and bring some of his boyfriends forward.

Posted by: alans4 at July 03, 2012 04:51 AM (bBBdT)

95 Vic, if you're still around, you might want to check the site Civ Fanatics. The modders seems to have found a way to get past the graphics issues with Civ IV (the memory leak) and are in the process of implementing it. Search for "viewports" if you're interested.

The mod I'm playing currently, Caveman to Cosmos, is about as comprehensive a civ experience as you're going to find, or if the base game is enough, there are mods just for the interface and fixing the AI and such.

Posted by: Methos at July 03, 2012 05:05 AM (6LvlL)

96 #95 You have no evidence of this, and are just making it up in order to stir the pot.

Pffft.

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 03, 2012 05:05 AM (GoIUi)

Posted by: Reactionary at July 03, 2012 07:58 AM (xUM1Q)

___

And Mayor Nutter, who went on an anti-private equity diatribe on Piers Morgan's show last month...made sure he was shoulder to shoulder with Carlyle Group honchos for the photo op.

Posted by: kallisto at July 03, 2012 05:22 AM (jm/9g)

You got nothing? Well, here's something.

Obama decided the Navy wasn't "green" enough so they're now launching the great green fleet. The alternative fuel is only 9 times more expensive than the good old fashion gaia destroying stuff.

http://tinyurl.com/bq456zo

Posted by: rockhead at July 03, 2012 06:08 AM (jtTKf)

99 You got nothing? Well, here's something.
Obama decided the Navy wasn't "green" enough so they're now launching the great green fleet. The alternative fuel is only 9 times more expensive than the good old fashion gaia destroying stuff.
http://tinyurl.com/bq456zo

Posted by: rockhead at July 03, 2012 10:08 AM (jtTKf)

Gay "pride" at the Pentagon and a "green" navy. Next up rainbow colored Prius tanks

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 03, 2012 06:14 AM (1Jaio)

100 Thanks for the per-usual nauseating and depressing headlines, Vic. Whoud'a thunk...congressional resound get another legislative ass-pounding and the donks get pretty much everything they wanted except a bike path. A. Bike. Path. And these are the saviors that will rescue us from ObamaTax? I see even our stalwart conservative hero, Alan West went along and voted yes. Can someone please explain to me where exactly where all the gas tax and toll money goes if not to road improvement? Never mind...I don't wanna know.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 03, 2012 06:32 AM (T1Xcv)

101 Resound=repubs. Friggin auto-correct.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 03, 2012 06:36 AM (T1Xcv)

102 an someone please explain to me where exactly where all the gas tax and toll money goes if not to road improvement? Never mind...I don't wanna know.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 03, 2012 10:32 AM (T1Xcv)

Some of the Republicans wanted to halt that little Democrat innovation and put it in this bill. RINO Mica agreed to take it out.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 06:46 AM (YdQQY)

103 Civ V Gods & Kings is digital crack.

Posted by: amidoinitright at July 03, 2012 06:49 AM (CbzSx)

104 Oh, I see. Comfort in that Mica is playing the log game. Well get em eventually.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 03, 2012 06:49 AM (T1Xcv)

105 Log game. Can we come?

Posted by: Barney Fwank & Andrrson Cooper at July 03, 2012 06:59 AM (T1Xcv)

106 Off, ghey sock!

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at July 03, 2012 07:03 AM (T1Xcv)

107 You know those SCOAMF bumper stickers that say

Killed Bin Laden, Saved GM

Right

Government Motors: As GM shares near record low, taxpayer loss on bailout rises to $35 billion

http://tinyurl.com/79mx9ye

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2012 07:04 AM (Y+DPZ)

108 Andy's best role may have been "Lonesome Rhodes" in the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd"

Posted by: kbdabear at July 03, 2012 07:10 AM (Y+DPZ)

109 Well due to Redistricting he will have to fight it out with Sandy Adams who is a little better than him. Maybe she will win.

Posted by: Vic at July 03, 2012 07:17 AM (YdQQY)

110 79

It was a grim day for many Iranians today as the nation commemorated the 24th anniversary of the 1988 attack on Flight 655, an Iranian passenger airliner that was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz by the US Navy, killing all 290 civilians aboard. The Iranian Foreign Ministry blasted the US for the killings, adding that to this day the US has refused to apologize for the attack. The warshipÂ’s commander, William C. Rogers III, was later given the Legion of Merit by George H.W. Bush for his Â“service as a commanding officer.Â”

Posted by: 1000 pts of lite at July 03, 2012 08:13 AM (BAnPT)

111

#67, having used "dragon's breath" 12 gauge loads before, I recommend firing them only from an asbestos boat in the middle of the ocean, in a rainstorm. Those fucking things are no joke.

On the other hand, they'd probably be the tits for vampires.

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at July 03, 2012 08:29 AM (Ehv6U)

112 DHS is leading the way in protecting sexual rights http://tinyurl.com/6sjqupo

Posted by: Dr Eviler at July 03, 2012 09:04 AM (VtutD)

113 <i>test</i> test

Posted by: CoolCzech at July 03, 2012 11:36 AM (Iaxlk)

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