1 Status of this post: Sucks

2 Everything tastes more or less like chicken.

3 alive

4 You can be anywhere in "10 minutes" if you are willing to drive fast enough.

5 It was a wonderful post constitution 4th in the hutch.

Now let's get out there and elect Romney so he can dismantle Obamacare and nominate strict constructionists to the SCOTUS.

6 The stick is ribbed for yall's pleasure.

7 For example, if you wanted to get to Mars in 10 minutes you could if you were willing to drive at 947 million miles/hr.

8 Where am I and what happened to my pants?

9 Bleh.  2 more workdays til the weekend.

10 Well, all fingers and toes accounted for is as far as I can go. And good morning, fellow serfs.

11 2 Everything tastes more or less like chicken. Posted by: Hopped up on Something at July 05, 2012 06:44 AM (BDj4t) Or tuna, the chicken of the sea...

12 Vic pre-warned he's city-bound and linkless this AM.

So we can either surf out of the harbor of Moronica in search of content or just start making crap up about each others socks.

13 Morning 'rons. Go vulgary direct yourselves.

14 My sock is kind of crusty. What is that white film?

15 Wow, I'm in Vic withdrawal already. Where else could I possibly get my morning links?

16

On this day, in 1935 President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, which provided for a National Labor Relations Board, and authorized labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.

 

I don't have the time/energy to make up a Vic-worthy rant.

17 In better news (olds?), on this day in 1946 the bikini made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris.

18 All fingers and toes present and accounted for. No bail bondsmen involved. you'd make a terrible chemist.

19 Jim Geraughty of NRO says Obama's Super PAC is outspending ALL of the pro-Romney Super PACS  by a 2:1 margin.  He has figures and lists to prove it.

http://tinyurl.com/brbygws

20 When i woke up April 16 in the morning, i realized my government had given me a date rape drug.

21

Good morning, Moron Nation.  Can't say I enjoyed myself very much yesterday.  Got up, tried to write, tore it up then went back downstairs to grab a bottle of Bushmill's and watch 1776 to remind myself we used to be willing to fight for freedom.

 

But, bear in mind, I'm almost always depressed to some degree or other, so it was a regular day for me.

 

Today saw the release of the Douglas Fairbanks film Wild and Woolly in 1917.  The scenario was written by Anita Loos, a very talented writer who is best known today for the book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.  The movie is the usual "fish out of water learns to adapt" story, as Doug grows from effete Easterner to tough Western hero.  It was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which was home to a large number of studios - including Fox, Pathe and Solax - before the general exodus to California.

 

And so, with that, I give you a Fairbanks story: 

 

One morning in 1926, Fairbanks arrived on the United Artists lot full of excitement at the box office success of his new movie, The Black Pirate.  But about an hour later, Joseph Schenck, the head of UA, saw him stumbling around, his hand clutching a piece of paper and a dazed look in his eyes.  "My God, Doug, what's the matter?" Schenck exclaimed.  "Has something happened to Mary?" (Pickford, Fairbanks' wife).  Fairbanks looked blankly at Schenck for a moment, then handed him the paper.  It was a letter from an exhibitor, enclosing a check, explaining that he had made so much money from a week's showing of The Black Pirate that his conscience bothered him and he was sending some of it to Fairbanks.

 

I'll be popping in and out while I deal with two more days of (ugh) work.  Hope all you 'rons and 'ronettes have a wonderful day.

22 Bob Woodward's new book has dirt on Obama. Some dirt known some new: http://tinyurl.com/32wsxbz

23 still outrageously hot in Southern Virginia.  no rain in sight.  drought here, folks

24 Ditto Indiana.  100 yesterday, and probably every day until October.  Lawn is dead.

The 70% chance of rain for Sunday has been downgraded to 50%, and I expect it will be downgraded to "mostly sunny" by Sunday morning.

25 Re: any possible October Surprise... http://tinyurl.com/85sp4db Turn the crank on your combinatorics machine a few times (the one with that sort of steam punk look): does anyone else get "Obama's Parthian Shot"? (President Romney: "I inherited an intractable regional conflict,, one that I know 30% of Dem.-Commie primary voters think we should lose.")

26 you have 70% chance of rain?  wow.  the Weather Channel won't even give us that big of a lie

27 Carlie Rangel's lead is suddenly shrinking. 79 of the election districts in his congressional district recorded zero votes. That's 15% of his district magically recording no votes at all for anyone. Oddly, some are suspicious Heh. http://tinyurl.com/87zphmt

28 I think I'm still swollen with swine from yesterday. Pork poisoning. Good morning, fellow slaves.

29
Chuck E. Cheese gets makeover

Chuck E. CheeseÂ’s new national ad campaign features this updated image of the companyÂ’s mascot. The company will retire both the giant rodentÂ’s outdated image and the man who provided its voice. CEC Entertainment Inc. says it plans to launch a national ad campaign today with a revamped image of Chuck E. Cheese as a hip, electric-guitar-playing rock star.

The new Chuck E. Cheese that launches this week will be voiced by Jaret Reddick, the lead singer for the pop-punk band Bowling for Soup. The Chuck E. Cheese Facebook page now shows a silhouette of a cartoon mouse playing a guitar.




"So he's proactive, huh?"

30 to die of pork poisoning...we should all be so lucky

31 Good morning all

32 Hey,  maybe we should start a new business and get in on the ground floor!  I just ran across a company in Canada that is selling MEDICAL WAIT LIST INSURANCE,  because "sooner or later,  every Canadian gets put on a wait list."

http://www.acurehealth.com/

33
Porn condom measure qualifies for ballot
           
A ballot measure asking Los Angeles County voters whether porn actors should be required to wear condoms during filming has received enough signatures to qualify for the November election, a county elections official said.

Los Angeles Times




Cold, dead hands.

34 Ah, love the smell of Independence in the morning!

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“No taxation without representation” was the unifying theme behind much of Samuel Adams’s rhetoric, including this line from his speech protesting the Sugar Act:

    For if our Trade may be taxed, why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & everything we possess or make use of?

John Roberts, call your office.


"The 7 Most Badass Founding Fathers: Celebrating the men who had the guts to commit treason against the world's most powerful empire."
By David Forsmark, PJ Media, July 4, 2012

35 I appreciate a capacious posterior and I cannot prevaricate.

36 Posted by: Hopped up on Something at July 05, 2012 07:28 AM (BDj4t)

Charlie and the dems are slipping when the cheating is this obvious.  I am waiting for the "ballot warehouse" to unexpectedly be found AND be full of votes for Charlie.  He will not go gentle into that good night!

37 I wonder which actors in future movies will play the part of Obama? I'm thinking Tom Cruise. He was really good in Tropic Thunder.

38 @31:  "Very few cartoons are broadcast live, Homer.  It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists."

39 "Porn condom measure qualifies for ballot

A ballot measure asking Los Angeles County voters whether porn actors should be required to wear condoms during filming has received enough signatures to qualify for the November election, a county elections official said."


Please vote yes.

40 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 05, 2012 07:40 AM (kdS6q)

There is now nothing under the sun that cannot be regulated or taxed. 

The mandate term will probably be retired due to Roberts unilateral linkage to taxes.  We should expect to see a lot more mandatory requirements emanating from the penumbra of the ruling classes.

Where's that brochure from Belize again?

41

"Can Cruz Pull It Off?" by Katrina Trinko, NRO

Hell, yes.

"Katrina"

Their debate made no impact? Bull shit. Cruz mopped the floor with Dewhurst. All Dewhurst could do was try to reword what Cruz just iterated perfectly. TRY unsuccessfully at that, with arms flaying like a born again preacher trying to gather in the flock. Dewhurst is pathetic. He actually cried, "I'm the only one with secret service experience!"

42 I hate HATE Chuck E. Cheese.

Nice to know I won't need to change that any time soon.

As far as drought, we've had one brief mild rain in the last two months.  Our lawns crunch when you walk across them.

43 On this day in 1789 the french were still working themselves into a frenzy. They hadn't yet stormed the Bastille, hadn't yet started ripping people's heads off their bodies and sticking them on poles, hadn't yet decided it was ok to install a new form of dictatorship, free of any connection to religion or their own monarchy. In other words, when you compare the American revolution to the french, there is no comparison.

44 Charlie and the dems are slipping when the cheating is this obvious. I am waiting for the "ballot warehouse" to unexpectedly be found AND be full of votes for Charlie. He will not go gentle into that good night!
Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 05, 2012 07:45 AM

Are they really slipping, or just realizing that they don't have to try so hard to cover their tracks?

After all, what is the penalty in Bark Obama's America for liberals lying, cheating, or even committing treason? Will the media howl for action when wrongdoing is uncovered? Will Congress pass meaningful, enforceable laws to make miscreant "servants of the people" toe the line? Will voters hold the worthless eunuchs in D.C. accountable?

I think you know the answer, and it ain't the right answer.

45 "Dishonest John" Roberts sold out the Constitution last week for a mess of pottage--accolades from the Left.  Now Mitt Romney appears to be selling out the health care system.  But then, he originally sold it out long ago as governor.

Of course, this should not come as a surprise.  Romney always was for a health care mandate before he was against it.

The Spectacle Blog
"Romney Surrender Follows Roberts Surrender"
By Doug Bandow on 7.3.12

46
Looking "presidential" while ducking for cover.

Taking off for Israel, unavailable for comment.

47 Glerp. Yesterday was great. Now I'm in a hotel, was up from 2 to 4am with a coughing child and have to get one kid up, fed and to camp and then do a few other complicated maneuvers . Yeh, I'm sticking with "glerp ".

48 Today's celebrity birthdays: Adm. David Farragut (torpedo condemner) P.T. Barnum (very interested in the sucker birth rate) Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (vet, senator, ambassador) Warren Oates ("lemme hear your guns!") Katherine Helmond (Soap actress) William Hootkins (Porkins! Major Eaton! Lt. Eckhardt!) Huey Lewis (the News came later) Goose Gossage (pitched for 9 teams) Marc Cohn (still walkin' in Memphis) Edie Falco (almost slept with one-half of Riptide) Kathryn Erbe (L&O:CI) Eva Green (Bond girl)

49 good morning!

50 My daughter received a text yesterday...Drinking English tea on the 4th of July, How awkward.

We chuckled.

51 45 And to his dismay, Thomas Jefferson came to recognize that.

52 The American Revolution was a rebellion of the landowners, merchants, and middle class.  The French Revolution was the 18th century's version of OWS.

53 Morning all. Had my last Mt. Dew for a while, since I am allowed no hot drinks or soda for two weeks. Last night was odd for me. Both kids took off to see Spiderman with friends, the younger got taken by the older to meet hers at theatre, etc. Hubby on 24 hr call. Suddenly, I had a taste of what it will be like here soon. Just a glimpse of life after kids.

54 Thomas Jefferson came to recognize that.

IMO, Jefferson was the most overrated of the FFs.  Sure he could write, but he was wrong on so many other things, including the FR.  He also died a bankrupt because he couldn't control his spending, leaving lots of others holding the bag.  As Franklin might have said, responsibility begins at home.

55 Good luck Mamma AJ. Lots of caffeine today.

56 Not to mention duplicity, torpedoing his own president while he was veep, and generally undercutting Washington.

57 yep, i'm still dead.

58 Oh, and conducting foreign policy as a private citizen.

59

Day three of ten+ of not eating food, following the advice of a documentary I saw last week called Fat, Sick and Almost Dead on Netflix. Day three isn't too bad, day one was a bitch. Just drinking "green produce" juice and down 7 pounds.  

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Place scorn here:

60 "The American Revolution was a rebellion of the landowners, merchants, and middle class."           -As will be The American Revolution II.

61 >>After all, what is the penalty in Bark Obama's America for liberals lying, cheating, or even committing treason?

At the state level, promotion to a federal sinecure (see Culver, Chet). At the federal level, promotion to a lobbyist group or Soros think-tank for three or four times the salary, until the public's attention wanes and you can get back into a different federal agency.


Tangentially:
Deval Patrick may replace Holder as AG in SCOAMF's second term.
http://is.gd/ztYEM1

62 @47
How unfortunate for your post that he destroyed the argument you make yesterday.  Said OCare IS a tax because the Supremes say it is, even though he disagreed with their interpretation. 

Get over the Romney hate. 

63 The American colonists were impatient and immature. The British would have given them independence eventually just like they did for all their other colonies.

64 Thanks, SAR. And good luck to you on your procedure. I'm still getting used to the kids being occupied in another room for an hour or two without needing me...

65 53   Given that Franklin passed away in 1790, he wasn't around to comment on the worst of France's destabilization that lasted for decades, revolution blood bath after revolution.

At least two steps removed, America from Europe then. Best thing, colonists leaving the Old World behind to forge a new life in a new world, willing to forfeit and REJECT monarchy as our Founders did, without insisting on the death of remaining Monarchs and aristocracy. Free trade and self sufficiency, with reminders in the Monroe Doctrine for Europe to keep a healthy distance from military enterprises in the Americas.

The French in France who wanted to HAVE France rather than leave and start anew, their revolution's final solution is history: off with their heads. Blood lust ensued. While they were at it, conquer the world propagandizing "liberty, equality and brotherhood."

Sickening to find America replicating what we so clearly denounce of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars Empire.

66 #64 - Romney came late to the party on that admission.  Two of his top advisers have been claiming the mandate was not a tax.  Then the WSJ took Romney to task rather brutally.  Next day Romney declares it is a "tax".

This was a stupid, unforced error on Romney's part.

(btw - I am voting for Romney in November.)

67

The American Revolution was a rebellion of the landowners, merchants, and middle class." -As will be The American Revolution II.

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Did they call it a "middle class" back then? I was under the impression that dumbocrats are the ones that classify humans to the n'th degree, including ways they like to get off.

68 The American colonists were impatient and immature. The British would have given them independence eventually just like they did for all their other colonies. Posted by: my leftarded social studies teacher at July 05, 2012 08:10 AM (HjnLz)


Ha!  Loved that post.

Teachers spend so much time taking courses in how to teach, that by the time they graduate they haven't had very many courses in what they will teach.  The end result is that they are idiots and your kids are being made in their mold.

State certification standards drive this train.  You have to have "x" number of courses in "pedagogy" but in the subject you're going to teach...eh, not so many.  Why are the standards so corrupt?  Because the teachers unions bought them fair and square years ago.

69 Get over the Romney hate.

Posted by: pep at July 05, 2012 08:09 AM (YXmuI)

I thought Romney threaded the needle quite well and linked Obama to taxes!

70 64 "Oh, and conducting foreign policy as a private citizen." lol

"Hate"? the bigotry rant. No tolerance for constitutional conservancy.

Did you bother reading the article before pronouncing "hate"? No.

71 Romney was right the first time.

The individual mandate is not a tax.

Roberts is full of shit and he knows it. The case was wrongly decided.

The GOP jackasses who think we should embrace Roberts's bullshit to score a cheap political point need to be fucked up the ass with the barbed strap-on of Michelle Obama.

72 Today's celebrity deathdays: Max Klinger (the real one) Ted Williams (popsicle) Adm. James Stockdale (patriot) Ken Lay (Enron dirtbag) RIP.

73 I was under the impression that dumbocrats are the ones that classify humans to the n'th degree, including ways they like to get off.  Posted by: Hal Burton at July 05, 2012 08:15 AM (iYvMQ)


4,357 ways to be exact!

74 LOL Mamma AJ!!! I remember those days! My youngest is starting high school this August. Where does time go?? I remember being a Young Republican for Reagan back in the day..... though I wasn't that young at the time mind you. Well, enjoy the day and good luck.

75 Maybe it's just me, but the whole "well, in Massachusetts Romneycare was defined as a penalty, but Obamacare was defined as a tax" excuse seems a distinction without a difference.  Somebody needs to either put a muzzle on Fehrnstrom or kick him off the campaign, because he just keeps giving the dog-eating retard more ammunition.

76 You fools!  I have only given you a glimpse of what's coming to you. Bow down, and kneel before your new G_d and I shall take mercy on you!

77 >>Did they call it a "middle class" back then?

Craftsmen?  Smiths, cabinetmakers, coopers, potters, etc--skilled labor and/or small businessmen (also not phrases they used).

78 Somebody needs to either put a muzzle on Fehrnstrom or kick him off the campaign, because he just keeps giving the dog-eating retard more ammunition.

True, but this question was going to be pursued ad nauseum by O's media Praetorians, so it had to be dealt with sooner or later.  I would have preferred that it be on Mitt's timetable, not because of some campaign flunky.

79 27, I don't think war with Iran helps Obama. I think most people feel it is baked in, like Norkland. October surprises that concern me: 1. Biden "illness" resulting in a replacement with HRC or Mark Warner 2. European fiscal event, with a US intervention 3. European political event, just chaos not war 4. Wars that could allow him to act Presidential: Venz/Columbia, Panamanian civil war, Syria/et al, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan 5. First lady pregnant

80 >>Bow down, and kneel before your new G_d and I shall take mercy on you!

The last guy who said that wears mom jeans and throws like a girl.

81 78 You fools! I have only given you a glimpse of what's coming to you. Bow down, and kneel before your new G_d and I shall take mercy on you!

Posted by: Higgs Boson at July 05, 2012 08:19 AM (/ZZCn)

You have only 5 sigmas. I have 6!

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

83 79 >>Did they call it a "middle class" back then? Craftsmen? Smiths, cabinetmakers, coopers, potters, etc--skilled labor and/or small businessmen (also not phrases they used). Posted by: HeatherRadish has a headache at July 05, 2012 08:20 AM (hO8IJ) Isn't it amazing we have the ability to describe old things with new terms? A truly amazing people we are.

84 elect Romney so he can dismantle Obamacare and nominate strict constructionists to the SCOTUS.

Tease.

85

I can imagine Jeffersons initial reaction to someone standing and reciting the democrat platform during the contitutional debates. It would go a little something like this:

"W't  tha   fuck?"

86
According to Janet Napolitano:

If you are an American “suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty,” display a bumper sticker, own gold, are pro-life or even fly a U.S. flag, YOU are deemed a potential domestic threat by our own government.

87 I for one will be voting for Romney, but let's be real he will only be a marginally better steward of the federal beast than Obama.

And going by historical norms of GOP supreme court nominees, half of his
appointments will side with the progressives on the big defining issues.

We move in one direction and one direction only, leftward toward oblivion.

88 86 elect Romney so he can dismantle Obamacare and nominate strict constructionists to the SCOTUS. Tease. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 05, 2012 08:24 AM (8y9MW) How about, Elect Romney so we can finally learn to despise the GOP as much as the Dems.

89

Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at July 05, 2012 08:25 AM (7+pP9)

 

 

Damn Ed I'm all that and more

90 According to Janet Napolitano:

If you are an American “suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty,” display a bumper sticker, own gold, are pro-life or even fly a U.S. flag, YOU are deemed a potential domestic threat by our own government.

Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at July 05, 2012 08:25 AM (7+pP9)

They are counter-revolutionaries comrade and must be dealt with

91

@69.

 

I guess if a person was not dirt poor, a serf, or a slave they were considered middle class.  Samual Adams could be considered a crook since he was breaking British law by smuggling.  Yeah, some of the founders had personal reasons they wanted the British kicked out.

92 86 elect Romney so he can dismantle Obamacare and nominate strict constructionists to the SCOTUS. Tease. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 05, 2012 08:24 AM (8y9MW) Don't worry Mitch and Boner will keep him in line.

93 >>Isn't it amazing we have the ability to describe old things with new terms?

Do you ever wonder how you would explain the 21st century to the Founders? I don't think they even had a word for homosexuality; the concept that they're just as opressed as Africans imported in chains because they can't present themselves as "man and husband" in some states would blow their minds.

94
How about, Elect Romney so we can finally learn to despise the GOP as much as the Dems.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet



Too late.

95 If you are an American “suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty,” display a bumper sticker, own gold, are pro-life or even fly a U.S. flag, YOU are deemed a potential domestic threat by our own government.

Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at July 05, 2012 08:25 AM (7+pP9)

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Basicly if you describe yourself as believing in everything the founders believed in, you're an enemy of this new regime.

96 How about, Elect Romney so we can finally learn to despise the GOP as much as the Dems.

How about, "Elect Romney so we can wipe that smug smile off the SCOAMT's face?"  I'm good with that.  Let's not set the expectations too high, though.

Don't worry Mitch and Boner will keep him in line.

Thank you so much for that.  I needed a ragestroke at 7:30 in the morning.

97 @81 Love that #5! The salient maternal event, it almost goes without saying, would be the historic first White House abortion. To show solidarity with NYC Afro-American fetal mortality statistics, and all those Sangerites in the ruling class.

98 No bail bondsman?  Ur doin it wrong.

99 88
According to Janet Napolitano:

If you are an American “suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty,” display a bumper sticker, own gold, are pro-life or even fly a U.S. flag, YOU are deemed a potential domestic threat by our own government.

Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at July 05, 2012 08:25 AM (7+pP9)

How flattering! I guess I shouldn't tell her I'm just a drunk masturbating in front of my computer.

100 Basicly if you describe yourself as believing in everything the founders believed in, you're an enemy of this new regime.

I think my parents are finally becoming nearly as rabid as I am about absolutely destroying the Dog-eater (politically speaking, of course).  They were never really on the Obama bandwagon to begin with (pretty sure they both voted for McCain), but they were the kind of people who thought he was "nice" or whatever.

Not sure what changed, but I got a spate of emails (aside: I love the word "spate") from them over the 4th that were positively hostile to the SCOAMT.

101 Initial unemployment just 374000. Happy days are here again

102

CHICAGO (CBS) — Gunfire has taken another deadly toll on the city, leaving at least three people dead and 13 more wounded in shootings on the 4th of July alone.

At least two more victims were killed and eight more were injured in the hours between midnight and 5 a.m. Thursday.

Those damn pilgrims are at it again! (Recently the Chicago police commissioner blame violence in the black community on the pilgrims because they helped develop the African American experience in this country) The stupid is strong with this clown

103 Ah. Eating breakfast, sipping a latte, watching Wimbledon on a TV just for our booth. For the record, I can handle luxury ...

104
(AP) Mitt Romney's wife says her husband is thinking about picking a woman to be on his ticket this fall.

Ann Romney says in an interview, "We've been looking at that and I love that option as well."




American Politics: All tokenism and empty gestures you can eat.

105 >>The salient maternal event, it almost goes without saying, would be the historic first White House abortion.

My mind is blown.

I'm also envisioning a "send us money or we'll shoot this dog" moment: "We don't want to bring a new mouth to feed into the family if Daddy Barack is going to lose his job...re-elect us, or we'll abort."

106

Anyone who doesn't vote for SCoaMF will be deemed a domestic terrorist next time around.

And watching the dolt citizens sit and speak on Luntz last night made me shoot my TV.

OK I'm lying about the shooting part.

107 86 elect Romney so he can dismantle Obamacare and nominate strict constructionists to the SCOTUS. Tease. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 05, 2012 08:24 AM (8y9MW) I'm good with elect Mittens so we can see Malia cry

108 American Politics: All tokenism and empty gestures you can eat.

Since 2008, at least.

The days of American Meritocracy have been gone for some time, but at least we maintained the facade for a while.  Now we're on to pure tokenism: all that matters is "image" and what your vote says about you, as opposed to what your vote will do to/for the country.

109 American Politics: All tokenism and empty gestures you can eat.

It's not tokenism!  I really am the most competent VP nominee evah!

110 "We don't want to bring a new mouth to feed into the family if Daddy Barack is going to lose his job...re-elect us, or we'll abort."

On the up-side, I figured out quite some time ago that I'm not responsible for other people's decisions.

111 >>Posted by: Jose Mohammed Nguyen, Conservative

...unless you and your wife are in a "loving triad" with another man, you're still a bigot, just like all conservatives.

112 On the up-side, I figured out quite some time ago that I'm not responsible for other people's decisions.  Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 05, 2012 08:39 AM (8y9MW)

No, you're not.  However, you will be forced to pay for them.

113 Vote Romney because when everyone sucks, turnover is good.

114 Morning all. I need another day off

115

American Politics: All tokenism and empty gestures you can eat.

 

This is going to be quite a slog, getting this country back to  any semblance of sanity. Mitt will only slow the decay, which will give us time to start searching for a real president  with American values, respect for the Constitution and a servant's  heart.

 

As I mentioned yesterday, it's past time to act nice with the ruling class. We need to demand that this  "Progressive"   shit be not only stopped, but reversed.

116 the Founders? I don't think they even had a word for homosexuality;

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Given British aristocratic overlords from the oldest boarding schools presiding over the Colonies, and sea men not always of the highest character, of course homosexuality would not be a total stranger in 18th Century America, though possibly considered "foreign" to Puritans.

"Strange affections" definitely hush hushed

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the concept that they're just as oppressed as Africans imported in chains because they...[COULD].

play the victim card for sympathy and self delusion.

117 Stupid humans living on your Type 13 planet.

118 Vote Romney because when everyone sucks, turnover is good. Posted by: schizoid at July 05, 2012 08:42 AM (HjnLz) About as good a reason as any

119

 Tax, Mandate, Fine, Penalty, Fee, Surcharge...At this point does it really matter what the POS is called?? I would say that 2/3 of the country doesn't trully understand what this means to their liberty anyway. Its a BOONDOGGLE!! A special interest pay-off on a magnitude never before seen. We need to get past the semantics and continue to hammer away as to why O-tax is bad for the country.

**

Morn' ya'll

 

120
Oregon allows for medical marijuana deduction

(AP) — Under a little-known practice, Oregon social service officials are allowing certain food stamp applicants to deduct medical marijuana costs from their income when qualifying for benefits.

"Awesome," said Bill Esbensen, who helps run The 45th Parallel Compassion Group, an Ontario establishment where medical marijuana patients can obtain pot.



Sure, we're going to win that state....

121 According to Janet Napolitano:

Every morning Bill Ayres will lead the nation in a patriotic prayer, through our viewscreens.

122 The number of people seeking unemployment aid last week fell to its lowest level since mid-May, suggesting layoffs are easing and hiring could pick up. ??? I call BULLSHIT

123 Colonial governors of both New Jersey and New York were reported to be cross-dressers, NTT.  The "word they had for it" was "degenerate and pervert." The Earl of Clarendon was replaced by Lord Lovelace, so I think That's Where That Comes From.

124

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week fell by the most in two months, government data showed on Thursday, a hopeful sign for the struggling labor market.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 374,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week's figure was revised up to 388,000 from the previously reported 386,000.

Another bullshit number to be revised upwards but that won't stop the MFM from bleating that the job market is booming

125 The U.S. State Department is investigating the shipment of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran by way of an obscure United Nations agency, despite ongoing U.N. and U.S. sanctions against both governments aimed at blocking their development of nuclear weapons. The broadening inquiry raises new concerns about the ways in which U.N. agencies have managed to sidestep restrictions that the world body expects the rest of the world to obey in halting the spread of sensitive technologies to nuclear-ambitious pariah regimes. Just blow the freaken building up

126 >>>The number of people seeking unemployment aid last week fell to its lowest level since mid-May, suggesting layoffs are easing and hiring could pick up.

Suggesting that a shit-ton of people got laid off 100 weeks ago.

127 George Wasshhington simply stood out from thee sea of clowns

128 LOL: the Marine Corpse Band played a Romney campaign song at a White House reception, and of course the SCOAMT and Boob Beltzilla had no idea. (Story over on Weasel Zippers).

129 >>The "word they had for it" was "degenerate and pervert."

That's kind of what I was thinking...sailors and schoolboys doing the acts is different than other men setting up housekeeping together. I'd be unsurprised to learn there were bathhouses and glory holes, very surprised to learn anyone admitted to patronizing them.  The concept of basing your whole social life and career and political identity around that--blow the Founders' minds.

But you know, I think they'd grasp that "insurance coverage" is not "healthcare."

130 "Police: 3 People Dead After Boat Capsizes in LI Sound

Reports: All 3 Victims Believed to be Children"

http://tinyurl.com/89ebv5g

131 OT, but I think the patriotic ginger in the above-the-fold picture of last night's ONT was indeed Ginger: Tina Louise.

Carry on.

132 Fraunces Tavern as a gay bar would be an interesting alt-history concept, though.

133 Hey, remember that "you can keep your child on your insurance until they are 26?"  Change that 'can' to 'must'.  Talking to my SIL, her 21 year old is on her insurance, and she wanted to drop him once he moved out.  No dice, says her employer, until you prove he has his own insurance.

134 ABSCoaMF. That is all.

135 Yeah and ADP is saying we added 176,000 new jobs in June... We are all saved..At least until the election. Then the real numbers will come out.

136
When Vic isn't around or you just want some real news, go to DirectorBlue's (Doug Ross Journal) news page:

http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/trendr8.htm

137 The number of people seeking unemployment aid last week fell to its lowest level since mid-May, suggesting layoffs are easing and hiring could pick up.

Two things: 1) at some point, you can't lay off any more people without just closing your doors, and 2) expect this number to be revised upward.  Substantially.

Also, that's just initial unemployment claims.  Until we see how many jobs were added, that's just not even a relevant data point.  And then factor in truly "seasonal" jobs like people running fireworks stands (through much of June).

138 I'd be unsurprised to learn there were bathhouses and glory holes, very surprised to learn anyone admitted to patronizing them. Maybe, but Hoboeroticism has a long pedigree. http://is.gd/4xd31x

139 The number of people seeking unemployment aid last week fell to its lowest level since mid-May Presumably fell from the last report's revised upwards numbers.

140 Suggesting that a shit-ton of people got laid off 100 weeks ago.

Initial claims.  But you're probably right for "total" unemployment.  Expect incredibly weak job creation and yet a falling UE number.

Talking to my SIL, her 21 year old is on her insurance, and she wanted to drop him once he moved out. No dice, says her employer, until you prove he has his own insurance.

That may just be corporate policy.  Some companies require that everyone who is eligible for insurance be covered or prove they have insurance elsewhere.  It's not common, but it happens.  I've worked for one of those, in fact.  Not only did they not provide a stipend if you chose to carry your own insurance (again: rare, but it happens), they required proof of coverage elsewhere before you could opt out of their plan.

The other option, of course, is that it's a wonderful little land-mine in Obamacare.

141 I want my preference cascade. 

142 I needed a ragestroke at 7:30 in the morning.

A loud screaming 2 stroke AR AR RR RR RG RH !!

or an old school Pratt and Whitney double 9

http: //www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TSpBw8vigrA

spitting smoke on a bunch of subjects as the master crank goes round.

143 135 vashta we hired a kid 18 months ago....he was 19 yrs old....our company offers insurance.....of which we contribute $300 per month to....he declined it....our insurance company DEMANDED PROOF that he was insured ..... it was ridiculous.....he had no association with them at all! his only connection to them was that he worked for us and that was our company insurance provider......creeping socialism......

144 And this is why I live in the boonies with tomato thieves instead of in the city.

Indianapolis Congressman says American School System Should Be Modeled After Islamic “Madrassas”

http://t.co/kTW2LBVX

I'm off to the library; I owe them a dollar.

145 As weÂ’ve seen with the recent polling, the general public thinks even 60,000 or so jobs added isnÂ’t bad at all, so if Obama gets a number over 100,000, itÂ’s a huge boost to him.

146 Correct me if I am wrong:  Did we conservatives not call the penalty a tax when Obama was saying it was a penalty when the law was just passed.  It seems to me we were hoisted by our own petard. 

147 Oh, initial claims.

The automakers are about to go on summer shutdown; that's a lot of initial claims coming up.  Or do those get hidden with "seasonal adjustment"?

148

IMO, Jefferson was the most overrated of the FFs. Sure he could write, but he was wrong on so many other things, including the FR. He also died a bankrupt because he couldn't control his spending, leaving lots of others holding the bag. As Franklin might have said, responsibility begins at home.

 

According to "The Jefferson Lies," David Barton says this is one of the worst slanders to affect Jefferson. The reason he died broke, Barton says, is because he insisted on paying his "slaves."

 

http://amzn.to/KVyCsP

149 Piss off, Joe.

150 Time to get business cards that read "Go fuck yourself."  Easier to pass them out than continually repeating the phrase to every intrusive government agency and their fascist cronies when they ask me something.  Save your voice for the important stuff.

151 his only connection to them was that he worked for us and that was our company insurance provider......creeping socialism......

My guess is that the insurance policy is either partially or fully insured (that is: the Insurance Company is on the hook for some or all of the insurance claims), and the insurance company wrote that into the contract to ensure they had the maximum risk dilution.  By requiring everyone to either have insurance already or to take the company policy, the Insurance Company avoids a little additional risk.

It's highly unlikely the would write such a provision in a Fully Funded contract.

152 Sophistachick - here's your card.

153 Oh, goody, Dr. Eeyore is here.  Now my day is complete.

154

133

 

I think it was Leslie Caron. Ginger was taller and her face narrower.

155

Good morning Morons.

My sibling (full Colonel, up for General) told me that if he/she had not intended to put in retirement papers anyway, after the DoD's Gay/lesbian/transgender awareness bullshit, she sure as hell would have. Completely stupid, shows you where the Zero administration has it's head, or at least the pointy thing on top that resembles nothing so much as a penis.

156 All trolls are Average Joe.

157 Re: Jefferson - some of the reviewers are taking exception with what the author wrote: "His biggest problem was that he was persistently in debt and had to use his slaves as collateral to keep Monticello going. This is well documented in his own farm records. In the end, his estate along with the vast majority of his slaves had to be sold at auction to cover his debts. Only a handful of slaves saw freedom, despite having offered manumission in his will. Better to read Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder" Personally, I don't know if he paid them or not but a slave is a slave - whether they get pocket money or not.

158

About that homosekshul stuff in the days of the Founders, er, I think they were on to it -- esp. if the Royal Navy was said to have "peg boys."

 

http://bit.ly/KVzsWv

159 CHICAGO (CBS) — Gunfire has taken another deadly toll on the city, leaving at least three people dead and 13 more wounded in shootings on the 4th of July alone. At least two more victims were killed and eight more were injured in the hours between midnight and 5 a.m. Thursday. The only thing that slows the violence and wanderlust of the indigenous Chicagoan, is freezing weather and snow.

160 JQ, your anger should be directed at Roberts for a twisted and contrived ruling.  My point is that conservatives were calling it a tax and now we can't go back and say it was a penalty(even though I think it is). 

161 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 05, 2012 09:23 AM (9TTOe)

And note that the deaths are blamed on "gunfire," not "murderous thugs."

162 My point is that conservatives were calling it a tax and now we can't go back and say it was a penalty(even though I think it is). Posted by: Sophistahick at July 05, 2012 09:23 AM (AqaMO) It doesn't matter what we call it, the Bill, ya know the one they actually voted on?, did NOT call it a Tax. The Supreme Court had no right or business re-writing it. IF it had been called a TAX initially, in all likelyhood it NEVER would have passed.

163

I've been riled up for a few days now...

I marched in the local July 4 parade, carrying the Tea Party Banner, got invited to join yet another Tea Party in an adjoining county, on the "action team", i.e.rabblerousers, and invited to a function for McCrory, the Rethuglican running for Guv. Gonna go. Gonna rouse some rabble. Baited quite a few lefties and progressives and enjoyed getting to shut them down. They really are clumsy on their proverbial feet...

Amazing how simple facts shut down a leftist bully. Offering them a view of the fact in question, like CBO budget numbers offered by an impartial source (on your Iphone) helps seal the 'shut the hell up' nature of things.

As an aside, where we were cheered and applauded, the Dem contingent was ignored or heckled. Gotta love the South...

Finished building myself a carbine in 7.62x54R.

All in all, a busier holiday than your average working day. Unless your a hooker. They're busier. Or a Congresscritter taking bribes: they're way busier.

Still.

*relurking*

164 And note that the deaths are blamed on "gunfire," not "murderous thugs." Indeed, the Media are pros at anthropomorphizing a firearm.

165 Rape is caused by erections.

166 Based upon my watching of The Revolution on History yesterday, Baron von Steuben was drummed out of the Prussian Army because he was accused of being a pederast.  I guess it takes all kinds to build a nation.  Of course, they named a high school in Chicago after him...which would kind of figure. 

167 It doesn't matter what we call it, the Bill, ya know the one they actually voted on?, did NOT call it a Tax. The Supreme Court had no right or business re-writing it. IF it had been called a TAX initially, in all likelyhood it NEVER would have passed.

I agree, and getting mired down in tax vs penalty is a looser argument.  But we lost this battle and have little amo to now claim we were just scoring political points when we were calling it a tax.

168

169 looser=loser

170 IF it had been called a TAX initially, in all likelyhood it NEVER would have passed. Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2012 09:25 AM

In the same vein, some pasty-faced computer-potato "conservative" over at NRO was making excuses for Roberts this morning, claiming his main issue was avoiding having to discuss "severability" in the ObamaScare bill.

I got news: if the bill DOESN'T MENTION severability, then it ain't there. The Supremes have no right to look for what doesn't exist.

If one part of the bill is unconstitutional -- and I'm sure many parts would have been found so, if anyone bothered to read the whole friggin' 2700 pages instead of the Marvel Comics illustrated abridged version, which I'm sure is what "guided" Roberts -- then the whole damn thing is dead. That's the way it used to work, before the Age of Bark Obama.

171 Posted by: the sandman will resist at July 05, 2012 09:25 AM (7qlme)

Go get 'em, sandman!

172 I agree, and getting mired down in tax vs penalty is a looser argument. But we lost this battle and have little amo to now claim we were just scoring political points when we were calling it a tax. Just like the lack of jobs, every day people are talking and worrying about ObamaCare is a victory.

173 I agree, and getting mired down in tax vs penalty is a looser argument. But we lost this battle and have little amo to now claim we were just scoring political points when we were calling it a tax. Posted by: Sophistahick at July 05, 2012 09:30 AM (AqaMO) Agreed. It makes me think our GOP betters have no intrest in killing the bill. Just tinkering with it. In reality there is 0 good in the bill, 0.

174 Posted by: maddogg at July 05, 2012 09:27 AM (OlN4e)

You stole my point!

175 I agree, and getting mired down in tax vs penalty is a looser argument. But we lost this battle and have little amo to now claim we were just scoring political points when we were calling it a tax. Posted by: Sophistahick at July 05, 2012 09:30 AM (AqaMO) I don't think so. Hammer obama as the bigger taxer in the history of this Nation. Hammer it home. He is spending and taxing us into European style default. Hammer baby

176 our GOP betters have no intrest in killing the bill. Just tinkering with it.

That is why all of them speak of repeal and replace/reconcile.

177 What is that white film?

"Alive"?

178 Posted by: Sophistahick at July 05, 2012 09:35 AM (AqaMO) Nice hash.

179 180 our GOP betters have no interest in killing the bill. Just tinkering with it. That is why all of them speak of repeal and replace/reconcile. Posted by: Sophistahick at July 05, 2012 09:35 AM (AqaMO) Every time one of those Rat Bastards even whisper the word replace I shudder. I want no new laws. Do not tell me what "YOU" the politician is going to do. Tell me what "YOU" the Politician is going to repeal, shut down, downsize.

180

I had a quiet 4th:  Mrs. Cop had to work at the hospital and we already had the family cookout this previous Saturday.  So, I made sawdust (I'm making a built-in bookcase with a real V-groove spline joint panel for the back) and then watched 1776.  That's one of my favorite movies.

181 It's National Graham Cracker Day. Sylvester Graham thought his cracker would prevent people from having sexual urges.

182 Nevergiveup, I didn't say not to use the ruling as a hammer to show obama is a big taxer.  We can and should.  We just can't belabor what it really was, a penalty.

183 So, I made sawdust

I approve of sawdust.  Collect it, and you can make really good fire starters.  Egg carton + sawdust + melted candles = really good fire starters.

184 the Founders? I don't think they even had a word for homosexuality
=============
I'm pretty sure sodomy is not a word of recent invention.

Hell, I had some old client telling me about the genealogy she'd been doing and how she'd come across a story about a distant uncle in the colonial days, a miller of some repute, who was one day caught having sex with his mare.

They hung him and killed the mare.

185 We just can't belabor what it really was, a penalty. Sure we can. When you're beating a dog, any stick will do. You beat him with the penalty, I'll beat him with the tax.

186 185 Its National Graham Cracker Day. Sylvester Graham thought his cracker would prevent people from having sexual urges. Posted by: Caunotaucarius at July 05, 2012 09:39 AM (bnAKg) I think he was right until Joseph Smore PHD decided to add marshmallow and chocolate to his crackers. Immediately after ingesting one of his creations, women were so enraptured that they removed their clothes and ran through the fields like a sommers eve commercial mating with anything that moved.

187

HEH...Right on cue!! They are good, you gotta give the cocksuckers that, http://tinyurl.com/85m3ye9

 

188 Immediately after ingesting one of his creations, women were so enraptured that they removed their clothes and ran through the fields like a sommers eve commercial mating with anything that moved. Go on.

189

Tell me what "YOU" the Politician is going to repeal, shut down, downsize.

 

This!  I've  been making the case for  a while that  they way our government in constructed (namely that we're free unless and until there is a law prohibiting an  action),  each new law  that is enacted actually reduces our freedom. Here's a link:http://tinyurl.com/7jw7ncq

190 Aquaman, a doctor friend gave it to me.

191 Top Ten lies spread about Christianity. 

The "Hitler Is Was A Christian" meme is debunked also.

It's a longish video (about 24 minutes) but worth it.

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=41663

192 Dear Penthouse Forum I never imagined that this could happen to me ...

193 Sawdust; properly dispersed and initiated, makes a satisfying BOOM!

194 @191:

"I think he was right until Joseph Smore PHD decided to add marshmallow and chocolate to his crackers."

This is incorrect.

You are obviously referring to a campfire treat that was developed and perfected in southern Spain back in the 12th century.

The name for the layered delicacy came about when someone asked: "Hey, who invented this tasty food?"

The reply of course being: "Ah...some moors."

195 From one of the UE preview articles from earlier today:

"the economic recovery is slowing"

So many things wrong with that sentence.

196 Incorrect, it was The Moops.

197 When you're beating tenderizing a dog, any stick will do. You beat him with the penalty, I'll beat him with the tax.

Obama

198 The reply of course being: "Ah...some moors." Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 05, 2012 09:47 AM (ksERZ) Damn public school history books. Next thing you are going to tell me Television was not invented by Joe Television.

199 Lots of new tv ads in Ohio by the JEF contrasting Bain "outsourcing" to SCoaMF "insourcing".  I'm not sure which unemployed voters this fucking garbage is supposed to be appealing to but I hope team Romney counters this bullshit ASAP.

200 205 Lots of new tv ads in Ohio by the JEF contrasting Bain "outsourcing" to SCoaMF "insourcing". I'm not sure which unemployed voters this fucking garbage is supposed to be appealing to but I hope team Romney counters this bullshit ASAP. Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 05, 2012 09:51 AM (KG87U) They don't seem to be real responsive when it comes to debunking Obama's BS. If they do they end up chasing the horse around the pasture instead of shutting the corral gate.

201 Damn public school history books. Next thing you are going to tell me Television was not invented by Joe Television.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 05, 2012 09:50 AM (9TTOe)

You idiot. It was Abraham Lincoln.

202 the Founders? I don't think they even had a word for homosexuality; Well of course they didn't because until Ronald Reagan became President, everyone was gay, and there wasn't a word for it because it was just the way it was. Ronald Reagan invented AIDS and so that people would think that being gay was bad. Plus, because he hated black people.

203

Damn public school history books. Next thing you are going to tell me Television was not invented by Joe Television.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 05, 2012 09:50 AM (9TTOe)

You idiot. It was Abraham Lincoln.

 

You are both wrong.  Television was invented by our most telegenic President....Martin Van Buren.

204 Lots of new tv ads in Ohio by the JEF contrasting Bain "outsourcing" to SCoaMF "insourcing". I'm not sure which unemployed voters this fucking garbage is supposed to be appealing to but I hope team Romney counters this bullshit ASAP.

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 05, 2012 09:51 AM (KG87U)

Oh yeah, Barry's "insourced" a lot of jobs. If insourced means made them disappear

205 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

206 211 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day? Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2012 10:00 AM (/ZZCn) He'll be even more Butthurt when he is Dixie Chicked.

207 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day? Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2012 10:00 AM (/ZZCn) Because you are talking about him, right? Otherwise, all you would have is "bad-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah Circus, bad-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah Afro...."

208 Well of course they didn't because until Ronald Reagan became President, everyone was gay, and there wasn't a word for it because it was just the way it was.

Ronald Reagan invented AIDS and so that people would think that being gay was bad. Plus, because he hated black people.

Posted by: Gay history revisionist at July 05, 2012 09:58 AM (7vSU0)

I was watching that show 'The Presidents' on the History Channel yesterday. What a load of horse manure. Jimmah was a wonderful president who was given a bad rap and Reagan just happened to be in the right place at the right time for the economy and the fall of communism. He also turned a blind eye to AIDS and the enormous suffering of the poor he created because he thought that life was like a Hollywood movie.

209

Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

 

Still smarting over all the racists reviews for Head of State.

210 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day? Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2012 10:00 AM (/ZZCn) "Black "Church" Theology", ya know the shit obama was brought up on, teaches that all day, every day the white man owes the black man, and that the USA is the worst place in the world and to hate whitey. And other such shit like that

211 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 05, 2012 09:56 AM (9TTOe)


I'm not suggesting that they have to go off-message to counter every desperation ploy by the JEF; in fact I've predicted that barring a major gaffe by Romney that there's no fucking way Ohio goes to the SCoaMF in November.  It's just that Romney's been playing that "The private sector's doing fine" ad so much that I cringe every time it's on.

212 Gunfire is not always a bad thing, you know.

213 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day? Because Everbody Hates Chris was cancelled?

214 "The private sector's doing fine" ad so much that I cringe every time it's on. Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 05, 2012 10:03 AM (KG87U) I call that Sean Hannity politics. You get on a subject and you ride it till it dies. Then you stand above it and beat it with a stick until the stick breaks. Then you kick it till your exhausted.

215 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2012 10:00 AM (/ZZCn)

Perhaps it's better to answer your question with a question. Do you remember the Reverend Wright tapes... not so much Reverend Wright... but all those people nodding, hooting and hollering while Lower Manhattan was still smoldering?

216 Because he's a hypocritical horse's ass? Posted by: Soap MacTavish at July 05, 2012 10:04 AM (vbh31) Aren't horses ass's hypocritical, and worse, b y definition?

217 >>>Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

IowaHawk had a good reply for him in Teh Tweets.

"I'm sure your Guatemalan kitchen staff got a good chuckle out of that."
(Paraphrased)

218 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?


Because he hasn't been funny in years and he's looking for anything to make people pay attention to him.

219

the enormous suffering of the poor he created

 

Via the greatest peactime economic expansion in U.S. history.

 

Math...libs just cannot do it in any form.

 

And for those of us who remember Jimmah...we're gonna get the Soviets to Leave Afghanistan by not going to the Olympics.  Jeebus...that's just for starters.  The man made Stansfield turner head of the effing CIA.  He threw the Shah under the bus and had the most incoherent energy policy until you know who.  I could go on for months on this one.

220 Because he hasn't been funny in years and he's looking for anything to make people pay attention to him.

Wait..  He was funny to begin with?

I thought his schtick was to speak loud and speak louder when telling a joke. 

221 Because he hasn't been funny in years and he's looking for anything to make people pay attention to him. Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 05, 2012 10:08 AM (KG87U) I can see him morphing into the hateful unfunny black Bill Mahr (However you spell that Cocksuckers name).

222 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 05, 2012 09:41 AM (8y9MW)

What ratio of sawdust to wax?

223 >>>I can see him morphing into the hateful unfunny black Bill Mahr

Hey, watch our new duet together of The Ebony and Ivory

Paul and Stevie, eat your heart out.

224 "They don't seem to be real responsive when it comes to debunking Obama's BS. If they do they end up chasing the horse around the pasture instead of shutting the corral gate." Team Romney is no better than Team McCain at responding to attacks/negative ads. And Romney has no excuse since he has tons of money to run response ads if he wants. Face the fact that he's just another terrible candidate the Republican's chose.

225 What ratio of sawdust to wax? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 05, 2012 10:11 AM (nEUpB) Are you sure you want to continue with this conversation? I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.

226

All fingers and toes present and accounted for.

----

Speak for yorself

227 Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at July 05, 2012 09:42 AM (QupBk)

Agreed. The squishy fools won't hear the details, all they will hear is the criticism. And it will eventually stick.

228 Average Joe's schtick can't even see tiresome in the rearview mirror anymore.

229

Since we're still in Open Thread format...

 

I've fired people for sexual harassing co-workers before, but this was a (pickup?) line I've never heard before:

 

"I can tell by the way you smell that you had sex before work this morning."

 

***raises single eyebrow***

230 Posted by: DrSmith at July 05, 2012 10:13 AM (LXlcC)

Thank you for your concern.

231 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

Because he hasn't been funny in years and he's looking for anything to make people pay attention to him.



Maybe he should hang with Joe Williams.  He beats his x-wife for shits and grins.  Maybe Chris would think that's funny.  He could work it into his act.  "Hey bitch!  Did you hear me say Romney's only comfortable around white people?"  *POW!*  That would be the punch line.  Something like that.

232 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2012 10:00 AM (/ZZCn)

----------------------->>>>>

Typical leftist criticism of The Founders; i.e., since some were slave owners and didn't abolish slavery, America is illegitimate.  Of course, this ignores the fact that indentured servitude existed among the white colonists, many of slave-owning Founders were extremely conflicted about the institution of slavery and  the nation   later  had a civil war where one of the root causes was slavery.

233 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:16 AM (VYmKX)

Well? Did it work? Did you put out?

234 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at July 05, 2012 10:13 AM (9TTOe)

I seem to be slow on the uptake this morning.

Huh?

235

"I can tell by the way you smell that you had sex before work this morning."

Alright!

236

"All fingers and toes present and accounted for. No bail bondsmen involved. Looks like another Independence Day celebration was executed to perfection."

 

Doesn't mean the cops weren't out looking for the source of the boom.

237 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 05, 2012 10:18 AM (nEUpB) OK, Cool. Your not discussing what I thought you were discussing. Nevermind.

238 Doesn't mean the cops weren't out looking for the source of the boom. A hairy midget with glassy eyes was reported running from the scene.

239

Well? Did it work? Did you put out?
<<<<

 

I put him out. On the curb.

240

159 For example, if you wanted to get to Mars in 10 minutes you could if you were willing to drive at 947 million miles/hr.

---

I don't really reccommend trying that from a standing start.

241 I put him out. On the curb. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:20 AM (VYmKX) Extended 4th vacay?

242 I put him out. On the curb. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:20 AM (VYmKX) Good for you. Zero tolerance. I thought that some of those things were funny. Then I was gifted with two daughters.

243 "I can tell by the way you smell that you had sex before work this morning."

***raises single eyebrow***

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:16 AM (VYmKX)

-------------------->>>

Do  I assume  correctly that  this was a male employee saying this to a female employee?  If so, I would consider it very inappropriate.  If this   is  part of a pattern of behavior of the male employee, I'd fire him; if a first offense and an otherwise stellar  employee, perhaps a written reprimand would be sufficient disciplinary action.

244

They hung him and killed the mare.
----

Neigh means Neigh

 

245 Laughing at Joe Williams.  HAHAHA, douche.

246

***approaches sobbing widow at casket***

 

"I'm so sorry for your loss. Your husband and I had a lot in common.  Still do, because I'm fuckin' stiff right now."

 

***raises single eyebrow***

247 >Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?


Because he's ignorant and uneducated. Because when you're a black comedian and you're not funny, you fall back on race humor. 

248

The reply of course being: "Ah...some moors."
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Ya right, the only thing the moors have invented since the 10th century is the suicide vest.

 

249 Okay, Algonquin Fracking Supply & Deli is closed today for post- 4th of July cleanup

250

"Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?"
Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2012 10:00 AM

 

Should we be surprised that a "comedian" whose stock and trade has been "the black experience in America" would resort to the race card to jumpstart a foundering career?

 

Either that, or he's more interested in the black complexion in his mirror than  the big stack of green cash in his bank.  

 

Verdict:  Douchebag.

251 >Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

Because victimization is a security blanket, even, or especially, when you've got fame, money, and success.

Rather than telling black folks that 'hey, I did it, you can, too,' he's more comfortable with embracing hopelessness.

252

Who cares what Chris Rock thinks.  Really.  The whole idea of publishing some obscure loser's tweets is just madness.

 

And yes, Chris has long been friends with "Mr. Maher", as he calls him.

 

It  is simply frackin' madness to obsess over someone's published tweets. The whole idea of "Twitter" is crazy too.  Limited number of characters to communicate your limited thoughts.  It's like instant mental bumper stickers.

253

MrScribbler @173 - "I got news: if the bill DOESN'T MENTION severability, then it ain't there. The Supremes have no right to look for what doesn't exist."

 

Of course, the bill didn't mention "tax" either, yet Super Justice Roberts waved his magic wand and put it there.  Why couldn't he have just as easily inserted "severability" instead, and happily got to work throwing out the bad bits and keeping the stuff he liked?  In other words, why worry about being a slave to the wording in one instance, when he nonchalently ignored it in the other?

254

220 Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?

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Because Will Smith beat him out for the part.

255

Can someone explain why Chris Rock is butthurt about Independence Day?
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Because the dick in his  ass  the previous night made it hurt?

256 Rather than telling black folks that 'hey, I did it, you can, too,' he'sObama's more comfortable with embracing hopelessness.

Posted by: nickless at July 05, 2012 10:28 AM (MMC8r)

FIFY

 

257

@251,

 

You assume correctly. And his work record means fuck-all.  If I don't take swift and harsh action, then the gal he creeper out, who IS a stellar employee, is going to leave, at best, or sue us, at worst.

 

Plus, she has huge tits, and I'd like her to stay so I can stare at them.

258 Rather than telling black folks that 'hey, I did it, you can, too,' he's more comfortable with embracing hopelessness. Posted by: nickless at July 05, 2012 10:28 AM (MMC8r) He's lazy. It's easyer to embrace hopelessness than fix it.

259 Audit the Fed Headed for the House Floor

Last week supporters of Federal Reserve transparency had a major victory when the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform passed my Audit the Fed bill, HR 459 unanimously with all major audit provisions intact. This clears the way for a House floor vote expected sometime in late July, and with 263 cosponsors, the chances of it passing have never looked better! This is an unprecedented opportunity for transparency into how the currency of the United States is handled, and mishandled by the Federal Reserve. It is more important than ever that my colleagues in the House and Senate understand what this legislation does and why it is so important.
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While the Fed was created by Congress, current law prohibits Congress from fully auditing the Fed's monetary policy - the Fed actions that impact Americans the most. The Fed's financial statements are audited annually, but the Fed's monetary policy operations are exempt from audit. Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), currently is prohibited by law from examining discount window and open market operations; agreements with foreign governments and central banks; and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) directives. It is precisely this information that should be made public.
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H.R. 459 does not limit the focus of the audit, making a full audit finally possible. An entity that controls the value and purchasing power of the dollar should not be permitted to operate in the dark without oversight by Congress and accountability to the people. The Fed needs transparency and H.R. 459 would provide it. We now have this opportunity to ensure solid passage of HR 459.

http://tinyurl.com/7t7sgdq

260 Laughing at Joe Williams. HAHAHA, douche.
Posted by: nickless


You think Joe Williams' ex is comfortable around him?

261 @EoJ

And presumably the male employee does no have huge tits for you to stare at?

262 Plus, she has huge tits, and I'd like her to stay so I can stare at them. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:31 AM (VYmKX) And that sir, is your classic win-win.

263

'Plus, she has huge tits, and I'd like her to stay so I can stare at them."

 

I motion for a Boss of the Year nomination.    Any seconds?

264 Chris Rock has discovered he is hopeless at anything but the angry black man schtick. Look at the dismal track record when he tried to do anything else.

So for him, a post-racial America, which is what the election of Obama was supposed to launch, is the worst possible thing that could happen to him. He is no different from the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton types who have a vested interest in things staying the same while claiming to desire change.

265 Congress put in another document request. How soon till he can be held in contempt again? And why isn't he sitting in that cell yet?

266 The only rational view is that Romney is a necessary placeholder, potentially slowing the tide of progressivism/communism, until we conservatives can get our act together and add more patriots to the ranks of the legislatures and high offices everywhere (local, state, and federal).  The Republican party has been around too long for any good it might have once done.  At least Romney shouldn't feel the need to get his hands in the federal till since he is richer than most all of us, and so are his cronies (like the NASCAR team owners).

ABO in 2012, because if it is O in 2012, there 2013 won't be worth being around for!

267
ABO in 2012, because if it is O in 2012, there 2013 won't be worth being around for!

Now you're getting it.

268

@269,

 

He's got big moobs, but hers are bigger. Freakishly big on a tiny frame.  She wore one of those slutty Oktoberfest beer-wench outfits for Halloween  and I will NOT let some leering pervert make her feel uncomfortable in this office.

269

@230 That shit may play well to a relatively small fraction of his (former) audience, but there are still a lot of folks in this country that don't take kindly at all to that stinking garbage.

 

I don't agree.  I think the audience for Chris Rock is in perfect agreement with him.  Add in guilty whites, and there's your 52% right there.

 

I wish I were President.  I'd go on TV with Rock's tweet and say, "OK.  I notice that Chris Rock and a lot of other people don't want to celebrate the Fourth because we still had slavery in 1776 and we're a nation built on war and genocide.  That's fine.  It's your right.  But I want to help you put your money where your mouth is.  For the next 48 hours, anyone who feels like Chris Rock does can get on an airliner at no charge and fly to a better country.  Oh, and by the way, as you leave, we're taking back all the money you made in this evil country and your passport.  Since you want to be out, you can stay out."

270

Plus she has huge tits and I'd like her to stay so I can stare at them.

 

I take it she's not a Moronette?

271 >>>>And that sir, is your classic win-win.

Said it better than me.

272 265
Plus, she has huge tits, and I'd like her to stay so I can stare at them.       And the truth shall set ye free.

273 Last night's national D.C. PBS televised celebration, I was not amused by the selection from West Side Story "America" instrumental arrangement. Dancing was promised. No dancers, just still shots from the movie. No lyrics, no singing. But the crowd cheered the Obama immigration joke on us...

WEST SIDE STORY, 1956

"AMERICA"

ROSALIA
Puerto Rico,
You lovely island . . .
Island of tropical breezes.
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . .

ANITA
Puerto Rico . . .
You ugly island . . .
Island of tropic diseases.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing . . .
And the money owing,
And the babies crying,
And the bullets flying.
I like the island Manhattan.
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

OTHERS
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!

ROSALIA
I like the city of San Juan.

ANITA
I know a boat you can get on.

ROSALIA
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom.

ANITA
Hundreds of people in each room!

ALL
Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!

ROSALIA
I'll drive a Buick through San Juan.

ANITA
If there's a road you can drive on.

ROSALIA
I'll give my cousins a free ride.

ANITA
How you get all of them inside?

ALL
Immigrant goes to America,
Many hellos in America;
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America!

ROSALIA
I'll bring a T.V. to San Juan.

ANITA
If there a current to turn on!

ROSALIA
I'll give them new washing machine.

ANITA
What have they got there to keep clean?

ALL
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Wall-to-wall floors in America!

ROSALIA
When I will go back to San Juan.

ANITA
When you will shut up and get gone?

ROSALIA
Everyone there will give big cheer!

ANITA
Everyone there will have moved here!

Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

274 271
'Plus, she has huge tits, and I'd like her to stay so I can stare at them."
I motion for a Boss of the Year nomination. Any seconds?       Seconded.

275  Freakishly big on a tiny frame. She wore one of those slutty Oktoberfest beer-wench outfits for Halloween and I will NOT let some leering pervert make her feel uncomfortable in this office.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:39 AM (VYmKX)

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You're a great American.

276 I will NOT let some other leering pervert

277 Any seconds? Acclimation.

278 #277

Have you considered applying for a government grant? Perhaps something under the Endangered Species Act to better protect this great natural resource?

279 >>>Freakishly big on a tiny frame. She wore one of those slutty Oktoberfest beer-wench outfits for Halloween [. . .]
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 05, 2012 10:39 AM (VYmKX)

Pics or it didn't happen.

280 Why didn't you come to me like a man and tell me there was a new thread?

281

Now that Independence day has come and gone,

welcome to Dependence Decade,

For this, thank a Liberal and remind the Dependents, if you can get them off their free gobement phones, to Thank You, if you still have a job, that is! 

282 "Damn public school history books. Next thing you are going to tell me Television was not invented by Joe Television."

That's true- Joe Television, while a noted talk show host (famous for interviewing FDR at the time of the stock market crash) did not in fact invent the television.

This singular achievement is most properly credited to a disgruntled radio repairman that lived on the outskirts of Montreal named Talleyrand "Telly" Vachon.

The world changing invention was the result of an unfortunate mix of an oscilloscope, a dismantled ham radio, a great deal of Molson Brador ale, a smoked muskrat poutine (with turnip gravy), and a 9 fingered/one legged woman of ill repute who went by the name of....ANDREA MITCHELL.

True story, like.

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

284

I RECOMMEND AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN PSYCHOLOG AND AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR DREAMS THAT YOU VISIT A LIBRARY A CHECK OUT A COPY OF GUSTAV HINDMAN MILLER'S 10,000 DREAMS INTERPRETED. CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST DREAM ANALYSIS BOOKS IN THE CITY'S LIBRARIES. OTHERS INCLUDE

1. TONY CRISP

2. EDGAR CAYCE

3. LADY BIRD ROBINSON

 

WALTER WEBB (FREELANCE WRITER)