1 Morning all.

2 Can I still post?

3 Good morning,  Gabe and morons.

I woke this morning to hear that the Indiana corn crop is 90% lost due to the drought.  This is beginning to look like the dread year 1936 (Look up how bad that year was on Wikipedia.)

It is so bad here that you don't even see insects.  I am putting out water for small mammals,  who increasingly are being hit on the roads in their desperate search for water.

4 Fun fun fun fun

5 Nice words from McConnell, but if past history is any indicator, the GOP will
flinch when the Democrats/MSM go apocalyptic on their asses.

Does anyone really believe the GOP will do anything and everything to repeal ObamaCare/RobertsCare?

6 I heard several people, including both libs and CK (yeah, yeah, stow it) say that without OH, Romney is toast, and that he's 10 points behind there.  Would CAC or one of the other knowledgeable ones please comment on this assertion?

7 #5  I do.  There are quite a few doctors in Congress,  and it has FINALLY dawned on the dim bulb drug and insurance companies that this is not a swell deal for them,  either.

People hate this bill.  It's full of all sorts of regulations like my friend's husband being required to wait 2 weeks before the insurance company could ok a replacement defibrillator for him.  Prices have gone up for those who do have insurance (remember,  they were promised it would go down). Doctors are taking early retirement. 

I firmly believe they will repeal it if we can get them elected.

8 #6  It's one of those "rules" that the pollsters make up.  A Republican has never been elected without winning Ohio.

Rules are made to be broken,  I say. 

9 Morning all. I got nothing

10 Today's celebrity birthdays: The US Dollar John Paul Jones ("I have not yet begun to fight!") Frida Kahlo (monobrow) Sebastian Cabot (tended to the family affairs) Nancy Reagan (her 91st!) Wojciech Jaruzelski (last commie to run Poland) Merv Griffin (chubby + Speedo = bad combination, dude) Bill Haley (wanted to name his band "The Dirty Ice Balls Stuck In Heliocentric Orbits" but the record company made him shorten it) Janet Leigh (good screamer, had a hot daughter who talks about her bowels a lot) Pat Paulsen (Smothers Brothers' regular) Della Reese (angel) The Dalai Lama (got a nice tour of the WH dumpsters from Barry) Ned Beatty ("right away, Mr. Loo-thaw!") Burt Ward (played a ward, too) George W. Bush (POTUS #43) Fred Dryer ("works for me!") Sylvester Stallone (yo) Geoffrey Rush (arrrrr) Grant Goodeve (10% of the Bradfords) Jennifer Saunders (one-half of AbFab) 50 Cent (I believe it's pronounced "fiddy cent")

11 @5 From your lips to gods ears.

But people always say, "I'm sick and tired of government, politicians, this law, etc." but do absolutely nothing about it.

In fact, we seem to keep electing the same people over and over and over again to raise our taxes, strip us of our rights and freedoms and create new and larger bureaucracies and generally allow our country to slip farther and farther from our founding principles.

We are reaching, if we are not already there, the point of no return.

12

Good morning, all.  Today is the birthday (1887) of Annette Kellerman, the Australian-born swimmer who was the first woman to attempt to swim the Channel (she didn't make it).  She was also famous for designing and wearing a one piece bathing suit, which in her heyday was considered quite risque.  In 1907, she was arrested at Revere Beach in Massachusetts for public indecency while wearing the suit - pretty hysterical when you consider the bikinis and thongs infesting Revere Beach now.  And that's just the men.

 

In 1916, the Fox Film Corporation starred her in A Daughter of the Gods, where she appeared fully nude.  Like nearly 90% of silent films, it's lost.  Esther Williams - another acquatic honey - played her in the 1952 movie Million Dollar Mermaid.

 

I don't have any Esther Williams stories.  The only Hollywood story connected with water that I know off the top of my head concerns William Holden.  During the filming of Sunset Boulevard, a friend asked Holden - a well-known cocksman - if he'd bedded Gloria Swanson.  Holden replied that he'd like to, but he couldn't because her mother was always fluttering around.  When the friend sympathized with him, Holden added, "And that's not the worst.  The worst is that her mother wants to fuck me!"

 

Yeah, I got nothing.  Hope all you morons have a wonderful day.

13 Today's celebrity deathdays: Jan Hus (charred church-challenging Czech) Sir Thomas More (Henry VIII gave him the chop) John Marshall (SCOTUS CJ #4) William Faulkner ("The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice.") Louis Armstrong (Satchmo!) Roy Rogers (good rider) John Frankenheimer (good director) Buddy Ebsen (that Tin Man makeup almost killed him) Robert McNamara (Sec of Def # RIP.

14 Oops- smilies got me again. Robert McNamara (Sec of Def #8 )

15 " Romney is toast, and that he's 10 points behind there."

Nope, not buying that Romney is 10 pts. behind in Ohio.

Was just up in Toledo, place looks like a close cousin to Dresden after the fire bombing. The barkonomy is responsible for that in very large part.

16 So Kimberlin takes it in the shorts. What will the madman do now?

17 There's no way Romney is 10 points behind in Ohio.  The JEF isn't nearly as popular in Ohio as the MFM would have you believe.  The glacier in pantsuits slattered him in the 2008 primary.  His events in Ohio have been carefully staged to only let the koolaid drinkers attend; if he ever had to face an accurate cross section if he didn't get completely booed it would be only because of people having more respect for the office.

18

SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - The California Senate passed a bill on Thursday that seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in Arizona and other U.S. states.

The Democrat-led state Senate voted 21 to 13 to approve the California Trust Act, dubbed by supporters as the "anti-Arizona" bill. It blocks local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials for deportation unless that person has been convicted of a violent or serious felony.

Brilliant move

19 Pep, calm down. Mittens isnt down ten points in Ohio, and will carry it.

20 Was just up in Toledo, place looks like a close cousin to Dresden after the fire bombing. The barkonomy is responsible for that in very large part.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 06, 2012 07:21 AM

Well, Bark Obama wants to fix that, you know. His plan involves taking a "fair share" from The Rich and giving lots of Free Stuff to his beleaguered peeps in the 'hood. He's tried so damn hard for three years that the only fair thing to do is give him four more to get it right!

Until Toledo looks like President Historic First's© home village in Kenya, his work is not done....

21 The California Senate passed a bill on Thursday that seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in Arizona and other U.S. states.

California- come on down! You're the next contestant on....

Flush!
your!
State!

22 "His plan involves taking a "fair share" from The Rich and giving lots of Free Stuff to his beleaguered peeps in the 'hood."

Gots to love that sweet sweet bammy cash, no?

23 <Poppin'>In fairness to the JEF</Poppin'>, Toledo has been a fucking socialist shithole for a very long time.  Although under the SCoaMF the rot will spread everywhere else.

24 I have been kicking this around in my head for a while now and with this bullshit healthcare law passing the SC base on lies I can't help but thinking I am right so I wanna get you morons opinion on it. So basically the entire democrat party apparatus and the majority of their voters literally condone lying as a legitimate political tactic. This can be cited as fact referencing how they sold and passed the healthcare law. They lied about its cost, what it would do, and lie about it being or not being a tax depending on the day of the week. how the president was allowed to lie about his support of gay marriage for years with a wink wink you know I'm lying. Also the democrat party also cheats, forging votes, sueing to stop voter roll purges of illegal voters. So when are republicans going to start cheating and lying? Really, they can sit there and hold tight to their sacred honor like British red coats forming up in lines to get shot by the enemy hiding in te woods, or they can decide to do the dirty work necessary to win. To be honest if Romney came out in public and endorsed illegal immigration or "saving social security", but then would give speeches at cpac where I could be give a wink right about now I don't think Id give a fuck. Sad to say but if our political opponents can literally lie to the public saying they will do one thing, and literally keep their voter base in doing so, they will win. Why not just promise goodies to the middle while laughing like Obama as you set about destroying the social safety net for welfare leaches? I mean I'm so disgusted with everything right now I'm pretty much ready to throw decency out the window and play by the "rules" set by our opponents rather than the antiquated ideals that obviously only we respect.

25 The only thing that makes me feel a little better about Ohio is I trust Kasich and the Husted to not let the Democrats  play dirty with the ballots.

26 19 Pep, calm down.

I didn't realize I was hysterical.  

RCP has quite a spread, from +9 (Obama) to +3 (Romney).  The +9 is Quinnipiac, so......

27 25 The only thing that makes me feel a little better about Ohio is I trust Kasich and the Husted to not let the Democrats play dirty with the ballots. Posted by: General Woundwort at July 06, 2012 07:32 AM (06lNq) See things like this convince me in right. I mean do you think democrats ever sit around and think that? No cause they are the ones fucking cheating.

28 Gots to love that sweet sweet bammy cash, no?


Posted by: Chariots of Toast at July 06, 2012 07:28 AM

Damn skippy I do! Hell, I love Holder's War on Voter ID Laws, too. AND his tireless work on behalf of the New Black Panther Party. Holder's efforts are almost as important as Obama's crusading for the Muslim Brotherhood and crushing the last productive polluting industries in the U.S.

I can tell this is gonna be one of those "I'm so happy I could just shit!" days, thanks to the Traitor-in-Chief and his co-conspirators in D.C.

29 The whole fucking state smells from having the JEF spend the night in Akron.  Send this lying fuck out to Pennsyltucky where he can pretend that he gives a shit about them.

30 So when are republicans going to start cheating and lying?

We can't because the media wouldn't run interference for our lies.  Truth is our only option.

31 So Mitch McConnell didn't actually say it'll be a lot harder to repeal the Obama Tax?  Oh my stars and garters, a portion of the MFM mangled what a Republican had to say and it ended up with the Right at each others throats.  I have never heard of such a thing.


Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go collect my winnings.

32 Mr. Pink: You're starting from false premises. Politics = lying. The Dems are, perversely, being more honest and upfront about that.

33

15 - Was just up in Toledo, place looks like a close cousin to Dresden after the fire bombing. The barkonomy is responsible for that in very large part.

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Its a slum from end to end due to piss poor local government  and dirt poor residents for the past 50+ years. Not surprising its a dem haven. Theres a lot of them in Ohio, usually anywhere near an auto plant.

But i heard he was in Maumee, which is the "good" part of Toledo. Its where businesses go to get away from Toledo.

34 This time, though, Judge Rupp did something extraordinary that Judge Vaughey did not. He actually looked at the evidence...

pray this doesn't go to the SCOTUS on appeal.

35 Seems the British are arresting suspected "Terrorists" left on right over there before the Olympics? I guess maybe it wasn't such a great idea letting all them terrorist scum into the Country in the first place?

36 Why not just promise goodies to the middle...

like the broken Obama now Romney promise for under $250K tax cut

37

Obama won Ohio by 4.6 in 2008, and we're supposed to believe his support has gone up to +10? Yeah, not buying it. Obama's margins will go down in every single state. There is no one in this country who voted for McCain who will vote for Obama this time, while many Obama voters will switch (or at least stay home.) But Obama had a pretty big cushion, and his mission will be to minimize lost voters.

And on that note, I was looking to see if any President was re-elected to a second term while winning fewer votes than in his first election. My lazy, cursory look going back to McKinley showed the answer to be "no"; every one had increased both his number of votes as well as his percentage of the vote. So, there's a bit of history working against Obama. As I said, this was a half-assed three minutes of research, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

38 32 Mr. Pink: You're starting from false premises. Politics = lying. The Dems are, perversely, being more honest and upfront about that. Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at July 06, 2012 07:38 AM (3ZtZW) If that was the case then can you point to me the republican equivalent to Chris Dodd or Charlie Rangel?

39 @31

Do you really believe in your heart of hearts that John "Orange Crush" Boehner and Mitch "No Neck" McConnel have the stones to dismantle ObamaCare?

They have worked diligently to stab the Tea Party in the back. They fucked us on the deb ceiling and have generally not put up any sort of fight to protect us from the depredations of the Democrats and Obama.

40 The MUslim Brotherhood is poised to take over Libya also. Well I must admit obama is reshaping the Middle East

41 Syria set to win seat on UN Human Rights Council By JERUSALEM POST STAFF07/06/2012 03:44UN Watch, an NGO that monitors the international bodyÂ’s activity, says despite Assad's crackdown, Syria likely to get spot on council due to system of fixed slates. Ya just can't make shit like this up

42 Seems the British are arresting suspected "Terrorists" left on right over there before the Olympics? I guess maybe it wasn't such a great idea letting all them terrorist scum into the Country in the first place?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 06, 2012 07:39 AM (05RcU)

We told them to deal with it or we'd deal with it.

43 We can all snuggle up to the McConnell now (because that is all we got), but let's be real, he isn't known for being a conservative cause's best friend. It was his words and he did say them. He was hedging his bet. I'm sure he will *try*, but lets see if he finds a way and actually punches the repeal across the goal line.

44

>>>If that was the case then can you point to me the republican equivalent to Chris Dodd or Charlie Rangel?

You're missing the point and that will take us into the weeds. If politics is "the art of the possible", then part of that is "doing what can you get away with". I'm saying that I agree, Dems do outrageous and often illegal things. They're often better at getting away with it. But lying is baked into the cake, like it or not.

45 Obama's calling Romney an 'outsourcer.'

I guess that's worse than killing jobs outright like Barry achieved?

Of course, there's the question of how many jobs Barry has driven overseas, as well.

46 The U.S. military is dispatching an elite squad of supershooters to London this summer, each member gunning for Olympic gold. Indeed, more than half of the 22-strong U.S. shooting team claim connections to the military.

47 Seems the British are arresting suspected "Terrorists" left on right over there before the Olympics? I guess maybe it wasn't such a great idea letting all them terrorist scum into the Country in the first place?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 06, 2012 07:39 AM (05RcU)

 

 

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So, all it takes to get libtard governments to arrest terrorists is to host the m-f-ing olympics?  Shit.  Now I DO wish it had come to Chicago.  Though it would be even better in Detroit, so that maybe we could clean out that rats' nest known as Dearbornistan.  That place should be bulldozed into a big hole and the wreckage pile set on fire.  If something tries to crawl out - push it back in.

 

48 Barry has scheduled a speech this morning after the June jobs number is released. He must have been given advanced notice that it is not as bad as was feared,(yesterday's private sector new job number hinted at that), and he will crow and take credit. For Romney to have any chance at keeping this thing close, the number needs to be below 100,000.

49 #39  There are,  at last count,  22 bills relating to the jobs and the economy that are bottlenecked in the Senate due to the Head Worm,  Harry Reid.  Boehner got all of those passed.  It is the Senate that is holding things up.  As far as I know,  until the democrats in the Senate see the torch flames and pitchforks coming up Capitol Hill,  they aren't going to do a damn thing.

In order for Tea Party people to retain clout,  they have to keep pushing people who are not used to fighting.  This can be effective (example from history being Robert the Bruce who FINALLY got off his rear and drove the English out).

If your kid is getting bad grades,  do you call him a dummie who will never be able to pass math,  or do you help him,  maybe get him a tutor,  and praise him for any improvement,  no matter how small?

50 Indeed, more than half of the 22-strong U.S. shooting team claim connections to the military.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 06, 2012 07:50 AM (05RcU)

 

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What's great about America is that the other half of the team, the non-military part, is still qualified to be there.  In various other nations you're luck to handle a gun at all outside the military, let alone become proficient with it.

51 average joe getting an early start on sucking cocks.

52 They have worked diligently to stab the Tea Party in the back. They fucked us on the deb ceiling and have generally not put up any sort of fight to protect us from the depredations of the Democrats and Obama.
Posted by: General Woundwort
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They will not be able to repeal it.. they will have to replace it with something scaled down.  There are too many popular features of Obamacare that have already kicked in, that it would be hard politically to repeal the whole thing.

The really crappy parts of Obamacare don't kick in until 2014..  That's when voters are going to realized how truly fucked they are by Obamacare.. but if Barky gets re-elected, it will be too late.

53 If your kid is getting bad grades, do you call him a dummie who will never be able to pass math, or do you help him, maybe get him a tutor, and praise him for any improvement, no matter how small?

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 06, 2012 07:51 AM (GoIUi)

 

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Neither.  Put him up for adoption and make a new kid.  Sometimes a do-over is the best.

54 Pollsters are like those old-timie photographers, the guys who had to stick their heads inside a piece of cloth before they snapped the picture. They might be very good at being able to tell you whether there is enough lighting for the picture, but they couldn't really tell you whether or not the sun was shining. It's July. Most of the idiots you know are not talking about the election in November, what makes you think they're thinking about it? Obama will lose Ohio because Ohio isn't that dumb. A relatively small handful of states are, and he'll win those, but the vast majority of the country will make the right decision.

55 There are too many popular features of Obamacare that have already kicked in


What has already begun?

56 I don't know if Mittens is down by 10 in Ohio, but I sure hope he *thinks* he's down by 10 in Ohio.

57 What has already begun? Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 06, 2012 07:56 AM (GUNMw) Keeping kids on your policy till 26 No preconditions for kids

58 If your kid is getting bad grades, do you call him a dummie who will never be able to pass math, or do you help him, maybe get him a tutor, and praise him for any improvement, no matter how small?

Posted by: Miss Marple at July 06, 2012 07:51 AM (GoIUi)

30 lashes and no dessert, Johnnie.

59 51 Really? Haven't seen him.

60

"What's great about America is that the other half of the team, the non-military part, is still qualified to be there. In various other nations you're luck to handle a gun at all outside the military, let alone become proficient with it."

 

This won't be an advantage in Olympic shooting for too much longer.  The new kinder, gentler Olympics uses frickin' lazers -not live ammo - for the shooting events now. 

 

FAIL

 

 

61 For Romney to have any chance at keeping this thing close, the number needs to be below 100,000.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 06, 2012 07:50 AM (eX3h/)

 

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I think this puts too much emphasis on a number most people don't believe any more, or just ignore.  No matter what the new number, it doesn't matter that much.  Real unemployment is still on our side, and Romney just needs to hammer it all home.  The time for the propaganda blitz is that last month of the campaign, with a focus on the last couple weeks.  The lame-brained squishes in the middle can't remember anything for more than a few days at a time.  Pound Obastard hard at the end, go full negative and rip him apart, and then win.

That's the right strategy.  For now it's time to build up the positives Mitt has to offer.  Build the image of the competent, business-like guy who will not make a lot of sudden moves.  Make people feel safe with Mitt.  Make Mitt look like the winner he is.  Then bash our current worthless loser prez in the final weeks and stir up all the disgust, discontent, and animosity possible. 

62 If your kid is getting bad grades, do you call him a dummie who will never be able to pass math, or do you help him, maybe get him a tutor, and praise him for any improvement, no matter how small?
Posted by: Miss Marple at July 06, 2012 07:51 AM

Boner is NOT "our kid," but is a weak-willed D.C. political hack who is totally out of touch with reality and keeps bad company.

He is more like a cheap piece of electronic crap from a discount store: if it keeps giving you trouble, screw the warranty. Throw the damn thing away and a get a replacement that works. Ditto for Bitch McConnell and the rest of the Repub "leaders." They don't need "understanding;" they need to be broomed.

63 @Captain Hate
"In fairness to the JEF</Poppin'>, Toledo has been a fucking socialist shithole for a very long time."

@Hal Burton
"Its a slum from end to end due to piss poor local government and dirt poor residents for the past 50+ years. Not surprising its a dem haven."

You are both unarguably correct on this point- grew up in the Detroit area, and Toledo was always the grimy 'tard cousin of Detroit that ate boogers and didn't have any nice stuff. And had a crummy hot dog stand and t.v.'s Jamal Farouk (Klinger, woo).

But the aim here is to denigrate the earflapped queen of the sand traps- truth in this case is merely an accidental occurrence- or not.

C'mon, if dumbocrats can craft a narrative, so can I. And being a conservative, I am by definition more creative and intelligent... so my stories will be better. 

64 They will not be able to repeal it.. they will have to replace it with something scaled down. There are too many popular features of Obamacare that have already kicked in, that it would be hard politically to repeal the whole thing.
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The popular parts are the ones that will kill the insurance industry. They're popular because they're seen as something for nothing to the end user ("consumer protection" and all that).

65 This won't be an advantage in Olympic shooting for too much longer. The new kinder, gentler Olympics uses frickin' lazers -not live ammo - for the shooting events now.

FAIL

Posted by: Jaws at July 06, 2012 07:59 AM (4I3Uo)

 

 

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Errr.... what?  Lasers?  Those things that have no ballistics, ignore wind, etc?  You have got to be shitting me.  So this is now a "sport" to determine who's brats are the best nintendo players?  I hate this f-ing world.  I wish we'd launch all the nukes today and just f-ing end it all. 

 

 

To heck with Romney.  I'm going back to full-on SMOD enthusiast. 

 

66 Keeping kids on your policy till 26
No preconditions for kids

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 06, 2012 07:58 AM (05RcU)

So 26 year old deadbeats are already on their poor excuse for parents' plans?  Fuck that shit.

67 @nickless:

"Of course, there's the question of how many jobs Barry has driven overseas, as well."

Ah, but of course mcDowngrade has had help on this front- please to observe the exodus of GE jobs and infrastructure to China, at the behest of Jeffrey Immelt, GE CEO and arsehole buddy of our fey imbecile in chief.

68 So 26 year old deadbeats are already on their poor excuse for parents' plans? Fuck that shit. Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 06, 2012 08:04 AM (GUNMw) I just report the news

69

Do you really believe in your heart of hearts that John "Orange Crush" Boehner and Mitch "No Neck" McConnel have the stones to dismantle ObamaCare?

 

Annnnd that bit of snark apparently went sailing right over your head. I was addressing the fact that the Horde was out with long knives against each other over what it was that McConnell actually said and getting in the obligatory kick at the MFM. 

70 Geraldo is in Israel. I hate that guy

71 Obama is a choad-guzzling squatch.  If he takes OH (former Maumee resident here) I'll eat my car. 

72 #53  OK.  I see my argument was unsuccessful.  Well,  you have a nice day.

73 Plan B when the well-creased trouser set inhabiting the air-conditioned Beltway echo chamber fail to do the Will of the People? Dr. Walter E. Williams had it right yesterday as guest host of the Limbaugh Program: Nullification. Nullification by states, migration of Free Americans to Free America, resolve, and a sufficient number of people who will uphold the oath they took to defend the Constitution. [audio] http://tinyurl.com/7tgcce4

74 The feds arent deporting them anyways, so whats the point. Dont the Dims realize how risky this policy is? One of these guys gets picked up, released, has a few cervesas, and kills a bunch of kids - thry are going to own it.

75 Romney better take the gloves off.  Nothing should be off the table - especially Obama's past.

76 Can't we, you know, persuade California to just secede already?

77 The MUslim Brotherhood is poised to take over Libya also.

The "If they're in charge, they may be responsible theory".

OTOH it does make surveillance easier since we now know where they're day jobs are.

78

>>Obama's calling Romney an 'outsourcer.'

>>I guess that's worse than killing jobs outright like Barry achieved?

>>Of course, there's the question of how many jobs Barry has driven overseas, as well.

 

Insty captured this Drudge moment..link in name.

79

@65  "So this is now a"sport" to determine who'sbrats are the best nintendo players?"

 

Hence my comment about the relative gun-friendliness of the USA being an advantage.

 

I ammend my previous comment - lasers will only, apparently, be used in Modern Pentathlon this go around.  But it's coming to the rest of the events for sure.  Tey're selling it in terms of safety, accessability, and cost.

 

Whatever.

80
Poll: Obama leads Romney by 18 points in California

President Barack Obama maintains a double-digit edge over Republican Mitt Romney in California heading into the summer months, leading 55 percent to 37 percent among likely voters, according to a Field Poll released today.




You know, just giving the Dems 20% of the electoral votes they need to win every four years is probably a bad idea.

In before Mitt counters by putting a gay Latina movie star on the ticket.

81 So Obama is hiding out in Ohio, no doubt playing cornhole, as the jobs report is about to be released. Let's hope his bus breaks down.

82 @Posted by: Reactionary at July 06, 2012 07:59 AM (xUM1Q)

Yep, pretty much. Good post.

83 Edward Rutledge was 26 when he signed the Declaration of Independence. Not sure if he was on his parents' health insurance, but, even though still a child, he still would have been drawn and quartered with the rest of the signers had the Revolution gone otherwise. People were less civilized in the pre-Obama era.

84

Can't we, you know, persuade California to just secede already?

 

The rest of PA keeps trying to give Philly to Jersey, hell, we'll throw in a case of birch beer too and that hasn't taken yet.

85 You know, just giving the Dems 20% of the electoral votes they need to win every four years is probably a bad idea.
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Exactly. We should revoke California's statehood.

86
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law May Bar 9% From Presidential Election




We all know that eventually some Court will overturn the law or the Justice Department will unilaterally decide it can't be enforced, but it's nice to dream.

87 Mr Pink

Truth is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways. The truth shall set you free. Honesty is the best policy. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!

Nothing more effective in debate than using solid, truthful evidence as one's foundation.

Propagate Truth. Reiterate truth as standard. Carry proof of truth to disperse the lie. Especially re: ObamaCare costs to those earning under $50K -- converse without argument pulling up Google's own calculation website to prove the individual's cost figures. Those who believed in the hopeychange lie will be disillusioned with the lie and turn hard against the liar, of their own free will. And they won't be silenced.

Matthew 7: 24-29
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."  When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

88 NY SLIMES - Economists are slashing their already tepid growth forecasts. The unemployment rate seems stuck at around 8 percent. It is a tense time for the American economy. It is also the time that some experts believe the countryÂ’s undecided voters are beginning to cement their presidential picks.

That is why many political scientists and consultants consider Friday’s jobs report and the ones immediately following it to be so important — perhaps more so than those of the previous three years.

“I don’t know whether it is because American voters are myopic, or because they are forward-looking,” said Andrew Gelman, the director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. “But they appear to care most about change in the economy in the year preceding the election,” rather than the state of the economy over an incumbent president’s first four years.

Well Andy the economy has been in shit shape since Barry Ojobscreatedandsaved took office. So exactly what is the difference between the last 4 years and now?

89 News sites seem to be waiting on the jobs report. My prediction is that jobs will be down again, Obama will declare jobs a tax and claim he is lowering taxes by killing jobs. The crowd will go wild, women will sob and men will bow before his greatness.

90 Exactly. We should revoke California's statehood.

Yep. Not only bankrupted. But gone hog wild.

91 "I think this puts too much emphasis on a number most people don't believe any more, or justignore. No matter whatthe new number, it doesn't matter that much." You can already feel Romney's momentum (if he had any) badly slipping away. And, don't forget, the public was evenly split on whether the last terrible jobs number was good or bad. Mitt is being defined as the "outsourcer" and isn't fighting back at all, instead deciding to sit on the back of a jet ski. Anything other than another really bad number and the media will spin this as just more good news for Obama. A good number and we're looking at Clinton vs. Bob Dole levels of Obama invincibility vs Romney.

92 The rest of PA keeps trying to give Philly to Jersey, hell, we'll throw in a case of birch beer too and that hasn't taken yet. Posted by: alexthechick at July 06, 2012 08:19 AM (VtjlW)[/1] --- Yeah, even New Jersey is too smart for that deal.

93 "So Obama is hiding out in Ohio, no doubt playing cornhole, as the jobs report is about to be released. Let's hope his bus breaks down." Actually, he's getting ready to deliver a speech about the jobs number. Would you rather he was sitting behind his wife on a jet ski?

94

#53 OK. I see my argument was unsuccessful. Well, you have a nice day.
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Small wonder.  Politicians are our EMPLOYEES, not our children. They are not there to learn from and be nurtured by us.  They are HIRED to protect our interests.

 

When an employee sucks this bad, you replace him or you put your livelihood at the mercy of his incompetence/weakness /greed / chicanery.

95 BTW, I could use some pithy quotes about women. Ya got any?

96 Because of Philly I've never liked Pennsylvania much.  Except Hershey, PA. where they do God's work.

97 45 Obama's calling Romney an 'outsourcer.'

I guess that's worse than killing jobs outright like Barry achieved?

Of course, there's the question of how many jobs Barry has driven overseas, as well.

Posted by: nickless at July 06, 2012 07:49 AM (MMC8r)

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The medical device tax (10%??) is gonna drive 1,000's of jobs overseas. And Romney is the Evil "OUTSOURCER!!11!"//

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My mother works for just such a company the owners who are at retirement age and very wealthy have already stated that they are prepared to sell off, take their toys and go home...say goodbye to 200+ more jobs here in Jersey. 

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Morn ya'll

98 >>the Indiana corn crop is 90% lost due to the drought.

Gas went from $3.09 on Monday to $3.59 yesterday (that's a 16% increase over four days, for those of you who understand what the symbol with the bubbles means (I denounce my racism in using it)).

I haven't been by any places that put the price of E85 up on their signs, but generally it's less than 10% cheaper (you totally don't save any money, because it gets 25% worse gas mileage) than regular and occasionally higher; I've been wondering how soon the 10% ethanol blend laws will be dragging UP the price of regular gas (I know it already costs us money in other ways), contra the propaganda they run during Brewers games about how the blending keeps the pump price "low"[sic].

99

I see we have a new troll in DrSmith, as each of his posts generates a new IP moniker.

 

Thanks for your fake concern! We'll handle it from here.

100 One of these guys gets picked up, released, has a few cervesas, and kills a bunch of kids - thry are going to own it.

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 08:09 AM (EBBBm)

 

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Alas, they will not own it.  These incidents already happen and no libtards are held responsible.  It's swept under the rug, or else it creates a tempest in a tea pot for a few days and blows over. 

 

 

That's what happens when you combine a complicit media with a morally lazy public.  I love what America was, and is supposed to be.  But it's getting hard to have any affection for a large portion of my fellow Americans.  They are traitors to their own nation and heritage.  It would suit me fine to start the break up of the US along cultural/regional lines.

101 jobs number coming!!

102 80,000 jobs added in the month of June....UE unchanged.

103 76 Can't we, you know, persuade California to just secede already?

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 06, 2012 08:15 AM (aGX9l)

 

 

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Good idea.  Then it could replace Egypt on my list of countries to visit before it's too late.

104 80,000 unemployment rate unchanged

105 >>So exactly what is the difference between the last 4 years and now?

Gitmo was closed.  Oh, wait.

106

80K jobs, unemployment holds at 8.2%. Barky's toast.

 

107 The rest of PA keeps trying to give Philly to Jersey, hell, we'll throw in a case of birch beer too and that hasn't taken yet.
Posted by: alexthechick at July 06, 2012 08:19 AM (VtjlW)[/1]

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Yeah, even New Jersey is too smart for that deal.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 06, 2012 08:25 AM (aGX9l)

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Yeah...No thanks we already have Camden and Newark and Paterson and Passaic and Jersey City and East Orange and Elizabeth and...TRENTON.

108 80,000 jobs added in the month of June....UE unchanged.

Posted by: Tami at July 06, 2012 08:30 AM (X6akg)

This morning the news was low balling at 100,000 at it missed crappy expectations again. Well let's see how this is Bush/Republicans/Tea Party/the weather's fault

109 Wow, that response from the Obama campaign regarding the $100M Romney fundraising is the most whiniest and vacant response I've ever heard.

110 You can already feel Romney's momentum (if he had any) badly slipping away.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 06, 2012 08:25 AM (t8tck)

 

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LOL.  We're not falling for it Doc.  Bob Dole was the worst Republican candidate in history, save maybe McCain.  This will not be a repeat of that.  There is no strong recovery to help Obastard.  We aren't running a spineless pussy this time.  And we've not even had the damn convention yet - which will refresh the momentum nicely.  This is a lull.  The calm before the storm.  Mitt will bring the wrath down on barky come the right moment. 

 

 

He may not be Reagan reborn, but he's enough to get this job done.  Though I'll say this - we do still have one major vulnerability.  Traitors within our own ranks.  Those are the trash who will backstab us.   

111 80,000 jobs added, wow man thats just 200000 short of breaking even. Barky is a job creating machine.

112

April jobs number adjusted down 9k, May up 8k, net decrease for the two of -1k.

113

80,000 jobs. Unemployment unchanged.

Stay tuned to MSNBC and the New York Times to explain to you how super-awesome those numbers really are.

114 Norman Felton, 99, who developed and produced the successful 1960s TV series "Dr. Kildare" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," died of natural causes June 25 in Santa Barbara, his family said.




R.I.P. Mr. Felton

115 DrSmith, put the crack pipe down.

116
The Labor Department is expected to say that non-farm payrolls expanded by just 90,000 jobs in June, according to a Reuters survey of economists.




Longhair economists take another one low and on the outside. Strike 2.

117

So 80k jobs is, what, an average of 1,600 per state?  Yeah, that's going gangbusters there.

 

Boy BFF is out of work, again, and says that this is the worst he's ever seen the market.  Considering how much he's been out of work over the last five years, that's saying something. 

118 80,000 jobs added Wev'e never been good at contractions.

119 >>80,000 jobs added in the month of June..

Next week they'll revise it down. They've done that for 53 weeks straight.

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

121 91 Here you go DrSmith, I brought you a bag of dicks; now go fuck yourself.

122 "LOL. We're not falling for itDoc. Bob Dole was the worst Republican candidate in history, save maybe McCain. This will not be a repeat of that." You don't think being a passenger on a jet ski while Obama is out campaigning in Ohio is stupid and terrible optics? And with all the money Romney is raising, where are the response ads to the outsourcing charge? I was just in Vegas and the tv is filled with Obama ads in the morning with zero ads from Mitt. This is another terrible campaign and a lack of funds can't be used as an excuse.

123 Is Barack still a SCOAMF???...YESSSSS!!!

124 Focused, like a laser!

125 I was just in Vegas and the tv is filled with Obama ads in the morning with zero ads from Mitt. This is another terrible campaign and a lack of funds can't be used as an excuse.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 06, 2012 08:39 AM (oGyUC)

Good.....Obama will run out of money during crunch time and Romney will be flush.

126

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is struggling.

The Labor Department says the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent.

The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That's one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing last year's pace through the first six months of 2012.

A weaker job market has made consumers less confident. They have pulled back on spending, even though gas prices have plunged.

High unemployment could shift momentum to Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. An Associated Press-GfK poll released last month found that more than half of those surveyed disapproved of President Barack Obama's handling of the economy.

It doesn't matter to the MFM that all of these people are out of work with no hope of finding a job. Their only concern is how this affects their boyfriend Barry

127 ">>80,000 jobs added in the month of June.. Next week they'll revise it down. They've done that for 53 weeks straight." Actually, no. The May report was revised up 9,000.

128 So is the car back in the ditch?

129 >>80,000 jobs added in the month of June..

Next week they'll revise it down. They've done that for 53 weeks straight.

Posted by: HeatherRadish has a headache at July 06, 2012 08:38 AM (hO8IJ)

That's unemployment applications.
This won't be revised downward for a month.

130 Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes: Have voters “priced-in” bad economic news as they evaluate Pres Obama? Stubborn polling suggests answer may be yes. This explains why Romney can't make any headway in Ohio or VA.

131 Danger Will Robinson! Dr. Smith has a full bag of dicks!

132
the weather's fault
Posted by: TheQuietMan




!Aye, El Derecho!

133 Expect a double down on Keynesian from O'duechebag et al. He's going to say we need more "stimulus", multipliers for everyone.

134 Firing an impulse-driven lead projectile and shooting a beam of light are not comparable.

Recoil, trajectory, etc. just are not equivalent.

135 Actually, no. The May report was revised up 9,000.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 06, 2012 08:40 AM (eX3h/)

Go play with the robot

136 I got it, Barry: Let's start pounding "nattering nabobs of negativity!"

137 This is a really neat chart.
http://www.politicalmathblog.com/BLS/2012/06/

138 >>That's unemployment applications.
This won't be revised downward for a month.

Ah.  Sorry.

139 So all the angst regarding the Ohio polls.  I'm starting to get the feeling that a number of them are being purposely spun to bring shift the RCP average toward Obama.

As I asked CAC last week, can anyone name one single poll that is reliably oversampling Republicans?

No problem, I can wait...

Still looking? No problem...

Yeah, like I said, if the only one you can even consider naming is Rasmussen, who has one of the best historical accuracy ratings, then clearly the averages are being skewed in one direction.  It's just math.

In 2008 I spent almost the entire campaign season in Los Angeles. At this point in the process, the Obama bumperstickers could be found on every 10th or 20th car.  I was in LA last week and driving all over for 5 days straight.  I didn't see a single Obama 2012 sticker.  Not on Wilshire, not in Santa Monica, not in Orange County, not even on the 91 and 105 as I skirted Compton.

But Obama has increased his 2008 support in Ohio by 5 points?  Color me skeptical.

140 (CNBC) - The U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, reflecting continued slow growth in the economy with the presidential election just four months away.



Spin it as slow growth. If Romney was president the world would be coming to an end


There were a few bright spots: The overall work week edged higher by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours and average hourly earnings grew 6 cents to $23.50.


6 cent an hour increase!!!!!! Thank you Barry!!! I'm going to Disneyland!!!!!

141 I was just in Vegas and the tv is filled with Obama ads in the morning with zero ads from Mitt.

You're an idiot.  I'd say you're a f*cking idiot, but for evolution's sake, I hope that's not the case.

Vegas was never going to go Republican anyway.  The rest of the State might, but Vegas won't.  If Obama is flooding the airwaves in Vegas before Labor Day, it means he has a serious problem.

We're not talking political adds in Missouri or Kansas, we're talking about adds targeting his base.  He's having to spend money (on top of not raising very much) just to get his base back on board.  Barack Obama spending money in Vegas, Michigan, and the North East are good things for us.  Especially this early.

Then add in 80,000 jobs created last month?  That's roughly a quarter of what we need just to maintain for population growth, which means just since last month there are 240,000 more Americans looking for work have haven't found any at the start of this month than there were at the start of last month.

142 I can't wait for the spin on this. How about this:


Only 80,000 jobs were added because Mitt Romney outsourced the rest of them.

143

BTW, I could use some pithy quotes about women.  Ya got any?

 

"Thou goest to women?  Do not forget thy whip!" - Friedrich Nietzche

144

Heh, for Preezy's press conference this morning, let's hope he again says something like "The private sector is doin' fine."

 

In fact, Romney needs to creaet an ad every month with that quote from him when the unemployment numbers come out. Just keep hammering that point home.

145

#122 - It is early July.  Nobody but inside the beltway types are paying attention.  People won't start paying real attention until after the Olympics and the conventions.  The Jet Ski thing was the MSM playing their role of unofficial Obamas campaign workers.   As noted above the economy is not getting better, Romney looks like he won't be dramatially outspent like McCain was, and he is not going to sit back and take it the way McCain did.  And the history of being the first american american president in '08 is going to be replaced by one of the worst presidential records ever in '12.

Could Romney lose? sure but an objective view is that he is in a good position to win this thing

146  91, Mitt is being defined as the "outsourcer" and isn't fighting back at all ...

Mitt believes in outsourcing. And Mitt is a devout Keynesian. Don't hold your breath waiting for Mitt to deny what he believes, as with RomneyCare's resilience despite Mass. bankrupted hospitals.

2008 Mitt's lost campaign rhetoric included his line to woo the manufacturing workforce that their highly skilled jobs are gone and not coming back. "Kiss them goodbye!" He promised to maintain socialist employment figures via unification of corporations with government contracts for big government. Meanwhile, he only advised that people get a "good job" -- stocking shelves at Staples, or tending children at Bright Horizons. Or go into debt returning to school as if to improve your lot given the unemployed college graduates already flooding America, not to mention the immigrants, skilled and not, legal and illegal made extra-legal, and Mitt's own malleable enabling of amnesty for illegals.

Mitt has his views. If he could not predict the outcomes of Obama's administration from the onset 2008 "fire in the belly" (AWOL), now he's had FOUR MORE YEARS to go figure the right tone and the right words to Win America with the work ethic and structural design to BUILD. Vacation or not, the "vision" is absent. And following personal vacation with globe trotting only props up the international player image as a neoconservative, which vote is already his base, not leaving him. So long as Mitt's team consists of Bush III, the end.

Regarding propaganda, when left in ignorance, given no means to either substantiate or disprove, people will grasp the most outlandish story. WWII GARBO the spy counters Occam's razor.

But wisdom is proved right by her actions.

147 Poll averages are useless, but ones like RCP that 'average' polls with completely different methodologies are even more so.

148

#130 - so Hayes is saying voters are expecting the economy to be crappy under Obama so they are sticking with Obama?  That is retarded.

149 I read Faulkner once for a H.S. lit class.  That was it for me and classic literature.  Since then I've stuck with shallow and entertaining fodder.

150 The only thing I noticed about the MSM jet ski Romney photo was that the Mrs. was driving, and they looked healthy, happy and well balanced.

At least Mitt didn't need to be airbrushed like Obama's boney ass 2008 photoshop 6-pack abs on the beach.

151
Vegas was never going to go Republican anyway. The rest of the State might, but Vegas won't. If Obama is flooding the airwaves in Vegas before Labor Day, it means he has a serious problem.

He's doing the same thing in the solid Democrat Wilkes-Barre - Scranton area. When you have to run a heavy ad campaign this early -- in a Democrat stranglehold -- you've got major problems.

152 Gas went from $3.09 on Monday to $3.59 yesterday

Isn't IN one of the weirder gas markets.  Refineries there but no pipes?, weird mix for smog control? Too close to Chi?,  High gas tax? etc.

153 Posted by: Mr Pink at July 06, 2012 07:30 AM (xx6lg)

I hate to say it, Pink, but to answer your question in brief, it's almost like they're playing good cop/bad cop with us. Republicans all universally rejected BambiScare, yet they had just enough votes to let it out of committee. In an astonishing coincidence, they also had just enough votes to ratify it at the Court level.

Elected Republicans also stayed incredibly quiet while the Demons ran roughshod over everything those first two years (I got reamed for pointing this out one other time, but it is absolutely true). The budget, the spending, the health bs. The deafening silence is what startled me, and woke me up to the fact that those people who have long claimed that both parties are happy expanding power over our lives (they just play games with who carries the ball at what time) are not uniformly crazy.

154 Oh, the thread is over. Wonderful.

155 Save us ORomneycare.  You're our only hope.

156 If Obama is flooding the airwaves in Vegas before Labor Day, it means he has a serious problem.
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Yes. And perhaps free airtime "donated" despite. Reid didn't get barely re-elected without his own contributors with deep pockets and vested interests.

Are there still those insisting better Reid than allowing the likes of the Bible blonde Angle into the Senate as a Republican?

157 And with all the money Romney is raising, where are the response ads to the outsourcing charge? I was just in Vegas and the tv is filled with Obama ads in the morning with zero ads from Mitt. This is another terrible campaign and a lack of funds can't be used as an excuse.

Posted by: DrSmith at July 06, 2012 08:39 AM (oGyUC)

 

 

 

Again - fighting hard now against every little sting is pointless, especially in Dem strongholds.  Those people are unfixably stupid to begin with and cannot be won over.  Only the independent areas matter.  Win the squishes, which can only be done late in the campaign when those fools make their ill-informed choices. 

 

 

As for riding the back of a jetski, is that really even a thing?  Who actually knows about that?  Who's going to be petty enough to try to make some issue of it?  Preznit mom-jeans?  I think not.  If he wants to go to war over who is the more effeminate, I think that's a battle we should be eager to fight.  Obie doesn't exactly project masculine charisma.  He may like to thrust his chin out like a Musollini, but he doesn't have the testosterone to pull off the heroic-leader thing.

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

159 So...this "new" Countrywide stuff resurfacing...is it just old, repackaged scandal, or something we'll see more beyond the pro forma mention/burial by the MSM?

160 The interview with McConnell is comforting.  It's basically 800 words of "We're repealing the fucker."  It seems that if the commitment wasn't there before, he's since gotten the message.

161 He may like to thrust his chin out like a Musollini, but he doesn't have the testosterone to pull off the heroic-leader thing.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 06, 2012 09:18 AM (xUM1Q)

 

 

He also has a vagina.  The prissy little fuck.

162 Dr Smith is my doctor

163 grew up in the Detroit area, and Toledo was always the grimy 'tard cousin of Detroit that ate boogers and didn't have any nice stuff.

Yeah, you've been saying that since Hudson's was still standing.

My symphony just played Carnegie Hall to rave reviews. Yours? Tits up.
My art museum will have the Manet tour this fall. Yours? Tits up.
Want to talk zoos? You're living in yours.

Despite Columbus' best efforts, Toledo is still making money.
Oh, but I miss the point. You left Detroit, didn't you. And still feel, somehow, vaguely superior? You gave up and ran away. Loser.

Do most things suck? Sure. It's...a city. You need to get over the notion that there's a Magic City somewhere that you can move to and be made whole by the experience. Cities are a lot of fucking work.



 

164

Romney Administration.

 

New Unelected Bureaucrat.

 

Food Czar.

 

Appointee: Zombie Aint Bee and Kin

165 I didn't see a single Obama 2012 sticker. Not on Wilshire, not in Santa Monica, not in Orange County, not even on the 91 and 105 as I skirted Compton.


South Central LA resident here. I've seen a grand total of three in the last three months.

166

167 What do Brad Pitt and his mom share in common?
A squinted left eye. But not the same views.

Brad Pitt has long been an outspoken champion of gay rights. Pitt once told Ellen DeGeneres, "IÂ’ve said that we would not be getting married until everyone in this country had the right to get married."

THAT is the lamest, dopiest excuse for failing the commitment and doesn't sound better with repetition.

Try: We will not live in a mansion until everyone in this country has a mansion. We will not fly privately until everyone in this country has their own jet. Angelina will not inject her lips with fat until everyone in this country has fat lips.

168 We will not act in any more movies until everyone in this country is a star getting paid the same rate of compensation for their roles in life as we enjoy.