Another week, another unlikely ailment for me. This time, it's an aggressive infection attacking my left cheek.  I needed a procedure to remove some of it about 24 hours after it first appeared.  And now I'm so lopsided, nobody will mate with me.

I'll get better, though.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 07:02 AM (LRFds)

And that's not a small thing. It's important to kill off the liberal brown shirts movements.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 07:18 AM (LRFds)

This. And it won't be peaceful unless the lefties are dumb enough to split off from the rest of us. Jeez, I'd help them pack in a heartbeat.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 07:26 AM (LRFds)

Of course...if it's still saveable. I dunno. I'm a lot more optimistic since the Ryan pick than I was before it - esp. seeing stories about younger folks being receptive to him talking to them like adults - but I'm still afraid we've reached the point where a majority are willing to be told what do in exchange for having someone change their diapers and wipe their noses for them. This country isn't nearly as furious as it ought to be about what Obama has done to it. That worries me.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 07:14 AM (LRFds)

This.

Especially since we know how to PREVENT AIDS.  Some of these other things we don't even understand the basic pathology.

Posted by: Tonestaple at August 17, 2012 07:34 AM (gvVlx)

Too much time on their hands and not enough brains in their heads.

Mr. Carney, THAT is "n!gger!zat!on," to dismiss out of hand as a subhuman brainless nonentity the life and mind of Douglas Wilder whose point not only made perfect impact (Biden's shame), but remains as self evident truth. 

"Slavery nothing to joke about."

 I'll get better, though.

Posted by: Truman North at August 17, 2012 07:02 AM (I2LwF)

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Oh man, ouch...spider bite?

Get better!

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RE; Toure' (or whatever the j/o's name is) got a pretty good head smack from SE Cupp on the Niggardization comment. I hope she's making good scratch over in that hell hole. I couldn't do it.

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Morn ya'll

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 17, 2012 07:38 AM (d5fLT)

Oh, I'm sure some/many of them sincerely believe that. But what they're actually doing is helping re-elect Obama even if there's almost no chance Romney can win Washington. That will be the objective result of what they're trying to do if they succeed. (Imagine the field day Barry's propaganda arm, the MSM, would have with that story if they succeeded.) No offense, but principles are important, but this is just misguided silliness. I agree with libertarians on a lot of issues, but I've never really seen much if any indication that they have enough common sense to actually govern.

Well, if there's one good thing to take away from Toure's comments, it's that between him and Biden, R/R should finally have had the last of the scales ripped from their eyes.  There is absolutely nothing beyond the pale for Obama and his gang.

OK, then - how about a little Cecil B. DeMille story to cleanse the palate?

DeMille was the man who did the most to establish the generic idea of "director" in the public mind - hacking jacket, riding crop, jodhpurs and boots, striding imperiously through the studio with a school of yes-men tagging along behind.  Although he could be extremely kind and was very loyal to his employees, he also lived very much like a sultan, expecting everyone to cater to him and devote their lives to his movies.

During one shoot, the cast and crew had been working for long hours and were near the end of their tether.  DeMille, sensing this, called "cut" and mounted a nearby sound truck, taknig a microphone in hand and giving his best rally-the-troops pep talk.  While he was doing this, he noticed two extras somewhere in the middle of the crowd whispering to each other.

"Just a minute, just a minute," he said.  "I was under the impression that we were here to make a movie - a lasting testament to the power and magic of film.  But apparently we are not."  He pointed to the extras, two women who were obviously what were called "day girls" - extras hired by the day.  "You and you," he ordered, "come up here.  Right now."

The two extras made their way through the crowd and up to the sound truck.  When they were standing next to DeMille, the director shoved the microphone in their faces.  "Now, go on," he commanded.  "I want you to tell everyone here what was so important that you had to talk about it right now."

The two looked at each other.  Finally, one of them took the microphone.  "I was saying, 'I wonder when that bald-headed old son of a bitch is going to let us have lunch."

The crew burst into laughter.  DeMille's face turned purple as he screamed,  "LUNCH!"

I'll probably be lurking most of the day, so if I don't comment again, I hope you all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.  I'll be back on Monday with the story of one of the greatest of Hollywood practical jokes.

Take care, Morons.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 17, 2012 07:42 AM (2pG7H)

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Thats not what I got from it, SE called him out on his dishonesty and Hypocrisy.  

GOOD MORNING.

I'm yelling to be heard over the thunder.

It just set off the car alarm.

It's been going for almost an hour, so I figured it must be almost over. But no...

Least the cat decided not to panic.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 17, 2012 07:51 AM (9TTOe)

You are preaching to the choir, I own a beach house near Pawleys Island.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 17, 2012 07:51 AM (d5fLT)

I have a couple of those who I wish would stop speaking to me. :-)

"Obama campaign has said if Romney releases 3 more years of tax returns, they will not mention his taxes again.


You think they don't have someone at the IRS already telling them what is in his return? How is that remotely legal?"

They know everything in there, and they know nothing is in there.  Romney should just ignore them if they are bargaining down from 10 to 3, because all they want now is the optics of forcing Romney to reveal something....anything....please.

The Constitution lays out the requirements for running for President and
releasing tax returns is not contained therein.

Romney should tell them to sod off.

It's unconstitutional.

^This^

They've got less of a case than Angela Corey.

Lead plaintiff in the Pennsylvania Voter ID went and got herself a Voter ID yesterday.

Obviously she was right to sue.   Apparently its easier to go through a long legal dispute and then get a Voter ID, than just skipping the suit and getting the ID.

The  State  of  Pennsylvania  vs. Emily  Litella will be an important precedent in time  wasting. 

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2012 08:09 AM (05RcU)

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Now fuckstick Jerry R. is an opportunist, at least SE Cupp is easy on the eyes. 

Thanks, Anna.

Truman, get well soon.

>> Apparently its easier to go through a long legal dispute and then get a Voter ID, than just skipping the suit and getting the ID.

I want to find that story about the young woman who "couldn't" get an ID and flew (presumably getting past TSA) to DC to talk about it.

That didn't get enough play.

Morning, all!  I'm super busy today so I don't know that I'll get to post much, but I just had to share that I've got my tickets to see Romney/Ryan here in NH on Monday!       They're going to be at St. Anselms in Manchester.      The place will be a madhouse, I'm sure.  I'll bring my camera, but I don't know if I'll be able to get close enough to the stage to see them.  I'll be sure to take pictures of the crowd, though!

I'm taking my father with me.  I mentioned to him that there will probably be hecklers, and he said, "Oh, good!  That means I can toss them out!"

(ABC) - Obama and Biden were about as subtle as a pitcher throwing a fast ball under the batter's chin

Team Romney may need to transform Paul Ryan from budget nerd to street fighter.

So let's get this right. The MFM who always screams about civility in an election says that Barry and Joey re throwing dirt and Romney response with substance and that's a losing approach. Now if Romney responded in kind the MFM would be screaming foul over that. I can't wait for Barry and the MFM to both just go away

Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 17, 2012 08:06 AM (sbV1u)

The explanation is sort of backwards, but the arrest powers come with the gun.  To my knowledge there aren't any (non military) federal officers who are armed and do not have arrest powers.  So if an agency wants armed security at their facilities those officers also have arrest powers.

Of course this assumes that the security officers in question are Federal employees.  The agencies could, of course, hire private armed security guards.  There is a one word explanation why they don't and I'm sure anybody here could guess what that word is.

If Bill Maher badmouthed me, I would take that as a good thing.

@209  That's Lynyrd Skynyrd- God bless them.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 08:06 AM (LRFds)

He certainly has used these two tools:

"Hammer" Joey and "Sickle" Barry

Posted by: Hal Burton at August 17, 2012 08:33 AM (kzFo5)

Has anyone yelled, 'Freebird', yet?

>>I'd like to know why she couldn't get a replacement Social Security card. I've dealt with SS on getting my name changed back after a divorce and I know what a huge pain in the ass it is, but if this all stems from her pocketbook being stolen with her SS card in it, then why didn't she just deal with SS to get a replacement card and then she would have been all set. Maybe that's in the article and I just missed it.

Well, I can see that it's a pain for a 93 year old to take 2 buses to get a ID and maybe the SS office would have been a 3 bus trip.

But wait, what's this I found from the PA ACLU:

>>Now a widow, Ms. Applewhite has lived in Philadelphia for more than twenty years and enjoys five grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren.

Some of the other stories there are tough. There are people who are told the state has no copy of their birth certificate.

But the how to get a SS card page has a list of documents that you can use to get a replacement card.

So...

I'm sure y'all have mentioned the column by Dinesh D'Souza at FoxNews.com about how he paid     a     $1000 medical bill for    Obama's brother George    in Nairobi?    Because     Obama himself apparently doesn't give a shit about his own family.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2012 08:25 AM (05RcU)

Wealthy men don't release their financial statements unless legally required.  And why should they? Fuck you, it's none of your business.

Plus, it costs you money just to have them prepared. And for what? So some nosy asshole can have a free peek under the skirt? Fuck that.

Our senior partner is retiring and taking some equity with him, so he went to one of the banks up here to get the company a $2M LOC. He told them he would secure it with $2M cash, in a CD they would hold.  Get it? 100% secured.  With cash. Plus the interest from the CD.

They demanded 5 years  of financial statements.

He said  "Fuck you" and walked. 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 17, 2012 08:43 AM (8y9MW)

And the Romney campaign should say that until Barry and his pals in the MFM drop the tax returns BS.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 17, 2012 08:50 AM (SUKHu)

What it says to me is, "What the fuck is wrong with your family, madame, that they're too damn selfish to take you where you need to go to get proper identification?   I suggest you write them OUT of your will."

>>By the way, which one's Pink?

Obviously the racist one.

Because it's going to be another 1,500 comment thread and it's an attempt to SQUIRREL! the Horde so it doesn't turn into another Memorial Day ONT disaster? I mean, do we really need the yelling and the recriminations and the pretending like we're going to be good this time even though we're totally not?

Now listen, I love you people, especially you AtC, but this has got to stop. It's ridiculous. The answer is obvious to everyone and anyone arguing against it is either a bigot, a H8 or a racist. Crossbows or STFU

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 17, 2012 08:36 AM (8y9MW)

By "Rural Poor"  they mean the Messicans who live in every tiny town that has some Ag Industry or Meat-Processing industry.  And the concern is not that that these folks aren't mobile enough to get an ID,  it's that they are too mobile to stay in a district long enough to vote there.  The gummint sent home a form on the first day of school entreating the migrant Messicans to apply for special benefits at the local school. I'm almost certain that an effort to pin them to a precinct is running parallel with this.   Some sort of absentee ballot for illegal migrant workers is likely being concocted, as this would allow the illegal to remain anonymous while voting from a distance, as well as allow local Dem manipulation of those same ballots.

>>The "official" rules say that you need your Social Security card.

And most of the people I was reading about could probably get a new SS card and then have no trouble getting an ID!!!!!!!!

The idea that if you're really old and poor you don't have any form of gov't ID in this day and age is a little silly.

>>Applewhite - who rode two SEPTA buses to get to the center - showed the clerk a Medicare card from the 1990s, its edges frayed from years of being pulled out of her pocketbook. It listed her Social Security number, but only the last seven digits were visible. A state Department of Public Welfare document showed her name, signature, and Social Security number - but all in her own handwriting. Other documents showed her street address in the city's Germantown section.

And I love this next line:

>>She had no documents verifying that the Viviette Virene Brooks listed on her birth certificate was the same person as the Viviette Applewhite applying for an ID.

OMG, I don't know if I'm the same person listed on my birth certificate!

@sven,

Yep.  I know Chase will. He just went there because we have all our company accounts with them.

Not for long, though.

What a deal! The dumbocrats in the SCoaMF campaign just made an offer to Romney that if he shows 5 years of tax returns, they will in turn not ask for the whole ten years.

Now is the time for Romney to counteroffer.

Another person's story from the ACLU PA web site:

>> PennDOT officials advised her that she could not get a photo ID card because her birth certificate and Social Security card were in her maiden name while her voter registration was in her married name, and the mismatch precluded issuance of an ID. Ms. Block's only documentation of marriage, which she brought with her, is a marriage certificate written in Hebrew. The DMV clerks could not understand the certificate and refused to accept it as proof of her name change. Unlike many other Pennsylvania voters who do not have and cannot obtain voter ID, Ms. Block is fortunate to have political connections. Her family reached out to to the office of her state senator for assistance. His office worked with PennDOT to obtain a temporary voter ID for Ms. Block.

Now there's someone who did have actual issues. But it still doesn't say that she tried to get her Social Security card updated with her married name. That might not have been easy, given the language issue, but they still aren't being honest about the situation.

Yeh, yeh, I know. Just feel like spelling it out.

So where's the risk? Indeed, it's pure profit. They'd still charge interest whenever the LOC was used, and they'd get to hold the CD, using that money to fund other loans (and therefore get the interest).

Some Bank President is royally pissed. Or should be.<<<_

That's the point I was trying to make  about how close wealthy men hold their financials.  That's personal shit.

And yes, he brought a risk-free, guaranteed profitable deal, and they tried  to bully him.  For no reason.

Men  like him and Romney  don't achieve what they have by letting  pissants  like  Harry Reid  or  bank managers  shove them around.

He ain't releasing anything else.  Not unless there's profit for HIM.

Posted by: AllenG... at August 17, 2012 09:04 AM (8y9MW)

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If you search for the years Romney attended the school on Amazon, they are not available. Other years are. I think Romney must be hiding something!

>>I want to know if anyone's even asked them "Why didn't she get a replacement SS card?"

Instead of asking that, the f-ing reporter takes 2 buses with her to make a point.

Doesn't just give the 93 year old in a wheelchair a ride or ask why the fuck the lawyers or family members don't do that.

Journalism.

AKA being mean to old ladies in wheelchairs.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 07:02 AM (LRFds)

Don't forget the EPA cocksuckers.  Every one of them should be asked one easy question:  Do you consider CO2 to be a pollutant?  Every fucking one of them, and there will be a lot, who answers "yes" should be told "Good luck in your efforts to secure gainful employment; under Romney it should be a lot easier than the last 4 years, even for dumbfucks like you".  The paltry few who answer "No" will be assigned something worthwhile to do for the first time working there (I have no fucking idea what that would be other than helping dismantle that den of casuistry and calumny).

That's the point I was trying to make about how close wealthy men hold their financials. That's personal shit.

Men like him and Romney don't achieve what they have by letting pissants like Harry Reid or bank managers shove them around.

Couple personal anecdotes. I work for family business. Started by great granddad, my dad and grandfather still heavily involved. Lately, bonding companies have been insisting on personal indemnification for them to issue a bond (oversimplifying it, but essentially it's insurance protection so that if we go out of business in the middle of a project, the owner/general contractor isn't screwed). We've turned down TONS of work because the owners (dad and grandpa) respond to requests for personal indemnification with "FUCK YOU. There's a reason we incorporated." Ditto on finances. We've had large general contractors he requested that we allow them to see our finances, our bank statements, books, profit/loss, the whole nine yards. Pretty much same response. "FUCK YOU, never happening."

Allen, you wanna tie this stuff together and blog about it? There's such a gap between reality and what the media is saying (GASP) and I want to see it spelled out.

The last entry on the ACLU page:

>>Mr. Schor has two forms of photo ID acceptable under the new voter photo ID law - a current passport and driver's license - but in both he looks like a woman and is identified as "female." He now looks and presents like a man.Given the stark and obvious difference in appearance and gender designation between Mr. Schor's identification documents and his current appearance, Mr. Schor has a very real and legitimate concern that poll workers will refuse to allow him to vote on election day in November when the person in his ID photos looks so different from the person who comes to vote.

It's now obvious to me that we should repeal all voter id laws to prevent possible problems like this.

"I'm sure y'all have mentioned the column by Dinesh D'Souza at FoxNews.com about how he paid a $1000 medical bill for Obama's brother George in Nairobi? Because Obama himself apparently doesn't give a shit about his own family"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at August 17, 2012 08:45 AM (4df7R)

Yeah, Axelrodent is probably already working up a Nigerian scam-style Email to get campaign cash off George's plight..

@AtC,

That wasn't the argument they made.  They said it was bank policy. His response is that it's his policy not to give out his financials on 100% secured deals, Because Fuck You, That's Why. (see why I love working here?)

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 17, 2012 09:05 AM (SUKHu)

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The ACLU stories are all a bunch of trumped up bullshit. "Because she has political connection she reached out to a state senator"... the only way you need to be connected when you show up at your state rep's office is to tell them you are a constituent. They help you because they want your vote.

The requirements for obtaining ID are clearly defined on the PA Dept. of State website, they even relaxed the BC requirement, all you need to do is show up with two citizens who have valid ID who can vouch for you. (The feds used to do this with passport applications.)

This thing is going to end up like the WI recall: after all the litigation and protests, the voter ID law will stand. And those who finally obtained a state ID will benefit from that requirement. Who the bleep goes through life without a valid ID? You need one for any number of financial transactions, including applying for welfare entitlements.

Argh! The transgendered person story? I'm not even sure which name is which.

>>Devra Mirel ("Asher").

With or without an ID, one of those names would still be on the list.

I mean, if a man was trying to vote as "Betty", the poll worker might question it, even without an ID being required.

I gotta stop thinking about this bullshit.

Let us consider the evidence. On the one hand, you have Paul Ryan, aficionado of the compound bow which shall stand in for the longbow for these purposes. On the other hand, Daryl Dixon. Let's pro and con this.

Ryan: Pro - Real. Can feed family with what he kills. Presumptive Vice President Elect.

Con - Has Secret Service protection.

Daryl Dixon: Pro - Can feed several families with the squirrels he freaking shoots with an arrow. Excels at zombie slaughter. Not fond of sleeves. No Secret Service protection.

Con - Fictional. Nazi sympathizer.

<<><<<

Oh, man.  Shit just got real.

Also re: Mrs. Block. If she's an immigrant and has a voter registration card, then she must have been naturalized. Where's her stinking naturalization papers? They would have her married name if she was married in Israel.

FFS this is not rocket science. My grandmother was born in Italy, for all intents and purposes was illiterate. And every time we crossed the border into Canada to visit family she knew to have her naturalization papers with her.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 - going to plaid at August 17, 2012 09:26 AM (VtjlW)

Friends,    friends, why must we always fight?    Why can't we embrace    ALL kinds of bows and bowhunting?   I volunteer to hold a charity     Beer Summit with Paul Ryan and "Daryl Dixon" (aka Norman Reedus)     to discuss the benefits of their     weapons of choice.      Shirts    for the     guests of honor      will,    of course,    be    prohibited,    because they pose a safety risk.             After all,     odds are very high that    the gentlemen   would         be injured     when    a bunch of    Moronettes rushed the stage to rip off the shirt of their preferred bowhunter.      Best to just remove the   risk from the outset.

I think I am going to have to stare at the evidence for awhile in order to make an informed decision.

Oh, man. Shit just got real.

Ladies and Gents, I give you....

http://tinyurl.com/97nwztj

I'm not clicking on that because I JUST KNOW it's a London Boys rickroll

Your loss

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 17, 2012 09:30 AM (SUKHu)

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Anyone who gets flagged for whatever reason can still cast a provisional vote. I think they then get six days to resolve the issue.

Ok..so the poorest of our poor can get an EBT card but they don't have the capacity to get an ID?

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SBOLE

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 - going to plaid at August 17, 2012 09:47 AM (VtjlW)

Gotta love it when AtC goes all stompy 

Posted by: EC at August 17, 2012 09:44 AM (GQ8sn)

Yep, I remember when Cary was a nice sleepy little town much like Mayberry.  I used to stay in the hotels there when I went to Raleigh on buisness. 

It is now and overpriced mecca for rich Yankees who moved South.

You'd think that Democrats would be out getting photo IDs for everybody so they could vote, but instead they insist upon "yelling, screaming and gnashing of teeth."

Posted by: toby928© at August 17, 2012 10:22 AM (QupBk)

Well.  That explains this:

http://tinyurl.com/cu2yngl

Posted by: sven10077 at August 17, 2012 08:51 AM (LRFds)