1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, August 28, 2012.  On this day in 1968 communist inspired and supported war protesters clashed with police in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.  The MFM portrayed this as a police orgy gone wild.  They were completely hoodwinked by the radicals who used the same tactics that the communist inspired and Democrat supported OWS assholes plan to use in Tampa.


It was at this time that the Democrat Party became infested with the anti-military wing of the commies and they moved much further left.  I guess we can call this the commie strategy as opposed to the bullshit “Southern Strategy” the MFM likes to lie about.  This more than anything else drove the South into the hands of the Republicans. The other major factors were Lyndon Johnson which most of the South had grown to hate with a passion after his new round of welfare programs and yes, there was some racism involved as well.  But by 1968 most of the overt racism in the South was gone.


And yes, I dedicate todayÂ’s news to “Commies”, may they forever roast in Hell.  

2 Latest 5 day tracking AND look Ma!  ItÂ’s still a TS. What ever could be the cause of all this bad forecasting?

http://is.gd/d3pz4m

3 Morning Gabe....

4 The two assholes who allegedly kill the little girl in Niagara Falls that Jossen talked about yesterday are charged.

http://is.gd/GsijjP

5 2 Vic, they needed purer goats when they were sending their prayers to the cargo Gods...

6 Ryan says the convention will show contrast with Obama. Hahahaha.  Hell all they have to do is talk about free markets and capitalism.  The FDR/LBJ/Marx version of government couldnÂ’t be more opposed to that.

http://is.gd/VjRw2h

7 Shop owners in Tampa bracing for impact from Hurricane Commie “protestors”.


The city, according to the police chief, has spent its entire $50 million budget on boosting security measures. And the restaurants and shops lining the streets of downtown Tampa are taking their own precautions -- including stocking up on plywood to cover their windows and taking out additional insurance.


This shit would not be necessary if the Democrap Mayors in the large urban areas started treating these so-called protestors like the criminals they are.


http://is.gd/G0UCKr

8 http://tinyurl.com/8u2rv7x NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- More stimulus from the Federal Reserve would probably boost the stock market, but regardless, both investors and economists agree: They don't want QE3. In a CNNMoney survey of investment strategists, 93% said they don't think the Federal Reserve should announce more stimulus at its next meeting. And 77% of economists surveyed agreed. Helicopter Ben is probably trying to figure out a way to convince the Folk that high inflation is good for them, but the folks are probably trying to figure out a way to pitchfork Bukakke.

9 Federal liars say only 15% turn to government for help.  What was the number we saw a few weeks ago.  Somewhere around 50% IIANM get some kind of government largess now with only 50% of the country paying federal taxes.


http://is.gd/Oq7yhh

10 Now we know what is wrong with the Paul-Bots.  Smoking pot permanently lowers your IQ.  LOL, just another stupid study folks.

http://is.gd/OAN06y

11 That link I posted either yesterday or the day before about internal wars going on in the RNC over delegate selection rules (i.e. primaries) is carrying over to the floor of the convention, except it is now also including the Paul-Bots.

http://is.gd/QbvDLf

12 Apparently old DIABLO Snarlen Arlen is in bad shape.

http://is.gd/4IFi1O

13 http://tinyurl.com/9w7anea JERUSALEM – An Israeli court on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought against the military by the parents of a U.S. activist crushed to death in 2003 by an army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in the Gaza Strip, ruling the army was not at fault for her death. Yes, St. Pancake's family was told once again "hey your daughter volunteering to lubricate the treads of the bulldozer....not an act of negligence on anyone's part but yours....

14 Marines who pissed on corpse receive NJP.  The ones who properly burned Korans will have punishment decided later.  If I was one of them the temptation to tell the political generals to kiss my ass would be strong.  The ones who pissed on the corpse AND took pictures of it need a whack on the pee pee just for being stupid.  People people people, the camera is NOT your friend!

http://is.gd/oNjbJj

15 http://tinyurl.com/8rb3f36 In yet more evidence of the Democrat party's retardation, NOAA shows what happens when you make sacrifices of Code Pinko's vaginal ooze to false gods... N'walins is gonna get hit by Hurricane/TS Issac shortly....

16 The no shit moment at Tampa yesterday:  Obama focusing on abortion because his failed record is so bad.  Lets see how many people in the MFM carry that speech.

I guess someone has to state the obvious for the MFM.


http://is.gd/hmWQtc

17 Newt gives Piss Mathews some of his own medicine.

http://is.gd/6OfUgy

18 http://tinyurl.com/9cc3hvl Fox Business puts forth Old Father Hubbard as Helicopter Ben's likely replacement if Romney throw King Choom under the bus this fall... 2d leading candidate would be Fed Chief Taylor...

19 The outrage of the day.  A federal judge in OH ruled yesterday that OH must count improperly cast votes if the mistaken votes were caused by instructions from a poll worker.  Now how in the hell will that be determined I want to know. This is setting the stage for massive mischief. And guess where this came?  ACORN.  This is judicial activism at its worse.  OH is one of those States where we must watch for vote fraud closely and this makes it easier.

Here is a picture of the community activist judge (and yes I denounce myself)

http://is.gd/v2JhN7

story

http://is.gd/PtzRCq

20 As expected, the DOJ investigation and report of Fast and Furious is a white wash blaming locals only.  The local say the higher ups were all in on it. It is up to Issa now.

http://is.gd/o6wmxe

21 http://tinyurl.com/9eyauav GM tells the candidates "No mas!" GM says it will not open its plants to the candidates until after the election.... of course since they already allowed King Putt to use it as a campaign backdrop that is sort of like saying the guy who popped your cherry didn't because you were planning on him being your hubby or something....

22 Some more WTF for today.  WTF are we deploying 576 KY National Guardsmen to Africa for?  This is a damn recipe for disaster and this is not what the NG is supposed to be for.

http://is.gd/nH4yn5

23 Vote fraud by OH election commission Democrat members?  A judge has recommended they be fired.  This is why we have vote fraud, they should be going to jail.

http://is.gd/zZ0iwo


Also note, OH seems to be coming up on thew vote fraud list a lot lately.  I wonder why?

24 Second person dies from the “Hantavirus in Yosemite.   All the MFM are blaming “rats”.   HereÂ’s what they are NOT telling people. First this is not some “benign rare disease. It is a form of hemorrhagic fever.  Ebola is also a form of hemorrhagic fever.  This disease is not caused by “rats”.  Rats are only the vector.  It has to come from somewhere else first.  Our open borders allow an uncontrolled flow of people from third world shit holes without any kind of medical screening as used to be done in the early days.  We must get some kind of control of this shit.

http://is.gd/7okqtX

25

Good Morning everyone.

I was just watching the weather channel, and everyone can relax, they said obama has pledge to take care of everyone affected by Isaac, you know unlike that stupid Bush who told everyone to f off.

Also, this is weird they've closed the west bound side of the Bay Bridge (MD) because workers on the bridge noticed a slight vertical and unusal movement of the bridge, last night. WTH does that mean?

26 Want to know why the government has grown so big?  This, along with the Democrat desires for communism, is a major factor.  The “there aught to be a federal law” crowd.

http://is.gd/nr8Dyt

27 23 Vic, That would be because of the Jihad they have been throwing since 2004.... DeWine has plans for them....

28 We had a long talk about utilities yesterday and how they pool resources.  Here is a blurb from The State newspaper on that.

S.C. Electric & Gas Co. plans to send 159 contract linemen to Mississippi on Wednesday to help with storm damage to utilities. The crew is expected to leave South Carolina that morning to team up with Southern Co. for restoration efforts, spokeswoman Stephanie Jones said. SCE&G will continue to monitor any storm damage at home and in the region.


Note that some utilities now normally use a lot of “contract” linemen as opposed to permanent employees.   This is an outgrowth of federal and State regulations that make it more expensive to hire permanent employees.

http://is.gd/1QqQYi

29 LOL, Only two weeks into school system and college parties have neighbors in one “quite” neighborhood hopping mad.  Girls and boys urinating in my yard!  People driving through the yard!  Noise!  Cats sleeping with dogs!


I have some advice for the neighbors.  The next time they have a party like that get a delegation to go down and tell them to get control or you will call the cops. If they donÂ’t get control, then call the cops.

http://is.gd/pVLnyJ

30 Second no shit moment of the day.  The Washington Times ran a survey (which they called a poll) regarding what people knew about the Constitution.  Wonder of wonders, a lot of people donÂ’t know a lot about it.  I would hazard to guess that most of the reporters for The WaTimes would know less than the general public.  But be that as it may, this speaks to our shitty education system, which no longer teaches civics or the Constitution, the MFM, and lazy Americans in general.   Hey, most Americans donÂ’t know the infield fly rule either.

http://is.gd/wikTXU

31 25 spypeach, it means the evil Republicans are responsible for the bridge trying to get ready to collapse...

32 Here is yet another example of how screwed up ObamaÂ’s spending priorities really are.  The Obamanites always harp about bridges, highways, and infrastructure.  When that bridge collapsed in MN it was all the rage.  But when he jacks highway spending to $107B, a factor of 3 higher than Bush where did it go?

If Obama was actually spending all this money on roads and bridges designed to get you to work and home quicker, then maybe this transportation spending explosion would be worth it. But he's not. In 2009, the highway trust fund spent $52.7 billion, but only 62 percent of that went to general purpose roads and safety programs. The rest was diverted into pet liberal causes like trolleys, bicycles, buses, scenic byways, historic covered bridges and "community preservation."


And that is only the part supposed to be going to highways.  He wastes the rest on shit like high speed rail to nowhere, AMTRAC, and other holes in the ground that commies love.  (The article also doesnÂ’t mention the 20% of highway taxes that are diverted to buses and inner city mass transit)

So the next time someone bitches about “infrastructure”, remind them of this shit.

http://is.gd/8ZIsBY

33 @18

I nominate Rick Santelli for FED Chief.

That would be fucking awesome!!!

34 Kindle Daily Deal:

Spitfire

After 28-eight-year-old Tomi Reyes receives an unexpected promotion, her life goes totally insane. First, her boss becomes unbearable, and then two of her friends are found murdered and stuffed inside their refrigerators. Suspecting her boss and fearing she's next, Tomi doesn't wait for the authorities and seeks the killer herself.



And that is it for news this morning.

35 Boy, there really isn't any new politics news out there.


LOL, Gabe I thought it was going to be slow today too but boy did that change.  I started going through the daily grab at 3 am and didn't finish until about 6:30.

36 33 GW, I nominate Zombie Milton Friedman, that would be a welcome source of restraint.

37 wait a minute... if smoking pot in high school can permanently lower your IQ... and Barky smoked pot in high school... uh oh, I think I just had a revelation...

38 I nominate we abolish the Fed.

39 38 Vic, I nominate we abolish the Treasury department as well.... let's put the buck back in the dollar

40 I want everyone to concentrate on that #19 post and think of all the different ways that some of these corrupt precincts in Cleavland and other urban shit holes can use it to manipulate vote counts.


And I pick on urban shit holes because that is where the vote fraud most often occurs.

41 a new study finds that smoking weed regularly as a teenager

And it can cause repeat postings of links about weed from yesterday.

And it can cause repeat postings of links about weed from yesterday.

42 I nominate we abolish the Treasury department as well...


Well the Treasury is at least covered by the Constitution, the Fed is not.

43 He is a short list of agencies to abolish

National Endowment for the Arts
National Wild Horse and Burro Program
Dept. of Education
Dept of Energy
FEMA
FDIC
Freddy Mac & Fannie Mae
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)
Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
Children's Bureau (CB)
Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)
Head Start Bureau (HSB)
Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI)
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
Office of Community Services Block Grant (OCS)
Office of Family Assistance (OFA)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Indian Health Service (IHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Office of Minority Health (OMH)
Program Support Center (PSC)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin.(SAMHSA)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)
Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
Women's Bureau (WB)
Job Corps
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Internet Access and Training Program
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Bureau of Human Resources
Bureau of Information Resource Management
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Bureau of Legislative Affairs
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Bureau of Public Affairs
Bureau of Resource Management
Bureau of South Asian Affairs
Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report)
National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute)
Office of International Information Programs
Office of the Legal Adviser
Office of Management Policy
Office of Protocol
Office of the Science and Technology Adviser
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Office of War Crimes Issues (They blew the Bush war crimes)
Car Allowance Rebate System (Cash for Clunkers)
Cash for Appliances Program
Bureau of the Public Debt
Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI)
FHA
HUD

MR. ROMNEY, DOWNSIZE THIS GOVERNMENT!!

44 So Israel finds no liability in the death of Rachel Corrie. St. Pancake. Good times over at CJ's Comic Book Store. "American activist". Heh.

45 37 -

What this study reveals, more than anything, is how few  studies there are about long-term effects of pot smoking.  I think  most of us have some anecdotal data to back up the findings here, and we also know some aging hippie who can't seem to remember where he's supposed to be, or what he's doing half the time. 

It's not harmless, is the point.  Maybe you can smoke it, and lead a perfectly normal life, but it's having an effect nonetheless. 

46 The Apple IP win against Samsung

Did anyone see a good summary of this?

47 42 Vic, I'd just settle for the Fed not acting like a President's handmaiden... Wilson was a goddamned monster, but the Fed can be killed by Congress just like it was birthed by Congress.

48 Yeah, mighty short list.  I would just say abolish everyone of them that is not specifically referenced in the Constitution.

49 Awesome roundup as ever, Vic. Many thanks. And now, off to mine some salt.

50 And wait there's more

INDEPENDENT AGENCIES Of the U.S. GOVERNMENT;
National health and insurance system
African Development Foundation
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
Agency for International Development (USAID)
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (EVIL WAR-MONGERS)
US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)
Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Export-Import Bank of the United States (ExIm)
Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)
Federal Reserve System (a pseudo government, semi-private organization)
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (FCSC)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
International Trade Commission (ITC)
Learn and Serve America (LSA)
National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Ice Center (NIC)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) (NRPC)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Transportation Research Center (NTRC)
Office of Government Ethics (OGE)(LOT OF GOOD THEY DO)
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
Selective Service System (SSS)
Senior Corps
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
United States Trade and Development Agency (TDA)

BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS;
Financial crisis inquiry commission
Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
American Battle Monuments Commission
Appalachian Regional Commission
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)
Arctic Research Commission
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Chief Acquisition Officers Council
Chief Financial Officers Council
Chief Human Capital Officers Council
Chief Information Officers Council
Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
Commission of Fine Arts
Commission on International Religious Freedom
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States
Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Delaware River Basin Commission
Denali Commission
Endangered Species Committee
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
Federal Advisory Committees
Federal Executive Boards
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
Federal Financing Bank
Federal Geographic Data Committee
Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds (GOTTA LOVE THAT ONE!)
Federal Interagency Committee on Education
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
Federal Library and Information Center Committee
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission
Indian Arts and Crafts Board
Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
Japan-United States Friendship Commission
Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
Joint Fire Science Program
Marine Mammal Commission
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Mississippi River Commission
Morris K. Udall Foundation: Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy
National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
National Indian Gaming Commission
National Park Foundation
Northwest Power Planning Council
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
Presidio Trust
Regulatory Information Service Center
Social Security Advisory Board
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Veterans Day National Committee
Vietnam Educational Foundation
White House Commission on Presidential Scholars – "Presidential Scholars Program"
White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance

Exhibit 1-A of why we are 16Trillion in the hole.

51 Did anyone see a good summary of this?

Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2012 07:12 AM (Ve9V9)

They had a good discussion about it on FoxB back a few days ago but I haven't gone out and hunted anything down on it.

When I originally posted on it my take was if I was Apple I wouldn't start spending all that award money yet.  With that much at stake I would say it will be tied up in courts for decades.

52

a new study finds that smoking weed regularly as a teenager

And it can cause repeat postings of links about weed from yesterday.

And it can cause repeat postings of links about weed from yesterday.

53

a new study finds that smoking weed regularly as a teenager

And it can cause repeat postings of links about weed from yesterday.

And it can cause repeat postings of links about weed from yesterday.

 

54
Also, this is weird they've closed the west bound side of the Bay Bridge (MD) because workers on the bridge noticed a slight vertical and unusal movement of the bridge, last night. WTH does that mean?

It means the surveyor was drinking on the job.

55 Yes, St. Pancake's family was told once again "hey your daughter volunteering to lubricate the treads of the bulldozer....not an act of negligence on anyone's part but yours....

She should have know she was liable to get squished.

Bad puns, part of a good breakfast.

56 And why do they call it "The Bay Bridge".  The Bay Bridge is the one that connects Oakland to San Francisco.

57 Ready for the gas spike? Fungoo, Isaac.

58 Vic:

Where's the update on the number of Todd Akin stories in the news?

59 @51 Or, Apple may get more than they asked for. Since Samsung's infringement was found to be willful, the judge could triple the damages.

60 I decided to quit carrying that.  I didn't think anyone was paying attention to it.  The concern trolls and the eeyores are still Akining us to death.


There was a story in The WaTimes that said based on polls the odds of Republicans taking the Senate had actually increased despite Akin.


But since I don't believe any polls right now and ignore them I didn't link it.

61 Since Samsung's infringement was found to be willful, the judge could triple the damages.

Posted by: Gran at August 28, 2012 07:23 AM (mw0FO)

The judge has already made the award which ran into the billions. It will only have the opportunity to go down as the appeals go through over the decades.

62

"The outrage of the day. A federal judge in OH ruled yesterday that OH must count improperly cast votes if the mistaken votes were caused by instructions from a poll worker"

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Votes created or saved?

63 @58

There seem to 0 Akin stories.

It seems to have burned itself out.


It remains to be seen what sorts of speeches e get at the convention and if they can be tied to Akin in some way then you might see a resurgence.

64 I would say a lot of phony votes created

65 4 The two assholes who allegedly kill the little girl in Niagara Falls that Jossen talked about yesterday are charged.

http://is.gd/GsijjP

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 06:53 AM (YdQQY)

After reading the article, if Best's conscience was actually bugging him, he would have turned his buddy in on the spot.



Or killed him.  One of the two.



I mean, if your pal shows up at the door and says "Hey how's it hanging, I killed a little girl, wanna help me hide the body?" you don't go help them, and feel bad later.



You drag the bastard to the cops or beat the hell out of him.  Actually both.



They're charging the 16-year-old as an adult, for whatever that's worth. 

66 There seem to 0 Akin stories.


There were a few out there.

67 Vic @ 61 The final damages have not yet been determined. http://vrge.co/QLaomI

68 They're charging the 16-year-old as an adult, for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at August 28, 2012 07:27 AM (pkess)

That was a late breaking story on Fox so I didn't read all the article.  Too bad NY doesn't have the death penalty anymore.

I always go by the 100 yr rule.  What would they have don 100 years ago.  They would fire up old sparky at Sing Sing.

69 there are no Akin stories because there's a new Todd Akin google Todd Smith

70 From Big Foot to dead.

The Flathead County Montana man was Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell. Likely intoxicated, he dressed in camouflage to look like Big Foot, walking in the right lane of a highway, struck by a 15-year-old girl driver who was unable to avoid hitting him, struck again by a 17-year-old girl driver.

71 66 Vic,

they can move on from Tard the PA GOP senate candidate decided to shoot his own balls off....
http://tinyurl.com/9xjlwj5

because yeah Mr. Smith carrying an illegitimate child is "just like rape"....


PUT the snark down and answer, "I am prolife, but that's second to the economy".....

72

Vic, thanks for posting this

http://is.gd/8ZIsBY

about the "stimulus" and transportation.

Here's another way to stimulate the economy and create jobs: outlaw big trucks. Think of all the jobs that would be created if everything had to be delivered in vans... and vans use les gas than big rigs. Win win.

73 Posted by: Gran at August 28, 2012 07:28 AM (mw0FO)


Hmm, that is contrary to what Fox posted, or at least implied.  In any case, as I said, this will not be settled for decades.

74 Convention schedule here.  Plan your bathroom breaks accordingly.

http://wapo.st/SMCUt1

75 Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 07:31 AM (LRFds)


BI (a very liberal rag) distorted the hello out of his comments there.

76 Yes, St. Pancake's family was told once again "hey your daughter volunteering to lubricate the treads of the bulldozer....not an act of negligence on anyone's part but yours....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 06:54 AM (LRFds)

Those fuckheads need their faces rubbed in dogshit for raising such a useless whore of a daughter who was helping to arm the palis in their Jew hatred.  Fuck those asswipes who need a daily reminder that she's in Hell suffering for her sins against humanity along with the rest of the pali vermin.

77 72 Mallfly,

Rigs use a different fuel than most Vans, they use less fuel per ton carried than vans, they have a higher rate of accident incidence than semis because it takes more vans to deliver the same amount of cargo....other than that great idea....

maybe I can deliver cargo using my mind.....

78 outlaw big trucks. Think of all the jobs that would be created if everything had to be delivered in vans..
--
Like outlawing buses requiring all to buy/finance/drive their own car; or outlawing all aircraft that carry more than 12 passengers.

79 Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 07:34 AM (LRFds)


I think that was supposed to be snark.

80 76 CH,

I am inclined to agree.....

of course I did not break my own neck changing courseon the issue unlike Jharles Chonson either

81 79 Vic,

probably I need my morning Choco Milk....brb

82 Just think, if the Israelis had judges from the US those stupid parents would have won. 

83 Israeli court squashes Corie suit, parents crushed.

84
That was a late breaking story on Fox so I didn't read all the article. Too bad NY doesn't have the death penalty anymore.

I always go by the 100 yr rule. What would they have don 100 years ago. They would fire up old sparky at Sing Sing.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 07:29 AM (YdQQY)

I was unaware (but should have suspected) that NY would not have the death penalty.

Freakin' hell.  Not much of justice remains in this country. -_-

85 If the Todd Akin story is burned out I guess I'll have to take my sock off.

86 78 Panzer,

we can raise property values by outlawing all multiple story buildings and forcing a new round of economic growth...

87 re: 68 -- I'm quite sure NYS does have the death penalty again (Pataki 1995),  but you know it'll never be used

88

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 06:54 AM (LRFds)

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at August 28, 2012 07:34 AM (8hEED)

 

 

 

   Thank you sven, Captain.  None could say it better.  If only ALL the Pali scum, and all their supporters, could be flattened by bulldozers the world would be a far far better place.

89 >>>People people people, the camera is NOT your friend!

Years ago I had the honor of buying some beers for a young Marine on his way to Iraq. He had his laptop with him and showed me tons of pics of training and liberty activities.

When I saw my retired Marine father later, I told him that if I were an NCO in today's Marine Corp, I would be an unpopular SOB for taking all the cameras and phones during opps.

But my Marines wouldn't be prosecuted with evidence they provided against themselves.

90

new study finds that smoking weed regularly as a teenager can lower IQ permanently

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OMG - they need to quit  doing  that shit right away!!! And by "they" I mean the morons who run these bogus studies.

91 @87

New York does not have the death penalty and their is currently no official death row or anyone sitting in it.

92 Rats are only the vector.
Rodents are the reservoir, they catch it from each other and carry it because it doesn't kill them.  It's not an immigrant illegal or otherwise issue its a lack of cats issue.

93 http://tinyurl.com/l4cdqt

For the first time since November, Republicans and Democrats run even on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Ras GOP/DEMS are even on the Generic Congressional fir the first time since last Nov....

and yeah I think this is "thanks Tard and Huck"....

we were ahead by 5-7 points in late June Early July....

94 of course I did not break my own neck changing courseon the issue unlike Jharles Chonson either

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 07:36 AM (LRFds)

I must have left that fucking dump in disgust before that fat, ignorant, bike riding ukulele playing pony-tailed cocksucker pulled a 180 on Pancake along with the rest of his dumbfuckery.  If I was banned it was in my absence because there was no way I was wasting any more time at that lunatic's shithole.

95 And who do we know that did a lot of weed when in high school, by his own account? Maybe if he hadn't he could speak w/o the teleprompter, as Paul Ryan can. IQ. Heh.

96 re: 68 -- I'm quite sureNYS does have the death penalty again (Pataki 1995), but you know it'll never be used

Posted by: mallfly at August 28, 2012 07:38 AM (NI3M5)

Nope got rid of it a few years ago in a highly controversial move.  From Wiki

In June 2004, the state's highest court ruled in People v. LaValle that the state's death penalty statute violated the state constitution,[2] and New York has had an effective moratorium on capital punishment since then. Subsequent legislative attempts at fixing or replacing the statute have failed,[3] and in 2008 then-Governor David Paterson issued an executive order disestablishing New York's death row.[4]

97 raise property values by outlawing all multiple story buildings and forcing a new round of economic growth...

86 sven, we'll see how well that wrecking ball works out in Detroit.

I remember when Baltimore was selling run down townhouses for one dollar to enterprising fix-it-uppers back in the early 1970s. Not sure how that really turned out, except to note the sorry ass economic condition of Maryland today. Schade, Maryland being such a beautiful natural setting, passing the bankruptcy buck around a few times too many.

98 Rodents are the reservoir, they catch it from each other and carry it because it doesn't kill them. It's not an immigrant illegal or otherwise issue its a lack of cats issue.

Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2012 07:41 AM (Ve9V9)

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they are a reservoir AND the vector.  The disease did not originate in the rats.

99

OK, I've had it. Second fucking day in a row my story has vanished.  I kniow somebody suggested notepad, but I don't know what that is and obviously don't have it.  If I type something up in MS Word, can it be copied and pasted over here, or would that be a major screwup?

 

Apologies to all. 

100 http://tinyurl.com/3uwjclm

We should hold the house, but if I had to pick between holding the house/gaining the senate and taking the WH I'd rather keep the legislature as long as I knew we'd have the balls to impeach.

RCP Congressional...

101 From the Smith article:

"My stance is on record and itÂ’s very simplistic"

It's a wonder we're doing as well as we are. 

102 Mary @ 99 If you have Windows, then you should have Notepad. It's included.

103 OK, I've had it. Second fucking day in a row my story has vanished. I kniow somebody suggested notepad, but I don't know what that is and obviously don't have it. If I type something up in MS Word, can it be copied and pasted over here, or would that be a major screwup?

Apologies to all.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' at August 28, 2012 07:46 AM (zF6Iw)

Yes you have Notepad.  In Windows XP it is under the Menu for "Accessories".  And no, you can not paste directly from word.

104 I hate all that is Apple. Sorry i people.

105 you right click on the desktop and it'll be there under new text document.....

106 105 Dogfish,

you are far from alone bud...

I have a samsung galaxy I will go back to a brick before I subsidize Apple's moonbattery

107 Please pardon my bad manners. Good Morning! Thanks Vic for the AM news roundup. VNN. The Vic News Network.

108 99 I used MS Word to cut/paste a comment once. Never again. Talk about an embarrassing never ending screen sprawl.

109 MP, when I make up the news I write all the stuff down in MS Word.  Then I copy and paste it from Word into Notepad which strips out all of those formatting commands which show up as funky things in the "new Pixy" format that was imposed after the troll busted the blog.

You used to be able to post directly from Word, complete with active hyperlinks.


The trolls screwed us.

110
99 OK, I've had it. Second fucking day in a row my story has vanished. I kniow somebody suggested notepad, but I don't know what that is and obviously don't have it. If I type something up in MS Word, can it be copied and pasted over here, or would that be a major screwup?

Apologies to all.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' at August 28, 2012 07:46 AM (zF6Iw)

Yes, MS Word will create a train wreck.

If you have Windows you have NotePad. It's under Start/Programs/Accessories

111 Okay still trying to wake up.  Not even 7am.  And the relative of a friend decides to text me twice about their computer being dead.

Really?  Need the computer for Guild Wars II which comes out today?  Guess breakfast and then see what the yo-yo wants.

112 Mary,

If you're using Firefox, get the Lazarus plug in....if something happens to posts, articles, whatever, while you're working on them, you can recover it all with a right button click.

113 Another late breaking story and outrage of the day.  The buisness that won the injunction against Obamacare in Denver has been punished by the city.


Hercules Industries, a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning manufacturer which employs 300 workers and has been in business in the Mile-High City for 50 years, was to be honored with a “Good Citizenship Award." The laurel was in recognition of contributions to the community, including the historic restoration of company headquarters and, ironically, its “generous employee health care coverage.”

The city killed the award.

http://is.gd/UzsY4U

114 112 AP,

I will do a waltz around the yard with my mower, and then a samba with my weed eater to get the edging done....

we're gonna get a buttload of rain sunday which is a "good thing"....

115 No need to apologize MP. I for one appreciate the stories you volunteer. That is of course you were given a platinum membership here as payment. If so I'm ticked off and you should be ashamed of yourself.

116 The Dem Convention geniuses declined to have Cardinal Dolan offer a blessing but they're going to have two hours of prayers. By Muslims:

http://tinyurl.com/9tlpe9u

Link goes to The Blaze.

117 117 Retread,

Barry needs to get his youthful confidence back.....

118 we're gonna get a buttload of rain sunday which is a "good thing"....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 07:58 AM (LRFds)

It has been raining here almost continually for the past month. I am beginning to wonder if I need to break open the bible for building plans for an ark.

119 Guess breakfast

Cappacola and swiss omelet,
No, oatmeal again.

120 Speaking of which we are supposed to get a major storm about 10 am.  I may have to bail.

121 unless you were given-sheesch

122 It has been raining here almost continually for the past month. I am beginning to wonder if I need to break open the bible for building plans for an ark. Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 07:59 AM (YdQQY) Yep, I have lived in S/E NC for 5 years now, I don't recall this much rain.

123 115 Sven.  The outer bands are already ashore in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.  Along with winds of up to 39mph. 

Hope everyone has gotten out of the way.

124 No political news? This RNC power grab from the grass roots is huge.

125 It has been raining here almost continually for the past month. I am beginning to wonder if I need to break open the bible for building plans for an ark.

What's a cubit?

and

One keg, Noah!

Flip Wilson, I think.

126 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE By: Julianne Thompson – National Delegate, Georgia Chairman Reince Preibus, members of the Rules Committee, and the entire voting delegation of the 2012 Republican National Convention: As a National Delegate to the 2012 RNC, I am extremely disappointed that a rule would be passed through committee that essentially strips the grassroots of all of it’s representative power by ridding State Parties of their ability to choose whom they will send as delegates and alternates to represent their State to the Republican National Convention. The rules change would allow the Presidential nominee sweeping new power to override that process and choose their own National Delegates. The rule also allows the RNC (with only a 3/4 vote) the power to amend the party's rules without a vote by the full Republican National Convention. The GOP is the political Party of the grassroots. Our national delegates are the boots-on-the-ground that get Republicans elected. We are there for County meetings, State Conventions, National Conventions, and most importantly we spend our time and money canvassing our neighborhoods, going door to door, making phone calls, writing personal endorsement letters, and getting-out-the-vote for Republicans. We are the worker bees, and we are the heart and soul of the Republican Party. We have always believed that our Party is the one who best represents what it means to be an American…freedom! With your current attempt at this rules change, you are essentially striking the first blow that chips away at that freedom, and you disenfranchise the very people that turned the tide for the GOP in 2010 by returning power in the U.S. House of Representatives to Republicans. I would like to hope that our nominee is unaware of the skullduggery that occurred with regard to this attempt at shutting out the people that have unified to help him win in November. The audacity of creating a firestorm when there is an opportunity for unity and peace that is needed to win back the Senate and take back the White House is irresponsible and I seriously question the motives of those behind this attempt. Why the change in rules? That is the million-dollar question, and it is fairly easy to answer. There are still those in place in the GOP and on campaigns that would like to use the delegate and alternate seats as rewards for donating large checks to campaigns and the RNC. If your desire is to win elections, then I strongly suggest that you engage the grassroots and show respect to those who help put you in power. During a time that should ring of unity, you have put the GOP at a crossroads. Do you want to win this election and future elections? Now is your opportunity to prove it. Either take it to the floor and let us vote it down, and better yet, pull this insulting attempt to disenfranchise the heart and soul of our Republican Party! Sincerely, Julianne Thompson, National Delegate for Mitt Romney – Georgia

127 Look for Ohio to be stolen, since a Federal judge has ok'd it.

128 Retread, the DNC will have a Jumah and 20k Muslims.  That is how they will the stadium, the Obama 'Import-a-Muslim' program.  No word if they get a complimentary bomb belt.

129 The trolls screwed us.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 07:51 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

Does this mean Ace is never going to get us nice things again?

130 Does anyone else ever get the urge to smack the smug smirk off Scott Pelly's face when he thinks he's he's hit a pub with a good gotcha question?

131 http://tinyurl.com/9bmpevp

Code Pink 'Vagina' Protest at the RNC Convention

"The vagina is a strong organ."

Their "drama" costumes don't do the organ justice. If their point was to draw "It's all about quality" support, they should have used/worn the beautiful attraction of Georgia O'Keefe's artwork. But no.

And that senior citizen couple, the man's poster:
Akin = Teabagger = GOP

132 I own stock in Apple. I recently bought an iPod to hold music for the new car. I hate the d@mn thing. I have a Samsung Galaxy III -- wow, great product. I also have a new Samsung Smart Hub TV and matching BluRay, awesome. I tried to buy stock in Samsung, but, it was too big a hassle.

133 Those Code Pink wymyn need anatomy lessons.

134 Does this mean Ace is never going to get us nice things again?

Posted by: RushBabe at August 28, 2012 08:04 AM (oohlJ)

Pixy was supposed to be working on a new blog engine that would fix all these formatting issues AND keep the trolls from killing us.  Ace was also going to make it a "registration" required thing.

I don't know what happened but that has seemed to die.

135 "What's a cubit?"

Bill Cosby.

136 Please dont bad mouth Master Chaz or I will frame you for racism again

137 Sorry you guy don't like Apple, but they really do offer a superior product.

I'm currently running Mac OS, Win7 and Ubuntu, SIMULTANEOUSLY!

You can't do that on a on a Wintel/Lintel platform.

Couple that with a jail broken Iphone and MyWi and your flying!

138 RNC skullduggery

If your desire is to win elections, then I strongly suggest that you engage the grassroots and show respect to those who help put you in power.

Julianne Thompson, well said.

139 Penn St. says they are going to drop their traditional game day sing along to Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. They say it has nothing to do with the lyrics ("reaching out, touching me, touching you") but is rather an "updating" necessitated by the fact that so many other venues have adopted this song over the years. Um, yeah.

140 136 Noah, how long can you tread water?

141 It has been raining here almost continually for the past month. I am beginning to wonder if I need to break open the bible for building plans for an ark.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 07:59 AM (YdQQY)

 

 

 

Vic, I'm on vaycay on HHI.  Got rained out yesterday.  Rolled everyone out of bed for the sunrise today and got the shaft from the cloudy weather gods.  Where are you in SC that you're looking at a big storm?

142 I own stock in Apple. I recently bought an iPod to hold music for the new car. I hate the d@mn thing. I have a Samsung Galaxy III -- wow, great product. I also have a new Samsung Smart Hub TV and matching BluRay, awesome. I tried to buy stock in Samsung, but, it was too big a hassle.

Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at August 28, 2012 08:07 AM (503wU)

I bought a little gizmo from Amazon that plugs into your cigarette lighter sockett) and allows you to use a memory stick with MP3s to play through your radio.

It works like a charm and only cost $15.

143 128 Case,

Huh?

We have so far as I know still got our new voter ID law.  The lack of extension for service members while bad will not allow the mules to cheat to win it just means that as is normal in the Barry era service members have a harder time voting.  The Ohio GOP is pumped to nail the Cleveland Donks.

144 Retreading I think you're revering to Cosby there. God: Noah Noah: Who's that? God: Noah, it's the Lord. Noah: Riiight God: Noah, I want you to build an Ark. Noah: Riiight. What's an Ark?

145 134 reproductive organ

146 North Central near the NC border.

147 Making soil today, composting brewed barley with wood carbons.
G'day, y'all.

148 The Paultards, and Huckafu*k special ed forces are why we ned the change, the rules are tweaked every convention....

the Ronulans legitimately think they were gonna get Ron on multiple ballots.

I am looking forward to the day they go back to the basement and choom out....maybe we can trade the DNC the occutards removal from credibility for the Paulnuts.

149 Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 08:10 AM (LRFds)


Did you read the post about the OH fed judge who will allow bogus votes to count based on indeterminate rules?

150 North Central near the NC border. Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 08:12 AM (YdQQY)


Near Kings Mountain, Vic?

151 Posted by: Mary Poppins' at August 28, 2012 07:46 AM (zF6Iw)

try format toolbar composer in FF (add-on) as the paste mechanism, or
paste the entire word text into notepad, re-copy the text from notepad, then paste that here

152 Kings Mt is more into the Western Side of the State. I am a good ways from there.

153 Posted by: panzernashorn at August 28, 2012 08:09 AM (BAnPT)


Pffft, what do you grassroots people know about winning campaigns?  Besides, how can I skim my fat salary from the millions of $ of crap ads I direct if there is a principled base in charge?

154

@144 sven10077.

See Vic's post @19.-Thanks to ACORN some sh*ts going down.

155 150 Vic,

No, then it'll go to SCOTUS and we'll get this settled once and for all.  

Reading it now, it is a bad ruling that will not stand up.  In essence it is narrow in saying only ballots spoiled by worker error cannot be challenged.  Husted will appeal and win.

Not worried at all, could lead to drama I know they'll try to cheat they always do, and the most that will happen is we go back to court.

Fuck 'em it ain't happening again.

156 http://tinyurl.com/9coevhu st. pancakes death was an accident

157

Thanks, everyone.  Sven, I got it.  I'm a complete f*ckup when it comes to computers.  At some point this morning, I'll tell you a story about the suicide of Jean Harlow's husband.  First, I've got work to do.

 

You guys are the best!

158 Reading it now, it is a bad ruling that will not stand up. In essence it is narrow in saying only ballots spoiled by worker error cannot be challenged. Husted will appeal and win.


How do you determine after the fact that a vote was cast incorrectly due to a poll worker?  What are the rules going to be?


This is ripe for exploitation. And for it to go to appellate court someone has t be willing to spend the money to take it there.

159 Vic, abolish the Fed, yes. First we need to audit it. People need to go to jail.

160 http://tinyurl.com/9evo36z Magazine digitally altered French portrait of a slave woman from 1800 so that the First Lady's face appears on the nude subject's body

161 Thanks, Vic, the car has a USB port. I was looking for an MP3 player because I had never had one. I wanted to take the music into my office. So, I bought the iPod. Wish I had not.

162 159 Vic,

I get what you're saying I'm telling you Husted and DeWine exist to fight this fight.

We cannot get a major ruling until we get a major fraud case up to SCOTUS.

I am confident.

163 The Paultards, and Huckafu*k special ed forces are why we ned the change, the rules are tweaked every convention....

the Ronulans legitimately think they were gonna get Ron on multiple ballots.

I am looking forward to the day they go back to the basement and choom out....maybe we can trade the DNC the occutards removal from credibility for the Paulnuts.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 08:14 AM (LRFds)

I disagree with you on this.  I think the Ronulans, whom I despise, are merely the subterfuge for disenfranchising the Tea Party.  The Paul-bots are just being their usual annoying pesty selves in backing their lunatic candidate.  But they aren't large enough to do more than embarrass themselves in a large forum.  This is really about smacking down the Tea Party which is the primary source of the fresh new candidates of the GOP instead of the donk mortuary of useless fossils.

164

>>What's a cubit?"

 

That has made me giggle for so many years now.

 

Not so much today, as the wind estimates have gone up to 50 mph and the local forecast is "we don't know".

 

And, as predicted, my MIL did call and ask "Are you EVACUATING?"

165 Tonight

Roll call for nomination of president of the United States

Roll call for nomination of vice president of the United States

— 6:40 p.m.

166 It is my understanding that the delegate selection rule was being proposed due to the sneaky machinations of Paulbots in local caucuses and state delegations.

It's a shame that it got portrayed as being against the grass roots,  and perhaps they should think of another method.

However,  anyone who lived through how the leftists took over the democrat party should pay attention to those Paulbots,  who are looking to take over the GOP.  Yes, I know I sound paranoid,  but we do live in strange times.

167 So, I bought the iPod. Wish I had not.

Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at August 28, 2012 08:23 AM (503wU)

I avoided the Ipod because it uses proprietary shit like all Apple products. I am currently using a Sony for MP3 player but I don't think you can get them anymore.

I got one of these for a friend of mine in CA and she loves it. easy to load directly from Windows Media player and has been proven to be very reliable.  It is also cheap.

http://is.gd/jkq1wt

168 This is really about smacking down the Tea Party which is the primary source of the fresh new candidates of the GOP


------------


What you're saying would fly in the face of everything Reince did as Wisconsin GOP chair.  He was very Tea Party friendly and actively pursued candidates from that segment of the party.

169 164 CH,

I am Tea party, and I'm GOP did my vote not count for Mitt or something?

The Paultards played games with the system hard out west and are going to try to force a floor fight, bless their hearts.

It is not as if we are engaging in Ogabe style true arm twisting here.

170 I love my Ipod, and my Imac and all of my apple products. That's really all I own. But I guess that's why they make more than one kind.

171 They call it the Bay Bridge because it crosses the bay, and it was there before the other one.    Besides, is there a Maryland politician you would consider naming it after? 

172 167 MM,

Agreed, the idiots think they are gonna nominate Rawn using 1860 Abe Lincoln tactics...

"no"

173 It's a shame that it got portrayed as being against the grass roots, and perhaps they should think of another method.


The problem is that they added a bunch of other stuff to it to allow them to change the rules w/o a vote of the committee. Plus other stuff we are not hearing about.

174 Before you all get your knickers in a twist over these rules, remember that they are targeted towards a specific situation going on with a wing of the party that refuses to endorse Mitt Romney. 

Yes Paulites I'm looking at you.


They are re-written at each convention.  There is no grand conspiracy to disenfranchise the Tea Party.

175 @159

You can't, so all suspect ballots will be counted.

Then it will be up to the candidate that challenges these 'ballots' to take it to court.

The Donks know how to rig the game and stupid Republicans go along with the fraud!

176 169 MW,

yup the Ronulan empire was counting on using Tea Party friendly rules to be asshats and play games....

if this race were a normal one I'd want about three types of housecleaning done using this cycle as a tool to discipline out of control factions.

177 Besides, is there a Maryland politician you would consider naming it after?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 28, 2012 08:28 AM (l3vZN)

The Bay bridge in CA has been around for a long long time. But yeah, I guess you would not want to call it shit.

178 Hello, 'rons and 'ettes. Wow, that glowy thing in the sky sure is bright.

179

Beg pardon, Vic.....Oakland-San Fran Bay Bridge was there first.

 

180 I turn on Fox and Friends, and there's Huckabuck. Not a good start to the morning so far.

181 177 GW,

I don't think so, the Donks are just as vulnerable because they can't prove which ballots are inf act spoiled by worker actions either....

this will devolve into a contest of wills and I am more confident in our anti-fraud team than I have ever been.

SCOTUS will get to make a ruling on it, and i will welcome the clarity, because if the rules are "there are no rules" then next time I will vote 36,000 times.

182   Ron Johnson?  Sean Duffy?  Tea party candidates.  Reince Priebus found them.  Backed them.  Helped convince them to run. 

183 OK, you asked. it's fairly clear that there are at least two versions of cubit available, one based on the elbow to tip of the middle finger and another from elbow to the base of the hand. * Standard cubit : elbow to end of middle finger (20"). * Lower forearm cubit : elbow to base of the hand (12").

184 What you're saying would fly in the face of everything Reince did as Wisconsin GOP chair. He was very Tea Party friendly and actively pursued candidates from that segment of the party.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 28, 2012 08:27 AM (P6QsQ)

I'm not criticizing Priebus because I don't think he's behind this.

185

"BI (a very liberal rag) distorted the hello out of his comments there."

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 07:34 AM (YdQQY)

 

And the photo headlines below the article reek of agenda:

 

"The GOP Convention Is A Really Weird Place"

 

"What A Gloomy GOP Campaign Guru Just Told Me"

 

"There Was Major  Drama At The GOP Convention Friday, And It Ended With John Sununu Fleeing The Building"

 

 

186 175 Vic,

Vic as far as i m concerned, this race could gavel and nominate Mitt in an hour and I'd be happy.  Add in the bullshit angst we are supposed to be feeling about "ghosts of katrina" and I am just about to the point we should cancel the convention and tie John McCain to the New Orleans pier.....

if we control the weather as is implicitly applied by the M$M can we put the AGW angst away?

We'll just use the hurricane machine to suck the heat out of the system....

187 Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at August 28, 2012 08:34 AM (8hEED) Yep, RP is herding cats right now. I think in the end he'll do the right thing.

188 @184

Please don't underestimate the Donks ability to commit fraud.

They literally pulled ballots out of the trunks of cars in Washington State that were contested and found to be legitimate in a court of law!

189 Reince Priebus found them. Backed them. Helped convince them to run.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 28, 2012 08:33 AM



When I posted on this issue a couple of days ago and said this is a fight that needs to wait until after the election, the feel that I got from the article was that the call for this was not coming from RP, but was being pushed by the Romney camp people.


And I still say this is a fight we do not need to have now.

190

Back in 1968, Mayor Richard J. Daley had the right idea, treat the commies who came to town to riot as criminals they were.  The actual citizens of Chicago (as opposed to the out-of-towners who rioted) approved of the Mayor's handling of the situation.  He continued to be easily re-elected  and died in office December 1976.

 

What never made the news (except locally) were the vast numbers of "occupiers" who came to town and took over Lincoln Park.  The riots took place in Grant Park which is right downtown, but the rioters took over Lincoln Park for their tent city.  They chopped down trees, built fires, pitched tents, ran around naked in the lagoons (filthy water on a good day, yech).  Imagine Woodstock in a densely pack city neighborhood. 

 

 

191 I never dressed as a Sasquatch to scare people, but I once I tried to dress as a stud to pick up girls and mostly got ignored? Oh morning all

192 the feel that I got from the article was that the call for this was not coming from RP, but was being pushed by the Romney camp people.

----------



Ahh.  Okay.  I did not see that.  Thanks for the clarification Vic.

193

"We've analyzed their attack and there is a danger."

 

There's no welders on the fucking Death Star?  Slap a plate steel patch over the fucking thing.  Park a few shuttles in front of it.  What the fuck is wrong with people?

194 I never dressed as a Sasquatch to scare people, but I once I tried to dress as a stud to pick up girls and mostly got ignored? Oh morning all Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 08:37 AM (05RcU) How exactly does a stud dress? I sure in the heck wouldn't know.

195 How exactly does a stud dress? I sure in the heck wouldn't know. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 08:38 AM (9TTOe) Apparently I did not know either, but then I did not have the best material to work with?

196 I just read this in Politico's rehab of Tingles after his faux race card(Cr)hissy fit yesterday:

>>""But Matthews told POLITICO that has received an outpouring of support -- from his bosses, who he says "agree with substance of what I said," and from fans in places as disparate as Mozambique and Jamaica.

"I have never heard -- never heard -- such a positive response," Matthews said. "The people I've met, globally, the people who have felt this, personally -- I've never got such a positive response.""

Globally? Mozambique and Jamaica fans?

Just another delusional and drunken One Worlder, I guess.

197 Studs dress in mom jeans....and bike helmets...

198 I'm looking at TV guide and it seems my options for watching the Convention tonight are PBS, CNN or MSNBC. Seriously FOX... no live coverage???

199 Apparently I did not know either, but then I did not have the best material to work with? Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 08:38 AM (05RcU) My wife cleaned me up. She threw all of my lounge lizard clothes in the garbage and took me shopping.

200 Posted by: Boots at August 28, 2012 08:36 AM (neKzn)


Too bad that there was no alternative media in 1968 to get the truth out about that BS.  The MFM has established the myth that it was a "police riot" organized by Mayor Daley on "peaceful anti-war protestors.


And that has become history.

201 199 OnTheRocks,

yeah the Chris Tingle Downfall parody needs made....

"what about my legions of fans in outer mongolia?"

202 What the fuck is wrong with people?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2012 08:37 AM (BJWMm)

That's a rhetorical question, right?

203 The people I've met, globally, the people who have felt
this, personally

--------



How have people from Mozambique been personally affected by Romney's joke about his birth certificate?

204 >>>This is longer, but just audio.
 
Thanks Mama, as a kid I used to have that whole routine on a 33 LP.  Good memories!

205 Rasmussen is saying consumer confidence is the highest it's been in two months....

um....

206 My wife cleaned me up. She threw all of my lounge lizard clothes in the garbage and took me shopping. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 08:40 AM (9TTOe) Yeah my wife threw a lot of stuff away also. Still does to this day. I handcuff myself to the bed at night to make sure I don't end up on the curb in the AM

207 "Globally? Mozambique and Jamaica fans?"

Nah, permadrunk matthews has a "global" reach consisting of portions of Manhattan, San Francisco, parts of L.A., areas in Chicago, and student slums in various college towns like Madison, Austin, Athens, etc.

In short- a tiny globe for a tiny booze addled mind.

208 >>>This is longer, but just audio.Thanks Mama, as a kid I used to have that whole routine on a 33 LP. Good memories! Posted by: Lurking Canuck at August 28, 2012 08:41 AM (NF2Bf) Do you remember his skit about buying a Cobra from Carol Shelby? It still makes me laugh.

209 The people I've met, globally, the people who have felt this, personally This is AMERICA asshole. Love it or leave it. Please leave it!

210 From Morton Blackwell: Dear Fellow Delegate, On Tuesday of this week, as Republican National Convention delegates, you and I will be voting on rules changes that could fundamentally change our Republican Party — and not for the better. Over the years, I’ve served on the Louisiana and Virginia GOP Rules Committees. I currently serve on both the Republican National Committee’s Standing Committee on Rules and on the National Convention’s Committee on Rules and Order of Business. I was Barry Goldwater’s youngest elected delegate in 1964, I was honored to serve on President Ronald Reagan’s White House Staff from 1981-1984, and I have attended every Republican National Convention Rules Committee meeting since 1972. My wife and I have contributed major donations to the Romney-Ryan campaign. These rule changes are the most awful I’ve ever seen come before any National Convention. I’m writing you today to urge you to join the growing effort to stop the worst-ever changes in this Rules Committee’s Report and to vote in favor of amendments to Rules 12 and 15. The Minority Reports will restore important rights and protections which state parties and grassroots Republicans would lose under the Rules Committee Report as written. These amendments to Rules 12 and 15 are contained in Minority Reports supported by at least 25% of the members of this convention’s Committee on Rules and Order of Business. It’s rare for Minority Reports to come before our national convention, but the issues involved here are vital to the future of our party. I must tell you there is tremendous arm-twisting now to peel signers off of the Minority Reports. Finally, whether on Minority Reports or on voting down the Rules, it will require at least six states’ delegations to insist upon a roll call vote. I will not pretend that the deck is not stacked against us. But many state leaders, liberty-minded activists, and grass-roots conservatives are up-in-arms as word of this power grab spreads. Our convention will make this important decision Tuesday as some of our first work. Many folks skip these procedural sessions thinking nothing of importance occurs. This year, that is far from the truth. If the Rules Committee Report were to pass without adoption of the Minority Reports, it would amount to a power grab by Washington, D.C. party insiders and consultants designed to silence the voice of state party activists and Republican grassroots by: *** Handing national party officials the power to change national party rules adopted by state and grassroots leaders at the Republican National Convention. For generations, the prohibition of manipulated changes in the national Rules of the Republican Party between national conventions has served as one of the crown jewels of our party. It’s a power grab which opens the door to many future power grabs. *** Stripping state parties in all states with binding primaries of the power of choosing who will represent their states as national delegates and alternate delegates. This outrageous change would empower presidential campaigns to disapprove and remove delegates and alternate delegates selected by rules adopted by state Republican parties. Rather than grassroots activists who won delegate and alternate delegate slots by following state party rules, a large majority of positions would be handed to top donors of the winning campaign. *** Gutting the great and successful reform adopted in the current election cycle to stop the dangerous trend to front-load the selection of national convention delegates. Our party would move again toward a national primary which would deny grassroots Republicans the opportunity to vet presidential candidates in a nomination contest of reasonable length. This reform must not be abandoned. Like most of us delegates to this convention, I’ve spent years gladly battling in the trenches for our Republican Party. And as the President of the Leadership Institute — which specializes in training thousands of conservative activists, students, and leaders to fight for our country’s future –I can’t tell you how disheartened I am to see these rules changes even considered. These rule changes would give good folks like you less of a say over our Republican Party in favor of insiders and consultants in Washington, D.C. At a time when Tea Party activists have re-invigorated our Republican Party — leading to massive gains in the U.S. House, the Senate, and many state legislatures in the 2010 elections — why would we want to discourage activism? Thanks to their efforts, you and I have a new generation of exciting conservative leaders in Washington, D.C., who — in many instances –were elected despite the opposition of establishment-backed opponents. Certainly this is not to say GOP leaders are always wrong. But history shows that our Republican Party grows when we welcome newly active participants and treat them fairly. Our Republican Party is strongest when we listen to the wishes of grassroots conservatives. Instead of strengthening our party, these insider power grabs will weaken it. For these reasons, I urge you to join the growing effort to adopt the Minority Reports when the Rules Committee Report comes up for consideration by the convention. Morton Blackwell P.S. Some of the most important work of the convention will take place on Tuesday where you and I will be voting on rules that could fundamentally change our Republican Party for the worse. New rules will be voted on that have been designed to silence state Republican parties and Republican grassroots in favor of party insiders and Washington, D.C.-based consultants. The vote will take place at Tuesday’s convention session, and I’m counting on you join the growing effort to defeat these new rules. Please vote to adopt the Minority Reports on Rules and urge your delegation to call for a roll call vote on all Rules-related votes. This fight is too important for us not to make a stand.

211 Yeah my wife threw a lot of stuff away also. Still does to this day. I handcuff myself to the bed at night to make sure I don't end up on the curb in the AM Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 08:42 AM (05RcU) LOL, thanks for the helpful hint.

212 #138

Yes, you can. The jailbreak for Mac OS is known as Hackintosh. Apple fights it but its out there if for some reason you want OS X. I don't, so I don't feel I'm missing anything by not paying the Apple tax for things I don't care about, just as I care more about how my car runs than how it looks to other people.

213 First we need to audit it. People need to go to jail.

Auditing the Fed is a profoundly bad idea.
Name a large troubled financial entity that came out better after an audit. 
It's just pantsing Uncle Sam, nothing good can come of it.  Somethings really are too big to fail.
As for jail, lots of bad ideas <> felony otherwise the toobz would be empty.

214 From twitter



"Both Bill Clinton and Sandra Fluke headlining DNC. When I call them f'ers it's both an insult & factually accurate."

215 http://tinyurl.com/9suadpm

Lindsay Lohan and the great Jewelry Raid?

216 I can't remember a thing I just said. Reggie, did I just say I love man-meat stuffed in my ass? That's what keeps going through my head. Ask TOTUS what I just said...and then let's sneak up to my room and pound the choom.

217

'sup jackwagons.

 

Random question of the morning.  Has Isaac ever blown up to be an actual hurricane?  Because I keep seeing stuff about Hurrican Isaac but from what I recall it's never spun up past tropical storm strength.   I'm presuming the fact that the hurricane isn't actually a hurricane yet is utterly irrelevant to the wee darlings of the MFM who want to screech Katrina eleventy. 

218 FACT CHECK: Anti-Obama film muddy on facts

WASHINGTON (AP) — "2016: Obama's America," a new conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama's political views, took in $6.2 million to make it one of the highest-grossing movies of last weekend.

The assertion that Obama's presidency is an expression of his father's political beliefs, which D'Souza first made in 2010 in his book "The Roots of Obama's Rage," is almost entirely subjective and a logical stretch at best.

I can't seem to find the AP fact checks on any of Meathead Moore's or Al Gore's movies. Could it be the MFM has a bias?

219 I have a Sony Walkman MP3 player that's great in the car. I also use my smartphone and Kindle fire for music playing in the car at times.

220 Seriously FOX... no live coverage??? Posted by: DangerGirl AKA Ellke Deadly at August 28, 2012 08:40 AM (rY8rX) What makes you think FOX has no live coverage? Are you talking about their TV Show Network or their News Network?

221 The Clinton and Fluke addresses are an interesting counterpoint.

222

Mama AJ,

 

You're in Shreveport, right?  I guess your MIL doesn't own a map.

223 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. There can be only one. at August 28, 2012 08:44 AM (VtjlW)


No, it hasn't yet.  See post #2

224 Both Bill Clinton and Sandra Fluke headlining DNC. When I call them f'ers it's both an insult factually accurate." Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 28, 2012 08:44 AM (P6QsQ) The Republicans need someone like Jackie Mason to to do a bit on that in prime time

225 Both Bill Clinton and Sandra Fluke headlining DNC. When I call them f'ers it's both an insult factually accurate." Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 28, 2012 08:44 AM (P6QsQ) The Republicans need someone like Jackie Mason to to do a bit on that in prime time

226 213 Countrysquire,

you seem awfully concerned...

227 @215

Fair enough, understood.

228

Good piece from Patterico. Long but good.

 

Link in the place with the link.

229 193 Back in 1968, Mayor Richard J. Daley had the right idea, treat the commies who came to town to riot as criminals they were.

I wonder what and where those protesters are today. Most of them, if still alive, would be in their mid to late 60s. Whats worse than young smelly hippies? Old, ugly wrinkled hippies.

230 The Clinton and Fluke addresses are an interesting counterpoint. Supply and demand.

231 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. There can be only one. at August 28, 2012 08:44 AM (VtjlW) Good morning AtC. Well, if it bleeds it leads. If it's bad make it worse. If it could be bad, Hype the shit out of it. If it ends up not being bad, well, we dodged a bullit. It's all showbiz 24/7. Get the viewer by any means possible. Oh, and if the libtards can use it, by all means, crank it up.

232 220 AtC,

No, but I am certain it will be called one...."narrative"....

233 .. I'm looking at TV guide and it seems my options for watching the Convention tonight are PBS, CNN or MSNBC. Seriously FOX... no live coverage??? Try CSPAN.

234 Anybody else think that turning down Cardinal Dolan and then having a two hour Jumah at the Dem convention is a GREAT idea!

235 #196

Bureaucracy. The Death Star was big enough to retain an atmosphere about its exterior and thus it has an 'environment.' No Evil Empire is complete without a version of the EPA. No way Tarkin could order a fix for the exposed exhaust port without filing an EIR first, which takes a minimum of six months and has to be hand delivered to an unmarked office in a sub-sub-sub-basement of the Imperial Environmental Agency on Coruscant.

236 Christ Almighty.....this is beyond pathetic.  Nebraska 3 1/2 year old deaf boy may have to change his name because when he uses sign language to spell it out, the school district is saying the hand gestures resemble a frigging gun. 

http://scoamf.us/yS

237 Hey, I am thrilled that folks like Apple products. I was just making the point that they are not for everyone. I was also making the point that Samsung makes great stuff that I like. It reminds me of the debate folks get into over pickup trucks--never convince an F150 guy to buy a Tundra and vice versa.

238

>>>Do you remember his skit about buying a Cobra from Carol Shelby?

 

I don't.  Must not have been on the record I had.  But listening to it now!

 

http://tinyurl.com/95lc8lt

239 Neighbor just rang the doorbell, woke me up (I'm getting sick) to tell me there were kids trying to break into my car last night around midnight, after a series of car break-ins I did not know about; one of the other neighbors called the cops and chased the kids down and arrested them. 

Cops were in the neighborhood for two hours. I slept through the whole damn thing (I was up later, being sick...).  Probably a good thing, because if that car is scratched the cops would be arresting ME.

All that time I worked in the shit part of Milwaukee nothing ever happened to my car.  I move out to the exurbs of a "red state"...


I should go to work.  Delinquents' mamas need their EBT.

240 Are the "big 3" not covering the convention? Only channel I get all the time is cbs.

241 NBC NEWS:

President Barack Obama will deliver a statement on Tropical Storm #Isaac at 10am ET at the White House

242 I understand partisan politics, but I don't get why Politico would waste whatever bit of credibility it has left to rehab a lout sitting in a puddle of his own piss rambling incoherently.

If the Left loses, they are going to need a whole new crew of attack dogs.
This idiot is all played out and running primarily on the fumes of alcohol paid for by an NBC expense account.

243 Nebraska 3 1/2 year old deaf boy may have to change his name because when he uses sign language to spell it out, the school district is saying the hand gestures resemble a frigging gun.

We need to bring back the stocks in the town square.

244

Yeh, near there, Jeff.

 

She always does this. It was even funnier when we were in Texas and she was worried about something happening across *that* state.

 

It's a little actual worry combined with some drama.

245 I am concerned, just as Levin was last night when I was made aware of it. Maybe Levin is actually a concern troll. Seriously, I agree with you about the PaulBots and how they would fuck up the Lord's Supper, but don't throw out the baby with the bath water.

246 Anybody else think that turning down Cardinal Dolan and then having a two hour Jumah at the Dem convention is a GREAT idea!

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2012 08:49 AM (fWAjv)

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Only religions that are anti-West are deemed worthy .

247 244 MW,

yeah I don't recall King Choom making any Royal Pronouncements for the midwest flooding....guess some victims are more equal than others....

248 We need to bring back the stocks in the town square. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 28, 2012 08:52 AM (hO8IJ) Yep, and an occasional flogging.

249 love the oakridge boys!!!!!

250 Let's see if he's able to work in the words "Katrina" and "Bush" into his news conference on Isaac.

What the heck?  Who has a news conference for a tropical storm?

251 248 Countrysquire,

You have a lot of low level operatives butthurt they might lose their moment of glory.  Part of the reason I turned down my convention invite was this sort of drama.  The other part was the lad and school, but still I want the money to flow and us to tangle with Choom, not act as though the media is gonna give us any chance for real coverage of our party's moment anyway.

Barry suddenly feels a dire need to be seen "on the stick" that is rare enough....I wonder if there is any event going on that might in normal times have reduced his exposure?

252 #221

Shocking revelation by the AP! Dinesh D'Souza's movie is based on his opinions about the subject matter. Cognitive dissonance!

253 Christ Almighty.....this is beyond pathetic. Nebraska 3 1/2 year old deaf boy may have to change his name because when he uses sign language to spell it out, the school district is saying the hand gestures resemble a frigging gun.

http://scoamf.us/yS

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 28, 2012 08:50 AM (lTVJy)

That is weapons grade stupidity. I'd sue their asses into oblivion.

254 The Clinton and Fluke addresses are an interesting counterpoint. Maybe we've been understating the monthly cost of contraception. Does anyone know what a blue dress costs nowadays?

255 What the heck? Who has a news conference for a tropical storm? Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 28, 2012 08:54 AM (P6QsQ) The same type who runs a special on their March Madness picks. I'm real surprised he is up this early though.

256 #241

PIIIPES!!!

257 That is weapons grade stupidity.

The phrase "weapons grade" violates our zero-tolerance policy on self-expression using violent metaphors.  You have been suspended for two weeks.

258

Posted by: Retread at August 28, 2012 07:58 AM (zxitI)

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It is an open air  Jumah prayer, so getting decent video of it shouldn't be too difficult.  It could be tastefully worked into GOP campaign ads.  I read a while back that the sponsors, Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs, is checking ID's for admittance.  Another James O'Keefe joint?

"Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs"---if that isn't a Federal agency already,  it will be in Barkah's second term. 

259 What makes you think FOX has no live coverage? Are you talking about their TV Show Network or their News Network? Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 08:45 AM (05RcU) According to TV Guide, tonight's FOX News Channel schedule is new O'reilly, Hannity, etc. The only channels marked as airing the convention are PBS, MSNBC and CNN. Keep in mind that I have no cable so I have to be able to stream online.

260

Iggles version of Angry Birds:

 

http://tinyurl.com/9neaglc

 

261 "The police were not there to create disorder. The police were there to preserve disorder."

One of the great all-time spontaneous statement fails.

262 Well the winds are breezy outside.  Clouds are about.  So probably be seeing rain soon.  Tackling one more load of laundry.

263 I understand partisan politics, but I don't get why Politico would waste whatever bit of credibility it has left to rehab a lout sitting in a puddle of his own piss rambling incoherently.


Politico, credibility?   hahHAHAHAHAHA


Those two words to not go together.

264 Crap. No cable here either. I can sometimes pick up PBS. Hope I can tonight.

265 I really really really really hate this martha frackin POS half ass excuse for what's called a computer here at work.

266 "Without the energy and wisdom of the grassroots, the GOP would not have had the historic 2010 electoral victories. That's why the controversial rule change being debated at the RNC convention right now is so very disappointing. It's a direct attack on grassroots activists by the GOP establishment, and it must be rejected." ----from sarah palin's fb post...

267

Iowahawk, as funny as ever:

 

>>Whenever I hear of a Sasquatch stunt related death, I think, 'there but for the grace of God, go I.'

268 This shit would not be necessary if the Democrap Mayors in the large urban areas started treating these so-called protestors like the criminals they are. This inspires a nearly perfect post-apocalyptic litmus test: "Do you think that looters should be shot?"

269 Keep in mind that I have no cable so I have to be able to stream online.

Posted by: DangerGirl AKA Ellke Deadly at August 28, 2012 08:58 AM (rY8rX)

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You can get gavel to gavel coverage without the spin at C-SPAN online

http://www.c-span.org/RNC/Live/

270 With CAC making the call last night that the GOP will win WI, NE, MT, and ND, I'm updating my probability model.

Current probability that the GOP wins outright control of the Senate: 93%

271 >>Keep in mind that I have no cable so I have to be able to stream online. http://www.c-span.org/RNC/

272 Folks, I have to go.  MIL having problems with her computer again. bbl

273 This inspires a nearly perfect post-apocalyptic litmus test: "Do you think that looters should be shot?" Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 28, 2012 09:02 AM (ogdab) Yes.

274 "The police were not there to create disorder. The police were there to preserve disorder."

One of the great all-time spontaneous statement fails.

Posted by: epobirs at August 28, 2012 09:00 AM (kcfmt)

I would take old man Daley any day over Rahm or his idiot son Richie. In spite of being a Democrat,  Daley I was a very conservative person and hated the 60s liberal radical BS. Daley II is a limp wristed twat who honored Bill Ayers and made Chicago into a progressive hell hole.

275 I'll be true to you by the Oak Ridge Boys, 2cnd best crying in your beer song. 1st? He stopped lovin her today.

276

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 28, 2012 08:50 AM (P6QsQ)

--------

This is the same guy who held his first  press conference on the Deepwater Horizon disaster more than a month after the fact.

 

Obama:  learnin' stuff, y'oh?

277 Malkin has an article about the potential floor fight....http://tinyurl.com/97qvwlb Would be a good thing for the GOP rather than have mitt's goons resolve it .... independents don't like to see stuff like this, they like everyone to participate and have a say Crap like this is the reason why independents are growing...

278 Thanks mama...I'll hook up the laptop to the TV tonight and stream us some convention. Looking forward to hearing Scott Walker and Ted Cruz speak.

279

The RNC rules-change move inspired Levin to go batshiite crazy last night.  Michelle Malkin immediately got a battle plan online complete w/state GOP orgs to call and beeyotch to.

 

 

I contacted our local (TEA Party founder) delegate and he said it was all everyone was talking about and that it looked like there was going to be a bitter battle today.

280 drudge seems to think there will be a surprise speaker and that it's sarah palin? My computer won't give me a link .... It won't be palin, if anything it will be beck

281 Iraeli court dismisses Corrie's lawsuit. One for the good guys!! I would like my pancakes with a dollop of schadenfreude please.

http://tinyurl.com/9tdqj54

282 Nebraska 3 1/2 year old deaf boy may have to change his name because when he uses sign language to spell it out, the school district is saying the hand gestures resemble a frigging gun. I'm fairly certain that the entire school board would be able to comprehend the sign that I would be giving them if that were my child and they told me that. Also that's opening up a loverly Federal lawsuit because I'm going to go out on a limb and say that violates a metric fuckton of laws and regs concerning mainstreaming a disabled child. To harken back to the discussion of having kids from yesterday, I do not understand how any parent is able to handle the current insanity that is child rearing without going on a spree.

283 How about Nugent as the surprise speaker.  that would shake things up. 

284 To harken back to the discussion of having kids from yesterday, I do not understand how any parent is able to handle the current insanity that is child rearing without going on a spree. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (VtjlW) Yep, not a game for the weak or ill prepared.

285 A new word has popped up among the lib/dem young voters on fb... I won't type it here but combine mitt with the end of the name of that dictator guy in Germany and you can figure it out It was all too "spontaneous" to not be deliberate and it coincided with the floor fight stuff coming out and some folks from maine feeling angry and upset.

286 Mary Poppins, I really enjoy your stories, so thank you. You and Vic make this such a nice way to start the day. I have a request. could you do a story on either Clark Gable or Ronald Coleman? Those are my faves! thanks!

287

>>Has Isaac ever blown up to be an actual hurricane?

 

>>At 8 p.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center reported that Isaac's top sustained winds had remained at 70 mph for several hours, up from about 65 mph the evening before. A tropical system becomes a Category 1 hurricane once winds reach 74 mph.

 

Pretty close.

288 I know who clark gable is but who is ronald coleman?

289 Mary Poppins, I really enjoy your stories, so thank you. You and Vic make this such a nice way to start the day. I have a request. could you do a story on either Clark Gable or Ronald Coleman? Those are my faves! thanks! Posted by: Chilling the most at August 28, 2012 09:17 AM (6IV8T) Smae here. I was always a Lee Marvin fan.

290 239 Christ Almighty.....this is beyond pathetic. Nebraska 3 1/2 year old deaf boy may have to change his name because when he uses sign language to spell it out, the school district is saying the hand gestures resemble a frigging gun.

http://scoamf.us/yS

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 28, 2012 08:50 AM (lTVJy)

This being Nebraska, Grand Island's already getting an earful about this.  The howling's gonna get worse.

What a ridiculous culture we live in.

291 Please God no. Just got a text from Gary. Steve (our good friend/bass player) had a biopsy last night and sounds serious. He's going to call him tonight. Why is this phone getting blurry?

292 You know, IÂ’m a, IÂ’m a practical person. One of the things IÂ’m good at is getting people in a room with a bunch of different ideas who sometimes violently disagree with each other and finding common ground and a sense of common direction.

293

Alex, when I was a kid I was always puzzled by the facts that 1)I really liked the idea of teaching, but 2) I was absolutely positively sure I wanted no part of the school systems.

 

I'm glad I found a way to exist outside of the system.

 

Exist and have a lot of fun, I should say!

294 Mary Poppins, I really enjoy your stories, so thank you. Add me to the list of those who enjoy them. I love Old Hollywood stuff. Just got a text from Gary. Steve (our good friend/bass player) had a biopsy last night and sounds serious. He's going to call him tonight. You and yours are in my prayers. My mom told me last night that the wife of the family friend who died last week is up in VA where the internment was held on Sunday. Monday morning her sister's husband keeled over dead from a heart attack. When it rains, it pours. Mommy and I shared the same response too, that makes two, who will be three?

295 TS Isaac Advisory 29A.

As of 8am Eastern, Isaac is still a tropical storm with 70mph winds.  It is expected to tick up into being a hurricane within the next hour.

It is moving towards land at 8kts.  Official landfall is looking at 2am Eastern on Wednesday in Lafourche Parish.  At landfall hurricane Isaac will have 85mph winds.  Also expect to see a build up of surge water going into Lake Pontchartrain.

296 ust got a text from Gary. Steve (our good friend/bass player) had a biopsy last night and sounds serious. He's going to call him tonight. My prayers to you and your friend teej.

297 >>Politico, credibility? hahHAHAHAHAHA
Those two words to not go together.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 09:00 AM (YdQQY)

That was what's known as a fat pitch, aka hanging curve.

Glad you didn't let it get by you Vic. Knew somebody would eventually hit a dinger.

298 Apparently cooler heads have prevailed at the RNC while still being able to deal with the Ronulans:


Bopp had led a movement to defeat this rule on the convention floor Tuesday.

Instead, Bopp has agreed to compromise language. The RNC Rules Committee will meet Tuesday to approve the replacement language, Bopp told ABC News.

"The leadership of the Republican National Committee and the Romney for President campaign has heard the concerns of the conservative grassroots voices in our party and has crafted an amendment to the Rules adopted on Friday to address these concerns," Bopp wrote in an email to Republican National Committee members. "At the same time, the revised language closes a loophole in our party rules, which previously failed to include a penalty for delegates who break their promise to vote for a particular Presidential candidate as required by state law or state party rules."

Bopp explained the impetus for the proposed change, in the first place, as fear that Ron Paul supporters bound to Mitt Romney would break party rules and instead vote for Paul. The rule sought to prevent that risk at future conventions, Bopp said.

The compromise language simply states that delegates must vote for the candidates to whom they are bound, Bopp said. If not, they'll be kicked out of future conventions and votes will be cast on their behalf.

The deal likely will not, however, allay some concerns of Ron Paul supporter.

Crazy Uncle's supporters won't be happy?  The deuce you say!!

299 Nebraska 3 1/2 year old deaf boy may have to change his name because
when he uses sign language to spell it out, the school district is
saying the hand gestures resemble a frigging gun.


I'm fairly certain that the entire school board would be able to comprehend the sign that I would be giving them if that were my child and they told me that. Also that's opening up a loverly Federal lawsuit because I'm going to go out on a limb and say that violates a metric fuckton of laws and regs concerning mainstreaming a disabled child.


To harken back to the discussion of having kids from yesterday, I do not understand how any parent is able to handle the current insanity that is child rearing without going on a spree.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (VtjlW)

Biggest load of bullshit ever. I took an ASL class in college and my then girlfriend (now wife) has a minor in deaf education. I can't think of a letter in sign language that looks anything like a gun. And FYI, most deaf people don't sign their name on a regular basis. They have "name signs", which are short hand versions of their names.

300 Luap Nor's followers are never happy until a chicken is sacrificed.  Dude is 77 and not running for re-election, he has nothing left to lose by going full crazy if it means he gets his footnote.

301

>>Crazy Uncle's supporters won't be happy? The deuce you say!!

 

Maybe we'll get some of 'em trolling here!

 

Is Toby still awaiting his banhammer order?

302 Alexthechick and BCochran, unless the kid flashed an 'L' for loser at the school prison warderns.

303 Thanks Alextc. When I feel up to it, it really is getting tough to see keyboard, I've got a bone to pick with you about calling yourself a "3". I gotta go for a while. Love each other fellow babies.

304 When I was a kid, watching conventions with my dad he always told me that the first vote they were required to vote for the guy/gal who bought them to the dance, but after that, if no nominee emerged, all bets were off. He said when he was a kid conventions were exciting because of this and they were interesting to watch cause they meant something and weren't scripted. when did this change?

305 Best wishes to your friend, teej.

306 Nominate Homeboy Sasquatch for the Darwin Award...

307 teej I just started a rosary for your friend. Just for your friend and for you. I am actually crying here with you. So sorry but have faith in God, you might get a little miracle.

308 Two people have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease in an outbreak linked to a downtown Marriott hotel this summer, Chicago Department of Public Health officials said Monday.

The two dead are among eight people who came down with Legionnaires' after staying in the JW Marriott at 151 W. Adams St. between mid-July and mid-August.

None of the eight people who contracted the disease are from the Chicago area or are being treated here, but city officials declined to provide any further information about them, citing privacy laws. The conditions of the six surviving people who caught Legionnaires' is not known.

309 Alexthechick and BCochran, unless the kid flashed an 'L' for loser at the school prison warderns.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 28, 2012 09:29 AM (Z2fb7)

Then any deaf person with a "L" in their name would be forced to change it under their reasoning. Fucking. Stupid. And if it's what I suspect, the kid's name sign, good luck changing that. Name signs are a huge source of pride. A deaf person doesn't pick their name sign. It's chosen for them by close friends/family/etc. It'd be like your best friend giving you a nickname, one that you actually used as your name and then being told it was offensive and that you had to change it.

310 Thoughts and Prayers teej. Hang in there.


When I feel up to it, it really is getting tough to see keyboard, I've got a bone to pick with you about calling yourself a "3".


Wait a minute. You referred to yourself as a 3????? Do we need to have a chat?

311 I am not arguing how stupid it is BCochran.  If that is the center of the controversy then Zero Tolerance has come to mean Zero Brains.

312 Wouldn't those Nebraska dumbfucks have a bunch of ambulance chasers armed with the ADA stomping their pansy asses into mudholes while draining the state's wallets?

313 >>Has Isaac ever blown up to be an actual hurricane?

>>At 8 p.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center reported that Isaac's top
sustained winds had remained at 70 mph for several hours, up from about 65 mph
the evening before. A tropical system becomes a Category 1 hurricane once winds
reach 74 mph.

Pretty close.


They're talking about it strengthening, maybe going ashore as Cat II.


Water is the expected culprit from Isaac, not the winds,

314 I am not arguing how stupid it is BCochran. If that is the center of the controversy then Zero Tolerance has come to mean Zero Brains.


I know you're not. And when did it not mean that?

315 The Mobile Bay area is getting it's first raindrops associated with Isaac. The "Hurricane Breath" feel to the air started last night though.

316 Biggest load of bullshit ever. I took an ASL class in college


It's not ASL. The kid's name is Hunter. The language is Signing Exact English. Didn't watch the video, but there is a still where the kid looks like he is holding a gun. Makes perfect sense.


Horse whip the administrators until they see the light.

317 CNN sets up a million jokes: "Reggie Love, the man by President Barack Obama's side for two years in the White House, said the president leads like he plays basketball."

318 Do I want to know how the drooling idiots of CNN are covering TS Isaac?

319 Reading the comments after Malkin's article: "On August 28th, 2012 at 3:53 am, love2rumba said: Ron Paul speaks for himself obviously. However, Ron Paul would not be prominent on this issue if Mitt Romney hadnÂ’t been such an idiot-again. I mean here we go again: Romney says one thing, and his aides say/do something else, and he wonÂ’t fire his aides. That is enough evidence to tell me that this rule attempt has Mitt RomneyÂ’s blessings even though he will deny it, and it indicates the kind of nonsense he is going to throw in our faces once he elected and the heat is off. This is not good." http://tinyurl.com/9m54pmz Why can't things ever go smoothly with the republican party? There are also a couple of posts indicating that "they though Michael Steele was dangerous" but then they go on to chastise rinse.

320 Do I want to know how the drooling idiots of CNN are covering TS Isaac?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 28, 2012 09:47 AM (Z2fb7)

ZOMG!!!!111!!!! HURRICANE! BUSHKATRINANEWORLEANS!!!!!!

There ya go.

321 "On this day in 1968 communist inspired and supported war protesters clashed with police in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president."

A Chicago cop I know told me that during the 1996 Democratic convention, which was also held in Chicago, the cops were wearing T-shirts that read:

     MY OLD MAN BEAT UP YOUR OLD MAN
                   NOW IT'S YOUR TURN!

The powers-that-be were not amused.

322

Crazy Uncle's supporters won't be happy? The deuce you say!!
<<<<

 

***peeks down into RNC and rolls over onto back***

 

"Paultards.  Why did it have to be Paultards?"

323 Drudge has a link: "Couric launches bitter attack at CBS News"


What the hell, I can spend a minute on some schadenfreude.


"Couric, 55, is able to criticise CBS because she has now moved to ABC, which is reportedly paying her $40m a year"


Fucking. Genius.

324 Oh I heard that Joey baby had a fund raiser on the south fork aka the hamptons over the weekend. I guess he must have landed at Islip but someone forgot to tell him that there is one road in and it always is bumper to bumper, no matter when. He was, according to what I've heard, like two hours late..maybe more and people were really pissed. Geez when you are begging for money, at least have the courtesy to show up on time....

325 The powers-that-be were not amused.


No? I think that's pretty damn funny.

326 #323  They have worked out a compromise.  As I said upthread,  it was a misguided attempt to stop Paulbot hijackings.

Instead,  anyone who votes against his committed vote on the first ballot will be deemed to have resigned and will be replaced.  Works for me.

People in Indiana didn't vote for Romney,  only to have Paulbots-in-disguise delegates vote for Crazy Uncle.  That kind of sneaky crap is unacceptable,  and it denies GOP primary voters of their voie.

327 #319 "Egyptian designer runs afoul of Saudi princess, gets 500 lashes" http://tinyurl.com/8mkhxjj

328

And now our ignorant spinster troll not-so-subtly wants you to know that she is intimately familiar with the Hamptons, being a NYC blueblood.

 

So fucking impressed, curious.

329 #332, actually the info came from my dad's friends who is a pilot.

330 And now our ignorant spinster troll not-so-subtly wants you to know that she is intimately familiar with the Hamptons, being a NYC blueblood.

So fucking impressed, curious.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2012 10:03 AM (BJWMm)

Somebody must be seriously in need of attention to repeatedly come back here and get skull f*cked pretty much every day.

331 Rasmussen's numbers seem to be a little....off ... ever since the Administration accused them of biased polling a few weeks ago. A matter of them knuckiling under or is Zero inexplicably getting more popular?

332

For those who are interested in Chicago crime and cops, the blog Second City Cop is entertaining and informative.  SSC also has Ace O'Spades linked in his/her blogroll.

 

 

333 Michelle Bachman on CNBC now/

334 ooops Bachman being interrupted by a surprise BO press conference.

335

@333

 

That's so interesting!  I was talking to MY dad this morning, too!

 

He  said that if my sister had turned out like you, he'd have sold her to a biker gang for a case of beer.

 

And he doesn't drink.

336 #339  I believe I learned a couple of years ago that there is difficulty with traffic and air travel in the Hamptons.  It was the occasion of Obama and Michelle both being there and taking two separate planes,  if I remember.

Also,  what do Mitt's "goons" do?  Do they threaten delegates with glasses of milk or something?

337 Reading an article at gateway pundit about this debacle at the R convention. Almost every commenter says "ron paul is not a tea party favorite"....it's funny actually http://tinyurl.com/8lsomek gee, if the republicans don't take the tea party seriously and the dems have already labeled them in horrific ways, then will they have their voice?

338 I think the rules change thing is a bad idea. I'd prefer Romney go into his first term planning on doing such a stellar job that things like a few rogues delegates don't matter. And, if this is about the Paulbots (which I kind of doubt), then the solution is to discredit their movement and expose their motives, not eff around with rules in such a heavy-handed way.

339 Posted by: Miss Marple at August 28, 2012 10:19 AM (GoIUi) "difficulty with traffic" is a nice way to put it...lol I used someone else's word from a comment I read from a non paulbot, tea party person Romney could lose the independents if he's viewed as a dictatorial type or worse if he's viewed as being run by the people who are supposed to work for him. Did no one in the campaign consider the optics of this? Are you not hearing from people at the convention who are not at all happy?

340 Y-not,  you can suspect what you want,  but the fact is that the Paulbots have been working on hijacking the convention for some time,  by machinations in the Western state caucuses. 

Because I am completely against this type of double-dealing with delegates,  I support the compromise.  This is not about Romney worrying about his second term.   It is about what is going on right now.

I am paying attention to this because I distinctly remember how the democrats were taken over by the leftists from 1968-1972.  The Paulbots are using a lot of that strategy.

We do not need two parties taken over by the left.  So I am glad they figured out a way to stop delegates from reneging on voting their committed vote on the first ballot.

341 Betsy McCaughey has a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has gained recognition as an expert on health-care policy, authoring a recent Encounter Books "Broadside" called The Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It. McCaughey spoke Monday at an event hosted by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, where she described her analysis of research that she says demonstrates that Obamacare "is likely to cause an estimated 40,000 unnecessary deaths each year" among hospitalized Medicare patients. Policy experts might dispute McCaughey's analysis and I lack the expertise to evaluate her research, but as soon as she described it to me in the hotel lobby, I recognized it as newsworthy. Democrats have repeatedly accused Republicans of scheming to kill old people through Medicare cuts, a tactic that included a TV ad showing Paul Ryan literally pushing an elderly woman off a cliff. Yet here was a scholarly GOP politician citing research data in support of a conclusion that is the mirror-reverse of that perception -- to summarize McCaughey's research quite bluntly, Obama's plan will kill Grandma.

342

He said that if my sister had turned out like you, he'd have sold her to a biker gang for a case of beer.

And he doesn't drink.

____

 

He  could  always  use  the  beer    for  catching  garden  slugs.

343 I see the gloryhole whore is spewing her pathetic shit as always today.  Go away you bigotted little psychopathic stalker.

344 Christie is apologizing for Romney's "birther" joke. The keynote speaker and 2016 candidate says, "I think if he had to do it over again, he wouldn't make the joke." The real source of the Demorats' outrageous outrage is that they have to defend MI and they know Obama took a hit with the Priorities USA ad. They are playing the race card to earn him sympathy. Priebus et al. needed to be prepared to defend what was fighting words on Romney's part. I just don't see how they're shocked when the MFM get together and start clucking their tongues, while Obama can scratch his finger, wipe his feet, etc. The "dignity" argument is BS. But they also should be prepared to say, "Hey, advocates for Obamacare point to Europe and say our country is lagging behind because we're not more like them. Obama has pushed for European social democratic policies, and that's what we're talking about. This election is a referendem on Obama's failed policies." How come the RNC chair can't say that? I feel bad for him. He probably didn't see Tingles going off the deep end and filling his Depends. But the national party should have been ready for a lot of butthurt from Team Obama. Chris Christie isn't helping, either. I don't like this leak that he sat out this race, because he agreed with Ann Coulter that Romney would be the nominee and lose. It sounds like he's buying his own hype, even if it didn't come from him. He should have used this interview to correct that rumor and state his support for the GOP nominee, not speak for him. When Romney wants to apologize, he'll do it himself.

345 #345, have heard Betsy speak on many local programs about this subject. She really did her homework. here's a recent video: http://tinyurl.com/9sojl6u here's her website: http://tinyurl.com/9346ls2

346

OK, 'rons and 'ronettes -  let's see if this works. . .

TodayÂ’s story concerns Paul Bern, the MGM producer responsible for the classic Grand Hotel and known as a friendly shoulder to cry on by the lovelorn women of Hollywood.

In July of 1932 Bern became the most-envied man in filmland, marrying the sensous, delicious Jean Harlow.  But only two months later, Bern was dead.  Near his body was found this note (all spelling and punctuation sic):

Dearest Dear,
Unfortuately this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation.  I Love you.
Paul
You understand that last night was only a comedy.

What on earth did this mean?  This being Hollywood, rumors started floating around almost immediately.  Bern was impotent, some said.  He was somehow sexually deformed, nodded others.  He was asexual, others insisted, noting that while he always had a beautiful woman on his arm, no stories of his bedroom prowess (or lack of) had ever come to light.  Still others insisted that the “abject humiliation” and “comedy” meant that Bern was a pervert who could only perform while engaged in some sort of B&D act, and that it was this that had horrified Harlow and in turn led to BernÂ’s suicide.

And there matters rested until 1960, when the writer Ben Hecht theorized that Bern had been murdered by some unknown woman, the suicide note and rumors all part of an MGM-arranged cover-up.  Hecht was so insistent that the LA District AttorneyÂ’s office reopened the Bern case, but soon closed it again due to lack of evidence.

Then in 1990, producer Samuel Marx – a friend of BernÂ’s – co-authored Deadly Illusions, advancing the theory that Bern had been murdered, but not by an unknown woman.  The killer, instead, was BernÂ’s common-law wife Dorothy Millette, who was known to be mentally unstable and insanely jealous, had been seen in the vicinity of BernÂ’s house shortly before his death and who herself committed suicide immediately after his death.

Hecht had been partially right, Marx said.  There had been a cover-up.  But it was Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer behind it, forging a suicide note and then launching the whispers about BernÂ’s impotence in order to avoid any scandal that might hurt HarlowÂ’s career.

Jean Harlow never spoke about Paul Bern again.  She died of renal failure in 1937.

The 2009 documentary The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter features a brief interview at the Bern house on Easton Drive in Beverly Hills.

347 Hmm.  Formatting's off.  But I've got the general idea.  Thanks, everyone, for your help.  Hope you like the story.

348 Posted by: Dr. Koop at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (e8kgV) Speaking of the infamous Ryan ad, Dennis Miller was on The Tonight Show talking about the convention. He quipped that everytime he sees that ad with Ryan pushing grandma off the cliff, he's disappointed it isn't Pelosi. Then he really rips into her and Biden.

349 350 Bern's ghost is one of the most famous hauntings in Hollywood. The house on Cielo Drive in a posh section of Benedict Canyon later belonged to the hairdresser played by Warren Beatty in Shampoo. He was a friend of Sharon Tate's, and she saw Bern's ghost warning her how she would meet her own demise.

350 I'm down with the rules change. After O'Donnell, Akin, Angle and all the nuts running in this year's primary just to sell books, it's time to rein in the crazies.

351 354 I'm down with the rules change. After O'Donnell, Akin, Angle and all the nuts running in this year's primary just to sell books, it's time to rein in the crazies. ---- How does it prevent people from running for office? And, if it does (which I don't think it does; I think it affects delegates going to the convention), why are you ok with a central organization deciding who can run in a state primary?

352 This is not about Romney worrying about his second term. It is about what is going on right now. ------ The rule takes effect in 2016.

353 “The leadership of the Republican National Committee and the Romney for President campaign has heard the concerns of the conservative grassroots voices in our party and has crafted an amendment to the Rules adopted on Friday to address these concerns,” he said in an email to Republican National Committee members.” http://tinyurl.com/8twzay7 wow, just substitute "the king" for "the leadership of the Republican National Committee and the Romney for President campaign". The words "has heard the concerns of the conservative grassroots voices in our party".....make you go there. Geez are the republicans deliberately sabotaging their own success?

354 Tattoo - I've heard that story, too.  That was Jay Sebring.

355

Posted by: cynder ella at August 28, 2012 11:09 AM (oZfic)

 

Trying to beat yourself out for "Dumbest Fucking Thing Uttered Today" again I see you pathetic psycho.

356 @127 Posted by: Countrysquire at August 28, 2012 08:02 AM (QB3JR) Thanks for posting that. I had just found it myself - glad I checked to see if someone had linked to it. I think she makes a very compelling argument against the rules change.

357 Thanks, Mary. Just googled him, and his name was originally Tom Kummer. Why would you change such an awesome porn name if you're getting that much action? Another headline, how does a ghillie suit look like a sasquatch? It's camouflage, which explains why those poor kids didn't see him till too late.

358 The old original house on Ceilo Drive was razed down to and including the foundations and a new one built. That should eliminate any ghosts from the poor unfortunate victims of Manson.

359 "There are still those in place in the GOP and on campaigns that would like to use the delegate and alternate seats as rewards for donating large checks to campaigns and the RNC." That's not to say these grassroots organizations can't act as bundlers and buy their own seat at the table. That's what they're supposed to do. Put your money where your mouth is. They've done it with money bombs. Or have they? This means the money goes to the national party instead of to gadflies and fringe candidates. It prevents outside interests from tampering with the party's nominating process.

360 That should eliminate any ghosts from the poor unfortunate victims of Manson. Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 11:33 AM (YdQQY) Earlier I mixed up the addresses. They're close to one another. Sebring was a friend and neighbor who lived in the Bern house on Easton not Cielo. Bern's ghost appeared to warn Tate, so the story goes. But yes, the house where Tate died on Cielo was razed to the ground in the 90's. Sorry for the mistake.

361
Another headline, how does a ghillie suit look like a sasquatch? It's camouflage, which explains why those poor kids didn't see him till too late.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 28, 2012 11:29 AM (i0vBR)

"C'mon Britney. That not a man in the middle of the road, it's a tree. Let's hit it!"

362 Maybe Rush is the surprise speaker, or michael savage. It better be someone really good for all the hype and mystery surrounding it emanating from the convention. Also emanating is the delegates are saying the matter of the rules change is not resolved.

363 #356  Yes,  but this delegate switching votes is being attempted right now.

I cannot help it if this "establishment" paranoia is seeping into every single damn thing that is done.  Are their people who are "establishment?"  Yes.  Some of them are actual elected officials.  And there is also an "establishment" grass roots group,  led by pot-stirrers like Mark Levin and Michelle Malkin.

The RNC people are trying to stop the Paulbots from impersonating regular Republicans.  I do not see that as persecuting grass roots people.  If the grass roots gets enough votes,  then (by the compromise) their delegates can vote the way they said they would.  I do not like any delegate switching a committed vote,  on the first vote,  to someone else based on hidden loyalties. And if Paulism is so popular,  then they will win primaries and get to vote the delegates up front.

I would not like it if any candidate, including Romney,  attempted dishonest representation of his or her intentions.  If delegates can vote for whoever they want on the first ballot,  then why are we having primaries?

364 Tropical Storm Isaac has reinforced my view that the MFM are useless. I have been following the storm mainly through the Weather Nerd and Weather Underground websites. There, I get information about wind intensity, eyewall strengthening, hurricane tracks and their relative historical accuracy, how low pressure troughs are steering the storm... all useful and interesting information. Whereas, when I see the storm covered on the news networks, the story is reduced to where is it going to hit? Do you think it will be a disaster (oh please! oh please!) Hey, it's gonna hit New Orleans, wow just like Katrina? Remember Katrina? Boy, George W. Bush really sucked after Katrina. BTW, the Republicans are holding their convention during a hurricane, isn't that sort of callous? Doesn't it sort of remind of you George W. Bush?

365 "C'mon Britney. That not a man in the middle of the road, it's a tree. Let's hit it!" Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2012 11:51 AM (TIIx5) No, but seriously, if the guy was on the shoulder of the road then jumped out, he wouldn't look like a tree. It's such a bizarre story, and it sounds suspiciously like click-farming from the media.

366

Mary Poppins,
I really enjoy your stories, so thank you. You and Vic make this such a nice way to start the day. I have a request. could you do a story on either Clark Gable or Ronald Coleman? Those are my faves! thanks!

 

Chilling, I don't know if you'll read this far.  I don't know any Colman stories, but I do know a couple of Gables.  I'll post them tomorrow.

367 56 And why do they call it "The Bay Bridge". The Bay Bridge is the one that connects Oakland to San Francisco.

Sorry Vic. I'll give you the bridge, since theirs predates ours, but Baltimore has been the city by the bay since long before San Fran was a gleam in a choomin' hippie's eye.

368 367 #356 Yes, but this delegate switching votes is being attempted right now. I cannot help it if this "establishment" paranoia is seeping into every single damn thing that is done. -- I never used the word Establishment or alluded to it. I really think you should skip reading my posts and I will do the same.

369 The cool thing about Isaac is it formed around the time of Isaac Hayes birthday and death. He died a week shy of his 55th birthday in 2008. It's totally his spirit riding the wild winds and stirring up dispersed oil sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. His salty chocolate tar balls will wash up all along the southern shores.

370

Speaking of the Tate house - in the Manson documentary I mentioned above, the narrator takes us up to the gates and notes that only the telephone pole which Tex Watson climbed to cut the wires remained of the original layout.

 

That was in 2009.  As of now, the pole is gone.  Nothing remains of the original 10050 Cielo Drive property.  Even the address has been changed, to frustrate curiosity seekers.

371 MPPPP, you are the bomb. Keep up the good work with the Hollywood stories. If you have anything good about Lee Marvin (whooping hippie ass, maybe?), that would be great LOL.

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