Posted by: Vic at August 29, 2012 06:54 AM (YdQQY)

    The first 6 words were the most crucial in the story.  This was an entirely preventable thing, had proper justice been meted out to the slime.  But no - the US is committed to the slap-on-the-wrist style of justice the libtards have saddled us with.  So, we have this kind of thing. 

   Our failure to dole out harsh (meaning fair) justice is killing this country.  The only thing keeping crime from getting even worse is the fact that the main producers of new criminals have aborted so many of their own babies. 

   As far as I'm concerned, we only need 3 types of punishment.  1.  Executions.  2.  Public lashing/humiliation.  3.  Fines/economic penalties.  This last one includes selling people into indentured servitude if they commit property crimes too great for them to repay.  Instead we have the joke of prisons - where we send unskilled thugs to receive training in how to become career criminals, and insure that they go from social misfits to full-on psychopaths.

Damn damn these text walls...  And no - notepad doesn't always help.

Posted by: Reactionary at August 29, 2012 07:10 AM (xUM1Q)

It does if you use hard returns (twice)

My dad always told me, there is no power greater. Men have died wars have been faught and kingdoms fallin but for a whiff of what could be.
 
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 29, 2012 07:07 AM (9TTOe)
 

Indeed.  My father spoke of men in his unit in Viet Nam who would sneak out of camp at night (this was near the border with the North) and crawl through Cong infested jungle to the nearest villiage to get some action.  Insane!

Sometimes I think we'd be better off with eunuchs running the place.  They'd have no less testosterone than most of our current politicians, and they might have the fog of lust lifted.  Any time you let women get their hands on the levers of power, there's a 80%+ chance that things are going to wind up f**ked.

Posted by: Exile at August 29, 2012 07:06 AM (2VmZ2)

    It's all about emotion.  People are committed to the absurd notion that N.O. is a city worthy of preservation.  The history of the place is one of bad compromises couple with shocking corruption.  We'd be better off if the place were bulldozed into the gulf.  But no - it will not be so.  Instead, in order to pacify the natives, a large portion of whom have no clue that there is a world outside their cesspool slum, we keep trying to shore up that lost cause. 

   If it were up to me, nature would simply be allowed to take its course.

A look at the Repubs in Congress should tell you that you got your wish.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2012 07:16 AM (wZI4b)

Well, would you deny that even these pukes, had they ever got any real working majority, would still be a million times better than what we've suffered under for the last several decades?  The Reps haven't had a working legislative majority since, what - Woodrow Wilson's day?

   And, of course - there's a reason for that.  The end of the US, and civilization itself, began in 1920.

It's been a long time since I've lived there, but since Katrina, do NOLA residents still joke about it being fucked if a Cat 3 or stronger rolls in?

It used to be a rather surreal  badge of pride.  I imagine it's a source of sphincter puckering these days, but you never know with some NOLA residents.  The stupid is strong down there.

A bad cold is a helluva lot better than malaria, too.

 
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 29, 2012 07:26 AM (wZI4b)

True enough.  But until the eschaton comes, I've accepted that choosing men to govern us is always a choice of evils.  Which will do less harm?  Choose that one. 

you never know with some NOLA residents. The stupid is strong down there.
 
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2012 07:31 AM (eoedh)

   Time to let natural selection do its cleansing work.  If they want to wash out to sea, let them.

Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.  Thanks, everyone, for your help yesterday.  If you missed it, I finally did manage to post a story about the ‘suicideÂ’ of Jean HarlowÂ’s husband, Paul Bern, somewhere towards the end of yesterdayÂ’s morning headline thread.

I got requests for stories about Clark Gable, Ronald Colman and Lee Marvin.  I donÂ’t know any Colmans – though I will look for some – but hereÂ’s one Gable, one co-starring Lee Marvin and one special guest star.  First up:

Clark Gable:  The “King” got his MGM contract on the strength of his performance in 1931Â’s The Secret Six, where he co-starred with Harlow, Wallace Beery* and Robert Bellamy.  One night, Bellamy was eating in a Hollywood restaurant when Gable walked by and asked to join him.  They ate and chatted for a while, when Gable finally asked, “What do you think of this thing out here?”

“I donÂ’t know,” Bellamy responded.  “IÂ’ve just come out.  Secret Six is the first thing IÂ’ve done."

“I just got here, too,” Gable laughed, “and already they paid me eleven thousand dollars to be in a Bill Boyd Western.  Eleven thousand!  No actorÂ’s worth that!”  He paused for a while, then leaned across the table.  “I got myself a room at the Castle Argyle over on Vine Street.  And I bought a second-hand Ford,” he confessed.  “But IÂ’m not buying anything you canÂ’t put on the Santa Fe Chief because this isnÂ’t going to last.”

Our next story co-stars Lee Marvin:

Once while driving together, Marvin and Gary Cooper stopped for gas.  Cooper gave the attendant a ten dollar check to pay for it.  “IÂ’m going to frame this!” the attendant exclaimed.

A few miles down the road, Marvin asked, “How many of your checks ever come back to the bank?”

A few miles more and Cooper answered, “About one in ten.”

And introducing our special guest star,

Jimmy Durante:  For one episode of his TV show, DuranteÂ’s guest was the divinely cold Greer Garson, and Durante was on pins and needles making sure everyone treated her properly.  “Youse guys, remember dat sheÂ’s a poifect lady!” he warned them.

So Garson arrived, to due respect, and she and Durante began rehearsing.  “Foist I say dis and dat gets a laugh,” Durante instructed.  “Den you say dis, and dat gets a laugh.”

“But what if they don’t laugh?” asked Garson.

“Den we both go down the terlet,” Durante sighed.

And thatÂ’s it for today.  Feel free to ask me for stories about your fave-rave Golden Age stars and IÂ’ll do my best.  But now that I know how to post longer stories, IÂ’m preempting this Friday for me; that will be my promised kid-who-could-have-slept-with-Jean-Harlow story.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

*Beery was a nasty, dirty, drunk asshole who routinely hurt people (he's long been considered the man who beat former Stooge leader Ted Healy to death).  For fun, he raped Gloria Swanson on their wedding night.  Charming fella.

THE TOP TEN MOST DEPRESSING STATES ..according to Health that is published by TimeInc. NY,NY  (who wants to be there are no left coast states or northeastern states on the list)

1. Arkansas....2. Indiana....3.Kentucky....4.Michigan....5.Mississippi (you just know poor old Mississippi HAD to be on the list)....6.Missouri....7. Nevada

8. Oklahoma....9. Tennessee....10. West Virginia

Vic says these lists are pure shit.  I agree.  Pure left-wing crap.  They only put Michigan on the list because EVERYBODY knows that state is hurting.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 29, 2012 07:05 AM (9TTOe)

Why is it that the more addled and deeper in the bag that Nooner gets, the more these fuckheads like Ailes give her opportunities to make a complete ass out of herself.  It's like Bizarro World Sunset Boulevard.  On Morning Schmoe she's like Meeka's insane alkie mother coming on the set to make sure her daughter put on underwear.

What about revolvers?  You take your brass with you when you murder someone with a wheelgun.

Fucking retards.

My impression was Americans not having to work so hard against a government that's making things difficult for them. Not in a daddy gov't sense.

 
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 29, 2012 07:53 AM (lTVJy)

Agreed.  And even if she DID mean to pander to the lazy, so be it.  Anything that keeps Choomer's voters home, ours getting to the polls, and the stupid f**king Indies swinging our way is a good thing.  And making politics seem like pushing the "easy" button helps with Indie morons.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at August 29, 2012 07:54 AM (hO8IJ)

Yes but your reason for IN being "bad" is vastly different than the reason these stupid top 10 lists use.  Normally with the MFM any State that is heavy into socialistic policies is always at the top of the lists and the States that are least socialistic are at the bottom.

That is unless the State is in the South, and then it doesn't matter what they are they are automatically at the bottom.

On phrase- "I LOVE YOU WOMEN.' Seriously? I liked her and most of her speech but the GRRL Power bit was grating.

 
Posted by: typo dynamofo at August 29, 2012 07:54 AM (23Rnf)

No doubt that was an effort to counterattack against the "war on women" meme.

What about revolvers? You take your brass with you when you murder someone with a wheelgun.

Fucking retards.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 29, 2012 07:55 AM (JDIKC)

    Just remember - it has nothing to do with making sense or solving a problem.  It's all about either A) emotion or B) gradually taking away peoples' rights.

Posted by: Reactionary at August 29, 2012 08:00 AM (xUM1Q)

OR adding expense as I said before.

Is it a dark and foreboding place?

 
Posted by: General Woundwort at August 29, 2012 07:59 AM (06lNq)

I dunno if it's "dark and foreboding" but I'll tell you one thing - it's as flat as Rachel Corrie.  Boring to drive through, that's for sure. 

OR adding expense as I said before.

Posted by: Vic at August 29, 2012 08:02 AM (YdQQY)

True - but usually that added cost is for the purpose of, in effect, taking away peoples' rights.

I wouldn't trust anyone who want special privileges for his ancestral group.

Posted by: epobirs at August 29, 2012 08:03 AM (kcfmt)

There was a time when I'd have disagreed with you re the Anglo Saxons and other Northwestern Europeans.  But that time is passed, and I now agree without reservation.

However, I'll also say that some folk should be kept out totally, and perpetually, and at the top of that list are the muz.

Indiana is flat, boring and the wind blows 24/7/365.
 
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 29, 2012 08:06 AM (tOkJB)

Except where all those damnable wind farms are.  I drive by those things and most are usually sitting there doing nothing.

#98 I love your stories!

Might I recommend, if you can find it, David Niven's autobiography The Moon's a Balloon[/]. Wonderful stories of the Golden Age.

Thanks, MM.  Always nice to be appreciated.  I do have the Niven, also his follow-up, Bring On The Empty Horses.

I recommend to you Tony Randall's wonderful collection of stories, That Reminds Me.

Jeff, don't forget the splooge. I've been watching a lot of cop shows on tv, and the killer almost always beats off on everything before fleeing the scene. Still haven't worked out the 'why' part....
<<<<<<<

Because it feels good and releases a lot of pent up emotion and tension that is heightened during a kill.

I suppose.

Posted by: Vic at August 29, 2012 07:58 AM (YdQQY)

Said something nice about Goober Graham and stepped on your lawn?

Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at August 29, 2012 08:10 AM (IWMp1)

Nah she supported some laws that her predecessor had vetoed and were repassed. One of those I thought was really bad that allowed police to come on private property to make arrests for children driving ATVs.

Said Santorum the only one that brought up Barky's ruling by fiat and Constitution-destroyin'. He's also down on Christie's...says he can't remember a thing he said.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 29, 2012 08:12 AM (lTVJy)

Meh.  The average indie puke doesn't care about the Choomer's lawlessness any more than they cared about the murdering shitbag Clinton.  They want a soft, warm, economically prosperous cocoon.  Anything more than than and they get scared.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 29, 2012 07:05 AM (9TTOe

!!  Were Megyns's knuckles swollen?

No offense. But is anyone else curious why a Category 1 storm is "threatening" New Orleans?

This.   It's like people    forget that hurricanes    are a fact of life in the Gulf, and    Katrina was not the first (nor will it be the last) to hit New Orleans.  Good grief. 

Oh, and morning, all!   I missed the convention last night, so I'm hoping to catch the speeches online.   How was Chris Christie's?  

Gary, Indiana is a cesspool. It's like Detroit without any major league teams.

Posted by: Sigh at August 29, 2012 08:19 AM (QTVh2)

   And it even smells worse than Detroit. 

My youngest - the twins - turn six years old today.  They start  first grade next week.  Gotta tell ya,  it's sad to realize you don't have babies anymore.

Can't wait til they get home.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 29, 2012 08:12 AM (lTVJy)

Then he wasn't paying very close attention. It was a good speech, just not the speech most expected (hoped for) from him. I'd have liked to have heard the sound of Barky getting new bodily orifaces ripped in him last night, too, but last night was about giving independents, conservative Dems and squishy Republicans an excuse to not vote for Obama this time, and not scare them off by unleashing the full industrial strength Chris Christie.

Posted by: Vic at August 29, 2012 08:01 AM (YdQQY)

Have lived here since 1968. Parents thought raising kids in Chicago in the middle of race riots was not health-concious....

Our fields, lakes and streams are full of fish and game. (everyone is welcomed to visit in October and help themselves to any critters you find on the roads) Schools in my part are not stark-raving mad liberal love shacks. Government and police are not in your face, at least not out in the rural areas. South Bend / Mishawaka and of course Indy are covens for libs, but not to the extent that the LGU's can pass teh stoopid laws like in NY. All in all we like Indiana. Close enough to Chicago for the museums, lake Michigan is close for a swim, and we have quite a few parks and natural places.

The fact that Hillary will be skipping her first Dem convention since 19-frickin-68 says something about just how fricking     long she's been around.       Just for perspective,    Paul Ryan wasn't even     born    until     1970.    By     2016, Hillary's going to be a hagfaced old prune.   

...Well, okay, MORE of a hagfaced old prune.  

let's just say she won't be that appealing to the "young, hip" Democratic voters    who respond to pretty people and nauseating pandering.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 29, 2012 08:21 AM (32do

They did joke about Juan being gone but that they didn't kick him off....they just brought in Noonan to comment on the speeches because she's 'a professional speech writer'.  I'd call her something else......

Morning all.....

"Gary, Indiana is a cesspool."

We don't claim it. It's part of Chicago as far as Hoosiers are concerned....

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 29, 2012 08:24 AM (8y9MW)

Ah yes, of course.   Because, see, Dubya and Darth Cheney HATE black people.    Or something.

Absolutely ridiculous.   The media need to be dragged out to the woodshed and shot repeatedly.  

My youngest - the twins - turn six years old today. They start first grade next week. Gotta tell ya, it's sad to realize you don't have babies anymore.[.i]

6!  Your youngest are six... What happened to your Pez Dispenser? 

Did you forget to load it or are you just too old to get it working anymore?

We're counting on your army of progeny to keep us in dick jokes well into the end of the century.

>>How was Chris Christie's?

Great. I never, ever listen to actual speeches by politicians...but Christie, Ann Romney, Nikki Haley, etc. were awesome.

Posted by: General Woundwort at August 29, 2012 08:26 AM (06lNq)

Roger Ailes wants to keep those party invitations coming in

Posted by: kelley in virginia at August 29, 2012 08:17 AM (p3a8+)

I thought Hillary was scheduled to be doing diplomat stuff in Mali or Mozambique or something, and  this trip was scheduled months before Bidocles nutted up.

"Okay, apparently I missed it: what did Juan Williams say? This time."

Ann can't relate to the common woman, she's a corporate wife....blah, blah, blah.

Maine really is a lovely state, so long as you travel along the coast or make your way into the wooded areas to the north and east.   Central Maine is... well... *searching for word*    an    eyesore.    And I say that with fondness, because most of New England is lovely, but every state has it's "eyesore" regions where the mills and manufacturing drove the economy in the early industrial era.  It's just that Maine's never really rehabbed those areas.   At least, not that I've seen.   But I leave it to our resident Mainers to set me straight.

Provided they can talk through their missing teeth.

(KIDDING!)

>>MSNBC cut off coverage of the convention every time a minority Republican gave a speech

Should be "all-white MSNBC..."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 29, 2012 08:34 AM (8y9MW)

Yes,    but with caveats.    Those caveats being that the solons in the media would get to keep their cushy jobs and penthouse apartments.

I listened to Ann's speech on the radio. The female hosting the broadcast declared it a "stunning success". Another reporter opined that they had just witnessed the "birth of a political superstar." Was this on Salem network, or Fox News radio?

It was NPR.

So NPR fucks Juan Wiilliams, yet again.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 29, 2012 08:37 AM (EAk6R)

The Atlantic a hotbed of liberals?   You should see the Pacific!

*ba-dum-bum!*

...I'll see myself out.

So he called her a "typical corporate wife".

I'm not sure I understand why that's so bad.

____

Nor do the white collar professional voters in the all important Philly burb counties.

Posted by: Golan Globus at August 29, 2012 08:35 AM (/1U3u)

And MS.  I really don't get the MFM and donk's strategy on attacking a woman who has held up so well through major medical problems.  Forget the "war on women" horseshit; this is a war on good taste and common sense.  Those stupid fucks are getting so rolled in November.  I can't wait to vote against every fucking one of them.

>>No offense. But is anyone else curious why a Category 1 storm is "threatening" New Orleans?

Well, it is really big and moving very slowly, so it is worse and a quick little Cat. 1 would be.

In case you missed it yesterday pm, here's the pic of GIGANTIC HORROR STORM DAMAGE at my house so far:

http://tinyurl.com/9xmgvxr

Looks like the rain will start this afternoon.

@garrett

Pigpen and The Barnacle were a very high-risk pregnancy.  Wife was on nearest for 7.5 months of it.   If we could have more, we would. 

When  The Man tells you to stop, you stop.

And thanks for  asking after my pecker. I don't turn  40 for a few  months yet, so it's still on "constant ping."

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 29, 2012 08:40 AM (SUKHu)

That's horrible. We need FEMA trailers for wildlife.

EoJ,    happy birthday to your twins!  

I expect your ensuing not-quite-but-sorta empty nest syndrome will lead to more frequent updates on your blog.   

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 29, 2012 08:40 AM (SUKHu)

OMG!  You poor thing.  I'm going to direct my Red Cross donation directly to you.

Hang in there!

Posted by: no good deed at August 29, 2012 08:41 AM (mjR67)

Roker was reporting last nite with a liquor store in the background. People were casually driving up, strolling inside and puchasing teh booze while Roker was trying to appear that the storm was knocking him off ballance!

And thanks for asking after my pecker.

Hey, no worries.  Just trying to keep tabs on the master race.

I do love that pic.

Of course, the nest actually fell out a few days ago, but I just had to go all MSM crazy when my youngest put the bird in there yesterday.

Mama    AJ, I can't access Flickr where I am, but I suspect your GIGANTIC HORROR storm damage must be absolutely DREADFUL judging by the reactions of other 'rons and 'ronettes.   Please know that I'll be donating my entire next paycheck directly to your relief fund.   

But seriously, do keep safe!   And here's hoping old Isaac speeds up so y'all don't     float away.

Gas price check?

gas went up 6 cents from Monday to Tuesday to 3.71

As of this morning, gas in   my little section of NH is at $3.73.   It was still $3.69 as of Sunday, so that's four cents in as many days.    What will tomorrow bring, boys and girls?

>>gas went up 6 cents from Monday to Tuesday to 3.71

I paid 3.17 here on Monday.  Safeway gives .10/gal discounts for every 100 you spend on groceries.  Only, now, they are limiting you to 25 ga. per fill up.  Which is new. 

...and it kinda sucks as my tank is 34 gal.

>>that's "bed rest."

Yeh, I translated.

It's funny how, with the rise of auto-correct, our comprehension has to now rely on not just translating mis-spellings, but wrong words. My actual spelling is better on my phone because it eats my mistakes...word choice, on the other hand...

Posted by: Vic at August 29, 2012 06:53 AM (YdQQY)

If the news doesn't fit the MFM's narrative. It's time to edit the news. What's frightening is that anyone is dumb enough to buy into that BS

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2012 08:49 AM (PH+u

Gas in the Chicago area went up 20 cents yesterday afternoon. It's about $4.25 in the burbs and $4.50 in the city

>>But seriously, do keep safe!

Thank you. We'll be staying home tomorrow and hoping the power stays on. I doubt it will, and we're prepared for it to be off.

(and the pic is a tiny nest that fell out of a tree with a tiny blue Angry Bird in it)

Thanks, DB.

Mia Love, maybe, ontherocks? I missed her, but know she spoke.

Posted by: ontherocks at August 29, 2012 09:01 AM (aZ6ew)

Mia Love.....from Utah.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 29, 2012 09:04 AM (VtjlW)

I was in a bar one time after a rough couple days, asked the bartender for a Southern Comfort. His response, "Uhhh...what do you want with it?" I stared at him for a second and then said, "A glass. Maybe a few ice cubes."

So here is your bottle, with a glass and a few ice cubes. Enjoy.

>>On a side note, the FEMA guy they talked to didn't mention SCOAMF once but mentioned the great work Jindal has been doing in preparing for this a couple of times.

When the MFM starts in on how Gov. Bobby spent too much money, made people leave their homes for no reason, etc., that's when I'll be reaching for the Valu-Rite.

Thanks, and I agree with that completely.

Very interesting article and response about Michigan polls.

Nate Silver at the NY Times wrote an article cutting down two recent polls out of Foster McCollum White Baydoun and Mitchell Research, which showed Mitt Romney well ahead of Obama.  Nate complained that the weighting was flawed (something he never questions in Obama-friendly polls), saying there was too few blacks and young voters used.

 Eric Foster, President of Foster McCollum White & Associates, replies in the comment section explaining how the numbers were established.  Steve Mitchell, president of Mitchell Research, defended his numbers to Silver also.  Both Mitchell and Foster have excellent records and specialize in Michigan polling.

Nate seems to think the fast and dirty PPP polls of adults are fine to accept at face value, but serious likely voter surveys by experts in the state are "outliers".

Also Megyn Kelly looks like she has lost too much weight. I am worried about her.

Well, perhaps an upstanding citizen like yourself could offer the poor girl a little protein, IYKWIM.

Posted by: VW Zao at August 29, 2012 06:58 AM (vWZa0)

I'm wondering if there's a coming collapse

--

Yes, it is called the fiscal cliff.  We haven't had a federal budget in 4 years, and nobody knows what the tax rates are going to be in four months.

Posted by: elizabethe at August 29, 2012 08:53 AM (9MyQd)

Tell me.  I grew up in Crown Point, IN.  I left for Oklahoma and never looked back.

Posted by: epobirs at August 29, 2012 09:20 AM (kcfmt)

Oooh, that makes me happy.  I simply loathe Brazile and her race pimping.  I would love to see all the major Dim operative reduced to fighting over the consultancy jobs needed in Black Only Congressional Districts.