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July 19, 2012

Top Ten Pieces of Bad Economic News The Media Isn't Covering
— Ace

As Nolte allows, each of his links goes to a media piece -- so they are mentioning it. But there's a big difference between mentioning a fact and pushing it as a Matter of National Conversation, and right now the media is too busy pushing Bain attacks to note we seem to be accelerating in our fall into a recession, or a confirmed depression.

Among the worst of the tea leaves: Mid-Atlantic manufacturing activity contracted again, the Conference Board's leading economic indicators dropped .3% (same link), and US home sales dropped 5.4% to the lowest level since October. On the confidence front, 63% of the country erroneously believes we're in a recesssion (we're in a depression).

Obama has, incidentally, logged more hours playing golf than attending economic meetings.

Green Shoots

You're gonna want to hit the ball hard and sharp. They haven't mowed the green in a week, so the long blades will bring a lot of drag to your putt.

Posted by: Ace at 08:51 AM | Comments (169)
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1 That business? You didn't build it. And apparently, neither did anyone else.

Posted by: Barky O'Dogeater at July 19, 2012 08:56 AM (QKKT0)

2 You're taking Obama's rounds of golf out of context!!!!

Posted by: Y-not channels "those people" at July 19, 2012 08:58 AM (5H6zj)

3 >>Obama has, incidentally, logged more hours playing golf than attending economic meetings.

Imagine how much worse things would be if he'd gone to more meetings. *shudder*

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 19, 2012 08:58 AM (ZKzrr)

4 This post is racist.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2012 08:59 AM (sbV1u)

5 Barak Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Max Power at July 19, 2012 08:59 AM (q177U)

6 When did Gabe let this Ace fellow guest post?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 08:59 AM (kqqGm)

7 You didn't build that golf course!

Posted by: I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore at July 19, 2012 09:00 AM (OJhbe)

Once again.... its even worse than this...

If you take deficit spending out of the GDP numbers, we have been in a Depresion since 2008.

If you use as the baseline, the % of people working in 2008, unemployment is WELL above 10.7%.

Yet NEITHER party has an interest in telling people just how bad it really is... they let the Jerrymandered numbers be the talking point...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2012 09:00 AM (lZBBB)

9 Now, I'm all up for dipping my junk in some jello pudding. But does it have to a cup? Some of us require the roominess of a bowl.

Posted by: Big McLargehuge at July 19, 2012 09:01 AM (HfQMH)

10 Nothing to see here. Move along.

Posted by: Your MSM Betters at July 19, 2012 09:01 AM (O7Q1u)

11 Obama tells us not to worry about letting the W tax rate cuts expire for the wealthy and we can believe him because obviously he, Reid, and Pelosi know everything there is to know about economics. Just look at their history.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 09:01 AM (Hx5uv)

12 Obama has, incidentally, logged more hours playing golf than attending economic meetings.

The President has a dangerous deficiency in shift and a complete absence of feck.

Posted by: Cicero at July 19, 2012 09:01 AM (QKKT0)

Hi Monty!

I was reading something that the money for the student loan interest thingy (technical term) is coming from the pension benefit guarantee fund. Yeah. I see no possible way that any of that is going to go wrong.

So how's the Baltic Dry Index?

I mention this because it's the only thing I know that makes it sound like I know what I'm talking about when it comes to this kind of stuff.

Posted by: alexthechick SMOD. Our only hope. at July 19, 2012 09:01 AM (VtjlW)

14 hey scoamf, did you pay your own green fees?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at July 19, 2012 09:02 AM (NZF8l)

15 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans bought fewer homes in June than May, indicating the weak economy could make a modest housing recovery choppy.

Sales are up 4.5 percent from a year ago, evidence that the market is still recovering. But the annual sales pace is below the 6 million that economists consider healthy.

And when they do cover it, they spin the shit out of it. Modest housing recovery?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 19, 2012 09:02 AM (1Jaio)

16 Last night, I was listening to Mark Levin, and he mentioned that one of the Dem Operatives (a female, can't remember who) actually admitted in a conversation about expanded welfare benefits, that the actual numbers are much higher because of all the people that dropped off the unemployment rolls who still did not have jobs.

Love it when they accidentally tell the truth.

Posted by: shibumi at July 19, 2012 09:03 AM (z63Tr)

17 Mid-Atlantic manufacturing activity didn't contract by itself.

The Conference Board's leading economic indicators didn't dropped .3% by itself.

US home sales didn't dropped 5.4% by itself.

SOMEBODY ELSE DID IT!

_{I wonder who did that?}

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 09:03 AM (kqqGm)

18 Green fees? You didn't print that money!

Posted by: I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore at July 19, 2012 09:04 AM (OJhbe)

19 What's the html for subscript, morons?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 09:04 AM (kqqGm)

20 >>because obviously he, Reid, and Pelosi know everything there is to know about economics. Just look at their history.

Look at their bank accounts.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 19, 2012 09:04 AM (ZKzrr)

21

And when they do cover it, they spin the shit out of it. Modest housing recovery?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 19, 2012 01:02 PM (1Jaio)

We have always been at war with EastAsia....

Posted by: Oldcat at July 19, 2012 09:04 AM (z1N6a)

22 What's the html for subscript, morons? Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 01:04 PM (kqqGm)

Can't use that one here.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2012 09:05 AM (sbV1u)

23 Imagine how much worse things would be if he'd gone to more meetings. *shudder*

Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ at July 19, 2012 12:58 PM (ZKzrr)

Exactly - I have trouble getting riled up about the vacations. I wish he had started one on Jan 21 2009 and had never come back.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 19, 2012 09:06 AM (z1N6a)

24 What's the html for subscript, morons? Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 01:04 PM (kqqGm)Can't use that one here.

Odds Bodkins!

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 09:06 AM (kqqGm)

19 What's the html for subscript, morons?

We're no longer allowed to have nice things.

Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 09:06 AM (MbB0O)

26 Corporate jets? Who built them and why?

Posted by: I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore at July 19, 2012 09:06 AM (OJhbe)

19 What's the html for subscript, morons? Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 01:04 PM (kqqGm)

Don't think there is one.

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:06 AM (UZQM8)

28 neither does quote work oh well

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:07 AM (UZQM8)

29 And when they do cover it, they spin the shit out of it. Modest housing recovery?

Modest, because they're not calling it the BEST HOUSING RECOVERY EVARRRRR.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 19, 2012 09:07 AM (MA63c)

30 9. Some of us need bathtubs Yeah That's right

Posted by: navycopjoe at July 19, 2012 09:07 AM (SeqiN)

31 US home sales dropped 5.4% to the lowest level since October.

But we've been assured weekly on every metro paper that housing is going up, up, up!!! ...

Lawyers would be able to partially redeem their profession if they were to figure out how to sue journalists for malpractice.

Partially. Like a reprieve. Not commuting the sentence or anything.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 19, 2012 09:08 AM (mIoJ0)

32 19What's the html for subscript, morons? We're no longer allowed to have nice things. Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 01:06 PM (MbB0O) This too

You didn't abuse the bbc, someone else did that.

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:08 AM (UZQM8)

33 as we all know, losing your job, your home, your credit rating is somehow racists to point out.

Posted by: willow at July 19, 2012 09:08 AM (TomZ9)

34 I'm sure Greg will be along any minute to tell how all these bits of information are outliers.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2012 09:08 AM (sbV1u)

35 Barry, you didn't write those books. Somebody else did.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 19, 2012 09:08 AM (1Jaio)

36 And this here is how you can tell that the MFM's attempts to hide the truth from the voters is failing:

6. Consumer confidence dipped to 84.7.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2012 09:08 AM (Ku0Zr)

The reason he spends so much time on the golf course is he sucks at golf. Takes a lot longer when you take a ton more shots. He also sucks at throwing a baseball, bowling and riding a bike.

You should also compare the amount of time he spends at fundraisers. That number has to be through the roof.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at July 19, 2012 09:09 AM (C2//T)

If you added up how many people are on Food Stamps and have those EBT cards.....I bet it is a larger portion of the population than 'people in food lines', back in the 'Great Depression'.

Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 09:09 AM (MbB0O)

39 Carbon dioxide. You didn't exhale that!

Posted by: I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore at July 19, 2012 09:09 AM (OJhbe)

40 6. Consumer confidence dipped to 84.7. Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2012 01:08 PM (Ku0Zr) Speaking of dipping... pudding anyone?

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:09 AM (UZQM8)

41 Dem officials bought new homes in 2012, a recovery is happening!

Posted by: willow at July 19, 2012 09:09 AM (TomZ9)

42 Spain has recovered economic doom. Michelle Obama went shopping while on vacation there!

Posted by: willow at July 19, 2012 09:10 AM (TomZ9)

43 Sure, there's HTML for subscript. Now let's see if it works on this site: H2O with the 2 properly subscripted would be H2O. Did that work?

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at July 19, 2012 09:10 AM (IEmXK)

44 What's the html for subscript, morons?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 01:04 PM (kqqGm)

Homey don't play that game

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 19, 2012 09:11 AM (mFxQX)

45 He also sucks at throwing a baseball, bowling and riding a bike. Posted by: AndrewsDad at July 19, 2012 01:09 PM (C2//T

and economics...
and fashion...
and humility....
and NCAA Bracketology....
and interpersonal relationships...

Jump in anytime folks....

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 19, 2012 09:11 AM (sbV1u)

48.6 million americans now able to eat steak!

thank you ebt cards! recovery !

Posted by: willow at July 19, 2012 09:11 AM (TomZ9)

47 Guess not. But you can see the HTML - or at least I can. Who knows what anyone else can see on a different browser.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at July 19, 2012 09:11 AM (IEmXK)

48 Sure, there's HTML for subscript. Now let's see if it works on this site: H2O with the 2 properly subscripted would be H2O. Did that work?

Isn't that I did in my earlier post? Nice observation, Holmes.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 09:12 AM (kqqGm)

49 37. You know, if the JEF can't improve his golf game....wtf makes people think he can fix the economy?

Posted by: navycopjoe at July 19, 2012 09:12 AM (SeqiN)

50 The government built the roads, people. The roads.

See, road-building justifies anything and everything the government does or can do to you.

Start a successful business? You didn't build that. It was the government that built the roads, after all.

In fact, by building even a single road, it means that we are all effectively the government's children, and are no more responsible for the results of our own actions than a 5 year-old is.

See? Behold the power of road-building.

Posted by: Phinn at July 19, 2012 09:12 AM (KNtHw)

51 At some point, you've made enough money.

Posted by: Barry O. at July 19, 2012 09:12 AM (tQHzJ)

52 Re the housing market, follow the links: @JasonBWhitman Housing inventory is now far below 2005 levels: http://t.co/zTvNsOLH via @TheStalwart We are fortunate that our local housing market really does seem to be rebounding a bit. But we are in the fastest-growing county in Utah and we have an influx of jobs coming into our area.

Posted by: Y-not channels at July 19, 2012 09:13 AM (5H6zj)

53 This is not the US economy but it's hysterically funny because no one wants to do the math really, once you get up to those trillions:

"A certificate of debt, found in a regional archive, attests that
Mittenwalde lent Berlin 400 guilders on May 28 1562, to be repaid with
six percent interest per year.

According to Radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), the debt would amount
to 11,200 guilders today, which is roughly equivalent to 112 million euros ($136.79 million).

Adjusting for compound interest and inflation, the total debt now lies in the trillions, by RBB's estimates." http://tiny.cc/l77ohw

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 09:13 AM (oZfic)

I was half asleep and heard a blub about.....

"Obama administration is going to start giving Food Stamps to Mexicans"

...."in Mexico".

Please tell me this isn't true.

Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 09:13 AM (MbB0O)

55 Quick OT: Report: Burgas bomber an Algerian-Swedish Islamist News outlets in Bulgaria name suspected terrorist who blew up Israeli tour bus as Mehdi Ghezali, who spent two years in Guantanamo Bay; security camera footage shows suspected bomber wandering in and out of terminal Ynet Published: 07.19.12, 19:28 / Israel News Bulgarian media named the suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Burgas airport on Wednesday as Mehdi Ghezali, an Algerian-Swedish Islamist who spent two years in Guantanamo Bay. Yeah lets release those scum. That's the ticket. ( if it were up to me I'd release them all, just like the Argentinian Military did do their prisoners in the Atlantic)

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 09:14 AM (05RcU)

What's the html for subscript, morons?

We may never ever have one again.

Posted by: Pixy's Great Depression/The Roots of Ace's Rage at July 19, 2012 09:14 AM (tQHzJ)

57 So if I build my business on a coast, and use ships to move my products, do I get to claim ownership of the business?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2012 09:15 AM (Ku0Zr)

58 Suddenly, after three and a half years, I appreciate the term "green jobs," as I picture a tubby guy in an apron holding the flagstick for a presidential putt.

Someone also needs to catch Bill Clinton in one of his great nonalcoholic, drunken moments of candor on the topic of presidential golf. It was one of his favorite activities too, but the running commentary for him was that he cheats more than Elihu Smails. I'll bet he has a few thoughts to share.

Posted by: Jack Sunday at July 19, 2012 09:16 AM (bSdea)

59 H₂O

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 19, 2012 09:16 AM (RD7QR)

60 oh look the gender identity confused catpiss troll has a new nic!!!! hi there troll!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at July 19, 2012 09:16 AM (NZF8l)

61 Obama is such an under-achiever he can't even do Fore! play right.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2012 09:16 AM (hbrUV)

62 What's the html for subscript, morons?
We may never ever have one again.

And we never will until Ace starts reading the comments like I did.

Posted by: Zombie Andrew Breitbart at July 19, 2012 09:16 AM (kqqGm)

63 Posted by: Dr. Weevil at July 19, 2012 01:10 PM (IEmXK) BBC code and its at the discretion of the moderators.

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:16 AM (UZQM8)

64 Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 01:14 PM (05RcU)

What? It's not the "American looking tourist with the Bermuda shorts and the MI driver's license" the media was so pushing yesterday?

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 09:17 AM (oZfic)

"Obama administration is going to start giving Food Stamps to Mexicans"
...."in Mexico".

Please tell me this isn't true.

Not sure if you heard old news being reported as new. It hit the news last week that U.S. SNAP commercials were airing in May-hico and the grubbermint promptly pulled the commercials.

Posted by: RushBabe at July 19, 2012 09:17 AM (tQHzJ)

66 Consumer confidence dipped to 84.7.Posted by: Dave in Fla

Which survey?

U of M shows 72 as of last week. bloomberg 'wrong direction' is at 36%, and bloomberg's 'monthly expectation' at minus 11.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 19, 2012 09:17 AM (mIoJ0)

67 anna the lady tee president....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at July 19, 2012 09:18 AM (NZF8l)

68 Really doesn't work, does it? And yes, we're plunging toward a depression. If and when Spain and/or Italy pull out of the EU the Germans will throw up their hands and tell everybody else to suck their schwanstuckers and the whole damn thing will come crashing down. Not to be a pessimist or anything.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 19, 2012 09:18 AM (RD7QR)

69 and get ready for $4/gal gas...again

Posted by: soothsayer at July 19, 2012 09:18 AM (9Q7Nu)

70 57 So if I build my business on a coast, and use ships to move my products, do I get to claim ownership of the business?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2012 01:15 PM (Ku0Zr)

Yeah sure, I made the water but go ahead and use it no prob....

Posted by: GOD at July 19, 2012 09:19 AM (oZfic)

71 BBC code and its at the discretion of the moderators.

Damm Brits.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 19, 2012 09:19 AM (kqqGm)

72 Fill in the blank:

If youÂ’ve got __________ Â— you didnÂ’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

(a) skyrocketing food prices
(b) falling retail prices
(c) falling percentage participation in the labor market
(d) increasing weekly jobless claims
(e) contracting factory activity
(f) increasing business inventories
(g) decreasing business sales
(h) more people signing on to SSDI than new jobs created

and so on...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 19, 2012 09:19 AM (0AClR)

73 Fuck him, he's on his own now.

Posted by: TOTUS at July 19, 2012 09:19 AM (/Mla1)

74 He would probably miss swinging at the T-ball.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2012 09:19 AM (hbrUV)

75 Watching the Fox All Stars last night, one of the lib idiots (probably Juan) said something like "it's only $20B".

I remember when a 20 billion dollar deficit was considered horrifying.

Good times.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2012 09:19 AM (Ku0Zr)

76 It really doesn't take a whole lot to manipulate govt numbers, just a few political appointees at the top, someday we will find out how OdipO and his big spending/debt policies deepened the recession into depression. Course it will be blamed on Bush.

Oh and depression has multiple meanings, can't wait until Nov. (and Jan.)

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 19, 2012 09:20 AM (FTb6K)

77 OMG!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at July 19, 2012 09:20 AM (NZF8l)

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

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 09:20 AM (8y9MW)

79 It's ludicrous to think that Apple Computer developed the iPhone and iPad without driving thru traffic jams while we re-paved their roads!

Posted by: Barry Obaina at July 19, 2012 09:20 AM (FcR7P)

"You know, if the JEF can't improve his golf game....wtf makes people think he can fix the economy?"

Dude couldn't even write his own autobiography - had to get a terrorist bomber to write it for him.

In fact, he couldn't even write his own sh*tty laughable moronic poetry for the undergraduate literary magazine - instead, he had to plagiarize a poem which "Uncle" [wink-wink] Frank wrote for him.

Well, there was that whole "Apes in the Grotto" fiasco.

Apes?!?

Wait a secon' - don' dat be rayciss?

Musta been during his "white" phase.

Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 19, 2012 09:21 AM (Z2i+W)

81 What? It's not the "American looking tourist with the Bermuda shorts and the MI driver's license" the media was so pushing yesterday? Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 01:17 PM (oZfic) No same guy. He was carrying an phony Michigan drivers license. Just goes to show ya how all these muslim scum are inter-related

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 09:21 AM (05RcU)

82 You and your Jooo friends in the right-wing media are doing all you can to push us into a depression. You people just don't understand that a change is coming to Amerikka, and there is nothing you white people can do about it. We will control the conversation, control the facts, and control the voting booth, because you have given us the power to do that by playing by your white-people's rules.

NO JUSTICE--- NO PEACE!

Posted by: A progressive whose mask just slipped at July 19, 2012 09:21 AM (nEUpB)

83 Posted by: Phinn at July 19, 2012 01:12 PM (KNtHw)

I have been going on about this in meatspace/real life for days. Seriously... I think the roads tit is dry. The libs are going to have to find something else to milk.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 19, 2012 09:22 AM (MA63c)

84 Obama has, incidentally, logged more hours playing golf than attending economic meetings.

For which I created this:

http://bit.ly/OcBJiA

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 09:22 AM (8y9MW)

85 The reason he spends so much time on the golf course is he sucks at golf. Takes a lot longer when you take a ton more shots.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at July 19, 2012 01:09 PM (C2//T)

I used to call that 'getting my money's worth' when I golfed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (z1N6a)

86 as we all know, losing your job, your home, your credit rating is somehow racists to point out.

----

I see that the Webster report is now out that concludes that Fort Hood shooter Hasan was not investigated by the FBI despite clear warnings, including him posting his support for terror bombings and civilian deaths on a terrorist website, because "the Washington [FBI] agents thought that interviewing American Muslims who visit extremist websites was a sensitive issue and did not reach out to HasanÂ’s bosses at the Defense Department."

Credit this to Holder who, as Attorney General, oversees the FBI.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (Hx5uv)

87 I've been going around the internet to various sites. And it suddenly occurred to me that people may not have the smarts to be able to discern what is pure propaganda and what is truth.

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (oZfic)

88 At some point, you've made enough letters small.

Posted by: Html Czar at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (SUKHu)

89 A question I would like to hear at a press conference:

Mr. President, your jobs council hasn't met in six months, yet you have played 28 rounds of golf in those six months. Is that the appropriate message to send to the American people?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (nEUpB)

90 Speaking of justice, I see the lynching of GZ is moving along nicely.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (mFxQX)

91 I have been going on about this in meatspace/real life for days. Seriously... I think the roads tit is dry. The libs are going to have to find something else to milk.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 19, 2012 01:22 PM (MA63c)

Here's the bucket. Over there is Nancy Pelosi and Debbier Watch Her Schultz.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (hbrUV)

92 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 01:22 PM (8y9MW) needs MOAR layzor..

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:23 AM (UZQM8)

69
and get ready for $4/gal gas...again

And....not just because of the price of Oil going up.

Because of what the EPA is doing to our refineries...demanding more ethanol added...this will raise the cost of gasoline leaving the refineries.

Because of the Drought....the cost of ethanol is going up.

And food prices will go up accordingly too.

We are so boned.

Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 09:24 AM (MbB0O)

94 As of tomorrow noon, I'm resigning the office of president and handing the country over to the very capable Joe Biden who will have my endorsement.

People are naturally going to be shocked by this announcement, but my reasons are quite logical and reasonable.

In a nutshell, my work here is done.

Posted by: Barak Obama at July 19, 2012 09:24 AM (SqoG9)

95 the irony of the won who spews nonsense that it gleans from random people on the "streets" claiming it came from trusted sources....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at July 19, 2012 09:25 AM (NZF8l)

96 What's the html for subscript, morons? Try [wee], laddie.

Posted by: Ian MacScotsman at July 19, 2012 09:25 AM (p8FXV)

97 Watching the Fox All Stars last night, one of the lib idiots (probably Juan) said something like "it's only $20B".

---

Reminds me of Juan's other classic comment on Fast and Furious, "People die."

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 09:25 AM (Hx5uv)

98 In a nutshell, my work here is done.

Posted by: Barak Obama at July 19, 2012 01:24 PM (SqoG9)

translation: I've been hinting that the job wasn't what I thought it would be, I don't really like it and don't want to have to do it for four more years. M, J and the AX can't force me to do it anymore, I'm done

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 09:26 AM (oZfic)

99 Try [wee], laddie. Posted by: Ian MacScotsman at July 19, 2012 01:25 PM (p8FXV) This is why we can't have nice things. [/wee]

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:26 AM (UZQM8)

100 heh @TwitchyPolitics Charles Rangel solicits advice on his new Twitter avatar, hilarity ensues http://t.co/tGvWmOhP

Posted by: Y-not at July 19, 2012 09:26 AM (5H6zj)

101

"Debbier Watch Her Schultz"

A little off-topic, maybe, and an apology beforehand to all the moronettes on this thread, and I realize that the chick is married and has children and whatnot, but "Debbier Watch Her Schultz" is HOTTER-N-HADES.

Put a little lip gloss on her and that chick could easily be a Fox News Babe.

Posted by: Zombie Shane at July 19, 2012 09:26 AM (Z2i+W)

102 >>.I bet it is a larger portion of the population than 'people in food lines', back in the 'Great Depression'.

Because if you stand in a bread line, all you get is bread. The cards get you fountain drinks, or food supplies for your custom cake business*, or you can sell 'em for cash.

* Yeah, one of the guys I went to HS with does this: uses his food stamps for ingredients and sells cakes.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (ZKzrr)

103 We didn't have roads in front of our islands. It's a miracle we didn't remain a backwater.

Posted by: Queen Liliolukolani at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (tQHzJ)

104 Pointing out bad economic news is birtherism, straight up.

Posted by: The L.A. Times Editorial Staff at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (+XVQe)

105 knuckleheads are certainly getting a hand from the Fed, who seem to be doing everything they can to sabotage the economy. And of course, the Republicans are doing everything they can to sabotage the economy, with the notable exception that they continue to fill the pockets of banksters. Mitt won't win, fuckhead. You're a pussy. you sacrifice your principles.

Posted by: erg loughner at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (34ShK)

106 Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven

Apologies for the repeat, but this insanity is just ... no words. None.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (mIoJ0)

107 Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 01:14 PM (05RcU)

The idea that we are releasing these prisoners flies in the face of the most basic sense of self-preservation.

That is why I believe that Obama and his handlers hate America and are seeking its destruction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (nEUpB)

108 H2O

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2012 09:27 AM (KXm42)

109 As of tomorrow noon, I'm resigning the office of president... my work here is done. Did I just say that? Very funny, guys. Who screwed with my teleprompters?

Posted by: Baraka O at July 19, 2012 09:28 AM (FcR7P)

110 The internet is lies.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2012 09:28 AM (KXm42)

111

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 01:13 PM (oZfic)

And the debt is in Golden Gilders.... so should be repaid in the same currency....

I doubt theres enough Gold in the world for that...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2012 09:28 AM (lZBBB)

112 H O 2

Posted by: t-bird at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (FcR7P)

113 Yeah lets release those scum. That's the ticket.
( if it were up to me I'd release them all, just like the Argentinian Military did do their prisoners in the Atlantic) Posted by: Nevergiveup

Just to pick nits Argentina might have been better off to just deport their leftist problems to Communist Cuba.

These Queda's though.
http ://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Hostis_humani_generis

Squeeze what we can out, then throw them under the jail, pull out any provably guilty and light em up.

Posted by: DaveA at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (yVsIQ)

114 >>And it suddenly occurred to me that people may not have the smarts to be able to discern what is pure propaganda and what is truth.

Thank a teacher!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (ZKzrr)

115 The idea that we are releasing these prisoners flies in the face of the most basic sense of self-preservation. That is why I believe that Obama and his handlers hate America and are seeking its destruction. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 01:27 PM (nEUpB) Sure seems that way doesn't it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (05RcU)

116 How many more morons are going to try the subscript thing? Put me down for at least three more.

Posted by: And Thus A Meme Is Born at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (O7Q1u)

117 Go fuck yourself America.

Posted by: TOTUS at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (KXm42)

118 107 Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven Apologies for the repeat, but this insanity is just ... no words. None. Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2012 01:27 PM (mIoJ0) Darth Roberts is pleased...

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 19, 2012 09:29 AM (UZQM8)

119 needs MOAR layzor..

I couldn't find a good picture with the actual laser blowing up Alderaan. If I find one, I may redo it.

That said, I like the impending nature of the picture, since we all know what happened next.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 09:30 AM (8y9MW)

120 Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 01:23 PM (oZfic)

How's that anal fissure healing? Staying out of the glory-hole like the doctor at the clinic said?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:30 AM (nEUpB)

121 If we can make it so people curse Obama every time they fill up their gas tanks, we will win.

Posted by: soothsayer at July 19, 2012 09:30 AM (9Q7Nu)

122 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 01:30 PM (8y9MW)

Leave it the way it is. It's subtle and foreboding. A perfect image.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:31 AM (nEUpB)

123 Gitmo catch-and-release policy allows bus to be blown up and PC allowed thirteen to be killed at Fort Hood. I don't why the MBM isn't screaming about these things. Oh yeah, because it wouldn't help Obama's re-election bid.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 09:31 AM (Hx5uv)

124 Is Deadliest Catch still on TV? I'd like to see Barry tells those guys they didn't build their businesses.

Posted by: t-bird at July 19, 2012 09:31 AM (FcR7P)

125 WalrusRex, some eggs being broken to .. ideas matter more than actual people.

Posted by: willow at July 19, 2012 09:31 AM (TomZ9)

126 Posted by: soothsayer at July 19, 2012 01:30 PM (9Q7Nu)

Would you like a list of when I curse him?

Because it isn't just when I fill my tank.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:32 AM (nEUpB)

127 Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2012 01:27 PM (mIoJ0)

I must have missed the original. Do you have a direct link for that? It seems right up my ally.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 19, 2012 09:32 AM (8y9MW)

128 And ergie's got nothin'. And sounds rather butthurt to boot.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 19, 2012 09:32 AM (RD7QR)

129

65"Obama administration is going to start giving Food Stamps to Mexicans" ...."in Mexico".Please tell me this isn't true.

Not sure if you heard old news being reported as new. It hit the news last week that U.S. SNAP commercials were airing in May-hico and the grubbermint promptly pulled the commercials.

Posted by: RushBabe at July 19, 2012 01:17 PM (tQHzJ)[i/]

Thanks, RushBabe.

I really don't think that I'm the only one who hasn't heard about this, though.

And when they call it "SNAP" instead of "Food Stamps".....it won't register with a lot of people as being the same thing.

Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 09:32 AM (MbB0O)

130 Take'em 20 miles off shore and drop'em off with a concrete block tied to their leg. If they can swim back to shore they're free.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 19, 2012 09:33 AM (SqoG9)

131

130....uh oh

italics off

Posted by: wheatie at July 19, 2012 09:33 AM (MbB0O)

132 What's the html for subscript, morons? Paisano... try [piccolo][/piccolo]

Posted by: Guiseppe D'Italiano at July 19, 2012 09:33 AM (p8FXV)

133 That is why I believe that Obama and his handlers hate America and are seeking its destruction.

---

they don't want its destruction. They just want to turn it into Zimbabwe.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 09:34 AM (Hx5uv)

134 America: come for the swimsuit calendars, stay for the food stamps and welfare.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 19, 2012 09:34 AM (SqoG9)

135 <big>H</big><little>2</little><big>O</big>

Got it.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2012 09:35 AM (KXm42)

136 Walrus rex, imagine how appalled they must have been to have a majority of the american population stand up after 9-11, and actually want justice for the deaths . in fact i remember they acted like they cared.

Posted by: willow at July 19, 2012 09:35 AM (TomZ9)

137 Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 01:29 PM (05RcU)

Every sane country has held its prisoners for the duration of the conflict.

When the top ten Sunni and Shia clerics all rescind the Jihad against the West, then we should release them from Guantanamo.

And that is accepting the farcical idea that they are prisoners of war, rather than spies who should have been executed on the battlefield.

The GC states that anyone not in the uniform of a sovereign nation may be considered a spy and shot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:36 AM (nEUpB)

138 _subscript ^superscript test

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 19, 2012 09:36 AM (SqoG9)

139 I must have missed the original. Do you have a direct link for that? It seems right up my ally.Posted by: AllenG

Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven
(in name)

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 19, 2012 09:37 AM (mIoJ0)

140 OK, shit's just like the country -- broke.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 19, 2012 09:38 AM (SqoG9)

141 they don't want its destruction. They just want to turn it into Zimbabwe. Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 01:34 PM (Hx5uv) I don't get the difference?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 09:38 AM (05RcU)

142 I've got my italics and that's all I need.

And this lamp.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2012 09:39 AM (KXm42)

143 Teachers didn't become teachers on their own. They had teachers....

Posted by: Barky O' Dogbreath at July 19, 2012 09:39 AM (CVUV/)

144 Posted by: @PurpAv at July 19, 2012 01:36 PM (SqoG9)

Logic will get you nowhere on this blog.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 19, 2012 09:39 AM (nEUpB)

145 @140 Nein! Ist verboten!

Posted by: Helmut Deutschemensch at July 19, 2012 09:40 AM (p8FXV)

146 H lower the 2 O

Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 19, 2012 09:40 AM (MA63c)

147 Headline on Drudge about US partnering with Mexico to put more on food stamps. Big photo of The Won with The Big Enchilada.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 09:41 AM (Hx5uv)

148

imagine how appalled they must have been to havea majority of the american population stand up after 9-11, and actually want justice for the deaths . in fact i remember they acted like they cared.

Getting the okay for the Ground Zero Mosque made us forget all about that.

Posted by: Ayman al-Zawahiri at July 19, 2012 09:46 AM (tQHzJ)

149 #120 AllenG just did this screen cap from Star Wars of Alderaan going *boom* Will this work for you?

http://tinyurl.com/d3edyh4

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2012 09:46 AM (hbrUV)

150 Who is John Galt?

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at July 19, 2012 09:47 AM (tYaDf)

151 Can I ask a question. Why are American taxpayers giving foodstamps to non Americans?

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 09:48 AM (oZfic)

152 Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven

Apologies for the repeat, but this insanity is just ... no words. None.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2012 01:27 PM (mIoJ0)

I see a new market for lead shields for your gubmint GPS device.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 19, 2012 09:51 AM (z1N6a)

153 they don't want its destruction. They just want to turn it into Zimbabwe.
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 19, 2012 01:34 PM (Hx5uv)

I don't get the difference?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2012 01:38 PM (05RcU)

Zimbabwe is very cultural, what with the tribal blankets and dancing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 19, 2012 09:52 AM (z1N6a)

154 A friend was telling me that she read something about someone's car being stolen and onstar stopping the car.

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 09:52 AM (oZfic)

155

Old-Bain

New-Tax Returns

Posted by: AttackRomney.Com at July 19, 2012 09:53 AM (WSs3A)

156 When the top ten Sunni and Shia clerics all rescind the Jihad against the West, then we should release them from Guantanamo.

AQ is Wahhabi - Sunni, they attack Shia whenever possible.
Nothing hierarchical makes the top 10, 100 or anything but all clerics useful to us.

And that is accepting the farcical idea that they are prisoners of war, rather than spies who should have been executed on the battlefield.

They're irhabists (sp? Unholy Warriors)
Grab em, stuff em in a sack, never let em out.

Posted by: DaveA at July 19, 2012 09:58 AM (yVsIQ)

157 @71- BBC is Bulletin Board Code, at least here, anyway.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:01 AM (izA2D)

158 I have been going on about this in meatspace/real life for days. Seriously... I think the roads tit is dry. The libs are going to have to find something else to milk.

But, the government built roads with taxpayer money. Roads, dude.

That means, like, the government should take an unlimited amount of more money, all the time, forever.

I don't know how to make it any plainer.

Roads: the universal justification for any tax, any restriction, anything at all, really.

Posted by: Phinn at July 19, 2012 10:05 AM (KNtHw)

159 @84: Great poster, Allen, but perhaps for more dramatic effect you should have gotten that shot when the laser cannon on the Death Star had just fired, but before Alderaan blew up.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:05 AM (izA2D)

160 I can haz superscripts:

4Â² = 16

Posted by: Star-Eyed Stella at July 19, 2012 10:07 AM (7+pP9)

161 @88: I guess you STILL haven't figured out hash tags yet. Is it like a kinky turn-on for you to change your nic every day and thinking everyone here thinks you're someone different? My parrot's smarter than that.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:08 AM (izA2D)

162 @94: If you think your engines run like shit on E10, just wait for E15! Love, The EPA.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:10 AM (izA2D)

163 @102: You are truly certifiable. Get help. Soon.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:12 AM (izA2D)

164 Cleanup on aisle 106. Someone just wanked on the thread.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:14 AM (izA2D)

165 Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 02:08 PM

I change my nic, not every day, you aren't paying attention, cause it is fun...

Hey at least I'm not running from room to room posting on different computers with different names and hashtags like some here are doing.

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 10:16 AM (oZfic)

166 @167: Fun? Perhaps. Immature? Silly? Definitely. Now- go feed your cats.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 19, 2012 10:22 AM (izA2D)

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

Posted by: steevy at July 19, 2012 11:02 AM (6o4Fb)

168

>>Obama has, incidentally, logged more hours playing golf than attending economic meetings.<<

I blame Bush.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 19, 2012 11:16 AM (nIVac)

169 88 I've been going around the internet to various sites. And it suddenly occurred to me that people may not have the smarts to be able to discern what is pure propaganda and what is truth.

Posted by: funny at July 19, 2012 01:23 PM (oZfic)

Why don't you go and stay on one of them and quit bringing your semen breath and tuna crotch here.

Posted by: buzzion at July 19, 2012 11:32 AM (GULKT)

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