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April 28, 2013

Hubris in a Leader is an Obnoxious Thing
— Dave in Texas

No shit. Management 101 says "be humble, be firm. Get over yourself."

Not so with TFG. We've probably had spoiled brats in the office before, I just don't recall one who was this in love with himself and I recall Bill Clinton so that's sayin something.

Behold the humble man, loving on the hurt and wounded. With a White House photographer at the ready (unsequestered I assume).

I am all choked up.

Part of my respect for GWB despite the many times he bugged the hell out of me was that I really believe his humility is genuine. I do respect that.

This President, I don't think he has the ability. Which I find a bit remarkable considering his humble beginnings. Actual heartfelt hug by a President.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 09:42 AM | Comments (274)
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1 ok I did that. sheesh

Posted by: Dave in Texas at April 28, 2013 09:49 AM (pUqSw)

2 1+1=1

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 28, 2013 09:50 AM (SCTXH)

3 I still think relieving yourself on the Oval Office rug is disrespectful, but, whatever.

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 09:50 AM (FcR7P)

4 Dave in Texas = Idiot

Posted by: wte9 at April 28, 2013 09:51 AM (6Tcdo)

5 Yeah. In that photo it really does look more like SCOAMF is taking a leak on the Oval Office floor. He does that a lot, I imagine.

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 28, 2013 09:52 AM (k4bdL)

6 *Sarcastic reference to the erstwhile double post

Posted by: wte9 at April 28, 2013 09:52 AM (6Tcdo)

7 I'll accept that hit wt

Posted by: Dave in Texas at April 28, 2013 09:53 AM (pUqSw)

8 Humble beginnings my butt. He was the out of wedlock spawn of a coddled, rebellious teen who always knew her mommy, daddy, and uncle sugar would bail out her stupid choices.

Posted by: Peej at April 28, 2013 09:53 AM (u0XTA)

9 Take a shot, Dave.

Posted by: EC at April 28, 2013 09:53 AM (doBIb)

10
This photo brings to mind the word effete. Also slightly faggy.

The Winston Churchill bust is hiding under the desk?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at April 28, 2013 09:54 AM (1lQzY)

11 President Daddy Issues.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 28, 2013 09:54 AM (YOWAW)

12 Dave, I have to agree, GWB's humility is genuine.
But why should JEF not feel himself superior?
His whole life has bee dominated by things being given to him, for no reason.
Other than the reason that he is a useful idiot to his handlers.
And, of course, useful idiots never see thmeseves as such

Posted by: Ready for it all to be over at April 28, 2013 09:55 AM (2iVM3)

13
Liberals love to swoon over Bronco because he's black. Would they have the same reverence for my purple veined dick?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at April 28, 2013 09:56 AM (1lQzY)

14 Don't they always have a photographer around, though? I think he is pretty obnoxious about releasing pics like this, but I thought they was almost always an archival photographer around the Prez.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 28, 2013 09:56 AM (U5uTP)

15 Easy photoshop assignment: Add a yellow puddle.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 28, 2013 09:56 AM (YOWAW)

16 What is that horse figurine on the desk against the wall?

Posted by: EC at April 28, 2013 09:56 AM (doBIb)

17 Masturbating to the world.

Posted by: Attila at April 28, 2013 09:56 AM (Cs2tJ)

18 Bronco is a terrific ironic nickname for Juggy.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 09:57 AM (qyfb5)

19 7 I'll accept that hit wt Hah. You are right about GW, though. I was up close with him a time or two and saw him sobbing with service members and their families. One of the more remarkable/memorable/awesome things I'll ever see.

Posted by: wte9 at April 28, 2013 09:57 AM (6Tcdo)

20 Looks like SCOAMF is visualizing the grip for putting that Tiger taught him. Or maybe he's just gripping his putter.

Posted by: Peregrine Took, Hobbit SOB at April 28, 2013 09:57 AM (erlzv)

21 What's that on the wall, one of Weiner's dic pics? It seems out of place.

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 09:58 AM (FcR7P)

22 This President, beating on his concave chest

FIFY.

That's the part that's confusing me...how the fuck could anyone mistake this doof for a grown man, let alone a leader.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at April 28, 2013 09:58 AM (hO8IJ)

23 Remember, if you know an Obama voter, you know a low-standards personality which would hand power over to any old creep that promises him or her free stuff. A common scumbag, using vernacular. Think about that the next time you pick a day-care or babysitter. Or your next parent-teacher conference, for that matter.

Posted by: Mike James at April 28, 2013 09:59 AM (cgDgK)

24 What is that horse figurine on the desk against the wall? Isn't that a famous piece by Frederic Remington?

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 09:59 AM (FcR7P)

25 And you've never heard about it because he never let the press in to photograph or write about it.

Posted by: wte9 at April 28, 2013 09:59 AM (6Tcdo)

26
Look closely and you'll see a picture of Aunt Zeituni on the credenza dressed in designer clothing purchased by taxpayers. Why, it's only fair!

Posted by: Doctor Fish at April 28, 2013 10:00 AM (1lQzY)

27 At least take notice that the chair, is still empty.

Posted by: CA Token at April 28, 2013 10:01 AM (TZ/Pd)

28 What is that horse figurine on the desk against the wall?

O_O O_O O_O O_O

http://is.gd/nSthxx

It's a Remington. It's bronze. It's art. It belonged to Theodore Roosevelt.

It's amazing SCOAMF didn't have it put in storage and replaced with a Thornton Dial "white people are evil" assemblage of garbage.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at April 28, 2013 10:01 AM (hO8IJ)

The Winston Churchill bust is hiding under the desk?

No, that's just Reggie.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 28, 2013 10:01 AM (lr3d7)

30
It must gall that petulant prick to stand next to Old Glory.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at April 28, 2013 10:02 AM (1lQzY)

31 14 Don't they always have a photographer around, though? I think he is pretty obnoxious about releasing pics like this, but I thought they was almost always an archival photographer around the Prez. They do, but the choice to release it rests squarely on the WH.

Posted by: wte9 at April 28, 2013 10:02 AM (6Tcdo)

32 Will we ever get the scuff marks off the Resolute desk?

And that pic of Bush makes me tear up. Wish he was my kid's CiC instead of the Grifter in Chief.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:02 AM (lVPtV)

33 SHOCKA: Boston Bombers' mother wiretapped by Russian intelligence talking jihad with her dead son. http://preview.tinyurl.com/d543bfs

Posted by: zsasz at April 28, 2013 10:02 AM (MMC8r)

34 Kind of "spontaneous", isn't it, that he would bow southeast towards one of the side windows to allow a nice angle on the desk.

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 10:03 AM (FcR7P)

35 Thanks Heather! I did not know.

Posted by: EC at April 28, 2013 10:03 AM (doBIb)

36 Presidentin' is hard 'n shit.

Posted by: Presnit Bronco Bama at April 28, 2013 10:03 AM (YOWAW)

37 Pretender.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at April 28, 2013 10:04 AM (ndlFj)

38 test

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 28, 2013 10:04 AM (XYSwB)

39 Sunday threads are weird. The book thread was especially unusual this morning. Thanks for a new thread with a more universal theme, the effing effed upedness of the effing effer who humiliates and demeans us daily by being our effing effed up President.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 28, 2013 10:05 AM (RZ8pf)

40 Does that window face Mecca?

Posted by: zsasz at April 28, 2013 10:06 AM (MMC8r)

21What's that on the wall

I believe it's the Statue of Liberty. Just the arm and torch. Or, it could be Weiner's weiner.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 10:06 AM (A9na/)

42 It's really worrisome to think that the President of the United States is not right in the head. Really worrisome.

Posted by: toby928© One comment, Vasili, one comment only please at April 28, 2013 10:08 AM (QupBk)

43 Well at least it wasn't a "selfie" photo. that would've been weird. plus he probably would've done it wrong and we would have gotten an extreme close-up of his funny nose.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 28, 2013 10:08 AM (RZ8pf)

44 24 What is that horse figurine on the desk against the wall? Isn't that a famous piece by Frederic Remington?
Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 01:59 PM (FcR7P)

Yeah, that's a repro of Remington's Bronco Buster. Had a larger version of it in our great room; now it's in storage, along with a couple of others.

Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at April 28, 2013 10:09 AM (/lWM8)

45 I guess his prayer rug is rolled up and off to one side for the pic.

He can't even fake empathy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:09 AM (lVPtV)

46 14 Don't they always have a photographer around, though? I think he is pretty obnoxious about releasing pics like this, but I thought they was almost always an archival photographer around the Prez.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 28, 2013 01:56 PM (U5uTP)

Perhaps, but then if you're going to have a Moment of Silence, ALONE, then there should be no photograph of it. Because if there is a photograph then you weren't alone. And with that the photographer is not observing the moment of silence. The photo is insulting on many levels.

Posted by: buzzion at April 28, 2013 10:09 AM (LI48c)

47 The president isn't truly grieved without issuing a memorial t-shirt.

Posted by: zsasz at April 28, 2013 10:09 AM (MMC8r)

48 Thought I had 1st comment? Wha' happened?

Posted by: Navin R Johnson at April 28, 2013 10:10 AM (RRbuy)

49

Aziz, LIGHT!

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 10:11 AM (FC8Yl)

50 Clinton was a pretty arrogant guy, but he was a consummate politician and he had the whole Southern charm, "I feel your pain" thing down and he could deliver it in a very believable fashion. TFG is a Chicago thug with narcissistic personality disorder.

If you had told me 5 years ago that I would ever feel anything but contempt for Clinton, I would have laughed. Compared to this petulant fraud, he looks better to me every day. I do believe that he loved this country and wanted what he thought was best for it. TFG has an entirely different motivation and agenda

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:12 AM (8lmkt)

51 Remember the pic of him staring up at the night sky in memory of Neil Armstrong? Or the one of him watching the caskets of fallen SEALs arriving at Dover, when the families specifically asked him not to photograph them?

EVERYTHING is about him. And the fawning MFM are more than happy to feed his ego.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:12 AM (lVPtV)

GWB has already had his revenge: living well with the respect of many. TFG will never be able to match it. Once he's out of the WH, he'll constantly try to worm his way back into the spotlight.

I still think that he'll try his hand at Hollywood. A couple of guest appearances in TV shows, a chance to play himself in movies for the next decade. He'll rub shoulders with the glitterati for a while, while not realizing that he's quickly becoming the butt of jokes.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 28, 2013 10:12 AM (lr3d7)

53 President Zoolander.

Posted by: zsasz at April 28, 2013 10:12 AM (MMC8r)

54 buzz, it is absolutely obnoxious, I didn't mean to imply it wasn't!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 28, 2013 10:13 AM (U5uTP)

55 The reason he does this shit is because he knows

a) his followers will love it

b) his detractors will hate it

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 28, 2013 10:13 AM (HDgX3)

56 ...with the heat of a thousand suns....

Posted by: backhoe at April 28, 2013 10:14 AM (ULH4o)

57 Boston Bombers' mother wiretapped by Russian intelligence talking jihad with her dead son. I hated the ussr most of my life. Then the 'wall' came down and they turned to capitalism and had openly religious leaders. My mouth fell open. Then I began to occasionally notice our country was heading toward socialism as they retreated. I'd see a link to Pravda and expect one thing, and end up agreeing with a conservative writer in the former USSR about what was wrong with the USA. I really, really can't be surprised that they are more on top of these guys then our own countries intelligence is. I'm aware of the concept of a political pendulum, but this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 10:14 AM (feFL6)

58 I think it is more than "this picture," it's the fact that every event is marked with a picture of Mumbles McFuckstick. I mean, Christmas - pcture of Barry doing something. New Years - picture of Barry looking up like Moussolini. Holocaust Remembrance Day - picture of Barry golfing. Etc. It's like people who send out professional portraits of their family gathered around, well, their family, every two weeks holiday or not. At some point it stops being "share this time with my family" and starts being "LOOOK AT MEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:14 AM (qyfb5)

59 Yeah, W has a loving wife, parents, children, and now a "punishment" (grandchild).

Watching him at the opening of the Bush library, I couldn't help but think how jealous he must be of Bush.

Barry has a ~~wife~~ beard, two daughters who may or may not be his, and Hollywood. That's it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:14 AM (lVPtV)

60 that looks like the desk of someone who doesn't actually do any work

Posted by: mallfly at April 28, 2013 10:15 AM (bJm7W)

61 Holocaust Remembrance Day - picture of Barry golfing

nicely played, Mero . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:16 AM (8lmkt)

62 I do believe that he loved this country and wanted what he thought was best for it. I think the only difference between Clinton and Obama is that Clinton would never do anything to affect his claim to adoration. I think Obama will do anything to move us as far toward outright communism as possible, his favorability be damned (but he doesn't have to worry with his Cult of Personality).

Posted by: zsasz at April 28, 2013 10:16 AM (MMC8r)

Is that really a reproduction of a Remington? I assumed it was an original.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 28, 2013 10:16 AM (RZ8pf)

64 Delurking, #21 I had exactly the same thought! /relurk

Posted by: FCF at April 28, 2013 10:17 AM (Khja4)

65
WE suck.

Obama is in the PERFECT stance for a friggin PUTTER to be p-chopped into that photo and NOBODY has done it yet.

We suck. We have no imagination.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 10:17 AM (vanqS)

66
Difference between the two is that the emotion with W is real--just like the person.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 28, 2013 10:18 AM (SAMxH)

67 I still think that he'll try his hand at Hollywood. Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 28, 2013 02:12 PM (lr3d7) That Mythbusters cameo was *embarrassing*. It almost made me think they *wanted* to make fun of him. Probably not, but still. I think that was also the episode with the "gosh you tried" award for all the kids who couldn't hold mirrors still. I'm not saying you should be mean to kids or anything, but.... like *no* talent in that crowd.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:18 AM (qyfb5)

68 re 59: "Barry has a wife beard, two daughters who may or may not be his, and Hollywood. That's it."

Do the girls throw like a girl? Ride a bicycle like a girl? Get ordered around by Michelle? Yes Yes Yes? So they must be his (remember, when you're a Democrat, logic that leads to the conclusion you wanted all along carries much more weight than little things like facts.)

Posted by: mallfly at April 28, 2013 10:18 AM (bJm7W)

Peaches,

Clinton was fundamentally insecure. His whole life was about winning the approval of others. It's what made him so good a politician.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 28, 2013 10:18 AM (lr3d7)

70 I believe it's the Statue of Liberty. Just the arm and torch. Ah, taken during that joyride on Air Force One.

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 10:19 AM (FcR7P)

71 nicely played, Mero . . . Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 02:16 PM (8lmkt)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:19 AM (qyfb5)

72 Yeah, what IS that picture over the Remington or fake Remington? Anyone know?

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:19 AM (8lmkt)

73
And for goodness sake, p-chop a "Keystone Pipeline" folder in the waste basket.

And p-chop an intelligent briefing onto the desk with doodles on it.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 10:20 AM (Y4TdB)

74 Oldie but goodie--- Dubya meets the Marines vs. Barry meets the Marines:

http://tinyurl.com/7aaxgng

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:20 AM (lVPtV)

75 re 61: "Holocaust Remembrance Day - picture of Barry golfing"

didn't his uncle help liberate Auschwitz?

Posted by: mallfly at April 28, 2013 10:20 AM (bJm7W)

76 Hah. You are right about GW, though. I was up close with him a time or two and saw him sobbing with service members and their families. One of the more remarkable/memorable/awesome things I'll ever see. I'm as envious ad hell of you sir

Posted by: My Sharia Moor at April 28, 2013 10:20 AM (liORJ)

77 Sorry. HTML retard here

Posted by: My Sharia Moor at April 28, 2013 10:21 AM (liORJ)

78 Orwell's book "1984" was not a warning, it was an instruction manual, as was "Animal Farm"

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 28, 2013 10:21 AM (C/MR5)

79 His shoes have a high shine so on the rare occasion he looks down he can see his reflection doubled.

Posted by: Kate TG at April 28, 2013 10:21 AM (OZu8+)

80 I hated the ussr most of my life. Then the 'wall' came down and they turned to capitalism and had openly religious leaders. My mouth fell open. Then I began to occasionally notice our country was heading toward socialism as they retreated. I'd see a link to Pravda and expect one thing, and end up agreeing with a conservative writer in the former USSR about what was wrong with the USA.

I really, really can't be surprised that they are more on top of these guys then our own countries intelligence is. I'm aware of the concept of a political pendulum, but this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: Regular Moron at April 28, 2013 02:14 PM (feFL6)

__________

Russians didn't like being communists. It was a small group of elites that kept the masses enslaved in it. Once it all fell apart and people got a voice, they went as far away from communism as they could.

In the US it's kind of the opposite. The people had freedom and capitalism and voted it away in exchange for an Obamaphone.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 28, 2013 10:22 AM (HDgX3)

81 I miss W. He could recognize a terrorist when he saw one he knew a hero when he saw one

Posted by: thunderb at April 28, 2013 10:22 AM (nH8jP)

82 Clinton was fundamentally insecure. His whole life was about winning the approval of others. It's what made him so good a politician.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 28, 2013 02:18 PM (lr3d7)

You're probably correct, but I don't think he harbored any animus for the country, the constitution, the electorate, congress, etc. TFG clearly does, he doesn't even bother to hide it.

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:22 AM (8lmkt)

83 Shit...I know shit's bad right now, with all that sequester bullshit and unemployment and shit, and the Bombings in Boston and chicks like Sandra Fluke not being able to put out because the Republicans refuse to buy her rubbers or pay for her abortions. But I got a solution: I gotta build up my Obama Stash so people have french fries and burrito coverings and free Obama phones.

Posted by: Presnit Bronco Alizando Hussain Mountain Dew Obama's Teleprompter at April 28, 2013 10:23 AM (YOWAW)

84 Shit...I know shit's bad right now, with all that sequester bullshit and unemployment and shit, and the Bombings in Boston and chicks like Sandra Fluke not being able to put out because the Republicans refuse to buy her rubbers or pay for her abortions. But I got a solution: I gotta build up my Obama Stash so people have french fries and burrito coverings and free Obama phones.

Posted by: Presnit Bronco Alizando Hussain Mountain Dew Obama at April 28, 2013 10:23 AM (YOWAW)

85 That pic is odd, maybe a photograph of a NASA takeoff? At first glance it looked like a lighthouse tower falling over.

Posted by: lincolntf at April 28, 2013 10:24 AM (ZshNr)

86 Kneel before me! It's not hubris if its true! I am humble because I reign in my awesomeness because it would overwhelm you typical white people!!1!

Posted by: God-Emperor Obama at April 28, 2013 10:25 AM (Vk2pI)

87 Orwell's book "1984" was not a warning, it was an instruction manual, as was "Animal Farm" Interesting Factoid #187,122 about George Orwell. In his will he stated he did not want a biography written about him. He wanted his body of work to speak for itself. Could you ever imagine a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama doing such a thing?

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 10:25 AM (feFL6)

88 I can barely remember what it was like to have a man instead of a child. And it's only been 5 years. I hope we only have 3 to go.

Posted by: Xenophon at April 28, 2013 10:25 AM (JNMaY)

89 re 74: Jane, it's funny that the marines only applauded when Obama left.

Posted by: mallfly at April 28, 2013 10:25 AM (bJm7W)

You're probably correct, but I don't think he harbored any animus for the country, the constitution, the electorate, congress, etc. TFG clearly does, he doesn't even bother to hide it.

You are correct. Clinton may have been personally a scumbag, he may have surrounded himself with incompetents, and he may have had some wrongheaded notions about this country, but he never fundamentally disliked it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 28, 2013 10:26 AM (lr3d7)

91 didn't his uncle help liberate Auschwitz? Posted by: mallfly at April 28, 2013 02:20 PM (bJm7W) I don't know about that, but his political mentor, close personal friend, and a "guy in his neighborhood" helped liberate other Americans from their bodies.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:26 AM (qyfb5)

92 A friend of my wife's was killed in Iraq. Bush was in New York during the memorial service and met with the family.

Alone. In a room with the family. No photographers....no aides....no security.

THAT is presidential.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 28, 2013 10:26 AM (/WLC3)

93 Huffington Post is riddled with stories about how hilarious his jokes were at the White House Press whatever the hell it's called. I can't say whether they were actually funny or not, but I certainly can say that he didn't write them. They're still in genital-licking mode.

Posted by: Zippity Doo Dah at April 28, 2013 10:26 AM (E55AK)

94
3 and 2/3rds

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 10:26 AM (xIzGn)

95 blog called Jester's Court made some interesting observations about the Boston bombers supporters at Free Jihar on twitter. Seems the freejihar twitter tag was started by two friends of Jihar who sound an awful lot like co-conspirators. Weird tweets before ad after the bombing that indicate knowledge. monsters

Posted by: thunderb at April 28, 2013 10:26 AM (nH8jP)

96 monsters = Muslims

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 28, 2013 10:29 AM (R8hU8)

97 That pic is odd, maybe a photograph of a NASA takeoff? At first glance it looked like a lighthouse tower falling over. This is not the minaret you're looking for...

Posted by: Barky O'Bumbles at April 28, 2013 10:29 AM (FcR7P)

98 I posted some Jester links last night. http://jesterscourt.cc/ Dude is an "unknown" and seems to be from the same "culture" as the Anon pukes - but as far as ideas and patriotism he's in a whole different ballpark. It's hard to say how the new intel will turn out, but I can tell you the dude knows his IT shit.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:30 AM (qyfb5)

99 monsters = Muslims iphone spell-checkers do the damnedest things.

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 10:31 AM (FcR7P)

100 Yeeesh. The Book Thread turned into some kind of refighting of the Raj combined with Hindu/moslem resentment. So, I'm invading this TFG thread with bookish goodness: Just finished reading "Pandemonium" the follow up to the novel "Fragment" by Warren Fahy "Fragment" was the Jurassic-Parkish story of the accidental discovery of an isolated island where arthropods and crustacea evolved along their own path up to and including the intelligent crustacean "Hendros". "Pandemonium" follows the human and some of the Hendro characters into another dangerous isolated environment which followed its own evolutionary path. This time underground. While Fahy clearly wants to be Michael Crichton, his writing isn't at that level yet. Fahy has great story ideas, writes an exciting action scene, knows how to keep the pot boiling but danged if you'll remember much about "Pandemonium" 30 minutes after you read it. Two reasons for that, I think: 1) The guy has trouble writing interesting characters who aren't simply types or a reflexive behavioral/verbal quirks. His male/female interactions particularly romance are piss-poor. His most interesting character failures are the Hendros, particularly Hender, the main Hendro character. Here's Hender, a highly intelligent creature, we're told, who's lived for 10's of thousands of years in an incredibly hostile, completely alien environment and yet he constantly comes off like the retarded issue of Elmo from Sesame Street and Mr Bill. I hope you love the following phrase- "Noooooooooo." fluted Hender. because you're going to be reading that a lot. Fahy does much better with Kuzu, the soldier/warrior Hendro. But that's because he partially drives the plot and changes as the book progresses. 2) Crichton never ever never leaves that gun on the table unused and closes his plot holes tight. SPOILERS----SPOILERS------SPOILERS-----SPOILERS Fahy brings together two deadly sets of creatures from horrific environments yet we never see the steel-cage throw down we expect is coming. Kuzu, the warrior Hendro, wants to release the other Hender's Island organisms to destroy the outside world's ecosystem to restore the Hender's Island ecology worldwide. How great would it have been to see him fighting and failing against the Ghost octopuses in a sort of ecological gotterdammerung instead of the lame "eh, just get him off the stage" death he's given. And the final threat of travelling through Hell's Window is just a big nothing, very flat. This is where a better writer would've really strutted his stuff. Finally, the plotline of the American military(?) trying to wipe out the Hendros is simply dropped for a happy ending. SPOILERS OVER-----SPOILERS OVER----- If you want a popcorn read and nothing more, you could do a lot worse than "Pandemonium". Just don't expect to remember much about it a day later.

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 10:31 AM (G9qZk)

101 Didn't W and Cheney used to go visit wounded troops pretty frequently? No press, no cameras, just heartfelt compassion and support. At least, that is my understanding.

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:31 AM (8lmkt)

102 I would not be shocked at all if "Anonymous" and other anarchist factions are cheerleading those monsters if not actually helping them

Posted by: thunderb at April 28, 2013 10:32 AM (nH8jP)

103 One of Jester's long-running points is that the activities and organization of Anonymous made them especially vulnerable to recruitment by terrorists - basically their spinoff LulzSec was a Hamas operation. Jester has made a "career" recently of interfering with jihad websites, recruitment, and information trade. Anonymous (I always thought of them as colossally self-important douchebags) continues to teeter on the edge of open support for Islamic terrorism.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:33 AM (qyfb5)

104 63 Is that really a reproduction of a Remington? I assumed it was an original.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 28, 2013 02:16 PM (RZ8pf)

Hmmm. Did a little research and Remington did a 1909 version of his "Broncho Buster" that was larger, and I'm thinking that yes, that might be the "original casting" of the 1895 version that's been in the Oval Office since the Carter Administration.

Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at April 28, 2013 10:34 AM (/lWM8)

105 33 SHOCKA: Boston Bombers' mother wiretapped by Russian intelligence talking jihad with her. So let's give junior citizenship.

Posted by: Uglyassjanet at April 28, 2013 10:34 AM (MMPKe)

106

For those asking about pic on wall.

70 I believe it's the Statue of Liberty. Just the arm and torch.

Ah, taken during that joyride on Air Force One.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 10:34 AM (A9na/)

107 pleasuring device

Posted by: thunderb at April 28, 2013 10:36 AM (nH8jP)

108 102 I would not be shocked at all if "Anonymous" and other anarchist factions are cheerleading those monsters if not actually helping them Posted by: thunderb at April 28, 2013 02:32 PM (nH8jP) http://preview.tinyurl.com/3n9vbdr Document re: terror recruitment of Anonymous folks. Particularly Hamas.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 28, 2013 10:36 AM (qyfb5)

109 I'm still waiting for the American Indian to be as cool as they were in the 70's.

Until then, Burt Sugarman says "Come and get your...."?

preview.tinyurl.com/bpcj7u7

Posted by: Courtesy Flush at April 28, 2013 10:36 AM (8lB0x)

110 106
For those asking about pic on wall.

70I believe it's the Statue of Liberty. Just the arm and torch.

Ah, taken during that joyride on Air Force One.

Those screaming NYC libs, running for their lives from their messiah's plane, will never get old.

Wonder if we'll ever find out who was on board?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:36 AM (lVPtV)

111 Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 02:31 PM (G9qZk)

So, to be sure I understand this . . . you feel that someone jacked the book thread and decided to come and jack this one?

Well, I guess that works with the whole "hubris" meme.

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:36 AM (8lmkt)

112 you feel that someone jacked the book thread and decided to come and jack this one?

Pay It Forward!

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 28, 2013 10:37 AM (QTHTd)

113 I never thought it would come to this, but I miss George W. compared to the asshole holding office now, he really was a sincere man trying to be a good man. A flawed president, but a good man. Great picture DiT.

Posted by: L, elle at April 28, 2013 10:38 AM (0PiQ4)

114
*movie recommendation*

THE LAST STAND -- a stupid action flick starring Arnold, that idiot from Jackass, and Forrest Whittaker, plus Harry Dean Stanton.

Quite good, actually. You'll see a few original things in this typical-stupid-action flick. Plus guns. Guns. Fast cars. Guns. And corn.

The Last Stand is easily downloadable online. Watch it, today, if you're bored.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 10:40 AM (xIzGn)

115 I remember an interview the dad of one of the dead Benghazi SEALs did, where he described how cool and emotionless TFG was when he met him at the hanger where his son's coffin had arrived.

He said Barry gave him the limpest handshake, and never looked him in the eyes. Just looked over the top of his head and mumbled how "sorry" he was for the dad's loss.

He's incapable of caring about anyone or anything other than himself. I truly believe this.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:40 AM (lVPtV)

116 Huffington Post is riddled with stories about how hilarious his jokes were at the White House Press whatever the hell it's called. I can't say whether they were actually funny or not, but I certainly can say that he didn't write them. They're still in genital-licking mode.

Posted by: Zippity Doo Dah at April 28, 2013 02:26 PM (E55AK)

Yeah it's really fucking funny when skinny Chavez calls out a private citizen in a meeting with his propaganda catamites. Just like GWB did with Soros and Lewis, amirite?

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 28, 2013 10:41 AM (NXpSe)

117 I am sick to my stomach every day that this asshole is President

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 28, 2013 10:41 AM (jE38p)

118 Lemme play armchair shrink - I think W was humble because he grew up around people who were stunningly accomplished in their own rights. He didn't think that what he was doing was all that amazing because that was the norm to which he was held.

Contra TFG. It appears that his grandparents were successful. But it also appears that those who were held up to him as the embodiments of success were successful for being able to play with words as opposed to actually doing something. Thus, of course he thinks he's fucking awesome for not really doing anything because that's the norm to which he was held. When William Ayers is your role model, why would you be humble? You truly are a greater success than he.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at April 28, 2013 10:41 AM (Gk3SS)

119 111 Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 02:31 PM (G9qZk) So, to be sure I understand this . . . you feel that someone jacked the book thread and decided to come and jack this one? Yep. Just paying homage my Viking/evil white colonialist heritage. How dare you make me feel uncomfortable Peaches? How...dare....you *(sob)*

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 10:42 AM (G9qZk)

120 118 I am sick to my stomach every day that this asshole is President

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 28, 2013 02:41 PM (jE38p

Same here. And I can't stand the idiots who voted for him a second time. Family included.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:42 AM (lVPtV)

121 The sidebar has me wondering: what would it look like if Obama's self-importance replaced the Moon?

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2013 10:43 AM (FcR7P)

122 Teh Won has been groomed all of his life for this role. Big difference. That is what commies do, plan this crap out over decades.

Posted by: navybrat at April 28, 2013 10:43 AM (2ZO++)

123 120 Lemme play armchair shrink - I think W was humble because he grew up around people who were stunningly accomplished in their own rights. He didn't think that what he was doing was all that amazing because that was the norm to which he was held. I'd also guess, AtC, that he and his siblings were told not to use "Guess who I am" and point at Daddy.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 10:45 AM (RwRRP)

124 Excellent lacrosse ACC championship game on ESPNU. If you're so inclined. But only 10 minutes to go.

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 10:46 AM (G9qZk)

125 10
This photo brings to mind the word effete. Also slightly faggy.

It's titled, "Liberty Holding a Bong".

Posted by: Chuck Choomer at April 28, 2013 10:47 AM (73IHh)

126 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at April 28, 2013 02:41 PM (Gk3SS)

Plus the fact that he has never actually earned anything (not just money). Everything has been handed to him, arranged for and paid for by others, undeserved accolades (Nobel, anyone?), people buying Hawaiian estates and Chicago manses for him, trips to Pokestan when no one else could go, new name, transcripts and birth certificates down the rabbit hole, never had a job in his life. He's an incompetent shitbird who has never had any reason or any desire to examine what his true worth might be.

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 10:48 AM (8lmkt)

127 Heh. Someone just got a pie in the face at the Legends of Golf here in Savannah.

Sigh. Now I want pie.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:48 AM (lVPtV)

128

Humble beginnings?

What the fuck is that all about?

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2013 10:48 AM (6FjqC)

129

@10 "The Winston Churchill bust is hiding under the desk?"

If I'm not mistaken, Bronco sent it back to the Brits after his first coronation as the New Sun King.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 28, 2013 10:49 AM (6rcHp)

130 Excellent lacrosse ACC championship game on ESPNU. If you're so inclined. But only 10 minutes to go. Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 02:46 PM (G9qZk) Thank you!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 10:51 AM (RwRRP)

131 33 SHOCKA: Boston Bombers' mother wiretapped by Russian intelligence talking jihad with her.

So let's give junior citizenship.

Posted by: Uglyassjanet

Too late. She already has a 'refugee' visa. And no, her felony somehow didn't induce the Feds to cancel it because that's just what a great fucking country we are.

L.I.B.?
I.W.B.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 28, 2013 10:51 AM (Yr6sH)

132 BTW Chris Mathews has been photo shopped out of the pic. Only he isn't kneeling "behind "the JEF

Posted by: thunderb at April 28, 2013 10:51 AM (nH8jP)

133 And I can't stand the idiots who voted for him a second time. Family included. Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 02:42 PM (lVPtV) Amen to that.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 28, 2013 10:52 AM (jE38p)

134 134
@10 "The Winston Churchill bust is hiding under the desk?"

If I'm not mistaken, Bronco sent it back to the Brits after his firstcoronation as the New Sun King.

You are correct. If memory serves, that was the very first thing he did in the Oval Office. That, and putting his nasty feet on our desk.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2013 10:52 AM (lVPtV)

135 I see the caption as- "Nope, I'm in the oval office and I still can't find my dick"

Posted by: Berserker at April 28, 2013 10:53 AM (FMbng)

136 One of the lesser-known hazards of Affirmative Action: the arrogance of a slacker who convinces himself that he has risen to his station based on his intrinsic merit, not on the special boost he got. Otherwise known as "Born on Third Base and Thinks He Hit a Triple."

Posted by: Zumkopf at April 28, 2013 10:53 AM (Fmlu9)

137

"Born on Third Base and Thinks He Hit a Triple."

Stealing this.

Yoink!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 28, 2013 10:55 AM (6rcHp)

138 Our first affirmative action preznit. Great isn't it? All AA hires act the same way. Come in, show no interest in the job duties, get bored, and wonder what's next and why they aren't paid more. I've hired them. This is what happens when everyone gets a trophy and everyone is special. We are well and truly f*cked.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 28, 2013 10:56 AM (jucos)

139 Also, if Teh JEF was wizzing on the Oval Office Carpeting he would be squatting.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 28, 2013 10:57 AM (jucos)

140 I cannot decide if he wants that picture on the wall merely because it is a huge phallic symbol, or if he sees it as a giant torch to use to start the fire to destroy the country. Both??

Posted by: FCF at April 28, 2013 10:57 AM (Khja4)

141 I think the Brits took it back and left it in DC at their embassy or something. I'm sure I heard that, but I never verified it. They can give it back when we have a real President again.

Posted by: lincolntf at April 28, 2013 10:59 AM (ZshNr)

142

@145 FCF

LOL

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 11:01 AM (A9na/)

143 Bottom line, the piece of shit is such a narcissist that he probably thinks he's the very first POTUS, and at minimum the first one that actually mattered. At one of the state of the union speeches he comes down off the stage for his slobberfest and the very first fucking thing out of his mouth to one of his fan boys was " how did you like the speech?'". Nero and Caligula got nothing on this dude as far as ego goes.

Posted by: Berserker at April 28, 2013 11:03 AM (FMbng)

144 This President, I don't think he has the ability. Which I find a bit remarkable considering his humble beginnings. President Special Snowflake.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at April 28, 2013 11:05 AM (vHxiM)

145 I thought you said "Hummus."

Posted by: Picric at April 28, 2013 11:07 AM (CxvUj)

146 "Clinton was a pretty arrogant guy, but he was a consummate politician and he had the whole Southern charm, 'I feel your pain' thing down and he could deliver it in a very believable fashion."

Snort. Believable by some.

I had Clinton figured for a phony from about the first half-hour of listening to him.

Frankly pretty astonishing to me that anyone would have been fooled.

But then again, I once knew a guy who was basically a professional womanizer, and it was absolutely incredible how otherwise smart and accomplished women, with substantive degrees and professional careers, would completely lose their senses over what was to me just transparently empty patter.

All in the delivery, I guess. I would never have been able to say half of his patented come-on lines without starting to guffaw halfway through. They were that cheesy. But from him, they worked. Consistently. Perhaps because he could say them in seeming utter earnest.

What Clinton showed was that a womanizer with the right delivery, aided by an enthusiastic media apparat, could actually woo millions of women at the same time. Many of the same women who my acquaintance smoothly moved on, into, past and through were also ones who fell hard for Billy Jeff politically. Fell so hard they acted concussed.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 28, 2013 11:09 AM (gqT4g)

147 I don't think he's peeing on the rug, I think he's holding his wee wee and aiming at the flag. By the way, you'd think that an official white house photographer would have the professionalism and skill to be able to take a photo without it looking posed and fake. I mean that pensive, thoughtful pose looks pretty insincere after the first fifty times.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 28, 2013 11:10 AM (Fc8Zx)

148 Snort. Believable by some.

I had Clinton figured for a phony from about the first half-hour of listening to him.

I couldn't agree more, torque. I couldn't stand the sight or sound of him when he was in office. However, I did not know at that time just how much worse off we could be.

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 11:13 AM (8lmkt)

149

@139 Jane D'oh... That, and putting his nasty feet on our desk.

That disturbed me as well. However, I just googled it and in the image results the first pix are Ford and W pix with feet on desk. Plenty of JEF on down. Strategic placement?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 11:14 AM (A9na/)

150

Good lord there a bunch of whiners here today! Who fuckin cares about the 1st Affirmative Action president? Sitting around denigrating the POS isn't gonna make your life better, or reduce his effect on the economy, the culture or you personal condition. Go outside and enjoy the weather or visit with someone you like or otherwise go enjoy life and forget about him for now.

The time will come soon enough when you'll be able to put all that energy to good use. For now, just enjoy life.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 28, 2013 11:16 AM (SsP73)

151 By the way, you'd think that an official white house photographer would have the professionalism and skill to be able to take a photo without it looking posed and fake. I'm not a magician! At least I got his feet off the desk.

Posted by: White House Photographer #128 at April 28, 2013 11:16 AM (FcR7P)

152 >>>I couldn't stand the sight or sound of him when he was in office. However, I did not know at that time just how much worse off we could be.

Great minds must think alike, because this is EXACTLY how I have felt.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 28, 2013 11:17 AM (4Mv1T)

153 Feeling great on a weekend? I can fix that. Drudge has the Telegraph: AQ battles for Assad's chemical weapons.

Posted by: Beagle at April 28, 2013 11:20 AM (sOtz/)

154 Just checking to see if it was possible to comment here from Delta's steerage section at 30, 000 ft.

Posted by: Johnd01 at April 28, 2013 11:20 AM (yEwJC)

155 "It is a great advantage to a president and the safety of the country to know that he is not a great man." Calvin Coolidge

Posted by: deepred at April 28, 2013 11:21 AM (rUiSC)

156 SHOCKA: Boston Bombers' mother wiretapped by Russian intelligence talking jihad with her dead son. http://preview.tinyurl.com/d543bfs Love the "It's Russia's fault for not telling the FBI more" theme to that story. Because suddenly vague warnings are no longer something that can be expected to be important after better part of a decade of being told they were the Holy Grail of intel. Only thing most journalists can accurately describe is their own internal colon.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at April 28, 2013 11:22 AM (8kIXE)

157 I don't think he's peeing on the rug, I think he's holding his wee wee and aiming at the flag. Preznit Peter Principle.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 28, 2013 11:22 AM (JQuNB)

158 TFG is dripping with hubris...my question: what's taking nemesis so long?

Posted by: Whiskey_Joe at April 28, 2013 11:23 AM (W/Yy+)

159 5 Yeah. In that photo it really does look more like SCOAMF is taking a leak on the Oval Office floor. He does that a lot, I imagine. Posted by: Stu-22 at April 28, 2013 01:52 PM (k4bdL) Not as much as he pisses on the Constitution.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 28, 2013 11:23 AM (Zd/NW)

160 Clinton definitely had a tell, which is why I was so surprised so many people fell for his BS. Whenever he'd say something semi-conservative, which BJ did a lot while running for president, he'd look down slightly and give a little smile. Ever. Single. Fucking. Time. Just shows how powerful the media is. I don't believe Clinton was a consummate politician so much as he was consummately supported by the MFM. Look at TFG. His political skills suck. Yet LoFo's think he's great due to the constant all-out media tongue bath.

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 11:24 AM (G9qZk)

161 Off to BBQ some big ole ribs. Later, bitches.

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 11:27 AM (G9qZk)

162 Clinton was an obvious grifter and cooch hound; anybody who couldn't see through that was a fucking idiot. Unfortunately we're a nation overloaded with fucking idiots.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 28, 2013 11:28 AM (NXpSe)

163 @163 The FSB really failed us here meme is funny in the way every post-terror PC ass covering meme idiocy is funny. Deadly, but funny. All the FSB did was give up the guy who did the bombing. How do you say that without laughing?

Posted by: Beagle at April 28, 2013 11:30 AM (sOtz/)

164 Just checking to see if it was possible to comment here from Delta's steerage section at 30, 000 ft. Posted by: Johnd01 at April 28, 2013 03:20 PM (yEwJC) Success!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 11:30 AM (RwRRP)

165 Humility is one of God's greatest gifts to man. Second only to the gift of life.

Posted by: wattyler1381 at April 28, 2013 11:30 AM (F2Vrz)

166 http://tinyurl.com/co3h869 (taki mag)

LetÂ’s Hope the Next Bomber is a Liberal Journalist

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at April 28, 2013 11:30 AM (0It32)

167

Clinton had 'daddy issues' too.

He was raised by his adoring mommy, who never punished him for lying and cheating.

While Clinton wasn't raised to hate this county, like the JEF was...he was indifferent to it's long-term welfare.

Clinton pumped up the outsourcing of jobs, that was just beginning on it's own.

He sent out Ron Brown, on dozens of taxpayer-paid-for 'junkets' to promote the relocation of US factories...to third world countries.

I still think that there were really suspicious circumstances surrounding Ron Brown's death.

Posted by: wheatie at April 28, 2013 11:30 AM (3B3wv)

168 If the JEF were true to his roots regarding the room decorations, there would be a bong on the chest of drawers and not a Remington.

Posted by: sTevo at April 28, 2013 11:31 AM (VMcEw)

169 That "humble man, lovin' on the hurt and the wounded" pose TFG effects is his version of BillyJeff's lower-lip-bite-I-feel-your-pain expression. Except you could almost believe Clinton was sincere.

Teh One? It is to laugh.

Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at April 28, 2013 11:33 AM (/lWM8)

170 The only reason that "moment of silence" picture was taken is that Obama's Teleprompter was in for routine overhaul.

Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at April 28, 2013 11:33 AM (JHZvw)

171 Men put their feet up on table and desks. You womin folk best not keep complaining about that. Obummer has done enough without snarking on his feet on the desk style...Im sure Michelle bicthes about that too, at home. I've been thinking about that hoop video where he misses every shot and then the photo of him with a baseball bat on the phone. Seriously...he probably would strike out with the bat, so who would be scared?

Posted by: sexypig at April 28, 2013 11:35 AM (dZQh7)

172 83 Ba-Rawn-Ko the Deficit Multifator,

yeah....first time I saw idiocracy I damn near shit brick at its prophecy...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 11:35 AM (LRFds)

173 "What Clinton showed was that a womanizer with the right delivery, aided by an enthusiastic media apparat, could actually woo millions of women at the same time."

There's a thought there which should be completed, which is that there really is one fundamental difference between the Clinton and Obama presidencies.

That difference is how the media operate.

With both men, the media shifted to full on rah-rah campaign-aide mode when they were first standing for office and standing for re-election.

But during the Clinton years, the media still retained some semblance of the idea that when it wasn't campaign time, they needed to be a watchdog on behalf of the public. And they did actually do things like investigate rumors and run down leads. Old style shoe leather journalism.

The media honchos then agonized over whether they should publish what they had found, but they did do the work and they did find out potential stories.

Recall that Matt Drudge is lionized for having gotten the story about Lewinsky, but in reality, that's not what happened. What Drudge did was to publicize that _Newsweek_ had gotten the story about Lewinsky and were vacillating about whether to break that news. Drudge didn't do the shoe leather job. Someone else did it, and Drudge's scoop was that something had turned up from that.

Whereas now, the media do not even begin the investigative process even in private. Rather than allow stories to develop to where they might leak, the goal is to forestall rumors and leads from ever developing to where a story might be perceived to exist. Example: the L.A. Times and the Rashid Khalidi tapes. They've expended huge efforts to lock those away from public view. None at all in exploring and expanding the backstory.

It's the role of a palace guard. And the media appear to relish it. This is not a positive development for the country or the culture. Fortunately, there's a quick cure. Elect a Republican as President again. The watchdogs will again grow teeth and start to growl. Rumors and leads will again be followed up upon. Bet on it.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 28, 2013 11:40 AM (gqT4g)

174 @178 Shoots hoops and golf constantly, but stinks at both. Dan Quayle could give him 18 shots. Bet GWB could post him up.

Posted by: Beagle at April 28, 2013 11:43 AM (sOtz/)

175 On a note related to this post--I just read some of the President's jests from last night's meeting of the like-minded. I'm sure they all had a fine time mocking their opponents by seeming to be mocking themselves instead. Must be nice to be part of the group-think. Certainly must have psychic rewards. There comes a time when some folks just won't buy what someone is selling, at any price, and I have reached that time with the cultural elites of this nation. I now know how many immigrants must have felt when the final decision to leave was made--it wasn't just the opportunity they were leaving for, but the chance to be rid of those in charge who thought they had reached the pinnacle of improvable evolution in their best of all possible worlds, and couldn't have been more wrong.

Posted by: T. at April 28, 2013 11:43 AM (mPopF)

176 For further proof of Bammy's hubris, shall we recall the death of Neil Armstrong and the WH releasing a picture of Obama gazing into the moonlit sky? I simply have the hardest time believing half of this country is buffaloed by this fool. So unable to see the things which are so obvious. I do believe it leaves me quite saddened and equally flummoxed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2013 11:49 AM (3V9LU)

177 I missed the memo:

TFG?

JEF?

Posted by: Dingbat at April 28, 2013 11:49 AM (PdHlY)

178 184 I missed the memo: TFG? JEF? Posted by: Dingbat at April 28, 2013 03:49 PM (PdHlY) That *F*****n Guy Jug-Eared *F***

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 11:50 AM (RwRRP)

179 184 Dingbat,

This fucking guy

Jug Eared Fuck

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 11:50 AM (LRFds)

180 They are rioting in Virginia Beach. What's with people who can't go anywhere in large groups without shooting, stabbing, robbing,and assaulting people? We don't have holidays anymore just riots.

Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 28, 2013 11:50 AM (WcpwN)

181 72--- "Yeah, what IS that picture over the Remington or fake Remington? Anyone know?" Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 02:19 PM (8lmkt) --------------- It's the original of an illustration of the Stat of Lib that Norman Rockwell did for a Sat Evening Post cover. Part of the White House collection. Childe Hassam's impressionist Avenue in The Rain (with the US flags) is on the other side of the window. This selection of pictures was copied from Clinton's Oval Office, despite the fact that neither work goes very well with the One's decor. The Hassam was acquired under the Kennedys and JFK had it in his private bedroom. Heh. Carter and Reagan used it in the room now called the Oval Office dining room. I do not know when the WH got the Rockwell nor how it was used (if at all) before Clinton.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 28, 2013 11:50 AM (C8mVl)

182 183 Lady in Black,

the way I look at it is that about 2/3ds of the donk caucus is in on the gag and they simply use this shit to magnify their minority turnout and give cover for their cheating

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 11:52 AM (LRFds)

183 The HQ could really you a glossary of terms.

Posted by: sTevo at April 28, 2013 11:52 AM (VMcEw)

184 190 Stevo,

yeah the 'stylebook" it gets sent with your platinum membership...

my unobtainium did

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 11:53 AM (LRFds)

185 We have become a country of brain dead idiots with Daddy issues.

I see a long dark period with many reduced to base animal survival before a generation of men can be born.

Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay at April 28, 2013 11:55 AM (kxSZr)

186 *Sarcastic reference to the erstwhile double post

Triple, actually. This is one of those exceedingly rare occasions where Ace is *first* with a posting on the topic.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 28, 2013 11:55 AM (FvyJS)

187 Jar Jar Binks is President while Palpatine, Soros, quietly pulls the strings.

Been raining all day with thunder since I had vowed to do yard work. Silly me, the deities of precipitation have such plans that trump mine. So its been Plan B so far.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 28, 2013 11:56 AM (mbZX2)

188 "All in the delivery, I guess. I would never have been able to say half of his patented come-on lines without starting to guffaw halfway through. They were that cheesy. But from him, they worked. Consistently. Perhaps because he could say them in seeming utter earnest."

It's the stock-in-trade of an accomplish con-man: the ability to look you square in the eye and, without a flicker or a tremor, lie to you. It's also the sign of a sociopath, which is what most con-men are.

Remember how they used to say that Nixon looked like a used-car salesman? Well, Clinton's stepfather *was* a used-car salesman; and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that that was where Bubba learned his social skills.

Posted by: Brown Line at April 28, 2013 11:57 AM (T/4rm)

189 194 Ms Puma,

I sincerely fear for the planting I saw starting the fields are underwater

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 11:57 AM (LRFds)

190 "his humble beginnings"...? This man's "beginnings" were quite unusual and privileged in their day and never reflected anything "humble". He can't learn what those around him never possessed either.

Posted by: Watcher at April 28, 2013 11:57 AM (MyjdH)

191

>>>The HQ could really you a glossary of terms.

It should be in the back of your Style Guide if you are a Platinum Member.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2013 11:57 AM (3HQrZ)

192 #153 Anyone who hasn't seen the movie "Primary Colors" with John Travolta playing Clinton, should. It's told from the point of view of liberal campaign people who really believed in him and start to see what a phony, manipulative, insincere asshole he is. There is a scene about his knocking up the black teenage daughter of his friend, and cheating his way out of a paternity test. I don't know if that actually happened, but it seemed like something that con-artist Clinton would do. The movie was devastating portrayal of Clinton, and Travolta had the mannerisms and speech patterns to the point where you felt like you were watching Clinton even though Travolta looked nothing like him.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 28, 2013 11:58 AM (Fc8Zx)

193
perhaps a transporter malfunction?

Obama is bad Kirk?

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 11:58 AM (+oin+)

194 The HQ could really you a glossary of terms. Posted by: sTevo at April 28, 2013 03:52 PM (VMcEw) And who would you trust to take care of it?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 11:59 AM (RwRRP)

195

>>who would you trust to take care of it?

Buzzion.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2013 11:59 AM (3HQrZ)

196 Tonight's another really boring episode of Mad Men. The Borgias continue to simulate really kinky sex acts after Mass but before Evening Song. And did they really think she was going to relinquish one of her dragons? She's their mother, fer crissakes!

Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 28, 2013 12:03 PM (WcpwN)

197 The Dragons of the Mad Borgias sounds like a piece of winning TV.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 28, 2013 12:06 PM (mbZX2)

198

Damn, just noticed I got issued my first fatwa over at Jawa.

I'd like to thank the Academy of Morons, my Mother and Father, the old man down the street who always tried to get me to reach into his pocket for candy...

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2013 12:07 PM (3HQrZ)

199 Peaches... don't go overboard. Clinton was simply a smart crook who understood that if you shook down the corner store too often it closed.

Obama only understands he needs his next ego fix or to pay back his rivals.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at April 28, 2013 12:07 PM (qvify)

200 AQ battles for ~~Assad's~~ Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. FTFY

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 12:07 PM (feFL6)

201 Is anna around? I have an eBay shipping question for her.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2013 12:08 PM (3HQrZ)

202
those rotten Celtics just barely avoided being swept in the 1st round

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 12:09 PM (ZgBZU)

203 153 "Clinton was a pretty arrogant guy, but he was a consummate politician
and he had the whole Southern charm, 'I feel your pain' thing down and
he could deliver it in a very believable fashion."

Snort. Believable by some.

I had Clinton figured for a phony from about the first half-hour of listening to him.

Frankly pretty astonishing to me that anyone would have been fooled.

But then again, I once knew a guy who was basically a professional womanizer, and it was absolutely incredible how otherwise smart and accomplished women, with substantive degrees and professional careers, would completely lose their senses over what was to me just transparently empty patter.

All in the delivery, I guess. I would never have been able to say half of his patented come-on lines without starting to guffaw halfway through. They were that cheesy. But from him, they worked. Consistently. Perhaps because he could say them in seeming utter earnest.

What Clinton showed was that a womanizer with the right delivery, aided by an enthusiastic media apparat, could actually woo millions of women at the same time. Many of the same women who my acquaintance smoothly moved on, into, past and through were also ones who fell hard for Billy Jeff politically. Fell so hard they acted concussed."

This why we probably should have listened to the Democrats and never given women the vote.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at April 28, 2013 12:09 PM (qvify)

204 AQ battles for ~~Assad's~~ Saddam Hussein's non-existent chemical weapons. FTFY FIFTN (The Narrative)

Posted by: The MFM at April 28, 2013 12:10 PM (FcR7P)

205 Clinton was fundamentally insecure. His whole life was about winning the approval of others.

===============
And Barry resents that his father abandoned him and hates America, and we're all being punished for it.

Isn't "shared sacrifice" fun?

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 28, 2013 12:11 PM (WSgyE)

206 I'm at the Raleigh Southern Women's Show and the estrogen in the air is so thick, you could cut it with a cleaver! Fabulous!!!

Posted by: EC at April 28, 2013 12:12 PM (U2zzq)

207
I'm only up to ep 3 of Game of Thrones, but last night's ep was #5, halfway through season 3.

So far that's 25 episodes aired, about 21 hours total. Keep in mind that's 10-11 times the average movie length.

What the hell are they doing?? Get on with it, already.

Is Winter coming, or not?

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 12:15 PM (vanqS)

208 I'm at the Raleigh Southern Women's Show and the estrogen in the air is so thick, you could cut it with a cleaver! Fabulous!!! Posted by: EC at April 28, 2013 04:12 PM (U2zzq) Deal with it now for the reward you'll get later.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 12:16 PM (RwRRP)

209 This Kmart commercial is hilarious. If you haven't seen it, dozo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL4lSavSepc

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 12:17 PM (G9qZk)

210
I'm at the Raleigh Southern Women's Show..

I heard that this year's favorite is the Pomeranian lady.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 12:18 PM (FC8Yl)

211
I'm at the Raleigh Southern Women's Show and the estrogen in the air is so thick...

...my balls disappeared.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 12:19 PM (BUcLz)

212 They are rioting in Virginia Beach. What's with people who can't go anywhere in large groups without shooting, stabbing, robbing,and assaulting people? We don't have holidays anymore just riots. It's the Greeks. It's always the Greeks. In other words, if you see 'Greek Festival' advertised on some place you want to visit, I can guarantee you two things; you will see no actual Greeks, and there will be violence. I'd note that the people who would be actually participating in the violence appear to have a large percentage of melanin in their skin, measurably higher then Greeks, but then I'd be accused of a 'rush to judgement'. I pre-apologize for my ability to discern reality.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 12:19 PM (feFL6)

213
I'm at the Raleigh Southern Women's Show and the estrogen in the air is so thick...

I think I'm lactating.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 28, 2013 12:20 PM (DlaLh)

214 The JEF nickname is the best one for him. I posted this last night and then fell asleep in my chair. At the GWB library opening ceremony, you could see how big The JEF's ears are when they were lit up by the TX sun. They were translucent. I refuse to listen to his speech. Hillary had a dress one, down past her knees and then pants under it. It looked stupid. I think the guilt over Benghazi is getting to her, she looks worse than she did in January. Peaches are you here? I read in the comments yesterday that you asked what happened to my brother. He lives in Maine and someone called 911, they called me because I am his emergency contact. he was too delirious to admit himself. Then a doctor called me & said they believe it is a urinary tract infection, that was March 30. They had to put him on a ventilator and in CCU (ME talk for ICU). They also found strep infection in his blood and pneumonia. After 20 days or so, they took him off the ventilator and he couldn't move. He had to have full body MRI. That showed that the infection was in his cervical spine, he had to have three discs in his neck removed and fused. That surgery was on April 18. They took him off ventilator Wednesday and he cam move his arms but can't use his hands or wiggle his toes. Thank you all for your prayers. I did tell him that plenty of good people are praying for him. Carol

Posted by: CarolT at April 28, 2013 12:20 PM (z4WKX)

215 219 Regular Moron,

ever get the feeling that people who are "uneducated' and think life is work and slow gain may in fact be better at their core than the annoited "beautiful?"

Yeah me too...

I denounce myself

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 12:21 PM (LRFds)

216 KMart is a depressing place these days. I don't go without a good coupon.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 12:26 PM (RwRRP)

217

Which I find a bit remarkable considering his humble beginnings.

HUH? They had servents in Indonesia... his formative years... then came back stateside where Grandma and Gramps lived in a nice neighborhood of Hawaii.

His teenage years had Nationaly known figures coming in and out of it.... then he managed to somehow get into very prestigious schools...

Humble beginnings?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2013 12:30 PM (lZBBB)

218 @ 223 Yeah, both Kmart and Best Buy have the stink of pre-death about them. It's like that precipitous decline the elderly get 6-12 months before they die.

Posted by: Staff at April 28, 2013 12:31 PM (G9qZk)

219 PResidenet Obama is bowing towards Mecca.

Posted by: Jack at April 28, 2013 12:32 PM (Zv1QB)

220 Is he facing Mecca?

Posted by: Wyguy at April 28, 2013 12:33 PM (I6Zs7)

221 Yeah, I'm dealing with it. I'm the photographer so I gotta be here and support the wife.

Posted by: EC at April 28, 2013 12:33 PM (U2zzq)

222 Which I find a bit remarkable considering his humble beginnings. HUH? They had servents in Indonesia... his formative years... then came back stateside where Grandma and Gramps lived in a nice neighborhood of Hawaii. His teenage years had Nationaly known figures coming in and out of it.... then he managed to somehow get into very prestigious schools... Humble beginnings? Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2013 04:30 PM (lZBBB) I have lived in the Philippines and can testify that it deosn't cost a lot to have a servant.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 28, 2013 12:34 PM (RwRRP)

223 Humble beginnings? Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2013 04:30 PM

Wingnut, you're not supposed to see the individual. You're supposed to see the jihad of thousands of oppressed.

Posted by: Immam Baracka Hussein Obama at April 28, 2013 12:34 PM (0It32)

224

Does your level of membership at AoSHQ determine which browser is the best for commenting?

Oh, testing, &&&&

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 12:35 PM (A9na/)

225 Hah, no ampersands. Had them before. Have I been downgraded?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 12:36 PM (A9na/)

226 Does your level of membership at AoSHQ determine which browser is the best for commenting?

Oh, testing, Posted by: olddog in mo at April 28, 2013 04:35 PM

Mosaic or Cello works best with PixieMinx.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at April 28, 2013 12:37 PM (0It32)

227 I love that pic of GW and the soldiers!

Carol, first time hearing about your brother, haven't been on AoS too regularly lately. Prayers up.

Posted by: Theresa (D) at April 28, 2013 12:39 PM (R1zZw)

228 231 OldDog in MO,

My Democratonium level allows me to read the blog w/out a browser...

I just put my tinfoil cap on and by gadfry there it is....

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 12:41 PM (LRFds)

229 http://youtu.be/0bi1PvXCbr8

Charlton Heston is Mark Anthony.....

(1970)

For Media is a noble man

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 12:42 PM (LRFds)

230 I'm late. Did anyone read the link? From the Politico, no less. Ouch. bitches. Frig auto spell

Posted by: Golfman in N at April 28, 2013 12:42 PM (/djtm)

231 carol T,

I'm glad he is improving lord willing he gains back most of his QoL....

tell him to keep fighting and we'll keep praying

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 12:43 PM (LRFds)

232 KMart is a depressing place these days. I don't go without a good coupon. Last time I went to KMart there were only two people in the entire store, my wife and I. Since I feel a little uncomfortable being in the 'unmentionables' aisle with her I strolled over to kitchen supplies, aisle eight and looked at non-lethal gadgets. Then I heard the loudspeaker call for assistance in aisle eight, I (paranoid alert) wondered maybe they wanted someone to check out whether I was shoplifting. Something I can't imagine doing in this life, or the next couple hundred. Anyway, I got out of there in a hurry without buying anything. Fuck 'em. If they think 50% of their customers are shoplifters, I don't want to shop there, as I'm the one who will have to pay the price for the thieves. As to shoplifting, I usually can get store employees to open up to me a little bit about how prevalent it is in the 'Obama Era' and every store I've been in and asked the question they've said the same thing, 'You would not believe it'.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 12:45 PM (feFL6)

233 199 #153 Anyone who hasn't seen the movie "Primary Colors" with John Travolta playing Clinton, should. It's told from the point of view of liberal campaign people who really believed in him and start to see what a phony, manipulative, insincere asshole he is. There is a scene about his knocking up the black teenage daughter of his friend, and cheating his way out of a paternity test. I don't know if that actually happened, but it seemed like something that con-artist Clinton would do. The movie was devastating portrayal of Clinton, and Travolta had the mannerisms and speech patterns to the point where you felt like you were watching Clinton even though Travolta looked nothing like him. Posted by: nerdygirl at April 28, 2013 03:58 PM (Fc8Zx) From what I heard back in the late 80's from Dems in Arkansas, there were a lot of kids running around with Billy Jeff's DNA. Lots of kids, just not the one running around the Arkansas Governor's mansion.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 28, 2013 12:48 PM (Zd/NW)

234 From Israeli TV: The FBI Investigates the Boston Marathon Bombing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgTmGIXT8ow (hat tip to a commenter at Neo-Neocon)

Posted by: rickl at April 28, 2013 12:50 PM (sdi6R)

235 219 They are rioting in Virginia Beach. What's with people who can't go anywhere in large groups without shooting, stabbing, robbing,and assaulting people? We don't have holidays anymore just riots. It's the Greeks. It's always the Greeks. In other words, if you see 'Greek Festival' advertised on some place you want to visit, I can guarantee you two things; you will see no actual Greeks, and there will be violence. I'd note that the people who would be actually participating in the violence appear to have a large percentage of melanin in their skin, measurably higher then Greeks, but then I'd be accused of a 'rush to judgement'. I pre-apologize for my ability to discern reality. Posted by: Regular Moron at April 28, 2013 04:19 PM (feFL6) Here is a report from a local tv station. Yutes gone wild. http://tinyurl.com/d2h3ggc

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 28, 2013 12:52 PM (Zd/NW)

236 From what I heard back in the late 80's from Dems in Arkansas, there were a lot of kids running around with Billy Jeff's DNA. Lots of kids, just not the one running around the Arkansas Governor's mansion. A 'golden oldie' picture http://americas-best.com/graphics/pics_six-years-after-clinton.jpg

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 12:54 PM (feFL6)

237 Here is a report from a local tv station. Yutes gone wild.

http://tinyurl.com/d2h3ggc

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 28, 2013 04:52 PM (Zd/NW)

I see Black people.........

Posted by: Haley Joe Ozboy at April 28, 2013 12:56 PM (Dll6b)

238 "From what I heard back in the late 80's from Dems in Arkansas, there were a lot of kids running around with Billy Jeff's DNA. Lots of kids, just not the one running around the Arkansas Governor's mansion."

I suspect you'll find that the one in the Governor's mansion has Webb Hubbell's DNA.

Just as I suspect you would find that The Won has no trace of the DNA of Barack Obama Sr.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 28, 2013 12:58 PM (gqT4g)

239 239 KMart is a depressing place these days. I don't go without a good coupon. Last time I went to KMart there were only two people in the entire store, my wife and I. Since I feel a little uncomfortable being in the 'unmentionables' aisle with her I strolled over to kitchen supplies, aisle eight and looked at non-lethal gadgets. Then I heard the loudspeaker call for assistance in aisle eight, I (paranoid alert) wondered maybe they wanted someone to check out whether I was shoplifting. Something I can't imagine doing in this life, or the next couple hundred. Posted by: Regular Moron at April 28, 2013 04:45 PM (feFL6) Or they were so happy to have a live customer that they wanted to send someone to see if they could help you with anything. I've never actually been confronted and accused of shoplifting, but once I was in a high-end men's clothing store to look at buying a new wallet. Let's just say that I wasn't dressed like a regular customer. As I looked around at the merchandise, I kind of got the feeling that I was being shadowed by store security. It didn't bother me, though. The store has a right to protect their property. I did end up buying a wallet there.

Posted by: rickl at April 28, 2013 12:58 PM (sdi6R)

240 The Bush family has a long history of humility. George Herbert Walker Bush's mother detested bragging, and she brought her children up that way.
That trait was passed down to W.

Laura Welch Bush was brought up the same way. I read an article about their construction of the ranch house which was completed just after the 2000 election. The architect said every time he would make a suggestion in the design, Laura would ask, "This isn't pretentious, is it?"

While I am not thinking we need Jeb to run, as I do not think he is suitable during the current times, I will say that I still miss George W. Bush as president, and I think he was a better president than most people give him credit for. Probably the best (after Reagan) in my lifetime.

Posted by: Miss Marple at April 28, 2013 01:00 PM (GoIUi)

241 221 The JEF nickname is the best one for him. I posted this last night and then fell asleep in my chair. At the GWB library opening ceremony, you could see how big The JEF's ears are when they were lit up by the TX sun. They were translucent. I refuse to listen to his speech. Hillary had a dress one, down past her knees and then pants under it. It looked stupid. I think the guilt over Benghazi is getting to her, she looks worse than she did in January. Peaches are you here? I read in the comments yesterday that you asked what happened to my brother. He lives in Maine and someone called 911, they called me because I am his emergency contact. he was too delirious to admit himself. Then a doctor called me & said they believe it is a urinary tract infection, that was March 30. They had to put him on a ventilator and in CCU (ME talk for ICU). They also found strep infection in his blood and pneumonia. After 20 days or so, they took him off the ventilator and he couldn't move. He had to have full body MRI. That showed that the infection was in his cervical spine, he had to have three discs in his neck removed and fused. That surgery was on April 18. They took him off ventilator Wednesday and he cam move his arms but can't use his hands or wiggle his toes. Thank you all for your prayers. I did tell him that plenty of good people are praying for him. Carol Posted by: CarolT at April 28, 2013 04:20 PM (z4WKX) Glad to hear your brother is on the mend, that is really good news, and we will continue to pray for you, him and his doctors and nurses. As for Hilary!, it's the alcoholism. Most alcoholics her age really start showing it at about this age, and they start going down hill real fast.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 28, 2013 01:10 PM (Zd/NW)

242 As I looked around at the merchandise, I kind of got the feeling that I was being shadowed by store security. It didn't bother me, though. The store has a right to protect their property. I did end up buying a wallet there. Let me ask you this. If it is the policy of a store to make customers feel as if they are being observed -- to the degree that monitors are placed, displaying you walking through the entrance of that store. Then announcements are made to have someone assist you in the aisle you currently are... And you are honest. I think there are two options; buy something to prove you are honest -- whatever the price, or walk out of the store without buying a thing because you feel as if your sense of morality has been called into question. I will NEVER buy something because I want to prove my honesty. I would feel as if I had been coerced into the purchase.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 28, 2013 01:11 PM (feFL6)

243 Posted by: CarolT at April 28, 2013 04:20 PM (z4WKX)

Dammit, Carol, that is awful! From what you've shared about his condition, I thought a car accident or something, then an MRSI or something at the hospital. And, yes, he is named nightly on the peaches prayer list (well, Carol's brother, but I'm sure the Big Guy knows who I'm talking about, pretty sure He reads the comments, too -- if not before, then at least since He's had Breitbart to hang with).

I'm so sorry for this trouble in your brother's life, and yours.

Posted by: Peaches at April 28, 2013 01:16 PM (8lmkt)

244 I suspect you'll find that the one in the Governor's mansion has Webb Hubbell's DNA. Just as I suspect you would find that The Won has no trace of the DNA of Barack Obama Sr. Posted by: torquewrench at April 28, 2013 04:58 PM (gqT4g) It's why I always call Princess Seabiscuit the offspring of a former Secretary of State and Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 28, 2013 01:21 PM (Zd/NW)

245 I've never actually been confronted and accused of shoplifting, but once I was in a high-end men's clothing store to look at buying a new wallet. Let's just say that I wasn't dressed like a regular customer. As I looked around at the merchandise, I kind of got the feeling that I was being shadowed by store security. It didn't bother me, though. The store has a right to protect their property. I did end up buying a wallet there.

Posted by: rickl at April 28, 2013 04:58 PM (sdi6R)

I was once accused, in Mt Saint Michel France, of shoplifting a Michellin guide that I'd bought at another store. I was able to stammer out in French that I'd bought it elsewhere and the owner of the store told the guy who collared me that I wasn't the one he was looking for. He apologized in English and I went from being worried and pissed off to being amused.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 28, 2013 01:23 PM (XGFfV)

246 250+ comments I haven't begun to read, so maybe the point was made already. Sorry, if so, but: Hubris is a total downer in a) a *real* leader, and b) one who has genuine accomplishments to his credit. Good accomplishments, of course. So Choklit Jeebus is just the much more hard to take for this untethered-to-reality hubris. Cordially...

Posted by: Rick at April 28, 2013 01:34 PM (Gfgj6)

247 I can stand hubris if the leader is good. When your sole accomplishment is raising insurance cost on everyone, you had best be clamming up.

Posted by: Picric at April 28, 2013 01:48 PM (fF8ds)

248 Mission Accomplished! yeah, humility my ass see what you wanna see I guess

Posted by: whatever at April 28, 2013 01:58 PM (iy/iW)

249 What is that horse figurine on the desk against the wall?
It is the Stallion who will mount the world! How it got on that pussy's table I know not.

Posted by: Drogo at April 28, 2013 02:13 PM (mGBy8)

250 256 What is that horse figurine on the desk against the wall?

Remington Bronze

Posted by: Long Island at April 28, 2013 02:29 PM (hl8SI)

251 I think the Remington Bronze is titled "Bronco Buster". I could be completely wrong ... but Reagan may have brought it to the Oval Office.

Posted by: Long Island at April 28, 2013 02:32 PM (hl8SI)

252 If this hasn't been posted already, I'm very surprised... http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2012/08/stars-get-in-your-eyes.html

Posted by: Cato the Elder at April 28, 2013 02:40 PM (sZwqG)

253 Know what bugs me? Everytime someone says something positive about GWB they have to preface first with a negative qualification. Believe me you won't spontaneously combust if you don't let people know you disagreed with him every time you mention his name.

Posted by: polynikes at April 28, 2013 02:55 PM (IpwkJ)

254 Posted by: whatever at April 28, 2013 05:58 PM (iy/iW) What's sad is you don't even know why what you said is hilarious in it's stupidity.

Posted by: polynikes at April 28, 2013 02:58 PM (IpwkJ)

255 260 Polynikes,

it just shows how completely the newsies and the asshole left poisoned the well...the Luap Nor helped.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 28, 2013 03:00 PM (LRFds)

256 Every (capital?) ship in the USN that finishes its tour of duty puts up a "Mission Accomplished" banner, whatever, but, you know, whatever...

Posted by: andycanuck at April 28, 2013 03:04 PM (mGBy8)

257 What's the significance/symbolism of JEF positioning himself toward the window with the head bowed?

I think this requires further analysis.

Posted by: Fritz at April 28, 2013 03:04 PM (gyDll)

258 I am too stupid to understand the difference between congratulating a team for accomplishing their Mission ...

And taking personal credit for killing a terrorist when little or no credit whatsoever is deserved.

Posted by: Wut Ever at April 28, 2013 03:10 PM (EZl54)

259 One question after Dear Leader does his massed pardons in some 3.5 years , will the TelePrompTer get it's own pardon or will it have to share it with Biden and Portguese Water Dog ?

Posted by: DrDrill at April 28, 2013 04:18 PM (XRPyV)

260 Still rather see this picture than the Clinton's damage control swimsuit secluded vacation photo .

Posted by: DrDrill at April 28, 2013 04:20 PM (XRPyV)

261 Only 4 more prayers to go!

Posted by: Towards Mecca at April 28, 2013 04:24 PM (rN2Uq)

262 looks like alot of leaves on the trees outside the windows in that pic. what month is it now?

Posted by: Rats Alley at April 28, 2013 05:10 PM (7yx0r)

263 What a dick.

Posted by: Dirty Old Man at April 28, 2013 06:22 PM (u7qzk)

264 "Which I find a bit remarkable considering his humble beginnings." Also considering his humble capabilities.

Posted by: Jmt at April 28, 2013 06:37 PM (/oh0u)

265 Ok, this is a long shot. Does anyone here have a link to the video of GWB early in the Iraq War, when he surprised everyone with that giant turkey on Thanksgiving? I only saw it once on television and I remember the soldiers roaring with approval. It made me feel good and I would like to see it again. I've tried googling for it, but GWB is completely poisoned in the Google search if you know what I mean. Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Codec717 at April 28, 2013 07:32 PM (5i/58)

266 He's just peeing on the carpet 'cos, no matter how hard he looks, he can't find a corner in the oval office.

Posted by: dedgren at April 28, 2013 07:48 PM (Lg/XE)

267 What humble beginnings? The commie slut shunted him off to her commie parents, who apparently made good money, because they sent the little bastard to private school.

That prick has never wanted for one damn thing his whole life.

Posted by: Torqued at April 28, 2013 07:52 PM (AKS75)

268 @codec17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tffCqaIKT-c

Posted by: Torqued at April 28, 2013 07:59 PM (AKS75)

269 "Presnit Bronco Bama " this was the best laugh I had all day. Can I use this?

Posted by: firefirefire at April 29, 2013 05:51 AM (nAkDV)

270 I miss President Bush.

Posted by: ChrisyBlinky, Sarcastic, Radicalized Redneck Queen needs more proof at April 29, 2013 06:07 AM (baL2B)

271 Humble beginnings, baloney. He has always been in the most exclusive private schools in whatever nation he's been in. Servants waited on him in Indonesia. The grandmother who largely raised him was a VP in the largest bank in Hawaii. His grandfather and mom were commies and he was raised as a "red diaper baby" with a silver spoon in his mouth. Pretension oozes from his every pore.

Posted by: theCork at April 29, 2013 07:26 AM (I3ZHb)

272 I've noted since day one that Obama would fail management 101 from the very get go. One of the first things you learn to take ownership of the issues you inherit. Instead he spent the first 4 years of his presidency on the failures of the last 8. Sorry but that just doesn't inspire and motivate anyone. We need a pitcher not a belly itcher.

Posted by: HeftyJo at April 29, 2013 08:51 AM (1oE9r)

273 Obama is the most, self centered,arrogant embarrassment of of a President in our modern history.

Posted by: Yourmamatoo at April 29, 2013 06:36 PM (tXE/3)

274 Obama is the most, self centered,arrogant embarrassment of a President in our modern history.

Posted by: Yourmamatoo at April 29, 2013 06:39 PM (tXE/3)

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