September 22, 2013

Merkel Wins Huge on Basis of Low Unemployment and Almost-Elminiated Deficit
— Ace

And Don't Forget! Dave's NFL thread is below, with boobies. And Oregon Muse's book thread and Andy's gun thread. A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with those things.

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Wait a minute -- I was told by Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and the media that you have to spend, spend, spend to reduce the unemployment rate.

And yet in America, where we spent, spent, spent, the unemployment rate is distressingly high (and has forced millions out of the job market altogether), but in Germany, where they've pursued an Awful Austerity (ick!) program, they have low unemployment.

“It’s an Election Day like we haven’t seen for years,” Armin Laschet, deputy chairman of Merkel’s CDU, said on ARD television. “The FDP may still make it, but first of all it’s an endorsement of Angela Merkel’s policies.”

With unemployment near a two-decade low and the budget deficit virtually eliminated, voters backed MerkelÂ’s handling of the domestic economy, EuropeÂ’s largest, and her push for austerity in the euro zone in exchange for aid.

While the Christian Democratic Union romped, they did so at the expense of their ally, the Free Democrats, who might not even get enough of the votes to have any seats in the Bundeswhatever at all.

Which, alas, means that Merkel might have to strike a deal with the Socialists.

The Greens, the SPDÂ’s favoured partner, took 8 percent, and the anti-capitalist Left Party got 8.5 percent. The anti-euro Alternative for Germany got 4.8 percent, according to the television projections as of 6:20 p.m.

The projections showed MerkelÂ’s party just three or four seats short of an absolute majority. She may still be forced into a grand coalition with her Social Democratic rivals.

I hate linking Politico but: The Greens may have been punished for "Veggie Day."

In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to tweak Americans' diets, Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated "Veggie Day" each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals. Borrowing colorfully from English, German newspaper Bild described public reaction to the idea as a "shitstorm."

At her party's final campaign rally on Saturday, Merkel joined in, slamming the Green proposal.

"You will never hear from the Christian Democratic Union party when you should eat meat and when you shouldn't," Merkel said to loud applause from her supporters and campaign workers in the Tempodrom theater.

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It was in many ways an easy shot for Merkel to take, but her resistance to "Veggie Day" seemed to involve more than just needling an opposition party over a perceived misstep. Having spent 45 years under Communist rule, she appeared to chafe at the state intruding into decisions as personal as what food to ingest.

Merkel noted that she herself skips meat on Friday, but that she'd be damned if she'd make that a government policy.

I haven't been this excited about Strong German Leadership since Hitler!

I mean, since Helmutt Kohl or whoever. I meant Helmutt. Auto-correct and all.

The left is going to keep pushing this notion as the State as paterfamilias...

Roman law and tradition (mos maiorum) established the power of the pater familias within the community of his own extended familia. He held legal privilege over the property of the familia, and varying levels of authority over his dependents: these included his wife and children, certain other relatives through blood or adoption, clients, freedmen and slaves. The same mos maiorum moderated his authority and determined his responsibilities to his own familia and to the broader community. He had a duty to father and raise healthy children as future citizens of Rome, to maintain the moral propriety and well-being of his household, to honour his clan and ancestral gods and to dutifully participate—and if possible, serve—in Rome's political, religious and social life. In effect, the pater familias was expected to be a good citizen. In theory at least, he held powers of life and death over every member of his extended familia through ancient right but in practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised. It was eventually limited by law.

I don't know why it's required to explain, at this late date, why this conception of the State is primitive, backwards, and hateful of freedom and human dignity, but apparently it is so required.

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1 Christian Democratic Union FTW!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 22, 2013 09:29 AM (FMNSK)

2 wow, we're in sync I was just reading this With unemployment near a two-decade low and the budget deficit virtually eliminated, voters backed MerkelÂ’s handling of the domestic economy, EuropeÂ’s largest, and her push for austerity in the euro zone in exchange for aid. They punished the Free Democrats after four years of bickering and failure to deliver on its tax-cutting pledges. if only...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 09:30 AM (IXrOn)

3

They get Merkel and we get Obama?

I thought we won that War?

Posted by: garrett at September 22, 2013 09:31 AM (D1BTJ)

4 Help!

Posted by: Phantom Sven at September 22, 2013 09:31 AM (jmVS/)

5 It was in many ways an easy shot for Merkel to take, but her resistance to "Veggie Day" seemed to involve more than just needling an opposition party over a perceived misstep. Having spent 45 years under Communist rule, she appeared to chafe at the state intruding into decisions as personal as what food to ingest.


Communist?  I thought I was a fascist.

Whatever.

Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at September 22, 2013 09:32 AM (FMNSK)

6 btw, I was really happy to see this Merkel was being hammered, but, she held her own. Let's hope the exit polls are correct.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 09:32 AM (IXrOn)

7 And Don't Forget! Dave's NFL thread is below, with boobies. And Oregon Muse's book thread and Andy's gun thread. A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with those things. All that's missing is a gaming thread, and some washboard abs.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 09:33 AM (IXrOn)

8 US unemployment is high (>20%) primarily due to two things. (1)  The ever increasing number of choking regulations issued under the Obamanite Dictatorship and (2) the uncertainties cause by Obamacare which is a form of regulation but requires its own category.


FDR proved that tax and spend will not improve the economy.  Indeed, it will take a recession and turn it into a depression. 


Obama is showing that is still true.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 09:34 AM (zZbNF)

9

>>> All that's missing is a gaming thread, and some washboard abs.

 

 

Washboard abs in the background, ok?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at September 22, 2013 09:34 AM (D1BTJ)

10 Unpossible!

Posted by: Y-not at September 22, 2013 09:35 AM (5H6zj)

11 Shitstorm = Scheiss-Sturm

Posted by: kbdabear at September 22, 2013 09:36 AM (/9IC1)

12 FDR proved that tax and spend will not improve the economy. Indeed, it will take a recession and turn it into a depression.


But then, so many people will be on unemployment that the economy will take off like a rocket.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, Economic Theorist at September 22, 2013 09:36 AM (FMNSK)

13 In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to tweak Americans' diets That's why she's switched to H2O. Who can argue with water? See! She's so smart! Water is good for you!* *LIV: I didn't know that...Oooo Ahhhh So smart...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 09:36 AM (IXrOn)

14 Washboard abs in the background, ok? Posted by: Carlos Danger at September 22, 2013 01:34 PM (D1BTJ) ewww I noticed the Covert Affairs TV show is ab central.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 09:37 AM (IXrOn)

15 You'd think a people whose porn often involves turd expulsion could come up with a word for "Shitstorm"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 22, 2013 09:38 AM (/9IC1)

16 All that's missing is a gaming thread, and some washboard abs. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 01:33 PM (IXrOn) No abs in the gaming thread sadly

Posted by: The dude at September 22, 2013 09:41 AM (vJdyz)

17 Veggie Day? I can see how a meal made only of sauerkraut and beans might cause a shitstorm

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 09:41 AM (4oR+N)

18 Look up Stephanie Handler. Nick Searcy destroyed her. David Aaron Batten™ @dmbatten BREAKING: Philanthropist & @UCSF Fundraiser @shandlerr advocates withholding medical care for those who oppose obama pic.twitter.com/s4bVqRXtiR She works for UC-San Francisco Medical Center and openly advocates withholding medical care from people who voted against Obama. Full nazi. At least she's honest. Twitchy has the story.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 09:42 AM (ZPrif)

19 Could the answer to your question be the old nugget "those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it."

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at September 22, 2013 09:44 AM (RZ8pf)

20 Merkel: The Anti-Obama.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 22, 2013 09:46 AM (PjgvN)

21 @17 - that is truly frightening. And I still know people who can't figure out why we don't want gov't running our medical care.

Posted by: CA Token at September 22, 2013 09:46 AM (FTX13)

22 Damn it, now I kinda want to go hunt a hardbody cosplayer photo

Posted by: The dude at September 22, 2013 09:47 AM (vJdyz)

23

Merkel: The Anti-Obama.

 

 

Wouldn't  the Anti-Obama would be a man?

Posted by: garrett at September 22, 2013 09:48 AM (D1BTJ)

24

>> Damn it, now I kinda want to go hunt a hardbody cosplayer photo

 

 

Let your freak flag fly, sister!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at September 22, 2013 09:49 AM (D1BTJ)

25 "I don't know why it's required to explain, at this late date, why this conception of the State is primitive, backwards, and hateful of freedom and human dignity, but apparently it is so required."



The Romans didn't have the right people in charge!

Posted by: The self-serving assholes who now want to take charge at September 22, 2013 09:49 AM (Zg/HU)

26 Thanks, Ace. Appreciate the Sunday thread.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 09:51 AM (xSegX)

27 That's why she's switched to H2O. Who can argue with water? Hydroxyl Acid??? It has a higher pH than any other known acid. It's in virtually all of our food. How many people have died of Hydroxyl Acid ingestion? And I don't even want to speak about the chemically-similar Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 09:54 AM (xSegX)

28 Veggie day....but no corn....that's for ethanol.

Posted by: BignJames at September 22, 2013 09:54 AM (j7iSn)

29 Stephanie Handler is a development assistant, which usually means she's like an administrative assistant who might have a little donor contact at events, so it's a little odd that she's being pegged as a philanthropist. She's trying to clean up her tracks on the web, but I see she's still on the UCSF development contact page.

Posted by: Y-not at September 22, 2013 09:55 AM (5H6zj)

30 What the hell is veggie day?

Posted by: Y-not at September 22, 2013 09:56 AM (5H6zj)

31 27 That's why she's switched to H2O.

Who can argue with water?

Hydroxyl Acid???

It has a higher pH than any other known acid.

It's in virtually all of our food.

How many people have died of Hydroxyl Acid ingestion?

And I don't even want to speak about the chemically-similar Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 01:54 PM (xSegX)

 

The base Hydrogen Hydroxide is just as equally dangerous.

Posted by: buzzion at September 22, 2013 09:56 AM (LI48c)

32 One sour note for the Germans is encapsulated in this bit I read about their energy policy. With their big push for renewables, their electric rates have necessarily skyrocketed. (and as a side note, they are currently in the process of building 20 coal fired power plants lolololol)
 
Some old pensioner was being interviewed for an article, and he described how he cannot afford to use his living room, so he spends his time in the kitchen, with a 5 watt bulb for lighting. If he really needs to light up the room to see something, he turns on his 25 watt fluorescent light.
 
But he can't use that 25 watter very often; he's already had his power turned off for inability to pay his electric bill in the recent past.
 
I consider leaving 25 watt bulbs on in my house a rounding error in my bill.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2013 09:56 AM (wNF3N)

33 Ikki Tousen cosplay anyone?
http://tinyurl.com/lhxfvy3

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 09:56 AM (nqb9X)

34 Veggie Day, the day when the children eat all the actors in Veggie Tales.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 09:58 AM (nqb9X)

35 Earlier thread. But did an NFL team really have to issue a statement about a song they were going to start/stop playing. TRRS

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at September 22, 2013 09:59 AM (gkJ59)

36 OT, but, I would have expected more from a president who made such a big deal about his Kenyan ancestry and where several Americans died. President Obama called President Kenyatta of Kenya this morning to express condolences to the government and people of Kenya for the terrorist attack carried out by al-Shabaab yesterday on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi. President Obama reiterated U.S. support for KenyaÂ’s efforts to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. The President also reaffirmed the strong and historic partnership between the United States and Kenya as well as our shared commitment to combating terrorism and promoting peace and prosperity in East Africa and around the world. http://tinyurl.com/m3wox43

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 10:01 AM (xSegX)

37 I have tire burning day. Is that like veggie day?

Posted by: UWP at September 22, 2013 10:01 AM (vj51i)

38
Its actually Andy's NFL thread, but sometimes we call him Tom or Harry.

Posted by: The Assoc. of Daves named Joe at September 22, 2013 10:02 AM (sj9LN)

39 36 OT, but, I would have expected more from a president who made such a big deal about his Kenyan ancestry and where several Americans died. President Obama called President Kenyatta of Kenya this morning to express condolences to the government and people of Kenya for the terrorist attack carried out by al-Shabaab yesterday on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi. President Obama reiterated U.S. support for KenyaÂ’s efforts to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. The President also reaffirmed the strong and historic partnership between the United States and Kenya as well as our shared commitment to combating terrorism and promoting peace and prosperity in East Africa and around the world. http://tinyurl.com/m3wox43 Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 02:01 PM (xSegX) Stevens, Smith, Doherty and Woods unavailable to comment.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 22, 2013 10:05 AM (GEICT)

40 Vegetable nutrition is a myth.

Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 22, 2013 10:06 AM (0axsw)

41 Veggies are what food eats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2013 10:07 AM (8Fl6F)

42 FDR proved that tax and spend will not improve the economy. Indeed, it will take a recession and turn it into a depression. Obama is showing that is still true. Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 01:34 PM (zZbNF) Vic, I agree with almost 99% of what you post. I wonder if we can try to trade TFG for Angela?

Posted by: CarolT at September 22, 2013 10:10 AM (z4WKX)

43
he held powers of life and death over every member of his extended familia through ancient right

I just had an orgasm.

Posted by: Bracky Obamahitler at September 22, 2013 10:11 AM (sj9LN)

44 I have tire burning day. Is that like veggie day? Posted by: UWP -------------------- Hold it..., are those mounted, or unmounted tires? Just asking out of curiosity, because I'm on board either way.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:11 AM (aDwsi)

45 Take note of all the Republican politicians lining up to discredit Cruz.  All of them have been in the Senate or House for decades that brought about this constant need to raise the debt ceiling. None of them had the wisdom or balls to address the governments need to spend and bestow entitlements on the population, yet they're the pragmatists. They're the one that believe we can keep spending a dollar for every 60 cents the government takes in and yet Ted Cruz is the one not being realistic.
Fuckers.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 22, 2013 10:13 AM (APJIX)

46 You can always argue all day about Rome. When Augustus became Princeps ("First Citizen"), the paterfamilias system faded away. He was a great moralist, of course -- required everyone to be married -- but he codified the parts of family common law that he liked into Senate proclamations, and the rest of it became, well, the Mafia.

We've kicked around the notion of Imperial Presidency since LBJ (The Kennedys were immune to it, being Gracchi). So, the State is not paterfamilias. Obama is Princeps. Unless, you know, the Romans couldn't do both at the same time, but we can. 

Roman family traditions can be a little confusing to us, because each family's influence interacted within its clan and tribe. When you went to the voting pens, you voted by tribe. And we'll get to that, too, probably. But not in a way you'll like.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 10:13 AM (JNUY4)

47 17 Look up Stephanie Handler. She works for UC-San Francisco Medical Center and openly advocates withholding medical care from people who voted against Obama. Full nazi. At least she's honest. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 01:42 PM (ZPrif) This is my shocked face: -_- No, I don't see a problem with the IRS having our medical records. Why do you ask?

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 10:15 AM (sdi6R)

48 So did the Germans call it veggie day? This sounds made up.

Posted by: UWP at September 22, 2013 10:15 AM (vj51i)

49 Ace, Why are you working on Sunday? I was out in my garden all day yesterday and did not come to the blog. I stayed out there later than usual because I was throwing much around and stayed outside past 10 pm. We have lights that go on when you walk by and we have one that is overly sensitive & replaced it. I turn that one on when IÂ’m going outside to extend the time I can stay out there.

Posted by: CarolT at September 22, 2013 10:16 AM (z4WKX)

50 But, water doesn't have electrolytes!

Posted by: Serious Guy at September 22, 2013 10:17 AM (qPwal)

51 Vic? At #7? My guesstimate on the Ga. coast is 1 in 5 white people who want to work can't find anything. Me included. Among my black friends? About 1 in 2. It is The Second Great Depression. But the TV shows happy, pretty pictures & that is what the public believes.

Posted by: backhoe at September 22, 2013 10:19 AM (ULH4o)

52 al Qaeda fighters behead 40 FSA troops in Syria. http://tinyurl.com/nt5bl4r Let's give them more weapons. What could go wrong?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2013 10:20 AM (g1DWB)

53 Look up Stephanie Handler. IÂ’m not looking that Nazi up, may she be the first to die under Obamacare.

Posted by: CarolT at September 22, 2013 10:20 AM (z4WKX)

54 Looks like all those herms who sweated out a week's worth of beer at 0bama's speech stayed home.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at September 22, 2013 10:20 AM (6xhLc)

55 One sour note for the Germans is encapsulated in this bit I read about their energy policy. With their big push for renewables, their electric rates have necessarily skyrocketed. (and as a side note, they are currently in the process of building 20 coal fired power plants lolololol) ---------------- Post-Fukushima, Merkel jumped on the hysteria bandwagon to close nuclear plants, because Frankfort might be hit by a tsunami, or something. So now, Germany is buying nuclear generated power from France and Czechoslovakia..., until the coal plants are built. So, nuke = OK if it is purchased. Exacerbating things in a big, big way, have been the HUGE subsidies paid for solar. Last May, the Solar boffins world-wide crowed about Germany producing 50% of their power via solar. The (largely unreported) truth is that that it did so for about three minutes. If one looks at total year-long production, it amounts to a whopping 3%. Last I looked, there were ~600,000 German households who could not pay their power bill. Need I say that he s factor is strong among the greenies?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:21 AM (aDwsi)

56 Need I say that he s ------ Need I say that the...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:21 AM (aDwsi)

57 Hardest hit in regard to Michelle's water campaign is the liberal principal at my son's old school who obstructed all attempts by me for 3 years to get easy access to water at lunchtime for the kids.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at September 22, 2013 10:22 AM (RZ8pf)

58 51 My guesstimate on the Ga. coast is 1 in 5 white people who want to work can't find anything. Me included. Among my black friends? About 1 in 2. It is The Second Great Depression. But the TV shows happy, pretty pictures & that is what the public believes.

Posted by: backhoe at September 22, 2013 02:19 PM (ULH4o)



Obama puts out lying numbers and the press, knowing they are lies, spreads them like the fertilizer they are. 


I do have to say that his "taxing" part of the tax and spend has been held down because for revenue he is just printing "magic money" at the rate of about $80B/month.  Which is why inflation is greater than 20%.  But you won't hear that from the MFM either.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 10:23 AM (zZbNF)

59 Lefties sure are quick to wish death upon us.

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 10:24 AM (ELdpj)

60 Bring on the Gamilias invasion fleet and it's SMOD bombardment.
http://youtu.be/EpFHjM38ZPg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:24 AM (nqb9X)

61 Video with the SMOD plus lots of space battles.  Lots of explosions.
http://youtu.be/EvJR4ujXIE0

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:25 AM (nqb9X)

62 My guesstimate on the Ga. coast is 1 in 5 white people who want to work can't find anything. Me included. Among my black friends? About 1 in 2. It is The Second Great Depression. But the TV shows happy, pretty pictures & that is what the public believes. Posted by: backhoe at September 22, 2013 02:19 PM (ULH4o) __________ Here's the thing though. While what you say may well be true - 1 in 5 seems a bit high, but whatever - I'll bet 90%+ of those people also have a 2 year or newer smartphone, cable/satellite, high speed internet, are well fed, have all their utilities on, etc. People don't see a depression because quite frankly nobody is living like in the depression. Welfare is now equal with working and people on welfare live a life no different than those who work. Which is why Obama is still popular. The economy may be in the shitter, but the average person doesn't give a fuck as long as the govt check keeps coming in every week.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 10:26 AM (HDgX3)

63 DOWN WITH DA PATRIARCHY! UP WITH THE SAME FUCKING THING EXCEPT IT'S THE STATE BEING THE PATRIARCH!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 22, 2013 10:26 AM (oFCZn)

64 Obama puts out lying numbers and the press, knowing they are lies, spreads them like the fertilizer they are. I do have to say that his "taxing" part of the tax and spend has been held down because for revenue he is just printing "magic money" at the rate of about $80B/month. Which is why inflation is greater than 20%. But you won't hear that from the MFM either. Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 02:23 PM (zZbNF) __________ The official inflation rate has been bullshit for decades. That's nothing new.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 10:27 AM (HDgX3)

65 Lefties sure are quick to wish death upon us. Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 02:24 PM (ELdpj) Lauren, I wished death for Stephanie Handler! IÂ’m not a leftie. Carol

Posted by: CarolT at September 22, 2013 10:28 AM (z4WKX)

66 al Qaeda fighters behead 40 FSA troops in Syria. http://tinyurl.com/nt5bl4r Let's give them more weapons. What could go wrong? The numbers are a little off. I'm sure Obambi is signing the EO to send them sharper knives right away. For the children.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 22, 2013 10:28 AM (sCynV)

67 62 People don't see a depression because quite frankly nobody is living like in the depression. Welfare is now equal with working and people on welfare live a life no different than those who work. Which is why Obama is still popular. The economy may be in the shitter, but the average person doesn't give a fuck as long as the govt check keeps coming in every week. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 02:26 PM (HDgX3) And it's all being done with borrowed money. Yeah, that'll end well.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 10:29 AM (sdi6R)

68

52

Free Shit Army is fighting in Syria?

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 22, 2013 10:30 AM (R8hU8)

69 And it's all being done with borrowed money. Yeah, that'll end well. Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 02:29 PM (sdi6R) ______________ Did I say it will end well? You average American has no fucking clue what's going on. Not because the media is hiding it but because he/she doesn't want to know. As long as the EBT card is filled and as long as the new iphone is on sale, Americans are happy.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 10:32 AM (HDgX3)

70 68 52 Free Shit Army is fighting in Syria? Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 22, 2013 02:30 PM (R8hU Get out of my head. I was thinking, "yeah, behead more of them"

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 10:32 AM (sdi6R)

71 They wish death on us because we really aren't people to them any longer. We are the Other. Of all the totalitarian regimes, Obama's reminds me the most of Pol Pot. Pretty scary.

Posted by: Y-not at September 22, 2013 10:32 AM (5H6zj)

72 Velvet Ambition that would mean they had to get out of their basements.

Though Ramsey Clark and Cynthia McKinney are in Damascus to show their opposition to American bombing and support Assad.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:32 AM (nqb9X)

73 52 Free Shit Army is fighting in Syria? Posted by: Velvet ------------------------- It is the clash of abbreviations. I predict that one day someone will be ordered to press the AFU Button (All Fan Units), and they will press the real AFU button.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:33 AM (aDwsi)

74 Which is why Obama is still popular. The economy may be in the shitter, but the average person doesn't give a fuck as long as the govt check keeps coming in every week. I remember 1992, when the vast majority of the people were doing just fine, but the media convinced everybody that his neighbor was reduced to eating dog food.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 10:33 AM (xSegX)

75 69 Did I say it will end well? Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 02:32 PM (HDgX3) No, I wasn't challenging you. You're right on the money.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 10:35 AM (sdi6R)

76 48 So did the Germans call it veggie day? This sounds made up. Posted by: UWP at September 22, 2013 02:15 PM (vj51i) Gemüse Tag?

Posted by: Ma Bell at September 22, 2013 10:36 AM (RLdcX)

77 I remember 1992, when the vast majority of the people were doing just fine, but the media convinced everybody that his neighbor was reduced to eating dog food. Posted by: AmishDude -------------- Yeah. That's about the time that lying liar Mitch Snyder was being widely quoted in the MSM regarding the number of homeless. It was all made-up bullshit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:36 AM (aDwsi)

78 AmishDude, like this?

http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2005/12/early-onset-of-bds.html

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:38 AM (nqb9X)

79 62  People don't see a depression because quite frankly nobody is living like in the depression. Welfare is now equal with working and people on welfare live a life no different than those who work.

Which is why Obama is still popular. The economy may be in the shitter, but the average person doesn't give a fuck as long as the govt check keeps coming in every week.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 02:26 PM (HDgX3)



While you can draw some a small amount of welfare as a single guy after unemployment runs out as a single guy, most people can't draw anything meaningful unless they have a house full of kids.



So there should not be a large amount of welfare drawing people out there unless there is fraud involved.   And that is where the SSDI comes in.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 10:38 AM (zZbNF)

80 Okay.   So.  I don't mean to alarm everyone but the End Times are nigh.   Why do I say this?


The Browns are playing like their an actual semi-pro football team.


Run!   Run for your lives!

Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 10:38 AM (Gk3SS)

81 64 The official inflation rate has been bullshit for decades. That's nothing new.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 02:27 PM (HDgX3)



But it hasn't been such a gargantuan lie like it has been since OBama took office.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 10:39 AM (zZbNF)

82 80 Okay. So. I don't mean to alarm everyone but the End Times are nigh. Why do I say this?


The Browns are playing like their an actual semi-pro football team.


Run! Run for your lives!

Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 02:38 PM (Gk3SS)

 

Don't get ahead of yourself.  They're playing the Vikings.

Posted by: buzzion at September 22, 2013 10:40 AM (LI48c)

83 It's too bad a ruined economy and miserable people don't help libs in their goal of establishing an all-powerful nanny state. Oh.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 22, 2013 10:40 AM (4/o9U)

84 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 02:38 PM (nqb9X) That's about right.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 10:40 AM (xSegX)

85 67  And it's all being done with borrowed money. Yeah, that'll end well.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 02:29 PM (sdi6R)


It hasn't been "borrowed money" for at least 3 or 4 years when China quit buying our T-Bills and started selling them.  It is now "printed money", otherwise known as Obamabucks.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 10:40 AM (zZbNF)

86 So the Browns are pillaging and raping the Vikings?  Selling their volunteer cheerleaders into slavery?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:41 AM (nqb9X)

87 Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 02:38 PM (Gk3SS)

look who they're playing

Posted by: muttering vikings fan at September 22, 2013 10:42 AM (qPwal)

88 So..., the Vikings are to Vikings pretty much what Obama is to a real President?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:43 AM (aDwsi)

89 Eat your prunes.

Posted by: King Barack at September 22, 2013 10:43 AM (+vOE2)

90 AmishDude I treasure having such an early Ramirez cartoon in the collection.  It accurately portrays the hit job the media did on George HW Bush.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:43 AM (nqb9X)

91 AtC with a "their = they're"? I'd say it's well beyond a simple End Times scenario.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 10:44 AM (JNUY4)

92 BTW, it always astounds me how few European politicians are lawyers. Merkel did a Ph.D. dissertation in quantum chemistry. And some people actually think Obama is smart.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 10:44 AM (xSegX)

93 85 It hasn't been "borrowed money" for at least 3 or 4 years when China quit buying our T-Bills and started selling them. It is now "printed money", otherwise known as Obamabucks. Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 02:40 PM (zZbNF) It's "borrowed" against future production.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 10:45 AM (sdi6R)

94 I like veggies, I grow lots of them in my backyard. Veggies go well with lamb, venison, etc. But national veggie day is so Hitler, who BTW was a vegetarian. With regard to Syria, I favor a policy that encourages everyone to kill everyone else and pray that it spreads to other ME countries; especially the Saudi peninsula.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 22, 2013 10:45 AM (hpgw1)

95 What happens when Germany runs out of electricity?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 22, 2013 10:45 AM (+vOE2)

96 A forced Veggie Day. Ha! I'm still in on the Constitution Day Ace suggested. I'll eat veggie when I want to eat veggie. My weekend was cornucopia of meats in various forms. Goat Cheese Stuffed Turkey Burgers with a Roasted Red Pepper-Apricot Relish on a bed of greens. Wine. Pate (liver and bacon liver), brie, goat cheese, fruit platters. Wine. And, tonight, Trout with Tropical Fruit Salsa (Mango & Pineapple) and Mixed Greens. Wine. Yeah, I like to cook. Probably should have went German cuisine tonight, but already had it planned out.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 10:46 AM (IXrOn)

97 I don't know why it's required to explain, at this late date, why this conception of the State is primitive, backwards, and hateful of freedom and human dignity, but apparently it is so required. ********************* It's required because for the past 50 years or so, we sat back while commies took over our public education system and most of our universities, public and private, and as a result, most people under 50 today don't have the first friggin' clue about what freedom is, or how easily it can be lost.

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at September 22, 2013 10:46 AM (/sohm)

98 What happens when Germany runs out of electricity? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 22, 2013 02:45 PM (+vOE2) More beer. It's not like it needs to be drank cold.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 10:47 AM (IXrOn)

99 Bam. It vanished quick. Wife of U.S. diplomat killed in Kenya. Obama talks about himself, and just how gosh darn wonderful, amazing, handsome, and smart he is.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 22, 2013 10:49 AM (sCynV)

100 93 It's "borrowed" against future production.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 02:45 PM (sdi6R)


It will not impact future production, only future prices as inflation runs rampant. It is called monetizing the debt which is why China started selling their T-Bills.  We borrowed billions from them and they paid us with Bush dollars.  We will pay them back with Obamabucks which Fox has admitted are worth about 50% less than they were when he took office.  (and that is an underestimate)


Look at the recent history in Argentina and past history in Wiemar Germany for what it does.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 10:49 AM (zZbNF)

101 AtC with a "their = they're"? I'd say it's well beyond a simple End Times scenario.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 02:44 PM (JNUY4)


Shit.   Clearly the problem is an insufficient of booze.


brb fixing that

Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 10:49 AM (Gk3SS)

102 While you can draw some a small amount of welfare as a single guy after unemployment runs out as a single guy, most people can't draw anything meaningful unless they have a house full of kids. So there should not be a large amount of welfare drawing people out there unless there is fraud involved. And that is where the SSDI comes in. Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 02:38 PM (zZbNF) _____________________ There's 50 million people on food stamps. While there is fraud, most of it is legit. You can make up to $50K a year in some areas and qualify for food stamps. It's all part of the big plan to get everyone dependent on govt for survival.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 10:49 AM (HDgX3)

103 insufficient = insufficiency


See, my diagnosis was cromulent!

Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 10:49 AM (Gk3SS)

104 What happens when Germany runs out of electricity? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 22, 2013 02:45 PM (+vOE2) Cuckoo Clocks from the Black Forest. I'll admit I bought one while I was there. You don't need no stinkin' electricity.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 10:50 AM (IXrOn)

105 But national veggie day is so Hitler, who BTW was a vegetarian. Hitler was a vegetarian artist who was obsessed with physical fitness and New Age religion.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 10:50 AM (xSegX)

106 Off topic, but this is a great article that I linked in the morning thread: http://tinyurl.com/ksd2fvb It's about the modern obsession with child safety. Best quote: "Who knew that helicopter parents would be threatened by actual helicopters?" Read the whole thing.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 10:51 AM (sdi6R)

107 92 BTW, it always astounds me how few European politicians are lawyers. Merkel did a Ph.D. dissertation in quantum chemistry. And some people actually think Obama is smart. Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 02:44 PM (xSegX) ____________ Jimmuh Cah-tah was nucular scientist. How'd that work out for everyone?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 10:51 AM (HDgX3)

108 I guess it will impact production when the final collapse comes and we are riding around in converted autos with M-2's mounted in them looking for gasoline.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 10:51 AM (zZbNF)

109 19 Merkel: The Anti-Obama. Posted by: WalrusRex In European terms, Merkel is pretty "conservative" compared to most other politicians there. True. But in American terms, she'd be seen as pretty squishy and RINO-ish. She's in favor of the single-payer (i.e. socialized) health care system they have in Germany. She amped up the insanely lavish welfare benefits offered to basically everyone in the nation. She allows the green-energy/global-warming boondoggle to limp along unchallenged. She allows very high taxes (high in an American scale). ...etc. Mostly these kind of policies are do-able and not seen as noxious in Germany because it's much more of a "mono-culture" in which most everyone is the same ethnicity, has the same cultural values and work ethic, and feels soul-bonded with everyone else in the country. So there isn't much opposition to shared health care/retirement/welfare costs/benefits -- as if they were all one big family. Needless to say, in a nation like the USA, whatever unity we feel as compatriots is riven to shreds by huge divisions and differences re: political views, ancestry, religion, cultural values, regional quirks, ethnicity, age, you name it. So we don't really feel like one big family -- we feel like random occupants of a lifeboat on the high seas who only agree to get along because we have no other choice to survive. Anyway, back to Germany: Aside from some squishiness, Merkel is almost as conservative as you can get in Europe, and her crushing victory over the left -- in the homeland of Marx, no less -- should send a bolt of fear through the American progressives. Combine that with today's history-making low poll numbers for Hollande in France, and the Left is in retreat this week.

Posted by: zombie at September 22, 2013 10:52 AM (+cx5n)

110 BTW, it always astounds me how few European politicians are lawyers. Merkel did a Ph.D. dissertation in quantum chemistry. And some people actually think Obama is smart. Posted by: Amish ----------------- Quoting news article here: ------------- At an Alcoa plant in Davenport, Iowa, in June, Obama observed machines that milled aerospace parts. He then approached a handful of reporters who had been watching nearby: “Did you know aluminum is not magnetic? I learned something today.” ------------ This is the guy who is going to 'restore science to it's proper role'. He the only 'science' he knows is related to burn rates of rolling papers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:52 AM (aDwsi)

111 37 I have tire burning day. Is that like veggie day?
Posted by: UWP at September 22, 2013 02:01 PM (vj51i)
That sounds like Winnie Mandela's birthday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 22, 2013 10:53 AM (+vOE2)

112 James Earl Carter was going through the nuclear school but his father dying and leaving a peanut farm in his care scuttled his nuclear career before he made it to the Fleet.  IIRC.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 10:53 AM (nqb9X)

113 From this:
"Have you seen the price of arugula?"

To this:

"Raising the, uh, debt ceiling doesn'tincreasethedebt."

"The American people are,uh-uh-uh, wrong."

Had the first quote been given the same amount of MSM critique usually given to every conservative candidate, we wouldn't have heard the latter.


Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 22, 2013 10:54 AM (ligos)

114 105 But national veggie day is so Hitler, who BTW was a vegetarian. Hitler was a vegetarian artist who was obsessed with physical fitness and New Age religion. Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 02:50 PM (xSegX) Wasn't he heavy into Teutonic paganism?

Posted by: Insomniac at September 22, 2013 10:55 AM (NEIxp)

115 Jimmuh Cah-tah was nucular scientist. How'd that work out for everyone? Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 22, 2013 02:51 PM (HDgX3) He was a nuclear engineer in the Navy. I know a guy who did his job. Smart enough guy, but was overeducated for the job with a Master's in Applied Math. Hoover is the cautionary tale. He was the engineer and embraced the ethos that society can be "engineered".

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 10:56 AM (xSegX)

116 96 *sits and ponders plan of having a bowl of Cheerios for dinner. Grumbles*

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:56 AM (aDwsi)

117 Hoover is the cautionary tale. He was the engineer and embraced the ethos that society can be "engineered". Posted by: AmishDude ---------------- Made damned fine vacuums though...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 10:58 AM (aDwsi)

118 The headlines on Drudge had been that the election was neck and neck.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 22, 2013 10:58 AM (T0Pku)

119 Yeah, I would consider Carter to be more of a nuclear tech than a scientist. Here's wiki's entry on his education: After high school, Carter enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College, in Americus. Later, he applied to the United States Naval Academy and, after taking additional mathematics courses at Georgia Tech, he was admitted in 1943. Carter graduated 59th out of 820 midshipmen at the Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree with an unspecified major, as was the custom at the academy at that time. After serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific U.S. Submarine Fleets, Jimmy Carter attended graduate school majoring in reactor technology and nuclear physics.

Posted by: Y-not at September 22, 2013 10:58 AM (5H6zj)

120 What were the arguments against her? She appears to be doing a good job.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 22, 2013 10:58 AM (T0Pku)

121 I voted Christian Democratic Union Party! Let's not have an eat the veggie day!

Posted by: Bob the (German) Tomato at September 22, 2013 10:59 AM (a4Omg)

122 105 Hitler was a vegetarian artist who was obsessed with physical fitness and New Age religion. Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 02:50 PM (xSegX) The Nazis also conducted an anti-smoking campaign, IIRC.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 11:00 AM (sdi6R)

123 "he held powers of life and death over every member of his extended familia through ancient right but in practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised"

Wow, sounds like the same tenets of the folks holding hostages at the mall.

Posted by: Wonder at September 22, 2013 11:01 AM (Nx76m)

124 She's in favor of the single-payer (i.e. socialized) health care system they have in Germany. She amped up the insanely lavish welfare benefits offered to basically everyone in the nation. She allows the green-energy/global-warming boondoggle to limp along unchallenged. She allows very high taxes (high in an American scale). True to a point. The single-payer system is really a clinic system. Middle-class Germans get private health care. They also go to places like Switzerland for dental work. And pay for it. The green thing is funny inasmuch as they're buying nuke power from neighbors and building coal plants. Clearly global warming isn't *that* bad. But your point is valid.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 11:01 AM (xSegX)

125 96 Probably should have went German cuisine tonight, but already had it planned out. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 02:46 PM (IXrOn) Come to think of it, I do have leftover bratwurst, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes in the freezer.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 11:02 AM (sdi6R)

126 I am the original neighbor/poster quoted in this article.The article quotes verbatim two posts I recently wrote on the Del Ray Parents List server, which serve as the foundational basis of the article. These direct quotes used in the article were made without my consent, without attribution, and without any advance notice to me or the moderator of the Yahoo Groups Delray Parents List Server, and the writer attacked a question I posed on the list server, and subsequent information I shared from an authoritative source (the American Association of Pediatrics).In addition to my shock at being quoted directly without my consent, I was surprised to see how the author's article misconstrues my comments and the intent of my posts. As background, I was concerned when three young boys (who appeared maybe 8-9 years old, perhaps 10 at most) showed up at my door, toting rickety lawn mowers, wearing only flip flops and shorts, with no parent in sight. I was concerned for these childrens' safety, and had no intent to quash their "entrepreneurial spirit." To compare my concern over a child's unsupervised use of dangerous lawn equipment to "shutting down a lemonade stand" is ridiculous and out of context. A lemonade stand cannot injure, maim, or wound a child. And, apparently, the American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. Moreover, our neighborhood - while having a wonderful sense of community - is nonetheless an urban suburb of Washington, DC, where violent crimes are not unheard of. In the last couple of months there have been widely reported instances of armed robberies, burglaries, and car break-ins, including during daytime hours. I was concerned that these children did not have parents with them, and simply sought out the resource of our neighborhood list serve to get the pulse of what was appropriate in the neighborhood.It is worth mentioning that the author's use of the content and posts of the Del Ray list server, without my prior consent or permission, are in direct violation of paragraph 11 of the Yahoo Group Guidelines / Terms and Conditions, which specifically state that "[y]ou cannot re-post or re-transmit content that belongs to another user without the user's permission."I also question the propriety of the author's use of a neighborhood list server focused on parenting, which is intended for neighborhood parents to share resources, questions, and information, as fodder for political commentary.ickl, I am reposting without comment a comment left at the article you linked to. "

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 11:02 AM (ELdpj)

127 “Did you know aluminum is not magnetic? I learned something today.” ------------ This is the guy who is going to 'restore science to it's proper role'. He the only 'science' he knows is related to burn rates of rolling papers. I'm really astounded he admitted to that. Surely he would know that that's not an obscure scientific fact inasmuch as it can be easily tested with a refrigerator magnet and a soda can. But Obama (and most of the Left) treats science in the same way that a screenwriter does. It's indistinguishable from magic and some form of science can solve whatever problem you happen to have gotten yourself into.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 11:03 AM (xSegX)

128 Damn. The above was a comment left at the article linked by rickl.

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 11:03 AM (ELdpj)

129 “Did you know aluminum is not magnetic? I learned something today.” Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 02:52 PM (aDwsi) yep...aneurysm inducing eye-rolling here

Posted by: BignJames at September 22, 2013 11:06 AM (j7iSn)

130 128 Damn. The above was a comment left at the article linked by rickl.

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 03:03 PM (ELdpj)

Good comment, makes a lot of sense, however, maybe you have to explain it to all of us now, somewhere else, perhaps ask ace if you can write up a post?

Posted by: Wonder at September 22, 2013 11:06 AM (Nx76m)

131 Wasn't he heavy into Teutonic paganism? Posted by: Insomniac at September 22, 2013 02:55 PM (NEIxp) "New Age" is one form or another of paganism or nature worship.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 11:06 AM (xSegX)

132 http://www.dw.de/ German citizens went to the polls this Sunday (September 22, 2013) to elect the 18th parliament. Some 61.8 million eligible voters decided about the composition of the Bundestag. They could choose from 34 political parties with some 4,500 candidates. First predictions see the CDU/CSU, SPD, the Left Party and the Greens represented in parliament again.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 11:06 AM (IXrOn)

133 CA probably pays as much or more in food stamps as any State in the union.  The maximum "income" is about $48K a year, you have to have 8 people in your home for that. That is as high as their chart goes. (and it the same for SC so I assume this is controlled by the feds.) 


For the maximum "allotment" the fed chart goes to $1200 per month for a family of 7.  However, you must take what ever your monthly income is and multiply it by 3 and subtract than from the "allotment".



So a family of 8 with an income of $48K would subtract $1200 from their allotment to result in drawing $0/month in food stamps.

After you

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 11:07 AM (zZbNF)

134 Voter turnout projection: 73% http://www.dw.de/

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 11:07 AM (IXrOn)

135 So, Obamacare 'deniers' is a thing now


TheBlaze ‏@theblaze 7m

University fundraiser tweets Obamacare "nonbelievers" should be denied health care


http://is.gd/Hm37Ex

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 22, 2013 11:07 AM (8sCoq)

136 112 James Earl Carter was going through the nuclear school but his father dying and leaving a peanut farm in his care scuttled his nuclear career before he made it to the Fleet. IIRC.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 02:53 PM (nqb9X)


That is correct, he got a discharge before he finished school.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 11:08 AM (zZbNF)

137 perfectly intelligent reasons to demand Obamacare not be implemented.
irs.
nsa.
healthcare wendy's.
where it will be illegal and Punishable to not vote dem.
and there is no recourse for those harmed.

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:08 AM (nqBYe)

138 Merkel has boobies, too. Big ones.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 22, 2013 11:09 AM (T0Pku)

139 Yes, Hitler was heavily into German paganism. If one scrolls a little over halfway down there are quotes which refer to Hiltler as the new messiah. Interestingly enough, the quotes don't sound much different than the Obamamessiah quotes by leftists: http://takimag.com/article/hitler_and_the_new_nazi_religion/print#axzz2feMiZAO6

Posted by: Bob the (German) Tomato at September 22, 2013 11:09 AM (a4Omg)

140 Come to think of it, I do have leftover bratwurst, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes in the freezer. Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 03:02 PM (sdi6R) yum

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 11:09 AM (IXrOn)

141 lol handler's not wendy's

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:09 AM (nqBYe)

142 135 So, Obamacare 'deniers' is a thing now


TheBlaze ‏@theblaze 7m

University fundraiser tweets Obamacare "nonbelievers" should be denied health care


http://is.gd/Hm37Ex

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 22, 2013 03:07 PM (8sCoq)

What has happened to the dems?  They have lost their filter, almost like they've been taking truth serum en masse and what they really think, really feel is coming out.  It's not pretty to see people with such hate filled hearts and such minds that will parse everything, change anything, adjust anything to make sure they have the advantage and to think they are always right.  It's starting to become downright frightening.

Posted by: Wonder at September 22, 2013 11:11 AM (Nx76m)

143 Schickelgruber was a Catholic - ultramontaine is the technical term - until he cooked up the notion of the Beer Hall Putsch. Around then he gave up on religion except as a tool to his will. Various pagans joined his movement, and Schickelgruber smiled on them to the degree that the pagans were shouting "Heil Hitler" his way.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:11 AM (4oR+N)

144 Damn. The above was a comment left at the article linked by rickl. Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 03:03 PM (ELdpj) One more poor soul learns about journolism (delenda est). (No that's not a misspelling.)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 22, 2013 11:11 AM (qyfb5)

145 So, Obamacare 'deniers' is a thing now


TheBlaze ‏@theblaze 7m

University fundraiser tweets Obamacare "nonbelievers" should be denied health care


http://is.gd/Hm37Ex
Posted by: Jones in CO at September 22, 2013 03:07 PM (8sCoq)


I wonder if that mewling quim realizes that she is providing evidence in support of those of us who don't believe in Obamacare because we are convinced that healthcare decisions will be made based upon political beliefs.

Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 11:12 AM (Gk3SS)

146 you must not argue our messiah's wishes , hopes or dreams for you.

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:12 AM (nqBYe)

147 Merkel has boobies, too. Big ones. Posted by: Jesse ------------------------ Quantum chemistry that I can relate to.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:12 AM (aDwsi)

148 If the Nazis had won they would have created some Islam-style religion around Hitler. That appears to be what actually happened with Islam. Muhammad was a murderously insane warlord and very successful. To cement the gains they created a religion around him. The followers of Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great should have done that. Instead their empires crumbled after their deaths. Creating a religion after the conqueror is a fairly genius move.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 11:13 AM (ZPrif)

149 University fundraiser tweets Obamacare "nonbelievers" should be denied health care Posted by: Jones in CO at September 22, 2013 03:07 PM (8sCoq) And zent to ze camps.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 22, 2013 11:13 AM (qyfb5)

150 German National Socialism ran the gamut of theisms.  The Thulians and Ostara were one branch that seemed to dominate the lives of Himmler and to an extent Adolph.  Adolph was even portrayed at one point as a Wagnarian Grail Knight like Parsifal.  The Germans in fact replaced their Kaiser with another strong man ein Fuhrer.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:13 AM (nqb9X)

151 let them eat their mcds and drink 18 oz sodas!

why thank you handler, don't mind if i do!

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:14 AM (nqBYe)

152 It is refreshing, though, to see a population rewarding success and punishing failure rather than electing somebody because they feel sorry for him and his daddy issues.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 11:14 AM (xSegX)

153 I wonder if that mewling quim realizes that she is providing evidence in support of those of us who don't believe in Obamacare because we are convinced that healthcare decisions will be made based upon political beliefs. Posted by: alexthechick - Team No Seriously Fuck All Of This Shit So Hard at September 22, 2013 03:12 PM (Gk3SS) I don't think said mewler is thinking very far beyond "I WANT IT! I WANT IT!" Consequences are for *other people*. Until they aren't.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 22, 2013 11:15 AM (qyfb5)

154 Once you embrace the idea that the Left's only goal is power for power's sake, everything they do and say 'makes sense'

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 22, 2013 11:15 AM (8sCoq)

155 Hitler was a vegetarian artist who was obsessed with physical fitness and New Age religion.

Posted by: AmishDude

If you're referring to the Thule Society, not really. While Hess, Himmler, and Frank were members, the whole group fell apart in the '20s, and occult groups were actively suppressed in the '30s.

Himmler was really the one high level nazi that was fascinated by the neo-pagan thing.  

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 22, 2013 11:15 AM (ligos)

156 They have lost their filter,... Posted by: Wonder ------------------ On the contrary, their 'installed' filters are working perfectly. Their filters distort every sense that they have, rendering everything that they see, hear or smell into a confirming bias.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:15 AM (aDwsi)

157 Also not magnetic : Wood

Posted by: garrett at September 22, 2013 11:16 AM (MAJC1)

158 Not only is Handler a nasty person in her wish to deny health care but she is also not every intelligent: "Let them have their McDonalds and 18 oz sodas" Why does she assume all people opposed to Obamacare eat that way? I hate McDonalds and haven't had a soda in two years. Because you are opppsed to Obamacare doesn't mean you don't think poor people should have health care. I guess Ms. Handler doesn't realize that Obamacare will STILL leave millions uninsured including many who voted for Obama and do eat McDonalds and drink soda. Another bright light from the world of academia

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:16 AM (a4Omg)

159 120 What were the arguments against her? She appears to be doing a good job. *** Typical lefty arguments. It's not fair that rich people are rich and poor people are poor. If we just had socialism we'd all be wearing silk underwear and sipping champagne on the beach.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 22, 2013 11:17 AM (PjgvN)

160 remember when the left was worried about overwhelming govt and peoples rights the constitution, just a few short years ago.

yeah .

i guess they knew what They would DO with power given.

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:17 AM (nqBYe)

161 University fundraiser tweets Obamacare "nonbelievers" should be denied health care This is their philosophy. They meet you on the street, rob you, rape you, drop two dollars next to your bloody corpse and expect you to be grateful and support robbery and rape because you "benefited" from it.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 11:17 AM (xSegX)

162 Once you embrace the idea that the Left's only goal is power for power's sake, everything they do and say 'makes sense' Posted by: Jones ---------------- ...and privilege.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:18 AM (aDwsi)

163 stay out of my vagina!

or check it out , hey looks swell yes?

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:18 AM (nqBYe)

164 What has happened to the dems? They have lost their filter, almost like they've been taking truth serum en masse and what they really think, really feel is coming out. It's not pretty to see people with such hate filled hearts and such minds that will parse everything, change anything, adjust anything to make sure they have the advantage and to think they are always right. It's starting to become downright frightening. They've been doing this shit for years. And they're always surprised when others take offense to their death wishes, rape fantasies, and general fascist nonsense. We can expect at some point an apology from Stephanie Handler....one she doesn't believe in, of course. She'll continue to be mystified as to how her innocent heart felt comments could possibly be offensive to anyone, other than obamacare denying neanderthals, and they don't even count.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 22, 2013 11:18 AM (sCynV)

165 game thread up

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 11:18 AM (zZbNF)

166 Flatbush Joe nails it. And the Greeks did deify Alexander, at least in Selucia. Didn't work in the long run. Best way to imagine the Abbasids is to think, what if the Russians had wholesale adopted Nazism, conquered Germany and installed a puppet German Junker as "Fuehrer".

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:19 AM (4oR+N)

167 Also not magnetic : Wood Posted by: garrett -------------- Who knew?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:19 AM (aDwsi)

168 i feel perfectly comfortable  with these people having vast power and every intelligence service, irs , atf, epa at their beck and call.

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:19 AM (nqBYe)

169 The Egyptians also made Alexander of Macedonia a god in their pantheon.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:20 AM (nqb9X)

170 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 03:13 PM (nqb9X)

I read a hitler quote recently that seemed to indicate his feelings for animals being more significant than his feelings for man.

["Storm of War" maybe?]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:20 AM (gqgiP)

171 Weren't they saying Merkel was in a dead heat?

Posted by: California red at September 22, 2013 11:20 AM (L39bP)

172 Wife of U.S. diplomat killed in Kenya. Obama talks about himself, and just how gosh darn wonderful, amazing, handsome, and smart he is. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 22, 2013 02:49 PM (sCynV) A couple Canadian ppl died, too. One from the government, the other not named yet.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 22, 2013 11:20 AM (IXrOn)

173 We can expect at some point an apology from Stephanie Handler....one she doesn't believe in, of course. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 22, 2013 03:18 PM (sCynV) Yes, but will it be a "why do you hate free speech" apology, or a "sorry I hurt The Cause" apology?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 22, 2013 11:21 AM (qyfb5)

174

Not  Magnetic : Crayons*

 

*At least you  can't get them out of your nose with a magnet. 

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 22, 2013 11:21 AM (MAJC1)

175 Posted by: WalrusRex at September 22, 2013 03:17 PM (PjgvN)

Eh.

Silk underwear isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

Champagne, on the other hand......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:22 AM (gqgiP)

176 Also not magnetic: cheese. On this week's Science with Barry, we ask what is more magnetic - cheese or pickles?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 11:22 AM (ZPrif)

177 Yeah, I was just remembering Egypt, but the Ptolemies figured out it was simpler just to assume divinity themselves. So Alex became somewhat redundant.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:22 AM (4oR+N)

178 From Wiki: During the course of April 29, 1945, Hitler learned of the death of his ally Benito Mussolini who had been executed by Italian partisans. This, along with the fact the Soviet Army was closing in on his location, led Hitler to strengthen his resolve not to allow himself or his wife to be captured. That afternoon, Hitler expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich Himmler's SS.[24] To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test them on his dog Blondi, and the dog died as a result.[25] Hitler became completely inconsolable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:23 AM (aDwsi)

179 I read a hitler quote recently that seemed to indicate his feelings for animals being more significant than his feelings for man. ["Storm of War" maybe?] Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 03:20 PM (gqgiP) I'm getting close to sentiment myself....see Handler, Stephanie et al.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 22, 2013 11:23 AM (bCEmE)

180 CBD well Adolph made sure his Alsatian Blondie was dead when he and Eva made their exit in the bunker.  So perhaps.  I stopped researching with D. Sklar's book The Nazis and the Occult.  One story that always stuck with me besides the Grail Knight imagery was when the Nazis set about purging the astrologers, one of Hitler's personal astrologers got rubbed out - which leads to a conclusion perhaps the guy was a charlatan.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:23 AM (nqb9X)

181 What kind of apology can someone working at hospital make after they say the hospital should deny care to anyone who votes against Obama? What kind of apology can admitted fascist Stephanie Handler give that could possibly be sincere?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 11:23 AM (ZPrif)

182 shandler. Her Twitter background image says “we used to be” Americans before the “tea party,” “Koch brothers,” “Rush Limbaugh” and “birthers.”

fgs they have short memories of shrieking insanity during boooosh.

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:24 AM (nqBYe)

183 128 Damn. The above was a comment left at the article linked by rickl. Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 03:03 PM (ELdpj) Oh, I hadn't seen the comments to that post. There are some real gems there. *eyeroll*

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 11:24 AM (sdi6R)

184 Before Obama I did not know what arugula was.
or Community Organizer.

Posted by: Big Ben at September 22, 2013 11:25 AM (I5Htn)

185 Arugula, on the other hand, is loaded with iron, ergo ferrous, and easily attracted by magnets.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:25 AM (aDwsi)

186 Speaking of magnetics, why didn't the Colonials use giant electromagnets on the Cylons?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:25 AM (nqb9X)

187 Before Obama I did not know what arugula was. or Community Organizer. Posted by: Big Ben -------------- Same with me and 'choom'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:25 AM (aDwsi)

188 Wait, you're telling me the Nazis purges astrologers? Second look at the Nazis?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 22, 2013 11:27 AM (oFCZn)

189 Weren't they saying Merkel was in a dead heat?

Posted by: California red at September 22, 2013 03:20 PM (L39bP)


Somebody tell her to give me a call, heh heh heh.

Posted by: Bill Jeff Clinton at September 22, 2013 11:28 AM (T7XIT)

190 We can expect at some point an apology from Stephanie Handler

Yep. We memed it already: "Lets Ted Cruz off the hook."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 11:28 AM (JNUY4)

191 fgs they have short memories of shrieking insanity during boooosh. Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 03:24 PM (nqBYe) Oh, they're still living it!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at September 22, 2013 11:28 AM (qyfb5)

192 WT? #cnn has learned from sources that two of the Kenya mall attackers are from Minnesota and one from Missouri.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 22, 2013 11:29 AM (bCEmE)

193  I think I read somewhere a couple of months ago that the Germans had finally paid off their entire debt for WW1 and that they now had WW2 debt.  I'm guessing they want to get that out of the way so they chose her.  I don't like her but I don't live there and they like her, she's their choice.

Today our new Polish monsignor pastor yelled at everyone in church for being late and he read a quote from a european visitor about the thing he admired most here in the USA.  Apparently it was our garbage cans as we throw out enough food to feed all the children in a european nation.  I guess the fact that there are fewer and fewer folks at his mass isn't a hint that he's not approaching the people who are there, who are attending, in a correct and decent manner.  Funny after we left one of my friends said "sounded like the gestapo" and another friend, a PHD in history said "well listen to the accent, he just came from Europe, look at his age, he could have been gestapo".  Pretty soon he'll have frightened everyone in the parish away and he'll be left alone with his giant church building.  We're almost wondering if that is his task and then to close the church for good.  I wonder if this is coming form Pope |Francis?  Funny we have new parts for the mass, they changed a lot of the words and are singing/chanting more stuff.  The public words before you take the host are:  "Lord, I am not worthy for you to enter under my roof, but say only the word and my soul shall be healed"  They change them from:  ""Lord I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed".

Knew the parish has had enough when everyone loudly said the old way and discarded the new way, sort of like on cue.  I can see the Catholic Church is going to have a fight with Catholics that they don't realize is coming.

Posted by: Wonder at September 22, 2013 11:29 AM (Nx76m)

194 we used to be” Americans before the “tea party,” “Koch brothers,” “Rush Limbaugh” and “birthers.” What does that even mean? I guess-once again-it's all dissent is patriotic-except when its dissent against Obama. Yep. Ms. Handler sounds like she would be in favor of camps. They'd just be given a PC name like "re-education camps"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:29 AM (a4Omg)

195 shandler,
Performance-driven, dedicated professional with progressive experience in high-profile corporate and nonprofit work environments. A persistent goal setter, project manager and skilled ..



collaborator

well yea

Posted by: willow at September 22, 2013 11:30 AM (nqBYe)

196 cnn has learned from sources that two of the Kenya mall attackers are from Minnesota and one from Missouri. Posted by: Tami -------------- Trial run for Mall of America

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:30 AM (aDwsi)

197 Dang it, thought had posted this story on my blog but now can't seem to find it.

This Stephanie bint reminds me of a doctor in Iraq.  An Iraqi doctor who was actually AQ and he was actively deciding who would live or die. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:30 AM (nqb9X)

198

>>It will not impact future production, only future prices as inflation runs rampant. It is called monetizing the debt which is why China started selling their T-Bills. We borrowed billions from them and they paid us with Bush dollars. We will pay them back with Obamabucks which Fox has admitted are worth about 50% less than they were when he took office. (and that is an underestimate)
Look at the recent history in Argentina and past history in Wiemar Germany for what it does.

.

.I agree.  With every passing week I look at our 401K balances and wonder if it is really worth the scrimping and saving just to get more money in them.  Just 10 years ago we thought  we were doing great and would have a wonderful second retirement, but then the Dems got control of the purse strings and the debt bomb exploded.  We have been running a Trillion dollar deficit yearly since then.  The dollar I had in my 401k  in 2009 is only worth about 65 cents now and it is going to get much worse.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 11:31 AM (BGFPo)

199 They'd just be given a PC name like "re-education camps" Posted by: FenelonSpoke ----------------------------- With names like 'Camp Joy'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:31 AM (aDwsi)

200 #cnn has learned from sources that two of the Kenya mall attackers are from Minnesota and one from Missouri. Oh, dear Lord. They're warming up for an attack on the Mall of America.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:31 AM (a4Omg)

201 "mewling quim" That's latin for duck molester.

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker Waitress Model Actress Wears Prada at September 22, 2013 11:33 AM (GxM1n)

202 Why do the Somalis hate our way of life? We need to be nicer to them. Let's bring over some more.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:34 AM (4oR+N)

203 "Almost-Elminiated " spelling

Posted by: biscuits mahoney at September 22, 2013 11:34 AM (zyx7/)

204 The German people acted stupidly. Believe me, ignore the polls, most people who comment on YouTube support me 100%.

Posted by: The Precedent [/i] at September 22, 2013 11:34 AM (U2UQk)

205 "mewling quim" That's latin for duck molester. Posted by: The Hobo Hooker -------------------- My life hasn't been the same since someone here referred to Congress as 'grunting numpties'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:35 AM (aDwsi)

206 >>#cnn has learned from sources that two of the Kenya mall attackers are from Minnesota and one from Missouri. Not surprised to hear about Minnesota jihadis but I didn't know Missouri had an issue with them too.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2013 11:36 AM (g1DWB)

207 Trial run for Mall of America

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 03:30 PM (aDwsi)

Or, really, any large mall.

The one near my house is unbelievably packed during prime shopping days, and a few determined terrorists could easily kill dozens in a matter of minutes.

This topic has been discussed here at great length, but it never fails to worry me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:36 AM (gqgiP)

208 I just wrote to the Mall of America and reported that CNN information. I hope some others will do the same.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:36 AM (a4Omg)

209 Not surprised to hear about Minnesota jihadis but I didn't know Missouri had an issue with them too. Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2013 03:36 PM (g1DWB) Yeah, I didn't either and we just moved back to Missouri.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 22, 2013 11:37 AM (bCEmE)

210 I hate acorns, just saying.

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker, Friend Of Farmer Yoon,Wears Prada at September 22, 2013 11:37 AM (GxM1n)

211 Like Hitler, I would much rather be in a room full of animals than around people.  Mostly.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 22, 2013 11:37 AM (jucos)

212 "Second look at the Nazis?" Okay, I had a second look. Checked out how cozy Uncle Addie was with the Mufti and with the Bosnians. He'd enroll the Somalis in the Gestapo and have them provide security at the malls here

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:38 AM (4oR+N)

213 This topic has been discussed here at great length, but it never fails to worry me. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo ------------------------------- I recall being rather depressed by what seemed to be a significant police presence in various parts of N. Europe during the late sixties. I suppose, it is going to come to that here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:38 AM (aDwsi)

214 Yes, any mall could be a target. It is a concern.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:39 AM (a4Omg)

215

>> I hate acorns, just saying.

 

Have you tried using a magnetic rake?

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 22, 2013 11:40 AM (MAJC1)

216 I do not do malls.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:40 AM (aDwsi)

217

>>Schickelgruber was a Catholic - ultramontaine is the technical term - until he cooked up the notion of the Beer Hall Putsch. Around then he gave up on religion except as a tool to his will.
.

.There is some semi-believable info that his Grandfather on his Fathers side was a Jew, and young Adolf detested the man.  Sort of a family secret that can't really be proven.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 11:40 AM (BGFPo)

218 208 I just wrote to the Mall of America and reported that CNN information. I hope some others will do the same. MoA knows. They must know. Somalis are (generally speaking) the most radicalized, vociferous and uneducated of the Muslim immigrant populations. And they are concentrated in the Twin Cities. I think "from" Missouri or Minnesota is a stretch. Chances are they're teenagers who moved as kids. But the Imams in the Twin Cities are crazypants.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 22, 2013 11:40 AM (xSegX)

219 How are the Kenyan cops and troops doing in this crisis? Last I looked I was impressed with their professionalism.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:40 AM (4oR+N)

220 Posted by: Barack Obama at September 22, 2013 03:40 PM (MAJC1)

Thread winner!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:41 AM (gqgiP)

221 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 03:36 PM (a4Omg)

Well, they were told to jack with the economy.  If they keep hitting malls, and especially if they hit just one in the U.S. on say, Black Friday, retailers will be SOL come Christmas.  It'd be a twofer for the Muzzies, they screw with the economy and the most important holiday in Christendom next to Easter.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 22, 2013 11:41 AM (T7XIT)

222 I've got several malls around my town we could use to set up a High Plains Drifter ruse. You could stampede cattle through them and not threaten a soul -- except the health dept won't let you expose cattle to all that 'sbest-us.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 11:41 AM (JNUY4)

223 219 How are the Kenyan cops and troops doing in this crisis? Last I looked I was impressed with their professionalism. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 03:40 PM (4oR+N) I think Israeli SF have come in to help.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 22, 2013 11:41 AM (bCEmE)

224 CBD et al.  pg 152 Ch. 15 Making an Obedient Mass.  The Nazis and the Occult.

"Since life has been irremediably spoiled for the believer, he has relatively little hesitation about spoiling it for others. This gives him an advantage. He can be unscrupulous under the disguise of idealism. His self-righteousness permits him to convince himself that he is destroying people for their own good. Josef Goebbels felt it his duty to unleash volcanic passions, outbreaks of rage, to set masses of people on the march, to organize hatred and despair with ice-cold calculation."

Eric Hoffer in The True Believer which is quoted in Sklar's book has this to say - "It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:42 AM (nqb9X)

225 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 03:40 PM (4oR+N)

The filthy Jooos are helping them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:43 AM (gqgiP)

226 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 03:42 PM (nqb9X)

Are those your italics?

Because it describes (as you obviously realize) someone else too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:45 AM (gqgiP)

227 It's a Joo-ish owned mall.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 11:45 AM (JNUY4)

228
   I just browsed through some of takimag and followed a couple links found there.

   Those people and their cohorts are shit.

    No other way to put it.

Posted by: irongrampa at September 22, 2013 11:46 AM (SAMxH)

229 Trial run for Mall of America

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 03:30 PM (aDwsi)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS!  We are delusional if we think It will not happen here.  It will happen.  What will we do about it is the question.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 22, 2013 11:46 AM (jucos)

230 CDB it is a quote Sklar has in that paragraph.  I decided to use italics to break it out since I was quoting the whole paragraph.

It could apply to many of the evil actors we see on the world stage today.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:47 AM (nqb9X)

231 I am not a regular reader of Takimag. I was just linking it for the article on German paganism.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:48 AM (a4Omg)

232 128 Damn. The above was a comment left at the article linked by rickl. Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2013 03:03 PM (ELdpj) The commenter is correct about the flip-flops. I would have told the kids to go back home and put on real shoes.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 11:49 AM (sdi6R)

233 Let's play dominos Australia Norway Germany. What's next?

Posted by: Tmitsss at September 22, 2013 11:49 AM (yuTiW)

234 Gaming thread up..., I'm out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 11:49 AM (aDwsi)

235 Also in that Veggie Day article in Politico was a passing comment that the Green Party's dalliance with legalizing pedophlia back in the 80's had also hurt them. One would think promoting pedophilia would be a bigger negative than promoting Veggie Day.

Posted by: girldog at September 22, 2013 11:50 AM (i/s89)

236 Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 22, 2013 03:46 PM (jucos)


Well, the first thing that will happen is that it will be blamed on the Tea Party and easy access to guns.  Then when it is discovered that it was mostly peaceful Muzzies with weapons from Fast and Furious, it will be harped that the Tea Party is just like Muzzie terrorists, because "religion", and that evil guns must be banned.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 22, 2013 11:50 AM (T7XIT)

237 What will we do about it is the question. If it happens under Obama not much. I can almost guarantee Obama will deplore violence without EVER naming radical Islam.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2013 11:51 AM (a4Omg)

238 Will this help AIPAC understand that Sunni Muslims are the core of the jihad? Or at least that their muqatila are just as bad as the shiites? Because if these asshole take over Syria, there's going to be a lot more of this.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 22, 2013 11:52 AM (4oR+N)

239 216 I do not do malls.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 22, 2013 03:40 PM (aDwsi)
You are not alone.

http://deadmalls.com/index.html


Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 22, 2013 11:52 AM (+vOE2)

240 (and as a side note, they are currently in the process of building 20 coal fired power plants lolololol) I forget who-in-the-hell it was who said to me one time, in soft-soap explanation of the German people in general and Hitler in particular, that 'they are easily misled.' Vic can probably back me up on this, but nuke plants are never built next to coal plants, because the background radiation level near a coal plant is too high. So, if I had a choice, I'd rather live next to a well run nuke.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 22, 2013 11:55 AM (U2UQk)

241 pg 160 same book and author.

"This is what gives the believer the air of a one-dimensional man. He lacks depth. There is a limited range of possibilities open to him. If one wants, therefore, to convert him back to an autonomous human being, one finds that there is nobody at home. His mind is shut tight against new ideas. The slogans and ready-made judgements he has absorbed stretch forward into infinity. The believer is protected for all time. Within his sacred circle, all other knowledge is taboo. One might say that the most telltale sign of a believer is his refusal to examine ideas other than the divine commandments which have been implanted in him. One can't get to him because he will not and cannot engage in dialogue. What is particularly maddening about him is that, sterile and unimaginative, he masquerades as an exemplary man, an objective guide eager to spread enlightenment."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 11:57 AM (nqb9X)

242 Posted by: girldog at September 22, 2013 03:50 PM (i/s89)

One would be wrong!

Posted by: Roman Polanski at September 22, 2013 11:57 AM (gqgiP)

243 There is some semi-believable info that his Grandfather on his Fathers side was a Jew, and young Adolf detested the man. Sort of a family secret that can't really be proven.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief

Yeah, primarily because Hitler turned Dollarsheim into an artillery training target field.  

If that doesn't scream mommy issues, nothing does.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 22, 2013 11:58 AM (ligos)

244 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 03:57 PM (nqb9X)

Had Hitler been successful, I wonder how organized religion would have faired in a Judenfrei Europe?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 11:59 AM (gqgiP)

245 CBD in the 1930s the National Socialists had that well in hand when they outlawed all youth organizations except for Hitler Jungen.  Then there was the decree of placing a swastika atop churches. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 12:01 PM (nqb9X)

246 240  Vic can probably back me up on this, but nuke plants are never built next to coal plants, because the background radiation level near a coal plant is too high. So, if I had a choice, I'd rather live next to a well run nuke.

Posted by: Schr�dinger's cat at September 22, 2013 03:55 PM (U2UQk)



There are numerous nuke plants built near coal plants.  What you have to do though is have a rigorous sampling program that shows that any radiation found at the coal plant is naturally occurring Uranium type decay products and you have to make sure that no water is transferred back and forth between the plants.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:02 PM (zZbNF)

247 BTW, a huge amount more radiation is released out the stack of a coal plant than is ever released from a nuke plant.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:04 PM (zZbNF)

248 "...any radiation found at the coal plant is naturally occurring..."

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 04:02 PM (zZbNF)

All radiation comes from man. That is why nuclear power is so destructive.

Posted by: College Senior at September 22, 2013 12:06 PM (gqgiP)

249 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 04:01 PM (nqb9X)

Yes, but would he have taken it to the next step....resettlement or genocide?


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 22, 2013 12:07 PM (gqgiP)

250 All radiation comes from man. That is why nuclear power is so destructive. Preach it, brother. As long as you can get so much energy from water, there's little need for power plants. Let them eat (yellow) cake.

Posted by: Michelle Obama, Proud of her right to Bare Arms [/i] at September 22, 2013 12:11 PM (U2UQk)

251 Himmler was really the one high level nazi that was fascinated by the neo-pagan thing. It was part of the cult of Germanism that Himmler was trying to build. Hitler made fun of him for it, saying that he wasn't going to discover a secret German high civilization buried in antiquity, but a German people who were living shoeless in mud huts at a time when the Mediterranean Empires were writing philosophy. Also, the whole super-Aryan selective breeding program was Himmler's. Hitler also mad fun of him for that, saying that Himmler was "playing at sandcastles" again. Hitler had a way of doing that -- undermining his subordinates. Even Goerring, I think, who was the vain one who liked the fancy uniforms. Hitler once, in front of the whole inner circle, fashioned a medal out of cardboard or paper or something, and offered it to Goerring to add to the hardware he had on his chest.

Posted by: Phinn at September 22, 2013 12:11 PM (xD8j0)

252 Fucking Somali scum. Who the fuck thought bringing Somalis to Minnesota was a good idea?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:13 PM (ZPrif)

253 BTW, a huge amount more radiation is released out the stack of a coal plant than is ever released from a nuke plant. Or in the homes of the plant workers. At my local nuke plant, they had an employee who was setting off rad detectors upon arrival. That's about when they discovered a radon 'vein' in the area.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 22, 2013 12:15 PM (U2UQk)

254 CDB, well the 5.5 million others who died in the concentration camps with the Jews I think answers that question.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 12:21 PM (nqb9X)

255 252 Who the fuck thought bringing Somalis to Minnesota was a good idea?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 04:13 PM (ZPrif)


George H. W. Bush started the program at the end of his term and it was implemented by Clinton.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:21 PM (zZbNF)

256 251  Was he a better speechwriter than his speechwriters?  'Cos that's the TEST

Posted by: DAve at September 22, 2013 12:23 PM (b7yum)

257 And Minnesota was chosen so, what, we could maximize Vitamin D deficiency and neurological problems?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:24 PM (ZPrif)

258 253 Or in the homes of the plant workers. At my local nuke plant, they had an employee who was setting off rad detectors upon arrival. That's about when they discovered a radon 'vein' in the area.

Posted by: Schr�dinger's cat at September 22, 2013 04:15 PM (U2UQk)


He was probably wearing polyester pants/clothing.  You can walk into a granite building with those on and you will set off the detectors.  Newbies learn early that you need a 100% cotton wardrobe working at a Nuke Site with those sensitive detectors at the exit points.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:24 PM (zZbNF)

259 Germany is about 90% white, if the US had those demographics, something tells me conservatives would have no problems winning the hearts and minds of voters every election.

Posted by: Jeepers at September 22, 2013 12:25 PM (XDRsa)

260

>>Or in the homes of the plant workers. At my local nuke plant, they had an employee who was setting off rad detectors upon arrival. That's about when they discovered a radon 'vein' in the area.

.

.Don't forget fuel fleas. We had a security guard who was tripping alarms all over the place.  He did decon wash downs multiple times but kept setting off the alarm.  Come to find out he had a fuel flea on his access card. 

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 12:25 PM (BGFPo)

261 I wonder how the Somalis in Minnesota vote. Lotta Republican voters do doubt.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:25 PM (ZPrif)

262 260  Come to find out he had a fuel flea on his access card.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 04:25 PM (BGFPo)



What is a fuel flea?

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:27 PM (zZbNF)

263 252 Fucking Somali scum.
Who the fuck thought bringing Somalis to Minnesota was a good idea?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 04:13 PM (ZPrif)

you rang?

Posted by: Democrat at September 22, 2013 12:28 PM (Nx76m)

264 26 Merkel should've consulted with me before trying those extreme, unpopular policies. Posted by: Karl Rove at September 22, 2013 01:54 PM

And Karl Rove, wherever you are out there ....

FUCK YOU TOO!!

Posted by: Lt Col Frank Slade at September 22, 2013 12:29 PM (/9IC1)

265 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Nuclear_Power_Plant In 1984, a worker repeatedly triggered contamination alarms as he entered the plant; subsequent investigation showed the contamination's origin to be not the plant but radon in the worker's home (see Health effects of radon).

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 22, 2013 12:30 PM (U2UQk)

266 Never mind, I looked it up.  Never heard of it before.  The question is how did a guard pick up he micron  of new fuel (spent fuel should have been impossible anywhere in the US).

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:30 PM (zZbNF)

267 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 04:13 PM (ZPrif)
you rang?

Posted by: Democrat at September 22, 2013 04:28 PM (Nx76m)


As I said, Bush-I followed by Clinton.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:31 PM (zZbNF)

268 Radon is a huge problem when you are buying a house in Connecticut.  They have ways to fix it, mostly vents in the basement and a system to get the stuff out of the confined area.   Most people just walk away when the radon test is positive though.

Posted by: Democrat at September 22, 2013 12:32 PM (Nx76m)

269 This was link on twitter, don't know if it's accurate but....6 attackers from the US: The Al-Shabaab Terror Cell That Attacked Westgate Sayid N. from Kismayu, Somalia. Zaki Jama C., from Hargeisa, Somalia Said D., from Damascus, Syria Mohamed B., from Aleppo, Syria Qasim Said M., Garissa, Kenya Ismail G., from Helsinki, Finland Ahmed Nasir S., from London, UK Mustafa N., from Kansas City, US Abdishakur Sheikh H., from Maine, US Abdifatah Osman K., from Minneapolis, US Ahmad Mohamed I., from Saint Paul, US Abdikarem Ali M., from Illinois, US Shafie D., from Tucson, US Eliko M., from Dagestan, Russia Mohammed A., from Svalov, Sweden

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 22, 2013 12:33 PM (bCEmE)

270 @259 Why, Jeepers, I'm surprised at you. If you look at the nations and cultures that have most enthusiastically embraced socialism, aren't they all kind of unicameral? They get to feeling all familial, and after that it's only class warfare. "A Certain Party" had to more-or-less gin up an Other among the Germans for them to hate, just to get them to all Pull Together. Loyal German Jews couldn't believe it as they were watching it happen.

I doubt England could have gone socialist if they hadn't lost the comforting threat of the Scots and the Irish to give them an edge. No, those neighbors of yours who you don't care for are our best guarantee against becoming Ein Volk.

If Germany is "90% white" as you say, what would you say makes up the rest of the population? Cherokees? Be careful how you answer. Check definitions.

 

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 12:33 PM (JNUY4)

271 228 I just browsed through some of takimag and followed a couple links found there. Those people and their cohorts are shit. No other way to put it. Posted by: irongrampa at September 22, 2013 03:46 PM (SAMxH) I have no idea what you mean by that.

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2013 12:35 PM (sdi6R)

272

Fuel fleas are microscopic hot particles of new or spent nuclear fuel. While small, they tend to be intensely radioactive.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 12:37 PM (BGFPo)

273 takimag puts out some good stuff

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:38 PM (ZPrif)

274 271  Yeah I was wondering that myself

Posted by: DAve at September 22, 2013 12:39 PM (b7yum)

275 That's funny, I was really expecting some of the American attackers names to be Justin or Chris.

Posted by: Adam at September 22, 2013 12:39 PM (Aif/5)

276

>>Never mind, I looked it up. Never heard of it before. The question is how did a guard pick up he micron of new fuel (spent fuel should have been impossible anywhere in the US).
.

.That's how they got the nickname flea, the electrostatic charges can make them jump multiple times.  He most likely picked it up on a fueling evolution.  The rods are not 100% sealed then.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 12:41 PM (BGFPo)

277 Yup, not a Juan, Jose, Jesus, or Miguel in the bunch either. Shocker.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:42 PM (ZPrif)

278 252 Fucking Somali scum.
Who the fuck thought bringing Somalis to Minnesota was a good idea?
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 04:13 PM (ZPrif)
And Ohio.
And Maine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 22, 2013 12:43 PM (+vOE2)

279 Also no Wongs, Tangs, Nguyen, or Kims.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:44 PM (ZPrif)

280 Nor any mention of Lutheran Assault flavored Jell-O.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 12:45 PM (nqb9X)

281 Actually, I think it was Lutheran do-gooder church groups that were key in settling them in Minnesota.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 22, 2013 12:46 PM (ZPrif)

282 And mosques are off limit to LEOs, so this will continue unabated. Tax us to death and exhaust us to pay for this vermin to plot to kill us.

Posted by: Madamex at September 22, 2013 12:46 PM (islXR)

283 The important question to ask is how many were tea party and/or NRA members?

Posted by: Adam at September 22, 2013 12:48 PM (Aif/5)

284 Radon is a huge problem when you are buying a house in Connecticut. They have ways to fix it, mostly vents in the basement and a system to get the stuff out of the confined area. Most people just walk away when the radon test is positive though. A lot of times, it's because people have an old well pump in the house bringing up air and water from a couple hundred feet down into a galvanized tank. My old system used to piss air for a couple minutes on every cycle. Now I have a newer bladder tank and I never ever hear it vent air. Cost about five hundred bucks or so. Cheaper then the 'remediation' stuff. The newer bladder tanks cut cycles down tremendously, which saves a shitload on electric costs to run. I was a skeptic at first, but my electric bill turned me into a believer.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at September 22, 2013 12:48 PM (U2UQk)

285 Ace. I like this kind of compilation thread. Maybe when you feel spent and concerned that your blogging is lagging, you could throw these up for us. And btw, I don't think your blogging is ever lagging. Makes me sad when you mention it.

Posted by: Sunny at September 22, 2013 12:51 PM (Xnxty)

286 The government never seems to learn.  IIRC after Saigon fell, the US government resettled the refugees in colder climates.  Was not long before the Vietnamese had either moved to the warm Gulf Coast or to equally warm southern California.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 22, 2013 12:51 PM (nqb9X)

287

286 Yeah but if we hadn't done that there wouldn't have been any Gran Torino.

SO worth it

Posted by: DAve at September 22, 2013 12:54 PM (b7yum)

288 new up

Posted by: DAve at September 22, 2013 12:55 PM (b7yum)

289 276 The rods are not 100% sealed then.

Posted by: Retired Navy Chief at September 22, 2013 04:41 PM (BGFPo)



They are always sealed unless there has been an accident in which the clad was breached in an accident. There is such a thing as "tramp Uranium" from construction but that it is in miniscule amounts such that it should be statistically impossible to get any of it on you.  But I guess "possible".



As for getting it from spent fuel you would die before you ever got close enough to get any of it. We used to joke about it; instant molecular death.

Posted by: Vic at September 22, 2013 12:56 PM (zZbNF)

290 @286 Somehow I get the feeling that housing Somalians in a tent camp 20 miles outside Truth or Consequences wouldn't improve their mood any, no matter how much it looks like home. Could speed up acculturation, of one kind or another...

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2013 12:57 PM (JNUY4)

291 74 Which is why Obama is still popular. The economy may be in the shitter, but the average person doesn't give a fuck as long as the govt check keeps coming in every week.

I remember 1992, when the vast majority of the people were doing just fine, but the media convinced everybody that his neighbor was reduced to eating dog food
----

Thanks, AmishDude.  I am glad to know that I'm not the only one who knows the power of the MSM still today.
 
Conservatism is "hanging in there" even against the relentless onslaught of the MSM & Hollywood.  Imagine where this country could be if we had a middle-of-the-road, serioius media...

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at September 22, 2013 12:58 PM (SS8WM)

292 270

Not really, I'd say South America is pretty much 100% brown and it's just different types of Marxist leaders.

Democratic socialism took hold in many places in Europe after WWII, but they also started moving back towards free-market capitalism in the 1980s once they saw the failures. 

Now most countries in Europe and Canada are center-right.  The US seems to be going Left, and I believe it has everything to do with demographics.

If we had the same demographics we did in 1984, Romney would have won a Reagan-like landslide as whites voted for him in nearly the same exact numbers.

Sorry, I don't think you're going to convince many 3rd world immigrants to vote conservative.

Posted by: Jeepers at September 22, 2013 01:10 PM (XDRsa)

293 Looking for a source of the Obama Aluminum magnet story. http://tinyurl.com/px4vwry

Posted by: tmitsss at September 22, 2013 01:14 PM (yuTiW)

294 Well, it's not that simple ... I consider myself a libertarian and Merkel moved the christian democtrats strongly to the left ... almost no deficit? Well, they have record tax revenues and still keep making depths promising things the social democrats promised some years ago - they even put minimum wages up in some branches, something that seemed utterly impossible for a conservativ party - but she was smart because Germans are very prone to socialism - and they are kept that way by a strongly leftist state television that is financed by a forced fee - from this year on you cant even avoid it, even if you have no tv at all ... And all the editors in state tv are leaning left with only 9% voters for Merkel (at least these are numbers from 2005 and 200 .
I wish she was a anti-Obama - she is not. And she said saving the Euro (meaning keep bailing out Greece etc.) is "without any alternative" - plus she got rid of nuclear power and is pushing "renewable" ... Really, don't take her as a role-model.

Posted by: Anette Schuett at September 22, 2013 01:19 PM (eu+Bg)

295 I bet all those proud, grateful American immigrants who killed the innocents in the mall will be used to illustrate the left's contempt for American society, not Islam's contempt for American society.

"Where did we fail them?" will be the articles tomorrow. Hand wringing will ensue. We will be blamed.

Posted by: PJ at September 22, 2013 01:21 PM (ZWaLo)

296 Much of Merkel's landslide comes from the fact she's a female and females usually lean to the Left.  Once you overcome this, it's a game-changer.

Conservatives in the US have got to find ways of appealing to female voters, that's the lowest hanging fruit, especially white suburban females.  That's a much easier voter to appeal to than illegal immigrants or inner-city blacks.

Drop some of the SoCon nuttery, and I think you'd see a lot more Merkel type victories for the GOP.


Posted by: Jeepers at September 22, 2013 01:39 PM (XDRsa)

297 Conservatives in the US have got to find ways of appealing to female voters, that's the lowest hanging fruit, especially white suburban females.

This!  My God, a thousand times, this!  

This is the reason for the "binders" thing and the "War on Women."  Even though they're both patently stupid PR stunts, THEY WORK on their target audience -- middle- and upper-middle college-educated suburban and urban white women.   

Women listen to other women, and women in the media industry are overwhelmingly East Coast Lefties if not outright Commies.  That's who controls the white middle and upper-middle female vote, because they are HUGE media consumers.  They are also the biggest market (by dollar amount) for most discretionary spending, which is why marketers study them so intently. 

This voting bloc is also the reason why the Left has gotten so much traction out of abortion as a wedge issue -- abortion ensures that the post-1970s, college-educated female vote is a solid Democrat voting bloc.  These women have been the target of nonstop propaganda for decades about the need for upwardly mobile white women (like themselves) to have unfettered access to abortion clinics, since the alternative is Enslavement to the Patriarchy through a career-ending case of unplanned motherhood. 

This nightmare scenario frightens the white, college-educated suburban female (even the ones who are past the age of worrying about unplanned pregnancies), far more than such unplanned pregnancies or abortions occur among them in practice.  (Most abortions are low-income, uneducated women who either don't vote or are irretrievably Democrat members of the Free Shit Army, and can be written off politically as potential votes for conservatives.) 

That the white middle and upper-middle class college-educated female voting bloc is also uniquely uninterested in taxes and fiscal policy.  Numbers tend to cause their eyes to glaze over.  They consistently rank economic issues as lower on their list of concerns, below the social (window-dressing) issues, even as the Democrats and RINOs rob us all blind. 

Posted by: Phinn at September 22, 2013 02:06 PM (oFH2D)

298 In a parliamentary system, Merkel did not win a "landslide victory".  If the results turn out as projected, her governing coalition (formed with the FDP) lost just enough ground to deny her a governing majority, because the FDP declined enough to drop below 5% and be shut out of the Bundestag entirely.

If the results turn out as currently projected and she is just one or two seats short of a majority, she may well have to try to form a "grand coalition" with her primary opponents, the SPD, which actually represents progress for the left. 

Interestingly enough, this is the exact opposite of what happens in the USA, where siphoning votes off to the libertarians sometimes prevents the Republicans from picking up a strategically important position.  Different electoral systems generate different results from pretty much the same voting patterns.




Posted by: HTL at September 22, 2013 02:16 PM (xOOs/)

299 Merkel winning like that is nice, especially considering what the alternatives could have been. But I think the fact that the FDP didn't even make it into this session of the Bundestag is big news--they've been there throughout the postwar period, sometimes with as high as 10%+ of the seats in parliament. And now... gone! I find that a little shocking.

Another interesting tidbit that the coalition calculator at the Frankfurter Allgeimeine newspaper shows is that a coalition of "Everybody But the CDU", i.e. Die Linke, Gruene, and SPD, would have a majority of two seats. Now that would be wacky--the biggest winner of the election becoming the opposition! Unfortunately not totally impossible...

Posted by: Philip at September 22, 2013 04:42 PM (Vfg9i)

300 Can Merkel run for president here?

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at September 22, 2013 08:07 PM (2/oBD)

301 Cruz' closure Prayer: Hear the Voice of the People Reid Objects!

Posted by: panzernashorn at September 25, 2013 07:58 AM (MhA4j)

302 Last night, Cruz repeatedly denounced ObamaCare for abusing single mothers.

Posted by: panzernashorn at September 25, 2013 07:59 AM (MhA4j)

303 46 Oppose Closure/Obamacare

Posted by: panzernashorn at September 25, 2013 08:00 AM (MhA4j)

304 Reid admires Cruz, but admits Reid's inability to learn anything, new or old. Education is a waste of time. Discussion is a waste of time. Pass the turd! We're constipated and must pass the turd. We have a mindset to pass the turd. STFU and pass the turd. Reid is the new anarchy: Alinksy OWNS the labels.

Posted by: panzernashorn at September 25, 2013 08:05 AM (MhA4j)

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