May 06, 2013
— Ace Apologies for lifting the "Damn,..." joke from Hot Air.
The era of Big Government is wonderful.
: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.
I seem to remember a lot of concern expressed by the Founders who gave ups this "unique experiment in self-rule" about the omnipresent threat of tyranny and a government that rules a people rather than the other way 'round.
It should be noted that the government isn't much in the business anymore of acting as a collective pool for national accomplishment. By which I mean: Going to the Moon is obviously something none of us could have achieved ourselves, but we authorized the government, with our dollars, to make that happen.
Obama talks in vague terms which seem to suggest such matters but his chief concern is using government as a catspaw by which to extract money from Citizen A and give those dollars (minus the bureaucrats' vig) to Citizen B.
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Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:30 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:30 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 06, 2013 11:30 AM (6zgse)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:31 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:31 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Lara Logan at May 06, 2013 11:32 AM (O0YYp)
Posted by: King-Elect Obama at May 06, 2013 11:32 AM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Jaws at May 06, 2013 11:32 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:32 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: secretary of state at May 06, 2013 11:32 AM (T57Q6)
Posted by: Dean Barky O'Dogeater at May 06, 2013 11:32 AM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Vic at May 06, 2013 11:33 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:33 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord at May 06, 2013 11:33 AM (ZWvOb)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:33 AM (T0NGe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=molWTfv8TYw
Posted by: huerfano at May 06, 2013 11:34 AM (bAGA/)
It's 3AM, you're under attack by armed terrorists. You call for help, vastly outnumbered and outgunned.
You reach a voicemail asking to call back during normal business hours.
Worst. President. Ever.
Posted by: Prescient11 at May 06, 2013 11:35 AM (tVTLU)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:35 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:35 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: toby928 adjusts his tinfoil hat at May 06, 2013 11:35 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: fluffy at May 06, 2013 11:36 AM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:36 AM (T0NGe)
We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to.
It's comments like that which prove God's Mercy. A purely Just and Wrathful God would strike down someone for making such an obviously false comment.
*OF COURSE* TFG and his ilk have always been "a people who place all [their] faith in government to solve [their] problems." They've never been anything else.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (71LDo)
The JEF doesn't realize he's the one that has ruined everything!
I hope that everything that he and Hillary covered up comes out. I was surprised yesterday. I put on one of the Sunday shows and host mentioned Benghazi. I think it was Meet the Press.
Posted by: CarolT at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: wooga at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (BhTwW)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Vic at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 06, 2013 11:37 AM (5fSr7)
You reach a voicemail asking to call back during normal business hours.
Is this the part where I mention that 3 AM Libya time *is* normal business hours DC Time?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:38 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:38 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2013 11:38 AM (9XBK2)
During the Bush administration they probably heard it incessantly but I'm guessing since January 2009 that mantra ended
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 11:38 AM (1Jaio)
Most obnoxious commencement speech ever! Graduation is suppose to be all about the people receiving their diplomas, not some meglomaniac narcissist who not only steals their limelight, but tells them what they must think! Absolutely disgusting!
Posted by: runningrn at May 06, 2013 11:38 AM (MZrpY)
20It's 3AM, you're under attack by armed terrorists. You call for help, vastly outnumbered and outgunned.
You reach a voicemail asking to call back during normal business hours.
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Press one for Spanish, Press two for English. Press nine to speak to Apu.
Posted by: longbow h8er at May 06, 2013 11:39 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: Preezy Choom at May 06, 2013 11:39 AM (lVPtV)
Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2013 11:39 AM (9XBK2)
And by Gawd, I mean me.
Posted by: Barack Douglas [/i] [/b] at May 06, 2013 11:39 AM (Yr6sH)
Posted by: Barak Hussein Obama Mmm, Mmm, Mmm! at May 06, 2013 11:39 AM (MZrpY)
Yeah, I grew up hearing it. They were from guys like Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and others.
Fuck you, Barry.
Posted by: B at May 06, 2013 11:40 AM (twiRb)
Posted by: wooga at May 06, 2013 11:40 AM (BhTwW)
Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at May 06, 2013 11:40 AM (J+V/o)
Yeah, but SportsCenter's on.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 11:40 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Barack Obama, lightbringer of hope and change at May 06, 2013 11:40 AM (T0NGe)
Probably not, though, as I am neither a goat nor a rent boy.
Posted by: huerfano at May 06, 2013 11:40 AM (bAGA/)
Dude, like what's a tyranny?
Dude, it's a dude who wants to be a chick.
Dude, is he saying we should be into trannies?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 11:41 AM (1Jaio)
But no president before Choom Boy has made government something to be feared. Yes, we've had crooks, grifters and layabouts, but President Historic First© has taken executive power several frightening steps forward.
His goal is to change a constitutional republic into a third-world shithole in which the favored few reap the benefits and the rest suffer. He is a mean-spirited, racist thug worthy of inclusion with the likes of Idi Amin, the Kim family, Papa and Baby Doc.
Posted by: MrScribbler at May 06, 2013 11:41 AM (mHrip)
What we can all hope for is that the voters will finally get tired of socialism after 8 years of his shit.
But they won't Vic. See, the problem here is that socialism sounds good, and (for those it benefits) it's way better than any alternative- at least in the short term.
But it's not just the makers vs. the takers. You've got a huge number of people who are *technically* makers, but don't really see the world in those terms. Those people like to think of themselves as "level headed" and "moderate." Mostly they're just asleep at the switch- but they'll never admit that.
To them, people pointing out the evils and ills of socialsm sound shrill. This is especially the case when, a few years into it, the Socialists can say (smugly), "See? We still have money. If they were right, we'd already be out of money by now. We can keep this going forever."
And so the takers actively like socialism, and much of the middle can't be roused to fight it.
DOOM.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Fritz at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (G9Mmf)
Posted by: Weimar Republic at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (SO2Q8)
"I'm out for presidents to represent me" "Get money!"
"I'm out for presidents to represent me" "Get money!"
"I'm out for dead fuckin presidents to represent me (Whose...)"
"Rock... on, Roc-A-Fella y'all"
"The saga continues"
Posted by: Barky O'Genius at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (8ZskC)
Today's Monday, and it's all going to the governments. I don't get to work for myself until sometime Wednesday.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Hillary 2016 at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (WolTZ)
Posted by: Bilwick at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (KZcFn)
Is this the part where I mention that 3 AM Libya time *is* normal business hours DC Time?
Yeah, but SportsCenter's on.
Too bad Ambassador Stevens didn't take an ad out on ESPN...
Posted by: runningrn at May 06, 2013 11:42 AM (MZrpY)
Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at May 06, 2013 11:43 AM (J+V/o)
Posted by: dananjcon self hating full of teenage angst woploc at May 06, 2013 11:43 AM (jvd3N)
I wonder how many of the graduates will end up living in their parents' basements?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 11:43 AM (lVPtV)
He doesn't make these types of speeches to net takers, only the net makers.
Posted by: dudenolongerinsantacruz at May 06, 2013 11:43 AM (ZCu9v)
Posted by: X at May 06, 2013 11:44 AM (KHo8t)
The man is a fucking moron (not in our sense, either). He is apparently unaware that democracies / constitutional republics have slipped into tyranny before (Rome, post-revolutionary France, pre-Bolshevik Russia, Weimar Republic, Italy pre-1922, Argentina, to name a few off the top of my head), and so vigilance against tyranny is not only not inappropriate, but absolutely vital.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2013 11:44 AM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 11:44 AM (aDwsi)
Couldn't hate the jug-eared fuck more if I tried.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 11:44 AM (lVPtV)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 11:44 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Barky O'Genius at May 06, 2013 11:45 AM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Dang at May 06, 2013 11:45 AM (R18D0)
The government was not to be feared before 1933. Since, it has become steadily more intrusive, costly and tyrannical.
Oh, no, the government was to be feared before 1933. There were lots of little rebellions even before the Civil War. They were necessary to remind people who worked for whom. The government was to be feared the same way a farmer fears his prized brahma bull. It's a vital piece of his herd, but he's never stupid enough to let it get behind him.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:45 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus 2016 at May 06, 2013 11:46 AM (HEa5q)
now in the Washington Post
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over the Libyan coastal city in a show of force that might have averted a second attack on a nearby CIA complex.
Hours later, according to excerpts of the account by the U.S. diplomat, Gregory Hicks, American officials in the Libyan capital sought permission to deploy four U.S. special operations soldiers to Benghazi aboard a Libyan military aircraft early the next morning. They were told to stand down.
the ice. its breaking
Posted by: thunderb at May 06, 2013 11:46 AM (nH8jP)
Posted by: toby928 at May 06, 2013 11:46 AM (evdj2)
The man is a fucking moron...
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Sadly..., no. He is, in fact, a shrewd, calculating politician, driven by highly flawed perceptions of human nature, economics, and the essence of the well-being of The Republic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 11:47 AM (aDwsi)
...or breaking shit then raping someone in a tent.
P.S.: Go Buckeyes
-Fuck Michigan ...buncha' occupiers.
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 11:47 AM (7gwGw)
Posted by: Karensky at May 06, 2013 11:47 AM (SO2Q8)
more from the Wa Po
When it was all over and the jets had not been scrambled and the troops not dispatched, an American lieutenant colonel in Tripoli who commanded the four-man special ops team told Hicks he was sorry his men had been held back.
Posted by: thunderb at May 06, 2013 11:47 AM (nH8jP)
He is, in fact, a shrewd, calculating politician
I don't buy it. He's a dunce that serves as a pawn for those smarter and more powerful.
Posted by: toby928 at May 06, 2013 11:48 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 11:48 AM (1Jaio)
lots and lots reduced to physician assistant because of it
wonder what they were thinking while this idiot was giving his stump speech Posted by: i like anchors at May 06, 2013 03:46 PM
My niece, for one.
Posted by: huerfano at May 06, 2013 11:48 AM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Andy at May 06, 2013 11:48 AM (M+8O9)
Hicks, a veteran foreign service officer who is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, told congressional staffers that he and others in Libya thought that flying U.S. military jets over Benghazi during the early hours of the attack could have had a deterrent effect.
“If we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the [CIA] annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split,” Hicks said. “They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.”
Posted by: thunderb at May 06, 2013 11:49 AM (nH8jP)
Never thought I'd say it, but Woody Wilson comes off as Ike when compared to FDR, who in turn is like, oh, Gerald Ford when stacked up against the Chicago Jesus.
All of the previous presidents (even Bubba Clinton) are to Bark Obama as Tepid Air's Poppin' Fresh is to Vito Corleone. Just no comparison.
Posted by: MrScribbler at May 06, 2013 11:49 AM (mHrip)
It should be noted that two of the government 'sucesses' that he mentioned are Teach for America, and the Peace Corps. He did mention veterans, neglecting to mention that Defense is specified as a Constitutional imperative. Curiously absent was any mention of Head Start, Americorps(e), or Dept. of Energy loans
Or any mention of the Tuskegee experiment, or the internment of the Nisei. Must've slipped his mind.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2013 11:49 AM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 06, 2013 11:49 AM (U2UQk)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:49 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: dogfish at May 06, 2013 11:50 AM (nsOJa)
LA Times reveals the joke that is Tesla's claimed profits.
Posted by: epobirs at May 06, 2013 11:50 AM (kcfmt)
“I guess they didn’t have the right authority from the right level,” he said.
Posted by: thunderb at May 06, 2013 11:50 AM (nH8jP)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 06, 2013 11:51 AM (1/RiT)
Posted by: navybrat at May 06, 2013 11:51 AM (oNJRf)
Dear Leader: And when you apply for that job, don't forget to tell them Obama sent you.
College grad: What's a job application?
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 11:51 AM (5VNMr)
Hey, kid, I understand Burger King is hiring. All shifts!
Posted by: torquewrench at May 06, 2013 11:51 AM (gqT4g)
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Jean at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (XwRIg)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (Zd/NW)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: navybrat at May 06, 2013 03:51 PM
That doesn't count when they're in charge.
RULE CHANGE!!!
No turntables, times infinity.
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (7gwGw)
And another thing, what happened to all of the "Question Authority" bumper stickers?
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I am the answer
Posted by: Barry at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 11:52 AM (QxSug)
I will be watching and laughing as the Buckeye grads who just sat through The Won's speech now go out and try to get their post-collegiate lives and careers started in The Won's feeble economy. While paying back their record levels of nondischargeable student loan debt.
Anyone who takes a student loan for anything other than a STEM degree (and even some of those *cough*medicaldegrees*cough*) is a fool.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:53 AM (/PCJa)
They've been replaced with "Coexist" stickers and "Hillary! 2016."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 11:53 AM (lVPtV)
I don't buy it. He's a dunce that serves as a pawn for those smarter and more powerful. Posted by: toby
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He is certainly manipulated by his fellow-travelers, but to whatever extent they may be brighter or more driven, the same characteristics apply to them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 11:53 AM (aDwsi)
Bull.Shit. I bet the first manned mission to Mars is private and done by Richard Branson (or his disembodied head in a jar).
Yes, yes, I know Branson's not an American but all y'all get my point.
If the first disembodied head that gets to Mars is not an American disembodied head, then we'll know the great American experiment is over.
Posted by: Lurking Canuck at May 06, 2013 11:53 AM (BrQrN)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 11:54 AM (qyfb5)
d another thing, what happened to all of the "Question Authority" bumper stickers?
They're covered up by "Obama 2012" bumper stickers.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2013 11:54 AM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 06, 2013 11:54 AM (U2UQk)
If the first disembodied head that gets to Mars is not an American disembodied head, then we'll know the great American experiment is over.
I'm not concerned about the first disembodied head to get there. I'm concerned about the first disembodied head to get there and then come back.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:55 AM (/PCJa)
I don't buy it. He's a dunce that serves as a pawn for those smarter and more powerful.
Leave Soros out of this.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2013 11:55 AM (IDSI7)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at May 06, 2013 11:55 AM (epxV4)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 11:55 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: chique d'afrique
Typical. He takes a graduation commencement speech to rail against conservatives/Tea Party/gun rights activist. He doesn't have to name them specifically, we know who he is talking about.
Posted by: Cheri at May 06, 2013 11:56 AM (G+Wff)
Posted by: torquewrench
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Yeah..., and, oh, BTW..., 27hrs./week max, because Obamacare.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 11:56 AM (aDwsi)
PRUNE THE HEGEMONY
DUSTY BOTTOMS: "And we... pruned the hegomony"
EL GUAPO: "Pruned the hegemony..."
DB: "Of many large governments..."
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 11:56 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 11:56 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 11:57 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 11:57 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: tasker at May 06, 2013 11:57 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Obama at May 06, 2013 11:57 AM (m2CN7)
>>> We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems
Who the hell is "We"? This is so incredibly foolish.
He does not understand what the Founders understood and what they tried to combat: Human Nature. Human nature is the same now as it was in 1776, and the same as it was in Ancient Greece.
Obama is a fool, just like so many others throughout history, who think that "We" are somehow separate from the rest of Human Nature, and that the lessons of history do not apply to us.
Posted by: dan-O at May 06, 2013 11:59 AM (G+bgR)
Posted by: tcn at May 06, 2013 11:59 AM (ZOUmX)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 11:59 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: JonathanEllis at May 06, 2013 11:59 AM (BdzEV)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 11:59 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 11:59 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Prescient11 at May 06, 2013 12:00 PM (tVTLU)
"Reject voices that warn about government tyranny" said the man from the government.
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"And you can sleep safely knowing the government has your back.......er.....unless your one of my ambassadors.....uhhhh.....well, unless you're a gay ambassodor......mmmm......just don't sleep. You can doze. Dozing is cool".
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:00 PM (5VNMr)
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:00 PM (7gwGw)
I guess he had someone take the require courses for him? Because he has zero context for most of the statements he makes.
It actually the epitome of this presidents style. He just phones everything in. Even his comments have become lazy uninformed quips.
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:00 PM (GGCsk)
Whenever the subject of these massive subsidies being dumped into bullshit electric cars comes up, remember who it is that we owe for that practice.
It's not Obama. Obama merely continued and extended a game someone else began.
The "someone else" was George W. Bush. Who gave industry $25B in loans, R&D tax credits, subsidies and other such malarkey to produce these glorified long range golf carts. That, along with the masterstroke of banning the incandescent light bulb.
Another chapter in the worthless Bush family having squandered the magnificent Reagan legacy they were handed. Bushes delenda est.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 06, 2013 12:00 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 12:00 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 06, 2013 12:01 PM (bb5+k)
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Oh it's already over. The corpse may twitch occasionally, but it's dead. The people (enough of them anyway) love government, not liberty.
Posted by: irright at May 06, 2013 12:01 PM (8GKDa)
Posted by: Phinn at May 06, 2013 12:01 PM (rN2Uq)
Even his comments have become lazy uninformed quips.
They were always "lazy uninformed quips." I don't think he's said anything in the last 5 years (at least) that was both a) true and b) substantive.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 12:01 PM (/PCJa)
Posted by: torquewrench at May 06, 2013 04:00 PM (gqT4g)
Nah....I like it neatly trimmed, or maybe a landing strip.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (QxSug)
Like the Framers who wrote our Constitution?
Well that explains his worldview anyway. It's pretty much what Obama has done for the last 5 years.
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: rockhead at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (jtTKf)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (DGIjM)
We [not them boogiemen] more smarter. We [not them boogiemen] own democracy. We [not them boogiemen] are citizens [comrade] who must act together for self government [ed. note: WTF is that?]. YOU, Borg must assimilate.
Posted by: dogfish at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (nsOJa)
-Stuff George Washington said, Vol. 4
Posted by: SwampFox at May 06, 2013 12:02 PM (kBWdQ)
"Phillipos confined to mother's house."
I thought he was an illegal alien? Return him from whence he came.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:03 PM (+oin+)
Wait, "Davenport" is a thing for people who aren't my grandma? Wow.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 12:03 PM (B/VB5)
Posted by: SwampFox at May 06, 2013 12:03 PM (kBWdQ)
Wow, I haven't heard that word in a long time.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, that actually was a topic in the ONT. Turns out there are two schools, the 'Davenport' school, and the 'Chesterfield' school. They proved to be amiable, much as Scotch drinkers are to Bourbon drinkers, and vice versa.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:03 PM (aDwsi)
It's not Obama. Obama merely continued and extended a game someone else began.
Actually, government-backed loans (which is what the majority of these subsidies are) to business started long before Bush, and the Bush WH was usually pretty thorough with their due dilligence. For instance, they turned down Solyndra at least twice (IIRC). It wasn't until TFG got into office that companies who had no chance of ever being able to repay started getting them.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 12:04 PM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:04 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: SwampFox at May 06, 2013 12:04 PM (kBWdQ)
Posted by: Muad'dib at May 06, 2013 12:05 PM (KjlbF)
A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case
http://tinyurl.com/d42eg77
Posted by: AAA at May 06, 2013 12:05 PM (JFsQc)
Robel is an American citizen
Prosecutor agreed to it
Although I do not like it, sounds like he has rolled on his little friends. And good luck to him ever leaving his house again anyway. Some Bostonians prolly would love to get their hands on him.
Posted by: thunderb at May 06, 2013 12:05 PM (nH8jP)
Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 06, 2013 04:02 PM
Medicare Part "D", "No Child Left Behind" and the "Patriot Act".
...Now with 25% MORE Liberty, Justice and Freedom!
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:06 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 06, 2013 12:06 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Professor eleven E.P. (expert professor) at May 06, 2013 12:06 PM (KXm42)
Posted by: NYC Parent at May 06, 2013 12:06 PM (HEo6y)
Posted by: Slapweasel
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Polls say 90%
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:07 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 06, 2013 12:07 PM (nbX4o)
Free birth control for all! Free birth control for all! C'mon on your feet.
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:07 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:07 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Muad'dib at May 06, 2013 04:05 PM
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He does leave a mess.
Posted by: Mrs. F. Marion at May 06, 2013 12:08 PM (8GKDa)
You can stuff your sorries in a barrel, mister.
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 06, 2013 12:08 PM (nbX4o)
Oh great. Now the hardwood v. shag carpet wars will begin again.
A tasteful area rug can really tie a room together.
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2013 12:08 PM (NcBcw)
Posted by: rockhead at May 06, 2013 12:08 PM (jtTKf)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 12:08 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 06, 2013 12:09 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:09 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: thunderb at May 06, 2013 12:09 PM (nH8jP)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at May 06, 2013 12:09 PM (XvrTA)
No one is arguing for abolishing government. We're arguing that the current government is too large and intrusive. That's a touch different from being a full on anarchist.
Posted by: xbradtc at May 06, 2013 12:09 PM (NkGnT)
government to solve our problems."
WTF? Who's this "we" he's talking about? Certainly not the Democrat party.
He said this to a room full of students who borrowed federal money to pay tuition and university employees who fund their research (much of which is of questionable value) through government grants?
Huh.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: RWC at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: Wee, Sue-Em, and How [/i] at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (U2UQk)
Serious, you guys, Barry isn't smart enough to mastermind a fucking scam as big as Global Warming.
Posted by: Fritz at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (G9Mmf)
Oh great. Now the hardwood v. shag carpet wars will begin again.
A tasteful area rug can really tie a room together. Posted by: garrett
And let's also not forget, let's NOT forget that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city... that isn't legal either.
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:10 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: waldo at May 06, 2013 12:11 PM (sXWmd)
Posted by: RWC at May 06, 2013 12:11 PM (Wl/Ht)
This from the man who took over 1/6th of our economy vis a vis' healthcare, has stifled our economy through Fed policy, destroyed the banking sector via regulation and taken over student loans.
The man has absolutely zero sense of irony.
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:11 PM (GGCsk)
Speaking of foxes, I've now seen three dead foxes by the side of the road in the last two weeks. The moral of that story? Hey! There's foxes by me!
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 12:11 PM (VtjlW)
Jason Collins -- Gay NBA Hero -- what a hero, rock on with your bad self!
Chris Stephens -- Murdered Gay Ambassador sent to a country which kills gays as a religious precept -- ain't no body here crying!
I refuse to denounce myself for misusing song lyrics.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:11 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: HeatherRadish
And now owe a compounded 6.5% to his syndicate.
Posted by: The Strawman at May 06, 2013 12:12 PM (+I8Mq)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 12:12 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:12 PM (r2PLg)
he'll be wearing an ankl bracelet
why?
if he's a threat, keep him in jail
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:12 PM (+oin+)
Posted by: Golfman in NC at May 06, 2013 12:12 PM (/djtm)
Posted by: RushBabe at May 06, 2013 12:12 PM (orY9d)
Posted by: SwampFox at May 06, 2013 04:02 PM
There will be no cuttin' and pastin' from Word
Anyone caught cuttin' and pastin' from Word spends the night in The Barrel
Posted by: Carr the Threadwalker at May 06, 2013 12:13 PM (mCvL4)
Like the guy in California who had to wait months and get umpteen permission slips from gangs of utter retards to obtain sanction from on high ... in order to fill in a hole left when a tree blew over.
Right, Barry?
That self-government?
You fucking tool.
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 06, 2013 12:13 PM (nbX4o)
Malia Ann's eligible to run for Congress in 2024.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:13 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at May 06, 2013 12:13 PM (fzFF6)
"I agree that the Bushes are responsible for a great deal of why this country is fucked up. "
Total and complete bullshit.
Posted by: Obama at May 06, 2013 12:13 PM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Fritz
$200k speeches aren't going to make themselves, you know.
Posted by: Barack Douglas [/i] [/b] at May 06, 2013 12:13 PM (Yr6sH)
Posted by: Phinn at May 06, 2013 12:14 PM (rN2Uq)
I have no idea why, but my gut hurts from laughing at that. My eyes are a little watery,
...and I peed a little.
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:14 PM (7gwGw)
...at offshore private clinics in the Caribbean...
...that only take CASH.
Posted by: @PurpAv at May 06, 2013 12:14 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at May 06, 2013 12:14 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at May 06, 2013 12:14 PM (/lWM8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_That_Care
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:14 PM (ZKzrr)
I remember a time when there was relative freedom in this nation.
I remember when it was most appropriate to be married before having children.
I remember a time when medicine could be payed for by writing a check that came from one's own banking account.
I remember a time when we could carry guns to school so we could have firearms safety class IN THE CLASSROOM.
I remember when front doors didn't need to be locked just to go to the grocery store.
I can add to this list ad-infinitem.
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:15 PM (5VNMr)
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 12:15 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: The Peoples Front of Linoleum at May 06, 2013 12:15 PM (8GKDa)
Posted by: Teh One and Future King at May 06, 2013 12:15 PM (/lWM8)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:15 PM (r2PLg)
TFG should read his own "You didn't build that" rant, on his own whitehouse.gov, which is inconsistent with what he's saying here. Which brings me back to the suggestion that TFG, like many people with narcissistic personality disorder (for which he is the poster child), is literally a pathological liar.
But really, Ace, "Going to the Moon is obviously something none of us could have achieved ourselves"? First of all, space flight is becoming a private sector phenomenon as we speak, with the government pukes so dysfunctional that they have to thumb a ride with the Ruskies! Second of all, nobody in the private sector WOULD go to the Moon. Glitz and glamour aside, the Moon is just a big bunch of unremarkable rocks that are not WORTH the extraordinary expense of going to visit. Only the government would spend money on something so profoundly impractical.
Posted by: Optimizer at May 06, 2013 12:16 PM (Mxt9o)
Posted by: Barack Douglas at May 06, 2013 04:13 PM (Yr6sH)
Please, bitch, once Barky leaves office and comes out of the closet and marries Reggie, his speeches will go for double that.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:16 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 06, 2013 12:17 PM (U2UQk)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:17 PM (r2PLg)
Posted by: wooga at May 06, 2013 12:17 PM (BhTwW)
-SwampFox
That was some big government formatting right there!
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:17 PM (jvd3N)
in the 2010s govt is in the business of driving up your insurance costs
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 06, 2013 12:18 PM (LRFds)
You will apologize to Aimee Mann right this minute.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 12:18 PM (B/VB5)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Rip VanBullwinkle at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (lV1tZ)
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: RWC at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: SwampFox at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (kBWdQ)
I know this is a bit OT but surely this lady is an AoS premium member
http://tinyurl.com/cusb4y9
Posted by: fastfreefall at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (MPEti)
It's way, way worse. Especially when you look at the political activities of the maggots who recorded it...whole lotta BDS/SCOAMFlickers in that chorus.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 04:18 PM (B/VB5)<<
No. They're completely right.
Posted by: Aimee Mann at May 06, 2013 12:19 PM (KjlbF)
There were no low piles during my administration.
Posted by: BJ Clinton at May 06, 2013 12:20 PM (2iU3x)
No worries. They're going to find out soon the reality of what they voted for, and you know damn well that a majority of them voted for the creep. Let them reap their just rewards.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at May 06, 2013 12:20 PM (vd7A8)
Threaten to toss some of those rocks at major cities and the extortion payoffs will make it all worthwhile. For a super-villain, the moon is an outstanding base of operations.
Posted by: @PurpAv at May 06, 2013 12:20 PM (/gHaE)
Glitz and glamour aside, the Moon is just a big bunch of unremarkable rocks that are notWORTH the extraordinary expense of going to visit. Only the government would spend money on something so profoundly impractical.
"Glitz, glamor, and all those things we use every day" you mean. Going to the moon was psychologically valuable (and don't turn up your nose at that), and it also had a lot of ancillary benefits we might never have realized except for the moon missions. And, yes, the private sector is doing it *now* but they weren't doing it then.
And, if you believe in space colonization (which I think would be cool, quite frankly), the moon has a lot of benefit- as a stepping stone to further out in the solar system if nothing else.
And I'll take it further: if you gave private companies some interest in the moon (mineral rights, for instance), or the same for the astroid belt, I bet we'd have a fully functioning moon-base in the next decade or so.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at May 06, 2013 12:20 PM (/PCJa)
Posted by: joeindc44 says President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2016 at May 06, 2013 12:21 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:21 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at May 06, 2013 12:21 PM (wR+pz)
Or just observe that if Muslims loved them a space rock at Mecca, they'll like a few hundred more.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 12:22 PM (B/VB5)
You can also write your name on it in big letters.
Posted by: Chairface at May 06, 2013 12:23 PM (nbX4o)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:23 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Fritz
$200k speeches aren't going to make themselves, you know.
Posted by: Barack Douglas
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Then, the JEF can anticipate the coveted Father of the Year Award (a la Clinton), for seeing to it that his daughters are not punished, because Morning After Pill,
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:23 PM (aDwsi)
in the 2010s govt is in the business of driving up your insurance costs
Posted by: sven10077
By 2025, I propose we just run shit into other shit. I mean, who doesn't want to watch a couple-a useless Space Shuttles come together at 220 MPH?!?
Vote for me and I will make it so.
Re-Elect Bernie Sanders 2020
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:23 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at May 06, 2013 12:23 PM (7ObY1)
http://tinyurl.com/cusb4y9
Posted by: fastfreefall at May 06, 2013 04:19 PM (MPEti)
**
Hahah...I like her style. Think I'll start an Erin James fan club.
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:24 PM (jvd3N)
He ain't gonna have no choice. Michelle will burn through their $10M net worth in a couple of years of living large.
His $400k/yr retirement ain't gonna cut it. This is not a guy who knows how to live within his means.
He'll be doing $20k speaking gigs round the clock to maintain her spending habits.
Posted by: @PurpAv at May 06, 2013 12:24 PM (/gHaE)
I have some slightly used needle nose pliers from this morning. Here you go...
Posted by: Muad'dib at May 06, 2013 12:24 PM (KjlbF)
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Possible thread winner.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:24 PM (aDwsi)
I was struck by how child-like Gabrileel Giffords sounds. Then I remembered that she wasn't too bright to begin with.
The only thing that changed is her speech cadence -- otherwise she's still the same dim bulb she was before the bullet.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:25 PM (BUcLz)
Posted by: © Sponge at May 06, 2013 12:25 PM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: Optimizer at May 06, 2013 04:16 PM (Mxt9o)
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I disagree. The moon is an ideal jumping-off point for longer space journeys.
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:25 PM (5VNMr)
No worries. They're going to find out soon the reality of what they voted for, and you know damn well that a majority of them voted for the creep. Let them reap their just rewards.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at May 06, 2013 04:20 PM (vd7A
Alex, I'll take; "What will 60% of the OSU graduating class of 2013 be asking a year from now?"
"Would you like fries with your order?"
Posted by: Ammo Dump at May 06, 2013 12:25 PM (YYyqq)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (r2PLg)
All politicians use strawmen arguments at some point. But I've never seen a president do it so often as this man.
you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner.
That's a real healthy understanding and respect for roughly half of the electorate, jackass.
Posted by: CJ at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (9KqcB)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (XvHmy)
Maybe that will be a bit more lucid next year when most of them can't find jobs or they sign-up, excuse me, are forced to sign-up for Obamacare.
By the way, does Obama think he's the anti-Reagan? I believe that's another lofty titled he's thrust upon himself. Ya know like, "Slayer of Reagan and all things Free Market or Republican".
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (zZJJp)
Vote for me and I will make it so.
Re-Elect Bernie Sanders 2020
Posted by: Slapweasel
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Ah..., I am reminded of Gomez Addams.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2013 12:26 PM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Ezra Jay Carney-Klein--now with new stuff! at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (r2PLg)
And another thing, what happened to all of the "Question Authority" bumper stickers?
Posted by: navybrat at May 06, 2013 03:51 PM
That doesn't count when they're in charge.
RULE CHANGE!!!
***
Calvinball politics.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (XUKZU)
Alex, I'll take; "What will 60% of the OSU graduating class of 2013 be asking a year from now?"
"Would you like fries with your order?"
Posted by: Ammo Dump at May 06, 2013 04:25 PM (YYyqq
Also, "Mom, can I borrow your computer while you're out?"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: randomized lurker at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (AnfcZ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 04:24 PM (lVPtV)
Your AoS makes noise?
Posted by: © Sponge at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (xmcEQ)
She'll make that much for a 12-wk season of "That Michelle Show" on E!.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 12:27 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 06, 2013 12:28 PM (Zv1QB)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at May 06, 2013 12:28 PM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:28 PM (GGCsk)
This from a guy who's political philosophy says that adults cannot be trusted with a gun, or even an 18-ounce Big Gulp, but that 15-year-olds can be trusted with the Plan B abortion pill.
Posted by: DocJ at May 06, 2013 12:28 PM (A5uiv)
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:29 PM (5VNMr)
Your AoS makes noise?
Posted by: © Sponge at May 06, 2013 04:27 PM (xmcEQ
Yours doesn't? I have the Titanium level.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:29 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: xbradtc at May 06, 2013 04:09 PM (NkGnT)
it's a mammoth, its needs are huge , it has become extremely inefficient and expensive to maintain , It needs cleaning up ,wasted funds and priorities to be made. They are still growing by leaps and bounds when the economy has flatlined.
If we on the outside are having to make choices in our lives about waste and inefficient use of funds, shouldn't they?
as the people are the ones paying for them?
Posted by: willow at May 06, 2013 12:29 PM (nqBYe)
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Gettin voted into the white house
Everything lookin good to the people of the world
But the mafia family is my boss
So every now and then I owe a favor gettin' down
Like lettin' a big drug shipment through
And send 'em to the poor community
So we can bust you know who
So voters of the world keep supportin' me
And I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me
Or I'll send a million troops to die at war
To all you republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
'cause now I got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Posted by: Geto Boys at May 06, 2013 12:29 PM (EZl54)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:29 PM (aDwsi)
If it wasn't for the great and wonderful and wise government, how else can that man in California live his life as a baby wearing diapers??
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:30 PM (GcwH1)
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:30 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: King Barry at May 06, 2013 12:30 PM (mCvL4)
This seems to be another attempt to contradict his legacy ("Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem")
I swear, little-dick barry must have been beaten by a guy in a Reagan mask as a child back in muzzie land or wherever the fuck he comes from.
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at May 06, 2013 04:26 PM (zZJJp)
He was raised by America hating communists. Reagan was the antithesis of their belief system. He is their anti-Christ.
Posted by: © Sponge at May 06, 2013 12:31 PM (xmcEQ)
Husband was pulling vines out of a tree on the side of the house yesterday, and a pretty big wax myrtle suddenly crashed down on the roof above the screened porch.
Fortunately, husband wasn't hurt and he managed to get the tree down without damaging anything.
Scared two deer half to death, so that was entertaining.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:31 PM (lVPtV)
*lighbulb flickers* Is it still "100% covered, no co-pay" by Mommy's insurance until you're 26 if it's without a prescription?
Oops!
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 06, 2013 12:31 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 12:32 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Golfman in NC at May 06, 2013 12:32 PM (/djtm)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 06, 2013 12:32 PM (U2UQk)
"Was it good for you?" (implying a type of copulation)
"Well, actually no. It was more like prison rape."
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:32 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 04:29 PM (aDwsi)
Yeah. Global Warming® was hitting pretty hard there.
Posted by: © Sponge at May 06, 2013 12:32 PM (xmcEQ)
Michelle will burn through their $10M net worth in a couple of years of living large.
***
I see that the Mooch and Jason Collins are going to appear together to raise money for some GLBTOMGWTFBBQ PAC fund raiser. Two heroes. One stage.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:33 PM (XUKZU)
Yup. He thinks himself as Reagan in terms of how Reagan fairly effortlessly moved the culture to the right, except of course he's going the other way. I think Mark Steyn wrote about this a few months back.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 12:33 PM (B/VB5)
Posted by: Golfman in NC at May 06, 2013 12:33 PM (/djtm)
She's given up all pretense of pretending to support the military and their families since TFG was re-elected.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:34 PM (lVPtV)
A great way to get this going is to name me
Dictator perpetuo
Caaaaaaan yooooooooou dig it folks?
Posted by: barack obama as Augustus at May 06, 2013 12:34 PM (4eNxd)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 12:34 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:35 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 12:36 PM (T0NGe)
Now all you college pukes can blow me.
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:36 PM (jvd3N)
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If they decided to have an affair, who'd be pitching and who'd be catching?
Posted by: irright at May 06, 2013 12:36 PM (8GKDa)
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Yep. A Tarheel born and bred.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:36 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 04:32 PM (T0NGe)
I agree that the woman wants no part of work and has all the political acumen of a rotting corpse.
Not in Mooch's case, she gets a freebie if he does come out of the closet and marry Reggie. She gets to be the woman he loved, but, did not desire, etc. She gets to be the heroine for sticking with it for the good of the country so that narrow minded folks would not have kept him from giving us his glory for 8 years.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (kXoT0)
He doth think too much of himself.
First African American president? Yep and that's about it.
He's been the most underwhelming, most divisive, most under accomplished and ineffective President in my lifetime.
By the time his term is over, we will be poorer and in worse shape as a nation. Unless he lists that as an accomplishment, he's done zero to make our nation better. In fact he's expediting our demise.
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (5VNMr)
Posted by: [/i][/b] at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (Vgn84)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at May 06, 2013 12:37 PM (jEEzR)
Posted by: irright at May 06, 2013 04:36 PM (8GKDa)
Mooch don't catch.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:38 PM (kXoT0)
Now all you college pukes can blow me.
Posted by: dananjcon
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The corollary, of course, is that as resistance increases amperage decreases.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:38 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Lauren at May 06, 2013 12:38 PM (CFNW8)
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 04:37 PM (5VNMr
If your boner lasts more than four hours, think of Mooch, Hillary and Valerie in a threesome.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:39 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: olddog in mo at May 06, 2013 12:39 PM (Md/tz)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 06, 2013 12:39 PM (T0NGe)
It's nice to know that in order to be authentically black or hispanic you must be a democrat. Diversity in all things save thought.
Posted by: no good deed at May 06, 2013 12:39 PM (mjR67)
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:39 PM (jvd3N)
Posted by: Jeb Bush at May 06, 2013 12:39 PM (Tcoim)
Posted by: RWC at May 06, 2013 12:40 PM (Wl/Ht)
Insty posted last week that Duke had raised tuition and student fees in order to be able to offer free sex change surgery to all students.
I am not making this up.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 12:40 PM (B/VB5)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 04:39 PM (lVPtV)
If that doesn't work, add Helen Thomas, Maddy Halfbright, and Janets Reno & Napolitano to the piggy pile.
Still stuck, add in Sotomayor and Kagan.
Still stuck, you are gonna die, it was nice knowing you.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:41 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:41 PM (lVPtV)
FL is going to have a 6 month heating season this year.
Posted by: @PurpAv at May 06, 2013 12:41 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 04:38 PM (aDwsi)
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And resist we much we must and we will much about that be committed!
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:42 PM (jvd3N)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:42 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (U2UQk)
"Can someone tell me, in one sentence, why Amazon supports the online sales tax?"
Because they have the means to abide by all the different state tax codes, while smallstartup.com does not. smallstartup.com goes bye bye, and more people buy from Amazon.
Posted by: Lauren at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (CFNW8)
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 04:39 PM (jvd3N That happened to us after the city put in the FEDERALLY mandated back flow preventer. The old plumbing in our house can't take the pressure, so we leave the kitchen faucet dripping.
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (X+nFp)
Posted by: Mojo at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (NBjLa)
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 04:41 PM (LVtr+)
Because they have the infrastructure to deal with it and other retailers do not.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (kXoT0)
Collecting the tax involves interaction with 1500+ taxing authorities and Amazon sells software to businesses that facilitates this.
Bonus sentence: they plan to have facilities in all 50 states to make shipping faster, so they'd be subject to all local/state taxes anyway.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (B/VB5)
Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2013 12:43 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Barry Waffle at May 06, 2013 04:40 PM (yn6XZ)
I thought it would be Reggie Love. With syrup
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: soothsayer
Global Warming, you Racist.
...either that or they're bigger than most other companies, (competition). Those who cannot pay? *poof* Oblamirated.
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: dananjcon
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Not to wax all grandfathery here..., but if it is the pressure relief valve, you need to figure out what the problem is ASAP.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: [/i][/b] at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (Vgn84)
If your boner lasts more than four hours, think of Mooch, Hillary and Valerie in a threesome.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 04:39 PM (lVPtV)
If that doesn't work, add Helen Thomas, Maddy Halfbright, and Janets Reno Napolitano to the piggy pile.Still stuck, add in Sotomayor and Kagan.Still stuck, you are gonna die, it was nice knowing you.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 04:41 PM (kXoT0)
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Both of you must be professionals at penile buzz kill.
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (5VNMr)
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 04:41 PM
Amazon scratches governments back....
Posted by: irright at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (8GKDa)
Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (jEEzR)
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Can someone tell me, in one sentence, why Amazon supports the online sales tax?
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 04:41 PM (LVtr+)
The manpower required to pay different local taxes in each place an item is shipped makes it only possible for large companies. They want smaller competition squished.
Posted by: El Guapo at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (Tcoim)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, totally not NSA at May 06, 2013 12:44 PM (fMiHM)
Posted by: The Unspoken Narrative at May 06, 2013 12:45 PM (Zv1QB)
Instead of letting brick and mortar firms face the changing reality of online sales, government meddles.
"Green" energy is not ready-for-market, but government meddles.
High speed rail is stupid and unnecessary, but government meddles.
Girls should use the girls bathroom, boys should use the boys bathroom, but government meddles.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:45 PM (Y4TdB)
Can someone tell me, in one sentence, why Amazon supports the online sales tax?
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They're big enough to absorb the compliance costs without extreme hardhsip whereas their competition is not so they will increase amrket share by driving the little guys out. Also, they may be afraid that if they don't go along with this, the Barkster and Reid may come up with something worse.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:45 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2013 12:46 PM (9Bj8R)
Posted by: Mojo at May 06, 2013 12:46 PM (NBjLa)
Former Navy SEAL. Double yummy.
If only MA voters will get their heads out of their asses.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2013 12:47 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 04:44 PM (5VNMr)
Just trying to do a public pubic service...most men would faint dead away if they knew what had to be done to save the penis in such an emergency...large needles and a process called de-gloving.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 12:47 PM (kXoT0)
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Gomez Addams? Because he liked train wrecks, you know.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:47 PM (aDwsi)
Amazon scratches governments back....
I believe this is the right answer.
Pretty much the same reason why a few certain health insurance carriers hopped on Obamacare.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:48 PM (FC8Yl)
Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 06, 2013 12:48 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Golfman in NC at May 06, 2013 12:48 PM (/djtm)
Posted by: Jeb Bush at May 06, 2013 12:49 PM (Tcoim)
Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2013 12:49 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique
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OW, OW, OW, OW......, geeze-o-PETE! Brain bleach!..., Brain bleach!
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:49 PM (aDwsi)
Gabriel Gomez is an Obama supporter. He's a Democrat. And he's going to lose by historic margins.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:50 PM (FC8Yl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 04:44 PM (aDwsi)
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Great now your scaring the fuck out of me. There is a drain spicket close by I I'll attach the garden hose a let some water off tonight. I just replaced the tank a few years ago. the tank is just a vessel, my water gets heated through my furnace. Its quite the contraption. Its like chitty chitty bang bang.
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:50 PM (jvd3N)
Posted by: Emperors Nero and Commodus at May 06, 2013 12:50 PM (BDU/a)
Did I miss the post where DrewM calls Gregory Hicks a liar and that there was no Special Forces team that was told to stand down the morning of the attack?
Because I want to see that. I really do.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 06, 2013 12:50 PM (CJjw5)
Great, so blow him, but STFU
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2013 04:46 PM (9Bj8R)
So Domonique should have been mincing around the field during his playing days then
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 12:50 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 06, 2013 12:50 PM (Zv1QB)
Posted by: Phinn at May 06, 2013 12:51 PM (eDr4W)
Oh and remember this;
"Carla Del Ponte, a member of the UN independent commission of inquiry on Syria, said that testimony gathered from casualties and medical staff indicated that the nerve agent sarin gas was used by rebel fighters."
Posted by: Marcus at May 06, 2013 12:51 PM (GGCsk)
Gomez won't even give a straight answer on his support of the Second Amendment.
Plus, he supports the Gang of 8's amnesty plan.
Plus, he's inarticulate.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 12:51 PM (8dspl)
Posted by: [/i][/b] at May 06, 2013 12:52 PM (Vgn84)
Amazon scratches governments back....
I believe this is the right answer.
Pretty much the same reason why a few certain health insurance carriers hopped on Obamacare.
Posted by soothsayer
Plus
Gomez Addams? Because he liked train wrecks, you know.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
EQUALS
Imagine two gravy-trains smashing together! We could do that right after the useless Space Shuttles!
Elect Bernie Sanders 2016
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 06, 2013 12:52 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: Emperors Nero and Commodus at May 06, 2013 04:50 PM (BDU/a)
Add Elagabalus to that.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2013 12:53 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: RWC at May 06, 2013 12:53 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:53 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 04:50 PM (jvd3N)
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Sounds like you need to go buy the XL1550 Rube Golberg diagnostic computer.
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 12:53 PM (5VNMr)
Posted by: Chris Christie at May 06, 2013 12:54 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2013 04:46 PM (9Bj8R)
Exactly.
I do not give a shit about anyone's sex life except my own.
Please....keep it to yourselves.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2013 12:55 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2013 12:55 PM (ltIcm)
Add Elagabalus to that.
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For any hwo don't know, Elagabalus was a Roman emperor in the second century who allegedly had a vagina surgically inserted although I think he kept his boy parts too. He wanted to swing both ways. Not there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:56 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Emperors Nero and Commodus at May 06, 2013 04:50 PM (BDU/a)
Add Elagabalus to that.
Be sure to give Barky my number, now! Bye-eee!
Posted by: Elagabalus at May 06, 2013 12:57 PM (BDU/a)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2013 04:55 PM (ltIcm)
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The problem with the LIV is not tht they are merely ignorant but that they think they know a bunch of stuff that simply isn't true.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 06, 2013 12:58 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: dananjcon
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Well..., if *were* an over-pressure, then the valve (IF it is the valve that is leaking) would just vent, making for water in a place where it might not be convenient. If you have a water pressure regulator in your system (likely, if you are on city water) then it may be that the regulator is failing and creating a pesky-but-not dangerous problem. Any how, it's best to figure out what is going on.
So far as what it all looks like, our basement is like one of those black and white WWII movies about a submarine being depth charged. I'm constantly dealing with a failed pump, leaking this or that, something that sounds like it's stripped a cog, or about to throw a rod. Ceaseless entertainment.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 06, 2013 12:58 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 04:53 PM (5VNMr)
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And a plumber..although maybe if I just replace the aglets, it will solve the problem.
Posted by: dananjcon at May 06, 2013 12:58 PM (jvd3N)
Posted by: deadrody at May 06, 2013 01:00 PM (osIoP)
Posted by: red speck at May 06, 2013 01:02 PM (9/Ug/)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at May 06, 2013 01:03 PM (qwK3S)
Ace: ..."Obama talks in vague terms which seem to suggest such matters but his chief concern is using government as a catspaw by which to extract money from Citizen A and give those dollars (minus the bureaucrats' vig) to Citizen B."
He uses government, more like a blunt instrument to bludgeon us with, than a 'catspaw', Ace.
He flaunts our laws, ignores the Constitution, bludgeons us with new regulations, destroys our freedoms...and then turns and says:
"It wasn't Me!"
TFG is a real piece of work.
Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 01:03 PM (Tjo5u)
Posted by: Buzzion at May 06, 2013 01:05 PM (/TqqT)
Posted by: President"almost"Gore at May 06, 2013 01:06 PM (0hqjR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2013 01:06 PM (ltIcm)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at May 06, 2013 01:11 PM (zZJJp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2013 01:12 PM (ltIcm)
This Obama character, well, we look like pikers next to him.
Posted by: Emperors Nero and Commodus at May 06, 2013 04:50 PM (BDU/a)
But he makes me look like a genius!
Posted by: Incitatus at May 06, 2013 01:34 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: torquewrench at May 06, 2013 04:00 PM (gqT4g)
Nah....I like it neatly trimmed, or maybe a landing strip.
------ I like it to look like Castro's beard. And unwashed.
Posted by: Bill Ayers at May 06, 2013 01:41 PM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: Chris Balsz at May 06, 2013 03:14 PM (QLyOy)
Posted by: High Unemployment Rates For Gen. Y at May 06, 2013 03:26 PM (pmsMR)
Sorry for the Dr. Smith talk at the end there. I really don't think this level of hate I have for the JEF is healthy, but how can he have snowed so many people? Even with the MFM covering for him, are people really so blind to their own situations? To those of friends, co-workers, and families?
Maybe the producers of 'The Bible' knew exactly what they were doing casting Old Scratch ...
Posted by: acethepug at May 06, 2013 03:43 PM (AZykp)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Designated Commenter at May 06, 2013 03:45 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Cowboy at May 06, 2013 04:32 PM (FMrA0)
"Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."
This should be labelled, early and often, as Obama's "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" speech.
Posted by: Landru at May 06, 2013 08:53 PM (x8l09)
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