1 It's all optics, baby,

2 And... take that!

3 I think he should make the rounds of all the sports shows. We just don't see enough of him.

4 The Republican leadership is too "moderate" and too stupid to win anything.

5 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

6 I'm thinking a NCAA bracket is about all he CAN accomplish. He isn't all that intelligent, or capable, or even motivated. Picking one of two is about the best he can hope for.



Or maybe the Mooch picked them for him.

7 As for NCAA basketball; who gives a shit?

8
Today Im announcing that because of the Republicans insistence on Sequestration.....  I can only complete the Midwest and Eastern Regional brackets.

9 On the other hand, I'd caution against falling to in love with data collection and exploitation as a cure all or even a deciding factor. Data is just that: data. It's not "information" (that is: useful) until it's been analyzed and processed. Data collection is necessary. The more data you have, the more likely it is that you'll be able to pull meaningful information from it. But do not pursue data for its own sake.

10 Here are my final four:

Kentucky,
UNC,
Kansas,
Maryland


Pure guesswork.

11 7 As for NCAA basketball; who gives a shit?

Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2013 12:47 PM (53z96)

I can tell you that the one time I won the pool, I knew exactly bupkus about NCAA basketball. I think that helps. And the $50 wasn't just chump change at the time.

12

O/T. I have friend stationed in Afghanistan. He wants to fill out NCAA bracket online and email it to me to enter into our pool. Does anyone know of site where you save copy of completed bracket so you can email it?

It doesn't appear that espn, cbssports, et al allow for that.

13 230 Conservatives also need to start recognizing how liberals operate. A liberal is a liberal first before anything else. Every liberal I know in any position if power hires exclusively liberals, promotes exclusively liberals, works to make sure non-believers are fired, etc. Conservative business owners need to recognize the nature of partisan warfare. The liberals need to lose their jobs, replaces with conservatives. Business, whenever possible, needs to be only with conservatives. Economic warfare is brutal, but that's the point our society has gotten to because of their ideology.

14 So, does anyone still give a fat rat's ass about the NBA?

15 Finally, the stuff I work towards all year! ...besides the vacations.

16 I also think we need to be slamming the WH on this: Obama had time to fill out a bracket, but did not have time to prepare a (required by statute) budget?

17 Bah, who needs data and real-world results when our betters have told us that amnesty, queer marriage and increased taxes (on the rich) are the way to win more voters?

An echo, not a choice. That's the course to victory.

Or invites to all the right cocktail parties as minority leader.

Whatever.

Shut up, rube.

18 Brawndo. It's got what voters crave.

19 I often think half of our citizens are hamsters on wheels with no other awareness. However, I confess I tend to put people up on a pedestal.

20 OT:  (drudge link)  NBC is reporting that Cypriot banks may not re-open.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/cykqw57

21 Ah March Madness, that time of year when white people are allowed to play basketball on TV.

22 OOPs, I mean the same thing, NCAA basketball is just pre-NBA.

23

Win over the "low information" people and you'll come out on top.

I call that the "Gail Wynand Fallacy."

24 14 So, does anyone still give a fat rat's ass about the NBA?

Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2013 12:49 PM (OlN4e)

Hell, that isn't even basketball anymore. Just a bunch of thugs showing off their expensive jewelry and duking it out on the floor.

25 In this thread, we say the same exact thing we say in every thread.

26 My Gators are now officially Cinderella bait.  First round exit imminent. 

Thanks alot SCOAMF.

27 O/T. I have friend stationed in Afghanistan. He wants to fill out NCAA bracket online and email it to me to enter into our pool. Does anyone know of site where you save copy of completed bracket so you can email it? It doesn't appear that espn, cbssports, et al allow for that. Yes, ESPN does have one. In several formats. But the games already started, I don't get the point of him doing one now.

28 Barry's  Brackets   =   Cow  Tools.

29 Complain about it all you want but it's the reality of modern politics.

At which point you might wonder "Is this really worth saving?"

30 They've been ignoring my emails. Do you think the RNC would consider me for a media consulting gig if I billed them a cool million and promised to do the most mediocre, eye-glazingly boring political ads ever made by man? Those seem to be the requirements.

31 :::In this thread, we say the same exact thing we say in every thread.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 12:50 PM (+oin+) :::

 

What - "nood"?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Booyah!

32 Remember, the rubber chicken will drop from the ceiling at the first mention of the magic phrase 'Civil War.'

33 Shit, I'm about to fill out my office bracket so I need to see the JEF's for to do the opposite.

34 I've seen one pretty good basketball movie; Hoosiers. Not bad. Other than that, not much. Even the commecials featuring NBA "stars" are meh at best.

35 EC, nah  she bomb you long time!

36

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at March 20, 2013 12:51 PM (7ObY1)

 

Because the play in games don't matter?

Real games start Thursday IIRC.

37 The RNC called me the other evening looking for money. I told them if they quit shitting on the Tea Party and anyone else who is for fiscal responsibility, I might consider sending them something in the future. Until they get rid of Boner, et. al. then no thanks.


She was quite surprised, I think. Telemarketing. Bleaugh.

38 "Budgets or Brackets? "- http://youtu.be/PrLn8jXAgoo

39 Hey AlextheChick!!!!  How goes the emus in a box business?  Have a fun time with your friend?

40 Sometimes I fantasize about seeing Brian Williams staked to the ground, smothered in honey and surrounded by army ants. But later, I imagine cruel things.

41 So, does anyone still give a fat rat's ass about the NBA? Posted by: maddogg at March 20, 2013 12:49 PM (OlN4e) -------------------------------------------------------- No. I don't know who can afford the unbelievable prices to go to the games either. I treated my son to a game for Christmas. 2 tickets (good ones) and snacks. All in all it was about $500. Rare is the game that I will attend.

42 Anyone else feel like it's just too damn late for any of this to matter?

43 It doesn't appear that espn, cbssports, et al allow for that. The ACLU is going to challenge their brackets anyways and get them thrown out.

44 Posted by: Hopeless at March 20, 2013 12:49 PM (Td5Ie



I'm "curious."  You were posting under this nic in the last thread with a completely different hash.


???

45 25
In this thread, we say the same exact thing we say in every thread.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous & Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 12:50 PM (+oin+)

 

You're welcome to break the monotony.

46 Indiana: Fuck you Barry! What did we ever do to you?

47 run an actual conservative----------problem solved, Republican elected


next.......

48 AtC!  Howdy!    Haven't seen you around the last couple of days.

49 As for NCAA basketball; who gives a shit?

Yeah, I have no idea why people think conservatives are killjoys.

50 The NBA is doing very well in TV ratings in recent years and has gotten a major boost from the rise of LeBron. Let's not go all Dick Morris and claim nobody cares about the NBA. I wish the culture didn't reward and give major cultural cachet to an all-Democrat league like the NBA. But it does.

51 O/T. I have friend stationed in Afghanistan. He wants to fill out NCAA bracket online and email it to me to enter into our pool. Does anyone know of site where you save copy of completed bracket so you can email it?

It doesn't appear that espn, cbssports, et al allow for that.

Posted by: olddog

Yahoo has a bracket. Sign in, fill it out, then hit PDF. Save the PDF and send as attachment.

52 The play in games matter and Pluto is a planet.  dambit.

53 EC, nah she bomb you long time!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 20, 2013 12:52 PM (tkWnt)

Wrong thread but that works!!!

54 Soothsayer
http://youtu.be/iu_nUdove4U

55

27. Yes, ESPN does have one. In several formats. But the games already started, I don't get the point of him doing one now.

 

Thanks.  We don't count the "play-in" games.  Most brackets aren't closed until noon tomorrow.

56 As for NCAA basketball; who gives a shit? Close the thread. We have a winner.

57 I've never understood why people get interested in College sports teams where they didn't even attend.

58

run an actual conservative----------problem solved, Republican elected

 

BWA HAHAHA!   You and you're  quaint   outlook on national politics.   Don't you know only    moderates    can possibly win election?   Silly Jerry jack!

59
MFM: (Barry makes his picks) Creams its panties over how wonderful it is.

(Republican makes his picks) There are CHILDREN starving and he doesn't care because he's too busy with silly sports picks!!!!!

60 In this thread, we say the same exact thing we say in every thread.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 12:50 PM (+oin+)

No, that was Brian Dennehy.

61 >>>18 Brawndo. It's got what voters crave Obama offers them Brawndo. The GOP offers them water ("like from the toilet!?").

62 Anyone else feel like it's just too damn late for any of this to matter?


We're all Charlton  in  Planet  of the Apes now.

63

::::All that data can help you find voters who maybe sympathetic to you that you haven't been able to reach but ultimately that sort of stuff only gets you a look. The message and underlying worldview are still going to be important. :::::

 

The market for  a  message  of small government, personal responsibility, individual liberty  and hard work  is less than 50.1%  of the voting public.  The Free Shitters are ascendant, and they are breeding and importing more of them every day.

 

It Will Burn.

64 As for NCAA basketball; who gives a shit? All those freshmen who lose this year and *gasp!!* have to return to school next year to get drafted.

65 @52.  Thanks.  I'll let him know.

66 I remember I watched a lot of Obama ads because the wife likes to watch Lifetime while I hack away on the internet. They knew were to place their ads. Woulda been nice to see a Romney ad there once in a while. Oh, I saw his face, but it was on a pro-Obama ad. I think anyone worth their paycheck in the advertising industry could put together a message that would have swung a few women folk. Or kept the ones we don't want at the polls home. It's not rocket science, serious guys.

67 Just for the sake of argument, this article is by a consultant telling us that we need more of his kind of consulting. Which is what bit our balls off last time, chewed them out, and spit them back at us.

68 In this thread, we say the same exact thing we say in every thread.
Posted by: soothsayer, of the Righteous Harmonious Fists at March 20, 2013 12:50 PM (+oin+)


How to take over the world!

69 Hey, Teh Won: how's your budget coming?

70 58I've never understood why people get interested in College sports teams where they didn't even attend.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 20, 2013 12:57 PM (UypUQ)

 

 

Probably for the same reason I root for the Dallas Cowboys, even though I never lived in Dallas.

1. They used to be entertaining.

2. I'm a fucking masochist

71 The market for a message of small government, personal responsibility, individual liberty and hard work is less than 50.1% of the voting public. Slow down. Too many syllables.

72 Also funny that the NBA has the least "diverse" rosters of any of the major pro sports. Yet is generally thought of as being the most diverse. Because for most people Diversity=As Few White People As Possible. So 5 rich American black guys vs 5 rich American black guys in an NBA game = Super Diverse. Meanwhile an NHL game with dudes from a dozen countries speaking 10 different languages = boring whitebread not diverse probably racist.

73 What brand? Even the Rs don't trust the Rs to keep their word on anything but protecting the rich who ass fuck them. That seems crazy.

74 Here's another pile of refined bullshit, looking at the success of Republicans at the state level and drawing the exact opposite conclusion as to the source of that success.

http://tinyurl.com/box9lhl

Stupid bitch.
More of the "those icky SoCons are dragging us down" shit.
Did you even stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason the Republicans have the gains in those states that they do is because they--gasp!--campaigned on doing exactly what they are now doing--double gasp!!--?

I mean, how in the wide world of sports can you look at the failures of the national GOP, look at the success of these state GOPs and conclude that the states need to do what the national party is doing?

75

OT, but what the hell is it about Chuck E. Cheese that makes     them such a prime   setting for     ghetto-style      brawls?   

 

CBS Tampa (FLA, what a surprise):  http://tiny.cc/l678tw

 

A     massive brawl broke out during a birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese which led to one person getting shot.

 

Authorities say 18 people got into a fight after people exchanged words Saturday night during a childÂ’s birthday party....

76 The Free Shitters are ascendant, and they are breeding and importing more of them every day. How do they succeed? They make it up in volume.

77 The market for a message of small government, personal responsibility, individual liberty and hard work is less than 50.1% of the voting public. The Free Shitters are ascendant, and they are breeding and importing more of them every day. I'm not sure that's true. When was the last time we ran someone with the message: "Republicans: We'll leave you the fuck alone?"

78

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 01:01 PM (4df7R)

 

Think real hard, and I think you can answer that one .

79

50 As for NCAA basketball; who gives a shit?

Yeah, I have no idea why people think conservatives are killjoys.


You will never win an election without a bassaball Jones.

80 I think this stuff is mockable and it should be but it has to be funny and insightful. What's dead, in my opinion, is getting all angry about Obama's idiocy, low info voters don't like it. It's good in inner circles but some guy yelling "How dare the president!" all Olbermann like is pretty useless with this crowd. It makes his opponents look bitter.

81 Did  Obama  pick  Saraycuse  again?

82 AtC! Howdy! Haven't seen you around the last couple of days. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 12:54 PM (4df7R) *waves* I was off doing that having a life thing. It was odd and strange and, no, you can't have video. Though my friend who came to visit is a wee little thing and I took her out to play dress up and she fit into a size 00. I promptly started calling her License To Kill. The smackings were worth it.
I did miss you windowlickers. I did. I have decided it's because all y'all are awesome and not that I'm lame.

83 what the hell is it about Chuck E. Cheese that makes them such a prime setting for ghetto-style brawls?

***

Was anybody biting their pizza into the shape of a gun?

84 We don't just say the same thing in every thread. We say the same thing in every thread to people who've already heard everything we've already said a thousand times before. Preaching to the choir for the win, baby!

85 OT, but what the hell is it about Chuck E. Cheese that makes them such a prime setting for ghetto-style brawls? I think the prevailing factor there was Tampa, not Chuck E. Cheese. I take my kids to CeC every now and again, and it's fine. I leave with a migraine, but I also usually leave with exhausted (read: will go to sleep soon) kids, so I mark it as a win.

86 "Instead of airing the ad on networks that would reach a broad audience in the middle, they should have run it around the clock on ESPN."

I emailed Romney's campaign and told them this same thing.  I was watching an Iowa football game  on a Saturday  last fall  and counted six  Obama ads  during the game.  The number of Romney ads?  Zero.

I told them Obama was killing them in Iowa.  No response from them.

87

Rs were given one job in the landslide of 2010. They fucked it up.

 

Now, no one trusts them. You can't fix that with promises no one believes.

88 ...the soft-edged appeal... This describes the entire Romney campaign strategy. Romney went after Obama with a Howitzer that shot feathers: "Worst recovery since the Depression. " "Obama's not creating jobs fast enough." What a joke. It's almost as if Obama's operatives were advising Mitt Romney..

89 so the GOP needs to run Tom Arnold...

another dumbass who brays on about sports while being an oaf just like Ba-Ron-Ko is a SCOAMF

90 OT, but what the hell is it about Chuck E. Cheese that makes them such a prime setting for ghetto-style brawls? They're crowded as shit, full of lower-class appeal, and involve parents trying to give their awful progeny the *most*special*day*ever!!!* I rate Chuck E. Cheese as firmly in 'Hell On Earth' Territory.

91 Was anybody biting their pizza into the shape of a gun? Did you see how many rounds of pepperoni were on that thing? Clearly an assault pie.

92 See, this shows Zero's "he's one of us" side. Never too busy fucking up the country to take time out for petty, pointless, and stupid shit.

93

The market for a message of small government, personal responsibility, individual liberty and hard work is less than 50.1% of the voting public

 

Most    of the mouthbreathing public have no idea what any of those terms actually mean.     They view them as big, overwhelming concepts that don't have anything to do with their    daily life.    Tell them,   "Government shouldn't be telling us what to eat!" and they'll ignore you.   Tell them,  "Government will      put you in jail    if you send a child to school with a sandwich that has too much mayo, a dessert that has too much sugar,    or   a    bottle of    Coke,"   they MIGHT listen.   

94 Is Obama phoning in his bracket selections from the Temple Mount?  

A man's man has got to stay engaged.

95 Size 00??  o.O;;;

Or is that Secret Agent 00?

96 More accurate bracket: TFG or Dave in Texas?

97 OT, but what the hell is it about Chuck E. Cheese that makes them such a prime setting for ghetto-style brawls? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 01:01 PM (4df7R)
-----
That's not OT. This is one of the groups the GOP should be reaching out to with their new message.  Some CEC's have TV's. We need to make sure the GOP message is on them.

98

:::: OT, but what the hell is it about Chuck E. Cheese that makes them such a prime setting for ghetto-style brawls?::::

 

I don't know, but the last time I  attempted to go to  one, it looked like the school in  Lean On Me before Morgan Freeman showed up with the bullhorn and baseball bat.   Dingy,  full of broken  equipment, with wild children beating the shit out of the premises and each other, while their  parents glared sullenly at the white  interlopers.

 

Nope.  Chuck  E.  Cheese - it's all yours.  Wouldn't want  to ruin  your enjoyment with our honkeyness.

99 A DrewM  thread  that  involves  Romney  bashing?   The  deuce  you  say.

100 13 Hopeless,

absolutely...

ChemJeff and I are going to have a chat on the topic of "living by conservative principles with your money" and "ghettoization"...

too many corporations understand the GOP lacks the will to make a boycott stick so they pander to the left and take the right for granted....

time to fight the cold civil war from both sides not just the left playing a solo game.

101 I've always been a fan of basketball, college and pro. Got it from my father who played in college and then in rec leagues forever (including up to today, in an over 65 league, he,s 70). Great sport. Teamwork and individual skill melding just right to produce plays, leaps and bounds that rival anything you'll see at the Olympics. The cultural, racial, social implications of the sport don't interest me a bit.

102 "they should have run it around the clock on ESPN."

Oy...another gem from the "No Shit" files.

103 This is silly. Obama's tournament picks, for example, are only politically useful because he has a cock-sucking lap dog media behind his every inane move. The very same media which has elevated a faggot who throws like a girl and can't dribble a basketball with his weak hand into the most athletic president ever. 

104 I rate Chuck E. Cheese as firmly in 'Hell On Earth' Territory. Actually, Chuck E. Cheese is a great way to get an idea of what an area is like socially/politically. There's one in the area that has terrible pizza (for Chuck E. Cheese, note), worse service, and the patrons are all thugs and their progeny. Not surprisingly, I don't go to that one. The others, in more conservative areas, while loud and obnoxious (see previous comment re: migraines) tend to be normal middle class families, just having a nice time. Parents encourage their kids to take turns. They tell them to be nice and apologize when appropriate. They say, "I'm sorry, but that's the way it works." If you want to get a feel for an area, take your kids to the local Chuck E. Cheese.

105 Is Obama phoning in his bracket selections from the Temple Mount?


The Holy of Holies would be the obvious appropriate setting.

106 Talking about advertisements, I wish somebody would get that girl off the tv with the 'you know, yeast infection'. Or maybe hook her up with the guy in the Volkswagen ad that throws like a 'turd. I can't look at a beer anymore without thinking about 'you know, yeast infection'.

107 RoyalOil, There is another dirty secret. One of the derogatory nicknames of the GOP elite is "The beltway boy lovers." And--shock!!-- at the first chance they cone out in favor of more social acceptance of sodomy. The reason they advocate liberal positions in DC is because they subscribe to the religion of liberalism. In the states-- where the GOP experiences wild success-- they often subscribe to Christianity instead of Liberalism. The split in this country, and in the GOP, is, at it's core, a split about natural law and is theological in it's nature.

108 Remember when the media was all abuzz over George W's NCAA predictions?

Yeah, me either.

109 Talk of Chuck E. Cheese gives me 'Invader Zim' flashbacks.

http://youtu.be/RXYCjAPwmfw

110

How many Pubbie   pols will be making personal appearances at any of the games? Of those, how many will be shown with an adult beverage in their hand?

 

If you want to  repair  an image, you have to want to  repair  an  image.

111

I'm not sure that's true. When was the last time we ran someone with the message: "Republicans: We'll leave you the fuck alone?"

 

 

1964.

112

yeah chuck e cheese is my definition of hell on earth as well. Plus it seems to be a petri dish for every known virus.

 

 

Ah yes, data. Who knew worshipping at the altar of big data would become the prevailing religion. People gladly give up scads of personal information in the name of convenience and companies gleefully crunch said data to shape society in the direction they want it to go.

113 1964. That recently? And speaking of Chuck E Cheese- does anyone remember Showbiz Pizza?

114 After our collaspe and China is mining Yellowstone and Russa is drilling in California yhe media will still give Obama a pass.

115 I'm not sure that's true. When was the last time we ran someone with the message: "Republicans: We'll leave you the fuck alone?"
 

No sell, h8tr.

116 Or maybe hook her up with the guy in the Volkswagen ad that throws like a 'turd.


Hate hate hate hate.  "Your dad sucks.  The car is the thing"

117 If only the Federal Budget was as important as the NCAA.

118 Anyone do a side-by-side-by-side of Obama, Satan, and Frank Marshall Davis?

119 Yeah, ghetto-style brawls mainly seem to follow from having a ghetto-style clientele. Although the cheap food and flashing lights of a place like Chuck E. Cheese probably does attract the poor, low-impulse control crowd better than an expensive, calm restaurant.

120 P.U. !!!!  "dang, barry, you got some bad gas"

121 The team with the best collective rap sheets wins. 

122 PGIS, Tiptree in the Hugo winning short story 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In' missed a few things.  But not actively shaping the desires of consumers to buy products.

123 Tell them, "Government shouldn't be telling us what to eat!" and they'll ignore you. Tell them, "Government will put you in jail if you send a child to school with a sandwich that has too much mayo, a dessert that has too much sugar, or a bottle of Coke," they MIGHT listen. Republicans have spent decades now speaking in and buying into the unspoken assumption that government's job is to make the economy and people prosperous. Repubs routinely speak of how their plan will create jobs or prosperity on account of Republicans running government. Just like the Democrats. So why vote for the stingy guy who only promises to let stuff trickle down when the Democrat promises to give you free shit directly? The message that government is not the solution but the problem, and that government cannot and shouldn't try to manage the economy is not widespread, even in the GOP.

124

And speaking of Chuck E Cheese- does anyone remember Showbiz Pizza?<<<<

 

Yes!  Billy Bob and the Rock-Afire Explosion!

 

They were bought out by Chuck E. Cheese and the stores converted to a format featuring  a rat cooking and serving  your food.

125 Soothsayer, Wait wait wait... You're telling me that the democrat from Massachusets, who ran as a GOP candidate, who hired all liberal advisors... Put liberalism first? And do what was best for Gosh even though it explains perfectly 100% of the evidence, I just can't believe it! I was told that Mittardism was the salvation if the GOP!

126 No, Obama's "brackets" is NOT the kind of thing that attracts low info voters. It IS, however, the kind of thing that - unchecked - can go virtually unnoticed. Instead, it would be nice if we had a media in this country that would treat such trivial matters as they are - trivia. And further, to mock them the way they should considering what we're facing in this country, which is bankruptcy. It would also be nice if there were some politicians that weren't too scared to do the mocking for them. Obama could PRETEND to be a leader by just ignoring the NCAA tournament. He is certainly free to fill out his own bracket and watch the games, but he could, considering his position and the state of the world, just SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT.

127 Hate hate hate hate. "Your dad sucks. The car is the thing" You know... I have a visceral hatred for that commercial that I can't explain. I mean, I know it's part of the ever-present "Dad's suck" campaign, but there's more to it than that. I just can't put my figure on what, exactly. Semi-related note: Why is the typo "that" when you're trying to write "than" (and vice versa) so common? I just did it myself (twice) and it's not even like the two letters are next to each other on the keyboard.

128

I'm not sure that's true. When was the last time we ran someone with the message: "Republicans: We'll leave you the fuck alone?"

 

But don't you know that Republicans want to be involved in EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE?!!?!   They want to invade your bedroom, invade your child's classroom, invade your workplace, invade EVERY PLACE YOU    EVER   GO!

 

[/sarc]

 

*rolling eyes*

 

In this world of black = white,  up = down, and 2+2 = Pi,   it's impossible to make the mouthbreathers understand that the people who are telling    them     how to raise    their    children,    what to eat,   what to read,   what to think      are the leftards,   not the conservatives.    It's especially hard to do when you've got idiot Pubbies who    parrot the   leftard line     like    theyv'e got fucking    Stockholm     Syndrome.

129 Is Morgan Freeman God? 

130 Holy crap, sample this level of stupidity (from the article I mentioned) and realize that this is the Obama base.

"The GOP House majority wants total control of where our federal tax dollars are spent. At what point in US history did the House become gatekeepers who make all the decisions?"

Are you fucking serious? Oh, yes, yes she is. She is the one who voted for Obama twice. She is the ones who helped him win OH, FL, etc. She is not alone. And she hates you because she believes she is smarter than you.

131 Anna Puma, I'm going to look that story up, haven't read it.

132 They were bought out by Chuck E. Cheese and the stores converted to a format featuring a rat cooking and serving your food.

that just hit my funnybone for some reason.

133 Dragging the story to this thread now with a link and sweet, sweet tight muscular white ass. http://tinyurl.com/ckov8mz (Campus Reform) “We are invested in generating a politics of sexuality that compels us to interrogate beauty as privilege and constructed by systems of white supremacy, ableism, capitalism, and heteronormativity,” ------ Dah Fuq? ------ After two artistic performances, participants will apparently be directed to separate between [People of Color] POCs and Caucasians before continuing the discussion. “We will break into POC and White caucus groups for a part of the workshop to unpack some of our specific experiences of racialized desire,” reads the event description. “This will be an intentional, anti-racist, and feminist space.” ----- Don't think I want to know what the 'artistic performance' is going to entail.

134 Also, now a clear majority believe that it is precisely government's job to manage the economy and large parts of your life. "Leave me alone" is not selling well. We're a nation obsessed with managing other people's business.

135 Obama's tournament picks, for example, are only politically useful because he has a cock-sucking lap dog media behind his every inane move. Yeah, but it'd still be useful to have some of the GOP young guns making hay out of *their* brackets.

136 58 I've never understood why people get interested in College sports teams where they didn't even attend.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 20, 2013 12:57 PM (UypUQ)

--Betting helps.

Also, in many situations my teams are not even in play, so I pick a surrogate to cheer for.  Maryland, for example, sucked once again and is not it.  I'm backing VCU; I'd love to see another run from them.

137 Yes! Billy Bob and the Rock-Afire Explosion! At the risk of eliciting a "get off my lawn..." they sold to CeC when I was little (I don't remember when, exactly), but the ones around here all had this animatronic band of... bears? Was that Billy Bob et. al.? I do remember it being a more pleasant experience (even for the grown-ups, judging from my parents' reactions) than Chuck E. Cheese is.

138 new one

139 PGiS, its about a young foolish girl.  Who sells her soul to corporations to be pretty and famous.  You see in this future, overt advertising is against the law.  So the companies sell their products with manufactured pretty faces wearing or using all their products.

140 Mittens just picked BYU to win it all.  Even if they are not in the NCAA tournament. 

141 Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 01:14 PM (fWAjv)


I finally found an appropriate pejorative label for myself.  I'm an "ableist."

Thanks.

142

"The GOP House majority wants total control of where our federal tax
dollars are spent. At what point in US history did the House become
gatekeepers who make all the decisions?"

 

(Lord, please pardon my blasphemy)

 

Jesus F'ing Christ.   It's in the FUCKING CONSTITUTION, you illiterate  cunt!

 

And yes, you even get the U in "cunt" because you're such a fucking CUNT.

143 I dunno about Chuck E Cheese. I'd probably feel like brawling after eating in a place infested with giant rats, too. Here the Chuck E Cheese places tend go be pretty ghetto, but the Peter Piper Pizza is fine. I have no idea why. And Incredible Pizza is worse, but they are the only kiddie pizza place with gluten free pizza. Ugh.

144 There is another dirty secret.

One of the derogatory nicknames of the GOP elite is "The beltway boy lovers." And--shock!!-- at the first chance they cone out in favor of more social acceptance of sodomy.

The reason they advocate liberal positions in DC is because they subscribe to the religion of liberalism. In the states-- where the GOP experiences wild success-- they often subscribe to Christianity instead of Liberalism.

The split in this country, and in the GOP, is, at it's core, a split about natural law and is theological in it's nature. Posted by: Hopeless at March 20, 2013 01:07 PM (PgKjD)
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Which is why the states need to start making noises about dis-associating from the national party.

Either the state parties survive by cutting off the cancer of the national party or they die with it.

Either way, the national Republican Party is dead.

145 When was the last time we ran someone with the message: "Republicans: We'll leave you the fuck alone?" But there's a lot of voters who think government being there is 'getting help.' What we need to drive home is that government is sticking it to you-- raising your medical costs, taking your money, making your kid's education shitty and making you beg for the privilege while they grow fat and richer. Reagan did that. So did the 94 class. You've got to make the government out as a liability, not a benefit.

146

And speaking of Chuck E Cheese- does anyone remember Showbiz Pizza?

 

They had   one of their test stores in Hunstville in the '70's with a Doug Trumbull-designed theater. Showed   high-def movies in 70mm, 24 fps with a bazillion-watt sound  system.

 

Very impressive, but the pizza sucked even back then.

 

Somebody has refurbished the RockaFire band to perform CeeLo Green's song "Fuck You"  somewhere  on that intarwebz thingy.

147 ableism

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That's the wost kind of bigotry, thinking that people who actually accomplish things deserve more than those who sleep until noon after partying until two.

148 The message that government is not the solution but the problem, and that government cannot and shouldn't try to manage the economy is not widespread, even in the GOP.

You want to let the Big Evil Greedy Corporations and Rich Banker Guys manage the economy and steal from the middle class?

/LIV

149 130 Is Morgan Freeman God?

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at March 20, 2013 01:12 PM (wbmaj)

*

No, that would be Eric Clapton.

150 And yes, you even get the U in "cunt" because you're such a fucking CUNT. Please. You're embarrassing me.

151

Well I see things are going swimingly over in Israel with the SCOAMF's visit.

Limo broke down because they filled it full of diesel and not regular gas. 

 The US embassy in Israel chose an animated cartoon of Obama/Netanyahu as best buds with the theme title from the Golden Girls "Thank you for being a friend" (I wish that I was making that up)

Students on the West Bank are protesting after being disinvited to O's speech.

Palestinians are burning pictures of the SCOAMF and stomping on his image with their shoes.

The SCOAMF is caught on mic telling Netanyahu that he is glad to be away from Congress.  (Like he really works with them???)

And this is only day 1.....

152 Yes! Billy Bob and the Rock-Afire Explosion! Trivia: The remaining parts for Rock-A-Fire Explosions are in a warehouse near downtown Orlando. The original creator maintains 'em and does occasional YouTubes of them performing modern music.

153

The first thing Republicans need to do??? How about at least TRY to do the things they promise us?

 

Remember 100 billion in cuts THIS year (election promise).

 

Then.... sequester! Less than that is the END OF THE WORLD!!!!

 

And its really hard to trust the someone who says they are for smaller government... but then creates the DHS, and EPA.

 

And don't even get me started on the soon to cave on Amnesty issue....

154 "The GOP House majority wants total control of where our federal tax dollars are spent. At what point in US history did the House become gatekeepers who make all the decisions?" Are you fucking serious? Oh, yes, yes she is. I so wish we could post pics here. THAT is so deserving of the Jesus facepalm pic.

155

Anna Puma, it is always scary to read stories and novels written decades ago that pretty much sum up the state of the world today. Celebrity advertising bugs me to no end, they get crap for free to hawk to the common folk clamoring to feel like they have something in common with the celebrity lifestyle.

 

 

I feel like celebrities are a big part of what is ruining society right now.

156 That's the wost kind of bigotry, thinking that people who actually accomplish things deserve more than those who sleep until noon after partying until two.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 20, 2013 01:18 PM (XUKZU)

 

"Why do you get special   privileges, just because you know what you're doing and    do it well?   WAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"

 

Fucking ridiculous.   It's like that Ipswich middle school in MA where the principal has decided to cancel Honors Night and have an in-school assembly instead, in which ALL students get some kind of recognition, because giving awards to students who have excelled in their classes is "unfair and devastating" to kids who worked hard and didn't excel.

 

Fuck that noise.   Just fuck it out the fucking window.

 

I need brownies.   Where's Heralder?

157 so the GOP needs to run Tom Arnold...

another dumbass who brays on about sports while being an oaf just like Ba-Ron-Ko is a SCOAMF

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 20, 2013 01:04 PM (LRFds)

--I'm thinking more like a Norm MacDonald.

158 Win over the "low information" people and you'll come out on top.
I call that the "Gail Wynand Fallacy."

Posted by: TB at March 20, 2013 12:50 PM (0Ez44)

 

Can I borrow AtC's soapbox for a moment?  **climbs up**

 

Hey, the view's pretty nice from up here.  Anyway.  **clears throat**

 

It infuriates me no end that the low information people - the kinds who populate the world of "Honey Boo Boo" and "Hardcore Pawn," not to mention "Bad Girls Club," "Real World LVII" and "Dance Moms" - the same people who not only couldn't tell you the name of their state rep if you put a gun to their heads but whose only connection with their local governments is bitching at the plow guy when he doesn't get them out in time for them to shove their little rugrats off to the urban hellhole spawning pen called "school" - that these people have the right to vote.  Not only to vote, but to vote in such a way that my money, my standard of living and my eventual retirement are mortaged to their whims.  It chaps my ass no end that these moral cretins, dolts and parasites have the vote when, in a sane and just world, that right would be stripped from them until they proved themselves boons to the public weal.

 

If I were president, the first thing I'd do is disenfranchise the hell out of 75% or more of this godforsaken wasteland - and yes, Detroit and Philly and you damp-pantied Hillary-worshipping soccer moms,  I'm looking at you!

 

**pant, pant**

 

**climbs down**

 

Thank you.

159 Posted by: RoyalOil at March 20, 2013 01:12 PM (VjL9S)

From that article you linked:

Zelazenthia:

The PRO-GROWTH AGENDA of Republican governors is nothing new. Low taxes and light regulation mean continued destruction and pollution of the environment such as water and air. And who is going to make up for the lost tax revenue? Certainly not those who will receive lower wages in the "right to work" states.

The only thing we can trust the Republicans to do is win the race to the bottom turning us into a third world country whose citizenry will be in perpetual servitude to the Wealthy elite.

It's probably a teacher

160 A friend from work, a bachelor with no kids, had never been to Chuck E. Cheese. So he went to one on his lunch break one day. Alone. On a weekday. And wearing a suit. He had to call for the clerk, who came ot from the back, looked at him and asked, bewildered, "You came here for the pizza?"

161 Here's Obama's budget plan:

Bet the Chinese $10 trillion on the bracket and when he wins, deficit gone!

Fuckin' genius!

162

If I were president, the first thing I'd do is disenfranchise the hell out of 75% or more of this godforsaken wasteland - and yes, Detroit and Philly and you damp-pantied Hillary-worshipping soccer moms, I'm looking at you!

 

*HEARTS IN EYES*

 

So dreeeeeeeamy!

163 country whose citizenry will be in perpetual servitude to the Wealthy elite = will have to work for a living.

164 A friend from work, a bachelor with no kids, had never been to Chuck E. Cheese. So he went to one on his lunch break one day. Alone. On a weekday. And wearing a suit When was this? 5+ years ago? Chuck E Cheese (in my area, at least) does not allow adults in without children. Also, you order your pizza at the front, and then they bring it to your table.

165 --I'm thinking more like a Norm MacDonald.

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I see that Norm caved in, by the way, and issued an apology for Xtian tweet and acknowledge the separation between church and comedy.

166 158 logprof,

the problem with Norm is he makes sense...

it'd be like fighting fire with water...

fire for fire would be putting a retarded glib asshole up there to run against a retarded glib asshole

167 MPPP - Nice. You oughta let lose more often.

168 In 2008 (and maybe 2012), Obama had at least one ad in a video game. Kind of smart, IMO.

169 I'd vote for Norm if he stayed Norm-- ie, an asshole. If he went all PC, forget it.

170 the kinds who populate the world of "Honey Boo Boo" and "Hardcore Pawn," not to mention "Bad Girls Club," "Real World LVII" and "Dance Moms" So you're aiming at the best and brightest.

171 169 Baldy,

and EA had to insert his ass into madden...

the last year I bought Madden and NCAA both new and bothered playing the defacto roster updates...

172 @169: Yup. A lot of newer games that are online-capable can download banner ads that are shown in-game. But let's face it, Romney barely ran TV ads, expecting him to know about new-new media is probably pushing it.

173 On a lighter note, "DHS questioned over decision to let Saudi passengers skip normal passport controls"

174 Norm soundbite played on my local sports radio station:

"The Bulls rescheduled their game to work around Oprah's grand finale.  In other words, the Bulls  are taking orders from the cows."

175 If I were president, the first thing I'd do is disenfranchise the hell out of 75% or more of this godforsaken wasteland - and yes, Detroit and Philly and you damp-pantied Hillary-worshipping soccer moms, I'm looking at you!
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Exactly.

When the right to vote is more important than your right to your property, something bad starts to happen.

That's why property is specifically protected Bill of Rights but voting is not, not in the Constitution, not in the Bill of Rights.
 

176 @165 Yes, more than 5 years ago. "I knew something was up when no one else was in there at lunch time," he told us. He was mocked by those of us with kids who knew the drill. But the pizza guy had mercy on a hungry office slave and let him buy a pie to go.

177 and EA had to insert his ass into madden... The O-worshiping producer/designer who did that, Ian Cummings, is now gone from EA. The fact that the first Madden they made without his input was considered the best in 6 years may or may not be coincidental. /worked in the football mines for 17 years. I'm better now.

178 I'd like to know if Romney turned a personal profit on the campaign.

179 Eh, the next thread is serious and I can't do serious right now.

I'd rather mock Baraka.

180

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 20, 2013 01:21 PM (zF6Iw)

 

/stands up.... Salutes...

 

The Founders did NOT create a RIGHT to vote... it was a Privelege.  They wrote about their fear of creating a Democracy.... how eventualy the Electorate would vote for leaders who promised them a Free Lunch...

 

IMO, the downfall of this country really started with the idea of Universal Sufferage...

 

The Rally cry of the Next Revolution will be.... "No Representation without Taxation!"

 

Because otherwise, the Free Shit Army will inevitably destroy any Democracy.... it cannot be stopped.

181

Ohio School Shooter TJ Lane Jailed for Life; Laughs, Mocks Victims Families in Court

http://news.sky.com/story/1066851/ohio-school-shooter-tj-lane-jailed-for-life

 

What a lovely human being.      I find it especially classy that he wore a t-shirt with the word "KILLER"    hand-scrawled across the front    to his sentencing hearing.       A true gem of a man.

 

He should share a    cell with the two Steubenville rapists.    They'd    get     along like a house on fire.

 

182

You must pay taxes to qualify to vote.  You have back taxes not paid?  You don't vote.  Are you a generational welfare queen?  You don't vote.

You have to have skin in the game.

This will only happen in Cheri-Land I'm afraid.

183
A reminder that when this exact issue came up last year:

HereÂ’s a clear difference between  Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama: Mr. Romney said he wonÂ’t be filling out an NCAA college basketball tournament bracket this year.

“I’m not plugged in well enough this year to do that,” Mr. Romney told reporters traveling with him on Tuesday in Missouri, the Associated Press reported.





Mitt Romney: Average Joe

Just not into sports unless it involves a magic dancing horse.

184 174 On a lighter note, "DHS questioned over decision to let Saudi passengers skip normal passport controls"  
 

Posted by: Baldy at March 20, 2013 01:29 PM (opS9C)

 

 

Yeah.... only ONE question needs to be asked...

 

Uh.... DHS???  You do know where most of the 9/11 Guys came from?

185 Its alot easier then people think to make effective ads- run an ad calling Obama a liar.  Back it up with facts.  You have to use strong, impolite language to get low information voter's attention.  If you try to parse it with verbage like "Well, Obama may not have been completely forthright about XYZ" you'll fail - if you say "Obama flat out lied to you, the people, about XYZ and here's why", you will find more people watching.

Americans want confrontation- look at reality shows and all of the pointless fights and bickering- and Republicans are tired of the polite approach.  You're not going to lose anyone worth keeping by calling the president a big fat gigantic liar.  The hyperbole worked against Bush but Republican leaders are too stupid or too weak to recognize the fact that getting along is not what the base want.  Rand Paul goes to the Senate floor for 13 hours and talks about drones- its questionable whether he was even right about what he was saying but what was important, is he was willing to engage in a fight with our douchebag food stamp loving president.  That's what we need to win elections- a fighter who does not mince words.

186 Because otherwise, the Free Shit Army will inevitably destroy any Democracy.... it cannot be stopped.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2013 01:32 PM (lZBBB)

 

No nation ever could. What ancient empire is still going strong?

187 @184: Exactly. I don't care if you personally don't give a crap about NCAA basketball, have an aide that IS "plugged in" make one up and coach you to take simple questions on it.

188

MWR - worse than that, he made a statement in the courtroom like "I masturbate at night with the same hand that I used to kill your kids"

Seriously deranged.

189

Feinstein On Reid Dropping Assault Weapons Ban: "A Major Betrayal Of Trust"

 

RCP:  http://tiny.cc/xv98tw

 

*snort*    Hairy Reed's    stupid, DiFi, not crazy.       He's not going to commit political suicide because you've got a sandy vajayjay.    But you never were the sharpest knife in the drawer, you unserious, sloping forehead whore.

190 You must pay taxes to qualify to vote. You have back taxes not paid? You don't vote. Are you a generational welfare queen? You don't vote.
You have to have skin in the game.
This will only happen in Cheri-Land I'm afraid.

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2013 01:33 PM (G+Wff)

 

Care to become a province of the nation of Alextopia?  Except for the raptors and occasional show trial, you'd enjoy living with us.

191 Obama makes a big deal of his bracket: What a douche. Romney blows off his bracket: What a douche.

192 Hairy Reed's stupid, DiFi, not crazy. He's not going to commit political suicide because you've got a sandy vajayjay. Silly DiFi. You should have persuaded Harry with a young boy, not bloody fingers.

193 MWR - worse than that, he made a statement in the courtroom like "I masturbate at night with the same hand that I used to kill your kids"
Seriously deranged.

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2013 01:36 PM (G+Wff)

 

A pretty white boy like him is going to have FUN in prison.

 

Normally I disapprove of prison rape, but there are some situations where I would    gladly look the other way.   This jackass in one of those.

194 Michael Moore is also VERY ANGRY at Harry Reid.

195 Normally I disapprove of prison rape, but there are some situations where I would gladly look the other way. You might even donate a pint of Jack and some rope on this occasion.

196 Michael Moore is also VERY ANGRY at Harry Reid.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 20, 2013 01:40 PM (B/VB5)

 

I know.  It's wonderful.   Excuse me, I'm going to take a quick trip to my happy place.

 

*dreamy eyed expression*

 

...

 

...

 

...

 

Okay, back now!

197 You might even donate a pint of Jack and some rope on this occasion.

Posted by: Grumpy Cat at March 20, 2013 01:41 PM (j3uk1)

 

I wouldn't    need much persuading.

198 Speaking of prison, why does Netflix keep suggesting "Russia's Most Dangerous Prisons" to me? Was it my binge of Arrested Development or my total immersion weekend of Trailer Park Boys that tipped them off to my love for brutal prison documentaries?

199 Rhetoric heating up http://is.gd/QWWL8A Today, Reuters has picked up on this coming out with its own analysis that the "The European Central Bank is prepared to cut off funding to Cyprus and let the Mediterranean island succumb to financial meltdown if it has to, confident it has unlimited firepower to protect the rest of the euro zone." It is unclear how much of the article is actual analysis, and how much interest-driven propaganda to put the ball back in Cyprus court with the imputed knowledge that the ECB will not fold and thus cave to Troika deposit haircut demands, but fundamentally the logic is there as, once more, the ECB will hardly want to appear weak and cave in to a "recalcitrant" and unyielding Cyprus.

200

Today, Reuters has picked up on this coming out with its own analysis that the "The European Central Bank is prepared to cut off funding to Cyprus and let the Mediterranean island succumb to financial meltdown if it has to, confident it has unlimited firepower to protect the rest of the euro zone."

 

Nice of them to    refer to Germany's money as "unlimited firepower."

 

201
Obama makes a big deal of his bracket: What a douche.
Romney blows off his bracket: What a douche.

Posted by: Lincolntf




Not a douche as such.  Just politically untuned. A bad trait in a candidate.

It would be the same issue with having a pick on who was going to win the Superbowl,  or being aware of what was going on with a popular TV show.  Show that you know something about what other people care about.

And now, I just realize I basically just recapitulated Ace's HBO Girls obsession.

Ick.....

202 Speaking of prison, why does Netflix keep suggesting "Russia's Most Dangerous Prisons" to me? Was it my binge of Arrested Development or my total immersion weekend of Trailer Park Boys that tipped them off to my love for brutal prison documentaries?

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2013 01:43 PM (ZshNr)

 

That is what one would call a "poser."  

203 Normally I disapprove of prison rape, but there are some situations where I would gladly look the other way. This jackass in one of those. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 20, 2013 01:39 PM (4df7R) Yesterday I commented that I was really wishing he meets the barbed cock of Bubba and Tyrone. Then I pondered what I said. Yep, still wishing it.

204 Damnit! Obama picking IU as #1 seals their fate. They'll never go all the way now.....and I had such high hopes for them this year.

205 Yep, still wishing it.

Posted by: RWC at March 20, 2013 01:49 PM (fWAjv)

 

*thumbs up*

206

@#$(*&%!!  That worthless cockholster picked Indiana to win it all!?  He just doomed my Hoosiers' national championship hopes.  Now they'll probably get bounced before the sweet 16.

 

The JEF destroys everything he touches.

207 I have Miami beating Indiana in the Elite Eight. Indiana is great, but Shane Larkin is a one-man wrecking machine. Never rooted for Miami in anything before.

208 #obamabrackets Benghazi gets a 1 seed

209 208 I have Miami beating Indiana in the Elite Eight. Indiana is great, but Shane Larkin is a one-man wrecking machine. Never rooted for Miami in anything before.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 20, 2013 01:54 PM (ZshNr)

--Me neither, but I don;t have the hatred for them that I do their football team --or Duke.

210 Of course I have Duke beating Miami in the Finals...

211 So, who was the Sooper Geeneous who put diesel fuel into Obumble's limo in Israel (it runs on gasoline)? Barky, the Sooper Bracket Picker himself, or someone dumber?

212 At another point, Gen. William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command, had to explain to lawmakers that the space-based surveillance system used for monitoring missile launches on Earth could not watch out for rocks coming in from deep space.

http://tinyurl.com/bvcu5ew

Seques-castration!

213

I'd rather see it all burn than pander to the lowest common denominator.  The end result's the same anyway.

I've got the Cubs winning it all.

214

A better expenditure of time would be on measures that convince the LIV's to just stay home.  Cheaper, more effective. 

You know... spread rumors in the inner cities that Obama takes money from the Klan, etc. 

Just lie, poison the well, sow the seeds of cynicism.  Works for the Democrats.

215 Is it wrong to say that I no longer want the Republican Party to reform/improve?  As a conservative, I have come to believe that a swift death of the GOP is the only true way to get a real conservative party again.

(And no, I'm not even a SoCon.  I'm strictly referring to economic conservatism and limiting the function of government and the over-reach of law.)