1 DAY 64 1,396 to go Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, miscreants, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

2 There were comments,  then there weren't.

It's going to be one of those days.  And it's raining.

3 Third!

4 Yiddish Word of the Day: "Ich darf es vi a lok in kop!" - I need it like a hole in the head! Also, "lok in kopf" is often said by itself to indicate the same idea.

5 Gonna be 70 here today, no snow, no rain, no sleet, no ice.

6 I love how the folks that are angry about the hours being cut for workers are now demanding that the government do SOMETHING. Poor little dears; reality is just not being nice to them.

7 January thaw in process in MN today and tomorrow.  Good riddance to the *&^% snow

8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel

Yesterday I posted that TFG was scraping the bottom of the barrel of wet willy's admin. Seems the barrel is empty.

Hagel is a wet 'R' noddle and will be the JEF's little bitch the gut the military.

9 Gonna be fifty today. Then BAM!

10 Steady rain here for the second day in a row. I'd love to go back to bed and curl up under the covers. Instead I'm sitting at my work desk trying to fight with the formulation program through bleary vision.

11 The Road to Ruin is paved with Trillion Dollar Coins...

12 Armey is the king of failed coups.

What's the difference between printing a trilion dollar coin and a trillion dollars in paper money?

13 Too me , Wendy's is far superior to McKings and
Burger Donalds...Since I live in the Omaha area
I'll have to do my bit for GOD and Country and show my support for the local franchise causing all the Lefty's
HEADS TO EXPLODE...

14 Obama will look nice in platinum. Maybe have the wookie on the back. The motto will be "YES WE DID"

15 I love how the folks that are angry about the hours being cut for workers are now demanding that the government do SOMETHING. Poor little dears; reality is just not being nice to them.

I wish they'd make up their minds. Government ALREADY did something. THAT'S why hours are being cut. Cause and effect. How does it work?

16 Really great anti-registration post at captainsjournal. It is short so I'll repost: poster amr @captainsjournal: "Senator Feinstein denies that this bill, with its registration requirement for the vast majority of firearms, is a step towards confiscation, I doubt that she forgets the passage of the California Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 in her home state and what happened afterwards. That Act required the registration of so-called “assault weapons”. Attorney General Dan Lungren reversed the official position and in 1997 to declared one of the rifles considered legal and subject to registration just a few years earlier, the SKS Sporter with detachable magazine, to be illegal. Owners who had complied with the law were forced to surrender their weapons or transfer them out of state. Worse yet, despite assurances by the NYC government that registration records would not EVER be used for anything more than tracking lost and stolen weapons, the registration system for long guns such as rifles and shotguns established in 1967 was used in the 1990′s to confiscate previously lawful semi-automatic rifles. Also, registration easily allowed the confiscation of firearms in GB and Australia. I doubt that the modern American resort to arms to protect basic constitutional rights would have been possible in McMinn County, TN with this proposed law. Only the corrupt and powerful would have had weapons and the Battle of Athens or sometimes called the McMinn County War on August 1, 1946 would not have occurred. Even Eleanor Roosevelt supported the necessity of that effort. The Revolutionary War began when British subjects, soon to be called Americans, repelled the British ArmyÂ’s attempt to confiscate arms. This is a streak of defiance that has permeated American culture throughout its history. So why should any American citizen believe that if Senator Feinstein and other elected officials are willing to violate a basic American right to bear arms, that existed even before we were a nation, that we should trust said officials to safeguard any of our constitutional rights."

17 What's the difference between printing a trilion dollar coin and a trillion dollars in paper money?


Finding ONE sucker to buy ONE coin vs. many suckers to buy paper.

18 Guaranteed way to not have your hours cut is to become salaried. Thirty hours for me is called Monday and Tuesday.

19 The comments on the trillion dollar coin are truly frightening.

They think you can just conjure money into creation and not have any inflationary or destabilizing effects on the economy.

These people are truly mad.


Where is Monty's doom thread when you need one?

20 Now that Obamacare is bringing small business owners forward, maybe it's time to look at increasing the minimum wage by a couple bucks an hour.

21 DOOM!

22

Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.  Am I getting in before VicÂ’s daily briefing?

 

 

Today's story comes to you courtesy of OSP, who was indulging in a little rumination of the carnal crimes he would commit on the lush body of Anna Kournikova.  It reminded me of a story about the great John Barrymore.  Unfortunately, IÂ’ve got so many books and papers that I couldn't find the primary source material like names and dates, so you'll have to bear with me if I make up a few details:

 

 
It seems that, sometime in the 1940s, during a break in his radio show, Barrymore was approached by a woman, her son in tow.  "Mr. Barrymore," she said, "My son wants to be an actor, like you.  Do you think you could give him any advice?"

 

 
Barrymore looked at the boy, who was very obviously uncomfortable about being paraded in front of The Great Profile.  Having had encounters with stage mothers before, however, he knew what to do.  "Sit down, my boy," he smiled, draping an arm around the boy.  "Let me tell you a story.

 

 
"Many years ago, I was touring up and down the East coast.  Well, when I got to New Orleans, I met up with an old friend of mine, who invited me to dinner.  It turned out that he had bought out a madam many years back and was now the owner of a whorehouse, and he invited me to stay with him."  As the horrified mother's face went white, Barrymore went on.  "I ended up staying there after my tour had ended.  It was the most wonderful month in my life – wonderful music, the best food and wines and an orgy every night.  Ah, but then," he winked to the mother, "I was offered a part on Broadway."

 

 
Mother sighed in relief, thinking that Barrymore would finally talk about the glory of the stage.

 

 

But no.  "My last night," the actor went on, "the whores threw me a farewell party.  It was me and my pal and every girl we could have, for as long as we could have them.  Finally, at about three in the morning, while the girls were were resting, my pal turned to me and said, 'John, why are you going?  All that will happen is that you'll be in a show for a few months, then you'll be out of work again.  Why don't you stay here?  I'll find you a madam and a house and you can run it and fuck these girls for the rest of your life.' "Well, with such an offer, what could I do?”

 

 
Mother was white again, but the boy was hanging on to Barrymore's every word.  With the trained grace of a true star, Barrymore looked off into the distance, remembering those long-ago days.  Then, his jawline firm, he tightened his grip on the boy's shoulders and looked straight into his eyes.  "But I told myself I knew better.  I knew I was destined for a life on the stage.  I left for Broadway and never looked back.”

 

 

“Thank you, Mr. Barrymore,” Mother sputtered, reaching for her son.  But Barrymore held up a hand to stop her.  “But the more I think about where IÂ’ve been and what I've done with my life, I realize I should never have turned the offer down.  So, my boy," he finished, giving the would-be actor a hearty handshake, "I advise you to forget about acting.  Find yourself a whorehouse and never leave."

 

 

And now, I hope youÂ’ll forgive me if I imitate OSP a bit.  I donÂ’t feel like changing my nic, but IÂ’ll encourage you to click on it to see my website and buy my book, The DirectorÂ’s Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery, available on Amazon, B&N and Kindle.

 

 

Have a wonderful day.

 

23 Gotta ask - how did someone growing up in Oklahoma never set foot in a Wendy's?

24 5 Gonna be 70 here today, no snow, no rain, no sleet, no ice. Posted by: Killerdog at January 09, 2013 06:57 AM (Oi60j) ####### In the interest of ' fairness' I say we should redistribute some of those degrees to states that don't have as many.

25

No Vic yet.  Well, when you do get here, I'm finally getting back to you on what a wolf in dumb sheep's clothing John Brennan is.  Beck played and replayed these videos of him, which is why I remembered him refusing to say "Jerusalem" and also declaring his love for all things Islam.

 

http://bit.ly/WoQb9q

 

 

http://bit.ly/UE005z

 

 

26 Why couldn't Nick Saban have been elected President? Shit would be running on time and under budget if he had.

27 6 love how the folks that are angry about the hours being cut for workers are now demanding that the government do SOMETHING. Poor little dears; reality is just not being nice to them. They will never learn. Hopefully, the government will *do something* and their hours will be cut even further.

28 I wish they'd make up their minds. Government ALREADY did something. THAT'S why hours are being cut. Cause and effect. How does it work? If you can get to them when their reality filter is in for repair, you have a chance at explaining things to them.

29 I haven't been to Wendys since they changed the burgers, but I could go for a Frosty. 

30 Posted by: RushBabe at January 09, 2013 07:20 AM (tQHzJ) Nice links, RushBabe. Holy crap.

31 The House can force all of this to a head and reduce the debt ceiling.

By 1 trillion dollars.


Spending will have to be reduced by default.

You lower the debt ceiling by 500 million dollars every year after that forcing more spending reductions and belt tightening.

The US has more than enough money to operate the government and meet it's mandatory spending and debt servicing.

The President and the Donks will cry but so what let them.

At some point we have to fight - Let this be the hill our side finally dies upon.


BANANA REPUBLICS MINT 1 TRILLION DOLLAR COINS!

32 I always thought Wendy's burgers smelled of armpits. But, y'all go on and enjoy.

33 President Obama has inherited the worst small business environment in history from the previous President. And that president inherited the worst economy in the history of the world from Bush!

34 Poor little dears; reality is just not being nice to them.

I warned you, didn't I?  I said it wouldn't work.  I said you needed to deal with things as they are, not as you think they should be.  I said that kind of thinking is for children and fools.  But did you listen?  Noooooo.

35 It's in the works now for minimum wages to go up to $10.00 an hour by 2015.  Some parts of the country already have it there.

36 Wendy's has the best bacon.  Their burgers are.. meh.. but they have really good bacon.

McD's, on the other hand, has "bacon" so thin you can see through it.. and I'm not entirely sure it is real bacon.

Alas.. on my new diet there is no burgers or bacon!

37 Liberal meddlers never learn. Consider the California tax story now out: they raised the shit out of taxes in 2011 and tax revenues plummeted. Now they need more money. So what do they do? They raise the shit out of taxes again. Result? Even less money. Increase revenue by cutting rates? Never even seriously entertained. The fundamental flaw in such thinking is static modeling. If I do x to y then z will occur, but neglecting to consider that the human beings interested in y will change their behavior so that doing x will not produce result z. Then, when it doesn't work, it's unexpected !!1! Because they're smarter than you, that's why.

38 -32 I always thought Wendy's burgers smelled of armpits.
But, y'all go on and enjoy. Posted by: VW Zao
---------------------------------------------------
That was the dude in line ahead of you , who probably spends too much time at Wendy's ...

39 Oddly, my new diet is ONLY burgers and bacon, and no carbs.

40 @24 Because at some point you have enough temperature. And it's not like you built those degrees.

41 Took out a double chimney from my house last summer. Thinking I can make a good hidey hole up in the attic floor. Just need to figure out some large metallic object to park on top of it to confuse the gun police when they come.

42 re: "I haven't been to Wendys since they changed the burgers"

The first time they handed me a burger that wasn't square...

Can't go on. Still too angry.

And of course that was the time I went in there all "No, listen, their burgers are much better than fast food burgers usually are. This is gonna rule. Get a triple."

...Those bastards.

43 human beings interested in y will change their behavior so that doing x will not produce result z

Or change their address.

44 Is Vic ok? I don't recall the last time he missed a thread ... Should we worry?

45 16 Posted by: Daybrother at January 09, 2013 07:11 AM (+paCV) If they ever came for my gun, I'd tell them I threw them in the ocean. Failing that, in the event of revolution, I'd buy one that "fell off of a truck," IYKWIMAITYD.

46 MPPPP, you're stories are the toy in the AoS cereal. ....and we get to open a new box every morning!

47 Fu*% Wendys.  Wish we had a Whataburger.  So close, just 60 miles down the interstate.  Come on up I59 Whataburger.

48 - 41 - Posted by: VW Zao
---------------------------------
You need to go to Hidey Holes R-US,
They have what your looking for...

49 California was around 67 Billion in debt in 2010 and meanwhile they are losing businesses and citizens daily. I expect their next step is to trade the Southern part of the State to Mexico for magic beans (or weeds).

50 Now now, I am certain with time, love, and the patience of fucking Job the mules will eventually grasp that raising business costs forces either a reduction in overhead or a raising of price by the time they are 65.

Once a person self-identifies as a donk I usually work some form of "gravity how the fuck does that work?" into the conversation.

51 I wonder if you can still get a single burger on the Wendy' s "Trillion Dollar Menu"?

52 47 Fu*% Wendys. Wish we had a Whataburger. So close, just 60 miles down the interstate. Come on up I59 Whataburger. Posted by: Case at January 09, 2013 07:35 AM (QwurB) In and Out Burger. One of the very few things I miss about living in L.A.

53 6 NR Pax,

Yeah imagine a genuine ELE nailing us with them standing at the door of Barry's vault demanding he stop the meteor with eloquence and aplomb.

54 2 Miss Marple,

I like the rain, I love gloom.

Inclement weather is our friend.

55 Posted by: VW Zao With all due respect. If it is time to hide your guns that means it is also time to start using them.

56 Whataburger....fuckin kings of the burger world! You yankees are missing out.

57 In and Out Burger. One of the very few things I miss about living in L.A. I really don't "get" In and Out Burger. I guess you have to be Californian (like my wife) to appreciate it. I think Five Guys is ten times better, and there are any number of local joints where you can get an even better burger in the same amount of time. To each his own, I guess.

58 I seen a New David Bowie Video yesterday , It's nice to see at his age he hasn't lost his ability to suck....

59 I liked 5 Guys Burgers & Fries, but in the last few years, the quality has declined.

60 Why don't they just make platinum coins instead of taxing?

61 19 GW,

Monty was smart enough to cipher that he was yelling at a mountain to move.

The left are proud retards on economics.

62 It's nice to see at his age he hasn't lost his ability to suck.... That sentence is missing a single noun to complete the thought.

63 60 Golan Globus,

Now they are not THAT crazy on econ they grasp they HAVE to steal from our activity coming AND going.

64 This is why I want the Republicans to refuse to raise the debt ceiling (well, one of the reasons). MAKE this motherfucker try his trillion-dollar coin bullshit. He's going to end up humiliating himself in front of the people whose approval he craves the most - European leaders.

65 59 I liked 5 Guys Burgers & Fries, but in the last few years, the quality has declined. They are a metro DC product, so it's still very good here. But I've eaten at a few outside the Beltway and, yeah, not all of them are as good.

66 56 Icedog,

their A-1 Whataburger was a thing of beauty.

I drove Boy and wife down the road at random to go get whataburger they were whining a bit until I said "i want a whataburger and a shake from a local creamery down in Tejas...."

then they were quite content with the random 14 hour trip.

67 69 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2013 07:43 AM (1SE1j) My local joint is in SoHo, NYC. Liked them at first, as I said, but it's been so-so since. That said, I eat fast food maybe 2 or 3 times a year, so what the hell do I know?

68 67 JJ Sefton,

a lot more about human health than me...

heh

69 "Why don't they just make platinum coins instead of taxing?" .....we can take it one step more (using the lib logic decipher machine)...why not just make a few more and make all Americans rich! No more work for anyone!

70 That John Barrymore story reminds me of the story about what Miles Davis told a boy who asked him for advice about his emboucher. These big stars certainly are classy!

71 My local joint is in SoHo, NYC. I remember the exact moment I met my wife, down to the minute of the day, but it was at 65 Thompson St., NYC.

72 Dick Armey was so fucking shocked that anybody wanted his simpleton opinion on anything, much less the opportunity for that dumbass to pontificate about what a great person he is, that I'm surprised he didn't start sobbing in gratitude like that  emotional dunce Boehner.

73 68 67 JJ Sefton, a lot more about human health than me... heh Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 07:47 AM (LRFds) We're foodies at the Sefton crib and try to cook healthy. But that doesn't mean we don't eat well.

74 69 icedog,

yup we can make everyone worth a trillion each and there will be NO rise in prices or disruption of economic equilibrium.

I can't wait until Ogabe and the two ax handled wide assed FLotUS transmute gold from lead at their coronation.

75  - 62 - It's nice to see at his age he hasn't lost his ability to suck....
That sentence is missing a single noun to complete the thought. Posted by: Sean Bannion
-----------------------------------
Isn't 'Ability ' a Noun ?

Grammar Nazi's also suck....

76 Sven....I love the hell out of their burgers, but a 14 hour trip?! There are very few women I'd drive 14 hours for...

77 71 I remember the exact moment I met my wife, down to the minute of the day, but it was at 65 Thompson St., NYC. Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2013 07:49 AM (1SE1j) I'm not far from there. Come and get me, lefties!

78 29 I haven't been to Wendys since they changed the burgers, but I could go for a Frosty. Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 09, 2013 07:23 AM (hO8IJ) Oh HELL yeah, Heather. I can't remember exactly when, but Wendy's went from my favorite to my least favorite burger joint almost overnight. I don't even consider going there anymore. Because the food is awful now.

79 22 Ms Poppins' Piercing,

Nice one.  I do miss your regaling us with the days of yore when I am absent.

You know what irritates me about mornings like this one is that I know when I was teaching capitalism in Junior Achievement as a youth Barry would have struck me as a special needs student.

80 Grammar Nazi's also suck.... Posted by: American Dawg at January 09, 2013 07:51 AM ( I wasn't being a grammar Nazi. Here, I'll be more clear.. It's nice to see at his age he hasn't lost his ability to suck....cock.

81 59 I liked 5 Guys Burgers & Fries, but in the last few years, the quality has declined. Cost of food is goin up every day. Somethings gotta give. Usually its portion size and quality.

82 Dairy Queen has pretty good burgers. Dairy Queen's are far and few between here in NoVa. Where I grew up (W. Penn) there is one is almost every town.

83 Oh HELL yeah, Heather. I can't remember exactly when, but Wendy's went from my favorite to my least favorite burger joint almost overnight. I don't even consider going there anymore. Because the food is awful now.

Posted by: Truman North at January 09, 2013 07:52 AM (I2LwF)

My guess it was after Dave Thomas died since he insisted on high quality.  I think his daughter Wendy tried to keep up the tradition but isn't up to the task.

84 76 Icedog,

I had my woman next to me and driving allows me to establish an emotional center.

The family was facing an impending crisis of a non monetary nature and Ms 10077's anxiety led me to snap and hit the freeway.

I had a decent run at the paychecks so we just went.

Bought Pajamas and a change of clothes on the fly.

Everyone should do that at least once just to plumb how well the kids react to disruption.

85 Rob Parker of "cornball brother" fame got his dumb ass fired from ESPN.

86 Wait, Wendy's burgers aren't square anymore?

87 I hadn't had a Wendy's burger in years, but had a Son of Baconator a couple of weeks ago and it was great (for a fast food burger)!

88 You know what irritates me about mornings like this one is that I know when I was teaching capitalism in Junior Achievement as a youth Barry would have struck me as a special needs student. Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 07:52 AM (LRFds) Hey, I taught JA at inner city middke schools. I brought our black executives from my company to talk to them. It was funny, they were afraid of the kids. I dudn't reallt follow JA's curriculum on personal finance, I kinda made up my own.

89 - 80 - Posted by: Sean Bannion...

My Mistake and I apologize....

I'm also sorry that we have to live in a world that includes David Bowie...

90 88 OSP,

teaching folks about BPP and whole dollar averaging  is a thing of joy.

91 I'm also sorry that we have to live in a world that includes David Bowie... You and me both, bro. You and me both.

92 I was on a bus in the Bahamas in the early 1980s, and two local guys were having a conversation. One of them said, and I quote. "If the government just gave everyone a million dollars and a plot of land, then all of our problems would be solved." The other guy heartily agreed.

I remember thinking (this was during the first terms of the Reagan administration), thank God our country is not run like idiots like these guys. We have our problems, but we will never be like them.

Hmmmm....

93 89 American Dawg,

which David Bowie?

94 I get that...used to do something similiar. I'd pack up the family and go to a decent hotel for the night...one with a nice pool and restaraunt. Good mental break from the day-to-day grind.

95 92 Scanner Dan,

Dan all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

This very line of reasoning is what destroyed the Roman Republic and then Rome itself.

Gracchus, Cataline, and the debauched too cool and rich to care populace of Rome.

"Let it burn" ain't giving up it is just coping with the self-destructive bent of retarded bald apes.

96 "Posted by: The BCS Sucks but the SEC Rules at January 09, 2013 07:31 AM (bS6uW)"

They think that we are stupid and will not change our spending and earning behavior as a result of the higher taxes.

97 [i9Gonna be fifty today. Then BAM!

Posted by: VW Zao at January 09, 2013 07:02 AM (vWZa0)[/i]

 

 

Uhhhm, today has arrived already! You ARE fifty. Happy birthday, vedub!

98 88 OSP, teaching folks about BPP and whole dollar averaging is a thing of joy. Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 07:58 AM (LRFds) I loved it. It's what made me want to be a Middle School Teacher.

99 When I lived in Texas there were Dairy Queen's in almost every town too.  They had a good variety of food and great ice-cream.

100 Happy half century VW Zhao may you have another span at least.

101 85 Rob Parker of "cornball brother" fame got his dumbass fired from ESPN. Posted by: puddleglum at January 09, 2013 07:56 AM (W52yc) Rob Parker = cornhole mother...

102 What's wrong with Bowie, well, besides the obvious?

103 [i9Gonna be fifty today. Then BAM!Posted by: VW Zao at January 09, 2013 07:02 AM Happy Birthday!!!!

104 98 OSP,

I loved it it is what made me accept I needed to be a Hazmat worker instead of a teacher in hindsight.

Kids are natural capitalists....it takes a lot of education to get as retarded as paul krugman.

105 96 how could anyone be so stupid as to not understand the idea of incentives?

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

107 sven10077,  I am stuck having to lug 4 large packages for shipment today to the post office.  Each one will require lugging in,  one at a time,  going through 2 doors and after 4 trips (having to lock and unlock my Jeep each time) I will have to wait in line to mail them,  even though I will have the labels and postage on them already.

Plus,  I was going to clean carpets today but that is out with 3 dogs in the house (mine and my 2 daughter's) and the dogs don't like to go out in the rain.

Blech.

FOOD PRICE REPORT:  Kroger,  central Indiana.  Eggs, $1.98 / dozen; Ground chuck $4.99 / pound;  5 pounds potatoes $3.99;  milk $1.99 / half-gallon (sale and loss leader).

I suggest people start thinking of cheap meals.  And don't count on eggs as a cheap source of protein anymore.

108 Kids are natural capitalists....it takes a lot of education to get as retarded as paul krugman. Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 08:06 AM (LRFds) No kidding. I loved teaching and my kids. Too bad the others Teachers and the Admin didn't feel the same way.

109 Here's what I don't get-- if the gov't can fund itself by minting trillion dollar Coins of Power (One Coin to Rule Them All), why at the same time are the Progressive Lefties demanding taxes go up on the rich? (and everyone else caught up in their schemes like AMT and "payroll tax holidays"?) Why a small amount like a trillion? Why not think ahead, and fund the entire Obama administrations' four years and mint a quadrillion coin and be done with it?

110 Good article from VDH over at PJM about the contagion of hipness in America: http://preview.tinyurl.com/a2zhx7t

111 104 closer to natural thugs, which is why they get brainwashed so Damn easily

112 106 AllenG,

I don't think he has EVER sworn loyalty to the founding from his heart so is he REALLY a "traitor?"

113

Maybe, since we're talking fantasy coins anyway, they can print up a buncha rings for all the States and then "One Ring to rule 'em all and in the Financial Collapse bind 'em".

114 111 Rhodium,

It is NOT easy to brainwash a kid to destroy his own advantages, that takes a LOT of repetition.

Capitalism's only saving grace is it works.

Socialism's only vice is it doesn't.....one is a nugget of gold wrapped in brutal garbage, the other is bric a brac enwrapping a nugget of shit.

115 110 thank you for the link

116 I suggest people start thinking of cheap meals. And don't count on eggs as a cheap source of protein anymore.

Posted by: Miss Marple at January 09, 2013 08:07 AM (GoIUi)

 

 

 

In the summer we have eggs delivered by a friend for a buck a dozen. Big, fat, juicy, tangerine-orange yolked cheeken aigs. Buy local!

117 104 closer to natural thugs, which is why they get brainwashed so Damn easily Posted by: Rhodium at January 09, 2013 08:08 AM (uFY4s) Not True. In my experiances they long for adult attention. With time and effort many children can be turned. They want to know the Why? Most teachers talk at them, not to them. Besides, most of your thugs are in the position where they have to raise themselves.

118

How is the Joe Wiesenthal article "provocative?"  OK, sure, most people don't understand what Fiat currency is - that's because they are uneducated louts, and not because it's an unfathomable mystery.

 

Here's the one thing that Joe misses: if money isn't tied, in some way, to production... then, unless the economy is at a standstill, it inflates.

 

That's the "debase" argument he mentioned.

 

Governments do not create STABLE, or USABLE money out of thin air.  Friedman won the Nobel Prize, back when it meant something, precisely on this point.  Sure, they can create Weimar-money, where a wheelbarrow full of million-dollar notes will be needed to buy a loaf of bread - but that's hardly "money."

119 When I was 16 and desperate for a part time job I went into a Dairy Queen with a 'Help Wanted' sign...and was quickly told, "We only need people for the front counter, so we're just hiring hot chicks."

120 Fu*% Wendys. Wish we had a Whataburger.

Dang.  Now I want Whataburger.

121 Man, a burger thread at eight in the morning! My favorito burger is from the local pub. Next up: Steak and Shake.

122 Man, a burger thread at eight in the morning! My favorito burger is from the local pub. Next up: Steak and Shake.

123 In sight, must be right.

124 Man, a burger thread at eight in the morning! My favorito burger is from the local pub. Next up: Steak and Shake. Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 09, 2013 08:13 AM (ma1sf) MMM, greasy bar burgers with cheese kurds and onion rings.

125 In sight, must be right.

126 Man, a burger thread at eight in the morning! My favorito burger is from the local pub. Next up: Steak and Shake. Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 09, 2013 08:13 AM (ma1sf) MMM, greasy bar burgers with cheese kurds and onion rings.

127 Re 110 brutal smackdown

128 Re 110 brutal smackdown

129 Good article from VDH over at PJM about the contagion of hipness in America:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/a2zhx7t

Posted by: Cricket

 

My favourite part, "The unhip Patriot Act, renditions, and Guantanamo are suddenly now kind of hip; so are drone targeted-assassinations — a sort of “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Predator.”   If we bomb Iran, we will be OK — if only Snoop Dogg high-fives the mission, the pilots are gay, the bombers run on biofuels, and the shrapnel is recyclable."

 

Moronesque  with a VDH sheen.

130 Good article from VDH over at PJM about the contagion of hipness in America:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/a2zhx7t

Posted by: Cricket

 

My favourite part, "The unhip Patriot Act, renditions, and Guantanamo are suddenly now kind of hip; so are drone targeted-assassinations — a sort of “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Predator.”   If we bomb Iran, we will be OK — if only Snoop Dogg high-fives the mission, the pilots are gay, the bombers run on biofuels, and the shrapnel is recyclable."

 

Moronesque  with a VDH sheen.

131 VDH and Mark Steyn should write a TV series together.

132 VDH and Mark Steyn should write a TV series together.

133 I don't think he has EVER sworn loyalty to the founding from his heart so is he REALLY a "traitor?"

I don't care about his "heart."  I have no idea what's in it.  I do know he knowingly, and of his own free will, took the Presidential Oath of Office- and then betrayed it by sitting back and allowing 4 Americans to be killed by Islamist animals and actively denied them support.

134 I don't think he has EVER sworn loyalty to the founding from his heart so is he REALLY a "traitor?"

I don't care about his "heart."  I have no idea what's in it.  I do know he knowingly, and of his own free will, took the Presidential Oath of Office- and then betrayed it by sitting back and allowing 4 Americans to be killed by Islamist animals and actively denied them support.

135

When I lived in Texas there were Dairy Queen's in almost every town too. They had a good variety of food and great ice-cream.

 

The closest DQ to me is about 30-odd minutes away.  I can honestly say I've never eaten at one.  I've had the ice cream, but never liked the soft-serve stuff, so didn't bother with the food.  Now, for my money, the finest burger I ever had in my life was the Number 4 regular at York Steak House (of blessed memory).  I don't know what they used to season the sirloin, but I'd bang Sheila Jackson-Lee up the squeakhole if it meant I could have another one.

136

When I lived in Texas there were Dairy Queen's in almost every town too. They had a good variety of food and great ice-cream.

 

The closest DQ to me is about 30-odd minutes away.  I can honestly say I've never eaten at one.  I've had the ice cream, but never liked the soft-serve stuff, so didn't bother with the food.  Now, for my money, the finest burger I ever had in my life was the Number 4 regular at York Steak House (of blessed memory).  I don't know what they used to season the sirloin, but I'd bang Sheila Jackson-Lee up the squeakhole if it meant I could have another one.

137 I want waffle house

138 127 AllenG,

Hey you know me I am telling you what folks who don't care about your point are coming from.

There REALLY are Americans who think that sack of shit is JUST what our nation needs.

139 Sven, Mark Steyn's grocery list would be more entertaining than half the shit on tv.

140 128 Mary PPP,


Heh I'd like an old school Ponderosa steak burger.....

141 Great great article

142 This is the last year of the 75watt light bulb.  When stores run out, they are out.  Last year was the last of the 100watt.  Next year it will be the last of the 60 watt.  Never thought the U.S. government would outlaw light bulbs, shit like that never crossed my mind.  Now I just wonder, whats next?  It could be anything.  Orange Jello!  Orange Jello is now banned from American homes.  The government has spoken!

143 Heh I'd like an old school Ponderosa steak burger.....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 08:17 AM (LRFds)

 

Yeah, baby!

144 131 Icedog,

He's a lot like Ian McShane playing Al on Deadwood....

it really is going to take total implosion I fear to snap folks out of magic thinking on economy and civilization.

145

109  "Here's what I don't get-- if the gov't can fund itself by minting trillion dollar Coins of Power (One Coin to Rule Them All), why at the same time are the Progressive Lefties demanding taxes go up on the rich?"

 

 

 

I had posed a similar question on a liberal website some time ago.  The scenario was that the U.S. discovered a new mineral (unobtanium) that every other country wanted - so much so that the sales paid for all the expenses of the government.

 

I asked if that was the case, would the liberals agree that no one should be taxed.  Everyone who replied disagreed.  They said it was a matter of fairness that the wealthy be taxed even if the money wasn't needed. 

146 Comparing high-end steak house burgers to fast food burgers is cheatin'

147 134 Case,

Case it is FOR THE CHILDREN GODDAMNIT!

148 Thanks, for the HuffPo link, Gabe.

BBL, have a post to write (first one I've been excited about in a bit).

149 Moronesque with a VDH sheen. Posted by: Lurking Canuck at January 09, 2013 08:14 AM (BrQrN) I maintain my position that VDH is gonna kill a guy with a trident. Happy happy VW Zhao! Wendy's has the best nuggets.

150

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, aka Jack July author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. at January 09, 2013 08:14 AM (l86i3)

 

 

 

......dill pickle and a cold-assed beer!

151 They'd never ban orange Jello c'mon. They know the Methodists would go crazy.

152 There REALLY are Americans who think that sack of shit is JUST what our nation needs.

And there's more of them than there are of us.

153 The problem is the cheap Tea Party needed to give Dick $10 or $20 million. You little bitches don't know power, you don't understand power, and you'll never have it. So give your money to Dick, idiot. He is better than you.

154 I want waffle house Posted by: waffle house lover at January 09, 2013 08:16 AM (uFY4s) Funny Waffle house story. My Dad and my uncle had been drinking all evening after a day of working in the race car shop. They decided to go to the Waffle house. I'm sitting in the boothe watching the cook, he has a ciggarette dangling from his lip with about and inch of ash hanging off the end, The ash lets go and hits the grill. I tell my dad and Uncle, my uncle laughs and says, Fuck it, pretend it's pepper.

155 137 Jwest,

Yup....realists live on Earth and moonbats planet fucktard.

In the end they want us dead or working for them for free.

I want them out of power and getting the reward for their idiocy.

Something's gotta give.

156 Reading comprehension, how does it WORK?

157 They'd never ban orange Jello c'mon. They know the Methodists would go crazy. Posted by: Bigby's Catcher's Mitt at January 09, 2013 08:20 AM (3ZtZW) And fuck with the green Jello I'm sure a herd of Lutherans will want to have a little talk with them.

158 Why don't they just mint one single Infinity Coin.

Good news!!  There is 999 Trillion in The People's Treasury this morning fellow comrades. Prosperity and abundance flow like wine from the People's factories. All is well, and Dear Leader is smiling.

I feel like singing.

159 Mrs Marple

Do you have an supermarket chain named Aldi's near you.
.99 eggs
$1.99 butter
$1.40 qt half and half
.89 bread
$1.49 grape tomatoes
.49 cucumbers

Stores are small by our standards, and bring your own shopping bags.
But the quality is not bad at all for many of the weekly staples that we get.

160 Ian McShane playing Al on Deadwood.....automatically heard that 4-letter "C" word in my head when I read that

161 Ground chuck $4.99 / pound

Hrm.  I got 85% lean at the Kroger in Plainfield for $4.59/lb Monday. But it was on sale.

And the ratfuckers stopped carrying bean sprouts.  (For pad thai. No other reason.)

162

>>>Something's gotta give.

 

Politically, they'll win. They're quite well-organised in the social sense and, in the end, the social crap they want such as gay marriage will win out.

 

Then and only then, Math will finally arrive to settle our hash.

163 Once a person self-identifies as a donk I usually work some form of "gravity how the fuck does that work?" into the conversation. I try to work a ball peen hammer in without getting arrested.

164 :::144 There REALLY are Americans who think that sack of shit is JUST what our nation needs. And there's more of them than there are of us. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ #NukeIowaCity at January 09, 2013 08:21 AM (ZKzrr)::: And unless anyone has an answer to that, the forecast is continued DOOM! with a chance of afternoon dying cold and alone in the dark.

165 Anyone have any good recipies for rat meat? Just trying to prepare...

166 Dave Ramsey has a good program for kids.

167 154 BCM,

Yup exactly.

I know a lesbian who votes her bedtime preferences and grasps the donks' math idiocy quite ably.

Fuck 'em get ready for the fall.

168 155 RickB223,

I am doing my best not to allow myself the joy of answering their wrath with wrath.

169

>>>Anyone have any good recipies for rat meat? Just trying to prepare...

 

Rats? Gosh no. I only do guinea pigs.

170

Lord, that VDH article is depressing.  The cult of 'hip.'  I've said it before, but I blame a lot of our current situation on that disgusting Seinfeld program.  A show about nothing that celebrated worthless people who contributed nothing to their communites and who took nothing but their own personal comfort seriously.  A program about nothing but snark.

 

And am I the only one to note that tinyurl preview ends with something that looks a lot like "asshat?"  Spooky.

171  Farm rats which are also a good source of protein can be cooked with coconut milk which is called in the Philippines as “ginataang daga,” or with tamarind which is called “sinampalukang daga.” Farm rats can also be cooked into adobo or simply deep-fried with breading to make it taste real good.

172 JJ, "maleficent" might be another good word to add to your daily recital.  It certainly fits Obama.

173 #151  I am going to have to make myself trek to Aldi's.  It's a good 45-minute round trip,  which wasn't worth it to me for the savings last time I checked, since the Kroger is right around the corner.

However,  the difference in prices you just quoted is going to require a staples trip once per week.  I have plenty of bags,  so no problem with that.

174 126 VDH and Mark Steyn should write a TV series together. Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 08:15 AM (LRFds) With Zucker (conservative conversion) and Iowahawk.

175 It must be a slow news day.  Has formerly fat fuck Al Roker told any more embarrassing stories about him filling his pants and then dumping them in the White House bathroom?  I'm still trying to get over how anybody willfully owns up to something like that on national television.  By having gastric bypass surgery and then eating some fucking garbage that he wasn't supposed to before going to the White House; even if he hadn't sharted himself he'd have still been unleashing blasters that smell like a burning slaughterhouse.  Stay classy Al.

176 There is no burger but Fatburger. A flame-broiled Fatburger double with egg, bacon and cheese and their fat steak fries with a vanilla milkshake? It just doesn't get any better than that.

177

I maintain my position that VDH is gonna kill a guy with a trident.

 

I'm  gonna get classicist on his ass

178 With all due respect. If it is time to hide your guns that means it is also time to start using them. I first heard this during the time of the AWB about twenty years ago. I remember snickering to myself and dismissing it as so much empty but clever bravado. When it comes to what matters, I lived in a different country back then.

179 167 Cpt Hate,

he sorta embodies free shit army guy....

mega expensive operation to fix an issue he then undermines.....

it is apt.

180 Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 09, 2013 08:30 AM I never fail to be amazed at what I learn around here.

181 Some of you are handling this new reality well.  I just know when I walk into the Dollar Store sometime next year and reach for my 4 pack of 60watt bulbs and discover they are all gone........I'm gonna lose it man.

182 [i[Gonna be 70 here today, no snow, no rain, no sleet, no ice.

Posted by: Killerdog at January 09, 2013 06:57 AM (Oi60j)[/i]

Well happy birthday there Killerdog!  What's that in people years?

183 168. No my one true weakness

184 173 Case,

Case what can one do?

Everyone KNOWS the mules are tyrants and thugs you should point out EPA shennanigans as often as possible everyone but ecotards gets it BUT they all also all reflexively say "of course the GOP is just as bad(or worse)....."


the right needs to nail a newsie to the black rock at west 57th....

185 I love how the folks that are angry about the hours being cut for workers are now demanding that the government do SOMETHING. Poor little dears; reality is just not being nice to them.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 09, 2013 06:59 AM (1ml8s)

 

I know, right?  ARRGH, the idiots are just too idiotic to be believed.

 

Hey, idiots!   I agree.  The government SHOULD do something. You know what it should do?  It should repeal fucking Obamacare and cut taxes.   BOOM!     Problem solved!

186

Got up for a coffee refill and the cat is looking out the patio door growling, tail all bottle brushy.

 

Standoff with a red fox! Red must have been looking for a snak at the bird feeder.

187 162 Lord, that VDH article is depressing. The cult of 'hip.' I've said it before, but I blame a lot of our current situation on that disgusting Seinfeld program. A show about nothing that celebrated worthless people who contributed nothing to their communites and who took nothing but their own personal comfort seriously. A program about nothing but snark. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2013 08:30 AM (zF6Iw) Kramer = Completely unemployable, low grade retard. Castanza = Zero life skills, whatsoever. In real life, both would be complete welfare cases posting commentary on Democratic Underground. Elaine = Psychotic. Useless. I stopped watching network TV around that time.

188 Hey, idiots! I agree. The government SHOULD do something. You know what it should do? It should repeal fucking Obamacare and cut taxes. BOOM! Problem solved! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 09, 2013 08:37 AM (4df7R) Yep, folks don't understand they never really do stuff for you, they do stuff to you.

189 177 MWR,

but then the worker's FREE healthcare is gone.....

FREE DAMNIT! FREE HEALTHCARE!

assholes

190 Well, bringing out the inner kid. Just got 20 1-inch disks of neodymium magnets. Feel like JoJo the circus boy with a new pet.

191 Some of the gold bugs here insist that the US is going to adopt a two tiered currency.  Is the trillion dollar coin which can't be put into circulation an initial step in that direction?

192 Anyone have any good recipies for rat meat? Just trying to prepare... Rat meat? Yuck. Guess I'll have to dig out my pre-Y2k cookbook "101 Ways to Prepare Long Pig". Long Pork - the OTHER white meat.

193 I stopped watching network TV around that time.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at January 09, 2013 08:38 AM (hHL/Y)

Yeah as that tripe got more and more popular I got more and more worried....

"a show about nothing?"

Yeah dude I call that C-Span

194 92 You understand that the plot of land was not only for a home but also to garden and raise things like Chickens and Goats for food. The million dollars would have been spent locally thus boosting the economy. Or invested in a business, most likely capitalizing on the tourist trade. So you shot down two ideas without considering the implications. We would have been better off giving the masses all that TARP money we gave the banks. Fuck AIG is thanking government for the bailout and planning to sue government. Meaning the taxpayers. If you and your family would have received money instead of AIG would you then sue the government? Would you have invested it wisely? Would you have purchased a plot of land and started farming? Ah snobbery gotta love it on all levels.

195 #153  Heather,  was it marked down like they do some of the meat when it is near expiration?   Or,  as I suspect,  is our store marking things up more because we have one of those de-luxe superstores with a sushi bar and a gourmet kitchenware department?

I am re-reading the Tightwad Gazette and am thinking I really need to make a price book.  I carry a lot of prices in my head but it is getting difficult to keep up.  Sam's drives me crazy because you have to remember unit prices in order to compare,  as they order stuff from manufacturers in odd bulk sizes so you cannot compare prices of the container.  

196 Happy closer to your death day

197 Is the trillion dollar coin which can't be put into circulation an initial step in that direction? It can't be put into circulation, because no one can afford it.

198 186 Mike Hunt,

you would have done LESS damage but DAMAGE you would have done.

Inflation how the fuck does THAT work?

199 Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at January 09, 2013 08:38 AM (hHL/Y) You left out the biggest ass, Jason Alexander.

200

Morning morons.  Missing Vic and his headlines.  Catching up, my random thoughts:

 

1) Aldi's is a great place to get cheap food

 

2) Wendy's is variable--some franchises are great, some are not, in general I still like their burgers best of the big 3--but DQ and Culvers both make great burgers as well.

 

3) AllenG has a blog?!?

201 I'm gonna start cutting myself for Obamacare, increasing healthcare costs and taxes, and reduced hour work weeks.

#cut4Obama

202 185 cspan 1, 2, or 3

203 I ain't eatin' no rat meat.  No frekin' way.  Might be selling it, but not goin to eat it.

204 192 he has a bog, not a blog

205 That's funny. Give a crack whore a million dollars and she becomes a farmer!

206 On this day n 2013 Vic slept late.

207 I am going to have to make myself trek to Aldi's. It's a good 45-minute round trip, which wasn't worth it to me for the savings last time I checked, since the Kroger is right around the corner. However, the difference in prices you just quoted is going to require a staples trip once per week. I have plenty of bags, so no problem with that. I thought Aldi's was owned by the muzzies?

208 Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2013 08:41 AM (LRFds) Please don't engage with the troll. Please?

209 #153 Heather, was it marked down like they do some of the meat when it is near expiration? Or, as I suspect, is our store marking things up more because we have one of those de-luxe superstores with a sushi bar and a gourmet kitchenware department?



Or it might be because a regional supplier had a large stock of beef that he had to unload because a Cleveland area chain had that same sale price yesterday.

210 195 my dad tells a story of a missionary kid who always ate cow meat while in Africa, while his friends had rat meat. So he tells his mom one day"why can't we have rat like all my friends"

211 Hi Vic

212 Ti's okay to sleep

213 On this day n 2013 Vic slept late. Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2013 08:44 AM (53z96) Good for you.

214 197 cicero's kid,

Yup....Cicero opined on that to a cataline IIRC....

fucking assholes think shit just happens and everyone is "gifted' their money....

I'm done arguing it and just preparing for impact.

My K hunt there is a fucking genius.

215 Manhunter Mike, hunter of hairy manbutt, proposes the legitimacy of FSA planting a garden, taking care of chickens and goats. Like, work?

That's preposterhilarious. I haven't laughed this hard since Stalingrad.

216 Morning Vic

217 Aldi's is a German company--so maybe Turkish Muslims, which are a different breed from most Arab Muslims, but I'm thinking it's more likely some guy named Hans in a 18th century castle who is lighting his cigar with 100 Euro notes while laughing about his vault full of Deutschmarks and gold...

218

Reminds me of a joke.

 

Wait, no it doesn't.

219 #199  Last time I read about it,  Aldi's was owned by a German consortium.

220 I wish Lincoln had a waffle house. My favorite part about going to the south is the waffle houses

221 200 OSP,

Yeah sorry like a moth to flame.

I was talking at it not ot it....

honest Liz Warren

222 Preparation: Blow the rat skin with a blowtorch. Leave rats to cool down. When they are cool enough, clean the rest of the skin with a steel wool. Eviscerate the rats and split them. Put all the good rat parts in a jar, with the fresh peppers, herbs and oil. Leave this for half an hour in the fridge. Deep-fry until brown in a mixture of butter and peanut oil. Serve hot with some crunchy peanuts.

223 The fact that the Scumbo administration wants us all to focus on gun control and trillion dollar coins kinda makes you wonder what they're really up to that they don't want us talking about.

224 Waffle House!!!!

225 Serve hot with some crunchy peanuts. Posted by: RWC at January 09, 2013 08:48 AM (fWAjv) Damn, that sounds good.

226 Miss Marple

Hopefully, your Aldi prices are in line with ours here in Baltimore.
Link below to their homepage
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2bofta

It certainly isn't like shopping at Wegmans, but since they opened the one about 15 minutes from our house, I catch myself mentally adding up the perceived cost in the basket, and am surprised each time we check out.

Hope it works out for you, as costs just seem to keep going up and up.
Perhaps "Rat on a stick" for the VIA household tonight.
I wonder how many Weight Watcher Points Plus points that would be if I fry in canola oil?

227 Miss Marple, #187:  No....it was an "unadvertised special".  The near-expiration is a "manager special", and what I was looking for after my pad thai plan got shot down, but that was the best I could do.   I think different stores have different prices; I didn't notice prices going up after they sushi-fied the Avon Kroger but the non-prepared product selection got worse.

Target for sure prices things differently in Plainfield and Avon.

228 Uh Gabe, I thought the issue of the constitutionality of issuing a 1 trillion platinum coin wasn't whether Congress could do it but whether the President can do it.

229 #215  Excellent point.  They are always misdirecting,  and the media plays right along.

Hmmm.  Perhaps we should look around and see what they are up to.

230 158 Dave Ramsey has a good program for kids.

Posted by: Hopeless at January 09, 2013 08:27 AM (9yly6)

 

I have a pretty good program for young boys.

231 221 Miss marple,

People then say you're a conspiracy nut.

You want to know why the Tea party is losing popularity as an indetifier?

They are barry's Goldstein and people are pissed at them for being right.

If only everyone played aloong with the maniac his freeshit army economics would work....no no "really"

232 The best part about Whataburget (and Jack In the Box too) is that if I want a burger for breakfast at 5:30am on the way to work, I can get one. None of that havin' to wait until 10:45 BS.

233 Good news for any readers who are illegal immigrants living undocumentedly in the great state if Illinois. You may now get a driver's license.

"After failing by just two votes in 2007, legislation to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants passed the Illinois House by a vote of 65-46. Gov. Pat Quinn's office issued a statement shortly afterward saying he plans to sign the bill, which cleared the state Senate in December."
(Chicago Tribune dot com)

234 Miss Marple, the dog that isn't barking right now in the holy trinity of leftists is abortion--so I'd look there.

235 Aldi's is a German company--so maybe Turkish Muslims, which are a different breed from most Arab Muslims. Muzzie is muzzie. And the only good muzzie is a dead muzzie. See? I am not a bigot. I don't discriminate. I could care which sect they belong to.

236 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The following bills have been assigned by Senate President Pro Tem David Long to the Senate's rules committee, a step typically used to bottle up a proposal and prevent further action toward it becoming law rohibit state agencies or public universities from limiting firearms possession except for buildings that house courtrooms. Topics Labor Day
Make any firearms or ammunition made in Indiana and remaining in the state not subject to federal laws or regulation.
Allow public school districts to require recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of each school day.
Prohibit abortions being sought based on the gender of the fetus or because the fetus has a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome.
Prohibit many arrests or searches by federal agents without written permission from the local county sheriff.
Ban the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by law enforcement agencies or others to monitor a person or property without consent.
Eliminate the use of grand juries by prosecutors to decide the filing of criminal charges.
Prohibit Indiana government entities from implementing any policies relating to the United Nation's 1992 conference on the environment, the subject of the novel titled "Agenda 21" by conservative commentator Glenn Beck.
Block public school districts from starting the school year until after Labor Day unless the district follows a year-round calendar or takes other steps.

237 #219  Really,  Target does this, too? I naively didn't consider this to be happening until recently.

I won't feel so bad going to Aldi's.  It's not like Kroger goes out of its way for me;  they are just close.

238 Damn, that sounds good. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, aka Jack July author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. at January 09, 2013 08:49 AM (l86i3) Don't ruin your appetite! Stewed Cane Rat Skin and eviscerate the rat and split it lengthwise. Fry until brown in a mixture of butter and peanut oil. Cover with water, add tomatoes or tomato puree, hot red peppers, and salt. Simmer the rat until tender and serve with rice.

239 Warm enough that yesterday's sprinkling of rain is all pre-dawn fog. Beautiful morning. January in Oklahoma, one day you're in Louisiana, the next you're in Montana. (Actually, I've known Montanans to complain about the Okla cold!)

240

MWR,

but then the worker's FREE healthcare is gone.....

 

Ain't it the fucking truth?   Theyr eally believe there's such a thing as a free lunch.  

 

Somedays I wake up and wonder when this fever dream nightmare of reality will end.    Where are you,    SMOD!

241 It certainly isn't like shopping at Wegmans

*weep*

I'm starting to look at that year in Syracuse, all alone 800 miles from home with no furniture, as one of the best post-college years of my life.  Wegmans and waterfalls.

242 I ate at a Waffle House for the first time a couple weeks ago.  Awesome.  They don't even have Splenda etc. on the tables.  Just fucking sugar, you'll use it and like it.  Or drink your coffee black.  It was good though, and cheap.

243

Well, my undergraduate academic training is in economics. 

 

The thing about economists is that they, like lawyers, have to always guard against going down the rabbit hole.  Models and things tend to take on lives of their own, and it's very easy to forget that they are grounded on theoretical assumptions.  Some of those assumptions are valid, but all too often economists start conclusion-seeking and either ignore assumptions that make that conclusion impossible or create new assumptions to get the result they want.

 

The article Gabe linked about The Coin is a good example.  It's showing at least one economist (Krugman) forgetting or entirely ignoring what he knows in favor of a chimera.  Charts are shown without any context - for example, a chart showing low interest rates and high debt as a way to refute the theory that increased borrowing raises interest rates...never mind that the Fed is playing against interest rates by increasing the money supply and keeping the discount rate low.  Yes, when supply is high prices tend to stay low (supply and demand, right...?). 

 

But assumptions are going to crash against the hard shoals of reality, as illustrated in the Reducto Ad Absurdum of "if money is whatever we want it to be, then why are we paying taxes to fund government?"  The harsh reality is that you CANNOT have money in an economy unless the economy is actually producing something, and the "money" (whatever you use, whether it be gold, pieces of paper, or tea leaves) must at the end of the day have the exact same perceived value as all the goods and services produced by the economy.  So while Keynes said that money is our creation, by that he meant that it is a unit of measurement.  Increase the money supply by 7% and the unit of measurement is decremented by 7%.

 

Kind of like how something remains the same length even if you redefine a foot to be two feet.

 

 

244 Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 09, 2013 08:40 AM (G6kli)

You, sir, have all the economic sense of cracked glass, and an apparent IQ roughly equivalent of the bottom half of the kelp population.  Until you can a) formulate a coherent thought and b) understand what the fuck you're talking about, just shut up.

The rest of us don't want to lose the IQ points necessary to translate your stupidity, nor waste the time of scrolling past your more-that-merely ignorant posts.

245 Morning, Vic.  Have some coffee.

246 Before I leave,  let me say that I never eat the burgers at Dairy Queen,  because I am hooked on their chili-cheese dogs.

Everyone have a great day!  I might check in this afternoon.

247 Everyone have a great day! I might check in this afternoon. Posted by: Miss Marple at January 09, 2013 08:55 AM (GoIUi) See Ya Miss Marple...

248 This coin thing ... government SHOULD print/mint our money, not private bankers. 

BUT politicians have little self control and will buy votes with the "fiat money", as they have already done in the form of debt.  Gold was the discipline, and the fed reserve chairman.  But gold was removed and the Fed chairman is now doing quantitative easing.  Precious metals or even bullets (or any asset I guess) is "real money".  Our currency (paper, coinage, or electronic) needs to be stable, but is instead now fiat.  

Even with the miracle coin, spending bills and funding should go through the House.  The bond vigilantes aren't a gang of Charles Bronsons out to do good when government fails.  They are just the market, that will sell bonds if they feel the US government is going to devalue its currency at twice the rate their bonds are paying.  This will drive them to buy assets .. hence inflation.

A commodity based currency would fix this desire of government to buy humans via an array of "entitlement for votes" schemes like we have now.  We laugh at the $10 million Zimbabwe note, yet are now considering our $ trillion coin.

If our government can essentially buy every person's labor or put them on welfare with this "funny money", what happens to the private sector?  This is why we must have the discipline of a gold backed (or some commodity) currency. 

But to pay our coming debt may require pawning off some trillion dollar coins to pay the Chinese and others, and let them figure out how to make change from it. 

And maybe we could forget the income tax and just start minting the coins, which would in essence "tax" everyone with assets equally, even the drug dealers.  But we still have to reward work, rather than let politicians pick winners and punish capitalists.

But Vic or Monty would have a more comprehensive understanding (I hope).  

249 In and Out Burger. One of the very few things I miss about living in L.A.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2013 07:37 AM (XkWWK)

 

 

Some much this.

250 Posted by: yinzer at January 09, 2013 08:54 AM (/Mla1) Now on to the important question, how did you get your hashbrowns?

251 And yes, that means the new post is up at the blog (or bog) that I totally don't have.

252 Rat on a Stick is kinda Zero to Eleventy, like passing gun control leading to defeat of the US Army, or printing platinum coins leading to solvency. Everybody has become an Underwear Gnome in the 21st Century

253 Posted by: yinzer at January 09, 2013 08:54 AM (/Mla1)

Now on to the important question, how did you get your hashbrowns?

Posted by: RWC at January 09, 2013 08:57 AM (fWAjv)

Nothing fancy.  Just regular style I guess.  Mistake?

254 Put all the good rat parts in a jar, with the fresh peppers, herbs and oil. Fill to top of jar with jellied gasoline. Tie rag around neck of jar. Store for when Molatov Cocktails are needed. What? You didn't seriously think I was going to eat them, did you?

255 I don't understand anything but I am hungry.

256

I've said it before, but I blame a lot of our current situation on that disgusting Seinfeld program.

 

Gah, i HATED Seinfeld.  I've never, ever understood why it was popular.  A more unlikeable group of   people I cannot imagine    outside of a Code Pink rally.

 

That said, i don't BLAME Seinfeld for what the country's become.   Rather, I think Seinfeld -- and other self-absorbed, oh-so-trendy shows of a similar ilk -- are     a reflection of what society has    become.    "Seinfeld," in its day, was something new and different in that it    portrayed a group of people who were similar to its target audience.   They weren't blue collar schlubs like "Roseanne"  (another show I hate, btw, though the first few seasons were pretty good),     or white collar suburbanites like    "Bob Newhart"    or sophisticates like    "The    Mary Tyler Moore    Show,"    or    any    typical           sitcom family     like     you'd get on    ABC's    TGIF.       The    characters on "Seinfeld" were a bunch of neurotic, selfish, poorly adjusted social retards with    less empathy than a     bull shark.   

 

"Ah," thought     the viewing audience.   "These are people like ME!"

 

(Or, if you were like me:  "Oh good grief, a show about THESE people.")

257 Fill to top of jar with jellied gasoline. Tie rag around neck of jar. Store for when Molatov Cocktails are needed.

Do you have a good recipe for jellied gasoline? Mine always tastes a bit off.

258 hash browns should always be ordered extra crispy.

259 I'm laughing about how concerned they are about the poor folks getting their hours cut.

Their answer? Boycott the company. Which, if successful, means that those very folks they're all concerned about will maybe get less hours or laid off.

How's that for Demothief thinking?

On a similar note but opposite:

To all those who are up in arms about the folks who receive "entitlements"; most of them can't/don't put the money away so it's not like they're getting rich off the taxpayers.

It's a bigger more widespread redistribution scheme.

Most all of those who receive SS or welfare, whether you agree with their purchases, spend that money with local and national vendors and companies.

That money is spread out over a lot of people and it does keep the economy churning. That's not to say it's a good thing or that folks earning their way isn't a better way to go, it's just that it's not a complete ripoff.

I think the major disagreement is with who and under what conditions the beneficiaries are and how much of taxpayers money is used by government for the programs.

Please note. SS and welfare are convenient targets. How about some outrage about the RD money and outright welfare sent to BigPharma and BigAgri? Or many other programs that benefit local areas through the connivance and collusion of their/your representatives in Congress.

There's something like 600 billion in OTHER MANDATORY SPENDING that no one seems to talk about and that isn't part of the SS/Medicare slice or the Defense slice.

That's why EVERYTHING has to be on the table when talking cuts and when talking about redistribution because that's all government really does for the most part; take your money and "redistribute" it where they think it should go.

Plus before cutting anyone's benefit one has to consider the economic situation; where will they get a job? Even burger flipping jobs are hard to find/secure as there's so many applicants.

Just some realities for you all to mull on.

260 248 MWR,

or in my case as I was living in a boarding house while I rethought my dreams after my injury in the army.....

"good God I want away from these people...."

261 You want to know why the Tea party is losing popularity as an indetifier? They are barry's Goldstein and people are pissed at them for being right. Screw 'em. I have no problem being looked at as a sanctamonious S.O.B. And, GET OFF MY LAWN!

262 #215 Excellent point. They are always misdirecting, and the media plays right along.

Hmmm. Perhaps we should look around and see what they are up to.

Posted by: Miss Marple at January 09, 2013 08:50 AM (GoIUi)

The stupid fucks are probably butthurt that, by removing that "payroll tax holiday" or whatever ignorant moniker they called removing the social security payment by the employee (which their MFM enablers never went OMG THAT GUTS THE SOLVENCYYYYYYYYYYYYYY), their army of dunces had their pay checks take a small nosedive which they were assured would only happen to "teh rich".  I think that was a strategic error on their part because there's nothing like having to pay for something to get people to start questioning just how fucking worthwhile it is to have it.

263

>>Do you have a good recipe for jellied gasoline? Mine always tastes a bit off.

 

Use orange Jello. Oh, wait....

264 249 bruce,


Yes....

of course what you really want is a two stage ignition for diesel....

you use nail polish remover as a primary ignition agent for the rag to light....

styrofoam, borax and a grin....

putting the Yay in napalm since 1981.

265 Nothing fancy. Just regular style I guess. Mistake? Posted by: yinzer at January 09, 2013 08:58 AM (/Mla1) Oh my grasshopper. :-( I prefer scattered (onions) and chunked (ham bits). The Waffle House hash browns come six ways: Traditional; Scattered & Smothered (Onions); Scattered, Smothered & Covered (Onions and Melted Cheese) Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked (Onions, Cheese and Ham) Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked & Topped (Onions, Cheese, Ham & Chili) Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Topped & Diced (Onions, Cheese, Ham, Chili and Diced Tomatoes). Apologies to hungry Vic.

266

You, sir, have all the economic sense of cracked glass, and an apparent IQ roughly equivalent of the bottom half of the kelp population. Until you can a) formulate a coherent thought and b) understand what the fuck you're talking about, just shut up.

 

Oooh, when AllenG uses the actual "fuck" and not "f*ck," you know he means business.   *evil cackle*

 

Oh, btw - Mike Hunt?  You're an idiot.

267 Google says there is a Waffle House 3 blocks from the Harley-Davidson dealer I use


wa-HOOOO

268 251 bitter clinger,

Cut Jib and newsletter...in volume...

I need something to absorb the impact.

Soc Sec has been known to be a scam for oh 60 years now....

269 Do you have a good recipe for jellied gasoline? Mine always tastes a bit off. You have to use fresh/new styrofoam. NOT the cups used and discarded by hobos.

270 Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit http://tinyurl.com/b532d2f I can't believe this is happening in "perfect texas"

271 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 09, 2013 09:06 AM (4df7R)

Yeah... I've been having a bad several weeks.  It's nice to be able to vent my spleen at someone who deserves it.

272 255 Bigby's Catcher's Mitt,

and thus by way of circular reasoning we come to the reason why orange jello must be banned....

The kids will make their snack into napalm.

//Govertard

273

So let me get this straight.

In the Weisenthal article, he quotes Keynes as God (typically I suppose) provides some statistics that focus on the US alone, and a lot of hand waiving.

We are called to ignore the comments of other (equally great) thinkers like Friedman, who by his own admission spent his career attempting to "undo" Keynes damage because...well...he doesn't give a reason.

There are perfectly logical counter-arguments to Weisenthal's statements that I wish he'd address. (Don't they teach this crap in journalism school? You're supposed to fully engage the critiques of your opponents so as to preemptly shut them down, not just handwave and gloss over their arugments dismissively.)

We've discussed them all before, but just to recap. 1) Inflation has a (admittedly unknown) lag time.  Even Friedman suggested that slowly growing the monetary supply might not result in dangerous inflation over the long term.  But we stopped slowly growing the supply in about 2009.  It's arguable that inflation may not have set in yet because the economy has not actually rebounded, keeping much of the money supply on the side-lines (plus the effects of Dodd-Frank are preventing banks from lending so giving the created money to the banks doesn't actualy increase the supply.)

2) Why focus on the US Weisenthal? It hasn't worked out well in several other countries, you best be telling what makes us different enough that we're immune to these forces (not just resistant).

3) On interest rates: We'll there's a tricky thing here, where the fed artificially keeps rates low by buying our government bonds.  Also China currently has a vested interest in keeping our rates low, so merely the fact that they haven't gone up yet is not proof that they won't go up.

4) I'm sure I'm missing something else.

274 261 RickB223,

the main thing is keeping track of the breakdown.....

I've been wondering if steel wool would work....I have not made a good batch of napalm since the 90s.

275 When I mentioned the Bahamian give everyone a million dollars and a plot of land thing, I did not for a minute consider that someone on this blog (troll or otherwise) might actually think it was a good idea. Or that I was a snob for mentioning it as an absurdity. Or that the plots of land would be used to raise goats--after they magically appeared (plots of land and goats), of course. Or that 300 trillion new dollars in the money supply would not cause any problems.

I guess that is only 300 platinum coins. Doesn't seem like much if you think about it that way.

276 The characters on "Seinfeld" were a bunch of neurotic, selfish, poorly adjusted social retards with less empathy than a bull shark.

They were so fucking shallow and superficial.  My cats have more empathy, and they're selfish bastards with brains the size of walnuts.

277 The comments on the trillion dollar coin are truly frightening.

They think you can just conjure money into creation and not have any inflationary or destabilizing effects on the economy.

These people are truly mad.


Where is Monty's doom thread when you need one?

Posted by: General Woundwort at January 09, 2013 07:13 AM (RrD4h)

Zimbabwe: It's not mad. Trust us, it works like a charm.

278 Posted by: Bitter Clinger (aka 3 tooth) at January 09, 2013 09:01 AM (3E2th) In reading your post, the thought occurred to me, Do welfare and social security recipients who, spend it all. ever think of saving any of it? I know I've been told it's barely enough money to live on, but even just a couple of bucks every month adds up eventually.

279 Also, none of you morons told me Justified had nekkid wimmins in it

280 #cut4Obama
Posted by: Fritz
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I read this as #c_nt4obama.   Fritz is an unusual name for a c_nt.

281 Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit

As he (or she) should, the way the policy is currently written.  The RFID tag is used (and can only be used) to track ingress and egress from the school premises (I don't know if they have a reader on external facilities such as the Field House or other such things).  As such, since the only thing you have to do not to be "tracked" is take the stupid thing off when you leave (if you're really paranoid, take some aluminum foil and fold it into a "wallet" for the tag), the school is not (is not even capable) of invading your privacy.

It's no different from having metal detectors at the doors, a strict dress code (or even a school uniform), or having to sign in/out of school.  All things other public schools do all over the place.

This kid (and their family) wanted to "make a point," and instead were made into an example.

Now, if that policy changes, or the tags become something other than basic RFID tags, that would be a different situation.  As it is?  I just can't get riled.

282 I have heard that Styrofoam makes a good medium for napalm

283

, and they're selfish bastards with brains the size of walnuts.

 

 

Hey! What did i do?

284 the main thing is keeping track of the breakdown..... I've been wondering if steel wool would work....I have not made a good batch of napalm since the 90s. I haven't made any since my cousin taught me in '78. Honest.

285 271 Also, none of you morons told me Justified had nekkid wimmins in it Posted by: Jones in CO at January 09, 2013 09:12 AM (8sCoq) That was CG special effects.

286 274 Jones in CO,

it does but the key is you use it to act as a coagulating agent.

The borax if added at the correct interval near use acts as a released oxidizer increasing the burn temperature.

Fun with chemistry and physics.

287 TQM, I talked to a congress critter last night and the idea of an amendment requiring the coin to have Mugabe's mug on it was discussed.

288 I have heard that Styrofoam makes a good medium for napalm
Posted by: Jones

What do I use if I want to make an extra large napalm?

289 Hey! What did i do?
Posted by: Brontosuarus at January 09, 2013 09:13 AM (ma1sf)

Didn't you get the memo?  You stopped ever having existed back in the late 90's.

290 Would you like coffee with your schadenfreude? John Cook ‏@johnjcook People are tweeting my address. I didn't publish anyone's address. Expand Reply Retweet Favorite LOL asshole.

291 What do I use if I want to make an extra large napalm? MOAR of everything.

292

Also, none of you morons told me Justified had nekkid wimmins in it

 

'Smatter, Jones, no prOn outlets in your area?

 

Got work to do.  Might pop in later on.  See yas.

293 Link dump is up

294 BenK dumped his load in a new thread.

295 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 09, 2013 09:13 AM (5DR1j)

I'd agree with you if I didn't think this was just step 1 of a multi-step plan.  I'm not sure what I fear, but a) it's the government and b) it's 'for the children'.  Both of those set of my spidey-sense.

Then again, I may just be paranoid.

::searches for new roll of tin foil::

296 Now, if that policy changes, or the tags become something other than basic RFID tags, that would be a different situation. As it is? I just can't get riled. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 09, 2013 09:13 AM (5DR1j) Why is this different from a student ID in college. In a lot of schools, all you need to do is have your student ID in your wallet, close to the card reader to have doors and such open. Why not a simple ID card instead of a dog tag around your neck?

297 This $1T coin bullshit is a quick way out of this mess. I'm in favor of holding the debt ceiling and watching Obama have to pick and choose which factions of the FSA get shorted and which get full measure when the next time the eagle shits. But the $1T coin will do the same trick. "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" has a really reassuring ring to it up until the day that it becomes a sick joke.

298

Posted by: tsrblke at January 09, 2013 09:09 AM

 

 

I don't tend to dismiss Keynes just because he's Keynes (I think his monetary policy theories tend to be defensible, at least in a perfect world...), but he does have an overreliance on the concept of a general price level.  It's that overreliance that's making Weisenthal look at a general inflation rate, seeing that it's "low," and figuring everything is hunky dory.  Thing is, the inflation rate is calculated based on a basket of goods that are in and of themselves susceptible to conclusion-seeking.

 

Inflation actually hits many things differently.  Using the inflation rate as Weisenthal does assumes that if you can't buy as much of Good X as before, you'll buy more of Good Y and it will all even out.  But real people don't behave that way.  If I can't buy as much gasoline as I could in December, that doesn't mean I'll buy more bread.

299 Thinking I can make a good hidey hole up in the attic floor.
Just need to figure out some large metallic object to park on top of it to confuse the gun police when they come.
How about a trillion-dollar coin?

300 Fu*% Wendys. Wish we had a Whataburger. So close, just 60 miles down the interstate. Come on up I59 Whataburger.

Posted by: Case at January 09, 2013 07:35 AM (QwurB)

Costello: Who a burger?

301 NY rep again proposes eliminating Presidential term limits. Cant get enough of the JEF

302 In reading your post, the thought occurred to me, Do welfare and social security recipients who, spend it all. ever think of saving any of it? I know I've been told it's barely enough money to live on, but even just a couple of bucks every month adds up eventually. ------------- Saving money (or at least, saving money and then being honest about it) is strongly discouraged by the system. If you're on public aid, you go in for an appointment every couple of months and show them your utility bills, pay stubs, rent agreement, and your bank statements. Use energy efficiently and cut your utility bills? Then you can use that money on food, so we'll cut your food stamp allowance. Got a certain amount in your bank account? You can pay for insurance now, no Medicaid til you're back below the threshold. It makes much more sense to spend all your money on stuff. So the "safety net" ends up being more like a spider web.

303 I don't tend to dismiss Keynes just because he's Keynes (I think his monetary policy theories tend to be defensible, at least in a perfect world...), b let me know when we live in that perfect world

304 288, RFID helps with the problem of door holders and gate jumpers, where it fails is in false negatives - people without tags atvall

305

Gawker publishes names of every asshole legal gun owner in NYC. Links to NY state listing as well.

It's time to restrict access to lists of gun owners. [ArthurK]


No.  It is time to stop making the lists in the first place.

306 NY rep again proposes eliminating Presidential term limits. Cant get enough of the JEF

Posted by: Thunderb at January 09, 2013 09:21 AM (Dnbau)

Because the country is still barely breathing. He wants Barry around long enough to dance around the corpse

307

ooohhhhh

waffle house hash browns

scattered smothered and covered

and double size those bitches

damn, now I'm hungry

308 "Maybe, since we're talking fantasy coins anyway, they can print up a buncha rings for all the States and then "One Ring to rule 'em all and in the Financial Collapse bind 'em"."

Back in the old days, when kings had to raise armies for putting down revolts and for invading other countries, the royal government would fill the coffers by selling patents of nobility.

309

>>>Saving money (or at least, saving money and then being honest about it) is strongly discouraged by the system.

 

Which is why you get ACORN scrunts telling people to bury cash in a coffee can in the back yard

310 299 MRP,

yeah.....our Federal Government sits on a lot of wealth potential....

they seize the land to let it sit.

311

>>the royal government would fill the coffers by selling patents of nobility.

 

Why not? It isn't like we're following the Constitution for anything anyway. I wanna be Teh Baron of Des Moines.

312 Sad to see Nathan Fillon getting pissy along with the rest about Wendy's trying to avoid O-Care. I thought he had his head on straight. Eh well.

313

Posted by: JohnTant at January 09, 2013 09:20 AM (eytER)

 

When I use "Keynes" dismissively, it's a shorthand for the 90 million arguments about why it doesn't work in this world (which is not perfect.)

Furthermore, it's shorthand for people who rely on it as Gospel.  Keynes has positive short term effects (and perhaps medium and long term to an extent.) but it's longer term effects are certainly at best..awkward, a bit unknowable, and possibly bad.

But most modern (neo?) Keynesians only look at those near term effects (we can stimulate an economy YAY!)

Also not a fan of the fact they he felt government was the only way to accomplish it.

But that reminds me of my point 4. Inflation: You can use various measures of inflation to show any number of things.  But here's the basic fact, many of them are bunk.  Claiming using the CPI that "inflation is nil!" fails to take into account gains in efficency that offset inflation. (Now it may be true that for your very narrow set of goods inflation is nil, but that means nothing.)

I'd be more interested to see those numbers grafted on to average US salary over that time period. I'm of the mind that it gives a better view of what inflation actually is mostly because people tend to want to keep their current standard of living (and that's what inflation should measure changes in standard of living.  So what if I can afford the same amount of beans? I happen to like meat which has gone up X%.)  The combined actions of the labor market finding ways to increase salary (education, bargining, job hunting, whatever) provide a greater approximation of true inflation than the CPI, in my humble opinion.

314 Why is this different from a student ID in college. In a lot of schools, all you need to do is have your student ID in your wallet, close to the card reader to have doors and such open. Why not a simple ID card instead of a dog tag around your neck? ------------------ If it could be read while in your pocket, kids just hand their cards to their friends and be counted present. With the lanyards, you would notice if Johnny's wearing three tags. I think it's kind of a ridiculous measure to assure attendance, but then I'm not in the position of losing funding over kids not showing up. This district does have a huge problem with that (among lots of other problems).

315 Who dares mock the name of Bigby?

316

I don't tend to dismiss Keynes just because he's Keynes (I think his monetary policy theories tend to be defensible, at least in a perfect world...),

 

I don't dismiss him, either, or indeed any other economist,   philosopher or other      published     individual with a shred of credibility   (Michael Mann?  Not so much).    Dismissing out of hand the work of people we don't agree with is what the LEFT does;  we on the right     are smarter than that.    

 

My problem with Keynes isn't really Keynes at all;    it's the left's dependence on him as the Sacred Wellspring of All Economic Fortune.   Unlike the right, the left latches on to ONE economic theory -- the one that just happens to conform to their    predilection for big government -- and hold onto it like     it's     the Arc of the Covenant.      We can read     Keynes and say, "Okay,     recommendation X will work in a limited capacity when dealing with situation Y."    But the left reads Keynes and says,    "Keynes recommends X, so let's apply it to situations   1 thru Z-Omega, inclusive!"  

 

It's just another example of the left's dependence     on    credentialism.    "Keynes was an economist so he knows what he's talking    about and YOU don't!"

 

"But what about all the other economists who disagreed with Keynes, or who at least said that Keynesian economics only worked in limited context?"

 

"They're idiots because REASONS!"

317 I'd like to give a plug for the best burger to the Beeton Hotel in Beeton, Ontario. They called it a superburger, I always asked for Beetonburgers.

318 Heather Radish and Miss Marple keep talking about places just a handful of minutes from where I used to live. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

319 Why is this different from a student ID in college. In a lot of schools, all you need to do is have your student ID in your wallet, close to the card reader to have doors and such open. Why not a simple ID card instead of a dog tag around your neck?

Check out bottom of page for another article. This one SHOULD scare you!

http://tinyurl.com/bjka33h

320 Ace you are wrong about the legality of the proposed parlor trick--the law does indeed permit the TS to issue a coin denominated in any value--but for COMMEMORATIVE PURPOSES NOT FOR FISCAL PURPOSES. 

321 "I always thought Wendy's burgers smelled of armpits."
All that, and you left out the punchline?

"Whatever you do, don't try the donuts."

322 In and out burger sucks! Immensely overhyped.

323

I don't see what all the fuss is about regarding that trillion-dollar-coin business. Many governments have assigned astronomical values to single pieces of currency, like Weimar Germany, for example, and Zimbabwe.

 

Oh, wait...

324

Awwww.  Pitiful cheat/fraud Lance Armstrong going on Oprah to 'pologize and boo-hoo.  I wish his cancer of the balls would come back with a vengeance. 

325 With our new trilliion-dollar platinum coins, at least people will get reaquainted with the phrase "Not worth a Continental" As well as Confederate money and the Weimar Republic.

326 40s here in western NY, one of the snow capitals of America. 50s this weekend. Global Warmening is teh best! Except for the fact that we cold-weather dwellers don't do well with warm winters...it leads to huge flu breakouts, and I'm suffering from it now.