November 20, 2013

Top Headline Comments 11-20-13
— Gabriel Malor

Happy Wednesday.

The Bushes, 43 and Laura, were on Leno last night and it was, I have to tell you, UH-MAZE-BALLS. Here's the tiniest snippet from it that was more serious-y. Most of it was very laugh-y (yes, he painted it). I hope the rest becomes readily available soonest. Do I miss him yet? Yes. Dear Lord, yes.

In other news, the Supreme Court declined to reimpose the injunction that the misguided district court judge laid on the Texas anti-abortion law. Here's the SCOTUS order (PDF), which features dueling opinions from Scalia and Breyer. I wouldn't waste my time with Justice Breyer's dissent because it doesn't actually rely on cognizable legal principles, but Justice Scalia's concurring decision is hard core, so I definitely recommend it, even for the not-so-law-minded. The man is not pulling any punches here.

In other law news, I do so love the weekly legal roundup at Filmdrunk.

In other other news, here's some speculation that Gov. Walker may be Gov. Christie's "worst nightmare" in 2016. Aight.

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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, November 20, 2013.  On this day in 1980 the Lake Peigneur Disaster took place in LA.  A misplaced Texaco oil drill drilled into the top of an underlying salt mine beneath the lake creating a 14" hole from the lake to the salt mine.  The lake then began draining into the salt mine dissolving the salt.  As the water rushed in, the hole became larger making the drainage a flood. The entire lake, surrounding trees, a few houses, and 65 acres of surrounding land were swept into the hole.  And you thought the BP leak was a big problem eh?

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:00 AM (FTQyq)

2 Obama once again asks congress to hold off on sanctions against Iran while he gives away the store.  However several Senators sent him a letter.


"If we are reducing sanctions, Iran should be reducing its nuclear capabilities," they wrote, specifically voicing concern that a proposal would let Iran access frozen capital without making major concessions in return.


The letter was signed by Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; John McCain, R-Ariz.; Bob Casey, D-Pa.; and Susan Collins, R-Maine. They voiced support for the overall negotiations, though.  


RINOs join with Dems to give Obama cover.  If you live in the State with one of these traitors, as I do, be sure to get down to the polls and vote against them.


http://tinyurl.com/kj7l2eh

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:00 AM (FTQyq)

3 The stupid Obamanite State Department gives away the store in Afghanistan as well as including a public apology.   What do we get in this "security agreement"?  The ability to protect these assholes and give them billions of dollars (not mentioned in this article).  The worst foreign policy for the US in History.  Makes Carter look like Thomas Jefferson.  What we should be doing is taking all of our hardware, troops, and most especially foreign aid and going home.  Then tell the corrupt Karzai to kiss our ass.


http://tinyurl.com/p9dguw7


This article does mention the money.  Says US troops and dollars will remain in Afghanistan indefinitely.


http://tinyurl.com/qevtxez

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:01 AM (FTQyq)

4 Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision allows the Texas abortion law to proceed. Of course the liberals wanted to continue with abortion clinics like Kermit Gosnell's in PA.


http://tinyurl.com/nob22cq

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:01 AM (FTQyq)

5 Another ax grinding report.  This one says children today are less fit than their parents were.  If they are, and that's a big IF, could it be because the lawyers have removed all the playground equipment that made it more fun to play outside?  Running around in circles and doing sit-ups is boring to a 9 year old kid.


http://tinyurl.com/le4csky

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:01 AM (FTQyq)

6 DIABLO King finds a Fox camera and says the Benghazi statements by "the administration" were indefensible.  How about outright lies, but what difference does it make now.


http://tinyurl.com/m59po87

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:01 AM (FTQyq)

7 The story of how a power mad rogue regulatory agency took down Bucky Balls.  And now they are not satisfied with driving them out of business, they want to be paid millions by the company for driving them out of business.


http://tinyurl.com/k3du5l8

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:02 AM (FTQyq)

8 Another Obama crony solar company about to go bankrupt.  The question I have is "are there ANY of these companies that received all those federal payoffs actually making money and are viable?"


http://tinyurl.com/km3s7vl

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:02 AM (FTQyq)

9 Obama continues his war on religion in the military (except for Islamic religions) as the Air Force removes "so help me God" from its oaths.


http://tinyurl.com/n78g5tc

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:02 AM (FTQyq)

10 Your medical insurance plan in DC will cover abortions but not hearing aids.  This is the kind of shit that happens when the government, and especially Democrats, run health care.


http://tinyurl.com/kvxhycj

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:02 AM (FTQyq)

11 Another CA city about to go bankrupt.  This time for a second time.  Hey CA, if you pull a WI and make CA a right to work State and outlaw government employee unions you would not have this problem.  But I guess that's too much to ask for a State run by Democrats.  BTW, how much of my money are you still getting from Obama?


http://tinyurl.com/oo3vd8t

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:02 AM (FTQyq)

12 "that Gov. Walker may be Gov. Christie's "worst nightmare" in 2016. Aight."

Christie's worst nightmare is a closed buffet.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 20, 2013 03:03 AM (gHDMy)

13 North TX drivers pulled over into a parking lot to give blood samples and saliva for federal contractors. They claimed it was "voluntary" but one woman said she did to want to go into the parking lot but was forced to by police.


And you thought it could not happen here.


http://tinyurl.com/l4y3dce

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:03 AM (FTQyq)

14 Scott Walker says Governors make better Presidents vs Senators.  That is probably true.  However, how about the President of a large company?  They do the same executive shit and it would be nice to have someone with real experience instead of a professional politician.


http://tinyurl.com/l64xhmu

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:03 AM (FTQyq)

15 Bart Stupack can afford to stand behind his vote for Obamacide.  He cites that he was assured it wasn't going to cover abortion.  Once again Obama lied because it does.  He is in absolute denial about all the problems in Obamacide.  He chose not to run for reelection and was replaced by a Republican.  Usually when a politician chooses not to run for reelection it is a sure sign that they are about to go down the tubes.   Guess what he is doing now?  He is a lobbyist with a law firm full of ex-congress critters and other politicians.


http://tinyurl.com/jwq6b24

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:03 AM (FTQyq)

16 Conservatives in WI are fighting back against the lawfare instigated by Democrats with a lawsuit of their own.


http://tinyurl.com/kocw4rd

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:04 AM (FTQyq)

17 Hawaii has spend $778,000 of its taxpayer's money for each Obamacide enrollee.  Now tell me, could this money have not gone to finance ER visits for indigents with no insurance and left the rest of the people alone?


http://tinyurl.com/pt3bujf

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:04 AM (FTQyq)

18 DHS employee who was placed on administrative leave WITH pay 4 months ago for calling for the killing of whites still has not been fired and is still drawing his $115,000/year salary while on "vacation".  If I launch a website and advocate killing blacks will I get $115,000/yr in payments?


http://tinyurl.com/q26jyrj

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:04 AM (FTQyq)

19 A little bit more info on the 4 primary challengers for Nancy Boy.  From this meager amount of info I like Lee Bright.  What I am scared of is the one who bills himself as a "social con" with no other info.  He could be a stealth liberal on all other issues. Conner showed his tendency to make stupid statements that will alienate some voters.    Bright won the "straw" poll for the night but I view that as meaningless.  But look at this on the straw poll:

Diane Carr, a former York County GOP officer, cast the only vote for Graham in the straw poll.


There are still parts of the State GOP that support Nancy Boy.


http://tinyurl.com/pyj4oha

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:04 AM (FTQyq)

20 Asshole eco-Nazis are trying to block cruise ships from coming to Charleston. Somehow it has made it all the way to the SC Supreme Court and this is the first I have heard of it.  Yes, SC has it's share of eco-Nazis too.  


http://tinyurl.com/o3ss3b3

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:05 AM (FTQyq)

21 Records show the NSA was chastised by the spy court many times for exceeding it's authority but they continued issuing warrants anyway.  Sounds to me like they needed a new judge, or at least a panel of judges.  What this means is they were allowed to run amuck with no oversight.


http://tinyurl.com/qbcn52l

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:05 AM (FTQyq)

22 Is Helicopter Ben ready to quit printing money?


http://tinyurl.com/p9wkm8g

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:05 AM (FTQyq)

23 Senate blocks bill that would have prevented transfer of GITMO terrorists to US prisons.  If I am not mistaken that is ALREADY a law.


http://tinyurl.com/nwrhj4a

After checking I am NOT mistaken.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:06 AM (FTQyq)

24 NRO on the Iranian Ratface Vajajay.  Her enemies don't last long in the WH but her friends do despite colossal screwups.  (Sebeilus)  She also has a paid staff of 3 dozen assistants.  Congress needs to rein this shit in.


http://tinyurl.com/kkp2l48

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:06 AM (FTQyq)

25 Happy 51st birthday to me. For my birthday, I get to take a half day vacation & spend it at the Texas DMV getting my DL renewed. And they wonder why we yell "Get off my lawn!"

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 03:06 AM (d0Dmj)

26 Did we talk about rogue regulatory agencies before?  How about regulation of rabbits used by magicians.   And they are incredibly stupid.  When is congress going to stop this shit and quit enabling it.


http://tinyurl.com/lbarg69

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:06 AM (FTQyq)

27 Ramirez is good today


http://tinyurl.com/n5ssskx

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:07 AM (FTQyq)

28 Kindle Daily Deals


http://tinyurl.com/mzosogw


That's it for today folks.   I will be bugging out early this morning for a Dr's appointment.  And I am dying now because no coffee and no breakfast.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:07 AM (FTQyq)

29 Good morning!  ha.. that IS a good Ramirez!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 20, 2013 03:08 AM (b/lt+)

30

Thanks, Vic, and good luck at the daktari. Tell Mrs.   Vic "hello." 

 

Hope  y'all are well.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at November 20, 2013 03:10 AM (0HooB)

31 Happy B-day, rickb22!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 20, 2013 03:11 AM (b/lt+)

32 Happy birthday rickb22!

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone but Loves Birthdays at November 20, 2013 03:12 AM (GmTxn)

33 Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 07:07 AM (FTQyq)

That fasting is tough for us early risers. But my clinic did start opening at 7:30, instead of 8, a few years ago and that helped.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 20, 2013 03:12 AM (gHDMy)

34 DAY 380 1,081 to go (1,152 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 03:12 AM (olDqf)

35 oh. And Happy birthday rickb22!

Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 20, 2013 03:13 AM (gHDMy)

36 #19 Four challengers are too fucking many. Sounds like friends of Grahamnesty have arranged some split the vote straw candidates. Too bad Top Men care about beating conservatives more than donks.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 03:13 AM (43PLV)

37 JJ sighting.

I can get to work now.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 20, 2013 03:13 AM (gHDMy)

38 Yeah, Happy     Birfday, rickb22.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at November 20, 2013 03:14 AM (0HooB)

39 25 Happy 51st birthday to me. For my birthday, I get to take a half day vacation spend it at the Texas DMV getting my DL renewed. And they wonder why we yell "Get off my lawn!"

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 07:06 AM (d0Dmj)


Happy Birthday.  Our State finally did the right thing a few years ago.  You can renew over the internet now as long as you go down and do it at the DMV once every 10 years and you don't have 4 point or more.



Not only does it make it easier for the people using the internet, but it reduces the lines at the DMV for those that have to go there.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:15 AM (FTQyq)

40 Quantitative Easing cannot end as long as the U.S. Treasury needs to borrow money and everyone else has no desire to lend it.

Posted by: Jimbo at November 20, 2013 03:15 AM (V70Uh)

41 Thanks all. I'm going to time my DMV visit & report back. We had a thread yesterday go slightly OT with DMV stories.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 03:15 AM (d0Dmj)

42 30  Hope y'all are well.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at November 20, 2013 07:10 AM (0HooB)



I'm doing OK, but no coooowwwfeeee this morning!

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:16 AM (FTQyq)

43 Early doctor appointment. Just a kidney x-ray to check for stones. I''ll let you know if they find Keith or Mick. Probably Fred or Wilma...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 03:16 AM (olDqf)

44 FYIM&M bit.ly links all go to War News Updates. NB: I don't claim to have every word of every article to the very end. Just thought some here might appreciate these links. ---!--- How Badly Things Are Broken With Our Defense -- Lt. Col. Robert Bateman (Esquire) http://bit.ly/1c0h90V "At the strategic and political levels of war, America is falling flat on its face." ---!--- Meet The Super-Fast, Radar-Jamming, Unnervingly Intelligent Missiles Of 2030 (Foreign Policy) http://bit.ly/1dVFZAc Which has nothing at all to do with this, of course... Russia's GPS System Wants To Have Monitoring Stations On U.S. Soil http://bit.ly/1arBTjI ---!--- I see Vic touched on this one: Endless Afghanistan? US-Afghan agreement would keep troops in place and funds flowing, perhaps indefinitely (NBC News) http://bit.ly/1cFN0Ed "...the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces. The wide-ranging document, still unsigned by the United States and Afghanistan, has the potential to commit thousands of American troops to Afghanistan and spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars." ---!--- After the Soviet Union fell, there was a great deal of action to wind down our military because the cold war was over. I thought that was foolish. I'm with this guy: To a Philosopher-General in Israel, Peace Is the Time to Prepare for War (NY Times) http://bit.ly/1h1KQUR "General Halevi, 45, a triathlete and father of four... said his university studies in philosophy proved more salient to military leadership than courses in business administration. ... 'People used to tell me that business administration is for the practical life and philosophy is for the spirit,' General Halevi said. 'Through the years I found it is exactly the opposite — I used philosophy much more practically. "'Philosophers that spoke about how to balance, how to prioritize principles in a right way,' he added, citing Plato, Socrates and Maimonides. 'This is something that I find very helpful.'" About the inevitability of a next war he says: "The interesting issue is how you create a longer gap between the wars.... It’s not going to be a simple one. There are no simple wars. We are ready to pay this price to make a very decisive and strong war to make the gap as long as possible."[emphasis added]

Posted by: mindful webworker, so it says on my ID badge at November 20, 2013 03:16 AM (cDwCa)

45 33 Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 07:07 AM (FTQyq)

That fasting is tough for us early risers. But my clinic did start opening at 7:30, instead of 8, a few years ago and that helped.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 20, 2013 07:12 AM (gHDMy)


Mine opens at 8 but they could not get me an appointment before 8:30

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:16 AM (FTQyq)

46 37 JJ sighting. I can get to work now. Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 20, 2013 07:13 AM (gHDMy) Wow, you're not wasting your life! ; - )

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 03:17 AM (olDqf)

47 The worst foreign policy for the US in History. Makes Carter look like Thomas Jefferson. What we should be doing is taking all of our hardware, troops, and most especially foreign aid and going home. Then tell the corrupt Karzai to kiss our ass. Once, we had the Monroe Doctrine. Now, we the Obama Doctrine: Bend Over.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 20, 2013 03:17 AM (QR7wx)

48 Happy Birthday. Our State finally did the right thing a few years ago. You can renew over the internet now as long as you go down and do it at the DMV once every 10 years and you don't have 4 point or more.


Thanks Vic. Same here. I'm in that 10 year spot so it's time for a vision test & new pic. Got the letter in the mail that EXPLICITLY said I couldn't renew online.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 03:18 AM (d0Dmj)

49 36 #19

Four challengers are too fucking many. Sounds like friends of Grahamnesty have arranged some split the vote straw candidates. Too bad Top Men care about beating conservatives more than donks.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 07:13 AM (43PLV)


4 is a lot but will not help Nancy Boy if any at all.  It will guarantee a run-off.  SC ain't like MO where they can play those kinds of games.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:18 AM (FTQyq)

50 And if by some stroke of luck, things go like that straw poll, Nancy Boy will not even be in the run-off.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:19 AM (FTQyq)

51 From the way the comments are acting for me, Pixy's hamsters haven't  had their coffee yet either.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at November 20, 2013 03:20 AM (0HooB)

52 36 #19

Four challengers are too fucking many. Sounds like friends of Grahamnesty have arranged some split the vote straw candidates. Too bad Top Men care about beating conservatives more than donks.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 07:13 AM (43PLV)


I think it's a runoff state, so more candidates actually increase the chance of kicking him out.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at November 20, 2013 03:22 AM (AWmfW)

53 If I were running against Christie  I would play over and over and over again the audio of  the fat bastage saying we need to let Obama exercise his executive powers. 

I know why he did  it, and I know he doesn't really mean it, but the underhanded, dishonest, self-serving jerk  is playing by THOSE rules, and  I see no reason to take the high road with him. 

I'll never vote for him.  Ever. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 20, 2013 03:22 AM (BeSEI)

54 #49 I had forgotten that about SC. Excellent rule imo.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 03:23 AM (43PLV)

55 That's it for today folks. I will be bugging out early this morning for a Dr's appointment. And I am dying now because no coffee and no breakfast. Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 07:07 AM (FTQyq) I always love those appointments. Fortunately, my transplant follow-up clinic makes appointments starting at 7:20. As soon as I hit the door, they draw blood. I immediately grab the nearest carafe of coffee and a straw.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 20, 2013 03:23 AM (QR7wx)

56 56  I always love those appointments. Fortunately, my transplant follow-up clinic makes appointments starting at 7:20. As soon as I hit the door, they draw blood. I immediately grab the nearest carafe of coffee and a straw.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 20, 2013 07:23 AM (QR7wx)


NO coffee in those waiting rooms at mine.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:25 AM (FTQyq)

57 Fat Fuck was quick to embrace 404Care; that should disqualify him immediately.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 03:25 AM (43PLV)

58 "North TX drivers pulled over into a parking lot to give blood samples and saliva for federal contractors. They claimed it was "voluntary" but one woman said she did to want to go into the parking lot but was forced to by police." Man, that is one giant hunk of shit. I think I'll talk with a lawyer about this as it just doesn't seem right in any way. Essentially conducting a survey a private company is forcing drivers off of the street with no cause and they're being aided by city police in doing so. I know you can't just rev your motor and crash the barrier but you damn sure aren't just supposed to abide and then argue with them a way to let you go without participating.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 20, 2013 03:25 AM (5Ouu7)

59 I should make me a pot of coffee and put it in an insulated mug and take it with me.



I think I will.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:27 AM (FTQyq)

60

If Perry doesn't make another run in '016,  I'ma be takin' a hard look at  Walker if he decides to run.

 

I don't want Chrispy Creme. Or anyone who has any connection with Rove.  What I want is a candidate who is pretty  much the polar opposite of TFG.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at November 20, 2013 03:28 AM (0HooB)

61 43 Early doctor appointment. Just a kidney x-ray to check for stones.

I''ll let you know if they find Keith or Mick. Probably Fred or Wilma...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 07:16 AM (olDqf)




---------------------------



Here honey, I didn't get this at  Jareds, but.....

Posted by: BurtTC at November 20, 2013 03:29 AM (BeSEI)

62 The press loves Christie, but they will turn on him and destroy him. We already know what the ammo will be. Then they'll make stuff up. Walker. Or Nikki Haley. War on women, bitches! Wait...

Posted by: blaster at November 20, 2013 03:29 AM (lx5nG)

63 Somewhat sorry to inflict this, but it's worth some mockery. The opening paragraphs of the gibberish that Obama had a stand-in read for him at the Gettysburg 150th anniversary ceremony:

"In the evening, when Michelle and the girls have gone to bed, I sometimes walk down the hall to a room Abraham Lincoln used as his office. It contains an original copy of the Gettysburg Address, written in Lincoln's own hand.

I linger on these few words that have helped define our American experiment: "a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.''

Uh, huh. I'll bet he does that all the time. Sure. And of course the focus is on himself. What a tool.

Posted by: Stu-22 at November 20, 2013 03:30 AM (k4bdL)

64 ExSnipe - heh... I was concerned that the way I posted my links all together made an obnoxiously too-long comment (per 2013 AoSHQ styleguide); now mine looks normaler, relativisticallishlywise-speaking. Thanks. (Now to go read your comment....)

Posted by: mindful webworker, allegedly at November 20, 2013 03:30 AM (Xfofp)

65 Heard Gov. Walker on Hannity yesterday.  He's the real deal.

Unlike the Bayonne Beluga.

Posted by: eggwash at November 20, 2013 03:33 AM (YBusZ)

66 @58 Christie is not going to be the 2016 nominee. He can easily be defeated as he has no real record to run on. He is a myth. Scott walker on the other hand has a substantial record of accomplihment. Now if we could get his head straight on amnesty.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2013 03:33 AM (e3lbf)

67 62 Here honey, I didn't get this at Jareds, but..... Posted by: BurtTC at November 20, 2013 07:29 AM (BeSEI) "You can have as many diamonds as you can swallow. " "Eat." "ESSEN!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 03:34 AM (olDqf)

68

Posted by: mindful webworker, allegedly at November 20, 2013 07:30 AM (Xfofp)

 

Heh. No problem. Call it Tourettes of the Hands.

Posted by: ExSnipe at November 20, 2013 03:35 AM (57ubW)

69 ...that the War in the Pacific was going to be one of no quarter, no surrender, just simple annihilation. -ExSnipe Seriously, thanks for that horrific bit of military history.

Posted by: mindful webworker, supposedly at November 20, 2013 03:35 AM (eb70/)

70 66 Heard Gov. Walker on Hannity yesterday. He's the real deal. Unlike the Bayonne Beluga. Posted by: eggwash at November 20, 2013 07:33 AM (YBusZ) Better than Chris Creosote, but Walker is pro Amnesty and is somewhat wishy-washy now on the Tea Party movement. He seems on the path to disappoint.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 03:35 AM (olDqf)

71 Anyone see this at Breitbart: "Politico Reporter: F*CK THE TROOPS!" http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/19/Politico-Writer-Fck-the-Troops

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 20, 2013 03:37 AM (olDqf)

72 Without a doubt the Dems are going to run Hillary.  We should start a draft Nikki Haley movement.

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:39 AM (FTQyq)

73 Moar coffee...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 03:40 AM (aDwsi)

74 @71 It seems as if amnesty is now the defacto preferred policy of GOP-e, its only our constant vigilence that has prevented the sellout. We must stay vigilent

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2013 03:41 AM (e3lbf)

75 Happy Birthday, Rickb. Hopefully you have something nicer planned for the rest of the day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2013 03:41 AM (23Kgq)

76 God bless George and Laura Bush. They have to be so much happier out of the White House.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2013 03:42 AM (23Kgq)

77 And my new kitteh has a Dr's appointment today as well.  She is broken and needs to be "fixed".

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:44 AM (FTQyq)

78 That preface about Obama and Lincoln's office made me throw up a little bit in my mouth. His narcissism is staggering - psychotic. Thanks for the round-up, Vic. I think you need to change your tag to rickb51 for the day - happy birthday!

Posted by: Gem at November 20, 2013 03:45 AM (zw+pb)

79

I got to hear a Planned Parenthood spokesman on the radio this morning complaining that the SCOTUS decision spells the end of safe abortions and will drive women to get their abortions from back alley providers.

 

Yep,  according to the industry  a law that requires an abortion doctor to have hospital privileges makes abortions unsafe.

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at November 20, 2013 03:46 AM (eytER)

80 52.   Great post.

I've always thought it unfair that the courage and tenacity the Marines showed on Tarawa has never gotten a fraction of the attention given to Omaha Beach.

The image of David Shoup, up to his hips in water, legs riddled with bullets, bullet wound in his neck, commanding his Regiment is as dramatic as any in American military history.

Posted by: eggwash at November 20, 2013 03:46 AM (YBusZ)

81 From the Hill piece http://tinyurl.com/mnnulrz Democrats say the biggest favor Obama can do for them at the moment is to focus on untangling the web and trying to smooth out the glitches on healthcare. “The only way he can really make it up to us is by fixing this s--t,” one Democratic House aide said. Luckily, the aide surmised, Obama is going to want to fix the problem because his legacy is on the line. “We have his own self interest working in our favor,” the aide said. exactly he won't stop because ego good, let his ego drag the left through the sewers again and again

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 20, 2013 03:46 AM (IXrOn)

82 Happy Birthday, Rickb. Hopefully you have something nicer planned for the rest of the day. Posted by: FenelonSpoke ------------- Wait..., someone got older today? It's an outrage, I tell you. There ought to be a law..

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 03:46 AM (aDwsi)

83 You see that shit on drudge! Ryan, the supposed fiscal hawk caves on budget cuts! What a fraud! Asshole!

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2013 03:46 AM (e3lbf)

84 I miss President Bush so much it hurts

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2013 03:47 AM (nzKvP)

85 Nearly 50 years after an assassin killed President John F. Kennedy, his daughter was triumphantly received as America’s ambassador to Japan in the country that made her dad a hero. Caroline Kennedy arrived at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday in an ornate, horse-drawn carriage — befitting the Princess of Camelot’s role as American royalty — to present her credentials to Emperor Akihito. Gag me and make me puke

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2013 03:48 AM (nzKvP)

86 Princess Caroline Kennedy arrived at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday in an ornate, horse-drawn carriage — befitting the Princess of Camelot’s role as American royalty — to present her credentials to Emperor Akihito. -------------------------- FIFY

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 03:50 AM (aDwsi)

87 You ever listen to caroline talk? There's not much there there?

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2013 03:52 AM (e3lbf)

88 Did Princess .... uh ... ya know ... Caroline make ...uh ... ya know...  any... uh... ya know ... public ... ya know... remarks?

Posted by: eggwash at November 20, 2013 03:53 AM (YBusZ)

89 84 They must have just put that up.  I always said Ryan had some RINO tendencies.  He likes amnesty too. (and always has)

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 03:53 AM (FTQyq)

90

@77.  "God bless George and Laura Bush."

Could not agree more.  They are good people.

 

 

Good Morning Dime Box, Texas!

Posted by: Case at November 20, 2013 03:54 AM (VctSv)

91 68 -

That's doesn't seem very safe to me. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 20, 2013 03:55 AM (BeSEI)

92 I might have been on board (a pun!) if Caroline had arrived on a PT boat, rammed a Jap destroyer, sank, and then swam ashore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 03:57 AM (aDwsi)

93 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/19/Politico-Writer-Fck-the-Troops Posted by: J.J. Sefton
..........
Wow.. quite an eye-opener there!

We should start a letter writing campaign to their advertisers.. what few there seem to be!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 20, 2013 03:57 AM (b/lt+)

94 Too damn early.  What fresh hell awaits today?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2013 03:57 AM (BAS5M)

95 That Politico writers invective is ugly as hell, right up there with Kos. I thought Politico was lefty but I didn't realize until now how hard and far left a place it is.

Posted by: MTF at November 20, 2013 03:58 AM (F58x4)

96 89.  A Kennedy trying to speak extemporaneously is essentially incoherent.

Must be what so endeared the One to them.

Posted by: Roger Mudd at November 20, 2013 03:58 AM (YBusZ)

97 This morning I hit the wrong button on the car radio and caught 30 seconds of that idiot Don Imus' gold-digging idiot wife babbling about how vaccines cause autism and "mitochondrial disorders."

Somebody should put a muzzle on that dangerous bitch.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 20, 2013 03:58 AM (oJ5Fd)

98 Kennedy's do a good job of explaining why Monachry doesn't work for long.

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2013 03:59 AM (3hIs0)

99 As puddleglum commented on the ONT last night: "W loves his country. TFG loves himself. "

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 03:59 AM (aDwsi)

100 Man, that is one giant hunk of shit. I think I'll talk with a lawyer about this as it just doesn't seem right in any way. Essentially conducting a survey a private company is forcing drivers off of the street with no cause and they're being aided by city police in doing so. I know you can't just rev your motor and crash the barrier but you damn sure aren't just supposed to abide and then argue with them a way to let you go without participating. Two questions with resulting answers ending in possible gunplay for illegal detention, i.e. kidnapping. 1. Am I under arrest? 2. Am I free to go? A "No" answer to both is bad juju for everyone involved. A cop would immediately know where that questioning was headed & why.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:00 AM (xorT2)

101 Mom's cousin was a Marine on Tarawa. Went in a lieutenant, came out a captain. Never talked about it.

Posted by: real joe at November 20, 2013 04:00 AM (xXhgd)

102 Good Morning Dime Box, Texas! Posted by: Case Dime Box? My niece lives in Dime Box!

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:03 AM (LSJmV)

103 When Ryan says current spending levels, he means the sequester remains in place, correct?

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2013 04:03 AM (3hIs0)

104 Radio news just played clips of four IT experts testifiying before Congress, all saying that healthcare.gov is not secure and will not be secure by the end of the month. Three of them recommend shutting it down until it can be. But the country's in the very best of hands.

Posted by: --- at November 20, 2013 04:03 AM (MMC8r)

105 "God bless George and Laura Bush." Could not agree more. They are good people. Good Morning Dime Box, Texas! Old Dime Box or New Dime Box, Texas?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:06 AM (xorT2)

106 73 Without a doubt the Dems are going to run Hillary. We should start a draft Nikki Haley movement.
Posted by: Vic

My file on her?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1035840/posts

Posted by: backhoe at November 20, 2013 04:06 AM (ULH4o)

107 In sum, the dissent would vacate the Court of Appeals’ stay without expressly rejecting that court’s analysis of any of the governing factors. And it would flout core prin-ciples of federalism by mandating postponement of a state law without asserting that the law is even probably unconstitutional. Reasonable minds can perhaps disagree about whether the Court of Appeals should have granted astay in this case. But there is no doubt that the applicants have not carried their heavy burden of showing that doing so was a clear violation of accepted legal standards—which do not include a special “status quo” standard for laws affecting abortion. The Court is correct to deny the application.

Posted by: Felix Frankfurter at November 20, 2013 04:06 AM (e8kgV)

108 echo Mr. President, Tear Down ACA Mandate

Posted by: panzernashorn at November 20, 2013 04:07 AM (MhA4j)

109 About 'going back to back alley abortions".... My very personal intro to the abortion issue was when I was 17. A 14-year-old friend confessed that, when she was 13, she had been seduced by a well-to-do older boy, was dumped immediately, then was persuaded by his parents to abort. Never mind the poor girl-rich boy social imbalance. Never mind her horror at feeling like a murderer. Never mind law or morality or when souls initialize; strictly from a medical standpoint... Illegal at the time, the abortion was performed by a real doctor, but, yes, literally on his kitchen table, but from what I read, that 'kitchen table' surgery was probably done in much cleaner circumstances than legal abortion clinics I read about.

Posted by: mindful webworker, soberly for a change at November 20, 2013 04:07 AM (85x54)

110 Hamas "Prime Minister's" granddaughter, age 1, develops a serious digestion system infection. What to do? Obviously, send her to the very best hospital possible. In Israel. Where Israeli doctors can treat her. And Israeli taxpayers foot the bill. Good people, those Israelis. http://bit.ly/1iumyCi

Posted by: MTF at November 20, 2013 04:07 AM (F58x4)

111 This Ian Murphy twat is apparently nothing but a Hunter S. Thompson wannabe.

Posted by: --- at November 20, 2013 04:08 AM (MMC8r)

112 Well, folks time to go. bbl

Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 04:08 AM (FTQyq)

113 104 -

When a politician like Ryan surveys the political landscape, he sees an opportunity to upend the power structure in Washington.  To grab hold of what already exists, and  hold onto it as long has he can.

When you and I survey the landscape, we see an opportunity to change the direction in Washington, to  get rid of the stuff in Washington that is bad for the country.

Is it any wonder that our interests and the interests of politicians rarely converge? 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 20, 2013 04:08 AM (BeSEI)

114 I find it funny that these pillocks think that fixing the Obamacare website will fix Obamacare. The website is no more than an out of service gangway to the Titanic.

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:10 AM (LSJmV)

115 the naval component, specially in the Solomon's described in 'Neptune's Inferno, was something I wasn't aware of, it comes in large part from the journal of an officer who was there in one of the key battles.

Posted by: jeffrey pelt at November 20, 2013 04:10 AM (2kpL8)

116 Posted by: mindful webworker, soberly for a change at November 20, 2013 08:07 AM (85x54)

Many abortions were performed legally, under the guise of a DandC.

The family doctor would nick the cervix, and then send the woman to the hospital with uterine bleeding.

We will never get rid of abortion, but I think a just society can limit it.

The big question is: How do we teach that life has value, in a valueless society.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 20, 2013 04:11 AM (oJ5Fd)

117 Posted by: jeffrey pelt at November 20, 2013 08:10 AM (2kpL

Did you read "Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors?"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 20, 2013 04:12 AM (oJ5Fd)

118 early-20s Man Dies From Porta-Potty Fire College Park, MD, a Prince George's County park, Sunnyside Neighborhood Playground http://tinyurl.com/lohx9o5 rather than suicide, more likely imo, prank gone deadly, some delinquent irritated neighbor trying to get rid of the eyesore in the upscale neighborhood, or some juvenile delinquents...

Posted by: panzernashorn at November 20, 2013 04:13 AM (MhA4j)

119 The big question is: How do we teach that life has value, in a valueless society. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 20, 2013 08:11 AM (oJ5Fd) Make the number of healthy, functional kids and grandkids you have a key part of your credit score.

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2013 04:14 AM (3hIs0)

120 Newest Democratic strategy to deal with Obamacare......find another story! Any story! (per CBS News) They could make Eric Holder resign.

Posted by: --- at November 20, 2013 04:14 AM (MMC8r)

121 111.    Sounds something like the Premier of Newfoundland going to Florida to get his ticker fixed and defending his choice with "My heart. My health. My choice." or words to that effect.

Can't wait for all the celebrity and elected official only clinics and hospitals.  It will make the Politboro's privileges modest in comparison.

Next up, VIP limo lanes, coming to an expressway near you.

Judge these proto tyrants by what they do, not what they say.

Posted by: Powderhouse Rules at November 20, 2013 04:15 AM (YBusZ)

122 Awesome picture at Drudge...

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:16 AM (LSJmV)

123 I find it funny that these pillocks think that fixing the Obamacare website will fix Obamacare. The website is no more than an out of service gangway to the Titanic. The website's not cancelling policies, or raising premiums, or restricting networks, or leading doctors to retire...

Posted by: --- at November 20, 2013 04:16 AM (MMC8r)

124 122.   Better to keep Holder in the tent pissing out, than to have him outside pissing in, if'n you know what I mean.

Posted by: Zombie LBJ at November 20, 2013 04:17 AM (YBusZ)

125 Newest Democratic strategy to deal with Obamacare......find another story! Any story! (per CBS News) They could make Eric Holder resign. Fins him Fostered in Ft. Marcy Park. Should be worth a weeks worth of news....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:17 AM (xorT2)

126 Last night Levin ridiculed Reporting for Doody for not understanding a fucking thing about the Monroe doctrine. I've never heard a coherent statement emerge from Lurch's lantern jaw; just meandering gasbag bloviations devoid of intelligence but long on arrogance.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 04:18 AM (43PLV)

127 But the country's in the very best of hands. Posted by: --- ----------------- The interesting thing is, when you try to find out specifically *who* is responsible for the latest outrage, all you get is 'not me', or 'I dunno..'

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 04:18 AM (aDwsi)

128 104 When Ryan says current spending levels, he means the sequester remains in place, correct?

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2013 08:03 AM (3hIs0)


period. My friends.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at November 20, 2013 04:19 AM (AWmfW)

129 "The website is no more than an out of service gangway to the Titanic."

I am going to be shameless in my theft of that line.

Posted by: Yawkey at November 20, 2013 04:19 AM (YBusZ)

130 http://www.lectionary.org/HymnStories/Trust%20and%20Obey.htm The music- http://tinyurl.com/ksafutw Proverbs 3:5-6 New International Version (NIV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.[a Francois Fenelon said: Put aside your self-interest and simply let God's will unfold around you. Everything he does for you is for your good. Worship him without having to know and see everything. Continue doing the good things that you do since you feel that you should and you can do them so easily. Be careful that all your extra energy does not lead you into trouble and, above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need. He continues, Live your daily life out in the presence of God. He will give you all that you need. God's glory and his purpose are the end of all things. You will find happiness and salvation there but not as an end in itself. It is all for God. I need to take sometime off from the forum, "friends in a box." God bless you. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2013 04:19 AM (23Kgq)

131 Good Morning Dime Box, Texas! Posted by: Case at November 20, 2013 07:54 AM (VctSv) Now, there's a place I haven't heard of in a long time. IN another life, I passed by there many times traveling between Austin and College Station.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 20, 2013 04:20 AM (nj9sX)

132 Without a doubt the Dems are going to run Hillary. We should start a draft Nikki Haley movement.

--

I despise identity politics, but I would love to see Nikki as a VP nominee.  Hillary is most likely inevitable for the D's, and their base doesn't care that she helped kill 4 Americans in Benghazi or that she's really accomplished nothing as SoS.  She  has the necessary genitalia (puportedly), which is all the qualifications they care about.  With the dunces that now comprise a sizable majority of our voting population, if she ran with Fauxahantos as her VP, they'd possibly be hard to overcome. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2013 04:20 AM (XB5Ak)

133 In case your schadenboner needs stiffening, here is a little report saying Obama has reached a new low in popularity and ZeroCare is absolutely detested. Among Capital Hill Democrats. Hahahahah! Fuck you, you evil bastards! http://bit.ly/1fUYUfY

Posted by: MTF at November 20, 2013 04:21 AM (F58x4)

134 early-20s Man Dies From Porta-Potty Fire Boulder Toilet Hobo take heed!

Posted by: mindful webworker - flush twice for O'care at November 20, 2013 04:21 AM (pJB7q)

135 37%. Do you think Preznit Jarrett and Mooch even give a fuck?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 20, 2013 04:21 AM (NYTfE)

136

Miss W?  I guess by comparison to Bathhouse Barry, yep. 

I miss Jimmy Carter compared to Bathhouse. 

But Mr. Malor needs to remember that we would not have Bathhouse, but for W's incompetence and the incompetence of the Rovian RNC that he helped erect.

Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at November 20, 2013 04:22 AM (sugnf)

137 Btw, Walker really disappoints me if he's on that blasted amnesty train.  As Vic would say, that's a deal breaker for me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2013 04:22 AM (XB5Ak)

138 The crippled website is protecting Obama and the Dims from the full political pain of the law. The decisions to screw the rollout may have been conscious self sabotage.

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2013 04:23 AM (3hIs0)

139 20 Asshole eco-Nazis are trying to block cruise ships from coming to Charleston. Somehow it has made it all the way to the SC Supreme Court and this is the first I have heard of it. Yes, SC has it's share of eco-Nazis too.


http://tinyurl.com/o3ss3b3


Posted by: Vic at November 20, 2013 07:05 AM

Fuck 'em. Norfolk will take them. Last cruise ship outta here was this year, we could always use the business.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at November 20, 2013 04:23 AM (ylG8S)

140  First Lady: Wearing Shorts on Air Force One Created a ‘StinkÂ’ http://preview.tinyurl.com/kqlyyhe

Posted by: Baldy at November 20, 2013 04:24 AM (2bql3)

141 Let us not forget the TEA Party was launched as an organic resistance to W and his BIG.GOV policies after campaigning oppositely.

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 20, 2013 04:24 AM (S5LPT)

142 Do I miss him yet? I do not miss his Big Government enabling. I do miss his genuine love for his country.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 20, 2013 04:24 AM (7ObY1)

143 Well later folks. Gotta shower and go to West Point

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2013 04:24 AM (nzKvP)

144 119 Awesome book and you cannot believe the balls on those guys. I am in awe of them every single day.

Posted by: Blue State Hostage at November 20, 2013 04:25 AM (JMt7S)

145 I need to take sometime off from the forum, "friends in a box." God bless you. :^) : FenelonSpoke Not too long, I pray. I appreciate your participation here, as I know others do!

Posted by: mindful webworker - boxed friend at November 20, 2013 04:25 AM (pJB7q)

146 Here's my kind of candidate for President, or anything else. Jeffrey Alan Wagner lost his only campaign, its true, when he recently ran for mayor of Minneapolis. But if you didn't catch his campaign ads you missed classics of the genre. Here's one: http://bit.ly/15pZnUv

Posted by: MTF at November 20, 2013 04:25 AM (F58x4)

147 144 Let us not forget the TEA Party was launched as an organic resistance to W and his BIG.GOV policies after campaigning oppositely. Posted by: Mr. Wizard ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You know that's bullshit. Bush is white and all of the Tea Party is racist...

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:26 AM (LSJmV)

148 145 Do I miss him yet?

I do not miss his Big Government enabling.

I do miss his genuine love for his country.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 20, 2013 08:24 AM (7ObY1)


I'm getting less and less sure about the last.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at November 20, 2013 04:26 AM (AWmfW)

149 The differences between Norfolk and Charleston are a bit severe for a vacation endpoint.

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2013 04:26 AM (3hIs0)

150 Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 20, 2013 08:20 AM (nj9sX)

I live in Dime Bag, NJ.

Posted by: Senator Corey Booker at November 20, 2013 04:27 AM (oJ5Fd)

151 Let us not forget the TEA Party was launched as an organic resistance to W and his BIG.GOV policies after campaigning oppositely.

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 20, 2013 08:24 AM (S5LPT)


---------------



I don't follow.  As far as I remember, the Tea Party took hold following the rant on the floor of the NYSE when Rick What'sHisName went in to a diatribe against Obama's fiscal policies in February of 2009.

Posted by: mama wingr at November 20, 2013 04:28 AM (P6QsQ)

152 143 First Lady: Wearing Shorts on Air Force One Created a ‘Stink’ There's gotta be a better way to say that. How do I unthink that smell?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 20, 2013 04:28 AM (NYTfE)

153 Fuck 'em. Norfolk will take them. Last cruise ship outta here was this year, we could always use the business. Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aren't there already enough cruise ship ports in the Gulf?

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:29 AM (LSJmV)

154 Thanks Fenelon Spoke

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 20, 2013 04:29 AM (R8hU8)

155 I'm getting less and less sure about the last.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at November 20, 2013 08:26 AM (AWmfW)

Then you aren't a very good judge of people and character.

Posted by: Senator Corey Booker at November 20, 2013 04:30 AM (oJ5Fd)

156 On the bright side Albuquerque can still murder their unborn up to 5 months term. A win for families! Or fucking something.

Posted by: RWC at November 20, 2013 04:30 AM (fWAjv)

157 154 As far as I remember, the Tea Party took hold following the rant on the floor of the NYSE when Rick What'sHisName went in to a diatribe against Obama's fiscal policies Posted by: mama wingr *** I happened when W tried to push amnesty... Straw that broke the Camel's back

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 20, 2013 04:30 AM (S5LPT)

158 Oh....hell.

0.7 Alpha my ass.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 20, 2013 04:31 AM (oJ5Fd)

159 This is a test. If this had been an actual comment, you would have been instructed to seek shelter immediately. This is a test. (WordPad)

Posted by: jwest at November 20, 2013 04:31 AM (u2a4R)

160 I would like to apologize for saying "Screw that" last night on the Gettysburg thread. Having been here a while, I know how things discussions go. People start talking about Abraham Lincoln and they obviously have strong feelings about him and the War Between the States. However, people start insulting each other, and the sections of the country they come from and it gets bitter and acrimonious. Lincoln is dead but we aren't. We must maintain a united front about Obama and the ways he chews up the Consitution. Obama would use ANYTHING to divide his opposition-including whether you're a Northerner or a Southerner, Hopefully whatever anger you have about a war fought over 150 years ago is less than your anger about what' s happening now. Conservatives here on on the same side now whatever area they come from. I apologize for letting my irritation with sort of thing come out in that way. It was not directed towards anyone in particular-just a general comment. I don't much like myself when I behave in that way, so I need a break. KEEP ON PRAYING -that God will have mercy on our country, forgive us our sins -and yes (if you're Christian) that Obama may be filled with the Holy Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit. i don't think solutions will come politically. I agree with mama winger. It's only God who can save us.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2013 04:31 AM (23Kgq)

161 Aren't there already enough cruise ship ports in the Gulf? Posted by: Countrysquire ------------------- ISWYDT

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 04:31 AM (aDwsi)

162 I can never go to the DMV once. It's usually, go there, find out what I didn't bring. Go get that, and go there again.

Posted by: UWP at November 20, 2013 04:31 AM (fdXMW)

163 This is a test. If this had been an actual comment, you would have been instructed to seek shelter immediately. This is a test. (NotePad)

Posted by: jwest at November 20, 2013 04:32 AM (u2a4R)

164 I happened when W tried to push amnesty...
Straw that broke the Camel's back

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 20, 2013 08:30 AM (S5LPT)


--------------


That's when the Tea Party movement started??  I don't recall it that way. 

Posted by: mama wingr at November 20, 2013 04:32 AM (P6QsQ)

165 "The big question is: How do we teach that life has value, in a valueless society." -- Begin with the libertarian-republican position, against abortion, certainly against funding abortion by mandate and taxation, and leaving determination to each State, never left to federal authorities to handle. Maintain the value of life through personal and local example. And produce influential media to touch the minds and hearts of children to love Life, recognizing themselves just as adults should despite stunted-mature imaginations, as once the fetus. And in a valueless society, most assuredly, refuse to fund the devaluation of Life via taxation. Hold politicians publicly accountable to their chagrin. How dare legislators and government bureaucrats presume the right to vote against Life, to enact deadly policy even prior to law excusing the same, and to cross the line further by legislating taxation on Believers in Life to fund the mass murder of innocence. Let the truth hurt the guilty politicians, legislators. But stay out of people's private decisions and the individual's entering clinics. That's between them and God, and they bear the guilt, wittingly-willingly or not. But our taxes and our attitudes be damned for enriching the abortion death squad industry with public funding, assent, and now, FEDERAL MANDATE TO AUGMENT WITHOUT LIMIT.

Posted by: panzernashorn at November 20, 2013 04:33 AM (MhA4j)

166 This is a test. If this had been an actual comment, you would have been instructed to seek shelter immediately. &&&**** This is a test. (WordPad)

Posted by: jwest at November 20, 2013 04:33 AM (u2a4R)

167 135 In case your schadenboner needs stiffening, here is a little report saying Obama has reached a new low in popularity and ZeroCare is absolutely detested.

Among Capital Hill Democrats. Hahahahah! F**k you, you evil bastards!

http://bit.ly/1fUYUfY

Posted by: MTF

Points
Laughs
Turns away....

Your braying jackass of a "gawd" is bleeding, fools....

Posted by: backhoe at November 20, 2013 04:34 AM (ULH4o)

168 Ah... ampersands.

Posted by: jwest at November 20, 2013 04:34 AM (u2a4R)

169 Mornin'. Anybody watch the missile launch last night? It was pretty cool!

Posted by: Mainah at November 20, 2013 04:34 AM (659DL)

170 Maggie's Farm thinks today is a good day to remember Tom Paine and his great pamphlet "The American Crisis" http://bit.ly/1hX1bvr These are indeed "the days that try men's souls." King Barack, the tyrant, and his court toadies have gone way too far.

Posted by: MTF at November 20, 2013 04:34 AM (F58x4)

171 #145 That sums it up for me and, even though I hate Rove with the heat of a supernova, I can only blame so much on that pudgy eunuch. Bush should have given a full pardon to Scooter Libby from the dogshit charges that a dumbfuck jury of tools convicted him of that had nothing to do with why a cocksucker special prosecutor was created. Also listening to that idiot Rice instead of Cheney was borderline retarded.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 20, 2013 04:34 AM (43PLV)

172 jwest snap-caps a few ampersands

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 04:34 AM (aDwsi)

173 @154 Sort of correct. Rick santellis rant was about goverment rewarding bad behavior of backing bad loans. The tea party movement has been bubling beneath thr surface since around 2005.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2013 04:35 AM (e3lbf)

174 Glad I missed that fenelon. Watching people discuss Lincoln and the Civil War on here gives me heartburn. Everyone knows exactly what happened 150 years ago, why it happened and how it just so happens to coincide exactly with their current political beliefs. Zero curiosity, just another chance to whip the old hobby horse.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 20, 2013 04:35 AM (ZshNr)

175 Moving slowly into the brave new world of punctuation.

Posted by: jwest at November 20, 2013 04:35 AM (u2a4R)

176 154 ...As far as I remember, the Tea Party took hold following the rant on the floor of the NYSE when Rick What'sHisName went in to a diatribe against Obama's fiscal policies in February of 2009.
Posted by: mama wingr

That's how I recall it. I'm a founding member of both Island & mainland chapters and after that is when we came together.

"Leaderless resistance...."

Posted by: backhoe at November 20, 2013 04:37 AM (ULH4o)

177 165 I can never go to the DMV once. It's usually, go there, find out what I didn't bring. Go get that, and go there again. Posted by: UWP +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It's like buying parts for a plumbing repair at Home Depot or Lowes. There will always be multiple trips.

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:37 AM (LSJmV)

178
Then you aren't a very good judge of people and character.

Posted by: Senator Corey Booker at November 20, 2013 08:30 AM (oJ5Fd)


He and Rove enabled Obama by not fighting back against progressives.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at November 20, 2013 04:38 AM (AWmfW)

179 Today's celebrity birthdays: James Curley (MA Gov #53) Edwin Hubble (star seer) Alistair Cooke (stuffy intros) Robert Byrd (flaming crucifixes) Jim Garrison (bug-eyed liar) Robert F. Kennedy (US AG #64) William Ware Theiss (famous spaceware) Richard Dawson (disease vector) Dick Smothers (one of the bros) Joe Biden (VPOTUS #47, keep him away from the scissors) Veronica Hamel (70 today) Duane Allman (RIP) Joe Walsh (http://youtu.be/uCy8Xtp2P20 ) John Bolton (The 'Stache is 65 today) David Walters (OK Gov #24) Bo Derek (nice cheekbones) Sean Young (limo lovin') Ned Vaughn (a sub or a whale?) Matt Blunt (MO Gov 54)

Posted by: Gran at November 20, 2013 04:38 AM (nPMjI)

180 This story and this guy are creepy on about 8 different levels, but let's start with "so glad the federal gov't controls health care now..."

Talk about snail mail! Love letter arrives 53 years after itÂ’s sent

http://t.co/GVUpdSmap1


Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 04:38 AM (hO8IJ)

181 OT, but....

Michelle Obama: “We don’t believe in handouts. We don’t think anyone should get a free ride”

In that case, maybe she can attempt an explanation as to how she got into Princeton.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 20, 2013 04:41 AM (6T8Ay)

182 "Two questions with resulting answers ending in possible gunplay for illegal detention, i.e. kidnapping. 1. Am I under arrest? 2. Am I free to go? A "No" answer to both is bad juju for everyone involved. A cop would immediately know where that questioning was headed & why....." Well, that's sort of my concern. Does refusing such a private operation, albeit abetted by the local authorities, represent resisting law enforcement? My head would say "no" and that you should be allowed your leave but if they try to physically impose this upon you, what then? Are you justified in physically resisting an unlawful detention? Will you be tased? Beaten? Shot? This is where we are in this country. What do I have to do to keep myself from getting assaulted or killed by the authorities for driving down the street...?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 20, 2013 04:41 AM (tS3uF)

183 167 It originally was a bi-partisan movement that was supporting an audit of the Fed Reserve. I attended the first one in Austin. Over 11,000 people showed up. Rick Perry tried to horn on on the dais and was booed off the podium.

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 20, 2013 04:42 AM (S5LPT)

184 And rickb223! Happy Birthday!

Posted by: Gran at November 20, 2013 04:42 AM (nPMjI)

185 Gran, I always enjoy your list, but it looks like you left off Super Dave Einstein. Also, I was not aware that Joe Walsh and Duane Allman were born on the same day. One is a great guitarist, the other was on another planet as a guitar player.

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 04:43 AM (LSJmV)

186 Robert Byrd (flaming crucifixes) Pedantic note: since the Klan were all Proddys , I doubt they put a Corpus on their night lights.

Posted by: Fox 2! at November 20, 2013 04:43 AM (XFTOV)

187 U of Colorado forcing students to sit through women's game to get tickets to men's game against Kansas.

http://is.gd/6OcTOW

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 04:44 AM (hO8IJ)

188 He and Rove enabled Obama by not fighting back against progressives.

--

Obama was inevitable.  Whether we would've been plagued with him in '08, '12, '16 and beyond....we were going to get him and get him hard.  They have been grooming this fool for a decade or more. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2013 04:45 AM (XB5Ak)

189 Well, that's sort of my concern. Does refusing such a private operation, albeit abetted by the local authorities, represent resisting law enforcement? Private concerns ARE kidnapping. They have ZERO authority. The OFF DUTY Ft. Worth PD officers hired are BOUND by the law. Am I under arrest? Yes/No? Am I free to leave? Yes/No? Choose your answers wisely Occifer.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:46 AM (xorT2)

190 With Teh Won's approval rating hovering around 37%, I'm wondering where the Libs and RINOs are now that were screaming about the shutdown KILLING the GOP. Sen. Cruz deserves a whole lot of apologies. He won't GET them. But he deserves them.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 20, 2013 04:47 AM (7ObY1)

191

185: "What do I have to do to keep myself from getting assaulted or killed by the authorities for driving down the street...? "

 

This is where I believe the "All politics is local" phrase has some merit. If a local community is tired of its police forces treating its citizens like the enemy, they can vote out the Sheriff or Police Commissioner.

 

Like any other politician, they will want to keep their jobs. Enough pols lose their jobs and the word will roll downhill in the copshacks.

 

Of course this would require enough mugs to come to the conclusion that respect for the Law and respect for the law enforcement officers are no longer synonymous.

 

That and they would have to get off their asses to actually vote.

Posted by: Azenogoth at November 20, 2013 04:47 AM (Kh+vp)

192
Obama was inevitable. Whether we would've been plagued with him in '08, '12, '16 and beyond....we were going to get him and get him hard. They have been grooming this fool for a decade or more.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2013 08:45 AM (XB5Ak)


Dems fight dirty , GOP only fights dirty against it's base.

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at November 20, 2013 04:47 AM (AWmfW)

193 And rickb223! Happy Birthday! Thank Gran. I will time & report my DMV "experience".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:48 AM (xorT2)

194 Michelle Obama says she won’t wear shorts on Air Force One again because the one time she did, it created “a huge stink.” I've read this is a problem in places where women are forced to live in portable prison tents, but I didn't think that shorts would... oh, that maybe wasn't literal....

Posted by: mindful webworker - ain't I a stinker! at November 20, 2013 04:49 AM (Vdd8W)

195 He and Rove enabled Obama by not fighting back against progressives. -- Obama was inevitable. Whether we would've been plagued with him in '08, '12, '16 and beyond....we were going to get him and get him hard. They have been grooming this fool for a decade or more. Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2013 08:45 AM (XB5Ak) Obama the candidate was inevitable, but Obama the President maybe not. The GOP offered no serious opposition to him in 2008 and 2012.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 04:50 AM (AO9UG)

196 DMV tales. I lost my wallet. Off to the DMV for a replacement license. I was aware that it required two pieces of ID. Voting? Well..., NO pieces of ID, but I digress. I do not know what one of those pieces was, but the other one that I took was my passport. As the DMV person took my application, she looked at the passport and said, 'Nope, that won't do'. I was surprised as I figured the PP was a slam dunk ID. "Why not?" I asked. "It's expired" she replies. Which I knew, but could not imagine as an *ID* what difference that could make. I asked her if it expired one minute from now, would she take it? "Yes". I then asked if she would take it one minute after that, "No". I then asked if she thought that I was the person I was representing myself to be, "Yes". So what is the problem. "The rules", she says. Thus functioneth the bureaucracy. Same thing happened to the kid that needed a lung transplant.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 04:52 AM (aDwsi)

197
The GOP offered no serious opposition to him in 2008 and 2012.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 08:50 AM (AO9UG)


You called?

Posted by: Jeb Bush at November 20, 2013 04:52 AM (AWmfW)

198 It happened when W tried to push amnesty... Straw that broke the Camel's back Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 20, 2013 08:30 AM (S5LPT) -------------- That's when the Tea Party movement started?? I don't recall it that way. Posted by: mama wingr at November 20, 2013 08:32 AM (P6QsQ) ------------- It wasn't called the Tea Party, but the Minute Men volunteers relaying realtime illegal crossborder entries to Border Patrol. And W called them Vigilantes. That was Michelle Malkin's claim to fame movement. As time progressed and constitutional conservative Americans' awareness of governmental authoritarianism grew through Bush's administration, even prior to Obama's campaign, the so-named Tea Party protest v. corruption movement had already begun with the libertarian-republican agenda.

Posted by: panzernashorn at November 20, 2013 04:53 AM (MhA4j)

199 I need to take sometime off from the forum, "friends in a box." God bless you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2013 08:19 AM (23Kgq)


----------------


I'm going on vacation later today to Cancun, so I'll be taking a break too.  I hope to see you again here, Fenelon, when I get back. 


Everyone needs a break now and again, I think.  Peace, my friend.

Posted by: mama wingr at November 20, 2013 04:54 AM (P6QsQ)

200
 Do I miss him yet? Yes. Dear Lord, yes.



After spending a couple of hours last night shopping for incandescent light bulbs, thanks to W's patrician decree to us plebs, no -- can't say I miss him at all.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 20, 2013 04:54 AM (kdS6q)

201 What's this Rubio "8 Weeks" thing? I saw him say it last night, with quite a smug or shifty look on his face. That's like mid-january, or something. What does he know, we don't? Eight weeks is very far away in political time.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 20, 2013 04:54 AM (IXrOn)

202 In that case, maybe she can attempt an explanation as to how she got into Princeton.

Road the coattails of her basketball-star big brother to private high school and then again to Princeton; they were probably both helped along by their father's political activities but at least Craig really could play hoops.

But it's both racist and sexist to notice this.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 04:55 AM (hO8IJ)

203 Fox and Friends talking about the " Knockout Game"."So,there's a racial component?" " Well,let me put it this way,all the perpetrators are black and all the victims are white."

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 04:55 AM (zqvg6)

204

So this happened.

 

CBS Local, Miami:    http://tinyurl.com/mqjbmkc

 

 


 

MIAMI (CBSMiami) ¨C Seven weeks to the day since the troubled healthcare.gov website was launched, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Miami, meeting with so-called ¡°navigators¡± who are helping the public get signed up for coverage.

 

...

 

At a second table, the secretary met Carmen Salero who was trying to sign up online.  As the secretary and Salero made small talk, CBS4¡äs Brian Andrews noticed the site crash on the lap top in front of them.

 

¡°The screen says I¡¯m sorry but the system is temporarily down,¡± Andrews pointed out. 

 

¡°Uh oh,¡± responded the secretary. 

 

¡°That happens every day,¡± said Salerno, ¡°it must mean a lot of people are on there trying to get coverage.¡±

 

 

*rolling eyes*   Yeah, that's it, Carmen.   That's the ticket.

 

 

Nick Bianchi, who owns a Social Media Consulting firm on Miami Beach, was selected by HHS to meet the secretary personally based on what he posted on Twitter about his positive experience during the sign up process.

 

 

¡°I selected a silver plan,¡± Nick said.  ¡°The website didn¡¯t work for me so I ended up waiting on papers from the provider I selected.¡± Nick told the secretary his new plan, effective January 1st, will run a little more than $300.00 a month. ¡°Hearing your situation is really helpful,¡± the secretary told Bianchi.

 

 

 

Oh, that's a positive experience, Nick?   The site did jackshit for you so you went the paper route?   Oh, okay. 

 

The story is clearly supposed to be about how great it was that Sebelius was   in Miami to   visit with people working with the site, but it's laughably bad.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/s][/b] at November 20, 2013 04:55 AM (4df7R)

205 Thus functioneth the bureaucracy. Same thing happened to the kid that needed a lung transplant. Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 08:52 AM (aDwsi) i think it would be better to have a driver's license (if needed at all) issued by the driver's insurance company.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 04:55 AM (AO9UG)

206 Michelle Obama says she won't wear shorts on Air Force One again because the one time she did, it created "a huge stink." Bathe once in a while & keep your hairy legs crossed ya fooking wookie. No one wants to smell your stinkin' clambake.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:56 AM (xorT2)

207 199 Yes,apparently when your ID expires you are an unperson until you pay the fee again to confirm your personhood.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 04:57 AM (zqvg6)

208 After spending a couple of hours last night shopping for incandescent light bulbs, thanks to W's patrician decree to us plebs

Let's be fair: He didn't "decree" the ban, he signed a bill that Kate Upton's uncle introduced that got passed by both houses of Congress. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 04:57 AM (hO8IJ)

209 GW was responsible for some bad policies but he and his wife are class acts who love their country.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 04:58 AM (zqvg6)

210 Good Morning Dime Box, Texas!


Old Dime Box or New Dime Box, Texas?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 08:06 AM (xorT2)

 

 

*****

 

 

Damn  one  percenters!   I grew up in Nickel  Junction. 

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 20, 2013 04:58 AM (N/Sup)

211 After spending a couple of hours last night shopping for incandescent light bulbs, thanks to W's patrician decree to us plebs, no -- can't say I miss him at all. I'm still holding out and refusing to use the socialist lightbulbs. (and I wanted to leave a big fat opportunity for an "I saw Socialist Lightbulbs open for ----)

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 20, 2013 04:59 AM (7ObY1)

212 apparently when your ID expires you are an unperson until you pay the fee again to confirm your personhood.

Just tell them you don't have valid ID because you're a foreign national unlawfully present. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 04:59 AM (hO8IJ)

213 Fox 2 @ 189 Oh - is it not officially a crucifix until someone is attached to it?

Posted by: Gran at November 20, 2013 04:59 AM (nPMjI)

214 I was surprised as I figured the PP was a slam dunk ID. "Why not?" I asked. "It's expired" she replies. Which I knew, but could not imagine as an *ID* what difference that could make. I asked her if it expired one minute from now, would she take it? "Yes". I then asked if she would take it one minute after that, "No". I then asked if she thought that I was the person I was representing myself to be, "Yes". So what is the problem. "The rules", she says. Should have asked her, "So, if I take out a gun & shoot you, the cops won't look for me because it's not me?"

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 04:59 AM (xorT2)

215

Leno always seemed like a decent dude, even if he's always been a lib. They way he's been hammering Obama lately, I wonder what it was that finally made the light bulb go off?

 

Glad SCOTUS did what they did re: Texas. I'm generally pro-choice but the Texas law is more than reasonable.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 20, 2013 04:59 AM (dfLY4)

216 Fox and Friends talking about the " Knockout Game"."So,there's a racial component?" " Well,let me put it this way,all the perpetrators are black and all the victims are white." Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 08:55 AM (zqvg6) They seem to have gone full out on covering this. There was a piece on this on Greta and O'Reilly, from what I saw, so far. Good. Trayvon brought out the woodwork, but, this, nothing. They showed it was blacks doing the attacks, but, not necessarily all white victims. It's probably towards "class" but, the majority seems to be white, yea. It's also probably "what is available" at the time. Sick f*cks.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 20, 2013 05:00 AM (IXrOn)

217 What's this Rubio "8 Weeks" thing? Six weeks longer than Andy's #twoweeks thing?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2013 05:00 AM (xorT2)

218 The GOP offered no serious opposition to him in 2008 and 2012. Posted by: eman ------------------------------- My question is *who* would have been better candidates? If one considers credentials, both McCain and Romney were far in front of Obama. Even McCain is/was more conservative than Barky. Whatever mixed emotions conservatives have about Romney, his resume and philosophy are/were vastly more conservative than Obama. The country at large rejected both. Whatever one thinks of Romney, I cannot imagine a conservative that would have more national appeal, and it did not work. As much as I despise the fact, the media control the elections.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 05:01 AM (aDwsi)

219 212 GW was responsible for some bad policies but he and his wife are class acts who love their country.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 08:58 AM (zqvg6)

 

__________

 

Yep. All politicians do stupid shit. But unlike Obama, they don't spend 24/7 thinking of way to destroy the country.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 20, 2013 05:01 AM (dfLY4)

220 After spending a couple of hours last night shopping for incandescent light bulbs, thanks to W's patrician decree to us plebs Let's be fair: He didn't "decree" the ban, he signed a bill that Kate Upton's uncle introduced that got passed by both houses of Congress. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 08:57 AM (hO8IJ) In the Recovering Republic Congress will not have the power to ban light bulbs.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 05:01 AM (AO9UG)

221 Dumped.

Posted by: mama wingr at November 20, 2013 05:01 AM (P6QsQ)

222 (and I wanted to leave a big fat opportunity for an "I saw Socialist Lightbulbs open for ----) Posted by: BlueStateRebel +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Now you're just being silly.

Posted by: Countrysquire at November 20, 2013 05:02 AM (LSJmV)

223 Whatever mixed emotions conservatives have about Romney, his resume and philosophy are/were vastly more conservative than Obama.

The country at large rejected both. Whatever one thinks of Romney, I cannot imagine a conservative that would have more national appeal, and it did not work.

As much as I despise the fact, the media control the elections.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 09:01 AM (aDwsi)

 

_______________

 

Amen! Romney wasn't perfect. Nobody is. But Romney on his worst day is 100 times better than Obama on his best day. How truCons still refuse to see this is really fucking scary and depressing going into 2016.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 20, 2013 05:03 AM (dfLY4)

224

"Uh oh", responded the secretary...

 

*****

 

Nice to see the Obama administration has a new Mission Statement.

 

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 20, 2013 05:03 AM (N/Sup)

225 Should have asked her, "So, if I take out a gun & shoot you, the cops won't look for me because it's not me?" Posted by: rickb223 ---------------------------- More likely, "I'm sorry sir, that will take three ID's, fingerprints, and thirty days."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 05:04 AM (aDwsi)

226 "Leno always seemed like a decent dude, even if he's always been a lib. They way he's been hammering Obama lately, I wonder what it was that finally made the light bulb go off?.." Reality. The one thing a good comedian/entertainer has to have is a very crisp grasp of the immediate and obvious. The OCare fiasco is front and center right now. Glaring. Outshining all other. You can't ignore it and be a Leno. Some will try, sure. Leno is simply one, historically too, who takes the low-hanging fruit in front of him and makes wine out of it. Whether he agrees or disagrees with the issue he knows how to make comedy wine out of it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 20, 2013 05:04 AM (VjiUY)

227 I'm sure that they knock out black people on occasion,especially cornball brothers who look like they have a job and shit.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 05:05 AM (zqvg6)

228 As much as I despise the fact, the media control the elections. Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 09:01 AM (aDwsi) The GOP's candidate is only a fragment of the opposition. The GOP is weak in nearly all areas. The primaries, debates, interviews, attack ads, everything is weak sauce. They do more sniffling and whining than resisting.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 05:06 AM (AO9UG)

229 I think we are going to find out in the years to come,in a concrete way,that the 2012 election was like the 1960 election.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2013 05:07 AM (zqvg6)

230 In the Recovering Republic Congress will not have the power to ban light bulbs.

My years of dues to the Military Vehicle Preservation Assn were worth it just to read the For Sale section of their magazine Supply Line. An Honest John rocket launcher with rocket had the addendum, "Note: nuclear warhead not included."

In the Recovering Republic bygodsirr things are going to be different.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 20, 2013 05:08 AM (xq1UY)

231 As much as I despise the fact, the media control the elections. Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 09:01 AM (aDwsi) _______________Amen! Romney wasn't perfect. Nobody is. But Romney on his worst day is 100 times better than Obama on his best day. How truCons still refuse to see this is really fucking scary and depressing going into 2016. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 20, 2013 09:03 AM (dfLY4) Being 100x better than Obama is not good enough. Mitt, like every other GOP moderate, would have just been a yellow light for the Democrat Machine. Not good enough.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 05:09 AM (AO9UG)

232 Moo-moo We rarely see eye-to-eye, but in this case, we are in agreement. Finding a candidate with a record and philosophy that suits the 'core' of conservatives, suits the tastes of the country at large, and has the charisma/presence to attract LIV's is going to be impossible, I fear. I believe that Romney was as close as we could get, and he was torpedoed by the media. I, personally, do not believe that conservatives stayed home because Romney was a bit sqiushy around the edge, I think that conservatives *themselves* were affected by the media image of Romney.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 05:12 AM (aDwsi)

233 Mitt, like every other GOP moderate, would have just been a yellow light for the Democrat Machine. Not good enough. Posted by: eman -------------------------------- I agree, but there are two problems. Does that person exist?, and, are they electable? As you say, Romney was hardly radical right, but he was rejected. Are you suggesting that a more conservative candidate might have fared better? If so, who?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 05:16 AM (aDwsi)

234 It's also my Dad's 70th today. Happy Birthday Dad! And yes I did miss Super Dave Osbourne. Born the same day as Joe Biden.

Posted by: Gran at November 20, 2013 05:17 AM (nPMjI)

235 ...hate Rove with the heat of a supernova... pudgy eunuch... might have clued me, but not until I read ,..dogshit charges that a dumbfuck jury of tools...[/] did I think, I know who this is! and check the moniker. A-yup! Captain Hate's distinctive style!

Posted by: mindful webworker - ain't I a stinker! at November 20, 2013 05:19 AM (F1lOF)

236 Are you suggesting that a more conservative candidate might have fared better? If so, who? Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 20, 2013 09:16 AM (aDwsi) It isn't my job to name that person. It's the GOP's job to do that. Think about why it is so hard to pick one from the GOP. Isn't that the problem? It should be easy to name a dozen of them, but the GOP has made it difficult.

Posted by: eman at November 20, 2013 05:20 AM (AO9UG)

237 Not able to pose counterfactuals, but Mitt mainly lost the EV race (not the PV) by losing states such as Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.  Major factor was not conservatives staying home in these states but rather the LIV Indep. Reagan Democrats not voting for Mitt.  Corporations are not well liked due to factors like Globalization.  Abstract doctrines such as creative destruction of capitalism will fail to move such voters.

Mitt was portrayed in Obama's ads as the perfect example of the rich white guy who takes over your company and ships the jobs to China while also denying health care to poor employees.  Needless to say, Romney failed to get the vote totals that GWB got in 2004 in these states. 

Right now, for a Republican to win, they must run the table on persuadable states which can generally be marked by states that have Republican governors and significant representation by Republicans in the State Leg.  Dem base is roughly all the West Coast, the NE, and Mid-Atlantic, + Illinois.  Thus, a few states like Florida, NC, VA, CO, NV, make up the difference.  Right now, the playing field at the national level tilts Dem as well as the Senate due to Dem. domination of the small states in the NE.

Posted by: wg at November 20, 2013 05:37 AM (hA4Z+)

238 oops - a typo in the b-day list: William Ware Theiss (famous spacewarewear)

Posted by: Gran at November 20, 2013 05:43 AM (nPMjI)

239 #238 Thank Pixy for the Italian barrel prophylactic!

Posted by: mindful webworker - aim high! not that high... there! at November 20, 2013 05:45 AM (faahM)

240 Here's my take on regulatory agencies:  A problem is discovered that the public wants taken care of, so Congress creates a regulatory agency.  After a period of due diligence, 80-90% of the problem is taken care of.  Rather than drastically cut back the agency staff to a reasonable number of people to  deal with the miniscule remaining problem, agency insiders look for more things to regulate in order to justify the size of the agency.  Thus, we have Animal Control people investigating the care and feeding of magicians' rabbits (which are basically pets) and Fair Housing people patrolling real estate open houses to make sure that agents don't spend more time talking to white people than they do talking to minority people.  Never mind that this grossly interferes with business.  That's irrelevant to the regulators. 

Posted by: biancaneve at November 20, 2013 05:47 AM (2sR50)

241 Oh my.
https://twitter.com/OneFineJay/status/403172630456729600

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 20, 2013 05:47 AM (hO8IJ)

242 "Uh oh", responded the secretary... ***** Nice to see the Obama administration has a new Mission Statement. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon --- Pobody's Nerfect! I accept full responsibility for inheriting what's all your fault.

Posted by: B. Hussein O. from Eugene Keynesia at November 20, 2013 06:15 AM (MhA4j)

243 The comments at the NBC article... what is wrong with those people - like seriously just crazy shit.

Posted by: Reality Man at November 20, 2013 07:26 AM (obXkJ)

244 Remember what it was like to have a president who liked us?

Posted by: PJ at November 20, 2013 07:41 AM (ZWaLo)

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