1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, February 12, 2013.  On this day in 1999 in the infamous Scottish Law ruling the Senate voted to acquit Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial even though he was guilty as sin.

2 The Norks have conducted another Nuke test.  Obama says we will give you another basketball.

http://is.gd/xC8XnK

3 Be sure to take the Fox SOTU poll.

http://is.gd/JmiicD

4 Obama to issue an XO on “Cyber Security” after Congress shot it down last year.  And why did it get shot down?  Because it was more about the feds taking over the Internet than it was about security.  I expect this is even more of the same.

http://is.gd/hdjxAm

5 DAY 98 1,362 to go (1,437 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

6 Think BloomingidiotÂ’s shit is only affecting the idiots that voted for him?  Think again.  Food makers nationwide are trimming salt to satisfy the dumb bastard. Salt causing high blood pressure is largely a myth but AP gladly reinforces the lies.

http://is.gd/UVdPkY

7 DNC caught astroturfing another phony Republican critic.

http://is.gd/Uub5zM

8 That stupid CNN scrunt not only blamed the non-existent global warming for the asteroid fly-by, she also blamed it for the NE blizzard.  But we knew that was coming.

http://is.gd/2UnvBY

9 Daily Deals

http://is.gd/EeOZI8

10 VicÂ’s Kitteh

http://is.gd/tApFQg


And thatÂ’s it for Tuesday, February 12, 2013.  Not much out there today.  IÂ’ll be bailing out early this morning to go get dental drilling.  Gaaaaa I hate those.

11 I don't know if this has been mentioned here or not, but it seems like something that could bear mentioning twice: Makers Mark is responding to increased demand by watering its booze.




That's what they are saying now but when this was first reported the word was that they did it to save money on federal and State taxes.

12 Yiddish Word of the Day: "Mamoshes" - Substance, people of substance. (i.e. Dr. Ben Carson?)

13 Thanks, Vic. My dad remembers when you started your daily news roundup. Back then you were in black and white on the Dumont Network. Good times...

14 Back then, a dollar only cost a nickel!

15 So has Jimmy Carter blamed the Norks nuking themselves again on the West?  Of course he has.

DC Comics and OWS?  Pass.

Surprised Obama will EO a taking over of the Internet.  Turn it over to the UN to screw up.  They have a track recent track record of messing up computer stuff - http://tinyurl.com/aa49l4y

16 Before Vic, the only way to get your news was smoke signals.

17 Vic, what was it like to play football when a touchdown was worth 4 and an extra point was worth 2? Did you guys get sore at president Hayes for changing it to 6 and 1?

18

Back then you were in black and white on the Dumont Network.

 

Margaret Dumont was a babe!  She never got the jokes, but she was easy on the eyes.

19 Thankfully the dog show will be on tonight. I don't give a damn which dog wins, just so I don't have to listen to JEF.

20 I'm glad i grew up and got old before comic books went full retard. It was bad in the day, with stories featuring Daredevil about Why You Shouldn't Eat Red Meat and all but it's just dreck now.

21 Meanwhile the IOC for 2020 is scrapping another link to the ancient Greek Olympiads.  Wrestling is being removed.

http://tinyurl.com/bkxu8mx

22 LOL, I remember some people having the old Dumont TV sets but we could not get their network in the South.


But by the time I was becoming knowledgeable on that stuff RCA had already ran them out of buisness.

23 Vic, how did the fad of wearing an onion on your belt get started? Is it true only Navy men got to wear the red onions?

24 Uh we need er uh tax hikes so ah I can "invest" er uh....

"apple slices!"

//Barky

25 23 Posted by: Truman North at February 12, 2013 07:02 AM (I84O1) My mom used to have an old Hungarian folk remedy for skin sores; slice an onion and put it on it. It was called a "kapusteh."

26

Boy Scouts to unveil new merit badge:

 

http://bit.ly/12rrsoH

27 I've noticed fast food restaurants cutting back on salt. McDonalds and Popeyes in particular. Don't they realize that without salt, their food tastes like nothing? Damn, Popeyes chicken used to taste so good.

28 11 Vic,

in the end it is all about profit margin or as our economic genius CinC says "profit and earnings ratio"

29 Meanwhile Chicago Bear fans go after a Green Bay Packers cheerleader.
http://tinyurl.com/baklmu9

The lady in question
http://tinyurl.com/avbgfkk

30 26 Boy Scouts to unveil new merit badge: http://bit.ly/12rrsoH Posted by: RushBabe at February 12, 2013 07:05 AM (tQHzJ) I thought it was an infant sitting in Harry Reid's lap?

31 Regarding Makers Mark: crappy idea. If they water it down its just going to be Jim Beam with a higher price tag.

32

Posted by: Truman North at February 12, 2013 06:58 AM (I84O1)

 

Speaking of old stuff...

 

I was looking for a bathroom scale the other day. Saw some nice digital ones for 20 dollars and up. Then spotted a good old fashioned analog one for 7.99. Twas a no-brainer. The company who makes it (Taylor) has been making them since 1851. Same kind I grew up with, and lasted for years and years.

 

Sometimes older is better.

33 I've noticed fast food restaurants cutting back on salt. McDonalds and Popeyes in particular. Don't they realize that without salt, their food tastes like nothing? Damn, Popeyes chicken used to taste so good.

Posted by: Helen at February 12, 2013 07:06 AM (93bH6)

According to that article 21 major corporate food giants are cutting back to satisfy that asshole in NYC. It really pisses me off. I didn't get to vote against that rotten SOB.

34 29 Ms Puma,

eh....

it's Chicago...

35

Every new car connected to the Web by 2014:

http://bbc.in/12aRRvG

36 33 Vic,

Well maybe we should all start voting in NYC's elections like N'Yawkas support multiple voting in our elections....

I'd love to have a law and order laissez-faire N'Yawka Mayor from Sweden

37 18 -

Also easy on the bed, easy on the sofa, easy on the kitchen table, eh bro? 

38 File this under Eeeeeewwwww!!!

A male California teacher has been posing on Facebook as a girl to lure boys into online relationships.  *sigh*  This piece of slime teaches or should I say taught at a Catholic high school.  And no he wasn't a priest, just lay slime.
http://tinyurl.com/b6m6pab

39 McDonald's french fries have sucked for a decade because Bloomburqa banned transfats. Fucking Burqa

40

Hello, 'rons and 'ronettes.  Thanks for the morning briefing, Gabe and Vic.

 

 
In the early days of silent pictures, there was really no such thing as a consistent stunt double.  You might have a member of the crew dress up as the leading lady in order to show her jumping on to a moving train, or perhaps a real cowboy would be filmed in long shot breaking a horse, while the star waited until all was safe before moving in for his close-up.  But in general, if a stunt or pratfall was seen, it was the real actor doing it.  The actress Pauline Curley, for example, was shooting a movie along Oregon's Columbia River when the cable connecting her boat to shore snapped.  She was thrown into the churning waters and only barely made it to an outcropping of rocks, tearing her fingernails to bloody shreds as she hung on desperately wating for help.  In the climactic rescue scene of 1920's Way Down East, Lillian GishÂ’s hand was submerged in freezing water for so long that she lost almost all feeling in it for the rest of her life.

 

 
Grace Darmond - the bisexual actress best known to cinéasts as the lover of Rudolph Valentino's first wife, Jean Acker - was once thrown forty feet into the air by an angry elephant.  Edwina Booth, while on location in Africa for the MGM film Trader Horn, not only suffered from malaria, sunstroke and dysentery, she nearly shattered her skull in a fall.*  And leading man Wallace Reid was so banged up during the shooting of Valley of the Giants that he became hooked on morphine to ease the pain, an addiction that led to his death in 1923.

 

 
Which brings me to the tragic tale of Martha Mansfield, a lovely ex-Ziegfeld Girl who seemed to be just on the cusp of stardom in November of 1923.  She had first come to the attention of fans after being cast opposite John Barrymore in 1920's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and since then, her youth and limpid grey-eyed beauty made the 5' 4" actress a perfect fit for "vamp" roles in such films as Women In Love, Gilded Lies and Youthful Cheaters.

 

 
Part of her latest film, the old stage success The Warrens of Virginia, was being filmed in Texas.  On November 28, the Fox Film Corporation crew had filmed some battle scenes.  For the next day - Thanksgiving Day - the schedule called for some close-up shots of Mansfield and her leading man, Wilfred Lytell.

 

 
The company was staying at the Saint Anthony Hotel in San Antonio.  Martha was in high spirits on Thanksgiving morning, having bought herself a new radio.  She promised to throw a "radio party" for them all when they got back that night.  "Last night I heard Chicago and Cincinnati.  I'm sure I'll be able to get Philadelphia and New York tonight!"

 

 
After breakfast, the group rode out to Brackenridge Park, where some shacks had been set up as slave quarters for the film's plantation setting.  Martha positioned herself for a few exterior scenes.  When those were done, director Elmer Clifton called a half hour break so that interior sets could be put together.  As she wouldn't be needed for a while, Martha walked back to wait in her nearby limousine. 

 

 
Afterwards, a few people said they thought they saw a little flash of light at the window of Mansfield's car.  Whether she had lighted a cigarette to calm her nerves or someone nearby had heard the age-old call of "smoke 'em if you got 'em," no one will ever know**.  But everyone saw what happened next.  There was a high, tortured scream from the inside of the car, and Mansfield burst out of it, her huge Civil War hoopskirt engulfed in fire. 

 

 
Her leading man, Lytell, reached her first, throwing a coat over her and pinning her to the ground as he and nearby crew slapped out the flames.  For a little while, all seemed to be well.  Martha wasn't in much pain on the way to the hospital, worrying only that the fire might have scarred her face.  At the hospital, her wounds were proclaimed serious, but not life-threatening.  But during the night, her conditioned worsened and she sank deeper and deeper into unconsciousness.  Finally, just before noon on the 30th, she died - of "burns of all extremities, general toxemia and suppression of urine," according to her death certificate.

 

 
She was only 24. 

 

 
Barrymore and Gloria Swanson were among the mourners at her funeral and Sam Goldwyn and David Selznick were asked to be pallbearers. 

 

 
Her part in The Warrens was edited down to nearly nothing.

 

 
http://tinyurl.com/bo674x7

 

 
And that's it.  I hope you all have a wonderful day.  BTW, don't forget about my book, The Director's Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery, now on Kindle and available from the Barnes and Noble and Amazon websites.  Like it?  Please leave a review.  Hate it?  Tell me - how else will I learn?

 

 
*she sued MGM for over a million dollars; the case was settled for $35,000, but the action effectively ended Booth's career, as no other major studio would hire her.

 

 
**Mansfield rarely smoked, according to her mother, and - quite naturally, one thinks - no one ever came forward to admit smoking near or with the actress that day.

 

41 Never heard the Maker's Mark tax avoidance scheme as the reason for watering down the booze, but the link I saw claimed that they were actually increasing the alcohol ration (along with an increased chocolate ration), because Obama had done so much for the country.

42 35 Every new car connected to the Web by 2014: http://bbc.in/12aRRvG Posted by: RushBabe at February 12, 2013 07:11 AM (tQHzJ) I'm sure we'll have some genius on our side like the guys with the 3-D printed magazines to overcome them.

43 Chicago, Chinatown, Jake I get them confused.

44 Posted by: sven10077 at February 12, 2013 07:11 AM (LRFds)


Probably be better off boycotting those 21 company's products.

45 Thank you for warning us that the stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable traitor will be infesting the networks tonight. Thank God, I DVR'd Castle.

46 North Korea is going to face the consequences for their actions. I plan on sending them a, neigh two, two sternly worded letters.

47 Poor DC. Struggling to stay relevant in the comic market. I guess the only good thing I can say is that they are not doing another universe reboot with this series.

48 35

Another application for the USG's Internet Kill Switch so that non-public transportation can be shut down "in case of emergency"!

49 - "Virginia ABC stores (the state liquor monopoly) are cutting workers' hours because of Obamacare." Definitely. Hours will be cut. Employees will be laid off. Employer premium cost percentages will be cut. Now flash forward about a decade. And let's just assume for the sake of argument that a sufficient number of conservative poseurs stay home or go third-party in '16, and also that minority and college kid turnouts sufficiently are robust, that Hillary or Cuomo get elected and then in '20 reelected. And that Dems somewhere in the interim retake the House. You can bet your bottom dollar in those events that we're looking at single payer and the complete destruction of the U.S. economy. The narrative will be that only single payer can work to solve the ongoing "health insurance crisis" and the "proof" will be all of the people post-Obamacare without coverage and struggling to make ends meet. The Dems would make Machiavelli blush. - "Obama to use State of the Union to make the case against spending cuts and for tax hikes." Of course. The other narratives and memes on Wednesday will be gun control, gay rights, student loans and immigration. Journolist already is buzzing.

50 43 Chicago, Chinatown, Jake I get them confused. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 12, 2013 07:12 AM (pu60A) Cermak Road. Problem solved.

51 Web connected vehicles by 2014.  Quick start rescuing those 1968 VW Type 2 23 window buses.

52 The US economy has been destroyed since Dec 2008.

53 Is there anything good that can come from tonight's SOTU? And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response?

54 50 Tsar Nicholas II,

You can make the case that guns can solve a few of those problems....

55 MPPPP what was her skirt made of.  With all the hoops and sitting in a car, her hem was probably in her face.  But what material?  Geez.

56 Foghorn, we could have Krispy Kreme as the R rebuttal.

57 53 Is there anything good that can come from tonight's SOTU? And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response? Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 12, 2013 07:18 AM (t3o2N) I dunno about the GOP, but Ted Nugent will be there. Rand Paul is supposed to give a Tea Party response as well.

58 55 MPPPP what was her skirt made of. Looking for a wardrobe upgrade, Anna?

59

And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response?

 

The same geniuses who think the Second Amendment isn't a hill to die on.

60 Of all the people in the world who's politics I don't want to subject myself to, 'comic book creators' is near the top of the list.

61 Sean.  Heh.

No, just curious what was used.  Seems very flammable.  By time period natural fiber I would guess.  But could be wrong.

62 I dunno about the GOP, but Ted Nugent will be there. Rand Paul is supposed to give a Tea Party response as well. But will Rand's response have the scorching guitar riffs of Cat Scratch Fever?? I think not.

63 That dress was probably made out of rayon which was just coming into play as a cheap replacement for silk.

64 Will Ted be armed with two AR-15s with Beta-mags?  And a hunting bow with a quiver of arrows?

65 Green Bay Packets do not have cheerleaders. She was a college or high school cheerleader.

66 Keep in mind that there were no regulations requiring materials to be flame retardant then. And IIANM rayon was highly flammable.

67 61 Sean. Heh. No, just curious what was used. Seems very flammable. By time period natural fiber I would guess. But could be wrong. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 12, 2013 07:21 AM (pu60A) The dress may have been treated with something that made it go up. Natural fibers would not have gone up so quickly as say polyester (which had yet to be invented). Unless the material was very gauzy and light? I'd say it was treated with some chemical.

68 Packers. F-in autocorrect.

69 I dunno about the GOP, but Ted Nugent will be there. Rand Paul is supposed to give a Tea Party response as well. Let's hope he utters one phrase: LET IT BURN!

70 So Green Bay is reduced to sending over the internet packets of cheerleaders?

71 67 Vic,

we should have stuck with Fur Togas am I right Vic?

72 Fur burns readily.

73

Let me give the GOP response:

 

 

CNN jackwagon: “And now, with the GOP response, here is Mary Poppins’ Practically Perfect Piercing.”

 

 

CUT TO: me, in studio, wearing a tasteful navy Brooks Brothers suit, with white shirt and mauve tie.  “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.”

 

 

*pause*

 

 

“Everything that guy just said is bullshit.”

 

 

Take off microphone, walk out.  On the way to the parking lot, dickpunch Rachel Madcow and give slobbering Chrissy a purple nurple.

74 Hey EC, from Project A-kon a couple years ago.
http://tinyurl.com/az28ttr

75 Helluva night to have SOTU. I want my NCIS!!

76 Another possibility is that they had heavily starched the dress to make it conform to the hoops better.  That would have made it even more flammable.

77 Heard a report on the news this morning that went something like this: "In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama will speak on some of the most important issues facing the nation at this time, such as global warming, guns, immigration...and the economy." God forbid we talk about jobs and the economy exclusively. Fuck these assholes. I'll be watching old episodes of The Sopranos instead of PreezyMcSqueezy.

78 MPPPP for President!

79 Perfect night for it.  The Chocolate City will be passed out due to Mardi Gras.

80 GAH!!!! Furries!!!!!!!

81 Foghorn, Nugent is there, anything could happen

82

MPPPP what was her skirt made of.

 

A lot of crepe and lace, from the reports I've seen.

83 In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama will speak on some of the most important issues facing the nation at this time, such as global warming, guns, immigration


I recall seeing something on one of the news sites a few days ago that said everyone of those topics ranked at the bottom of the list for what people cared about right now.

84 Jean, sequestration draws nigh. Dun dun dun.

85 To make up for that EC.  Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot
http://tinyurl.com/ahwafof

86 Crepe is paper right?   If so no damn wonder it went up like a gasoline bomb.

87 Morning! I thought the other thread was the morning thread.. who knew?

88 Crepe and lace?  Wow.  *fwoomp!!*

89 If the Indonesian was honest about the State of the Union, he'd say that he's fucked it up beyond all comprehension.  By plan.  Boehner will be crying his simpleton ass off; not because of the country but because Maker's Mark is watered down.

90 I just don't understand why you guys don't trust giggles to write great law with his EOs...

he show such a grasp of organization and the limits of law that I'm certain he's smarter than everyone in the nation...

91 And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response? Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn

He's the latest magic bullet. Don't question him or you'll be excommunicated.  Not sure what that has to do with 2nd A and hills.

92 Crap, The Temptations and The Four Tops at TPAC 3/1 and I can't justify the $. I hate not so funemployment.

93 I recall seeing something on one of the news sites a few days ago that said everyone of those topics ranked at the bottom of the list for what people cared about right now. That's not the point, Vic. The point is that we only discuss those things which reflect well on our most high Lord and Master, the Preezy of the United Steezy, Lion of Hyde Park and Keeper of the Holy Sites of Harvard and Punahou - Barack Hussein Obama. ..... Yeah. Fuck that guy.

94

"Virginina ABC stores (the state liquor monopoly) are cutting workers hours because of Obamacare."

If this cuts into my drinking I'm gonna get very angry.

95 >>>Margaret Dumont was a babe! She never got the jokes, but she was easy on the eyes.<<<<<

I don't know, the old gal clearly got the "this magnificent chest" gag in "Animal Crackers"--you can see her blush even in black and white.

96 Wiki says the dress fire was caused by a matched tossed by one of the cast members.

97 And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 12, 2013 07:18 AM (t3o2N)

We need someone malleable electable that will screw Constitutional conservatives reach out to our newest constituency, the non-English speaking illegal immigrant base!

98 The point is that we only discuss those things which reflect well on our most high Lord and Master


In other words, the null set?

99 Sean just you wait.  Soon due to budget cuts, the private armor owners will be listed as military assets.  Including this Tiger 1.
http://youtu.be/ROnb5ouBjNc

100 Boehner will be crying his simpleton ass off; not because of the country but because Maker's Mark is watered down.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 12, 2013 07:31 AM (k++pf)

You didn't read the special legislation the House passed that requires the Maker's Mark people to reserve 1000 gallons a year of the original formula for the Speaker's Office.

101 @97
Hold up there pardner.  It was the anti-Romney "hardcore conservative" types around here who were trumpeting Rubio the loudest last year.  

102 At that time, it was common for them to make dresses out of actual gasoline bombs.

103 I say let Nugent deliver the GOP response and Paul can take a shot at Stranglehold in the background. I'd even endure the JEF's bullshit speech to see that...

104 And kindling. Lots of kindling.

105 Bring on Hagel. Come on, let it burn. Lets put incompetents everywhere.

106 Posted by: pep at February 12, 2013 07:37 AM (YXmuI)


Funny, I thought all the conservatives were touting the guy from TX. 

107 103I say let Nugent deliver the GOP response and Paul can take a shot at Stranglehold in the background. I'd even endure the JEF's bullshit speech to see that...

Posted by: Icedog at February 12, 2013 07:39 AM (9ScGj)

 

I Second that motion.

108 Geez the Morons are slipping.  No one said she was smoking hot.... 

109 Damn, Anna's on fire!

110 Lucky for me, I have a 3 hour commitment every Tuesday. I do not have to watch the JEF, and I will not DVR it. I will ignore the yaHOOOOOO front page BS that I have to see to get to my emails. I will get my info from the 'rons tomorrow morning.

111 Oklahoma gonna get some great rain and snow today. It's gonna miss us. Enjoy soona and wheatie.

112 Good Morning, did anyone hear from Joffen?

113

Wiki says the dress fire was caused by a matched tossed by one of the cast members.

 

That rumor went around at the time, since, as I said, Mansfield was not known to smoke.  But no one (so far as I've been able to tell) was ever charged with negligence or manslaughter, so I'd take wiki with a grain of salt.  Knowing William Fox as I've grown to know him, if he could have pinned the blame for Mansfield's death on someone, he would have, and cashed in on the result.

114 Perfect night for it. The Chocolate City will be passed out due to Mardi Gras.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 12, 2013 07:27 AM (pu60A)

How appropriate that the purple lipped spawn of Hell will be giving an orgy of spending and ass fucking before everybody begins a period of sacrifice and deprivation; only with no fucking salvation in sight.

115

Good Morning, did anyone hear from Joffen?

 

Joffen stopped by on the ONT thread, but I had to leave early, so I don't know how long he was around.

 

Geez the Morons are slipping. No one said she was smoking hot....

 

You might even say she was en fuego!, Anna.

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

117 Yahoo says it was a tossed match as well.


A group of people were standing idly by and one of them decided to take a smoke. He lit his match and, as careless smokers often do, tossed the still burning match away without thinking. It landed on Martha Mansfield and that incredibly flammable Civil War dress went up in flames. Martha was trapped inside due to the bulk of her costume.

118 More German tank pr0n.  A Panther in Trier Germany 2009.  Being put through her paces at a tank range.  Notice the Leopard II in the background of some shots.  Have to wonder what the drivers on the autobahn in the background thought seeing that Panther on the loose.
http://youtu.be/26cSk60Aj3Y

119 I plan on sending them a, neigh two, two sternly worded letters. Posted by: John Kerry, Secretariat of State ISWYDT

120 IMDb also says tossed match



Nearing the completion of the film, Martha had just finished a scene and was returning to her automobile when her dress caught fire from a carelessly strewn match

121 the themes of Occupy Wall Street,

You forgot Democrat sponsored and vermin infested.

122 Maybe I missed it, but Ace needs to do a post on the DOD giving IDs and base privileges to boyfriends of homosexual service members....no mention of girlfriends getting the same deal. Note: switch "boy" and "girl" if you prefer lesbian news.

123 Thankfully the dog show will be on tonight. I don't give a damn which dog wins, just so I don't have to listen to JEF.

Dog shows are the only competitions in which the winner and the loser both get to go to the White House. 

Needless to say, it's good if you don't come in last.

124 re: Think BloomingidiotÂ’s shit is only affecting the idiots that voted for him? Think again. Food makers nationwide are trimming salt to satisfy the dumb bastard.

When New York passed a law that cigarettes sold there had to be "firesafe," Big Tobacco™--who manufacture almost all the nominally small-brand cigarettes made for people who like cigarettes--dutifully destroyed all the products they sell everywhere in the world by adding whatever throat-ravaging poison makes them "firesafe" by New York's then-unique standards.

When I and the forty other guys who smoke because we like cigarettes saw what happened, told y'all, said you're next, lardos, I'm sure we sounded pretty crazy. Well.

The law is all kinds of ass, of course, but corporate obedience to it (and symbiotic enmeshment with it) is the real problem. New York is the tiniest, tiniest fraction of Big Tobacco's market. They sell mostly to Asia and Arab countries. But they all transformed their whole operations to suit New York the second the law passed...and oh, Philip Morris wrote the law.

Some private companies said, "Fuck you, we're not wrecking our stuff; it's made for the people who buy it, not for the government" and stopped supplying New York. And so, soon, fascist vengeance: Good-tasting, not-intentionally-poisoned cigarettes were made illegal in over forty states. And incidentally, now good cigarettes don't exist anymore.

Enjoy your fucked up food. It'll soon all be equally terrible. And blame Bloomberg if you want, but know that all the companies who are selling you Bloomberg's porridge could just tell him to go pound salt, if they wanted. But since the coming Bloomberg food laws (nascent, "guidelines," for now) are Big Food's OWN FUCKING IDEA--why would they?

"Fight the real enemy," I'm saying. It's bigger than one smug fuck.

125 Occupy Wall Street is in charge of this country. I think we make a mistake dismissing it as inconsequential.

126 Si si MPPPP en fuego! 

Just not like her.  Nor the Progressive mobies pantaloons en fuego.

127 Site that discusses people from the Zigfield Follies also says burning match.



A group of people standing near her decided to smoke, and tossed a still-burning match without thinking. The match landed on Martha Mansfield, and the extremely flammable Civil War dress caught on fire, trapping the actress inside because of the bulk of the costume.



That seems to be the consensus.

128 DC Comics, ever determined to demonstrate its relevance, has launched two new series exploring the themes of Occupy Wall Street So comics about rape, public defecation, theft and dirty hipsters? Should sell well.

129 Steampunk lassies at A-kon
http://tinyurl.com/bbdo73m

130 You tube spoof of God Made a Farmer. I didn't know if this has been around yet.

And On the Ninth day GOD made a Liberal.

http://tinyurl.com/ab8goj3

131 Wait, are the OWS rejects the heros? WTF are their special powers...concentrated body odor? Trained attack lice?

132 129 My. Oh my.

133 For OSP, The Peanuts sing Stardust.
http://youtu.be/dRS_G2scF5g

134 Boehner should announce that he's going to scratch under his left eye every time Obama lies during the SOTU. He'll scratch under his right eye every time Obama is completely wrong about something because he is stupid. He'll scratch his chin when Obama is showing what a pussy he is. And whenever Obama is sincerely talking about getting government out of American's lives, Boehner will stand up, drop trow, and give the citizenry "The Hairy Batwing." Not sure if it would help ratings.

135 Take off microphone, walk out. On the way to the parking lot, dickpunch Rachel Madcow and give slobbering Chrissy a purple nurple. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2013 07:26 AM (zF6Iw) Alas, instead of Cuz Vinnie, the GOP will be like Carville in "Old School" debating Frank: "Oh... It... We... have no response. That was perfect."

136 Not sure if it would help ratings.

It might not help ratings, but it would leave Boehner's face a bloody, mutilated mess.

137 Oh, I'm sure it was a match, Vic; I'm not arguing with you.  It's whose match that was the question - an extra's, or Martha's?  And I agree the consensus seems to be that it wasn't her fault.  But reading the contemporary articles leaves just enough of an opening to wonder, that's all.  The poor girl's still dead.

138 Anna @ 129, at your local comic book store, there is a Girls of Steampunk rag. Idi were still a lad, it would be under my bed.

139 Jean do you mean the Antarctic Press comic by that title?

140

Steampunk lassies at A-kon

 

Yowza.  The one on the left needs a riding crop to complete the ensemble, though.

141 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2013 08:04 AM (zF6Iw)

Have you ever done a post about Wallace Beery?  He looked like an interesting character to me!

142 It might not help ratings, but it would leave Boehner's face a bloody, mutilated mess. I'm not a Boehner-hater, but I do know that his face is leathery enough to make a vintage Mexican golf bag. I think the Boehner-dermis would only need a little wipe down with some Leather New, to get back to TV-ready condition.

143

Worst President ever? He stands by as the country falls apart.

 

Much like A. Johnson or Buchannan, who mishandeled the issue of slavery. Today our current President mishandels the issue of debt. Like slavery, the no growth and debt issue will cause the US 100 years of pain.

144 Stardust, cool, thanks AP. Good morning rons.

145 Have you ever done a post about Wallace Beery? He looked like an interesting character to me!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2013 08:06 AM (Cnqmv)

 

No.  I will tomorrow, if you want.  He was actually a fairly nasty piece of work.

146 @143 He would not be President and we as a country would not be in the Septic Field if not for LBJ...

147 146, reserve some Wilson hate, and some for Teddy

148 Hope Barry remembers us!

149 Drudge has a story up about a writer DC Comics hired, a man who supports DOMA, who is reviled by their gay fans. Kind of ironic since they have gay characters, but whatever. BTW, did you know Batgirl "came out" in 2006? Also, do kids really need/want to know about super heroes sexual preferences, or do I need to find an Amish community that will take me in?

150 For all 'rons and especially 'ettes in Seattle, there's a rapist wanna-be running around the north side of town:  http://tinyurl.com/aaswmqr

151 I'm not a Boehner-hater, but I do know that his face is leathery enough to make a vintage Mexican golf bag. I think the Boehner-dermis would only need a little wipe down with some Leather New, to get back to TV-ready condition.

 

Posted by: Opus An Arcus

 

Fuck.  I'm extremely pissed off I never came up with this comment, or its equivalent.

 

Nicely done.  Bastard.

152

We have the worst president ever thanks to purists. Why not just shut it all down and go home?

The purists want the GOP to die and  so do the Obama Pelosi Reid Corrupt Chicago Soviets. Why bother with any of this?

153 I don't know if this has been mentioned here or not, but it seems like something that could bear mentioning twice: Makers Mark is responding to increased demand by watering its booze. Yeah, I mentioned it a couple of days ago. Still pissed. You never ever FK with the product, you raise the price. Only two classes of products do well in this kind of economy, the really high end and the really low end.

154 My favorite suspense novel of the last few years is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time only (don't know how long).  It's "Into the Darkest Corner" by Elizabeth Haynes.  http://tinyurl.com/bdd4rda

155

Virginina ABC stores (the state liquor monopoly) are cutting workers
hours because of Obamacare."

 

 

I thought the IRS had already said they would not allow companies to avoid Obamacare in that fashion

156 I'm pretty sure I saw Batgirl and Poison Ivy on a webcam

157 Fuck. I'm extremely pissed off I never came up with this comment, or its equivalent.

Nicely done. Bastard.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at February 12, 2013 08:14 AM (BrQrN)

 

Just use the "Oscar Wilde Gambit:"

 

"Oh, I wish I had said that."

 

"You will, Oscar, you will."

158 You're right Fresh.  It's those damned purists driving out the socons that gave us Barry.

159 Also, do kids really need/want to know about super heroes sexual preferences, or do I need to find an Amish community that will take me in? Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at February 12, 2013 08:12 AM (Sptt The one with Flipper and Aquaman would have really pissed you off.

160 The character came out?  Or some cosplayer dressed as Batgirl?  Nightwing hardest hit.

161 Velvet, the operative word being "companies", those are state stores and it give the Cuch another standing to sue if they f with them

162 *yawns*  First 'openly' gay character in comics was Northstar of Alpha Flight.  A Canadian super hero team eh.

163 Maybe we need The Peanuts to call Mothra.  To save us from Obamazilla.
http://youtu.be/3-DZy2BOUpc

164 Also, do kids really need/want to know about super heroes sexual preferences, or do I need to find an Amish community that will take me in? Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at February 12, 2013 08:12 AM (Sptt Reminds me of the time Superman was flying around town and used his Xray vision to look into Wonder Woman's house. Seeing her lying naked, spread eagle in her bed, he swoops down and gives her the speeding bullet. Wonder Woman screeches, "What the hell was that?!?!" And the Invisible Man says, "I don't know, but my asshole is torn to shreds!" An oldie, but a goodie.

165 MPPP-Would appreciate some Wallace B

166 BREAKING:  Your dog is more likely to steal your food if he thinks you can't see him.  http://tinyurl.com/d4tv4aw

167 162 Ms Puma,

Eh...I'd go with Batroc the Leaper...but allegedly he's just Fwench

168 Just saw on Amazon that Atlas Shrugged Pt-II will be released on Feb 19th.  They want $20 for the Blu-Ray and $16 for the DVD.  Kinda pricey.


Pt 1 is going for $10 now, maybe I'll wait and see what they do.

169 I was never a Rubio booster, but I think y'all are being pretty unfair. He's going to be part of the face of the GOP, and it's better him than McCain/Romney.

170

"Obama's election-year promises are worth shit. "

 

 

Gabe is obviously not a farmer. Shit has value. My tomatoes and capsicum just love shit. The wife's flowers love shit. Our Hop bines love shit. I would prefer to say that 'the bastage's promises are not worth shit.'

 

Mornin' all!

171 Thank  you  MPPPP,   for  your  daily  Hollyweird  story.   Have  you  ever  written  about  Mickey  Rooney's  Clark  Gable  fixation? 

172 FYI shout out for those in the Jackson, MS area this weekend.
MS Pulp Con.  Writers, artists, cosplayers, paranormal investigators, music, food, and other odd happenings.
http://www.mspulpcon.com/

And I just remembered I need to find my application for the MS Writers Guild.  Send that in.  Came in before Christmas but wanted to wait since that quarter was about up and saw no reason to spend extra $ when it would be good for only a few days.

173 Happy Mardi Gras, Morons. I'll be publicly urinating and vomiting as tradition demands throughout the day.

174 @169

I am through with GOP politicians telling me that the key to future victory is
to make 10-20 million new Democrat voters now.


Screw that shit and screw Rubio!

175 I'll bet those new DC comics guest star Obama and Superman.  I haven't cared about DC in a long time, outside of Batman.  I've never liked Superman.  When he announced his American citizenship, he was dead to me.   When I found out he was a vegetarian, is was another nail in the coffin.  Screw DC.  Let 'em Burn.

176 Thank you MPPPP, for your daily Hollyweirdstory. Have you everwritten about Mickey Rooney's Clark Gable fixation?

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at February 12, 2013 08:31 AM (6BgmB)

 

Nope.  But I do know a story about it.  I'll tell it on Thursday, with a couple of Rooney stories thrown in for good measure.

177

It's raining in my corner of Louisiana.

 

You wouldn't think that would be allowed today.

 

Speaking of Wonder Woman, Little People now has a Wonder Woman figure and airplane. I think the kids need it. They don't think so, but what do they know?

178 Time to go.  bbl

179

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 12, 2013 08:34 AM (nxyLn)

 

So just a regular day at Casa EoJ, right?

180 Mama AJ it's still raining up here in the Jackson area.  My front yard is now a polder.

181

>>I'll be publicly urinating and vomiting as tradition demands throughout the day.

 

And here I thought you'd treat it as a special day, Jeff.

182

Mary Poppins etc

 

I read your book very quickly and enjoyed it! Thanks.... now looking forward to the next one

 

You're on my list of interesting people (past and present)  I'd invite to a dinner party - joining Cicero,  Julius Caesar,  Colleen McCullough, Richard Burton,  that's all I've decided on right now...

 

 

183 I am through with GOP politicians telling me that the key to future victory is to make 10-20 million new Democrat voters now. Screw that shit and screw Rubio! Posted by: General Woundwort at February 12, 2013 08:34 AM (RrD4h) Illegal's kids are going to be able to vote. We have to make a play for the minority vote, convincing some of them the virtues of the free market. Not saying I like Rubio's plan, but he's got a point. Simply closing your eyes doesn't make the electoral issues go away.

184 Nope. But I do know a story about it. I'll tell it on Thursday, with a couple of Rooney stories thrown in for good measure.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2013 08:35 AM (zF6Iw)

 

Thank  you,  I'm  looking  forward  to  it. 

185 I really don't care about Maker's Mark because I don't like it. I've drunk way more than my share of whiskeys and Maker's Mark is one of the harshest swills on the market. Since I'm never going to buy it again it makes no difference to me. But it is a foreboding sign.

186 Will someone please explain to me why the response to the psycho leftist murderer in Los Angeles is overwhelming?

I thought that part of the job of  a police officer was to tolerate some increased risk. Apparently I was wrong....a $1,000,000 reward and 1,000s of cops working the case sounds like cops will tolerate zero risk, unlike what is expected of citizens who don't have the option of arming themselves.

187 :::179 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 12, 2013 08:34 AM (nxyLn) So just a regular day at Casa EoJ, right? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2013 08:36 AM (zF6Iw)::: Well, no. I've added beads and king cake.

188 Morning, all!   SoTU tonight.  I'm torn between watching the dog show or    tuning into Westminster.

189 Happy Mardi Gras, Morons.

I'll be publicly urinating and vomiting as tradition demands throughout the day.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 12, 2013 08:34 AM (nxyLn)

 

So  you're  skipping  the  ceremonial  enema  this  year?

190

BTW

 

Hello everyone from Sydney on this warm and humid Wednesday early morning

 

We're in the same boat here - a sh*tty government  however we will thankfully and hopefully kick the bastards out at the election later this year

 

191 And Taaka King Cake flavored volka?

192

>>I'm torn between watching the dog show or tuning into Westminster.

 

/assault rim-shot

193 I'll take 'famous last words for $100 Alex.' Rob Samuels, chief operating officer and grandson of Maker's Mark Founder Bill Samuels, Sr., said this is a permanent decision that wonÂ’t be reversed

194 Rob Samuels, chief operating officer and grandson of Maker's Mark Founder Bill Samuels, Sr., said this is a permanent decision that wonÂ’t be reversed Posted by: RWC

They're doing it for the children.

195 @183

Hispanics, Latinos or whatever you want to call them have never voted for the GOP in large enough numbers whether they have been illegal, 1st generation, 2nd generation to make a bit of difference.



Since 1972, the GOP has averaged about 25% of the Hispanic vote, no amount of pandering will increase that total.

196

Obama to use State of the Union to make the case against spending cuts and for tax hikes. Surprise.

 

 

B-but I was told that tax hikes were so unpopular that politicians in Washington wouldn't     dream of even MENTIONING them    any time in the near future!    Not after all the trouble they went through at the beginning of the year    with making the Bush tax cuts permanent!   When     I said that tax increases would be on the table again within six months I was called foolish!   

 

Why, it's almost like the people who were calling me foolish for even suggesting it are themselves proved foolish...

197 Does Makers have a watermark?

198 /assault rim-shot

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 12, 2013 08:44 AM (SUKHu)

 

Thank you, thank you.  I'll be here all week!

199 Rob Samuels, chief operating officer and grandson of Maker's Mark Founder Bill Samuels, Sr., said this is a permanent decision that wonÂ’t be reversed

Posted by: RWC at February 12, 2013 08:44 AM (fWAjv)

 

Like  New  Coke. 

200

MPPPP, since you're taking requests, do you have any pre-Partridge Family stories on Shirley Jones. I saw her on Disney Channel's 'Good Luck, Charlie' recently and was amazed at her career longevity.

201 @152 aka "false dichotomy". Duh!

202 I hear the new Makers Mark is excellent when mixed with Pepsi Crystal.

203

North Korea conducted its third nuclear test yesterday. FLASHBACK: "North Korea Says It Will Abandon Nuclear Efforts"

 

Cue UN condemnations and threats of severe sanctions.

 

*wait three months*

 

Cue desperate appeals from human rights organizations for     increased    food aid    to feed the starving Norks,    complete with slideshow of bloated children with emaciated faces     and    dead women in the street    who are so thin they look mummified.

 

*wait a month*

 

Food aid increased.

 

*wait six months*

 

Cue NoKo's fourth nuclear test.

 

Rinse and repeat.

204 Muslim photographed wearing a shirt with a picture of the Twin Towers burning.  Classy.  (Click my name for a picture).

205 http://preview.tinyurl.com/9wmaxpp And speaking of RINOs, that Rove really is a piece of work. More great stuff from Jeffrey Lord. I submit the first order of business for Liberty-lovers will be to waterboard Rove, to determine whether his twisted ideology is sufficient to explain his perfidy, or whether he really is an operative of the Commie-fag-junkie Complex. It's one or the other.

206 I'm pretty sure I saw Batgirl and Poison Ivy on a webcam

It's supposed to be Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy "together".  In the comics, Poison Ivy rescues Harley after Joker dumps her by shooting her off in a rocket (Hahahahahahaha!!!).  Ivy nurses her back to health using her special plants and Harley comes back from the near-dead.  It's never shown, but Batgirl asks Harley if she and Ivy ever.......but Harley denies it.  You get the impression that Harley isn't quite telling 100% of the truth regarding that.

And because I mentioned Harley Quinn AND Poison Ivy...


http://oi48.tinypic.com/1jq4g5.jpg

207

The U.S. government spent about $2.2 billion last year to provide phones to low-income Americans, but a Wall Street Journal review of the program shows that a large number of those who received the phones haven't proved they are eligible to receive them.

The Lifeline program—begun in 1984 to ensure that poor people aren't cut off from jobs, families and emergency services—is funded by charges that appear on the monthly bills of every landline and wireless-phone customer. Payouts under the program have shot up from $819 million in 2008, as more wireless carriers have persuaded regulators to let them offer the service.

Fraud in a government program. It can't be!

208 The Lifeline program—begun in 1984 to
ensure that poor people aren't cut off from jobs, families and emergency
services

I didn't realize we had cell phones back in 1984, unless they're talking about those cinderblocks that cost $100/minute.  Geez, I can see the govt shelling out for that.

209 WASHINGTON (AP) — A determined Florida centenarian who had to make two trips and wait several hours to vote for President Barack Obama last fall will sit with first lady Michelle Obama during Tuesday's State of the Union. Her resolve became a symbol of early voting obstacles in the presidential election.






Oh yes, it was just terrible. Bull Connor was out there with dogs preventing her from voting for Barry 5 times

210 You know who will want more taxes (that will, in fact be intellectually dishonest window dressing that the idiot media won't bother to do the math on).

He will also want more new, dumber shit (we're going to hear "high speed rail" again, you know).

His health care catastrophe is going to like cost double what he said.

And the world burns.

Enjoy it, low information asshats, watching The View.

211 Her resolve became a symbol of early voting obstacles in the presidential election.

Stop and think about that one for a moment, folks.

212 The reports about the SEAL who shot Bin Laden being homeless and uninsured might be a tad bit untrue:

http://tinyurl.com/ad29f9y  (Twitchy)

OTOH, waiting for VA Health benefits to actually happen might (from personal observations) equate to "being uninsured" at the time treatment is needed.

213 http://preview.tinyurl.com/38e9ksv "No Guns for Negroes" http://preview.tinyurl.com/2vwud3v "No Guns for Jews" http://preview.tinyurl.com/brjpnms No guns for ordinary citizens.

214 Local radio guy is playing audio of an Ohio polls worker who sez, yeah, she voted twice, sent in absentee and didn't think it would get there in time, so voted at the polls. Oh, and voted for her daughter absentee, who may just have voted at the polls. And she voted absentee for several people living with her. And this she admits to a reporter--obviously troubled with her lawbreaking.

215 Rove('s).....twisted ideology is sufficient to explain his perfidy,

***

These bastards care about Power and Money, period.
You, your loved ones and friends are dust to be swept from their trousers.
It's all a con and con men working an angle. When people who identify with the republican party because they think it's their only hope come to the realization that they have been played and there is no representation there, a full media assault on their character will commence to make the Giffords shooting look like positive PR.

216 And she voted absentee for several people living with her.

Well, just as long as there are no obstacles to early voting...

217 Morning all. Slightly O/T. THIS is what we need our Repukes pounding incessantly: The central parts of ObamaCare don¡¯t roll out until 2014, but the wheels are already falling off this clunker. The latest news from four federal agencies is that 1) insurance will be a lot less affordable than Americans were led to expect, 2) fewer people than promised will get insurance and 3) millions of people who have coverage through a job now will lose it, thanks to the president¡¯s ¡°reforms.¡± Oh, and children are the biggest victims. http://tinyurl.com/bhzuk4n

218 Posted by: Thorvald at February 12, 2013 08:59 AM (1V6Pv) None of the links worked.

219 I didn't realize we had cell phones back in 1984, unless they're talking about those cinderblocks that cost $100/minute. Geez, I can see the govt shelling out for that.

Posted by: EC at February 12, 2013 08:56 AM (GQ8sn)

 

I'm pretty sure the 1984 program was with regards to landlines. 

220 Thorvald, Here you go. Negroes - http://tinyurl.com/23r8grr Jews - http://tinyurl.com/cu7dokh

221 I'm pretty sure the 1984 program was with regards to landlines. No Angry Birds and Twitter?? RACIST!

222 I'm pretty sure the 1984 program was with regards to landlines.

The programs should have remained only with landlines.

223

The central parts of ObamaCare don't roll out until 2014, but the wheels are already falling off this clunker. The latest news from four federal agencies is that 1) insurance will be a lot less affordable than Americans were led to expect, 2) fewer people than promised will get insurance and 3) millions of people who have coverage through a job now will lose it, thanks to the president's      reforms.      Oh, and children are the biggest victims.

 

 

So in other words     everything we said was going to happen     is going to happen.   But we're racist or something for having pointed it out before the fucking leviathan was passed.

 

Sometimes I swear I'm turning into a Malthusian.   Some people are just too      stupid to breathe.

224 @169 I was never a Rubio booster, but I think y'all are being pretty unfair. He's going to be part of the face of the GOP, a face that needs punching

225 How can Obama ask for more taxes? I thought the Bush tax cuts were permanent and off the table and we had won a great victory? It's almost like that was meaningless and the GOP are just cowards.

226

It's quiet here...too quiet.

 

So the big question this morning is "should I give up something easy, medium or really hard for Lent"?

 

Behaviors, not foods.

227 I'm pretty sure the 1984 program was with regards to landlines.

The programs should have remained only with landlines.

Posted by: EC at February 12, 2013 09:06 AM (GQ8sn)

The Obama pho' woman would like to have an unintelligible word with you

228 Attention Strawmen, it is advised for you to run to the hills at best possible speed as it is open season tonight....many of you will be slain, but a few might make it to see the sunrise.

229 The programs should have remained only with landlines.

Posted by: EC at February 12, 2013 09:06 AM (GQ8sn)

 

Hell yes.   And if it MUST extend to cell phones, then make them the most basic cellphones available.   None of this    smartphone crap.   

230 Why isn't Boehner giving the rebuttal?

231 214 Zsasz,

Yeah well if you want to know where my "fuck you Ohio" came from it's the fact that we have every position needed to go after voter fraud and refuse to use it in Ohio.

That tells me the Ohio GOP has NO problem with fraud.

232 So the big question this morning is "should I give up something easy, medium or really hard for Lent"?

I'm pretty sure the definition of "sacrifice" suggests at least the "medium" and probably the "really hard."

Says the guy who doesn't observe Lent.

233 Makers Mark is Hillary's favorite drink. They're doing it for Hillary. Got to keep her sober for 2016.

234 So the big question this morning is "should I give up something easy, medium or really hard for Lent"?

Behaviors, not foods.

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 12, 2013 09:08 AM (SUKHu)

 

I was pondering    that question this morning.    I've never done the "give something up for Lent" thing before, but I'd like to do it this year.   I just don't know what to give up.

 

I was thinking maybe I'd give up referring to Obama    as "The Preezy" instead of "President," but I    know I couldn't possibly stick to that.   I have more respect for the office of the President than to sully it by using the term in regards to Obammy.

235 Hell yes. And if it MUST extend to cell phones, then make them the most basic cellphones available. None of this smartphone crap. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 12, 2013 09:09 AM (4df7R) Well, they consider using a smartphone as increasing your marketable skills - working with a computer. I know Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds Star Wars are referenced frequently at my workplace.

236 Speaking to Democrats at their issues retreat in Leesburg, Va., last week, the president sketched out some of his message, promising to build “an economy that works for everybody.”



Well it's working for no one now so I can only imagine how social justice avenger is going to get it to work for everybody


“That means that what you’ll hear from me next week, I’m going to be talking about making sure that we’re focused on job creation here in the United States of America,” he vowed. He also said he would promote access to education and push ahead with a “clean-energy strategy.”



So more Solyndras and failed electric cars. Yep that's the wave of the future

237 180 Mama AJ it's still raining up here in the Jackson area. My front yard is now a polder. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 12, 2013 08:36 AM (pu60A) Well done! After Irene (2011) and Sandy (2012) passed over Delaware, Sussex County was dotted with new polders. When we returned to see what damage had been inflicted on our summer place (none to speak of) we saw that children loved to play in them.

238 10 IÂ’ll be bailing out early this morning to go get dental drilling. Gaaaaa I hate those.

-----------

Don't blame you. Dentists marching around a field in lockstep? Sounds boring.

239 Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 12, 2013 09:08 AM (SUKHu)

Is it contrary to the spirit of Lent to give something up and instead start something healthy?

As an example, I intend to start walking wherever I can.  I'm not going to "give up" driving, and the habit will require me to consume more energy.

When I exercise, my brain goes into positive thought territory.

240

>>The programs should have remained only with landmines.

 

>>Some people are just too stupid to breathe.

 

Hmmm, I think I see where you people are going with this...

 

 

241 Why isn't Boehner giving the rebuttal?

Posted by: RWC at February 12, 2013 09:09 AM (fWAjv)

 

Because    the DOPE wants    someone who can talk without bursting into tears.

242 @226 I am not a Catholic (at least, not yet), but I listen to a lot of Catholic radio (AM1330, Twin Cities). Lenten Priorities 1. Bad stuff that's bad on its own. 2. Stuff that might be good if you did it right. 3. Good stuff that you do to a bad degree. Bottom line, the stuff that tends to displace God from ones life. Pretty close, or not?

243 188 I'm torn between watching the dog show or tuning into Westminster. Westminster, of course. For the Children.

244 And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response? Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 12, 2013 07:18 AM (t3o2N) Haven't you heard? Republicans can't survive without the Hispanic vote... nevermind that the majority of Americans are abstaining due to the shitty political environment. It's as if these two parties don't care what we think and are having an exercise in the hubris of intellect. All the while using Tax payers money about 4 generations deep to keep up the barriers of entry. .... Or something.

245

“That means that what you’ll hear from me next week, I’m going to be
talking about making sure that weÂ’re focused on job creation here in the
United States of America,” he vowed. He also said he would promote
access to education and push ahead with a “clean-energy strategy.”

 

 

... Obammy   just slapped his SoTU from last year on a photocopier   and retitled it "SoTU 2013," didn't he?      

246

Posted by: aussie at February 12, 2013 08:37 AM (8dS3S)

 

Aussie, thank you so much for the kind words (and you flatter me with the dinner party guest list; I'm not good enough to wipe up Burton's drunken vomit).

 

Would you do me a favor and put a short review on Amazon?  It helps with sales rankings and stuff.

247 53 Is there anything good that can come from tonight's SOTU? And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response?

-----------

I'm hoping The Nuge will stand up and shout "You lie!"

248

>>Is it contrary to the spirit of Lent to give something up and instead start something healthy?

 

No, that's great.

249

MPPPP, since you're taking requests, do you have any pre-Partridge Family stories on Shirley Jones. I saw her on Disney Channel's 'Good Luck, Charlie' recently and was amazed at her career longevity.

 

I'd have to look.  Jones is like Robert Wagner or Carolyn Jones; one of the last of the contract players before the studio system fell apart, so there really aren't any good "stories" as such.  But I'll see what I can find.

250 Is there anything good that can come from tonight's SOTU? And what nitwit picked Rubio to deliver the GOP response? Rubio will soft peddle conservatism and pledge Amnesty. Thats what they do. Thats why we are here now.

251 @218 Oops! No clue, but sorry. Check @220 for the most excellent JPFO-produced vids, highly informative. Here's the link to NRO explaining cause and effect with organized crime and gun control laws: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340367/criminal-organizations-and-gun-control-michael-walsh

252

What are the peeple of Virginia complaining about? So they loose a couple hours of work a week, they get free hellth care from Presdent Obama. That is worth more than the 10 hours of pay they would receive and at the same time they can spend that extra time with there families. More time with the children, walking there pets, talking to their neigghbors about stuff and just generally having more fun because of Presdent Obama and his wisdom. This is a good thing !!!!!!!!!!!

253 I'd have to look. Jones is like Robert Wagner or Carolyn Jones; one of the last of the contract players before the studio system fell apart, so there really aren't any good "stories" as such. But I'll see what I can find. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2013 09:20 AM (zF6Iw) Oh, there's some really good Partridge family stuff. Davis Cassidy's Dad, Jack Cassidy was married to Shirley Jones. Jack was a drunk and jealous as hell of Davids pop start carreer. That was a whole big world of emotional FKDUPEDNESS.

254 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 12, 2013 09:24 AM (l86i3)


Yep, and died from passing out on a couch with a lit cigarette.

255 @250 I suspect you're right, that's why they gave him the mike. Personally, I will skip both dog shows (I do love dogs!), but I will be interested in what Ted Nugent has to say, what Rand Paul says, and will try to find the audio from Sen. Rubio to listen to his Spanish accent. (I suspect there will be some weak consonants, some omitted s-sounds and d-sounds between vowels. Quite pretty, if you like that sort of thing. Of course, he may go all standard on us.)

256 Jack Cassidy was charmingly vicious with Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction. He also died in a fire caused by his own cigs.

257

246 Mary Poppins etc

 

I will definitely do a review - and at the dinner party don't worry about the chunder - I will have plenty of attendants specifically employed for cleaning up anything....

258 So the big question this morning is "should I give up something easy, medium or really hard for Lent"? The Mrs. and I basically give up drinking each Lent - no beer or liquor at all, and a little white wine only on Fridays with our fish. The Mrs. isn't much of a drinker anyway, but this yearly ritual helps dry me out, lose weight, focus on Lent and my marriage, and gives me more energy for (s)exercise. Good times.

259 I'm hoping The Nuge will stand up and shout "You lie!" put a crossbow bolt in Obama.

260 Gotta dash off to class, but I'll just say fuck you, Maker's Mark!