1 So yeah, Anne Hathaway's teeth... not so amazing, unless she can remove them.

2 Apocalypse Now!

3 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, February 26, 2013.  On this day in 1919 an act of congress made the Grand Canyon a national park.  On the same day in 1929 Silent Cal does an Executive Order creating the Grand Teton National Park thus setting the precedence for all future Democrats to grab land for the watermelon commies.

4 My first first, and here I am reposting something I said in  an other thread, and not the one in which it would have been on-topic. 

As a moron, I have arrived. 

5 Sock Puppet Obamanites fake twitter accounts to push gun control.

http://is.gd/GJUnu1

6 One wonders what court OK’d issuing “Jesus” as a trademark?

http://is.gd/Q4dcc6

7 Morning everyone. Snowing like a bitch here. Damn glad I'm off today...

8 McShitty and his dick smoking buddy from my State to meet with the head dick licker to stab Republicans in the back on amnesty.  I guess Grahamnesty figures he is safe now with Republican bosses in SC giving him cover for the primaries.  See below for VDH taking them to task.


http://is.gd/0ILuGO

9 DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER! MASS HYSTERIA!

10 In case you missed the talk of the town at the Oscars.  SFW

http://is.gd/TsDkmX

11 Women learn the hard way that an AR-15 kicks less than a shotgun.

http://is.gd/Gknb8D

12 As for the sequester, I have a real Charlie Brown/football vibe about it.  Or is it more like Hamlet and his uncle, when he wasn't able to kill him when he had the chance? 

13 RIP C. Everette Coop at 96.

http://is.gd/13v4c4

14 In a scene reminiscent of Blazing Saddles Obama warns that illegals will flood the borders if we donÂ’t increase spending.

http://is.gd/d8RbAV

15 Over 10 inches of rain in Feb. Hooray the sun is rising and rain has ended. Gonna be cold but no rain.

16 Meanwhile the true aim of all this sequester BS comes out.

http://is.gd/8XTUe3

17

Morning, all.  ItÂ’s not that cold here in northern MA this morning, but it is rainy and dreary; just the kind of weather tailor-made for sleeping in, if one was a member of the FSA.  Oh, well, letÂ’s grab a cup of tea or coffee and settle in for a story. . .

 

 

In 1949, the New York Sun reporter Malcolm Johnson won a Pulizter Prize for his series, "Crime On The Waterfront," which detailed the seedy world of corruption, blackmailing and extortion infesting the Mafia-dominated waterfront dockworkers unions.  Then, in 1953, a dockworker named Anthony DiVincenzo testified in front of the newly-created Waterfront Commission about the Gambino and Genovese crime families' hold on the waterfront.  In the tight world of dockers, it was very dangerous - monetarily and physically - for DiVincenzo to testify, and director Elia Kazan saw a bit of himself reflected in the docker, as he had gained the enmity of a number of Hollywood friends by naming names for the House Un-American Activities Committee. 

 

 
Kazan first approached Arthur Miller to write a screenplay, but he wasn't happy with the finished result (and, of course, it didn't help that Miller had not testified and was lionized for it, while Kazan had and was vilified).  He next approached the writer Budd Schulberg, who had attended the DiVincenzo hearings,* and the two knocked out a script.

 

 
As he would do for the role of Private Maggio in From Here To Eternity, Frank Sinatra campaigned hard to get the part of Hoboken-born docker Terry Malloy, even meeting with Kazan to discuss costuming and motivation.  The problem, however, was that Sinatra wasn't a star.  His recording career was in a slump (he was still recovering from the abysmal single "Mama Will Bark," a real stinker) and his personal problems had tarnished his image nearly beyond repair.  No studio wanted him, and even Kazan was leery of giving such a meaty role to The Voice.

 

 
Marlon Brando, on the other hand, was hot.  He'd already come off of Kazan's film of A Streetcar Named Desire with rave reviews.  Our old friend Columbia producer Sam Spiegel (he of yesterdayÂ’s Peter OÂ’Toole story) told the director that with Sinatra in the lead, he could only raise about $500,000; with Brando's name attached to the project, it would be easily twice as much.  But Brando didn't want to do Waterfront; he refused to work for a man who had testified before the Senate House Committee.  It was only after a long period of cajoling by Spiegel that Brando signed on, telling himself that at least, playing Malloy, he would be able to drive into New York on Fridays to see his psychiatrist.

 

 
Kazan sent a letter to Sinatra informing him of the decision.  Devastated, it would be months before he could even bring himself to write a short note to the director: "For me to tell you that I was not deeply hurt would not be telling you my true feelings."  Sinatra despised Brando - "Mumbles" was his constant nickname for the actor, even when the two were shooting Guys and Dolls together - and in his anger, sued Spiegel for breach of contract.  The decision would have cost Spiegel half a million dollars, but the two men settled out of court with no money exchanging hands.

 

 
When released, On the Waterfront was a commercial and critical success, tamping down - if never fully silencing - the anger at Kazan for his HUAC testimony.  But one man who didn't share in its success was Lee J. Cobb.  Although his portrayal of union boss Johnny Friendly is a masterpiece of malevolence, the role was the last sputtering flame of a dying candle.  Already ostracized in Hollywood because of his own HUAC testimony, Cobb in 1953 was a bankrupt who had just suffered a massive coronary.  The role of Friendly was welcome work, but it didn't save his career.  Memories are long in Hollywood, and while Cobb managed to snare juicy roles in 12 Angry Men and The Brothers Karamazov, his final years were a wasteland of second-rate TV appearances or supporting roles in cinematic turkeys like Our Man Flint.

 

 

And thatÂ’s it for now, you guys!.  Hope you enjoyed that.  Tomorrow IÂ’ll tell you about Raquel Welch and her disastrous turn in Myra Breckenridge, then I think weÂ’ll go light for the next few stories.

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

 
*DiVincenzo later claimed that Schulberg had stolen his story over a month-long series of interviews, but the writer denied it, claiming he only drew from the publicly-available Commission testimony.  He did, however, spend a number of hours interviewing Father John Corridan, who would become Karl Malden's character Father Barry.

 

18 So yeah, Anne Hathaway's teeth... not so amazing, unless she can remove them. Put a quarter behind her ear & see if they fold back.

19 VDH asks some logical questions on Republican support for amnesty.

http://is.gd/Jxarrs

20 The sequester “pie”

http://is.gd/EUrhTY

21 If Republicans are serious about winning, we should wait until the Democrats nominate a candidate, then nominate that same person.

22 Obama lies on sequester exposed.

http://is.gd/UR6CsW

23 The Daily Deal

http://is.gd/ovx7rG

24 Oh no, not the sequester!  Where will monkeys get their free cocaine from now? Oh, right, government isn't cutting that. 

25 Tired of cute?

http://is.gd/pww8ui



And thatÂ’s it for Tuesday, February 26, 2013

26 What fresh hell will this day bring?

27 We were awakened by our tornado sirens going off.  Yay.

Schools are closed here because of flooding. 

'Morning, all.

28 In a scene reminiscent of Blazing Saddles Obama warns that illegals will flood the borders if we donÂ’t increase spending. Little danger of that. Their job prospects are better in Mexico. If we wait a few years, Mexico might build a border fence for us.

29 ''Internet users who illegally share music, movies or television shows online could soon receive warning notices from the nation's five major Internet service providers. The Copyright Alert System, organized by the recording and film industry, is being activated this week to target consumers using peer-to-peer software.'' PC Magazine has a FAQ page. Worthwhile taking a look if you use P2P...Seems the effort is to annoy 'everyday' people into compliance. People truly dedicated to piracy will find a 'way around'. http://tinyurl.com/6ffbvgj

30 OCP runs the cops

31 Dennis Rodman and The Harlem Globetrotters are heading to North Korea for some basketball diplomacy. That's really going to work.

32 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2013 07:14 AM (zF6Iw) Another sterling story. HeyMP4, did you know Robert Mitchum spent two months in jail early in his career for smoking weed?

33 >> Women learn the hard way that an AR-15 kicks less than a shotgun. Hilarious

34 4 BurtTC,

Repeating yourself unashamed is a sign of becoming a man bud...

you've come a long way Hobo Hunter

35 Isn't the cuts in sequester the equivalent of me not having Chinese food for lunch today?  Yeah, can't not do that either.

36 14 Vic,

Yeah it shows an understanding of dunamics like say "minimum wage should be 10.10"

Yeah Giggles why not 25.25?

"er uh apple slices!"

37 Not really a comment about a current headline, more about a future one.  I came across a scary Chinese Eugenics piece this morning (which was in response to the 2013 "annual question" posed upon the Edge.org site).
There are additional writings there, giving other answers to the question. http://tinyurl.com/b7emk9w

38 Dennis Rodman and The Harlem Globetrotters are heading to North Korea for some basketball diplomacy. That's really going to work. 50-50 chance they'll be eaten.

39 50-50 chance they'll be eaten. Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at February 26, 2013 07:22 AM (MSrqi) One can only hope.

40 28 the establishment,

si si amigo...

I'm telling you mexopolis knows how to control a border look south mi Amigo...

of course we know how to control a border....we do a damn fine job with Canada eh?

41

Morning fake people in my computer screen.

 

I was trying to think of a comparison for the total budget cut of $87 billion--it was the middle of the night, and I was tired, but I think it's like a guy who makes $50K a year and smokes 2 packs a day cutting out 3 cigarettes a day--that's real drastic all right.

42 I'm wondering if I will even notice the sequester in my daily life.

43 I'm wondering if I will even notice the sequester in my daily life. Posted by: Dastardly Dan at February 26, 2013 07:25 AM (2iVM3) Unless you are part of the Federal beast, prolly not. Thats what scares them. Nobody will notice.

44 I was going to buy a solid-gold yacht. But now I won't. Because I am a patriot who believes in sacrifice.

45 I notice that Newegg has a pretty nice one-day deal on a 500GB SSD. Getting near to half-a-buck per gig.

46 Fire everyone in the TSA. I'll chance it.

47 Gee, Michael Moore and that Palestinian Director lied about the Director being racially profiled, detained, and barred from entry into the U.S. unless he could prove he was going to The Oscars until Michael Moore stepped in. An airport worker said their story was "baloney and a publicity stunt". Gosh, it's such a shock to hear Michael Moore and a Palestinian who directed an anti-Israel film would stoop so low and lie.

48 "...cinematic turkeys like Our Man Flint" Heresy! I suppose you also think Hudson Hawk wasn't one of the 10 greatest films of all time. A one, two, s one two three... Or would you like to swing on a star... Not total sarc as I enjoy HH for what it is. Just a fun flick that wasn't trying to be anything more than that. Like the "Flint" series.

49 44 I work for Dick Jones,

No no the new patriotism is you demanding at threatened "or else" point that you are OWED a yacht because "bruce springsteen metaphor and anecdotal ballad here" and that's why or we'll burn it all down baby!

get on baord the New American Ogabeistic dynamic.

50 I don't think I went to the movie theater once in 2012. But his upcoming Oz movie intrigues me. It'll probably such though.

51 You ever have gas so bad you disgust yourself? Good lord man, I know I didn't eat that.

52 As he would do for the role of Private Maggio in From Here To Eternity, Frank Sinatra campaigned hard to get the part of Hoboken-born docker Terry Malloy, even meeting with Kazan to discuss costuming and motivation. The problem, however, was that Sinatra wasn't a star. His recording career was in a slump (he was still recovering from the abysmal single "Mama Will Bark," a real stinker) and his personal problems had tarnished his image nearly beyond repair. No studio wanted him, and even Kazan was leery of giving such a meaty role to The Voice.



Plus there would've been no small amount of irony in Sinatra playing somebody fighting the Mob.

53 I do think at a certain point government spent enough money.

54 I'm watching Charmed on TNT. It's one of the final season episodes with the girl from Big Bang Theory, only eight years younger and cuter.

55 What fresh hell will this day bring? Well, in my area, The King himself. He'll be spouting his lies and propaganda at a local shipyard - scaring the shit out of the minions. Local talking heads and at least one mayor have already been on AM news calling for compromise. I'm hitting the valu rite and going back to bed...

56 53 Reverse Obama,

"uh you know I'm out of ideas or the ability to ethically debauch our people's purchasing power any further...uh why don't we start removing competitive inhibitors to our international competitiveness and work our asses off for 30 years for a change?"

//Mirror Universe Ben Bukkake

57 If we can take in $2 trillion but spend $4 trillion a year, could we take in $0 and spend $2 trillion?

58 I'm one of those Defense Department employees about to take a 20% pay cut so Obama can make the most conservative federal agency feel his pain or something. 

I used to be against it, but if I have a shred a principle in my body I have to say, bring it on biotches.  Benefits, I get a 32 hour work week and a built in excuse to tell my kids no on everything.

We have signs in the office that say, "like a 20% pay cut, thank your cube mate who voted for Obama!"  We photo-shopped one of those don't tell a secret posters.

I'll get a picture and forward it to "someone..."

59 The SEQUESTER! The SEQUESTER!

60

Another sterling story. HeyMP4, did you know Robert Mitchum spent two months in jail early in his career for smoking weed?

 

I did, OSP.  And because he took his sentence like a man, did his time and simply kept his mouth shut, when he got out, his box-office mojo was bigger than ever.  Now, did you know Cary Grant once tripped out on LSD?

61 Goota take the youngen to school, BRB.

62 Well, my power has been going off for a few seconds then back on since I got up a couple hours ago. Has gone off and stayed off now for a couple of minutes. Just a man alone with his thoughts,,, and a smart phone,,, Andrew the Horde,,, Nobody knows...

63 Hey, what's the difference between Robocop and the real Detroit?  One is a dystopian hell-hole where criminals reign supreme--and so is the other.  Sh*t, I've got nothing.

64 The sequester may force the Obamas to take their 17 vacations together this year.

65 Mr. Sulu... prepare phasers and photon torpedoes... there is no intelligent life as we know it on this planet.

Chekov... set course for the Bisexual Women's colony on Sigma Draconis 4... warp factor 10... I need to get me some green poon tang and fight another alien lizard thing before the episode is over....

66 I like to eat paste, you guys.

67

If we wait a few years, Mexico might build a border fence for us.

 

Creating a secure border fence.  Doing the jobs Americans won't do.

68 58 Tocquevillia,

The most dangerous work in the English language is "fair" followed closely by "deserve"...I respect your integrity on this matter.

I am in a similar boat, there is a comfort from spouse's wage from the Army admittedly and emotionally I do feel her service is "owed" something but I would not see my grandkids' future held hostage to my negative impulses.

Time to figure out who the hell we are and whether this is still a nation worth defending.

69

Not total sarc as I enjoy HH for what it is. Just a fun flick that wasn't trying to be anything more than that. Like the "Flint" series.

 

And I'll bet you were one of the five people not in John Travolta's family who stood in line to see Battlefield Earth, weren't you?

70 I'd be willing to help fund a project that would alter an asteroid's course so it hits the Earth directly.

71 Bleed Northern Virgina white.

72 We have signs in the office that say, "like a 20% pay cut, thank your cube mate who voted for Obama!" We photo-shopped one of those don't tell a secret posters. Ooh post that! My sister works for the Feds. She never paid attention to politics til Obama was elected. Now she's a raging right wing whacko like me. Her attitude is "Bring it on!". She said the sequester will force the gubamint to prioritize and stop funding unnecessary crap.

73 1 lb sequester 2 oz bitter root 1 cup sarcasm 8 oz Irish Whiskey Cool @ 500 until totally BURNED

74 Note to self, always check your typing on the word "and". A misspelling gets you "Andrew" every fapping time.

75 This is the part of the day that I put the television on the news, Fox News had Governors on saying how much the sequester is going to hurt their state. I switch between the local Fox Boston and FNC. I have to go to work and I check in here from my phone. I want to hear the weather and I'm gong to have to turn television off. They are acting as if the entire country is going to disintegrate on March 1. It's the only good thing that the JEF has proposed and he's blaming the republicans Thank you, Vic for your history of today. I fell asleep watching something on demand and I woke up in the middle of the night and television was still on. Jan Brewer was on Greta and said the SCOAMT told her that he's not running for office again and Jan told Greta that she got a chill up her spine when he told her that. Jan said the SCOAMT has a thing with EO's and she doesn't know what he'll do with them. I'm sure that the JEF is about to overstep his power and we must force the media to cover it. If this a republican they'd be screaming for impeachment proceedings. We should start screaming for impeachment! This is why I have to turn the thing off, i can feel my blood pressure going up when I think of what the JEF has done to the US in four years.

76 Oh man, just made the mistake of looking out my front door. Looks like someone needs to start shoveling.

And since I'm the only one here, call me 'someone'.

77 72 rumningr,

Indeed.  And I meant Dangerous word not work in my post to Toquevillian....

bring it on if we can't reduce "growth" not even a real damn cut by 87 billion we need to let the implosion happen and carve up the remains of the blast and start over.

78

In a scene reminiscent of Blazing Saddles Obama warns that illegals will flood the borders if we donÂ’t increase spending.

Little danger of that. Their job prospects are better in Mexico. If we wait a few years, Mexico might build a border fence for us.

Posted by: The Establishment at February 26, 2013 07:17 AM (MSrqi)

 

The fence would interfere with the drug trade and the bribes the Narcos offer. 

Immigration Control?  They are more likely to just grab the gringo off the street, beat him as necessary, and throw him in the bus going north.   I doubt their immigration courts would take years to throw us gringoes out on our asses.  their lawyers do not have the clout to gum up the system like our US lawyers do.  Too bad, the "justice system" here can waste billions of dollars in delays.

79 Hey, what's the difference between Robocop and the real Detroit? One is a dystopian hell-hole where criminals reign supreme--and one was a movie.

80

"If we wait a few years, Mexico might build a border fence for us."

 

I wouldn't blame them.

81 67 If we wait a few years, Mexico might build a border fence for us. Creating a secure border fence. Doing the jobs Americans won't do. One of the funniest South Park episodes ever was when Cartman went down to The Border, and Border Patrol Guards were trying to prevent all the Mexicans from fleeing America. The premise was things suck so bad here under Obama, the Mexicans wanted out.

82 When (not if) Obama becomes the first president to go a perfect 8 years out of 8 with a shitty economy, it will be difficult for the historians to spin that into greatness. But they'll find a way.

83

Tired of cute?

http://is.gd/pww8ui[/i]

 

Thank God.  As confirmed by Science!, cute pics make me want to choke a bitch.

 

 

Errr....c**t?  Whichever word is appropriate for nine-year-olds.  That's the one that cute pics make me want to choke.

84 She said the sequester will force the gubamint to prioritize and stop funding unnecessary crap.

Posted by: rumningrn at February 26, 2013 07:41 AM (Ag5D2)

Obviously she doesn't know who gets to choose what gets cut in this non-budget cut.

85

One of the funniest South Park episodes ever was when Cartman went down to The Border, and Border Patrol Guards were trying to prevent all the Mexicans from fleeing America. The premise was things suck so bad here under Obama, the Mexicans wanted out.

 

South Park.  Doing the jobs other American comedians won't do.

86 Good morning, morons. The rain has finally stopped here after dropping 9 inches according to the gnome.

87 I'd go ahead and declare Canada the new land of opportunity, but those half-wit Canucks will vote the Left back in one day and they'll undo all of Harper's progress.

88 Can you imagine the caterwauling if the line on that graph I posted ever sloped down like it needs to?

89 Never even heard of Battlefield Earth MPPPP. Maybe it says more about you that you have? If it'll put your mind at ease any, my three favorites are North by Northwest The Ten Commandments McLintock

90 I too am one of those evil bottom-feeding Federal employees (DoD) who will lose 20% of their paycheck.

No, OSP, you will not notice a daily impact due to sequester. 

Unless you were expecting the U.S. military to actually defend you while you sleep.  Then you might notice.

DoD can ABSOLUTELY take this cut.  What is CANNOT do without breaking the place is take a 10% salami slice to every program and activity - which is the way Congress mandated it.

Just tell us to take the cut, and then give us the authority to move cash around to pay the "must pay" bills and we'll be fine.

The problem is, Congress didn't do that, so yeah, DoD is fucked.

91

She said the sequester will force the gubamint to prioritize and stop funding unnecessary crap.

 

Does she still believe in the tooth fairy, too?

 

Sorry for the sarcasm, but I'm a dyed in the wool cynic.  Not a goddamn thing will be cut, and if anything is, it will be fluffy teddy bears who guide handicapped autistic colored lesbian babies through the Lincoln Memorial.

92 I hope the sequester won't affect our Nobel Peace Price-winning president's military adventurism all over Africa.

93 Mornin', 'tards! Okay, a couple of observations from last night's wrestling show. 1) they were in Dallas and they called out Glenn Beck. One of the announcers went to Beck's studio to harass him into coming on the program, but they didn't show it. It's web only content. They continue to talk about "Beck, Limbaugh and Alex Jones" as the anti-immigrant forces. I think Vince is miffed that he couldn't get Beck to come clown around with him. 2) the tea party/racist heels explained why they were against illegal immigration. They did it rudely, but nothig they sad was untrue. They even made the point, to which the champion agreed, that it takes 10 years to gain Mexican residence and foreigners can't own land. They got zero reaction from the audience. Then they kicked it into racist mode and conflated the (legal) champion baby face from Mexico with illegals. That drew a reaction. The main event was Cena versus CM Punk, and it was match of the year material. It brought the house down and rightly so. Cena will fight The Rock for the WWE championship at Wrestlemania. Despite the heavily Democrat skew of the WWE's audience, the evil tea party slash white supremacist versus the heroic brown immigrant angle is not getting the kind of crowd reaction that they want. Couple that with the heel, Jack Swagger, having just got arrested for pot DUI, and you have a busted storyline for your second main event at the biggest PPV of the year.

94 Chris Christie not invited to CPAC. Liberals, catering industry hardest hit. http://scoamf.us/7s

95 Liberals, catering industry hardest hit. That brought a chuckle. Moar coffee.

96 The local GOP has declared war on anyone in government that is wanting to limit Second Amendment rights of the public... will go as far as backing pro-Second Amendment  candidates and push for recall elections for local Donks that want to take or limit access to guns for law abiding citizens.

97 92, I wouldn't think the WWE audience had a "heavily Democratic skew." Looks like a bunch of white men 25-40.

98

If it'll put your mind at ease any, my three favorites are
North by Northwest
The Ten Commandments
McLintock

 

Nice choices, teej.  Speaking of North, do you remember when TFG and his pet wookie went to visit Mount Rushmore?  Preezy Skeet asked the guide where Hitchcock had shot the film and had to be told, "no, that was a movie set."

 

Don't remember that?  I didn't expect you to.  But boy howdy, would you have been reminded of that every single motherfucking day had it been George Bush showing his ass like that.  This is why, when the collapse comes, I want to command a division of Empress Alex's raptors solely to hunt down members of the state-run media.

99 48 -

Same here, I hear people say Hudson Hawk was the worst movie ever, and I politely suggest they rewatch Chicago.  Or American Beauty.  You know, films that take themselves seriously you guys. 

As for Flint, it's been a while, but I was thinking the same thing.  I remember liking it quite a bit.   

100 , I wouldn't think can see how the WWE audience had a "heavily Democratic skew." Looks like a bunch of white men 25-40 who were educated by teacher's unions

FIFY

101 43 I'm wondering if I will even notice the sequester in my daily life. It's why The Wizard of O has to gin up all these scare tactics so it doesn't happen. He'a in deep doo doo if the Republicans don't cave (yeah, I know, ha ha!) because most people will be unaffected. The man standing behinding the curtain pulling all the Scarequester levers just said: "At some point, we've got to do some governing. And certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis". He just proposed another stopgap measure.

102 I actually walked out of American Beauty. I swear to you, as I did, I thought, "There's your Best Picture winner."

103 it will be difficult for the historians to spin that into greatness.

But they'll find a way.

Erm.....

104 >>>>>As for Flint, it's been a while, but I was thinking the same thing. I remember liking it quite a bit.<<<<<<

The Anti-American eagle schtick is a scream. So is the proto=jihadi and the boulliabaise......

105 103, If FDR had only had those first two terms, he would not be remembered so fondly.

106 105 103, If FDR had only had those first two terms, he would not be remembered so fondly. If JFK hadn't been assassinated, he would not have been remembered so fondly.

107 Hell, I never even heard about that in the first place. And I have to admit that while I figured the scenes on Mt. Rushmore were stage stuff, I'd always figured the touristy viewing place and shots of the Mount itself were real. I really need to get up there someday. Bucket list thing. Maybe combine it with a walleye fishing trip? Hmmm.

108 A late good morning.

Obama has issued a PDF file for EACH of the 50 states detailing the scary effects of sequestration.  These are written in juvenile tone (aiming at the uneducated,  I suppose) and in Indiana we are being told that we risk losing teachers, early childhood education (Head Start), aviation safety and security risks, etc.

It is the biggest crock of crap I have read in some time,  and obviously they have been working on this for a couple of weeks.  Let me emphasize that there is a PDF file for EACH state on the White House web site.  Here is the link to Indiana's,  so you can see what I mean.  You can probably get to your state's file there by looking around.

http://tinyurl.com/andcopg

109

I'd go ahead and declare Canada the new land of opportunity, but those half-wit Canucks will vote the Left back in one day and they'll undo all of Harper's progress.

 

Long term, all electorates vote full retard on occasion.  Those vacations from reality are all too tempting

 

Short term.....hmmm.   After the re-election of Senor Dumbfuck, I'd say there's a decent chance of that.  Pierre Trudeau's son Justin is currently looking to wrap up the Liberal Party's leadership campaign.  And he's possibly more retarded than Sir Shanksalot....with less competent advisors.

 

Yet, given the cult of personality fucktardery of Western electorates, and all those earnest, sweaty blowjobs from the media that tries to love him, he could possibly win a general election.

 

That said, Lt. Cmdr. Data Harper has a pretty big fuckin' brain under the bad haircut.  I put the odds at 50/50  for next time.

110 Nielsen says the WWE's audience is almost 70-30 Democrat.

111 Serenity now, you guys!

112 Let me emphasize that those 50 pdf files had to be written and approved,  and were not done overnight.

That means the White House has been planning FOR SOME TIME for this to come down to the wire.  

113 Well my power has been off for a half hour now. I'd better get out of here to save battery. Have a good one folks.

114 Joe Biden had a new portrait done, You Guys!

115 Can you link the base url, Miss Marple?

116 bernie goldberg said last night the problem is "it looks like journalism" and i repliedto my tv "but it's snot"

117 Our Man Flint was a masterpiece!

118

Thanks, MP4, for the On theWaterfront story. My wife happened to flip through the channels on Saturday night and we caught the last half on TCM. It's a damn fine movie, and I can understand why the Vatican has it on its list of all-time great movies. 

 

Cobb did such a great job as Johnny Friendly- I had not realized that he had almost no substantial work afterwards. It's a good thing that Hollywood no longer discriminates and blacklists actors who actually support the United States, right?  Right?  Hello...?

119 So this is kind of a fun, little story: "St. Louis Rams running back Terrance Ganaway, who earns the minimum rookie salary of $390,000, fills subs, wipes tables and sweeps the floors at Jimmy John's in Waco, Texas. 'I'm on the line that makes the sandwiches,' he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 'I bake bread, take the cashier spot. 'I had to sweep the other day. Clean the tables. I mean all types of stuff. Slice the meat. Wrap the meat.' He says he took the unlikely three-nights-a-week part-time job after joking on Twitter that he had too much free time and wanted a pastime to keep him busy. But one enterprising restaurant manager of the fast-food chain called his bluff and offered him a job - which Ganaway gratefully accepted. 'I just wanted to stay fit, stay out of trouble and really just try to save money and not spend a lot of money,' Ganaway told the newspaper. But the player, who played just three games for the Rams last season, said he was surprised by all the attention his new job has got him."

120

http://ssristories.com/index.php

 

Dunno if anybody would want to make hay out of this for a post at some blog or another, but it shows a lot of Bad Things which happened in connection with SSRI's like Paxil, etc. School shootings? Why yes. There does appear to be some sort of link between mental illness and Doing Bad Things. Who would've thought?

121 Terrance already sounds like he has a more level head than 95%+ of NFL players. Good on him.

122 Sequester my give-a-shit 'bout anything that comes out of TFG's piehole, and the other hole that sometimes allows pie.

123

110 Nielsen says the WWE's audience is almost 70-30 Democrat.

 

Perfect fit.

124 Will Ms. Dunham support Anne if she ran for a Senate seat?  What the world needs after the likes of Al Franken and the nascent candidacy of Ashley Judd.  Another boob in the Senate.

125 No kidding WWE's Wrestlemania is gonna be crap. Their writing and story arcs have been crap since they wrapped up the "Attitude Era" and went for the little kid demographic. Without Bischoff, they fucking blow.

126 Scroll down for state list

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/what-sequester

127 Another boob in the Senate. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 26, 2013 08:13 AM (2HjDP)

...and not even the Moron Approved™ kind.

128 #115  toby 928  Here is a link to the White House blog "What is a sequester?"

http://tinyurl.com/bbobten

At the top,  you will see a sentence which directs you to the files for each state.  (It's in the first paragraph of text.)

129 Some chart-fu master could add the taxes vs. spending line below for extra credit.  Maybe back fill some years.

130 As much as I like "Sequestmageddon", maybe we should take our cue from the Weather Channel and start giving Obama's manufactured Crisis you Guys! names, like Nemo and Sandy. Maybe we could call this one Percy.

131 13 RIP C. Everette Coop at 96. http://is.gd/13v4c4 Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2013 07:13 AM (53z96) The Koopster! All senior citizens should have Life Alert! All señor citizens should have amnesty! /s

132 Forecast is for ~12" of snow in the next 24 hours. REALLY glad I put off that snowblower purchase until next year because "we've had just about all the heavy snows we're going to get this year and it'll just take up space in the garage." EoJ: Sooper Jeenyuss.

133 via sidebar, babies start to decipher speech at least 3 months before exiting the womb. Those annoying clumps of cells are eavesdropping!!! No right to live!!!

134 The Shield is the least-credible threat I've seen in some time. They are laughable. I don't really enjoy most of the characters and storylines. And the ones that are enjoyable, they drag out for five times longer than necessary. I kind of enjoyed Daniel Bryan's meltdown... For about three shows. It's going on a year now.

135 Morning!

Aside from you guys in DoD, ya know what will be cut?  Fucking social workers going to the homes of mothers with infants (0-3 yrs) as part of the Early Head Start program.  WTF?  The benefits listed are things like activities so the kids are not watching TV.  WTF again?

When the hell did it become the job of the federal government to take care of infants?

And when did the feds take over funding of schools?  They didn't.. but if you listen to the lefty moaners, it's as if every school will close down on March 1st.

Well, I say fuck 'em... let's just see how bad things get.  We had furloughs here in Chicago a few years ago with whole departments closing for a day here and there.  No one even noticed!

Sorry for you morons in DoD getting hit so bad..  I know you guys could absorb a hit like this without even blinking if you had the flexibility to put the cuts wherever you liked.

136

SEQ = One small step for sanity.  If this goes well, we should do it more often. Think about it: 10-15 sequesters and we might even make some progress.

 

As for the DOD civilian workforce?  No offense, but since 9/11, that industry has gone hog wild crazy with unlimited $$$ thrown at it.  Ever hear of "market correction"? Welcome to reality.  Nothing in the government should be spared from the cuts - nothing. 

137 So what's the point of having 50 separate .pdf files for the Sequestration cuts? The Obama team doesn't do this stuff without a motive. Is this to inhibit comparisons - maybe they've diddled with the numbers so it looks much worse that it will actually be (i.e. duplicate cuts applied to several states/totals that are much higher than the actual cuts)?

138 Here's a taste of the writing from the White House bloc:

"In less than a week, harmful automatic cuts — known as the sequester — take effect, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, and cutting vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform."

1. HE proposed it and now acts like it's something that is out of his control.
2. Note how the "mental illness" threat is in there,  like thousands of crazy people are going to be turned loose on us.
3.  Also,  cuts threat old people, children,  and the military.  No mention of  Bertha, the rude agriculture department information clerk who sits on her rear and does on-line shopping.

139 @132

   Stop whining, EOJ.  Adversity builds character.

140 THERE ARE NO CUTS. FY 2013 with sequester will spend more than FY 2012.

141 As for the DOD civilian workforce? No offense, but since 9/11, that industry has gone hog wild crazy with unlimited $$$ thrown at it.Ever hear of "market correction"? Welcome to reality. Nothing in the government should be spared from the cuts - nothing. Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 26, 2013 08:20 AM (EGPJQ)

No one said DoD can't, wouldn't, or shouldn't take a cut.  The problem is the micromanagement of it by people who can't sharpen a pencil without endangering themselves and others.

Go read post #90

142 9 DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER! MASS HYSTERIA! Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at February 26, 2013 07:12 AM (MSrqi) If that's the case then my back yard could be the beginning of the Higgs Boson Apocalypse.

143 Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 26, 2013 08:17 AM (I2LwF)



It's terrible. A few months ago, Cena and Jericho were going back and forth in ring and Cena's ranting at Jericho and busts out with something like "gosh doggit", "dagnabbit" or something equally absurd. They both break character for a second and Jericho says "Really? I mean, dagnabbit? What the hell man?" Cena "What do you want from me Chris, our average viewer is about 8 years old."



Sad, because it's true. And now they have a champ who's there, what, half the time at best?

144 What about the DHS cuts? That one really pulls at the heartstrings, huh? TSA personnel to be laid off you guys! That a%%hole who felt up your wheelchair-bound grandma and 6 year old daughter might lose his job!!

145 for all future Democrats to grab land

I walleye fish in front of BJs Voyagers grab.  A nice family multi-building summer camp.  Now just the main bldg left as a display and a park service super duty dock.  And a sign asking for stories of life on the lake.  Gave me and Dad something to crank about when the fish weren't biting.

146 140 THERE ARE NO CUTS. FY 2013 with sequester will spend more than FY 2012. Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 26, 2013 08:23 AM (I2LwF) Teh Krug-Bernanke Complex says all this austerity is killing our economy, we must QE another elebenty trillion into our economy for the chillrens n shit.

147 No mention of Bertha, the rude agriculture department information clerk who sits on her rear and does on-line shopping.

Posted by: Miss Marple at February 26, 2013 08:22 AM (GoIUi)

 

Hey! Sometimes some idiot actually asks me a question, and I have to glare at them for 5 seconds before mumbling a generic answer and pointing in a random direction. That's hard work!

148 Steak before sequester: 12 oz. Steak after sequester: 11.9 oz.

149 Just dropped by to say some truth...Obama sucks and so do the 51% who voted for him last November

150 THERE ARE NO CUTS.

FY 2013 with sequester will spend more than FY 2012.

Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 26, 2013 08:23 AM (I2LwF)

+100

This needs to be on the lips of every single Republican in DC.

151 I have to fly to Vegas Monday. I can't wait to see what these fuck-nuts do to jam up the security lines. Every point of contact w/anything, ANYTHING, "fed" is going to be as painful as they can make it. For the Makers, that is...

152 Haven't read the other comments, but wasn't Lee J. Cobb in The Exorcist?  Not an unsuccessful film, that.

153 150 THERE ARE NO CUTS.


FY 2013 with sequester will spend more than FY 2012.

Posted by: Truman, schmuman at February 26, 2013 08:23 AM (I2LwF)

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

+100

This needs to be on the lips of every single Republican in DC.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2013 08:25 AM (GsoHv)

That would require them to take the dicks out of their mouths first.

154 Truman is right, the budget is cut, actual spending is unchanged. These fools have let the JEF think the US is going to lose everything Friday! Hi Truman! Rush said that at the Governors dinner Sunday night, Chris Christie got to sit ned to the JEF! Rush said guess, and I thought he'd say Deval Patrick, our governor, but instead the seat of honor went to Chris Christie. The JEF knows that Christie pulled him over the line to win reelection!

155 :::139 @132 Stop whining, EOJ. Adversity builds character. Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2013 08:22 AM (SAMxH)::: You mouthy old coot! I'm all stocked up on character! What I need is machinery!

156 You mouthy old coot! I'm all stocked up on character!  Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:29 AM (JDIKC)

C'mon man, you were Infantry.  Both you and I know that they took away your "character" when they cut your hair at Benning.

157 Mary Poppins PP- Yes, a young Marlon Brando was hot! I used to watch some of those movies made before I was born and I had a crush on him. Too bad he didn't age gracefully and put on hundreds of pounds.

158 That would require them to take the dicks out of their mouths first.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:28 AM (da5Wo)

Ah, incisive analysis.....the hallmark of AOSHQ.

159 148 JDTay,

it's worse than that thanks to the miracle of baseline budgeting the steak in 12.3oz and barky is whining

160 The real problem with sequester is that it doesn't cut anything.  It is the same as the phony Boner budget cut.  That chart doesn't slope down at all.

Moar chart-fu

http://is.gd/u0I0ip

161 You mouthy old coot! I'm all stocked up on character! What I need is machinery!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:29 AM (JDIKC)

What you need is a 15 year old looking to earn some cash.

Sit down Bob! We're talking about shoveling snow, jackass.

162 What I need is machinery!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:29 AM (JDIKC)

You don't understand.

If you buy a snowblower....it will not snow.

If you do not buy a snowblower, it will snow....a lot.

163 "There Are No Cuts!!!"

The 'There Is No Cake!!!' of 2013.

Hence the cuts are a lie.

164 Here's an idea-- cut Federal pensions 2%. Take it from America's Future Layabout Drones rather than America's children.

165 That would require them to take the dicks out of their mouths first. Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:28 AM (da5Wo)

Whoa, whoa, wait a second there.

You mean, once you become a member of Congress you acquire the ability to lick yourself???

This requires a radical re-thinking of options.....

166 EoJ was Sen. Bob Menedez, the 15yr old would never shovel snow....

167 Ah, incisive analysis.....the hallmark of AOSHQ.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2013 08:30 AM (GsoHv)

Hey, if you don't like it, you can always go to Hot Air.

168 So. It's all cuts in the rate of increase. That's nice. I really can't express the rest of my reaction because it's harsh, even by my standards.

169 Whoa, whoa, wait a second there.

You mean, once you become a member of Congress you acquire the ability to lick yourself???

This requires a radical re-thinking of options.....

Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 26, 2013 08:32 AM (sbV1u)

Not their own dicks....

170 What you need is a 15 year old looking to earn some cash.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:31 AM (da5Wo)

I may have some work for her.....

171 Hey, if you don't like it, you can always go to Hot Air.

*****

Bwahahahahaha

172 zsasz, Turbo Tax Timmy has already raided Federal pensions of almost $600 million earlier to stave off the debt limit crunch.  Remember that looming disaster?

173 155 :::139 @132

Stop whining, EOJ. Adversity builds character.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2013 08:22 AM (SAMxH):::

You mouthy old coot! I'm all stocked up on character! What I need is machinery!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:29 AM (JDIKC)

 

Oh my, the tone on you guys.

174 You don't understand Bannion - I'm ***this close*** to being retired from yard work. I just need something to bridge the gap until my Child Labor Force is big enough to do the job.

175 Not their own dicks.... Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:33 AM (da5Wo

Whew.  Thanks.

No career change on the horizon then.

176
168 So. It's all cuts in the rate of increase. That's nice.

I really can't express the rest of my reaction because it's harsh, even by my standards.

Posted by: alexthechick - Chaotic Evil Hobbit. at February 26, 2013 08:33 AM (VtjlW)

I had a mini rant during one of the debates about "cuts" in the rate of expansion. The wife was moderately amused until I yelled out "It's fucking MATH!!!" Then she was highly amused.

177 Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:32 AM (da5Wo)

I'm offended!

Actually I got a chuckle out of your comment.

178 @167.  OUCH!  That had to hurt.

179 The Dems cannot allow  sequestration to happen.  If it does and the world does not spin off it's axis and into oblivion, then the dumb-masses will realize that cuts are possible, plus possibly putting an end to automatic spending increases.  I CAN DREAM can't I?

180 2. Note how the "mental illness" threat is in there, like thousands of crazy people are going to be turned loose on us. Posted by: Miss Marple at February 26, 2013 08:22 AM (GoIUi) Oh noes! They are gonna let all the congresscritters out of DC?

181 You don't understand Bannion - I'm ***this close*** to being retired from yard work. I just need something to bridge the gap until my Child Labor Force is big enough to do the job.  Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:34 AM (JDIKC)

I know this pain
Why do lock yourself up in these chains?
No one can change your life except for you
Don't ever let anyone step all over you
Just open your heart and your mind
Is it really fair to feel this way inside?

Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
Can you hold on for one more day
Things'll go your way
Hold on for one more day

182 morning all
ugh
more snow

183 Have the Brass changed their tune since admitting that the US Military is in perpetual war, moving towards the draft instead of all-voluntary military? Last week, which member of Congress was touting the draft, sponsoring the bill, and the MSM highlighting women to be drafted in the soundbites?

Which of today's televised mouthpieces were of age to actually anticipate being drafted during the '70s Vietnam War protests? Brokaw's retired. That period saw US draft dodgers move to Canada, etc., given amnesty by Jimmah Carter years later. But were the draft brought back again, given the new authoritarian Laws/bureaus since Bush and Obama, the Burke-Wadsworth Bill ( June 20, 1940) won't necessarily provide precedence or standing for Conscientious Objectors.  And whatever wars the US remains embedded in perpetual conflict would at this point include Canada, being NATO. With NAFTA and the US Attorney General thwarting constitutional governance stateside, expect judicial compliance prosecuting according to PC authoritarianism that manifests whatever Big Brother enforces as "social justice".

184 Posted by: Case at February 26, 2013 08:35 AM (GxTMf)

Nah, it's a budding joke joke that looks like it will be a long-running one.

185

Oh my, the tone on you guys.

 

---------

 

Shoveling snow gives you Moochelle Owebama arms, so it's good for  you.  ~  The Fellatio Media

186 sean bannion wilson/phillips? really?

187 Oh good. Bannion is now singing to EoJ. We all know that the theater major won't be able to keep the showtunes from springing forth.

188 168 AlexTheChick,

You want to really explode Ma'am...

I'm "harlekwin 15" over at tepid...I have to admit I do more serious posting there b/c I love you guys and use this as my asylum when I overload dealing with the suck in the net world.

http://tinyurl.com/a5t4uxd

Tepid idiots on minimum wage...

this is why we're fucked as a nation...

I'm gonna be scarce I have to run to Louisville.

Y'all be safe see you this evening....

the stupid it hurt's M'lady it hurts...

they refuse to get why we are where we are.

189 Hey Bannion, speaking of Ft. Beginning, was the old lady with the electronic voice box handing out uniforms in Initial Issue when you went through?

190 sean bannion wilson/phillips? really?

It seemed thematically appropriate to EoJ's whining.

191 You don't understand.

If you buy a snowblower....it will not snow.

If you do not buy a snowblower, it will snow....a lot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2013 08:31 AM

But...
I needed a new roof. I was very ill and unable to work.
We had a drought for three years so the roof wasn't an a huge issue.
I went back to work and had a new roof put on.
The day after the roof was done it rained an inch and a half a week for a year .

192 Never mind. Wrong branch. You probably went to Knox.

193

Haven't read the other comments, but wasn't Lee J. Cobb in The Exorcist? Not an unsuccessful film, that.

 

True.  I should have amended the post a little bit.  My point was that, though Cobb did appear in some quality films after Waterfront, the majority of them weren't of high calibre.

194 AtC I'm with ya, I'm wanting to send one of these critters to DC

http://tinyurl.com/arsem7f

195

27We were awakened by our tornado sirens going off. Yay.

Schools are closed here because of flooding.

 

 

 

Starting to rain here. The intellicast radar looks like Walt Disney throw-up.

 

196 Hey Bannion, speaking of Ft. Beginning, was the old lady with the electronic voice box handing out uniforms in Initial Issue when you went through? Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:38 AM (JDIKC)

I think I'd remember that.  I was there May-Aug '83.  I don't recall her.

I do, however, recall Drill Sergeant Malcolm T. McCluskey.

::: shudder :::

197 I read somewhere yesterday that TFG fatigue has set in. It was something I glance at but didn't read because I was at work. Please let the media have it!

198

@141   I read post 90. And I do not believe for one minute that immediate across the board cuts in the DoD is a bad thing. Short term there will be much handwringing and doomsday predictions.  We'll hear of stories about no spare aircraft parts, lousy food for troups, etc etc. Blah blah blah.

 

Guess what happens? The sun comes up tomorrow and the clowns that run the place have to re-establish their priorities.  Just. Like. Everyone. Else.

199 Never mind. Wrong branch. You probably went to Knox. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:39 AM (JDIKC)

No, I was 11C for a brief period, then commissioned in Armor.

200 160 Vic,

You know I am not carrying his water...this was probably the best Boner could get sadly and may be a nice political trap...Barky's wailing is funny in context to people over 35 who can think...

you have a good day Vic...

I'll be around longer in the morning soon.

201 189 Hey Bannion, speaking of Ft. Beginning, was the old lady with the electronic voice box handing out uniforms in Initial Issue when you went through?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:38 AM (JDIKC)

 

Be careful what you say about her!  That's my Mom and it was the best sex I ever had you guys

202

"If you buy a snowblower....it will not snow.

If you do not buy a snowblower, it will snow....a lot."

 

Or...

 

If you buy something to plow snow, it will break and not be fixed until June.

 

My Holder MultiPark sits in the warehouse waiting for parts and someone with the skills to make it go again.

 

 

203 The Ten Commandments My favorite Hollywood epic. I had an Old Testament class in college and my Teacher was my favorite teacher ever. Her and the seminary students that attended our Jesuit institution would go round and round on doctrine. I brought up the Ten Commandments, she shot me a hard look and said, "Cecil B DeMille is burning in hell."

204 I can see Bannion leading his cav troop across the LD in Iraq, blaring Wilson Phillips from loudspeakers on his M1 Abrams tank. No wonder they popped out of those trenches so fast, waving tighty whities on a stick.

205 2. mental illness

Texas has new mental health legislation limiting the number of newly enrolled patients admitted into the mental health program per year to 12, and to close the State Hospital, and to farm out mental patients into private homes in groups no less than 3 per home. That, in order to be more "effective". So how will the State's patients' private home CAREGIVERS now be "better" supervised?

206 Morning all. I got nothing

207 Dogs and cats, not only living together but playing poker after 1AM.

208 MP4, I looked up Cobb on IMDB.  Late in his career, shortly before his death, he did two non-spaghetti western Italian movies.  Yeah, I don't remember them, either.  But I do remember him on 'The Virginian'.  Loved westerns.  Also, he was in '12 Angry Men' which, along with every CSI show, ruined jury duty for the masses.

209 yeah I am solidly pro-sequester at this point, because I want to see the reaction on lefties' faces when the sun rises on March 1 and the world hasn't come to an end

210 Data,Data Data all the Data collected to instill fear and hostility in the ranks...this is what happens when your caught in a group. The enemy breaks a couple away from the others and gives them hot chow and a warm place too sleep and some perks ...slowly the others tumble in to the other group getting the privileges. Before long you have only a few hold outs... but how long can you hold out under the lights?

211 I brought up the Ten Commandments, she shot me a hard look and said, "Cecil B DeMille is burning in hell."

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at February 26, 2013 08:42 AM (l86i3)

I thought it followed the bible pretty good.  Especially for a movie. The part about Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) was made up crap though.

212 @184.  Yeah, the Ace comment.

213 Rumor is that Fat Bastard RINO won't be invited to CPAC. Good deal.

214 I read post 90. And I do not believe for oneminute thatimmediate across the board cuts in the DoD is a bad thing. Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 26, 2013 08:40 AM (EGPJQ)

Tell you what, you give me all your money for a year, and I'll budget for you it the way DoD is being budgeted.  You'll get the same exact amount, but you'll have to put up with my budgeting methodology.

Let's say you make $50K a year.  I'll give you $100 a month for 11 months, and then I'll give you $48,900 in the last month.  Same amount right?  What's the issue?

Of course, you might resort to cannibalism by the 6th month, but hey, you'll figure it out.

That is in effect what's happening to DoD.  And if you really cannot see why that's a really bad idea in the area of national defense, then you're uneducable.

215 Lets send the Amish Mafia of Discovery Channel fame to DC.

216 By data , I mean only the data that enforces your Jailers opinion of your demise...eat that.

217 yeah I am solidly pro-sequester at this point, because I want to see the reaction on lefties' faces when the sun rises on March 1 and the world hasn't come to an end Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 26, 2013 08:43 AM (BBWjt) Yeah, other than the disproportionate hit on Defense and, I'm with ya

218 I thought it followed the bible pretty good. Especially for a movie. The part about Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) was made up crap though. Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2013 08:45 AM (53z96) Yep, But Edward G Robinson playing a traitorous Jew, Yesh, shee, My little desert flower. Awesomly campy.

219 Dathan was just a Kapo of the Pharaoh.

220 AtC I'm with ya, I'm wanting to send one of these critters to DC http://tinyurl.com/arsem7f Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 26, 2013 08:39 AM (BBWjt) I think we're going to need more than one. Oh. Yay. The pouring rain is changing over to pouring freezing rain. Plus I just got this snippy email from my boss about doing something that's been done for a month and I've bugged him every day to review and this grown up shit sucks out loud. At least I can watch tennis on my computer. Don't fucking start with me, I love tennis and at the moment it's what's keeping me from doing the toddlerfists.

221 then you're uneducable.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 26, 2013 08:45 AM (sbV1u)

That can't be a real word. It just can't.

222

You don't understand Bannion - I'm ***this close*** to being retired from yard work. I just need something to bridge the gap until my Child Labor Force is big enough to do the job.

 

What's the matter, EoJ - aren't there any fellows of swarthy complexion trailing the scent of mezcal and guacamole in your neighborhood?

223

>>>I'm gonna be scarce I have to run to Louisville.

 

Lovely city, that one.

224 Thanks for sticking that wilson phillips song in my head. Asshole.

225

Morning, all!

 

I'm guessing the HQ has already soundly ridiculed our new Frankenstein of an SOS over his "Kyrzakhstan" flub a few days ago.   But if not, I offer you the Twitchy link sans further comment.

 

TWITCHY:   http://tiny.cc/dk83sw

 

...

 

Okay, ONE more comment.   Odds you ever hear about this    from the MFM?    Zilch.

226 I can see Bannion leading his cav troop across the LD in Iraq, blaring Wilson Phillips from loudspeakers on his M1 Abrams tank.  Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2013 08:42 AM (JDIKC)

It was Def Leppard, through the CVC, hard wired into the AN/VIC-1  

And it was fucking awesome.

227 209 They will pull some kind of false flag shit and blame it on sequester.
With the propaganda outlets wailing "Sequester 11ty!" most vituperously.

228 That can't be a real word. It just can't. Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:47 AM (da5Wo) I think its a new Cable company.

229 What's the matter, EoJ - aren't there any fellows of swarthy complexion trailing the scent of mezcal and guacamole in your neighborhood?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2013 08:47 AM (zF6Iw)

 

 

If not, there's sure to be a few hanging around in front of the local Home Depot.

230 That can't be a real word. It just can't.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26

I failed English? That's unpossible!

231 Posted by: conscription? at February 26, 2013 08:36 AM (MhA4j)



The first to be drafted for the needs of the war against Eastasia will not be persons of color!

232 Louisville has the best street name within it's city that I ever saw:

Billy Goat Strut Alley

As I remember,  it was down near the river in the warehouse area.

233 Chuck Todd slammed TFG for selling access to the White House? Wow, maybe TFG fatigue has hit the media! Bye, I have to go get ready for work!

234 Sean points to one of the reasons why a government bureaucracy is NOT like a business.

Both entities have budgets.  But in government land, if the organization has money left over at End of Year the next budget will be reduced. 

So after eleven months of being good stewards of their allocated money, government entities will go on shopping sprees in September - new chairs, new furniture, new flat screen TVs for the conference rooms, and about a billion pens.

235 I am getting Email after Email from the CO of my Medical Unit in the Navy and Emails from her CO and Emails from CNO ( Chief of Naval Operations) about what will happen if and when sequestration hits. We'll see if the sun still rises next week?

236 What's the matter, EoJ - aren't there any fellows of swarthy complexion trailing the scent of mezcal and guacamole in your neighborhood?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2013 08:47 AM (zF6Iw)




You damn dirty Nativist. Why can't you love all the brown brothers and sisters? Like my hot South American wife? Sure she pulls trains with the neighbors and then pegs me, but she's brown and it shows that I'm not Nativist scum.

237 2.  mental illness

Precedence:

After World War I, and with another European war looming, leaders from the historic peace churches met to discuss how to cooperate with the government in order to avoid their difficulties during imprisonment experienced during World War I. As the United States prepared for another war, the historic peace churches, represented by Friends who better understood inner dealings of Washington D.C. politics, attempted to influence new draft bills to ensure that their men could fulfill their duty in an alternative, non-military type of service. On June 20, 1940, the Burke-Wadsworth Bill came before Congress for Civilian Public Service. CPS participants were financially sponsored by their home congregations, not by tax funds. Furthermore, all wages earned while working at private medical facilities, for instance, were confiscated by the government.

Understaffed wards at Philadelphia State Hospital had one attendant member for 300 patients, the minimum ratio being 10:1. The government balked at initial requests that CPS workers have these positions, believing it better to keep the men segregated in the rural camps to prevent the spread of their philosophy.

The CPS men discovered appalling conditions in the mental hospital wards. In an interview, a conscientious objector described his experience when he first entered a mental hospital in October 1942:
   
" It is sort of like a perpetual bad dream. The smells, the sounds of the insane voices, the bad equipment. The long, dark corridors. I tell you, it is all very much like a medieval fairytale of the nether regions. WeÂ’d heard about how these patients had been treated by the attendants, Beat with rods, you know, do all kind of things. We took a vow before we left the camp, we decided that we would not assault or in any way, strike a patient. I opened one of those rooms, and there was a man lying on the floor. I leaned over to try to see what I could do to minister to him in some way, do something for him. He may have been on a mattress or he may have been on the bare floor. No he was on the bare floor, because when I tried to move him, his skin came off. His skin was bloody and stuck to the floor and when I tried to lift him up it just peeled his skin off. He was in the last stages of syphilis. He died less than a week afterwards. Now that was my first introduction to what was badly needed in that institution. "
   
—Asa Watkins [Good War, Transcripts p.12]

238 I predict Boner caves. He can't help it, it's what he does.

239

 yeah I am solidly pro-sequester at this point, because I want to see the reaction on lefties' faces when the sun rises on March 1 and the world hasn't come to an end
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 26, 2013 08:43 AM (BBWjt)

 

Cue TFG's speech after ObamaCare was signed. Remember that one? "Some people said the world was going to end. I looked up after signing it and the sun was shining..."

240 Received a Sequestration email from my Senator Mark Udall:

"Sequestration — part of the bipartisan and widely supported Budget Control Act of 2011 — was designed to trigger budget cuts so painful that Congress would have no choice but to set aside its partisanship and reach a deal.  However, a growing chorus of lawmakers now seems content to simply let these cuts occur, rather than negotiate a reasonable and balanced solution.
...
The effects of sequestration would not only ripple throughout our national security apparatus and overall military readiness...but also would hurt critical services Coloradans care about, including health, education, fire preparedness and protecting the clean air and water Coloradans hold dear. "

Forest Fires You Guys!!11!

241 That can't be a real word. It just can't. Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:47 AM (da5Wo)

You're right, it's not.  It was a typo.  The correct word is "ineducable."

Why did they put "i" next to "u" in the keyboard?!?!?

And Get off off my lawn!

242 Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 26, 2013 08:45 AM (sbV1u)


Worst part, is that at the end of that year, you might not get the money after all due to other national priorities (like entitlements).

243

Love the Financial Times story linked over at Drudge:

 

"Angry Italians Deliver Austerity Warning"

FINANCIAL TIMES:  http://tiny.cc/bw83sw

 

...“The result is the absolute majority of Italians have voted against austerity measures, the euro and Europe,” said Enrico Letta, deputy leader of the Democrat party. “This sends a very clear signal to Brussels and Frankfurt.”

 

 

Dear Italy,

 

Math doesn't give a shit about your ballot box.

 

Sincerely,

Everyone

244 You're right, it's not. It was a typo. The correct word is "ineducable." Why did they put "i" next to "u" in the keyboard?!?!? And Get off off my lawn! Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 26, 2013 08:52 AM (sbV1u) *pats on back* There. There. Cupcake?

245 Dem Sen. Diane Feinstein: Gun Owners Should Decide Between “Personal Pleasure” And “General Welfare”… I'll take personal pleasure for $500 please!

246 AlextheChick, you need this coffee cup
http://tinyurl.com/ascwmc7

247  

      Kids today.


     Just sorrowful.

248 Dem Sen. Diane Feinstein: Gun Owners Should Decide Between “Personal Pleasure” And “General Welfare”… She needs to choose between cold civil war and hot civil war.

249 When released, On the Waterfront was a commercial and critical success, tamping down - if never fully silencing - the anger at Kazan for his HUAC testimony. But one man who didn't share in its success was Lee J. Cobb. Although his portrayal of union boss Johnny Friendly is a masterpiece of malevolence, the role was the last sputtering flame of a dying candle. Already ostracized in Hollywood because of his own HUAC testimony, Cobb in 1953 was a bankrupt who had just suffered a massive coronary. The role of Friendly was welcome work, but it didn't save his career. Memories are long in Hollywood, and while Cobb managed to snare juicy roles in 12 Angry Men and The Brothers Karamazov, his final years were a wasteland of second-rate TV appearances or supporting roles in cinematic turkeys like Our Man Flint.






Cobb was also in Coogan's Bluff and the Exorcist. It didn't know that Cobb was an outcast for being an American. They should have cleaned out Hollywood when they had the chance. Starting with that no talent Burt Lancaster

250 Forest Fires You Guys!!11!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2013 08:52 AM (is6Me)

 

OH NOES!

 

 

but also would hurt critical services Coloradans care about,
including health, education, fire preparedness and protecting the clean
air and water Coloradans hold dear. "

 

 

I love that sequestration      apparently   means that    big men in dump trucks are going to go cruising down to the local rivers and lakes and start dumping truckloads of filth and waste into the water supply.  

251 231. Posted by: Eric "My People" Holder at February 26, 2013 08:50 AM

yeah, and another of last week's TSA soundbites not meant for public airing...social justice favorites: the up and coming new majority.

/btw, "bolshevik" means "majority" in Russian. Indeed, Obama was elected by the Bolsheviks. But who'd have thought that Americans would fall back a century, as if THAT nostalgia were ours on ballot?

Trivia: ever noticed whether you think Putin physically resembles Lenin?

252 Yeah yeah to be honest I have a hard time believing all of the terrible things that they are saying will happen to the defense budget, especially since it's not that much money (in DC terms) and the people complaining the loudest about it seem to be the Donk senators like Udall who have other reasons to gin up opposition to the sequester.

253

Dem Sen. Diane Feinstein: Gun Owners Should Decide Between “Personal Pleasure” And “General Welfare”…

 

 

I'll take "personal pleasure" over your bastardization of the Constitution's concept of "general welfare" any day, you stupid bint.

254

Posted by: alexthechick - Chaotic Evil Hobbit. at February 26, 2013 08:54 AM (VtjlW)

 

 

 

Does your nic imply hairy feet?

255

>>>Dem Sen. Diane Feinstein: Gun Owners Should Decide Between “Personal Pleasure” And “General Welfare”…

 

Choose between your Constitutional Rights and this scrunt's whims.

256 I was at a briefing on the Hill yesterday, and the briefer from CSIS said, accurately, that "an asteroid is not going to strike the Federal budget on March 1st.  But DoD will look like one has by July 1."

And that's really the point.  Here's an example...and this is an actual example.

Let's say the Base Ops account (money to run military bases) is $8B.  And it's going to take a 10% cut.  So far so good.  Every sub account gets slashed 10%. 

Only problem is that the utilities account is one of those sub-accounts, and it HAS to be paid - and it's $4B.  So now the 10% cut is not coming from the $8B topline, but instead from a $4B topline, because the utility bill MUST be paid.  Therefore, every other sub-account under that activity will be taking cuts on the magnitude of 20-30% in order to get to the 10% total.  A lot of these sub-accounts are vital functions, but are not mandated in law to be paid....like the utility bill is.

Here's another example....

We have to cut Military Construction by 10%.  No problem.  But you can't build 90% of a building.  So you'll end up taking a larger hit in MILCON so you can make your 10% cut.  That will end up being something like a 15-18% cut when it's finally done.

And MILCON is one of those areas that actively means jobs outside the front gate.

257 I thought it followed the bible pretty good. Especially for a movie. The part about Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) was made up crap though.

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2013 08:45 AM (53z96)

 

Love that movie.  Love, love, love it.  When I'm in a foul mood and need to stay in the house all weekend, I do a marathon of The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and Cleopatra.

 

Now, speaking of Robinson, DeMille showed some courage in casting him because Robinson had been named as a Communist by HUAC.  Eddie G. said that DeMille hiring him for such a high-profile role gave him a second chance in Hollywood.

258 Does your nic imply hairy feet?

Posted by: maddogg at February 26, 2013 08:59 AM (OlN4e)

That'll earn you an Emu In A Box.

259 Cupcake? Posted by: alexthechick - Chaotic Evil Hobbit. at February 26, 2013 08:54 AM (VtjlW)

Thank you, my Queen.

Sprinkles?

260 AlextheChick, you need this coffee cup http://tinyurl.com/ascwmc7 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 26, 2013 08:54 AM (2HjDP) That. Is. Awesome. Actually, I think I need to engage in the Veronica Palmer method of stress reduction - http://youtu.be/iZrFH9mfNIk

261 Tell you what, you give me all your money for a year, and I'll budget for you it the way DoD is being budgeted. You'll get the same exact amount, but you'll have to put up with my budgeting methodology. Let's say you make $50K a year. I'll give you $100 a month for 11 months, and then I'll give you $48,900 in the last month. Then let's change the way they budget. Virtually everyone here is pro-military (I have two nephews under 25 serving right now). But as your comment suggests, the military budgeting process needs to be reformed. You can cut 2% from any organization that is well run. There's no way you can honestly tell me that the military doesn't burn at least 2% in theft, waste and graft. I know better.

262 That can't be a real word. It just can't.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 26, 2013 08:47 AM (da5Wo)

 

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

263 Yeah yeah to be honest I have a hard time believing all of the terrible things that they are saying will happen to the defense budget, especially since it's not that much money (in DC terms) and the people complaining the loudest about it seem to be the Donk senators like Udall who have other reasons to gin up opposition to the sequester. Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 26, 2013 08:58 AM (BBWjt) Yeah but you have to remember that the Defense Budget already took a hit about equal to what sequestration will be as soon as obama came into Office. So this is a double hit. What will be the end outcome? Hell who can really tell, but it is going to hurt, especially since the Military does have to refit after these 2 Wars and the ongoing War on Terror no matter what obama might think.

264 Is NDH back yet?



Mornin' y'all!

265 Women learn the hard way that an AR-15 kicks less than a shotgun.

http://is.gd/Gknb8D

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2013 07:13 AM (53z96)

When I was a kid, I used a 1913 Purdy 20 gauge that would knock you on your ass if you weren't careful.

266
265 Is NDH back yet?


Mornin' y'all!

Posted by: EC at February 26, 2013 09:02 AM (GQ8sn)

Not comin back for at least a few days.

267 Depends upon what in MILCON gets cut there Sean.  If its a new parking lot for the Generals in the E-ring.  Cut away.  But we know what will be cut is the new building in Poduck, PA to replace that leaking freezing mess of a chow hall.

268 OK, after shoveling off my front porch and steps I've learned 2 things.

1. Wear a poncho if it's wet snow.

2. Don't look out the front door. If you don't see the snow buildup, then it doesn't exist.

269 "Dem Sen. Diane Feinstein: Gun Owners Should Decide Between “Personal Pleasure” And “General Welfare”…

I think we need to apply this to federal expenses and actions How often does the White House or Congress put personal pleasure ahead of the country's general welfare? Let me count the ways...

270 There's no way you can honestly tell me that the military doesn't burn at least 2% in theft, waste and graft. I know better. Posted by: Blacksheep at February 26, 2013 09:01 AM (bS6uW) Well it's actually more than 2% for the Military since 50% of sequestration is coming out of the Military side and it is only 13% of the Budget: ie wildly disporoportionate

271 Depends upon what in MILCON gets cut there Sean. If its a new parking lot for the Generals in the E-ring. Cut away. But we know what will be cut is the new building in Poduck, PA to replace that leaking freezing mess of a chow hall. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 26, 2013 09:03 AM (2HjDP) Amen.

272 The difference in the lines on the graph is like the difference between Fat Bastard Rino and Nancy Pelosi.

273 Now, speaking of Robinson, DeMille showed some courage in casting him because Robinson had been named as a Communist by HUAC. So being pro-commie is brave in Hollywood?

274 Not comin back for at least a few days.

Bummer.  She should just come back. 

275 So being pro-commie is brave in Hollywood? Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2013 09:05 AM (pZDxu) Used to be, now it's at the top of your resume under Education.

276

Let's say you make $50K a year. I'll give you $100 a month for 11 months, and then I'll give you $48,900 in the last month.

 

This is not just a problem in the DoD.   This is how government budgeting happens everywhere,  and   not all of it is the fault of the department.     If you happen to be in      a  government agency with a lot of contractors, then you KNOW how many of them leave their invoicing till the last possible minute.  Sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get them to spend any of the money they've been awarded    within the fiscal year.       So just as departments will spend relatively nominal amounts of money for the majority of the year, only to go on    spending sprees in the last few months, so, too, do the contractors they employ.

 

The whole system needs to be completely    overhauled.   It's a total    mess.

277 You can cut 2% from any organization that is well run. There's no way you can honestly tell me that the military doesn't burn at least 2% in theft, waste and graft. I know better.  Posted by: Blacksheep at February 26, 2013 09:01 AM (bS6uW)

DoD has authority to move money around if it has to be re prioritized during the year.  But Congress limits, rightfully in my mind, how much of that they can do in any given year.  There are caps to the flexibility.  However, the sequestration cuts are so large, that that flexibility is reached before even half the cuts are taken.  

THIS IS THE ISSUE.  

Again, DoD CAN take the cut.  It SHOULD take the cut and NO ONE in DoD is saying otherwise.  All they are asking for is the ability to move money around without regard to the caps for this one year.

Since Congress is the one who put DoD in a tenuous situation, it seems that could allow some flexibility to accommodate that for this year.

But they are not - as it stands now.

278 So what piece of furniture are you going to execute with extreme prejudice there AlextheChick?

279 So being pro-commie is brave in Hollywood?

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2013 09:05 AM (pZDxu)

 

Once upon a time it was.  

280

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2013 09:05 AM (pZDxu)

 

Man, I just can't get my points across today.  No, blaster, what I meant was that Robinson, like many, had been named as a Communist (though he wasn't), and that meant no studio would jeopardize their reputation by hiring him.  DeMille wanted Robinson for the role of Dathan, and when Robinson told him, "you don't want to screw up your movie just for me," DeMille waved the objection aside.  He knew Robinson was a true-blue American.

281 241. Udall: Forest Fires You Guys!!11!
Posted by: Lizzy

...you don't have to live in the woods to fear wild fires out West

Best focus the outrage/ridicule at the bureaucrat(s) denying congressional responsibility, that being the most dreadful cause spawning fear for Americans.

How many congress critters will lose re-election next ballot? Forgive and forget? Are voters so afraid of electing a DIFFERENT representative than the current bastard? At least with a new guy, and recycling per ballot, even the liberals could take smug pride in "spreading the wealth" of corruption, and conservatives take some comfort in having diluted the degree of corruption.gov that seniority makes certain.

282 As much as I like "Sequestmageddon", maybe we should take our cue from the Weather Channel and start giving Obama's manufactured Crisis you Guys! names, like Nemo and Sandy. Maybe we could call this one Percy.

---

I love it!  That's a great idea, Lizzy.  Obama Armageddon Beulah, already the 3rd armageddon of the year!!11!eleventy.  Seriously, it'd be a great idea to make fun of his constant state of hysteria and impending globe-collapse if we don't do something!

283

Again, DoD CAN take the cut. It SHOULD take the cut and NO ONE in DoD is saying otherwise. All they are asking for is the ability to move money around without regard to the caps for this one year.

 

This.   And they SHOULD be allowed to do so.  I'd say every department facing cuts should have this option, but the DoD especially.    

284 Speaking of pro-commie Hollywood, have we had a McCarthyism-based movie lately? For a while there we were getting one a year, such as "Good Night and Good Luck." Maybe they only do these during Republican presidencies.

285 Now, speaking of Robinson, DeMille showed some courage in casting him because Robinson had been named as a Communist by HUAC. Eddie G. said that DeMille hiring him for such a high-profile role gave him a second chance in Hollywood.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2013 09:00 AM (zF6Iw)

In those days just about everyone in Whorrywood WAS a communist, including Lucile Ball. The House Un–American Activities Committee cleared him after he testified.  He was named a communist by "Red Channels". This was a front group by the founders of the John Birch Society.

286 I sent the president via his Facebook page a great solution to averting the CRISIS! We'll see if he uses it. Obama, break out your Kenyan ID, apply for foreign assistance, get 85 billion, and transfer it to these minuscule cuts. Problem solved.

287

As much as I like "Sequestmageddon", maybe we should take our cue from
the Weather Channel and start giving Obama's manufactured Crisis you
Guys! names, like Nemo and Sandy. Maybe we could call this one Percy.

 

 

Oooh, me like!

 

How about Gaylord?

288  
    Time to saddle up and go check on the Toy.  Hopefully nothing has gotten into it.


     Make sure your shovel is clean, EOJ.


    Or maybe you could sequester it.

289 News dump up!

290 How about Gaylord? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 26, 2013 09:11 AM (4df7R)

Gaylord Focker?

291 Sean, LOL   That is TFG's new name. 

292 Prezzy Gaylord Focker.....  Esquire

293 Prezzy Gaylord Focker..... Esquire

Emperor Gaylord Focker I

294 AtC

They toil just for you.

http://cheezburger.com/7039809792

Complete with speling airor

295 Now, speaking of Robinson, DeMille showed some courage in casting him because Robinson had been named as a Communist by HUAC.

So being pro-commie is brave in Hollywood?

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2013 09:05 AM (pZDxu)

It's about being pro stupid. It's no different then as it is today. Commie loving is a product of stupidity

296 Was the commie party's goal not to over throw democracy? Did the commies in Hwd not answer to an agent from Stalin? Why should I feel sorry for them? As I understand it, those who renounced their dirty commie affiliations, were welcomed back into the fold and offered jobs. I do remember Lee J. Cobb being in some very good movies in the 60s and doing an excellent job. Poor Kazan was snubbed by the Hwd assholes including at the Oscars until the day he died. I don't know why they singled him out over others who cooperated. I remember those assholes turning their backs on him when he received a life time award.

297 Twelve Angry Men is being performed by my local civic theatre group. They have changed the title to "Twelve Angry Jurors." Men was so gender-exclusive.

I wanted to call and ask if they shouldn't make it "Twelve Marginally-Agitated Jurors," just to get that anger thing out of there.

298 Despite the heavily Democrat skew of the WWE's audience, the evil tea party slash white supremacist versus the heroic brown immigrant angle is not getting the kind of crowd reaction that they want.

Couple that with the heel, Jack Swagger, having just got arrested for pot DUI, and you have a busted storyline for your second main event at the biggest PPV of the year.

Posted by: Truman Schuman at February 26, 2013 07:50 AM (I2LwF)

McMahon's story lines are worse than what a crackheaded monkey could come up with.  The only reason they ever work is the wrestlers sell them so fucking well; which is more than I can say about those dogshit movies that McMahon promotes.

I don't know how Okies have it worse:  Having to cheer for that choking dog Bob Stoops to poorly prepare the football team for every fucking big game they have or having that asswipe Swagger rep the school.

299 Now, speaking of Robinson, DeMille showed some courage in casting him because Robinson had been named as a Communist by HUAC.
--
So being pro-commie is brave in Hollywood?
--
Used to be.
--

Also, being named is not proof of itself.

For example, Adlai Stevenson publicly criticized J.Edgar Hoover's FBI inefficiency, so Hoover fabricated false evidence provided to Eisenhower's campaign against Stephenson for POTUS, smearing Adlai as a communist ONLY because he had provided a character reference for A.Hiss (self acknowledged democrat and communist but not a spy) who had served in FDR's administration and formerly been an aid to Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. (McCarthy might have more accurately smeared the late FDR himself as the communist. Irony of the hypocritical Nixon smearing communists when it was Nixon who enabled Red China to become what it is at US taxpayer expense.)

Public education today is poorly acquired, at best. And public opinion is shaped with the least amount of effort to study/recall history in it's making, as recent as 20th Century American living standards, and (unrealistic) expectations. The blatant permeation of revisionism today hardly benefits fair analysis of any topic.

Labor at the turn of the 20th Century did not have any benefits that Americans today ignorantly assume goes part and parcel with union membership. Even today, at least in right to work states, legislation protecting US Labor workers on the job is not necessarily enforced, construction site lack of standard enforcement (illegal alien cheap labor) setting stages for accidents and worker deaths. Furthermore, even with their union, miners have yet to enjoy such predictable union benefits as grocery clerks do.

As with any organization of people, unions have corrupted themselves just like the political parties have, as have governments and corporations. All function now to benefit the leadership while abusing the peopled resource of funds, regardless of duty, platform or promise.

300 Alger Hiss was a commie and was identified in the Vernona papers.  The FBI knew he was a commie but did not disclose it because they wanted the papers kept secret.

301 versus the heroic brown immigrant angle is not getting the kind of crowd reaction that they want.
--

Last week, Jerry Doyle discussed the recent poll proving your point. A poll of Democrats disapprove of the preferences that our government gives to the newly emerging majority of heroic brown immigrants.

Have 21st Century voters achieved majority rule by grass roots?

Leftists demand tax funded provisions for charity. Obama removed tax benefits for charitable donations. Now that rank and file Democrats see their taxes increased to provide for social justice, they begin to bitch.

Across the spectrum, politicians can afford to look "compassionate" so long as they get theirs, and the rest of us pay for it all, with nothing to show for ourselves but further debt inflation.

But hell, the coin "social justice" has yet to get dumped by the Left on its own doorstep. Baby steps...

Nah, the mind is dysfunctional. There's always a "reason" that used to be criticized as an "excuse" which was, once upon a time, inexcusable. 

After what "is" is, Hillary: "I take full responsibility." "What difference does it make?!!!!"

If under oath, subpoena by Congressional committee, notice that it was not Hillary's legal position to be asking the questions, but to be answering, and no one challenged her on that, either.

302 Vic,

of Hiss, I wrote that he was a self professed democrat and communist. The charges he fought until his death regarded espionage.

"In 2003, retired Russian intelligence official General Julius Kobyakov disclosed that it was he who had actually searched the files for Volkogonov. Kobyakov stated: After careful study of every reference to Mr. A. Hiss in the SVR(KGB-NKVD)archives, and querying sister services, I prepared an answer to Mr. J. Lowenthal that in essence stated that Mr. A. Hiss had never had any relationship with the SVR or its predecessors."
http://tinyurl.com/al97hha

303 After careful study of every reference to Mr. A. Hiss in the
SVR(KGB-NKVD)archives, and querying sister services, I prepared an
answer to Mr. J. Lowenthal that in essence stated that Mr. A. Hiss had
never had any relationship with the SVR or its predecessors."
http://tinyurl.com/al97hha

Posted by: conscription? at February 26, 2013 10:07 AM (MhA4j)

Yes, I have seen that.  I have also seen the Venona papers that ID'd him. He was guilty as sin.

304 Hiss's case was a can of worms.

So is the federal government, full of corrupt politicians, more so now given social justice as policy.

But to claim that a person is whatever his opponent smears him with is not wise. Stevenson was no communist, the point which you've ignored.

305

Refusing to learn from the lessons of the newspaper in New York that tried this crap, the Arkansas Business Journal publishes a list of CCW permit holders (names and ZIP codes) for the ENTIRE STATE. Then, when the public understandlibly goes apeshit, they double down on stupid and promise to email the list to anyone that wants it. Deleting FB & Twitter comments as fast as they can.

The really interesting wrinkle to this is that the Legislature just passed and Gov just signed into law an act prohibiting this very thing. So someone's clearly itching to get reamed in the courts.

http://bit.ly/XYpMmF

Many subscribers and advertisers are pledging to never do business with the mag, or any of its advertisers. Torching the company would have been too slow and messy, apparently. This is easier.