1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Friday, April 26, 2013.  On this day in the Naperville train disaster occurred. It occurred at the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad station in Naperville, Illinois when the railroad's Exposition Flyer rammed into the Advance Flyer, which had made an unscheduled stop to check its running gear. The Exposition Flyer had been coming through on the same track at 85 miles per hour. 47 people died, and some 125 were injured.  The younger Morons may not know it but major train wrecks like this were not uncommon back then.

2 DAY 172 1,288 to go (1,363 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.

3 Fox Red breaking news flash at 6:15:

BOSTON BOMB SUSPECT TRANSPORTED FROM HOSPITAL TO FEDERAL PRISON HOSPITAL IN MASS.


Why is that such a concern?

4 The Senate has passed a bill to end FAA furloughs despite ObamaÂ’s pain gain. Recall the Senate is controlled by the Democrats.  This bill “allows” them to transfer allocations between programs but does not “force” them to.  We will see.

http://is.gd/SzARFn

5 Obama to shut down crucial flood warning gauges just in time for the Spring floods.  But illegals can have food stamps! (see below)

http://is.gd/Z255PH

6 Republican challenges Fuglitano on the massive ammo buys.  Says DHS is buying 1000 rounds per man more than the Army.

http://is.gd/o6d8SL

7 Chairman of House judiciary committee says laws on asylum may need some changes.   No shit Sherlock.  That has been on my list for needed immigration reform since I made the list years ago.  Why does it take a major killing to wake you assholes up?

http://is.gd/KyJeam

8 Man jumps off the Empire State building but only falls one story down.  Look people if you are going to off yourself find somewhere else to do it.  There are people walking around on the sidewalks down there that do not want some goombah coming down from a 1000 feet to land on them.  Go jump off one of the Manhattan Bridges, itÂ’ll do you and the only thing youÂ’ll hurt besides yourself is maybe a fish.

http://is.gd/03dBmt

9 CA will now let non-citizens sit on juries.   You know, doing those jobs Americans just will not do.

http://is.gd/RKr8Vu

10 Bipartisan flu tax of 75 cents per dose is on the horizon. I am sure they will have some caveat that the “poor” will not have to pay it. And it always starts low like this, in 10 years it will be $5.

http://is.gd/OLRaZq

11 USDA – Spanish language flyer to migrants; you can get your kids on food stamps without revealing your immigration status.  Hearts and minds folks, hearts and mindsÂ…..and votes.

http://is.gd/NJJeTW

12 Republican starts write in campaign against Sanford in SC District 1 race.  All that will do is assure the Democrat win.  Look people you may not like Sanford but you had your chance during the primary.  Sour grapes shit gives us another AK.

http://is.gd/bj7cQi

13 US Female sailor beats the crap out of would be rapist with knife.

http://is.gd/K5xAE5

14 Yes, let's not repeal Obamacare. Let's try and fix it because we're compassionate. The back door deal trying to exempt Congressional flunkies from the hell they've imposed on us just cements my belief that the GOP establishment is in bed with the Dems. Revolutions have been started over lesser shit than this.

15 Something in this story just does not add up.  Young woman in NYC bar dies from drinking 3 shots???   I donÂ’t think so; otherwise I would be dead a hundred times over.

http://is.gd/x7ZXFo

16 Byron York, loopholes allow fast track for citizenship in amnesty bill.  Sorry Byron, those are not loopholes.  A loophole is an unintentional “bypass” of a law or requirement, these are intentional.  It is the common way to write laws now.  Salve the public with tough language and provide an obscure way around the tough language at the same time.  This is why it is better to pass NOTHING.  But not to worry, the Repukes will sell us out on this and die as a functional Party.  Hell, they are already half dead anyway.

http://is.gd/x7ZXFo

17 WaEx says US options on Syria limited.  I say stay the hell out of it.  Despite what McShitty RINO says, we do not have a dog in that fight.

http://is.gd/3eaR9E

18 15 Something in this story just does not add up. Young woman in NYC bar dies from drinking 3 shots??? I donÂ’t think so; otherwise I would be dead a hundred times over. http://is.gd/x7ZXFo Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:54 AM (53z96) Yeah, those Stoli-Polonium-tini's are murder, I tells ya!

19 MM schools Marco Rubio on immigration.

http://is.gd/bVhPPo

20 Sowell calls immigration reform a racket and that the Democrats care more about importing new Democrat voters than they do national security.  Well Thomas, everyone knows that but you are the only one saying it.  And the Republican RINOs are helping them.  Why?

http://is.gd/iWCdTe

21 Kindle Daily Deals

http://is.gd/wtG2os


And thatÂ’s it for FRIDAY.

22 New study reveals that 11% of men lie...and that a lot of women watch porn Porn Use Has Small Effect on Sexual Behavior, Study Finds Most of the participants who said they used porn -- 89 percent of the men and 70 percent of the women -- relied on the Internet within the past year to get it. Even though access to the Internet is so much greater than a few years ago, there has not really been a spike in risky sexual behaviors, Tortolero said. http://tinyurl.com/d9mmevx

23 Pigford a scam through a backdoor DOJ "deal", say it isn't so.  Ans even worse, Pigford II passed in the infamous Christmas lame duck session with the aid of two Republican traitors.

24 Obama' Syria tough talk a bluff?  Damn I hope so.

25 14 Revolutions have been started over lesser shit than this. Agree 100%. Call me when its over. I'll be here in my basement watching cable.

26 So the House is going to sell us out one piece at a time instead of all at once.

27 25 14 Revolutions have been started over lesser shit than this. Agree 100%. Call me when its over. I'll be here in my basement watching cable. Posted by: Bwoston Stwong at April 26, 2013 06:58 AM (+kznc) Careful, in Bostonskaya, Cable watch YOU!

28 26 So the House is going to sell us out one piece at a time instead of all at once. Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:59 AM (53z96) And Paul Ryan sucks the tiny cock of Eric Cantor.

29 oops, left out the date for #1.  It was 1946.

30 CA will now let non-citizens sit on juries. You know, doing those jobs Americans just will not do. Jury of your 'peers'? Since when are non-citizens an American citizens peer group? Oh, it's California, where the Reconquista is almost complete.

31

6.  Vic

"Says DHS is buying 1000 rounds per man more than the Army."

Because the fascists are bad shots.  When our people are in power, I hope they sell it all off in the red states at a discount.

32 Vic
Saw the article earlier about the female Sailor.

At some point, someone in the chain of command is going to have to address the "Buddy System", it's required use, and where was the other Sailor she was required to be with.

Glad to see she kicked ass though.

33 Poll finds that most people say that Fox News was the most believable cable news channel for Boston coverage, CNN the least. Gabe, I went to the link and it says MSNBC came in last. They both suck, but I think I'd give a slight edge to MSNBC for sucking even harder on a daily basis.

34 At some point, someone in the chain of command is going to have to address the "Buddy System", it's required use, and where was the other Sailor she was required to be with.



Is that a requirement now?

35 Those Pigford reparations?  Former Rep. Allen West voted for them to continue.  Just sayin.'

36 Gabe, I went to the link and it says MSNBC came in last. They both suck, but I think I'd give a slight edge to MSNBC for sucking even harder on a daily basis.

You should read it again, hon.

37 Vic

Buddy system is not an option, unless transiting directly home, or on leave.
Fifth Fleet, and Seventh Fleet have some of the craziest liberty requirements in the world.

System required 30 year old Sailors to be treated like five year old children.

38

USDA – Spanish language flyer to migrants; you can get your kids on food stamps without revealing your immigration status. Hearts and minds folks, hearts and minds…..and votes.

 

But Boner and the gang would never pull funding, right?

39 Don't worry, they get the names of potential jurists from the voter registrations, so it's impossible to get an illegal alien on the jury. Bwaaaaa!!!!!

40 Non citizens on juries? So much for a jury of your peers.

41 3 -

I suspect the Bostonians, and Massers in general think of their little terrorists as their own pet.  They wants me, he's theirs!

Something NY never had, by the way.  All the NY boys died in their crashes. 

I realize that sounds cynical, but I think I might be right. 

42 System required 30 year old Sailors to be treated like five year old children.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2013 07:11 AM (ZQNhv)

Didn't have any of that shit when I was in.  And some of those ports we visited in the Pacific were just as bad.  Of course, when in one of the bad ones we voluntarily went in groups, and they were larger than 2.

43 Good morning my fiends. I don't understand why Congress is looking into DHS ammo purchases? I've been assured over and over again that this is perfectly normal, the numbers are not as bad as we think and it's nothing to worry about.

44 41 -

Geez, I can't write!  It's terrorist, singular, and they want HIM, not me.  That would be icky. 

45

Hello, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.

 

 

One of my favorite Sinatra songs is I Like to Lead When I Dance, which was written and filmed for the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods, though it was cut from the final print.  The song was written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, the ChairmanÂ’s ‘court songwriters,Â’ who penned some of his best songs - Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, The Last Dance, Come Blow Your Horn being just three.*

 

 

As is well known, Sinatra could be legendarily generous; he could also be capable of legendary cruelness.  And not just cruelness in the sense of holding grudges,** but cruelness in a sort of droit du seigneur way – if you benefited from his largess in any way, you were, in his eyes, beholden to him.  Loyalty was SinatraÂ’s highest requirement from those around him, and you were required to take what he dished out.

 

 

Which brings me to Jimmy Van Heusen.  One night in 1961, Sinatra, Van Heusen and actress Dorothy Provine were at the bar of the Indian Wells Country Club waiting for Desi Arnaz.  Arnaz at the time was the producer of The Untouchables, a show which infuriated the Mafia.  A hit was ordered on Arnaz, but Sinatra was sent first to ‘talk some senseÂ’ into the hotheaded Cuban.

 

 

Sinatra tried, but a drunk Arnaz sneered, “Whaddaya want me to do, Frankie, make ‘em all Jews?”  He then went on to taunt Sinatra about the old days when the Chairman “couldnÂ’t get a yob.”  He finally dismissed Frank with, “Why don't you forget all this bullshit and just have your drinks and enjoy yourself?  Stop getting your nose in where it doesn't belong, you and your so-called friends,” 

 

 

Arnaz then walked away, leaving a humiliated Sinatra to mutter, “I couldnÂ’t hit him.  WeÂ’ve been friends too long.”

 

 

The night went on.  Around 4.00am, Sinatra and Van Heusen ended up at the songwriterÂ’s apartment, Sinatra still seething from his dressing-down at ArnazÂ’ hands.  Once inside, Sinatra exploded and attacked one of Van HeusenÂ’s prize possessions – an original Norman Rockwell painting, tearing it apart in a blind fury.  When Van Heusen tried to stop him, Sinatra snarled, “Fuck you, Chester!”, slamming him against a wall.***  When leaving the house, his anger still burning, he gave Van Heusen one last warning:  “If you try to fix that or put it back, I will come and blow the fucking house up.”

 

 

And there we are.  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

 

*A 1991 compilation album, Sinatra Sings the Songs of Van Heusen & Cahn, collects the pairÂ’s work.

 

 

**Generous – when pianist Bill MillerÂ’s wife was killed in a landslide, Sinatra paid for all funeral expenses and arranged to buy a new house to replace MillerÂ’s lost one.  Cruel – when Sinatra heard that his valet of twenty years had been spotted dancing with Mia Farrow (perfectly innocently), he was instantly fired.

 

 

***Van HeusenÂ’s real name was Chester Babcock.

46 He sounds like a grade A SOB

47

Revolutions have been started over lesser shit than this.

 

AH HA HA HA HA!

 

God, you teabaggers are so adorable when you're mad!

 

**pinches J.J.'s cheek, walks off humming "We're In The Money."**

48 Vic

1977-2010, Retired MMCM. Your, and my memories will never be replicated in today's world. Hold onto them with fondness, and understand what Political Correctness has done to the average young Sailor.

49 Al-NYT knows that they can brag about Pigford with no blowback...this is just an endzone dance...

http://youtu.be/qGrKsz_Icoo

Queeen/NFL We Will Rock you

50 New study reveals that 11% of men lie...and
that a lot of women watch porn

Posted by: Regular Moron at April 26, 2013 06:57 AM (feFL6)


In another recent study, researchers found that 80% of men admitted to masturbating regularly, and the other 20% lied.  In a different study, men said that the first thing they notice about women is their eyes.  The same study found that the first thing women noticed about men was they are a bunch of liars.

51 At some point, someone in the chain of command is going to have to address the "Buddy System", it's required use, and where was the other Sailor she was required to be with. Smoke break. She had it covered.

52 Gabe we get it, "Congress didn't ease the damage to the group that empowered the whining game that got shot sandwich passed what monsters!"

Maybe we need to have this stressed over the next 278 days!

53 He sounds like a grade A SOB

 

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 07:18 AM (53z96)

 

Yep.  A perfect example of "respect the talent, but not the artist."

54 7 Vic,

Mayor of Hiroshima decides "we may need better air defense" after a particularly bad day"

if America could engineer a generator that worked on stupid Congress would be a national treasure.

55 Saw a short film from Yale Social Robotics last night. They are trying to create robots that will be companions, aids to old folks and perhaps help kids with autism spectrum disorders etc. In short, they want Data. They have figured out how to make the robots more human-like, more relateable. They've programmed them to CHEAT at games. Because, you know, that's what we're all about. Sigh. In other news, Marco Rubio tweets this morning that debate on his immigration reform thing won't start for 2 weeks and if any senators have any issues with it they are welcome to make some suggestions for improvement. Came off a little petulant. I think Mr Rubio has gotten his feewers hurt.

56 You should read it again, hon. Truth be told, there were two different criteria they mentioned. CNN came in worse in one, MSNBC in the other. Very/somewhat believable CNN 38% MSNBC 35% Not very believable/Not at all CNN 21% MSNBC 16%

57 Woke up at 3:30, too dark to go to work, so I have decided that you all get to entertain me for a bit.  I have nothing useful to say, though.  Except, gunbot.net, searches reloading components, mags, etc.  I used it to score some primers the other day.  You have to be johnny on the spot, but it is still possible to get some stuff. 

58 "Obama's bad bet"-His billionaire pick for Ambassador to France had to withdraw because of ties to a Russian mob run poker ring which was funded through a NY are gallery.: http://tinyurl.com/cvc33f3 Can Obama pick 'em or what? !!

59 Came off a little petulant. I think Mr Rubio has gotten his feewers hurt.

Posted by: Ragamuffin at April 26, 2013 07:23 AM (fzFF6)

Maybe he will read that Thomas Sowell column and wake the Hell up.  When you are a Republican and Sowell comes down on your ass you are screwing the pooch bad.

60 The NY Post is reporting that Choom Boy's pick as French ambassador -- presumably, John F'n Kerry was busy -- has withdrawn from consideration. The Moroccan-born (what? Another Muzzie?) bazillionaire has ties to a gambling ring.

Sounds like the cleanest guy among President Historic First's© buddyroos!

Story here: http://bit.ly/12MkOg2

61 "Don't call my bluff!"

Barky McFuckstick - acting all mean and serious like..

62

Woke up at 3:30, too dark to go to work, so I have decided that you all get to entertain me for a bit. I have nothing useful to say, though.

 

You forgot the traditonal AoS signoff of but first you will blow me, you fucking fucks!  That's the sort of thing that downgrades premium membership to "recycled wastepaper level."

63 How are russian mob ties considered disqualifying with this crop of ... "public servants?"

64 62 MP4,

I'm back down to "Bubblegum under the parkbench" level membership...

my mad skillz be slipping

65 I would rectify my oversite, but I'm too tired for sex.  Can't wait to drive truck all day.

66 63 Simon Jester,

the guild rules state "cannot care about the safety of the American people"....

turns out the thug ass Russians like keeping marks alive...

The Ogabe Administration considers that bad form

67 65 Simon jester,

In BarackAmerica STATE FUCKS you

68 Obama's "red line" talk about Syria and chemical weapons was always a bluff. This really does define obama. The "nothing is real, man" 60's mindset of lazy cowards who could never take responsibility or make a decision. He's pushing this off on the "international community" but then doesn't believe what they say. Bush listened to, not only the "international community" but our Congress, and intelligence from our country as well as from our allies. So, the SCOAMF is admitting that what Bush did was right, yet obama himself is the lying weasel coward we all knew he was.

69 He sounds like a grade A SOB
Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 07:18 AM

I used to know a musician who sat in on some of Ol' Blue Eyes' recording sessions. He said they called him "Frank Snot-ra."

70 so I got a call from the IAH FBI yesterday afternoon...

I was filling the fuel in the truck and missed the call...

nothing like calling a number and being told "press zero to report a bank robbery in progress...."

Here's hoping it was "buttdialing"

71 67, yes, yes it does.

72

Sowell calls immigration reform a racket and that the Democrats care more about importing new Democrat voters than they do national security. Well Thomas, everyone knows that but you are the only one saying it. And the Republican RINOs are helping them. Why?

 

I have a feeling this is all coming down to the NWO and all of us being one, big happy family, while U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill.  The Repubes have been hammered into thinking it's inevitable and are meekly going along.

73 I know Sinatra was a prick but I do love that song he did with Stevie Wonder. I am dark and you are light You are blind as a bat, and I have sight! Side by side, you are my amigo, Negro, let's not fiiiiiiiight!

74 Obama' Syria tough talk a bluff? Damn I hope so.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:58 AM (53z96)

Hey!  Now that there is proof of the use of chemical weapons, he will be sending them a strongly-worded letter.  Well, not really strong-worded.  He doesn't want to hurt their feelings or damage their self-esteem.  Maybe a tsk-tsk letter.  OK, not that either, but they definitely won't get an invitation to the next Jay-Z concert at the White House.

75 He said they called him "Frank Snot-ra."

Posted by: MrScribbler at April 26, 2013 07:32 AM (mHrip)

To his face?

76 i regards to that Obamacare slush fund mess is it possible that GOP leadership doesn't bother to sell this shit to their own people? We know the 3 guys at the top are fucking incompetents in most other areas of their jobs why not add being totally unable to explain their desired legislation to their own caucus on top of that.

77 75 Vic,

Once, they could call him that once

78 He's pushing this off on the "international community" but then doesn't believe what they say. Bush listened to, not only the "international community" but our Congress, and intelligence from our country as well as from our allies. So, the SCOAMF is admitting that what Bush did was right, yet obama himself is the lying weasel coward we all knew he was. *holding hands over ears* La, la, la, la, la, la, can't hear you

79 NYTimes finally catches up to Andrew Breitbart, discovers -- shock! -- that the Pigford settlements are a major scam and fraud magnet that the Obama Administration used (after circumventing career federal lawyers) to deal out phoney reparations to favored groups. Yes, we know NYTimes, JEF was buying votes all across the country. Just figuring that out? White farmers should sue for discrimination, now. After all, they truly were discriminated against in this case.

80 76 Voote Lord Humungus,

Nah I think the deal is that about a third of the delegation up there gets that the majority of the base wants Ogabecare *gone* and you don't speed its exit by "forcing it to do good things" that aren't really good...

but Gabe and his ilk figure with that much horseshit up there if we get a hose and a squeegee there HAS TO BE A PONY under it...

no Gabe there's no pony under the shit Bawney Fwank rode it off to the sunset

81
Bipartisan House bill would let judges impose sentences below federal minimums

Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Tom Massie (R-Ky.) have proposed legislation that would give federal judges the option of imposing criminal penalties below the minimums set out in federal law.

The Justice Safety Valve Act is meant to give judges more leeway in sentencing

The Hill



#MakingLifeWork

82 Procrastinating on Syria put us past meaningful intervention on any level.  Here's hoping that procrastination can keep us from choosing between the currently available jihadists or assadists.  Such a Carteresque way of doing business.  Reason we are fucked here is Bush had no Syria plan in place, so we couldn't just do-what-he-did.

83 Yawn.  I'm just back from walking my twin female Boston Terriers: Allahu and Akbar.  As many of you know, when they go for their walks, they are dressed in terrier sized burqas made of black nylon mesh with leg cut outs and poop flaps.  I also have two cats a male, dark grey-"Mr. G" and his sister-black-"Hottie.  Mr. G,  Hottie and I like to watch the aquariam channel.  Finally, I created a new bumper sticker last night:  "Fight Terrorism:  Deport a Muslim"  Now, I'll start drinking. 

84 Too bad House conservatives left the implementation slush fund intact instead of moving that money to a program that expires in 2014.



Is this more vital information from that shithead you wasted a post on yesterday that everybody else laughed at?  Where tinkering with the damn thing and playing procedural games is more important than just getting rid of it?

85

@  Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

 

Have you ever heard the story about a young Sinatra and his "friends" running into John Wayne and his entourage one night in the early 50's? 

86 Why is everything on Fox News a fucking ""News Alert?"  They've really worn that act out.  I want Shannon Bream to report naked.  I'd be alerted alright. 

87

The Thin Red Line

I triple dog dare ya!

88 Live eagle cam (still dark there, in cali) But, people have been watching this nest. Humboldt Bay Eagle Camera 2 Eaglets Hatched! The Humboldt Bay eagle pair now have a pair of babies. Both eggs have now hatched, the first on April 24th, the second just this morning on the 25th. Here's to a long life for both of them. Good luck little eagles! Also, check out this awesome video of the first eaglet's hatch! http://humwild.org/humboldt-bay-eagle-camera

89 87 4th VA,

well we're now to the Paisley line....next in the Taupe line

90
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) on Thursday former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) House campaign.

"Mark Sanford has always been a strong ally of the Liberty Movement," Paul writes in a fundraising plea. "Help him get to Congress. Donate today!"



Now Sanford's really doomed...

91

A source close to (Bill) Clinton said, “Lasry loves playing cards. He played in a celebrity poker tournament for Clinton’s foundation.

“I can’t believe that Obama admits in a book that he snorted cocaine and yet Marc Lasry can’t be named ambassador to France because he played cards.”

92 or as I said in a post to Birdfeed Andy,

"Where's Saddam's WMD? Well Obama now says on Syrian faces."

Fucking moron donks

93

Luap Nor and Mark Sanford (R, I can't leave my ex alone).  Fuckin Dream Team.

94 Good story, MaryP3!

The real story behind Ole Blue Eye's contract problems is even more interesting that the fictionalized one of Johnny Fontane in the Godfather - who is supposed to be Sinatra..  Always nice to know people in high places, huh?

95 Gabe, there's no reason "to fix" anything that's a part of that crap program known as Obamacare. Once you allow for tinkering, you accept the program as is and make it harder to repeal. Let the crap sandwich stand. Just make sure everyone knows it's a crap sandwich. Why don't you understand that?

96 The only "line" Obama knows anything about is made of a white powdery substance. 

97

"program that expires in 2014".

.

When was the last time a  program the Democrats wanted actually expired?

98 Nah I think the deal is that about a third of the delegation up there gets that the majority of the base wants Ogabecare *gone* and you don't speed its exit by "forcing it to do good things" that aren't really good...

See, I'm not even sure you know what that bill was about. It's like this: Dems want billions in slush fund discretionary spending to ease the rollout of Obamacare. GOP doesn't want that, since we'd much prefer Obamacare to crash and burn. Cons don't want the Dems to have billions in do-whatever-they-want money either, but not enough to actually do away with the funds without compete repeal this very second. Since that's not going to happen (hello, Democratic Senate, White House), they scuttled the bill. Yes, they were stupid, and I will keep saying so.

99 92 Heh.

100
A group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is launching television advertisements in a handful of red-leaning states giving conservative lawmakers cover on immigration reform.

The ads will be backed by seven figures and is the group's first series of advertisements geared towards the ultimate goal of passing immigration reform. Americans for a Conservative Direction has been set up by Zuckerberg's political group, FWD.us, to push reform on the Republican side, according to Politico, which first reported the ads.

The Hill



Sweet!  A conservative group financed by one of Obama's major money men.

101 To his face?
Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 07:34 AM

Uhhhhhh...that would be a "no," Vic.

I asked my musician friend the same question, way back when. Not surprisingly, he said most of the musicians called Sinatra "sir."

Seems those guys liked to eat, and hated going to the dentist....

102 Say what you will about Sinatra, he was always a staunch supporter of Israel and loved this country. Today's entertainers are by and large the equivalent of dog shit on his shoe.

103  there's no reason "to fix" anything that's a part of that crap program known as Obamacare.

Hur hur. Were you singing the same tune when it came time to repeal the 1099 debacle? (Hint: the fiscal cons were fine with that.) Were you singing the same tune when it came time to repeal the CLASS portion of Obamacare? (Hint: the fiscal cons were fine with that too.)

104 #102 And nailed some great tail. 

105 CALIF. BILL WOULD LET NON-CITIZENS SERVE ON JURIES This is actually a punishment (at least from my experience in California; where you have to wait all day in a room filled with other people waiting in the room to see if you are chosen). So, you can waste an entire day, after driving in California's miserable traffic (whether your company pays for the day out of office or not) only to find out you are not serving jury duty. Unless the system has changed, it really does suck.

106 there's no reason "to fix" anything that's a part of that crap program known as Obamacare. Once you allow for tinkering, you accept the program as is and make it harder to repeal. If our RINO overlords had been around during Prohibition we'd still have it. Repeal the POS Legislation.

107 Obama does lines. 

108 98 Gabe ,

No Gabe I know what the fucking bill is about.

You want your pony. "It'll just be around for a year or two Sven...please let me ride it...I'll take the slush fund and I'll feed it."

No Gabe you will then give the mules a better excuse to keep "saving the pony" I had alcoholic parents....

I've seen this game played thanks.

Yes gabe you want "genuine cost High risk pools" we get that.

1) it is not genuine fucking cost it is deep discount cost.

2) I support free market solutions to Health care not Xmas Hairshirts

3) the Temporary tax to 'save the US from the German Caribbean menace" was "saved" for about 94 spare years.

So no Gabe I get it...I happen to agree saving anyone from the democrats fucktardery is a bad thing.

109 Say what you will about Sinatra, he was always a staunch supporter of Israel and loved this country. Today's entertainers are by and large the equivalent of dog shit on his shoe.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2013 07:46 AM

Sumbitch could really lay down a tune, too!

110 Obama to shut down crucial flood warning gauges just in time for the Spring floods. But illegals can have food stamps! (see below) http://is.gd/Z255PH Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:52 AM (53z96) This shows JEF WILL kill Americans because he didn't get what he wanted. So, again, national security is weakened. I call this treason as well.

111  I had a wicked dream about Shannon Bream in a girl scout uniform.  I can't say more without fear of arrest.  I'll go to confession now. 

112 110 artisanal 'ette,

'ette America chose this...it is not like it is a shocker he was fairly open about his hate for Americans and the only penance we can do is vote "d'....

so just have good situational awareness and pray

113 Frank Sinatra would have never covered "Sweet Caroline."  What a POS song that is. 

114
You want your pony. "It'll just be around for a year or two Sven...please let me ride it...I'll take the slush fund and I'll feed it."

No Gabe you will then give the mules a better excuse to keep "saving the pony" I had alcoholic parents....

See, this is how we know you're wrong. Your plan (do nothing) keeps two things in place that you say are bad:

(1) Sebelius' slush fund.
(2) Federal high risk pools.

The GOP plan did away with Sebelius' slush fund. The GOP has less bad things (as you reckon it), and that's a better solution.

Instead, you gave the Democrats exactly what they wanted. Congratulations.

115 This is actually a punishment (at least from my experience in California; where you have to wait all day in a room filled with other people waiting in the room to see if you are chosen).



Its the same in every State.  And Federal Jury duty is worse.  You get to drive even further and sit in a room all day, just a bigger room.

116 113 4th VA,

I think he may have....


"Sweet...caro-...line....oh I banged her mother...it felt soooo good."

//Ole Blue Eyes

117 35 Those Pigford reparations? Former Rep. Allen West voted for them to continue. Just sayin.'

Posted by: RushBabe at April 26, 2013 07:09 AM (orY9d)

And some people would like to see him run for Preezy in 2016. A-holes.

118 Let Assad and the Islamic rebels fight it out. It's a shame they both can't lose. But the US will if we go there.

119 re the CA jury thing --
 
Apparently they are having trouble getting enough jury selectees to show up when summoned. I've been on federal jury call for the entire month of April. Yes, it's a pain in the ass to have to call in every night, and an even bigger pain to actually go in for the selection process. And there is a potential penalty for failing to comply:
 
Any person summoned for jury service who fails to respond or appear may be ordered by this court to appear at their own expense to show cause why they failed to comply with the summons. Any person failing to show good cause for non-compliance with the jury summons may be fined not more than $1000.00 or imprisoned not more than three (3) days, or both, pursuant to Title 28, USC Section 1866(g).
 
Now, this is about the CA jury system so maybe those liberal shitweasels in charge don't have an enforcement mechanism -- but they should.
 
Unless that would hurt someone's feelings.

120 Too bad House leadership never makes its case to the base. They've betrayed us so many times, there's no trust left.

121 109 Sumbitch could really lay down a tune, too! Posted by: MrScribbler at April 26, 2013 07:49 AM (mHrip) My dad said that when he was in service, he and most GI's hated Sinatra because he was back in the States getting laid and living the high-life while he and others of his generation were seeing hell in Europe and the Pacific. But he too reconsidered his stance on ol' Blue Eyes because of what I said. And yeah, he was "the voice."

122 #116  So Jackie's part was:  "Oh! Oh! OHHHH!

123 RESEARCH SHOWS SCRATCHING CAN PROVIDE TEMPORARY RELIEF FROM ITCHY ASS

124 Now, this is about the CA jury system so maybe those liberal shitweasels in charge don't have an enforcement mechanism -- but they should.

Unless that would hurt someone's feelings.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 26, 2013 07:55 AM (ccXZP)

Here if you fail to show for local jury duty they will send Sheriff's Deputies to pick you up and deliver you to the court.

125

 Revolutions have been started over lesser shit than this.

 

Last night, Levin said he saw the O-care congressional exemption story a couple minutes after Wednesday evening's show ended and he immediately sent it to some of his radio buddies, which he rarely does.  You could tell he did, because Rush made the above statement Thursday afternoon and Levin echoed it last night.  Rush was taunting Congress to bring it on.

126 114 Gabe,

No Gabe "fixing" anything that makes Ogabecare a "good" is wrong...

You are allowing donkey to try to aikido blame to the right for fuck ups.

The 'slush fund" argument rings a bit fucking hollow in the era of Pigford and son of Pigford.

No personal enmity meant but you want your pony I get it.

Frankly from a tactical standpoint we want the mules using the slush fund...

no matter how much they ad blitz it and put fancy garnish it is still a shit sandwich Gabe....

you just want a small slice of the public to get the Emo Flamer Chef on Food network package.

"I prefer the Mickey D" approach.

Kill the fucking bill and let it hurt and frankly burn

127 Bipartisan flu tax of 75 cents per dose is on the horizon. I am sure they will have some caveat that the “poor” will not have to pay it. And it always starts low like this, in 10 years it will be $5. http://is.gd/OLRaZq Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:53 AM (53z96) There's a lot more to this. Along with taxes on other vaccines, this tax would fund the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. The fund is a "no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system for resolving vaccine injury claims that provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines." However, the fund is by no means in the same kind of trouble that other government "trust funds" are. A lawsuit slush fund has been set up for the ambulance chasers. You know who this tax hits the most? The elderly. Obamacare opened up a pandora's box, as it also targets the elderly (take the blue pill), and they can use it to find new taxes for just about anything they deem as "health" or "medical" related.

128 #123  Home is being able to scratch where it itches. 

129  Also, since you keep implying that I need high-risk health care (like a douchebag who has to resort to slurs, since your argument is so weak): I have outstanding employer-provided health coverage, have no preexisting conditions (or post-existing conditions, for that matter), and am not part of a high-risk or high-premium group. The last time I had to go to a doctor was in 2008, after a pretty bad car accident. I'm fit as a fiddle and likely to stay that way. So please knock off the sleazy innuendo.

130
CALIF. BILL WOULD LET NON-CITIZENS SERVE ON JURIES

This is actually a punishment
Posted by: artisanal 'ette




Actually, since CA moved to the one day/one trial program, the experience has gotten much better.  And since they've tightened up severely on exclusions, the quality of jurors has noticeably improved.

All the more reason to be outraged by letting illegals -- whoops -- guests serve in judgment of the rest of us.

131 Pigford a scam?

Pshaw! You racially insensitive cretins.

132  
Kill the fucking bill and let it hurt and frankly burn

Oh. You're one of those people. Nevermind. If I'd known I was talking to someone uninterested in saving this country, I wouldn't have bothered.

133 (Reuters) - New York Times Co reported a decline in quarterly revenue on weak advertising sales but said it would try to grow out of the slump by expanding its suite of digital products. The 11.2 percent drop in advertising revenue in the first quarter underscores the pressure that the New York Times faces to increase its subscription revenue, especially for its digital products, and find new veins of income. Die already.

134 Obama makes lines disappear with a straw and a snort. 

135 Getting all the emails as far as I know. Haven't offended me in the least. Have a great Friday Horde.

136 No slurring. All you anti-civil rights bigots have to listen to the man!

137 #131 Black farmers: an oxymoron. 

138 Cart before the horse. Or shutting the barn door after the horse has left. This whole mess is people jumping in to 'fix' without thinking things through (or reading). Healthcare has to be fixed, pass this now. Oops lets fix the fix because it isn't quite what we expected, pass this now. Everyone is emotional about X, quick pass something so we look good, doesn't matter what it actually says or does. We'll clean it up later. And we the people all have horse shit on our shoes.

139

Have you ever heard the story about a young Sinatra and his "friends" running into John Wayneand his entourage one night in theearly 50's?

 

Don't think I have.  Let's hear it.

140 129 Gabe,

Gabe I have never once implied or said "Gabe is gay thus he NEEDS high risk pools personally" not would I you are as is your wont reflexively and subtly hiding behind your after dessert dinner faire preference.

You want to be out and proud we get it...do understand that part of that is our being allowed to infer a few things about your motives without it being chickenshit bigotry.

I have never gone hannibal fucking lecter and tried Reverse engineering your motive beyond...

1) Gabe is gay

2) the gay community has turned high risk pools into a "cause"

3) these histrionics have led some Gay conservatives to back Ogabecre

I noticed your conspicuous absence from the NYC decides to play Lesbian Spin the Bottle as a class exercise yesterday.

Gabe you go on empowering Act Up thinking you can hop off the train at the last minute and then we can stop it at the right stop.

I'm pretty sure it'll go off the rails.

141 I had heard that John Wayne would always request a tape with Sinatra's stuff on it in his dressing rooms. Supposedly they were great friends.

142 If I'd known I was talking to someone uninterested in saving this country, I wouldn't have bothered. You want to 'save' the country by having about 10 million Americans go from a 40 hour work week to 30 hour? I think you're out of touch with the reality of today's small businesses.

143 The initial funding for Obamacare should have been killed during the continuing resolutions but, no, we had to be bipartisan. It needs to be dismantled piece by piece; not saved piece by piece. KILL. IT.

144 Chris Matthews calls Obama "a genius President."  Dear God, I know my death wish list is now 489 pages long, and you did take care of that motherfucker Roger Ebert, but can you please, please, take Chris Matthews out at your earliest opportunfity?  Thank you, God, and have a nice day. 

145
Apparently they are having trouble getting enough jury selectees to show up when summoned.
Posted by: GnuBreed




That was stated by the state pols pushing the bill, but there's actually no proof of that.

No responds may have moved, died, be illegals -- whoops -- guests who got on the rolls with bum driver licenses and so on.

146 Cons don't want the Dems to have billions in do-whatever-they-want money either, but not enough to actually do away with the funds without compete repeal this very second. Since that's not going to happen (hello, Democratic Senate, White House)

What exactly makes you think taking away the slush fund was going to have any chance of passing the Dem Senate and White House?  Much as we like to mock the stupidity of Dems here, they are quite acute at recognizing threats to their pet programs.

147 I am of the opinion that targeted taxes are done to discourage unwanted behavior: cigarette tax, alcohol excise tax, gasoline tax, etc.

So, taxing flu vaccines would result in fewer people getting them.

More people would die as a result,  particularly the elderly and those with already compromised immune systems.

Logic therefore compels me to conclude that Obama wants Americans to die.

148 Sometimes when Gabe comes down into the comments to argue, it sounds like he's getting PAID to argue.

Which if fine, people need to eat.  But it's not working, Gabe.  You can keep picking the nits, but people don't want any part of this.  You're not going to argue them into choosing the parts your employers  are paying you to talk up. 

But keep condescending  to the commenters here, that's what you're good at. 

149 132 Gabriel Malor,

That's really funny gabe.  I'm pretty sure as a guy with ~12,000 posts last year and at least 10% of them making sense you'd know who the fuck I am.

Saving the country is not going to be done by making it "new and improved and only 61.5% Socialist!

It needs structural change, see this is sort of how I know you are not really a republican at all in the classic sense.

1) you love HRPs because it shields the High Risk person from the actuarial blowback for behavior

2) you think a few tweaks to the donk agenda and all is swimming

3) you have magic thinking and think that the Democrats respect any deal and won't keep slouching towards leviathan

So Gabe I'm glad you're here 1475 post ONTs in the morning would be onerous but I'm not glad you're "on my side"

150 Frank Sinatra would have never covered "Sweet Caroline." What a POS song that is. Neil Diamond. Yuck.

151 Actually, the announcement of Tdouch II's move is the oat important news flash of the whole incident - if any idiot had plans on making a "statement" at Beth Israel, they need to get the message.

152 So another flame war day huh?  And its Friday!

153 Along with taxes on other vaccines, this tax would fund the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. The fund is a "no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system for resolving vaccine injury claims that provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines." However, the fund is by no means in the same kind of trouble that other government "trust funds" are. A lawsuit slush fund has been set up for the ambulance chasers. You know who this tax hits the most? The elderly. Obamacare opened up a pandora's box, as it also targets the elderly (take the blue pill), and they can use it to find new taxes for just about anything they deem as "health" or "medical" related. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2013 07:57 AM (XYSwB) ___________ One question here would be who makes the determining call on what 'injured by the vaccine' means. There are some honest injuries that result and then there are the nuts who are convinced that vaccines make your innards turn chartreuse. I'm not in favor of feeding Jim carrey's ex's insanity.

154

>>>Chris Matthews calls Obama "a genius President."

 

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste.
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
Til she's sitting on your face.

155 But keep condescending to the commenters here, that's what you're good at.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2013 08:05 AM (BeSEI)

Ask him to explain why a guess about what will happen in the future is a "fact".  Much hilarity will ensue.

156

"So another flame war day huh"

Looks that way. Bummer. Not a problem, though, as I can always find something else productive to do, rather than be lectured as to me being part of the "problem" rather than some, as of yet, unspecified "solution".

Feh. I'm with sven.

157 Something in this story just does not add up. Young woman in NYC bar dies from drinking 3 shots??? I donÂ’t think so; otherwise I would be dead a hundred times over. http://is.gd/x7ZXFo Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:54 AM (53z96) They're blaming the bar versus the girl who ordered the shots. Brilliant. It wouldn't matter how much they cost (they claim the booze is cheap there), because I guarantee you she had the money to pay whatever she liked. There is also no information given as to what/where she did/went after leaving the bar. I feel for the mom, but blaming the bar?

158 You have to carefully listen to moslem communists when they speak. Ours said the red line for him was is "a bunch of" chemical weapons were being moved around and used. "A bunch of" is a long ways away.

159 Sinatra could sing a good song and may have been generous to those he expected loyalty from, but he could be a nasty and brutal man. I have no respect for Sinatra.

160

Frank Sinatra would have never covered "Sweet Caroline"



Sorry, he did.

161 152 Vic,

I didn't think I was in flamewar mode.

as in I am pulling punches because I do like Gabe mostly.

Tell you what I yield the floor.

I know I am not the most entertain ing flamer on the blog.

"How about those Reds?"

162 It wouldn't matter how much they cost (they claim the booze is cheap there), because I guarantee you she had the money to pay whatever she liked.



That reminds me, I never did get and answer from CDB or JJ on what a shot of Crown costs in that NYC bar.

163

"Funny, the only crisis we never seem to want to fix is our ever expanding debt issue"

Now you're just being unhelpful. Or racist.

164 Don't think I have. Let's hear it. http://preview.tinyurl.com/39tqc4l The impression I get is that Sinatra had a real Napoleon complex.

165 So Barney Fag compares the Tea Party to Al Qaeda. I'd yawn, but I want my mouth closed after referencing him. He is a detestable bastard on every level. Self-righteous tyrant and criminal who fancies himself some sort of Claudius Caesar. He can't go to Hell fast enough.

166 So what it amounts to is a person who doesn't drink or smoke or engage in risky behavior will have to pony up another thousand dollars+ per month to pay for people who deserve what ails them. I don't know where these funds are supposed to come from as I am the sole earner in family with no benefits whatsoever. I will be better off financially giving my house to my children, quitting any work at all and moving my wife and I into a rental travel trailer.

167 My dad said that when he was in service, he and most GI's hated Sinatra because he was back in the States getting laid and living the high-life while he and others of his generation were seeing hell in Europe and the Pacific. But he too reconsidered his stance on ol' Blue Eyes because of what I said. And yeah, he was "the voice." Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2013 07:55 AM (tqLft) _________ Read somewhere (OK it was a Dean Koontz novel) that Sinatra couldn't serve for medical reasons, I want to say an injury to his inner ear at birth. He tried several times and was always refused. He was very embarrassed by that. And probably miffed.

168

#161  I just lost all respect for the man.  Please don't tell me he covered Elvis's "In the Ghetto." 

169 Okay, so he covered "Sweet Caroline," but what about "Sweet Adeline?" And did he ever sing it live at Kaminsky Field?

170 MM schools Marco Rubio on immigration. http://is.gd/bVhPPo Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:55 AM (53z96) Really good piece by Michelle Malkin.

171 sven sounds like the type who would tell his own mother to take a hike if she needed a helping hand.

This is why we lose elections.. hard hearted mother fuckers like you, sven.  I only hope no one in your family ever comes down with an illness that makes them uninsurable and the medical bills cause you and yours to lose your home.

But then, all illnesses are derived from "bad personal choices or behavior", right? right?  so, no chance there.

172

>>>The true testament of being a moron is if you can relate everything to Hall and Oates lyrics.

 

Say it isn't so.

173 "So another flame war day huh"

**

Shoot! no popcorn in the pantry here at work.

174 I'm off to work.. have a good day y'all..

175 Dear God, I will cull 43 pages from my lengthy death wish list if you will just please, please take out Barnery Frank, that cocksucker from hell.  And please, make it fast.  You dawdled far too long with that fucker Roger Ebert.  Thank you, God, and have a nice day. 

176 Please everybody just quit the flame c---. We all need to be on the same side!!

177

"will have to pony up another thousand dollars+ per month to pay for people who deserve what ails them"

Well now - that's double unhelpful and double plus racist talk right there. Report to the reeducation camp today, brother.

The very concept that I might be somehow obligated to pay the costs I choose to incur...

BTW, I'm still waiting to hear what, exactly, was the health "crisis" or "condition" that our NHS is supposed to correct.

178 173 sven sounds like the type who would tell his own mother to take a hike if she needed a helping hand. This is why we lose elections.. hard hearted mother fuckers like you, sven. I only hope no one in your family ever comes down with an illness that makes them uninsurable and the medical bills cause you and yours to lose your home. But then, all illnesses are derived from "bad personal choices or behavior", right? right? so, no chance there. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 26, 2013 08:15 AM (UTq/I) Too bad there is no such thing as insurance that could pay for such a catastrophe.

179 Where's the fire? Immigration, gheys, Obamacare, stupid Pub tactics, ...

180 179 Chi-Town jerry,

Nope I'm not JWest.

I lost mom to Cancer CTJ and I did not go mourn like your Chi-Ca-go jesus by surfing in Maui I cried for three days....

You go on trying to heal the world with the Federal Chest bud.

Mom was mentally ill, a smoker, a self-medicated alcoholic who died of cancer and gave up chemo about 60% in... a bunch of bad factors.

You can be born or High risk pool through no fault of your own it sucks and it is what Charity is for or preferably at the state level care for the impoverished....

There are actuarial reasons that are hard and cold that risk and behavior needs to be pegged and it is a cost/benefit analysis.

Sorry it sucks that's life but hey Shit Town jerry you keep on thinking IPAB is the HRP buddy.

I know better.

181 A business I work with is cutting back hours, firing people at the slightest infraction and replacing them with lower cost employees, changing full time positions to part time, increasing the number of students they hire (who they won't provide health insurance to), cross-training one person to work two positions in multiple cases, giving out few or no raises to long time employees, insisting that salaried employees show up seen days a week, and generally making the workplace a nightmare. So the Free Shit Army stays supplied and satisfied. Fuck that, hon.

182

And some people would like to see him run for Preezy in 2016. A-holes.

 

Allen West "gets" terrorism and you can't deny he's motivational and a leader, but when it comes to fiscal matters and his denial that NDAA allowing people to be snatched off the street without a trace is a good thing, I'm off his sainted bandwagon.  He can be Sec of Defense.  There.  That's magnanimous enough, isn't it?

183 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 26, 2013 08:15 AM (UTq/I)

Drawing from that deep well of dumbfuckery again?

184 Sinatra was 4F due to perforated eardrum.

185 #174  I always loved "Summer Breeze."  Or maybe that was two other kind of weird guys.  P.S.  I fucking hated "Summer Breeze." 

186 181 Eman,

the irony is CTJ thinks a lot like Gabe and the Gay Marriage Gestapo that "gaming and fucking with the ability of insurers to wargame and factor cost is away everyone wins!'

eh yeah "maybe" I dunno State farm scrapped their whole fucking health care suite instead of playing pin the tail on the donkey on cost calculation....

anyway fuck 'em right?

I mean we're now using the Xerox money cannon to prop up wall street why not try the same game with Medical Street?

I'm at a loss as to why counterfeiting is still a crime.....it is defacto baseline US monetary policy now

187 sven sounds like the type who would tell his own mother to take a hike if she needed a helping hand.

This is why we lose elections.. hard hearted mother fuckers like you, sven. I only hope no one in your family ever comes down with an illness that makes them uninsurable and the medical bills cause you and yours to lose your home.

Yes, because using the police power of government to take money away at gunpoint from other people to pay your medical bills is preferable.

While he certainly can speak for himself, I think Sven would rather help his own mother than she have to lean on the government.  This is how America used to work before the progs started turning healthcare into a clusterfuck and telling people that only government should be allowed to perform charity.

188

Maet had a real head slapper up in the ONT last night.  A prison chaplain 'splained why Islam is "the prisoner's friend" regardless of all the other options available in jail.  It's a great explanation of the high muzz conversion rates and worth a read:

 

http://bit.ly/ZoSFuE

189 I'll see your Shannon Bream and raise you one Wynn McMurray....


 http://tinyurl.com/d64dbo8

She's Sporty!

190 now "how about those Reds"?

191 Well we could always change the subject by discussing Kathy Griffin's habit of announcing the state of her bodily fluids with no provocation at all.

192

>>>sven sounds like the type who would tell his own mother to take a hike if she needed a helping hand.

 

Sounds like, but he isn't. Mostly its the framing thats been gaining steam ["you don't care about ___________"] that accounts for that impression. sven is first saying he doesn't have to pay your freight - and he's right there. More controversial is his point of view that we need to "let it burn" rather than save anything. If you're of the impression that we're on a collision course anyway, then feeling that crash earlier may be the only way to keep it from becoming world-crashingly catastrophic.

 

If it all does reach world-crashingly catastrophic levels - which I do think it may - then yes, a lot of folks will, frankly, starve in the streets. Here in the USA not Bangladesh or the Congo. It all sounds hard-hearted but its not. We're saying stop eating the seed corn.

193 Bush 43 again refused to use "illegal immigration."  Instead, more pablum:  "Immigrants are the future of our Country."  An illegal invasion along a 1000 mile border is not fucking "immigration" you god damned moron.  By the way, moron, "New Mexico" now encompasses California, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Colorado and a good chunks of North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware.  Are you fucking happy now? 

194

 "I only hope no one in your family ever comes down with an illness that makes them uninsurable and the medical bills cause you and yours to lose your home. "

You're the problem. Tearing apart the entire fabric of American society to "cover" a very tiny part of the population is outright stupidity, and if you can't understand that, well, we've little in common.

As I (and others) have pointed out here, there was a time, not that long ago, when one could purchase such assistance (Diabetes, in my family's case), but such programs are so constrained by Federal and State "assistance" that they have all but vanished. That, and the rise of the fascist state of medicine (harsh word? Not at all) have caused such problems. More government is not the answer. It is the root of the problem.

195

I know I am not the most entertain ing flamer on the blog.

 

Paging EoJ, paging EoJ.  Please pick up the white courtesy phone in the lobby.

196 Sowell calls immigration reform a racket and that the Democrats care more about importing new Democrat voters than they do national security. Well Thomas, everyone knows that but you are the only one saying it. And the Republican RINOs are helping them. Why? http://is.gd/iWCdTe Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:55 AM (53z96) We had one fairly substantial wave of like minded folks running and winning in 2010. We need another wave, such that we have never seen, from local town positions all the way to the WH. I see no other way. We need to clean house. Literally.

197 I'm still waiting to hear what, exactly, was the health "crisis" or "condition" that our NHS is supposed to correct.

****

It's worse than the extra thousand (I've been over this with a professional so my math is sound) I still have to pay for all my doctor visits and labs at the new higher rates until I'm $10,000 out of pocket and 80/20 until $100,000
So that's going to be $1865 a month plus I pay all the bills and they have the discretion to deny care for whatever reason they want.

198 Hur hur.

Teenage fat chick detected.

199 Lots of good news bites this morning, Gave and Vic. Thanks for jumpstarting our brains.

200 One of my boys was born with congenital heart defects, 4 open heart surgeries and counting. He isn't uninsurable. Well, yes, life insurance he is going to have to get through an employer. Medical insurance though is not an issue. Texas has an established High Risk Pool Insurance. When my husband changed jobs and we were in a crunch between COBRA and new insurance, we checked into it. We were able to insure the kid and, through him, the rest of the family, for much less than what we pay for employer funded. And it covered well. As long as he maintains health coverage, preexisting conditions are not an issue. Do I live in a different world from everyone else?

201
Please don't tell me he covered Elvis's "In the Ghetto."



Not that I see. Although, both The Cranberries and Natalie Merchant did versions of it, which sounds pretty horrible.

Sinatra did however cover "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life".

202 190 Ian S,

Yeah I would have...I got the joy of sitting down and calculating how much it would cost to 'save mom" who after Grandma died gave up and discovered that "federal help for the Poor" had allowed price structure to shoot through the roof to the point I couldn't have done it at the time.

It was part of the "3 day' thing.

I am so hard hearted I have had fellow Church members make it their mission to keep my generosity in check out of fear for my son.

I'm not here to brag and I can accept that the CTJs and gabe's and Mau maus and so on and so forth think i am killing Santa Clause.....

I just know Santa's broke, the elves are tired, and the kids would be ebtter served by getting toys based on the market.

203 Speaking of the ability to get insurance reminds me of a friend who was a contract worker who was on the road for the big bucks. 


His wife came down with cancer and her insurance dropped her. (It did use to happen).  He made the decision to give up the road and go "in-house" in order to get company insurance.


He was honest to the company and told them flat out why he was hiring on.  They hired him anyway.

204 #204  Please, please, tell me he didn't do "Afternoon Delight."  I feel sick. 

205 now "how about those Reds"? Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 26, 2013 08:23 AM (LRFds) well, they got stomped last night and are 1-6 on the road...still.... doing okay with their ace pitcher and Ludwick on the DL

206

"Do I live in a different world from everyone else?"

Why, yes, yes you do. It's called "reality". Or Texas, your choice.

207 BREAKING: AOSHQ FLAME WAR!

208 203 Ragamuffin,

No you're not....

Gabe and CTJ fall prey to the Media's 'victim of the week" routine...

That's okay I guess "free country"(a while longer and all that) the states are better equipped to take care of these issues on a smaller scale with less onerous graft.

I'm glad the system worked for you, part of why i do love the ArkLaTex so.

209 I'm here to tamp down the gene pool. 

210 208 GhostofHallelujah,

ah yes but the 'atmosphere" my man...the atmosphere

211 Fox should issue useful news alerts.  BREAKING: MEGYN KELLY UPSKIRT SHOT!

212 #210  It's getting hot in here.  I'm going to take my Boston terriers, Allahu and Akbar, out for another walk. 

213 Do I live in a different world from everyone else? You sure do, it's called Texas. The state where Gov. Perry enacted tort reform. Where at least two of my wife's Doctors have moved to in the last fifteen years. But when RINO's in the Senate hear 'tort reform' their balls shrivel up so far in their sacks it takes a month for them to descend again.

214 In American pop music, "Muskrat Love" said it all.

215 At some point, someone in the chain of command is going to have to address the "Buddy System", it's required use, and where was the other Sailor she was required to be with. Glad to see she kicked ass though. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2013 07:05 AM (ZQNhv) She was on shore leave, shopping at a mall in Dubai. Buddy system when on leave?

216 Fox should issue useful news alerts. BREAKING: MEGYN KELLY UPSKIRT SHOT!

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2013 08:30 AM (OevbG)

LOL, bring back the micro-minis of the late 60s and early 70s.  That curvy  couch would look a whole lot better.

217 I wonder if OCare wouldn't be in a lot more trouble than it now currently is if the 1099 and CLASS Act fixes (dumps) hadn't been passed.
 
More early pain would have hastened its death I think. Instead, two major pain in the ass revenue sources for OCare were eliminated which will just mean higher deficit spending.
 
And the fucking beast just keeps limping along.

218

"I'm going to take my Boston terriers, Allahu and Akbar, out for another walk. "

Is it just me, or is that still funny? I chuckle at that line...

219 195 Bigby's Rosy Palm,

Yup.. I have used precisely that forumlation.  CTJ and Gabe seem to think the party needs to be 'more caring than the donks but magically also more efficient, allow the market to work, but don't cut into the regulatory mess do that on the down low"...

whatever.....

I'm Sven...I am at risk for Cancer, Diabetes, walked in deep fear I'd be a headcase like mom etc etc etc

I also believe in the free market and genuine charity...guys like me used to be called "republicans"

I guess I'll either be called a survivor or a dinosaur when the train crashes

220 Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:12 AM (53z96)

$8

221 @215: Didn't Akbar commit a martyrdom operation yesterday?

222 Are you fucking happy now?

 

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at April 26, 2013 08:24 AM (wbmaj)

 

¿Que?

223 Lots of "accidents" involving towering burning infernos in last week. "Cleaning" accident with barges right over the tunnel in Mobile, Alabama. These "accidents" are immediately declared. #we will never know with skunk hair in charge if DHS

224 US Female sailor beats the crap out of would be rapist with knife. http://is.gd/K5xAE5 My appreciation for this news is mitigated by the sentence structure making it look like she beat him with a knife. Try 'knife-weilding rapist." And in future, run all headlines by my desk for grading.

225 Agree with him or not, you're outa line sven.



That shit about the thread from yesterday regarding the middle schoolers had nothing to do with fucking high risk pools and O-care. It was a cheap shot for no purpose other than a cheap shot.

226 Where's the fire? Immigration, gheys, Obamacare, stupid Pub tactics, ...

Posted by: Jean at April 26, 2013 08:19 AM (xBps2)

============

Dunno, but the Circular Firing Squad is formed up and ready.

Except Big Sis has all the ammo...

Mornin' all!

227 Please, please, tell me he didn't do "Afternoon Delight." I feel sick. I actually endured that song being performed live, as Star Land Vocal Band opened for John Denver. They both pretty much sucked but the tickets were free and good seats. I woulda preferred shitty seats and better music.

228 220 GnuBreed,

Well put....

"if we just fix this, this, and this and make it barely bearable" then we'll REALLY get to kill it.

uh "no"

229 This Megyn Kelly?

http://tinyurl.com/bstszl8

230 It was a cheap shot for no purpose other than a cheap shot.

Gabe's a big boy, right?  He can deal.

231

"Where at least two of my wife's Doctors have moved to in the last fifteen years."

I'd like to see the #s on that - quite a few of the assorted medical professionals my wife worked with over the years have moved to either Florida (retired) or Texas (still practicing).

232 "I'm going to take my Boston terriers, Allahu and Akbar, out for another walk. " Is it just me, or is that still funny? I chuckle at that line... Posted by: Jess1 at April 26, 2013 08:32 AM (lbiWb) dunno, but I just took my morning Pelosi and I feel a couple pounds lighter

233 Star Land Vocal Band opened for John Denver

Forget the Large Hadron Collider, that concert should've opened up a black hole.

234 Is this more vital information from that shithead you wasted a post on yesterday that everybody else laughed at? Where tinkering with the damn thing and playing procedural games is more important than just getting rid of it? It would not have passed the Senate. If by some odd coincidence it did, guess who promised to veto it?

235 $8

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2013 08:33 AM (/WLC3)

Damn, that's cheap, especially for NYC.  It runs around $8 here in Podunct, SC at a bar.

236 216 regular Moron,

Texas is a Better America because it is what America is supposed to be....

and that ain't a 'racist's dream house" it is where we are supposed to be regulatory/jury/industry wise

I believe in America still...but I believe in Texas totally

237 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2013 07:15 AM (zF6Iw) No amount of good that Sinatra did can make up for the cruelty. Battered wife syndrome. And, people will always look the other way when it's a "star."

238 Didn't have any of that shit when I was in. And some of those ports we visited in the Pacific were just as bad. Of course, when in one of the bad ones we voluntarily went in groups, and they were larger than 2.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 07:14 AM (53z96)

 

I remember one port so bad you were required to be armed off-base...for the monkeys.

239 Pigford was a scam? Wish somebody had told me!

240 Spousal unit is reading stats this morning. Average family practice physician pulls in 178k a year. 15% of them make less than 100k annually. Less than 10% crack the 200k ceiling. These are the docs who are with you cradle to grave. General surgeons make high 200s. Radiologists and cardiologists make mid 300s. If you go into medicine, go for an 'ology'

241 I remember one port so bad you were required to be armed off-base...for the monkeys. If we're going to talk about great music, at least spell our name right!

242

Re: Starland Vocal Band and John Denver - the core of SVB was JD's "backup/co members" during the 70s - they wrote and backed up "Country Roads" and more.

The also had a mid season (summer) show on one of the big 3 (CBS, IIRC) featuring the witticisms of one David Letterman...

243 BTW, the Dem leadership has backed away from the O'care exemptions for themselves.

No word on if Boehner and Cantor are following.

244

Fox Red breaking news flash at 6:15:

BOSTON BOMB SUSPECT TRANSPORTED FROM HOSPITAL TO FEDERAL PRISON HOSPITAL IN MASS.


Why is that such a concern?

 

 

 

 

Fox has a breaking news flash when someone important burps.

 

245 Damn, that's cheap, especially for NYC. It runs around $8 here in Podunct, SC at a bar.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:35 AM (53z96)

Not a fancy bar. I'm thinking a beer and a shot sort of place.

And....there are so many bars in NYC (particularly ones that cater to young drinkers) that you can usually find a happy hour that will get you $5 shots and $3 beers.

Or so I have heard.

246 I see I've stepped into a flame war...

Morning.  Happy Friday. 

247 The impression I get is that Sinatra had a real Napoleon complex.

Posted by: zsasz at April 26, 2013 08:12 AM (MMC8r)

 

The story sounds vaguely familiar, now that I read it.  Thanks for the link.

248 The best thing about big city bars is you're always a short walk away from a hotel.  Don't have to drive or find a cab.

249 BREAKING: BILL O'REALLY SHARTED, BUT DEEMED IT NON-NEWSWORTHY.

250 Maybe he will read that Thomas Sowell column and wake the Hell up. When you are a Republican and Sowell comes down on your ass you are screwing the pooch bad. Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 07:26 AM (53z96) And, Michelle's column you linked. And, this blog...

251

Obama to shut down crucial flood warning gauges just in time for the Spring floods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My word, this man is such a butt.  When will people get tired of his foolishness? 

252

@ 139 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

 

"Don't think I have. Let's hear it."

 

I have a friend who grew up in CA who is about aged 60 now.  He had an uncle, long dead, who was in show business since the 30's-- started out in silent films.

 

In any case, there was an incident one night in the late 40's or early 50's that never made the press, nor the police, due to the clientel involved.   An up and coming star named Frank Sinatra was dining at one of the more favorable restaurants escorted by two body guards.  In comes John Wayne and his posse who went to the bar as they waited to be seated.  Drinks, laughter.. a bit loud but harming no one.  Frank informs his thugs to go tell the merry goers to be quiet.  Wayne's response to the request was less than polite.  Fight broke out.  John shit kicked both the body guards.  Dragged one of them over to Franks table and threw the lout across it saying, "your steak is ready."

 

Frank and his bodyguards left.

 

My friend did meet John Wayne one night on a yacht in the late 70's.  Drunk as punch, but one hell of a guy.

253 Texas is a Better America because it is what America is supposed to be.... and that ain't a 'racist's dream house" it is where we are supposed to be regulatory/jury/industry wise I believe in America still...but I believe in Texas totally Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 26, 2013 08:37 AM (LRFds) ---- I wouldn't go that far. I'm sure its a nice place to visit. Here my stash of weed is a $100 fine. There I believe its a death penalty case. They have a ways to go on individual liberty.

254 I'm sure you are all anxious to hear what happened in the grizzly bear show. There was a huge male bear called Van that was threatening everyone. Van had the hots for Alice who wouldn't allow him to mate with her. Van went off to rub shit all over himself, thereby making him more attactive to Alice. While he was doing that, a young male wondered into the meadow and mounted Alice and she allowed it. Van notices that Alice and bear X were doing the nasty and comes lumbering. Alice chases X off and yells rape. Van and Alice go back to grazing until a poor female wanders into the meadow. Alice attacks her and then Van kills her. Alice gets all turned on by this and Van and Alice fuck. The other bears start eating the dead females carcass. The bears were always hungry but no one ate the film makers. Why? Van threatened them at one point and they all got down on their knees which they say is better than standing tall and yelling. I guess when a bear wants you you can't out run them. I don't know why someone didn't put a cap in Van's ass. It would have made for better film making. Grizzly bears are always fighting and killing each other and eating the carcass. Half of the cubs don't make it pass their first year. Van should have been fucking the other females instead of just hanging around Alice. What I am trying to say is that grizzly bears are really stupid and it is amazing that they don't become extinct which would be a good thing.

255

CA will now let non-citizens sit on juries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's as though they're pushing us to see how much we'll take.  But that's just crazy conspiracy talk

256 Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (f+TdG)


Not sure I believe that story since they reported to be great friends.

257 And in the Fut the Whuck? category: Apparently the new logo for UCONN promotes rape. It's a dog, a husky. It could be leering if you really want it to be. Otherwise, it pretty much looks like an intense...dog. I think this woman was bitten as a child. Possibly in a private place. http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/26/colleges-husky-dog-logo-promotes-rape-says-student/

258

#257...

What time do (did) the bars close in your zip code again?

259

Teenage fat chick detected.

 

Tell Meggie Mac to take a f'ng hike.

260

That's really funny gabe. I'm pretty sure as a guy with ~12,000 posts last year and at least 10% of them making sense you'd know who the fuck I am.

Saving the country is not going to be done by making it "new and improved and only 61.5% Socialist!

It needs structural change, see this is sort of how I know you are not really a republican at all in the classic sense.

 

I just love how you think something that the GOP wants is "socialist." This is a classic of True Conservative (TM) argument: question the bonafides of anyone on the Right that doesn't agree with you. Speaking of...

 

Which if fine, people need to eat. But it's not working, Gabe. You can keep picking the nits, but people don't want any part of this. You're not going to argue them into choosing the parts your employers are paying you to talk up.

 

There he goes, questioning my bonafides because I (and not just I, but the GOP caucus and lots of Republicans) disagree with him. For the record: I don't get paid to comment.

 

Also, Sven, you're full of shit. This?

 

I noticed your conspicuous absence from the NYC decides to play Lesbian Spin the Bottle as a class exercise yesterday.

 

I criticized that right alongside Ace on Twitter. I don't come in the comments much during the day because they are filtered at work. To write, I have to do it on my phone, which is a pain in the ass.

261

*collapse*

 

*weak wave*

 

Good    morning, all.   This has been a hellacious week, and I see by the calendar that it's not over yet.   One more day of exhaustive niggling over things that should have been completed weeks ago and then, at last,     the blissfulness of    the weekend!

 

I didn't watch the    NFL Draft yesterday, but for those who did, I'd like    to   offer my   very-nearly-sincere condolences to the fanbase of the NY Jets, whose coach has proven yet again to be a colossal clusterfuck.  Because when what your    team   REALLY needs    is some offensive firepower to prevent your lackluster    QB from committing another    Butt Fumble (tm),   of COURSE your team goes out and drafts TWO defensive players in the first round.      If I were not a Pats fan, and therefore a sworn enemy of the Jets, my condolences would not only be 100% sincere, but would probably come gift wrapped and accompanied by a large box of gourmet chocolates. 

 

Oh, and since this is my first time     getting to comment since the 2012 Commenter Rankings were released earlier this week, I have two things to say:

 

1) Oh God, I made it into the Top 20? 

 

and

 

2) How the hell did I make it into the   Top 20, yet Bannion, BC,    and Radish are nowhere to be found?       I demand a recount!

262 228 BC1981,

It was a cheap shot b/c that's how I brawl at times.

It was also somewhat Valid Brent.

Ace himself hinted at it.  I am an ally of the LBGT movement after a fashion not as ardent as Ace but I have bi-sexuals I care about deeply and it is not an affectation I *was* all in on Civil Unions.  Too many LC Republicans seem to be getting a thrill off using the Act Up brigades to get their ponies.  "I can quit anytime!" seems to be the bent.

Well no I don't think you can quit anytime, and the ONLY line of defense the GOP has against the 'cardinal sin" of the 21st century thus far of "h8er intolerance" is our minority and "special class" members saying 'uh no I am a Republican and XYZ this is too far."

The new name of the game is "Sven you are white and a male and thus are wrong at once and to blame for every misdeed by the right."

Chris tingles and others had wet underwear they were so excited the GOP had finally gone Ayers last week....

"collective guilt" is the new macarena.

I find it interesting that Gabe is on the gay issues advocacy train like a cuckoo clock 24/7 365 and it is his right.

I also find it interesting that when the chips are down and the LGBT alliance overreaches a bit Gabe is in stealth mode.

He was on Twitter, I know he could have popped in his head and offered some comfort or said "nah we'll get this under control" instead he was on about our not saving his pony.

I have already decided this year that my held since I was 16 years old "First trimester" silence was a mistake.  I have decided that because planned parenthood has no problem with what Gosnell did other than he should have kept a cleaner office(on the Taxpayer dime).....

I won't become a gay basher who tries to force the LGBT right into a closet but I am not going to be as sympathetic an ear or a voice calling on granting room if they think part of tolerance is my son being told to ask for hugs and kisses from boys.

No animosity meant to you BC1981 just laying out the guardrails of where I am on the road.

You *are* one of the "more entertaining flamers" I was calling on.

I can be funny sometimes, I can be a decent writer at others, I don't tend to fight nice or politely.

I accept that and in the interests of not fucking up the horde's friday I'll refrain from posting quite so much this weekend.

regards,
sven

263 I thought only dykes attended UCONN? It would explain the hoopla over the logo.

264 Why have you summoned me?

265 Shit, did someone speak EoJ's name three times into a mirror?

266 They want lessons in proper flame war.

267 As far as Obamacare is concerned, I think the former mayor of NYC Ed Koch said it best:

"The people have spoken, and now they will be punished."

268 BREAKING: EMPIRE OF JEFF QUESTIONS SUMMONS

269 >>>Frank Sinatra would have never covered "Sweet Caroline." What a POS song that is.<<<

Elvis covered that stinker, and guess what?  It's still a stinker.

270 I think this woman was bitten as a child. We, as a society, would be better off if we dealt with these fringe, publicity-seeking chronic complainers with brutal rejection rather than giving them a nickel's worth of attention.

271 Good EOJ is here, the profanity till now was getting bland.

272 I'm starting to think Cali's illegal alien on jury thing was probably born out of embarrassment that whenever they went to the voter list, half the people that showed up for duty were illegal aliens.

273 "She was on shore leave, shopping at a mall in Dubai."

24 hour shore leave sounds like a reference to " Special Liberty"
Just winging it here, but typically we would require a Buddy on liberty, and leaving the base in a case like hers.

On actual chargeable Leave, a Buddy would be encouraged, but not required.

Some of the Morons are on current active duty, and are more up on the current policies.

274
SNL - The Sinatra Group

http://tinyurl.com/29vfe8g

"Come on! Swing, baby, you're platinum!"

275 Apparently the new logo for UCONN promotes rape.

*blink*

That chick is mentally ill.  Cartoon dogs promote rape?

276 MWR - See, Obama passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act.  That requires AoSHQ to count your comments at 1.8% the rate of the men's comments. 

277 Alright looks like SVEN VS GABE is still going full-motion. Can we get a scoreboard up?

278

I just love how you think something that the GOP wants is "socialist."

Hmm. So everything the GOP "wants" limits the effects of the State.

 

"There he goes, questioning my bonafides because I (and not just I, but the GOP caucus and lots of Republicans) disagree with him"

Er, no. Questioning the state of the GOP =/= "questioning my bonafides". Saying we're being served a fecal sandwich is saying so - regardless of the source of said sandwich.

Oh, and Sven, take it from a non white guy - you're more "right" than our esteemed cob...

279 now "how about those Reds"?


Still over 500 but the Nats beat em last night. Arroyo is 2 and 2 now and got roughed up a bit.

280 A question for the multitude: Any recommendations for a good news site to replace Drudge? I fell for another Infowars story again this morning and am getting sick of it. thanks,

281 I am ON this UConn logo deal......on it like a bonnet

282 I don't tend to fight nice or politely.

For the record, in a real fight, there's no such thing as "nice" or "polite"

283 263 Gabe,

Not having nioticed your tweet line activity is not "full of shit" I'll go look.

I notice you're in the trench now.  Which is cool.

I'll go read your line.  Maybe you can summarize for the class what you as a LC Republican type think the answer is to stopping this shit?

Not being an asshole either, because I *do* value your opinion when it is not in "my CAUSE" mode.

I was all over some asshole that was snarking on you HARD Gabe.  I value you and am genuine in my gratitude for the things you do.

I'm not your enemy and friends can and should disagree.

Anyway odd and probably hypocriticial as this sounds i don't want this to be "about me" and I am not "the 53d Cob-logger" in my delusions.

I said when the "Acies" were posted I am of less value to the horde than vic and I meant it.

I am under no illusion I am more vital than you, and I am not "taking my ball and going home."

I have to do about 36 hours work in the next three days.

Yeah plenty of the GOP is socialist these days, and oddly you seem to love that socialism.  Doesn't mean I am calling you a commie it does mean I see you pushing for HRP aid a lot more than Tort reform.

I want you to be well safe and happy Gabe, and I want your 'fixes' to Ogabecare to fail because I want the vampire dead and buried.

284 Any recommendations for a good news site to replace Drudge? I fell for another Infowars story again this morning and am getting sick of it.

thanks,

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (l3vZN)

Just ignore the INFO wars stuff.  You notice I never pick up any links to their stuff.

285 MWR - See, Obama passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. That requires AoSHQ to count your comments at 1.8% the rate of the men's comments.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 08:51 AM (fwARV)

 

Oh, I see!  

 

brb, punchin' lilly ledbetter inna throat.

 

(But that doens't account for the missing Radish!)

286 Any recommendations for a good news site to replace Drudge? I fell for another Infowars story again this morning and am getting sick of it. thanks, Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (l3vZN) Maybe we can make a infowars link blocker? Drudge is a force, you can't just ignore his choice of posts.

287

IMHO, a "Republican in the classic sense" = the oldest chestnut the GOP started with, to wit: "As long as any of my fellow citizens are not free, I am not free"

 

That is an absolutist, "purist" argument.

288 But then, all illnesses are derived from "bad personal choices or behavior", right? right? so, no chance there.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 26, 2013 08:15 AM (UTq/I)


Exactly.  Much like the genetic kidney disease that caused my kidneys to fail, caused me to spend 4 years on dialysis, and caused me to have a transplant.  This all came about because my mother chose to have a genetic mutation.  Much like my Type 2 Diabetes caused by my anti-rejection medication.  I guess I made a risky choice in deciding to go ahead and take medication that keeps me alive, so I deserve to suffer.


Some people really need to either think before they speak or not speak at all.  The latter is probably a better choice.

289 I try to ignore it, but it can slip by, and to tell you the truth, I wonder about Drudge if he's linking so much of it.

290 If this flame war doesn't end soon I'm gonna post the lyrics to 'Afternoon Delight' and you all will have that earworm stuk in yur head the rest of the day.

291 267 EoJ,

we need humorous flaming...or not...whatever.

I can tell funny analysis of wound channels and hydrostatic shock, but healthcare is one of my "not funny at all" topics.

I'm off to read gabe's tweet line and gonna spare the Horde(and my post count) another 500 posts of "collectivism fucking sucks"

Go get 'em tiger

292 Morning all

293 Oh boy! Daylight is breaking in Cali: Humboldt Bay Eagle Camera new baby chicks. http://humwild.org/humboldt-bay-eagle-camera

294 My state has provided for pre-existing conditions for about 20 years if you maintained continuous coverage. Its been paid for by a tax on insurers through all policies sold in the state. I know because I have a policy.

The problem is that, since it's an individual policy, its cost is set to go up anywhere from 35%-75% under Obamacare as the individual policies  will be hardest hit. People don't understand insurance at all nor do most people want to pay for an expensive policy.

295 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (l3vZN)

Try this one.

http://tinyurl.com/73w9476

It definitely has a conservative tilt.

296

Any recommendations for a good news site to replace
Drudge? I fell for another Infowars story again this morning and am
getting sick of it.

 

Generally if you hover your mouse cursor over a link and then look    at   your browser's status bar, you'll see    the    link's URL.  If it    goes to Infowars, just dont' click that link.   That's what I do.

 

Drudge is about the best,  easiest   to use news aggregator I can think of, but Weasel Zippers is another good one.  It's much more of a blog type   site, similar to the HQ, but it's updated very frequently.

297

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (4df7R)

 

 

Well after the last few years cheering for a team that seems more concerned with winning press time than games, I've gotta admit, I don't really mind the liberals' push to ruin football anymore.

 

 

Regarding the NY Middle School's mandatory lesbianism: That district is in a county right next to mine. I don't care that I have no kids, I pay a ransom every year in property taxes to my school district, double what I pay for the rest of the city. If I ever hear that my school district is doing this shit I will march right in there and heads will roll.

298

#291,

So exactly what is your point? That every American needs to step up to the plate and cover your costs? I hope not.

299 If this flame war doesn't end soon I'm gonna post the lyrics to 'Afternoon Delight' and you all will have that earworm stuk in yur head the rest of the day.


Just by reading your post it's already there. Thanks.

300

@ 259 Vic

 

"Not sure I believe that story since they reported to be great friends. "

 

It was a rumor from someone who was in the business.  Probably never happened, but there are some notorious parties that took place where John Wayne did exchange blows with guys and, yes, some of them were his friends.  I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility though.

 

 

I like Frank's music personally.  Him singing "Only the Lonely" put the hook in me.  He was going through a rough patch when he did that one and you can hear it.  I doubt if I would want to work for him or chug beers later though.

301 291 Zombie John Galt,

Right John there's no programs for Type 2 diabetes where you are?

The kidney stone thing sucks, my wrestling coach was on dialysis for 75% of his life.  including the era before refining in procedure saved your forearms.

I'm not heartless, I just don't think destroying market dynamics is the answer.

Look i surrender.

You want my silence on healthcare you got it.

IPAB will fix all this...JWest will be on the board believe it.

302 Trust me, click on this and it will make it all better.

http://tinyurl.com/cld6hfr

303 2) How the hell did I make it into the Top 20, yet Bannion, BC, and Radish are nowhere to be found? I demand a recount! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (4df7R) Because I didn't start commenting at AoS till midway through last year. And Sven, taking cheap shots doesn't make you a brawler, it cheapens your argument.

304 If this flame war doesn't end soon I'm gonna post the lyrics to 'Afternoon Delight' and you all will have that earworm stuk in yur head the rest of the day.

Posted by: Regular Moron at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (feFL6)

 

Don't even THINK about it, unless you want    a   certain someone   (*cough* me *cough*)   firing back with the complete lyrics to "Seasons in the Sun."

 

*fingers poised over keyboard*

 

*squint*

 

You feel lucky, punk?

305 If this flame war doesn't end soon I'm gonna post the lyrics to 'Afternoon Delight' and you all will have that earworm stuk in yur head the rest of the day.

 

Posted by: Regular Moron at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (feFL6)

 

Oh, yes?  I warn you, I have the lyrics to You Light Up My Life in my hands, and I'm not afraid to use them. . .

306 I think we can all agree Marco Rubio doesn't give a shit about the republican party. He readily admits he doesn't even think or care if this bill effects it. And he obviously doesn't give a shit about pushing an issue that splits the republican party during a time when we need solidarity because "democrats would be doing this anyway". Fuck Marco Rubio.

307 The Obama administration now believes that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad may have used chemical weapons. Now that Assad has crossed an Obama redline, will the administrationÂ’s Syria policy get tougher? ** "May Have" does not equate to "Has". except for propaganda purposes... as soon as one climax fades, shuffle the deck and pull out another favorite old card to play again and again... All things in consideration, moderation, etc. American citizens and taxpayers should NOT begin a war of aggression against the Syrian people. To attack Syria, the Air Force and US Military predict the annihilation of the Syrian people, another war without end with a goal result of basic genocide to be called CASUALTIES. All that simply to take down a leader who is no worse than the next. As for America? The results predicted by the Air Force being horrible detriment to our own Military personnel (ground troops to be slaughtered, "Syria Is Not Libya" April 2012 issue). Finally, our Military's ability to maintain status quo globally would necessarily be destabilized, leaving domestic security in the hands of DHS military/police state. Here's a prerequisite to playing moral authority: Clean our own house, first. on chemical wars of attrition... 1) Consider well who produced those chemical weapons and SOLD them to the Syrian government. Why produce and sell arms for use that in turn provide "reason" to attack and instigate a war of aggression? NATO member nation corporations, specifically France and Germany, are to blame. Not to mention US globalist corporations, most likely involving US investments abroad. You know, corporations are people, too. And retirement portfolios must make a profit. 2) Remove fluoride from our water supply. Our bones, one example from constantly ingesting fluoride, become far too brittle. Here's a simple matter, the only negative impact falling on the chemical industry loss in sales revenue. Don't be surprised should a (chemical) corporation dump what it can't sell. If not one way, then another.

308

I have already decided this year that my held since I was 16 years old "First trimester" silence was a mistake.

---------

Yeah.  Without  any  organized  religious  beliefs I  am  creeping  over  towards  Randall  Terry.    

 

Pro-choice  is  beginning  to  look  like  SAW IX: The Actual World.  

309 291 But then, all illnesses are derived from "bad personal choices or behavior", right? right? so, no chance there. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 26, 2013 08:15 AM (UTq/I) Exactly. Much like the genetic kidney disease that caused my kidneys to fail, caused me to spend 4 years on dialysis, and caused me to have a transplant. This all came about because my mother chose to have a genetic mutation. Much like my Type 2 Diabetes caused by my anti-rejection medication. I guess I made a risky choice in deciding to go ahead and take medication that keeps me alive, so I deserve to suffer. Some people really need to either think before they speak or not speak at all. The latter is probably a better choice. Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (Gkhxf) Who should pay for your healthcare?

310 Last time I read an insurance policy the pre-existing condition clause had a 6 month limit. IOW - after 6 months it was covered. Not perfect, but neither is the fact that 50% of the cost of a hospital stay is due to administrative matters, complying with state & federal paperwork regulations.

311

#297,

 "People don't understand insurance at all nor do most people want to pay for an expensive policy."

"people" who have actually used such plans over the years understand them full well. Our "betters" in both the GOP and Dem parties who are wrecking our ability to purchase and use health care as we see fit clearly do not understand insurance. Or medicine.

312

Because I didn't start commenting at AoS till midway through last year.

 

Impossible!  

313 280 HoboJerky,

ironic isn't it...most days I defend Gabe...but every once in a bit "FABULOUS" mode rankles....

anyway whatever I concede the fight.

be safe peeps

314 Don't make me do it, but I got 'It's A Small World, After All' ready to cut n paste. Did I see you blink?

315 So now we have music wars instead of flame wars; OK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o

316 How the hell did I make it into the Top 20, yet Bannion, BC, and Radish are nowhere to be found? I demand a recount! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (4df7R) Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 26, 2013 08:59 AM (vQdkI)

I have recently acquired a life.

*ahem*

317 EoJ -- Let the Friday Flame War Commence!

318 Noooooooooooooo! I HATE "Afternooon Delight" I've have being cringing for the decades I've had to hear it. Even "You light up my life" is better. Don't resort to "Afternnon Delight"-the lyrical final solution or pretty close to it. ;^)

319 Thanks CBD, I'll look it up. WZ and Ace are my two favorites, but I'm lacking a site that just feeds headlines to follow further. Hate to rely solely on Drudge for that.

320 Also, the people who make "bad personal choices" historically cost less to treat than the people who make good health decisions. Smokers - 40% less than non smokers. Almost the same for obese vs non obese. Going by the numbers put out by the single payer in the UK.

321 I have recently acquired a life.

*ahem*

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:01 AM (sbV1u)

 

*SQUINT*

 

*sweeps the leg*

322 Don't even THINK about it, unless you want a certain someone (*cough* me *cough*) firing back with the complete lyrics to "Seasons in the Sun."

I will counter with "Shannon"

323 Ugh - Judge who waltzed in and Mirandized Jhokar has been visiti Muslim countries: http://tinyurl.com/bua67gv

"Judge Bowler has some interesting international connections. She is a member of the  International Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Apparently in that capacity, she visited and spoke on legal issues at a number of Muslim countries, becoming the first female judge to speak in Kuwait, appearing also in Egypt and in the United Arab Emirates."

 

324 Pro-choice is beginning to look like SAW IX: The Actual World.

No kidding.  And that's just the *defense* arguments in the Gosnell trial.

325 *sweeps the leg* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 09:02 AM (4df7R)

You're going to have to be quicker than that, Cupcake.

326 THE NIGHT CHICAGO DIED

327

"Also, the people who make "bad personal choices" historically cost less to treat than the people who make good health decisions"

Shh. Coming up with facts concerning medicine and insurance is unhelpful.

And probably racist, too.

328 319 Sean bannion,

and I'm working on it....

oh did I tell you Sean I probably won't be at the NoVa meet-up spouse will be in school, BUT I will be living on post at Ft jack by the fall....

You make it to SC maybe we can go have a mini meet up with Vic and get some Steak....?


I will try to be a source of some funding for the first NC/SC meet after I get stable.

I decided I'd spare you poor NoVa morons and 'ettes my company when i will be in day 22 of no "Ms 10077" mode.

329 I have recently acquired a life.

*ahem*

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:01 AM (sbV1u)

Lies.

330 Choosing between Malor and Sven?

Tough call.

331 *sweeps the leg*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 09:02 AM (4df7R)

You need to expand your repertoire.  Someday, someone's going to step over the sweep and bad things will happen.

332 Beware. Here comes Saddam Hussein's favorite song; "Feelings"

333 318 Vic,

I'll raise you....

http://youtu.be/m_wFEB4Oxlo

that is a great ear worm....

I was caught humming that at MOUT

334 I miss watching terrorists getting shot up and run over. (I'll skip the part where 2 cops got shot up.)

335 You need to expand your repertoire. Someday, someone's going to step over the sweep and bad things will happen. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 09:05 AM (fwARV)

*tosses Nearsider a Taser*

Remember, son.  Front toward ginger.

336 okay peeps the lawn won't mow itself

337 Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 26, 2013 09:06 AM (LRFds)


I'll bet you actually watched that show.

338

the irony is CTJ thinks a lot like Gabe and the Gay Marriage Gestapo that "gaming and fucking with the ability of insurers to wargame and factor cost is away everyone wins!'

 

We don't live in your fantasy world where health insurance is actually insurance and regulations haven't distorted the health coverage market beyond science and reason. We live in this world, where we're going to have to deal with things as they are.

 

My side recognizes reality. Your side stomps their feet because the world doesn't work they way they want.

339 When I was at Harvard, I learned all about the suppression of womyn by patriarchal, white-privileged rape huskies and it's something I've been concerned about ever since I was at Harvard....earning my Harvard degree.

340 No kidding. And that's just the *defense* arguments in the Gosnell trial.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2013 09:03 AM (OevbG) -------- ----------

I  wish  I  could  remember  what  not  nauseous  felt  like.   

341 okay peeps the lawn won't mow itself Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 26, 2013 09:06 AM (LRFds)

Really?

Obama told me he'd take care of that!

342 Lies. He's probably one of the 11% ers. (see #22 way above)

343 Please, everyone. Calm down a bit and just contemplate my lyrics to "Honey."

344 Flame wars occur. One does not create them.

345

*sweeps the leg*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 09:02 AM (4df7R)
You need to expand your repertoire. Someday, someone's going to step over the sweep and bad things will happen.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 09:05 AM (fwARV)

 

 

Jump > Ice Blast > Fatality.

346 In before the news dump?  Here's a shocker slam piece by Politico on Obama and His Hubris (tm).  It starts out talking about Bammy's bizarre "moment of silence" at the WH for the bombing victims with no one attending, but the WH photographer.

http://tinyurl.com/cjac6aa

"Hubris in a leader is an obnoxious thing, leading to imperiousness in governing. And itÂ’s also a dangerous thing for a second-term president, often spelling trouble.

Unfortunately, this presidentÂ’s acts of high handedness and self-absorption have been accumulating in the past several months at a blistering pace."

347 341 Gabe,

Gabe not a flame...I am sincere in going to read your tweet line and I am sincere in wanting your thoughts on how to stop the fucktard train on the School shit.

You say i am stomping my feet and angry the "real world doesn't work the way i want"?

Ok..."whatever"

I'd say YOUR way is responsible for "the 17 trillion" magic number bud.

Have a day

348 http://tinyurl.com/ctcf5w6 a picture of boehner's future son in law ..... jamaican born construction worker who has been arrested for possession of weed.......

349 Please, everyone. Calm down a bit and just contemplate my lyrics to "Honey."

Posted by: Bobby Goldsboro at April 26, 2013 09:08 AM (JQuNB)

I liked that song the first time I heard it, but the boss's son had it on an 8-track tape and he played it over and over every time we made a call.

I started to take a wave guide magnet we had and erase it.

350 341 the irony is CTJ thinks a lot like Gabe and the Gay Marriage Gestapo that "gaming and fucking with the ability of insurers to wargame and factor cost is away everyone wins!' We don't live in your fantasy world where health insurance is actually insurance and regulations haven't distorted the health coverage market beyond science and reason. We live in this world, where we're going to have to deal with things as they are. My side recognizes reality. Your side stomps their feet because the world doesn't work they way they want. Posted by: Gabriel Malor at April 26, 2013 09:07 AM (XBUdh) Gabe, the happy prisoner.

351 I write the songs that make the whole world sing.  I write the songs. I write the songs.

*DEFCON3*

352 Flame wars occur. One does not create them.  Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 26, 2013 09:09 AM (qnTVs)

I believe it was von Clausewitz who first noted that, "Scheiße geschieht"

Yes, yes, I'm quite sure it was von Clausewitz

353 Marco Rubio doesn't give a shit about the republican party. Rubio is the latest pretty boy "charismatic electable" model of compassionate neoconservative elitists, and Rubio represents his sponsors. The Republican Leadership. Promise them anything; just get their votes./Romney '08 Rubio represents the same too-big-to-fail GOP that promised to "usurp the Tea Party" rather than alter course to hell, aka authoritarian rule, taking turns with the best of intentions, of course. Elitist Public Servants: better to rule in hell than uphold the US Constitution.

354
Sir Winston Churchill will appear on the next Bank of England 5 pound banknote. Churchill, the first statesman to feature, will be pictured alongside a view of Westminster with parliament's clock showing 3 o'clock – the approximate time on 13 May 1940 when Churchill declared in a speech: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

He will replace social reformer Elizabeth Fry.

The Guardian



Hell yeah!

355 Apparently they are having trouble getting enough jury selectees to show up when summoned. Posted by: GnuBreed That was stated by the state pols pushing the bill, but there's actually no proof of that. No responds may have moved, died, be illegals -- whoops -- guests who got on the rolls with bum driver licenses and so on. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 26, 2013 08:04 AM (kdS6q) What do you want to bet that it will be a higher percentage of no-shows with non-citizens?

356 350 Ear Worm Debbie Boone -- You Light Up My Life The Nuclear Bomb of Ear Worms North Korea is working on developing lyrics as equally devestating so they can cripple the West. Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at April 26, 2013 09:09 AM (OWjjx) A fruitless effort on their part. By now we are immune.

357 /you've got to pass it before you get to read it/ ObamaCare for thee, but not for me: Congress, soon enough government employee exemptions for Chief Justice Roberts...

358 I am ON this UConn logo deal......on it like a bonnet

Posted by: Ashley Judd at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (XvrTA)

**

You like the older, more puffy-faced logo? 

Interesting.

359

"We don't live in your fantasy world where health insurance is actually insurance and regulations haven't distorted the health coverage market beyond science and reason"

So instead of stating that as a goal and expending efforts in that direction, let's allow the other side to dictate the boundries and goals.

And that's "reality" how again?

Certainly one can choose to work withing a given system or set of guidelines, but even so one may still work to opposing goals.

"hey, we're going to make this fecal sandwich taste less, well, fecally" isn't a winning strategy, much less attractive to voters...

360 EOJ... any new podcasts up??

361 Non sequitor with regard to the acceptability of a flue tax, but flu vaccine doesn't work very well in the elderly. Also, the elderly will not be hit hardest, because i suspect you are going to be forced by you employer to get that vaccine, once Ocare gets its hooks into private plans.

362 *tosses Nearsider a Taser*

Remember, son. Front toward ginger.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:06 AM (sbV1u)

Every day I comment here,  I get another hint that I'm going to die at the  MoMee...

363 This isn't an earworm...it's just bad. But the title is amusing.

http://youtu.be/NTgfEdWUmT4?t=10s

364 Here if you fail to show for local jury duty they will send Sheriff's Deputies to pick you up and deliver you to the court.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 07:56 AM (53z96)

Here in Tulsa, we had a judge who loved doing that with the Tulsa PD.  Once the TPD had delivered you to the courthouse, then you got your contempt citation and fine--unless you had a great and verifiable excuse.   He is retired now.

365 Did I see you blink?

Posted by: Regular Moron at April 26, 2013 09:01 AM (feFL6)

 

*eye twitching*   NEVER.

366 Nobody panic!

We have realists on the case!

367 a picture of boehner's future son in law ..... jamaican born construction worker who has been arrested for possession of weed....... That's like a variation of the old man bites dog thing. A Jamaican without weed, story. A Jamaican with weed, no story. I remember laughing my ass off years ago when Bob Marley's daughter got busted (not far down the road from me) for possession. Actually, growing it in her home.

368 Dump up.

369 My contribution to the fray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6RjP7MlXk

370

"We don't live in your fantasy world where health insurance is actually insurance."

-------  ------ -----

 

And  yet, the  whole  system  is  built  on  the  idea  it  is  real  insurance.

 

Yay, rat-infested  and  no-charge  MRSA  single-payer  Liverpool  Pathway  facilities, coming soon!   

371 Logic therefore compels me to conclude that Obama wants Americans to die. Posted by: Miss Marple at April 26, 2013 08:05 AM (GoIUi) This falls into his belief in political eugenics. The elderly are not "productive."

372 You're going to have to be quicker than that, Cupcake.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:03 AM (sbV1u)

 

Hmm... this one's crafty...

 

Just you wait.  Some time, when you're not expecting it...

373 346 Please, everyone. Calm down a bit and just contemplate my lyrics to "Honey." Posted by: Bobby Goldsboro at April 26, 2013 09:08 AM (JQuNB) Cruel. Absolutely cruel. I'm... I can't even think straight. That is the worst song ever and now it is in my head. See the tree how big it's grown...

374

@ 335 eman

 

"Here comes Saddam Hussein's favorite song; "Feelings"

I thought it would have been "It's raining Kurds."

 

 

I got to hear Baghdad Betty for a few days in 1990 before she "suddenly" went off the air.  The music were LPs you expect to find in a dorm room circa 1974. 

375

Ok, enough of this "lyrics" shitte. Neutron bomb dropped:

it's a world of laughter, a world or tears
its a world of hopes, its a world of fear
theres so much that we share
that its time we're aware
its a small world after all

CHORUS:
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small, small world

There is just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship to everyone.
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small small world

Later, all...

376 http://tinyurl.com/ctcf5w6

a picture of boehner's future son in law ..... jamaican born construction worker who has been arrested for possession of weed.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 26, 2013 09:09 AM (GVxQo)

**

heh...and you thought tort reform made his asshole pucker.

377 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 09:13 AM (fwARV)

I'll tell you a secret.....Morons are well behaved and interesting.

Well, except for Nevergiveup and his lack of pants.

378 I will counter with "Shannon"

 

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:03 AM (sbV1u)

 

I'ma drop Brandy on your ass, you don't watch it.

379 How about a good song; go to 1:37 mark to bypass te talking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

380 My side recognizes reality. Your side stomps their feet because the world doesn't work they way they want. ------------------- Good thing "your side" doesn't stomp their feet when their goals are frustrated. Otherwise we'd have gay activist judges overturning constitutional amendments so they could "marry" their lovers. I admire your restraint.

381 Non sequitor with regard to the acceptability of a flue tax Please, please be careful with spelling. Some liberal probably just read that and smacked his head and said, "Flue tax? Why in the hell didn't we think of that? You know who has a lot of flues? Rich people.

382 You need to expand your repertoire. Someday, someone's going to step over the sweep and bad things will happen.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 09:05 AM (fwARV)

 

If it was good enough for Johnny, it's good enough for me.  *nod*

 

Also, it's a good song.  lol!

 

http://www.sweeptheleg.com/

383 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/humboldt-bay-eagle-cam babies being fed, now

384 383. and when they found him, they exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!" /heh

385

Posted by: Jess1 at April 26, 2013 09:15 AM (lbiWb)

 

Not for nothing, but I kiiiiiind of hate you right now.  

386 http://tinyurl.com/ctcf5w6

a picture of boehner's future son in law ..... jamaican born construction worker who has been arrested for possession of weed.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 26, 2013 09:09 AM (GVxQo)

Wow, if Boner's daughter, who appears to be a petulant and rebellious Earth Mother sort of creature was looking for the worst sort of shite to marry and piss off dear old Dad, she sure succeeded.

387 Here is an old turkey for you..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6oa_zLUEE Peter Sarstedt, "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" Not as bad as Bobby Goldsboro, though

388 It starts out talking about Bammy's bizarre "moment of silence" at the WH for the bombing victims with no one attending, but the WH photographer. ----- And some cult victim who voted for him is looking at that picture right now, crying, mostly at how much they love dear leader. I had a WH post to twitter with a video showing DOCTOR Biden laying flowers in Boston. Doesn't she have patients to see? Fuckin doctor. STFU you fucking communist pieces of shit. Rant off (I hope).

389 350 Ear Worm Debbie Boone -- You Light Up My Life The Nuclear Bomb of Ear Worms North Korea is working on developing lyrics as equally devestating so they can cripple the West. Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at April 26, 2013 09:09 AM (OWjjx) Pol Pot's favorite tune: "Wildfire"

390 Every day I comment here, I get another hint that I'm going to die at the MoMee... Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 09:13 AM (fwARV)

There's a way around that you know.

Just be a gentleman.  Be nice to MWR, no side cracks, no pestiness, have an occasional sincere compliment, and buy her a drink at NoVAMoMee.

.....and then maybe she won't kill you.

391 My side recognizes reality. Your side stomps their feet because the world doesn't work they way they want.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at April 26, 2013 09:07 AM (XBUdh)

Your recognition of reality constrains your solutions to the obvious, process-driven increments that have gotten us into the mess we are in now.

392 392. Richard Belzer tore him a new one yesternight.

393 387 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/humboldt-bay-eagle-cam babies being fed, now Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2013 09:17 AM (XYSwB) Fed what? Mashed bananas? Skippy, the lost dog?

394 Well, except for Nevergiveup and his lack of pants. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2013 09:15 AM (/WLC3)

In the Navy, that's a feature, not a bug.

395 I had a WH post to twitter with a video showing DOCTOR Biden laying flowers in Boston. Doesn't she have patients to see? Fuckin doctor. STFU you fucking communist pieces of shit.

Rant off (I hope).

Posted by: Up with people! at April 26, 2013 09:18 AM (FmFB3)

Dr. Jill Biden is not an MD.  Her doctorate is education.

396 387. babies being fed, now Posted by: artisanal 'ette 397. Fed what? Mashed bananas? Skippy, the lost dog? Posted by: eman Mad Cow milk?

397 "Say what you will about Sinatra, he was always a staunch supporter of Israel and loved this country." A creepy bully and friend of thugs and murderers. But a swell American. Just noble gangsters like the ones that teamed with the feds against the Nazis in Rocketeer.... And Mark Fuhrman is a cop you'd want on your side in a fight, but he helped blow the OJ case. And Hitler liked dogs. And those bomber boys helped the neighbors carry groceries... JJ, I love you, maan, but these are not ameliorating matters. Say what you will.

398 Sounds like a sitcom pitch. "Rasta Republican" tonight on ABC Family!

399 http://tinyurl.com/cld6hfr Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2013 08:58 AM (/WLC3) Haha. I forgot about the cheezy ass bird tweets...hilarious.

400 Dr. Jill Biden is not an MD. Her doctorate is education. Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 09:22 AM (kXoT0)

So, in other words, completely meaningless.

401 I'll tell you a secret.....Morons are well behaved and interesting.

Well, except for Nevergiveup and his lack of pants.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2013 09:15 AM (/WLC3)

Oh, I know that.  I have a congenital birth defect because of which I was born without the filter between my brain and my mouth.  My genetics compensated for this by increasing my sarcasm and hyperbole glands. 

It'll be interesting to see what happens at the MoMee :-)

402 15 Something in this story just does not add up. Young woman in NYC bar dies from drinking 3 shots??? I donÂ’t think so; otherwise I would be dead a hundred times over. http://is.gd/x7ZXFo Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 06:54 AM (53z96) She could've been roofied. And, Vic, you would be shocked how many young women are on anti-depression meds and anxiolytics. A lot of these drugs have a synergistic effect with alcohol = easy OD. If I were the bar, I'd make sure that an autopsy and blood study was done.

403 Weasel Zippers is another good one. It's much more of a blog type site, similar to the HQ, but it's updated very frequently. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 26, 2013 08:57 AM (4df7R) And Weasel Zippers also seems to beat Drudge to some of the really big stories

404 In the long term, we are all dead.

405 It'll be interesting to see what happens at the MoMee :-) Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 26, 2013 09:24 AM (fwARV)

My long lost brother!

::: hugs ::::

*looks at WH*

Ummmm, sorry.

406 Gabe, the happy prisoner.

Posted by: eman at April 26, 2013 09:10 AM (71gyQ)

 

Getting us out of this prison isn't going to happen just by yelling, "let us out, let us out, let us out!" It's going to take deliberate action. We're not going to get Obamacare repeal in one fell swoop. In case you hadn't noticed, we don't control the Senate or the White House. So we're going to have to take it apart a piece at a time.

407 I was aware she wasn't a real doctor. And yes, technically she can use the title, but in my world people don't go around calling people with doctorate degrees "doctor". They call the doctor "doctor".

408 Just be a gentleman. Be nice to MWR, no side cracks, no pestiness, have an occasional sincere compliment, and buy her a drink at NoVAMoMee.

.....and then maybe she won't kill you.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:19 AM (sbV1u)

Don't misunderstand, I'm a perfect gentleman.  Especially in public.  I place a high value on propriety and good form.  That's my mom's fault.  She's a saint.

I also treat women well.  I'm big on the mutual respect thing.  That's my dad's fault.  He's a saint. 

I'm a proud, sarcastic alpha male though.  That's my fault, and I am not a saint.

409 Two people in my family have pre-existing conditions. 

1. My sister,  who is a miraculous survivor of a juvenile bone cancer.  She is uninsurable except through group plans,  and so,  at the age of 60,  is still working retail in order to have insurance.

2. Myself,  because I am on 3 blood pressure meds.  I have been unable to get health insurance since my husband went to work for a foreign company whose insurance firm will not cover anyone living in the US. (This rule came right after Obamacare passed.)

Those of you who think that all uninsurable people are in that situation due to their lifestyle choices should perhaps get out and talk to people a little more.

The following illnesses will put you on the uninsurable list and are not due to lifestyle:  rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, cancer, chronic high blood pressure.  There are probably more.

Obamacare increased the number of people denied insurance because insurance companies had a small window where they could refuse all except the young and healthy before it forced them to take everyone.

This type of ignorant and hard-hearted blustering about pre-existing conditions is why we don't have nice things,  like a GOP congress or president.

410 Ummmm, sorry.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 26, 2013 09:25 AM (sbV1u)

No worries.  It's going to be good times. 

411 In the long term, we are all dead. Posted by: occam at April 26, 2013 09:25 AM (Vns6X) That is the only thing that keeps going each and every day

412 My side recognizes reality. Says the man stamping his feet because the 'brilliant' scheme to tweak Obamacare collided with reality. The Dems were against it. Barry said he'd veto it. Conservatives would rather the bill fall apart under its own weight. Gee, what a surprise it went nowhere. So the plan was to pass it and let the Dems kill it, and then what? We'd 'have' them? Nobody would give a shit. Only in your 'recognized reality' does it lead to some kind of victory.

413 Around here we would call her Mrs. Biden, since she's a teacher, assuming she was standing in a classroom when we said it.

414 The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been moved from a civilian hospital to a Bureau of Prisons facility, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service tells Fox News. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transported from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to the Federal Medical Center at Fort Devens in Ft. Devens, Mass., U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade said. The FMC Devens is a federal prisons facility for male inmates who require specialized or long-term medical or mental health care, according to the facility's website. Get used to federal facilities bub

415 410 Gabe,

Gabe "improving it" or getting people any people to think of it as a boon is not "dismantling it".

I apologize, you gave game effort on Twitter I wish you'd popped in here but can't demand or expect it.

Incrementalism got us here Gabe we can start stopping the train or we can wreck hard.

Getting a HRP that should be handled at the state level to be funded to have the mules turn into "The GOP is telling HRP types to go fuck themselves" if allowed to end is not "smart."

You have a good day....

and to all Morons who are under siege by the Ant Army might I suggest Amdro Ant Control/stakes pads....

got in the bait of dropping them when the pad was freshly built and the ants were frisky and have not had a problem since.....

promotional consideration paid by Dragon Armor which had I started mowing at 0715 i would have needed b/c of the retirees at the corners of my property....

remember folks have your sven and laura w spayed and nuetered.....

416 obama's red lines are drawn using disappearing ink. we are the laughing stock of the world

417 obama's red lines are drawn using disappearing ink. we are the laughing stock of the world

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2013 09:33 AM (9Bj8R)

This is one time, I agree with him to ignore the line. Piss on Syria and everyone there.

418 Those of you who think that all uninsurable people are in that situation due to their lifestyle choices should perhaps get out and talk to people a little more.

Straw man much?  I'm pretty sure no-one is positing that *everyone* that is uninsurable is that way because of lifestyle.  There *are* people that are high-risk though, because of their choices.

419 Obama said that "red line" quote because it sounded good at the time.  He probably believed the line that Saddam had no WMD's as well, even though there were trucks going out of Iraq to Syria 24/7 before the US invaded.

Hoist on his own petard.  We will now get to see him moving the goalposts over and over while Putin laughs himself silly.  He's probably drawing up the plans to invade Alaska right now.

420 And speaking of titles, back in the day I volunteered to put up a Chamber of Commerce website, and the former "President" of the Chamber of commerce, who was in fact the son of a store owner, whose store was a total joke, insisted that he be forever referred to as President (whatever his last name was), because after you are president you are always referred to as president.

421 Cameron says Britain won't send troops to Syria British PM says growing evidence of use of chemical weapons 'extremely serious', backs Obama on forming 'red line' but suggests response would likely be political rather than military ????Look I am actually siding with Assad since the opposition are islamic scum, but stop threatening "red lines" if your not going to do anything. The western world has gone soft and we are all heading to doom

422 413 Miss marple,

Ma'am I am not saying all or even most HRP citizens are there by choice and was not using it as ticky tack.

Mom was HRP so was Evel Knievel and until my son was born I feared he would be....

like a lot of women not from there while we lived in El Paso wife popped hot on the UltraSound for Open Nueral Tube, the DoD (at the time) paid for a second test that said 85% he is a false positive on the other.

I do empathize but we cannot undo reality with a printing press and gifting total care is how we got into the current mess.

Anyway I'm not hard hearted I just want solutions that don't blow up the last remaining vestiges of price dynamic.

Regards,
sven

423 Putin laughs himself silly. He's probably drawing up the plans to invade Alaska right now. Posted by: Miss Marple at April 26, 2013 09:36 AM (GoIUi) And the chicoms are probably drawing up plans to invade taiwan.

424 427 NGU,

and I'm drawing up plans to get to Texas and invade Mexico....

"plans"

425 #422  That is not a straw man.  That is what I READ in several posts right here on this thread.

Of course there are people who have a pre-existing condition (morbid obesity, for example).  There are also people who are addicted to drugs and smokers, the latter being a LEGAL substance. 

There are also people who are high risk but get insurance, such as sky-divers, mountain climbers, motorcycle riders,  etc.

All I am asking is that before people get all self-righteous about pre-existing conditions (which I actually READ here) then they should understand what conditions put a person in the uninsurable category.

426 410 Gabe, the happy prisoner. Posted by: eman at April 26, 2013 09:10 AM (71gyQ)Getting us out of this prison isn't going to happen just by yelling, "let us out, let us out, let us out!" It's going to take deliberate action. We're not going to get Obamacare repeal in one fell swoop. In case you hadn't noticed, we don't control the Senate or the White House. So we're going to have to take it apart a piece at a time. Posted by: Gabriel Malor at April 26, 2013 09:27 AM (XBUdh) Thanks for the clarity. Our ultimate goals are very much alike. I see no hope in your strategy and tactics. In fact, what you are doing is likely very counter-productive because it gives an air of legitimacy to ObamaCare. I think we are stuck with letting ObamaCare self-destruct. The system we have is too far gone to be fixed; it must collapse under the weight of its own absurdity.

427 Stench of elderberries...

428 sven,  I don't like Obamacare any more than anyone else.  I blame the passage of the bill on why I could not get insurance.

I pay cash for my medical care,  and will do so until I go on medicare,  which I ALSO know is a crappy government controlled program,  but unless you are extremely wealthy you would be a fool not to sign up, since one major illness will easily bankrupt a family.

My preferred healthcare reform would be to allow people to buy catastrophic policies and pay cash for everything else (doctor visits, meds, most lab tests).
The indigent could be treated through some sort of a voucher/allowance at clinics or through charitable work by docs,  much like pro bono work is done by legal firms.

I am not some super-smart person on health policy,  but I know a stinker of a law when I see it.

429 My side recognizes reality. Your side stomps their feet because the world doesn't work they way they want. Posted by: Gabriel Malor at April 26, 2013 09:07 AM (XBUdh) Now THAT is a heaping pile of bullshit. Most of us are old enough to remember when healthcare worked just fine. Cheap, affordable catastrophic insurance. Cash for the rest of our services. It existed, it was cheap for EVERYONE, and THAT was the reality. So no, we DON'T fucking HAVE to accept that oh - 'well, reality is politicians, bureaucrats, 3rd party administrators and lawyers have gotten their dirty fucking hands all over it and now we're just stuck and have to live with it.' Fuck that noise. We could fix this shit in about a weekend, and unfortunately, there seem to be a whole fucking class of people determined to push the rest of the world to just that kind of desperate place. Not because all the people who don't want that mess are heartless and evil, but because the greedy motherfuckers that DO won't get their dirty fucking hands out of a pie they don't belong in, and have nothing to do with. That's a huge stinking pile of failed bullshit Gabe, and a giant illustration of why the country is in the mess its in. The good news? Motherfuckers are going to reap the fucking whirlwind - it's as certain as math. And whether anyone likes it or not, we'll soon be back to every man having to take care of his own shit - because there won't be ANY safety net, for anybody. Anyone who's incapable of doing so? Enjoy the instant karma. Bon appetite. Worlds going to fuckall. I'm not giving the consciences of thieves one more fucking inch.

430

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Because  I  hate  you,  all  of  you.

431 obama's red lines are drawn using disappearing ink. we are the laughing stock of the world ---- It was never a line. What he said was "if we start seeing a lot of...." A line would be, "if we see ANY...".

432 The state of WA picked up the tab for my husband's two weeks in the ICU. (He died from pnuemonia.) He was unemployed and I couldn't afford to add him to my employer's insurance. I continue to feel that we could have made a few tweaks to the existing system, tort reform, and increased aid to these state medical funds with better results than what we will see with Obamacare.

433

Damn, dude...I'm not interested in "fixing" anything having to do with Obamacare.  Let it be implemented in its full clusterfuck glory. If it causes anyone to suffer, they had the chance to implement a true fix by voting Il Douche out of office...but they didn't, so fuck 'em.

The only "fix" I'm interested in is a full repeal.  And if that means things have to get extremely ugly in the meantime, so fucking be it.

434

Will Rogers was right.

435

436 so