1 Where did the chemical weapons come from?

2 1st?

3 Morning all. Presznit will lob a little bit of everything wr have for "show".

4 None.

5 I think Goddess Irony wants Barry to use TacNukes in response to "the worst WMD attack in the last 50 years."

Go Scooter Go!

6 well, chem weapons DIDN'T come from any place that might make Bush look like he was correct!

7 1 Redenzo,

the NBC fairies the answer is NOT NOT SADDAM HUSSEIN!

//the M$M

8 Yup. Guy gets Peace Prize and then sets the Middle East on fire.

9

In before Vic?  Hum.

 

Someday IÂ’ll have to tell you a little bit about the founding of Hollywood, which was originally conceived as a God-fearing, alcohol-abhorring small town of honest, horny-handed sons of toil.  For quite a long time, the planned community of “Hollywood”* was simply a sleepy village of white-frame houses, dirt roads, pepper trees and orange groves.

 

 

The movies changed that.  Not all at once, of course, and until the last of the “original” settlers (the Janes sisters**) were in their graves, the better families still looked down on actors.  Signs reading “no dogs or movies” proliferated in the windows of boarding houses.  You might be able to sneak a drink at BlondeauÂ’s Tavern, but chances are that on a Saturday youÂ’d drive along bumpy, unpaved roads to find a carefully-guarded roadhouse.  And on Sundays, you either went to church or stayed home.

 

 

So movie actors were obliged to create their own clubs and entertainment.  Originally, Mack Sennett, the head of Keystone Studios and discoverer of Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, “Fatty” Arbuckle and dozens of others, was the social leader, throwing massive dinner parties at any one of the number of elaborate LA mansions heÂ’d rent for the occasion.  “HeÂ’d give a dinner party,” remembered producer Walter Wanger,*** “and if you didnÂ’t take the young lady on your right upstairs between the soup and the entrée, you were considered a homosexual.”

 

 

But the truly rarified air was reserved for Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, whose own mansion, “Pickfair,” became the Buckingham Palace of Hollywood, not only for its social exclusivity, but for the overly-elaborate nouveau riche formality guiding every social interaction with “Doug and Mary.”  What gained you entry to Pickfair was not your starpower – several top stars of the period were never asked past the houseÂ’s gates – but your social finesse or (even more desirable) your title.  Mary and Doug had acquired a circle of international friends during their travels and were suckers for anyone claiming nobility.

 

 

Wanger, again, tells one of the best stories, about the day Pickfair received the message that Princess Vera Romanoff was in town.  Dutifully, Doug and Mary sent a car to the Biltmore Hotel and invited the princess back to their home for a wonderful weekend, crammed with parties in her honor and the company of some of TinseltownÂ’s biggest names.

 

 

At the end of the weekend, the princess thanked her hosts, kissed Doug and Mary goodbye and went back home . . .to her job as a simple secretary from San Francisco, having successfully used her nerve and pluck to enjoy Hollywood hospitality.

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

 

*the name was said to have been inspired during a railroad trip that ranch wife Daeida (pronounced “die-YEE-dah”) Wilcox took when she met a fellow traveler who owned a country estate she called “Hollywood.”

 

 

**see http://www.seeing-stars.com/Landmarks/JanesHouse.shtml

 

 

***whose career as a respected producer was destroyed during the debacle of the Taylor-Burton Cleopatra.

10 Love means never having to reconcile your perceptions of President Dronestrike with reality. 

11 Good morning all.


1 - If the chemical weapons are even real, I guess the odds are decent that they came from Iraq.

12 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, August 27, 2013.   On this day in 1918 the Battle of Ambos Nogales occurred in Nogales, AZ.  The U.S. Army fought Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.  I'll bet you didn't know there was a battle in WWI in AZ.

13 DAY 293 1,168 to go (1,241 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

14 Too bad.  They think they have the Yosemite fire contained now and the power supplies and water to SF are safe.

http://tinyurl.com/mt7scas

15 The gun grabbing bastards are launching a new round of gun grabbing by calling for a big tax on guns and ammo.  This will make John Roberts happy.  This one launched by a worthless bastard from NJ.  Perhaps we can get Trey Gowdy to introduce a tax on worthless bastards from NJ.  That would raise more money than the current cigarette tax.

http://tinyurl.com/ksw4gnd

16 And speaking of worthless bastards, horse-face Kerry says the evidence that Syria used chemical weapons is "undeniable" (according to him so is the AGW scam).  Since everyone in this administration is a chronic liar that means they have no evidence.  He has also cancelled a proposed meeting with Russia, which means that the Russians are not backing down and this administration is crazy as a pack of shithouse rats.  And even if they had used chemical weapons on their own people, who here really gives a shit.

http://tinyurl.com/krx4r7j

17 Zimmerman will go after FL for legal fees.  Good, he should include Holder personally in that as well.  Meanwhile the race baiting industry is cranking up again.

http://tinyurl.com/mx5pg5v

18 Fuck you Bruins!

19 Decision on Keystone Pipeline delayed until 2014.  I disagree.  The "decision" was made long ago.  It will not happen as long as we have this lawless regime of assholes is in DC and we have a balless Republican Party.

http://tinyurl.com/mof26u5

20 A Republican Speaker at an RNC event commemorating the 1963 march takes black leadership and Washington to the woodshed. This WaPo article makes no mention of him taking the MFM to the woodshed.

http://tinyurl.com/lr8r3c6

21 LA Mayor bemoans the film industry leaving Whoreywood.

COVER STORY: Eric Garcetti needs to convince skeptical politicians to fight against rich tax incentives from outside California


Why is Whoreywood any different from all the other industries leaving CA?  Hey idiots, when you perennially piss in your bed don't expect to sleep well.

http://tinyurl.com/m7cj7ar

22 11 -

Heh, sock fail.

If Megan McCain were to discover the origin of Syria's chemical weapons, all we would talk about is how fat she is. 

23 Obamanite asshole says we will hit the debt limit in Oct which means we have already exceeded it.  We just have to print more money so that you Wehrmacht Amerikans will need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy day-old bread.

http://tinyurl.com/mzx2ah3


Evidence that he is lying like the rest of this corrupt set of assholes.

http://tinyurl.com/kwdbm42

24 Raleigh, NC police halt non-profit religious group from feeding homeless because of stupid regulations.

http://tinyurl.com/kco8uvb

25 oooops go away sock

26 I normally don't quote polls but this one is "undeniable".  Only 9% of polled people say Obama should stick his nose in Syria.  9% makes it pretty much nobody wants this shit.  More people than that say they ate dinner next to Elvis at the local diner.

http://tinyurl.com/kf3rmrm

27 You can bet your bottom baba-ganouche that Syria's chemical weapons came from.... Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the run up to 2003. Syrian + Libyan = Sybian. Ride that drone, SCOAMF.

28 The first shitweasel is now saying we don't need the UN to go after Syria.  Which means that the UN has already told him to pack it up his ass.  Another great foreign policy win for him.

http://tinyurl.com/k3lw45j

29 Ummm.......

30 Not only is Peter King (RINO-NY) not a conservative despite his rhetoric, he is dumber than an unglazed brick.


“If Iran is going to take us seriously, we have to show that we’re willing to take action against Syria,” King says.


Does he think that Iran takes the JEF seriously now?

http://tinyurl.com/kuqog9b

31 At the end of the weekend, the princess thanked her hosts, kissed Doug and Mary goodbye and went back home . . .to her job as a simple secretary from San Francisco, having successfully used her nerve and pluck to enjoy Hollywood hospitality. Damn you Google! Where were you when you were needed???

32 Fresh new race hoax.  Where is the black leadership not decrying these "wolf cries"?  I suspect they can't because everything they have done since 1964 has been a race hoax.

http://tinyurl.com/k8nvcmk

33 One word for our military should SCOAMF get us into a war: M U T I N Y

34 Oh Gosh, oh Twinkletoes, where did these WMDs come from???

35 Ramirez

http://tinyurl.com/l5agp7k

36 Kindle Daily Deals

http://tinyurl.com/lwg7tq5


But what you have really been waiting for!  Sharknado will be available on BluRay/CD on Sep 3.  Get it NOW!

http://tinyurl.com/kld7r88



That's it for today folks.

37

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 07:24 AM (lZvxr)

 

I sure as hell don't care.  Oh, I care about our troops being thrown into a struggle that Jean-Francois Purpleheart now thinks is a moral crisis.  I care about flag officers who are too constrained by their training and oaths to do the right thing, march on DC and hang every Democrat.  I care about the effects of war on Moron Nation and her sons and daughters.

 

As far as war expanding, cratering our economy and cutting off moola for the LIVs - I don't care.  I've never felt more like Bill Ayers than I do during this administration.  You want 20 million dead, Bill?  No problem.  Let's wipe Chicago, Detroit, LA, DC and NY off the map.

38 I wonder -- If a nuclear armed country like, say, Russia or Pockeston decided to gas a few thousand citizens, what would preezy bumblefuck say or do?
 
How bout that, media? What's that sound? Sounds like thousands of assholes slamming shut and clamming up so tight that a neutron beam can't get through.
 
Which is why keeping Iran from acquiring nukes is so important.....which he will address right after his latest pivot on jobs. Or solving the college crisis. Or handling black on white crime.
 
PS Insty linked baldilock's piece from yesterday.

39 Barky with an aircraft carrier group is like a retard playing Tic-Tic-Throw.

40 Syrian + Libyan = Sybian. Ride that drone, SCOAMF. *Golf. Clap* Very well played.

41

TBH, I want to see the thought processes of the leftists who excoriated Dubya for far less. Sooooo...is it cognitive dissonance, or do they realise what epic hypocrites they are?

42 Nothing to see here!


Please disperse!

43 Wait we're not bombing yet?  Huh.   I was sure that was what was going to be going on when I woke up.

44 >>>on what kind of weaponry to lob at Syria. The lob is his best pitch.

45

.........the power supplies and water to SF are safe. - Vic

 

well thank goodness.  what would the city by the bay do without their bidets?  never mind, I don't want to think about it.

46 Rand Paul sounded pretty good on Levin last night. Still makes me queasy from his recent rumblings about amnesty. To say nothing of Papa Luap. Anyway, on aggregate ( so far ), I like the guy.

47 There are so many things wrong with Obama's punishment raid, punishment for disrespecting his pronouncement, but it's shaping up to be a one or two day bombing campaign and then Obama just walks away.

It's the Presidential version of "the knock out game".

48 41 Posted by: Gran at August 27, 2013 07:30 AM (mw0FO) If Tuesday Weld married Frederick March and they had a son, he'd be Tuesday March the 2nd.

49 And, I believe, I should another "ummm" to the worldwide discussion of Syria. Let me be clear about that. There should be mistaking my resolve on the subject of Syria, and what I can tell my soldiers, sailors and corpse men to do if necessary. In the end, Syria needs to understand that this is going to be about me,.

50 Sooooo...is it cognitive dissonance, or do they realise what epic hypocrites they are? Fen's Law explains all.

51

A Republican Speaker at an RNC event commemorating the 1963 march takes black leadership and Washington to the woodshed. This WaPo article makes no mention of him taking the MFM to the woodshed.

 

And the first comment to the story is an idiot vomiting out a lie about all the racist signs at TP rallies. 

 

I reiterate - fuck you all (well, not you Morons, but you know what I mean).

 

TBH, I want to see the thought processes of the leftists who excoriated Dubya for far less. Sooooo...is it cognitive dissonance, or do they realise what epic hypocrites they are?

Posted by: Lizzie at August 27, 2013 07:31 AM (3hJcU)

 

BusHitler was selected, not elected.  Obama is a legitimate president and has every right to keep the country safe.

 

You racist.

 

(honestly, that's the argument I got from a lefty tool yesterday)

 

52 47 What used to kill me when I lived out there was all the stupid green assholes that wanted to drain the reservoirs that had been built to supply water to the residences of the cities and towns.


They were mostly from SF and everyone was on reduced water hours when I was there already.

53 Hey MPPP, wasn't it originally HollywoodLand?

BTW, I love your stories...

54 55 55 Hey MPPP, wasn't it originally HollywoodLand? BTW, I love your stories... Posted by: HH at August 27, 2013 07:41 AM (XXwdv) At the risk of stepping on MP4's toes, yes. It was a land development and the sign was supposed to be temporary. At some time, the "LAND" part was removed and the rest of it remained.

55 12 No, I didn't know about that WWI fight on US soil Vic. Looks like I need to do a Bing search.
 
40 >> Barky with an aircraft carrier group is like a retard playing Tic-Tic-Throw.
 
Heh. Speaking of which, why isn't a carrier group on station in the Med if we are gonna go declaring war on Syria? Oh that's right, we have 5 fucking carriers parked at Norfolk cuz there's no funds to refit them. Gotta keep the cash available for flying Bo and Sunny around in Ospreys.

56

I wonder -- If a nuclear armed country like, say, Russia or Pockeston decided to gas a few thousand citizens ...

 

 

Chem-i-cal combat toe-to-toe with the Russkies!

57 That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 07:27 AM (lZvxr)

54 47 What used to kill me when I lived out there was all the stupid green assholes that wanted to drain the reservoirs that had been built to supply water to the residences of the cities and towns.


They were mostly from SF and everyone was on reduced water hours when I was there already.

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 07:39 AM (lZvxr)

--Go away, Old Fart!

58

>>>1 - If the chemical weapons are even real, I guess the odds are decent that they came from Iraq.

 

I will bet my next Navy Retirement check that they have "Made in Iraq" stamped all over them.  It occurs to me that we bombed the ability of anyone in Syria to make chemical weapons when we accidentally blew up that "aspirin factory" some years ago.  Plus the Israeli's tossed a few bombs on yet another factory a couple of years ago. 

59 @54  Vic, its the same with the idiots that want power plants shut-down.  What the hell do they think we are suppose to do?  Rely on windmills and solar.  You and I both know that crap will never be able to power the country. 

60 I bet that Nobel committee is scratching its head as it watches President Dronestrike weigh his options on what kind of weaponry to lob at Syria. War is Peace

61 Hey MPPP, wasn't it originally HollywoodLand?

BTW, I love your stories...

Posted by: HH at August 27, 2013 07:41 AM (XXwdv)

 

Thank you, HH.  I always appreciate the compliments.

 

No, "Hollywoodland" was  the name of  a 1923 real estate development in the hills above the real Hollywood's Chinatown.  It's location today is, more or less, the area around Mount Lee (where the Hollywood Sign is located), north of Mulholland Highway.  You can learn a lot about the neighborhood and the Sign at the blog "Under the Hollywood Sign."

 

"Hollywood" itself began as a farming community around 1870 and was originally called "Cahuenga Valley," being named after the Cahuenga Pass through the Santa Monica Mountains.  It got the name of Hollywood when Harvey and Daeida Wilcox began buying up land to sell as house lots in the late 1880s.

 

There's a wonderful book called The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History by Gregory Paul Williams that has many rare pictures from the time of the Spanish settlers to the Tinseltown of today.  I find it endlessly fascinating.  He also wrote a book in 1992 called The Story of Hollywoodland, which talks about the development.

62 Isn't it about time for the Preezys NCAA picks? Let's get on to something important!!!!

63 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 07:52 AM (zF6Iw)



Ahhh, thank you. Did not know that about the names.

64 61 @54 Vic, its the same with the idiots that want power plants shut-down. What the hell do they think we are suppose to do? Rely on windmills and solar. You and I both know that crap will never be able to power the country.

Posted by: Case at August 27, 2013 07:50 AM (tjj0w)

There is a difference between these idiots and the anti-power plant "greens".  The latter group is mainly anarcho-commies who just want to see it burn.

65 59 --Go away, Old Fart! Posted by: logprof at August 27, 2013 07:44 AM (bufJH) Isn't that a song by Steve Lawrence?

66 OT I guess.

Wife and I are going to Bar Harbor early October. Any tips of hints from those in the know?

67 Isn't that a song by Steve Lawrence? Posted by: J.J. Sefton ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yes, with Edie providing the background farts (in perfect harmony).

68 67 59 --Go away, Old Fart!

Posted by: logprof at August 27, 2013 07:44 AM (bufJH)

Isn't that a song by Steve Lawrence?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2013 07:57 AM (WjLUf)

I only know Steve French!

69 Yes, with Edie providing the background farts (in perfect harmony). Posted by: Countrysquire

And Mel Torme scatting on the breaks.

70 I was sitting at a long stoplight yesterday, minding my own business, patiently waiting for it to turn green even though there was no on-coming traffic. A carload of bearded, young, loud and obviously militant Arabs, shouting anti-American slogans, with a half-burned American Flag duct taped on the trunk of their car and a "Remember 9-11" anti-American slogan spray painted on the side, was stopped next to me. Suddenly they yelled, "Death to America" and took off before the light changed. Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler came speeding through the intersection and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and killing everyone in it. For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself, "Man...that could have been me!" So today, bright and early, I went out and got a job as a truck driver.

71 If Tuesday Weld married Frederick March and they had a son, he'd be Tuesday March the 2nd.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2013 07:36 AM (WjLUf)

=====

If Iona Brown had married Henry Ford she'd have been "Iona Brown Ford".

'Mornin JJ!

72 A brown velvet fog?

73 OT I guess.

Wife and I are going to Bar Harbor early October. Any tips of hints from those in the know?

Posted by: Bruce at August 27, 2013 07:59 AM (z0JJm)

Friends of the road, Bubbs.

74 "I didn't want to look like a bitchass punk" Great reason to start killing people halfway across the globe. Why can't the media just lose that redline statement like every other stupid thing he says? Must be a mom-pants PR counteroffensive. Operation Bigboy Pants.

75 Interesting (and macabre) story about the original Hollywoodland sign.


http://tinyurl.com/d2nz792

76 71 -

Those were the days, weren't they?  Given the topic, I'm surprised none of you have mentioned that old classic:  Tony Bennett singing "I Left My Fart In San Francisco." 

77 I'm disappointed about the SF fire being under a control.  I have an ass of a cousin who lives outside San Fran.  He has tied up the sale of my grandparents' property for nine years now.  The legal bills are well into several hundred thousand dollars.  Even though he basically lost at trial and on appeal, the judge tried to be nice to everyone and ordered the estate to pay everyone's legal bills, so we're all footing the bill for his idiocy.  I feel bad for anyone else who lives in SF, but every time I hear there is some calamity nearby, I hope it negatively impacts my cousin.

78 Good morning, beloved Morons.

79 What ever happened to “smart diplomacy?” Wasn’t that one of TFG’s lines? I didn’t pay attention to him when he was campaigning for president. I thought only a fool would vote for him. We have a nation of fools that voted for him.

80

Sunday's editorial in the Lexington Herald was all over the cheap and plentiful natural gas being produced used as a result of fracking.  They have now motorized the goal posts and declared Methane released from this most distasteful process to being more important in the short term in the global warming/cooling/changing climate issue than CO2.   And we have to do everything to stop the use of any carbon based fuel and go completely solar, wind or "renewable". 

 

What a bunch of idiots. I only buy their paper on Sunday to get the coupons/ads.

 

 

81 Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 07:25 AM (lZvxr) Re the Weimar wheebarrows of money required for bread: Along with the stealth income tax deduction by your employer, the invention of the credit card has to rank as one of the finer tools of exploiting the masses. Swipe, sign (unless you are pre-authorized so you hardly have a chance to see the amount), and walk out the door. It will be all fine and dandy, until you run out of your money and have to beg for an EBT card with endless refills (depending on your voting record). BTW, if NSA can spy on a huge percentage of "total" internet traffic, why is it that closed source code voting machines are considered secure?

82 If SCOAMF thinks that he can treat the Russkies and the Chi-Coms the same way as the American People, he is going to miscalculate us into a shooting war with them. Fucking guy is utterly incompetent. And by "fucking guy" I mean Valerie Jarret.

83 Dear every morning show, I am pretty sure that the reservoir that supplies san Francisco will not burn down.

84 72 -

<rimshot>

85 74 A brown velvet fog? Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 08:01 AM (LSJmV) Reminds me of the time I dated a smokin' hot black chick...

86 I said, you won the no ball prize, dammit!

87 Unfortunately, eating their words and actions does not reverse the damage the JEF has already done. Millions duped.

88 The reservoirs will not burn but the pumping stations and power lines feeding them will.

89 Today in my morning walk I went past a house that had a clump of lavender my their mailbox and in the middle of it away in it was copper angel blowing a trumpet (it like one of the folk art angels) It spelled good and it was a good reminder of spiritual things: Stories behind the great hymns of the faith- "Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus": The story of the Louisa Stead who had an incredible loss in her personal life and yet went on to serve as a powerful missionary in Africa and to witness God's provision: http://www.dailyencouragement.net/hymnstory/audio/tis_so_sweet.mp3 A beautiful rendition of the hymn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DdgkvnsHjM Yesterday my family and I were at lovely Point Pleasant Beach, NJ which has a nice family atmosphere. Where we parked had a sign of a big hunk of concrete saying "Keep on hoping". It must have been written after Hurricane Sandy. They have made a lot of progress since them and the boardwalk was very busy. Hope is a theological virtue....Put not your hope in "princes".....who cannot save." God bless you and have a wonderful day.

90 Has that lantern jawed Secretary of State thundered that he's "Reporting for Doody" to lead the charge in Syria? Or has Thurston Howell the Turd talked Lovey into letting him use the yacht to lead the attack by sea?

91

Yes, with Edie providing the background farts (in perfect harmony).

Posted by: Countrysquire

 

And Mel Torme scatting on the breaks.

Posted by: Bruce at August 27, 2013 08:00 AM (z0JJm)

 

ISWYDT.

92 Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 27, 2013 08:00 AM (q2b5x) Guess I need to renew my CDL, and get back to work.

93 92 Has that lantern jawed Secretary of State thundered that he's "Reporting for Doody" to lead the charge in Syria? Or has Thurston Howell the Turd talked Lovey into letting him use the yacht to lead the attack by sea? Posted by: Captain Hate on an iPhone at August 27, 2013 08:06 AM (SD89Q) Forget Higgins Boats. He'll windsurf us onto Omaha Beach!

94 If the president holds true to form, I expect him to give a speech on jobs at a university in Damascus any moment now, complete with a backdrop of adoring supporters. Prolly will give a 'shout-out' to Allah while he is at it.

95 The reservoirs will not burn but the pumping stations and power lines feeding them will.
Posted by: Vic


Then we must provide about 20 billion in disaster relief to make sure that never happens again. Maybe a few Billion to some fish hatcheries in Nevada too to be on the safe side.

96 hahajajajaja @ the naive notion the Nobel Prize committee gives a Shit about peace They're a political organization with an agenda. It's all Political Bullshit Theater.

97 Steve Lawrence's version was only slightly less nails-on-chalkboard than Donny Osmond's.

98 God bless you and have a wonderful day. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2013 08:06 AM (gTN+E) Have a blessed day yourself. I always appreciate your posts.

99 96 If the president holds true to form, I expect him to give a speech on jobs at a university in Damascus any moment now, complete with a backdrop of adoring supporters. Prolly will give a 'shout-out' to Allah while he is at it. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 27, 2013 08:07 AM (dHscx) Like the black kid on "The Bad News Bears?"

100 I will have many amazing things to say about this later on my show. MSNBC tonight! Won't somebody please watch? One, maybe two of you? You could report back to the horde! Maybe start a thread castigating me! I just want to be noticed.

101

Uh oh. Dow fitures down 90, oil futures up two bucks. All European markets down last night.

 

Obamacare on horizon, Sec. Lew interview says NO NEGOCIATING on debt limit. Storm coming.

102 73 If Iona Brown had married Henry Ford she'd have been "Iona Brown Ford". 'Mornin JJ! Posted by: Nighthawk at August 27, 2013 08:00 AM (OtQXp) Ah! A chamber music fan, I see. Nice!

103 Good morning,  all!

Forecast to be a hot and humid week here,  to make up for the pleasant weather we had all summer.  We haven't had rain in 17 days so I will be dragging sprinklers around to water my roses.

104 MPPP Thanks for the interesting story. It's too bad gays had to take the girls upstairs to prove they were not homosexuals. Douglas and Mary Pickford sound like snobbish nuts and I'm glad the secretary pulled one over on them. I appreciate your stories.

105 Obama's America: the schizophrenic bankrupt superpower that fights on the side of people who behead Bishops and torch Churches.

106 The piece over at CNS.com regarding impeaching the SCOAMF is so frustrating... ‘Nothing More Impeachable' Than War Without Authorization, Says Constitutional Scholar Any conservative potus would have already been impeached. This statement really pisses me off: “I am not going to recommend that the House Judiciary Committee hold impeachment hearings, but I would like members of Congress and the public to say that nothing would be more impeachable than a President who takes the country to war without coming to Congress, who does it unilaterally,” Fisher told CNSNews.com’s Why the f*ck not? The case is there. Take this pos down. http://tinyurl.com/k8ogplm

107 25,000 take entrance exam for University of Liberia; all 25,000 failed.The state run university will not have a freshman class this year. Damn, that's a lot of racism.

108 That's like saying Micheal Mann and his cronies give a shit about the environment. It's all politics. And bullshit.

109

@103......Oil futures up two bucks. - Redenzo

 

And it didn't take long for that to hit the gas pumps.

110

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 08:01 AM (lZvxr)

 

Thanks for the link, Vic.  I told the story of Peg Entwistle a while ago, but I don't know how to search the site to find it.

 

In the meantime, here's a link to Peg Entwistle's Last Walk, a short, touching (4.53)  film about her last night by the documentarian Hope Anderson:

 

http://tinyurl.com/yedtyap

 

111 Damn, that's a lot of racism. Posted by: Blacksheep at August 27, 2013 08:12 AM (bS6uW) Ah yes, the bigotry of expectations! I blame Bush!

112 It's like believing the Left really cares if the proles have health care.

113 The "Peace" prize has never been about Peace.

It's been about PR and also as a Norwegian White Privileged Guilt reparation.

114

109 25,000 take entrance exam for University of Liberia; all 25,000 failed.The state run university will not have a freshman class this year.

Damn, that's a lot of racism.

 

Posted by: Blacksheep at August 27, 2013 08:12 AM (bS6uW)

 

I can guarantee Rachel Jeantel would have no problem finding a university here that would accept her.

 

At least Liberia has some standards.

115

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2013 08:06 AM (gTN+E)

 

I keep meaning to tell you, FS, how much I enjoy your postings. 

 

Despite my often incandescent anger, the morning headlines thread with all of you is the only way I like to start the day.

116 the Boston Red Sox team plane just took off in front of me

117 Ah! A chamber music fan, I see. Nice!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2013 08:10 AM (WjLUf)
=======

I thought you might enjoy that...

It's a harmless diversion.  I can quit anytime I want.  Really.

118 "Welcome to our newest game show, Bowling For Nitwits. Our special contestant this evening is our very own Preezy For Life, Barky Teh Magnifico. "
 
"Barky, how do you like your chances against your opponent, a spastic labradoodle named 'McCain'?"
 
"John has been a reliable buttboy for me for years, so I expect his namesake to lay down and lose like a mewling quim."
 
"That's great! Vanessa, what prizes do we have for our contestants?"
 
"Each contestant will receive command of an Atlantic Strike Group, a 5 year supply of KY Jelly, and a case of penis flavored nicotine gum."
 
"That seems a little extravagant. Well, let's get started."

119 Wife and I are going to Bar Harbor early October. Any tips of hints from those in the know? Posted by: Bruce at August 27, 2013 07:59 AM (z0JJm) Rent a house, if possible and bike everywhere. Spend as much time in Acadia National Park as possible. Take a (car) trip to Southwest Harbor and eat at Beal's Lobster Pier. If you're a beer fan, BH has some breweries you can tour. My fave was Bar Harbor Brewing Co. Granted, it's been a few years since I've been up there, but there was never a lack of things to do, especially if you like to walk.

120

Thanks for the interesting story. It's too bad gays had to take the girls upstairs to prove they were not homosexuals. Douglas and Mary Pickford sound like snobbish nuts and I'm glad the secretary pulled one over on them.

 

Well, I think Wanger was exaggerating a little bit, but not by much.  DeMille used to do the same thing at his private ranch.  There's a story about it in Jesse Lasky Jrs. memoir, Whatever Happened to Hollywood?, if I can dig it out.

 

Doug was always smitten by aristocracy, but he was good-hearted underneath it all.  Mary (born poor little Canadian waif Gladys Smith) was a snob of the first water.  I've never liked her, and her cameo in my new book reflects that.

121 Michael Mann is in it for money and prestige. If the science is settled, defund it.

122 Then we must provide about 20 billion in disaster relief to make sure that never happens again. Maybe a few Billion to some fish hatcheries in Nevada too to be on the safe side.

Posted by: Bruce at August 27, 2013 08:07 AM (z0JJm)

What they really need to do is round up all the greens and all the bum who hang arounf Hait-Ashbury and do nothing but beg and piss in on the sidewalks and send them out daily to clear brush.

Then go in in 50 acre sections and reseed the areas with some type of grass like perenial rye to replace that brown shit weed that covers every acre of land in Northern CA.

And finally they need to dig up the bones of the asshole who thought it was a good idea to import gasoline trees (eucalyptus) from Australia and plant them in CA and hang those bones from that Hollywood sign.

123 Like him or hate him, you have to give him credit for speaking his mind. Dick Bove is calling the efforts by government to rein in banks, and specifically JP Morgan, a "regulatory McCarthyism". "They are attacking the jobs of banking workers and the wealth of the American people," he wrote, calling regulation "totally out of control." The analyst said he sees three clear risks to the company's earnings as a result of what he called "the government vendetta." http://cnb.cx/177kfBC

124 Monty has doom,

125 Two stories in the Canadian press report the division between religious factions among those Canadian citizens who have left Egypt to settle in Canada. The point I found interesting was the fact that these immigrants to Canada were returning to Egypt to participate in the protests. One was killed, others were arrested.

the Toronto Star "Egyptians in Canada ‘just as divided’ as in Egypt" (thestar.com is behind a paywall, but google seems to have permission and will display the article) tells the story of a religious man who went back to Egypt to participate and was killed by a sniper.

In CBCnews is the story about two Canadians who were enroute to Gaza and were arrested during the protest. One is a doctor who was returning to Gaza to help train medical personnel.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/kvnc3uh

The point I would make from these stories is citizenship. Once you become a Canadian citizen, why are you involved in the political process (or street demonstrations) back in the 'old country'. The whole point of 'citizenship' in the old meaning of the term was loyalty to your new country, not using the new country passport and citizenship status as cover for your anti-government activities back in the old country.

But as both articles point out, it's all about feelings strongly held feelings that motivate someone to return to the very problems from which they emigrated, presumably to escape. Instead, they bring those very same problems with them to their new homeland, much like liberals who destroy a community, then leave to repeat the very same policy decisions that destroyed the community they just left.

126 Posted by: MTF at August 27, 2013 08:24 AM (QTKGF) Let's see, they already control taxes and regulations on almost anything, they have essentially stolen health care as a private industrial base, and now the banks--sounds like a good trifecta to me!

127 1 Where did the chemical weapons come from? Posted by: Redenzo at August 27, 2013 07:19 AM (vx61Q) They don't want to ask that question. I bet most of them have "property of Saddam Hussein" stamped on them.

128 JJ Sefton, Heard an ad on the radio this morning (wmal, dc's local conservative outlet) calling all "patriots" to rally in dc on 9/10 to support defunding of obamacare. As a lurker, I know that you are keen on rallying in dc to support moron values. They gave a website address, but unfortunately, I can't recall it now. If I can locate it, I'll try to pass it on to see if this is something the horde can support.

129 Douglas Fairbanks was a fine actor; I give him that. I've never cared for Mary Pickford either. I liked the Peg Entwhistle video. I just looked at another short video which told about her sad life.

130 Morning! 
Thanks for the news, Vic.. and the stories, Mary P4!

No time for comments today.. first good night's sleep in months! off to work.. have a great day all.

131 Any Western Carolina/Asheville morons around. Taking the Boss Lady to the Biltmore House and have another day to kill. Something that doesn't involve strippers/hookers, seriously you guys.

132 Granted, it's been a few years since I've been up there, but there was never a lack of things to do, especially if you like to walk.
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day

Thanks for the tips DangerGirl!!

133 25,000 take entrance exam for University of Liberia; all 25,000 failed.The state run university will not have a freshman class this year. Hee! My Alma Mater did/does that EVERY YEAR, Sophommore, Junior, Senior but especially Sophomore. AS far as the University of Liberia goes... I find it hard to believe that NO ONE in that country, could pass the test. I do believe that it might make more sense to not do a Freshman Class this year, though and that is sad.

134 133 Any Western Carolina/Asheville morons around. Taking the Boss Lady to the Biltmore House and have another day to kill. Something that doesn't involve strippers/hookers, seriously you guys.

Posted by: wierdflunkyonatablet at August 27, 2013 08:46 AM (tlhtD)

My wife has been up there a few times.  The best time to visit is during Christmas.  But from what I understand, unless you are into camping and fishing that is not a lot to do in that area.

135 Posted by: slackmac at August 27, 2013 08:35 AM (/Wi/Y) ----------- Heard it too - the website is: http://www.exemptamerica.com/

136 Thanks for the tips DangerGirl!! Posted by: Bruce at August 27, 2013 08:47 AM (z0JJm) You're welcome! I'd also suggest a kayak tour around MDI, but in October, it's probably too cold for that.

137 I told the story of Peg Entwistle a while ago, but I don't know how to search the site to find it. And from the land of Serendipity- Here's "Peg Leg Peggy' by John Entwistle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svh6v2uWd1E

138 Miley is trying to be Madonna.

139 Insty linked baldilock's piece from yesterday.

All together, now: Don's ears must be burning.

Baldilanche!