February 12, 2014

Local Mayor Ray Nagin, An Independent With No Party Affiliation, Convicted on Corruption Charges
— Ace

Sigh.

I searched. The word "Democrat" does not appear in the article.

The former mayor of New Orleans – once the public face of a city battered by Hurricane Katrina – could be headed to prison.

A jury has just returned guilty verdicts on 20 of the 21 counts of corruption and bribery that Ray Nagin faced in a nine-day trial.

Barring a favorable appeal, Nagin, 57, could be sentenced to as much as two decades in a federal penitentiary. Prosecutors used 26 witnesses and reams of documents to detail how Nagin accepted more than $500,000 in payouts, including first-class trips to Jamaica and Manhattan, in exchange for millions of dollars in city contracts.

His age is relevant. His party affiliation, not.


Nagin's spectacular plunge from upstart politician and post-storm persona to convicted felon is more than just another case study in public service gone awry. American history – Louisiana's in particular – is littered with similar cases of politicians on the take.

Everybody does it.

...
Prosecutors say Nagin's personal-enrichment schemes at City Hall began before Katrina hit, continued through the storm's bumpy aftermath and persevered through his second term and even beyond. As people dug out from under the rubble and wrestled with how to rebuild their city, Nagin was soliciting large checks for himself and his sons' granite countertop business from those wishing to do business with the city.

Early in the storm's aftermath, Nagin showed signs of becoming the leader the city needed, admonishing the federal government for its slow response and giving impassioned national TV interviews..... He was out of town a lot. Prosecutors showed that many of those trips — to New York City, Las Vegas and Jamaica — were funded by businessmen hoping to land big contracts with the city.

...

All that changed today, when a jury decided Nagin would be the first mayor in the city's 296-year history to be convicted of corruption.

They simply refuse to offer party affiliations for convicted Democrats. They flat-out refuse. They just will not do it.

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1 And Katrina was the fault of Bush

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2014 11:22 AM (tmFlQ)

2 Paaaaartyist H8Ter !!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at February 12, 2014 11:23 AM (qoKTg)

3 But, but, but, BushHitler and Darth Cheney had a Magikal Hurricane Masheen!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:23 AM (7ObY1)

4 1 And Katrina was the fault of Bush Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2014 03:22 PM (tmFlQ) ******** Makes me think Nagin was -- just negotiatin' and someone didn't pay enough. IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: tasker at February 12, 2014 11:24 AM (RJMhd)

5 To be honest, maybe the MSM assumes he is a democrat. I do. And it is 20 years no parole, though i suspect he will wind up in club fed somewhere.

Posted by: Penfold at February 12, 2014 11:24 AM (Fbt5B)

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

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 12, 2014 11:24 AM (PYAXX)

7 wsoag.

hate you guys.

Posted by: willow at February 12, 2014 11:25 AM (nqBYe)

8 It's probably hard for them to find his party affiliation. It might not be anywhere on the intertubes.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2014 11:25 AM (omrQI)

9 Buses!? That's going to cost at least 20 tons of granite, my friends.

Posted by: Mayor Nagin at February 12, 2014 11:25 AM (RJMhd)

10 All that money pissed away on the last election would've been better spent buying media outlets, apparently.

Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at February 12, 2014 11:25 AM (zDsvJ)

11 If he were a Republican, his party affiliation would be the first word in the headline.

Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2014 11:25 AM (7Iwef)

12 I sure hope they serve chocolate milk in prison. It's a delicious drink.

Posted by: Ray Nagin (D) at February 12, 2014 11:26 AM (yFb77)

13 Barring a favorable appeal, Nagin, 57, could be sentenced to as much as two decades in a federal penitentiary. Shouldn't the be a,'Federal Pound Me In The Ass Penitentiary'?

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 11:26 AM (7wu7R)

14 Early in the storm's aftermath, Nagin showed signs of becoming the leader the city needed, admonishing the federal government for its slow response and giving impassioned national TV interviews Soo... nothing about the school buses which were never used to evacuate residents? Nothing about "Chocolate City?" Nothing about waiting until the last d*mn minute to call for evacuation? Yeah, I'm not surprised. And, hey, look, they even worked in "Boooooosh!"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 12, 2014 11:26 AM (PYAXX)

15 Color me shocked.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 12, 2014 11:26 AM (/o+xv)

16 They nailed that Peruvian Whig.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2014 11:26 AM (6bMeY)

17 But he was right ON TOP of that storm prep. If not for the EVIL BUUUUUUSHHHH....!!!!!

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (MMC8r)

18 Nagin is quite frankly the worst mayor in American history. Not the most evil (Coleman Young the ethnic cleanser gets that prize); but Nagin's dithering in the Katrina runup killed the people *who voted for him*.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (m5+rk)

19 This bastard must have done some really shady shit to be the first con in 300 years.

Posted by: Fritz at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (TKFmG)

20 Dear Leader will pardon him on his way out the door. See: Rich, Marc

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (7ObY1)

21 Shocked face. . . (o)

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (/o+xv)

22 Toss another Pardon on the pile, Eric.

Posted by: Barakhenaten I at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (7wu7R)

23 The amazing news to me is he's the first NOLA mayor convicted on fraud. That's 200 years of well done fraud is what that is.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (ZPrif)

24 Quick! Notify the FCC!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (pFqpP)

25 guess Chocolate City was just a hollow facade....like easter bunny candies or sumthin

Posted by: the Butcher at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (8g9qq)

26 The Kingfish is everyone's hero. Just ask Dixie Cups! (Sean Penn)

Posted by: Mayor Nagin at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (RJMhd)

27 Bush is eating people in the Superdome!!!!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at February 12, 2014 11:27 AM (Aif/5)

28 Our dad's from New Orleans.

He says there's a reason why the state's nickname is "Lousy-anna." Meaning the political corruption there has been rife for, oh, a couple of centuries or so.

Posted by: Beverly at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (OXqEv)

29 Is this Federal or State?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (6bMeY)

30 And Fox just announced the Senate had enough votes to the Debt Ceiling SUSPENSION vote. Thus, both houses of Congress have voted to cede the Power of the Purse, to the Prezzy... And to abrogate their DUTY (not power, duty) to be the ones who borrow money...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (84gbM)

31 Chocolate Prison bitchezzzz!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (/o+xv)

32 Color me shocked. The Racism never sleeps.

Posted by: Maureen Dowdd at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (7wu7R)

33 If you were a shareholder or a sales rep for Democrat Corporation, wouldnt you go out of your to protect the brand?

Posted by: Soothsayer, a commenter on a hate-blog at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (YWssJ)

34
The photo of him is AP, which I figured the story was, but it is USA Today as the leftist palace guard reporting this time.

Ray Nagin, Democrat, Guilty of 21 Counts of Corruption and Bad Rhyming Skills, but mostly 21 Counts of Corruption.

The above line was brought to you by 'the internet is forever'.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2014 11:28 AM (n0DEs)

35 How'd he get convicted? Forgot under which rock to put the paper bag filled with money?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (o4Xc4)

36 The comments in the link are fun.  Lots of little morons.

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (MNq6o)

37 He was convicted. Therefore he cannot be a Democrat. But they know he wasn't a Republican because he was black and black people aren't Republicans. So they left party affiliation out of it because they couldn't determine party affiliation. They didn't want to guess. Very professional journalism actually.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (da5Wo)

38 Shouldn't the be a,'Federal Pound Me In The Ass Penitentiary'? Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 03:26 PM (7wu7R) ******* Wait... I might start regretting that-- "I'm good!" quote after the verdict.

Posted by: Mayor Nagin at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (RJMhd)

39 American history is littered with similar cases of politicians on the take, such as early tea-party favorite and conservative Republican Spiro Agnew. FIFY

Posted by: Duke at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (d3clc)

40 Not a smidgen of corruption...

Posted by: Ray Nagin at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (vbK1S)

41 "The Republican state senator, was cited for driving 35 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone.  It was third traffic infraction the Republican had commited in the last fifteen years.  Repeated calls from this newspaper to the National Republican Party headquarters have not been returned as of press time.  It is not known how this scandal will effect the Republican Presidential primary, or if the Republican will face jail time." 

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (evvGi)

42 I'm actually surprised they didn't flat-out lie and call him a Republican. Hasn't that been done in the past? Only to be corrected days later?

Posted by: shredded chi at February 12, 2014 11:29 AM (3T37a)

43 I blame the first governor of Louisiana (territory, not state): Meriwether Lewis. I mean, he did work for that rayciss Thomas Jefferson.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (7ObY1)

44 Why didn't he just hide the cash in the freezer?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (6bMeY)

45 I don't know... "upstart" sounds suspiciously similar to "uppity".

Posted by: tomaig at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (8ogqy)

46 Not even a hat tip? I got the WSJ, which did not originally include his party affiliation, to miraculously discover it after an email the the writer. Even the fucking WSJ?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (0FSuD)

47 No, you see, it's OK, because Republicans are hypocrites when they say all corruption is bad and turn out to be corrupt, while Democrats only talk about Republican corruption.

Posted by: Shoot Me at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (qiXMt)

48 Hasn't that been done in the past? Only to be corrected days later? Yes. Yes it has.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (7ObY1)

49 No one ever calls them on it (not identifying the party affiliation) so they will keep doing it. I like that the writer worked in a slam against President Bush (although not explicitly stated in the snippet here) by saying Nagin "admonishing the federal government for its slow response and giving impassioned national TV interviews." This is why it is called propaganda folks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2014 11:30 AM (TGgNi)

50 I'd like to sculpt a giant schadenboner out of,  oh,  I don't know... granite?

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 11:31 AM (MNq6o)

51 The media exists to push leftism, period.  You can't make them live up to the principles they espouse because it's bullshit that they don't believe in. If you are on the right, the media is your enemy and that's all there is to it.

Posted by: Golem_Master at February 12, 2014 11:31 AM (L1K98)

52

The win-at-all-cost mentality helped create a culture in which a  bribe  was deemed sufficient for  doing transcendent things.  It spurred advisers to develop a dishonest talking point— "Ray Nagin is an honest man."   And political expediency led Nagin to accept bribes, over and over and over again, when he knew, or should have know, that it was wrong.

 

 

In many ways, this is Obams's story.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 12, 2014 11:31 AM (PFy0L)

53 Sid Caesar dead at 91

Posted by: Landrau at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (e8kgV)

54 Party affiliations are raysist.

Posted by: Mega at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (hHFOx)

55 "Look!  A photo of Nagin and BUUUSSSHH!"

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (MNq6o)

56

Of course.  But if a repub volunteer fireman council member from Duluth smacks a woman on the ass, huffpo will be all over that shit with the headline:

 

GOP LAWMAKER SEXUALLY ATTACKS WOMAN

Posted by: prescient11 at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (tVTLU)

57

Within 24 months, when the GOP is declared     both     illegal and dead, there will be no need for party affiliation.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (eGmvn)

58 Chocolate Jesus will pardon him.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (6bMeY)

59 Sid Caesar dead at 91.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (/QAZd)

60 I'm still pissed off by the way the media blamed Bush for the mess in New Orleans. Nagin was there to see the needs. It was his responsibility. School buses, city buses, school and city bus drivers, all sat unused. Now we know that Nagin was to busy looking for ways to enrich himself to be bothered with getting people out of the city. Who was that idiot singer who said that Bush doesn't care about black people? Is that idiot going to comment on Nagin's concern for black people?

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (5J5S8)

61 #28 I blame the French

Posted by: the Butcher at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (8g9qq)

62 29 Is this Federal or State? FED.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (0FSuD)

63 This won't affect next season's Swamp People, will it?

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (7wu7R)

64 Even CBS that paragon of virtue stated he was a democrat albeit in the last paragraph

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (R8hU8)

65 And to abrogate their DUTY (not power, duty) to be the ones who borrow money...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2014 03:28 PM (84gbM)


And your point is?

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (o3MSL)

66 Hasn't that been done in the past? Only to be corrected days later? They seem to like calling un-labeled Democrat convicts "Rep. X". Which people in the know understand is "Representative X" but can be confused by some to be Republican X. Also, Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (o4Xc4)

67

14 Early in the storm's aftermath, Nagin showed signs of becoming the leader the city needed, admonishing the federal government for its slow response and giving impassioned national TV interviews

 

Did they mention the interviews were from Houston where he had holed up in a hotel?

 

20 of 21, wonder why they dropped the ball on that one?

Posted by: Gmac - pondering the stupidity, wishing it burned at February 12, 2014 11:32 AM (4pjhs)

68 The truth is what serves the Party.

Posted by: Typo Dynamofo judgy judgist and nafarious nudnick at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (IVgIK)

69 I used to work for Ray Nagin when he owned our ECHL franchise in New Orleans. All seven members of the ownership are now convicted felons. One key element in Nagin's conviction was the demise of Jim Letten's career as federal prosecutor in the area... when the folks from out of town showed up, they kept everything very secure but were very aggressive in putting their case together. Note, as well, that there was not a holdout among the jury (where there was in the Edwin Edwards trial). The sad thing is that Marc Morial, Nagin's predecessor, is orders of magnitude dirtier than Nagin, but will not be pursued due to a deal between Jim Letten, the Landrieu family, and the Obama administration so that Letten (a Bush appointee) could keep his job.

Posted by: tmi3rd at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (cxomr)

70 The word "Democrat" does not appear in the article. It would be redundant.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (FcR7P)

71 Within 24 months, when the GOP is declared both illegal and dead, there will be no need for party affiliation. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 12, 2014 03:32 PM (eGmvn) /Looks at the Debt SUSPENSION votes in the House and Senate... Is there now?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (84gbM)

72 Who was that idiot singer who said that Bush doesn't care about black people? I believe that was Kanye "Imma let you finish" West.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (PYAXX)

73
Someone tweet USA Today, they left out important information.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (n0DEs)

74 My younger brother used to live in Baton Rouge.  He said it was the crookedest place he had ever been.  He didn't last long there before he moved to a new location and a new job,

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (T2V/1)

75 53 I had no idea he was still alive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (6bMeY)

76 53 Sid Caesar dead at 91 I am still dead too. Looking forward to the jokes.

Posted by: Gen Franco at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (0FSuD)

77 Who was that idiot singer who said that Bush doesn't care about black people? Is that idiot going to comment on Nagin's concern for black people? Kanye West was the idiot rapper. I wouldn't call him a singer.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:33 AM (7ObY1)

78 50 I'd like to sculpt a giant schadenboner out of, oh, I don't know... granite? Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 03:31 PM (MNq6o) ********* Sometimes there's not enough granite. Sigh.

Posted by: Mayor Nagin at February 12, 2014 11:34 AM (RJMhd)

79 For what it's worth, a quick search tells me that CBS, NBC, and Fox all mention that he's a Democrat; NPR does not.

Posted by: Hal at February 12, 2014 11:34 AM (MftY/)

80 what, exactly, is a "post-storm persona"

just asking.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 11:34 AM (4Re4i)

81 In the comments thread someone says: "Where in the article does it say Nagin was a DEMOCRAT." Another person responds: "Wikipedia, for one source. There are other sources should you care to look."

Posted by: Bilby at February 12, 2014 11:34 AM (0zeZV)

82 I saw Sid Caesar open up for the Dead in 91.

Posted by: Mega at February 12, 2014 11:34 AM (hHFOx)

83 NPR does not.

Posted by: Hal at February 12, 2014 03:34 PM (MftY/)

Well NPR regularly hosts Noam Chumpsky so raise your hand if you're shocked.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (4Re4i)

84 The USA Today reporter, Twitter handle @MrRJervis, had a piece as recently as like, yesterday, about Rick Perry and pot. The second word in the story, following the first word, which is "The," is, wait for it, "Republican." I just sent him a couple of tweets. The jerk.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (tmFlQ)

85 Sid Caesar dead at 91 No Party affiliation?

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (7wu7R)

86

Oh ace, you're so cynical.

 

I'm sure they just plum forgot!!

Posted by: Heralder at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (/Mxso)

87 Day-O.

Posted by: Harry Belafonte at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (6bMeY)

88 Still alive.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (vbK1S)

89 Media corruption is more dangerous than political corruption.

Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2014 11:35 AM (zoehZ)

90

Sorry Hollowpoint, I missed your earlier comment.

 

Hollowpoint:

We have one house of congress. The House of Representatives. That body specifically has the power of the purse. It's in the Constitution.

I want them to defund what is unconstitutional. I want them to demand concessions. I want them to shutdown the government if the President refuses to compromise.

That is what I want. We keep bitching about "cards", but we refuse to playing the fucking hand we're holding.

Posted by: prescient11 at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (tVTLU)

91 The media is really stupid because despite their attempt to hide the party affiliation of any Democrat accused, indicted or convicted of any crime, anyone who would bother to read would know right off that because the label "Republican" wasn't trumpeted, the crook was a Dem. It's similar to when they leave out the race of  suspects in armed robbery or other crimes. Everyone knows.....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (+0hru)

92 So the implication is that his "post-storm persona" was the cat's meow? I recall him being lambasted for all those unused school buses.

Posted by: logprof at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (X3GkB)

93 77 Who was that idiot singer who said that Bush doesn't care about black people? Is that idiot going to comment on Nagin's concern for black people?


Kanye West was the idiot rapper. I wouldn't call him a singer.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 03:33 PM (7ObY1)

Waiting for the Dixie Sluts to chime in to tell us how they're not from LA.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (4Re4i)

94 Do you ever get bored of this? Not like the tide's suddenly gonna turn if a hasbeen's party's id'd anyway. I know, not the point. Still.

Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (vd6Gd)

95 Nagin and Sons: Taking A Lot For Granite!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (HsTG8)

96 "Orwell says about Winston, "He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one." How do you keep your head when all others around you seem to have lost theirs? Do you tell the emperor that he's not wearing clothes? Does a high-functioning society need lunatics?"

MiniTrue simply ignores inconvenient truth.

We are all lunatics now.

Posted by: Typo Dynamofo judgy judgist and nafarious nudnick at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (IVgIK)

97 That's gotta be the first "D" convicted of ANYTHING in the Chocolate City since reconstruction. If Obama had a brother, he would look like Nagin. How long until Holder denounces verdict?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 12, 2014 11:36 AM (jWJAw)

98 Sid Caesar dead.  Sid Vicious,  also dead.  Syd Barrett?  Dead.  What the hell?!

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (MNq6o)

99 Sid Caesar. Would it surprise anyone to know I've never heard of him? I see via Bingle that he's a "Legendary Comedian".

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (o4Xc4)

100 Kanye West was the idiot rapper rhyming clown. I wouldn't call him a singer. FIFY

Posted by: shredded chi at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (3T37a)

101 82 I saw Sid Caesar open up for the Dead in 91.

Posted by: Mega

 

Vic may have see Sid Ceaser open for Julius Cesar.

Posted by: Gmac - pondering the stupidity, wishing it burned at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (4pjhs)

102 Kanye West makes good music if you ignore him based on his persona you're missing out

Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (vd6Gd)

103 New Orleans got billions of federal dollars after Katrina and somehow managed to fail to bulldoze condemned houses flooded in the storm. In other words, step one was not achieved despite Manhattan Project money. No amount of money can slip through NO corruption to accomplish a public good. It's a corruption singularity.

Posted by: Beagle at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (sOtz/)

104 chocolate Undercover Brother from Down Under!

Posted by: mick at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (epFwI)

105 The former mayor of New Orleans ¨C once the public face of a city battered by Hurricane Katrina.... Like a red headed stepchild.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (qc7at)

106 "14 Early in the storm's aftermath, Nagin showed signs of becoming the leader the city needed, admonishing the federal government for its slow response and giving impassioned national TV interviews " Yup, "admonishing federal government blah, blah, blah", "impassioned national TV interviews blah, blah, blah". Do liberals have any idea at all what it takes to manage an institution in the real world? Hint, it isn't interviews and statements. No wonder these liberals worship Obama, they actually think that effective management is speech giving, which is pretty much all Obama is capable of.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (5J5S8)

107 I recall him being lambasted for all those unused school buses. Posted by: logprof at February 12, 2014 03:36 PM (X3GkB) I don't. I recall him rarely being mentioned in the same story, let alone the same breath as the unused buses. Somehow the buses all *also* became Bush's Fault.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 12, 2014 11:37 AM (PYAXX)

108 The sad thing is that Marc Morial, Nagin's predecessor, is orders of magnitude dirtier than Nagin, but will not be pursued due to a deal between Jim Letten, the Landrieu family, and the Obama administration so that Letten (a Bush appointee) could keep his job. Posted by: tmi3rd at February 12, 2014 03:33 PM (cxomr) ************** That reminds me--Mary is not looking to good in the recent polling particularly for an incumbent. (Although they have that weird run off system--which might help her?) Cassidy 44% Landrieu 45%

Posted by: tasker at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (RJMhd)

109 Hmm similar cases of politicians on the take in Louisiana..... any examples mr journolist? I'm thinking of 90k hidden in a freezer by another upstart go-getting independent whippersnapper

Posted by: firsttimemoron at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (1RrFd)

110

Convicted ex-governor, Edwin Edwards of Louisiana, was a Democrat.

Probably still is.

 

He has a reality show now.

 

Maybe Ray Nagin will have a reality show too, some day. 

Posted by: wheatie at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (eCZwh)

111 I had high hopes for him.  One of Nagin's first acts as Mayor was to clean out a corrupt city agency. 

Here's the NRO story on it from 2002 --

"On July 22, not yet three months into his administration, the new mayor ordered a lightning raid on the city's Taxicab Bureau, arresting more than 80 employees and cabbies (including his own cousin) on bribery and related charges, and shutting the agency down. Its head was led out of city hall in handcuffs. When Lilliam Regan, the director of the city agency that oversees the Taxicab Bureau, called a press conference that afternoon to defend her workers, Nagin's men walked in front of the TV cameras, told Regan to pack up her things and get out of city hall. She was fired, and later arrested."

I guess he wasn't the squeaky clean anti-corruption reformer he made himself out to be. 

Posted by: Phinn at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (KOGmz)

112 Waiting for the Dixie Sluts to chime in to tell us how they're not from LA.
Posted by: tangonine

I remember the Dixie Chicks!

Posted by: That guy who remembers totally irrelevant things at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (MNq6o)

113 Hail Ceasar.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (MMC8r)

114 Sid Caesar dead. Sid Vicious, also dead. Syd Barrett? Dead. What the hell?!

You still have me. 

Posted by: Sydney Leathers at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (ZKzrr)

115 I often confused Sid Caesar with Caesar Romero.

Posted by: logprof at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (X3GkB)

116 102...Thanks but I think I'll continue missing out!

Posted by: mick at February 12, 2014 11:38 AM (epFwI)

117 So he was Uppity?

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (3ZtZW)

118 Katrina was worth it for the Sean Penn Red Solo Cup footage, alone.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (7wu7R)

119 Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 12, 2014 03:36 PM (jWJAw)


Not to worry, Obama has three years to grant a pardon for this Bush inspired racist persecution of an oppressed minority successful person of color.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (o3MSL)

120 This thread needs some music. Never knew Hugh Laurie could sing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkL27DnY-EE

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (pFqpP)

121 Posted by: Hal at February 12, 2014 03:34 PM (MftY/) Odd on the radio story I heard yesterday they ID'd him as a Dem (admittedly several lines in).

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (tablet) at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (U8W/7)

122 It's similar to when they leave out the race of suspects in armed robbery or other crimes. Everyone knows..... Yet if you listen to the grievance list of certain "activists", the media goes out of their way to relay the race of certain ... youths.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (o4Xc4)

123 It's similar to when they leave out the race of suspects in armed robbery or other crimes. Everyone knows.....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 03:36 PM (+0hru)

I always kind of chuckled when I would read the crime blotter in the newspaper and they described the perp.  "About 6" tall, grey hoodie, roughly 180lbs". 

Thanks!  I'll totally know who to look for! Of course, I don't know if it's a white guy, a latino or a black guy, but I'm sure I'll have no problem nailing the guy from your description.

Posted by: Heralder at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (/Mxso)

124 Illinois on the Bayou?

(Please don't throw roux at me.)

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 11:39 AM (ZKzrr)

125 23 The amazing news to me is he's the first NOLA mayor convicted on fraud. That's 200 years of well done fraud is what that is. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 03:27 PM (ZPrif) Yeah, we're doning something wrong.

Posted by: 2 Consecutive Illinois Governors Convicted at February 12, 2014 11:40 AM (5J5S8)

126 Let's hope it's a 'pound me in the ass' prison.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 11:40 AM (MMC8r)

127 *too* good. And it is PPP (D) doing the polling.

Posted by: tasker at February 12, 2014 11:40 AM (RJMhd)

128 any examples mr journolist? I'm thinking of 90k hidden in a freezer by another upstart go-getting independent whippersnapper See, that's in Wikipedia, too. It would be plagiarism for the MSM to note it.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2014 11:40 AM (FcR7P)

129 Kanye West "makes good music"?! First off, he does not play an instrument except Kardashian's ass. I would sputter with outrage if I was capable of mustering any these days.

Posted by: Beagle at February 12, 2014 11:40 AM (sOtz/)

130 Somehow the buses all *also* became Bush's Fault. Further proof that Bush was not a Redneck. You give a Redneck that many buses and he'll try jumping them.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 11:40 AM (7wu7R)

131 And Fox just announced the Senate had enough votes to the Debt Ceiling SUSPENSION vote.
Thus, both houses of Congress have voted to cede the Power of the Purse, to the Prezzy...
And to abrogate their DUTY (not power, duty) to be the ones who borrow money...

You really don't have any idea how any of it works, do you?

Congress sets spending limits, The Fed borrows the money to cover the deficit.  Nothing has been ceded.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 12, 2014 11:41 AM (SY2Kh)

132 79 For what it's worth, a quick search tells me that CBS, NBC, and Fox all mention that he's a Democrat; NPR does not. Posted by: Hal at February 12, 2014 03:34 PM (MftY/) Our tax money at work.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 12, 2014 11:41 AM (5J5S8)

133 94 Do you ever get bored of this? Not like the tide's suddenly gonna turn if a hasbeen's party's id'd anyway.

I know, not the point. Still.

Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2014 03:36 PM (vd6Gd)

Are you asking if we get bored of highlighting the MSM hiding party affiliations to protect their coveted agenda?

No, we don't get bored of it.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 11:41 AM (4Re4i)

134

Deaths come in threes.    I am afraid  its not looking good for Abe Vigoda.  

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 11:41 AM (m2CN7)

135 Vic may have see Sid Ceaser open for Julius Cesar.

Posted by: Gmac - pondering the stupidity, wishing it burned at February 12, 2014 03:37 PM (4pjhs)


No but I did see him and Imogene Coca on TV back in the 50s.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 11:41 AM (T2V/1)

136 Just a local news story.

Posted by: CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/PBS at February 12, 2014 11:41 AM (POpqt)

137 68:"Who was that idiot singer who said that Bush doesn't care about black people? Is that idiot going to comment on Nagin's concern for black people?" That was Kanye West. He's too busy pumping Kim Kardashian to care about black people in New Orleans now -or anyone else for that matter, probably.

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (1o4B5)

138 Julius Caesar. Also dead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (6bMeY)

139 I, along with several others were there during Katrina and I can tell you that the corruption goes straight through to Baton Rouge. The media frenzy against Bush was coordinated and usually completely false. The long list of fake MSM memes is too long to even begin here. The ultimate message from the whole thing was stay armed and prepared, take care of your family and neighbors yourself, whatever you do don't count on any government help and the police will rob and kill you if they can.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (8LWQ2)

140 35 How'd he get convicted? Forgot under which rock to put the paper bag filled with money? Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2014 03:29 PM (o4Xc4) Freezer must have been full.

Posted by: William J. Jefferson at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (5J5S8)

141 No, they never offer a party affiliation when it's a Dem. Of course, in this particular case you'd have to be a dumber than a box of rocks not to know Nagin's party affiliation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (XyM/Y)

142 Julius Caesar. Also dead. Little Caesar is still alive.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (MMC8r)

143 Ray Nagin Poised to Join Louisiana Correctional Tandem Luge Squad.

Posted by: alt Headlines at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (7wu7R)

144 Here I am, always singing my one note song. ♫Media, Media, Media... ♫

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (bb5+k)

145 but I'm sure I'll have no problem nailing the guy from your description.

Posted by: Heralder

Phrasing. Boom. Nailed it.

Posted by: Sterling Archer[/i] [/b] at February 12, 2014 11:42 AM (cxs6V)

146 Sid Caesar dead. Sid Vicious, also dead. Syd Barrett? Dead. What the hell?!

You still have me.
Posted by: Sydney Leathers


*taps wristwatch,  grins*

Posted by: Death at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (MNq6o)

147 Bolder Hobo - Nagin is quite frankly the worst mayor in American history. Not the most evil (Coleman Young the ethnic cleanser gets that prize); but Nagin's dithering in the Katrina runup killed the people *who voted for him*.

I think you'd find a worse group in Detroit..... There's was more systemic and horrific... At least NOLA was rebuilt - Detroit is ready to be burnt down...

Posted by: fred zeppelin at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (zL/eJ)

148 Is this chocolate corruption?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (NRYdU)

149 Just a local news story.

Posted by: CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/PBS at February 12, 2014 03:41 PM (POpqt)



But just in, new information about Christie's complicity in closing a traffic lane!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (o3MSL)

150 The ultimate message from the whole thing was stay armed and prepared, take care of your family and neighbors yourself, whatever you do don't count on any government help and the police will rob and kill you if they can.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 03:42 PM (8LWQ2)

Want a template for the incoming disaster?  See Argentina.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (4Re4i)

151 Little Caesar is still alive. Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 03:42 PM (MMC8r) Mmmmm. Crazy Bread.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (PYAXX)

152

All that changed today, when a jury decided Nagin would be the first mayor in the city's 296-year history to be convicted of corruption.

 

 

Pikers.

Posted by: Every Mayor of Providence RI at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (A0sHn)

153 >>Early in the storm's aftermath, Nagin showed signs of becoming the leader the city needed, admonishing the federal government for its slow response and giving impassioned national TV interviews.....


So blaming others and mugging for the camera = Leader?

Huh. Maybe that's why NOLA was so ill-equipped to handle Katrina.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (POpqt)

154 I had high hopes for him. One of Nagin's first acts as Mayor was to clean out a corrupt city agency.

Eliminating the competition.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (SY2Kh)

155 It's not so much cards we're lacking as balls. I said "balls", Mr. Speaker, not "bawls".

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (TJdiD)

156 102Kanye West makes good music if you ignore him based on his persona you're missing out

Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2014 03:37 PM (vd6Gd)

I'm not a fan of his music.  Just personal taste. 

However, when I find a musician or actor or artist to be a repellent douchebag, it often influences my view on their professional work. 

Posted by: Heralder at February 12, 2014 11:43 AM (/Mxso)

157 Do you tell the emperor that he's not wearing clothes? I understand the point of that story, but there's a glaring logical flaw in it. Even if the King believed he's surrounded by people who can see the clothes, why would he go out in public? He has to know there would be people who wouldn't see the clothes, and would see him in his undies.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:44 AM (o4Xc4)

158 And do they ever mention that he is the fool who fucked up the evacuation during Katrina? I bet they don't. Everyone in media knows the complete clusterfuck that was New Orleans response to Katrina was BOOSHES fault!

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 12, 2014 11:44 AM (bb5+k)

159 That was Kanye West. He's too busy pumping Kim Kardashian to care about black people in New Orleans now -or anyone else for that matter, probably.

Last he showed up on Big Hollywood, he was "threatening" (ha!) to expatriate because the U.S. is too racist.

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 11:44 AM (ZKzrr)

160 68:"Who was that idiot singer who said that Bush doesn't care about black people? Is that idiot going to comment on Nagin's concern for black people?"


That was Kanye West. He's too busy pumping Kim Kardashian to care about black people in New Orleans now -or anyone else for that matter, probably. Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire


Kanye West doesn't care about black trim.

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 11:44 AM (MNq6o)

161
This guy is a piker, the EPA just stole 1 million acres of land from Wyoming and gave it to the Indians.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2014 11:44 AM (n0DEs)

162 Hey, Cajun Man, what do you think of Ray Nagin's court case? Convic-TION What do you think led to Nagin's troubles? Bad dee-ci-SIONS And what do you predict will happen at the sentencing? Pri-SON How do you predict Nagin will do in prison? Butt in-fec-TION

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:45 AM (7ObY1)

163 The lack of the signifier is the signifier.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Wrathful Grapes and Contemptuous Celery in the Produce Department! at February 12, 2014 11:45 AM (gmoEG)

164 Early in the storm's aftermath, Nagin showed signs of becoming the leader the city needed Also: isn't this rather like "he was poised to become the leader the city needed?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 12, 2014 11:45 AM (PYAXX)

165 And yet non-"storm persona" Haley Barbour managed to get his state cleaned up without all that finger-pointing, press adulation and graft.
Nope, no leadership skills there, I tell ya.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (POpqt)

166 this story is proof that black people do not care about other black people... I denounce myself.

Posted by: mick at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (epFwI)

167 Odd on the radio story I heard yesterday they ID'd him as a Dem (admittedly several lines in). Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (tablet) at February 12, 2014 03:39 PM (U8W/7) Not sure what to say. Perhaps they'll have that news story up another time. Right now, this is the only story about it on NPR: http://preview.tinyurl.com/phja8dg

Posted by: Hal at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (MftY/)

168 The Fed borrows the money to cover the deficit. Nothing has been ceded.

Oops- I meant Treasury.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (SY2Kh)

169 School buses are for school children,  mother fuckahs!

Posted by: Ray "I didn't see no buses" Nagin at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (MNq6o)

170 102Kanye West makes good music if you ignore him based on his persona you're missing out No thanks. I don't consider that "music."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (7ObY1)

171 Sid was an old style Jewish vaudeville actor. He was he the same era as Burns, Hope and Benny,

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (0FSuD)

172 He only started accepting bribes because of severe depression over what Bush did.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 11:46 AM (MMC8r)

173 42 "I'm actually surprised they didn't flat-out lie and call him a Republican. " I seem to recall reading somewhere that Nagin started out as a Republican, but changed his affiliation to Democrat when he started running for office. I'm actually kinda' surprised the media didn't mention this as a way to suggest his corruption somehow arose from his "Republican" past.

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at February 12, 2014 11:47 AM (1o4B5)

174 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2014 03:44 PM (n0DEs)


Probably for a promise to never develop the energy resources there, but can you imagine a million acres of casinos, loan shops, and tax-free cigarette stores.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2014 11:47 AM (o3MSL)

175 Shorter Job talk: "Moar government funding, for the children." I think the worst part is that she doesn't even realize that's what she's saying. It's just the subconscious baseline now.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (tablet) at February 12, 2014 11:47 AM (U8W/7)

176 Sky Jumping official had to institute a minimum BMI back in 2004 cause the jumpers were getting into anorexia territory, taking all sort of appetite suppressants to lose weight during competitions. The 5'10 130 lb guys competing today are actually considered an improvement over where the sport was a decade ago.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 11:47 AM (ZPrif)

177

139...The ultimate message from the whole thing was stay armed and prepared, take care of your family and neighbors yourself, whatever you do don't count on any government help and the police will rob and kill you if they can.

 

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 03:42 PM (8LWQ2)

 

----------

 

Glad you made it through it okay, Daybrother.

 

Your words, however, gave me a sense of foreboding...as though we may all find them words to live by, in the coming years.

Posted by: wheatie at February 12, 2014 11:47 AM (eCZwh)

178 Ski, not sky

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 11:47 AM (ZPrif)

179 102 Kanye West makes good music if you ignore him based on his persona you're missing out  Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2014 03:37 PM (vd6Gd)
I can live with that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (kVfSG)

180 Et tu, Brute?

Posted by: Judas at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (TKFmG)

181 New Orleans had an offer from a couple of salvagers who offered to pay a couple of hundred dollars for each  car  that was washed up and abandoned across the city, thousands of them.   Instead  those  offers were  refused and the government paid  for their removal and continues to pay for storage of those vehicles on a big piece of land  north of the city.   

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (m2CN7)

182 This guy is a piker, the EPA just stole 1 million acres of land from Wyoming and gave it to the Indians.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk


Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!

Posted by: That crazy injin from every John Wayne movie that ever had a crazy injin in it at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (MNq6o)

183 118 Katrina was worth it for the Sean Penn Red Solo Cup footage, alone. Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 03:39 PM (7wu7R) ********** Damn it--it was Solo Cups. Thought it was Dixie. There is photos of him dating Theron out. She looks like she is into--of forget it. I can't say it.

Posted by: tasker at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (RJMhd)

184 Deaths come in threes. I am afraid its not looking good for Abe Vigoda. - Don't rule out Miley Cyrus or Lindsey Lohan.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (49tMB)

185 IIRC, Nagin was found to have bought a house and enrolled his kids in Houston schools shortly after Katrina.
Leadership!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2014 11:48 AM (POpqt)

186 I guess he wasn't the squeaky clean anti-corruption reformer he made himself out to be.

Posted by: Phinn at February 12, 2014 03:38 PM (KOGmz)

Easier to be the biggest crook on the block when you clean out the little ones.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2014 11:49 AM (pFqpP)

187 Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 03:48 PM (m2CN7)


Wonder what LA family owns that storage compound?

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2014 11:49 AM (o3MSL)

188 Deaths come in threes.

News to us.

Posted by: Zombie Hindenburg passengers and crew at February 12, 2014 11:50 AM (t8ySh)

189 (Please don't throw roux at me.) Et tou, Fe?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 12, 2014 11:50 AM (jWJAw)

190 162 Hey, Cajun Man, what do you think of Ray Nagin's court case? Convic-TION What do you think led to Nagin's troubles? Bad dee-ci-SIONS And what do you predict will happen at the sentencing? Pri-SON How do you predict Nagin will do in prison? Butt in-fec-TION Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 03:45 PM (7ObY1) *********** They'll poke your eye out!

Posted by: Bob Costas with the Reflect--SHUNS at February 12, 2014 11:50 AM (RJMhd)

191 @102, Kanye is not a good musician. He's not only not a musician, he is an anti-musician. He hurts music.

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (bxdmt)

192 188 Deaths come in threes. Shirley Temple - Sid Caesar - United States Constitution

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (7ObY1)

193 Everything comes in threes if you count in threes. Only 2, waiting for the 3rd. Already 4, one set of threes, starting on the next.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (ZPrif)

194

Hollowpoint:

 

Do you understand what the definition of "limit" is?  And what purpose is it if it's lifted all the time?  Why do we have a debt ceiling limit?

Posted by: prescient11 at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (tVTLU)

195 Phrasing. Boom. Nailed it.

Posted by: Sterling Archer at February 12, 2014 03:42 PM (cxs6V)

Like I was saying, after a long hard search, I'm sure someone would just nut up and tell us the race. I mean, don't make us bend over backwards for it.

Posted by: Heralder at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (/Mxso)

196 MiniTrue simply ignores inconvenient truth.

We are all lunatics now.

Posted by: Typo Dynamofo judgy judgist and nafarious nudnick at February 12, 2014 03:36 PM (IVgIK)


That's crazy!!

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (AWmfW)

197 Clancy DuBos, political editor of the weekly alternative newspaper Gambit, says he initially defended Nagin. Katrina was a mammoth event, he said, capable of crumbling the strongest resolve. But he quickly realized Nagin would shrink from rather than shoulder the enormous task at hand. "He did not enjoy the work of being mayor," DuBos says. "He only enjoyed being the mayor."





Prezzy Choom: Well that's nothing to fault the guy for.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (1Jaio)

198

 "American history – Louisiana's in particular – is littered with similar cases of politicians on the take."

Ummm, yeah - almost all Democrats, at least in LA. But, nice attempt to smear both sides with this guy's corruption.

 

Posted by: GWB at February 12, 2014 11:51 AM (Yv2t4)

199 O/T: NOW demands WSJ fire James Taranto for "promoting rape culture"

FFS, this is the organization that *defended* Bill Clinton. Patricia Ireland went so far as to call it a "workplace relationship."

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (POpqt)

200 San Diego, Detroit, New Orleans, is there a big city Dem mayor who isn't corrupt?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (g1DWB)

201 No but I did see him and Imogene Coca on TV back in the 50s.

Posted by: Vic at February 12, 2014 03:41 PM (T2V/1)

 

 

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

 

 

Along with Red Skelton, Ernie Kovacs, Milton Berle.......yeah, I remember them all.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (5XB5E)

202 The day I acknowledge quickly spoken rhyming syllables to a programmed drum beat as music is the day I lick Obama's balls.

The only "music" in modern rap/hip hop/ and increasingly pop "music" is the shit they've outright stolen or sampled from actual musicians.

Posted by: grognard at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (/29Nl)

203 I'm surprised they didn't mention how well his pants were creased, and whether he was circumcised or not. But mention party affiliation? Why would they do that?

 

Posted by: West at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (1Rgee)

204 He's not all bad. He was found not guilty of bribery in one of the 21 charges. I'm thinking a week of rehab and his debt is repaid.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (FcR7P)

205 Wonder what LA family owns that storage compound?

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2014 03:49 PM (o3MSL)

 

I've been told it was just a old guy that owned a large plot of land that could be used  for  the purpose of storing those vehicles.   I don't think it existed as a salvage yard beforehand.   

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 11:52 AM (m2CN7)

206

Serious point for all the morans though, since we seem to require both houses of Congress and the Presidency to fucking do anything.

 

We had both houses and exec for four years.  In those 4 years, what conservative things happened?

 

Not being facetious, but I'm curious, what happened in that 4 yr stretch that we would consider conservative?  Thanks

Posted by: prescient11 at February 12, 2014 11:53 AM (tVTLU)

207
Ray Nagin will now become the chocolate bitch!

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 12, 2014 11:53 AM (nQjHM)

208 O/T: NOW demands WSJ fire James Taranto for "promoting rape culture" So much for Cultural Relativism

Posted by: Dominique Strauss Kahn at February 12, 2014 11:53 AM (7wu7R)

209 Charles Manson: musician.  Also tried to start a race war.

Posted by: Dot connector at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (MNq6o)

210 "They will not do it." I know... I know. But take heart - have you seen the latest NY Times numbers? No amount of rouge can change the Gray Lady's pallor. She's moving to the morgue soon enough. USA Today is hardly the newspaper of record in this nation. It's delivered to many in hotels, but read by very few. NBC? Sickly. The MFM is dying. Take heart.

Posted by: RobM1981 at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (zurJC)

211 Already 4, one set of threes, starting on the next.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 03:51 PM (ZPrif)

 

Its time limited. 

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (m2CN7)

212 Want a template for the incoming disaster? See Argentina. Posted by: tangonine ----------- You're preaching to the choir. One of the worst things about Katrina is how Nagin, Blanco and especially Parish Presidents were said to be 'Leaders" simply because they did interview after interview excoriating the feds for not cleaning up their mess. This while the State Cops were blocking people from taking truckloads of food and water into the city or while cops seized guns illegally or shot innocents. Or forced people to evacuate to places that then flooded and killed them or the deputies that seized peoples' pets and then shot them. I could go on for days on the shit that went on that was never reported nationally or even at all. Nagin did nothing but preen for the cameras. Nothing.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (1Th+U)

213 The only "music" in modern rap/hip hop/ and increasingly pop "music" is the shit they've outright stolen or sampled from actual musicians. Hear hear. The only bit of Kanye West's "music" I could stand was stolen ("sampled") from King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." Now King Crimson, THAT was a band of musicians.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (7ObY1)

214 Bush let the air out of all those school bus tires to keep Bro Ray from saving the millions of Black children who died in the 9th Ward after Bush bombed the levees.  Racis.  All racis.  Go Knicks.



Posted by: Drive-by Spike Lee at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (IfY4m)

215 off topic, but gateway pundits reports "Texas Sen. Ted Cruz could stage another filibuster – this time in an attempt to raise the debt limit."

Hmmm... he wants to stage a filibuster in an attempt to raise the debt ceiling? GP was quoting MSNBC. Ahhh, the plot thins.

Posted by: mallfly at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (bJm7W)

216
All this talk about dead people, but I'm still alive and looking for Kate's phone number.  Little Abe is itchy and lookin' for action.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (nQjHM)

217 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2014 03:44 PM (n0DEs) Wow.... let me get this straight... The Indian tribe wanted land that was no longer part of the reservation, by act of Congress. So they petitioned the EPA, who treated them as a State... even though only CONGRESS can make States. Then the EPA, in conjunction with the Justice Dept., gave the land to the Indian tribe... abrogating both State rights, and personal Property Rights, of all landowners. Wow.... just..... wow.... The Republic, is terminal folks...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (84gbM)

218 No, they never offer a party affiliation when it's a Dem. Of course, in this particular case you'd have to be a dumber than a box of rocks not to know Nagin's party affiliation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2014 03:42 PM (XyM/Y)

 

It's about metadata. A search under 'political corruption' will be far more likely to turn up Republicans, not Democrats. I'm sure there have already been stories written about the prevalence of corruption among Republicans based on this.

Posted by: Highly Paid GOP Consultant at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (O66NZ)

219 Ray Nagin will now become the cream filled chocolate bitch! *fixed for the lunch crowd

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (7wu7R)

220 New Orleans had an offer from a couple of salvagers who offered to pay a couple of hundred dollars for each car that was washed up and abandoned across the city, thousands of them. Instead those offers were refused and the government paid for their removal and continues to pay for storage of those vehicles on a big piece of land north of the city. That might be for a good reason though. After every major flood a TON of people get ripped off in the used car market. They buy the flood cars not knowing what they're getting. I know caveat emptor, but it might be the reason. I believe CarFax will tell you if a car is a flood vehicle.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:54 AM (o4Xc4)

221 Kanye is not a good musician. He's not only not a musician, he is an anti-musician. He hurts music. De gustibus non est disputandum.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 11:55 AM (o4Xc4)

222 219 Ray Nagin will now become the cream filled chocolate bitch! *fixed for the lunch crowd Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 03:54 PM (7wu7R) ********** Oh gawd damn it.

Posted by: Bob Costas with the Reflect--SHUNS at February 12, 2014 11:56 AM (RJMhd)

223 Deaths come in threes.



Dick Van Dyke,  do NOT pick up the white courtesy phone...

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 11:56 AM (MNq6o)

224 Sid Caesar dead at 91.

--

Release the inhumanity of Twitter. 

Posted by: Lady in Black, doesn't want a 4' Vermont Teddy Bear for Valentine's Day at February 12, 2014 11:56 AM (Oa7B2)

225 I'm gagging

Posted by: Bob Costas with the Reflect--SHUNS at February 12, 2014 11:56 AM (RJMhd)

226

Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2014 03:54 PM (o4Xc4)

 

That was  one of the excuses. 

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 11:56 AM (m2CN7)

227 Rapping is so difficult and complex that, um, basically everyone can do it with a bare minimum of practice and zero training.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 11:56 AM (ZPrif)

228 Hmmm... he wants to stage a filibuster in an attempt to raise the debt ceiling? GP was quoting MSNBC. Ahhh, the plot thins. Posted by: mallfly at February 12, 2014 03:54 PM (bJm7W) No, I could see Cruze Filibuster in order to make Congress RAISE the debt limit (which is not just their power, but responsibility)... vice SUSPEND the debt limit.... As suspending the debt limit unconstitutionaly cedes the Borrowing authority of the US to the Administration.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2014 11:57 AM (84gbM)

229 The only "music" in modern rap/hip hop/ and increasingly pop "music" is the shit they've outright stolen or sampled from actual musicians.

Posted by: grognard at February 12, 2014 03:52 PM (/29Nl)

cut.jib.newsletter

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2014 11:57 AM (pFqpP)

230
Nagin showed little or no emotion when the verdict was read. He sat in a courtroom chair staring ahead as his wife, Seletha Nagin, sobbed.




Seletha?  Weren't they the lizard guys on Land of the Lost?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 12, 2014 11:57 AM (kdS6q)

231 98 Sid Caesar dead. Sid Vicious, also dead. Syd Barrett? Dead. What the hell?! Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 03:37 PM (MNq6o) ---------------------- Yo tambien. Me too.

Posted by: El Cid at February 12, 2014 11:57 AM (dfYL9)

232 118 Katrina was worth it for the Sean Penn Red Solo Cup footage, alone. Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 03:39 PM (7wu7R) Yeah, you know a celebrity really cares about the downtrodden when he brings a photographer and entourage along to record his "good works". How can he not know what self congratulatory douche he is?

Posted by: William J. Jefferson at February 12, 2014 11:58 AM (5J5S8)

233 Rapping is so difficult and complex that, um, basically everyone can do it with a bare minimum of practice and zero training.


Music isn't about having talent so profound that you stand out in a crowd of millions of wanna-bes.

It's about projecting an image of being a criminal, a slut, or an idiot long enough to sucker someone into buying your derivative bullshit off iTunes.

Posted by: grognard at February 12, 2014 11:58 AM (/29Nl)

234 Something's gotta give.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 12, 2014 11:59 AM (IXrOn)

235 Not being facetious, but I'm curious, what happened in that 4 yr stretch that we would consider conservative? Thanks Posted by: prescient11 They carefully laid the sekret groundwork for making modest changes for realz when they take back the legislature and Presidency. This is a time to purge the Tea Party types so that plan can go forward. High level stuff.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 11:59 AM (exdlK)

236 The future of America is Brazil with Nukes. The Left is trying to force us to become a European Socialist state and the slow, decades long decline that entails. But we are quickly becoming a Latin nation. Which implies that our declines will be more sudden and less gradual. The Left things they are turning us into Sweden. They actually are turning us into Brazil.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 11:59 AM (ZPrif)

237 It's about projecting an image of being a criminal, a slut, or an idiot

Projecting?

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 11:59 AM (ZKzrr)

238 If they were forced to put a party affiliation, they would put an R next to the name, then a day later, put in an "oops" statement that no one would read.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 12, 2014 12:00 PM (IXrOn)

239 201  Along with Red Skelton, Ernie Kovacs, Milton Berle.......yeah, I remember them all.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 03:52 PM (5XB5E)


The golden age of TV.  I have a dvd set with Red Skelton's best shows on it.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:00 PM (T2V/1)

240 "good works".
Posted by: William J. Jefferson


"Good works" = Lookin' around.  You know,  at all this mess... and stuff.

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 12:00 PM (MNq6o)

241 Syd Barrett? I'm not dead, at least not the way you know death. I'm just on a higher plane of consciousness. Astronomy Domine, maaaaan. (oh yeah, and Roger Waters is and always was an asshole. I always wanted to say that.)

Posted by: Syd Crazy Diamond Barrett at February 12, 2014 12:00 PM (7ObY1)

242

Just where oh where is it the RESPONSIBILITY of Congress to raise the debt ceiling/limit??????????

 

There is so much misinformation on this issue it is shocking.

Posted by: prescient11 at February 12, 2014 12:00 PM (tVTLU)

243 "He did not achieve, or seek, any other public office prior to his election in 2002. More controversially, Nagin had actually been a registered Republican for most of his adult life, switching to the Democrats shortly before seeking office, for which his candidacy was branded as opportunistic in the solidly Democrat city. Nagin was, at that time, a known Bush supporter, having contributed to the presidentÂ’s campaign. Nagin entered the New Orleans mayoral race a political unknown but emerged through the middle of a crowded field of known Democrats, securing vital cross-party and in-party endorsements for his populist pledges to tackle city hall corruption and run the administration in a more business-like manner."


http://tinyurl.com/d5jq7

Posted by: Sphynx at February 12, 2014 12:01 PM (OZmbA)

244 Something's gotta give.

--

We can be comforted that it will not be Mooch's wardrobe budget or lavish dining menus. 

Posted by: Lady in Black, doesn't want a 4' Vermont Teddy Bear for Valentine's Day at February 12, 2014 12:01 PM (Oa7B2)

245 That was one of the excuses. I don't necessarily buy it, but it's a possibility. What do you think the scam is? They're paying rent to the guy to keep the cars off the market?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:01 PM (o4Xc4)

246 thanks to "rap", a person can make a very good living as a musician without be able to write music, read music, carry a melody, or speak any language.

Posted by: mallfly at February 12, 2014 12:01 PM (bJm7W)

247 Corruption in politics by a (D)?  Must be a frame-up.  Where's Al Sharpton?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 12, 2014 12:02 PM (R5UOB)

248
That's right Romeo, but there is no truth to the rumor that Wyoming called the EPA 'Indian Givers'.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2014 12:02 PM (n0DEs)

249

>>>more than $500,000 in payouts, including first-class trips to Jamaica and Manhattan, in exchange for millions of dollars in city contracts.

 

Surprisingly, NONE of those contracts involved NOLAs emergency water, shelter, and food supplies.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:02 PM (3ZtZW)

250 I'm so happy that this prick is going to jail.Fuck you Mayor " Chocolate City"!

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2014 12:02 PM (zqvg6)

251 Projecting?

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 03:59 PM (ZKzrr)


It's not important whether they are actually criminals, sluts, or idiots.  Just that they look and act accordingly to sell the image.

If some actually are, then it just helps to sell it.



Posted by: grognard at February 12, 2014 12:02 PM (/29Nl)

252 4000 Katrina dead who were killed and eaten by other starving residents in the Superdome just e-mailed me and asked me if Ray was convicted also of "Cannibalism Enabling in the 1st Degree."

Posted by: Sharkman at February 12, 2014 12:02 PM (TM1p8)

253 I played some trivia board game during Thanksgiving holidays and Nagin was one of the answers. Clue was something like "Much maligned mayor of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina"

Posted by: Sphynx at February 12, 2014 12:03 PM (OZmbA)

254 They're still pushing the bullshit story that the Feds bungled the relief effort.Nagin and that cunt Governor bungled it.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2014 12:03 PM (zqvg6)

255 Our Doom is all-encompassing. It has moved into other times, dimensions, and universes. It has permeated not only existing universes, but all possible universes. I can taste it in back of my throat.

Posted by: Usually kind of optimistic at February 12, 2014 12:03 PM (Ze8oh)

256 I didn't realize Rape had its own culture. What kind of music is Rape into? What sort of clothes does Rape wear? What's the typical structure for a Rape family? What God(s) does Rape pray to? Fuckin' libtards just make shit up.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (jWJAw)

257 OT: I'm sitting in a all company meeting and they just went over OCare and how the Cadillac tax is going to hit everyone's paychecks negativity. A massive collective groan and angry mummer. Surprising since I work at a largley liberal college and 80% of the audience voted for Zero twice. I resisted the urge to stand up and say "You all voted for this! TWICE! We warned you! Suffer the consequences! " Anyway, back to daydreaming to get through the rest this

Posted by: Astronaut Achmed at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (LacJ7)

258 >>What do you think the scam is? They're paying rent to the guy to keep the cars off the market?


They're paying the guy exorbitant rent AND he kicks back half of it to someone(e), with this "someone" being the same person who negotiated the contract and ensures that the rent is paid each month. Win-win!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (POpqt)

259 Rap Music

Pro Basketball

Pro Football

Millions of broken dreams and dead-end futures sold.

Posted by: grognard at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (/29Nl)

260

>>>thanks to "rap", a person can make a very good living as a musician without be able to write music, read music, carry a melody, or speak any language.

 

So how come you're not cruising a Beemer with gold teefs and some badonkdonk?

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (3ZtZW)

261 Gilbert and Sullivan did patter songs, too. And they were fun and audiences liked them. Rap music does the amazing new step of ... emphasizing beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (ZPrif)

262

I'm sure others said it first, but the only thing that shocked me in the article is the Bush wasn't blamed for Katrina.

That reporter probably got fired for forgetting to put that in there somewhere.  It's the kind of critical information the FCC wants to see in local reporting, right?

/sarc off

Posted by: Biblio at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (7o8VY)

263 "Much maligned mayor of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina"
Posted by: Sphynx


Now the much convicted former Mayor of New Orleans.  Everybody wins.

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 12:04 PM (MNq6o)

264
Betty White will not be down for breakfast....soon.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 12, 2014 12:05 PM (nQjHM)

265 10 All that money pissed away on the last election would've been better spent buying media outlets, apparently. Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at February 12, 2014 03:25 PM (zDsvJ) Seriously. "We're not running anyone in 2016." "WHAT? Why?" "We're using the money to buy up Hollywood."

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 12, 2014 12:05 PM (oFCZn)

266 including first-class trips to Jamaica Seriously? Jamaica? The place is a pit. The murder rate is 58 per 100K. That's about 11x higher than the US. Even the "nice" spots aren't that nice.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:06 PM (A0glY)

267 City is paralyzed as of now. Buddy took 30 mins to go 100 feet because nobody wanted to cross the big intersection that is at the bottom of a hill. 2.5 inches of accumulaton in 3 hours.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 12, 2014 12:06 PM (ZshNr)

268 Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two The Candy Man, oh the Candy Man can The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh Soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie The Candy Man, the Candy Man can The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good

Posted by: Bob Costas with the Reflect--SHUNS at February 12, 2014 12:06 PM (RJMhd)

269 "In the key vote, senators backed the debt increase by a tally of 67-31 — but only after the GOP’s leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, voted with Democrats."

color me fucking shocked.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (4Re4i)

270 In b4 the scorpion!

Posted by: toby928© at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (QupBk)

271 Power outages are probably gonna make life really suck for a lot of people the next 48-72 hours. Really hoping I'm not one of them.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (ZPrif)

272 >>>thanks to "rap", a person can make a very good living as a musician without be able to write music, read music, carry a melody, or speak any language.<<<

Ah, but his exquisite taste in naturally beautiful women can never be challenged or rivaled.

Posted by: Fritz at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (TKFmG)

273 It was really the vampires what screwed up the Katrina relief efforts. New Orleans is full of those.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (3ZtZW)

274 Right now, the Chocolate CIty is IN MY PANTS.

Posted by: R. Nagin at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (MMC8r)

275 All this talk about music reminds me that a lib I know on Facebook is pissed that the cheapest tickets to Bruce "Working Man" Springsteen's concert are $179.

I am currently sporting a telecaster shaped schadenboner.

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (MNq6o)

276 City is paralyzed as of now.

Which city?

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (t8ySh)

277 OK we are over 250, time for some gun talk. Wasn't this the asshole that told the NO cops to take everyone's guns and got sued by the NRA?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:07 PM (0FSuD)

278 254 * schedules steevy for Sensitivity Re-Education camp *

Posted by: Bob at NSA at February 12, 2014 12:08 PM (aDwsi)

279
We bee the ones what kept Nawlin's safe.

Posted by: Crips and Bloods at February 12, 2014 12:08 PM (nQjHM)

280 Winston-Salem, NC.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 12, 2014 12:08 PM (ZshNr)

281

267 City is paralyzed as of now. Buddy took 30 mins to go 100 feet because nobody wanted to cross the big intersection that is at the bottom of a hill. 2.5 inches of accumulaton in 3 hours.

-----

Pussies

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 12, 2014 12:08 PM (R5UOB)

282 So how come you're not cruising a Beemer with gold teefs and some badonkdonk? I don't want to "sell out". --Musical "artist" who hates sellouts (and couldn't sell a record to a bored inmate in a Siberian prison)

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:08 PM (A0glY)

283 You mean like the movie Brazil or the shithole country Brazil?

Posted by: Soothsayer, a commenter on a hate-blog at February 12, 2014 12:08 PM (YWssJ)

284 I saw Katrina and the Wave open for Rape Culture at the Superdome.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (A0sHn)

285 the GOPÂ’s leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, voted with Democrats." Just try and imagine Nanzi Piglosi or Hairy Reid voting with the Republicans. On anything. Ever. Srsly. The GOP fucking sucks bags of dicks in hell.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (7ObY1)

286 Forecast for 25MPH winds? With sleet? This is not going to end well, and I am too lazy to get my generator out.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (0FSuD)

287 There's a lawyer on Cavuto now.  Big push coming to make fast food companies start paying $ to states to help pay for obesity health costs.  No word on how it's automatically determined one's obesity is caused by fast food.  And no word on whether it's the proverbial tip, and oh, say, the potato chip and ice cream companies are next.  The jackboot is getting pretty big and heavy.  Is this really freaking America??

Posted by: Lady in Black, doesn't want a 4' Vermont Teddy Bear for Valentine's Day at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (Oa7B2)

288 159 "That was Kanye West. He's too busy pumping Kim Kardashian to care about black people in New Orleans now -or anyone else for that matter, probably. Last he showed up on Big Hollywood, he was "threatening" (ha!) to expatriate because the U.S. is too racist. Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 03:44 PM (ZKzrr)" I'd have thought the enjoyment of Kim's nether regions would have kept him too busy to notice all the racist-y racism he constantly encounters. I guess the newness wears off of everything eventually. Everything, that is, except for finding "racists" behind every tree and under every rock........

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (1o4B5)

289 284 I saw Katrina and the Wave open for Rape Culture at the Superdome. I heard the snack bar was to die for.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (7ObY1)

290 I meant the country, but it's probably both.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (ZPrif)

291 Ah, but his exquisite taste in naturally beautiful women can never be challenged or rivaled.

Old, copied, still funny:

NOTORIOUS B.I.G.'S ONE MORE CHANCE RAP LYRICS TRANSLATED

Lyric:
First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeys
Dummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin' money
Those the ones I like 'cause they don't get nathan'
But penetration, unless it smells like sanitation
Garbage, I turn like doorknobs
Heart throb, never, black and ugly as ever
However, I stay coochied down to the socks
Rings and watch filled with rocks

Translation:
As a general rule, I perform deviant sexual acts with women of all kinds, including but not limited to those with limited intellect, nude magazine models, and prostitutes. I particularly enjoy sexual encounters with the latter group as they are generally disappointed in the fact that they only receive penile intercourse and nothing more, unless of course, they douche on a consistent basis. Although I am extremely unattractive, I am able to engage in these types of sexual acts with some regularity. Perhaps my sexuality is somehow related to my fancy and expensive jewelry.

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (ZKzrr)

292 277 OK we are over 250, time for some gun talk.

Wasn't this the asshole that told the NO cops to take everyone's guns and got sued by the NRA?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 04:07 PM (0FSuD)

Are you referring to the armed invasion of private property and the steadfastness of the citizens to defend their private property against the incursion?

THAT thing?

Well. 

Coming to a theater near you in the near future...

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:09 PM (4Re4i)

293 In.

Posted by: the scorpion at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (YWssJ)

294 In.

Posted by: the scorpion at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (YWssJ)

295 That was one of the excuses. I don't necessarily buy it, but it's a possibility. What do you think the scam is? They're paying rent to the guy to keep the cars off the market? Posted by: bonhomme IIRC There was a large corruption case involving a West Bank post hurricane dump in 2012. Tied to NOLA City Hall (I believe someone resigned) and including large payoffs to a local talk show host of all things. It was simply about city and parish money going to friends. Probably same thing going on.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (V6dbZ)

296 City is paralyzed as of now. Buddy took 30 mins to go 100 feet because nobody wanted to cross the big intersection that is at the bottom of a hill. 2.5 inches of accumulaton in 3 hours.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 12, 2014 04:06 PM (ZshNr)

 

 

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

 

 

When snow or ice is forecast, start figuring out alternate routes  to work.  It's called common sense.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (5XB5E)

297 All those NOLA cars in the field north of the White Chocolate City? Ruined, ruined, I tells ya! They had hoped to market them using Lion of the Senate, Teddy "Swimmer" Kennedy as their pitch man. "My friends, I know water-worthy vehicles and these are the real thing! C'mon down to Honest Ted's Auto Mart for these sweetheart deals!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (HsTG8)

298 I am currently sporting a telecaster shaped schadenboner. Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 04:07 PM (MNq6o) It's shaped like Costas? You might want to get that checked out.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (oFCZn)

299 If the words "Uncle Tom" or "Oreo" were not in the article, then you know he was a Democrat.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (qZr+9)

300 The wind is a factor here, too. I can already see the drifting effect piling up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (ZshNr)

301 Pussies Love 'em!

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:10 PM (A0glY)

302 He's a utility guy, he has to stay out on these days.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 12, 2014 12:11 PM (ZshNr)

303 What do you think the scam is? They're paying rent to the guy to keep the cars off the market?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2014 04:01 PM (o4Xc4)

 

Not necessarily a scam.  Just the inefficient way that government runs  things.   I think it fell under the Feds purview like the temporary trailers.  

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 12:11 PM (m2CN7)

304 Forecast for 25MPH winds? With sleet? This is not going to end well, and I am too lazy to get my generator out. Posted by: Nip Sip ---------------- Nip - It will only get darker and colder. Besides if you haul the thing out now..., it won't be needed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 12:12 PM (aDwsi)

305 Didn't they confiscate guns from abandoned property,just go in and take them?

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2014 12:12 PM (zqvg6)

306 Mary Sell @DD_MarySell Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, just said on House floor that he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because "he's married to a white woman." Tim Lockette @TLockette_Star Holmes said he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because Thomas is married to a white woman. This in discussion on a bill about land surveying. After leaving the floor, Holmes, who is black, tried to walk back his comments about Thomas’s marriage, but maintained that the only black Supreme Court Justice is an “Uncle Tom.”

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:12 PM (ZPrif)

307 294 In. The Barrel Posted by: the scorpion at February 12, 2014 04:10 PM (YWssJ) FIFY now go.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (0FSuD)

308 Rapping is so difficult and complex that, um, basically everyone can do it with a bare minimum of practice and zero training. - Rap began when the first caveman smashed the first caveman's head into a hollow log then raped her.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (wTgwx)

309 There's a lawyer on Cavuto now. Big push coming to make fast food companies start paying $ to states to help pay for obesity health costs. Take away all that food stamp money so people will eat less, problem solved.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (MMC8r)

310 I do feel sorry for Atlanta..., FEMA has been activated. Expect a blizzard of wasted money, and bureaucratic fcuk-ups.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (aDwsi)

311 "The first thing we do is we kill all the republicans."

King Henry VI, Part II, Act IV.

(slightly modified by T9)

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (4Re4i)

312 293 In. Is this a Zen koan?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (7ObY1)

313 Alvin Holmes I'm not related to that douche.

Posted by: Sherlock[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:13 PM (A0glY)

314 306 Somebody should ask him if he minds that DeBlasio is married to a black woman.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2014 12:14 PM (zqvg6)

315 Mary Sell @DD_MarySell Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, just said on House floor that he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because "he's married to a white woman." Tim Lockette @TLockette_Star Holmes said he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because Thomas is married to a white woman. This in discussion on a bill about land surveying. After leaving the floor, Holmes, who is black, tried to walk back his comments about Thomas’s marriage, but maintained that the only black Supreme Court Justice is an “Uncle Tom.” Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 04:12 PM (ZPrif) W T EVERLOVIN' F!? We are truly a clown nation. Effin' ridiculous.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 12, 2014 12:14 PM (bCEmE)

316 What'd you expect? He's a white Hispanic.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at February 12, 2014 12:14 PM (OPzNA)

317  Forecast for 25MPH winds? With sleet? This is not going to end well, and I am too lazy to get my generator out.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 04:09 PM (0FSuD)

 

 

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

 

 

The really good thing  about sleet is that it doesn't down power lines or tree limbs.  It just bounces off and lands on the ground.  Be thankful you're getting sleet.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 12:14 PM (5XB5E)

318 I am The Barrel, son

Posted by: the scorpion at February 12, 2014 12:14 PM (YWssJ)

319 The last Impeached President was a DemocRat, but what difference does it make now anyway?

Posted by: Inconvenient Truth at February 12, 2014 12:14 PM (nbGZj)

320 Rap began when the first caveman smashed the first caveman's head into a hollow log then raped her. Wait, so the first caveman smashed his own head and then raped...who?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 12:15 PM (7ObY1)

321 I stay coochied down to the socks Word.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 12:15 PM (7wu7R)

322 Besides if you haul the thing out now..., it won't be needed. Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 04:12 PM (aDwsi) Ha Ha, so fucking true. Last time I got it out and fired it up. I thought about it this morning, it's 50 yds from house. There is six inches of snow on the ground. It's staying in the garage.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:15 PM (0FSuD)

323 Yes, I want to hear lectures about hostile work environments and rape culture from the org who did nothing while Bill was steering Monica by the ears. To NOW: You just haven't earned it yet, baby

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 12, 2014 12:15 PM (m5+rk)

324
Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt.  Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 12, 2014 12:15 PM (nQjHM)

325 After leaving the floor, Holmes, who is black, tried to walk back his comments about Thomas’s marriage, but maintained that the only black Supreme Court Justice is an “Uncle Tom.”

--

Thomas is the "Uncle Tom," but Holmes is the one stuck on the plantation.  Funny that.

Posted by: Lady in Black, doesn't want a 4' Vermont Teddy Bear for Valentine's Day at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (Oa7B2)

326 I am The Barrel, son I am fire! I am de*WHOA, turbulence!*

Posted by: Smaug[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (A0glY)

327 chocolate time for chocolate boy or is that too nasty? Did I say that outloud?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (HVff2)

328

>>>Didn't they confiscate guns from abandoned property,just go in and take them?

 

No, they knocked people over and took them by force. The military helped. At no point were the military or the police being threatened by the ones they terrorized. Of the reported shooting towards helicopters and rescuers, exactly none of those miscreants were either apprehended or disarmed.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (3ZtZW)

329 Huh.  Just read where Cruz wanted to filibuster the debt limit measure.  However, his friends Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn (and then ten other Republicans) voted with Democrats to let it go to a vote, which then passes 55-43.

According to this article, a number of Republican Senators changed their votes to Yes after McConnell and Cornyn cast theirs.

Did anyone watch and see how it actually went down?

"Some Republicans seemed irked that Cruz wouldn't let the bill pass without forcing it to clear a 60-vote threshold that required some Republicans to walk the plank and help it advance."

Awwww poor babies.

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (GrtrJ)

330 Well Derek Jeter to retire after this season 2014.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (nzKvP)

331

306 Mary Sell @DD_MarySell
Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, just said on House floor that he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because "he's married to a white woman."

Tim Lockette @TLockette_Star
Holmes said he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because Thomas is married to a white woman. This in discussion on a bill about land surveying.

After leaving the floor, Holmes, who is black, tried to walk back his comments about Thomas’s marriage, but maintained that the only black Supreme Court Justice is an “Uncle Tom.”

---- 

If I say that Rep Holmes sounds like a monkey, would that be considered racist?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (R5UOB)

332 Sorry nerdygirl, didn't realize you'd already mentioned that.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 12:16 PM (qeF5L)

333 >>Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that? Had to turn it off. Shrieking harpy food nazi.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (g1DWB)

334 Wait, so the first caveman smashed his own head and then raped...who? Posted by: BlueStateRebel -------------------- It was homo antecessor, so androgynous.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (aDwsi)

335 In many ways this *should be* the "story of Obama."

And . . .

If Obama had a son . . .


**checks off two AoSHQ Memes**

Posted by: flounder at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (Kkt/i)

336 Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, just said on House floor that he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because "he's married to a white woman." Like Barack Obama, Sr.?

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (MMC8r)

337 324 Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that? Isn't she the Vegan bitch that runs Imus' life?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (0FSuD)

338
Had to turn it off. Shrieking harpy food nazi.

--

I wanted to kick her in the teeth.  Who the f*ck are you to lecture me on what to eat, bitch? 

Posted by: Lady in Black, doesn't want a 4' Vermont Teddy Bear for Valentine's Day at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (Oa7B2)

339 Democrats still advocating anti-miscegenation laws ? That should be news.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (ZshNr)

340 328 But nah,there's nothing to fear from registration.Every firearm grab in history started with registration.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (zqvg6)

341 also, anyone else notice the eerie correlation between Henry VI, Act 2, Scene IV and Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution?

just sayin'

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (4Re4i)

342 Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that? Had to turn it off. Shrieking harpy food nazi. Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2014 04:17 PM (g1DWB) Who could live with her? A shriveled up old man with a mean streak

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 12:17 PM (nzKvP)

343 Like Barack Obama, Sr.?

Bigamy don't count, or something.

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 12:18 PM (ZKzrr)

344 5 To be honest, maybe the MSM assumes he is a democrat. I do. And it is 20 years no parole, though i suspect he will wind up in club fed somewhere.

Posted by: Penfold at February 12, 2014 03:24 PM (Fbt5B)


Let's hope he has some juicy dirt on some of the other rats.

Posted by: flounder at February 12, 2014 12:18 PM (Kkt/i)

345 "Holmes said he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because Thomas is married to a white woman."


Rosa Parks,  please report to the back of the bus.  Rosa Parks,  to the back of the bus.

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 12:18 PM (MNq6o)

346 Sleet? Try leaving the house at 5 AM with -20 degree windchills, so cold exposed skin can get frostbit in 15 seconds. Scrape that rock-hard ice off all the car windows with driving lake-effect snow whipping into your face. Then drive on slick, slippery roads with snow up to the top of your wheelwells, 30 MPH (if you're damned lucky) for the whole commute. Now do it again every single fucking day for a month. Then, tell me all about this "sleet."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 12:18 PM (7ObY1)

347 About time Ray gets a good prison buttfuck. Long overdue.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at February 12, 2014 12:18 PM (6ahup)

348 Say what you will about Alvin Green, and he would have said all manner of embarrassing shit by now - I doubt he would have said anything about Thomas's marriage.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 12, 2014 12:19 PM (m5+rk)

349 I guess Jeter will have a farewell tour like Mariano

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 12:19 PM (nzKvP)

350 The high here today was 29.2F but it is still sleeting now.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:19 PM (T2V/1)

351 The fucking local news shows are running out of shit to talk about. Interviewing "democrats" dumb enough to be going to KFC in a snow storm. It was closed.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:19 PM (0FSuD)

352 324
Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 12, 2014 04:15 PM (nQjHM)

Imus does 1 thing well:  takes care of kids with cancer.  Outside of that, he's a dick.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:19 PM (4Re4i)

353 "Some Republicans seemed irked that Cruz wouldn't let the bill pass
without forcing it to clear a 60-vote threshold that required some
Republicans to walk the plank and help it advance."


Cruz lights up the targets...

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 12:20 PM (MNq6o)

354 Just to be clear, this racist idiot Democrat, Alvin Holmes, said his idiocy in the Alabama House, not Congress.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:20 PM (ZPrif)

355
Isn't she the Vegan bitch that runs Imus' life?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 04:17 PM (0FSuD)


She administers the rabbit food, enemas, and gives it up every fortnight on Thursday.  For a fee!


Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 12, 2014 12:20 PM (nQjHM)

356 Note to Jesse Jackson Jr. : New cellmate

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 12:20 PM (aDwsi)

357 Then, tell me all about this "sleet."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 04:18 PM (7ObY1)


Well, it does tend to get caught in your toes when you're caught out in it in flip flops. What? 

Posted by: flounder at February 12, 2014 12:20 PM (Kkt/i)

358 346 Sleet? Try leaving the house at 5 AM with -20 degree windchills, so cold exposed skin can get frostbit in 15 seconds. Damn, you Yankees are tough. Move down. Give it up.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:20 PM (0FSuD)

359 346  Then, tell me all about this "sleet."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 12, 2014 04:18 PM (7ObY1)


I spent a winter in Chicago.  I will never go back.  It only had one thing worth a shit and it wasn't the weather.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:21 PM (T2V/1)

360 I guess Jeter will have a farewell tour like Mariano He's gonna need a lot of gift baskets.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 12:21 PM (7wu7R)

361 News Crews all over the south frantically searching for a car that has skidded off of the road.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 12:21 PM (aDwsi)

362 321 I stay coochied down to the socks

Word.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 04:15 PM (7wu7R)

is "coochied" a verb or an adverb? 

/prepares to make entry in AoS dictionary

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:22 PM (4Re4i)

363 @359 You at Great Lakes?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:22 PM (0FSuD)

364 "There's a lawyer on Cavuto now. Big push coming to make fast food companies start paying $ to states to help pay for obesity health costs. "



Prove the connection.  I eat fast food.  Not obese.  Wha... ?

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 12:22 PM (MNq6o)

365 361 News Crews all over the south frantically searching for a car that has skidded off of the road. Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 04:21 PM (aDwsi) Here's one: http://tinyurl.com/nkp5puc

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 12, 2014 12:22 PM (bCEmE)

366 News flash from the South: When the snow, sleet, and ice came down here a couple of weeks back, it wasn't the snow, sleet, and ice that kept me off the roads...it was mortal fear of my fellow motorists.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (naUcP)

367

>>>328 But nah,there's nothing to fear from registration.Every firearm grab in history started with registration.

 

I sold all my guns to the nice Crip fellow down the street.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (3ZtZW)

368 White people smell like cheese and they can't drive!

Posted by: Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (MMC8r)

369 BTW, that winter we were getting wind chill factors of -60F.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (T2V/1)

370
Scanning the channels looking for Dan Rather in sleet and snow with his USAF fur parka, Hello Kitty gloves, and Ugg boots warning American's not to venture into the abyss.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (nQjHM)

371 >>>the first mayor in the city's 296-year history to be convicted of corruption. that's a pretty good streak of clean government.

Posted by: X at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (KHo8t)

372 Damn, I am glad I gave up drinking for this diet. Otherwise? A day stuck in the house while it snows? That would have been an epic drunk.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (0FSuD)

373 364 "There's a lawyer on Cavuto now. Big push coming to make fast food companies start paying $ to states to help pay for obesity health costs. " Prove the connection. I eat fast food. Not obese. Wha... ? Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 04:22 PM (MNq6o) Cool, rebates?

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 12:23 PM (4JkHl)

374 Oh yeah, the wind here is unbearable with the bright sun and 53 F out.  It's a bitch trying to determine whether to layer up with a coat or just wear a sweater.  And f me running, I forgot my sunglasses this morning.

Posted by: flounder at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (Kkt/i)

375 "Some Republicans seemed irked that Cruz wouldn't let the bill pass

without forcing it to clear a 60-vote threshold that required some

Republicans to walk the plank and help it advance."


Cruz lights up the targets...

Posted by: Dang at February 12, 2014 04:20 PM (MNq6o)

 

 

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

 

 

I really do like this Cruz feller.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (5XB5E)

376 "OT: I'm sitting in a all company meeting and they just went over OCare and how the Cadillac tax is going to hit everyone's paychecks negativity. A massive collective groan and angry mummer. Surprising since I work at a largley liberal college and 80% of the audience voted for Zero twice."

I have to drill holes for some half inch bolts in reinforced concrete this weekend.

I was going to use a powerful corded hammer drill for that, but instead I'll use this even more powerful schadenboner. It will surely not have gone down by then.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (gqT4g)

377

I guess Jeter will have a farewell tour like Mariano

 

 

Sort of like Mariano.  The Red Sox gave him a stadium seat and a standing ovation. 

 

For Jeter...oh, for fuck's sake.  I was thinking A-Rod.  Why did I ever think A-Rod would leave graciously?  If it were A-Rod I would have had a good joke. 

 

For A-Rod they'll have Ryan Dempster throw at his head again.

 

 

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (A0sHn)

378 366 Amen, BC. I had some rental mental in a uhaul tailgating me on the way home....in the snow.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (ojnk6)

379 "There's a lawyer on Cavuto now. Big push coming to make fast food companies start paying $ to states to help pay for obesity health costs." Compare the calories in a 'fast food' burger to the calories in a 'fine restaurant' burger.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (MMC8r)

380 Tami - Hey!...., I have a Wienermobile key chain. See? I would never say that on the ONT.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 12:24 PM (aDwsi)

381 Also, I found that northerners are no better at driving in the snow and ice than southerners.  Take away the snow plows and they would go to shit.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:25 PM (T2V/1)

382 371 >>>the first mayor in the city's 296-year history to be convicted of corruption. that's a pretty good streak of clean government. Posted by: X at February 12, 2014 04:23 PM (KHo8t) That shocks me.

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 12:25 PM (4JkHl)

383 Oh, in the NY Slimes defense. They mention Nagin's party in second paragraph of story, BUT they are running a full fluff story on Wendy for their Sunday magazine.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:25 PM (0FSuD)

384  Oh yeah, the wind here is unbearable with the bright sun and 53 F out. It's a bitch trying to determine whether to layer up with a coat or just wear a sweater. And f me running, I forgot my sunglasses this morning.

Posted by: flounder at February 12, 2014 04:24 PM (Kkt/i)

 

 

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

 

 

Getting up around 50 here.  60's and 70's for the weekend.  It's going to be hell.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 12:25 PM (5XB5E)

385 Rap began when the first caveman smashed the first caveman's head into a hollow log then raped her. Wait, so the first caveman smashed his own head and then raped...who? - Damn sexist spellchecker doesn't recognize the existence of cavewomen.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 12:26 PM (wTgwx)

386 "Some Republicans seemed irked that Cruz ****was acting like an actual member of an opposition party****"

FIFY.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:26 PM (gqT4g)

387 Make your reservations at Cooperstown NY now for 2018: Mariano Rivera 2019: Derek Jeter

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 12:26 PM (nzKvP)

388 Imus does 1 thing well: takes care of kids with cancer. Outside of that, he's a dick.
Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 04:19 PM (4Re4i)



Yeah, he's got some ranch paid for with charity bucks. His charity is having kids with cancer wake up at 5am to shovel cow shit and other various ranch work. Real giver that Imus.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 12, 2014 12:26 PM (W7ffl)

389 Man, I miss Cooperstown.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 12:27 PM (7wu7R)

390

>>>Also, I found that northerners are no better at driving in the snow and ice than southerners. Take away the snow plows and they would go to shit.

 

No that was Chicago. Boston is also bad. And Cleveland. But not everywhere.

 

Oh, and Buffalo. They do this Imma go real slow at this turn and drive like 90 everywhere else problem.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:27 PM (3ZtZW)

391 380 Tami - Hey!...., I have a Wienermobile key chain. See? I would never say that on the ONT. Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 12, 2014 04:24 PM (aDwsi) I don't blame ya.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 12, 2014 12:27 PM (bCEmE)

392 This is kinda funny and, I think, real. Alvin Holmes -- not a fan of craft beer. Apparently Alabama only recently made craft beer legal. Holmes opposed the bill legalizing it. He though Budweiser was perfectly fine and didn't like these rich german kids driving mercedes trying to legalize craft beer. Odd. Anthony Bialy ‏@AnthonyBialy Alabama rep. Alvin Holmes, who said he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because he married a white woman, on beer: http://youtu.be/MZoTJzh13n8

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:27 PM (ZPrif)

393 Also, I found that northerners are no better at driving in the snow and ice than southerners. Take away the snow plows and they would go to shit. Posted by: Vic at February 12, 2014 04:25 PM (T2V/1) Love ya Vic, but...Bull.....Fucking....Shit......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:27 PM (HVff2)

394 Pro,tip for driving on snow, slow down.

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 12:27 PM (4JkHl)

395 "324 Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that? " Whenever I encounter a woman like that, and learn that she is married, almost invariably, the first thought that enters my head is "Wow. Those blowjobs must be VERY, VERY good."

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at February 12, 2014 12:28 PM (1o4B5)

396
OK we are over 250, time for some gun talk.



Wasn't this the asshole that told the NO cops to take everyone's guns and got sued by the NRA?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 04:07 PM (0FSuD)











Every time I hear Nagin's name, I think of this photo of him and the NO police chief playing with M4 carbines at a press conference.

http://tinyurl.com/4c9hwv

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 12, 2014 12:28 PM (TIIx5)

397 349 I guess Jeter will have a farewell tour like Mariano Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 04:19 PM (nzKvP) ------------------------- Sort of, but not like Mariano. Jeter's a great, very respected player but not a historic record-breaker. Not like Rivera or even Cal Ripken.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2014 12:28 PM (dfYL9)

398 394 Pro,tip for driving on snow, slow down.

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 04:27 PM (4JkHl)

Pro-Tip #2:  Don't slam on  your brakes.  Or mash the accelerator.

physics, people, physics.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:29 PM (4Re4i)

399 Damn sexist spellchecker doesn't recognize the existence of cavewomen. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 04:26 PM (wTgwx) *********** Sure, sure--blame me!

Posted by: Spell Check Confessions for $2 at February 12, 2014 12:29 PM (RJMhd)

400 390  No that was Chicago. Boston is also bad. And Cleveland. But not everywhere.

Oh, and Buffalo. They do this Imma go real slow at this turn and drive like 90 everywhere else problem.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 04:27 PM (3ZtZW)



Also Saratoga Springs, NY.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:29 PM (T2V/1)

401

Pro,tip for driving on snow, slow down.

 

constant speed FTW.

 

Maintain distances

 

keep a hole in case a southerner is ahead of you and you need an escape route

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:29 PM (3ZtZW)

402 After the obamapocolyspe, I will visit Cooperstown and intall Pete Rose's skeleton, where it rightfully belongs.

Posted by: the scorpion at February 12, 2014 12:30 PM (YWssJ)

403 If anyone cares why the feds didn't get Nagin on the 21st count, David Hammer is a high school classmate of mine and a damned fine reporter. His answer is here: http://tinyurl.com/nxj3gjs

Posted by: tmi3rd at February 12, 2014 12:30 PM (cxomr)

404 Yeah Soona, it's as if he knows what he's doing...

Posted by: prescient11 at February 12, 2014 12:30 PM (tVTLU)

405


>>>Also Saratoga Springs, NY.

 

OMFG that hill kills people

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:30 PM (3ZtZW)

406 This is just a local crime story you wingnuts.  Never mind pointing out the party affiliation; just be glad someone actually covered it.

Posted by: Sarah Kliff at February 12, 2014 12:30 PM (xvtYZ)

407 If we're worried about things that increase healthcare costs, why doesn't somebody sue LAWYERS to recover the healthcare costs of LITIGATION?

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 12:31 PM (MMC8r)

408 But if some lowly Repub Statehouse rep in Alabama went off on a racist anti-miscegenation rant in the statehouse while debating a land surveying bill ... pretty sure all the news would cover it.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:31 PM (ZPrif)

409 Nonsense. The key to snow driving is to get your speed up. It's a lot like a boat. You want to get her up on plane.

Posted by: garrett's Atlanta Driving Tips at February 12, 2014 12:31 PM (7wu7R)

410 Snow is a breeze to drive through if you are patient, have good tires, etc. Ice on the other hand is impossible to drive on even if you are from the north. 4WD, AWD none of it works on straight ice. Sounds like you southern morons are getting blasted, sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:31 PM (HVff2)

411 N.O. gun confiscation video http://tinyurl.com/389d2h

Posted by: RWC at February 12, 2014 12:32 PM (fWAjv)

412 Did he try the blame "the real criminal" George W. Bush defense?

Seemed to work for him politically in the past . . .

Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 12, 2014 12:32 PM (nnkXw)

413 1 also, anyone else notice the eerie correlation between Henry VI, Act 2, Scene IV and Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution? just sayin - Free shit, free shit, my country for free shit! No wait. That's Richard III.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 12:32 PM (xNCc+)

414 Spiro Agnew was cleared of all charges after they got their man Ford in. That's why O has Joe and W had Dick. That and the JFK and RWR shootings. Next contenders should pick Palin jointly as Vice President to stop all assassination and impeachment attempts. Hillary/Palin, Christie/Palin for President. :-)

Posted by: Huggy at February 12, 2014 12:32 PM (4WPfa)

415 shooting is like driving on ice:  slow is fast, fast is slow.

However, once your out there, driving with a bunch of dumbasses in 2k lb vehicles, it's like team deathmatch.

Just because you're smart doesn't mean you're going to live.

Posted by: tangonine at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (4Re4i)

416 tip for driving in the snow.  Contrary to Obama's advice,  reduce the tire pressure. 

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (m2CN7)

417 You can drive on ice if you don't care where you're going.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (3ZtZW)

418 Jeter's a great, very respected player but not a historic record-breaker. Not like Rivera or even Cal Ripken. Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2014 04:28 PM (dfYL9) Oh no? How many Championships does Ripken have? Who has the most hits ever in post season. How many game winning hits does Ripken have in the post season? What's Ripken's career batting Average? I am not disparaging Ripken, but Jeter unique, far beyond his career stats.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (nzKvP)

419 405  OMFG that hill kills people

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 04:30 PM (3ZtZW)


There was a steep hill on the way to work.  One morning it was iced over with black ice.  Had a whole string of cars sitting at the bottom waiting on the salt truck. Nobody was going anywhere until the truck showed up.  And this was before cell phones.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (T2V/1)

420 I applaud and support Mayor Nagin for the wonderful job he did stealing monies, delaying help to his own residents and generally reinforcing the stereotype of your corrupt and criminally inclined democrat and black politician. All throughout our former once great land his type is needed more than ever in our wasteland of urban decay centers, i.e. cities. Well done Sir!

Posted by: IrishEd at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (D0NZx)

421 Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that? " I believe Imus had a long battle with prescription narcotics. Cause or effect?

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 12:33 PM (r1isO)

422 When I am Imperial Overlord the world will have 4WD-only lanes during snowstorms, and you'll have to pass a 4WD test (not just own one) to get the sticker.

Posted by: Smug owner of a new XTerra at February 12, 2014 12:34 PM (A0sHn)

423 Ray Nagin is America's Mayor!


Posted by: MFM Scrunt #9 at February 12, 2014 12:34 PM (NpXoL)

424 http://youtu.be/MZoTJzh13n8 Alvin Holmes argument against legalizing craft beer in Alabama. "What's wrong with the beer we got? I mean, the beer we got drank pretty good, don't it?" A keen mind.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:34 PM (ZPrif)

425 A keen mind.

Without a single taste bud.

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 12:35 PM (ZKzrr)

426 "Holmes said he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because Thomas is married to a white woman. This in discussion on a bill about land surveying. After leaving the floor, Holmes, who is black, tried to walk back his comments about ThomasÂ’s marriage"

I periodically play a little game with myself called What If The Ethnicities And Affiliations Of All These People Were Reversed.

So in that case, you would have a white Republican complaining about a white Supreme Court Justice who was nominated by a Democrat, about how that Justice was married to a black woman and how that was racially unacceptable.

If there's one thing I think we can all agree on, it's that this hypothetical alternate would not have been given a whole lot of opportunity to try to "walk back his comments". He would have been instantly mobbed, driven from office, curb stomped, burned alive, and had the scorch marks cleaned up with a pressure washer, starting about two seconds after his initial observation.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:35 PM (gqT4g)

427

>>>>Ray Nagin is America's Mayor!

 

Hellz Yes, sez Rudy G. of New York

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:35 PM (3ZtZW)

428 Local dumb shit takes 10 ton bulldozer on Lake Wissota to clear snow for ice races and goes to the bottom. I guess he is in 40' of water, uninsured and the Wis DNR is on his ass to get the thing out from the bottom of the lake.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:35 PM (HVff2)

429 I am not disparaging Ripken, but Jeter unique, far beyond his career stats. Not to mention that if you lined up all of the hot chicks Derek Jeter has banged, you'd have a Daisy Chain that reached to the Moon and back three and a half times!

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 12:35 PM (7wu7R)

430 Tip for driving on ice and snow: Wear pants.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 12:36 PM (MMC8r)

431 Vic, and maps for an alternate route?

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 12:36 PM (4JkHl)

432 422 When I am Imperial Overlord the world will have 4WD-only lanes during snowstorms, and you'll have to pass a 4WD test (not just own one) to get the sticker.

Posted by: Smug owner of a new XTerra at February 12, 2014 04:34 PM (A0sHn)

Yeah, that doesn't account for the idiot in the F250 who just T-boned you.

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:36 PM (4Re4i)

433 Alternate Headline:

Mayor Ray Nagin (D) cleared of corruption charge

I mean, he was only convicted of 20 of the 21, right?  You conservatives, always looking at the gloomy side...

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (BYSrJ)

434 Oh boy, pictures of snow plows driving down I-77. Stupid fuckers don't have their blades down, just cruising. Announcer? "See the DOT is busy at work!" He thinks a snow plow doing 50 mph with his blade up is working. The stupid is strong. Maybe the heat of the blade, as it passes over the road, melts the snow?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (0FSuD)

435 Local dumb shit takes 10 ton bulldozer on Lake Wissota to clear snow for ice races and goes to the bottom.

Is there video?

Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (ZKzrr)

436 Be sure to heat up your tires with a blow torch before you drive off.

Posted by: Bad Snow Driving Advice[/i] [/b] at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (cxs6V)

437 I was out in Idaho last winter, and some people had these new chains that looked like a sock. Easy on an they work. Had a link around here somewhere.

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (4JkHl)

438 Studded Snow Tires. On steel rims. Well worth the investment.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (7wu7R)

439 430 Tip for driving on ice and snow: Wear pants.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 04:36 PM (MMC8r)

That is **no where** in the state driving regulations!

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (4Re4i)

440 4WD with locking hubs or some rice burner push button?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:37 PM (HVff2)

441 The Free the Hops Foundation, clearly a front group for evil Mercedes driving Germans to undermine good old American beer, like Budweiser.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 12, 2014 12:38 PM (ZPrif)

442


Yeah, that doesn't account for the idiot in the F250 who just T-boned you.

 

I will carry a can of repelling spray like 60s Batman.

Posted by: Smug owner of a new XTerra at February 12, 2014 12:38 PM (A0sHn)

443 Tips for driving on snow and ice: capture a T-34/85.

Posted by: Zombie General von Manstein at February 12, 2014 12:38 PM (t8ySh)

444 You see a sign that says 'Chimichangas', you jump into that Parking Lot. I don't care if it's been plowed or not.

Posted by: Bad Snow Driving Advice at February 12, 2014 12:39 PM (7wu7R)

445 Another tip for driving in snow: put the ball back in your stance.

Posted by: Bo-Bo at February 12, 2014 12:39 PM (jjaLl)

446 When I am Imperial Overlord the world will have 4WD-only lanes during snowstorms, and you'll have to pass a 4WD test (not just own one) to get the sticker. Posted by: Smug owner of a new XTerra at February 12, 2014 04:34 PM (A0sHn) Only those with REAL 4WD FJ-40 Land cruisers will be allowed to take test. If you don't lock the hubs, it's not a REAL 4WD.

Posted by: Smug 1976 FJ-40 owner at February 12, 2014 12:39 PM (0FSuD)

447 440 4WD with locking hubs or some rice burner push button?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 04:37 PM (HVff2)

Well, way back a decade or so ago, the hub locks were transitioned to the driver's console.  I did hub locks back in the day, but just a turn of a plastic button on my non-rice-burner does the trick nicely now. 

Acura MDX and my Xterra.

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:39 PM (4Re4i)

448 Local dumb shit takes 10 ton bulldozer on Lake Wissota to clear snow for ice races and goes to the bottom. Is there video? Posted by: HR at February 12, 2014 04:37 PM (ZKzrr) Im looking info is Brown Excavating, Town of La Fayette Chippewa County, WI Feb. 6 He sank a 650 John Deere dozer......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:40 PM (HVff2)

449 Don Imus wife Deirdre on with Cavuto and she's a fucking scrunt. Who could live with a loud mouthed bitch like that? "

I believe Imus had a long battle with prescription narcotics. Cause or effect?

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 04:33 PM (r1isO)

**


Hey!! Deardra is my soul mate. And she wipes my ass!


 

Posted by: Imus in The Mornin and the evenin at February 12, 2014 12:40 PM (NpXoL)

450

>>>Yeah, that doesn't account for the idiot in the F250 who just T-boned you.

 

I just drive really slow with my blinkers on. They get askeered and peel off, then spin out in the median. Problem solved!

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:40 PM (3ZtZW)

451 If you see someone stuck on the side of the road, drive up and bump them back on to the road. They might even tip you.

Posted by: Bad Snow Driving Advice[/i] [/b] at February 12, 2014 12:40 PM (cxs6V)

452 Haw haw haw!  What'cha gonna do 'bout it, girls?  Haw haw haw!  Nearly all of the media is in the tank for the Democrats, and we've got everyone fixated on ... Fox News!  Haw haw haw!  Obama outspent Romney by over $100 million, and he outspent McCain by $300 million -- and we've got everyone agitated about campaign spending by Evil Big Corporations on behalf of Republicans!  Haw haw haw!  The revolution's over, girls, and you lost!  Haw haw haw!  You're all Hat and no Cowboy!  If you were 1/10th as big as you all talk, you would have never let this happen!  Haw haw haw!  HAW HAW HAW! 

Posted by: Fat MSM with Big Stogie at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (yhJhK)

453 Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner Nice wheels tangonine...... I like my pre Obama Chevy 1500

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (HVff2)

454 15 Color me shocked. Posted by: Minnfidel at February 12, 2014 03:26 PM What do you mean "color"....

Posted by: FadeToBolivia at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (OcRPH)

455 Did they at least mention the chocolate mayor's race, since that's just a patriarchal societal construct anyway? What does he/she/it think it really is?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (0HooB)

456
Only those with REAL 4WD FJ-40 Land cruisers will be allowed to take test. If you don't lock the hubs, it's not a REAL 4WD.

Posted by: Smug 1976 FJ-40 owner at February 12, 2014 04:39 PM (0FSuD)

so... 3.8 wheel drive?  2.7?  what?

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (4Re4i)

457 Yankee Fun Fact:  Our roads up north are heated to make southerners look like clowns when they drive in the snow below the Mason-Dixon line.

Posted by: Fritz at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (TKFmG)

458 444 You see a sign that says 'Chimichangas', you jump into that Parking Lot. I don't care if it's been plowed or not. Posted by: Bad Snow Driving Advice at February 12, 2014 04:39 PM (7wu7R) Heh which moron was it that got stuck in a closed restaurant's parking lot days ago? And did he ever get out?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (oFCZn)

459 >> I am not disparaging Ripken, but Jeter unique, far beyond his career stats. He's a bi-racial angel!

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (g1DWB)

460 431 Vic, and maps for an alternate route?

Posted by: Jean at February 12, 2014 04:36 PM (4JkHl)



There was no alternate route without going a long way out of the way.  It was a very hilly region.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:41 PM (T2V/1)

461 Well, way back a decade or so ago, the hub locks were transitioned to the driver's console. I did hub locks back in the day, but just a turn of a plastic button on my non-rice-burner does the trick nicely now. Acura MDX and my Xterra. Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 04:39 PM (4Re4i) You make funny joke. Call me. I have warn winch on front to tow you out of ditch.

Posted by: Smug 1976 FJ-40 owner at February 12, 2014 12:42 PM (0FSuD)

462 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 12, 2014 04:19 PM

Shit, dude. They're coming for you:

"Boulder considers ‘banishing’ people who make trouble"

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 12, 2014 12:42 PM (cxs6V)

463 You see a sign that says 'Chimichangas', you jump into that Parking Lot. I don't care if it's been plowed or not. - I got out of that the way any rugged individualist he man would. I called my secretary.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 12:42 PM (wTgwx)

464 "News flash from the South: When the snow, sleet, and ice came down here a couple of weeks back, it wasn't the snow, sleet, and ice that kept me off the roads...it was mortal fear of my fellow motorists."

I have found that no matter where you are in the USA, the auto industry having made four wheel drive and antilock brakes into now commonly available items (instead of rare and unavailable respectively, as was the case earlier) has really done everyone a disservice.

America is full of driving dunces who figure they don't have to slow down at all in low traction conditions of any sort because they have 4WD and ABS.

Bzzzzt! Wrong.

They also figure that since they have air bags, they're magically immune to injury in accidents. The wreck I saw late last year where such people got their SUV upside down at very high speed and then slid it into a rail that cut the entire greenhouse off of the inverted vehicle? Well, the air bags certainly did go off. Didn't help the occupants a whole lot.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:42 PM (gqT4g)

465 Alvin Holmes is in the pocket of Big Stupid. Fully financed.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 12, 2014 12:42 PM (17N8t)

466 I just saw this. So, I'm sure it's already been said, but I love the part in the article where it says bitching about the federal response to Katrina was the leadership New Orleans needed. 

Posted by: no good deed at February 12, 2014 12:43 PM (vBhbc)

467
I like my pre Obama Chevy 1500

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 04:41 PM (HVff2)

I have no hate toward chevy or ford truck owners.  I just personally choose to not give the unions a single penny.

I'm odd like that.

GMC makes great trucks.  Can't in good conscience buy one.

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:43 PM (4Re4i)

468 I got out of that the way any rugged individualist he man would. I called my secretary. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 12, 2014 04:42 PM (wTgwx) ************ LOL! Dude we told YOU to pee on ur tires. Not the secretary.

Posted by: Spell Check Confessions for $2 at February 12, 2014 12:43 PM (RJMhd)

469

>>>The revolution's over, girls, and you lost! Haw haw haw! You're all Hat and no Cowboy! If you were 1/10th as big as you all talk, you would have never let this happen!

 

I agree with this.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:43 PM (3ZtZW)

470 I got out of that the way any rugged individualist he man would. I called my secretary.

Please tell us she's so hot she melted the snow.

Then post pics.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 12, 2014 12:43 PM (t8ySh)

471 I got out of that the way any rugged individualist he man would. I called my secretary. You realize that the Chimichanga is now your MacGuffin, right?

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2014 12:44 PM (7wu7R)

472 Alvin Holmes' actual problem with craft beer had more to do with having buddies with interests in distributorships, as I recall. He really is a piece of work, honestly. It's going to be real interesting when the inevitable happens and one of his proteges becomes mayor here.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at February 12, 2014 12:44 PM (naUcP)

473

I like my pre Obama Chevy 1500

 

Oh, this has potential.  You've got your pre-64 Winchester 94s, pre-Hayes-Code movies...

 

I liked my pre-Obama doctor. 

Posted by: Smug owner of a new XTerra at February 12, 2014 12:44 PM (A0sHn)

474 If you see someone stuck on the side of the road, drive up and bump them back on to the road. They might even tip you.

Posted by: Bad Snow Driving Advice at February 12, 2014 04:40 PM (cxs6V)

 

 

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

 

 

Large snow drifts on the road.  Ramming speed.  It'll get ya through every  time.  (We could actually do that with my dad's '55 DeSoto)

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 12:44 PM (5XB5E)

475 People up North used to drive better in the snow before they started driving  cars or trucks  with front-wheel drive, four-wheel drive and all-wheel drive. People used to take their time and go slow. Now I see people racing down the highway in the middle of a blizzard....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 12:44 PM (+0hru)

476 so... 3.8 wheel drive? 2.7? what? Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 04:41 PM (4Re4i) Not sure. Does have over sized mudder tires and it's lifted. Going to sell it next week. I'll be down to only two FJ-62's in my LC fleet, both with winches and lifted. One with a snorkel and bull bar.

Posted by: Smug 1976 FJ-40 owner at February 12, 2014 12:45 PM (0FSuD)

477 Justice is the Lord's Ray Nagin mocked us. Ray Nagin got a pass from the MSM, allowing him to pass his own incompetence and corruption off as "Bush's Fault!" Now Ray Nagin is going to spend most of the rest of his life - or all of it - in prison. Thank God for the justice

Posted by: RobM1981 at February 12, 2014 12:45 PM (zurJC)

478 The double standard between Alvin Holmes racial diatribe and the same thing said by a white person is evident that the single hit for the story is on the Washington Times.

Posted by: --- at February 12, 2014 12:45 PM (MMC8r)

479 and the big plus on my 2005 Xterra?  No GPS.  No tracking. 

Oh hell yas I'm paranoid.

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (4Re4i)

480 Idiot Holmes post up.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (bCEmE)

481 Large snow drifts on the road. Ramming speed. It'll get ya through every time. (We could actually do that with my dad's '55 DeSoto) Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 04:44 PM (5XB5E) Unless that large snow drift is actually an abandoned car covered in snow. Then things get interesting in a hurry.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (oFCZn)

482 new one

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (T2V/1)

483 Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 04:43 PM (4Re4i) I doubt if I ever will buy a new GM product again. My Dad sold GM products most of his life. So I do have a fondness for GM. However, the Obama/Union take over really frosted me. I drive a TOyota Rav 4 for work. I would check out the Tundra.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (HVff2)

484

I used to drive my rear wheel drive car with two 50 lb bags of salt  in the trunk.   

 

I had a 30 mile commute up and  down the Taconic for work.   Ususally would take me 35 minutes or so  one way.   On a  bad snow day it would take me over an hour of white knuckle driving at speeds under 20 mph.  

 

Every time after I got home after one  of those commutes I would go to the nearby  empty bank parking lot and let loose doing Starsky and Hutch spin outs, 360s and slide stops  to release the stress. 

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (m2CN7)

485 The best (worst) is when you see young dudes in fancy foreign cars speeding along in the middle of an ice storm. They don't recognize black ice....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (+0hru)

486 If you like your pre-Obama Chevrolet you can keep your pre-Obama Chevrolet.

Posted by: Sphynx at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM (OZmbA)

487

>>>Now I see people racing down the highway in the middle of a blizzard....

 

Never take a highway in a blizzard unless you have to.

Posted by: Bigby's Helping Hands at February 12, 2014 12:47 PM (3ZtZW)

488 If you like your pre-Obama reality you can keep your pre-Obama reality. Not.

Posted by: Sphynx at February 12, 2014 12:47 PM (OZmbA)

489 479 and the big plus on my 2005 Xterra? No GPS. No tracking. Yeah, that and the black box that holds my tools. It took me hours to yank that GPS out of the FJ-40. Wait, GPS or AM radio, I am confused. Maybe that was a radio, he he.

Posted by: Smug 1976 FJ-40 owner at February 12, 2014 12:48 PM (0FSuD)

490 Well, looks like my asshole is gonna be the fondue pot of "Chocolate City" for the next 20 years.....

Posted by: Ray "This is gonna Hurt" Nagin at February 12, 2014 12:48 PM (jjaLl)

491 tax on fast food = tax on illegal immigrants

Posted by: Huggy at February 12, 2014 12:49 PM (4WPfa)

492
I knew that no good sum'bitch Ray Nagin was trouble the minute I met him.  Everything with that boy was chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate.  I'm happy he's going to jail and not me.

Posted by: Kathleen Blanco, Gov of LA, Ret. at February 12, 2014 12:49 PM (nQjHM)

493 "I have no hate toward chevy or ford truck owners. I just personally choose to not give the unions a single penny."

I hear expensive horror stories about "normal" piston slap (GM) and engines physically spitting out spark plugs like a toddler spitting up Gerber baby food (Ford) and think, "You rubes not only bought lemon vehicles but you paid the fucking autoworkers' union a pretty penny for that lemon, too."

Meanwhile, the nonunion Toyota runs and runs and runs and runs and runs and runs and will probably continue to at least turn over at some indefinite time after the heat death of the universe.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:49 PM (gqT4g)

494 418 Jeter's a great, very respected player but not a historic record-breaker. Not like Rivera or even Cal Ripken. Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2014 04:28 PM (dfYL9) Oh no? How many Championships does Ripken have? Who has the most hits ever in post season. How many game winning hits does Ripken have in the post season? What's Ripken's career batting Average? I am not disparaging Ripken, but Jeter unique, far beyond his career stats. Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2014 04:33 PM (nzKvP) ----------------------------- Getting to the post season and having the opportunity to hit in it, winning championships, etc. depends on a whole lot more than one person. Jeter's career batting average is great, but not "unique." It's not #1. The Iron Man and Rivera actually are unique, one of a kind. They hold the record for being numero uno in a significant stat --- and those records are unlikely to be broken. Jeter is a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame, a great player, and yes, a better hitter than Cal. But not historic in the same way.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2014 12:49 PM (dfYL9)

495 Never take a highway in a blizzard unless you have to. And for the love of God, avoid bridges.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at February 12, 2014 12:50 PM (naUcP)

496 >>>I seem to recall reading somewhere that Nagin started out as a Republican, but changed his affiliation to Democrat when he started running for office. I'm actually kinda' surprised the media didn't mention this as a way to suggest his corruption somehow arose from his "Republican" past.

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at February 12, 2014 03:47 PM (1o4B5) <<<

.

That was the word here on the chocolate city. In his first campaings they ran ads against him calling him "Ray Regan", saying that he was not one of "Us". In the second campaign he ran ads saying "Re-elect our Mayor". Everyone here knows what "Us" and "Our" means

Posted by: Javems at February 12, 2014 12:50 PM (nTgAI)

497 Did I mention that I have CHAINS for my FJ-62's? Too much trouble to put them on down here, the damn snow melts to quickly. I really liked the cable chains, but left them on to long and broke a line.

Posted by: Smug 1976 FJ-40 owner at February 12, 2014 12:50 PM (0FSuD)

498 nood

Posted by: the scorpion at February 12, 2014 12:50 PM (YWssJ)

499 "What's wrong with the beer we got? I mean, the beer we got drank pretty good, don't it?" I denounce that man for being a racist stereotype.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 12, 2014 12:51 PM (A0glY)

500
Ray Nagin's nickname in the hood is Boobie!

Posted by: Michael Sam at February 12, 2014 12:52 PM (nQjHM)

501 "Unless that large snow drift is actually an abandoned car covered in snow."

You can find video on the Internet of New York City's crack team of unionized public snowplow drivers going down entire streets in politically disfavored neighborhoods and repeatedly ramming the plow into such obviously vehicular "snow drifts".

Oops. Sorry, mac. That'll buff right out. Oh, you want to make a claim against the city now? Sure, mac. You can have that claim against the city heard in city court. Good luck, mac.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:54 PM (gqT4g)

502 The best (worst) is when you see young dudes in fancy foreign cars speeding along in the middle of an ice storm. They don't recognize black ice....

Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 04:46 PM (+0hru)

 

 

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

 

 

I'm not a big believer in black ice.  People who do are self-admitting a lack of situational awareness.  Black ice is for losers.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 12:55 PM (5XB5E)

503 I had a 30 mile commute up and down the Taconic for work. Ususally would take me 35 minutes or so one way. On a bad snow day it would take me over an hour of white knuckle driving at speeds under 20 mph.

Every time after I got home after one of those commutes I would go to the nearby empty bank parking lot and let loose doing Starsky and Hutch spin outs, 360s and slide stops to release the stress.

Posted by: polynikes at February 12, 2014 04:46 PM (m2CN7)

hah!  I had a crappy ford... those little trucks... forget what it was.  Small bed, cramped cab.  2 wheel rear drive.  Took that thing home in (not kidding) 4 feet of snow in 1997. 

Plow truck on my ass the whole way there through hwy 24 from co spgs to divide, co.  Took 4 hours.

Had to pry my white-knuckled hands off the wheel when I got there.

Posted by: tangonine (Xterra pwner) at February 12, 2014 12:55 PM (4Re4i)

504 "I was out in Idaho last winter, and some people had these new chains that looked like a sock. Easy on an they work."

Ah, so THAT's what "coochied down to the socks" means.

I have read about those things. Great concept. Not sure the execution is up to par. Reviews say that they rip pretty easily.

I have had decent luck with cables in moderate ice/snow. They seem to store and handle a lot more gracefully than chain sets.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2014 12:57 PM (gqT4g)

505 The only knock on Jeter that holds any water is the fact that he doesn't have a lot of   "range" at SS.  Hundreds of short stops have played  for MLB since Jeter broke into the bigs and a good many of them had much more range than he ever had. What they didn't have was over 3,000 hits, and a knack for the clutch play or hit. Instant Hall of Famer.

Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 12:59 PM (+0hru)

506 Do you understand what the definition of "limit" is? And what purpose is it if it's lifted all the time? Why do we have a debt ceiling limit?

You're confusing spending limit with debt limit.

They are not the same thing.  The debt limit is little more than a gimmick.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 12, 2014 01:11 PM (SY2Kh)

507 To be fair, Nagin was registered as a GOP voter--and a local Cox cable CEO--until he was recruited at the last minute to run in the Dem primary for mayor of New Orleans.

Posted by: anon at February 12, 2014 01:30 PM (VxLxI)

508 502The best (worst) is when you see young dudes in fancy foreign cars speeding along in the middle of an ice storm. They don't recognize black ice....
Posted by: JoeyBagels at February 12, 2014 04:46 PM (+0hru) I'm not a big believer in black ice. People who do are self-admitting a lack of situational awareness. Black ice is for losers.

Posted by: Soona at February 12, 2014 04:55 PM (5XB5E)

 

Yeah, Soona, you keep telling yourself that story. We'll pick you up out of the ditch on I-70.

Posted by: River Commander at February 12, 2014 01:36 PM (728Fx)

509 This seems to serve at least a two-fold purpose:

Firstly, the obvious associations of democrats to corruption. This must of course be avoided, at all cost.

Secondly, by not using the word democrat in the story, especially online, it makes it fairly difficult to successfully google "corruption, fraud, convicted, democrat".

Posted by: Sr. Pablo at February 12, 2014 02:04 PM (c+PBI)

510 Upthread someone mentioned the declining readership of the NY times, USA today, NBC, etc. I made the mistake of turning on the Olympics during a lull this morning. My eyes were greeted to the sight of Johnny Wierd sitting in the commentators booth at the ice skating venue wearing a lace blouse, lipstick, eyeshadow and his hair in big curler type rolls. His arm around Tara Lapinski, who looked like she was a hostage. I wanted to gag. I turned it off in protest.

Posted by: Jen at February 12, 2014 02:21 PM (o985y)

511 In Louisiana everybody *does* do it -- Gov. Edwin Edwards; Rep. Bill Jefferson and Mayor Ray Nagin.

All Dems, btw.

And that's not even counting all the corruption the Longs (Huey and Earl) got away with because of course it's only bad to get *caught.* (Both Huey and Earl were Dems too, of course).

Posted by: Dancing Queen at February 12, 2014 02:27 PM (FDGeg)

512 USA Today doesn't mention that Nagin is black either. It's in the style book: race and party shall not be referred for blacks and Democrats. They've even got a new twist. The other day CBS withheld, not just the race of a black woman who shot up a McDonald's for lack of bacon on her order, they also withheld her black-identifying NAME: Shaneka.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at February 12, 2014 02:30 PM (kTTUz)

513 Looks like Honore was wrong.

You can fix stupid.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 12, 2014 02:44 PM (xq1UY)

514 Note that the author uses three words that start with "REP" in the last two paragraphs, and no-where else in the article. It is not enough to avoid the word "Democrat". You have to fool the reader, as well.

Posted by: Haiku Guy at February 12, 2014 03:34 PM (81KPi)

515 I wish the penalty for Nagin's crimes was public hanging. He deserves the rope.

Posted by: mac at February 12, 2014 04:36 PM (pEsGM)

516 JOUR 101

Posted by: venus velvet at February 13, 2014 03:55 PM (g94P/)

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