January 09, 2014
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Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/mxsgqg8
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/kagbapo
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 02:55 AM (+Ifkm)
http://tinyurl.com/mt86fjh
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 02:55 AM (olDqf)
http://tinyurl.com/px5dw8y
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/nq9djbf
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/od7a9rq
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/nrre49c
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)
http://tinyurl.com/ptum6aq
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/pf7cn9p
I know Rubio isn't terribly popular around here, but his speech is very good. It is worth at least reading.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 09, 2014 02:57 AM (9GG/0)
http://tinyurl.com/pw2sy4o
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/qaqbhus
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/p7ze7ve
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: Krisp Kristie [/i] at January 09, 2014 02:57 AM (VtKs5)
Posted by: waelse1 at January 09, 2014 02:59 AM (slfcH)
After reading this article I can imagine Turney and others doing the same thing. "I love you Global Warming!" *splat*
http://tinyurl.com/mf73w5x
Just wish they would stop trying to drag the rest of us to their grave.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 02:59 AM (+Ifkm)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
Would it be fair to say 'I wish they hadn't?'
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 03:01 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2014 03:01 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at January 09, 2014 03:03 AM (Yu+KI)
Posted by: panzernashorn at January 09, 2014 03:03 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 03:04 AM (olDqf)
http://www.businessinsider.com/italian-unemployment-hits-37-year-high-2014-1
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 03:04 AM (+Ifkm)
by supporting democrat efforts at Amigo Grande!
here's hoping choom sends IRS up their ass like he did we Tea Partiers.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 03:05 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 03:06 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Seamus "Sooper Secret Agent" Muldoon at January 09, 2014 03:06 AM (muNmP)
Perhaps our forbears rode across on the same ship.
Ours hit here around early 1600's, and settled north of Philly.
In the shadow of what is now Limrick nuclear plant.
And I do mean "Shadow of".
Original homestead ends almost at the property line.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2014 03:06 AM (GcYmn)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 06:56 AM (olDqf)
He also singled out that worthless cocksucker from Northeast Ohio, Steve Latourette, for going full tilt RINO in his undistinguished Congressional career, which was begun posing as a conservative, and now being a shill for all sorts of crony capitalist front groups who have Boehner and Cantor in their back pockets. I've seen that boring piece of shit on the Sunday gab shows; charismatic he is not.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 03:07 AM (r15Uo)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 03:07 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2014 03:07 AM (7kkQJ)
It seems we were doomed to own goal that fight anyway...we could have saved a lot of soup cans...
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 03:07 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2014 03:08 AM (7kkQJ)
That was due to the settling influence of Jane.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2014 03:09 AM (GcYmn)
Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2014 06:55 AM (T2V/1)
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Yeah, wouldn't this be a case of targeting trouble-makers? Looking the other way because of someone's skin color isn't going to help discipline.
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 09, 2014 03:09 AM (Zswg6)
http://www.ufunk.net/insolite/lingerie-disney-princess/
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 03:10 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 03:10 AM (A9hpr)
Posted by: billypaintbrush at January 09, 2014 03:10 AM (9/iF+)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 03:11 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 03:12 AM (olDqf)
I got nuthin' but a whole bunch of cold air. The polar vortex is receding! It's only minus 8 here this fine morning!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 09, 2014 03:12 AM (b/lt+)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 03:13 AM (32Scy)
This is "true" in the same sense that Rock'n'Roll was a communist plot to undermine American virtues. Things don't always land as launched. It's a trig thang.
Now we are stuck with an anti-human aesthetic that we can't escape. We've killed art in order to save it. Those "Socialist Realism" posters? Some of them were pretty good.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2014 03:14 AM (xq1UY)
https://www.facebook.com/ChristianHealthcareMinistries
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 03:16 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 03:18 AM (32Scy)
Posted by: Seamus at January 09, 2014 03:18 AM (g4TxM)
Seamus, seems getting a whiff of gun powder has not wised up the yoot. Or his lawyer.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 03:20 AM (+Ifkm)
So global warming must be real- QED!!
/sarc
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 03:21 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: Seamus at January 09, 2014 03:21 AM (g4TxM)
Posted by: mindful webworker - where I want to be at January 09, 2014 03:23 AM (xhupI)
Posted by: KG at January 09, 2014 03:24 AM (IPz9m)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 09, 2014 03:25 AM (d7H2D)
http://tinyurl.com/qgk2jgh
Again, they work behind the scenes to push their agenda through unlawful methods in hundreds of areas, and no one can stop them.
I'm not a fan of the payday lenders myself, as they charge pretty hefty fees on pretty small loans of short duration. Heck, even pawning/redeeming items is probably a cheaper way to go if you need some short term cash. But there are several payday lenders in my town, so there must be a decent sized demand for the loans.
The loans themselves may save the borrowers money, too -- when the alternative is not paying your utility bill and getting hit with a $100 reconnect fee, or covering a bad check before it bounces and hits you with $50 in bank fees for examples.
But our gubmint don't give a fuk about any of that; they just break the fucking law cuz they don't like it.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 03:30 AM (wNF3N)
A 58-year-old Utah woman is set to give birth in a few weeks — to her first grandchild.
Julia Navarro is serving as a gestational surrogate for her daughter and son-in-law after the couple struggled with fertility problems.
Navarro's daughter Lorena McKinnon said she began trying to have a baby with her husband, Micah McKinnon, three years ago. The 32-year-old Provo woman said she's had about a dozen miscarriages, with the longest pregnancy lasting 10 weeks.
After several tries, the couple began looking for a surrogate. McKinnon said a friend and sister both considered carrying her baby, but ultimately decided against it.
That's when her mother offered to step in. "As a family, we have to help each other," Navarro told The Salt Lake Tribune
http://tinyurl.com/mmqyhp3
"It sounds funny I know, but it really is so..."
Grannie must be pumped full of chemicals to be a baby nest at ther age. Probably not a good idea.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2014 03:30 AM (kdS6q)
http://tinyurl.com/omxg994
Posted by: Seamus
In the article, it says the yoot, after being shot in the face, suffers from a speech impediment.
I would think for a rapper that would be a feature.
Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2014 03:30 AM (nZ561)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 03:31 AM (u8GsB)
@9. Holder is telling schools to quit targeting blacks in schools discipline problems.
"....judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character."- MLK
Wonder if Holder has even heard of Rev. King.
Posted by: Case at January 09, 2014 03:33 AM (9mWut)
Posted by: mindful webworker - where I want to be at January 09, 2014 03:33 AM (WY3bD)
Posted by: Gran at January 09, 2014 03:34 AM (mw0FO)
Posted by: Gran at January 09, 2014 07:34 AM (mw0FO)
FIFY.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 09, 2014 03:35 AM (d7H2D)
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When you can say: "I'd like you to meet my mother, and my grand mother", and there's only one woman there...
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 03:35 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 09, 2014 03:36 AM (QR7wx)
Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong. You can accurately guess this is a social justice AA appointee in this corrupt admin.
If we had an opposition Party they would have separately budgeted the DOJ long ago and began cutting their budget every time they did shit like this.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 09, 2014 03:36 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: Seamus at January 09, 2014 03:38 AM (g4TxM)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/n5buhdh
Posted by: Baldy at January 09, 2014 03:40 AM (2bql3)
Posted by: mindful webworker - where I want to be at January 09, 2014 03:40 AM (aPEuQ)
Much to the relief of the DPRK players who, doubtless, would have found their playing days, and their lives, at an abrupt end had they lost...
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 03:45 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: toby928© puzzles at January 09, 2014 03:47 AM (QupBk)
Lindsay Lohan Terrified Her Tasteful, Professional Nude Photos Will Leak ----- http://preview.tinyurl.com/lol35rf
Posted by: Baldy at January 09, 2014 03:47 AM (2bql3)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 03:48 AM (kPB4i)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 03:50 AM (kPB4i)
Well, we can't have those responsible for in-school violence be reprimanded for their actions. Can't have that supressing their creativity.
Its almost a 'get out of jail free' card
Posted by: fred zeppelin at January 09, 2014 03:51 AM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - where I want to be at January 09, 2014 03:52 AM (vAjpf)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 03:54 AM (kPB4i)
Got to hear Ari Fleischer on the radio complaining about the Gates book. His argument is that Gates shouldn't have disclosed conversations in the White House because they are damaging to the President and said President should feel secure in the Oval Office having conversations without worrying about them getting out.
I was just thinking the same thing I tell my kids...if you're afraid of getting caught in a lie, DON'T LIE.
Fleischer is perturbed that the President may feel he has to be a politician 24/7. I say if he's honest and forthright, he doesn't have to worry about being a politician. I mean, this isn't an issue where Obama said something like "hey, I campaigned on this strategy and it isn't working - I want to do something else, so let's brainstorm and I'll take it to the American people." No, it was closer to "I have to keep doing this stupid thing so I can get reelected, but I think it's stupid so let's do this too..."
To me Fleischer's statements encapsulate the issues conservatives have with the Establishment types.
Last point - White House tell-all books have been around a long time. To somehow pretend that this is unprecedented, as the WH seems to be doing, is dishonest. Frankly, I think there would be a much lower appetite for such books if the American people weren't expected to deify the government in general and the Presidency in particular.
Posted by: @JohnTant at January 09, 2014 03:55 AM (PFy0L)
Posted by: Baldy at January 09, 2014 03:55 AM (2bql3)
Rubio gives a speech on poverty and the welfare state.
Posted by: chemjeff
For the working poor, Rubio would transform the Earned Income Tax Credit into a real wage subsidy, which would function as a kind of reverse payroll tax, so that people would get a portion of it with each paycheck rather than in an annual sum. This would also extend it to more people (notably poor single men,).
NRO
So instead of a higher minimum wage paid by his employer, he gets a higher wage with the increase paid by -- well -- me and you.
Fiscal conservatism folks.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2014 03:56 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: mindful webworker - where I want to be at January 09, 2014 03:57 AM (drXjQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - where I want to be at January 09, 2014 07:52 AM (vAjpf)
The VA seems to exist to employ deadbeats who are otherwise unemployable.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 04:01 AM (r15Uo)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 04:01 AM (kPB4i)
Christie will have a news conference today at 11. Wonder what he'll say?
Posted by: Joffen
"What ya want for lunch? Italian again?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2014 04:02 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 04:02 AM (Wp8ly)
Posted by: jwest at January 09, 2014 04:02 AM (u2a4R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:02 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 09, 2014 04:03 AM (g0OoZ)
http://thefederalist.com/2013/12/04/opt-obamacare/
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 04:03 AM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 08:00 AM (Wp8ly)
If he does what JackStraw suggested and blames it on a video, I'd be forced to join Team Fat Fuck.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 04:03 AM (r15Uo)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 04:04 AM (Wp8ly)
Posted by: mindful webworker - who the wild things are at January 09, 2014 04:04 AM (2o9a+)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 08:01 AM (r15Uo)
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Like everything else in government the Veterans Administration has it ass-backwards- they put the emphasis on the "Administration", not the "Veterans".
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 04:05 AM (OtQXp)
>>>The yoot, who was trying to turn his life around via a shoplifting career was also an aspiring rapper who can no longer perform due to his injury so at least we have that for which to be thankful.
What's he complaining about? He's got real street cred!
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:06 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:06 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at January 09, 2014 04:06 AM (a5ljo)
98: Hahaha
Guess he really is running for President, if he feels the need to explain this non-issue.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 04:06 AM (Wp8ly)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 04:06 AM (kPB4i)
Posted by: Winthrop (Hap) Chelsiton at January 09, 2014 04:07 AM (U9wjz)
Meanwhile, these guys will be inducted this summer along with three managers, at least two of whom owe a significant amount of their success to players using steroids right under their noses.
Ain't that just swell?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 09, 2014 04:08 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: jwest at January 09, 2014 04:08 AM (u2a4R)
disparate levels of discipline since before BO.
It is so bad that school officials admitted to the parents of a student of non-preferred pigmentation that they while they knew that their son was the victim of an attack and not an active participant in a fight, they had no choice but to suspend both boys due to issues of race.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 04:10 AM (FtCW+)
Christie news conference "I did not have sex with that bridge approach."
"But there WAS a cigar involved at some point."
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 04:10 AM (Wp8ly)
That DPRK news release is interesting in another aspect: apparently three games were played- two NBA vs DPRK and one mixed squad. The DPRK news agency reports the results of the mixed game and the one game the DPRK won.
No mention of the other DPRK-NBA game, I wonder why...
Sadly, this is how we have to view the "news" reporting in this country these days- what's NOT being reported is often just as important, or more important, than what IS reported.
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 04:11 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 04:12 AM (u8GsB)
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at January 09, 2014 04:12 AM (a5ljo)
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:12 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 04:12 AM (u8GsB)
My understanding has been that medical care at the VA has always been means-tested, but I heard recently that they are going to actually enforce it.
This of course has NOTHING TO DO with Veterans getting care for service connected conditions.
So in that sense, the VA is trying to be like every other healthcare system, EXCEPT for service connected care.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 09, 2014 04:13 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: jwest at January 09, 2014 04:13 AM (u2a4R)
Or maybe I have that backwards. They were always means-tested, but now everyone is going to be subject to copays and out of pocket expenses regardless of means.
Someone with more knowledge can clarify.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 09, 2014 04:14 AM (BeSEI)
Keep yo fat ass right there in Jersey where it belongs.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 04:14 AM (wNF3N)
Apparently it's pretty much on the same level as Hitler gassing Jews. Posted by: jwest
............
yeah.. same here.. over at Daily Kooks they have Christie's presidential aspirations dead and buried.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 09, 2014 04:15 AM (b/lt+)
>>>It Has Begun
What has? If that's referring to unjust prosecutions of gun owners in States like CT, that's hardly new. If its some kind of "Now, It's On!" statement, I'll take $1000 that, no, it's not.
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:15 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 04:15 AM (kPB4i)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 04:16 AM (U7Ivf)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:16 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Peyton at January 09, 2014 04:17 AM (g4TxM)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:17 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: mindful webworker - who the wild things are at January 09, 2014 04:18 AM (9ek7+)
>>>Guess who quit smoking yesterday??
Next goalpost move: "What? You eat meat? Back of the line, scum!"
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:18 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 09, 2014 04:19 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 07:50 AM (kPB4i) ----
I liked the headline. I do feel bad for the woman, as she seems lost.Posted by: Baldy at January 09, 2014 04:19 AM (2bql3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 04:19 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: jwest at January 09, 2014 04:19 AM (u2a4R)
>>>Looks like the DPRK team beat Dennis Rodman's ex-NBA team
NK losers get shot. They were prolly being nice.
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:20 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 09, 2014 04:20 AM (kPB4i)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 09, 2014 04:21 AM (S8y+1)
Posted by: UWP at January 09, 2014 04:21 AM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:23 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 04:23 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 09, 2014 04:23 AM (g4TxM)
Posted by: mindful webworker - who the wild things are at January 09, 2014 08:18 AM (9ek7+)
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In the one game reported on the DPRK team won 47-39. Yeah, I think the fix was probably in if for no other reason than to save the DPRK players' skins...
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 04:24 AM (OtQXp)
I can believe that.
Obama's Justice department, taking a cue from the news media where the media doesn't mention race when a certain minority is charged with serious crime, the standard now is to not notice a crime has been alleged if the accused is a certain race.
Only white students can now be disciplined. Taking it one step further, white students are discipline problems. So the obvious solution; white students need to be segregated and sent to separate but equal schools.
The other part of the story, police are called to schools to handle discipline problems too often. Police presence in schools is a provocation, and schools need to handle discipline problems themselves (with their own well trained staff)
We didn't have these problems fifty years ago when white students were kept segregated from the rest of the student body.
Posted by: Winthrop (Hap) Chelsiton at January 09, 2014 04:24 AM (U9wjz)
A threat of lawsuit cured that business but may not have if the officials weren't stupid enough to admit their discrimination.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 04:25 AM (FtCW+)
http://weaselzippers.us/?p=167019
If there is one thing he is consistent at, it's lying.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 04:26 AM (wNF3N)
Much as I hate watching the gloat-fest going on over at MSDNC, it's worth it to watch that fat traitorous bastard squirm.
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 09, 2014 08:19 AM (7ObY1)
Levin pointed out last night that none of his RINO buddies will come to his defense on this; nor will the fuckheads on the other side of the aisle that the fat tub of shit brags about being able to work with.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 04:27 AM (r15Uo)
13 3 The US Chamber of commerce says it will fight the employer mandate this year.
http://tinyurl.com/mxsgqg8
Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2014 06:54 AM (T2V/1)
The US C of C can go fuck itself. Levin was en fuego last night on Amnesty. Very well worth the listen as he goes into a very good history of how Kennedy, LBJ and Hart-Celler '65 has mortally wounded the nation. Posted by: J.J. Sefton
Well, back when I was a businessman I regarded the COC as "the enemy." Because they never helped me and tried to get competitors to move into my town. Fat cats and cronies.
Posted by: backhoe at January 09, 2014 04:28 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 09, 2014 04:28 AM (Qev5V)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 09, 2014 04:29 AM (ZZPs4)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/i][/u][/s] at January 09, 2014 04:29 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 04:29 AM (NKBxV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 04:31 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 09, 2014 04:32 AM (JDIKC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:32 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/i][/u][/s] at January 09, 2014 04:33 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 09, 2014 04:33 AM (g4TxM)
Posted by: Stu-22 at January 09, 2014 04:33 AM (KbrNh)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:34 AM (olDqf)
Fiscal conservatism folks.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2014 07:56 AM (kdS6q)
Yes, actually. Because it's better for well-functioning markets, instead of the highly-distorting minimum wage, and it's *also* better to tie poverty assistance to *actual work*, instead of having it look like a "free money" bonanza when tax refund season rolls around.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 09, 2014 04:34 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 04:35 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 04:36 AM (u8GsB)
They will be pissed when they find out he's Catholic.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:36 AM (JpC1K)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 09, 2014 04:36 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:37 AM (JpC1K)
Posted by: blindside at January 09, 2014 04:37 AM (WzWmY)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 04:37 AM (4+PCd)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 09, 2014 04:38 AM (JDIKC)
Posted by: blindside at January 09, 2014 04:38 AM (WzWmY)
The question is where do his convictions lie, and, when push comes to shove, will he back up his words?
Posted by: blindside at January 09, 2014 08:38 AM (WzWmY)
Well, I don't know. He'll probably cave, like most Republicans. But the idea itself is still a worthy one IMO.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 09, 2014 04:39 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Mainah at January 09, 2014 04:39 AM (659DL)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 04:40 AM (NKBxV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 04:41 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: --- at January 09, 2014 04:41 AM (MMC8r)
He does a lot of investigative reporting on police and police state abuses. I've been reading his stuff for years.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 04:42 AM (wNF3N)
Seriously though, quitting sucks. Use whatever help you can get. I quit smoking and smokeless cold turkey and thought I would die......was like heroin withdrawal.
TOTES worth it, though.....you WILL be happier once you conquer it.Posted by: FITP at January 09, 2014 04:42 AM (mtjSE)
Depends on how you define socialism. It also depends on how you view Catholic theology.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:42 AM (JpC1K)
Morning all.
Christie will have a news conference today at 11. Wonder what he'll say?
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 08:00 AM (Wp8ly)
Fuck you. And where are the donuts?
Posted by: Da Big Guy at January 09, 2014 04:42 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 09, 2014 04:42 AM (Zswg6)
Liberals, like far too many humans, project their wishes or biases onto other people. Hence they hear what they think is kewl stuff from this Pope and go 'rah-rah' and thinking they finally have a Pope they like. Retired Pope Panzer is still lurking is what they forget.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 04:42 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 04:43 AM (V70Uh)
I mean, Issa has Holder running for dear life, right?
Posted by: blindside at January 09, 2014 08:37 AM (WzWmY)
The Repubs are having a hard time figuring out how to deal with a post Constitutional administration. Having an alkie Speaker who, along with his sidekick with a rodent on his dome, is in the pocket of the crony capitalists doesn't make things any better. We are well and truly fucked.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 04:43 AM (r15Uo)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 04:44 AM (GSIDW)
Really hope this works for you and yours DG!
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 09, 2014 04:44 AM (o3MSL)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 09, 2014 08:42 AM (Zswg6)
Gell-Mann Amnesia
Posted by: chemjeff at January 09, 2014 04:45 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 04:45 AM (u8GsB)
Depends on how you define socialism. It also depends on your understanding of Catholic theology.
Of which you appear to know nothing at all.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:46 AM (sbV1u)
182 I disagree. All Catholic prelates are socialists. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 08:40 AM (V70Uh)
Depends on how you define socialism. It also depends on how you view Catholic theology.
Posted by: Sean Bannion
The Trappists - Communism that works!
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 04:46 AM (4JkHl)
They will be pissed when they find out he's Catholic.
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Heh. Sean, I was lectured by a gay liberal acquaintance of mine how Pope Francis wasn't supposed to get elected due to his "progressive" views and somehow hoodwinked the entire College of Cardinals. He then went on to explain to me exactly how Francis is going to turn the entire Church around.
This from a guy who a) hadn't voluntarily stepped foot into a church in forever and b) thinks Christians are the most evil force on the planet.
I asked one question: OK, exactly what dogma will Pope Francis overturn? Gay Jerk's response: "Francis went right out and said "who am I to judge," and he's right, so he's abandoning all opposition to marriage equality and ending the Church's war against homosexuals.
I pointed out that Francis hadn't actually said anything the Church itself hadn't been saying all along, but Gay Jerk just couldn't get it. He was trapped in looking at a person of his own creation instead of what that person was actually saying.
What's funny is he considers himself an erudite scholar in the reality-based community.
Posted by: @JohnTant at January 09, 2014 04:47 AM (PFy0L)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:47 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 09, 2014 04:48 AM (QR7wx)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 09, 2014 08:45 AM (9GG/0)
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That's the one! Many thanks.
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 09, 2014 04:48 AM (Zswg6)
There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing.
- Bishop Fulton Sheen
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:48 AM (JpC1K)
I just read "Charity in Truth" recently. They want a one-world government with the "responsibility to protect" and wealth redistribution.
If only they were concerned about theology.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 04:48 AM (V70Uh)
Actually, I think it s worse than that, the GOP-e doesn't really mind the post-Constitutional government instituted by Obama, they are just trying to figure out how they can get/keep control of the reins of unConstitutional power if it is ever their turn again. I have not seen any serious R leadership effort to slow, squelch, or defund any of the socialist schemes instituted by Obama.
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 09, 2014 04:48 AM (o3MSL)
Must be cold in the pan handle. Fox is reporting (in politics) that it soon might be legal to take warming shots on those cold winter days.
eh? What?
Warning shots you say?
Let me go get my glasses, I don't belief you.
Posted by: Winthrop (Hap) Chelsiton at January 09, 2014 04:49 AM (U9wjz)
And don't forget the ale.
Can't forget the ale.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:49 AM (JpC1K)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 08:41 AM (olDqf)
I'm sure there's a good story to be told on how a promising career went off the fucking rails because of his involvement in that Gang of 8 dogshit. What type of political party sticks one of its supposed rising stars in a group with a bunch of vipers like Schooooomer and Durbin and a corresponding group of senile fucks who smell bad like McRINO. Zeppo Rubio is ultimately responsible for his own actions but the party itself shoved Macy's Christmas tree up its own ass for the future on this.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 04:49 AM (r15Uo)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 04:50 AM (NKBxV)
Well if you upped the minimum wage and eliminated the EITC, then only those that *work* would receive the bennie as well. The difference is that business pays directly through the upped minimum, whereas the EITC is a gubmint redistribution scheme.
And in both cases, the taxpayer funds it through either higher taxes or higher retail prices. Personally, I just prefer the free market, but that's never going to happen again in my lifetime.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 04:50 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2014 08:47 AM (sbV1u)
This is one of the few days it hasn't been slow for me fwiw.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 04:51 AM (r15Uo)
Captain Hate?
I've missed you. ;-)
I now return you to your regularly scheduled rant.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:52 AM (JpC1K)
Posted by: FITP at January 09, 2014 04:53 AM (mtjSE)
Posted by: mindful webworker - who the wild things are at January 09, 2014 04:53 AM (Wf0TQ)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 04:54 AM (GaqMa)
--
The nanny is played by Jack Palance's daughter. No, really. I come to the HQ prepared with all the useless facts.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 09, 2014 04:54 AM (Oa7B2)
No, they do not know that. That would require them to know something...anything at all...about religion.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:54 AM (JpC1K)
Read Ayers, their playbook, they need a person to fix, define, and attack. The Pope is convenient.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 04:55 AM (4JkHl)
They don't bother me so much as the CEOs.
(Christmas and Easter Only)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 04:55 AM (JpC1K)
Actually, I think it s worse than that, the GOP-e doesn't really mind the post-Constitutional government instituted by Obama, they are just trying to figure out how they can get/keep control of the reins of unConstitutional power if it is ever their turn again. I have not seen any serious R leadership effort to slow, squelch, or defund any of the socialist schemes instituted by Obama.
Posted by: Hrothgar
Yep. That is how I seize it, too....
Posted by: backhoe at January 09, 2014 04:55 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 04:56 AM (GaqMa)
Well, I don't know. He'll probably cave, like most Republicans. But the idea itself is still a worthy one IMO.
Chemjeff the problem is they are not even trying anymore. The welfare state can't be strangled but it can be weaned You can make some alterations to it that would force the recipients to value a robust economy more than a carnivorous industry killing GAIA Watermelon sacrificial one.
No Republican is going to the poor and asking "are you in love with your caseworker?" Recipients do not tend to like the invasiveness of the "we're here to help, and by help we mean micromanage where your benefits wind up" system the democrats favor. You take steps to show them that you are not interested in hurting them, and will in fact reward their own personal industry.
Eliminate foodstamps EXCEPT for the unemployed non-disabled recipient. Roll the cash valuation of foodstamps into the monthly voucher system I expressed a willingness to entertain and you reintroduce a non-subsidied revenue stream into the food cycle getting costs back towards a market driven price-point. This would also incentivize the poor learning budgeting.
Introduce a gradated benefits % system and eliminate most individual's use of medicaid. Again you would save money by eliminating the medicaid overhead and reintroduce market based economics into the lower income citizen's healthcare. Make it understood, "you have to pay for your plan and it is YOUR responsibility but here is the money spend it wisely."
We have a % of our citizenry that has no grasp how the market works or what the practical economic implications of their policy preferences are on the economy that supports the democrat vote buying system they inhabit. Political reality will not allow us to do what should be done, so we should sell what can be done and introduce the steps needed to get America back its "Can do and I am free" spirit. The GOP as rendered starts off bargaining with what they think the sane donk offer will be and then joins "Walks Backwards into Burros" in rushing leftward.
The overhead of the federal benefits system is not miniscule and it is being supported largely by a xerox machine that is debauching our wealth...
I notice the political class doesn't lose a lot of sleep over sending service members home early, maybe we need to exert our efforts towards making the case to F$A that some of the overhead going home is to Their Benefit.
Hell offer to cut a % check for their portion of cuts or reductions in the rate of growth for say 50% of budgeted savings equally apportioned across the general population.
The country could use a domestic baby boom, and populism is a language F$A understands....
What we are doing since Jack Kemp left the scene ain't working and what I just described above would have smoke coming out of Chris Matthews' ears as he tried to pin "stereotypical GOP" on me....
none of our team's "budget all-stars" has that power that Newt and Phil Gramm had.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 04:56 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 04:57 AM (GSIDW)
>>>They aren't Communists. They are God-loving Socialists.
The Catholic Worker movement most certainly.
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 04:58 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 04:58 AM (u8GsB)
And don't forget the ale.
Can't forget the ale. Posted by: Sean Bannion
It takes good ale to work at back breaking manual farming all day - and be happy about it.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 04:58 AM (4JkHl)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 04:58 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 09, 2014 04:58 AM (Wp8ly)
GnuBreed read my epic multi-volume collector's edition post at #222...
it *can* happen but not with people who cannot get past the DC bubble.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 04:59 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Buck Plankchest at January 09, 2014 08:56 AM (hLaCh)
Or bongs.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 04:59 AM (DrWcr)
I can't be expected to think that long, I'm a wastrel raccoon....
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 04:59 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 05:00 AM (osdNx)
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 09, 2014 08:48 AM (o3MSL)
We get nothing but excuses about how it hurts the "electability" to not push back against any of that fucking garbage, completely ignoring that campaigning to do exactly that is what got them control of the House. And ignoring that from 2000 - 2005 when they controlled everything, they spent money so fucking fast that it took a true dickhole like Gaylord Focker to exceed it.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 05:00 AM (l0qao)
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 09, 2014 05:01 AM (JJDw+)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2014 05:02 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: FITP at January 09, 2014 05:02 AM (mtjSE)
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 08:56 AM (TE35l)
One of the reasons that Newt had to be destroyed was being articulate while conservative!
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 09, 2014 05:02 AM (o3MSL)
35,000 different denominations at last count.
tsrblke, here, you'll appreciate this. The rest of you, feel free to ignore.
Coffeedoxy:
Decaf is Docetic because it only appears to be coffee.
Instant is Apollinarian because itÂ’s had its soul removed and replaced.
Frappuccinos are essentially a form of Monophysitism, having their coffee nature swallowed up in milkshake.
Chicory is Arian, not truly coffee at all but a separate creation.
Irish coffee is Nestorian, being two natures conjoined solely by good will.
Nitro coffee (coffee + Red Bull) is Montanist, having a form of godliness but denying its power.
Affogato is Adoptionist, being merely topped with espresso.
The Café Bombón is Sabellian, appearing at some points to be foam, at others coffee and at others sweetened condensed milk.
The Caffè Americano is a form of Unitarian Universalism, being so watered down so as not even to qualify as coffee.
The Café miel violates Canon 57 of the Council in Trullo, “for it is not right to offer honey and milk” in one’s coffee.
The Cafe Mocha (espresso + steamed milk + chocolate) is syncretic and polytheist, for it presumes to adulterate coffee with another nationÂ’s gods.
The Doppio (espresso + espresso) is Monothelite, permitting only one will to dominate.
Half-Caf is another form of Adoptionism, being a hybrid of disparate natures.
The Pharisäer (drip coffee + 2 shots rum + whipped cream) is nothing but sheer Antinomianism.
The Red Eye (drip coffee + 1 shot espresso) is Ebionite, for it would swallow up pure faith in the Law.
A rigorist exclusivism for Fair Trade Coffee is a form of Donatism, insisting that only sinless hands may produce a true beverage.
Coffee is bad for you”: The watchwords of the Iconoclast.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 05:02 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Reggie1971 at January 09, 2014 09:00 AM (S11Oq)
Didn't he statutorily rape and kidnap a 13 or 14 year old girl?
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:03 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hungry for truth, also bacon at January 09, 2014 05:03 AM (8xOfO)
That and the Catholic Church has a structured hierarchy.
It's a lot easier to attack in that regards than the diffuse nature of Protestantism. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c)
and fewer guns
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 05:03 AM (4JkHl)
I love being lectured to by idiot Jews who justify the laws of Kashrut by claiming that it is simply sanitary precautions to prevent food-borne illness, in particular trichinosis. Or justifying the Brit Milah (circumcision) because it is healthy.
Wrong.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 05:04 AM (QFxY5)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 05:04 AM (NKBxV)
pg 159. The Nazis and the Occult by Dusty Sklar. Dorset Press. 1989.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 05:04 AM (+Ifkm)
I recently had that confirmed in a conversation with a friend who is a PA. He said he sees it all the time. Asks them, so how long have you been smoking pot and when they give him the "who me?" bit he points and says those breasts just didn't pop up on there own.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 05:05 AM (FtCW+)
Posted by: FITP at January 09, 2014 09:02 AM (mtjSE)
I don't understand how Catholics vote for the party of baby-killing either. It seems like such a huge contradiction to what they claim are core beliefs. Same thing with American Jews. I've known a couple of politically conservative Jews who I've put this question to, and they mostly just shake their heads and say they don't have a good answer.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:05 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:05 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 09:00 AM (l0qao)
That seems to me to be a pretty clear indicator of the true "principles" of the GOP-e!
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 09, 2014 05:05 AM (o3MSL)
It's hard to demagogue "fuck DC they are inefficient and I want more money in every Americans hands and most especially those Americans that want to work."
Why did the media aid the donks in blowing up Newt?
They couldn't stop him on HIS long game.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:05 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Caliban at January 09, 2014 05:06 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 09, 2014 05:06 AM (JJDw+)
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 05:06 AM (4JkHl)
Hayek has a similar rant in The Road to Serfdom
Chapter 10 I think it was.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 05:06 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 09, 2014 09:06 AM (JJDw+)
You get to wear the femskin while in the barrel.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:06 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 09, 2014 05:07 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 09, 2014 05:09 AM (SUKHu)
I think you need to look at it this way....
Most people calling themselves Catholic, are only culturally Catholic. They like the label, they don't like the product.
I personally don't think the Catholic Church is a cafeteria where you get to pick and choose what you like. It's an all or nothing proposition. If you won't take it all, there are tons of other churches out there who believe what you believe. Go find them.
But....they like the label.
So, all those people who are "Catholic" and voting for abortion?
Not Catholic. Period. No matter what they say.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 05:09 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 09, 2014 09:09 AM (SUKHu)
Sounds good to me!
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:09 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 05:10 AM (NKBxV)
Offer it up, Nancy!
* I
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 05:10 AM (FtCW+)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 48 days until spring training at January 09, 2014 05:10 AM (u8GsB)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:10 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 05:11 AM (V70Uh)
Offer it up, Nancy!
Not all all. I'm an Extraordinary Minister. I get rock star seating at all the good Masses. ;-)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 05:11 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 09, 2014 09:06 AM (JJDw+)
It puts the lotion on the barrel.
Posted by: Jame Gumm at January 09, 2014 05:11 AM (RD7QR)
You'd think Jews would have an aversion to "camps" & those that run them.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 09:10 AM (NKBxV)
One would think, yes. Plus the rampant anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred among so-called "progressives."
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:11 AM (DrWcr)
Sounds a little far fetched, but if this is true, this is stunning:
Kerry behind European boycott of Israeli products.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 05:12 AM (BZAd3)
Wilson locked up a lot of foreigners during WWI to include Germans.
The Canadians during WWII also interred their Japanese.
*clambers off*
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 05:13 AM (+Ifkm)
But....they like the label.
So, all those people who are "Catholic" and voting for abortion?
Not Catholic. Period. No matter what they say.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2014 09:09 AM (sbV1u)
Unfortunately I know too many people like that. For example a guy and his wife who are socially very liberal (never attend Mass) got married in a Catholic Church. I said if you disagree with the Church over so many issues like gay marriage why did you hypocrites get married in church. Support your beliefs and get married in a gay bar or wouldn't that look as good on wedding photos.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2014 05:13 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:14 AM (GaqMa)
Quite, it is a lot like the Secular "Jews" IMHO and the Church itself seems as much a non-psychotic Democrat Booster organization as much as an organization interested in doctrine past the leadership's policy preferences.
No offense or castigation intended.
A lot of the Church "charity" seemed to be heading towards "wouldn't it be nice if there were one world government that took care of our needs?
Yeah, it sure would and you might want to ponder whether that organization would be the UN or the Vatican. The UN is not in the appease Christianity business they are in the appease Radical Islam business. The entire notion and parts of Roman Catholicisms' at least personnel's embrace of it seems shortsighted IMHO.
Nice posts on the faith by the way Bannion, I hope things turn around.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:14 AM (TE35l)
I kinda get what you're advocating there, but when people have little sense or sense of responsibility most will just blow the money and then claim "I'm starving". Human nature.
While my kids were in school, starting at about the 4th grade, I gave them cash at the start of each school year for clothing. "Here's what I have budgeted for, go buy what you want. But! Do not come back later in the year and tell me you have nothing to wear, or that your shoes are worn out, etc. It's up to you to use the money responsibly, or you can dress in rags and blow all the cash on video games. I don't care. It's up to you."
And yes, the amount given for the girl was about 20% more than for the boy because girls clothing is a bigger ripoff.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 05:14 AM (wNF3N)
Yes....but I write in Moron shorthand sometimes.....
Jews keep kosher because God told us to.
[Lots of evidence that there was no trichinosis in the ME]
Jews circumcise their sons on the eighth day because God told us to.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 05:15 AM (QFxY5)
Posted by: rickb223
American Jews were FDR's socialist apparatchiks, even to the point of ignoring the plight of their European bretheren. I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of senior internment camp administrators being Amreican Jews from Montgomery Co.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 05:15 AM (4JkHl)
I have had to examine my reaction to CEOs and finally made peace with the idea that I should be happy to see people expose themselves to the Mass and possible redemption.
As I stand in the back.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 05:15 AM (FtCW+)
"Charity" via coercion (e.g. taxation) is not charity.
^This. Robbing me at gunpoint and giving my property to someone else does not count as charity.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:16 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: FITP at January 09, 2014 09:02 AM (mtjSE)
=======
It's not about aligning with Catholic values- it's about long held habits stemming from three words: "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion".
http://bit.ly/1lErrdA
It's amazing how things haven't changed all that much in 130 years...
Posted by: Nighthawk at January 09, 2014 05:17 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 05:17 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 05:17 AM (+Ifkm)
>>>You get to wear the femskin while in the barrel.
It puts the lotion on it's Femskin! Or else it gets the hose again!
Posted by: Bigby's Pantomime Hands at January 09, 2014 05:17 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 05:17 AM (4JkHl)
Brett Linley 29 Matthew Weikert 29 Justus Bartett 27 Dave Santos 21 Jesse Reed 26 Matthew Johnson 21 Zachary Fisher 24 Brandon King 23 Christopher Goeke 23 and Sheldon Tate 27...
...are all Marines who gave their lives last month for you. There is no media for them; not even a mention of their names.
Posted by: freaked at January 09, 2014 05:18 AM (ZKKnP)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2014 05:18 AM (NKBxV)
No. You're Catholic. The Church is against socialism - and has been since it popped up on the scene. Go read Rerum Novarum. You'll see it there.
I highly doubt you would shit on a neighbor in need if you were face-to-face with them. You'd probably help. Most of us would. That's Catholic economic teaching in a nutshell right there - the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity.
In other words, you have an obligation to help, and a responsibility to do it at the lowest level possible.
Jesus told us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. He didn't tell us to steal money from other people to do that. Francis is saying that you - not the "royal" you but you personally - have an obligation to help.
He's a simple guy, and he's using simple terms to talk about this stuff. He's just not being very articulate about it. But he hasn't changed anything the Church has ever been teaching on this point.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 05:18 AM (sbV1u)
Reading "Charity in Truth" was eye-opening and very alarming.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 05:18 AM (V70Uh)
While American Jews were loyal supporters of FDR, they most certainly did not ignore the plight of European Jewry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 05:18 AM (QFxY5)
That's because you're a good parent. I try to be, the government never is. Try this challenge ask a coworker, or the pizza boy to explain the law of 72 to you and if he gets it right you'll tip him 10 bucks, but if he gets it wrong he has to listen to your 3 minute spiel and then go check your answer on bing.
Listen visibly with attentiveness, if he gets it wrong politely explain the compound interest shortcut to him and then hand him the 10 bucks and tell him to look it up anyway.
You open some of their eyes.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:19 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:19 AM (GaqMa)
Four killed in Benghazi - a distraction. Besides what difference does it make?
IRS being used as a cudgel against the Tea Party - a phony scandal.
Bridge closed in New Jersey - Worst. Crime. EVER!
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 05:19 AM (BZAd3)
This is not Church Doctrine. Try to understand that the opinions of Bishops are prudential judgements where governing is involved. That means that debate and disagreement is allowed.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 05:19 AM (FtCW+)
Ditto
::: fist bump :::
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 09, 2014 05:19 AM (d4ZzM)
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 09:17 AM (4JkHl)
I tend to think God has taken an extended vacation, but I tend to be rather negative that way anyway.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 09, 2014 05:19 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2014 05:21 AM (V70Uh)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 09, 2014 05:21 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 05:21 AM (FtCW+)
IRS being used as a cudgel against the Tea Party - a phony scandal.
Bridge closed in New Jersey - Worst. Crime. EVER!
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 09:19 AM (BZAd3)
Funny what is and isn't news/scandal
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2014 05:21 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hungry for truth, also bacon at January 09, 2014 05:22 AM (8xOfO)
Possibly, but under my proposals which are really just facts on the ground modifications of Friedman and Hayek's theories at least the market is not engaged in a war of subsidy on the productive class in price structure to the same degree.
votermom the democrats will not rest until every dollar in your revenue stream is subject to their control, coercion, or distortions...
That is why I fight.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:22 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 09:19 AM (BZAd3)
That's not really the point of the anger directed at Christie.
He (or his minions) used the power of the State House to punish political enemies, by hurting their constituents.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 05:22 AM (QFxY5)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I disagree, senior FDR people - who happened to be born Jewish - were among those urging caution. There were active Jewish organizations screaming for action; but they weren't in FDR's circle. They were outside of Washington, probably in NYC.
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 05:22 AM (4JkHl)
Posted by: Jean at January 09, 2014 05:23 AM (4JkHl)
Morning, nicklefuckers.
Anna, unless that Disney lingerie has the Alice in Wonderland package (garter belt with "Eat Me" tastefully embroidered) or the Maleficent package (stockings with "Spank Me" embroidered at the top), I have no use for it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2014 05:23 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:23 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 09:22 AM (QFxY5)
Of course. Kinda the same thing a the IRS phony scandal.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 05:24 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: Carol at January 09, 2014 05:25 AM (z4WKX)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 09, 2014 05:25 AM (IXrOn)
Four killed in Benghazi - a distraction. Besides what difference does it make?
IRS being used as a cudgel against the Tea Party - a phony scandal.
Bridge closed in New Jersey - Worst. Crime. EVER!
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 09:19 AM (BZAd3)
And if the Fat Fuck were smart, that's exactly what he'd say in his press conference. Then emphatically invite the media to blow him.
But he won't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2014 05:25 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 09, 2014 05:26 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:27 AM (GaqMa)
A great deal of harm has been done by the lie of the "seamless garment". The idea that the totality of a thing can outweigh its terrible evil in one area.
Look up the Bishop who laid that one on us. Something hinky that way lies.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 09, 2014 05:27 AM (FtCW+)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 05:27 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 09, 2014 05:27 AM (7ObY1)
Which is why I will NOT support him now or in the future.
You know why he won't attack the media's slobbering on Bambi's knob?
He will NEVER attack a fellow democrat.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:28 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 09, 2014 05:28 AM (BZAd3)
Then don't tar American Jewry with the brush of ignoring the plight of European Jewry.
Some Jews in the FDR administration should have done much more. But FDR himself was a social anti-Semite and could have prevented the extermination of many Jews, simply by ordering the bombing of the rail hubs feeding the death camps.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 05:28 AM (QFxY5)
That could well be a component, essentially you reduce as much as possible the Federal Overhead and oversight and devolve the disbursements back to the states.
I don't have a problem with the states erecting retarded socialists prisons for their poor.
I have a huge problem with the Feds doing so because I cannot run from it.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:30 AM (TE35l)
The last thing Christie needs to do is bring up the IRS scandal as a comparison.
They're both about using state action to punish political opponents.
I disagree. He needs to bring it up and shove it right down the smug throats of the MFM. "You assholes didn;t give a shit when the IRS went after the Tea Party. You didn't give a shit when your dog-eating crackhead mocha messiah ordered audits on people who said mean things about him. So you can take your phony outrage and shove them up your well-lubed squeakholes, you unpaid Democrat hacks."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2014 05:30 AM (zF6Iw)
No one's stocked the vending machines here in a month. Seriously impeding my productivity this morning.
Posted by: HR at January 09, 2014 05:30 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 09, 2014 05:32 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 09, 2014 05:32 AM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 09, 2014 05:33 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 05:33 AM (GSIDW)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 05:33 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 09, 2014 05:33 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 09, 2014 05:34 AM (IXrOn)
Christie will have a news conference today at 11. Wonder what he'll say?
Posted by: Joffen
"What ya want for lunch? Italian again?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2014 08:02 AM (kdS6q)
"Come on guys, I got the surgery, you didn't have to bring weight into it, "Fat and Furious" (citation Glenn Beck program) is mean girls territory, it's mean guys, it's mean"
Posted by: think at January 09, 2014 05:34 AM (OroYa)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2014 05:35 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: FITP at January 09, 2014 05:35 AM (mtjSE)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 09, 2014 05:35 AM (+Ifkm)
Which is what I told the scolding CW Cooke on Twitter yesterday.
He was trying to sell the idea that "if this were Rahm Emmanuelle you'd be screaming bloody murder" and I told him hell yeah I would I am also screaming bloody murder at Christie so stop making me carry the bill for freight I never lifted.
http://tinyurl.com/l5rb5ql
You know what the GOP has done that no democrat ever has?
Told a President to go the fuck home.
Dole to Nixon.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:37 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hungry for truth, also bacon at January 09, 2014 05:39 AM (drXjQ)
Great point.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2014 05:40 AM (QFxY5)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2014 05:42 AM (jNNPU)
Yeah well we may make fun of his weight, but there's no hiding the hug he gave TFG that just may have put him over the top in '12. Like McCain, it sent the message that we have nothing to fear from TFG.
Also, Porkboi has been real fond of signing gun grabbing legislation throughout his career. His economic policies suck donkey balls (take a look at NJ's competitive rankings).
He spent a bunch of NJ money on a special election that benefited just him. He lines up at the pork trough faster than Lance Armstrong can peddle after his doping injections. Shall I go on?
Okay, one more -- he's a Springsteen fan. That should be a disqualifier all on its own.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 09, 2014 05:46 AM (wNF3N)
The Donut that ate the GWB "cheats" so far as intra GOP business goes just like the McCain wing in DC. They use the media adulation as "most favored Republicans" to push themselves and their policy preferences past the people to their right feigning ignorance that they are "Most Favored GOPer" b/c they are helping to advance the Democrat agenda. The spotlight is the bully pulpit and they deny their targets equal time to fight for their POV.
I hate them more than I hate the democrats. The democrats are just doing their job being my political enemy, the GOP "Spotlight" crew is stabbing our caucus in the back.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 05:50 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hungry for truth, also bacon at January 09, 2014 05:51 AM (3aj5/)
Posted by: votermom at January 09, 2014 09:33 AM (GSIDW)
At great expense to the state to conduct a special election and Fat Fuck was already a huge favorite to win his race. I realize that in order to attain what he has requires an ego which most of us would regard as extremely unhealthy, but El Grande is outsized in this as well.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 09, 2014 05:52 AM (l0qao)
SHaryl Atkinnson reports that the Benghazi compound lease was renewed 2 months out w/security waiver...
"Didn't know" my fucking asshole.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 09, 2014 06:07 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: t-bird at January 09, 2014 09:38 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Chief o' Beef at January 09, 2014 12:15 PM (TdxXY)
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Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2014 02:53 AM (GcYmn)