February 18, 2014

Top Headline Comments 2-18-14
— Gabriel Malor

Happy Monday.

National Journal's Josh Kraushaar has a must-read piece on Democrats' Obamacare denial.

New Zealand's prime minister refutes claim that he his a shape-shifting reptilian space alien ushering humanity towards enslavement. But, isn't that exactly what a shape-shifting reptilian space alien would say?

Eugene Volokh is writing (republishing an article, actually) about Islamic law in American courts. I've read his article; definitely worth a look.

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1 Good morning all

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 18, 2014 02:51 AM (DHj6D)

2 Where did my other comment go?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 18, 2014 02:52 AM (DHj6D)

3 That's odd

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 18, 2014 02:53 AM (DHj6D)

4 I said yesterday I would post that day's links today.  After merging the files and noting it was 15 pp long, I decided that was inappropriate so I deleted them back out.


Good Morning Morons.  Today is Tuesday, February 18, 2014.  On this day in 2001 Dale Earnhardt died in a crash at Daytona.  And one year ago today the press was mad at Ocrapweasel for sneaking off and playing golf with Tiger Woods.  I predicted they would get over real quick and go back to mouthing his parts.  I was right.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

5 Obviously this is some kind of a joke news article.  Headline/lead at Fox:


Five-year anniversary of ObamaÂ’s stimulus renews partisan fight over jobs, economy[b/]


The five-year anniversary Monday of President ObamaÂ’s stimulus package has prompted Democrats and Republicans to spar again over the economy and whether the roughly $800 billion in spending created the number of jobs promised.


The Democrats spew forth on lie after another.  The counter argument from Republicans is that it didn't work and just jacked up spending.


The real argument is they jacked up spending  to a $1T deficit and it was mainly directed towards socialist projects for inner cities (corruption for cronies program) with another healthy slice going to green cronies.  Small amounts went to rebuilding government buildings.  The touted highway building was a lie.  All they did was stick signs up at highways under construction.  At least FDR's wasteful big spending did go to useful infrastructure.  


And guess what?  We are STILL running $1T deficits.  Does that mean we are getting stimulus every year?



So what did all this government spending get us?  We are still mired in the second great depression that the lying Democrats said we avoided with unemployment even higher than what they had then (30%+)  and we also have runaway inflation in commodities, especially food.


And that is because Keynesian economics simply do NOT work.  They epitomize the broken window principle, as all government spending does.


I know, this post looks like a Monty Doom article.


http://tinyurl.com/nt25gej

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

6 Frist

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 18, 2014 02:53 AM (DHj6D)

7

Lizard aliens are cool. You know what else is cool? Midgets.

 

Midgets are cool.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 02:53 AM (v6cwT)

8 save by the /

The stupid, it burns:

An Oregon Democrat says he wants to create federal legislation that would set up each child born in the United States with a savings account as part of a major revamping of the countryÂ’s tax code.


What in the Hell does yet another government cheese program have to do with the frigging tax code?


And the thought of this turd and Chuckcheasehead rewriting the tax code gives me the willies.


http://tinyurl.com/ow3kec3

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

9 Say it isn't so!  Bloomingidiot and his associated gun grabbing groups are lying and the press is ignoring it.


http://tinyurl.com/mhau8lx

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

10 FL in the news again as an artist takes a dislike to vase and smashes it at a museum.  It was valued at $1M.  I suppose starving artists do not have to make restitution.


http://tinyurl.com/pggltwy

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

11 It used to be that water wars only occurred in the West where water is a limited quantity.  Well we have a major one going on between AL, GA, and FL.  The war is primarily because of Atlanta usage as more and more Detroit citizens flee to Atlanta, the so-call black Beverly Hills.  My take on the whole mess is that, like what is going on in CA now, the whole mess is caused by eco-Nazi laws.


http://tinyurl.com/obyhozd

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

12 And speaking of eco-Nazis, a CO county wants to take a couple's land using eminent domain not for any kind of public "use".  They want it just to keep people off of it in one of the so-called open/green space schemes.  And the sad thing about this is even if this couple has the money to fight this in court they will lose.  Kelo rewrote the Constitution from "public use" to "public purpose" and it did not limit it if the purpose was stupid.  Citizens must push for limits on the use of imminent domain takings.


http://tinyurl.com/osdngaq

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

13 The Navy will be deploying it's laser this summer.


http://tinyurl.com/mnpxret

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

14 Alabama welcomes Remington and their 2000 jobs to Huntsville.  (suck on it ny.)

Posted by: Case at February 18, 2014 02:55 AM (VctSv)

15 I got your laser

Posted by: mirror coated aircraft at February 18, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

16 DAY 474 994 to go (1,069 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)

17 OK pharmacy bows to lawfare and says it will not provide drugs for a lethal injection to an animal who raped and killed a 15 year old girl.  Oklahoma should just hang the SOB and those lawyers.


http://tinyurl.com/oqkvwx7

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

18 RIP Mary Grace Canfield at 89.   She was handywoman Ralph Monroe.  She died of lung cancer.


http://tinyurl.com/ncocvnf

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

19 Charlie Sheen is set to marry his porn star honey.  Many happy returns Charlie. PS; I hope Denise has a court order prohibiting you from visiting the children.


http://tinyurl.com/nmk2j6g

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

20 Let me zee your paperz say resercher!  No says Clinton Foundation vee let no one zee zis.


http://tinyurl.com/kednkyh

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

21 NY wants to split the State, but with a twist and it actually may be doable because for federal purposes it will still be one State.  So congress will not be able to have any say in it.  A real split would be good for us; this has no impact.


http://tinyurl.com/l7ahks5

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

22 Roma Downey bows to pressure from idiot Obama worshipers and cuts the Devil from the Son of God movie.


http://tinyurl.com/k3mcfx4

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

23 "We had lasers for thousands of years" Moishe, the secret Mossad Joo shark.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 02:57 AM (olDqf)

24 The assholes and their shyster lawyers who are fighting lethal injection would be more useful going to Pockistaun where lethal injection is done with rocks.  (But yes we know they really don't believe lethal injection is a problem.  What they are doing is fighting the death penalty using lawfare.)


http://tinyurl.com/ndw7knm

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

25 Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama and ALL elite snobby eco-Nazis.   He went to CA to talk about the water problems (caused by the eco-Nazis).  He then played on a desert golf course.  Anyone who has every waited at a Tee-Box for the sprinklers to go off knows exactly what I am talking about.  Golf courses are bigger water hogs per acre than farms, which are being killed in CA.  And how many of those CA delta Smelt assholes are playing golf there?


http://tinyurl.com/qjla59z

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

26 South pole sea ice is 25% above normal.


http://tinyurl.com/l5nsfqm

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

27 Man of indeterminate race plays knockout game with couple, also of indeterminate race, coming out of a Cambridge, MA store.  (Hint:  The assailant looks like Obama's son, the couple looks like me).


http://preview.tinyurl.com/plcqsaz

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

28 21 NY wants to split the State, but with a twist and it actually may be doable because for federal purposes it will still be one State. So congress will not be able to have any say in it. A real split would be good for us; this has no impact. http://tinyurl.com/l7ahks5 Posted by: Vic at February 18, 2014 06:57 AM (T2V/1) Wow. If I could move out of NYC and only have to go up into the Catskills or Adirondacks, I'd be happy with that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 02:58 AM (olDqf)

29 People of Walmart.


http://tinyurl.com/p2hmc2s

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

30 I thought Whoreywood was already getting tax breaks from CA?  Is this a case of wanting more?


http://tinyurl.com/mok4kxz

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

31 Where is the FEC.  Oh, that's right.  Democrats never do any wrong in elections.  Even accepting money from foreign nations is OK if you are a Democrap.


http://tinyurl.com/lvtgv48

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

32 Yet another outrageous police wilding that the taxpayers will be held accountable for.


http://tinyurl.com/lskghjj

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

33 And speaking of taxpayers being held accountable, during the past decade NYC cops have cost the NYC taxpayer $1B in civil suits.  It adds up folks.


http://tinyurl.com/nvnhefh

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:00 AM (T2V/1)

34 Trey Gowdy throws some bombs at Obama's dictatorial crap.  I have some news for you Trey, none of that stuff you said is going to work unless you folks in the House get rid of crying Boner.


http://tinyurl.com/mvz7v5q

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:00 AM (T2V/1)

35 I had said previously when Obama first said he would raise federal contractor minimum wage by XO it was unconstitutional because these were set by an act of congress.  Well someone actually dug up the case law for that and I was right.  Now all we need is someone to sue him and it would have to be someone in congress using those things I laid out for standing yesterday.  A private citizen can not get standing here based on taxes alone (court has ruled that also).


http://tinyurl.com/nfowrjw

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:00 AM (T2V/1)

36 Uconn coach says something about Jesus and is forced out and he is also BLACK!  So anti-religion trumps the race card.  This is simply amazing.


http://tinyurl.com/q39qmmw

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

37 Gore should be barred from owning guns.  He warns us that the Venetian Moon Pilots will invade because of global warming.


http://tinyurl.com/ogbeamb

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

38 Anyone want to take a guess on why the Obamanites will not grant NJ and emergency waiver of the Jones Act to move some rock salt for the roads?  If you said "unions" you would be correct.


http://tinyurl.com/njysd5j

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

39 More Democrat/Communist violations of the Constitution.  They are pressuring the networks to include more Global Warming propaganda in TV shows.


http://tinyurl.com/p5mg26x

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:02 AM (T2V/1)

40 Here's one for Ace about his favorite band, ABBA.  It is about their stage costumes which I really didn't find any more outlandish than other acts.


http://tinyurl.com/ngbsea6

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:02 AM (T2V/1)

41 NC guv is shopping for groceries. Clerk gives him a piece of his mind on politics. Clerk gets fired. Guv gets bad press.

Posted by: NCKate at February 18, 2014 03:02 AM (1FoIf)

42 PA corruption case fueled by corrupt instigator.


http://tinyurl.com/q36bnep

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:02 AM (T2V/1)

43 WaTi speculates that Cantor is running to be the next SOH.  If so he will not be any better than crying Boner.  I want Trey Gowdey.


http://tinyurl.com/ndf8hvy

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:03 AM (T2V/1)

44 Byron York disagrees with idiot Rove on use of Hillary's past.


http://tinyurl.com/lhfq5ow

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:03 AM (T2V/1)

45 And Amazon is trying to drive away customers with this shit widely spread on their front page.


http://tinyurl.com/oegcaze

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:03 AM (T2V/1)

46 Daily Deals


http://tinyurl.com/poy39jr



That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:04 AM (T2V/1)

47 Linky NCKate?

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 18, 2014 03:04 AM (vVOWk)

48 Morning all y'all!

You too, Gabe ya'll...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 18, 2014 03:04 AM (b/lt+)

49 44 Byron York disagrees with idiot Rove on use of Hillary's past. http://tinyurl.com/lhfq5ow Posted by: Vic at February 18, 2014 07:03 AM (T2V/1) I'm glad Rand Paul is going on offense with Hell-ary. Then again, Rush was floating the idea of SCOAMF ignoring the 22nd Amendment or even better, running Moochelle. The Democrats will eat themselves up. And unlike '08 and '12, if we have a conservative candidate it will be a 57 state sweep.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:06 AM (olDqf)

50 Hey, golfman. It's in the charlotte observer. Reid's Fine Foods here in town. I'm on my phone at the gym, links require coordination.

Posted by: NCKate at February 18, 2014 03:06 AM (1FoIf)

51 the Tenth Circuit struck down the ban precisely because it singled out Sharia by name


I find that ruling itself to be unconstitutional.  The use of ANY religious "law" in court, or any other government organization, is forbidden by the Constitution..



And the fact of the matter is Islamic religion is the only one I know that dictates law in the countries it invades.  We gave that up in the 1700s

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:07 AM (T2V/1)

52 RIP Mary Grace Canfield, aka Harriet Kravitz on "Bewitched" and Ralph Monroe from "Green Acres." : - (

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:07 AM (olDqf)

53 Oyama, Japan snow storm dumped over three feet in one day. 19 dead in record Japan snowfall By Euan McKirdy, for CNN updated 11:10 PM EST, Mon February 17, 2014

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 03:09 AM (MhA4j)

54 Thanks for the links Vic. Lotta work there.

And I agree with you on the hypocrisy of Obama playing desert golf. The STOOOPID never fails to astound me.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 18, 2014 03:10 AM (vVOWk)

55 48 Volodymyr Palahniuk (a.k.a. Jack Palance) Posted by: Gran at February 18, 2014 07:04 AM (nPMjI) Ever see the movie "Attack!"?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:11 AM (olDqf)

56 Thanks NCKate. Hate to give the liberal CO a click or two but will just to see the slant.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 18, 2014 03:12 AM (vVOWk)

57 Bloomberg isn't 'lying' he is 'misrepresenting'.

Oh, and some university somewhere, (I forget where) is offering a master's degree in social something something which I read to be 'fraud', a master's degree in misrepresenting as practiced by Obama and his party line loyalists.


Posted by: h.U. Orluss at February 18, 2014 03:12 AM (3G96r)

58 Rodham has more areas to attack than cellulite on her ass.  The HMS Pantsuit should be taking fire from every point on the compass.  Fuck Rove and his formula for losing everything.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 03:13 AM (hylEe)

59 57 Comments after were pretty brutal.

Posted by: NCKate at February 18, 2014 03:13 AM (1FoIf)

60 Someone needs to tell Gabe what day it is.

Posted by: HH at February 18, 2014 03:15 AM (XXwdv)

61 58 Posted by: h.U. Orluss at February 18, 2014 07:12 AM (3G96r) I tell people I have PhD in Theoretical Studies from Omaha Mutual.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:16 AM (olDqf)

62 37. 'ItÂ’s obvious Gore is an alienophobe.' alGore draws the legal immigration line in the sky? -- and weasel zippers got a good logo, hadn't noticed before

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 03:16 AM (MhA4j)

63 Sefton!! teh funny

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 03:17 AM (MhA4j)

64 64 Sefton!! teh funny Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 07:17 AM (MhA4j) Don't it have a legit ring to it, though!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:18 AM (olDqf)

65 Another ten inches of global warming fell last night in NE Ohio.  Enough of this dogshit; we need moar carbon in the atmosphere.  The science is settled.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 03:19 AM (hylEe)

66 Happy Monday?? Is today Tuesday, or did I sleep off a buzz for a week???

Posted by: blog force one at February 18, 2014 03:20 AM (at0hl)

67 60  Yeah. Don't dig into them much. AoSHQ has me spoiled.

Thought it was odd that the fired worker said he didn't blame Reid's for letting him go. If so, no story. Not for the libs at the CO though.

Used to love the NASCAR coverage but had to give it up since you just can't buy the sports section.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 18, 2014 03:20 AM (vVOWk)

68 Firefox Version twenty seven oh one is defiantly fubar'd to the max, totally.

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 03:20 AM (3G96r)

69 36F right now and supposed to make it up to 67F today.  That is a little above normal for this time of year here.  But it is supposed to make in the 70s tomorrow and Thursday.  That is way above normal.



After two months of below normal temps I am ready for a few days of warm.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:21 AM (T2V/1)

70

Morning, everyone.

 

No story today, since I still have tears in my eyes and am running on about an hour of sleep.  Mrs P and I went to Avery Fisher Hall in NYC last night to see  a concert performance of the musical Titanic, with almost all the original cast reaasembled from its 1997  premiere.

 

http://tinyurl.com/lnlk5ku


 

The link takes you to a story about the show.  The first two pictures are of actors Brian D'Arcy James and Martin Moran performing the Act 1 duet "The Proposal / The Night Was Alive," which had me, Mrs P and everyone around us weeping like babies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing, Proud Member of the Retard Faction at February 18, 2014 03:21 AM (zF6Iw)

71 69 Firefox Version twenty seven oh one is defiantly fubar'd to the max, totally.

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 07:20 AM (3G96r)



I have been seeing all these complaints about the latest update of FF for a few days now.  Mine auto updated and I have not had a single problem, not one.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:22 AM (T2V/1)

72 71 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing, Proud Member of the Retard Faction at February 18, 2014 07:21 AM (zF6Iw) You come to NYC and don't call?! What is this, pay-me-no-mind week?! Hope you both had fun!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:23 AM (olDqf)

73 58. h.U.Orless This month, PBS broadcast the fate of PhD unemployed, specifically the under-employed faculty all denied the tenure track, part-time employees denied benefits. The professionals being interviewed were Ivy League, Georgetown University. Had the problem remained isolated to "State" educated professionals, as has been the case for decades already, the issue wouldn't have "warranted" the exposé broadcast. Yes, the Univ.prez was asked if the institution is "moral" in taking students' money with no intention or ability to provide employment opportunity. Duh, that's always been the case. Education for education's sake -- and the prezzy said it's the students' fault for buying studies that won't financially benefit them. The point of comprehension.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 03:24 AM (MhA4j)

74

Regarding #32.

 

What recourse do citizens generally have for City Police departments?

 

I know a county Sheriff can be replaced in elections, but what elected official controls the PD? Is the Police Commisioner a real elected office, or is it all up to the Mayor or City Council?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 03:24 AM (/qzu7)

75 Yay! Going to get above 60 here today in KC. Snow is starting to melt fast.

Posted by: HH at February 18, 2014 03:25 AM (XXwdv)

76 I have been seeing all these complaints about the latest update of FF for a few days now. Mine auto updated and I have not had a single problem, not one.

Posted by: Vic at February 18, 2014 07:22 AM (T2V/1)



Ever since I had a new hard drive put on my laptop after the old one crashed I haven't had a problem with the new versions of FF; in contrast to before that when it used to fuck up everything for days.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 03:26 AM (hylEe)

77 75 Regarding #32.

What recourse do citizens generally have for City Police departments?

I know a county Sheriff can be replaced in elections, but what elected official controls the PD? Is the Police Commisioner a real elected office, or is it all up to the Mayor or City Council?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 07:24 AM (/qzu7)


In the towns I am familiar with usually the head police officer reports to the Mayor. County police report to the county Sheriff who then reports to the council, usually through one member who keeps the rest of the council up to date.


Mayors and county sheriffs and councils are elected. And the local police and sheriff's department here in the South, other than a few isolated instances, have been vastly cleaned up from the old days.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:30 AM (T2V/1)

78 Anyone want to take a guess on why the Obamanites will not grant NJ and emergency waiver of the Jones Act to move some rock salt for the roads? Over the border in PA we had two snowfalls last winter. PennDot just said this morning there have been 16 'weather events' that have required them to salt the roads. So far. I stopped counting at 12 snowfalls. Another 2 inches fell overnight. AGW = Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 18, 2014 03:31 AM (CnA98)

79 45 -

I don't know about you, but MY Amazon front page is my account.  I don't really see a problem with this sort of thing, it appears that Amazon is promoting an  author, and inviting other authors to request the same.

My only objection is  not with Amazon, it's the  fact that  charlatans these days are using pseudoscience to promote their pet projects, and generally get away with it because people who could and would challenge him see him as a fellow traveler, and the rest of us haven't delved far enough into the topic to be able to refute him.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2014 03:31 AM (BeSEI)

80 78 Gran: Who the hell is Urbano Barberini? And that was funny.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 03:32 AM (olDqf)

81 My only objection is not with Amazon, it's the fact that charlatans these days are using pseudoscience to promote their pet projects, and generally get away with it because people who could and would challenge him see him as a fellow traveler, and the rest of us haven't delved far enough into the topic to be able to refute him.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2014 07:31 AM (BeSEI)


The problem I see is that they put that ad up on the home page for Amazon and it takes up half the page with AGW propaganda. Making the ad itself propaganda.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:33 AM (T2V/1)

82 Happy Monday.


Ummmmm.


Look.  I have enough problem remembering what day it is.   Do not fuck me with on this, Gabriel. 

Posted by: alexthechick - oh great SMOD can you wait til curling's done at February 18, 2014 03:34 AM (Gk3SS)

83 My FF 27 updated and has run well. No issues. One 'issue' a couple updates back where I now have to explicitly click in the url bar to 'allow' it to run a video. I consider that a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 18, 2014 03:35 AM (CnA98)

84

79: "In the towns I am familiar with usually the head police officer reports to the Mayor. County police report to the county Sheriff who then reports to the council, usually through one member who keeps the rest of the council up to date."

 

So in essence if the problem children seem to come from the city/town PD, the only election that can change them is for mayor or city council?

 

While our town PD isn't going full retard or Judge Dredd wanabe, our PD has been wasting a lot of money on fancy new SUVs where a more economical street car or cruiser would do just as well or better.

 

Looking for the best lever I can have come voting season to influence (or at least try) this shit.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 03:35 AM (LJpVo)

85 "New Zealand's prime minister refutes claim that he his [sic] a shape-shifting reptilian space alien ushering humanity towards enslavement. " Despite the Blaze headline Gabe repeated, I didn't ser that he "refuted" as much as "denied." E says he saw a doctor's and a vet, but did he show documentation? Release the X-rays!" § Mornin', Glories!

Posted by: mindful webworker - now you don't... at February 18, 2014 03:35 AM (5SlKF)

86 "New Zealand's prime minister refutes claim that he his [sic] a shape-shifting reptilian space alien ushering humanity towards enslavement. " Despite the Blaze headline Gabe repeated, I didn't ser that he "refuted" as much as "denied." E says he saw a doctor's and a vet, but did he show documentation? Release the X-rays!" § Mornin', Glories!

Posted by: mindful webworker - now you don't... at February 18, 2014 03:35 AM (5SlKF)

87 84  Posted by: alexthechick - oh great SMOD can you wait til curling's done at February 18, 2014 07:34 AM (Gk3SS)


I took that as snark from Gabe because it is Monday for him.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:36 AM (T2V/1)

88 ARRGG!y comment wasnt ready to send, much less twice. Monday is off to a good start.

Posted by: mindful webworker vs modern technology at February 18, 2014 03:38 AM (5SlKF)

89 86  So in essence if the problem children seem to come from the city/town PD, the only election that can change them is for mayor or city council?


Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 07:35 AM (LJpVo)


Probably; Letters to the editor may have some impact.  Also actually attending the council meeting and complaining helps a lot if you get enough people to do it.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:39 AM (T2V/1)

90 67 Happy Monday?? Is today Tuesday, or did I sleep off a buzz for a week??? Posted by: blog force one at February 18, 2014 07:20 AM (at0hl) I knew it! Yesterday was Sunday! We had a gun thread and an astronomy thread, after all. So what the hell was I doing at work?

Posted by: rickl at February 18, 2014 03:40 AM (sdi6R)

91 Did anybody see an article by a guy in the NY Post yesterday about how the census department fuckheads have been jacking around with the unemployment figures for years to make the JEF look less inept than we know he is?  It's worthy of a thread by itself.  Suffice it to say, the guilty deserve to be in jail for the rest of their lives and that's only because my preferred way of dealing with them, hanging them by the neck in the public square, isn't allowed.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 03:40 AM (hylEe)

92 Thank you Vic and RIP "Ralph". She never did finish at the Douglas' house.

Posted by: BP_NJ at February 18, 2014 03:40 AM (ph70Q)

93 We could have thunder snow here this am...

Posted by: Baldy at February 18, 2014 03:40 AM (2bql3)

94 I suppose starving artists do not have to make restitution.

Vandalism stopped being a crime when committed by "artists" about forty years ago (unless you spray paint the building Shepard Fairey owns *spit*).  But the collector will be financially OK; this is a heavily-insured traveling exhibition, I saw it when it came to Indy last year.

And the perp destroyed an Ai Weiwei vase...Weiwei became internationally famous after being photographed destroying Ming vases (these are the photos mentioned in the story), to mixed reactions.  I had to conclude since Weiwei purchased the vases, they were his to do whatever he liked, even if it was stupid and senseless.  I'm curious what he thinks about his work getting destroyed.  Shit, this was probably a plan to finagle and introduction, and "protesting" the gallery just sounds good for the news.

Posted by: HR at February 18, 2014 03:41 AM (hO8IJ)

95 According to the Gaygorian calendar, today is Monday. (sorry, couldn't resist) (I'll go ban myself now)

Posted by: Gran at February 18, 2014 03:41 AM (nPMjI)

96 An Oregon Democrat says he wants to create federal legislation that would set up each child born in the United States with a savings account as part of a major revamping of the countryÂ’s tax code. .... Not only is there calculation wrong from a mathematical standpoint, as was demonstrated in a post last night, but it also fails to recognize the damage done when a false floor is created where everyone is a millionaire. When everyone is a millionaire, a million will mean nothing at all. And, that savings plan still won't do anything to change the basic nature of capitalism, that is to say that many will arrive at old age with millions more due to their hard work and ingenuity. Unless, of course, capitalism itself is a bygone concept.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2014 03:41 AM (DmNpO)

97 I know, this post looks like a Monty Doom article. http://tinyurl.com/nt25gej Posted by: Vic Only, bolder. (Surely I wasn't the first on that pun!)

Posted by: mindful webworker vs modern technology at February 18, 2014 03:42 AM (Jh9QN)

98 State splits?

Atlanta.
Then "the rest of us."
All for it.
But I'd settle for splitting Georgia at the fall line.

Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 03:42 AM (ULH4o)

99 Harriet Kravitz?  or Gladys Kravitz?

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 18, 2014 03:42 AM (V70Uh)

100 93 Did anybody see an article by a guy in the NY Post yesterday about how the census department fuckheads have been jacking around with the unemployment figures for years to make the JEF look less inept than we know he is? It's worthy of a thread by itself. Suffice it to say, the guilty deserve to be in jail for the rest of their lives and that's only because my preferred way of dealing with them, hanging them by the neck in the public square, isn't allowed.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 07:40 AM (hylEe)


I didn't see it but we have been posting other articles saying the same thing for years here.  The current number I am using based on one article posted is the real number is 30%+

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:43 AM (T2V/1)

101 Harriet Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series "Bewitched."

Posted by: BP_NJ at February 18, 2014 03:44 AM (ph70Q)

102

You come to NYC and don't call?! What is this, pay-me-no-mind week?!

 

It was a hit-and-run, J.J. - the only way I can take NY.



Hope you both had fun!

 

It was wonderful.  Truly a "once in a lifetime" event, if you're into that sort of thing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing, Proud Member of the Retard Faction at February 18, 2014 03:44 AM (zF6Iw)

103 A tipster tried to warn the Labor Department in 2011 that its unemployment statistics were being fabricated by the people at the Census Bureau who compile the data.

But the warning was either missed or ignored by Labor.

That allegedly allowed the data falsification to go on for years.

As IÂ’ve been telling you, the falsification is now the subject of a number of investigations, including one by the House Oversight Committee and CongressÂ’ Joint Economic Committee.

Also investigating is the Office of the Inspector General at the Commerce Department, which is in charge of Census. And IÂ’m hearing that the US Attorney in the Philadelphia region is also poking around the matter, although a spokeswoman wouldnÂ’t confirm that.

And, of course, I am also investigating. IÂ’m waiting for the Commerce Department to comply with my Freedom of Information Act request for e-mails and text messages between people in the Philadelphia Census office.

So far, all IÂ’ve heard is that the FOIA request is being worked on.

At the core of all these investigations is solid evidence that at least one surveyor — a guy named Julius Buckmon, working out of the Philadelphia Census office but polling in Washington, DC — submitted fake household surveys that were used in compiling the Labor Department’s unemployment rate.

Because of the scientific nature of the Labor Department survey, BuckmonÂ’s actions alone would have affected the responses of some 500,000 households.

But as I’ve been reporting, the scam was allegedly much larger than that and included other surveyors (or enumerators as they are called) over many years. And supervisors at least two levels up are said to have known about — and covered up — the scandal.

So far Congress has mainly been asking questions about the Buckmon incident and his supervisorsÂ’ actions. But the inquiry is likely to get broader, especially if correspondences between people in the Philadelphia office show a conspiracy to make the unemployment rate look better than it really was.

The brass ring for the Republicans who control the Oversight Committee, of course, would be if they find evidence that the national unemployment rate was rigged right before the 2012 presidential election.

I previously reported that there were whispers inside the Philadelphia office that people high up wanted the jobless rate to come down before President Obama was up for re-election. And, in fact, it did drop sharply two months before the vote.

Up until now, the focus has mainly been on the Census Bureau, which, besides the unemployment rate, conducts surveys for a lot of government agencies and private concerns.

The Labor Department and its Bureau of Labor Statistics division have been largely left out of this controversy and viewed simply as the victims of the Census BureauÂ’s deceit.

My next few paragraphs may change that.

In late August 2011, a manila envelope containing evidence of falsified data was sent to Keith Hall, who was then in charge of the BLS. “The Philadelphia Regional office [of Census] … engaged in a cover-up after it was reported that members of its staff falsified data in an effort to meet goals,” said the anonymous letter, a copy of which I have in front of me.

The letter identified the two supervisors who arranged the cover-up.

“In an effort to satisfy the sponsor [the BLS] … the numbers were literally made up,” said the tipster.

The BLS never acted on the letter. And thatÂ’s ironic because Hall, who was pushed out of the Labor Department in 2012, had been skeptical of the truthfulness of the BLSÂ’s jobless numbers.

I interviewed Hall last July for this column, and he said at the time that the unemployment rate was “misleadingly low.” However, back then Hall — who is now at George Mason University — was attributing the misrepresentation to statistical anomalies in the way the unemployment rate is calculated and not outright fraud.

I asked Hall Monday if he remembers receiving an envelope containing evidence that data was being falsified. He didn’t. “I would have remembered that,” he said.

Did the envelope get lost in the mail? The tipster had a tracer on it through the Postal Service. Did someone else read the note, which, admittedly, was a little confusing, and choose to ignore it?

Hall said he would have investigated had he known. “We couldn’t not take that seriously and look into it,” he said.

So what does this all mean?

My readers already know that the nation’s jobless rate is a screwed-up and worthless indicator. By definition, it declines — as it now is doing — when workers get discouraged and stop looking for jobs.

And it will rise if the day ever comes when jobs are plentiful and people start looking again.

On top of that, we now know that the unemployment rate can be rigged by a very few cheats — aided by the inability of bureaucrats to root out fraud even when it’s laid in front of them in a letter.

I find the fact that the Federal Reserve says it still makes policy based on the unemployment rate mind-boggling.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 03:45 AM (hylEe)

104 100 Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 07:42 AM (ULH4o)


I am from GA and my family is still there.  They disowned Atlanta long ago, and the added Macon to the list a few years ago.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:45 AM (T2V/1)

105 101 Harriet Kravitz? or Gladys Kravitz?

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 18, 2014 07:42 AM (V70Uh)


She played Gladys K. in 4 episodes.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:46 AM (T2V/1)

106 Posting that 'people of Walmart' story is misrepresenting both 'people' and Walmart customers. Two men in Chandler Arizona standing in the check out queue do not 'a people' make. The only SafeWay to shop at WalMart is oblivious to the people around you until the point is reached where you need an armed escort to get your fully loaded shopping cart out to your transportation, and an armed escort to get you home. If we ever get to that point, there probably won't be much on the shelves anyway. So what difference does it make? Order online, and have everything delivered. Let the delivery company worry about security.

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 03:48 AM (3G96r)

107 Went back and reread the linked article, you're right it was Harriet.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:48 AM (T2V/1)

108 And Amazon is trying to drive away customers with this shit widely spread on their front page. http://tinyurl.com/oegcaze -------------- If Porter Fox wants snow, I got 16" of it he can have. Sideways.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 03:48 AM (PFy0L)

109
In October, there's going to be yet another a major change in the health industry as coders transition to the new ICD-10 system for diagnostic record keeping and insurance billing.  Think of it as Y2K for the white coat set.

Interesting article about the upcoming transition over at the WaPo, including descriptions of the system's seemingly bizarre specificity:

"There are different numbers for getting struck or bitten by a turkey (W61.42 or W61.43). There are codes for injuries caused by squirrels (W53.21) and getting hit by a motor vehicle while riding an animal (V80.919), spending too much time in a deep-freeze refrigerator (W93.2) and a large toe that has gone unexpectedly missing (Z89.419)."

http://tinyurl.com/lfwa3sv

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 03:49 AM (kdS6q)

110 The brass ring for the Republicans who control the Oversight
Committee, of course, would be if they find evidence that the national
unemployment rate was rigged right before the 2012 presidential
election.

What happens when they find that?  Either a) nothing or b) plane crash, only fatalities just happen to be...

Posted by: HR at February 18, 2014 03:49 AM (hO8IJ)

111 108  Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 07:48 AM (3G96r)


That was supposed to be snark.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:49 AM (T2V/1)

112 Truth is often stranger than fiction, and Al GoreÂ’s missives are often stranger than both. Robert Schaefer writes:

I just got back from the 2014 International UFO Congress, the largest UFO conference in the world, where somebody was passing out the following to the attendees (a double-sided paper on orange stock). Looks like Al Gore is using Extraterrestrials to help fight Global Warming!

Posted by: Carl Sagan at February 18, 2014 03:49 AM (e8kgV)

113 What happens when they find that? Either a) nothing or b) plane crash, only fatalities just happen to be...

Posted by: HR at February 18, 2014 07:49 AM (hO8IJ)



Boehner will start crying.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 03:50 AM (hylEe)

114 Vic Born and raised in small town OK with a bootlegger as a grandfather and uncles involved in very nasty and shady side businesses. Police and sheriff department knew and some benefitted from the family business. Unfortunately this upbringing left me with a very cynical attitude about LE. Even after thirty plus years living in suburbs around Dallas, I'm still very wary of LE. As I told my kids, you have to be careful, the police are not your friend. They have the ability to ruin lives of decent people. Seen it, been there. Many is the case where Justice is only blind when you have enough money to pay her to turn a blind eye.

Posted by: Usedtocould at February 18, 2014 03:50 AM (ETLQ1)

115 I thought I saw every "Bewitched" episode.  I don't remember her.  Oh well.  Too many dead gray cells between then and now.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 18, 2014 03:50 AM (V70Uh)

116 19 Charlie Sheen is set to marry his porn star honey. Many happy returns Charlie. PS; I hope Denise has a court order prohibiting you from visiting the children. .... Yep. He's a class act. In the linked E! photo he's essentially groping her boob with one hand and her crotch with the other. She appears to be holding off each hand. It's a helluva thing when a porn star has a greater sense of decorum than you do, Sheen.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2014 03:51 AM (DmNpO)

117 This winter Olympics is boring. No excitement. No knee-capping of rival.

Posted by: Tonya Harding [/i] at February 18, 2014 03:51 AM (CnA98)

118 http://tinyurl.com/px7wzag K.Willey: "Hillary IS The War On Women" a confidential memo issued in 1992 by Stan Greenberg and Celinda Lake, top pollsters for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, detailing their “research on Hillary Clinton.” ...one of many previously unpublished documents from the archives of one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, that portray Hillary as a strong, ambitious and “ruthless” Democratic operative .... and a cutthroat strategist who relished revenge against her adversaries and complained in private that nobody in the White House was ‘tough and mean enough'.” The Free Beacon, and WND Hillary Ruthless Clinton, "We came, we saw, we killed, bwahahahaha!" It isn't as if Americans don't recognize politicians for what they are. Our problem is that Americans embrace politicians for what they are. ...and the same applies to corrupt policies, laws, abuses of powers.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 03:52 AM (MhA4j)

119 It's a helluva thing when a porn star has a greater sense of decorum than you do, Sheen. ----------- It's like when professional chefs don't cook at home... When you do something well, you don't do it for free, and she wasn't on the clock.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 03:52 AM (PFy0L)

120 Again? Breaking News @BreakingNews · 2m Sochi police department: Pussy Riot members being questioned in connection with complaint from hotel over theft - statement via @NBCNews

Posted by: BP_NJ at February 18, 2014 03:52 AM (ph70Q)

121 Happy Monday???

Posted by: RWC at February 18, 2014 03:53 AM (7GX/T)

122 I am sitting her thinking about making a "review comment" on that stupid book about global warming.


Bezos would probably ban me though even if I use a phony name.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:55 AM (T2V/1)

123 An Oregon Democrat says he wants to create federal legislation that would set up each child born in the United States with a savings account as part of a major revamping of the countryÂ’s tax code. ----------- Does this have to do with that proposal linked in the evening thread? It's been bugging me all night. No, not necessarily the proposal itself (although honestly, I'm torn...) but how the author could make such a dumb mistake. Really dumb. I've been trying to recreate his error and I can't figure out how he did it. Shit, two minutes in Excel and you can calculate the return.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 03:55 AM (PFy0L)

124 John Fund (wsj) explains why Obama wants control of the Census bureau (Feb 2009) proof that right from the beginning Obama was intent on committing fraud from his very first days in office. http://tinyurl.com/on2aq3k

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 03:55 AM (3G96r)

125 The UE numbers story is old news.  I don't believe a word or number the govt. puts out there.  Their credibility is shot.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 18, 2014 03:56 AM (V70Uh)

126 including descriptions of the system's seemingly bizarre specificity

Looks like they're trawling for new ways to micromanage your life/ban fun things under the guise of "improving health" or "improved resources allocation" (aka death panels). 

X reports of skateboard injuries in 2015->all those office visits and X-rays are wasted on people doing this voluntary activity, so that means poor kids can't get an appointment for their free transgender surgeries->possession of a skateboard now a felony.

(And you're all like, "skateboarders suck anyway" but they'll do it to things we enjoy, too.)

Posted by: HR at February 18, 2014 03:58 AM (hO8IJ)

127 Insulate the attic. Upgrade all the windows. Replace that old, inefficient furnace. Put in smart thermostats. All so you cm be comfortable at home without wasting energy and money. Your reward? Higher energy prices. Rolling blackouts. "The rest of the world won't let us keep our thermostats set at 72°." Government remote control of your home utilities. By the time your house is being taken for public greenspace, it hardly matters. The Green Wars have only begun.

Posted by: mindful webworker is green in is own way at February 18, 2014 03:58 AM (kUq7A)

128 Moreover, TFG didn't have to ask the IRS to target TEA Party groups.  There is an organic desire of government workers to perpetuate the organization.  They just do it spontaneously now.  Same with Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 18, 2014 03:59 AM (V70Uh)

129 Snark, yep, battery dead, sensor suboptimal. I'll get it fixed. The vendor is pretty good about emergency orders.

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 03:59 AM (3G96r)

130 125  Shit, two minutes in Excel and you can calculate the return.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 07:55 AM (PFy0L)



Its not just the compounding mistake.  None of those government cheese program ever work.  And they don't work for two reasons (1) People take the cheese and sit on their ass and (2) The government takes money out of the economy, hacks off a chunk of it for bureaucrats, and then puts a small amount back in the economy for the FSA.



It is the broken window fallacy in the manner that Hayek (?) was talking about.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 03:59 AM (T2V/1)

131 Does this have to do with that proposal linked in the evening thread? It's been bugging me all night. No, not necessarily the proposal itself (although honestly, I'm torn...) but how the author could make such a dumb mistake. Really dumb. I've been trying to recreate his error and I can't figure out how he did it. Shit, two minutes in Excel and you can calculate the return. .... Torn? See my comment at 98. It isn't just a mathematical error it is a deeply flawed concept.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2014 03:59 AM (DmNpO)

132

106: "I am from GA and my family is still there. They disowned Atlanta long ago, and the added Macon to the list a few years ago."

 

When I was stationed at Warner Robins, people avoided Macon like the plague it was.

 

Anyone with two nickels to their name fled Macon if they had any means to do so. I bought a house in Perry. At the time it was idealic. Safe, clean, and a great place to raise kids.

 

That shit was not allowed to continue as the dirtbags that drove decent folk out of Macon follwed them to Perry/Warner Robins since the only concentrated money in the area is around Robins AFB as the primary employer for all of middle GA.

 

Thankfully I moved home to Texas upon retirement. But I'm stuck with a house in Perry that I can't sell because I'm perpetually underwater on the mortgage due to dwindling property values.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 04:00 AM (LJpVo)

133 "The rest of the world won't let us keep our thermostats set at 72°."

This is old, but it's what I think of now every time I hear that.

http://is.gd/coASbp

Posted by: HR at February 18, 2014 04:01 AM (hO8IJ)

134 Good Morning, RWC, itÂ’s Happy Tuesday. I seem to have lost all my energy. I canÂ’t stay u[ for the ONT until midnight. Last night I said good night around 11. I have been out in the sunlight for a free hours a day. I think my eyes are dried out from the heat. I have a warm water humidifier. I think the heat in my car is what really dries out my eyes. I hope this is temporary. I used to have tons of energy.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 04:01 AM (z4WKX)

135 Morning all. Well it's not even 8 AM and the cancelations are rolling in because of the snow. Personally I like talking to you all here on the computer but this is killing me financially. Well at least the coffee is working.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:01 AM (t3UFN)

136 129  By the time your house is being taken for public greenspace, it hardly matters.

The Green Wars have only begun.

Posted by: mindful webworker is green in is own way at February 18, 2014 07:58 AM (kUq7A)


Obama has already started a push to kill the burbs and move everybody to the urban Hells controlled by the Democrats.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 04:02 AM (T2V/1)

137 I enjoyed the Sharia Law Article.  Volkh Conspiracy has been kicking butt.

Posted by: Draki at February 18, 2014 04:02 AM (L8r/r)

138 127 The UE numbers story is old news. I don't believe a word or number the govt. puts out there. Their credibility is shot. ..... They give little credit to the general public who figured out it was utter bullshit without ever needing a report or data to draw a conclusion. Just like we don't need a freaking report to tell us that food prices are through the roof.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2014 04:02 AM (DmNpO)

139 This winter Olympics is boring. No excitement. No knee-capping of rival. Posted by: Tonya Harding at February 18, 2014 07:51 AM

Oh Jeebus. I was gulled into watching 'Lympics coverage last night, and NBC was showing clips from a "documentary" they have made about Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, complete with fresh interviews and -- no doubt -- new, in-depth research.

They have piled enough peripheral human-interest "up close and personal" bullshit into the broadcasts to totally wipe out whatever atoms of respect I had left for the Olympics.

Any contest decided by a panel of unseen "judges" may be athletic, but is NOT a sport. Moreover, anyone who spends every waking moment training for the games is no amateur. Jim Thorpe would see the various countries' hockey teams and laugh his de-medaled ass off.

Now that NASCAR has become a rules-mad, image-driven parody of its former self, ain't much to watch on the teevee, sports-wise.

Posted by: MrScribbler at February 18, 2014 04:03 AM (ff7/5)

140 106?
Vic?

Any GA city of any size is a pesthole of corruption & cronyism.

Mine, while small, is as rotten as they come. So is SSI, where I grew up. If a day ever comes when I can sell the Dead Miss Emily's cold, old Victorian pile, I will move to a shotgun shack or trailer in some other inland county....

Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 04:03 AM (ULH4o)

141 Look, if I am placing bets on "Who is the reptile alien?" there are a few candidates in line before one gets to the Kiwi.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 18, 2014 04:03 AM (659DL)

142 "And Amazon is trying to drive away customers with this shit widely spread on their front page." Don't know what that was, but I got a big one of those circling the drain icons and my browser locked up requiring close/reopen. Cells suk.

Posted by: mindful webworker vs technology, part II at February 18, 2014 04:03 AM (yFFC0)

143 Torn? See my comment at 98. It isn't just a mathematical error it is a deeply flawed concept. ------------- Thanks for setting me straight. My initial reaction was wondering if such accounts would be truly private, but yeah. The whole thing is a pipe dream. Incidentally, I opened a savings account for one of my kids. It boasts a 0.01% APY. How the author is assuming a 5% rate of return on a money market account in this economy is mind boggling.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 04:04 AM (PFy0L)

144 134  Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 08:00 AM (LJpVo)


LOL, I had 5 family members who worked at Warner Robbins (one who was actually in the AF)

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 04:04 AM (T2V/1)

145 There is a Winter Olympics going on? Who knew

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:06 AM (t3UFN)

146 137 Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 08:01 AM (t3UFN) You could be Dr. Sheldon Kornpet and your soon-to-be in-law, Vince Ricardo takes you out for a cup of coffeeÂ… Â…and a short trip to Tijada.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:06 AM (olDqf)

147 There is a Winter Olympics going on? Who knew --------- I had no idea - never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at February 18, 2014 04:07 AM (PFy0L)

148

Is there any governor worst than Cuomo?

New York is open for business?  Then telling pro-life, pro-gun people they have no place in New York.  I hope Hillery chooses him to be her running mate in '16.

Posted by: Case at February 18, 2014 04:07 AM (VctSv)

149 You could be Dr. Sheldon Kornpet and your soon-to-be in-law, Vince Ricardo takes you out for a cup of coffeeÂ… Â…and a short trip to Tijada. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 08:06 AM (olDqf) That's the one where I walk away with a cool 5 mill. Sign me up

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:08 AM (t3UFN)

150 Any contest decided by a panel of unseen "judges" may be athletic, but is NOT a sport. ------------- I learned just the other day that ski jumping...SKI JUMPING...has a panel of judges to score the "form" of the jumper. In other words, it's possible for a person to jump farther but lose the match because he had poorer form than a person who didn't jump as far. I blame communism.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 04:08 AM (PFy0L)

151 Incidentally, I opened a savings account for one of my kids. It boasts a 0.01% APY. How the author is assuming a 5% rate of return on a money market account in this economy is mind boggling. ..... Yep. You just know that the entire idea is screwed in every conceivable way.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2014 04:08 AM (DmNpO)

152 142  Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 08:03 AM (ULH4o)


My old hometown is completely controlled by a Democrat clique of a few wealthy turds.  The city school system which used to be the second highest rated school in the State has degenerated into a den of incompetence and inner city violence.  Everyone who actually works for a living has moved out into the county.  It is now exactly opposite of what it was in the 50s and 60s.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 04:09 AM (T2V/1)

153 It's a Happy Tuesday, Gabe in case nobody has mentioned that yet. The holiday must have thrown you off. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 18, 2014 04:09 AM (XyM/Y)

154 There was a German that landed past the last red line and got screwed out of the gold.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 18, 2014 04:09 AM (V70Uh)

155 151 Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 08:08 AM (t3UFN) "SERPENTINE!!!!!!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:09 AM (olDqf)

156 116 cycles It's like the public outcry vs. the abuses from the IRS during Republican administrations. The Kinder Gentler compassionate conservative slapped the IRS wrists for abusing powers and abusing citizen taxpayers and for making an ugly scene on GOP watch. A pretty but impermanent mirage. Ask Joe the Plumber and Tea Party non-profits. Just how far did that policy or law go, reprimanding the IRS for damaging the public trust? Disappeared with TARP and W's departing executive order authorizing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury (Pirate Paulson) with autonomy. Next administration, ACA authorizes the IRS to strip the citizenry of all possessions and throw the non compliant into prison, children into CPS, regardless of reasons for noncompliance. The non compliant citizen having challenged federal over-extension of authority can be disappeared, no thanks to The Patriot Act compassionate conservative's gift that keeps on giving disregard for Constitutional Governance, as each subsequent administration corrupts our nation further into the authoritarianism chaos that was presumed to be more effective governance than maintaining integrity of official purpose/constraints and a balance between branch powers.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 04:10 AM (MhA4j)

157 Obamacare is proving unpopular as its net effects are becoming obvious. A neighbor who is one of the most clueless nonpolitical idiots I know was complaining about his kid's medical bills. The acne kid has to go in for meds which used to cost $30 office visit deductible twice a year and $20 deductible monthly for meds. The office visit this time was $150 and the meds were $90 per month. He has four kids and all are acne covered even the smallest one. As a senior civil engineer he thought he had a Cadillac plan. I explained that he got a pay cut because his insurance (that his cost in premium went up too) is worth a lot less than it used to be. The look on his face was something else as the light bulb went off.

Posted by: Lester at February 18, 2014 04:10 AM (2UPXV)

158 Creeping Sharia law, does that mean a Christian could not have four wives? That only under Sharia compliant contract law could a Muslim man have four wives? (In the United States.) Then does that mean that 'equal protection' means only that your contract is be adjudicated 'fairly' under the legal system in which it was written, and not that the results of the contract will be judged. So Muslim could have slaves? In the United States, as long as it's legal under Sharia? We're gonna need more lawyers.

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at February 18, 2014 04:11 AM (3G96r)

159 Is there any governor worst than Cuomo? New York is open for business? Then telling pro-life, pro-gun people they have no place in New York. I hope Hillery chooses him to be her running mate in '16. Posted by: Case at February 18, 2014 08:07 AM (VctSv) And actually the funny thing is, compared to the commie bastard mayor in NYC, coumo is looking like a G-D damn conservative almost

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:11 AM (t3UFN)

160 New Zealand's prime minister refutes claim that he his a shape-shifting reptilian space alien ushering humanity towards enslavement. Now there's an FOIA request that would get quashed here immediately. A Cylon - Klingon pairing is explicitly outlawed by galactic treaties.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 18, 2014 04:11 AM (HsTG8)

161 162 Now there's an FOIA request that would get quashed here immediately. A Cylon - Klingon pairing is explicitly outlawed by galactic treaties. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at February 18, 2014 08:11 AM (HsTG Is he missing a pinky? Call Roy Thinnes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:13 AM (olDqf)

162 BATH, Maine (AP) -- Some of the Navy's futuristic weapons sound like something out of "Star Wars," with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds. That future is now. The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year, and it intends to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel within two years. For the Navy, it's not so much about the whiz-bang technology as it is about the economics of such armaments. Both costs pennies on the dollar compared with missiles and smart bombs, and the weapons can be fired continuously, unlike missiles and bombs, which eventually run out. "It fundamentally changes the way we fight," said Capt. Mike Ziv, program manager for directed energy and electric weapon systems for the Naval Sea Systems Command. And obama hasn't cut this yet? Shocka

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:14 AM (t3UFN)

163 the Treasury Worker's Union met with Obama, Schumer and Durbin moved the ball forward,

Posted by: coriolianus snw at February 18, 2014 04:14 AM (Jsiw/)

164 158?
panzernashorn?

Yeah, I took a lot of heat at Free Republic for pointing out

"Don't give President Bush any powers you would not want President Hillary to have...."

Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 04:15 AM (ULH4o)

165 The American voters thought they'd get Morgan Freeman but instead they got Tracy Morgan.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 18, 2014 04:18 AM (CnA98)

166 136 Good Morning, RWC, itÂ’s Happy Tuesday. Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 08:01 AM (z4WKX) I know. Gabe has Happy Monday up though. (damn, again I admitted to reading the post and not just comments) I need re-education a barreling.

Posted by: RWC- at February 18, 2014 04:18 AM (fWAjv)

167
And in statute of limitations news:

A woman in South Carolina was arrested and jailed overnight over a nine-year overdue video rental.

Kayla Finley, 27, had visited a police station to report a crime, only to find a warrant for her arrest had been issued in 2005, when she was 18. Ms Finley had rented a VHS copy of romantic comedy Monster In Law, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda.

Police said several warning letters about the overdue video were sent to Ms Finley, but she had since changed address. She was charged with "failure to return rented video cassette" and will appear in court at a later date.

http://tinyurl.com/o3aar5t

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 04:18 AM (kdS6q)

168 Look. I have enough problem remembering what day it is. Do not fuck me with on this, Gabriel. Posted by: alexthechick A virtual Monday. You know, after the Presidents Day holiday.

Posted by: mindful webworker - calendar reformer at February 18, 2014 04:19 AM (13IVx)

169 83 -

I don't see a problem with Amazon selling ads.  The book is ranked 25,417  in sales.  I think  the marketers of that book are not getting their money's worth. 

Still, a quick look shows it's a book by a skier, who is getting a case of the vapors over globull warming.  Ho hum, I thought it was actually some sciency science guy.  It's not. 

Nobody is going to care what he says. 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2014 04:20 AM (BeSEI)

170 "The rest of the world won't let us keep our thermostats set at 72°." The rest of the world can kiss my little white ass. And Good Morning, Horde. SNAFU, y'all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 18, 2014 04:20 AM (0HooB)

171 Vic, WSJ also had 5 year anniversary of SCOAMF’s stimulus yesterday. It did absolutely nothing to help unemployment. I’m sure that was by design. My older brother told me to that I would like Shameless on Showtime. I started watching it from season 1 on demand in December or January. The how is usually LOL funny. The past two episodes are motor serious. One couple had problems conceiving. Woman asked her mother to do her “husband” so that they could have a baby with their genes las season. Now mother is pregnant & woman who couldn’t get pregnant is carrying triplets. I don’t want to piss off Ace but the husband has said dry bad things about the SCOAMF & it is accurate & funny as hell. I cancelled all premium channels except Showtime because they have the best series. If you have Showtime watch this week’s episode because Kevin says the most accurate description of the SCOAMF.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 04:20 AM (z4WKX)

172 9 days (1 week 2 days) left

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 9 days (1wk 2days) until spring training at February 18, 2014 04:20 AM (u8GsB)

173 167 The American voters thought they'd get Morgan Freeman but instead they got Tracy Morgan. Posted by: SE Pa Moron at February 18, 2014 08:18 AM (CnA9 Piers MorganÂ… in blackface. Now I denounce no one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:21 AM (olDqf)

174 So, Fallon had a bunch of has beens as guests?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 18, 2014 04:21 AM (6Nj7A)

175 Ever see the movie "Attack!"? - I first saw that movie on French TV and due to my language deficiencies I couldn't tell what was going on. Then years later I saw it after jig got home from a college party and I was too drunk to tell what wasgoing on. Then recently I saw it in English while sober and could finally tell what was going on. Good movie. P.S. the coward in that movie was Eddie Albert (of Green Acres fame). In fact, he distinguished himself off the beaches of Tarawa rescuing wounded soldiers and marines in the face of intense Japanese fire.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 18, 2014 04:21 AM (ee9LE)

176
Is there any governor worst than Cuomo?
Posted by: Case




Depends.  Is Rick Scott still alive, or did he get hit by a bus?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 04:22 AM (kdS6q)

177 171 Ho hum, I thought it was actually some sciency science guy. It's not. Nobody is going to care what he says. Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2014 08:20 AM (BeSEI) That's the problem. The real science guys get trashed for debunking the work of people like Al Gore and the head of the IPCC who is an Indian railroad engineer and an economist of the Keynsian variety.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:23 AM (olDqf)

178 178 Is there any governor worst than Cuomo? Posted by: Case Depends. Is Rick Scott still alive, or did he get hit by a bus? Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 08:22 AM (kdS6q Martin O'Malley and Moonbeam.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:24 AM (olDqf)

179

Hello from Down Under on Wednesday morning - and you might be hearing about the G20 forum during this year - many meetings this year  hosted in OZ with the Leaders Summit in Brisbane in November

 

The US is part of the G20...so I'm expecting protests by our resident professional demonstrators to liven things up by getting in the way of police batons and pepper spray

 

I love the fact that Breitbart has employed James Delingpole - I heard him speak here in Sydney and he was wonderful!

 

He will shake things up especially in the fake global warming/climate change crap

 

 

 

 

Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 04:24 AM (nP3cM)

180 Higher energy prices. Rolling blackouts. "The rest of the world won't let us keep our thermostats set at 72�." Government remote control of your home utilities. By the time your house is being taken for public greenspace, it hardly matters. The Green Wars have only begun. Reduce a few government buildings to rubble & that shit'll stop. Leave a man with nothing left to lose & you have just that. A man with nothing left to lose. Makes for a very dangerous creature.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2014 04:25 AM (GjYxB)

181

New Zealand's prime minister refutes claim that he his a shape-shifting reptilian space alien ushering humanity towards enslavement.

 

*whistles to self*

 

*twirls towards freedom*

Posted by: Kang at February 18, 2014 04:25 AM (87y4e)

182 181 Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 08:24 AM (nP3cM) Between Gabe telling us it's Monday and you telling us it's Wednesday, I'm totally "fermisht." ;-)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:26 AM (olDqf)

183

167 The American voters thought they'd get Morgan Freeman but instead they got Tracy Morgan.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at February 18, 2014 08:18 AM (CnA9

 

You want Morgan Fairchild.

You'll settle for Chesty Morgan.

You get Chesty Puller.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing, Proud Member of the Retard Faction at February 18, 2014 04:26 AM (zF6Iw)

184 175?
JJ?

I have no idea who those people are. Yes, I cut myself out of the popular "culture" about 27 years ago. It's trash. At best.

Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 04:27 AM (ULH4o)

185 164  Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 08:14 AM (t3UFN)


Se post #15

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 04:27 AM (T2V/1)

186 185 You get Chesty Puller. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing, Proud Member of the Retard Faction at February 18, 2014 08:26 AM (zF6Iw) If only we got Chesty Puller. We got B.S. Pulley!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:27 AM (olDqf)

187
And in Officer Friendly news:

Police officers in Hawthorne, California tasered a deaf man who was trying to tell them he had a disability by using sign language.

Jonathan Meister was loading boxes he left at a friends house into his car when cops who were told there may be a burglary at the house and arrived at the scene on February 13. The officers told Meister to stop loading the boxes but because he was deaf, Meister did not hear the police officers' commands.

Meister tried to use sign language to communicate with police and one of the officers mistook his hand motions for aggressive force.

The officers punched Meister and kicked him and also allegedly shot him twice with a taser. Another officer then gave Meister a 'drive stun' to his abdomen. The officers then allegedly beat Meister until he was unconscious reports rawstory.com.

Officers then took Meister to a hospital where he was charged with assaulting police officers. The charge was later dropped and now the officers are facing a lawsuit.

http://tinyurl.com/q3he7pg

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 04:27 AM (kdS6q)

188 He will shake things up especially in the fake global warming/climate change crap Good. It's way past time to get back to something that resembles reality. Horseface Kerry's statement yesterday that AGW = WMD is proof that he's unfit to hold orifice.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 18, 2014 04:28 AM (0HooB)

189 189 http://tinyurl.com/q3he7pg Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 08:27 AM (kdS6q) Reminds me of a classic SNL routine with Dan Aykroyd - The "X" Police. (after throwing innocent man out a window) "Â…looks like another drug related incident.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:29 AM (olDqf)

190
And this guy again:

Obama asked HBO chief for advanced episodes of Game of Thrones to watch over Presidents' Day Weekend

http://tinyurl.com/lujxnhu


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 04:31 AM (kdS6q)

191

184 JJ Sefton

 

Yes it's definitely Wednesday here in the future

 

I've just sent a Happy Birthday text for yesterday here /today there  to my SIL who is in Alberquerque for work..

 

 Bloody confusing

Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 04:31 AM (nP3cM)

192 185 You get Chesty Puller.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing, Proud Member of the Retard Faction at February 18, 2014 08:26 AM (zF6Iw)



I would have loved to sit down have a beer or two with Chesty Puller.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 04:31 AM (T2V/1)

193 Is there any governor worst than Cuomo? Posted by: Case Depends. Is Rick Scott still alive, or did he get hit by a bus? Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 08:22 AM (kdS6q Martin O'Malley and Moonbeam. Different frame: The most disappointing governor is John Kasich.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 18, 2014 04:32 AM (659DL)

194 NC guv is shopping for groceries. Clerk gives him a piece of his mind on politics. Clerk gets fired. Guv gets bad press. Posted by: NCKate at February 18, 2014 07:02 AM (1FoIf) Sorry, that's a stupid thing to do when you're on the clock.

Posted by: --- at February 18, 2014 04:32 AM (MMC8r)

195

167: "The American voters thought they'd get Morgan Freeman but instead they got Tracy Morgan."

 

You want Morgan Freeman.

 

You'll accept Tracey Morgan.

 

You'll get Mugabe.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 18, 2014 04:32 AM (Kh+vp)

196 #17 I have been getting two compounded prescriptions from The Apothecary Shoppe in Tulsa for over a decade. They are very nice folks and the compounding area is immaculate. It's all in plain sight behind large plate glass windows. Frankly, drugs compounded there are too good for that dayum Missouri scum.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at February 18, 2014 04:33 AM (OkOX2)

197 Posted by: phoenix girl @phxazgrl 9 days (1wk 2days) until spring training at February 18, 2014 08:20 AM (u8GsB) Phoenix Girl thanks for that & including today there are only eleven more days left in February. I include today because it’s just started, March 1 is a week from Saturday! This has been a very long snowy month. More snow is on the way here in Boston area. They say a few inches to start around ten am. I hope they’re right & didn’t make the wrong call like they did Saturday. I dint ‘think we were having a blizzard despite all their warnings & we did not.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 04:33 AM (z4WKX)

198 BEIJING — China’s military says its average soldier has grown taller and wider over the past two decades, leading to cramped tanks and other equipment problems. The official People’s Liberation Army Daily newspaper said Tuesday that a survey of 20,000 troops begun in 2009 showed them to be an average of 2 centimeters (about three-quarters of an inch) taller and 5 centimeters (about 2 inches) bigger around the waist. It said that was causing discomfort when soldiers tried to squeeze into tanks designed 30 years ago for troops of considerably smaller size. It said rifle barrels were also relatively short for the taller soldiers, leading to accuracy problems. It said adjustments would be made, with 28 body measurements taken into consideration when designing new firearms and other equipment. ??? I don't suppose North Korea is experiencing the same problems ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:33 AM (t3UFN)

199 OT...



It has begun. The place of my employment has Decreed that all Employees shall join the Company Wellness/Fitness Program or the Company shall pro-rate the amount they "donate" towards health insurance.


In other words, lose weight and start running tubby or we'll give you a pay cut (keep in mind that health insurance falls under "compensation" and is taxed/not taxed accordingly).


Fuck those assholes. I worked for a company for 20 years that owned my ass, and this one ain't it. I'm about ready for a change of scenery anyway.


I say that so I can say this...welcome to the future of "company sponsored health insurance" in the Obamanation. Thanks 52, you fuckwads.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 18, 2014 04:33 AM (yh0zB)

200 "The American voters thought they'd get Morgan Freeman but instead they got Tracy Morgan." I was hoping for Milton Friedman,

Posted by: --- at February 18, 2014 04:33 AM (MMC8r)

201 Officers then took Meister to a hospital where he was charged with assaulting police officers. The charge was later dropped and now the officers are facing a lawsuit. Need to be facing an ASP baton.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2014 04:34 AM (GjYxB)

202 "This is old, but it's what I think of now every time I hear that. http://is.gd/coASbp" -HR "Public housing residents say being in a room where an outside party regulates the heat is like sitting behind the steering wheel while someone else drunk-drives the car." fixd

Posted by: mindful webworker - green and greed, similar by coincidence? I think not at February 18, 2014 04:35 AM (bDqG/)

203 It said that was causing discomfort when soldiers tried to squeeze into tanks designed 30 years ago for troops of considerably smaller size. If it's a T-72-based model, they were ALWAYS small. Russian tankers are a bunch of Robert Reichs.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 18, 2014 04:35 AM (659DL)

204 Oh, hey, and by the way, that fatass spouse of yours better get on the stick as well or it will cost you even more.


I'm wondering how well that one is going to play out...but hey, take Caesar's coin, pay Caesar's price.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 18, 2014 04:35 AM (yh0zB)

205 Obama asked HBO chief for advanced episodes of Game of Thrones to watch over Presidents' Day Weekend

http://tinyurl.com/lujxnhu


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 18, 2014 08:31 AM (kdS6q)



Is there any evidence that lazy cocksucker has ever done an iota of work in his pampered life?

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 04:37 AM (hylEe)

206 UConn is also where the feminists got all upset because they thought the new husky logo was too rapey.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at February 18, 2014 04:38 AM (6GRz5)

207 The place of my employment has Decreed that all Employees shall join the Company Wellness/Fitness Program or the Company shall pro-rate the amount they "donate" towards health insurance. Penn State University tried the same thing with its employees and it ended up in court. I seem to recall the school backed down.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 18, 2014 04:39 AM (CnA98)

208 208 UConn is also where the feminists got all upset because they thought the new husky logo was too rapey. Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at February 18, 2014 08:38 AM (6GRz5) Was the furry red thing unsheathed???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 18, 2014 04:41 AM (olDqf)

209 166 backhoe its unsettling, to say the least, to witness the process --while the citizenry embraces the forces of self destruction -- as if to save themselves from something worse? It's like a person who'd rather commit suicide than fight the good fight. We're all losers now. I heard an optimist's belief that given unity, Americans yet rally together. Last week Ace wrote that our nation's First Principles do NOT provide common ground in America. And I disagree, since the Constitution and Bill of Rights are the single matter that all Americans share in common -- regardless of degree of respect, and well noting the Marxist and Eugenics "progressives" who themselves usurped that term in order to crown themselves the New Tyrant Oligarchy through the old system of authoritarianism. Without a sure foundation, a collapse through faulty grounding will happen. "Given Unity" e pluribus unum what am I willing to share as one with others? Constitutional integrity that protects liberty, the sovereign fruits of self responsibility in the pursuit of happiness, all being equal under the law. ..."given unity" is the misnomer, and sadly 9/11/01 notes the passage of public trust from recollective into dust during each subsequent year's Washington follies. Debt is Gold Bondage is Wealth Arbeit Macht Frei

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 04:41 AM (MhA4j)

210 Deval Patrick has to be one of the worse Governor in the country. he is a twin of the SCOAMF. I can’t remember his exact words on a September 11 anniversary, but instead of calling it terrorist, he said it was some kind of “misunderstanding!” Sad thing that people here in MA fell for his fake lines twice, he & TFG used same worlds, same campaign manager.. I’m still waiting nearly eight years later for the 1,000 extra police on the streets of Boston. He also promised o reduce property taxes but I don’t live in Boston, but he hasn’t kept one of his campaign promises.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 04:41 AM (z4WKX)

211 Russia beating Norway 1-0 in men's hockey 2nd period

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:42 AM (t3UFN)

212

Gooood morning!

 

From the sidebar:

 

I'm Starting to Think Women Just Really Hate Human Men, Because All Their Fantasies Are About Vampires, Werewolves, Dinosaurs, and Now Cute Alien Boys       Nonsense.  Of course we don't hate men.    Vaginalogues do, but not actual women.     Now tell me more about these cute alien boys...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at February 18, 2014 04:42 AM (4df7R)

213

201 GGE etc

 

We were a bit amazed at dept store workers in Beijing lined up in aisles before opening time and jumping, stretching, touching toes etc

 

Looked very regimented too

 

Looks like you'll be doing the same soon over there very soon..

Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 04:43 AM (nP3cM)

214 "Ms Finley had rented a VHS copy of romantic comedy Monster In Law, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda." I take back everything I said about the injustice of Ms Finley's incarceration.

Posted by: mindful webworker - remembers when traitor was a bad thing at February 18, 2014 04:43 AM (Jh9QN)

215 Any thoughts on the new Cadillac commercial?
The one about leaving a car on the moon with the keys in it.

Has a few digs at the European way of life in it.
Effet poofters want to take naps in the afternoon, and the entire month of August off, and still rule the world.

I sort of think that I like it.


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 18, 2014 04:45 AM (DHj6D)

216 Folks gonna sign off for today BBT

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 18, 2014 04:45 AM (T2V/1)

217 Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 08:33 AM (t3UFN) But the helmets still fit? ...growth hormones, feed 'em to the tanks, too, all things being equal, peabrains

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 04:45 AM (MhA4j)

218 Today is the 116th anniversary of the birth of Italian automobile designer and entrepreneur Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (1898-198 near Modena " Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines" - Ferrari

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 04:46 AM (aDwsi)

219 Time to go back to school http://tinyurl.com/njamseo George Mason University will allow male and female students to live together in on-campus dorm rooms starting this fall, adding itself to the growing list of U.S. schools that formally offer gender-neutral housing. The move places one of the largest schools in Virginia among nearly 150 other colleges or universities across the country that have stated policies providing gender-neutral housing. The practice is widely viewed as a way for colleges to ensure the safety and comfort of students who are uneasy about rooming with others of the same sex, and it also opens up on-campus housing to romantic couples of different sexes. I don't see how this could turn out bad.

Posted by: RWC- at February 18, 2014 04:46 AM (fWAjv)

220 Gee snowing like a SOB right now. My assistant is probably going to call me in a few and say she is going to be late and can't find a place to park. I am sure it never occured to her to leave 30 minutes early on a day like this? Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:47 AM (t3UFN)

221 "9 days (1 week 2 days) left" -phoenixgirl I was going to ask if this had been explained, but I was going to wait for 7 days. So, I'm not asking.

Posted by: mindful webworker - just wondering at February 18, 2014 04:47 AM (9Zci/)

222 Obama: Obamacare Is Going To Be So Awesome People Will Stop Calling It ObamacareÂ… Yeah, donÂ’t think so. Weasel Zippers: Yeah I am sure, and the next Disney will be built in Iran also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:48 AM (t3UFN)

223 Russia 2-0 over Norway

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:49 AM (t3UFN)

224 ...but he hasnÂ’t kept one of his campaign promises.  Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 08:41 AM

If you loved Devil Patrick, you're gonna absolutely adore Martin J Walsh!

This guy is pushin' de Blasio in the Incapable Shitweasel Contest....

Posted by: MrScribbler at February 18, 2014 04:49 AM (ff7/5)

225 Re: companies prorating insurance based on "health". Let me guess...they use BMI. I'm pretty much fucked with BMI. Even at my most fit, I'm considered overweight due to muscle mass. Not to mention that the whole concept is bullshit anyway. Which is why I could see my company latching on to it and myself finding another source of insurance.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 18, 2014 04:50 AM (Os+6p)

226 Backhoe, I donÂ’t know who half the people referenced are either. If I want to know, I look them up on IMDB. But more often I donÂ’t care.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 04:50 AM (z4WKX)

227 I'm pretty much fucked with BMI. Even at my most fit, I'm considered overweight due to muscle mass. Even at 10 pounds over my maximum 'proper' BMI, I've been rail-thin. I'm not tall, but I'm built wide. Short of losing a leg, meeting BMI is out of the question.

Posted by: --- at February 18, 2014 04:52 AM (MMC8r)

228 An Iranian hack of the Navy's largest unclassified computer network reportedly took more than four months to resolve, raising concern among some lawmakers about security gaps exposed by the attack. The Wall Street Journal, citing current and former U.S. officials, reported late Monday that the cyberattack targeted the Navy Marine Corps Internet, which is used by the Navy Department to host websites, store nonsensitive information, and handle voice, video, and data communications. The paper reported that the hackers were able to remain in the network until this past November. That contradicts what officials told the Journal when the attack was first publicly reported this past September. At the time, officials told the paper that the intruders had been removed. "It was a real big deal," a senior U.S. official told the Journal. "It was a significant penetration that showed a weakness in the system." The quoted official said that the Iranians were able to conduct surveillance and compromise communications over the unclassified computer networks of the Navy and Marine Corps. However, another senior official told the Journal that no e-mail accounts were hacked and no data was stolen. There is also no evidence that Iran was able to penetrate classified U.S. computer networks. The cyberattack is one of the one of the most serious infiltrations of government computer systems by the Iranians. The Journal reported that U.S. defense officials were surprised at the skill of the hackers, who were able to enter the network through a security gap in a public-facing website. The military response to the hack was over seen by Vice Adm. Mike Rogers, President Obama's pick to be the next head the National Security Agency. Congressional aides told the Journal that Rogers would likely face questions on plans to fix security issues that have surfaced as a result of the attack. A confirmation hearing for Rogers has not yet been scheduled. Well if all they got into was NKO, I hope they did all my GMTs for me.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:52 AM (t3UFN)

229 Reduce a few government buildings to rubble & that shit'll stop. -rickb223 OKC 1994 Apr 19. I remember the day, so clear and bright. I watched live as they went through the rubble. I've stood in the memorial, gazed at the little chairs representing the day care center victims. No.

Posted by: mindful webworker - just wondering at February 18, 2014 04:53 AM (kUq7A)

230

So we're supposed to get another 6-10" of snow today here in central NH.   Of course it had to be today and couldn't have been yesterday, when I was home for the holiday and wouldn't have had to drive in it.  Nooo, of course not.  

 

As it is, between the plow and the snowblower the snowbanks around my driveway are taller than me at this point.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at February 18, 2014 04:54 AM (4df7R)

231 217 haven't seen it But I'd enjoy viewing a Cadillac drive/flying into the sunset and soaring above to the moon. That' something Americans dream. On US auto sales pitch, I can't be the only consumer who eschews the many negative Chrysler Detroit "Import" connotations. (Imported labor, or outsourced jobs, and the divisive regionalism promoting anti-US unity...) Ford (example) would be smart to launch the ad campaign "American Owned" which stimulates the American consumer's desire and positive sentiments.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 04:54 AM (MhA4j)

232 OK, 'rons, I'm going to sign off too.  I'm too tired to be coherent in any real sense.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 18, 2014 04:55 AM (zF6Iw)

233 Any thoughts on the new Cadillac commercial? The one about leaving a car on the moon with the keys in it. Has a few digs at the European way of life in it. Effet poofters want to take naps in the afternoon, and the entire month of August off, and still rule the world. I sort of think that I like it. ------------- It's pretty easy for GM to be Rah Rah America since they got a bailout and fucked over their bondholders, courtesy of the United States Government. It's crass and manipulative marketing intended to get you to buy a shitty electric car while feeling Red Meat Macho. Screw em.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 04:55 AM (PFy0L)

234 Citizens must push for limits on the use of imminent domain takings. http://tinyurl.com/osdngaq Posted by: Vic at February 18, 2014 06:54 AM (T2V/1) Vic, I agree with Mark Levin on SCOTUS, they should not be lifetime appointments. They should be on Court for a certain period of time. I donÂ’t remember what limit Levin has recommended but Captain Hate or J.J. will know.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 04:55 AM (z4WKX)

235 Yeah BMI is pure unadulterated BS. I saw an index which is better, take your height in inches and divide by two. Your waist measurement should not exceed that number. The waist area is where most people carry excess fat.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 18, 2014 04:56 AM (CnA98)

236 But I'd enjoy viewing a Cadillac drive/flying into the sunset and soaring above to the moon. Mike Nesmith, Eldorado to the Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpOQKUAYZ0w

Posted by: --- at February 18, 2014 04:56 AM (MMC8r)

237 I'm still pissed that there is no Justified this week.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 18, 2014 04:56 AM (6Nj7A)

238 The waist area is where most people carry excess fat. Posted by: SE Pa Moron at February 18, 2014 08:56 AM (CnA9 Not when you suck it in when your taped

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2014 04:57 AM (t3UFN)

239 Some news, from Merryland (It's a good time to be part of the folks that arrived *after* go-live...lol): Analysis: Health exchange problems could be more serious and expensive than reported "The decision over what to do about HIX will have a significant effect on the exchangeÂ’s cost of operations. If HIX is fixed, the state would keep the advantages of running its own exchange while committing to bear the costs of fixing or replacing HIX, finishing its functionality and paying significant operations and maintenance including software licensure for proprietary software built into HIX. If HIX were abandoned, the effects generally would be the opposite. The governor may want to consider procuring an independent study to objectively quantify taxpayersÂ’ cost of his options in lieu of making a decision that may be too influenced by the prevailing political winds." Read more: http://bit.ly/1oMtr52

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at February 18, 2014 04:58 AM (0zXml)

240 As it is, between the plow and the snowblower the snowbanks around my driveway are taller than me at this point. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 18, 2014 08:54 AM (4df7R) Tunnel, if it keeps up, to the house door... Japan's 3+foot snow in one day collapsed home roofs. Knock on wood. We're not there, yet.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 04:59 AM (MhA4j)

241 228?
Carol?

I look at the junk the magazines in the checkout lines peddle, and despair.

Have we really fallen so far, so fast? We have a garbage can "culture" now. Americans used to know better than to pander to that shit. 0-merica apparently does not know any better.

Posted by: backhoe at February 18, 2014 05:00 AM (ULH4o)

242 You wanted to fly in a Caddy, You get a Chevelle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmOH8bDBF4

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 05:00 AM (aDwsi)

243 NY wants to split the State, but with a twist and it actually may be doable because for federal purposes it will still be one State. So congress will not be able to have any say in it. A real split would be good for us; this has no impact.
http://tinyurl.com/l7ahks5
Posted by: Vic at February 18, 2014 06:57 AM (T2V/1)


I love this idea, however, I'd like to see Westchester join the upstate portion. Hell, I've already been lobbying Westchester for years now to build a giant West Bank style wall around downtown Yonkers, cutting off the worst parts of Yonkers and NYC from Westchester in preperation for The Burning Times™.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 18, 2014 05:01 AM (W7ffl)

244 Looks like you'll be doing the same soon over there very soon..

Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 08:43 AM (nP3cM)



The fuck I will. I'll be the asshole sitting up on the bank with a 12 pack and a pizza saying "FASTER!!! FASTER!!! YOU SUCK!!!"



It will be worth the pay cut.



Dangergirl, yes BMI, and I'm double fucked. I'm a fat guy from a family of fat guys, and the best I've ever been able to do in my prime was 23%, that's using the neck/waist measurements, and that was only by running 2 miles a day. I might have done that when I was 26, but now I'm 20 years older...yeah, ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 18, 2014 05:01 AM (yh0zB)

245 This is from Bill Kristol from The Weekly Standard, going after TFG for saying he can do what ever he wants: http://tinyurl.com/mjfbknu

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 05:02 AM (z4WKX)

246 http://tinyurl.com/njamseo George Mason University will allow male and female students to live together in on-campus dorm rooms starting this fall, adding itself to the growing list of U.S. schools that formally offer gender-neutral housing. The move places one of the largest schools in Virginia among nearly 150 other colleges or universities across the country that have stated policies providing gender-neutral housing. The practice is widely viewed as a way for colleges to ensure the safety and comfort of students who are uneasy about rooming with others of the same sex, and it also opens up on-campus housing to romantic couples of different sexes. -------------- Here's the thing. It's being pushed by the Gay/Lesbian/Transgendered/Questioning director of George Mason University. And it's being pushed precisely so a gay man can live with a female roommate and avoid "feeling uncomfortable." It has to be pitched as impacting everyone to avoid the perception of "special rights for gay men" even though that's exactly what it is. Lesbians aren't going to go live with men. The percentage of straight women wanting to live with straight men will be vanishingly small. Nothing kills sexual desire quite like cohabitation. No, this is an idea that is being floated to benefit just one small subgroup and protect their fragile feelings from the big bad homophobic world. Apparently it's expected that all of society must rearrange itself. No, the gay man can't just buck up and deal with the situation. Of course, if the situation were reversed and a straight expressed discomfort over rooming with a gay man, the response would be for the straight guy to just deal with his issues - undoubtedly helped by mandatory sensitivity training. Colleges are fucked. As an aside - if you have a kid who attends George Mason university, you have tuition dollars being collected to pay someone to think up stupid shit like this.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 05:02 AM (PFy0L)

247 Pets need feeding. Day needs doing. It being Monday and all. Y'think mebbe Gabe had that ready yesterday and just Fed's it to today? :: SCRATTTTTCH :: All right! I'm getting kibbles!

Posted by: mindful webworker - cat man do at February 18, 2014 05:04 AM (ma3QC)

248 Vic, I agree with Mark Levin on SCOTUS, they should not be lifetime appointments. They should be on Court for a certain period of time. I donÂ’t remember what limit Levin has recommended but Captain Hate or J.J. will know.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 08:55 AM (z4WKX)



12 years

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 05:04 AM (hylEe)

249 aussie - Received a note from my cousin in Perth last week. Seems you for you folk (or at least in Perth) it is a very hot and dry summer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 05:05 AM (aDwsi)

250 I explained that he got a pay cut because his insurance (that his cost in premium went up too) is worth a lot less than it used to be. The look on his face was something else as the light bulb went off. Posted by: Lester at February 18, 2014 08:10 AM (2UPXV) Lester, Is he a LIV & just didnÂ’t know it was coming? I hope the people that suffer the most from TFGcare are the ones that voted for him. Do you know if he voted for him?

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 05:05 AM (z4WKX)

251 Arggggh. Five in-laws descending on us tomorrow to stay for three days. All women. Just shoot me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 05:06 AM (aDwsi)

252 Very nice Vic!  After reading the AGW/UFO con linky...  What was the sci-fi movie that got turned into a series with the (slave) spacey aliens arriving by ark.  They could also get a beer buzz from spoiled milk?  Off to IMDB  (I think Cann played in to movie.?)
Have a good week!

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at February 18, 2014 05:06 AM (qPeNV)

253 fwd'd. sigh

Posted by: mindful webworker - cat man do at February 18, 2014 05:06 AM (ma3QC)

254 You wanted to fly in a Caddy,
You get a Chevelle Cimmaron:

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 09:00 AM (aDwsi)




FIFY

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 18, 2014 05:07 AM (yh0zB)

255 As it is, between the plow and the snowblower the snowbanks around my driveway are taller than me at this point.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 18, 2014 08:54 AM (4df7R)


Same here, my driveway has been getting smaller everyday now and I cant see over the top of the snow walls anymore. My biggest problem is it's a gravel driveway and loooong so I just been getting my shoveling on. And it looks like it'll be another hour or two of shovel duty tonight when I get home. Ugh.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 18, 2014 05:07 AM (W7ffl)

256 Just finished an amusing book about horrible movies. However, the author felt the need to take cheap shots throughout at Republicans, Bush, etc which ruined the entire experience. You're describing movies and movie plots, there is no need for the bullshit. Took a four star book down to one. Fuck authors and their need to shove their political views overtly into everything.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 18, 2014 05:07 AM (pUAXu)

257 The shape-shifting-reptilian-alien-taking-over-the-world bunch are also Truthers. Whoda thunk.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at February 18, 2014 05:10 AM (4Chvm)

258 As an aside - if you have a kid who attends George Mason university, you have tuition dollars being collected to pay someone to think up stupid shit like this. Posted by: @JohnTant ---------------------- "Someone"? Like most schools they have an entire department devoted to it. Here's a list of the staff: http://odime.gmu.edu/mission-values-and-staff/

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 05:10 AM (aDwsi)

259

246 GGE etc

 

We were eating hot dumplings while we watched these poor people doing their star jumps

 

Forced exercise? No bloody way for this Aussie..

Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 05:11 AM (nP3cM)

260 Caan not Cann

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at February 18, 2014 05:11 AM (qPeNV)

261 Same here, my driveway has been getting smaller everyday now and I cant see over the top of the snow walls anymore. My biggest problem is it's a gravel driveway and loooong so I just been getting my shoveling on. And it looks like it'll be another hour or two of shovel duty tonight when I get home. Ugh.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 18, 2014 09:07 AM (W7ffl)

 

Ugh.   I can sympathize.  I had to spend a decent portion of yesterday digging out from the snowdrifts that had sprung up since digging out after Friday's storm. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at February 18, 2014 05:12 AM (4df7R)

262 238. -- (MMC8r) thanks, I hadn't seen it before. Cute humor, clinky Caribbean music. (the only place you'll still find those cars on the road) That car is one of the most beautiful American autos ever made and driven with utmost pride. on flying Chitty chitty bang bang http://tinyurl.com/q9zfu64 For the past two decades, I haven't liked Cadillac designs. For all the latest supposed aerodynamic aesthetic, it's old hat cubism giving the lines forced, juxtaposed corners that look arbitrary, robotic, and uncomfortable.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 05:12 AM (MhA4j)

263 Took a four star book down to one. Fuck authors and their need to shove their political views overtly into everything.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 18, 2014 09:07 AM (pUAXu)



I've decided to say "fuck you" to every one of those shitheads even if I've previously enjoyed their work.  There are enough classics which I haven't read that I can enjoy instead of some asswipe dimwit who feels compelled to ram his stupid fucking politics into my retinas.  Every time they do that:  Boom GTFO.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 05:13 AM (hylEe)

264 Dump up.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 18, 2014 05:14 AM (PFy0L)

265 Bye Horde, This is my favorite time of day here, but I have to make myself eat two scones. They work for gaining weight. I have been eating two every morning for two months. I do not have any appetites in the morning & it takes me a half hour or more to get them down. I hope everyone has a nice day.

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 05:15 AM (z4WKX)

266 OT...
It has begun. The place of my employment has Decreed that all Employees shall join the Company Wellness/Fitness Program or the Company shall pro-rate the amount they "donate" towards health insurance.

In other words, lose weight and start running tubby or we'll give you a pay cut (keep in mind that health insurance falls under "compensation" and is taxed/not taxed accordingly).

I'm staff at a local college and they are doing the same thing here but even taking it a step further.  If you want the discounted rate you have to submit to a wellness check where your weight, BP, BMI, cholesterol, etc are recorded and compared to annually when benefits are able to be renewed.   You then also have to submit proof of a annual exam with full work done. It's under the guise of 'wellness program' and those who sign up get a discount rate, but I find it a little too Orwellian for my tastes.  I refused to sign up and took the hit

I am currently doing a lifestyle change by gradually losing weight and cutting back on the smoking by choice and not by coercion.  The former is motivation to do so, the latter is demotivation to do so

Posted by: Astronaut Achmed at February 18, 2014 05:15 AM (YLZSZ)

267 This is from Bill Kristol from The Weekly Standard, going after TFG for saying he can do what ever he wants:
http://tinyurl.com/mjfbknu

Posted by: Carol at February 18, 2014 09:02 AM (z4WKX)



I'm a big Kristol fan; although I think he's wrong on a few things his arguments are usually well stated and the Repubs would be well advised to pay more attention to what he has to say instead of that dumbass Rove.  His smackdown of F Chuck on the Intern Killer's show was a thing of beauty; also unloading on those idiots for how they fawn over that dickbreath RINO Huntsman.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 18, 2014 05:17 AM (hylEe)

268

251 Mike Hammer

 

Hi there - over in Perth is has been a very hot dry summer- they've had some bad bushfires too

 

Here in Sydney it's been warm too but we do get humid days- and we've had a bit of rain the past couple of days for which my very thirsty frangipani  is very grateful!

 

As for humidity - I've been to Singapore and Vietnam = humid enough to walk around as if I'd gone swimming in my clothes.... but the very worst most awful humidity I have EVER experienced was in Washington DC

 

I was thinking of checking my travel insurance regarding transport of a dead body back to OZ - me,  killed by the weather!

 

 

 

Posted by: aussie at February 18, 2014 05:20 AM (nP3cM)

269 Saw an interesting guest on Greta the other evening, talking about global warming. He said that even if one accepts the AGW crowd's definition of "warming" that no one presently in high school or younger has ever seen any warming, and that everyone of middle school age or younger has only seen global cooling. All these so-called facts are open for debate, but what isn't debatable is that even by al-Gore's "standards" AGW is an issue from nearly a generation ago, if it was even ever an issue.

Posted by: MTF at February 18, 2014 05:22 AM (F58x4)

270 The problem I see is that they put that ad up on the home page for Amazon and it takes up half the page with AGW propaganda. Making the ad itself propaganda. Posted by: Vic at February 18, 2014 07:33 AM (T2V/1) It's one of Amazon's published authors. Why should they? One expects them to do so.

Posted by: baldilocks at February 18, 2014 05:26 AM (36Rjy)

271 259. on reptilians, the first time I saw Putin's face he looked the serpent. rereading, W nailed it. AFTER dialogue, the acknowledgement towards mutual respect. "Trustworthy" as to take Putin at his word, do not cross Putin and expect no fall out. http://tinyurl.com/npakbul Bush and Putin: Best of friends [snark] Mr Bush described their meeting as straightforward and effective. He said it was time to move beyond Cold War attitudes, away from mutually assured destruction towards mutually earned respect. "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue. "I was able to get a sense of his soul. "He's a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country and I appreciate very much the frank dialogue and that's the beginning of a very constructive relationship," Mr Bush said. Echoing Mr Bush he called the United States Russia's partner. Warm words, unthinkable just a few months ago. The Russian leader said both their countries bore a special responsibility for maintaining world peace and security. However he warned that any unilateral action would make that process more complicated - a signal that difficult discussions on Nato and the US missile defence system still lie ahead. = http://tinyurl.com/d65sleu In contrast, eight times and counting, Obama bows first thing, establishing US subservience prior to international negotiations. Hillary "resets" mistranslation first thing. Overcharge, the obvious failures to communicate.

Posted by: panzernashorn at February 18, 2014 05:31 AM (MhA4j)

272 Nothing kills sexual desire quite like cohabitation.
Just ask my wife!

Posted by: zombie rodney dangerfield at February 18, 2014 05:32 AM (14um2)

273 You wanted to fly in a Caddy, You get a Chevelle Cimmaron: ------------------------ In many ways, this is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 18, 2014 05:33 AM (aDwsi)

274 Nothing says American freedom like some fourth wife in a mosque marriage being told to see the mufti for a fatwa on how her husband can beat her if she disobeys. Every time someone says it's crazy to think some Islamic practice could threaten us, it's already happened.

Posted by: Beagle at February 18, 2014 07:16 AM (sOtz/)

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