February 26, 2014

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— Gabriel Malor

Uh oh! Guess what day it is.

Josh Kraushaar thinks Sen. Paul is the frontrunner for 2016.

The Clinton library is out of excuses for withholding about 33,000 pages of records from the Clinton White House. Under the law, the 12-year exemption from disclosure expired last year.

I wrote about this on twitter briefly yesterday. A former Gitmo detainee, now the director of a UK "human rights" group was arrested for participating in some way with terrorism in Syria. Of course, his lefty apologists are still confused.

DCCC memo: Dems are ready to go on offense over Obamacare. Hah. Bring it on.

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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, February 26, 2014.  On this day in 1917 the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded the first jazz record in NYC for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:52 AM (T2V/1)

2 Early this morning.  Howdy morons.

Posted by: sawhorse at February 26, 2014 02:52 AM (e1h7z)

3 35 State Obamacide sites were listed as "high risk" BEFORE they were launched for use AND officials knew this.  Once again proving what a pile of lying jackals this corrupt administration is.


http://tinyurl.com/mu6x9gp

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

4 As most of us thought, the military cut Obama is doing is for increased domestic spending.


Note: TinyURL is OOS this morning so I had to go with IS.GD.  It works better anyway.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

5 More BS tucked away in the Obamacare bill nobody read.  Most chain restaurants have to put BS nutritional info beside every food item.  99.9% of the people will never read the shit.  More than likely this will the death of picking your own pizza toppings.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

6 More on the upcoming CA desert.  But I'll bet those delta smelt have their water.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

7 CA couple finds $20M worth of old gold coins buried beneath a tree while walking their dog.  They will probably get to keep $1M after selling them off to pay the taxes.  They should have kept their mouths shut until they sold them a little at a time.  But then again, they're living in CA so they can't be too smart.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

8 The Dingleball nightmare is not over.  His damned wife is going to run for his seat.  Keep in mind that Dingleballs inherited the seat from his father in 1955.  This is a dangerous trend nationwide.  Career politicians are becoming royalty passing on offices to relatives and children. This is something the founders definitely were against.  But WTF, the founders would not recognize this country anyway.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

9 A judge has shit all over a town's use of traffic camera speeding cameras.  These things are nothing more than a money-making gimmick and are actually dangerous according to statistical review.


http://is.gd/bKCMqA

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

10 The corrupt IRS is warning people about the Obamacare "tax".  This after the infamous Robert's ruling that included the caveat that people could not be punished for not buying insurance but could be "taxed".


http://is.gd/7KyI5W

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

11 The NFL is warning AZ that they may pull the superbowl if Brewer signs that bill. They have bowed down and kissed the gay mafia's ass.  If I was AZ's gov I would go back to their legislature and ask for a bill calling the NFL's action extortion and making it illegal for them to operate anything in AZ.  


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

12 3>> Once again proving what a pile of lying jackals EVERY political administration is...this one more so than others. FIFY Good morning everyone!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 26, 2014 02:55 AM (60Vyp)

13 I hope someone sues the living dog shit out of these people.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

14 Where is the racism outcry?  FL Democrat says who will we get to do our lawns and clean motel rooms if we don't pass the amnesty bill.  Well scrunt, all those 30 million illegals are not going to quit doing those things if the bill doesn't pass.  In fact, more than likely they will quit doing them if it passes.


http://is.gd/ArQSPE

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

15 CNN's rating continue going into the shitter.  One thing to keep in mind about this.  Advertisers pay based on ratings so every time they lose a point in ratings their revenue loses big. Hahahaha; ♪ happy days are here again ♫


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

16

The Clinton library is out of excuses for withholding about 33,000 pages of records from the Clinton White House. Under the law, the 12-year exemption from disclosure expired last year.

 

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 02:56 AM (zF6Iw)

17 DAY 478 986 to go (1,059 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, minions, 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 26, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)

18 Senile asshole will go to Venezuela to "help".


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

19 Assholes in Republican leadership need to take note of this new issue; Ted Cruz is "political gold".


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

20 Max schadenfreude; Black Pastors:  "Impeach Eric Holder".  I guess there is only so far a corrupt black politician can go.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

21 Reid does not have the votes for the union pushing minimum wage hike in the Senate.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

22 8 Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 06:54 AM (T2V/1) Vic, the Dingleberry Dynasty is longer than you think. Papa Dingleberry was the congressman from 1928 to 1955 when the current shriveled up Dingleberry gained the throne.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 02:57 AM (olDqf)

23 Issa has sent Lois Lerner's lawyer a letter recalling her under the original subpoena and stating that her 5th claim is not valid.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

24 Greenpeace co-founder tells Senate committee there is no evidence that humans are causing global warming.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

25 More police thuggary.  Cops beat, pepper spray, and kill an innocent man.  I'm sure the citizens taxpayers of this town will be glad to pay the multimillion dollar settlement as these 4 cops go free of any punishment.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

26

Morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.  Here are a couple of stories that really have no point and donÂ’t have any connection to each other.

 

First – while Citizen Kane is often referred to as the greatest movie ever made (I, personally, find it mannered and boring), in my opinion, Orson Welles gives a much better performance as black marketer Harry Lime in 1949s The Third Man.  Upon its release, it was announced as “A London Film Production presented by Alexander Korda and David O. Selznick,” but when it premiered in America, the credits ran, “David O. Selznick presents The Third Man.  Produced by David O. Selznick.”

 

One night in Paris, shortly after the premiere, Welles, Korda and Selznick were having dinner.  “My dear David,” Korda began, “I have seen the American titles.”  Selznick, having been caught out, began to stutter excuses, but Korda cut him off.  “I only hope that I donÂ’t die before you do.”

 

“What do you mean?” Selznick asked.

 

“I don’t want to think of you sneaking into the cemetery and scratching my name off my tombstone,” Korda answered.

 

HereÂ’s a picture of Third ManÂ’s leading lady Alida Valli: 

 

http://tinyurl.com/lcu9v8t


 

 

I donÂ’t remember where I read this next story; probably in Darwin PorterÂ’s loathsome Hollywood Babylon – ItÂ’s Back!.  In any event, the story is that Marlon Brando – who, at the time, was sleeping with James Dean – brought Dean to Lee StrasbergÂ’s Actors Studio, where Marilyn Monroe was studying, and introduced them.  DeanÂ’s first words to Monroe were, “Do you want to fuck?”

 

To which Monroe replied, “How did you know what my favorite thing in the world is?”

 

As it turns out, the two didnÂ’t sleep together; they passed the afternoon talking.

 

And hereÂ’s one of my favorite pictures of MM, a publicity still from 1953s Niagara:  http://tinyurl.com/lv3wsm3

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.


 

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 02:58 AM (zF6Iw)

27 Unindicted criminal Holder is getting some feedback for his idiotic statement to the State AGs.


HolderÂ’s claim is bizarre, preposterous, unprecedented, lawless and political, his critics say.


http://is.gd/uSW8eg

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

28 Idiot Democrat in VA is running against Bush/Cheney.  I think that dog quit barking a long time ago asshole.  And that doesn't even count the completely insane statement he makes.


http://is.gd/kgEXbJ

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

29 CA city is trying to close a gun store and run them out of town.  They are using a BS sign ordinance to do it.


http://is.gd/A0nicU

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

30 Teen suspended for 90 days and ordered to attend an "alternate" school for 90 days because he drove his dad's car to school and it had a fishing knife in it.  When are voters going to quit putting up with this shit?


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

31 Booker cronies in public office mired in corruption and the media is silent.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 02:59 AM (T2V/1)

32 Piers Morgan's co-workers are glad he got fired.  They said he was an asshole.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:00 AM (T2V/1)

33 More Bidenisms (another thing the media is strangely silent on).


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:00 AM (T2V/1)

34 125,000 illegals in CA to get Medicaid (guess who pays for that).   More subsidies for illegals.  It's like putting out food for cockroaches and rats in your kitchen at night.  Instead of cutting subsidies for illegals we are increasing them.


http://is.gd/VJfzlQ

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:00 AM (T2V/1)

35 And Obama has been giving illegal subsidies to employers who hire illegals.  Another executive order I guess.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

36 I like Rand Paul but his caginess on Amnesty and now his support of McConnell is troubling. Cruz, Lee and maybe Allen West are my faces. Maybe Ben Carson if he has a spine of steel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:01 AM (olDqf)

37 And speaking of subsidies millions of low income people who qualify for Obamacare are likely to quit their jobs.   Why work when the taxpayers will support you?


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

38 32 Piers Morgan's co-workers are glad he got fired. They said he was an asshole. http://is.gd/C9cGGD Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 07:00 AM (T2V/1) Piers Morgan was an asshole??? NO!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:01 AM (olDqf)

39 Hahahahaha; AFL-CIO is abandoning vulnerable Democrats in southern States.  Their reasoning is really short sighted if what they say is true.  Personally, I think they are just not willing to throw money at a losing cause.


http://is.gd/Kaj9Wt

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

40 LA is stripping food stamps for those who went on the shopping spree because of a glitch in the SNAP cards.   I'm sure Holder will show up in a few days.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:01 AM (T2V/1)

41 Morning yall'.

Posted by: NCKate at February 26, 2014 03:02 AM (4KFgL)

42 The AZ "gay bill" has been severely misrepresented say a bunch of lawyers from both sides of the aisle.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:02 AM (T2V/1)

43 36 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 07:01 AM (olDqf) FAVES, not faces. Auto-fuckin'-correct...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:02 AM (olDqf)

44 In a revelation missing from the official investigations of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI placed a human source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and ascertained that the al Qaeda leader was looking to finance terrorist attacks in the United States, according to court testimony in a little-noticed employment dispute case.


As soon as I saw the makeup of that investigation panel I knew the "fix" was in. Washington is incapable of investigating anything except payoff for crony corruption.  


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:02 AM (T2V/1)

45 And speaking of crony corruption how about this Obama crony.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:03 AM (T2V/1)

46 Per the National Ass'n of Manufacturers, they estimate upwards of 60 million Americans will lose their insurance.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:03 AM (olDqf)

47 And the corrupt gangster government of Barrackus Obamanus is stonewalling SnP on their discovery action in the $5B civil suit the corrupt government instigated to punish them.


http://is.gd/wglaU8

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:03 AM (T2V/1)

48 FL Democrat says who will we get to do our lawns and clean motel rooms if we don't pass the amnesty bill. I was watching a Smithsonian channel episode on Air Disasters and the cause of one of them was because the weight estimate for a small to medium size plane was 'off'. The plane was heavy by over 700 pounds. It took off, nosed up, then spiraled into the ground. The investigators contacted the deceased passengers Drs and got the actual weight of the people on the plane at their last check up. It lead to raising the 'average weight' estimate for the average American by 20 pounds. What does this have to do with people not cutting their own lawns, doing their own yardwork? What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 03:03 AM (CnA98)

49 Oh how much an election year changes things.  Democrats are joining Republicans in the House to repeal the 30 hour work week part of Obamacide.


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Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:03 AM (T2V/1)

50 House conservatives want to discontinue subsidizing flood insurance.  I agree 100%.  There is so much wrong with that program it would take all the electrons in my computer to list them.  Here are my two major gripes.  First, contrary to the liberal myths it was not passed to help Joe Sixpack.  It was passed to help coastal real-estate speculators.   And second, why should I help pay for Sammy Megabucks million-dollar home insurance on the beach?  The government doesn't have a "tornado insurance" program for mid-westerners.  It doesn't have an "earthquake insurance" program for people on the west coast.   The government needs to get totally out of the business of helping people who decide to live in dangerous locations, and yes, that includes FEMA.


http://is.gd/W7QYcL

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:04 AM (T2V/1)

51 Kindle Daily Deals


http://is.gd/8v9Xqp


Also note that they have the Kindle version of 1984 for $6.



That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:04 AM (T2V/1)

52 50 Posted by: Gran at February 26, 2014 07:04 AM (mw0FO) Lawrence Montaigne was also "one of the 50" in "The Great Escape." And, I was a childhood friend of his nephew.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:06 AM (olDqf)

53 That's it for today folks. That's a lot to chew, Vic. How's your wife doing?

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 03:06 AM (CnA98)

54 22 Vic, the Dingleberry Dynasty is longer than you think. Papa Dingleberry was the congressman from 1928 to 1955 when the current shriveled up Dingleberry gained the throne.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 06:57 AM (olDqf)



Damn, I didn't find that one. Grandaddy handed it off once, his son handed it to the current, and now the current will hand it to his wife.



I have to ask; are the voters in MI totally stupid?

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:09 AM (T2V/1)

55 Watched citizen kane last week. Suffered through the first hour until I wondered why the hell am I doing this.

Posted by: NCKate at February 26, 2014 03:11 AM (4KFgL)

56 A Rosetta Stone ad popped up in the sidebar and they're having a big sale. Have any if you used their products? Also, my interest is Italian. How difficult is it compared to French?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:14 AM (DmNpO)

57 55  That's a lot to chew, Vic.

How's your wife doing?

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at February 26, 2014 07:06 AM (CnA9


Yeah, there were 7 pp of stuff in Word.\


Wifey is doing OK, she is heading out for a field trip with the local bridge club today.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:15 AM (T2V/1)

58 I know most won't agree but I believe that in the long run, the best thing that conservatives/patriots can do for the country is to let the Democrats have full rein over the country.

Even if it means losing 2016 also.

My reasoning is that unless they get full control the public will always give their idiocy a try. Let the country get ruined and the people living on the edge and know that it was Democrats that put them there and then, then maybe conservative and fiscally sound policies can be run on for office and won and then implemented.

Just dragging our feet hasn't worked. Too many people are enamored with the ideas that socialism and communism promote as being possible. Even those who claim to fiscally conservative seem to have a problem fighting the urge to spend and spend.

There is no way back to where we once were and it's not certain that what we think were sound fiscal times really were as they led to some pretty bad situations. War and depression to name two.

Get yourself ready and let the Democrats have their day. Hide your guns, change your party affiliation and be prepared to parrot the party line. It won't be long though. Most analysts are pretty sure we will fall off the cliff sometime before 2020.

And by letting them have full control, they will be blamed for the result. Not even the MFM can get them off IF they are in full control.

Besides, do you really believe the last 5 years would've been any better if a Republican had won the Pres. but the Dems kept the Senate? Sure some things may have been less embarrassing but I guarantee you that John McCain has a lot of stupid in him and his favorite advisers would've managed some lulus too.

So let's take a vacay from all the angst and anger and just let the bastards do their thing and when it all falls down, pick up the pieces and make sure they don't get power for 20 years. (if it works out right, a lot of their voters will self deport, die or become so focused on survival that they'll even change their mind.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at February 26, 2014 03:15 AM (LSDdO)

59 I have never liked Citizen Kane either.  But that is par for the course.  Any movie that the "critics" like is one almost guaranteed to be one I hate.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:17 AM (T2V/1)

60 More BS tucked away in the Obamacare bill nobody read. Most chain restaurants have to put BS nutritional info beside every food item. 99.9% of the people will never read the shit. More than likely this will the death of picking your own pizza toppings.


http://is.gd/E4xmmX

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 06:53 AM (T2V/1)



Every Republican should challenge donk incumbents who voted for 404Care to answer if they voted for something they didn't read or if they read it and were either too fucking retarded to see all the landmines in it or if they wanted the landmines to be in there.  Maybe Kimberly Strassel can start paying attention to strategies like this instead of doing opposition research for Rove and the donks against Tea Party challengers to her Repuke mules.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 03:17 AM (+ywjg)

61 Thanks Vic.

re flood insurance. When we bought our house 20 years ago, a small portion of my yard was deemed to be in the flood zone along with only about 5% of my neighborhood. Post-Katrina, over 90% of my neighborhood is in some level of the flood zone. In that time, premiums have increased 400%.

During Hurricane Floyd, after 20 inches of rain, water reached about 10 feet into my yard. The water level still was not within eight feet of my floor elevation.

Redistribution at its best.

Good morning Horde.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 03:18 AM (vVOWk)

62 Yeah, let the Commies run on Obamacide.  That once Pizza article will should become a major talking point for Republican Candidates.


Of course they won't do that.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:20 AM (T2V/1)

63 NDH, the kid found an online language course for Chinese at the state department website. Might have Italian too.

Posted by: NCKate at February 26, 2014 03:20 AM (4KFgL)

64 House conservatives want to discontinue subsidizing flood insurance. I agree 100%. There is so much wrong with that program it would take all the electrons in my computer to list them. Here are my two major gripes. First, contrary to the liberal myths it was not passed to help Joe Sixpack. It was passed to help coastal real-estate speculators. And second, why should I help pay for Sammy Megabucks million-dollar home insurance on the beach? The government doesn't have a "tornado insurance" program for mid-westerners. It doesn't have an "earthquake insurance" program for people on the west coast. The government needs to get totally out of the business of helping people who decide to live in dangerous locations, and yes, that includes FEMA.


http://is.gd/W7QYcL

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 07:04 AM (T2V/1)



This will get Rove's catamites all in a tizzy because the gutless Repukes have tossed this bone out to the country clubbers who want waterfront homes where nobody in their right mind would build because they'll end up in the drink eventually.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 03:22 AM (+ywjg)

65 63  Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 07:18 AM (vVOWk)


They redrew the flood maps solely for the purpose of  increasing the flood zones in order to recover a bunch of money they had to put out on Katrina.


My MIL's house got mapped into a flood zone and we are 150 miles from the ocean.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:22 AM (T2V/1)

66 60 Bitter Clinger, About where I'm at...well except for the whole "join their caucus and Alinsky them from the inside pushing the most radical racial grievance candidates you can find." LaRaza 2016-why not? Break it up.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 03:23 AM (TE35l)

67 So let's take a vacay from all the angst and anger and just let the bastards do their thing and when it all falls down, pick up the pieces and make sure they don't get power for 20 years. They must be made to pay. The price is steep for ruining my birthright. Very, very steep. IYKWIM.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2014 03:23 AM (CRyse)

68 26 -

I like the way you casually note the existing relationship between Brando and Dean.  If I had heard they were a "thing," I must have forgotten it.

What's worth noting however, is the fact that Hollywood has always been a nest  of depravity.  Our modern era  certainly did not invent it. 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2014 03:24 AM (BeSEI)

69

The Clinton library is out of excuses for withholding 33,000 pages of records from the Clinton White House.  Under the law, the 12-year exemption from disclosure expired last year.

 

Sandy Berger had 12 years to get rid of these records?

 

Whatever happened to Craig Livingstone?  If Hillery gets elected will he be one of their old cronies that turns up dead?

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2014 03:24 AM (9mWut)

70

13: "I hope someone sues the living dog shit out of these people."

 

Time for me to go get sme CAT 6 cable for the home network...

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at February 26, 2014 03:24 AM (/qzu7)

71 NDH, check the Foreign Service Institute. Everything is public domain.

Posted by: NCKate at February 26, 2014 03:25 AM (4KFgL)

72 Also note on that remapping of the flood zones that they did it all w/o any congressional authorization.


What it amounts to is an additional "tax" on people who are not in a flood zone to subsidize the ones that are.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:26 AM (T2V/1)

73 58 A Rosetta Stone ad popped up in the sidebar and they're having a big sale. Have any if you used their products? Also, my interest is Italian. How difficult is it compared to French? ................ I have the Italian version. I went about it pretty studiously when I first got it then kinda gave up. I can't say it was really that difficult but it gives you an option for how exact you say the words. I think I had mine set too high. I think it's a great program if someone is really serious about learning it.

Posted by: Molly k. at February 26, 2014 03:26 AM (f8cHe)

74 Italian is one of the many languages listed.

Posted by: NCKate at February 26, 2014 03:26 AM (4KFgL)

75 Joe Biden "went on the offensive" on ObamaCare yesterday and said single mothers could quit working because....insurance! Please, please, please continue this "offensive"

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 26, 2014 03:27 AM (7T0u2)

76 "Uh oh! Guess what day it is." With trepidation, I click blindly because I have no hover text nor url reveal on this stupid, stupid cell browser. (Obviously, I needed coffee.) The moment I see YouTube in the addr bar, though, I close the tab. No, thanks, whatever it is. Just... no. Not ready for viddie. Clicker's remorse, first thing I do online. What a way to start the day. :/ § Morning, Glories! I pray your day goes well and you are warmly enduring the latest Volar Portex assault.

Posted by: mindful webworker the idiot at February 26, 2014 03:27 AM (oA9Uy)

77 72  Time for me to go get sme CAT 6 cable for the home network...

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at February 26, 2014 07:24 AM (/qzu7)



Both our computers here are ran from cat 6 cables. We only use the wifi for occasional use of a lap top and out android devices which do not have a cat 6 plug on them.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:28 AM (T2V/1)

78 61 I have never liked Citizen Kane either. But that is par for the course. Any movie that the "critics" like is one almost guaranteed to be one I hate. .... It may have been cutting edge cinema at its time and, if so, I can appreciate the innovation. That said, to look back on it now and pretend that it is anything other than laughable is absurd. It is an awful movie with a PREPOSTEROUS ending. Citizen Kane brings out the But I "get it" crowd quicker than almost any other film or book or piece of "art". In the words of Peter Griffin, it insists upon itself.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:28 AM (DmNpO)

79 Unindicted criminal Holder is getting some feedback for his idiotic statement to the State AGs.


HolderÂ’s claim is bizarre, preposterous, unprecedented, lawless and political, his critics say.


http://is.gd/uSW8eg

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 06:58 AM (T2V/1)



Levin was all over the chinless imbecile last night, stating that it is unconscionable for him to be urging state attorneys general to violate their oaths to defend their state constitution over an issue that the US Supreme Court, as flawed as it can be, has yet to rule on the constitutionality of.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 03:29 AM (+ywjg)

80 61 -

Critics also liked  Bambi and Dumbo.  What do you have against orphaned deers and elephants? 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2014 03:30 AM (BeSEI)

81 Is it really possible for Dims or Obamacare to any more offensive?

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2014 03:30 AM (KlVdw)

82 75 Posted by: Molly k. at February 26, 2014 07:26 AM (f8cHe) If you have some facility/fluency in a Romance language, then Italian should not be too difficult to comprehend. That said, each language has its own idiosyncrasies, but like anything else you need to just dive in and give it a go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:31 AM (olDqf)

83 If the House conservatives are successful in discontinuing the flood insurance program, will all these stupid designated flood zones go away?


If not people like my MIL will really get shit on.  If they do kill the program the designated flood zones should dissapear with it, or at least go back to pre-Katrina.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:31 AM (T2V/1)

84 Levin was all over the chinless imbecile last night...

Anger is the Devil.

Posted by: Mi nombre es C. Mc Morris-Rogers y me gusta pene. at February 26, 2014 03:31 AM (Cs2tJ)

85 82  Critics also liked Bambi and Dumbo. What do you have against orphaned deers and elephants?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2014 07:30 AM (BeSEI)



I hated Bambi.  Dumbo was mostly meh.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:33 AM (T2V/1)

86 38 32 Piers Morgan's co-workers are glad he got fired. They said he was an asshole. Piers Morgan was an asshole??? NO! .... Dudes. You have only begun to grasp his assholishness. @piersmorgan: The Pope currently has 441,000,000 Google hits to his name. I have 484,000,000. I reckon I'll be OK. But thanks for the concern everyone. @piersmorgan: He doesn't have an Aston Martin Rapide though > RT @SoopaJuice @piersmorgan the Pope has the Pope Mobile. You don't. I would be concerned.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:34 AM (DmNpO)

87 60 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at February 26, 2014 07:15 AM (LSDdO) In a word, no.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 03:34 AM (olDqf)

88 Hump A Cow Day?

Posted by: freaked at February 26, 2014 03:36 AM (JdEZJ)

89 Wow, what do Google hits pay?

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 03:36 AM (ZshNr)

90 How difficult is it to learn Italian as compared to French, which a number of Morons seem to speak.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:36 AM (DmNpO)

91 The Kentucky Dem candidate is quite attractive (altough emptyheaded). She was standing side by side with Bill Clinton, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking, stain on dress.

Posted by: redenzo at February 26, 2014 03:36 AM (WCnJW)

92 The NFL is warning AZ that they may pull the superbowl if Brewer signs that bill. They have bowed down and kissed the gay mafia's ass. If I was AZ's gov I would go back to their legislature and ask for a bill calling the NFL's action extortion and making it illegal for them to operate anything in AZ.


http://is.gd/6NXjyH

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 06:55 AM (T2V/1)



Any conservative who contributes to the NFL should realize that fat fuck Roger Goodell is their enemy and despises them.  Jan Brewer's mind is like a random number generator as far as any consistency to her decisions, like most Repukes, so depending on her to do the right thing is like dropping a bucket into a very dry well.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 03:37 AM (+ywjg)

93 "I hope someone sues the living dog shit out of these people. http://is.gd/IR8pSZ" Posted by: Vic Daily Caller links just give me a big, endless circling the drain icon on my stupid,various cell browser. Click #2, clicker's regret #2. I think I'll just go back to bed now.

Posted by: mindful webworker the idiot at February 26, 2014 03:37 AM (cdYeu)

94 So.   Information and documents involving the Clintons are mysteriously being withheld Because Reasons and no single human being can answer a direct question as to why.


Color.   Me.  Shocked.


Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go collect my winnings. 

Posted by: alexthechick - oh great SMOD can you wait til curling's done at February 26, 2014 03:37 AM (Gk3SS)

95 Damn, I didn't find that one. Grandaddy handed it off once, his son handed it to the current, and now the current will hand it to his wife.

I have to ask; are the voters in MI totally stupid?

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 07:09 AM (T2V/1)


There is a certain forelock pulling serf mindset to some people.  I don't get it, but, it's there.  I had a brilliant friend who was from Massachusetts and she was that way about the Kennedys.  It was so odd to know an observant Jew who kept Kosher, celebrated all the Jewish holidays, and had the highest of moral standards turn around and gush about the decadent scummy descendants of a bootlegger.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at February 26, 2014 03:39 AM (kXoT0)

96 Re: AZ law I believe if you are a private company receiving no government money then you should be free to discriminate for WHATEVER reason you want. It is part of being free.

Posted by: jj at February 26, 2014 03:39 AM (gWO5X)

97 Good morning.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 03:39 AM (B2fm1)

98 Clicker's remorse, first thing I do online. What a way to start the day. :/ .... It's Gabe's running gag and, for that reason, I crack up every time I watch it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:40 AM (DmNpO)

99 Teen suspended for 90 days and ordered to attend an "alternate" school for 90 days because he drove his dad's car to school and it had a fishing knife in it. When are voters going to quit putting up with this shit? http://is.gd/tUYQ6Z Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1) At face value, this is ridiculous. People need to exercise judgement. However, one problem that schools in particular face is a never-ending barrage of threats of lawsuits (and actual lawsuits) over this kind of incident. The ACLU is more than happy to get all up in the faces of schools if the school does not handle an issue in the way the ACLU deems appropriate. The reaction (or overreaction if you want) is to pass the no tolerance rules. Our local high school got in hot water with them a few years back. Before piercing everything was cool, a student (smart kid known to push the boundaries of everything because his parents would jump to his defense) showed up with his eyebrow pierced. He did it as an intentionally provocative act. The school told him he couldn't wear it, so he launched off an e-mail to the ACLU. Suddenly, the school is having to deal with them over a minor issue. Fortunately, school dress codes have been ruled to be okee dokee, so the ACLU couldn't really do much about it, but the school had to waste time and resources dealing with it. I can see where overreactions about a knife can be caused by events like that.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at February 26, 2014 03:40 AM (nj9sX)

100 Teen suspended for 90 days and ordered to attend an "alternate" school for 90 days because he drove his dad's car to school and it had a fishing knife in it. When are voters going to quit putting up with this shit?


http://is.gd/tUYQ6Z

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)

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Man, what is happening to the South? When I moved to Texas, people had gunracks in their trucks back windows, now we get crap like this.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2014 03:41 AM (KlVdw)

101 This may have been thoroughly covered, but, all of you wit Apple devices need to address a security issue with them.  Overnight, our Senior VP of Security sent out an email.  Go to iTunes for the update.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at February 26, 2014 03:42 AM (kXoT0)

102 "And hereÂ’s one of my favorite pictures of MM, a publicity still from 1953s Niagara: http://tinyurl.com/lv3wsm3" Will not fall for clickbait again... Will not fall for clickbait again... Will not... b.. b.. Marilyn!...

Posted by: mindful webworker the idiot at February 26, 2014 03:43 AM (rMZgH)

103 Michael Sam apparently had a terrible combine, among the bottom performers in just about every skills drill, Breitbart has story, Let the hand-wringing at ESPN begin.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 03:44 AM (ZshNr)

104 97 Re: AZ law I believe if you are a private company receiving no government money then you should be free to discriminate for WHATEVER reason you want. It is part of being free. ..... I made the same argument here a few months ago and it was not met with tremendous support. If someone is a bigoted asshole,, let them wear it proudly and openly for all to see. I want to know with whom I'm doing business instead of them being forced behind a curtain of political correctness. Second, I believe that a truly bigoted business is not long for this Earth. The market will see to its demise.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:44 AM (DmNpO)

105 I was sure that federal flood insurance was New Deal (thinking of all the flood zones created by the soviet-inspired dam craze), but no, it's 1968. And I was paying attention in 1968; it must be because I am out of reach of most floods. Apparently flood coverage was part of normal policies until the 1950's, and got cloward-pivened as large groups of "victims" were encouraged to file claims en bloc.

That makes me think it was political action. The clout of the insurance act was to force "communities" (that's a word like "folks"; kind of denotes you) to institute controls, to keep people from building on flood plains. Some got pretty heavy-handed, but on average the program has multiply paid off on existing properties without doing much to convince people to move after total losses.

And I can't help but think this was an outgrowth of the Connecticut floods of 1955. Connecticut was overbuilt in all the wrong places before the Republic was founded (due to Fall Line, see?), and when not one but two hurricanes not thunderstorms turned up the valleys that season, the overflow swept all before it -- including the old mill where my grandfather's birth records were stored.

Then it gets fuzzy. Abe Ribicoff was governor, and it does not seem likely that he would have turned away any federal aid -- but in some power duel of that period, a ranking Conn. politico refused DC disaster aid on "ethical" grounds, and really shook things up. After a showdown like that, there is no amount of future spending that Washington won't commit to in order to undermine such a line of attack.

Anyone remember the incident?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 03:46 AM (xq1UY)

106 today!!!!!!!

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 03:47 AM (u8GsB)

107 101  Man, what is happening to the South? When I moved to Texas, people had gunracks in their trucks back windows, now we get crap like this.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 26, 2014 07:41 AM (KlVdw)



School systems in the South are ran by the same "professional education educated" libtards as the rest of the country.



They are ALL shit unless you  go to a private school.  Which is why I have long advocated for totally eliminating ALL public education and taxes for them.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:47 AM (T2V/1)

108 103  Worth it. Yes.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 03:48 AM (vVOWk)

109

I like the way you casually note the existing relationship between Brando and Dean. If I had heard they were a "thing," I must have forgotten it.

 

Well, as I said, it's Darwin Porter.  Never trust anything he writes on Hollywood, especially when it comes to sexuality.  He wrote a flamboyantly gay novel (called Hollywood's Pink Closet, IIRC), where he repeats the sleaziest of "Hollywood Babylon" rumors as fact - that the Gish sisters were incestuous lovers, for example, or that Chaplin molested the prepubescent Barbara LaMarr.  His latest bio of Marilyn includes the assertion that DiMaggio's son was having an affair with MM, which is why Joltin' Joe wouldn't let him approach the casket at the funeral.

 

What's worth noting however, is the fact that Hollywood has always been a nest of depravity. Our modern era certainly did not invent it.

 

Certainly not.  But people were much more discreet in those days.  It was an open secret that J. Warren Kerrigan, a star of the silent days, was gay, but the fan magazines only printed that "he has no time for girls" or "his best girl is his mother."  The bowls of cocaine and orgies were beinhd closed doors.  And people dressed like ladies and gentlemen, not hookers and rent boys.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 03:48 AM (zF6Iw)

110 105  If someone is a bigoted asshole,, let them wear it proudly and openly for all to see. I want to know with whom I'm doing business instead of them being forced behind a curtain of political correctness. Second, I believe that a truly bigoted business is not long for this Earth. The market will see to its demise.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 07:44 AM (DmNpO)



I totally agree.  I have always thought that part of the civil rights act was unconstitutional (along with the part limiting it to States in the South).



So did Barry Goldwater which is why he went out on a limb and voted against it.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:49 AM (T2V/1)

111 Will Piers Mirgan go the fuck home to England or continue to grace us with his unwanted presence?

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 03:49 AM (Lo5Rt)

112 Or Morgan. Flipping fingers.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 03:50 AM (Lo5Rt)

113 Will Piers Mirgan go the fuck home to England or continue to grace us with his unwanted presence? .... Oh! He despises America and Americans, but he has learned the streets are paved with gold. He's not going anywhere.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:52 AM (DmNpO)

114 Will not fall for clickbait again...
Will not fall for clickbait again...
Will not... b.. b.. Marilyn!...

Posted by: mindful webworker the idiot at February 26, 2014 07:43 AM (rMZgH)

 

I never joke about my links, 007.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 03:52 AM (zF6Iw)

115 112 Will Piers Mirgan go the fuck home to England or continue to grace us with his unwanted presence? Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 07:49 AM (Lo5Rt) 113 Or Morgan. Flipping fingers. Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 07:50 AM (Lo5Rt) they don't want him either....i think he's scared to leave....he might end up in jail there.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 03:53 AM (u8GsB)

116 Michael Sam apparently had a terrible combine, among the bottom performers in just about every skills drill, Breitbart has story, Let the hand-wringing at ESPN begin.

 

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 07:44 AM (ZshNr)

 

Who knew stopwatches were homophobic?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 03:53 AM (zF6Iw)

117 106  Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 07:46 AM (xq1UY)


I always figured that it was part of crony corruption for ocean side land speculators.


Take Myrtle Beach for example.  It was atypical beach front small southern town up until that bill was passed.  It had a permanent population of about 7K and land was cheap.


Today the "metropolitan"  area is more than 500K and you have to be a billionaire to buy beachfront property. If I recall correctly the last time I saw beach front property it was  $1M a foot for a lot 75 ft deep.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:54 AM (T2V/1)

118 80 61 I have never liked Citizen Kane either. But that is par for the course. Any movie that the "critics" like is one almost guaranteed to be one I hate.

Yep.
The Florida Times-Union once had a film critic- can't recall his name- whose tastes in movies was much like mine. Most all the others? Idiots, at best. If they liked it, I hated it....

Posted by: backhoe at February 26, 2014 03:54 AM (ULH4o)

119 Ah well back to the heating pad. Keep on trucking. If the GOP can't win on anything of substance it is time to get out of Obama's way and let him own the results.(if that is possible) Time to quit being the only sane people in the room and join in the idiocy.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 03:54 AM (TE35l)

120 The AZ "gay bill" has been severely misrepresented say a bunch of lawyers from both sides of the aisle.

You can't argue with sociopaths. They don't care about reason, or liberty, or freedom. They only care about getting their way; which in this case means forcing Christians to bake cakes and arrange flowers for gays. Because that will mean that they win and Christians lose, and that's all that matters; the Power.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at February 26, 2014 03:55 AM (+5bkH)

121 Time for me to go get sme CAT 6 cable for the home network... Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at February 26, 2014 07:24 AM (/qzu7) People don't realize how much those things are marked up. I buy bulk cable in small quantities (1000 ft.) for work. I can make a 7-foot CAT6 cable for about $1.50 worth of materials (cable is 14 cents a foot and the plugs run about 25 cents a apiece). I can buy a manufactured 7-foot cable for about $4. Look what you pay for it in stores.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at February 26, 2014 03:55 AM (nj9sX)

122 92 -

Did anyone check to see if there were any mirrors behind them, to indicate where Bill's hands are?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2014 03:56 AM (BeSEI)

123 106 118

$116,000 house in Houston has had over $1.6 million in claims.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 03:56 AM (vVOWk)

124 I would point out they are with holding info because Hillary is running meaning that it must be very damaging to her. So, fucking release them. Enough with the clinton coverups.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 03:57 AM (6Nj7A)

125 122  People don't realize how much those things are marked up. I buy bulk cable in small quantities (1000 ft.) for work. I can make a 7-foot CAT6 cable for about $1.50 worth of materials (cable is 14 cents a foot and the plugs run about 25 cents a apiece). I can buy a manufactured 7-foot cable for about $4. Look what you pay for it in stores.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at February 26, 2014 07:55 AM (nj9sX)


Amazon has them pretty cheap. And you expect to pay more for a completed cable because of labor.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 03:57 AM (T2V/1)

126 117 MP4, Yup...I uh sorta called this when Mr. Sam went into Glee mode. How precisely does your preference for trouser strudel impact your closing speed to the QB Mr.(?) Sam? //unasked by ESPN questions.... Keep on plugging MP4.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 03:57 AM (TE35l)

127 I'm sorry that you're having pain, Sven? I knew that I hadn't seen you for a while, but I thought you were taking a break. I will pray for you, brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 03:57 AM (XyM/Y)

128 Vic, beachfront booms were an "unintended consequence" that somebody in a back room -- they were still smoke-filled rooms then -- understood perfectly well.

Should look it up, but the worst hurricane in history made landfall the first season after the act was passed. Nothing new about "unprecedented!"

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 03:59 AM (xq1UY)

129 they don't want him either....i think he's scared to leave....he might end up in jail there..... ... @JobsiteUK: We'll always do our best to help anyone find a new job. With one exception. http://t.co/qgUyebpw0y

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 03:59 AM (DmNpO)

130 The only problem with Let It Burn is that some people are so committed to their leftyism that even the obvious destruction of our economy, foreign alliances, families and individual lives under Obamacare doesn't make an impact. My sister, for example, is convinced that just a wee bit more Stalinism will bring us into the progressive nirvana and I think nothing short of political camps would scare her. These people cannot be convinced. Let It Burn isn't working for the extreme Democrat believers. But, is it convincing the middle? I think it has, a little. If only we could convince the Senate Republicans.

Posted by: MTF at February 26, 2014 03:59 AM (B+HTd)

131 "Dumbo was mostly meh." —Vic Pink Elephants on Parade forever changed my outlook on life. Acid turned out to be a disappointment by comparison.

Posted by: mindful webworker the idiot at February 26, 2014 03:59 AM (K7W+A)

132 Trouser strudel?? LMAO

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 04:00 AM (KuUy9)

133 124  $116,000 house in Houston has had over $1.6 million in claims.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 07:56 AM (vVOWk)



Which is why I have also long advocated that once they pay off a claim of large magnitude they give the homeowner fair market value for the home and condemn the house and lot making it public property never to be built on again.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 04:00 AM (T2V/1)

134 School systems in the South are ran by the same "professional education educated" libtards as the rest of the country.

They are ALL shit unless you go to a private school. Which is why I have long advocated for totally eliminating ALL public education and taxes for them.

Posted by: Vic at February 26, 2014 07:47 AM (T2V/1)



Public schools are beyond repair and need to go the fuck away.  The people who run them are all apparatchiks who hate the idea of being responsive to the people whom are forced to finance their existence.  They are probably the biggest reason Gaylord Focker is where he is.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:01 AM (+ywjg)

135 117 Michael Sam apparently had a terrible combine, among the bottom performers in just about every skills drill, Breitbart has story, Let the hand-wringing at ESPN begin. ..................... On that note I just read an article saying that on Tuesday Jason Collins #98 jersey was the best seller of the day.( 98 to remember Matthew Shepard) It says "take that LeBron" The guy signed for 10 days so I hardly can believe he is outselling James.

Posted by: Molly k. at February 26, 2014 04:01 AM (f8cHe)

136 @JobsiteUK: We'll always do our best to help anyone find a new job. With one exception. http://t.co/qgUyebpw0y Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 07:59 AM (DmNpO) That is the awesomest thing I've seen all week.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 04:02 AM (KuUy9)

137 110 -

I'm sure there are salacious  stories that have no basis is fact, but my theory about Hollywood is you have to start with the assumption that  much of it is true, and only give up on a rumor when it can be clearly established to be false.

The reasoning is simple:  it's  an industry born and raised to sell lies.  Now, we call this  entertainment, and usually that's exactly what it is.  Harmless entertainment.  However, people tend to give celebrities much more  credence than they deserve.  This goes without saying.

So anything that knocks them down a notch or two is not a bad thing.  I like to think of it, in my kinder moments, as pulling back  the curtain  to reveal the little man behind it, rather than they big scary guy on the big screen.  Maybe he's not so bad, but the image he was selling?  It was false, and if people are believing it, they need to be shown the truth.  Or a different version of it. 

Or whatever.  I'm  being  way too wordy for 7AM.  

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2014 04:02 AM (BeSEI)

138 Good morning friends on my computer. After a lousy terrible no-good night of faux sleep, I awake to a morning of sunshine and Baseball!! Yay ! God has benn bery bery good to me.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:03 AM (oMKp3)

139 134   But Vic. That would be a reasonable conclusion by a reasonable person.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 04:03 AM (vVOWk)

140 128 FenlonSpoke, I'm fine..mostly. I was happily taking a break poked my head in last Friday for NugentFest and had a nice rage attack when an ashole on I-70 almost hit my car. Body seized up around my ribcage so hard I pulled my ribcage muscles and maybe got a hernia. Ms 10077 says you could hea the steering wheel being pulled off the mount I was so angry. And I am tired of being eraged so I am letting go. It'll take a while but soon I will care about America as much bwahaha as Obama's voters. God bless and kep you. Sven

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:03 AM (TE35l)

141 Just riffing off of Kane, I think the only critically-acclaimed classic movies I've also liked were Sunset Blvd., Nosferatu and Metropolis.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 04:03 AM (zF6Iw)

142 125:Withholding info is bait to get people to concentrate on the past. She can blow that away as mean spirited and old news. It's what she has or hasn't done lately that she is afraid of.

Posted by: Huggy at February 26, 2014 04:04 AM (VctSv)

143 This isn't new but it was new to me. Monty would love it, because it is just crawling with DOOM. http://on.barrons.com/1huBT3H

Posted by: MTF at February 26, 2014 04:04 AM (B+HTd)

144 Posted by: Molly k. at February 26, 2014 08:01 AM (f8cHe)

If true, G*d help us.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 04:05 AM (vVOWk)

145

Craig Livingston, director of White House's Office of Personnel Security under President Clinton.  He improperly requested and received from the FBI, background reports concerning several hundred individuals--many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations, including top presidential advisors.  Allegations were made that--First Lady Hillary Clinton requested and read the files for political purposes.

 

To this day no one knows who hired Livingston.  No one will admit to his hiring.  To this day the ooze of Clinton slime is still visible.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2014 04:06 AM (9mWut)

146 FL Democrat says who will we get to do our lawns and clean motel rooms if we don't pass the amnesty bill.

--

One can only imagine (not really) how the rabid leftists would react if someone on the right made such a comment.  MSDNC would spend 6 weeks talking about it non-stop.  Of course, that would push Christie's Bridgegate "scandal" to the back. 

And logic dictates my mind to immediately ponder....who in the hell did lawns and cleaned motel rooms before we were invaded from south of the border? 

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 26, 2014 04:07 AM (22bm2)

147 33,000 pages? No one will read that. My personal limit is 100 pages and I never, under any circumstances, read a single damn page more than that limit. Just release the whole batch.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 26, 2014 04:07 AM (B+HTd)

148 And nice to see you back Sven. Got to have the neighbor morons engaged even if with a little less vim.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 26, 2014 04:08 AM (vVOWk)

149 And logic dictates my mind to immediately ponder....who in the hell did lawns and cleaned motel rooms before we were invaded from south of the border? =========== Dirty Scandis.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:08 AM (oMKp3)

150 On that note I just read an article saying that on Tuesday Jason Collins #98 jersey was the best seller of the day.( 98 to remember Matthew Shepard) It says "take that LeBron" The guy signed for 10 days so I hardly can believe he is outselling James.

Posted by: Molly k. at February 26, 2014 08:01 AM (f8cHe)



Has anybody informed these assholes that Saint Matty's story has been revealed as a hot steaming pile (by a homo writer with a sense of adherence to facts over fantasy projections) that had more to do with drug deals going horribly wrong than some homo hate?  Jason Collins:  dumb as a plank and about as mobile on the basketball court.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:10 AM (+ywjg)

151 I thought the Oirish did all that menial work.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 04:10 AM (KuUy9)

152 To which Monroe replied, “How did you know what my favorite thing in the world is?” .... Handled in true Moronette fashion. To have slapped his face or cursed him out would have done harm to her own image. I love that she was so quick on her feet.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 04:10 AM (DmNpO)

153 132 -

I tried to think of the  of the most harmless thing.  Something I loved from my childhood.  Something Vic could never ever possibly  destroy...



Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2014 04:12 AM (BeSEI)

154 Captain Hate, it doesn't matter. Tell a lib that Shepherd's story is a farce and they call you a liar. Show them proof and they call you a liar. We live in one fucked up world.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 04:12 AM (KuUy9)

155 147 FL Democrat says who will we get to do our lawns and clean motel rooms if we don't pass the amnesty bill. .... And she's presently 2 pts ahead I'm the polls.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 04:12 AM (DmNpO)

156 Jadaveon Clowney, otoh, just ran a RB quality 40. Spurrier caught hell for commenting recently, but he was trying to light a fire under Clowney without having to kickoff. In other news, Obama and minions are lying about something. Sun rose in East a while ago.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 04:12 AM (CusZ8)

157 osted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 08:03 AM (TE35l) That sounds both scary and very painful. Take care of your self. As the poster whose posts I enjoy but whose name I can never spell-Chuthlu?-says "It's time to focus on your healing" Anger doesn't do anything to nurture healing so it might be good to take a break from this place for a while. Thanks for your kind words and blessings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 04:14 AM (XyM/Y)

158 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 07:44 AM (DmNpO) *** Okay NDH, maybe you can help me out. I found out yesterday that I didn't pass the purity test and that I am a freedom hating libertarian who wants nothing but lower taxes and pot, because I questioned the wisdom of this Arizona law. Can someone explain to me how a law that essentially says you have the right to refuse service to anyone you want but first you must come up with a religious excuse is going to work in real life? I'm not trying to be obtuse here.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 26, 2014 04:15 AM (g4TxM)

159 to prove az is not homophobic or racist.....the cardinals will draft michael sam in the first round////////

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 04:15 AM (u8GsB)

160 Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 08:12 AM (KuUy9)


Welp in public schools they've been peddling that Rigoberta Menchu diarrhea as fact for a long time so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that libs are unable to tell the difference.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:15 AM (+ywjg)

161 So Kommander Kool drops a Caddyshack reference for Ramis, but he don't know how to build a friggin' healthcare website on budget or schedule.

We are blessed.

Posted by: Fritz at February 26, 2014 04:16 AM (UzPAd)

162 147?
Colored folks. And us White Trash....

I denounce ma' 'sef- but that was how it was in the South, long ago.

Posted by: backhoe at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (ULH4o)

163 Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike!

Posted by: Camel at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (zDsvJ)

164 Four degrees with the sun shining. This winter is never ending.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (JDIKC)

165 I am of the belief now that we should always be videoing, or at least as much as possible. I have security DVR on my house, going dash cam in the car. I am thinking google glass would be useful for that. Because we live in a world where you need evidence.

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (4+AaH)

166 149 Golfman in NC, It's nice to be missed but I need to let go this I killing me maybe. I was wound up because I wanted to dismantle the guy. It felt like a cardiac or cerebral event for about 10 minutes. We're not in business with a sane electorate and when people like us warned th GOP in the late 90s and Bush era the donks were bulding this bomb we were ignored or mocked as conspiracy nuts. Last night's ONT reset of the "shut up and vote GOP you wingnutz" follies by Maet(and I mean no offense to Maet) of Jazz Shaw et al sort of encapsulates the valley of sck my soul is in. People forget what a GOP booster I was to the point of flaming the Luap Nor Kultists in 04 and 08. Look if the GOP can't be bothered to attack Obama and Hagle on thismilitary budget idiocy it means the are not really trying. It gets a lot easier on your soul when you simply accept the American people ALWAYS get what government they deserve in the end I've made my peace. You wanted THIS the 44% of America still loving Obama? Enjoy.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (TE35l)

167 162 So Kommander Kool drops a Caddyshack reference for Ramis, but he don't know how to build a friggin' healthcare website on budget or schedule. We are blessed. Posted by: Fritz at February 26, 2014 08:16 AM (UzPAd) baby ruth? tanks fer nuttin' danny?

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 04:17 AM (u8GsB)

168 Déjà vu all over again ...?? ...

“He then somehow flipped me over onto my back and the subject began punching me on the left side of my face and head,” ... told detectives. “He was on top of me and I was in an extremely vulnerable position and I was exhausted from the struggle with the suspect.

“I don’t know how many times he struck me, but I started to black out and saw lines across my eyes. He continued to strike me and I started to lose consciousness and I believed the suspect was not going to stop hitting me until he killed me.

“I feared for my life and I drew my weapon, fired two shots center mass.”

Posted by: Trayvon Martin at February 26, 2014 04:20 AM (e8kgV)

169 >>>baby ruth?
tanks fer nuttin' danny?
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 08:17 AM (u8GsB) <<<

Wapoo link

preview.tinyurl.com/k4ga9op

Posted by: Fritz at February 26, 2014 04:22 AM (UzPAd)

170 Late to the party because of the GlowBull Wormening that is still falling this morning.

Hence, someone may have already mentioned this.

http://tinyurl.com/mxjdnfg

Several of us Morons call the area around Towson "Home"

Few of us go downtown at night on a weekend.

And the Towson Precinct Commander needs to be a little more aware of community crime trends.

Yes, I meet with him at least monthly, face to face.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2014 04:22 AM (NHZpR)

171 58 A Rosetta Stone ad popped up in the sidebar and they're having a big sale. Have any if you used their products? Also, my interest is Italian. How difficult is it compared to French? -- Hi NDH. I haven't tried Rosetta Stone but I have heard they are excellent but pricey. But I have found a couple of free-ish language courses you might be interested in - my public library lets me access Mango, and their courses are pretty good, they have a long list of languages (including Klingon, LOL) and you can download them to your smartphone. Also, there is Duolingo - I have not tried this one yet but it also gets a lot of recs and it is free on the appstore. Italian vs French? I kind of think of Italian as being closer to Spanish so for me, it seems like it would be easier than French. Spelling-wise certainly more logical.

Posted by: Votermom at February 26, 2014 04:22 AM (GSIDW)

172 Snowfall number 14 of this winter occurring right now. Single digit overnight temps for the next week. One other variable that Al Gore and his sycophants never factored into their doomsday fantasy is the albedo effect. We had really bright sunshine the past three or four days but little heat, because the sun bounced off the white snow. "But there shall be no other variable effecting the planets temperature but CO2." These are the words of Lord Gore, it is right to give him thanks and praise.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 04:23 AM (CnA98)

173 Harold Ramis may be the only significant Chicagoan who didn't have a cabinet seat or Lincoln-bedroom czar slot. And when you think about it, he probably could have done the health-care thing a hell of a lot better than the experts they did use. That's a fact Jack.

Dangerously close to not-a-joke territory, now that Steven Coal Bear is seated next to the Pray zee Dahnt of Fwontz at the diplomatic dinners. We could at least send in our first-string comics. Dave Barry and PJ O'Rourke at State? Why not?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 04:23 AM (xq1UY)

174 #131

The trick, if someone is determined to burn down your house, is not to be in it while they are locked inside.

Posted by: Epobirs at February 26, 2014 04:23 AM (bPxS6)

175

Pages from the Clinton Archives? 

I'm thinking they'll go with "bureaucratic snafu" again. 

Posted by: SamInVA at February 26, 2014 04:25 AM (Q52VH)

176 First – while Citizen Kane is often referred to as the greatest movie ever made (I, personally, find it mannered and boring) *Whew* I though I was the only one.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 26, 2014 04:26 AM (u4OTh)

177 On the Golf Channel this morning, it was even more gay handwringing. Some golfer said something that was negative about gays. I turned it off so I do not know any more details. There is no escape from gaygaygaygay. Enough! I don't give a fuck and I will never give a fuck. Leave me alone.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 26, 2014 04:26 AM (9rA8B)

178 450 rds of 9mm for $109.00

http://tinyurl.com/o6h7qp3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2014 04:26 AM (NHZpR)

179 After giving him the silent treatment for eight months, President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The message? A blunt warning that all U.S. troops will leave his war-torn country by 2015 unless Karzai or his successor sign a bilateral security agreement (BSA) with the United States.

The president had not spoken to Karzai since a June 25, 2013, video conference, and the two had had no contact since a Nov. 21, 2013, letter from Washington to Kabul.

Obama has said repeatedly that he hopes to leave a residual force of some 8,000-12,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan to train local security forces and target extremists after most combat forces depart in 2014. But U.S. officials had warned that Obama would pull all American troops absent a BSA that gives American and allied forces immunity from local prosecution.

Karzai refused, saying his successor should be the one to make that commitment. He continued to say no even after Afghanistan’s “loya jirga” assembly of elders approved the agreement.

... is anybody surprised by this story ? 
Obama doesn't get along with anybody.

Posted by: Shaun Donovan at February 26, 2014 04:28 AM (e8kgV)

180 @173 Albedo is when you hit on a masseuse, right? CO2 is to modern science what toads and humours were to medieval doctors.

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 04:28 AM (CusZ8)

181 159 Seamus Muldoon, Not NDH but I'll grant you a non-cryptc answer. I enjoy nothing more than being tld trying to protect people of faith from the pink nazi lawfare warriors is bigotry. I was at the hospital enduring CNN for about two hours Monday and saw not one even report on why AZ felt the need to pass the bill. Look I get it Xians are worse than the Jihadis Bambi is granting refugee protection here. Take heart Seamus I have given up. The GOP should prbably stop having Congrssmen from my House's district and my address of record back in Ohio personally calling me for donations though. Right now I might acidentally vote GOP this fall it is after all a quarter century habit. They keep calling me they'll remind me why I am not donating and I may go to plan B a little early. When the Muslim popultin reaches critical mass Fundi Xians will cut deals with attacking the atheist liberals' lifestyle choices if Lebanon is an indcator. I am very seriously pondering cutting that deal. I hate the glee mafia as much as devout Islam if not more so.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:28 AM (TE35l)

182 So, with a 40-yard dash time of 4.91 seconds, 25 inch vertical leap, and only 17 reps on the 225 lb bench press, what are Michael Sam's prospects as a draftee? Pretty good, if a team has a need for a gay football player. Because that's the only slot* a 6'2", 261 lb. slow, not very strong player could fill. *insert your own joke here

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2014 04:28 AM (JDIKC)

183 Let it snow let it snow let it snow. And amazingly, the fed .gov is opening without a delay!

Posted by: RWC at February 26, 2014 04:28 AM (fWAjv)

184 28 Idiot Democrat in VA is running against Bush/Cheney. I think that dog quit barking a long time ago asshole. And that doesn't even count the completely insane statement he makes. Shit.... some of those Marxist infants are running against Reagan. ...and some of their drooling retard constituents cheer them on. Far more than simple insanity would account for.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 26, 2014 04:31 AM (u4OTh)

185 172 VoterMom, I'd go with instant immersion it is cheaper than Rosetta Stone and 90% or so as good. Unless you are using it for academic level learning that is. Lad got Fwench, I have Spanglish, and wife has Chinese.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:32 AM (TE35l)

186 Okay NDH, maybe you can help me out. I found out yesterday that I didn't pass the purity test and that I am a freedom hating libertarian who wants nothing but lower taxes and pot, because I questioned the wisdom of this Arizona law. Can someone explain to me how a law that essentially says you have the right to refuse service to anyone you want but first you must come up with a religious excuse is going to work in real life? I'm not trying to be obtuse here. .... The law is a problem because it is a standout in a pc world. My thoughts around allowing business owners conduct business the way they choose would require that existing laws be rolled back, and we all know that isn't going to happen.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 04:32 AM (DmNpO)

187 During a speech to Organizing for Action supporters, President Obama paused as he sneezed into the microphone during his speech.

"I've been working so hard I might be getting a cold," Obama said. "I actually think I'm OK."

"I gotta 'Get Covered,'" he added, referring to his signature health care law, which prompted applause and cheers from his supporters.

Obama praised his supporters for promoting Obamacare.

"The work youÂ’re doing is GodÂ’s work," he said. "It is hard work."


... so WTF do we have so many government employees ? .. window dressing ?

Posted by: Stephanie Cutter at February 26, 2014 04:32 AM (e8kgV)

188 Someone at yhe Clinton archives was just about to release those thousands of pages but whoops, tripped, and unfortunately they fell right into a fireplace. What, no fireplace in the archives? Shut up, wingnut.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 04:32 AM (P1Tw6)

189 183 Empire of Jeff, I'd say switch him to tight end but I'll resist.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:33 AM (TE35l)

190 And the Towson Precinct Commander needs to be a little more aware of community crime trends. Yes, I meet with him at least monthly, face to face. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2014 08:22 AM (NHZpR) I'm trying to square the cop telling the guy he had no rights with the fact that the cop did not arrest the guy. If he has no rights and if he's doing something that the cop found egregious enough to approach him three times, then why no arrest? That rather calls into doubt any claim that the cop may have been unaware that the public has the right to film any police action undertaken in public. This is only somewhat related but there's some interesting bias going on in how that horrible situation in Oklahoma is being reported. If you look at headlines and slugs it's generally along the lines of Man dies in OK after police pepper spray him while responding to a domestic disturbance report. Well. Not exactly. The "domestic disturbance" occurred outside a movie theater and involved the man's wife slapping their grown daughter. It beggars belief that editors and reporters are unaware that people will glance and see "domestic disturbance" and presume the cops showed up at the couple's house where the guy was beating the crap out of his wife.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 26, 2014 04:33 AM (VtjlW)

191 Just with those raw numbers, he's probably been erased entirely from a dozen team's draft weekend charts. Unless he can rebound significantly at individual workouts he's a project at best, you don't waste draft picks on those guys, you pick them up as unsigned free agents.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 04:33 AM (ZshNr)

192 26 ...Dean’s first words to Monroe were, “Do you want to fuck?” To which Monroe replied, “How did you know what my favorite thing in the world is?” American heroes.

Posted by: Caliban at February 26, 2014 04:34 AM (DrC22)

193 "I've been working so hard I might be getting a cold," Obama said. "I actually think I'm OK." How does the saying go? If you have to tell people, it probably didn't happen?

Posted by: Mainah at February 26, 2014 04:34 AM (659DL)

194 “We want equal justice under the law,” Farrakhan said on the last day of the Nation of Islam’s annual convention, held in Detroit this year. “Our people can’t take much more. We have to have our own courts. You failed us.”

... a modern call for segregation

Posted by: Lester Maddox at February 26, 2014 04:35 AM (e8kgV)

195 One thing about bakers asked to make wedding cakes and florists asked to provide floral arrangements. They actually have to participate in the event. They must travel to the site and set up the cake at the venue or decorations at the ceremony. They become a direct participant. It's not like just selling invitations or tuxedoes where the transaction ends at point of sale.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:35 AM (oMKp3)

196 It's going to rain here today. My arm is hurting like a bitch and it has a better prediction rate than the local weathermen.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 26, 2014 04:35 AM (P1Tw6)

197 Since everyone is talking about the AZ law make sure you read this:


The AZ "gay bill" has been severely misrepresented say a bunch of lawyers from both sides of the aisle.


http://is.gd/tpl10f

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 04:36 AM (T2V/1)

198 133 DangerGirl, Thanks, I used to be a whole lot more funny and a whole lot less bitter. I hope to get back there by acceptance.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:36 AM (TE35l)

199 Kimberley Strassel must be auditioning for the lead role in "Sheena, Queen of the RINOs" with all the op-ed pieces she's doing against any tea party candidate primarying a sitting Repub. Geez Kim, how are you gonna walk that back if they prevail in the primaries and you've done the donk's work for them to the point of they can run ads saying "See what their natural constituents say about this candidate". How is this expanding the base?  But please, don't appear bare chested riding a rhino with Jennifer Rubin, Kathleen Parker and the inebriated Noonan.  I've already vomited a bit in my mouth while writing that.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:36 AM (+ywjg)

200 @188 Did I just hear correctly, Obama promises a cure for the common cold?
And thinks a cold is caused by overwork? And thinks he's overworked?

He needs to get one of them pubic-hair transplants (I know, he's tryin'...) so he can affect a Spock goatee.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 04:37 AM (xq1UY)

201 Because that will mean that they win and Christians lose, and that's all that matters; the Power.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at February 26, 2014 07:55 AM (+5bkH)


At lot of what the Gay rights movement does seems to come down to revenge. This is retribution for past slights, real and perceived.

Posted by: joncelli at February 26, 2014 04:38 AM (RD7QR)

202 The bar owner is a hero!!! KILL THE BAKER!! http://tinyurl.com/ohlesoc "WeHo Bar To ‘Deny Entry’ To Lawmakers Who Back Anti-Gay Legislation" They are a private business, it's their 'right' to do so.

Posted by: RWC at February 26, 2014 04:38 AM (fWAjv)

203 195  ... a modern call for segregation

Posted by: Lester Maddox at February 26, 2014 08:35 AM (e8kgV)


He has been calling for segregation since I first heard of him, and probably even before that.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 04:39 AM (T2V/1)

204 183 So, with a 40-yard dash time of 4.91 seconds, 25 inch vertical leap, and only 17 reps on the 225 lb bench press, what are Michael Sam's prospects as a draftee? What?!?!?! Anything later than 2nd Round for Jackie Robinson the 2nd is raYYYYYYYYYcissst!!11111!!! hOmOpHObIC!!111!! rigGHTWiNgNUTZ!!!!11111 /Media Faggots I told a draft freak buddy that the only way he goes before the 6th Round is for the Ghey PR. My buddy said he's really not much better than a UFA.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 26, 2014 04:40 AM (u4OTh)

205 186 Hi Sven, I was actually replying to NDH's question. I just dabble at learning languages as an on & off hobby so I only go for free resources. Libraries usually have a bunch; I like that ours lets me use Mango. I will say that Chinese is the one language I seem to have a mental block when it comes to learning it. The Chinese friends I have have tried with me - but I think I am tone deaf to their tone changes or something.

Posted by: Votermom at February 26, 2014 04:40 AM (GSIDW)

206 "I've been working so hard I might be getting a cold," Obama said


What work would that be?  He gives terrible speeches, most of them repetitive, goes to fundraisers, plays golf and yammers like a fucking idiot about sports.  What am I missing?

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:40 AM (+ywjg)

207

200: "Strassel must be auditioning for the lead role in "Sheena, Queen of the
RINOs" with all the op-ed pieces she's doing against any tea party
candidate primarying a sitting Repub."

 

I'm stuck listening to Medved on the drive home from work. He frequently bashes any attempt to primary Cornyn.

 

It's true. We're the RINOs now. 

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at February 26, 2014 04:41 AM (v6cwT)

208 An internal federal probe has concluded that Maurice Jones, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffeÂ’s new commerce secretary, improperly lobbied Congress while he was in the Obama administration last year.

Mr. Jones, who was a deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, sent an email to more than 1,000 recipients — including 46 people at HUD — asking them to contact senators to “defend against efforts by some Republicans” to prevent a housing bill to come up for a vote, according to the internal probe. The message also asked “friends and supporters” to tell senators to vote “no” on another amendment.

A months-long investigation by the HUDÂ’s office of inspector general concluded that Mr. Jones and four others at HUD appear to have violated anti-lobbying laws, which restrict the use of funds for publicity or propaganda directed at pending legislation before Congress. The probe also concluded that Mr. Jones violated internal HUD policy on lobbying by federal employees.

Mr. Jones told investigators that he didnÂ’t know about HUDÂ’s policy prohibiting lobbying on pending legislation, according to a draft of the inspector generalÂ’s report expected to be released this week.

“[Deputy secretary] stated that it was articulated to him that ‘I could do things that others could not,’” investigators wrote in the report obtained by The Washington Times.

... Ignorantia juris non excusat  (ignorance of the law is no excuse)

Posted by: Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus at February 26, 2014 04:41 AM (e8kgV)

209 If you don't support forcing bakers to make cales for gay weddings, you are a purist.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 26, 2014 04:41 AM (aKkNH)

210 "I'm trying to square the cop telling the guy he had no rights with the fact that the cop did not arrest the guy"

One possible contributor to the confusion is the presence of Officers from three different organizations.

Two of the uniforms being worn in the video are NOT from our little local Department. Baltimore County police did a very public reach out to find the guy who took the video, as he was not detained, but then posted the video on line.
Towson Police have historically been pretty good at the individual level, dedicated, level headed and seeming to understand the Police/Citizen relationship.

There is much churn in the area as the local University population and the more urban elements get the opportunity to rub elbows in the recently opened nightclubs.

And three months ago, when I asked the Commander his opinion on the Knock-out game, his response was along the order of "What's that?".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2014 04:41 AM (NHZpR)

211 188?

"working so hard?"

That clown?

Points
Laughs
Turns away....

What a braying JackAss preznint Toonces is.

Posted by: backhoe at February 26, 2014 04:41 AM (ULH4o)

212 Ugh, hate to even think about it, but we have a roofing guy coming over this afternoon for the whole estimate/upselling song and dance. Done it before, it's 90 minutes of sales script after about ten minutes of actual inspection. We know about what it's going to cost, we know what we want, we know we're doing the job, but still I'll have to pretend to be engaged with the guy.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 04:42 AM (ZshNr)

213 If you can't make it as a tight end, there's always wide receiver.

Posted by: Fritz at February 26, 2014 04:42 AM (UzPAd)

214 Segregation.
You want Zeus from "Die Hard With A Hard On."
You'd settle for Marcus Garvey.
You get Calypso Louie.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 04:42 AM (xq1UY)

215 @179. At my Walmart I can buy a box of 50 for 10.37. Of course only 3 boxes at a time, and they have them about half the time I check.

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2014 04:42 AM (4+AaH)

216 Proles, please adjust your thoughts accordingly, a 'Consistent Lie' now = 'Inconvenient Truth'

Posted by: Ministry of Truth [/i] at February 26, 2014 04:43 AM (CnA98)

217 204 Vic, I may finally be ready to call the democrats on their bluff. Right now the donks get to have their lunatic fringe for free. They get to be allied with NoI and LaRaza for no cost with "the sane American middle." Time to make the Donk's pay a price by switching parties and empowering their pets. You want THIS America? Who am I to argue? Enjoy

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:43 AM (TE35l)

218 212 We know about what it's going to cost, we know what we want, we know we're doing the job, but still I'll have to pretend to be engaged with the guy. -- Go with the flat affect and dead fish eyes look to get him to be non-chatty and straight to the point.

Posted by: Votermom at February 26, 2014 04:44 AM (GSIDW)

219 If you haven't heard Rubio's speech in response to Harkin's effusive praise of Cuba, you should hear it.  Minimal notes - no teleprompter.  Though it is a response to a lefty asshat, it is really a response to what the left as a whole is doing to this country:


http://tinyurl.com/musuk73

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 04:44 AM (BZAd3)

220 I'm stuck listening to Medved on the drive home from work. He frequently bashes anyattempt to primary Cornyn.

It's true. We're the RINOs now.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) Est. 1836 at February 26, 2014 08:41 AM (v6cwT)



Somebody needs to challenge that squish on his "Disagreement Day" on why he thinks Cornyn is entitled to the job and what the Founding Fathers would say about it.  For somebody who writes books about misconceptions in various fields he sure comes up with a lot of howlers.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:44 AM (+ywjg)

221 I dislike it when people who have a nominal or no interest in God throw around his name such as in "You are doing God's work." For Obama, I think "Doing God's work=Obama's work." He throws it as a sop to religious believers. If Obama even belives in aGod other than himself, I don't think Obama ever struggles with the question of what is God's work and what is part of his own agenda.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 04:45 AM (XyM/Y)

222 Sen. Paul is the frontrunner for 2016. He's my guy until and unless he gives me a reason not to be. He just better not associate with daddy's Kemtrail Kidz. Or I'm out.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 26, 2014 04:45 AM (7ObY1)

223 217  Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 08:43 AM (TE35l)


I have done an Ace.  I have given up on the Repukes. It is much easier on the mind and body now.  I am at peace with DOOM.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 04:45 AM (T2V/1)

224

Okay NDH, maybe you can help me out. I found out yesterday that I didn't pass the purity test and that I am a freedom hating libertarian who wants nothing but lower taxes and pot, because I questioned the wisdom of this Arizona law. Can someone explain to me how a law that essentially says you have the right to refuse service to anyone you want but first you must come up with a religious excuse is going to work in real life? I'm not trying to be obtuse here.

 

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Seamus,

 

Here's the thing...1A rights to freedom of religon are enshrined in the Constitution and are incorporated among the states.  For government to cross such a right requires the highest legal standard that exists...that of strict scrutiny.  Even at that, the government action must be as narrow as possible and do the absolute least amount of harm possible to pass Constitutional muster.  I'm not interpreting this...this is actual stare decisis on the matter.

 

Now then, keep that in mind as you think about a baker running her own small business.  She happens to be religious, and her religion forbids her to participate in any way with a gay "marriage."  She has made items for gays in the past who happen to walk in her shop and buy a cupcake or whatever, but making a cake for a gay "wedding" is honestly a bridge too far for her and her religious beliefs.

 

How does forcing her to make that wedding cake meet the strict scrutiny standard?  There are other bakers in town.  Indeed, there are many other alternatives for the gay couple to explore before forcing a fellow citizen to violate her religious conscience by violating her 1A rights.

 

Bottom line - this isn't about the cake.  It's in-your-face cultural warfare practiced in the most abominable way.

 

Now that said...how would *you* balance the rights of the baker in this situation?  What would seem wiser to you?

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 26, 2014 04:46 AM (eytER)

225 Of course Obama called Planned Parenthood "God's work" so there you go.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 26, 2014 04:46 AM (XyM/Y)

226 Sven Is there a particular activity or hobby that your son enjoys? Whenever I need to get away from the political storms for a bit, I like to concentrate my energies around the kids in my life. It's so much more funner .

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:46 AM (oMKp3)

227 I have given up on the Repukes. It is much easier on the mind and body now. I am at peace with DOOM. It was especially hard to let go of the emotional attachment I had to the party. Out of deference to the spirit of The Gipper (it was because of him that I joined the party) and because in my all-Dem family it had been hard to "come out" as a Repub, I held on as long as I could. But I'm glad I left. It was the only way to stay honest with myself. I'm at peace with it.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 26, 2014 04:48 AM (7ObY1)

228 Bottom line - this isn't about the cake. It's in-your-face cultural warfare practiced in the most abominable way.

Now that said...how would *you* balance the rights of the baker in this situation? What would seem wiser to you?

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 26, 2014 08:46 AM (eytER)



Its in your face lawfare designed to bankrupt religious people.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 04:48 AM (T2V/1)

229 You know how I know it's hump day? There's a 10-minute appoint with the Prince of Wales on my schedule.

Posted by: Camel Parker-Bowles at February 26, 2014 04:48 AM (g4TxM)

230 "A Rosetta Stone ad popped up in the sidebar and they're having a big sale. Have any if you used their products? " Used the Spanish, liked it a lot. Very interactive sw as opposed to rote memorization, and they provided a microphone to speak into in order to aid in pronunciation. Rosetta Stone es muy bien, amigo!

Posted by: Buster McDissenter at February 26, 2014 04:49 AM (QLbhS)

231 But I'm glad I left. It was the only way to stay honest with myself. I'm at peace with it. Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 26, 2014 08:48 AM (7ObY1) =========== Me too.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:49 AM (oMKp3)

232 Dang it ! I screwed up and hit post by accident. Basically, to finish my thought, and I'll admit I haven't read the text of the proposed AZ law, I don't think the gist of it is wrong. I don't think one group of individuals (the religious) should have their rights trampled in order to not trample the "rights" of others. I don't think that being served a cup of coffee by someone who doesn't like you is a "right". And, if someone doesn't like me, and doesn't want to serve me coffee, fine. I'll take my business elsewhere. Today's aggrieved parties don't just want to be served by those with whom they disagree. Instead, they seemingly want to revel in their ability to force the hand of the other. Like with banning smoking in restaurants: I am not a smoker. I hate smoking and want nothing to do with it. HOWEVER, I voted against anti-smoking legislation because I do not believe that it's my "right" to force a private business to cater to my tastes. I simply took my business elsewhere. Make no mistake that this whole mess has nothing to do with purchasing cake. It has EVERYTHING to do with squelching the free expression of the religious. All that said, the AZ law is a pipe dream because the increasing oppression of religious groups and individuals is now the only acceptable form of oppression according to too many. That's just my quick two cents.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 04:51 AM (DmNpO)

233 226 Grammie Winger, I'm teaching him some archery. I am probably going to send him to get first aid training soon. Of course now that Hagle has admitted "yeah uh we're nuking an extra 40,000 soldiers on top of what we said..." I need to heal up get my CDL and hit the road OTR full time. America is about to clap as giggles' kicks out as many 17 year soldiers as he can to "save money." I accept the errors were mine, and I'll bear the cost of my error in judgement thinking we had learned the lessons of the 70s. It will not happen again.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:52 AM (TE35l)

234 We are not hearing much about this, but "Common Core" is not innocuous.  This is not only an opportunity to standardize the indoctrination of this country's children, it is also an opportunity to institutionalize stupidity.


I am really surprised there is so little push back on this.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 04:52 AM (BZAd3)

235 I don't know if all of you folks saw my post the other day, but even my own representative has started giving townhalls to Hispanics and caving on amnesty.



There is no linger much use in voting.  Since the Republican Party wants to be a dead Party with the Whigs, let them.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 04:52 AM (T2V/1)

236 The only law makers who go to gay bars in boys town are gay.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 04:53 AM (6Nj7A)

237

Also, my interest is Italian. How difficult is it compared to French?

 

NDH, I've used Rosetta for Spanish and Portuguese.  It's fun in that it uses photos and graphics to coach you and continually checks your uptake.  it uses a headset so that it can 'hear' how you're pronouncing words.

I haven't done Italian or French on Rosetta, but as langauges go, I find Italian far easier to learn and pronounce. most italian words sound like they look.  In French there are all kinds of rules about which letters and vowels are there but you dont actually pronounce them arghh !

 

 

 

Posted by: McCool at February 26, 2014 04:53 AM (nCSwS)

238

Morning, all!

 

What fresh hell awaits us today?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 04:53 AM (4df7R)

239 How did you do that disappearing post thing?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:54 AM (oMKp3)

240 What I asked on twitter about the AZ law - so if it's vetoed, basically does it mean that a gay black photographer can not refuse to take photos for a white supremacist wedding with a KKK theme? Or does this "must serve all customers" only mean "must serve all PC-approved customers?"

Posted by: Votermom at February 26, 2014 04:55 AM (GSIDW)

241 I am really surprised there is so little push back on this.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 08:52 AM (BZAd3)



It's part and parcel of what got the JEF elected so some people are too fucking stupid to know to push back against it.  Plus public schools do not want any input by the public on how they run their operations and will do their best to discourage and disregard it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 04:56 AM (+ywjg)

242 238 Morning, all! What fresh hell awaits us today? ====== Nothing can spoil the first day of Spring Training. The two most beautiful words in the English language are Play Ball!!

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 04:56 AM (oMKp3)

243 VIA, If your around - signed up for gunbot. Once you set your price does it automatically alert you or is there another option I have to check. TIA.

Posted by: RWC at February 26, 2014 04:56 AM (fWAjv)

244 Posted by: @JohnTant at February 26, 2014 08:46 AM (eytER) *** Thanks for your detailed response. As a non-lawyer, I am skeptical that a state legislature can write a piece of legislation that will pass that test, and I can envision much misappropriation of the intent. I have admittedly not read the details of the legislation. It just seems to me that the notions of free speech, freedom of association and freedom or religion either speak for themselves, (in spite of all the penumbras and emanations that have emerged in 250 some years) or they are the victim of lawfare. Perhaps a wiser course for Arizona would be to pass a law entitled "The First Amendment, But This Time We Really Mean It Act". I don't have any other answer.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 26, 2014 04:56 AM (g4TxM)

245 234 TexasJew, The pushback is hopefully a diaspora. I am not kidding. I am tired of being a prophet in accuracy called an unhelpful nut on the way to being right. Good luck America. Hopium is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 26, 2014 04:56 AM (TE35l)

246 But I'm glad I left. It was the only way to stay honest with myself. I'm at peace with it.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 26, 2014 08:48 AM (7ObY1)


If we could settle on a candidate (they'd have to be Abe Lincoln caliber exceptional), a third party candidate could deal a death blow to establishment conservatism.  Ben Carson would seem a good choice to me.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 04:57 AM (BZAd3)

247 Meanwhile Craig James, who the media hates so I kind of like, despite him seeming kind of like a douche, is suing Fox for firing him over his Christian beliefs. I vaguely remember the kerfuffle, guess I'll have to catch up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 04:57 AM (ZshNr)

248 Making people provide a service is not the same as a fungible hotel room prepared like any other. "Did I misspell your names on that cake? Sorry."

Posted by: Beagle at February 26, 2014 04:57 AM (CusZ8)

249 The two most beautiful words in the English language are Play Ball Bacon's ready!! (Adjusted for breakfast accuracy)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 26, 2014 04:57 AM (g4TxM)

250 And he's gone again

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 05:00 AM (oMKp3)

251

I hope this little baby finds himself a loving home.

 

Houston: CPS taking custody of baby found in apartment trash

Houston Chronicle: http://tinyurl.com/nhwb3e8


 

The whimper coming from the dumpster outside building 25 caught Carlos Michel's ear Tuesday morning. It sounded like an animal dying, maybe a kitten, but he couldn't tell for sure.

 

As the sounds grew louder, the maintenance worker felt certain that whatever was making the noises was struggling.

 

Seconds later, Michel, 51, reached into the blue dumpster and, hunched over, grabbed a white trash bag. He placed the bag on the ground, ripping it open to find the source - a newborn boy, stuffed among trash and discarded school work. His tiny face and hands were purple, his umbilical cord still attached, his body cold. His soft cries were the only indication he was still alive.

 

"I almost had a heart attack," Michel said.

 

He discovered the baby about 8:30 a.m. at The Reserve at Windmill Lakes apartment complex, 9988 Windmill Lakes Boulevard, just west of Almeda Mall.

 

Paramedics arrived to take the boy to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was reported to be in good condition...

 

 

More at the link.  

 

God bless    you,   Carlos Michel.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 26, 2014 05:00 AM (4df7R)

252 Continuing the theme ” we are re-enacting 1930s Germany” and general DOOM, the FDA is considering whether to give the go-ahead on genetic experiments to create 3-parent embryos. The reason is to screen out birth defects. Eugenics never dies, does it?

Posted by: Votermom at February 26, 2014 05:01 AM (GSIDW)

253 Sigh, I'm just waiting for the news dump.....

Posted by: Draki at February 26, 2014 05:01 AM (L8r/r)

254 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 26, 2014 09:00 AM (4df7R) Beauty from ashes

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 05:01 AM (oMKp3)

255 The only law makers who go to gay bars in boys town are gay.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 08:53 AM (6Nj7A)




Barry: Why is everyone looking at me?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 26, 2014 05:02 AM (FE/sZ)

256 252, Is it like real life Wolfenstein?

Posted by: Draki at February 26, 2014 05:02 AM (L8r/r)

257

One thing about bakers asked to make wedding cakes and florists asked to provide floral arrangements. They actually have to participate in the event. They must travel to the site and set up the cake at the venue or decorations at the ceremony. They become a direct participant.

 

I think this is a great point g'ma and one that keeps getting lost.   Bakeries have no problem if a gay person walked in and bought cookies or bread off the shelf.  They are demanding that DJs / Photographers and bakers ACTIVELY participate in a ceremony which the vendor considers to be a religious event. 

Posted by: McCool at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (nCSwS)

258 "Dems are ready to go on offense over Obamacare." Let me guess, it's going to rhyme with Fapublican Rubstructionism?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (gBnkX)

259 I learned Italian using Rosetta. Admittedly I had a big head start because it was commonly spoken in my family when I was younger. That was one of the reasons I wanted to learn it properly, because all the old Italian speakers were dying out and I wanted to keep some of the heritage alive. But what we heard and used growing up was mostly the Calabrese dialect. The real language is much different. It's a very easy language. Not too many rules, and better yet, not too many exceptions to those rules. And it's fun to speak it. Very musical lanuage.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (7ObY1)

260 Sine people are not reading that article about the AZ law here are the pertinent parts.


SB1062 amends Arizona's RFRA in two ways: 


1. "It provides that people are covered when state or local government requires them to violate their religion in the conduct of their business."



2. "It would provide that people are covered when sued by a private citizen invoking state or local law to demand that they violate their religion."


Countering misrepresentations, the professors pointed out that "SB1062 does not say that businesses can discriminate for religious reasons."



In concluding, they urged Gov. Brewer to be sure SB1062 is "accurately considered," so that in passing judgment on it she is not "misled by uniformed critics."


I gather from that it means that the State will provide legal representation.  I see this as an effort to keep the gay mafia from using lawfare to bankrupt Christian businesses.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (T2V/1)

261 Meanwhile Craig James, who the media hates so I kind of like, despite him seeming kind of like a douche, is suing Fox for firing him over his Christian beliefs. I vaguely remember the kerfuffle, guess I'll have to catch up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 26, 2014 08:57 AM (ZshNr)



There are a lot of people who've complained about his ability as a sports yacker for quite a while so I'm less than totally sympathetic to his plight.  I consider him pretty faceless and nondescript so I think he's clogging the court with this suit.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (+ywjg)

262 "If your around - signed up for gunbot. Once you set your price does it automatically alert you or is there another option I have to check."

I just did everything in "Settings" and hit "Save Price Settings" button all the way at the bottom of the page. Out of sight unless you scroll way down at the bottom of the page.

I actually get most of my alerts from "WikiArms" and "SlickGuns".


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (NHZpR)

263 Thanks for your detailed response. As a non-lawyer, I am skeptical that a state legislature can write a piece of legislation that will pass that test, and I can envision much misappropriation of the intent. I have admittedly not read the details of the legislation. It just seems to me that the notions of free speech, freedom of association and freedom or religion either speak for themselves, (in spite of all the penumbras and emanations that have emerged in 250 some years) or they are the victim of lawfare. Perhaps a wiser course for Arizona would be to pass a law entitled "The First Amendment, But This Time We Really Mean It Act". I don't have any other answer. -------------- Well, I agree - they do speak for themselves. And honestly, I have a lot of sympathy for some public accomodation laws. I don't think a taxi driver should be able to turn down a ride for someone...often there isn't an alternative taxi, for example. But in order to rest on the argument that freedom of religion, speech, association, etc etc speak for themselves, you have to assume good faith actors on both sides of the argument. In this case, I don't see much good faith in forcing a baker to participate in a ceremony she either can't or won't condone, especially when that reticence is founded in religious belief. As it is, the AZ bill seems to me to be the best way, even though I hate like Hell that it's necessary. It affirms an individual's rights under the 1A and illustrates that there is no good balance in this situation that allows government to violate those rights. It's some pushback in an area where pushback is desperately needed.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 26, 2014 05:03 AM (eytER)

264 Gnu Dup!

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 05:04 AM (xq1UY)

265

Its in your face lawfare designed to bankrupt silence religious people.

 

Just a slight clarification there, Vic.

 

As I said on another thread, I am sick and fucking tired of this country being torn apart by assholes who never got over their daddy issues.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2014 05:04 AM (zF6Iw)

266 ...and it's all Doomy.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 26, 2014 05:04 AM (xq1UY)

267 "Nothing can spoil the first day of Spring training." Let me be clear, ah, it's the right thing to do. If you just quit watching the wrong network you'd know...

Posted by: Barky I at February 26, 2014 05:04 AM (sOtz/)

268 Breaking:  Hundreds of People Haven't Been Murdered By Muslims Today!



Joking.  Obviously.  But you have to admit, you fell for it for a second - right?

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 05:05 AM (BZAd3)

269 I see someone who decorates cakes or takes wedding photographs as on the 'artistic' side of the spectrum. If you follow that logic then we are probably the first country since the Dark Ages that requires free-lance artists to create something against their own free will.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 26, 2014 05:06 AM (CnA98)

270 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 26, 2014 09:03 AM (NHZpR) Thanks. I'll sign up for those as well.

Posted by: RWC at February 26, 2014 05:06 AM (fWAjv)

271 Thank you all for your advice and responses re Rosetta Stone and Italian. I think I'm going to check out a couple of the freebies before going with RS.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 05:07 AM (cd5wu)

272

Good morning from way Down Under on another lovely warm night

 

Talking about gay things - this Saturday in Sydney we have the annual Mardi Gras Parade!

 

Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Pride - did I leave any category out?

 

 

Sadly I can't be there - I'll be at a rugby game....

Posted by: aussie at February 26, 2014 05:07 AM (nP3cM)

273 235 I don't know if all of you folks saw my post the other day, but even my own representative has started giving townhalls to Hispanics and caving on amnesty.



There is no longer much use in voting. Since the Republican Party wants to be a dead Party with the Whigs, let them.
Posted by: Vic

I agree. I've "gone mini-Galt" as much as humanly possible. Look out for myself & the few people who have treated me decently since my young bride died.

Rest of 'em? Eff the SOB's. They voted for this train wreck? Twice? Screw 'em all. Me and mine and nothing else matters, anymore, to me.

Guess I'm a Nialist now....

Posted by: backhoe at February 26, 2014 05:07 AM (ULH4o)

274 So, with a 40-yard dash time of 4.91 seconds, 25 inch vertical leap, and only 17 reps on the 225 lb bench press, what are Michael Sam's prospects as a draftee?

Pretty good, if a team has a need for a gay football player. Because that's the only slot* a 6'2", 261 lb. slow, not very strong player could fill.

*insert your own joke here

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 26, 2014 08:28 AM (JDIKC)



ESPN and the rest of the lefty media will describe him as the greatest athlete to ever walk the face of the earth

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 26, 2014 05:07 AM (FE/sZ)

275 267 "Nothing can spoil the first day of Spring training." Let me be clear, ah, it's the right thing to do. If you just quit watching the wrong network you'd know... .... Storms in Florida

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 05:08 AM (cd5wu)

276 Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Pride - did I leave any category out? ------------- Yeah, about 44 other categories.

Posted by: Facebook at February 26, 2014 05:08 AM (eytER)

277 Ben Carson would seem a good choice to me. Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 26, 2014 08:57 AM (BZAd3) Love to see him in Congress.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 26, 2014 05:08 AM (XimCT)

278 Yesterday I heard a number of libertarians call into a local conservative's radio show who were against the AZ law, stating that we don't need any more laws, we need less laws. The problem with this is that that states enact Human Rights Commissions, statutes, etc. that give extra rights to gays, requiring religious people to violate their religious principles or be sued out of business. So the idea of "we don't need extra laws" seems to be a false one.

Wouldn't you think a large chunk of libertarians would see the point of joining with an action that prevents the state from forcing people to violate their conscience, even if they don't agree with their religious convictions? I remember a post from a few years back where Ace talked about moving the gate and sort of blaming conservatives for wanting to move the gate with our oppressive so-con legislation (I think) but isn't it really the progs moving the gate with their changes since we're only asking to keep 100s of years worth of history in place. I just don't understand why libertarians are so willing to jump on board with what I see as oppression. It's only going to get worse as more and move "groups" are granted special rights, right?

Posted by: jeannebodine at February 26, 2014 05:09 AM (2LJqa)

279 DOOM is up

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 26, 2014 05:09 AM (T2V/1)

280 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2014 07:34 AM (olDqf)

But at the rate all the squishies are going, that's what you'll have anyway so it doesn't much matter you saying no.

I can guarantee you there will be another moderate nominee from the GOP in 2016. Willing to put major money on it. (well major for me.)

All these guys claiming to be TEA Party or standing up for this or that are all liars (look at there staffs and look at what they've said and done in the past, you'll notice they've changed a bit since 2016 is getting closer. And even if they got in without the Senate they can do nothing and with a squishy Senate and a squishy House, it will be a disaster with the Dems in either as majority, nothing will get done as the RINO's will cave.

You know it's what's going to happen, you know I'm right. Just admit it and surrender and actually let it burn so that something new can take it's place.

The only way for something new to be born is for something old to die.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at February 26, 2014 05:11 AM (LSDdO)

281 ...you have to assume good faith actors on both sides of the argument. As it is, the AZ bill seems to me to be the best way, even Posted by: @JohnTant at February 26, 2014 09:03 AM (eytER) **** nail on the head right there! (Thanks for your civil and well reasoned responses)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 26, 2014 05:11 AM (g4TxM)

282 Look for Christians exiting the Bed and Breakfast industry soon too.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2014 05:12 AM (oMKp3)

283 They re-drew the flood zones around the Brazos a few years ago. (Humm, right after Katrina.). One of my rancher friends wanted to reopen an old windmill well and put an electric pump in it. The pasture is on the high bank side of the river, the bluff falls off 40 feet to the normal river level. But the electrical meter had to be about 20 more feet off the ground for some reason. It looks silly as plaid shit. If the water ever got up there we would all be drowned.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at February 26, 2014 05:13 AM (Mxy9R)

284 275 267 "Nothing can spoil the first day of Spring training." Let me be clear, ah, it's the right thing to do. If you just quit watching the wrong network you'd know... .... Storms in Florida Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2014 09:08 AM (cd5wu) not in AZ.....but after a dry winter we are getting storms over the weekend

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl SPRING TRAINING BEGINS TODAY at February 26, 2014 05:18 AM (u8GsB)

285

>>We are not hearing much about this, but "Common Core" is not innocuous. This is not only an opportunity to standardize the indoctrination of this country's children, it is also an opportunity to institutionalize stupidity.


I am really surprised there is so little push back on this.

.

.

.Big push back here in Kentucky.  Doubt it will do any good in the short term as our Governor has already said he is going to Nuke anti-Common core stuff because he is term limited, and doesn't really care about people anymore.  He also has a spot in the Obama Administration for the rest of that term lasts.

Posted by: Registered Voter at February 26, 2014 05:19 AM (0DC/m)

286 Grammie Winger, you're right. It will extend to Christian rock groups, chapels, church halls (it may be there already) until the pastors and churches themselves are sued directly and eventually. out of existence. Because even if the church wins in the end, what religious organizations can afford the onslaught of legal fees? And even the faiths that accomodate them can probably expect to see the envelope pushed in the type of ceremony they demand because they never, ever relent.

Posted by: jeannebodine at February 26, 2014 05:22 AM (2LJqa)

287 The Clinton library is out of excuses for withholding about 33,000 pages of records from the Clinton White House. Pretty sure Sandy Burglar already stuffed away all the incriminating docs in his socks.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at February 26, 2014 05:25 AM (9Bdcz)

288 52 Also note that they have the Kindle version of 1984 for $6. Gutenberg Australia has it free. Different copyright laws down there.

Posted by: Anachronda at February 26, 2014 05:29 AM (U82Km)

289 And even the faiths that accomodate them can probably expect to see the envelope pushed in the type of ceremony they demand because they never, ever relent.

There is, of course, a not very nice response to those kinds of things.

Posted by: GMan at February 26, 2014 05:33 AM (sxq57)

290 Released in 2005 must have been Barney Frank

Posted by: righter at February 26, 2014 06:24 AM (yxR31)

291 All these techniques that anti-democratic prisoners and their lawyers use have been in use for decades. Baader Meinhoff and their lawyers complained about torture, went on hunger strikes, passed info back and forth in conference with their attorneys.

Yet the MSM ignores this history. They're criminals too.

Posted by: PJ at February 26, 2014 06:38 AM (ZWaLo)

292 291 All these techniques that anti-democratic prisoners and their lawyers use have been in use for decades. Baader Meinhoff and their lawyers complained about torture, went on hunger strikes, passed info back and forth in conference with their attorneys. Yet the MSM ignores this history. They're criminals too. Posted by: PJ at February 26, 2014 10:38 AM (ZWaLo) Ha! Last night I started reading the FBI files on the Rosenberg case that go up to 1959 and go into detail about all the subversive groups supporting them. All these tricks to disrupt and subvert justice have been practiced by evil people for decades. Even post Verona, people are still lying about the case.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 26, 2014 06:51 AM (6Nj7A)

293 Greetings: Sounds like it's time for the Clintons to let Sandy Berger spend some private quality time in their library.

Posted by: 11B40 at February 26, 2014 08:05 AM (+jY7S)

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