March 19, 2014

Top Headline Comments 3-19-14
— Gabriel Malor

Happy Wednesday. How happy are folks? Yeah.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had a good column at CNN's website yesterday describing the committee's new year-round ground game and the reasons for the changes to the 2016 primary schedule.

It's the story of our field staffers across the country -- state directors, data directors, and Hispanic, black, and Asian-American engagement staffers. The RNC has also hired staff dedicated to engaging better with women, youth, people of faith and conservative allies and groups. We have hundreds of staff fanned out, especially in critical midterm states, supporting our candidates and growing our party. Today, 91% of our political staff is in the field.

They support whole teams of precinct captains. We've recruited more than 12,000 captains nationwide. Those captains have teams of volunteers whose job it is to maintain lasting relationships with sets of people in their communities. They're listening to their concerns and making sure they hear about the issues they care about.

Reince announced that the convention will be either June 27 or July 18, shortening the time between the start of primary voting and the official selection of our nominee, compared to 2012. There's a couple reasons for that.

First, once the Republican candidate is officially nominated, he will have access to general election funds. He won't have to hold back enough primary funding (or, more likely, simply go without funding) to fill the gap between the time he accumulates enough primary votes to become the presumptive nominee, which is usually April or May, and the time he is officially nominated, usually August or September.

Second, the early convention gives more time before Election Day for the Republican candidate to focus on the general election campaign, which involves pushing wedge issues for Democrats to the fore. This is in contrast to the primary, which necessarily involves Republicans pushing wedge issues for Republicans. Having a late convention last time meant voters spent almost a year hearing Republicans tear each other down and only 60 days on the general election campaign. We won't do that again.

Reince also mentioned the new digital and data tools the RNC is providing. They were helpful for Rep. Jolly in his recent special election in Florida and the idea is that they'll be available for all Republican candidates and state committees this year.

When the RNC announced the new tech startup, the Democrats rushed out to claim that they too were building a digital and data platform, called Project Ivy. But it's much ado about nothing, built on top of the OFA platform designed to turn out Obama voters, which has drastically underperformed whenever Obama isn't on the ballot.

Additionally, the Democrats have only a fraction of the cash on hand that Republicans do and enormous amounts of debt. The RNC remains debt-free, and therefore has the funds and flexibility to field its data tools. That too is part of Reince's plan.


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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, March 19, 2014.  On this day in 1918 Congress established both Time Zones (needed) and Daily Savings Time (useless shit).

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:49 AM (T2V/1)

2 Malaysian authorities keep changing their story on the missing flight.  The word is now the last message from the aircraft came 12 min after it changed its course.


http://tinyurl.com/orng92n

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:50 AM (T2V/1)

3 FL continues its war on charter schools that they say are not meeting "standards".  One wonders if this is a case of education standards or union standards.


http://tinyurl.com/o8mlcgl

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:50 AM (T2V/1)

4 Huge fish tank at Disney restaurant in Orlando ruptures sending customers running.


http://tinyurl.com/lgkxr44

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:50 AM (T2V/1)

5 States (and the feds) collect huge amounts of taxes on cigarettes and are making sure that so-called "e-cigarettes are equally taxed so they will not miss out on any filthy lucre extorted from smokers.


http://tinyurl.com/orr9sw9

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:51 AM (T2V/1)

6 Toyota to pay $1B extortion to the DOJ for non-existent safety issues.   Holder continues his illegal hounding of "enemies of the State", in this case non-union auto companies in competition with Government Motors.  This was the so-called "sudden acceleration" issue that has been shown to be a phony issue.


http://tinyurl.com/oyufyrq

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:51 AM (T2V/1)

7 "Study" shows wealthy people are fleeing NJ because of high taxes (note similar studies have shown they are fleeing NY for the same reason).  This is a no shit scenario.  No study was needed for this, it is pure common sense.  And notice how the reported was delayed in release until have the elections.


http://tinyurl.com/onodcl7

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:51 AM (T2V/1)

8 DAY 499 961 to go (1,038 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, Mugwumps, 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 March 19, 2014 02:51 AM (olDqf)

9 Stand by for a trade war with the EU over cheese.  They are blocking US cheese because they claim the cheese names are based on geographic location so the US cheese is mislabeled.  It's all horseshit.  But we have to have a President who has no balls so this will not happen.


http://tinyurl.com/o52tox8

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:52 AM (T2V/1)

10 The corrupt Obamanites continue their efforts to stick their noses in the Syrian civil war on the side of the Al Qeada terrorists as opposed to the government terrorists.  


http://tinyurl.com/qdvp4be

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:52 AM (T2V/1)

11 Crooked Obamanites continue to push the global warming scam.


http://tinyurl.com/oaljg8q

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:52 AM (T2V/1)

12 Rancid Pubis. Meh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 02:52 AM (olDqf)

13 Story from yesterday; WH pastry chef has resigned over row with big butt Mooch.  I say congress should defund their entire cooking staff and make the Mooch cook.


http://tinyurl.com/kuljndu

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:52 AM (T2V/1)

14 "Green is mean"; pilots complaining about blinding glare from the CA government funded solar facility in Southern CA.  They should simply ground all flights in the area.


http://tinyurl.com/nztr7vl

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

15 IL unions spent more than $6M fighting to kill some Republican candidates in the primary.  It looks like IL may go the same way other mid-western States went to oust union/Democrat control of the State.   But despite their efforts the anti-union Republican won.


http://tinyurl.com/mow7pjr

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

16 HOA at FL Condo (?) tell woman to remove her pink cancer ribbon that is located inside her home.  My advice, either move or organize the rest of the owners and kick out the HOA.


http://tinyurl.com/oxcvdwc

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:53 AM (T2V/1)

17 All the NY/NJ people who fled to CLT that I know vote for dems here.

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 02:53 AM (y7PFk)

18 Priebus can crow all he wants.  If the party nominates the Fat Bastard, The Return of Bush or any other water-spined "moderate," he can kiss the election goodbye.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 02:54 AM (zF6Iw)

19 More record cold on the way to the east.  The high here yesterday was 42.5F while the normal high (NOAA) is 69F.  That is 26F below normal.   And if you think yesterday was just a one-time aberration, the average daily high temp last march was 63F while it is running 57F this year. But we haz global warming.


http://tinyurl.com/kboz6mn

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

20 Committee formed to draft Ben Carson for President in 2016 as a Republican.  I am not so sure because he has made some alarming statements regarding gun control.


http://tinyurl.com/qffx2hh

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

21 Thug school cop breaks kid's arm on this video.  I am sure the taxpayers of Beaumont, TX will pay.


http://tinyurl.com/nfxexpf

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:54 AM (T2V/1)

22 And speaking of thug cops, a proposed bill in KS will make it virtually impossible for citizens to file complaints against cops.  This bill had to be written by police unions.


http://tinyurl.com/ppbyyk9

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

23 MS will soon be testing welfare recipients for drugs.  If I am not mistaken FL already tried that and SCOTUS shot it down for some stupid reason.


http://tinyurl.com/q2cczpt

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

24 I am rooting for Ancient Moss to conquer the world.  After all what can go wrong with science boffins thawing out some frozen Antarctic moss?

http://tinyurl.com/qd2o5h5

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 02:55 AM (1zr4/)

25 That janitor that I linked to yesterday who shot thugs beating him with a baseball bad has now been jailed on possible homicide charges.   If I was on that jury not only would they not convict but also the cops would be convicted of malicious prosecution.


http://tinyurl.com/pcyw2tn

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)

26 Remember Motor Voter and its requirement to purge voter rolls every 4 years as part of a compromise to pass the law?  Well a study by the MD Republican Party says there are 20,000 dead people on the rolls in MD.  And this doesn't count the felons on the roll.  The fact is that blue regions controlled by Democrats NEVER purge the rolls as required by law.



Republican should be suing these people instead of releasing "reports" and trying to pass new laws.  The Dems claim it is due to strict regulations regarding removal of people from the rolls.  Gee, one wonders how those regs came about?


http://tinyurl.com/psru7y6

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

27 House fights back at Pharaoh Obama's massive number of EOs and just outright flouting of the law.  They are talking him to death and issuing "reports".


http://tinyurl.com/q2cpbyf

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

28 An Islamic teacher convicted of sexually abusing an 11 year old girl in the UK has been sentenced to 40 weeks in jail, suspended.  The UK has turned to shit.


http://tinyurl.com/osnwnga

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)

29 While Republican House committees can't get shit from the EPA despite subpoenas, the Democrats get thousands of pages of records regarding Republicans contacting EPA officials.  It is far past time in charging the head EPA scrunt and a lot of her subordinates with criminal contempt.


http://tinyurl.com/n9zqopv

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

30 PA Democrat shown on tape excepting a bribe to oppose PA voter ID law.  New Democrat governor dismissed charges.


http://tinyurl.com/o3equm5

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

31 I like Ben Carson a lot, especially since he became a target of the SCOAMF. But yes, will have to see what his 2nd amendment stance is. As I said, no candidate is 100% perfect. But there are certain major principles which are absolutely inviolable, and the 2nd amendment is one of them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 02:57 AM (olDqf)

32 Vic- Your extortion of Toyota story reminds me of something I recently learned. After the gulf oil spill and the extra-legal Fed penalty on BP, they closed a refinery on St. Croix. The refinery was the biggest employer on the island.

Made me wonder if BP decided to totally divest in the US after the lawless taking and the criminal threats to their officers.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 19, 2014 02:57 AM (IVgIK)

33 The Democrat passed new hate crime laws will go before SCOTUS Friday.  I doubt if they will strike them down even though they are blatantly unconstitutional, including allowing defendants to be tried twice for the same crime.  SCOTUS has already ruled hate crimes laws are OK.


http://tinyurl.com/pdf56az

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)

34 Ramirez


http://tinyurl.com/oa5dnd4

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

35 The MFM may be turning on the global warming scammer.


http://tinyurl.com/otdyba4

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

36 Kindle Daily Deals


http://tinyurl.com/qaod5om


That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)

37 SAMOD FTW.

Posted by: Gem at March 19, 2014 03:00 AM (zw+pb)

38

Thanks for the morning briefing, Vic.

 

Morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes.  Here are a couple of short stories:

 

In the early 1960s, when she was attempting yet another comeback, Judy Garland told her then-manager Freddie Fields that, with all the money sheÂ’d made and lost over the years, sheÂ’d never really seen any of it.  So after one of her concerts, Fields came back to GarlandÂ’s dressing room with a big brown paper bag filled with that nightÂ’s takings – fives, tens, twenties – and scattered them over her chaise longue.  When Garland saw the money, she squealed in delight and spent the next half hour running her hands through the greenbacks and throwing them up into the air like confetti.

 

I’ve never been a big fan of Garland’s looks (the ever-suave Louis B. Mayer called her “my little hunchback”), but here’s a nice still from 1943s Presenting Lily Mars:

 

http://tinyurl.com/ml7trwz


 

And now a little Brando:  his first film was 1950s The Men, a story about WWII vets who lost their legs in combat.  To prepare for the role, Brando spent time in a wheelchair and hung out with army and navy paraplegics in order to learn about their lives. 

 

One day, he went with a few of the men to a nearby bar for a few beers.  During their drinking session, a Salvation Army woman came in to collect some wastepaper.  Seeing the paralyzed and legless veterans, she raised her arms and cried, “Oh, Lord, grant that these men may be able to walk again!”

 

At which point Brando got up out of his wheelchair and walked over to her, catching the woman as she passed out while the veterans roared with laughter.

 

HereÂ’s Brando in The Men.  The woman is Teresa Wright, who wished to be taken seriously as an actress and infuriated Sam Goldwyn with her contractual requirements: 

 

The aforementioned Teresa Wright shall not be required to pose for photographs in a bathing suit unless she is in the water. Neither may she be photographed running on the beach with her hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the following situations: In shorts, playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in firecrackers and holding skyrockets for the Fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at a turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing outfit while a fan blows her scarf; assuming an athletic stance while pretending to hit something with a bow and arrow.

 

http://tinyurl.com/kbxcv7b

 

Hope you all have a wonderful  day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:00 AM (zF6Iw)

39 Meanwhile in Louisiana, home of Huey P. Long and graft as art.  One of the elder thieves is going to make a run for the US House of Representatives.

Convicted felon and Democrat, but I repeat myself, along with being a former governor, Edwin Edwards has announced plans to run for Cassidy's seat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 03:00 AM (1zr4/)

40 From that CNN crap


In addition to our on-the-ground work, we're looking ahead and changing the 2016 presidential primary process so that we have better debates, handpicked moderators and an earlier convention.


Better moderators???  What a joke.  They are going back to the same MFM that shit all over them last time.  And the conventions now are a waste of time and money.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:02 AM (T2V/1)

41 All the New Jersey people I know running away from high taxes are Democrats. Then they start voting Democrat again in Pa, Fl, or Wyoming. It's just weird.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 03:03 AM (WCaqs)

42 Morning!

I have argued with libtards on other boards about unions backing Dems here in Illinois.. and that one article you posted, Vic, is also true.. they spent millions on the Republican primary to get the more easily beatable candidate.. they lost.. hahahahaha

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 19, 2014 03:04 AM (b/lt+)

43 The charter schools I'm familiar with here are shitty. Where the kids who can't hack public and private schools end up. That's scary.

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 03:04 AM (y7PFk)

44 44 And NC.

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 03:05 AM (y7PFk)

45 Ummmm I'm pretty damn happy But unlike you rethugiKKKants, I'm not full of hate

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:05 AM (61/Y4)

46 17 All the NY/NJ people who fled to CLT that I know vote for dems here.

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 06:53 AM (y7PFk)



Isn't that the way it always works.  They shit up their home State in the north voting in communists/socialists and then escape to the South and start all over again voting in the same shit they created and had to run from before.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:05 AM (T2V/1)

47 Navycopjoe, no...  you are just full of spam.   Served on a taro bun.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 03:06 AM (1zr4/)

48 32  As I said, no candidate is 100% perfect. But there are certain major principles which are absolutely inviolable, and the 2nd amendment is one of them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 06:57 AM (olDqf)



He actually made a statement supporting outright gun bans in urban areas.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:08 AM (T2V/1)

49 I think Gristle Head had the best comment on this yesterday. Breaking: RNC reporting the release of a new "app" that voters can down-load to their Palm Pilot or Blackberry device that will enable them to read their congressman's MySpace page while on the go. During a live chat on AOL, chairman Rence Preibus stated, "this is just the start of a whole slate of things we'll be doing on the world wide web." Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 18, 2014 04:54 PM (+lsX1)

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 03:08 AM (4cA6A)

50 44 All the New Jersey people I know running away from high taxes are Democrats. Then they start voting Democrat again in Pa, Fl, or Wyoming. It's just weird. Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 07:03 AM (WCaqs) Levin refers to them as "locusts." Quite accurate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:08 AM (olDqf)

51 Buenos días, mis amigos y amigas! ¿Cómo esta hoy? ¿Que the f...? Oops, sorry, had the keyboard set wrong. Morning, Glories! May you live today in the knowledge of the presence and watchcare of your loving Father-Creator... yet not feel too guilty...

Posted by: mindful webworker at March 19, 2014 03:09 AM (p74mI)

52 What's funny is to meet the Jersey refugees and hear them bitch about the taxes and in the same breath start telling the locals all about how the city/state services here aren't good enough and they want more trash  pickup, bigger schools etc etc.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 19, 2014 03:11 AM (IVgIK)

53 51 He actually made a statement supporting outright gun bans in urban areas. Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:08 AM (T2V/1) Well, I agree. We should ban all illegal guns illegally used by illegals and criminals. Seriously, that statement knocks him off my list. Too bad. He's the utter antithesis of the "authentically black" Democrat-Leftist ideal of black America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:11 AM (olDqf)

54 Better moderators??? What a joke. They are going back to the same MFM that shit all over them last time. And the conventions now are a waste of time and money.

Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:02 AM (T2V/1)


Amen.  No "professional journalists" as moderators, they have proven themselves unable to be objective.  Use the debate moderators from nationals college debate contests.


In a fair world, Candy Crowley, would be begging for money on the streets after her disgraceful hack job.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 03:11 AM (kXoT0)

55 41  In the interest of accuracy the 'new' Governor was a Republican.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 19, 2014 07:00 AM (oGrEy)



You're right, but in the interest of even more accuracy it was the Democrat AG.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:12 AM (T2V/1)

56 31 PA Democrat shown on tape excepting a bribe to oppose PA voter ID law. New Democrat governor dismissed charges. http://tinyurl.com/o3equm5 Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 06:57 AM (T2V/1) Vic, I think you meant AG, not Governor.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 03:13 AM (4cA6A)

57 Cool story Mary Poppins. What do you suppose it took to take Brando from that seeming decent person to the mentally ill whale he finished up as?

Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 19, 2014 03:13 AM (IVgIK)

58 57 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 07:11 AM (kXoT0) Britt Hume, Brett Baier, Mark Levin (heh), even Hannity.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:13 AM (olDqf)

59 ...and so it goes.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 03:13 AM (4cA6A)

60 62 ...and so it goes. Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 07:13 AM (4cA6A) Nick Lowe we much.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:14 AM (olDqf)

61 Rence was on Hannity teasing that some of the radio guys may be moderators.

Levin for the win!

Actually, if they don't want to debate moderator they should get Prager.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 19, 2014 03:14 AM (IVgIK)

62 Kate Upton as moderator...

Oh wait talking Presidential debates.  Not the Horde debating longbow or crossbow.

Never mind.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 03:16 AM (1zr4/)

63 57  In a fair world, Candy Crowley, would be begging for money on the streets after her disgraceful hack job.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 07:11 AM (kXoT0)


In a fair world Candy Crowley would be servicing glory holes in the public restrooms in Tijuana for 50 cents a pop.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:16 AM (T2V/1)

64

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:14 AM (olDqf)

 

She was a winner who bcame a doggie's dinner. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:17 AM (zF6Iw)

65 DAY 499... - J.J. Sefton YES! The five century mark! Tomorrow we party like ... um... like.. it's... been... years since we saw the sun...

Posted by: mindful webworker - anticipatory frenzy at March 19, 2014 03:17 AM (kUq7A)

66 Actually the debates should be cancelled.  They only serve as an opportunity for the candidate to get off message and to allow the opposition to create sound bites from awkward moments.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 03:17 AM (kXoT0)

67 50. Ugggh What a combo Although lord knows they may sell it at 7/11

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:17 AM (O6zkv)

68 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 07:11 AM (kXoT0) =========================== She works for CNN, right? I guess that explains why she isn't on the streets, where she deserves to be. TimeWarner sure loves them some epic fail.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 03:18 AM (X9npt)

69 Buenos días, mis amigos y amigas! ¿Cómo esta hoy? ¿Que the f...?

¡ You got your punctuation wrong. Should of had the upside down exclamation point at the beginning.!

¡¡¡¡

Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 19, 2014 03:19 AM (nkPV9)

70 In a fair world Candy Crowley would be servicing glory holes in the public restrooms in Tijuana for 50 cents a pop.

Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:16 AM (T2V/1)


Like she could make 50 cents a pop?  Fughedaboutit.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 03:19 AM (kXoT0)

71 If the RNC actually wanted "good" moderators they would get real conservative pundits and avoid anything to do with the enemy in the MFM.


And if they are so flush with cash they would buy their own air time from Fox and do one hour debates.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:19 AM (T2V/1)

72 This was the so-called "sudden acceleration" issue that has been shown to be a phony issue. The real issue was DWE -- Driving While Elderly. Posted by: Ugg Boots at March 19, 2014 06:56 AM (oGrEy) A million years ago when the first round of unintended acceleration was going on, 60 Minutes actually engaged in journalism and looked into it. They had car owners demonstrate the problem. They went so far as to install cameras in the footwells to document the problem. In every single case, the driver swore they stepped on the brake while the video showed them stepping on the gas.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 03:20 AM (QR7wx)

73 She works for CNN, right? I guess that explains why she isn't on the streets, where she deserves to be. TimeWarner sure loves them some epic fail.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 07:18 AM (X9npt)


Don't know for whom she works, but, she's a Liberal in a Liberal paradise, so throwing away her ethics and professionalism were a plus rather than a negative.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 03:20 AM (kXoT0)

74 I feel like Peter Gibbons this week. Doing a combined total of about fifteen minutes of work. It's not that I'm lazy Bob, it's that I just don't care.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 03:21 AM (32Scy)

75 67 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:14 AM (olDqf) She was a winner who bcame a doggie's dinner. . . Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 07:17 AM (zF6Iw) And a film-ish reference to boot. Well played, sir.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:21 AM (olDqf)

76 I feel like Peter Gibbons this week. Doing a combined total of about fifteen minutes of work. It's not that I'm lazy Bob, it's that I just don't care.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 07:21 AM (32Scy)


Same here, once one turns in one's LoR, the work ethic disappears.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 03:22 AM (kXoT0)

77 He actually made a statement supporting outright gun bans in urban areas.

Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:08 AM (T2V/1)

No, he didn't.

“When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.” (Glenn Beck Show, March 1, 2013)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:22 AM (QFxY5)

78 Actually the debates should be cancelled. They only serve as an opportunity for the candidate to get off message and to allow the opposition to create sound bites from awkward moments.

 

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, We Be Bossy at March 19, 2014 07:17 AM (kXoT0)

 

I'd restructure the debates.  No moderator, one-on-one, no time limit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:22 AM (zF6Iw)

79 Maryland and Florida Morons, check your Mega Million tickets.  In those two states the two winning tickets were sold.  They will split a $400 million jackpot.

11, 19. 24, 33, 51 and 7.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 03:22 AM (1zr4/)

80 21 Thug school cop breaks kid's arm on this video. I am sure the taxpayers of Beaumont, TX will pay. How is the cop a thug? Kid was resisting, if he wants to play bad ass with cops he should first eat more and second stand by cause shit happens

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:23 AM (SMP3h)

81 I had dinner with a neighbor recently who sold his business, after establishing residency in Wyoming. I was giving him shit about voting for every single tax increase supporting Democrat in New Jersey when he proudly told me he was starting all over again doing the same damn thing in Wyoming. A good guy, but sheesh, what a douchebag.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 03:24 AM (1gdVS)

82

He actually made a statement supporting outright gun bans in urban areas.

Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:08 AM (T2V/1)

 


No, he didn't.

“When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.” (Glenn Beck Show, March 1, 2013)

 

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 07:22 AM (QFxY5)

 

Maybe I'm stupid, CBD, but that sounds like a distinction without a difference.  So he would "rather you not have it."  OK, how does he plan to keep me from having the gun if not by banning it?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:24 AM (zF6Iw)

83 81 I'd restructure the debates. No moderator, one-on-one, no time limit. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 07:22 AM (zF6Iw) Yes. Lincoln-Douglass style. No fat, quintuple chinned stooges to hide behind. Let the facts speak for themselves, which means Democrats would almost always lose. Especially if a real conservative would be on our side.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:24 AM (olDqf)

84 Sherry, congrats on your retirement! I don't have that excuse. We are really slow at the moment. So, I try to look busy, but right now, I'm feeling indifferent. There's only so much shitting on a person can take before they give up.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 03:25 AM (32Scy)

85 82 11, 19. 24, 33, 51 and 7. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 07:22 AM (1zr4/) So close. Missed it by 5 numbers!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:25 AM (olDqf)

86 no time limit.

That will never get on television.  We're pretty fucked by television.

Posted by: HR Go Cyclones :) at March 19, 2014 03:25 AM (hO8IJ)

87 80  Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 07:22 AM (QFxY5)


That sounds like an outright gun ban of everything but single shot bolt action rifles to me.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:25 AM (T2V/1)

88 81 I'd restructure the debates. Cage, bats Last one standing wins

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:26 AM (SMP3h)

89 I still stand by my idea of trap doors under the candidates, to be activated by lies.

Posted by: Justamom at March 19, 2014 03:26 AM (Sptt8)

90 *crickets*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 19, 2014 03:26 AM (GjPnA)

91 83  Kid was resisting, if he wants to play bad ass with cops he should first eat more and second stand by cause shit happens

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 07:23 AM (SMP3h)



BULLSHIT, are you a thug cop too?

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:26 AM (T2V/1)

92 That will never get on television. We're pretty fucked by television.

Posted by: HR Go Cyclones at March 19, 2014 07:25 AM (hO8IJ)

 

Don't need TV.  YouTube.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:27 AM (zF6Iw)

93 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 07:24 AM (zF6Iw)

He distinguishes between semi-autos and revolvers/shotguns.

Still not an acceptable stance on the 2nd Amendment, but we have to be accurate.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:27 AM (QFxY5)

94 So is Ben Carson's statement a personal opinion or is it a statement of policy that he would institute some sort of ban should he be elected? I would think there is a difference. Or is there?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:27 AM (olDqf)

95 92 I still stand by my idea of trap doors under the candidates, to be activated by lies. Posted by: Justamom at March 19, 2014 07:26 AM (Sptt Those would last an average of five seconds. "Hi Jim, it's nice to be heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrreeeeee...."

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 03:28 AM (32Scy)

96 No, he didn't.

Tsk, CBD, you should know by now we never let facts get in the way of a two-minute hate.

Posted by: HR Go Cyclones :) at March 19, 2014 03:28 AM (hO8IJ)

97 97  I would think there is a difference. Or is there?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:27 AM (olDqf)



The problem is that personal opinions are often made policy if they can get it done.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:28 AM (T2V/1)

98 By the way, I saw HotGas had a piece on how low inflation is. It's total bullshit. Our grocery bills are through the roof. Our electric bills too. What the hell does that index measure, I wonder?

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 03:29 AM (1gdVS)

99 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:27 AM (olDqf) It could be personal. But how quickly does personal become policy? These days, I wouldn't want put that to the test.

Posted by: Dr. Todd Ambrosius at March 19, 2014 03:30 AM (Jzrec)

100 He distinguishes between semi-autos and revolvers/shotguns.

Still not an acceptable stance on the 2nd Amendment, but we have to be accurate.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 07:27 AM (QFxY5)

 

OK.  Thanks.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:30 AM (zF6Iw)

101 94. Nope I walked around with a coffee cup During fights I would let them beat the shit out of each other and when they were nice and tired then I'd cuff them Easy peasy

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:30 AM (SMP3h)

102 What the hell does that index measure, I wonder? Wages. Yep, inflation is low.

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2014 03:31 AM (FcR7P)

103 So is Ben Carson's statement a personal opinion or is it a statement of policy that he would institute some sort of ban should he be elected? I would think there is a difference. Or is there? Depends. Pwrsonal opinions sometimes become policy. Depends on the tyrant in office.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2014 03:31 AM (d0Dmj)

104 So is Ben Carson's statement a personal opinion or is it a statement of policy that he would institute some sort of ban should he be elected?

You know what this Ben Carson discussion reminds me of?  All the mewling scrunts who thought Sarah Palin would ban abortion if she was Vice-President.

C'mon, Morons, y'all should fucking know better.

Posted by: HR Go Cyclones :) at March 19, 2014 03:31 AM (hO8IJ)

105

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had a good column at CNN's website yesterday describing the committee's new year-round ground game and the reasons for the changes to the 2016 primary schedule.

 

And there's the problem with the fucking GOP in a nutshell.  What the hell is Rancid doing giving even the time of day to those lying nickelfuckers?  Write a column for the WaTi or Fox; tell CNN to blow you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:32 AM (zF6Iw)

106 I would think there is a difference. Or is there?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:27 AM (olDqf)

Would he defend the 2nd Amendment?

Clearly he doesn't believe that it says what it obviously says.

So....no, I don't think he would.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:32 AM (QFxY5)

107 By the way, I saw HotGas had a piece on how low inflation is. It's total bullshit. Our grocery bills are through the roof. Our electric bills too. What the hell does that index measure, I wonder? Air?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2014 03:32 AM (d0Dmj)

108 100 Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:28 AM (T2V/1) 102Posted by: Dr. Todd Ambrosius at March 19, 2014 07:30 AM (Jzrec) Yes, agreed. Ben Carson seems like such a decent person, and he has so many incredibly good qualities and attributes. I suppose we can't afford to take a chance. Then again, he'd have the NRA and the rest of us to whack him on the knuckles.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:34 AM (olDqf)

109 Well J.J. Sefton I did not win either.  I even asked an online Magic Eight Ball yesterday before the drawing.  And it said 'Very Doubtful'

Guess it was right. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 03:34 AM (1zr4/)

110 109. Clearly he doesn't believe that it says what it obviously says. Granted I don't have Dr Carson's education but "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed" seems pretty cut and dry

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:34 AM (SMP3h)

111 Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:26 AM (T2V/1)

It was a school fight.

The kid didn't deserve to get his arm broken. And even if he did, it's not up to the cop to punish.

So "thug cop" is a fair description.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:35 AM (QFxY5)

112 There's Dr Ben Carson showing how we all live in bubbles. As an administrator, teacher, "mechanic" (he's a surgeon, right?), he would seldom be called on to make a fine point of difference between personal advice and public policy. He has no experience saying "If you live in a place where your gun is likely to be stolen, I'd hope you'd decide not to own a semi-auto" instead of "I'd prefer you not have it."

At the bar, at the barbershop, among pals, not  much difference. But now we're talking Anointed One, Supreme Law of the Land, Hope of the Downtrodden. When you're running to replace a pharaoh, you can't do "Let it be done."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 19, 2014 03:36 AM (xq1UY)

113 By the way, I saw HotGas had a piece on how low inflation is. It's total bullshit. Our grocery bills are through the roof. Our electric bills too. What the hell does that index measure, I wonder? Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 07:29 AM (1gdVS) Whatever you want it to. A while back, they took fuel prices out of it. They started publishing that as a separate number when gas prices began shooting upward as a PR move.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 03:36 AM (nj9sX)

114 Cop's either a thug or a fool as he takes the boys arm in a direction that can only result in a break.

The kids is belly down on the pavement at that point, Joe. Still justified right?

Gang of blue indeed.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 19, 2014 03:36 AM (IVgIK)

115 111  Yes, agreed. Ben Carson seems like such a decent person, and he has so many incredibly good qualities and attributes. I suppose we can't afford to take a chance. Then again, he'd have the NRA and the rest of us to whack him on the knuckles.


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:34 AM (olDqf)


The second amendment is one of my go-no gos.  I will never support anyone who doesn't fully support the second amendment as written.  I will give them a "slight" break on other parts of the Constitution but not that one.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:37 AM (T2V/1)

116 By the way, Gateway Pundit has TFG telling legal immigrants that he won't deport close relatives if they themselves will sign up for ObamaCrap. http://bit.ly/1qTLabP

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 03:37 AM (1gdVS)

117 114. I respectfully disagree again Kid was flailing around In the real world when you take a toad down you do whatever you can to get the cuffs on as fast as you can Did his arm go up at a shit angle? Yep sure did but it happens Did the cop intentionally go for a break? Not from what I saw one the video

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:38 AM (hGW9h)

118 Posted by: Navycopjoe BULLSHIT, are you a thug cop too? Posted by: Vic ** prepares popcorn **

Posted by: mindful webworker - over here with Wimpy at March 19, 2014 03:38 AM (MBZW0)

119 I laugh about that humpday vid every week.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 19, 2014 03:39 AM (DmNpO)

120 Using the criteria everyone seems to espouse that a candidate must hold the correct position on every, single issue, there will never be another Republican president. Even Reagan would have failed the test and never been elected.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 03:39 AM (nj9sX)

121 I suspect that school in TX will find out about whether it was a "real break" or not.  Of course, as usual only the tax payers will be held accountable.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:40 AM (T2V/1)

122 Toyota needs to tell the chinless shitstain to piss off and that he and the NTSB cockwipes need to be locked in a burning Volt.  Toyota bends over backward to accommodate fuckheads who complain about things and don't know what the hell they're talking about; I know this because I complained about something that was wrong about my car which they fixed at no charge which I ultimately figured out, to my great embarrassment, that it was something stupid I was doing that caused the "problem".  I can guarantee you that every fucking one of these "victims" of sudden acceleration are cocksucking simpletons with shit for brains who are significantly dumber than I was.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 03:40 AM (vak/p)

123 Reince also mentioned the new digital and data tools the RNC is providing.


Good luck finding me with those.  I'm not kidding, it's shit like this by both sides that makes me do every single thing within my power to annihilate any type of online presence linked to my outside the gray box identity.


Leave.  Me.  The.  Fuck.  Alone. The more you data mine, the more I set out to knowingly fuck with your data.


Except you Mr. Bezos.  Please to continue knowing every single solitary thing about me.    

Posted by: alexthechick - come for the Global Warming stay for the SMOD at March 19, 2014 03:40 AM (Gk3SS)

124 118 Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:37 AM (T2V/1) Yup. I'm with you. That and Amnesty. And whoever proposes dissolution of the IRS and a flat/fair tax will get all my money.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:40 AM (olDqf)

125 117. Did you see the video of the cop shooting a little while back where a cop had a drunk fireman belly down and was trying to get cuffs on? Next thing you know the drunk was on top beating the cop down

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:41 AM (hGW9h)

126 123  Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 07:39 AM (nj9sX)


As I have stated many times in the past, I have three major issues that are make or break for me.  Ranked in order:

1. Second Amendment
2. Amnesty
3. Taxes/big government

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:42 AM (T2V/1)

127 It's too bad we can't get a candidate who pretends to be a RINO, so he can get Rove and McCocksickle to anoint him the candidateÂ… Â…and then declare himself a Tea Party Conservative! Ha.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:42 AM (olDqf)

128 PA Democrat shown on tape excepting a bribe to oppose PA voter ID law. New Democrat governor dismissed charges.

In the interest of accuracy the 'new' Governor was a Republican.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 19, 2014 07:00 AM (oGrEy)


Thought it was a Dem]/b] AG that dismissed the charges?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 03:43 AM (o3MSL)

129 Reince Priebus? Really.....WTF kind of name is that? Ya...same suits? You'll scare people away! Oh well...here is wishing Fredo well in his new job running that seedy topless joint in Pahrump.

Posted by: IrishEd at March 19, 2014 03:43 AM (D0NZx)

130 3 FL continues its war on charter schools that they say are not meeting "standards". One wonders if this is a case of education standards or union standards. .... The Obama Academy? Pfft.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 19, 2014 03:43 AM (DmNpO)

131 Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 07:38 AM (hGW9h)

The kid wasn't trying to fight the cop or the aid, he was just flailing around. Like every teenager in the world would do in a school fight.

This wasn't a drug bust in Compton, this was a bunch of idiots fighting in school.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:43 AM (QFxY5)

132

@5-....States (and the feds).........making sure that so-called "e-cigarettes" are equally taxed.........

 

I really hate these bastards.  Can't they find someone else to tax?  Tax smug people!  There's a lot more money in it!  Sorry-ass, shit-eating, pukes!

Posted by: Case at March 19, 2014 03:43 AM (9mWut)

133

And whoever proposes dissolution of the IRS and a flat/fair tax will get all my money.


Whoever proposes dissolution and prosecution of the IRS gets my first born son.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 03:43 AM (zF6Iw)

134 Newly revised: "March comes in like a lion, but goes out like the Kraaken."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:44 AM (olDqf)

135 3 FL continues its war on charter schools that they say are not meeting "standards". One wonders if this is a case of education standards or union standards. .... And it's not a Florida war on charter schools. It's Broward County.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 19, 2014 03:44 AM (DmNpO)

136 How very Dem: heavily in debt, yet still spending wildly on losing propositions, like Wendy Davis. At least they're consistent.

Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2014 03:45 AM (gjIQF)

137 Story from yesterday; WH pastry chef has resigned over row with big butt Mooch. I say congress should defund their entire cooking staff and make the Mooch cook. .... I say her every meal should be photographed and scrutinized. I wonder what her BMI is.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 19, 2014 03:47 AM (DmNpO)

138 134. It takes one free hand and a gun to change events Before you say but he didn't have one, should the cops bet their lives on it? Also what's to say he could grab a cop's gun It happens

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:47 AM (0YWG9)

139 I agree that facedown doesn't end things but having taught people to control other people you know which way the arm must be turned. Problem is that the first move of many officers appears to be to take the arm up and away from the back as a pain compliance move. You can do a lot worse than break an arm that way.


Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 19, 2014 03:47 AM (IVgIK)

140 The problem is that personal opinions are often made policy if they can get it done.

Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:28 AM (T2V/1)


And it is always bad policy when motivated by personal "opinion".  "Because I said so" is not an ethical or moral basis for a law.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 03:47 AM (o3MSL)

141 looking insinuatingly at a turkey for Thanksgiving This one time, in Home-Ec...

Posted by: fluffy at March 19, 2014 03:48 AM (Ua6T/)

142 142. . Problem is that the first move of many officers appears to be to take the arm up and away from the back as a pain compliance move. You can do a lot worse than break an arm that way. Excellent point

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 03:49 AM (0YWG9)

143 Hey don't worry guys & gals, Obama released his March Madness bracket and screened the new Cesar Chavez movie at the White House last night. This Crimea thing is totally under control!

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 19, 2014 03:49 AM (7T0u2)

144 146 Posted by: Jay in PA at March 19, 2014 07:49 AM (7T0u2) Wonder if that Cesar Chavez movie will depict him as vehemently OPPOSED to Amnesty. Yeah, sure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:50 AM (olDqf)

145 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 19, 2014 07:47 AM (DmNpO)


I'd love to see the price, calorie count, and dietary labeling published for every meal served to Mooch just like they're requiring for restaurants!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 03:51 AM (o3MSL)

146 "Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane" ---------------------- Note that within 60 days of taking office she voided concealed carry reciprocity with Florida unless you are a resident of Florida. May she burn in hell.

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 19, 2014 03:51 AM (7T0u2)

147 Is AG in PA an elected position or an appointed position?

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 03:52 AM (T2V/1)

148 And SMOD misses Quebec

http://tinyurl.com/qz7gm9q

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 03:53 AM (1zr4/)

149 Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 19, 2014 07:50 AM (oGrEy)

As I read it, the R Gov was the AG when the investigation was active, but it was a DEM AG that dropped all the charges!


Privacy aside, it would have been interesting to see the tapes of the Republicans as they all turned down the bribes!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 03:54 AM (o3MSL)

150 It happens

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 19, 2014 07:47 AM (0YWG9)

I understand your point, but the police in this country are out of control.

And the default explanation is that the behavior was designed to protect the cops.

Driving a cab or drilling for oil or tree trimming is more dangerous.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:54 AM (QFxY5)

151 As I have stated many times in the past, I have three major issues that are make or break for me. Ranked in order: 1. Second Amendment 2. Amnesty 3. Taxes/big government Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 07:42 AM (T2V/1) I'm not criticizing anyone over that. I am just saying that the reason Dems are successful is because they understand the game. A candidate may hold positions that they don't like, but they vote for him anyway. I know many Dems who thought Obama was a fool and the worst possible candidate ever, but they pulled the lever anyway because they knew they had a better shot with their agenda than with an R in office. We, on the other hand, tend to go the other way. In 2006, we threw a temper tantrum and stayed home. The result was a Dem takeover and, eventually, Obamacare.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 03:54 AM (nj9sX)

152 Before you say but he didn't have one, should the cops bet their lives on it? I'm a tired of cops acting like they're troops in a hostile foreign country. There's been too much gun-happy thuggery from cops nowadays.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 19, 2014 03:54 AM (uhAkr)

153 Thug school cop breaks kid's arm on this video. I am sure the taxpayers of Beaumont, TX will pay.

That's the least of BISD's problems.  The taxpayers of Beaumont are long suffering when it comes to that giant clusterfuck.  The TEA is investigating, and hopefully, they will take over the district.  There isn't enough space on this blog for me to list all of the crazy crap that has happened there in the last 10 years.

Posted by: no good deed at March 19, 2014 03:56 AM (vBhbc)

154

If you link to the Geico ad every Wednesday?

 

I'm good with that...

Posted by: RobM1981 at March 19, 2014 03:57 AM (lV1tZ)

155 TFG Care rates about to skyrocket http://bit.ly/1gOHMGR At what point does our experiment with national socialism turn into a humanitarian crisis? Pretty fucking soon, if my opinion counts.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 03:57 AM (3uHwI)

156 Posted by: Case at March 19, 2014 07:43 AM (9mWut)

I wish libs would practice what they preach and tax Democrats for being Democrats.


Unfortunately, ALL establishment government types have never met a tax they didn't like or one that is low enough.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 03:57 AM (o3MSL)

157 What's up with the new 24 medals of honor given? Is there now a separate process to give them out to rectify historical wrongs?

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 03:57 AM (y7PFk)

158 Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 19, 2014 07:54 AM (uhAkr)

And when they dress like soldiers it's even easier to behave that way!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 03:59 AM (QFxY5)

159 We, on the other hand, tend to go the other way. In 2006, we threw a temper tantrum and stayed home. The result was a Dem takeover and, eventually, Obamacare.


Then maybe it is time to end business as usual? Maybe it's time for the rino's to jump on the conservative bandwagon? Or are forever going to have to go along to get along with the whatever version of mccain gets thrown at us?

Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 19, 2014 03:59 AM (nkPV9)

160

And SMOD misses Quebec

http://tinyurl.com/qz7gm9q[/i]

 

See?  Fuckin' cocktease.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at March 19, 2014 03:59 AM (87y4e)

161 We, on the other hand, tend to go the other way. In 2006, we threw a temper tantrum and stayed home. The result was a Dem takeover and, eventually, Obamacare. See, we don't though. McCain and Romney are both shit, but they got the nod because it was their 'turn.' The problem isn't that the GOP is too purist. It's that the leadership has entirely different goals from the base. That's where the problem is.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 19, 2014 03:59 AM (uhAkr)

162 155 Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 07:54 AM (nj9sX) No Democrat candidate these days will ever hold a position that is contra that of the platform. Look at Joe Lieberman. GOP establishment candidates at best will maintain the status quo. Mostly, they will compromise with leftists and continue our slide into the abyss. That's why the base stayed home in '08 and especially in '12.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 03:59 AM (olDqf)

163 What's up with the new 24 medals of honor given? Is there now a separate process to give them out to rectify historical wrongs? Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 07:57 AM (y7PFk) I'm not saying these men didn't deserve the medals, but to say that it is about race is ridiculous. Just read about MSG Roy Benavides in Vietnam. I met the man and can say there is no man alive who has ever loved his country more. He got his medal right after Vietnam.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 04:01 AM (nj9sX)

164 Posted by: alexthechick - come for the Global Warming stay for the SMOD at March 19, 2014 07:40 AM (Gk3SS)


AtC, we notice you have not ordered your usual chocolate assortment on schedule.  Are you feeling OK?

Be Well

 Jeff!

Posted by: J Bezos at March 19, 2014 04:01 AM (o3MSL)

165 I see Kathleen Kane, the elected Pa AG, is the first Democrat ever elected to the job. Maybe the voters ought to consider electing a Republican next time.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 04:01 AM (3uHwI)

166 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:59 AM (olDqf)

Because the Democrats are relentless when it comes to whipping their politicians to stay on message. They will withhold campaign funds, undermine bills, and other sleazier stuff to keep them in line.

That's how to win.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (anti-Irish Bigot) at March 19, 2014 04:02 AM (QFxY5)

167 I understand Vic thinking the way he did.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 19, 2014 07:57 AM (oGrEy)


You should never miss a chance to correct Vic, because it happens so rarely!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:03 AM (o3MSL)

168 The worse thing about that Medal of Honor ceremony is it was a job lot of awards.  24 at once?  Even if most of the recipients are dead, they deserve more dignity than "Here ya go boys!  Have a medal!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 04:03 AM (1zr4/)

169

I'm not criticizing anyone over that. I am just saying that the reason Dems are successful is because they understand the game. A candidate may hold positions that they don't like, but they vote for him anyway. I know many Dems who thought Obama was a fool and the worst possible candidate ever, but they pulled the lever anyway because they knew they had a better shot with their agenda than with an R in office.

We, on the other hand, tend to go the other way. In 2006, we threw a temper tantrum and stayed home. The result was a Dem takeover and, eventually, Obamacare.

 

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Actually the game played is Dem candidates say whatever it takes to get elected and then turn around and implement their lefty agenda.

 

Obama was against gay "marriage" during the 2008 election, but I doubt many of his voters really thought he was sincere.

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 19, 2014 04:03 AM (eytER)

170 That's why the base stayed home in '08 and especially in '12. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:59 AM (olDqf) Until you hold the big chair and both houses, it really doesn't matter much. Everything will be a compromise.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 04:04 AM (nj9sX)

171 Until you hold the big chair and both houses, it really doesn't matter much. Everything will be a compromise.

 

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 08:04 AM (nj9sX)

 

Nope.  Ate the shit sandwich, saw the movie.  No.  More.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 04:06 AM (zF6Iw)

172 Hey MPPPP, on Kindle for free   the 21 day plan to get published...  Its free so I guess will snag it just to see what a loaf of horse hockey it is.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 04:06 AM (1zr4/)

173 The worse thing about that Medal of Honor ceremony is it was a job lot of awards. 24 at once? Even if most of the recipients are dead, they deserve more dignity than "Here ya go boys! Have a medal!" Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 08:03 AM (1zr4/) Glad I wasn't the only one that thought that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 19, 2014 04:06 AM (6T8Ay)

174 175 Until you hold the big chair and both houses, it really doesn't matter much. Everything will be a compromise. Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 08:04 AM (nj9sX) You will recall we did from 2001-2006. And what did the GOP under Dubya do? Expand government and spend/borrow more than any other administration in history until SCOAMF.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 04:06 AM (olDqf)

175

I’ve never been a big fan of Garland’s looks (the ever-suave Louis B. Mayer called her “my little hunchback”)....

 

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IIRC, during the filming of The Wizard of Oz, Garland had to be chaperoned (ie "protected") because the male Munchkins liked her looks plenty.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 19, 2014 04:07 AM (eytER)

176 Posted by: @JohnTant at March 19, 2014 08:03 AM (eytER)

Dems have a soothing and coordinated public message and do NOT stray from it.  They also have a common agenda, unspoken in public, that they intend to implement even if it takes decades to achieve.  So far this technique has worked pretty well for them, but not so well for us.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:07 AM (o3MSL)

177 Anybody watch the MOH "ceremony"? There were three living recipients. And your Enunciator-in-Chief screwed up all three names.

Literally, a stuttering clusterfuck.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 19, 2014 04:07 AM (xq1UY)

178 Just seems odd that 24 materialized after a second look. The process is the process.

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 04:08 AM (y7PFk)

179 Until you hold the big chair and both houses, it really doesn't matter much. Everything will be a compromise.

Didn't that happen from 2001 to 2007? What did it get us? Anything? Oh yeah. It got us the TSA, DHS, Medicare part d, record breaking deficits, for the time that is.

Good times !¡

Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 19, 2014 04:08 AM (nkPV9)

180 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 08:03 AM (o3MSL) Never got your email address last night.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 19, 2014 04:08 AM (6T8Ay)

181

Hey MPPPP, on Kindle for free the 21 day plan to get published... Its free so I guess will snag it just to see what a loaf of horse hockey it is.

 

I'll have to get that myself, Anna.  Not that it will help right now; I am so blocked and spinning in circles that it isn't funny.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 04:08 AM (zF6Iw)

182 Glad I wasn't the only one that thought that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 19, 2014 08:06 AM (6T8Ay)



I was waiting for a shout-out to the Interior Designer Brigade and their simply fabulous hats!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:09 AM (o3MSL)

183 The Committee of Seventy, an influential non-partisan group founded 110 years ago to promote government free of corruption in Philly, is now calling for an Independant Prosecutor to investigate Kathleen Kane and her office. http://bit.ly/1nDmzZx Would that this same idea could be applied in Washington, to investigate another corrupt AG.

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 04:09 AM (3uHwI)

184 >>>"If he's allowed to get away with that, I think you'll see a lot of other countries either directly facing Russian aggression or suborned with their political systems so that they are so intimidated that in effect they are transformed into vassals, not sovereign democracies," Clinton said at an event hosted by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal at the Palais des Congres.<<<

Vassals?   Smart Diplomacy!

Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2014 04:10 AM (UzPAd)

185 I thought the Dems were getting cushy campaign loans from Union banks?

Posted by: Fen at March 19, 2014 04:10 AM (a422o)

186 No Democrat candidate these days will ever hold a position that is contra that of the platform. Look at Joe Lieberman.



Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:59 AM (olDqf)



Lieberman was a boilerplate lib except for supporting GWB in Iraq.  That single disagreement, which isn't a Constitutional matter like the Second Amendment for example, drove the Kossites to reject him in favor of sooper jeanyus Neddie Lamont until the voters regained their sanity in the general election and sent Neddie packing.  But Lieberman would be as big an enemy to conservatives on every fucking other thing as his buddy McRINO.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 04:10 AM (vak/p)

187 Attorney General is an elected position in PA, since 1980. For whomever asked up there. ^^^^^

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 04:11 AM (EYfcP)

188 NCKate, it is very odd.  This legislation has been used before to generate recipients. A guy named Ted Rubin earned it the hard way.  His first recommendation was lost during the Korean War and then Ted ended up as a POW.  Finally under this law, Ted got his Medal of Honor from President George W. Bush.

http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2009/08/saint-in-hell.html

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 04:11 AM (1zr4/)

189 Never got your email address last night.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 19, 2014 08:08 AM (6T8Ay)


Retransmit on the way!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:13 AM (o3MSL)

190 Woke up with a headache. I hate life. The GOP should rebrand as the New Abolitionists: Abolish the IRS. Abolish the EPA. Abolish the DoEd. Abolish payroll withholding.

Posted by: vlad putin at March 19, 2014 04:15 AM (GSIDW)

191 We are lucky they did not treat the MOH medals like Mardi Gras Krewe doubloons...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 04:15 AM (1zr4/)

192 191 Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 08:10 AM (vak/p) Agreed. I was only illustrating the utter inflexibility of the leftists when someone goes off the reservation. Other than that, Lieberman is a typical brain-dead criminal liberal. The bigger picture is that the left has effectively portrayed the default position of our country and society as "ever-leftward." Compromise means only going slower in that direction; NEVER the other way. Our party establishment agrees with that "weltanschauung." I DO NOT.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 04:15 AM (olDqf)

193 The story of the H.S. student jailed for a felony for a pocket knife in the trunk of his car is as frightening as it is absurd. 


I'm certain I would have never thought that frightening and absurd could ever be used to describe the same event.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:17 AM (BZAd3)

194 PA Democrat shown on tape excepting a bribe to oppose PA voter ID law. New Democrat governor dismissed charges.


http://tinyurl.com/o3equm5

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That would be the new Democrat AG, Vic. We'll probably get a new Dem governor in November.

She's breathtakingly corrupt, even for a Democrat. She would already be facing impeachment if the state GOP wasn't as ball-less as the national.

What really amazes me is that a Dem needed a bribe to vote against voter ID.

Posted by: Biff Boffo at March 19, 2014 04:17 AM (YmPwQ)

195 Well I guess we got a lot of catching up to do with getting the ladies a bunch of medals. Because sexism...

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 04:17 AM (y7PFk)

196 Anybody watch the MOH "ceremony"? There were three living recipients. And your Enunciator-in-Chief screwed up all three names.

Literally, a stuttering clusterfuck.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 19, 2014 08:07 AM (xq1UY)



What a fucking disgrace to the office.  It's not like he doesn't have access to a staff which common decency would dictate he should consult on finding out something like that on people he is purporting to 'honor'.  The only conclusion a reasonable person could make is that either he's a fucking retard who doesn't understand the responsibilities of the job or he's actively trying to insult everything and everyone that represents what's good in the country.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 04:18 AM (vak/p)

197 Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2014 08:10 AM (UzPAd)


Can't believe I almost agree with a Clinton, except the leading word "If" in that statement should be replaced with "When".

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:18 AM (o3MSL)

198 Lieberman is a typical brain-dead criminal liberal. The bigger picture is that the left has effectively portrayed the default position of our country and society as "ever-leftward." Compromise means only going slower in that direction; NEVER the other way. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 08:15 AM (olDqf) By way of comparison, as I recall...Mrs. Sefton is a liberal. Jus' sayin' Yes, ladies, men will do anything for...well....you know.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 19, 2014 04:18 AM (6T8Ay)

199 Some of you Morons may remember my push to enact the "Affordable Handgun Act", designed to ensure that less affluent, often minority, many times single, including single mothers, and occasionally same sex relation bound citizens are afforded the opportunity to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

Looks like in Delaware, their Supreme Court has ruled in a manner that would make that legislation easier to enact.

http://tinyurl.com/pxchfwn


(Swiped from Insty)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 19, 2014 04:18 AM (si68n)

200 The GOP should rebrand as the New Abolitionists:

Posted by: vlad putin at March 19, 2014 08:15 AM (GSIDW)


Or Abortionists - abort big government, not babies.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:18 AM (BZAd3)

201 Didn't that happen from 2001 to 2007? What did it get us? Anything? Oh yeah. It got us the TSA, DHS, Medicare part d, record breaking deficits, for the time that is. Good times !¡ Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 19, 2014 08:08 AM (nkPV9) I apologize. You are all correct. 2007-present has been much, much better.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 04:20 AM (nj9sX)

202 Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 08:17 AM (BZAd3)

Comrade, face it, we need an over-whelming police state to counter all the problems actual citizens pose to the newly-arrived illegal alien Democrat voters.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:21 AM (o3MSL)

203 "In a fair world Candy Crowley would be servicing glory holes in the public restrooms in Tijuana for 50 cents a pop. " #1-That price is a bit steep. #2-CC would be a disservice to glory holes everywhere.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 19, 2014 04:21 AM (6fL9b)

204 32. there are certain major principles which are absolutely inviolable, and the 2nd amendment is one of them. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 06:57 AM (olDqf) Indeed. Our Bill of Rights are certain major principles most absolutely inviolable, self evident truths, inalienable. And even our Bill of Rights are not the sum total of our birth right nor of our heritage and legacy as the American citizenry. Reading the GOP "new day" of high tech facilitating campaigning entry above, I wonder if social conservatives with neoconservatives would at least temporarily consider emphasizing the Bill of Rights ("as" our US 10 Commandments) be printed in public school entry ways, in government buildings where Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches do their worst. Perhaps Bill of Rights monuments be funded (privately) for public squares, city halls. No need to imagine the outcry from authoritarians who already eschew Constitutional Governance and have hoisted their skull and cross bones post-constitutional era as if the global Zeitgeist of Organized Crime that we must all bow to worship in submission. http://tinyurl.com/6rcpr7 Regard Amendments IV through X while considering that The Patriot Act is NOT a constitutional amendment, nor is it written as a permanent law, but is a temporary insanity which Congress must abort as the parasite of Constitutional Governance that it is. The Patriot Act, DHS and all its perversions of justice? Don't expect the GOP to take the blame for creating, birthing, and serially voting renewals upon each expiration date, to maintain 'rule by monster' authoritarianism with NO rule of law. Rather, the GOP Leadership will continually augment their authoritarian power grab; just as the Democrats do. But the Republicans will do tyranny "compassionately". This recent past Republican primary campaign amongst local candidates was sponsored by big money. Insider incumbents and Governor appointees had tons of glossy mailers inundating voters repeatedly beginning months in advance of the primary. It reached the point where the voter should consider voting AGAINST the local small town candidate with "too much" campaign cash at hand -- the public office belonging to DONOR amounts of campaign funding. Our towns are no longer "ours" but carpetbaggers. For all the mailers, distracting mud slings and attacks on newcomer candidates' families outweighed substance of incumbent candidate's record being broadcast. Incumbents' families were not attacked. Witness another bought and paid for in advance candidate for public service RNC "tsunami" (Priebus).

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:22 AM (/vO0r)

205 I like that Geico commercial, but Julie doesn't look too happy about hump day. Perhaps the people in HR send the camel through every single Wednesday. ;^) I got up much later than I normally do-7:00-so by the time I looked out, with the grey clouds and the late time there was only a ribbon of pink in the East. On my walk the ice on the pond was thin but at the edges the water was a grey green color like the green in a rainbow trout. I found a blue jay wing amongst the brown leaves and a plastic bag was hanging on a tree limb so I decided to pick up trash as I walked home. It's good exercise to bend down and pick up trash although it gives me an idea how much teen drinking must be going on since there were a number of airline liquor bottles and crushed up beer cans along the route. Still there was a brilliant red ribbon-I guess from old Christmas package-under a tree tree and i enjoyed seeing the Canada land loudly in the parts of the pond that did not have ice. Spring is coming because the crocuses are coming up. No matter where you live there is probably something beautiful to look at outside and it's a great time to pray as one walks along. Keep on praying! A short bible study-reposted from yesterday-on seven ways to cultivate joy: http://tinyurl.com/knrl2t2 May grace and peace be with you today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 04:23 AM (XyM/Y)

206 Kindle just killed my comment about PA. I hate life.

Posted by: vlad putin at March 19, 2014 04:23 AM (GSIDW)

207 Morning all.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 19, 2014 04:23 AM (nzKvP)

208 116 By the way, I saw HotGas had a piece on how low inflation is. It's total bullshit. Our grocery bills are through the roof. Our electric bills too. What the hell does that index measure, I wonder?

Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 07:29 AM (1gdVS)

You said a mouthful there.  Everything is through the roof.  It's total BS where inflation numbers come from.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:23 AM (BZAd3)

209 Btw, you'd think that with all these Repuke apparatchiks "in the field" that Prince Riebus is wagging his dick about, they would have a better idea of what the base wants and wouldn't be continually fucking them on amnesty.  Unfortunately they're there to tell people what to do rather than find out what actually motivates support.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 04:24 AM (vak/p)

210 No, and that is beside the point, with mcTurtle pledging to restore the filibuster,
we'll be lucky to break even, their people are willing to ride into Balaclava, on any issue. our's always get the vapors when it comes to something important, re Scott Brown, Murkowski, Kirk.

Posted by: jeffrey pelt at March 19, 2014 04:24 AM (VYGs9)

211

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 08:20 AM (nj9sX)

 

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I think the complaint is that the GOP leadership compromises even when they don't have to.

 

The  GOPe  political calculation between 2001-2007 was that certain lefty planks had to be ceded so as to buy support  and political cover   for funding of the War On Terror. 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 19, 2014 04:24 AM (eytER)

212 And there's the problem with the fucking GOP in a nutshell. What the hell is Rancid doing giving even the time of day to those lying nickelfuckers? Going with CNN is even a problem purely as a strategy thing, because nobody watches their channel or reads their website anymore. So no matter how great the Star Khan thinks his strategy is nobody's gonna see it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2014 04:24 AM (102Hx)

213 Da eff. I still had vlad sock! I hate life.

Posted by: votermom at March 19, 2014 04:25 AM (GSIDW)

214 Sorry-meant the Canada "geese"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 04:25 AM (XyM/Y)

215 102 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 07:27 AM (olDqf) It could be personal. But how quickly does personal become policy? These days, I wouldn't want put that to the test. Posted by: Dr. Todd Ambrosius at March 19, 2014 07:30 AM (Jzrec) http://tinyurl.com/o8z37yv /Deserve's got nothing to do with it./ “New Jersey deserves better.” Town hall protesters want the resignation of Port Authority Chairman David Samson. (Matthew Arco, a good journalist would have mentioned Samson's questionable job performance accusations.) A man in plainclothes (who later upon questioning by reporters claimed to be a member of the New Jersey State Police, but did not produce identification to prove his claim) was snapping close up pictures of individual citizens protesting at Christie's South River town hall meeting. The governor’s office announced that town hall ATTENDEES could expect additional police presence. The lengths that those with power do go. Surveilling private citizens, homes? Showing up at private citizens' front doors, SWATting? "Anonymous tip" or tap or fabrication. Bill of Rights http://tinyurl.com/6rcpr7

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:25 AM (/vO0r)

216 But the Republicans will do tyranny "compassionately".

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 08:22 AM (/vO0r)


"Compassionate Tyranny" certainly has a ring to it. besides, it really is for your own good!


Christie/Bush 2016

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:25 AM (o3MSL)

217 I apologize. You are all correct. 2007-present has been much, much better.

So big government and loss of freedom are ok as long as the gope is doing it?

Is that your argument?

Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 19, 2014 04:25 AM (nkPV9)

218 Committee formed to draft Ben Carson for President in 2016 as a Republican. I am not so sure because he has made some alarming statements regarding gun control. http://tinyurl.com/qffx2hh Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 06:54 AM (T2V/1) Sorry. Really wish I could get behind it but the 2A issue is a huge deal-breaker for me.

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 04:26 AM (fWAjv)

219 Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 08:18 AM (vak/p)

Krauthammer said that Obama is being humiliated by Putin.  Now Obama knows how we feel about what he is doing to this country.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:26 AM (BZAd3)

220 All the NY/NJ people who fled to CLT that I know vote for dems here. Posted by: NCKate ------------- True all over the SE. They are a cancer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 19, 2014 04:26 AM (aDwsi)

221 The kid who got jailed for the knife on campus had a stun gun and a couple of air soft guns too. Story seems wonky. Kid is talking way too much to the media.

Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2014 04:26 AM (y7PFk)

222 And mornin' all.

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 04:28 AM (fWAjv)

223 By way of comparison, as I recall...Mrs. Sefton is a liberal. Jus' sayin' Yes, ladies, men will do anything for...well....you know. Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 19, 2014 08:18 AM (6T8Ay) My uncle was a German Jew and his roommate and close friend was a full-on brown shirt storm trooper. He was able to pull strings and get him out of the country right after Kristallnacht. Just saying.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 04:28 AM (olDqf)

224 I apologize. You are all correct. 2007-present has been much, much better.

 

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 08:20 AM (nj9sX)

 

I'm getting really sick and tired of this argument.  Zombie, you said we need all three chairs to get things done.  We point out to you that we had them and saw nothing but an expansion of Leviathan.  Your response?  "Oh, yes, throwing a temper tantrum has made things so much better."

 

Nobody is arguing that having the Dems in charge hasn't made things worse.  The argument is, what proof can you show that supporting the same RINO bastards that got us into this mess will somehow magically get us out?  Because all I ever hear is, "you SoCon nickelfuckers need to support us because loyalty!"  But when a Christine O'Donnell gets the nod, the FisCons throw their own temper tantrum and either undermine the con or actively engage in treason by supporting the Dem.

 

The lesser of two evils is still evil.  "OMG, the Dems will win if you don't vote for Crispy Creme!" argument doesn't work anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 04:28 AM (zF6Iw)

225 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 08:23 AM (XyM/Y)

Thanks for you post.


I have crocuses coming up through the global warming in my back yard, so there is still beauty in the Universe, you just have to step away from politicians to appreciate it.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:29 AM (o3MSL)

226 A senior Palestinian official said Wednesday the Palestinians will resume their campaign for international recognition at the United Nations if Israel calls off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter As part of US efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians talks frozen for three years, Israel pledged to release 104 long-serving prisoners jailed for attacks, many of them deadly, against Israelis before a 1993 interim peace deal. So far, 78 prisoners have been released in three stages. The fourth and final group is to be released by March 29. But the talks have made little progress and Washington is trying to set guidelines to keep them going beyond the original April 29 target date for an accord. Related stories: Israel says might not carry out Palestinian prisoner release Abbas will ask Obama for settlement freeze, more prisoners freed At White House talks, Obama urges Abbas to take risks for peace On Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told US President Barack Obama that the release of the fourth and last group of prisoners would show Israel's "seriousness" towards the peace talks. But Israel's chief peace negotiator Tzipi Livni said Tuesday that Israel is not obligated to free the prisoners, and said the decision to do so would depend on progress in peace talks. Israel is seeking a Palestinian pledge to extend talks beyond a current April deadline. fuck the palestinians. they should all die from emboli

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 19, 2014 04:29 AM (nzKvP)

227 2006 happened not because of a temper tantrum, but because the Republican Party completely dropped the ball on one of their main platform points, fiscal sanity.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 04:30 AM (GufPw)

228 I think Corbett did good work as AG but PA needs a younger, more energetic gov. That Tom Wolfe guy gives me the heebies. Bet he'd be another Bloomberg. Also, why don't any PA pols take up the cause of lowering prosperity taxes?

Posted by: votermom at March 19, 2014 04:30 AM (GSIDW)

229 Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 08:30 AM (GufPw)


The one political aspect of a campaign that the GOPe has mastered is the art of dropping the ball on fundamental principles.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:33 AM (o3MSL)

230

I thought I was in lo-ove a coupla times before

With the girl next door

But that was long before I met ya

Now I'm sure that I won't ferget ya

An I thank my lucky stars

That you are who you R

Not just ano-ther lovely lady

Sent down to break my heart

Posted by: that 70s earworm at March 19, 2014 04:33 AM (3ZtZW)

231 "Our grocery bills are through the roof. Our electric bills too. What the hell does that index measure, I wonder?"

iPads.

Posted by: A message at March 19, 2014 04:34 AM (fFh95)

232 "It's the story of our field staffers across the country" And this is why the GOP will still suck nationwide. News flash Pubby: It's the candidates. Run McShitty and Cardboard Man again & expecting different results = stupidity of the highest order.

Posted by: anon a mouse at March 19, 2014 04:34 AM (gXRIG)

233 The GOP Establishment is ghey and it's shit is all retarded, sir.

Posted by: votermom at March 19, 2014 04:35 AM (HpBU8)

234 The lesser of two evils is still evil. "OMG, the Dems will win if you don't vote for Crispy Creme!" argument doesn't work anymore. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 08:28 AM (zF6Iw) I am only trying to point out that waiting for the Messiah will leave us on the outside looking in for a long time. Let me give you a local example. In my state legislature House district, we have been blue forever. Finally in 2010, we turned red. The guy went to the legislature and had a fairly conservative voting record. Just before the general in 2012, he said some stupid things that bordered on racist. The voters started fleeing him as fast as they could. The net result was that we flipped back blue. The guy they elected is fairly moderate, so he won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 04:35 AM (nj9sX)

235 129 The party of teh VIC!

Posted by: Golfman in NC at March 19, 2014 04:35 AM (vVOWk)

236 And let us not forget to recognize the 300 thousand new felons in Connecticut.

http://tinyurl.com/lxtxgxq

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:35 AM (BZAd3)

237 Marion S. Barry, Jr. ‏@marionbarryjr Mar 15 My GF says I am a sly Mississippi catfish. I shocked her today! Oh, I am full of surprises ----- Let the entertainment commence. Marion Barry. Twitter. What can go wrong? ----- fuck the palestinians. they should all die from emboli Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 19, 2014 08:29 AM (nzKvP) So what does Israel get out of this round of prisoner release. Jack shit like usual?

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 04:35 AM (fWAjv)

238 I have a feeling that Mrs. Sefton may not be as liberal as she used to be, although Mr. Sefton can correct me if I'm wrong. I yammered away about Obama in 2008 and my spouse who reliably voted Democrat in every election since 1972-We were not a couple until long after that-voted for McCain. They also voted for Romney in 2012 so the person who more assertively shares their political views may eventually win the other partner over if only to get them to shut up. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 04:36 AM (XyM/Y)

239 Another Obamacare unexpected consequence (probably due to the need for more campaign contributions from Big Insurance)

(Daily Caller via Drudge)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nzwszqb

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:38 AM (o3MSL)

240 http://tinyurl.com/knrl2t2

May grace and peace be with you today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 08:23 AM (XyM/Y)


Thank you and God bless.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 19, 2014 04:38 AM (baL2B)

241 "2006 happened not because of a temper tantrum," If memory serves the big stories of the time were a flag burning amendment and a GOP Congressman from Florida having gay sex with interns. I remember being disgusted with the GOP majority at the time. They may well win majorities again but they will be just as gutless and toothless as they were then, unfortunately.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 19, 2014 04:38 AM (6fL9b)

242 243 And let us not forget to recognize the 300 thousand new felons in Connecticut. http://tinyurl.com/lxtxgxq Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 08:35 AM (BZAd3) “I Cannot Wait to Get the Order to Kick Your Door In” Remember folks, the majority of LE is not your friend.

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 04:39 AM (fWAjv)

243 So what does Israel get out of this round of prisoner release. Jack shit like usual? Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 08:35 AM (fWAjv) Exactly

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 19, 2014 04:39 AM (nzKvP)

244 Yeah, Reince I would get real excited and smart assy with DWS. Until we win keep you pie hole shut. BTW good morning morons.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 19, 2014 04:39 AM (HVff2)

245 217. The GOPe political calculation between 2001-2007 was that certain lefty planks had to be ceded so as to buy support and political cover for funding of the War On Terror. Posted by: @JohnTant at March 19, 2014 08:24 AM (eytER) Given that constitutional conservatives and veterans are now designated the target for federal/state authoritarian governance to take down, as enemies of the post-constitutional State/era, the "war on terror" is self serving authoritarianism. Why the hell should any THINKING American citizen, regardless of political party affiliation, want to keep pushing for more war on terror which is a war on Constitutional Governance? The war on terror is a war FOR tyranny and terrorism delivered to you for your own good by your betters. The revisionism of words holds too many minds in the grasp of stupidity. 1908 "Americans Must Think!" Grover Cleveland Do not relinquish your individuality. If you merge, you lose your liberty. Think for yourself; don't succumb to group-think propaganda from a few idiots not even as smart as you, but are persistently* diligent working to get their way at all costs. Obama: If nothing else, I am persistent.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:40 AM (/vO0r)

246 Remember folks, the majority of LE is not your friend.

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 08:39 AM (fWAjv)



Comrade, you are all guilty of crimes against the State, it is just that we don't need to jail you just yet!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 04:40 AM (o3MSL)

247 So I just got to see a clip from the upcoming movie "The Giver"

And part of it was Meryl Streep's character saying "When people have the freedom to chose, they chose wrong".

Could this new movie have an undercurrent of "Anti-Big Government"?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 19, 2014 04:41 AM (si68n)

248 A few things shocked me when I moved from PA to Texas: 1. Not having ten lines of taxes taken out of my paycheck every week. 2. Not havibg to file separate federal, state AND local tax forms every year. 3. Not havibg to go to three different stores for wine and liquor, beer and sodas. Plus I can buy wine and beer in the grocery store. Never moving back to PA. Never.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 04:42 AM (Lo5Rt)

249 244 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 08:36 AM (XyM/Y) No. She will be as liberal as she always was for the rest of her life. It's a worldview thing. I cannot foresee that changing, but you never know. There is David Horowitz, so anything is possible.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 04:42 AM (olDqf)

250 "Remember folks, the majority of LE is not your friend." They are there to defend the political establishment that sponsors them, to enforce the laws that establishment passes on the people, and, to collect revenue for that political establishment. Any defense of life or property that happens in the course of the above is simply chance and at the particular LEO's discretion.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 19, 2014 04:42 AM (6fL9b)

251 So I see that the genius Reince has been publicly predicting a blowout in November. I don't get why it is helpful to say things like that. Is that supposed to make our side work harder?

Posted by: Emily at March 19, 2014 04:43 AM (7Rn+/)

252 Raptor Party 2016

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 04:43 AM (1zr4/)

253

Let me give you a local example. In my state legislature House district, we have been blue forever. Finally in 2010, we turned red. The guy went to the legislature and had a fairly conservative voting record. Just before the general in 2012, he said some stupid things that bordered on racist. The voters started fleeing him as fast as they could. The net result was that we flipped back blue. The guy they elected is fairly moderate, so he won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

 

Well, you can't stop people from saying stupid things.  But considering that saying Barky is a "Chicago politician" is racist according to the Dems, I'll withhold judgment on your fellow.  Unless he's right out there doing a Bobby Byrd, I'd be willing to bet the "racist" charge was trumped-up Dem garbage and he was abandoned by the same gutless moderates clowns like Rancid think we need to appeal to every election.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 04:44 AM (zF6Iw)

254 so the person who more assertively shares their political views may eventually win the other partner over if only to get them to shut up. ;^) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 08:36 AM (XyM/Y) /Joining Ed Morrissey's marriage retreat?/

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:44 AM (/vO0r)

255 I'll assume you meant property taxes. -- Yep. This kindle hates me.

Posted by: votermom at March 19, 2014 04:44 AM (Sqi4F)

256 The lesser of two evils is still evil. "OMG, the Dems will win if you don't vote for Crispy Creme!" argument doesn't work anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 19, 2014 08:28 AM (zF6Iw)

Exactly.

The GOP isn't pushing back on spending, they're caving on Obamacare the leadership is chomping at the bit to pass Amnesty... and anyone who proposes anything like spending cuts or Government reform is attacked as a 'Whackobird.'

You want me to support the GOP, then give me a reason to believe the GOP are actually going to DO something conservative once elected.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at March 19, 2014 04:44 AM (6GRz5)

257 I will crawl over broken glass to vote against Field Marshal Rodham-Harpy...

...but not for KrispieKreme or Tory Jeb. (I won't stay home; I'll vote down the ticket, but I'm aaaaalllll done eating RINO sh*t sammiches.)

I doubt I'm the only one.

Posted by: A message at March 19, 2014 04:45 AM (fFh95)

258 "So I see that the genius Reince has been publicly predicting a blowout in November. I don't get why it is helpful to say things like that. Is that supposed to make our side work harder?" No. Just stupidity.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 19, 2014 04:45 AM (6fL9b)

259 I am only trying to point out that waiting for the Messiah will leave us on the outside looking in for a long time.


Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 19, 2014 08:35 AM (nj9sX)



You act like we didn't support Romney and go vote for him in large numbers.  Conservatives still show up and vote for Republican candidates despite being marginalized.  The country clubber bastard spawn of Nelson Rockefeller are the ones at which you should direct your ire.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 04:45 AM (vak/p)

260

>>>“I Cannot Wait to Get the Order to Kick Your Door In”

 

Ya know. There are people in this wild and wonderful country who are already kinda formed up and waiting for just this kind of thing to start happening. Fkr is an idiot

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 19, 2014 04:45 AM (3ZtZW)

261 FenelonSpoke, I'm enjoying the walks with you. Missed my usual sunrise glory today. Overcast just went from moon-backlit to sun-backlit. At least, I assume that's the sun up there. Still beautiful. Warm enough at dawn to walk out in shirtsleeves, if briefly. Everything is budding out, scads of birds sing early, and the catbox needs cleaning less 'cause the cats are outdoors more. Sure signs of winter's waning Oh! The deer pack just wandered up. The new guys sure grow up fast! Defender Dog is just lying there looking at them for now...

Posted by: mindful webworker - nature boy at March 19, 2014 04:45 AM (13IVx)

262 #191

The thing I'll always remember about Joe Lieberman was a comment he made during the 2000 campaign with him as VP candidate. He offered as evidence that the economy was in bad shape because the NASDAQ was the lowest it had been since the Great Depression.

The NASDAQ didn't exist until decades after the Great Depression.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 19, 2014 04:45 AM (bPxS6)

263 Just checked my spam folder, and yup..
there's another e-mail from the RNC in there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 19, 2014 04:46 AM (si68n)

264 So what does Israel get out of this round of prisoner release. Jack shit like usual?
Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 08:35 AM (fWAjv)

More murdered Jews and more disproportionate pressure to make a totally suicidal peace pact.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:46 AM (BZAd3)

265 If you are living in a community with an HOA you should probably check to see if your brain is missing.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 19, 2014 04:47 AM (yh0zB)

266 All your Crimea are belong to us.

Posted by: Czar Peter at March 19, 2014 04:47 AM (8hths)

267 If memory serves the big stories of the time were a flag burning amendment and a GOP Congressman from Florida having gay sex with interns.

Actually, the GOP congressman from Florida only sent creepy texts to interns.

It was a Democrat Congressman from Massachusetts who had gay sex with underage House pages.

He got re-elected nine times afterwards and Congress named a Marine Sanctuary after him.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at March 19, 2014 04:48 AM (6GRz5)

268 Hey GGE, life on the hanger deck of a carrier.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g10000/g17425.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 04:48 AM (1zr4/)

269 So,they run a commercial for the Today show and who does it feature?Kerry Kennedy and Mooch.NBC is an arm of the Democrat party.

Posted by: steevy at March 19, 2014 04:49 AM (zqvg6)

270 259. Raptor Party 2016 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 19, 2014 08:43 AM (1zr4/) good one, anna Catch-21? "outmoded" to mothball to halt completion

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:50 AM (/vO0r)

271 Posted by: mindful webworker - nature boy at March 19, 2014 08:45 AM (13IVx) I appreciate you sharing that with me, brother. Sounds great. I'd get frostbite if I were out in shirtsleeves so it's wonderful that you can do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 04:50 AM (XyM/Y)

272 Defender Dog is just lying there looking at them for now... Posted by: mindful webworker - nature boy at March 19, 2014 08:45 AM (13IVx) That imagery put a smile on my face.

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 04:50 AM (fWAjv)

273 "If you are living in a community with an HOA you should probably check to see if your brain is missing." HOA=Local private Gestapo.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 19, 2014 04:50 AM (6fL9b)

274

>>>You want me to support the GOP, then give me a reason to believe the GOP are actually going to DO something conservative once elected.

 

Or at least improve the country in some way.

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 19, 2014 04:51 AM (3ZtZW)

275 I'm thrilled that Reince is so confident the GOP is going to win big despite having lost their voting base. Should make the morning after that much more schadenbonerific.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 19, 2014 04:52 AM (W7ffl)

276 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 08:42 AM (olDqf) Well, you never know. That's true. My political worldview changed- so yes, anything is possible

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2014 04:52 AM (XyM/Y)

277 270 Just checked my spam folder, and yup.. there's another e-mail from the RNC in there. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 19, 2014 08:46 AM (si68n) Get off their mailing list. "De-spam" one of their emails and the electronic link to remove your address will function. I had your complaint, and my better half told me how to fix that.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:53 AM (/vO0r)

278 But you've missed out on the sixteen plus 'weather events' this winter and shoveling over six feet of snow in record breaking low temps. I don't think I'll go as far as Texas, because of kids, but there are some low tax states I'm considering. The liberals are out of control and nobody seems to want to beat them back. Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 19, 2014 08:50 AM (oGrEy) Oh yeah, I don't miss the snow one bit either. Unfortunately, we do eventually have to move back north, to Delaware, but taxes there are reasonable and we'll be living in the sane, Southern end of the state.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 04:53 AM (osdNx)

279 BTW - The Jerusalem Post has an almost comical headline that says that Syria says Israel Airstrikes threaten to disrupt the "stability" of the region.



Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 04:53 AM (BZAd3)

280 Wooohooo, the Hot Air-ization of the HQ continues!

Nothin' like starting your day with a love letter to Prince Reebus, courtesy of Teh Gabe. Man, that dude is really pushing the Republicans forward to Prosperity and Success and Electoral Triumph with his new and improved web tools and communications skillz, isn't he?

The modern-day Republican party has no Dangling Courage Units. None. They out-eunuch Poppin' Fresh, a feat I would have considered impossible just a few short years ago.

Posted by: MrScribbler at March 19, 2014 04:54 AM (jiM5S)

281 "If you are living in a community with an HOA you should probably check to see if your brain is missing."


Seems like they snuck up on a lot of people down here in Florida during the real-estate shenanigans around 2004-2006.  Lots of apartments went condo without warning and either you bought in with HOA or you moved.  I don't think as many people knew what an HOA was or what kind of power they would have.  

Posted by: sweet...ish at March 19, 2014 04:55 AM (bj+Nc)

282 Deer run pretty. Dog is back from the chase.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nature boy at March 19, 2014 04:55 AM (qG1i2)

283

We're probably eventually going to move to Wisconsin, one of the few States which get more snow and is considerably colder than mine. And only moderately better politically. I am not looking forward to that.

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 19, 2014 04:56 AM (3ZtZW)

284 All your Crimea are belong to us. Oh Crimea river.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2014 04:56 AM (cB3Ay)

285 Could this new movie have an undercurrent of "Anti-Big Government"?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 19, 2014 08:41 AM (si68n)

Au contraire! The people chose wrongly so big government must choose for them. Duh!

Posted by: Meryl Streep at March 19, 2014 04:56 AM (vVOWk)

286 The SCOAMF is a gutless pussy.  Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 04:56 AM (DrWcr)

287 Morning all!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 19, 2014 04:56 AM (4df7R)

288 Today, 91% of our political staff is in the field. *** Going for the farm vote I see.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 19, 2014 04:58 AM (g4TxM)

289 The NASDAQ didn't exist until decades after the Great Depression.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 19, 2014 08:45 AM (bPxS6)



I saw Roosevelt watching the NASDAQ ticker on TV just before his big speech!

Posted by: Sheriff Joey Biden at March 19, 2014 04:58 AM (o3MSL)

290 294 The SCOAMF is a gutless pussy. Mornin' Horde! Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 08:56 AM (DrWcr) Not when he has his boot on OUR necks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 04:58 AM (olDqf)

291 Christie/Bush 2016 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 19, 2014 08:25 AM (o3MSL) Ye gads, The Monopoly Bully with his anti-bully laws to eliminate all competition, ready to kick the bucket with a sprung gasket; another Bush in the OO. Just what the GOPter orders.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 04:58 AM (/vO0r)

292 This week's podcast is especially salient. My only disagreement is that Cruz cannot talk to the hicks. I am a hick. He crisscrossed the state, giving close attention to rural and transitional Blue Dog Democrat areas in West Texas and especially East Texas. This is one of the reasons that Democrats hate him so much. He can talk to anyone about anything. When I say talk this includes listening closely and not talking "at" people. This is how he beat Dewhurst. Example of this is one small town where he spoke and few showed up. He said where is everyone and was told it was auction day. So he went to the bi-monthly livestock auction. He won that county.

Posted by: Lester at March 19, 2014 04:58 AM (2UPXV)

293 Not when he has his boot on OUR necks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 08:58 AM (olDqf)

 

Fair point.  Tyranny at home, weakness abroad.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 04:59 AM (DrWcr)

294 287 BTW - The Jerusalem Post has an almost comical headline that says that Syria says Israel Airstrikes threaten to disrupt the "stability" of the region. Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 19, 2014 08:53 AM (BZAd3) "If it weren't for all these Jooz he had to ship to Auschwitz, we wouldn't have such screwed up railways!" --- Headline in Narzee newspaper.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 05:00 AM (olDqf)

295 21 Thug school cop breaks kid's arm on this video. I am sure the taxpayers of Beaumont, TX will pay.


http://tinyurl.com/nfxexpf

Posted by: Vic at March 19, 2014 06:54 AM (T2V/1)

 

Just watched this video.  Holy shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 05:02 AM (DrWcr)

296 I have never understood the HOA fanboidom. HOA = chimpanzee City Zoning Officer - 800 lb gorilla You CAN fight an HOA. You can't fight city hall. One city zoning nazi and your life is a living hell. And city hall gets the fines.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2014 05:02 AM (cB3Ay)

297 101 By the way, I saw HotGas had a piece on how low inflation is. It's total bullshit. Our grocery bills are through the roof. Our electric bills too. What the hell does that index measure, I wonder? Posted by: MTF at March 19, 2014 07:29 AM (1gdVS) Yep. People who are just getting by are being obama'ed into poverty. It ads up - medical, food, heat, etc.

Posted by: Zombie Pug at March 19, 2014 05:02 AM (r7mtu)

298 The modern-day Republican party has no Dangling Courage Units. None. They out-eunuch Poppin' Fresh, a feat I would have considered impossible just a few short years ago.

Posted by: MrScribbler at March 19, 2014 08:54 AM (jiM5S)



Prince Reebus deserves to be judged on how this year's midterm election results stack up to 2010.  Everybody, myself included, called Michael Steele a buffoon in how he performed on the job as heading up the GOP but he had the good sense to shut his fucking yap in the runup to 2010 and the results speak for themselves.  I don't know if Top Men have taken the gelding shears to Priebus but I've been less impressed than, say, Malor has been at the job he's done.  The results of the midterm should determine his future.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 05:03 AM (vak/p)

299 Just what the GOPter orders.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 08:58 AM (/vO0r)



We need electable candidates, not literate Whackobirds concerned with real issues! 



Besides, the really important thing is whether or not my consulting firm will continue to get contracts without performance clauses.

Posted by: Karl Rover at March 19, 2014 05:03 AM (o3MSL)

Posted by: Golfman in NC at March 19, 2014 05:06 AM (vVOWk)

301 The results of the midterm should determine his future.
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 09:03 AM

Why? He's perfect for the gutless cowards currently in charge of selling us out. He talks big like an infomercial pitchman, and that's all that matters.

Substance no longer means a damn thing. It's how you read the words written for you that count.

Just ask Choom Boy.

Posted by: MrScribbler at March 19, 2014 05:06 AM (jiM5S)

302 The Pennsylvania AG's family owns the trucking company with an exclusive contract to ship all PA Liquor Control Board store's booze. She was also caught fixing about 15 of her own parking tickets while assistsnt DA in Scranton. The MFM blew off the story because of "technicalities" that supposedly made it legal. The Rendell machine is still very much alive and powerful.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 19, 2014 05:06 AM (tOkJB)

303 OT/ It seems they opened up Beethoven's tomb, and there he was, decomposing.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 19, 2014 05:08 AM (g4TxM)

304

>>>Yep. People who are just getting by are being obama'ed into poverty. It ads up - medical, food, heat, etc.

 

And yet, the consumer price index doesn't seem to reflect that reality much [CPI to be released in April but this is early stuff]

 

http://is.gd/zvoDnE

Posted by: Bigby's Other Hand at March 19, 2014 05:08 AM (3ZtZW)

305

If you are living in a community with an HOA you should probably check to see if your brain is missing.

 

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

 

I mitigate my HOA by serving on the Board  to be a barrier to the gestapo tendencies such organizations usually encourage. 

 

Usually no one else in the community wants the job, so apathy breeds tyranny.  The most our HOA does is mow common areas and host four parties a year.

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 19, 2014 05:09 AM (eytER)

306 Dump up!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2014 05:09 AM (cB3Ay)

307 Re: Meryl Streep's qoute in The Giver, it means the people chose poorly and therefore the government had to take over and run their lives for the better.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 19, 2014 05:09 AM (B2fm1)

308 301 Not when he has his boot on OUR necks. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 19, 2014 08:58 AM (olDqf) Fair point. Tyranny at home, weakness abroad. Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 08:59 AM (DrWcr) We are the fresh meat on the auction block. The bidding began in earnest decades ago when neoconservatism permeated from the DNC into the RNC. Don't argue the stylistic distinctions, which is the favored color or wrapping paper, when the meat on the chopping block is your own life, our own country. To obsess over Ukraine or any other nation's "liberty" while numb to the loss of our own is as dumb as it gets. Acting as if our military war would "grant/deliver liberty" to foreign nations when liberty is* dead in America ranks the grossest of vanities. We can not deliver that which we do not possess. And even in the giving, Matthew 7:6. *It depends on what "is" is.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 05:10 AM (/vO0r)

309 This week's podcast is especially salient. My only disagreement is that Cruz cannot talk to the hicks. I am a hick. He crisscrossed the state, giving close attention to rural and transitional Blue Dog Democrat areas in West Texas and especially East Texas. This is one of the reasons that Democrats hate him so much. He can talk to anyone about anything. When I say talk this includes listening closely and not talking "at" people. This is how he beat Dewhurst. Example of this is one small town where he spoke and few showed up. He said where is everyone and was told it was auction day. So he went to the bi-monthly livestock auction. He won that county.

Posted by: Lester at March 19, 2014 08:58 AM (2UPXV)



The podcast people don't understand the reaction of hicks because they like to consider themselves not hicks.  What you wrote makes complete sense but is hard for the consultant class to digest because they don't like Cruz.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 05:11 AM (vak/p)

310 Thankfully there isn't anything serious going on in the US or around the world. 9:45 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 2:25 pm || Hosts a screening of the film Cesar Chavez at the White House; South Court Auditorium 3:055 pm || Interviewed by local news anchors participating in “Live from the White House”; The Diplomatic Room So his agenda today is to watch a movie.

Posted by: RWC at March 19, 2014 05:12 AM (fWAjv)

311 RE: $10,000 year property taxes in PA.  I live in a semi-rural area in SC, app 35 mi from a city with 60K people in it.  I have a 1700 sf house in a nice neighborhood. My property taxes are $600/yr.


Now you folks thinking of moving down to Charleston will pay much more than that, but you will be living in the typical urban environment where you support a much larger FSA. Also, property values are much higher.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 05:13 AM (T2V/1)

312 Oops @308

Despite Priebus' claims of electronic and data tools helping Jolly, I read that Jolly was at odds with the National GOP and vice versa. Dems outspent Jolly 2 to 1. Where's all the help there? Eff these people.

I understand Capt Hate's posit that results matter. However, I will base my judgement not by the number of winners with an R behind their name but how many conservatives win and how much support they garner from the GOP.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at March 19, 2014 05:15 AM (vVOWk)

313 Not to be... okay, to BE name-ist... what kind of name is Rinsed Priapus anyway? If that was your name, wouldn't you change it to, like, John Wayne, or something? Um.. well, er, I'll just leave that amusing autocorrection. You know who I mean, right? In the future, government officials will be known by their online handles. US Congressman Captain Hate Senator panzernashorn Secretary of Interior Alex the Chick like that. You'n's have yourselves a day!

Posted by: mindful webworker - idiotic cognomen at March 19, 2014 05:19 AM (ndxIr)

314 >>If you are living in a community with an HOA you should probably check to see if your brain is missing. Mine is harmless. In fact, I get frustrated that no one actually cares about the rule against on-street parking. I don't care about an occasional car for a couple hours, but multiple huge work pick-ups always on the street nights and weekends...that gets tiresome. Esp the guy with the trailer attached to his giant truck... I go past that house 18 times on the weekend, of course. And then there are the idiots who park on street directly across from someone who's parked on the street. Why?? /rant off

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 19, 2014 05:20 AM (SUKHu)

315 Despite Priebus' claims of electronic and data tools helping Jolly, I read that Jolly was at odds with the National GOP and vice versa. Dems outspent Jolly 2 to 1. Where's all the help there? Eff these people.


Posted by: Golfman in NC at March 19, 2014 09:15 AM (vVOWk)



I wish Malor would provide a link that would either confirm or refute this.  I don't do tinyurl but I saw one site that indicated the financial support was slightly higher for Sinkhole than Jolly but it was basically a wash.  I've listened to Levin about how some Repuke operatives were trying to hedge their bets on him.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 19, 2014 05:22 AM (vak/p)

316 The GOP will nominate a presidential candidate I can support without reservation, or I'll vote for the Democrat. Fuck this.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 19, 2014 05:24 AM (JQuNB)

317 324 The GOP will nominate a presidential candidate I can support without reservation, or I'll vote for the Democrat.

Fuck this.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 19, 2014 09:24 AM (JQuNB)



They still have the same primary schedule as before, just shorter.  The first 25 State are mostly all blue or purple States that lean blue.



What that means is we will get yet another squishy fucking moderate who will lose by > 5%

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 19, 2014 05:26 AM (T2V/1)

318 To obsess over Ukraine or any other nation's "liberty" while numb to the loss of our own is as dumb as it gets. Acting as if our military war would "grant/deliver liberty" to foreign nations when liberty is* dead in America ranks the grossest of vanities. We can not deliver that which we do not possess. And even in the giving, Matthew 7:6. ... Ace rants against "isolationism" mistaken with economic protectionism (tariffs and sanctions). For every post in defense of a legal point of law, count how many arguments made here to enable Obama's initial election by targeting constitutional conservatives as outmoded wrong-headed stupid bigots, a blemish on America, to be ridiculed and destroyed "for the better good". Defending, protecting and functioning within the US Constitutional Republic is not "isolationist". Asserting our strengths according to constitutional priority, defense of our nation before defending "investors' interests abroad", is NOT isolationist. Investing our taxes refurbishing our own nation's infrastructure before "nation building abroad" is NOT isolationist. And it takes a deceitful, thieving "nation building abroad" neoconservative liar to argue otherwise. We witness 21st Century global corporatist authoritarianism at home and abroad, sole allegiance to personal profits STOLEN from taxpayers through political graft. How can anyone dispossessed give to someone else what the dispossessed lacks? What, redistribution?! As if a transnational interest means to deliver "freedom and democracy" to the downtrodden low wage earners. Arbeit Macht Frei! First know your self. And, to your own Self be true.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 05:28 AM (/vO0r)

319 The GOP will nominate a presidential candidate I can support without reservation, or I'll vote for the Democrat. = That is self defeating, particularly if your vote is a PROTEST. Don't give credit to the Democrat as if more legitimate than the rotten GOP. If your vote is a protest vote against the rotten GOP, then VOTE 3rd PARTY so that AT LEAST your vote is tallied against the shared authoritarian values of either corrupt major party. Even were the 3rd party candidate elected and prove false, the 3rd party is extremely easy to remove from office during the next election campaign compared to the DNC/RNC with their transnational donor interests at heart.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 05:34 AM (/vO0r)

320 Reince is bullshitting. They're all good at this.  The local kidz the GOP hires will tell you they made "10,000 dials" at hdqtrs last night, all BS.  It's like the sales guy who is taught to say "everything's going GREAT GUNS" whenever someone asks.

In reality, the central committees are struggling with Paulbots and arguing all the time.

Posted by: Lady Billingsgate at March 19, 2014 05:47 AM (tWHyq)

321 "The GOP should rebrand as the New Abolitionists

Posted by: vlad putin at March 19, 2014 08:15 AM (GSIDW)"



No.  The GOP should return to its roots and offer 40 acres and a mule (or a one time tax credit for $2500 which is what mules seem to sell for on the internet) to every black family as Slavery Reparations.  That 40 acres will be carved out of ANWR and any other piece of federally owned land that might have energy resources and a family shall be defined as one man and one woman legally married and their children.



Then stand back and watch as the various Democrat constituencies fight each other over this.  If it passes we get a lot more energy production which significantly boosts our economy and increases the number of jobs.  Even if the legislation fails, we get to watch a death match between the Blacks and the Greens as well as a whole lot of nasty rhetoric against black ministers by gay and atheist Democrats.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at March 19, 2014 05:48 AM (PD6iL)

322 "Tyranny at home, weakness abroad.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 08:59 AM (DrWcr)"



That sounds great.  We should put that on the Presidential seal.



Tyrany domi. Cuiusmodi in externa.

Posted by: Preznit Supergenius at March 19, 2014 06:03 AM (PD6iL)

323

If Ben Carson is the candidate, we'll keep him so busy on healthcare he won't have time to mess with firearms.  Besides, anyone who is smart doesn't register their weapons. In Pa we hide them and never register them, besides a retard like Cuomo doesn't know where to look.  When the clowns from the ATF show up the state police let's us know.

 

Posted by: burt at March 19, 2014 06:13 AM (1+kJ5)

324 322. Posted by: Mama AJ at March 19, 2014 09:20 AM (SUKHu) It's an eye opener, tracing irony, how the lack of standards enforcement correlates with authoritarianism. I agree with your point. Our experience began 1986 as a very happy-satisfying M.U.D. (less than a square mile in the country) moderate working middle class neighborhood development of single family units boasting five huge MUD neighborhood parks manicured beautifully, good deed restrictions, and a voluntary Homeowners Association (newsletter) for those wishing neighborhood private olympic pool privileges ($12/yr/family). The "city" we bordered had no city parks. Eventually the city annexed our MUD against the voice of the neighborhood. Next? The city's attorney on city letterhead sent all our neighborhood a letter formally announcing that the city would NOT uphold our deed restrictions. And our little olympic sized neighborhood swimming pool was confiscated along with all our parks into city property to be tended by the most unskilled, inattentive and illiterate lazy city employees. Within the first month, the relatively new pool was closed due to shit water and broken plumbing, each "repair" worsening the situation. Another "fix" -- the city drained the pool and left the pool drained for a year. Without deed restrictions neighbor ability to enforce, homes became cheap rentals occupied by transient riffraff, too many non-related adults with up to 5 cars, certainly not contained within the garage and driveway. Soon enough, boats and trailers were parked out front of homes, no longer stored at the low-cost facility. Even trailer homes wired with AT+T wifi park permanently in front of a few neighbor houses these days; and that's not counting the RVs. So we voted in a new mayor and city council from our neighborhood as if they would represent our interests to maintain deed restrictions; and they were EFFECTIVELY no different than the earlier crooks, though "better" mannered at propagandizing the virtues of public graft policy that gouges taxpayers to buy useless-but-expensive "public works" from politician's friends (paid by square foot zigzag sidewalk construction). Texas politics ain't so different from Chicago, no place is so different in the effects of graft. I'm not impressed that graft remains behind a series of curtains, Republican Drapes, making it look nicer here than in Chicago. The weather's better. And the people are nicer and better grounded. But politics are politics. Our town changes zoning faster than the weather changes in these parts. Even one parcel of land will get rezoned upon sequential applications so long as the council members change their minds AGAIN. What value has a piece of property zoned for quality when, once developed, is rezoned for low standards, rezoned to facilitate the rise in crime. Note the tax subsidized housing for non-taxpaying influx immigration from south of the border and from New Orleans, introduction to gangs and organized street and drug crime where none had dared shown itself in "our town" in this "ultra-conservative Republican county". Long story short, don't purchase a property with deed restrictions that you don't like, or with deed restrictions you do like but are not upheld. The "standard of living" is self-defeating, promoting in a speedy fashion bad neighborhoods from good neighborhoods, disgusted homeowners sell out to rental agencies who fill one house with 5 non-related adults with as many vehicles (against deed restrictions). Encouraging disrespect by practicing such disrespect becomes policy too frequently found from City Hall, sometimes from County or from the State Capitol, from the SCOTUS, and consistently from both Congress and the executive administrating POTUS. Trickle down shit.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 06:36 AM (/vO0r)

325 330 "Tyranny at home, weakness abroad. Posted by: Insomniac at March 19, 2014 08:59 AM (DrWcr)" That sounds great. We should put that on the Presidential seal. = Barack Obama appears with personalized presidential seal, By Michael Saul AND Celeste Katz Friday, June 20, 2008, NY Daily News http://tinyurl.com/m2cjraw or the Bozo Agenda Peppermint Seal aka the American Swastika? "Understanding The American Swastika" By Darwin Rockantansky October 29, 2013, teapartynation.com http://tinyurl.com/nzdz2yp

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 19, 2014 06:48 AM (/vO0r)

326 What kind of dirt on candidates can the EPA have?  Other than literal dirt.

Posted by: Bud Norton at March 19, 2014 12:37 PM (6cOMd)

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