Lipstick !

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

This is a sarcastic takeoff on the Swiftboaters, yes ?

She didn't know the difference between icing and offsides?

SHE IS UNPREPARED!

/dKos off

Hilarious

She doesn't know the difference between icing and off-sides?! STONE HER!

Has Andrew Sullivan run with this yet?

re: #3 zombie

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

I hadn't heard the new definition of "liar" until the Obama campaign started throwing it around.

With that new definition, I want my kids to grow up to be "liars".

You know, I've got a feeling that CNN will take this seriously and present it as evidence that Palin is not fit to be Veep.

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

Um... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

this is great and they got the voices down perfectly, doncha know

re: #8 Sharmuta

GMTA

re: #12 Sharmuta

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

see my #11 above for what I think will happen.

re: #3 zombie

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

I guess the Bay Area isn't really hockey country, even though they do have the Sharks in San Jose.

Of course, I never heard of arugula until BHO brought it up in Iowa.

re: #12 Sharmuta

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

real.

They figure the guns and bible set will see it as devastating.

/We are all so stupid, dontchano?

Oh, this is too hilarious!

Not to mention an excellent retort to those who cast "swift-boating" as somehow untruthful, when it's actually telling the truth.

/*cough*Dem slimes*cough*

re: #16 noshariaincanada

Seems I'm thinking like a couple of you guys today. Get off my thought wave! ;)

This ad is simply out of bounds! ....oops. I mean off sides.

re: #20 Sharmuta

Seems I'm thinking like a couple of you guys today. Get off my thought wave! ;)

All your thought waves are belong to us.

re: #21 pat

This ad is simply out of bounds! ....oops. I mean off sides.

Fweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Two minutes, Pat! Interference!

re: #18 karmic_inquisitor

/We are all so stupid, dontchano?

Youbetcha!

re: #12 Sharmuta

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

It'll go right through their five hole.

ROFLMAO!

"I'm not a pitbull".

Drop the puck Palin!

/Croquet playin' moonbat mom!

re: #25 Honorary Yooper

It'll go right through their five hole.

Inability to grasp satire should be a 5 minute major.

Fre: #12 Sharmuta

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

You mean it's not real? /

That was great!

Almost as funny as Tina Fey on SNL.

And. NO, the koskiddies won't understand that is
supposed to be a digg at the Libs/MSM/DemoRats etc.

Right On Hockey Moms for the Truth!
You Go Girls!

This is a great illustration of the fundamental differences between Republicans/Conservatives and your average Liberal/Democrat. We can laugh at ourselves, we can make fun of our leaders and everybody understands that it is all in good fun. It keeps people a little humble. If a parody like this were filmed about Uhhhbama the Liberals would be screaming Racist! Mean Spirited! Dirty Tricks!

re: #28 Sharmuta

No, it should a 10-minute game misconduct!

This is the best!

Excellent tragicomic background music.

re: #3 zombie

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

They don't have them in SF

re: #31 ghost ryder

I told the joke on #134 on the last thread

re: #31 ghost ryder

You know what they say: the best Republican jokes come from Republicans....

re: #34 jaunte

Excellent tragicomic background music.

"It didn't even have handles!"

Well, now we know what the cover story will be of next week's Us magazine....

re: #39 PAgirlinNC

"HOCKEY MOMS' BETRAYAL!"

What a load of Hockey.

I'm sure these are all impartial Republican women.

Hilarious.

"I'm not a pitbull". ROFL

re: #38 Sharmuta

OT, but it's nice to be back online. Greetings from soggy, electrically challenged post-Ike Houston.

I actually wasn't expecting a parody!

And repeat after me, All the guys on the boat are lying accept him.

re: #30 pragmatist

That was great!

Almost as funny as Tina Fey on SNL.

And. NO, the koskiddies won't understand that is
supposed to be a digg at the Libs/MSM/DemoRats etc.

Right On Hockey Moms for the Truth!
You Go Girls!

If they could have got Tina Fey or another Sarah look alike to simulate being beaten with hockey sticks, even funnier.

re: #44 jaunte

It's good to have you back!

I'm sitting in a hotel lobby. Can't watch the video.

Poop.

Note the Santa sweater.
From,
Tank Bent Palin. (Much better than my real name. We didn't have Hockey Moms then.)

re: #45 Ben Hur

I actually wasn't expecting a parody!

And repeat after me, All the guys on the boat are lying accept him.

NO! And those moms WEREN'T EVEN ON THE SAME RINK!

The 20 Most Obnoxious Anti-Palin Quotes So Far

damn vid is blocked and I have no speakers.

Mr Obama, if you is elected president can I have an vid upgrade and speakers?

Can Barry-O ice skate?

re: #41 maddogg

What a load of Hockey Pucks.

re: #36 opnion

I told the joke on #134 on the last thread

Got it. I have heard it before I just didn't recognize the reference. Thanks!

re: #52 Eowyn2

damn vid is blocked and I have no speakers.

Mr Obama, if you is elected president can I have an vid upgrade and speakers?

Do you pay taxes? Or suck them in? That's how we'll decide.

Only one of her kids played hockey- that's devastating!

re: #47 Sharmuta

Good to be here! I'm supposed to be working, but I'm tired from moving everyone's furniture off our 27,000 sq. feet of ruined carpet. The roof peeled up during the storm and dumped a flood into my office, and then into the rest of the building. I just got my semi-dry computer equipment reconnected, and had to get an LGF fix.

Very funny, but I kept staring at that "B" thing on the screen.

Next they'll claim Bobby Orr wasn't really Italian.

H - E - Double Hockey Sticks.
_{Sorry... it's the best I could come up with...}

Get the puck outta here!

"Paid for by Hockey Moms For Truth.
Thanks to everyone's efforts at the bake sale at last week's game against Palmer."

roflmao

re: #44 jaunte

Welcome back. You took quite a hit from Ike before he came up our way and swamped NW Indiana. Between him and the remnants of Lowell, parts of our area had over 10 inches of rain and record flooding along the Illinois, DuPage, Des Plaines, Chicago, and Little Calumet Rivers. In fact, we still have a major east-west artery closed (I-80/94), one of the busiest truck routes in the country.

re: #3 zombie

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

Take-off on the abused phrase "soccer mom".

Puckheads

re: #53 sngnsgt

Can Barry-O ice skate?

If he did, he'd get 2 minutes for hooking, 2 minutes for tripping, and 2 minutes for interference. Did I mention he'd also get a 5 minute major for roughing the goalie?

Nuanced satire, nice.

re: #53 sngnsgt

Can Barry-O ice skate?

um. you have to ask?

re: #64 Honorary Yooper

Sorry about that; we were trying to steer it down to Kenedy county, (more cows than people) but there's only so much you can do...

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

A much more common term is "ring rats", for the kids who spend as much time as possible around the ice.

Can Barry-O ice skate?

White men can't jump.
Black men can't skate.

Puckheads

There is also a term for women who have a thing for hockey players.....are there any children here? It's "a puck f**K".

OT:
Rush is rambling about how the Government has "raped" the mortgage industry...
He doesn't seem to want to hear that all those "bad loans" have the caveat of being federally insurable and repaid in full to the lenders (including all costs for the foreclosure through resale) and that the greed of the lenders to keep foreclosing and recirculating their cash into higher interest laden early parts of loans is the problem.
The other problem is that by taking larger and larger loans to buy houses (instead of paying cash for a small starter home and moving up on favorable terms etc) the housing industry has artificially inflated the price of housing across the board... this is nothing more than a market adjustment that is long overdue.
I like Rushbo overall but there's basically two topics I disagree with Rushbo on and this is one that makes me say FTSB while he displays an tin ear to the real problem so he can play the part of partisan hack...

re: #53 sngnsgt

Can Barry-O ice skate?

He probably thinks "slapshot" is racist code speak.

Trying to place some of the accents, they sound sort of east coast Canadian once removed.

Had to share from the koskids:

We are teaching our children as well... (0+ / 0-)
A high point came for me last night when my teen son was watching Colbert. He is a rather shy, introverted kid who prefers role playing games and computers to hanging out with buddies. Anyway, I heard him clapping last night when Colbert made a joke about Sarah Palin and Russia. When the show was over, he told me it was one of the best ones he had seen.

My 8 and 10 year old are also becoming rather opinionated. I heard my 10 year old ask a boy at a recent social event who he was voting for. When he said Obama, they both cheered. :)

He will be living in moms basement in no time LOL

omg! she forgot to bring the kool-aide!

re: #17 Honorary Yooper

I guess the Bay Area isn't really hockey country, even though they do have the Sharks in San Jose.

Of course, I never heard of arugula until BHO brought it up in Iowa.

Really? I've been growing and eating arugula for years and years. It's just about the easiest garden/salad vegetable. Grows like a weed.

re: #73 Dave the.....

There is also a term for women who have a thing for hockey players.....are there any children here? It's "a puck f**K".

Or 'phuck' maybe?

A much more common term is "ring rats",

I meant Rink Rats. not ring

Hey all Y'all - I know Hockey Moms for Truth is an important topic, but felt that I had to repost this from the prior thread dealing with Pakistan and our perhaps going to war with a nuclear powered third world nation:
We HAVE to recognize a couple of facts, some of them very unpleasant.
First of all, Pakistan IS a democracy (unless it comes too close to Sharia law in secular matters, in which case it has always become a military dictatorship).
Secondly, Pakistan does have nukes and the missiles by which to deliver them; discussions with the Paki's that don't at least seem to indicate our desire for a good relationship with Pakistan will only cause Pakistan to relocate some of those nukes and add a lot of their military to guard them - the Paki's aren't stupid and know that those Nukes are the only things that are keeping it a separate, definable, country.
Thirdly, Pakistan has NEVER had control of the Frontier Provinces - they are now and have always been controlled by a fairly large assortment of "Warlords" [the term, which may conjure up some Hollywood images of uneducated, sword wielding maniacs is very far from the truth].
Fourth - Pakistan's government HAS to make a big deal out of protecting Pakistan's territorial sovereignty or the overwhelming majority of it's citizens will throw out the government, lock stock and barrel (think how the US would feel if, say, Canada, used drones or attack helicopters to attack "rebels" within Canada from trying to seize control of the Canadian government and the US allowed those rebels to hide in, R&R in, and resupply and recruit in, say Montana and those drone or attack helicopters accidentally killed oh, a few hundred American citizens) and
Fifth - while Pakistan's government makes a lot of noise about defending Pakistani territory from American/Afghanistan military incursions, it also recognizes that those incursions are Pakistan's' best hope to gain governmental control over those "Frontier Provinces".
The US has no real choice, here, but to strike the deal that I think that they will make, and that would be something akin to "hot pursuit" - we catch or see the bad guys in Afghanistan and start shooting and chasing them IN Afghanistan and just continue going after them after they cross the borders into Pakistan.
Hell, we did that in Cambodia and Laos during Vietnam and both countries were officially neutral during the entire Vietnam War. Pakistan IS still our ally; we ought to be VERY CAREFUL about blowing that relationship, when we really don't need to do so.
And, bye the bye, the State Department really fucked up when they told Bush NOT to support Mushareef - he wasn't exactly what we wanted, but he did, after much prodding by us, destroy the Red Mosque in the capital of Pakistan and was sending troops - albeit not Pakistan's best troops - to quell the warlords who were supporting Al-Q and the Taliban.

re: #51 Ben Hur

The 20 Most Obnoxious Anti-Palin Quotes So Far

that's it. Lindsay Lohan is against Palin. Ms Lohan is obviously an exceedingly intelligent woman whose brilliance was only outshined by such luminaries and elder statespersons as Cher, Sean Penn, and our favorite Baldwin Brother. I must vote for obama or Lindsay may move to France to make her movies.

The person who posted this at YouTube is not a fan of Sarah Palin. The "info" posted with it says,

Sarah Palin was very unresponsible as a hockey mom. she would forget the juices and make other mothers drive.
she never once offered to shoot a moose either until she ran for governor.
but on a serious note, please ladies, dont vote for her just because she is a woman. theis is all just a gimic.this isnt like hillary running.hillary was president for 8 years before back in the 90's, she has lots of experience.

And another Palin-related video posted by the same person has this posted as the "info,"

just like George Bush.
go f*ck a hairy asshole you blowjob bimbo.
I hate soccer moms

re: #12 Sharmuta

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

For real.
The whiny tone is like a universal dog whistle to the left.

I sent the video all around - Hockey Moms Against Palin

hahahahaahahhahaa

re: #79 zombie

Really? I've been growing and eating arugula for years and years. It's just about the easiest garden/salad vegetable. Grows like a weed.

And tastes like one too.

Now we need a group of ex-POWs making a vid where they tearfully claim that McCain swept the compound from left to right when others were sweeping from right to left and that he once kept the tastiest lice for himself. This is great get in the leftist OODA loop and they will be unable to respond beyond sputtering. They think John McCain doesn't text message because they own the future and Republicans have no place in it.

re: #72 Jed 1899

White men can't jump.
Black men can't skate.

Shhhhh... Don't let him hear you say that.

re: #84 wrenchwench

Well- we kinda figured the leftists wouldn't be able to grasp the satire.

re: #56 FightingBack

Do you pay taxes? Or suck them in? That's how we'll decide.

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to work i go
the tax man cometh

re: #79 zombie

Really? I've been growing and eating arugula for years and years. It's just about the easiest garden/salad vegetable. Grows like a weed.

No, I really had never heard of it until then. Never saw it in any of the grocers I frequent. I'm far more familiar with romaine for lettuce.

Maybe we just don't have it in our normal grocery store in the Midwest. I would suspect BHO went to some sort of high-end grocer like a Whole Foods rather than just Jewel or Dominick's. Of course, even Dominick's would be below his royal highness's tastes.

re: #84 wrenchwench

agh, the language...

re: #12 Sharmuta

Will the koslings get the humor or will they think this is for real?

You're questioning artificial intelligence?

I hate to link to kos
but this is a video of his "babs" fundraiser.
Someone taped this in secret.

This definitely shows that Republicans have more fun, and laugh more easily!

re: #82 realwest

All true, good posting on this topic over at Belmont Club, sorry we didn't get into the Red Cross more the other day.

Nice ominous tinkling piano

re: #82 realwest

Canada is a bad example.
Substitute Mexico.

Surely they jest. -S-

re: #70 jaunte

Sorry about that; we were trying to steer it down to Kenedy county, (more cows than people) but there's only so much you can do...

Heh. That's OK. BTW, do you think Galveston will be habitable by the middle of October? I booked a cruise that leaves from there near the end of October.

I hate to link to kos
but this is a video of his "babs" fundraiser.
Someone taped this in secret.

At work so can't really take the time to watch it. Any summary? What is the must smug thing done? Any bashing of McCain's disabilities (such as shoulders and fingers)?

re: #100 jwb7605

Canada is a bad example.
Substitute Mexico.

True. Going to Canada is like going to Wisconsin.

re: #94 Vergeltung

agh, the language...

Sorry. I did put an asterisk in it....but you can't totally cover the hate of the looney left.

That is pretty funny!

re: #100 jwb7605

Canada is a bad example.
Substitute Mexico.

You want to send Black Jack Pershing and Douglas MacArthur into Pakistan?

re: #97 kiwiviv

This definitely shows that Republicans have more fun, and laugh more easily!

there was a serious poll/study that determined we have better relationships & sex lives. maybe that is why we are happier. :)

re: #97 kiwiviv

This definitely shows that Republicans have more fun, and laugh more easily!

It's because we love our Country. If you were trying to overthrow it, you'd be glum, too.

I about busted a gut here, whoever put that together was masterful. Hilarious parody and biting satire of the left's attacks on Palin.

re: #104 Honorary Yooper

True. Going to Canada is like going to Wisconsin.

And the "cross the border" thing isn't very far off.
And both sides see the issues in similar manners.

re: #103 Dave the.....

At work so can't really take the time to watch it. Any summary? What is the must smug thing done? Any bashing of McCain's disabilities (such as shoulders and fingers)?

I am currently watching it.
He is saying that people are working hard and losing their jobs etc.
Speaks pretty hesitantly.
Will post any gaffes.

re: #110 Thanos

Some will think it serious and reasonable.

re: #37 Macker

You know what they say: the best Republican jokes come from Republicans....

And the best Jewish jokes come from Jews!

re: #105 wrenchwench

Sorry. I did put an asterisk in it....but you can't totally cover the hate of the looney left.

oh, I know, don't worry. they just swim in it...

re: #104 Honorary Yooper

True. Going to Canada is like going to Wisconsin.

Harley riders hopefully on our side.

[Link: politsk.blogspot.com...]

If you put "Barak" in the Palin baby name generator you get "Missile Blunt".

It's not just a baby name generator- it's an accurate predictor of 0bama policy!

re: #109 FightingBack

Actually, I like 108's answer better.

New Gallup Poll has Obama +2

Damn! First Obama lead since the RNC.

What happened to that bright shining light?

He is not in a celebratory mood.
Economy in crisis (he says in a 55 room mansion lol)

We must seize this moment.

badly off track
unless we do something about it
passing on an America to our children that is meaner, less prosperous

Vergeltung and FightingBack - I agree! Let's face it, those angry left wing folks are always so grumpy. I am in the middle of a huge battle in the NZ Herald forums right now - they are just as loony over there in my home country.

re: #119 NC State of Mind

Losing the Sarah bounce?

re: #3 zombie

Hockey Mom only makes sense if you know about the Soccer Mom demographic.

It is really a demographic description used to group middle-class suburban women who spend a significant amount of their time transporting school-age children to activities.

Really has nothing to do with Soccer or Hockey.... Could easily be jazz tap lessons...

They vote, and influence their household vote.

Just for reference, Icing is when a player shoots the puck across at least two red lines, the opposing team's goal line being the last, and offside is when a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck itself enters the zone.

The video was great....

re: #74 anotherindyfilmguy

OT:
Rush is rambling about how the Government has "raped" the mortgage industry...
He doesn't seem to want to hear that all those "bad loans" have the caveat of being federally insurable and repaid in full to the lenders (including all costs for the foreclosure through resale) and that the greed of the lenders to keep foreclosing and recirculating their cash into higher interest laden early parts of loans is the problem.

And who made this possible? The Dems.

The other problem is that by taking larger and larger loans to buy houses (instead of paying cash for a small starter home and moving up on favorable terms etc) the housing industry has artificially inflated the price of housing across the board... this is nothing more than a market adjustment that is long overdue.
I like Rushbo overall but there's basically two topics I disagree with Rushbo on and this is one that makes me say FTSB while he displays an tin ear to the real problem so he can play the part of partisan hack...

I disagree. He is pointing out a problem that has its very origin in Democrat legislation, which has (predictably) collapsed, and now the Dems are trying to hang the responsibility for the collapse on necks other than their own (also predictable).

This just in:::
Good news: A new energy source discovered, it will finally save us from being dependent on Mideast oil.

Bad news: It's based on sand.

re: #114 Tigger2005

And the best Jewish jokes come from Jews!

Like Steven Spielberg and Noam Chomsky and Rachel Corrie?

re: #117 Sharmuta

[Link: politsk.blogspot.com...]

If you put "Barak" in the Palin baby name generator you get "Missile Blunt".

It's not just a baby name generator- it's an accurate predictor of 0bama policy!

I come out Tarp Lazer Palin, sounds like Lazer Wolf meets the Wasps.

American feel a complete disconnect from Govt.
The game has gotten fixed for the insiders.

Enormous cynicism
"You are on your own" Bush philosophy

We have become numb to this accepted wisdom in washington and WH that there is no role in govt to provide the steps to move into the middle class.

CNN Hack: Only reason the polls are so close is racism

From CNN's Jack Cafferty

Will race be the factor that keeps Obama from the White House?
Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it's one that nobody's talking about.

The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn't be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn't make sense…unless it's race.

Time magazine's Michael Grunwald says race is the elephant in the room. He says Barack Obama needs to tread lightly as he fights back against the McCain-Palin campaign attacks.

re: #93 Honorary Yooper

No, I really had never heard of it until then. Never saw it in any of the grocers I frequent. I'm far more familiar with romaine for lettuce.

Maybe we just don't have it in our normal grocery store in the Midwest. I would suspect BHO went to some sort of high-end grocer like a Whole Foods rather than just Jewel or Dominick's. Of course, even Dominick's would be below his royal highness's tastes.

Heh. Where I live, Whole Foods is considered low-end! And I've never heard of Jewel or Dominick's either!

I've never bought arugula in a store, but it's sold just about everywhere around here.

I am
Flag Cobra Palin

No clapping in the first nine minutes.

re: #129 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

CNN Hack: Only reason the polls are so close is racism

I agree. If it wasn't for racism an unqualified fringe hack like Obama wouldn't have more than 15% in the polls.

Kos will think this is a documentary. :)

re: #113 Ojoe

Some will think it serious and reasonable.

The guy who posted it to Youtube does. He's very anti Bush, anti McCain from his other vids.

re: #119 NC State of Mind

New Gallup Poll has Obama +2

Damn! First Obama lead since the RNC.

Small postive.....

The Galllup poll and the Rasmussen poll are for the same period and are both about 3000 sample size. However, the Gallup poll that shows BHO up by to is of 'registered' voters. The Rasmussen poll that shows McCain up is of 'likely' voters.

re: #131 ploome hineni

"Academic standards" are not affected by the students' demographic.

But if Oxford has sunk to believing they are, then I guess I can only say:

Fare thee well, Oxbridge, 'twas nice knowin' ya.

Prelude to the soon to be best selling book, Unfit to Carpool.

Very Funny. I thought those hockey moms for truth were serious for a minute.

re: #119 NC State of Mind

New Gallup Poll has Obama +2

Damn! First Obama lead since the RNC.

It's a bump from Lehman/AIG, that might be adjusted by the next week's news cycle. Remember the average voter has a memory span of about a week where news events are concerned - they may soon get back to judging the candidates head-to-head by character and background, as they were after the two conventions.

*scandalized look* "I am not a pit bull."

ROFLMAO!

re: #131 ploome hineni

They can't meet the standards? Then change the standards!
I had a Principal once who was accused of "discrimination based on reading scores." He went down, too.

politics have become a game
tit for tat
all about lipstick and pigs (one in the audience made a soouiie sound)

My opponent wants to implement the same thing as bush etc.

said bin laden is setting up camps in afghanistan to attack us?!?

(he is a horrible speaker)

re: #119 NC State of Mind
Yeah but Obama - with the MSM even more on his side than ever, is losing by 1 point according to the Rasmussen poll.

re: #88 taxfreekiller

If you mean their threat to seize a piece of the Arctic, they've taken that position for a while. If you mean their stock market tanking and closing for a second day in a row, that's bad but not critical.

re: #124 rawmuse

I disagree. He is pointing out a problem that has its very origin in Democrat legislation, which has (predictably) collapsed, and now the Dems are trying to hang the responsibility for the collapse on necks other than their own (also predictable).

It's a bi-partisan issue. As much I don't like most Dem stuff this is an issue that crosses party lines. The lending industry lobbyists essentially have written/rewritten to suit the laws regarding fair housing etc and foreclosures and how to get paid off by the federal government if they foreclose on a property. The biggest problem is that there is no disincentive to foreclose. By making foreclosure profitable by allowing mortgage lenders to self certify loans as federally insurable the lenders have no reason to put a tighter screening on any particular loan and no reason not to foreclose and recycle their equity into new loans and maintain a higher rate of return.

re: #141 mich-again

Very Funny. I thought those hockey moms for truth were serious for a minute.

Apparently- the leftists think it is serious. Makes it even funnier, imo.

re: #132 ploome hineni

rachael corrie is not jewish

wow... all this time i thought she was a self-hating jew

Russia is back. And they are greedy and pissed.Russia threatens to seize swathe of Arctic

re: #117 Sharmuta

[Link: politsk.blogspot.com...]

If you put "Barak" in the Palin baby name generator you get "Missile Blunt".

It's not just a baby name generator- it's an accurate predictor of 0bama policy!

My name would be 'Turbine Yukon Palin'.
Imagine how much electricity I'd be generating.

re: #117 Sharmuta

[Link: politsk.blogspot.com...]

If you put "Barak" in the Palin baby name generator you get "Missile Blunt".

It's not just a baby name generator- it's an accurate predictor of 0bama policy!

Hmmm . . . Blunt can refer to something other than "dull."

re: #87 pat

And tastes like one too.

No way. Arugula tastes good!

re: #3 zombie

I never even heard of the phrase "hockey mom" until two weeks ago.

Up here in Canada "hockey moms" are known for breeding "rink rats".

Well you all I gotta go eat lunch now. I hope you all have a GREAT DAY and that I get the chance to see you down the road.

Charles, you should send this to CNN - I bet they'd believe it. Would be cool to see Gergen and that woman who looks like a horsey discuss how it's a "game-changer". AC would be nodding and providing insight in those short, clipped bursts of his (the "shortiness" and "clippiness", of course, demonstrate "gravitas" to all of the serious students of cable news who will be watching CNN from their mom's basements while they pass around the bong).

Or you could just send it to Olby and watch him get a stiffy.

re: #130 zombie

Heh. Where I live, Whole Foods is considered low-end! And I've never heard of Jewel or Dominick's either!

I've never bought arugula in a store, but it's sold just about everywhere around here.

Whole Foods low-end? Wow. Jewel is the #1 grocer here in Chicagoland (40-45% of the market; owned now by SuperValu), and Dominick's is #2 (owned by Safeway).

re: #139 victor_yugo

"Academic standards" are not affected by the students' demographic.

But if Oxford has sunk to believing they are, then I guess I can only say:

Fare thee well, Oxbridge, 'twas nice knowin' ya.

How classicly marxist of them to hang a perpetual label on everyone's biography. The Chinese and the Russians still routinely append to peoples bios if there parents were of working class or academic or poor peasant or merchant background. It never feels the same as similar info from an American context because we never thought it mattered for what school someone was accepted to. Granted it could matter as to whether they could afford the school but it was assumed that talent would be rewarded.

re: #102 Honorary Yooper

BTW, do you think Galveston will be habitable by the middle of October? I booked a cruise that leaves from there near the end of October.

Sorry, had to go off for a minute; they may be operating the piers by the end of October, but I wouldn't count on staying in Galveston, if that's what you mean.

re: #122 FightingBack

It had to happen eventually. This one's going to be close all the way till election day.

Heh. I just got a call from an electric bicycle company, asking whether I would be attending their presentation at the trade show next week. I told him I had no interest in electric bicycles, but the food from Wolfgang Puck sounded good. He said I could come just for that, and that it would be fun. Then I noticed the promo letter they sent had a pitch from Ed Begley Jr., and I asked the guy on the phone whether Ed Begley Jr. would be in attendance. He said yes, so I said, "Well, then I won't." We bid each other polite adieus.

The 20 Most Obnoxious Anti-Palin Quotes So Far

pitbull ?

i only know RedBull...

You guys get nervous

Whenever I come to LA I get a lot of suggestions
You give me a lot a scripts for tv ads

Coverage has changed in the last couple of days.
This is not a sitcom, not a reality show, we need leadership that understands the nature of 21st century threats.

We have to change in a way that is reflective of our values.

The reason I am calm is that I have confidence in the American people.

I cant do this alone.
I need everyone to know that this isnt the end
This is about a struggle for the future.
I need you to knock on doors, call your friends etc

We will spend the next 4 years transforming this country.

re: #129 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

Racism in which direction? 90% blacks voting for Obama couldn't be reverse racism against white McCain could it? They only play the race card if they think it will benefit Obama.

Since it's hockey we're talking about, wouldn't that sort of satire be called slap-stick?

/ducks out of room.

re: #151 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Russia is back. And they are greedy and pissed.Russia threatens to seize swathe of Arctic

They're counting on global warming to make it easier to access the oil and gas. Fat chance if we're heading into a new ice age instead.

re: #169 Jinx

Since it's hockey we're talking about, wouldn't that sort of satire be called slap-stick?

/ducks out of room.

How about slapshot...

re: #162 jaunte

Sorry, had to go off for a minute; they may be operating the piers by the end of October, but I wouldn't count on staying in Galveston, if that's what you mean.

Nope, not staying in Galveston. Just flying into and out of Hobby and going down to the cruise ship that day.

Actually some of these women's surnames are in the Wasilla, AK phone book. The Heidegger name is not in the book. As to whether these women are real are not is another question.

RE: Polls

Polls won't mean anything to me (or Dick Morris according to his article yesterday) until after debates. Debates are what will probably this election. Obama won't have a teleprompter either.

re: #148 anotherindyfilmguy

Bush and McCain both asked for reforms the Dems and the "spending like drunken sailors" Republican contingent fought them off, see the tail end of this piece, skip the vids, go to the quotes and links at the end:
[Link: noblesseoblige.org...]

re: #152 ploome hineni

I do not undertand what point you are trying to make

If someone sends me parts that are all packed incorrectly, I send them all back and tell the packers to re-do it right. I don't pass a certain percentage of them, just so I can say the failure rate is no higher than, say, 5%.

In any Navy Seal candidate class, there is no guarantee that any of the candidates will become a Navy Seal. In fact, there have been candidate classes which failed 100%. Not because they all sucked, but that none of them met the qualifications.

The same with academic standards. If Oxford allow their standards to be lowered by the screeds of England's equivalent of Jesse Jackson, they no longer deserve their high reputation. That they would even consider doing so, does not speak highly of their faculty and administration.

re: #173 HDrepub

Actually some of these women's surnames are in the Wasilla, AK phone book. The Heidegger name is not in the book. As to whether these women are real are not is another question.

PIMF

re: #172 Honorary Yooper

I think your trip will probably go as planned. If things aren't ready in Galveston the cruise operator may be able to depart from an alternate port, Houston or New Orleans.

re: #151 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Russia is back. And they are greedy and pissed.Russia threatens to seize swathe of Arctic

They just want to chill out for a while.

re: #165 Kenneth

The 20 Most Obnoxious Anti-Palin Quotes So Far

19) "Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe?

...Women have come a long way in the fight to have the choice over what we do with our bodies... And its frightening to see that a woman in 2008 would negate all of that.

Oh, and...Hint Hint Pali Pal- Don't pose for anymore tabloid covers, you're not a celebrity, you're running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY!

And in the words of Pamela Anderson, "She can suck it".." -- Lindsay Lohan

That's right Lindsay. Tabloids are where you belong.

Sorry for the OT:

....and in news regarding Israel........

Although It Isn't Making The MSM; The Kadima party in Israel is presently attempting other expulsions/ethnic Cleansings (ie: "disengagements").

Olmert/Kadima is concentrating on finalizing what me must consider a last minute deal-above-all-else "fire sale" of Israel, and kicking Jews out of their homes for the benefit and pleasure of the PLO, despite the fact that Phakestinians are now teaming up with Hiz'b'smallah to murder his citizens.

Let's not forget that while this is all going on the MSM reports that it is the building of homes which are the largest impedament to peace between the parties. Somehow, the MSM fails to report, during "the cease fire", that the fact that the Phakestinians continue to attack Israelis daily.

In other brilliant Olmert/Kadima news, based on the complete fecklessness of Olmert/Kadima over the violation of their sovereignty by the "Free Gaza" sabatours, and their having smuggled 7 Phakestinians out of Gaza, The "Free Gaza" freaks are planning to make it a monthly attack, and transportation service.

re: #165 Kenneth

The 20 Most Obnoxious Anti-Palin Quotes So Far

I couldn't even read all those. What evil vicious petty ass holes.

re: #74 anotherindyfilmguy

OT:
Rush is rambling about how the Government has "raped" the mortgage industry...
He doesn't seem to want to hear that all those "bad loans" have the caveat of being federally insurable and repaid in full to the lenders (including all costs for the foreclosure through resale) and that the greed of the lenders to keep foreclosing and recirculating their cash into higher interest laden early parts of loans is the problem.
The other problem is that by taking larger and larger loans to buy houses (instead of paying cash for a small starter home and moving up on favorable terms etc) the housing industry has artificially inflated the price of housing across the board... this is nothing more than a market adjustment that is long overdue.
I like Rushbo overall but there's basically two topics I disagree with Rushbo on and this is one that makes me say FTSB while he displays an tin ear to the real problem so he can play the part of partisan hack...

You seem to have missed the point that lenders were required by federal law to make risky loans. This was supposedly to prevent "discriminatory" lending and "red-lining".

They had to invent new loans that allowed minority borrowers who were poor credit risks to qualify to buy a home. Non-minority borrowers started taking advantage of them to buy more house than they could really afford, and voila--instant boom.

May I suggest less hating and more reading?

re: #179 jaunte

I think your trip will probably go as planned. If things aren't ready in Galveston the cruise operator may be able to depart from an alternate port, Houston or New Orleans.

New Orleans has been going out of Mobile since the petroleum spill in July.

re: #138 DeafDog

Small postive.....

The Galllup poll and the Rasmussen poll are for the same period and are both about 3000 sample size. However, the Gallup poll that shows BHO up by to is of 'registered' voters. The Rasmussen poll that shows McCain up is of 'likely' voters.

"likely voter" polls are the only ones worth considering.

And meanwhile, the Fwench are still Fwench.
'Bnei Akiva attack was not anti-Semitic'

This just in: the same prosecutors just announced that there was no anti-Semitism behind the Dreyfus affair, and he was guilty after all.

That is too funny!

That acting is so bad its not even funny....

re: #139 victor_yugo

"Academic standards" are not affected by the students' demographic.

But if Oxford has sunk to believing they are, then I guess I can only say:

Fare thee well, Oxbridge, 'twas nice knowin' ya.

Ahem.
The background to this is that the neostalinist governemnts under Tony Blair and Gordon brown want Oxford and Cambridge to preferentially take students from 'lower economic classes' by disregarding their academic achievements in their final year exams: if they are lower that the top marks, that must be discounted to get the 'right' social mix.
In otehr words, the government wants to dumb down our top universities and their research.

Social class and academic ability are not related - but to take a person on with lower grades just because they're from a lower social background, and refusing the student with the higher grades a place because he is 'middle class' - yeah, thats the way to get outstanding academics!

Its long past time that the universities stood up to this blatant social engineering by the neostalinists.

re: #187 Kosh's Shadow

And meanwhile, the Fwench are still Fwench.
'Bnei Akiva attack was not anti-Semitic'

This just in: the same prosecutors just announced that there was no anti-Semitism behind the Dreyfus affair, and he was guilty after all.

What makes you think this attack was Anti-Semitic? I only found this in the article.

The boys, aged between 17 and 18, had just finished the minha prayer when they were attacked by the group, the head of Bnei Akiva's French desk, Binyamin Tuati, told The Jerusalem Post.

According to a statement released by World Bnei Akiva spokesman Tzvika Klein, the youths were initially approached by a group of three Muslim/African immigrants who began to throw chestnuts in their direction. When one of the counselors asked them why they were being attacked, the assailants began shouting anti-Semitic remarks.

At the time it was reported that ten to 12 attackers wearing brass knuckles joined the original three and beat the three Jews until police arrived.

!

re: #187 Kosh's Shadow

Totally OT, but this was for you: [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

After John McCain made the statement yesterday about how the fundamentals of the economy were strong , Obama tacked opposite and tried to whip the crowd into a frenzy with panic about the financial turmoil, ridiculing McCain and blaming Republicans for the whole mess. That dangerous territory there, self-fulfilling prophecies and all and with the economy, perception is reality.

Responsible leaders don't do that sort of thing for cheap political gain. Particularly when they helped make the mess in the first place.

re: #193 lurking faith

Totally OT, but this was for you: [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Thank you. Maybe sometime I'll get to work on mine as well.

re: #196 Kosh's Shadow

The possibilities are infinite!

re: #192 WrathofG-d

What makes you think this attack was Anti-Semitic? I only found this in the article.

When one of the counselors asked them why they were being attacked, the assailants began shouting anti-Semitic remarks.

re: #119 NC State of Mind

New Gallup Poll has Obama +2

Damn! First Obama lead since the RNC.

Took 'em that long to get the sampling just right.

re: #183 redstateredneck

I couldn't even read all those. What evil vicious petty ass holes.

I say keep it coming. Every time those creeps say that garbage another busload of pissed of undecided voters drives over to McCain/Palin.

re: #200 Kenneth

I say keep it coming. Every time those creeps say that garbage another busload of pissed of undecided voters drives over to McCain/Palin.

I know...and I had heard all of them before, but to see it all one after another was just sickening. I don't see how any woman with half a brain could listen to that shit and still vote Demoncratic.

re: #148 anotherindyfilmguy

It's a bi-partisan issue. As much I don't like most Dem stuff this is an issue that crosses party lines. The lending industry lobbyists essentially have written/rewritten to suit the laws regarding fair housing etc and foreclosures and how to get paid off by the federal government if they foreclose on a property. The biggest problem is that there is no disincentive to foreclose. By making foreclosure profitable by allowing mortgage lenders to self certify loans as federally insurable the lenders have no reason to put a tighter screening on any particular loan and no reason not to foreclose and recycle their equity into new loans and maintain a higher rate of return.

With all due respect, do you have a bill number for that? When did it pass? Who sponsored it? Who opposed it? Who signed it in to law?

I don't think Repubs made that video.

re: #184 ceemack

You seem to have missed the point that lenders were required by federal law to make risky loans. This was supposedly to prevent "discriminatory" lending and "red-lining".

They had to invent new loans that allowed minority borrowers who were poor credit risks to qualify to buy a home. Non-minority borrowers started taking advantage of them to buy more house than they could really afford, and voila--instant boom.

May I suggest less hating and more reading?

You are absolutely correct. Lenders were prohibited by LAW from making anything resembling normal discriminatory decisions. I use the word "discrimination" in its original, intended meaning, not weighted by its modern usage negative bias.

re: #198 Kosh's Shadow

You think that would actually be enough to think that it was based on Anti-Semitism? You are so small minded....

/

re: #206 buzzsawmonkey

I would say that it is a rebuttable presumption, with the burden of those claiming it was not to prove that it is not, when it is a case of a mob of Arabs with brass knuckles attacking some yeshiva boys.

Ok, truth is that since the article stated that the group of "North African Origin" males, used brass knuckes, and attacked Jews after they left the branch of their Yeshiva after doing prayers (which means that they also probably wear at a minimum a kippah, or tzitzit, & most likely entire Hassidic carb) while SCREAMING ANTI-SEMITIC things to them, I figured that my sarcasm in that post would be obvious.

Of COURSE this was an Anti-Semitic act!

Stupid as Stupid can be

re: #201 redstateredneck

My wife, who has more than her share of brains, was a big fan of Hillary. She admired her intelligence, toughness and ambition, more than her policy positions or party. She greatly resented Obama's mistreatment of Hillary. The "pig in lipstick" comment was the last straw. Now she likes Sarah Palin. I'm sure there are many, many women who feel the same way.

(Too bad we're Canadian & can't vote.)

Top Attack Dog In Palin Troopergate Smear Campaign Is Phony Soldier

Democratic state Senator Hollis French claims on his resume he was a private in the USMC... only he wasn't! Another fat head Democrat liar.

Hollis "Gunny" French (D)-- is guilty of misrepresenting that he served in the Marine Corps - when in fact his ONLY exposure to the Marine Corp was attending a Marine ROTC PLC - from which he was DISMISSED and granted a "Discharge" as a Private.
--He NEVER attended, much less graduate from either of the USMC Boot Camps.
--He FAILED to pass the ROTC Platoon Leader Course - thus failing to make the grade to become a Marine Officer.
--Hardly service as a Marine, and the folks in Alaska caught up with French's claims....
--Folks in Alaska to this day, still jokingly refer to the jackass poseur as "Gunny French" and he hates the reminder of his lie -Free Republic.

The YouTube user who uploaded this seems to be a rabid Leftist moonbat judging by his other videos. So I wonder where he stole this video, because it was obviously meant to be sarcastic. I don't think even he got the irony. What a dumb-ass!

re: #6 karmic_inquisitor

Apparently she's taking high (lip) sticking to another level.

/I ain't pullin' the goalie just yet.

re: #213 Kenneth

Ouch.

A REPUBLICAN CAMELOT

The timing couldn’t be more apropos. Just last week, the Potomac home of Eunice and Sargent Shriver, the last of the Kennedy family estates in the Washington D.C. area, went on sale. Yet, as the country says goodbye to a last vestige of a Democratic Camelot which once inspired and gave hope to millions of Americans, the country ironically finds itself witnessing the birth of a Republican version of Camelot, one that is simultaneously sending shockwaves of hope, identification and derision through the body politic. Sarah Palin, a one-time PTA mom, and her family are so unlike anything else in Washington, D.C., they have the Democrats quaking in their boots. With her selection by John McCain, the white knight who is the closest D.C. embodiment to Arthurian values like justice, bravery and truth, Sarah, her husband Todd and their children are about to assume the roles once held by John and Jacqueline Kennedy’s family -- albeit with an everyman twist -- and help the white knight capture an election the Democrats considered theirs.

Perhaps the ultimate irony is that the ideology spawned by the counter-culture of the sixties, which vociferously fought the Establishment and which the Democrats had hoped to bring to its fruition with an Obama presidency, has been undone by its own sense of entitlement and elitism as embodied in the candidacies of Al Gore, John Kerry and, now, Barack Obama. Where their ire was once directed at the powerful, it is now directed at a candidate who symbolizes one of their most cherished ideals, a woman making it on her own while juggling family and career. And the very people they consider bitter, white trash clingers to guns and religion -- who they unwittingly smear every time they smear their candidate -- will find their representative moving to Washington, D.C. instead. Sarah Palin’s era is only just beginning.

Long may she reign.

Penetrating Insights into the Obvious

re: #202 rawmuse

With all due respect, do you have a bill number for that? When did it pass? Who sponsored it? Who opposed it? Who signed it in to law?

I don't know of the industry's involvement, but here is a link describing the Clinton era changes to the Community Reinvestment Act

re: #209 Kenneth

My wife, who has more than her share of brains, was a big fan of Hillary. She admired her intelligence, toughness and ambition, more than her policy positions or party. She greatly resented Obama's mistreatment of Hillary. The "pig in lipstick" comment was the last straw. Now she likes Sarah Palin. I'm sure there are many, many women who feel the same way.

(Too bad we're Canadian & can't vote.)

You are legal to vote in Chicago. Send for absentee ballots - lots of them.

Anyone venture to Kos to see if they discovered it?

A bake sale? Yeah. The libs brains are BAKED! The hockey team is competing against Palmer? Gret name for a lib sports team! We ALL know what the idiot libs are PALMING!

re: #67 Honorary Yooper

If he did, he'd get 2 minutes for hooking, 2 minutes for tripping, and 2 minutes for interference. Did I mention he'd also get a 5 minute major for roughing the goalie?

If Barry came into my crease, I have a feeling I'd be the one to get the fighting major...and (as usual!) someone else would serve the penalty...

(ask any of the players in the 'beer leagues' in which I still play - if I can reach you, you're too close and you will pay a price)

re: #123 Buck

Hockey Mom only makes sense if you know about the Soccer Mom demographic.

It is really a demographic description used to group middle-class suburban women who spend a significant amount of their time transporting school-age children to activities.

Really has nothing to do with Soccer or Hockey.... Could easily be jazz tap lessons...

They vote, and influence their household vote.

Just for reference, Icing is when a player shoots the puck across at least two red lines, the opposing team's goal line being the last, and offside is when a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck itself enters the zone.

The video was great....

Good explanation, Buck, but here is the definitive guide for those non-hockey-players among us:

just my luck, a (nominal) hockey thread and I catch it when it is dead (or dying)...

sigh....

re: #127 lifeofthemind
LOL.
Signed,
Grill Igloo Palin

re: #8 Sharmuta

NHL refs don't even know the icing rules. They just blow their whistle randomly every now and again when the puck travels a little too far. Everyone just knows it's probably an icing call.

Hi everyone!

I hate to go off topic here, but I have been trying for well over a month to register on this site. Every day until now it has been closed for new registries. I have been reading it on a daily basis and I like what I see. I fully agree with pretty much all your posts here. So bear with me as I am new to this blog. It may take me a while to learn certain abbreviations, the lingo, etc.

Anyways hello from a Conservative Canadian in Liberal Hamilton, ON.

If I am violating etiquette in this post, I will get better, I promise.
:-)

227 right...Hi right!

Hi Big ! Ty 4 welcome ! :-)

re: #176 Thanos

You're right, it took two parties to do it.

I could believe they're serious. They can't come up with their own ideas. But this sure seems like a satire, like an SNL skit.

re: #184 ceemack

You seem to have missed the point that lenders were required by federal law to make risky loans. This was supposedly to prevent "discriminatory" lending and "red-lining".

They had to invent new loans that allowed minority borrowers who were poor credit risks to qualify to buy a home. Non-minority borrowers started taking advantage of them to buy more house than they could really afford, and voila--instant boom.

May I suggest less hating and more reading?

And those people still had to qualify for those *risky* loans... the problem is fraud. Fraud through lenders who have no desire to see those *risky* loans through to fruition and fraud from people who have done liar loans to bilk cash out of properties that were way overpriced and not closely screened because the mortgage company lacked risk in that when they foreclosed they got paid off by uncle sam. The problem is that the treasury was opened wide to the mortgage companies. The comptrollers office started nailing lenders for predatory practices and that is actually the start of the recent meltdown.

here's an oldie but not moldie article, this was the tip of the iceberg when it came out and no one cared...

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

/hate, keeps me warm...

re: #231 cincinnati_kid37

I could believe they're serious. They can't come up with their own ideas. But this sure seems like a satire, like an SNL skit.

It's the very definition of irony ain't it?

I'm not a pit bull (sob). What a hoot!

I think it's great satire.

Wow...this is all they have on her? These Liberals must me pulling their hair out over Palin. They just don't know what to do and the have nothing to attack her on. The Obama camp is just flailing around like a punch drunk boxer. It is kind of fun to watch!

I used to be a field hockey dad. Can I join Hockey Moms for Truth?

Down here in Texas, we play horse hockey.......................Polo!

Based on the content alone, the video confuses me, is this satirizing political advertisements?

"oh noes, only one of her sons played hockey"
"and the juice was really heavy"

both sig worthy