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An ordinary human being, with a personal conscience, personally answering for something to somebody and personally and directly taking responsibility, seems to be receding farther and farther from the realm of politics. Politicians seem to turn into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible.

— V�clav Havel

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1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:19:20pm

Any more on the tsunami?

2 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:20:15pm

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Any more on the tsunami?

The one in the Pacific, or the economic one coming our way?

3 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:20:22pm

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Any more on the tsunami?

the story is all washed up

4 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:20:44pm

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Any more on the tsunami?

It's tsnothing. Move on.

/

5 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:22:20pm

Politico: Obama struggles as communicator

It's not your eyesight. You read it right.

6 gregg  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:22:22pm

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Any more on the tsunami?

Everyone in my neighborhood is sandbagging around their homes - just in case.

7 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:22:37pm

The scary part is that there are a number of smaller islands out there who could be isolated and vulnerable.

8 jamgarr  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:22:39pm

re: #4 OldLineTexan

It's tsnothing. Move on.

/

Easy for you to tsay! You live in STexas!

9 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:22:52pm

re: #5 capitalist piglet

Politico: Obama struggles as communicator

It's not your eyesight. You read it right.

can i say, its an old news by today?

10 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:03pm
they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible.

Indeed. And it reminded me of this:

Youtube Video
11 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:04pm

re: #6 gregg

Everyone in my neighborhood is sandbagging around their homes - just in case.

You live where?

12 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:05pm

I just turned on Glenn Beck. My head hurts. The fed just quietly announced they are going to print another Trillion Dollars.

13 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:08pm

The tsunami warning has been canceled:

[Link: www.nst.com.my...]

14 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:21pm

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Any more on the tsunami?

All clear. They've gone home for the day in Washington DC.

//

15 Russkilitlover  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:23pm

re: #6 gregg

Everyone in my neighborhood is sandbagging around their homes - just in case.

Seriously? Where do you live?

16 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:32pm

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Any more on the tsunami?

7.9 quake along with the volcano, and Tonga is expecting to get hit, no ETI (Estimated Time of Impact) as yet.

cheers

eon

17 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:23:56pm

You have to just laugh at Obama like a bad sitcom. First he gives Gordon Brown a tacky gift in the form of the DVDs, then they won't work because it's the wrong freaking region.

We have elected a complete idiot as president. It would be funny if it were just in the realm of gift-giving. It's not funny in the realm of politics and the economy.

Woe is us.

18 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:24:08pm

re: #8 jamgarr

Easy for you to tsay! You live in STexas!

Where do you think Bush has his weather control machines?

Didja see what happened in September when Rove misadjusted the anti-boomeranging franistat? He missed New Orleans and pegged Houston!

19 Russkilitlover  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:24:13pm

re: #12 Racer X

I just turned on Glenn Beck. My head hurts. The fed just quietly announced they are going to print another Trillion Dollars.

I think that was announced yesterday. Helllllooooo inflation!

20 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:24:42pm

re: #5 capitalist piglet

Politico: Obama struggles as communicator

It's not your eyesight. You read it right.

Ronald Reagan, this one is not.

21 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:25:01pm

re: #13 Charles

The tsunami warning has been canceled:

[Link: www.nst.com.my...]

Oops. Should have waited to post.

eeeeennnk.

Penalty stroke.

cheers

eon

22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:25:19pm

re: #4 OldLineTexan

Sometimes I entertain myself, pretty easy.

I'll be spelling something for someone over phone and say P as in phone, P as in pterodactyl, T as in tsunami, etc. Really messes with their heads.

23 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:25:21pm

re: #5 capitalist piglet

Politico: Obama struggles as communicator

It's not your eyesight. You read it right.

The sluggish and unsteady response to the uproar over AIG bonuses highlights a larger problem of his White House: Obama’s surprisingly uneven campaign to educate the public about the economic crisis and convince the public that he is in command of circumstances.

That's because he's still educating himself about it.

24 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:25:26pm

re: #13 Charles

The tsunami warning has been canceled:

[Link: www.nst.com.my...]

A good thing. Fortunately, the Pacific has a very good warning system for tsunamis.

25 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:25:47pm

re: #20 Honorary Yooper

Ronald Reagan, this one is not.

not only that but he is a world class thread whore

26 gregg  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:25:50pm

re: #11 EmmmieG

You live where?

Minneapolis. I see it's canceled, so I'll let the neighbors know.

27 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:09pm

TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
1009 AM HST THU MAR 19 2009

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - FINAL TSUNAMI ADVISORY

THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS ENDED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE
AT 1009 AM HST.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0818 AM HST 19 MAR 2009
COORDINATES - 23.0 SOUTH 174.8 WEST
LOCATION - TONGA ISLANDS REGION
MAGNITUDE - 7.7 MOMENT

28 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:17pm

re: #26 gregg

Minneapolis. I see it's canceled, so I'll let the neighbors know.

does it mean you'll get more snow?
//////

29 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:21pm

6 games into the tournament.

I'm 2-4


But if North Carolina wins it all , I probably win the pool

30 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:25pm

re: #13 Charles

Thanks.

31 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:29pm

Great quote and playwright.

Václav Havel

He was the last prez of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003)

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

32 vagabond trader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:49pm

Look, I'm concerned about my frakking lawn which is dead for the third spring in a row. Let the UN worry about the little folk.

///

33 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:26:58pm

re: #19 Russkilitlover

I think that was announced yesterday. Helllllooooo inflation!

Exactly.

34 opnion  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:27:40pm

Driving through the hinterland today I heard an Obama sound bite.
He lamented that everybody was blaming everybody else over the financial mess. He said "Blame me", then he went on to say that none of it was his fault, but that he would take the blame.
This guy is such a marytr for us.

35 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:27:43pm

re: #23 capitalist piglet

That's because he's still educating himself about it.

Bbbbut, he's The Messiah!

Messiahs don't need education, they already know everything!

If it's not working, reality must be wrong.

/moonbat "reasoning" mode off

cheers

eon

36 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:27:47pm

re: #32 vagabond trader

Look, I'm concerned about my frakking lawn which is dead for the third spring in a row. Let the UN worry about the little folk.

///

how long will it be dead do you think?

37 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:27:58pm

re: #12 Racer X

I just turned on Glenn Beck. My head hurts. The fed just quietly announced they are going to print another Trillion Dollars.

why don't they just print enough extra money to pay off the national debt?

/ Obama supporter

38 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:28:24pm

:sigh:

Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format

39 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:28:25pm

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sometimes I entertain myself, pretty easy.

I'll be spelling something for someone over phone and say P as in phone, P as in pterodactyl, T as in tsunami, etc. Really messes with their heads.

My son was trying to spell "obsession" last night, and I rapped it to him "o to the b to the s to the e to the s squared e d"

He had no further questions.

40 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:29:01pm

re: #38 Slumbering Behemoth

:sigh:

Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format

Obama. Not just tacky, but stupid as well.

41 vagabond trader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:29:10pm

re: #36 albusteve

At least until I receive my bailout.

42 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:29:10pm
43 MandyManners  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:29:14pm

In case not everyone has seen this one.


At his town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Wednesday evening, President Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber.

"A lot of people say, 'Well, why not just let the banks fail?'" the president said. "'Why don't we just let them fail, let them go bankrupt, what's the problem?'"

SNIP

Here's the problem," Mr. Obama said, "It's almost like they've got -- they've got a bomb strapped to them and they've got their hand on the trigger. You don't want them to blow up. But you've got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger."

Hat-tip: pink freud.

44 jamgarr  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:29:49pm

I think his new book is entitled The Mandacity of a Dope.

45 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:30:03pm

re: #24 Honorary Yooper

A good thing. Fortunately, the Pacific has a very good warning system for tsunamis.

"If you see a 40-foot wave, it MIGHT be a tsunami."

- Jeff Foxwauleiakia

46 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:30:12pm

re: #12 Racer X

I just turned on Glenn Beck. My head hurts. The fed just quietly announced they are going to print another Trillion Dollars.

This whole thing is a farce. Obama's a farce. Congress is a farce. They keep printing money. They keep regurgitating legislation from DC without much though. This is turning into an Italian comedy but unfortunately it's going to have a bad ending with a real impact on the future.

47 Truck Monkey  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:30:23pm

re: #19 Russkilitlover

I think that was announced yesterday. Helllllooooo inflation!

A trillion here and a trillion there and soon you are talking real money!

48 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:30:32pm

re: #40 Honorary Yooper

Obama. Not just tacky, but stupid as well.

Teh most competent administration EVAR!
////////

49 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:30:33pm

re: #37 Shug

why don't they just print enough extra money to pay off the national debt?

/ Obama supporter

it's gonna rain money!

Youtube Video
50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:30:48pm

Cool tsunami pic...hope they lived...

51 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:31:01pm

re: #44 jamgarr

I think his new book is entitled The Mandacity of a Dope.

can a teleprompter write a book?

52 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:31:47pm

Gold is up $70 today.

53 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:31:59pm

re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Cool tsunami pic...hope they lived...

Sadly, the entire Code Pink Boy's Brigade was lost in a tragic photo shoot accident some three weeks later.

/

54 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:31:59pm

re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Cool tsunami pic...hope they lived...

I hope so too. I count six plus the photographer.

55 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:32:10pm

If Obama gets laryngitis and needs to give a press conference, will he hire a ghost reader?

56 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:32:28pm

re: #38 Slumbering Behemoth

:sigh:

Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format

This from the POTUS who can't live without his Blackberry, or create a coherent sentence without his Svengali, the Teleprompter.

IIRC, he was supposed to be our first "21st Century, tech-savvy" President.

/If The One and the Teleprompter both took a Turing Test, anybody want to guess which one would pass?

cheers

eon

57 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:32:41pm

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sometimes I entertain myself, pretty easy.

I'll be spelling something for someone over phone and say P as in phone, P as in pterodactyl, T as in tsunami, etc. Really messes with their heads.

LOL. I love that. Can I steal it?

58 jamgarr  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:32:44pm

re: #55 Shug

If Obama gets laryngitis and needs to give a press conference, will he hire a ghost reader?

Naw! Just rotate the 'prompter.

59 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:32:49pm

re: #55 Shug

If Obama gets laryngitis and needs to give a press conference, will he hire a ghost reader?

The One will merely write in fiery letters in the air.

60 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:32:59pm
61 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:33:05pm

re: #40 Honorary Yooper

Seriously though, can you imagine the kind of coverage this gaffe would have garnered if this was done during Bush 2.0?

62 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:33:32pm

re: #57 LGoPs

LOL. I love that. Can I steal it?

Hell yeah, I think I stole it from Lily Tomlin... I think...

63 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:33:33pm

re: #54 Honorary Yooper

I hope so too. I count six plus the photographer.

probably not....at that point the waves were coming in really fast....if they survived they were very very lucky...

64 Burl  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:33:40pm

"and for which nobody is responsible."

Oh, somebody's responsible alright. They just haven't found out yet.

65 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:33:46pm

re: #34 opnion

Driving through the hinterland today I heard an Obama sound bite.
He lamented that everybody was blaming everybody else over the financial mess. He said "Blame me", then he went on to say that none of it was his fault, but that he would take the blame.
This guy is such a marytr for us.

But, he really isn't a martyr at all. His mechanism is diffusion of facts, and he makes others around him the martyrs, and throws them under the bus.
He is not genuine when he errs, nor does he apologize in sincerity for his tribunal, trial and error committee type government structure. He is a delegator. He is delegating his executive powers away to a bunch of inexperienced politicians. He has no clue what it takes to be a CEO of a country like the USA.

66 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:34:00pm

re: #34 opnion

Driving through the hinterland today I heard an Obama sound bite.
He lamented that everybody was blaming everybody else over the financial mess. He said "Blame me", then he went on to say that none of it was his fault, but that he would take the blame.
This guy is such a marytr for us.

He didn't say you could blame him (in the clip I heard.) He said, "When you're looking for someone to blame, you can talk to me." He's a weasel.

67 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:34:01pm

re: #55 Shug

If Obama gets laryngitis and needs to give a press conference, will he hire a ghost reader?

Maybe then he can get one of those voice machines like Stephen Hawking uses. He may as well regardless.

What are those things called.

68 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:34:06pm

re: #17 Honorary Yooper

You have to just laugh at Obama like a bad sitcom. First he gives Gordon Brown a tacky gift in the form of the DVDs, then they won't work because it's the wrong freaking region.

We have elected a complete idiot as president. It would be funny if it were just in the realm of gift-giving. It's not funny in the realm of politics and the economy.

Woe is us.

* * **
Blame Obama's State Department or classless "protocol" department. Usually they choose these gifts for heads of state.

You'd think Hillary Clinton as former First Lady might have helped Obama's diplomat peeps select less tacky & ignorant gifts.

69 jamgarr  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:34:51pm

re: #63 albusteve

probably not....at that point the waves were coming in really fast....if they survived they were very very lucky...


The film didn't wash up at the Fotomat.

70 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:34:51pm

re: #65 notutopia

But, he really isn't a martyr at all. His mechanism is diffusion of facts, and he makes others around him the martyrs, and throws them under the bus.
He is not genuine when he errs, nor does he apologize in sincerity for his tribunal, trial and error committee type government structure. He is a delegator. He is delegating his executive powers away to a bunch of inexperienced politicians. He has no clue what it takes to be a CEO of a country like the USA.

Well put. Upding.

cheers

eon

71 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:35:03pm

re: #61 Slumbering Behemoth

Seriously though, can you imagine the kind of coverage this gaffe would have garnered if this was done during Bush 2.0?

Shit. Bush would've been on all the front pages as the president who was too stupid to figure out that Britian is in a different DVD region from the US. It would've been the top story on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC.

Of course, Bush would never have given such a tacky gift in the first place.

72 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:35:33pm

re: #68 alegrias

You'd think Hillary Clinton as former First Lady might have helped Obama's diplomat peeps select less tacky & ignorant gifts.

Who's to say she didn't? Can I say it?

/Hillary, you Magnificent Bitch!

73 player  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:35:54pm

#65
He has no clue how to be the CEO of a lemonade stand as he has never run anything in his life. A campaign managed by handlers does not count. And it was run in the largest part by the MSM.

74 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:35:58pm

From the earlier thread Schwarzenegger to Help Obama.

Beggars come in all sizes and colors.

75 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:36:03pm

re: #63 albusteve

probably not....at that point the waves were coming in really fast....if they survived they were very very lucky...

Well some one saved the camera, no?

76 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:36:10pm

re: #68 alegrias

* * **
Blame Obama's State Department or classless "protocol" department. Usually they choose these gifts for heads of state.

You'd think Hillary Clinton as former First Lady might have helped Obama's diplomat peeps select less tacky & ignorant gifts.

Hillary is just as classless.

77 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:36:13pm

re: #5 capitalist piglet

Politico: Obama struggles as communicator

It's not your eyesight. You read it right.

From your link:

"Obama needs lawmakers and voters alike to view the world through his prism, and to accept his analysis of what’s wrong and his priorities about how to make it right."

NOT.
IN.
A.
MILLION.
YEARS.

78 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:36:51pm

re: #69 jamgarr

The film didn't wash up at the Fotomat.

right....people did survive at that resort

79 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:36:53pm

re: #55 Shug

If Obama gets laryngitis and needs to give a press conference, will he hire a ghost reader?

It means the market will go up

80 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:36:57pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

He didn't say you could blame him (in the clip I heard.) He said, "When you're looking for someone to blame, you can talk to me." He's a weasel.

This is how I translated it:

"The buck stops here. For a second. After that, I pass it on to someone else."

81 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:37:08pm
82 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:37:34pm

re: #43 MandyManners

In case not everyone has seen this one.

At his town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Wednesday evening, President Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber.

Hat-tip: pink freud.

Gags me every time I see it.

/thanks, Mandy

83 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:37:39pm

re: #62 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hell yeah, I think I stole it from Lily Tomlin... I think...

Stiller and Meara.

84 Oxnuts  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:37:50pm

This quote is so very appropriate.

85 yma o hyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:38:04pm

May I urge you to go to Aussie Dave's blog - scroll to 3.30pm, and follow his links to the story splashed in Haaretz an other israeli papers about investigations showing how badly IDF soldiers were behaving during Operation Cast Lead.
The Muqata has this to say:
'Fast forward to a few minutes ago. Channel 2 TV Army correspondent Roni Daniel stated at 6:30 PM this evening, that he personally tracked down one of the soldiers interviewed for the Haaretz article. Apparently the soldier's testimony to Haaretz wasn't based on anything he personally saw or witnessed, rather based on rumors and hearsay he heard (and the soldier wasn't even in Gaza!)
Truth is rarely important to Haaretz, as long as it can bash the IDF, Israel, settlers, religious Jews, or anyone not agreeing with them. As a result of their propaganda article, the entire planet picked up on their "expose" and the poison keeps propagating around the world...'

And there is another refutation here;
IDF soldiers refute claims of immoral conduct in Gaza
quoted by Aussie Dave.

Be prepared - this will appear in your papers and on your TVs - its lies and exaggerations.

86 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:38:14pm

re: #67 Gus 802

Maybe then he can get one of those voice machines like Stephen Hawking uses. He may as well regardless.

What are those things called.


just type in hope change uhhhh

87 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:38:16pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

Love them together.

88 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:38:35pm

re: #68 alegrias

* * **
Blame Obama's State Department or classless "protocol" department. Usually they choose these gifts for heads of state.

You'd think Hillary Clinton as former First Lady might have helped Obama's diplomat peeps select less tacky & ignorant gifts.

Oooooh. Maybe she did. :D

89 Fluffy Bunny  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:38:44pm

FedEx just delivered my cookbook. Kudos Reine, Ploome and all other Lizards who contributed to this wonderful collection of Lizard recipes!

FlakMusic's Apple-Sour Cream Bake is on the dessert menu at the Bunny house tonight. Volume III is the diet cookbook, right?

* making a list, checking it twice and heading to the grocery store*

90 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:17pm

re: #52 Racer X

Gold is up $70 today.

Wow! Hadn't checked yet.

91 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:27pm

re: #77 pink freud

From your link:

"Obama needs lawmakers and voters alike to view the world through his prism, and to accept his analysis of what’s wrong and his priorities about how to make it right."

NOT.
IN.
A.
MILLION.
YEARS.

I was just noticing that at the end, they really take issue with the Democrats who are doing the Republicans' work for them, being critical of Obama (for things that are deserved), and driving him off-message.

They want those Democrats back on the proverbial "reservation".

92 rightside  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:29pm

Confirmed: Obama administration clueless

93 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:41pm

re: #86 Shug

just type in hope change uhhhh

You read my mind. I was looking for an online version.

94 opnion  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:45pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

He didn't say you could blame him (in the clip I heard.) He said, "When you're looking for someone to blame, you can talk to me." He's a weasel.


Unless I misheard him, he said "Blame" me. I may have actually interpreted his remark that way. At any rate he definitely said that he was innocent, but willing to in so many words be the pinata.

95 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:46pm

re: #81 taxfreekiller

The DVD gift idea was Michael Obama's, and so far she is bus proof.

* * * *
Europe had that PAL system of videos over twenty years ago! Surely someone among our "best & Brightest" Harvard types who presumably traveled or studied abroad (Samantha Powers for example was in Scotland last year trash talking against Hillary her current boss at State)?

96 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:52pm

Obama's an idiot in more ways than that:

Obama repeats inaccurate jab on Model T's mileage

Last month, Obama mistakenly called the automobile an American invention, surprising the Germans who claim that mantle. And in a speech in California today, Obama revived an inaccurate jab against the industry that Ford Motor Co.’s original Model T burned less fuel than modern sport utility vehicles.

That line about the Model T, a version of which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used during her presidential bid, can be traced to a 2003 Sierra Club ad campaign that said the Model T could go 25 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Earlier references put the Model T’s mileage at 20 to 25 m.p.g.

That’s certainly better than the 18.7 m.p.g. real-world average of SUVs sold in 2008, according to federal statistics.

But according to Ford the first Model Ts built in 1908 could go 13 to 21 miles on a gallon, depending on the particular variation. The automaker and Model T clubs say typical Tin Lizzies averaged 15 m.p.g.

What remains unclear is how it makes sense to compare a fabric-roofed, four-seat car to a seven-passenger truck stuffed with high-tech accoutrements.

Those first Model Ts weighed about 1,200 pounds, lacked windows, rode on wood wheels and could ease up to a top speed of 45 miles per hour. A modern SUV tips the scales at 4,600 pounds, hits a top speed of 140 m.p.h. and has to meet a bevy of laws for crashworthiness.

When adjusted for their massive differences in weight using the government’s formulas, today’s typical SUV is about five times more efficient than the Model T.

This is the complete idiot we elected as president. I want a refund.

97 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:39:58pm

re: #6 gregg

Everyone in my neighborhood is sandbagging around their homes - just in case.

Where are you?

98 MandyManners  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:40:06pm

re: #77 pink freud

From your link:

"Obama needs lawmakers and voters alike to view the world through his prism, and to accept his analysis of what’s wrong and his priorities about how to make it right."

NOT.
IN.
A.
MILLION.
YEARS.

Freakin' narcissist.

99 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:40:11pm

re: #34 opnion

Driving through the hinterland today I heard an Obama sound bite.
He lamented that everybody was blaming everybody else over the financial mess. He said "Blame me", then he went on to say that none of it was his fault, but that he would take the blame.
This guy is such a marytr for us.

"Does this crown of thorns make my ears look big?"

100 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:40:32pm

re: #81 taxfreekiller

The DVD gift idea was Michael Obama's, and so far she is bus proof.

Then, it could have been much worse. She could have sent him a tape of her reading to a group of school children, Hillary's, "It takes a village"....

101 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:41:21pm

re: #97 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Where are you?

That was comedy right there, gregg!

102 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:41:24pm

re: #96 Honorary Yooper

Obama's an idiot in more ways than that:

Obama repeats inaccurate jab on Model T's mileage


This is the complete idiot we elected as president. I want a refund.

Shut up and inflate your tires. : )

103 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:41:32pm

re: #81 taxfreekiller

The DVD gift idea was Michael Obama's, and so far she is bus proof.

She is the bus

104 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:41:47pm

re: #91 capitalist piglet

I was just noticing that at the end, they really take issue with the Democrats who are doing the Republicans' work for them, being critical of Obama (for things that are deserved), and driving him off-message.

They want those Democrats back on the proverbial "reservation".

Youtube Video
105 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:41:48pm

re: #86 Shug

just type in hope change uhhhh

Oh, I like that.

106 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:42:07pm

re: #77 pink freud

From your link:

"Obama needs lawmakers and voters alike to view the world through his prism, and to accept his analysis of what’s wrong and his priorities about how to make it right."

NOT.
IN.
A.
MILLION.
YEARS.

Even better, from the same link, from Larry Summers on the AIG bonuses;

"This is a country of law. There are contracts. We cannot abrogate contracts."

I guess that doesn't apply to veterans' medical care, or the Second Amendment.

Just to those commercial agreements which The One, Dodd, et al. have a "personal" interest in.

/The classic definition of "syndicalist socialism"

cheers

eon

107 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:42:17pm

re: #77 pink freud

From your link:

"Obama needs lawmakers and voters alike to view the world through his prism, and to accept his analysis of what’s wrong and his priorities about how to make it right."

NOT.
IN.
A.
MILLION.
YEARS.

Like I told avanti last night.

The Obama message is like having Jehovah's Witnesses on your doorstep daily...I'm not buying.

108 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:42:56pm

re: #96 Honorary Yooper

Obama's an idiot in more ways than that:
This is the complete idiot we elected as president. I want a refund.

/Refund? And just how much did you donate anyway?

109 opnion  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:43:01pm

re: #99 Alouette

"Does this crown of thorns make my ears look big?"

Funny that you say that. I thought to myself that I have seen the movie, "The Passion of the Christ."

110 MandyManners  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:43:06pm

re: #82 pink freud

His attempt to find moral equvalence between suicide bombers and bankers takes away my breath.

111 Diamond Bullet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:43:18pm

I posted this earlier, but for anyone interested here's the latest on The One's precious March Madness bracket. After a few more games, Obama checks in ranked in over 2.5 millionth place at ESPN.com, lower than almost 55% of the entries. Good thing he took a morning off during the worst financial crisis in 90 years to work on this.

[Link: games.espn.go.com...]

All in all it's not too surprising, since his original looks like it was filled out by Slingblade:

Image: obamasbracket09.jpg

112 Aviator  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:43:36pm

re: #103 Shug

She is the bus

Who knew "Wide Load" was a designer jeans label.

113 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:43:44pm

re: #98 MandyManners

Freakin' narcissist.

From that wonderful faithfreedom.org piece during the primaries.

Youtube Video
114 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:03pm

...

115 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:08pm

re: #111 Diamond Bullet

only thing that tells me: he got where he wanted to be, now he doesn't care

116 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:25pm

re: #112 Aviator

Who knew "Wide Load" was a designer jeans label.

mom jeans?

117 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:34pm

re: #114 albusteve

awsome post steve

118 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:43pm

re: #107 jorline

Like I told avanti last night.

The Obama message is like having Jehovah's Witnesses on your doorstep daily...I'm not buying.

* * * *
Jehovah's Witnesses are not comparable to Obama's ACORN thugs.

119 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:47pm

re: #96 Honorary Yooper

This is the complete idiot we* elected as president. I want a refund.

*It is way too easy to baffle some Americans with bullshit.

120 BigAl  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:44:49pm

I saw many of the Bush news conferences. Some were damn good without a teleprompter.

This current guy really is making GWB look better by the day.

121 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:00pm

re: #117 albusteve

awsome post steve

thanks bro...

122 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:01pm

re: #103 Shug

She is the bus

A bus that only makes left turns?

123 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:16pm

re: #106 eon

Even better, from the same link, from Larry Summers on the AIG bonuses;

"This is a country of law.

They got the old shuck and jive down-pat.

124 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:19pm

re: #114 albusteve

...

awww, you caught it too?

125 Killian Bundy  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:22pm

re: #112 Aviator

Who knew "Wide Load" was a designer jeans label.

/Ass Force One

126 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:28pm

re: #114 albusteve

...

Here we go again.

..---...-..---...

Hey albusteve.

127 Aviator  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:43pm

re: #121 albusteve

Wow
Sock puppetry without a puppet.

128 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:48pm

re: #117 albusteve

awsome post steve

I thought you were morsing.
Looks though, now like remorsing.
/

129 MandyManners  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:53pm

re: #113 pink freud

From that wonderful faithfreedom.org piece during the primaries.



Stone-cold NPD.

130 gregg  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:45:55pm

re: #97 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Where are you?

Minneapolis. It was a poor attempt at self deprecating humor - sorry about that...

131 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:46:21pm

re: #114 albusteve

...

..........

(Mine's bigger)

132 MandyManners  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:46:35pm

re: #116 Gella

mom jeans?

*whack*

133 UberInfidel67  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:46:41pm

Had a discussion with my bro about two weeks ago. He was of the "I'll give him a chance" way of thinking about BHO. TODAY, he comes to my house and sees me reading the news online. TOTAL 180. We were discussing the National Service (Obama/Hitler Youth). He said, "Man, he is fucking shit up big time!" I said "Oh, so now you changed your mind?" Then he goes on about Nancy Pelosi. Because I don't want to lose my account here, or get a visit from the gubmint, I won't tell you his thoughts about her. lol I asked him what he thought about making vets pay for their insurance. He was LIVID!

/Just doing my part to change hearts and minds

134 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:02pm

re: #118 alegrias

* * * *
Jehovah's Witnesses are not comparable to Obama's ACORN thugs.

I have to disagree Alegrias...My ex is a JW. :)

135 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:03pm

... --- ...

136 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:06pm

Obama is still campaigning here in California today.

Can someone please tell him he won the election?

When shit gets hard he hits the campaign trail. Its the only thing he knows how to do.

137 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:09pm

re: #131 Shug

..........

(Mine's bigger)

bad fu...I didnt think anyone would notice

138 derekrhadley  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:12pm

>they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible.

--a lovely way of saying that our politicians have turned into witless television performers. Or: politics has just become another division of the celebrity industry.

139 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:13pm

re: #43 MandyManners

In case not everyone has seen this one.

At his town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Wednesday evening, President Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber.

Hat-tip: pink freud.

^%@#@ !

140 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:44pm

re: #107 jorline

Like I told avanti last night.

The Obama message is like having Jehovah's Witnesses on your doorstep daily...I'm not buying.

An apt comparison, as I see those sucked in by religious cults in the same light as I see those sucked in by teh one.

/so much easier not to think for oneself

141 Gretchen  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:52pm

So Obama calls the AIG executives "suicide bombers". He really is an idiot. Why is it that socialists can equate monetary issues with cold blooded murder? While giving any money to AIG makes me want to puke, the people who got bonuses aren't at fault here.

Besides, don't the liberals empathize with suicide bombers? The only way AIG is like suicide bombers is that both are getting massive cash infusions from our tax revenues.

142 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:54pm

re: #132 MandyManners

*whack*

[Link: www.hulu.com...]

143 Dianna  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:47:57pm

Hi!

Finally, I have a minute to drop by. How's every little thing?

144 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:48:07pm

re: #135 Mirage

Please! Stop! No Morse!

145 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:48:33pm

I really like Václav Havel. He gives me the sense that an ordinary guy who chooses to obey his conscience can do great things (or die trying, which he almost did.) This book was a good read: Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala. And look at the front page of his website, isn't that charming?

146 Diamond Bullet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:48:54pm

re: #92 rightside

Confirmed: Obama administration clueless

The best part is that Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and rumored to be going blind in the other. There's a sort of perverse symmetry in giving unwatchable DVDs to a blind guy. I hope future Obama diplomatic coups include:

-- giving the Chinese prime minister a "me so honwee" T-shirt made in Taiwan.
-- Arranging a summit with the Russian PM in "Georgia" and going to the wrong one.
-- Punching the Prime Minister of Japan in the throat for no reason.
-- Declaring war on Iran after it steals the top secret plans to Teleprompter One.
-- Leaving Biden trapped in his car seat outside the White House for four hours in the middle of the DC summer.

147 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:49:08pm

re: #142 Gella

Nine inch zipper! heh.

148 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:49:09pm

OK here it is.

The Obama Synthetic President

149 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:49:10pm

.. / .- -- / ..-. .-. . . / .. / .- -- / ..-. .-. . . / - .... . / -.-. ..- .-. ... . / .. ... / .-.. .. ..-. - . -.. :)

150 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:49:22pm

re: #144 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Please! Stop! No Morse!

why?...the morse the merrier!

151 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:49:24pm

re: #110 MandyManners

His attempt to find moral equvalence between suicide bombers and bankers takes away my breath.

He obviously thought the analogy would play well in today's climate. What an idiot.

I can see him focus-grouping that phrase, and all the 0-bots saying, "yeah, we like that!'

152 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:49:26pm

re: #115 Gella

only thing that tells me: he got where he wanted to be, now he doesn't care

Right now I suspect The One is more concerned about where he thinks he's going next. My guess is, UN Secretary General.

Which he will then proclaim to be President Of The World Universe For Life The Rest Of Forever.

/Hubris, him? No way!

cheers

eon

153 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:50:07pm

re: #108 brookly red

/Refund? And just how much did you donate anyway?

Nothing. By refund, I want a do-over.

154 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:50:21pm

re: #151 pink freud

He obviously thought the analogy would play well in today's climate. What an idiot.

I can see him focus-grouping that phrase, and all the 0-bots saying, "yeah, we like that!'

from the mouths of babes...etc
he is a political child

155 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:50:22pm

re: #140 pink freud

An apt comparison, as I see those sucked in by religious cults in the same light as I see those sucked in by teh one.

/so much easier not to think for oneself

Well put pink!

Someone else will take care of you and you don't have to face reality.

156 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:50:25pm

re: #152 eon

Right now I suspect The One is more concerned about where he thinks he's going next. My guess is, UN Secretary General.

Which he will then proclaim to be President Of The World Universe For Life The Rest Of Forever.

/Hubris, him? No way!

cheers

eon

u know u get to that particular place where u wanted to be, then u can relax a while, but in his case it has been a long while

157 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:00pm

re: #150 albusteve

Time to come in from the code.

158 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:06pm

re: #125 Killian Bundy

/Ass Force One

For some reason, that sounds like a site from the red-light dstrict of the internet.

159 jamgarr  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:08pm

I wish he was now what he was when he wanted to be what he is now.

160 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:19pm

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

161 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:29pm

re: #153 Honorary Yooper

Nothing. By refund, I want a do-over.

/you SAID refund :)

162 Gretchen  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:30pm

re: #146 Diamond Bullet

The best part is that Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and rumored to be going blind in the other. There's a sort of perverse symmetry in giving unwatchable DVDs to a blind guy. I hope future Obama diplomatic coups include:

-- giving the Chinese prime minister a "me so honwee" T-shirt made in Taiwan.
-- Arranging a summit with the Russian PM in "Georgia" and going to the wrong one.
-- Punching the Prime Minister of Japan in the throat for no reason.
-- Declaring war on Iran after it steals the top secret plans to Teleprompter One.
-- Leaving Biden trapped in his car seat outside the White House for four hours in the middle of the DC summer.

I hope he does those in reverse order.

163 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:51:37pm

re: #157 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Time to come in from the code.

and have me a code one eh?

164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:52:15pm

re: #160 Charles

He thinks he's Howard Beale.

165 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:52:25pm

re: #149 brookly red

.. / .- -- / ..-. .-. . . / .. / .- -- / ..-. .-. . . / - .... . / -.-. ..- .-. ... . / .. ... / .-.. .. ..-. - . -.. :)

[Link: morsecode.scphillips.com...]

166 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:52:37pm

Beck is a shock jock. He's Howard Stern without the porno and fart jokes. The only thing real about Beck is his drinking problem

167 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:52:54pm

re: #129 MandyManners

Stone-cold NPD.

One wouldn't need anything other than the picture for that diagnosis.

168 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:53:18pm

re: #166 Shug

Beck is a shock jock. He's Howard Stern without the porno and fart jokes. The only thing real about Beck is his drinking problem

during his work

169 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:53:29pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

Well, most of them were about 90% FBI agents. And those are good guys.

/

170 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:53:35pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

I had to turn it off. I can only take him in small doses.

171 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:53:40pm

re: #164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Not to be confused with Howard Sprague...

172 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:53:42pm

is there a way to see G Becks ratings over time?...is there a corollary between his ratings and his shiny new extrovertion?

173 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:53:42pm

re: #135 Mirage

... --- ...

Remorse code?

/recycled :-)

174 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:54:58pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

Thank you, Sir. One more good reason for me to ignore Beck.

/I don't have satellite or cable, therefore don't watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc., and am increasingly sure I'm not missing anything of consequence.

cheers

eon

175 Dianna  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:55:11pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

What?

After that one group of loons in Montana? I think they called themselves "The Freemen"? After some of the other militia things that have come out?

There are probably some militia groups that are just fine, but I would avoid blanket condemnations and blanket praise.

176 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:55:22pm

Leaving Biden in the car is cruel, even if you do crack a window.

What they really do is send him out for pizza CONSTANTLY.

177 Gretchen  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:55:26pm

re: #120 BigAl

I saw many of the Bush news conferences. Some were damn good without a teleprompter.

This current guy really is making GWB look better by the day.

And he didn't have questions like "why are you so darn wonderful?"

178 MandyManners  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:55:48pm

Time to grab some take out and head to the park. Later, Lizards.

179 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:55:51pm

I think it is interesting that on LGF post-election comments on Obama are very similar to pre-election comments: But now we have details.

180 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:56:05pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

* * *
Charles, wasn't Beck questioning Obama administration profiling of people who belong to third parties as possible domestic terrorists?

181 Dianna  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:56:27pm

re: #166 Shug

Beck is a shock jock. He's Howard Stern without the porno and fart jokes. The only thing real about Beck is his drinking problem

You mean he always spills his beverage down his front?

182 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:56:28pm

re: #172 albusteve

is there a way to see G Becks ratings over time?...is there a corollary between his ratings and his shiny new extrovertion?

There seems to be a very uncomfortable relationship between Beck and O'reilly. I think O'Reilly hates Beck and the higher ups at FNC are pushing Beck on him.

I miss John Gibson at 5 PM.

183 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:56:35pm

re: #155 jorline

Well put pink!

Someone else will take care of you and you don't have to face reality.

I know someone who is a Jehovah's Witness. They (the *elders*) decide how much she spends on groceries each week.

184 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:56:49pm

re: #140 pink freud

An apt comparison, as I see those sucked in by religious cults in the same light as I see those sucked in by teh one.

/so much easier not to think for oneself

The problem is, I think 0bama is mixing the kool-aid and distributing it now, starting with the stock market.

185 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:57:00pm

Via Hot Air:

Cornyn: How about filling out an org chart instead?


“I appreciate that President Obama has completed his ‘March Madness’ Tournament Bracket,” Cornyn said. “Yet the organizational chart of his administration still has far too many open slots.”
186 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:57:05pm

re: #166 Shug

Beck is a shock jock. He's Howard Stern without the porno and fart jokes. The only thing real about Beck is his drinking problem

* * *

I think Beck is like Pee Wee Herman for adults.

187 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:57:06pm

re: #182 Shug

I HAVE A HUGE MAN CRUSH ON GIBBY!

188 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:57:23pm

re: #136 Racer X

Obama is still campaigning here in California today.

Can someone please tell him he won the election?

When shit gets hard he hits the campaign trail. Its the only thing he knows how to do.

"Find what you're good at, and stick with it."

189 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:04pm

re: #187 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I HAVE A HUGE MAN CRUSH ON GIBBY!

You could give a "huge man crush" to him, IF your calims are twue ...
//

190 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:08pm

re: #187 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I HAVE A HUGE MAN CRUSH ON GIBBY!

The press secretary?

/

191 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:31pm

re: #165 notutopia

[Link: morsecode.scphillips.com...]


got dat :)

192 OldLineTexan  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:34pm

re: #185 loppyd

My only problem with John is that he's too often quiet.

193 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:41pm

re: #179 BatGuano

I think it is interesting that on LGF post-election comments on Obama are very similar to pre-election comments: But now we have details.

By comparison, the contrast between pre- and post- over at HuffPo, DKos, etc., is becoming increasingly obvious.

They're very close to having "buyer's remorse".

/I'm getting close to schadenfreude

cheers

eon

194 yma o hyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:52pm

re: #145 wrenchwench

I really like Václav Havel. He gives me the sense that an ordinary guy who chooses to obey his conscience can do great things (or die trying, which he almost did.) This book was a good read: Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala. And look at the front page of his website, isn't that charming?

Thanks for that link - his website is indeed charming.
Bookmarked it for future reference - and for the sheer pleasure of looking at it!
I venerate him - he definitely is one of the good guys!

195 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:58:56pm

re: #150 albusteve

why?...the morse the merrier!

My hopes have been dashed.......

196 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:59:24pm

Speaking of O'Reilly...

197 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:59:33pm

re: #195 LGoPs

My hopes have been dashed.......

Dot's too bad....

198 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:59:46pm

re: #189 OldLineTexan

Yeah. I'm not that fat.

199 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:59:56pm

re: #191 brookly red

got dat :)

I'm free too. And I intend to stay that way.
Got rifle?

200 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:00:02pm

re: #182 Shug

There seems to be a very uncomfortable relationship between Beck and O'reilly. I think O'Reilly hates Beck and the higher ups at FNC are pushing Beck on him.

I miss John Gibson at 5 PM.

maybe his legion of Beckbots is growing and he's getting set up to make a move against the O'Reillytrons?

201 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:00:17pm

A Call to Action
by Killgore Trout

We need people powered grass roots action to counter today's action by Chairman Obama and the Cloward-Piven Cabal to illegally confiscate $165 million from a targeted group of American patriots. I will be attending my local Tea Party protests to collect money to reimburse these persecuted martyrs of socialism and return to them the money that is rightfully theirs. If we all do this at our local Tea Parties we can raise the stolen $165 and restore democracy and capitalism to this great nation!
Who's with me?
Should we call Glenn Beck to see if he's willing to take up this great cause?

202 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:00:42pm

re: #193 eon

By comparison, the contrast between pre- and post- over at HuffPo, DKos, etc., is becoming increasingly obvious.

They're very close to having "buyer's remorse".

/I'm getting close to schadenfreude

cheers

eon

* * * *
That's real progress! Bring it on.

203 Killian Bundy  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:00:51pm

Well, after 20 minutes with IE8, I've come to the conclusion that it really sucks big huge buggy balls.

/reaching for the uninstall spray

204 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:00:52pm

re: #200 albusteve

maybe his legion of Beckbots is growing and he's getting set up to make a move against the O'Reillytrons?

Ah, the good old days, when Paulbots were all we had to worry about.

205 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:01:13pm

re: #201 Killgore Trout

A Call to Action
by Killgore Trout

We need people powered grass roots action to counter today's action by Chairman Obama and the Cloward-Piven Cabal to illegally confiscate $165 million from a targeted group of American patriots. I will be attending my local Tea Party protests to collect money to reimburse these persecuted martyrs of socialism and return to them the money that is rightfully theirs. If we all do this at our local Tea Parties we can raise the stolen $165 and restore democracy and capitalism to this great nation!
Who's with me?
Should we call Glenn Beck to see if he's willing to take up this great cause?

Sure. Call Rush too.

206 UncleRancher  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:01:19pm

re: #149 brookly red

.. / .- -- / ..-. .-. . . / .. / .- -- / ..-. .-. . . / - .... . / -.-. ..- .-. ... . / .. ... / .-.. .. ..-. - . -.. :)

The Morse the merrier!

207 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:01:20pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

Dot's too bad....

That's very semaphoric of you........

208 Shug  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:01:34pm

Negl kceb

209 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:01:59pm

re: #12 Racer X

I just turned on Glenn Beck. My head hurts. The fed just quietly announced they are going to print another Trillion Dollars.

INFLATION! WHEELBARROWS!

210 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:02:14pm

re: #203 Killian Bundy

I dare you to say that on the nerd rage IE8 thread. Double dare you.

211 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:02:15pm

re: #201 Killgore Trout

A Call to Action
by Killgore Trout

We need people powered grass roots action to counter today's action by Chairman Obama and the Cloward-Piven Cabal to illegally confiscate $165 million from a targeted group of American patriots. I will be attending my local Tea Party protests to collect money to reimburse these persecuted martyrs of socialism and return to them the money that is rightfully theirs. If we all do this at our local Tea Parties we can raise the stolen $165 and restore democracy and capitalism to this great nation!
Who's with me?
Should we call Glenn Beck to see if he's willing to take up this great cause?

I'm in. Baton Rouge. April 15. One o'clock.

212 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:02:20pm

re: #201 Killgore Trout

A Call to Action
by Killgore Trout

We need people powered grass roots action to counter today's action by Chairman Obama and the Cloward-Piven Cabal to illegally confiscate $165 million from a targeted group of American patriots. I will be attending my local Tea Party protests to collect money to reimburse these persecuted martyrs of socialism and return to them the money that is rightfully theirs. If we all do this at our local Tea Parties we can raise the stolen $165 and restore democracy and capitalism to this great nation!
Who's with me?
Should we call Glenn Beck to see if he's willing to take up this great cause?

Did somebody order a pallet of these?

//////////////////////////////////////////////////

213 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:02:36pm

^,,^<

214 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:02:38pm

re: #201 Killgore Trout

A Call to Action
by Killgore Trout

We need people powered grass roots action to counter today's action by Chairman Obama and the Cloward-Piven Cabal to illegally confiscate $165 million from a targeted group of American patriots. I will be attending my local Tea Party protests to collect money to reimburse these persecuted martyrs of socialism and return to them the money that is rightfully theirs. If we all do this at our local Tea Parties we can raise the stolen $165 and restore democracy and capitalism to this great nation!
Who's with me?
Should we call Glenn Beck to see if he's willing to take up this great cause?

that is the coolest panhandling scheme EVER!

215 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:02:59pm

re: #206 UncleRancher

The Morse the merrier!

I thought the code war was over :D

216 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:03:04pm

Liberal Commentators Disappointed with, GOP Pounces Upon White House Aides' Remarks on AIG Bonuses

Recent comments by two senior White House aides downplaying how much voters care about the AIG bonuses scandal have disappointed liberal commentators otherwise supportive of President Obama.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was recently quoted in the New York Times saying that as angry President Obama is about AIG, “his main priority is getting the financial system stabilized, and he believes this is a big distraction in that effort.”

In today's Washington Post, senior adviser David Axelrod is quoted saying, "People are not sitting around their kitchen tables thinking about AIG. They are thinking about their own jobs.” The Post described "the bonuses were a distraction from what senior aides called the main focus: getting the economy working and people back to work."



These comments progressive columnist David Sirota did not dig.

"Look, I get that nobody in Establishment Washington genuinely cares that taxpayers are being ripped off, and I get that the super-wealthy political class from millionaire investment banker Emanuel to millionaire consultant Axelrod to millionaire banker Tim Geithner gives much of a s--- that our taxpayer dollars are being used to make new millionaires on Wall Street," Sirota writes today. "But their boss, President Obama, is right: A huge majority of Americans, most of whom are not millionaires, are really angry and has a right to be angry. And we're not talking sorta angry, we're talking about Gallup's new poll showing a whopping 84% of Americans saying they are 'outraged' or 'bothered' by the AIG mess. The only question, then, is why the president is letting his aides contradict him and disparage the majority of the country?"

I won't post it all, but if you like watching liberals eat their own then read it in its entirety.

217 player  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:03:20pm

re: #136 Racer X

Obama is still campaigning here in California today.


He will never stop because then the ugly thing called reality bus will run right up his butt.
It is a Democrap thing though - even while they are responsible they refuse to take responsibility for anything negative they create - and lord knows, if they create it, it will produce negative results in the real world.

218 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:03:30pm

re: #213 Catttt

^,,^<

Sweet. But you cut off the other whiskers.

219 UncleRancher  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:03:40pm

re: #150 albusteve

why?...the morse the merrier!


Oops. Dit-n't see you back there in the bushes.

220 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:04pm

re: #190 Bloodnok

The press secretary?

/

Laura Ingraham calls him "The Family Guy".

221 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:13pm

re: #183 pink freud

I know someone who is a Jehovah's Witness. They (the *elders*) decide how much she spends on groceries each week.

My eldest sister is a JW. She lost custody of her children many years ago when her then-husband brought up the fact in court that JWs don't allow blood transfusions (among other things), and therefore the children should be with him.

222 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:14pm

Remember our Troops:
Today is the 6th anniversary of President Bush's Invasion of Iraq
May we remember the sacrifices of those fallen, and recoup our country's sacrifice.

223 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:19pm

re: #192 OldLineTexan

My only problem with John is that he's too often quiet.

We need people to stop being nice and to start kicking butt.

224 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:36pm

re: #218 notutopia

Sweet. But you cut off the other whiskers.

Not I - the html reader thingy.

">^,,^< "

225 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:36pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

Fox News apparently thinks they need a spokesman for the looniest of the loony right.

FOX has a problem when Geraldo Rivera is palatable.
*burp*

226 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:04:51pm

re: #199 notutopia

I'm free too. And I intend to stay that way.
Got rifle?

what part of New York City did you not understand? :(

227 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:05:19pm

re: #220 capitalist piglet

Laura Ingraham calls him "The Family Guy".

I burst out laughing in the car the first time I heard her call him that.

228 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:05:41pm

re: #160 Charles

Wow. Glenn Beck is getting farther and farther out. Now he's defending militias.

"Militia" = rural gang. Any organized, uniformed, armed group that does not have an elected civilian official at the top of the chain of command is a gang.

229 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:05:48pm

re: #226 brookly red

what part of New York City did you not understand? :(

Brookly, get out of there!

230 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:06:02pm

re: #223 loppyd

We need people to stop being nice and to start kicking butt.

I've been having spit control problems lately....I 'd give anything to have a libtard walk into my bunkhouse right now

231 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:06:29pm

re: #201 Killgore Trout

They'll come after anybody they feel like at any time if they get away with this.

There has to be an expression,

Never allow the government to assume a power you would be afraid for one of your enemies to have.

Somebody famous said something like this, I paraphrased it to the ridiculous, but somebody said it.

232 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:06:43pm

re: #203 Killian Bundy

Well, after 20 minutes with IE8, I've come to the conclusion that it really sucks big huge buggy balls.

/reaching for the uninstall spray

No! Buggy software from Microsoft? I can't believe it!
//////////////////
(I'd be shocked if it worked right.)

233 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:06:50pm

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sometimes I entertain myself, pretty easy.

I'll be spelling something for someone over phone and say P as in phone, P as in pterodactyl, T as in tsunami, etc. Really messes with their heads.

Nichols and May did a routine about a phone operator - Kaplan, K as in Knewell post, a as in aardvark, p as in pneumonia...

234 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:06:53pm

re: #229 notutopia

Brookly, get out of there!

doomed...DOOMED!

235 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:07:33pm

re: #221 scottishbuzzsaw

My eldest sister is a JW. She lost custody of her children many years ago when her then-husband brought up the fact in court that JWs don't allow blood transfusions (among other things), and therefore the children should be with him.

I've seen too much of that cult to think them anything other than Jim Jones types. The *elders* that I am familiar with seem like power hungry, weak minded, control-freak, used-car-salesman characters.

236 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:03pm

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

237 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:12pm

re: #231 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

We need some giant puppets to do some street theater. We need to "Bail out the bail out"!

238 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:31pm

re: #229 notutopia

Brookly, get out of there!

It's not so bad... you can have any thing you want delivered 24/7 :)

239 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:36pm

Remember him?

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson abolishes capital punishment

SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Bill Richardson, who has supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico’s death penalty, calling it the "most difficult decision in my political life."
The new law replaces lethal injection with a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The repeal takes effect on July 1, and applies only to crimes committed after that date.

"Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime," Richardson said.

240 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:39pm

Another Synthetic Obama

Click on "Say It." You can manipulate the speed and the voices.

241 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:40pm

re: #209 debutaunt

INFLATION! WHEELBARROWS!

Germany, 1921, when a (originally) pfennig (penny) postage stamp printed up as costing 1 million DM had to be overstamped with a rubber stamp to 1 milliarden (one billion in American notation) before it was issued, to keep up with runaway hyper-inflation.

/We so do not need to go there.

cheers

eon

242 nikis-knight  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:47pm

re: #80 capitalist piglet

This is how I translated it:

"The buck stops here. For a second. After that, I pass it on to someone else."

Heh, maybe we can get him a plaque that reads, "This is where the Buck goes for directions."

243 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:08:50pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?


Nope, no way.

244 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:06pm

Time to head home.
BBL.

245 opnion  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:11pm

Obama said at a plant that mfgrs. batterys for electric cars in California, "It is good to get out of Washington"
I thought according to his people he just got there.
This guy needs a red wig & slap shoes.

246 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:11pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

no

247 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:23pm

Less Obama more Rafaeli.

248 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:24pm

re: #192 OldLineTexan

My only problem with John is that he's too often quiet.

Gibson? When is he ever quiet? Ever hear his radio show? He's a freakin' banshee! Love it!

249 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:26pm

re: #230 albusteve

I've been having spit control problems lately....I 'd give anything to have a libtard walk into my bunkhouse right now

Spitting mad are you?

250 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:37pm

re: #234 albusteve

doomed...DOOMED!

Youtube Video
251 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:39pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

Here's hoping he gets bumped for an extra segment with the San Diego Zoo's Joan Embery.

252 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:09:52pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

I'd rather chew tin foil actually.

253 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:10:12pm

Maybe Glenn Beck could use the militias to reclaim the stolen $165 million from Obama supporters! Take from the socialists, give to the rich! I feel a real popular surge on this.

254 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:10:16pm

re: #237 Killgore Trout

We need some giant puppets to do some street theater.

And nekkid people!

255 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:10:32pm

re: #234 albusteve

doomed...DOOMED!

some body has to do it...

256 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:10:32pm

re: #237 Killgore Trout

"No congressional taxation without legal representation"?

257 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:10:33pm

re: #183 pink freud

I know someone who is a Jehovah's Witness. They (the *elders*) decide how much she spends on groceries each week.

I wouldn't go that far, pink.

I got to see them first hand for several years...her friends did convince her to file the divorce papers. I've never looked back.

258 Digital Display  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:04pm

Good evening Lizards..50 minutes till I'm out to watch Basketball with my friends at the Pub...
The website Antimatter is discussion the theory of Inflation.. Dr. C also put all his lectures on-line about physics..So you College post graduates better get busy downloading his notes.
It's nice to see alot of new lizards posting tonight on this thread..Welcome!
oh yea..His website:
[Link: coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com...]

259 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:10pm

re: #252 loppyd

I'd rather chew tin foil actually.

Ewweee. Is that one of the things listed as torture?/

260 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:10pm

re: #254 mikalm

I'll see if I can inflate my scrotum for the occasion.

261 Russkilitlover  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:24pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

No! To borrow from the end of your nick.....GAK!

262 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:31pm

re: #228 mikalm

"Militia" = rural gang. Any organized, uniformed, armed group that does not have an elected civilian official at the top of the chain of command is a gang.

When I hear the word "militia", I think "Somalia". The "technicals" called themselves "militias" too.

/Same mentality at work in all too many cases.

cheers

eon

263 UncleRancher  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:35pm

re: #246 Gella

no

I'm going to do my very best to sleep through that one. What sitting POTUS has EVER appeared on Leno, or any other show of that ilk for that matter?

264 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:46pm
265 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:11:59pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

Not only no, but fuck no.

266 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:12:07pm

re: #233 debutaunt

Nichols and May did a routine about a phone operator - Kaplan, K as in Knewell post, a as in aardvark, p as in pneumonia...

E like in elephant... C like in chagrin...

267 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:12:28pm

re: #239 loppyd

SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Bill Richardson, who has supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico’s death penalty, calling it the "most difficult decision in my political life."
The new law replaces lethal injection with a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The repeal takes effect on July 1, and applies only to crimes committed after that date.

"Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime," Richardson said.

But if you committed the crime before July, you still fry?

Re the bolded text, the cognitive dissonance must be excruciating.

268 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:12:49pm

re: #263 UncleRancher

I'm going to do my very best to sleep through that one. What sitting POTUS has EVER appeared on Leno, or any other show of that ilk for that matter?

1st Leno is boring, Zero voice make me cringe, id rather watch paint dry or sleep

269 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:12:56pm

re: #263 UncleRancher

Closest thing I've been able to think of is Nixon's famous, "Sock it to me?" on Laugh-In.

270 Aviator  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:13:07pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I'll see if I can inflate my scrotum for the occasion.

Please don't cause a scene at the gas station air pump again.

/

271 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:13:33pm

re: #259 midwestgak

Ewweee. Is that one of the things listed as torture?/

Watching the love fest with Leno tonight should be.

272 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:13:52pm

re: #269 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Closest thing I've been able to think of is Nixon's famous, "Sock it to me?" on Laugh-In.

didn't Clinton play the sax on SNL?

273 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:13:57pm

re: #266 Mirage

E like in elephant... C like in chagrin...

G like in gnome.

274 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:14:02pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I'll see if I can inflate my scrotum for the occasion.

Kilgore, I'll hop on the next copter out just to see your
CO2 inflated testicles!

275 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:14:03pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

I've read he is going to be on 60 Minutes Sunday, also.

276 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:14:27pm

re: #268 Gella

1st Leno is boring, Zero voice make me cringe, id rather watch paint dry or sleep


Driving Bamboo shoots under my fingernails came to mind.

277 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:14:31pm

re: #272 albusteve

didn't Clinton play the sax on SNL?

During campaign, I think. With sunglasses...

278 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:02pm

re: #277 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

During campaign, I think. With sunglasses...

yeah...I thought that was cool...

279 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:13pm

re: #275 pink freud

I've read he is going to be on 60 Minutes Sunday, also.

60 minutes of "Ahhh" "annnndd" "ummmm"?

280 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:14pm

re: #262 eon

It's like "liberal" = an honorable word and concept that's been ruined by jerks misusing it.

A true militia, like any other armed force, is always assembled and commanded by an elected civilian official -- the President; a State Governor; a Sheriff; or a Mayor.

281 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:27pm

re: #272 albusteve

didn't Clinton play the sax on SNL?

I believe it was the Arsenio Hall show.

282 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:28pm

re: #272 albusteve

didn't Clinton play the sax on SNL?

i think it was after

283 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:29pm

re: #272 albusteve

didn't Clinton play the sax on SNL?

Worse. It was on the Arsenio Hall show.

284 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:39pm

re: #275 pink freud

I've read he is going to be on 60 Minutes Sunday, also.

The only show that I'd watch him on is America's Most Wanted.......

285 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:41pm

re: #275 pink freud

I've read he is going to be on 60 Minutes Sunday, also.

Deflection, deflection, deflection.

286 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:55pm

Don't let this shatter your faith in the Massachusetts state government.

Braintree RMV worker allegedly took bribes for issuing licenses

A 48-year-old Brockton woman who worked at the Braintree branch of the Registry of Motor Vehicles was arrested today for allegedly taking bribes to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, federal and state law enforcement officials said.

Janice Washington faces federal identity theft charges, the officials said in a statement. If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine, the officials said.

Washington was identified after a six-month investigation, said the officials from the US attorney's office, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Social Security Administration, and Massachusetts State Police.

287 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:15:56pm

re: #274 notutopia

It's a deal.

288 Digital Display  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:03pm

re: #270 Aviator

Please don't cause a scene at the gas station air pump again.

/

Aviator! Kind regards..I'm still giggling over last night when I thought you were avanti..That was pretty funny.One of you have to change your nic..I vote for Avanti to change his nic to unofficial Obama spokesman..:)

289 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:10pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

{gak}

I'll be listening to George Noory's Coast To Coast AM at that time...the stories and guest a lot more believable. ;)

290 UncleRancher  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:12pm

re: #275 pink freud

I've read he is going to be on 60 Minutes Sunday, also.

He'll find a friendly crowd there. Never watch, myself.

291 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:12pm

Nixon

292 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:16pm

re: #279 screaming_eagle

60 minutes of "Ahhh" "annnndd" "ummmm"?

Another one I won't watch. :-)

293 jcm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:18pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I'll see if I can inflate my scrotum for the occasion.

Damn it!
I knew that accidental double chemtrail flight over western Oregon was gonna' have some side effects.

294 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:23pm

re: #276 DEZes

Driving Bamboo shoots under my fingernails came to mind.

ewwww, its sounds extremely masochistically painful
or i might go for a drink

295 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:32pm

he will fatigue his minions to a stuper and become so ho hum nobody will even notice after awhile

296 opnion  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:48pm

re: #272 albusteve

didn't Clinton play the sax on SNL?

Wasn't it on Arsinio Hall?

297 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:16:54pm

re: #286 loppyd

Don't let this shatter your faith in the Massachusetts state government.

Braintree RMV worker allegedly took bribes for issuing licenses

string her up.

298 jcm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:00pm

re: #285 midwestgak

Deflection, deflection, deflection.

Preening Peacock on a Pedestal!

299 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:10pm

re: #286 loppyd

Don't let this shatter your faith in the Massachusetts state government.

Braintree RMV worker allegedly took bribes for issuing licenses

Now we know why John Kerry can drive.

300 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:12pm

re: #277 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

During campaign, I think. With sunglasses...

Compared to Teh 0ne, Clinton is a class act.

Sad, but true.

301 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:18pm

re: #286 loppyd

Don't let this shatter your faith in the Massachusetts state government.

Braintree RMV worker allegedly took bribes for issuing licenses

I'm sure her state pension will be safe.

302 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:31pm

re: #274 notutopia

Kilgore, I'll hop on the next copter out just to see your
CO2 inflated testicles!

Gawd I need a drink...

303 jorline  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:36pm

re: #252 loppyd

I'd rather chew tin foil actually.

Ouch

304 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:36pm

re: #286 loppyd

Don't let this shatter your faith in the Massachusetts state government.

Can't shatter what is already broken./

305 nikis-knight  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:37pm

re: #260 Killgore Trout

I'll see if I can inflate my scrotum for the occasion.

Is that your scrotum inflator?
No.
Is that your book, Scrotum Inflators and Me, This Kind of Thing's My Bag, Baby, by Kilgore Trout?
Never seen it before!

306 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:55pm

re: #247 ConservatismNow!

Less Obama more Rafaeli.

Will she be on Leno?

307 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:17:57pm

re: #299 screaming_eagle

Now we know why John Kerry can drive.


come on you missed an easy one...

308 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:01pm

re: #273 LGoPs

G like in gnome.

N like in knowledge..........

309 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:12pm

re: #303 jorline

Ouch

it has more nutrition then zero speech
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310 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:32pm

re: #287 Killgore Trout

It's a deal.

Great! I'll bring the trocanter and a set of calipers.
You get the CO2 tank and don't forget the neon paint.
We have to spray them so they'll shine in the dark.

311 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:34pm

re: #267 pink freud

"Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime," Richardson said.

Yes, murderers are disproportionately executed.

312 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:34pm

re: #294 Gella

ewwww, its sounds extremely masochistically painful
or i might go for a drink


Its not as painful as watching Obamas chops flap. ;)

313 Digital Display  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:36pm

re: #302 scottishbuzzsaw

Gawd I need a drink...

Slides a bottle of Bailey's to scottish....

314 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:18:50pm

re: #236 midwestgak

Anyone going to watch the Pres on Leno tonight?

IIRC, Nixon was on with Johnny Carson once while he was in the White House, too.

Tonight Show appearance- check.

Enemies list ( with Limbaugh at the top of this one)- check

"Afghanization" ("Vietnamization")- check

Economic policies he cannot adequately explain- check

Foreign policies he doesn't even try to explain- check

All The One needs now is CREEP.

/not sure if this is sarc or not- check, check, and check

cheers

eon

315 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:19:10pm

re: #312 DEZes

Its not as painful as watching Obamas chops flap. ;)

ok, what ever floats ur boat :) lol
drink sounds better to me

316 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:19:13pm

re: #313 HoosierHoops

Slides a bottle of Bailey's to scottish....

{HH}!

317 albusteve  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:19:26pm

re: #310 notutopia

Great! I'll bring the trocanter and a set of calipers.
You get the CO2 tank and don't forget the neon paint.
We have to spray them so they'll shine in the dark.

Killgore Wad...

318 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:19:52pm

re: #301 Bloodnok

I'm sure her state pension will be safe.

Did you hear that Cadillac Deval said today that the hubbub over the no work jobs at the State House is trivial?

The gall.

319 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:20:08pm

re: #307 brookly red

come on you missed an easy one...

I left that one alone. A woman died. Not funny.

320 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:20:16pm

re: #300 pink freud

The other day, I actually said to someone; "Hell, it was just a blow-job." Then I realized what I had said, and was ashamed.

Then, I felt better again, because the 0 came on TV.

321 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:20:26pm

re: #289 jorline

{gak}

I'll be listening to George Noory's Coast To Coast AM at that time...the stories and guest a lot more believable. ;)

{jorline}

Got a call today from the career services department with my old company. It's an on line service which includes a session with a career coach. Scheduled for latter part of next week.

You doing okay?

322 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:20:41pm

re: #306 Occasional Reader

I hope not. She (and all the other SI girls) gets me through the work day.

323 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:20:47pm

re: #274 notutopia

Kilgore, I'll hop on the next copter out just to see your
CO2 inflated testicles!

Yikes.

"Inflation" just took on a new meaning.

324 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:21:13pm

re: #315 Gella

ok, what ever floats ur boat :) lol
drink sounds better to me


Ill have a drink with ya, I am fresh outa bamboo.

325 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:21:25pm

re: #312 DEZes

Its not as painful as watching Obamas chops flap. ;)

True, bleeding from your fingers is better than bleeding from your eyes and ears.

326 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:21:30pm

re: #322 ConservatismNow!

I hope not. She (and all the other SI girls) gets me through the work day.

yap, id take her picture any day instead zero speech

327 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:21:35pm

re: #320 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The other day, I actually said to someone; "Hell, it was just a blow-job." Then I realized what I had said, and was ashamed.

Then, I felt better again, because the 0 came on TV.

Now hang on, FBV. Is there really any such things as "just a blow job"?

/just sayin ....

:-)

328 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:22:01pm

re: #324 DEZes

Ill have a drink with ya, I am fresh outa bamboo.

sweeet :)

329 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:22:02pm

re: #310 notutopia

Great! I'll bring the trocanter and a set of calipers.
You get the CO2 tank and don't forget the neon paint.
We have to spray them so they'll shine in the dark.

re: #229 notutopia
Brookly, get out of there!
doomed...DOOMED!

OK, now tell me again why I would wanna get out of here?

330 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:22:40pm

re: #323 Racer X

Yikes.

"Inflation" just took on a new meaning.

Ouch. That was a mental image I absolutely did not need.

/Brain bleach, now

cheers

eon

331 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:22:54pm

re: #319 screaming_eagle

I left that one alone. A woman died. Not funny.

you are a better man than I...

332 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:22:58pm

re: #299 screaming_eagle

Now we know why John Kerry can drive.

He doesn't drive. He has a driver. Who parks their Suburban in front of his Louisburg Square brownstone where there used to be a fire hydrant.

333 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:23:09pm

re: #322 ConservatismNow!

I hope not. She (and all the other SI girls) gets me through the work day.

Really help you concentrate, do they?

:P

334 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:23:14pm

re: #318 loppyd

Did you hear that Cadillac Deval said today that the hubbub over the no work jobs at the State House is trivial?

The gall.

I didn't. Tuning in to Howie Carr now.

The Democrats had better be careful with this little populist fire they are stoking. The light it casts is going to expose their own.

335 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:23:18pm

re: #327 pink freud

In that context, yes.

heh

336 Aviator  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:23:37pm

re: #288 HoosierHoops

Aviator! Kind regards..I'm still giggling over last night when I thought you were avanti..That was pretty funny.One of you have to change your nic..I vote for Avanti to change his nic to unofficial Obama spokesman..:)

Evening.
I was scratching my head thinking WTF.
I vote for Lickspittle. Pretty much the same thing. :)

337 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:23:39pm

re: #331 brookly red

you are a better man than I...

I decided against saying something re Barney's Frank and who was doing the driving ....

338 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:24:24pm

re: #329 brookly red

re: #229 notutopia
Brookly, get out of there!
doomed...DOOMED!

OK, now tell me again why I would wanna get out of here?

OK, My mouth is now shut.
But, I'm laughing hard with my lips sealed.

339 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:24:24pm

re: #323 Racer X

Yikes.

"Inflation" just took on a new meaning.

That was definitely artificial inflation too.

340 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:24:32pm

re: #334 Bloodnok

I didn't. Tuning in to Howie Carr now.

The Democrats had better be careful with this little populist fire they are stoking. The light it casts is going to expose their own.

I heard it on a news report - can't remember what station.

341 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:25:28pm

Looks like the local moonbats are getting a head start for their big temper-tantrum on Saturday:

[San Francisco] war protesters arrested at noontime rally

342 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:25:30pm

re: #337 pink freud

I decided against saying something re Barney's Frank and who was doing the driving ....

well that would have been fair game.

343 Killian Bundy  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:25:40pm

Ah, back to normal, now I can at least open websites on my Favorites list again.

/IE8 is not the change you seek

344 Racer X  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:25:54pm

Brain Bleach stat!
Antidote.

345 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:26:13pm

re: #343 Killian Bundy

Ah, back to normal, now I can at least open websites on my Favorites list again.

/IE8 is not the change you seek

*wave hand* These are not the droids you're looking for ...

346 gregg  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:26:31pm

re: #341 mikalm

Looks like the local moonbats are getting a head start for their big temper-tantrum on Saturday

What's happening on Saturday?

347 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:26:33pm

re: #333 Occasional Reader

Photographed by Raphael l Mazzocco. He was paid to do that!

348 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:26:40pm

Obama defends ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
President says he can deal with more than one issue at a time

Not a headline from The Onion.

349 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:27:27pm
350 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:27:28pm

re: #287 Killgore Trout

Not sure this video will link correctly but its worth a try.


[Link: vids.myspace.com...]

351 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:27:52pm

re: #348 capitalist piglet

Obama defends ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
President says he can deal with more than one issue at a time

Not a headline from The Onion.

But I thought he has too much to do to deal with the economy too. Am I remembering that correctly?

352 notutopia  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:28:01pm

re: #338 notutopia

OK, My mouth is now shut.
But, I'm laughing hard with my lips sealed.

gloom, despair and agony on me

Youtube Video
353 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:28:05pm

re: #346 gregg

What's happening on Saturday?

This?

[Link: www.actionsf.org...]

354 opnion  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:28:29pm

FNC is going to have a clip od Duke Coach K scolding Barry for worrying about brackets instead of the economy, after the commercial break.

355 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:28:34pm

re: #347 BatGuano

Man. How does one get the job of SI Swimsuit photographer?

356 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:28:55pm

Speaking of "The Onion".

357 Gus  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:29:21pm

Republican Democrat Arnold Schwarzenegger introduces President Hussein in California today.

Youtube Video

Billions and billions of taxpayer dollars.

Nauseating.

358 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:30:01pm

re: #233 debutaunt

Nichols and May did a routine about a phone operator - Kaplan, K as in Knewell post, a as in aardvark, p as in pneumonia...

I blew it. I said Stiller and Meara...Please downding #83.

359 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:30:16pm

re: #348 capitalist piglet

Obama defends ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
President says he can deal with more than one issue at a time

Not a headline from The Onion.

Doing nothing and appearing on TV does not count as two tasks, Mr. President.

360 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:30:23pm

re: #353 capitalist piglet

This?

[Link: www.actionsf.org...]

You got it. I believe similar mobs will assemble in DC and other cities that day.

361 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:30:37pm

re: #348 capitalist piglet

Obama defends ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
President says he can deal with more than one issue at a time

Not a headline from The Onion.

I know it's rhetorical, but can you imagine if President Bush had done the same?

362 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:30:57pm

re: #347 BatGuano

Photographed by Raphael l Mazzocco. He was paid to do that!

Here's a photo of another SI swimsuit model showing off her naked ass.

Unbelievable.

363 Gella  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:31:34pm

re: #348 capitalist piglet

Obama defends ‘Tonight Show’ appearance
President says he can deal with more than one issue at a time

Not a headline from The Onion.

well don't want to sound like hypocrite, but according to science, man are not as good with multitasking as women, considering he is in his relaxing stage now .....................................

364 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:31:36pm

re: #300 pink freud

Compared to Teh 0ne, Clinton is a class act.

Sad, but true.

The bottom line is that President Clinton was actually persuasive. He had that charm thing, and he could speak to a person or an audience in a persuasive way. Even as I knew I disagreed on something, I found myself admiring his presentation. And we all know that he used that ability for personal, as well as public reasons. He was no fool, either - he was a Rhodes Scholar. He could think on his feet.

To me, President Obama has none of that. Not only are his actual words meaningless - they are obviously being read, and when they're not, they are the ramblings of a man who obviously cannot think on his feet.

Plus, he has that arrogant and evasive thing going. No offense to men, but as a woman, this set off all sorts of alarms for me, because men like that instantly go on my "do not trust" list forever. I always see the time he all but patted a woman reporter ont he head dismissively, saying "later, sweety," and then blowing her off. She was visibly angry, and who can blame her?

365 capitalist piglet  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:31:49pm

re: #360 mikalm

You got it. I believe similar mobs will assemble in DC and other cities that day.

I guess we're all on Giant Puppet Watch this weekend.

366 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:32:42pm

re: #349 ploome hineni

I always thought that Americans would never surrender their rights and liberties all at once. I didn't know that they would surrender them one at a time.

367 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:33:02pm

re: #355 ConservatismNow!

First, you have to be terribly, totally, "Barney Frank'n" gay.

368 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:33:26pm

Anybody remember the Magic Pan crepe restaurants?

Getting hungry.

369 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:33:43pm

re: #362 Occasional Reader

Here's a photo of another SI swimsuit model showing off her naked ass.

Unbelievable.

"Oooh babyyyyy -- let me take ya to mah Booby House!"

/Timothy Carey as "South Dakota Slim" in Beach Blanket Bingo

370 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:33:52pm

re: #362 Occasional Reader

I found it odd that Turkey allowed SI to shoot there. I wonder if it was low-key or if they announced it.

371 Kragar  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:33:58pm

Any lizards interested in a San Diego meet up in the next few weeks? Got my email turned on temporarily if you want to set something up

372 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:34:03pm

re: #362 Occasional Reader

Well? Just, wow.

373 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:34:08pm

re: #355 ConservatismNow!

Man. How does one get the job of SI Swimsuit photographer?

I don't for sure, but I'm buying a camera!

374 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:34:09pm

re: #368 midwestgak

Anybody remember the Magic Pan crepe restaurants?

Getting hungry.

Absolutely!

They had one at Quincy Market in Boston.

I just ordered Thai.

375 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:34:17pm

re: #368 midwestgak

Anybody remember the Magic Pan crepe restaurants?

Getting hungry.

Yes, I do! Manhattan, 1980s. They were pretty good.

376 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:34:33pm

re: #362 Occasional Reader

Here's a photo of another SI swimsuit model showing off her naked ass.

Unbelievable.

That ass has plenty of fur on it, and a blanket.

377 zombie  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:34:43pm

Grrrrr!

The New York Times published an op-ed last year by a kindergarten teacher who congratulates herself for being a brilliant multiculturalist in the classroom. The crux of the op-ed is this anecdote:

I was moving around the classroom checking students’ writing when a question popped up out of nowhere. One of my American students, David, called out, “Ms. Shunnarah, can an elephant be a god?”

...I remembered from my studies of Hinduism in college that there is a religious entity known as Ganesh, who takes the form of an elephant....

This information about Ganesh came to me quickly and I am glad that it did, because I could have carelessly dismissed David’s comment as silly. Instead, I told him yes, and described Ganesh and his place in the Hindu religion. After I said this, I noticed that one of my students from India, Abhra, pulled out his own drawings of Ganesh from his backpack. He had been discussing his beliefs with David, when David had called out the question. This small bit of knowledge I had retained turned out to be important. After my response, Abhra smiled; his religious beliefs and identity were acknowledged. ...

Later Abhra’s mother came to me and said that I had made her son happy because I knew about Ganesh....What if I had responded from my own personal biases and religious perspective? What would have been the outcome for my student Abhra? Would he have been ashamed? Would he have kept his pictures hidden, damaging his sense of self?

Needless to say, most of the comments lavish praise on the teacher for being so sensitive.

I was so incensed that I took the rare step of actually submitting a comment of my own. Since I doubt it will ever see the light of day (NYTimes comments are moderated), I'll post it here:

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

Why were you so cruel to your student? You congratulate yourself for improving the self-esteem of the Hindu student, but when you told the "American" (presumably Christian) student that elephants could be gods, did it ever even occur to you that you were destroying HIS self-esteem, and turning HIS world upside-down? No, apparently this did not occur to you, because attending to the feelings of and supporting the worldview of the non-Western students is paramount in your philosophy. It's more important to crush the beliefs of the Americans than it is to be even-handed. For all you know, you just ruined that little Christian boy's life: now he doubts his parents, because he no longer can trust what they say is true. If they lied about God, then they can lie about anything.

It would have been equally valid, and equally one-sided, to tell the Hindu boy that No, elephants cannot be Gods. But you didn't do that. Yet you did the mirror image, which is just as bad. And by taking sides, you gave your imprimatur to Hinduism, while rejecting monotheism. In your quest to be multicultural, you ended up taking sides anyway. It sickens me to see your overwhelming concern for the feelings of one of your students (the Hindu), and a complete unconscious lack of concern for the other student, who is just roadkill on your superhighway to a multicultural utopia.

As one of the other commenters here noted, saying to a Muslim that there are other gods besides Allah would rank as a capital offense in some countries; and informing the monotheist children -- Christian, Muslim, Jewish -- that it is a FACT that elephants can be gods, is likely to be extremely upsetting to them. Despite your fantasies, there is no middle ground on this issue, and you blundered spectacularly by supporting one religious viewpoint over the others. Stop patting yourself on the back for one moment to see the damage you've done, and probably do every single day of the year when you force all of your students through the multicultural sieve.

378 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:35:04pm

re: #372 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Well? Just, wow.

In fairness, her ass actually appears to be partially covered, by that blanket thingy.

379 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:35:19pm

re: #370 ConservatismNow!

They're actually pretty liberal for a Muslim country -- at least around Istanbul and the tourist resorts.

380 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:35:32pm

re: #350 DEZes

Heh.

381 Digital Display  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:35:37pm

re: #336 Aviator

Evening.
I was scratching my head thinking WTF.
I vote for Lickspittle. Pretty much the same thing. :)

Yea..that was so funny..After a reading hundreds of post by him to other lizards I thought..oh crap now he is flipping the script on me..It's my turn!
You have lots of updings in the bank friend..We just got our bail out check..
LOL

382 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:35:57pm

re: #376 wrenchwench

That ass has plenty of fur on it, and a blanket.

Not to mention that she's a black model, but he ass is white (with a little gray). Must have been some sort of transplant operation after an accident?

383 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:04pm

re: #358 wrenchwench

I blew it. I said Stiller and Meara...Please downding #83.

Downding offset applied. Youze da wrenchwench!

384 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:10pm

re: #368 midwestgak

Anybody remember the Magic Pan crepe restaurants?

Getting hungry.

Coquille st jacques crepes and a spinach salad.

385 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:16pm

re: #376 wrenchwench

That ass has plenty of fur on it, and a blanket.

That reminds me of a joke so dirty, I'm ashamed to think about it.

386 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:24pm

re: #380 Killgore Trout

Heh.


Hope you enjoyed the clip.

387 UberInfidel67  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:30pm

An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack. The family drove wildly to
get him to the emergency room.

After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER Doctor appeared, wearing his
scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but
his heart is still beating."

"Oh, Dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks with
shock! "We've never had a Democrat in the family before!"

388 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:40pm

re: #362 Occasional Reader

Here's a photo of another SI swimsuit model showing off her naked ass.

Unbelievable.

I like her. She has some meat on her bones.

I got in trouble with my tightass little boss for having a "Your ass is history" calendar picture on my screensaver.

389 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:48pm

Because DC needs another brilliant Kerry in their midst.

Cam Kerry headed to Washington

President Obama today nominated Cameron Kerry, brother to Senator John F. Kerry, as general counsel for the Commerce Department.

Cameron Kerry is currently a partner in the Boston office of Mintz Levin, a national law firm.

390 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:36:49pm

re: #364 Catttt

* * *

President Bill Clinton always grossed me out as a slick salesman of no fixed principles. His "charm" was lost on me but if it worked on you, maybe it was a great 8 years for you.

Clinton's dereliction of duty and cowardice in the face of repeated acts of war against our country, only strengthened Bin Laden, the Taliban which butchered women in Afghanistan and grew Al Qaeda into a real military threat: 9/11/2001.

Clinton was a sleazy slick disgrace of a president.

391 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:37:19pm

re: #385 BatGuano

That reminds me of a joke so dirty, I'm ashamed to think about it.

In fact it's so dirty, I'm even ashamed to read about you having thought about it.

And I don't even know the joke!

392 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:37:53pm

re: #390 alegrias

* * *

President Bill Clinton always grossed me out as a slick salesman of no fixed principles. His "charm" was lost on me but if it worked on you, maybe it was a great 8 years for you.

Clinton's dereliction of duty and cowardice in the face of repeated acts of war against our country, only strengthened Bin Laden, the Taliban which butchered women in Afghanistan and grew Al Qaeda into a real military threat: 9/11/2001.

Clinton was a sleazy slick disgrace of a president.

I didn't say it worked for me. I clearly said I could see it was effective, not that it worked on me. Maybe you should read my comment again.

393 loppyd  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:38:08pm

Off to pick up my pad thai.

BBL

394 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:38:49pm

re: #385 BatGuano

That reminds me of a joke so dirty, I'm ashamed to think about it.

By the Catholic rules, if you thought about it, you said it. 5 Hail Marys and an All Father.

395 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:38:58pm

re: #377 zombie

Superb, Zom. It's all about self-congratulatory gestures to these pukes -- they don't care about the consequences of their actions.

Multiply the scenario described therein by, oh, tens of millions in educational institutions during the last forty years, and you'll get an idea of how the rot of cultural relativism and reflexive anti-Western/-Christian/-American thinking got to be so pervasive.

396 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:39:20pm

re: #387 UberInfidel67

An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack. The family drove wildly to
get him to the emergency room.

After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER Doctor appeared, wearing his
scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but
his heart is still beating."

"Oh, Dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks with
shock! "We've never had a Democrat in the family before!"


Youtube Video
397 Occasional Reader  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:39:54pm

Off to gym.

398 jcm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:40:08pm

re: #387 UberInfidel67

An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack. The family drove wildly to
get him to the emergency room.

After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER Doctor appeared, wearing his
scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but
his heart is still beating."

"Oh, Dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks with
shock! "We've never had a Democrat in the family before!"

Youtube Video
399 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:40:12pm

re: #364 Catttt

The bottom line is that President Clinton was actually persuasive. He had that charm thing, and he could speak to a person or an audience in a persuasive way. Even as I knew I disagreed on something, I found myself admiring his presentation. And we all know that he used that ability for personal, as well as public reasons. He was no fool, either - he was a Rhodes Scholar. He could think on his feet.

To me, President Obama has none of that. Not only are his actual words meaningless - they are obviously being read, and when they're not, they are the ramblings of a man who obviously cannot think on his feet.

Plus, he has that arrogant and evasive thing going. No offense to men, but as a woman, this set off all sorts of alarms for me, because men like that instantly go on my "do not trust" list forever. I always see the time he all but patted a woman reporter ont he head dismissively, saying "later, sweety," and then blowing her off. She was visibly angry, and who can blame her?

Well said, all of it. Clinton also had that "all-American" thing going for him, even thought we may have hated his politics and shennanigans, he was one of us.

I can't say the same for Teh 0ne.

400 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:40:39pm

re: #398 jcm

Now stop that. ;)

401 jcm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:41:08pm

re: #396 DEZes

GMTA!

402 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:41:13pm

"Don't blame the democrates. Don't blame the republicans. I'll take the responsibility. I'm the president."

1) Who said the above?
2) Hint. It wasn't Bush.

Has anyone had to self-affirm himself so often? "I won."

403 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:41:21pm

re: #389 loppyd

Because DC needs another brilliant Kerry in their midst.

Cam Kerry headed to Washington

After a "nationwide search" I'll bet. Nothing to do with his brother, I'm sure. (/)

404 zombie  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:41:34pm

re: #395 mikalm

Superb, Zom. It's all about self-congratulatory gestures to these pukes -- they don't care about the consequences of their actions.

Multiply the scenario described therein by, oh, tens of millions in educational institutions during the last forty years, and you'll get an idea of how the rot of cultural relativism and reflexive anti-Western/-Christian/-American thinking got to be so pervasive.

That's what makes me so angry. I know this teacher is simply a prototype for the way that almost ALL teachers are these days. Every minute of every day, every child in American is being brainwashed. We've become so complacent about this extremely depressing fact.

405 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:41:49pm

re: #401 jcm

GMTA!


Yuppers! ;)

406 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:42:41pm

re: #377 zombie

Geez, I feel old. Religion never came up when I was in kindergarten. Crayons, games, watching ants, getting your tongue stuck on the metal fence, yes - but not religion.

407 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:42:58pm

Another Call to Action
By Killgore Trout

In opposition the the unfair American progressive tax code I'm going to enact my own voluntary flat tax and pay 35% income tax in solidarity with the persecuted wealthy of this great nation. I encourage all patriots to join me in this people powered grass roots activism of voluntary taxation. The Cloward-Piven Cabal will quake with fear when we stand in solidarity with our wealthy brothers!
Power to the people!
We Surround Them!

408 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:43:17pm

re: #399 pink freud

Well said, all of it. Clinton also had that "all-American" thing going for him, even thought we may hav.e hated his politics and shennanigans, he was one of us.

I can't say the same for Teh 0ne.

* * * *
All American? CLinton spent time abroad protesting against his country.

Sorry, I don't find it "all American" to trash your country.

409 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:43:41pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

I'm getting the hang of this right wing populism thing.

410 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:43:49pm

re: #394 ConservatismNow!

By the Catholic rules, if you thought about it, you said it. 5 Hail Marys and an All Father.

All Father? Hmmm......

411 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:43:54pm

re: #364 Catttt

The bottom line is that President Clinton was actually persuasive.

/Ohhh, I don't know... Obama may just persuade a whole bunch of folks to do things they never dreamed about...

412 midwestgak  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:44:11pm

re: #406 Catttt

Geez, I feel old. Religion never came up when I was in kindergarten. Crayons, games, watching ants, getting your tongue stuck on the metal fence, yes - but not religion.

Not politics either, unless memorizing the American presidents in order can be considered political.

413 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:44:40pm

re: #399 pink freud

Clinton was a good actor who presented a "down-to-earth" type of person.

414 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:44:42pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

If you had added a {choke} and {sob} somewhere in there you might have fooled me. But I know you're not GB.

415 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:45:10pm

re: #409 Killgore Trout

I'm getting the hang of this right wing populism thing.

You're really going to confuse all the lefties who hate you. They won't know how to rant about you on other blogs.

416 nikis-knight  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:45:13pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

Another Call to Action
By Killgore Trout

In opposition the the unfair American progressive tax code I'm going to enact my own voluntary flat tax and pay 35% income tax in solidarity with the persecuted wealthy of this great nation. I encourage all patriots to join me in this people powered grass roots activism of voluntary taxation. The Cloward-Piven Cabal will quake with fear when we stand in solidarity with our wealthy brothers!
Power to the people!
We Surround Them!


If only the people who advocated higher taxes actually went ahead and paid them proactively.

417 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:45:58pm

re: #404 zombie

BTW, I'm sorry I haven't answered your very nice email. Will give you an excruciatingly-detailed answer/update in a few days.

418 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:46:04pm

re: #413 screaming_eagle

Clinton was a good actor who presented a "down-to-earth" type of person.

* * * *
Not bad for a serial rapist (documented) and serious adulterer and desecrator of the Oval Office.

419 jcm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:46:08pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

Another Call to Action
By Killgore Trout

In opposition the the unfair American progressive tax code I'm going to enact my own voluntary flat tax and pay 35% income tax in solidarity with the persecuted wealthy of this great nation. I encourage all patriots to join me in this people powered grass roots activism of voluntary taxation. The Cloward-Piven Cabal will quake with fear when we stand in solidarity with our wealthy brothers!
Power to the people!
We Surround Them!

35% what deal.........

420 Digital Display  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:46:42pm

OK Lizards..Almost tme to run to watch some March Madness.
Need to drop in the lounge to say 'what up' real quick.
May today find you all well and in good health..Don't forget to click on Dr. C's website i posted earlier...He spends hours explaining theories about the Universe on his blog and gets a couple hits a month..Reward him and yourself by spending some time reading about science and the Cosmo.
Night friends..
[Link: coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com...]

421 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:47:01pm

re: #413 screaming_eagle

Clinton was a good actor who presented a "down-to-earth" type of person.

Perhaps a big-ass fake down-to-earth person who set off my finely adjusted creep-meter.

422 nikis-knight  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:47:03pm

re: #419 jcm

35% what deal.........

Does that include SS, medicare/aid/cal/whatever, FICA, etc.?

423 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:47:09pm

re: #419 jcm

35% what deal.........

Can I call solidarity with 0bama nominees? No percent?

424 pink freud  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:47:19pm

re: #408 alegrias

* * * *
All American? CLinton spent time abroad protesting against his country.

Sorry, I don't find it "all American" to trash your country.

I knew I would get that response from you after I read on down to your comment. I didn't do a good job of picking my words or explaining what I meant. I don't find trashing one's country all-American either. The contrast I was trying to make was that Clinton was not using the office of the President to destroy the country and its foundations. 0 is.

425 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:47:32pm

re: #418 alegrias

* * * *
Not bad for a serial rapist (documented) and serious adulterer and desecrator of the Oval Office.

Hell he could fake tears when he needed to.

426 DEZes  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:47:33pm

Gonna go and relax, its been a rough week.
Later Lizards.

427 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:48:47pm

re: #413 screaming_eagle

Clinton was a good actor who presented a "down-to-earth" type of person.

And President O is an actor who can't memorize his lines.

428 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:48:53pm

re: #415 Catttt

You're really going to confuse all the lefties who hate you. They won't know how to rant about you on other blogs.

I'm sure they'll figure out something. I'm accumulating nicknames like Igor Trout and Killgore Guppy.

429 nikis-knight  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:49:01pm

re: #424 pink freud

At the end of the day, they're both the same. It's all about them.

430 jcm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:49:19pm

re: #422 nikis-knight

Does that include SS, medicare/aid/cal/whatever, FICA, etc.?

Last year I calculated Federal, (all the above) State and local.

41%.

431 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:49:34pm

re: #422 nikis-knight

Does that include SS, medicare/aid/cal/whatever, FICA, etc.?

Of course not, silly. That's only marginal income tax.

432 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:49:43pm

re: #428 Killgore Trout

I'm sure they'll figure out something. I'm accumulating nicknames like Igor Trout and Killgore Guppy.

Lol! You go, Killgore. :D

433 screaming_eagle  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:50:15pm

re: #427 Catttt

And President O is an actor who can't memorize his lines.

Hell, he can't even comprehend what the telepromter is telling him to say. As in thanking himself for throwing a party.

435 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:50:31pm

re: #427 Catttt

And President O is an actor who can't memorize his lines.

Which makes him qualified to be Key Grip, or something like that.

436 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:50:32pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

A little sarcasm goes a long way, KT.

437 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:50:53pm

re: #432 Catttt

They were calling me Rasputin at one of the stalker blogs for a while. I never understood that one.

438 BatGuano  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:50:59pm

re: #377 zombie

Zombie, I went to government in the paleolithic era (60's and 70's). I remember every teacher I ever had and I do not know any of their political or religious beliefs: It was not a relevant topic of discussion! That teacher would have been fired, way back when. This teacher was proud of her response and knows not where she went wrong. If a student had asked , " Is it possible for one man to die for all the world's sins?, I think I know what the response would be.

439 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:51:06pm

Dare I say it? Is President O our first affirmative action President?

440 alegrias  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:51:07pm

re: #424 pink freud

I knew I would get that response from you after I read on down to your comment. I didn't do a good job of picking my words or explaining what I meant. I don't find trashing one's country all-American either. The contrast I was trying to make was that Clinton was not using the office of the President to destroy the country and its foundations. 0 is.

* * * *
Clinton and his team (Rahm Emanuel, James Carville, Paul Begala, the "War Room" and accusations of "right wing conspiracies" were nearly identical to Obama's inner circle. It's the same team of thugs.

Clinton used the Office of President to pretend to "feel your pain" while ignoring the threats abroad and attacks on our country he was ELECTED to address.

Clinton's dereliction of duty--to his presidential duties of "preserve, protect & defend" our country-- meant he let the War on Terror start on his watch, unanswered 8 times.

441 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:51:14pm

re: #436 mikalm

A little sarcasm goes a long way, KT.

Does it?
/

442 Mirage  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:52:24pm

re: #394 ConservatismNow!

By the Catholic rules, if you thought about it, you said it. 5 Hail Marys and an All Father.

Might as well post the joke since you're being punished for the deed. :D

443 Killian Bundy  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:53:33pm

Murtha defends statement

The region’s outspoken congressman is in the national lens again – this time CBS News television cameras – in a report Wednesday that calls him “the king of earmarks who wastes a lot of taxpayer money” and implies that the FBI is investigating.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Johnstown, responded by waving the Constitution at the camera, saying: “What it says is the Congress of the United States appropriates the money. Got that?”

/Congress is chock full of criminals that really need to go to jail

444 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:53:36pm

re: #437 Killgore Trout

They were calling me Rasputin at one of the stalker blogs for a while. I never understood that one.

Hell, I'd consider that a compliment. Any man with a forearm-sized you-know-what, who can eat an entire poisoned cake, take five bullets and still try to fight his assailants, is a man I can admire.

445 brookly red  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:53:40pm

re: #434 Slumbering Behemoth

Dangerous Populism in effect.

This is not America.

446 UberInfidel67  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:54:36pm

re: #396 DEZes Perfect!

447 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:54:42pm

re: #437 Killgore Trout

They were calling me Rasputin at one of the stalker blogs for a while. I never understood that one.

I'd say that was a compliment. The man had nothing if not incredible stamina and powers of persuasion, at least in some quarters. And then, of course, there's his penis.

448 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:55:40pm

re: #444 mikalm

Hell, I'd consider that a compliment. Any man with a forearm-sized you-know-what, who can eat an entire poisoned cake, take five bullets and still try to fight his assailants, is a man I can admire.

And after all that - he died of drowning (they tied him in a sack and threw him in the river).

449 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:55:41pm

re: #444 mikalm

Yeah, I google him to see why it was supposed to be a put down. It remains a mystery to me.

450 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:56:11pm

re: #447 Catttt

Ha!

451 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:57:18pm

re: #449 Killgore Trout

Maybe it was a complement? Didn't Rasputin have a gigantic...influence?

452 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:57:39pm

re: #451 ConservatismNow!

See #447

453 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:58:19pm

re: #387 UberInfidel67

An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack. The family drove wildly to
get him to the emergency room.

After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER Doctor appeared, wearing his
scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid he is brain-dead, but
his heart is still beating."

"Oh, Dear God," cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks with
shock! "We've never had a Democrat in the family before!"

LOL...that was great....

454 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:58:24pm

re: #447 Catttt

I'd say that was a compliment. The man had nothing if not incredible stamina and powers of persuasion, at least in some quarters. And then, of course, there's his penis.

A Rasputin penis thread - is that a first?

455 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:58:41pm

re: #449 Killgore Trout

Yeah, I google him to see why it was supposed to be a put down. It remains a mystery to me.

Calling the shots for the Romanovs (Charles)? I dunno. I wouldn't want to try to enter their deranged minds... If so it's pretty stupid.

456 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:58:52pm

That's funny -- Rasputin is mentioned, and several of us here chime in about his schlong.

457 UberInfidel67  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:59:42pm

Just zipped off an email to Congress.org: Do I support the National Service whatthehellevertheycallit. I said I thought it was wonderful but they had the name wrong. Shouldn't it be Hitler Youth?

One day, they will come for me/

458 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 3:59:47pm

re: #434 Slumbering Behemoth

Dangerous Populism in effect.

That's pretty sad. When people find out where I work, they ask for investment advice, which I can't give them. I direct them to our Web site, though. Of course, my company is careful, conservative, and has no debt. In times like this, people appreciate that.

459 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:00:23pm

re: #454 debutaunt

A Rasputin penis thread - is that a first?

I have to admit that I may have possibly linked to Rasputin's penis before. :D

460 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:00:25pm

re: #241 eon

Germany, 1921, when a (originally) pfennig (penny) postage stamp printed up as costing 1 million DM had to be overstamped with a rubber stamp to 1 milliarden (one billion in American notation) before it was issued, to keep up with runaway hyper-inflation.

/We so do not need to go there.

cheers

eon

USA: the new Zimbabwe

461 Bloodnok  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:00:51pm

re: #459 Catttt

I have to admit that I may have possibly linked to Rasputin's penis before. :D

Helloooooo!

462 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:01:44pm

re: #456 mikalm

That's funny -- Rasputin is mentioned, and several of us here chime in about his schlong.

Well, he had a memorable one. Plus, how many men's penises are in a museum?

463 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:02:25pm

re: #461 Bloodnok

Helloooooo!

I couldn't resist. That also can be taken two ways. :D

464 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:02:46pm

re: #391 Occasional Reader

In fact it's so dirty, I'm even ashamed to read about you having thought about it.

And I don't even know the joke!

And I comrade, in solidarity with you, am ashamed that you are ashamed to read about this running dog lackey, capitalist pig, dirty joke.
/ Practicing to fit in to the new Amerikka

465 razorbacker  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:03:04pm

Commenter Popcorn at theneweditor.com makes a modest proposal.

We should tax compaign contributions at whatever level Congress sets as the highest tax rate.

I like it.

466 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:03:12pm

I don't want to go talk about the creationist mom. I want to talk about Rasputin's penis. Hummph. /

467 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:03:35pm

re: #459 Catttt

I have to admit that I may have possibly linked to Rasputin's penis before. :D

You don't seem that old, Catttt.

Seriously, didn't ol' Grigori have a Charlie-Manson-style harem of groupies, along with his Romanov followers?

468 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:03:43pm
469 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:04:32pm

re: #466 Catttt

hahahaahahahahhaaha

470 Spare O'Lake  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:05:23pm

Can I walk beside you?
I have come here to lose the fog,
And I feel to be a cog,
In something turning.
- Joni Mitchell, Woodstock

471 mikalm  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:05:53pm

re: #468 ploome hineni

Public School is not a place for religion

This teacher's religion is Multiculturalism, and that creed knows no boundaries.

472 debutaunt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:05:54pm

Just saw this: "Olson husband: No interviews is parole condition."

I hope that SLA woman opens her yap and is sent back to the slam.

473 ConservatismNow!  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:06:34pm

re: #452 Killgore Trout

Unless they were referring to this Rasputin. In that case, you'd be friggin awesome. I think it's this one.

474 Catttt  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:08:14pm

re: #467 mikalm

You don't seem that old, Catttt.

Seriously, didn't ol' Grigori have a Charlie-Manson-style harem of groupies, along with his Romanov followers?

Harem? Well, that's what they say..... Upper class Russian women did seem rather fond of him.

475 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:14:31pm

re: #434 Slumbering Behemoth

Dangerous Populism in effect.

This is what the Democrats are cultivating. What the bastards don't know is that it can turn on them as well.

476 razorbacker  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:15:01pm

re: #443 Killian Bundy

Murtha defends statement

/Congress is chock full of criminals that really need to go to jail

I disagree.

Putting Congresscritters in with the general prison population would be unbelievably harmful to the rest of the convicts.

Especially the thieves. Imagine how damaging to their self-esteem, to be shown just how third-rate that their piddling little efforts had been, when compared to a real thief.

No, if ever there is to be any hope of rehabilitation and reintegration into society, congresscritters must never be allowed close to relatively Innocent convicts.

477 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:15:05pm

re: #457 UberInfidel67

One day, they will come for me

Used to be "Some day my prince will come..."

478 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:15:16pm

re: #404 zombie

That's what makes me so angry. I know this teacher is simply a prototype for the way that almost ALL teachers are these days. Every minute of every day, every child in American is being brainwashed. We've become so complacent about this extremely depressing fact.

It can't even accurately be called "multi-culturalism". It's Eastern mysticism, purely and simply.

The purveyors of the "multi-culti" mindset reject Western culture completely, hence, their claim to be "multicultural" is itself a lie. Western culture is based on thiought, logic, and above all reason. The "multi-culti" crowd rejects all of these, preferring a system that requires neither judgment or even actual capacity for reason. Their preference for the mystical point of view is conditioned by the fact that it does not require rational thought, or indeed any thought at all. Instead, it is operated and motivated purely by "feelings"- by emotional reactions at a visceral level, the (if the Lizard Legion will pardon my pointing it out) hindbrain or "R (for "Reptile")- Complex" at work, the most primitive part of our brains. All the R-complex cares about is endorphin release; hence the "progressive" mantra, "If it feels good, do it."

People like this teacher want to "feel good" about themselves. Well, most people do, but the majority of us are mature enough to realize that sometimes, reality will require us to face facts we'd rather not. The "progressives" reject this- unpleasant facts must be ignored, and anyone who insists that they must be faced must be driven out- so they can keep feeling "good about themselves". No matter what.

The result?


Their non-material, non-profit worlds are realms where rivers run with milk and coffee, where wine spurts from rocks at their command, where pastry drops on them from clouds at the price of opening their mouths. On this material, profit-chasing earth, an enormous investment of virtue- of intelligence, integrity, energy, skill- is required to construct a railroad to carry them the distance of one mile; in their non-material, non-profit world, they travel from planet to planet at the cost of a wish. If an honest person asks them "How?"-- they answer with righteous scorn that a 'how' is the concept of vulgar realists; the concept of superior spirits is 'Somehow'. On this earth restricted by matter and profit, rewards are achieved by thought; in a world set free of such restriction, rewards are achieved by wishing.

-John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

These are people who genuinely "feel" that their beliefs condition reality. And when reality does not agree, they cast blame on it. It is the logic of a two-year-old who throws a tantrum whenever he doesn't get his way. One can only imagine this teacher's reaction if the little boy had said that he didn't believe that elephants could be deities. That would have been apostasy, by the "logic" she follows- because that would be a decidedly Western, materialistic, and non-mystical point of view.

Which is why arguing with a multiculturalist, on the basis of logic, is a waste of time. Sorry to state, but you, and the multiculturalist, are not even speaking the same language. And they reject the one you speak as wrong, and even dishonest- because it doesn't always let them "feel good" about themselves.

cheers

eon

479 eon  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:18:49pm

re: #460 Alouette

USA: the new Zimbabwe

Good point. If I'd remembered Mugabe's h**lhole, I could have avoided skating even that close to Godwin's Law.

cheers

eon

480 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:26:47pm
481 Russkilitlover  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:29:14pm

re: #434 Slumbering Behemoth

Dangerous Populism in effect.

The comments are scary, too. It's really not difficult to whip up a mob and they are pliable enought to mold into any shape. If ANYONE gets hurt because they are an AIG employee, a lot of "fellow Americans" will have a lot to answer for.

482 DisturbedEma  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:32:25pm

Oh oh, Peggy must be soooo pissed. . .

483 LGoPs  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:35:31pm

re: #478 eon

-John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

These are people who genuinely "feel" that their beliefs condition reality. And when reality does not agree, they cast blame on it. It is the logic of a two-year-old who throws a tantrum whenever he doesn't get his way. One can only imagine this teacher's reaction if the little boy had said that he didn't believe that elephants could be deities. That would have been apostasy, by the "logic" she follows- because that would be a decidedly Western, materialistic, and non-mystical point of view.

Which is why arguing with a multiculturalist, on the basis of logic, is a waste of time. Sorry to state, but you, and the multiculturalist, are not even speaking the same language. And they reject the one you speak as wrong, and even dishonest- because it doesn't always let them "feel good" about themselves.

cheers

eon

Excellent summation and analysis. I've always thought of these bastards as dangerous 5 year olds. Dangerous, because unlike a 5 year old who will get a swat if he throws a tantrum, these bastards actually are now in charge of things that have a real world impact on our lives and their judgment can't be trusted anymore than a 5 year olds.
Multi-culti liberalism is a lazy, anti-intellectual world view. And they call us stupid. Sheesh.

484 Dr. Shalit  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:37:03pm

re: #5 capitalist piglet

Politico: Obama struggles as communicator

It's not your eyesight. You read it right.

capitalist piglet -

He is "TOTUS" - the "Teleprompter of the United States." One gremlin in the 'prompter and he is "speechless." That is all.

-S-

485 DisturbedEma  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:46:44pm

re: #482 DisturbedEma

Oh oh, Peggy must be soooo pissed. . .


here she is. . .

486 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:51:09pm
487 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 4:54:50pm
488 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 5:04:04pm

it's great to see Chris Dodd sizzling on the griddle ... as a voter who lives in Connecticut, I am very much looking forward to voting against him in the next Senate election.

Strangely, Ned lamont had no comment on Dodd's issues

489 TheMatrix31  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 5:06:40pm

American University leads 'Nova, 38-31 with 30 sec in the first half....

Interesting..

490 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 5:08:11pm

Who is the biggest putz in the obama administration?

Plugs Biden
Little Timmy Geithner
Peter Orszag
Robert Gibbs

I say it's a tie between Orszag and Gibbs. Orszag looks like the adult version of the kid in the Blackberry Curve commercial who is freed from the locker by the hall monitor. And Gibbs is about as dumb as a rock. Every time he does a briefing, the Dow Jones goes steadily downward until he shuts his trap.

491 godfrey  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 5:14:37pm

He's bleeding, ploome. We should widen the wounds.

492 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 5:33:10pm
Politicians seem to turn into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible.

Ah! The giant paper maché puppets are explained at last!

493 [deleted]  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 6:06:54pm
494 herbieham  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 9:58:30pm

Hi America!

One week until our great game begins -Aussie rules

[Link: www.afl.com.au...]

Not sure how you post links yet -check it out -why Aussie rules rules!

495 herbieham  Thu, Mar 19, 2009 10:01:55pm

Forgot to add - the footy takes your mind of the looming Obama Ultra Inflation world we are heading towards .

We lost another soldier last night in Afghanistan - regretfully our tenth -but already Rudd is "considering our commitment"
As Spineless as any democrat.

496 StillAMarine  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 7:26:16am

Václav Havel, whose quote appears as the subject of this open thread, was a real inspiration for me, giving me me new hope during a hard patch. I know that the word "hope" has recently taken on a new, sarcastic connotation, but during that bad time, a friend arranged for me to receive a copy of Havel's "Speech on Hope" from the man himself.

Read it, your time will not be wasted.


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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
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