Did the film 'Network' come to life and is staring this man?

Only thing currently running through my mind is "What a douchebag."

Who does he think he is? Howard Beale?
Life imitates art.

Paranoia is a very comfortable state of mind.

Glenn Beck- he's mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore.

He already has bees living in his head, maybe someone should look into that.

he is insane

Glenn Beck, Character Assassin, commits sepuku

Guess he fell off the wagon.

He's announced previously that his daughter had asked him why they have 2 police cars parked outside of their home every night. He didn't tell her that it was due to multiple death threats, but it was. And that was a couple of months ago.

i suspect medication non-compliance.

How much do we need to pay CNN to take him back?

The word "goober" comes to mind.

It is all about the ratings.

re: #13 Sharmuta

The word "goober" comes to mind.

The attorneys representing goobers around the global are on Line 1.

tick...tick...tick...

Maybe Glen's turning into to another raving lunatic namely, Keith Olbermann.

Global. Globe.

I'm waiting for Beck to flip out like Howard Dean did in 2004. BYAAAH!

i'm fairly confident that watching his show constitutes torture, and that he's a ticking bomb.

re: #13 Sharmuta

The word "goober" comes to mind.

twaddling prat has a certain ring to it

I'm coming to hate pundits.

poor Glen: the assassins already got his talent...

I'm listening to a GM dealer talk about the fact that once the 4000 dealers are "fired" by GM, they have the foreign dealers already lining up begging them to be dealers. Makes sense.

. A cry for help. Mr. Beck may report a mysterious attack at the airport a la Morton Downey Jr.

Well, in all fairness, the quote assigned to his "suicide" moment

("Do you see yourself there at all? Have you ever been there? I’ve been there.")

merely states the obvious. Seems to me that many, many people (perhaps even the majority) after they get a decent way down the road in life, have all experienced moments in their lives when that thought occurs to them.

I suspect the thought, not the attempt, is pretty much a universal if the inner life of people were known.

Oy vey, recommending mental health gulags for tv personalities you disagree with, very socialist republic.

Yesterday's 3rd in line to the Presidency Nancy Pelosi's manic paranoid schizophrenic act was the craziest real act I've seen in years, after Baghdad Bob. But I'm not recommending she go to the insane asylum.

re: #19 wiffersnapper

I'm waiting for Beck to flip out like Howard Dean did in 2004. BYAAAH!

* * * *
Howard Dean raised most of the money to elect Barack Obama and democrats, so Dr. Dean the manic, had the last laugh.

Methinks Mr. Beck likes to hear the sound of his own voice.

re: #11 redc1c4

i suspect medication non-compliance.

This is a two-fer.

(Happy Birthday, Chris!)

Beck's greatest fear shouldn't be suicide, assassins, or the like. He should be truly concerned about going so far off the deep end (while holding an anvil) that he will never recover.

And this rhetoric...

The fact is- we could audit every agency that takes federal money and be outraged. Without even discussing where federal money goes, there is a fundamental problem with the spending mechanism when these agencies must comply with spending every cent of the money to guarantee funding in the next budget. To get outraged about ACORN is to miss the large picture. These spending practices are part of the infrastructure.

We need real spending reform.

In this creepy video Beck recorded after his hemorrhoid operation "gone horribly awry," he says he's "full-fledged suicidal:"

re: #27 alegrias

Who recommended that except for you?

I have been as critical of this man as anyone on this board. But do you have any doubts that he has received death threats from leftist swine and islamonazis?

re: #31 StillAMarine

Beck's greatest fear shouldn't be suicide, assassins, or the like. He should be truly concerned about going so far off the deep end (while holding an anvil) that he will never recover.

* * * *
People, the tv guy's making millions. He can recover his health and still have millions left over.

re: #33 Charles

He's in desperate need of a check up from the neck up.

Glenn Beck is a woman.

re: #27 alegrias

Oy vey, recommending mental health gulags for tv personalities you disagree with, very socialist republic.

What the hell are you talking about?

he's right abt. one thing.
acorn really needs to be scrutinized.
it's cult.

re: #33 Charles

He needs some serious help. I'd suggest anywhere with padded walls.

re: #38 Capitalist Tool

Glenn Beck is a woman.

no,
he's 50 yr. old teenage boy.

re: #27 alegrias

Have you seen Beck recently? He's certifiably nuts.

re: #42 nyc redneck

no,
he's 50 yr. old teenage boy.

Apologies to women...

The only thing Rupert Murdoch is interested in is whether Beck's ratings are good?
If his apparent popularity starts to drop, then Murdoch will drop him.
Otherwise he doesn't interfere.

IMO Glenn resorts to tongue in cheek and hyperbole too frequently. Other than that he's not any more unbalanced than the average cable news comedian.

re: #27 alegrias

Oy vey, recommending mental health gulags for tv personalities you disagree with, very socialist republic.

Yesterday's 3rd in line to the Presidency Nancy Pelosi's manic paranoid schizophrenic act was the craziest real act I've seen in years, after Baghdad Bob. But I'm not recommending she go to the insane asylum.

She does seriously need some sort of mental health screening if she thinks anyone believed that rant.

re: #44 Capitalist Tool

Apologies to women...

no problem,
i understand where you were coming from w/ that.

re: #33 Charles

I think Beck's suicide meme crops up every once and a while (and i wonder if it's not due to the fact that his mother committed suicide, and I don't think Beck has ever - fully - recovered from it...just my opinion).

re: #44 Capitalist Tool

Apologies to women...

Don't get started with that, it sets a bad precedent. /ducks

re: #33 Charles

In this creepy video Beck recorded after his hemorrhoid operation "gone horribly awry," he says he's "full-fledged suicidal:"

Youtube Video

Fact-check his butt!

re: #33 Charles

He's either an extremely talented and innovative actor or ...

/my money's on the "or"

re: #24 DistantThunder

I'm listening to a GM dealer talk about the fact that once the 4000 dealers are "fired" by GM, they have the foreign dealers already lining up begging them to be dealers. Makes sense.

There's only 1,100 dealers that GM will be terminating contracts with when these contracts run out. As for foreign automakers lining up? BWAHAHAHA! Good luck. Most of them already have the dealers they want. GM is looking to get rid of the bottom of the barrel, the ones no one should want as a dealer.

re: #40 nyc redneck

he's right abt. one thing.
acorn really needs to be scrutinized.
it's cult.

Won't loons such as Beck going on and on about them give them some credibility?

Does Beck do his webcasts live?
I have no idea -- I doubt it, but I'm just askin'

/yes, there sure as hell IS a reason for the question

re: #49 J.S.

I think Beck's suicide meme crops up every once and a while (and i wonder if it's not due to the fact that his mother committed suicide, and I don't think Beck has ever - fully - recovered from it...just my opinion).

Hmmm. Now I pity him. I think he should get some help.

I'm not surprised he's worried.

re: #56 Sharmuta

I agree. He needs help. (I recall that he once said that it was his mother's suicide which drove him to alcohol -- used it as a way to forget).

re: #54 MandyManners

Won't loons such as Beck going on and on about them give them some credibility?

Hi Mandy! That's an interesting point. Often, Beck will have interesting guests (e.g. CEO of GM, John Bolton, a number of different economists) whose opinions/positions I really find interesting. Unfortunately, I can see where the opposition would make the point (logical or not) that if a) Beck is a loon, and b) these people are willing to appear on his program, then c) these folks must be loons as well.

I really, really miss William F. Buckley Jr.

hemorrhoid operation "gone horribly awry,"

The surgeon accidentally nicked some gray matter?

re: #24 DistantThunder

I'm listening to a GM dealer talk about the fact that once the 4000 dealers are "fired" by GM, they have the foreign dealers already lining up begging them to be dealers. Makes sense.

I totally do not understand what the benefit is supposed to be of closing independent dealers.

re: #55 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Does Beck do his webcasts live?
I have no idea -- I doubt it, but I'm just askin'

/yes, there sure as hell IS a reason for the question

Want to know the time and the place?

re: #54 MandyManners

Won't loons such as Beck going on and on about them give them some credibility?

That is a good point. The loony left and loony right lend credence to each others paranoid rants while the MSM laps it up and regurgitates it at a margin.

re: #24 DistantThunder

I'm listening to a GM dealer talk about the fact that once the 4000 dealers are "fired" by GM, they have the foreign dealers already lining up begging them to be dealers. Makes sense.

The reason the American dealers are being cut is they have 4-6 times as many based on sales volume compared to the imports. Too many unprofitable dealers selling 2-3 new car a week.
Like the big box stores domination of retail sales, the same will happen with car dealers, one mega dealer in a town instead of 4 little ones.

re: #54 MandyManners

Won't loons such as Beck going on and on about them give them some credibility?

no,
the message abt. acorn is bigger than the messenger.
the terminology from former acorn members who said they didn't lose their jobs,
they were "dissolved".
that is creepy. no matter who delivers the info.

Another quote from that November radio show:

This is why I didn't kill myself, and I'm ashamed to say it but it was cowardess [sic] that saved my life. I was afraid of the pain. I was afraid of putting the gun in my mouth. I couldn't throw myself off a roof. That would freak me out. If I could have just gone to sleep. I don't know why I was too stupid to think of ODing on something, but I guess I was doing it in a way with all of the alcohol.

re: #61 itellu3times

I totally do not understand what the benefit is supposed to be of closing independent dealers.

Too many.

Assassins? Like in "Mortal Kombat"?

/frawress victory!

/finish him!

He's a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict... It does not surprise me that he has had suicidal thoughts...

And regarding the ACORN thingy, he has had on the ACORN whistleblowers the last few days so it doesn't surprise me he's looking over his shoulder...

President Palin’s First 100 Days

re: #69 tfc3rid

He's a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict... It does not surprise me that he has had suicidal thoughts...

And regarding the ACORN thingy, he has had on the ACORN whistleblowers the last few days so it doesn't surprise me he's looking over his shoulder...

Lots of money involved here...

re: #59 subsailor68

I really, really miss William F. Buckley Jr.

That's the fundamental challenge with the 'big tent' - too many of those who belong on the fringe get inside. Unfortunately, there are not enough of those like Mr. Buckley who are willing to police the conservative movement of the fringe.

Just because he acts like a paranoid freakazoid, that doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get him...

Glenn Beck eating breakfast.

"Honey, my cereal is spelling out a messages! Its saying OOO!"

"Glen, those are cheerios."

He doesn't need to worry about ACORN. They would just kill four other people with similar names.

/

It's a little disturbing that his employer isn't concerned about him.

Re #33 Charles,
Creepy indeed!
An arsehole making a melodrama out of his sore arsehole!

re: #61 itellu3times

I totally do not understand what the benefit is supposed to be of closing independent dealers.

They have way too many dealers. It's a legacy of a time when we had smaller towns and no freeways. GM decided to have dealers in every little town, and then also decided to have dealers for each brand. My home town at one time had a dealer for each Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac at the same time.

re: #74 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

LOL

There was the Freddie Mac CEO suicide, and I thought there was another one recently...

re: #56 Sharmuta

btw, another thing which I noted (and found rather annoying to say the least) was back when Beck was on CNN Headline News -- he kept featuring this so-called "psychic" (who communicated with the dead) -- yeah, as if we don't know who it was Beck was interested in "communicating" with...(...sigh...)

I am interested in someone from the media scrutinizing Acorn's activities. I would prefer if that "someone" had some general credibility. Glenn Beck lacks much credibility because he is an obvious nut case. However, I not that much interested in whether Glenn Beck is suicidal, or not, or lying about being suicidal, or not. I would appear to me that he is discussing suicidal feelings for some dramatic emphasis. Rupert Murdock should replace Glenn Beck with someone who is less kooky.

He is a former hop-head?!

re: #74 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Glenn Beck eating breakfast.

"Honey, my cereal is spelling out a messages! Its saying OOO!"

"Glen, those are cheerios."

LOL

re: #80 DistantThunder

There was the Freddie Mac CEO suicide, and I thought there was another one recently...

I think one of the dudes who was part and parcel to MAdoff.

However entertaining Beck is at least he is bringing attention to ACORN and keeping it in the public spotlight where it so desperately needs to be and with any luck many of these ACORN people will go to jail and the whole complex organization will run for cover.

re: #64 avanti

The reason the American dealers are being cut is they have 4-6 times as many based on sales volume compared to the imports. Too many unprofitable dealers selling 2-3 new car a week.
Like the big box stores domination of retail sales, the same will happen with car dealers, one mega dealer in a town instead of 4 little ones.

We have a dealer here in southeast CT that was selling over 1,000 cars a quarter and is now selling under 250 quarterly and they are on the closing list. I can't see the logic of closing a car dealer that was selling over a thousand cars every 3 months when the economy was OK. Seriously, what sort of volume are these guys looking for in todays economy?

re: #62 Rancher

Want to know the time and the place?

Well ... uh ... (if the answer to my question is yes) ... BECK just might want us to know that.

/if he's as deranged as he appears, anything just might be possible

re: #81 J.S. At least he's made progress from dealing with those who communicate with the dead to those who help them vote. /

re: #22 Sharmuta

I'm coming to hate pundits.

I've hated the whole idea of television punditry since it was born. They never reported the news, only opined on it with selective culling of facts. Now the standard is to BE the news.

And enough people think this is a good trend?!? Might as well have Jerry Springer or Oprah "do" the news.

re: #74 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Glenn Beck eating breakfast.

"Honey, my cereal is spelling out a messages! Its saying OOO!"

"Glen, those are cheerios."

"It is not a message obligating you to moan."

Using the post op video is unnecessary. There is more than enough ammo out there to prove your point. Beck clearly had an unfavorable response to his anesthesia and inability to get pain relief from his meds.(probably extremely low pain tolerance due to his history of substance abuse). That said, the guy really shouldn't do a bedside interview when he is in such a fragile mental state. Unshaven and teary eyed isn't helpful.

re: #61 itellu3times

I totally do not understand what the benefit is supposed to be of closing independent dealers.

I can tell you from the failure of Studebaker decades ago. A small dealer back then might be a converted service station with maybe one car and one truck on display and they'd factory order most sales. It was much more expensive to support 2000 small to medium sized dealers compared to say 500 big ones. I have letters from Studebaker in my collection, begging small dealers to display a convertible, or maybe even a sports car, but they were too small to support the entire line.
It's the same for GM, the big dealers may stock several 100 of one model, so the customer can pick color and equipment off the lot, the small one, maybe a half dozen.
It's all about economies of scale.

On the GM issue, who is making the call which dealerships to close? GM or the Government (I know they are one and the same now...)...

re: #86 Miss Molly

However entertaining Beck is at least he is bringing attention to ACORN and keeping it in the public spotlight where it so desperately needs to be and with any luck many of these ACORN people will go to jail and the whole complex organization will run for cover.

But it's not just ACORN. There are hundreds of agencies that take federal money- all of them would probably make you see red at the waste of our money.

re: #90 FurryOldGuyJeans

I've hated the whole idea of television punditry since it was born. They never reported the news, only opined on it with selective culling of facts. Now the standard is to BE the news.

And enough people think this is a good trend?!? Might as well have Jerry Springer or Oprah "do" the news.

Why not both simultaneously?

re: #83 MandyManners

I haven't heard about any heroin addiction...only that he was an alcoholic.

re: #91 Capitalist Tool

"It is not a message obligating you to moan."

"Quite, its my contact is telling me who shot Kennedy now!"

"Thats nice dear, but try and save some of the Rice Krispies for the kids breakfast, okay?"

re: #93 avanti

I can tell you from the failure of Studebaker decades ago. A small dealer back then might be a converted service station with maybe one car and one truck on display and they'd factory order most sales. It was much more expensive to support 2000 small to medium sized dealers compared to say 500 big ones. I have letters from Studebaker in my collection, begging small dealers to display a convertible, or maybe even a sports car, but they were too small to support the entire line.
It's the same for GM, the big dealers may stock several 100 of one model, so the customer can pick color and equipment off the lot, the small one, maybe a half dozen.
It's all about economies of scale.

Nobody here gives a shit about your tchochka collection.

re: #95 Sharmuta

But it's not just ACORN. There are hundreds of agencies that take federal money- all of them would probably make you see red at the waste of our money.

But ACORN is intimately involved in election fraud and will likely have a great deal of gravitas in the Census...

It's a big story.

And now some not pundit-centered, actual news:

Shuttle snapped up against sun

So very cool!

No. 69.

re: #89 DaddyG

oh boy, good one...lol

re: #26 Vanderleun

Well, in all fairness, the quote assigned to his "suicide" moment

("Do you see yourself there at all? Have you ever been there? I’ve been there.")

merely states the obvious. Seems to me that many, many people (perhaps even the majority) after they get a decent way down the road in life, have all experienced moments in their lives when that thought occurs to them.

I suspect the thought, not the attempt, is pretty much a universal if the inner life of people were known.

Now we gotta keep an eye on you, too.

/

re: #90 FurryOldGuyJeans

I've hated the whole idea of television punditry since it was born. They never reported the news, only opined on it with selective culling of facts. Now the standard is to BE the news.

And enough people think this is a good trend?!? Might as well have Jerry Springer or Oprah "do" the news.

Spot on.

re: #96 MandyManners

Why not both simultaneously?

In a way they might actually elevate the standards of TV Punditry. Beck is a total maroon.

If Glenn Beck were abducted by aliens, do you think they would have a hard time figuring out where to stick the probe?

re: #64 avanti

The reason the American dealers are being cut is they have 4-6 times as many based on sales volume compared to the imports. Too many unprofitable dealers selling 2-3 new car a week.
Like the big box stores domination of retail sales, the same will happen with car dealers, one mega dealer in a town instead of 4 little ones.

So, economic darwinism isn't acceptable - or leveraging economies of scale and efficiencies to ultimately offer more competitive prices for the consumer? Instead, the weak and those unable to compete need to be maintained - for what reason again?

I've looked through the Chrysler list and recognized some relatively large dealerships that are losing their franchises. One Van Nuys, CA based dealership went from selling an average of 300 cars a month to about 35-40 per month after the CA tax increases - and that is before the massive increase coming later this month in vehicle license fees. Another Green Brook, NJ dealer on the list was, when I used to live in NJ, a very large and successful dealership.

re: #69 tfc3rid

He's a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict... It does not surprise me that he has had suicidal thoughts...

And regarding the ACORN thingy, he has had on the ACORN whistleblowers the last few days so it doesn't surprise me he's looking over his shoulder...

Do you have a link for the bit about heroin addiction?

re: #102 MandyManners

No. 69.

I know he was a drug addict as well... I think I recall him saying it was heroin...

So if you were suicidal in your past, you're forever suicidal?

re: #100 tfc3rid

But ACORN is intimately involved in election fraud and will likely have a great deal of gravitas in the Census...

It's a big story.

It's the states that should be correcting voter fraud with ID checks. Investigate it all you want, but this isn't an exclusive problem to ACORN. The solution is to reform the spending mechanisms in Congress.

re: #26 Vanderleun

Well, in all fairness, the quote assigned to his "suicide" moment

("Do you see yourself there at all? Have you ever been there? I’ve been there.")

merely states the obvious. Seems to me that many, many people (perhaps even the majority) after they get a decent way down the road in life, have all experienced moments in their lives when that thought occurs to them.

I suspect the thought, not the attempt, is pretty much a universal if the inner life of people were known.

How dare you attempt to understand something uttered by Glen Beck! You obviously are not getting the LGF memo regarding "how we feel about this guy".

re: #99 Alouette

Nobody here gives a shit about your tchochka collection.

I nosh what you're plotzing with that schtick.

re: #109 MandyManners

Do you have a link for the bit about heroin addiction?

I know on his website he talks about his alcohol and drug addiction but does not specify the drug of choice.

re: #112 Sharmuta

It's the states that should be correcting voter fraud with ID checks. Investigate it all you want, but this isn't an exclusive problem to ACORN. The solution is to reform the spending mechanisms in Congress.

It's subversive to our electoral process to not check ID when you go to vote...

re: #115 tfc3rid

Was it pain killers of some sort?

re: #94 tfc3rid

On the GM issue, who is making the call which dealerships to close? GM or the Government (I know they are one and the same now...)...

GM is, they are trying to reduce their marginal dealers to save money. They scored all their dealers a few weeks back. They used sales volume, service departments, credit rating, and customer satisfaction. If you scored below a certain level, they might be cut.

re: #113 zeebeach

How dare you attempt to understand something uttered by Glen Beck! You obviously are not getting the LGF memo regarding "how we feel about this guy".

Believe it or not, you're allowed to have your own opinions. Even when they're stupid.

Sharmuta -- I know there are tons of other groups the federal gov't is wasting money on. The thing that worries me so much about ACORN is the electoral fraud the commit and intentionaly creating chaos in elections by overwhelming States with phony voter registrations knowing that the States can't check them all out. Their only reason for existence is to steal elections.

If we can only get rid of one group at a time I would like ACORN to be the first to go.

re: #107 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

If Glenn Beck were abducted by aliens, do you think they would have a hard time figuring out where to stick the probe?

I think they'd give him his own TV show.

re: #108 Athos

So, economic darwinism isn't acceptable - or leveraging economies of scale and efficiencies to ultimately offer more competitive prices for the consumer? Instead, the weak and those unable to compete need to be maintained - for what reason again?

I've looked through the Chrysler list and recognized some relatively large dealerships that are losing their franchises. One Van Nuys, CA based dealership went from selling an average of 300 cars a month to about 35-40 per month after the CA tax increases - and that is before the massive increase coming later this month in vehicle license fees. Another Green Brook, NJ dealer on the list was, when I used to live in NJ, a very large and successful dealership.

I wonder if the dealers on the list are the ones doing well and getting the best dealer incentives (discounts); thus costing GM the most?
Unfortunately for GM, they probably get those discounts because they sell a lot. The remaining dealers will still have to compete with the foreign car dealers, but their higher costs will make their cars less of a good buy, causing GM to lose even more business.

OT -

Bob Lutz will be on Letterman next week, to rip him a new one regarding the Chevy Volt.

Bob Lutz will appear on Letterman next week to refute Volt claims

re: #116 tfc3rid

It's subversive to our electoral process to not check ID when you go to vote...

And it's a state issue. There should be more of an effort to push for these sorts of laws in the various states.

re: #119 Charles

How fortunate, huh?

re: #96 MandyManners

Why not both simultaneously?

Chair fights and bags of chicken fat on the same stage would constitute a safety hazard.

Do I sense less alegrias here than usual?

re: #123 Ward Cleaver

OT -

Bob Lutz will be on Letterman next week, to rip him a new one regarding the Chevy Volt.

Bob Lutz will appear on Letterman next week to refute Volt claims

Where will we get the electric power to charge all of these future electric cars? Which auto makers will survive to buid these cars?

I think we should also consider temporary finger dye like in Iraq to prevent voter fraud. The "I Voted!" stickers aren't effective.

re: #120 Miss Molly

Sharmuta -- I know there are tons of other groups the federal gov't is wasting money on. The thing that worries me so much about ACORN is the electoral fraud the commit and intentionaly creating chaos in elections by overwhelming States with phony voter registrations knowing that the States can't check them all out. Their only reason for existence is to steal elections.

If we can only get rid of one group at a time I would like ACORN to be the first to go.

I have to agree. It is not a secret that ACORN is under investigation in at least 13 states for election fraud. So by using logic, one can conclude that the US government is either complicit in alleged voter fraud or accepts voter fraud as part of the election process.

Either argument is sickening to me.

Sharmuta --Do you really believe somelike Nancy Pelosi wants to change spending in the Congress? She doesn't care how much election fraud is involved or how much it costs as long as the Dem's win.

re: #128 Capitalist Tool

Where will we get the electric power to charge all of these future electric cars? Which auto makers will survive to buid these cars?

There won't be anyone to buy them anyone. Get out of college, go to work for free. Unicorns and rainbows, la la la.

re: #124 Sharmuta

And it's a state issue. There should be more of an effort to push for these sorts of laws in the various states.

So much that is problems and controversies these days should be resolved at the state level. The federal government is becoming a tyranny by abrogating the Constitutional limits on its power, and the states are willing partners in their emasculation.

I have been reading here about the "extreme" right being a problem and well, too extreme. But besides here, I hadn't heard much. (mostly because of my avoidance of most media) Today I was listening to Bill Bennett who had a guest host. Someone called in and said they are glad the constitution contains the 2nd amendment and the right to violently overthrow the government. The guest host didn't disagree. Now I know what you mean and it saddens me.

re: #119 Charles

Believe it or not, you're allowed to have your own opinions. Even when they're stupid.

Morning Charles! Yep. But what I really appreciate about LGF is the concept Daniel Patrick Moynihan (IIRC) voiced:

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

re: #129 Sharmuta

I think we should also consider temporary finger dye like in Iraq to prevent voter fraud. The "I Voted!" stickers aren't effective.

I'd love to vote with my middle finger...

re: #129 Sharmuta

I think we should also consider temporary finger dye like in Iraq to prevent voter fraud. The "I Voted!" stickers aren't effective.

Also, water-soluble paint for headstones, which could be washed off the next day by the groundskeepers.

/

re: #129 Sharmuta

I think we should also consider temporary finger dye like in Iraq to prevent voter fraud. The "I Voted!" stickers aren't effective.

Too many groups, not just ACORN, wouldn't allow it. They wouldn't allow accountability so they can get their agenda furthered.

re: #133 FurryOldGuyJeans

So much that is problems and controversies these days should be resolved at the state level. The federal government is becoming a tyranny by abrogating the Constitutional limits on its power, and the states are willing partners in their emasculation.

Texas, Montana, and Oklahoma have begun making noise about the Federal government usurping their powers. Obama wanted to be Lincoln.

re: #131 Miss Molly

Sharmuta --Do you really believe somelike Nancy Pelosi wants to change spending in the Congress? She doesn't care how much election fraud is involved or how much it costs as long as the Dem's win.

I know the democrats don't want to reform spending. They're not my problem so much as republicans who likewise don't want to change the system. I think they all need to go, and be replaced with people who will get the job done and fix the fiscal hemorrhaging in Washington.

re: #135 subsailor68

Morning Charles! Yep. But what I really appreciate about LGF is the concept Daniel Patrick Moynihan (IIRC) voiced:

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

Amen!

re: #132 kansas

There won't be anyone to buy them anyone. Get out of college, go to work for free. Unicorns and rainbows, la la la.

From each according to their abilities. To each according to their needs... i.e.

Milk 'em for all they're worth and then sit back and party down!

re: #128 Capitalist Tool

It's a mystery to anyone paying attention because we're already straining the power grid with our current power usage (and we might get an extra year or so because of the recession dampening demand on power), but once the recovery kicks in, usage will once again soar as more power demands are placed on the grid.

Smart power grids are only smart if there's power behind them. No new power plants that can handle the demand makes a big problem.

It doesn't matter what kind of power generation you're talking about either. The NIMBYots are busy trying to thwart all of them. Nuclear is the best option if you are a true believer in global warming (or just want lower emissions generally), since it doesn't have the downtime that wind, solar, tidal, or hydro can have.

re: #120 Miss Molly

...The thing that worries me so much about ACORN is the electoral fraud the commit and intentionaly creating chaos in elections by overwhelming States with phony voter registrations knowing that the States can't check them all out. Their only reason for existence is to steal elections.

They also target populated urban areas where they can turn elections where lots of electoral votes are in play and use race and socio-economic status as a cover for their activities. Scary stuff.

re: #129 Sharmuta

I think we should also consider temporary finger dye like in Iraq to prevent voter fraud. The "I Voted!" stickers aren't effective.

Stricter absentee ballot laws would help too.

Meh. I don't understand all the Glenn hate. He's a goof, that's for sure. But I can't really disagree with most of his stances. Case in point:

The Republicans are taking us to the same place the Democrats are... just not as quickly. (Train ride or jet flight to Hell, take your pick. Frakkin' progressives...))

ACORN needs to be investigated...(Easy one there, they are working to get only Libtard Democrats elected...Which is fine, except they are doing that with my tax dollars...)

Saying you want a group like ACORN investigated (a group linked to unions and a rather arrogant liberal President in office) that is set to get billions of tax dollars would make me look over my shoulder a bit too. But maybe that's just me...

That the United Nations is corrupt and ineffective...oooh yeah, that's really far off of the mark...

If you actually listen to his message, he makes a heck of a lot more sense than little Keithy or 'Tingle' Matthews...

But if Glenn isn't your cup of tea, then I don't know...maybe change the channel?

re: #99 Alouette

Nobody here gives a shit about your tchochka collection.

That wasn't very nice. Up ding!

re: #142 Capitalist Tool

From each according to their abilities. To each according to their needs... i.e.

Milk 'em for all they're worth and then sit back and party down!

Dude, got any of that $100 steak? Day in an day out with this guy. It never stops. What happened to make a plan, then work it for a while? Here it's bounce from one plan to the next. Somebody needs to give Obama his Ritalin.

Sharmuta -- I have to agree with you that both Democrats and Republicans are loth to change the spending of Congress or for that matter change much of anything of their status quo. I would love to have some people with common sense manage Congress .

OT-Andrew C. McCarthy at NRO sums up nicely the job Holder's Justice Department has been doing so far:

Is there any more important context crying out for transparency than a Justice Department misstep that could have cost American lives?

This misstep, it is worth remembering, does not occur in a vacuum. President Obama has stocked his Justice Department with lawyers who have spent (or whose firms have spent) the last eight years volunteering their services to America’s enemies. This includes Attorney General Holder himself, whose former firm’s website continues to brag about representing 18 alien enemy combatants and about attacking the validity of the Bush-era military commissions. (Those would be the same commissions that President Obama suddenly decided aren’t so bad after all, according to the administration’s most recent Friday Night Bad News Dump.)

It can be no coincidence that, with this DOJ team in place, we’ve already seen: the premature announcement of the closure of Guantánamo Bay, when there was clearly no plan for what to do about the detainees; the outright release of Binyam Mohammed, who plotted with “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla to attack American cities; the purging of the terms “enemy combatant” and “war”; the release of the CIA memos over the strenuous objection of the intelligence community, and in a shamefully dishonest manner that revealed interrogation tactics but suppressed from public view the life-saving information the tactics yielded; the announcement of an investigation of Bush-administration lawyers and the leaking of information from the related ethics probe; AG Holder’s under-the-radar suggestion that he’d cooperate with Spain’s investigation of Bush administration officials; the sweetheart plea deal for Ali al-Marri (a terrorist who, like Binyam Mohammed, was planning to conduct a post-9/11 second wave of mass-murder attacks in the U.S.); the plan to release trained terrorists in the U.S. in violation of federal immigration law (to say nothing of common sense); and, now, the decision to release the prisoner-abuse photos that the president, thankfully, has rescinded. That’s quite a track record in just a hundred days. There is palpable ground for concern that DOJ decisions are not being made with the best interests of American national security in mind.

Here's the link.

re: #129 Sharmuta

I think we should also consider temporary finger dye like in Iraq to prevent voter fraud. The "I Voted!" stickers aren't effective.

Those aren't for poll workers to determine who voted. More often than not they are a reward for kids who sit quietly for mom to finish voting and a badge of pride for patriotic voters.

The Diebold system in Georgia that contains the entire voter registration list for all districts combined with a photo ID requirement works very well.

By the way, I've been following the ACORN stories for months, and so far I haven't seen any REAL evidence that they were engaged in systematic voter fraud. If anyone is aware of a Justice Department investigation that supports all of the allegations, please enlighten me. I haven't seen it. But I have seen a lot of unsubstantiated charges that always seem to vanish without much fanfare.

re: #143 lawhawk

It's a mystery to anyone paying attention because we're already straining the power grid with our current power usage (and we might get an extra year or so because of the recession dampening demand on power), but once the recovery kicks in, usage will once again soar as more power demands are placed on the grid.

Smart power grids are only smart if there's power behind them. No new power plants that can handle the demand makes a big problem.

It doesn't matter what kind of power generation you're talking about either. The NIMBYots are busy trying to thwart all of them. Nuclear is the best option if you are a true believer in global warming (or just want lower emissions generally), since it doesn't have the downtime that wind, solar, tidal, or hydro can have.

Small local plants at grid- end, i.e. where demand exceeds supply, such as in city industrial zones make a great deal of sense. The compact research- class nukes now being manufactured and deployed make a lot of sense... that's why the mfg's of same have orders backed up for the foreseeable future.

re: #146 Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

But if Glenn isn't your cup of tea, then I don't know...maybe change the channel?

I suggest Olbermann for a refreshing breath of fresh flatulence.

re: #149 Miss Molly

Sharmuta -- I have to agree with you that both Democrats and Republicans are loth to change the spending of Congress or for that matter change much of anything of their status quo. I would love to have some people with common sense manage Congress .

Now he's making speeches about how we can't support this deficit spending.
Who'd a thunk it.

re: #146 Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

Meh. I don't understand all the Glenn hate. He's a goof, that's for sure. But I can't really disagree with most of his stances. Case in point:

The Republicans are taking us to the same place the Democrats are... just not as quickly. (Train ride or jet flight to Hell, take your pick. Frakkin' progressives...))

ACORN needs to be investigated...(Easy one there, they are working to get only Libtard Democrats elected...Which is fine, except they are doing that with my tax dollars...)

Saying you want a group like ACORN investigated (a group linked to unions and a rather arrogant liberal President in office) that is set to get billions of tax dollars would make me look over my shoulder a bit too. But maybe that's just me...

That the United Nations is corrupt and ineffective...oooh yeah, that's really far off of the mark...

If you actually listen to his message, he makes a heck of a lot more sense than little Keithy or 'Tingle' Matthews...

But if Glenn isn't your cup of tea, then I don't know...maybe change the channel?

How about he is a major visible figure and talking head for the GOP and he's nuts. That may have something to do with it. If that is the kind of representation you prefer, then maybe you need to change your blog.

re: #131 Miss Molly

Sharmuta --Do you really believe somelike Nancy Pelosi wants to change spending in the Congress? She doesn't care how much election fraud is involved or how much it costs as long as the Dem's win.

The Dems are not the stumbling block to reform, they have always been intent on doing whatever it takes to gain/retain power. The Republicans and their lurch to being Dem Lite is the recent road blockage.

It was 1994 and the Contract with America, the Rs campaigned on FISCAL conservatism and won handily. 2006 and the R majority had been trying to outspend the Dems for a number of years. 2008 was only about the direction of increased government spending.

re: #149 Miss Molly

Sharmuta -- I have to agree with you that both Democrats and Republicans are loth to change the spending of Congress or for that matter change much of anything of their status quo. I would love to have some people with common sense manage Congress .

It's not going to happen if we don't demand it. We have to hold these people accountable.

re: #119 Charles

Believe it or not, you're allowed to have your own opinions. Even when they're stupid.

Stop with the straight lines already.

re: #152 Charles

By the way, I've been following the ACORN stories for months, and so far I haven't seen any REAL evidence that they were engaged in systematic voter fraud. If anyone is aware of a Justice Department investigation that supports all of the allegations, please enlighten me. I haven't seen it. But I have seen a lot of unsubstantiated charges that always seem to vanish without much fanfare.

Oh, probably speak to Corsi, he's got everything in the world on Obama and all the others./

re: #128 Capitalist Tool

Where will we get the electric power to charge all of these future electric cars? Which auto makers will survive to buid these cars?

Power plants run with fossil fuels. But how does this reduce our depen...oh, never mind.

re: #92 snowcrash

Using the post op video is unnecessary. There is more than enough ammo out there to prove your point. Beck clearly had an unfavorable response to his anesthesia and inability to get pain relief from his meds.(probably extremely low pain tolerance due to his history of substance abuse). That said, the guy really shouldn't do a bedside interview when he is in such a fragile mental state. Unshaven and teary eyed isn't helpful.

I've never understood why he released that video. It's heartbreaking to watch, and I don't even like the guy.

re: #156 Walter L. Newton

How about he is a major visible figure and talking head for the GOP and he's nuts. That may have something to do with it. If that is the kind of representation you prefer, then maybe you need to change your blog.

I hear what you're saying but he makes it perfectly clear that he dislikes the motives and actions of Republicans as equally as Democrats... He's a Libertarian.

re: #128 Capitalist Tool

Where will we get the electric power to charge all of these future electric cars? Which auto makers will survive to buid these cars?

If charging your I-Pod kills a Polar Bear, what's charging your car going to do?

Oh, Glenn. No one says anything bad about you...as far as you know.

Score one for the home team, my City Council showed common sense

LA MESA REJECTS HATE-FREE RESOLUTION

La Mesa’s City Council voted unanimously to table a “Hate Free” resolution proposed by a coalition of 52 community groups countywide at a meeting Tuesday following heated and divisive public testimony.
...
Each Councilmember spoke out, and while all denounced hate crimes, Councilmembers unanimously expressed the view that the measure was not needed. Councilman Ernest Ewin said the issues raised by the resolution are “already covered by existing laws.” Councilwoman Ruth Sterling also expressed concern over Constitutional issues. “The Supreme Court has ruled that symbolic expression, whether swastikas, burning crosses or peace symbols, are protected speech,” she said. Councilman Mark Arapostathos, a teacher, said schools already promote acceptance, not hate.

Mayor Art Madrid said La Mesa has been a leader in battling hate, noting that the city introduced a human relations advisory committee many years ago and is committed to protecting the rights of all. He added that all members of the Council have received comments from people on both sides of the hate-free resolution who have taken a threatening tone with elected rerpesesnteds. “All of us got e-mails that said, `Support me or else.’”

Mayor Madrid concluded, “If there is one thing I’ve learned through the years, it’s that you cannot legislate common sense or morality.”

re: #164 Rancher

If charging your I-Pod kills a Polar Bear, what's charging your car going to do?

Feed a village of starving Eskimos.

re: #164 Rancher

If charging your I-Pod kills a Polar Bear, what's charging your car going to do?

Get me a white bear-skin rug?

re: #152 Charles

All I've got is the first-hand experience of Acorn people collaring me on the street corner to "register to vote". When I told them I was already registered, they universally said something like "it doesn't matter, I just need to get paid!". There was a whole troupe of these Acorn-types that filled downtown for a month or two around the NC registration deadline. I'm sure many people filled out the form out of pity or just being sick of being harassed. That gives Acorn a falsely registered voter, at least. How that translates into actual fraudulent votes, I'm not sure. But it's nothing the taxpayers should be paying for.

DaddyG -- You are so right -- ACORN is a scarey group and I'm not sure anyone has truely figured out who actually makes up ACORN and where to they get all their money to function. Urban areas are their biggest playground it seems because it is impossible to keep track of all the fraudulent registrations they turn out and most large cities don't seem to want to curb the fraud. I have no doubt Obama will want them to "work" on the census.

re: #39 Charles

What the hell are you talking about?

* * *
Sorry, Charles, wrote a contrite apology--I'm not accusing anyone in particular- but my internet connection broke.

Mental health/substance issues are everywhere; many of us know people who suffer them, or suffer ourselves. We live in an age of anxiety and violence, and I hate that Zombie our beloved blogger or Glenn Beck to have to fear for their lives.

ACORN is a symptom of a much deeper issue of federal spending. Investigating one agency won't stop problems like this. It's an infestation- you have to target the source.

re: #54 MandyManners

Won't loons such as Beck going on and on about them give them some credibility?

I don't think so. At least he is talking about them and I certainly don't expect that from any of the rest of the MFM.

re: #152 Charles

By the way, I've been following the ACORN stories for months, and so far I haven't seen any REAL evidence that they were engaged in systematic voter fraud. If anyone is aware of a Justice Department investigation that supports all of the allegations, please enlighten me. I haven't seen it. But I have seen a lot of unsubstantiated charges that always seem to vanish without much fanfare.

Yep again. If I remember correctly, all the investigations thus far are about alleged voter registration fraud (e.g. Nevada), NOT voter fraud. (Not to say that I may not have missed one, but I haven't see anything on actual voter fraud either.)

re: #172 Sharmuta

ACORN is a symptom of a much deeper issue of federal spending. Investigating one agency won't stop problems like this. It's an infestation- you have to target the source.

Government Corruption is endemic.

re: #166 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Yeah, but from the same region, the City of Vista attempted to create a "Carrie Prejean Day". Mercifully, there was no one who would co-sponsor the resolution.

re: #174 subsailor68

Yep again. If I remember correctly, all the investigations thus far are about alleged voter registration fraud (e.g. Nevada), NOT voter fraud. (Not to say that I may not have missed one, but I haven't see anything on actual voter fraud either.)

Registration fraud in PA as well (Pittsburgh area)...

re: #156 Walter L. Newton

How about he is a major visible figure and talking head for the GOP and he's nuts. That may have something to do with it. If that is the kind of representation you prefer, then maybe you need to change your blog.

Numero Uno Newton,
I'm not really sure that Beck presents himself as a talking head for the GOP. Not at all sure he identifies primarily as GOP.

Numero Two Newton,
Telling someone to move out is to soak in the mentality of a churl. It's the sort of "Love it or leave it" nonsense that was old around 1965. I'm sure you don't really mean that.

re: #152 Charles

By the way, I've been following the ACORN stories for months, and so far I haven't seen any REAL evidence that they were engaged in systematic voter fraud. If anyone is aware of a Justice Department investigation that supports all of the allegations, please enlighten me. I haven't seen it. But I have seen a lot of unsubstantiated charges that always seem to vanish without much fanfare.

Good link on actual "voter fraud" not registration fraud. In investigations of voter fraud turned up less then a dozen per state and most were not from false registrations.

"It is more likely that an individual will
be struck by lightning than that he will
impersonate another voter at the polls."

fraud.

re: #163 tfc3rid

I hear what you're saying but he makes it perfectly clear that he dislikes the motives and actions of Republicans as equally as Democrats... He's a Libertarian.

He's a nut, a Libertarian nut, a anti-republican nut, an anti-democrat nut, I don't care, I don't want anything to do with the shit he spouts.

And anyone that supports him is supporting a nut. If that's fine with someone, so be it. I prefer a little critical thinking skills with my coffee.

re: #176 calcajun

Yeah, but from the same region, the City of Vista attempted to create a "Carrie Prejean Day". Mercifully, there was no one who would co-sponsor the resolution.

It was one guy who suggested it since she went to High School there and it got no support from anyone else, so it died a quick death. Normal small town politics.

re: #156 Walter L. Newton

Hmmm, he says that he thinks that both the Dems and the Reps are taking us to a bad place, (and he admits that he is a conservative Libertarian, not a Republican) and yet you say he is a talking head for the Republicans?

Maybe instead of me "changing blogs" (as if this is the only one I frequent) you should brush up a bit on logic...

re: #175 Capitalist Tool

Government Corruption is endemic.

Accountability and transparency in government would be yearly audits of all federal agencies. They're all for more regulations except when it comes to their spending.

We've certainly seen the manic side of him.

Capitalist Tool -- I heard yesterday that Obama said that we "couldn't sustain the spending" and were leaving out children and grandchildren in such debt. And, what does that statement mean since he is doing all the spending? I just think it is an excuse for him to decide to raise taxes to the "doom level".

re: #178 Vanderleun

Numero Uno Newton,
I'm not really sure that Beck presents himself as a talking head for the GOP. Not at all sure he identifies primarily as GOP.

Numero Two Newton,
Telling someone to move out is to soak in the mentality of a churl. It's the sort of "Love it or leave it" nonsense that was old around 1965. I'm sure you don't really mean that.

Evidently Vanderleun hasn't posted very much. YES I MEAN IT. I don't make comments that I don't back up.

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch suggested if we don't like it, to change the channel, I suggested if Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch doesn't like what is being commented on here, that he it finds another blog.

Simple, I thought so.

re: #152 Charles

I can only speak about what happened in my home state of Washington in 2004 and after where a number of ACORN activists have been convicted of election fraud in the gubernatorial election.

All my links regarding it went 404 when the Seattle P.I. went belly up, though.

re: #152 Charles

Unless there is an issue around a federal voting law - like the Voting Rights Act, it is unlikely the Justice Department will get engaged since voting and voter registration takes place on a local (city, county) level. There are investigations into Acorn practices around falsified voting registration forms or voting when not permitted under the local voting laws. In these, the main focus is not on the organization but on the individuals directly responsible for the specific acts. I think some of the newer investigations (Nevada comes to mind) do name the organization as a subject of the investigation and possibly liable for penalties if the cases are prosecuted successfully.

Acorn's position seems to be that these are not the policies of the organization, but the improper actions of over zealous employees who are filing fraudulent documents in order to get pay from Acorn. Many suspect that this is far more organized than that - but even in the successfully prosecuted investigations, Acorn has paid fines, agreed to change their methods, but avoided being specifically singled out for criminal wrong doing (King County, Washington State).

Voter fraud does happen and needs to get addressed. Just imagine how many residents of snowbirds cast ballots in the state they summer in and the state they winter in. Where Acorn draws attention is because of their obvious political agenda and the tactics that they employ.

re: #175 Capitalist Tool

Government Corruption is endemic.

No government is free from corruption, degree is the only non-constant.

re: #164 Rancher

If charging your I-Pod kills a Polar Bear, what's charging your car going to do?

Can they really say I'm killing polar bears? I like to think every recharge cycle wipes out a swarm of mosquitos or a patch of crabgrass.

re: #182 Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

Hmmm, he says that he thinks that both the Dems and the Reps are taking us to a bad place, (and he admits that he is a conservative Libertarian, not a Republican) and yet you say he is a talking head for the Republicans?

Maybe instead of me "changing blogs" (as if this is the only one I frequent) you should brush up a bit on logic...

I misspoke as to which politics Beck identifies himself with, but my bottom line comment stands.

He's a nut, and if you suggest we change the channel if we don't like it, I still suggest you find another blog if you don't like what is being posted here about Beck.

In the past several months, nearly every major GOP politician has appeared on Glenn Beck's show. But if you want to deny that he has any influence in the GOP, go right ahead.

re: #101 FurryOldGuyJeans

And now some not pundit-centered, actual news:

Shuttle snapped up against sun

So very cool!

How 'bout one of it buzzing the Statue of Liberty?

/

re: #181 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I understand--but the fact that is made it into the news is silly. I appreciate the lady having been candid in her view. I'm sorry that she is being pilloried for speaking her mind (though she should have known where it was leading given who asked the question). But now that some folks are lifting her up as a new GOP idol is disquieting. Shades of Sarah Palin redux.

re: #190 Gearhead

Can they really say I'm killing polar bears? I like to think every recharge cycle wipes out a swarm of mosquitos or a patch of crabgrass.

Or athlete's foot.

/yeah, that's the ticket!

re: #191 Walter L. Newton

Ahh, Okay. I thought Charles was in Charge around here...My bad, I bow to your ever spewing fountain of wisdom. (I don't want to risk the wrath of Arth...)

re: #192 Charles

In the past several months, nearly every major GOP politician has appeared on Glenn Beck's show. But if you want to deny that he has any influence in the GOP, go right ahead.

Thank you for making my point, clearer than I did, but none the less, my point.

About those Military Tribunal thingees...

Military Tribunals Expected to Resume

The Obama administration announced this afternoon that it is filing legal papers in Guantanamo Bay laying out a plan to revive military commissions to try some terrorist suspects held at the military base in Cuba.

The decision, which follows an intense internal debate, represents something of a reversal by the president who said during the campaign that military courts martial or the federal courts offered a better route to what he called "swift and sure justice" for terrorists.

In recent weeks, however, the administration appears to have bowed to fears articulated by the Pentagon that some detainees could not be successfully prosecuted in regular courts.

The administration will seek a second continuance of proceedings at Guantanamo Bay to finalize reforms to the military commissions system, including a ban on the use of evidence obtained from coercive interrogations, limits on the use of hearsay, and allowing detainees more choice in the selection of their attorneys, according to a statement released by the White House this afternoon.

That high pitched keeing sound is DU and DKos spinning themselves into a tizzy

re: #185 Miss Molly

Capitalist Tool -- I heard yesterday that Obama said that we "couldn't sustain the spending" and were leaving out children and grandchildren in such debt. And, what does that statement mean since he is doing all the spending? I just think it is an excuse for him to decide to raise taxes to the "doom level".

I posted a link to the story yesterday - it's also still up on Drudge. My jaw hit the floor with this man's audacity. Like it's OUR fault that he and his Dems are spending us into oblivion. I've never seen such blatent lying, deflecting, fact-changing happen so fast in front of my eyes as with this Administration and Congress. I'm speechless.

re: #66 Charles

Another quote from that November radio show:

This is why I didn't kill myself, and I'm ashamed to say it but it was cowardess [sic] that saved my life. I was afraid of the pain. I was afraid of putting the gun in my mouth. I couldn't throw myself off a roof. That would freak me out. If I could have just gone to sleep. I don't know why I was too stupid to think of ODing on something, but I guess I was doing it in a way with all of the alcohol.

What is wrong with that statement? I went through a very dark period in my life after a bad divorce many years ago and also thought of suicide - regularly. The only thing that held me back was the thought of what it would do to my parents and to my kids. That and my faith and not wanting to roll the dice on a so-called unforgiveable sin. Bottom line is I went through this and I'm sure many others did as well.
Why is this worthy of criticism?

re: #198 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I said this earlier, obambi and the rest of his rabble rouser are now in the real world, and it bites. Heh.

re: #192 Charles

In the past several months, nearly every major GOP politician has appeared on Glenn Beck's show. But if you want to deny that he has any influence in the GOP, go right ahead.

Yes, they have. They've also appeared on his radio program as well.

On a serious note, I would actually like to see you go on and challenge him on some things with regard to the future of the GOP (ID, social conservatvies, fiscal conservatives, etc.)... I think that would be a very intriguing debate.

re: #99 Alouette

Nobody here gives a shit about your tchochka collection.

Being a fellow gearhead, I'm okay with his tchochka collection.

Avanti, do you have a Web site? You should scan and post that stuff on there.

re: #196 Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

Ahh, Okay. I thought Charles was in Charge around here...My bad, I bow to your ever spewing fountain of wisdom. (I don't want to risk the wrath of Arth...)

Look dumb shit, I have opinions, you have opinions, you can suggest we change channels, I can suggest you change blogs.

What is the problem with that? Come on, get some fucking balls. You can't have an open debate on a subject if it doesn't all go your way.

Can't we all just get along.

No.

re: #201 pingjockey

I said this earlier, obambi and the rest of his rabble rouser are now in the real world, and it bites. Heh.

"He's just like BUSH!"

/Koslings

re: #192 Charles

Unfortunately, he does have influence with the GOP and with the opposition who will use him as a model of the GOP. That's why the GOP has to take a hard internal look at the 'Big Tent' policies and start to winnow out those who belong on the fringe. Beck does belong on the fringe - with Luap Nor, Rockwell, Judge Napolitano, etc. They are not conservatives in the traditional model.

If Buckley or Reagan were still with us - they would be leading the fight to clean the fringe out from the GOP.

re: #164 Rancher

If charging your I-Pod kills a Polar Bear, what's charging your car going to do?

LOL! These guys are a total hoot. Here's the headline:

Charge Your iPod, Kill A Polar Bear? Environmental Alarms Raised Over Home Electronics

But here's the first line and a half:

Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear?

The choice might not be quite that stark...

IOW, the answer appears to be "probably only if you throw it at him."

re: #170 Miss Molly What I cannot tell from the information available is if ACORN is a loosely affiliated group of activists with a whole lot of people who believe the ends justify the means combined with some bad management practices like paying for names -or- a large scale conspiracy to defraud voters (less likely IMO). Either way it bears looking into.

re: #200 LGoPs

Why is this worthy of criticism?

Because in the video I posted above, Beck says he's "not suicidal." I thought it was pretty obvious that I posted it to show that he has said exactly the opposite on more than one occasion.

And by the way, when someone announces in public that they're thinking of suicide, it's no longer just something you can brush off as unimportant.

And it would be a way to maybe get a different message out than what is currently being promoted.

re: #205 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
There's gonna be a lot of 'splainin' to do by the one to his frothing hordes on the left.

re: #200 LGoPs

Did you have a national televised forum when you were going through those bad times? Beck does, and that makes all the difference.

re: #198 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

About those Military Tribunal thingees...

Military Tribunals Expected to Resume

That high pitched keeing sound is DU and DKos spinning themselves into a tizzy

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I want to hear the whining from the moonbats when they execute the first one.

re: #200 LGoPs

What is wrong with that statement? I went through a very dark period in my life after a bad divorce many years ago and also thought of suicide - regularly. The only thing that held me back was the thought of what it would do to my parents and to my kids. That and my faith and not wanting to roll the dice on a so-called unforgiveable sin. Bottom line is I went through this and I'm sure many others did as well.
Why is this worthy of criticism?

I'm not sure it's a criticism as much as it is a red flag about this man's mental and emotional state. Finding out he has suicide in his family is troubling, not because I'm a critic, but because I'm a human being. People with suicide in their immediate families are much more prone to deep depression and suicidal thoughts themselves. Just human decency makes me think this man needs help.

re: #170 Miss Molly

I fail to see why ACORN is even on the radar when there is so much other wasteful, fucked up federal spending going on. No federal money goes to ACORN for voter registration activities, and any fake voter registrations just get weeded out and chucked into the garbage. "Mickey Mouse" can't actually show up to the polls and vote.

Energy taxes, soda taxes, social security, medicare, TARP, TALF, you name it. We have much bigger sh*t to worry about than some crackheads filling out fake voter cards for loose menthol cigs.

Charles.

I am not paranoid.

The fact that everyone is out to get me does not make me paranoid. Nor does my obsession with doomsday and the end times.

I am just being responsible. And so are my followers.

That is why we like to go to small gatherings of like minded people and talk about burning books and buying gold.

And don't forget about my many culinary talents which some may ascribe to "paranoia" [eye roll]. Fact is that American families will appreciate the many creative recipes that I have shared on this board. People will yearn for creative ways to use their Government Cheese in their fallout shelters, and I am proving that knowledge.

Oh - and by the way - If I stop posting here, and after everyone celebrates, can someone look into whether I was banned?

/

re: #209 Charles

And by the way, when someone announces in public that they're thinking of suicide, it's no longer just something you can brush off as unimportant.

It's usually a cry for help.

re: #203 Ward Cleaver

Being a fellow gearhead...

Finally, someone who understands.

Why are all the prominent Republicans such clowns? Why can't they put forward an intelligent front?

(sigh)

re: #60 Gearhead

The surgeon accidentally nicked some gray matter?

are you proposing "shit for brains"?

Meds or something is kickin' in. Shakes, etc... Bad ear infection, equilibrium shot to hell. I'm for bed!

re: #215 drcordell

I fail to see why ACORN is even on the radar when there is so much other wasteful, fucked up federal spending going on. No federal money goes to ACORN for voter registration activities, and any fake voter registrations just get weeded out and chucked into the garbage. "Mickey Mouse" can't actually show up to the polls and vote.

Energy taxes, soda taxes, social security, medicare, TARP, TALF, you name it. We have much bigger sh*t to worry about than some crackheads filling out fake voter cards for loose menthol cigs.

Where were you last summer and fall?

re: #204 Walter L. Newton

My green lizard balls are just fine thank you. But I see that some peed in your Wheaties this morning...So I can deal with that...Have a great weekend!

The convergence of fiction and reality is happening before our eyes. Beck is today' Howard Beale, and we are all impoverished because of the cheapening of public discourse.

The Urinated Cranky Flakes make a return?

re: #220 apachegunner

are you proposing "shit for brains"?

The medical term is 'acute anal-cranial inversion'

re: #216 That's Glenn Beck to you

HA!

re: #200 LGoPs

What is wrong with that statement? I went through a very dark period in my life after a bad divorce many years ago and also thought of suicide - regularly. The only thing that held me back was the thought of what it would do to my parents and to my kids. That and my faith and not wanting to roll the dice on a so-called unforgiveable sin. Bottom line is I went through this and I'm sure many others did as well.
Why is this worthy of criticism?

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Congratulations on making it through the rough patches. It takes courage & will & science & help to overcome these very human problems. If we hadn't evolved to the point where we humans can obsess & and worry our neocortexes so much unto near paralysis, this wouldn't be a problem!

re: #215 drcordell

What? They get federal money, IIRC, and it is organized. They should be looking at them using RICO.

re: #219 charles_martel

Why are all the prominent Republicans such clowns? Why can't they put forward an intelligent front?

(sigh)

They have a very good bunch of role models in the prominent Dems.

re: #224 FurryOldGuyJeans

The convergence of fiction and reality is happening before our eyes. Beck is today' Howard Beale, and we are all impoverished because of the cheapening of public discourse.

All he had to do now is stick his head out the window, in the rain.

/and yell it

re: #223 Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

My green lizard balls are just fine thank you. But I see that some peed in your Wheaties this morning...So I can deal with that...Have a great weekend!

I intend to. Thanks :)

Creationist banner ad on LGF? Boy oh boy...google analytics needs some tweeking.

re: #209 Charles

Usually, we call that "a danger to himself or others." We request professional intervention, too.

re: #216 That's Glenn Beck to you

o_O

re: #233 Baier

Creationist banner ad on LGF? Boy oh boy...google analytics needs some tweeking.

I had one that said "Ann Coulter - Free!"

Who the hell let her out?

I have been under the impression that in the spending package from Congress that ACORN is getting sever "billion" in taxpayer money to do -- we don't know exactly what. Already 13 - 14 States have brought election fraud actions against ACORN and now the federal gov't wants to give them more money. I would like to have ACORN and their friends disbanded from participating in anything to do with elections.

re: #200 LGoPs

What is wrong with that statement? I went through a very dark period in my life after a bad divorce many years ago and also thought of suicide - regularly. The only thing that held me back was the thought of what it would do to my parents and to my kids. That and my faith and not wanting to roll the dice on a so-called unforgiveable sin. Bottom line is I went through this and I'm sure many others did as well.
Why is this worthy of criticism?

I've been there too, years ago, during a divorce. Those things can really screw with your mind. But after I had resigned myself to winding up divorced, things started getting better. Much happier now, in a healthy marriage.

I've never seen the Beck show. The only time I ever heard him was a few years ago when his was the late-night (no doubt taped) talk-show on Boston radio. Apparently he's now hit the big time.
Anyway, I've seen Repubs on CNN, heard them on NPR, and read them in the NYT.
Just being on someone's show doesn't necessarily indicate any influence or meeting of the minds.

re: #219 charles_martel

Why are all the prominent Republicans such clowns? Why can't they put forward an intelligent front?

(sigh)

* * * *
Glenn Beck isn't a Republican, folks have pointed out.

re: #233 Baier

Creationist banner ad on LGF? Boy oh boy...google analytics needs some tweeking.

Action figures of Knights Templar and dinosaurs?

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re: #233 Baier

Creationist banner ad on LGF? Boy oh boy...google analytics needs some tweeking.

You mean Google analytics crawls the site and sends advertising based on terms it finds? Really? Cool!

Playboy bunny
Playboy bunny

;-)

re: #179 avanti

Good link on actual "voter fraud" not registration fraud. In investigations of voter fraud turned up less then a dozen per state and most were not from false registrations.

"It is more likely that an individual will
be struck by lightning than that he will
impersonate another voter at the polls."

fraud.

Ridiculing concern about ACORN voter fraud is a tactic used by the left. Maybe there has been very little actual fraud, but it would be my impression that is because of vigilance at the polls not for lack of trying by individuals who represent or who were employed by ACORN. Maybe not systemic but certainly real.

re: #233 Baier

Creationist banner ad on LGF? Boy oh boy...google analytics needs some tweeking.

Screw it. It find it amusing they're pissing their money away where it will do them absolutely no good

re: #239 Lincolntf

I've never seen the Beck show. The only time I ever heard him was a few years ago when his was the late-night (no doubt taped) talk-show on Boston radio. Apparently he's now hit the big time.
Anyway, I've seen Repubs on CNN, heard them on NPR, and read them in the NYT.
Just being on someone's show doesn't necessarily indicate any influence or meeting of the minds.

I've never watched him either, on CNN or Fox. I don't do cable news.

re: #241 Ward Cleaver

Action figures of Knights Templar and dinosaurs?

/

Knights of Templar riding dinosaurs! Hahah

re: #240 alegrias
Nope, he's turned into a nutbat of some kind. (meant to write nutbar, but nutbat works too.)

re: #237 Miss Molly

I have been under the impression that in the spending package from Congress that ACORN is getting sever "billion" in taxpayer money to do -- we don't know exactly what. Already 13 - 14 States have brought election fraud actions against ACORN and now the federal gov't wants to give them more money. I would like to have ACORN and their friends disbanded from participating in anything to do with elections.

But that still doesn't address federal money being spent in such a manner. Address the real spending issues, and a group like ACORN wouldn't be getting funding in the first place.

To show no hard feelings, allow me to share a recipe that honors an intellectual giant and dear friend, Lew Rockwell, from my forthcoming book, "101 Recipes With Government Cheese and Iodine - tasty treats that will make the end times the best times."

Oysters Rockwell -

1 block of government cheese
3 potassium iodine tablets, crushed
3 books on evolution
Steamed Oysters

Preheat cooking fire by lighting your three books on evolution. Make a tee pee structure before lighting so they burn thoroughly. Do this in a well ventilated space. If you are in your bunker, have you and your family don your gas masks while cooking.

Melt block of cheese in sauce pan. Sprinkle with potassium iodine and stir. Pour over Steamed Oysters. If Steamed Oysters aren't available, cut up the box your government cheese came in into little Oyster shapes and pour the cheese over them instead.

Bon Appetite!

/

re: #242 subsailor68

You mean Google analytics crawls the site and sends advertising based on terms it finds? Really? Cool!

Playboy bunny
Playboy bunny

;-)

Here we go...

Image: playboy-bunny.jpg

Just a quick OT.

I was reading the comments on a story over on the WSJ when I came across the following. I had to share. It's about 5 or 6 comments down the page.

By commenter Russ K.

Our Obama,
Who art in Washington,
Hollow be thy change,
Thy unions come,
Their will be done,
On earth as it is in Detroit,
Give us this day our carbon cap,
And forgive W his waterboarding,
As you have forgiven your forgetful speaker,
And release pictures not into circulation,
but deliver us from Gitmo
For thine is the GM
And the Chrysler,
For ever and ever...

A little further down, someone suggested an alternate ending,
For ever and ever...in debt

re: #194 calcajun

I understand--but the fact that is made it into the news is silly. I appreciate the lady having been candid in her view. I'm sorry that she is being pilloried for speaking her mind (though she should have known where it was leading given who asked the question). But now that some folks are lifting her up as a new GOP idol is disquieting. Shades of Sarah Palin redux.

More like Joe the Plumber, and we all know how that's working out.

re: #250 Walter L. Newton

Here we go...

[Link: www.nerve.com...]

Oh that's just sooo wrong! (Which is why it gets an upding!)

:-)

re: #237 Miss Molly

I have been under the impression that in the spending package from Congress that ACORN is getting sever "billion" in taxpayer money to do -- we don't know exactly what. Already 13 - 14 States have brought election fraud actions against ACORN and now the federal gov't wants to give them more money. I would like to have ACORN and their friends disbanded from participating in anything to do with elections.

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8 billion but who's counting!

Some goes to my Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority, where unemployed folks live and receive welfare & public transportation for generations. There is an open air drug market at night, centered around the houses with the Kerry-Edwards and Obama-Biden stickers, which I go through it on the way to grocery shop by day.

It's ACORN country.

Sharmuta -- From your lips to God's ear if only Congress would clean up its spending act then ACORN would not get any money and their members might have to actually look for a real job. Could that ever happen? I'm thinking not!

re: #249 That's Glenn Beck to you

[out of character]

Wow Charles! Thanks for the upding!

[in character]

Kiss my butt all you want - you aren't getting on my show.

/

re: #249 That's Glenn Beck to you

To show no hard feelings, allow me to share a recipe that honors an intellectual giant and dear friend, Lew Rockwell, from my forthcoming book, "101 Recipes With Government Cheese and Iodine - tasty treats that will make the end times the best times."

Oysters Rockwell -

1 block of government cheese
3 potassium iodine tablets, crushed
3 books on evolution
Steamed Oysters
ROTFL
Preheat cooking fire by lighting your three books on evolution. Make a tee pee structure before lighting so they burn thoroughly. Do this in a well ventilated space. If you are in your bunker, have you and your family don your gas masks while cooking.

Melt block of cheese in sauce pan. Sprinkle with potassium iodine and stir. Pour over Steamed Oysters. If Steamed Oysters aren't available, cut up the box your government cheese came in into little Oyster shapes and pour the cheese over them instead.

Bon Appetite!

/

re: #249 That's Glenn Beck to you

To show no hard feelings, allow me to share a recipe that honors an intellectual giant and dear friend, Lew Rockwell, from my forthcoming book, "101 Recipes With Government Cheese and Iodine - tasty treats that will make the end times the best times."

Oysters Rockwell -

1 block of government cheese
3 potassium iodine tablets, crushed
3 books on evolution
Steamed Oysters

Preheat cooking fire by lighting your three books on evolution. Make a tee pee structure before lighting so they burn thoroughly. Do this in a well ventilated space. If you are in your bunker, have you and your family don your gas masks while cooking.

Melt block of cheese in sauce pan. Sprinkle with potassium iodine and stir. Pour over Steamed Oysters. If Steamed Oysters aren't available, cut up the box your government cheese came in into little Oyster shapes and pour the cheese over them instead.

Bon Appetite!

/

ROTFL
priceless, haha

#233 Baier:

Creationist banner ad on LGF? Boy oh boy...google analytics needs some tweeking.

That, or Google knows something about this audience. The topics covered here and on other blogs attract passionate people on all sides of the issues discussed. It makes some sense to mine for them here.

re: #186 Walter L. Newton

Evidently Vanderleun hasn't posted very much. YES I MEAN IT. I don't make comments that I don't back up... I suggested if Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch doesn't like what is being commented on here, that he it finds another blog.

Simple, I thought so.

Well, it is a pretty simple thought, I'll grant you that, but it really doesn't reflect that well on you. This isn't a TV channel that is one to many and one-way. This is a "discussion" in which any number can play. Rooting for people to "leave" because you don't like their attitude or ideas is really sorta either John Birchean or proto-fascist. It's the mind set people get into easily online when they realize that they don't have the power to jail or execute those that disagree with them.

"Love it or leave it" is usually the mark of a bankrupt intellectual position or the mark of a person who enjoys a discussion that fits him like the comfy chair.

Glen Beck is a nut, but ACORN IS DANGEROUS !