Where's the pizza?

re: #1 Sharmuta

In my belly.

The beach crowd is watching Sarah Palin's 2012 chances wash away.

I just got home. My first beer comes at 2 AM. This can't make tomorrow very promising. At least it is gonna rain like the dickens. I have beer and a steak. I might make it through.

Whew, after seeing all those Democrats that are involved in The Family. Then Palin's birther comments...

What a world.

Now where was that ad for glass writing boards when I was taking differential equations? That would have been geek tres chic in my room.

I really shouldn't be up this late. But, like the scorpion, it's my nature.

Night all. When you wake up tomorrow, it'll be Friday, and that's a good thing for almost everybody.

re: #1 Sharmuta

Where's the pizza?

Damn the pepperoni and tell the truth! We want beer, not pizza!

re: #8 cliffster

Night all. When you wake up tomorrow, it'll be Friday, and that's a good thing for almost everybody.

It's been Friday for 2 hours so far where these words are being typed...sleep tight and enjoy the remainder of Thursday!

re: #9 Slumbering Behemoth

How ya been, SB?

Ben Smith and David Wiegel on Bloggingheads TV

re: #12 Gus 802

Weigel. Oops.

re: #11 Cannadian Club Akbar

Drunk, with a long fading turkey buzz. You?

re: #7 Irenicum

I really shouldn't be up this late. But, like the scorpion, it's my nature.

Me too, typical Scorpio.

On an evolutionary side note, I happened to be watching/listening to a series of talks given by an evangelical evolutionist this afternoon. So far, I really like what I've heard. As a Christian who also believes that the scientific method has given us modern life, including medicine and everything technological, this was very gratifying. Here's the first link. And then just click through the succeeding videos as they play from Dennis Venema.

re: #14 Slumbering Behemoth

Drunk, with a long fading turkey buzz. You?

Still eating turkey. The drunk part will be tomorrow. Just gonna chill and watch the rain.:)

re: #15 sngnsgt

Except that I'm a Sagittarius.

re: #9 Slumbering Behemoth

Damn the pepperoni and tell the truth! We want beer, not pizza!

All your beers are belong to me.

re: #17 Cannadian Club Akbar

My turkey is all gone. I brined it this year before grilling it. Sharmuta now tells me that brining is the ONLY way to go. She's right, I just wish she had told me sooner.

Or perhaps, I wish I had listened sooner.

re: #18 Irenicum

My mother is a Sagittarius also, I get it from her. She is the same way, I guess it's just being born this time of year.

I have recieved 5 calls on my cell in 2 days with no message left. 3 tonight, 2 last night. Googled one of the numbers and comments were basically that companies will sell your # if you answer. Anyone heard of this?

Oh noes! A rational conservative has been sited! Sound the alarm!

Why the GOP Will Thank Ted Olson

Ted Olson and David Boies have joined forces to appeal the constitutionality of California’s ban on gay marriage. The two men, who faced off in Bush vs. Gore, are quite possibly the best two constitutional lawyers in the United States, and together they represent a formidable legal force to be reckoned with. If they were to succeed in showing the California ban to be what it is, an unconstitutional law that is, in Olson’s words, “utterly without justification” and that brands gays and lesbians as “second-class and unworthy” in the eyes of the law, Republicans will owe the two a debt of gratitude for saving the party from twenty years of supporting a position that 20 years from now men and women will view as utterly abominable. Not only will they save us from the eyes of history, they will save us from the electoral losses that the public’s general condemnation of the position will turn into at some point.

If you care about electoral victories, cheer for Ted Olson. You will thank him later if he wins.

re: #23 Sharmuta

You know his wife was on one of the planes on 9/11, right? I have a book written by her.

Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows

re: #19 Sharmuta

All your beers are belong to me.

I see...

You are a shrewd and savvy negotiator. I can make a great pizza from scratch, crust and all.

Tell me, how many and what kinds of pizzas would you be willing to accept as reasonable payment for, say, two cases of beer?

Take your time, and consider your response carefully. Your choice of words here could mean the difference between peace and war with our two kingdoms.

/plays too many strategy games

re: #24 Cannadian Club Akbar

Yes- I know. I wept when I learned we'd lost her. A great Lady.

re: #21 sngnsgt

I'm not sure if it's when we're born or when we were conceived. As a winter baby I love to hibernate, but my mom was born in July (forget the sign) and was just as much the night owl as me. In fact she instilled a habit of being up late and awaking just as late as anyone in my life. My best writing has always been after midnight. This is my time.

re: #26 Slumbering Behemoth

It depends on the beer of course!

re: #27 Sharmuta

Yes- I know. I wept when I learned we'd lost her. A great Lady.

I have a NatGeo DVD of 9/11. He is on it. He had to tell her what had happened with the already crashed planes. Very sad.

re: #29 Irenicum

It depends on the beer of course!

If any anchovies hit my pizza, there is no other option BUT war.

re: #23 Sharmuta

Ted Olson is a good man.

re: #26 Slumbering Behemoth

I see...

You are a shrewd and savvy negotiator. I can make a great pizza from scratch, crust and all.

Tell me, how many and what kinds of pizzas would you be willing to accept as reasonable payment for, say, two cases of beer?

Take your time, and consider your response carefully. Your choice of words here could mean the difference between peace and war with our two kingdoms.

/plays too many strategy games

I require 6 pizzas.

The first shall require pepperoni.
The second shall require ham and pineapple.
The third shall require sausage and pepperoni.
The fourth shall require an alfredo sauce and chicken.
The fifth shall have no sauce but pesto.

The final pizza shall require Smurfberries with an additional basket of Smurfberries on the side, that we may power the school for a whole year.

For every minute I wait for your response to these terms, a beer shall be consumed...

re: #23 Sharmuta

Oh noes! A rational conservative has been sited! Sound the alarm!

Why the GOP Will Thank Ted Olson

Very good to hear, and I mostly agree - except for this part:

Republicans will owe the two a debt of gratitude for saving the party from twenty years of supporting a position that 20 years from now men and women will view as utterly abominable.

That last bit - people finding such a position utterly abominable - has already arrived in no small measure, and the day when that position will be widespread is probably no more than a handful of years away. 20 years is an overly pessimistic estimate, I think.

re: #29 Irenicum

It depends on the beer of course!

FOREIGN USURPER! Throw not your empty words into this palaver, it is no concern of yours!

/Seriously though, what kind of beer are we talking about?

re: #30 Cannadian Club Akbar

I have a NatGeo DVD of 9/11. He is on it. He had to tell her what had happened with the already crashed planes. Very sad.

Yes- I've seen him discuss it- terrible...

re: #31 Cannadian Club Akbar

Agreed. Though I do quiver at the sight of mushrooms and sausages on a thin crust. Oh great, now I'm drooling.

re: #35 Slumbering Behemoth

Guinness. What other beer exists?

re: #37 Irenicum

Agreed. Though I do quiver at the sight of mushrooms and sausages on a thin crust. Oh great, now I'm drooling.

New York style. Pepperoni, sausage and jalapenos.

re: #35 Slumbering Behemoth

Although I will allow for the inclusion of La Fin Du Monde or Maudite into the equation.

Easy Rider - Holy Modal Rounders - If You Want to Be a Bird

re: #26 Slumbering Behemoth

I can make a great pizza from scratch, crust and all.

Pray tell, what sort of oven is being used to bake your pizzas? Brick lined? Coal fired? Wood burning?

re: #42 Surabaya Stew

Pray tell, what sort of oven is being used to bake your pizzas? Brick lined? Coal fired? Wood burning?

The one in the kitchen?
/

re: #39 Cannadian Club Akbar

Not so much on the pepperoni. Pretty much everything else is OK. Esp. hot stuff.

Working on *hic* my tenth beer. *hic* Where's that bastard with my pizzas?

G'nite kids. Work beckons not too far away.

re: #33 Sharmuta

I require 6 pizzas.

The first shall require pepperoni.
The second shall require ham and pineapple.
The third shall require sausage and pepperoni.
The fourth shall require an alfredo sauce and chicken.
The fifth shall have no sauce but pesto.

The final pizza shall require Smurfberries with an additional basket of Smurfberries on the side, that we may power the school for a whole year.

For every minute I wait for your response to these terms, a beer shall be consumed...

Pizza number 3 rules! A truly diabolical combination when 2 meat products are together on a pizza...

re: #45 Sharmuta

I'm a "hic." I know a hic when I see it! See ya tomorrow nite.

Western civilization ended when anchovies were no longer a pizza option.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Western civilization ended when anchovies were no longer a pizza option.

I want to know who thought it was a great idea for pineapple and ham. I will find this person. There will be violence.

Mirage 2000 - G Force

Night, all. See ya in about 5 hours.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Western civilization ended when anchovies were no longer a pizza option.

It's probably just as well. At the rate pizza is consumed these days, the species would be wiped out in short order.

re: #43 Cannadian Club Akbar

The one in the kitchen?
/

Ah, ok then...was asking about oven types due to the desirability that higher oven temperatures give to baking thin-crust pizza. As a NY-style pizza aficionado, a minimum of 600 degrees F (usually in a brick-lined oven to provide black spots on the bottom) are needed to get the crust just right. A good-thin good pizza can certainly be made in a regular oven (at the highest temp), but the residual ashy texture at the bottom of the crust is lost. (Ok, I'm a purist!) The traditional coal ovens provide even higher temperatures (about 700-800 F), which makes for an even thinner crust with the cheese and sauce congealing together rather than layering atop the crust. John's, Patsy's (in East Harlem), Lombardi's, and Grimallidi's are all stellar examples of this nearly lost culinary art.

Of course, if Chicago-style pizza is your preferred variety to bake; those long cooking times mandate a lower oven setting. Either way, I'd love to try a slice!

re: #33 Sharmuta

Hard and fast you are, with your demands. Too hard, for my people's tastes.

My counter offer, and hold those beers in reserve lest you incur the wrath of my protectorate...

Pepperoni is a given, and it shows the good taste of your people, and all good and decent people, to desire such.

Ham and Pineapple. This is an aberration within my governance, but not strictly heretical. You shall be granted this, as best as can be expected.

Sausage and Pepperoni. I see that our people have much in common on this, and it is granted without reserve.

A pizza with pesto sauce, rather than tomato sauce, is an acceptable derivation from the norm, and on certain holidays dear to my people it is more than appreciable. This too, will be granted.

Here, my hard-minded diplomatic opponent, is where you go too far.

The fourth shall require an alfredo sauce and chicken.

This is an anathema to my people. To speak such heresy within my kingdom would bring a punishment worse than death. White-sauce has not any claim, nor any right, to be placed on pizza, and to suggest such in my realm would be the worst blasphemy. I fear that if you do not recant on this matter, there will be naught but war between our people.

As far as "Smurfberries" are concerned, and their ability to power these constructs you call "Schools", we find such claims to be laughable. As sure as the Sun doth rise, I expect you next to claim that your skin is of an azure tint, and that your people house themselves in mushrooms.

Foolishness!

I expect another counter offer more favorable to my people on the morrow, or we shall take arms against you pizza heretics and forcefully relieve you of your beer.

re: #42 Surabaya Stew

Pray tell, what sort of oven is being used to bake your pizzas? Brick lined? Coal fired? Wood burning?

Electric, with a pizza stone.

re: #45 Sharmuta

Working on *hic* my tenth beer. *hic* Where's that bastard with my pizzas?

Madame! I can assure you that I am of legitimate birth.

You have insulted myself, and the honor of my people, for the last time!

Accept your just reward, boot to the head!

re: #55 Slumbering Behemoth

Here, my hard-minded diplomatic opponent, is where you go too far.

The fourth shall require an alfredo sauce and chicken.

This is an anathema to my people. To speak such heresy within my kingdom would bring a punishment worse than death. White-sauce has not any claim, nor any right, to be placed on pizza, and to suggest such in my realm would be the worst blasphemy. I fear that if you do not recant on this matter, there will be naught but war between our people.

As far as "Smurfberries" are concerned, and their ability to power these constructs you call "Schools", we find such claims to be laughable. As sure as the Sun doth rise, I expect you next to claim that your skin is of an azure tint, and that your people house themselves in mushrooms.

Foolishness!

I expect another counter offer more favorable to my people on the morrow, or we shall take arms against you pizza heretics and forcefully relieve you of your beer.

I dare say, failure to understand the power of the Smurfberry should not, in and of itself, disqualify the request for such a pizza. My people are now fearful we are negotiating with anti-Smurfites. Perhaps it is best if we adjourn negotiations for tonight, and continue on the two remaining pizzas tomorrow. Here is a beer, as a token of good will...

Woke up this morning... Got myself a gun

-R L Burnside

That's a more crowded beach scene than what we're used to seeing on the Overnight threads...

Or maybe Charles just crops out/zooms in on certain pictures so that the beach looks a little more spacious and remote.

re: #59 Bagua

What? No Miss Maybelle?

re: #56 Slumbering Behemoth

Electric, with a pizza stone.

Sounds like a good deal. Have never used a pizza stone, do you consider it worthwhile getting? (Assuming I get a homemade pizza-making urge again for the first time in years, of course!)

re: #58 Sharmuta

The beer is most appreciated, and the good-will of it's offer is duly noted.

Yet I fear I have made a most horrible failure in diplomacy. In refusing some of your humble trade proposals, I made a jest of what I thought to be a most improbable complexion. As truth has borne, your people do indeed resemble the magnificence of the sky above at High Light.

Please, pray thee tell me, that your people do not also dwell within mushrooms as our people dwell within stone and thatch, as I jested before. My King will have my head for such diplomatic blunders.

/you still don't get your pizza, though...

re: #59 Bagua

So is Canada still a acceptable target amongst the Greens, Bagua?

re: #61 Fenway_Nation

What? No Miss Maybelle?

Nope... I'm gonna get me religion,
I'm gonna join the Baptist Church
Yes, I'm gonna get me religion, I'm gonna join the Baptist Church
You know I wanna be a Baptist preacher, just so I won't have to work

One deacon jumped up, and he began to grin
One deacon jumped up, and he began to grin
You know he said, "One thing, elder. I believe I'll go back to barrelhousin' again"

One sister jumped up, and she began to shout
One sister jumped up, and she began to shout
"You know I'm glad this corn liquor's goin out"

Another deacon jumped up and said, "Why don't ya hush?"
Another deacon jumped up and said, "Why don't ya hush?"
"You know you drink corn liquor and your lie's a horrible stink"

One sister jumped up and she began to shout
One sister jumped up and she began to shout
"I believe I can tell ya'll what it's all about"

Another sister jumped up, she said, "Why don't ya hush?"
Another sister jumped up, she said, "Why don't ya hush?"
"You know he's abandoned, and you outta hush your fuss"

I was in the pulpit, I's jumpin up and down
I was in the pulpit, I's jumpin up and down
My sisters in the corner, they're hollerin Alabama bound

Grabbed up my suitcase and I took off down the road
Grabbed up my suitcase and I took off down the road
I said, "Farewell church, may the good Lord bless your soul"

You know I wish I had a heaven of my own
You know I wish I had a heaven of my own
I'd give all my women a good ol' happy home

I'm gonna preach these blues and I'm gonna choose my seat and sit down
I'm gonna preach these blues and I'm gonna choose my seat and sit down
But, when the Spirit comes, I want you to jump straight up and down

You know I's in the pulpit, I was jumpin straight up and down
You know I was in the pulpit, I was jumpin straight up and down
You know the sisters in the corner, they were hollerin' Alabama bound

re: #62 Surabaya Stew

Sounds like a good deal. Have never used a pizza stone, do you consider it worthwhile getting? (Assuming I get a homemade pizza-making urge again for the first time in years, of course!)

Well, if you are gonna make your own crust from scratch, it's worth getting. It helps to add a nice crispy, solidity to the crust.

If you buy a pre-made, pre-cooked crust, you can put it on anything.

re: #64 Fenway_Nation

So is Canada still a acceptable target amongst the Greens, Bagua?

After FarcenHagen™ flops there will be blame and recriminations galore.

re: #63 Slumbering Behemoth

Payment for the offense of ridiculing my people's architecture shall be an additional pizza...

The seventh pizza shall require sugar and be as a dessert.

re: #68 Bagua

After FarcenHagen™ flops there will be blame and recriminations galore.

You mean there wasn't any before all this?

re: #67 Slumbering Behemoth

Well, if you are gonna make your own crust from scratch, it's worth getting. It helps to add a nice crispy, solidity to the crust.

If you buy a pre-made, pre-cooked crust, you can put it on anything.

Ah, thanks for the info. I do in fact make my own crust, but its been so damn long since I've made a pizza...since before 9/11 in fact. Geez, I'm aging fast!

Anyhow, I'm off to bed now; insomnia be damned! Good night Lizards...

re: #71 Surabaya Stew

Fare thee well, brothy foodstuff of the Javan municipality persuasion.

re: #70 Fenway_Nation

You mean there wasn't any before all this?

With 4 days left to save the planet I expect we haven't seen the climax yet.

re: #73 Bagua

I expect we haven't seen the climax yet.

In bed.

re: #69 Sharmuta

The seventh pizza shall require sugar and be as a dessert.

It is boldly apparent to myself, and my King, that you and your people are worse than heathens. Your Pizzarchle Heresy must not be permitted to continue to spread amongst The Realms of the Faithful like the plague it is.

Sugar? On Pizza? As a dessert? Your fate is sealed. The Gods shall smile upon my people as we crush you heretics under-foote, and They will laugh as you run from our rage!

re: #75 Slumbering Behemoth

Fine by us. We are having a party tonight to drink all this beer so there is none left for your people once you have flattened our village. No beverage booty for your King.

But, uh... since you're here, if you'd like, you can come to the party tonight.

re: #75 Slumbering Behemoth

God hates protestors people who put pineapple on pizzas.

Awkward moment the other night in the Bruins game against Tampa Bay when Boston goaltender Tim Thomas mistook Lighning C Jeff Halpern for one of the eggs he was trying to hatch.

re: #77 Fenway_Nation

Evil, Devil Woman Blues - Joe McCoy

Beer's gone, turkey's long gone, I'm gone.

Later Lizards.

re: #80 Slumbering Behemoth

Fare thee well...titan of the no longer awake persuasion.

re: #81 Fenway_Nation

Here's one for your blog, someone has registered for Hopenhagen from Greenland.

Farcenhagen™

re: #82 Bagua

Dang...I still haven't updated since posting the Danes tribute to Minority Report.

Also...that Moonbatbot or whatever the fuck his name is screed against Canada and the kumbaya circle jerk of a 'rebuttal' in The Guardian defies parody and would be ample fodder for my blog or another along those lines.

Well, it looks like Sarah is trying to back-peddle as fast as she can:

Stupid Conspiracies

Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

Way to duck and cover...

However, some of her followers are still true believers:

Signé Thomas
You go Sarah!!! Way to stand of for Americans! The liberals are voicing their freedom of speech to the point of harrassment toward you and your family, and meanwhile the liberal media wouldn't even pressure Obama to show his birth certificate! So much for having to be a U.S. born citizen to become President! Stand your ground and don't back down. We're behind you all the way---we're going rogue with you!! :)

18 minutes ago

Nutso... but we here could have guessed that.

Oh, and Sarah is really getting behind Inhofe in trumping up the "climategate" too.

Double nutso...

Fuck...where are you, Matrix?

Hot-lanta poaching our free-agent pitchers in the offseason? Dammit- it's supposed to be the other way around!

First Wagner and now Saito.

Effin' jet lag... At 3:30am a little finger digs into my shoulder in bed. "Papa, I'm bored." Ooog...

Maybe a little sedative will help:

re: #85 Fenway_Nation

Just hopped out of the shower, haha.

I'm very happy with getting Wagner and Saito for 10 mil total. We need a bat though, in the worst way.

re: #88 TheMatrix31

True...it was like I was telling my friends after Papelbon coughed up the lead against Anaheim that ultimately cost us the ALDS...

'What? It's Paps fault that the Sox could only push across one run on eight hits in the first 2 games of the series?'

re: #89 Fenway_Nation

Exactly. Pitching wins championships, but shit, you need runs.

If the Braves had ANY offense this past year, we would have been in the playoffs. Starting pitching was healthy as hell and pitching great. No way they can expect the whole staff to be so healthy and lucky in 2010.

re: #90 TheMatrix31

Ugh...it's taking me forever to complete my requisite sports update for my blog. I'm not sure if it's because I'm being hyper-cautious and detail-oriented or my connection sucks.

Could be a combination of the two...

re: #91 Fenway_Nation

What's wrong with the connection?

re: #91 Fenway_Nation

You need an angel to help you out...

re: #85 Fenway_Nation

Fuck...where are you, Matrix?

Hot-lanta poaching our free-agent pitchers in the offseason? Dammit- it's supposed to be the other way around!

First Wagner and now Saito.

Wagner was never going to stay anyhow, hopefully the Sox offered arbitration so they could get the compensatory picks. Saito will be missed, but the Sox need to address the DH and catching situation. Time for Tek and Big Papi to call it a career.

Sun of a beach, that's a picture for a cold December morning.
Put on yer hats, ya buncha UV deniers!

re: #92 TheMatrix31

Dial-up, 'nuff said. Somebody 3 towns over smacks their sedan into a telephone pole, I've got no internet for 2 days.

re: #93 freetoken

I bet those wings are fur...///

re: #96 Fenway_Nation

Wow, what a pain in the ass!

re: #96 Fenway_Nation

Hey, how's the new job.

I finally got around to taking my better half to see Jersey Boys. Oh What A Night...no wonder it's been playing for years to packed houses!

re: #97 TheMatrix31

I know...but it's about the only feasable option out here in the boonies. No cable up here and sattelite's way too expensive.

re: #98 soxfan4life

Not bad...made enough to pay some bills, put some gas in my tank and maybe pay off some bills or start my Christmas shopping in earnest. Plus I'm told I smell like pizza at the end of my shift.

re: #100 Fenway_Nation

So dial-up is your everyday, normal connection?

re: #101 TheMatrix31

Pretty much...unless I go to one of the libraries, colleges or banks a few miles down the road.

re: #102 Fenway_Nation

Pretty much...unless I go to one of the libraries, colleges or banks a few miles down the road.

Wasn't there money in the stimulus package to provide broadband internet to everyone? Were there no union contractors available to install lines in your neck of the woods?

Dammit! It's the middle of the night and there's this real-life story about the 99-year old Yankees stadium PA announcer retiring after 57 years.

Talk about low-hanging fruit! Why can't I come up with a 'George Steinbrenner is so cheap...' dig to go along with it? I must be losing my touch.

re: #102 Fenway_Nation

Ouch.

re: #103 soxfan4life

Shit...I'm still waiting on my fiber-optic cable from what...? 10-15 years ago like most Americans.

If the people who are going to deliver broadband to rural America are represented by the SEIU thugs, I'd say we'd be in for a 150 or so year wait.

BTW...did you hear that the SEIU was actually present @ the Last Supper? They helped set up everything and Christ was so pleased he told all the SEIU guys there "Great work- now don't do anything until I come back"

Alright dudes, I'm going to bed. Have a good night.

"Broadband for everybody!" is the new 'Chicken in Every Pot.'

(sent to you by broadband paid with capitalist proceeds)

re: #104 Fenway_Nation

Slacker!

David Ogden, the deputy AG, has resigned and will return to private practice. He's a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a firm that is representing six Algerians in Gitmo who plotted to attack our embassy in Bosnia, helped free five from Gitmo and, openly criticized the Bush Administration.

Gee. Sounds like another BHO attorney, Robert Bauer, whose firm loves to represent terrorists.

re: #100 Fenway_Nation

I know...but it's about the only feasable option out here in the boonies. No cable up here and sattelite's way too expensive.

re: #98 soxfan4life

Not bad...made enough to pay some bills, put some gas in my tank and maybe pay off some bills or start my Christmas shopping in earnest. Plus I'm told I smell like pizza at the end of my shift.

There are some things money just can't buy.

re: #109 BigPapa

That's what you think!

/scroll down- the blurb about Mr Sheppard is the last item.

re: #110 MandyManners

David Ogden, the deputy AG, has resigned and will return to private practice. He's a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a firm that is representing six Algerians in Gitmo who plotted to attack our embassy in Bosnia, helped free five from Gitmo and, openly criticized the Bush Administration.

Gee. Sounds like another BHO attorney, Robert Bauer, whose firm loves to represent terrorists.

Why am I no longer surprised?

re: #113 soxfan4life

Why am I no longer surprised?

Because it's a case of SSDD?

Three SS agents have been suspspended and probably will be fired.

re: #114 MandyManners

Because it's a case of SSDD?

What day is it? And are people beginning to see the I'm a different type of politician thing might not be so good?

re: #110 MandyManners

Conflict of interest? With the Most open and BeSTesT AdMiNiStraion EVar!?

NOOO! Say it ain't so...

Next, you'll be telling me that the White House will be distributing prisoners to the President's former home-state (no, not Kenya) as a 'favor' to the first POS dem pol who endorsed 0bama and called compared our GI's and intel operatives to the Nazis and Khmer Rouge.

re: #115 MandyManners

Three SS agents have been suspspended and probably will be fired.

I caught a spot on CNN in which the reporter said that BHO promised transparency but is now covering up for cronies from Chicago.

Zing.

re: #116 soxfan4life

What day is it? And are people beginning to see the I'm a different type of politician thing might not be so good?

See my No. 118.

re: #118 MandyManners

I caught a spot on CNN in which the reporter said that BHO promised transparency but is now covering up for cronies from Chicago.

Zing.

I'm sure we will be told ad nauseum that they were holdovers from the Bush administration.

re: #118 MandyManners

Getting kind of bad when CNN can't or won't make excuses for you anymore. Of course, there's always MSNBC. If you've lost MSNBC, you might as well set up shop in an 'enemy camp' like West Point or Annapolis.

re: #117 Fenway_Nation

Conflict of interest? With the Most open and BeSTesT AdMiNiStraion EVar!?

NOOO! Say it ain't so...

Next, you'll be telling me that the White House will be distributing prisoners to the President's former home-state (no, not Kenya) as a 'favor' to the first POS dem pol who endorsed 0bama and called compared our GI's and intel operatives to the Nazis and Khmer Rouge.

Good quote from Quinn.

"The Illinois Way" should become a by-word for corruption and cronyism.

re: #120 soxfan4life

I'm sure we will be told ad nauseum that they were holdovers from the Bush administration.

Like all good Secret Service guys, they were instructed to take a bullet for the commander in chief, but it's gotta suck that they're taking a bus for some POS White House staffer.

re: #120 soxfan4life

I'm sure we will be told ad nauseum that they were holdovers from the Bush administration.

That was no where in the CNN report. It took quite a harsh approach.

Remember Maureen Dowd? She ripped a piece off of BHO and Desiree Rogers this week in the NYT.

re: #123 Fenway_Nation

I wonder if Michelle makes some of them wish for the good old days when they were assigned to protect HRC?

re: #121 Fenway_Nation

Getting kind of bad when CNN can't or won't make excuses for you anymore. Of course, there's always MSNBC. If you've lost MSNBC, you might as well set up shop in an 'enemy camp' like West Point or Annapolis.

SCORE!

re: #123 Fenway_Nation

Let me try that again:

Like all good Secret Service guys, they were instructed to throw themselves in front of a bullet for the commander in chief if it came down to it, but it's gotta suck that they gotta throw themelves in front of a bus for some POS White House staffer.

re: #125 soxfan4life

I wonder if Michelle makes some of them wish for the good old days when they were assigned to protect HRC?

I've heard nothing about WAFL being difficult. (WAFL is WAB with "First Lady" instead of the "B" word. It can be pronounced as "waffle".)

re: #128 MandyManners

Kind of puts a new spin on " Can I just eat my WAFL?"

re: #123 Fenway_Nation

Like all good Secret Service guys, they were instructed to take a bullet for the commander in chief, but it's gotta suck that they're taking a bus for some POS White House staffer.

Heh...new meaning for the phrase "taking the bus".

Under the bus, Gus,
No need to discuss much!

re: #127 Fenway_Nation

Like all good Secret Service guys, they were instructed to throw themselves in front of a bullet for the commander in chief if it came down to it, but it's gotta suck that they gotta throw themelves in front of a bus for some POS White House staffer.

The ultimate goal is to protect the president so, they were ultimately responsible. I hope this takes Rogers down a peg or two.

re: #129 soxfan4life

*WHACK*

Today's Not Another New England Sports Blog! Updates:

re: #130 Spare O'Lake

Heh...new meaning for the phrase "taking the bus".

Under the bus, Gus,
No need to discuss much!

We'll all be 'taking the bus' after Copenhagen if our 'leaders' have their way.

One way or another.

I wonder how many attorneys in BHO's administration came from firms that have and are representing terrorists in Gitmo.

re: #134 MandyManners

I wonder how many attorneys in BHO's administration came from firms that have and are representing terrorists in Gitmo.

It's the lobbyists that are bad nowadays, not the terrorists.

*Whew!* Finally...Not Another New England Sports Blog! updated:

A recap of the mid-week sports goings-on for Beantown and beyond, an affilaite blog announced and a Train of Thought featuring a sleek centenarian that requires some piping hot coffee or hot chocolate to view.

re: #135 soxfan4life

It's the lobbyists that are bad nowadays, not the terrorists.

Are you sure it isn't the talk-show hosts?

I know of two attorneys whose firms represent terrorists in Gitmo. One, Robert Bauer--is the White House counsel. The other is the deputy attorney general. Is this not a conflict of interest?

Ogden also was in Clinton's DOJ.

re: #134 MandyManners

I wonder how many attorneys in BHO's administration came from firms that have and are representing terrorists in Gitmo.

What better way to convince your prospective employer that you are a complete whore who will do or say anything for a buck?

re: #140 Spare O'Lake

What better way to convince your prospective employer that you are a complete whore who will do or say anything for a buck?

From what I've seen both Bauer and Ogden remain partners at their respective firms. (Bauer's is Perkins Coie.)

re: #138 MandyManners

You think a little piddling detail like that is important to the administraton?

re: #141 MandyManners

From what I've seen both Bauer and Ogden remain partners at their respective firms. (Bauer's is Perkins Coie.)

I could be wrong, though. I often am.

re: #142 Fenway_Nation

You think a little piddling detail like that is important to the administraton?

Any time someone says he'll have an open administration, will be transparent, I wonder what he's trying to pull.

re: #144 MandyManners

Any time someone says he'll have an open administration, will be transparent, I wonder what he's trying to pull.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Suicide bombers hit military worshipers at mosque in Pakistan.

re: #144 MandyManners

I knew that was bullshit from the word go...or they'd half-ass it and only show the public whatever they wanted them to see.

Nah...what really sets off my BS-meter these days are the notreversies disguised as horror stories about how bad we had it under the Bush Admnistration occasionally brought up in the MSM (Bush was going to use the Army to invade Buffalo and declare Martial Law to arrest the Lackawana 6, Bush & Cheney intentionally let Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, etc).

You know BH0 is about ready to screw the pooch (or is in the process of doing just that) whenever the yammering heads try circulating yet another story of how bad we had it under Bush.

re: #146 The Sanity Inspector

Suicide bombers hit military worshipers at mosque in Pakistan.

Two in succession? I wonder if the second one was scheduled to go splodeydope when the ambulances arrived but jumped the gun.

re: #147 Fenway_Nation

I knew that was bullshit from the word go...or they'd half-ass it and only show the public whatever they wanted them to see.

Nah...what really sets off my BS-meter these days are the notreversies disguised as horror stories about how bad we had it under the Bush Admnistration occasionally brought up in the MSM (Bush was going to use the Army to invade Buffalo and declare Martial Law to arrest the Lackawana 6, Bush & Cheney intentionally let Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, etc).

You know BH0 is about ready to screw the pooch (or is in the process of doing just that) whenever the yammering heads try circulating yet another story of how bad we had it under Bush.

Is there one circulating right now about that?

re: #146 The Sanity Inspector

re: #148 MandyManners

World's first failed nuclear state.

re: #148 MandyManners

Two in succession? I wonder if the second one was scheduled to go splodeydope when the ambulances arrived but jumped the gun.

"Scheduled" is an odd word.

re: #150 Fenway_Nation

re: #148 MandyManners

World's first failed nuclear state.

Pakistan's president turned control over the nukes to--IIRC--the P.M. recently.

re: #149 MandyManners

I think the Bu$h/Cheney-let-Bin-Laden-get-away one was being circulated by the MSM and Dems on capitol hill (calls for an inquiry and such) in advance of Chairman Zero's Enemy Camp West Point speech.

re: #153 Fenway_Nation

I think the Bu$h/Cheney-let-Bin-Laden-get-away one was being circulated by the MSM and Dems on capitol hill (calls for an inquiry and such) in advance of Chairman Zero's Enemy Camp West Point speech.

I musta' missed that one.

re: #147 Fenway_Nation

I knew that was bullshit from the word go...or they'd half-ass it and only show the public whatever they wanted them to see.

Nah...what really sets off my BS-meter these days are the notreversies disguised as horror stories about how bad we had it under the Bush Admnistration occasionally brought up in the MSM (Bush was going to use the Army to invade Buffalo and declare Martial Law to arrest the Lackawana 6, Bush & Cheney intentionally let Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, etc).

You know BH0 is about ready to screw the pooch (or is in the process of doing just that) whenever the yammering heads try circulating yet another story of how bad we had it under Bush.

Don't worry, Dems, be happy...

re: #148 MandyManners

Two in succession? I wonder if the second one was scheduled to go splodeydope when the ambulances arrived but jumped the gun.

A rookie mistake.

re: #156 The Sanity Inspector

A rookie mistake.

I reckon he learned.

re: #156 The Sanity Inspector

A rookie mistake.

He'll try not to let it happen again.

re: #156 The Sanity Inspector

A rookie mistake.

'Don't make me repeat myself, Abdullah!'

re: #158 Spare O'Lake

He'll try not to let it happen again.

SILENCE! I KEEEL YOU!

re: #160 MandyManners

SILENCE! I KEEEL YOU!

[Video]

"A-C-Phlegm"

It's a flesh wound.

re: #160 MandyManners

SILENCE! I KEEEL YOU!

[Video]

More than 100,000,000 views.

I wonder if someone's put a fatwa on Dunham.

Pawkistawn
Offhawnistawn
Oh fuck it already, is anyone else getting tired of all these fern pronunciations?

Amy Grant's on Fox defending atheists' right to say there is no God, saying they have a right to express their beliefs even at Christmas. One of the Fox hosts asked about how this affects kids who see these ads. In a roundabout way, Grant said it's the parents' duty to direct their kids' beliefs.

Dammit to friggin' damn hell...the late, great Western Pacific Railroad has a couple of milestone anniversaries coming up this month, and my browser is refusing to load not only the Western Pacific Historical Socitey's page, but the Feather River Rail Museum in Portola, CA.

I'm trying to get the specific dates for the completion of the Feather River line (WP's SF Bay Area- Salt Lake City line through the Sierra's that snaked along the turbulent Feather River) turns 100 and the joing Western Pacific/Great Northern Inside Gateway between Keddie, CA and Bend, OR- considered the last 'great' railway construction project- was completed 78 years ago.

re: #164 Spare O'Lake

Pawkistawn
Offhawnistawn
Oh fuck it already, is anyone else getting tired of all these fern pronunciations?

Are they "fern" or are they correct?

re: #165 MandyManners

Some cops came into the resturant for their break last night and FOX news was on the TV- the hostess offered to change the channel, but they said that was OK and went ahead and watched.

Don't tell certain lizards that we had men openly carrying firearms and other weaponry in public *gasp!* watching FOX news!

Has anyone heard about the attack on that Russian train? Anyone claiming responsibility?

Morning!
It's cold outside, supposed to snow this afternoon and I am not going anywhere because the truck has a flat. Oh Boo-Hoo!

re: #168 Fenway_Nation

Some cops came into the resturant for their break last night and FOX news was on the TV- the hostess offered to change the channel, but they said that was OK and went ahead and watched.

Don't tell certain lizards that we had men openly carrying firearms and other weaponry in public *gasp!* watching FOX news!

*swoon*

re: #170 Cathypop

Morning!
It's cold outside, supposed to snow this afternoon and I am not going anywhere because the truck has a flat. Oh Boo-Hoo!

SHOOT YER TRUCK.

re: #169 MandyManners

Has anyone heard about the attack on that Russian train? Anyone claiming responsibility?

I heard investigators say it was sabotage or terrorism, but didn't hear any specific group named.

I did hear that a Chechen group was trying to take credit for an earlier fire at a Russian military Ammo dump..

re: #169 MandyManners

Has anyone heard about the attack on that Russian train? Anyone claiming responsibility?

It was being pinned on Chechen fighters, last I heard.

re: #173 Fenway_Nation

I heard investigators say it was sabotage or terrorism, but didn't hear any specific group named.

I did hear that a Chechen group was trying to take credit for an earlier fire at a Russian military Ammo dump..

48 hour rule.

OK lizards and lizardettes- one more blogpimp before I grab me some shuteye!

/I actually did put some effort into it tonight...

re: #165 MandyManners

I like Amy.

re: #175 The Sanity Inspector

48hrs just about up. I don't think the ammo dump claim is anything more than wishful thinking on the Chechens part.

re: #173 Fenway_Nation

I heard investigators say it was sabotage or terrorism, but didn't hear any specific group named.

I did hear that a Chechen group was trying to take credit for an earlier fire at a Russian military Ammo dump..

There were two bombs. Has any Chechen group ever attacked as far north as that rail?

re: #170 Cathypop

Morning!
It's cold outside, supposed to snow this afternoon and I am not going anywhere because the truck has a flat. Oh Boo-Hoo!

Cold... I show ya cold, it -4 degrees (f) outside.

re: #174 The Sanity Inspector

It was being pinned on Chechen fighters, last I heard.

I reckon it's been swamped in the news cycle by the WH security screw up.

re: #177 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I like Amy.

Tennessee Christmas always brings a tear to my eye.

re: #167 MandyManners

Are they "fern" or are they correct?

Yes and yes, but that's not the point.
Why must we be made to feel guilty about longstanding English pronunciations of Muslim countries, but no others?

re: #180 Walter L. Newton

Cold... I show ya cold, it -4 degrees (f) outside.

And you can keep it. I hate being cold!

Nice picture. I am pretty sure I see Obama's birth certificate in the sand.

re: #179 MandyManners

Yes...terrorists took over a theater and hostages in 2002. Some Aeroflot flgihts were bombed mid-air a few years back and there was an unsccesful attempt to derail a passenger train between Moscow & St. Petersburg with a bomb last year or 2 years ago.

re: #182 MandyManners

Tennessee Christmas always brings a tear to my eye.

re: #183 Spare O'Lake

Yes and yes, but that's not the point.
Why must we be made to feel guilty about longstanding English pronunciations of Muslim countries, but no others?

Doesn't make me feel guilty. To me, it's the same as properly pronouncing Spanish names.

Speaking of Chechens, I was at my grandmother's house for Christmas many years ago when I heard an anchor at a Memphis station refer to Chechnya as "Chech-NIGH-a". I fell over laughing.

re: #186 Fenway_Nation

Yes...terrorists took over a theater and hostages in 2002. Some Aeroflot flgihts were bombed mid-air a few years back and there was an unsccesful attempt to derail a passenger train between Moscow & St. Petersburg with a bomb last year or 2 years ago.

Was that the Beslan school?

re: #189 MandyManners

Was that the Beslan school?

Nope. Beslan was in 2004.

Fucking scum.

re: #190 MandyManners

Nope. Beslan was in 2004.

Fucking scum.

Every now and then, I think of that as I let The Kid out at school. I know it's not rational but, I think of it.

re: #186 Fenway_Nation

The theater seige was during the showing of a Musical called 'Nord-Ost', said to be Russia's first Broadway-style musical. The terrorists made it a point to storm the stage when the actors were dressed in WWII Red Army uniforms.

The FSB or Septnatz wound up distracting the terrorists long enough to pump gas into the theater and carry everyone out unconscious, but many of the hostages died of complications. Some of the still unconcious terrorists were rigged with suicide devices and I think the decision was made to shoot them right then and there rather than try and disarm them.

re: #192 Fenway_Nation

The theater seige was during the showing of a Musical called 'Nord-Ost', said to be Russia's first Broadway-style musical. The terrorists made it a point to storm the stage when the actors were dressed in WWII Red Army uniforms.

The FSB or Septnatz wound up distracting the terrorists long enough to pump gas into the theater and carry everyone out unconscious, but many of the hostages died of complications. Some of the still unconcious terrorists were rigged with suicide devices and I think the decision was made to shoot them right then and there rather than try and disarm them.

FTFY. And a fine decision it was, too, meant to send a strong message to anyone thinking of trying something similar: you won't get out alive.

re: #188 MandyManners

Doesn't make me feel guilty. To me, it's the same as properly pronouncing Spanish names.

Speaking of Chechens, I was at my grandmother's house for Christmas many years ago when I heard an anchor at a Memphis station refer to Chechnya as "Chech-NIGH-a". I fell over laughing.

Okay, fine, then let's be consistent shall we? From now on:
Not Israel, but Yissrahelle
Not Mexico, but Meheecko
Not France, but La Frawnss
Not Germany, but Gairmahnya
Not Spain, but Espanya
...care to add some more?
Stop me, please...

re: #192 Fenway_Nation

The theater was in Moscow. Might've been 2002-2003. Left out that very pivotal detail. Beslan was geographically alot closer to the 'hot' areas in Dagestan and Checheya.

/too lazy to wiki it right now.

re: #193 SixDegrees

I'm not going to second guess them for that.

You waltz into the Russian bear's very den and pull that shit? Only a fool would expect kid-gloves treatment.

re: #194 Spare O'Lake

I think chiding BHO for this is on the same level as making fun of Pres. Bush's pronounciation of the word "nuclear".

re: #195 Fenway_Nation

The theater was in Moscow. Might've been 2002-2003. Left out that very pivotal detail. Beslan was geographically alot closer to the 'hot' areas in Dagestan and Checheya.

/too lazy to wiki it right now.

IIRC, Ossetia.

Speaking of school kids, I gotta' warm up the car. bbl

re: #196 Fenway_Nation

I'm not going to second guess them for that.

You waltz into the Russian bear's very den and pull that shit? Only a fool would expect kid-gloves treatment.

It's always been my feeling that they could have hauled the perps out just like they did the hostages, but shot them in place while they were anesthetized simply to put a quick end to the matter. No point in wasting rubles on what was certain to become a show trial, after all.

I got no problem with that.

OK...mega super ultra mean it this time.

Good day, all! Gotta git.

re: #197 MandyManners

I think chiding BHO for this is on the same level as making fun of Pres. Bush's pronounciation of the word "nuclear".

I love "nucular" - it's so ignorant that it's funny!
Obama, on the other hand, revels in rubbing his studied dhimmification in our faces.

re: #194 Spare O'Lake

Eye-rack?

re: #194 Spare O'Lake

And Eye-ran.

Eye-ran so far away.

Does anyone have a link to a transcript to Obama's opening remarks at the "job summit" on Thursday morning.

I heard audio of some of his remarks, and it was really upsetting some of what I heard, and it's really interesting, I can't find any transcripts... what's going on, normally prepared remarks are released ahead of time to enable news outlets to get their stories ready...

Strange... the particular quote I am looking for is something of this nature... Obama was talking about how small businesses have been learning to continue producing and doing it with less employees... and he said something in the effect of we can't let this become part of the corporate culture.

Anyone have some info on these remarks?

re: #203 laZardo

Eye-rack?

Eye miss those.

re: #205 Walter L. Newton

Opening or closing?

re: #207 laZardo

Opening or closing?

Opening remarks.

re: #207 laZardo

Opening or closing?

No, that's not it... I've been searching for about 1/2 hour, and it's really interesting that the opening remarks are not posted somewhere.

There's audio of the remark I am looking for, I heard it on a talk show yesterday, but I wanted a transcript of the whole thing.

Every time I hear "Doitchlund" instead of Germany I still get a bit queasy.
Sorry, I can't help it.

OT

We have had Hopenhagen morphing into Nopenhagen.

Now we have Gropenhagen, free sex for delegates to the jamboree :

[Link: politiken.dk...]

Isn't carjacking hilarious? No? Not even when the victim is the daughter of a Republican senator?

[Link: wonkette.com...]

re: #208 Walter L. Newton

Opening remarks.

Is this it?

re: #213 Varek Raith

Is this it?

Yes... and this is the comment that I think is bothersome...

"But despite the progress we've made, many businesses are still skittish about hiring. Some are still digging themselves out of the losses they incurred over the past year. Many have figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers, and that cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it's not translating into hiring. And so that's the question that we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again? How do we get ourselves to the point where more people are working, and more people are spending, and you start seeing a virtuous cycle and the recovery starts to feed on itself?"

re: #212 Mad Al-Jaffee

Isn't carjacking hilarious? No? Not even when the victim is the daughter of a Republican senator?

[Link: wonkette.com...]

Given the stuff I like to play, it's become rather boring.

re: #214 Walter L. Newton

Yes... and this is the comment that I think is bothersome...

"But despite the progress we've made, many businesses are still skittish about hiring. Some are still digging themselves out of the losses they incurred over the past year. Many have figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers, and that cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it's not translating into hiring. And so that's the question that we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again? How do we get ourselves to the point where more people are working, and more people are spending, and you start seeing a virtuous cycle and the recovery starts to feed on itself?"

I agree with you.
Down with productivity!

re: #214 Walter L. Newton

Bad, evil businesses making a profit. Shame on them in this economy.

re: #216 Spare O'Lake

I agree with you.
Down with productivity!

What I find most interesting is, currently, that comment is not being mentioned or cover by any news media that I can find. I couldn't even find his opening remarks covered by any news media.

Varek Raith found it on the White House website (stupid me for not looking there myself), but unless I'm just missing something, the MSM is certainly keeping this out of the news.

This remark speaks volumes to how Obama really thinks about capitalism and the freedoms that private business has in this country.

re: #218 Walter L. Newton

What I find most interesting is, currently, that comment is not being mentioned or cover by any news media that I can find. I couldn't even find his opening remarks covered by any news media.

Varek Raith found it on the White House website (stupid me for not looking there myself), but unless I'm just missing something, the MSM is certainly keeping this out of the news.

This remark speaks volumes to how Obama really thinks about capitalism and the freedoms that private business has in this country.

Walter, Walter, Walter. Didn't you know that the only purpose of business is to give money and benefits to the people? Who cares about demand, or efficiency, or even about making a marketable product? /

re: #218 Walter L. Newton

It was a good catch. Cities are cutting back hours and I haven't seen evidence that it has hurt production.

The job of a business owner/manager/supervisor is figuring out how to do more with less... they are figuring it out.

Of course, my company can't do without meee, but...

"The way it's set up, the money's largely going to places where it's always been going," said Karl Stauber, a former undersecretary for rural development in the Agriculture Department who is now director of the Danville Regional Foundation in struggling southern Virginia. "We need to invest stimulus dollars in ways that help create new competitive advantage in places that are now being left behind."

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

money pouring in to federal contractors...ho hum

re: #220 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It was a good catch. Cities are cutting back hours and I haven't seen evidence that it has hurt production.

The job of a business owner/manager/supervisor is figuring out how to do more with less... they are figuring it out.

Of course, my company can't do without meee, but...

Be wary of robots...
/:)

re: #218 Walter L. Newton

What I find most interesting is, currently, that comment is not being mentioned or cover by any news media that I can find. I couldn't even find his opening remarks covered by any news media.

Varek Raith found it on the White House website (stupid me for not looking there myself), but unless I'm just missing something, the MSM is certainly keeping this out of the news.

This remark speaks volumes to how Obama really thinks about capitalism and the freedoms that private business has in this country.

The evil bastards have "figured out how to squeeze" the lifeblood out of the proletariat.

re: #219 thedopefishlives

Walter, Walter, Walter. Didn't you know that the only purpose of business is to give money and benefits to the people? Who cares about demand, or efficiency, or even about making a marketable product? /

And honestly, there is some really crazy far right stuff going on right now, but when push comes to shove, there is no way I am going to jump on the lefts bandwagon, not even the moderated left. Most of the progressives already consider Obama as a moderate, and out of touch with their far left politics. Well, if that statement above is an example of a moderate leftist, I don't want anything to do with it.

(And no Ojoe, don't tell me about the Whigs)

re: #224 Walter L. Newton

And honestly, there is some really crazy far right stuff going on right now, but when push comes to shove, there is no way I am going to jump on the lefts bandwagon, not even the moderated left. Most of the progressives already consider Obama as a moderate, and out of touch with their far left politics. Well, if that statement above is an example of a moderate leftist, I don't want anything to do with it.

(And no Ojoe, don't tell me about the Whigs)

one step at a time comrade...like I said, heavy taxation and an unenthusiastic small business environment will lead to permanent 7% unemployment...a victory for liberals

re: #224 Walter L. Newton

And honestly, there is some really crazy far right stuff going on right now, but when push comes to shove, there is no way I am going to jump on the lefts bandwagon, not even the moderated left. Most of the progressives already consider Obama as a moderate, and out of touch with their far left politics. Well, if that statement above is an example of a moderate leftist, I don't want anything to do with it.

(And no Ojoe, don't tell me about the Whigs)

You know, I made my quote in jest, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were leftists out there who really did think that the primary purpose of modern corporations is to pay their workers. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, as the song goes.

re: #214 Walter L. Newton

Yes... and this is the comment that I think is bothersome...

"But despite the progress we've made, many businesses are still skittish about hiring. Some are still digging themselves out of the losses they incurred over the past year. Many have figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers, and that cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it's not translating into hiring. And so that's the question that we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again? How do we get ourselves to the point where more people are working, and more people are spending, and you start seeing a virtuous cycle and the recovery starts to feed on itself?"

Uh - we get people to do more hiring by having them find more work that needs to be done.

There, that was simple. Pay me.

You're right - this statement is idiotic.

Christian Heinze of the republican blog GOP12 summarizes Sarah Palin's facebook progress:

Sarah Palin's Facebook posts, revisited.

First, she made a splash with her "death panel" post, which was short, passionate, and alarmist.

After getting some flak (and receiving some praise) for the comment, she moved into wonkish territory, as if to prove she hadn't been indiscriminate in making the death panel claim. That was the footnote phase (e.g. here).

At that point, detractors claimed it couldn't really be her writing, and whether or not they were right, it didn't sound like the real Sarah Palin.

In the past few weeks, she's returned to phase 1, largely abandoning the footnotes and moving to the let 'er rip style she promised over twitter just before resigning from her job.

Once again, today's missive sounds indisputably Palin (can you call a Facebook post a missive? If not, that's a casualty).

re: #222 Varek Raith

Be wary of robots...
/:)

After the American Auto industry crashed, well, they're struggling too.

re: #218 Walter L. Newton

What I find most interesting is, currently, that comment is not being mentioned or cover by any news media that I can find. I couldn't even find his opening remarks covered by any news media.

Varek Raith found it on the White House website (stupid me for not looking there myself), but unless I'm just missing something, the MSM is certainly keeping this out of the news.

This remark speaks volumes to how Obama really thinks about capitalism and the freedoms that private business has in this country.

It isn't being reported because it exposes an overwhelming stupidity and ignorance. And there's just no way to spin it to make it seem otherwise.

re: #214 Walter L. Newton

That may result in good profits, but it's not translating into hiring.

Profit is evil.

re: #218 Walter L. Newton

This remark speaks volumes to how Obama really thinks about capitalism and the freedoms that private business has in this country.

"Because money's supposed to matter more than people? Uncaring little..."

/wait for it.

/businesses grow through their efficiency, eventually they'll expand and thus require more people...

re: #231 MandyManners

Profit is evil.

Morning, {Mandy}. We saw how profits are evil when Congress was seriously considering the windfall tax on oil companies. Is there no one left in politics that understands basic principles of economics?

/Silly me, of course not.

re: #218 Walter L. Newton

What I find most interesting is, currently, that comment is not being mentioned or cover by any news media that I can find. I couldn't even find his opening remarks covered by any news media.

Varek Raith found it on the White House website (stupid me for not looking there myself), but unless I'm just missing something, the MSM is certainly keeping this out of the news.

This remark speaks volumes to how Obama really thinks about capitalism and the freedoms that private business has in this country.

Sounds to me as if he believes in universal employment while being ignorant of what makes hiring possible.

question...
youtube says my Javascript may be turned off...vids won't play...how did I do that and how do I turn it back on?

re: #230 SixDegrees

It isn't being reported because it exposes an overwhelming stupidity and ignorance. And there's just no way to spin it to make it seem otherwise.

Or somebody's overwhelming stupidity and ignorance, his administration, who ever wrote those opening remarks.

re: #235 albusteve

question...
youtube says my Javascript may be turned off...vids won't play...how did I do that and how do I turn it back on?

What browser are you using?

re: #222 Varek Raith

Be wary of robots...
/:)

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

I heard a snippet yesterday about how BHO wants capital that is not at work to be put to work building infrastructure. Sounds to me as if BHO wants to tax the shit out of savings.

Happy Friday everybody! For those of you across the dateline, happy Saturday.

re: #240 Rightwingconspirator

Happy Friday everybody! For those of you across the dateline, happy Saturday.

It's still 10:31 PM over here in Manila. O:

re: #237 Varek Raith

What browser are you using?

Firefox...suddenly I'm having problems, periodic crashing...I get a window that says a script in this movie is causing Macromedia Flashplayer 6 to run slowly...abort script?, yes or no

I don't even have Flashplayer 6

re: #233 thedopefishlives

Morning, {Mandy}. We saw how profits are evil when Congress was seriously considering the windfall tax on oil companies. Is there no one left in politics that understands basic principles of economics?

/Silly me, of course not.

They're better at writing complex bills that few outside of D.C. can comprehend.

re: #241 laZardo

Oops. Thanks.

Profits? PPfftt..We should have the gubment hire peple to make shoes and shirts, pants and the such. Everyone could wear them, cheap!!. Then we could hire people to bake bread...

As much as I love the show 30 Rock, I'm getting really annoyed with the guest stars on it. Last week was Al "ManBearPig" Gore and last night was Whoopie "Rape Rape" Goldberg.

re: #242 albusteve

Try going here and downloading the latest...

re: #243 MandyManners

They're better at writing complex bills that few outside of D.C. can comprehend.

I long for the days when "politicians" used to be ordinary Americans who volunteered to serve their country in the roles of lawmakers and administrators. Now, we have a bunch of louts who make a career out of being pigheaded, closed-minded idiots sitting in a massive communal feel-good circle-jerk of incomprehensibility.

re: #239 MandyManners

Specifically, other people's $.

re: #245 Cannadian Club Akbar

Profits? PPfftt..We should have the gubment hire peple to make shoes and shirts, pants and the such. Everyone could wear them, cheap!!. Then we could hire people to bake bread...

In gray?

re: #247 laZardo

Try going here and downloading the latest...

I have...in my program files, I have
Adobe AIR
Flashplayer 10 plugin
Flashplayer 10 ActiveX
Shockwave Player 11

re: #248 thedopefishlives

I long for the days when "politicians" used to be ordinary Americans who volunteered to serve their country in the roles of lawmakers and administrators. Now, we have a bunch of louts who make a career out of being pigheaded, closed-minded idiots sitting in a massive communal feel-good circle-jerk of incomprehensibility.

Why do we keep electing them?

re: #249 Taqyia2Me

Specifically, other people's $.

Politics of envy.

re: #250 MandyManners

In gray?

I was thinking brown-ish. Kinda like the color of the thing I just coughed up.