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The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

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1 akarra  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:27:59pm

*looks up scamp*

2 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:29:38pm

Otherwise known as “Why Foucault is Wrong”

3 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:31:20pm

I love scampi.

4 Cannadian Club Akbar  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:32:50pm

I really like that quote.

5 akarra  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:33:32pm

re: #3 MandyManners

It is delicious.

“Scamp” might come from the Dutch schampen, “to decamp,” and thus became (as a noun) “an idler or rascal” or “a mischievous child.”

6 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:33:50pm

Scamps are cool. It’s those damn imps that I don’t trust.
:eyes dart about suspiciously:

7 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:34:18pm

“no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.” - Capt Reynolds

8 Bagua  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:34:28pm

Hobo Blues

9 Varek Raith  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:34:31pm

re: #6 Slumbering Behemoth

Scamps are cool. It’s those damn imps that I don’t trust.
:eyes dart about suspiciously:

Especially the fire ones…

10 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:35:16pm

re: #7 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

If you can’t do something smart, do something right.

— Jayne Cobb

A bit more than a scamp, that one.

11 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:35:49pm

There is little worse than an eighty minute study hall at the end of the school day.

I want to clobber a child.

12 wrenchwench  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:36:18pm

re: #3 MandyManners

See the album under “What’s playing”? That has the song about the cat with the little suitcase I mentioned a couple of days ago.

13 SpaceJesus  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:36:20pm

liking that quote a lot

14 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:36:25pm

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

Pick a nice big doughy one.

15 Cannadian Club Akbar  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:36:40pm

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

There is little worse than an eighty minute study hall at the end of the school day.

I want to clobber a child.

If you only get to clobber one, chose wisely.

16 wrenchwench  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:37:22pm

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

There is little worse than an eighty minute study hall at the end of the school day.

I want to clobber a child.

Hey, it’s possible that “All modern civilization depends entirely upon him” —or her.

17 cliffster  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:38:08pm

Since society is going down anyways…

You don’t wanna play with my toy soldiers

18 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:38:58pm

re: #16 wrenchwench

Hey, it’s possible that “All modern civilization depends entirely upon him” —or her.

Will it harm civilization much if I just gently clobber him or her?

19 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:39:10pm

re: #10 Obdicut

If you can’t do something smart, do something right.

— Jayne Cobb

A bit more than a scamp, that one.

She is startin’ to damage my calm. - Jayne

I always liked Jayne.

20 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:39:19pm

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

There is little worse than an eighty minute study hall at the end of the school day.

I want to clobber a child.

Spayshul snowfwake?

21 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:39:45pm

re: #5 akarra

It is delicious.

“Scamp” might come from the Dutch schampen, “to decamp,” and thus became (as a noun) “an idler or rascal” or “a mischievous child.”


“Brat” works, too.

22 Varek Raith  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:39:55pm

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Will it harm civilization much if I just gently clobber him or her?

I got a time machine. Clobber away, we’ll fix the timeline afterwards.
;)

23 wrenchwench  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:40:19pm

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Will it harm civilization much if I just gently clobber him or her?

Now that you mention it, that just might be the necessary ingredient.

24 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:41:06pm

“Clobbered Brats” would be a good name for a garage band.

25 cliffster  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:42:04pm

re: #8 Bagua

keep it coming

26 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:43:22pm

re: #9 Varek Raith

And don’t even get me started on those effing quasits. Shifty little bastards.

27 Bagua  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:44:47pm

re: #25 cliffster

keep it coming

Hobo Jungle Blues


-Sleepy John Estes
28 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:45:39pm

re: #26 Slumbering Behemoth

And don’t even get me started on those effing quasits. Shifty little bastards.

What do you expect? They’re chaotic evil.

29 cliffster  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:47:05pm

re: #27 Bagua

thank you, kind anonymous internet person

30 Izzyboy  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:47:07pm

I just saw the nuclear power plant post, happy camper here. About frakin’ time.

31 SixDegrees  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:47:29pm

re: #20 MandyManners

Spayshul snowfwake?

Here’s the real deal - one of my favorite websites.

Buy their book.

32 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:50:05pm

re: #31 SixDegrees

Here’s the real deal - one of my favorite websites.

Buy their book.

My favorite.

33 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:50:47pm

What a scamp vs. dictatorship might look like:

34 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:50:50pm

Well. I just got booted to the front page and when I returned, I got logged out.

35 prairiefire  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:50:56pm

I think there are quite a few scamps on the blog. Long live Democracy.

36 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:52:29pm

Well, looks Minnesota has a new bill up to ban certain marriages.

37 Killgore Trout  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:53:11pm

Hot Air made the news today….
CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones

Mr. Mattera, also a television correspondent for the Web site HotAir, said that Mr. Obama had created the “right opportunity to capture what is perceived as the left’s stronghold on the youth vote.”

Still no response from Hot Air or the conservative family values corporation that now owns them.

38 Bagua  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:54:13pm

I’m a Hobo myself…

Traveling Blues


- Big Joe Williams
39 rwdflynavy  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:54:14pm

re: #37 Killgore Trout

Hot Air made the news today…
CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones

Still no response from Hot Air or the conservative family values corporation that now owns them.

Well, I just think Obama is post-racialy dreamy….
//

40 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:55:56pm

re: #35 prairiefire

Yes, it’s also nice to no longer be reprimanded for being a “silly boy”.

41 MandyManners  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:55:57pm

re: #37 Killgore Trout

Hot Air made the news today…
CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones


Still no response from Hot Air or the conservative family values corporation that now owns them.

Stupid man. There are real problems with BHO and this racist moron is not helping propose solutions.

42 Randall Gross  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:55:59pm

From the authority, OED etymological edition online:

scamp (n.)
1782, “highway robber,” probably from dialectal verb scamp “to roam” (1753), shortened from scamper. Used affectionately in sense “rascal” since 1808.
scamp (v.)
“do in a hasty manner,” 1837, perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. skemma “to shorten,” from skammr “short”), or a blend of scant and skimp (q.v.).

43 Randall Gross  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:57:03pm

Here’s the online search which everyone should bookmark

[Link: www.etymonline.com…]

44 simoom  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:57:26pm

re: #37 Killgore Trout

Hot Air made the news today…
CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones

Still no response from Hot Air or the conservative family values corporation that now owns them.

Here’s the video of Mattera’s CPAC speech:

45 HoosierHoops  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:57:51pm

re: #34 MandyManners

Well. I just got booted to the front page and when I returned, I got logged out.

*Lends a hand up and dusts Mandy off*
Ok Kid..Now get back out there!
/

46 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:58:00pm

There were earnest advocates of the humane killing of cattle who looked up at the massive headquarters of the OGPU with tears of gratitude in their eyes, earnest advocates of proportional representation who eagerly assented when the necessity for a Dictatorship of the Proletariat was explained to them, earnest clergymen who walked reverently through anti-God museums and reverently turned the pages of atheistic literature, earnest pacifists who watched delightedly tanks rattle across the Red Square and bombing planes darken the sky, earnest town planning specialists who stood outside overcrowded ramshackle tenements and muttered: “If only we had something like this in England!” The almost unbelievable credulity of these mostly university-educated tourists astonished even Soviet officials used to handling foreign visitors.
— Malcolm Muggeridge, of the Soviet Union in the 1930s

47 Jadespring  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:59:06pm

News of the weird: Today on the nets, mostly through twitter the news started flying around that Gordon Lightfoot had died. (He’s a well know Canadian singer). It made it the radio waves and Lightfoot heard about his own death while driving in his car. So he hurried home to phone that was ringing off the hook and spent the rest of it calling people, “I’m alive. Really!’

48 sngnsgt  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:00:39pm

As a Las Vegas resident, I agree 110% with Oscar:

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with President Obama when he arrives in town on Thursday. Mayor Goodman called President Obama a slow learner after he told Americans not to blow money on a weekend in Las Vegas if they were saving to put their kids through college.

Poll results say the same:

Yes 93%
No 6%
Undecided 1%

www.ktnv.com

49 Randall Gross  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:01:50pm

re: #44 simoom

I could only listen to the first half, it’s a real train wreck of rationalizations of twisted world views.

50 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:02:51pm

re: #48 sngnsgt

Obama was completely right. Though what he should have said was ‘don’t gamble’, rather than not go to Vegas.

51 HoosierHoops  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:05:01pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Obama was completely right. Though what he should have said was ‘don’t gamble’, rather than not go to Vegas.

Four out of five voices in my head say they agree with you

52 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:05:02pm

afternoon all………

how goes?

53 Varek Raith  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:05:21pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Obama was completely right. Though what he should have said was ‘don’t gamble’, rather than not go to Vegas.

Concur.

54 sngnsgt  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:05:29pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Obama was completely right. Though what he should have said was ‘don’t gamble’, rather than not go to Vegas.

He probably should have. Either way, we don’t want him here & he can take Harry with him.

55 HoosierHoops  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:05:34pm

re: #52 wozzablog

afternoon all…

how goes?

Hope today finds you well

56 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:05:42pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Hindsight being what it is, it would have been better to use something less specific like “expensive/extravagant vacations”.

57 Jadespring  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:06:55pm

re: #52 wozzablog

afternoon all…

how goes?

Good. My dinner is in the oven and one of my dogs did the deed finally so there will be puppies by the end of April.

58 SixDegrees  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:07:55pm

re: #57 Jadespring

Good. My dinner is in the oven and one of my dogs did the deed finally so there will be puppies by the end of April.

I can’t tell you how disturbing that sentence seems.

59 Killgore Trout  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:07:57pm

re: #44 simoom

Here’s the video of Mattera’s CPAC speech:

[Video]

Thanks for posting that. I think the article exaggerated quite a bit. After watching I really don’t see anything overtly racist there. The “diversity” always treads into some sketchy areas but I don’t think his speech was wacist.

60 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:08:19pm

I just read that idiotic Jonathan Curiel column at TrueSlant, mentioned downstairs, where he builds a fence around America in order to put Amy Bishop and the Tea Party in the same corral. Sorry I missed the pile-on.

Behney’s remarks don’t reflect the sentiments on all Tea Party members. Nor does Bishop’s shooting spree mean that race is a factor whenever a white professor gets disgruntled by a tenure process overseen by minority administrators.

“But that’s what I just spent my allotted column inches insinuating, so oopsie if you got that impression.”

61 Killgore Trout  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:08:35pm

re: #59 Killgore Trout

Typos!
/You stink

62 Bagua  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:08:41pm

Evil Devil Woman Blues

63 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:08:59pm

re: #57 Jadespring

Someone would like to have a word with you.

64 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:09:28pm

re: #57 Jadespring

Good. My dinner is in the oven and one of my dogs did the deed finally so there will be puppies by the end of April.

Puppies!

65 Jadespring  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:09:51pm

re: #58 SixDegrees

I can’t tell you how disturbing that sentence seems.

Yes it is, now that I read it over again…..

66 HoosierHoops  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:11:06pm

re: #56 Slumbering Behemoth

Hindsight being what it is, it would have been better to use something less specific like “expensive/extravagant vacations”.


Obama should have said
My Fellow Americans
BUY SOMETHING! GO TO THE MALL!
/Hopefully you still have some of the 600 dollar check Bush sent you..
Cause.. I’m tapped out

67 Jadespring  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:11:35pm

re: #63 Slumbering Behemoth

Someone would like to have a word with you.

Bob can go take a hike….

Seriously though, these are destined for the working world, search and rescue, guard, police etc etc.

68 sngnsgt  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:12:24pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Either way, Harry Reid’s gone this next time around, that’s a positive step for NV.

69 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:12:25pm

re: #67 Jadespring

Most excellent. Good on you!

70 Achilles Tang  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:12:26pm

re: #46 The Sanity Inspector

I’m curious why you posted this, having trouble finding the connection; but I also can’t resist this little piece from his WIKI..

Having been elected rector of Edinburgh University, Muggeridge was goaded by the Student (newspaper) editor Anna Coote to support the call for contraceptive pills to be available at the University Health Centre. He used a sermon at St. Giles’ Cathedral in January 1968, to resign the post in protest against the Student Representative Council’s views on “pot and pills.” This sermon was published under the title “Another King.”

since I was a student there at the time and even dated Anna Coote a few times.

*memories, memories*

71 Stanley Sea  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:14:11pm

I don’t think this has been posted yet..?

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is suing the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to stop it from regulating global warming pollution. The centerpiece of his argument? Those leaked “Climate-Gate” emails.

This isn’t the first legal challenge to the EPA’s ability to regulate global warming pollution. Last week, an alliance of conservative business groups led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks filed a similar suit, which also referred to the “Climate-Gate” emails.

TPM

72 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:14:17pm

re: #70 Naso Tang

I’m curious why you posted this, having trouble finding the connection; but I also can’t resist this little piece from his WIKI..

since I was a student there at the time and even dated Anna Coote a few times.

*memories, memories*

Just free-associating on the dictatorship quote Charles posted.

73 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:14:40pm

Hilarious SomethingAwful story about Kansas City.

[Link: www.somethingawful.com…]

74 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:15:07pm

re: #55 HoosierHoops

I’m doing pretty darn well thanks, still out in Tx with my lady, things are good.


re: #57 Jadespring

let us know what you name them all when the time comes :-)

75 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:15:53pm

re: #68 sngnsgt

It’s a positive step for the Democrats.

76 Varek Raith  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:15:56pm

re: #71 Stanley Sea

I don’t think this has been posted yet..?

TPM

Maybe he’ll threaten to really secede this time?
:P

77 Achilles Tang  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:16:15pm

re: #72 The Sanity Inspector

Just free-associating on the dictatorship quote Charles posted.

Just straight out of the air, huh?

78 sngnsgt  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:16:31pm

re: #75 Obdicut

Thank you, I stand corrected.

79 [deleted]  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:16:51pm
80 prairiefire  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:18:13pm

re: #52 wozzablog

afternoon all…

how goes?

Wozza! Wozza up? How have you been? The sun is shining in the middle of America today.

81 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:18:19pm

re: #78 sngnsgt

Not a correction. Just an addition.

82 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:19:49pm

re: #68 sngnsgt

The TeaBaggers have bypassed the primary and are standing their own candidate in the General, it’s not over yet in NV.
Reid’s not my A #1 guy, but the fat lady isn’t singing yet.

83 cliffster  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:20:36pm

re: #59 Killgore Trout

Thanks for posting that. I think the article exaggerated quite a bit. After watching I really don’t see anything overtly racist there. The “diversity” always treads into some sketchy areas but I don’t think his speech was wacist.

wow.

84 prairiefire  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:20:51pm

re: #73 Obdicut

Hilarious SomethingAwful story about Kansas City.

[Link: www.somethingawful.com…]

Oh, man. Another harsher on my hometown.

85 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:21:09pm

re: #80 prairiefire

Going great PF - it was raining earlier here in Texas……. just waiting for my GF to get home from work before we meet her boss for coffee, then her parents……. hmmmm.

Day could go either way from here ;-)

86 Varek Raith  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:21:17pm

re: #82 wozzablog

The TeaBaggers have bypassed the primary and are standing their own candidate in the General, it’s not over yet in NV.
Reid’s not my A #1 guy, but the fat lady isn’t singing yet.

Sorry but, I’d LMFAO if Reid won because of this…

87 prairiefire  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:21:53pm

re: #85 wozzablog

Best behavior, etc…

88 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:22:25pm

re: #86 Varek Raith

It’ll be a snowballing day in hell before the teabaggers see sense…….

89 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:22:27pm

re: #84 prairiefire

Well, it’s by a dude who lives there, and he does say the food is great, and the apartments cheap.

90 sngnsgt  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:23:01pm

re: #82 wozzablog

It’s not over yet, but I’m liking the poll numbers.

91 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:23:17pm

re: #87 prairiefire

Thats what i keep telling myself to remember…………. *sigh*

Then its back home and onto celebrating valentines day tomorrow (her day off).

92 torrentprime  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:23:46pm

re: #68 sngnsgt

Either way, Harry Reid’s gone this next time around, that’s a positive step for NV.

It’s a positive step for all of us.

/said the guy hoping for a functional, effective Democratic majority (hopefully) leader

93 solomonpanting  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:24:57pm

SCAMP

And a good CD, to boot.

94 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:25:00pm

re: #90 sngnsgt

That covers the two horse race. Just wait til the money and the out of towners appear on behalf of what ever J-A is running on the TP slate.

95 HoosierHoops  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:25:05pm

The Hoopster has figured out the Stimulas package…
If I was the Kind.. I’d take all those Billions and do this..
Rules:
1. If you have job that is higher than 10 bucks an hour you can apply for
a one time grant of 1 million dollars.
2. You must quit your job and promise not to work for 5 years. ( you may open a business )
3. You must invest 1/4 million dollars into whatever stocks or mutual funds you want for a min. of 2 years.
4. You pay no taxes for 2 years

Millions of jobs available from the exodus…The markets get flushed with cash with investments mandated. No taxes for 2 years creates new businesses..
And no cheated or pork spending.. You sign up..You get a check..
Where do I sign? I want to make America strong again…*wink*

96 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:27:25pm

Gotta love y’all and leave y’all.
GF is about to get home………

97 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:28:17pm

re: #77 Naso Tang

Just straight out of the air, huh?

No, as I said: free-associating. “Dictatorship: quotations about”. I hope it’s not a surprise by now that I’m a quote fountain.

98 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:30:34pm

re: #95 HoosierHoops

The Hoopster has figured out the Stimulas package…
If I was the Kind.. I’d take all those Billions and do this..
Rules:
1. If you have job that is higher than 10 bucks an hour you can apply for
a one time grant of 1 million dollars.
2. You must quit your job and promise not to work for 5 years. ( you may open a business )
3. You must invest 1/4 million dollars into whatever stocks or mutual funds you want for a min. of 2 years.
4. You pay no taxes for 2 years

Millions of jobs available from the exodus…The markets get flushed with cash with investments mandated. No taxes for 2 years creates new businesses..
And no cheated or pork spending.. You sign up..You get a check..
Where do I sign? I want to make America strong again…*wink*

Opening a business isn’t work? A lot of work?

99 simoom  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:30:39pm

re: #48 sngnsgt

As a Las Vegas resident, I agree 110% with Oscar:

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with President Obama when he arrives in town on Thursday. Mayor Goodman called President Obama a slow learner after he told Americans not to blow money on a weekend in Las Vegas if they were saving to put their kids through college.
Poll results say the same:

Yes 93%
No 6%
Undecided 1%

www.ktnv.com

The bolded part of that article doesn’t seem entirely accurate to me. While politically Obama made a mistake to even mention Vegas, the President wasn’t directing American’s to do anything. He was actually talking about his plans for dealing with the federal deficit and used a number of “conventional wisdom” American household budgeting anecdotes as metaphors for dealing with it.

From the transcript of the Nashua NH remarks:
[Link: www.whitehouse.gov…]

Now, finally, we should all be able to agree that we’ve got to do something about our long-term deficits. Now, these deficits won’t just burden our kids and our grandkids decades from now — they could damage our markets now, they could drive up our interest rates now, they could jeopardize our recovery right now.

Responsible families don’t do their budgets the way the federal government does. Right? When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices. It’s time your government did the same. (Applause.)

Now, that’s why I continue to insist on making investments for job growth this year, why I continue to insist that we put more money into education; that’s why I say we put more money into science and technology for innovation. (Applause.) That’s why I continue to believe that we’ve got to invest in our infrastructure so that we are building the kind of America that can compete in the 21st century. Those are smart investments. That’s like buying the new boiler — if it’s busted, you got to get a new boiler. If the roof’s leaking, you got to fix the roof. There’s some things you’ve got to do.

But you can put off buying the new curtains, even if it’d be nice to have. You know, that — remodeling the bathroom, I mean, everything is working. You don’t need it right now. I mean, what we’ve been having are folks who want to buy the curtains but don’t want to fix the boiler. (Applause.) And our priorities have to change.

That’s why I proposed cutting more than 120 government programs — consolidating ones that are duplicative, reducing ones that are wasteful, eliminating those that just don’t work. (Applause.)

100 simoom  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:38:56pm

re: #99 simoom

One more minor point. The quoted poll is an internet poll where anyone can submit a vote at the top of the article, not a poll of Las Vegas residents (and that article is is getting Drudge-link traffic).

101 oldegeezr  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:58:19pm

Beejeebus, folks…

I luv, the sorority and the fraternity, the intercourse and the “hail babe” or fellow “well met”…but do we have too, do that “dingy thinghy” for every gosh damn comment, or statement …yah all make…?

Dingy…dingy…dingy…?
Down ding… you azzhole…!

My thought would be…as a group, you’re a lot more committed and much stronger than that…

Reserve the “dingy’s” for real circumstances in our lives…not for the fact that; “I, stubbed my toe on the bed post on the way to the bathroom, this morning…“Damn, talk about painful…!”

Just a geezer’s thoughts…
Gimme a break…?

Duck…!

102 prairiefire  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:02:01pm

re: #89 Obdicut

Actually, his writing is very spot on. Eh, we do eat well here. : )

103 wrenchwench  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:07:23pm

re: #101 oldegeezr

Are you saying you don’t want me to upding that post? (:

104 HoosierHoops  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:07:29pm

re: #98 The Sanity Inspector

Opening a business isn’t work? A lot of work?

You can’t work for any company.. You can’t take a job out of the market…
But hell..Go for it..Here is a million bucks…Get with your buddies and start a software company…
/I’d have a little winery in Napa or something…Or a little condo on the beach in Hawaii and get my monthly check… winston and I would Boogie board every day…Somebody would have my job..1 Job created and another on the way

105 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:08:04pm

re: #102 prairiefire

Figured it was even funnier for a resident.

106 oldegeezr  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:08:16pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

Absolutely…!

107 oldegeezr  Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:53:47pm

So what…?
What I’d like for all you very fine troopers to know…I have the deepest respect fore your ability, circumstances and missions…!

It’s a ” Bah moi Bah” [33] on me…!
Heckler and Kochs…!
JG…


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