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  1. OK seriously? Have we been global-warminged on heart disease all these years? I mean, I discovered that they were wrong about margarine being better for you like 20 years ago, bur seriously? http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/11/study-reveals-even-4000-year-old-mummies-had-clogged-arteries/

    This reminds me of an old T-shirt my dad used to have: “Eat right, exercise – die anyway.” He wouldn’t snuff the cigarettes, stop eating big old steaks and living the high-roller lifestyle, and made it to 75. These mummies were lucky to make it to 35! hardened arteries? My butt! Get me some bacon – STAT!

    1. Yea baby! Welcome to the dark side!
      I had a great aunt and uncle that ate bacon every day! She fried the bacon, then made scrambled eggs in the bacon grease and added the chopped bacon to the eggs. They both smoked, her cigarettes, him a pipe. They both drank, beer and whiskey every day!
      They lived to 103.
      Don’t tell me about my freaking diet! It’s all bullshit!
      I’m going to die no matter what, so I might as well enjoy myself!

      1. BTW, my grandparents ate and drank the same way, but both quit smoking in their 60’s. He lived to 92, she lived to 87.
        Does that mean smoking makes you live longer?

        1. Yeah. My Grandmother quit smoking when she was 70, and started again when she was 90. And lasted 7 more years! I love love LOVE cigarettes. I love the way they smell, and I loved smoking them. I only stopped because it was so freaking expensive, and it’s just no fun to smoke now. But whenever I go by smokers, I lift my nose up higher to try to get more of the smell, LOL.

    2. Yeah, the cholesterol thing is epic bad science. It’s not that statins don’t lower cholesterol and reduce MCI’s ever so slightly — but that people are dying of something else, so overall mortality is indistinguishable. What are the people dying of instead of MCI’s? I’ll give you 3 guesses, and 4 hints. Cancer, cancer, cancer, and cancer.

      Now, *that’s* a hell of a choice. Pass me the bacon. Looks like meat’s back on the menu!

    1. That’s because the drug cartels don’t want anyone they aren’t paying off to own weapons.

    1. I’m having a really hard time with this one FDH, I don’t know who\what\where\when to believe. I pretty much let this one go for now, there’s so much bs flying I can see it becoming an obsession trying to get even close to the bottom of it. Still smack down people trying to score points with it, but quit digging. Where does this fit in your thinking?

      http://www.texasgopvote.com/issues/stop-big-government/connecticut-state-police-clarify-sandy-hook-weapons-questions-005049

      “I contacted the CT State Police for further clarification. Lt. Paul Vance told me the Bushmaster was, in fact, fired inside the school and used to kill all 26 people who died that day.”

      1. From so many different sources, so many different reports and such disparity regarding report content, my reaction is that the government is conducting a massive disinformation operation. I dislike conventional conspiracy theory due to the inherent inadequacies of human nature to keep secret information held by more than one person, and with each additional player, the order of magnitude compounds for the failure of confidentiality. However, the simple ineptitude of this particular administration, exposed in so many ways by various means leads me to believe they would indeed do anything to further their progressive totalitarian goals. Reducing the ability of the bulk of the citizenry to defend Liberty, while their Cloward-Piven strategy plays out and the introduction of U.N. overseeing the reduction of sovereign status to subject us all to the globalist takeover seems all too plausible.
        I’d appreciate being satisfied with the truth one way or the other or any other, but the stink is permeating every single olfactory receptor and that makes it impossible to let go.

        1. Wasn’t ragging on you, just the whole situation gives me a headache. So the CSP is saying there were 2 long semis, 1 in the school and 1 in the trunk?

          1. Just more dust thrown in the air. Quick examination of ejected shell casings at the scene was all that was needed. How hard should that have been?

          2. Didn’t mean for that to sound like I was defensive at all. The entire load of this, that and all the other crap is meant to overwhelm us and stop critical thinking, allowing them to proceed with the nefarious doings to undermine our nation and our Liberty for the good of the… children, I guess. Headache city.
            The video of the truck is clearly not an AR15, and is most certainly at Saiga type shotgun. The myriad reports tell us that only handguns were used in the school, then the other reports tell us all the shootings were done with the Satanic Bushmaster that the alleged insane perp killed his mother to facilitate his stealing it. None of the survivors are ever interviewed for public viewing. Various personnel appear to be actors. The police training operation nearby seems convenient. The second and third gunmen are recorded on video but then not. No security video from in the building ever surfaced. It all smells like so much poorly planned black op left to be covered, like everything else they’ve undertaken since employers started saving 3,000% on insurance premiums.

    1. Kelly is a piece of shite. I don’t give a crap about his service or that he flew the shuttle. So what? I served too so I’ll call his sorry ass out anytime I want to.

        1. My sympathy for Gabby started running out when they threw a hissy-fit about that Tea Party candidate that ran for her seat.

      1. Has the AF scrubbing the drone strikes #s been up here yet? Can’t remember where I saw it.

  2. This is why even Fox news sucks. Look at the last paragraph in this article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/09/federal-workers-owe-35b-in-back-taxes/
    “The new data comes as many federal workers are facing unpaid furloughs because of automatic spending cuts known as the sequester. ”

    I call Shenanigans! The sequester happened last week. Not one single employee anywhere could have become delinquent because of that. No matter HOW you define delinquent taxes as occurring, it is impossible. Now, granted the story does not ACTUALLY say that it’s because of the sequester, but the implication is so strong that you can cut it with a knife. It is the AP. of course, but really Fox – do you just print the crap as it comes off the wire?

    No wonder there are so many low-information voters who think they know what the heck is going on!

    1. “My wife told them to remove the soldiers and serve the cupcakes anyway — and I believe she may have used more colorful language.”

      I’m in love.

      1. I need to stop speed reading the comments. On first read, I thought you said you were a direct descendent of Charles Manson.

      2. that’s an impressive pedigree.. i wasn’t aware it was really possible to trace back that far

        I’ve been reading more about the Battle of Tours and my respect for his discipline and military foresight just continues to grow

        1. I always throw that shit out there, but it’s not as impressive as it sounds. I was into genealogy bigtime for a while and I got real excited when I hit royalty until I realized a large chunk of America is descended from King John, the guy who’s the bad king in Robin Hood movies. And furthermore, once you’re related to one royal you’re pretty much related to them all because they intermarry so much they’re worse than hillbilly cousins.

          Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace for the Franks (much more important title than it sounds), was the 12th great grandfather of John Lackland, whose reputation is so bad the British royal family to this day refuses to name a baby John. He was also the great grandfather of Charlemagne (Charles the Great in English), 10th great grandfather of William the Conqueror, and my 39th great grandfather.

          Genealogy is really fun once you get into the royals because their family trees are so thoroughly documented. After all, the throne is generally at stake, ya know? So they kept track and wrote it down.

    1. Let me guess, she’s a registered Republican, otherwise this wouldn’t be an issue.

      1. That was one of the things I was going to say. Bingo!

        Another: An old lady who clearly has memory problems and is contrite and embarrassed versus a militant democrat POLLWATCHER who deliberately voted as many as six times? First is being prosecuted, the second is part of a pack that is being “investigated”. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/19/ohio-poll-worker-obama-supporter-investigated-for-potentially-voting-six-times/

        One more: white lady prosecuted vs. black lady being finger-wagged.

        How about: poll watchers ignored the “AB” note next to her name, which meant she had already voted absentee. The old woman probably didn’t see that, but even if she had, probably didn’t know what it meant. shouldn’t they have asked her?

        I could do this for hours. Any way you slice it, it stinks!

  3. I refuse to be convinced there is any reason for optimism regarding this assault on the Second Amendment. On the night of the presidential election last November, I watched the poll returns on the Talking Light for the first couple hours into the evening and it looked like America was on its way to correcting the list to port our nation was suffering. I fell asleep for a couple hours and the tide had (apparently) come in to push us well over and into the throes of a capsizing ship. I refuse to be made to feel complacent about the further erosion of the Bill of Rights. However, no harm in passing along some other POVs as reported by other outlets, even if they do lend an air along those lines. http://www.infowars.com/senate-committee-prepares-fusillade-aimed-at-second-amendment

    1. And yet, we continue to just stand by and do nothing. Our enemy has wormed it’s way into the highest reaches of government and industry, and we do nothing. We are a world of fools. They have told us, over and over what they are going to do, and we just stand here drooling and grinning – sure that they couldn’t do something like that. They didn’t mean it how it sounded – they meant it PEACEFULLY – they ARE the religion of peace. They say so!

      I just hope to God that no one I am responsible for is alive when it happens. I doubt if blue eyed people are going to fare well.

  4. This exchange between Senator Bill Nelson and me is illustrative of how far up the asses the heads of our elected officials are…

    Dear Sidekick:

    Thank you for contacting me about policy proposals that seek to reduce gun violence in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown.

    I am a hunter and have always owned guns, and I support the Second Amendment.

    But assault weapons such as AK 47s are intended for killing, not hunting.

    Solutions for reducing gun violence must address many areas, from protecting law enforcement and keeping weapons out of the hands of criminals, to school safety, access to mental health services, and confronting a culture that sometimes glorifies violence.

    I support reinstating the assault weapons ban and restoring the 10-round limit for ammunition magazines. And, I support universal background checks so that we can know if person buying a weapon has a criminal record.

    I appreciate hearing your views on this very important issue, and I will keep them in mind. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future.

    Sincerely,
    Bill Nelson

    Dear Senator Nelson:

    With all due respect, based on your response to my letter, I do not believe that you fully recognize what George Mason and James Madison had in mind when they wrote the Second Amendment. Hunting has nothing to do with it. The Amendment exists to protect my right to defend my life and property. It is also intended to protect the citizenry from a tyrannical government or invading force, which is why the 18th century use of the word “militia” meant every citizen. No one who shares your point of view can possibly argue that banning “assault weapons” or mandating 10 round magazines will make any difference in the rate of violence in this country, which by the way is declining year over year and has been for 20 years. Baseball bats were responsible for more homicides than any and all types of rifles last year. Adam Lanza, it was finally revealed, used handguns in Newtown. Using your side’s logic, Chicago should be the safest city in the country but it continues to lead the nation in gun violence. Why is that, do you suppose? Perhaps because criminals have no regard for the law. Your side seeks to punish people like me when the real issues as it relates to gun violence are mental illness, gangs, drugs, and destroyed families. I see no evidence anywhere that the political class in this country is doing anything constructive about those issues. Instead, I see an irrational and emotional “we have to do something” approach to mollify the liberal base of the Democratic Party.

    The popular liberal notion that one doesn’t need a 30 round magazine or an “assault rifle” is irrelevant. First of all, at present they are legal and therefore one’s decision to purchase those items is nobody’s business so long as the buyer does not infringe on the rights of any other person. What kind of life would we have if we only bought things we need? That is not the way of a free society. I believe the “need” argument is the last refuge for politicians who want to disarm the citizenry for other reasons but lack the courage to actually state why they want to disarm.

    Your support of a universal background check is reasonable on its face and most states require a background check already. Adam Lanza was refused a gun because he flunked the background check (five times according to one report) in Connecticut. Still, until the mental health component, as it relates to one’s mental health history, becomes available in a background check a huge piece of the puzzle is missing. Not of the least importance, the “bad guys” do not purchase their guns in a store, they buy them illegally on the street. So how does the background check solve that issue?

    Final thought, if we enforce the gun laws currently on the books and actually get serious about the factors I described above, then perhaps we can reduce the tragedies of Newtown and Aurora. Ask yourself, Senator,. what has changed over the years? I attended college from 1980 through 1984 and we were allowed to keep our guns in our dorm rooms, gun racks were common in pickup trucks, and no one ever was shot in my direct experience. One thing to consider, the rate of institutionalization of mentally people is down 93% since the early 1980s and every mass shooter in recent years was on some type of anti-depressant or psychotropic drug. How about we actually go after the root causes of gun violence and forget the demonization of law abiding gun owners?

    http://www.cchrflorida.org/blog/antidepressants-are-a-prescription-for-mass-shootings/

    http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?p=school

    I hope that you or a staffer will take the time to review the two links I have attached.

    Thank you for your attention to my concerns.

    Regards,

    Sidekick

    On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:35 PM, wrote:

    Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you need to send another message to Senator Nelson, please use the form on his Web site: http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm#email

      1. No doubt but look at the two hunting references. Total duplication of Obama’s rhetoric. Stunning.

        1. A well regulated game population, being necessary to the security of evil eaters of meat, the right of the people to hunt shall be the only thing for which they may possess a firearm.

          The antigun pukes have been using the hunting rights argument ever since television started showing proggie programming. Yet there exists no Constitutional right to hunt. After the Columbine incident the same thing was spouted by the majority of my co-workers who were mostly not politically concerned, and so mostly voted for clinton. The others were the owners of the company, former military and many of the annual whitetail deer ritual hunters, although that last group was not exclusively against whatever gun bans the progs were promoting, being worshipers of the Talking Light themselves, and altogether comfortable with their Constitutional hunting rights.

          None of them would make any comments about Ruby Ridge or Waco other than the Aryan Nation connection and illegal gun claims about Randy Weaver – both quite fabricated and bull dung stinky, and the pedophile Koresh boinking all his followers wives and daughters while promoting himself as the current prophet of God. The stories on the TV were all they knew.

          Both of these men, Weaver and Koresh, were on good terms with their local sheriffs. Weaver was reported to be a gun nut who had an arsenal of illegal machine guns and other high power military weaponry and would try to start a war against the federal agents with his small army. All BS. They had crap for weapons and nothing illegal, nothing even close to extreme at all, and only a few guns altogether. He was setup by an informant who bought a shotgun he asked Weaver to shorten. He did cut it down and the length of it being illegal has been in dispute since the first. The feds wanted to force Weaver to roll over and go into the AN to inform on them, because they suspected he could be invited into the group. Now that sort of thing is a suicide mission and even the brave feds didn’t want to die trying.

          Koresh was probably a religious lunatic, but that’s not against the law. The evidence about his sexual perversion is indeed scant, especially after the murders of all but a handful of his flock.

          Conversely, the rich televangelists (and politicians) of the same era, that were caught with prostitutes, young followers and campaign aids and assistants on yachts or in the multimillion dollar compounds of their respective Churches or in their Mercedes were not treated to armed assaults by DEATFBIRS. I haven’t used that in a while. For a resfresher, thats the DEA, ATF, FBI and IRS all smushed together.

    1. Interesting how when you kick his ass in the debate, you get a message to no longer reply to him via email.
      Nelson reminds me of the bastard love child of Charlie Crist and Joe Biden! BTW, Crist is gay.

    1. Sadly, it makes no difference now. The traitor is still in office, and the few members of the public who even knew what Benghazi was have moved on. That’s what the stone-walling was about. Those sleazebags know that if they can put TIME between them and the release of information, there is much less impact. That’s ancient history now.

      Like Clinton and his rapes. All the women lined up saying that he raped them 10, 15 years before while he was Governor? That’s long ago and far away. It took a semi-consensual BJ that was RECENT to get him impeached. Of course by the time that was done, it was too long ago to actually toss him from office.

      The American public has an attention span of about 2 weeks, tops. After that, the majority stop caring even a little. The Dems know that, and exploit it. The Republitards are clueless.

      1. I was talking about the tech that made the dress not what was wearing it.

        Was that the perfect fit thing Kick?

    1. I feel sorry for them. It’s hard for them to find someone to honor who’s not an asshole when they surround themselves with a sea of assholes. TBH, I don’t think they can even tell the difference.

  5. Pay Cuts for Congress

    Hi,
    I signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama which says:

    “Any across-the-board pay cuts for federal employees must include the same pay cuts for all members of Congress and the president of the United States.”

    Will you sign this petition? Click here:

    http://pac.signon.org/sign/paycuts-for-congress-1?source=s.em.cp&r_by=7237726

    Thanks!

    Edit:
    I just noticed this was part of moveon.org, but the petition seems worth it to me.

  6. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Ut.) have introduced S. 169, the Immigration Innovation (I2) Act of 2013. This legislation would:

    H-1B Visas

    Increase H-1B cap from 65,000 to 115,000
    Establish a market-based H-1B escalator, so that the cap can adjust – up or down – to the demands of the economy (includes a 300,000 ceiling on the ability of the escalator to move)
    Uncap the existing U.S. advanced degree exemption (currently limited to 20,000 per year)
    Authorize employment for dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders
    Increase portability of high skilled foreign workers by:
    Removing impediments and costs of changing employers;
    Establishing a clear transition period for foreign workers as they change jobs; and,
    Restoring visa revalidation for E, H, L, O, and P nonimmigrant visa categories
    Student Visas

    Allowing dual intent for foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities.
    Immigrant Visas and Green Cards

    Enable the recapture of green card numbers that were approved by Congress in previous years but were not used
    Exempt certain categories of persons from the employment-based green card cap
    Dependents of employment-based immigrant visa recipients
    U.S. STEM advance degree holders
    Persons with extraordinary ability
    Outstanding professors and researches
    Provide for the roll-over of unused employment-based immigrant visa numbers to the following fiscal year so future visas are not lost due to bureaucratic delays
    Eliminate annual per-country limits for employment based visa petitioners and adjust per-country caps for family-based immigrant visas
    U.S. STEM Education & Worker Retraining Initiative

    Reform fees on H-1B visas and employment-based green cards; use money from these fees to fund a grant

  7. Why didn’t anyone else think of this??? Just tell the rapist not to rape you (I guess saying no, don’t isn’t enough). Or better yet, train men like puppies!

    “If firearms were the answer than the military would be the safest place for women, and its not.” Here’s the thing, we aren’t allowed to carry on base, Maxwell! They will say ANYthing to push their anti-gun agenda. This causes me to doubt her victim hood. Most women would be pushing for self-defense. Not her! Just tell them not to. Idiot!

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/05/democratic-strategists-shocking-claim-women-dont-need-guns-for-self-defense-just-tell-men-not-to-rape-women/

    1. Good as any other ideas about those two deaths. Chris Kyle was right around that time too.

        1. I don’t think too many people (who actually do think) believe that BHO isn’t an ends justify the means kind of dictator.

          1. I’m actually thinking hes paranoid enough to put this in motion.
            Didn’t we have someone in the early 20th Century that was similarly paranoid? Seig Heil!

    2. And Sarah Palin (and paul krugman!) talked about death panels. Seems like these guys might be kinda more worser. Sometimes the English language just asks to be abused.

  8. WTF?? If this had been a Conservative or Libertarian and not a Progressive it would have been ALL over the news!

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/05/colorado-dem-to-rape-survivor-a-gun-wouldnt-have-helped-you-against-rapist-because-statistics-are-not-on-your-side/

    Christina Reese Miccarelli “You said that you were a martial arts student, I mean person, experienced in taekwondo, and yet because this individual was so large, was able to overcome you even with your skills, and chances are that if you had had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and possibly use it against you,” she added.
    Here’s the thing, with a gun, they wouldn’t have had a chance to get close enough to overpower me!

      1. PS — mine resistant maybe. Wonder how resistant they are to thermite. Very easy stuff to make, iron oxide & powdered aluminum. Plain steel wool pads would be a good source for your iron oxide, as they will just crumble away in your fingers when rusty — no tedious chopping it up. And of course a simple grinding wheel and dam near anything around the house can supply the aluminum. Ignition may be a bit tricky, as you need a high temp, but I think a simple magnesium strip, the kind we used to play with in high school, would be a near-perfect fuse as it lights with a match. Ideally, I think the stuff would be all rolled up in a nice thick goo, so it sticks to whatever it hits . . .

        1. Got enough Magnesium from a friend’s metal working to last the rest of my life. Igniting that, though, is the problem. Maybe surround it with match heads attached to a simple fuse. I’d have to play with it for a while.

          If you’ve got time and find a vehicle unoccupied, simply mixing sawdust and paraffin wax will burn through most metals given 10 minutes or so.

          1. Like I say, I remember it lighting up fairly easily in science class in high school (ah, the good old days, when we played with mercury, too, pouring it back and forth in our hands!). Maybe it wasn’t matches, but I don;t think it was anything more sophisticated than a lighter.

            1. You guys probably already have these old manuals, like everybody ought to. The online versions vary in their usefulness and quality, but are possibly easier to locate than your old dogeared books… Maybe. These are very useful documents and they come highly recommended.

              http://www.scribd.com/doc/11621165/United-States-Army-Tm-31201120-May-1966-Incendiaries#outer_page_32

              http://www.liberty.com/sites/default/files/tm_31-210_improvised_explosives.pdf

              I recommend grabbing these files if you haven’t already because I won’t be expecting them to be available forever, even though they should be.

            2. So what are you telling me Def, I need to go dig around and find my ancient, battered paperback Anarchist Cookbook and brush up on some, ahem, recipes?

            3. Or the old Department Of The Army Technical Manuals numbered TM 31-201-1 and TM 31-210, which are the primary source that Powell used and were also the basis of much Haydukery. I got my first copies from friends’ brothers that were in the Marines and the Army. Saw the same books at the flea market at EAA in the 80s and they were priced right, a couple bucks each. The Improvised Munitions Handbook is a very convenient pocket size 3.75 x 5.375 inch folio. But really, these PDF files are fully functional and public domain items you can download and keep however you wish, with quick lookup and correlation functions, plus the magnification afforded by being on a ‘puter, well, save your old books and used the tech while electricity is still available.

            4. I found Anarchist Cookbook online and downloaded the PDF. Most sites want you to pay, but I found one free.
              Biggest problem is blasting caps are needed to play with most of the cool toys, and they are nearly impossible to get or make, so we’re looking at interesting info, but no practical tools.

            5. Played with mercury, too. Had to break thermometers to get it, but worth it. And, yeah, a lighter will set it off, but it takes a few seconds.

            6. My dentist used to give us Quicksilver (Mercury) when I was little. We’d roll it around in the palm of our hand and play with it. Haven’t died yet, no hair fallen out either , yadda yadda yadda.

            7. I used to buy little bottles of mercury to soak coins in. The coins would slide through the operating mechanism of the old vending machines. Cigarettes were 40 cents a pack in the cheap ones when I started, probably around 1967 or so. A nickel, dime and quarter would get me ten or 15 packs before one of the coins would stay in the machine. As the prices increased I took to soaking sets of coins and selling them for 5 bucks. Turns out mercury is still available in the way it ought to be. http://www.sciencecompany.com/Mercury-Metal-quicksilver-3X-Distilled-12lb-P16388.aspx
              I remember buying about 1 liquid ounce size bottles for a few dollars from a place named NASCO in Madison Wisconsin through the mail. Probably 4 or 5 dollars a crack. The price seems to have gone up considerably.

    1. Well, you know what they say. A quarter billion here, a quarter billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking some serious money.

    1. Just wondering FDH, who keeps aiding & abetting? Or is liveleak just taking them down if it’s posted without the warning? (used to like LL a lot, haven’t been there much lately) Or are the muzzies crying foul and unfair?

      1. My understanding is that youtube is getting skewered by molems for allowing such apostasy against islam to be broadcast. I sought this ought after getting the video removed notification on youtube, as the people that linked to it had done before. Fortunately, people take the pain to repost and spread it around.

          1. Speed & space, just like always, but; instead of getting a 32gb flash drive and moving pics and the like, should I just go ahead and get it over with (http://tinyurl.com/bl2kqtq) if I plan on keeping this laptop for a few more years?

            That, and how do I find out if it’s compatible. Can I move and run Pshop on that and free up all that huge space on the laptop? I’m confused.

            1. not knowing anything about your laptop, you may run into a 2TB addressable limit there

            2. can’t edit that msg now..odd

              of course you can always partition if you hit 2TB. And probably likely you’re not sitting on winXP, but i don’t know.

              I bet Perl knows more about your rig, so i’ll butt out for now

            3. No, thanks, I hate to do things like this here but no choice. So even at 2tb, 70 bucks, 32gd flash for 20, seemed like a no-brainer.

              I can usually figure things out, what drives me to the edge and I end up quitting is trying to find relevant USEFUL info while wading in all the online garbage out there.

              All kinds of questions, open running thread for stuff like this? Thanks ALF, chime in anytime.

            4. I got a 500gb drive a couple of years ago. Moved a ton of stuff over. Since its bigger than my laptop’s drive, I have a long way to go before I run out of space.

            5. Well, I like having acres and acres of space. While Alien is right in that if your laptop is old (32-bit OS) you may have trouble accessing very large drives, you can always partition the drive and have 2 smaller-than-2TB partitions.

              That said, even USB 3.0 is still sloooow. You can store stuff on there, or use it for backups, but you’d be disappointed if you tried to run a disk-intensive app like photoshop from it. However, it can be a useful strategy — suppose you worked on Project A, which was huge, and then you wanted to store it on the external drive and move to project B — then this method would make a lot of sense.

              I should know — I’m migrating all 4 of my laptops onto my new one (it is a beast — ASUS G75VW with 32GB RAM, I plan to use it for virtual machines. I have 5 running on it now, and they’re all fast yet.) Weighs a ton, though. Must be all the 1’s.

              I have both drive bays loaded, and am copying data and creating VM’s from the various machines. It takes a long time. That said, supposing you had a drive bay available in your laptop, you could buy an external enclosure (I got one from Best Buy for $30), and a big, say 3TB laptop hard drive, slap the drive in the free bay, format it and copy everything over then pull it and put the drive in the enclosure for later reference.

              If you had a bay available, though, it kind of begs the question of why to go external at all. What’s your laptop make/model?

    1. It’s perfectly logical. The school authorities are liberals, and we all know liberals LOVE a good school shooting. This kid stopped them from being able to hold endless press conferences, citing the need for more gun control. For the children.

    1. This is the backpedal to the earlier fail (which I referred to elsewhere).. By this tweet they are well aware of the fuckup. Obama boned it originally

  9. Random.. tis a good thing the Swiss shall never fall to the followers of the Prophet

    http://imgur.com/AGsLMeO

    Cuz they’d be blowin this mug up

    edit: the second i saw this image, i immediately resolved to make pilgrimage

        1. More like fractional reserve banking, where they have one on deposit somewhere, but if even 10% needed it at the same time, they’d fold like a cheap suit.

      1. nice memory Ghost.. 🙂 the boys would kill me if I just took my daughter.. Its gonna take me 5 years to save up, but we’re gonna have ourselves a big old world/history vacation for sure

        The io9 brain stuff is freaky, and inevitable. Legally, and morally, many are not ready. Gonna be interesting

  10. Mayor Proposes Disarming Citizens Who Are ‘Unruly’

    A proposed city ordinance in Guntersville, Alabama would allow police officers to disarm citizens during times of crisis if they deem it necessary. The move is part of a larger disaster response bill. When questioned on the proposal, Guntersville Mayor Leigh Dollar is standing by it. Watch the Mayor’s statement HERE:

    http://email.theblaze.com/gb40/c2.php?THBL/365486400/779298/H/N/V/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/26/proposed-city-ordinance-would-let-cops-disarm-citizens-during-crises-if-they-become-unruly/

  11. Vietnam Vet Is Retroactively Banned From Owning A Gun

    In 1968, a 19-year-old sailor stationed in Annapolis, Md. was arrested for getting into a fight with an alleged member of a street gang. Now, 45 years later, he has been stripped of his right to own a gun. Just last month, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upheld a lower-court ruling barring the U.S. Navy veteran from Cleveland, Ga. from owning a firearm. Get the rest of this story HERE:

    http://email.theblaze.com/gb40/c2.php?THBL/364192609/776548/H/N/V/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/26/u-s-gun-laws-retroactively-barred-this-vietnam-vet-from-owning-a-firearm-because-of-a-teenage-misdemeanor-45-years-ago/

  12. Liberal Commentator Calls Michelle Obama An ‘Uninvited Guest’

    On Monday night, television personality Donny Deutsch appeared on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” where he lambasted First Lady Michelle Obama’s participation in the Oscar telecast, calling her an “uninvited guest” and an “intrusion.” Watch the unbelievable video HERE:

    http://email.theblaze.com/gb40/c2.php?THBL/364192609/776543/H/N/V/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/26/liberal-commentator-donny-deutsch-lambastes-michelle-obamas-oscars-intrusion-it-had-a-monarch-quality-and-an-elitist-flavor-to-it/

    1. Nice. In honor of these two I’m retiring my tired old walking to school story, he did it.

      “Here is this young man, walking 10 miles, like the stories your parents told you of walking to school uphill in the snow, both ways, really doing it.”

    1. I can’t tell what look she’s going for, Moe, Shemp, Mao, or Kim Jung Il.
      No matter, she still can’t pull it off.

  13. Remember when the “Onion” was funny? Before it was sold to a bunch of leftist hacks who decided to use it to drive their agenda? The antithesis of Ms.M and Aliens comments above, I’m sure most of you saw it.

    Frickin’ losers, I’m not even going to post the link, just search, Onion Oscar, if you missed it. I’m sure it’ll be right at the top.

    If the same fate strikes http://thepeoplescube.com/, I’m junking broadband and going back to paperbacks.

  14. If you would like to send an email thanking DeVry University for discontinuing their advertising on the Al Jazeera America please click here http://afolist.net/link.php?M=394826&N=509&L=2314&F=H
    DeVry University has stopped advertising on Al Jazeera America aka Current TV. DeVry was the third largest advertiser next to General Mills and Allstate. General Mills advertisements stopped appearing on the Aljazeera America channel after January 31, 2013. Allstatepulled their advertisements on February 13, 2013.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873%3ABlogPost%3A2452195

  15. Just a couple of weeks ago, President Obama bragged that his was the most transparent administration in history, an oft-cited point.

    Just a couple of moments ago, President Obama finished an address to members of the the National Governors Association at the White House by saying, “What I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/02/25/obama-eject-media-so-we-can-take-questions/

  16. Everybody has seen ol plugs telling about how to blast the sky with a 12 gauge for your protection, never mind the illegalities. His pretense is about the simplicity of 12 gauge shooting over the more difficult AR15 type rifle. This little video is definitely worth the 2 minutes. Damn funny all the way to the end and very much telling the truth about how wrong the idiot from D.C. is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafkVM-jnbE&feature=player_embedded

    1. OK listen. I will confess that I have a few fantasies about food – like whipped cream and chocolate sauce. But the reality is that COOKING naked is a bad idea. Things get hot and splatter (even vegans use oil to stir-fry and such). That’s why they invented aprons – to keep your clothes clean. But with skin, it’s not about clean, it’s about burns.

      Plus, naked cooking is gross. What if someone gets an itch while they are cooking? If they scratch through their jeans, ok – but no jeans? EWWWW!

      And to top it all off – who wants to watch some stranger with a bad body (and horrible teeth in most of these cases) get naked? It’s uncomfortable to even see.

          1. Well raise my rent, you learn something new every day. And I had to humbly Email an expert on the subject to clue me in. Huh.

  17. Mr Ed/Mr Ad,

    LRobertW seems to be under the impression that he has been banned from here. Know anything about that? Cuz, if that is the case, he says he is very sorry and he wonders if there is anything he can do to make amends so he can come back.

      1. that’s good to know, but then why can’t he post here anymore? If I understand it right, he can sign in and give thumbs but once he submits a post it disappears.

            1. Have him clear his history and cache in his browser, then try signing back on and see what happens. Absent that, depending upon what browser he’s using he should try a different one. Like if he’s using IE he should download Firefox or Chrome and see what happens.

            2. He had a long term problem getting on IHTM once before. I thought it was his provider nixed access to this site for our obvious subversive intent, or something.

            3. Not sure. I thought he handled it with his provider somehow, but I’m not clear on it. Thinking he woulda checked that route already if it happened again.

            4. but I don’t think that is it either, cuz if I log in under his user id and pass word I can’t post either…and we are in different states with different providers, servers, routers, etc…I thought Mr Ed and Mr Ad helped get it fixed last time but I really can’t remember the details of what the deal was last time.

            5. I had an issue with this a while back, there was something with the server that had to be changed.
              It was something to do with a weird glitch that blocked me.

            6. If he hit Ctrl whatever accidentally while typing a comment and it wouldn’t post, and being on a Rant&Roll (nah) kept trying to re-post the same comment could a server have auto-banned his ISP for spam?

              [edit] no, that doesn’t work, he gave me his password and it wouldn’t let me post from here either.

            7. that’s right, you have foxfire, (I think)…didn’t work for me using his user id and password either… (I have IE) and you guys are in Ohio and I’m in NC so different servers/computers /IP addy’s…now what?

            8. JP…when you are dealing with female type persons, it’s always your fault…get used to it. 😉 besides, I had to drag you into this somehow.

            9. “female type persons.” It’s worrisomely vague.

              yet somehow you find yourself strangely turned on by that…

            10. “female type persons.” It’s worrisomely vague.

              yet somehow you find yourself strangely turned on by that…

              It’s a failing of us male type persons, we are turned on by female type persons.

            11. Hey JP…changing subjects here but I figure you don’t mind…I was listening to you discussion with Lady Jay about Oscar Pistorius and the murder charges he faces, and the fact that one of the main witnesses for the prosecution was also facing murder charges…BUT wait, we are’t done yet…turns out Oscar’s older brother Carl Pistorius is facing murder charges as well…Is everybody in South Africa facing murder charges? Is that the norm there?

  18. I wonder if, when this ditz let her brain fall out, did she hear it as it splooged on the floor? http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/02/daniel-zimmerman/quote-of-the-day-jonesing-edition/
    “Gun manufacturing increased dramatically between 2007 and 2011, from 3.7 million weapons to 6.1 million being produced. You have to wonder if owning guns, for those who still do, is a bit like buying cell phones. Once you’re hooked, only the newest killer version will do, prompting more frequent purchases.” – Mary Sanchez

    1. I’m a regular at Free Beacon, but ever since my first reading the name of the site in a post or email from someone all those months ago, I still see Free Bacon and immediately get hungry. Off to the grocery store…

        1. Oh yeah! That looks delectable. Avocado and lettuce and tomato and bacon and gruyere and all that yummy in a handheld device of deliciousness.

    1. Where are those antiquated ‘Old Milwaukee’ tv commercials when you need them? “It doesn’t get any better than this.”

    2. I can’t tell you how proud I am of my hometown, lovely San Bernardino, California. They could have been content to sit back on their laurels when they were named Methamphetamine Capital of America or when they were named the Corruption Capital of America, but no, they intend to keep going until they also win the title Stupidity Capital of America.

        1. Unbelievable. I was also born in St. Bernadine’s. Maybe we’re long lost brothers separated at birth.

            1. Great, didn’t even click on the link, but the mere suggestion of the song I know it plays has that song stuck in my head. Probably for the rest of the month.

            2. I think this might be a conspiracy. Somebody at the hospital was injecting newborns with intelligence. Later on, they injected them with liberalism. Just to watch the older guys get pissed when the younger ones bankrupted the city.

          1. They’re trying to classify stress over physical disabilities into a mental problem for exactly this purpose, to broaden the scope of people who can be denied legal ownership of guns.

            1. On step further, is the DSM V, which is due for release soon is listing a mental disorder where people who think about their physical problems ‘too much’ have a mental illness. Boom! Immediate disqualification for obtaining a firearm. Not the first time the government has leaned on the psychiatric profession to impose unjust laws on the citizenry. Not sure if the government is behind this new diagnosis but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were.

              EDIT: Flash, reread your post, I guess I was referring to the same thing.

            2. From the blaze:
              “Under the program — and as stated in the letter — if a person is deemed incompetent — which could be due to injury, disease or mental illness — and unable manage benefit payments, someone can be named as a fiduciary to do so for them.”

    1. Which uniform would they wear? (sorry, I’m in a mood, try and dial it back)

      [edit] what is it, just short of 5AM there?

        1. They can’t, there is no legitimate cause for that, it will be vigorously fought if they try it.

        1. Florida? I went there once with my rocking horses. Excessive regulation made me leave, and I will NEVER go back.

          Texas? After reading that article, I did some research on the large Renaissance Faires in Texas, and if I could work a deal with the three biggest ones, I could be working my horses 24 weekends a year. Here in CA, I get about fifteen. If this bill passes, I WILL be making some phone calls. My lady is a traveling nurse, so she can get work.

        2. Hubby and my expertise is HQ’d in the Pacific, ie, Hawaii. Otherwise I’d head to Texas. Hubby and I both have family there, and I’m a resident already.

          1. Just saw this again, it’s funny. I remember doing that for practice, seeing how well I could “build” the rope, rail, sky and landscape where there used to be none after raising the blade. Wiki still has the original, how’d I do? Then somebody made a comment about 0Care and I slapped his logo on it.

            http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Seeboden_Treffling_Burg_Sommeregg_Foltermuseum_Guillotine_24082007_31.jpg

            Been up way too early for hours on a Saturday and I’m already bored, what can I say.

    1. Lots of progressives can’t stand Obama, for varying reasons.. They just suck it up at election time

      1. Thought about it when I saw it and didn’t, glad you did. And in my case I doubt she’d need a weapon, probably kick my butt.

        1. wow usually not a fan of very muscular females, but she pulls it off very nicely (googly image search confirms..)

    1. On the TSA’s side, those 3-year-old’s can be pretty crafty. I bet that stuffed lamb was a well-disguised hi-cap magazine.

      1. Her dad’s a lawyer — he won’t get mad. He’ll get even by dismantling them. For once, I’m rooting for a lawyer. Strange.

    1. “Best of the Blogs; an online community for progressive bloggers”
      [need I say more? I do?]

      From another of his blogs, blog.com

      “Location: Amarillo, Texas, United States

      Introduction: Job didn’t seem to have much use for his anger, but this old hippie certainly does!” [well bless his little hippie heart]

      https://www.facebook.com/ted.mclaughlin.543

      [and my favorite, his personal site]

      http://www.jobsanger.blogspot.com/

      [HIS list of of “American Heroes”]
      Cesar Chavez, Barbara Jordan, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Brown, Joe Hill, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Leonard Peltier, Margaret Sanger

      Whew, funnest 10 minutes I’ve had all day. Do you purposely go looking for this slop? And the little link you posted is beyond intentionally misleading it’s total BS intended to rile up the ignorant peasants, and look who bit.

      {EDIT] Oh, and this little gem in teeny tiny print at the bottom of your linked story, pun intended, is this by the brave hipster

      “You have no right to post a comment.”

  19. You’ll find on page 3 of the attached National Institute of Justice Report this quote:

    “Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement. AWs were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban.”

    Back in 1994 there was not a lot of data available to challenge the benefit of a so-called “assault weapons ban.” Today we are awash in data on the subject, and all of it militates AGAINST reinstating it or anything like it. Whatever the real reasons for politicians pushing another so-called “assault weapons” ban, or ban on normal capacity magazines, it cannot be on the basis of reducing gun crime as there is definitive evidence that this will not happen.

    http://publicintelligence.net/nij-assault-weapons-ban-study/

  20. http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/07/debunker-wildfires-droughts-storms-oh-my/

    The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.

    The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

      1. Natural Stupidity.

        Pipkins mother, Catherine, said she had been called to the scene by her daughter-in-law and said the crime sounded like something her son would do.

            1. Ya made me laugh, Poppa. I remember that little douche.

              I was delivering a man-lift to the set of Fantasy Island, way back when. I was waiting for someone to find me the guy that could sign for the machine, when Herve’ asked me if I wanted his autograph. Sure, I said. And handed him the rental agreement. Little prick wouldn’t sign it.

  21. Rocky Mountain are you high in Colorado? (and like swimming, wait 30 minutes after eating before jumping in)

    http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/02/18/colorado-democrat-women-dont-need-guns-if-they-feel-like-theyre-going-to-be-raped/

    “It’s why we have call boxes, it’s why we have safe zones, it’s why we have the whistles.”

    http://www.soopermexican.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/LiberalRapeTips11.jpg

    [edit] Remember how the media was wall to wall all over Akin? Can’t wait to see them roast this guy. Ha!]

    1. I saw that story and my head about exploded. It’s like that one “celeb”, Russell Simmons, who was all bent out of shape over people teaching their daughters to shoot. It wasn’t lady-like. He said he teaches his daughters to meditate, instead. I just thought, I’m sure as your daughters get attacked, all they have to do to scare their attackers off is go all zen.

    2. Why would they give this fellow leftist any heat? Never gonna happen, unless he jumps across the aisle.

      1. There they go, projecting again. He says “pop around at somebody” far too easily, far too naturally. Like it’s a normal thing in the life of him and his friends. Check his arms and neck. I bet there’s some gang tats there somewhere. He’s just protecting his homies.

  22. I know I’m preaching to the choir, here, but… This is the progressives ultimate objective right from the DoJ. This is NOT about common sense. Never was. It’s the “Nudge, Push, Shove” approach made famous by Woodrow Wilson and his generation, at the start of the progressivism movement. They just keep moving that Overton Window a little more in the wrong direction everyday. Hoping we don’t notice the change in scenery. Just like the frog in the slowly heating water, the progressives hope we won’t know our country is gone until its too late. Progressivism is insidious. It runs rampant in BOTH parties (that’s where the term RINO is used in the GOP). Non-progressives of the liberal, the conservative, and the libertarian persuasion (though no true libertarian has progressive tendencies, being live and let-live in nature) can usually be engaged in debates using logical arguments, both sides coming away with something to ponder, seeing the issue in a different light. Progressives, on the other hand, just call the person debating them with logic and reason names: raaaasict, tea bagger, psychotic, heartless, bitter-clinger, 1%-er, etc. True libs, cons, and libertarians, see debate as one of the things that make our country wounderous and extraordinary. Progressives see debate as stupidity.

    http://gunssavelives.net/assault-weapons-ban/memo-from-obamas-justice-dept-says-gun-ban-wont-work-without-registration-confiscation/#

    1. Why debate? The facts are not on their side but the media is. We rarely if ever see an honestly framed issue. They’ve got the schools and they have means of communication. They also have had power more often than not and have been able to buy votes for decades. Since the progs are patient, theirs is a perfect strategy until it all collapses and we restart the Tytler Cycle again.

    1. ThinkOutsideTheTV started YouTube channel in January, joined facebook 13 days ago and lives in Canada. Your point?

  23. We all know the leftist elite hollywoodistanians are the real tolerant pillars of our amazing nation. Take that calm, level headed actor named alec baldwin, for example. While he’s had a couple brushes with exposed insanity, everybody knows – like rosanne barr and tina fey – that he should be the president of the world. Well, he is being exposed again by the vast right wing conservative media, pilloried unjustly in the public eye! http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alec_fast_slur_ious_tzxXtwrX49oGHN1VaG08hM

    1. It seems that from the article, Baldwin probably knows the retired police officer, and could verify his contention the guy was a drug dealer. My guess would be Baldwin probably bought crack from the guy.

      Miller worked for the NYPD for nearly 15 years, spending most of his time in narcotics.

    2. It seems that from the article, Baldwin probably knows the retired police officer, and could verify his contention the guy was a drug dealer. My guess would be Baldwin probably bought crack from the guy.

      Miller worked for the NYPD for nearly 15 years, spending most of his time in narcotics.

  24. HMMM, I find this interesting.
    Remember how when the evil George W Bush was President, we were “treated” to the monthly casualty statistics from Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, and the annual results of how many of our boys were killed by this unnecessary war?
    Has anyone else noticed that we haven’t heard these statistics once since “Dear Leader” has been in office?
    What could possibly be the reason for this?
    How about the fact that the number of deaths of US military personnel have INCREASED since Obama has been in office, in spite of the withdrawal from Iraq!
    In fact, the number of deaths under Obama have more than doubled in 4 years what happened under Bush in 8 years!

    See the chart here:
    http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/ByMonth.aspx
    The highest casualty rate during the Bush Admin was in 2008, a total of 295 deaths, the lowest rate during the Obama admin was in 2012, a total of 402.
    Total deaths during the Bush admin 1049 in 8 years.
    Total deaths during the Obama admin 2200 in 4 years (Jan 2013 8 deaths not included in this number).

    Where’s the outrage? Where’s the MSM and their investigative reporters screaming about this? Were are the anti war protesters? WTF is going on here?

    1. Then there’s the wounded rate, during 8 years of GW Bush, there were 2,628 wounded.

      During 4 years of Obama, there were 14,901 wounded!

      That’s nearly 7x the number of wounded in 4 years that were wounded under Bush in 8 years!

      http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/USCasualtiesByState.aspx

      Where’s the outrage? Where’s the MSM and their investigative reporters screaming about this? Were are the anti war protesters? WTF is going on here?

      If this isn’t proof of media bias, I don’t know what is!

      1. The highest number of wounded under Bush in one month, 139, with the number hitting triple digits only 5 times.

        The lowest number of wounded under Obama in one month, 27, the highest number 661, with the number being in double digits only 4 times, and the number being over 200 wounded 31 times!

        http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/USCasualtiesByState.aspx

        Where’s the outrage? Where’s the MSM and their investigative reporters screaming about this? Were are the anti war protesters? WTF is going on here?

        If this isn’t proof of media bias, I don’t know what is!

        1. BTW, none of the Fort Hood victims are included in any of the numbers, because Obama has directed that it be considered a case of workplace violence, not a terror attack.

          1. As high as the Afghanistan numbers are, they still pale next to Chicago. If we were to disarm our soldiers, we could probably get that casualty number up quite a bit higher.

    1. The politicians later said that part was a mistake. In other words, someone actually read the bill and these progs got caught.

      1. I saw that too, made me think that was part of their ’20 year plan’ discussions [conspiracy meetings] and some flunky [apparatchik] mistakenly put it in the bill [edict] by mistake.

        And the Dem. party [apparat] leaders [nomenklatura] were exposed yet again as the frauds [сталинисты] they are.

          1. My brother lives just outside Seattle. He says it’s to be expected.

            Again, just like in California with Los Angeles and San Francisco, take out Seattle and Washington would be a red state.

            In his book, The Two State Solution for America, Thomas Sawyer mentions that what he would REALLY like to see, instead of the leftists getting whole states to ruin, is districts set up as capitalism-free zones, around each large leftist city. The Progs can run their districts however they see fit, and the rest of the state can get on with the process of being a great country. But he knows that’s just dreaming.

            1. Kick, I started reading the book and it doesn’t work in my mind. The progressives will never let the producers get away because they would have no way of funding their programs.
              Trying to divide the country in such a way would require a civil war.
              If you want to read it, send me your address and I’ll send you my copy.

  25. Still banging the drum, they know they lie and can do it with impunity. Fox News page, via the Appropriated Press

    ” A former Bennington high school teacher has surrendered his teaching license after being treated at a psychiatric hospital last month after he was spotted carrying the same kind of assault rifle used in December’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn.”

    Used in Newtown? Used?

    “…agreed to a court order to not go to the home or workplace of a school administrator mentioned in the online videos.”

    That’ll make it all better, problem solved. I’d sure feel safer know he agreed.

    1. OK, so multiple charges of child molestation aren’t as bad as owning a stock AR magazine?
      Will someone please shove a 155mm Howitzer up Cuomo’s ass! After all, that would be considered less criminal than owning a stock AR mag.
      125.10 – Criminally negligent homicide | E Felony
      130.20 – Sexual misconduct | A Misdemeanor
      130.25 – Rape 3rd degree | E Felony
      130.40 – Criminal sexual act 3rd degree | E Felony
      130.52 – Forcible touching | A Misdemeanor
      130.53 – Persistent sexual abuse | E Felony (repeat child molester, must be caught and convicted in two separate cases before the charges even reach this level)
      130.65A – Aggravated sexual abuse 4th degree | E Felony

    1. Yea, after dealing with a terrible ordeal like this, we don’t want you thanking God for his help, let’s thank Obama for delivering you from this, just like he saved the people that were affected by Sandy……… 🙁

    1. Ohhhhhh, daddies supporters are mad at Rand. That should cost him crowley and, what, 2 other votes.

      1. Flash, he was governor of FL when I moved here. He was a good governor, but I wouldn’t want him as President.

    1. The Obama mindset, FTA:

      The Obama Administration has already caused the alarm bells to ring on several occasions as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released several internal memos referring to conservative Christians who believe the Bible, pro-life citizens who are against abortion, Tea Party activists, and political conservatives who believe in a strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution as “potential homegrown terrorists.”

    1. This article is full of great Che quotes for the next time some libtard decides to blow up the Che thread!
      One such example:
      “The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.”

    1. What’s your problem? It’s been over a month since he had a vacation. And he had to give that long strenuous speech to Congress. Poor guy.

  26. It hasn’t drawn much attention, but Facebook’s first annual earnings report contains an accounting gem: a multibillion-dollar tax deduction for the cost of executive stock options and share awards.

    Even though Facebook (FB) reported $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations in 2012, it will probably pay zero federal and state taxes—and even receive a federal tax refund of about $429 million—according to a Feb. 14 statement from Citizens for Tax Justice.

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-15/facebook-gets-a-multi-billion-dollar-tax-break

    1. …so when did “pagan” (defined as any religion other than the one a person is involved in) get organized enough to have holidays? How do they work this? Seems the dumbass is strong in these ones.

    2. And while we’re kicking around the Show Me State

      http://www.news-leader.com/article/20130212/NEWS01/302120036/msu-bag-misspells-university-univeristy?nclick_check=1

      “The Missouri State University bookstore, already trying to recover from having a longtime director resign in August over missing funds, last month suffered the embarrassment of handing out 6,000 free book bags with the word “university,” as in Missouri State University, misspelled.”

  27. Tonight’s big rock event is supposed to happen sometime between 6pm and 9pm eastern time. A rock half the size of a football field gonna zip by at a high rate of speed under the umbrella of our most distant man made satellites. Then there is Russia. The reports say this happened today, the 15th of February 2013, but one of the camera time stamps says it is 12 31 2012. I don’t know, maybe the ruskies use a different calendar and it is only now New Years Eve there. Great footage though! Watch as the sky bursts into flames! Ahhhh! Hundreds of people hurt! Windows smashed all over the place! http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/

    This link has more and I thing better information, another video from a student apparently, where the school seems to have emptied of students in response to the giant explosion. http://www.space.com/19801-possible-meteor-blast-russia.html

    1. Nice story cool vids, just one thing, you gotta love those Russians, the pics in the first link. I’m not a scientist or meteorurologist, but that hole in the ice in the first one looks awfully round to me. I mean suspiciously, almost perfectly round.

      And the second one looks like a staged KGB photo op from the bad old cold war, probably because it’s a, oh, staged photo op. Funny. The hell are the two guys in the foreground of that one doing anyway?

      1. Ha! Those still shots weren’t even in this article when I posted it! I guess it could be a nice ice fishing spot.

        1. Let’s beat a dead horse and then kick it while it’s down, wanna know why we hate the media? From Fox Frickin Nooz .com

          Terror From Above: 1,000 Hurt as
          10-ton Meteorite Hits Russian City

          Front & center, HUGE headline, top of the page. Hey dhm, think there was a city under the ice on that lake where the hole (perfectly circular I might add) was?

          Almost all of the people were hurt by falling broken glass from the shock wave, just like in the second vid you posted, or auto accidents when that thing came by hauling ass brighter than the sun.

    1. They’re probably figuring that with the number that they’ve found, even if they were ALL for Romney, it wouldn’t be enough to change California’s standard vote. Leftist all the way.

    1. Yeah, I read that earlier Ghost. As I said on the site, he has the right to be upset, and I have the right to NOT CARE that he is.
      The 1st amendment trumps his right to be offended.

    2. This guy might as well have sent out engraved invitations to the whole world telling people to photoshop him. Remember what happened when the White House told people not to photoshop the president’s skeet shooting photo?

  28. The differences in how these two stories is breathtaking! In the first story, the intruder doesn’t shoot the dad, the gun goes off. In the second story, the Sheriff shoots the intruder. The sheriff is now on suspension while an investigation plays itself out.
    2A… +430
    Control… -46

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/13/heroic-super-dad-dies-protecting-his-11-year-old-daughter-from-armed-home-invaders/

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/13/burglar-makes-fatal-mistake-of-breaking-into-home-of-off-duty-sheriffs-deputy/

  29. 3 charged after ‘sickening’ video beating of New Jersey man goes viral

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/13/new-jersey-mayor-to-hold-press-conference-on-ickening-video-beating/?intcmp=related

    It’s Newark. It doesn’t surprise me. I used to pass through there on the way to work at 3-5 am on weekdays, and it wasn’t unusual to see kids as young as 5 out running the streets at that hour. Parents don’t give a shit, cops didn’t do anything about it, likely because they couldn’t find the parents, and if they could, they would scream at the cops for bothering them. It’s a shithole, and Corey Booker is a poser.

  30. Just, I don’t know any more… I would have. Where is the outrage that this happens, and the solution is to worry about how many rounds his legal weapon holds had he had one?

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/13/miami-dad-dies-protecting-daughter-11-during-home-invasion/?test=latestnews

    And as Dean has mentioned, I would have shot one in the back in the hall outside my daughters bedroom door and never lost a moments sleep afterwards. And if that precludes me from somebodies vision of Heaven so be it.

    1. That just made me feel literally sick to my stomach. What has our society become? How have WE let it get this way? Where are the people strong enough to take it back?

    1. I posted the link on Facebook, but deleted the description because it gave it away as an anti liberal video.

  31. http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams.html

    There’s a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called to a department store to stop a burglary in progress. Upon his arrival, he reconnoitered the situation and ordered his men to surround the entrances of the building next door. When questioned about his actions, he replied that he didn’t have enough men to cover the department store’s many entrances but he did have enough for the building next door. Let’s see whether there are similarities between his strategy and today’s gun control strategy.

    Last year, Chicago had 512 homicides; Detroit had 411; Philadelphia had 331; and Baltimore had 215. Those cities are joined by other dangerous cities — such as St. Louis, Memphis, Tenn., Flint, Mich., and Camden, N.J. — and they also lead the nation in shootings, assaults, rapes and robberies. Both the populations of those cities and their crime victims are predominantly black. Each year, more than 7,000 blacks are murdered. Close to 100 percent of the time, the murderer is another black person.

    1. That’s RAA-A-A-A-A-AAAAAcist! You are not allowed to notice statistics like that. You are besmirching black people.

  32. OK this is long. I got it in an email, but it is AWESOME! Enjoy…
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Credit for this analogy goes to David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia, the author.

    Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

    The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
    The fifth would pay $1.
    The sixth would pay $3.
    The seventh would pay $7.
    The eighth would pay $12.
    The ninth would pay $18.
    The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

    So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.” Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

    The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his “fair share?”

    They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
    And so:

    The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
    The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
    The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
    The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 ( 25% savings).
    The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings).
    The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

    Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

    “I only got a dollar out of the $20,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got $10!”

    “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!”

    “That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

    “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”

    The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

    The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

    And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

    1. Serious dilemma!
      I don’t like seeing babies having babies, it usually doesn’t end well, but I also don’t like unfettered abortion.

    1. how do we keep the guns from killing all of these children.
      – Jamie Foxx

      How about we actually commit and treat all the whack jobs out there?

  33. Militarized government bureaus abound.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/340268

    And Your Little Dog, Too
    By Deroy Murdock
    February 11, 2013 12:00 A.M.

    As Washington politicians aim to restrict the Second Amendment, they should look in the mirror. The time to control government’s guns is now. Overarmed federal officials increasingly employ military tactics as a first resort in routine law enforcement. From food-safety cases to mundane financial matters, battle-ready public employees are turning America into the United States of SWAT.

    FBI agents and U.S. marshals understandably are well fortified, given their frequent run-ins with ruthless bad guys. However — as my old friend and fellow columnist Quin Hillyer notes — armed officers, if not Special Weapons and Tactics crews, populate these federal agencies: the National Park Service; the Postal Inspection Service; the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Labor, and Veterans Affairs; the Bureaus of Land Management and Indian Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Even Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board staffers pack heat!

    These “ninja bureaucrats,” as Hillyer calls them, run rampant. They, and often their local-government counterparts, deploy weapons against harmless, frequently innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations.

    • An FDA SWAT unit struck Lancaster, Pa.’s Rainbow Acres Farm in April 2010. From there, farmer Dan Allgyer illegally had shipped unpasteurized milk to his customers across state lines through something called a “cow-sharing agreement.” (Really.) Ignoring a woman’s right to choose raw milk, Washington launched an armed federal response against this Amish-run dairy. The company subsequently folded.

    “He was not tricking people into buying it, he was not forcing people to purchase it, and there had been no complaints about his product,” stated then-Representative Ron Paul (R., Tex.). “These were completely voluntary transactions, but ones that our nanny-state federal government did not approve of, and so they shut down his business.”

    U.S. marshals and other federal officers also have conducted similar actions against purveyors of unauthorized milk, cheese, and even elderberry juice.

    • When financial questions arose regarding the Mountain Pure Water Company, Washington did not send a few staffers to inspect documents. Instead, last spring, some 50 armed Treasury agents breached Mountain Pure’s headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. They seized 82 boxes of records, herded employees into the cafeteria, snatched their cell phones, and refused to let them consult attorneys.

    “We’re the federal government,” Mountain Pure’s comptroller, Jerry Miller, says one pistol-packing fed told him. “We can do what we want, when we want, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

    • A U.S. Department of Education SWAT force burst into Kenneth Wright’s Stockton, Calif., home in June 2011. “I look out of my window, and I see 15 police officers,” Wright told KXTV. Wright said one officer forced him by the neck onto the front lawn. “He had his knee on my back, and I had no idea why they were there.” While officers searched his house, Wright said, “They put me in handcuffs in a hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids,” then ages 3, 7, and 11.

    The feds sought Wright’s estranged wife, apparently for suspected financial-aid fraud. However, she had moved away a year earlier. Regardless, such a mobilization seems unnecessary to probe someone for possibly swindling scholarship money.

    • In August 2011, armed federal Fish and Wildlife agents stormed into the Memphis and Nashville factories of Gibson Guitar, which helps Jackson Browne, B. B. King, and other legends sound amazing. What clear and present danger did Gibson pose? Rather than import finished guitar components, it purchased raw ebony and rosewood from India so that American workers — not Indians — could manufacture fingerboards and other electric-guitar parts. Proving that there no longer is a need to write fiction, Uncle Sam’s case against Gibson is called United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms.

    • “SWAT teams have been used to break up neighborhood poker games, sent into bars and fraternities suspected of allowing underage drinking, and even [used] to enforce alcohol and occupational licensing regulations,” including armed incursions against several black barber shops in Orlando, Fla., according to the Huffington Post’s Radley Balko, who studiously chronicles this topic. He recalls a federal SWAT outfit that invaded an Atlanta DJ’s studio on suspicion of copyright infringement. When several Tibetan monks on a peace mission overstayed their visas, a federal SWAT unit cornered them. Texas SWAT officers targeted an Austin man accused of stealing koi from a fish pond. And a Virginia SWAT squad killed optometrist Sal Culosi while arresting him for sports gambling.

    Balko also has reported on SWAT teams’ reprehensible habit of killing dogs:

    • In 2008, gun-toting cops stormed the home of Berwyn Heights, Md.’s mayor, Cheye Calvo. They kicked down his door and handcuffed him (in his underwear) for two hours, along with his mother-in-law. Calvo’s wife walked in during the episode and discovered that police fatally had gunned down their two black Labrador retrievers, Chase and Payton.

    “Our dogs were our children,” Calvo told the Associated Press. “They were the reason we bought this house, because it had a big yard for them to run in.” Next-door neighbor Edward Alexander added: “I was completely stunned, because those dogs didn’t hurt anybody. They barely bark.”

    Police seized a FedEx package containing 32 pounds of marijuana, to which Calvo was unconnected. Drug traffickers had addressed it to his house, intending to collect it from his front porch before he did. No charges were filed against the Calvos.

    • On July 13, 2010, a dozen St. Paul, Minn.–area policemen and a federal Drug Enforcement Agency officer assaulted Roberto Franco’s home. Clad in Army fatigues, they rousted all nine people there, including three children. “Each plaintiff was forced to the floor at gun and rifle point and handcuffed behind their backs,” states Franco’s $30 million federal lawsuit against these authorities. “Defendants shot and killed the family dog and forced the handcuffed children to sit next to the carcass of their dead and bloody pet for more than an hour while defendants continued to search the plaintiffs’ home.”

    According to the complaint, one young girl who “was handcuffed and prevented by officer from obtaining and taking her medication thus induced a diabetic episode as a result of low blood-sugar levels.”

    Oops. Wrong house!

    Negligent police meant to hit the house adjacent to the Francos. The search warrant named next-door neighbor Rafael Ybarra, but did not mention anyone named Franco. Perhaps these cops forgot to read that document before launching their onslaught against the Francos, their home, and their dog.

    Eventually, the SWATsters realized their error. As the complaint continues: “Despite the fact that defendants learned that the suspect did not live at the address raided, defendants remained in the home of plaintiffs and continued searching the home.” The authorities eventually found a .22-caliber revolver in the basement. Although it belonged to Gilbert Castillo, another resident of the house, the gun was pinned on Franco, leading to his incarceration with Minnesota’s Department of Corrections.

    • These raids destroy humans, too.

    Fearing that criminals were invading his home on May 5, 2011, Iraq veteran Jose Guerena, 26, hid his wife and son, age 4, in a closet. He grabbed his rifle and went to investigate. An Arizona SWAT posse seeking marijuana kicked down Guerena’s front door, saw his rifle, and lethally pumped 71 bullets into him. Guerena did not fire a shot. Indeed, his rifle’s safety mechanism remained engaged. The dead father and husband had no criminal record, and his home was devoid of contraband.

    Balko counts at least 46 innocent people killed in drug raids gone wrong.

    Why are local constables devolving into flak-jacketed federales? As usual, thank Washington’s largesse. Like a steady drip of steroids, the War on Drugs has provided funding and encouragement for local cops to gird themselves like GIs leveling an Andean coca plantation.

    Furthermore, as Balko wrote in November 2011, thanks to “a 1994 law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus military equipment to local police departments . . . literally millions of pieces of equipment designed for use on a foreign battlefield have been handed over for use on U.S. streets, against U.S. citizens.” Since September 11, 2001, the War on Terror has furnished additional funds and matériel. Some of it should be available to defeat militant Islam. None of it should be used against, say, blackjack players.

    The Obama administration has played its part, too. “In 2009,” Balko explains, “stimulus spending became another way to fund militarization, with police departments requesting federal cash for armored vehicles, SWAT armor, machine guns, surveillance drones, helicopters, and all manner of other tactical gear and equipment.”

    Alas, when local cops who write tickets dress up like Green Berets, their attitudes can change. As former Reagan Pentagon aide Lawrence Korb pithily states: “Soldiers are trained to vaporize, not Mirandize.”

    “The routine use of SWAT teams to serve thousands and thousands of drug-search warrants has resulted in unnecessary tragedies and fueled fears of government run wild, military raids of homes in the middle of the night based more upon secret suspicions than evidence, and not infrequently causing casualties to the totally innocent,” Hoover Institution research fellow Joe McNamara tells me. The 17-year NYPD veteran and former police chief of Kansas City and San Jose adds: “The SWAT raids certainly haven’t won the drug war, but have caused ‘collateral damage’ and fears that impair the police’s ability to gain citizen trust and cooperation against serious and violent crime.”

    As gun stores currently enjoy land-sale business, some Americans are arming themselves to insure against circumstances as yet unseen. They justifiably worry that a government that aims gun barrels at Amish dairy farmers is capable of the unimaginable.

  34. Ted Nugent is going to be at SOTU tonight. Still trying to decide if I want the high blood pressure that I’ll develop by watching it. Rep. Steve Stockman will be live-tweeting fact checks, and I’m sure the Cato Institute will be weighing in on line, as well. Ted Nugent MAY have tipped the balance to me watching…. With LOTS of alcohol.
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/11/president-obama-definitely-wasnt-expecting-this-guy-to-be-at-his-state-of-the-union-address/

    1. My sister has red hair and boy did she have a temper. Although 4 years older, when we were kids, I was afraid of her.
      Maybe a school administrator is afraid of redheads.

      1. She could dye her hair flourescent green, and I’d still be distracted by how CUTE she is. I like the odd colors. My lady has a stripe of purple on each side of her butt-length hair.

        1. my wifey has hair as red as IHTM colors, she’s always messing with the color (i love the colors, not the expense of hair dye so much).. daughter has some pink stripes now, and seems to have gotten away with it at school so far.

          This girl is indeed cute, and that hair could be perfectly natural

    2. That girl’s hair is fine! It actually reminds me of my daughter’s hair. My daughter is a natural blonde, but she has been dying it red since high school, and it is stunning.

      Anyway, I think the school was wrong here, but I applaud them for trying. I think that the rule is appropriate for green or blue hair. Not that I CARE if people dye their hair any color they want – but schools have the right to keep certain standards. Hopefully they also say “no gauges”, “no visible tattoos”, “no facial jewelery”, “no slutty clothes”, “no bedroom slippers”, etc.

      But the parents are in the wrong here. They should have just said “OK – we’ll change it, put an auburn rinse in it, and be done. This is why we have a nation of insolent children who think that they are all (to quote my daughter) “special little snowflakes”.

      Yes, sometimes the authorities make mistakes. Yes, sometimes unfair things happen. Deal with it. Appeal to the Principal if you want – ONCE. Then accept his/her decision and move on. This young lady is learning a life lesson: when things don’t go your way, keep complaining until they do. This is like a blueprint of how to build a libtard.

      1. Hopefully they also say “no gauges”, “no visible tattoos”, “no facial jewelery”, “no slutty clothes”, “no bedroom slippers”, etc.

        Yea, like that will ever happen!

      2. Only thing is that I think the girl in the article is a little long in the tooth for a middle schooler.

        1. I wondered about that too, if she’s a 15yr old HS Freshman, why is “Hurricane Middle School” in the headline. Oh well. But I agree, Cute Kid!

          1. I had to watch the video to see if they were claiming that this was the girl. Middle School? She doesn’t look like it. And I still say that her hair looks entirely natural, and the parents should fight like hell for her right to have it as it is.

            And yes, I agree with all the other things listed above that SHOULD be banned from school, and add baby bumps.

  35. Hollywood hoodies or not, it seems Bradley Pitt and his gun moll are shooting sport enthusiasts. This must cause bladder release among some of their compatriots over there. Now, it isn’t like he said they have the dastardly AR15 type kid whackers, but I’m guessing, purely speculating here, that they have at least one and probably more likely a bunch of fully automatic firearms, since they can afford them and the legalities involved in owning them, plus they’re so darned fun to shoot and now have no shame about having a place to play with them unabated. I’m pretty sure they’re still basically leftardly leaning in the winds of politics, but sometimes all it takes to sway back to a preference for freedom is to see one of the fundamentals of Liberty attacked by the same people you used to support. So I’m not supporting their run for president yet. http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/20120904brad-pitt-buys-angelina-jolie-400k-shooting-range.html

  36. North Korea suspected to have tested another nuke.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/asia/north-korea-seismic-disturbance/index.html

    Did some research. Looks like another fizzle:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Examples

    Doing the math, the last test (2009) was estimated to be Magnitude 4.52 and 2.4 KT. If this one was Mag 4.9, I’d estimate the yield to be about 5.75 KT. About 1/3 of Hiroshima and 1/4 of the Trinity test.

    Work:

    [(2.4 KT)/(10^4.52)]*10^4.9 = 5.76 KT

    If you’d like an explanation of the work, let me know. The short answer is probably going to be earthquakes are on a log scale, and logs are annoying.

    1. So looks like my calculations were pretty dead on. The official report is 6-7 KT.

      Looks like my engineering degree is good for something!

      1. You got more use out of your degree on this thread than Crowley got out of his since he graduated.

  37. Ok so the Pope is stepping down, and O’Brien jumps to the conclusion that it must be due to the sex scandals in the church.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/11/CNN-Uses-Resignation-News-to-Trash-Pope-Catholic-Church

    Here’s what the Pope said:

    “However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of St. Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary – strengths which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.”

    I’m sorry but it sounds to me that the Pope may have been diagnosed with early stage dementia and therefore knows it will only get worse with time. Therefore he cannot remain as head of the church

    1. I don’t know. Perhaps he will get to play the role he was intended to play, that of Emperor Palpatine in the new Star Wars movies. He has always looked extra creepy enough and reminds me as well as many others of that evil sucker.

    2. I’m a recovering Catholic… But I still have respect for the Church to hope that they vote in someone even more hard-line. Plus, it will piss off those on the left “calling” for someone who won’t stand up for the tenants of the faith and challenge His Chicag0 Jesus-ness.

      1. I fear when churches violate their own teachings in order to please people. Seems like a *lot* of people on the Left claim to be Catholic when they are in clear opposition to the Church.

        It frustrates me that the church does nothing about it.

      2. I was Catholic myself for quite a while. Even got expelled from a Catholic high school in my freshman year. A significant change in my beliefs got me practically disowned by several of my extended family members of those remaining devout Catholics. I’m reminded of a song called Respectable Street by XTC for a particular line; ‘Sunday morning they look fetching, Saturday night saw him retching over our fence.’

        It is not necessarily about Catholics in particular, but fits right in with many of the hypocrites I know that attend regularly. Confession of sins to anyone other than God or the person you’ve offended falls outside my beliefs as instructed by the Bible. Calling anyone Father, other than your parent or God goes directly against scripture. I could go on, but won’t because I harbor no ill will for anyone that comports themselves with dignity, regardless of the churchular affiliation or lack thereof. Calling the Vatican the seven-headed hydra of Rome is something I avoid, normally. That the largest collection of pornography was – and may still be – held in the library there seems less than acceptable. But hey, again, not judging people based on that which they perceive differently as long as they don’t offend me directly, somehow.

            1. I’m NOT bringing my horses back to FL. Been there, done that. I DO have some pics from a Catholic Schoolgirl night, but they are very badly taken. I was rocking the horses, of course.

    3. It took a lot of courage to do this — clearly, he takes the church seriously, as a normal power-mad lefty wouldn’t let a little thing like dementia slow them down. Take Biden, for example. Please.

  38. Obama is setting up his own version of “SKYNET”!

    FAA RELEASES NEW DRONE AUTHORIZATION LIST — SEE WHO APPLIED TO HAVE THEM

    2012 FAA List of Drone License Applicants
    https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/faa_coa_list-2012.pdf

    There are 81 proposed drone sites IN THE US!

    Here is a map of the sites:
    https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col2+from+1WuTyH62PmUF97oxo6IreT1BL_aw9HJN5pocwmwg&h=false&lat=44.08758502824518&lng=-85.5615234375&z=4&t=1&l=col2&y=1&tmplt=2

    1. This is interesting!!
      One site in FL that refuses to give any info, and 4 sites within the DC Beltway that have only sketchy info.
      If you go to the map link above, you can click on any of the red dots and get the info on the drone site. Check it out and see if there’s one near you!

      Governmental Body/Entity: Orange County Sheriff’s Office
      Type of Drone: Information Withheld

      Status: Active

      General Location of Drone Activity: Orange County, FL

      Stated objective/purpose of COA: Information Withheld

      Effective Dates:

      Comments: Orange County Sheriff’s Office arbitrarily redacted almost all important information about its drone program

      Link to Records: https://www.eff.org/document/orange-county-sheriff-drone-records

      Governmental Body/Entity: US Army
      Type of Drone: Unknown

      Status: Active

      General Location of Drone Activity: Pentagon, Washington DC

      Stated objective/purpose of COA:

      Effective Dates:

      Comments: Still waiting for records (Note that at this point, the FAA has only confirmed that the Army is flying drones, and has not yet told the public where those drones are being flown. This is the location of the Army’s headquarters in Washington DC.)

      Link to Records:

      Governmental Body/Entity: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)
      Type of Drone: Unknown

      Status: Expired

      General Location of Drone Activity: 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20230

      Stated objective/purpose of COA:

      Effective Dates:

      Comments: Still waiting for records. (Note that at this point, the FAA has only confirmed that NOAA applied for a COA to fly drones. This is the location of NOAA’s headquarters in Washington.)

      Link to Records:

      Governmental Body/Entity: DHS – Science & Technology
      Type of Drone: Unknown

      Status: Active

      General Location of Drone Activity: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528

      Stated objective/purpose of COA:

      Effective Dates:

      Comments: Still waiting for records. (Note that at this point, the FAA has only confirmed that DHS S&T is flying drones, and has not yet told the public where those drones are being flown. This is the location of S&T’s main office in Washington DC.)

      Link to Records:

      Governmental Body/Entity: U.S. Navy
      Type of Drone: Unknown

      Status: Active

      General Location of Drone Activity: Bethesda, MD

      Stated objective/purpose of COA:

      Effective Dates:

      Comments: Still waiting for records. (Note that at this point, the FAA has only confirmed that the Navy is flying drones. The agency has not yet said where those drones are being flown. This is the location of the Navy’s offices in Bethesda, MD, and may or may not be where the Navy is flying drones.)

      Link to Records:

    1. It kinda relates to shooting at the perpetrator from a range so great that he has time to turn around and catch the bullet in his back after you drop the hammer.

      I support the right to shoot anyone brazen enough to try to break into your house or threaten anyone you can justify protecting. My personal belief is that shooting a fleeing subject ought not be such a big deal, but it is. Perps like this guy, 47 years old and likely well versed in various violent criminal activities deserve removal from the gene pool as well as the wading pool and the air pool. All the pools deserve cleaning.

      I used to live on a chunk of property with a 300 foot driveway and a huge front yard, big enough to employ range markers. The scenario’s were not left unthunk. A car fleeing out the drive could easily have been disabled with the 30.06 out the upper story window. Knowing that would probably be considered endangering and all that other lawyer talk was part of the reason I didn’t have range markers on the lawn. The shrubbery was adequate for that purpose. Now, if I could get in front of the fleeing vehicle to influence the continued flight, that would be an entirely different story.

      1. Sending you a book on “Cutting bushes into number-shaped topiary for fun and profit”. I especially like the boxwood hedge cut into a ‘200’, and the flowering cabbage planted in the shape of a large red ‘X’. It’s mortarriffic!

  39. Looks like it’s time to move out of CA!!!

    GUN CONFISCATION BILL PROPOSED IN CALIFORNIA: ‘WE CAN SAVE LIVES’

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/08/gun-confiscation-bill-introduced-in-california-we-can-save-lives/

    FTA:
    Law abiding gun owners in California have to feel uneasy after Democrats rolled out a massive gun control package on Thursday, which includes strict ammunition regulations and even a bill that allows potential confiscation of the state’s 166,000 legally registered semi-automatic rifles.

    Under the sweeping gun control bills introduced by state Senate Democrats, all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines would be banned, all guns would be registered and gun owners would need a special permit just to buy ammunition.

  40. “Man hunt for ex-soldier who shot police chief’s daughter and killed policeman
    POLICE plan to use spy drones in the hunt for a Rambo-style ex-soldier and policeman who has murdered three people and vowed to kill again.”

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/376732/Man-hunt-for-ex-soldier-who-shot-police-chief-s-daughter-and-killed-policeman

    Obviously if members of law enforcement surround this guy and kill him because he poses a threat to their lives, most would have no problem with that. What if though, a drone is used to keep those very members of law enforcement from having to deal with him? I’m not saying it will happen, but if we wake up tomorrow and find out he was killed by a drone, does that make it okay? He’s not a member of a terrorist organization living overseas. Does he still have the rights granted to him under the Constitution? Would anyone be surprised if he was killed by a drone and the MSM was thrilled by it? I realize the drones they’re using are not the same ones used overseas and may prove very helpful in finding this guy, however, I think my questions are still valid. Would there be outrage if he was killed by a drone? Would our Constitution still matter if the courts found it was acceptable because it helped protect law enforcement officials? He’s already been convicted by public opinion (which I agree with), but should public opinion override the Constitution or should every step be taken to ensure he has a trial by a jury of his peers? I think these are just a few questions we have to ask ourselves going forward because technology is not going to regress.

    1. LMAO!!
      First, it is a black woman smacking him down! I love it when a libtard gets a beatdown by an informed person!

  41. Found this in a dusty forgotten corner of bookmarks early this AM and like it a lot, wanted to share. Been playing it in the background off and on while cruising the webz.

    Take a stroll down memory lane…
    “Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single Part 1”
    https://soundcloud.com/mjs538/five-seconds-of-every-1-pop-1

    The second song is The Great Pretender so I guess they started charting #1s in ’55 or 6. Big deal you say? Part 1 is 46 minutes long… at 5 seconds a pop (cool pun). And Part 2 is 28.
    https://soundcloud.com/mjs538/five-seconds-of-every-1-pop

    I just thought it was pretty sweet. And here’s a handy search site
    http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/

    Entered my birthdate and it gave me the #1 song on that date for the last, ahem, almost half a century. Going to do the girls dates later, relive some memories. Hey, we can’t do politics ALL the time.

  42. And now for something completely surprising! nudge & wink… http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/02/09/obama-to-congress-ill-decide-whats-constitutional/

    So FTA:
    Congress placed a provision in the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill for 2012 designed to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from using any of its $30.7 billion taxpayer funds to “advocate or promote Gun Control.” However, upon signing the bill into law, President Obama issued a caveat of his own-
    I have advised Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congress’s consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient.
    In other words: “Congress may pass laws, but I decide which of its laws are constitutional and which I can simply choose to ignore.”

    1. Well, that’s fair, the people that make the least get nothing.
      They should apply that standard to welfare.

    1. Coming soon to the stations Algore sold to Islam.

      “an imam telling viewers that those who disrespect the prophet Mohammed should be killed, and another broadcaster saying homosexuals should be beaten and tortured.”

      “It is your duty … to kill those who insult Prophet Mohammed.”

      “anyone who left Islam should be put to death.”

      “eliminating” anyone who disrespected Mohammed.

      Yes, the religion of peace. Now special.

  43. I may not be as positively optimisitic as this writer regarding the success of the backlash against the gun grab since the Newtown incident, but points are undeniable.

    One of the bullet points FTA: “While gun grabbers hoped the U.S. military would agree to fire upon American citizens who refused to turn in their guns, what really happened is that huge numbers of active duty soldiers announced they would never participate in military action against their own countrymen. In fact, inside the military there is rising talk of shooting commanding officers in the head if they order troops to fire on American citizens over gun rights issues.”

    http://www.naturalnews.com/038970_gun_control_backfired_america.html

    1. “shooting commanding officers in the head if they order troops to fire on American citizens over gun rights issues.”

      Which is their sworn duty. I believe in the integrity of our military rank and file. I also believe this is why they are disarmed except for when they absolutely MUST be armed to do their job.

    1. Hey FDH just a heads-up, take that site with the whole shakers worth of salt. I always verify earth shaking news from there somewhere else before running with it (got burned once elsewhere), they’re like the msnbc of the right.

      1. Yeah, I can see the potential, but the television interview lends it enough reality to get by, I figure. In fact, if I had found a way to skip the site and post just the video Ida dunnit. Not a youtuber or anything I recognize and in the 3.2 seconds I spent looking for a way to link it nothing showed, so I linked to the article.

        1. Not this particular article, when they try to bust out an “exclusive”, or “investigative urinalism” the site WJ is pretty shaky.

  44. Once again, I am reminded about the fucked up shit that has happened to the people of the East Coast after Sandy, and the underwhelming response from government, ours and everyone else’s.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:2427399&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

    Sandy Relief Thanks For The Help
    Posted by Tea Party Teamster on February 2, 2013 at 8:56am
    View Blog

    I received this as an e-mail and thought that it is very revealing as to the great and overwhelming appreciation that the nations of the world have towards us for all of the $$$$$$ Funding and Relief $$$$$$ the we, The United States of America have sent countless times to those nations when they have been in need.
    I think everyone needs to copy and paste this in a letter to their individual Senate and Congressional Representatives along with the demand that we stop giving foreign aid to our *cough cough*, Dear sweet, *cough*, neighbors and *cough cough*, Friends, *cough choke cough* of the World.

    Thanks to all the countries who helped the U.S. after Sandy
    I think it is highly appropriate at this time of the year that we send
    THANKS to all of the countries that have reciprocated for our help
    with their disasters, misgivings, social turmoil, & poverty by returning
    the favor, and sending the United States of America monetary and
    physical help when Sandy ravaged our East Coast leaving dead, homelessness, and pure disaster.

    Listed below are a list of the countries and worldwide organizations
    that are giving us gracious assistance.

    Please assist me in Thanking these entities by passing on this email
    so people from all over America can join in and THANK our neighbors,
    to whom we have given BILLIONS!!!!

    1. Israel

    2.

    3.

    4.

    5.

    6.

    7.

    8.

    9.

    10.

    And after everything obama has done to Israel, they still stand with us, May the Lord Bless and protect Israel

      1. I posted it as a status on FB. Cool part is, you get to read the top two paragraphs, then you have to click on “see more” for the nearly blank list to show up.

        1. So some liberal fool friend of mine sends links to stories about Iran, Pakistan, and Russia wanting to send teams to help out. Not money, or goods, but people. No, sorry, we don’t need your people here.

          1. Iran, Pakistan, and Russia

            Yea, are they sending help, or people that will get lost and outstay their visas?

    1. It’s a natural extension of the Donk MO — if felons can have the only guns, and if felons can vote, and if felons can be in office, it’s only natural they be in the Cabinet. Next stop for felons — the Supreme Court!

  45. USPS Ending Saturday Delivery to Save Money

    Here is my problem with ending Saturday mail delivery.
    I have a Netflix subscription, I have it figured out so that I get 8 movies a month, having one every weekend.

    I send back a movie on Monday, and get a new one on Wednesday.
    I watch the movie Wednesday, and send it back on Thursday.
    I get a new movie on Saturday and watch it over the weekend.
    I send it back on Monday.

    Now, I can only get 6 movies a month, some weeks only getting one, other weeks getting 2, still paying the same amount of money for less service, and only getting 2 a month for over the weekend!

    Just another way for the government to so try to solve their inefficiency by making us pay!

    1. From a purely business standpoint I don’t understand why they don’t get rid of Tuesdays instead. It’s their lightest load day. Doesn’t it make more sense to not pay everybody on the day your bringing in the least revenue, or am I missing something?

    2. Well, the PO was famous for the 2 cent stamp. If they’d have kept postage up with inflation, it’d be a $2 stamp. I’d say their problem is that they are trying to have the government run them like what congressmen think businesses do — sell their service at a loss, but try to make it up in volume.

      1. Their problem is that they can’t run it like an actual business because they are under the thumb of Congress. Also, everything is done over the Internet now. If it wasn’t for Hawaii being so butt-backwards that you can’t pay your registration on line, I’d never write a check. My mail people here thank me every time I order something from amazon.com. They said amazon keeps them employed.
        As for Netflix, Papa, can you stream instead on the weekends? We cancelled the physical DVD service when they tried to split their company. Haven’t missed it. There’s always something new to watch.

  46. “Fox News’ Credibility At ‘Record Low’: PPP Poll”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/fox-news-credibility-low-poll_n_2632084.html

    I wonder why…?

    “Scott Brown, Fox News In Discussions For Contributor Role ”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/scott-brown-fox-news_n_2632800.html

    “Sarah Palin Out At Fox News ”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/sarah-palin-fox-news-out_n_2553421.html

    “Fox News Re-Signs Karl Rove In Multi-Year Deal”

    http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/karl-rove-re-signs-with-fox-news-channel-in-multi-year-deal/

    Who the hell still watches fox news? I remember reading something or listening to someone a few months back, and the discussion was about fox news moving to the center after the 2012 election (I have no link at this time, maybe I’ll find it). They certainly aren’t moving in the Conservative or Libertarian direction, are they?

    1. That is exactly what the plan is….move to the middle. I’m not concerned about hiring left wingers as contributors. Fine. But it would be nice if they hired some legitimate right wing contributors.

    2. I still watch Fox and Friends to get some news, Hannity for some right wing opinion, The Five because I like watching Schmeckel get shredded, and Red Eye because I like Gutfeld.
      I don’t watch any of them except F&F daily, but sometimes the others have something that interests me, even when the legs aren’t so great!

    3. Oh, the Left obsesses over Fox like a Tweeny girl — all kinds of drama, all kinds of “I hate him, I hate him, I hate him”, but deep down, they’re in love.

    1. Anybody know what happens to rapist who are deported to Nigeria?

      “Each of the men told Desierto he did not want the Nigerian consulate notified of his arrest.”

      1. Shot him TEN TIMES, chopped his head off, and hurled it into the village square. Um, somehow, my exes look much saner now. That’s a scary thought.

        1. He had it coming.. Hopefully one them sad fucks thinks twice before violating a Turkish lady again. She’s created quite a stir there. He had threatened to kill her kids too, if she didn’t submit to repeated encounters

      1. Bruce kicks ass.. German born and raised in NJ? Should be more like him.

        On that note, as I still have fondness for east coast.. I’m thinking Chris Christie is the man to beat Hillary in 2016

        1. Yeah, he may not have everything *I* want, but I think that as an achievable goal, he’s pretty much it — and he knows it.

  47. It is my opinion that John Bolton would be a great president for this nation. I believe he has the necessary abilities to impress skeptics and that he does not pull punches nor take any crap. But this is not about him. This is a about what is currently happening. Released in August of 2012, this little NRA video is replete with numbing information. 5 minutes and change is worth spending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-GwqLgnIWI&feature=player_embedded

    1. Well, to be fair, it was a far wiser man than Ron Paul who first said that.
      The Crusader knights took that as a glorious promise, you know.

    2. Paul should be talking about veterans’ mental health issues if he wanted to be useful rather than provocative.

    3. It’s not the soldiers that are the problem, it’s who commands them that is. Dr. Paul is just trying to make them realize that they no longer are fighting for their own country.

      1. Dude, some things Paul says are just over the top, and there is no good way to apologize or explain them. If you want to know THE reason why he never got anywhere in the last primary, there you have it in a nutshell. Sometimes he says profoundly stupid things that the rest of the world can beat him over the head with.

        I remember the day he lost Mark Levin — he laid the blame for the Middle East on the Israelis. Didn’t go over for some reason. Poor fool must have thought he’d stuck his dick in a meat grinder. It was truly epic radio. You can probably search that episode out — it was the last time ever that he went on the Mark Levin show. It was persona non grata all the way after that.

        It doesn’t matter how brilliant Paul may be on a lot of things — he always manages to blow it in the final stretch where it really matters.

          1. I’m saying that your hero has the same problem as you. Your worst enemy is your own mouth.

      2. You don’t know the first thing about the military, or the people serving in it. If you weren’t such a fat, worthless, POS, I would suggest you join the military and learn something.

  48. S O M E T I M E S

    Sometimes….when you cry….
    no one sees your tears.

    Sometimes….when you are in pain….
    no one sees your hurt.

    Sometimes….when you are worried….
    no one sees your stress.

    Sometimes….when you are happy….
    no one sees your smile.

    But FART !! just ONE friggin’ time…..
    And everybody notices!!

    1. Or as I’ve heard it:
      “I gave millions to charity. Do I hear people say, There goes PsychoDad, that big-hearted philanthropist.”? No.

      “I’ve performed with world-renowned symphony orchestras. Do I hear people say, There goes PsychoDad, the brilliant musician.”? No.

      I’ve been to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the top of Everest, and swam in the Dead Sea. Do I hear people say, “There goes PsychoDad, the daring adventurer.”? No.

      But once, just one time, suck one little c—k ….”

  49. They at it again? Just a minute ago tried to click through and got this;

    Reported Attack Page!

    This web page at http://www.breitbart.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

    Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.

    Thanks Google for protecting me from those mean\nasty Rethuglicans. What would I do without Big Brother looking out for me.

    1. I have heard in the past half hour or so that Breitbart got hacked and is flooded with malware.

    2. Google has no interest in censoring the right-wing.. Its basically a tech company built around Ad revenue.. For them, the more, the merrier

      1. Probably, but they’re so much fun to poke at. (this message brought to you by Gmail btw, lol) And I don’t really trust any of them, and always play by the rule “don’t ever say or do anything online you wouldn’t want your grandkids to see 50 years from now.

        1. I’ll confess, i drank the Google Kool-Aid hard.. I went to I/O last summer and will again this year (for work).. I’ve got Google Glass on pre-order and it should be dropping soon (and only to U.S. devs who attended I/O.. i suppose there are trade restrictions to deal with still). Their data centers are like cathedrals to me. They won’t have me though.. they attempted to recruit years ago, but bailed when I let them know i I never finished college.. $#*()# academia elite 🙂

          Yeah, i expect to be poked at too, i’ll take it in stride

          1. Meh. I wasn’t qualified for my last job, never mind having had 8 years of experience at it. Sheepskins can be highly overrated. Sometimes, the ticket into a snob society just winds you up in the company of snobs.

            I may have a degree (BA, Business), but I have met a LOT of highly qualified people that never finished college for one reason or another that I’d like to work with, and a lot of educated idiots that I wouldn’t want to be in the same building with — because they’re so damned stupid they make my teeth hurt…

            1. to be clear, i expected to get poked over Googly Kool-aid, not for missing out on the elite pedigree.. Any flak i catch for not having degree comes primarily from the left-leaning 😉

            2. I like me android. My boy keeps on teasing me about it. Still better than a Blackberry, though. The only thing I’d found a bb does well is conference calls — other than that, the worst app on a blackberry is the “phone” app.

            3. You could get started with Android SDK within 15 minutes.. with Apple/iOS, you’ve got to have their hardware, and pay up for dev account (price going down i believe, but still..)

              Android’s APIs make a whole lot of things easy to do while iOS can make your head hurt (sharing through other apps, notifications, etc.). With Jellybean (Android 4.1-2) and newest phones, there’s no contest IMHO

              [sorry folks way way off topic]

            4. Tell your boy that he needs to try an android for a week and see how much better it is than an iPhone

      2. Well, yes and no. I noticed that when someone loaded the search system so that uncomplimentary things about GW Bush came up at the top of searches, the word from the Chocklit factory was “our hands are tied”, but when a similar thing happened to Dear Leader, the answer was “We’ll get on that right away, sir”.

        Now, I know that people are going to say things about either leader that are over the top, but I think that their priorities came right up front and center there.

        1. Google had to play catch-up with the Googlebombers.. I think it was 2007 or so when they finally got a handle on searches like “miserable failure”.. (search it now for contrast). When their search results were based on mapping the topology of web linkage, then it was a fairly simple game for miscreants to muck with that model, and GWB (and poor Santorum) suffered for years (link popularity algorithms as vulnerable as any popularity contest). Obama really did, by sheer timing, benefit from Google’s improving abilities.. Many SEO’s lost contracts as their schemes fell apart, and continue to do so.. (Penguin the Destructor)

          I know they are generally liberal folk over there and all.. but just type “Is Obama” in search bar and see what auto-complete comes up with.. Its all of right-wing narrative in condensed form, offered up in milliseconds.

          Google is, for the most part, a mirror (i would say their most egregious offenses, according to some, are alleged self-promotion of their own services over competitors.. in which I fail to see much problem)

          1. Sorry, I’m such a cynic, but this was a predictable problem, and their hand-wringing violated my first law of Tech Support — “if you know how to break it, you know how to fix it — or at least how to break it back the other way”.

            I get into it all the time with people that don’t understand how data quality is just the modern clothes that GIGO wears. Once they saw this as an issue, it should have been taken seriously, as data quality is what they are seeking, in the form of statistically valid insights into the internet’s collective psyche, where the data quality affects the market value of their ad placement.

            I remember Google talking prior to that episode about how they were coping with SEO. It just happened to be an amazing coincidence that they didn’t feel like tampering with the vox populi at the time that it was an unflattering political message. I’m just not big on amazing coincidences.

            1. GIGO would be precisely the issue they had to deal with.. Only douchenozzles like Dan Savage were orchestrating the shoveling in of massive quantities of filth/garbage, and THAT may not have been as predictable a problem to guys who thought more about algorithms then crowd dynamics

              I agree with you that they probably got a chuckle out of the “miserable failure” googlebomb, and may have dragged their feet.. We KNOW they can trick up any query (search: “do a barrel roll”), so yeah they could’ve acted.

              Still a difficult problem to solve in general, enforcing data quality when you’ve got virtually the entire planet’s web infrastructure supplying it

              Nice Latin btw.. wish i knew more of it

  50. And for some shari’a enlightenment:

    http://www.fortliberty.org/14yr-old-rape-victim-beaten-to-death-by-islamic-court.html

    Hena Begum was a fourteen year old girl growing up in the Shariatpur region of Bangladesh until her forty year old cousin decided to rape her.

    After she was raped, the rapist and his family then beat her until she was unconscious.

    Next, the local Sharia (Islamic) courts ruled that yound Hena should receive 101 lashes for the crime of adultery — for the crime of being a child raped by an adult.

    The Muslim clerics took the young girl, who still could not stand on her own, to a public square and proceeded to deliver the 101 lashes. After receiving 80 lashes, young Hena collapsed. Her family was allowed to take her to a hospital where she died from her wounds.

    The child’s father, Dorbesh Khan, was also ordered to pay a fine equal to approximately $700 USD — quite a considerable sum in a nation which is suffering under the poverty which almost inevitably results from Islamic rule.

    The rapist, Mahbub Khan, had been previously convicted of rape and sentenced to marry his rape victim. The rape victim from that encounter was one of the family members who helped beat young Hena unconscious before her “trial.” Mahbub has since disappeared in order to avoid punishment for this more recent rape.

    What sort of people would beat a fourteen year old girl to death in a public square — and call it justice? This is not the sort of religious tolerance that I as a moral human being am willing to accept.

    1. Animals! When I travel about Tampa and see the ever growing number of Muslims, I think that I am in the midst of medieval barbarians. I don’t like them. Bigoted, you may ask. Okay, I can live with that in this case. Maybe my brush is too broad but I don’t think so.

    1. I saw him talking about this the other day. He is a registered Republican, which means nothing. He has reinvented himself so many times over the years none of us, including him, knows who the real guy is. Stop and frisk law? WTH! Should be grounds for disqualification right there. Violates the oath.

            1. I look forward to the 60s crowd and their followers cycling out of society and into retirement. They are the most destructive cohort since the progressives of the 1920s and 1930s. Their legacy, I’m afraid, will be as permanent as it will be destructive.

          1. In order to vote in the primaries in Florida you must be registered and you do that with one party or the other. Dems or Reps. Independent registered people don’t get to vote in the primaries! That is just lame.

            1. Which is exactly why I registered Republican. I had to be one or the other, and would be DAMNED if I would register as a Dem.

            2. Of course, we only get to vote in the primary for the party in which we’ve registered. Still, lame. I’m tempted to change my affiliation from Republican to democrat just so I can vote for their worst candidate, but I know it would just backfire.

            3. I was registered as a Democrat for more than 20 years just so I could vote for the worst candidate possible in their primary. I finally registered as an independent when I realized I could no longer tell which Democrat was the worst. Of course, I live in California which makes that determination more difficult than in most other places.

    1. at the rate I’m boycotting hollywood celebs, I’m not likely to see aother movie or tv show as long as I live.

      1. There sure are a lot of em spouting off about it. That’s too bad. I feel the same way. Tom Selleck and Clint Eastwood are gonna corner the Liberty lover audience all for themselves if this keeps up.

      1. Because I jagged up! They had a warrant. No resulting charges. I throw myself on the mercy of the IHTM court for this faux pas.

    1. First off, not a rifle for trap or skeet, only shotguns. Secondly, trap and skeet loads are typically fairly light loads, not too heavy on the recoil. None of that matters, though. His hold is piss poor. Trap and skeet both involve shooter rotation of the body. Usually there is a little bit of a forward lean to the upper body, though not everybody does it the same. Here’s the funniest part of this picture, in my opinion; whoever took the picture was standing forward of the shooting line, a really stupid idea if the shooter is actually engaging flying clays. The whole thing stinks of staged propaganda. There is something appears to be protruding from the barrel that I cannot account for. The projectiles and shot cup typically exit the barrel ahead of any smoke or flame. It is all wrong.

      1. Thanks! Don’t shoot Skeet, so appreciate the break down. I guess that is what I was seeing, was the “wrongness” of the picture.

    1. She’s such a vapid little girl. Coincidence she barks the same day the 0 Admin announces new rules for his 0Care Contraception mandate that won’t allow companies to opt out, so gov’t chooses who has the “privilege” of exercising 1A rights? And, even though SCOTUS clearly ruled them as having person status? I think not.

    1. Lets start by dissecting the “pay” of our politicians, shall we? Perhaps we will find out how elected officials who live off the backs of the rest of us end up as multi-millionaires.

      To be fair, Mikulski is not as bad as most in terms of stealing. She is a feminist lesbian who’s agenda is promoting socialism by any means possible. She is a “lifer” and has a nice cushy life, but money was never her primary motivation. She is “married” to the cause.

    1. Well. I’m glad that’s all settled. *IF* he gets the job of controlling hundreds of billions of spending, and the lives of millions of military personnel, not to mention the lives of hundreds of millions of people who depend upon his doing his job right, ol’ Schmucky will lower himself to cracking a book on it. I used to think that calling what the 0 admin does “amateur hour” was an insult — but at least an amateur does what they do for a love of what they do, and has potential for improvement — this is “dumbass hour”, and no amount of book learning can un-dumbass a dumbass.

      (none of us Nebraskans like Hagel — he’s a weathervane politician, pointing whichever way the wind blows, and comes down soundly on both sides of every issue.)

          1. I am so lost, no clue… I’ll give it another hour before I delete my brand new account. 🙂

      1. It’s racist against the black cowboy that got shot by the cannon the Vegas Showgirls had in the bus.

      1. She’s looking more and more like her dad every day. He must be so proud, what with him being a successful businessman and her being a member of The Center for American Progress.

  51. In Washington state, a little burg name of Oak Harbor has a mayor and city council meeting with live citizens in attendance that are permitted to bring their evil firearms into the chambers in a concealed fashion without ever being frisked, fingerprinted or felt up. Apparently some members of the city council aren’t comfortable with that, while the mayor seems delighted. The show starts at about the 2 minute mark, but the veteran with the hidden weapon of evil talks up to that point. http://www.youtube.com/v/TxHnCei4wzg&hl=en_US&fs=1&

    1. Piers is probably a regular viewer of Rupaul’s… work. Looking for tips and such, you know.

    1. Shotgun shooting is only a hurtful thing when you do it wrong. This guy is a pussy, and not just because of that.

      Years ago, not long after the crazed pickup truck driver killed all those people in Luby’s, I had the misfortune of being seated next to an ‘enlightened’ liberal putz at a gathering of my wife’s coworkers and their friends at a large restaurant. He somehow got to talking about the devastation caused by the evil known as the 9mm bullet. I asked what the problem was with that little slug. He quickly began to school me with unending diatribe.

      See, he was knowledgeable in all things regarding handguns because his neighbor, a cop, let him shoot his 38 Special in their backyard regularly. I tried to get a word in edgewise about the 38 being actually bigger and more powerful than the 9mm, but he would have none of that.

      My preference for the 45ACP has always left me without 9mm pistols except for resale a couple times. Anyway, the guy was really full of shit and most of the people in his audience were glugging it down until I gave far too many details pertinent to the differences of various slugs and how ‘caliber’ related to ‘millimeter’.

      He called them 9 millimeters. He said Yeah, the 45 caliber is big, but this guy was shooting people with nine millimeters! The few people listening when I pointed out that 45 caliber is actually 11.4 millimeters got a look on their faces I won’t forget ever. Then the bullet weight, velocity and hydrostatic shock comparisons got them all asking me questions and he went to the bathroom to do another line or something. Who knows. A putz is a putz. The guy in this story reminds me of him.

      1. i grant that gave me pause too, but he’s still shopping for one.. he may be a little dude, after all, or didn’t try out a weapon with the best fit for him (shoulder, meet stock..)

        In the end, i bet he’s able to convince a few to give firearms a 2nd look. God knows, the only time i ever truly succeeded was back when i was dating in my 20s.. Girls get a kick out of it, 2nd or 3rd date

        By contrast, i’ve worked with some silly toughguys who never served, didn’t grow up with them, and were turned onto guns because they play Call of Duty, and went on a couple office bonding trips to the shooting range.. They bug me

          1. the instructor who thinks his daughter can’t chamber the first round..? Or the Facebook friends spouting nonsense about rednecks and guns? I can agree on both counts

            1. Actually I meant your last paragraph. I thought the piece was just sort of weird and forced.

            2. I thought he was trying too hard to make the article sound like he’s a reasonable leftist.

            3. No doubt that he’s apologetic about it. Probably the only way he can get to remain on the Plantation. I’ve seen what the Left does to people that start to think for themselves. Not pretty.

            4. he is absolutely brandishing his progressive credentials to keep his audience.. that was no surprise to me. So what seems forced is him trying to manage cognitive dissonance

        1. What I don’t get is an adult make that owns guns, isn’t smart enough to anticipate the kick of a shotgun.
          When I was 8 or 9 I shot my father’s 1903 Springfield 30-06 and his M-1 Garand also in 30-06.
          Those damned things kicked like an Army Mule! At least it seemed so to the skinny little kid that fired them. There were no rubber butt pads on the stock, which is fairly common in shotguns, so I felt the full brunt of a high power military rifle.
          When I bought my Mossberg 500 almost 20 years later, I was prepared for the kick, and it wasn’t as bad as I imagined. But then, I’m not a nancyboy liberal.

          1. He’s probably just unhappy that I gave him recoil advice. Told him to hold the shotgun about 3″ away from his shoulder so the shock could dissipate.

    2. I thought it was an interesting article. Very unusual in having a NYT reporter that knows his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to firearms. I noticed that all of his handguns were autoUNloaders, too.

    1. From the article…

      “Our great president came from a civilized part of the country where there is strict gun control, and he is only trying to bring the benefits of that more modern way of living to the rest of us. I don’t know the exact statistics, but I’m quite certain that Chicago is a lot safer that Morehead City, when it comes to gun violence.”

      A joke I saw the other day…

      The Afghan Quarterback

      The coach had put together the perfect team for the Chicago Bears. The only thing that was missing was a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues, but he couldn’t find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl win.

      Then one night while watching CNN he saw a war-zone scene in Afghanistan . In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade straight into a 15th story window 100 yards away.

      KABOOM!

      He threw another hand-grenade 75 yards away, right into a chimney.

      KA-BLOOEY!

      Then he threw another at a passing car going 90 mph.

      BULLS-EYE!

      “I’ve got to get this guy!” Coach said to himself . “He has the perfect arm!”

      So, he brings him to the States and teaches him the great game of football. And the Bears go on to win the Super Bowl.

      The young Afghan is hailed as the great hero of football, and when the coach asks him what he wants, all the young man wants is to call his mother.

      “Mom,” he says into the phone, “I just won the Super Bowl!”

      “I don’t want to talk to you, the old Muslim woman says.”You are not my son!”

      “I don’t think you understand, Mother,” the young man pleads. “I’ve won the greatest sporting event in the world. I’m here among thousands of my adoring fans.”

      “No! Let me tell you!” his mother retorts. “At this very moment, there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house so she doesn’t get raped!” The old lady pauses, and then tearfully says,

      “I will never forgive you for making us move to Chicago !!!!

    2. Also FTA:

      But do Republicans and conservatives listen to the voice of reason? No, of course not. All they want to do is whine and complain about how gun control and wealth redistribution violate the Constitution, as if the Constitution were all that great, anyway. There are a lot of things that need to be changed about the Constitution, I’d say, and President Obama needs to change it.

      Anyone taking bets that this person is not employed?

  52. Couldn’t find anywhere appropriate to put this, so it goes here, good joke but not quite unrealistic!

    Obama’s policies have put more people on welfare than any president before him, so this placement is most appropriate. Unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, for which he did nothing, this is an “honor” he richly deserves.

    I was eating breakfast with my 13-year-old granddaughter and I asked her, “What day is the 20th of February?”

    She said “It’s President’s Day!”

    She is a smart kid.

    I asked “What does President’s Day mean?”

    I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln… etc.

    She replied, “President’s Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment.”

    You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose…

  53. SHOCKER – GDP report BEFORE the election is comparatively strong. AFTER the election, actually shows NEGATIVE. Wonder who moved THAT cheese.

    Just sayin’.

  54. In the past few days there have been numerous reports, both privately and by local media, of extensive “training” exercises in Miami, FL and Houston, TX. Here’s a link to a news report on the one in Miami – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9ioCbqJCU&feature=player_embedded

    These exercises involve military aircraft and other assets in coordination with local police departments. In the videos I have seen there is clearly automatic weapons fire coincident with military helicopters’ presence. This is corroborated by eyewitness testimony on the scene, also contained in the videos available.

    This represents an unprecedented use of military assets in two of the most densely populated cities in the nation. I asked a field-grade army officer with extensive experience for his reaction to the Miami video. After securing his approval to share his response with you, here are my questions and his response to me in their entirety. FYI, MOUT means Military Operations in Urban Terrain:

    > Can you shed any light on the purposes of such training? Under what circumstances would the US military fire weapons at all in one of the densest population centers in the country?

    > There is NO legitimate purpose to that in a real urban environment.
    >
    > Automatic fire is explicitly prohibited during any of our DSCA operations (defense support of civil authorities)- our belt-feds are not even allowed to be fielded, and our select-fire rifles have lock-plates installed on them. It is 100% never authorized or allowed, period. DSCA is the only type of training that would be joint with civilian agencies (riot control, emergency response, etc- and what was described/heard isn’t DSCA.
    >
    > For MOUT operations (real war stuff, but in urban areas), there are MOUT training facilities all over the country- and none of that is “joint training” with civil authorities. So that doesn’t pass the smell test either.
    >
    > So no way, no how, is that “training” the type of thing that is appropriate and legitimate as described for mil folks. I can see some over-the-top LE agencies doing it, but if folks in real uniforms were involved, shame on them. If it hadn’t been described as a joint training exercise, I’d have frankly dismissed it as the filming of a movie, with military support and participation (which is fairly common).

    This is an extremely ominous development, and the threat it represents needs to be brought to politicians’ attention, both nationally and locally. The Obama administration is engaged in activities that are highly suspect at best and, at worst, grossly violate legal strictures against domestic military deployment. It’s impossible for any of this to have occurred without both presidential knowledge and approval.

    1. They’re not *powerless*. They’re *unwilling*.

      Require a credit card to set up a profile. Can’t create a Netflix account without one.

  55. Well, the whistles of propaganda try all the time and do it with the air of arrogant ass and disinformation. Here soledad tries to make Milwaukee county sound like a little burg on a quiet lake where the people eat cheese and fart bratwurst gas. You gotta go a little further north for those places, Sheboygan at least. The city of Milwaukee may not be as big as chicago, but it isn’t so small you might miss it if you blink. There are more than a million people in that city any given day. That’s a lot of people. And that’s just the big city in the county. So Sheriff Clarke has his hands full. She tries but fails to get a podunk response from Clarke, even when she invokes the name of the city God will stick the nozzle in when it is time for Him to deliver the high colonic solution to America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVTinsrDbQs&feature=player_embedded

    1. Damn right it’s not a small city. My great aunt ran a speakeasy there during Prohibition and she was affiliated with Al Capone’s gang. I believe there was a period of time later when the Chicago mafia answered to the Milwaukee mafia, not the other way around.

  56. American citizens are being fed propaganda about assault weapons and the AR15 type rifles in particular have been the main ingredient of the government’s disarm-the-people meme. They have no practical sporting use, except for the thousands that get used for competitive shooting events across the country every week. They can’t be used for hunting, except for the thousands that do get used for a variety of hunts both for small and large game as well as varmint eradication across the country every week. And we all know they are unacceptable for home or any other defensive use, since they are designed to assault innocent children! Well, ahem… What has the Department of Homeland Security got to say about that? Apparently, the only thing about civilian versions of the AR15 type rifles that prevents the suitability for personal defense is that they only fire semi-auto.
    http://www.infowars.com/dhs-buys-7000-full-auto-assault-rifles-calls-them-personal-defense-weapons/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

    1. Our Fine Friends in the press don’t know what “semi-automatic” means other than it’s Big and Scary. They wouldn’t know what an AR15 was if it jumped up and bit them on the ass.

      I think that they are ripe for being trolled with my new name for these weapons: “auto-unloading”. That sounds nice and safe, where the gases from 0bama’s Unicorn Farts ™ are used to kindly and gently unload the shells from the chamber of the bad ol’ gun.

      1. No, no, no! That nomenclature, even as it has been a standard in the world of gun knowledgeable types for decades, need not be brought to their attention because, as we know, conjured images is what they live and breathe. Auto-load will start them talking about how reloading is unnecessary even if your clipmagcartridgecylindertube thingies only hold ten atomic tipped bullets each, because auto-load means the gun does all that reloading automatically, you know, when the clipmagcyltube runs out it automatically drops out of the gun and is automatically replaced by the next magik clipmagcyltube. They will then seek to ban possession of more than 10 rounds total of any ammunition.

        1. No, no, no. It’s autoUNload. The fact that it jacks another shell in the chamber as part of unloading the gun is not germane to the discussion, and I will change the subject if it ever comes up. See, “AutoUNload” has “UN” in it, just like their wonderful overlords. If the left can use language to twist a conversation their way, so can I.

          See, they are wanting to use those EVIL permanently loaded firearms, while I am fighting for safety here, pushing for every firearm to have this modern capability devised by safety genius John Moses Browning. AutoUNloading is the safest way to handle ammunition!

          1. Oh, now I see what you did there. Nevermind. You’re right, of course. This rolls right into the assembly woman giving the facts a massage about all those people that have been shot by unloaded guns.

            1. I would, but I’m afraid that the word might get too big. You have to give the media types *little* words, as they can’t carry big concepts in their little brain stems. I usually try to keep the Gunning Fog index under 2 for them.

              http://gunning-fog-index.com/fog.cgi

              I think that they think the term “semi” means that the gun has 18 wheels anyway.

    1. Chicago announced its January gun death count…. 40 in less than 30 days…
      2A… +24
      “Control”…-43

      Seems like “Control” isn’t working. Though I was told its not about the death count, but common sense. Politicians have less common sense than God gave an earthworm.

  57. Sheriff Clarke of Milwaukee County Wisconsin is scheduled to discuss his irrational love of weapons of mass killing sprees with none other than sole e. dad obrine on her CNN show Monday morning. I won’t risk tuning to that agit-prop outlet, but hope someone gets the whole session. He’s pretty sharp, cuts like a razor when prompted, but the cuteness of sole e. dad may get a little pass. Nah, he’ll be respectful no matter how much of a whistling communist shrew she is. I have not yet developed Future Link Technology™ so don’t look now, no link!

  58. Don’t get too drunk while clad in hooker wear in the jolly olde. High heels reduce the ability of the victim to run away! He fails to mention that miniskirts, fishnets, heels, blond hair, blue eyes and any number of other things give cause to the ‘south asian’ immigrants to rape, beat, pimp out and murder. If it weren’t so damn wrong to have a stubby shotgun under your burqa there, perhaps they’d wear that? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269317/Women-short-skirts-high-heels-risk-rape-says-Tory-MP.html

    1. They have volunteers to drive drunks home to prevent drunk driving. I volunteer to drive ladies in heels, stockings, short skirts home. Then I’ll stand guard as they get ready for bed. Maybe even longer.

        1. Yeah, I’d bey you’d like to be just like her math story problem. Time consuming, difficult, and she’d perform her calculations in a quiet location. [I’ll get the hang of these jokes yet…]

      1. He’s having a hard time explaining what those skeet did to deserve to be shot.
        The left can be a difficult master.

        1. Ah, yes, the Left has many tails to chase, and they must chase them all. I think that we should send him on a snipe hunt. Why, just last week, I bagged several lovely snipe.

    1. First time I saw that headline, I thought it said TED Turner, and got all excited. I don’t blame Tina – it’s beautiful there.

    1. Come on, he makes for great TV. I’ll look out for when he’s on and watch just to lmao.

    1. That’s good. Short, sweet, and impossible to argue. Nice catch, already filed for future use in bopping Lefties over the head with. Thanks.

    1. They’ve been plotting that for a while. Remember 0’s speech in Texas either last year or the year before? It was just before his child amnesty EO. He said they’d turn Texas blue.

    1. Yea, I caught that too. Pretty good commercial!
      So, how long before you think we’ll see it on prime time NBC, ABC, and CBS?
      {Holding my breath waiting}

    2. The girl reminds me of my daughter, but my daughter’s hair is redder and longer. Plus I think her face is prettier, but I may be biased. lol. And, I guarantee you that she would A) have better locks than that, and B) have a gun in the bedroom AND in the living room. She also has my old Beretta Tomcat, in case she wants to carry in her purse and for traveling.

  59. Great work if you can get it,

    “Clinton confirmed that, while four individuals were “removed from their jobs,” three of those employees who were placed on administrative leave are still on leave and being paid.”

    The fourth resigned his position but not the department. The 4 held accountable for Benghazi.

    1. I usually use yahoo or bng, but don’t care who knows what I look up. They can search my hard drive for traces of whatever they want to find, so it really doesn’t matter. I’ll go to jail for being a nutcase radical because I post here anyway.

      1. It’s not so much about what I’m searching for (most searches involve Asian women getting into shenanigans) but rather I see it as another piece of the technology puzzle driving us to a big brother state. If google was owned by the government, would you feel comfortable with them keeping track like they do? What if google freely shared all their information with the government, still comfortable?

        With any business you give up a level of privacy when you do business with that business. Obviously if I order a pizza the pizza shop knows I’m doing business with them. I can’t make them forget what pizza I ordered. Not only that, but if I’m a regular, which I am, the service and quality is better and more specialized. All good things. If the government is so concerned over what kind of pizza I’m eating, then let them get a warrant or subpoena to get that information. The difference with internet searches (and ISP’s) is that the information they collect is far more vast than what kind of pizza I like. It can relate to a medical condition, personal situations, the Asian women thing stated above, the fact someone replaced a headlight in my car before I bought it and they didn’t reinstall the headlight correctly now I can’t get the damn thing out to put a new bulb in because the edges of the headlight fixture are behind the bumper and I can’t take the bumper off without first taking the headlight out… (ok that last one was more of a rant and a plea for help more than anything lol). My point is, with the amount of information they collect they could probably make a profile of a person and know that person better than they know themselves. There’s just something so unnatural about that. Then when you add the government to that… eek!

        1. My point was that they will get whatever they want, no matter what.

          As to your problem, take it to a mechanic, tell him you don’t know how to replace the bulb, and get a price before he starts!

        2. Yeah, the loss of privacy is a very scary thing. I can see us heading toward a state where being Forgotten will be a very good thing that many would pay to do. I have no doubt that there’s at least four levels of sharing, coupled with ways of intercepting data in transmission. First, there’s the “get a subpoena”type, then there’s the “Google lets the Administration in on known non-liberals”, then there’s the “Google lets the Authorities at the data too easily”, and finally, there’s the “There never was any privacy in the first place — all the other things were just a blind so you wouldn’t look for this.”

          I knew that Google was evil the moment they ran Play #1 out of the Progressive’s Playbook — claim to be the opposite of what you are. “Do no evil” is a bullshit slogan coming from a group of people that reject God and instead wallow in a morass of moral and cultural relativism. Evil’s on a sliding scale, guys, decency gets graded on a curve.

            1. Chevy Cobalt, you need to remove the whole light fixture to get at the bulb to replace it, but on my car it’s not an easy task to do that. Brute force won the day though and I got it out and replaced the bulb. Now I just need to find time to get the other one out and replace the old bulb with a super bright one.

          1. One thing you won;t have to worry about, they won’t release any info on the porno sites you google, it fits in with their ideals.

          2. From the very beginning of the interwebs, I have been very wary about giving up my privacy. In fact, I have been across the board. I have never peed in a cup for a job – I REFUSE to work anywhere that requires it – and until very recently, I had never had my fingerprints on file anywhere. I’m not planning to commit any crimes, but it’s the principle.

            I have never entered my social security number online, and I have a whole separate fake identity, complete with name, email, facebook and twitter, fake birthday and address, for places that require info but that I don’t want my real info going to. I know how to use proxy servers (again, not that I ever DO use them, but I could if it was necessary). So, my guess is that the “world” has a lot more info on “fake me” than they do on “real me”.

            If I actually DID have an individual investigation on me, the authorities could figure it out, but I am confident that they will never have any reason to single me out.

    2. I take it as a good sign that Google broke these numbers down for us in the first place. Microsoft and yahoo are not so forthcoming

        1. My memory may be failing me, but I think the artist left a comment on that story. (Yes, I could go back and look it up, but I’m watching a Perry Mason rerun right now. A man’s gotta have his priorities.)

      1. Oh wow, Ray was still posting back then. What happened to that guy? He was alright.

        I’ll be honest, I miss Oblivia, we had a few heated discussions. Now all I’ve got to argue with is Crowley, which is pointless. Corporate Greed, blah blah blah, not worth my time.

        Oh strangers on the internet, you’re like a fast woman, you’re here one second and never heard from again. Good times!

        1. Mixed feelings about Olivia. Her circular logic was pointless but she did liven up some threads.

  60. “Get a Grip, Conservatives! Obama Is No Reagan”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/22/Get-a-Grip-Conservatives-Obama-Is-No-Reagan

    “Yet it is important to put the conservative panic in perspective. More than a few Beltway conservatives were eager to throw in the towel after Obama’s first win, too. Bill Kristol, for example, declared in the New York Times that “Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era” and suggested that liberalism ought to be given a chance to govern. (The Tea Party emerged only weeks later to guide Republicans to their House majority.)”

        1. If the speaker had cloven hoofs, I’d not be a bit surprised. I wish I hadn’t even seen the thing. Dammit, there are some depraved people among us.

          1. I was just waiting on the horns and spade tipped tail to pop out…satan incarnate to say the least…absolutely demented, vile, and evil.

    1. Wouldn’t want to be him riding to the station. Who knew there would be twelve flights of stairs in a paddy wagon?

    2. Let me get this right…the assassin points the gun at the intended victims face, then hesitates and waits for the gun to be elbowed out of the way? It seems like the safety might have been on, thank God for the victim’s sake if it was.

      1. yeah.. sweet sweet fail, looked initially to me like he realized quickly and checked the safety.. by then he was getting knocked around by the politician and others and couldn’t set up his shot.. I don’t know that weapon though, maybe he didn’t have a round chambered and was checking that

        1. It looks like any little pocket gun…S&W Bodyguard for example. Forgetting to chamber or flip the safety? My question is how bad is the security that this idiot could get that close with a gun?

            1. I’m amazed at the lack of professionalism shown by the security team. There’s just a bunch of random assorted guys beating on the assassin. At one point, he nearly gets away. Then the old man takes his shot, and the white haired guy shoves him, almost knocking him down. “Hey, only we get to beat on him. You go away!”

  61. Trouble sleeping but saw this;

    “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” Ronald Reagan

    Stolen from a great site I’d kinda forgotten about and re-discovered,

    http://noisyroom.net/ Go ahead, click Enter Here, decent site, you don’t like it I’ll personally refund your money &! buy you a coffeebeersodaicedtea whatever for wasting your time.

    1. Having studied China as long as I have…. I am constantly beating my head up against my friends who don’t see how dangerous Progressivism is. Nor do they understand its nudge, push, shove SOP. They keep talking about common sense gun control. I ask them since when have our law makers suffered from an over abundance of common sense, and isn’t that what they supposedly passed with the Brady Bill. And then they talk about large-capacity magazines… I ask what they think that is because in NY it used to be 11 or more now its down to 8 to be considered such. Then I get to try and get them to research Agenda21, because I want them to come to their own conclusions and not write me off as a conspiracy nut.

      1. Progressive/journalistic outrage at Tiananmen was really envy seeing what the Chinese governement could do.

  62. Chiang Kai-shek, Obama´s political grandfather? 🙂

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0106/p18s02-bogn.html

    Real leadership, however, was beyond him. A paranoid man, he placed obedience above ability when choosing subordinates, regardless of the real cost to the governed. “What Chiang liked,” one critic remarked, “were men who would obey absolutely but who had no talents of their own.”

    Fenby’s biography is more than just a vivid portrait of a loathsome leader. It is also a modern tragedy on an enormous scale. He argues, quite convincingly, that there was nothing inevitable about China’s descent into communism. Mao’s success can be explained in large part by the inept campaign Chiang conducted against him and the lack of vision he offered his people.

    Hopefully, he´ll proove to be a great commander too when the producers decides that enough is enough.

  63. Sorry folks, I took a few minutes out of my day to watch because i know most of you are at work, Ø, I’ve never been so ashamed of my country, and the so-called bastions of the watchers, free press that just wet their pants over that …

      1. Meh. I ate Taco Bell, and had to celebrate his inauguration twice today (A.K.A. “Take the ‘Browns’ to the ‘Super Bowl'”).

    1. I was working on this lady’s house today and she was pitching a fit about Obama preempting her soap operas.

  64. Having a brain cramp, think I saw it here so put it here to remind me to dig some tomorrow, but having trouble processing in football mode; why am I seeing all these Mercedes-Benz commercials during NFL games today? No Ford, No Taco Hell, Mercedes? Thanks for letting me vent, but there has to be a logical reason for this, any help?

    [edit] not whinning, just confused. Thought I was watching the Master’s there for a second or something. Benz? NFL?

  65. First in the Nation: Beaufort County, NC Adopts Federal Gun Laws Nullification Resolution

    Today was a great day for North Carolina. Beaufort County took the first step nationwide to adopt a Federal Gun Laws Nullification resolution!! The resolution was passed unanimously by the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners and was greeted by overwhelming support. The resolution was written in strong terms, stating that no county official, paid employee, or resource will be used to cooperate with or enforce federal gun regulations. It also calls on the NC General Assembly to pass an act to nullify the implementation of any federal law, executive order, or regulation which restricts the right to keep and bear arms within the state of North Carolina, as well as to propose an amendment to the state constitution to enlarge gun rights.

    ABC and Fox News were there to cover the event and Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center has spent the entire day getting the story out nationwide.

    Please urge your own county commissioners or Sheriffs Department to adopt a similar resolution. Beaufort County, the Tenth Amendment Center, etc etc will provide the resolution if it will help.

    Here is the link to the Beaufort Observer article and full video –

    http://bit.ly/beaufortnullification

    You can hear what the Commissioners each had to say about the resolution. I was touched by their loyalty to the US Constitution, their patriotism, their understanding of history, and the fidelity of their oaths.

    Diane Rufino

  66. Our Hefty Queen Dictates More Food Restrictions for the Peasants
    Posted by Lizzie on January 19, 2013 at 1:46pm in Tea Party Nation Forum

    You may remember hearing complaints from hungry students across the country when Michelle Obama decided to mandate more nutritious school lunches.

    Well, America’s super-sized Queen couldn’t rest on her laurels, and has turned her eye towards forcing National Park tour operations to serve organic 400-calorie lunches and shade-grown coffee to guests.

    The document of Nutrition Guidelines
    http://www.americaoutdoors.org/america_outdoors/pdf/NPSBackcountryHealthyandSustainableFoodChoices.pdf
    lists the requirements for National Parks to use, to award contracts for private companies to give backcountry hiking and rafting tours. The joke, of course, is that all of the language is couched in phrases like “choice” and “encourage”, when the guidelines are not optional. So, “food choices” has nothing to do with it; your choice is to obey Mooch’s every ignorant food whim, or give tours elsewhere.

    Pages 4 and 5 list the requirements, a case of “it would be funny if it weren’t so outrageous.”

    And the customers, whether they are on a day trip or a three-week rafting trip, have no “choice” either. If the calories provided by the tour guides aren’t enough, Mooch has no intention of letting them eat cake. Smuggling three weeks’ worth of Power Bars would be difficult!

  67. “Obama seeks “fuller understanding” of what happened in Algeria siege”

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/19/us-sahara-crisis-obama-idUSBRE90I0KO20130119

    I know, y’all probably seen this, but I haven’t slept, so whatever.

    If I was an adviser to the president I would reassure him that his golf clubs are fine and not involved in anything that’s happening in Algeria and he should just txt Beyonce and see what she’s up to. You know, do things he actually cares about.

    1. Need a fuller understanding, Mr. President? Your guys took over an energy production facility and killed a bunch of innocent people. I’d make it clearer, but I don’t know how.

    1. It’s time to get these stories out there. This happens much more often than most of us know, because the national media is silent about it. I am in Maryland – I don’t get news about Georgia or Oklahoma (previous story). Plus, notice the trend on both of these stories? They are young people. There has to be a “twist” to even make the local papers. A woman who gives birth later that afternoon? That’s newsworthy. But Harry Homeowner, who shows his weapon and lets the evildoer escape? *yawn*

    1. That is sad to see. Result of civilian disarmament? The Brits need to man up soon or it is over for them.

  68. Duck and cover! Not hillary this time. Ol’ Plugs Biden’s brain appears to be acting up again, deluding him into believing that we’re stupid enough to buy a story about his being within earshot when students were killed in an Amish school in 2006. As has often been the case in the past when Plugs remembered things, the facts diametrically oppose his recollections. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/18/bidens-claim-brush-gun-massacre-questioned/?page=all#pagebreak

    1. Surrender? According to Google, the definition of surrender is: “Cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.”

      So, I guess that pretty much confirms what many of us believe – the Feds see us as the enemy. I seriously doubt than anyone who owns a legal assault weapon will be swayed by a $2k bribe. We tend to have clearer vision, and can see what the road ahead offers. Especially if we are disarmed.

      1. That is funny: SAFER Streets Act. Politicians do love their legislative acronyms. This hag is the most stupid member of Congress we have and that is saying something. The bill will never get on the floor for debate.

    1. Wow! That’s one hell of a list. That’s the problem with our world today, there’s a pill for everything. If anything is bothering you there is probably a pill out there for you to take to make you ‘normal.’ People no longer want to reflect on what makes them different or special or the realities of life. They want a pill and an ipod blaring in their ears so they don’t have to deal with anything.

      1. Then, when they go off the meds, they melt down. Those people on the street pushing shopping carts are not mentally stable contrary to what their “advocates” will tell you as they try to explain that they are down on their luck.

        I read an article that that said that the number of people in mental hospitals is down 93% since the 1970s. How many mass shootings were going on then? Reagan gets alot of the blame but it was Tip O’Neill’s Congress that pushed the deinstitutionalization legislation.

  69. I received this as an email. I would ask that you guys pass it on via email as well.

    _________________

    Forget Wal-Mart and skip your local gun show. The murderers of tomorrow will not be found wearing orange vests at your local sporting goods store. They won’t have NRA memberships or trophies on their walls. You won’t find them in America. Look for them in Obamerica.

    67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average.

    Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica. Those are the places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. And many of them have been run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken.

    Obama won every major city in the election, except for Jacksonville and Salt Lake City. And the higher the death rate, the bigger his victory.

    He won New Orleans by 80 to 17 where the murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. He won Detroit, where the murder rate of 53 per 100,000 people is the second highest in the country and twice as high as any country in the world, including the Congo and South Africa. He won it 73 to 26. And then he celebrated his victory in Chicago where the murder rate is three times the statewide average.

    These places aren’t America. They’re Obamerica.

    In 2006, the 54% of the population living in those 50 metro areas was responsible for 67% of armed killings nationwide. Those are disproportionate numbers especially when you consider that for the people living in most of those cities walking into a store and legally buying a gun is all but impossible.

    Mayors of Obamerican cities blame guns because it’s easier than blaming people and now the President of Obamerica has turned to the same shameless tactic. The NRA counters that people kill people, but that’s exactly why Obamerican leaders would rather talk about the guns.

    Chicago, the capital of Obamerica, is a city run by gangs and politicians. It has 68,000 gang members, four times the number of police officers.

    Chicago politicians solicit the support of gang members in their campaigns, accepting laundered contributions from them, hiring their members and tipping them off about upcoming police raids. And their biggest favor to the gang bosses is doing nothing about the epidemic of gang violence.

    80% of Chicago’s murders are gang-related. But in 1999 when a bill came up in the Illinois State Senate to charge anyone carrying out a firearm attack on school property as an adult, a law that would have largely affected gang members, the future leader of Obamerica voted present. Had he not voted present, it is doubtful that he would have been reelected in an area where gang leaders wield a great deal of influence.

    The majority of murders in the cities with the worst homicide rates are gang-related. And while it isn’t always possible to be certain whether a killing was gang-related, the majority of homicide victims in city after city have been found to have criminal records.

    In 2010, there were 11,078 firearm homicides in the United States and over 2,000 known gang-related killings, over 90% of which are carried out with firearms. Since 1981, Los Angeles alone has had 16,000 gang related homicides. That’s more than twice the number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    This is what Obamerica looks like. It’s a place where life is cheap and illegal guns are as available as illegal drugs. It’s the war that we aren’t talking about, because it’s easier to talk about the inanimate objects being used to fight that war.

    There are, as John Edwards said, two Americas. America is a country that runs pretty well. And then there’s Obamerica. Not all of Obamerica is broken, but a lot of it is. America does not have a gun violence problem. Obamerica does. And Obamerica has a gun violence problem for the same reason that it has a drug problem and a broken family problem. Democratic leaders and machines, combined with social workers and justice crusaders have run Obamerica into the ground. Obamerican cities used to be the homes of industry and progress. Now they’re places where young Black and Hispanic men kill each other in growing numbers.

    America does not need gun control. It is a mostly law-abiding place. And gun control cannot help Obamerica. Not when its murder rate is driven by gangs who have no trouble obtaining anything; whether it’s legal in the United States or not.

    This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency.

    Obama has become a role model to millions of people in the black community. If anyone can address these problems, it’s him. But instead of trying to solve the problems of Obamerica, instead of doing something about the high levels of unemployment, the broken families and the glamorization of drug dealing and violent crime, he wimped out and picked a fight with rural America.

    AIDS prevention was sabotaged by the claim that the disease was a general problem spreading through the population. It wasn’t. Neither is gun violence.
    Adam Lanza is as much of a poster boy for gun violence, as Ryan White was for AIDS. A better poster boy for gun violence might be Jay-Z, who boasts of having been a drug dealer and claims to have shot his brother at the age of 12. The drug dealer to millionaire rapper is the Horatio Alger story of Obamerica. And Jay-Z can be seen partying with Obama.

    If Obama really wants to get serious about gun violence, then all he has to do is turn to the man standing next to him. But Obama, like every Chicago politician before him, don’t want to end the violence. The death toll is profitable, not just for rappers writing bad poetry about dealing drugs and shooting rivals, but for the politicians atop that heap who score money and gain power by using the problems of Obamerica as some sort of call to conscience for the rest of the country.

    That’s what Obama is doing now. Hiding behind Newtown and adorable little kids is the grim specter of Obamerica’s death toll. It’s buried inside the gruesome figures of how many Americans are shot each year issued as an indictment against the entire country in general and gun owners in particular. But those numbers are not an indictment of America. They are an indictment of Democratic mayors and liberal social policy. They are an indictment of Obama.

    We need to set aside the same old tired social justice rhetoric and have a serious conversation about what is wrong with New Orleans, Detroit and Chicago. And we need to do it before it’s too late.

    Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com
    URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/gun-violence-is-not-a-republican-problem-its-a-democratic-problem/

  70. Not that it’s worth it, just caught Ron Paul on Fox, talking about the hostage\foreign aid thing, wondering if GreedBoy was watching or playing games, and if he had a comment on his idols… rant\insights.

    Cheetos anyone? These cured specimens, with the most exquisite sharp cheddar to be found, have been aged and locked in the darkness in a hermetically sealed… for untold years… OK, yeah, I’m tired, but Nonny is an ass. Greed On Big Guy!

    1. Corporate Greed gets free government cheese on Friday, then it’s off to the all you can eat buffet with mommy, they pay with their EBT card of course…and mommy fills her purse with food for greedboy to eat while he is in the basement.

    1. Just wanted to let you know – today I received my Obama Economy Survival Pack from the White House. It contained a parachute, an ‘Obama Hope & Change’ bumper sticker, a ‘Bush’s Fault’ poster, a ‘Blame Boehner’ poster, a “Tax the Rich’ poster, an application for unemployment, an application for food stamps, an application for a Safelink phone, a prayer rug, a letter of assignation of debt to my grandchildren and a machine to blow smoke up my ass. All directions were in Spanish.

      Keep an eye out. Yours should arrive soon.

    1. Nice to know our military academies are turning into Ivy League propaganda machines to indoctrinate our military officers. I really need to leave the service!

  71. Yesterday, Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter testifying at a Congressional Hearing on reducing gun violence, made the claim that the NRA attacked Obama’s children, and demanded that te ad be removed immediatly. the follwing link has the video and even shows a crying Pelosi who, of course is horrified at the NRA’s actions and rhetoric.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/01/16/Dem-Nutter-NRA-Attacked-Obamas-Daughters-With-Disgusting-Reprehensible-Ad

    But did the NRA really attack Obama’s children or Obama’s hypocrisy? you decide

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8crdWLgfDk

    1. People without souls can cry? My guess is they were just in an old building. I had jury duty once and I don’t know if there was mold or whatever, but I thought that musty type of smell was going to kill me, and I don’t even have allergies. That must be the reason for her crying.

    1. Even if they are real, they are the perfect example of why we don’t let 6 year old’s vote!

      1. 6 year old? Hell, that was Joe Biden that wrote them. He even used his official Vice Presidential Purple Crayon.

    1. Good thing they were in Texas. If they were in places like California or New York the good samaritans would be serving 20 year sentences, the dog would have been put down, the dog owner would be sued, and the robber would be free.

    1. Just heard there are over 250,000 new NRA members since Sandy Hook and the attempted gun grab both sides see coming.

    1. I Swear! I saw that about an hour ago and bet myself a beer that The Divine Ms. M would add that to her Amendment tally. T’anx, I owe me a beer, and nice catch.

        1. Hobby our … They can all kiss it, we need to smack them in the face every time, with facts and their so-called arguments wilt. Lord knows the “free press” isn’t going to do it. ( You know, the moveable type one, protected by the 1st amendment)

          Keep it up and I hope that ↑ came across as the complement it was meant as.

    1. That is pretty cool. On a side note, my J.P.’s Moment of Common Sense yesterday was about Planned Parenthood and boy did I start a commotion. There were three liberals in the radio studio and they went berserk, one of them calling my description of PP “asinine.” Liberals have a visceral reaction when you challenge abortion, a reaction beyond reason and dignity. I can’t really explain it. It’s like they have a lust for killing babies. I simply told the man who called me asinine to look at the transcript because I have it full of links to documentation, and much of the information I used came from PP’s annual report.

      1. It’s funny how they scream over the indeed tragic deaths of 20 innocents when it serves their cause, but not a peep over the equally tragic deaths of nearly 334,000 when it doesn’t.

  72. Bradley pittfird ‘parrently a leftwing loonbat wetting his wicky in that leftwing loony usta be married to that billy bob lefty joe sumthingernuther who we ain’t herd nuthing from in awhile. No matter. Bradley done hizzeff a fine piece o’ acting on numerous occasion and this here’s bout my favrit, from ol Aldo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ft7kkXO98c
    He oughta get a JFK role too. Clark Gable was about as good lokin as this punk azz, but prolly took a face punch better.
    I hate hollywood and I really, REALLY hate commies.

    1. For some reason, I’m not allowed to thumb the comments on this story up or down, or make my own comment, though I DO have an account with DailyMail. The current comments are a bunch of Piers Morgan style morons, wondering what happens if a custodian goes postal with his legally carried sidearm.

      Of course, it would make no difference at all. Is there a difference in being shot with a legal weapon, as opposed to an illegal weapon? If a custodian that has no training, has no CCW permit, goes crazy and brings his firearm to school and starts shooting the place up, that’s ok?

      Oh, never mind. If they have a sign up in front of the school, “Gun-Free-Zone” the lunatic won’t bring his gun. That’s right.

  73. Jackie Chan, communist, says America is most corrupt country in world. http://www.examiner.com/article/jackie-chan-anti-americanism-comments-spark-outrage
    Unbeknownst to many Americans, Jackie Chan is a strong supporter of the Chinese Communist Party. Lately, there has been much criticism over the censorship of a popular Chinese newspaper.

    On Jan. 10., the Washington Post reported on a Chinese interview in which Chan calls the United States “the most corrupt country in the world.” He also stated his anger with Chinese people that openly criticize their country. He then went on to say that he is very careful to only praise China when doing U.S. interviews.

    1. I thought the same thing. Then i read BETWEEN the lines. What he WASN’T saing….. I’m sure The Chinese gov is probably breathing down his throat for some reason. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. He usually tries to steer clear of politics.

    1. “Police said he tried to bite the homeowners and police and workers at the hospital, and may be under the influence of drugs.”

      Who said that? Detective Joe ‘no shit’ Sherlock?

    1. “Prosecutorial discretion” — a legal tactic usually used to prevent injustice, but in DC it just means “he’s on the take, too”

  74. I was going through the mountain of junk mail I have sitting around, I do this about once a month. Don’t know why, I throw 99% of it away anyway.

    I have no idea how these people got my name and address, but during the fiscal cliff debate, I got something from Priorities USA.
    They wanted to inform me that:

    “The People Have Spoken. The American public supports President Obama’s plan to responsibly reduce the deficit.”

    They then urged me to “tell my member of congress to stand with the president and the middle class”.
    I guess the president doesn’t give a shit about the poor.

    It of course, had one of those smug looking pics of Obama with his nose in the air.
    Almost makes me feel guilty that I told my congressman to tell Obama to piss up a rope, well, not really, I don’t feel guilty at all!

    1. Some Progressive hack decided to give my email to ALL the progressives. I somehow got on the mailing lists for Priorities USA, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, POTUS, FLOTUS, you name it. I had to put up a filter to shove it to trash. I even tried to unsubscribe. Then started reporting it as spam. Good times.

    1. Becher Street and Muskego Avenue used to be a nice little area on the south side of Milwaukee. Started sliding into hell 15 years ago or so. They won’t leave her alone now that she pulled on them. That’s some serious disrespecting of their Almighty Latin King status, doing that kind of thing. They’ll firebomb the place when they know she’s in it. F’ing vicious thugs with no regard for anything at all ever.

    1. Those guns are probably permanent residents of Chicago.
      Good thing they are illegal there, or someone might get hurt.

      /sarc

  75. Holy shit batman!!!
    piers organ has a guest on, I think its name is buzz kissinger, who tells morgan to challenge alex jones to a boxing match. Then shoot him with a SEMI.— AUTO.— MATIC.— after which the laughter ensues and one of the other tolerant progressive radical commies says she would love to see that. Grab this video and save it. It might get scrubbed real quick and my setup won’t allow me to cop it until i load another program… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbV2eYla_b8&feature=player_embedded

    1. There have been rumblings of this for almost a year. Forget about ideas and convictions (unless banning plastic water bottles counts) and fixing Washington, we gotta get rid of McConnell, let’s just woo the ‘popular’ vote.

    1. Nice! Too bad they can’t show any of the pics of him in Man’s Country, ‘hangin’ out’ with Rhammy and the boyzzz.

    1. I don’t think Clemens belongs with the other steroid players. Number one, he’s denied and won in court, so if you believe in innocent until proven guilty, he’s innocent. And number two, steroids don’t help a pitcher like they help a hitter. We could all see the difference that steroids made to Bonds – suddenly he was a gorilla. The most a pitcher could get out of steroids is a faster healing time from an injury, which I don’t think should even be against the rules.

      1. Ask one of the Reds ‘Nasty Boys’ relievers from ’90 if steroids help a pitcher. After they started mandatory random testing, he was out of the league in a year and a half.

        If they help you heal faster from an injury you don’t think they also help you bounce back faster after an inning of throwing 95 mph fastballs so you can go out and do again the next night?

        1. Something seems off with your timeline. 1990 is a long time before they started testing for steroids. A LONG time. By the time a pitcher from 1990 got tested by MLB for steroids, it’s likely he’d be deteriorating from old age rather than lack of steroids.

          1. I said started random testing for steroids with the coke & weed, not mandatory for everybody like they do today.

            And I also didn’t say he was out within a year of ’90, you assumed.

            1. Yeah, I’m not the biggest baseball fan in the world, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t test for steroids until just a few years ago.

    1. OK, so it’s acceptable to subject people that are law abiding citizens to harassment, as long as we don’t let you know where the child molesters live?
      DAMN! Somebody has screwed up priorities!

      1. California isn’t the only state where you can look up child molesters online, is it? I thought some others had done as we did. I always look up the local molesters when I move to a new location. You’d be surprised.

    1. He’s been a proponent of gun control all along.
      He won’t get many conservative votes in the primaries, but if he becomes the nominee, he will get lots of libtard votes.
      If he wins, we need to convince him he’s wrong on guns.

    1. Oh please. The NUMBER ONE thing they look for/at is skin color. If they can squeeze anyone “of color” into the position, they will. It’s not even affirmative action, it’s straight up racism. But it’s OK, because they are libs.

  76. Now, I know this isn’t true, but it’s still funny enough to post for your enjoyment:

    No matter what side of the AISLE you’re on, THIS is FUNNY.
    Judy Walkman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and
    train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.

    The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory:

    On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription:
    ‘Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.’

    So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.

    Harry Reid:

    Believe it or not, Harry Reid’s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:

    “Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad.
    Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad.
    In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency.
    In 1889,Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.”

    Now THAT’s how its done, Folks!

    That’s real Political Spin

    1. Ah yes, the classics! That probably dates from the era it pictures. I shared one like that not too long ago right here, i think, an uncle whose obit finally was released as “Occupied the Chair of Applied Electricity at a major public institution in upstate New York.”

    1. I don’t think he should have been fired because that is exactly how many liberals think. They have an image of black people, white people, hispanic people, asian people, especially jewish people, and so on, all seeded with racism. He was just being honest about it. I’m confident Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi think exactly like this.

      1. My thing is they IMMEDIATELY fired the one writer for describing Jeremy Lin as the “chink in the armor” without even stopping to think he wasn’t using that “chink” and labelled him a racist. This guy says something pointedly, unapologetically, racist, and they give him another chance.

  77. Brilliant. No kidding this time- http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2013/01/07/every-idea-is-an-incitement-n1479106/page/full/

    Every Idea Is an Incitement

    Mike Adams
    Jan 07, 2013
    Dear CRM 495 Students:

    Welcome back! It’s hard to believe that Christmas break is over and that it’s time to start a new semester. It’s almost as hard as believing that one of your professors is actually sending you an email using the word “Christmas.” But even the liberals agree that I am no ordinary professor. Please allow me to explain.

    After I got tenure, I left the political Left and became a conservative Republican. I know you’ve never had a conservative professor before and you are probably wondering what to expect. In a nutshell, you can expect to hear the truth about a number of things for the very first time in your college career. And that means you can probably expect to be offended from time to time.

    Just in case you are wondering whether you are getting in over your head, let me give you a few examples of beliefs I hold, which you may well deem to be offensive. Based on the following revelations, you can make an informed decision as to whether this class is really for you.

    African-Americanism. I think the term African-American is ridiculous. If you insist on being called this then you aren’t American and you’ve probably never been to Africa. If you demand to be a hyphenated American then you’re just un-American. Get over yourself or get out of the country. Sorry if you’re offended but you offend me with your ethnocentrism.

    Coke. I cannot stand that four letter word that begins with “c” and refers to female genitalia. Repeating it at The Vagina Monologues does not make women empowered. It makes them unrefined idiots. If you c*** c*** a feminist play without using feminists who say the word c*** then you simply c*** be taken seriously. Sorry if you’re offended, but women who curse like sailors offend me.

    Daddy issues. Every semester, I get at least one female student who comes into class late and hyperventilating. She makes a scene in order to get sympathy. Then, she apologizes after class while dumping all her personal problems on me. Let me be blunt: women like this have daddy issues. Put simply, daddy didn’t give them enough attention and now they are seeking it from me because I remind them of daddy. Sorry that offends you. Go tell your daddy.

    Guns. I have more guns than I need but fewer than I want. In fact, as I sit in my home office writing this email I am positioned between two packed gun safes. There are enough guns in this room to issue a 21 gun salute in the event you don’t make it through the semester. There are also about 12,000 rounds of ammunition in this room. And there is more elsewhere in the house. Some people are afraid of guns but I am afraid of gunlessness. Most of your professors say that homophobia is a social disease. I say that hoplophobia is a social disease. If you don’t like abortion – oops! I mean guns – you don’t have to have one.

    Momma’s boys. Every semester, I get at least three male students who cannot run their lives. They constantly ask me questions that I have already answered on the syllabus. When is the first test? What kind of questions are on it? How many tests are there? These are the kinds of young males who still could not wipe their bottoms when they were 12 (and probably still can’t do their own laundry). If you are one of them, you have no chance of passing my class and no chance of succeeding in life. Please drop out now and join the army. Sorry if that offends you but you need to be a man. If that’s too much to ask, just complain to momma next time you’re home dropping off your laundry.

    Pepsi. I cannot stand that five letter word that begins with “p” and refers to female genitalia. Every year at The Vagina Monologues, they sell p***** pops, which are little candied vaginas on a stick. The feminists walk around licking them in a display of feminist empowerment. I hate to be p**** but why don’t they sell p**** pops, too. Maybe that would offend them. That’s too bad because their sexism offends me.

    Queer Centers. When I was a kid, we played “smear the queer” (dodge ball). Later, they said we could not call it that. Now, the word “queer” has made a queer re-entry into the realm of social acceptability. Some colleges are even opening “Queer Resource Centers.” Make up your mind, thought police. And stop acting like women with daddy issues! Sorry if that offends you. Indecisiveness offends me.

    Racial Preferences. If you can’t get into college without checking a box that says African-American or Hispanic, you do not need to be here. Sorry but the only reason there are racial differences in SAT scores is because minorities refuse to take off the training wheels. You’re just as smart as anyone else so hop off the Big Wheel and join the bike race. Sorry if you’re offended but your racism offends me.

    Wolf-crying. People cry racism all the time. In fact, I’ve been told I’m a racist for opposing affirmative action. That’s funny to me. I don’t think blacks need a crutch because I believe they are equal. Therefore, I’m called a racist – even though I was the first kid on my block to own a Flip Wilson record. Those people (oops, I said, those people) need to chill. In fact, I should let them borrow my old Flip Wilson record to lighten the mood. Next thing you know, they’ll say Flip Wilson offends them because Geraldine made fun of cross dressing. Have I mentioned that cross-dressing offends me?

    XXX. Pornography is more than disgusting. It is evil and I hate it. This is probably not offensive to anyone – unless, of course, you are a porn star. But, once you become a porn star, you pretty much give up the right to be offended. If you’re offended anyway just drop my class and sign up for one of Dr. Porco’s instead (no I did not make up that last name). Dr. Porco was just hired by the UNCW English Department despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that he published a book of pornographic poems – some of which were written while he was drunk and hanging out in topless bars. He tries to pass them off as academic. And that offends me, which is why I simply choose not to read them.

    Now that everything is on the table, you are ready for your first assignment. Since this is a class covering the First Amendment, we are going to focus on important US Supreme Court decisions dealing with free speech. Our first case will be Gitlow v. New York. I want you to read it with two questions in mind:

    1. Since the Supreme Court nationalized the First Amendment, speech codes have emerged on most state-run campuses. How have these speech codes survived in light of the nationalization movement?

    2. Holmes’ dissent in this case has been often quoted. If he is correct in saying that “every idea is an incitement” then how can universities actually enforce speeches codes? As they are actually enforced, do these codes violate other portions of our constitution?

    As you can see, we’ll be tackling some serious issues this semester. So we need to weed out all of the self-absorbed, hypersensitive products of the era of political correctness in higher education. That was the purpose of this email. If you are still reading then congratulations! You’ve demonstrated more intellectual integrity and emotional maturity than the majority of your professors.

    See you next week in class.

  78. I was about to go to bed, checked Drudge first, now I’m sad.

    “Alex Jones Piers Morgan Part 1. 1776 Will Commence Again’ If Guns Taken Away ”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyKofFih8Y

    Here’s part two:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-i3Y5iRYo

    Why can’t sane people like me be on CNN or NBC or FOX? Better yet, just let NutnFancy be on there, he has a lot of good videos. Alex Jones… We need people like him, but he’s terrible at fighting the MSM while talking to the MSM. Sit, listen, then own, that’s how you beat them. Let them dig their own grave, then bury them. He was totally set up at the end with the 9/11 truther crap. Made to look the fool.

  79. Just wondering…is anyone else here with a yahoo acct having trouble or is it just me? It lets me read my emails but I can’t reply to any of them or compose a new message…weird.

    1. I was just about to post that! It’s freaking outrageous. I hope all NRA members stop doing business with BOA.

      1. I quit doing business with them years ago. They suck.
        They have no legal right to do this. They are gonna get spanked big time for this.

        1. That is one extremely beautiful woman. And I agree with her politics. PLUS, she’s got money! I’m in love!

          I’ve got an event promoter I need to sue for non-payment, in small claims. I will definitely be promoting the case to Judge Jeanine’s show. Can you just see me, standing at the bar, with Vlad next to me, offering the Right Honorable Judge Jeanine a ride?

  80. Don’t really care, just hope to watch an outstanding football game for 4 qrts.,

    but who’s gonna win, the Catholics or the Red-necks?

    Just before we hit submit, think I’m leaning toward the Catholics, oh well, are you ready for some football?

  81. Let Presidents Be Kings: Congressman Introduces Bill To Allow Unlimited Terms

    “As right-wing blog The Blaze points out, efforts to repeal the 22nd Amendment aren’t really all that new. In fact, Jose Serrano (the man who introduced the measure’s latest incarnation), has introduced a version of this bill to Congress every single year since 2001 (when “Supreme Warlord” Bush was in office) and every single year it fades into nothingness.”

    What amazes me is that this clown has been re-elected since 2001.

    Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/471116/let-presidents-be-kings-congressman-introduces-bill-to-allow-unlimited-terms/#o0HDkMtG71xQJRDO.99

  82. The real war being run by the Justice Dept:

    A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.

    He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

    ‘Al-Gebra is a problem for us’, the Attorney General said. ‘They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.’ They use secret code names like “X” and “Y” and refer to themselves as “unknowns” but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, “There are 3 sides to every triangle.”

    When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.” White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.

  83. http://tinyurl.com/b57o3lc this is so disturbing. The issue itself is that 19,000 people in MA are “missing” and they seem to be welfare recipients. But what is worse is the behavior of Deval Patrick. Watch him. He is so smug and supercilious to the reporter, talking to her like she is a stupid child. Later, it is pointed out how this administration deliberately HIDES information from the public. That is such a huge deal to me. How DARE they? The government belongs to the people, not the politicians and the government. It is sickening how this has been twisted to the point that most people don’t even blink anymore.

    On a happy note though – State Rep Shaunna Oconnell seems to have a good head on her shoulders, and doesn’t seem afraid to call Patrick out.

    We really need to clean up government. It is mind-boggling how much waste, fraud, incompetence, skullduggery and worse is going on.

    1. His message is identical to the one Leon Trotsky delivered to Russian troops on the Eastern Front during WWI after the Tsar abdicated. Nothing changes with the left. Boringly predictable. If we hear “peace, land, bread” from this human feces, then we are in real trouble.

      1. I wish he’d just go back to his food trough and STFU! He talks like he knows what it’s like to be in the military. That’s the part that pisses me off the most, I think.

          1. Hahah – I was saying the same thing in another thread – talking about my ex-brother-in-law (thank GOD, he is ex!) He was a big, fat, pompous blowhard, who would tell experts in their fields about their field, and ARGUE with them about it! It was so annoying, but I used to bait him, and 9 time out of 10, he ended up looking like the big, blustering moron that he was.

            He never realized that he was not “smart” and that simply reading stuff in the Atlantic and the New Yorker did not make him an expert – just a libtard buffoon.

            Man, I never realized how much I disliked him until the past few days – I hadn’t really though of him in years!

          1. At least John Candy made it believable in Stripes, this blowhard couldn’t even fake at acting it.

            1. Dewey Oxburger knew he would be a lean mean fighting machine as soon as stopped swallowing his aggressions…and a lot of pizzas.

      1. I just found out my brother voted for Obama. For only one reason. He bought into the lie that Romney hated alternate energy sources and my bro is about to graduate as a wind turbine technician. I asked if that was indeed the only reason. He said yes. Everything I could do not to call him a blooming idiot. But I just wished him luck.

  84. The People’s Cube has a great post that probably is all over the place, but in my small world I have only just seen it. When I tried to get on the Cube’s site it bogged me a couple times, so I copped it and now you can have it, too:

    Low Information Voter Thoughts

    • How do I sign a check on the front?
    • Why stop at Gun Free Zones? We should also create Crime Free Zones!
    • I voted for Change, so how come things are still the same?
    • The National Socialist Party had nothing to do with Socialism, right?
    • We have weekends off, thanks to unions. If enough people join unions,
    we can get the other five days off.
    • My body is my business, but so is what other people earn.
    • I don’t care what the Bill Of Rights is, as long as someone’s footing the bill.
    • Why read the Constitution when you can watch the Daily Show?
    • Voting “D” = free stuff. Voting “R”= bummer, I’ll have to work.
    • I read in Cosmo that Republicans want to ban sex. It’s totally true.
    • We keep voting democrat, but we’re STILL poor.
    • The First lady is like Kim Kardashian, except with other people’s money.
    • Someday I’ll live in my OWN basement.

    1. These assholes in sports media are driving me away from something I have always loved. Whitlock isn’t smart enough to think of this stuff on his own. Nor was Rob Parker. I don’t watch anything other than actual football or baseball games on ESPN anymore because everything is politicized now. Pure propaganda disguised as sports programming.

    2. It’s ok to say this as long as you are a liberal. Why are you all so upset and surprised?

      1. Agreed but this is an orchestration on the part of the progs within media elite circles. Whitlock is just a useful idiot. I know you know, I’m just “hearing” myself “speak”.

    1. Well, at least there is hope, he has no co sponsors.

      Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15] (Introduced 01/04/2013)
      Cosponsors: 0

      1. I would LOVE to see a constitutional convention on that one. That would separate the fascists from the rest of the herd and then we can marginalize them right out of politics. Rep. Serrano has exposed himself as a statist apparatchik and he hopefully will pay a political price.

    1. LOL! When I first saw the shirt, I thought the design was a person buried head first, halfway in the ground!

          1. I’m getting mine soon. Most people believe that printing something a t-shirt magically transforms a five dollar shirt into a twenty three dollar shirt. These are only fifteen.

    2. Sweet, I think somebody just invented their version of the “Pet Rock”. And it wasn’t me. Dammit.

      1. Let’s say you’re an auto mechanic. Wouldn’t you want every possible problem a person has in their life to have to come through your shop for diagnosis? Of course, they’ll have to leave a little money behind on the way through.

    1. It won’t work like they think it will. At least not with an 11 or any other light combat arms MOS. I’d rather we not experiment in theatre.

  85. Remember the Gibson Guitar company raids? The holder gestapo hasn’t slowed down that partisan war at all. Watch this 20 minute report. While not mentioned here, a reasoned guess is the water bottler and the Duncan fellow are both contributors to the RNC. It is known that the Gibson CEO is a contributor to the RNC and they suffered two raids, all sorts of destruction and confiscation, under the guise that they had been using certain improperly harvested imported wood. That both the Martin Guitar and Taylor Guitar companies both used the same wood from the same importer did not draw any similar federal attention to them was likely due to their financial support backing the DNC and not the evil RNC. Seriously, watch this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mkqI_dVJg&feature=player_embedded#!

    1. Pure symbolism. Last I looked the GOP is in the minority and Reid will never even let a bill like that onto the floor. Nullification is how Obamacare can be defeated. Probably the only way. I know a lot of people really like Cruz and I think he is going to do well long term but it is becoming a bit unseemly to see every “rising GOP star” slobbered over by the conservative press like fanboys. I get that the Party is in need of leadership but it cannot be forced. A new leader is going to have to emerge naturally or it will be another disappointment when the next flavor of the month lets people down.

      1. I can still hope, party-pooper! jkjk…Though I am a realist, I guess I still look for glimmers of hope, things just don’t look very good from where I stand. I can feel more lay-offs at area hospitals comming. Cost of compliance with Obamacare that come before any benefit comes from it coupled with so many losing their jobs and health insurance with it. (be another year I think before they can quailify for Obamacare racket, if I’m not mistaken) So high costs now and less revenue coming in, gotta cut somewhere. So, naturally, I’m looking for that knight in shining armor to slay the obamacare dragon!

        1. Obamacare will eventually slay itself.
          Someone will see all that money coming in, with no outlay until 2014, and say “Hey, we can use that for this or that pork project”, and Obamacare will be broke before it even starts.
          Remember SS and Medicare? This will be just like it, only on the fast track.

          1. Yeah, we often forget that our federal government is entirely comprised of human cockroaches, and they will do what they always do. You made my day, and gave me hope with that little reminder.

            1. Until we have a clean sweep, or nearly a full one, and install people that think like businesspersons in office, we will continue to spend like drunken sailors, with no regard for the programs that the money is earmarked for. Any time one of these “cockroaches” sees a crumb, they will decend on it and gobble it up for themselves.
              Someone has to be an adult and stop spending money we don’t have, or can’t afford to repay.

          2. And those two are still around some 40 years later with no fix in site. O care will be the same way.
            And Papa, that’s an offense to drunken Sailors. LOL

      2. Kinda like Rubio?
        Lots of fanfare, and then he quietly puts up a DREAM Amnesty bill.

        1. Right, like Rubio. The illegals will become legal. Bet on it. Too many people effected and too much potential tax money out there that will be required to fund the government. I am certain that every GOP elected official is on board with that they just won’t and can’t admit it. Another consequence of way too much sovereign debt. We have lost the ability to manage our affairs properly and responsibly because everything has to considered in the context of servicing the ever growing debt.

    1. I say they took a page from Pelosi’s book and faked it. That is why it’s three months later. The heat has fizzled, and who would really notice it’s actually from a meeting two weeks ago. I predict that at some point, someone will realize it wasn’t from that night. A big bru-ha-ha will be made by the right. The left will claim the bru-ha-ha is just racist, etc. nothing will happen.

    2. I dunno. Always fun to put cartoon speech balloons over the characters.

      Over the briefer’s head: “We did everything we could, Mr. President, but Michelle still found her way back to the White House.”

      Over Barry’s head: “You need to take this executive order seriously, How else am I gonna get another 18 in?”

      Over Joe’s head: “I poop my pants!”

      Over the guy on the right’s head: “I’m not changing it *this* time.”

    1. Ol’ Michael “we have nothing to fear but the fear I monger … and harpoons. Nasty things, harpoons.” Moore.

      I tell ya, Jabba the Hutt and Helen Thomas’ love child has really done well for himself. Never thought that a vile, hate-filled pus-bag like him could find an audience.

  86. The court said it was because it wasn’t sure whether the jury found him guilty because he pretended to be her boyfriend or because she was unconscious. I say DOES IT MATTER! I guess to this court, since he wasn’t pretending to be her husband, it did matter.

    1. It’s sad that you can get a criminal record for “theft by deception”, but rape a woman by pretending to be someone else, and it’s legal. I personally think it’s more of a case of incompetence on the prosecutor’s part than a lack of an appropriate law.

    2. Yeah I mean it doesn’t matter in fact HUSBANDS that RAPE their wives are still raping their wives and therefore breaking the law. No matter who the person is to the person being raped, the rapist is a rapist and therefore a criminal. What the heck! Disgusting.

      1. Unless you practice Sharia, then a Proggressive judge throws the case out because its “part of the religion” and he “didn’team anything by it”.

        I know I posted the first comment on the wrong post. I was in a hurry.

    1. I, for one, never want 0 to praise anything I do — talk about the kiss of (economic) death!

    1. Didn’t I see her in a movie somewhere? I think she was wielding a chainsaw or something.

    2. Wait… wait… wait… THAT is a Woman?! 😮

      She looks like she is going to a haunted house and she is part of the team.

      A stylist is really just the number one step she needs to take. She should also visit a clinic and give her some estrogen because DAMN!

  87. I thought I posted this here yesterday but apparently missed the mark.

    We need to match this guy’s venom with our own passionate assertion of gun rights, and we need to be doing it locally, at the state level as well as nationally, and REGULARLY from now until pertinent legislation fails. Now is the time, not later. We need to present a solid wall of protest and maintain it until it’s no longer needed. Write your local paper’s editor, write your local and state politicians, write your federal representatives. Then write them again and again and again. That’s what the Left is doing, and if we don’t match them, they’ll win:
    http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121230/OPINION01/312300033/Kaul-Nation-needs-new-agenda-guns

    1. Brady Campaign posted this on their own Facebook page. They deny it, yet a number of people have screen shots of it from their own visits. When the brady bunches deny something, it lends credence to it. They’re all progressives. The people there rail nonsense over and over, then attack with typical alinsky style anyone that doesn’t suck up to their agenda.

      1. Kinda what I was thinking, woman had a CC, that “30 seconds” never would have got started.

        1. Hey, the rapists of the nation might take up a new hobby to pass the time if the armed women shoot their knobs off! That isn’t murder. Still, start with center mass and double or triple tap with recoil bringing muzzle lift to thoracic region and further into the cranial zone would be my recommended application. Sarah brady is a whistle, and they’re bringing gabby giffords out to whistle harmony, unfortunately.

      2. Only “quickie” rapes. Apparently, like Whoopi said, there are “rape rapes”, and there are “rapes”. I’d like for her and Todd Akin to get together, and jump off a f*cking cliff.

    2. Yes it is fake. It has been disavowed by the company or institution that it claims to be from. Whoever took this into his or her own hands is a moron and a disgusting one at that.

      If the people did do it then they are disgusting morons all of them.

  88. I really hate the media. I truly despise communists. I studied computer science in the days just before Bill Gates’ DOS became the operating system of IBM’s personal computers. One of my classmates was a very interesting young girl named Marina. She had escaped Leonid Brezhnev’s USSR. We talked about her life there and how different it was here than she expected it to be. While she was very happy to have gotten out of there, even then she feared we were going down the path to a nightmare. Carter had only recently exposed himself as a real turd and I regretted having voted for him. Fast forward to now and I’m A-MAZED to suggest how much it seems the Russian media might be loveable, especially after the Putin report calling 0bama a liar and a commie.Now this: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/russian-news-outlet-pravda-prints-surprising-opinion-column-warning-usa-never-give-up-your-guns/

    1. I cannot help but think that someone somewhere wants this… a militarized school system and parents afraid and students afraid cliinging to the government for protection instead of their Bibles and their own guns…

      :-/

      Of course this can only happen if violence happens in salt of the earth places not urban downtowns gang and violence riddle places… anyway… don’t know jus a feeling.

  89. That ridiculous celebrity video demanding gun confiscation to save the children has been countered in a different way than than the hack and slash job that we’ve got here somewhere, and it is well done. Look up the word ‘democide’. No, it is not the cleansing of the nation by elimination of democrats, as good as that sounds. Oh, hell. I’ll just put it up here:
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democide
    Etymology
    Based on Ancient Greek δῆμος (demos, “people”) + -cide.
    Pronunciation
    (UK) IPA: /ˈdɛməsaɪd/
    Noun
    democide (plural democides)
    (Mass) murder of people by a government which has power over them.

    And now, for your viewing and linking pleasure, the video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCemznb6Lc

  90. OK, this is going to hearing in the US District Court, Eastern District of California today.
    Obama Federal Fraud Hearing
    Federal Building
    501 I St., Sacramento, Courtroom 7, 2pm.
    To Temp. Stop Electoral College Vote Vote

    Plaintiffs bring this action as Presidential Electors and as candidates for U.S.President, who, having been deprived of lawful process in the statewide electionfor the national office of U.S. President held in California on November 6, 2012, asa direct and proximate result of the mispersonation and elections fraud perpetratedby defendant Obama, seek redress from this court to enjoin:1. Secretary of State and Governor from certifying the Certificate of Ascertainment due to lack of legitimacy for office and fraud committed by the citizen of Indonesia Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barack (Barry) Soetoro, aka Barack (Barry) Obama Soebarkah, due to his run for the U.S. Presidency and position of the Commanderin-Chief, while using a forged short form birth certificate, forged long form birth certificate, forged Selective Service certificate and a stolen Connecticut Social Security number xxx-xx-4425 as a proof of his legitimacy and fitness for office

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/118487800/Grinols-et-al-vs-Electoral-College-Obama-et-al

    HMMMM, I wonder how this will pan out?

  91. Wal-Mart vs. The Morons

    1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.

    2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

    3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

    4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

    5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world’s largest private employer, and most speak English.

    6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

    7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.

    8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.

    9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

    10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.

    11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)

    12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.

    You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

    This should be read and understood by all Americans – Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!

    To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature

    It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:

    a. The U.S.Postal Service was established in 1775.You have had 237 years to get it right and it is broke.

    b. Social Security was established in 1935.You have had 77 years to get it right and it is broke.

    c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938.You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

    d. War on Poverty started in 1964.You have had 48 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.

    e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.You have had 47 years to get it right and they are broke.

    f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970.You have had 42 years to get it right and it is broke.

    g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before.You had 35 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

    You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.

    AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??

    Folks, keep this circulating.It is very well stated.Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our “duly elected’ (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.

    AND

    I know what’s wrong.We have lost our minds to “Political Correctness” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Someone please tell me what the HELL’s wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

    We’re “broke” & can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

    In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , Japan and Turkey ..And now Pakistan ……..previous home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

    Our retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’ receive no aid nor do they get any breaks.

    AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without ‘needed’ meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.

    Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave ‘US’ the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn’t it?

    1. Thanks for the link. She is adorable! I sent that to my daughter who feels the same way as this girl, with the subject header “you are not alone”, lol.

      1. Funny. I sent it to my son, with the title “Your future wife.” Unless, of course, your daughter’s single. In that case, George wants to say: “Hi. How ya doin'”.

        1. My lady is a liberal because she believes it is the cool thing to be. Her friends have convinced her that, even though she doesn’t back the welfare state, or gun control, overtaxation, overregulation, or anything else that Democrats stand for, to be cool, she must be a liberal. She gets mad at me because, although I believe a lot like her, I also believe in saying it out loud. She’s afraid people will get mad at me.

      1. I know and you know this, I just hate the pandering. I would be in utter shock if he actually resigned or was thrown out, but it won’t happen and I’m a bit pissed they would even run a story like this (considering my respect and love for Breitbart and all he did).

        I mean… don’t jerk my chain, it’s been jerked enough that I know how our system works. If the Republicans unseat Boner and fight for Constitutional principles I would give them a second chance, but don’t run a story like this when we all know it’s not going to happen.

        I’m happy to be wrong on this, I wish I were, but I don’t see it happening. Even if he is replaced he would only be replaced with a clone of himself and the whole thing would be a charade.

      2. You’re forgetting it’s the new congress that votes, maybe some of the votes weren’t sworn in yet.

      3. Been checking for House rules, from what I can see, the rules are kinda funky;
        A Speaker needs an absolute majority of all votes cast for a specific person. Only 17 members are needed to block Boehner’s election.

        If no one has a majority, the House is speakerless.

          1. Not the way I read it, “specific” is the word I’m looking at, if everybody voted for themselves nobody would have a majority. Way simple but see where I’m going with it?

      4. Ok I’m off to work, but do you guys really thing it wouldn’t be worse with Cantor or anybody else as Speaker? Job entails a very fine line to walk, especially these days, and starting a pissing match now means we get steamrolled even worse in the coming year (debt ceiling anyone? spending cuts? gun control?) with a party that can’t do ANYTHING while too busy pointing fingers.

    1. Okay I tried but I didnt wanted to watch the whole thing… now real talk Ben Jealous looks like a white person to me. I don’t know exactly where is the Black so I say that he is not a real Black person (yes I can play this game too).

      These people are disgusting and they all need to go away.

        1. Yeah,, I sat there, looking at the monitor, wondering “Do I go there?”

          It was down to that, or a crack about how life riffs on Monty Python, where the penguin explodes — only instead of on top of the telly, it blows up on-screen. Or in the living room. Whatever. It’s al-jazeera, and there’s no difference.

          “Man: Hello! Well, it’s just after eight o’clock, and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode. (the penguin explodes) “

  92. The madness in America has reached a crescendo. Nearly half the population is now under the mind control of a “cult of personality” political figure named Obama who is deliberately dismantling America one day at a time. Unlike Bush who was simply a tyrant, Obama is a charismatic tyrant, and that’s far more dangerous. As you may recall, Adolf Hitler was also highly charismatic and won over the hearts and minds of his followers, using many of the very same speech patterns as Obama, an expert in neurolinguistic programming and emotional manipulation.

    Because the population has been mesmerized into a state of near-total complacency, an actual police state society is being rolled out right before our eyes, complete with the planned destruction of the Bill of Rights and the characterization of anyone who believes in the Constitution as a “terrorist.”

    http://www.infowars.com/20-dark-predictions-for-2013-the-year-of-oppression-and-insanity/

      1. Heads-up Ms. M, he’s baaaaaaaack

        BREAKING: Obama to depart Washington late Tuesday night and return to Hawaii for vacation.
        — The Associated Press (@AP) January 2, 2013

  93. If all 6bil+ people stood shoulder to shoulder they all would fit in texas with room to spare.

    1. Because we know that Obama wants to reduce spending and balance the budget?! I really wish I knew the best most rational way to plan for the coming debacle. When I hear otherwise calm people openly talking about civil war with the frequency that I do it makes me wonder if we are going to up in flames once the economy collapses. The arrogance of his speech last night was breathtaking and I only read the quotes. I could not have stomached listening to the usurper.

      1. there is no way to prepare for the unknown. I never hunted before but I can shoot straight. I’ll figure it out to make sure my kids and I eat. if that is what I have to do. Money might be useless, then it will come down to other skills and smarts. God help the progs who fear guns then.

          1. It’s scary, but I can believe it.
            The steps Obama has taken have all led to this. It’s like his puppet-masters have planned this out all along.
            All the commentary I heard, was how smug he was about the deal.
            Like he “spiked the football” when he heard about the deal.
            That’s what we get for dealing with Democrats.

          2. yeah, I can actually. that is how it always is in socialism/communism…survival of the fittest. Those in power take everything they can, it’s up to you to fend for yourself to survive…that means priorities are water, food and shelter. I know where I can get water, have a couple liteweight tents/sleeping bags, mess kits…I will find a way. I have my Eagle Scout/Order of the Arrow/Arrow Brotherhood son too. We will find food.

    1. Happy New Year!
      I fell asleep in the recliner at around 11 pm, and then woke up at 12:06 am!
      Missed the whole damned thing.

  94. You know what? The 0ne is supposed to speak on this deal at @2. I don’t care anymore, I’ll keep on keeping on, feeding myself and paying my bills, hoping my girls understand I’m really sorry for what we’ve left them, and praying I’m still here to let the unborn Gran’kids know what it’s supposed to be like and how to get it back.

    F*&k ’em all.

    1. She is the daughter of a prominent NYC Surgeon, and he’s a founding member of OWS. They live in an uptown (code word for EXPENSIVE!) apartment.

    1. I want to believe that this is true (sadly true) and if it is that it is stemming from a point of guilt and her body is reacting to it. The issue here is that all that she needs to do is tell the truth. if it is not true and all of this is a conspiracy to keep her from saying untruths under oath that would tarnish her reputation and possibly any opportunity for the Presidency later on… ugh…

      Now as for your conspiracy… believe it or not for a fragment of a moment I thought the exact same thing. What if in a couple of days Hillary dies? and what if O or someone in his milieu did it because they cannot trust her to keep quiet or to lie on his behalf due to the reasons I present above. I don’t know… crazy… for a fragment of a moment I thought that.

      1. “…stemming from a point of guilt and her body is reacting to it”

        Clearly you’re a decent person and you’re looking for the good in people. I appreciate that. She’s a life long politician though and I’m far to jaded to accept that.

        If her body is reacting to anything it’s probably because she’s guilty of something and doesn’t want to be caught. I would give that consideration.

        Conspiracy? I really hope not. Yet it wouldn’t surprise me. These people are so corrupt that I could imagine an America where this could happen and a media that are willing to sacrifice a lamb for their god… well old goat.

        1. Let me rephrase. There is a difference between being guilty of something and being caught guilty of something. I don’t think she gives a damn if she’s guilty of anything, only being caught being guilty. Telling the truth won’t fix being guilty, only more lies and a complacent media and political class will.

      2. LOL!
        The last thing Hillary felt guilty about was that she didn’t have Bill killed over the Monica scandal!

  95. Graham: ‘Hats Off to the President, He Won’

    Sunday, 30 Dec 2012 11:37 AM

    Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that chances for a small “fiscal Cliff” deal in the next 48 hours were “exceedingly good” and that President Barack Obama had won.

    “I think people don’t want to go over the cliff if we can avoid it,” Graham said on Fox News Sunday.

    But Graham stressed that Republicans must hold firm on the debt ceiling.

    “This deal won’t affect the debt situation, it will be a political victory for the president and I hope we’ll have the courage of our convictions when it comes time to raise the debt ceiling to fight for what we believe as Republicans, but hats off to the president, he won,” Graham said. “He stood his ground. He’s going to get tax-rate increases.”

    Graham’s comments represent a blunt assessment of the political environment on Capitol Hill now less than 48 hours before massive spending cuts and tax increases on most Americans go into effect on Jan. 1.

    He also said that he’ll likely vote for a deal to avoid the cliff “even if I won’t like it,” stressing that GOP support for a compromise measure in the Senate will make it far easier for House Speaker John A. Boehner to rally his troops, something he was unable to do when promoting his “Plan B” solution to the fiscal cliff crisis.

    As for specifics, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, said she and other Democrats would be willing to compromise on the income limit for tax increases. Most Democrats, along with Obama, have in the past drawn the line at $250,000, but Feinstein and others — including the president — have bent on that figure in an effort to attract Republican support.

    “What makes this government work is compromise. I could certainly live with it,” she said, also appearing on “Fox News Sunday.”

    Reuters and The Washington Times contributed to this article.

    © 2012 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

    http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Graham-Obama-won-taxes/2012/12/30/id/469436?s=al&promo_code=1153B-1#ixzz2GaC7OCrf

    1. Posted in the comments section:

      YAY!!

      Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out!

      I may even go to the airport to wave goodbye!

      You have no clue about guns, and even less of a clue about our laws and Constitution. Don’t preach the failed policies of your home country to us. We don’t want to become England, we fought to be free of England. Too bad they won’t take you back!
      BTW, what right do you have to talk to us about our laws when you’re here hiding from felony prosecution in England? You’re a criminal, and preaching about changing our laws? Shut the hell up!

    1. Yeah, but he calls the Bush administration a nightmare. So I’m thinking that Stone is a nut who will never be happy with any government. His whole life seems to be one big conspiracy theory.

      1. I don’t agree with everything he says. However, at least he’s offering up reasons for why he thinks the way he does. I haven’t really seen that from many liberal/progressives recently. And he’s looking at Obama as critically, or at least half as critically, as he looked at Bush. AND he’s calling Obama out for his crap. That, to me, is something.

          1. I would have been happier if there was a more conservative person as President, but like you said, he’s still miles ahead of Obama.

    1. American perlcat calls for British Doctors to get back to their rubber rooms. That’ll stop the stupidity.

  96. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rev-jesse-jackson-repeatedly-challenged-to-defend-chicago-gun-ban-after-500th-homicide-this-year/

    “Jackson said that Chicago, unlike Newtown, has no gun culture – Newtown, Connecticut, having several gun ranges whereas Chicago has none.”

    ummm, it takes more than having a range to have a culture of guns… I think the 500 homicides contradict your assertion, Jesse.

    “He also said that the pressing issues of poverty, unemployment and the lack of a sense of mobility in America’s urban centers are the root causes of gun violence.”

    So, not guns themselves, interesting… So why ban guns, again? Just ban poverty, unemployment, and having a sense that you lack mobility.

    1. Hubby just brought up a great point…. it’s the city of Al Capone and the St. Valentine’s Day massacre! How can it NOT have a culture of guns?

        1. There’s a gun culture, like people getting together and going out to the range to knock over some targets, do a little training,……………

          Then there’s the gun culture of a place like Chicago, where the guns are held sideways, and on occasion one of the opposing gang members goes down. More often, it’s an innocent bystander.

          Two different cultures.

    2. Great post. People like him certainly weren’t burdened with an abundance of common sense. Unfortunately their voices are also tend to be the loudest.

      Guns are just the means in many of these instances. Drugs, culture, and poverty are the real reasons for so many of these deaths, not law abiding citizens who enjoy owning guns. That doesn’t matter in our current society though, all that matters is the agenda of these stupid politicians who believe they know better than the common man and the agenda of the media to back them up.

  97. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-orders-raise-biden-members-congress-federal-workers_692223.html

    didn’t he put in place a pay-raise freeze? What, exactly did those pukes do to deserve a raise? They can’t even do their primary job of MAKING BUDGETS! And regular Americans have seen their pay either plummet, or not have the same buying power it once did. I keep trying to wake up from this nightmare that Obama was re-elected… but doesn’t matter how many times I kick myself in the head, I don’t wake up. I’ve decided I’m going to save my sanity. Everytime he comes on TV, even if on the news, I’m changing the channel.

    My Stepfather is Mexican. We never get along, except when it comes to Obama. He found out his family voted for Obama, and he cut off contact. Like, deleted contact info and blocked their phone calls.

    1. All the present members of Congress, and the present Administration, want, is more power. Everything they do, is about taking more power for government. Every power taken by the government is a power lost by the people. Permanently.

    1. That last line, “Can we get toure …”, God, I love you. I know you have a guy, you’re dedicated and have a new gun in the collection you’re itching to try out, but can I be an honorary crazy old Uncle without getting shot?

      Aloha Ms. M.

      1. That’s what I’m afraid of… For now I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. You know, the opposite of what they give us….

    1. When you hear about the General dying and Michael Moore or Keith Olbermann still being alive, it makes one question the existence of God.

      1. Believe me, Keith Olbermann is by far 1 of the most unhappy media people out their. Despite his money. Life seems to be tourture in a way, & I hope in his case, it is. May he live to about 104 & still have enough wits about him to realize he’s sh!tting himself in a nursing home.

      2. Not really…Of the 3 which one would you want in *your* army?

        uh-huh…Why would God choose any differently?

        1. Not to mention that if Moore went to Hell, where else would he go, the resultant grease fire would be so out of control, the Devil would have to move to Detroit!

            1. Well, I think he splits his time between there, Chicago, and Hawaii. Oh, wait! That’s Obama!

  98. I just got an email from the white house since my name and email were on the list of names that signed the piers morgan deportation petition.

    Here is the text from it:

    A Message from President Obama about Your Petition on Reducing Gun Violence

    By Bruce Reed, Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden

    In the days since the tragedy in Newtown, Americans from all over the country have called for action to deter mass shootings and reduce gun violence. Hundreds of thousands of you have signed petitions on We the People.

    I’m writing you today to thank you for speaking up, to update you on an important development, and to encourage you to continue engaging with the White House on this critical issue.

    First, you should know that President Obama is paying close to attention to the public response to this tragedy. In fact, he sat down to record a message specifically for those of you who have joined the conversation using We the People. Watch it now:

    A Message from President Obama about Your Petition on Reducing Gun Violence

    On December 19, the President outlined a series of first steps we can take to begin the work of ending this cycle of violence. This is what he said:

    —– Here is where this video from 0bama was in the email and here is the youtube link to the video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ynVMBxOus&feature=player_embedded

    “We know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides. And as I said on Sunday night, there’s no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. We’re going to need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access to a gun. We’re going to need to look more closely at a culture that all too often glorifies guns and violence. And any actions we must take must begin inside the home and inside our hearts.

    But the fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing. The fact that we can’t prevent every act of violence doesn’t mean we can’t steadily reduce the violence, and prevent the very worst violence.”

    Vice President Biden has been asked to work with members of the Administration, Congress, and the general public to come up with a set of concrete policy proposals by next month — proposals the President intends to push swiftly. The President asked the Vice President to lead this effort in part because he wrote and passed the 1994 Crime Bill that helped law enforcement bring down the rate of violent crime in America. That bill included the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

    As the Vice President’s Chief of Staff, I’m going to do everything I can to ensure we run a process that includes perspectives from all sides of the issue, which is why I wanted to respond to your petition myself. Two decades ago, as domestic policy adviser in the Clinton White House, I first worked with Joe Biden as he fought to enact the Crime Bill, the assault weapons ban, and the Brady Bill. I will never forget what a key role the voices of concerned citizens like you played in that vital process.

    The President called on Congress to pass important legislation “banning the sale of military-style assault weapons,” “banning the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips,” and “requiring background checks before all gun purchases, so that criminals can’t take advantage of legal loopholes to buy a gun from somebody who won’t take the responsibility of doing a background check at all.”

    An issue this serious and complex isn’t going to be resolved with a single legislative proposal or policy prescription. And let’s be clear, any action we take will respect the Second Amendment. As the President said:

    “Look, like the majority of Americans, I believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. This country has a strong tradition of gun ownership that’s been handed down from generation to generation. Obviously across the country there are regional differences. There are differences between how people feel in urban areas and rural areas. And the fact is the vast majority of gun owners in America are responsible — they buy their guns legally and they use them safely, whether for hunting or sport shooting, collection or protection.

    But you know what, I am also betting that the majority — the vast majority — of responsible, law-abiding gun owners would be some of the first to say that we should be able to keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few from buying a weapon of war. I’m willing to bet that they don’t think that using a gun and using common sense are incompatible ideas — that an unbalanced man shouldn’t be able to get his hands on a military-style assault rifle so easily; that in this age of technology, we should be able to check someone’s criminal records before he or she can check out at a gun show; that if we work harder to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one in Newtown — or any of the lesser-known tragedies that visit small towns and big cities all across America every day.”

    The President said it best: “Ultimately if this effort is to succeed it’s going to require the help of the American people — it’s going to require all of you. If we’re going to change things, it’s going to take a wave of Americans — mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, pastors, law enforcement, mental health professionals — and, yes, gun owners — standing up and saying ‘enough’ on behalf of our kids.”

    So let’s continue this conversation and get something meaningful done. If you have additional ideas and are interested in further engagement with the White House on this issue, please let us know and share your thoughts here:

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/share-your-thoughts-reducing-gun-violence

    Thank you for speaking out and staying involved.

    Stay Connected

    Tell us what you think about this response and We the People.

    Stay connected to the White House by signing up for periodic email updates from President Obama and other senior administration officials.

    1. They’re nuts. None of them should ever be allowed within a hundred yards of a firearm, automobile, or any device that can be used to harm others.

    1. Interesting but then again hypocracy and liberalism go hand in hand. After all he is ENTITLED and let’s not forget that he doesn’t want his daughter punished with an unwanted baby, yet I am supposed to believe that he cares for innocent children lives. Double talk and double mindness… bad bad bad

  99. Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper’s Google Map Of Gun Permit Owners

    http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/26/journalists-addresses-posted-google-maps-gun/?icid=maing-grid7|maing7|dl2|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D249935

    FTA:
    A week after the Newtown massacre, The Journal News published an interactive Google Map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities. The bold move has escalated into a transparency arms race, after a Connecticut lawyer posted the phone number and addresses of the Journal‘s staff, including a Google Maps satellite Image of the Publisher’s home. “I don’t know whether the Journal’s publisher Janet Hasson is a permit holder herself, but here’s how to find her to ask,” read Christopher Fountain’s blog post.

    1. I’m all for happy, or rather shall i say gay, people. Homosexuals deserve death, that is all. may they burn in hell eternally. with broken glass in all their orrifices. I don’t care who says i’m intolerant. I will not, cannot, desire not to recognize the unnatural as natural may they all rot in horrific pain. eff them and the donkeys they rode in on. Jesus hath said they’ve no part in Heaven, so it is written, so it shall be, so it is. Jesus said it, that settles it, i believe it.

      obama a kenyan fag i would love to kill him. srsly.

        1. I seriously want to kill the traitorous bastards. i’m pissed as scat and i don’t give a flying fornication who comes after me. I’m former 82nd Airborne. I don’t fear the reaper. and i don’t need a firearm neither. these fornicating illegitamates are urinating me the eff the eff effen off.

          wake up citizens, they aint coming by land or sea. they’re already here. Stand up and fight this bovine-feces.

    1. “Part of my job when I speak about politics is to speak up for black people and say things black people need said,” Toure explained in his Time piece.

      Good thing, because black people have nobody to speak for them, and they are incapable of speaking for themselves. It’s obvious that they aren’t smart enough to speak up, and they are afraid of getting in trouble with “massah”, so they need a frog to speak for them!

      /sarc

        1. Aw, poor Kimmy, born black, but not black enough for the white liberals!
          Quite the dilemma, isn’t it?
          Perhaps if you were to go on welfare, food stamps, section 8, medicaid, etc, etc, etc, THEN you would be black enough!
          Or does it just take a vote for the Democrats?

            1. We are, it’s just that their idea of post racial America is anyone that conforms to their idea of race.

          1. Nope he’s supposed to be “sacrificing” family time to deal with the fiscal cliff “negotiations”. However, over the 96 hours he was here, he supposedly spent only 4 hours with his family. The rest was golf, gym, hanging with prostitute-visiting buddies, talking about himself at a state funeral 63 times, and more golf.

    1. I hope he challenges and wins by arguing 2nd Amendment rights. Also, a lawyer on twitter brought up a great point. The high capacity mag ban in DC didn’t stop David Gregory from obtaining one.

      And it gets better! He asked permission beforehand and was denied. Did it anyway. Now other journalists are scoffing at the investigation because, hey! Laws don’t matter to those on top anyway. Only to the little people. Everyone knows that.

    1. Only took him 6 hours the last time he spoke the truth and then got a phone call. Don’t even remember what it was, just that they got to him fast and he looked like a fool trying to walk it back.

  100. Merry Christmas, everyone. And, no, I don’t mean Happy Holidays. When I say Merry Christmas, I mean Merry Christmas!

        1. I always thought of it as Sarah, but I’m getting old, with is it? Loved the commercials back then tho.

          1. Clara Peller was born on August 4, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois. Clara lived most of her early life in Chicago. She married a local jeweler at age twenty; the couple had two children prior to divorcing eight years later. Peller worked as a manicurist for thirty-five years at a local Chicago beauty salon. Clara moved to a North Shore apartment to be closer to her daughter after she retired. Peller was hired as a temporary manicurist for a TV commercial set in a Chicago barbershop. The agency which made the TV commercial was so impressed by Clara’s uniquely harsh foghorn voice and gruff, no-nonsense manner that they signed her up as an actress. Peller became a surprise celebrity in her early 80s with her delightfully cantankerous appearances in a series of extremely funny TV commercials for the fast food chain Wendy’s in which she grumbled the memorable catchphrase “Where’s the beef?”. Peller capitalized on her newfound fame by making guest appearances as herself on a 1984 episode of “Saturday Night Live” and the 1986 pay-per-view cable TV event “WrestleMania 2.” The diminutive octogenarian also briefly popped up in the “Remote Control Man” episode of the anthology TV series “Amazing Stories” and had small roles in the films “Moving Violations” and “The Stuff.” Moreover, Clara echoed her legendary refrain on a .45 single called “Where’s the Beef?” that was written and recorded by Coyote McCloud. In addition, there was such spin-off items as coffee mugs, beach towels, t-shirts, a board game, and even a Clara Peller doll. However, Peller was nonetheless fired by Wendy’s for appearing in a TV commercial for Prego Pasta Plus spaghetti sauce in which she holds a large jar and joyfully exclaims “I found it! I really found it!”. Clara Peller died at age 85 on August 11, 1987 in her native Chicago.

            1. “In addition, there was such spin-off items as coffee mugs, beach towels, t-shirts, a board game, and even a Clara Peller doll.”

              So that’s where the ex-witch got those boxers…

  101. “Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table

    US decision after 17-year battle over fast-growing salmon could pave way for same step in Britain”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ready-to-eat-the-first-gm-fish-for-the-dinner-table-8430639.html

    “The FDA also states the two other US Government agencies responsible for overseeing laws on endangered species – the National Marine Fisheries Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service – have agreed with the FDA’s assessment that there will be “no effect” on wild Atlantic salmon or its habitat.”

    So two government agencies agree with another government agency. This tells me a few things: GM salmon will get into the wild, breed with other salmon, wipe out the species because their life cycles will be altered, endanger other species that feed off them, the liberals will then blame global warming and impose grave economic regulation, and we will all suffer because of it. Does that make perfect sense or am I just a bit cynical?

  102. Commit this to memory: never stop punching. No victory is permanent, no defeat is final. So if you really believe that stuff about eternal vigilance being the price of liberty, then you have to start acting like you believe it.
    Commit this to memory: always be on the attack. Oh, we’ll come at you with every smear in the book, you can rest assured of that, but instead of getting all weepy and apologizing for whichever sin we’ve just accused you of, try this: laugh at us. – The proud Devil will not be mocked for he cannot bear scorn, and neither can we. Destroy the myth of our moral superiority and watch us crumple. And then club us and keep clubbing us.

    Rule Number 10 — the Fight Is Never over.

    http://houraney.com/2011/04/rules-for-radical-conservatives/

      1. If he was a Conservative or law abiding citizen who made an honest mistake he would be in jail right now. SWAT would have arrested him while still on the air to make a point. It’s just the backwards and corrupt world we live in I guess.

        1. No, we don’t need any new laws. Just enforce the ones already on the books. A thousand dollar fine and a year in jail for possession of such an evil tool of destruction.

  103. Not one peep about any of the hundred of black mob beatings in the media, save for local channels that might touch on it if it cannot be avoided. There is something terribly wrong here. “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it.” Sounds like a real adventure novel, don’t it? http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/black-mob-violence-and-the-media-silence/
    Do you think disarming law abiding citizens is at least partially to keep these misguided trouble making youths safe from retaliation during their little games?

    1. You need to start a blog. I could see Drudge linking to you all the time, especially with great descriptions like yours. You’re not mad or racist, just doing a great job of mocking the world we live in.

      1. Whatever it takes. I do not give a ratsass. The community enabled by our most racist president ever is calling for war. They will lose.

  104. “The President chose not to talk about the state of the American economy today. Instead, the President chose to talk about the considerable belly and hokey hair of our close Canadian friend,” said John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House. “True Americans do not call our friends lumps.”

    http://thelapine.ca/obama-calls-harper-large-lump

    1. I’ve been hearing about the pending release of this man all day, but no word on if it actually happened. I’d like to know myself.

  105. Is Current TV — Former Vice President Al Gore’s foray into cable television — in danger of getting the ax from Time Warner?

    Nobody is saying, but there’s no question the cable giant is comfortable with pulling the plug on underperformers.

    The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Time Warner Cable announced it will drop the low-rated arts channel Ovation as of Dec. 31.

    Ovation is “among the poorest performing networks,” Time Warner said in a statement. It noted that “less than 1 percent of our customers on any given day’’ tuned in.

    Last April, Reuters reported that Time Warner was considering dumping Current TV if its ratings didn’t improve. And earlier this month, Time Warner Chief Executive Glenn Britt warned that its money losers were in danger.

    Current TV has even lower ratings than Ovation.

    More…………..
    http://www.newsmax.com/US/gore-current-tv-dropped/2012/12/19/id/468381?s=al&promo_code=1128D-1

    1. What would the consider residents? Would they charge transferring military the tax? Usually their spouses get a job in the state and pay taxes… I’d like to see them try to collect it.

      1. The problem would come when you use a multi state bank like B of A or Wells Fargo. They could attach your account if you move.
        However, if you withdraw your funds, claiming to be changing banks, then leave, you are OK as long as you only use a local bank at your destination.

      1. And from reading between the lines over the years, glad you found your own way. Hope that came across right.

      1. That’s the means of hitting those priorities. We aren’t ruined just yet but with a bit more effort Obama will get us there.

        1. Have to ask, not specifics but I respect your opinion; are you seriously re-arranging personal assets (real & future) and planning for your and your families life based on what you see now? Operative word being ‘seriously’.

          I’m getting a little more than scared about the world I leave for my girls, I don’t have a lot but still. The shares I have in properties are still paying for themselves (debt) and were supposed to be my retirement someday, to be passed on to them. It’s not like gold that you can trade, or hide, I’m stuck in real estate and have nightmares sometimes of Chucky Shummer telling them to pay up after I’m dead.

          Guess the Q was, do you really think it’s going that badly that you’re making major adjustments to be ready? Sorry to be so deep so early, [_]3 the good stuff, pretty much a yes or no question but thanks for letting me vent.

          1. Serious answer to a serious question: I think we are screwed short-term and medium-long-term. As far as prep goes, I do not think over “prepping” matters nor does it hurt. I can defend my life, family, and property if necessary but I can’t withstand a long disruption of the food distribution chain. I intend to fix that when I get my bonus in February.

            I do not think mass civil disturbances are unlikely. Once the recipient class stops getting their free stuff, they will revolt. They always do historically. I believe that the progressives are winning, they know they are winning, and they are pushing for the violence so that they can impose their form of tyranny on us all. I consider myself a student of history and to me the future I described is not a paranoid fantasy.

            All that being said, I could be wrong and the people push back the right way like they did in 2010. Imagine where we’d be if Pelosi were still Speaker? I’m not an organized religion participant but I do believe that there was some sort of divine intervention that allowed this country to come into being. Considering how the rest of the world was in 1776, it is nothing short of a miracle. That a few Marxist revolutionaries can easily undo our history is disgusting to me but that is the course we are on if things do not change quickly. Getting rid of Boehner as Speaker would be helpful. The TEA Party needs to quit supporting idiots for the Senate (we’d have it now were it not for that), then we can neutralize Obama.

            Final thought, if they really REALLY overreach without due process and go for a full on gun confiscation, then I believe it will be on at no less a degree than 1861-1865. Obama is a usurper. He wants all of this. Never forget that.

            1. Excellent analysis sidekick.
              One question, on the full gun confiscation, I didn’t get the 1861-1865 reference, can you elaborate slightly?
              My thinking is that if he does go for it all, there will be a bloodbath. There are too many that will refuse to turn over their legally owned guns, and, should he be successful, those that have illegally obtained guns will then be the biggest threat to the safety of the populace.

            2. Congress passed the Confiscation Act of 1861 at the outset of the war. That’s probably what Sidekick is referring to, my guess anyway. Nasty time and nasty doings.

            3. Yes. Also remember that the colonists were eating all of the English’s shit until George III ordered the confiscation of the ball and powder.

        1. Either you or Alien have to give me a thumbnail primer on how to navigate Reddit and weed out all the BS. Checked it out when it was new and wasn’t impressed, but it grew and became relevant and I didn’t grow with it, now I’m lost when I go there and get frustrated. Aloha.

            1. I always thought so, know there’s some good stuff there just get lost in the clutter as soon as I get there so don’t go. There have to be some frequent flier tricks, until then I’ll just stay away.

      1. Soledad O’Brien does all those “Race In America” specials on CNN. Does she focus on fatherlessness in those specials? I doubt she says anything about massive black abortion. I’m not gonna watch her specials to find out. Liberals obsess about certain subjects but don’t wanna get down to the hard truth.

    1. Tipper did go after Heavy Metal. Too much of a racial apologist and coward to go after Rap and Hip-Hop.

      1. Why, what could possibly be construed as offensive or objectionable about this? —
        In The `hood, empty niggas locked up, they rats all knocked up
        Baby after baby, the `hood is crazy
        Niggas`ll set you up and wet you up, trust me they shady
        Got a pet bulldog, I keep under my linen
        It don`t bark, they spark when the revolver spinnin`
        We winnin`

        [Chorus]

        [50 Cent]
        Hold up, hold up, get a good look at my rims
        God damn, look at them twenty-fours diamonds spin
        Now the D`s, they harass me in the `hood
        a few times, niggas try to blast me in the `hood
        Fuck it`s all good
        Catch me in the coupe – on the lean
        Wit` needles and samples and diesels for the fiends
        The money stay on my mind, so I stay on the grind
        Plus niggas like to stun, so I stay wit` my nine
        I ain`t the type nigga that be out, runnin` his mouth
        Talkin` gangsta and shit, with my gun in the house
        Now homie, you better get to know me better
        Before you be bleedin` pints of blood into Iceberg sweater
        When the tails come flyin` up out the beretta
        You gon` feel like it`s yo` fault and say “Man I knew
        better”
        Look dogg, I don`t play that shit
        I pull that thing out I`ma spray that shit
        That how I get down

      1. Which just shows their ignorance about anything firearms.

        I particularly liked this comment:

        Randy-g January 16, 2011 3:17 PM
        Is that a “flintglock”? Heh.

          1. I once saw a news clip, many years ago, where the eye witness to a convenience store robbery was being interviewed.

            “Did you see what kind of gun he had?”

            “Um,..yeah. It was an AK 47. Or maybe an Uzi.”

  106. http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/19/ny-times-calls-gop-senator-tim-scott-a-token/

    Via the classy NYT:

    “WHEN Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina announced on Monday that she would name Representative Tim Scott to the Senate, it seemed like another milestone for African-Americans. Mr. Scott will complete the term of Senator Jim DeMint, who is leaving to run Heritage Foundation. He will be the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction; the first black Republican senator since 1979, when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts retired; and, indeed, only the seventh African-American ever to serve in the chamber.

    But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes “how far we have come.” It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress.

    The trope of the black conservative has retained a man-bites-dog newsworthiness that is long past its shelf life. Clichés about fallen barriers are increasingly meaningless; symbols don’t make for coherent policies. Republicans will not gain significant black support unless they take policy positions that advance black interests. No number of Tim Scotts — or other cynical tokens — will change that.”

    So…… raaaaaaaacist!

    1. That article gives me a huge headache. The racism and utter ignorance of history is typical of the left who must lie to advance its agenda.

      1. They would have said the same thing if we’d elected Cain President. We’d still be considered racists.

        I guess that’s because we don’t accept THEIR kind of blacks. Thugs and others from the “gimme” class.

  107. The Dick Act of 1902. Sure, laugh it up. Then read it. http://www.knowthelies.com/?q=node%2F3949
    The Dick Act of 1902 also known as the Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June 28, 1902 invalidates all so-called gun-control laws. It also divides the militia into three distinct and separate entities.

    1. My brother showed me the original piece in the local paper there yesterday. I wish I had the money to drive to Arkansas and walk the streets for a while. I could use the money.

      1. Wear your kilt, I’ll meet you there to take stealth video for uhhh, documentary (evidence) purposes.

  108. The don lemon sermon is soooo compelling, with stuff like this – To say “gun violence is down does not make sense, and to me is insulting to everyone who lost a loved one here and is dealing with that. It doesn’t matter if gun violence is down,” he continued. “We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. They should only be available to police officers, and to hunt al Qaeda and the Taliban, and not hunt elementary school children.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLTXuPmwAsg

    1. “I think It’s time for me to get out of this city for awhile for a nice hike down south.”
      i-35 south t mexico. hey, mex-drug,pushers, this noodle-brain wants your market to dry up. i-35 south, be on the lookout that is all.

    1. “Small government usually means, as it’s being described these days, the elimination of the role of government and support for initiatives and programs that are crucial for the African-American community,” Shelton said.

      BShit

    1. Quick point, and just what exactly do these same fine folks say about 79-year-old Mike Dukakis taking over Lurch’s Senate seat, hmmm? Think any intrepid reporter from theHill will be asking that question? Didn’t think so.

    1. Yeah, and the original article went right through the looking glass with their interpretation of the results. They posit that laws to curb rent seeking have increased regulation and discouraged investment. In other words, our *dahling* federal government is there looking out for you, my friend, trying to *stahp* those evil corporations on the dole, and that regulation is stifling creativity and therefore jobs. They think the prescription for growth is to stop the procedures impeding cronyism.

      What a tool.

      1. With no sense either…they want some nutjob to go into the NRA and start shooting them, never realizing that it would never happen because people in the NRA are ARMED and WILL shoot back. Thanks fo illustrating our point that being armed stops others from even trying to come after ya.

    1. If we go back to muskets they should go back to Gutenberg printing presses and hand bills. No new presses, news papers, radio, telephones, TV or internet. All reporters should send in their stories by courier on horseback. All lighting in media offices should be by candle, heat from wood burning stove. No coffee machines, expresso machines, electric perculators, etc., all coffee made on wood burning stove in old-fashioned coffee pot. Reporters should travel to/from work and to/from stories on horseback or in a buggy. No subway, cars, cabs, planes, trains, motorcycles. If they need to report overseas they should sail on a three-masted schooner and send their story back via same mode of transportation.

      After all, none of this modern stuff was available when the First Amendment was written. Using libtard logic means they must use only what was available at the time.

  109. So… Wifey tells me Obama will be in Connecticut tonight.. Odds seem against my thinking now. Thought this would wash over like the other rampages

    1. Sadly, this will get milked for all it’s worth. That’s the problem with the “ends justify the means” crowd in DC these days. They honestly don’t see the ethical issues.

      1. one senses a new line of cheese on the way…

        i got it, circus cultured cheese and circus styled circus animal produced coffee, a bold bean with a robust flavor that will make yoar tastebuds tremble.

    2. Never underestimate demagoguing politicians. On a bet I wouldn’t listen to what Obama says (reads) tonight. On and on about Christmas gifts that will never be opened. The tragedy is gut wrenching enough without his bullshit added to it.

      1. The new members, who range in age from 18-24 years old, will contribute to a dedicated, trained, and reliable disaster workforce by working full-time for ten months on federal disaster response and recovery efforts.’

        translation, newly hatched pol pole dancers and chickens for the chickenhawks.

        cruisin’ on a sunny afternoooooon

    1. Wow. Just wow. I love men in tights – if they are archers or ballet dancers. But I saw the picture of that metro-sexual dude in his stripey leggings and I swear, I would have a hard time not laughing till I fell down in the street if I saw him for real! BTW, just for fun, I voted at the bottom. It’s pretty resounding – 80/20 against meggings. The 20% are gay, artists, or blind people clearly.

      1. We’re men, we’re men in tights.
        We roam around the forest looking for fights.
        We’re men, we’re men in tights.
        We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that’s right!
        We may look like sissies, but watch what you say or else we’ll put out your lights!
        We’re men, we’re men in tights,
        Always on guard defending the people’s rights.

        [The Can-Can Chorus Line]

        We’re men, MANLY men, we’re men in tights.
        [Gay voice] Yes!
        We roam around the forest looking for fights.
        We’re men, we’re men in tights.
        We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that’s right!
        We may look like pansies, but don’t get us wrong or else we’ll put out your lights.
        We’re men, we’re men in tights
        [High Voice] TIGHT Tights
        Always on guard defending the people’s rights.
        When you’re in a fix just call for the men in tights!

        WE’RE BUTCH!

    1. I have since found that this statement was a hoax. Sad, really. I would have gained a lot of respect for Freeman if it hadn’t been.

  110. Ah jeeze, not a tip a plea, if I jump in the truck and drive straight to Conn. and slap the snot out of Geraldo, will you guys start a pool to bail me out of jail on Monday?

    1. I really do not understand how people can not understand that it is not the availability of guns that kills people – it’s mentally ill people who kill people. And, the mentally ill will always find something to use to kill people if that is their desire. Guns, knives, f*rtilizer b*mbs – whatever they can get.

      1. Without guns, we will lose the desire to kill!
        Look at England, they banned guns and the murder rate dropped to zero!
        🙄

      2. leftist mentality, all about feelings…don’t want to blame the person because that might make the person “feel” bad…so they focus on the weapon because it has no “feelings”, then put a ban on it and then they get to “feel” better because they did something about it.

    1. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!! Right now they are saying at leatst 26 dead. I can’t even see – I am crying so hard. There are no words

      Edit – they are saying that the shooter was the dad of at least one or two students at the school. The DAD!

      1. 27 at last count, sadly…up to 18 of them children just 10 or 11 years old. White House is already spinning gun control.

        1. talk of gun control is ridiculous.. right now, i’m all for militarizing security of schools, but i’m an insane statist

          my youngest sitting in kindergarten right now and I can’t stop visualizing the tacticals around his classroom

            1. yup, just got sidetracked over on the youtubes from another thread…(thanks LRobert!)…I really should know better by now. LOL

            2. Funny you selected that avi cuz I just happen (coincidentaly) to have this one stashed away as a possible one for myself…wait for it (prolly won’t be up long)

            3. Well hell, just how am I supposed to top that?
              Nice btw (dammit) Back to lightning strike I guess.

        2. One shooter is dead , still searching for a second gunman. One shooter was described as a 24-year-old armed with four weapons and wearing a bullet vest but IDK if that is the one dead or the one police are serching for.

      2. I know some of the info out there is bad but I’m hearing that the shooter is the son of a teacher at that school. Is that accurate?

        1. I heard on Hannity’s radio show (usually good about waiting for confirmation) the guy (24) killed hid dad in NJ, drove to Conn. & killed his mom at her home ( a teacher at the school). They’re speculating that’s why he was buzzed into the school, they recognized him, and it was her class where most of the kids were killed.

          1. well there ya go.. hard to secure that scenario then

            Sux.. I’m angry about this today.. might head out of work early, not really getting much done here

          2. Never mind, I should know better, just got back home and everything they said then has been changed. I know, let’s wait until we get facts before going on the air, Nah.

    2. I’d been making noise all day, no radio/TV, just jumped in the truck to run to Home Depot and didn’t even make it out of the driveway, just sat there in Park listening to the radio. Came back in to check the news and web.

      Hope Hells newest resident had a warm welcome.

    3. One liberal idiot tweeted that if they lowered the age for concealed carry so the tots could defend themselves. I tweeted that if the teachers had conceal carry…

      1. It’s easy to spot the “moron without a shred of decency” — just wait for a tragedy for them to push their latest agenda item.

    4. I swear I hate the media… they are airing a facebook photo of a Ryan Lanza from Newtown Ct, currently living in Hoboken, NJ…It’s the WRONG guy. Even Fox has it up.

        1. Yes,yes, Fweetness, hello, now run along and be nice. This is neither the time or place for your silliness.

    5. Now it seems that not only the school children/faculty, dad and mom, but a brother is dead too. And shooters girlfriend and another friend are missing. Dammit!

    6. The Israelis have had security of their people in their hearts and minds forever and their airport security is second to none. Turns out their school teachers are armed and trained as well. Of course, since everyone there serves in the IDF for a period the training seems obvious, but that the teachers would be armed is something I only thought about today. Here, our teachers are not consistently supporters of the right to bear arms, so in all likelihood many would never consider it. These ‘teachers’ would rather ban law abiding citizens from legal ownership of firearms. Just one more reason this nation might be better off split in two.

      1. You submit a link to the IDF teacher story to be posted, that is the most relevant way to end this type violence I have heard yet.

        1. The media will whip up plenty of emotion and irrationality over gun ownership. I’m not even going tomgo into the usual 2d Amendment debate with anyone. As an aside, my uncle has been an Episcopal priest in Sandy Hook for over 35 years. My cousins went to school there and this tragedy is very close to me as I’m from Connecticut too. I grew up about an hour from there. I know that town well and I’m just sick over it. That being said, there is no reason to politicize this but of course the progs will go ape poop.

          1. Mark Moore

            “all clergy to open our churches for prayer.”

            strange, what would the pix look like today, had this happened in a muslim town?

            i mean, all things being equal. how sad.

    7. Christ…do we need to deploy the Guard to watch over schools??

      Amen.

      that’s an excellent prayer Alien, i couldn’t have said it better myself.

  111. Why Romney lost…..

    Romney said,

    “When I’m elected, I will put Americans back to work,”

    And 51% said,”Fuck That!!”

    1. not at all
      given a few bars and a couple mins to stretch, i bet ya i could still dance YMCA, and still fart after’ds

      just sayin.

    1. Now there’s a picture I’d take of myself, crop and send to ya so’s you’d know what I look like. Bwaaahahahaha.

        1. well, bush wouldn’t watch the commordores i betcha, gotta blame some one.

          i rock, merely an assessment of my awesome tuditousness

  112. Yesterday, an IDF border policewoman shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian man involved in the West Bank riots. He was brandishing what she thought was a handgun, but the weapon turned out to be a toy.

    are cops trained for psyops?
    still, IDF not cops but i’d like some LEO to comment maybe re: suicide by cop effects, esp on the cop. ty.

    1. Martyrdom for the palistine cause. He was probably looking forward to 72 virgins that he wouldn’t have to rape in order to deflower them.

      1. Harry’s always had a thing for banana republics. Day-O! Daylight’s come, Harry. and we want you to go home.

  113. There is currently a campaign to make changes to the Constitution WITHOUT going through Congress, which is provided for in Article 5.

    U.S. Constitution – Article 5

    Article 5 – Amendment

    The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate…………………..

    http://www.campaignconstitution.com/

    Go to the website, read and vote on the proposals, spread the word!
    Among other things, they are proposing limiting the pay of Congress, and limiting their benefits. This should make for having people that actually want to do good for the country, to run for Congress, not people looking to make a financial killing.

    Two of the most important proposals on the website are these:

    No Exemptions for Congress Congress shall not exempt itself from any law.

    No Special Benefits Congress shall have no retirement, health, or other pension benefit law for itself or federal employees, except the military, unless the law applies to everyone.

    1. He may be the single biggest asshole on TV that isn’t a politician, and he rivals many of them!

    2. It’s TV. Entertainment. If TV showed real life, nobody would watch it. They already have that.

      Or maybe I’m wrong. I remember flipping past The Learning Channel once, and there was a mom following a toddler down the hallway, carrying a potty chair, babbling along. No, the toddler wasn’t babbling, the mom was. I refuse to believe that show had more than twice the viewership of The Ed Show.

    1. Even liberal dems in San Fransisco are against this agenda. People need to educate themselves on it. Of course once they do, they’ll be scared sh&&less because they will see the hot phrases in every local bill being pushed up. I know I am. Look at the Honolulu rail project. It is supposed to creat an “intelligent community” and “sustainable development”. So thank you for posting this. I will definitely buy it.

      1. I bookmarked it for after the first, when my retirement check shows up. Right now, I’ve got a hundred dollars to my name, to last the rest of the month. That’s how Obama likes it.

  114. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/12/10/girl-loses-66-pounds-changes-lifestyle-after-bullies-target-her/

    “A 9-year-old California girl lost 66 pounds after her excessive weight made her a target for bullies, ABC News reported. Breanna Bond weighed 186 pounds…”

    1] Shame on her mom for letting it get that bad
    2] Props for mom & the girl for doing something about it.
    Notice what’s glaringly missing fta? No First Wookie programs, HHS, NIH, State agencies or school lunch programs. Imagine that, her and her mom changed her diet and she walks 4 miles, uses the family treadmill, swims and plays hoops. All by themselves, huh.

    1. You know what makes ME sick about this? The crowing and praise heaped on them, like they invented the cure for cancer. It’s a fat kid who lost weight (and yes, Ghost – I agree that it’s good that she didn’t beed the government to help). First of all – it’s what the mother SHOULD have done. Period. Second of all, it’s NO ONE’S business. Why is George Steph at all involved in discussing a child’s body? In any way? Why does HE or any other celebretard feel they have the right to judge her? Even if he’s heaping praise on her, it’s a judgement of her appearance, and that’s not his place or business.

      Maybe I am weird, but I find this whole thing disgusting and disturbing. But gratz to the little girl and her mom for doing what needed to be done.

      1. Here’s what bothers me about it. She lost the weight because of bullying. Yet the bullying was never addressed. It was totally ignored. Instead it’s like they are saying, “oh she got bullied then did something good for herself to stop the bullying.” So therefore bullying is a great thing because it brings positive results! The bullying part should not be getting a pass.

        1. Bullying is just the new buzzword. It sells stories. Yes, it’s a problem and it needs to be addressed, but the media is doing their best to water-down that issue too.

          What happens is that “an issue” comes up, and everyone and their brother jumps on the bandwagon. People flock to read the stories and hear the testimonials, and the media carpe diems and starts using that tagline to get the Oprah crowd all worked up. “Bullying” is now on the down-cycle. People really don’t care anymore. They have been exposed to kids being shot or killing themselves over “bullying” now, so they are sort of numb to the concept. But it still has some hangers-on.

          The bad part is that it IS a serious issue sometimes. Sometimes it’s just a rite of passage. A fat child being called “fattie” is part of the process. It’s sad, but it happens. A kid with big ears, or ugly clothes, or thick glasses will get the same treatment. What we SHOULD be doing is teaching the bullied kids how to deal with and mentally process their reactions to the bullies, punish the kids who physically hurt another child and then just leave them alone. It’s a cruel and unfair world sometimes and kids need to learn that, and learn how to deal with it.

          1. Kids being kids. I taught my girls to fight back with their brain and tongue. And if it was a guy or they felt threatened how to fight. No joke.

            1. Yes, my kids have stood up for themselves too. BUt what I’m saying is sometimes that isn’t enough. and sometimes the bullying so bad that kids commit suicide over it. Now I don’t have my research paper I did years back but there is data out there that shows that bullying isn’t just a problem for the intended victims. Statistics show that a large portion of people who were bullies in school end up incarcerated as adults (half of which due to violent crime). Doesn’t that indicate indicate interventionis need for the bully’s sake!

            2. Yes. And I’d love to read that old research paper someday. I was thinking more day to day through my kids eyes and my own experience, think you were looking big picture, may be wrong. But I still think we’re both right.

              Get back to work, I’m supposed to be the one lollugaggin’ around putting it off today. Can’t seem to get motivated, having too much fun here.

            3. One of the problems nowadays is that home is less a refuge for a lot of kids. Abuse on Facebook, and other sites I never even heard of, follow them home from school. Parents and adults get tangled up in the social media conflicts, and some kids simply never learned how to deal

            4. I didn’t mean that it wasn’t an important issue. I was mostly talking from a media perspective – how they get people riled up and then running from one topic to the next – “cheapening” each issue as they beat it to death. When they start applying “bullying” to a kid who looks at another child cross-eyed, it waters it down to the point that it is practically meaningless.

              I guess I was also trying to say that we will never eradicate bullying, and that parents need to step up to fix it. They need to teach their own children compassion to try and stop it somewhat. If their child is the target, and they they can’t STOP the bullying, they need to teach their children how to deal with it, and to accept that life is sometimes unfair. But if it moves from shunning and name-calling to actual physical harm, then the authorities MUST be involved.

  115. Agenda-21-Glenn-Beck
    For kindle, available on Amazon for $9.99
    http://www.amazon.com/Agenda-21-Glenn-Beck/dp/1476716692/ref=lp_6057577011_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1355238906&sr=1-2

    Book Description
    Release Date: November 20, 2012
    “I was just a baby when we were relocated and I don’t remember much. Everybody has that black hole at the beginning of their life. That time you can’t remember. Your first step. Your first taste of table food. My real memories begin in our assigned living area in Compound 14.”
    Just a generation ago, this place was called America. Now, after the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, it’s simply known as “the Republic.” There is no president. No Congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom.

    There are only the Authorities.

    Citizens have two primary goals in the new Republic: to create clean energy and to create new human life. Those who cannot do either are of no use to society. This bleak and barren existence is all that eighteen-year-old Emmeline has ever known. She dutifully walks her energy board daily and accepts all male pairings assigned to her by the Authorities. Like most citizens, she keeps her head down and her eyes closed.

    Until the day they come for her mother.

    “You save what you think you’re going to lose.”

    Woken up to the harsh reality of her life and her family’s future inside the Republic, Emmeline begins to search for the truth. Why are all citizens confined to ubiquitous concrete living spaces? Why are Compounds guarded by Gatekeepers who track all movements? Why are food, water and energy rationed so strictly? And, most important, why are babies taken from their mothers at birth? As Emmeline begins to understand the true objectives of Agenda 21 she realizes that she is up against far more than she ever thought. With the Authorities closing in, and nowhere to run, Emmeline embarks on an audacious plan to save her family and expose the Republic—but is she already too late?……………

    Kinda sounds like the current plan for us.

  116. The “Perfect Holiday Gift” from the perpetual campaign of Obama-Biden!
    (By the way, the religious aspect of the word “holiday”, derived from “holy day”, seems to have escaped those who loath the religious aspect of “Christmas”.)

    1. Don’t worry – they will get to it, There are so many dogwhstle and “code words” at the moment, they are just a bit overwhelmed. But they have submitted the grant proposal to obama, and should be financially able to tackle it soon.

      1. Oh, good. I was worried that some useless bunch of assholes might not be able to afford to keep being assholes on our dime.

  117. When four of Santa’s elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.

    Then Mrs. Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.

    When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.

    Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.

    Frustrated, Santa went in the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drunk all the cider and hidden the liquor.

    In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor.

    He went to get the broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.

    Just then the doorbell rang, and an irritated Santa marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree.

    The angel said very cheerfully, ‘Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn’t this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to stick it?’

    And thus began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.

    Not very many people know this.

  118. Dear Editor:
    Please make a board for posting the names of patriots who’ve given their all. with sugar on?
    and whipped cream?
    and a cherry?
    puh-leeze?

      1. Need to lock their parents up, unless they can come up with a damned good explanation of why their kids are running around with a handgun. Firearm safety — it isn’t just for kids.

        I was in a gun shop just the other day (Santa wants to bring me a 1911 — I just *know* it.), and the way that people were waving pistols around pissed me off. Whatever happened to “always treat it like it’s loaded?” I fear evil people a heck of a lot less than I fear stupid people.

    1. Heard him interviewed on Wilkow last week. Very, very sharp guy and seemingly a principled conservative.

    1. Sergeant Charles Joseph Menard, 27, whose home of record is Benton Harbor, Mich., was assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, since June 2012. He entered active duty service in January 2004 as an Air Defense Battle Management System operator.

  119. Ah, f k me, Sunday Night Football is at it again, the editorials are not only asinine but insulting as hell. I’m joining (Kick I think?) and flipping it, and them, off.

    1. Yup, I’m watching Miracle on 34th Street with my wife and daughter. Fired Sunday Night Football last week. Tomorrow I’m psyched for the Patriots and Texans. That will be a great game. Not that Disney is much better.

      1. Not to belabor the point, just see if you can find a clip of that halftime commentary tonight. I’m a Bengals fan (dammit) and I’ve never yelled or wanted to throw something at the TV that badly while in sports mode.

        1. I am surprised that they are doubling down. Costas took a beating. Are they talking about bringing back the 18th Amendment and banning automobiles after the Dallas Cowboy killed his teammate in a drunk driving accident? I didn’t think so.

          1. Cowboys, it was pathetic. Check the clip, it was beyond bad. I used to respect the old Colt’s coach(Dungee?), they gave him a say too. Was a good game too, it’s off, never again.

            1. Tony Dungy has a great reputation of being a solid family guy but his eldest son killed himself several years ago. Huge tragedy. Terrible. Still, I wonder if he is the guy he is rumored to be. What on earth does he have to contribute to the dialogue unless he is going to go Cosby and blame the individual and not the gun. Remember, his son was murdered? The idea of an honest discussion about how the culture has become so coarse and debased is so foreign to the media. Too gutsy of a call for any of them to be honest. Cosby was excoriated.

  120. The Michigan House is set to vote in just two days on the Private Sector and Public Sector Right to Work bills the Senate passed on Thursday

    1. Just wow!
      FTA:

      ………………………”The video speaks for itself. They don’t tolerate God’s marriage. In fact, our volunteers have been bullied, pepper sprayed, hit with glass bottles, sprayed with pesticide, punched, and spit on for peacefully stating that marriage is what it is – the union between one man and one woman.”

      “When you watch same-sex ‘marriage’ activists destroy your signs, desecrate the Bible, blaspheme, and burn your literature, it becomes clear that the homosexual agenda is not really about tolerance,” Ritchie said…………………….

      That aside, it’s not the gay agenda as a whole, but the radical activists that are creating such an intolerable atmosphere around the issue, that they are making people look at any gay person with disgust, regardless of the individuals actions.
      Makes the saying “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch” seem prophetic.

      1. This is what happens when left wing leadership convinces its lemmings that opposition to something (gay marriage) equals hate. Naturally, the lemmings go too far and leadership loves it because it is destructive to society.

        1. And then the media can come in and act shocked and horrified, but still manage to absolve the aggressors.

          They will say something like “while this is was a despicable act, it is clear that the public sentiment of oppression, hatred and bigotry against gays is deeper than ever.” This effectively shifts the blame right on to the peaceful people who are standing up for their beliefs as our society allows them to. (At least for now).

          1. Karmaa, I just viewed on ntflx: Will Sasso, Awesomest Maximus.
            2011, NR from natl. lampoon. wow. not for the faint of heart, or soul. the more things change… for now.

            ((Karmaa)) I learn a lot from you.

            KimmyQ: um. this kinda wicked movie so, DON’T LOOK ETHEL!!!

            drb rae, the ladies in that there movie, well, they done gone down to the fundaments, and worse.

          2. But, the ones most hurt by this are the gays that just want to lead a normal, quiet life. The radicals just make all gays look like lunatics and clowns that just want to sleep with anything and everything in pants.

    1. The Editor’s next door neighbor, a graduate of the Naval Academy, hosts an annual football party for all local graduates of both academies. We’re honored to be among the few non-military invitees. (The bad news? They sign old Naval Academy songs during every commercial break.)

        1. AHA! found you. now what did i do… oh yeah… deniro’d kick jack’s pansy a-ss
          and mako could knock the heck outta jacki poo too. lol

          imo.

          is moot, squids, sneaky as they can be, well, they just best keep their corazon de mer where it belongs. 😀

          oh last detail, i was thinking dif movie, i woulda followed through with a good navy film, but frankly, i can’ tthink of…… oh yeah yeah i can brb

        1. Don’t be mad, but I don’t do college ball.
          As far as Army Navy goes. I was in the Air Force.

  121. “Ryan Stonewalls on Involvement with Boehner Purge”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/07/Paul-Ryan-backs-Boehner-on-conservative-purge-refuses-to-deny-whether-he-was-involved

    Guys, we gotta remove the thorn from our own eye before we can fix this country. The Republicans are a HUGE problem right now. Sure Obama is taking us down the road of tyranny, but he has a willing Republican party to help him. Ryan is a joke, he’s Boehner lite. I gave in, I voted for Mittens, and we lost. We need real Conservatives and/or Libertarians to lead this party and this country back to our roots, or we need a third party if the Republicans won’t accept those people. The time for party loyalty is over, we need people loyal to the Constitution and the Republic, not this stupid two party system. The Republican party is nothing, let it fade into the dark of night, let all the establishment Republicans fade with it, and let us start anew. We call ourselves Constitutionalists, talk about freedom and limited government, yet so many of us play right into the hands of the Republican party. We’re part of the problem. We believe and stand on principle until it’s time to vote, then we vote for the lesser of two evils. If you want the Republican party to listen then you need to abandon it. The current leadership of the Republican party is not fighting against Obama, they’re fighting against Conservatives (and Libertarians to a lesser degree) to go along with Obama for political expediency and acceptance. They’re weak, and we’re weak if we go along with them.

      1. ach phlegm hem

        Because I believe in the Constitution.

        why?
        i mean, what’s so important about that, what vellum? sheepskin? hemp? idk. the words though, well the logos? yeah? what’s the authority for that? Who validates the note? in your worldview? plz?

      1. I can understand wanting to ban Christmas trees for safety reasons, people are killed and homes burned every year by careless people. But if it was done for the reason of keeping someone from celebrating their holiday the way they choose, that would be wrong. What about candles? Many religions use them, but are they also banned?

        1. In the original article the ban extended to the Menorahs, which is a lamp with several branches, originally each of which holds an oil lamp, but I’ve seen them with candles as well. It is a Hebrew thing most often used during the holiday of Hanukkah.

          I get the safety issue of careless use of fire, heat and gasoline being a concern. Personal responsibility has become the domain of the government. Restricting anything that might harm people is something we will all get forced on us soon enough; drinking, smoking, sharp knives, pointy sticks, corners of coffee tables, substandard floor joists, rocks, scarves and neck ties and everything else are all coming down the pike.

          I’ll bet the owner’s did not attempt to ban any of the residents’ dhabihahs.

          1. Maybe he was smart enough to keep those particular people out. For safety reasons, of course, not religious discrimination. He doesn’t want any of the other tenants to be relieved of their heads.

            1. Dude, that would be religious intolerance! Those are integral components of their rituals.

      2. save? lol that tree ain’t gonna survive. what they gonna save it for? fuel?
        tea? grub worm bait?
        that thang ain’t saved it’s ded.

        now ‘m gonna fled fore ppl start calling idolophobe on me. ta.

  122. The U.S. Postal Service is, wait for it…
    http://about.usps.com/corporate-social-responsibility/adopt.htm#p=1

    Letters to Santa Program
    How to Adopt a Letter
    “For organizations wanting to adopt a letter, please send a representative with correspondence on letterhead from your company/organization authorizing the representative to view the letters on behalf of your company/organization. Your representative must present his or her employee ID and a valid state driver’s license or state-issued ID card.”

    “For individuals wanting to adopt a letter, please bring a valid state driver’s license or state-issued ID card.”

    ….Raaaaacist!

    1. this inspection is inherently sexist, since they’re only targeting female objectification. Also, i’m wondering how many female fags will be suing to keep their collections.

    2. I say who gives a crap! I mean they are serving their country and, SERIOUSLY, who cares! I am a female in the Navy and I say WHO CARES!

    3. My first thought is “Oh, good grief — did the US Military learn nothing from their last adventures into PC thought-crime with that whack-job Hassan “can’t believe he’s not an islamic terrorist, never mind what he says”?

      That was my second thought, too.

    1. I’d like to drop him off in Korea a little north of the 38th parallel, just far enough that the US soldiers can’t reach him in time, and then holler at him to see what his opinion is.

  123. I call BULLSHIT!!!

    The unemployment rate was just released, and it is “officially” 7.7%!
    With 146,000 jobs created in Nov, and when you consider the fact that the weekly job loss numbers have been over 400,000 for the last 3-4 weeks, it seems highly unlikely that the unemployment rate would be that low.
    But then, you need to consider the fact that the labor department considers you as employed if you work 1 hour a week!
    BULLSHIT!!!

    1. I think it’s worse than that. They DON’T consider you unemployed if you are not on unemployment. So, if your benefits ran out – you are not unemployed. If you are a recent graduate you are not unemployed. If you are a house-spouse and you would like to get a job, you are not unemployed. And if you are a welfare recipient or a prisoner, you are not unemployed.

      The unemployment number is now just another way to keep thousands of people “working” – in the labor department, making up these BS figures.

    2. The U6 number dropped from 14.6 to 14.4. I can’t reconcile that with the weekly job claims numbers. The labor participation rate is key and that number dropped two-tents of a percentage point. In other words, it shrunk again.

  124. Petraeus had allegedly used a pseudonym to create multiple e-mail accounts that he used to communicate with his mistress. One account was shared so they could communicate via messages that they left in a drafts folder, allowing them to correspond without actually sending messages. Computerworld.com poses the more damning question, “If the head of the CIA can’t figure out how to keep his emails private, do the rest of us even stand a chance?”
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13854-nsa-whistleblower-%E2%80%9Cevery-american-is-under-surveillance%E2%80%9D

    1. I did the draft folder thing with my daughter after she turned 13 if we didn’t want my ex-witch reading certain mail.

  125. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/who_elected_obama.html

    What’s going on is that big numbers from a relative handful of precincts can swing statewide totals to democratic presidential and senatorial candidates despite widespread popular support for GOP policies in congressional and other district races. Overall, Romney won about two thirds of the county-level contests in the country, but he lost state wide counts to high turnouts and virtual unanimity in precincts where decades of redistricting have combined with the Democrat tendency toward self-ghettoization to create conservative no-go zones.

  126. Lucky putz. http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/05/4463995/burglary-suspect-held-at-gunpoint.html#storylink=cpy

    A Parker County woman called 911 early Tuesday, saying that her husband was outside, holding a burglar at gunpoint.

    “Hurry up now, because my husband’s fixing to shoot him,” the woman said after giving directions to their house near Springtown.

    The man with the gun pointed at him had the same idea.

    He, too, called 911. “He’s going to shoot me,” he told the operator.

    The dual 911 calls were made about 12:30 a.m. from the house in the 100 block of Lelon Lane, a spokeswoman for the Parker County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday.

    When deputies and Springtown police arrived, they found a man, identified only as a 38-year-old resident of the house, holding a gun on a man in a pickup.

    The resident told officers that he and his wife had awakened earlier to find an intruder wearing dark clothing and a hooded jacket standing in their bedroom.

    When the resident asked what the intruder was doing, he answered, “Just unlucky, I guess,” the officers reported.

    The intruder ran from the house and got into his pickup, followed by the armed resident, who ordered the man to drop his keys, which he did.

    The first 911 call came from the wife, Parker County sheriff’s Deputy Danie Huffman said Wednesday.

    The next one came from the man in the pickup.

    The operator asked his name, and he responded, “Philip Tanner.”

    “Why have they threatened to shoot you?” the operator asked.

    “Because I’m on his property,” he said.

    “Were you trying to break into his house?”

    “No.”

    “What were you doing?”

    “I was … I was walking.”

    “Do you live out there?”

    “No.”

    “OK, I’m going to stay on the phone with you until we get a deputy there. He’s not that far off, OK?”

    “Are you sure?”

    “Yes. I’m sure. Just don’t move. Tell the gentleman you’re on the phone with 911 and I know what’s going on and we have a deputy coming. OK?”

    “He’s going to shoot me.”

    “No, he’s not going to shoot you. Just don’t move. Just don’t move.”

    She stayed on the line and kept the man talking.

    And in a few minutes, officers arrived just as she had said.

    They arrested the man in the pickup, identified not as Philip Tanner, but as Christopher Lance Moore, 41, of Bedford.

    Moore remained in the Parker County Jail in Weatherford Wednesday night with bail set at $35,000.

    He faces a charge of burglary of a habitation.

    The armed resident of the house was not arrested.

  127. Here’s the link – http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/enough-whining-time-to-kick-some-ass-t10137.html
    Here’s the text from our brethren at the Cube:

    Today is a new day

    THE PLAN FOR ACTION:

    Much like we admonish the “takers,” we’d be as big of a group of losers as they are if we failed to fight for what is ours — namely, our country and our way of life.

    We cannot hide in a hole and deprive ourselves of what we worked so hard to achieve, and let the world around us fall flat on its face — it’s our world. Rather, we need to fight. We need to clean the House (literally), get a new GOP chairman, and work to get momentum back in our favor.

    Enough already with the whining. Get back in gear — this is a new season. We own the GOP. Yes, we do. Take it back, and rev up our collective ‘whoop ass’ machine.

    Break out of your funk already — our side has hit bottom. We do not need to dig any deeper. Rather, we need to start clawing our way back up.

    Screw the media, screw the Democrats, screw the Occupy idiots — screw them all. There are 57 million of us. It is time to make non-negotiable demands of our representatives, or boot them out.

    As job one, we MUST remove Boehner, Cantor and Preibus from their top posts in the GOP. We need to put old socks in the mouths of the likes of Karl Rove when they open them. These have failed us, if not intentionally screwed us.

    Starve the GOP. Support conservative blogs: take some of the money you refuse to spend on the economy and give it to people doing the work the corrupt U.S. media won’t.

  128. These two guys are way up on my most hated list. But this broadcast from 2009 is remarkable for its inconsistent nature. How did Mr. Maddow get away with suggesting the occupant intends to imprison Americans in government facilities without trial or sentence for indefinite periods of time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mPZlysCAm0

  129. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/05/drill-instructor-elated-with-judge-order-to-return-daughter-from-adoptive/

    This is a tough one. Part of me says that taking a child away from the family they have been raised by is the worst possible thing. But this case is NUTS. The birth mom gave the child away while her husband (the father) was off in the military. He didn’t have a clue. The agency apparently knew that the father was looking for his baby as soon as he found out what had happened. And the adoptive parents knew that the birth father could possibly come along some day and claim the kid, and they said “fine – we will take the chance”. So, they have been fighting tooth and nail to keep the child, while the birth father has been fighting to get her back. And it’s not like he is doing it to be spiteful either – his wife suggested either abortion or adoption when she found out she was preggo and he said no – he wanted his child. Wow. Just wow.

    This is one a whole ethics textbook could be written about!

  130. Piers morgan obviates once again that his hemorrhoids are gathering in his cranium. A great beclowning indeed! http://twitchy.com/2012/12/03/piers-morgan-bob-costas-is-100-percent-right-second-amendment-was-written-with-muskets-in-mind/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter
    I recommend reading the tweets because there are some real gems, but the one that really shines for me is;
    He says – The 2nd amendment was devised with muskets in mind, not high-powered handguns & assault rifles. Fact.
    Then Carol Roth says – It was devised 4 people 2b able 2 protect themselves w same type of weaponry used by those from whom they might need protection
    He says – Where exactly does it say that in the Constitution – must have missed it?
    To which Carol Roth guts him with – right next to the word “muskets”

  131. The Trayvon Martin case is going to be making the news again soon, complete with a deluge of racist accusations and smears by the usual racist pukes as well as hundreds of others. The media convinced enough people that there was an evil white man with his evil gun hunting for a poor, innocent black child with candy in his hand. Anyone defending the actions of this dead young punk deserves no quarter. The media played this for all they could and they had not removed all the dogshit from their shoes before photographic evidence show that, in fact, Zimmerman had been getting his head beaten by the punk before he popped him. Now, for the first time, a clear photo of the front of his face shows his busted and bloody nose. So now we will encounter, with renewed vigor, people saying this evil white man with his evil gun – even though he’s Hispanic, African and White while the gun is inanimate – must have smashed in his own nose as well as the back of his skull, just to set up the poor, angelic youngster as a bad boy. http://news.yahoo.com/bloody-photo-trayvon-martins-killer-released-200804168.html

    1. On February 26, Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Martin who was walking to the home in Sanford where he was staying with his father.

      hmm, no mention of martin lying in wait and then attacking Zimmerman.
      just another instance of why i hate the media.

  132. Liberals thumped by Morsi; Islamists close Supreme Court. Classic revolutionary logic unfolds. Moderates lose. http://bit.ly/Uj20yS

    Yes, God given. Deal with it. http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/10/how-are-gun-rights-god-given-and-inalienable/

    NBC’s Bob Costas Interrupts Sunday Night Football With Gun Control Lecture http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nbcs-bob-costas-interrupts-sunday-night-football-with-gun-control-lecture/ … via @theblaze

    So I guess this means Hillary Clinton is a racist? http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/16724826-452/hillary-clinton-doesnt-fancy-rice.html

    ‘Hi, deliver me from evil’: Catholic Church sets up an exorcist hotline to deal with demand http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hi-deliver-me-from-evil-catholic-church-sets-up-an-exorcist-hotline-to-deal-with-demand-8368988.html

  133. Obama’s Payback: Hits Red States With New Insurance Fine‏

    Obama Slaps Fine on Red States That Don’t Comply

    On Friday the Obama administration announced a heavy fine on states that do not create state health exchanges. Users of the federal health exchange will have to pay a 3.5% fine added to their insurance premiums.

    http://news.newsmax.com/?KKORaXwjBjEpxBW4JrEK-nE12XPkxfR1K&http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Obamacare-insurance-premiums-states/2012/12/01/id/466088

    1. “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”

  134. Yeah, that’s the ticket, blame the dolphin & SeaWorld. Is this guy His Naniness’ nephew?

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/girl-bitten-while-feeding-dolphin-at-seaworld-dad-catches-it-on-camera/

    Read the guys comments, “We wanted to share this video so others can make an informed decision about whether or not the risks to yourself or your child are worth the experience.”

    What!? There are bears and wolves and things in this National Forest? Dumbass. OK, I’ll stop.

    1. For our sixth wedding anniversary, I gave my ex-wife a surprise swim-with-the-dolphins session at Sea World in San Diego. She cherishes that time spent in the water with the dolphins.

      Watched the video, and as far as I’m concerned, this little girl’s dad is looking for a lawsuit. Any ambulance chasers nearby? What an ass. He’s trying to shoot video of the horrible injuries, three tiny bite marks, and the girl doesn’t even want to show it. It’s over as far as she’s concerned, but Daddy wants money.

      I went to the video on YouTube to comment, but it looks like Daddy doesn’t want to hear what an ass he is, he’s disabled comments. But if you go here, http://www.youtube.com/user/jlthomasjr/feed?filter=1 you can make comments directly to his account. Seems most people feel the way I do.

          1. Old pic, she’s almost 20 now, she keeps her swimming w/ flipper pics on her facebook page so I didn’t think she’d mind. You should see the one where she’s holding the fin holding her breath being towed behind.

            1. Swimming with the dolphins is a special thing, any kind of interaction with them is. Even just feeding and petting them. The little girl in the story is NOT going to have a full life with a dad like that, neither are her little brothers.

              Five seconds with a kitten, and I’m in much worse shape than she was, and laughing the whole time.

            2. I was an electrician at a Six Flags park at one time. I used to go to the Aqua Stadium every morning to play with the dolphins. I would throw them a ball and they would always bring it back, but try to splash me when they gave it back. We both enjoyed that little game.

        1. There’s a clip on Yahoo, where the little girl talks about how she still loves dolphins, wants to grow up to be a trainer, so she can understand more about them. I wish her the best.

          But her dad I’m not so impressed with. He talks about when the park workers asked if they wanted medical treatment. “Of course we do! She’s bleeding!” Do they rush their kids off to the doctor every time they bleed? Come on! They’re kids!

          Then he talks about how, at one point in the situation, he thought he might have to jump in to save his daughter. Yeah, right. The entire incident took much less than a second. Had this pussy actually had to act, he would have peed himself first.

          You can still make comments here. http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/girl-bit-dolphin-felt-bad-fish-163958436–abc-news-topstories.html

          1. Thank You! Why I like you so much. I so wanted to say something along the lines of your last sentence but didn’t, that whole post sums up my thoughts on the matter better than, well, my thoughts. I really do feel sorry for those kids, 2 strikes (parents) against them before they even get started.

            Anybody know if anything happened to the guy who shot his daughters laptop?

  135. http://twitchy.com/2012/12/01/kim-kardashian-declares-bahrain-prettiest-place-on-earth-then-came-the-tear-gas/

    NC realtor smacks down Stop Rush bullies: ‘I will advertise wherever I damn well please’ http://twitchy.com/2012/12/01/nc-realtor-smacks-down-stop-rush-bullies-i-will-advertise-wherever-i-damn-well-please/

    Ambulance ‘booted’ at Mid-City convenience store while EMTs were treating critical patient, station reports: Epi… http://bit.ly/11tPQHC

    you’re welcome…

    1. The entire Kardashian clan are about the most useless piles of crap on earth, and Kim needs a 2×4 upside the head!

      1. I agree. That is the role models the new generation is looking at and how television is dumbing down the nation.

  136. Vivendi ( International ) – 856 layed off Nov 28 2012 Parent company of MSNBC.

    The Arby’s Restaurant on Griswold Road in Elyria, Ohio closed.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/tom_fitzgerald/20121202_Thomas_Fitzgerald__The_Norquists_of_the_left.html

    http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/30/the-bush-tax-cut-issue-in-one-chart

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-northern-mali-music-silenced-as-islamists-drive-out-artists/2012/11/30/110ea016-300c-11e2-af17-67abba0676e2_story.html?hpid=z3

    Our “new America”–Indep med practices being gobbled up by large hospitals, cost pressures mount. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/business/a-hospital-war-reflects-a-tightening-bind-for-doctors-nationwide.xml

    TSA agents at Southwest Terminal at St Louis mice enough BUT. …. Woman in her in 80s in wheelchair is told to go stand in Scanner. She needs help to get out of chair needs her cane to stand without wobbling but can’t take it into Scanner. She is confused tries to pass through, redirected, starts to go out other side, redirected in. She is wobbling while they try to tell her how to stand and face Scanner. She leans against device. I’ve had it! I step out of security line and start forward to complain but before I get to agents they give up, put her back in wheelchair and push her through security. Advise to agents: Do your job but use COMMON SENSE!!! Question for agents: How would like YOUR grandmother treated?

    John McAfee’s blog announces his capture by police http://twitchy.com/2012/12/01/john-mcafees-blog-announces-his-capture-by-police/

    1. So, why exactly would any military want to design its ship in a color that can be easily spotted ?

      To draw attention away from the really camo’d subs of course. duh.

      (edit) Because it’s justin beebee’s fave colour?
      see how i used the Canadasian spelling ?

    1. It goes away after a few minutes. I sorry.

      Nice article…F&F has not completely been swept under the rug yet.

      I put these on here over the course of 24 hrs. I can’t help it if nobody else posted anything.

      I am in the middle east so I am posting while yall are sleeping.

      1. didn’t realize you were overseas. still, a look at the time stamps shows you could edit your first 1 with the following 4.

        30mins is the time window.
        just sayin. Say, did you catch that news story about the NC elem. school telling a girl she couldn’t read her poem cuz she utilized God in it? And for a Vet Day celebration no less.
        I won’t post the link I saw cuz (ick ptoooie) the sidebar had fags kissin and that’s disgusting, idk why the blaze would have that image in their slideshow. makes me wanna vomit.

        1. The Blaze is having a lot of trouble with the left wanting get ad buys up like that.

          No, I didn’t hear about the little girl and her poem but we have all come to expect public schools to enforce the socialist manifesto onto children and that is why my children go to private school. I am for the voucher system for that very reason. In Texas we pay school taxes like a property tax is paid. If you have no children going to school you still have to pay school taxes. My public school decided that an aluminum bleachers worth a million were not good enough at the football field. They decided that they needed an 8 million dollar stadium built and my taxes went through the roof. I have to pay school taxes and pay for my children to attend a private school.

          1. it wasn’t an ad, it was for a blaze article on something to do with those types.

            My older Sister has home-schooled (and continues also) her younguns, idk about tax requisites for that. I think it’s disgusting that so many schools, especially in Texas, pour so much money into sports, at the expense of not only the taxpayers, but the children’s education.

            1. My children were doing homechool for a while but they enjoy private school better. My youngest has autism so we need extra help and therapy for her.

  137. Thanks to the petitions and phone calls from concerned Americans like you, the Amendment stripping the indefinite detention language out of the NDAA just passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 67-29.

    from Rand Paul. yay!

  138. CNN: “247 million” shopped on Black Friday – that’d be EVERYONE in US over age of 14. Wow. CNN counts shoppers like Obama counts jobs.

    1. That may be one of the most devastating sucker punches I’ve ever seen thrown. I hope this person finds himself in some British prison where a bit of real justice would be dispensed on a daily basis. If that were one of my daughters or my wife, he’d not have the opportunity to appear in court.

      1. If, for some reason, you couldn’t take care of business all you would have to do is ask. There is only one way to take care of rabid animals and we all know what it is.

    2. Kick, I’m with you, he wouldn’t ever bee seen again.

      Follow up:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4qn3RfC5y4
      Thug, 34, admits punching 16-year-old girl unconscious in shocking random street attack which was caught on CCTV Michael Ayoade, 34, ran up behind Tasneem Kabir as she walked to college and smacked her around the head Ayoade jogged away as the 16-year-old lay unconscious on the ground in Plaistow, East London When arrested Ayoade told police he was intimidated by the petite teen and that ‘she started it’, Thames Magistrates’ Court was told A thug has admitted knocking a 16-year-old girl unconscious in an unprovoked street attack that left her with broken teeth and a split lip. A court heard Michael Ayoade, 34, who smacked petite teenager Tasneem Kabir around the head as she was walking to college in east London, told police: ‘She started it’. He was arrested thanks to an anonymous tip-off after police released CCTV footage of the shocking attack, which showed Ayoade casually jogging away while Miss Kabir lay unconscious on the ground. Ayoade later told police that the petite 16-year-old ‘didn’t have a friendly face’, that he was ‘intimidated by her’ and that she ‘made me feel like a pauper with her facial gestures’. He said he couldn’t cope with ‘taking an insult from a little person like that Powerfully built Ayoade, who has a distinctive scar on his cheek, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Thames Magistrates’ Court today following the daylight attack in Plaistow, which left the teenager with three broken teeth, a split lip, and bruises and grazes on her face. Miss Kabir had left home with her brother shortly after 12.30pm on November 13, but realised she had forgotten her phone and went back to retrieve it as her brother walked on. Prosecutor Bandana Batra told Thames Magistrates Court: ‘She remembers seeing the defendant looking at her from the other side of the road as she went back. ‘As she came out he was inside the gates to her street and she says he approached her and was within 30cm of her face. She found this strange but she carried on walking. ‘Miss Kabir was then walking along High Road, Plaistow and all she remembers next was waking up in the ambulance,’ the lawyer said. Ayoade had followed the teenager, launching his surprise attack as she passed the Black Lion pub. Ms Batra said: ‘He started jogging up behind Miss Kabir and he struck her her on the side of the head causing her to lose consciousness and that’s why she doesn’t remember what happened.’ The girl hit the ground face first following the blow from Ayoade. Ms Batra said: ‘It was an unprovoked attack on in a lone female. She is pretty petite in size – you can see the size of Mr Ayoade.’ When police were searching for her then mystery attacker, Miss Kabir had said: ‘I hope he does get caught so he doesn’t do it again to another person. I hope I am his last victim.’ Police received an anonymous phone call informing them of Ayoade’s address. Officers discovered cannabis at his home in Plaistow and he pleaded guilty to possession of a class C drug on November 21. Ms Batra said: ‘He said he admitted to doing it, it was a misunderstanding on his part. He had had too much to drink and smoke that day.’ ‘He said he was going about his business and was intimidated by her look, she looked like she wanted a fight. She looked about 19 or 20. He did not approve of the way she looked so he went back and punched her….He said “Nah, that hurt, I can’t go further in my day taking an insult from a little person like that”.’ ‘He thought to himself “No, no I am not taking this”,’ the lawyer said. ‘He never spoke to her, just punched her.’ Marianna Christou, defending, said that Ayoade had come to the UK from Nigeria when he was just three years old, and had to fend from himself from young age. He was said to have no contact with his family. Ms Christou said: ‘He has drunk since he was 16 and smokes up to 10 joints a day which in my submission is excessive and perhaps this causes some degree of paranoia and low self esteem.’ Ayoade was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Inner London Crown Court on a date to be fixed.

      1. What he did was reprehensible. There can be no excuse for that sort of behavior. However, why do I get the feeling that there’s a *lot* more to this story than meets the eye?

        1. Honestly, I don’t care if she threatened to kick him in the balls, from his actions we can tell she didn’t kick him, there is nothing that she could have said that would warrant that attack.

    1. Yes beheadings and death sentences are appropriate responses to being insulted. Seriously if Momo was this thin skinned he had no business being a “religious leader”. For real the fool would have run to the desert and dissappeared if someone told him that he had to die a miserable and embarrasing death in the hands of oppressors to save others. No benign religion would think this is ok.

  139. Saturday Night Live was a perverted breath of fresh air in the freedom of speech arena back when it started up. Man, I laughed my perverted teenage ass off watching that show. Then it kinda suffered the ups and downs in popularity, and for good reason; it usually sucks when the talent isn’t very talented and any shining star usually bolts at the first big offer from TV or Whorywood. Anyhoo, Victoria Jackson was never a favorite of mine, even though she is actually hilarious. She has re-entered my scope again here – http://victoriajacksonshow.com/ Very much different than I supposed!

      1. Well, this is just people exercising the tenants of their religion. So it isn’t Murder. Just like a Muslim man forcing his wife to have sex with him evidently isn’t rape because he’s doing it in accordance to his religious beliefs.

    1. OK… She didn’t refuse on her own. Her family (who in essence owns her) ALSO declined or declined for her. Going after her first off, doesn’t make sense, however going after ANYONE doesn’t make sense. This is what I am saying, they did this in the name of their religion which in all truth allows it, but they did this because he was angry and embarrassed and used his religion as an excuse or reason for his violent and abnormal behavior. This is the real war on women and people here in this country with their progressive mindset fail to see it.

      1. Not to mention that he was a “close relative” a COUSIN!
        They really have no boundaries, do they?

    1. Just shows how little impact man DOES have over the Earth. All those Poat-Apocalypse movies show the wilderness taking back the cities in a matter of a decade. In this case, it’s even before.

      1. You have a stalker now too? Way to go! Guess I’ll have to try a little harder.

        [edit] Nevermind

    2. Kind of surprised to see coyotes there. The nearest Acme Plant has got to be at least ten miles away. I suppose they went to see a ball game while they’re waiting on their order.

      At least they’re not Sox fans.

      1. I have seen they’ve shown up in Long Island too.. and the NE coyotes have interbred with wolves and wild dogs (provable in DNA), and some of them now take down deer

        They were still little things in AZ. I haven’t seen one in Denver yet but hear others do. We have foxes, racoon, and skunk in our yard so that’s kinda cool

        1. Coyotes are smart animals for the most part. For example, they take advantage of prairie dogs’ inability to count beyond 1 — two coyotes go into a prairie dog town, and after a while one leaves. Then the prairie dog’s pop their heads up and the other coyote eats.

          It’s only their infatuation with Acme products that keeps their population down, I’m afraid.

    1. The case goes to court early next year.

      In the meantime, I’m sure the tickets will continue to pile up.

    1. Interesting. These are the same people that want separation of church and state and don’t want G-d in schools nor in the public forum, but if “they” [not them] mess up Christmas “they” are evil.

  140. Good Morning,

    I hope everyone had a peaceful and introspective Thanksgiving and that you and yours are safe. I was away because my Brother came, I have a lot of work to do so I did not come back, however I really would appreciate if some of you guys did something for me. I am hear to beg for your prayers. Please pray for my family and for the people of Panama especially those in the Provinces of Panama and Colon and the surrounding Provinces. Thanks to G-d there haven’t been too many deaths (so far), however many people are without homes they are displaced and the rain CONTINUES. Yes there is torrential rain that even though not out of season per se, the amount and the disaster that came with it is unprecedented at least for the past few generations. This morning there is now flooding in my grandmother’s neighborhood. I do hope for your strong prayers perhaps selfishly for her and my aunt and my cousin (who is also trapped in her home) especially. Even though so far water hasn’t entered her home (it has entered my cousin but it seems that not to the point above her knees), waters have entered some of her neighbor’s homes. She (my grandmother) is not a complete invalid but walking fast is not an option nor walking in the flood waters that are over knee high. She is 98 years old. There is no car in the home even to go anywhere and I was told that at this point in time going somewhere with a regular car would be a bad idea. She is there with my aunt who gets hysterical. If you believe in YWH please pray to Him and to the Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit that these rains would go away and that my family and everyone else’s family will be spared. I would appreciate it very much even if just to be in your positive thoughts.

    I do feel bad for Hurricaine Sandy victims and that they are still struggling however there is no room (it seems) in US media to speak about other countries UNLESS it has to do with something that fits their progressive agenda. There are dozens of stories about the Bangladesh fire and although tragic and I do feel sorry for the victims, I can tell the angle here is that they aren’t unionized that they are working for evil American and European corporations and so on. No one cares about other countries unless many are dead or if it doesn’t have an angle to it to benefit their agenda. It is deplorable.

    Thank you

    UPDATE: Just as I was finishing typing this, my Mom came in and told me that the rains have stopped! You see this is why I believe in G-d and prayers. Even if disaster happens and the answer is not what we expect, I know that G-d cares and that G-d can do and that G-d is true to His people. I don’t know why this happened, but I know that G-d had the power to change things if it was His will and it seems that it is. At this point it stopped raining, however realistically the rain can continue at a later time (because I know this by experience that rain may continue for days on end then stop then return), however I am going to be positive that for now it has stopped and the waters can have enough time to recede. I will still beg for your prayers and I do appreciate any and all of them and I appreciate all of you.

    Thank you

      1. Prayers are the best thing that anyone could ever do in my opinion and they are always appreciated. G-d has been merciful to a great great number of people in sparing their lives. Things and homes can be rebuilt. As for my family they are fine, my grandmother is old and she really had no idea what was happening which is actually a good thing, and my cousin just has to deal with cleanup which is in my opinion better than the alternative.

    1. Sorry that I haven’t been back recently. Thankfully the rain stopped and the waters are receding. My family is safe. There were a few deaths, the last time I checked it was about 8 people, however they were the people that did not want to abandon their homes unfortunately. Even though a lot of homes were lost, thankfully a lot of lives were spared. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers on this very much. This is seasonal however the floods have been increasingly getting worst. The Red Cross (and other charities and churches) have seriousy done great wok, the government and the President get an F-.

      Thanks again!

    1. That explains how he got enough votes to win, mentally competent people didn’t vote for him.

  141. I’m posting the whole article, because if you aren’t a member of Tea Party Nation, the link won’t work for you.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/group/theinstantsurvivalist/forum/topics/the-help-that-isn-t-coming

    It has been almost a month since Hurricane Sandy hit the New York area. The rescue and recovery efforts have been a disaster. They have been far worse than Katrina. Why aren’t you hearing about it?

    It is simple. There are no conservatives for the media to blame. The major players are a far left President, two liberal governors (NY’s Cuomo and NJ’s Christie) and a liberal mayor of New York City, so the media has no conservatives they can hang government incompetence on.

    There is another story from Hurricane Sandy that we all need to learn and take to heart.

    What is it?

    If you have never visited the Instant Survivalist blog, the motto of this blog is, “When seconds count, help from the government is only weeks away.”

    The government response to Sandy is absolute proof our motto is accurate. While people were begging for food, water and power in parts of Manhattan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had a priority and it was not getting food, water and power to those in need.

    He wanted to make sure the New York Marathon was run so he could have his “mission accomplished” photo op. Resources that should have been going to help New Yorkers, who were in need, were instead tied up so a politician could look good.

    The real problem was most New Yorkers were totally dependent on the government for help.

    There is no subtle way to say this. Dependency on the government kills. It happened in New Orleans and it happened in New York.

    There are a group of people featured on the TV show “Doomsday Preppers.” These are people who believe that various end of the world disasters will happen and they prepare.

    While their preparation is commendable, the fact is the odds of what they are preparing for happening are almost the same as their odds of winning the lottery.

    But there is something that will happen within the next few months. The odds of it happening are 100%.

    What is it?

    It is a natural disaster.

    What kind of natural disaster and where will it hit?

    There are all kinds of disasters from winter storms to earthquakes to fires to tornados to floods. One of these is going to happen.

    Where will it happen?

    I’m afraid that the answer to that question is a little above my pay grade.

    But a disaster will happen.

    The question is, if the disaster happens at your home, what will you do?

    Have you ever discussed disaster plans with your family?

    One of my favorite quotes is, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” In a disaster, failure is not an option.

    Have you discussed disaster plans with your family?

    What would happen if a major disaster hit and you and your family were separated? Where would you go? How would you meet up? Do you think you could just call on your cell phone? Think again.

    Depending on the type of disaster, many cell phone towers may be destroyed. The others will be overwhelmed with calls.

    Do you have school age children? What happens if a disaster hits while your kids are in school? Who is going to pick them up? Where will you meet up?

    Do you have special medical needs? How will you address those?

    If a disaster hits, do you know the hierarchy of needs for survival?

    They are shelter, water, and food, in that order.

    What happens if you are in an area where your power is out for two weeks? Power is still out in areas hit by Sandy almost a month later. Without power, there is no water. Without power, any food that requires refrigeration will be spoiled in a very short time.

    How do you prepare for the disaster that may come?

    If you have never started preparations before, start simple. The average person needs a quart of water a day to survive. When you go to the grocery store, pick up an extra package of water. Twenty-four bottles of water are $5 on sale. You can pick up extra packages of food that you do not have to prepare. Energy bars are not expensive and can be easily stored.

    There is a reason why the Boy Scouts have the motto, “Be Prepared.”

    It is the best advice you can receive.

    When disaster strikes, help will come eventually but for the first few hours or days you will be on your own.

    What will you do?

    Will you be one of those begging for help or will you be in the best position to survive the disaster?

    The choice is up to you.

    1. A little carry-over from the other thread? LOL.
      This is all well and dandy, but it needs practice. Having extra ‘bottled water’ is great, however can new sources of water be found and made safe for use. Can a shelter be built, a fire be started w/o matches or a lighter, know whats safe to eat and how to gather and prepare ‘wild’ food, the list goes on and on. It takes years of ‘doing’ to be effective and efficient at survival, no matter what type of disaster happens, natural or otherwise.

      1. Yep. Goes all the way to the core of Margaret Sanger’s filthy racist heart, may she burn in hell.

      1. Yeah, me too. She seemed to be more reasonable before. I started smelling something wrong with her middle o summer. I don’t remember what it was that seemed malodorous at the time. I’ll have to check into it. This is completely outside acceptable bounds and I’m sorry to have cast a ballot for her when I did. I liked what I knew about her when she was down here in Tampa.

    1. Yea, I started worrying when Tektronix started with the module replacement on their new generation of oscilloscopes around 1984/85. It made me wonder what all that schooling I went through was good for. Any moron can hook up to a computer and troubleshoot to modular level.

      1. “Any moron can hook up to a computer and troubleshoot to modular level.”
        LOL
        Or, replace the complete unit with a ‘New – Updated Model’.
        Put a monkey in a suit, pay them with bananas.

  142. Jolly Olde England might have recently gotten a reprieve from their self induced suffocation. Cameron saying something like this seems peculiar in its logical content. The best guy they have there is Nigel Farage and his words at the Eurotopian Parliament are not to be overlooked, especially if you appreciate the wry humor of their brightest. Read it, check the videos. http://networkedblogs.com/F7syy
    In case you don’t want to invest all that clicking and reading and czit, at least watch the Farage Barrage! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zupKS1IXk-k&feature=player_embedded#!

      1. well, you can’t expect them to report this story…it doesn’t fit their narrative, now does it?

  143. Morsi, barry’s bud, is now dictast,,, um dictator of Egypt.
    newsmax says it’ll put him at odd w/Israel and the U.S. Heck flames, i can’t imagine most Americans understanding what a dictator is considering their choice for 1st Representative, ESPECIALLY considering the tip drb most recently posted.

    1. I had the biggest crush on Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters). Never missed a show.
      “Flying Turkeys” was one of my favorites.

        1. So then, I’m not the only one that likes the girl next door, sweetness and innocense, as opposed to the brassy, busty, in your face type.

            1. The sad part is, do you remember her “accident”?
              She was driving naked in the middle of the night, stopped her car and was trying to flag down someone for help. She was hit by a pickup truck and ended up in the hospital.
              This happened in Sept of 2007.
              It’s very sad.

          1. So it wasn’t just me who had the hots for Mary Ann instead of Ginger and always favored Jan over Marcia, Marcia, Marcia?

            1. Roger that. I’ve always preferred a good ol’ boy’s girl, as opposed to the painted up women that guys are apparently supposed to like.

            2. Eh, not so much.
              I prefer less, as in less is more.
              SOMETIMES, makeup is OK, but not as a daily dose.

    1. If he sticks to his guns then I will refrain from calling him “tangerine-face” from his spray tan. But if he caves, all bets are off! Maybe nick-name him “Clementine”.

      1. No, “Tangerine” — the old jazz standard works just fine — just change one line and a couple pronouns, and it works:

        “Measuring a summer’s day,
        I only find it slips away to grey,
        The hours, they bring me pain.

        Tangerine, Tangerine,
        Living reflection from a dream;
        Barry’s his love, Barry’s his queen,
        And now a thousand years between.

        Thinking how it used to be,
        Does he still remember times like these?
        To think of us again?
        And I do.”

      1. http://www.newsmax.com/US/obama-nix-boehner-obamacare/2012/11/21/id/465087?s=al&promo_code=10DB3-1

        The White House has thrown cold water on a suggestion by House Speaker John Boehner that changes to Obamacare, the president’s signature healthcare overhaul, will be “on the table”as talks to avert the fiscal cliff continue.

        An administration official told The Huffington Post that there will be no talks on taxes and deficits that would include nixing parts of the Affordable Care Act, as the healthcare plan is called.

        “And they know that, so it’s counterproductive to even offer it,” the aide added.

        Boehner called for the healthcare law to be part of negotiations in an op-ed in The Cincinnati Enquirer on Wednesday. He has called for abolishing Obamacare in the past, holding some 33 votes in the last two years in an attempt to bar the law, Huffington Post reports.

        One Senate Democratic leader suggested some cuts to Obamacare could be part of a grand agreement as part of fiscal negotiations but would not alter the reach of the law “in any meaningful way.”

        Boehner suggested after Obama was re-elected that “Obamacare was the law of the land,” sounding like he and his party would not continue efforts to overturn it. But he has walked back those comments recently, suggesting the battle is not yet over.

    1. Did you know that they also make Dolly Madison snack cakes?
      Just another brand destroyed by union greed.

    1. LOL! I couldn’t watch the whole thing, but I did scroll down to see the description:

      Published on Nov 17, 2012
      Dumb Ways to Die – Part of a train safety campaign by Melbourne Metro Trains of Australia

      1. She sets gender equality back to the stone age. She is all about getting women paid big for their sexual favors to powerful men. and whining about how poor defenseless women are taken advantage of. Never mind that 40 years after the women’s rights movement women are on equal footing educationally and financially (if they choose to be), Allred will see that they are perceived to be simpering playthings. She is disgusting!

    1. bastiges…no way that’s constitutional, but it ain’t like we can trust the scotus to rule that way

          1. no, they have been trained to twist, distort, completely shread and rearrange it to say what they want it to say.

  144. Holy Crap Alien, just caught the clip on the news of the NASA vid of the latest solar flares out of the corner of my eye while walking by, haven’t had time to check the site but those have to be some awesome pictures.

    The vastness of the universe always humbles me, even every now and then taking the garbage cans out on a crystal clear pitch black night and looking up at the sky and just standing there and saying, “Wow!”

    1. Oldest comment on that item is interesting. Imna post it right here and now.

      ROALD48
      Important! forward asap. fight not over.
      John 8:32(KJV), “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” This election does not get decided until Mid-December when the Electoral College cast their votes.
      According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution AND the 12th Amendment – if 1/3rd of the States do not cast their votes in the Electoral College — then the matter falls onto the House of Representatives to choose the President.
      In other words — if we pressure Congressmen, State Party Officials, and groups such as Tea Party Patriots, Heritage Foundation, etc., to call on RED States to NOT have their Electors cast their vote — then the House of Reps CAN choose the next President!!!!!

      The democrats are stealing this election and it is up to WE, the people, to put the hammer down on their widespread vote-fraud. The founding-fathers gave us the Electoral College for several reasons.
      Vote-Fraud is one of those reasons.
      But it is up to us to hold tightly to the Constitution. If we don’t – then we are just as guilty as those who would ignore it.

      The Constitution can stop the socialist machine in its’ tracks.
      But it is up to YOU to get on the phone and make some noise.
      Please call your State Party Officials, your Congressmen, and any political groups or organizations ASAP.

      WE do not elect the President. The Electoral College elects the President. But if enough of them do not cast their vote – then the responsibility falls onto the House of Representatives to choose the next President.

      MAKE THE CALLS!!!
      If just 17 RED States agreed to NOT cast their votes in the electoral college – then it goes to the House. And if pressured – they just might do it.

      We do NOT have to convince ANY democrats – at all.

      All we have to do is convince 1/3 of the States to NOT cast their electoral college votes.

      Well more than 1/3 of the States did in fact vote as RED States. And they too can see the obvious, wide-spread vote-fraud which has taken place.

      So, if the Electors in 17 States which Romney won decided to NOT cast their electoral college votes — then the electoral college does not meet the requirement as defined in the Constitution. And in such a case, the electoral college is thereby null and void. The matter then goes to the House.

      In every State, each political party chooses its’ own “electors”.
      Then, whichever party wins the popular vote in each State is the party which gets to have its’ electors cast their vote in the electoral college.

      However, according to the Constitution and the 12th Amendment, in order for the Electoral College to have a quorum – then at least 2/3rds of the States must cast their votes.

      As stated in the Constitution and the 12th Amendment:
      “A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States,”

      So, if 1/3 of the States (17) do NOT cast their electoral college votes – then it goes to the House of Representatives (not the senate) to elect the next President.

      YES!! WE CAN DO THIS!!Please copy ‘n paste this as far and wide as possible!! And then make some phone calls.
      GET THE WORD OUT!!
      AND MAKE SOME CALLS!!

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      17 hours ago 40 Likes

      1. Interesting indeed, but Idon’t think that will happen. And if it did then there would be nevering screams from the left that WE stole the election.

        1. It might be stealing, but it would be legalized stealing – not CHEATING. Following the rules is quite different than acting illegally. It’s kind of like this: taking money from people who don’t want to give it to you is illegal. UNLESS you are the government, and you call it taxes. Then it’s perfectly fine. Still the same end result, but one is legal and the other isn’t.

          Interestingly, the reason that the Republicans wouldn’t do something like this is morality. Which is why they can be steam-rolled by the dems. When you don’t let legality and morality get in the way, anything is possible.

  145. “Drug Shortages Persist in U.S., Harming Care”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/business/drug-shortages-are-becoming-persistent-in-us.html?hp&_r=0

    Just wanted to bring this up so I could coin the term “The Obamacare Generation” (didn’t actually read the article, lol) While drug shortages have been going on for a while now (well legal drug shortages) I look at people like my parents, aunts and uncles, and other seasoned folk, and see them as the Obamacare generation. The generation that will have a choice between a pain pill or nothing (and really that pain pill may turn out to be birth control, who knows). I feel bad for you guys. Stay in shape, exercise regularly. You’re the Obamacare generation.

  146. This just in:
    Dear Lyonal,

    Good things just keep coming out of Texas.

    Not only did several new pro-life candidates come out ahead in the recent election, with the victories of Ted Cruz, Steve Stockman and others, but Texas pro-lifers have made another huge step forward in cutting off taxpayer funding of abortion.

    You may remember hearing about the showdown that began earlier this year between Planned Parenthood and the Texas legislature. (lrw: I had not, to busy fighting against homosexual agenda)

    It all started when the Texas legislature, backed by NPLA members and other pro-lifers, voted to cut Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the state-funded healthcare plan designed for low-income women.

    While pro-lifers rejoiced, Planned Parenthood threw a fit and appealed to their friends in the White House, demanding that the funding be reinstated.

    In response, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, gave Texas an ultimatum:

    Texas must either use Medicaid funding for the Women’s Health Program to pay Planned Parenthood and other abortion related businesses – or 30 million in federal tax dollars appropriated for Texas would be cut off.

    But Texas didn’t flinch.

    Instead of cowering to the abortion lobby’s demands, Texas found the funds for the program in their own budget.

    Unsurprisingly Planned Parenthood has been fighting tooth and nail ever since then to reclaim taxpayer funds to subsidize their grisly abortion mills.

    The abortion lobby turned to their default line of assault when they can’t get what they want — the courts.

    But things didn’t quite go the way that Planned Parenthood was hoping for.

    The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case and refused to even hear Planned Parenthood’s complaint, allowing Texas to continue moving forward with their new program.

    Now, grasping at straws, Planned Parenthood has filed a new lawsuit at the state level, in an attempt to gain some semblance of the funding back.

    But they’ve lost the real battle in this fight, and they know it.

    Governor Rick Perry accurately described Planned Parenthood’s new attempt as “a desperate effort to find some way to keep making money off of Texas taxpayers.”

    It’s not often that we see good things coming out of the courts — especially in relation to our cause, but the fact that this one did is encouraging.

    Thanks to you, we are gaining ground in our fight to end taxpayer funding of abortion, and eventually to end all abortion-on-demand.

    Which is why it is so important that NPLA members not rest until we are able to put a final end to the slaughter.

    For Life,

    Martin Fox, President
    National Pro-Life Alliance

    P.S. If you can, please chip in with a contribution by clicking here. Your National Pro-Life Alliance is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions to keep our vital programs running. We receive no government funding.

    Yet more evidence that Texans are the best of the best, creme de la creme, the buckle of the Bible belt!! ha ha, put that in your pipe and smoke it d.c. bastids.

  147. I hereby vow and promise to pay for 1 (one) plus shipping and handling to the winner to be announced on December 19th, 2012 “I want my country back stein, as the award for the most intelligently considered (as adjudicated by the editor (with the concurrence of MRS. Editor) winner of the Survivor U.S.A. contest.
    to enter, merely list 3 items that you currently and actually have within your possession, as of 12/08/2012 in your very residence, that you believe will give you the utmost edge to survive, rebuild and lead others to pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

    All entrants MUST provide shipping details to the owners of the site no later than 12/07/2012 so that RobertW. will be able to paypal enow USD to cover the price of the award and shipping/handling to the farthest entrant’s abode.
    I hereby grant, without further adieu, full and complete authority over this contest unto the Editor, to do and to deem as he finds fit.
    Lyonal Robert Witten
    11/18/2012

      1. yeah just hadn’t noticed that one in all its glory.. maybe once in passing, but effect of the whole page is priceless

        lately some of my favorites have been Scumbag Brain, Overly Manly Man… and Success Kid never stops being awesome

          1. Kinda urinated them off the other mornin’, when I *smootched * your cheek. Face cheek! I smootched her face cheek! Jayzuz Fweetness. Jealous much?

            1. Help! Help! somebody help me!…I’m being smooched to death! 😀 KQ, Rose, Karmaa, Strina…take some of these kisses please!!!

            2. My face itches when I am kissed (on the cheek) by a man with a beard or a five a clocker so I will only accept kisses from a clean shaved man (on the cheek) or the hand. I remember when I got my hand kissed once. It was lovely. Anyway I am here for you gurl!

            3. You might think so, but it’s not an option I prefer to exercise, besides, I’m not interested in dealing with the pseudofolliculitis again.

          2. seriously who the frakk is doing that to you..? I thought before you knew who fweetness was, now not so sure

            1. I believe his real name is Nick but I don’t know him from beans. He is just somebody who liked she who shall not be named and he didn’t like my particiption in the whack-a-troll game. So now I guess he thinks he is is getting even or somehow teaching me a lesson but in reality he is completely irrelavent to anything. Maybe he thinks I started it when I just gave the “game” a name. But whatever, let him thumb down all he wants. This is the internet for gosh sake, not something to take so seriously that you allow it to rule your real life. Makes one question how stable his mind might be. It is clear that I live rent free in that mind of his as he is compelled to seek my posts out.

    1. Oh Gross!!!! That is disgusting!

      Don’t people know what happened to Rome after it became a cesspool of permissiveness where not even children were allowed to be pure anymore? Is like people want to self destruct.

      1. the wicked homosexuals have been given the go ahead to subvert normal people through the school system hollywood, and the libs in Washington via education and propaganda and the force the IRS has over pulpits. why? because the homosexuals, and i include all the subsets in this, know their sexual/gendertransposition-choices are a dead-end and non-productive and so they MUST pervert the innocent, and confuse the silly and un-thinking into engaging in that death-style, so that their wickedness can multiply. I got no use for any philosophy that considers them innocuous or harmless “as long as they keep to themselves” because they cannot keep to themselves. frankly I worry about those whom this evil, Godless deathstyle doesn’t concern. this type of person reminds me of the germans living nearby the concentration camps who approved whole-heartedly by their INACTION and complacency.

        1. All I know is that if Sodom and Gomorrah really happened (and I believe it did), why test G-d and do this? Sure He was willing to forgive those cities if enough of His people live within, however, obviously not enough did. Pompeii is another excellent example. Christians slaves were being moved there and people were being converted to Christianity less than a decade (if I am not mistaken) before the Vesuvian eruption, the slaves and the people living there (freely) were praying for some change because the culture was disgusting. Slaves were treated with great indignities many sexual in nature and as Christians they did not want to participate. Those who converted defaced the phallic symbols in their homes and denied the sexual promiscuity and the gods of the town, they suffered persecution and ridicule. Vesuvius started to smoke and most of the people left, those that died actually went back for their property (fools) and died on the second day after it started to smoke. I am sure that the Christians stayed the heck away!

          Every big world empire goes to hell the moment disgusting and nasty behavior (usually promoted by its leaders) are propagated wildly in the culture. I am not making this up. What will happen if G-d’s people decided to get out of this country? I am sure that a lot of people with abnormal lifestyles would think that is great, however again considering history and just history alone they should re-think that. EVERYTIME people who believe in G-d are removed from a region or the Word is removed from a place or institution the region, place and institution literally goes to hell. I do believe that the less practicing and believing Christians and Jews truly live in this country the less of a reason the Lord will have to protect the country (everyone even the unbelievers) from certain doom. Again people do not want to see it that way, but just think about it… once G-d removes His protection from the USA do you want to live here? I don’t think so, and no one with a mind that wants to be intellectually honest even if agnostic about G-d, would want that either. Imagine a place without G-d’s protection if we let people with abnormals lifestyles mandate that is when that happens and that is not good for anyone. It will be a place where good people will pray for death or for a diaspora in order to not have to deal with it.

          People don’t want to understand the dangers of a permissive society and a society where children arent allowed to be children anymore. Jesus was very clear that those that abuse children in any way will indeed suffer a great deal.

          1. La Reina de Kimmy, fue tratar de encontrar una canción que es apropiada, le conoce esto, te quiero no sólo con el amor de Dios, pero como una hermana pequeña sabia. Deseo que déme la información usted tiene con respecto a cristianos y Pompeya. Es importante, mientras tanto. Espero que cave esta canción, el Azúcar moreno.
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLyypuGG6o
            Repito que yo no soy su uno, verdaderamente, usted uno es preparado para usted, Jesús le mantiene mi hermana, en la paciencia y la comprensión.

    1. With Obama in office… yes, yes they are. However they will survive and as long as the Archangel Michael continues to be their protector they will be protected. However it won’t last forever so we do need to pray indeed and be ready for whatever happens.

        1. Good for you, I’ve been known to flip him off on occasion while laughing too. Wow, imagine that laughing at and flipping a screen the bird; what in the world is this world coming to?

          1. Don’t you think it’s funny. I mean does Fweetness really think a TD will have any real effect on me? Does he really think he is that important to me? Sorry but, bless his heart, no, he just isn’t. He has no power over me.

            1. Always meant to ask, don’t take this wrong but don’t you Southern Belle (Fla.\NC) female type people have a certain way of saying ‘bless his\her heart’ that just cuts like a knife when you want it to?

            2. oh, we have the sharpest edge to us cuz we smile and stay polite as we say it. 😉 It’s called killin’ ’em with kindness.

  148. “CA Implements Cap and Trade Tomorrow”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/13/California-cap-and-trade

    Was this posted already on IHTM and I just missed it? Sometimes I see headlines starting with “CA” and I just roll my eyes and say “better you than us.” Of course we all probably wish we could move to Texas.

    What do I have to say to Californians about this? Well I believe each State has the right to do as it sees fit, in most circumstances. I don’t live in your State, who am I to tell you not to be stupid? I also say ‘HAHAHAHAHA, OMG, you guys are so screwed.’ I feel fortunate, what happens to California is going to happen to the rest of the nation, but I have some time to watch what happens in your state and prepare for it. You good people from California really need to get out.

    1. The Palestinian Authority’s most notable advocate of reform threatened to quit in protest over his government’s continued failure to increase transparency and crack down on rampant corruption, according to multiple sources close to the PA.

      barry needs to mimic fayyad’s example, but use his golf skills esp. on the follow through.

  149. Preaching to the choir, but that’s only because the proggies that show up here run alinsky full time and are hopelessly lost, never to understand the reality of Liberty. The media and entertainment conglomerates coupled with the OTHER government controlled behemoth we know as public education have taken their toll and intend to continue with their crushing of this Republic. educationhttp://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333116/edge-abyss-mark-steyn#

  150. “A top aide to Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto says votes to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state will force the Mexican government to rethink its efforts at trying to halt marijuana smuggling across the southwestern border.”

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/8/mexico-reconsider-smuggling-new-pot-laws-colo-wash/

    Dudes, just legalize it already. When I was in high school, it was easier for me to get pot than it was cigarettes. Why? One was regulated and the other was not. It’s that simple. Regulate something and you have less of it, make it illegal and it flourishes under a free black market. Imagine the money from taxes, the reduced funds the Mexican cartels will have, the savings our prison system will see. I’m not a pot smoking Ron Paul supporter (well I like Ron Paul but not because I’m high). I don’t see how one can argue that alcohol is perfectly fine but weed is not. Alcohol destroys thousands of lives every year, yet it’s legal, taxed, and accepted. It’s pot, been there, done that, it’s not that big of a deal, don’t do it anymore, don’t care if people do. I am for taxing the idiots though.

    1. I’d repeal every federal drug law and return the issue to the states to decide for themselves. Those states that would legalize drugs would see a new revenue stream and a reduction in violent crime. The gangs would have to find another line of work or perish. Where is the downside? No one, IMO, is going to start using drugs just because they suddenly are legal. I don’t believe that is even a consideration when one makes the decision to use.

      1. Actually, there is the line of thought that something being illegal is an enticement to do it. The thrill of breaking the law and not getting caught.
        That said, I agree that we should repeal drug laws. The amount of money we spend fighting drugs is massive and the result is minimal.
        Legalize it, regulate and tax it, and we could pay off the debt in 10 years.

        1. I still think repeal marijuana prohibition.. but not meth. No way no. In fact, any tweaker coming within 300m of my kids will find himself in my sites..

    2. http://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2012/11/14/legal_pot_could_be_contagious_colorado_and_washington_show_us_the_way_out_of_the_senseless_war_on_marijuana

      what amazes me is the idiot comments below the article.
      some people just refuse to understand the dif between natural herbs and processed drugs. in one particular instance the barely understandable key-stroke-er thinks beer is not addictive and lumps it with mj which truly is not addictive. dunderpates, another reason why the left so readily won.

      1. {_}3 to you too, do you ever sleep? (Oh yeah, cinnamon\orange sweet rolls in the oven, doughboy scared the bejabbers outta me when I whacked the counter with the tube, kinda exploded, but I recovered.)

        1. And those are the type that think a real Conservative is a right wing radical nazi. Impossibility just by self contradicting terms, I know, but that don’t matter no how cuz they learnt it from the tay vay!

        1. This time I mean it, Boeing story in top tier block out of 200+ stories on one of the real-time news feeds I follow. You go, IHTM. Now to work.

        2. Regarding the Catholic vote, my only guess is that many of them were Latin and broke for Obama for other reasons.

          1. Given that Hispanics voted 70% for Obama, I want EVERY person that is illegally in the United States to be rounded up and deported immediately. If Hispanics are going to come here and support the destruction of liberty – there should be one hell of price to pay. It’s time to declare figurative war and act as though we are losing our country – because we are.

    1. That’s very odd, because Akin wasn’t the Tea Party candidate, he was the establishment candidate. The Tea Party fought him and the Democrats actually spent money to help him win the primary. Now we’re being told that we have to stop nominating guys like Akin? The world is insane. Absolutely insane.

      1. I just think Ann Coulter has lost her mind. I used to like her, but starting a few months ago when she started calling Romney a Conservative, I questioned what her definition of a Conservative is. Her attack on Libertarians, blaming us for Romney’s loss instead of blaming the party that actually lost is mind boggling. Now I wish she and Chris Christie would go run away together never to be heard from again.

      2. I thought the guy he beat in primary was the establishment pick. Dems wanted Akin to win primary.. They deemed him easier to beat in general.

  151. LMAO, just got a note from my calendar, note & a link from weeks ago about election predictions, I’ll wait to re-post, somebodies gotta win!

    1. Saw that a little after it seems you did, great catch, hope your bladder was voided before you read it and commenced roflyao. (crude, I know, but these things happen)

  152. Somebody help me out here, just looked this up, Vegas odds
    11:00a EST

    2012 US Presidential Election – Winning Party
    Democratic Party -450

    Republican Party +325

    I’m in pure work focused mindset so I can quit in a couple hours and can’t turn it on/off to figure this out, driving me crazy. How do I read this? Who’s the fav, I have to risk 550 to win 100 on 0bummer? Confused.

    1. Dem’s are favored.
      If you pick the Reps, you get a plus 325 points, if you pick Dems, you give 450 points.
      Keep in mind that the odds are ased not on what they think will happen, but where the bets are being laid. This way they mitigate their losses and maximize their wins.

      1. So if I bet 100 on Romney I win 325? Back to work, thanks poppa, sometimes these things stick in my head like an unwanted song, kinda dangerous when using, oh, say a table saw or power miterbox 😉 .

    2. Nobody actually *wins* anything on Obummer.

      Even if a fool was in the tank for dipshit, his ax-men in the IRS will see to it that the “victory” is short, indeed.

      I know, I know, you already knew that — it just bears repeating that a socialist government sinks all boats equally.

    1. Used to have one across the street from me, but they closed it, and now it’s a Sweet Tomatoe’s salad bar (yuck!)

  153. Been focused on the big one but anybody have a confident feeling for how the Senate is going to turn out after Tue.?

    1. I don’t think we will take the senate majority…but I think it will be fairly close with about 47 or 48 R seats when it is all said and done. Just my gut feeling on it.

        1. we have 43 that are solid R seats (37 that are not up for re-election plus 6 that we have a lock on)…3 that are likely R seats (ND, AZ, NV)…So that puts us at 46…

          There are 7 “toss ups” of which just one has the R up by 5 points (MT) so that one I’d move to the R column… there’s my #47…
          Another (WI) has the R up by 1% will is too close for me to call but cuz R is up, that is my possible #48…the other 5 (OH, FL, VA, PA, IN) all have the D leading.

          Still there is one other that I would throw into the “toss up” column (MA) but pollsters seem to think its locked on Fauxcahantas D.

          2 seats (ME, VT) may be won by indies, and are likely to caucus with the Dems

          But hey…what do I know??

      1. Yeah, I haven’t been following all the races that closely, waiting for my marathon cable & net session starting tomorrow afternoon. Have this fantasy tho about seeing Vice President Ryan casting the tie breaking vote there on a boatload of important legislation for the foreseeable future. A guy can dream can’t he?

  154. I’m sorry, but this urinates me off. This article is misleading at best and bordering on propaganda, kinda what we’d expect from the other side. We don’t need to stoop to get our point across. I usually like the Weasel but this is BS. What’s that addy, can’t find it, that JP guy, hey JP tell ’em to knock it off.

    http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/04/fox-news-confirms-cia-operators-had-laser-designators-on-targets-during-benghazi-attack-waited-for-air-cover-that-never-came/

      1. yep, that’s it…JPAttitude.com JPAttitude.com JPAttitude.com Hurry don’t delay, stop on by today…He recently got his 4 millionth hit there let’s see how quickly we can get it to 5 million and beyond! I triple dog dare ya! (internet access required, drb not included)

    1. funny you should mention this…I had a patient the other day who is a vietnam vet…anyway we were talking about benghazi and he told me that the seals/marines (rather than CIA like you’re link) there would have had lasers pointed at targets for air support (from a base in Italy he said, IDK myself) to take out but the air support never came. Anyway, he seemed greatly annoyed that said air support was not provided.

    1. Bob White?
      lol, sorry that’s just funny to me, but then I’m Texan, in case nobody knew, and bob white… lol idk ya had to be there i guess.

        1. You can tell a lot about a person from the movies they like, and the dialog they find memorable. …and then, there’s *Twilight*…

    1. thanks for this Joe, wow.
      srsly. i’m kinda appalled and yet, i had my “wonders”

      i truly appreciate reasoning.
      i shall henceforth be more informed re: pol-speak-… oh what’s that word? not paranoid… informed.

      yes. thank you! i have an inherant suspicion re: fat guys in leadership. but i’ve been trying mightily to find someone, anyone, to speek agiainst the current forces of darkness, i must say, you remind me of my JESUS’ words
      Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

      New Living Translation (©2007)

  155. http://news.yahoo.com/floodwater-pumped-yorks-ground-zero-210325312.html

    though “let the dead bury the dead” springs to mind, I must say, this is a bit of a silver lining amongst all the clouds of warfare in the natural and spiritual.

    Let us not forget! I don’t know how many of these people were not American. But I do know they were working, living, and being, because America stands for Justice, and agree or not, Justice, is provided by CHRIST.
    we who are his body on earth need to step correct. those that don’t, cannot prevail against. but Let’s give thanks, let’s remember the fallen, let’s provide the mirror of our lives to reflect the light of the Only One.
    The true dear leader.
    the Good Shepherd.

    call me a sheep
    plz.

    tip/comment/ sermonus ex tempore fin.

    1. Because they were in Houston, and arresting NAACP people in Houston would cause the town to erupt into something like the Rodney King riots.

    1. FTA:

      if it turns out that for the cost of a tablet all of these kids can simply teach themselves, it has huge implications for education. And it goes beyond the kids, too, since previous OLPC studies have shown that kids will use their computers to teach their parents to read and write as well, which is incredibly amazing and awesome.

      ……………………………

      Just think how much we could save on education in this country by following this example!
      The teachers union would never allow it though.

      1. That was my take. The John Dewey education model in the developed world does not actually teach in that it prescribes conformity, uniformity, and single-track linear thinking, which does not actually educate but simply jam data into the kids’ heads. Turn a kid loose with any tool and just watch what happens.

      1. Even if she had the body to compliment those clothes, they are not “First Ladylike”.

    1. Great tip, I think (if I remember) you’re just getting home from work and I’m still awake, have a great weekend, and get people fired up to vote come the new week. Love to see Pa. & Oh. turn solid red come Wed.

    2. The pic of the bridge in Mantoloking, NJ is especially poignant to me.
      My brother lives 3 miles inland from there, one block off that road (Mantoloking Road). I spent much of my life in Seaside and Point Pleasant. I was born in Point Pleasant Hospital.

      1. actually i was thinking about when An American proved that ignominious monster an idiot.

        and how you bet your bottom dollar Mr. Owens put into representin

        put that on barry’s and mitt’s mirrors. maybe something like that.

          1. thinking 2 bent over palm trees w/malefactors bound 1 hand and one foot per tree, and an stone axe cuttin the trip vine that held the palms down.

            old b&w tarzan movie.

        1. I don’t know what to think anymore but here’s another tidbit; 4 years ago McCain drew a thousand and change in SW Oiho, last night Romney/Ryan drew an estimated 30,000 (Outside, crappy weather!) at a rally in West Chester (Butler Co. Cinci ‘burb). And there’s this

          http://twitchy.com/2012/11/02/as-obama-motorcade-rolls-by-ohio-citizens-demand-truth-about-benghazi/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

          And this http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/11/02/romney-supporters-shout-down-cnns-jim-acosta-over-libya/

          1. “insert PsychoDad’s X-mas quote here”, just found this of the rally, let it load and use mouse to get a 360 of the crowd, wow. (I know how to take a series of 360 pics like that and fit them together, but what software makes it able to be viewed like that!?)

            http://www.dermandar.com/p/aSciJH

  156. I’m not a conspiracy buff by any reasonable measure, believing that human nature makes a conspiracy extremely difficult to maintain even over short time spans. Nonetheless, during his radio show a few days ago, Rush Limbaugh engaged in some intriguing speculation regarding coordinated, if not conspiratorial, actions among various Left-wing interest groups. His commentary provided a calculus by which some otherwise incomprehensible acts readily fall into place. You decide.

    Limbaugh suggested that the Obama camp realizes it’s likely to lose the upcoming election, and has realized it for a while now. Its strategy has thus changed from planning on winning to challenging the validity of the election after the fact. To that end Obama has deployed lawyers across the country, ostensibly to assist people in voting, but actually to establish a basis upon which to challenge the result when Obama loses. This is consistent with Obama’s strategy during past elections. In fact, his election to the US senate was largely accomplished by eliminating his strongest opponents on legal technicalities. He also engaged the Chicago machine to destroy his opponents’ reputations in Illinois state elections, illegally opening sealed court records and publicizing their contents, and engaging in widespread character assassination with the complicity of local media. He thereby removed opponents that constituted the greatest threats to his election, and breezed to victory over the remaining, weak opposition. Lawfare is what the man has done throughout his political history.

    Then we’ve got the paradox of media polls. In past elections the MSM have engaged in absurdly biased polling, just as they’ve done this election cycle. There’s a big distinction this time, however. In the past, as election day got close, Left-leaning pollsters and media began reporting more realistic results. The thinking was that concern for their professional reputations superseded their bias toward favored candidates, and they had to throttle back their Left-bias in order to preserve their credibility beyond the election. This time no such effect has occurred. Instead pollsters and media have doubled-down on their biases. Their reports are based on increasingly ludicrous assumptions, the most central of which is that voter turnout next week will approximate that of 2008’s turnout, which was a record-breaker for Democrat support. It’s as though the Republican landslide in 2010 never happened, nor did the Republican victories in Wisconsin or Massachusetts special elections, and the Tea Party has ceased to exist. In order to report Obama leading in polls, those polls had to canvas between 7-15% more Democrats than Republicans, and to minimize the impact of the independent vote. This despite the media’s claims in recent years that “elections are won or lost” by the independent vote. And as Romney’s ratings among all three groups have risen in the last two months, the degree to which polls and media reports have had to be distorted has grown in order to depict Obama as ahead of or even with Romney. The numbers being reported simply do not add-up. It’s impossible for Romney consistently to realize greater and growing voter approval than Obama and remain even or behind him in polls. It is similarly impossible for Romney to have erased a 30-point gulf among women, yet remain at parity with Obama among women. Or for Romney’s margin of support among independents to have risen to over twenty-percent higher than Obama’s, and for Romney to remain at parity or below Obama in that cohort’s voting preference. But that’s what the MSM continue to report. The pollsters and media recognize that this election is their last shot at permanently altering the nation’s very fabric, and therefore is worth the risk they take by unabashedly advocating for their preferred candidate.

    So look for the Obamoids to shriek “voter fraud” and “voter disenfranchisement” after the electorate hands Obama his ass on Tuesday. The MSM have prepared the ground by consistently reporting surreal preferences for Obama. The call will be, “How can a population who preferred Obama by such margins have elected someone else? There must be a nefarious explanation, or Obama would have won.” Never mind that polls have consistently over-stated Democrats’ probabilities of victory for over 40 years. For example, Carter was favored over Reagan by a minimum of 5 points all the way up to election day 1980, when Reagan won by seven points. The MSM will pointedly ignore prior election-poll statistics. And never mind that the entire history of American voter-fraud establishes it as the nearly exclusive domain of Democrats; Republicans simply don’t engage in it. There’ll be heart-rending stories of poor, tearful unfortunates who were unable to exercise their most precious right or were prevented from casting their votes by the Republicans’ evil minions. Obama’s legions of lawyers will be on hand to state that there were “irregularities” that need to be investigated, and that it would be a miscarriage of justice to award the election to Romney prematurely. We’ve even got UN observers who will provide near-certain support for anything that keeps their next UN general secretary in the oval office. All of this will be coming to a head next week – if Limbaugh’s right.

    However, as the old saying goes, “To be forewarned is to be forearmed.” If you think this narrative has any validity, if it sounds to you like it could actually happen, then spread the word. The more people who hear about it, and are thereby inoculated against this kind of chicanery, the less likely it is to be successful. If America is to have a chance of recovering its way, Americans will have to be made aware of what’s being done by the forces Hell-bent on bringing the nation down. Limbaugh’s suspicions made sense to me. If they made sense to you, contact others and see to it that it also makes sense to them.

    The game is for all the marbles this time.

      1. The geek on the right is staring down her blouse!
        What is he doing, checking her for breast cancer?

    1. I had a retired union man from NJ at my house for dinner tonight. He thinks this is insane.

  157. “Sandy-Starved New Yorkers Dumpster Dive”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/11/01/Sandy-Starved-New-Yorkers-Dumpster-Dive

    City folk are so unprepared. It’s like they don’t respect how good we got it and how fragile it is. You could live in the city, the country, a million dollar neighborhood, and all that goes away if something happens to the power and water. From the 10 million dollar home to the 300 dollar a month apartment, both become a shelter when something happens to the conveniences of modern life. It doesn’t take much to save yourself from having to dumpster dive after no power for 4 days, but the first place you have to start is with your mindset.

    1. But this too, can’t remember if I saw it here too, government stranglehold (awesome tune) is good, til it makes them look bad

      http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-determines-pollution-okay-emergency

      [edit] just saw a projection that says ‘rural’ (read real people) and ‘burbs turnout may over-ride the two lefty bastion cities in your state for the first time in decades. If that’s still true come Wed., I may have to jump in the car and drive 6 hours or so and buy you a beer. I hope they go vote.

  158. I Believe 2012 By Stacey Dash

    I am an American citizen, who exercised her first Amendment right.
    I am self realized and believe that hard work and faith will allow me to achieve my American dream.

    I believe that Governor Mitt Romney believes in the American people. That we can be self evident, that we are capable of achieving the American dream. That there is enough for everyone.

    I believe that because he has proven his ability to lead,and his ability to be excellent as a CEO and as the Governor of Massachusetts. Governor Romney is the best choice to be our next President.

    He has achieved the American dream, he knows how to lead us the American people to realize our potential.

    By creating 12 million jobs, giving equal work for equal pay,by giving incentives and cutting loopholes, by keeping us safe and strong as a country of Super Power.

    Yes, it is true, he is rich. So what better person to lead us to economic prosperity than someone who has attained it.

    I believe that his faith and strong moral character WILL serve him very well as he Leads us to being the great UNITED STATES OF AMERICA we can be.

    http://staydashing.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/blog9-i-believe-2012/

  159. You all wonder about Oiho, I’ve been pushing this http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/10/29/in-ohio-obamacare-to-increase-individual-insurance-premiums-by-55-85/ all day to wafflers to no effect really, the cyber equivalent of blank stares.

    The map here from ’04 is still accurate and shows my Columbus north to the lake thing. Sadly, in the bottom left is where I live, Montgomery Co. is dominated by Dayton and the burbs, outvotes the mostly rural\small town rest. (I always look at it as a wash, while the rest of the state is solidly red it’s almost all rural, so it cancels out Dayton)

    Franklin co. is the one in the middle, Columbus et al, lot’s of people(and OSU), always been blue and Somali voter fraud. Bottom right is Athens co. home of Ohio U., nuff said. The 3 on the right are rural and too close to W. Va, all I can think of.

    And that leaves the lake, Akron, Toledo and Cleveland, that’s where we win or lose. All depends on turnout on both sides. ( cheating? people cheat in elections? Get out!)

  160. What we do know is that the New York Times – one of the most slavishly pro-Obama publications in the country – reported on October 14, 2012 article that, “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster.”
    http://networkedblogs.com/E72cq?a=share

  161. Libya was meant to be a new kind of war. Not a display of American arrogance and unilateralism, but a show of submissiveness to the goals and ambitions of the Muslim world. In post-American diplomacy, the Americans did not arrive with a show of force, surrounded by Marines and heavy fortifications, but bent humbly under the defensive shield of the Islamist Ummah. Rather than exporting the Dar Al Harb, the Americans would ask for the protection of the Dar Al Islam.

    The reason that the Navy SEALS were denied the support of a Spectre C-130U gunship was the same reason that the consulate had been left nearly unguarded.

    http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/why-our-forces-were-told-to-stand-down-in-benghazi/

  162. Just flipped through the channels on the remote, not to be jaded but Shep on Fox, with all he saw there in NO during Katrina aftermath, never heard his voice break like that, but it is NYC, the capitol of the universe. Maybe it’s just me.

    1. I have family and friends in the NJ shore area. Lots of power outages, but everyone’s OK. Things are calming down now, but the water is still high.

  163. Pat Caddell was on here a few weeks ago when he first gave his speech but now he’s doubling down. Can’t decide if he’s had a true epiphany or is aligning himself to still be relevant after the new administration takes over, still.

    http://moonbattery.com/?p=19959
    Strong words, worth a look.

    1. *Note to Mr.s EdAdmin. I’m having one of those “in the zone” days, blew off work for the rest of the afternoon because I’m running across relevant things right & left and delving deeper, seems like every shot is nothin’ but net. Been able to hold back so far but if I get obnoxious, block my isp for 24, no hard feelings.

      [e] as in knock it off, start your own site lol

      1. Catching echoes of “maybe we should delay the election” because of the storm, people can’t vote. Watch, by Tue. it will be all over, it’s not fair…

        1. The Bush-Cheney Election Weather Altering Device seems to have the bugs worked out. How EVIL these two guys are, that their inventions are still working even after their removal from office! The EVIL Republistas must have a contingency plan for this potential attack on their goal of stifling the vote.

  164. Hey, if a hurricane hits a coast and there’s not a stupid reporter standing there in the wind and rain to document it, did it really happen?

    [edit] not laughing at the danger and affects on peoples lives, laughing at the media. should proly delete it but I wrote it.

    1. Actually, was thinking the same thing. Remember what the Kinks said about: “giv[ing] the people what they want”.

      1. Had a thought, can you use gifs in Gimp? If you can, would I be able to mail one on a transparent background (like the ones you used last time, 0 putting, whatever you needed) so you could use them any time a thought struck because it wouldn’t matter which one you wanted to cut out because they’re already cleaned up and there’s no background? Same for JP but I think I can mail him a psd (photoshop document) and he’d have all my layers right there when he opened it in Pshop like he was looking over my shoulder.

        1. Sure. I think it can even handle .psd docs. I use .tiff, but that’s because that’s what I work in for work.

          1. Cool, psd would help because it’s what I know ( look, I do this for fun to filter the noise and let my backbrain work on a problem, I’m using Pshop Elements 6 on a laptop fer cryn out loud), would love to be able to help somebody use it to make a point and reach more people.

      1. I doubt it will hurt turnout, they have a week to get power back, shouldn’t have much effect at all.

      2. My first thought too, kinda like last chance people, you clean this place up or I will. Like the old commercial,”It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!”.

    1. I have to go look for video of that nasty battleax spewing her filth. She is one I will be watching for on Nov 7. It’s people like her that make me glad I believe in karma!

      1. I don’t see this story getting picked up by the dudes here. I’m surprised its taking so looonnnnnnggggg!

        This is heavy duty packaging! She was among the cover-uppers shilling for saint 0 about the naughty video while the bodies of their American victims lie in flag draped coffins in the background. Now she’s ready to slice the block off the top of the re-election campaign! She’s the former co-president!

        Oh, the credibility! Oh, irony! Oh, the stench…

    1. I think that what’s happening is actually going to piss them off even more. The MSM is ignoring the Klein information. They will not report on it, like they are not reporting on Benghazi. But just enough is trickling out over the edge (through Fox, twitter, etc) that MSM has to report some stuff – and they more they do, the worse Hillary looks. I expect a serious blowout soon. Hilda has no real choice. If O is reelected, she has no shot in 2016. If Romney is, she and her evil team can try to wreak havoc for 2016. But if the MSM doesn’t stop ignoring her henchman, she is toast!

  165. http://newrepublicoftexas.com/news/obamas-va-strategy-kill-coal-shrink-navy-hire-bureaucrats/

    “The only promise Obama kept was to kill coal,” said Jerry Shortt, a coal miner from Richlands who was laid off temporarily right after Labor Day — and learned Friday that for him, along with 189 other employees at the mine where he worked, the layoff would be permanent.

    “You see all these people? I bet you a quarter of them’s laid off,” he said. “I know a lot of people that did [vote for Obama] that are not going to next time. Hope turned into damnation.”

  166. “PA Sen Poll: Smith Tied with Casey”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/26/PA-Sen-Poll-Tom-Smith-R-Tied-With-Bob-Casey

    I despise Bob Casey, so I pray this is true. He beat Rick Santorum 6 years ago because his father was a popular governor and all the old people were like ‘his father was a great governor, so he’ll make a great senator.” Maybe I had the benefit of being to young to remember his father. All I know is Rick was definitely the better candidate back then, and hopefully Pa has changed a lot in 6 years. If Obamacare is to be repealed, people like Smith need to get elected in formerly unlikely GOP states like Pa.

    1. Thanks Joe, I think you may have found the perfect young woman.
      Not too many her age that are that smart.

    1. They couldn’t say militant Tea Party rebellion. Serously, I saw this a couple weeks ago and that’s pretty slanted (surprise). The other explained it well enough it made sense.

    1. But they recommended that election officials resend a new ballot to anyone who requested one since the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire.

      Yea, right! They ought to get them just in time to be told they can’t return them in time to be counted.

    2. My comment on the Yahoo story.

      “Put all our men and women in uniform on a plane for home. They can vote, then not go back. To hell with “Whateverstan.” These people’s right to vote is more important than anything they’re doing there.”

    1. Harry was rear ended, now he knows how the rest of the country has felt for the last 45 months.

  167. Here is a Bob Casey ad (for PA Senate) that is so stupid I had to share it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-E5g5-Qkmg

    There are so many things wrong with it, like a person is really going to get the truth by calling the government run “PA voter information hotline.” The ad just screams Marxism, I can’t believe I hear it on the radio all the time.

  168. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said this week that 200,000 illegal aliens have applied for the Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that grants amnesty and the possibility of work permits to certain illegal aliens who claim they were brought to the U.S. at a young age. Napolitano also said that USCIS receives more than 3,000 new applications per day despite some reluctance within the illegal alien community to apply for fear of the program’s future should Pres. Obama lose the election next month.

    https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/october-26-2012/200000-and-counting-apply-amnesty-and-work-permits-under-dhss-daca-program.html

    1. posted this on another thread related to it because I could not find the tips page.

    1. what_what_what

      Clearly,the right-wing whining must mean that Romney’s lead in N.C. must be falling. I’m sure this was a harmless mistake and I know there are other volunteers in N.C. to fill in the gap and make sure that democratic voters can get to the polls.

      hurt him now plz. somebody.

  169. Ace Of Spades also has this on his blog, so you might want to check it out, too. This study, and the guy’s theory based off of it, is highly offensive. Talk about a war on women.. Evidently, according to the same scientists who doctored evidence to “prove” gw, women are wild things controlled only by their hormones. His damn theory doesn’t even make sense! It’s contradictory to itself.

    http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/24/do-hormones-drive-womens-votes/

  170. Here comes the October surprise.

    Gloria Allred is going to Boston today to try and get a deposition involving Mitt Romney unsealed. Getting court records unsealed is an old Obama trick. Remember the first opponent Obama had when he ran for the U.S. Senate? Jack Ryan was the GOP nominee who would have destroyed Obama, except that he had a nasty divorce from Star Trek actress Jeri Ryan.

    Even though the Ryan’s had their divorce records sealed, a liberal judge ordered them released so an up and coming Republican politician could be destroyed.

    What happens next?
    That is the 35-cent question.

    Justice Jennifer Ulwick is the judge that will hear the case. Democrat Governor Patrick Duval appointed her earlier this year, which is not a good sign.
    What is the nature of the case? No one has said yet. But you can be sure it is a typical liberal dirty trick. Barack Obama cannot run on his record. The American people are tired of Obama’s record. The American people are tired of the Great Obama Depression.

    People are tired of a snarky and petulant Barack Obama. As Mitt Romney said, attacking Romney is not a plan. Obama has no plan.

    What else can a loser do? He has to try and smear Romney.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/here-comes-the-october-surprise

  171. Who’s On First?

    http://www.irreverentview.com/political-jokes/understanding-obama-nomics#more-4035

    Understanding Obama-nomics
    Author unknown

    COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

    ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 8.1%.

    COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

    ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%.

    COSTELLO: You just said 8.1%.

    ABBOTT: 8.1% Unemployed.

    COSTELLO: Right 8.1% out of work.

    ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%.

    COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s 14.7% unemployed.

    ABBOTT: No, that’s 8.1%.

    COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 8.1% or14.7%?

    ABBOTT: 8.1% are unemployed. 14.7% are out of work.

    COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.

    ABBOTT: No, Obama said you can’t count the “Out of Work” as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.

    COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

    ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.

    COSTELLO: What point?

    ABBOTT: Someone who doesn’t look for work can’t be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn’t be fair.

    COSTELLO: To whom?

    ABBOTT: The unemployed.

    COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.

    ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.

    COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?

    ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!

    COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for work?

    ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That’s how Obama gets it to 8.1%. Otherwise it would be 14.7%. He doesn’t want you to read about 14.7% unemployment.

    COSTELLO: That would be tough on his reelection.

    ABBOTT: Absolutely.

    COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

    ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.

    COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

    ABBOTT: Correct.

    COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

    ABBOTT: Bingo.

    COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have Obama’s supporters stop looking for work.

    ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like the Obama Economy Czar.

    COSTELLO: I don’t even know what the hell I just said!

    ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like Obama.

    1. {_}3 special java ( it’s the corporate greedy stuff from the Islands, outrageously $, don’t use it much) is on, you’re invited too… Mornin’ poppa.

      1. Mornin’ Ghost.
        I should be back in the swing of things later this week, still unpacking. We moved back in the house this weekend.
        It was quite a trial. The dogs ate my new glasses, thank goodness the lenses are plastic. The U-Haul we got was 26′ and was too long to leave in the driveway of the rental Sat night, so I parked it in the front yard, BIG mistake! The soil was way soft and I almost buried the truck up to the axles! Used shovels, plywood, and my pickup to get it out. The yard is a mess! Everything I brought to the house was “the wrong stuff” according to my wife. I’ve been getting yelled at for 3 days now. She was sitting there telling me she was waiting for me to bring in stuff for her to unpack, while she was surrounded by boxes!
        I have been in such pain I can’t stand completely upright. I look like a question mark!

        Thanks for letting me vent, I’m done now.

          1. If you mean my hand, yes, my spirit is to be determined.
            My back is still tight and my legs may never be the same!

      1. Shhhhh, don’t tell anybody that the dems depend on voter fraud to help them out in NC…and they are *still* losing.

        1. Sissies. Remember what I said about where I live and Columbus north to the lake? Dateline: Cleveland. To echo a much wiser man than I, I rest my case.

    1. I find it interesting that in all the glowing tributes that were given Wallace, everyone forgot to mention this………………….

      In his inaugural speech, Wallace used the line for which he is best known:

      “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
      ————————-
      Interesting how Obama thinks he was a great man.

    1. I beg to differ. I believe that she’s referring to making much ado about Mrs. Robinson’s punk-assed son-in-law. Wouldn’t put the slur past her.

        1. I got with ghost earlier. The short answer is yes, but it won’t get the speed he wants.

          Gotta remember something about lip reading. You can’t lip-read the sound the letter ‘L’ makes. They assumed it was in there, because the alternative…

          1. perlcat, lol i know this. remember I’m hoh?

            practically deef wifout my mech ears.

            btw. ty for the puter info.

            have you seen this’n ever?
            and while i’m at it i realized, belatedly, I’d already told that trooper joke some time back, but i can’t find it and apologize on that thread, well, i could’ve, but, figured everybody who is anybody’d figger out what i meant anyhowways. esp. not so .

            where was I? oh yeah, you ever seen this’n?

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU7YdV1aXEs

  172. Islam still rules the slave trade for over 1,400 years.
    A Danish, not the delicious pastry, article that the Danske Defence League directed to myself, got me reposting a translation everywhere I lurk.
    Here is the link to the Danish, not the sweet treat, rather the article you should now read. The automatic translator worked fairly well. Even put his name at the end of it! But just in case you don’t wanna go thru all that rig and monroe, the text as translated is below. Note the lack of indents and paragraphs, as well as the occasional obviously wrong word. If your Danish, not a stale delectable, isn’t too rusty it is recommended you read it in the original Danske.
    http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/409236:Kronik–Muslimsk-slavehandel-har-nu-varet-i-1400-aar

    Here it is.

    The Senegalese anthropologist Cheikh Tidiane N’Diaye has described the Arab Muslims 1400-year-old exploitation, killings and deportations of millions of Africans. Slaves are neutering been unable to get descendants. N’Diaye refers to this under-researched topic as a veiled genocide

    Mon generally associate the slave trade with Europeans transportation of Africans across the Atlantic in crowded ships for plantation work in America. Five percent of this transport went to the United States, and their descendants are as people is a testimony of deportation. The main players in the slavery institution was not the Europeans, but the Arab Muslims, and their victims were beyond Africans also about 1,250,000 Europeans.

    The Muslim 300-year-old slave trade with Europeans described in Robert C. Davis’ book “Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters” and was in the autumn treated in DR’s documentary “White Slaves”. On the African continent, the Arab Muslims organized and carried out an extensive slave trade, which has so far lasted over 1400 years. It is thus far more comprehensive and cruel and extends over a much longer time than Europeans slave trade. How Africans largely to retain their family structures in the United States and continue the species, as evidenced by today’s large U.S. population of African descent, there were only few descendants in the Muslim world. This is mainly due to a widespread castration of male slaves and killing the female slaves infants. Where slaves in America was seen as an investment, as a slave owner had an interest in treating reasonable to benefit from their labor, were slaves in the Muslim World worn out, after which you downloaded the new supplies in Africa. Tidiane N’Diaye has described this situation in his book “Le GENOCIDE VOILÉ” (The veiled genocide) from 2008. Society structure of the culturally diverse African tribes were originally characterized by a hierarchical structure, which could resemble the Indian caste system. The lowest social classes worked in a form of serfdom. They were respected and regarded often as part of the host family. This community structure changed in tandem with the Arab Muslims the march on the African continent. The Muslims carried out violent robbery in villages, they set fire to. The survivors were captured and put to trading stations on the African coast and east coast. Over decreases gradually took to the scale and was systematized. Muslims developed the original livegenskabssystem, but they completely changed its character. They were assisted by local, as human hunters served on cooperation, and beyond avarice was some helpers motivated by a poverty that was caused by deliberate fires. However, there was also courageous and charismatic African resistance fighters. Particularly well known is the Africans’ rebellion in the current Iraq this year 869th They managed to create their own state in the area before the rebellion was crushed. They applied, however, the Muslim rulers heavy losses. Organised slavery in Africa began in Darfur in the year 652, when the Sudanese leader founded peace with the invading Muslims under humiliating peace terms. Signed a peace agreement binding him to an annual delivery of hundreds of slaves to the Muslim rulers. thus the foundations were laid for the Arab Muslims institutionalized slavery in Africa and slavery still going in Darfur today, without the international society puts effectively with it (thanks to Southern Sudan’s recent vote on a formal secession from the Muslim-dominated north, which was adopted by an overwhelming majority, the Christian and animist Sudanese now the prospect of a much-needed refuge in that part of the country). It has been going on for about 1400 years. Islam spread by its beginnings with great speed in the Arabian Peninsula – with death threats if they did not submit to, and promises of booty, if you repent. With the Muslim expansion on the African continent was complicity in the lucrative slave trade yet another motivation for participating in the Islamic jihad, like the African theoretically could avoid being a slave if he converted to Islam. , it was said that no Muslim could be enslaved but in practice was also black Muslims captured and enslaved. This was because the Arab Muslims as slavery spread developed a deep contempt for the black Africans. The Arabic word abd, which means slave, was also used disparagingly of the black Africans. Tidiane N’Diaye brings the book gripping stories of the long and relentless transport of prisoners from the continent’s interior out to the east coast of Africa and north through the Sahara vast desert up to Africa north coast. One could easily follow the slave routes, while lay human bones scattered on the roadside. At Lake Tanganyika observed Stanley, how many bodies floated along the shores of the lake. When he asked an Arab of the reasons, said this sober declaratory that ådselsæderne usually ate them, but that this year had been more equal than they could afford. Profound is also Antoine de Saint-Exupéry report on the local slave who after he was too old to be useful, they would be thrown out, after which he ruled and starved would go out into the wilderness to lie down and die. Muslim Moorish children would then curiously observing him in his death throes, while they were playing next. Tidiane N’Diaye mention the paradox that many Americans of African descent professing Islam when exactly this ideology has caused their ancestors so great suffering . The African descendants apparently wants to oust humiliation, and it manifests itself in a reaction which the author describes as the African Stockholm syndrome. addition, several groups of a desire to maintain the West in the guilt of Europeans share in the slave trade. By assuming a sacrificial role in this context, Africans and Muslims claim moral superiority over Westerners. These groups will be joined by Western “oikofober” who despise their own culture, including also researchers. Arab Muslims comprehensive and cruel exploitation of Africans through 1400 years obscured, while Europeans responsibility for the transatlantic slave trade has been extensively described and condemned. There has never been a similar self-confrontation in the Muslim world, since it is not influenced by guilt over the atrocities of the African people. Tidiane N’Diaye denotes the Arab Muslim exploitation of Africans as a genocide. He argues that this is not too strong a word, but to the contrary, it is an apt description of the assault. They wanted the Muslim world to have full control over the captured slaves. They were therefore unable to get descendants, both by extensive kastreringer and child homicide. Castration was done in a systematic way at locations along the slave route towards the coastal trading posts. The operation took place under primitive conditions and high mortality. The survivors brought a good price and was in demand as guards at the Muslim harems. , it is difficult to estimate the total number of victims. In addition to the many deported Africans, N’Diaye estimates the number to 17 million, died very many Africans during tilfangetagelserne and prisoner transports. Kirsten Valeur’s translator

    1. Wow. I knew about this, but interesting to read that a researcher actually paid attention to it.

  173. I needed a good laugh before bed, so I went to the HuffPo and this was the headline:

    “CARVILLE: IT’S WORKING”
    “James Carville, Stanley Greenberg Say Obama Economy Message Is Working”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/james-carville-stanley-greenberg-obama-economy_n_1990403.html

    This is coming from the man who wrote:
    “40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation”
    In 2009, lol.

    I can’t believe these people. In any other profession, if you were that wrong (save meteorology) you would be out of a job in a second. This is just sad, for liberals anyway.

    1. Carville is proof that a Cajun in politics makes as much sense as an elephant on roller skates.

  174. Yes!

    http://www.kxii.com/news/headlines/Twelve-year-old-Bryan-Co-girl-shoots-home-intruder–174678431.html

    Debra St. Clair, the girl’s mother, said her daughter called her at work to say an unknown man was ringing the doorbell. When the girl didn’t answer, the man went around to the back and kicked in the back door.

    She told her daughter to grab the family gun, barricade herself in the closet and call 911.

    “And what we understand right now, he was turning the doorknob when she fired through the door,” he said.

    1. Nice!

      In some states her only option would have been to be abducted, raped, and murdered. Good to see parents teaching their children how to use a gun, Lord knows they will need them if us adults don’t start acting like adults and turn this country around.

    1. I dunno, that guy has a lot more ambition than Johnny. Johnny’s still in mama’s basement. Not a lot brighter, though.

    1. One of my top 5 shows.. Loved the tactics on display too, in season 3 premiere.. reminded me I haven’t been to a range since i moved to CO

      1. Hey, Alien, where do you live in Colorado? We’ve put our California house up for sale and we’re thinking of moving to Fort Collins.

        1. we are in southwest Denver.. city proper but basically suburbs, and 20 minutes away from mountains. I haven’t been up to Ft. Collins yet. I have a friend who vacations up there a lot and is strategically planning on getting as much of his extended family there as he can over the next decade (big Peak Oil guy, i might’ve mentioned him before). He likes the prospects overall if things go post-apoc in the U.S. I feel a lot better about this state in crisis then I did about Arizona.. Phoenix is on life-support. California is mostly doomed

        2. Editor, I hope you like biting cold and snow.
          I lived in the Denver suburb of Aurora for a year (1981-82) when I was in the Air Force. I remember 14 below and windy at night, and 9 above in the day.
          Summers are nice though, rarely got above 80.
          BTW Alien, are there still a large contingent of Broncos fans that drive around in Ford Broncos painted that ugly orange?

          1. At this point in my life I prefer the biting cold of Colorado to the biting sting of fiscal disaster in California.

            Here’s a topic for discussion: I had lunch with two friends the other day. Both are remarkably successful, immensely wealthy, self-made real estate developers (why they hang out with me is, admittedly, a bit of a mystery). When I told them we were moving to Colorado to avoid California’s bankruptcy, they both said, “So what if it goes bankrupt. How’s that going to impact you?”

            Am I crazy or are they?

            1. Can’t comment if they are crazy or not but if they are truly that wealthy, then they likely won’t feel the impact of a fiscal apocalypse. That being said, if (when) California goes b/k, we all are going to pay for the clean up costs. It just won’t be a direct financial hit like the California productive class will take.

            2. Well, to be truthful about it, they might have something there.
              You pretty much know that if bankruptcy is inevitable, the fed will step in and bail them out, or they will do a chapter 11 and dump most of their debt, basically hitting the reset button. It probably won’t be as disasterous as you think.
              It seens that governmental entities never suffer the same fate that a business would under similar circumstances.

            3. Neither.

              A good capitalist can make money in a bull market.
              A good capitalist can make money in a bear market.
              A good capitalist can make money in an uncertain market.

              However, a regular joe may not be able to find well-paying work in the bear or uncertain market — the creation of which happens to be a liberal specialty. I can’t say that the advertising market in CA is going to tank — in fact, as long as there are suckers out there, there are jobs for P. T. Barnums to sell them stuff every minute. (The End of the world is coming? Stop on down to Crazy Dave’s for generators, fallout shelters, and dehydrated food!) However, the blood pressure may suffer greatly.

            4. i didn’t find last winter too cold, even after 2 decades in Arizona.. there are some cold days, yeah… but lots of sun in the winter too. The snow will usually melt after a few days, then it’ll snow again (its relatively dry here).. Its nothing like growing up in Michigan and western New York

              that being said, I haven’t compared to weather in Ft. Collins yet.. And Aurora is out on the eastern side of Denver so its sticking out into the Plains.. probably catch a bit more of Nebraska type weather out there. Whenever i have to head out to the airport, i feel like i’m leaving the mountains and heading to prairie

              Love this state so far. I will warn you though.. If you go to Boulder, you will see hairy girl legs if you are not managing your gaze properly

          2. Yeah poppa i saw a lot of that orange last year, and everyone was doing the Tebow.. I’ll keep an eye out for the trucks (not like I can ever go tail-gating anymore tho.. i think its been 20 years now)

  175. Romney said he’d label China a currency manipulator, which would grant him authority to hit them with tariffs. Love it

    1. I don’t like tariffs because it makes things more expensive but a tougher China stance is necessary

        1. I think the acknowledgement that China is manipulating currency is a HUGE first step — getting tired of that “most favored nation” trade status BS.

          I know that tariffs in the aggregate do as much damage to the wielder as they do to the intended target — but there is a reason they remain in the toolbox. They get diplomatic results.

            1. I was just going to ask, what will stop China from doing the same to us and put tarrifs on our exports, making our exports more expensive? (what exports we have left other than jobs, that is)

            2. Tariffs are a weapon. Indiscriminate use of any weapon is foolish, but when you have an adversary doing you harm, that’s when you break out the big guns. I would never suggest we draw up ranks against the entire planet. Let China retaliate. Let the Apple fanboys weep. Don’t care. State capitalists are ravaging many of our industries, while other elements of the market profit off the drain.

            3. I guess you can refer to tariffs as “big guns” if you wish, but from my perspective, you will only shoot yourself in the foot. I agree with Kick, tariffs do not work.They are an ineffective “weapon”. I’m not suggesting that I know what the correct answer is, it’s just that I don’t see tariffs as helpful. (unless, of course, you *want* a hole in your foot.)

            4. I’d say that the effect of tariff’s is this: You’re saying to someone “I’m mad enough at you that I’m willing to crap in my own back yard to say it. I know that in the long run, it hurts me as much as it hurts you, but I see no other choice.”

              Kind of like the old joke about the genie, where the guy finds a magic lamp, and the genie inside says that whatever wish it grants him, his enemy, Joe gets double.
              “Give me a million dollars”
              “Joe gets two million dollars.”
              “Give me a 30,000 sq foot house.”
              “Joe gets a 60,000 sq foot house.”
              “Beat me half to death.”

            5. i saw that Twilight Zone a few days back where the curio/antiques guy came across a Magic Lamp. He wished for a $million and the Tax Man showed up the next day to take away 90+%.. I was like HOLY SHHHEKKLES.. and he PAID it with little complaint. Can’t imagine anyone tolerating that nowadays

            6. Yeah, but remember that it wasn’t much more than 10% of a million to get the entire scenario going in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World”. $100,000 in 1950 money would be like $5,000,000 in today’s Monopoly money as far as I’m concerned. (index $ to price of gold…)

            7. meanwhile China drives a blade into our gut, bleeding us out.. Not so worried about off chance of foot wounds during retaliation. What Obama has done has been barely effective.. A tradewar with China doesn’t mean we can’t get cheap goods elsewhere, but it will help to address legitimate grievances. And it only lasts until they correct their behavior. Remember, China has trade deficits with the rest of the planet. They depend on their surplus with U.S. to finance them.

              Sorry there’s great appeal for me when Romney talks this way on China (and I love China as a civilization, in general.. but their brutal state capitalist regime and abuse of labor rubs me wrong)

            8. Remember, China has trade deficits with the rest of the planet. They depend on their surplus with U.S. to finance them.

              That is a good point, but I don’t think China will really care. As you point out in your next line, “their brutal state capitalist regime and abuse of labor”, that clearly shows they do not care if their people suffer. They (gov’t leaders) will continue as they please.

            9. agreed.. they can and they will continue to do as they please.. Pity Africa in 20 years as China digs their claws in. But i don’t have to like financing it

            10. I’d like to take a moment to talk about tariffs.

              We get taught in B-school that “Tariffs are bad”. To me, that’s like saying “opiates are bad”. Kind of depends upon the situation. They can lead to horrible situations, and they can lead to a relief of suffering. Just depends upon the application, and whether or not it is controlled.

              If you don’t believe that the trade warfare that China has practiced over the years hasn’t had an impact, go into Sears, and try to buy US-made hand tools. They don’t exist.

              The classic example of tariff damage happened in Civil War times — high tariffs on imported goods led to retaliation upon goods exported from the US to those countries — devastating the South, and adding to their list of grievances. The threat of retaliation presupposes that trade is at an equitable level. The assumption from idiotic Congressmen is that the trade will remain on an equitable level after the tariff is imposed.

              What happens if trade isn’t at an equitable level? What happens if China has taken a page out of the Colonial Powers’ playbook, and is using trade as a weapon to extract power and natural resources from the US, shaping the very nature and composition of our economy? What happens if the chief export from the US is dollars, and the imports devastate American Industry?

              I know that we could take a page out of post-war Japan’s book and use the devastation to write off entire industries in order to grow dramatically at a later date in a new direction — but I’d like to remind anyone thinking about that as a positive, that life in 1950’s Japan was bleak indeed.

              While I know that most economists would say that tariffs are universally bad — but I can’t help wondering if they say that because it makes it hard to keep score. Our current lack of tariffs has taken advantage of a global economy — and arguably, has financed the craziness in the Middle East, too. Just because both sides benefit doesn’t mean that this will continue, or even that both sides *should* benefit.

              A China goods tariff is crazy like a fox IMO — while China loses market share in the US, they have to do something about their trade deficits they’ve been using to wage war on us to counter. That’s the biggest issue I see here — they are using the world economy as a way to pass through the costs of wrecking our economy onto others — who would have traded with the US directly if the Chinese subsidies weren’t there in the first place.

              You see, I see what China’s doing as another form of a tariff — where they create an artificial incentive to enhance trade for a non-trade-based reason. We need to think carefully about their reasons before blindly sticking our hands out asking for more. It was, after all, communists who crowed that they would sell us the rope to hang ourselves with.

            11. @perlcat nice post. Love the nuances.. the idea that Chinese practices also harm other potential trading partners for the U.S. is a great observation. I’d add that some among their economic planners already view their neo-mercantilist strategy as de-facto retaliation for the colonial era–with the United States being the fattest, sleepiest target.

              Long memories and farseeing plans are afoot.. years ago I read of disturbing scenarios contemplated in Chinese military ranks, so i had to look him up.. just google “chi haotian 2005 speech” (Appears to have picked up more life as a story in 2011). Fascinating and scary visions of 21st century madness.. I know i’m getting into paranoid territory here, but at the very least its an interesting read into an alien and adversarial mindset (consider the touting of lebensraum while simulataneously asserting Asian superiority over the European race)

            12. Not to over simplify but tariffs used to be how countries financed their governments before the advent of income taxes. Now that we have income taxes, tariffs act as a redundant tax on consumers in the imposing state as in the targeted one. China is a bad actor. I understand that but until WE reform our tax code and make it attractive for Apple to make its stuff here, until we call off the EPA and allow factories to manufacture, until we become energy independent and finally convince our semi-skilled work force that given the realities in the global economy their days of union-inflated salaries are over (either they’re outsourced or never hired because the union scale reduces employment levels) we will be China’s battered wife. We need to fix us before we punish them.

            13. Exactly, kick…at this point the benefits would not outweigh the costs; would cause more harm than good.

            14. I know you’re sore about the taxation aspect — I am too. However, for me it’s about shutting the gate after the Chinese have been butchering every cow that wandered out, and we’re down to one or two left.

              They are spending an enormous amount of money on their trade program — and they have reasons for doing that that are definitely not in our best interests.

            15. We agree on that, pericat. I see the solution as us fixing ourselves and in so doing marginalizing China. You’re not wrong in your solution mine is just a different approach.

    2. OK, I will chime in on this one now.
      I have seen tariffs work to their intended goal.
      In around 1981/82 Harley Davidson was bought out by a group of investors led by Vaughn Beales and Willie G Davidson, in an attempt to save the company from horrible mismanagement by AMF. In order to give the company a chance to compete with the Japanese big bike market, they asked the ITC and President Reagan to place a tariff on large displacement motorcycles that would make them approximately the same cost as the Harley line. These tariffs were applied to all large displacement motorcycles, regardless of country of origin, but there were small amounts of bikes from certain countries that were exempt from the tariff based on the volume of bikes they shipped to the US, the lower the number, the more they could ship tariff free.
      *Note* Japan was dumping large bikes on the US market at a price that was nearly as low as the much smaller line, in an attempt to kill Harley and take over the big bike market.
      The ITC and Reagan agreed to the tariffs for a 5 year, decreasing tariff, schedule:

      To provide relief, the ITC recommended the following five-year tariff plan for heavyweight motorcycles: Raise the current tariff of 4.4 percent to 49.4 percent and keep it there for a year; lower the rate to 39.4 percent in the second year, to 24.4 percent in the third year, to 19.4 percent in the fourth year, and to 14.4 percent in the fifth year. After the fifth year the tariff is to return to 4.4 percent.
      http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa032.html

      This gave Harley Davidson the time they needed to retool and return to profitability. It worked.

      My point being that if tariffs are carefully handled and not indescriminately applied, they can be a useful tool. Permanent tariffs on all goods from one source are punitive and destructive, but carefully applied and controlled, like in the motorcycle case, they are not unfair.

        1. I added a thread for tariffing China. Please feel free to copy your posts over — in whatever way makes sense to you.

      1. AMF screwed up HD. It did, you’re right. Still, the tariff made large displacement bikes more expensive for everyone regardless of brand. Even though HD is an iconic American brand the protectionist mentality was a violation of free market principles and it was corporate welfare. HD has always been a union shop, right? So its self-inflicted problems were very similar to GM’s problems…legacy costs, bloated labor costs, and poor quality. Since I oppose the GM bailout, then I feel the same way about Harley’s government assist despite how I feel about it from a purely emotional or nostalgic POV.

        I recall Honda years ago purposely reducing motorcycle exports to the US when HD was struggling because it was afraid of the backlash here of being blamed for killing HD.

        1. I don’t know that it actually qualified as corporate welfare. They didn’t ask for a bailout or loans, in fact they rejected a loan offer from Honda. They just wanted to level the playing field for a few years to allow them time to make the changes needed to compete. had the tariff been permanent, it would have been corporate welfare.

  176. http://townhall.com/tipsheet/townhallcomstaff/2012/10/16/bill_maher_touts_population_control_claims_we_need_to_promote_death

    FTA: Bertrand Russell, in his book, “The Impact of Science on Society,” wrote:

    “At present the population of the world is increasing … War so far has had no great effect on this increase… If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full … the state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to suffering, especially that of others.”

    WOW, So if black people are sacrificed, through abortion or other means, “high minded people” would neither care nor miss ’em cause it would be the solution to all our problems including global warming/cooling/ climate change/weather. Lovely leftists.

    1. doesn’t he mean something like The Plague? That’s how i read the blackness

      Not that this makes it any better.. equal opportunity pestilence for all!

      1. Yes Alien, I am certain that he meant The Plague. But if the left is going to find racist code in every sentence those to the right say and continually fault those to the right for even using the word “black”, I’m going to hand it right back to ’em. And that last sentence is very telling, they could care less about those who suffer, as long as it isn’t the ‘high minded” or the “elite” if you will. Now who do you suppose are less likely to be considered part of the “elite” by the left? The poor? The least educated? Who among us (generally speaking) fall into those categories?

    1. “The population did not turn out in large numbers to attend this flogging,”

      In such a nation, where beheadings happen with such frequency, 60 lashes is nothing. “Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.”

        1. Ryan, future POTUS…All I gotta do is drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream, drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream…

          *sigh*

      1. That’s too bad about A123 getting involved with Obama. They were good at producing batteries before getting into the electric car business. I have their batteries on one of my RC airplanes.

      1. The Federalist Papers are some heavy reading…I’ve tried and am decidedly grateful that others have annotated them so that when I want to look up a particular topic, I don’t have to wade through all 80 something essays.

        If you get the time do the free Hillsdale College Constitution classes you should. Really worth it and full of source material. The second course precisely draws the straight ideological line from Wilson through FDR and Johnson right to Obama. Wilson was a real bastard.

        1. I read the Federalist Papers…wanna guess how well that went? It seems I do not speak 18th century to well.

          1. LOL!! I know it’s some heavy reading, I wanted it for reference. I doubt I will be reading the whole thing.

    1. LOL.. nice find… even my kids know the difference.. that’s not because i pepper them with annoying science questions & facts all the time. No, not that

  177. “Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies”

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_ARLEN_SPECTER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-14-13-03-16

    I spoke ill of him when he was alive, no need to do so now that he’s dead. Really though one of the greatest things he did was switch to the Democrat party in 2009, had he not it would have essentially been a D v D battle for senate in PA in 2010. Instead he became a D (lost the primary) and a R went on to win the senate seat. That was not his plan, but his failed plan to win reelection actually helped the country a bit.

    Also a good time to bring up term limits. Thirty years in the Senate… way to long. I say cut these peoples pay to a dollar below their states average income, and 2 terms in the Senate 6 in the House is long enough, then go find a real job.

    1. Why are foreign companies getting American porkulus dollars?
      OK, never mind, I forgot about the secret foreign donations to the Obama reelection campaign.

  178. Oh yeah, baby. This is getting really good. Hillary Rodan Clinton grabs Suzy Rice ankle attempting to shield her own body from the bus undercarriage with the body of the ambassadorette. This is really rich. Has a link to video of HRC decrying the anti mohammy video as the cause of the protest, which runs quite counter to her more recent claim that State Department NEVER had that view. There might be another rivulet of blood running uphill as only hillary can do. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/10/13/whoooah-hillary-strikes-back-attaches-u-n-ambassador-susan-rice-to-obama-white-house-propaganda-messaging/

  179. Why Jobless Claims May Not Be as Good as Market Thinks

    FTA:
    As Dow Jones reported: “A Labor Department economist said one large state didn’t report additional quarterly figures as expected, accounting for a substantial part of the decrease.”

    The wording of that statement, along with the accompanying headlines, left the impression that one major state didn’t turn in its figures.

    Here’s what actually happened. The state did report weekly jobless claims but did not process and report its quarterly claims number (when many people have to reapply for benefits for technical reasons as opposed to being newly laid off). As a result, there wasn’t the expected spike in claims that normally happens at the start of the quarter.

    It is unclear why that happened or how unusual that is. What is clear is that the expected spike in claims around the start of each quarter was smaller this time than usual. Coupled with the seasonal adjustment (that expected a bigger increase), that pushed down the headline figure.

    In other words, the drop of 30,000 last week had more to do with the lack of expected re-filings at the start of the fourth quarter than with any particular improvement in labor market conditions.

    That also means that the decline which usually follows the spike won’t be as pronounced this time around, so the headline tally of jobless claims is likely to rebound next week.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/49372827

    I wonder why they didn’t identify the state?
    Could it be NY, Cali, Or Ill? The 3 most likely suspects.

      1. Next Tuesday’s debate will be must see TV. BHO will be positively rabid if his numbers continue to slide.

        1. Yeah, crazy. I expect to see a couple toss ups float over to Romney by then.. his number hasn’t changed yet, but tossups exploded (looking back, gotta correct my error.. Obama had high point of of 269, not 271 before that debate killed him)

    1. Well, I’m sure that he’ll feel recoil at some point.

      Good to see I’ve passed on my imgur addiction. Feel free to curse me for it.

  180. See, Communism and Fascism ARE different

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows

    Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
    Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and the Government then gives you some milk.
    Fascism: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and the Government then sells you some milk.
    Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
    Nazism: You have two cows. The Government shoots you and takes the cows.
    New Dealism: You have two cows. The Government takes both, shoots one, buys milk from the other cow, then pours the milk down the drain.

    And i just thought up a new one for y’all:

    Obamacareism: You have two cows. One grows sick, and the Government starts a blood transfusion. Both cows die

    1. The wife of a business associate is an investigative reporter and is doing a lot of work for Fox News on this subject. Voter fraud is RAMPANT. Of course you have states like Minnesota that has same day voter registration and a system where one can vouch for the identity of up to 15 others at the polls. That make cheating legal and easy. Unreal.

    2. not even sound strategy.. why waste your 2nd vote in Texas?

      EDIT: I should ammend.. the Obama Campaign girl did seem to realize that the 2nd vote would be more useful elsewhere

      1. First vote in Texas cuz that is where they were and where she is a current resident…2nd vote in Florida cuz it’s a battleground state and she happened to have registered there before moving and now living in Texas…point is still that she was wanting to vote twice, and the dnc girl was willing to accommodate her.

  181. I just heard Chris Jansing and Elmo talk about bigamy, from the other room.. No lie. i’m double-checking a changeset before i head to office and nearly spittaked me coffees.. Wifey confirms i heard it right

        1. Quotation #11946 from The Devil’s Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):

          BIGAMY, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

        2. Sounds like a slam on Mormonism even though they have rejected polygamy for over a century now. Yeah, Sesame Street = apolitical.

          1. i can’t blame Elmo here.. Jansing didn’t need to follow up with bigamy terminology, but she did, and even if she wasn’t aware, we all know how her neurons are arranged.

            Elmo also said he’d want a Red House instead of a White House.. there’s your slam against Obama right there

            1. I could see Oscar wanting onion domes over the White House. S’pose he’d want the onions to be rotten, though, as alone, they just aren’t smelly enough.

            2. No, Elmo said he chose red cuz it was his favorite color and then looked down at his own fur to indicate why red was his favorite color…Elmo stresses the “3” when he said he had three first ladies was a slam against Mormonism. Listen to it again…”Elmo has threeeeeee first ladies” then later he walks it back “its just pretend”… “Elmo isn’t married”. Then he goes on to talk about a “velvet curtain” and had to clean that up too.

            3. what’s the Velvet Curtain reference..? i didn’t catch that… i remember the phrase from one of the Fallout games or something, that’s all i got. And i remember the Velvet Fog from Night Court (Harry was obsessed with Mel Torme)

            4. uhm…social club…”your pleasure is our business”…I think or something like that is their slogan. google it and you’ll find an image of a woman’s torso covered in whipped cream. classy

            5. I’m on the case!

              EDIT: disappointment increasing! Seriously, i just see a bunch of red curtains here.. and i got SafeSearch OFF. Your Google must be better then my Google (but i believe you.. just don’t want to dig in too deep while at work)

  182. Please help me.
    My hotmail is being inundated with ads to register to vote.
    They are all ads for Obama, and are about 75-80% of the ads on hotmail!
    It wouldn’t be so bad, but about 2/3 of the ads use a pic of the wookie!!

    1. Unfuckingbelievable. Islam is evil, pure and simple. It must be eradicated from humanity.

      1. Correct me if I’m wrong. If you force someone to “convert,” aren’t you really just forcing them to SAY they believe in your religion? Don’t they still believe in their heart what they always believed in their heart? Do these asshats actually believe that more people love Mohammed because they rape a little girl? Or did they do this just because there were no little boys available at the time?

    1. I am SO sick of the government regulating everything we do! Anyone who sells anything on eBay or Amazon, better watch out. While you can probably realistically still sell your stuff, eBay and Amazon won’t let you do it THERE.

      The point is – WHY? Why are we even considering such regulations? This about THIS for a second… this law could theoretically mean that a BestBuy, wanting to sell a TV made in China, would have to have permission from the Chinese to sell it. OK. But what about the local TV shop? HE doesn’t buy TV’s from China. He buys them from a middleman – maybe stepped on 3-4 times before he gets it. Is HE going to have to get a letter from the Chinese manufacturer to sell it? Ridiculous! Guess who will have no choice but to go out of business?

      THIS is the stuff that has to STOP! Hopefully, Mitt, being a businessman, will help get rid of some of this bureaucratic BS! Someone has to!

    1. That has happened to me before. I used a proxy server to get past it until it cleared up – but it was something on the part of my cable company (Comcast). I heard if you call them, and get to the tech department, they may be able to fix it – otherwise you have to wait for them to reset or something.

      1. Thanks!

        It happened right after I got a landslide of neg’s so I figured it was a lesson for the site to better respect me. 🙂 j/k

  183. Susan G. Komen Foundation wont take donation from a porn site. I am not sure how I feel about this. I mean, really – the promoters do have a vested interest in healthy breasts. It doesn’t really matter though – Komen is not a legitimate charity, in my opinion. They exist to promote the Komen foundation, and just throw a few bones now and again to cancer “awareness”.

    http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/10/05/komen-rejects-donations-from-porn-site/

    1. “Pornhub.com is now looking for other breast cancer organizations interested in accepting its donation.”

      Money is money, and the videos will be produced and watched anyway. Why not work together to fight cancer?

      1. I don’t know, but I’ve done hours and hours of research based upon your post. When I have an answer you’ll be the first to know.

        1. There’s ol’ Joe. Singlehandedly saving the world from breast cancer. Way to go Joe!

          You don’t mind if I ask you to use some hand sanitizer before I shake your hand, do you? I have… reasons.

    2. The prototypical lib “charity”. Nice name on the door, noble-sounding purpose, but underneath, nothing but self-promotion, graft, corruption, and abuse of the public trust.

      Bono is classic example. Had to give a pesky 1% so he could claim his money-making scheme could presume to be a charity: http://whatisacharity.com/bono-charity/

      It’s appropriate that the name of the charity is ‘ONE”

  184. Attention all Kindle owners, I just stumbled across another good freebie, Common Sense by Thomas Paine is available for free in the Kindle store!

    1. Great find, Poppa! Right there, first paragraph of the introduction, “a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT,..” I think I’m going to like this book.

      1. I knew it would be appreciated here.
        For those that want to get this but don’t have a Kindle, you can get a free Kindle reader download for PC or Mac from the Kindle store, and read the books on your computer.

    2. Awesome book, should be standard reading in all American schools, and the children should have to write a report and give a speech on it. That will never happen of course, but it should.

    1. I knew who it was. That took a lot of effort from a team of hair and make-up artists just to make her look average.

        1. Oh, sorry, I don’t generally look at that area of female type “its” so I didn’t notice that part.

        2. There is only one group of people talented and experienced enough to make DWS look that good, the airbrush crew from Playboy!
          There is no way in hell I would have figured out who that was without the answer on the page.

          1. No, it was the makeup crew from Photoshop. It was actually not that hard. First they swapped in a face from a real human being, then they swapped in the body of a decent person in a nice dress, but they left her lower legs alone. When the editor saw it, he said “Jeez, that’s ugly, we can’t show that in Vogue”, and he cropped it.

            And now you know. The Rest of the Story.

            Rawr. Phhht. [cat noises]

            1. The Playboy crew at least gets to start off with reasonably good looking women. I mean, other than the phony boobs. And I don’t think I’ve ever done a shoot with a woman as ugly as Washerman either. That was some fancy work there.

          2. I think if the playboy crew showed up and saw Debbie, then figured they’d have to see her naked, they would turn around and quit.

    1. Lol, I’m itching for the debate thread on IHTM. I gots to get up early tomorrow so it may have to wait.

      A headline from Drudge “Can Lehrer Moderate Debate Fairly Given Romney’s Desire To Cut Subsidy For PBS?” Nope. Mitt did take command there when he said Obama got to speak first so I get to speak last because O kept trying and trying to get the last word in and the moderator wanted him to get the last word in.

      1. Luntz doing his focus group and they almost overwhelming are going for Romney.
        Out of the 24 he has, 13 voted Obama in ’08, and all but 2 or 3 think Romney won, and are voting for him.

        1. I’m already having to straighten out my liberal friends on that one. “Romney said he wants PBS off the air.” “No, he never said that.” “Yes, I just heard it on the news.” “Don’t believe what the news tells you.”

      1. Good question.. i just thought it was funny before digging that far. It clearly demonstrates that some industries already have had brutal market efficiencies applied to their labor outlays.. competition is brutal. If any of the other alternative industries take off, competing companies will immediately begin figuring out how to hire less workers..

        And I’m not ideologically opposed to Government getting certain industries off the ground and handing off to markets, either.. but there has to be a good reason for it (e.g. Internet, Space Program)

    1. “Thank God half the population does not have lady parts…</i"

      I don't know, I'm inclined to be thankful that at least half the population does.

      1. Haha…you know what I mean! Point is that I’m offended that we ladies have been reduced to certain “parts” of our bodies by the left. Our minds don’t matter, just our “lady parts”. One of which I no longer have thanks to cancer and is most likely the “lady part” in particular that they have, in my view, reduced me to. I am more than my missing uterus, dammit!

  185. People, please, while playing at working I was just stopped in my tracks listening to the radio. Find the ad I just heard on Rush (Obama\infanticide) and blast it, no snark needed, just get it to as many people as possible.

    Don’t usually listen to the radio during the day, and I know I’m tired, but that girl’s (woman, lady? it’s radio) story froze me and not ashamed to admit it, made me cry. And gave me hope and reaffirmed my belief there is a ‘wizard of all that is’.

    If the vid can be found would love to see it, and blast links far and wide.

      1. When liberals are confronted with a “Choice” that talks, they usually no longer want to talk about abstract “Choice”.

      2. Sorry, didn’t mean to blow you off, that one. Caught it right after it started on radio and I don’t know, it resonated? I have what some would call conflicting (personal!) views on abortion, but that’s irrelevant in this case, that smacked me right in the heart,. T’anx Karmaa, duly saved for occasions when I decide somebody is honestly undecided and wants to know how I feel.

  186. Can’t sleep (it happens, used to it), there are 2 IHTM stories trending on a real-time news feed I follow, drones & the debate coverage. At 4 AM. I know they track link feeds and things like facebook, but some of their methodology escapes me.

    Why I mention it, there hasn’t been a recent comment posted in hours, yet it’s still trending, right up there with the big boys. So maybe we can grow our community even more reaching people?

    And think about comments to n00bs so they stick around? Just a thought. (and if I ever meet Mr. Ed, tell him to keep an eye on the 2 hardcover Calvin&Hobbes collections he has on his desk)

    [edit, what I meant by big boys; American Thinker and Breitbart have 2 also, Fox News has 1.]

      1. Yeah, what she said, SW Ohio, the part Republicans win, it’s Columbus and north to the lake you have to worry about. Just now checked mail since posting that, curled up with a book.

        An actual dead tree printed word book. Turned everything but one light off and just read “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”cover to cover. Loved it til the last 2 pages, was thinking about getting the original movie even if it’s captioned, now not so sure.

        The neighbor lady who loaned me this one has the other 2 in the series, I HOPE if I finish them, my hero comes out better. Any way, this is what I call a ‘no power tool day’, I’m tired (it’s worse than being drunk, no sense) so if I post something off the wall I apologize in advance.

  187. I’m sure it was an honest mistake… 🙄
    I mean who would purposly want to trick our military personel into sending their vote too late to be counted?? I mean just cuz this happened for Wisconson military voters and cuz the dems in Wisconson pushed to have the deadline changed so the military had less time to send their votes in, well you know that doesn’t look suspicious at all.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/25/Wisconsin-MIlitary-Voters-Told-to-Submit-Ballots-a-Week-After-Deadline

  188. In my Hotmail, I have been getting assaulted by this ad trying to get people to register online to vote. The ad is paid for by Obama for America. The thing is, it makes it seem like you have to be voting for Obama in order to register. I’ll bet they are also harvesting email addresses, so I’m only posting a screenshot of the ad, and not the link!
    http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r153/poppajoe49/Obamaad.jpg

  189. In this weekend’s Parade Magazine, there was an interview with Sandra Day O’Connor. While I wasn’t interested enough in being brainwashed, I did look at the little note boxes. One of them was about how she is leading the charge to teach our kids civics. I thought that was admirable. There was also a link to take the civics portion of the US naturalization test. It is 100 questions long, and is broken up into 4, 25 question segments, if you don’t have time to do them all at one time. I did notice that the last few questions in section 4 were repeats of earlier questions, but thought we all might like to see how we scored. If you get one wrong, it gives you the option to repeat the question or just keep going. I scored 97 out of 100. Not bad for a guy who, over the years, has forgotten much of what he learned in school.
    Here is the link, good luck!
    http://www.parade.com/citizenship

    PS: One of the questions, I thought, was a trick question.

  190. The OBAMAPHONE! *grunt, snort* http://tinyurl.com/9zvtxb3

    It’s people like THAT that make me want to say screw welfare, and let them just wallow in their own filth. I have to remind myself that there are more good, decent people who are on assistance because of bad luck.

  191. This headline has been up on the Fox page for hours

    How to see Uranus in a telescope this weekend

    Juvenile I know, but still. You think somebody caught that and let it go up anyway? Sounds like something many of us here would do.

  192. I’m still kinda\sorta working and listened to the Red’s game earlier and left the radio on AM and haven’t been able to search yet. But I’ve heard 3 times about a big ado on the View today between Whoopi and Ann Coulter, anybody know what happened and should I slither through ABCs site looking for vid? Is it worth a look?

    1. 9/11 happened, he stuck up for Bush, and when he left the reservation, he never looked back. One of the finest entertainers on the planet.

      1. I was inspired by Dennis as well, when he reflected on all the Bush-as-Nazi talk years back. Its bullshit. Louis CK did a good treatment on that in one episode.. his Republican friend said during a debate, “My father FOUGHT the Nazis..!” (or his uncle, i don’t remember). They ended up fistfighting and landed in an ER and chilled

  193. Prime Minister Nentanyahu is speaking to the un general assembly. He’s not mincing words, either. FOX has it going live currently.

    Megan Kelly is so hot she blinds me!

  194. Great little video in this postette at Reagan Coalition. Its a year old, from one of the great assemblies that were OCCUPY! http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120926004-reverse-racism.html
    See, white and male means you can’t know anything about race except racism. The white female and this other fellow make the point quite clear for all us evil whities that are also evil males. That combines to unwieldy über-evil white males, which must be bred out of existence or otherwise eliminated in order to stop racism. The logic is obvious, no?

    1. That dude is an idiot. I knew a lot of racist blacks in Basic Training (Ft. Jackson, SC).. things didn’t settle down until AIT

      1. No way, man! The non white males cannot be racists, just only misunderstood products of their white male dominated environs. Certainly you have no counter for the wisdom of this fine white woman in the clip. She’s brilliant, like the Sun in the windshield while driving with a migraine!

            1. Even though she’s a loudmouth, the chick with the beard is better looking than the one in the green shirt. That one looks like Rachel Madcow.

  195. For the occutards, profits-are-evil sorts and any other burok backer -http://www.naturalnews.com/037310_Barack_Obama_Monsanto_lobbyist.html

    1. Better hurry before the prices go up!
      Good news is bacon freezes well.

      BTW, I have a nearly empty upright freezer ready and waiting for my bacon stash!

        1. I don’t know if it is gratitude or pragmatism. I think we get regarded as a fortunate tool, but not as anything that should be shown actual gratitude. However, as you say, it *is* encouraging. I’ll take insincerity if it means they will act in certain ways. I’d prefer sincerity, though.

          I still think we need to stop shoveling cash to that part of the world. I think that that is just one of the abysmal failings of our State department. (Cash donations are either seen as tribute or condescension at best, and fuel corruption).

          1. Why not both? You’d have 2 different groups, and additionally you’d find individuals sharing what are, essentially, not mutually exclusive motivations. At the very least, parents were genuinely frightened for their children, their daughters, their goats even, as Gaddafi marshalled a ground force to take the city.. As these people are typically unlikely to see a direct dollar in foreign aid, i would rate those motivations more highly ( i don’t think Libya even receives 1% of what Egypt gets, either)

            The segment of that’s city’s population truly grateful for intervention must lie somewhere between 1% and, say, 60%? Perhaps 1% is simply collatoral damage in a carpet-bombing campaign. 25% would represent a faction we should work with, as we did with Sunni Triangle leaders

            Some of these people are doing exactly what is often demanded of them by us in the West–fighting back against their extremists. I, for one, salute those who engage in that honorably

  196. Uh oh! I don’t know how long this page is gonna be around. Better get your copy now cuz tomorrow may be too late! So I’ve posted the copy with copyright info and the link to it. Please try the link to hit their counter. Or not and just read it all here.

    http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/09/obamas-gay-life-style-in-chicago-2466004.html?currentSplittedPage=0

    Obama’s Gay Life-Style In Chicago.
    Wednesday, September 12, 2012 15:09
    Where Could Reporters Hear Stories About Barack Obama’s Gay Life in Chicago?

    Posted on September 11, 2012 by Kevin DuJan // Being Gay, Best of Hillbuzz, Boystown, Featured Content

    NOTE: For complete archives on the “Is Barack Obama Gay?” series, click HERE. (Not here at IHTM – you’ll need to go to the real page to click ‘THERE’)

    *******************************************************

    Last night, I was interviewed by Dr. Jerome Corsi on The Andrea Shea King Radio Showon the topic of Barack Obama’s gay life in Chicago. You can listen to the full show HERE.

    I’ve always been surprised that no reporter has ever bothered to take the time to come to Chicago and camp out in the gay bars here to get the scoop on the current President of the United States — and by “camp out” I don’t mean dress up in drag and be boisterous, but rather to spend a couple of weeks becoming “a regular” in these kinds of places, chatting up the locals, and generously tipping the bartenders until everyone knows your name (the one you choose to give them, at least) and they let down their guard and start telling you tales of Barack’s bathhouse adventures before he became a US Senator (and later the President).

    I really believe the “reporters” out there just don’t want to know the truth about this man. Writers on the conservative side of things probably just don’t want to spend that much time in gay bars.

    But, you’d be amazed by the scoops you can get just sitting quietly in a corner in these places and listening to whatever the locals are talking about. You can easily nurse a drink for a while and eventually steer the conversation toward “the good old days” and hear about what various bars were like many years ago…say, from the mid-90s through 2004 when Barack Obama was sexually active with men in Chicago.

    The way I’ve always heard it has been that Obama enjoyed being with older white men (the more grandfatherly the better) and liked only for them to do things to him (no recip, in the slang). This was most common at Man’s Country Bathhouse where that establishment’s current clientele now jokingly refer to rooms there as “presidential suites” or “Oral Offices” because the current President used to haunt the place back when he was a random Illinois state senator that no one had ever heard of or cared about. All of this changed when Obama ran for the US Senate and someone in his PR team made him stop going to Man’s Country. From then on he’d only have sex with older white men in the steam room or sauna at the East Bank Club, which is a very exclusive and expensive fitness center/social club where Chicago’s well-to-do essentially have the same bathhouse experience found at Man’s Country while paying thousands of dollars more for it.

    Some in Chicago’s gay community are of the mindset that talking about all of this hurts Obama and therefore is forbidden. A reporter asking questions about Obama’s gay haunts would encounter resistance from guys in their 30s and younger who have been taught by the “gay community leaders” to attack anyone who is seen as “an enemy” of Obama. Guys in their 40s are iffy, too, but anyone 50 and above is just so thrilled someone wants to talk to him in a bar that he’ll chat your ear off if you let him. Especially if you’re nice looking and want to listen to stories about what Chicago’s gay scene was like “back in the day” when a guy like this got more play.

    Have you ever seen an old episode of a show like Murder, She Wrote where faded movie stars from years and years before played bit parts in the mystery? That’s sort of what the corners of a lot of Chicago’s seedier gay bars are like. Some of these guys were truly gorgeous back in their prime and reigned over the scene. The gay community is 100% looks-based, so once you lose those looks you become invisible. It actually doesn’t matter how much money you have, since if your hair turns gray or falls out and your six pack becomes more of a keg you disappear into the woodwork no matter how fabulous you were once upon a time.

    THESE are the guys that reporters should be talking to about Barack Obama. If they want the real story, at least. Though, getting guys to admit they used to (or still) frequent a place as sleazy as Man’s Country is tough. You need to understand that even in the gay community admitting you enjoy going to Man’s Country is something a lot of people shy away from because it’s just that nasty in there. Chicago has two main bathhouses and then a few places that are essentially bathhouse but pull off the “we’re a spa…really!” ruse better. Steamworks on Halsted is more chrome and glass and clean than Man’s Country, but guys still duck into the door when entering and try to slip out unnoticed when leaving. King’s Spa out in Niles, where Jesse Jackson often goes, is totally a gay cruising spot but it’s a Korean full-spa that has a side reserved for women and it’s posh enough for people to claim they’re “just going to the spa”. Another dump that claims to be a Korean spa is Paradise Sauna on Montrose at California where a lot of married guys go to cheat on their wives with men.

    I bet reporters would be embarrassed to camp out in any of these places for extended periods gathering tidbits for an Obama tell-all because they’d have to be naked most of the time to do it. Nudity seems to be the protector of a lot of Obama’s secrets, oddly enough. But reporters could also hang out in the following bars here in Chicago where the older guys haunt who would have been around in the days when a skinny, weird-looking, black state Senator with a hard-to-remember Muslim sounding name was looking for oral sex from white men at Man’s Country:

    1. The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge on Halsted – Bar none, this place is the best to get scoops. All sorts of people come in here all the time from the Chicago political world. On any given night, you’ll find guys who work for Anita Alvarez (the state’s attorney), Tom Tunney (the Alderman of the Boystown neighborhood), the Mayor, and other local officials ogling the jockstrap-clad strippers at the Shoe. The Fire Chief is a regular here. A lot of black celebrities come here as well, including the guys who played the dads on Fresh Prince and Family Matters in the 90s. To my knowledge, they’ve never been there on the same night, but it would be hilarious if they were both in town and at the Shoe together. I think they like it because a lot of porn stars come to the Shoe when they’re in town as well…and the place is seedy and crumbling like it’s a Speakeasy or something…this little hole in the wall where people are so embarrassed to be there that they’d never think of telling anyone they saw someone else there. You have to understand the power of being in a place where you can’t admit you were there, or people would make fun of you for being there. Whatever happens at the Shoe stays at the Shoe unless a reporter would be game enough to become a regular there and chat up the most frequent barflies. There are a lot of grandfatherly-type guys who look very despondent as they stare at the young bucks on display on the stages because it’s pretty obvious when these guys were the strippers’ ages it was not acceptable socially to be who they really were inside…and now at the end of their lives I think a lot of them regret that. These are precisely the types of guys who would have been going to Man’s Country in the late-90s and early 2000s who would have encountered Barack Obama there at some point.

    2. Buck’s on Halsted — This is another bar that mostly older guys hang out in. It’s depressing inside and they clean the place once every other year or so. Very few young guys, tourists, or anyone without serious drinking problems ever goes in here. The staff is pretty nasty to any non-regulars so you’ll have to go through a hazing period before anyone will ever talk to you. But just tip $2 per beer and $3 for any mixed drink and after a few weeks you’ll be accepted and won’t draw much attention if you haunt a stool and start picking up bits of Chicago history from the drunks who surround you. Literally, depressed older guys drink their lives away in these kinds of holes in the wall. Sometimes they order pizza and eat together and kind of acknowledge “this is where my life ended up because of bad decisions”. Cheers!

    3. Little Jim’s on Halsted — I actually love this place. It’s open until the crack of dawn, long after other bars are forced to close. I haven’t been there in a while, but when I’m there I flood the jukebox with Whitney songs. They have a Batman pinball machine in the back and I think they’ve got darts as well. I’ve never played either of those because there are too many good sources to talk to in this place about what’s going on in the neighborhood. It has always been beneficial to pop into Little Jim’s after all the other bars are closing and get the scoop on whatever happened everywhere that night; it’s also an industry bar so people who work in the other clubs end up here after they close-out and you can hear things from the people who actually work on the strip. There are twin black cowboys who hang out here who will tell you all sorts of things that will shock you, but you always have to figure out which of them is the gregarious and chatty one and which is the one who is suspicious of why you’re asking so many questions about Obama.

    4. The Granville Anvil — Another depressing hole in the wall, but further north of Boystown. I’ve only been there a few times, with a friend of mine who insisted I could find people who knew Obama back in the day. He was right. This is the kind of place that seriously committed drunks haunt and they are allowed to bring McDonald’s into the bar and eat it with their booze. For some reason, the whole place smells like urine and there’s a strange patio out by the restrooms that looks like murders would happen there. They could easily film a Stephen King movie adaptation in this place, because it kind of looks like it would be found in the middle of nowhere in Maine, across the street from a pet cemetery…and a McDonalds.

    5. Jackhammer — This place is a trip. As in, I don’t know why it’s allowed to stay open because it breaks just about every rule I thought a liquor license carried with it. Jackhammer has a main floor, an upstairs, and then the basement. The main floor and upstairs are nice-looking…but the basement is called “The Hole”. Women are never allowed in “The Hole”. Down there, the fetish crowd hangs out, with a bathtub in the middle of the room for some guy to lay in while other people urinate on him. The bartenders wear only stained yellow jockstraps and there’s a “secret” hidden hallway off to the side that looks like it would lead to the sewers…and that’s where guys go to have unprotected public sex. This place is like something you’d see in the Al Pacino movie “Cruisin”. It’s shocking that it exists in the year 2012. The guys who go here regularly are rough and tumble and suspicious, but they’re the crowd who would have been frequenting Man’s Country during the Obama days too. Good luck making friends with them, though, because they are most interested in trying to pee all over you.

    If Obama was a Republican, I have no doubt that all five of these places would be chock full of reporters digging up the dirt on him. Hell, Anderson Cooper would have moved to Chicago and volunteered to live in “The Hole” 24/7 until he scooped all the scoop that was fit to scoop. But, Barack Obama is a Democrat so “nothing to see here, folks”.

    Someday, all of this is going to be as public knowledge as JFK’s affair with Marilyn Monroe and the other women he cavorted with while married to Jackie.

    Someday, in the next 10-20 years, everyone will know all about Man’s Country and the place will no doubt get a plaque of some kind commemorating the times that a President of the United States “slept there”.

    You’re just getting the scoop early because a gay guy in Chicago has broken ranks and told you all about it.

    © 2012, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.

    1. Should we look for Harry Reid to apologize on the Senate floor and for yo, Kayne West to rap an apology?

      1. He already called them ‘manipulated’ by Romney’s ‘tax wizards’ with ‘creative accounting’, kinda like the Senate’s budget for the last 3 years. Oh, and go Reds.

  197. HA HA! the administration is busted in yet another lie: They KNEW about the Egypt threat! It was posted on an internet forum! DHS reported on it on 9/11, but the post was 2 days before that. That fits with what everyone else besides Obamas people have been saying! http://tinyurl.com/8cwxt3h

    1. “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

  198. This! I am not sure which is worse – that this teacher thought it was OK to do this, or that a “concerned parent” had to complain about it. This was at a COLLEGE! I guess that’s what happens when kids have been a captive audience for brainwashing for 12+ years.

    A Florida community college has launched an investigation and placed a tenured professor on leave over reports that she made students in a math class sign a pledge to vote for President Obama. http://tinyurl.com/8mur626

    1. Maybe it was a remedial lesson using real life to illustrate the fact that raising 0 by a negative exponent would imply division by 0? Remember, math is hard (GI Joe’s™ girlfriend Barbie™, see above, said so once)

    2. “Depending on the outcome of the investigation, she could be exonerated, suspended or terminated.”

      Nothing short of termination, and stripping her of her credentials, will do. And,….only one student had the sense to say something about this?

        1. tenured prof? surprised that there were any students willing to kiss their gpa good-bye. even if this class was the only one where they’d face repercussion. which it isn’t.

    1. Killer line in the comments:

      The Brotherhood reply sounds a lot like, “We post so much hateful bullshit in Arabic, you’ll have to be more specific.”

      1. Yeah i loved that one

        I also liked another comment that talked about the dual messages coming out of their traditional media (in Arabic and English).. they’ve been doing it for so long, for decades, that they thought no one would notice on the Internets.. But things always get seen on the Internets.. So Many Eyes…

    1. Yeah, Joe kicked Ken’s candy-ass seven days a week, and twice on Sunday. All’s Ken could say was “Stop it, or I’ll give you *such* a pinch.”

    2. When Barbie walked in on Ken ‘playing’ with his ‘friends’ Neil and Bob, she knew the jig was up.

  199. MITTTTT!!!! EERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/romney-im-not-getting-rid-of-all-of-health-care-reform/

    Our current system is broken. We need to change the system to a free market approach and allow the natural patient and doctor relationship to flourish while cutting the middleman. I know what I would do, I’ve given my plan many times on IHTM. This just goes to show that healthcare won’t get fixed during the Romney administration. It will continue to be (I apologize for cussing, I try not to do it but I can’t think of a better word) a clusterfuck.

    I don’t think Romney has a good plan for healthcare. How can people like this be so successful to earn 1/4 of a billion dollars through there hard work and career, yet can’t grasp simple concepts like the free market. I’ve always been taught the best design is the simplest design that gets the job done. The simplest design in healthcare means we should limit government and government regulation as much as possible. Over 2,000 pages is not simple nor limited.

    Mitt…. please wake up.

    1. Free market system by itself would not cover everyone, and you would have a significant chunk of electorate clamoring for the good old days of Medicaid

    1. a liberal with business sense.. imagine

      so he supports gay marriage.. no biggie. Amazon is a stellar company.. even in terms of IT services, if you ignore their mastery of internet retail

      Their tablet announcements were pretty impressive, but i’m happy with the Nexus 7 Google gave me at I/O too.. Now hopefully Apple doesn’t sue everyone in the room over rounded-rectangles (Steve Jobs: I BUILT THAT!!)

  200. Amen! And right on, right on, right on.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV?id={2631E95F-D172-47BF-B874-06DA31725B08}&title=God-Gets-The-Last-Word-Cardinals-Pro-Life-Benediction

    I was surprised tonight when I saw him speak. I know there was some controversy over the fact the dems scratched him from the lineup, but I guess they put him back in at some point (I don’t have a lot of time to follow politics now-a-days).

    The best line though: “Empower us with your Grace so that we might resist the temptation to replace the moral law with idols of our own making or to remake those institutions you’ve given us for the nurturing of life and community.” That line is the inverse of everything the modern Democrat party stands for, which makes me LoL.

    *I clicked on my link and I see it does not go where I wanted it to go. I guess y’all have to copy and paste the whole thing if you’re interested in viewing. If you’ve seen it already, it’s Cardinal Dolan giving the DNC Benediction.

    1. it depends on where you believe “moral law” springs from

      if you believe that it arises from a difficult-to-reach immortal entity, then yeah perhaps its the inverse

    1. I give it a 7. The message is good, but you can’t dance to it without looking like a fool. 😉

  201. “Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch to Jupiter and Saturn…
    Voyager 1 is currently more than 11 billion miles from the sun. Twin Voyager 2, which celebrated its launch anniversary two weeks ago, trails behind at 9 billion miles from the sun…
    They’re still ticking despite being relics of the early Space Age…

    Each only has 68 kilobytes of computer memory! Wow, that just blew me away when I read it. 68kb.

    1. At least with Amazon, you can easily bypass this problem when it comes to Kindle Books.
      You can register several devices to one account, such as a Kindle, a computer, and a phone, all of which are capable of accessing your library. Then all you have to do is to give one of each device to your heirs.
      For instance, you can own more than one Kindle, and have it registered to your account, so you can give all your books to each of your heirs by simply giving them each a Kindle.

  202. There are a bunch of good lines in here,” “Progressive” gun control laws in the UK have made it virtually impossible for a law abiding person to own a long gun fit for hunting, let alone use it to defend themselves. Meanwhile criminals are increasingly arming themselves.” &

    “Despite England’s strict gun laws, the IRA was able to amass huge quantities of handguns, machineguns, grenades and explosives. Even a state of martial law couldn’t disarm a single neighborhood in Northern Ireland.

    http://waznmentobe.com/guns/uk-farmer-and-wife-arrested-for-shooting-at-burglars-in-their-home.html

  203. George Will occasionally hits the target with a force such as cannot be ignored.

    http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/george-f-will-liberalism-as-we-know-it-so-called-progressives-have-become-resistant-to-change-651674/

    In 1992, candidate Bill Clinton’s campaign ran an ad that began: “For so long government has failed us, and one of its worst features has been welfare. I have a plan to end welfare as we know it.” This was before progressives defined progress as preventing changes even to teetering, rickety, half-century-old programs: Republicans “would end Medicare as we know it.”

  204. My fav lines fta; “…he has received numerous suggestions from the Obama camp about what they want him to say. This, according to my sources, has made Clinton furious.

    The Obama campaign has insisted on seeing the speech before Clinton delivers it, and Clinton has just as insistently refused to show it to them.“If I were the president,” one of these insiders told me, “I’d wake up at night in a cold sweat wondering what surprises Clinton is going to come up with.”

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_clinton_plans_to_upstage_the_2FwMFHFfkOGNT8OfwaFkmO/1

  205. Beginning Friday afternoon, islamic festival to officially open the demoncrat national convention!
    “Wherever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason- for one reason only- to establish Allah’s deen [Islam as a complete way of life], as a servant of Allah.”
    “Islam is better than democracy. Allah will cause his deen [Islam as a complete way of life], Islam to prevail over every kind of system, and you know what? It will happen.”
    “If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then you stone them to death, because it’s the obedience of Allah and his messenger-nothing personal.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/an_islamic_festival_to_jump_start_the_dnc.html

  206. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/28/democrats-reverse-ok-catholic-leader-to-pray-at-convention/

    All that Betadine poured on the wounds where it bit them on the ass will help Crist fit right in.

    And all you Florida folks, I may be reading this wrong or having a brain cramp, but is this true? If so how is it possible the Reps are cleaning their clock this badly. I hope so but, how?

    http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/08/29/gop-trouncing-dems-in-florida-voter-registration/

    1. The laws have changed a little. Dead people are finding it much more difficult to register this time around.

    1. It does not surprise me. When it comes right down to it, Akin said what he was told by a respected OBGYN who is held in high esteem in the pro-life world. Whether the information itself is right or wrong, he didn’t just pull the comment from his nether regions.

      His only real “sin” then was calling it “legitimate rape”, and I think that most reasonable people kind of understand, on a non-PC level, what he meant. It’s like what Whoopie Goldberg (much more offensively) called “rape-rape”; ie: stranger rape on a random victim, or semi-consensual encounters which include violence or serious escalation of attack. Not to say that other forms of rape are OK – not at all – but there IS a difference and most people understand that.

      Anyway, I suspect that the people of Missouri have looked into the circumstances, and maybe are more willing to accept that it was not a huge big deal. Because the media won’t help, the national politicians washed their hands of him completely, and because there are much more important things happening right now, non-local people probably haven’t dug around as much.

  207. Abortion survivor. 7 and a half month pregnant mother gets a planned parenthood baby killer to inject her with the saline abortion injection. Baby is suppose to burn to death in the womb and be dead on delivery. Baby killer doctor signs his intended victim’s birth certificate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5YlJ9CZ9fI

    1. Gianna Jessen is an inspiring figure. I have a book about her. Her ability to forgive her mother puts me to shame because I have had problems forgiving considerably less. Every year at the March For Life in Washington, D.C., a group of handicapped people stand on a street corner watching the march go by. These people are survivors of attempted abortions. Many of them are missing limbs and handicapped in various ways. The media turn their cameras away from them. I’ll give the media a little bit of a break in that some of them have interviewed Gianna, but she makes an excellent presentation and makes for good telelvision.

    1. Incredible stuff we sometimes have up here, is it not?
      Funny that while the term ‘induced coma’ is one heard many times in the past several years, as it has become a standard practice in extreme medical cases, I wonder when it might be considered as a good way to punish convicted criminals who earn long term sentences. This just occurred to me while reading the story. Cruel or unusual? Cheaper than what costs can be incurred during typical incarceration among hordes of violent criminals penned together in gangs and watched over by some (not all) less than caring correctional personnel?

      It has been an interesting day for me. Makers Mark and an ice cube, here I come!

  208. Not sure where to put this but I wanted to share it. I got it in an email and it was credited to TheDonald Trump, but Snopes says it’s actually anonymous. Regardless, it’s very clever:

    “On Obamacare:

    Let me get this straight…
    We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and will be fined if we don’t

    Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents

    Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it (but exempted themselves from it)

    And signed by a Dumbo President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a congress which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by an obese surgeon general and financed by a country that’s broke !!

    What the hell could possibly go wrong ?’

    1. It is poetic justice.

      Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car

      Extended range compared to what, my old Hot Wheels?

  209. Am I the only one who has huge issues with this? Drug companies are making pills that are imbedded with microchips that send data to computers, letting doctors know whether or not a patient has taken their medications. http://tinyurl.com/8hje267

    OK on the surface it seems like a potentially helpful thing, but you don’t have to scratch too deep to see all of the potential problems, from loss of privacy to loss of freedom that this could impact. This line, taken from the article, scares me to death: “Some patients might not like their pill-taking being tracked but the system can help manage patients’ complicated medicine routines, such as diabetes or heart conditions.” I read that as: you WILL be tracked whether you like it or not – it’s for your own good!

    So far, we have the right to refuse treatment. Trust me – I know this since a hospital drugged me up on morphine to get me to agree to be airlifted to another hospital for surgery, after I made it perfectly clear that I did NOT want that under any circumstances. $60,000 later, with no insurance, I had to fight those crooks and that was the basis of my argument. I won. They say they saved my life. I said that the surgery they did was way to late after the incident, and I clearly would have lived without it. Ahhhhhh….

    Anyway, we currently still have the right to refuse treatment. But how many patients know that? And when healthcare is (cough) free (cough) how many people will be willing to refuse care? “We are going to save your life, even if it kills you”.

    1. It’s almost 10:30 AM, don’t forget your meds. Just kidding, but you walked right into that one.

    2. Karmaa:”pills that are imbedded with microchips”

      Pills injected with microchips doesn’t sound very safe to me. I think I would want someone else to be the guinea pig. There has been all sorts of controversy tying regular microchips to cancer. I’m not saying those would be the same as these microchips one can supposedly digest, but still. The continual advances in medicine are pretty astounding though. I can’t seem to get a link to work but http://www.antichips.com talks about these kinds of issues. And now the link seems to be working.

      1. The older I get, the more I wonder if Orwell was a prophet. It is getting to the point where privacy and freedom are merely buzzwords. We are already numbered (SSNs from birth) and categorized (Race, gender, income, political party, etc), trackable (social media, online purchases, bank accounts, credit cards) and watchable (GPS, cellphones, CCTV, drones, red light cameras). That not even counting stupid things like what movies do we watch, what car do we drive, what groceries do we buy… the list is endless.

        I know that I am on some Federal list because I have often moved, transferred or deposited more than $10,000 at a time. I am on another because my husband is a LEGAL alien. I am probably on several more that I don’t even know about. It is so invasive and downright scary.

        Technology is wonderful in many ways, but HUMANS suck. They can not be trusted to do the right things. There is always someone who is willing to take potentially helpful technology and use it for personal gain, oftentimes in direct conflict with what is best for society or individuals.

          1. Over my dead body. Actually, I would be the kind of person who would dig out the chip and attach it to a Greyhound bus or something. Let them track THAT!

  210. Not that the feeling is anything new, but now I’ll say it out loud, I really, REALLY hate what this mother-flucker stands for, almost as much as he despises us

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/08/white-house-commemorates-neil.html

    Sorry if I offended, G-ma* (96, and she’s a real sweetheart, say a prayer if you can) on the way to surgery and haven’t slept in awhile, but this man is evil.

    *https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xBl16LkHNxWoPXtZwuiCKgsKuBlCZBCKdLwziR8rHxg?feat=directlink

    1. Sorry, it was already on the front page. Very tired, night, or morning, or whatever else I screwed up.

  211. A North Dakota court has authorized the use of drones to help arrest U.S. citizens. Good grief, this stuff is moving fast. One of these days you guys will turn on Fox and see a man running on the ground in Louisville with a drone overhead and it will be me. Or I’ll see a drone on Fox chasing someone in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, California, or any of the other states IHTMers are in and it will be you.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2922976/posts

    1. Tonight on “Hannity”, Rand Paul said he successfully had a plank put in the Republican platform which says that drone surveillance over U.S. soil will be illegal without a “warrant”. Unfortunately, I think he’ll have a hard time getting that past the top ranks of either Party.

      1. Rand has been shifting a lot of focus from criticism of the Fed Reserve and macro to Internet freedom and privacy protection. And I hope the campaign is successful.

    1. I wish we had known about this before it was settled. I would have sent them some money to help fight. I am sure they had no choice, but it is just WRONG. Having to fight against the bottomless money-pit of the ACLU, in the name of HUMAN RIGHTS? Because they chose to have their family business decline certain business? People! Get mad, and get REALLY mad. These little chips in our freedom are going to be the undoing of America.

      1. I keep telling people, there is no such thing as private property. The government owns it all, and you must do with it what they tell you. I sure hope we can make it back to a Constitutional government some day.

  212. Aye, Aye General. Think about this for a minute, I believe it’s very telling and more than a little scary
    “I’d advise that you talk to General McRaven, who’s in charge of our Special Ops. I think he has a point of view in terms of how deeply I care about what these folks do each and every day to protect our freedom.”

    If it was a one off, I’d give him a pass, but this guy’s disdain, disconnect and disrespect is dangerous. Hint: McRaven is a SEaL and Admiral in the US Navy. But wait, there’s more, if you call right now…

    http://patdollard.com/2012/08/obama-calls-top-navy-seal-general-no-generals-in-navy-called-admirals-since-inception/

    1. Wow. Just WOW! Where is the freaking media on this? How can our COMMANDER IN CHIEF get away with this?

      And.. ummmm… before he makes any comments about committees that Akins is on, maybe he should think about Charlie-the-Cheat Rangel who was the CHAIRMAN of the (tax-writing) House Ways and Means Committee, yet claimed he didn’t know he owed taxes on a huge income-producing property! Charlie’s one of YOURS, Obama.

  213. The facts about islamania are getting out, slowly but surely. The mainliners have rarely said anything about the truth of the matter, but occasionally one of the outlets slips up and tells, or at least agrees with, the truth. http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/23/islamophobic-hysteria-becomes-conventional-wisdom/?singlepage=true

    ‘Islamists and Leftists are frequent collaborators. Though their disagreements are several and not trivial (e.g., women’s rights, gay rights, abortion), they are in harmony on basic, big-picture matters. Both ideologies are totalitarian in the sense of wanting centralized control of people’s lives, down to the small details; both elevate the good of the collective (or the ummah) over the individual; both are vigorously anti-capitalist (something most Americans still do not know about Islamist ideology); and neither can succeed in achieving its grand design without suppressing the liberties and self-determinism of the citizen.’

    1. And this be more – http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/17/huma-abedins-muslim-minority-affairs-its-not-just-a-journal/?singlepage=true

      “Assimilation is a crime against humanity.” So said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamic supremacist who is both prime minister of Turkey and a close chum of President Obama.

      The assertion ought to be infamous. But this is, after all, Islam we are talking about — meaning, we are not talking about it.

      You won’t read it in the American media, nor will you hear it from our bipartisan Beltway profiles in courage. Both the Obama Left and the Republican establishment are deeply invested in the fantasy that Erdogan, like Islam itself, is our moderate ally — ironic, given that Erdogan himself is profoundly offended at the very suggestion that there is such a thing as “moderate Islam.” Yup, what you have been told is the plinth on which American Middle East policy rests, is, according to Erdogan, not only a house-of-cards but:

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      … an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that’s it.

      The prime minister is an excitable sort. Waxing metaphoric about his aggressive, ascendant ideology, he has also observed:

      The mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the cupolas our helmets, and the faithful our soldiers.

  214. So.. I guess the snakes in the WH finally released what they had on Romney (anonymously, of course): http://tinyurl.com/d7oqszl They are SO SLIMY! You know they have had these documents for months – but apparently the records are so clean that there was not much they could do with them. The only thing slightly squidgy is the offshore banking, but that’s not illegal, and plenty of other politicians on both sides of the aisle also have these kinds of accounts.

    How much do you want to bet that they have Romney’s tax returns too? Those they can’t release, even anonymously of course, because of the tight laws about tax returns. There would be a full-scale investigation of they were released, and you just know that some high-level administration person would be involved. But I have no doubt that they have them.

  215. So.. now we know the payoff for taking the blame for F&F. $100,000 extracurricular employment – while you keep your government six-figures and get to retire (w/ full benefits, I imagine.) Yeah, I might take that deal – especially since the alternative is to continue working for Holder. http://tinyurl.com/9t65lq9

    What really gets me is how amateurish these clowns are. They have no grace and dignity as they cheat the system and bribe/blackmail/reward people with OUR money. They barely even try to hide it. Thugs – every one of them.

    1. Ghost, I heard this information once and it enrages the radical feminists to no end. One of the reasons leftists are so perpetually angry is that they’re engaged in an ultimately futile war to overturn nature.

    2. um. EWWWWW. I am not touching it!

      I read the first few paragraphs and my imagination went off in all kinds of nasty directions. But some of the thoughts went toward vials of very expensive face “elixir”. They already use PLACENTA (I swear – I don’t want to know where that comes from either – I will just take wrinkles when they come!) I need some mind bleach. Ick.

  216. Thievery? In CHICAGO? Unbelievable. Operation “cookie jar” nabs 6 educators for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. That place is such a cesspool. http://tinyurl.com/9jnt7rn

    Stealing from the kids. How low can you get?

      1. What are you 6 hrs. ahead of EDT Mr. odd? It’s 4:14am here, could look it up I guess but since you’re here.

      2. You are 100% right. I just don’t know how there can be so many people with no moral compass. It blows my mind.

        To build one of these creatures, I guess the first thing you do is instill the idea that MONEY is the most important thing in the world. Do this with the TV and media. Show low income kids all the wonderful shiny things they can’t have.

        Next, lower our cultural values. Teach them that anything is fair, if THEY personally get something for it. Also teach them that the rewards in life are covered with shiny bling. Make movie/sports stars, rappers and mobsters into the role models.

        Then put them in positions where they earn enough money to live nicely, but give them credit cards, so they can get more BLING than just the comforts. Once they are in debt and they have access to big pots of money BINGO – they can talk themselves into helping themselves. It’s no longer an anomaly, it’s almost a road map.

  217. There has been so much talk about Akin, and what he said about pregnancy of rape victims. The Washington Post has a one-sided article about how the pregnancy rate is actually higher among rape victims, but the last paragraph says THIS: [they] “do acknowledge that their study was at odds with previous research, which showed a lower rate of pregnancy among rape victims.”

    This is crucial, actually. Akin may have actually been saying what be believed to be true, and based on (outdated? non-partisan?) research.

    Maybe we need to give him a bit of a break?

    link here (if you don’t mind bumping up the leftist rag’s numbers): http://tinyurl.com/92k27xy

    1. There is more! I got a hold of the very research article that the article references. It cites 9 different papers from 1973-1995 that all suggest what Akins was saying. This (the Gottshall) paper was published in 2002.

      While the total number of subjects was only 405 (26 reported pregnancies), it seems that the Gottshall paper used some fancy “accounting” to come to their conclusions – stuff like not actually asking whether a victim was on birth control, but rather applying averages from other databases to come to a figure. There is no mention of whether the victims had been consensually sexually active during the same period (ie: was the rapist the actual sperm contributor?), and lots of other red flags that would make me wonder if this could be sloppy research.

      I am NOT saying it is sloppy, and I don’t know what has been done since that time, but shouldn’t we at least consider the possibility that this could be biased? Remember what the left did with global warming. This study is from a university, and we know how liberal they can be.

      Maybe we are not being true to ourselves when we start jumping on the “resign, you stupid idiot” train, without actually thinking things through.
      1) maybe he honestly believed it
      2) maybe the research is still unclear
      3) maybe we are being hoodwinked by lefties who are making stuff fit into their narrative
      4) Maybe we should give the guy the benefit of the doubt and look to see if this is a onetime thing, or if he is a notorious idiot

      Just some thoughts.

      1. I sincerely doubt that he did any in-depth research. He believed what he heard, because it fit with what he wants to believe. He should switch parties at the very least.

        1. Karmaa, do you have a link to that Gottshall paper? I’m conversing with a friend on FB, and mentioned that there were actually studies, although flawed, that showed that what Akin said was true. She’d like to see them. And so would I.

          1. I don’t have links because they came from my university library, but I do have a .pdf on my hard-drive. I don’t think that I can re-post it anywhere, but if you have a disposable email, I would be happy to send you the copy.

            Edit: if she has access to a library this is the paper: http://www.springerlink.com/content/wp5cnp43k6byxj4d/

            doi: 10.1007/s12110-003-1014-0

        2. No, see – I disagree. He can’t be expected to be an expert on abortion and women’s gynecological health. He HAS to rely on the information that he is given. That’s what leaders do. The thing that he is getting ripped about is how ludicrous the idea is that women have a “mechanism” that prevents pregnancy. It does sound far-fetched and archaic. But the point is that it was not that long ago that theory WAS common knowledge. And, if there is just one later contradictory paper (written by a a guy with a PhD in English and a student) then maybe it’s not such a crazy thought.

          Maybe this is actually a case of political correctness, and maybe the conservatives have jumped on the shock and horror bandwagon a little too fast?

          1. Not to keep beating a dead horse, but Akins was telling the truth! Here is an article about the doctor who told him the theory:
            http://tinyurl.com/95p6ycf (UK press, of course)

            That “mainstream scientific literature rejects” the theory means squat to me – “mainstream scientific literature” decreed man made global warming too. I want REAL data, not political puffery.

            1. Apologies. “Spastic Tubes” still less-than-convincing

              Liberals want the guy to stay in the race, with all their hearts. They think Claire McCaskill can beat him now

            2. This whole thing is about taxpayer funded abortion, why didn’t the dumb-ass just say it’s not the baby’s fault and leave it at that!
              @Alien, now? they dumped 1.5 mil. into the Rep primary to get him to here. They spent more on TV ads the last month before the vote than Akin did.

            3. Forgot to mention Claire McCaskill was unopposed in the Dem primary, why on earth she was spending 1.5M on TV during a 3way Rep primary race…LMAO

  218. The brilliance of this state senator in AZ is really blinding! I think her remark stating her hate for the Constitution cannot be overstated.
    http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/08/senator-clarifies-remark-telling-troops-to-go-fuck-themselves-says-quote-taken-out-of-context/

    Her most recent remarks come after a vote in the Committee to improve education benefits and mental health services for veterans of all service branches. Lopez opposed the bill and was the only no vote, telling reporters that she opposed it on constitutional grounds. When pressed further, she admitted however, that “she hates the fucking constitution.”

    Minutes after making the remark, she told reporters that she misspoke and didn’t mean to use profanity.

    “I only voted no on the bill because I support the troops, but don’t support the war,” Lopez said. “Besides, if these numbskulls would quit enlisting, we wouldn’t need to support the stupid fucks. That last part’s off the record, by the way.”

    Lopez has maintained that the full context of her interview quote was about supporting the troops and giving them fleshlights as a way “to go fuck themselves in the warzone and at home.”

    Although The Foothills refuses to release Lopez’s full remarks until the interview hits news stands later this week, TDB did obtain partial transcripts.
    “Frankly, the troops should just go fuck themselves. Let’s be honest here,” Lopez remarks in the interview. “I’m really tired of these people complaining all the time.”

        1. It is an eyeopener, but my eyes got HUGE when I clicked on the link to “fleshlights”. Really? REALLY? I mean, seriously, I had to double-check to be sure I wasn’t reading the Onion. Just WOW.
          And who knew Axe had exfoliates? That’s gotta hurt!

          EDIT! D’oh! just read down a bit. I am actually relieved it is a satire site. But as Flash says – libs ARE that dumb – it wasn’t too terribly far a stretch to imagine it was true!

    1. Every time i’ve had to resort to inclusion of fleshlights, in order to walk back an asinine statement, i know i’m in deep deep shiz

    2. WHEW!!!
      I’m certainly glad this turned out to be a hoax, I would hate to have gone to AZ and beat the crap out of this person for being an unsufferable jerkoff!

      New headline to the article:

      NORMALLY THIS WARNING MESSAGE WOULDN’T APPEAR, BUT SINCE THE INSANITY IN THE COMMENTS SECTION HAS GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL: THIS IS NOT REAL. THIS IS A SATIRE WEBSITE.

      http://www.duffelblog.com/about/
      About Us
      The Duffel Blog serves the men and women of the US Military with a daily dose of military humor, funny military pictures, and faux news. We take an interesting and funny look at military life. We focus on veterans, military stories, defense, politics (sometimes) and life on base — with a comedic twist. We are in no way, shape, or form, a real news outlet. Just about everything on this website is satirical in nature.

      Who We Are
      Founder: Paul Szoldra
      Former Marine Infantry Sergeant
      Served with 81s Platoon, Weapons Co, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines
      Combat Instructor, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry (WEST)
      Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
      Contributors:
      We are disgruntled Marines, annoyed Army Guys, sickened Sailors… and no one from the Air Force yet because they are pretty fucking happy to be there.

  219. /facepalm Biden calls GOP “squealing pigs”. How ugly is this campaign going to get? Seriously, I want my country and civility back! tinyurl.com/d3d587o

        1. Actually, it stunk to high heaven.
          I had to finish taking all our stuff out of the house and demo the kitchen. Got done at 10 pm.

  220. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) has a large debt, rising water prices and inefficient services — using almost twice the number of employees per gallon as other cities like Chicago.

    A recent independent report about the DWSD recommends that the city trim more than 80 percent of the department’s workforce. The consultant who wrote the report found 257 job descriptions, including a horseshoer.

    In response to the report, John Riehl, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 207, which represents many of the DWSD employees, told the Detroit Free Press that the department needs more workers.

    “They don’t have enough people as it is right now,” Riehl said. “They are just dreaming to think they can operate that plant with less.”

    But critics say this is just another example of city departments operating as a jobs program for union employees.
    http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17404

    1. I was thinking of exactly these kinds of wasteful policies just the other day, as I watched a water meter reader here in Bakersfield. I understand the need for reading the meters, but why would the guy need a brand new full size Ford F-150, with a V-8? Maybe not a big deal compared to lots of government waste, but multiplied by the millions of examples, it adds up.

  221. And in other environmental terrorism news, thousands of struggling professional stand-up comics out there and all we get are these people

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/total-karma-recall-fisker-pulls-all-cars-due-fire-risk

    “In fact, things for the company that has so far received $529 million in federal subsidies are so bad that also last week Fisker announced its third CEO hire in the past year (when in a supremely ironic move it hired the former head of the Chevy Volt program Tony Posawatz).”

    1. 43,000 pounds of beer, i’m trying to figure out how many gallons that might be, but without knowing what KIND of beer it’s difficult to figure.

    2. They had a beer truck with cans/bottles overturn here a few years back, there wasn’t much left for Caltrans to clean up after it got ummm ‘recycled’

    3. The wreck caused major traffic delays.

      Of course. I would have been out there “salvaging” whatever I could! 😉

      As far as ice cream beer goes, I think I’ll stick to drinking my beer with dinner and eating the ice cream for dessert.

      1. Back in the late 70’s, I was in the backup caused by a beer truck rolling over on an onramp to the 60 freeway in Los Angeles. The entire westbound side was closed, all lanes. The Highway Patrolman first on the scene asked for some help cleaning up and opening the highway. Gone in a flash! I got a truckload for my friends. I never touch the stuff myself.

  222. What’s wrong with this picture? http://tinyurl.com/9jqbod3 (Woman facing $600 per day fine for feeding needy kids).

    Just a quick internet search shows that this town is in trouble. The average home value is $44k. The median income is $25k. Demographics are 29,000 black / 7000 white. Their crime is in the 95th percentile nationally with 1302 VIOLENT incidents per 100,000 people (UCR,2000). In other words, it is darned close to what we would consider a ghetto. We can guess what else is happening around there – prostitution, drug trade, neglect, abuse, etc. etc. etc. right?

    So they want to attack this woman who is unarguably doing GOOD? I understand that there are rules to follow, but this is just unreal. Her neighbors have no issue with what she is doing, what she is doing is “safe” from a food standpoint – she’s not cooking up big pots of food that could be contaminated, and there is no denying that the children are better off with this woman. What the heck is going on?

    THIS is why government is too big!

    1. She had the nerve to do what government thinks it does better and at the expense of the rest of us. In other words, she showed up the bureaucrats and they don’t like it.

      1. Sadly, Kick, that IS the bottom line of it all. This woman is a hero being treated like a criminal.

        1. Off topic but is the 2016 movie in your area, drb? It’s playing near my house. May go see it today if I can avoid/delay Paranorman, which my daughter is anxious to see.

    2. Always had a fantasy that we could have an IHTM intervention and deprogram “The Rent Is Too High” guy so he saw the light and became “The Cost Of Government Is Too High” spokesman. Oh well.

  223. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvJaSP5dUs oh yeah i remember why i posted this… but then i got high.

    p.s. no need for paper magnates no more.
    legalize hemp, and dupont et al will not be so rich.

    marijuana was made illegal via lies and misdirection and truly racist agenda. I dare anybody to prove me wrong, matter of fact, the so-called-conservatives on this site, who rail against GOD’s seed-bearing herbs, ought to re-examine their heretofore valid targets, i’m sure they’ll find that du PEE PEE and Anslinger were/are lying rodents who deserve to be run over by any number of road paving machines. 😀
    God’s Truth!

  224. Wasserman attacks Harrington.

    http://shark-tank.net/2012/08/17/wasserman-schultz-attacks-against-karen-harrington/

    A couple of points. “There are more than 200,000 new people in our district. That’s more than 200,000 new potential supporters that don’t know who I am, or what I stand for.” Debbie, you should consider that a plus.

    “In case you can’t distinguish Karen Harrington from the other extreme Republicans who ran in the primary, here’s a little refresher. These words actually came out of her mouth. ‘I don’t think there’s anything that the Tea Party does that I don’t agree with. We’re completely in line with our philosophy…….I’m a member of and I line up with the Tea Party completely.’

    Uh, Debbie,….I don’t know if maybe you didn’t get the memo. The Tea Party is rather popular. I’d love to see Debbie get overran by the Tea Party candidate.

    1. Tough in her once heavily gerrymandered district but I remain hopeful and it is doable.

      1. RAH for EJ Otero. wish i was Floridian… well, maybe not, anyway. I’d vote for him if’n i could.
        THAT said: 😀 watch how i slip this bit of culture in. Hulu plus, has Andrew Zimmern, who is well, he’s Andrew. 😀 I just watched him in Mongolia, and I think this show has somethin for all the guys.
        well, i reckon the ladies too, cuz lookin at how the nation is going, you may want to pick up some cookin tips, if ya from the city, country ladies already know, esp. Texan country ladies. 😀
        also, I need to learn how to make solar energy light up stuff, and wind too. cuz i’m thinkin’ we alls gonna be facing some dreadful times ahead, and knowing how to harness different forms of energy may prove VITAL to earthly comfy survival. 😀 I’m plannin’ on gettin an electric trike, but i want to convert via salvaged or inexpensive parts the supply for the batteries. 😀 goin’ to radio shacks for wind/solar kits so i can gain understanding that most of y’all already have. oh well, it has been such a long time since i’ve writ so much ‘pon these pages, and even longer since anything i’ve said was really worth reading. 🙁

        hakuna matata.

        p.s. i really do want nidal executed, and i really am upset the homosexual (i refuse to call them gay) didn’t get inspected by the coroner.

        p.p.s. Sister Theresa of Calcutta was/is a better Christ follower than me.

        1. addendum, and thanks for the space editors admins
          Zimmern Arizona. with former navy seals and mre. need i say more? these guys need to be on the Jan’s border patrol! imho. 😀

    1. i have to say this, and i’m sure it’ll be construed as sexist, but i’m a gonna say it anyway. This reminds me of several instances when i went to collect eggs from the henhouse.

      just sayin’.

  225. The Court of Appeal for the Armed Forces stayed all proceedings in the Maj. Nidal M. Hasan court-martial to resolve whether Hasan can be compelled to be clean shaven for court proceedings.

    oh for cryin out loud, try and execute this POS. Ridiculous that this camel feculite gets to still breathe all this time after he murdered Real Americans.

    And while he’s awaiting his quick and speedy trial, he should be subjected to hours and hours of dancing shows, running shows, any kind of show that shows off the abilities of ppl who can use their legs for something besides a doorstop.

    rant-subsiding.

  226. I hate the media! I was clicking on a different story and came to this story: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/16/motorists-help-woman-child-pinned-in-burning-car/

    Here’s what makes me mad: “Fifteen to 20 motorists, including a photographer for The Associated Press, came to the aid of the women….”

    The PHOTOGRAPHER? Came to their AID? He stood around taking PICTURES! It’s clear – I read the story twice – he stood there taking pictures, watching the heroes and getting upset by the woman’s shrieking. That is NOT, in anyone’s book, coming to their AID. How, in what bizarro-world, does that constitute “coming to their aid”?

    /deep cleansing breath… Ok I am better now. But really – that is just sick!

  227. I’m such a pessimist. I can’t back up all 40 points (and I’m not clicking on all the links) but I can confirm somewhere between half and two thirds, just from the fact I pay attention.

    http://www.infowars.com/40-points-that-prove-that-barack-obama-and-mitt-romney-are-essentially-the-same-candidate/

    My question is, how come no one comes up with a comprehensive list, with a ton of links included, that represent why I should vote for Romney other than saying over and over that he’s not Obama? Is it out there? 1 list? There are a million like the one I just posted, where is the “this is why Romney rocks” list?

    1. Ok, lets say that there’s no difference between Obama and Romney. That would leave us deciding who to vote for by looking at the VP for each team. Problem solved.

          1. Promise me you will let me know when Romney balances the budget and reinstates the Constitution. Oh wait, that’s not going to happen. I’ll just vote for a vice president.

    1. This rumor started late last year.
      http://www.policymic.com/articles/2339/obama-should-replace-biden-with-cuomo-or-clinton
      From Robert Reich:
      http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/12/29/robert-reich-predicts-hillary-clinton-will-replace-biden-as-vp-on-2012-obama-reelection-ticket/
      Plus an updated video that was first posted 10-31-2011 including part of an interview with HC where she denies wanting the job.
      http://video.answers.com/could-hillary-replace-biden-as-obama%E2%80%99s-vp-517191723
      Now, knowing her history, was she lying?

  228. Jan Brewer has more cojones in her little finger than Obama could ever hope for. http://tinyurl.com/blveodn Brewer blocks undocumented immigrants from receiving public benefits

    Here’s the thing. I feel sorry for SOME of those kids. It’s not their fault. But just tossing them all in the same box and giving them amnesty is STUPID. (Typical lib move). Instead, we should set up a system that rewards kids who want to work hard and offer some value to society. Offer them a CONDITIONAL path to amnesty, that involves keeping up good grades or a work history, no criminal records, and so on. Let them have a light at the end of the tunnel – don’t just hand over the keys to lifetime welfare, based on their age and that they have not BEEN CAUGHT doing anything horrible yet.

    1. How resistant to cynicism does one have to be not to be outraged by this lawless move?

      1. The federal policy defers deportations for that group if they meet certain criteria, including arrival in the United States before they turned 16 and no convictions for certain crimes.

        REALLY?? So other crimes are just hunky-dory with the Obama Admin?
        So, tell me what crimes I can commit that will qualify me for free government shit?
        OK, let’s start with breaking and entering, AKA illegal immigration. What else is OK, DUI? Vehicular manslaughter? Shoplifting? Come on Barry, be more specific!

  229. “Polls Show No ‘Ryan Bounce’…Yet”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/polls-show-no-ryan-bounce-yet/

    I still can’t get over this Saturday morning in August announcement. It’s a Saturday morning in August for crying out loud! Last Saturday I had an annual barbeque/camp out/family and friend reunion thing, this Saturday I have a golf tournament, the Saturday after that I’ll probably be trying to enjoy as much of the day as possible, I only hope it’s nice. Who is getting paid to advise Mittens on announcing a VP choice on a Saturday in August? They should have their pay cut in half and then be waterboarded, just to find out if they’re Obama sympathizers.

    1. Great story drb! I took something else from it though. The fact that a staunch republican and a staunch democrat can be friends and business partners, and “take it in stride”.

      This divisiveness that we are always hearing about is really a bunch of BS. Yes, there are some hardcore crazies on both sides, but NORMAL people are idealistically much closer to each other than they may even realize.

      My daughter’s boyfriend’s family are very liberal. He is an atheist physicist, she is an animal activist (not PETA) and they both have truly bought into the MMGW thing. They own 2 Priuses (Prii??) and regularly campaign for all the libturds. But, when we get together for dinner or events, we talk. And though we decided years ago to leave politics out of it, we talk values a lot. And they have very similar values to ours. From abortion, to personal responsibility, to frugality, to crime and punishment, we find ourselves on the same page, or at least in the same chapter. Our biggest differences are in application of values. They are so concerned with fairness, that they stand behind the statistics and demographics approach (collectivism), while I am all about judging people based on individual behavior. That’s the big difference!

      Now, of course, not all libs are like them, and certainly not all conservatives are like me, but in general, I think most people are much closer than the media believes. People just need to talk more I think.

      1. I think your experience (and that of the caterers), these days, is becoming more the exception to the rule among those who pay attention. Maybe it is the proliferation of news sources and the instant feed back of the Internet but I see people at work or in my social life who must tolerate each other’s views yet despise them for those views.

        As I get older, (I’m 50) I define myself as a classic liberal/libertarian. I used to care about social issues more than I do now. Gay marriage? Couldn’t care less. Drug prohibition? Legalize it and hold addicts accountable for their treatment. In other words, I’m a social Darwinist in a lot of ways. That said, I do veer away from that ideology when it comes to defense and a strong foreign policy. That’s why I think Ron Paul is unfit for any office higher than what he holds now.

        Today, math is driving my fiscal conservatism. Today’s debt load and velocity of spending are THE ISSUES and if liberals can’t get that and cling to the status quo, then that makes THEM reactionary. Something they’ve always considered conservatives to be. Personally, I’m at the point where I have lost all patience with these people and I couldn’t care less if I hurt their feelings.

        1. The libtard across the street and I get along just fine when we don’t discuss politics. We did start talking politics once, and the conversation ended when I called him a fu#*ing moron.

  230. Third party? Chicago? Progressives? Seeking to move the United States closer to a European style socialism? No way, Virginia! Right? Wait… What’s wrong with wanting progress? Wait… Izzat a trick question? Fword! http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302031/obamas-third-party-history-stanley-kurtz?pg=2

    Following is the text of Stanley Kurtz article in the National Review, from the link above.

    On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the United States toward European-style social democracy, which was precisely the New Party’s goal.

    In late October 2008, when I wrote here at National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my claim a “crackpot smear.” Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly maintained that “Barack has been a member of only one political party, the Democratic Party.” I rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press.

    Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a “contract” promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office.

    Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Party’s Chicago chapter read as follows:
    Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.

    Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined.

    Knowing that Obama disguised his New Party membership helps make sense of his questionable handling of the 2008 controversy over his ties to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). During his third debate with John McCain, Obama said that the “only” involvement he’d had with ACORN was to represent the group in a lawsuit seeking to compel Illinois to implement the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law. The records of Illinois ACORN and its associated union clearly contradict that assertion, as I show in my political biography of the president, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.

    Why did Obama deny his ties to ACORN? The group was notorious in 2008 for thug tactics, fraudulent voter registrations, and its role in popularizing risky subprime lending. Admitting that he had helped to fund ACORN’s voter-registration efforts and train some of their organizers would doubtless have been an embarrassment but not likely a crippling blow to his campaign. So why not simply confess the tie and make light of it? The problem for Obama was ACORN’s political arm, the New Party.

    The revelation in 2008 that Obama had joined an ACORN-controlled, leftist third party could have been damaging indeed, and coming clean about his broader work with ACORN might easily have exposed these New Party ties. Because the work of ACORN and the New Party often intersected with Obama’s other alliances, honesty about his ties to either could have laid bare the entire network of his leftist political partnerships.

    Although Obama is ultimately responsible for deceiving the American people in 2008 about his political background, he got help from his old associates. Each of the two former political allies who helped him to deny his New Party membership during campaign ’08 was in a position to know better.

    The Fight the Smears website quoted Carol Harwell, who managed Obama’s 1996 campaign for the Illinois senate: “Barack did not solicit or seek the New Party endorsement for state senator in 1995.” Drawing on her testimony, Fight the Smears conceded that the New Party did support Obama in 1996 but denied that Obama had ever joined, adding that “he was the only candidate on the ballot in his race and never solicited the endorsement.”

    We’ve seen that this is false. Obama formally requested New Party endorsement, signed the candidate contract, and joined the party. Is it conceivable that Obama’s own campaign manager could have been unaware of this? The notion is implausible. And the documents make Harwell’s assertion more remarkable still.

    The New Party had a front group called Progressive Chicago, whose job was to identify candidates that the New Party and its sympathizers might support. Nearly four years before Obama was endorsed by the New Party, both he and Harwell joined Progressive Chicago and began signing public letters that regularly reported on the group’s meetings. By prominently taking part in Progressive Chicago activities, Obama was effectively soliciting New Party support for his future political career (as was Harwell, on Obama’s behalf). So Harwell’s testimony is doubly false.

    When the New Party controversy broke out, just about the only mainstream journalist to cover it was Politico’s Ben Smith, whose evident purpose was to dismiss it out of hand. He contacted Obama’s official spokesman Ben LaBolt, who claimed that his candidate “was never a member” of the New Party. And New Party co-founder and leader Joel Rogers told Smith, “We didn’t really have members.” But a line in the New Party’s official newsletter explicitly identified Obama as a party member. Rogers dismissed that as mere reference to “the fact that the party had endorsed him.”

    This is nonsense. I exposed the falsity of Rogers’s absurd claim, and Smith’s credulity in accepting it, in 2008 (here and here). And in Radical-in-Chief I took on Rogers’s continuing attempts to justify it. The recently uncovered New Party records reveal how dramatically far from the truth Rogers’s statement has been all along.

    In a memo dated January 29, 1996, Rogers, writing as head of the New Party Interim Executive Council, addressed “standing concerns regarding existing chapter development and activity, the need for visibility as well as new members.” So less than three weeks after Obama joined the New Party, Rogers was fretting about the need for new members. How, then, could Rogers assert in 2008 that his party “didn’t really have members”? Internal documents show that the entire leadership of the New Party, both nationally and in Chicago, was practically obsessed with signing up new members, from its founding moments until it dissolved in the late 1990s.

    In 2008, after I called Rogers out on his ridiculous claim that his party had no members, he explained to Ben Smith that “we did have regular supporters whom many called ‘members,’ but it just meant contributing regularly, not getting voting rights or other formal power in NP governance.” This is also flatly contradicted by the newly uncovered records.

    At just about the time Obama joined the New Party, the Chicago chapter was embroiled in a bitter internal dispute. A party-membership list is attached to a memo in which the leaders of one faction consider a scheme to disqualify potential voting members from a competing faction, on the grounds that those voters had not renewed their memberships. The factional leaders worried that their opponents would legitimately object to this tactic, since a mailing that called for members to renew hadn’t been properly sent out. At any rate, the memo clearly demonstrates that, contrary to Rogers’s explanation, membership in the New Party entailed the right to vote on matters of party governance. In fact, Obama’s own New Party endorsement, being controversial, was thrown open to a members’ vote on the day he joined the party.

    Were Harwell and Rogers deliberately lying in order to protect Obama and deceive the public? Readers can decide for themselves. Yet it is clear that Obama, through his official spokesman, Ben LaBolt, and the Fight the Smears website, was bent on deceiving the American public about a matter whose truth he well knew.

    The documents reveal that the New Party’s central aim was to move the United States steadily closer to European social democracy, a goal that Mitt Romney has also attributed to Obama. New Party leaders disdained mainstream Democrats, considering them tools of business, and promised instead to create a partnership between elected officials and local community organizations, with the goal of socializing the American economy to an unprecedented degree.

    The party’s official “statement of principles,” which candidates seeking endorsement from the Chicago chapter were asked to support, called for a “peaceful revolution” and included redistributive proposals substantially to the left of the Democratic party.

    To get a sense of the ideology at play, consider that the meeting at which Obama joined the party opened with the announcement of a forthcoming event featuring the prominent socialist activist Frances Fox Piven. The Chicago New Party sponsored a luncheon with Michael Moore that same year.

    I have more to say on the New Party’s ideology and program, Obama’s ties to the party, and the relevance of all this to the president’s campaign for reelection. See the forthcoming issue of National Review.

    In the meantime, let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008 — and that in 2012 is obsessed with the president’s youthful love letters — will now refuse to report that President Obama once joined a leftist third party, and that he hid that truth from the American people in order to win the presidency.

  231. http://tinyurl.com/9vmxcuy The floodgates seem to be opening about the Napolitano culture of anti-male-ism at the DHS. Only Fox is reporting it at the moment, but the poor guys are coming out of the woodwork. I can only imagine how many more there are who are just too scared to talk. Yet. And how many women are there?

    These people are depraved and disgusting. They need to be punished, starting with Mr. Napolitano, and working the way down. Don’t let them get away with firing the underlings. Nappy is in charge. Period.

    1. The jokes write themselves. I’m saying nothing further other than to say Mr. Napolitano does nothing to dissuade the bull dyke stereotype.

      1. morally banrkrupt, secret service in whore scam
        dhs, napolitano whatever, corrupt disgusting, homosexuality is NOT credible.

    2. CALLED IT! http://tinyurl.com/9vmxcuy ICE chief of staff Suzanne Barr “accused of cultivating a “frat-house”-style work environment has “voluntarily placed herself on leave” amid an internal review”. Nappy is shown with a disapproving look on her face (wait – never mind – that is her normal scowl).

      Look, I do not care who people climb in bed with. Not my business. I have friends who are lesbians and it seriously doesn’t even register in my head that they are. No what I can NOT stand is when the “former oppressed” become the oppressors. Whether they be black or women, or anything else, breaking through the culture to get to the top – only to turn around and treat people WORSE than your group was ever treated? That is a special kind of disgusting.

      1. The first thing that popped into my head when I saw your post was Roseanne Barr!
        BLEECH!!

        1. Since you went ahead and started it, first thing in mine was Roseanne’s married?

  232. No reason, petty I know but was genuinely curious, was just cleaning out ancient files, does anybody else miss “Far Side” and “Calvin&Hobbes”?

      1. Do you remember this one from the Far Side?

        Two polar bears are ripping the top off an igloo and one says to the other: “I love these things. Crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle.”

    1. My two all-time favorites. A two volume, hardcover collection of every Calvin & Hobbes strip sits atop my desk.

      1. And some people wonder why I want to hug you some day for turning me on to Tim Conway Jr. streams, when I live in Ohio. Also a little jealous, the one C&H I have is paperback.

        1. I still remember that I (like most people, I assume) had to read Calvin & Hobbes several times (maybe a lot of times) before I got the concept. The moment I finally figured out it was all a fantasy in Calvin’s head was magical.

          1. Two things since you’re here, cut me some slack because I discombobulate between my brain and what you read…

            a] I remember a time long ago that I burst out in laughter during a serious conversation with a quite attractive female-type person because what she said made a C&H strip I’d seen days earlier “click” in my head. Bent over wanting to jump up and down laughing. No way trying to explain it wasn’t her I was laughing at sufficed. Oh well, no sense of humor, but she did wear a mean pair of Levi’s.

            b] Not sure of the tech details, but would a running “Open Thread” be possible where we could post things like this, instead of clogging tips? I’ve bailed on things to tips I now some users might be interested in because I was afraid of seeming greedy and it didn’t really fit the IHTM meme, but knew some regulars might like. Just askin’

            Oh, one of my all time favs
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

        2. We have a cat (“Queenie”) that I absolutely love. Mrs Editor always says, “If we were both drowning, would you save me or Queenie?” So if Tim Conway Jr and Calvin & Hobbes were both drowning, which one would you save?

  233. Holy Cow! Did you Fla. folks see the size of the python they caught down thataway? Saw it on TV, sure there’s pics out there. Watch your step. Knew it was becoming a big problem but that thing is huge.

    1. Yep, its all over the news here. 87 viable eggs ready to go. Seems the python takeover is working nicely.

      1. I have this mental picture of an orange-haired, very pale Great-White-North transplantee out back of her “cottage” calling,”Fifi, Fiiifffiii? Has anyone seen my Fifi? She’s such a lovable little poodle…”

  234. My first tip is more of a suggestion. After having to take the long way to the Tips page, It is my opinion that there ought to be coded into the wonderful program that is IHTMs home page, a TIPS selector on the bar of things to do. Opening FAQ and scrolling down to the little place that has the word Tips and clicking it is boring and makes my coffee taste funny.

      1. No problem using my account. Just luck of timing for an anagram of my regular handle, and I picked one that had harry in the middle. I was working on a small black psyop on the chap from jolly olde, that nigel harry hackelbag or whatever he called himseff. DefHarryMelon. FormerlyDeanH. Yep, there all there.

  235. Stimulus money was used to destroy a historic site. At Los Alamos, a site that was part of the hydrogen bomb project has been demolished.

    Here’s the crazy thing. Los Alamos das been demolishing old buildings BEFORE they got stimulus money. This was a project where the government spent money on the government to do something it was already doing. How does that stimulate the economy?

    http://screwypuppy.blogspot.com/2012/08/stimulus-money-used-to-destroy-historic.html

      1. I’ve tried but after 30 seconds of giggling my BP starts setting off bells. Stick to print so I can do small doses.

    1. Where is Belafonte still relevant?
      Isn’t he dead yet?
      Seems like Dementia doesn’t discriminate.

  236. “Army Tests Spy Blimp Over NJ”

    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Army-Spy-Blimp-New-Jersey-Hindenburg-Test-165571076.html

    You know what just occurred to me that is rather scary? They don’t even try to hide it any more. Be it drones, or blimps, or satellites, or warrant less wiretaps, or cataloging facebook and twitter data, so forth and so on… They don’t even pretend it’s not happening. That is a step in a direction that should wake everyone in our country up. I just wonder what’s next.

  237. Okay, so let me get this straight. The government forces everybody to use ethanol in their cars. They force the oil companies to use the ethanol in their gas. All this uses more corn than is used for livestock feed and human consumption, but that isn’t even part of this rant! So the mandated ethanol usage destroys many engines that are not designed to burn it. The 10% mixture that they force everyone to use isn’t as destructive to these engines as the E15 or higher concentrations, but many pumps that serve both dispense it from the same hose. Residual E15 in the hose dispensed with the 10% increase the concentration enough that if the purchased amount is less than 4 gallons, the fuel will damage equipment. So the epa comes up with this solution; you can’t buy less than 4 gallons at a pump that dispenses both grades from a common hose. Brilliant. http://sensenbrenner.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=306127

  238. The New Obama Department
    Posted by Judson Phillips on August 8, 2012 at 7:45am

    It looks like Barack Obama is adding a new Department to the Federal Government. This is not a formal department but it is very significant. We should all be alarmed about it.

    What is it?

    It is the Obama Department of Propaganda.

    According to our friends over at the Washington Guardian, Obama has added official videographers to the White House staff. However, as is the norm with the “most transparent administration in history” the White House has refused to disclose what the budget for this group is and they do not even list them as being government employees.

    Amazingly enough the product they produce looks more like an Obama Reelection campaign commercial than recording events for history. Amazingly enough, some of the themes from the official White House videographers dove tail with themes from the Obama campaign.

    This should not be a shock to anyone.

    Obama has been perfecting the concept Bill Clinton pioneered of the perpetual campaign. Everything he does as President is geared towards one objective, that being his reelection.

    With Democrats in charge, every function of government is geared towards that one objective.

    Democrats see no difference between the government and the campaign. In fact, they consider it perfectly acceptable for a Democrat to use the power of government to help them get reelected.

    While we complain about the use of taxpayer dollars for the Regime to create what amounts to reelection videos, there is something far more sinister going on.

    Remember the mantra of the Party of Treason is victory at any cost. No one should be surprised that not only is the Obama Regime using the perks of government to help it get reelected, it is also using the power of government.

    Las Vegas tycoon Sheldon Adelson has done more to fund those who want to see Obama voted out than anyone else. He poured millions into Newt Gingrich’s campaign and now is doing the same for Mitt Romney.

    Suddenly last week there was an announcement the Justice Department was investigating Adelson’s Corporation for possible money laundering.

    If you believe that is just a coincidence that this happened now, I have some ocean front property in Las Vegas to sell you.

    The message was not subtle but it was simple. For Adelson, if he continues to help bankrolling the Romney campaign, there will be hell to pay.

    This is Chicago politics. Fortunately Adelson knows a thing or two about rough and tumble politics.

    For the Party of Treason, this election is the make or break election. If they can keep Obama in the White House, they can finish the transforming America into a socialist nation. If Obama wins reelection, he can veto any effort to repeal Obamacare, taxageddon or any other Republican initiative.

    Unless something unprecedented happens in the next couple of weeks, Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. No matter what we think of Romney, we must make certain he is elected because we must vote Obama out.

    If Obama gets a second term, the great nation we knew as the United States will be forever finished.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/the-new-obama-department

  239. OK, I really wish there was a current thread that this would fit in, but I’ll have to settle for here.
    A friend sent me this in an email, and it totally blew me away! Someone is really thinking, and Romney needs to seriously consider this!!!

    How about this for a Republican slate!!!

    Here is a winning strategy that would set Obama and his Cronies way, way back on their heels. If Romney would take this advice, it would clearly send a message to the Republican establishment that conservatives aren’t going to do business as usual any more.

    It would shake the establishment, and pull together and really energize conservative voters. Here is a little something else this would do…It would shake the Obama campaign to its core.

    Rather than a leisurely march toward a VP nominee or a surprise VP announcement like we got in 2008, vet the possible VPs NOW and stand ready to announce the running mate in a nationally televised press conference the day after the delegates are in hand.

    Allen West Vice President
    Having Congressman West in the VP slot makes him a TRIPLE THREAT and a VP who WILL redefine the role. Triple threat?

    1. As the Vice President he would attend to the regular duties and be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
    2. Vice President West would also act as a second Secretary of State in difficult diplomatic negotiations.
    3. AND…A Vice President West would work in concert with the Secretary of Defense to realign our military and redefine its role.
    Triple threat. Oh but this is just the START of the strategy!!!

    As soon as Romney has introduced West as the running mate…ROMNEY WOULD THEN INTRODUCE HIS CHOICE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE!…

    John Bolton SECRETARY OF STATE
    As a former Ambassador to the United Nations there is nobody with a better handle on the world’s issues or more familiar with the players. John Bolton is tough, straight forward and not likely to appease ANYONE.

    Now, you have the nominees on stage, the VP choice and the Secretary of State nominee…Let’s not stop there. Next to walk onto the stage…

    Sarah Palin Secretary of Energy.
    Palin’s directive…Set us on the path toward energy independent in 10 years. Anyone more invested in that goal? Anyone who is more knowledgeable or adept?
    Can you feel the ground starting to shake? Next out of the wings and onto the stage…

    General David Petraeus Secretary of Defense
    The nominee for Secretary of Defense. Enter General David Petraeus. As great as he was fighting a PC war, imagine what he’ll be like once he and West have pressed the reset button on our rules of engagement. In Petraeus we will have a Secretary of Defense whose mission will be to win. PERIOD. When our case is just,VICTORY IS NOT A BAD WORD!

    Oh…but we’re not done yet…..

    Pam Bondi Attorney General
    Bondi is a no nonsense fighter who has taken on the current administration over Obamacare and WILL clean out the corruption rampant in that office today.

    Okay, where are we? Who is now standing on the stage? The nominees so far are: Allen West, John Bolton, Sarah Palin, General Petreaus and Pam Bondi.

    How about a Secretary of the Treasury? We would need someone who has worked for YEARS in the tax field who understands the overwhelming burden of tax codes and who has, for years fought to restructure those codes.

    Michele Bachmann Secretary of the Treasury.
    By now, fissures should be opening in the ground, rumbling coming from the sky and the faint odor of ozone should be in the air.

    We will need someone new…someone with new ideas to head up the Fed.

    Please welcome Ron Paul. Do ya’ think he’d kick butt? Do you think the Fed would tremble? You betcha!

    Governor Bobby Jindal Secretary of the Interior…
    COME ON DOWN!!!!!

    And finally…We need someone to head up the Department of Homeland Security. We must have someone who understands the issues we face. Someone who has worked in federal law enforcement. Someone who won’t take any crap from anybody.

    Please…a round of applause for…!

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio Department of Homeland Security

    Never before has a presidential nominee entered the full-on campaign with a fully assembled team. Can you even imagine the shock-and-awe wave which would be sent through the Obama regime were the Romney to do this? Think about it.

    Instead of just Romney against Obama we would have:
    Allen West vs. Joe Biden
    John Bolton vs. Hillary Clinton
    Sarah Palin vs. Stephen Chu
    General Petraeus vs. Leon Panetta
    Pam Bondi vs. Eric Holder
    Michele Bachmann vs. Tim Geithner
    Ron Paul vs. Ben Bernanke
    Bobby Jindal vs. Ken Salazar
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio vs. Janet Napolitano.
    **Think about that!**
    Let that sink in…all of them campaigning at once. There would be no way out for Obama as each and every key player on his team would be exposed and held to account from the word GO.

    It’s bold, brash and completely against any business as usual strategy. Imagine! An entire assembled team of key cabinet positions. Each one a pit-bull on a T-Bone, hammering their liberal counterparts on every issue, every day, from the word GO until November 6th, 2012.

    1. How often have we heard that it only takes one generation to lose our liberty? We are heading down that path rapidly.

      1. Ya know I’m glad he resigned, but one has to worry about who might come in next. (even though s/he probably only has until November.)

        1. FTA:
          A particularly harmful regulation specific to Florida, which happens to be an important state in this upcoming election, would require water in the state’s drainage canals to match the same EPA standards as its rivers and streams.

          That would be impossible because most of the canals feed into the Gulf of Mexico. It can’t meet freshwater standards.

      1. I’d like to kick the shit out of the asshole that thought about challenging the military voting.

        1. And it’s really a stupid suit too cuz we’re only talking about the fact that the military deadline for early voting is three days later than everyone else’s when their votes are coming from overseas in many cases.

          1. Plus, who is the drum-beater for early voting anyway? Oh! That’s right! The DEMS! It makes the process of cheating so much easier that way – but those pesky military peeps – they tend to vote Republican.

            1. One thing the Europeans do right is vote on Sundays. Tuesday voting is difficult for many for obvious work attendance reasons. Do it on Sundays, no early voting and offer absentee ballots as necessary. Now, wasn’t that easy?

            2. That would work right up until the time the left cries that Sunday voting would allow the right to rally for a candidate in church, then send the people out to vote.

    1. Trumka really is a scary rat bag. Picture him and vaja, that’s valerie jarrett for those unfamiliar, so anyway, trumka and vaja with burok and a few other sworn enemies of Liberty in that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where all the rat bag nazis are dressed up like dancing harem girls or whatever, out in the desert, preparing to defile the sacred object. Can you picture it? Do you see them all getting the crispy critter ray in your mind’s eye, like me? Or do you see them in the excited condition just prior to the crisping?

    1. I’m sorry, where in that article does it say that he was concealed carry, or wanted to have his pistol with him? Is there another article related to this that talks about is concealed carry beliefs?

      Should he have been armed? Lives would have been saved if he was considering his sheep dog attitude. We need more people like this in the world.

      I’m certainly not one of those people though, the only thing you will see of mine when danger is near is my ass, and it will be moving away from said danger.

      1. Pure speculation on my part. I can do that. He was a military guy. Quite young so he can’t have been out too long. They suggest it likely he was going for the guy and was gunned down on his way to get him. To continue blowing the same old horn about the restrictive gun rules, I suggest that if he was a permit holder and if he’d had a trusty on his belt, he was probably quite capable and in a good position to prevent the ongoing assault.

        No one can blame anyone for getting the hell outta Dodge when bullets are flying around you. But up close, too close to get away fast enough, I want to drop to cover quick and send a fat baker’s dozen .45 ACP into his feet, his head and everything in between until he falls. I’ll worry about getting dry pants after its over.

    1. How f’ing stupid. Tempted to post a comment there myself, referencing the playing of stupid girl to lead up to Sara Palin interview, but I am not ready to monitor the responses to that. I’ll bet there would be some notably crass posts to that.

      Yeah, sorry folks. Coincidence! Bad timing! Oops! Our bad! Now they just have to reaffirm their liplock to burok’s arse, then everything will be forgiven.

  240. “Carbonite CEO: Limbaugh Ad Pullout Hurt Company, But ‘Things Would Have Been Worse Had We Not Done That'”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/carbonite-ceo-limbaugh-ad-regret_n_1738332.html

    How can a person be so smart to create a successful company, but then be so stupid and out of touch to throw out not only a successful revenue stream, but if you look at Chick-Fil-A, a revenue boost if they stuck to their guns. (I think this whole Chick-Fil-A crap is nonsense, but that doesn’t mean a lot of people don’t disagree with me, which means profits if you tap into that).

    Clearly the liberal media is failing, so why the hell would a person or company go along with their storyline? Is having smoke blown up your ass that much fun? They went up against Limbaugh, I’m *shocked* people turned away from them.

    1. “No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. Mr.Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency,” said the Carbonite CEO David Friend.

      Miss Fluke wasn’t “well-intentioned,” she was a pawn used to try to destroy religious liberty. Is a young unmarried woman who tries to get a Catholic University to pay for contraceptives for largely single women a “lady”? Not in my opinion. Is she decent? Not in my opinion. Is she “courageous”? What a joke! It is the defenders of traditional values who have to be courageous. What a liberal loon the CEO of Carbonite is!

      1. Of all the comments I read on that thread, my favorite was this one:

        A 30 year woman who pays over 50k a year for schooling and will get a 160k a year job in DC after graduation is whining cause someone else won’t pay 3k a year for her pill when she can buy it at walmart for 10 dollars a month. All this while 19 year olds are getting their legs blown off in Afganistan and not whining.

  241. – Additionally, Gross provided two experts to the defense at government expense: Dr. James Richardson, an expert on social science methodology, and Dr. Lewis Rambo, an expert on religious conversion.

    Just before the Article 39a hearing, Gross held Hasan in contempt of court for refusing to shave and imposed a $1,000 fine.

  242. DeanH shared The People’s Cube’s status update.
    The People’s Cube
    HEADLINE: Tropical storm Ernesto: countdown begins to MSNBC exalting it as “Hurricane Che”
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    The People’s Cube
    HEADLINE: Team USA beats Nigeria by 83 points after receiving email from Nigerian prince offering 3 gold medals each if they send him theirs first
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  243. I sure do loves me some Cube. http://www.thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/the-house-that-obama-built-picture-book-t9342.html

    This is the house that Obama built

    These are the firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the media that didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    These are the crony big business concerns
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    These are the blessed condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the maiden in a Georgetown dorm
    That milked the taxpayers for the condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    These are the men all tidy and shorn
    That cheered the maiden in a Georgetown dorm
    That milked the taxpayers for the condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the priest who was made to reform
    That married the men all tidy and shorn
    That cheered the maiden in a Georgetown dorm
    That milked the taxpayers for the condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    These are the people all tattered and torn
    That once trusted the priest who was made to reform
    That married the men all tidy and shorn
    That cheered the maiden in a Georgetown dorm
    That milked the taxpayers for the condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the gas that was made out of corn
    That used to be food for those tattered and torn
    That once trusted the priest who was made to reform
    That married the men all tidy and shorn
    That cheered the maiden in a Georgetown dorm
    That milked the taxpayers for the condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

    This is the clunker tooting its horn
    That was fueled by the gas made out of corn
    That used to be food for those tattered and torn
    That once trusted the priest who was made to reform
    That married the men all tidy and shorn
    That cheered the maiden in a Georgetown dorm
    That milked the taxpayers for the condoms and porn
    That the state must provide from the day we are born
    That was paid with the money all wasted and gone
    That came from the stimulus ready to burn
    That the crony big businesses didn’t return
    That gave to the unions what they didn’t earn
    That the media saw but didn’t inform
    That everyone’s broke except for those firms
    That paid for the house that Obama built

  244. Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? How can anyone give 110%?

    A simple mathematical substitution cipher might answer this question:

    If the letters in the English alphabet are substituted by their respective ordinal positions in that alphabet, then:
    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

    are represented as:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

    Various behaviors and characteristics have been asserted as secrets to success. Comparing them numerologically as percentages reveals some interesting results:

    H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
    8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

    and

    K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
    11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

    But

    A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
    1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

    and

    B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
    2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

    And look how far ass kissing will take you:

    A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
    1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

    So one can conclude with mathematical certainty,
    that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close,
    and Attitude by itself will actually get you there,
    it’s Bullshit and Ass Kissing that put you over the top.

    1. What a load of crap! The manufacturer, not the parent or guardian who left these things where the kids could get to them, is at fault?

    2. Outlaw paperclips! Outlaw fridge magnets! Outlaw coins! Outlaw small fairy figurines! Outlaw beads! Outlaw thumbtacks! Outlaw water bottle tops! Outlaw watch batteries! Outlaw flash drives! Outlaw tea light candles! Outlaw little heart-shaped stones! Outlaw honor society member pins!

      In case you can’t guess what I did there – I looked around on my desk to see what items COULD, POSSIBLY harm a three year old, should they get ahold of them. Let’s ban it all!

      OR – we could just make adults responsible for keeping children away from dangerous things? Accidents happen, but far fewer accidents happen to toddlers who are being WATCHED by adults. So, if the adult is not watching, why don’t we punish them, instead of the people who make an item that is perfectly safe for it’s intended audience?

    1. I dislike these stories. The baker should have the right to pick and choose the customers for whom he wants to serve but he’s being a bit of a dick.

      1. True, but there is always the sign I keep seeing in storefronts:

        “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”

        If he didn’t have that posted, he should have at least been more diplomatic. When I don’t want to work for someone, I am “just too busy right now”.

      2. I kind of agree with you, but there is not enough “story” there to tell. The baker could have been diplomatic and the couple jumped down his throat. I have seen how aggressive militant gays can be when they sense (right or wrong) that someone does not “approve” of their lifestyle.

        I wonder if there is something about gays and cakes? A friend of mine used to bake cakes, and she refused to make a penis cake for a prospective client (to be fair, it was because it was a penis, not because he was gay). He freaked out, and started smashing her cakes and packaging supplies. He cost her a lot of money, and she actually quit doing it after that. She did it in a kitchen she had installed in her basement, and her kids were upstairs at the time, so it was pretty scary.

        1. All true. The militant gays do seem to want us to accept their entire agenda, which is very different than being tolerant and having a live and let live philosophy.

          Why do some people feel the need to shove some of the more sordid sides of their sexuality in our faces? It does not breed good will. Of course, liberals in their never ending search of more victims lap this stuff up.

    1. These kids are going to ruin it for everyone with their stupidity. How long will it be before society HAS to put limits on congregating? And how long after that until authorities use those limitations to crush people who are organizing in a peaceful manner, but who happen to disagree with the administration? We already have many locations that require permits for parades or demonstrations, but we are still free to congregate loosely in most places.

      Unfortunately these “kids” have never learned in the public schools, how WE are supposed to act within the frames of our rights. They have never been taught by their parents what responsibilities they have, because their parents went to the pubic schools too. Our society is on a dangerous path, and these useful idiots are speeding up the downhill course.

      It’s no wonder that the *official spin* is on how lighthearted and happy flash mobs are. That kills me, because the very first 5 or 10 videos I ever saw about flash mobs were thugs (some suburban, some ghetto – bust mostly all black) walking in to convenience stores, mobbing the place, stealing and destroying things. It was only a bit later, after the young adult crowd stole the idea from the thugs that we saw a few less-damaging ones.

      Regardless of intent though, the very act of mobbing is frightening for shop owners and customers. Having dozens or more people converge on one place with no warning and no security leaves people feeling extremely vulnerable. These punks should think about that. The thugs? They don’t think about anything except how to get immediate gratification without actually working for it.

    1. I don’t like it because the message is identical to the Left’s regarding Bush and Iraq. Let the Left live in the gutter by themselves.

    2. Hmm…. I wonder what those cameras on the billboard are for. Maybe…
      http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/26/just-a-face-in-a-crowd-scans-pick-up-id-personal-d/

      I seen a billboard 2 years ago that told me the end of the world should have come and gone already (I forget the date) and that I should seek Christ before it happens. Signs like that make Christianity look stupid and signs like this make Republicans look stupid. I wish people would stop doing stupid things, the world would be so much better. But as an American I believe in every individuals right to be an idiot.

      1. Actually it was group of Libertarians who put that billboard up, not Repulicans, but that doesn’t really matter to your point.

        1. Yes, but the article deliberately does not mention that. I googled the foundation name to find that it was libertarian. Honestly, from the lack of party designation in the article, I immediately thought they must be liberal dems! I was totally not surprised to see that they were not Tea Party or Republican, since that would have been in the headline. Did I mention I hate the media?

          1. Oh yes, you are correct. I read that in a different article on the same subject, then forgot where I read it. oops.

      1. How about we don’t re-elect him? I think that would be best. Though, your snark is appreciated! 😀

        1. President “Elect” for life!

          Now that’s even scarier than the caulk enhanced butt!

    1. I am surprised to learn that the white house denied this. I heard about right away and never heard any refutation. Did this denial come about after Romney got the buddy-buddy treatment from the UKs?

      1. I love how Romney supposedly “offended” the UK with his trash talk about how the Olympics were being handled. Lets not forget that Romney knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Olympics. And the only people who are saying that UK was “offended” are pro-obama hacks and liberal media.

        Nothing Romney said was offensive in the least. The comments may not have been glowing, but they were true and obviously said with the best of intentions, as Cameron basically said the same thing.

      1. So if a man beats up his pregnant girlfriend or wife in Colorado and the baby dies, he won’t be charged with a murder but only an assault or attempted murder of his girlfriend/wife? Ridiculous.

  245. Some months ago, maybe a year or more even, we had discussion here about a receipt for a bunch of steaks and lobsters purchased with EBT. Today while pouncing on libs the subject came up again, so I renewed a search for the old pic and found an interesting tiddly bit here. Turns out dude that spent well over a hundred bucks on the ‘groceries’ got popped for reselling the items for a profit! http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/ss/Lobster-Steak-Food-Stamp-Receipt.htm

  246. Another good one from Tea Party Nation

    Liberalism: A fact free zone

    Arguing with liberals is an experience that can be frustrating at best. Unless you are more ADD than the average liberal or you have been prescribed some very powerful medications, trying to argue with their non-logic is a cruel and unusual experience.

    It is hard to debate with liberals because you are debating with someone for whom facts are irrelevant and they do not require proof of any claim.

    A typical liberal response is, “You take ‘x’ seriously?” Or they sometimes like to throw out one of their power words like “racist.” “Oh, ‘x’ is a racist.”

    Why debate a point when you can simply dismiss the party making the point.

    The Aurora Colorado massacre is a great example of arguing with liberals. Liberals immediately screamed we need more gun control. They screamed gun control laws would have stopped this massacre.

    Really?

    Could we have some evidence of this claim?

    The left is ignoring quite a few facts here. First, the movie theater was a gun free zone. Aurora Colorado has some very restrictive gun laws and as intelligent as the criminal was, if he could not have used guns, he would have used something else, like the explosives he used to rig his own apartment.

    Dana Milbank is a liberal scribbler for the Washington Post. Today he started whining about those who attacked Barack Obama. He blamed Mitt Romney for “nuttiness” directed at Obama.

    He singled out John Sununu for his comment that Barack Obama should “learn how to be an American.”

    Do you know what the only problem with Sununu’s statement is?

    He apologized for it.

    Milbank then decided to go into a hormone inspired rant about Birthers and those who dared to claim that Obama is a Marxist and he is sympathetic to radical Islam.

    Milbank in full brain donor mode announced he wasn’t “dignifying the nuttiness.”

    Really?

    Perhaps you could produce some facts to support your idiotic rantings?

    This is the problem with liberals. Their form of argument is to simply look down their noses at conservatives and simply dismiss anything conservatives say.

    Summery dismissal of someone’s opinion might be acceptable at a Manhattan Wine and Cheese party, but for making policy it is down right stupid. Perhaps that is why liberals favor it.

    For the rest of us who have to live with the results of liberal stupidity and live in the real world, we would like policy decisions based on facts and evidence, not hysterical ranting.

    Gun control is a great case study. Liberals want to ban the private ownership of firearms. What has happened when that has been tried in the past?

    The cities with the harshest gun control laws are the cities with the highest crime rates. When Britain and Australia banned the private ownership of guns. What happened? Violent crime went through the roof.

    What is one of the nations with the lowest crime rates?

    Switzerland.

    Interestingly enough, every Swiss man has an assault rifle in his home as well as other weapons. Gun crime is rare in Switzerland.

    Does anyone take liberals seriously? The only thing I take seriously about liberals is their ability to damage the nation and destroy freedom and liberty.

    That is something we should all take seriously.

    Posted by Judson Phillips

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A2118437&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic&page=3#comments

    1. There are 35 countries in the world that have higher murder per capita rates than the US, and the majority of them have much stricter gun control laws. It’s not rocket science.

  247. I was surprised to get this email the other day. They are looking for security volunteers for the Republican Convention! I left out the email address to keep the trolls at bay.

    Hello fellow Floridians,

    As you may know, Florida is hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 27-30, 2012. We are looking for dedicated, disciplined and loyal Republicans to support our party by hosting the most successful convention in our nation’s history – right here in Tampa Bay, Florida.

    SECURITY VOLUNTEER ROLE

    Security volunteers will provide additional protection for convention delegates and attendees. Security volunteers will help process people through the security check-points, assist with possible emergency situations, and act as a support system for other law enforcement personnel present at the convention. Prior law enforcement or military experience is preferred.

    If you have any questions, or are ready to volunteer with the 2012 Republican National Convention, please contact us at: email

    Thank you for serving our country, and we hope you will consider joining us in August. God Bless.

    In service,

    Leda Williams

    External Affairs – Volunteer Programs

    Committee on Arrangements for the 2012 Republican National Convention

    1. Are you going to volunteer? Man, I’d like to if I could take the time from work.

      1. I would, but between my workload, taking care of my father in law, and the repairs/remodeling on my house, it would be tough to swing.

  248. An excellent article on ethanol. I figured it was timely because the price of corn is going to skyrocket now due to the drought.
    Unfortunately, it is posted on Tea Party Nation, and you can’t read it there unless you join.

    Ethanol: The Power of a Really Bad Idea

    By Alan Caruba
    It took some eighty years for Communism to fail in the former Soviet Union. Along the way, millions were sent to gulags and millions more died from starvation and World War Two added to the death tolls. Spreading Communism like a religion, it had similar results in China and everywhere it has been adopted.
    It takes a long time to rid the world of a really bad idea and, in the latter part of the last century, environmentalism sprung up like a weed to overwhelm the common sense of people with its mix of lies and hatred for humanity.
    What does this have to do with the price of corn? A lot.
    Under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), an ethanol mandate exists that requires refiners to blend this moonshine with gasoline for the alleged purpose of reducing the emissions that driving a car produces. We are told it contributes to cleaner air and the effects of global warming—which is not occurring.
    What it actually does is ruin your car’s engine because it is highly corrosive and it reduces the mileage you would get if it was not part of the gasoline blend. It also ensures that the growers of corn have a government mandated requirement that it be purchased. It is a farm lobby bonanza.
    As Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out about the RFS, “No matter how much of the U.S. corn crop is ruined by drought, no matter how high corn prices et, no matter how many people in developing countries are imperiled, the RFS requires that billions of bushels of corn be used to fuel cars rather than feed livestock and people. This is crazy.”
    What most people, being city folk, don’t realize is how great a role corn plays in the nation’s economy, its export generates, and the astonishing list of uses to which it is put other than as a vital food for livestock—beef, pork and poultry—and consumed in hundreds of ways by people.
    Corn is used in bakery products, baby foods, brewed beverages (bourbon, beer, ale), carbonated beverages, cheese spreads and foods, cereals, condiments, chewing gun, prepared mixes (pancakes, waffle, biscuit, cake flour, puddings), gravies and sauces, canned soups, coffee “creamers”, frosting and icings, in instant coffee, marshmallows, sweetened ice tea, most snack foods….I could go on, but the list is long, very long.
    The Wall Street Journal, on July 19, reported that corn and soybean prices leapt to records on rising fears that the searing Midwest drought is further eroding the size of the coming harvests for two of America’s most important crops…The drought now covers more than half of the continental U.S. and covers a wider stretch of the country than in any drought since 1956, according to the U.S. government.”
    And, even so, the Journal reported that “U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the situation wasn’t bad enough to warrant a reduction in government mandates for how much ethanol—typically made from corn—is blended into gasoline.” As for as Vilsack is concerned the RFS mandate must be enforced.
    Marlo Lewis asks “Why as a matter of law should ethanol producers get first dibs on the U.S. corn crop?”
    “What should their interest legally trump that of every other industry and consumer affected by corn prices?”
    “Why should they have a legal privilege to jump to the front of the line ahead of meat, poultry, and dairy producers, or those who export grain to hunger-stricken countries?”
    If we got rid of the ethanol mandate tomorrow our cars would last longer and drive farther. Since they are on our roads and streets anyway, does anyone really believe that air quality would be significant affected?
    So ethanol, like communism and environmentalism, is yet one more very bad idea that is backed by the power of government mandates that benefit its growers, but does little else of any value for consumers.
    © Alan Caruba, 2012
    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:2120073&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

      1. Thanks! Fixed!

        BTW, turns out this is an old story from April. Drudge Report tipped and many others followed the tip, including US News on NBC, which then removed the story.

        Strange how silent the MSM was on this. There has been NO updates.

    1. OK – I am only at the beginning of that, and I saw the Bloomberg blatherings! What a jackass!

      The way to protect the police is to get the TRASH off the street. Gun charges mean nothing in NYC. Confiscation and a few trips to court is about it. If you allow responsible people to have legal guns, then you can assume that unlicensed, illegal guns are meant for illicit purposes, and throw those people in jail for a long time!

      Build a few more jails – it’s all they need, since the majority of crime is done by the same people over and over. It’s a revolving door with half the criminals out and half in, at any given time. Get them ALL in, and the crime rate will drop.

      It’s not rocket science.

      1. It is so ridiculous that the media plays this stuff with such favor and treacle while telling us that the majority of people agree with everything they promote and all that oppose them are cast outs, lepers to be shunned. When confronting actual proglodytes, they of course do agree with what marxist state media says, but claim to be open minded and uninfluenced by the main stream while living the hope of utopia as directed by the mainlining mediots!

  249. Judge Col. Gregory Gross began the morning with a contempt hearing for Hasan’s failure to comply with Army grooming standards and appear in court clean shaven

    Hooyah!

    I remember in basic our platoon guide had to dry shave with a gravel of the parade ground. wouldn’t it be neat if the Judge required the same???? srsly.

    1. “Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader and Nevada Democrat, has vowed not to put it to a vote.”

      I’m so shocked I’m beside myself.

    1. I saw it and was gonna post the same thing, Ya beats me too it..too bad for Newsweak….but great for the rest of us as another liberal leg humping publication assumes room temperature….Liberals can’t read anyway as evidenced by our troll population, they only respond to what they think was said…So Newsweak can print cartoons and the liberal loons will still be pasting the same old crap…

    1. Dang, they got some hot women in Egypt. I won’t hit ya baby, come to America.

      It’s interesting though to make a contrast between the Muslim world and the west. Here we can’t (or don’t) even show a picture of mohammed out of fear. There they openly hate Israel and the Jews, and it’s a freakin’ comedy show.

  250. “Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Under Investigation”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/pennsylvania-voter-id-law-under-investigation_n_1696675.html

    Honestly, every time I go and vote, the person asks me my name, I tell him or her, and reach for my ID in the same breath. I can’t help it, it’s just common sense and natural reaction in today’s world. I was shocked I didn’t need ID the first time I voted.
    How the hell can you have a residence, or bank account, or job, or anything without an ID? If you don’t have an ID you are probably here illegally or not a functioning member of society. I guess the Democrats need votes though.

    1. Cool, gov’t can now demand proof of insurance but states can’t demand proof of citizenship, funny how that works.

  251. OMG!!
    Watching TV and a commercial for reverse mortgages came on. The pitch man? Henry “Fonzie” Winkler!
    My, how the mighty have fallen!

    1. How can that be? I thought abortion was perfectly safe because it’s legal!
      Maybe we have a leftist nurse somewhere that can explain that to us.

  252. “55 Percent Of Americans are Morons”

    Umm, I don’t think I quoted that headline right, but that’s how I read it.

    http://www.infowars.com/55-percent-of-americans-believe-that-the-government-will-take-care-of-them-if-disaster-strikes/

    I’ve seen people fight at Walmart before over kids clothing and from that day forward when the topic of being prepared is brought up I ask people what they think our world would look like if there was a food shortage or natural disaster.

    Now, I’m not a nut with a bunker in my backyard (only because I can’t afford to be a nut, bunkers are expensive) but having food and water, along with a first aid kit (not store bought ones, they suck), a few good knives, a way to make fire, isn’t a bad idea. Add a little know how in there, and if anything should happen you are not part of the problem, you are part of the solution.

    Of course, if you live in say an earthquake or flood prone area, obviously you should take that into account.

    1. “55 Percent Of Americans are Morons”

      Umm, I don’t think I quoted that headline right, but that’s how I read it.

      http://www.infowars.coM/55-percent-Of-ameRicans-believe-that-the-gOverNment-will-take-care-of-them-if-diSaster-strikes/

      No, that looks about right.
      Apologies to drb for using bold type, it was called for here.

  253. More from the party of civility:

    Democrat Threatens Tea Party Girl

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxTYZrBFrw

    During a public event at the Reform Congregation – Keneseth Israel in Jenkintown, Pa for Obama (which no Republicans were invited to speak at) – We arrived to find Myron Goldman – a Jewish American for Romney handing out literature. He was told to leave. 10 minutes later, Steve (from Citizens For Liberty) and I were listening to Josh Shapiro talk about how TOLERANT the Democrats are and how they welcome other opinions (yet they tried to throw Mr. Goldman off the property). At the end of the event, I stood in the parking lot with my sign that said Obama has killed (among other things) Jobs, the coal industry, and the Constitution. Things got very heated as a Democrat told one person to “Go F*ck Themself” and then he proceeded to get in my face, bump his chest into me, and told me he was going to break my camera. To be fair, there were 2 lovely Democrat ladies at the end who stopped and said they appreciated our right to be there and voice our opinion. Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke at this event – the same Debbie Wasserman Schultz who said the Tea Party lacks civility – if you watch this video – I’d say actions speak louder than Debbie’s lying accusations.

      1. so, nature proves same race monogamy is best. there’ you go chaldeans try to refute your own chaldeanaic principles.
        God rules, all others drool
        sorry flash, the druids were murderous toads. sorry you won’t see that, but it’s true. also, hussein is a pos, as is the pope. may they all endure the fires of hell Which God the great and ancient of days, the Holy One of Israel, the very Father of the Holy son Jesus of nazareth, the annointed One, let all who disbelieve in the Almighty and ever to be praised, be slaughtered by God’s justice and the dble edged sword of the truth which has proceeded forth from the Mouth of the Eternal Supernal One. Jesus is LORD, and one day every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is indeed LORD of all.

  254. As most of you know, we were flooded 4 weeks ago by Hurricane Debbie.
    Well, here are the latest developments:

    It seems that since we are in a 100 year flood zone, there is a different requirement for us to meet.
    Because of the zone we are in, (A-13) FEMA requires that our house be at a minimum of 12′ above sea level.
    Well the county has decided that we need to be at 13′ above sea level, or we fall under what they call the 50% rule.
    This means that if we aren’t 13′ above sea level (finished floor inside the house) then we will not be permitted to make repairs unless the cost is under 50% of the house value, ACCORDING TO THE TAX ASSESORS VALUATION!!!
    Well, the tax assesor has the house (structure only, not land, etc) valued at $30k! The cost of the repairs we are doing, which includes remodeling, is $28k! SO they told us that we need an elevation certification. Since that didn’t make the grade, we now have to get a new appraisal, which needs to come in at minimum 2x the cost of the repairs and remodeling. If that doesn’t work, we will have to tear down the house, build up the lot to make it meet the requirements, and then rebuild.

    AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!

    Any wonder why I’m on the edge?

      1. Actually looking into the possibility that they can jack up the house and fill in under it. I wasn’t sure it could be done with a block house on a slab, but I’m told it can be done.

        1. I’ve seen ’em move one on a hauler after a land sale, put it on a new poured concrete full basement. You could still see pea gravel in the bottom of the slab which was now the basement ceiling.

          1. With a 4′ water table, a basement isn’t an option, but I’m glad to know some people have seen it.

            1. They moved the whole two story slab house about 7 miles poppa, they gotta be able to jack one up a foot I’d think.

  255. I’m sorry, but who the hell would want to go through this after such a tragedy?

    “Obama Heading To Visit Colorado Shooting Victims, Families”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/21/obama-colorado-shooting_n_1692357.html

    I imagine the hassle of meeting the president is intense. All the security measures, pat downs, questions, background checks, ect. Who the hell would want that after losing a loved one? Never mind politics or party, stay in DC, play some golf, and let these people go through the natural course of what they need to go through. This is a tragedy, not a political/media opportunity.

      1. Wasn’t it The Little Bulldog, Rahm, who said let no tragedy go to waste? Photo op. Push for gun bans. Advance your political agenda at the expense of grieving families. The man has no shame. It makes me ill to think of him.

    1. That would be me, and a couple others off the top of my head. One drawback of refusing to read the Dayton Daily Comrade even if someone else paid for it.(not that it would be in there now I think about it) Thanks doc, that’ll be my mini-project this week, do some digging.

    1. strange one can form “art” of their concept of Jesus out of feces and no prob. nea gets more bucks
      but let someone take a swipe at the klingon and Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he deserves more respect, nay, worship.
      nevermind what was done to Presidents Bush.
      OH you can burn the flag, but i betcha if one were to hang cretin o in effigy it’d be hate crime, sedition, treason racism et al. fuggin idjjit dems
      and idiot so-called Americans who voted this kenyan pos into office. the masses aren’t only illiterate, they’re stupid as well.

  256. Freedom: Void where prohibited by law.

    Yesterday, in the United States Senate, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat and fan boy for dictators around the world made a startling pronouncement.

    He said, “I believe there ought to be limits because the First Amendment is not absolute. No amendment is absolute. You can’t scream ‘fire’ falsely in a crowded theater. We have libel laws. We have anti-pornography laws. All of those are limits on the First Amendment. Well, what could be more important than the wellspring of our democracy? And certain limits on First Amendment rights that if left unfettered, destroy the equality — any semblance of equality in our democracy — of course would be allowed by the Constitution.”
    “And the new theorists on the Supreme Court who don’t believe that, I am not sure where their motivation comes from, but they are just so wrong. They are just so wrong.”

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/freedom-void-where-prohibited-by-law

      1. Not if you ask Obliviousidiot. She claims that Klintoon put an end to it with his welfare reform act. However, I haven’t seen any changes in the faces marching in and out of the welfare office, or using food stamps/EBT/SNAP in my town.

    1. “Being limited to MSNBC.com content was problematic to us because we couldn’t have the multiple news sources and the multiple perspectives that our users were telling us that they wanted,” said Bob Visse, general manager of MSN.com.

      Interesting. 😀

    2. Obama during 2008:”Change”
      MSNBC’s slogan during election week 2008:”The Power Of Change”

      MSNBC’s 2012 slogan:”Lean Forward”
      Obama 2012 campaign slogan:”Forward”

      Romney’s 2012 campaign slogan is “Believe In America”. Imagine Fox embracing the slogan “Believe” or “Change” this year.

    3. Not quite the huge flushing sound I was hoping for, but it’s a start.

      My only concern is that soon NBC will be considered “too big to fail” by the admin, and more stimulus money will be created to save this huge turd from the flush!

  257. “End of the Line for Ron Paul’s Insurgent Campaign”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/end-of-the-line-for-ron-pauls-insurgent-campaign/

    Yes, it’s the blaze, forgive me. However, if Ron Paul doesn’t get to speak at the convention, “Paul’s loss means he will not be guaranteed a speaking slot at the convention in Tampa, Fla. next month, and will have to rely on Romney and convention organizers to grant him time instead” I will not vote for Romney. It makes me sick that I voted for McCain last time. I won’t trade my values for expediency this time. Libertarianism is the only hope for our county. If the American people can’t realize that, that is not my fault.

    1. Joe, trust me – I know what you are saying, and I agree. I was disgusted that I had to vote for Weenie McCain last time – it was not a vote I was happy about. But I was really scared for our country, and I chose the lesser of two evils. It turns out that his losing was much worse than any of us imagined. Unfortunately, this time it’s even more critical, because we have SEEN what this Obama guy is capable of, and we already know that if he wins, he will be completely unchecked. He SAID so.

      We can’t count on Congress. We can’t count on the SCOTUS. We have nothing to protect us. The ONLY hope at this point, to see that we HAVE a country worth saving in 4 more years, is to get rid of Obama. Even if we have to vote for Romney. At this point, we have exactly ZERO chance of getting anyone else. It’s going to be either Obama or Romney.

      If you want a Libertarian government, you better vote Romney. You won’t get it in the next 4 years, but you are keeping the possibility alive. Vote Obama, and I am afraid we will be the equivalent of a third-world country, and barring a physical revolt, the administration will see to it that it stays that way.

      1. I disagree that McCain losing was a bad thing. If he won, while we wouldn’t have Obamacare, we would still have all the “national security” measures in place that have taken away our constitutional rights, only fewer people would be complaining about it because a Republican was in charge of taking those rights away. And considering he is a warmonger we would probably be fully deployed in Libya, Syria, and Iran today. Oh and we would still be in Iraq. It’s who Johnny is.

        “If you want a Libertarian government, you better vote Romney.” I’m sorry, I like you, but that made me laugh. I can’t let the Republican party dictate to me that the only choice I have is to accept their ultimatum of Romney for the sole reason he is not Obama with the slim hope of a real Constitutionalists candidate one day. If we get that candidate, it will probably be without the Republican party. Choosing between the lesser of two evils doesn’t mean a choice for something good. I’d rather be an idealist and tell both evils to “expletive expletive” before I lower myself to their level.

        I know Obama winning would be disastrous, but Romney was decided before I even had a chance to vote, don’t blame me. If Obama wins, we are in serious trouble. If Romney wins, that just tells the Republican establishment they can pick whoever they want and all of us Constitutionalists will fall in line and follow them. Our candidate is a Liberal Republican. Nothing will get done, nothing will be saved. It’s a band aid when we need stitches and several pints of blood.

        1. It’s NOT about principle at this point. Believe me, I get a bad taste in my mouth at flip-flopping RINO Romney. But if I just stand here and look fierce, refusing to cast my vote for him, and that destroyer gets back in office, what have I won? Bragging rights when I am in the “re-education camp”? I can tell my grandchildren that I was against the government that made them slaves?

          I don’t like ANY politicians (well, maybe a couple), but at this point it comes down to which one of the pre-ordained picks will do the least damage? Obama on his own would, perhaps, not be so bad, but with him we get a complicit media, which has allowed him to run free and unchecked. At least with Romney (or with McCain), we know that the media will be reporting every time he burps.

          I have always understood that the president has limited ability to actually make decisions. He was there to be a leader and a guiding force. So, while he might lead the country in a different direction, he couldn’t seize control. When people talk these days of a “national crisis” occurring in the first week of November I don’t just roll my eyes and think they are a conspiracy kook. My knee-jerk reaction is “My God” that could happen. THAT’S why Obama needs to go! (Among many other reasons)

          1. Karmaa, you’re right.
            Voting for the lesser of two evils may mean we are still voting for an evil, but when one evil is destructive, and the other is just complacent, complacent looks pretty good compared to the alternative.

            1. It’s been quite a while since I voted FOR a President. I believe his name was Ronald. I despise both parties. I just despise one a little less than the other. And no, I don’t have any other choices.

          2. What would our country look like if our founding fathers said “It’s NOT about principle at this point.”

            Everything in life is about principle and values. What we believe, where we stand. I don’t want Obama to win, but my values are not represented in this up coming election, so what am I to do?? Mickey Mouse is not Obama, would you be happy if I voted for him?

            “…but at this point it comes down to which one of the pre-ordained picks will do the least damage?” We have “pre-ordained picks” because of that attitude. The “pre-ordained” win because WE THE PEOPLE are to afraid to look for a better option.

            From my perspective, I’m young, I don’t plan on going anywhere in the next 4 years. Just like the liberals in the 60’s planned far ahead of their current time to get a Marxist in place. So in the next 10 years local and state governments become full of Libertarians, than their success and popularity spreads to the branches of the federal government, then maybe 24 years from now I can vote for a viable candidate that actually represents the American people (it may be shorter than that).

            Romney will not solve anything. He’s not Obama, but I don’t care about that. We know who the Democrats are. Yet to defeat the Democrats the Republican party runs Liberal Republicans against them. They counter Democrat with Democrat lite. Sorry, but I’m tired of that game.

    2. I’m a libertarian (a small “l” one at least) and I must say that I am so glad to live in a state in which the outcome has already been decided.

      1. Not me and I will cast my vote with an eye to the future. The two possible futures that each candidate represents could not be more starkly different.

    1. The same incompetent clingers who think that it takes a village to raise a child. I think that it takes a village to raise a village idiot, and those usually have a D after their name.

    1. Wow. I hope that someone has proof to show which one of these women is riding the crazy train here. I would feel really bad for the employee if that really happened, but can you IMAGINE what the boss is going through if it’s not true? That’s almost worse. The employee walked away with no serious harm and a really great cocktail party story, but the boss’s reputation will always be tarnished.

    1. flippin’ judges, and the flippin DOJ, TSA not but a bunch of fed licensed perverts. Daggone dbl standard, ic the tsa’ers wanna get all touchy feely and grabby-gropey, then ordinary citizens MUST have the same rights. America has become a pitiful excuse for itself. RISE UP Patriots, throw out the liars and the spec. int. and put our values back.
      land of the free, home of the brave. let’s quit kowtowing to the effin libs and other godless “leaders.”

  258. The man is brilliant, too bad he didn’t run for President this time!

    Fred Thompson Tweets:

    Obama on healthcare: “the law I passed is here to stay.” That’s what the Founding Fathers thought when they wrote the Constitution.

    Obama bus tour slogan “Betting on America.” Sounds like a good gamble, but I think we’d like to have someone else rolling the dice.

    GOP bill to ban green energy loan guarantees. That’s outrageous! What are they trying to do? Bankrupt the bankruptcy lawyers?

    Report: Americans working 7 mo/yr to pay for govt. It’s fine. Still got 5 months to save for luxuries like food, clothing & shelter.

    House votes 244-185 to repeal Obamacare (5 Dems), but Harry Reid won’t hold Senate vote. Huh. Must’ve attached a budget to it.

    http://twitter.com/fredthompson

      1. I know! Ieven voted for him in the ’08 primary even though he dropped out by the time Florida had their primary.
        I really respect and admire him.

    1. I love Ruin Porn as much as the next guy.. this is a sweet idea but they will get screwed by litigation as soon as the first loose beam falls on someone’s head

    1. Meant to call that ” Oh, HELL no”, but the dude from Fla. who kicked the croc wins.

    1. You really should have included a serious warning. I think I just died a little inside.

      1. You’re absolutely correct Karmaa, and I’m sincerely contrite. My bad, as they say. I’ll be more careful from now on.

        (not to mention the fantasy I had for years involving Mila Kunis, me in handcuffs and smuffication, talk about bad dreams now)

        See below, ↓

        1. I was afraid to open the link, in case there was a picture that would make me gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon!

    1. It’s not likely that we will ever get the truth. These people are the consummate lib dems. They will lie about anything, even if the truth is less embarrassing. Whatever it is, it’s pretty obvious that it’s not just “exhaustion”. I personally am leaning towards the suicide/OD attempt myself, just because of the length of time, and the euphemistic “explanations”.

  259. An excellent editorial on why the left loves lying to itself about Islam:

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-west-loves-lying-to-itself-about.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

    50 years from now, a tiny group of English-speaking Christians will be huddled together in their mountain hideaway reading this editorial and finally learning how they wound up in the mess they’re in.

    1. Holder’s a douchenozzle. All those “poor” people have picture ID. It’s called a drivers license or welfare ID,

    1. Sheesh fdh, saw this last night and the first thing I thought was, “I’ll bet me a beer Dean catches this.” Scary, but now I owe me a beer, thanks.

  260. FINALLY!! Someone has legally challenged Obama’s fraudulent SSN! This old lady (70 years old!) has crossed her “t”s and dotted her “i”s. It might just work! http://tinyurl.com/8x8c3gf

    The deal is (and this article doesn’t really go into it) in the mid-1970’s there was an old geezer who died in HI. He had a SSN, but had never claimed benefits. He had moved to HI from CT. I don’t recall the specifics but Obama’s mama or G-ma was somehow in a position (job) that would have allowed her to get this dude’s SSN. Knowing that Barack would need one, they took his. Since this was before the computer age, the fact that Geezer had no benefits paid out from SSA would be enough to not trigger any flags.

    It seems “conspiracy theory-ist” but it’s really not that hard to believe. Remember – that is how people used to restart their lives. They would take the SSN from a dead person and just gradually make the changes necessary to “adopt” that person’s life. It’s much harder to do NOW, with information overload, but back then, most everything was done with paper.

    1. Yes, and this is the most open administration ever!

      BWAHAHAHA!!!

      That is a laugh of disgust, not humor.

    1. I’ve been looking for a “straight-up” summary for the Law of the Sea Treaty (yeah, LOST, encouraging aye?) too and can’t find one. Bothers me when both sides have to spin their positions.

      1. Things don’t have to pass in the house anymore, remember? Executive order! Besides, since when does or congress vote on world parliament installment? Its all up to the un. As leon panneta cleared up for us, we are subject to international community rules and regulations, congress is unnecessary.

  261. “New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To “Freeze” On Command?”

    http://www.infowars.com/new-tsa-policy-ordering-travelers-to-freeze-on-command/

    Good thing I don’t fly much (or ever really) because the first words out of my mouth would have been ‘blow me.’ Of course I would then probably be detained unconstitutionally and strip searched by crazed, power-hungry TSA agents.

    Makes me think that I wish the occupy people would do something useful and occupy an airport. But I guess they have nothing against people disguised as law enforcement groping little children and complete strangers.

    1. I read today that the first two cities to be connected will be Boon and Doggle! I see the excitement building…

        1. Well, if I wanted to come back out of retirement and make a bunch of money, I could help build this road to hell. Or I could do the right thing, and still be able to walk tall and proud.

    2. Did you know what happened 162 years ago this fall… back in 1850?

      California became a state . . . . The people had no electricity. The state had no money. Almost everyone spoke Spanish. There were gunfights in the streets.

      So basically nothing has changed except then the women had real breasts and the men didn’t hold hands.

      That, my friends, is the history lesson for today!

  262. Islam.
    http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-publicly-execute-woman-near-kabul-officials-172336299.html This is 2 hours old. I’m looking for the video.

    Can’t find the vid they talk about. FTA this little excerpt; Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman in Parwan, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.
    Afghans are ‘no different from any American’
    ————-

  263. Remember how Obama said space travel is too expensive and complicated for government ( but health care isn’t http://0.gg/what )? Well, Obama approved a $125 million loan to Communist Vietnam to buy a satellite.

    At least he is consistent. If you are going to have an American in space, let them be a capitalist. If you are going to have Commies in space, let it be government funded.

    http://screwypuppy.blogspot.com/2012/07/obama-funds-communist-space-program.html

    1. I think both should be privatized. The private sector space companies are doing some awesome things right now. Back in the day it took a world superpower to get into space, but it’s 2012. You can get a half bay payload to space on the Falcon 9 for 54M, Mitt Romney can afford that.

      Imagine if we privatized healthcare. Us middle class types would all have Cadillac plans and the poor and needy would probably have better care than in any socialized country.

      But then we wouldn’t have thousands of new IRS agents and this president couldn’t say he created any jobs.

      1. Woo hoo!

        Privatize it! Legalize it!

        Capitalism rules. Why do we keep electing leaders that fight the people’s desire to work and profit. If our abilities were unbridled we’d have homes on Mars and putting satellites in space would be a science fair project, not a technical feat for a Communist country that required a loan from a quasi-capitalist country.

        Wait a minute, there was that kid that put a lego man up into the stratosphere … er, well, somewhere high up.

        http://youtu.be/MQwLmGR6bPA

  264. San Diego, home of the best climate on the planet, and the Big Bay Boom experienced technical difficulty that lead to premature release of 75% of all the aerial pyrotechnical devices turning the 45 minute show into a 15 second Finale, before the officials cancelled the show. Now, 3 of the four barges blew the whole wad of fireworks immediately. What did they accomplish by cancelling the show? Car alarms all over the place go off when the area begins to rumble.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuJHfkXEI-o&feature=share
    There are a lot of videos from many different angles and this is by no means the best one. Search it and look at a bunch of em if you need to burn time.

    1. Oi. PJ, I think I may have killed brain cells watching those last two. Wow. Just… wow.

        1. Worse than brain freeze from a double scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream! And dang, at least the ice cream is fun to eat. 🙂

          1. I bet, even after all these years of Obama hell, you could still go out and get the same kind of answers from Obama supporters. The stupidity is epidemic.

  265. Happy Independence Day to all the IHTMers except the commie trolls. They can bite it.

      1. Wow. Great write up. First comment on that page when I opened it was this insane commie bastard – unless he’s being sarcastic which is doubtful;
        BayAreaBill says:
        July 4, 2012 at 8:59 am

        Whacko survivalists or apocalyptic christians with stashes of illegal weapons and explosives most definitely qualify as “terrorists”. The BATF and FBI should take them down, just as they did at Ruby Ridge and in Texas.
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        What an ass.

    1. Huh. My fashionableness is kicking in. I suspect he’s doing this to save his job more than because he thinks he should, but I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Gotta take what we can get!

    1. Since when does sitting outside, drinking iced tea, and talking to the neighbor count as work? lol.

      Anyway, I think this is another example of how Obamacare can be circumvented, how legally it’s questionable, but the Democrats are on a fairly gnarly Marxist streak right now. Do anyone of us really think that if O wins he will actually abide by the law he passed? Probably not. What’s that recurring line in the bill that keeps coming up? Something about how the HHS secretary sees fit…. (I don’t remember the exact quote).

  266. “No evidence of mermaids, says US government”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830

    “She said that at least two people had written to the agency asking about the creatures.”

    Who are these people writing a government agency asking about mermaids? And what type of letter was it? Was it an email, typed and snail mailed, maybe it was hand written, was it done in crayon?

    However, once again folks, this is another example of the government getting something wrong, because mermaids are real.

      1. Of course Mermaids are real. I have a good friend that IS one. Sometimes, at faires, I have to carry her from point A to point B, since it’s hard to swim on dry ground. She’s a beauty, too.

      2. Weeki Wachee is right up the road from me. Been there a couple of times. Mermaids are real, and real cute!

  267. Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago. “My first offense, and they gave me all this time,” http://tinyurl.com/7cqkeql

    He committed SEVEN armed robberies! He got 162 years. That’s about 20-some years per robbery. I would say that’s fair. What’s not fair is that his accomplices only got 9-22 years. (Oh, and by the way, Quartie – that’s at least your SEVENTH offense – probably more if you count whatever they didn’t find out about.)

    1. I don’t know, I think that is a bit excessive. I mean the first crime got him 7 years, which is reasonable, the next 6 got him 25 years each. That’s what I call bamboozling the guy. I could see 7 years for each crime, spends 49 years in jail, maybe he gets out early with good behavior. But 162 years based upon the testimony of the other criminals with him, wow. Then at least one of them only gets 9 years for participating in the same armed robberies.

      Heck, Ted Kennedy actually killed a girl and he got a life long senate appointment. Apples and oranges though.

      1. I hear ya Joe. But the problem is that we are being too lenient on criminals in general. This guy committed seven armed robberies in 2 months, and fired his gun at least twice – once at a dog, and another at a human. It was sheer luck that no one was hit. Do we have to wait until someone is actually killed to get him off the streets forever? An 18 year old who is that vicious has no place in our society.

  268. Has anyone thought that maybe valerie jarrett is microcephalic? I know she’s iraniac and presumably not pakistanley. The ‘rat people’ of pakistanky look like her cousins. Here’s a reasonable photo of her. She has something going on. Extra chromosome floating around in there, maybe removed by a generation or two. http://0.tqn.com/d/workingmoms/1/0/t/1/-/-/ValerieJarrettChipSomodevilla334x500.jpg
    Look up the rat people of pakastinker for your own comparisons.

  269. Big h/t J.P

    QOTD: “We should all be in mourning, and I don’t mean just Americans. I mean all of humanity. The United States was the shining city on the hill, but the American experiment is finished now. Dead. Sorry, folks, but the notion that individual liberty granted by God is inalienable died when Chief Justice John Roberts became a traitor to the principles he pretended to represent. Roberts decided to join with the extreme liberals on the court. It’s a strange move. Even Justice Anthony Kennedy, known to lean toward a liberal viewpoint, and the man everybody expected to be the swing vote, couldn’t stomach this much power being in the hands of government. But Chief Justice Roberts, ostensibly a conservative, could and did.” –J.P. Travis

    @

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

    1. I think the court voted correctly and put the responsibility back in the hands of the American people. To blame 9 (or 5) people is childish and irresponsible. The only reason the law got passed is because the people voted the idiots into office that passed the law in the first place. We need to stop blaming the court and start looking at ourselves. It’s very possible the majority want Socialism in this country, if that’s the case, than the rest of us aren’t doing a good enough job spreading our message.

      The outcome is the outcome. Let us all grow up, accept what happened, and move forward to correct things. We can blame anyone we want or we can stop being children and realize the truth, that the law got passed because the American people voted the people in to pass it in the first place.

      If America is doomed it’s not because of this vote, it’s because of the vote and apathy of the American people.

      1. Hey, hey, I’m still kicking this whole issue around in my head but I think I’m in your camp. It was just a salute to the prominent placement of his quote and a link to his site on another page. Can’t we all just get along? lol

        1. It’s still a confused ruling. I’m mulling it over, but think Roberts pulled a sly one on the left.

    1. Working on a way for a lesbian couple to have a child with both of their genes?

  270. “DHS Tells Border Patrol Agents: Run and Hide when Shootings Occur”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/01/DHS-Tells-Border-Patrol-Agents-To-Run-And-Hide

    I’ve said it before, you won’t see my ass in Afghanistan any time soon, if you need me on the border (hopefully Canadian border, I don’t like to fight lol), I’ll bring my own guns just supply the ammo please (ammo is really expensive, probably the governments fault).

    On a side note, I have no idea why we are bombing people in Afghanistan and Pakistan on a daily basis, yet let the drug cartels in Mexico go (almost) scot-free. They have killed thousands in our borders and right next door, yet we accept that Mexico will do something, with a little help by us, when they allow it.

  271. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/power-outages-could-last-for-days/2012/07/01/gJQA3JVjFW_story.html?hpid=z1

    Power outages drag on in D.C. region; officials fuming at utility companies

    “I will not accept the timetable of July the 6th, said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), shortly after Pepco announced some homes would not have their power restored until Friday or even later. “Having our citizens go seven days without utilities in my opinion is not the kind of service we should expect.”

    It’s funny when politicians speak and think it means something. They sit behind a desk and think they can order people to do something faster than they are actually able to do. There are probably hundreds of people putting in long hours to fix the problem, yet that isn’t good enough. I think we should amend the Constitution to state that every politician should have to get a real job before they can be a “public servant.”

    1. “Having our citizens go seven days without utilities in my opinion is not the kind of service we should expect.”

      wimp…I went 10 days without power, heat or water due to an ice storm.

      1. That was my main reason for having a wind and solar system when I had my home in the desert. Numerous power outages, and I didn’t want to be without iced tea. Of course, I did make use of the power generated in between power outages, too.

    1. Nevertheless, we’ve gotten more done in the last three years than most presidents do in eight years …

      Only if you count increasing spending and the debt.

  272. I know everyone has been going crazy the last few days with the SCOTUS ruling, but remember the ultimate outcome is to retake the Senate (and keep the House with a Romney victory), and the number needed in the Senate is 50.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/29/The-Path-To-51

    It ticks me off though that Pennsylvania is not on that list. Republican Governor, Republican Senator elected last election, Republican majority in both the House and Senate, and everyone is writing the state off.

    I’m not saying it would be easy, the Democrats have a huge registration advantage, and Philly and Pittsburgh are both heavy democrat areas, but people in PA don’t tend to vote straight party. If you spend time, effort, and yes money in the state, it could be a huge payoff.

    Actually I think PA is a good representation of the country. In the east you have Philly (and all the way north to Scranton really) that goes Democrat. In the west you have Pittsburgh that goes Democrat. It sorta reminds me of New York and California, with the rest of the state reminding me of the Midwest. Nationally, the Republicans are trying to pick up votes in swing states, I think if they tried to pick up some swing counties in PA, they could have a hell of a shot of doing something.

    I might be wrong, or I might be a genius, I have no idea. But thinking outside the box is never a bad idea.

      1. No problem Flash, If I post it here, it’s up for grabs for all to use!

  273. http://whitehouse12.com/2012/06/28/chief-justice-roberts-is-a-genius/

    Chief Justice Roberts Is A Genius
    Posted on June 28, 2012 by I.M. Citizen

    Before you look to do harm to Chief Justice Roberts or his family, it’s important that you think carefully about the meaning – the true nature — of his ruling on Obama-care. The Left will shout that they won, that Obama-care was upheld and all the rest. Let them.

    It will be a short-lived celebration.

    Here’s what really occurred — payback. Yes, payback for Obama’s numerous, ill-advised and childish insults directed toward SCOTUS.

    Chief Justice Roberts actually ruled the mandate, relative to the commerce clause, was unconstitutional. That’s how the Democrats got Obama-care going in the first place. This is critical. His ruling means Congress can’t compel American citizens to purchase anything. Ever. The notion is now officially and forever, unconstitutional. As it should be.

    Next, he stated that, because Congress doesn’t have the ability to mandate, it must, to fund Obama-care, rely on its power to tax. Therefore, the mechanism that funds Obama-care is a tax. This is also critical. Recall back during the initial Obama-care battles, the Democrats called it a penalty, Republicans called it a tax. Democrats consistently soft sold it as a penalty. It went to vote as a penalty. Obama declared endlessly, that it was not a tax, it was a penalty. But when the Democrats argued in front of the Supreme Court, they said ‘hey, a penalty or a tax, either way’. So, Roberts gave them a tax. It is now the official law of the land — beyond word-play and silly shenanigans. Obama-care is funded by tax dollars. Democrats now must defend a tax increase to justify the Obama-care law.

    Finally, he struck down as unconstitutional, the Obama-care idea that the federal government can bully states into complying by yanking their existing medicaid funding. Liberals, through Obama-care, basically said to the states — ‘comply with Obama-care or we will stop existing funding.’ Roberts ruled that is a no-no. If a state takes the money, fine, the Feds can tell the state how to run a program, but if the state refuses money, the federal government can’t penalize the state by yanking other funding. Therefore, a state can decline to participate in Obama-care without penalty. This is obviously a serious problem. Are we going to have 10, 12, 25 states not participating in “national” health-care? Suddenly, it’s not national, is it?

    Ultimately, Roberts supported states rights by limiting the federal government’s coercive abilities. He ruled that the government can not force the people to purchase products or services under the commerce clause and he forced liberals to have to come clean and admit that Obama-care is funded by tax increases.

    Although he didn’t guarantee Romney a win, he certainly did more than his part and should be applauded.

    And he did this without creating a civil war or having bricks thrown through his windshield. Oh, and he’ll be home in time for dinner.

    Brilliant.

    Follow I.M. Citizen at IMCitizen.net

    1. I agree with this. Again we will have to wait and see, Roberts may not even be able to actually admit if this was his plan all along.

  274. $12 Million for Cuba

    Humanitarian Assistance to Cuba $6,000,000
    It’s not really an embargo if we give them stuff for free.

    Digital Democracy $6,000,000
    “Digital Democracy” is intended to produce free flow of information to Cuba through the internet. Stated problems : few Cuban’s have access ( less than 10% ), it is expensive, it is slow, it is censored. Throw money at the problem! Irony : SOPA, PIPA.

    http://screwypuppy.blogspot.com/2012/06/crazy-grants-june-28th.html

    1. I really hate her… I mean I feel bad that I hate someone and everything, but I hate her. I really do. She is a horrible person… I hope she leaves soon. I don’t wish her dead, but just for her to leave Congress. I started to seriously dislike her when she had a big ass gavel and banged it and said that she was now the most powerful woman in the country and blah blah blah (when she was Speaker) how disgusting!

      1. There is SO much to dislike about this woman. The list goes on and on. My husband thinks the reason she supported Obama even during the primaries in the previous presidential election was because she didn’t want Hillary to win the nomination and thus (possibly) lose her position as the “most powerful woman in America.”

    2. She is truly despicable! She is a bitter old lady who never emotionally left the trauma of high school behind her. You know, on paper she is a woman who should truly be admired, but her nasty, greedy, disgusting attitude makes her truly horrid.

      She and her husband have accumulated $58 million net worth. WHY DOES THIS NOT GET NOTICED? Oh and by the way – her husband owns a venture capital company. I wonder how many “outsourced” (or more accurately, how many “offshored” jobs) he is responsible for? Now, here’s the thing – the Pelosi’s got rich from politics. They USED politics and political connections to make their fortune. ROMNEY (still not a huge fan, but….) got rich first, and now is entering politics. That’s a huge difference in my humble opinion.

  275. The individual mandate was declared unconstitutional under the commerce clause, but declared constitutional as a tax.
    In other words, we have to wait for Mitt to get rid of this piece of crap.

    1. When I saw the headline, I knew it was UT Austin! Libtard capital of the state.

    1. Is it just me, or does the Obama camp have people trying to sabotage him from the inside? NASCAR, the Gift Registry, insulting potential donors… seriously. Did he hire Beevis and Butthead to run his campaign this time around?

      1. No, it isn’t you. I think many within that party are unhappy with what BHO and his henchman have been doing over the past 42 months. Ideologically I believe that they are in sync with BHO but he moved too fast and too recklessly. The establishment Dems were willing to remain incremental. Bill Clinton is undoubtedly orchestrating the campaign’s collapse. He hates BHO with a passion.

    2. A typical liberal person says: “I deserve…. and you are (insult), get it for me (or work for it and then get it for me).

      Sickening

  276. It would be easy to criticize all this for its sheer unselfconscious lack of seriousness: These people are actually saying that any outcome except the one they want must be driven by an outcome-oriented political crusade. Only their view could result from an actual engagement with the question before the Court, and any other view could only be a function of corruption or of cynicism. It must be nice to be so enlightened.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304179/left-right-and-constitution-yuval-levin

  277. Using ethanol from corn has been called a “crime against humanity” by the UN. Nearly 40% of our corn crop is used for ethanol. Using corn for ethanol has caused the price of basic foods to rise everywhere, including in America, and food is needed by poor people around the world.

    Wouldn’t it be better to export our corn? America was once called the bread basket of the world. With the population growing around the world, our farmers could once again feed the world by exporting corn, wheat, and soybeans grown here.

    Ethanol has other drawbacks. It can’t be transported by pipeline and must be transported by trucks and barges. This increases emissions and adds to costs. Ethanol, i.e. e85, only has 85% of the energy content of gasoline, so you get fewer miles per gallon when using ethanol. There is strong evidence that the production of ethanol has little effect on reducing CO2 emissions.

    http://epaabuse.com/7797/editorials/another-failed-mandate/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=another-failed-mandate

  278. So some bozo comes to tell you guys how you ought to get a handle on that darn collapsing economy thing going on in your home continent. Fast forward to the last line of the write up;

    “Look, Mr. President,” the chancellor replied in the words of an expert quoted in the New York Times. “I have some problems that I need to respond to that don’t correspond to your need to be reelected.”
    http://news.investors.com/article/616219/201206261851/schaeuble-tells-obama-to-pay-debts-before-lecturing-europe.htm

    1. Why isn’t this in the media? surprised Fox hasn’t covered it. This is really disturbing. This is not peaceful assembly and this is not protected by the constitution. if I was one of those stoned I would sue the police AND the muslims places of “worship”.

    1. The chief o the dearborn police is a mossy, could be the mayor too. The confrontation and arrests a few years ago there are what pushed me into sites like Creeping Sharia and Atlas Shrugs. Fact o the matter, it was one of those sites that recommended IHTM to me somehow. Maybe a cross post or someone linked up.

  279. PJMedia has this Mike Walsh guy writing for them. He is definitely right on the money here. Good stuff. The few minutes it will take to read will be well worth it.
    http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2012/06/26/first-principles/?singlepage=true
    A tiny excerpt –
    This is why it’s crucial, when dealing with the Left, to reject the premises of their arguments, since those premises must necessarily posit that there is something “fundamentally” wrong with the American system, and that they are the cure.

    By rejecting their premises, you do more than simply level the playing field: you also force them out of hiding and either cause them to flee or, more rarely, actually admit their true intentions — something that is almost impossible for them to do. For they must be devotees of what I (and David Kahane) have dubbed “American taqiyya,” the concealment of their destructive purposes under the rubrics of “Fairness,” “Tolerance,” “Compassion,” etc.

    1. I guess that’s better than declaring everything a wilderness, like the enviro-nazis like to do, making it impossible for anyone with a handicap to enjoy the natural surroundings.

  280. Just wanted to check in. Don’t know how much I’ll be around the next few days /weeks. My house flooded today. We had 4″ of water throughout the house. Hardwood floor, laminate floor, drywall, kitchen cabinets, and furniture all ruined. Thank God we have flood insurance.

    1. Poppa,

      Please be safe. That sounds awful. I am so sorry. Insurance is a good thing, however if it means making sure that you are okay and you must leave the house please do. I know that you know how to deal with these situation. Prayers so you and yours will be safe and of course when it is all over for your home to be recovered.

      1. Thanks. Right now I’m nursing aches and pains. My legs hurt from walking through knee deep water all day, and my back, neck, head, and elbow hurt from when my feet went out from under me on the kitchen tile floor. I smashed my elbow into the corner of the counter, leaving a nice gash in it, and fell right on my butt and just missed hitting my head on the floor.
        I’m getting too old for this crap!

        1. Oh, poor Poppa. 😥

          I know what you are going through though…had my share of floods when I lived in Florida too. (kinda hard not to live in a flood zone there) Flood insurance = good

          Plus I had a pipe brust up here on New years day that flooded the basement. (if you can call 1/2 inch of water in your basement a flood) Of course that was nothing compared to what you are dealing with.

        2. Makes my little pain in the butt troubles pretty trivial. Godspeed to you and yours poppaj.

        3. Oh, PJ! How awful! This darn Debby storm! Not that I would wish it on someone else, but I do wish it would quit dumping so much rain on us. Take care of yourself!

          1. Just waiting for the adjuster to call and set up an appointment to check out the house.

            1. Oh, I thought you saw the pics on my Facebook page.

              She called me Darlin! 😀

            2. Thanks Flash, unfortunately the government flood insurance program has other ideas. Turns out they don’t pay for mold remediation or living expenses if you can’t live in your house while repairs are being made.

            3. check with homeowners on the mold issue, Poppa. depending on how the policy is written, it may pick up where the flood insurance leaves off.

            4. No such luck drb, I talked to the ins co yesterday, nothing that is flood related is covered by homeowners.
              I’m thinking it might just pay for me to do all the work instead of hiring it out. Depends on how the ins co pays.

          2. @Jenn, jeez looks like we’ve graduated and now have our own little stalker-troll just like KQueen and drb. Congratulations!

            1. I don’t know about you, but for my part, I think what I have is a Gollum, not a troll. The poor wretched creature. I can just make him out back there, paddling along on his log. 😉

            2. It trickses us, my Precious! Nasty, dirty, tricksy Corporate Greed (TM john.)! We hates it!

              *snert* In the past two days I have referenced The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride, AND DC comics. Yep. I am a shoo-in for this year’s induction into the Geek Girls Hall of Fame! w00t!

            3. Oooh. How’s this for you:

              I have totally knocked Leia off her throne in the Hologram Girl dance off. Ha! I love my Kinect. (See that? I got Star Wars *and* a game console into one reference. And I am totally serious. On both counts.)

            4. Oh gawd, she’s a gamer…no wonder she likes john that little bit enough to hope she can fix his broken noggin.

              yes I’m being sarcastic.

            5. ROFL! In my defense, it’s specifically and only my Kinect that I love. It’s a lot more fun to get in daily exercise with it over a regular aerobics DVD.

            6. Just out of curiosity Jenn, how old are you?
              I would have thought you would have said you own a Princess Leia gold bikini, not a Kinect.

            7. Now, PJ. A lady isn’t supposed to reveal her age!

              I’m old enough to be momma to a 17yo and a 15 yo. 🙂 We bought the Kinect as a family thing, for a more active-than-board-games game night. The Star Wars game is one of our favorites. You really have to ascribe to the belief that something can be so cheesy it goes sailing right past lame and into totally awesome, to get into it.

              Which I do. Which is why this pretty much makes me cry because I’m laughing so hard whenever we play it:
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xJqkzngBI

              And for the record? The first time I dressed up as Princess Leia, it was in the white outfit and silly hair buns, and I was at a 5th grade Halloween party. The second time? I was in my early 20s, and yes, I had the bikini. 😀

            8. Now, PJ. A lady isn’t supposed to reveal her age!

              well, now that depends on how she looks. I tell people my real age all the time and then smile when their jaws drop and they say “there ain’t no way you’re that old.”

              I’m old enough to be momma to a 17yo and a 15 yo.

              Mine are 18 and 16. So that puts us about the same age then.

              The second time? I was in my early 20s, and yes, I had the bikini.

              You just sent Poppa over the edge! He may never recover. 😉

            9. LOL, drb! Actually, I’ve always looked very young for my age. I was still getting carded for Rated-R movies when I was in my late 20s and now people are starting to ask me if I was a teen mom when they meet my kids. (Of course, maybe that has more to do with my behavior. Hmmmm….)

            10. I recently had a patient and his wife look up at my kids pics that I had up on the wall and he asked if they were my brother and sister. 😯
              Then another was telling me how rough it is getting old, aches and pain all over the place, so on and so forth… then he says you wait 10 years from now when you catch up to where I am now…so I stopped him there and said “I’m actually 5 years older than you are.” His response…”you are not!” 😕

            11. The second time? I was in my early 20s, and yes, I had the bikini.

              YUM! Your hubby is a lucky man! 😉

              You just sent Poppa over the edge! He may never recover.

              You may be right! 😀

            12. Enjoying the banter between you two ladies.

              Got a joke for you.
              Statisticians did a study on women and their asses.

              10% felt their ass was too small.
              30% felt their ass was too big.
              60% said they didn’t care, he’s a good man, and they love him for who he is.

            13. Enjoying the banter between you two ladies.

              We aim to please.

              As to the joke… 😆

            14. maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe…maybe not…I ain’t tellin’

              I’ll just let you think as you wish

    1. Grrr. Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states. Someone needs to put this young man’s family in touch with HSLDA. NC isn’t one of the best/friendliest states overall to homeschool in, laws-wise, but unless neither of his parents has a high school diploma or GED (an NC requirement), the school has no authority to “reject the appeal.” Heck, for that matter, there is no appeal. You simply submit your notification to the state of your intent to homeschool and get to it.

      1. Grrr indeed. I’m glad the school my kids go to isn’t like that. In NC what it comes down to (for public schools that is) is parental invovlement. The dreaded PTSA. It’s no surprise that the more involved the parents are in the PTSA, the less liberal nonsense creeps into that particular school. In short, teachers and administration behave differently when they know parents are watching. Parents are very involved at my kids’ school and it is rated as one of the top 50 public high schools in the entire U.S.

        1. Amen! The local public K-8 school here several years ago actually banned parents *entirely* from the campus. You can’t even walk your kindergartner to his/her classroom in the morning before school starts. Parents used to monitor the cafeteria and playground, but no more! The school claimed it was “too distracting to the children to see their parents on campus.” None of us bought that malarkey. Our homeschool co-op saw a *huge* increase in membership after that.

          1. Yeah they tried that crap with me when my som was in kindergarten. they changed their turn when I reminded them that he was a “special needs” child. They were afraid of a law suit for neglect of his special needs. He is autistic, and at the time wouldn’t speak but would walk off with any one who grabbed his hand. The Kindergarten classes were in portable buildings in the back of the school. and there were adults at strategic location inside the main building but there was just one person standing out in back very near the main building. That person would not have been able to see my son once he reached a certain corner (or any other child for that matter) teachers did not stand outside their classroom doors and it would have been easy for some pedo to be hiding in the woods behind the school to walk up and grab a kid. And of course my son would have been easy pickings at that time since he wouldn’t have uttered a single word in protest. Anyway until my son became more vocal, I walked him to his classroom door and picked him up at his classroom door. I didn’t go inside the classroom, didn’t feel that was needed. But I made sure he made it to class and back home safely.

            1. Good for you! I have often thought that there’s a certain awful irony to the schools’ anti-bullying programs, considering how often I see/hear of school admins bullying (or trying to bully) parents.

  281. Obama’s guests are very classy people as they flip the bird to a Reagan’s portrait in the White House during the FIRST (and I pray to G-d last) gay pride reception:

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/activists-take-out-frustration-ronald-reagan_647733.html

    Pictures included

    I know Memorial Day came and went but I didn’t know that this had happened: http://www.punditandpundette.com/2012/06/obamas-weaknesses-romneys-strengths.html I mean what is wrong with Obama? Superimposing himself on the Vietnam War memorial? Even if he didn’t do it, I am sure if he wasn’t so egoistic he wouldn’t have allowed it to remain.

    1. Liberal idiots like the idiot liberal on Red Eye talked about how the Muslim Brotherhood never said that they hate people and we cannot prove that they mean harm to others… Even though they have said they hate people and have indeed meant and done harm to others.

      I don’t understand idiots and their willful ignorance of the truth.

    1. The commie son of a bitch javier manjarres has a history that everyone should hear about, just as we should know about the commies SOBs and all their supportind elements, the way they get things done and how the media works so diligently to keep their God damned intentions outside of the visible spectrum. I am with all the people calling for this commie son of a whore to reciprocate with pictures of his house and his address. http://www.truthaboutjaviermanjarres.com/

    2. One minor error in judgment.
      Florida has Stand Your Ground and the Castle Doctrine as well as a more recent law that permits you to shoot anyone that comes on your property if you feel threatened, even if they aren’t trying to come into your house.
      Col West is a retired military combat officer, who is well trained in the use of weapons.

      Would YOU want to try and harass him at home?

      1. sharpton, jackson and burock pipe all have their fingers crossed in hopes that someone will get killed on West’s property without their prompting. Look at all the TV time they could have for free blasting their anti gun propaganda and bringing into question Representative West’s rabid warmongering behavior! If they have to get somebody to get somebody – repeat ad nauseum – to get shot by West’s security they might have to assert executive privilege again!

        1. I was thinking about his daughter at home at the now published address while he’s away.

        1. What scares me about this is all the BS calls for these parents to be arrested that you just know are coming. OMG! they left those kids alone ?

          yeah, but the bad guy’s…
          with a gun in the house?
          The bad guy broke in with a gun and…
          they should have had a gun safe or at least a trigger lock.
          Then we’d be reading about molested or dead…
          that’s no excuse, I can’t believe these parents.

          And on and on…

          1. It’s obvious that these parents were responsible gun owners and taught their kid how to handle firearms.

            1. Yeah, I know. I was just thinking about all the hand-wringers like the idiots who jumped all over that Texas Dad.

              Hey, there Ya go! I’d rather be bitter-clinger than a grieving hand-wringer.

            1. Well, since you are not a criminal you don’t need all of those rights. Liberal logic hurts.

    1. Not too shabby at all. Ryan or Portman or Rice, Oh My! Any of the above (or all, in one position or another, may this be the end of my side’s electile dysfunction. Now keep the House, squeak the Senate and get this done)

      1. The latest Rasmussen poll has Romney winning 48 to 43% of the vote. I think if Ryan is chosen for VP it will jump up to 60% or more going to the Romney/Ryan ticket. I certainly don’t think NC will be a toss up state anymore.

        1. From your lips to…I hope so, Ryan’s good. Portman has a very low profile ( I think he likes it and cultivated it) but he’s good too and can articulate it well. Ms Rice just impresses the heck out of me all the way around, don’t even know if she’s interested. Love to see 0bamuh-uh get smacked down in NC.{nice to see you not so busy/busy and having time to post more lately, at least it seems like it. Although I could have done without the crock-pot angst for the one I lost in the divorce ;)}

          1. Well, from my point of view if people don’t know who Portman is, he isn’t likely to have the pull to bring in additional votes. Rice has made it clear the she just isn’t interested. As it stands right now the vote will be close in NC. I mean razor thin just like in 2008. Obama took it by just a few thousand votes. (I’d have to look up the exact number but it was a very small margin) Ryan could open the flood gates for Romney in this state. Don’t forget that NC has an unemployment rate that is higher than the national average. It’s the economy that is driving the direction of the vote here. I doubt Obama will gain anything here by his latest DREAM Act push even though we have many hispanics here. I’ve heard some of them say, what good does it do to be able to stay if there are no jobs here? So Obama definately does not have a lock on that voting block.

            1. Ok I looked it up…

              Obama captured North Carolina just by 0.32 percent of the vote – a margin of only 14,177 votes out of 4.2 million statewide.

              With many young people and members of the black community saying they are staying home in November…I think NC is going with the R’s this time around.

            2. I wonder if THIS could have contributed to the narrow victory in 2008? http://tinyurl.com/6e6jyv Think about it. How many people knew they were supposed to go vote for Obama? How many of them had even the remotest clue that he was a democrat or any slim understanding about the election process at all? They would have gone in and picked the name that started with the big “O” and then left to go spend their fi’ dollah, or smoke the cigarettes they got for the vote. Never touching the dreaded “party line” box.

            3. Possibly but I don’t think so. That report was based on data from 2000 and 2004 not 2008. In 2008 we had a huge turn out of first time (young) voters and a huge jump in turn out of the black community. Now I hear many in those groups saying they paln on staying home this year. Many (but not all) in those groups feel Obama sold them a pack of empty promises. Plus when you hit the button for a “straight ticket” you then hit the “next page” button which takes you to the page for voting on the presidency. (very user friendly) So the only way you could really mess it up is by simply not reading. And it is available in both English and Spanish so…there really is no excuse for your vote not to be submited and counted unless you are unable to read or too lazy to read the prompts.

            4. here’s another thing to consider…

              http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2012/06/24/poll_onefourth_of_us_voters_are_uncommitted_in_presidential_race

              With that many voters still uncommitted, it may just come down to the VP pick. I’m sure a good portion of them aren’t thrilled with Romney as many of us aren’t. A strong conservative VP pick might be enough to convince them that Right will be able to kept Romney in check and from giving in to his rino ways of thinking.

            5. And what happens in NC when 0bummer dumps Bite-me and Hillary’s the VP pick. You think it’ll put them over the top there?

            6. I don’t think Hillary will stand for it. The Obama administration is a failure. Those undecided know it. It’s WHY they aren’t committed to him. Why would Hillary want to align herself with failed policies? She would be better off allowing this one to go to the Republicans and then run for POTUS in 2016. Think about it, why else would Bill be saying positive things about Romney and Bain when the rest of the Dems are trying to make Romney out to be a corporate vampire? There is a reason he is going against the democratic grain and it isn’t because he wants to be totally truthful. There is something in it for him and/or Hillary.

        1. Ok, I just watched the whole thing, all the way through, just to prove to myself that I could do it. Actually, I know people that would be agreeing with the kid on every point, they actually do think that of conservatives. Thank you, MSM. You lying bastards.

  282. While children sweat it out, air conditioners are in their original boxes in the basement of the school. This is where the money goes folks to the basement: http://www.punditandpundette.com/2012/06/nyc-kids-attending-non-air-conditioned.html It is possible that there is also a union angle here.

    This is EXACTLY what I am talking about. This is for the people that believe that government DOES NOT want to force Churches in ACCEPTING “gay marriage”:
    Remember when we were told that the government would never force the Catholic Church to perform or recognize gay marriage?
    We all knew that was a lie, right?
    Well, a lesbian just filed suit against a Catholic hospital in New York for refusing to cover her “spouse” in their insurance coverage. What are the chances of a New York judge siding with the Church on this one?

    Not a Catholic but this could be ANY church: http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2012/06/lesbians-demand-catholic-hospital.html

    The REAL war on women: http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2012/06/stay-at-home-moms-freeloaders-dumb.html

    MSNBCrap asks: “Is Romney TOO Focused on the Economy”… yeah…
    http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2012/06/msnbc-is-romney-too-focused-on-economy.html
    This is somehow a bad thing that Romney doesn’t give a crap about the distractions and wants to concentrate on the economy… The ONE thing the Anointed One FAILS MISERABLY IN.

    I must admit that i have never heard no read the famous wall speech by Reagan, so this is a nice thing to know: http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/12/reagans-sign-of-the-cross-speech/

    1. MSNBCrap asks: “Is Romney TOO Focused on the Economy”…

      Is this coming from the same people that are complaining Congress is spending too much time on Fast and Furious and not enough on jobs and the economy?

      How convienient! Maybe they would prefer everyone sit on their hands like this admin has done for 3-1/2 years!

      1. Right, stating that Romney is too focused on the economy is in essence stating that Obama is a failure on that score and they need to get Romney distracted on crap. They don’t want to highlight Obama’s failures.

    1. Kimmy, how I enjoyed the moment in the commercial when Alito shook his head and said “Not true” when Obama called out the Supreme Court during the State of the Union. The Court isn’t supposed to react but Alito showed spine with his attitude of: I’m not gonna sit still for that bull he just spoke.

      1. He got some grief but Obama was being a bad “host”. The Supreme Court were invited to hear him speak, he then chided them like they were children. Obama a non entity before he was President and hopefully one term President has the gall to rail on the Supreme Court AND it was a mistaken stance in the first place. Disgusting.

    1. Our first black gay crackhead foreigner president? Turned out he was more white than either arab or black! Who could’ve guessed that? Or the commie part! I mean, just cuz he’s only known as a friend of bill ayers and a total alinskyite and a communist organizer, none of that means he hates the freedom of Americans and is working to take them all away.

  283. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/19/lawrence-odonnell-attacks-ann-romney-riding-horses-combat-multiple-sc#ixzz1yFeibq2i

    I was actually listening to the radio, driving home late at night from an event, when I heard Romney make the statements. At first, I thought, no, that doesn’t make you wife an olympic athlete. In the next sentence, he clearly stated what he meant by the statement. I guess O’Donnell didn’t bother to listen to that part.

  284. Just before he was to start the contempt vote for Holder, Issa recieves a letter from the WH caliming executive privilege for the requested documents.
    Issa read the requirements for exec privilege and said that this falls short of qualifying.
    It’s all unfolding on FOX with commentary from Andrew Napolitano right now!

    1. They can try all they want, Asians don’t want to be victims, and won’t accept the designation.

  285. Democratic National Convention Schedule

    4:00 PM – Opening Flag Burning Ceremony
    4:05 PM – Singing of “God Damn America” led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright
    4:10 PM – Pledge of Allegiance to Obama
    4:15 PM – Ceremonial ‘I hate America’ led by Michelle Obama
    4:30 PM – Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire – Hillary Clinton
    4:45 PM – Al Sharpton Leads Castrati Choir in Singing “Great Balls of Fire”

    5:00 PM – UFO Abduction Survival – Joe Biden
    5:30 PM – Eliot Spitzer Speaks on “Family Values” via Satellite
    5:45 PM – Tribute to All 57 States

    6:00 PM – Joe Biden Delivers 100,000-Word Speech Featuring 25- Minute Question and 2-Hour Answer Period
    8:30 PM – Airing of Grievances by the Clintons

    9:00 PM – Bill Clinton Delivers Rousing Endorsement of Obama Girl
    9:15 PM – Tribute Film to Freedom Fighters at Gitmo – Michael Moore
    9:45 PM – Personal Finance Seminar – Charlie Rangle

    10:00 PM – Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners
    10:30 PM – Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for IRAQ, & Afghanistan

    11:00 PM – Obama Energy Plan Symposium / Tire Gauge Demonstration
    11:15 PM – Free Gov. Blagojevich rally
    11:30 PM – Obama Accepts Tony and Latin Grammy Awards
    11:45 PM – Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish –
    Obama Presiding

    12:00 AM – Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Maher
    12:01 AM – Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
    12:05 AM – Celestial Choirs Sing

    3:00 AM – Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech

    1. poppajoe49:”11:45 PM – Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish – Obama Presiding”

      Obama’s miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes will be seen as his greatest miracle since his miracle of the multiplication of the states when he created 7 more before resting on the Sabbath.

      1. FTA:

        With the exception of Sunday mornings, beer and wine can be bought from retail stores and wholesalers. But distilled spirits such as whiskey, gin and vodka are available only at ABC stores or warehouses operated by local governments and regulated by the state.

        …..organizers expect about 35,000 people to attend the convention……

        And that doesn’t count the spillover from the event, with thousands more people expected to be filling the streets around the convention venues. Protesting the excess of Wall Street under the hot Carolina sun could be a parching endeavor.

        Perhaps someone should tell the OWS crowd that drinking whiskey, gin and vodka in the hot Carolina sun could lead to dehydration and heat stroke, or maybe they shouldn’t be told. 😉

      1. I wish I could take credit for it, but I got it as an email.
        Just like this one:

        LITTLE GIRL ON A PLANE
        An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and
        he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go
        quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

        The little girl, who had just started to read her book,
        replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”
        ” Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is
        no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled
        smugly.

        “OK,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me
        ask you a question first.. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the
        same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow
        turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you
        suppose that is?”

        The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl’s
        intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”
        To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified
        to discuss why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life
        after death, when you don’t know shit?”

        And then she went back to reading her book.

  286. Texas 23 year old Father of a four year old kills a pedophile after seeing him assaulting his four year old girl. He had no weapon with him, he killed the man with his bare hands. I am sure you can find the story online. It was on O’Reilly last night. The town rallies around him as he had no previous criminal record, he didn’t know the man and he didn’t intend to kill the man. It was not a murder, it was a justifiable homicide. He regrets the death of the individual but obviously wanted to make sure his daughter was protected.

    The reason I am posting this is because the bastion of liberality CNN mocks the town for rallying around the Father:
    http://visiontoamerica.org/10321/cnn-mocks-texas-town-for-backing-father-who-killed-pedophile/
    A Civil Rights person questions the “execution” and is surprised he hasn’t been charged. Also there are reports that he could be an illegal alien from Mexico.

    1. Fine. I mock CNN for being a very low rated network that has its corporate head up its butt.

      1. I can’t imagine the kind of person that could sit on that jury and send the man to jail. I know they’re out there, but my imagination, wild as it may be, just can’t picture it.

    2. The fool that gave me a TD is OBVIOUSLY a pedophile. Trust me, if I see you doing something to a child I WILL kill you. I will NOT be sorry. I don’t care if the child is not mine.

      1. This is the kind of thing that could cause sane people to call for forced sterilization. Of the stupid welfare moms that are sleeping with these pieces of shit.

  287. I think the Obamagirl did a good job on Hannity. I mean, talk about getting free publicity to promote yourself, then playing neutral and not taking a side. She’s going to ride this horse straight to the bank, and the evil capitalist in me says ‘good for her.’ Plus she’s hot.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tCyCQKnGg

    1. She certainly is hot. And obviously getting a little smarter too.

      Wait, I just finished watching the whole interview with Hannity. She’s still in love, or at least infatuated, and is now making excuses for why he hasn’t been able to destroy the country entirely the way he promised. Still hot though.

  288. AH YES, THE OBAMA ECONOMY!

    June 9th first time jobless claims 386,000. Expected 375,000.
    Number to be revised upward in time for the Friday evening news dump.

    June 2nd number was 377,000.

    1. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)

      I worked at a government contract manufacturer back in 89-91. The IAM was the union that represented the assemblers etc, I worked in the test department. When the company decided to force us to work rotating shifts, covering nights and weekends without shift differential or overtime, we threatened to unionize, and the rep from the IAM came to try to recruit us. Talking with the people in assembly that were represented by him, we discovered that the IAM was a useless, company union. They never supported the employees, regardless of whether they were right or not. In the end, we didn’t get a union, but were able to negotiate with the company to not screw us.
      This was my second experience with a union that was a do-nothing union. The first was the NFFE National Federation Of Federal Employees. I had no choice but to join, and got nothing but a payroll deduction every paycheck to show for it.

    1. This will have to wait till I get on my computer. It would take too long on the kindle.

      1. REALLY?

        “Which of these groups do you identify with?

        African Americans
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        Why are you a Democrat?
        Because I was too stupid to know better.

        If you haven’t donated, will you share why?
        Because Obama already spent all my money.

        How can we do a better job at communicating with you?
        By either shutting up or stopping lying!
        On the Obama Biden website, there was a comment posted by the webmaster telling the story of a Ford employee that was saying how Obama saved his job. Well Ford never took a dime of stimulus cash, so how did Obama save his job? It’s a flat out lie!!!

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        Then, when you submit your survey, they take you right to the website to donate to the Obama campaign!

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    1. LOL!! Mine isn’t all “blinged out”.

      BTW, the article mysteriously disappeared.

  289. Okay. Tax frauds are … I can’t even finish this thought! – http://finance.yahoo.com/news/woman-hook-might-oregons-biggest-151807292.html

    “Reyes, 25, reported $3 million in wages and claimed $2.1 million in refunds, which worked its way through TurboTax’s system and was approved by the state. Soon enough, a Visa debit card loaded with the refund was in her hands.
    What’s bizarre about the situation is how Reyes was caught. She reported another debit card as lost or stolen to the issuer, which apparently saw enough red flags to get the state’s revenue service on the case.

    1. Remarkably, the comment section is loaded with people griping about the dead molester not being able to state his case to defend himself in this court of public opinion. Seems being dead prevents him from saying anything and so it is all unfair to him! The dead molester’s last victim is only 4 but has she indicted her molester or was this just a case of her dad killing this poor child molester for no good reason? See how unfair this is to the unfortunate child molester?

      1. That’s why I don’t read the comments on these type of stories, they just piss me off!

  290. About time! http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/11/contempt_charges_coming_down_on_holder_june_20

    “The real question is, we’re opening up the data that we have to all the members, so as they start reading specifics of what we know was known and was hidden from Congress, and what we’d like to know and been denied, how many of the Democrats will vote with us,” Issa said after speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. “I expect we’ll have about 31 Democrats with us.”

  291. OMG!!!
    From Tea Party Nation:

    Is being a Queer Rock band veteran a plus for a Girl Scout official?

    Posted by Jack Kemp on June 8, 2012 at 6:30pm
    Jack E. Kemp

    Mainstream cultural organizations, such as the Catholic Church, are no longer making the assumption that what we grew up with stands for the same values today. If I told you a man in charge of media relations for the Girl Scouts had been a member of a flaming male gay band would you think I was a “right wing nut?” Read the documentation below. By the way, I never would have imagined such an accusation on my own.

    From a National Catholic Register article “Is the Girl Scouts Safe for Catholic Girls?, Part 2:

    http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/is-the-girl-scouts-safe-for-catholic-girls-part-2?

    1. How sad that there seem to be increasing connections between the Girl Scouts, Planned Parenthood, and the promotion of homosexual activity. I would encourage any mother or father concerned about this to possibly check out American Heritage Girls, founded in 1995 in Ohio as a “wholesome” group for girls which only promotes traditional values. One 10-year-old girl left the Girl Scouts and sells her own cookies calling it “Cookies for Life”. She gives the proceeds to Pro-Life organizations. She was apparently uncomfortable with a sympathetic attitude towards Planned Parenthood she was finding in the Girl Scouts.

  292. This has been getting a little light but not nearly as much as it deserves. This is drawn from the current National Review but is not yet online so I cannot give a link yet.
    —————————
    Obama on the Fringe
    The president belonged to a social-democratic third party

    BY STANLEY KURTZ
    I N 1996, during his first run for public office, Barack Obama formally joined a leftist third party called the New Party. Its Chicago chapter served as the de facto political arm of the now-defunct group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Ideologically, the New Party sharply differentiated itself from what it took to be the business- dominated Democratic party of Bill Clinton, identifying instead with the social-democratic movements of Europe.

    The claim that Obama had been a member of the New Party gained attention from conservatives during the final two weeks of the 2008 campaign, but—even though it rested on considerable evidence—it was never widely reported or discussed in the mainstream press. When I asserted on NATIONAL REvIEW ONLINE in late October 2008 that Obama had indeed been a member of the New Party, the Obama campaign called my charge a “crack-pot smear.” Through its Fight the Smears website, it insisted that its candidate had never been a member, and had “never solicited” the New Party’s endorsement.

    Documentary evidence—obtained from ACORN files recently donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society—now contradicts this claim, and establishes beyond any reasonable doubt that Barack Obama did solicit the endorsement, and become a member, of the New Party. Like other candidates who received its endorsement, Obama signed a “contract” in which he promised not only to join the group but also to publicly support and associate himself with it while in office.

    The minutes of the public meeting of Chicago’s New Party on January 11, 1996, read as follows: “Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party ‘Candidate Contract’ and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.” Consistent with these minutes, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, giving January 11, 1996, as the date he joined. All evidence now points to an attempt by Obama in 2008 to deceive the American public about this important political affiliation in his past.

    OBAMA’s New Party problem must be seen as part and parcel of his attempts to distance himself from ACORN. During his third debate with John McCain, Obama claimed that the “only” involvement he’d had with ACORN was to represent the group in a lawsuit compelling Illinois to implement the motor-voter law. The ACORN archives clearly contradict him, and provide evidence that he had dealings with ACORN well beyond representing it in a single law- suit.

    Why did Obama falsely deny his ties to ACORN? His sup- port for its voter-registration efforts in Chicago and his partici- pation in its training seminars doubtless would have been embarrassing, given its thuggish tactics, its fraudulent voter registrations, and its role in abetting the subprime-loan fiasco at the root of the 2008 financial crisis. But they would not likely have been seriously damaging for him to confess, especially in 2008, when the press was treating him with kid gloves. Admitting to having joined a leftist third party controlled by ACORN, on the other hand, could have been damaging indeed.

    The records of ACORN’s national office, as well as those of several local affiliates, including Illinois ACORN and the ACORN-controlled Chicago Local 880 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), can be found in the archives of the Wisconsin historical Society. Until recently, these records did not include material more recent than about 1994. My political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, made use of these records to sketch a detailed picture of ACORN’s operations in Chicago and beyond, and of Obama’s ties to the group. Then, apparently sometime around 2010, the records of Illinois ACORN were updated, with especially strong coverage of the mid to late 1990s, and some records extending well into the 2000s. In what follows, I will concentrate on information in the updated Illinois ACORN records about Obama’s ties to the New Party, drawing on older archival material when necessary to fill out the picture.

    ThE Chicago New Party was founded in 1992. Not much later, in February 1993, a New Party memo identified Obama as someone worth recruiting, and made special note of his desire to run for office. The early New Party was run jointly by Madeline Talbott, the leader of Illinois ACORN, and Keith Kelleher, the head of SEIU Local 880. In July 1993, Kelleher met with Obama to interest him in working with the New Party, and with a New Party–controlled front group called Progressive Chicago. Since many Chicago leftists were reluctant to alienate the Democrats by joining a third party, working with Progressive Chicago gave them a way to help the New Party indirectly. Progressive Chicago also served as a base for eventual recruitment to the New Party itself.

    Obama told Kelleher that he was “more than happy to be involved” in New Party and Progressive Chicago affairs, while also saying that he would be cautious about anything that might offend regular Democrats. Since the New Party intended to make frequent use of the tactic of “fusion” (endorsement of select progressive candidates running on the Democratic-party line), it was perfectly content to allow its members to be Democrats as well. Yet many Democrats looked on the New Party with suspicion, and it took real courage—and commitment to hard leftism—to have dealings with the group.

    True to his word, Obama became a regular signatory on letters Progressive Chicago sent out reporting on its meetings. The central task of Progressive Chicago was to identify local races that could be won by candidates standing to the left of the mainstream Democratic party, and to suggest such candidates.

    The Obama campaign’s claim in 2008 that Obama “never solicited” the New Party’s endorsement is doubly false. Not only did he publicly request New Party endorsement on the day he joined, he also worked for nearly four straight years with the leaders of the New Party (who were also the leaders of ACORN and Progressive Chicago) in an unmistakable effort to garner support for an eventual political run. We know that members of ACORN served as Obama’s on-the-ground volunteers in all his early runs for office. Cultivating the New Party and Progressive Chicago was a way of ensuring that support.

    In 1996, Obama ran as state senator Alice Palmer’s hand-picked successor. She had abandoned her seat in hopes of winning a special election to Congress; while she had promised to support Obama even if she lost her bid, once defeated for the Democratic congressional nomination she turned around and challenged Obama for her old state-senate seat. Obama eventually had Palmer knocked off the ballot for having too few valid signatures to reenter the race, but on January 11, 1996—the day Obama joined the New Party, requested its endorsement, and signed its Candidate Contract—Palmer’s ballot disqualification had not yet been officially confirmed. The New Party had strongly backed Palmer (a true hard leftist) in her congressional campaign. At the January 11 meeting, New Party leader Madeline Talbott spoke to the assembled members about her disappointment that the party had not been able to push Palmer over the top. Because of the party’s ties to Palmer, the question of whether to endorse Obama was not predetermined by a decision of the leadership, but was thrown open to the membership for a vote, without recommendation.

    Obama won, and beat back an attempt by Palmer’s supporters to make the New Party’s endorsement of him contingent on Palmer’s official disqualification from the state-senate race. (There was even a vote on whether to send a letter to Palmer explaining the decision; Obama won on that, too, and no letter was sent.) Obama’s victory over the far more established Palmer can be attributed to his long and close working relationship with ACORN, whose supporters made up by far the largest contingent within the New Party. Talbott wrote in her 1996 year-end report: “We endorsed Barack before the decision was final on whether he would have opposition in his campaign for State Senate. As it happened, he had none, but he remembers and appreciates our role.” The foundation of a strong relationship had been laid. Another New Party document, seemingly from around 1997, describes State Senator Obama as a “good ally.”

    At just about this time, however, the fate of the New Party was sealed. The 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, which upheld the permissibility of states’ banning cross-party “fusion” endorsements, weakened the New Party’s prospects of influencing elections, and thus resulted in its rapid decline. An undated “Transition Plan” in a folder containing items from 1999 classifies Obama as a politician friendly to the party and recommends sounding him out for membership on the steering committee of a revamped leadership. Yet it was not to be. The Chicago chapter of the New Party dwindled.

    WhAT was the New Party’s ideology? National co-founders Daniel Cantor and Joel Rogers saw the group as a “social democratic” party, roughly modeled on the Swedish labor movement. A party standing on the left side of even Sweden’s political spectrum would clearly be radical by American standards. While Cantor and Rogers initially hoped to make the New Party’s social-democratic stance explicit, other party leaders saw such openness as too risky. An early New Party document, however, makes the party’s social-democratic stance very clear. This manifesto, “The New Party: ‘Building the New Majority,’” is dated April 1992, the very beginning of the party’s existence, just before formal membership sign-up began. It calls New Party members “not just liberal” democrats but “social democrats.” It dismisses the current American political system as “a sewer of privilege and exclusion,” and condemns the democratic party as “dominated by business, or business-backed candidates, or upper middle class liberal elites searching for a candidate acceptable to business.”

    The manifesto rejects the theory that the democratic party was weakened when a sixties-inflected McGovernite wing took control of it. Instead, it argues, the failure of the democratic party to root itself in community organizing is the true source of its weakness. It repeatedly compares America’s democratic party unfavorably with europe’s social-democratic parties. Yes, there are “good democrats” who deserve endorsement, the manifesto concedes—but they are really social democrats, and merit New Party support for precisely that reason. The document ends by describing the New Party platform as an attempt to enact authentic social democracy to the extent possible given “the constraints on such an order imposed by capitalism.” The unmistakable implication is that the founders of the New Party would prefer to throw off the shackles of capitalism entirely.

    ACORN’s records show that prior to joining the New Party, Obama was invited to personally confer with party founder Joel rogers, who would have either authored or approved that early manifesto. Candidates for New Party endorsement in Chicago were also regularly asked whether they agreed with the party’s “statement of Principles,” which had been approved by the national Interim executive Council headed by rogers. The statement of Principles contains concrete proposals that bring the New Party’s “social democratic” stance to life. There are, for example, proposals to hand substantial control of the banking and financial systems over to community groups (such as ACORN). the statement of Principles also demands a guaranteed minimum income for all adults, and a universal “social wage,” defined as cradle-to-grave state provision of health care, child care, education, and the like.

    If there is a difference between the New Party’s statement of Principles and the program of the democratic socialists of America, many of whose members also joined the New Party, I cannot find it. But while the question of whether the New Party was socialist can be argued, the party’s support for a version of social democracy far to the left of the American democratic party cannot. And Obama would almost certainly have had to express some level of support for the statement of Principles before receiving the New Party’s endorsement and joining up.

    So in 1996, while Mitt romney was running Bain Capital, Barack Obama threw in his lot with a leftist third party hostile to both American capitalism and the mainstream democratic party. Surely if Bain sheds light on romney’s views, Obama’s New Party membership ought to be a topic of discussion as well, as should Obama’s efforts to disguise this episode of his life. Does Obama’s “Julia” ad betray a cradle-to-grave welfare-state mentality? That would certainly be consistent with his New Party membership. Romney’s allegation that the president’s true goal is to move America by degrees toward being a European-style welfare state also grows more convincing in light of Obama’s New Party days. These matters are newsworthy—far more so than the youthful love letters of Obama and the childhood pranks of romney, each of which has drawn buckets of real and virtual media ink. If only the press agreed.

    Mr. Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

      1. Funny how I knew this was a black on white crime before I read your post or the nondescript storyin the Chitown paper.
        The sound of crickets just keeps getting louder in the MSM.

  293. Obama is NOT the underdog.

    Regardless of all the news you will hear about Romney out-raising Obama in campaign funds in May, Romney is far from closing the gap. Romney could do this good every month till the election and STILL NOT CLOSE THE GAP!

    According to Obama’s campaign site, this is the first time since 2007 that Obama was out-rasied. So don’t believe a word when the media start to paint Obama as the underdog.

    http://screwypuppy.blogspot.com/2012/06/everyone-loves-underdog.html

  294. Working in your garden? Trimming trees in the backyard? Hear that weird buzz? See that drone in the sky? Shoot the damn thing out of the sky! When that hits the news people might finally start to see what the government is doing.

    The only thing that is less the 100% right on in this write up is this: ‘Use of military surveillance drones overhead would be un-American’ should read ‘Use of military surveillance drones overhead IS un-American’ because it is already happening!

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/7/big-brothers-all-seeing-eye/

    1. MAybe they can vote their conscience and pull the lever for the Communist Party candidate! 😀

  295. “If the French had marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs.” – Adolf Hitler

    Hitler called the 48 hours following his entry of the Rhineland “the most nerve-wracking” of his life. Determined action by France or England could have prevented Germany from pursuing its belligerent course. Three German battalions entered the Rhineland in March 1936, blatantly violating the treaties of Versailles and Locarno, which ended World War I. England and France, treaty signatories obliged to resist Germany’s actions, did nothing. They also did nothing when Germany annexed Austria, and entered the Czech Sudetenland. It wasn’t until Germany invaded Poland in 1939 that England offered military resistance. Germany grew immensely more powerful and arrogant in the years that the world preferred to wait and see. World War II determined the course of world history, and still does. How different would everything be if Germany had encountered resolute opposition back in 1936?

    Churchill called World War II the “avoidable war.” Over fifty million lives were lost before the world saw peace again – and this in a war that was ended by the first use of a nuclear weapon. The conflagration that would follow Iran’s use of nuclear weapons could be orders of magnitude worse than World War II, and is just as avoidable by resolute action now. To date Israel, and to a lesser degree the US, are the only countries even contemplating using military force to stop Iran using nuclear weapons. Instead of holding Iran to its word, the world prefers to pass resolutions, burn candles in protest, and do nothing. The rest of the world wants to wait and see, just as it did in 1936.

    Now this – http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120330005-israel-plans-leaked.html

    and this – http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/echoes-of-67-israel-unites/2012/05/10/gIQA9tUaGU_story.html

    I was 10 in May 1967. The tension of the turmoil in the middle east was palpable. The war in ‘nam was a heavy weight every day and getting worse. Insanity has gripped the world once again.

    “The wait-and-seers will bust your ass every time.” – Cliff Robertson in his role as Commander Carl Jessop in the movie Midway

  296. We’ve all had enough of the Trayvon/Zimmerman story to gag on, but this information is too much not to digest. With Zimmerman’s return to jail for apparently not disclosing the large amount of cash raised for his future difficulties due to this horrific and unfortunate event, the mainlining media wonks are back at showing Trayvon’s photo from 6 years prior to his death, an effort to continue portraying him as the little boy hunted by the big bad white man with a gun. So, without further ado, the story. Oh, the comment thread is quite rich as well. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/what_the_media_choose_not_to_know_about_trayvon_comments.html#disqus_thread

    1. I was only a click away from posting this. Here will be where it gets the most exposure.

    1. I wondered, they finally cleaned the D-Day one up, somebody musta raised hell. Took a screenshot of the Issa story just so you don’t think I lost what little sense I ever had.

    1. WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!
      I just posted a reply to one of the comments on the Obama website, and as soon as it posted, it disappeared because of “abuse reports”!
      I was able to click to see it though!
      I registered under my throwaway email.
      The black helicopters and black sedans with the blacked out windows will probably be at my house in 15 minutes, so if I don’t post any more, you’ll know why!
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      Wisconsin_voter • 20 hours ago• Hide Show
      I just got back from the polls. Our crazy 16 months comes down to this, drawing lines on a piece of paper for Tom Barrett and Mahlon Mitchell. The way Democracy should be. I went during non-peak hours and still had a line. Long line for same-day registration too. I have to get back to work but will try to check in this evening. Thank you everyone for donations, phone banking, and overall well-wishes for Wisconsin. I hope we’ve done it.
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      uncle risky • a few seconds ago • Edit
      How did Obama save the job of a FORD WORKER when FORD NEVER TOOK A DIME OF STIMULUS MONEY? It’s just another Obama lie!

      1. I just went back, and the comment has been wiped!
        Mr Thin Skin appears to be real good at taking criticisim!

        1. So, I went back and posted again:

          uncle risky • in a few seconds • Edit
          So, you delete comments that are critical but factual?
          What’s the matter? Obama can’t accept the fact that Ford is thriving without his stimulus money, and this “Gary” character is lying?
          Obama did nothing to save his job because Ford didn’t take the stimulus money! At least right wing websites let you criticize without deleting the posts!

          Of course, it hid the post immediately, and when I went back, it was wiped again!
          They must have a program that looks for key words and removes the post.

    1. If you have pull with the Chinese government, it is said that they’ll look the other way or accept a bribe from you for a second child. But they tend to come down like a town of bricks on the rural people. The U.S. can’t say too much because China is our banker.

    1. Reading the comments is, as usual, slightly amusing. So many people scolding others for suggesting how honest and sweet she was for returning it, since she would have gone to prison if she’d tried to keep it.

      I wonder what the reaction would be to her having just kept quiet about it and either scrapping the check or just putting it in the cabinet of curios and antiques! Maybe frame it and put it on display. Just don’t try to cash it. Gubmin check probably only good for 90 or 180 days.

      So would the incredible redistribution service have noticed? I hardly think so. Remember, over a hundred million dollars worth of fraudulent refunds have been sent to and cashed by a bunch of rip off d-bags here in the Tampa area in the last couple years. It is well known and reported, yet the irs just keeps on sending millions of dollars to these fakking thieves and says they can’t stop!

      1. A client who owed me $2750 mistakenly added a zero and sent me a check for $27,500. I knew that the company (a major European luxury car manufacturer) had an accounting department that was so screwed up that they would never have figured out the mistake. I considered cashing the check, but remembered all those times my mom walked back into the grocery store to return a few extra cents she’d been given in change, and sent the check back. Damn it, this conscience thing is a pain in the ass.

        1. I had a waitress in a bar give me $5 too much change when I bought a pitcher of beer one time. I went up to the bar and gave her the money back and told her what she did. She couldn’t believe that I gave it back to her. She kept slipping me free shots throughout the evening.
          I used to work as a bouncer at a Jersey Shore nightclub. One night, I went to use the phone booth at the end of the night, and being a Friday night, there were a bunch of empty bank envelopes on the floor of the phone booth. I was kicking then around and one felt heavy. I picked it up and there was $280.00 in cash in it. I turned it in to the bar owner and he was shocked. There was writing on the envelope, like someone was figuring out their bills, and it was in red ink. The bar owner told me that if nobody called looking for it by the end of the weekend, it was mine.
          Next day, someone called looking to see if anyone found a bank envelope with cash in it. I asked her to describe it, and it was hers. She was extatic because it was her share of the rent money!
          Cute girl, gave me $20 and a kiss for being honest.

            1. Pshah! you silly man… 😕 drb does not understand jealousy, much less act on it. 😆

        1. Thanks! Trying to name it. Mick-che rat doesn’t have a natural feel. I still looking.

  297. Apparently it is no longer okay to protest peacefully in Milwaukee anymore. This Marine, a Scott Walker supporter, wading through the crowd at bubba clinton’s rally stumping for barrett, gets arrested for, well, you decide. Jan Morgan is a great conservative and she is fearless. The second video shows the two cops, rat bag suck wads all the way, handling this situation while the liberal asspipes scream to lock the dude up. Disgust level is over the top here. It is my hope that these two puke sucking pigs get sued so hard they’ll never qualify for a job at the Southridge mall information desk.
    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/01/Pro-Walker-Marine-Arrested-At-Dem-Rally

    1. They will have to make a permits and licenses display in a conspicuous place as well. Do they offer the forms needed for these registration and permissions from the local, state and federal agencies? That’d be a good idea. Their lawyers should have thought of that.

  298. http://pjmedia.com/blog/no-anti-obama-jews-wanted-in-these-synagogues/?singlepage=true

    “Totalitarian democracy as an idea is the progenitor of Stalinism and the excesses of the French Revolution. It is an idea that is embodied in the statism of the Obama administration. Totalitarian democracy is seen in the New Jewish Agenda, which perceives collectivism as the solution to social problems. There is no room in this philosophy for an individual who stands at variance with the collective.”

    1. Musta been the great family discount made it too good to pass up, right? The other agency wanted a couple thousand more.

    1. FTA:

      “It’s in violation of the National Voter Registration Act, which prohibits purging voters within 90 days of a federal election,” says Penda Hair, co-director of one of the groups, the Advancement Project.

      Perhaps they should try learning how to read a calendar.
      It’s now 150 days until the election.
      Typical leftist ploy, try to make more of something than it is.

      1. What about the copious amount of mistakes that was made in this process? You think it will be completely fixed? Why did they use old records from last decade to determine if someone was a citizen or not?

        Actually here is a more correct text:

        “A State shall complete, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a PRIMARY or general election for Federal office, any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.”

        Sec. 1973gg-6 “Requirements with respect to administration of voter registration”:
        http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/42usc/subch_ih.php

        1. 1, the Florida FEDERAL Primary was months ago.
          2. They didn’t purge ANYONE! They are asking for proof from SUSPECTED non citizens. If they provide proof, they will be OK.
          3. ONE GUY isn’t a big deal!
          4. I don’t give a Flying Walenda if they ACCIDENTALLY remove someone that is eligible to vote. The only way this will happen is if the person doesn’t provide proof of citizenship.
          5. Do you live in Florida? Did you get one of these notices? Why do you care?
          6. If it’s a choice of getting rid of a few illegally registered people, vs, letting them vote, I vote for getting rid of them. It only poisons the voting pool if you have people that aren’t legally allowed to vote, and let them vote.
          7. Why is it that Democrats seem to have the biggest/ONLY investment in illegals voting?
          8. Take this to HuffPo, they might care.

          1. 1. Floridas primary election for federal office is August 14.
            http://election.dos.state.fl.us/calendar/elecdate.shtml

            3. Its more than one guy. Its thousands actually.
            4. You’re assuming everyone is able to prove their citizenships within that allotted time frame. What if they are out of town? On a business trip somewhere else?
            5. So if it doesn’t affect me I shouldn’t care? I think its an important issue that needs discussing.
            6. I’ll agree with you on that one but their usage of methods contain several errors.
            7. I can’t speak for everyone but many people seem upset because it appears to be targeting hispanic voters who may sway the election this year.

            Here is a copy of the letter sent from the Florida DOJ:

            http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/voterpurgedojletter.pdf

            1. So when we voted in the Republican primary a couple months ago, what would that election have been called? Why do I not get to vote again in this mystery Florida primary you speak of? Is it because it is the Democrat primary, for which I am not eligible since they only let registered Democrats vote in it?

            2. No Dean, there is a primary for all of the State offices (Senators, Representatives, etc) and US Senator, but it’s a PRIMARY! It has nothing to do with a Federal Election!

            3. Again, ““A State shall complete, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a PRIMARY or general election for Federal office, any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.””

              The law is in regards to primaries as well.

            4. I voted for either Santorum, Gingrich, Paul or romnoid. Not saying which. That was the Republican Presidential primary, was it not? I love being stupid like this.

            5. 3. Its more than one guy. Its thousands actually.

              Maybe you need comprehension classes, I was referring to the ONLY PERSON THAT WAS INCORRECTLY SENT A LETTER!

              4. You’re assuming everyone is able to prove their citizenships within that allotted time frame. What if they are out of town? On a business trip somewhere else?

              Who is out of town on business for over 30 days? Did they say there was no allowances made for such a situation? You ASS U ME too much!

            6. You can thumbed me down all you want but all I have to do is repost this quote:

              “A State shall complete, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a PRIMARY or general election for Federal office, any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.””

              Notice how I capitalized PRIMARY? Whether or not one is a republican or democrat is it clear by that quote that the situation going on in Florida is violating this law.

              Correct me if I’m wrong.

            7. Perhaps you can show me where they said they were going to purge the roles for the Primary. I don’t remember seeing that anywhere.
              My strong suspicion is that this was in preparation for the General Election in Nov.
              Typical Libs, jumping to a convienient conclusion without asking the pertinent questions.
              If they waited until after the Aug Primary, it would be too late to do it for the General.

    1. I am thinking that decades ago, they made it illegal to ask the reason the mother wanted to kill her unborn child. I could be wrong.

    1. WOW!! That was one hell of an article! I may have to print it out and give it to the libtard across the street.

    1. So, what’s to stop someone from going into 7-11, getting a Super Big Gulp and filling it with soda and telling the cashier that it’s diet?
      The other problem is fruit juice is exempt as long as it’s more than 70% juice.

      A 12-oz. glass of grape juice contains over 58 g of sugars. This is 20 g more than a 12-oz. can of Coca-Cola. At 240 calories per 12 oz., it’s also the fruit with the highest caloric value.

      Apple juice is quite high in sugar. A 12-oz. serving contains 39 g of sugar — just 1 g less than in a glass of soda.

      Although orange juice is high in sugar, it contains less sugar than grape and apple juice. At 33 g per 12-oz. serving, it falls slightly behind Coca-Cola. However, a glass of soda contains about 145 calories, while a glass of orange juice has 165 calories.

      http://www.livestrong.com/article/450038-juices-with-the-highest-sugar-content/

      1. In keeping with the proggy control freak mode, they’ll force the manufacturers to retro fit any delivery device to limit the dangerous fluids to the mandated limits. This will in turn cost everybody involved a boatload more money. Anybody caught trying to bypass the nanny will be punished.

      2. I guess giving a refill will become a felony.

        Big Juice will not knuckle under to this toady.

    1. I am still trying to figure out why it is relevant that BHO is related to a WWII veteran(s). Isn’t just about everyone?

      1. They’re trying to pull out the “military experience” card, because neither Obama or Romney served.

        1. With that rationale a relative of a criminal should be arrested too. They both share the experience by genetic code I guess.

          1. Hey, it wasn’t my idea, blame ABC News! They’re the ones in the tank for Obungles!

    1. OK, so after reading the trasncript, the woman at PP not only was giving advice on terminating at 6 months, but also because it wasn’t the right gender.
      Then, she admitted to Medicaid fraud, and was coaching the woman how to do it also!

      Gotta love the people at PP, they’re so moral and honest!

  299. The Framers made a case for the laws of Nature. Lawyers have been sullying the intentions of those men for over a century. Here is a small piece at PJ Media, formerly Pajama Media. http://pjmedia.com/blog/human-rights-vs-natural-rights/?singlepage=true

    Here is the text for anyone in a hurry-
    ——
    Human Rights vs. Natural Rights
    Tyranny, or freedom.
    By AWR Hawkins

    Leftists are masters of language. By shifting words and phrases, they are frequently able to secure victory in an argument with many apolitical, salt-of-the-earth Americans and even some conservatives. They’ve done this in the classroom by referring to the American military as “imperialist,” and in the public square by labeling capitalism as a greedy system whereby people only become rich at the expense of others.

    Yet over the course of the last few decades, the Left’s most rewarding play on language has been a not-so-subtle shift from focusing on natural rights to focusing on “human rights.” The former are fixed and derived from God through nature, while the latter are in flux and founded solely upon the decisions various governments and ruling entities make regarding innumerable definitions of freedom.

    Our Founding Fathers based the Bill of the Rights on the natural, unchanging rights with which we were endowed by our Creator. Thus they recognized not only our right to freedom of speech, but also freedom of religion and freedom of the press. They recognized not only our right to pursue and own property, but also to be secure in that property, and we were even to have security in our own persons. And to defend these and other natural rights, our Founders recognized that we had a right to keep and bear arms which shall not be infringed.

    But a free press, security in our property, and private gun ownership are anathema to tyrants, megalomaniacs, and dictators the world over. They also serve as a hindrance to domestic enemies of Western civilization who spend their days in the classroom, indoctrinating young minds that don’t know any better. They tell of variously defined human rights, which at this particular moment include “rights” to education, contraception, public transportation,abortion, and internet access. It’s important to understand that just as natural rights are anathema to leftists, so too these human rights destroy the protections our Founding Fathers instituted regarding our natural rights.

    For example, our money is part of our property, but we cannot be secure in it so long as the government is confiscating it for use in funding transportation and internet access for those that lack them. Nor can we be secure in it if the government has to take a portion to pay for education and contraceptives for everyone who wants them.

    Through this redistributive process, human rights actually diminish the dignity of humanity by encouraging the recipients of “free” to rely on government for solutions. This is the complete opposite of natural rights, which require that we look to ourselves rather than to government for solutions.

    Human rights are dependent upon a certain place and time. For example, public transportation has not been considered a human right until recently, nor has internet access, contraceptives, or the most frequently emphasized human right as of late, gay marriage. Natural rights, on the other hand, are not reliant upon a certain place and time. They always were and always will be, just as the Creator who endowed us with them.

    Our Founding Fathers did not envision freedom for a time or liberty that was dependent upon the whims of men or the rulers of men. Rather, they understood that Western civilization stood or fell on the timelessness of natural rights and the system of ordered liberty into which those rights fit. It is to our detriment that we trade these rights for human constructs which opportunistic leftists invent in order to inch their way into our lives.

    AWR Hawkins is a conservative writer who holds a Ph.D. in military history from Texas Tech University.

  300. OK, I don’t know if you can read this or not, because I know some parts at least of Tea Party Nation require you to join to read, so here’s the link, and if you can’t read it, I’ll post the whole article.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/swatgate

    This is a followup to what was posted the other day about Bret Kimberlin and “SWATing” conservative bloggers. They’re at it again.

  301. Don’t post here very often, hell I don’t post anywhere very often, however I couldn’t pass on the following article. It’s long, but it is one of the best articles I have seen over the last 10 to 12 years concerning this subject.

    http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/california-government-hides-billions-from-taxpayers/

    Most people don’t even know this report exists! The main stream media never reports about it, nor do government officials talk to the public about it, even though every government entity, from local to state to federal, must submit one every year.
    Lets see what the IHTM crowd thinks about it!
    Questions to Admin: 1. Isn’t this in your state? 2. How informed were you, about this report, before reading this article?

    1. Thanks! I don’t live in Kalifornia, but have family there, this has been forwarded to them.

        1. Wish for your money in one hand, and shit in the other, then see which one fills first.

        2. First things are public awareness and action for disclosure, then ‘We the People’ may have a chance (said with tongue in cheek).
          Go to the following web page for updates:

          http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/carl-herman

          On the surface, one person, Carl Herman, is attempting to raise public awareness through the ‘Disclosure’ route. How successful will he be and what are his actual motivations? At this point, who knows.
          Bottom Line: The shit hand will still fill up first, for now.

      1. You’re welcome. Hope it helps your family. If I remember correctly, you are in Florida. If Kookifornia has a surplus, you can bet, Florida has one also. There is a CAFR for each state, in fact there are over 60,000 of them submitted every year, from all levels of government. Watch the following video for an explanation:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkwjtbTjTsE

        The bottom line:
        1. The government owns the majority of everything; property, corporations, insurance, utilities. I mean everything, at all levels!
        2. The government doesn’t need to impose, nor do ‘We the People’ need to pay, any kind of tax or fee.
        3. There isn’t any deficit or national debt, it’s all smoke and mirrors.
        4. If the government was actually a non-profit organization, the surpluses would be returned to ‘We the People’.

        Ok, time to wake-up, it was a nice dream while it lasted. Good luck with this information, I’ve been trying, for over 15 years, to get everyone I know interested in this. It has been difficult, it’s not easy to understand and the government, with help from the MSM, obfuscates the information as much as possible.

        1. You remember correctly. I will have to look for the info on Fl.
          I can just imagine what the fed has!

    1. WOW!! I’m glad you told me about this before I told you that I am smoking some pork today, even though there is a cloud cover, my softball team is coming by to discuss a tournament in Mexico.

      I am going to have to drill into my bathroom wall to start mold mitigation and prevention. BTW, the wife of the police officer next door just had a baby, which was a breach, but everything came out OK. There was a car crash on the main road through my subdivision, but there wasn’t even one fatality, thank God!

      One of my dogs has an ear infection and I think my father in law is coming down with a 24 hour virus.

      I had to drop my wife at the airport Saturday for her flight to LA, and the airline was experiencing delays, so she didn’t take off on time. She had to go through the body scanner, which it seems everyone has to at TIA now. She flew Southwest through Phoenix, too bad she didn’t go to Tucson, I have a cousin that lives there that she never met.

      I’m hoping that this storm isn’t going to affect us much, but the skies look forboding. Did you see the story about the storm in Kansas? They had golf ball size hail!

      Well, I guess that I’ll have about 20 different agencies investigating me now!

    1. I know how to fix his attitude.
      Drop him in the middle of Camp Pendleton during a Marine’s funeral, and let him say that.
      Anyone want to bet on his odds of coming out of there alive?

  302. Double standards.
    Posted by Judson Phillips on May 27, 2012 at 7:48am in Tea Party Nation Forum

    If you are a conservative, you are used to being on the receiving end of double standards. While we are used to the fact that even minor issues for conservatives become major news stories and major issues for liberals are buried down the memory hole, the question is why do we as conservatives tolerate this?

    The double standards abound and it is time for conservatives to start calling the left on those.

    Why, for example, is it okay to go after Mitt Romney’s religion but it is not okay to go after Jeremiah Wright? We are already hearing the stories about the “dark side of Mormonism.”

    The LDS church has its issues. Until 1978, blacks could not be priests in the church. They claim a revelation changed their opinion, as did a previous revelation about plural marriage. Those are issues in the past.

    Ed Klein, in his book The Amateur, says that prior to his marriage to Michelle Obama, Barack Obama’s strongest adult relationship was with Jeremiah Wright.

    Wright is a racist, a Marxist and an America hater. Obama’s relationship to Wright was a close one up to four years ago. Obama sat in his church for twenty years listening to his rants.

    If Romney’s religion is fair game, why isn’t Obama’s?

    The left has started targeting Ann Romney. Ann Romney stayed home and raised five children. Michelle Obama went to Harvard law, and then went to work for one of the big law firms in Chicago.

    Yet four years later, her law license was suspended.

    The story the Obama camp gives is that she left to work in the non-profit sector, where she did not need her law license so she gave it up. The Illinois Attorney Discipline Committee has her listed as “Court ordered inactive status.”

    This is as of 1993, when she had only been practicing for four years. Many lawyers grow tired of working for large law firms and explore options outside of the traditional practice of law. Yet 99% of them keep their licenses active.

    Why? Because getting a law license is hard work. Most lawyers are very proud of what they have done. Few voluntarily give all of that up.

    No explanation has ever been offered and her attorney discipline records have never been released. Oh, and did we mention the drive by media has shown no interest in this?

    While the media goes after Romney and his wealth, amazingly enough they keep ignoring stories about the costs of the Obama vacations. Michelle Obama’s infamous vacation to Spain in 2010 cost the taxpayers at least half a million dollars. It probably cost more but details involving Secret Service protection are classified and not made public.

    When Mitt Romney goes on vacation, he pays for it himself. Back when George Bush went on vacation while he was President, he went to his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

    Michelle Obama manages to take amazing vacations on the taxpayer dime, including her famous Spain trip and an African safari.

    If Ann Romney is fair game why isn’t Michelle Obama?

    Bain Capital managed to create jobs and wealth. Barack Obama has managed to destroy both. Yet the media will only talk about one of those.

    If Mitt Romney’s private sector experience is fair game, why isn’t Obama’s lack there of and why isn’t his record as a radical leftist fair game?

    This is the year we must call the media on its double standards. This is the year that we must force the end of the drive by media. We must push the conservative new media to the forefront.

    This is the year we call the left on their double standards.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/double-standards-1

  303. From my Congressman:

    For America, Law of the Sea Treaty is a loss of sovereignty
    By Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) – May 24, 2012
    http://bit.ly/LcMHW4

    Between secret deals with Russia to weaken our missile defense, the relaxation of conditions on military aid to Egypt, and the granting of visas to the progeny of a dictatorial Cuban regime – just to name a few troubling actions – the current Administration’s flippant attitude toward America’s sovereignty and its role on the world stage is a major cause for concern. This concern is not eased by the Administration’s latest efforts: A push to ratify the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Treaty.

    The Law of the Sea Treaty seeks to regulate and limit the use of the world’s oceans for commercial use and environmental management and would determine the extent to which national territory extends off a nation’s coasts. In doing so, the treaty ignores centuries of already established international practices regarding freedom of navigation on the seas and would empower multiple U.N.-established bureaucracies.

    One cannot be assured that these bureaucracies will fight for the best interests of responsible international actors or of the sea itself. This is particularly troubling when keeping in mind the dubious track records of other U.N. commissions, such as allowing known human rights abusers to lead the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

    Across a number of Congresses, the United States has long resisted the restrictions that would be imposed by the Law of the Sea Treaty, and for good reasons. However, the current administration chooses to continue its pattern of ignoring sensible precedent. Instead, it is pressing the Senate to ratify international standards that would encourage encroachment by foreign actors, burden and constrain the U.S. Navy, and subject the United States to international judgments.

    The U.S. House of Representatives recently adopted legislative language, which I wholeheartedly supported, that limits federal funding from being used by any institution or organization established by the Convention on the Law of the Sea. The U. S. Senate should follow the House of Representatives’ lead by rejecting any attempt to implement the Law of the Sea Treaty and sacrifice more of our country’s sovereignty.

    Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

  304. I thought you might get a kick out of this.

    Caution: Government Stupidity ahead

    Posted by Judson Phillips on May 24, 2012 at 11:26am in Tea Party Nation Forum

    If we say government stupidity are we being redundant? Is there any other word we can use to describe the government that is not some variation of stupid?

    In the pantheon of there is one government idea that may not be winner for the dumbest government idea of all time, but it certainly rates an honorable mention.

    What is it?

    It is the idea of HOV lanes.

    HOV lanes have got to be one of the dumbest ideas of all time. The first and quite possibly the worst HOV lane in the world has to be 395 in Washington DC. Washington’s traffic is a legendary nightmare and if you are as ADD as I am, getting trapped in it is like the 7th circle of hell.

    Yesterday, I got stuck for two hours in HOV hell.

    I flew back from Wisconsin into Reagan National. My flight landed at 3:30 PM and I was able to quickly get my car and escape. By 3:45 I was on the interstate. By 5:45 I had gone all of twenty miles.

    The theory of HOV lanes is that during rush hour, the only cars that can go in the HOV lane are those with two or more passengers. In DC, it is three or more. DC has a long, straight, separate and mostly unused HOV lane. While I sat in traffic purgatory, moving at a rate that could be measured at inches per hour, in the HOV lane, an occasional car buzzed on down the mostly empty road.

    The idea with forcing people to use carpooling is to reduce the amount of gas that we use. This was one of the bad ideas that came out of the 70’s. It is also proof that no matter how bad an idea is, once the government creates it, it will continue to grow like a really bad case of flesh eating bacteria. Of course, dealing with flesh eating bacteria is much more pleasant that dealing with the government.

    Washington is now working on an even bigger HOV lane so that even more drivers will not use it during rush hour.

    Has it occurred to the brain donors that run Washington that by creating massive traffic jams, all that is happening is that while the few people in the HOV lanes are using less gas, many more people are using a lot more gas in stop and start traffic? Has it ever occurred them that if they just opened up all of those lanes, more people would move faster and less gas would be used?

    Of course not. That requires the ability to think which is something our elected officials and government bureaucrats mostly lack.

    We complain about elected officials with room temperature IQ’s. Some of the people enacting our laws don’t hit the charts high enough to thaw ice. I am beginning to believe it is a requirement for Federal candidates, at least in the blue states that when they file their qualifying papers they must sign a statement that says, “I certify under penalty of perjury that I am a complete moron!”

    Unfortunately the HOV lanes are just a symptom of what we see with government. It continues to grow out of control. Even with Republicans in charge of the government, government grows.

    When will this insanity stop?

    We the people do not want to drive in HOV lanes so we don’t. Our elected officials do not get the message. We the people do not want these crappy hybrid cars. We do not want the green boondoggles.

    We have massive numbers of government programs that are either complete failures, total wastes of money or just blatant attempts to buy votes.

    When will we the people stand up and say enough?

    Plato is quoted as saying, “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

    Plato was wrong. We have smart people involved in politics and we are still governed by our inferiors. They are called Congress.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/caution-government-stupidity-ahead

  305. Congress Seeks To Establish Ministry of Truth!

    Once again, the National Defense Authorization Act is used as a Trojan horse to unload on its people a dangerous threat. This time it is offered up in an amendment sponsored by Representative Thornberry from Texas and its called Dissemination of Information Abroad ( http://www.rules.house.gov/amendments/THORNB_024_xml514121456525652.pdf ). This bill has also been referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as a separate bill titled HR 5736, The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.05736 ). This bill will overturn a prohibition that has been in place since 1948 and make it possible for the US Government to fund the dissemination of propaganda to influence American citizens.

    1. Looks like my kind of coffee shop. How would a person feel, knowing that they were hired as a result of a court order for a business to hire some old ugly women?

      Would that be called negative action, instead of affirmative?

  306. I want one

    http://www.rangerup.com/sheepdog.html

    First time I ever saw the sheepdog parable (?) was after somebody on the site, I think I remember who, posted a link a ways back. I hope they see this. Works for people in NSSs line of work too. Wonder if they’d give me a break if I bought 10 and ship ’em to the Middle East.

    1. I’m disappointed the Republican House put indefinite detention back in. I’ve heard our government may soon be flying drones over the United States. I think the developments continue to be ominous. Why can’t the Republicans see the possibility of abuse given the wrong event? They don’t seem to be students of history and of what fallen human nature is capable of given the right circumstances.

      1. I’ve heard our government may soon be flying drones over the United States.

        Life imitating art (Terminator 3)?

        1. someday we shall cross the robot rubicon..

          have you seen some of 2-legged and 4-legged beasts that DoD is working on? Creepy to say the least

    1. I hope they’re not letting that hospital do the post mortem!
      One more case of the wonderful government controlled healthcare in Europt that CERTAIN people here are advocating, right Olivia?

    1. Nice catch FDH, that one seems to be breaking out all over today like it deserves.

  307. NDAA, the president’s executive order to make the US military his national police force got turned off by a federal judge. Imagine, insisting the president follow the laws on the Constitution! The nerve of that lowly federal judge. http://www.westernjournalism.com/judge-strikes-down-ndaa-rules-obama-must-obey-constitution/
    ‘…Section 1021, which grants the United States military authority to exercise police powers on American soil. Upon order of the president and at his sole discretion, agents of the military are empowered to detain “until the end of hostilities” anyone the president…’

    1. Aw, gee. Maybe that’s why he’s arming up the FDA, etc. He knew this wasn’t going to stand.

      1. The Dept. of Agriculture is stockpiling ammunition, too, according to a story from a week or so ago.

  308. Only in America:

    1.) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

    2.) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

    3.) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

    4.) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

    5.) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”

    6.) Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

    7.) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

    8.) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.

    9.) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.

        1. Besides the birth date being wrong, and his mother’s name being misspelled, it’s probably pretty accurate! 😉

    1. Curious, or just another in a long line of his attempts to embellish his life story.

    1. That is very interesting.
      Is it possible that now Obama is willing to throw his mother under the bus to throw people off the scent of his birth certificate, or is he really the son of a communist?

    1. I think he’s one of our better actors. I’d like to share a few hours of beer and pizza or whatever with the guy cuz he is really witty and quick to funny it up. His politics haven’t invaded the mediods, at least none I’ve seen. The trouble here is, for some reason, I caqnnot get a word of his thru that god awful frog talk. Ribbit.

  309. The government is preventing Tombstone Az from repairing it’s water supply lines. After a huge forest fire that killed all the Owls, Frogs, and Butterflies, the Forest Service told Tombstone that they can’t use mechanized equipment to do the repairs, because they may harm the endangered Owls, Frogs, and Butterrflies.

    FTA

    According to The Goldwater Institute, which has sued the US Forest Service on behalf of Tombstone, the city was told it would have to use “horses and hand tools to remove boulders the size of Volkswagens.”

    http://familysurvivalprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/politics-legislation-and-economy-news-monday-april-30th-2012/

    1. Reminds me of a huge fire in Joshua Tree National Monument. The firefighters weren’t allowed to use trucks off of the paved roads, regardless of the fact that some of the oldest and biggest Joshua Trees in the world were in danger. Everything had to be packed in on foot, or dropped in by parachute. Better to burn that have tire tracks, I guess.

    2. John Stossel’s show on economics, The Road To Serfdom, had a segment on this. Just unbelievable.
      The Flower Children (socialist liberals) in our government want to take us back to the stone age.

      1. That’s where I first heard about it. I had to search for it to get the article. Wouldn’t want to have ANYONE say I failed to produce EVIDENCE! 😉

  310. Hello friends,
    I am asking you to please put my nephew cayden back on your prayer list. As some of you know, he was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma when he was four, underwent a years worht of chemo and radiation treatments, then was in remission. Unfortunately, his last PET/CT came back showing new activity. At this point we are not sure if this is a re-occurance of the rhabdo or if perhaps it is just a sinus infection. This area of the sinuses is where his cancer was discovered in the first place so this is quite frightening for the family.

    Thanks,
    drb

    1. I have just prayed for Cayden and you and your family and indeed I am sorry to hear about this. Please keep us updated if you can.

    2. Thoughts for a speedy recovery and good wishes are with your nephew and your family.

    3. awwww poor kiddo!

      I shall petition godlings in the aether to shower him with favor and healing. I will stare the ruling Sun down into Dusk so that it bears good tidings to him at Dawn.

      Best wishes to Cayden and kin..

    1. Thirds. Figures Reuters would seek out a battle veteran that is incorrect in his assumption that Obama is getting, or keeping, us out of wars. I give as much respect to Reuters as to MSNBC.

      1. I know. How did this guy figure Obama doesn’t get us in wars by knee jerk reaction?

  311. Tip of the glass – I mean day; Yellow Tail Pinot Noir Shiraz is delicious. Not outrageously expensive. Beautiful, dark red, berry and peppery hints, rich. I’m gonna hafta develop a few dishes with this stuff so I can hoist a few bottles while cooking!

  312. It’s everyone else who won’t stop talking about it. Truly, you are all your worst enemies. If I was the editor, I would tell everyone to shut up about it. But that is a sensible decision, so we know that is right out.

    1. Don’t want to read the talk of your desire to molest children? Then stop posting here, child rapist.

    2. If the editor was worried about any of this, he would have banned your ISP long ago.

  313. I am now wondering if the triggering of all this pedophilia talk represents an SEO attack on IHTM. Its conceivable that a certain threshold reached will tip the search engines into downgrading results for the entire site

    1. If the trolling pedophile would go back into his hiding hole, pedo chatter would trim back mightily. I’ve reported his possession of illegal erotica to an authority I talk to regularly. He’s checking.

      Who is responsible for this pervert when he carries out his threat to rape a defenseless child? Will our not turning him in help the parents of his victim understand his sick wants and desires? Would that make it okay?

      If google ratings matter more than stopping a child molester, there is a much bigger problem than idiot predators exposing themselves on the net.

      1. I have NEVER threatened to rape anyone, and I possess no illegal materials. Try again, dork.

      2. What i mean to suggest is that he’s a kid poisoning the content well of IHTM. He’s got several of you suggesting a variety of activities for him to engage in (cabbagepatch dolls, et al). None of these concerns actually require him to really be a pedophile.

        I would never suggest google results are more important than stopping a child predator, not sure why you’d think I believe that.

        1. I’m not a predator. And again, their the ones doing it, not me. Stop blaming me for their stupidity.

          1. i didn’t say you were a child predator. I think you are trolling. I suppose that’s an ancient internet art, in some eyes.

            By contrast, i don’t think Olivia is trolling. She is argumentative, and too quick to translate and diagnose the inner workings of her opponent’s minds. She is a flame warrior

            1. Well, yes, I guess I am trolling, if “pointing out how dumb Republicans are and shoving their idiocy in their face” counts, but I’m not trying to make a bunch of discussion about pedophilia. That lies on their shoulders, and I would like you to acknowledge that.

            2. i think i already acknowledged it before:

              He’s got several of you suggesting a variety of activities for him to engage in (cabbagepatch dolls, et al).

              You started it with one carefully planted word

            3. If he didn’t want to start the discussion, or be on the receiving end of the attacks, he should have never mentioned his predilictions, as you pointed out.
              That said, he has been banned from other boards for the same behavior, not his politics, but his mention of his sexual deviancy.
              Nobody condones it, and everyone wants him gone.

            4. I have never been banned from a political board. In fact, I do not go to political boards. Now, I will be off. I’m not letting you idiots ruin my reputation. See ya.

            5. These spewing proggy 0bama sycophants never stay gone. Hell, this punk will be back later today. They can’t stay gone.

            6. I swore off Eric several days ago. Olivia’s style is certainly different than his but they both often accomplish the same things, which is testing people’s patience with dozens of really dumb posts. In short, I think the troll spectrum is fairly long and these two occupy different spaces on it.

            7. I guess I should just go for good. Last time I left, it was because of some stuff that got resolved. If this is all I can expect, it’s not worth staying. Bye idiots. Bye Rapist. Bye incestious pervert. Bye Alien, Olivia.

            8. My Dear Sweet Olivia is not too bright, thinks she knows everything about everything, and accuses us all of doing exactly what she does daily. The Dark Dingleberry makes me sick to my stomach.

              Yes, there’s a difference.

  314. At 3pm today on FOX News Channel, John Stossel is doing a show on economics using The Road To Serfdom as the basis for discussion. Watch it or tape it if you can. Its very interesting.

    1. Saw it. I was pleased to see that the doctor Stossel interviewed believes that the best way to reduce the waste and cost in medicine today is paying cash, catastrophic insurance, and charity. She used Lasik as an example. Private pay and the costs have come down 90% and the technolgy has improved. Imagine that! She validated everything that many of us have said all along. Medicare/Medicaid are twin monsters that have made medicine so expensive. The truly poor would pay what they could or not at all (charity). Often not possible today since doctors are not allowed to charge below Medicare rates. Like Friedman said, we should judge a government program on the results not the intentions.

      1. I had to tape it, will watch it later tonight.
        All I caught was the beginning.

    1. I’m reminded of a study funded by the Carter administration. The question was whether or not sterility is hereditary.

        1. They’re RAAAACCCCIIISSSTTTT!!!
          They want to keep their money and not give it to the poor!
          What makes him think he deserves all that money? Just because he invested his time and money into the business, he expects a return?
          What a damned selfish person.

  315. Ann Coulter frequently causes abrasions on the progressive commie leftwing liberturds and for that we all thank her.

    This – http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html#read_more – is a month old. Arrogant democrat pukes cheat and lie, all the time. They are all – ALL – worthless bags of waste.

    I’ve attached the text here for easy and quick access.

    NEGROES WITH GUNS
    April 18, 2012

    By Ann Coulter

    Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to push for the repeal of “stand your ground” laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC’S Karen Finney blamed “the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.”)

    This would be like demanding more funding for the General Services Administration after seeing how its employees blew taxpayer money on a party weekend in Las Vegas.

    We don’t know the facts yet, but let’s assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black.

    If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association, America’s oldest and most august civil rights organization.

    Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of this country’s history.

    Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.

    (Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU’er, but every ACLU’er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.)

    In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns.

    Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: “[I]t would give them the full liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

    With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery.

    Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated.

    After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted “Black Codes,” denying black Americans the rights of citizenship — such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms — while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.

    For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.

    The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871 — passed at the urging of Republican president Ulysses S. Grant — made it a federal felony to “deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property.” This section was deleted from the final bill only because it was deemed both beyond Congress’ authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the rights of citizenship included the right to bear arms.

    Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job.

    But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books.

    This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.

    How’s that “may issue” gun permit policy working for you?

    The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence — including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams.

    A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high — beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200.

    But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe.

    Williams’ repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring book, “Negroes With Guns.” In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it.

    As the Klan found out, it’s not so much fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.

    The NRA’s proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit: the Democrats.

    In the preface to “Negroes With Guns,” Williams writes: “I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”

    Contrary to MSNBC hosts, I do not believe the shooting in Florida is evidence of a resurgent KKK. But wherever the truth lies in that case, gun control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the right to self-defense.

      1. I don’t know what was worse, the emotional blackmail in the article, or the insane rantings of the posters!
        Have none of them heard of battered womens shelters? Do they really think that anyone wants these women hurt? Absolute bullshit!

        1. Maybe if Republicans don’t want women hurt, they should put effort into helping them and not into making legalized rape in abortion clinics. Oh, but if they are getting an abortion, you probably think the deserve it…

            1. I’m a pedophile, but unlike Republicans, I’m not a rapist. Oh, that’s what I’m gonna call you from now on! Rapist! It suits you!

            2. But Rapist, Republicans support the bill that made it so women in that state have to get that thing shoved up them to get an abortion.

  316. New York now allows the viewing of kiddie porn on the internet. I’ve tried to attach 3 different links to 3 different stories on it and 404’d every time.

    1. Dean, make your post without the link, then edit the post and add the link. Works every time.

            1. None of that was real. And don’t say “It doesn’t matter”, we’ve been down that road before. Besides, comparing it to real stuff is horrific.

  317. Getting radio reports from Indy that Lugar lost the primary, woohoo!

  318. Attention Administrator! SA_Rose isn’t able to get logged on. It keeps telling her that Explorer can’t access the page. I asked her if she’d tried any other browsers. I assume you have access to her email address.

  319. Wealthy French looking to London for tax breaks…French moving to Britain for a tax BREAK, and there’s a pick-up hockey game getting started on the river Styx.(garbage link, but it’s out there)

  320. It’s May Day…Enjoy your job today. (if you have one, otherwise enjoy your job search)

  321. Joy of irresponsibility. Debt whores for Obama.

    http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/letter-of-the-weekapril-30th-2012

    From a letter on Obama’s campaign site.

    A single mom praises Obama for helping her pay student loans.

    She was going to school and the company she was working for was paying for her school. NO DEBT!

    She decided to quit that job and work for a nonprofit organization. To finish school she took out a loan and worried about how to pay for it. Obama’s executive order helped.

    Now she wants to buy a house while paying off the student loan.

    DEBT WHORE!

      1. Because they won’t allow us to follow the lead of Israel when it comes to airport security.

        1. 1st point. The administration has declared to War on Terror is over. Oh yeah? Try and float that fart filled lead balloon over the heads of Egyptian Christians.
          2nd point. Right on poppaj and right on mossad!

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    1. lovitz is an interesting wit. too bad his (very blue) expostulations were met with laughter instead of outraged agreement. ‘course, if he’d presented this outside of a comedy club the Fed’s would be all over him.

      btw, why hasn’t ol’ horse-face chimed in with her awesome political analysis of zero?

  322. The brother hoods of moslem nice guys that are running egypt now are continuing the assault on the non mossy world. Even though Bibi says (nudge and wink) this isn’t political, he certainly knows better. http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/23197/language/en-US/Default.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Egypt%20cuts%20off%20gas%20supply%20to%20Israel%20|%20Egypt%20cuts%20off%20gas%20supply%20to%20Israel&utm_campaign=daily%20newsletter%20email%20-%2020120423

    1. The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org, that will inform them whether they’re infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won’t be able to connect to the Internet.

      Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/20/national/w110653D95.DTL#ixzz1spG8HnBh

      maybe I’m paranoid, but I don’t want to check out the website the feds say to check out.
      fortunately I use Firefox.

    2. Robert, I have to wonder if that is the same rabbit that attacked Carter when he was in the boat out on the lake so many years ago!

  323. Dear American Taxpayer

    For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country. I want to thank the hard working American people for paying $242 thousand dollars for my vacation in Spain .

    My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time.

    Honestly, you just haven’t lived until you have stayed in a $2,500.00 per night private 3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.

    Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two and the 70 Secret Service personnel who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times.

    By the way, if you happen to be visiting the Costa del Sol , I highly recommend the Buenaventura Plaza restaurant in Marbella ; great lobster with rice and oysters!

    I’m ashamed to admit the lobsters we ate in Martha’s Vineyard were not quite as tasty, but what can you do if you’re not in Europe , you have to just grin and bear it?

    Air Force Two (which costs $11,351 per hour to operate according to Government Accounting Office reports) only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2.

    These are only rough estimates, but they are close. That’s quite a carbon footprint as my good friend Al Gore would say, so we must ask the American citizens to drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars and drive less too, so we can lessen our combined carbon footprint.

    I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet. So I do appreciate your sacrifices and do hope you find work soon.

    I was really exhausted after Barack took our family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago. I just had to get away for a few days.

    Cordially,
    Michelle (Moochelle) Obama

    P.S. Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar trip to India from which we just returned!

    P.P.S Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to Martha’s Vineyard; it was fabulous. And thanks for that second smaller jet that took our dog Bo to Martha’s Vineyard so we and the children could have him with us while we were away from the White House for eleven days. After all, we couldn’t take him on Air Force One because he might pee on some wires or something.

    P.P.P.S. Oh, I almost forgot to say thanks also for our two-week trip to Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000 square foot house was great!

    P.P.P.P.S. don’t forget my ski trip to Vail this winter and now the girls and I are in Africa with my mom.
    All this while Barack golf’s and campaigns to keep my trips coming for the next 4 years !

    Love Ya! Remember, we all have to share the pain of these economic times equally!

    Love to -redistribute- share- the wealth.

  324. From Newsmax:

    European Court: U.S. Supermax Prison Not ‘Inhumane’

    Lawyers for al-Qaida terrorist Abu Hamza and five other men indicted on terror charges argued before a European court that they would face “inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment” if extradited to the United States and jailed at the Supermax prison in Colorado.

    But the Strasbourg, France-based European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the facility provides prisoners with more generous services and activities than do most prisons in Europe.

    The attorneys had argued that incarcerating the men at the Supermax (super-maximum security) facility in Florence, Colo. — officially called the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum and also known as ADX Florence — would violate article three of the European Convention on Human Rights.

    The seven-judge panel ruled unanimously on April 10 that article three would not be violated “as a result of conditions of detention at ADX Florence.”

    The panel stated that while inmates at ADX Florence are confined to their cells most of the time, they are also “provided with services and activities (television, radio, newspapers, books, hobby and craft items, telephone calls, social visits, correspondence with families, group prayer) which went beyond what was provided in most prisons in Europe.”

    It also noted that some of the prison’s inmates are in a “step-down program.” The program runs on a three-year cycle, with prisoners kept in their cells 23 hours a day for the first year, then gradually allowed more contact with other inmates. In their third year they may be out of their cells for up to 16 hours a day, CNS News reported.

    According to a Federal Bureau of Prisons document, inmates can receive five visits a month, with up to three visitors each time. Visits can last a maximum of seven hours.

    Inmates may also play basketball, handball, and table games, and purchase snacks, toiletries, stationery, games, batteries, digital radios, and prayer rugs, according to CNS News.

    Inmates serving life sentences at ADX Florence include “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, so-called shoe bomber Richard Reid, 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef, and Oklahoma City co-conspirator Terry Nichols.

    Abu Hamza is charged with funding al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and helping a group that kidnapped 16 Western tourists in Yemen in 1998. Four hostages died.

    He and the other five terror suspects are currently behind bars in Britain. They have three months to appeal the court’s decision before a final ruling is handed down.

    1. Study: Polar Bear Population ‘Not in Crisis’

      Climate change doomsayers have for years claimed that declining polar bear populations in the Arctic are a consequence of manmade global warming.

      But a new study has found that the bear population in part of Canada is larger than many scientists thought and might actually be growing.

      In 2004, Environment Canada researchers concluded that the number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay had dropped 22 percent since 1984, to 935 bears, and they estimated that by 2011, a continuing decrease would bring the number down to 610.

      The Hudson Bay region is considered a bellwether for how polar bears are faring elsewhere in the Arctic, according to Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

      The decrease, the scientists asserted, was due to warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin the bears’ ability to hunt.

      “That sparked worldwide concern about the future of the bears and prompted the Canadian and American governments to introduce legislation to protect them,” The Globe and Mail reported.

      The World Wildlife Fund even stated in 2008: “If current warming trends continue unabated, scientists believe that polar bears will be vulnerable to extinction within the next century.”

      But a survey released on April 4 by the Government of Nunavut — a federal territory of Canada — shows that the number of bears is now 1,013 and could be higher.

      “The bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut’s director of wildlife management. “There is no doom and gloom.”

      He added that the media in Canada have led people to believe that polar bears are endangered, but “they are not.”

      He estimated that there are about 25,000 polar bears in Canada’s Arctic region, and “that’s likely the highest [number] there has ever been.”

      Nunavut, which is the size of Western Europe, is home to only about 32,000 people.

    1. Communist bastard, just like his one time boss, the one that thought he would be able to organize the communist states of America. He sees himself as che to obama’s castro, without the getting killed part.

    1. They’re going to have one hell of a time taking the guns in the US.
      Too many people will fight for their rights, and the UN doesn’t need that kind of bad press.

      1. but if they do, the blue helmets will make good focal points. i’d have said targets but likely someone would say i was promoting violins.

        funny, violence is a part of nature, tis neither good, nor bad, merely a descriptive for an action.

        stupid dems.

    1. Let’s find where the AGW skeptics live, and burn down their houses!

      But wouldn’t that increase warming?

    2. The guy that wrote the article is a contributor, not an editor at Forbes……..

      Steve Zwick
      Contributor

      I edit Ecosystem Marketplace, an online news service that reports on market-based solutions to environmental problems — a calling I received after a career trading futures, writing about business, and getting entangled in a few local environmental campaigns.

      The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer.

      I wouldn’t place too much stock in what he says. Forbes wrote the disclaimer.

  325. Actually, lolicon is just drawn stuff. Real kiddie porn is awful.

    However, it is pretty hard to take someone seriously when they think steel isn’t metal.

      1. You’re the one who flunked out of class so hard he thinks steel isn’t a metal and spells it steal. I know I just said that, but really, it’s fucking astounding.

        1. Maybe you could show me the post where I said steel isn’t a metal, and spelled it steal, which is pretty hard to believe since I used to be a welder for the Navy.
          Otherwise you’re as big of a liar as you are a fucking child molester.
          Get lost you piece of shit!

          1. He is like Olivia on this one…Doesn’t know who said what but still holds you responsible for what someone else said. Perhaps he was distracted by Kicks gravatar same as Olivia but Kick didn’t make that statement either.

          2. On the dog thread:

            “I have a nice kraut Luger too- It’s also made of steal..not metal. “

            1. Dumbass. Now get your child molesting ass out of here!

              You’re the one that said you like looking at sexual depictions of underage girls.
              That makes you a pedophile.

            2. Now your accusing me of stuff I’ve never done, once again showing Conservatives are incapable of being civil.

            3. For the life of me, i can’t figure out why you said it was OK for them to call you “Virgin”, “Lolicon”, etc.. but not “jackass”? Of course people are going to settle on the most extreme interpretation of any given term and use it against you, especially if you’re calling them hillbillies and idiots

              I called someone a jackass here long ago, really raised his hackles i suppose. But he questioned my patriotism

            4. Eh, I don’t care. Sticks and stones. Or whatever. I was banned on a forum I liked today over it, so you know, I’m pretty apathetic on the matter today.

    1. [sarc]Oh, now *that* should make it all better. [/sarc]

      All’s that means is that while you have a problem with someone actually coming up with proof that they abused children, you think it’s OK to fantasize about it and talk it up in public.

      You disgust me.

      1. Perlcat, he not only is a sick fuck, but he can’t read names and compare gravitars. He had me confused with someone else, and kept insisting it was me.
        I don’t think he’ll be around long. But his prediliction does make me want to give him extreme lead poisioning.

      1. No it isn’t. I switched years ago when they started issuing credit cards to illegal aliens without SS cards.

          1. GTE Federal Credit Union.
            They are in Tampa.
            The only issue you might have with them is if you want to use your debit card when you are traveling. They require you to inform them if you are going to be out of state or purchases will be blocked. It’s part of their anti fraud program.

            1. I know I need to make the switch but like I said it is a pain in the neck. I have a lot of accounts and direct withdrawals. It is like an abusive relationship from which it is hard to escape. Terrible bank and terrible omen for the 2d Amendment.

            2. What I did when I changed banks was to open an account with GTE, and set up everything as far as online banking and bill pay, contact the people that do direct debits and give them the new info. then close out the old account. Yes, it is a bit of an inconvienience, but I feel much better and I think my money is much safer. Besides, a CU gives you better loan rates than a bank.

      2. McMillan won’t accept BoA issued credit or debit cards for purchases. That’s pretty bold. Between Chase, BoA and a few other ‘too big to fail’ type organs, the anti rights movement is well funded – with our tax dollars! BoA needs a huge wake up call or they can go to hell. I hope they fold. Get your money out!

    1. I heard Pavlich being interviewed about her F&F book. She is very sharp. That MM is involved in the anti F&F propaganda dissemination effort should shock no-one. This administration grows more desperate and shrill everyday. Based on observation only, I think we are witnessing its death throes. People are waking up to the true nature of these people.

      1. We can only hope.
        Now, I am on a crusade to drive Eric from here. He admitted to drb that he is into kiddies porn. We don’t need him here.

    1. no no no no noooooooooooooo. LOL dang i didn’t read the heading of the article, just jumped right to the first comment… oh nooooooo that’s just wrong.

    1. Do long Dic.

      somewhere out there on the interwebs is a blooper with Jeff Dunham and Dick. one of the funniest bloopers i’ve heard. 😀

      1. You’ve got me wanting to search for the clip. Achmed “I kill you” and Walter? Classics.

    1. No purchase, payment, or contribution necessary to enter or win. Contributing will not improve chances of winning.

      Yea RIGHT!!!!

  326. In Philadelphia they are breaking ground for senior citizen housing that will only be available to 2% of them. Why? You must be part of the LGBT community.

    Really? Senior only housing narrows down whom you can rent/sell to. And then you must be LGBT cuts out 98% of the age group! And Philly is proud of this!? I don’t care about the LGBT community one way or another, but this is economically retarded!

    http://screwypuppy.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-discrimination-is-okay.html

  327. Aww, the feeling is mutual
    Posted by Judson Phillips on April 15, 2012 at 6:46am in Tea Party Nation Forum

    Someone does not like the Tea Party. He does not like Tea Party members. No it is not Obama. No it is not even a member of the Party of Treason. It is someone in the GOP.

    Who is it?

    It is Orrin Hatch of Utah. Just a couple of days ago, he said of Tea Party members, “These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans. They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”

    Doggone offended? Oh, I am quaking in my boots.

    Then he added the ultimate insult. Hatch said of Tea Party activists, “I despise these people.”

    That’s okay Orrin. We despise you too.

    Orrin Hatch does not like the fact that real Americans are offended that he is a member of the political class. We do not like the fact he feels entitled to his Senate seat. We do not like the fact he feels like he should be in a House of Lords, with lifetime tenure.

    Orrin Hatch was close friends with Ted Kennedy and frequently traded votes with Kennedy, including on many bills that grew government. Kennedy got Hatch’s vote to expand government and Hatch got? Well, he did get to despise Tea Party activists.

    Next Saturday, the Republicans in Utah will have a convention and if Hatch can get 60% of the vote at the Convention, he will not face a primary challenger.

    This is one of those cases where Utah Republicans need to get to the Convention and show that they despise Orrin Hatch.

    Hatch has been in Washington for 35 years. When he first ran in 1976, he railed against the incumbent for being in Washington too long. At the time, he had been in Washington for 18 years. Hatch has been there twice as long.

    Orrin Hatch might as well be working for the other side. Wait, I think he is. In 2009, he said, “I like Barack Obama and I want to help him if I can.”

    Orrin Hatch supported TARP and the other bailouts. He has consistently voted for bigger government and was an original co-sponsor of the DREAM ACT.

    Orrin Hatch first loved the Tea Party. He even claimed to be Tea Party before the Tea Party. Memo to Orrin: We drink Tea not kool-aid.

    Of course now that he has discovered that the Tea Party actually believes what it says it believes and is not simply interested in perpetuating big government under a Republican label, he hates us. No wait, he “despises” us.

    Two years ago, Utah took out RINO Bob Bennett and replaced him with conservative Mike Lee. The folks in Utah are good people and hopefully they will step to the plate again next Saturday and tell Orrin Hatch, “you can stay in Washington if you want. Just not as our Senator.”

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/aww-the-feeling-is-mutual

    1. That’s looks wrong. The Image is taken for the EIC table, and shows tax credit, not tax liability.

      1. I did start the post with a punch line:
        Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

        But the table is how much should be paid on your taxable income. Don’t let the word credit fool you. Credit in this case means “pay this much.”

        The post is meant for a sharp eye. It runs along the lines of Dems calling a small increase in spending instead of a large increase in spending a spending cut, even though it increased.

        And the term “credit” is not the sharp part of the post. Can you guess what it really is?

  328. White House uses fictional character and bad data to support “the Buffett Rule”

    No kidding. Some of the data is wrong.
    The Will Bailey character from West Wing is used to justify the progressive tax system.
    No benefits are cited by the implementatin of “the Buffett Rule.”
    This is a class warfare video that justifies its ideas with “it’s not fair.”

    http://screwypuppy.blogspot.com/2012/04/fair-screwing.html

    “It’s not fair.” Do we have a weak President or what?

  329. It’s been a tough past few days. We had to have our female Bichon, Dolly, put down yesterday morning. She had a very rare, incurable, liver disease, that was eating her up, both physically and spiritually. She was only 8 years old, and is only the 10th case ever of this disease in the US.
    Of course, with my luck, we hit the lottery, just not the kind we were hoping for.

      1. It’s horrible. My wife is a wreck. She was especially close to Dolly.
        I am dealing with it better than the last time we lost a pet, that one died in my arms.

      1. at least FoxNews needs to get on this..

        This is like Road Warrior sh-t.. can’t have it. Drop troops on them if necessary. Most of history is replete with authority clamping down on highwaymen…

        1. I say gather up all the racists in this country, from zerobuma on down, strip ’em of every inorganic weapon, and down to their underoos, then drop em in the middle of devil’s island. 😀
          that’s my 2 cents.

          1. One coconut a day and a pineapple once a month? They’ll be dining on each other in a week.

  330. I recently applied for a building permit for a new house. It was going to be 100 ft tall and 400 ft wide, with 9 gun turrets at various heights, and windows all over the place, with a loud outdoor sound system. It would have parking for 200 cars, and I would paint it baby shit yellow with snot green trim.

    The City Council told me; Forget it…AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!

    So I sent in the application again, but this time I called it a ‘Mosque’.

    Work starts on Monday.

    I love this country.

    It’s the Government I’m afraid of…

  331. To my Christian brothers and sisters: This is the Day that the Lord has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
    Alleluia! The Lord is Risen…

    Happy Resurrection Day y’all!

    To my Jewish brothers and sisters: Happy Passover y’all!
    To my secular friends: Happy Egg Laying Bunny Egg hunting y’all!

    1. Happy Easter KQ. Wait…That’s happy Passover for you, right? dang, I’m gettin’ old..I can’t remember right now.

    1. Where is Sharpton to express his outrage?
      Well, maybe La Raza will say something.

    2. He should have been arrested. I think that claiming self defense should not be taking at face value WHEN the person killed IS NOT inside the person’s property or inside someone else’s property and the person that shot is a neighbor. The person should not be placed in prison, but definetly placed in jail or at the very least home arrest until the matter is fully investigated. There would always be exceptional cases that is why each case should be investigated individually and quickly. As for this not being in the media of course this not new. I am hoping that these cases actually wouldn’t be spoken in too much detail until the trial is set it cause people to go insane.

    1. So what is the challenge? Design a system to charge an electric car without plugging it in.

      Haven’t they heard of alternators?

  332. There are so many things going on now and the governmedia is using the picking the most poisonous cherries to distract the masses. The springy arab thing is beginning to heat up with rockets from Egypt tossed into Israel. Formerly a rarity, this is likely to ramp up and become a regular news bit. For some reason, the saudi contingent usually gets a pass for their bad behavior. http://freebeacon.com/persecution-on-the-peninsula/

  333. Norman and Barry got married in California.

    They couldn’t afford a honeymoon so they go back to Norman’s mom and dad’s house for their first married night together.

    In the morning, Johnny, Norman’s little brother, gets up and has his breakfast. As he is going out of the door to go to school, he asks his mom if Norman and Barry are up yet. She replies, “No.”

    Johnny asks, “Do you know what I think?”
    His mom replies, “I don’t want to hear what you think! Just go to school.”

    Johnny comes home for lunch and asks his mom, ?Are Norman and Barry up yet?”
    She replies, “No.”

    Johnny says, “Do you know what I think?”
    His mom replies, “Never mind what you think! Eat your lunch and go back to school.”

    After school, Johnny comes home and asks again, “Are Norman and Barry up yet?”
    His mom says, “No.”

    He asks, “Do you know what I think?”
    His mom replies, “OK, now tell me what you think.”

    Johnny says: “Last night Norman came to my room for the Vaseline and I think… I gave him my airplane glue.”

  334. If one of us is not free to terrorize the rest of us, then none of us are free!
    The Cube has another one worth its weight in platinum, which is valuable stuff. http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/mta-geller-s-anti-savage-poster-insulting-to-savages-t8771.html

    As a savage, I find all talk of civilization very offensive. These moslem sign makers seem to write for the Onion!

    “Free speech in America is dead,” says bitterly Mohammed Mohammed, the Chief Executions Officer of SupportTheSavage.org – a radically peaceful website that distributes printed materials showing cardboard cutouts of smiling suicidal Jews next to the words “End U.S. military aid to Israel and push the pig-monkeys into the sea.”

    Radically peaceful.

    1. LOLOLOL Okay first of all she is not THAT beautiful. She is pretty though that is true, however I can assure her that I don’t hate her because she is pretty, because I don’t roll like that and I dont even know her. However, if that is her attitude then I have to say she is probably “hated” because she is conceited and vain, not because of how she looks.

      1. I’m with you Kimmy, I don’t think she’s that good looking. What it probably is, is that she’s blonds and acts ditzy and “loose”, so guys think they can get her in bed easily.

        1. You are probably right Poppa. That may be a reason why people don’t like her too, she has probably gotten involved with other women’s men.

          1. When I heard the story lead in on FNC, I was expecting a drop-dead gorgeous 20 something bikini babe! Instead I saw a 30+ moderately attractive woman that I probably wouldn’t give a second glance.
            Some people think very highly of themselves.

            1. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL So funny!!!! It is funny to me because at this age she should have some shame and decency not to act like a spoiled child.

    1. Interesting. Not sure if people were talking this mess when the Supreme Court essentially legalized abortion. It is impressive how liberals wants dictatorship when it suits them but do not want it when there is a conservative president.

    1. i refuse to watch d gappy toothed l. he’s a pog, in my considered opinion, less worthwhile than a tuit (whether square or round), and yet i respect your desire to view him. 😛

        1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeN0QkZmmY

          you said NOTHING about Johnny

          gap-tooth is a hack
          Johnny was funny!

          like when he had… can’t think of her name…
          she brought her kitty cat with her, and he asked
          “can i pet your pussy?”
          she replied “yes”
          Johnny: “well then move the dam*ed cat!” roflmbo.

          p.s. i was 3 years old when Jack carried the klepto from cleveland caper. 😀 oh dudeski you made me laff rilz hard.

          p.p.s. found the vid i was had in mind. BEWARE Hanoi Jane is the guest:
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRR1aKBOCOQ

  335. I have been seeing a lot of people coming out in the woodworks with their racism, some like likwhatever are doing it on the downlow and then others Thumb Up racist stuff and TD anti racist stuff without saying anything. I have noticed that this story with Martin-Zimmerman has indeed brought out the hate from a lot of regulars and brought upon the site new hateful people. I think it is a good thing to know who are the racists in here, however I must admit I am seriously dissapointed, especially that they are able to espouse their bile so freely. I know that if I were to do the same I would not be allowed in the site. This site has in essence become a haven for so called Conservatives who are racists through and through. The only reason they are here is because they hate Obama because he is Black, not because Obama sucks as a President. It has been a while that I have been called a lot of the vile things that i have been called here by people who claim to be conservative and perhaps even claim to be christians. I am highly disgusted and saddened. This site became a respite from the rest of the world, it is now a war zone and a hateful place. It is quite vexing.

    1. Yeah, these things get messy. I think that a lot of people are buying into a false narrative — some to attack Martin, some to attack Zimmerman.

      I call it a horrible tragedy that never had to happen. I cannot for the life of me figure out why, after the 911 operator told Z not to follow, that he did. He had no business doing that. The “stand your ground” law cuts both ways — a person can make just as good a case (and maybe better) for M to have every right to “stand his ground” — and to me, unless there are a LOT of mitigating circumstances, cannot see why Z’s actions didn’t cross the line into outright murder — race or no race. If we killed everybody that ever looked funny, talked funny, walked funny, was on the wrong side of town, wore a hoodie, was with friends that were unsavory, was involved in drugs, was out for Skittles (MAN, those things are NASTY.), there wouldn’t be anyone left.

      The news media and the usual political hacks are baiting people, inciting them to put aside any common ground in the interests of making money and political hay off of a horrible tragedy. While I do not propose to convict Z based upon what I’ve read and heard, he’s not a sympathetic character. However, that’s for a judge and jury to decide. I am not going to jump up and defend either — instead I will pray for everyone involved. The whole episode has really showed me how ugly and nasty our politicians and our news media is — right on down to where laws voted upon by Democrats are hung about the necks of Republicans as if they were the only ones that had come up with the idea. Disgusting, really.. I wish politicians could go to prison for things like that.

      Please don’t think that TU’s and TD’s mean a lot in this context. A sufficiently motivated creep can find a way to multiply their nastiness without having to resort to finding friends and fellow-travelers. I’ve tried really hard to stay out of this conversation, but I can’t stand to see you disappointed in all of the people you’d like to call your friends. We are better than that.

      1. I appreciate that sentiment perlcat. Regardless of this one story (or others in the past and those to come in the future), true conservatives need to stick together. I know that Conservatism stands for something that is good and I am pained to see it hijacked by racists. The Republican Party and the Conservative Movement stood for the freedoms of Man regardless of their color, race and blah blah blah. I think that this site can be a bit more welcoming to people of color that want something else that what they are getting. In all truth it was happenstance that brought me here, but it was the Conservative stance that kept me here. If this site then becomes a haven for racists, then it completely destroys what it stands for and of course it can easily alienate other people of color that are looking for answers that they are not getting on the other side.

  336. BANKRUPTCIES (yay!):

    Pinnacle Airlines goes bust due to fuel prices: http://news.yahoo.com/pinnacle-airlines-files-bankruptcy-u-153133542.html

    Food activists (read liberal food police) forced company to go bye bye: http://news.yahoo.com/beef-processor-files-bankruptcy-over-pink-slime-uproar-132022703.html

    California Sola Company defaults after injection of our money wasn’t enough: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-trust-seeks-bankruptcy-protection-161510918.html

    Yet another one of Obamies pet project shot to hell: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-02/solar-millennium-s-u-s-units-file-for-bankruptcy-protection-1-.html

    Even our new overlords to be have problems: http://news.yahoo.com/sino-forest-files-bankruptcy-protection-050451645.html

    German green technology is not working out either: http://news.yahoo.com/german-solar-firm-q-cells-file-bankruptcy-132650286.html

    Town in Californiay going down: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0319/Bankruptcy-jitters-in-Stockton.-Will-other-cities-fail

    Can I blame Obama (even partially) or am I being irrational?

    1. No Kimmy, you’re being RAAAACCCCIIIISSSTTTT!!!!

      Town in Californiay going down

      San Francisco?

    1. That woman looks like a rodeo clown that went crazy. She is like the Joker or something. Crazy. I can’t take anything she says seriously with her looking like that. Damn. Where is the shame woman? La Commedia no esta finita it seems.

    1. Gave you a tu for the catch but I didn’t watch the vid. Uh-uh, won’t do it, not ruining my Sun. but one of the comments was great, “So if I watch CNN, does that make me subliminally stupid?”.

      1. “So if I watch CNN, does that make me subliminally stupid?”

        No, it makes you overtly stupid!

  337. I’M BAAAACCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!
    Turns out that about a dozen IP addresses were blocked in the server!

    1. please explain this “astro-turf” usage. I reckon i missed it. all i know about it is it’s a fake grass… wait a minit… does astro-turf indicate a fake grass-roots movement? seriously asking.

            1. Yeah, Robert, that’s what the left calls the Tea Party movement. Phony, manufactured, paid for by special interests. If that’s the case, where’s my paycheck? I drove to some rallies, paid for my own fuel, didn’t get on any bus, didn’t get paid, didn’t even get a free lunch. I also didn’t leave any litter, nor did I poop on anything.

            2. I also didn’t leave any litter, nor did I poop on anything.

              See, that is why you didn’t get paid. You didn’t complete the task you were sent to do. 😉

    1. Ugh. “Somebody” paying for her healthcare who is this “somebody”?
      Amazing she is happy to have an invisible john paying for her healthcare and doesn’t believe she is going to give the john something in return (like her freedoms).

  338. We haven’t heard anything about this on our government controlled media. Its actually surprising they let this sort of information travel all the way from the U.K. when its clear they don’t want us to find out about it during our current distractions. Oh, yeah, this is a story out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, but you can’t read about it in the U.S. federal feedia. Meet the Straits, married for 65 years, the late Nancy who died at the ripe old age of 85, from the damage inflicted during her rape and beating at the hands of one 20 year old fellow, Tyrone Dale David Woodfork, and her 90 year old widower Bob. He survived the attack but isn’t doing well. Equal time is deserved.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-invasion-Oklahoma-couple-ends-65-year-romance-meeting-blind-date.html

    1. This is so sad. You should let Fox News know because it seems that they are following trends and not doing their own work. Possibly came out in local news though. What kind of a demon possessed freak would actually do this? I hope that he pays for this dearly.

        1. The troll has a crush on KQ and I. He follows us where ever we may go on this site just to give us a TD. Either that or he thinks women should be seen and not heard especially when the women in question are clearly more intelligent than he is. I don’t lose any sleep over it.

        2. A hater troll that has no life and is obsessed with me and wants to leave its mark whenever it finds me. It is pathetic yet quite hilarious at the same time. There was a thread where DRB helped me out and I said thank you and she said you are welcome and we both got TD’s. It is hilarious. Obviously people cannot deal with us so a TD is all they got.

    2. You’ll never hear about this because the US gov’t controlled media wants to eliminate the eeeeevil of ‘stand your ground’ laws, and doesn’t see the evil in rapes, beatings, home invasions, and murders. In short, just another day with the US lib media.

    1. Not a clue, FormerlyDean. Several IHTM-ers have had the same problem lately, including a couple of our regular contributors. Mr. Admin has changed a couple things up to solve their problems, but we don’t know why PoppaJoe can’t access the site. Has he attempted to get on from somewhere other than his normal location?

      1. I don’t know what he has done regarding this problem. I believe he has been in contact with one of you guys. Hope he gets it squared away. Maybe its like what happened to RobertW, I don’t know anything about that either, though.

        1. Check out this thread from a couple weeks ago
          https://www.ihatethemedia.com/un-consultant-ban-dantes-divine-comedy#comment-166074
          I’ve been using my laptop for a couple months because my desktop is still haunted and what BofA said about Ctrl+ made sense because of the smaller keyboard so I paid attention and caught myself doing it if I was in a hurry. I just happened to try it 3 times and quit so it didn’t boot me, just wouldn’t accept the comment. I heard somebody else a week or two ago saying they could use either their wife’s or home account, so it sounds like it’s blocking addresses, not usernames and passwords.

          1. I’ve hear Pj talk about his new wireless and “those darn styli”, could he have woopsed one and after trying several times the server blocked his ip address?

      2. Ok ed. I can access the site from my phone and with the Kindle from other places with wifi. My ISP says there is a dns issue with the website, and it’s blocking my ISP.
        I use roadrunner In the Tampa area.
        You should have my email address, if you can email me I will give you the particulars as to what we did to try to resolve this from my end. Hopefully we can figure this out.

        1. Hey ed, I have a new clue.
          I tried to get on this morning and while waiting for the page to load, I tried to adjust my privacy settings, during this I noticed this in the lower bar on the screen:
          Waiting for res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm
          I don’t know if that helps, but maybe it will.

  339. Another story from Californiay lunacy… Crystal Harris was sexually abused (raped) by her now ex-husband and he went to prison. This is good although of course it is sad that this happened to her. However a judge said that because this was just rape and he has no money of his own and she is the one with the money and she was his wife, she has to pay him alimony (1K) a month. I understand that they were divorced and she is the one with the money and in another situation I would think this is perhaps appropriate, however compelling a woman that was raped (regardless of this man being her ex-husband or not) is like having a victim take the responsibility to take care financially of the rapist. It is absolutely disgusting. She is trying to get the law changed and I hope she succeeds. The judge is a moron, but if this is the law it should be changed.

    http://abcnews.go.com/News/california-alimony-pay-attacker-husband-challenged-legislature/story?id=15973732

  340. Been having trouble getting on here from my home network. Had RR send a signal to reset my ip address, now I’ll have to wait till I get home to try it again.

  341. anyone get into Google I/O?
    just failed.. tickets gone in something less then 33 minutes

  342. 0bamaholder pets, the new black panther party, those fine fellows who call for the murder of cracker babies and their mothers, needing not mention that cracker males must be forced to submit to the violence the NBPP will dole out in order to right the wrong committed against the fine fellows of the NBPP some 300 years ago, have recently committed another crime by calling for a mob to capture the vile and disgusting white hispanic killer of the fine young football star in Florida. The state of Florida may not let malik zulu shabazz and his fine followers walk as readily as 0bamaholder did for their election day combat patrolling.

    http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/03/26/how-many-crimes-did-the-new-black-panthers-commit-in-florida/?singlepage=true

    1. The innards on that engine must be built awful damn strong to withstand 34 pounds boost. That’s awesome. I wish they had overlaid the telemetry over the video.

    2. “Kennedy’s car was going 204 mph at the half mile mark”

      Talk about your straight lines.

      How many Kopechne’s per fathom does it get?

  343. Capitalism at his best? http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/17248238/las-vegas-gun-store-takes-aim-at-shotgun-weddings

    Kim Kardashian goes to church for some reason with expensive and neon colored clothes: http://www.taletela.com/news/14380/photos-kim-kardashian-goes-pink-for-sunday-mass. Even in church the girl must have all the attention.

    Can government make a fair society? http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20120324/OPINION02/303240008/JOHN-STOSSEL-Fair-government-getting-out-our-way

    1. OMG!!!
      That teacher looks like she eats 8 year olds for an appetizer!
      It takes a truly sick person to do something like this.

      1. Some of these girls are truly learning to be fantastic dancers. The moms, the dance studio owner, and the show, are using them in a way that they should not be used. I hope they don’t have their minds ruined by all the drama.

        I have a photo shoot scheduled at a non-profit dance studio in a couple of weeks. The groups go from age 2-3 up to teens, and we’re going to be doing their group photos and some dance shots. I sincerely hope the moms aren’t like these. I already know the instructor isn’t.

      1. Actually, those dumpsters are put at job sites by scrap metal dealers so the contractors can recoup some expenses.

      1. Kimmy, not all the dumpsters at a jobsite, or behind a factory, are for trash. Some are for recyclable, and the contractors get paid for what’s in them. Therefore, stealing recyclables is theft.

  344. Do you remember the famous ABC radio news commentator Paul Harvey? Millions of Americans listened to his programs which were broadcasted over 1,200 radio stations nationwide.

    The following commentary was broadcast 47 years ago … April 3, 1965. It’s short … less than 3 minutes.

    Pay special attention to what he said in 7 seconds, from 1:57 to 2:04 in the broadcast. Mr. Harvey’s prescience is haunting.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJc8Mzg0C-c

    1. The news comes at a rocky time for the company. The Atlantic Wire reported Thursday that all but a handful of the paper’s comedy writers are quitting rather than enduring relocation to Chicago in July, the latest chapter in an ongoing consolidation effort intended to lower costs. The paper’s corporate headquarters is located in the Second City.

      Is it any wonder that they aren’t going after The One?

    1. ya know, i’d love to attend a function where barry was, just so i could stand up and obtrusively turn my back on this poser.

  345. Al-Qaeda murders a US citizen teaching in Yemen. He may or may have not been a Christian, he may or may have not been doing what they accuse him of doing, but to do this for whatever reason is evil. It is in my opinion also an act of provocation agains the US. It is very possible that he was not a Christian nor was he proselytizing, all that could have happened is that a snitch who didnt like him spread lies about him or the terrorist just wanted to kill an American. http://www.rgj.com/usatoday/article/53703394?odyssey=mod%7cnewswell%7ctext%7cLocal%20News%7cs People need to stop thinking that conversation with these people is possible. It isn’t and the situation in Toulouse proves it.

  346. When I heard about the shooter in France, I thought to myself (no joke) that I will be SHOCKED if he was a white (“Christian”) guy that had NO ties to Islam whatsoever (especially of course since the first victims were Jewish). So obviously I was quite right about the fact that the shooter has associations to Al-Qaeda and is a Muslim terrorist and so on an so forth. I feel bad for the victims. It is indeed terrible…

    What I really hate is that I have to agree with an extremist who is (or is the daughter of) a racist. Ugh, but when you are right you are right, I suppose… that whole enemy of my enemy thing: “First came Marine Le Pen, of the extreme-right Front National, who has campaigned on the dangers of unfettered immigration and unlabelled halal meat. She seized on the shootings to warn that the “risk of fundamentalism” had been underestimated in France and that “politico-religious groups” had been developing in a lax state. She proposed a referendum on bringing back the death-penalty. Le Pen is currently third in the presidential race, at 15%. ”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2012/mar/21/france-shooting-toulouse-police-suspects-jewish-school-raid

    http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.com/2012/03/front-national-demands-apology-from.html Ugh it hurts to come to these people defense, after all this happens to conservatives and christians all the time something like this happens (people ASSUME that conservatives or christians are behind these acts of terrorism until proven guilty and even then no one apologizes nor corrects the error as loudly as they pronounce their initial judgement…) However it hurts, because these people are disgusting… I hate racists but oh my goodness I really hate Islam more…

    So Obamie called Sarkozy but didn’t mention here in the US… I wonder why.

    1. Uhm there seems to be an idiot on the loose around here…

      The “French” Mohammed Merah terrorist is dead after he jumped the window after hiding in a bathroom. Coward. He murdered three children, a Rabbi and three French soldiers. If he did that here, he would have PROBABLY killed one US soldier and died under a barrage of bullets by the rest. This wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did either. “They wanted him alive” Fox reporter said… why? He became a useless member of society through his actions, why keep him alive and force French citizens to keep him alive in prison where he can get together with other “French” terrorists in training?

      Go meet your sturgeons Mohammed Morah.

      1. I’ve never understood the “take them alive” mentality, when the person in question is doing everything in their power to kill people. I saw an article with lots of pictures, and the pictures that were disturbing were of the families, at funerals, carrying the caskets of their loved ones, of the father and three children in body bags. This will go on as long as Politically Correct government officials allow it to go on.

  347. BHO: It’s about power. My travels made me sensitive to the plight of those without power and the issues of class and inequalities as it relates to wealth and power. Anytime you have been overseas in these so-called third world countries, one thing you see is the vast disparity of wealth of those who are part of power structure and those outside of it.

    drb: The other thing you see is a lack of capitalism.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/21/Obama-Scapegoat-Five-Percent

    1. …and don’t forget — the ones in the ‘power structure’ are members of their governing class — a class whose unrestricted growth is something Barry seers as a good thing.

    1. Oh puhllleeezzzeeee! This bitch makes me want to puke!
      Could Letterman possibly kiss her ass any harder, and not get lost in there?

      1. Yeah, having Barry have a prayer vigil over Obamacare is like having Jack The Ripper give a class on date rape prevention.

  348. Obama and the solar powered airplane.
    Posted by Judson Phillips on March 19, 2012 at 9:05pm in Tea Party Nation

    Barack Obama is on tour. Given his interest in alternative fuels, you will be pleased to know that Air Force One is now powered by solar energy.

    No, it isn’t. It is powered by that same oil that Barack Obama wants Americans to spend so much money for.

    And he isn’t shy about burning fuel at the taxpayer’s expense to run around the nation and tell us high gas prices are not his fault.

    From the Daily Caller:

    President Barack Obama is about to launch a 5,000-mile, four-state, two-day trip on Air Force One to contain the political damage caused by high gas prices.

    Obama is slated to fly out this Wednesday to camera-ready podiums in Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado, from where he’ll tout his administration’s efforts to reduce the nation’s use of gasoline.

    His 5,000-mile trip will consume roughly 25,000 gallons of jet fuel, according to Boeing.

    That adds up to a fuel bill of $80,000, assuming the Air Force buys jet fuel at the cheapest cost, now estimated at $3.20 a gallon by the U.S. Energy Administration. The retail price for jet-fuel at local airports is just over $6 a gallon, including taxes.

    Still, the cheapest jet-fuel costs about 43 cents less per gallon than the $3.63 cost of auto gasoline in Columbus, in swing-state Ohio, where the president will make his final speech on the trip.

    The cost of gasoline is boosted by state taxes, which amount to roughly 40 cents per gallon, according to GasBuddy.com, which tracks the cost of gasoline in each state.

    The president’s support aircraft, including the C-17 cargo jets that carry his armored limousines and additional vehicles to cities before his arrival, will each burn a comparable amount of additional jet-fuel during the campaign swing.

    Can we say hypocrisy?

    Obama thinks we should all pay $10 a gallon and the only relief we can have is when he can convince the Saudis to pump more oil. However, he is not shut (shy?) about burning it.

    OF course, he wants to get to his destination, so he is not requiring Air Force One to burn the biofuels he is making the Navy use for its jet fighters. Not only is it not as good as regular jet fuel, it costs four times as much as regular jet fuel.

    There is a reason why Obama is not using it.

    Real Americans are trying to figure out how they are going to put gas in their cars, thanks to the policies of the Obama regime.

    In this era of expensive fuels and the Great Obama Depression, Congress should clip Obama’s wings and ground Air Force One.

    Of course, if Air Force One were grounded until we had $2.50 a gallon gas like Newt Gingrich wants us to have, Obama would quickly find a way to make that happen.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873:Topic:1920783&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

  349. This one ought to knot a few colons!

    The royal spring break.

    There is a story that you need to hear about but may not because the story seems to be disappearing from the web. Why is it disappearing? Could it be because it embarrasses Obama?

    What is the story?

    The story is that Barack Obama’s 13-year-old daughter has gone on spring break to Mexico with some friends. Why someone would let their 13-year-old daughter go to Mexico on spring break is a separate story.

    Because she is Barack Obama’s child, she is traveling with 25 Secret Service agents.

    Is it just me or does anyone else see a problem here?

    Obama wants his kid to go on Spring Break. That is fine but the problem we have is that we the taxpayer are footing the bill for it. How did Malia Obama get to Mexico? I’m willing to be she did not fly Air Mexicana. Even is she flew commercial that means that she flew down there, 25 Secret Service agents flew down there and there has to be accommodations and logistics for those agents.

    How much is all of this costing the American taxpayer?

    Perhaps someone should remind Obama that we are in the middle of the Great Obama Depression. Millions are out of work. Millions are wondering how they are going to pay for the $5 a gallon gas we are about to see thanks to his policies. Many are worried about losing their homes.

    What is Obama’s reaction?

    He takes a vacation. His wife takes a vacation. And now his daughter takes a vacation. It might be nice if they showed at least some sensitivity to the real Americans who are suffering because of what the Party of Treason has done to the economy but to be blunt, they do not care.

    The other interesting part about this story is that since it first broke, it has been disappearing from various websites.

    Why?

    If Obama were a Republican and his child were doing this, the media would be screaming about it. Instead they ignore this.

    The Blaze has a great story about the disappearing story.
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-is-the-story-about-malia-obama-vacationing-in-mexico-disappearing-from-the-web/

    Inquiring minds would like to know how much Malia Obama’s trip is costing the American taxpayer.

    Don’t expect the Obama regime to reveal that information any time soon.

    And don’t expect the drive by media to be very interested in this story either.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/the-royal-spring-break

  350. Anyone worried?
    Posted by Judson Phillips on March 17, 2012 at 9:24pm in Tea Party Nation

    This one has not made much news outside of the conservative blogosphere. It is the newest executive order signed by Barack Obama.

    Anyone nervous yet?

    From the Examiner:

    On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war or emergency.

    The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order’s functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.

    I am not an alarmist but the idea of the Obama regime having total control over anything is disturbing. No it isn’t disturbing, it is totally, freaking scary.

    Also from the Examiner:

    The economy of the United States is based on the free flow of resources, energy, and the rights of consumers to buy and sell as they see fit. Any interference in this economic process quickly leads to shortages, rising prices, and civil unrest. The purpose of President Obama signing this new Executive Order is yet unclear, however, it may coincide with information coming out of Israel yesterday that plans for a tactical or strategic strike on Iran are accelerating. Oil prices in Europe rose over $3 a barrel for Brent crude after the Israeli actions, and US oil prices rose $2 for WTI.

    The Obama administration appears to be preparing for a long drawn out war in the Middle East, or at the very least, an expected crisis that will require the need to override Constitutional authority and claim dominion over all resources in the United States under the guise of national defense. With the rise in Disaster Preparedness growing for both individuals and states leading up to yesterday’s Executive Order, the mood of the nation points strongly towards some event or disaster that will require massive preparations on a national as well as local scale.

    Any one really nervous yet?

    Given the cavalier way the Obama regime tends to ignore the Constitution, the thought of the Regime having emergency powers is a nightmare.

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873:Topic:1914122&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

    1. The gift that keeps giving!
      I’m sure firemen are happy to know they can die while trying to rescue someone from this POS!

  351. US Soldiers Disarmed During Panetta’s Speech in Afghanistan

    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:1906092&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

    The US Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today. This should not have been unexpected based on the Koran burnings and the murder of 16 Afghani civilians by a US soldier. What is unexpected is the disarming of our soldiers prior to his speech. If the Secretary of Defense does not trust our soldiers with his security, should we trust them to defend the United States and Americans?

    The answer is an unqualified yes. This is not about trusting soldiers: this is about the perceived threat from our men and women against the current administration. The government has labelled returning veterans as possible domestic terrorists (along with God-fearing patriotic Americans). It appears that this definition has just become more comprehensive and now includes our active military.

    If this is not a fair assessment of the lack of respect that the military is shown by the “commander-in-chief” and his minions, the only other option is that the administration considers our military as a threat to their security.

    For what it is worth, I give our military the respect and honor that they deserve for defending this country against enemies both foreign and domestic.

    David DeGerolamo

    IS OBAMA GETTING NERVOUS?
    PANETTA IS AFRAID OF SOLDIERS BEING ARMED WHEN HE SPEAKS?
    ISN’T IT BAD ENOUGH THAT THEY’RE TRYING TO DISARM THE PUBLIC, NOW THEY WANT TO DISARM THE MILITARY?

    1. This is nuts!
      They make a rule that cannot be complied with, and just expect the trial lawyers to enforce it by suing? The same trial lawyers that donated $25 million to Obama’s campaign!
      How convienient!

    1. Jason Mattera is great! He’ll go up to any famous liberal and ask them uncomfortable questions. I remember when Al Franken was angry at him for a question.

  352. “You say all options are on the table, leave them there until they rot.”

    In December it emerged that China sold Iran, for $11 billion, advanced DF-31 ICBMs which are capable of reaching U.S. soil with nuclear warheads. North Korean engineers are helping to get the missile system up and running.

    While addressing supporters in Alborz province on Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran stands firm against military threats. “The Iranian nation is not afraid of your bombs, warships and airplanes,” Ahmadinejad said, ”and does not care about such military weapons.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/11/iran-rattles-sabers-11000-missiles-ready-to-launch-at-u-s-and-israel/#ixzz1ouh3Brnv

  353. Has anybody seen the Volt ad with the goofy Van Dyke beard dude? I don’t do much tv but just sat here stunned, cringing and laughing at the same time, it’s horrible! And sweet, he’s sweet? drb is sweet, this guys a …what that talking head on the news once said 0bummer was. Oh it’s bad, can’t believe this is the first I’ve heard of it. Anybody?

    1. They don’t give a crap about the students, it’s all a ploy to get more federal money for the school.

    1. FTA
      driver was in such a hurry to make a court date on a meth possession charge

      Well, at least we know he wasn’t an illegal. Otherwise, he’d have headed South long ago!

  354. Once Again, this is from Tea Party Nation, and unless you are a member, you won’t be able to access the website, so I am including the whole article………

    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/a-very-good-question

    A very good question.
    Posted by Judson Phillips on March 8, 2012 at 6:32pm in Tea Party Nation
    Forum

    Eric Holder opened his mouth again today. The only thing most real Americans want to hear from Eric Holder is that he is quitting his job. Unfortunately we won’t hear that any time soon. Holder spoke and it raises one very good question.

    What did Holder talk about and what is that very good and very important question?

    Holder complained today that the New York Police Department was conducting surveillance of Mosques and Muslims in several areas, including New Jersey.

    The question is, whose side is this guy on?

    Before he came to the Justice Department, his law firm, Covington and Burlington represented a large number of terrorists being held at Guantanamo. These terrorists had appointed attorneys but Covington and Burlington spent a lot of time and money allowing their employees to represent these terrorists pro bono. As Michelle Malkin pointed out in her book “The Culture of Corruption,” Holder was a senior partner at that firm. There is no way Covington and Burlington would have done this without at least his knowledge and probable support.

    Holder has wanted to close GITMO. He has wanted criminal trials for enemy combatants in Federal Courts where he knows an open and public trial would reveal many of America’s secrets to our enemies.

    Recently the Obama regime appointed a lawyer who had defended a number of Islamic terrorists including John Walker Lindh to be the number three official at Justice.

    Does anyone doubt this was done without Holder’s blessing?

    Which all brings us back to Holder’s comments today about the NYPD. The Muslims are upset that we are conducting surveillance on them.

    Too bad. This is what happens when you are a part of a religion that is not only violent, that is committed to a worldwide theocracy but has engaged in acts of terrorism that have killed thousands of Americans.

    New York has seen the World Trade Center attacked twice. It has also seen a number of terrorist attacks thwarted. Do you know what all of those attacks had in common?

    Islamic terrorists.

    The terrorists that attacked us on 9/11 or back in 1993 at the first World Trade Center attack did not come from Our Lady of Sorrows. They did not come from the missionary office of the Southern Baptist Convention.

    They came from Mosques, some of which were in New Jersey where the NYPD was conducting surveillance.

    While Holder and the Obama regime were kowtowing to groups that are hostile to America and may well support groups and individuals that want to cause harm and terror here in America, the NYPD was stopping at least 14 terrorist attacks since 9/11.

    Eric Holder’s sympathies are not with America and real Americans. He despises this nation and wants to see not a great America, but an America that is an insignificant socialist hellhole.

    Real Americans have the right to be grateful for the fine work of the NYPD and to be outraged that someone like Eric Holder could ever become the Attorney General of the United States.

  355. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/breitbart-obama-college-video-turns-dud-sparks-race-172252336.html
    Okay so Obama video didn’t have the punch that people thought it would be AND it came too damn early AND it came out without much context as this dude is dead (right?) and no one knows who he is. Is that valid?

    Now… in the water is wet news: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/president-sarkozy-sparks-controversy-saying-too-many-foreigners-225014704.html;_ylt=Aov5yVRRJdOKtc7YLU9Ag7ObCMZ_;_ylu=X3oDMTRpazBoMTdtBG1pdANGZWF0dXJlZCBCbG9nIFRoZSBVcHNob3QgTmV0d29yawRwa2cDNzA5ZjA2YzMtNWRmMi0zMTgyLTk1YjEtZTgwYjE1NDNjNmIxBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNNZWRpYUZlYXR1cmVkTGlzdAR2ZXIDZDU1ZGZiOTAtNjhhZS0xMWUxLWJmYmEtNTRlY2M5YTY2Mzll;_ylg=X3oDMTNjNmVsZDdzBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMWM1NTQ4MjctNmU5YS0zYjM2LTliMzgtOTAxMzUzZTNkZDI2BHBzdGNhdANvcmlnaW5hbHN8dGhldGlja2V0BHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQR0ZXN0Aw–;_ylv=3

    “Fighting an uphill reelection campaign, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Tuesday that there are too many foreigners in France.

    “Our system of integration is working increasingly badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school,” Sarkozy said on a three-hour French TV debate show Tuesday, the Guardian reported”

    He went on to state that public schools shouldnt have to front kosher or halal meat for muslims and jews. Now I agree. That is what private schools are for to cater to the dietary needs and the religious needs of students. The students should express their right to their religion, however they shouldn’t expect the government to provide the means for them to express it if it costs money. An empty classroom outside of classroom hours but within an acceptable time for its use, is fine, but providing dietary needs is not fine. Let’s say I am a Catholic, I would never request fish on Fridays nor for a crucifix to be put in the classroom (the school is a public school). However it is totally fine to request the use of the empty classroom for an hour after class or during lunch time. Big difference.

    Yes there are too many foreigners in France that are not French either by birth and most importantly by acquired nationality. They are living there without papers nor documents and without any true desire to become French. Same problem here. It is expensive to care for those that do not put in time and money into the society like all legal citizens do (HAVE to do). Also it is expensive when they take to the streets and destroy anything in their paths whenever they feel like it and intensify crimes like it is happening in France. It is a big problem indeed.

  356. Teen shot to death by a Neighborhood watch captain inside a gated community. After a month the captain hasn’t yet been arrested as the teen was not doing anything illegal other than walking and had ice tea and skittles in the pocket. Read the story: http://news.yahoo.com/family-florida-boy-killed-neighborhood-watch-seeks-arrest-044537742.html. He (the captain) called 911 and the police are not releasing the call… why? Would you agree that the teen was discrimanated against? Shouldn’t this captain had been arrested last month?

    1. Interesting that the call isn’t being released, and that there was no arrest made. Going on just the information in the story, it’s just as racist as the kids who set the white kid on fire, in the opposite direction. These things need to be brought out and made national news.

    1. “Should the military give up their freedoms becauase they are in the military protecting the freedoms of others?”

      Thats a loaded question, but I am going to do my best to answer 🙂

      Being in the military, the soldier already gives up basic freedoms while in uniform. They cant carry weapons unless authorized, even on base. Remember the Fort Hood shootings? It would have gone down differently if those soldiers where allowed to be armed, but they were not, and we know how it ended. Freedom of speech is like their right to bear arms, only while out of uniform. And even then, its a bit of a gray area. If they are enlisted, but in civilian clothes, and get a DUI, they loose rank. (Ex) They get far worse while in uniform and get a DUI, since drinking in uniform is NOT allowed or tolerated. So as a “civilian” or rather a soldier out of uniform, they have rights of speech and bearing arms, but still under their codes of conduct. So if they get in trouble while dressed as a civilian but are still contracted by the armed forces the punishment is twice served.

      So saying they would not violate the Contitution if ordered by the President, is bad if they are still under contract to the branch they serve. They swear an oath to follow the orders of their Command, their Command is sworn to uphold the Contitution ( Commander in Chief that is). This is why if someone would just do their job this wouldnt be an issue. Namely the Commander in Chief, if he upholds the Contitution, the soldiers are not conflicted in following his orders. But they must follow orders. That is why its so important to have a competent, and God fearing, Constitution honoring President. Rather than someone who sees the military as their own personal arm to to with whatever they so desire, reguardless of rule of law.

      1. At the very least, a competent, constitution honoring and people fearing President. I am okay with an atheist as a President as long as he doesn’t hate people who have religion in their lives and want to express it fully (as allowed by the Constitution). If he has no G-d, but at least fears the people and is servant based not ruler based in his attitude to the people, I’m good. However, I would obviously prefer a true G-d fearing man and I am not talking about Allah at all. Thanks for the answer.

        1. An atheist would be fine in the White House, as long as he obeys the Constitution. How religion is to be treated is covered.

          As for following orders, the code of conduct states very clearly that military personnel must follow LAWFUL orders. That’s where the gray area comes in. Who decides what is lawful? Eric Holder?

          1. I said that. It helps not to have a Bill Maher person on the White House who obviously hates religious people and if he is ruler based mentality will mean bad things for everybody. However a servant based mentality paired with constitution minded and no hate is fine.

            As for the lawful, that is the crux, the individual military person has to define what is lawful and they must know the constitution and as we know there are a lot of people who do not follow that or even know it. Those in power especially.

      1. As far as I’m concerned, anyone on public assistance should be disqualified as a lottery winner. But then again, they’d still play, and if they win, they’d sell the ticket to the same people they sell their food stamps to.

    1. Okay so this means that I am an hermaphrodite as well. Many millions of women and men are too as well. This just makes complete sense. Of all the crap I have heard this is just beyond the pail on preposterous. He was either secretly married and had children or he was gay or a hermaphrodite… *sighs* people are just out of control.

        1. Me? What?

          I never had any kids because I wanted to live my own life without having to take responsibility for anyone else’s life. I know there are lots of people out there who DO have kids, and go on living life like they’re not responsible for the children, but that’s not what I would have done. Why didn’t Jesus have kids? I don’t know, I haven’t gone that far into studying his life.

          1. the reason I thought of that is because you didnt have kids and wondered if you would find this insulting. If she can make this generalization based on the sole fact that he didn’t have kids that basically saying that millions of people are hermaphrodites as well. It is preposterous. It is responsible to not have children if you know that you are not going to be a good parent. As for Jesus Christ, having children was not part of the Plan and therefore He did not. Pretty much that is it. He may have been able to have them, perhaps not, but definetly not an hermaphrodite. If He was then I am too, because I don’t have kids. :-/

            1. Yeah, I got the meaning. Of course, it’s ridiculous. And I didn’t decide not to have kids because I wouldn’t be a good dad. I’d be a great dad. I just don’t want to.

    2. Gee, I don’t have any kids either, but that, taken with other facts about me don’t make me an hermaphrodite, it makes me a lesbian.

  357. Holder appoints Taliban defender Tony West to oversee Gitmo, and possibly more. Call me crazy, but maybe just maybe, the recent Koran burning will be prosecuted. I also find it highly suspect that less than two months after the video of Marines relieving themselves over dead Taliban, the Koran burning casue all kinds of hysteria. I think this may be a plan to defame our greatest defense, American Military. Defunding our armed forces, then villainizing them before the whole world, now this, a Taliban defender to the Justice Dept.?

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/05/former-taliban-defender-appointed-to-third-highest-position-at-the-justice-department/

  358. Uhm… So Michelle goes to go cook with her, Paula gets uppity and tells the world that Michelle is a big ass eater, perhaps with that statement showcasing a bit of hypocrisy in Michelle and how she deals with food and people. Out of a sudden, I hear ALL about Paula’s disease and how she kept it from the public as if her disease is the public’s interest. She is a grown woman and her disease is her business not mine. People that cook and eat her food are adults for the most part, so they should be responsible for what they are doing and the outcome thereof…. Now after all these years of Paula Dean being Paula Dean an ex-employee is suing them for sexual harrassment and racism. Uhm… Okay so let’s say is true, which is possible interesting that this is happening now anyway, but considering the Michelle angle that I just describe above this whole thing just seems a little strange n’est-ce pas?

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-paula-deen-lawsuit-20120305,0,5799368.story

    1. This story is getting a little more exposure than expected! MSGLT might have to air it.

  359. I don’t usually pass along these “add your name” lists BUT this one is important.

    It has been circulating for MONTHS and has been sent to over 25 million people.

    We don’t want to lose any names on the list so just hit forward and send it on.

    Please keep it going!

    To show your support for re-election of President Obama, please go to the end of the list and add your name.
    1. Michelle Obama
    2.

  360. Four Wind Energy Firms Got $2.6 Billion in Grants

    The Obama administration has consistently promoted subsidies for “clean” energy technologies like wind and solar while charging that the oil and gas industry benefits from excessive taxpayer support.

    But in fact subsidies for the oil and gas sector aren’t all that large when compared to the amount of energy being produced, while the “green” economy is not creating large numbers of jobs, according to a new report by Robert Bryce, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

    President Barack Obama’s budget proclaims: “We should not devote scarce resources to subsidizing the use of fossil fuels produced by some of the largest, most profitable companies in the world. That is why the Budget eliminates inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to address the threat of climate change.”

    The reference to the “largest, most profitable companies” reflects the administration’s antipathy toward the hydrocarbon sector, Bryce asserts.

    Apple Inc. has a market capitalization of $475 billion and a profit margin of 25.8 percent. Meanwhile, BP, the biggest producer of domestic oil, has a market capitalization of $147 billion and a profit margin of 6.8 percent.

    Apple is three times as large and nearly four times as profitable as BP. Apple has virtually no manufacturing jobs in the United States and imports nearly everything from China. Meanwhile the domestic oil industry last year exported about 1 billion barrels of crude oil and refined products.

    The administration shows no such antipathy toward the “clean” energy industry. In fact, between 2009 and late 2011, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the administration handed out $2.6 billion in tax-free grants to just four companies, all them board members of the American Wind Energy Association, Bryce discloses.

    Two of those firms are foreign-owned — the Spanish energy company Iberdrola, which got $1 billion in grants, and German giant E.ON, which received $542 million.

    A third firm, Terra-Gen, is building a wind farm in California that will create only about 50 permanent jobs — that works out to around $9 million per job.

    The oil and gas industry, on the other hand, received “subsidies and support” totaling $2.82 billion, and that was spread among the 14,000 oil and gas companies operating in the United States.

    The report notes that domestic oil production is now increasing, natural gas production is surging, driving down prices, and over the past five years about 158,000 new oil and gas jobs have been created, many of them high-paying.

    Bryce concludes: “The Obama administration continues to vilify the very industry that’s helping spur economic growth. America doesn’t need more slogans about ‘clean’ energy. It needs more cheap, abundant, reliable energy.”

  361. Bye Bye Spark!!!

    Chevy suspends production of the Volt just days after Obama talks about how great it is!
    GM blames the media for low sales.
    1300 workers laid off.
    Billions of taxpayer dollars lost, AGAIN!
    Let’s keep supporting green companies…….NOT!!!!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/business/gm-suspends-production-of-chevrolet-volt.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

    http://news.yahoo.com/gm-suspends-production-electric-volt-233857613.html

    http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/02/3779743/business-briefs-general-motors.html

    1. For GM to blame the media is insane but predictable. At least when GM was a non-governmental entity it blamed itself when a car failed in the market….anyone remember the Korean built LeMans?

          1. Wow. Beauty. That late yet, into the early 90s! It reminds me of the extra crappito they were selling at the beginning of the 80s. Daewoo went tango uniform right after the CEO or owner ran for it with a few cargo containers of cash. I remember that.

            1. I used to wholesale those turds. My selling skills will never be in doubt after that.

            2. The engines sludged unbelievably quickly and the demographic that bought that car could in no possible way pay for a new block.

            1. Yes, all except for the 2 speed auto “slip and slide” tranny.
              It had a 350 engine and I tested the limits of the 140MPH speedo a couple of times, never got over 122 though.
              I miss that car and would have missed it more if it had a 4 speed or 3 speed auto with O/D.

            2. that 2 speed slush box was a miserable unit. I had one in a 69 Firebird spooled by a 350 two barrel. That car hauled it pretty good. Buck 34 wound tight. I made it from Bay View, a little lakeside community in Milwaukee to Navy Pier in Chicago in 55 minutes one day. It was an urgent return to work. Had to stop 3 times for tolls.
              But the trans was a real dog. A 4 speed might have inspired me to try harder to keep that car.

            3. Yup, a 4 speed would have made me keep mine. I sold it for $500 with a blown tranny.

            4. by your new avatar, you look like you should be laying waste to Deadites

              Am i wrong, fans of ED/AoD?

            5. One other person told me they thought I resembled Bruce Campbell. Army of Darkness remains in my top 5 movies to watch anytime!

              I’ll take it as a compliment, Alien. I don’t think so myself but that don’t make no nothing bout it!

            6. Ash is one of the greatest characters conceived ever (eat that, Hamlet!). I wish they’d do a sequel where’s he stuck in the post-apoc future after screwing up the time-travel ritual

            7. I know. By today’s standards even a five-year old car is technologically obsolete but I love the old A Bodies. They were not great in the “great” sense of the word but they were fun to drive (in a straight line) and they looked good.

  362. Sandra Fluke wants me to pay for her sexual activities. (Georgetown Law Student). $3K a year (an entire summer salary) which is so harsh according to her. I got to pay for her to have sex? Excuse me? B*tch and ho you are. Limbaugh is right about that. I would NEVER show myself ANYWHERE and ASK AND DEMAND for people to pay for my sexual activities… She has no shame! What is wrong with people? It is disgusting. I don’t want to pay for her whoring around! WTH?! Even if she is doing it with just ONE PERSON, i am still not responsible for her sexual activities. Her having sex is not a medical condition that I got to pay for. This is not about her health, this is about her making sure she doesnt get pregnant after having as much sex as she wants. It is disgusting!

      1. A friend of mine on f/b did the math. $3000 dollars over three years equals 12.5 condoms per day. When did she have time to go to class? Her father must be proud of his little girl.

        1. Even if it was only, say, 8 each day – and if I’m not mistaken the formula did not exclude weekends or holidays – that seems, ah, exhausting.

        2. Disgusting!!! If she wants to be a ho… whatever! But most certainly I don’t have to pay for it and like I said, she may have just one boyfriend and he is very virile and vigorous? Well good for her! I still dont have to pay for it. Disgusting…

          1. I wouldn’t spend the buck if it was ME having the sex with her. I saw her pictures. She must have a lot of paper bags stored up to get on her back 8 times a day.

  363. This horse ain’t dead and it needs continued beating until this administration comes clean about it. It is very important for the truth to come out and the sooner the better.
    I intro with this from a smart guy I know:
    ‘This is a long article, filled with enough detail to make tedious reading here and there. It does, however, paint a damning picture of Holder and his minions, all of whom were and continued to be engaged in a cover-up. The dimensions of that cover-up far surpass Watergate or the innumerable “-gates” that have happened in its wake. The timeline is clear, and the principles’ responses – Holder’s in particular – are completely incredible. They began lying from the outset, and have compounded those lies with layer upon layer of additional lies, all the while withholding evidence to which the House Oversight Committee is lawfully entitled. That evidence will ultimately be forthcoming, the truth about Fast and Furious will inexorably come out, and only a presidential pardon will ultimately save Holder from prison.’

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/connecting_the_dots_on_fast_and_furious.html

        1. Well I meant that in the past few weeks they have been going after internet use and giving lip about this on another on a very rapid pace, like they are trying to fill the dictatorship quota or something. Crazy.

    1. Thanks for the article, drb. It is a perfect example of the slippery slope. If babies can be killed when they’re even a bit outside the womb through partial-birth abortion, the next logical step is infanticide and the murder of toddlers. I noticed the words “potential persons” in the article which is an argument that a certain poster has used much on this site the past year.

      1. Yes, that article was very,….ummmm,….enlightening. Seems that a baby isn’t a person until Mom decides it is so. Would they put any time limit on that at all?

        1. babs boxer said, after dancing around the question over and over, that she thinks once you get your baby home.

          Back on the potential person limitation as proffered by mz. minerva; since she has obviously not yet fulfilled that capacity and has in fact become desirous of murdering babies, her post birth abortion should commence forthwith.

          1. “babs boxer said, after dancing around the question over and over, that she thinks once you get your baby home.”

            So, since government wants to take over medical care, then when they decide that it’s time to take your baby home, it will legally be declared a person, and not before?

            1. That adds up, doesn’t it. That was her talking to Santorum as I recall.

            2. There was that officer she forced to address her as madam your highness senator or whatever it was. All those idiots that keep re-electing her don’t care what she says cuz they love her no matter what. She makes most sane people cringe just by preparing to speak. I don’t know who wants to hear anything she says.

            3. Yea, but you need to gather a group of 40 or more of them in order to scrape together a combined average IQ.

            4. Two-thirds of aborted babies are minorities so this seems to fit well into the Sanger game plan.

      2. In essence it would be like going back to ancient rome and ancient greece and ancient sparta where kids were born and if they were not perfect or they were a nuisance to the parents they could be drop off a hill. They were not people as they were not useful and if they presented a problem they weren’t going to be useful in their estimation. It is murder and just terrible for our society.

    1. Yes we are discussing it. It is very bizarre. I feel bad.

      Greg Gutfeld said that Breitbart was not as mindful of his health as he should have been. If that is true, then it is a tragedy that his work essentially cut his life short. It is so important to keep the health up especially when a person has a young family and they have a mission in life. Wow, life is ephemeral. I do pray for his family.

    2. I wonder if it was natural causes, or if he said too much at CPAC. Either way, he will be greatly missed.

      1. He always said too much for the libset. We’ll likely never know if he was handled by the gobs cuz they’re getting pretty good at this sort of elimination.

        1. No kidding. Its just strange that he collapsed while walking by his home from natural causes barely a month after his CPAC speech where he aired the Ayers dirty laundry. And you know that person has NO issues with eliminating people. I hope Brietbart had a back up plan in case of his untimely death.

  364. Andrew Breitbart is dead!

    Natural causes? Was he sick? I don’t understand it is so unexpected and strange. Was he stressed? What is going to happen to all the things that he was going to expose?

    I feel very bad for his family and his friends. I just learnt it on Fox.

    1. I saw this too. Sounds like a heart attack in his sleep. Left behind a wife and four children.

      1. Wow… It is just so sudden and he didnt seem to be sick, I wonder if stress had something to do with it. Indeed his children are very young still. That is terrible.

      2. I missed this one, but the news has been full of stories of Davey Jones death and Snookie being pregnant!
        Such priorities.

        1. The earliest newstory was around one am in the morning today. However it came on Yahoo! a few minutes agao or 30 minutes ago. It was on Fox news about 30 minutes ago as well. For some reason it wasn’t a big story this very early morning. Unless they were trying to figure out if it is true. Tucker Carlson said he spoke to him last night and he seemed fine. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I hope that a complete testing is done.

    2. The liberal dickweeds are jumping for joy and dancing in the streets, much like the mossy wads did on 11 September 2001. Read the comments at some of the mainstream sites. They’re delirious with joy.

      1. Not all though. Some at NPR are pretty tame and actually a bit respectful. On Yahoo! it is vicious on alot of different levels. I am sure that on Huffington Post is nasty. Then again it is still early in the morning, once more and more people know about it we may see a lot more of the freaks coming out.

        Your avatar is creepy BTW what is that? It is something that can induce nightmares.

        1. The second comment on ABC’s report was “there is a god.” The day Mr. Breitbart made the news with the Shirley Sherrod story the progressive liberal collective heads began to boil. His editing of the material merely pointed to the hypocritical racism being dealt by the government bureaucracies. The rabid skunks know no bounds. The places that indicate a bit of decorum in his passing will all get their share of mean spirited post.

        2. Actually, I went to HuffPo just to see how bad it was, and the posters are uncharacteristically nice!
          I guess they know we will be watching.

          1. As soon as the ones dancing in the streets and crapping on the flag tire out, we’ll see them posting vitriolic spew and praising obam. They’ll express their hopes that this fate ride the wind over all non commies like the Passover Spirit. The rabid liberal heart is best placed in formaldehyde and stored in the darkest, coldest recesses of the universe. There, that’s my take on it.

        3. It is a mocha latte, with a touch of twisted art applied. Kinda looks like something from a Tim Burton offering. I’ll change it soon. I’m sure it was delicious.

            1. I dont know, Psychodad’s pinhead is more freaky to me than a cup of cappuccino 🙂

              But it does look like something from ” The Nightmare Before Christmas”. Pretty good artistry if I do say so myself.

      2. Yeah its gruesome behavior, lacking in all honor. I pissed in the wind on reddit, to no avail. Some there call for respect, but not so many

        1. Geez, the crap some people are putting out there!
          ABC comments are filled with people complaining that the ACORN pimp tapes were faked!

  365. Uh oh. Population control from the white house advisors – http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-adviser-argued-kids-big-families-have-lower-iqs
    Holdren and the Ehrlichs published “Human Ecology” with W.H. Freeman and Company in 1973. In June 2000, a study published in American Pyschologist debunked the notion that children in larger families have lower I.Q.s. But when Holdren appeared in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in 2009 for a confirmation hearing on his appointment to run the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he continued to argue for the benefits of “smaller families” on other bases.

  366. Getting to this tips page is so hard. anyway did you guys see the photos of the IRANIAN NINJA WOMEN? It sounds like a joke, but it seems to be real. I got to admit I laughed but if it is true, uhm not sure how to feel about that. I mean I am into girl power and all but this is Iran.

  367. The great crashing Romney

    It had to happen sooner or later. Mitt Romney’s vapor campaign seems to be on the edge of collapse. The signs have been all there. Now the news has arrived that may make the GOP establishment finally realize Romney will never be President.

    What is the news?

    Santorum is surging now. He is leading Romney nationally and he leads Romney in Michigan. Both are huge, but the latter is simply incredible news.

    Santorum’s surge is the latest sign that Romney will not survive. Romney has been the “inevitable” nominee since he started running sometime in the last 17th century. Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich twice and now Rick Santorum have eclipsed him.

    The message has been very simple. A majority of Republicans do not want Romney. The Republicans have not settled on any one candidate. In fact, the Republican electorate is not satisfied with anyone, as evidenced by the rapid shifts in support. One thing that has been consistent is the desire of Republican voters.

    The polling results in Michigan should be nothing less than the obituary for the Romney campaign. Michigan is a home state for Romney. Romney’s father was a popular governor in Michigan and Romney even has one of his five hundred homes in Michigan.

    PPP polling has Santorum not only up, but up over Romney by 15 points!

    The Michigan primary is two weeks from today. Look for Romney to begin an immediate counter attack with every negative ad that hey can throw at Santorum. The ads will have an impact on Santorum and the question is will Santorum fade and if he does, where will his support go?

    One thing that has been consistent is that the negative campaigning that Romney has been running is working to take down his competitors but also it is having another effect. It is suppressing the Republican turn out.

    Politics is a numbers game and there are two things that are obvious from the numbers. First, Romney can only win when he can outspend his opponents and goes negative. In a campaign with financial parity, Romney does not perform well.

    Romney also only wins when the voter turnout is suppressed. Every place Romney wins, the total number of voters is down from previous elections.

    Anyone with half a brain can figure this out. Obama’s base does seem excited. They will be coming out. Then you also have to figure the fraud factor the Democrats will use. According to published reports, 1.8 million dead voters remain on the voter rolls. How many of them will be voting for Obama this fall?

    Romney has been lucky that he has been able to outspend his opponents in the primary. This situation will be reversed in the general election with Obama and his surrogates spending over a billion dollars. Romney has enjoyed a money advantage now. The tables will be turned in the fall.

    For Romney however, this fall is not going to come.

    Even if he can pull this out, it should be obvious to even the most obtuse member of the Republican establishment that Romney is a failed candidate. He simply cannot win.

    In 1976, the Republicans went into the convention with no candidate holding a majority of the votes. Given the volatility of this campaign, there is now a significant possibility there will be an open convention this summer and if that happens, look for a Republican nominee who is not currently on the ballot.

    http://judsonphillips.com/the-great-crashing-romney/

  368. I know that if you’re not a member of Tea Party Nation you can’t read the link, so here is the article.

    The Global Warming Hoax is Now Killing People
    Posted by Alan Caruba on February 13, 2012 at 4:48pm
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    .By Alan Caruba

    By Friday, February 10th, an estimated 500 Europeans had died from the freezing weather gripping the continent. This is the price they and British citizens are paying for embracing the global warming hoax, spending billions for wind power when they should have been building coal-fired and other sources of energy to heat their homes and businesses.

    As the British daily, The Telegraph, reported on Friday, “Serbia has started implementing power cuts in a desperate bid to stave off the collapse of its national grid as the country suffers the effects of days of freezing temperatures.”

    I and others have been warning for years that the Earth has been cooling since 1998 and that the planet is on the cusp of a new ice age because the average length of an interglacial period of warmth between such ages is now coming to an end after the passage of some 11,500 years.

    All aspects of global warming legislation and spending programs must be utterly reversed if we are not going to see huge losses of life and the disruption of entire economies.

    The Ottawa Citizen published an Agence France Presse article on Friday reporting that “Thick ice closed vast swaths of the Danube on Thursday, crippling shipping on Europe’s busiest waterway, as the death toll from bitter cold across the continent rose…as it has every day for nearly two weeks.” The report noted that “Navigation was impossible or restricted in Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, as ice covered the river or formed dangerous floes in shipping lanes.”

    No shipping means no delivery of coal and oil and no shipping of food and other necessities. Europe is freezing over as the United States has been experiencing an unusually mild winter thus far. That, too, is likely to yield to the increased cooling of the planet and then, maybe, Americans will realize the threat to their lives that the closing of coal-fired plants, instigated by the Environmental Protection Agency, really means.

    In England, the Mail, reported on Sunday, February 12th, that large numbers of its elderly citizens are being “frozen to death as fuel bills soar: hypothermia cases among the elderly double in five years.” England, now gripped by foolish green notions of renewable energy, has covered itself with wind turbines, despoiling its countryside and coasts while proving unreliable and incapable of meeting its energy needs.

    Figures showed that “1,876 patients were treated in hospital for hypothermia in 2010-2011, up from 950 in 2006-2007” reported the Mail. “Three-quarters of victims were pensioners, with cases soaring among the over-60s more than any other age group.”

    In Europe, other news organizations reported that “Many of the dead were homeless people, who literally froze to death as the temperatures dropped to minus 50 degrees in some parts of the continent. Their bodies were found in the streets buried under snow, in rivers, and in doorways. Dozens of people were also killed in weather-related accidents.”

    Writing in a Turkish newspaper, the Hurriyet Daily News, Sophie Quintin Adali, an analyst for a project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, said, “As if the debt crisis weren’t bad enough news, the climate freeze sweeping across Europe is wreaking havoc by severely disrupting travel, business and people’s lives. Local authorities, indeed whole countries, are caught poorly prepared.” Turkey is experiencing record snowfall and low temperatures.

    “The lack of readiness should come as no surprise because for decades the sensationalist message of global warming has dominated the public area,” said Ms. Adali.

    “Politicians and decades of political environmentalism have a lot to answer for,” said Ms. Adali. “The man-made climate theory…is still supported by a mighty European Union bureaucracy and a green network addicted to public funds.” Even now, the Green Climate Fund “through which millions of taxpayer’s money will still be disbursed” is threatening the lives and the economy of people worldwide.

    The current freeze is not just affecting Europe, but reaching across the Mediterranean to North African nations. And at some point America will feel it too.

    We have not built a single new nuclear plant in America since 1978. EPA rules are forcing the closure of coal-fired plants throughout the nation. The national grid for the distribution of electricity is in need of upgrades.

    The nation’s policies are controlled by the most environmentally insane administration in its history, wasting billions on so-called green energy. Its new budget raises taxes and proposes a trillion-dollar deficit without any significant effort to cut the spending that has left this and future generations in debt while the price of gas soars to new heights.

    America and the rest of the world have been horribly deceived by the United Nations Intergovernmental Climate Change Panel that continues to drive the global warming hoax. The lying scientists who got on the global warming gravy train, the politicians that embraced it, and the media that misled millions are all culpable, all responsible.

    They should be driven from office, defunded, and chased through the streets like villagers in pursuit of Frankenstein.

    People are freezing to death in their homes and in the streets. What will it take to drive a stake into the heart of the global warming monster?

    © Alan Caruba, 2012
    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:1845998&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

  369. OOPS!! Looks like Florida screwed the pooch!!

    Most of you will remember that Florida, by moving its primary up to January, waived half of its delegates to the national convention.

    As it now turns out, they may have violated another rule, and it stands to benefit Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul, all to the detriment of Mitt Romney. It seems that there is another rule that forbids “winner-take-all” primaries and caucuses prior to 1 April. This is being covered by a variety of outlets, but Burns and Haberman at Politico have given in-depth coverage.

    They have outlined the problem, and actually quoted the GOP rules:

    “Any presidential primary, caucus, convention, or other meeting held for the purpose of selecting delegates to the national convention which occurs prior to the first day of April in the year in which the national convention is held, shall provide for the allocation of delegates on a proportional basis. (Rule No. 15(b)(2))” (emphasis mine)

    Uh-oh Mitt. You see, if we are to accept that the Virginia GOP mustn’t change its rules to permit others who just missed qualification for the ballot access in that state, we must also conclude since the GOP is a party that follows its own rules, it must follow this one. I have read accounts that the Gingrich camp is already pursuing this, as they should because as the Romney camp hurries to remind us about Virginia, “rules are rules.”

    Myself, I think this is perfect justice. The Florida GOP hurried up its primary to help Mitt Romney sew up the nomination early, and waived half of its ninety-nine delegates, but now it seems that if this turns out the way the rule is written, the Florida party will have no choice but to apportion the delegates by percentage of vote, and if so, Romney will get twenty-four delegates rather than fifty. Gingrich would come away with fifteen or sixteen. Instead of handing Romney the ninety-nine delegates they might have handed him later, they may now hand him one-fourth of that number, and I think this is a perfect answer to the entire fiasco of the accelerated schedule.

    Copied from Tea Party nation
    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:1824151&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

  370. The Georgia Secretary of State has already stated that he will follow the Judges Recommendations. That mean that Barack Hussein Obama will NOT APPEAR on the Great State of Georgia Presidential Ballot in 2012!
    Here’s a little more thorough report from this morning.

    http://congressmantomtancredo.com/update-judge-malihi-has-stated-that-he-will-enter-a-default-judgement-against-obama/

    also, could you change “send us you tips” to “send us your tips?”

  371. Gun grabber stories will commence now – http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/cops-probe-death-boy-killed-toy-cannon-221230562–abc-news.html

    Note the mention of a hammer on the cannon. Note the cannon in the picture has a fuse. These tend to be mutually exclusive. If there were a hammer and trigger it would be classified as a firearm. They will be ramping up the rhetoric. I hope Gabby Giffords won’t play the lead role in the upcoming onslaught, as she has been more reasonable than the average democrat when it came to the 2nd Amendment. Brain injury and all the death that she narrowly escaped sadly make her their likely candidate.

  372. Obama: TSA Trumps the Constitution
    Posted by David DeGerolamo on January 23, 2012 at 1:48pm

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    The Obama administration has released a statement supporting the actions of the Transportation Security Administration today regarding the detainment of Senator Rand Paul in Nashville, TN. Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution is clear on detaining any Senator or Representative “in going to and returning from” Congressional sessions.
    Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution of the United States
    The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same;and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

    Vigilance is a word that is not generally used in our country too often but it was commonly used by our forefathers and statesmen to warn us of the consequences of a tyrannical government. Here is one quote that America needs to remember:

    “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

    Patrick Henry

    Sen. Paul made a decision today that will be discussed in the media but will not change anything for us. The point that must not be overlooked is that “We the People”do not have this privilege. Benjamin Franklin explains the consequences of this action:

    “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

    Benjamin Franklin

    When will we start to be vigilant? Here is an example where our vigilance is needed now:

    Mitt Romney’s declaration that the NDAA will not be abused by Obama or him if elected is a sad commentary on two levels:

    1.Mr. Romney agrees that the NDAA can be abusive concerning our rights but that he would have signed it and our Constitutional rights away.
    2.He states that Obama will not abuse our rights under this legislation.

    Mr. Romney’s views on the Constitution and the goals of the Obama administration should have brought forth a national outcry. The Obama administration’s support of the TSA over the Constitution clearly shows us that this president will abuse our rights under the Constitution. With politicians like Obama and Romney, how will we keep our liberty and safety?

    David DeGerolamo

    1. Did you scroll down the page and read all the Democrats getting arrested for voter fraud?
      Multiple absentee ballots being submitted by the same person, multiple vottes by the same person!
      This isn’t registration fraud, it’s ACTUAL VOTING FRAUD!!!

        1. This is the first time I’ve even heard of him. I can’t comment because I don’t know anything about him.

  373. “New Mexico authorities say a man hogtied a suspected drunken driver accused of barely avoiding several head-on collisions.”

    i wonder if it was WhiskeyRiver.

    1. Dont quite understand. The democratic debate with what’s his name and what’s her name also happened on a MLK day a few years ago. So it is all good for the dems to do it but not for the republicans? :-/

  374. “A presidential statement described the act as “completely inhumane” and called on the U.S. military to punish the Marines.”

    the sob up in the wh has more sympathy for the frustration of ows campers than he does for boots on the ground warriors who did what a lot of people would do!

    http://news.yahoo.com/karzai-condemns-video-urination-corpses-120758800.html
    I hope someone picks this up and makes an article out of it. man i’m steamed.
    And McCain ain’t much better.

  375. “An EF-1 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scale touched down in Fort Bend County, just west of Houston, shortly after 3 p.m. local time, the U.S. National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration confirmed. In nearby Galveston, which is next to the Gulf of Mexico, law enforcement said they saw another tornado touch down. Several other damage reports suggest more tornadoes struck.”

    1. Galveston is an island.
    2. Galveston is not next to the Gulf of Mexico.
    3. Galveston is IN the Gulf of Mexico.

    TEXAS First Again!

  376. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned.

    Yet another reason for the chump in charge to be indicted for treason and endangering American lives.

    http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-u-mulls-transfer-taliban-prisoner-perilous-233123630.html

    1. “…moldy noodles, undercooked meat and hard rice, one wonders how much of the “free” food will go down the hatch.”

      sounds indicative of this admin’s whole platform.

  377. http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873:Topic:1678998&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

    http://www.king5.com/news/local/Feds–Seattle-welfare-recipient-lived-in-million-dollar-home-134943613.html

    The welfare state outrage of the day

    In what can only be described as one of the outrageous examples of what is wrong with this country is now being reported on a number of conservative websites.

    From KING in Seattle:

    She lives in a beautiful waterfront home on Seattle’s Lake Washington. Yet, she’s on welfare assistance.

    This week federal agents moved in to put a stop to it. They raided her south Lake Washington home armed with a search warrant.

    KING 5 News is not naming the woman or her husband because they have not been criminally charged.

    Search warrant documents unsealed Friday in federal court reveal that she received more than $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers, plus monthly cash from the federal and state government for a disability, as well as food stamps.

    Property records show the woman lives in a 2,500 square-foot home, with gardens and a boat dock, that is valued at $1.2 million.

    Records show she has received welfare benefits while living in the plush home since 2003. Records also show she truthfully provided her address when she applied for benefits.

    How could the government allow housing subsidy dollars to someone who openly lives in one of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods?

    That is a great question. How does this happen?

    The answer is the government does not care. This is what is wrong with the welfare state and another reason why the welfare state should be abolished.

    One of the first rules of economics is anything you subsidize more of you get more of. We subsidize poverty.

    Before the welfare state, charities took care of the poor. Something amazing happened back then too. Charities did not have the same problem with fraud and waste. Charities were and still are efficient. Sometimes they get scammed but not nearly as often as the government.

    Barack Obama and the liberals do not care about fraud in government welfare payments. They simply want as many on welfare as they can get. Who cares if there are people fraudulently collecting welfare benefits, after all, the people with jobs are the one’s who are paying for this.

    When conservatives take over Congress next year, many of these programs need to be abolished. They are so full of waste, fraud and are abused by scammers, they need to be abolished and reviewed to see if they should be replaced.

    No nation has ever become prosperous as a welfare state. Teaching people how to create wealth allows people to be free and prosperous. That is something the welfare state will never allow.

  378. A 345-pound man jailed for driving with a suspended license was freed nine days early thanks to a Lake County, Fla., judge’s “lose-a-pound, gain-a-day” deal.

    George McCovery, 37, dropped 25 pounds in 20 days — a feat he credited to bland prison food and the judge’s weight-loss challenge.

    “She gave me a chance to prove myself, and I didn’t want to let her down,” he told the Orlando Sentinel.

  379. Ode to the Welfare State
    Democrat Dialog

    Father must I go to work?
    No, my lucky son.
    We’re living now on Easy Street.
    On dough from Washington.

    We’ve left it up to Uncle Sam,
    So don’t get excercised.
    Nobody has to give a damn–
    We’ve all been subsidized.

    But if Sam treats us all too well
    And feeds us milk and honey,
    Please, daddy, tell me what the hell
    He’s going to use for money.

    Don’t worry, bub, there’s not a hitch
    In this here noble plan–
    He simply soaks the filthy rich
    And helps the common man.

    But, father, won’t there come a time
    When they run out of cash
    And we have left them not a dime
    When things will go to smash?

    My faith in you is shrinking, son,
    You nosy little brat;
    You do too damn much thinking, son,
    To be a Democrat.

    —————————————————-

    While the preceding is applicable in the class warfare President Obama and congressional Democrats are currently engaging in, take heart in noting it was entered into the Congressional Record in November of 1949 by Representative Clarence J. Brown (R-OH). It seems the Democrats’ free-spending ways, general fiscal irresponsibility, and class-warfare tactics have deep roots.

    Click here to view a PDF of the poem and report of it being in the Congressional Record from the November 4, 1949 New York Daily News.
    http://www.irreverentview.com/wp-content/themes/default/uploads/daily_news_democrat2.pdf
    Irreverent View would like to thank John Foster of Tampa for sharing the Daily News article.

    http://www.irreverentview.com/wp-content/themes/default/uploads/daily_news_democrat1.pdf

    1. I don’t know, it kinda seems to me that it might be embaressing. I don’t know any women that wanted to breastfeed in public, in fact the ones I knew that did breastfeed went to another room to do it. If you aren’t comfortable doing it in front of friends, why would you want to do it in front of strangers?

      1. years ago Jill St. John was on Mike Douglas i think it was, talking about breastfeeding in public, and how she wore overalls so she could more readily access the area, but i believe she said she still covered the baby with a cloth diaper.

        1. doh!

          I meant Susan St. James.

          sheesh where did i get jill st. john?

          anyway.

          they were both hotties.

  380. For Robert…

    Questions you don’t have to ask the tea party:
    Could you please stop smelling my girlfriend’s feet?
    What’s it like not to bathe for 2 weeks?
    On a scale of 1-10, how much do you hate the Jews?
    Did you wake up next to a corpse this morning?
    When was your last shower?
    Is this cold sore noticeable?
    So why are conservatives so mad about public masturbation?
    How about this one? (cold sore other side of mouth)
    Why do you think you are entitled to my money?
    Public masturbation??
    Who smashed this window?
    Soooo…can I claim these lice as dependants?
    So wait, why did you spend $90,000 on a degree when everyone knows it’s worthless?
    Do you think your earlobes stretched to the size of frisbees and your face tattoos are a factor in your unemployability?
    Why don’t you get a job?
    Who uses small children to blockade this door?
    Why did you just punch that cop?
    So, how many arrests, rapes, drug overdoses and deaths are there going to be during this protest?
    Is this the line for the free lice combs?
    Who pooped on the back…? (laughter)
    How many thousands of arrests have there been so far?
    Have you seen my bong?
    Can I borrow your gas mask?
    What the address of this tent? They need to know where to send my unemployment check.
    So, why does this park smell like urine and feces?
    Do you think we need a drum circle to convince them to take us seriously?
    Who threw blood and urine on this food stand?
    Yeah, but was it rape rape?
    Now, are you done pushing old ladies down or is this gonna be a thing?
    What’s the best antidote for mace?
    Mic check…mic check…why…why…are you…are you…repeating everything I say?…repeating everything I say?…down twinkles…down twinkles
    So, what are we throwing at the cops tonight?
    Can we really change the world by blocking traffic?
    Ok, who raped the deaf guy?
    Is it really the white man holding you down?
    Whose dog is this? We shall make him our leader!
    Who poo’ed on the…? (laughter)

          1. ows using “jazz hands” rather than applause to show agreement or approval. down twinkles refers to the downward positioning of the wiggling fingers. up twinkles=fingers pointed up…then there is side twinkles too. Personally I find it halarious, just too artsy fartsy.

  381. I don’t know where to post this, so I’m doing it here…My daughter needs to interview a veteran for a midterm project. would any of you be willing to help her out by possibly providing me with an e-mail address so she can ask you questions?

    1. Yes, I would be glad to do it.

      I will give you one of my throwaway email addresses here.
      Email me and let me know it’s you and I’ll send you my real email addy.

      [email protected]

      There is an underscore between the n and the 1.

    2. Happy to, drb. PJ was air force I was army so there are two POVs. Let me know and I will give you my gmail address or PJ has it and could copy me on anything you send.

        1. Thank you guys so much…I will have my daughter e-mail you this afternoon when she gets home from school.

  382. Afghanistan to back Pakistan if wars with U.S.: Karzai

    I dont give a good God-damn
    ill fight these fuckin mother fuckers to my last breath regardless what obaminigs think i ought to fight agin them for.

    i can kill with my my bare hands and i could give a shit if they think i need obammie’s permission. could i care less for what they leftists this is right”? helll fuckin no. fuck w/ me and fuck w/what’s right. fuck you lil bastids. fuck you!

    1. this leads me to believe that more and more people will be forced to cut down more trees for wood to burn so they can be independent of the govt.’s energy strategy, which will in turn add to pollution and further regs by the green party

  383. Former Obama Fundraiser Gloria Estefan Turning to…Herman Cain?
    Posted on September 28, 2011 by mellie
    Has she thrown Obama under the bus?

    Back in April, Gloria Estefan ruffled some feathers in the Cuban-American community when she hosted a fundraiser at her house for Barack Obama in April 2010.

    Estefan told Stern that even though she hosted the $30,400-a-couple event for Obama, she “didn’t give any money” and didn’t even know the people who were there. She went on to say that she thinks Obama is “doing a good job” as president but that she is “kind of liking a lot of the message that Cain is talking about.” It’s a message she called “common sense.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xwTkGZdZM

  384. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62320.html

    Quietly, the first political casualty of Operation Fast and Furious is named:

    Kenneth Melson, the bureau’s acting director, on Wednesday will move to the Office of Legal Policy, where he will be a senior adviser on forensic science, the department said, without making reference to the failed gun-tracking operation that is alleged to have ultimately put guns into the hands of criminals.

  385. Is the Obama Regime politicizing the music business?
    Posted by Judson Phillips on August 28, 2011 at 9:06am in Tea Party Nation Forum

    If you live in Nashville, AKA Music City, as I do, any thing that affects the music industry is big news. The Feds have made a big splash recently in the music business. But, is politics behind this?

    On August 24th, Federal Agents raided the Gibson Guitar facilities in both Nashville and Memphis. Gibson makes guitars and I am told very good ones. Since my musical efforts generally violate someone’s Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishments, I simply take the word of musician friends that Gibson is a very good guitar.

    This was the second raid in two years on Gibson. The issue is a violation of an obscure law called the Lacey Act. The Lacey act which dates from the 1900’s requires a person to declare every flora or fauna being brought into the country and you must fill out the paperwork correctly. This is one of the few applications of law that has what is called “strict liability.” In most instances, if you are accused of violating the law, there is a “Mens Rea” element. In plain, non-lawyer, English, that means you had to have a mental intent. If you think of premeditation in murder you are in the ballpark. With crimes that require a “Mens Rea” element, there are all kinds of defenses. In a strict liability crime such as this one, either the paper work is right or not. If it is wrong, you are on the hook, even if it was an innocent mistake.

    The most recent raid seems to have been triggered by an alleged violation of an obscure Indian law about the exporting of non-finished wood. Gibson imported some of its wood from India and uses American workers to finish the wood. Yet the Obama regime’s interpretation of the export of unfinished wood as a violation of the laws of India seems to be the basis for this raid.

    Interestingly enough, Martin Guitars (C.F. Martin & Company) uses some of the same wood that Gibson uses. How many times has Martin been raided? Zero.

    That may be interesting but there are other facts that build a more interesting and sinister circumstantial case for politics being involved.

    The CEO of Gibson is Henry Jusziewicz. Among other things, he gave $2,000 to Congressman Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) He as also donated to a Consumer Electronics Pac that favors Republicans over Democrats.

    Chris Martin, of Martin Guitars, on the other hand is a long time Democrat. Over the last four years, he has given over $35,000 to Democratic Candidates and the DNC.

    Given the blatant politicization of everything by the Obama regime and their habit of using government to support their friends and harass their opponents, it is perfectly plausible that someone in DOJ is helping a friend of BO.

    When conservatives take over in 2013, there need to be a lot of investigations of the Obama regime and the people in it. The GOP has a bad habit of just letting bygones be bygones.

    Not this time.

  386. I think you guys need to subscribe to Tea Party Nation! They have some great stuff over there!
    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:1298511&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

    NASA’s Nutty Professors: Aliens will attack earth because of greenhouse gases.

    Posted by Dr. Rich Swier on August 19, 2011 at 1:00pm

    No, you did not read the title of this column incorrectly. Do not laugh, this is serious scientific research. Aliens, according to NASA scientists, are likely to attack the earth because we humans are emitting too much green house gas. I am assuming that aliens have a keen sense of smell and therefore are offended by cow flatulation and the resulting rise in greenhouse gases.

    Ian Sample, science correspondent for the UK Guardian, reports in his article, Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilizations, “It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.”

    Now that is the understatement of the century.

    Ian goes on to point out that, “Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.”

    And who are these researchers?

    Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa’s Planetary Science Division and his colleagues [at Pennsylvania State University] compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity “prepare for actual contact”, according to Ian.

    The report, if you love science fiction paid for by American taxpayers is titled, “Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Sc…. According to Ian, “[T]he researchers divide alien contacts into three broad categories: beneficial, neutral or harmful.

    I humbly suggest we categorize NASA scientists as: beneficial, neutral, harmful or loony.

    Spielberg needs to grab this report and turn it over to his writers. I can see it now, earth is invaded by aliens. They land and are met by President Obama and Al Gore. President Obama immediately grants them amnesty. Al Gore immediately surrenders earth to them, promising them all green jobs. In appreciation the aliens take both President Obama and Al Gore back to their planet.

    Actually this scenario sounds good to me.

    If this report was not so serious it would be side splitting funny. Those without jobs are heartened that we are keeping NASA scientist well employed and well paid.

    I can hardly wait for their next report: Would Contact with Humanity Benefit or Harm Extraterrestrials? A loony analysis.

  387. http://www.infowars.com/big-sis-latest-terrorists-more-white-americans/

    Yep, you got to watch those centrist-looking white people. The Muslims are getting quite good at disguises. In fact, the lady with the bag is actually wearing a burqua, with legs and a face painted on.

    Napalitano goes on to suggest that gun stores are frequented by terrorists. Yah, I’ve noticed LOTS of terrorist types hanging around my local gun shop/shooting range. They just LOVE hanging around in the middle of a bunch of cops.

  388. Hell to the No!!!!
    “He beat the system — and pinned the city taxpayer to the mat.

    A firefighter who retired on a $74,624 disability pension, only to compete in mixed-martial arts matches, will be allowed to keep collecting his tax-free checks for life even after being found fit to go back to work.

    The city decided to throw in the towel in the groundbreaking case of John Giuffrida, 43, following a deadlocked vote last month by the Fire Department Pension Fund Board over whether he should have to return to his job once an independent medical review determined he was no longer disabled.”

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/he_not_injured_but_union_let_him_ZaqDKpquGFt2aRnbfB5w0J?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

  389. I know not everyone is signed up at TPN, so I’m posting the whole article.

    President Blah, Blah, Blah
    By Alan Caruba

    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:1221861&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

    President Blah, Blah, Blah got in front of the television cameras midday on Monday to say the usual meaningless things he has been saying since he was elected, none of which are true and none of which have been able to hide the fact that he has driven the nation into the ditch with a lot of help from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

    Over the weekend he unleashed the White House attack dogs to blame the nation’s problems on the Tea Party when, of course, it was his administration that added three trillion to our debt.

    After a while we just stop listening to what a president says; especially if we have concluded he is either clueless or has a hidden agenda.

    “If his lips are moving, he’s lying” is an old cliché, but it fits President Barack Hussein Obama because it is quite likely that no one believes him any more with the exception of the usual brain-dead liberals who still think he is a genius. So far he has shown a genius for increasing the debt and the unemployment numbers.

    This is a man who was still talking about electric cars, high speed trains, and renewable energy while the price of gas continued to increase along with everything else.

    On Monday he was still talking about the nation’s infrastructure as a source of jobs even after recently admitting there were few “shovel ready” projects. Tired ideas, ideas that don’t work, repeated over and over again.

    President Obama has been boring people from the day he took office. “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” The oceans have been rising a few centimeters every century and the planet is just fine. His election did not transform either the laws of nature or physics.

    Instead, all that transformational gibberish turned out to be about a nation already in financial trouble as the result of the September 2008 bursting of the housing bubble. His response was to waste a great deal of time forcing Obamacare on everyone. Americans want to feel that they have a say in what the government is doing and, when they don’t, they organize.

    The emergence of the Tea Party was the legacy of Obamacare. A movement without leaders, but one that made itself felt in the 2010 elections that transferred the power of the nation’s purse from Democrats to Republicans in the House and reduced their majority in the Senate.

    It may just be my imagination, but President Obama seems to believe he can just stand at the podium, read from the Tele-Prompters, and convince Americans that all our problems have to do with “millionaires and billionaires”, “corporate jets”, and the folks who provide the sources of all real energy; coal, oil, and natural gas.

    Nobody is buying those idiotic electric cars (except government agencies) and nobody believes the Green grifters who have been living off federal largesse with their pathetic wind and solar farms, and ghastly ethanol. If it were not for government mandates they would all have been out of business long ago.

    Politico recently reported that “people and households earning more than $1 million annually made up just 0.1 percent, or just over 235,000, of the 140 million tax returns filed in 2009.” Meanwhile, there are now a record 45.8 million Americans using food stamps, nearly 15% percent of the population. You do the math.

    As for those awful oil companies, the top three paid $42.8 billion in income taxes in 2010. Moreover, according to the American Petroleum Institute, oil and natural gas companies employ 9.2 million Americans and account for 7.5 percent of GDP.

    If the Obama administration had not set out to thwart any new oil exploration and a US-Canada oil pipeline, and to shut down active coal mines while punishing coal-burning utilities, the economy would be looking a lot better.

    In a recent column, former Reagan speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, said, “But the president is supposed to be great at speeches. Why isn’t it working? One answer is that it never ‘worked.’ The power of the president’s oratory was always exaggerated.”

    “The debt-ceiling crisis revealed Mr. Obama’s speeches as rhetorical kryptonite. It is the substance that repels the listener.”

    In an effort to look as if he was truly engaged in finding room for compromise during the debt ceiling debate, Obama seemed to be on television with either a prepared or impromptu speech every other day. He does not do “impromptu” well. The casual “eat your peas” remark was received as it should have been, as someone pretending to be the only adult in the room, lecturing the rest of us as children.

    I am beginning to sense that even in Congress, a lot of Democrat Senators and Representatives are beginning to do the calculus of getting reelected if they continue to vote the straight party line or are even seen on the same stage as Obama.

    None of Congress’s solutions to our economic doldrums are working because of the sharp partisan divide that ignores the problems millions of Americans are encountering. They were all tried in the 1930s and they all failed.

    Now that Obama has hit the campaign trail, it would be nice if the mainstream media began to report on how many or how few people turn out to listen to President Blah, Blah, Blah. How many of them are union members? How many are minorities?

    How many will have been out of work for so long that by November 2012 they will vote for Bugs Bunny if he is on the Republican ticket?

    1. a box of Girl Scout cookies produced about $15 billion worth of graphene.

      I’m hoarding GS Cookies next time they come around!

    1. Don’t let Oblivious see that, she’ll go off on another of her “You’re bigoted against Muslims” tirades again!

      So, When will you post this in the Mohammed thread? 😉

  390. I found this link on Drudge Report at 11:06 PM ET reporting on one of Senator John Kerry’s spokesman named Wade Sanders, a retired Navy Captain. This man held a Silver Star and was one of the loudest voices proclaiming Kerry’s heroism in Vietnam. As the article says, Sanders was “Kerry’s lead attack dog against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, repeatedly denouncing the veterans on the air as liars and comparing them to Nazi propagandists.”

    Long Story short, Sanders is in jail for Child Porn and was stripped of his Silver Star.
    Address:
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/kerry_spokesman_stripped_of_silve_star.html

    1. Anyone thinking the Jurassic media will whisper even a word of this should talk to me about this bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap. Kerry probably has a ‘little’ porn on his swift yacht, too.

  391. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS STORY?!
    Mom serves six times as much in prison than the man that killed her child. The man got a comparative slap on the hand for drinking and driving and killing a four year old, whereas the Mom can get three years in prison after being sentenced for jaywalking and “endangering” her children. Do you think that the drunk driver would have stopped had they not jaywalked and crossed at the crosswalk? I mean what is wrong with this country?
    The mother gets more jail time than the man that killed her child? She gets to be separated from her other children because she jaywalked?

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mom-convicted-son-jaywalking-death-never-end-151356884.html

  392. What happens if you give a government shut down and no one notices?
    http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/what-happens-if-you-give-a-gov

    The liberal line is always amusing. If we do not go along with their spending and other really bad ideas, the government will be shut down and it will be the end of the world as we know it.

    What would really happen? We actually have an idea what would happen. How?

    Because, this past Friday, the FAA shut down.

    That is right. The Federal Aviation Administration shut down.

    Planes are not falling from the sky. The world has not stopped turning.

    In fairness, the entire FAA is not gone. Air Traffic Controllers and some other essential employees are still on duty. About 4,000 federal employees are now laid off. While it is a shame when anyone loses their job, you have to ask, how many of those four thousand employees were really needed?

    The FAA is now not collecting ticket taxes, which add about $60 to a $300 ticket. While this could be a temporary savings for consumers, at least one airline, US Airways, also known as the worst airline with the possible exception of Air Taliban, promptly raised its fares.

    The reason the FAA shut down was a dispute between the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress and because of that dispute; the Agency’s operating authority expired. At the center of the dispute, well you guessed it.

    The Democrats want to spend money to subsidize air service into 13 rural communities. The Republicans want to cut that subsidy. It comes to about $16.5 million.

    As always, there is not a single object in the budget the Democrats want to cut, unless it is the defense budget and then as long as the weapon is not made in the State or congressional district of the Democratic politician.

    Have you ever wondered why weapons systems cost so much? Sure military hardware is expensive just in general terms, but often the builders of the ship, plane or tank have to make sure they can find subcontractors in the states or districts of important Senators or Congressmen so they can get the votes they need.

    In this case, the Democrats want to subsidize air service to thirteen rural communities. If the GOP succeeds, which it does seem like they are winning on a lot of issues recently, the Democrats are going to go and do their best mob incitement act, telling these people, “Those Republicans stole your candy.” Although in this case, it will be airfare subsidies, not candy.

    Assuming the GOP wins, something amazing will happen. Subsidies will end for those 13 communities. If there is really any demand there, the private sector will step in and there will be air travel services. If not, no one will notice it is gone.

    There is a better lesson here for the GOP. Much as in Minnesota, where the extreme left wing Governor forced a government shut down, predicting the end of the world, and a massive Democratic party renaissance to boot, something amazing happened there.

    For the most part, people did not even notice the government was not there.

    This is the lesson for the GOP, the next time we are looking at a government shut down. The left has much more to lose. If the American people go two weeks into a government shut down and realize nothing is happening, they are going to start asking why is all of that money going to Washington? They will ask the questions the Democrats do not want asked. They will ask why we have all of this government, most of which seems to be totally unnecessary?

    The FAA battle is one the GOP should hold firm on. The sooner the American people start asking those questions, the sooner we win!

  393. 31 Foregone Facts Barack Obama Fans Should Ponder!

    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:1123550&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

    1. If a previous president had doubled the national debt which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in just one year, would you have approved?

    2. If a previous president had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

    3. If a previous president would have spent nearly a trillion dollars in stimulus and guaranteed unemployment would not exceed 8%, would you have called him a liar?

    4. If a previous president would have played golf for thirteen weekends in a row leaving it up to congressional leaders to deal with the greatest financial crisis since the great depression, would you have considered him disengaged and out of touch?

    5. If a previous president had criticized a state law that he admitted to never even reading, would you have thought him an ignoramus?

    6. If a previous president had passed an unconstitutional law that would have absorbed 1/6th of the America’s entire GDP, forced Americans to purchase a private product (in violation of the commerce clause), fined them if they didn’t, hired 16,000 new IRS agents to enforce it, and exempted 1400 organizations from having to abide by that new law, would you have thought him a mafia boss?

    7. If a previous president joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in America to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you have questioned his patriotism and priorities and wonder who his allegiance was to?

    8. If a previous president had pronounced Army Corpsman like you pronounce a dead corpse, would you have thought he was stupid?

    9. If a previous president had put 87,000 people out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed?

    10. If a previous president had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87,000 American workers unemployed would you have supported him?

    11. If a previous president had been the first president to need a teleprompter to get through a press conference, would you have thought this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and that he’s really controlled by smarter people behind the scenes?

    12. If a previous president had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his wife to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

    13. If a previous president had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90%, given the unions a majority stake in the car maker and shut down 789 perfectly profitable Chrysler dealerships because they were were owned by registered republicans, would you have approved?

    14. If a previous president had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

    15. If a previous president had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs when Gordon Brown gave him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

    16. If a previous president had given the Queen of England an iPod containing audios of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America, or that a narcissist occupied the White House?

    17. If a previous president had bowed to Kings of third world countries while on an apologetic tour, would you have approved?

    18. If a previous president had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have thought it a minor slip?

    19. If a previous president had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who don’t pay their own income taxes, would you have approved?

    20. If a previous president had said there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn’t you have been shocked?

    21. If a previous president would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out of his front door in his home town, would you not have thought him a conceited, egomaniac?

    22. If a previous president had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have not been embarrassed?

    23. If a previous president had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on “Earth Day,” would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

    24. If a previous presidents’ administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan that caused widespread panic, would you have thought him insensitive and clueless about what actually happened on 9/11?

    25. If a previous president had created the position of 45 Czars who reported directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate and usurping the Constitution, would you have ever approved?

    26. If a previous president had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

    27. If a previous president had spent nearly $2 million dollars hiding his identity all the way back to his childhood, would you have been suspicious?

    28. If a previous president had been raised a muslim, spent more time living abroad in Islamic countries than he did in the United States, hung out with terrorists, and attended a hate church for 20 years, would you have not thought him brainwashed?

    29. If a previous president had received a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing more than out campaigning his competitors, would you have thought him the laughing stock of recipients?

    30. If a previous president had ordered a botched illegal gun running operation that resulted in American arms winding up in the hands of foreign drug cartels who in turn murdered Americans, would he have not had blood on his hands and been ordered to resign?

    31. If a previous president had released a fraudulent long form birth certificate and was factually proven ineligible to even be the president whether he was born on American soil or not, would you have not demanded impeachment?

    In summary, when you ask Obama to “Barack Your World,” refer to this list and try not to hurl.

    Until next time . . . Wake Up America!

  394. Bilirakis Demands Answers on Obama Admin’s Tampa-Based ‘Operation Castaway’

    After U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by a Mexican drug cartel in December 2010, guns found at the scene of his death were traced back “Operation Fast and Furious,” a botched program by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to knowingly allow weapons to pass into drug cartel hands with the goal of then tracking the weapons.

    Reports now indicate that ATF’s Tampa Field Division may have engaged in a similar program, and reportedly trafficked as many as 1,000 firearms to the dangerous MS-13 gang in Honduras through a similar program known as “Operation Castaway.”

    Last week, Gus sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder, ATF Acting Director Kenneth E. Melson, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton asking for more information about Operation Castaway to determine if the administration purposely allowed firearms to pass into the possession of criminals and other dangerous third party organizations.

    Read more about Operation Castaway, the letters Gus has sent, http://www.bilirakis.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4174:bilirakis-demands-answers-on-obama-admins-tampa-based-operation-castaway&catid=73:2011-news-releases&Itemid=2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4QuQIKByck&feature=youtu.be

    Makes me proud that’s he’s my Congressman!

      1. Not unless I C&P it like this:

        With the Supreme Courts’ sharply divided 5-4 ruling back on Jan 21, 2010 in which a 63 year old law that restricted campaign contributions from labor and big business was overturned, you can be sure that the political juggernaut known as the Obama Administration will in fact hit their goal of raising $1 Billion dollars towards his reelection campaign. And a billion bucks will buy you a lot of political poppycock, particularly when the leftist lamestream media is already in your war chest—GE “We bring crooked politicians to life!”

        Although mainstream media may refuse to allow what can only be described as a preponderance of proof that clearly shows Barack Hussein Obama released a fraudulent birth certificate and that he is not even a natural born citizen—therefore making him ineligible to occupy the oval office and committing the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people—what it can’t refuse is his two and a half year record of constitutional infractions and dismal failures to date.

        As the political pundits gear up for what is sure to be the priciest and most deceitful election in US history, I thought it prudent to recap Obama’s unprecedented failures in just the first 30 months of his presidency . . .

        1. He enacted a $900 billion dollar fiscal disaster called the stimulus package which only served to increase the national debt and he failed on his promise to keep unemployment under 8%. The black community, from which he received 90% + of the vote, has an unemployment rate between 14-16%.

        2. He has proposed raising taxes during an anemic economic recovery which at best would guarantee a double dip recession, and at worst, bring on a major depression. He has seeked to increase capital gains, dividends, and estate taxes, not even considering reducing the corporate/business tax rate of 35% which would incentivize the private sector. Moreover he seeks to punish the rich, redistribute wealth and declare class warfare.

        3. In violation of the principles of capitalism and free enterprise, he has nationalized several aspects of free market production in the automotive, financial, and healthcare industries.

        4. He has signed into law, Obamacare, a healthcare vision which creates 11 new taxes, 16,000 new IRS agents, $500B in cuts to medicare, 159 new government agencies and bureaucracies (to include a 15 member panel of bureaucrats which shall regulate the expenditures of Medicare), mandated individual American citizens to purchase a private sector commodity (which is not supported by the Commerce Clause), and has provided nearly 1400 exemptions to political cronies from adhering to the law he signed.

        5. Since taking office, he has increased the federal debt $5 trillion dollars in only 30 months. And due to historic levels of excessive spending, he has created record deficits of $1.42T, $1.29T, and $1.65T in that same time. 41 cents of every dollar borrowed and 47% of the federal debt is now owned by foreign nations.

        6. His proposed FY 2012 budget was voted down in the Unites States Senate, 0-97.

        7. Food stamp recipients has increased by a whopping 41%, expanding an ever larger “dependency” class in the United States.

        8. He has failed to produce a full spectrum energy independence resource development program while average gas prices during his tenure have gone from $1.89 to a high of around $4.00. He inappropriately commanded the release of strategic oil reserves here in the states, while giving Brazil $2B for its offshore oil exploration.

        9. He has created a shadow government of some 40+ individuals termed “Czars” who are not confirmed by the United States Senate and respond only to him, yet have overarching regulatory powers—a clear violation of our separation of powers concept.

        10. He has increased regulatory and bureaucratic burdens on American business through bypassing the legislative process with his executive branch agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.

        11. He appointed and continues to support an inept and incompetent Attorney General who has failed to prosecute voter intimidation cases (New Black Panther party), initiated a dangerous gun-smuggling program (Operation Fast and Furious) that resulted in deaths to our own law enforcement agents, and he refuses to acknowledge and uphold a federal law, DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).

        12. He has failed to take the steps necessary to secure our borders and stem the flow of illegal immigration, termed as “repel invasions” in our United States Constitution in Article 1, Section 8 and Article 4, Section 4; and had the audacity to bring a federal lawsuit against a sovereign state (Arizona) seeking to protect its citizens from this threat.

        13. He has violated the War Powers Act of 1973 and sought to redefine the term “hostilities” to justify his actions in Libya.

        14. He has telegraphed Afghan troop reductions to our enemies—against the consult of his experienced Field Commanders—while embracing negotiations with our enemy, the Taliban, and reestablishing communications with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

        15. He has placed the security of our most trusted ally in the Middle East, Israel, in danger while he increased funding to the Palestinian Authority (Fatah, just another Islamic terrorist group) whilst they have enjoined a reconciliation pact with long-standing terrorist group, Hamas.

        It is clear to see that, regardless of your political persuasion—Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, Conservative, Liberal, or just plain Apolitical, Barack Obama is failing with a capital “F.”

        Until next time . . . Wake Up America!

        Kevin A. Lehmann

        1. Thanks Poppa!

          Yes it is amazing that we (as a whole) aren’t awake yet. HOwever I can understand somewhat because THERE IS SO MUCH going on that it is hard to keep abreast of everything, but still we need to wake up and do something. This man is out of control.

          1. THERE IS SO MUCH going on that it is hard to keep abreast of everything

            Which makes it so much more amazing that Oblivious manages to keep up her expertise on EVERYTHING, all the while working as a nurse and not having a TV!

            Multiple persons accessing the same account looks more likely every day.

            1. Yes out of a sudden we have way too many racists and a lot of people thumbing down on good posts and a preponderence of trolls and haters. Someone (a group) in my opinion is targeting the site. Some people even pretending to be Conservatives or Christians but then defending racists or else saying the whackiest things.

              I am happy for websites like these and Fox News to exist, but still so much going on, we really can just take one thing at a time, but the Progressives thrive in confusion they are using the strategy of allowing a lot of issues to come at us at once hoping we will get fatigued… so important then to stay alert.

    1. I am torn about Ron Paul. He has a good message in many ways, but also seems to be a bit unstable in others.
      Now, that aside, I am really hoping for a strong showing from Herman Cain. He’s smart, has tons of business experience, and also has been wise enough to state that he has no foreign policy experience, so he will be surrounding himself with the proper advisors in the areas where he needs help.
      Considering his corporate experience, I have no doubt he will be able to pick the right people for the job, and kick the czars to the curb!

      1. I agree completely! We may have to kick up the heat tho, he is still considered on the back burner. I think they media does this because they know if he was advertised across MSM they would loose Obama to Cain in a heartbeat.

    1. It’s clear that the LAPD did’nt beat any sense into the man. I am waiting for next story about him, because there is a good chance it will mean he’s dead.

      1. If he does die, it will just give Al Sharpton a new crusade to bugger up the airwaves with. He doesn’t need any encouragement!

    1. He screwed up. He should have kept the ball, auctioned it off, paid the taxes, bought the stuff they gave him, and he would still have money left over!

      1. But still… I mean penalizing the guy for CATCHING a ball?!? That is insane! I mean is catching a ball automatically the same thing as a lottery win? I even think that lotto awards should be tax free. If anything if he returns the freaking ball that should be the end of it, and whatever he gets because of his return should be considered gifts, why is the government allowed to tax gifts?! I understand if he sold the ball he can pay tax on that, but it is crazy to me that he has to pay taxes on gifts? Crazy…

        1. KQ, I’m just waiting for what/who will be the Archduke Ferdinand momemnt when it comes to taxes in America. This kid is getting raped like everyone else in NYC. They bend over everyone, & they don’t care how abusive they are. I now understand why NYC sports clubs like the Yankees, Knicks, & the Rangers have to overpay players. When you are the highest tax rate there, between federal, state, & city taxes, plus all of the tolls, & fees, they take about 60%. Say what you want about what pro atheletes are paid, those tax rates are obsene. You ever notice that almost all PGA golfers are all inFlorida & Texas? No state income tax. We are getting closer to the next history changing tax event, it’s just where the flashpoint will be. I would like it to this kid who caught Jeter’s 3,000th hit.

          BTW, if I were to win the Powerball or the MegaMillions, & took the 1 time payment, I would get just over 1/3 of the actual jackpot. You would get more with the 25 year payout, but get the cash in hand, & secure it where the feds can’t touch it. As long as you don’t turn your life into an episode of MTV’s “Cribs”, & spend it on ridiculous crap, you can live very comfortably. I also believe in Canada, you get it all. I’m not sure, & CANUCKS, PLEASE CONFIRM OR CORRECT ME on this.

          1. danybhoy, That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. I used to live in NJ, and between Fed and State income taxes (they didn’t have city income tax), oppressive property taxes, and one of the highest car insurance and electrical rates in the country, I was being bled dry. Did you know that even though I lived in NJ, if I made the mistake of working in NYC, I would have had to pay city income tax also? All you had to do was earn money in NYC, and you were subject to the city income tax! The tolls up there are ridiculous, it started to feel like I had to pay a toll just to leave my driveway! I am so glad I moved to FL. Even though we have a 7% sales tax, and many things that were exempt from sales tax in NJ are taxed here, we are way better off tax wise. Our electric rates have just gotten to almost what we were paying (4 cents less) per KW hour in NJ when we left 7 years ago. Here, the reason they are now that high are because of the fuel adjustment that they have tacked on to the bill.

            1. Try California, Poppa.

              Then there’s my girlfriend, who’s a traveling nurse. She keeps an official residence address in Vermont, but is working in California. Of course, her paycheck has California withholding taken out of it, but at the end of the year, Vermont wants to tax her also. Sorry fellas, one at a time.

          2. For real. I mean this is insane! We pay taxes already, we shouldn’t have to pay taxes on a lotto win. People going to Vegas or wherever… why are they being taxes on wins? That makes no sense to me. People are penalized for being lucky? This is insanity and I don’t think this is going to be the moment, because this dude is all like… whatever I’ll just pay it and what not… He is so calm about it! If it was me I would be like this is insane! Why aren’t people waking up? I don’t know what is going to take, but we need to do something. When I cannot add stuff to my so called property without paying taxes or my taxes going up, I say this government is out of control. Something needs to stop the madness.

  395. The Florida based non-profit organization The United West sent a team to California to attend a town hall meeting hosted by L.A. Sheriff Leroy Baca. The town hall meeting was an outreach to the Muslim community. Alan Kornman, from The United West, was there to ask some simple questions about using federal tax dollars to support Muslim outreach. The questioning revolved around two concepts under the U.S. Constitution. The first is equal protection under that law. The second is the federal government cannot favor one religious groups over another (the Establishment Clause).

    The questioning by Alan was direct, insightful and caught the Sheriff’s department, the Muslim Community Affairs Unit Commander and the U.S. Attorney in a problematic situation. It appears that over $128,000 of public money is being used to support one religious group over another via the Muslim Community Affairs Unit.

    Please watch this twelve minute video of the town hall meeting hosted by Sheriff Baca, narrated by Tom Trento, President of The United West found the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the L.A. Sheriff’s department and holds sway within its Muslim Community Affairs Unit, a unit unique within the Sheriff’s department. There is no other unit for Christians, Jews, etc. This is akin to Sheriff Baca having an Italian Community Outreach Unit, which defers to members of the Mafia because of they are predominately white Italians who are Catholic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x7C8P_Hu6g

  396. Lightning Almost Hits Christie Foe On TV
    Lightning Hits Behind N.J. Sen. Sweeney
    Reporter Bruce Gordon’s face said it all as lightning struck behind N.J. Senate President Stephen Sweeney during a live interview Thursday.

    Sweeney was talking to Bruce from the field in West Deptford, N.J. while storms moved through the area. The flash and immediate crack of the lightning caused Sweeney to jump.

    Sweeney will attempt to override some of Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts beginning Monday, unless he thinks twice about it.

    Sweeney said Thursday that Democrats hope to override the Republican governor’s vetoes of funding for programs for the blind, AIDS patients, cities, child sex victims and more.

    Christie shaved $1.3 billion in spending from the budget passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature before signing the document into law last week

    http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oGdSPuQBhOIlMAO2JXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1aTBnYnVwBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0FDQlkwM18xMzk-/SIG=13gvctj2i/EXP=1310233934/**http%3a//www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/lightning-strikes-during-live-interview070711

    Looks like even God likes Christie best!

    1. People were impeaching Bush all the time so why can’t we do the same to Obama? Although his sidestepping Congress should be an impeachable offense.

    1. You mean yet another low rated liberal “news” show has bitten the dust? Must be a conservative conspiracy!

    1. They sure don’t seem too concerned about the life of the underage girl he raped and murdered!

          1. Probably he may have lived her since the age of two but he probably never had a job nor any property to speak of. He was a leech from the start.

  397. I want to preface… Titles (and even the dialogues) of movies are changed or tweeked to make it understandable to the foreign audience be it for language issues or be it because sometimes the title does not culturally makes sense. I have seen it happen a lot. However, can we truly say that DROPPING Captain America from the title in Russia and North Korea is truly a cultural/language thing? http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/01/21/captain-america-title-will-be-changed-to-the-first-avenger-in-russia-south-korea/

    1. Interesting video. I agree with a lot of what he has to say, but there’s a little bit about Libertarians he doesn’t get. All we want to do is get back to the Constitution. That’s why, as I continue to be a registered Libertarian, I may have to change that registration once in a while, so I can vote in Republican Primaries. I want to vote for the candidate with the most Tea Party credentials, to help sway the Republican Party away from it’s recent RINO tendencies. If they can get back to fighting for the Constitution, against Liberal Democrats, I might go back into the party. For now, I have to continue to call myself Libertarian, with Tea Party leanings.

  398. So… you think your Mother-in-law is bad?

    Check this out…

    http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/mother-in-law-sends-worst-email-ever-to-bride-forgivable-2504517/

    Let’s say the Mother-in-Law is correct and the girl is a biatch or whatever… would she still be in the right to send her such an email? And was it stupid of her to assume that the girl would just not share it or blast her back or something?

    Should the girl even consider marrying this guy? If he is like most men he won’t get involved and he won’t choose sides and there will be an eternal battle of wife and mother in law… hell to the nah…. even if he was the last chance for me to get married I will not be trapped in a marriage with a weak ass man and scary crazy mother in law.

  399. WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD?!!!!?

    Nigerian man (whom I assume is probably Muslim) gets into a plane from JFK flies all the way to LAX without a passport, without proper ID and with an expired boarding pass that was not in his name. He was checked by TSA had no weapons but was let in the flight! They found him out in the flight, released him to the FBI and the FBI let him go!!!!!

    THEN he gets on a plane to Atlanta, GA and was finally caught and is now being held. HIs plan was to go back to Nigeria and then come back on September 9th.

    What is wrong with this picture? I can get a free rectal exam at the airport but this dude gets to get into a plan with no proper ID and an expired boarding pass?!!!!?

    Sorry no link just saw it on Fox News.

    1. RIGHT KIMMY!!!
      In the meantime, the TSA is harassing those dangerous looking 95 year old ladies wearing Depends!!

      Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search

      A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.
      Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
      Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
      “It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
      Read the rest of the story……….
      http://www.newsherald.com/news/mother-94767-search-adult.html

      1. Thank you for posting the link! It is insanity that an elderly lady had to go through that embarrassment, whereas this guy gets to walk into a plane when he had no reason to be.

    1. Works for me. Since I see basketball, as well as all other ball sports, as being quite useless, I’m seeing people relaxing on the court, and it seems almost useful.

  400. Our little local throwaway 2x a week paper has a freelance writer that is enough to twist your colon in a knot! His name is Marty Moore and recently posted this bit of deluded liberal crap.
    http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2011/jun/13/131110/pass-the-kool-aid-were-talking-social-security/news-opinion/

    I was so moved that I had to submit a letter to the editor. I don’t know if they’ll print it or not, but thought you might enjoy reading what I had to say……….

    I titled the letter “Marty the Hermit”

    After reading Marty Moore’s column in the June 11 issue of the Suncoast News, the only explanation for his comment on Social Security, “As far as COLA’s go, they’re based on the rate of annual inflation as determined by the Bureau Of Labor Statistics……….No inflation. No raise.” Him being home-bound or a hermit is all I can come up with!
    Anyone that has bought a gallon of gas, gone food shopping, paid an electric bill, eaten in a diner or restaurant, etc. in the last 2 years can see that inflation is there. Just because the BLS has decided to remove food and fuel from the inflation statistics doesn’t mean that inflation doesn’t exist. Our President has decided to deny one of our most at risk segments of the population, senior citizens, a chance to keep up with the cost of living, because he doesn’t believe that food and fuel have anything to do with inflation or the economy. I don’t know about the rest of you, but food and fuel are the biggest part of the budget for anyone I know over the age of 65. I personally know many seniors that are finding themselves having to find jobs in order to make ends meet because of rising expenses and stagnant income levels. I am more than 15 years away from retirement and having a hard time with my food, gasoline, electric, etc. costs, without having to worry about the possibility that when I reach retirement age, I will have to keep working just so I can eat!
    It’s the Marty Moore’s of the world that are putting the rest of us in jeopardy with their adamant insistence that all is well when everything is collapsing around them.

  401. Airlines (U.S.) have partnered with Saudi Arabia and in order to partner, they do not allow Judaica items in flights to SA and they do not grant tourist visas to Jews on flights to SA. The OTHER thing about this is that it also doesn’t allow Bibles in their flights. Christians can fly into SA, however they shouldn’t make it obvious (wear a cross), however Scriptures are not appropriate. Judaica and Bible are contraband… Jews cannot go and Christians better watch it with making it obvious… great.
    Delta Airline is not the only one mind you: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/24/jewish-groups-outraged-over-delta-saudi-agreement/
    http://www.theusreport.com/the-us-report/2011/6/24/delta-airlines-and-saudi-arabia-doublespeak-on-jews-bibles.html

    I guess they have the right to be racists and discriminate against people all they want, however should AMERICAN companies accept this? Shouldn’t they have told them “Bite me I dont want to fly into your stinkin’ country anyway.”?

  402. Health Care Issues: Man chooses to go to jail in order to get medical care. He robs $1 from a banki. This story is just sad all around:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110621/ts_yblog_thelookout/man-robs-bank-to-get-medical-care-in-jail

    I really do feel for this man THIS man should get help. Even though I am sure that family and organizations would/should help him he should get help. Unfortunately the system is so corrupt and broken down that is the reason why we are in such a state. I feel bad for the guy.

  403. FOOLS ON PARADE!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vZOJTNjLWA&feature=feedu Liberal host wants President to extort states into submission. Basically just another call to Obama to become dictator of the country. He would never say this if Bush was in power.

    Another fool that wants Obama to be a fascist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qQ-G6lkCmY&NR=1. He would never ask for a conservative President to take over businesses that are not toying the line.

    Sarah Palin hate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNf3GNbfxA&feature=feedu O’Donnell states that SP’s 10 year old child is old enough and “experienced” enough to know the difference between a vacation and a campaign. Seriously? Uhm… I wonder if he says that a lot… about 10 year old girls being old and experience enough to know or do something… I think someone better keep the kids away from this man. This hatred towards Sarah Palin is really strange and scary.

    Napolitano doesn’t think that profiling groups who are more likely to be terrorists to be a good idea, in fact it is a waste of her time. She after all has other things to do like going to the salon and making herself pretty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5IRdiMwYnY&feature=feedu
    Look how daintily and sexily she sits, admire her feminine charms… I’m sure her wife loves her very much.

    MSNBC fool host basically places the heavy burden of possible civil unrest on the Republican party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MKULtXoaI&feature=feedu

    Obama is a fool, but he is a dangerous fool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyluyG6AVw&feature=feedu. Obamacare is not good for anyone. The country will go bankrupt if he is not stopped.

    So many fools, so little time…

    Source: Naked Emperor News and Pajamas Media

    1. As much as I hate to say it, I have to agree with Hasselbeck and Baabaa Waawaa. As much as I like Palin she needs to step up to the plate or back down. She is muddying the water and taking attention away from those who are serious about running against the Obummer.

      Both are also right in pointing out that nobody who has announced their intention to run has said anything about the biggest problem we have in our country at this time, the economy, unemployment or the national debt. If we voters are going to make an informed choice we need to know their ideas on how they are going to get America working again and get us out of debt.

    1. This seriously pissed me off. It was the wrong venue for this. I thought liberals were all about protecting the innocent and the underdog? Not if it gets in the way of their hatred and bile.

  404. THE LONDON PAPER ABOUT OBAMA’S VISIT.
    If you’re not sure what “big government” implies, take a look at this.

    But you have already read about this in your local newspaper.
    Oh no, you didn’t? OK then, you saw it on CNN… No?… INTERESTING!!!

    You and I may never see health care again the way it used to be, but “Emperor Obama” took six (6) doctors with him for a 3 day visit to London – along with 494 other essential staff. Can you imagine the cost to us as taxpayers? And only 50% of us actually pay taxes in this country. Are you happy with the abuse of our money? Hell NO! This idiot in the white house, deserved to be charged with theft of government property at a bare minimum. He is a Chicago crook.

      1. The resident troll hasn’t found the tips page yet? How wonderful ~! That is a disgusting article isn’t it… who needs 6 personal docs for a 3 day trip?

    1. This is not unusual. Over 200 were Secret Service. GWB’s last visit had 700+ staff in attendance. Texans do it bigger

  405. Good news everyone! Your tax dollars (part of about $451 million a year) has been used for government employees to have jello wrestling contests! How awesome is that?! We get to pay for Alaskan government employees to have “harmless” fun on our dime and on government time! Don’t be a “fun nazi”…

    Other good news: If you are interested in finding out the racial preferences of people who use online dating sites gather together $580,819 and give it to the University of California – Berkeley and they will be more than happy to find out if online dating subscribers are racists or not or to find out if (and I AM quoting exactly) “….blacks are more open to romancing whites than vice versa.” This is ESSENTIAL people so come up with the cash… oh no wait we ALREADY did! Well make sure to get the report on this CRITICAL issue after all you paid for it!

    Don’t get mad that $1.733 billion allocated in grants (that expired) cannot be found, oh I am sorry, actually NSF knows where it is, but for some reason haven’t returned it to the Treasury and is sitting on it YET is asking for an additional 1 billion dollars!!!!

    Our government is just so awesome! We have no money and we keep printing it and it is not even worth the paper it is printed on! Aren’t you excited to be living in the land of waste?!

    If you want to read Senator Coburn’s report on government waste (73 pages) please visit this PDF file: http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=f6cd2052-b088-44c3-b146-5baa5c01552a

    Make sure to go to your happy place after you read it so you won’t blow a gasket.

    1. This is DISGUSTING!!!! I cannot believe it, they made a $200 profit that is it! What is wrong with these people? Okay the next I am going to hear that there is UNIONIZED rabbitry that complained. I just know it.

  406. Is there a story about how the government is spending our money preparing us for a zombie apocalypse? Because I think that merits a story.

    1. It seems the state took away her daughter. I don’t know how to feel about that if she wasn’t given a chance to change first.

  407. Hope you get unlimited texts from your carrier-

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8506093/Barack-Obama-to-be-able-to-text-terror-warnings-to-all-US-phones.html

    You’ll love the fact that users can opt out of all the services (mobile updates on Amber alerts, terrorism threats, extreme weather warnings, and local emergencies) except for the Presidential texting. Because, clearly, getting the freshest possible presidential propaganda as quickly as possible is much more important than that tornado that’s about to destroy your town.

    Oh, also, it supersedes all other phone traffic- here’s hoping that nobody needs their cellphones for anything important when the Messiah decides to pass a few words down to us common folk.

      1. I KNOW! It’s to encourage parents to help their kids make better choices…….

  408. A Koran? How dare you!? An American flag? Oh, go right ahead…

    http://www.batonrougetoday.com/2011/05/11/lsu-student-requests-peaceful-us-flag-burning-protest-may-11th/

    If you burn the Koran and a riot ensues in which people are murdered, the MSM will blame you. So if, when this kid torches a flag, people die over it, whose fault would they see it as?

    The people who did the killing, of course. They’d be right, this time, though.

    Luckily, conservatives believe in the free expression of others, even when that expression pisses us right the hell off. Unfortunately, liberals only believe in free speech when that speech is aimed at attacking America. They’ll either join along with your chant of “The Right is wrong!” or try to shout you down with, “YOU’RE WRONG!”

  409. Was that a quran or a koran? What a waste! I’m talkin about the bacon. One less slice for Habeeb the genderless Georgian to choke down. Shame

  410. In case you are ever talking with an apologist for muslim violence, and they roll out the crap about it being a religion of peace and quote from the Koran to ‘prove’ their point, ask them: “What about abrogation? Isn’t that verse null and void? Tell me what replaced that “loving verse”, Chester.”

    http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20110118151407.htm

  411. Academically superior girl who WANTS to remain homeschool was ordered by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to go to public school. Her Father who is divorced from her Mother instigated the issue. The judge believed that since she was so strong in her religious beliefs that she hadn’t experienced diverse point of views and she will in public schools.

    http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nh-supreme-court-homeschooled-girl-must-go-to-public-school-against-moms-wi

    This is an attack on parents, homeschooling and religious people.

    1. We usually don’t respond in the Tips section, but I’ll make an exception in this case. Admittedly, I’m not informed enough to make an argument one way or the other, but that being said, I have two comments.

      1. This is always a bogus comparison because we don’t have India’s caste system in the United States. That is, we aren’t born into the bottom 20% and forced to stay there. Socio-economic status is very fluid in the United States. A huge percentage of billionaires are self-made people who started with nothing and worked their way up. I have a friend who’s been poor and rich and poor and now he’s crazy rich again.

      2. The numbers are terribly skewed by the huge numbers of immigrants and illegal aliens in the country. I think it’s a reasonable assumption to guess that aliens, illegal or legal, are dramatically over-represented in the “Have Not” group. Eliminate 20,000,000 illegal aliens and poverty suddenly becomes a much smaller issue and so does the gap between rich and poor.

      PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS. THIS AREA IS FOR TIPS ONLY, NOT FOR DISCUSSION.

    2. I first looked to see from whence the charts came, and much to my surprise it came from “mother jones”. This raises questions about the veracity of the whole thing. They, being the good little lefties they are, would be more than willing to manipulate the numbers to shape the outcome. Liberal “journalists” always start with the headline, then shape the story to fit. You can also be sure that illegals are included to help shore up the “have nots” category. It was interesting to see, when I scrolled through the comments section that they too (“yahoo news”) have infiltrators just as “IHTM” does. Some of the comments actually made sense.

    1. KQ, it’s Chicago, what did you really expect? This is THEEE town that took “vote early & often” on the map.

  412. I am surprised that there has been no story on the horrific ordeal CBS reporter Lara Logan went through in Egypt AND the disgusting liberal responses by men and women on her nightmare. Also the seriously lacking of report on it in the MSM.

    ….

    1. Tonight being his last episodes tells me that this was NOT a mutual agreement that he was fired or he quit amid not wanting to give in to something. If this was an amicable send off he would have been allowed to milk his goodbyes and send out the resumes.

      1. Don’t feel too bad for BathTubBoy, my guess is that he got much of the $15million he was owed for the remaining 2 years on his contract. I just want to see who will want to hire him for his next gig.

  413. The following is a link to a liberal talk radio program in of all places, Madison WI. The talker ridicules the current Lt. Governor of Wisconsin andaccuses her of “performing fellatio on talk radio hosts” to help her get elected. He also mocks her recent ordeal with colon cancer, laughs at her hair and wonders if it is a wig, makes suggestions about her being gang raped and other similar comments. HIs name is Sly Sylvester at WTDY in Madison. The Lt. Governor is Rebecca Kleefish You can listen to the clip via this link:

    http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13870081

    Where does the true hate and vitriol reside in the media? On the left.

      1. This guy (Sly) has made some very provacative, even inappropriate statements in the past, but this time he was really over the top. The sheer hatred-turn-lunacy by the left is amazing. So far, as I understand it, his producers are supporting him.

    1. Interesting… I wonder if is pro-marijuana and so on… If he isn’t I guess I cannot claim hypocrisy on his part but… but… I agree with you if a person did drugs ONCE and not anymore and they are done with it they shouldn’t hold public office as well if they are going to scream and rant about people having guns because they used and abused illegal drugs at some point in their lifetimes.

  414. I don’t know how to feel here… Am I suppose to feel bad for Arnold? Am I suppose to feel good? Am I suppose to commiserate…? I mean it is awesome (?) that he had $200 million dollars to “blow” on public service… but I guess it is sad (?) that he lost multi-million dollar business by being a public servant… and then of course not time with the family that is sad… but the family lives in multi million dollars homes and what not so I don’t know. I am having a hard time feeling fuzzy feely for this guy: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110114/pl_nm/us_austria_schwarzenegger

    Kind of like he is complaning but he is not… :-/

  415. I haven’t seen anything about this on here… Someone has decided in his infinite wisdom to reissue Huckleberry Finn without the “N” word!. I can not believe this, lets just go back to banning and burning books! And as the article points out, “”They have stood the test of time. The book is an anti-racist book and to change the language changes the power of the book. He wrote to make us squirm and to poke us with a sharp stick.” Sheesh….I’ll bet this guy is a liberal a-hole.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70460O20110105

    1. Oh, she’s a vile thing. No need to hate on her — she supplies enough to light a small city all on her own.

      1. I just feel that she is getting a lot of undeserved chances to continue to do more damage although as for the underserved it is my opinion, I could be wrong on that score.

  416. Thanks for such a great website, our office really enjoys it!

    We thought you might enjoy a story we did on financial guru Dave Ramsey’s new 13,000sf $10M home in Cool Springs.

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  417. Don’t have a link saw it on twitter that an anti gun senator (more than likely a democrat) used a gun to shoot an intruder… interesting n’est-ce pas?

    1. Yeah, but that’s because they can. It’s not like S Korea has an ally that will back them. Barry’s too long on nutlessness to actually figure out that to deal with such a dictator, you have to make him fear for his personal safety. It’ll be about 3 weeks of there, there, there, naughty, naughty, naughty.

      About the only people that learn anything from this is South Korea, that the US won’t back them.

      Most of the American people already know Barry’s a nutless f*ckwit. This just puts it on 50 foot high letters and sets it on fire for our allies to read.

  418. If Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Suffers Total Failure, Does the MSM Make a Sound?

    Global warming-inspired cap and trade has been one of the most stridently debated public policy controversies of the past 15 years. But it is dying a quiet death. In a little reported move, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) announced on Oct. 21 that it will be ending carbon trading — the only purpose for which it was founded — this year.

    Although the trading in carbon emissions credits was voluntary, the CCX was intended to be the hub of the mandatory carbon trading established by a cap-and-trade law, like the Waxman-Markey scheme passed by the House in June 2009.

    At its founding in November 2000, it was estimated that the size of CCX’s carbon trading market could reach $500 billion. That estimate ballooned over the years to $10 trillion.

    Al Capone tried to use Prohibition to muscle in on a piece of all the action in Chicago. The CCX’s backers wanted to use a new prohibition on carbon emissions to muscle in on a piece of, quite literally, all the action in the world.

    The complete story can be found by clicking name or
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/if-al-gores-chicago-climate-exchange-suffers-total-failure-does-the-msm-make-a-sound/?singlepage=true

  419. chucklzzz .. you look so man on this photo in the tie and suit coat. I would like to add that you are a very pretty girl. Lady. Woman. ……. Being a rising star means adaptation. Your audience is very broad and massive. You are speaking to us all, not just the norm you advocate. ????? You are enjoyed by us all for your (clear) presentation. Absolutely Fabulous. One of my FAVORITE shows. Keith, Ed, You, Chris, (the new guy) – hes getting good very fast …………………….. Allow yourself to use everthing you have going for you. But above everything remember your skills and will and charisma puts your success above any group. You will not be the Ellen DeGen /;[)&% – what ever her name is of MSNBC. Why? because you will fly just so far higher. I think you to be the Oprah of MSNBC. A personality that is reaal but yet images yourself beyond branding but simply the best at what you do and how you do it. Do only wear crew neck shirts? I sometimes feel you need a wardrobe person. Why? because you are too cute not to have one. …….. That is a compliment not a judgement. OK? ……. I watch all of you more than I do sitcome TV. I really am a fan of the lineup starting with Ed all the way to Keith as the closer. You all are absolutely – THE BEST REPORTERS ON THE AIR …….. as far as I am concerned. You are one pretty woman. And you stand out because of it.

  420. This is insane: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/47307/

    This is what I would like to tell the guy: So basically AFTER treating her like SH-T for two years, you want her to do you a favor? LOLOLOLOLOL. You want her to do what YOU want even though you have belittled and attempted to destroyed her for so long and not only are you asking her to do it but you are not even asking her nicely you are ordering her to do it… wow. It must be amazing to live in liberal land where you are king and ruler over other people and what they should do for you even though you treat them like crap for more than two years.

  421. This story, featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals a number of billboards in the Milwaukee area with the simple message “Voter Fraud is a Felony”. Amazingly, various grievance groups are outraged at them, saying they are an attempt to suppress minority voters. Why would anyone be opposed to the message unless they were in favor of voter fraud? You have to read it here to believe it:

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/104816414.html

  422. Don’t U.S. experiments continue?

    Proposed in the 2005 and H.R. 4259 [109th] 2006 Congress was the “Veterans Right to Know Act” to establish the Veterans’ Right to Know Commission.[9] In accordance with the ongoing, “[Footnote 4]…necessary “to conceal these activities…”[3] a veteran’s right to get the “designed to harm” needed for treatment, and experiment identifying, evidence never became law. Despite the 16 of 66 year efforts of some, the U.S. Congress has failed to protect service personnel from “to harm” [8] experiments. All conducted under the secrecy cover of National Interests, e.g., WWII, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War and Iraq (?).

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1987 STANLEY [3] “to harm” DOD, LSD experiment is approved by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1950 FERES [1] ‘can do no wrong, ends justify the means’ Doctrine. The STANLEY case is one of the U.S. Senate’s 1994 “During the last 50 years, hundreds of thousands of military personnel” were subjected to “experiments that were designed to harm”, e.g., the reported biological and chemical agents, radiation exposure, hallucinogenic and investigational drugs, experimental vaccines and behavior modification projects.[8] Yet convicted rapists and murderers are given protection from human experiments by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights no cruel and unusual punishment!![6] “The Feres Doctrine should not be applied for military personnel who are harmed by inappropriate human experimentation when informed consent has not been given.” To-date the U.S. Congress has rejected this U.S. Senate 1994 Report Recommendation![8] The conducted known, certain injury trials were a dereliction of duty in direct disobedience of the DOD Secretary’s 26 February 1953 NO non-consensual, human experiments.[2] During the U.S. Senate’s 1994 reported past 50 years, most of the “to harm” service records were destroyed in a 1973 National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) fire. Congress’s 1974 Privacy Act censored experiment verifying witnesses from any surviving records!

    Please have your members in the U.S. Congress give back to service personnel and veterans those rights that convicted rapists and murderers keep, e.g., “Written policy and practice prohibit the use of” [prison] “inmates for medical…..experiments.”! See page 13 of 14, REF: [6]

    With an ignored 66 years of corrective action, do not the U.S. Senate’s reported Department of Defense (DOD) “EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE DESIGNED TO HARM” [8] continue?

    After the 1987 STANLEY, Congress passed the 1988 Veterans’ Judicial Review Act (VJRA).[4] Established was the Legislative, Article I severely restricted, U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals. In 1994 its Chief Judge stated, “The Court simply identifies error made below by a failure to adhere, in individual cases, to the Constitution, statutes, and regulations which themselves reflect policy — policy freely ignored by many initial adjudicators whose attitude is, “I haven’t been told by my boss to change. If you don’t like it — appeal it.”[7] Congress dictated that, “The court may not review the schedule of ratings for disabilities or the policies underlying the schedule.”[4] Given to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) is the Judicial Branch’s final authority on “the policies underlying the schedule” questions of law![5] This is consistent with the STANLEY Cases’s, “[ Footnote 4 ] The intelligence community believed that it was necessary “to conceal these activities from the American public in general,” because public knowledge of the “unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its mission.” Id., at 394 (quoting CIA Inspector General’s Survey of the Technical Services Division, p. 217 (1957)).” See [Footnote 4 of IV] U.S. 709 U.S. Supreme Court 1987 STANLEY military experiment case. [3]

    Each “to harm” experiment completes a Research and Development (R&D) process. Prior R&D is reviewed. The resulting Scope of Work defines what each experiment is “designed” to accomplish. The how, where, when and who is identified. The conducted RESEARCHED cause and effects are closely followed and recorded. From the results are DEVELOPED safe production, use, victim treatment and protection. Accordingly, at the time known are the recorded and withheld “designed to harm” resultant “schedule” disabilities with their identifying symptoms and treatment. Ignored by the U.S. Congress is the service personnel rights lost vs. prison inmate kept!

    Overlooked by many in Congress is our “Pledge of Allegiance” “with liberty and justice for all” and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ignored own, carved in stone over its entrance, “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW”!

    REFERENCES:

    [1] 1950 – Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950). http://supreme.justia.com/us/340/135/case.html

    [2] 1953 – DOD Secretary’s 26 February 1953 NO non-consensual, human experiment’s Memo pages 343-345. George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, “The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code; Human Rights in Human Experimentation” (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

    [3] 1987 – U.S. SUPREME COURT, JUNE 25, 1987, U.S. V. STANLEY , 107 S. CT.. 3054 (VOLUME 483 U.S., SECTION 669, PAGES 699 TO 710). http://supreme.justia.com/us/483/669/case.html

    [4] 1988 – Veterans’ Judicial Review Act (VJRA), Pub. L. No. 100-687, Div. A, 102 Stat. 4105 (8 December 1988) DVA-Chapter 4 and http://law.jrank.org/pages/6784/Federal-Courts-Court-Appeals-Veterans-Claims.html#ixzz0MIKbF8ND

    [5] “United States Code (USC) Title 38, 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality.” US CODE: Title 38511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality.

    [6] 1994 – U.S. State Dept., “U.S. Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights July 1994, Article 7 – Freedom from Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman
    or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.” Electronic Research Collections (ERC)

    [7] 1994 – Chief Judge and colleague statements, Court of Veterans Appeals, Annual Judicial Conference, Fort Meyer, VA., 17 & 18 October 1994. Chief Judge Frank Nebeker’s Statement STATE OF COURT – – – URL: http://www.firebase.net/state_of_court_brief.htm

    [8] 1994 – December 8, 1994 REPORT 103-97 “Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century.” Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 103rd Congress 2nd Session.

    [9] 2005 & 2006 – “Veterans Right to Know Act” to establish the Veterans’ Right to Know Commission was proposed in the 2005 and H.R. 4259 [109th] 2006 Congress. H. R. 4259.

  423. I have developed a list which I would love you to reference or post on your site. It shows all of the opponents of the 219 House Dems who voted in March 2010 to pass Obamacare by listing the House Dems by state, district, general geographic area of district, and membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. This list is currently posted on the following website which you may want to link to:

    http://www.docs4patientcare.org

    The Docs4PC website also has an interesting WSJ article written by
    a doctor to his patients, “Dear Patients — please vote to
    repeal Obamacare”.

    If you would like me to forward a copy of the list in a PDF format, please let me know asap — we only have 28 more days until the election. Hopefully, the table will encourage people to contribute to or vote for the opponents!

    Thanks,
    Joy Putnam

    1. Yeah, why not give him one — Obama’s living proof that they’ll give one to just about any idiot.

  424. This one is rich. House cats are decimating the bird population…..unless cats can suddenly fly, I can’t see how they would increase enough in numbers to hurt the multi-trillion bird population in N America-of course there is the fact that these nutters also support wind energy-and wind turbines are splattering birds of prey at an alarming rate, and the wind farms are all built in migration corridors, where there is a lot of wind for birds to better fly south on!
    Too classic-and from, of all places, the bastion of critical thinking and objective news reporting The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/28/AR2010092803999.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national

  425. OBAMA ARROGANTLY SCREWS UP WORLD-FAMOUS ALBUQUERQUE HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL

    The balloon festival is the premier event in the world, and brings tourists, photographers, balloonists and much needed money to town. It’s date, of course, is known and advertised years in advance.

    So Obama has decided to honor Albuquerque with his loathsome presence. And Biden a few days later. These honchos carry a “bubble” of restricted and totally no-fly airspace around them, so if they keep to their plans, they are going to screw up the festival thoroughly, since the balloons will be grounded for all or most of the festival. (Hey, can’t take the chance of some terrorists hijacking a [non-powered, non-steerable] hot air balloon and chasing down King Obama, eh?)

    At any rate, the visit, of no great importance, could easily have been done some other time, or canceled. It is another example of Obama’s unbridled arrogance and contempt for the “little guy” that he would choose to knowingly destroy the festival.

    1. Yep, and that’s so far over the top that it will most likely get his ignorant ass out of office finally.

    1. Yeah, I stay up at night worrying about Bieber, and all the creepy 40+ year old women that are hot on him. Yecch.

  426. Not so much a tip as that I noticed that Biden is coming to campaign in a lot of states — I’d like to get a crowd together with posters that say:

    “Hey, Joe!
    Say something INTELLIGENT!!”

  427. Hey = love your site!

    You wish wish to post that Pelosi-as-wicked witch campaign ad. It is truly hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  428. From http://www.canoe.ca

    Margaret Atwood’s U.S. sellout
    Icon’s ignorant attack confirms just why Canada needs Sun TV News
    By KORY TENEYCKE, QMI Agency

    Earlier this week, Avaaz, an American special interest group funded by U.S. billionaire George Soros, circulated a petition opposing the television licence for Sun TV News — Quebecor’s proposed all-news channel for English Canada.

    I, like many Canadians, learned of this petition when author and “A-list” cultural nationalist Margaret Atwood announced she had signed it.

    Despite the fact Sun News has not broadcast a minute of content, the petition states this is an attempt to bring “American-style hate media” to Canada, and it will broadcast “hate-filled propaganda.”

    Really? Last time I checked, hate speech was illegal in our country.

    It also picked up on the slur from Sun TV News’ competitors, calling the channel “Fox News North.” Fox, and its parent company Newscorp, are not owners of this channel, nor are they involved in its development.

    It is as Canadian as the maple leaf — a joint venture between two Quebecor companies: TVA and Sun Media.

    Based in Manhattan, Avaaz (“voice” in Persian), is so ignorant of Canada they said energy company “Suncor,” not Quebecor, was behind the application. An embarrassing error, but even worse were the lies contained in the petition.

    The petition, and the ignorant U.S. fringe group behind it, would make a great “Talking to Americans” segment with Rick Mercer, if they weren’t so serious. These professional Yankee agitators are clearly trying to influence the television news options available to Canadians.

    That being said, over 45,000 people have signed this petition. It is safe to assume many, if not most, are Americans.

    Atwood is not the only A-list “celebrity” that has signed. Dwight Shroot (from The Office), Boba Fett (of Star Wars), Snuffaluffagus (Sesame Street) and Homer Simpson are also signatories. Clearly the CRTC should take note of such distinguished individuals lending their name to this smear job.

    This is not the first time Atwood has put her political agenda ahead of principles and patriotism. In the 2008 election campaign she was asked if she would vote for the separatist Bloc Quebecois if she lived in Quebec, she said: “Yes. Absolutely. What is the alternative?”

    Seriously?

    How about voting for someone who doesn’t advocate the breakup of the country?

    The final lie most of the media stories, petitions and general ankle-biting from our competitors promote is about money. Sun TV News is not, nor has it ever, asked for “mandatory carriage” by cable or satellite companies.

    As the critics correctly point out, this would be tantamount to a tax on everyone with cable or satellite service. It is what CBC News Network has, but not what we are asking for.

    We are simply asking for the channel to be “offered” by the distributors. This is meant to allow any Canadian who wants to get the channel to be able to call their cable or satellite company and subscribe to it. It does not mean it is a part of the basic cable or satellite package, nor does it dictate what (if any) package it would be a part of. We believe those should be private negotiations between Sun TV News and each individual cable and satellite provider.

    If the so-called journalists and commentators writing on this issue had read our application they would have seen we project 17% market penetration in year one, growing to 45% in year five. If we were assuming mandatory carriage, instead of mandatory access it would start (and stay) at 100%.

    All of these lies, half-truths and slander underline the need for Sun TV News. Canadians deserve better from their media, and we are committed to providing it.

    — Teneycke is Vice-President of Development for Quebecor Media

  429. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating whether former UVA Professor Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann defrauded taxpayers by using manipulated data on global warming to get government grants. The case went to trial Friday, prompting resident moonbat Ryan McElveen to hold an Anti-Cuccinelli Rally on the UVA campus. Problem is, only FOUR supporters showed up, which means the leftwing media had them outnumbered by at least 2 to 1. Here’s the coverage, compliments of NBC affiliate.

    http://www.nbc29.com/global/Category.asp?C=175568&clipId=5045067&autostart=true

    This really highlights how little the public cares about nonexistent AGW, and how desperate the MSM is to keep it on life support.

    Enjoy,

    John Lohman

    1. Kimmy I’m not shocked at all. What else other than pro-Muslim behavior did any one expect of him?

        1. Yes Kimmy, isn’t it odd how when Conservatives make a statement it’s drawn, quartered, and dissected by the libtard media until they can twist it into something derogatory and label it “hate speak”…

          Then when a more than obviously “hate motivated” libtard makes a very derogatory statement it’s twisted around and hailed as a positive remark due to our lack of understand it’s vagary… Just like when they publicly stand up and defame the Constitution as old and out-dated, then turn around and use the self same document to hide behind and protect their immoral and unethical agendas…

    1. I don’t even understand the point of compiling such a list. Mcmahon’s reasoning doesn’t make any sense. I feel as if he was trying to get racists to dislike Grimm for his Jewish donors YET he is also courting Jewish donors?… Maybe he is upset that Jewish people gravitate more towards Grimm? it is very weird…

  430. A general comment: If we don’t ask critical questions boldly, the United States of America could well emulate the “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”!
    My three most important questions are:
    (1) Why do we have several self-proclaimed communists reporting directly to the White House?
    (2) Why were these individuals not vetted by the FBI?
    (3) Why are we running-up the largest debt in U.S. history and having China as our major creditor?

  431. The liberal media is only just now reporting this story (it happened over a week ago) and they keep forgetting to mention that the perps are black and the victim white/hispanic. Why isn’t the liberal media calling this exactly what it is, a racist hate crime? A violent hate crime committed by blacks against a white/hispanic kid who is currently fighting for his life in a hospital? Where’s Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Where’s the “Teachable Moment” in this? Please give this story some needed media attention and call the liberal media out on its racist PC double standards. Thanks.

    Pratt Student In Coma After Attack In Brooklyn
    http://gothamist.com/2009/08/11/pratt_student_in_coma_after_attack.php

    One Arrest Made in Brutal Beating of Pratt Student
    http://gothamist.com/2009/08/12/one_arrest_made_in_brutal_beating_o.php

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