New Orleans based Entergy still hasn’t resumed power for 200k customers after the ice storms of January 27-28. Clearly, this is Bush’s fault. Orchids.
I think we need a Tolerance Czar. Don’t you?
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February 3, 2009
Still More Why Does Obama Hate Flyover Country? [Dan Collins, UPDATED]
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Comment by alppuccino on 2/3 @ 10:25 am #
“Sheeeeit…..if this was Chicago, the kids would be out playing for recess. EON’T TOUCH THAT THERMOSTAT!”
Comment by McGehee on 2/3 @ 10:26 am #
Dan, should you be making these snide references to the President’s testicles?
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 10:26 am #
He’s from Hawaii, okay?
Comment by Bob Reed on 2/3 @ 10:28 am #
B-B-But…The one! said he was going to have a more responsive and effecient government…
Why hasn’t the one! declared it an emergency? Why hasn’t the one! visited the folks there? Why hasn’t the one at least flown over the area?
HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT FLYOVER COUNTRY CRACKAHZ! HE’S BASKING IN THE OVAL SAUNA WHILE CRACKAHZ FREEZE IN RED STATES! HE’S ENGAGING IN CRACKAH GENOCIDE !11!1!eleventy
I mean, the least he could do is work a miracle and give them sunshine and mid 70’s ’til the electric infrastructure is repaired…
I BLAME BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!…
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 10:28 am #
I guess those are what he placed his left hand on during the second Oath of Office, McGehee.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 10:32 am #
Winter Storm Death total rises to 55:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm
Comment by Joe on 2/3 @ 10:33 am #
Can’t they move to Hawaii, where not having heat is not that bad? Barack “Marie Antoinette” Obama. Hell, they can even grow orchids outside in Hawaii.
Comment by alppuccino on 2/3 @ 10:35 am #
They need to dust themselves off.
Comment by BJTexs on 2/3 @ 10:45 am #
Bob Reed is the bestest user of bold tags EVAH!
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 10:54 am #
oh. I think Baracky is just a hateful person generally Dan cause his mommy and daddy wanted nothing to do with him. It’s not Bush’s fault. Maybe Baracky was just a hard kid to love and he wasn’t able to overcome that. There’s just a lot of anger there that he tried to repress with illegal narcotics but never really successfully dealt with. My friend D has a cousin like that. You don’t wanna know how this story ends.
Comment by Jeff G. on 2/3 @ 10:56 am #
With a nobel peace prize?
Comment by Sdferr on 2/3 @ 10:58 am #
They hand those out for teleprompter reading now?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/3 @ 11:04 am #
Nah. He’ll write another autobiography and get the literature prize.
Comment by kelly on 2/3 @ 11:04 am #
No, just for general…awesomeness.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 11:18 am #
oh. BRD made a movie. That’s kind of a big deal I think, making a movie. You can watch it online. It’s about Christmas.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 11:21 am #
That was supposed to have a link … I think it makes more sense that way.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/3 @ 11:22 am #
I (helped) make a movie, too. Appear in it, as well. For a moment. Not going to point out who I am. It’s not great, but it was made in just two days, so what can you expect?
Where’s BRD’s movie? Wanna watch!
Comment by Sdferr on 2/3 @ 11:27 am #
Here Rob.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 11:31 am #
Oh ye with desperation on your breath, Entergy is a publicly traded company, not a government agency.
Comment by parsnip on 2/3 @ 11:37 am #
All the carping and Obama is still quite popular:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114091/Americans-Approve-Obama-Actions-Date.aspx
It’s as if America wasn’t listening to the far right anymore.
*cry*
Comment by alppuccino on 2/3 @ 11:39 am #
“tightening ethics rules for Administration officials”
good one parsnip. You had me going.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 11:42 am #
I’m not sure that thor knows what point he was making with that last.
Not that I care all that much. Conversational “point” is a male-centric construct, completely devoid of physical meaning. It’s all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 11:49 am #
I thought it had been too pleasant around here lately.
Comment by kelly on 2/3 @ 11:54 am #
Where did anyone imply that Entergy was a government agency, thor? Are you hitting the sauce this early?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 11:58 am #
Any comments on the raging tax scandals, or is that merely “right wing” too?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:00 pm #
I mean, think of all the chainsaws and cots that Tom Daschle’s taxes could have bought for the poor folks of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:01 pm #
Only us rightwingers care about taxes. The more enlightened among us care about such things as hope and change and victory plates and being able to say we made history.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:02 pm #
Hey look Daschle just dropped out. Hhahahahahahahahhaha
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:09 pm #
“tightening ethics rules for Administration officialsâ€Â
Tom Daschle.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:10 pm #
Richardson, Rangel, Dodd, C. Kennedy, Daschle, Killener, Geithner……….
I’m beginning to sense a “culture” of some sorts.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:11 pm #
“Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 11:42 am #
I’m not sure that thor knows what point he was making with that last.”
No point.
He’s just talking to the voices in his head.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:12 pm #
“I’m beginning to sense a “culture†of some sorts.”
The Chicago-Little Rock Axis of Corruption.
(Hillary! hasn’t dropped out yet, has she?)
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:13 pm #
Since Obama was willing to “stand behind” Daschle just a few days ago, they are waiting for the appropriate Kos and TPM posts outlining how “Barack Obama has never supported Tom Daschle. Barack Obama doesn’t even know who Tom Daschle (R-SD) is.”
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:13 pm #
thor and alfie, no comments on the “Al-Qaeda Cutting Jobs” thread.
Why not?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:15 pm #
We have always been at war with Eastasia!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:15 pm #
I wonder if Obama’s head of FEMA has paid his taxes? That would really suck if the guy in charge of the relief efforts in Kansas failed to pay his taxes too.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:16 pm #
Peaceful elections in Iraq, ones in which hard-line Islamist parties actually lose influence, makes the trolls sad pandas.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:22 pm #
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 2/3 @ 12:23 pm #
Wow, thor with a nonsensical comment immediately followed by alphie with, well, an alphie comment? Do you think they’re in bed together sharing the laptop? Or maybe in a coffee house stroking it to some spoken word?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:26 pm #
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. â€Â
Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:27 pm #
I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.
I thought that’s what assholes like Jimmy Carter do.
No more nonsense balloons for you.
Word
Comment by B Moe on 2/3 @ 12:28 pm #
And did you notice just how wide the swath in the Midwest of those without power?
As opposed to Katrina, which only hit New Orleans.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:29 pm #
#Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:22 pm #
Could someone translate that into Sane?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:30 pm #
thor is off his meds again.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:30 pm #
“I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.”
There’s an incredibly large amount that you don’t know, hor.
And you prove it here every day.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:31 pm #
“Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:30 pm #
thor is off his meds again.”
True, dat.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:31 pm #
“I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.â€Â
You must have absolutly 0 knowledge of WW2.
Comment by kelly on 2/3 @ 12:32 pm #
Swing and a miss, thorknob. Where did anyone imply that Entergy is a gov. agency? Oops, looks like it was you and you alone who inferred it, asswipe. Maybe if you tried to throttle back the sanctimonious snark you’d make a point every now and then.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:33 pm #
“Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:31 pm #
“I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.â€Â
You must have absolutly 0 knowledge of WW2.”
True, dat.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:34 pm #
Stand in your bathtub filled with water and stick your finger in a toaster.
Only a bathtub.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:36 pm #
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:34 pm #
WTF?
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:37 pm #
That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:37 pm #
Hey thor this is Wiki for you.
Japan was occupied by the U.S., aided by Commonwealth troops, until the peace treaty took effect in 1952. In accordance with the Yalta Conference agreements, the Soviet Union occupied and subsequently annexed Sakhalin. During the occupation, the Americans focused on demilitarizing the nation, demolishing the Japanese arms industry, and installing a democratic government with a new constitution. Commonly regarded by many historians as a resounding economic and social success, the Japanese occupation formally ended in 1952, soon followed by Japan’s meteoric post-war economic boom. The Far Eastern Commission and Allied Council For Japan were also established to look over the occupation of Japan. These bodies served a similar function to the Allied Control Council in occupied Germany
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:38 pm #
They = That’s
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 2/3 @ 12:39 pm #
Ummm…thor are you commenting on the wrong thread? This will, and has in the past, gotten me in trouble in here, but I kind of agree with you in your #41. But, I’m not sure what your comment had to do with the original post?
Comment by Ric Locke on 2/3 @ 12:48 pm #
Well, the Government, of course — as we were told, endlessly and at maximum volume, while the Bush administration was putting together the most effective FEMA response ever to Katrina. Everything down to any hangnails suffered by the clerk-typists filling in the checks is the Fault of the Administration, any intimation of actual responsibility.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 12:49 pm #
“Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:37 pm #
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:31 pm #
You must have absolutly 0 knowledge of WW2.
That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.”
hor believes communist propaganda.
Mhehe!
Comment by Sdferr on 2/3 @ 12:50 pm #
I don’t think the US military did work polling stations this time around. They stood far enough off and watched the Iraqis conduct their own elections. Which in the end, is as it should be.
Our military did insure the peace in a sense though, in the ordinary way that they have been doing every day for months now, a force at the ready, acting where necessary to help Iraqi security efforts, training and equipping the Iraqi security forces as they build their own strength. All to the good.
Comment by MCPO Airdale on 2/3 @ 12:52 pm #
Obama dozed. People Froze!!!!
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:54 pm #
Sure Ric, just like all your other monstrous exaggerations – Trig Palin story all over the MSM, Booooosh blamed for everything, Bwarney Fwank invented toxic securities, and we were told FEMA… yada, yada – you just make the shit up as you go to help hide the obviousness of redumblicanism’s and Bush’s failures.
We get it. You’re the victim. The whole of universal suckage is all the Left’s fault.
Comment by kelly on 2/3 @ 12:59 pm #
What fucking universe do you live in, thorknob? I mean, I tend to skip over phlegmy loogies but #60 is a tribute to your besotted hack partisan delusions.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 2/3 @ 1:00 pm #
Thor, that last screed could have been an entry about yourself in your personal journal. Especially, that last line. If you’re so sick of that behavior, why do you emulate it to a T in here?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 1:01 pm #
“The whole of universal suckage is all the Left’s fault.”
120,000,000 dead people agree with that statement.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 1:03 pm #
This is fun.
“That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.”
http://www.geocities.com/mark_willey/lend.html
Sure thing, hor.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:03 pm #
It’s just sad cause Baracky’s administration had started with such promise. Oh well. I think maybe some of it was never really very realistic to begin with.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:06 pm #
For equilibrium’s sake, maybe, who can really say, but I know darn well know that that Dan Collins punter needs his comeuppance stomped!
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 1:14 pm #
take your meds and lie down for a bit.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 1:20 pm #
Sorry, I don’t speak simpleton.
Comment by Ric Locke on 2/3 @ 1:31 pm #
Why, sure, thor, just like you can excuse any excess or dereliction by shouting “REDUMBGLICANS! BOOSH!”
The people who fucked up the Katrina response were Democrats. Nagin didn’t implement his own emergency plan, which left the city disorganized long enough for evacuation means to be flooded out, and Landrieu dithered and dillydallied rather than issuing the authorization for Federal troops to come in and assist. That is the FACT. “Brownie” did do a good job — which is to say, he sat in his office and didn’t get in anybody’s way, which is the most we can expect from any Federal official nowadays.
You and your allies established the standard. Too bad you don’t seem to be meeting it yourselves.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:41 pm #
Dan, my mentor, channeled my current preferred usage of rethuglidum in lieu of redumblican several weeks ago.
Details, like elections, matter!
Comment by Cave Bear on 2/3 @ 2:17 pm #
The only “detail” that is relevant where you are concerned, thor-boi, is that you are one of the leading cockholsters (especially your boy O!bambi’s) in these United States, and dumb as a sack of rocks to boot.
Deal with it.
Comment by ushie on 2/3 @ 2:53 pm #
“That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.â€Â
It was a totally cool war, with none of that icky death or torture or anything. It’s not like I read about Russian soldiers strangling German soldier with piano wire or anything neocon Republithug like that.
Comment by McGehee on 2/3 @ 3:13 pm #
Thor’s just upset because his tax-dodging no longer gives him an inide track to a White House job.
Comment by gebrauchshund on 2/3 @ 5:05 pm #
I always thought the Russians called WWII “The Great Patriotic War”.
But then I make no claim to be an expert on all things Russian.
Comment by Rusty on 2/3 @ 5:08 pm #
#72
And something went on in Asia and the the pacific, but it didn’t amount to much.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 5:15 pm #
Thor’s been with the Red Army as it marched towards Berlin. He was there in the shit, man. It sent a thrill up his leg.
Comment by meya on 2/3 @ 6:07 pm #
week 2 of the FAILED OBAMA PRESIDENCY
Comment by SDN on 2/3 @ 7:46 pm #
Oh, and what thor doesn’t want to admit is that Entergy and every other nominally private utility company in the country actually has its’ rates and profit margins dictated by the government. Google “Public Service Commission”. What that means is that they can’t raise rates ahead of time for an emergency fund, nor afterwards to pick up the damage, without government approval.
There’s a name for an economic system that has businesses nominally privately owned but regulated in every aspect by the government…. I believe the word is Fascism.
Comment by thor on 2/4 @ 3:58 am #
I’m pretty sure fascism isn’t gov’t utility regulation, ya mud bunker idiot.
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