Dance of the Sugarplum Failure
Related story that craves more attention than it’s gotten. But of course, with Democrats any appearance of impropriety is purely coincidental.
And while we’re on the subject of epic failure, here’s nothing that . . . oh . . . about $150 million can’t fix:
So far this school year, at least 36 school-aged children have been murdered in Chicago. Tio Hardimon, Director of Mediation Services for the Chicago-based anti-violence group CeaseFire, blames the bloodshed on a lack of resources for teenagers. Hardimon explains how he and his team encourage young people to hold their fire.
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Comment by alppuccino on 5/19 @ 9:29 am #
“Culture of Corruption” has been used already Dan. How about “Tower of Babble”?
Comment by Vermont Neighbor on 5/19 @ 9:46 am #
Ridiculous. Why should Sen. Dianne-stein answer to these petty graft and corruption charges? Ground rule: all liberals steal in the name of justice. She’s royalty. Let her continue her reign at our expense. Same for the filth installed in the Whitehouse.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/19 @ 9:50 am #
Until they have a better shot.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/19 @ 9:53 am #
Amazing what you don’t find when you don’t look.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/19 @ 9:54 am #
Looks to me as how Ric Locke is right and I was quite wrong, she is going to escape what I truly believed was a self-created political death-trap, since it’s come to the point that the GOP has to do ads about the subject, it ain’t got the weight with the Dems alone that it needs to sink her and she’ll skate.
Good call Ric!
Tough luck, United States! You deserve her.
Comment by psycho... on 5/19 @ 9:55 am #
1) Don’t parse that sentence. Your brain will fall off. Mine did.
2) Self-evidence isn’t evidence. See the hyphen?
The result of which hypothetical attention would be what? The marching-into-the-sea-at-gunpoint of Pelosi and hubby and everyone who enabled or benefited from their sleeping every night on heaps of stolen money? No?
Then why bother? What would further detail get you?
They’re free. You’re not. Won’t change.
Don’t request pornography of it.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/19 @ 9:58 am #
Let me guess, that’s one of those Constitutional provision thingys, isn’t it?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/19 @ 10:04 am #
Fuck off, psycho.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/19 @ 10:07 am #
Rob, I think you’ve misread the satire of psycho.
Comment by Squid on 5/19 @ 10:11 am #
Waitaminnit — I thought Bawney Fwank was the Sugarplum Failure?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/19 @ 10:12 am #
Dan, it’s impossible to “misread” psycho because there’s nothing there to read in the first place.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/19 @ 10:15 am #
I respectfully disagree, Rob. Within that supersardonic exterior, there’s an incredibly nice guy clawing to get out–kind of like in Alien.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/19 @ 10:16 am #
yes. fuck off not I think cause of yesterday he was brilliant and there’s no reason to think he can’t be so again today. Mr. Crawford is not in his happy place this morning.
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Comment by Vermont Neighbor on 5/19 @ 10:22 am #
All of Sacramento is satire. The two ‘ladies who lunch’ who pose as credible, intelligent lawmakers… that’s also satire. Worthy of federal investigation though.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/19 @ 10:23 am #
Haven’t been in a while. But life’s too short to search for the kernel of meaning in the word salad psycho shits out.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 5/19 @ 10:26 am #
If you want to feel better go here. You can read stories about people whose lives are 100000 times worse than anything you got going on.
http://www.fmylife.com
Comment by Sammy on 5/19 @ 10:26 am #
Pay everyone in Congress $1 million per year, use public funding for campaigns, and don’t let elected officials accept any gifts, even Christmas presents, while they’re “serving the nation.”
We’re set up a system where politicians have to beg for money, and we’re surprised when they’ve been bought off?
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/19 @ 10:33 am #
Uh, I don’t think Pelosi and Blum have to beg for money, Sammy. They just enjoy stealing it.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/19 @ 10:33 am #
“… at least 36 school-aged children have been murdered in Chicago…”
And the award for “Best Parsing in a News Story” goes to….
So, and 18 y.o. drop-out drug dealer murdered over a turf war is a “school-aged child”, right?
Right?
Comment by Sdferr on 5/19 @ 10:33 am #
We’re already well aware you’re a fascist totalitarian Sammy, so you don’t really need to prove it any further to us…. though shining out a need to take control is what you do I suppose, so how will you ever stop?
Comment by Sammy on 5/19 @ 10:41 am #
What an odd little reality you live in. Is it by choice, or are you trapped there?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 5/19 @ 10:48 am #
Sammy I am just happy whenever you write a comment that doesn’t mention Bush regardless of the topic.
Comment by Bob Reed on 5/19 @ 10:50 am #
Well, call me crazy, but it seems to me that in Chicago schools, in addition to indoctrinting their youth on the tenets of social justice, as well as the Alinsky-esque notions peddled by Billy Ayers, and instilling a life long chip on their shoulders by distilling pre-civil war US history courses into hand-wring fests that focus on “the horrors of the middle passage”, need to offer some new courses on escape and evasion…
Maybe they could call it something like, “the horrors of the middle hallway”…
or
“Rules for Ragamuffins”…
just a thought
Comment by LTC John on 5/19 @ 10:53 am #
I rather like psycho, m’self.
“Tio Hardimon, Director of Mediation Services for the Chicago-based anti-violence group CeaseFire, blames the bloodshed on a lack of resources for teenagers.”
I would like to offer a translation, from the Chicago-ese, as follows:
‘Give me more money’.
Your welcome.
Comment by Bob Reed on 5/19 @ 10:53 am #
Oh, and I knew that Diane-stien would never really face any music on the matter in question…
After all, that’s one of the benefits of being a member of honest and true party, that controls the actions of the most ethical congress, EVAH !
Best Wishes to all
Comment by Sammy on 5/19 @ 11:00 am #
It’s just so much easier to say, “You’re guy was worse!” than try to defend obvious wrongdoing in my party. I feel like less of a shill that way.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/19 @ 11:01 am #
Hey, long time no see Bob R., welcome back. How’s the shoulder doing these days, much better I hope?
Comment by Ric Locke on 5/19 @ 11:01 am #
Actually, I think Sammy is on to something, but just doesn’t go far enough.
Let’s have Treasury add up everything collected in any Congressional district, deduct a percentage for the salaries of the Constitutional officers (President, Senate, and judges), and hand it to the Representative of that District in fee simple. To keep. Theirs. Ownership. No restrictions. Note: during the transition period it would be necessary to also deduct interest payments before the transfer.
Congresscritters could then fund anything their black little hearts might desire, with the caveats being that (1) it’s now coming out of their own pockets and (2) only the insane would loan money to the Government as a whole, because the only way to get it back would be if the Congresscritters paid up.
Redistricting would become much more interesting, as the competing requirements for (a) enough minorities and other dependents to get re-elected and (b) enough revenue-generators to keep the cash rolling in would be mutually exclusive.
“Earmarks” would disappear, for all practical purposes. The whole point of a John Murtha is that the suckers in North Dakota are paying. A Murtha would be able to spread the collected cash around, but it’s not at all obvious that anybody else would contribute to his habit. Same for things like military bases, NASA, and ACORN. The existing system is based on the illusion that somebody else pays. When the “somebody else” becomes an identifiable person, and moreover another Congresscritter, it’d be a bit hard to maintain the smoke and mirrors.
Of course this would reduce pretty quickly to Representatives who couldn’t be dislodged from office with anything less than an atomic weapon, but that’s pretty much what we have now.
We’d have to change the name, though. “Representative” is so plebian. “Baron” has a nice ring to it…
Regards,
Ric
Comment by LTC John on 5/19 @ 11:04 am #
Damn, Ric – that was grade A. The only thing I would change – instead of “Baron” I would go with “Comte”. More Euro-y.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 5/19 @ 11:05 am #
“It’s just so much easier to say, “You’re guy was worse!†than try to defend obvious wrongdoing in my party. I feel like less of a shill that way.”
You may feel like less of one but it is obvious you are MORE of one when you do it. The proper response probably would involve acknowledging the wrongdoing and then not defending it because you do not have to defend wrongdoing. Also normally when you type “IHATEBUSH!!!!!” and then you mention something 180 degrees off topic you make yourself look like a freakin idiot.
Comment by Sigivald on 5/19 @ 11:06 am #
God knows that every time I murdered another kid when I was under 18, it was because I was bored and there were no community programs to mollify me.
Comment by Bob Reed on 5/19 @ 11:07 am #
Thanks Sdferr,
I’ve been busy working on a couple of projects that have monopolized much of my time. While looking in from time-to-time I’ve mostly lurked; less my addicition to PW and discussion with it’s commentariat take me away from what I need to be doing…
And the shoulder, unfortunately, is still FUBAR…
I’m beginning to see a repair job coming in my future. A revoltin’ development indeed…
Thanks for the good wishes.
Comment by Bob Reed on 5/19 @ 11:12 am #
Ric,
That is a capital idea! If a constitutional amendment ever needed proposing, it is your exact formula…
The trouble is though, since we all collectively pay to subsidize the deadbeats in California and New York, and it would threaten the phony-baloney jobs of the carrer politicians, it wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in the Arctic of passing…
Comment by geoffb on 5/19 @ 11:17 am #
This story shows the “Prime Divider” society we have hidden away and layered over with many coats of fine lacquer peering though the worn spots. Quick slather on some more before it shows itself entire. Time is not quite ripe for that unveiling, but soon, so soon. Rough beast slouching, et al.
Comment by geoffb on 5/19 @ 11:25 am #
Let each Rep. also set the tax rate for their district.
Comment by dicentra on 5/19 @ 11:34 am #
How to fix the inner cities:
fathers, husbands, fathers, husbands, uncles, grandfathers, fathers, husbands, male teachers, male principals, fathers, husbands, husbands, husbands, fathers, uncles, great-uncles, fathers, husbands
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/19 @ 11:52 am #
*snort*
Yeah, like *that* would work, dicentra.
Comment by cranky-d on 5/19 @ 11:54 am #
I assume you mean real fathers and not what we have now, which is “baby-daddies.”
Comment by kelly on 5/19 @ 12:03 pm #
You left out mack-daddies.
Oh, wait a minute…
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/19 @ 12:18 pm #
“#Comment by LTC John on 5/19 @ 11:04 am #
Damn, Ric – that was grade A. The only thing I would change – instead of “Baron†I would go with “Comteâ€. More Euro-y.”
I don’t know.
I think Murtha would make a GREAT Baron Harkkonen.
Comment by TheGeezer on 5/19 @ 12:34 pm #
Not so fast. John Feehery of Politico.com thinks something’s up.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/19 @ 12:39 pm #
Heh. Not so fast yourself there Geezer. Never underestimate the GOP’s ability to screw up a promising possibility through clumsy meddling. :-)
Comment by Ric Locke on 5/19 @ 12:54 pm #
O’Brain, LTC John — actually, I’m thinking of Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Vorkosigan” stories.
For those not familiar — Bujold posits a pseudo-feudal system with an Emperor and Counts. The Counts originated as the Emperor’s tax collectors, charged with going to the local poobahs and auditing them to squeeze out the maximum revenue. On Barrayar, “Count” is in fact short for “accountant”. :-)
Regards,
Ric
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/19 @ 1:01 pm #
Counts originated as the Emperor’s tax collectors.
Oh.
Count de Monet.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 5/19 @ 1:14 pm #
“Count de Monet.”
With Obama as the piss boy?
Comment by Matt on 5/19 @ 1:28 pm #
I’m sorry dicentra but how dare you suggest a single mother is incapable of raising a child on her own. She don’t need no man, don’t want no man. It is this kind of sexist, mysoginist racist point of view that is really doing the damage to the african-american community. If we’d simply pay single mothers in lieu of having a two parent household, things would be set. And I’m not even going to address your complete snub of poor lesbian couples- they don’t need no man either. I think denouncement is in order.
What the world needs now is more community organizing. Fathers? Byatch please, pffftttt.
Comment by lee on 5/19 @ 1:32 pm #
Matt, you’re also missing dicentras implied dissing of a mans right to pollinate as many flowers as possible while remaining free of the inconvenient responsibility of child rearing.
She’s heartless like that.
Comment by dicentra on 5/19 @ 1:43 pm #
She’s heartless like that.
They called me “Dragon Lady” behind my back in grad school.
Wusses.
Comment by TheGeezer on 5/19 @ 1:49 pm #
Man, that is perfect.
Comment by Matt on 5/19 @ 1:51 pm #
Hrm that’s what I call the lawyer I work with -she’s… well lets just say very disagreeable at times.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 5/19 @ 1:51 pm #
Well if you check out Drudge Obama is thinking about buying GM now. Fanfuckintastic what could possibly go wrong.
Comment by SDN on 5/19 @ 2:02 pm #
Michelle Malkin referred to your “Dance of the Sugarplum Failure” on her website but referred to your Twitter account instead of here.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/19 @ 2:28 pm #
Ways to get noticed by Drudge #294: Die of pig flu.
Comment by Joe on 5/19 @ 2:53 pm #
Rob Crawford, you need to join Rumsfeld’s glasses and Bolton’s stach for drinks and stewardesses. You are too tightly wound today.
Comment by mcgruder on 5/19 @ 2:57 pm #
36 kids dead.
And they are talking about more community organizing?
this is like 1972 all over again (without an exile on main street coming out.)
mau-mauing the flak catchers, indeed.
And dont tell me that the rich ofays of hedge-fundistan who put Obama on the map–and thats precisely how it played out, BTW–aren’t the modern Leonard Bernstein radical chic backdrop?
Comment by Adriane on 5/19 @ 3:02 pm #
I am having no problem with getting the helium balloons attached to the lawn chair; but, I’ve had no luck whatsoever teaching the swans to fly to Mars…
Comment by Dash Rendar on 5/19 @ 4:19 pm #
I for one belatedly enjoy mr. pyshco’s comments.
Comment by Rusty on 5/19 @ 5:44 pm #
Hmmmmm. Handguns are outlawed in the City of Chicago. Have been for years. Odd that.
#29
I feel like less of a shill that way.
But a shill nonetheless. Which lot are you going to bid up next?
Comment by LTC John on 5/19 @ 8:25 pm #
“hedge-fundistan”
Heh.
Does one find the inhabitants to be primarily Trustifarians?
Comment by happyfeet on 5/19 @ 8:38 pm #
Lying dirty socialist propaganda trollop Scott Sperling is a lot representative of a hedgefundistanian what is trying to blow smoke up my ass and cover the sun with one finger. Sometimes I think the Wall Street Journal just likes to get these whores on record for so their socialist whore ravings can be preserved for future generations.
What a cock.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/19 @ 8:42 pm #
here are the comments for Ms. Sperling. Not a one is buying what she’s selling.
Comment by B Moe on 5/19 @ 9:19 pm #
Everything is backwards now ‘feets, see:
We are going to make them much less likely to take large amounts of risk by bailing them out when they do.