Well, in California lately every day is a bizzare circus of one sort or another … we have no budget, IOUs are being issued from Sacramento and the state house of clowns legislature is debating cow tails instead of delivering a budget.
Today’s big circus is happening in Los Angeles at Staples Center
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton says Michael Jackson’s casket will be taken to the downtown Staples Center for the singer’s star-studded memorial service.The addition of the body adds to the spectacle currently gripping downtown Los Angeles. Police blocked off roads and warned those without tickets to stay away because they would not be able to get close to the Staples Center. [...]
More than 1.6 million people registered for free tickets to Jackson’s downtown memorial. A total of 8,750 people were chosen to receive two tickets each.
“I got the golden ticket!” one fan screamed out of his car window in a Willy Wonka moment as he drove out of the parking lot. [...]
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said Tuesday on CBS’ “The Early Show” the department would have more officers on the streets of downtown for the memorial service than it had for last month’s Lakers victory parade.
Geez, I wonder who is paying for all that overtime? I mean, with an 11.4% unemployment rate, why worry. Bring on the crowds! Stream the Internet! Let the California craziness extend to Congress!
Not only send in the clowns, but
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey starts a run at Staples Center on Wednesday, a booking long planned in advance. In the pre-dawn hours before Jackson’s memorial, the elephants started walking from the train station to the arena. They were set to arrive some five hours before the memorial.
Perfect.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 8:48 am #
I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 8:50 am #
The U.S. Congress and Obama are doing to this country what Michael Jackson did to his face.
Send in the clowns? They are already here.
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 8:54 am #
What could go wrong?
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 8:57 am #
I mean, seriously, nothing to worry about.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/7 @ 8:59 am #
God!! The T-shirt biz must be mucho robusto near and around the Staples Center.
“I’m with Billie Jean”
“I went to Michael Jackson’s funeral and all I got etc. etc.”
“The Jackson 4″
Another opportunity missed.
Comment by A Conservative Teacher on 7/7 @ 8:59 am #
California’s love of Jackson’s death is yet another sign of its decay, in this case in a moral and ethical sense. All of these people are not going to pay respects, but to reveal in the orgy of death and exposure that marks the leftist Socialist State of California. Perhaps you should vote Republican, and try to vote for more conservative Republicans, and then your state wouldn’t be so so sad.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/7 @ 9:03 am #
Imagine what Pee Wee Herman’s funeral is going to be like. Is there an arena big enough?
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 9:11 am #
Pee Wee will be ritually killed in the Staple Center and laid in the tomb of Michael Jackson for his journey to the after life.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 9:15 am #
Perhaps you should vote Republican, and try to vote for more conservative Republicans, and then your state wouldn’t be so so sad.
Believe me, those of us who still live here and haven’t fled yet have tried. But unfortunately, some so-called “conservatives” in other parts of the country were so greedy and enamored of cheap hired help that they imported a larger and larger underclass that votes Commiecrat 2 to 1, and smeared those of us who saw that this was folly.
Of course the bolshevik buttpirates and Che creeps of the left are horrid. But it took votes from a larger and growing underclass to push them over the top.
So perhaps you should address at least some of your anger at the Wall Street Journal, Zombie Jack Kemp, and all the other fools who Hispandered.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 9:16 am #
ACT
do you know how many people are flying in from outside of the US to this spectacle? The international terminal at LAX has been jammed and local hotels have been filling up with “worldwide fans”.
I have to give at least half a prop to Elizabeth Taylor who has denounced this and refused to attend (even as she kept talking about her “love” of Jackson).
Comment by alppuccino on 7/7 @ 9:20 am #
Elizabeth Taylor who has denounced this and refused to attend
And at a time when she’s probably looking her absolute smokin’ hottest. Shame.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 9:21 am #
Curmudgeon
That’s just part of it… the state GOP has been legendary in its ability to stand in a circle and shoot itself. They actually had a chance with Arnold, but snubbed his first special election propositions that would have helped avoid the mess we are in today, but NOOOOOOO, Arnold wasn’t “pure GOP” enough …so after that spanking Arnold said “screw you” and turned left. Only in the last 3 months (when the voters overwhelming said “NO” to new taxes) has some of that old Arnold returned.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/7 @ 9:25 am #
And K-Mart throws in with little boys’ pants, one-half off!
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 9:28 am #
cow tails were good for making poor man’s osso buca, but now cow tails are expensive. Veal shanks are now cheap. Go figure. Perhaps the California legislature can explain.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 9:29 am #
That’s just part of it… the state GOP has been legendary in its ability to stand in a circle and shoot itself. They actually had a chance with Arnold, but snubbed his first special election propositions that would have helped avoid the mess we are in today, but NOOOOOOO, Arnold wasn’t “pure GOP” enough …so after that spanking Arnold said “screw you” and turned left. Only in the last 3 months (when the voters overwhelming said “NO” to new taxes) has some of that old Arnold returned.
Sorry Darleen, but Ah-nold stabbed the state GOP in the back in 2006.
I was bummed out that the reform initiatives were beaten down by the union goons (again, with that underclass vote–thanks to Hispandering fools!), but I, and potential successor Governor Tom McClintock, and a good many others were willing to try again in 2006. But Ah-nold betrayed us.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 9:38 am #
I would guess veal is cheap because it is becoming more unpopular politically, hell, even I have a hard time dealing with the veal industry. As to why ox tails are expensive, dunno. Maybe the ethnic market?
I am more of a neck bones and rice man, myself.
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 9:41 am #
B Moe, yuppies think eating ox tails is ethnic is the problem. I used to love getting goat, with is like lamb but without the gaminess, but even that is expensive now. Looks like I will have to eat veal and lobster now. Go figure.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 9:43 am #
“DO IT FOR PAUL!!!” Oops, wrong memorial.
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 9:45 am #
Symbolic of Obama’s Administration:
A young woman in Wildwood, New Jersey was so depressed that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the Atlantic Ocean .
She went down to Morey’s Pier and was about to leap into the frigid water when a handsome young sailor saw her tottering on the edge of the pier, crying. He took pity on her and said, ‘Look, you have so much to live for. I’m off to Hawaii in the morning, and if you like, I can stow you away on my ship. I will take good care of you and bring you food every day.’
Moving closer, he slipped his arm around her shoulder and added, ‘I’ll keep you happy, and you’ll keep me happy.’
The girl nodded yes. After all, what did she have to lose? Perhaps a fresh start in Hawaii would give her life new meaning. That night, in the darkness, the sailor brought her aboard and hid her in a lifeboat.
From then on, every night he brought her three sandwiches and some fruit, and they made passionate love until dawn.
Three weeks later, during a routine inspection, she was discovered by the Captain ‘What are you doing here?’ the Captain asked
I have an arrangement with one of the sailors,’ she explained. ‘I get food and a trip to Hawaii and in return, he’s screwing me.’
‘He certainly is’, the Captain said. ‘This is the Cape May Ferry !
Comment by George Orwell on 7/7 @ 9:46 am #
Will they be passing out “special” Kool-Aid at the Staples Center? Why not?
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 9:48 am #
God is a comedian, no?
Comment by MarkD on 7/7 @ 9:49 am #
Meanwhile, in New York, the State Senate enters another day of gridlock. Those idiots better hope nobody notices that we’ve lost nothing by them not having passed the 800 or so new laws and bills they were working on.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 9:49 am #
Curmudgeon
Like I said, Arnold took a “screw you” (and I do NOT excuse it) attitude towards the GOP and extended his grudge into 2006. I was sorely disappointed for all the reasons in the article you link.
But the tension between the GOP factions in this state are well known, we really have a hard time getting along so we end up with the fuzzy end of the lollypop every time.
We got behind Arnold during the recall because this was a man who had some hard headed business savvy and could actually win statewide, but it is really weird he tossed all that business stuff out of the window in favor of all sorts of touchy feely leftist crap and a nose-out-of-joint GOP leadership didn’t help.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 9:50 am #
The post title pulled this from memory.
Fits for me.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 9:59 am #
If he throws in an earthquake, I am sold.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 10:09 am #
I remember things much more like Curmudgeon.
And careful with the “we” there Darleen, I voted for the conservative McClintock, not Arnold.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 7/7 @ 10:14 am #
When is the Blue Angels’ fly-over scheduled?
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 10:15 am #
lee
sorry about the “we” without disclaimer … yes, I did vote for Arnold because McClintock would not have won. I’m also sorry that Arnold gave up so early on the people who put him in office.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 10:20 am #
BTW, CA Gov 2010, I’m leaning towards Meg Whitman.
God help CA if Gavin Newsom or Jerry Brown get in. I can’t move from CA right now but DAMN … (hubby and I have been discussing Texas)
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 10:20 am #
lee: You got it. Who really had their nose out of joint? Ah-nold, that’s who.
Funny how we who want the GOP to actually stand for something or at least against the Commiecrats and not be Commiecrat Lite are accused of not being team players and not working with the RINOs.
In the recall, that was not true, even those of us who DID vote for McClintock did so only because we knew Ahnold was slam dunk. In 2004 and 2005, we worked with Ah-nold.
But in 2006, it was just the opposite. Ah-nold sold us out.
Why? Because I think Ah-nold had/has this need to be “liked” by the “smart” people who believe in Global Warming Fraud, or Stem Cell Corporate Welfare. (Never mind the moral objections, it has been 5 years and as many billion dollars and what has been discovered? At a time when the public hospitals are closing down and falling apart?)
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 10:23 am #
Darleen, I agree with you about Arnold. Flawed to be sure, but less crazy than the Democratic alternatives.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 10:26 am #
Curmudgeon
After the debacle of Nov. 2005, I think the bad feelings between Arnold and the GOP leadership was mutual. I don’t excuse it from either end… both should have mended fences and moved on. As it was, it gave the states Leftist Democrats great comfort and screwed us over-taxed citizens.
Comment by ThomasD on 7/7 @ 10:29 am #
This question is only half rhetorical.
Can someone please explain why California’s IOUs are not bills of credit?
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 10:30 am #
Joe: Don’t get me wrong. I did not oppose the recall of 2003. But in 2006, when Ahnold was coasting to reelection victory, would he lend ANY of his star power to help McClintock become Lieutenant Governor? Or Poochigian for Attorny General over Jerry Moonbat Brown? And a few Republican Senators and Assemblymen in narrow races?
Yet, Ah-nold did not make a single TV or radio ad for any of his fellow Republicans, nor did he have rallies and public appearances with the rest of the California Republican slate as media events. Sadly, McClintock, Poochigian, Parrish and Strickland lost, McClintock quite narrowly. Even the man he appointed as Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson, narrowly lost— to a complete nobody like Debra Bowen. None of the five losing Republicans were allowed any public connection to the Schwarzenegger for Governor effort. Given the Governator’s popularity, the narrow Republican losses of McClintock and McPherson, and Phil Angelides’ weasely attitude, all it would have taken would have been a public arm around the shoulder on a TV ad to have helped!
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 10:31 am #
OT: Palin gives short interviews on resignation.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 10:35 am #
Or Antonio Villaraigosa. I know he said he wouldn’t run, but That’s probably a strategy rather than the truth.
I like Texas too, but north Louisiana is a possibility for me too, I have family in both places, and Louisiana has a pretty good employment picture.
Comment by TheGeezer on 7/7 @ 10:40 am #
California: the land of whispering bushes and a natural disaster every eleven days.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 10:46 am #
geoffb
The most amazing thing about that is the people who project their own meaning on Palin’s words, including the CNN “reporter”.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 10:49 am #
Geezer
I was born and raised in California and I’m so frustrated at how it has come to be that Leftists have squandered this states’ riches I could spit.
The fight came to a head in the 70’s and the Leftist politicians have been trying to punish us for 30 odd years.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 10:53 am #
Living in California, I have begun to feel like the underground mutants in “Beneath The Planet Of The Apes”. Just two small atomic bombs–detonated in San Francisco and West Hollywood (especially on a demonstration weekend when all the remainder of the financial sector is not working in the Financial Districts of both cities) would shift the state back to sanity. Four small atomic bombs, SF, West Holly, Oakland/ Berkeley, and South Central LA (Where that bitch Maxine Waters is) would make the state solid Republican, believe it or not.
Or make the Oakland/Berkeley bomb detonate over Marin. Given prevailing westerly winds, Oakland/Berkeley could be bathed in “the holy fallout” of SF and Marin bombs.
“Alpha Omega….the firestorm, the blast, and the Holy Fallout…”
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 10:55 am #
Curmudgeon: You are absolutely correct. Arnold is a girly man on conservative issues. I wish he did more too. How can we push Arnold more to the right?
I still prefer Arnold in Sacramento than the Dem alternatives.
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 10:56 am #
Other than your suggestion at 40!
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 10:58 am #
Joe: I know; I’m angry. But Kim Jong Il COULD actually do some good in his final desperate attempt to hold power. Just saying…
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Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 11:08 am #
Andrew Sullivan quote of the day: “I sure hope [Palin's'] family recovers from what she has done to them.”
Comment by DarthRove on 7/7 @ 11:10 am #
Joe, it could be that San Franciscans are going to bring on the Big One themselves in their search for Gaia-friendly electricity.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 11:11 am #
Notice they all came when called. Plus she looks good in waders. That is to the good.
Comment by Darleen on 7/7 @ 11:12 am #
#40 Curmudegeon
#4 daughter lives in SF and attend SFSU and is not a moonbat. Can we give her some warning and let her gather other non-moonbats and leave the city first?
Might be only a couple of car-fuls, but …
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/7 @ 11:23 am #
Darleen: You got it. I am reminded of Lot’s plea to Yahweh-God in Genesis about Sodom and Gomorrah. “If I can find just 10 righteous people in those cities…”
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 11:24 am #
BMoe and Joe - It is practically impossible to make Pho’ properly without oxtails.
Comment by mojo on 7/7 @ 11:26 am #
Burn down the Staples Center and raise the average IQ of California by 20 points.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 11:29 am #
If that would only raise the average IQ of California by 20 points, that is quite an indictment of California as a whole. Nishi is prolly there.
Comment by Molon Labe on 7/7 @ 11:31 am #
Oh please, please let it be their plan to have an MJ impersonator climb out of that coffin on stage. 10,000 ashen-faced fans hurtling for the exits in abject fear. Elephants panic and stampede, trampling hundreds. Then have to be gunned down in the streets. Blood everywhere.
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 11:32 am #
She does a nice job smacking Andrea Mitchell around here. “You’re not listening to me.”
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 11:34 am #
Plus the death taxes would likely put California back in the black!
I wonder how many of the people there believe in global warming, and what the carbon footprint of the event is?
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 11:37 am #
I wonder if Weird Al is there.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 11:39 am #
I guarantee there are clowns and midgets there, hence by presence on the opposite coast.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/7 @ 11:41 am #
Burn down the Staples Center
Too bad MJ and Richard Pryor never got to do that benefit for the “Ignited Negro College Fund.”
I denounce myself.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 11:51 am #
You were already denounced under a prior blanket denunciation and condemnation. That was redundant.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/7 @ 11:53 am #
Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 11:59 am #
Well it is completely impossible to make neck bones and rice without neck bones, so lets hope the yuppies don’t catch on to that.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 12:06 pm #
THEY ARE HURTING MOTHER EARTH!
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 12:11 pm #
Human induced earthquakes? Is that similar to the vibrations that occur when Michael Moore and Rosie O’Lard hook up with Helen Thomas for a menage-a-disgusting?
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 12:17 pm #
Eye bleach is not strong enough, BTW
Comment by TheGeezer on 7/7 @ 12:20 pm #
DarthRove, No.46: It just goes to show that if one drills Gaia, she really pitches a bitch.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 12:23 pm #
Somebody the other day said something about Helen looking like she had been rode hard and put away wet. I didn’t realize they were serious.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 12:29 pm #
Whatever it takes to keep ribeyes under $6 per lb.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 12:34 pm #
geoffb - A-fucking-men. I found a little butcher shop back home that cuts the steaks right off of the carcass, and they are about 1/2 the cost as the grocery stores.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 12:36 pm #
So, $3 per lb?
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 12:39 pm #
Kidding, a place that cuts to order is great.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 12:50 pm #
Some fire at NRO.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 12:54 pm #
$5.75-$6.25/lb and they will cut up to 1 1/2 inch steaks. Divine.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/7 @ 12:59 pm #
“#
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 12:54 pm #
$5.75-$6.25/lb and they will cut up to 1 1/2 inch steaks. Divine.”
I hate you.
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 12:59 pm #
geoffb,
Was that supposed to be a parody?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/7 @ 1:07 pm #
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 12:59 pm #
Reality, I think.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:08 pm #
Don’t know about parody, but it was brilliant.
No Patterico, Obama is not a good man.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/7 @ 1:10 pm #
Was that supposed to be a parody?
Danger — Yes, or a desperate attempt to stop NRO subscription cancellations.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:11 pm #
I still can’t stomach the thought of becoming what I hate to defeat it.
I’m more comfortable with using the second amendment for it’s intended purpose before, we lose it.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:11 pm #
excuse the lagging comma…
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:23 pm #
Heh. Putin slips in a dig at Obama.
Comment by Ric Locke on 7/7 @ 1:30 pm #
OT, but not really –
I found this — I no longer know what the path was to get there, but van der Leun was part of it. (Related)
Go over there and have a look. I’ve been banned; The Rulez are, Thou Shalt Not Disparage Hillary! In Any Way, and Calling Out Bigots Is Not Allowed Except When It’s Their Bigots. Nevertheless, both threads are well worth looking at.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by sdferr on 7/7 @ 1:33 pm #
neo-neocon* maybe Ric?
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:39 pm #
Yeah Ric, B Moe linked it here already.
Kinda heart warming…
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 1:40 pm #
I am also unworthy, but it is an interesting read.
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 1:42 pm #
Ok, then would someone care to tell me when slam Sarah Palin season is over,
It is bad enough that that left attacks her with every thing they have now we have to watch the supposed wise owls of the conservative movement pile on because it turns out Sarah Palin is not Ronald Reagan reincarnated.
What the fuck, (and I don’t drop that bomb very often) haven’t we acquired our pound of Palin flesh yet. In the Andrea Mitchell interview she was incredibly gracious to John McCain. So where is the Honorable Senator McCain and WHERE THE HELL HAS CHIVALRY AND COMPASSION GONE IN THIS COUNTRY.
When did become ok to drag someone’s family into a political debate without someone standing up or better yet someone knocking someone else out.
Well I was not raised to stand by and watch someone treated so cruelly. The more I see her attacked the more likely I am to stand up and break open the biggest can of whoop ass I can find.
I tell people that I consider it a blessing that I have never been assigned to the Pentagon because if I ever ran into some of our knowitall representatives I would be very tempted to apply a close and personal attitude adjustment.
Well now I guess the pool of applicants is getting a little deeper and I am getting closer to pulling the plug on this military career because their are others capable and (Thank God)still willing to defend the country in the military. It just doesn’t seem like their are too many willing to stand up for what is right in the political world.
and yeah I will say it again;
VOLLEYS DOWN RANGE PEOPLE!
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:43 pm #
Way off topic, but I’m really sick(end) by the MJ spectacle.
I would like to see a groundswell of support for the Constitutional government of Honduras as suggested here.
I think few things are as illustrative of the Obama administration as the contrast between their reactions to events in Iran vs. Honduras.
Talk about sickening…
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 1:46 pm #
Don’t know, maybe, but it hit points I’ve been waiting to see hit outside of blog comments.
Comment by cranky-d on 7/7 @ 1:46 pm #
OT: I’m pretty sure that the California state government issuing IOUs is illegal. Then again, illegality doesn’t stop the government from doing anything.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 1:49 pm #
Danger, that piece is a slam on the Progressive-left. Done as a sorta parody/comedy thing. This is great.
Comment by Ric Locke on 7/7 @ 1:50 pm #
A paraphrase of the comment that got me banned over at Reclusive Leftist (links above; I did it in the comment box and don’t have the original):
Feminists trying to figure out Palin-hate need to examine their attitude toward Hillary Clinton.
Hillary! is a bright person, and I don’t think she’d make a bad President, although I wouldn’t vote for her on policy grounds. But she’d be nobody, just another invisible bright woman, if she hadn’t married Bill Clinton. The Presidency is not part of the estate, to be taken over when the man dies, nor is it part of the chattels to be divided up in a divorce.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, did it all from scratch, starting with the PTA and working up. The difference is striking.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 1:53 pm #
Yeah Danger, I don’t understand all the people counting her out for 2012 because of her honorable stepping aside for the good of Alaska, either.
All those people that claimed they didn’t vote for McCain, they voted for Palin.
Personally I would vote for her for president if she ran as the Green party candidate, if the Republicans field another choice like McCain.
Indeed, my fiancee’s son is headed to Iraq in September (Air force).
God bless you and God Speed Richard.
Comment by cranky-d on 7/7 @ 1:59 pm #
Well, Ric, you said Hillary! needed a man to get her where she is. The fact that it’s true (the woman does not have the charisma to have made it on her own) makes no difference. The truth hurts progressives, and must therefore be banished from their presence.
Begone!
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 2:04 pm #
I’ve never known where nishi lives I don’t think. I thought maybe Michigan for some reason.
Comment by Adriane on 7/7 @ 2:05 pm #
The tentative return of Common Sense?
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/7 @ 2:09 pm #
What makes Palin truly unique right now is that it’s in her power to destroy the GOP. Nobody else — not Romney, Huckleberry, Thompson, etc — has that power.
Did anyone else read the hundreds of angry comments in response to the Powerline post calling Palin “unfit for office?”
The country club boys are playing with fire. And it’s going to gut their dining room if they don’t show a little more respect.
Comment by Carin on 7/7 @ 2:09 pm #
I thought she lived in Tx or something?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/7 @ 2:11 pm #
I vote for Colorado. There was a time when she was always, “I gots to go do something way cooler than skiing…” or something. That’s my paraphrase. cause I’ve slept a lot since then.
Comment by Adriane on 7/7 @ 2:12 pm #
Never mind. I take it all back…
Comment by Carin on 7/7 @ 2:13 pm #
You know, I think Maggie’s right. She’s made comments about living nearby to jeff.
Comment by Adriane on 7/7 @ 2:14 pm #
Salt Lick - either my browser is bad or the page was overloaded, but no, I could not get to the comments. I think Paul M has been consistently against Palin. Not sure if he is a Pawlenty fan …
Comment by Carin on 7/7 @ 2:16 pm #
Man, I’ve been too busy, but boy am I full of piss and vinegar. You know how fucking cold it is up here in Michigan? It was 65 at lunchtime.
July 4th weekend, and I was wearing carpis and a long shirt.
PTL Obama and Pelosi are going to save us from teh Global warming.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 2:16 pm #
That probably comes from her claim of all her relatives being Wolverines. Problem was she used blue and gold as the school colors. They’re not.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/7 @ 2:17 pm #
ha, that reminds me of yesterday my BIL made a comment about how Obama had tripled the deficit and someone responded that that wasn’t REAL money but social services cost money and I couldn’t tell if he was serious or not.
Comment by psycho... on 7/7 @ 2:17 pm #
Something has been making those reclusivleftist threads shrink and regrow and shrink and regrow like… I’m beginning to suspect Teh Patriarchy is at work.
And they banned Ric? The nicest guy on the internet. Damn.
I’m the most anti-feminist person I know of — I mean, I really do think it’s a world-historical evil of super-super-Hitlerian proportions that even in name is destructive to humanity (qua “rational animal”) — and I’m surprised.
I do have one of them psycho…-style explanations for the seriously creepy undercurrent over there — basically, that a “moment of clarity” always winds up intensifying the deeper mis-grasp of the world that necessitates the “moment” — but still. Ric?! Really?
That’s just too fucked up.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/7 @ 2:19 pm #
Imma come live with you Carin. Then my cupcakes won’t melt in the car.
Comment by Carin on 7/7 @ 2:23 pm #
No, they won’t melt. it’s freezing up here. Just. Dayum.
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 2:23 pm #
Yeah, after sundown here a long sleeve shirt was not enough unless you stayed close to the bonfire. On the Fourth of Freaking July. It’s 64 degrees right now and the 10 day forecast suggest we might break 80 a week from tomorrow. July 15. Let’s wreck the economy because of the excess heat!
Comment by Molon Labe on 7/7 @ 2:24 pm #
That ReclusiveLeftist post was quite amazing. I’ve never before seen civil, reasoned discourse on a Leftist blog.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/7 @ 2:24 pm #
Inre Sarah’s resignation:
Remember Dick Nixon……
“You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
Comment by cranky-d on 7/7 @ 2:32 pm #
Last year at this time I was dying from the heat, and was barely able to drag the air conditioner out of the basement and put it into the window. This year? It’s warmish, but not bad enough to use air conditioning. Right now it’s 80 degrees when it is normally in the 90s.
That’s global warming for ya!
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 2:42 pm #
Good news:
Michael Jackson, still dead.
Sarah Palin, not dead.
If you have freezer room, buy a steer from someone you trust, have the butcher go there, wack it and package the steaks, hamburger. Generally averages $3 a pound dressed out depending on meat prices with a variety of cuts. You can split or go fourths with the neighbors if the freezer space is limited.
And this David Kahane piece is a parody and a very good one.
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 2:43 pm #
Yeah, just don’t try to join in.
Comment by ginsewa on 7/7 @ 2:47 pm #
Heh. Not only was I able to flee Mexifornia for parts waaaaayyyy up north, but, since they pay my unemployment, the money leaves the state as well. Righteous.
Comment by Ric Locke on 7/7 @ 3:01 pm #
“Nicest guy on the Internet”? Hardly. I suppose my persona needs work.
Actually, I took care not to say Hillary! needed a man to get where she was; I did say she used one — she never did the PTA, School Board, City Council, Mayor, xx Commission, Governor… trudge; she was anointed Senator as a result of exposure as First Lady, and expected to be anointed President on the same basis. This is not to say she can’t or couldn’t do either job. I reckon she could, although I wouldn’t much like the way she did it and her current performance down in Foggy Bottom tends to discourage. My point is, she didn’t pay dues to the System the way Palin did.
That, to my mind, is part of the basis of Palinhate. They have so much invested in Hillary! that any challenge gets the blood pumping.
Probably what cemented my banning — it’s a moderated blog, and my comments just vanish when submitted, like what happens here when the link/post ratio is too large — was calling out another commenter on antimale bigotry.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Ric Locke on 7/7 @ 3:06 pm #
Oh, and BTW — I know I’m not on topic. I don’t watch teevee, and don’t care whether Michael Jackson is in Heaven, Hell, or Hollywood.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 3:12 pm #
All,
Sorry about the rant it wasn’t intended for anyone in the PW family. After reading the article all the way through I realize that I overreacted.
Initially I read the first couple of paragraphs and the went to the NRO site to see if it was legitimate and there I discovered the Rich Lowery piece.
You know I can understand if people are disappointed with Gov Palin’s decision and I also understand that honorable conservitives have doubts about her political skills. But attacks on her family and character should be off limits and met with the heaviest return volleys available.
She might not be a political science wiz or possess the most polished speaking style but she has her heart in the right place which is a hell of a lot more than the geniuses we have representing us now.
Lee,
Please have your fiancee’s son look me up if he gets to Baghdad. I work at the Iraqi AOC and my call sign is Danger.
Comment by thegreatsatan on 7/7 @ 3:15 pm #
I bet Mark Foley wishes he could have sold a few million records right now.
Comment by thor on 7/7 @ 3:18 pm #
Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State and Sarah Palin is back to sneaking an ass scratch during a PTA meeting. Difference, you betcha!
Comment by Rusty on 7/7 @ 3:19 pm #
#115
You and me both. I hope Honduras sticks it to the president but good.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 3:24 pm #
Will do Danger, thanks.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/7 @ 3:24 pm #
Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State and Sarah Palin is back to sneaking an ass scratch during a PTA meeting. Difference, you betcha!
So you’re saying they’re both busier than you are. Loser.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 3:28 pm #
I heard Palin has a $11 million book deal.
Sounds better than buying GM at $2.85…
Comment by cranky-d on 7/7 @ 3:29 pm #
Ric, you didn’t say she needed a man, but I was reading it like they would have. I guess that didn’t come across right. Such is life.
Comment by Thor's Ass on 7/7 @ 3:30 pm #
I’m very busy.
Comment by Makewi on 7/7 @ 3:31 pm #
People are stupid and believe what they want to believe, finding reasons to justify that belief later on proof #634:
From the Ric got banned tread
Supreme court justices are invariably picked (plucked!) by POTUS. Ownership of female genitalia and the PATRIARCHY! cannot change this fact.
Comment by thor on 7/7 @ 3:32 pm #
No, Abe, that’s not what I’m sayin’. You’re not following me, camera guy.
Hillary is a winner and the other a loser.
You see, Abe, Hillary got de-boned during the greatest election upset in American political history by O! She learned her lesson and quickly got on board the historic winning machine.
Comment by Monster's hot wet pussy on 7/7 @ 3:35 pm #
I’m hungry. Feed me!
Comment by thor on 7/7 @ 3:42 pm #
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Comment by The Monster on 7/7 @ 3:42 pm #
I have some pussy chow right here, thor.
Comment by Monster's pussy chow on 7/7 @ 3:43 pm #
Eat me!
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/7 @ 3:45 pm #
No, Abe, that’s not what I’m sayin’. You’re not following me, camera guy.
Hillary is a winner and the other a loser.
You see, Abe, Hillary got de-boned during the greatest election upset in American political history by O! She learned her lesson and quickly got on board the historic winning machine.
You’re the one who isn’t following. It’s a message/messenger thing. But any unemployed loser who trolls a blog where everybody despises him rather than mourning his mommy like a sane person doesn’t have much of a capacity for self-awareness.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 3:51 pm #
Colorado sounds right. Like she’s mentioned in the past that she and Jeff are homeslices or somesuch.
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 3:58 pm #
Yeah, that’s why she’s in Moscow all balls deep in diplomacy right now.
Oh, wait.
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 4:01 pm #
Michael Jackson?
He is still dead, correct?
Okay, just worried that a zombie or werewolf attack might be coming. Oh yeah, his brain is missing. Either way we are safe.
But thor, Richard Bennett, meya, and Semanticleo are still out there.
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 4:03 pm #
Here is a good link I found at Hot air (and no it isn’t by Ed or AP) http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/07/state-run-health-care-by-the-numbers/
Pretty illuminating numbers
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 4:04 pm #
Hillary is probably busy trying to figure out how to get Zelaya his third term on Obamas orders.
And weeping softly at what could have been…
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 4:11 pm #
Alert, Alert, Alert:
Ward Churchil gets no job and no money.
This helps partially restore my faith in humanity.
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 4:12 pm #
“Yeah, that’s why she’s in Moscow all balls deep in diplomacy right now.
Oh, wait.”
Well place volley sir, I cant wait for the reply.
My guess is that it will include some obscure litterary reference ;)
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/7 @ 4:26 pm #
For what is’t worth, due to California’s budget dysfunction, the Jackson estate, with their deeeeeeeeep pockets, should be covering ALL the costs associated with his funeral…
I realize that this makes me a, you know, RAAAAAAACIST!
So I’ll just take this opportunity to denounce myself…
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/7 @ 4:30 pm #
I realize that this makes me a, you know, RAAAAAAACIST!
I suppose that depends on whether or not the coroner determined that Michael’s surgical metamorphosis into a white man was complete at his time of death.
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 4:31 pm #
As Andrew Sullivan said about Palin today: “I sure hope her family recovers from what she has done to them.” Given all the mud he has flung, Sully deserves to burn in hell for that comment.
Well in the words of Fight Club: Her name was Sarah Palin.
Murtha, any ethics problems? Reid, ethics issues? Bawney Frank, ethically challenged? Old Sod Dodd, ethic issues? Payback is a bitch.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/7 @ 4:33 pm #
Oh and on the other sub-topic running through this thread…
I can’t wait until Hillary senses that the Titanic/Obama administration is approaching the iceberg and jumps ship; between the many Czars, Biden of Arabia, and the outspoken Susan Rice she’s been effectively made a queen without an empire…
Just think of the bloodfest if she opposed Obama in the Democratic primary prior to the 2012 national elections. Especially so if Ogabe completely ruins the economy…
I mean, in best Clintonian form they’re floating a trial baloon right now. Billy Jeff is campaigning for Senator Gillebrands Democrat opponent for the Senate seat Hillary vacated…
Schadenfruede all around, a double measure for everybody!
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 4:35 pm #
About the David Kahane piece. Is it still a parody if it simply tells the bald truth about something that is completely disguised in a cloak of lies?
Comment by Joe on 7/7 @ 4:39 pm #
geoffb, like all parody, it zones in and nails the truth. Like a club smacking a baby harp seal on the head.
Comment by Pablo on 7/7 @ 4:39 pm #
The Palins will be just fine. They know who they are. But Sully will never recover from what Sarah has done to him.
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 4:41 pm #
Yeah geoffb, that’s why I said I don’t kow if it’s parody.
Satire perhaps?
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 4:43 pm #
Man,
Somehow I always feel better after reading a Bob Reed post:)
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 4:46 pm #
Oh, and I want to congratulate Abe.
Never seen whore disappear so fast…
Comment by Danger on 7/7 @ 4:57 pm #
Well it is late here and I need to recalibrate my rage so:
Good night all
Oh and KEEP FIRING!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/7 @ 4:59 pm #
Maybe it was the double measure of Schadenfreude Danger; that always makes me feel a warm glow…
And here’s a link to the story I mentioned; http://tiny.cc/AZRE6
Here’s hoping that all here have a lovely evening!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/7 @ 5:01 pm #
Dial that rage in right friend; a nice flat high-velocity trajectory…
Kinda like a twenty mike-mike shell…
Stay safe bro!
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 5:03 pm #
Thanks Joe. Same as lee, I was unsure of the exact definition and so didn’t want to call it what it wasn’t.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 5:09 pm #
Just caught this bit in Darleen’s cow tail link:
You are actively encouraged to cut off the poor bastard’s balls, but its cruel to dock its tail.
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 5:20 pm #
it is always projection with libs:
Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 5:23 pm #
Is branding still legal?
Did you know Cocker Spanials aren’t born with those stubby little tails?
Is there debate going on about giving sheep dogs two ten minute breaks, and overtime?
I wonder if he frowns on all the rodeos that happen in his district?
Inquiring minds want to know…
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 5:40 pm #
Most short tail dogs aren’t born that way. I wonder if he has ever seen a doberman puppy, and knows what they do to there ears?
Comment by Makewi on 7/7 @ 5:42 pm #
I’ve been away doing other things for a bit, and so just found out that Al Franken is a US Senator. With that I wish to inform all you good people that I no longer care what happens in this country. Sorry. Someone else is going to have to take over for me from now on, because I can no longer bring myself to do it. We are not good enough, we are not strong enough, and frankly we deserved to whatever is coming to us.
Also, I hope Minnesota is eaten by a big shark, or a space alien or something.
Comment by Carin on 7/7 @ 5:47 pm #
Makewi - I will shoulder your burden for a bit. Until you can rejoin us. I have faith you can and will be able to eventually.
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 6:02 pm #
Also, I hope Minnesota is eaten by a big
sharksnark: al franken is a big fathead dumb liberalComment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 6:09 pm #
I am with Makewi. Wake me up when this is over.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 6:22 pm #
No free lancing, either. The government doesn’t like competition.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/7 @ 6:28 pm #
the alleged feral cats
…
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 6:29 pm #
How about free Lanceting. “Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD” Barack Obama’s “Special Advisor for Health Policy” via Belmont Club. article at Lancet requires free registration.
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 6:31 pm #
Katherine Varjian, 65, had been feeding
feral cats, or felineshumans that are not under her ownership, in her Beverly Hills neighborhood for the past 12 years.Comment by lee on 7/7 @ 6:32 pm #
Ah, guy’s, you can’t disengage. Michelle said so.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/7 @ 6:35 pm #
The actual Nashville Cats.
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 6:35 pm #
It is under this omitted code that Varjian has been charged.
in the age of O! the new fascism is ex post facto law
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 6:56 pm #
Congress passes bills that no one has read, that have sections to be filled in later, and that have things handwritten into them at some unknown time before or after the vote. So is unwritten “non-existent code” that is made up later so unusual or unusable?
Sounds like the toddling way to me.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 6:57 pm #
here is a neat map of earthquakes
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 6:57 pm #
i love that lovin spoonful song
Comment by guinsPen on 7/7 @ 7:00 pm #
Aww, you didn’t hav…
Comment by guinsPen on 7/7 @ 7:14 pm #
map of earthquakes
So, one cansee CCCP from AK.
Also, seismic activity indicates seeing’ll be even easier.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/7 @ 7:15 pm #
can see
Comment by LTC John on 7/7 @ 7:17 pm #
“Also, I hope Minnesota is eaten by a big shark, or a space alien or something.”
How about annexed to Canada? Not by the Candians choice, either…
Nothing but the Best and the Brightest in the Senate.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 7:17 pm #
You can’t make this shit up.
Apparently the Russian phrases for “is about to piss himself” and “won’t stand any jokes” sound very similar to the western ear.
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 7:20 pm #
the earthquake in ak is interesting.
Comment by B Moe on 7/7 @ 7:22 pm #
Actually I am very impressed that Obama wouldn’t stand any jokes, that Putin is such a kidder, you know, tough to keep a straight face when he starts with the gulag jokes.
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 7:23 pm #
yo rubskies:
tell it to the acorn and the “new” black panthers
Comment by newrouter on 7/7 @ 7:24 pm #
knock knock
who is there
“boom”
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 7:33 pm #
boom who I do not know any boom person hold on let me put on some pants
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/7 @ 7:40 pm #
No hf,
Maybe it’s a musical joke…You know, boom-shaka-laka-laka, boom-shaka-laka-laka…
I guess it’s Sly and the family Stone…
Comment by guinsPen on 7/7 @ 7:49 pm #
boom who?
Boom Boom.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 8:23 pm #
As a kid Geoffrion would practice the wild swinging motion by banging pucks on a cold outdoor rink endlessly.
Comment by takeshi kovacs on 7/7 @ 8:43 pm #
On Lowry, he was the fool who bought the
“Africa is a Country”, “She didn’t know what countries were in ” and other stupidities.
Comment by Seth on 7/7 @ 9:00 pm #
Rising unemployment, trillion dollar deficit, interest rates rising, house values plunging and stocks trending down.
Note to hopenchangers: the above mentioned items are related to each other. Ideas matter. Bad ideas really matter. Even if you’re bored by politics, politics isn’t tired of screwing with you.
The stimulus method for reviving the economy can best be described as follows: when desiring to get out of a deep hole, dig deeper and faster.
Like I said, bad ideas really matter. Whether you care or not.
Comment by Seth on 7/7 @ 9:01 pm #
But by all means hopenchangers, go back to watching the Jackson carnivale.
Bread and circuses for all!
Comment by SDN on 7/7 @ 9:12 pm #
As InstaPundit said about a week ago:
Caligula made his horse a Senator; Minnesota only did it to part of a horse.
Oh, and Neal Boortz said today: “Michael Jackson is a shovel-ready project.”
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Comment by thor on 7/8 @ 12:20 am #
That’s why the nation elected President Obama, Seth.
Comment by SDN on 7/8 @ 3:49 am #
Thanks, thor #190. One more count against the Violence Against Women Act for BellSouth’s abuse department.
Comment by Pablo on 7/8 @ 4:54 am #
Ah, thor’s pining for the taste of mama’s junk. Poor thing.
Comment by B Moe on 7/8 @ 5:03 am #
Another nugget of truth slips out.
Comment by Carin on 7/8 @ 5:04 am #
You will soon learn, Abe, that I’m
pretty mean when it comes to words.insane and a waste of time to comment with. Hahaha.FTFY
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/8 @ 7:53 am #
And he’s doing a bang up job making all those things worse. He’s da man!
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/8 @ 12:11 pm #
Get it? Fuck off, fuck yourself, go stick your daddy’s cock in your mouth. Hahaha. Catch the spirit!
You will soon learn, Abe, that I’m pretty mean when it comes to words. Hahaha.
Words are just words thor. Wielding them like a primate with a clump of feces isn’t mean. It’s embarrassing. Mean is provoking a talentless writer into a flailing spasm of stupid by wedging the gerbil of truth into his rectum.
Comment by Danger on 7/8 @ 4:22 pm #
Well said Abe,
Well said