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"Obama team uses flimflammery to inflate job numbers"

Good news: that stimulus money that went to create “green jobs”? It worked!

— That is, if by “green jobs” you mean “jobs that administration officials have decided retroactively to designate as green, regardless of whether or not they have a lick to do with combating ‘global climate disruption.'”

So, win-win.

Which reminds me: after a year of hard work, I finally hit 500lb on the bench press this morning. It took a lot of protein and, frankly, a degree of mental toughness I never knew I had in me.

That, and the strategic decision to go ahead and call 175lbs “500”.

Hercules!

0 Replies to “"Obama team uses flimflammery to inflate job numbers"”

  1. Soiled Sockpuppet says:

    Between these and the jobs Obama’s saved, why, he’s saved or created 150 million jobs! All praise Obama!

  2. Republican on Acid says:

    I have decided that this fart is now hurricane.

  3. Carin says:

    So … using this technique – I declare that i have SIX PACK ABS!!

    Yea me!

  4. Carin says:

    Of course, I think the most wonderful bit of transformation is that people making $250,001 a year a millionaires.

  5. dicentra says:

    Check out my back yard these days: my soil is fertile, I get adequate rainwater, and all the weeds get pulled before they germiniate.

  6. sdferr says:

    heh, nice border di.

  7. Gulermo says:

    A good spotter,(or two), could make that 512 happen. Just sayen.

  8. cranky-d says:

    I declare myself wealthy and handsome.

    Ladies, call me.

  9. motionview says:

    That 175 pounds is 10,101,111 pounds if you count in base 2.

  10. happyfeet says:

    there’s an ungodly vacuum in America where leadership is supposed to be but it’s worth noting that Louisiana whore Mary Landrieu is showing exponentially more balls challenging her titular president than the Team R senate homos have shown in challenging Alaska whore Lisa Murkowski

    Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) hold on Jacob Lew, Obama’s widely praised pick to run the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), marks a dramatic political escalation of her battle against the temporary drilling ban, imposed as a safety measure after the BP oil spill.*

    I’d also note that this is far and away a stronger stance on Obama’s job-killing oil drilling moratorium than anyone in the drill baby drill party has taken.

  11. sdferr says:

    Lil’ Miss Mary knows she has another race to run in four years and if she doesn’t step up now, she’ll be doomed then. I could almost use this to argue she shows a modicum of intelligence, but I won’t.

  12. BuddyPC says:

    I’m inspired.
    Next week I’m doing this with my due quarterlies using whatever pocket change I send in.

    Should I settle for the black stetson or go whole-out with the ten-gallon?

  13. Dave in SoCal says:

    I hope that Obama flimflammery was served up with a nice flimflam sauce.

  14. happyfeet says:

    here is yahoo finance propaganda whore Daniel Gross’s sum total of evidence that president bumblefuck is super-duper “pro-business”:

    make yourself a cup of coffee. Are you ready?

    Banking: Instead of nationalizing failed banks, it continued the policy of offering them capital on easy terms. And given what they put the country through, big banks got off relatively easy in the financial reform bill that just passed.

    Health Care: On health care, instead of pursuing a public option that would have killed insurance companies, the administration signed into a law a reform that was essentially a knock-off of the plan that Republican governor and uber-businessman Mitt Romney enacted in Massachusetts.

    Labor: The UAW received what some observers viewed as preferential treatment during the restructurings of Chrysler and General Motors. But more broadly, the Obama administration has not pushed hard for the “card check” legislation long cherished by the labor movement, which would make it easier for unions organize.*

  15. Ernst Schreiber says:

    There. You see happyfeet. Things are so bad after all! The ass-rapings came with lube.

  16. george smiley says:

    I think just the words ‘Daniel Cross’ convey the image well enough

  17. Ernst Schreiber says:

    aren’t so bad. Can’t seem to type to save my life today.

  18. geoffb says:

    Arne Duncan aims for the green.

    “Today, I promise you that under my leadership, the Department of Education will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society,” […] work to make American children into “good environmental citizens”

    Environmental literacy not the actual literacy. Good environmental citizens not actual plain good citizens. Environmental seems to be a modifier in the mode of the old all purpose “social”. It acts as a negative modifier without appearing to be one.

  19. george smiley says:

    Seeing how abyssmally the Chicago schools perform, ‘despite’ the infusion of sources like the CAC, I see he’s quite qualified to instruct us

  20. Spiny Norman says:

    Speaking of jobs in the Recovery Summer: the Grilled Cheese Underground

    NYC health inspectors are probably having conniptions as we speak (type?)…

    (via David Thompson, whose new secret lair is apparently completed)

  21. Magnolia says:

    What? My president lies to me (us)? There’s a new book out about Americans fed up with federal govt. & finally takes a stand. Great read cause it’s the same causes (high taxes, bankrupt govt., no true representational govt. for the People, continaul foreign wars, etc.) that caused our ancestors to rebel. I liked it.
    booksbyoliver.com

  22. Not only did I just deadlift an F150 not 150, but the three feet of intestine in my ballsack is actually… you guessed it, my own huge balls.

  23. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Bill Brasky!

  24. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    con-rip off artist/ flim-flam man..scam
    grifter,fast talker,enterpriser..that’s the ticket!
    go-getter,shark,thief…good grief charley brown!
    yes.. i will be honored to hold the football for you
    good luck!

  25. Jim 'n San Diego says:

    Congrats on your 500lb goal Jeff.
    I just banged my 1,000th stripper this morning and I have more waiting for me in the kitchen; I think I can hit 2,000 by Monday.
    I used to call “strippers” cups of coffee.

  26. Old Texas Turkey says:

    Hmm – I suspect the grilled cheese guy is moving some nickels and dimes under those cheese sammiches. Otherwise the overhead will eat him alive.

  27. The Ghost of Larry Summers' Reputation says:

    “Of course, I think the most wonderful bit of transformation is that people making $250,001 a year a millionaires.”

    In the land of the unemployed, the man with 250,000 is a millionaire.

    It’s all relative in DC, especially if you had a relative that was in charge of distributing TARP funds.

    Ka-Ching!

  28. Tman says:

    “Which reminds me: after a year of hard work, I finally hit 500lb on the bench press this morning. It took a lot of protein and, frankly, a degree of mental toughness I never knew I had in me.

    That, and the strategic decision to go ahead and call 175lbs “500?.”

    That’s impressive Jeff! Just recently I too was able to strategically decide that the 9 minute mile I ran was actually a 4:02! I broke the record for a man of my age!

    Next stop the Olympics!

  29. Silver Whistle says:

    And now for a party political broadcast on behalf of the Democratic Party/op-ed in the Wapo/whatever:

    There is still time for the media to shine a light on these front groups. There is still time for an aroused public to rise up against this ominous special-interest hijacking of our elections. There is still time for candidates on both sides of the aisle to take the side of average Americans and challenge these groups to disclose their secret funders. And there is time for Republicans to stop blocking a law that would require these groups to disclose who is influencing our elections.

    Obumblefuck’s media arm sure doesn’t care if that short skirt, low blouse and high heels look a little slutty.

  30. cranky-d says:

    SW, I would guess that the article quoted is about the Tea Party types. After all, since Progressives only assemble en masse when they are getting paid, that must be true for conservatives/classical liberals as well.

  31. bh says:

    Too obvious flimflammery leads to diminishing returns.

  32. Dave in SoCal says:

    “When cheese is outlawed, only outlaws will eat cheese.”

    OUTLAW!

  33. sdferr says:

    The very phrase “Obama team uses flimflammery to . . . ________ .” is one of those phrases with near infinite possible efficacy.

  34. bh says:

    Obama team uses flimflammery to… dismiss charges of flimflammery.

  35. The Ghost of Larry Summers' Reputation says:

    Drudge:

    “DEMS PLAN SEX HIT ON BOEHNER?”

    Yes, I know how it’s supposed to be pronounced, but still…

    I imagine that Barney Frank will be spearheading the effort.

  36. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    flaming flannel funnery fags find a way…
    to agree that flim flamming is fine..
    as long as bill cosby and robert culp are involved..
    and the man gets stuck

  37. TaiChiWawa says:

    I imagine that Barney Frank will be spearheading the effort.

    And I’m sure he will conduct an exhaustive probe.

  38. happyfeet says:

    with his penis!

  39. geoffb says:

    Link to the Boehner “story”.

  40. happyfeet says:

    so it’s a good thing that Team R isn’t running on family values nonsense this year and nobody really gives a shit who Boehner’s doing hey I heard president bumblefuck got all dirty sexy politics with a ho named Vera Baker in Chicago on his birfday when he sent M’chelle and the urchins to Spain

  41. Malik Shabazz says:

    You have to respect somebody this willing to whore themselves out for The Party.

    Headline from Politico:

    Prosecutor: DoJ bias against whites
    By JOSH GERSTEIN | 9/24/10 3:59 PM
    “He says the department discourages enforcing civil rights laws in a way that protects whites as well as blacks.”

    Up is Down. Black is White. Obama isn’t a race baiting hater.

  42. sdferr says:

    flim flamm, thank you ma’am. Or barney gets a boehner.

  43. Malik Shabazz says:

    Vera Baker is a dude? Because ebbybody in Chicago knows Barry likes the pole.

  44. JD says:

    Didn’t the NY Times try something like that on McCain? When are they going to simply admit that they are a mouthpiece for the Dems. Do they have to declare their work as campaign contributions, gifts in kind?

  45. sdferr says:

    has Barry ever been allowed to fiddle with Calypso Louie’s instrument?

  46. newrouter says:

    how was the white house malik?

  47. JD says:

    I created and/or saved 14 green jobs today.

  48. Malik Shabazz says:

    It was okay, newrouter, you racist cracker.

    I’m trying not to be critical of a brother like Barack, but I’m really not into that washed out color palette everybody in DC so pleased with this year. It looks as if they dragged some faded old 60’s photo out of grandma’s closet and told the decorator to make it look “just like that”. I’m sorry, Michelle, but I just believe in vibrant colors…

    and killing white folks’ babies, of course.

  49. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    white babies turn purple
    purple rain was a prince movie
    prince sphagetti involves two of the three din din utensils
    watch out for the spoon!

  50. Makewi says:

    Boehners response should be “We’re not doing social issues this year. Get on mah dick intern!”

  51. JD says:

    I tooted. 3 more green jobs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  52. newrouter says:

    malik did you get to squeeze mrs. O!’s biceps? did she give you a carrot?

  53. newrouter says:

    Boehners response should be

    i was enjoying some “green” jobs

  54. The intern on Boehner's dick says:

    Boehners response should be “We’re not doing [Barry’s campaign ‘treasurer’, i.e., Vera Baker] this year. Get on mah dick [media whores]!”

    Wait a second…

    Tan? Check!
    Likes a cocktail? Check!
    Golf? Check!
    Successful? Check!
    And now, news that he’s hitting everything but the lottery? Check!

    Holy crap! If this is true, Boehner really is Don Draper!

  55. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    i really don’t mind ur breathe.
    what gets my all lathered up is the fact that ur breathing..
    a spitoon is just a kiss away/a kiss away/ a kiss
    away

  56. ak4mc says:

    I’d hope the actor playing Boehner is less of an asshat.

  57. Malik Shabazz says:

    Dear Mr. newrouter-cracker-KKK-plantation owner-racist,

    Not that it is any of your business if I like masculine women or not, but I did comfort her during that difficult time where she had become aware that Barry was creepin’ with his big tittied ‘treasurer’.

    Let me tell you somethin’ ‘Rooter (can I call you Rooter?) that bitch did have some treasure all right, but you couldn’t spend it on ad buys. You diggin’ up what I’m layin’ down?

    Sincerely,

    Malik

    PS I is going to stop by tonight around eight and kill you. ‘Kay?

  58. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    boehner-are u running?
    answer- orange u glad u asked me?
    palin- are u runnining for president?
    idaho/ ill ask her!

    i love stuff!

  59. happyfeet says:

    alasker

  60. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    hf/ absorbe..

  61. happyfeet says:

    it takes me a sec to get things sometimes

  62. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    ’tis better they come to u
    goo goo a jjoob,
    trust me..
    a sad smile in a baseball hat from jennifer connelly
    is worth twice the price
    of sandra jessica parker getting her legs chopped off
    would u look that sexy perky impy da dad
    thing bump in the eyes as she got a slow tortu-os death and screamed..
    could u?
    cuz i could!
    be all like i could be..
    dont be a dont be
    do bee a do be?
    wtf?
    bjork!/ death from above!

  63. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    heard teeth outlive fires..
    yeah momma/ still looking

  64. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    momma!
    ma-,ma-ma momma!
    i will not sit in the back of the car
    wont
    will not..
    grrr..
    dont ..dont tempt me..
    ok..
    i admit/ ur right//
    john ritter never had a dick in his ear..
    and yes momma..
    yes momma/ dang
    his wife never had a penis touch her..owwww
    lips..
    {not what i heard/ word!)

  65. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    bobby quartro

  66. happyfeet says:

    john ritter’s kid is on that tv show about the black president who is noble and wise plus also space aliens

  67. newrouter says:

    malik that’s fine. do you think cream cheese and killing crackers work.

  68. Makewi says:

    He’s not black, he’s Hispanic. His name is Martinez and his POTUS retreat is in south Florida.

    He only looks black.

  69. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    j ritter critters spawn is gone
    h/shee-it
    humphery
    is just a piece/
    ahh/ revior/ french is tounge
    but half black right on red/ rotary ah ouiee
    u understand?
    a 35 hor work week
    fits in ur.. mm
    how u say.
    package?
    yes ur pack package..

    i have seaweed hope

  70. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    i have a john ritter doll
    he is hunky and full of..a certain majestic quality..
    but kinda shy..
    i want to suck his essence..
    like john wayne giddy ups horse things

  71. happyfeet says:

    I think he died of an undiagnosed heart problem and his family got a big settlement like that poltergeist girl’s parent got when her poop got all backed up

  72. happyfeet says:

    *parents*

  73. Malik Shabazz says:

    Dear ‘Root’,

    See what I did there? I cut off the ‘new’ and the ‘er’ and just left the ‘root’. I like that better, and I hope you do too, you pale-assed hater.

    On the spread front: only if it’s real Philadephia brand cream cheese. The rest of them generics don’t taste quite the same. I know, I know, it’s probably my imagination, but still…

    And I do want to be clear; it is very thoughtful of you to get some snacks together, but I am still going to kill you, a ‘cracker’, not some Ritz ‘crackers’. You dig?

    Yours,

    Malik

  74. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    i luvs a critter
    but i’m not bitter

    and we all hold hands/feets/tounges

    and we cripples say
    it’s not the litter
    or the- ha- glitter
    or ur tits in a twister..
    it’s all about…love
    love!
    can u beat off to me?
    shiny pissa cool me?
    la la la de da da da
    la- de da dah da da da

    i love something!/ u?

  75. newrouter says:

    malik i only use use aldi’s brand cream cheese. it has that certain german vibe that you folks like.

  76. newrouter says:

    malik did you get any pickled okra?

  77. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    why why why are hippie music so good?
    i got jefferson airplane boxed set and jorma kkk koo=en
    or whats eves er
    and it smokes!
    so how
    do i?
    do we?
    explain…
    once upon a time,,
    path?
    pathetic!
    no– i have hope grease.. no wait
    i need my glasses..
    i have..mmm..grope ease..
    i’m looking at you..

  78. LBascom says:

    Dicentra, was that Butchart Gardens in Victoria? I was there. That whole freak’in island is gorgeous.

    geoffb: ““Today, I promise you that under my leadership, the Department of Education will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society,” […] work to make American children into “good environmental citizens” ”

    That sent a chill down my spine. They’re bragging about the indoctrinations now!

    American re-education camps aren’t like Soviet Re-education camps…

  79. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    once upon a time
    you– yeah you/ u fucker!
    dressed so fine..
    yeah u did/ u ..slay!

    butt/ u used to..
    yeah/ i know! loud mouth!
    get used to it!
    peeps call on my cell y’all
    get used.. to it!
    u always laugh cuz
    life is so hard
    aint it funny when ur a retard..
    nothing sticks- just ur heart
    which welcomes ur pricks!
    how does it feel?
    u used to talk..
    talk talk talk
    gibby gibby gibb
    about it..? (ha)

  80. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    20 thousand leagues under the sea..
    i’m having a whale of a time..mmm,,
    getting thru to ..
    hold on..{excited!)
    hell- hell- hello?
    hello?
    is this/ garbled/
    is this..
    garbled- unintelligitable)
    is this the damn motherfucking man
    who calls me day and night and trys to
    prove to me
    cuz we all technic and shit
    we long long..
    butt/ and/ c’mere u dog!
    the islsnd of misfit toys has an opening..
    pride is a sin!
    sweet lo/ sweet chariot!

  81. Malik Shabazz says:

    Pickled okra? have you seen my picture, Root? Do I look like some sort of ‘bama to you, Root? Do I have Buster written on my forehead, Root?

    Pickled mutha fuckin’ okra, Root?…sheeeit! As if Michelle H. Obama could pick okra out of a vegetable line-up.

    I swear that if I didn’t know Barack and Michelle to be real live pompous asses I would swear they were pulling some kind of crazy massive Steven Colbert gag.

    After a hard day of rabble-rousing and beating down white folks, I like to relax with a nice duck confit in white wine reduction.

  82. Pablo says:

    OK, who reformatted pdbuttons?

  83. LBascom says:

    “so it’s a good thing that Team R isn’t running on family values nonsense this year and nobody really gives a shit who Boehner’s doing ”

    It’s not that family values are being viewed differently, it’s just no one gives a shit because we assume all the establishment is corrupt, regardless party, and we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

    It’s going to be a 20 year battle, and “family values” are not irrelevant.

    Let me put it this way; unless there is a restoration of honor and individual restraint in the electorate, and that translates into who we install in government, we are fucked.

  84. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    i did
    i have a pint of amber
    six/ no five
    no four/ beebs orr.
    then i pass out..
    or right grr right grrr
    or.. is there something i left left left left
    on the table?
    yo pablo/ eye ninety five is..
    a mist/ wrapped in a dream/ in handcuffs/
    rash of stabbings

  85. newrouter says:

    crackers and pickled okra with cream cheese it is. just tell jeeves your from the klan.

  86. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    storytime
    i hang with my friends from rhode isle
    we pub crawl
    we bond
    so/ super smart wise ass/ i am
    every bar/pub we go in
    has a blackboard with catch o the day blah blah
    so after six/ seven of this i say..
    “what thw fuck? every pub we go in there is a blackboard w/ fish specials?”
    and im drunk/ and adamant/ pissy u mite say..
    so they pause.. and a
    they all look at me
    and say
    “rhode island liscence plates say/ the ocean state”
    rhode island is surrounded by wa wa
    which i kinda knew..
    but its nice to be.. franked..
    frankly

  87. serr8d says:

    anybody seen
    any armadillos
    ’round these parts?

    teapot’s whistlin’
    and red pills
    are missin’
    from the sock drawer
    third from top.

    i think i know
    who swallowed ’em.

    but i’ll never tell!

  88. Jimmy the Geek says:

    It will not be a 20 year battle, it will be two years and a little over a month. in a little over a month, the majority and I mean the ma-jor-i-tee of the house Democrats will be blown out of office.

    The ones left will try to keep their heads down but once the true scope of teh devastation wrought by Barack becomes clear, they are toast. In a feeble effort to return to power they will dethrone Barack based on some trumped-up reason, but even sacrificing that buffoon won’t save them since that leaves President Biden holding the reins.

    Say it with me: President Biden.

    Goodbye Dems. You are dead by your own hand.

  89. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    when u’ve been beat so clever
    ur queen has been captured,,
    how do i bow out gracefully?

  90. LBascom says:

    buttons, I like you and everything…
    however I do find
    thirty buttons on one shirt
    makes me go blind

    ok, everything doesn’t go black…
    more like opaque
    a noticeable glaze but
    it goes with a head shake

    I know, it’s love for the player…
    Skating in gold and black
    but I think you are missing
    that’s a dustbunny not his sack

    Spice, the spice of life even…
    a wonderful treat
    I like it as much as the next guy
    but jeez where’s the meat?

  91. LBascom says:

    Bob Dole is still alive?

  92. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    thats a dustbunnys not his sack
    please explain..
    i follow robot protocol..
    thats a dustbunny sack…
    please let next robot inline ..
    seven of nine?..

    [ please let dustbunny be free..
    free the dustbunny?”
    man! u just a pee urinate buttons man!
    whats up ur ass?
    freedom!
    james brown had a cape
    had a cape
    had a good happyfeet..

    i( have been ..drinky
    okay/
    if anyhoo tells me/ shuts me down go
    i’m such a peacock!
    avatar

  93. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    i stop/now

  94. ak4mc says:

    He’s only 87. Considering that the last two former presidents to assume room temperature (as opposed to room-temperature IQ) were well into their 90s…

  95. ak4mc says:

    And yes, I know Dole didn’t actually get elected president. I’m making a broader point.

    :gestures expansively, several times:

    A broader point.

  96. LBascom says:

    Not shut up. More like:

    This business is well ended.
    My liege, and madam, to expostulate
    What majesty should be, what duty is,
    Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
    Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
    Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
    And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
    I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
    Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
    What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?
    But let that go.

  97. newrouter says:

    A broader point.

    he’s for the broad?

  98. LBascom says:

    I actually saw Dole when he was running. I thought he was ok, we don’t get many presidential candidates coming through Fresno. Plus he is a WWII vet, and I gotta say, he earned his purple heart.

    I think he is an honorable man…

  99. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    mad!
    mad am i say a loud voice..
    mad am i?
    for the rub? of inner circles?
    a drain would let you out/
    out and about.. ur step never knowing
    to plant./
    a footprint does young prince waste..
    the gravel of the king does taste..

  100. newrouter says:

    i stop/now

    good

  101. sdferr says:

    why the hippie?

    is like why the particle waved at the slits as it passed them through, teapot — just is is all: or’t didn’t bother to collapse cause no-one fooled with’t

    there’s a little nugget of meat on the backside of a chicken pelvis, just beside and below the kidney, sweetest morsel on the bird.

  102. LBascom says:

    “the gravel of the king does taste..”

    I ain’t ascared…

  103. Ernst Schreiber says:

    It will not be a 20 year battle, it will be two years and a little over a month. in a little over a month, the majority and I mean the ma-jor-i-tee of the house Democrats will be blown out of office.

    The ones left will try to keep their heads down but once the true scope of teh devastation wrought by Barack becomes clear, they are toast. In a feeble effort to return to power they will dethrone Barack based on some trumped-up reason, but even sacrificing that buffoon won’t save them since that leaves President Biden holding the reins.

    Say it with me: President Biden.

    Goodbye Dems. You are dead by your own hand.

    Success is Never Final

  104. sdferr says:

    “Success is Never Final”

    If only we can induce our rivals to adopt the attitude toward socialism that they’ve adopted towards phlogiston, all will be well better (for a time, anyhow).

  105. i'm a 'lil' teapot says:

    new james bond movie title..
    never say final sucsess with a international treaty in your yim thing
    or
    hey rocky;/ watch me pull a cum stain off our sponsors chagrin

  106. newrouter says:

    Success is Never Final

    for sure when the fed gov’t has so many places for proggs

  107. Ernst Schreiber says:

    you made me google phlogiston, ssdferr…

  108. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Given that socialism is about as scientific as alchemy, I wouldn’t look for our “friends” on the left to abandon the quest for the philosopher’s stone any time soon.

  109. sdferr says:

    Goodg. That’s just how disappeared it is, so as I say, would that socialism… and etc.

  110. newrouter says:

    phlogiston is not carbon neutral – algore

  111. Alec Leamas says:

    I think that the important thing to stress is that while Bush was in office, you could only bench press 90 lbs per arm.

  112. ak4mc says:

    :gestures even more expansively, threatens to become airborne:

  113. serr8d says:

    Ever been in a bar fight and have a 4 inch blade stuck in your head for three years ?

    Curious people want to know.

  114. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Damn, I hate it when that happens…

  115. newrouter says:

    rinos revealed

  116. serr8d says:

    Here’s a video, for anyone who might enjoy Jethro Tull and/or Apocalypse Now.

  117. LBascom says:

    “Damn, I hate it when that happens…”

    Happened to me once.

    Fucking blade broke right at the handle. I ask you, what doth it prophet a man, that he hold a handle with blade in yon head?

    Sorry, I’m feeling whimsical again…

  118. bh says:

    Heh, I just witnessed a funny slap fight outside a bar this evening. No 4 inch blades in sight.

  119. sdferr says:

    Looking at that x-ray I thought, jeez, that blade must have interfered with his executive brain function sommat; then realized, he’d been in a bar fight, so he mayn’t have had much of that to start with.

  120. bh says:

    Looking at the photo, he does look like a guy who could have a blade in his head for years without noticing.

  121. Ernst Schreiber says:

    A funny slap fight? I’m afraid to ask what kind of bars you hang around.

  122. bh says:

    Heh.

    Nah, it wasn’t a highly choreographed fight between well-dressed rainbow warriors. Just a couple drunk dudes with loser friends pushing each other and yelling, “I’m gonna mess you up.”

  123. bh's Berlin club buddies says:

    “I’m afraid to ask what kind of bars you hang around.”

    Enst, we wish bh wasn’t afraid to tell his blog buddies about us.

  124. Danger says:

    Ernst,

    “Bill Brasky!”

    is actually Bob Reed’s love child with Wonderwoman ;^)

  125. bh says:

    Sorry, Berlin club buddies. They just wouldn’t understand.

  126. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Bob Reed is so virile that he turned Wonderwoman straight…

  127. Ernst Schreiber says:

    …and Pussy Galore back into a lesbian!

  128. happyfeet says:

    Dirty socialist NPR propaganda whore Frank James has a conspiracy theory.

    When the Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 and 2003, the thinking among cynical observers at the time was that the tax cuts were cleverly made to sunset at the end of 2010 not only to ease the worries of deficit hawks but to jam up Democrats politically.

    That is an interesting theory, dirty socialist NPR propaganda whore Frank James. Let’s go back and see what those cynical observers were saying at the time. Oh here some are… these ones are erudite scholars at somewheres called the Brookings Institution.

    They counsel thusly:

    The 2002 and 2003 tax cuts continued the aggressive use of sunsets to hold down official budget costs. Last night, in his State of the Union address, President Bush once more called for making the tax cuts permanent. This note provides information on the effects of doing so.

    For details, see “Sunsets in the Tax Code,” Tax Notes, June 9, 2003 and “The Budget Outlook: Analysis and Implications,” Tax Notes, October 6, 2003.

    Okey dokey let’s go along with our propaganda whore friend Frank James and learn more knowledges about the sunsets in the tax code. From that helpful Brookings link we learn that…

    The use of sunsets changed dramatically in the 2001 tax legislation (the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, or EGTRRA), when Congress and the administration agreed to sunset the tax cut in 2010. The Byrd rule required 60 votes to enact a tax cut beyond the 10-year window, which will end in September 2011.

    oh. They had to write it this way cause of they didn’t have 60 votes so the Byrd Rule from that KKK guy came into play.

    wikipedia splains it like this

    During the administration of President George W. Bush, Congress used reconciliation to enact three major tax cuts. These tax cuts were set to lapse after 10 years to satisfy the Byrd Rule.

    The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) is a reconciliation bill passed by the 111th United States Congress to make changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2010.*

    oh. So you mean the dirty socialists did the exact same thing to ram through their dirty socialist ass-raping health care program as what NPR propaganda whore Frank James insinuates is cynical and tricksy when Team R did it to pass the tax cuts?

    Our NPR propaganda whore friends say that yes it was all very very similar – satisfying the Byrd rule to use reconciliation to enact measures just kinda perforce raises sunset issues later.

    There could be technical problems as well, including questions about the timing of the measure. The congressional budget resolution on which reconciliation would be based covers five years, but most of the calculations for spending and saving in the current health overhaul are based on a 10-year horizon. Trying to marry those two timeframes could result in thorny “sunset” questions about whether elements of the health reform would be phased out after five years and then need to be reauthorized by Congress.

    Ok so what have we learned from our dirty socialist NPR propaganda whore friends? When Team R uses reconciliation it’s a cynical dirty trick to jam up the first black president on purpose cause of they are racist racist racist but when Team dirty socialist does it it might could maybe raise technical questions about marrying timelines. Later on not right away or anything.

  129. bh says:

    That could have been its own post, ‘feets. Excelsior!

  130. sdferr says:

    Former Rep. Bill What’s-his-name (now retired) came up with the idea I read somewhere.

  131. sdferr says:

    Thomas, it was.

  132. Ernst Schreiber says:

    You’d have to tone down the ass-rapings and the dirty whore talk first though. But yeah hella funny the way the Dems put themselves over the barrel. Hoist, meet Petard.

  133. bh says:

    I went with “excelsior” because “huzzah” sounds sort of gay and I think people might be onto me.

  134. bh says:

    It could be posted after 11 pm, Ernst. That’s how they used to do it on HBO when I was a kid.

  135. sdferr says:

    Which, Kevin McCarthy, his aide, now holds that seat.

  136. happyfeet says:

    thanks Mr. bh Mr. sdferr here Mr. Thomas explains the thinking among cynical observers at the time

    Bill Thomas, the former GOP Ways and Means chairman who led negotiations over the legislation, said House Republicans indeed wanted to make the tax cuts permanent, but that the sunset provision had to be added to get them through the Senate.

    “We didn’t write them to expire in 10 years because we were worried about huge deficits. We wrote them that way because it was the only way to make law,” Thomas said.

  137. sdferr says:

    The thinger I read about it would have had “Mr Thomas said” reading “Mr Thomas said while sniggering up his sleeve”.

  138. Ernst Schreiber says:

    First, excelsior! sounds gay too in a kitschy 1960s sort of way. Second, was anything not prurient on HBO after 11?

    Obviously happyfeet is going to do what happyfeet is going to do, but how long do you keep the amp dialed up to 11 before you blow a fuse?

  139. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I remember thinking at the time, “that’ll be a good issue for the 2010 midterms.” If only I’d known.

  140. sdferr says:

    muss be my fuses are all burnt out already long time ago need to get new fuses and one of those plastic fuses gripper things to imp the fuses wid

  141. happyfeet says:

    many many moons you can keep it up Mr. Ernst especially when dirty socialist defilers and feckless Team fuck puppets are corroding your freedoms and knee-capping prosperity in your little country

  142. happyfeet says:

    feckless Team *R* fuck puppets I mean

  143. bh says:

    In BBH format:

    – It felt very butch as I typed it, Ernst.

    – Heh, they also played R movies during the day. No idea what movie it was from but I still remember being home from school with the flu and seeing some topless babe being scanned by lasers in a very sci-fi manner. From then on I knew that every woman was actually naked under their clothes. Thank you, HBO.

    – I believe this issue will be solved with the invention of… 12.

  144. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I was reading through the comments in thislinked piece from the Coates thread. And, to this relative newcomer, the happyfeet of that thread bears scant resemblence to today’s. I think you may have kept it up a bit too long.

    Understand, I’m not trying to pick a fight. I’d just hate to think of you shut in a room somewhere with the windows tinfoiled over, banging away at a 20,000 word manifesto after Obama gets re-elected in 2012.

  145. geoffb says:

    That would be Susan Dey in “Looker” bh.

  146. bh says:

    Wow. Very good, Geoff. I think you’re right.

  147. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I think the dial already goes up to 13 or maybe 14, but only on certain issues.

    Adding to my previous column. I’m not criticizing angry writing per se. Ann Coulter writes angry and she’s marvelous as far as I’m concerned. I just think the effect would be more affective (or is it the affect more effective?) if everything wasn’t failshitty cumslutty ass-raping whoredom.

  148. bh says:

    Well, I’d say I disagree but if you asked ‘feets about the nation’s preeminent word choice sticklers, I have a feeling I’d make the top five.

    At the same time, notice the word choices of a few others. Often those who respond to him. Not everyone takes your sensible German approach. The internet works blue, apparently.

    Including myself far too often. Even though I’m better than everyone else because I experience Catholic guilt afterwards and apologize.

  149. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I mean comment. When one can’t tell the difference between “comment” and “column,” one needs to go to bed; because one, in one’s tiredness, is experiencing delusions of grandeur.

  150. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I swear like a sailor myself. It’s a characteristic flaw in my flawed character.

    Anyhow, I probably am out of here for the night, I have to empty out and reload the diswasher yet.

    Yeah, I’m on a tight leash like that.

  151. Kevin says:

    I don’t like to brag about it, but I’ve had a green car for years – mostly because I want people to know that I care about the planet more than the rest of the world’s inhabitants.

    According to the paperwork, it’s ‘metallic-green’.

  152. happyfeet says:

    happyfeet gets to play with saying my personal thinkings out loud and sometimes what I fancy my thinkings might be if I actually had them on this or that subject… he’s not exactly the same as me.

    How would I even get through my days like that can you imagine jeez I can’t. Sometime though happy writes emails at work and I have to go back and fix them before I hit send. Sometimes I forget. That’s how me and K in Chicago got to be good friends.

  153. guinsPen says:

    Sure, the internet made me do it.

  154. guinsPen says:

    Shellworker. Thimblerigger.

    not exactly the same

  155. JD says:

    When bh talks about slap fights at the Berlin Club, that is what they call it when people have a wide stance at the urinal.

  156. Harris Teeter says:

    At the same time, notice the word choices of a few others. Often those who respond to him. Not everyone takes your sensible German approach. The internet works blue, apparently.

    I find hf’s word choices rather amusing, actually. It’s the mindless repetitiveness and the attention-whoring combined with his continuously insulting the religious beliefs of some percentage of the people here which makes me want to punch him in the face. It’s not like there wasn’t a lengthy transition period where all manner of polite appeals and admonishments came his way. So, now, curse words!

  157. Abe Froman says:

    ^^^^ Stupid sockpuppet I don’t even remember using!

  158. Pablo says:

    The internet works blue, apparently.

    We are talking pw, aren’t we?

  159. george smiley says:

    And even after that concession, Jeffords took his ball and went home, therein ends the lesson for today

  160. bh says:

    Probably could have phrased that a whole lot better but it’s not really important enough to clarify.

  161. Paul says:

    “That, and the strategic decision to go ahead and call 175lbs “500?.”

    Jeff is morphing into a Democrat before our very eyes.

  162. sdferr says:

    Obama uses flimflammery to “promote” pointless Palestinian-Israeli negotiations:

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state. […]

    President Barack Obama has increasingly placed efforts to resolve the conflict at the center of his foreign policy, but both Israeli and Palestinian officials said Saturday a deal was far from certain.

    Then Barry has placed a hollow nothingburger at the center of his foreign policy. Genius, Barry!

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