August 9, 2012

But what will you do in the end?

JHoward

Pursuant an official national dialog descending into abject, overt, shameless dishonesty:

1 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem,
look around and consider,
search through her squares.
If you can find but one person
who deals honestly and seeks the truth,
I will forgive this city.

2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
still they are swearing falsely.”

3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
You struck them, but they felt no pain;
you crushed them, but they refused correction.
They made their faces harder than stone
and refused to repent.

4 I thought, “These are only the poor;
they are foolish,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the requirements of their God.

5 So I will go to the leaders
and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
and torn off the bonds.

6 Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them,
a wolf from the desert will ravage them,
a leopard will lie in wait near their towns
to tear to pieces any who venture out,
for their rebellion is great
and their backslidings many.

7 “Why should I forgive you?
Your children have forsaken me
and sworn by gods that are not gods.
I supplied all their needs,
yet they committed adultery
and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
each neighing for another man’s wife.

9 Should I not punish them for this?”
declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge myself
on such a nation as this?

10 “Go through her vineyards and ravage them,
but do not destroy them completely.
Strip off her branches,
for these people do not belong to the Lord.

11 The house of Israel and the house of Judah
have been utterly unfaithful to me,”
declares the Lord.

12 They have lied about the Lord;
they said, “He will do nothing!
No harm will come to us;
we will never see sword or famine.

13 The prophets are but wind
and the word is not in them;
so let what they say be done to them.”

14 Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says:
“Because the people have spoken these words,
I will make my words in your mouth a fire
and these people the wood it consumes.

15 O house of Israel,” declares the Lord,
“I am bringing a distant nation against you—
an ancient and enduring nation,
a people whose language you do not know,
whose speech you do not understand.

16 Their quivers are like an open grave;
all of them are mighty warriors.

17 They will devour your harvests and food,
devour your sons and daughters;
they will devour your flocks and herds,
devour your vines and fig trees.
With the sword they will destroy
the fortified cities in which you trust.

18 “Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord,
“I will not destroy you completely.

19 And when the people ask,
‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’
you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me
and served foreign gods in your own land,
so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’

20 “Announce this to the house of Jacob
and proclaim it in Judah:

21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear:

22 Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord.
“Should you not tremble in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,
an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
they may roar, but they cannot cross it.

23 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts;
they have turned aside and gone away.

24 They do not say to themselves,
‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
who gives autumn and spring rains in season,
who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’

25 Your wrongdoings have kept these away;
your sins have deprived you of good.

26 “Among my people are wicked men
who lie in wait like men who snare birds
and like those who set traps to catch men.

27 Like cages full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
they have become rich and powerful

28 and have grown fat and sleek.
Their evil deeds have no limit;
they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it,
they do not defend the rights of the poor.

29 Should I not punish them for this?”
declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge myself
on such a nation as this?

30 “A horrible and shocking thing
has happened in the land:

31 The prophets prophesy lies,
the priests rule by their own authority,
and my people love it this way.
But what will you do in the end?

As these things go, one false narrative relates to an entire national condition.

Posted by JHoward @ 10:41am
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Comments (84)

  1. 12 They have lied about the Lord;
    they said, “He will do nothing!
    No harm will come to us;
    we will never see sword or famine.

    He is a myth, you silly knuckledragger. Come! We shall drag you to Utopia!

  2. “I am bringing a distant nation against you—
    an ancient and enduring nation,
    a people whose language you do not know,
    whose speech you do not understand.

    The ancient nation of Middle America. The ones who speak of honor and duty and hard work and quiet charity.

    It’s not too late to start planning the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Sack of Washington!

  3. Just for fun, the King James Version, which also includes “Their quivers are like an open grave,” an awesomely awesome simile if ever there was one.

    1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

    2 And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.

    3 O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

    4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

    5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

    6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

    7 ¶How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

    8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

    9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    10 ¶Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full bend: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.

    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

    12 They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

    13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

    14 Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

    15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

    16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

    17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

    18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.

    19 ¶And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

    20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

    21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

    22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

    23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

    24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

    25 ¶Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

    26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

    28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

    29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    30 ¶A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

    31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

  4. In case you’re wondering, Jeremiah was foretelling the Babylonian conquest of the Kingdom of Judea just after 600 B.C.

    26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

    28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

    A truly corrupt society that offends God because of its injustice and deceit and general rottenness.

    This isn’t a perpetually angry God who freaks out and destroys nations out of jealousy: it’s a loving God who gives his people a good life, only to have them turn on him and become corrupt, wicked scoundrels who need to be stopped by hardship and even death, where necessary. Otherwise, it would be a sin to let more children be born into that society.

  5. Old Testament God was indeed a stern Father. I was pleased to learn He’d mellowed out in the second half of the Book.

  6. I was pleased to learn He’d mellowed out in the second half of the Book.

    - There are those who say he didn’t mellow, he saw us reject the 2nd covenent as well, and so stopped suffering fools. They believe all the hell we are experiencing, and will yet experience, is because he’s turned his back on us until the end times and the rapture.

  7. A friend of mine on the central CA coast mentioned how even leaving the house can be a considered risk and general invitation for abuse. I asked why.

    …it has become totally “ok” to fuck someone over whenever and however you choose. No accountability, no responsibility and absolutely NO respect for your fellow citizen.

    The fruit of a false national belief.

  8. “…..and so the Left has dragged the emtire country out onto the ‘green’ pastures of Pleasure Island so that we may all enjoy the rath of a god scorned…”

  9. Where does your friend live, JHo?

  10. So. Where will we all move if Obama’s reelected?

    I’d vote for Canada but they’re not much better and it’s too cold.

    Mexico is full of little people who talk funny and are easily pushed around and their government and the elites like things the way they are.

    Cordon off the Midwest and dare Homeland Security and the FBI to cross? I think this was tried once but it didn’t work out too well.

    Major Civil Disobedience, an underground economy and sporadic violent attacks on establishment troops?

    I am afraid for the very first time in my life of what will happen in the next year.

  11. Fear not. Obama is not going to be reelected.

  12. Fear not. Obama is not going to be reelected.

    Worry that Mitt Romney will be.

  13. Be reelected? Probably.

  14. SLO, leigh, which considering it’s not one of CA’s many metro wastelands, says something.

    That state seems intent to explore the furthest conjunction of social meltdown and the mass psychosis that denies its happening.

  15. Thanks, JHo. Does he live near Cal Poly? The college kids can be pretty obnoxious up there, but they used to spend most of their time demonstrating against the cause de jour and leaving the citizenry alone. Times change.

  16. “….Well one thing you have to admit, he’s nothing if not consistant.

    - He captured the auto industry (*cough* which by the way is barely hanging on by outsourcing as much work as possible *cough*_) and now he wants to nationalize all the other industries under the guise of governmental bailouts. (And you thought 16 trillion in debt was bad!)

    - He’s got one problem though. He’s run out of other peoples money to steal.

  17. - Maybe this has something to do with his intentions.

    - Like every Marxo-socialist before him, he still believes he can force investment with no motivation or incentives.

    - If we don’t rid ourselves of this menace as soon as possible there’s not much hope for the country.

  18. “Gov. Romney brags about his private sector experience, but it was mostly invested in companies.”

    Please tell me that Jugears really said that. Out loud. In public.

  19. - He did! He really really can’t help himself Squid. It’s in their DNA.

    - Like “WMD’s”, the words “ftee market” are invisable to the Left.

  20. Fear not. Obama is not going to be reelected.

    I wish I could share your optimism.
    Most likely, as the election draws near, the theme of the Obama campaign will change from “Romney Bad!” to “Vote for me or the free [stuff] stops!”.

    That, coupled with a dig-up-get-out-the-vote campaign the scale of which the country has never seen before, will guarantee a near-landslide for Obama in November.

  21. “…will guarantee a near-landslide for Obama in November.”

    - Au contrare mon ami. Jug ears candy bag is empty, and he’s losing so nuch of the electorate even his zombues won’t be enough to save him this time.

  22. Nr beat me to the linkage.

  23. Obama’s lead grows as Romney’s support slips

    And this is from Fox.

    Gabriel Malor could not be reached for comment. Over at Ace of Polls HQ.

  24. the only poll that matters happens on the first tue of nov.

  25. Fox is trolling for ratings. That poll is the outlier of all outliers.

  26. #giveusryan

  27. Much as I heart Paul Ryan, I hate to pull him out of a leadership position to hand him what is pretty much a do-nothing job. I’d rather he stayed in Congress where he can help form a strategic alliance with the Romney WH. I could see moving him into a Cabinet position, but not Veep.

    Same thing with Rubio. He’s more useful where he is now. I also think he’s too young and too green.

    I’m leaning Bob MacDonell. Another governor, a Southerner, he’s term-limited out and he’s been a good steward of his Commonwealth.

    Whoever it is, we’ll know pretty soon.

  28. MacDonnell, sorry. And I am wrong about a term limit. I was thinking he was in his second term.

    A Mormon and a Catholic on the same ticket would be great, but probably wishful thinking.

  29. Much as I heart Paul Ryan, I hate to pull him out of a leadership position to hand him what is pretty much a do-nothing job

    paul ryan vp, senate tie breaker, speaker of the house

  30. Veep and Speaker of the House?

  31. - I’d still like to see Allen West or Condi get it, both because they are true Conservative, and because it would make the entire Obama cadre shit themselves.

  32. That poll is the outlier of all outliers.

    Apparently not.

  33. Why Goldman will go scot-free.

  34. Veep and Speaker of the House?

    yea all the levers of power to de-fund the proggtards

  35. RCP aggregates all polls to come up with their number of the day. Outliers will skew the scoring.

  36. yea

    ‘Splain? I’m not up to speed on who can do what exactly.

  37. - JH – Obama should be a solid +10 to +15 across the board as the incumbant. He barely avarages +4, wnd that with bullshit polsters like PEw that are openly proven Dem cheerleaders and liers. Remember the exit polls fiasco in 2004?

    - Rasmussen is too, but to a lesser extent, so of all of them I’d say they are probably the best to watch but none of them know a damn thing about Independents, so they all miss the bus ‘across the board’. Thats why they were all totally blind-sided by 2010.

  38. Define outlier, leigh, because I’m seeing about six of them in that list.

  39. ‘Splain? I’m not up to speed on who can do what exactly.

    in wisc if you are nominated for vp and hold a seat you can run for both. but if you be vp your seat be up for grabs. the speaker of the house could be anybody. my choice is rick santorum for speaker

  40. for the jho

    I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
    “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
    Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
    Since God is marching on.”

    (Chorus)
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Since God is marching on.

    He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
    He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
    Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
    Our God is marching on.

  41. That Fox poll is the outlier give away. The others are normal up and down polling and they are not comparable since the samples are not from the same types of groups. Some are voters, some are adults, some are likely voters, some are dem voters, etc. The sample sizes of the polls are also dissimilar. Hundreds in some, thousands in others. Then, Rasmussen does three day rolling averages that are completely different than one off polling.

    Polling is one of the tools that Our betters™ use to manipulate public opinion. Dishonest polsters lumped in with more scientific polling, just makes a mess of the whole lot. It’s like you decided to pour chicken gravy over a bowl of strawberry ice cream.

    I would like to see internal polling from both teams. I’ve read scuttlebutt that internal polling has Romney killing Obama like St. George and the Dragon in the battleground states, but I haven’t seen it and don’t know what metric they are using either.

  42. Thanks nr. I like Santorum too. I can already hear the howls of indignation. Heh.

  43. - We have several good candidates without having to give up Congressional seats or Governorships, so why do it.

    - Leigh, as I read your post I was recalling that post from the insider about the Romney slam on the O camp using the two internal polls. If he/she is to be believed apparently Oville took the results damn serious, for what thats worth.

    - And yes it would be great to see them, but Romney has good reason to keep them quiet, especially if they’re favorable to him. The last thing you ever want to do is to make your base complacent at crunch time.

  44. Two thoughts I had this week:

    I didn’t mind Serena doing the “crip dance”, I thought the folks that pointed out it the dance has grown way beyond its gang origins at this point and it was a simple gesture to her homies were absolutely correct, but would they feel the same way if it was a white southern athlete waving a small confederate battle flag?

    And how come all the folks who were appalled at Santorum always talking about his religion are getting so fucking pissed at Romney for refusing to talk about his?

  45. should we do the pw “you didn’t build that” channel on you tube? the all baracky mocking all the time place?

  46. - Moe, ’tis the season of madness, with that being overlaid by a cult and its leader without shame.

    - Though I certainly don’t wish it I’ll be surprised if we get through this election with no one being killed.

  47. so why do it.

    march to a different drummer and proclaim it loudly.?

  48. BBH, Ulsterman is supposed to have a new piece with one of his insiders this week. He was teasing it the other day.

    Real or imaginary? I lean toward realish. Sort like truthy. Enough of it is correct that I keep reading him. Ulsterman is from Ireland so that explains a bit about why he asks what seem to be silly or uninformed questions sometimes.

  49. We shall go on to the end, we shall mock them fight in France, we shall mock them fight on the seas and oceans, we shall mock them fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall mock them fight on the beaches, we shall mock them fight on the landing grounds, we shall mock them fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall mock them fight in the hills; we shall never surrender

  50. - Ulsterman is from Ireland also explains why he would spearhead this sort of approach, leaks ftom the enemy camp being de rigor’ in Irish politics.

  51. - I don’t like to portend doom and gloom, I just do not see the rapacious Left going down without some sort of over the top push back if it comes to that.

    - Added to Obama’s undefensible failure, they’ve lost a good deal of their vote gaming abilities, and when that happens to the mentaly deranged it’s seldom reasonable.

  52. - The only word to discribe these people is dispicable.

  53. Expect things to be ugly in Tampa, BBH. I don’t know what kind of hooliganisms they have planned, but there’s sure to be a lot of them. I’m looking forward to mocking the Wonce in N. Carolina in what will be a nearly empty stadium unless they just let people in off the streets to fill the seats.

    I want to hear Ann Romney’s plans for doing over the Residence, favorite colors and the like. I wonder how many coats of paint it’ll take to cover the zebra stripes?

  54. Don’t be surprised this Oct. when Harry comes to the Senate well to inform us that he’s just learned from a constituent that Romney celebrates the Mountain Meadow massacre every year by taking a new child bride.

  55. BBH — I don’t feel positive about the odds of a peaceful future, but I do feel positive about the removal of The Won from office.

  56. Harry better watch it. Mormons are geneologists extraordinaire. Harry is sure to have a little dirt on himself. What with being a registered sex offender and pedophile, too, news that his family were boot-leggers, too would sink his ship.

    I read it on the internetz that Warren Jeffs was holed up at Harry’s house in Nevada shortly before he got busted, too.

  57. mittens you harvard idiot cut to the chase

    Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as “the masses.” This is a term we haven’t applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, “the full power of centralized government”—this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.

    http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/timechoosing.html

  58. - What I’d say Crawford is we still have 3 months of this craziness to go and Obama is already in trouble, from a little to a lot, take your pick, and I don’t think we’ve even begun to see all the crap thats going to fly in this election. But even more to the point I’m convinced there will be an October surprise out of the Romney camp and that will be the clincher.

    - Obama obviously is hiding something, and it must be devestating or they’d try to soft pedal it and stonewall through.

    - Even before anything like that this race is already tight, and tight is a loser for an incumbent because it shows lack of widespread even support.

    - Months more to come of continued bad economic reports. I’ll be amazed if Obama is even able to make a race of it. I’d bet a few bucks that someone is already chatting up Hillery.

    - Biden has gone completely silent.

  59. Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy answer—but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

    We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we’re willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Now let’s set the record straight. There’s no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there’s only one guaranteed way you can have peace—and you can have it in the next second—surrender.

    Admittedly, there’s a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face—that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand—the ultimatum. And what then—when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we’re retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he’s heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he’d rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us.

    You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin—just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it’s a simple answer after all.

    You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.” And this—this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said, “The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals.” And he said, “There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

    You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

    We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

    We will keep in mind and remember that Barry Goldwater has faith in us. He has faith that you and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own destiny.

    Thank you very much.

  60. If you change the definition of the word marriage to include same sex marriage the next logical step is to revisit polygamy.

  61. That Pew poll is D+11 and if leaners are added it is D+12 to get a +10 for Obama.

  62. The Fox poll is D+9 to get Obama at +9.

  63. - Regarding that racist ad against West, even aside from the lies all three WH spokspeople told, I noticed that the HuffPoop article had barely 1000 comments, a great many negative, whereas a typical Romny bashing brings out the wart hogs 15 or 20 thousand at a time. So bad even the Proggies are hiding, afraid to be called racist, get some of their own medicine.

  64. Exactly, geoff. It’s like the self-selected polls wherein one can vote each time you log in.

    I think Team O is in deep shit. Listen (if you can stand it) to the Wonce on the stump. Pandering to this group one day and that group the next. Pathetic. Colorado is 50-45 tonight for Romney when O took it by +8 in 2008.

    Smells like burnt toast to me.

  65. - The PEW people are the worst of the bunch, proven consultants on the DNCC payrool. Not a damn thing they say is ever true. Nada.

  66. NBC/WSJ is D+11 for an Obama +6

    Reuters/Ipsos is D+2 for an Obama +7 which would seem to make it different.

  67. - Fox had better be careful. If they get caught with their hand in the Dem cookie jar they could see their ratings go south in a hurry.

    - You know, that little group of bitter clingers who obsess on chicken sandwitches.

  68. Reuters readership skew D, though. It sounds likely that they would be +2.

    Roger Ailes (sp?) has been trying to broaden his viewership base, BBH. There are a lot of stupid human interest stories on now instead of hard news. California is in the midst of a school bond scandal in the making (Poway) and they spent 40 minutes today showing Nik Wallenda walking a tightrope in Atlantic City. C’mon already! I watch FBN a lot more than Fox News anymore.

  69. Argh. +7, I meant.

  70. “…and then, for a little comic relief because god knows fighting your own useful idiots countrymen gets old at times, we have much more long standing fueds to look too…”

    “It’s French pox, no its English pox, no no its…”

    - Maybe the Olympics simply run too l-l-looonnge.

  71. - Current HuffPoop headline:

    “GREETINGS FROM THE RED PLANET”

    ….Which I would assume might indicate that now that the Progressives have finally admiited they come from a different world maybe they’ll also learn something about Earthian morals and culture.

  72. But even more to the point I’m convinced there will be an October surprise out of the Romney camp and that will be the clincher.

    - Obama obviously is hiding something, and it must be devestating or they’d try to soft pedal it and stonewall through.

    You mean other than that he was raised during his formative years as an Indonesian muslim, admitted to Occidental as a foreign exchange student, got terrible grades at Columbia, didn’t actually complete his Senior Thesis, was “socially promoted” through law school at Harvard, joined the Communist party in Illinois, and hung out with a known domestic terrorist and his convicted terrorist wife while they invented a suitably inspiring autobiography?

    And didn’t he go to a weird church too,

    Or is that the other guy?

  73. - H8ter!!1111oneleventy111!!!

  74. - Must be a different guy Ernst. The one I’m thinking of has a SS card issued to a dead guy in a state he was never in when he was 15.

  75. “….and now for something completely different.

    - A Green party spokesman said that Ms Barr was going to select Cindy Sheehan as her VP running mate and “promised to run on a ‘no bull’ platform“.

    - Ms Barr will no doubt be called on to sing the National anthem at all party rallys (with her signiture crouch scratching), while Sheehan can be expected to read from a list of war crime charges against George W. Bush.

  76. A Hawaiian with a Connecticutt SSN:

    Damnit, I knew I left something out!

  77. Sitting in a Haifa hotel room, reading this post has a surreal aspect to it.

    Maybe a meal and a few beers in Caesarea will remedy things.

  78. Veni, vidi, *hici*

  79. Roseanne would love to be in a herd with no bulls, IYKWIMAITYD.

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