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Ich bin ein Frankfurter!
Ich bin ein Hamburger!
Where was it I read that Obama’s gonna punish Republicans for not going along with his scheme by withdrawing the tax cuts.
Somewhat OT but not really: The AP is reporting that Samanthat Power has crawled out from under the bus and taken a very favorable seat near the front. Wonder who’s next.
I think that’s a move in the direction of not being punished with babies, Carin.
While I won’t be first in line for the “Don’t blame me…” t-shirts, I’ll definitely be in the market for one.
Huh. Weird. I’ve definitely gotten the “HOW DARE YOU STILL OPPOSE US!!!!” vibe from the left the last few months. Now, I don’t know that Obama’s own impulses are totalitarian — he may have just been interested in co-opting their support to spread the blame — but a hell of a lot of his followers seem to have those impulses.
Jeff!
Anozzer responsa. I’m getting my car worked on, you know? Sitting in a Panera Bread. Walking by wth my cuppajoe, there’s a 11yo? girl with an older woman relative, and the older is going over the girl’s homework.
Lady says to girl: “What’s TANSTAAFL mean? Does that belong in a paper about the economy?”
HA!
The NEA got $319 Million, and all I got was this lousy . . . hey! what happened to my job?
OUTLAW!
Darn thorns, always messing up that bed of roses.
Oh oh, this does not look good
Long time Israel supporters Pat Buchanan and Michael Scheuer just got excited.
Change we can believe in?
“This week, more than 200 notable economists  including three Nobel laureates  signed an open letter in The New York Times challenging President Barack Obama’s false suggestion that all economists agree a bailout is needed…”
Hmmmmmm…Kinda like the whole AGW thing…
Well then, I guess the debate really is over! And after only one day too!
Who knew that all those folks in the House were Evelyn Wood speed reading course graduates…
I guess Obama’s Brilliant! presence in DC has raised all of the Democrats IQ’s substantially!
Or maybe they didn’t have to even read the plan, as the one! simply mind-melded with them, and in the blink of an eye they knew all of the necessary and pertainant details…
Seems to me that the only detail they needed to know was that Obama wanted it…Up with Unity! Come together and pass Dear Leaders stimulus! All the economists agree on it! Anyone who doesn’t is an Unpatriotic!, Partisan! Hater!
Or maybe a Republican that finally found their cujones!
Certainly politicians have a greater understanding of these things than economists, Bob. And, let’s not forget that asshat economist from the NYT gives the Obama plan 2 thumbs way up.
Ich bin ein beginner!
Pelosi needs to get out there and talk more about the bill. It’s a winning strategy for Obama. Trust me on this.
Hey, rethuglidum, is that a horrible mascara run or an actual tire’s tread mark all up-and-down your face?
A sinking in of the full rub from the last election has begun.
daleyrocks–Pelosi and Reid.
And after watching that Hot Air video I posted above of Sammantha Powers, I can’t get the Kink’s Lola out of my head. Make it stop.
You getting rubbed too idiot.
Look at it as a sabbatical, Dan. This will give you time to follow your dreams and be true to yourself, and you won’t have to be beholden to capitalist pigs. Make art!
That is truly frightening.
Noone is defending this piece of garbage. They just simply say “Bush sucks” and continue on their merry way. Hell has anyone even seen an actual news story on what is in the bill? One that isn’t just a list of what O! says it is going to do I mean.
Thor just wants to see the world burn.
Not only is dissent now not patriotic but debate within our governing body. How quickly that happened too.
Bin ich Weimaraner?
Along with being truly untrue.
Do you get the feeling thor finally realizes he’s been trumped and is freaking out that his party now completely OWNZ this POS bill?
Have you heard him (or any libtard) actually defend this bill? Because all I’ve seen is something to the effect of “Republicans are (insert adjective with negative connotation here)”. Did you notice that?
Look!
Bunnies!Rush Limbaugh!Oh good thor, you’re here.
Feel free to give a summation of why this is a great bill and will actually work. A paragraph will suffice. Fuck it, just give me a sentence or even a word.
Partisanship has reached a tipping point when the new president is circling the fire hydrant with a conservative talk-radio personality.
Thor just wants to see the world burn.
It never occurred to me that all the fuckin’ anarchists wandering around in the streets were on the left. Seriously, it didn’t.
“Power to the proles!” – Vice President J. Hairplugs
I do not think the typical lefty even cares what is in the bill or what its effects will be. They only care that teh evil redumblicans lost and that they hate Bush. Pelosi could have put a provision in there to cut off all talk radio political speech and they would cheer it.
That letter was sent back in October, Bob.
The “neutral” economists were all McCain supporters.
In other words, losers.
Nice try, though.
If the NEA is going to be that flush with cash, do you think I can prevail upon them to part with some coin to render:
Piss And Shit Thor
I could even be persuaded to turn it into a performance art piece of there is sufficient interest.
#Comment by thor on 1/30 @ 10:04 am #
Go take your meds, hor, and stop talking to the voices in your head.
See again no defense of the bill. Just screw you losers and I hate rethuglicans.
Oh good
thorparsnip, you’re here.Feel free to give a summation of why this is a great bill and will actually work. A paragraph will suffice. Fuck it, just give me a sentence or even a word.
Oh, Phil, you’re such a joker!
alphie lies again of course. No surprise there.
Respect the Do Not Disturb sign, please. I’m providing the finishing touches to my massive macaroni art masterpiece depiting Rush Limbaugh eating a huge mountain-high plate of, what else, macaroni and cheese.
With the NEA’s phat new budget I’m certain the grant monies I so rightfully deserve are only one macaroni art masterpiece away. Zee, zar iz zomuch art vaiting to vee freed wizins me.
The rebuttal:
Screw your stupid facts, Bob! I won!
right parsnip:
economists who support Obama = impartial and correct by default
economists who don’t support Obama = partisan and wrong by default
I know how this game is played. It’s easy…too bad it’s not fun.
The bill doesn’t have to “work” Phil.
The economy just has to start improving within the next 20 months or so.
Obama ist ein Wiener.
Thor just wants to see the world burn.
Hey, it’s all his. The rest of us can prepare for Jimmah Carter revisited.
…wrong country?
Beautiful. The effect doesn’t matter, the cost doesn’t matter, as long as Baracky looks good. Priorities.
The bill doesn’t have to “work†Phil.
True, that. As long as par-Gimp feels good.
The economy just has to start improving within the next 20 months or so.
And you thought you missed out on stagflation just because you were a kid then!
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. – H.L. Mencken
52% of us have decided to give it to all of us good and hard.
Don’t blame me if you crackers have taken a sucker bet and have to pray for America to fail now.
America will do just fine without you.
The bill doesn’t have to “work†Phil.
The economy just has to start improving within the next 20 months or so.
Of course, we’ll be stuck with the debt and the government growth. Viola. Thanks for your honesty.
Oh, and OT, here is an article refuting another of monkeyboy’s lies, one he cast often during the recent Gaza fight, claiming Israel had shelled an UNRWA school intentionally killing innocents inside. Lying is what he does best.
I was indeed way too young for Carter. I was sort of hoping to avoid that whole stagflation thing but I guess I’m in…uhh luck?
PS. Three of my professors are on that anti-Baracky “stimulus” package list. Score. I’d add my own name but I don’t HAZ my shiny degree yet.
“42 percent of the nation’s likely voters support the president’s plan while 39 opposed it and 19 are undecided. The public’s support for the plan is down 3 points in a week”
It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck. Every time a leftard opens their ignorant yap around the office, I ask why the troops aren’t coming out of Iraq NOW! RIGHT NOW! Barack said NOW!
All I get are blank stares and a lot of um, um, um. The winners don’t seem very joyous.
“The economy just has to start improving within the next 20 months or so.”
See it is all about winning elections. Blowing taxpayer money down the drain with a snowblower be damned. It is all about how it will be portrayed in the media so that the Dems can pick up more seats and continue to hold the presidency. Well here let me tell you something moron, it will be portrayed favorably for your guy in the media regardless of what happens. The guy could start doing a voodoo chant and slit a chickens throat on the whitehouse lawn and they would applaud him for fixing the economy.
It’s OK when Baracky lies. After all, He’s Baracky! And he won, so you’ll just have to deal with it.
Remember snippy, dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Is anyone good with paper-mâché?
“have to pray for America to fail now.”
Nah just praying for the empty suit will fail.
More cheerful news, via Insty:
BECAUSE OF THE…
Oh, fuck it.
Snippy, we haven’t taken a sucker bet. We’ve been placed between a rock and a hard place.
Of course, the truth of the matter, which you’ve slyly admitted you know was true, was that the economy is going to “recover” totally independent of this stimulus sham. By not supporting it, Republicans have (finally) stood up for what they’re supposed to.
Of course, in 2 yrs, Obama and his MSM will proclaim it was his package that resulted in the improvements (a lie) and then point fingers at the Repubs for backing the wrong horse.
That you are OK with this sham make you a horrible person. Because it’s going to cost us. And it’s buying votes. And it’s all sorts of creepy, fascist, doublespeak that scares the living crap out of me.
Any other time, “liberals” would be decrying this.
Barack said what? Surely you’re working from an inoperative statement.
Cargo-cult economics, in other words.
It’s all just a big football game to them. The Republicans under BOOOOSH never had majorities even nearly as large as the Dems have now. They can essentially pass their agenda without even a single Republican vote (look ma! they just did!)
And yet…They.Are.Still.Mad. I think they realize this POS bill is a disaster and they wanted Republican cover for it when it fails. When a sinking ship is going down, does a sane person jump aboard?
What exactly is the end game for the Dems? It’s like they want these huge majorities but don’t want any of the responsibilities that come with…actual governing. They’d never admit it, but I think they already miss BOOOSH. They could always kick him whenever they f*cked up and the media would play along. Apparently it’s Rush Limbaugh who secretly controls America now.
parsnip,
where did you get the “neutral economists” from..? The quotation from the linked article said “notable economists including three Nobel laureates “…
Also, I don’t understand how they all signed the letter this week if it was sent back in October..?
Please explain this, as well as how you know they are all McCain supporters; oh, and a link might be nice on this one…
I mean, that way we can all be sure that it is not part of a cartoon reality, or Democratic talking points…
it will be portrayed favorably for your guy in the media regardless of what happens
Then the Republicans really are suckers, Pinkie.
Aren’t they?
Once again, Rush has thrown your party under the bus.
Ba bump.
Limbaugh has nothing to do with it, snippy. This is a Dem piece of shit. You own it. Baracky owns it. Pelosi owns it. Reid owns it.
Hope, condoms and a trillion in new debt do not en economic recovery make.
“Comment by parsnip on 1/30 @ 10:34 am #
Don’t blame me if you crackers have taken a sucker bet and have to pray for America to fail now.”
Now, now, parsnip,
Do you mean like you and yours wished failure and death at the hands of our enemies on our honorable American soldiers for the past 7 years?
You projection is showing again…
I believe that Ric pointed out to you yesterday the vasy and meaningful difference between fearing or intuiting failure, due to the recycling of past fiscal policy failures, and rooting for our economy to tank…
Can’t you remember yesterday? What’s the matter, cat got your tongue?
II was indeed way too young for Carter. I was sort of hoping to avoid that whole stagflation thing but I guess I’m in…uhh luck?
You sure are! It’s like an alternate history time warp. Imagine if Nixon had not been involved in the Watergate debacle, and aid to the Republic of South Vietnam continued as the troops left. It would be like Iraq is now. A bored and culturally snobby liberal elite nominates Barack as an ethnic Jimmah Carter, stodgy RINO John McCain as the stodgy latter-day RINO John Connally that Nixon thought would win the GOP primary in 1976.
So who’s the next ABBA? I can’t quite see bellbottoms and wide collars coming back, but you never now. I will dust off and re-read “How To Prosper During The Coming Bad Years” however.
Bob,
1. You provided no link in your post.
2. The economists wrote the letter way back in October, when right wing economists were still denying the economy was even in trouble.
3. Rush admitted he hopes America fails so Obama looks bad. His porcine visage is the face of the Republican party now. You’re stuck with him.
“Comment by parsnip on 1/30 @ 10:30 am #
The bill doesn’t have to “work†Phil.
The economy just has to start improving within the next 20 months or so.”
Ooo, marmo, watch yourself, you could hurt your back moving those goalposts around.
never know, that is. Damn typos.
And hey “Mamma Mia” is back.
And the whole gay thing is in so many ways a throwback to the 1970’s. Rick Warren’s no Anita Bryant, but you can’t have everything.
Let’s do the time warp again….
3. Rush admitted he hopes America fails so Obama looks bad. His porcine visage is the face of the Republican party now. You’re stuck with him.
Proof of snippy’s stupidity. Damn, you’re a dumb fuck.
Curmudgeon,
Is disco coming back, too? I doubt that I can still fit into my Angel Flight slacks and my Members Only jacket.
“America will do just fine without you.”
But how would you and your parsite buds survive without, you know, grown ups, adults, who actually work and produce wealth?
C.F. “Shrugged, Atlas”
“3. Rush admitted he hopes America fails so Obama looks bad. His porcine visage is the face of the Republican party now. You’re stuck with him.”
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Lucifer’s rule #13
Lying is what he does, all day, every day.
Annnnnd for the 6th time, here is the link parsnip. (Notice the date)
http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/cato_stimulus.pdf
Here it is again:
http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/cato_stimulus.pdf
One more time for you:
http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/cato_stimulus.pdf
Just to be safe:
And in linky form
I personally know 3 of the professors on that list as I’ve personally worked with them. They all hate McCain. So that puts another of your theories down the kibosh hole. Thanks for playing.
TROLLHAMMER!
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
Haha, No Brain,
Are you saying you actually have a job?
What do you do?
Curmudgeon,
Is disco coming back, too? I doubt that I can still fit into my Angel Flight slacks and my Members Only jacket.
I always think of Members Only jackets as more early ’80’s, but i would enjoy long-ass guitar solos again. Free Bird!
You guys are just jealous because Barry O has so much experience in these matters. He used to be a “community organizer” before he became Planned Parenthoods (a.k.a The Death Hut) best friend.
Face it, Barry O has many talents. Just ask him.
Hey Parsniptard, did you want President Bush to succeed?
Were you Bi-partisan then?
Do you have balls?
No, no and no.
“Comment by parsnip on 1/30 @ 10:59 am #
Haha, No Brain,
Are you saying you actually have a job?
What do you do?”
Real work. Unlike you, parasite.
Hey, can we guess what parsnip does?
When he’s not on welfare, I mean.
Let me review Rush Limbaughs comments very slowly so Parsnipped can keep up.
Rush wants Obama’s moronic policies to fail.
Rush wants America to succeed.
Obama has never succeeded at anything except a campaign.
There you have it libtard!
Partsnipped works for the National Endowment for Libtards.
From NRO’s The Corner:
“Conservative Unity [Yuval Levin]
When they manage to unify the entire House Republican caucus with David Brooks and Peggy Noonan, you know the Democrats have seriously botched something up. And boy, they really have. The more you look at the stimulus bill the clearer it becomes that it is the Congressional Democrats, not the opponents of this bill, who have failed to see that we are in a genuine and exceptional crisis. They’re working to use the moment as an opportunity to advance the same agenda they haven’t been able to move (with good reason) for a decade and more, and in the process are showing that agenda to be what we always knew it was: a massively wasteful, reckless, profligate, slovenly, higgledy-piggledy mess of interest group troughs and technocratic fantasies devoid of any economic thinking or sense of proportion.”
Sweeet.
parsnip,
1)My link was one of the ones provided by Jeff G in the header post of the blog; the right asterix…
2)You do actually read the source articles don’t you? I mean, how else can you talk intelligently about the subject?
3)You still haven’t proven how a letter signed in the NY Times yesterday was actually from October; a time when Obama was being as general and nebulous about his economic plan as everything else. Please tell me where you got that information from…
4)I didn’t mention Rush Limbaugh…I haven’t listened to his show for many years, although I may start again!
I believe he is a Library Paste Taste Tester.
libocrat, snippy’s either to stupid to understand, or he’s just a fucking liar.
Take your pick. It could go either way, imho.
2)You do actually read the source articles don’t you? I mean, how else can you talk intelligently about the subject?
He can’t read in a gimp suit; all he can do is fellate his political masters.
Come on Bob. Would you bother to address Josef Goebbels in that way in order to get a straight answer? Why bother? He lies. All day, every day.
“It is a 40-year wish list.”
-Hammer the Kraut
Carin, liberals almost NEVER tell the truth. They are coniving and dishonest. Partnipped is just such a libtard. I’ve learned that if you even bother to debate a liberal, they would rather take a bullet to the head than admit to themselves that they are wrong.
Here is why. Liberals believe that the truth isn’t important. Their ideology is what matters. Most liberals like Pelosi and Reid are USERS. It’s about power and consolidating a base that will keep them in power. To keep the base, they provide HEROIN to ADDICTS as it were. They keep YOUR MONEY going to failed causes, so as to placate THEIR CONSTITUENT base. B.H.Obama the BOY PHAROAH is a noxious combination of Spoiled Affirmative Action aided Narcissist and Marxist.
His whole life experience has been that of someone on the DOLE in one manner or another. Remember he said he couldn’t be ELITIST because Mommy took food stamps. Private Hawaiian Prep school with no baby Daddy and Mommy living with Grandparents on food stamps.
Do you see a picture of the Boy Pharaohs mind set developing.
He is yet to earn a dime in the real world. His life has been welfare and affirmative action. And look where it got him! We should all be like him.
Sdferr, alphie is unbelievably fucking stupid, too. Don’t forget that!
Anyone hear the Great One’s lecture on compensation yesterday? I’m still speechless.
Anyone want to make bets on where the financial services companies move? How much American wealth is going to move offshore?
I’m thinking Bahrain.
Well OI, yes, very stupid, a moron, as I’ve pointed out time and again but not so stupid that I’d be willing to grant that he doesn’t know that he’s lying. So no excuses, please.
Sdferr,
You’re probably right…
But, our lord and master Obama called us all to public service…
I’m performing mine by trying to help parsnip snap out of his delusional state…
‘Cus, I’m a giver like that!
But I’m starting to think that it’ll be a Herculean task; kinda like cleaning the Augean Stables…
And I’ll need to divert the Mississippi river to get rid of all the sh*t he’s got with him…
Anyone want to make bets on where the financial services companies move? How much American wealth is going to move offshore?
I’m thinking Bahrain.
Naw, too close to Iran and the other Islamonazis. I would say Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Antillies, and other Carribbean sites.
I go with liar Carin. It seems to me these people know the context of all the smears they try against Oreilly or Rush but simply keep lying about it to push their agenda. Go here to see an example.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTMzNWZhYTVkNDVlNWJiODU2MzkzZWVkYTFkOTY0Njc=
Actually, given the New Stagflation sure to come, make that Switzerland.
I sure hope the $400 billion figure for STD prevention in the Harsanyi article is a typo.
‘Cause, DAMN, that’s a lot of rubbers.
I like this post and also it’s Friday.
Freeborn American citizens, thanks to their media, are as wary of voicing public dissent from the Obama cult as people were of being the first to stop applauding Stalin during one of his 10-minute ovations.
Baracky Soros Chavez just ain’t that big really. I piss on his head.
Did you notice how when we asked for an honest defense of the POS “stimulus” bill from thor and parsnip, they just left?
Did you notice that?
Sdferr,
Also you’ve fallen prey to a case of mistaken identity I think…
David Axelrod more is like Joseph Goebbles…
parsnip? Well he’s is more like the boot-black at the Reichstag; knows all the right buzzwrods, but not how to actually use them or what they really mean…
I don’t think Turnipboy is a Moron.
More like Imbecile, or High Functioning Idiot.
From Dan’s previous post.
No need to read it as it is just a compilation of all the Democrats letters to Santa Obama. Merry, merry, they are all so merry now, right?
If you get laid off, you better hope you don’t work in financial services. Your job doesn’t mean shit if you do.
Asshole doesn’t know the difference between bonus and incentive. Son of a bitch never worked a day in his fucking life.
GM employees worldwide = 266000. Citibank employees worldwide = 275000
Someone didn’t get the “Hope and Change”™ memo:
North Korea, trying to jolt Obama, warns South
Bob,
Are you talking about the paid ad put out by the wingnut CATO institute?
Phil,
Nobody knows if it will work or not, I was just pointing out that the Republicans will look pretty stupid when the economy turns around.
Say it with me now: “Elections matter!”
Lying propagandists are all the same to me, Bob, qua lying propagandists, regardless of their rise or failure to rise in power. They are not constructed to be amenable to persuasion.
oh. my italics messed up. That’s okay. I wrote Baracky Soros Chavez a song. Here is the song I wrote for Baracky Soros Chavez… Inflation all I ever wanted… Inflation have to giveaway. Tax dollars meant to be spent on dopey George Soros one-world dirty socialist schemes and also smelly greasy union thugs and illiterate teachers unions and ACORN highschool dropouts and immigrants what came here without permission and just crap for blue states it doesn’t really matter what really.
Happy if you put that on a record it would go triple platinum.
Parsnip, you really are a cynical guy, arent’ you? That’s about the 5th time in this thread you’ve basically argued that the only thing that matters is securing political power. Governing well, or even avoiding governing disastrously is, at best, minor side-concern.
parsnip,
Does Rahm Emanuel sort of remind you of a mobster? Do you get the feeling he’s just pooling all of the “winnings” over to his guys and fucking over all the other mobsters?
How does that usually work out?
The economy will turn around.
Why? Because it always does.
When? Who knows? But I bet it would be sooner if we didn’t have the Ca$h-Drain-O-Matic funneling several hundred billions into a government-shaped pit full of self-absorbed airheads.
Y’all are so busted reading alphie while Baracky Soros Chavez plots the humbling of an America that will soon be aspiring to reach developing nation status. Focus, people.
I think it needs more cow bell.
Only to douchbags like yourself.
The economy will recover. Period. And it will have nothing to do with the trillions we’re about to throw into a black hole. But, we will be stuck with the stimulus bill’s BILL for a long time.
Well he really will be Baracky Chavez in truth once he takes down talk radio. He already has the nationalization of private industry thing down. Also love how he said on the campaign trail that he would be open to “discussing” offshore drilling while gas was at 4 dollars a gallon but within the his first 6 days in office he bans it. That was a mightly long “discussion”.
Showy,
Winning elections isn’t the only thing that matters, but it sure is nice to have the adults running the country again.
As for the Republicans who, after racking up $5 trillion dollars in debt, suddenly come down with a case of the fiscal conservatism, they’re just upset they’re not the ones ladling the pork this time around.
We’re just playing politics here and you know it.
Nothing would make me happier than if Rush forces you crackers to curl up even tighter in your fetal ball.
I tried to tell people that BEFORE the dirty socialists were elected but they didn’t listen to me. The media told them BOOOSH was bad and Obama was a nice man. I was all like, “But that guy has never run a successful enterprise in his entire life and is a dirty socialist” and they were all like “But he talks nice and I’m getting a ‘tax cut'”.
We’re pretty much already a developing world country now.
At least Hugo Chavez drills for oil.
Didn’t Hugo Chavez ban a news station because it was not favorable to him? In Obama’s first 2 weeks in office he has already slurred Fox news about 20 times. Coincidence? I think not.
ok … so what did Baracky actually say? Who knows? The AP rewrites Baracky’s sentences. Just the essential phrases. Cause of him so damn eloquent. Here comes the choo choo… open wide. Spoon feeding dirty socialist propagandists.
“Winning elections isn’t the only thing that matters, but…”
That doesn’t seem consistent with your repeated suggestion that Republicans are suckers for not getting behind the party that receives the most media boosterism, or for not getting behind an enormously expensive bill regardless of whether its wasted money.
Lifting a telephone receiver isn’t exactly the skills they need over at GM, but shoot ’em a resume, about time you learned what honest work is.
Incentive, bahahahaha! Easy money keeps a swollen ego well fed, eh.
That reminds me, remember when the media went after that plumber guy for not paying some back taxes? That it discredited him from criticizing Baracky? Remember that?
Isn’t it a little ironic that our Treasury Secretary didn’t pay his taxes and the media didn’t usher a peep? C’mon guys, isn’t that pretty funny?
Ok maybe not so much haw haw hee haw funny so much as “watch us fuck America in the ass and watch as the media lets us get away with it” sort of funny.
Say that reminds me, remember when the media acted as Baracky’s personal propaganda ministry? Wait, they’re STILL doing that? Holy shit on a stick Batman, we are fucked.
I see “drag” and “continuing disaster”. So it could have been about Michelle’s wardrobe.
I demand cowbell.
parsnip,
I’m referring to the one cited in one of the articles Jeff G provided the link for…
Do you read the post subject background article links?
Is it the same letter you are referring to?
And if it were, why would it be any less credible than similar documents published by, oh say, the IPCC, or Center for American Progress, or People for the American way..?
And you still haven’t clarified the part about it being from October yet either; how do you know?
A lot of question you either can’t or won’t answer…
Doesn’t do much for your, ahem, credibility!
You’re dangerously close to being Trollhammered…
Showy,
The Republicans are suckers for betting America’s economy won’t start improving in the next year or so.
Remember how positive Ronald Reagan was?
Today’s Republicans are the exact opposite of Ronald Reagan.
Bob,
Are you talking about this paid ad from the lunatics at Cato?
http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/alternate_version.html
Looks like a bunch of Libertarian sociopaths to me.
Obama knows the keywords: “FoxNews”, “Rush”, “Bush”, etc. They elicit a Pavlovian response to a significant portion of his base.
Therefore, anytime he’s starting to feel the heat, he can immediately deploy one of the words, and the portion then engages in their standard 2-minute hate, allowing for quick escape.
It’d be terribly clever, if it weren’t potentially disastrous.
Snippy’s debating with the conservatives in his head again!
MSM: Yeah that plumber guy being behind by about 2 grand is much more important than a Treasury Secretary not paying over 40 grand and commiting tax theft by claiming a return on something he didn’t pay. Really it is. That f@cking plumber questioned the One he deserves it get his ass. Oh yeah Sarah Palin is a dumb redneck trailer trash ho.
We were positive about Ronald Reagan because Reagan was not a dirty socialist. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about dirty socialists, it’s that their plans never work, and they never seem to stop trying to implement them.
With a few Nobel Laureates mixed in just to confuse people.
TROLLHAMMERED!
Carin:
If you’re still here, can I ask what news on the home and health fronts?
I’m sure ther is a coe bell subsidy in there somewhere, router.
Prolly prolly prolly.
parsnip,
See #131. Answer the questions please…
You’re answering a question with a question, that’s neither polite nor an acceptable rhetorical practice…
At least I answered yours before I posed others…
“Republicans are suckers for betting the economy won’t recover in the next year or two.”
You’re just repeating the same craven thought, and assuming Republican politicians share your craven views (and some likely do). In short, most people who oppose the bill are not betting the economy will not recovery in the mid-future, they just don’t think this bill will help, but will in fact likely hinder the recovery. You see, there exists in some quarters, this practice of voting for what on considers to be best, rather than for what one considers most expedient. If you ever hear the phrase “principle over politics”, in future you will know that this is what that refers to.
Still waiting. I’m hoping they’ll call today about the scan, but they haven’t yet.
The flooded house – what a mess. The house is pumped out, but we’re at a loss at how to start. Insurance company wanted to send in some water recovery team, but they can’t ’cause there is no electricity or heat (both fried by 8 + feet of water.) So I guess we have to get that fixed, but they’ll be working in a wet/frozen house? I image the house interior is a big block of ice , walls, floors, everything.
Between all that, I’m sitting here all day to distract me.
Carin, I gather that this is a vacant house you own, and that you yourself have a warm place to stay?
Hmmmm, neither of those instances sound reasonable to me, since I’ve worked with both portable generators and torpedo heaters.
Phil,
I offer you my deepest gratitude for making it so brutally apparent that Parsnip just throws shit out here and expects the rest of us to buy it. SOP for a lefty. So now he’s left with trying to discredit the source by calling it “right wing” or “extremist” or some shit. SOP for a lefty. Pa-fuckin-thetic. Anyway, I loved it. Thanks.
5:00 today, Carin, I’ll be praying a rosary for you.
I’m all Godbothery like that!
YOu know what’s funny? That they keep repeating that stupid thought that Republicans (or Conservatives) are hoping things don’t get better to make Obama look bad.
You know, I bet Ric hopes things get so bad he loses everything! And, my husband’s company goes bankrupt and everyone loses their jobs and we lose our house … OH, then we’ll all make posters and scream about what a shitty president Obama is. Yea… that’s the plan. @@
Well, I was surprised that a company that deals with water damaged homes couldn’t deal with homes in which the water had actually, you know, damaged stuff. But, what do I know but what they told me?
No, this is the house that was pretty vacant, although we still had a lot of stuff in. My piano never got moved – I don’t know if that will be ruined. Lots of clothes, and tools and stuff that wasn’t essential.
“Lifting a telephone receiver isn’t exactly the skills they need over at GM, but shoot ‘em a resume, about time you learned what honest work is.
Incentive, bahahahaha! Easy money keeps a swollen ego well fed, eh.”
Easy money, like the Job Bank?
You have no idea.
Thing is, Carin, they assume we’re all filthy rich. Only possible way to be a Republican, you know — inherited money, or an executive job with a great big golden parachute.
I personally cannot wait to lose my job just so I can stick it to Baracky and be like, “Hey Baracky. I don’t have a job and can’t support myself anymore so your policies didn’t work. See? See?!?”
Man, that’s gonna be so awesome.
“YOu know what’s funny? That they keep repeating that stupid thought that Republicans (or Conservatives) are hoping things don’t get better to make Obama look bad.”
It is the same thing the do with Affirmative Action or Illegal Immigration. If you oppose them you are racist and full of hate. If you do not want Obama to do _______ then you must want the country to be destroyed and suck. It is a juvenile tactic that should be abandoned in 3rd grade but seems to make a living on one side of the political divide in AmeriKKKa.
Sure. I hope my house declines in value even more. And that I lose my job. And that we wind up with some shitty socialized medicine system.
Why? Because I h8 OBAMA!
They were okay with wanting us to lose in Iraq because someone else was going to do the suffering.
Maybe go back to them (or better, find someone else? Would the ins company allow that?) and ask them whether they’ve ever heard of portable generators and portable propane or kerosene heaters? If your piano didn’t get wet, it’ll probably be ok, as long as the air being warmed up isn’t too dry. With the wet basement the air shouldn’t be too dry. Though it would be good to get the piano out of there soon if you can.
As an example of this third grade argument style I refer you to something I heard my little sister say once on Christmas day.
“But MOMMMMMMYYYYYY I said I wanted a WII!!!!!! You hate me don’t you nobody likes me….:(“
I know that it’s actually better for wooden furniture to be in an unheated room rather than being in a heated room with no humidity, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the same were true for pianos.
I expect it’s going to need a tuning, though. :-)
Best of luck with the insurance company Carin. They’re only slightly less bureaucratic than the federal government.
Way OT and I apologize for it. But can anyone point me to a site that articulates the libertarian (I’m thinking paleo) policy prescriptions for national defense and more importantly, for lack of a better term, homeland security. At every site that I have found, it invariably just ends up being either ankle biting of Bush’s policy or just summations of how everything he did was wrong. From afghanistan to homeland security. No sotluions or alternatives. Just bitching. Are there any libertarian sites that actually spell out their polcies in regards to national defense and stopping another 9/11 from happening. Thanks in advance.
“No sotluions”
That word would be “solutions”.
Hi Carin… is all good otherwise?
Besides all that, yea, everything’s fine :)
And, Spies, yes, I imagine it will need a tune up.
I think the House Flood Project (hereafter to be referred to as HFP) is going to take forever. The electrical guy was there, and he has to redo everything. He can start next friday. Oye.
Someone sent me this as a forwarded email today. I do not know if it is true or not, but it is a good allagory for Barack’s stimulus plan and the law of unintended consequences. Yeah it is long, but it is also pretty funny:
We have the standard 8 foot wooden fence in the backyard, and a few months
ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city.
To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a
single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle
charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence.
I then used an 8 ft. long ground rod, driven 7.5 feet into the ground. The
ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the
fence works.
One day I’m mowing the back yard with my big wheel push mower. The hot wire
is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged
the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab
it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn’t remembered to
unplug it after all.
Now I’m standing there, I’ve got the running lawn mower in my right hand
and the 1.7 gigavolt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger
is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down
cow on fire on the cover.
Time stood still. The first thing I notice is my balls trying to climb up
the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the
lawn mower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that
Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was
literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and
the POS lawn mower were fighting over which would control my electrical
impulses.
Science says one cannot crap, pee, and get a nut at the same time. I beg to
differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3
different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of
bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you’re all leaned back and
BAM! BAM! BAM! you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were
minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like
exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.
At this point I’m about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the
fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I cant let go.
I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences… but Dad always
had those crappy chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9
volts and just kinda tickled. This I could not let go of. The 8 foot long
ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp
Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I’m thinking I’m going to have
to just man up and take it, until the lawn mower runs out of gas.
‘Damn!,’ I think, as I remember I just filled the tank! Now the lawn mower
is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it
had some kind of big lawn mower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, jizz,
and with my balls on my chest I think ‘Oh God please die… pleeeeze die’.
But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains
there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from
its owner’s right foot.
So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in
my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day… he
left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own
stupidity had created.
I honestly don’t know how I got loose from the wire… I woke up laying on
the ground hours later. The lawn mower was beside me, out of gas. It was
later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass
spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot
were the wire had layed while I was on the ground still holding on to it.
I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow
let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I
realized a few things.
1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.
2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and in my right butt cheek
(not the left, just the right).
3- Poop, pee, and semen when all mixed together, really do not smell as bad
as you might first think.
4- My left eye will not open.
5- My right eye will not close.
6- The lawn mower runs like a son-of-a-bitch now. Seriously! I think our
little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it has
been better than new ever since.
7- My balls are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.
8- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the
number 4 (still don’t understand this?)
That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I
appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make
sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.
The good news is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can
clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me
a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check
before I mow.
It is a good “allegory.” Poor spelling on my part.
BTW, if you ever have an overdue tax bill you might try something along these lines. Mention that somthing similar worked for the current Secretary of Treasury.
Good deal, carin. I am very glad.
Carin, sorry for your loss. Why can’t the water recovery team from the insurer bring a generator or run some drying equipment on propane? If they do, don’t pick up or step on any cords. See the post above.
Well, I mean beside from the water dealo and not hearing about the scan yet, everything’s fine.
I’m still waiting on that. Maybe Monday.
But, now is where I start rationalizing. I mean, if it was bad they would have called me ASAP, right?
I can’t recall which stage that is, Carin.
Heh. That’s the stage where I should just stop thinking about it and go work out.
I just yelled at all my kids and got them to clean the house … so my work here is done.
Geez, Carin. Can you YouTube that, please?
My workout, or the yelling at the kids?
Yelling. I could use some pointers.
I will be prayerful cause it can’t hurt. Doctor people are very weird and you can’t figure them out using people logic. I like the rationalization from earlier where you are asymptomatic but also this right here in the worst case I think is textbook early detection. That is huge. As far as the waiting goes, they don’t mess around but my understanding is the first CT is to say hey is this a bad thing and then if maybe so is it the primary bad thing or did it come from somewhere else. Until you know that you don’t know anything really. If it’s a solitary bad thing they would maybe do a thin needle biopsy next. This is all I know about the process really. The only other thing I know is that you shouldn’t google anything. Faith.
TOTALLY not googling anything. I’m gonna go run three miles just to show you how I’m in perfect shape. Also, it’s a small doc/ family practice who tends to get “on” stuff, and he said he was doing the CT to make sure nothing slipped by him. Extra cautious, prolly since I have 5 kids.
Dan, it helps (if you really want results) with your yelling to add just a touch of desperation, and an edge to suggest you may just totally lose your shit VERY soon. I find throwing stuff doesn’t help (makes ’em retreat to their room out of fear) so best just make sure nothing is in your hands.
I’ve got the upstairs almost done, and the downstairs is about 80% to completion.
If I add the desperation, I think that they will laugh and laugh.
Well, it’s gotta be true. They can sense a fake, and the whole thing will blow up in your face.
I was just struck by the thought being bandied about here by both the fine citizens and the resident trolls – that the economy will “eventually recover.” Yeah, it should, but that ain’t a certainty – Japan has never recovered its prior economic strength, after almost two decades, and now has a massive debt overhang (due to massive government “stimulus”).
Bad political decisions can put your economy in a zombie state for an indefinite period.
Socialism has real-world effects. But it would be a mistake I think to assume Baracky thinks a deteriorated economic base is a bug not a feature. He’s not fond of free enterprise. His woman either. We’re in big big trouble.
Hmm. I don’t have kids, but I was a camp counselor for some years, and I am an experienced uncle. My dad gave me some advice that works – most of the time. He said: “You say it once; you say it twice; and on the third time you get up and get over to them and direct them where you want to go. You don’t yell; you don’t scream. You just get up.” I have found that advice useful, along with keeping the hard face (with slight glare). After a while the glare alone has been known to suffice.
At least, it always worked with me and my brothers.*
*My sister-in-law’s machine-gun Spanish can also get results.
My mother-in-law terlls how when she and her two sisters were little their mother would tell them and tell them and tell them to do something, and then their father would walk in and say, “Girls, move!”
That’s what got results.
You know what is ironic? Someone who thinks the party of Soros and Rich gives a shit about the little people calling Republicans suckers. That is priceless, tuberhead.
And as for cleaning rooms, when we were little if we didn’t do it our Mom busted our ass. Didn’t take but a couple times and it was a non-issue.
This is sickening. It won’t do shit, except to advance some short-term agenda that should stay in the trunk.
Mmmm, girl, you got some tasty in that trunk, yo humpty bumb girl. Go ahead and get down.
Thor, set aside your persistent bullshit, do you seriously think any of this throwaway crap is actually going to work? I don’t.
Not really, but I’d hate to be snorklin’ from the bottom of a latrine.
Insert your mouthpieces, hicks! Because you’re going down.
Just a little bit lower now, a little bit lower now.
I got your fuckin’ mouthpiece right here. Let me get this zipper down.
No. No. No. I want to see the world burn! Thor and his ilk just want to enslave it.
The urge for freedom is what will cause the world to burn, as the horrid undergrowth of corruption and the narratives of government control are swept away in a cleansing flame. The flame of liberty.
(Burnt ground grows new grass… and better crops.)
So, men and women like Thor never want to see the world burn. They would have no more power to enslave others to their will.