New Orleans based Entergy still hasn’t resumed power for 200k customers after the ice storms of January 27-28. Clearly, this is Bush’s fault. Orchids.
I think we need a Tolerance Czar. Don’t you?
UPDATE: Malkin has an SOS from hard-hit Paducah
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“Sheeeeit…..if this was Chicago, the kids would be out playing for recess. EON’T TOUCH THAT THERMOSTAT!”
Dan, should you be making these snide references to the President’s testicles?
He’s from Hawaii, okay?
B-B-But…The one! said he was going to have a more responsive and effecient government…
Why hasn’t the one! declared it an emergency? Why hasn’t the one! visited the folks there? Why hasn’t the one at least flown over the area?
HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT FLYOVER COUNTRY CRACKAHZ! HE’S BASKING IN THE OVAL SAUNA WHILE CRACKAHZ FREEZE IN RED STATES! HE’S ENGAGING IN CRACKAH GENOCIDE !11!1!eleventy
I mean, the least he could do is work a miracle and give them sunshine and mid 70’s ’til the electric infrastructure is repaired…
I BLAME BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!…
I guess those are what he placed his left hand on during the second Oath of Office, McGehee.
Winter Storm Death total rises to 55:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm
Can’t they move to Hawaii, where not having heat is not that bad? Barack “Marie Antoinette” Obama. Hell, they can even grow orchids outside in Hawaii.
They need to dust themselves off.
Bob Reed is the bestest user of bold tags EVAH!
oh. I think Baracky is just a hateful person generally Dan cause his mommy and daddy wanted nothing to do with him. It’s not Bush’s fault. Maybe Baracky was just a hard kid to love and he wasn’t able to overcome that. There’s just a lot of anger there that he tried to repress with illegal narcotics but never really successfully dealt with. My friend D has a cousin like that. You don’t wanna know how this story ends.
With a nobel peace prize?
They hand those out for teleprompter reading now?
Nah. He’ll write another autobiography and get the literature prize.
No, just for general…awesomeness.
oh. BRD made a movie. That’s kind of a big deal I think, making a movie. You can watch it online. It’s about Christmas.
That was supposed to have a link … I think it makes more sense that way.
I (helped) make a movie, too. Appear in it, as well. For a moment. Not going to point out who I am. It’s not great, but it was made in just two days, so what can you expect?
Where’s BRD’s movie? Wanna watch!
Here Rob.
Oh ye with desperation on your breath, Entergy is a publicly traded company, not a government agency.
All the carping and Obama is still quite popular:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114091/Americans-Approve-Obama-Actions-Date.aspx
It’s as if America wasn’t listening to the far right anymore.
*cry*
“tightening ethics rules for Administration officials”
good one parsnip. You had me going.
I’m not sure that thor knows what point he was making with that last.
Not that I care all that much. Conversational “point” is a male-centric construct, completely devoid of physical meaning. It’s all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.
I thought it had been too pleasant around here lately.
Where did anyone imply that Entergy was a government agency, thor? Are you hitting the sauce this early?
Any comments on the raging tax scandals, or is that merely “right wing” too?
I mean, think of all the chainsaws and cots that Tom Daschle’s taxes could have bought for the poor folks of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Only us rightwingers care about taxes. The more enlightened among us care about such things as hope and change and victory plates and being able to say we made history.
Hey look Daschle just dropped out. Hhahahahahahahahhaha
“tightening ethics rules for Administration officialsâ€Â
Tom Daschle.
Richardson, Rangel, Dodd, C. Kennedy, Daschle, Killener, Geithner……….
I’m beginning to sense a “culture” of some sorts.
“Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 11:42 am #
I’m not sure that thor knows what point he was making with that last.”
No point.
He’s just talking to the voices in his head.
“I’m beginning to sense a “culture†of some sorts.”
The Chicago-Little Rock Axis of Corruption.
(Hillary! hasn’t dropped out yet, has she?)
Since Obama was willing to “stand behind” Daschle just a few days ago, they are waiting for the appropriate Kos and TPM posts outlining how “Barack Obama has never supported Tom Daschle. Barack Obama doesn’t even know who Tom Daschle (R-SD) is.”
thor and alfie, no comments on the “Al-Qaeda Cutting Jobs” thread.
Why not?
We have always been at war with Eastasia!
I wonder if Obama’s head of FEMA has paid his taxes? That would really suck if the guy in charge of the relief efforts in Kansas failed to pay his taxes too.
Peaceful elections in Iraq, ones in which hard-line Islamist parties actually lose influence, makes the trolls sad pandas.
Wow, thor with a nonsensical comment immediately followed by alphie with, well, an alphie comment? Do you think they’re in bed together sharing the laptop? Or maybe in a coffee house stroking it to some spoken word?
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. â€Â
Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.
I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.
I thought that’s what assholes like Jimmy Carter do.
No more nonsense balloons for you.
Word
And did you notice just how wide the swath in the Midwest of those without power?
As opposed to Katrina, which only hit New Orleans.
#Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:22 pm #
Could someone translate that into Sane?
thor is off his meds again.
“I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.”
There’s an incredibly large amount that you don’t know, hor.
And you prove it here every day.
“Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 12:30 pm #
thor is off his meds again.”
True, dat.
“I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.â€Â
You must have absolutly 0 knowledge of WW2.
Swing and a miss, thorknob. Where did anyone imply that Entergy is a gov. agency? Oops, looks like it was you and you alone who inferred it, asswipe. Maybe if you tried to throttle back the sanctimonious snark you’d make a point every now and then.
“Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:31 pm #
“I didn’t know the goal of our military was to work the polling stations and insure peaceful elections in Iraq.â€Â
You must have absolutly 0 knowledge of WW2.”
True, dat.
Stand in your bathtub filled with water and stick your finger in a toaster.
Only a bathtub.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:34 pm #
WTF?
That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.
Hey thor this is Wiki for you.
Japan was occupied by the U.S., aided by Commonwealth troops, until the peace treaty took effect in 1952. In accordance with the Yalta Conference agreements, the Soviet Union occupied and subsequently annexed Sakhalin. During the occupation, the Americans focused on demilitarizing the nation, demolishing the Japanese arms industry, and installing a democratic government with a new constitution. Commonly regarded by many historians as a resounding economic and social success, the Japanese occupation formally ended in 1952, soon followed by Japan’s meteoric post-war economic boom. The Far Eastern Commission and Allied Council For Japan were also established to look over the occupation of Japan. These bodies served a similar function to the Allied Control Council in occupied Germany
They = That’s
Ummm…thor are you commenting on the wrong thread? This will, and has in the past, gotten me in trouble in here, but I kind of agree with you in your #41. But, I’m not sure what your comment had to do with the original post?
Well, the Government, of course — as we were told, endlessly and at maximum volume, while the Bush administration was putting together the most effective FEMA response ever to Katrina. Everything down to any hangnails suffered by the clerk-typists filling in the checks is the Fault of the Administration, any intimation of actual responsibility.
Regards,
Ric
“Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 12:37 pm #
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 12:31 pm #
You must have absolutly 0 knowledge of WW2.
That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.”
hor believes communist propaganda.
Mhehe!
I don’t think the US military did work polling stations this time around. They stood far enough off and watched the Iraqis conduct their own elections. Which in the end, is as it should be.
Our military did insure the peace in a sense though, in the ordinary way that they have been doing every day for months now, a force at the ready, acting where necessary to help Iraqi security efforts, training and equipping the Iraqi security forces as they build their own strength. All to the good.
Obama dozed. People Froze!!!!
Sure Ric, just like all your other monstrous exaggerations – Trig Palin story all over the MSM, Booooosh blamed for everything, Bwarney Fwank invented toxic securities, and we were told FEMA… yada, yada – you just make the shit up as you go to help hide the obviousness of redumblicanism’s and Bush’s failures.
We get it. You’re the victim. The whole of universal suckage is all the Left’s fault.
What fucking universe do you live in, thorknob? I mean, I tend to skip over phlegmy loogies but #60 is a tribute to your besotted hack partisan delusions.
Thor, that last screed could have been an entry about yourself in your personal journal. Especially, that last line. If you’re so sick of that behavior, why do you emulate it to a T in here?
“The whole of universal suckage is all the Left’s fault.”
120,000,000 dead people agree with that statement.
This is fun.
“That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.”
http://www.geocities.com/mark_willey/lend.html
Sure thing, hor.
It’s just sad cause Baracky’s administration had started with such promise. Oh well. I think maybe some of it was never really very realistic to begin with.
For equilibrium’s sake, maybe, who can really say, but I know darn well know that that Dan Collins punter needs his comeuppance stomped!
take your meds and lie down for a bit.
Sorry, I don’t speak simpleton.
Why, sure, thor, just like you can excuse any excess or dereliction by shouting “REDUMBGLICANS! BOOSH!”
The people who fucked up the Katrina response were Democrats. Nagin didn’t implement his own emergency plan, which left the city disorganized long enough for evacuation means to be flooded out, and Landrieu dithered and dillydallied rather than issuing the authorization for Federal troops to come in and assist. That is the FACT. “Brownie” did do a good job — which is to say, he sat in his office and didn’t get in anybody’s way, which is the most we can expect from any Federal official nowadays.
You and your allies established the standard. Too bad you don’t seem to be meeting it yourselves.
Regards,
Ric
Dan, my mentor, channeled my current preferred usage of rethuglidum in lieu of redumblican several weeks ago.
Details, like elections, matter!
The only “detail” that is relevant where you are concerned, thor-boi, is that you are one of the leading cockholsters (especially your boy O!bambi’s) in these United States, and dumb as a sack of rocks to boot.
Deal with it.
“That’s the war the Russians won. They why they call it The Great War.â€Â
It was a totally cool war, with none of that icky death or torture or anything. It’s not like I read about Russian soldiers strangling German soldier with piano wire or anything neocon Republithug like that.
Thor’s just upset because his tax-dodging no longer gives him an inide track to a White House job.
I always thought the Russians called WWII “The Great Patriotic War”.
But then I make no claim to be an expert on all things Russian.
#72
And something went on in Asia and the the pacific, but it didn’t amount to much.
Thor’s been with the Red Army as it marched towards Berlin. He was there in the shit, man. It sent a thrill up his leg.
week 2 of the FAILED OBAMA PRESIDENCY
Oh, and what thor doesn’t want to admit is that Entergy and every other nominally private utility company in the country actually has its’ rates and profit margins dictated by the government. Google “Public Service Commission”. What that means is that they can’t raise rates ahead of time for an emergency fund, nor afterwards to pick up the damage, without government approval.
There’s a name for an economic system that has businesses nominally privately owned but regulated in every aspect by the government…. I believe the word is Fascism.
I’m pretty sure fascism isn’t gov’t utility regulation, ya mud bunker idiot.
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