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Mark loves cockslapping O’Reilly and Beck.
But Mark also noted BP is a huge Obama supporter, wanting cap and trade, hooked up with the Obama administration…
So if BP wants to voluntarily spread its legs and suck Baracky’s cock, who am I to try to defend it from itself. I get the argument about tyrany and what Levin is arguing about the rule of law, but if you are going to argue rule of law I expect the alleged aggrieved party to assert it. Something BP has not done.
So fuck it.
Limbaugh, it seems, joins with Levin.
sdferr, usually it is Levin following Limbaugh, but whatev…
Temporality! Catch the fever!
Hey, is my name blackened forever around here?
if you are going to argue rule of law I expect the alleged aggrieved party to assert it. Something BP has not done.
Maybe because things are not as they seem and it’s all kabuki for the masses. Maybe the alleged “shake-down” was BP and Obama agreeing what to do next. I don’t know.
But even a staged shake-down ought not to be. If they’re going to fake something, they should at least fake the rule of law.
Also, Levin doesn’t have a voice for radio. Someone should get him one of those thingamajiggers that lowers the pitch of his voice and deletes the nasality. I’d almost rather hear Hillary shout.
Why do you feel compelled to save BP from itself? If BP jumps off a bridge, rule of law that suicide is illegal is not going to save it. Why are you all so intent to save BP from itself?
Of course not. I can’t speak for the people of Atlanta though.
I voted by selling my BP stock. Although if you are successful in saving BP from itself, it might be a good buy now.
Excellent comment over at that linked piece:
The problem is that government is taking and using power it should not have. Just because we are emotionally charged (key part of leftist statists) and they are using it for something we feel is justified does not mean that power can not be used against us.
I can’t listen to the Levin bit because I have stupid satellite internet.
Joe is just going to repost the same shit in every thread.
Hey, if that woman what’s being beaten won’t press charges against her husband — for whatever reason — then she deserves what she gets.
LINK!
OT: My personal hobby horse. DDT and the enviro-left condemning poor Africans to death from malaria…and bed-bugs.
Instapundit: “Malawi going for DDT to fight malaria”
I have been tracking the DDT story-arc for some time because I believe that it will prove instructive (as if instruction was needed) as to the true nature of the green on the outside red on the inside, ‘watermelon’ communist front groups.
The silly ban on DDT that was a result of Rachel Carson’s plastic-science screed, Silent Spring, has doomed millions of people in the third world to death. If a terrorist group killed millions of poor brown people that our left claims to support I would think they would object. they don’t. They couldn’t care less if Africans die from malaria or the lack of genetically modified crops. The adherence to the strict tenets of the religions of Comrade Gaia must be maintained.
But a couple of years ago I started reading about the return of the bedbug to the American home. Bedbugs had been eradicated from children beds using DDT a long time ago when foolish government bureaucrats decided that killing blood sucking insects with a compound that was harmless to humans was a good idea. The fools!
Interstingly, one of the heaviest concentrations of infestations is in that bastion of liberalism, New York City. Like our friend the terrorists, the bedbugs are not concerned with your politics or your income.
Bedbugs in NYC are in 20 million dollar apartments snacking on the pampered scions of the super-rich, and if they are in New York, they will soon be in DC and under the covers with the attendees of Sidwell Friends.
My questions are:
1) How much money is is the black-market for DDT in New York?
2) How long after the bedbugs show up in the homes of EPA administrators does the ban get dropped?
3) Or does DDT get released to those who are ‘connected’ on a limited basis for ‘research’.
4) How will the greens rationalize letting poor brown people die by the millions from malaria, but let themselves have it so their kids can sleep?
5) Will they simply change the name?
Jeff, we can’t save everyone. I am sure as hell not worried about saving BP.
I would prefer that we don’t trend toward retroactive laws, no.
Yet, the irony is that they are seemingly powerless when it comes to the Jones Act.
Carin – That trollish thingie does not care, even one iota, what your answer is.
Picking and choosing who we save based on how we feel is like deciding what speech is free based on how well we like the speaker or the content of the speech.
Or haven’t you seen The People vs. Larry Flynt?
I find Levin’s odd voice somewhat odd yet compelling, although I absolutely cannot – in my mind’s eye – see it coming from his face (I’ve seen his pictures, but never video).
Having said that I felt compelled to re-make a point that Levin made, only better, so I doubt I could help Joe much. Assuming he’s really intellectually curious about the issue at hand which my own sense of decency requires me to make.
Yes. Serves BP right for not agreeing to a “safe word” in advance. Palamino!
Serial mendoucheousness, and douchenozzlery, and link spamming from the one that I took a New Year’s Resolution to be nice to. I shall resume same, as his stupidity and base ignorance is impenetrable.
Well, #19 gives us our answer.
Larry Flynt had the balls to fight his battle in the courts. In a wheelchair during much of it. BP and its Obama contributing managers…they rolled.
Taking advantage of good-heartedness and geniality isn’t to be recommended as a way to keep them however.
Oh. In a wheelchair? Damn. Takes balls to go to court in a wheelchair.
Joe, I’ll try anyway – most people around here are not interested in saving BP. They are interested in a precedent whereby the current administration seems to operate outside of the law. See, for example, requiring and administering a private entity’s $20B escrow account.
By they way, I realize I should not pretend to know what “most people around here” think in the post above. I should have qualified that (“I believe that…”). Apologies whether I am right about that or not.
Why are you a racist, meya?
scooter, BP was going to do the escrow fund anyway (Trenk Franks (R) AZ-2 reported that), BP voluntarily agreed to it, if BP wanted to fight this in the courts I would be joining you in arguing for rule of law…
but BP did not. So fuck BP.
scooter (still not libby), BP was going to do the escrow fund anyway (Trenk Franks (R) AZ-2 reported that), BP voluntarily agreed to it, if BP wanted to fight this in the courts I would be joining you in arguing for rule of law…
but BP did not. So fuck BP.
But they weren’t planning on putting Obama’s Pay Czar in charge of it.
If they’d say Gerald Walpin gets to be the independent auditor of what Obama’s boy does, then I’d have a lot better opinion of the situation.
I sounded just like that this morning when I was typing my screed in the last post.
… with much, much more bass of course. Actually sounded like an earthquake, or that time Paul Robeson got the hiccoughs, even, maybe a disaster movie soundtrack…
…and I’m only saying this because I need you all to know that I have a really, really large penis. You know why BP quit top-kill? I had a ballgame to get to. Yeah. That big. So I didn’t sound at all as squeaky as Mr. Levin…even though my allergies were making me sound kinda nasally and I was wearing a very small kimono..and when it’s humid out, the air conditioning can make things chilly…you’re on the internet, how would you know what I was wearing unless you asked, right?…just think HUGE when you think LMC, OK? Giant even… glad we cleared that up.
Let me put this in a way that can help you unstick the needle from that groove, Joe. BP, regardless of whether we like it or not (or whether we think it deserves to or not) doesn’t get to set precedence by voluntarily surrendering its rights to our King.
Understand?
Someone needs to stand up to the administration’s extra-legal BS. That a lefty Eurocorp already in Obama’s pocket isn’t doing so should come as a surprise to no one, really – I wouldn’t want to trust those guys to fight ideological battles regarding the rights and limitations of the U.S. government. I can still be very concerned about it regardless of whether or not BP seems to be.
Instead of a banana in the tailpipe, meya has the vuvuzela in the rectum.
Amen Jeff,
Just because some guys like their chicks a little bit broken in doesn’t mean I want Longshanks boning my wife on our wedding day.
Heh.
Joe, Joe, Joe. I’ve been following the comments here and for the most part have stayed silent, as I have no love for a giant multinational corporation who owes a good deal of it’s success to being in bed with government, but come on man. That comment was a slow hanging curve ball for anyone who has been following Jeff, for more than a day or two, to crank out of the ball park. We don’t, or more pointedly shouldn’t, choose who we should apply the rule of law to. That way leads to statism. Consistency is the order of the day, here. It goes hand in hand with conviction is this case.
And, yes, I do know how to spell my own handle. Back to lurking…
Droit des … Feelings? No thanks, I’ll pass.
Even Jeffrey Dahmer got equal justice under the law, but since BP is icky, so they can enable a POTUS in voiding that law/court/legislature thingie?
Be it noted that Joe left the question hanging at precisely 11:55 am on 6/21.
i guess that’s why he is nationally syndicated
Jeff, Joe’s trying to find a new niche since facilitiating fights between you and Paterico has fallen through for him. Only so much a born shit-stirer is qualified for.
Levin is my favorite radio guy. When he gets worked up, I know that I am not alone–someone out there is at least as angry as I am.
Mr W,
I’ve been asking this question for years: Which book’s ideas led to the deaths of more innocents, Mein Kampf or Silent Spring?
Levin is one of the smart lawyers. We’ll keep him.
Patterico can go plug the hole.
I’m thinking Silent Spring, Spiny. Because it’s influence keeps on taking lives, year after year, decade after…well, we won’t see it return in our lifetimes.
Levin, the guy who claimed the oil spill was a deliberate move by Obama to take over the oil industry…. should give you a clue to Levin’s grip on reality, and the level of fear and paranoia he uses to leverage his minions.
The spill was a direct result of corrupt oversight and regulation – the corrupt MMS that was staffed by Bush/Cheney and should have been cleaned out by Obama.
You mean like what Bush/Paulson did to the banks? Yeah, I understand. We know Paulson actually threated the banks with leaking rumors that could spark runs if they did not play ball with him. And I do not think Paulson with the Banks was the first time something like that happened in history (although it was certainly probably one of the most eggregious and a very bad precident).
Maybe this BP deal is a similar thing. Or maybe Obama instead offered some carrot to BP (a loyal supporter) that has not been disclosed. So what is the remedy to this when BP does voluntarily surrender its rights to the king? Other than winning House, Senate and Presidency and making such deals illegal?
I become such a pariah because I think what Barton said in apologizing to BP was stupid and defending Barton was stupid. But hey, I generally trust you, Levin and Barone, so go for it. I give in.
And RTO Trainer–don’t impune my motives or group me with that fuck Patterico. I am not on the down low with Patterico like some around here. I just do not like the motherfucker.
Someone needs to learn to recognize irony.
The spill was a direct result of corrupt oversight and regulation – the corrupt MMS that was staffed by Bush/Cheney and should have been cleaned out by Obama.
Too bad the idiot woman Obama put in there was too busy pursuing green energy pipe dreams to weed out all that Bush/Cheney HALIBURTON!! corruption, huh?
Irony?
“I think those SWAT teams are there in coordination with the attorney general’s office, the Interior Department, Homeland Security, maybe the EPA to seize records at these sites and to lay the foundation for government takeover” — Mark Levin on the BP spill
This Jeff is yet another mental midget. The trolls seem to be getting more agitated recently.
49 and 50 are fake. Not sure by who. which is like my position earlier today. I denounce myself for mirroring Frey. Why don’t you denounce your buddy JD?
Now Joe’s true colors come out. This is the shit stirring fuckstick we all know you to be. I already told him what I think, fucker.
49 by Ernst and 50 by Jeff are fake?
The link comment got cut off, but Patterico’s position was like mine earlier today. I stand corrected. Of course JD seems generally okay sparring with his buddies nk and Pat.
Do you only hold positions based on who agrees with you?
I agree with you JD, they appear to be fakes, your comments over at Pat’s however are real.
I asked a question, hence the question mark. I do not think they are fake.
Why does it bother you that I comment at other sites as well?
I think illiterate is the word you are looking for.
Levin is a very bright guy, but damn is he screechy sometimes.
Levin has a voice made for newspaper.
Speaking of grating, I’m in want of a Petrobras pronunciation about now, as opposed to a Petrobas one.
you be syndicated right loser. jd asshat
nice evidence. yea we be obama dude. yo jeff too many f**ktards
yo dickhead does soros own shit in petrobrazil? i need the 234 word answer not the 5 answer! or maybe the the 2 : yes or no
“yo dickhead”
?
And after an address like that you expect an answer?
non-ironic Jeff, Try reading that out loud with your tongue in your cheek and see how it souonds to you.
If that fails, look up a more complete transcript for the day and see what else was being discussed. hint: “truthers” and conspiracies.
Yeah, JD, Joe’s not happy unless someon, other than Joe, is having a fight.
No, 49 was the real Ernst. The HALIBURTON! should have been the give away. The woman who was forced to resign from MMS was too busy pursuing Green initiatives to bother with oversight, alleged Bush Cheney corruption not withstanding.
are you afraid of something?
Yes. Or, no. ANSWER ME NOW BITCH !
“are you afraid of something?”
Apropos of what newrouter? Afraid of what, that is? Afraid that I don’t understand your particular problem, yes, if you know the idiom. Other than that, what?
RTO – It is like he thinks he can shame me into not commenting elsewhere, demanding purity of internet travels, while ignoring the fact that he has no fidelity to the concepts espoused here.
Ernst – I thought that was you. Actually, I never doubted it.
can you answer the question or are you holding on to your pearls?
“yo dickhead”
Again, with an address like that you expect an answer? Think again, simpleton.
I liked newrouter better when it appeared as if he might be sane. It was a comfortable illusion.
2 questions
can you reply in under 75 words?
ANSWER ME NOW BITCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you think of some better way to waste my time newrouter? Or your own, for that matter? Buzz off.
here’s the?: is soros and hussein doing a deal with brazil? go for it intellectual? yo no verbage please ’cause your prose suxs
One.
Two.
Three.
Here’s the thing. You can be right about some stuff and still be nutty as a squirrel turd. See Debbie Schlussel.
nice humility: reading your shit ain’t a waste of time? you be thinking large about your vomit. have fun fool.
Oh, four. My bad.
I wonder if an enterprising nutjob could figure out a way to tie Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the Deepwater accident?
kinda watching this when baracky gave george s $2 bill to drill 6 months ago. funny how the bp thing happen when they be paying the demonrats. and baracky shuts down the drilling. dude???
Mister ‘router, as a semi-impartial observer, let me just say that you’re making me think fondly of Cynn. When she’s been hitting the sauce she just gets extra-dopey; you, you’ve got a mean drunk thing going on, and it’s not at all pleasant to witness.
no but leftist like soros, obama,ayers,(the “intellectual left”) and islam(sunni/shia)are doing deals. ali hated christers now who knows?
Even crazy people can get number four.
perhaps but:
so there’s no chicago scam going down? or it is unpleasant to see the society falling so quickly. me be bumf*ck on a message board. your country may be collapsing?
so ali wasn’t gutted like theo von gogh. to the muslims ali should have been the prime target unless they want to take down the west. yea islam = nazi=commie.
That was a pretty quick strike, bh. Don’t forget to weigh it when you reel it in.
Wait, is it just me or is newrouter arguing with himself now?
my favorite muslime is arafat’s uncle the one who with adolph wanted to kill jews world wide. al asqua al quds al muslime
Pablo, is he winning or losing the argument?
is islam a religion? why was theo killed? does ali h. have anything to say about the last 3000 yrs of history?
you tell me. i like wilder’s attack on the “narrative” in calling jordan its rightfull name: palestine.
i like wilder’s attack on the “narrative” in calling jordan its rightfull name: palestine.
Honestly, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Geert Wilder? But if we’re going to start pressing 3000 years worth of historical claims, the Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians, not to mention the Greeks and the Italians, the British and the French, let alone the Arabs, are going to be inclined to disagree. And the Lebanese are probably going to want both Gaza and Tel Aviv back.
That and more, because he attacked Islam, and yes, she writes books about it. And it’s Ayaan Hirsi Ali, so the Ali comes after the H.
Now what?
Wait, it isn’t 3000 years of history, it’s more like 1400. I blame the alcohol.
speaking of OUTLAW, Hot Air takes a mean switch to Huckabee today…
Cause of he’s… inauthentically Christian.
2012 God help us.
or the jews
it isn’t 3000 years of history, it’s more like 1400.
That voids in toto or in part the claims of the the Syrians, Iraqis Iranians and Italians.
jews were involved not rag heads( bit players)
that voids your definitions. the romans= italians? syrians=what turks?
you are stupid
Huckabee is a slightly more to the right of the left of center Social Gospel movement with a heaping Dollop of William Jennings Bryan Populism thrown in. He’s a spoiler. And that’s all he’ll ever be.
It’s discomfiting to see him being taken so seriously in that post really.
I think mostly he used to be ginormously morbidly fat to where he could lose the tv remote in his fat rolls.
He’s a serviceable TV host, if you like watching Fuckabee. That’s a good place for him, for people who like that sort of thing.
but that’s the same tv where you can see … other things too
Syrians, Iraqis & Iranians encompass Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, Persians. I left Turkey out because there was no point in dragging the Hittites into this, although I guess that was unfair to the Saracens, Seljuks and Ottomans, so thank you for reminding me. I have no problem recognizing the historical claims of the Jewish people to Zion, but I wouldn’t want to adjudicate it. You want to clean out the Augean Stables of 3000 years of shit happens, and I’m supposedly the stupid one? Please.
Yes.
Flipping through the channels I came across him talking to Raquel Welch. It was extremely reassuring. Can’t do much damage there, I thought.
Imagine if Obama hosted a daytime TV show that presented uplifting stories and people would occasionally find presents under their seats.
That just feels like a better fit to me.
People need to filter, ‘feets. Now that Simon has quit American Idol, maybe we can teach them.
He’d be really good at that, bh. Like Montel Williams, only better.
this is the best song
so you should listen to it or whatever
He’d be really good at that, bh. Like Montel Williams, only better.
I know you’re kidding Pablo. He sucks at everything. Still waiting for him to break the Obamacare disapproval rating for 9 holes.
Where’d you hear that, meya?
Look it into that dude.
Come on, bh! He’s really good at taking the day off!
Anybody know of some way I can go long on the Canadian dollar or Swiss franc?
I’m redoing my mortgage and will have some cash on hand.
How does a nonsense, fact deficient statement tell me where you heard BP wanted to give Feinberg their money to play with, meya?
Oh I was just guessing they wanted someone less partisan that “Obama’s pay czar” so they would like going with “Ashcroft’s 9/11 fund special master” instead.
Oh, so you were lying, then?
Hush, SFAG. None of the loot is going to be used to pay off your student loans, so there’s no point in troubling your head over this.
Goulash blue thermometer push quantum parallax, liar.
Pablo, Feinberg was “Ashcroft’s 9/11 fund special master” So other than the part of about the 9/11 fund being set up by CONGRESS and not in 4-1/2 hr meeting between Boooosh’s eeeevill minions and the Airlines, the half-wit almost made a point.
Oh, I know what it was going for, Ernst. I just thought it would be fun to point out that it was lying, again.
Ah…, saw 118, missed 122
Actually, the MMS staffers have been there for decades.
Not a one was a Bush 43 appointee.
Courtesy of Professor Reynolds.
Mr. W, Spiny Norman (how far you’ve fallen, Spiny!), about DDT:
1. WHO never banned DDT, and in fact, never stopped using it.
2. DDT use in Africa and Asia by WHO was slowed in 1965 because mosquitoes became resistant and immune to it.
3. The U.S. ban on DDT use on U.S. crops came seven years later. The ban in the U.S. specifically left open export of DDT to Africa; the U.S. ban did not extend to any other nation.
4. Malaria death rates were highest when DDT use was heaviest.
5. Malaria annual death rates were north of 2 million a year when WHO stopped using DDT; the death rates continued to decline for about a decade, until malaria parasites developed resistance to the pharmaceuticals used to treat the disease in humans. DDT, or lack of it, had nothing to do with the minor increase in malaria.
6. Without DDT largely, malaria death rates now are the lowest they have been in human history. In 2008, fewer than 900,000 people died from malaria, about a third of the death rate when DDT use was heaviest, in 1959 and 1960.
7. Malaria was at 2 million deaths a year when DDT use was slowed — that’s hardly “almost eliminated.” It’s double the death rate today.
8. DDT use in indoor residual spraying has never stopped. Since resistance to DDT has declined after 40 years of little use, DDT is once again somewhat effective — in limited places, against limited populations.
9. Controlling malaria always required improvements in medical care. We cannot poison malaria away — it’s a human disease, not a disease of mosquitoes. DDT cannot do the job required now.
10. EPA used only the best science to restrict the use of DDT. Four federal court trial found the science solid. More than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies since 1962 confirm the science was right.
11. Railing at environmentalists doesn’t help fight malaria now. Why don’t you get off your soap box and save a kid’s life? Give $10 to Nothing But Nets to buy a bed net, and that would do more than any amount of DDT.
12. Come on over to Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub, get the facts on DDT and malaria fighting.
Please don’t stop worrying about malaria. But get good information. Bad information won’t help — we can’t poison Africa to health. There are things we can do to beat the disease. Blaming environmentalists is not helpful.
And, had you bothered to search you’d know: Bedbugs became immune to DDT in the 1950s. The decline in bedbugs from 1960 to 2010 cannot be attributed to DDT, nor will DDT beat them back anymore.
1) WHO never banned DDT
“WHO” doesn’t “ban” things. Individual countries do.
2) DDT use in Africa and Asia by WHO was slowed in 1965 because mosquitoes became resistant and immune to it.
Because it was used as a general insecticide, NOT because it was used for malaria control.
3) the U.S. ban did not extend to any other nation. “Economy of scale” doesn’t mean anything to you, I suppose.
4) Malaria death rates were highest when DDT use was heaviest. So? Smallpox death rates were highest where smallpox vaccination was heaviest. What the FUCK are you jabbering about here? Of COURSE the prophylactic use of DDT was heaviest where the need was greatest. The rate of ANY disease treatment or preventative measure is going to be heaviest where the disease is most prevalant. Are you a moron, or do you think we are?
Your other (unsourced) “points” are of similar quality, running the gamut from mendacious half-truths, lies by omission, and just plain lies.
I don’t really want there to be a Hell, but if there is one, evil child-murdering fucks like you have a seat reserved right by the fire.