Surprisingly, that “worst-case 2012 scenario” doesn’t refer to gangs of Jesus-crazed redneck TEA Party zombies roaming the countryside, eating the barbecued brains of kindhearted progressives whose only crime was trying to dole out social justice. James Pethokoukis:
When American presidents win reelection, they usually win by a heftier margin than the first time around. Narrower victories are rare, just three or four depending if you’re looking at the electoral or popular vote. When voters break against an incumbent, it’s usually fatal for the guy in the Oval Office. And right now, things are breaking bad for Obama. Really bad. Gallup has been pegging his approval rating right around 40 percent, even sometimes dipping to 39 percent. Regarding the economy in particular, Obama registers just 26 percent approval, his lowest rating ever and way down from a high of 59 percent in February 2009.
And it may be about to get a whole lot worse for the Obama 2012 campaign. The White House’s worst-case scenario for the economy on Election Day next year has become Wall Street’s baseline scenario. After looking at a string of weak economic reports and Europe’s growing fear of debt meltdown and contagion, JPMorgan – led by Obama pal Jamie Dimon – has just come out with a politically poisonous forecast.
The megabank now thinks the economy won’t grow much faster over the next 12 months than it did during the first half of this year — and that’s assuming Europe doesn’t go all pear shaped. It sees GDP growth at just 1.5 percent this year, 1.3 percent next year with unemployment at … 9.5 percent heading into the final days of the election season. “The risks of recession are clearly elevated,” the bank said.
[…]
[…] perhaps Obama’s plan for “winning the future” will imbue the gloomy American public with a bit more hope that whatever Republicans offer. Perhaps. But if Obama wins four more years with this economy, it will be almost as historic as his win in 2008.
First off, we never got out of the recession. In fact, we’re practically in a depression.
That it’s not going to get better once Obama gets back from vacation and pushes for a new stimulus — knowing it won’t happen, but in order to paint the Republicans as “obstructionists” leading in to the 2012 election — is a foregone conclusion.
What is unclear is how willing the mainstream press will be to double down on its unprecedented shielding of Obama going in to 2012. The press really does believe itself capable of adding 15% to a given candidate’s (read: leftwing candidate’s) totals, by propping that candidate up while tearing down his “right wing” opponent; this is how we wind up with endemic leftwing government despite living in a consistently conservative-leaning country. But given the extent of Obama’s demonstrable failures — and his move to go purely political, having run out of workable policy ideas — will the press back him this next time around like it did in 2008?
My gut says yes, of course they will. But I don’t think their heart will be quite in it — and expect that to come across to the voting public.
If that’s the case, Obama is as good as done. Let’s hope. And thank God.
DeFazio
Even his boosters can realize their own credibility is on the line. Some will choose to toss credibility away, others not.
National Soros Radio is very eager for you to know that Obama isn’t really on vacation so shut up
All those unemployed people, on the other hand, are.
Whatever happened to funemployment? Don’t hear about that so much anymore.
TEA Party people; can’t work with’em, can’t kill’em.
Well, unless maybe they refuse to belong to a union.
snow hoochie’s 1st campaign ad?
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I don’t care too much about presidential vacations, because in reality they are never on vacation. They are always on the job. I doubt Obama does any less work on vacation than he does when he’s at the White House (see what I did there?).
What I do care about is how Bush got beat up for all his vacations (which were all working vacations) and Teh Won gets nothing.
Yes, pointing out the double standards is easy, but I still think it needs to be done.
Heh. Good linky, nr.
‘feets, you should check out that HillBuzz group. I’ll bet you’d pick up a thing or two.
VDH concludes:
Then there is the Alter-net vision.
Sarah needs to run Mr. serr8d so America can support her and put her in the office of the presidency for to do the going rogue with her super best friend orrin hatch
rsm opines
If Sarah Palin Isn’t Running for President, Why Is She Releasing This Iowa Video?
snow hoochie’s 1st campaign ad?
For head cheerleader or state fair queen? I don’t even know if the latter actually exists. But seriously, I suppose it has to be a campaign commercial as it doesn’t any make sense to put two minutes of focus grouped fluff together like that for any other reason.
i think head cheerleader for team america
any make sense? I multitask good.
Recognize Sarah Palin as ‘our’ Community Organizer, Abe, but ours doesn’t ass-rape the Republic.
this video will make people who may be supporting someone else take a fresh look at Sarah Palin and say hey forget candidate X this is who should be president right here
“For head cheerleader or state fair queen? I don’t even know if the latter actually exists. But seriously, I suppose it has to be a campaign commercial as it doesn’t any make sense to put two minutes of focus grouped fluff together like that for any other reason.”
Head cheerleader for now I’d say.
Why she can’t just post her videos on You Tube like everyone else in the country does, well, I just don’t know.
“Why she can’t just post her videos on You Tube”
Iowa Passion
@17, for a marketing guy, you sure sound bitter…
Well that video is clearly meant for youtube. Even in Hicklandia there’s no such thing as 2:19 commercial time blocks.
Is discrimination against individuals who express their homosexuality a ‘real’ civil rights violation? Or, words and stripping the meaning thereof, version eleventy-seventy-seven.
you could loop it on HSN late night I bet
er, I think you may have missed my point newrouter…
i was just checking. it could have been on vimeo.
“you could loop it on HSN late night I bet”
Or, conversely, she could shut up and cede the field to much better human beings than herself.
What’s to stop her from telling it to a simmering pot in front of a stove, where she so very obviously belongs?
this is why she needs to run Mr. lee for so she can live her olympic dream
the delightfully clueless jen the rube opines
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Santorum is an irrelevant 80s tard with a google problem
fat man rumors
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First off, we never got out of the recession. In fact, we’re practically in a depression.
/pedant
Technically, the 2008 recession ended in Q3 2009 and then went on to post gains for the next 5 qts. Q1 2011 then dropped to a 0.4 increase. Q2 2011 is sitting at 1.3 and will probably be revised down.
This one has Obama written all over it. He owns it. DNC cockerspaniel Whatsher-Schultz admitted it.
Why does it matter? The Dem-Dem’s are still blaming Bush for the first one. If you’re going to clear out rhetorical space to allow them to continue the lie, Obaka will run with it. Arab springs, wasabis, and BOOOOOOOSH!
/pedant
I predicted months ago Palin wouldn’t run in 2012, and I’ll still be very surprised if she does. I think she’s got a hard on for the MSM, and she see’s her duty as marginalizing and discrediting them, and at the same time act as “head cheerleader” for the conservative cause.
Also, while I consider her an amazingly courageous lady, I think deep down she doesn’t want to expose her family to the mindless hate of the proggs a second time. Mitch Danial felt the same, and Palin already lived it once. I can’t really blame either. It’s not like they’re draft dodgers.
I don’t think she’d finish 3rd or 4th in Iowa, no matter what Rubin (or anyone else) thinks or wishes. I could be wrong. But Sarah Palin is a natural-born winner I’m thinking.
I see your ‘fat man’; I’ll raise you 10 stone.
If Obama wins a second term, it will be prima facie evidence of a rigged election.
If Obama wins a second term, his ‘nice guy pretense’ gloves come off. He will do his damndest to finish his Cloward-Piven project before the due date.
More like providing the final proof of the old adage that the only thing we learn from history is that no one learns from history.
A year is an eternity in election cycles; anything could happen in the meantime, and probably will.
I don’t think she’d finish 3rd or 4th in Iowa
Sarah will do best in states where the Rs let Democrat people vote in their primaries I think
If Obama wins a second term, I think one of those flying pigs would make for a fun pet.
“He will do his damndest to finish his Cloward-Piven project before the due date.”
I’m pretty sure Cloward-Piven is already fully accomplished.
Do you think at this point anyone will be able to beat back the 51% of those getting a check(I use the statist perspective that any money I don’t give the government is a government expenditure), or even dent the massive bureaucracies that have to be destroyed before the tax code can be revamped and entitlements brought under control?
I don’t.
Everyone uses the word “unsustainable”, but even the weak tea that was the Ryan plan couldn’t see the light of day. Unsustainable will continue til it is sustained no more, whenever that is.
Surprisingly, that “worst-case 2012 scenario” doesn’t refer to gangs of Jesus-crazed redneck TEA Party zombies roaming the countryside, eating the barbecued brains of kindhearted progressives whose only crime was trying to dole out social justice.
I would pay money to see this movie. And not just Netflix or Sunday matinee money — I mean real money. Like Friday-night-with-the-missus money.
Hell, I’d even spring for an eight-dollar popcorn to go with that kind of movie.
Do you think at this point anyone will be able to beat back the 51% of those getting a check, or even dent the massive bureaucracies that have to be destroyed before the tax code can be revamped and entitlements brought under control?
It’s a long hard slog, but worth fighting for. Another hundred Congresscritters and a friendly President would go a long way toward making it possible.
The alternative is, well, we all know. But I ain’t gonna talk about it when beer-thirty is upon us.
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“It’s a long hard slog, but worth fighting for”
I’m the tails side of the Palin cheer leading coin. We both think it’s worth fighting for, but while she thinks it can be won with a long hard slog through the media, institutions, and culture(as we all hope it can be), I’m saying good luck with that; but be ready with fortitude and blood. The battlefield is not to our advantage, and the adversary huge, committed, and merciless.
The USA was born of bloody revolution, let it not die a whimpering slave.
Is Palin Zarathustra‘s Übermensch? Neat-o.
What can’t go on forever, won’t.
But I think a civil war less likely than a coup. We could have a civil war in the 1860s when the country was relatively uncrowded and decentralized, but in this day and age the centers of power are where the bloodletting will take place.
If I were Obama I’d be leery of getting too far away from Washington, even for a vacation.
By the way, I got this handy dandy political test in an email the other day, and while I’m sure most of you have already seen it, being the sophisticated bunch you are, I thought I’d throw it out there for fun.
I scored 70% and 70%, making me a dead center libertarian two squares up from centrist.
Of course the “maybe” choice could be better described as “conditionally”, but whatever, it’s cool…
“But I think a civil war less likely than a coup. “
Banana republic style? Heh, you’re probably right.
Going to be a lot of civil unrest before that happens though. The London looting is going to be small potatoes compared to what happens if and when (meaningful)entitlement reform happens here. At that point the police state takes control, or the union divides. Whether that means a 1860’s style civil war or not remains to be seen.
80%, 100% for me. Which put me at rightist libertarian.
Said no to the consenting adults sexing each other because of my aversion to the scary people in Deliverance and the possibility of Michael Moore procreating with that Janeane Garofalo thing.
I’m 100/90 what do I win?
Damn, I’m 100/90 also.
But I’m still linking this piece.
100/100 – which puts me into “Ron Paul supporter” territory, apparently.
Libertarian? That’s funny, I don’t feel libertarian!
“I’m 100/90 what do I win?”
Your cousin in matrimony. Peter or Virginia, your pick…
80/90, but I already considered myself a “small l” libertarian.
BTW, I think Sarah Palin would make a much better “kingmaker” than a candidate.
Mr. Bradley, I don’t think you took the test seriously. For example, there was a question about” End government barriers to international free trade”. If you answered an unconditional yes to that question(as in, regardless what international trading partners do), you aren’t taking it seriously.
I think the four corners represent blind allegiance rather than a reasoned position.
“I already considered myself a “small l” libertarian.”
I thought I would be at the top of “right”, but I think Jeff has had his way with me, changed me somehow…
It’s hard to figure out these sorts of questions. I can think of extenuating scenarios for all of them. If I took it seriously I probably would have went with maybe on all of them and then attach a tl;dr essay next to each one.
If someone did that, btw, they’d have scored 50% and 50%. Dead center centrist.
ms chubby of nro is clutching her mittens
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“If I took it seriously I probably would have went with maybe on all of them and then attach a tl;dr essay next to each one.”
Really, you have amendments to “Government should not censor speech, press, media, or internet.”?
Child porn just for starters.
Could be. Suppose a James Risen or Eric Lichtblau sort get’s hold of the plan to off Bin Laden? Do we let him publish it on the frontpage of the NYTimes? Or do we kill him first?
I took it more as a do-you-generally-agree-with-the-principle-this-question-evokes.
For me, it was really only the consenting adults one that was hard on general principle. Banging your sister harms an innocent third party, the freakishly-talented banjo-playing baby.
Jeffery Sachs (yes, a douche-bag) pipes up with Peter DeFazio, becoming another leftist twit unwilling to sacrifice his own dwindling credibility on the altar of ObamaLove.
After saying that, I think I’m wrong. I mainly said that because I wanted to make a joke about scary inbreds.
You could probably find a general principle problem for most if not all of them.
Population centers, I’m thinking. Look out NYC, LA, Chicago, and on down the list.
I scored on the foul line at the corner square, Conservative – Libertarian. Lots of ‘maybes’ because there’s lots of play in that quiz.
Those aren’t “censored” speech. In the first case(child porn) it is an illegal act (like saying it’s censorship to catch a murderer when he posts the murder on You Tube), and in the second(revealing classified documents), we’re not talking about free speech. Classified military secrets have never been covered under the 1st amendment.
No they haven’t LBascom, but should ‘classified’ exempt some secrets if an illegal activity is taking place? Just because the government does a thing, doesn’t make it legal. Nixon’s tapes were classified. I’m glad they got out.
Of course, and the bin Laden example was necessary, and legal, mostly. Legal or no, bottom line was, just get him.
“should ‘classified’ exempt some secrets if an illegal activity is taking place? “,/i>
Humm, I would say “classified” exempts all secret;, if there is illegal activity taking place, it needs be revealed without revealing the “classified” part.
Rogue comma key!!!
Okay, the child porn crime took place in another country. The person in this country wants to spread images of it on the internet. I’d still censor it.
People sell photos of crime scenes all the time and there is nothing illegal about it even though the underlying event was caused by someone else. In fact, it’s entirely entirely ethical to sell a photo of a murder scene or be hired by a newspaper to do this even though you’re selling images of a crime.
Yelling fire in a crowded movie theater is the obvious one but it’s almost too much of a cliche to mention.
Let’s say you’re in London and you’re suggesting that people go to such and such place to burn businesses down. You don’t participate in the resulting mayhem.
Would it be okay for the cops to stop you from doing this?
I’d say yes.
Is the question “What is the act of censorship?” It could be I guess, but seems more or less to have merely moved the point of attack from the act of laying down the law making a speech or publication act illegal, as an act of censorship in itself.
Meant to say, “because” the underlying event was caused by someone else, not “even though”.
All I’m getting at here is that you can divorce the crime from the person spreading the picture of the crime. At a murder scene this is okay with everyone. With child porn, it’s not. Which means we’re not talking about the underlying crime. We’re censoring an image because it rightfully offends our sensibilities.
“Yelling fire in a crowded movie theater is the obvious one ”
if there’s a fire in the theater you can yell fire
but who would believe you anymore?
Heh newrouter…
Ok, it’s a meaningless test for entertainment purposes only.
Whatever. it’s cool.
National Soros Radio is now saying that criticism of global warming is a white trash christer position
that is so completely fucked up I don’t even know what to say
Best of all, it’s completely fucked up under the umbrella of a corporation the taxpayers fund! Yay for free money!
free speech is ok as long as a lie doesn’t injure people? i’m confuzzled.
“Whatever. it’s cool.”
Actually, I identify with Red in “that 70’s show” way more than Hyde, but still, Zen is Zen…
What if your the only person in the theatre?
Young elfington at the Zardoz screening, for instance.
you’re
mama
oooo, the Html tag Gods hate me now…
Heh, I occasionally chase my tail for fun, Lee. Or argue over who would win in a fight between Tyson and Ali. Helps to pass the time, I suppose.
That’s possibly the best elfie joke yet.
“He planted a religious, social conservative flag by saying, “There are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data” on global warming. Earth’s climate may be changing, he said, but it has been changing since the planet was formed.”
Religious social conservative? How about “the truth”?
Oh yeah. Truth is what social justice says it is.
My bad.
I can’t get my head around that
bh, Ali of course! What’s to talk about?
“That’s possibly the best elfie joke yet.”
Well, second party joke at least…
I see it the same. Foreman in his prime was something of a Tyson so I figure it would have went a bit like that. Maybe with more excitement in the first couple rounds.
It’s more fun if someone disagrees. Strongly.
Anyone?
It’s tough to take Tyson. Cus D’Amato for instance, was Floyd Patterson’s trainer. And Floyd, while a terrific boxer, was annihilated by Ali.
100/60, which puts me on the left side in the libertarian column. Which is weird since I am a founding member of the VRWC and a card carrying Right Wing Death Beast. Hey, what can you do?
Ali of course. The real question is who let the frozen chicken in the ring.
3-0 Ali then.
My little brother thinks that Tyson could beat up Ali and Batman.
He’s crazily fun to argue with. He’ll say that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is the best ever and will actually get pissed off and say all sorts of wacky things if you are in the grilled cheese camp. Eat your grilled cheese with ketchup? This is cheating. Renders the comparison unfair. He’s very vehement about these sorts of things.
4-0 Ali. Tyson is getting spanked here.
A real grilled cheese sandwich, ie two pieces of bread(fried with real butter), with jelly on top? Unbeatable.
Looking at old video of Ali-Patterson, I ran into a neat youtube series of Human Anatomy dissection instruction videos. Whadda world.
Oh, the guys in the Human Anatomy videos? They vote Ali.
Tyson in his prime. 4-1.
Jelly on top? That’s cheating! If I put fudge on top of a peanut butter and jelly it wouldn’t be a PB and J anymore, it would be a PB and J and F! Totally different. Cheater!
(He would say something exactly like this. Earnestly. Like he’s offended by this wild rule breaking in the sandwich argument.)
just took the test
i’m -on that measuring board..
colonel mustard in the study with
drool on my chin
but momma always said i was ‘special’
What about bacon?!?!
“I can’t get my head around that”
What, you think scientists haven’t cooked the books for global warming(if you’ll forgive me) and the planets temperature has been a steady constant?
Maybe ya gotta be a religious, social conservative to see it, I don’t know…
Okay, could Tyson beat Batman, JD? I’ve heard that Batman leaves his chin sticking out. (I have actually heard that.)
Bacon? Like Francis? Or Roger? In any event, Ali would have nothing to do with them on the grounds that they offend his religion deeply.
So, the victory goes to Bacon(z) by default.
Baconz 1, Ali O
Batman does not have the necessary killer instinct.
Tyson 2, Batman 0. ‘Cause I do agree with that. Batman is too reliant on all his gadgets. Tyson just punches fools.
Tyson possessed a savagery the likes of which did not exist before or after him.
Thick cut homemade bacon cooked inside the aforementioned grilled cheese is sublime.
Batman has Robin. Robin could distract Tyson by biting him around the ankles while Batman whips out shark repellent from his utility belt and incapacitates Tyson. Tyson would be an impotent mass on the floor, aimlessly biting at ears in the air, while Batman and Robin shook Ali’s hand on the way out to the Bat mobile.
Jeez, I don’t even know why people wonder about this shit.
bacon bits rule the midget wrestling world
this talk of bacon is islamphobic
“Jelly on top? That’s cheating! If I put fudge on top of a peanut butter and jelly it wouldn’t be a PB and J anymore, it would be a PB and J and F! Totally different. Cheater!”
That’s just getting silly. Condiments don’t change the sandwich, they just enhance it.
If a Nutella and jelly on toast were introduced as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you’d have to be pretty insecure with your grilled cheese and bacon entry to object.
No it ain’t, it’s philoporcinic is all.
quote- “i never have six degrees of separation from my bacon
it’s always in my freezer”
so said the kevin… of bacon
“it’s philoporcinic is all.”
Is that even a word!?
(if so, good one)
@117 philoporcinic
He would maintain that those are specialty sandwiches that need to compete in their own division.
Likewise, bananas and peanut butter is a celebrity sandwich and couldn’t compete against a normal sandwich.
Bacon couldn’t compete with or against a grilled cheese or a PB and J either way. Because that’s a meat or expensive sandwich.
There’s a decent chance he has all these rules written down somewhere. I should ask him.
You know that white gravy with sausage in it that you put on biscuits and such? According to my little brother, that’s not a gravy. It’s a “meat included” sauce. It can only compete against other meat sauces. Could never go head to head against turkey gravy, for instance. That would be crazy talk, like comparing a vegetable with a mineral. It would have to compete against a tomato sauce with Italian sausage or something like that.
Color me philoporcynical.
You can drink a twelve pack with him and never get past whether Rolly Fingers was predominantly a Brewers’ pitcher or an awesome mustache pitcher. This subtle distinction changes his overall ratings greatly.
He sounds like he was one of those kids who couldn’t abide his peas touching his mashed potatoes on the plate, nor ever ever ever let the meat juice flow toward the cobbed corn.
philo bacon
birth-1758- killingly-windham county
connecticut USA
death-jul. 12-1825
east whately
franklin county
mass. USA
revolutionary war veteran
parents- benjamin bacon & rebecca carpenter
wife-lucinda smith
Ali fought Tyson except Tyson called himself Sonny Liston back then.
pig-dog lover eh?!
He was that way, sdferr. Still sorta is.
I’m still not convinced that he isn’t predominantly super, super, super good at keeping a straight face with me though. He once told me that Don Hutson didn’t count as a receiver — let alone one of the best — because he played before real quarterbacks. Never cracked a smile.
philoporcinic is a mashup of gr. and lat., so kinda cheating, of the sort bh’s bro wouldn’t tolerate. philosueiostic might be a purer greekish rendering, but nobody would grok sueios right away, hence the cheat.
And amo[r]porcinic is just wrong.
Cheater!
you own philoporcinic
Thanks sdferr, I get it.
“He would maintain that those are specialty sandwiches that need to compete in their own division.”
I thought we were talking about the best sandwich category. I’ll have to dig up the official rules, apply for title 9 funding, diversify the staff, and get back to you.
I like it. A new coinage.
Huzzah! Sound the trumpets.
Heh, that’s the sorta thing I say to him.
This leads to category questions involving open face sandwiches, tacos, gyros and lettuce wraps. What’s a sandwich? Can anyone really say?
When you’re drinking and joking around he’ll crack you up. Used to bug the hell out of my sisters though. They’d argue with him for days.
I have a story that needs telling.
One day everyone woke up and the dog was gone. The girls kept saying, “He’s run away, he’s run away!”
And my little brother says, “I think he’s probably just lost. I doubt he ran away.”
Next day and a half we couldn’t find the dog and they’d ask, “Where do you think he ran off to? Where would he go?” My little brother would say, “If he was only a block away he wouldn’t even know it. He can’t read street signs.” He was maybe 9 or 10 at the time.
They wanted to murder him. I thought he was the funniest little kid ever.
so what happened to the dog?
#4, B. Orr.
“Used to bug the hell out of my sisters though. They’d argue with him for days.”
Days, or consecutive days?
that story lacks closure
Oh, he was about two blocks east across the road in the woods surrounding the railroad tracks.
Lost, I guess.
So anyway.
Endured the last twenty minutes of dinner tonight being “thank you TEA party for ruining everyone’s economy” and “no one gives Obama any credit for what he’s done”.
not enough walls in the world for me to punch
Heh. Yes, exactly.
Oh, and he was alive.
I didn’t trick you into a funny brother story so I could give you the dead dog twist at the end. He lived for many more years and seemed pretty happy when I came back and visited.
I give Obama a lot of credit for what he’s done
I love dogs very much but they always die Mr. bh
always
And sometimes they’ll wait for just the meantest time to die, like take Odysseus’s dog. Waits 20 years for him to come home only to fall over dead soon as he arrives. Fucking dogs.
my dog pook was a good dog he loved me more than beans then he started having trouble moving around and you’d have to help him up cause of him was a big wupper and he got the arthritis so mom put him down she said she was afraid he’d fall in the pool and she wouldn’t be able to help
plus she wanted to travel
that’s the way of it Mr sdferr dogs are poignant
I just picked up six ears down at the gym.
Anyone have any good rethipies?
That they do, ‘feets. I’m over three full dog cycles old myself.
First one I think I must have been a psychopath because I didn’t even care. Well, I did. For maybe a day and then I played an exciting game of tag and had some ice cream and then that dog was just gone like something small you didn’t care about in the rear view and an Atari console loomed way more bigger on my birthday.
Last dog died and I thought about how everyone dies and other people I loved had died and how I was gonna die and how I was never nice enough to any of them and how disappointed ghosts could be if they weren’t just empty parts of a vacuum and that I’ll be an empty part of a vacuum too so maybe I should have another drink.
It was probably healthier to say, “Fuck that old dead dog, let’s play Yars’ Revenge!”
that’s awful
hah I forgot about Yars’ Revenge
debbie downer! [frowny face]
the love of pets is unconditional!
i wish people were so cool
i’d let them out in the morning and pretend to exercise
with them and follow them with a plastic bag
when i do that with humans they call the po-po
you obviously have never had a blue cat
who gave u blue cat love
Tartar, Mike. Just pound ’em out, then a little salt, pepper and lemon. Maybe some hot sauce if that’s how you roll.
Shit, that’s my carpaccio recipe! I blame the Demon Rum.
my other wupper was named lacuna sue got the heartworms even though she was on a preventative
my wurtles might could easily out live me though they live from 50-70 years
a turtle is something in this world you can count on
so blue the cat was …”missing”
and he was hacking alot
and we was watching tv for a coupla days and we started to say-” anyone seen blue?”
and then we noticed- much to our chagrin
that blue had crawled under the tv ands died
so we dragged him out and he had cat rigor-mortis or sumtin and he was all..weird looking
so we had a meeting..a family meeting and we drank alot of booze and soon blue was forgotten
we all woke up hungover and tried to stick him in a shoe box but cat rigor-mortis would’nt..work..
so we had a drink and someone- [not me!]
did something to the cat to make him fit
i miss that cat!
I’m glad tvs changed to where cats can’t crawl under them and die anymore
here is the song about the kitty
i need a road trip. i think 9/3/11 to iowa might be fun
sarahpalooza
or you could stay home and make crinkle cut fries
i think blogging my travels might be fun. my ? is: would this be interesting to the commentariant of pw?
oh, I’m going to Eureka Springs then.
i would refresh until my fingers bled
i could stay home but it is a straight shot on I 70 or so and with my recent death in the family I need to explore what is left of america.
yes newsrouter i would be interested
Eureka Springs is known for its quirks, old town charm and the occasional haunting. But, it’s what lies beneath that’s raising eyebrows and causing serious concerns.
“i would refresh until my fingers bled”
so you don’t want to hear any effin’ DIVERSITY
Mr. newrouter road trips are the best thing ever I think and road trips to Iowas are among the better ones try to get to Spillville for to see the clocks
here’s some pictures
had a box turtle [ excuse- i mighta told this story before] and i was so excited/pleased- i thought-” a box turtle-no more stinky water turtles
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i never had a cage or nothing- run free lil box turtle- just go hang daddio
so the first week he ends up under the stove- i hear this grind- noise- whack whack whack
he got himself stuck and was.. i don’t know- trying to get out by..
i don’t know turtle logic
but we had to move the stove to get him out and
ok- no problem- we will let it pass
then 2 days later i was on the deck
put him down, closed my eyes for 15 minutes
and he screwed- ran away
at first i thought- oh poor me- what did i do wrong?
but now i’m all fuck-em stupid turtle
they’re incredibly adventurous beasts
No. The whole point of a coup is to get things under control before the ungovernable masses can take a hand and start decorating lampposts.
Another good reason to be rid of the Department of Education.
here Mr. sdferr you might like this – this person is a for reals astronomy photographer
I should get a turtle.
Sorry, I missed this earlier.
I’d read every word of it, nr. If you included little anecdotes of the wacky shit that happened on the road along with some pictures? I’d check in four or five times a day.
This is what the internet is for. Do it.
What, you wanted him to live with pussy cancer?
Hmmm, the internet tells me that pussy cancer isn’t a real thing. You have some ‘splainin’ to do, ‘feets.
I get it. You take something pervasive like dick cancer and then make a joke the other way. Not cool.
Dick cancer kills millions every year. Not funny.
the Globe link isn’t really clear… this is a meme the dirty socialist Associated Press is pushing … their propaganda slut is really proud of herself … she tweetered the same link twice
I thought it was interesting that the same propaganda bitches what beat up Mr. Bush for not being stem celly enough are beating up Mr. Governor Perry for being recklessly stem celly.
OH NO A FAMOUS FELLOW SOUGHT OUT AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT
HOW TERRIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE
Get back to me when we start criticizing Democratic presidentical candidates for riding motorcycles without helmets on, smoking, and using alcoholic beverages, which all have a guaranteed risk of cancer, organ damage, and death.
msnbc has their own quack on the case to rip Perry a new asshole for … calling for more stem cell research
i heard steve mcqueen put coffee grinds up his ass [for the cancer]
but that’s not gonna put me off a nice fresh cup of joe in the morning
Yum !
Earpaccio !!
Thank you, Mr. ‘blo !!!
a user of oddball therapy
And color me satisfied.
Epic…No really, for the topical departure; both in speed and content. My contributions being slim lately, I’ll just wade right into the fray.
1) Took Lee’s test, scored 90 & 100. Who knew I was so libertarian as to be nearly a libertine!
2) Definitely grilled cheese; between Texas toast, and with bacon, of course.
3) I’d definitely follow newrouter’s roadtrip; but there needs to be lots of photos, and perhaps a video or two of him flippin’ the fark out on a few folks along the way for being RINOey or just flat out not worth sharing a foxhole with. It’s got to at least have film of him calling someone an “effin’ PROG!”; said with a sneer that would make Malcom McDowell jealous :)
4) I’m in the Ali camp for the Ali-Tyson hypothetical. Although Tyson was a ferocious beast in his prime, Ali fought a few of those back in the day, as I recall.
5) I’ve already tired of the fratricide on the right leveled against Perry. One can have their doubts of Perry’s “staunchness” or disagree with policies of his past, but Malkin’s gardisil freak out is a new height in lows, as is the scolding by Rove, et al, for his remarks about The Bernank. People have to remember that there’s little love lost between the Bushies and Perry. A situation exacerbated this week by Perry’s remarks about his A&M education versus Yale; a remark meant more ti underscore his working class roots than disparage Bush-as many Bush allies seemed to take it.
6) The MBM will half-heartedly try to be Obama cheerleaders in 2012; but as Jeff noted the public will see through much of this; especially given that “Hope-and Change for the future” will be transformed into “Fear and loathing for the xtianist wack-job” that the other guys: are running. Instead of running on his failed record, the Obama-bots will be talking along the lines of, “imagine how much worse it’ll be of they’re in charge!”
But that’ll fall short, because the public’s wise to the “transformation” Obama’s attempting. And many of his criticism’s of GOP ideology have lost their sting amidst the hypocrisy of his own acts (imperial president, war mongerer, etc.). These actions have demoralized and/or outright alientated his 2008 supporters; they’ve realized that they’re not the ones they were waiting for.
If Jimmy P is right, and the economy is still struggling, Obama’s one and done. Almost anyone will beat him.
This, from a likely LeftLibProgg who worships at the feet of Al Gore’s Global Warmalism ‘SCIENCE!’, on a network that supports SCIENCE! of the most risible sorts? Seriously?
Oh, ‘adult’ stem cells, not ‘fetal’, ’embryonic’ stem cells. ‘Splains the disfavor. If you can’t get your stem cells from killing or compromising the life of a human, whilst trashing any sort of ethics these God-bothering right-wingers point to, they are obviously not usable, and won’t work. The SCIENCE! is settled, you see.
What do you do when you face a doomsday scenario of your own creation? He wanted the TEA Party to just barely prevent the Republicans from increasing the debt limit, in order to cut off beneficiaries, close the Washington monument, isolate the TEA Party from the Establishment Republicans (who would have collapsed by day 8), induce a depression that he would blame on us, and ride to victory with a mandate for FDR 2.0. That’s still the goal, and the press has clearly demonstrated that they are fully, fully on board with that plan.
He has no option now but to let it all hang out; he’s going to try that same approach with this new September jobs plan and the Super Committee. It would probably be a good idea if we had a coordinated, smart, winning counter to this long-telegraphed punch.
Mr Reed, you tease! Wander in here after missing for days, only three days from a due-date and say not a word about it? Dude, where’s your couth? Ossiferinnagennellman indeed.
…would this be interesting to the commentariant of pw?
You betcha.
Tyson was a very clumsy beast. Ali was a very refined beast, watch the “what’s my name” fight with Ernie Terre, borderline sadistic. Tyson would have been lucky to land a glove on either Ali or Holmes, the two who the real argument is about.
Malkin’s screechy gardisil freak out was notable mostly I think cause she didn’t even have grace enough to allow that Mr. Governor Perry’s motivation was to keep people from getting a preventable form of fatal deadly cancer, and there’s really no question that *some* number of people are going to die a slow painful tumor-riddled death that a few shots in high school would have prevented
Sorry about that sdferr.
We’re still waiting for Baby to decide it’s time to come into the world. All is well with Baby and Mama, but I’m getting a bit frazzled, truth be told; what with relatives decamped here awaiting Baby’s arrival. Last week, based on ultrasound measurement the weight was estimated at 9+ pounds, and his/her head was estimated to be 10+ centimeters. My lovely wife muttered the word “ouch” at that last revalation…
If Baby doesn’t come by his/her own volition by the due date on the 23rd, then the Dr has decided to induce labor, making it likely that Baby will be born August 24th.
I’ll keep everyone updated to be sure in the coming days, and will circulate photos as soon as I have some available.
there should be cake
Huzzahs! Except for the part necessitating my abandonment of the 27th! But still, glad to hear all is well. And hey, the 24th is Cal’s birthday if I remember aright, so maybe you gets an ironman!