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My sin: I liked much of what I heard from Governor Perry this morning.
My other sin: I didn’t like some of what I heard from Governor Perry this morning.
Bob – RELAX. It’s not personal, it’s just business. And you really don’t get to decide what is and is not “acceptable” anymore.
here is the full transcript of cancer boy’s tantrum
Sin: I skipped Chris Wallace this morning.
But, for absolution, I read my local paper. (shudder)
There actually was a good article in the Detroit Free Press. They accidentally printed some truth. this article on SS/SD slipped through (I couldn’t find it on the Freep website, but it’s in the paper.
Wanna be depressed?
My husband had an empoyee – BOTH his parents were on SSDI – attempted suicide, because that’s an easy way to get it.
Both RX drug users. On our dime.
THEY ARE THE 99%
Here you go Carin, the cw on a platter.
OH, I have it recorded. I’m just not in the mood today. That makes it worse, doesn’t it?
The login refused at first to let me log in saying I was forbidden, but when I went throught the side bar it worked. FYI. Not sure if that is part of the current problems.
As for Bob Shitforbrains, why would you ruin a perfectly good Sunday starting off with that? I would recommend a coffee with a double shot of Petron cafe. Works for me.
Side by side news stories on my home page this morning:
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real.
FACT CHECK: GOP lawmakers spin funding tall tales.
It’s going to be a loooong year…
Steel yourself: “We Are All Greeks” with large numbers and even larger implications. It’s the 800lb Progressive in the corner, or as Durden at ZH implies it, paraphrasing him loosely: This kinda money is the most complex structured credit instrument ever conceived.
But having already said progressive, I repeat myself. Such that: Barry is King of kings, i.e., Tool of tools.
I’ll be out enjoying what I can while I can.
I got a thingie on my facebook page from a child hood friend. Back of Obama -shoulder/head with the 2012 printed across it. On the bottom is said “I’ve got his back” – and urging me to have his back too.
It took all I had to just close the page and not comment.
That Bob Schieffer thing sounded like one of those classic SNL skits with the church lady.
My sin? Haven’t watched a Sunday morning show in years. At this point, I think I’m more likely to start watching Saturday morning cartoons first.
And a Perry/Wallace transcript.
From which, a bit of what bugs me about Perry, and by implication, any of the other candidates who don’t trouble themselves:
It’s not that there is anything inconsistent about listing these three items — which Gov. Perry does more than once in the course of the interview — but what troubles me is that he doesn’t first go to the truer underlying principle or principles of his conservatism, or of this itemization (back, in other words, to the Declaration and the Constitution! Even that far! I know, shocking.).
What, for instance, Paul Ryan troubled himself to do in his speech at Heritage just this week. For the decision squarely before the nation isn’t so trivial as “which candidate to select?” towards its salvation, but whether the nation will stand with the Constitution as it was intended or whether it will turn instead to a European style Social-Democracy (and if a particular candidate doesn’t understand that this is indeed the question, then that candidate is, in my mind, unworthy of my vote).
It is simply the case, I believe, that the establishment of conservative bona fides means returning again and again to the first things, and demonstrating again and again how — from those first things — a candidate derives his or her substantive positions. Anything else and I start to wonder, is this guy just lazy, or is he incapable of working his way forward to substance from the principles; does he ever even bother to take himself through that path (i.e., has he simply picked up talking points from others who have already done the work)?
And deciding those questions one way or the other is not only difficult, it ought by rights to be unnecessary.
Never been a sinner I never sinned
I got a friend in Jesus
Perry’s just saying he thinks he remembers one of his advisors saying Cain is “weak on life” so he should mention that and that Wall Street Romney is a gun-snatching Bloomberg type so he should mention the second amendment and then he hits the fiscal conservative thing cause he belatedly just remembered they told him to emphasize that the most
Sin: If Bob Schieffer were to offer me forgiveness, I would want very badly to shove it up his ass.
Special circumstances: If I gave in to my temptation to shove Schieffer’s forgiveness up his ass, and had difficulty prying his head out to make room, I have no doubt I would simply sever his neck and stuff the forgiveness up through his throat.
Something tells me neither Bob nor I have anything to worry about.
My sin: I have a sailboat and haven’t been out on it in a week. Before I had a sailboat I felt that anyone lucky enough to have one should have to forfeit it if they didn’t get out and enjoy it on fine, brisk days.
I’d say more, but I’m going to atone for my sins.
He was never a skeptic. He just played one on TV to sell his new “findings.”
My new sin? Sailboat envy.
Top news stories I have seen this weekend,
OWS protesters outraged that actual poor people have been discovered in the food lines:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL
and MSNBC correspondent is upset that Herman Cain doesn’t know his place:
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18410-PMS-NBC-Analyst-GOP-Sees-Herman-Cain-as-a-Black-Man-Who-Knows-His-Place.html
That’s how I read it, anyway.
My sin: I just got out of bed.
Absolution: I didn’t start drinking before noon.
From a Oct. 15th 2004 article by that “skeptic” Richard Muller about the “breaking” of the “hockey stick” model.
Notice how he is happy that the hockey stick model has been shown to be wrong because with it gone the cooling that is happening can be explained away as normal small fluctuations whereas if the hockey stick was still considered real then any small cooling would be a disaster for the AGW people. Also is this, “If you are concerned about global warming (as I am) and think that human-created carbon dioxide may contribute (as I do)” the words of a skeptic? I don’t think so.
I’m a Face the Nation survivor
my sin-thinking I’m better than Meet the Press survivors
– We’re all original sinners, so its just routine to do penance. I was going for absolution but I had to postpone for two reasons. I lost my Jewish rosary and the local priest hasn’t gotten out of jail yet.
What used to be called hole-in-the-ocean-down-which-to-pour-money envy.
“What, for instance, Paul Ryan troubled himself to do in his speech at Heritage just this week. For the decision squarely before the nation isn’t so trivial as “which candidate to select?” towards its salvation, but whether the nation will stand with the Constitution as it was intended or whether it will turn instead to a European style Social-Democracy (and if a particular candidate doesn’t understand that this is indeed the question, then that candidate is, in my mind, unworthy of my vote).”
Yep! It all boils down to liberty vs tyranny (and there’s lots of deceiving words that the donks, RINO’s and clueless republicans use to hide their allegiance to tyranny: fairness, compassionate conservative, social “justice”, economic “justice,” etc. etc.).
I concur that the substance of self proclaimed conservatives ought to be the Declaration and Constitution (and a thorough knowledge of the Federalist Papers would be nice).
Unfortunately, many conservatives, libertarians and classic liberals don’t know the full WHY of what they believe or can’t articulate it. I can sympathize because I too was a victim of the public education (propaganda) machine which is far worsew now than it was in the 60’s and 70’s.
Oh, and Bob Scieffer is an imbecile and hypocrite. What, no mention of saint Obama smoking, Bob?
More on the Muller study by his colleague.
Sail like the wind Joan! You are absolved of your sins. :^)
Yeah, Mr. Former Skeptic? He be bullshitting.
– I had an impure thought. It’s nice the Chargers can’t lose today.
– AGW is great for holding down lose papers on your desk.
Yeah, so what if I had potato chips for breakfast, Bob?
Further confirmation that Obama is an authentic moron, as if it were needed:
Happy, from where I sit in Plano Perry has been a consistent Second Amendment supporter and a fiscal conservative; most of the TX economy is because Perry knows when to keep govt the fuck away. He has his occasional backslips like the Gardasil incident, but even then he’s still better than any of the reasonable alternatives except Cain, and way better than ORomney.
Rick Perry did well on the Fox News Sunday against Chris the Wallace. Not a stumble, even when Wallace tried his “Governor Perry, isn’t it true that you said THIS!” crap and Perry parried with “Yes. I said that. Not only that, I said this…” He even said “nukyular”, just like the Peanut Farmer used to, though I don’t remember the newsies talking about how stoopid Carter was when he said it. I love it, especially since I cannot stand the Wallace one.
I like Perry but he blew up his campaign and now he spends his days cross-legged on the floor trying to put it back together while drinking Sunny D and trying to keep the dog from running away with the pieces
My sins? I covet Joan’s sailboat and this bumper sticker.
I’m going to take a wait and see on that, happy. It’s a long time until we actually get to the nomination. A lot can happen, and I hope the Mittster goes pfffttt and blows away.
In other news, the Sooners totally stomped the Jayhawks yesterday. Boomer Sooner!
Iowa is January third already … so there’s like November and then December and then bam (bam!) there’s three primaries
by then we need to know who not-Romney is
Perry makes the most logical sense but Cain seems to fit the moment better.
Thing is, I wish Cain would kick Romney in his nuts and then bust a potted hydrangea over his smarmy hyper-entitled head. Sooner the better.
Let’s just say it right now for so everyone understands: whoever lets himself be picked as Wall Street Romney’s running mate is a fag. Simple as that.
Much like Bob Schieffer, I have a hard time living down to the imperfection of my neighbors…
My sin: For a moment I got the urge to control the lives of 300 million Americans. Especially to deny them access to tobacco and tobacco products. And to have them build me a shrubbery.
Then the urge went away and I made some Pillsbury sweet rolls instead. The ones with the orange icing. I ate three with a cup of sweet milky tea. Twinings Irish Breakfast Tea. Mmmmmmmm.
But, like Jimmy Carter, I had sinned in my heart.
Not-Romney will make his appearance by Christmas. Just like Santy Claws. And whoever lets himself be picked as Romeny’s veep is a faggety fag who hates America.
My sin: Spending time and money on my 1911.
Atonement: Spending time and money on my 1911.
and then to my wondering eyes will appear a Herman or Rick to strike Romney with fear
meanwhile I’m a have to investigate these pillsbury rolls
My sin is that of John Nolte’s.
I’ll repent later. Maybe next spring.
Hey, the low-down sign-in worked for me!
Sin? My sin was to leave a perfectly good vacay spot in the chilly hills of North Carolina and drive home today, causing me to miss the Sunday shows (no big deal, since I never watch ’em anyways) and the Titans’ rare win over an admittedly sub-par Indy team.
I don’t need any absolving from any man or woman who is still alive and thinks that they can bestow this ‘absolving’, really.
Packers haven’t lost a game for 315 days.
That would be pride, I think.
Gluttony is on deck.
Could someone explain to me why you’d bench Orton if you’re not going to implement an offensive scheme that plays to Tebow’s strengths?
Because you want to be rid of Tebow? I dunno.
Makes as much sense as anything else I can think of, sdferr.
This just in: Seeing people smoke on the internet or tv or even a movie screen, does not cause cancer.
– Pats got beat, so its a good Sunday.
Pats and Saints are my two misses this week. Saints loss to Tampa was my only miss a couple weeks back.
I’m starting to distrust the Saints.
You picking straight up or against the spread?
OT: just starting to see this getting links on Twitter. I guess he’s a real contender now to someone’s opp squad.
Five figures might be the tip off here that this is much doing about nothing.
As we all know, it is the seriousness of the accusation not the nature of the evidence that is the only important thing.
Unless it is a lefty. See WJC.
Not overtly sexual? In the context of a sexual harassment opp research piece?
Another tip off.
That’ll end up being what? Flipping the bird to someone at an airport bar?
Smells of Lawrence Summers.
on True Blood the Baptist minister is understood to be kind of a horn dog he left his wife for Lettie Mae but they seem to be getting on fine now
but that’s just a tv show
meaning him and Lettie Mae are getting on fine now I mean
Just so that we can put all of this into context, Bill Clinton shoved/lovingly placed a cigar into an intern’s twat in the Oval Office.
You know, just so we don’t get it confused with things that are very serious even though they aren’t even overtly sexual and somehow magically go away for slip-and-fall nuisance dollar amounts.
Too much?
Bill Clinton used to make a young jewish girl bathe his herpes sores with her tongue
heh — yes, BillC shouldn’t have done it. Or, I mean, lied about it. Or, no, that’s not it — I mean, get caught. Or no, that isn’t it either — I mean, not settle the lawsuit. Or something.
Reading between the lines, someone told a dirty joke at a Hilton near the airport back in the 90s.
The response.
Political death penalty to the first Republican [candidate] to help Politico out, would be my general reaction. Let such a one be consigned to oblivion.
Just knee-jerking, though.
A-fucking-men, sdferr.
I was gonna link this The Hill story earlier, simply because it had the tone of sharks sensing blood in the water — and for no other reason. Now I see that all the more.
His campaign staff was given the name of one woman who complained last week, and it was repeated to Cain on Sunday. He responded, “I am not going to comment on that.”
I don’t understand why Politico doesn’t just print the hoochie’s name I wonder if they figure if they treat her like a rape victim people it’ll make the whole thing sound worse than it really is
but she did her whiny whiny and got paid FIVE figures, which is a lot of pop tarts – she should be loud and proud about her mad skills I think
FIVE figures!!!
she IS the 1%
heh, Mr Drudge has two consecutive headlines, the first reads: Denies . . . , the second: FLASHBACK: I’m ready for a High Tech Lynching.
and it’s right next to:
Pizza workers burn down rival store…
Remember who chaired the Clarence Thomas hearings? Biden.
Colts suck.
Cardinals do not.