Well, sure. And that was well known even before the Politico hit piece on Cain. Which is why the serious, sober, and “sane” journalists are now worried about how the Cain campaign has performed with respect to its spin control, the cover up being worse than the crime and all.
Frankly, were you a high-profile CEO in the 90s and you hadn’t ever been accused of sexual harassment, the mainstream liberal press would today be digging into questions about whether or not you were either a rightwing religious zealot, or perhaps a closeted homosexual.
That’s how cynical and low-rent our mainstream media culture has become.
And of course, it’s always great to see “pragmatic” Republicans helping to maintain this kind of new journalistic status quo.
Gghah.
This morning I had another spell of wanting to disavow membership in the human race. It may take a while before I’m completely over it.
I feel kinda like Dory, mindlessly singing, “just keep swimming, just keep swimming.” But, I have to admit, I’m very tired.
Oh, what’s that light?
Yep. Until we learn to spit it back in their faces, they’re going to keep trying to feed it to us.
Been this blog’s theme since day one. It doesn’t sell particularly well, but it’s the fucking truth. Sooner or later choosing to deal with it will no longer be an option.
If it wasn’t for most of you and my family, I would have gone off to the barn to live with the horses years ago.
I feel Gulliver’s pain.
Yes, and that will be a glad yet ugly day. “I told you so” will not be a matter of schadenfreude, but rather a preface to “Now pay attention, you fucking morons.”
The big trick is to survive the crash.
I’ve heard people say that too much of anything is not good for you
time for humor
Time for boldness from Romney
Jeff, are you keeping offline backups of this place? Hard copy, even? History should be interested.
“You won’t be famous ’til you’re pushing up the daisies. Many times these wise words have been said. They won’t care about you while you’re alive and kicking but they’ll write a song about you when you’re dead.”
The grasshoppers will never listen to the ants, Pablo. Without the government to steal our food on their behalf, they will just steal it themselves.
I ain’t sticking around to say “I told you so.” I’ll be out in the country, where the neighbors are friendly, capable, and armed.
Oh. I’ll see you when you get here. City people are fucked.
I’m amazed at the amount of heat this issue has caused.
I think the Republican establishment is all excited about the chance to take him down, while the Democrat establishment is all excited about the chance to, well, take him down.
For the Republicans it’ll be the chance to put Romney – the “safe” choice – on the ballot. For the Democrats, it’ll be a chance to make an example of a black man who walked off the plantation.
I’m beginning to think this country is going to have to crash before the political system will change. I hate thinking that because at the very least it’ll mean a lot of hardship and deprivation; at the worst violence and bloodshed.
Experience is an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other.
Meanwhile, the media seems to be confused about what political party Jon Corzine recently held office in.
I’m wondering: did he qualify for Federal pension?
And: was he just barely small enough to fail?
Meanwhile, the media seems to be confused about what political party Jon Corzine recently held office in.
I’m wondering: did he qualify for Federal pension?
And: was he just barely small enough to fail?
Concealed carry just became legal here in Wisco today — huzzah! — and there have been so many hits on the server with the permit application that it keeps crashing. The number I’m hearing on the radio is… 400,000 applications. On the very first day.
This feels related to the conversation above.
I may have been right yesterday.
Ratcheting it up.
I was just simultaneously wondering the exact same thing in a different thread, Geoff.
Ah, you went WaPo and I went NPR.
Ace is noting that the accusers’ attorney is asking the confidenitality agreement be lifted so they can talk. It may be those individuals who spoke to Politico and who now are using Cain’s denials to circumvent the agreement and make all the comments they want.
I am not sure that is true or not, but it is an interesting take on it. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/323262.php
Ah, you went WaPo and I went NPR…and I’ll be at [pick your pragmatic GOP site] before ye!
From the WaPo link bh posted on another thread.
“[Q]uite expeditiously”, okay. A routine matter then?
Ace — for a change — recognizes the real enemy. The press.
Others (Preston over at PJMedia, for example) seem to be more interested in taking the opportunity to trash Cain.
And another small detail emerges.
“, the confidentiality agreements may no longer be binding.”
why the nra ain’t be talking.
What state does Bennett practice in? Seems to me that his client is the one who broke the confidentiality agreement first — if she hadn’t, Politico wouldn’t have published, right? — and his current statements are either made without checking or are purposeful lies. He should be disbarred.
I don’t write up non-disclosure agreements for a living so this might be a stupid question. When you offer someone a settlement you basically pay them to drop all future legal action and to shut up.
I wouldn’t automatically assume that this non-disclosure would be reciprocal or equal. It certainly wouldn’t need to be. Now, as a practical matter, you might not talk shit about the person because then they could sue you for messing up their future employment prospects and this would be a new legal charge. But, that wouldn’t be because you had contractually agreed to keep mum.
Am I wrong here?
meh, says Tank the Democrat.
Bitches.
Cost of being alive.
Link
I’m still trying to figure out what the purpose of characterizing this woman as “an Ivy League graduate” was? I mean, Harvard, well, of course she’s a victim. And upright. But Brown chicks are duplicitous whores, and what if she went to the same E-I-E-I-O pseudo-Ivy Cow College as Olbermann? So confusing.
didn’t it come out that the EEOC looked at it and ended up laughing off this racist hoochie’s complaint?
Missed that, ‘feets. Got a link?
“ivy league” = hey they’re one of 99%
Crawford.
Third parties who had knowledge that an accusation and settlement happened are likely the sources. Third and fourth hand knowledge. Who they then told who then shopped it to the press? That is where I disagree with those who say a Republican did it. This is SOP for the Dems and the fact that they couldn’t get their hands on documents just means that they didn’t have the juice with the two women or the NRA, then.
Jeff, are you keeping offline backups of this place? Hard copy, even? History should be interested.
TwoThree possiblities:EMP from a dirty bomb
Gigantor solar flare, for which we are due
White House kill switch
That’s why I bought a non-quartz watch awhile back. I also bought a cheap laser printer (one of Insty’s Amazon announcements) and plan to print off all my good stuff. And if I have time, the other 99%.
Thanks.
I bet lots of Ivy League sluts dream of getting a job with a black boss what makes them do naughty naughty things
probably like 73% of them
it was in Cosmo
Cain’s time in the Special Report
barrelCenter Seat was generally desultory and lackluster I thought. Everyone seemed bored near to tears.from that last article I linkered
I would die for this man
cosmo lies ax jonah g.
Michael Walsh at NRO gets it.
Hewitt is totally playing into the Left’s tactics on this, and so is Krauthammer.
SOBs, all of them.
“Everyone seemed bored near to tears.”
he’s getting lessons from mittens?
The boredom, newrouter, had little to nothing to do with what Cain had to say or how he had to say it, at least from what I thought about the appearance. It was more a matter of everyone of the panelists looking as though they were caught in the midst of a chore, something they had to do but had no relish in doing, because the chore, I’d guess, they see as beneath their station. Cain is dismissible to both Krauthammer and A.B. Stoddard — they think he’s a cruel joke — and I’d guess he’s just uninteresting to Steve Hayes. Brett played the part of a mere functionary. Cain, for his part, looked tense to me, and grinding it out.
Oh, I see what they did. They got the women to confirm the fact that there are settlements for “sexual harassment” (I remember when it first came out and was pronounced “sexual haarriss-mnt”), letting everyone imagine what horrible things the man might have done, and then goading him into defending himself, at which point you declare that the confidentiality provision of the agreement has been breached and therefore can fill in the lurid details of the allegations.
N.B., I think the women will speak regardless and the Left’s paymasters will pay to defend and indemnify them. After all, for as little as the return of $10,000.00, they can destroy the man’s candidacy.
Isn’t he on O’Reilly now?
Macaca rate, adjusted for inflation.
“Cain, for his part, looked tense to me, and grinding it out.”
Monty Python – Spanish Inquisition Torture Scene
The media has staked out her house but we don’t know her name?
She may well have a valid claim–sexual harassment is no joke, especially if you’ve seen it upfront–but it strikes me as fairly ridiculous that this woman has gotten a complete free pass. It’s pretty ugly, however, that one of Cain’s opponents did this to her; it’s uglier that her lawyer isn’t on the phone with both of those camps right now threatening to subpoena them if this ever comes to a head.
I am, however, impressed by one Machiavellian move that was embedded within this whole passion play and that is by forcing this into the open, his opponents–and I have a gut feel it’s Romney’s camp (but no proof of any sort)–have mandated he discuss it and most likely break the terms of the confidentialty clause, leaving him open to liability and further scorn.
Still, Politico should never have run the story without a whole lot more Who, When’s and Where’s.
“She may well have a valid claim–sexual harassment is no joke”
yea it is a joke. eff these proggtard’s use of the legal system to silence people.
If/that he isn’t says to me that he already knows that they didn’t do it and that the higher power ( in the DC lawyer universe ) did.
Of course YMMDV from mine.
The press isn’t reporting this story. They’re making it. They’re actors in the drama. They’re as partisan as Romney’s team or Perry’s team.
– I predict this will end badly for whomever is behind it.
– Donations to the Cain campaign are up 87% since this non-story broke, and continue to climb.
or baracky’s team
“If it wasn’t for most of you and my family, I would have gone off to the barn to live with the horses years ago.”
I’ll add my name to that list. Plus, I have a barn and talk to horses all the time. They love me these days, the apples are ripe on the tree.
I think it is a near certainty this is a democrat financed story for Obamas benefit.
I doubt most of us have the capacity to even imagine how badly Obama doesn’t want to run against Cain, especially since he will be unconstrained by the establishment.
It’s gotta be keeping him up at night.
our friend Mr. narciso found this just now
and he also points to this
“It’s gotta be keeping him up at night.”
drudge had baracky and the hermanator head to head earlier. i think herb can debate the totus.
http://www.restaurant.org/aboutus/leaders/
…the board consists of 90 to 95 directors
We’d also have to assume that past board members going back a couple decades would be included under the generic “board member”.
Wait, I don’t have a barn. That feels unfair.
#occupylee’sbarn
someone needs to put a reporter on this story
“drudge had baracky and the hermanator head to head earlier.”
Whatever. I think Cain would steal a sizable chunk of minority support, and maybe the majority of the black vote.
That would be devastating to the Democrats.
Uh-oh…I’m becoming concerned for Mr.Cains safety…
maybe politico?
That’s just mean newrouter.
@28 be baracky no?
OT, but I needs a Californian to ‘splain what the acronym “ACCE” means on this sign? Google is of little use or value.
It might be a spinoff of ACORN, as like the NYCC in NYC.
Link
Actually bh, it’s cool. I just rent the property the barn is on, and the horses are the neighbors.
I am the 43.6%…
@69
try aoce it makes union sense.
http://www.association-of-oregon-corrections-employees.org/
here’s their site Mr. serr8d
Serr8ed here.
Damn you ‘feets :-)
the happyfeet: doing politico’s job klondike in hand
i kinda felt obliged cause of my zip code Mr. geoff speaking of
a census lady came today to do an NIH thing and I asked if it was mandatory and she said no so I said I really don’t want to help “you people” but she was a sweetie the way she responded so I said I’d go through the pre-screener and just see if maybe they didn’t even need me and bam that’s what happened – they’re way more interested in families with children for this sort of thing
“The National Restaurant Association released the following statement after public remarks by attorney Joel Bennett:
“We have seen media reports that attorney Joel Bennett is publicly making requests on behalf of a former National Restaurant Association employee. Mr. Bennett has not been in contact with the Association. If we are contacted by Mr. Bennett, we will respond as appropriate,” said Sue Hensley, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Communications for the National Restaurant Association.”
– A very definite shot across ambulance chaser Bennett’s bow.
– This attack is losing steam by the hour, as HuffPo and the MBM keep trying to re-spin to keep it alive.
In case anyone wants to know I just googled the phone # from the sign.
mr. bennett needs a full monty and toilet paper
I’m 40% less off topic now that I twitter.
Oh, sorry, off topic.
I taught English and I’m not like that at all.
Individualism: it’s what makes America great!
hmmm – so they paid the slut a whole year’s salary?
this is bad news for team Cain I think
Check it: http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/want-to-know-who-is-behind-the-herman-cain-smear/
A guy called Levin this evening and said it costs $35K just to get the lawyers going, so $35K is probably going to be the sum you’re going to see.
And, VOILA!
Only because the media won’t do its job.
here seems to be a nice synopsis of where we are I guess … from the link at #83
Just saw that myself, ‘feets.
$35k isn’t a large amount. You don’t base your risk/reward analysis off of someone’s base pay. You make that decision based on legal costs and possible later awards.
$35k is still a fraction of that. Still a nuisance amount.
A guy called Levin this evening and said it costs $35K just to get the lawyers going, so $35K is probably going to be the sum you’re going to see.
I don’t understand… for one thing these were 90s dollars and I forget what those were like and also a year’s salary is a very generous severance – but maybe it wasn’t in the 90s. Also she was an Ivy League slut and you always have to pay more to make those ones go the fuck away. I guess we need to know how long she’d worked for the association to make an evaluation of whether or not the size of the severance is a reflection on whatever it is Mr. Cain is alleged to have done
but isn’t the point more that Cain’s been out there saying 2-3 months pay?
– If nothing else, this mud slinging potentially connects several GOP candidates to Bummblefuck in a most unsavory way.
– Should that become the story, even die-hard Rino’s will be running away from the insider “Queens”.
It doesn’t matter. The insurance company’s lawyers told this guy that that was the baseline price to begin a defense (he wanted to fight the charge, because he was innocent); they told him, too, that though the insurance company will cover the cost of the defense, the defendant is responsible for paying damages if he loses. This is why the whole thing is a racket, and this is why businesses settle. The kinds of lawyers who bring these cases know the figures to bring to the table. That’s why this thing may have been settled with a phone call or fax.
This doesn’t follow.
who does this help people!!11!! baracky where’s your effin transcripts NOW!!11!!!!!!
in my experience severance pay is usually calculated along the lines of x amount of months pay per year of service, with a minimum of three months usually
but I never worked in DC and I never went to a fancy school I am the 99%
start hammering the efftard baracky you dolts. good allan too much stupid.
With one of the two women.
Trying to play gotcha with people’s memories is how Scooter Libby wound up in jail. There’s no crime here. So there’s no story. Unless these woman want to come forward and make a buck. But so far they seem more inclined to hide out.
I’m not falling into the Politico/Jen Rubin trap of pretending the “cover-up” is worse than the crime. There was no crime to speak of, and the “cover-up,” such as it is, is tied to the nature of what can be said and what can’t.
That’s why this is a trap: they didn’t name the sources because they knew Cain can’t, and that he’s not allowed to comment. Somebody should find out if Politico knew of the non-disclosure agreements. Perhaps that’s why they kept saying “you’ll have to ask Cain for specifics” — baiting him to say something, or, if he didn’t, that their hazy allegations would just sit out there allowing people to create their own story.
For what it’s worth, I’m covered by a D&O policy now. When I was briefed on it, I got a feel for your current “go away and shut up” amounts and translating it back to 90s dollars this still seems a bit low to me.
hey baracky what you have to do with ryan’s records? effin this a-hole. start attacking the scoamf you dumb effs.
ok got it so the 2-3 months thing is about the hey you’re about as tall as my wife chick and the year’s pay thing is the other hoochie we don’t know anything about yet
The great Bill Whittle opines on the question “if you’re Cain, how do you deal with this issue?” in the latest Trifecta, starting around the 5:00 mark.
Much like our esteemed host, Mr. Whittle “gets it.”
35 a year will buy a lot of beer things are going great for Mr. cain
and they’re only getting better
“but I never worked in DC and I never went to a fancy school I am the 99%”
Oh! This reminds me of a brilliant idea I had for a counter owie campaign!
First line bold red :I am NOT the 1%
Second in baby blue :I am NOT the 99%
In red, white, and blue: Free people don’t wear numbers
I will take 5% of T-shirt sales with that slogan though…
I have a buy one entree get the other one half price coupon for my favorite mexican foozle I am the 99%
I still don’t fully understand sexual harassment after all these years in the workplace. I just think of all the interactions/discussions I’ve had over the years that could be made to sound embarrassing in the hands of some faggoty-assed journalist, yet if you have a modicum of social intelligence (and have faith in the person you’re talking to having it also), it adds up to a whole lot of nothing.
bad bosses are bad and all but it hasn’t even been made clear who these hoochies reported to
Since there isn’t any substance to impeach you with Mr Cain, says A.B., you don’t mind if we use process instead, do you? Sure, go right ahead A.B., says Mr Cain, arbitrage your zeroes all you want.
If the coach slaps all the players on the ass is it still sexual harassment, or only if he slaps the cute ones?
Only because the media won’t do its job.
Yeah, they do. The problem is that people like you and I used to believe that the purpose of a free press was to keep the powerful in check, to keep disinfecting politics with sunlight.
When really their job is to help immanentize the eschaton.
Silly us.
maybe the baracky don’t like herman talking 9-9-9
9-9-9: A Vision for Economic Growth
here is what the article says Mr. Jeff
but I think the key takeaway is that the hoochie was already miserable in her job in ways that were completely unrelated to Mr. Cain … and it very much sounds like whatever happened wasn’t a pattern of behavior on Mr. C’s part
so without a pattern she’s just a whiny bitch – not a for reals harassed person
If the coach slaps all the players on the ass is it still sexual harassment, or only if he slaps the cute ones?
That’s kind of what throws me about all this. I mean, I could have done without the homo boss who used to call me “pretty boy” all the time, but the thirtysomething and losing her looks account supervisor hag who’d occasionally massage my shoulders when she was waiting for me to finish writing something just made me feel bad for her.
interesting how they imply that Mr. C was drunk off his ass without coming anywhere close to actually presenting that as a fact
Long, long time ago I used to have a boss who slapped my ass when he gave me my paycheck, Lee. Seriously. Last high school job I had before moving to Chicago. We made playground equipment.
Funny thing about that is that I was 18 and correctly interpreted it as him saying I was doing a kick-ass job on the grinder station over by the welders.
You’re thinking about this wrong, ‘feets. It’s not really a normal severance package when you threaten to sue. Then it’s a legal fees and just-go-the-fuck-away-please package.
Sp of course it’s larger than the normal severance package. Because it’s not one. Category error.
So of course it’s larger
oh. But Mr. C was making that sort of distinction about the other hoochie – the one who got 2-3 months pay. He said it was a in the ballpark of a normal – I think he said “termination agreement.” So for sure I think the two hoochies are in different categories, how they were handled by HR.
He said it was
ain the ballpark of a normal…Isn’t the Cain story a fairly simple one yet? I mean, on the one hand, the collective intends that he will not be the opponent nominee to run against Obama, and on the other, the people of the US are still free to flip the collective the bird and make certain Cain runs and beats Obama like the cur he is.
so let’s beat off on this. where the eff is baracky’s effin records? start hitting the scoamf you rino losers. yea play the the politico game you idiots.
I’m no closer to voting for Wall Street Romney now than I was after Steve Jobs died.
hey can we talk about fed gov’t power now like fast and furious?
Yeah, I’m a little less interested in playing gotcha with him that way. (C’mon, he said “termination agreement” so I’m supposed to say the payoff was high for a severance package? This is just silly.)
I’m saying what I’m saying. And what I’m saying is that these are low dollar amounts.
hey can we talk about fed gov’t power now like solyndra?
Really?
Rino loser? Idiot?
You’re much more enjoyable when you’re not being a dick, nr.
Newrouter is a natural born Tweeter.
yea thanks ass of spades(hey ain’t that racist?) for being an a-hole for rickyperry™ instead on defending the conservative cause. anncoulter glib.
I’m not playing gotcha I’m saying that he described the one chick as getting a “termination agreement,” and that’s who he was talking about today – but as the article makes clear he never characterized the agreement the 35K hoochie got
you say that 35 is small, and that may be true – but it sounds like she was a fucking monkey that wasn’t there long – I’m just saying it’s bigger than the other hoochie got
what kind of Ivy Leaguer was making 35 a year in the 90s? I have no idea.
Or maybe it was just the other hoochie that went to a fancy school.
Someone should make a chart.
the mr. jeff needs the twitter widget. pw raw occupy now #opw or sumthing.
We could review our potential choices quick like here.
Obama: Won’t have.
Romney: Don’t want.
Paul: Don’t want.
Santorum: meh
Bachmann: double meh
Gingrich:
Perry: Bring it, brother Governor.
Cain: What you see is what you get.
So, are we going to let the fucking media choose again?
newrouter, there are other posts from today. I happen to be trying to get the Politico reporters to admit what they knew when they went to press.
This matters on a number of levels. If we ever want these kind of predictable, nearly-systemic attacks on our candidates — which work to help select them — to go away, we have to show how this game works. It’s kinda a thing with me.
Okay, I withdraw the “gotcha” characterization. Still not sure why these sorts of things are relevant or particularly, well, anything. It’s like using settlement rather than agreement. Termination agreement rather than whatever else.
Want to catch my eye on this story? Do it like a real attorney would, with a flashy dollar amount.
what kind of Ivy Leaguer was making 35 a year in the 90s? I have no idea.
You’ve got the wrong idea about Ivy Leaguers, son. The billionaires paper over all the failshit spizzledicks.
#131 for #127.
out moose hunting
I Am America
I’m just trying to follow the bouncing ball Mr. bh. I didn’t really make an effort all day.
ok … so the Ivy League hoochie is the one with the ambulance chasing piece of shit lawyer – that’s an easy google – do we know if she’s the 35K hoochie or the cut-rate hoochie? The Macaca Post article seems to imply that the 35K hoochie is NOT the Ivy Leaguer – the 35K hoochie is the “second woman.”
so the cut-rate hoochie has the ambulance chasing lawyer, and she’s the one that alleges a pattern of *whatever*
the “second woman” hated her job and she was hanging around somewhere with lots of liquor and she says she got all freaked out by something
yeah I know a sad sad Harvard Law grad here in LA he’s like in his late 60s and he’s wearing suits he bought in the 80s and he’s still desperate to get something going on to where he cuts his rate for small businesses just to have somewhere to go in the morning
I have no idea what his story is but it breaks my heart.
@130 mr. jeff
the twitter thing is easy ask rsm ’cause he has that on his site. not that i look at his tweets. i “admire” your tweets. in a non gay way.
A nice takeaway from the article re: the lawyer is that he had no real recollection of any of the facts of the case, either.
that would seem to indicate the case wasn’t very memorable
but to be clear the not-memorable case is the Ivy League monkey chick that didn’t win the 35K showcase showdown – yet she nonetheless is the one that alleges a “pattern” – which is how the more typical sexual harassment cases are built – and it’s a pattern her ambulance-chasing dickhead media whore attorney is very very keen to get the go-ahead to talk about
I will figure it out at some point, nr.
Good idea to do it thought.
Link
But for sure there is no pattern to be made of all the named women who have come forward to tell that in their opinion Mr Cain was nothing like what’s being alleged by these anonymous women? Just as there wasn’t in the case of Clarence Thomas.
@141 mr. jeff
you guys be OutLaws
I’m starting to feel the need for a cleansing flame war. Lee had it right.
nr, sometimes I misread you because you don’t put a clear subject in front of the verb then object. So, at times, it’s a bit like you’re running into a room and calling people in the thread assholes when what you’re really doing is telling the people in the thread about other non-present assholes. Yet, at other times, you’re just calling people in the thread assholes. Which is fine. Just let us know which is which.
On an entirely different subject, follow Jeff on Twitter. Btw, if it’s doable on wordpress and all of that, I agree, it’d be nice to have a tweeting sidebar thingy.
On the twitter thingy, I’ve learned the last few days to just open the twitter page in a tab and leave it there, whereupon new posts are noted with a (#). It’s easy.
yes that’s a pattern Mr. sdferr but that pattern doesn’t have a lawyer on retainer…
so basically where we are is the low-rent Ivy League monkey hoochie seems kind of eager to go full media whore but the 35K hoochie so far hasn’t shown any appetite for it
so that’s an interesting difference between the two
I’m still left wondering what the heck difference it would make hf? I mean, what’s the worst you could suppose and spin up into a campaign ending scenario? Otherwise, where can it go?
well I think a purgatorius ignis of Media Excess would be the bestest thing imaginable to happen for Mr. Cain’s campaign – I think it might could put him over the top
to clarify: 1)nr be super idiot:
2) mr. jeff get the twitter widget for xmas
Who the fuck is the flaming retard that goes by EricPW over at that other place? Geez I looked in to see what was going on (it isn’t an even semi-regular stop on my browsing, but I occasionally go see what what the 100% wrong club is obsessing over) and lo and behold he’s claiming super sekrit I’m in the know and this is the shits!! eleventy grade status and holding court… I mean WTF?
bh: it is hard to emotionally watch this sh*t going down. did ’68.
I dunno Stephanie, but JD stopped in here t’other day to comment that precisely that one EPWJ is the dummerest dimbulb on the planet, or somethin’ to that effect. I takes JD at his word. Word.
these days Mr. Eric is mostly a Perry fan
a lot of people are sort of not very enamored of him, but it doesn’t seem to phase him he just keeps on keeping on. He has a LOT of stamina.
is it wrong I think I kinda find the Greek PM to be sort of an admirable figure, though the only thing I really know about him is from the news today
funny how baracky don’t maybe in country re:’68. chanting allan somewhere else.
I saw where JD was pillorying him for his scruntiness. Dimbulb’s haughty I’m in the KookKidsKlub and have absolute moral authority and know things was just so retarded it surpasses concern trolling in its gobsmackedness. Now I remember why I don’t wander down into the sewer very often. Holy shit has that place sunk into the offal.
no is not offal it’s just the times I think
what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?
sucky ones, a lot of them
I wonder how pancakes would be made with Coke instead of milk?
that sounds like a worthy experiment
And, with that, you’re far less one dimensional to me, nr. Good.
To return the gesture, I didn’t do ’68 (-6 years old), ’78 (liked soft things), or ’88 (really into boobs). Did ’98 (working 12 hour days) and ’08 (people are dying now, Jesus, make it stop, please). Now I’m a bit less one dimensional as well for you.
Don’t read other blogs. It’s ugly out there. Sometimes I read the comments at BigBreitbart and I want to hang myself over the army of muppets we’re breeding to do battle with the left’s muppets. Life was better before the internet made it possible to know such things about humanity.
I like cupcakes and eurodisco
Okay, fine, I did rape and kill Bob Saget back in the 90s but that didn’t fall on an 8 year.
From what I’ve seen of this ericpwjohnson, he’s not particularly bright. Like, we really shouldn’t make fun of him because his needs and abilities are entirely special.
@164
So you are responsible for what happened to those adorable twins when they grew older.
Heck no. They paid me to do it. Something about being screwed over on their residuals.
I hear that Abe. Life was better when the insane could be confined and medicated. Heavily.
That explains much.
#165 Yep. I’d recommend floaties.
@165
Be careful. If you say that name three times he’ll come over here and crap on the rug. He needs to go to the West side of OWS to be with others of his kind.
Some days I find myself feeling excessively spritely, with hardly any desire to put a bullet in my head. At such times, I like to read the comments to any given YouTube video, preferably a political one.
That always cheers me right back down.
Asia seems to be sinking on their opens… O.o.
For Jeff:
Whatever you have done to fix the problems with the site has actually made it load much faster and have many fewer ‘server busy’ timeouts and other issues.
#172 Zero Hedge has that same effect but with more migraines.
Twitter brings this opinion piece to our attention.
Okay, later folks.
Yup. Rebranded ACORN CA.
I am late to this but two thngs….
“I can tell you also that I don’t represent people who are trying to shake down employers.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA is all I can say to that.
and
$35K for a “Harris-ment” charge back in those heated days? Utter nuisance money. ‘Cost of defense’ type settlement. I don’t get many files like that (I am more a toxic and/or mass tort claims guy) but I’d laugh if someone thought that kind of money was anything other than a mutual recognition of “uh, we both realize this isn’t worth our time or effort” situation.
I’ve scraped more sentient life off of my shoe.
At such times, I like to read the comments to any given YouTube video, preferably a political one. That always cheers me right back down.
John,
I hope you’re familiar with this XKCD strip on the topic. This one is pretty apt, as well.
#172 and many of the subsequent seem to echo my #1.
So, shall we take off and nuke the planet from orbit, or stay here and do it? I’m on the fence myself.
ReTweeted by PW is Politico’s story on the NDAs where they still fail to disclose their own knowledge. #WhatDidPoliticoKnow
No answers from any of the Politico reporters to any of the questions I asked them last night.
From Politico to Washington Post and on through the “media food chain”.
So much commentary, so few actual facts.
What I mean is that Politico has accomplished its goal of sucking all the oxygen from the room by having everyone talk endlessly about nothing but speculation.
Last night I went to a college financial aid seminar and was told, seriously, that I my wife and I should consider divorce in order to maximize our children’s potential financial aid awards and scholarship opportunities.
Seriously. The woman was serious. She was selling ParentPlus loans.
I told her the National Guard would pay 100% for an eight-year commitment, plus a stipend and that she should consider adding that bit of info into her presentation instead of talking shit.
She was supposed to be a “professional financial aid consultant” and the PTO paid this idiot to come to town. She never mentioned ROTC, the National Guard, or the automatic scholarship that good students get in the state university system. She also didn’t know what a STEM major was, and the whole presentation was geared subtly toward parents of girls.
I told the PTO president that she should get our money back.
Oh yeah. I’ll bet 10k that Politico got it’s info from the Romney camp.
its
[…] — even CNN ran a story acknowledging that such claims and settlements are oftentimes just the cost of doing business (Kurt Schlichter follows that up with a good New York Post column today detailing how these suits […]
We have this, and this tweeted by Dan Riehl who has been very critical of Cain through this whole thing.
Meet the Chris Wilson who in the first piece says he was at one of the incidents.
Reality-abased community:
Strike that. Growth is what promotes growth. We need to have more people move into the area so that we can have a bigger tax base to support the schools and other infrastructure needed by those additional people…oh, to hell with it. This guy is preaching the Florida growth model, which works right up until the brakes get slammed on. It’s a prescription for unsustainable growth.
While we’re musing on the points of the party of the larger IQ, let’s look at what they’re up to, shall we?
Oh. Here‘s what they’re up to. Nevermind.
Shame on you, Slart. Haven’t you been told repeatedly that vote fraud has never happened?
I don’t need oil, I ride the bus.