Life imitates Spinal Tap, this time without the foil.
Joe Patterno’s statue is removed from Penn State. If anyone is upset at this, just turn your head and pretend it didn’t happen.
“If you want to call it ‘quid pro quo,’ fine.” Oky doky then, we will.
Harry Reid wants you to kick in some of your online spending to him. You know, for the ‘fairness’.
Lies, damn lies and studies.
City of Boston so successful it can turn away business.
– The saga of the lost WMD’s:
“With the rebels moving deeper into Damascus, and the regime’s days appearing numbered, the CIA is racing to find Syria’s chemical and biological weapons before it’s too late.”
– They are particularly dangerousm because WMD’s are apparently invisible to Leftist Progressive Democrats.
I’ve got one Value =$0, tax owed to the IRS? $40 million
Mumbles has redefined discrimination to include Thoughtcrime. Earth to Menino: all Chick-fil-A has done is donate money. They still serve anyone who wants to buy their food without making them undergo a lifestyle audit — and I’m pretty sure they’ll hire any qualified applicant. WHERE’S THE DISCRIMINATION, YOU DRIVELING GALOOT!?
Senators of the 112th Congress standing election in 2012
X = retiring this term
X- Akaka, Daniel K. – (D – HI)
X – Bingaman, Jeff – (D – NM)
Brown, Sherrod – (D – OH)
Cantwell, Maria – (D – WA)
Cardin, Benjamin L. – (D – MD)
Carper, Thomas R. – (D – DE)
Casey, Robert P., Jr. – (D – PA)
X- Conrad, Kent – (D – ND)
Feinstein, Dianne – (D – CA)
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. – (D – NY)
Klobuchar, Amy – (D – MN)
X – Kohl, Herb – (D – WI)
X – Lieberman, Joseph I. – (ID – CT)
Manchin, Joe, III – (D – WV)
McCaskill, Claire – (D – MO)
Menendez, Robert – (D – NJ)
X – Nelson, Ben – (D – NE)
Nelson, Bill – (D – FL)
Sanders, Bernard – (I – VT)
Stabenow, Debbie – (D – MI)
Tester, Jon – (D – MT)
X – Webb, Jim – (D – VA)
Whitehouse, Sheldon – (D – RI)
Barrasso, John – (R – WY)
Brown, Scott P. – (R – MA)
Corker, Bob – (R – TN)
Hatch, Orrin G. – (R – UT)
Heller, Dean – (R – NV)
X – Hutchison, Kay Bailey – (R – TX)
X – Kyl, Jon – (R – AZ)
X – Lugar, Richard G. – (R – IN)
X – Snowe, Olympia J. – (R – ME)
Wicker, Roger F. – (R – MS)
geez, Carin, that was so many kinds of stupid.
If the Arts advisory board is so enamored of the piece, let THEM buy it for $65 mil and go to jail for possession.
I ate at Chic-fil-A yesterday. Line was near out the door at 1:30 in the afternoon.
Incidentally, somebody should send that Mayor a brief note explaining to him how keeping people out whose views differ from yours is the very OPPOSITE of the inclusion you claim to champion. And that we notice.
Jeff, obviously your part of Colorado is simply teeming with haters.
Chic-Fil_A tastes a lot better than Boston Market does. But whatever.
Menino’s grasp of the Christian ethic of turning a cheek has yet to thoroughly gel.
Go ye into the world and preach the gospel of forced statist morality.
Chic-Fil-A was a feature piece in the Oklahoma Daily (flagship newspaper in OKC) a few months back on how to run a business properly. Naturally, tolerant lefties flooded the editorial pages with vitriolic screeds about how intolerant the restaurant owners stance on traditional marriage, faith and family are.
Found online:
Except progressivism.
– In spite of Progressivism.
a) blame Bush
b) blame Cheney
c) blame Rumsfeld
d) all of the above
b moe
add “weapons dealers” to your list
The estate tax (otherwise known as the death tax) is one of the most immoral of our government’s excesses. It perverts the very concept of property rights, it’s double taxation, and it’s nearly wiped out family farms.
It’s crazy to even think about. Everything I possess is taxed at 50% when I die. The government takes half of everything I accumulate through a lifetime of productive work, regardless MY wishes for things I bought, paid for, and OWN.
So, I retire* and put all my money, $450,000 into a little horse ranch I can own free and clear, and for the next 20 years my kid and grandkids visit often and I want it to stay in the family.
Unfortunately, when I die the IRS guy jumps out from behind the casket and tells my kid the ranch is now worth $1.2 very large and the government secretly owns half; and they want their half.
So my kid, a $100k/yr working stiff has to pay half a million to the IRS, or disregard my wish and sell the property.
It sucks, ‘cuz I wanted my grandkids to have it. On the other hand, the kid sells and comes out with several hundred thousands of dollars, so he deserves no concern…
*events are a work of fiction, intended to illustrate the point.
“Mr. Dan Cathy, President
Chick-fil-A
5200 Buffington Road
Atlanta, GA 30349
To Mr. Cathy:
In recent days you said Chick-fil-A opposes same-sex marriage and said the generation that supports it has an ‘arrogant attitude.’
Now — incredibly — your company says you are backing out of the same-sex marriage debate. I urge you to back out of your plans to locate in Boston.
You called supporters of gay marriage ‘prideful’. (sic) Here in Boston, to borrow your own words, we are ‘guilty as charged.’ We are indeed full of pride for our support of same sex (sic) marriage and our work to expand freedom to all people. We are proud that our state and our city have led the way for the country on equal marriage rights.
I was angry to learn on the heels of your prejudiced statements about your search for a site to locate in Boston. There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom trail and no place for your company alongside it. When Massachusetts became the first state in the country to recognize equal marriage rights, I personally stood on City Hall Plaza to greet same sex (sic) couples coming here to be married. It would be an insult to them and to our city’s long history of expanding freedom to have a Chick-fil-A across the street from that spot.
Sincerly,
*signature*
Thomas M. Menino
Mayor, City of Boston”
Nothing more heroic than leaving your wife a widow by saving the life of your date.
Link.
There are some women, b moe, I would take a bullet for. My ex-wife is not among them.
Boston.
«spit»
If you’re on good terms with your kid you can add his name to the deed on your ranch as a joint tenant. No probate and no inheritance tax, since he was already a co-owner before you died.
Of course, if your 20-something trophy wife isn’t on good terms with your kid you might want to leave her name off the deed. Under joint tenancy she could sell her share of the ranch without your kid’s permission, to some meth cooker or the Church of Scientology.
OT, but finally a sentient article at the NYT…
Paging Brian Ross, his herd of under-aged and frightened goats, and every other radical, hateful and prejudiced Leftist on the planet.
I’m looking at that whole thread awhile back about the draft in a whole new light.
When enlistments drop, they’re going to have to make people join.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care who marches in the parade as individuals, but full US military dress uniforms? I found it very unseemly.
This is the stunning, $65million work of “art”.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Robert_Rauschenberg%27s_%27Canyon%27%2C_1959.jpg
This is fucked on so many levels. The problem with civilization is that is seems to make stupidity an evolutionary advantage.
True. Hey, I never claimed it was good fiction…
Nearly every shooter gets tagged with that label, because the public is convinced that that’s the profile, and people barely acquainted with the gunman parrot it back to every journalist they encounter. The Secret Service report determined that it’s usually not true.
The Secret Service is correct. Profiling is a sometimes useful tool, but it is not a magic template to figure out the motives of a spree killer. We call this approach (profiling) “cookbooking”. John Douglas, who styles himself as the Godfather of Profiling, while a smart guy, is a fame whore and often wrong.
I hope Mr. Cathy donates $20,000,000 or so to the mayor’s competition in the upcoming election.
I don’t care who marches in the parade as individuals, but full US military dress uniforms? I found it very unseemly.
You’re not alone, Lee. Just wait, in a year we’ll learn that it will be mandatory to observe some kind of “gay pride” day for all active duty personnel.
– Well, at least they didn’t allow them to wear “assless” uniforms.
Yet.
You know what makes me giggle about the “Gay” parade in San Diego?
They march through a neighborhood called “Normal Heights” …
It perverts the very concept of property rights, it’s double taxation, and it’s nearly wiped out family farms.
Yes, this.
I suggest not arguing on subjective effect. Argue on the principle that this is craven larceny and the assholes who passed this into law should be…I don’t know; something.
Whenever we have a senseless slaughter, we invariably hear the stories of courage and selflessness. Two very strong and valued characteristics for TEA Party members. Do you think Brian Ross ever considered why so many TEA Party types are killed by people who “just have to be affiliated with the TEA Party.”
It’s a trick question, as Brian Ross doesn’t think. Remind me again when the last Hollywood DNC fundraiser slaughter was. Was is recent?
Heh. Good one alp.
Interesting. According to HowManyOfMe.com, there are 2909 people in the US names James Holmes. There are 944 people in the US named Brian Ross.
What are the odds?
So, Obama is speaking in Aurora. I think he’s up to eleventy “I”‘s already.
Oh. This was supposed to be in that Brian Ross post. Oops.
Obama looks like hell. Has he been smoking Hillary’s stash?
Has he been smoking Hillary’s stash?
huma abedin got baracky some afghan hash
Re: Car in at 11:59 am.
Could they give it to the IRS in lieu of the tax and ask for their 24.8 million in change?
I don’t understand why mom left a $1 billion art collection to the kids without having a lawyer draw-up some kind of trust papers. The kids ought to burn it all and collect the insurance.
Don’t have any Chick-fil-A’s in my neck of the woods, alas. Well, there’s one at the Oakland University campus, but probably not for long.
The jackboot of tolerance will soon be going romper-stomper, I imagine.
Good on the statue removal, but a little too late. The NCAA hammer’s going to fall pretty hard tomorrow, and well it should.
Could they give it to the IRS in lieu of the tax and ask for their 24.8 million in change?
no the us gov’t made this art worthless. it can’t be sold in the us.
The NCAA hammer’s going to fall pretty hard tomorrow, and well it should.
That’s for sure. I figure they’re going to yack their franchise (or whatever it’s called) for at least 5 years, maybe longer. A lot of people are speculating on the poor players and the effect it will have on their chances as NFL draft picks—as if that’s the important thing here. Not that (insert many bad words here) Paterno and company were harboring a serial pedophile that all of them, including the college president knew about and that they turned a blind eye.
yank their franchise
the topic makes me yack
They’re saying they’re considering the current players. I suspect that means they’ll be up for grabs by other programs. Which still sucks, but not as bad as playing for Penn State.
I suspect that means they’ll be up for grabs by other programs.
watch for a drop in crime in happy valley
Are the Nittany Lions especially gangsta?
Yes they are.
If they all look like the eagle one, burning would be an improvement.
Are the Nittany Lions especially gangsta?
check here
http://ucrime.com/pa/pennsylvania+state+university
One of my girlfriend’s received her doctorate from Penn State. Good thing she’s a professor in Puerto Rico and not somewhere in PA. If I’d gone there, I’d want to turn my diplomas toward the wall.
If they all look like the eagle one, burning would be an improvement.
No lie, B Moe. I don’t “get” modern art. I need to dig through the boys’ finger painting and crayon drawings from pre-school and put on a show.
If we’re talking Penn State, someone should mention Michael Mann and ethics.
They have none.
True dat Pablo.
“B Moe says July 22, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Obama administration officials say the White House has yet to decide on how it will respond if pro-al-Assad forces use chemical weapons against the Syrian population or a neighboring country
a) blame Bush
b) blame Cheney
c) blame Rumsfeld
d) all of the above”
We WWBD bumper sticker owners know what our favorite strategerist woulda done;)
Of course he prolly would have given old ass sad 48 hours notice a while back and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
They should have hung Jay Rockefeller for treason when he tipped Syria off in ’03.
I like to go to art museums when I’m in a city that’s new to me. Every now and then I breeze through the “modern art” section to remind myself of the fact that it usually isn’t art by any standard I believe in. It’s a visual performative.
Its dreck. The emporer hasn’t had any clothes in the art world for a very long time now.
Its probably indicative of something or other, if you believe in that kind of thing.
Well, one of the goals of the Frankfurt School was to promote ugly things as art, as part of a way to destroy people’s sensitivities to help them on the path to Marxism. I would say they have succeeded.
Art without technique and actual intent, isn’t. Much of modern art is the result of random physical processes — drips, splatters, diffusion, etc. — possibly interesting/amusing to look at in it’s own right, but slapping a frame and a title on it makes it ‘art’ exactly as much as binding a series of (photographs of) egret tracks makes ‘literature’.
Which is to say, ‘none’.
And gluing a dead bird onto the front of a bunch of crude paint splotches, while not ‘random’, doesn’t really help matters.
Re: Car in at 11:59 am.
Could they give it to the IRS in lieu of the tax and ask for their 24.8 million in change?
Haa haa haa …
bastards. They should.
rt without technique and actual intent, isn’t. Much of modern art is the result of random physical processes — drips, splatters, diffusion, etc. — possibly interesting/amusing to look at in it’s own right, but slapping a frame and a title on it makes it ‘art’ exactly as much as binding a series of (photographs of) egret tracks makes ‘literature’.
I imagine you have to have the correct persona to carry it off. Be able to speak in art-crap tongue; using the correct terms. What makes it “art” is the bullshit that accompanies it.
Well, one of the goals of the Frankfurt School was to promote ugly things as art, as part of a way to destroy people’s sensitivities to help them on the path to Marxism. I would say they have succeeded.
I’ve never read that. Is it true? Linky to esplain this to me?
I suspect that art and beauty parted ways when the science of Aesthetics was discovered or created, more or less. It’s been a long time now.
If I’d gone there, I’d want to turn my diplomas toward the wall.
Welcome to my world.
I’m always curious to see how events like this fit into the Feminist worldview. A few times I’ve heard the hand waive “Patriarchy hurts men too,” but that never really gets satisfactorily explained.
I doubt this new series of events will be addressed by the usual suspects.
Read Tom Wolfe’s “The Painted Word“.
Profiling is a sometimes useful tool, but it is not a magic template to figure out the motives of a spree killer.
But, I…
But…!
Criminal Minds is actually fiction?
O_o