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I don’t know what’s worse, that we gave them the reins, or that they take it as given that they should have them (and pitch a holy fit when we take them away).
I’ve seen this happen at a denominational level in the Presbyterian Church. What happens is that the normal folk who have better things to do go about their lives while the busybodies all go off to General Assemblies and vote on all sorts of things that their individual presbyteries would never sanction and then report back once they’re fait accompli. This tends to go on until a sizable enough portion of the individual presbyteries/churches have had enough and they just plain leave (see, e.g., PC-USA/PC-A split, or the far more recent PC-USA/E-PC grafting).
I keep the fact that my in-laws live in Texas out there as a fall-back for the unlikely event that our Northeast ever tries to secede.
Our friends/foes on the other side of the aisle are the ones who need a stern talking to. It’s Dutch uncle time.
Who’s with me!?
You really think they want to take our guns away so we won’t shoot each other so much? They all have Oil Can Harry mustache’s (pretty much Snidely Whiplash’s conceptual grandpa if you have to ask) and they can’t seem to stop twirling them.
Mighty Mouse should have been here by now.
It was lie after lie after lie. Which, come to think of it, was appropriate, given the memorial for Edward M. Kennedy.
Ernst:
If it was truly Kennedy-esque, wouldn’t it need to be “Loi aftah loi aftah loi”?
Zamoose, more like
Wow they had a memorial for Edward. How nice.
The thing is, “we” didn’t. The 20% of the population that are hardcore liberals that are in lock step with their idiocy, aided by morons who can’t see through the media bullshit and useful idiots (Noonan, Brooks, etc) who are only marginally less morons – “they” are the ones that allowed these douchebags to rule over us.
Just to be clear.
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only useful comment i can manage.
Thank goodness you’re here to shine the light, deadrody.
Oh hey guys.
I am taking another baby step on the way to financial/total independence (I am what is lovingly known as a “parasite single” in Japan and the literature–it’s not anything to be proud of but oh well) and looking at my first credit card offer with the intent to apply.
Any advice on things I should watch for?
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FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE. I need scissors! 61!
looking at my first credit card offer with the intent to apply.
Any advice on things I should watch for?
If you absolutely have to have a credit card (Dave Ramsey makes an excellent case for not), make sure it’s only one, and pay it off every month.
We just finished paying off our cards two months ago, and I couldn’t be happier.
Check the fine print on the interest rates (real as opposed to initial), and so forth. They will hammer you with higher rates and fees on the slightest justification.
Given polite, normal society’s kindly, agreed, nation-wide prohibition against lunatics organizing, we can’t possibly have a group of organized lunatics.
The relief is palpable.
And now, a prayer. Humbly, in a closet. Without a lick of politics.
And God smiled.
Use a credit card like you would cash. Don’t buy anything you can’t already cover with money in the bank. Pay it off every month and don’t carry a balance. Then it doesn’t matter what your interest rate is unless you have a crappy card with a minimum finance charge or an annual fee. Use it as a convenience payment instrument and don’t borrow with it. Keep track of it daily online so you can dispute any charges you didn’t make as soon as possible. Bear in mind that some business offer a discount for cash transactions since they lose a little profit when you use a credit card. Credit cards are a VERY EXPENSIVE for of credit, worse than most loans, so don’t use them as credit, don’t do cash advance loans, etc.
Just use them as a cash substitute so you never need to carry more than $20 around in cash and maybe $3 in change for machines. They also work great for buying stuff online.
Alternatively, you can fill out every credit card application that gets mailed to you, max ’em all out, and then become a poster child for the plight of victims of “predatory lenders.”
But then you just might find yourself appearing in public with Sandra Fluke and pitching compassionate statism.
And that’s just douchy.
clown show
Breaking: Democrats Reinstate Platform Language on Jerusalem
Villaraigosa Makes Controversial Vote Call to Put God, Jerusalem Back in Platform
more clown show
Jerusalem And God Get Booed At Dem Convention
Then it doesn’t matter what your interest rate is unless you have a crappy card with a minimum finance charge or an annual fee.
Watch out for those who calculate the interest daily (which they’ve started doing). I calculated how much per week I might put on a card, then have my online banking Bill Pay function send weekly payments to prevent the unpaid total from getting too high.
Get another card, you say? But I’ve got the number memorized!
– And I hope they continoe to boo, long and loudly on national television so the whole country can see them.
– We should be perfectly content for the hatd core assholes on the Left to double down on their uncontrollable urge to spit in the face of our Democratic Republic and its Constitution and rule under God.
– I was somewhat concerned Obama and the Left would do a hard pivot right and fool the low hanging fruit into another term as a slam dunk.
– Don’t want to give them idea’s or encourage sane behavior. Don’t interupt them when they’re busy stepping on their own dicks.
The Democrats at least made their non-vote-vote hilarious by proxy if not in intention. Three cheers for Mayor V’s lapse of certainty!
I think Mayor Castro is being floated as the newest ‘semi-conservative but not enough to be evil’ Blue Dog 2.0 model. I’m not sure yet but that’s my impression so far. He’s being tossed out to confuse the independent “The democrat party left me” voters who helped out with the 2010 shellacking after Obamacare after seeing that Obama was not going to rule as a centrist in late 2009.
Barack Obama: “Please tip your waitresses and bartenders!”
Mayor VillaRaigosa has mastered the ‘Boehner’s Magical Ear’ move very easily.
“Yeh, that’s gonna leave a mark.”
A source informed on the deliberations [said] that President Obama personally interevened to strenghten the language….
…..But a second party source said that top leaders in the party were “pissed” when they found out about the exact wording of the platform, and had spent Wednesday pressing for the language to be changed.
– Thus it was by the Kings edict, and the voice vote was a joke, which we already knew anyway.
– The video has already gone viral on youtube, and I would hazard a guess what the campaign and the super pacs will do with this.
– The Left is really cooperating in giving us a target rich environment. Love it.
“Pro-Israel Democrats have been lobbying the DNC all day to change the platform, and convention leadership probably assumed this vote would be the end of it. The shock on Villaraigosa’s face shows you how far in denial the Democratic Party has been about the anti-Israel sentiment spreading among its ranks. Think he’s picturing how many TV ads replaying this moment Sheldon Adelson’s money can buy in Florida?”
heh
Next up: The sudden inclusion of Bob Casey, Jr. (D-Pro-Life) in the speaker line up.
It would be bedlam, I’m tellin’ ya.
Man, the Angels really put the wood to the A’s.
Sing your hearts out.
“No balloons for you!”
– Maybe they can drop some of Flukes used condoms.
( I apologize to anyone who might have been eating when they read that.)
“No balloons for you!”
more clown show
Since the booing of God and Jerusalem was prefaced by a vote that was not even close to the declared 2/3 majority, I can only hope some of the disgruntled anti-Israel, anti-God delegates take to the airwaves to make their case.
– Exactly.
Maybe Sandra Fluke can share some of her conditioning tips. If she’s burning through $3000 worth of condoms every school year, she must have some advice for the masses. Ditto for the “forty percent” of her fellow female law students at Georgetown who have the same usage rate (per her sworn testimony, though I’m not sure how she would gather that info).
– People. I kmow its painful and disgusting, but you gotta see this. Pelosi is giving her speech, sluring and lisping her words. She’s soused. OMG
It’s a free-for-all on Drudge right now. These are the headlines over there now:
– delegates at convention boo, hiss, jeer (at putting God, Jerusalem back in platform)
– President scrambles: Campaign says Obama disagrees with his own policy
– MSNBC suppresses all coverage (of course, since it’s not newsworthy)
and the main headline on Drudge, “They Booed Putting God Back!”
This is too good to be true. I can’t actually giggle since I’m at work, but it’s taking some effort.
She’s soused. OMG
viral video material
– I hope someone got that on video. Unbelievable.
Also at Drudge, “‘Vote black’ buttons hit convention hall…”
When you click through, it shows people with buttons that say “once you vote black you never go back. Obama 2012“.
That should work.
Even the mainstream press is beginning to realize that Barack Obama and those who put him in the office where he is right now conspired unwittingly to bring down the Democratic Party. Read this piece by Jodi Kantor that appeared in today’s Pravda-on-the-Hudson, and look at the photograph. Then, read it again. The rats are starting to leave the ship.
I saw Pravda-on-the-Hudson turn on a sitting Democratic President once before. His name was James Earl Carter, and columnists like Tom Wicker and the news pages began in September and October, 1980 to prepare the party faithful for the disaster they discerned on the horizon. Their successors are doing the same right now.
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Swann should think this through.
– You can bet there’s some pretty ugly shit flying around the WH and Obama’s staff right now. The Wonce is probably either in a screaming match with Garret or Axelrod, or both, and Carney is hiding under a desk.
The roofers knocked out our teevee for a few days. Was Pelosi really drunk? Linkage?
sanfrannan’s speech today
Sing Out to This
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I enjoyed watching Mayor V ask for a redo when it was clear he didn’t have a 2/3rd’s majority, then ask for another redo because he couldn’t be so damn blatant about it, but then someone nudged him just so and he announced that in his opinion he had heard the 2/3rd’s majority necessary. Wow.
Next agenda item!
bitte
Glenn Beck presents the Obama National Anthem
– Leigh, I got the same thing. Its probably over whelmed right now.
– And yes, she was shit faced, and did the drunk walk on eggshells leaving the podium.
– She must really miss Teddy, her old drinking bud.
Remember this from Rush Limbaugh’s old TV show?
Ted Kennedy’s Unintelligible Introduction
But then you just might find yourself appearing in public with Sandra Fluke and pitching compassionate statism.
I think the only benefit to that is then I could channel my overweening anger into strangling her on national television.
I’d probably win in a fight, too. She’s kinda reedy.
Also: Thank you for the credit card advice! I currently have a debit card that functions almost exactly like cash and so far it’s been completely sufficient to my needs, but my parents have been urging I get a credit card so I actually establish a visible credit rating. I confess to really not understanding how that works, but.
I’d talk more to Dad about it but we’re currently not talking to each other because I don’t bite down on the idea that classical liberal politics are automatically horrible because the Republican party came up with PNAC.
Best way to establish a credit rating is to pay your bills (rent, utilities, etc.) on time.
What Ernst said. However being able to do that (by renting a place to live or opening a utility account) frequently involves a credit check, and if you don’t already have a credit history that can be problematical.
Hm, okay. I rented for three years (and did my own utilities) in college, so that is probably there on my history should I need to have my credit checked again.
And: So this happened.
talk about living rent-free in their minds. and hearts. and twitter feeds.