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Recent Comments
- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
- Danger on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
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– Watch the other hand. Particularly because the RINO’s are on the enemies side in that issue.
– Which, may or may not concern you if you’re a low info voter. Is 11 million now and 40 million more in the next 4 years any big deal?
– Maybe we could save a whole lot of time and bother by just annexing Mexico outright and be done with it. Fuck. This country is so screwed.
You oughta charge that guy with plagiarism…
just annexing Mexico outright
Guess which gubmint would overpower the other? Not ours over theirs, fer sure. The path of least resistance is that their screwed-up system would drag us under sure as a millstone ’round the neck.
Which, the more Boehner balks at Getting To The Bottom Of This, the more I reckon he’d incriminate himself and his cronies.
I was going to say that I think maybe the plan is for Mexico to annex us, but I see di already covered that.
Obazm wants a “media shield law”. Little surprise, of course he does, since a media shield law is anathema to the first amendment.
Whoah…it would even be more spooky if somebody that the Tea Party had formerly had cordial relationships hired Anonymous to hack the IRS prioritization of audits, resulting in Tea Party groups getting the old body cavity search routine.
Just spitballing, there. Not modelling on any real-life characters or anything.
– Soooooo then, another dozen responsibility avoidence based generations, and identity group political seditionists later and the “American dream” will be finding a quiet little Island somewhere that you can escape too from “The United States of Amexicanada.”
under the baracky mobile
IRS Source: Lerner Placed On Administrative Leave
Otherwise know as extended paid vacation time while suitability for a better position is evaluated.
Tea Party groups eager, GOP unsure on possible Sarah Palin Senate bid
Ted Cruz to McCain: “There may be more ‘wacko birds’ in the Senate than you think”
Did Feb. 2010 Austin Plane Crash Prompt IRS Scandal?
I keep waiting for Cruz to bust into full-on Kirk mode: “Khan — I’m laughing at the superior intellect!”
nr, the GOP and Murkowski are both against Palin. Which makes Palin my ideal candidate.
Lois Lerner Directly Involved in IRS Targeting, Letters Show
The electric hamster will be buy soon enough, as he has been summoned.
buy -> by
It’s a hat-trick too, cranky. The Boy Scouts are allowing openly gay scouts to join, but are drawing a line on gay scout masters. The bigots.
– Lerner, if she answers any questions at all without threat of prison, will say those letters are autosigned with her signiture, but are not read by her personally.
– See folks, when the rats set up these treasonous actions against their political enemies they also craft everything so that later if/when things come to light all the muks have outs. If she ends up doing any prison time it will be only because of some mistake on her lawyers part. Just like Hillary, she’s responsible, but not to blame. Hey, its just a paycheck.
– Same with all the other rats and scandals, most of all the king rat.
– The Boy scouts will have to add the Rainbow lodge and badge set, with badges such as “the reach around”, “two in a fart sack”, and “fire with a wet wick”.
You only think you’re being sarcastic. Next comes openly gay scoutmasters, followed by girl Boy Scouts.
And another once great organization collapses into decadence and decrepitude.
time for american scouts.org to form
I’m hopeful something like that will happen newrouter.
Oh, and by way of prebuttal:
Your assurances are as empty as the United States Treasury, as meaningless as Obama’s rhetoric, and as useless as the Republican House of Representatives.
You only think you’re being sarcastic.
Sadly, I wasn’t being sarcastic. I expect to see it in the news later this week.
competition is good no?
i did nothing mr.ernst. i swear on a stack of pikachus.
I wasn’t prebutting you.
i think Palin *should* run for senate – if she loved america for reals she woulda run against Meghan’s coward daddy in Arizona
but Alaska’s good too
the senate would be a good chance for her to rehabilitate her career
mr. ernst what should happen to me?
i’m not going to argue with you wizzles about whether or not it is Right and Good for an organization to teach kids to hate and shun their gay friends
organizations have to find their own way in these matters
it’s a very complicated nuanced multi-layered ethical conundrum
By that logic they are still being taught to “hate and shun” females, not to mention the boys whose parents can’t afford the constant financial bleeding of scouting…
I don’t like any private organization being dictated to by the government about who they can or cannot exclude from membership.
The overarching mission is to destroy institutions, per the Frankfurt School. There are very few things left in this country for them to crush.
Those dead German existentialists are grinning in hell.
– There was a time when we imagined the government worked for us.
Free association was fun while it lasted.
i’m not going to argue with you wizzles about whether or not it is Right and Good for an organization to teach kids to hate and shun their gay friends
The LDS church and the Catholic church — the largest orgs that sponsor BSA — withdrew their objections to having gay boys in the scouts.
Which, I have no problem with that, as long as they’re not all forced to sleep in the same bed.
But as cranky-d points out, it’s not about fairness, it’s about tearing down all the walls so that all of the older, time-tested distinctions are destroyed, leaving room for them to put their perverse ones in place.
Such as racial/cultural essentialism, makers vs. takers, and Inside The State vs. Outside The State.
Benito and Adolf are toasting those German existentialists in hell.
– The minority figured out a way to impose its bigottries on the majority using the government as the instrument of tyranny, which is working so far, until the whole fucking mess comes unglued, and then I doubt the perps of this insanity have any idea of what is in store for them.
it was delusional thinking at the time.
It is difficult to demand satisfaction for your petty grievances when you are staring down a rifle barrel.
EXCLUSIVE: IRS Org Chart Puts Ingram, Lerner at Center of Power
– This came a bit sooner than I expected even, but it’s happening: “Holder told to investigate -…….. Holder.”
– and here….
the whole thing for reals is not on my radar
i think scouting is stupid but harmless to where i have never bought any boy scout cookies not once cause it’s just not something i feel like i need to have to support
– So this entire scandals circus shall spiral inward until eventually we have Bumblefuck left to read off the teleprompter at a presser: “Ah….ummm…W-what did I know and….w-w-whe- when ah…..um did I k-k-know wit.”
– They don’t sell cookies, they sell heliocopters happyfool.
well not to me they don’t
i did buy 4 tubs of cookie dough from Baby A this year I still owe NG a check for that
you can freeze it
“i think scouting is stupid but harmless ”
same with the whole lgbtxzy agenda
proggtarded: opposing minorities is bad. opposing minority rule is racist.
the pikachues are minority totalitarian rule
Coming to a Boy Scout Troop near you soon…
Hubs and I were just talking about that tonight, Lee. Who saw that one coming, eh?
British boys’ schools? The Spartans?
No truss
“rape survivor” seriously?
““rape survivor” seriously?”
because freaks of nature don’t ever rape
oh noes sequester got the choomways
Yeah. How can an Approved Victim Class member be a perpetrator when he (or she) is a Victim —by definition?
Can’t wait for the homosexual tailhook scandal to break.
when I get my cookie dough I will make each survivor a cookie
this way they will have a tasty cookie to munch on thoughtfully
To having openly gay boys in the Scouts. The BSA, to the best of my knowledge (which is very outdated at this point) was working under a sort of don’t ask/don’t tell regime.
That’s disappointing to hear.
I’ll make popcorn balls to send to the funeral of the next Matthew Sheppard.
Assuming, of course that the next Matthew Sheppard, unlike Matthew Sheppard, ends up tied to a barbed wire fence because he’s gay, and not because of bad blood over dope –or whatever the hell the deal was.
“they will have a tasty cookie to munch on thoughtfully”
like prison rape
Obazm puzzles quizzically about the Founders he can’t quite understand:
*** Look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike. I’m willing to cut the young lady who interrupted me some slack because it’s worth being passionate about. Is this who we are? Is that something our Founders foresaw? Is that the America we want to leave our children? Our sense of justice is stronger than that. ***
Being as Obazm has no sense of justice whatsoever we should probably leave him some slack, but no, Barry, that’s not something our Founders would have foreseen, force feeding criminal unlawful combatants like these.
Trying them upon capture by a military commission within a fortnight, thereupon on conviction hanging them or lining them against a wall to be shot, that they might have foreseen.
But forcing them to eat against their will? Holding them in prison for years on end without trial. Hell no. They wouldn’t have thought of such a thing in their wildest dreams. But then, they were men and not a worm-form as the like of you.
sending tasty treats to funerals is Bad Form Mr. Ernst
I remember my Aunt S who I heart more than beans asked where the wine was at the visitation for my mom
I said oh darlin it’s back at the house and me and cousin S had to scoot right then and pick up a bunch of wine cause I was lying there really wasn’t any wine at the house at least not enough we just hadn’t thought about it
Aunt S is an episcopalian so maybe they do things different I guess they’re very liberal you know
So’s baking cookies for victims of sexual assault.
Is liberal a code-word for adulterers now?
survivors Mr. Ernst, not victims
why is rape bad pikachu? they deserve it no proggtarded? victim classes.
sdferr says May 23, 2013 at 9:48 pm
Well said.
liberal just means they do things different I thought
you know like those people what get those tattoos and them funny gasket things in them ears
I’m not sure if Obama is even familiar with the building blocks of justice.
What is good, Mr. President? What is a citizen, Mr. President?
His answer? To be a ponce is good. To be the one who lords it over the peasants is to be a citizen.
It’s maybe worth noting that I typed “well said” around the thought experiment of imagining our Framers’ view on Obama’s varied rules of non-war.
The question over his complete lack of philosophy is another thing that also still grabs me from time to time.
– Ok, ok, maybe you’re right on the money Peggy, except for one small detail. Nobody in their right mind ever trusted the IRS, not in my 76 year life time, and remembering some of my ancesters run-ins with the same bunch in the 10’s, 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s, they sure as fuck didn’t trust them either. Other than that, you have a point.
Typed my comment at 10:01 before reading 9:59. It’s isn’t a response to the later comment.
Just to be clear. I occasionally muddle up threads by responding out of the natural rhythm of comment speech.
“liberal just means they do things different I thought”
like using grass and water to start a fire. go for the stupid.
isn’t a response
I knew that. Or guessed it right anyhow.
Obazm’s familiarity with the building blocks of justice extends to using the instrumentalities of government to persecute his political opposition in order to enable the theft of an election; to use other of those instrumentalities to suppress brave speech and silence those who would call out his wrong-doing, in order to engender mistrust between those who have direct knowledge of the evils perpetrated by his administration and those who could bring those evils to the attention of the public. These make only a tiny start on the avenues of his ken of justice.
If Peggy isn’t writing to say that she’s realized how utterly worthless her opinion is to be valued as a result of her past support for hope and change and historic firsts, and thus she’s decided to give up her column forever, she doesn’t have a point.
I wish I had a better term than “cracks me up”. Maybe “strikes me as absurd”.
Anyways, it always cracks me up when poseurs like Obama pretend to enter the minds of their long dead betters to bring back the goods but the simple, unavoidable fact is that he’s stupid and he’s pitching to those even more so.
The Bible has the admonition saying that those who would add to the text are damned. There’s certainly a secular version worth imposing for those who do the same in these other contexts.
Ernst Schreiber says May 23, 2013 at 10:13 pm
Another well-said.
– Every Emporors court has a critical mass, which, being the cunning sort of rat he is, he’s also well aware of, but like everything else in his “plan”, it will all be outed only after the clock runs out, and then the spin masters of the Left in all the ivy league schools and Leftist media will spend the next 50 years tending and revising the “facts” of that image. Same as they did with JFK, except times 10,000.
– Everyone of the Left players has a pathological desperation for the “American Socialism movement” to be the first successful socialism movement in history, since there were no others.
In his world it is just that he tells a lie and that his auditors believe him. This, for him, suffices.
The only bit of Obama’s speech I heard was the excerpt Fox News Radio carried in their 7pm newsbreak. It was the bit about how Gitmo discredits us in the eyes of the world, makes it harder for our allies to work with us, blah blah blah because Gitmo represents something contrary to our values. It’s the kind of bullshit Soviet Apologists used to go on Donohue to try to shame us with.
I understand from skimming links on Instapundit that he circled around to his Drone policy and tried to square that with his long delayed Gitmo policy. Something along the lines of it’s not a crime when the President does it, I believe.
the piggy fascist IRS discredits us in the eyes of the world and makes it harder for our fellow americans to work because the IRS represents something contrary to our values
cause of it is deeply corrupt and fascist to the core
To divert back to the Boy Scouts for a second, there’s a really good item on top of Ed Driscoll’s page right now. Not least because he links to a Stacy McCain item on the Kaitlyn Hunt case that I mentioned (the case, not the item) in a previous comment. I think this case is a foretaste of what the Boy Scouts just signed themselves up for.
And that’s because we’re no longer talking about activity per se, but identity.
And that’s because we’re no longer talking about activity per se, but identity.
– Which is to say, we’re no longer talking about America, as much as the fourth Reich.
The IRS is the envy and wonder of the world. It’s so ruthlessly efficient that Americans, unlike, say, the Greeks, or the Italians, or the Spanish, are afraid to flagrantly cheat on their taxes.
don’t worry Mr. Ernst just cause they let gay boys into the boy scouts doesn’t mean the real boys scouts can’t beat the holy shit out of them
Maybe BBH. All I’m saying is a mastabatory form of copulation being not just what homosexuals do, but who they are is on the verge of becoming beyond criticism when practiced by the right sort of person. Someone like Kaitlyn Hunt.
– Issa: “We don’t want to waste the former Secretaries time by calling her before we’ve done a thourough job of investigation.”
– Translation: “We want to get as much data on the record as we can before calling her so if she persists in lying and stonewalling she’ll have that problem to deal with at least.”
That’s hazing, which remains an activity –an illicit one at that.
Unlike say, “having sex” with another boy four years your junior.
Because sex with other boys is what gay boys are.
scouting is all about choices Mr. Ernst you can get a code red merit badge or you can get a merit badge for Keeping Your Fag Mouth Shut it’s up to the individual scout
Exactly wrong. A code red will get you kicked out (at the very least), and starting in 2014, you don’t have to keep your fag mouth shut if you’re not so inclinded.
– Do pinkachus get merit badges fro refraining from endless moronic posts on blog cites?
it’s a mess Mr. Ernst but when Ted Cruz is president we can get the IRS to take a hard look at their tax-exempt status wink wink
scout’s honor they’ll vote the little homos out lickety-split i betcha
and then everything will be back like it was
merit badges are not reflective of how the real world works Mr. Hunter
it is a very sad thing to learn
this is why I like to stand ready with cookies
– “sites” not cites. I apparently have too much legalese slipping into my speech patterns these days. Must be the nature of the administration I live under.
– Well stay staunch pikachu. Eventually all the adults will leave the room and you and your cookies will be safe with the rest of the children.
You should go back to trying to shame people into silence. Assertion monkeying isn’t working for you.
dude have you checked the culture war scoreboard lately
Since the thread sdferr mentioned this on has died and this one seems to not be IRS limited anymore…
Nice little word there “end.” Left hanging is “what end?” Victory is a word that Obama never uses for real war only the political ones that are considered real for the Left. Defeat would not be a helpful way to have “end” characterized so that won’t happen. Wimper might be reality for the wimp-perer in chief but he will no doubt try to have his cake and eat it too.
Oh, in the picture at the link don’t you just love the “moderate” blue-dog? Democrat’s scarf?
the AUMF is too-easily twisted around as a license to do stuff what furthers the defense of Israel Mr. geoff
fascists have this thing about Israel
wow
some propaganda slut “spencer ackerman” at “wired” actually thinks the AUMF was about “avenging 9/11” for reals?
looked at that way then yeah it was something of a big fucking fail
heh. Did you just call me a loser?
no Mr. Ernst I’m just saying we have to be careful not to run up the scoreboard or we’ll get disqualified
the whole AUMF thing smells like Soros
food stamp doesn’t give two shits about the AUMF I don’t think – if anything he likes how it helps Team R rationalize a ton of borrowings from the chinesers
but Daddy Soros says jump and food stamp says yes daddy
I’ll leave the worrying about the score to you then.
Mr. Hunter looks like Glenn Reynolds the Instapundit scoured the internet and found a post what says exactly what you said about the Pegster at 10:02 pm
AUMF, like Gitmo, is about making sure the left wing doesn’t sit out ’14 like they sat out ’10. Now that Obama doesn’t have to worry about losing the middle anymore.
ok Mr. Ernst
my brow is as yet unfurrowed but i practice furrowing sometimes
(but only when I have loreal hydra-renewal handy)
Maybe he wants to get something like what is talked about here.
Congress having delegated so much to the Executive over the past 100 years what’s a little more giving matter. It’s only war if you call it such. Overseas contingency operations are so much cleaner and neater.
Interesting piece by John Fund:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348591/strange-goings-white-house-john-fund
Teaser: Chrissy Matthews has apparently stopped writing “Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama” on his Trapper Keeper.
– He told an “untruth”. Heh. The ranks of Obamite disillusioned ass-clowns continues to swell.
Very familiar. Rings many bells, it does.
You’ve not discoursed with Craig Shirley, author of that Brietbart piece?
Allow me.
Thus, proposals to delegate such a determination to the President threaten the carefully calibrated balance of powers enmeshed within the Constitution…
What is this “balance of powers” nonsense? The President does whatever the hell he wants, the Congress writes the checks, and the Courts find ways of justifying it. That’s all the balance there is, and all there needs to be. At least ’til some effing Republican gets elected, God forbid.
There’s a world-historical meet and greet on the streets of Stockholm these days as the spirit of I Am Curious Yellow/Blue encounters the spirit of The Koran, to hilarious and flammably predictable effect. The Spirit of Democratic-Socialism, despite its enormous outsized relative mass in Sverige, isn’t quite certain whether it wishes to survive the collision — not so much from a positive skepticism as from a waning attachment to its own distant, mist enshrouded urges, the which it can’t honestly make out. This is the fun of the world-historical though, we should say: these unexpected turns making up those delightful novelties the best entertainment demands.
Thought experiment – if the IRS is using our resources (in the form of taxes) to wage war on we, the taxpayers, what happens if we refuse to continue to fund the IRS by no longer paying taxes?
Clearly, if only a few people do it, the IRS wins. How does one organize a massive response such that the IRS is out-gunned (figuratively, of course)?
RI Red, this is the curse of Automatic Withholding.
Everybody could opt out, but then we’d all be writing big checks to the IRS every three months.
Which, come to think of it, would spark a tax revolt pretty quickly.
But good question: How many people opting out would it take to effectively starve the government of revenue?
How does one organize
Some organizations (let’s call them Cosmoi with Hayek!) organize themselves spontaneously, “from out of nowhere”, so to speak. And oh my, fingering a culprit is made infinitely difficult in such circumstances.
I suspect that’s why the leaderless rise of the Tea Party caused such terror within the Beltway. How can you buy off the movement if there is no leader who can disband or redirect it?
Lois Learner, Slapped With Lawsuit Papers at Home
Yep, darth, I’m a quarterly payer, and I had to think long and hard as I wrote out checks this last April 15th. And therein lies the rub. The vast majority of taxpayers are wage-earners and do not have the option to stop withholding. It would take a concerted effort by employers to stop paying. Sdferr’s cosmoi aren’t likely to spontaneously organize.
Further thought: it all comes back to states’ rights. It’s going to be necessary for a state to “opt out.” With that protection, businesses would feel less constrained to abide by federal tax collection law. Individuals going Galt just aren’t as likely to do the trick.
aren’t likely
I’d guess this would be conditioned by the concert [effectively, not to say intentionally] to outrage on the part of the bumbling Leviathan, which seems in the left hand not to ken what the right hand is doing. “Mistakes,” they like to say, “get made.” Even willy-nilly.
Mistakes were made by 52% of the voters last November.
I look askance at the whole “rape survivor” thing not because I think rape is a cool thing that absolutely everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime, and not because I think people are never raped and then killed, but because rape is not obviously a life-threatening thing.
It’s kind of self-aggrandizing thing, sort of like if you formed a group of people who survived a mugging, or a high-speed bicycling accident.
I am willing to give people who have been raped all the room in the world to work out their emotional issues. But I am not all about this kind of thing. I think it’s unhealthy. At some point, it has to be something that happened to you that doesn’t force you into this common mold with a whole bunch of other people.