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Optimist
Yet, there have not been similar howls regarding left-wing superstar Bill Maher, who recently expressed concern about the spread of Islam in the West, as reported by Mediaite:
Those who accuse the once libertarian Bill Maher of becoming too much of a liberal apologist might want to clean their ears. Maher made a Juan Williams-esque confession on his program when he apprehensively noted that Mohammed has just become the most popular baby name in Britain. “Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that?” Maher asked his panel. “Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years?”
300 years? Optimistic. Very optimistic. If things continue as they have, 60 years is more likely, with the first falling within 40.
I suppose we should be grateful that Maher even conceives of Islam as an existential threat to the West. In that, at least, he’s far ahead of most of his peers.
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October 30th, 2010 | #1
Very optimistic. If things continue as they have, 60 years is more likely, with the first falling within 40.
Optimist. I the first will go in 10.
If you like action films,
Go see RED. For some reason a film about retired CIA agents kicking ass makes me feel good. Maybe it’s the fact that Bruce is only three months older than me and still doing ass-kicking action flicks.
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October 30th, 2010 | #1
I liked it too, and I’m still in my 20’s. I like action comedies in general.
There is absolutely no need for tort reform.
None whatsoever. New York child sued for woman’s death after bike crash
A New York child can be sued for crashing a bicycle into an elderly pedestrian and causing injuries that led to her death, a judge has ruled.
Juliet Breitman and another child were four years old when they raced their small bicycles on a Manhattan street and ran into Claire Menagh, 87.
Juliet’s lawyer had argued Juliet was too young to be held negligent.
The judge disagreed, ruling Juliet’s lawyer had presented no evidence she lacked intelligence or maturity.
How fucking mature can a four year old be?
The children struck Ms Menagh, knocking her to the ground. She underwent surgery for a fractured hip and died three months later.
Ms Menagh - and later her son, acting as executor of her estate - sued the children, arguing they were “negligent in their operation and control of their bicycles”. The estate also sued Dana Breitman and Rachel Kohn, saying they had consented to the race.
What? They didn’t sue the hospital? Funny my father in law at 84 had a hip replacement(2 actually, something went wrong with the first one) and pacemaker installed and lived. At 88 he survived 6 months of radiation treatment for cancer (something else stopped working).
While he noted that the law presumes children under age four are incapable of negligence, “for infants above the age of four, there is no bright line rule”, he wrote in the decision.
The judge is clearly an idiot. “Infants above the age of four” are classified as children by all federal agencies.
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October 30th, 2010 | #1
What kind of pathetic lowlife do you have to be to even think of suing a 4-year old? The Menagh’s and this judge represent everything wrong with this country. Earthworms are more intelligent.
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October 30th, 2010 | #2
Parents are typically held responsible for failure to supervise their children. Sue the child and the parents’ insurance comes in to play.
Good news for alcoholics.
Miniature livers ‘grown in lab’
Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells.
The success increases hope that new transplant livers could be manufactured, although experts say that this is still many years away.
Should I buy fava beans and chianti now?
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October 30th, 2010 | #1
Another application for adult stem cells.
For The Fat Guy
Charles Krauthammer - The great campaign of 2010
My prediction: The Dems lose 60 House seats, eight in the Senate. Rangers in seven.
We’ll see.
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October 30th, 2010 | #1
To use the immortal sports cliche, I’m just happy to be here, and have Charles Krauthammer on my side.
Remember Who We Are
A couple of vids by Krista Branch via Atlas Shrugs
I Am America
Much better than that crap by “Lady” GaGa.
Medical Need, Dood
Dallas’ Newy is the City’s Newest Star | NBC Bay Area
San Francisco has a new celebrity: Dallas sports anchor Newy Scruggs, whose comment about people smoking weed outside AT&T Park before Game 1 of the World Series became a viral video on the Internet.Scruggs noticed the smell of marijuana Wednesday during a live shot that aired in Dallas. He declared, “Right over there, there’s people smoking weed.” He said it in a good natured way, but he was clearly a little put off by the outdoor scent.
In his next report he added, “And the police aren’t doing anything.”
Of course not. Pot is, for all intents and purposes, legal in SF.
Newy isn’t the only one commenting pot and Giants fans. Slugger Josh Hamilton, who battles addictions, told the New York Post, “I could smell weed in the outfield. It was crazy. I was looking at the cops a couple of times during the game.”
Yeah, let’s put umpty-ump gazillion people in jail and corrupt our entire justice system just because you can’t control yourself. Asshole.
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October 29th, 2010 | #1
Dude, get of the Hambone. All he meant was that pot smoking is not something that would happen in any other stadium in America. Jeez. Believe me, that man wasn’t judging anyone at all. He’s a very humble(d) guy.
During the game the other night, we discussed this in our ghey little Ranger chat. My question was whether a man would be tarred and feathered for lighting up a Marlboro in the stands next to the guy with a doob. I reckoned I’d get run long before the pothead.
BTW, congratufuckinglations on exposing and exploiting every single possible chink in the armor of my beloved Rangers. This is killing a significant part of my soul. Yall sure have some goooooood pitchin’.
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
Nah. It’s just that we finally got rid of the Curse of Candlestick.
Steyn Counts Down
Essential pre-election reading, from Master Steyn:
It Starts With the Money
Stimulating Government
The Republic of Paperwork
The Decrepitude of Liberty
As usual, he’s right to the point, with wit and flair. Start your weekend off right with these.
File Under: Expensive Futile Gestures
Great. Obama is coming to C’ville, subjecting the city to snarled traffic, street closings and rumors of such.
The whole downtown area is a madhouse, as every hippy freak around comes out of the woodwork.
The Moron-In-Chief is flying into C’ville on Air Force One from DC, a three hour drive. It would be a short hop in Marine One, but Obama has to bring the big ride, shutting down 8 miles of the only north/south highway into town in both directions. Twice. No time given except “between 6 and 9.”
All this to stump for Tom Perriello, who I expect will be soundly whipped on Tuesday. Even though ole Tom “doesn’t always agree with the President.”
The Jefferson Area Tea Party and the Repubs are in full mockery mode and milking it for all it’s worth, to the point that the Perriello camp had to come out and say that they would pick up the tab for the city’s expenses.
Welcome to C’ville, Mr. President. Do us a favor and take Tom with you, ok?
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October 29th, 2010 | #1
Front page WaPo puff piece on Perriello here. Concluding:
“Win or lose, I hope people will see in the way that we outperformed expectations that there are more important things than winning elections,” Perriello said.
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
“…there are more important things than winning elections,” Perriello said.
True enough - though running a fairly woeful second-place finish is not to be considered one of them.
Nor is “not always agreeing with” The Won Who Would Be Emperor of particular significance, either…
Equal Protection Is Only For People of Color
The Justice Department has tried to hide the involvement of high-level political officials in the dismissal of a controversial voter-intimidation lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, a federal commission concluded in a draft report.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said the department’s reversal in the case, which drew criticism from conservatives, indicates that its Civil Rights Division is failing to protect white voters and is “at war with its core mission of guaranteeing equal protection of the laws for all Americans.'’
The Obama “Justice” Department is nothing more than a vehicle for institutionalized racism. Of course, that can be said for much of the entire Obama administration, including its nominees to the Supreme Court like “wise Latina” Sotomayor.
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October 29th, 2010 | #1
All voters are, of course equal - but some are more (or less) equal than others…
Or so it would seem, in The Hopey-Changey Obamanation.
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
If they are prevented from voting, then they are not voters. And non-voters have no particular protection under election laws. What’s so hard to understand about that?
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October 29th, 2010 | #3
Nice Catch - is that one Number 26, or maybe Number 27? I sort-of lost count…
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October 29th, 2010 | #4
The thought that blacks cannot get ahead unless they are allowed to cheat would do a white supremacist proud.
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October 29th, 2010 | #5
I’ve used that line of reasoning on several people, usually black, who were agitating for some special privilege or handout. Let’s just say it’s a good thing I’m big and strong and good in a fight; apparently this is one of those things that may not be questioned.
For that matter, I’ve asked some women in the engineering and tech world why they don’t feel ashamed of themselves because as a whole they cannot get ahead in the tech fields without quotas and special consideration. This caused, shall we say, hard feelings. But to be honest I was trying to cause hard feelings.
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October 30th, 2010 | #6
I cannot imagine that anyone would ever try to accuse you of being either racist or sexist, SteveF - you’re clearly an Equal-Opportunity aggravator, with uniform malice for all who seek or indulge in racial or gender favoritism.
Nothing wrong with that…
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October 30th, 2010 | #7
you’re clearly an Equal-Opportunity aggravator, with uniform malice for all who seek or indulge in racial or gender favoritism.
Nothing wrong with that…
Tell that to the Greaseman. Full disclosure, I listened to his program all the time when he was on the APE(WAPE)
Nobodies Now Former Nobodies
DOUBLING DOWN: Political-Class Republicans who backed Obama say they may vote for him again. “The Hill contacted 17 prominent Republicans and members of ‘Republicans for Obama’ groups that launched across the country two years ago. Most of them defended the president and indicated they might vote for him again in two years.”
What struck me most about this list of “prominent” Republicans (most of whom nobody has ever heard of) is how many of their names and positions were preceded by the word “former.” Apparently almost all of them lost their jobs.
Glenn Reynolds askes: “How’s that hopey-changey stuff working for you guys?”
Did I mention that almost all of them are now “formers?”
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October 29th, 2010 | #1
Some so-called “Obamacans” did not want to discuss their views on Obama. More than two-dozen Republicans who attracted media attention in 2008 for their support of Obama declined to comment on the issue.
One of them was former Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.), who served in the upper chamber as a Republican and is now running for governor as an Independent.
“It had to be done, and it’s tough to do,” said former Rep. Harris Fawell (R-Ill.) of the stimulus…
Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) echoed Fawell.
“We had to do something,” Pressler said…
On healthcare reform, Robert A.G. Monks, Maine’s former GOP chairman, said Republicans and Democrats have been trying to pass legislation for decades…
“[Obama] was preferable to John McCain, who is impulsive and not open to serious deliberation, which is a real problem for a president,” said former Rep. Mickey Edwards (R-Okla.).
(emphases added)
There does seem to be a bit of a common thread, there…how extraordinary. Who could possibly have imagined that might happen?…
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
To be fair, some of those former Republican officeholders retired voluntarily after a few decades in office. They wanted to end their “public service” and all those campaign and gift reporting regulations while still at a young enough age to cash in on insanely high paid consultant positions before their real retirement. They got to visit old friends and remain close to and influence power for a time as a kind of halfway house to their golden years of wealthy anonymity, after the statutes of limitation ran out.
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October 30th, 2010 | #3
So…what you’re saying is, since some of them had already decided to slither off into
living off the pork-barrel fat of the landtheir “reclining” years, they fired off a farewell blast of what they really thought - versus the stuff they’d been claiming to believe in for years, just so they could get re-elected and keep on stashin’ away the lucre…Got it…
Lumbering Dumbass Blast From the Past
Kerry voices frustration with US political scene - Boston.com
BOSTON—Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry unleashed a broadside Thursday against Republican “obstructionism,” saying the GOP and its talk-show allies have created a “period of know-nothingism” in the country.
Keep it up, you moronic (worse grades than Bush) walking tombstone of the leftist Ruling Class. Nothing like telling the folks whose votes and support you need to keep your position as a self-anointed “elite” that they are “know-nothings.”
The real know-nothing, of course, is you - as ignorant of history as you are of any other useful knowledge. The “Know-Nothings” were one of the two great anti-government movements that swept the US in the years leading up to the Civil War. Wikipedia notes:
The Know-Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by the pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization, though its efforts met with little success. Membership was limited to Protestant males of British lineage over the age of twenty-one. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class and entirely Protestant membership fragmented over the issue of slavery.
The Know-Nothings lost out to the Republicans in the struggle to replace the moribund Whigs over the bad decisions they made regarding slavery - the GOP of the time was united in opposition for the most part, while the Know Nothings took a more accommodationist approach to the issue - which eventually destroyed them.
But Kerry, of course, lumbering dumbass that he is, knows nothing of this, and so, in making his obviously unknowing reference to a movement that played a huge role in destroying one of the two major parties of its time, blithely tosses off what he thinks is a smear, and instead, issues a poignant indictment of his own party - and his own ignorance.
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October 29th, 2010 | #1
And the “Know Nothing” refers to what adherents were supposed to say when asked if they were members of the movement.
Kinda like Fight Club.
It had nothing to do with the blithering ignorance that Kerry seeks to impute to the Tea Party even as he provides a perfect illustration of it himself.
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
But a Frenchman cannot be expected to know zee petit details like zee ones you haf mentioned.
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October 29th, 2010 | #3
Knowledge of actual American history is for the little people.
A Billion Ain’t What It Used To Be
End the War on Pot - NYTimes.com
In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education. A Harvard economist, Jeffrey A. Miron, calculates that marijuana could generate $8.7 billion in tax revenue each year if legalized nationally, while legalization would also save the same sum annually in enforcement costs.
That’s a $17 billion swing in the nation’s finances — enough to send every 3- and 4-year-old in a poor family to a high-quality preschool.
Or…about one percent of the current deficit that Barry Hussein and the Marxists are running each year.
Don’t legalize pot because of the financial considerations. Legalize it because it is the right, sane, rational thing to do.
Then go ahead and end the rest of the War on Some Drugs.
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October 29th, 2010 | #1
Legalize it because it is the right, sane, rational thing to do.
Government can’t control law-abiding citizens nearly as effectively as it can control “criminals”. Decriminalizing pot is right, sane, and rational for those who want to be left alone, and who want to leave others making inoffensive lifestyle choices alone. It is wrong, insane, and foolish if your goal is to atomize the citizenry and reduce all of us to abject dependency and servitude.
Whenever I get stuck trying to understand an apparently incomprehensible and tyrannical sector of our government, I just ask “cui bono?” The scales usually fall from my eyes on that instant.
Who benefits from the War on (Drugs|Poverty|Fat|Hunger|Terror|CO2)?
N.B. I’m considering the “War on Terror” as separate from the actual wars on the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood that we are mostly failing to fight to win. A war on a concept, condition, or tactic is a priori doomed to fail, unlike wars on an enemy who can be crushed or forced to sue for terms.
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
Marijuana can’t be legalized without endangering the rest of the war on some drugs. Cocaine and heroin are potent, compact, and easy to hide. Marijuana is just dried leaf, a crop, not a processed chemical. It’s bulky, smelly, and difficult to hide and transport.
Whenever you hear of a large cache of seized drugs, it’s marijuana. The tonnage cited, and the inflated “street” value, make the war on some drugs look like a much bigger success than it is. In fact, take away the MJ tonnage, and the war is going badly. People might think we’re spending too many billions for such a puny result.
Besides, marijuana is a “gateway” drug. Once legalized and taxed, it may become so benign that people will think of doing the same with other drugs, killing off the cartels’ business plan and destroying any reason for the DEA to continue to exist. We can’t have THAT, can we? It’s a bit of irony that the DEA and drug cartels have common cause: they both have an interest in opposing legalization efforts.
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October 29th, 2010 | #3
Lorenzo, I’d not only like to see the DEA shut down, I’d like to see the FDA’s pharmacy/prescription racket vastly reduced. We live in the Information Age, it’s only too easy for people to find out exactly what most drugs, medications, and herbs (not always much of a distinction) will do. In a medically and pharmaceutically deregulated world, anyone who needed the opinion of a doctor or pharmacist on the probable effect of a substance or combination thereof would be able to get that opinion online, within minutes, for a very reasonable cash price. Heck, get three opinions. The antidote to malpractice is sunshine and multiple opinions, not litigation.
The Federal Government does not have the authority to tell us what we may or may not put in our bodies. I repeat: The Federal Government does not have the authority to tell us what we may or may not put in our bodies. Only the modern grotesque perversions of the Commerce and General Welfare clauses under which we currently suffer could possibly be warped into providing for this power. IANAL, but I don’t see how any of the drug laws save those affecting interstate trade in them can possibly be constitutional. Not that constitutionality matters a hill of beans to our Ruling Class…
Before you ask, yes, if you decriminalize and deregulate “substances”, it’s slightly possible that someone will manage to harm or kill themselves with same who otherwise might not have done so. However, I maintain that those who want drugs get them, one way or another, even if they have to sniff glue to get their high. I don’t think overall addiction rates to all substances would not substantially change under a more libertarian drug policy. If anything, those prone to addiction would just switch from patented, expensive substances to cheaper, natural ones. This would annoy Big Pharma. Don’t miss how the War on Drugs protects that cartel.
It is not the responsibility of our government to protect us from our own stupidity, and its attempts to do so are a huge part of the loss of liberty and massive overspending we’re currently enduring. Socializing stupidity just subsidizes it and grows more of it. It’s a principal component of our decline as a nation.
Your Daily Dose of Doom 10/28/2010
Guest Post: The Tipping Point has Arrived | zero hedge
“The Fed, in effect, is telling the markets not to worry about our fiscal deficits, it will be the buyer of first and perhaps last resort. There is no need – as with Charles Ponzi – to find an increasing amount of future gullibles, they will just write the check themselves. I ask you: Has there ever been a Ponzi scheme so brazen? There has not.”
Ok, so what is Bill Gross up to you ask? I will give you my two cents. This guy is not as fabulously wealthy as he is for being a dope (although this cannot be said for a lot of people in this industry that are merely financial engineers that would become extinct overnight without 0% interest rates but that’s another story). Bill Gross sees the writing on the wall. He see the winds of change and is hedging his bets. He is throwing out a carrot to those that criticize the completely corrupt and ponzi scheme economy and financial system we have today which benefits only those that speculate on the taxpayers dime.
So why should some guy named Bill Gross calling the current financial bailout scam a Ponzi scheme make any impression on you? After all, haven’t those racist gun-clinging nutcases on the extreme right been saying things like this for years?
Well, maybe because Bill Gross is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a racist, gun-clinging nutcase on the extreme right.
No, instead, he is #488 on the Forbes list of the World’s Wealthiest Men. He started off by parlaying $200 playing blackjack in Las Vegas (hi, nemo!) into ten grand, which he has since expanded to a personal fortune of two billion dollars. Oh, and he runs the largest mutual fund in the history of the universe, PIMCO Total Return, a mom-n-pop operation with assets of only 220 billion dollars under management.
If he is publicly calling the financial catastrophe currently being perpetrated by the Obama administration - with rather more help from the GOP than I would like to see - the most brazen Ponzi scheme ever - then perhaps you should pay attention.
Read the whole thing. It is slightly more important than even the World Series, or Snookie the Ho at play on the Jersey Shore.
Really.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
He’s more like the tofu eating, meditating, leftist 800 pound gorilla of the bond market.
If Obama has lost Bill Gross, he’s lost everybody.
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October 30th, 2010 | #2
Bill Gross always talks his book. He’s a trader first and an ideologue second. He has an angle, but I don’t really think he sees the winds of change of the magnitude we are talking about. He lives in the same bubble they all do. So he’s not hedging a revoultion. He’s playing a short term trader’s edge.
Hedging my comment: El-Erian is an extremely sharp analyst and my impression less of an ideologue than Gross. If he’s taking El-Erian’s counsel, perhaps he is stepping out of the echo chamber. Still, El-Erian is a trader at heart and a good one.
I’m debating myself here, but I think Bill Gross is seeing a trade here and not necessarily the trend.
When pollsters call do you?
A. Hang up
B. Cooperate and answer questions truthfully
C. Pretend to cooperate and give them wrong, and sometimes strange, answers.
Personally, if they catch me when I’m bored, I do C. I’m curious as to what percentage I might be in. A bit of data that could adversely effect polls results.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
D. Yammer at them in a foreign language.
E. Try to seduce them.“I don’t really care about pro-life or pro-choice but I have to tell you, you have the sexiest voice I’ve ever heard. You just keep asking your questions, Sweet Thing, but you might not get much of an answer from me. What are you wearing?” Doesn’t matter if they’re male or female, this usually drives off unsolicited callers.
Alas, this is mostly in the past. My wife signed us up for the do-not-call list ages ago. More importantly, our home phone is VOIP so we get hardly any calls of this sort.
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
Ditto to what SteveF said.
“What are you wearing?” will usually get you a dialtone even faster than slamming the phone down would have.
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
I don’t answer if I don’t recognize the number. How skewed are polls towards those who aren’t smart enough to look at caller id before they pick up?
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October 28th, 2010 | #4
I’m all about C. Disinformation is a great tool. Especially when the disinformation doubles back. I love faking the opposition. Two weeks ago here in VA5, I convinced a Perriello(D) supporter to put up a Hurt(R) sign in his yard because, “it was part of the Perriello campaign’s disinformation program to use the ‘Hurt US Congress’ signs as a subliminal cry for help from the government that takes care of you.”
As of 2 days ago, the sign was still there.
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October 29th, 2010 | #5
This is why robopolls are more accurate: it’s far less fun to lie outrageously to a machine.
Clintoon endorses Rubio.
Not exactly, but for anyone with brains, BJ wanting Meeks to drop out and endorse Crist, should tell you who the real socialist candidate is.
A Crist campaign spokesman, Danny Kanner, issued the following statement about the report.
“While this story is accurate, the Governor’s focus is on uniting common-sense Democrats, independents, and Republicans behind his campaign because he is the one candidate who can defeat Tea Party extremist Marco Rubio and deliver bipartisan results for Florida in Washington,” the statement said.
I guess to a RINO (well former) an actual conservative would be “extremist”, but I’m pretty sure “common-sense Democrats” is an oxymoron.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
Thinking Obama’s policies are extreme does not make you an extremist. In fact, it would be hard to say that all those who oppose Obama’s policies are all on the right side of the spectrum. I don’t quite see where the word extremist is even marginally accurate. Projection, clearly.
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
wch, you’re right that “extremist” is incorrectly used here. The proper word for someone who opposes Obama or his policies is “racist”.
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
Currently, “common-sense Democrats” is an impossibility - ain’t no sech animule…
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October 29th, 2010 | #4
But SteveF, as we know, the Tea Party is a bunch of racist Hitlerites (just ask Meathead Reiner or any other similarly intelligent Hollywood philosopher), and yet … a Google, “Stop the Tea Party Takeover / Stop the Extremists”, ad just came up on the DP sidebar, which would suggest that “extremist” is correctly coming to mean “not Marxist”. In this light, don’t you think that all Tea Partiers are actually extremists?
Not a single one of the bastards, except for infiltrators, ever thinks a respectful thought of Stalin, Mao, or even the sadly ill Kim!
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October 29th, 2010 | #5
The problem that Charlie(special emphasis on the last three letters in his name) is that he pretty much outed himself after he lost the primary. Since then he has changed his tune on every issue, depending on who he was talking to. It’ll be a rare pleasure to get a three-fer in the voting booth next week; voting against that bag of pus - and by extention the Clinton/obumble thugokcracy, and voting FOR Rubio.
Charlie Sheen, Dementia and Me
A headline in today’s Times reads: “How To Resist the Coming Wave of Fatal Dementia.” What? Fatal? You mean it’s going to get worse?
After telling myself for months now that the bedbug insanity we have been subjected to these past several months, or years, is actually nothing new; that people are always upset and acting crazy and saying and doing the most remarkable things; I have come to grudgingly accept that we really have moved past any recent maximum high water marks where barking lunacy is concerned, and that (you must have known this was coming) we just have to do something about it.
In fact, the cited article — an Op-Ed piece, actually, was written by Sandra Day O’Connor and two other luminaries about the danger of Alzheimer’s disease. But we know a clarion call when we see one.
And I know what the real problem is. It’s Charlie Sheen.
Sheen, you may know, recently careened around Manhattan on one of his periodic coke/booze/hooker-fueled sprees, ending up shredding his hotel room, getting arrested, and winding up yet again in the tabloid headlines and on every farking TV channel currently broadcasting in every language but Farsi. Nothing new there, but what arrested my attention was a brief segment on this morning’s news featuring a ranting harridan literally shrieking, eyes bulging, face red as Lenin’s heart, essentially demanding Sheen’s public flaying for his “crimes against women.”
Now, too be fair, she does have a point there. Sheen’s violence does seem to concentrate disproportionately on women, and certainly this kind of thing should be emphatically discouraged. But we begin to see a pattern here.
We aren’t allowed to be angry at the things we really want to be angry at.
Politicians and pundits lament the anger of voters, blaming it on childish selfishness, short attention spans, and a lamentable failure to appreciate all the honest sacrifice and hard work of our poorly-paid public servants, not all of whom have tax-free condos in the Dominican.
Earnest advocates of all stripes denounce fear of terrorism as a racist reaction to a peace-loving people, and insist that we forgive and forget, and forgive and forget, and forgive and forget….
Teachers’ unions insist that our schools are failing because we aren’t spending enough money, or don’t have the right programs, or are too crowded, or (fill in your own).
And when city, state and federal governments cut services to their citizens to the bone, raise taxes higher still, crying poor after the longest sustained boom in memory — what the hell did you do with all the money we already paid you, you thieving, incompetent, whoops, there I go, getting angry.
Which explains why Charlie Sheen is on everyone’s lips, spread across the media like cream cheese on a bagel: it’s okay to hate Charlie.
Or Mel Gibson. Or Elliott Spitzer. Or Tiger Woods. Or, before Charlie re-emerged as Public Enemy Number One, poor Brett Favre — as if he doesn’t already have enough trouble. (And do we really know that is his tallywhacker? How?)
They’re rich, successful, and they not only misbehaved — their sins involved, in some way or another, an aggrieved spouse. Cherchez la femme, boys — think about it.
You have, or had, it all. You have no one’s sympathy. Your failures implied a kind of hubris, always a favorite target of the gods. You are fair game. It’s okay to hate you. And the media know it. That’s why, when you screw up, they are on you with an enthusiasm and persistence that must amaze you. The media know what sells, and when the voters are angry, well — give them someone they chew on like beef jerky.
It is no coincidence that, during the height of the recent financial panic, the hottest name in the media was not Tim Geithner, but Tiger Woods. And it might explain the otherwise inscrutable logic behind the vendetta of a low-rent rag against a billionaire (yes, Tony, that’s you I’m talking to).
Sorry, Charlie — you may ask yourself why, in the midst of all the misery and misfortune that beset us, we should give a hoot about yet another Sheen spree, but the fact is, we need you. When we feel bad, we just naturally want too make someone else feel worse. And for now, you’re it. Dementia can’t be argued with.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
This is one of the best you’ve done yet.
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
I heartily agree - encore, encore!
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
Owed you a couple.
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October 29th, 2010 | #4
Charlie’s sprees and violence toward women have resolved one age-old question — which one is the half-man on that TV show. Yep, Charlie’s it.
Hacks on WaPoo Parade
Tea party antics could end up burning Republicans
The tea party’s volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans’ chances in some of the closest races in the nation, in which little-known candidates who upset the establishment with primary wins are now stumbling in the campaign’s final days.
The gang of hacks at the WaPoo are pulling out all the stops to gin up fantasies that sound congenial to themselves and their leftist hopes and dreams, spouting anything they can to console themselves that the disaster their leftist project is facing in a few days isn’t - or won’t be - as catastrophic as every realistic sign indicates.
You have to admire their collective (and collectivist) impermeability to any data from the real world, though. In their alternate universe, Barry Hussein and the Marxists are still beloved of all, and the tsunami bearing down on them is merely the work of a small minority of angry, racist white men, and besides, it will do more damage to the opponents of Marxism than to the Marxists themselves.
Ho, ho, ho, pathetic bitchez. Weep, wail, and fantasize all you want, but Tuesday is still coming, and it’s going to be even worse than your most vivid nightmares.
UPDATE: What these pathetic hacks don’t understand - or are, more likely, deliberately ignoring - is that absent the Tea Party, most of these races wouldn’t be close at all. The Dems - aided by their media tools - would be winning in an easy stroll.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
I wonder how many Democratic seats Obama has “created or saved”?
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
…Tuesday is still coming, and it’s going to be even worse than your most vivid nightmares.
Countdown To Event Horizon: Official count is at five (5) days, and count continues - all systems alert, despite some interim glitches, overall, Event progress is proceeding nominally as expected. Next update expected in approximately twenty-four (24) hours…
(On a personal note: I did the Early Voting deal yesterday - Wednesday, middle of the afternoon on a workday, cloudy/rainy/windy/warm and muggy when the wind died - previously, when I’ve voted this way and at the same location [County office center, kind of remote, behind a car agency and a hotel/motel], I’ve been in and out in ten - fifteen minutes tops. Not this time - forty minutes, and the line was moving pretty fast! I was outside for over half of the time - and I had a lot of company! Electioneering in the parking lot adjacent was heavy, too. One of the poll workers told me that they’d opened a third Early Vote center this time, where usually two of them are more than enough - same worker told me that I was fortunate to have come during one of the more-slack times (!); that it’s been very busy every day, all day, since Early Vote began on the 14th. Obviously, very large turnout, across the board.)
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
The other thing these idiots don’t get is, the Tea Party is not the GOP. I saw a political cartoon just now, a spoof on Jurassic Park, where “Tea Rex” comes running out of the lab to devour a Dem donkey. And in the lab is a GOP elephant in a white lab coat, watching his creation. “Cool!” Except, in real life, Tea Rex hatched out spontaneously and ate the elephant first.
There have been a couple of discussions at Crooked Timber lately about the new direction of the GOP. These discussions are entirely focused on what might be called structural changes, e.g. candidates getting more money directly from supporters in small donations, instead of by way of the RNC or whatever. Most progressives can’t imagine that these changes are driven by individuals bypassing the party establishment. To them, the Tea Party is just the latest GOP campaign innovation, driven from the top down. They expect it to fizzle as its usefulness to the GOP wanes. Some of the brighter ones can see that the Tea Party is an outsider, grassroots movement, but even they expect it to be co-opted shortly by the old-line GOP. None of these idiots can comprehend Tea Party ideology, its total incompatibility with established GOP practices, or the ongoing realignment of American politics.
Sure, in a few races, the Tea Party is hurting the GOP. This isn’t a GOP “miscalculation”. It’s the whole fucking POINT, people!
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October 28th, 2010 | #4
mm, they’re still not getting it, obviously - they paid no heed whatsoever to the comment by one of the Tea Party organizers when he was interviewed vis a vis his group’s further involvement with the RNC “establishment”. He said, more or less: “We didn’t come here (to an RNC meeting) to take instructions or take lessons - we came to take over.”
Either the Greasy Old Party will transmogrify into the direction the Tea Party philosophy is, in general, headed - or they will become the Inevitable Shrinking Elephant - simple as that.
Similar to the RNC, the Democraps don’t understand what is really going on - they watch the Tea Party events, but they don’t really see; they hear something, but they don’t really listen to the message.
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October 28th, 2010 | #5
Either the Greasy Old Party will transmogrify into the direction the Tea Party philosophy is, in general, headed - or they will become the Inevitable Shrinking Elephant - simple as that.
I’m less optimistic than you. I worry that GOP backsliding won’t result in a third party, but will instead lead to despair amongst the Tea Partiers and a general withdrawal from politics.
Of course, I haven’t been active at any Tea Party events, so I could be underestimating the energy of the crowd.
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October 28th, 2010 | #6
Once upon a time there was a newspaper that published something called the Pentagon Papers. Now there’s wikileaks. Sucks to be irrelevant, doesn’t it?
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October 28th, 2010 | #7
I wonder how many Democratic seats Obama has “created or saved”?
Just as many as he has jobs, Billy.
Gag
Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on ‘The Daily Show’
I dunno. How do you “debate” when your mouth is too stuffed with Obamaramadingdong to actually, you know, say anything?”
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
I never would have imagined Stewart’s tongue was that long - they were seated roughly three feet apart, and Li’l Obambam still got the most extensive face-washing and nut-laving he’s undoubtedly had since his mommy had him in the bassinet as an infant. Stewart must have had terrible cotton-mouth at the end of the show - in 22 minutes, he expended about a two years’ supply of saliva.
That wasn’t debate, it was abject worship.
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October 29th, 2010 | #2
It was like that old SNL skit:
“Mr. President, what is it about you that makes you so…SASSY!
Now It’s War
It’s my great hope that some of your listeners find a way to get this letter to you, or that it makes it to “Snerdley” and finds its way into your hands. I don’t think even you understand just how much damage Obama has done to the Democrat Party — to the point where formerly lifelong Democrats like myself, and everyone here at HillBuzz.org, are actively working to expose the party and literally burn it to the ground for the good of the country.
Can’t say I admire their choice of political icon - you’d think the Dems would be as wary of another Great Clinton Wrecker as they should be of the Great Obama Wrecker - but it certainly is interesting to watch this civil war unfold inside the Democrat party. At least I’ll bet Hillary is certainly watching with interest, from her hidden bunker far beyond the borders of the United States, where she waits out the first act in the Destruction of Saint Obama.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
What is ironic about this is that they’re confusing Thunder Rodent Thighs with her husband BJ. BJ was a pragmatist who was willing to tack to the right to stay in power. He was not much of an ideologue. Thunder Rodent Thighs, on the other hand, is every bit the leftist that Obungler is. So the civil war is between rat bastard commies and rat bastard commies.
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
Thunder Rodent Thighs?
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
“…Thunder Rodent Thighs…”
I had to take a minute to wipe down the monitor screen and drain and rinse the keyboard…
(Urgent Memo To Self: No orange juice in mouth while reading DP comments!!)
Now, that’s laugh-out-loud funny, I don’t care who you are!
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October 29th, 2010 | #4
Denny has a certain way with words, doesn’t he? His blog is on my regular read list and I would suggest checking it out.
Pile of Poo
Across the country, anger, frustration and fear among voters as election nears
Travel through the political battlegrounds in these final days before Election 2010, and it becomes clear how much the tenor of this recession-plagued country has changed in the two years since Barack Obama was elected president on his message of hope and change.
Another WaPoo hack heard from. But I get the drift. Back in 2008, when an angry electorate, egged on by lefty ruling class tools like Balz, swept George Bush out of office, after having done likewise to his Congressional majorities two years earlier, that was Hope. That was Change.
Now that an angry electorate is about to sweep Barack Obama’s Congressional majority from office, against the wishes of a fellating tool like Balz, here, why, that is Fear. That is Frustration.
That’s the work of the Enraged Racist White Men.
I wonder if hacks like Balz, here, understand just how transparent they are? Probably not. They’ve never had to face a media whose throw-weight equals their own, but is dedicated to exposing their bullshit for what it is. They’ve been inviolate for so long they’ve come to believe their own pompous, windy “analysis.”
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
They’ve been inviolate for so long they’ve come to believe their own pompous, windy “analysis.”
Well, yes, but also they lack the psychic strength or raw cognitive ability to confront the flaws in their own ideology.
The problem with holding leftism as an ideology is that you can’t just question part of it. It’s all an unholy, connected, illogical mess. So once any part gets questioned, it all falls apart.
Plus, if you wander off the reservation even a few meters, the shrieking harpies descend on you to scare you back inside the borders.
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
“…the shrieking harpies descend on you to scare you back inside the borders.”
Funny you should mention that. I know some normal, rational people who are actually registered Democrats (it’s kind of an heirloom inherited from their parents), and a couple of them complained that if they made any criticism of Obama or Democrats’ programs, they’d be verbally attacked by those shrieking harpies, aka True Believers.
They’ve adopted the tactic of refraining from debate and keeping their own counsel, which, it seems to me, corresponds closely with Tea Party ideas. One even told me he toes the party line publicly even in phone polls, but intends to vote along Tea Party lines. The harpies have forced undergound all differences of opinion in the Democratic Party, even to the point of lying to pollsters.
How big an impact that will be is anybody’s guess, but I think pro-dem observers shouldn’t be so happy about the democratic absentee and early voting numbers. Democratic voters who’ve been browbeaten by the harpies may well take out their frustrations in the voting booth.
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
even to the point of lying to pollsters.
I’ve been lying to pollsters for years. Just for the hell of it.
Bitchez!
While The View caters to the sensibilities of American women, it is women who are expressing outrage and frustration at the “sexist” words of one of the show’s co-hosts.
Joy Behar repeatedly called Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle a “bitch” on the air yesterday, and told her to “go to hell,” for the release of a political advertisement the ladies of The View saw as racially charged.
“You know what I’d like to see her do? I’d like to see her do this ad in the south Bronx. Come here, bitch! Come to New York and do it,” Behar said.
When Sherri Shepherd tried to move on by saying she would pray for Angle, Behar made it clear she was not. “I am not praying for her. I’m telling you right now. She’s going to Hell … She’s going to Hell, this bitch.”
What a joy this bitch is. For both the tsunami of public loathing about to sweep away her fallen idols, and for the few moronic true believers still watching her morning services of Barack Obama and his demonic party on her show every day.
To get religious about it.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
I have something I love to say to people acting like Behar:
“You realize, of course, that the angrier you get, the happier I am.”
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
the ladies of The View
“Ladies”? Not from anything I’ve ever heard.
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
Joy be hard for her.
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October 28th, 2010 | #4
Angel apparently sent Joy a floral thank-you for the $150K her supporters sent her on the back of that rant from the view. AHHH SWEET!!!!
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October 28th, 2010 | #5
It holds true for humans as well - the female of most species is far and away the most vicious.
My late wife liked to watch The View sometimes because she liked Barbara Walters (who, I would grudgingly admit, sometimes exhibits some marginally-redeeming features), so I’ve seen the show a bit in the past. My take on Behar is that she has to be one of the most misnamed humanoids in existence - there is nothing even remotely “Joyful” about her.
I’m going to make a special effort to watch either The View or that parody of “entertainment”, Behar’s own show, soon after next Tuesday, just to enjoy watching her puffing and fuming.
Letter Hedz
Have You Requested A Copy Of Your Unaltered Wet Ink Signature Note Yet? | zero hedge
From a comment:
I requested it via phone and they said no problem..not like they are going to mail me the wet ink doc. I am sending my written request on friday via registered mail with return receipt. Here is the text (taken from another poster on an earlier link):
To whom it may concern:
I own the property at the address listed above, and your bank services my mortgage.
Over the last several weeks there have been many stories documenting the problem that banks are foreclosing on homes without proof that they own the loan. I have learned that in many cases, banks like yours do not even know who owns the loans you service. Employees at several leading banks have admitted to rubber stamping tens of thousands of foreclosures every month, without even checking to make sure that the bank had a legal right to proceed with foreclosure. In some cases, banks allegedly falsified mortgage documents to cover up their mistakes. There have been reports of two banks trying to foreclose on the same home, banks foreclosing on homeowners who were current on their payments, and even of a bank foreclosing on a home where the homeowner had never taken out a mortgage to begin with. This is not merely a “technical problem”–it is the difference between having a warm bed at night and being out on the street.
As a homeowner and a customer of your bank, I am horrified. I had always believed that it I played by the rules, I would be protected, but now I know that banks like yours think the rules don’t apply to them.
To protect myself and my family, I need to know who owns my mortgage. Within thirty days, I would like to know the name, address, and phone number of the bank or investor that owns my mortgage. Furthermore, in light of the recent allegations of foreclosure fraud, I demand to see the original mortgage note proving ownership over my home loan. I would like to see copies of all endorsements and assignments of my mortgage note and where and when the assignment(s), if any, were recorded. I also ask that you provide me with evidence of your firm being contractually retained to service my loan.
If you fail to provide the information I am legally entitled to, I will be forced to consider all options available to me to ensure that my family and my home are protected.
I ask that I receive my response in writing.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
If you happen to send a similar letter to your bank, I’d be interested in knowing the outcome.
I’m considering sending something like this to mine. I’m thinking it might encourage them to consider refinancing my own mortgage to an amount reflecting the actual current value of my deeply underwater home.
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October 28th, 2010 | #1
Letters should also include
Please treat this letter as a “qualified written request” under the Federal Servicer Act, which is a part of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, 12 U.S.C. 2605(e).
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
Thanks, Steve!
War and the internet.
RMELIFR
October 27, 2010 at 7:47 PM | PermalinkOddly enough this is like being in Afghan or Iraq. Many times, we’d find out about current missions from CNN while they were going on. Ahhhh Nothing like Robin Meade with our current SITREP!
Saudi Front man threatens France.
‘Bin Laden’ in warning to France
An audio message said to have been recorded by the al-Qaeda leader says the abduction was retaliation for “France’s injustice to Muslims”.
It says forthcoming French curbs on the full veil are “colonial oppression”.
“Colonial oppression”? Paris is a colony?
The speaker on the recording, broadcast by Qatar-based satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, says the kidnapping was “in retaliation for [France’s] tyranny… against [the] Muslim nation”.
Perhaps France is a colony of the Muslim Nation? Not “people” or “religion”, Nation. What will it take to get it through the thick skulls of the dhimwits that Islam wants to take over? A bullet from a Jihaddi gun? If they’re lucky. More like a large stone when they get punished for not bowing low enough.
France, he says, believes it has “the right to prevent free women from wearing the hijab”.
The hijab is only worn by oppressed or clinically insane women.
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October 27th, 2010 | #1
““Colonial oppression”? Paris is a colony?”
Not exactly; it’s in the process of being colonized. Once they’re done, then the “colonial oppression” will get going in earnest. And it won’t be the hijab they’ll be banning.
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October 28th, 2010 | #2
It is quite amusing that everyone conveniently pretends that Bin Laden is still alive when these communiques come out.
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October 28th, 2010 | #3
Yeah, Nolo, dude makes a lot of noise sometimes for long-gone worm food.
The ones I like are the occasional videos - the impersonator in one I saw a few years back kind of “disremembered” for a bit that bin Laden was left-handed…
Fun!
It must be terrible to realize that you’ve become irrelevant.
Cape Town Opera to go on Israel tour despite Tutu plea
In his letter the archbishop, who retired from public life earlier this month, said it would be wrong for the Cape Town singers to perform “in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity”.
News Flash Desmond. Jews and Arabs are the same race. it’s just that the Arabs are of a religion that wants to kill all Jews.
He said the tour should be postponed “until both Israeli and Palestinian opera lovers of the region have equal opportunity and unfettered access to attend performances”.
“To perform Porgy and Bess, with its universal message of non-discrimination, in the present state of Israel, is unconscionable.”
Porgy and Bess? I think Hamas would try the performers for violating some part of sharia.
Israeli government spokesman Andy David said boycotts were not the way forward and cultural tours were the best way to bring peace in the violent region.
“Cultural relations sending messages of peace and co-operation - that’s the only way to promote peace,” he told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.
Kinda like Eartha Kitt going to South Africa and performing in front of an integrated audience as her main condition for going.
Honestly, I think Tutu may be in the early stages of Carter Syndrome.
Oh, Ho, Ho, Ho…
Robosigned? No Paper? Uh, Not So Fast Jackass… in [Market-Ticker]
In the instant action, Ms. Johnson-Seck claims to be: a Vice President of MERS in the March 16, 2009 MERS to INDYMAC assignment; a Vice President of INDYMAC in the May 14, 2009 INDYMAC to ONEWEST assignment; and, a Vice President of ONEWEST in her June 30, 2009-affidavit of merit. Ms. Johnson-Seck must explain to the Court, in her affidavit: her employment history for the past three years; and, why a conflict of interest does not exist in the instant action with her acting as a Vice President of assignor MERS, a Vice President of assignee/assignor INDYMAC, and a Vice President of assignee/plaintiff ONEWEST. Further, Ms. Johnson-Seck must explain: why she was a Vice President of both assignor MERS and assignee DEUTSCHE BANK in a second case before me, Deutsche Bank v Maraj, 18 Misc 3d 1123 (A) (Sup Ct, Kings County 2008); why she was a Vice President of both assignor MERS and assignee INDYMAC in a third case before me, Indymac Bank, FSB, v Bethley, 22 Misc 3d 1119 (A) (Sup Ct, Kings County 2009); and, why she executed an affidavit of merit as a Vice President of DEUTSCHE BANK in a fourth case before me, Deutsche Bank v Harris (Sup Ct, Kings County, Feb. 5, 2008, Index No. 35549/07).Oh, you mean that our fair Judge would also like Ms. Robosigner to explain who she gets paid by, how she gets paid, and more importantly, how she can overcome what appears to be a clear conflict of interest.
In case you thought this whole mortgage fraud mess would be a legal slam dunk for the banksters.
smiley
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October 27th, 2010 | #1
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive….”Kind of like Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, with Tinker/Evers/Chance a fraud-intent-based case of multiple-personality disorder and a multi-bank V.P., simultaneously.
smiley, indeed…
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October 27th, 2010 | #2
Time to bring on the “quantum superposition” defense.
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October 27th, 2010 | #3
Only if the defense attorney is the reincarnation of Erwin Schrödinger, Alan.
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October 28th, 2010 | #4
I heard they’re going to hire Eric “Otter” Stratton for their defense:
Otter: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.
[winks at Dean Wormer]
Otter: But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!Well, it needs a little work to be germane to the situation, but you get the idea - it’s the Society’s Fault defense.
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October 28th, 2010 | #5
Prediction 1:
Republicans win enough races to overturn the Democrat majorities in both houses. Significantly, many of the winners are Tea Party candidates.
The lame duck current Congress rams through a massive bill to clarify the trail of ownership and ensure that no borrower gets relieved of his responsibility to pay. The bill is passed by voice vote with no Congressmen having had a chance to read it, and is signed by Obama without public ceremony.
Many of the voted-out Congressmen go to work for investment banks in January.Prediction 2:
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is signed by Obama without public ceremony.
One month later a “grieving” nation watches in horror as Joe Biden is sworn in to replace the late Won removed from office by a crazed, fraudulently evicted, former homeowner.
Avert Your Eyes
The Village Voice: Out of Stories, and Running Out of Time | The Daily Cannibal
Imagine turning on 60 Minutes one Sunday to find that Morley Safer, Katie Couric and Andy Rooney had been fired, Mike Wallace and Leslie Stahl had quit, and they had all been replaced by no-name hacks from the backwaters of broadcasting? That’s pretty much what happened to another iconic name in journalism, the Village Voice, when its new owners – a pair of pitchmen-turned-publishers from Phoenix named Larkin and Lacey – bought the Voice, folded it into their New Times Media supermarket tabloid giveaway chain, and turned it overnight from America’s leading name in alternative media into a freebie dishrag with cheap sensationalism masquerading as journalism.
I didn’t realize that the Voice, a mainstay of my radical youth, had been so degraded by the hicks who hijacked it.
It’s pretty sad. I think it would have been better to just let it sink, but all the great ones try for one last ring.
They always fail. Follow the link to learn just how awful that fail actually was.
Glitch?
Maybe. But would they tell us if it wasn’t?
Computer glitch halts communication with US missiles
And the bad news.
On Tuesday, air force experts examining maintenance records found similar incidents had occurred at other bases more than 10 years ago, US media reported.
Nice reliable equipment. And why haven’t they fixed the problem by now?
White candidate physically assaults African-American opponent.
Well that is what the headline would be if the party affiliations were reversed.
Today is Alaska Day.
So I will take this opportunity to comment again on the Alaska Senate Race. Miller continues to raise a lot of money. But the Left wing news media continues to highlight his every possible misstep and focus attention on any possible shortcomings. The race remains way too close.
Interesting note a Saudi Prince was found guilty of murder and may get life in prison. Of course if he was sent home instead he could face the death penalty for…..being a homosexual. Ah the Religion of Peas is such a wonderous thing.
He probably WILL get sent home, and get off (if you’ll pardon the expression) scot free. He’s a royal, and it’s perfectly acceptable in SA to cornhole and beat to death the hired help.
Just a little back page drama going on as China continues its consolidation of the resources needed to control high tech equipment construction. It will be interesting to watch the U.S. response.
While waiting for some program on the tube to begin, this commercial ran.
What made my blood run cold was hearing, “I’ll reach across the aisle”. (0:17)
Sigh. I know. And Meg Whitman is Arnie in a dress.
Still, they’re probably the best we’re going to be able to do in California, given that the Dems with their gerrymandering and open door illegal alien policy have pretty much managed to permanently ruin the state for any sort of sane populace - many of whom have already bailed, and others will be doing so shortly.
Fiorina’s primary value is that she won’t be voting for a Democrat as Majority Leader. But yeah, she’ll be a member of the Gang of McDick, subverting conservative goals and values every chance she gets.
Alaska Senate Race: Some bad news, some good news for Miller in latest CNN poll. Unlike Rassmussen poll they mention Murkowski by name. So poll is in question. But results basically the same as earlier Rassmussent poll showing them essentially tied. More informaton on voters knowledge of how to vote tilts the balance toward Miller.
More on Alaska Race: Greta on Fox last night, predicted a Murkowski win. Personally, it is too uncomfortably close to predict. Miller has made several missteps and errors. But there is 11 days left–anything can happen.
Maybe not exactly. Arnold had the Hollywood disease - he wanted everybody to like him. I’ve seen pictures of Meg not smiling, very much like that picture of Hillary that was posted earlier, and there’s something hard and implacable about those eyes. I suspect she has a bigger dick than Arnold.
Steroids will do that.
Codevillea and Welch on John Stossel.
Which one is using steroids?
Maybe both?…
Only Arnie’s just on a maintenance dosage - while she’s been slammin’ ‘em big-time?
I’m sure most of you heard the story about True the Vote, a volunteer group in Harris County, Texas who decided they would try and monitor the voter registration process and look for signs of fraud. Of which they found plenty. For their troubles they were harassed by election officials and sued by local
CommunistDemocratic Party groups.If you want to help, True the Vote is a 501c(3) group, and they do accept online donations.
link
Request For Information
I was just wondering if anyone here at DP had tried the WalMart Straight Talk Cell Phone Plans.
Unlimited minutes, messages and web access for $45/month sounds like a pretty good deal.
I know you have to buy the phone, but it looks like they also have a variety at decent prices.
I would appreciate any comments from anyone who knows anything about this.
Thanks.
DCP
We have used them for several years. They are not perfect, but if you use your cell phone as a phone and not as a data port they are good.
The two high end models (well, high end for Straight Talk), can be used as data phones - and while being a little slow, usually work OK. I have read dailypundit on mine now and then, as well as used it for traffic updates and weather when traveling.
Over at “Watts up with that” he discusses Scientific American is taking another look at glowbull warming thing-a-ma-jig.
A rich, meathead, slaver, Rob Reiner, compares people who want liberty to Hitler.
dan,
Thanks for the info.
Have you seen the new Nokias? They are reported to be true PDa’s and only came available in the last few days. The E71 & the 6790, each $200.00.
I think I am going to get a $30 card and try one of the flip phones. The store guy said that I can get a number from him for the trial and then port my existing number over to one of their phones later if I want to.
DCP
The higher the phone the better the quality on operation. However, even the Blackberry knock off does not work well in the big box stores and office buildings.
Still, they are much better as a value than the others. If you want a data system, I would say the Apple phone, though I do not have one….or one of the newer androids.
Weirdly enough, even though I pay for 3G, in most nabes in SF, the ATT 3G sucks so hard I have to switch over to standard in order to get connections and decent DL speeds.
Of course, I think even the homeless in SF have iPhones….
The funniest political ad of the season from David Zucker, director of “Airplane”. It plays on Barbara Boxer’s infamous, “Call me senator” moment.
Thanks for a start-off “funny” for the day, ykw.
Pretentious empty-headed dolts like Boxer are fat, easy targets for parody. In this instance, she’s reminiscent of the kind of bumbler that, having somehow achieved a PhD, repeatedly insists that they must be addressed by all and sundry as “Doctor” on every occasion. A maroon, indeed.
Yah, that was a funny vid. Thanks, YKW.
My favorite “title-ists” are lawyers who insist on a) being addressed as “Attorney So-and-so” in order to command appropriate respect, and b) assert that their JD/LLD puts them on a par with doctors. Real doctors, I mean, not Doctor of Education “doctors”. Having done the law school thing, I assure you that a law degree is more like a reading-and-writing intensive Master’s degree, maybe a MA in English Lit. It doesn’t even stand in the same county as a PhD in engineering. (I started one of those but came to my senses before getting too far in. Chunk of money, *gobs* of time, and what was I going to do with the degree?)
Okay. From now on, I’m “Captain” nemo. And not some two-bit Army captain, either. A Navy captain. That’s just one notch below Rear Admiral. We’re talking one promotion away from flag rank here. And don’t forget to salute. Or I’ll fire my next 21 gun salute right up your ass.
Aye, Cap’n. But was this the result of a promotion, or was it self-promotion? We scurvy-dog deckhands want to know.
Must be kind of tough, these days, finding parking space in The Big City for the Nautilus, yes?…
It’s downright sexist that men can find out if they’re really the daddy.
H/T Stuttaford at NRO.
FIFH. She’s just mad that she can’t get money from the rich guy she was married to (and rarely slept with) but now has to run around trying to collect from the pool guy she had an affair with.
I received a letter from the North Carolina Democratic Party informing me about all the scary things the Republicans plan on doing and letting me know for whom I should vote. Think I should send them a note back thanking them for letting me know whom *not* to vote?
On the Alaska Senate Race: Miller slips to third, but is within the margin of error. Palin returns to the state to help Miller. The GOP changes the ads to avoid a McAdams win as the ex-Sitka Mayor jumps into second place.
Haverwilde’s unscientific view, based on reading the mood of the electorate here, by an emotional seat of the pants type of logic (is that enough qualifiers if not I can add more):
The undecided voters sappear to be breaking for Miller.
Makes you wonder what Murky was promised in exchange for splitting the GOP vote and handing an Alaska Senate seat to the Democrats for 6 years.
Martinra, I doubt that was in the calculations at all. It is hard to imagine a worse campaign than the one Miller has had to run. I don’t think even Murkowski would have predicted how far down Miller has slipped. This is all about Lisa. If McAdams wins it will be a strange turn of events, as many of the State Democrats are supporting Murkowski.
Do you think that Lisa M. will still caucus with the GOP if she wins?
Yes, that has been made clear. She is running as a write-in republican. She is already part of the Senate GOP leadership group. She would never give that up, willingly?
Another new poll out. Putting Miller in second place again. Dueling polls, is such fun. Hopefully we will know the outcome of this race before Christmas.
The examples of Jeffords, Chafee, and Specter are still seared across my conciousness. You never know what the fallout might be in intra-party scrimmages, or what might happen if the Senate lands 50-50 or 51-49.
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You mean it is seared – seared! – in your memory.
Okay I am going to be quite cynical, if the senate is evenly split or very close to it, and if Murkowski is elected, it will be the biggest financial windfall for Alaska since Ted Stevens. [She is a smart politician, and her priorities are very Alaskan. She learned what NOT to do from her father, and learned how to work the system from her mentor, Ted Stevens.]
I am going to outdo Haverwilde’s cynicism. Tuesday will not be a Republican repudiation. The reason is simple. The Democrats will cheat. They have no choice.
Consider. After the 2008 election, most pundits expected that the MSM would gradually regain their ‘objectivity’ and start to go after the government when it got to outrageous. They did eventually go after Obama and friends - for NOT being more socialist, for not delivering the spoils fast enough and so on.
Obama, the Dems, the RINOs and the MSM all MUST win this election. That will show the people that the evil Rethuglians were lying, are lying and always will be lying about everything. If they lose, it will take six to eight years for them to regain ground, if then.
So, we saw it in Nevada with voting machines that vote for you. It will be everywhere. A few republicans will win - like Murkowski.
Apps to show voting fraud? If you get it before a judge, it will get thrown out or delayed or the Justice Department will investigate you.
They have no choice but to cheat and steal and lie, or everything they have in their grasp, everything they lived for, dreamed about and wanted will be taken by the evil conservatives.
Assuming of course they are competent and evil, not just incompetent, evil and lucky.
And, where is Bill Ayers?
I just stumbled across what looks like an informercial on KTVU titled “Prop 23: A Battle Over California”, which is, unsurprisingly, an anti-Prop 23 piece. It looks like they’re putting on the full-court press, because it’s going to run four more times tomorrow on KTVU, three times in the morning and once in the evening, and four times on KTVU’s sister station KICU (same ownership), very early tomorrow morning beginning at 2 AM.
Somehow, I seriously doubt that a similar piece with an opposing viewpoint is going to be run.