Gone fishin’

Well, I see this 7 year old boy stole the fambly car and went for a ride with the police trying to catch him all the way. And all to escape going to church with his Mama and Papa. I know it’s kind of hard for a kid that young to set thru a sermon about how bad Hell is and how it’s where people that don’t heed the Word of God will go when they die, but you got to make them do it. If you don’t they might could grow up to be libruls that have a abortion every week and want to raise taxes and buy beer on Sunday and hold gay marriages besides.

I can’t figure out that song USinUK give us this a.m. It’s kind of bluegrass and it’s for sure it’s got a train in it but there ain’t nothing about a woman that does you wrong or your Mama or getting drunk or driving a pickup. I reckon the guy that wrote it was drunk when he done it.

Anyhow, I got a heavy load this a.m. Friday you got to stock all the places up so the drunks will have someplace to go at quitting time and the cops can stay in business handling all the fights in the bars and trailers.

Have a good day everybody.

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Normal at 8:37,

Thanks. I messed up my link somehow.

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The big news is that they also did their annual benchmark revisions which reiterate what the NBER was saying – that the recession actually started at the end of 2007.

How can that be? Everybody has to know, everyone must understand, we all need to acknowledge that this is the Obama recession.

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USinUK

July 31st, 2009
8:39 am

Nah, it can’t be. The stimulus isn’t working.

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Democrats took over Congress in January 2007. Of course we were in recession by the end of that year.

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Please tell me I scanned the last page too fast and DB didn’t really call Turner Field “The Ted?” Anybody that uses the AJC contrived and unoriginal nickname for that stadium is unfit to wear the title Baseball Fan.

Take off your foam finger, DB, and walk away in shame.

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USinUK

Foxspeak–gotta love it.

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Kam –

“Foxspeak–gotta love it.”

add that to the list of things I don’t miss …

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Nice work USinUK Are you filling in for amvet as the blog plagiarist?

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RW –

awwwww … does him not wike it when him is pointed out as being WRONG???!!! awwwwww .. sooooooooooooooo sad …

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Sorry “news report”

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A little tribute to our conservative Republicans out there. Don’t worry. The death and destruction wrought on us by the GOP and their co-horts is behind us now and we’re getting things fixed. Be patient. These things take time.

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I have a feeling it’s going to be a fun day …

Well USinUK, have you figured out how the discrepancies in what constitutes “a live birth” might figure into your “truths”? Until you do, your original claim in infant mortalities is just that…

something you can claim but not justify.

DB:

She’s got an exoskeletal life form up her backside about PP’s founder being a sheet-wearing Negro exterminator.

Had it not been for recent exposure, on tape, that PP does indeed accept donations targeted specifically towards AA babies, I would have never known about Margaret Sanger. Oddly enough, most of those videos have been removed for violation of use.

Hmmmmmm

Anyhoo, I stand with many in the black community who have seen those videos and are outraged. I have to wonder why you’re not, DB. For some strange reason, the left doesn’t want to discuss such atrocities.

Put PP’s agenda alongside environmentalists’ calls for population control and you leftists have yourself a worldwide bowel movement.

It’s not like it hasn’t happened before. It was just more blatant under Hitler.

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@@ –

“Well USinUK, have you figured out how the discrepancies in what constitutes “a live birth” might figure into your “truths”? Until you do, your original claim in infant mortalities is just that…”

wow. so, what part of the statement “the WHO conducts a survey using it’s own methodology that is consistent across countries” seems to elude you.

maybe if you took your fingers out of your ears and stopped singing “lalalalalala”, you might actually learn something.

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RW –

“The only fact in question here is your cutting and pasting the work of others and claiming it as your own.”

that’s right … you continue to ignore the fact that I completely refuted your idiotic assertion that the recession is the Dem’s fault and bleat about me posting a timeline of the meltdown

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“and would it kill you to grow a sense of humor?”

does this read like a non-apology? “I’m sorry you misunderstood me”?

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We Don’t Need No Steenking Government – I found this artcle interesting and your typical reaction even more interesting.

“The FDA regulates most foods, though as many as 15 federal agencies have a hand in food safety. The Agriculture Department inspects meats, poultry and some eggs.”

“Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro has said the bill is a solid first step but said she believes Congress needs to go even further and reorganize FDA to help it better focus on its “food” mission. She has introduced legislation that would divide the FDA in two, separating the agency’s drug oversight and food safety duties.”

There FIFTEEN agencies and thousands of goverment workers already monitoring our food safety and still 5000 people die. What is the lefty solution? Rearrange the alphabet agencies and throw more money at it.

Thank God, no more people will die.

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The bithers (28% base cons) are making the townhall meetings for politicians highly entertaining for our corrupt Congress. That is a good thing.

They did legislate a program that worked. The cash for clunkers worked so well, the billion was spent in a month.

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RW-

“Are you angling for a beer summit? ….and would it kill you to grow a sense of humor?”

darlin’, I’m always angling for a beer …

as for my sense o’ humor, say something funny and I’ll laugh.

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Whiner –

case in point:

“Between that first year of the Depression and 2008, GDP rose an average 3.4% a year, the revisions show. Previous estimates said GDP grew 3.3% a year on average.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090731-710520.html

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Doggone/GA

July 31st, 2009
9:51 am
“Rearrange the alphabet agencies and throw more money at it.”

And that’s different from the development of the “Department of Homeland Security” how?

The department of homeland stupidity is no different. One incompetant goverment agency is just as incompedent as the next. I certainly do not rely on them for safety, nor have any faith in the FDA.

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“The department of homeland stupidity is no different”

And here I thought, all this time, that running the government “like business” was a GOOD thing. In the business world it’s called “consolidation” and “eliminating duplication of effort” and “reducing overhead”

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jt,

What part of my 7:23 post this AM did you find most “typical” of me. Was it my jab at the just say no party? How about the more obvious disdain I show toward a particular elected one? What, what, WHAT? Inquiring minds, you know.

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jt,

I must say that I am also disappointed with your oversight of these sentences in that link that I provided:

In the peanut outbreak, FDA inspectors quickly focused on the small Georgia processing plant but had to invoke bioterror laws to get lab reports that ultimately showed the company shipped tainted peanuts. Meanwhile, the agency had no authority to order a food recall.

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“the Beatles, “All you need is Love””

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy.
There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you
in time – It’s easy.

(doo-do-do, dooo-do-do)

all you need is love … (wah-wah-wahwahwahwaaaahhh)
all you need is love … (wah-wah-wahwahwahwaaaahhh)
all you need is love … love … love is all you need

(and a beer)

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USinUK, sorry you can’t hear this. It is Foggy Mountain Breakdown with Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin of all people!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw

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I am with you on that beer USinUK! Can’t wait until it noon here.

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I can’t help it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeeHgCtUxHc

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Penn-

“Where did the subprimes come from? You peel another layer off the onion – and you find the subprimes pushed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Peel another layer and you find Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and Maxine Waters defending the status quo. W, McCain, and others wanted to reign in Fannie and Freddie, the Dems did not, and blocked reforms. Dodd got sweetheart mortgage deal at Countrywide. Frank had a boyfriend at FM. Enough?”

yep. it was Dodd’s mortgage that broke the economy.

as for subprime, at their peak, they were only slightly more than 20% of all mortgages – it wasn’t the subprime mortgages that were the problem, it was the derivatives BASED on those mortgages – those UNREGULATED derivatives, might I add, that turned a small, controllable bonfire into the equivalent of a slew of tanker trucks blowing up in the middle of a suburban neigborhood, taking out 5 square miles of houses.

and, as for the banking industry, there has NEVER been legislation that told them to ignore prudential guidelines. there has NEVER been legislation that told them to stop asking for an applicant’s income. there has NEVER been legislation telling banks to stop asking for previous tax filings.

yes, there were people who never should have gotten loans in the first place. BUT, had there never been unregulated CDS which allowed the banks to get the risk off their books, they never would have made the volume of loans in the first place.

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Scooter –

steve martin and earl scruggs??? (did martin have the arrow through his head thing that he used to wear back in the 1970s???)

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jt,

have a bag of peanuts. They’re safer now — no thanks to the Republican party because the last thing they want is regulations. They perfer to protect the profits of the corporation instead of the lives of the consumer. Apparently, you ‘think’ the same way. Fortunately, you and the GOP are not in charge any more. Now, where is my little nano-scale violin that I usually pull out for such occasions. And, like I said and the article emphasized, the FDA did not have the authority to order a recall. Look it up if you don’t believe me or the article. They did not even have the authority to look at the company’s records. As for the incompetency, the Obama administration is trying to correct that problem that he inherited from Bush too.

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USinUK

July 31st, 2009
10:32 am

Careful, you’ll get your thong all wadded up. I never implied Dodd’s sleazy loan broke the system. You missed the point. There are dirty politicians holding major responsibility, along with greedy bakers. And there are a lot of dirty democrats in the pile. Like Franklin Raines.

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And BTW, I do not defend W’s actions. He should have used the bully pulpit as a lame duck POTUS to expose what they then new was a looming crisis. He didn’t have the stones.

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Normal, have you heard this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzOWTNMruXU

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Penn –

“Careful, you’ll get your thong all wadded up. I never implied Dodd’s sleazy loan broke the system. You missed the point. There are dirty politicians holding major responsibility, along with greedy bakers. And there are a lot of dirty democrats in the pile. Like Franklin Raines”

ew. thongs. I spent my entire life trying to keep my undies out of my behind, why would I want to wear something that puts them right back up there.

as for bakers, I don’t think they had anything to do with the subprime meltdown … the cupcake craze that is sweeping the nation, yes … subprime meltdown, no.

again, the subprime mortgages were not the problem. the derivatives market was. no one knew how much was out there and how much exposure the banks had until it all started to collapse – THAT is why we have the bank bailout. if it was JUST the subprime mortgages, it wouldn’t have exploded the way it did across the globe.

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scooter –

” I hate that you can’t get you tube since you are the moderator today”

moderator??? eep, then we are in trouble.

nope, I’m the Mistress of Economics today … (with a side order of traveling music)

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“schooled” hahaha, two quarters in the last century, gfy (good for you,) socialist.

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Pennsylvanian

July 31st, 2009
10:41 am

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it hit the fan after Raines had left. You’re right, there’s plenty of blame to go around.

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We Don’t Need No Steenking Government -

So your bag of peanuts are safer now that the evil repubs are gone.?

Okay.

And I am not a republican. Voting the republican ticket is ALMOST as silly as voting demo.

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IR/YW,

Attending school for two quarters in the last century is what you choose to brag about. Whatever floats your boat.

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Yes, USinUK we still have the summer movie series at the Fox,just saw 2001 a space odyssey

walked to SF coffee this morning.

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Pennsylvanian

July 31st, 2009
10:52 am

You sure you can’t trace it back to WW? Carter has already been implicated, many times.

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FLD –

((( sigh )))

was the coffee good? does the place still smell lovely?? and what was the sing-along to 2001???

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Unseemly?

“Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office.”

“But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card numbers for each executive and carefully billed them for the cost of the meal with the president.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25627.html

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ying

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Glad to see you folks are getting an early start on the music today. Jay would be proud.
Try this one. My 17 year old daughter turned me on to these guys.
I’m a classic rocker myself, but I think this is pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKe8HTPTlFQ

(hope the link works, It’s my first time trying to post one)

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Slow down, will ya, mah freends. I am just getting over last night’s posts with that terrible Merle Haggard’s sqawk and squiggle thing posted by j$.

Then DB tried to rescue the music by throwing in the William Tell Overture which made me laugh. One son gave me a Mother’sDay card that played the overture when you opened it. It read:” Whether I need cheering up, calming down, or just a little extra Love….it’s MOM to the rescue.”..diddy dum .. diddy dum…. diddy dum dum dum..’twas wonderful.! Aren’t sons delightful! Daughters too.

The libs are stirring magnificiently this morning. RedNeck playing the fool. UsinUK full of good LIBERAL vim and vigor to tell us the joys of debt, doodling and diehard Dems. “Steenkng” still steenking! Did Miz Godzilla move to the UK or is this the reincarnation of JewCowboy? He did leave for the UK. Maybe this is just a flower of the South who lost her way and ended in the UK.

But poor Bosch!! Wakes up with an oak tree and a dead cat in his bed BESIDES his wife. They say that three is/are company but Bosch has set the record for company! Wow! I hope he can hang in there. Uh oh..it is thundering and raining and I live just on the other side of Atlanta from Bosch. I think I better keep an eye on MY oak tress which are very old and very BIG!! Good luck Bosch. Your kitty’s obituary was touching!!

THE BRAVES WON LAST NIGHT! McCann to the rescue in the tenth…the Lone Ranger strikes….or homers…diddy dum diddy dum diddy dum dum dum…GO BRAVES!!

Still thundering thunderously! I’d better go check. Upsss. Ooops! Well…they are up but leaning a little.. shhh I’m not complainig. Don’t want to give ‘em any ideas about falling. I hate camping.( and bad music.)

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Well, I just hate it my tax money got to pay for the beer of this cop and the Black Muslim professer and flying them and their famblys to DC and back. This Obama that was born in Kenya and ain’t even a American citizen sets there and drinks beer while he’s figuring out a way to dump my body in the trash when I get old and need to go to a hospitle. We ain’t going to have no old people in this country by the time he’s finished.

Anyhow, I see the libruls on this blog are trying to take credit for some slowdown in the recession and blame My President for starting all the problems. Everybody knows My President got the recession dumped on him by Clinton and we never quite dug our way out of it. If Clinton had of kept his pants on in front of that intern we wouldn’t be having all the problems in the first place. You can’t drive a economy and mess up a blue dress at the same time.

It’s about lunch time so I’m going to get in out of this rain. Have a good day everybody.

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Dusty –

” Whether I need cheering up, calming down, or just a little extra Love….it’s MOM to the rescue.”..diddy dum .. diddy dum…. diddy dum dum dum..’twas wonderful.! Aren’t sons delightful! Daughters too.”

awww!! now, that’s just sweet.

“Maybe this is just a flower of the South who lost her way and ended in the UK.”

got it in 3. married a brit, ended up in the land of bangers-n-mash (mmmmm … bangers-n-mash …. mmmmm)

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back in the mud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WPOvqUzCk0

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David, speaking of heavy, try this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNOZegkVXo

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