And the celebrating went on long into the evening
The folks at TPM have compiled examples of right-wing gloating and celebrating over Chicago’s failure to acquire the 2016 Olympics. It’s really pretty sad.
Some lowlights:
Glenn Beck: “”Please, please let me break this news to you. It’s so sweet.”
Weekly Standard editor John McCormick: “Cheers erupt at Weekly Standard world headquarters,” in a post titled “Chicago Loses! Chicago Loses!”
RedState founder (and Macon resident) Erick Erickson: “Hahahahaha.”
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mike
October 3rd, 2009
7:11 am
David Brooks had a great article yesterday about the mindless partisan pundits on the right that Jay obsesses over. The article had a great quote that immediately made me think of Jay:
“They are enabled by cynical Democrats, who love to claim that Rush Limbaugh controls the G.O.P. They are enabled by lazy pundits who find it easier to argue with showmen than with people whose opinions are based on knowledge. ”
Jay is exactly the kind of lazy pundit that Brooks describes.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
7:12 am
Read the article here. It explains how irrelevant the mindless pundits who Jay lazily chooses to argue with really are.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/opinion/02brooks.html?_r=1
godless heathen
October 3rd, 2009
7:38 am
Countered by how the left would be gloating if Obama had brought the Olympics home. How the US was again respected in the world, how charming Michelle was, how wonderful Barack is, blah, blah, blah.
No doubt the arrogant one thought this was a slam-dunk if he went, else he wouldn’t have risked it.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
7:42 am
godless heathen –
And we all know that Jay is not one to gloat, whether it is in his blog posts or comment posts
It’s not surprising that Jay is picking up on this utter non-story. Plenty of the liberal mindless partisan pundits think it is important to report on the comments of their peers on the right. Lazy pundits like Jay usually glom onto such group speak so they can reuse the rhetoric of others.
Normal
October 3rd, 2009
7:43 am
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!!
SOUTHERN ATL
October 3rd, 2009
7:43 am
Congratulations Rio on your hosting of the 2016 Olympic’s…Randy Crawford a TRUE JAZZ LEGEND…She did not receive a lot of accolades in the U.S. but I was introduced to her music while living in Italy. She was great in Europe!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqAy4nyr5dU&feature=related
ghostwriter
October 3rd, 2009
7:48 am
The disappointment must be unbearable for Michelle. The next thing you know she will be checking into celebrity detox or seeking comfort from her astrologer.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
October 3rd, 2009
7:50 am
Washington(APee) Early this morning, Bozo’s Circus, a famous morning children’s show and the cartoon giant Looney Tunes filed a suit in superior court alleging that the Obama administration is infringing on their business model and trying to create a monopoly, thereby harming the profits of the two television programs.
Ray Rayner, spokesperson for the two complainants, stated that “everywhere you look, this clown is on the TV. His face is burned into the screen of my plasma flat panel. We cannot possibly continue to compete with such widespread ridiculousness and incompetent foolishness, especially on such a grand scale as this.”
The conglomerate is on record that they are not seeking monetary damages, they just want relief from this onslaught of ignorance. “Please make this idiot go away. ew” said Rayner.”
And that’s not all folks!
jt
October 3rd, 2009
7:50 am
There is nothing wrong with feeling relieved that no MORE taxpayer money will be spent on this endeavor.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
7:52 am
Frankly, Obama should have taken note that half of the people in Chicago did not want the Olympics there. How could the IOC award the games to a city whose citizens didn’t even want them?
JRH
October 3rd, 2009
7:57 am
Agree with Normal….bring ‘em home, NOW.
Olympics is a non-topic, we tried, we did not get them. Sure there would be gloating, but why not.
It’s time to ignore the ignorance on all sides, tit for tat is no way to live life
SOUTHERN ATL
October 3rd, 2009
8:00 am
….and by the way, Randy Crawford is one of Georgia’s own!!!
ghostwriter
October 3rd, 2009
8:01 am
Like I said in another post. If Chicago had gotton the Olympics, Obama would have been blamed for a willingness to bribe IOC officials. Since they did not, it must be that the world is tired of the “arrogant one”.
BTW – how much did it cost the taxpayers to send the Bush twins to Argentina to run naked through that hotel corridor?
Taxpayer
October 3rd, 2009
8:04 am
The Republican party continues its quest to redefine itself. They’re not the loser party. No Sir! Didn’t you get the message. Obama lost. I wonder what innermost feelings they’ll share with us next. Oh well.
At least two of their flock have finally realized where this approach is taking them and I don’t think they like all that they see at the end of that road.
Throw them under the bus with the other heretics. The Republican message is just fine as is. I wouldn’t change a thing. Honest. Besides, no matter what, you can rest assured that Hannity and Beck and Limbaugh, et al, will keep theirs and that is what this is all about, right.
Dave R.
October 3rd, 2009
8:04 am
In the longer run, this will be better for Hope & Change that he didn’t succeed. All the corruption that would have surely been involved with a Chicago Olympics that would have involved his closest advisers would have been guaranteed to end his Presidency at one term.
Wait! Can we get a recount? Let’s challenge this result in an international court!
Taxpayer
October 3rd, 2009
8:21 am
Bill was certainly in primal form in this one. It would be sad if it were not so funny.
SOUTHERN ATL
October 3rd, 2009
8:27 am
Jay,
Sorry but I could not pass up this beautiful footage…I promise that this will be my last post….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF874B1kI-w&NR=1
Kanye West
October 3rd, 2009
8:28 am
Still Obama had the best video presentation, you IOC racist batches.
Sam
October 3rd, 2009
8:34 am
This is a non-factor.(Olympic comm. not choosing Chicago) It’s really no big deal. Comments from the left or right on this is the same. A non-factor.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
8:35 am
And of course, our own Reporter:
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
October 2nd, 2009
7:23 pm
COPENHAGEN–— Chicago’s early exit from finalist balloting for the 2016 Olympics was a personal setback for President Barack Obama and a painful defeat for America’s most prominent Midwestern city.
Many people had assumed Chicago would be a finalist. But International Olympic Committee members eliminated it only hours after Obama and his wife, Chicago native Michelle Obama, urged them to send the Summer Games to Obama’s adopted hometown. Obama had put his personal prestige on the line and his political capital at risk when he decided late in the competition to go to Copenhagen and make a personal appeal.-Chicago Sun Times
nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
8:36 am
mike
October 3rd, 2009
7:12 am
I’m surprised that you would agree with Brooks.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
8:39 am
Good morning!
Well, given how bloody unpleasant the Olympics were for those of us here in town that they rolled over during the remake and the later black-eye we got from the terrorist attack, Chicago might want to feel relieved…
ghostwriter
“The disappointment must be unbearable for Michelle. The next thing you know she will be checking into celebrity detox or seeking comfort from her astrologer.”
Don’t you know it and after all the “sacrifice” she made!
And the Bush twins–It may have been the Argentines who paid THEM to do it!
Normal–
MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!!
Amen…
Taxpayer–
In the GOP makeover…don’t ever underestimate the enemy and, think about it, three years before 2008, Fierce Advocate wasn’t even a blip on the political radar…who’d thunk they’d come back after the Goldwater debacle or that the Democrats would come back after the 1988 fiasco?
Cherokee
October 3rd, 2009
8:40 am
Ghostwriter is correct – if Chicago had won, the wingnuts would be howling about corruption and Valerie Jarrett and Rezko. Best sometimes just to ignore them.
It is a pretty sad day when their blind hatred of Obama makes them cheer when America loses.
Disgusting really.
And Mike your constant attacks on Jay are tiresome; how ’bout you come up with a new schtick?
mike
October 3rd, 2009
8:46 am
TnGelding –
“I’m surprised that you would agree with Brooks.”
Why? I talk about my contempt for Beck and his ilk here constantly. Brooks just did it much more articulately than I do, particularly when it comes to lazy pundits like Jay.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
8:47 am
Normal
October 3rd, 2009
7:43 am
“Now” would be at least 2 years.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
8:49 am
mike
October 3rd, 2009
8:46 am
I think you’ve made the point about Jay several times already this morning. Why do you even bother to hang out here? I enjoy reading your stuff, tho.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
8:51 am
Cherokee –
“It is a pretty sad day when their blind hatred of Obama makes them cheer when America loses.”
America didn’t lose anything except the opportunity for the most corrupt political machine in the country to get themselves rich. Half of Chicagoans were opposed to the Olympics because they knew what a boondoggle it would be.
“And Mike your constant attacks on Jay are tiresome; how ’bout you come up with a new schtick?”
What and you think that your constant demonization of any who dare not share your narrowminded views is not tiresome?
Tell you what, when you and the rest of the mindless partisans change your schtick, my schtick goes away. Until that time, you can mindlessly hate conservative and I can call people like Beck, Bookmand and you out for your mindless partisanship.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
8:52 am
JRH
October 3rd, 2009
7:57 am
Why not? Aren’t we all Americans? Why would you be rooting against the home team?
@@
October 3rd, 2009
8:53 am
Glenn Beck? Didn’t see it. I did watch Beck when “the mothers” were featured. That group of women were some of the more intelligent I’ve seen in a long time. Honestly! they made Nancy Pelosi look like a clueless clown.
Weekly Standard? Only time I read it is if someone links to it here.
RedState? Again…only time yada yada yada.
What, oh what would we conservatives do if we didn’t have you leftists keeping a watchful eye on things that we might overlook.
I’ve actually been searching for something within this administration that I can get excited about. I’m not sure yet, but I think it may turn out to be Arne Duncan, Obama’s choice for Sec’y of Education, and that’s only if Bill Ayers and Barack Obama keep their noses out of his education business.
Did you know that less than 3% of the student population at a southside Chicago high school met Illinois’ meagre standards of achievement goals? Less than 3%!!?!!
That’s inexcusable.
Jack
October 3rd, 2009
8:56 am
The IOC probably reads Bookman & Tucker and decided that if those two wanted Obama to succeed, then giving the games to Rio had to be the right thing to do.
Cherokee
October 3rd, 2009
8:57 am
mike for the most part you don’t even know what my views are.
One of them though, is that people invited into the homes of others – or the blogs of others – have a basic responsibility to at least differ politely with the host. Obviously you don’t have to agree with Jay, but would it really hurt you all that much to do it with a little bit of respect?
Like I say, your constant harping is disrespectful, and tiresome.
South Rules
October 3rd, 2009
9:00 am
They didn’t pick Obama, er uh Chicago, the IOC are a bunch of racists!!!!
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:02 am
@@
“That’s inexcusable.”
Yeah, but you can bet your last tax dollar that it won’t stop them from trying.
Cherokee–
O-si-yo!
South Rules
October 3rd, 2009
9:03 am
Mmm, mmm, mmm…..Barack Hussein Obama…….b!tchslapped by a bunch of old white men……mmm, mmm, mmm
mike
October 3rd, 2009
9:03 am
TnGelding -
“Why do you even bother to hang out here? I enjoy reading your stuff, tho.”
in general, I have decided that mindless partisans like Bookman, Beck and the rest are the true cancer in this country. not liberals, conservatives or moderates. We used to be able to have cicli debates, but now that folks like Beck and Jay have the microphone, moderate and intelligent voices like David Brooks and Nic Kristof are drowned out.
I don’t have the time or patience to call out every mindless partisan pundit, as they seem to breed like rabits. This being the case, I am focusing my ranting on one pundit.
I chose Jay for a few reasons, mostly because he is emblematic of the partisans who have destroyed the AJC. I used to work for Cox Interactive, the former internet arm of the AJC, and got a chance to see up close how the partisanship among both the news and editorial staff compromised the integrity of the AJC, a paper that enjoys a monopoly position in my home town. The mindless partisanship at the AJC has resulted in circulation drops that are far more precipitous than the national average, resulting in the loss of jobs for several of my former co-workers. Eventually, I cancelled my own subscription, as I was tired of paying to be called a racist and an idiot by the AJC editorial staff.
In addition to venting my frustration at Jay for his role in the local paper’s demise and his position as the stereotypical mindless partisan pundit who I have come to despise, I often have the chance to speak with moderate people like yourself , Normal and josef nix. I think that we have been able to behave civilly and have rational conversations despite the differences in our political views. Perhaps if we had more conversations like that and less crap from Whiner and Taxpayer, we might actually be able to have a local blog to be proud of.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:07 am
mike @ 9:03..thank you, that’s company I like to keep.
Taxpayer
October 3rd, 2009
9:10 am
In the GOP makeover…don’t ever underestimate the enemy and, think about it, three years before 2008, Fierce Advocate wasn’t even a blip on the political radar…who’d thunk they’d come back after the Goldwater debacle or that the Democrats would come back after the 1988 fiasco?
Thanks, josef. I think as long as I can identify the ‘enemy’, I’ll be all right.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
9:10 am
Cherokee –
“mike for the most part you don’t even know what my views are.”
Oh please, You just went on a rant about your contempt for “winguts”. and this is standard rhetoric for you. Go back and read your posts and tell me that your political views are not readily accessible to us all.
“One of them though, is that people invited into the homes of others – or the blogs of others – have a basic responsibility to at least differ politely with the host. Obviously you don’t have to agree with Jay, but would it really hurt you all that much to do it with a little bit of respect?”
Bah. I am not in his home. I am on a public blog in which folks like yourself attack those who don’t share your views as wingnuts and whatnot. Spare me the lecture on civlilty. Perhaps if you would do so, you might have a leg to stand on.
Also, Jay regularly calls out conservatives with all kinds of pathetic and broad accusations. Sorry that you think that the precious pundit can attack all he wants, yet be immune from civil criticism. I am sure Jay would disagree with you.
“Like I say, your constant harping is disrespectful, and tiresome.”
Like I say, your constant mindless partisanship and demonization of those who don’t share your narrow minded views is disrespectful and tiresome.
Do you really care if I feel that way? Do you think I care about what you find tiresome and disrespectful any more than you care about my own similar feelings?
mike
October 3rd, 2009
9:12 am
josef nix –
“mike @ 9:03..thank you, that’s company I like to keep.”
As would we all.
This is the point that strident partisans like Cherokee miss. You can be respectful towards those who don’t share your views.
NRB
October 3rd, 2009
9:14 am
I thought it was hysterical that His Irrelevancy truly thought that if he showed up and graced the ICO with his presence that they would bend over backwards to appease the gods of duh-versity.
The funny part? Watching Obama forcibly pretend to like America enough to want the Olympics here. I think the committee saw right through him and his B.S.
Now only if the rest of America would.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
9:15 am
@@ –
Your points about how most conservative could care less about the partisan hacks that Jay is obssessed with are dead on
Read that Brooks article I linked to above. That is a large part of his premise and his statement that “They are enabled by lazy pundits who find it easier to argue with showmen than with people whose opinions are based on knowledge” fits Jay to a tee.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
9:16 am
mike
October 3rd, 2009
9:03 am
I had no idea it was that personal and complex.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:16 am
Taxpayer–as you know, I’m no Republican voter and they could put forth Jesus and Mohammad as a ticket with Mother Teresa as Secretary of State and still not get my vote, but I am keeping an eye out and do not chortle over their demise. There’s still quite a bit of life in that not dead yet horse.
mike
October 3rd, 2009
9:18 am
TnGelding –
“I had no idea it was that personal and complex.”
Well, the short answer is a like to rant.
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
9:19 am
In case you missed it (I did):
“Chicago is the first to go in 2016 voting”
“This was,” acting U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Stephanie Streeter said, “the strongest bid we’ve had. Ever.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news;_ylt=AnsWFeeCuA5lybOeizt8D6FAyMIF?slug=ap-2016bids-americasloss&prov=ap&type=lgns
TnGelding
October 3rd, 2009
9:20 am
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:16 am
What’s it going to take for us to dump them both?
@@
October 3rd, 2009
9:20 am
Yeah, but you can bet your last tax dollar that it won’t stop them from trying.
There was a good article over at “The Economist” on one, Fender High School in Chicago’s southside. It’s already being said that the unions will likely buck some of the initiatives. So what else is new?
mike:
So what if there are folks like me who may occasionally catch a Beck episode for the guests/audience that appear rather than the host, himself? Does that make “folks like me” a partisan hack…a nutjob?
I find myself agreeing with a lot of what you post but I don’t need transforming President mike. I’m pretty dang civil until my basic principles are under assault.
david wayne osedach
October 3rd, 2009
9:23 am
Where would you rather go to see the Olympics? Breath taking Rio? Or Chicago where you might be stomped on and beaten in the streets for no reason at all?
Taxpayer
October 3rd, 2009
9:23 am
Well, it sure is comforting to me to know that mike just could not put his thoughts about me aside as readily as he last proclaimed. He does still love me. Come here, mike, and give me hug. You sweet thang. By the way, I always knew that your hatred spewed up from your inability to prove your worth to management at AJC. It must hurt, hurt bad, huh. So, keep on directing your anger toward those that you feel that you can still reach. Spew your hatred toward Jay. Try Cynthia for a while, even. But, I still love you and I know that you love me.
ghostwriter
October 3rd, 2009
9:23 am
Couldn’t Beck foresee that Chicago would not be chosen? After all, he has the power to see that Vancouver lost over $1 billion on an Olympics that hasn’t even occurred yet.
I’m guessing that the 50% of Chicagoans that did not want the Olympics are those down-in-the-mouth Cub fans who are afraid that competing and success might take away they revered victim status.
Bruno
October 3rd, 2009
9:24 am
“less crap from Whiner and Taxpayer”
At least Reporter backs his partisanship up with facts and news releases. The best we get from Taxpayer are Bill Maher rants. Complete waste of pixels.
danjonglee
October 3rd, 2009
9:26 am
Breaking News….One of Palin’s sons quit his job….
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:26 am
mike–many of the liberals posting here, self included, are products of the socio-political revolution of the 1960s when we were already in a aux barricades mentality and our Jacobins came to the fore, They were rejected by the bulk of the population at large and, like the Limbaughs et al of the contemporary right, became reactionaries,
Taxpayer
October 3rd, 2009
9:31 am
Awwww. Bruno thinks about me too. My day is complete. By the way, I also enjoy Jon Stewart.
ghostwriter
October 3rd, 2009
9:32 am
I wonder if the DNC will be showing videos of conservatives cheering at the loss of American jobs during the next election cycle.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:39 am
TnGelding
“What’s it going to take for us to dump them both?”
My own personal little contribution is to NOT vote for either of them. Granted there’s not a viable third or fourth party on the horizon, but there’s always enough lunatic fringe on the ballot to make my none-of-the-above voice heard.
@@
I’ll check out the article. While I support and applaud Fierce Advocate’s “go back to school” message. what good is that if there is no change in the schools they chose to leave in the first place? So far, I have seen nothing substantive and I AM looking, hope for change springing eternal.
My bottom line, and one that p*sses off a lot of “educators” is that we went to h*ll in a handcart when we took to calling a teacher an educator, liking the pr image-sound of the word, and decided what had long been a “calling” was now a “profession.” I don’t really care much about respect for the profession, but I would like a little for the calling.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:41 am
Taxpayer–I like Jon Stewart and Florence King both.
Richard
October 3rd, 2009
9:42 am
To Cherokee: I lived in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. I took vacation and visited family a 1000 miles from here and still had stuff effed up. No wonder people don’t want it.
jconservative
October 3rd, 2009
9:44 am
I have a somewhat different take on the partisan discussion, bickering
or debates. I basically agree with mike re the pundits. But I realize that they are paid to provide the “entertainment”. And getting on line & engaging in a debate with Jay, Cynthia, Jim or Bob is entertainment to me. It also results in my doing more reading than I might do otherwise. (If you have not found it, go to cfr.org (Council on Foreign Relations, a great place for extensive backgrounds on foreign policy issues.)
And guys whose only contribution to the debate is a blind juvenile wisecrack (from either side) just get ignored by me.
I always enjoyed the AJC. I am a political conservative but I have always, since high school days, enjoyed reading liberal thought. And the AJC always provided a cross section of thought on their editorial pages. Since I am political conservative I understand the conservative position on issues, but I do not always understand the liberal position, so I read. And I do not always understand the “social conservative” position on a lot of issues. I know what the position is, I just do not understand the position. So I read.
And since Jay’s topic today is sports, let me comment.
Go Jackets, go Vols, go Dogs & go whoever is playing ND!
Donovan
October 3rd, 2009
9:48 am
Our community organizer went over there looking like Blago and got stiffed for his antics. Ask the French what they thought. The First Lady takes Oprah and lots of celebrities on a big 757 for a couple of days of partying just like Bill Clinton used to do, but got stiffed with the check. Chicago and the White House can’t run their crooked little card game outside of the U.S. it seems.
RW-(the original)
October 3rd, 2009
9:50 am
Enter your comments here–
danjonglee,
Sarah Palin has two sons. One is in the military and the other is a one year old. Care to tell us which one quit his job?
.
Hint: Think husband….
MorningStar
October 3rd, 2009
9:51 am
((( The next thing you know she will be checking into celebrity detox or seeking comfort from her astrologer)))
Are you referring to Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan?
RW-(the original)
October 3rd, 2009
9:54 am
Enter your comments here–
josef,
Let’s band together and lobby for a law that says each ballot contest must include a “None of the above” choice.
/Of course one of these crooks would soon be changing their name to None of the above, but it would work for a little while.
jokerman
October 3rd, 2009
9:56 am
In spite of President Obama’s lobbying efforts, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) may have chosen to reject hosting the 2016 summer olympic games in Chicago due to the post-9/11 visa tourist policies established by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/02/chicago-olympics-bush/
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
9:57 am
RW– “think husband”
Oh, well, as my first editor told me only half in jest, “rule number one is, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.”
MorningStar– @ 9:51 and who says bi-partisanship is dead?
TGT
October 3rd, 2009
9:58 am
In the spirit of last night: OBAMA’S NEW THEME SONG! (YES WE CAN!!!)
getalife
October 3rd, 2009
10:03 am
Hmmm, looks like some kind of mental disorder.
Country first!
You lie!
RW-(the original)
October 3rd, 2009
10:07 am
Enter your comments here–
I understand that Birmingham is planning to bid for the 2020 Olympics. One can only imagine who’s going to go lobby the IOC for that one.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:10 am
RW–what gets my goat is that efforts already made in various locales to put “none of the above” on the ballot have failed since those responsible for getting it there don’t want it and for obvious reasons. There was one fellow, in Oregon I think but don’t quote me, who wanted to legally change his name to Nobody so he could run and he wasn’t allowed to…
On the other hand, I might have a real dilemma in choosing between None of the Above and Nobody. Who’s on the left and who’s on the right?
@@
I know a para who speaks 5 languages and has a advanced degrees from some rather prestigeous institutions was once referred to as “Just a Para” by a highly paid-placed administrator who could not string together a simple subject-predicate-complement sentence. She took to signing off as “Justa Para” until she was pulled on the carpet and threatened with disciplinary action.
MorningStar
October 3rd, 2009
10:13 am
josef nix 9:57 am
MorningStar– @ 9:51 and who says bi-partisanship is dead?
Gotta keep it fair and balanced.
Mr. Snarky
October 3rd, 2009
10:15 am
Congrats to Rio! I hope they enjoy the overhyped track meet and all the overblown “Olympic Movement” BS that goes along with it.
RW-(the original)
October 3rd, 2009
10:17 am
Enter your comments here–
On the other hand, I might have a real dilemma in choosing between None of the Above and Nobody. Who’s on the left and who’s on the right?
I know we’re beyond the FNMT but this seems fitting
Taxpayer
October 3rd, 2009
10:19 am
Well, you folks try to have some fun today, ya hear. It’s time to go do some carnivaling, southern style. We calls them, festivals of the fall, or just plain fall festivals.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:19 am
Rio Olympics–does that mean that their long established restaurants named for the mountain will be forced to change their names, too?
Oh, no NOT Birmingham…payback’s a b*tch. We refugeed to family there in ‘96…!
MorningStar
October 3rd, 2009
10:19 am
Josef Nix @ 10:10am
Josef, since you’re a teacher, educator, or whatever you wish to be called, I’d like your opinion about these mail order degrees so many people are obtaining now.
From a personal standpoint, I see no problem with picking up a few courses on-line. Example: Business Major takes an on-line history course. Ya’ know, some of those courses we all were required to take so we’d be ‘well rounded,’ whatever that might be. But an MA via the Internet! Geez!
3rd Party Guy
October 3rd, 2009
10:22 am
Bread and Circuses…yawn. Who cares? I guess some of Obama’s “friends” are going to miss out on some filthy lucre.
Cherokee
October 3rd, 2009
10:23 am
Richard, I was here too and had a fantastic time. To each his own I guess.
Midori
October 3rd, 2009
10:23 am
I really wish this blog had an ignore feature.
I can’t scroll past Mike and Andy’s posts fast enough.
I too wonder why Mike hangs out here, and why he feels it’s his right to be so disrespectful.
RW-(the original)
October 3rd, 2009
10:24 am
Enter your comments here–
Well the sun is out and the annual global cooling of Fall seems to have arrived so I’ve got no excuse not to get out and do a few miles.
Enjoy!
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:25 am
RW @ 10:17
Now THAT’s too good! And every word right on target!
therese persaud
October 3rd, 2009
10:25 am
The world whispered ‘ They are against human beings who inhabit the planet, they bomb the innocent , they use and exploit illegals and treat them as sub human , they let their sick die. They are really driven by a power elite represeted by individuals like Glen Beck , Dick Cheney , Limbaugh and others . Obama is only a lonely moral voice in the darkness so don’t vote them in’ !!!!
DoggoneGA
October 3rd, 2009
10:30 am
“I too wonder why Mike hangs out here, and why he feels it’s his right to be so disrespectful”
Give him a break. He’can’t help it. It’s a Pavlovian response. Besides, he’d miss all the attention from his groupies if he left.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:34 am
MorningStar…
“Josef, since you’re a teacher, educator, or whatever you wish to be called, I’d like your opinion about these mail order degrees so many people are obtaining now.”
I’m old-fashioned…I’m still a teacher. Don’t get me started on the second part! I’m like the Unmentionable who one night was heard to mutter and received a round of applause when confronting an “educator” at a public meeting who set out to “establish her ‘credentials’” in a most arrogant fashion, “…summa cum lawdy from E-Mail U.”
jconservative
October 3rd, 2009
10:35 am
You can have Rio. Chicago crime wise is a Baptist Sunday School compared to Rio. Had relatives there. They were making a ton of money but left because of the crime. They have 7 years to clean the place up.
Maybe they will, look what Peking did with its smog!
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:39 am
therese persaud
“…they bomb the innocent , they use and exploit illegals and treat them as sub human , they let their sick die. They are really driven by a power elite represeted by individuals…”
Point taken, but this applies to Fierce Advocate and his lot every bit as much as those you listed…six of one, half a dozen of the other…
Bruno
October 3rd, 2009
10:40 am
josef–I’ve often been told that I would make a good teacher due to my passion for mathematics. I hate getting up early and don’t like kids, though, which might be a handicap….
N-GA
October 3rd, 2009
10:41 am
The last 24 hours have been really telling. The right-wing response to Chicago’s failure to get the Olympic Games goes right to the heart of what they really are. They are Haters, pure and simple. If Obama had not gone to Copenhagen and Chicago lost, then they would have castigated Obama for failing to support the US in trying to win the Olympics.
It all goes back to their leader, Limbaugh. They agree with him that they want Obama to fail. And thus the failure of America, and liberty, and freedom, and prosperity shared among everyone.
These psudo-Christian hypocrites are pathetic beyond belief. They remind me of what Christ said about those who crucified him…”Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” Unfortunately, they know what they are doing, and it is not Christian.
Bruno
October 3rd, 2009
10:44 am
“They are Haters, pure and simple.”
Look in the mirror much?
N-GA
October 3rd, 2009
10:45 am
Is that the best you’ve got, Bruno? And you can’t stand children? lol at your hypocrisy.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:50 am
Bruno–@ 10:40
Do it! The rewards are so great! We need mathematicians badly, but before you do, be sure to look over what the Village Idiots have put in as the math curriculum! The getting up early does have it’s drawbacks, but once you get there the little b*ggers will wake you up! I tell people that whatever else, I at least can come home from a day’s work with a smile on my face on those days I’ve been left alone long enough to do the job I was hired to do…
Midori
October 3rd, 2009
10:50 am
Great post, N-GA.
Really hit it on the head.
Haters – pure and simple.
It’s so disgusting.
And just think – during the Bush years actions like this from the left would have created a constitutional crisis.
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
10:52 am
N-GA– “Christ Stopped at Eboli” and you live in Aliano yourself,,,
Bruno
October 3rd, 2009
10:55 am
“We need mathematicians badly, but before you do, be sure to look over what the Village Idiots have put in as the math curriculum!”
I don’t know all the details, but I’ve heard that the PC crowd has ruined math education as well, insisting that math questions be phrased in ways to bring “cultural diversity” to the classroom. I’m not sure that’s what you’re referring to, but that aspect would bother me.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
October 3rd, 2009
11:01 am
Instead of dedicating three days and nights working the IOC members, as we hear Tony Blair did for London in its successful bid for 2012, President Obama figured all he had to do was show up for a few minutes here at Bella Center after an all-night flight on Air Force One.-Politico
Yeah, he thinks the rest of the world is a bunch of dunces like I r o diM.
mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, Barak Hussein Obama!
N.J.
October 3rd, 2009
11:05 am
Obama accomplished more with regards to Iran and Afghanistan while he spent 15 hours in Denmark than Bush accomplished in 8 years. In one hour he got the Iranians to agree to the same stuff that Bush could not get him to agree on for his entire presidency. Diplomacy works a lot better than “Axis of Evil” speeches, and no, it could not have been done from Washington. There were meetings scheduled in four separate cities in Europe: London, Geneva, Brussels and Copenhagen and Obama needed to be able to talk privately and in person to the Americans at each location before deals could be cut and non of the diplomatic formalities the having them come to Washington needed.
As far as Health Reform, Republicans have fallen down on the job, and Democrats are now taunting them publicly on the largest issue of all. Where is the Republican alternative bill?
Thats the usual procedure. On any major legislation, if the Republicans believe they have better ideas, they are supposed to craft their own alternative legislation and offer it on the floor of the respective house of Congress.
Dems Taunt GOP: Where’s Your Health Care Plan?
WASHINGTON — Even as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama’s health care proposals, some GOP leaders worry their party is being hurt by a Democratic counterattack: Where is your plan?
Republican leaders chose not to draft their own comprehensive bill, focusing instead on attacking Democrats’ plans as too costly and bureaucratic. Some prominent Republicans now fear they are getting tagged as the “party of no,” and they want the GOP to offer more solutions to the nation’s health care problems.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential GOP presidential contender in 2012, said it’s time for Republicans “to pivot and say, in addition to emphasizing what we oppose, here are our proposals” for health care. The two parties can agree on some important improvements, he said in an interview Thursday, but Democrats must trim their proposed costs.
Democrats, meanwhile, see a rare chance to go on the offensive in the debate, which has sometimes seemed dominated by fiery attacks on Obama’s proposals.
“The Grand Old Party’s coffers are empty when it comes to health care reform,” Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Democrats’ second-ranking Senate leader, said Thursday.
A new CBS-New York Times poll found that only 14 percent of Americans think Republicans have clearly explained their plans to change the health care system, while 76 percent do not. Obama’s numbers were better, though not stellar: 37 percent yes, 55 percent no.
lhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/dems-taunt-gop-wheres-you_n_307560.html
That figure on the Republican vision for health reform is an all time low. A week ago it was 27 percent.
More and more polls show the public views the Republican party, as noted above, “The Party of No” a party that has no ideas, no concepts, and has nothing to offer the American people at all. A party that a dose of political Viagra could no longer make potent.
Midori
October 3rd, 2009
11:09 am
No Andy,
the only dunce here is you.
you prove it with each bit of lunacy you post here each day.
And what’s with the silly names?
Is that truly all you have?
It’s neither funny nor creative.
You have the maturity of a five year old. And I’m being generous.
Midori
October 3rd, 2009
11:10 am
NJ:
How bout that Grayson guy?
Isn’t he just wonderful?
I’m donating to him today
Bruno
October 3rd, 2009
11:13 am
IMO, the branch of mathematics which can improve our general thinking skills the most is Linear Algebra, which is the mathematics of vectors and linear transformations. One of the first concepts taught is that all coordinate systems are arbitrary, such that any given point may have any set of coordinates (i.e. “value”) depending on the reference point chosen as the origin.
Midori
October 3rd, 2009
11:15 am
Application to host the 2016 Olympics in Chicago was made in 2007 during the Bush Administration.
http://www.chicago2016.org/our-plan.aspx
where was all the wingnut jeering and hissing then?
josef nix
October 3rd, 2009
11:17 am
Bruno–the cultural diversity end of it is the least of the problems! All I can say is, just go and visit a math class and see for yourself. Pull up the CRCT test examples. More than that, though, go look at what the “overseers” come looking for.
Let me give you an example. I was marked down by one of these cretins once for “not having the objective clearly posted.” Now the reason why was that the objective was quadruple digit subtraction. The problem from the textbook was “the Nile River is x miles long and the Amazon is y miles long. How much longer is the Nile than the Amazon?” I had pulled down the map to show the children WHERE the Nile and the Amazon are. It covered the posted objective, itself having to be that which was mandated by the curriculum and written in the cant and jargon of “educationalese” that would be incomprehensible to a Nobel Prize winner. My response was, I admit, a bit temperamental, but certainly no worth the trouble to agent of the Inquisition went to in reprimanding me!