Gone fishing … literally
If anybody needs to find me over the next week or so, here’s where I’ll be.
Oh, and you’re going to need a helicopter or a whitewater raft to get there.
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MAJOR historian
July 25th, 2011
4:02 pm
“Not so. The U.S. would have been smaller, but it still would have existed.”
And the Zapruder film proved that JFK shot first.
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
July 25th, 2011
4:03 pm
The Executive branch, both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court are three equal branches of government. The president or head of the executive branch can serve no more than two terms in office.
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
July 25th, 2011
4:03 pm
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:00 pm
Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling while in the Senate. Now who’s the actual “dumbass”? Nice attempt to demonstrate your mastery of the English language.
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:03 pm
BABY SUGGS
I am not arguing the effectiveness in preparing for war or any of that. I am saying that he did not, as Lenon would say, “give peace a chance.” JD was no better. They both bear the onus of guilt for that bloodletting and savagery which, as Matti has pointed out, still is at issue today. Quit making a hero out of either Abe or Jeff, look at them for what they were and what they did to us all. They were not good people. The only positive thing to come out of it was abolition and that was a haphazard second thought. I could even go for “maybe it was a good thing” in that, but the war was unnecessary to achieve that end.
TEDDY
No, I most assuredly do not confuse him and Andrew Jackson, the devil incarnate in this household, and you must be new here or you’d know that, eh Dave and Brosephus?
FDR
Yes. He could have. I reference you to the so-called Auschwitz Protocol (the Vrba-Wetzler effort) and the Brand Mission resultant thereto and what happened following that. He knew. He had an offer on the table. He refused it. Plain and simple, interpret it as you will, but 600,000 people met their demise in a matter of days because he refused to deal.
But, really, what the hell, what’s a few Indians and a few Jews when out to practice political hagiology?
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:06 pm
Recon
From the link: “Senate Democrats’ inclusion in their proposed debt package of $1 trillion in savings from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not satisfy ratings agencies threatening a credit downgrade since the wars were expected to end with or without a debt deal.
The budget gimmick is one that has been used by both parties. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had earlier considered employing it during discussions that have since broken down. Now Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is using the trick in his $2.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan, according to aides. Boehner has not indicated where he would draw his savings, totaling up to $3 trillion.”
Depends on how they count costs. If it’s just the additive (what’s spent that would have been spent if we hadn’t gone in) then there’s a point.
BUT
If the costs include funds the Pentagon would have spent anyway, such as military pay and flying hours, and THOSE get cut, well, they we’re getting somewhere on real cuts.
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
July 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
Enter your comments here
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
MARY ELIZABETH
Why stop at the nation’s founding? The Civil War was an inevitablity from the time of Willie’s Day at the Beach in 1066. It was just that here in the Americas the two factions found themselves in geographical isolation one from the other.
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
“Dave R can Congess sign or enter into treaties? ”
No, but they must first be RATIFIED by the Senate before they can be signed. Strike one.
“Perhaps if you think of the 1/3 of Christendom this will make sense to you. You have God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. According to christendom all three are one with Gond the Father being the All Mighty. ”
I’m an agnostic. Strike two.
Care to go for strike three?
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
@@
“Even Paul Krugman knows it wasn’t FDR’s economic policies that brought an end to The Great Depression, it was WWII.”
So it was massive government debt spending and a massive government jobs program that ended the Great Depression??
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling while in the Senate.
No sh*t Sherlock…. And Congress is broken into two houses. The House of Representatives and the Senate. I stated “Look at the votes historically in both Houses”, but maybe I should have used something just a wee bit more elementary so even you could understand that. How’s this for a rephrase: “Look at the votes historically in both divisions of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate.” That’s not too hard for you to comprehend is it? Maybe my mastery of English is above and beyond your mastery of comprehension of English.
Was the clarification better and easier to understand? Maybe if you actually read for comprehension instead of reading to try to decipher ideology, you would comprehend things much better. I’ve been called much worse than a dumbass, so you’d have to do much better than that if you’re trying to score points with me.
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
July 25th, 2011
4:14 pm
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
So you’re saying the monies dedicated to the Iraq War, Afghan War, Lybia War, and the massive Obamacare will end the current Obama Great Recession? Innnnnteresting.
Message from Matti
July 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
Paul,
I’m with you on the Saturday football. YEAH! Just a few short weeks away now, and the cable channels are rerunning the really good “classic” games. YEAH! Gotta have something to cheer for!
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:18 pm
Leg Lamp
Nope, that’s not what I’m saying.
Matti
Every year, start of the season, some of the top 8 HS teams from around the country (six are from Texas) do preseason games at Cowboys Stadium. Ten in the morning to ten at night. Fifteen bucks admission, fifteen bucks parking. Sweet deal.
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:19 pm
Leg Lamp
But…. as was noted earlier, the $$$$ the US has spent on its “keep the oil flowing from the mideast for all our friends and others’ policy costs nearly the same as what our national debt now is.
Mary Elizabeth
July 25th, 2011
4:21 pm
josef D@ 4:08 p.m.
josef, we could go back to Cain and Abel to see the unfolding of the Civil War, given enough time; but be that as it may, it took A. Lincoln, and those who supported his vision, to keep this nation – and the ideals for which it was created – viable in this world for those in that time in history, as well as for those of future generations.
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
July 25th, 2011
4:22 pm
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
“I’ve been called much worse than a dumbass..”
And I’m certain it was well deserved.
Tea Party Tools
July 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
I see the GOP leaders together for another photo op.
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:25 pm
MARY ELIZABETH
And perhaps we could go back to Cain and Abel, but I am referencing the history of the Anglo-Norman American experience.
And I do not share your elevation of a man, any man, to the level of sanctity being given a murdering thug. If we want to discuss him from the perspective of a flawed human individual, then let’s do that and let’s do it honestly. But let’s cut the spirutuality horsesh*t. He wasn’t a Mother Teresa or a Gandhi.
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
And just for the record, I DO have a couple of compliments for Abe…he was about the wittiest individual to yet occupy 1600
“He could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
“Some are calling me two-faced. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
And I’m certain it was well deserved.
Probably was. No skin off my back, although I seem to have rubbed some off of yours when I did not intend to do so. But that’s life….
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
PAUL
We’ve made it over 1000…do we still have 1000 to go?
Message from Matti
July 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
How far back do we need to go?
In other words: PEOPLE SUCK. ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL.
What can we do? Choose not to suck today.
You’re welcome.
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
josef
Shhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:36 pm
josef
1414, I do believe -
I’ma’ feelin’ kinda’ testy -
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
July 25th, 2011
4:36 pm
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
Nope. I looked in the mirror and saw all the skin on my back. Thanks for the concern, though.
@@
July 25th, 2011
4:37 pm
Paul:
So it was massive government debt spending and a massive government jobs program that ended the Great Depression??
That’s one way of looking at it….your way.
Give a cheer for the Yankee imperialist war-mongers.
JohnnyReb
July 25th, 2011
4:37 pm
Fox News reports Obama will be on National TV tonight at 9 EST to pout some more about the Republican Controlled House of Representatives not giving him his way. We’ll see if he throws another tantrum or is able to muster up the dignity of his predecessors.
kinda’ testy
July 25th, 2011
4:38 pm
“I’ma’ feelin’ kinda’ testy -”
You can keep your hands to yourself, bub.
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:38 pm
Leg Lamp
No problem. However, you still have not either acknowledged or refuted that previous minority party members have not done the same thing that you and others like to trot out about Obama. That’s no problem though. I’ve seen more than enough of the deflect and distract done around here to know when to stop hacking at the partisaned iceberg.
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:39 pm
PAUL
Testy, eh? Me, too. Back at work today, registration has started…I’ve had to have on my diplomatic face today. Thank G-d for Jay’s place! The one bright spot has been being able to say that we weren’t named in the scandal…!
Real Scooter
July 25th, 2011
4:41 pm
Dang,I’m always wrong!
I thought we was supposed to be argueing uh I mean debating about the best places to go fishin.Whew
Message from Matti
July 25th, 2011
4:41 pm
Paul,
Twelve hours of football for $15? That IS sweet! And loads of fun, too!
Mary Elizabeth
July 25th, 2011
4:42 pm
josef @ 4:25
We will just have to agree to disagree. I do not see Lincoln as “a murdering thug” and there are many who share my opinion, including poet/writer Carl Sandburg. I have never claimed that Lincoln was a “Mother Teresa” or a “Gandhi.” You are putting those stereotypical images into my mouth regarding Lincoln. I am aware that Lincoln’s mind was as complex as Jeffersons.
I do believe Lincoln had a spiritual vision intertwined with a historical vision, and that is obvious to me from reading his Gettysburg Address without preconceived ideas. If you do not see that, then there is nothing I can say that will alter your opinion of the man. I knew that you would not agree with my thoughts on Lincoln, but, in good conscience, I felt I should state my thoughts, as well as his words, to counter your very negative remarks about him. My remarks were certainly not intended to be personal to you – that goes without saying, I hope. My remarks were posted simply as a defense of Lincoln, whom I continue to believe was one of our greatest presidents.
It is best, I think, that we simply agree to disagree regarding Lincoln, josef.
AmVet
July 25th, 2011
4:43 pm
Give me Saturday football every time. I was and still am completely disinterested whether the NFL plays this year or not. To me, they are only a miniscule amount more relevant and entertaining than the NBA…
Go Big Red.
Paul
July 25th, 2011
4:48 pm
josef
I wondered why you were venting….
@@
“So it was massive government debt spending and a massive government jobs program that ended the Great Depression??
That’s one way of looking at it….your way.”
And how do you see it? No massive government spending? No massive government jobs program?
I’m really interested to understand why you think neither of those things happened.
“Give a cheer for the Yankee imperialist war-mongers.”
Well, as someone noted, that’s one way of looking at it…. your way.
Me, I don’t think we were mongering anything. A responsive war for survival is more my take on it.
moonbat betty
July 25th, 2011
4:50 pm
Jay sends greetings. The fishing is good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&playnext=1&list=PLED9441CFC963F147
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:52 pm
MARY ELIZABETH
While I respect and admire your sweetness and gentleness and am, I confess, somewhat jealous of it. However, I do think you are blinded by it from time to time when discussing someone you respect and admire to the point of overlooking or excusing their flaws. Matti is the polar opposite in her conviction that the human species is beyond redemption. Somewhere between the two lies the truth. Just my opinion as an EOI…
Paulo977
July 25th, 2011
4:54 pm
Message from Matti
July 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
How far back do we need to go?
“In other words: PEOPLE SUCK. ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL”
We certainly are in need of this at this moment in time ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pF5bai_44s&feature=related
Paulo977
July 25th, 2011
4:54 pm
Message from Matti
July 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
How far back do we need to go?
“In other words: PEOPLE SUCK. ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL”
We certainly are in need of this at this moment in time ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pF5bai_44s&feature=related
josef
July 25th, 2011
4:56 pm
PAUL
“A responsive war for survival is more my take on it.”
I would agree with that on both sides. And may the politicos (i.e. “leaders”) of both sides rot in hellfire eternal for having picked a fight that cost 600,000 lives. They were evil. Parse it any way you want, but they were evil.
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:57 pm
AmVet
Red or Crimson???
pogo
July 25th, 2011
4:57 pm
Every picture that you see of Obama nowadays kind of reminds me of Bill Cosby’s portrayal of his wifes face in the old “Bill Cosby Himself” standup (or sitdown) routine. And no wonder. Obama’s approval rating is falling faster than the Shabelle river level in Africa. What is happening to Obama is the result of of a person being placed into a position that he was in no way qualified to fill. Those that built up and financed (and for that matter voted for) Obama should be ashamed of what they are putting this man through. I really do feel sorry for him.
Left wing management
July 25th, 2011
4:59 pm
Recon: “Most recent poll averages reported by Real Clear Politics has Obama at 45.5% approval and at 49.9% disapproval.”
Now the next thing we got to do is see how Romney’s doing. My hunch is he’ll be looking better and better.
Which is good.
Then again, maybe Bachmann wouldn’t be so bad.
Main thing is though that the big-eared weasel gets voted out. That is assuming he continues going the direction he’s going. But as of yet there’s no evidence — zero — to indicate otherwise.
So three cheers for Romney! (Or maybe two-and-a-half).
@@
July 25th, 2011
4:59 pm
Paul:
You’d have a hard time garnering support for what many refer to as our “military industrial complex”. As I recall, you’re not a big fan yourself.
The mongering comment, as it relates to WWII, was tongue and cheek.
I am so not here for this.
kinda’ testy
July 25th, 2011
4:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpAop7gp0w
Paul
July 25th, 2011
5:04 pm
@@
I figured it was. Can’t always tell //sarc// from you lately.
Actually, I’m kinda a fan of the old complex. It’s just too darn big. With so much money they don’t have to make hard choices and just go their merry old self-interested historical way.
Rarely in history has the Pentagon significantly changed the way it operates unless:
– their money is cut drastically
- Congress imposes (e.g., Goldwater-Nichols)
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
July 25th, 2011
5:07 pm
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
4:38 pm
If Obama – while in the Senate minority – had been approached about raising the debt ceiling, do you think he would have voted “yes”? If he was so principled, why would he object to others holding those same principles?
Mary Elizabeth
July 25th, 2011
5:07 pm
josef @ 4:52
Thank you for your kind words regarding me, but I must say that you are only seeing a part of who I am.
My words, regarding Lincoln, were simply meant to counter yours in order to demonstrate that Lincoln, flawed as he was, was willing to go the distance for this nation’s survival. But, for more than that. He was willing to go the distance so that the ideals on which this nation was founded – that a nation created to uphold those particular ideals not be lost forever in history. And he did go the distance for that, with his life. One can label it any way one wants, but that fact remains.
Must get to the post office. Have a nice evening, josef.
md
July 25th, 2011
5:07 pm
“What can we do? Choose not to suck today. ”
Did somebody say “choices”??
And for the claim that the president outranks all others……let him order the Supremes to do anything, and see where that gets him…………..
Paul
July 25th, 2011
5:10 pm
kinda’ testy
I think this is a much healthier attitude compared to all that negativity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mftz4gY7okk
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 25th, 2011
5:10 pm
Well if the allegations are true about possible vote tampering with the 2004 election in Ohio, Republicans should be glad that we finally have evidence of vote fraud on a massive scale….news and plaintiff’s brief in King Lincoln Bronzeville v Blackwell. And just to make Sooth happy….its got a possible murder cover up.
Oh wait, none of the new republican Stop the Vote ID laws deal with real fraud issues, they deal with the fake rage at nonexistent fraud and just cost a whole lot of money….
Real election stealing..still okay for Republicans!
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
5:14 pm
“He was willing to go the distance so that the ideals on which this nation was founded – that a nation created to uphold those particular ideals not be lost forever in history.”
With the exception of slavery, the South was much more aligned with the ideals upon which this nation was founded than the North was.
Bigelow's Finest
July 25th, 2011
5:15 pm
There is no constitutional requirement for a debt ceiling. Borrow and spend, like any good Republican would. If it was good enough for Bush, then it is good enough for Obama. Even better, put a cap on the current debt and just start a new one and spend until it hits 14 trillion. Let’s even take the current 14 trillion dollar debt and put it in a lock box for safe keeping. Give it as a gift to future generations of Republicans.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 25th, 2011
5:17 pm
With the exception of slavery, the South was much more aligned with the ideals upon which this nation was founded than the North was
Why certainly. Look at all those Southerners who fought at Lexington and Concord. What a silly unsupported nonsensical assertion.
md
July 25th, 2011
5:20 pm
“If it was good enough for Bush, then it is good enough for Obama. ”
Any wonder we are in a world of deep doodoo……..more of the ole he did it,so we can do it too crap…..were you never taught that 2 wrongs never make a right??
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
5:20 pm
History is obviously not someone’s strong suit when attempting to compare the Revolutionary War to the Late Unpleasantness.
Apples and orangutans come to mind.
Bigelow's Finest
July 25th, 2011
5:22 pm
Two wrongs always make a right. It’s the Republican way.
josef
July 25th, 2011
5:22 pm
Good fight
The same could be said for, say King’s Mountain…
The bottom line of the Revolution is that the New Englanders went to battle to preserve and expand their economic interests, the Southerners went to battle for philosophical and ideological reasons, going against their economic self-interest in so doing. The Middle Atlantic colonies essentially wanted no part of it and had to be pulled pretty much kicking and screaming into it.
Normal
July 25th, 2011
5:24 pm
Got home and found, in my mail box, a letter from the Republican National Committee with a Congressional District Questionnaire….very partisan.
Not knowing how I would have gotten on this mailing list, I decided to fill out the questions to the best of my ability….and I was thinking of the Part in “Alice’s Restaurant” about “having fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the Group W bench…I really don’t think I’ll be bothered with mail again, but I might get a burning cross in my yard
1811/0311
July 25th, 2011
5:32 pm
Oooops !
Headline: “OBAMA DISAPPROVAL NEARS RECORD HIGH”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 25th, 2011
5:33 pm
josef….I have no problem with agreeing that there were competing interests and that not all of the colonists wanted the revolution, just as there were competing interests in the Civil War. I do disagree with some blowhard’s unsupported statement that the south represented some “ideals” upon which this country were founded on more than others. This country was not founded on one set of ideals but a compromise of ideals and concepts, some wanting more, some less. Some wanting a stronger federal system, some a weaker. Some for the continuation are the Articles of Confederation, some for the other forms and settled on the Constitution. [The term blowhard is not directed at you, btw. I continue to maintain that the blowhard is just that no matter how he pontificates that he is of superior yet unsupported knowledge that has never panned out in the real world.]
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
5:43 pm
Backtracking and dissembling.
The mark of a class-A, number 1 jerk being called out by his betters.
Disgusted
July 25th, 2011
5:43 pm
the Southerners went to battle for philosophical and ideological reasons, going against their economic self-interest in so doing.
What a bunch of dog poo. josef, I gave you credit for more intelligence than that. I was obviously wrong in my assessment. Slavery, in fact, was the essence of economic self-interest for the South.
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
5:50 pm
Ah. The myopic slavery argument.
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
5:52 pm
You know what’s nice about this discussion, josef?
No fresh sheets after 15 minutes of mentioning the Late Unpleasantness . . .
josef
July 25th, 2011
5:52 pm
good fight
I’m not getting into y’all’s squabbles, but I would tend to agree with him that the South was more oriented to the “ideals…” i.e. the philsophical underpinnings. The North was more oriented to the commercial interests in that squabble as well and, the Mid Atlantic, once again had to be pulled kicking and screaming into the fracas. The compromise reached in Philadelphia was indeed a compromise between the economic and philosophical. Again, here the Mid Atlantic brokered that compromise. It’s why I say it goes back to Willie’s Day at the Beach where the ideolgical of William defeated the economic of the Anglo Saxon, the conflict between the two classses marking the rise of mercantile England and reaching its climax with the English Civil War, with Roundheads going North and the Cavaliers going South, placing them in geographical isolation one from the other. As their “common interests” of the late 1700s receded, the conflict rearose…just my view, of course…
josef
July 25th, 2011
5:55 pm
DSIGUSTED
Go back and reread that. It was in reference to the Revolutionary War. Time line, Bud, time line! So. dog pooh back atcha!
josef
July 25th, 2011
5:57 pm
DAVE
I was thinking that myself, but we still need to be careful. Paul may have orders we don’t know about!
@@
July 25th, 2011
6:06 pm
DANG! Clayton County beats out DeKalb when it comes to a proposed tax increase. 34% to their 26%. The increase will apply to the more stable neighborhoods.
I’m not IN a neighborhood…maybe I’ll get a break? Yeah…right!
Why I like Eldrin Bell…Commission Chairman Eldrin Bell said he plans to offer a last-minute, multi-million-dollar solution in addition to Tuesday night’s tax hike vote.
“I’m exploring the possibility, along with Mr. Edmondson, of looking at a number of vacancies we’ve had with an eye on defending them; we won’t do away with them … we’ll keep the positions in place,” Bell said, referring to Commissioner Michael Edmondson.
Bell said that move would create an immediate savings of $3 million to $4 million.
What a novel idea.
Bell and Edmondson oppose the five-mill hike as a way to deal with the budget crunch.
Our own Tax Commissioner, Terry Baskin fears a tax hike could drive more tax-paying residents out of the county. He said the county could fix its deficit by shelving several recreational centers and other special purpose local option sales tax projects, using proceeds from the recent sale of Tara Field and postponing hiring the county manager.
Another novel idea.
What does he mean when he says “will drive tax-paying residents out of the county”? Who doesn’t pay taxes.
The Commissioner representing my district? “What will cause people to flee the county is if they don’t have police officers, firefighters, and ambulance service, and this is what most of the budget is all about,” Ralph said. He also wants to pay $150,000 in annual salary to a professional administrator.
Typical Democrat.
Dave R.
July 25th, 2011
6:07 pm
Does Paul actually take orders?
Or does he just give them in his role on this blog?
josef
July 25th, 2011
6:14 pm
DAVE
I’m not sure if he and the Imam are not in cabal…
BADA BING
July 25th, 2011
6:15 pm
Charles Edwards is the big winner in the Winehouse Dead Pool, with a pick of July, 2011, with inconclusive cause of death. Next up, Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan. Sign up now.
Bigelow's Finest
July 25th, 2011
6:23 pm
Poor Boehner. He looks like he is set to go down as the least effective leader of the House since Gingrich. Lame duck Boehner. The tea party children are walking all over him and there’s nothing he can do about it.
Uncle Jed
July 25th, 2011
6:31 pm
In case you have grown weary of listening to the POTUS posture; campaign; and whine…
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn will be interviewed LIVE tonight, Monday, July 25th, by Sean Hannity on his Fox News Channel television show. Dr. Arnn will discuss the debt limit debate and the Constitution, specifically in the context of the principle of separation of powers.
Be sure to tune into the Fox News Channel at 9 P.M. EDT to watch. The show is replayed at 12 A.M. EDT. You can also watch Fox News live on FNC’s website – FoxNews.com
++++++++++++++++++
This could actually be a pretty good and educational interview for open-minded students. The challenge will be for Hannity to ask a question and then sit and listen to the answer without jumoing in prematurely. I know many will now post all things clever, but tune in live or later and you might get a new perspective on some things about our constitution and governance. Try it.
Paul
July 25th, 2011
6:35 pm
Uncle Jed
Thanks.
“The challenge will be for Hannity to ask a question and then sit and listen to the answer without jumoing in prematurely”
That’s gotta be the understatement of the day.
josef
July 25th, 2011
6:36 pm
Uncle Jed
Jumping in… I can’t watch Hannity ever how much I may be interested in what one of his guests has to say for the simple reason that that popmpous, arrogant and illbred windbag just won’t shut up and let them speak…
Uncle Jed
July 25th, 2011
6:36 pm
1811/0311
July 25th, 2011
5:32 pm
+++++++++++++
In case you missed it early in this day or any of the other 18,612 times prior…Rasmussen Polling is not an accepted source here on the blog, unless the data supports the left side
At least you waited until “THE expat” went to dinner.
jack bull
July 25th, 2011
6:38 pm
no slavery, as bad as it was, wasn’t it at all.
jack bull
July 25th, 2011
6:39 pm
Hannity does sometimes act like a Democrat when he won’t let someone speak…i see them do that on just about every show they get on.
Uncle Jed
July 25th, 2011
6:41 pm
Paul and josef:
I have a hard time with Sean as well. He would be so much more tolerable if he would get over himself and not get so jacked up. I wonder if it is caffiene as opposed to “illbreeding”
I will watch anyway because I respect what Hillsdale College brings to the mix and Mr. Arnn has written some imformative pieces.
Paul
July 25th, 2011
6:42 pm
josef
Which I why I DVR shows. fast forward to the part I want to see, and if the host is true to form, delete.
Maybe tonight I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
josef
July 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
Uncle Jed…
I’ll have to forego it since I’ve got a major project on the other screen due in the a.m. and won’t be able to get to the tee-vee…
Paul
July 25th, 2011
6:45 pm
Uncle Jed
My impression is, he cuts people off when they’re about to make a very good rebuttal point. Like during the Iraq war, someone would begin to challenge his point and he’d break in with “Is it a good thing there are no more rape rooms?”
I always hoped a guest who’d done his or her homework and knew what to expect would have answered “Yes” and when a stunned Hannity said “What?!!?” the guest would say “it’s the only answer I could give that would make you shut up and listen.”
‘course, it might have been more polite to just say “why didn’t your mother teach you any manners?”
Uncle Jed
July 25th, 2011
6:46 pm
josef
July 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
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Here’s wishing you all the best with your project. Remember to save often and backup, just in case of a buttermilk spill
Kamchak
July 25th, 2011
6:47 pm
In case you missed it
early in this day or any of the other 18,612 times prioron talk-radio in the past thirty years or so…Rasmussen Pollingthe liberal lamestream media is not an accepted sourcehere on the blogin Wingnuttistan, unless the data supports theleftright sidejosef
July 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
PAUL
“‘course, it might have been more polite to just say “why didn’t your mother teach you any manners?””
Illbred… not caffeine (Uncle Jed)
Bigelow's Finest
July 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
Arnn’s academic interest in Sir Winston Churchill led to the establishment of the annual Churchill Dinner in Washington, D.C. Past speakers at the dinner include Charles Krauthammer, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, and Clarence Thomas.
I’m sure he’ll give you a fair and balanced assessment. NOT!
Uncle Jed
July 25th, 2011
6:50 pm
My impression is, he cuts people off when they’re about to make a very good rebuttal point. Like during the Iraq war, someone would begin to challenge his point and he’d break in with “Is it a good thing there are no more rape rooms?”
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You do raise an interesting observation.
josef
July 25th, 2011
6:51 pm
Uncle Jed…
Lost a nearly 400 page one once…learned my lesson…back up and save all over the place!
Uncle Jed
July 25th, 2011
6:51 pm
Illbred… not caffeine (Uncle Jed)
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Touche’
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 25th, 2011
6:51 pm
Past speakers at the dinner include Charles Krauthammer, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, and Clarence Thomas.
Well, I’m sorry to learn they bring in a bunch of RINOs like that.
Have a good night everybody.
Soothsayer
July 25th, 2011
6:51 pm
Hi, everybody! I was over at Wal-Mart today and someone snapped my picture! I know many of you are just dying to know what I look like so, in the public interest, I thought I would post this photo! I hope you like it!
AmVet
July 25th, 2011
6:53 pm
The only program with pretty boy that I’d want to see is the one where he gets waterboarded…
josef
July 25th, 2011
6:55 pm
Sooth…
Ewwwww…but, temme, do a fat baby f*rt?
Brosephus
July 25th, 2011
6:58 pm
If Obama – while in the Senate minority – had been approached about raising the debt ceiling, do you think he would have voted “yes”? If he was so principled, why would he object to others holding those same principles?
I’m guessing he was approached when he voted no. However, that situation was nowhere near as bitter and partisaned as it is now. Do I think he would go on principles and vote no if the situation was like it is now? No, I don’t think so. This debate is so divided and partisaned that it has probably ruined the credit rating of the US in the short term. So, all the talk of inflation and stuff will hit like a ton of bricks. The Feds have been holding interest rates way, way low. IF our ratings go down, which I don’t see how they won’t stay AAA now, the rise in interest rates will kill any chance of our economy recovering within the next 5 years.
That said, if the GOP succeeds in their ultimate plan to make Obama a one termer and replace him with a GOP president, that president will have to deal with the economic fallout of all this bs going on now. Unless the GOP bribes companies to hire like banshees, our economy is fu*ked until at least 2020. Whether we wanted it or not, we’re about to do our version of the “lost decade”.
As far as others holding their principles, that’s all fine and good. Holding those principles won’t mean jack when people lose what little they have if the economy goes bust after all this. We won’t have to worry about spending cuts, because there won’t be much to spend anyway. And if the economy does go bust, I’ll campaign like hell against any type of federal interference whatsoever.
Paul
July 25th, 2011
7:00 pm
Soothsayer
Are you my long-lost brother?!!?
Bigelow's Finest
July 25th, 2011
7:02 pm
What you doing in that phot, Sooth, picking fleas?
Soothsayer
July 25th, 2011
7:05 pm
josef: “temme” you that one’s going in the old vocabulary file!
Paul: We have the same Mother, just different Daddies.
Bigelow: you’ll notice that I am extremely sunburned so I am picking off the peeling skin!
Curious Observer
July 25th, 2011
7:06 pm
Poll: 71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis CBS News
How’s that make-sure-Obama-doesn’t-get-reelected thingy working out for ya>
jack bull
July 25th, 2011
7:09 pm
CBS news poll, really? wow. i wonder how that went..kinda like when Fox has a poll, wouldn’t ya think.