As GOP throws a tantrum in DC, Obama’s fortunes rise
The second major poll is as many days reports significant improvement in President Obama’s job-approval rating.
Here’s the first, released Monday by Washington Post/ABC News:
Source: Washington Post/ABC News
Here’s the second, showing quite similar movement, from CNN:
Source: CNN
And why the change? Some numbers from CNN explain:
Source: CNN
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to throw childish tantrums in Washington over extending the tax break for working Americans, and GOP presidential candidates continue to pitch woo at their party’s more extreme elements.
They can’t hep it, they just cain’t hep it.
– Jay Bookman
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jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
4:19 pm
Throw in some self tanner and they’ll be on board.
Beverly Fraud
December 20th, 2011
4:26 pm
Collectively, I wouldn’t trust them to teach a fish how to swim. The Dems would make fish wear OSHA approved life jackets and go through a government required “training” program (replete with a new federal dept.) and the Republicans would drain all the water out of lakes and rivers under the guise of “job creation” and blame fish for being unproductive members of society.
And that’s a BEST case scenario.
Peadawg
December 20th, 2011
4:30 pm
OFF TOPIC but hilarious nonetheless:
http://www.businessinsider.com/pro-adultery-dating-website-ashley-madison-endorses-newt-gingrich-2011-12
“Extra-marital dating website AshleyMadison.com has erected a billboard of serial adulterer and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich in Bucks County, Pennsylvania that reads: “Faithful Republican, Unfaithful Husband. Welcome to the AshleyMadison.com Era.””
Midori
December 20th, 2011
4:30 pm
I suppose the holding of breath and stamping of feet can only work for so long.
just like with toddlers.
Nope
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Why any hard working, middle class American would ever vote for another Republican is beyond me. The GOP has just proven that they are the party of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. They will fight tooth and nail to not raise taxes on millionaires one penny, but will allow the payroll tax cut to expire and raise taxes on millions of American workers. Good to know come November.
Wild Eyes
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Beverly I think you summed it up perfectly.
Jm
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Yep he’s up
Jay 4:23 (below) regulations on government are good
Regulations on people not causing any identifiable harm to others, bad
Midori
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Pea – someone posted that billboard on Facebook
Peadawg
December 20th, 2011
4:32 pm
“Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to throw childish tantrums in Washington over extending the tax break for working Americans”
So I’ve heard. More of the “my way or the highway” kind of compromise. Merry Christmas everyone from the GOP!
Beverly Fraud
December 20th, 2011
4:33 pm
Erected a billboard, Peadawg? No pun intended I’m sure.
Jm
December 20th, 2011
4:33 pm
Reid is on vacay
the tax cut extension is dead
Wonk or Wank?
December 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Looks so good for Obama in 2012. The GOP pool cancelled each other out. Each candidate made a splash. But they went belly up.
josef
December 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Oooohhh..look at all them charts…and here I was thinking the Bruin didn’t care about us with just the one old tired and worn out thread…but he WAS hard at work…
And President Obama’s rating?
On which issue…for me, some gets high A and some gets flat F…
Grasshopper
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
What happens when you are constantly campaigning instead of leading, constantly blaming others instead of trying to find solutions?
Eventually, you will find enough fools that will believe in you.
Peadawg
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
“Erected a billboard, Peadawg? No pun intended I’m sure.
Didn’t even catch that one. Nice.
Midori
December 20th, 2011
4:37 pm
well, we all know how Grasshopper met his end, don’t we?
Jm
December 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
Democrats want to undermine social security
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
4:41 pm
As GOP throws a tantrum in DC…
When in danger or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.
Eric
December 20th, 2011
4:41 pm
@ Nope–I agree. You know what else? Funny how our system works so that the rich and big corporations are nearly always the ones (with media fanfare to look good in the public eye) making a “charity” to those less fortunate. A fairer tax code and job expansion would mean a stronger middle class again, with supposedly fewer less fortunate.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:42 pm
the Nutster didn’t commit adultery he was just being patriotic. On all his wives.
And with his record he only has 7 more years with number 3.
Grasshopper
December 20th, 2011
4:42 pm
And we all know that Midori is sickly sweet.
Beverly, your first post was right on.
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
4:42 pm
Speaking of temper tantrums I was just watching Faux news with former Virginia governor and Democrat Douglas Wilder the nation’s first black governor going off on Joe Biden. Good grief Mr. Wilder beat ole Joe down reciting several of his many gaffes and questioning why this man’s competency as VP and lord forbid if something happened to O. Rush Limbaugh couldn’t have torn Joe down any better than Wilder did.
Beverly Fraud
December 20th, 2011
4:43 pm
@josef, I’d say Obama sending Arne Duncan down to Georgia in a futile attempt to prop up Beverly Hall politically AFTER it was painfully obvious the largest cheating scandal in US educational history was unfolding would be an “F”
As in EPIC FAIL.
Not much better was the attempt to name her to one of his major education advisory boards.
What was he trying to do, one up Bush (with his appointment of Rod “Houston Miracle” Paige) in the LACK of integrity department?
Talking Head
December 20th, 2011
4:43 pm
As I mentioned earlier on the older column, the CNN survey is noteworthy but shouldn’t be taken with any seriousness. It contains registered voters but does not disclose what party affiliation those surveyed belonged. Additionally, the WashPost/ABC poll surveyed ‘adults’, but not registered voters therefore the validity of the poll is in question and should not be taken seriously.
josef
December 20th, 2011
4:44 pm
Thulsa
Wilder is certainly a wild card, no doubt about that…
Granny Godzilla
December 20th, 2011
4:44 pm
Midori
If they managed to hold their breath just a half hour longer…..
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
4:46 pm
From Pea’s linkee..
Gingrich was not Ashley Madison’s first choice. Biderman reached out to Herman Cain last week to be the site’s president of international affairs.
If I were a stand-up comic, I could be selling out Madison Square Garden right about now.
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
4:46 pm
Here’s a good one of a foolish child throwin a temper tantrum.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6425655-rep-anthony-weiner-throws-a-tantrum-on-the-house-floor
josef
December 20th, 2011
4:46 pm
FRAUD
He gets an F from me on education….
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:47 pm
To be honest I think Boehner has lost control of congress and it is being controlled by Cantor.
josef
December 20th, 2011
4:48 pm
GG
Did you get the message the other day on the t-shirt one of my folks sent me? “Don’t make me go all South Jackson on yore a33!”
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:48 pm
Cain should be Sec. of Domestic Affairs.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
NoCom
I was thinking more like Multinational Affairs.
Butch Cassidy
December 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
Common – “To be honest I think Boehner has lost control of congress and it is being controlled by Cantor.”
Is that like being under the control of a Sith Lord?
josef
December 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
common sense
Cantor sorta reminds me of Judah P…just not anywhere near his smarts, though…
Midori
December 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
If they managed to hold their breath just a half hour longer…..
Mrs. G got that snark going on
Granny Godzilla
December 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
South Jackson…
Pansies.
The Jackson Junior League…now those were some tough hens.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
4:50 pm
As I mentioned earlier on the older column, the CNN survey is noteworthy but shouldn’t be taken with any seriousness.
Translation: Only pay attention to the polls that agree with me.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:51 pm
More like Charlie McCarthy, you just can’t see Cantors hand up his a33
Beverly Fraud
December 20th, 2011
4:52 pm
Fair to say that Newt is getting Newtered in Iowa?
OUCH!
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
4:52 pm
I think Boehner’s cry for help from Obama in getting the Senate to deal with the payroll tax cut legislation has been answered. Obama says to give the senate’s bipartisan compromise bill a straight up or down vote in the house.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
4:52 pm
More like Charlie McCarthy, you just can’t see Cantors hand up his a33
Infraction on the play. We have unsportsmanlike imagery against NoCom. Half the distance to the goal line. 1st down!!
Peadawg
December 20th, 2011
4:53 pm
Talking Head @ 4:43 pm sounds like the teacher from Charlie Brown
Quit sugar coating sh*t and say it…”Only pay attention to the polls that agree with me.”
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:53 pm
Newt is running out of money, time to return Calista’s jewelry?
getalife
December 20th, 2011
4:53 pm
President Obama is at 52%. (Anybody can beat him cons?)
Corrupt congress 7 %.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
4:54 pm
“[T]hey just cain’t hep it.”
Jay’s done gone all country-fried on us here!
Wonk or Wank?
December 20th, 2011
4:54 pm
Obama is a president to be proud of. He singlehandedly brought the respect for the office back.
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
4:54 pm
Notwithstanding more bad news for the cons, I can see why some people get down at this time of year.
I’m off to a Christmas Party (Don’t worry, I’m war weary right now and will resume the war on Xmas soon enough!) and though I really like the folks who will be there, between fighting off all of the girls and being the hit of the party, it is a lot of pressure. Thank gawd, I’ve got my Looney Tunes Christmas tie to sustain me.
Oh well, here’s to finding Amanda and Jennifer under the mistletoe…(And if I’m really lucky, at the same time! LOL!)
Enjoy the evening folks, and don’t forget…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqfZUX5svCg
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:56 pm
Taxpayer – Boehner tried that play but was overruled. By whom I have no idea but I suspect Cantor.
Maybe he has pictures of Boehner with a toe tapper.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
4:57 pm
That Ashley Morgan website ought to come with a warning “warning: jealous husbands can be hazardous to your health!”
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
4:57 pm
Sho has been a lot of them left wing tantrums lately- enough to get over 2,000 of them nice ows protesters arrested. And how about this- an OWS protester throwing a tantrum and school children on the way to school.
Kinda sick that these POS protesters were yelling “follow the kids” as they walked through a gauntlet of protesters to get to school. Oh, and don’t forget the protester at the end who followed a father and his 4 year old daughter down the block to taunt them. And people admire these POS bullies? Stay classy liberals. Stay classy.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ows-yells-at-little-kids-in-their-latest-day-of-tantrums/
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
4:58 pm
Amvet – who the heck has a Christmas party on a Tuesday?
Talking Head
December 20th, 2011
4:59 pm
Peadawg & Kamchak,
I’m sorry I upset you by looking into the details for myself instead of just taking someone else’s word for the matter.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
5:02 pm
Corrupt congress 7 %.
Historically, over the past forty or so years, reelection rates for congress critters are in the 80-90% range.
Be interesting to see if that changes this election cycle.
Wisconsin has already garnered over half a million signatures in half the time allotted to recall gov. Scott Walker, and his merry band of pekoe types are no doubt shivering in their shoes to see if they’re next.
Go Rocky Anderson.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:02 pm
We have obvious deflection at the top of the page, loss of 5 yards, repeat the down…
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
5:04 pm
I’m sorry I upset you…
I’m sorry you’re mistaken about me being upset.
USNC
December 20th, 2011
5:04 pm
the economy is improving. Obama will get credit for it just like reagan did.
will make the AM radio crowd and the other haters apoplectic.
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
5:06 pm
Brocephus,
Well since we are talking about temper tantrums…Unless of course libs just don’t like having their many temper tantrums of late pointed out.
Steve - USA
December 20th, 2011
5:06 pm
I don’t think Obama is running against Congress in the next election.
A 2 month extension was a BS thing to do. Quit playing games and do the 12 months.
BTW – was there a blog about Obama being at 55% disapproval in September?
pogo
December 20th, 2011
5:07 pm
Relating to the Jay’s earlier piece on Newt and the Judiciary, I find it amusing that there were those here applauding Obama’s public admonishment of the SCOTUS about their ruling on campaign finance during his SOTU speech. Now it appears that he and the Democratic party are far outpacing the Republicans in raking in lobbyist dollars. The Obama administration’s willingness to hire lobbyists is scary and I don’t know but that he hasn’t hired more of these parasites than any other sitting president. This is an administration that is for sell. It absolutely reeks of Chicago Style politics. The fact that the lobbyists are funneling money to the democrats and to Obama pretty much proves that they (the lobbyists) know that they can get what they want much easier by supporting them. Lobbyists don’t care about what is best for America. They are all about greed and they migrate to the path of least resistance which in this case is Obama and the dims.
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
5:08 pm
CS, I know, I know.
I was thinking about some of the wild parties back in the day.
Some of us would quietly slip out to the parking lot and do drugs (and/or each other). Then we’d go back in and continue drinking like fish!
Yeah, baby…
OK, out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDU4Z_BBkTA&feature=related
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
5:09 pm
pogo,
Ironical aint it. They do have their selective poutrage they do.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
5:09 pm
I sure do hope Ol’ Newt is the Republican nominee! Hee! Hee!
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
5:10 pm
The fact that the lobbyists are funneling money to the democrats and to Obama pretty much proves that they (the lobbyists) know that they can get what they want much easier by supporting them.
Lobbyists throw money at every politician.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
5:12 pm
NEWT IN 2012!
In his mind he knows he’s right!
VOTE REPUBLICAN 2012
We promise not to f*ck everything up this time!
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:13 pm
Steve,
the archives are located on the right side of the blog.
Talking Head
December 20th, 2011
5:13 pm
“Lobbyists throw money at every politician.”
Translation: I have no defense of backing Obama, but I will continue to blame the GOP.
hahah, I slay myself sometimes
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
Doom
Are you challenging the call on the field?
Stevie Ray
December 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
JAY,
The most interesting feature in todays Washington Post was much more interesting than the above..
OpEd by Walter Pincus about Robert Gates Insight into Washington…couple diddies:
He referred to politics currently as “a zero-sum policies and ideological siege warfare that are the new order of the day…by the capitals oversized egos and undersized backbones”…
He referred to “the highly gerrymandered system of district drawing to create safe seats for both parties resulting in elected representatives totally beholden to their party’s ideological base…wave elections that sweep one party in to power after another…each seized with ideological zeal and rightness of their agenda”…
Here’s the best: “we are in a 20/7 digital media environment that provides a forum and wide dissemination for the most extreme and vitriolic views, leading to a coarsening and a dumbing down of our national political discourse…”
JAY, what are your thoughts on the last comment?
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
“hahah, I slay myself sometimes”
Someone seems to be nipping in the eggnog…
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
5:17 pm
hahah, I slay myself sometimes
And your efforts do not go unappreciated. Keep on saving us the trouble.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
5:18 pm
I have no defense of backing Obama, but I will continue to blame the GOP.
I supported Juan McSame and Snowbilly Snooki in the previous presidential election cycle, and I support Rocky Anderson In this presidential election cycle.
Is that clear enough that it doesn’t need translating?
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:19 pm
“we are in a 20/7 digital media environment that provides a forum and wide dissemination for the most extreme and vitriolic views, leading to a coarsening and a dumbing down of our national political discourse…”
It’s a cop out to blame the media…there is an off switch on that blathering light box in one’s living room. A thinking person will use it.
josef
December 20th, 2011
5:19 pm
Granny…
Were you Junior League?
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
5:20 pm
brocephus,
The instant replay ruled in my favor. Tee hee!
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
5:20 pm
A crying shame.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:21 pm
Doom
Yeah, the booth overturned the call.
Stevie Ray
December 20th, 2011
5:22 pm
Who cares what the hours latest polls say? Oh gee, BO’s approval rating with white, uneducated and most likely not to vote went up a couple percentage points….also, at this particular inning of the game the GOP has a slight lead over the DEM in the perception of sleaz….
How much of this is due to those folks researching the issues versus what they are told by their political master of ceremonies whether it be Bill O’Reilly, Glen Beck, The 700 Club, BIG ED, or that former dimwited ESPN announcer?
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:23 pm
Stevie Ray.
BIG ED?
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
5:23 pm
WalMart has a special on pepper spray for the Republican in your family that you have not bought just the right present for yet.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
5:24 pm
Here’s how it works.
Thulsa Doom
December 20th, 2011
5:24 pm
Its Christmas. People are feeling pretty good, charitable, etc. Wonder what those poll numbers will look like in say mid January.
Donovan
December 20th, 2011
5:25 pm
We have been over this ground before. Until you can provide a more credible source other than the Washington Post/ABC, you are only preaching to the liberal choir. You might as well have said the New York Slimes or MSNBC in your reference for crying out loud.
You people have nothing in defense of this community organizer and you know it. He can’t run on his record and you Democrats don’t have anything to help him other than demeaning the GOP opposition.
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:26 pm
Soothsayer:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-takes-group-of-schoolchildren-hostage,26207/
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:26 pm
While House Republicans couldn’t get their act together to approve an extension of the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits last night, they were able to do something far more frivolousness — commission a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to be placed in the Capitol. The House “adjourned moments after” passing the bill, which directs:
That the Architect of the Capitol place an appropriate statue or bust of Sir Winston Churchill in the United States Capitol at a location directed by the House Fine Arts Board in consultation with the Speaker.
The resolution was seen as a rebuke to the White House, which returned a bust of Churchill to the British Embassy in 2009.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/20/392382/payroll-tax-winston-churchill-bust/
I see we’ve identified the cause of all the “angst” about Churchill’s bust on the previous thread…..
Stevie Ray
December 20th, 2011
5:27 pm
JEWCOWBOY,
Couldn’t disagree more but I think to put Gates (who has been sought after by both parties) comments in perspective, suggest you read the article… very brief…hard to disagree and yes, I feel strongly that folks rely on their favorite news commentator, clergy member, or whatever club to which they subscribe for opinions on views..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-voice-in-the-wilderness/2011/12/15/gIQANOwL5O_story.html
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:28 pm
“He can’t run on his record and you Democrats don’t have anything to help him other than demeaning the GOP opposition.”
Actually:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6442380909_46c3b4d93b_z.jpg
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:28 pm
False start on Jay. Posting a response on the wrong thread, Loss of 5 yards, repeat the post.
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:29 pm
jeez Donovan
“new york ’slimes’”?
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
5:29 pm
WalMart has a special on pepper spray for the Republican in your family that you have not bought just the right present for yet.
Why not?
Megyn Kelly insists, “It’s a food product essentially.”
Stevie Ray
December 20th, 2011
5:30 pm
JEWCOWBOY,
BIG ED is a riot…he is on MSNBC and America Left…imagine George Washington on the helm of a row boat on a river of middle class (whatever that means any more) “little guys” getting screwed by anything GOP…I’ve been listening to equal parts America Left and America Right on satellite for some time…it generally makes my head explode but the truth lie somewhere in the middle I think..
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:30 pm
we need to get Bro a new whistle
Stevie Ray
December 20th, 2011
5:31 pm
BROCEPHUS,
Check out the article link I posted re Robert Gates…the most eloquent description of whats wrong with our great leadership…you will dig it the most..
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
5:31 pm
Why is property in Manhatten so expensive? Those dang commie Ruskies! What else! The Gipper is probably rolling over in his grave.
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:33 pm
Stevie Ray:
“a zero-sum policies and ideological siege warfare that are the new order of the day”
Now which Republican Presidential candidate is widely held by both Republicans and Democrats responsible for introducing this mindset to Washington?
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:33 pm
Midori
Instant replay’s in my corner on that last one…
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/12/19/gingrichs-anti-judicial-tirade-is-an-attack-on-liberty/?cp=19#comment-812385
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
5:34 pm
Megyn Kelly insists, “It’s a food product essentially.”
I know! I carry my hand held to the restaurant so when the waiter asks if I want fresh ground pepper on my salad, I just say No, I’ve got it covered, as I whip that little canister out and blast that romaine.
Stevie Ray
December 20th, 2011
5:35 pm
JEWCOWBOY,
It’s a non-partisan piece…suggest you read it before commentary and/or prematurecommentulation.
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:35 pm
my concern is you’ve about worn this whistle out
got good lungs, huh?
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
5:37 pm
Stevie Ray,
“BIG ED is a riot…”
I can honestly say I’ve never received my news from someone called Big Ed. Now, I did have some tires replaced at Big 10.
“I’ve been listening to equal parts America Left and America Right on satellite for some time…”
I’m surprised you are not insane by now. Please stop before you find yourself having a tea party with Napoleon, Cheshire Cat and Mr. Bean.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:38 pm
Stevie
Pincus writes some nice pieces from time to time. He was one of the writers (outside of the fed coverage) that got me to reading the WaPo on a regular basis. That paper’s one of my start pages on my browser.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
5:38 pm
Midori, I am certainly glad that the House Republicans got that bust thing worked out (did they even mention it was Churchill or just a bust?)…. I know USinUK has been horrendously upset and has been boycotting this blog for months because of the slight to the Brits…..
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
5:39 pm
got good lungs, huh?
A brother’s gotta stay in shape. Doesn’t hurt that I need to drop a few pounds too. Not being able to get to the gym on the regular isn’t good.
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:40 pm
lol Keep.
either “bust” or go broke, I suppose
getalife
December 20th, 2011
5:40 pm
cons need to deal with losing better.
The should be used to it by now.
Get over it cons.
Midori
December 20th, 2011
5:41 pm
I hear ya Bro – I’m real disappointed that during this slow week at work, it’s supposed to rain.
all. week. long!!!!
really going to interfere with my walks
JohnnyReb
December 20th, 2011
5:42 pm
I am back to a post made what seems like years ago, that being, the Conservative faithful will not see the changes they want until McConnell is no longer leading the Senate Republicans. There is no way he should have allowed Reid to paint him into this corner. If this mess works out to the Left’s failure, McConnell owns it.
josef
December 20th, 2011
5:43 pm
Somebody needs to tell Newt there are seven other nominative pronouns he hasn’t used..
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
5:46 pm
josep
when invited to join the Jackson Junior League –
from Mrs. “recognizable important family name”
I responded with an invitation to join the Urban League.
Conversation over.
That said my sticky, lumpy old copy of the JJL Southern Sideboards
Cookbook is a treasure.
I spent more time at “the Dock” – had a thing for musical types.
josef
December 20th, 2011
5:50 pm
GG
One of the best cookbooks ev-uh!
Psst…I know a couple of Junior Leaguers who are also Urban Leaguers over there…!
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
5:55 pm
That said my sticky, lumpy old copy of the JJL Southern Sideboards
Cookbook is a treasure.
Ooh, cool!
I collect Junior League cook books from the cities that I visit.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
5:56 pm
josef
What did you think about “Th Help”?
Read it, haven’t seen the movie.
I swear I know some of those ladies. Met the author many many moons ago
at an engagement party.
What does Jackson think?
carlosgvv
December 20th, 2011
5:58 pm
And yet, come election day, millions of people will vote for the Republican loser who gets the nomination. It will mean nothing to either the voters or the candidate that the Party is wholly owned by the rich and does what it is told to do by it’s corporate masters. They can’t help it, they just can’t help it.
josef
December 20th, 2011
5:58 pm
GG
Did you ever know Mary Alice Bookhart?
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
5:59 pm
Kammie
Never trust a cook with pristine cookbooks.
If there is a droplet of batter or dough or sauce or gravy on a few pages it’s a velveteen cookbook. loved.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
Enter your comments here
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
6:02 pm
granny godzilla,
“Never trust a cook with pristine cookbooks.”
Does that translate to the 21st century and iPads?
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:02 pm
geez, it’s been 20+ years.
1st Presbyterian or 1st Baptist?
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:04 pm
granny godzilla
Mom’s copy of Mrs Dull’s Southern Cooking is so beat up, we had to buy a new copy last year.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:06 pm
21st yes. makes “S” lecture me about crumbs and keyboards.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
6:08 pm
“This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone December 15-18 2011, among a random national sample of 1,005 adults, including landline and cell phone-only respondents.”
I think “likely voters” would be more relevant.
But I guess these days anything to give O’bozo supporters like Jay some hope makes them feel better.
Merry Christmas!
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:09 pm
Does that translate to the 21st century and iPads?
Even though I have an online subscription to Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country,, I still print out hard copies and put ‘em in a three ring binder.
And yes, a few of those printed pages have some food stains already.
josef
December 20th, 2011
6:09 pm
GG
On “The Help…” I wasn’t overly impressed myself. And how does Jackson feel? Well, she IS a writer from Jackson and you know Mississippi’s pride there…I’ve always found it fascinating that the first off Broadway production of Boys in the Band was in Jackson…It may be about f*ggots, but Crowley IS from Mississippi!
Way back when I was an arts and entertainment editor over there, the blue haired biddies pulled one heckuva coup and got Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote for the Arts Fest, unknowing of the b*tch fight between the two. And give them their credit for being Southern gentlemen of culture and breeding…the only request they made was that they not be on stage together…Truman was even gracious enough to insist that Tennessee get top billing, being the native son.
There’s a lot more happened during that particular event, but that’s for another time and another place. But I did get the chance to go for a night on the town with Tennessee, a great moment in my life. He knew Jackson and what did he want to do first? Fried dill pickles at Mack’s By the Tracks!
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:09 pm
Lib ilk alert!
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
6:10 pm
“But I guess these days anything to give O’bozo supporters like Jay some hope makes them feel better.”
I would say the Republican field of Presidential candidates fulfills that role quite nicely.
josef
December 20th, 2011
6:11 pm
GG
St Andrew’s!
jewcowboy
December 20th, 2011
6:12 pm
Kamchak,
“I still print out hard copies and put ‘em in a three ring binder.”
I digitized all my family recipes. I still have cookbooks, but I honestly can’t remember the last time I used one rather than my iPad.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:15 pm
I digitized all my family recipes.
Bah! You young whippersnappers and your new fangled gadgets, pshaw.
And GET OF OF MY LAWN!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
6:16 pm
Ohhhhh….. is there a Ilk Cookbook yet?
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:17 pm
Keep
I’m workin’ on one. Grilled ilk for all occasions.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
Keep – is that farm raised or wild ilk?
Have to get the gaminess out ya know
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:20 pm
Have to get the gaminess out ya know
I’ve found that presoaking in butterilk will take care of that problem quite nicely.
josef
December 20th, 2011
6:20 pm
K’chak
I’m with you there…! I’ve got a cousin who’s putting together a cookbook of our family recipes and doing all that digital stuff…bah! We’ve got a salsa recipe brought out of Spain during the Inquisition and handed down all these generations…she wanted me to “digitilize” it and send it to her…I told her she’d get it the way I got it…handwritten!
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
6:21 pm
I’m wondering why O’bozo only improved 5 points when we all just learned he’s the 4th best president ever.
Don’t believe that?
Just ask him.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:21 pm
at the beach every year i carefully preselect a few things. this year
big brother#1 brought his nook or kindle or whatever and it is pretty cool.
but i will always love the feel of a favorite book.
and i remember the final scene of farenheit 451.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
6:23 pm
Grilled is good, but I think they are best if you sautee them in a light wine truffle sauce, a little sausage/corn bread stuffing with a delightful spritz of EVOO before a quick flash grill. Not only gets out the gaminess but also creates an air of the 1% (especially when served on a silver platter by your butler/gardner/driver).
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
6:23 pm
What whine goes well with eye of newt?
Republicans act like the house is on fire while holding a can of gasoline
December 20th, 2011
6:23 pm
What the Republican Job Plan Does
The facts about the House Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators.
Republicans say America is at a crossroads and House Republicans are committed to taking every possible step to spur job creation and get our economy back on track so that Americans can do what they do best: create, innovate and lead. The pro-growth agenda detailed below builds on the GOP Pledge to America, our governing agenda focused on job creation and economic growth. It will address our economic challenges, foster innovation and investment, and help job creators without raising taxes on working families and small business owners.
Republican Solutions: Reduce Regulations, Tax Code Reform. Free Trade. Patent Reform,
Visas for the Highly Skilled
***********************************************************************
WHERE ARE THE JOBS REPUBLICANS?
josef
December 20th, 2011
6:26 pm
GG
Love my ipad and do have the electronic book thingie…but there’s just nothing will ever take the place of curling up with a good page turner…scrolling just ain’t the same thing….
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
6:26 pm
What whine goes well with eye of newt?
Would that be a Delaware SandWitch?
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:27 pm
i think we are currently looking at a recipe for ilknewtons.
i prefer the fig.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
6:27 pm
You lib ilks are best appreciated as “smoked,” like what’s gonna happen in November of next year.
Republicans act like the house is on fire while holding a can of gasoline
December 20th, 2011
6:28 pm
To all of you Obama haters…………Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha!
Winning!
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:28 pm
Keep
You wanna create “an air of 1%”?
Ilk Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
josef
December 20th, 2011
6:28 pm
common sense
What else? Need you ask? Fat B*stard!
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:31 pm
Kammie
a gentle touch with the spam. underappreciated.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
6:31 pm
According to a new peer-reviewed study published in the December edition of the International Journal of Health Services – researchers found that there were 14,000 excess deaths in America in the 14 weeks after the Fukushima meltdown – and they believe these deaths can be traced back to radioactive fallout. Most of the deaths were infants – under the age of one – and studies show that despite infant death DECREASING by more than 8% this year in the weeks leading UP to Fukushima – infant death in American INCREASED this year by nearly 2% in the weeks AFTER Fukushima. A similar phenomenon was studied at Chernobyl in 1986 – where more than 16,000 excess deaths were reported weeks after the meltdown. Numbers by the Center for Disease Control back up this study – finding that deaths in America’s biggest cities spiked 4.5 percent from last year in the weeks after Fukushima. Sadly – we’re just scratching the surface when it comes to how dangerous nuclear power is – yet we keep subsidizing reactors with our tax dollars. This is insanity.
but according to the right wingnuts, it gives the ilk a nice green glow so its okay….. just as making changes to EPA regulatory authority to deregulate incinerators and boilers is predicted to lead to an estimated 20,000 premature deaths…. but toe the righties, thats job creation….someone has got to dig those graves and replace those workers…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
6:32 pm
Kam, I don’t like spam. Have you got anything without spam?
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
6:33 pm
keep – possibly they could share communion
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
6:33 pm
First things first!
Jeff
December 20th, 2011
6:34 pm
As soon as I read it was a Washington Post/ABC News poll I immediately had my doubts about its accuracy. You can’t get much more leftist than those two organizations.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
6:34 pm
I don’t like spam. Have you got anything without spam?
Spam, eggs, sausage, and spam.
It hasn’t got much spam in it.
Republicans act like the house is on fire while holding a can of gasoline
December 20th, 2011
6:35 pm
@Grasshopper December 20th, 2011 4:35 pm – What happens when you are constantly campaigning instead of leading, constantly blaming others instead of trying to find solutions?
******************************************************************
Q – What happens when you are constantly campaigning instead of leading?
A – Winning
Q – What happens when you are constantly blaming others instead of trying to find solutions?
A – Winning
Bud Fox
December 20th, 2011
6:36 pm
Boehner fluffs Cantor like nobodies business…
Republicans act like the house is on fire while holding a can of gasoline
December 20th, 2011
6:39 pm
@Jeff December 20th, 2011 6:34 pm – As soon as I read it was a Washington Post/ABC News poll I immediately had my doubts about its accuracy. You can’t get much more leftist than those two organizations.
****************************************************
CNN AGREES!
Some IDIOTS took Obama for granted. How did that work out for ‘em?
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
6:41 pm
“. just as making changes to EPA regulatory authority to deregulate incinerators and boilers is predicted to lead to an estimated 20,000 premature deaths”
Hi, Keep.
BS.
Name some names.
Republicans act like the house is on fire while holding a can of gasoline
December 20th, 2011
6:48 pm
Republicans ROLLING BACK child labor laws!
God don’t like ugly!
When you mess with (the least of these) children, the elderly and innocent animals he will get you everytime!
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:48 pm
Keep
Well isn’t that special.
Can we hurry up and run a pipeline full of some of the nastiest crap on the planet through the source of huge amounts of fresh water that could eventually create as many as 20,000 jobs in ten to twenty years for the health care workers and drug manufacturers and funeral directors reuired to service the cancer clusters et al.
Whoopee. Can we start now please?
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
6:54 pm
Granny has brown eyes.
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
6:57 pm
I hope we send some of that 1B war chest to the cons with the
express instructions to “keep up the good work” or
“heckuva katrina-like job there.”
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
6:57 pm
hazel actually.
and you just plain full of it.
push around your own wife.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
6:58 pm
a pipeline full of some of the nastiest crap on the planet through the source of huge amounts of fresh water that could eventually create as many as 20,000 jobs in ten to twenty years for the health care workers and drug manufacturers and funeral directors reuired to service the cancer clusters et al.
I’ll take that on a kaiser roll with a spam steak braised in cream of ilk.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
6:58 pm
Granny….. job creators don’t have to worry about the deaths of th 99%…..
From Lisa Jackson (admin of EPA) Op-Ed:
Too dirty to fail” tries to convince Americans that they must choose between their health and the economy, a choice that’s been proved wrong for the four decades that the EPA has been in existence. No credible economist links our current economic crisis — or any economic crisis — to tough clean-air and clean-water standards.
A better approach is the president’s call for federal agencies to ensure that regulations don’t overburden American businesses. The EPA has already put that into effect by repealing or revising several unnecessary rules, while ensuring that essential health protections remain intact.
We can put Americans to work retrofitting outdated, dirty plants with updated pollution control technology. There are about 1,100 coal-fired units at about 500 power plants in this country. About half of these units are more than 40 years old, and about three-quarters of them are more than 30 years old. Of these 1,100 units, 44% do not use pollution controls such as scrubbers or catalysts to limit emissions, and they pour unlimited amounts of mercury, lead, arsenic and acid gases into our air. Despite requirements in the bipartisan 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, these facilities have largely refused to control their emissions — creating an uneven playing field for companies who play by the rules and gaming the system at the expense of our health.
If these plants continue to operate without pollution limits, as a legislative wish list from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would allow, there will be more cases of asthma, respiratory illness and premature deaths — with no clear path to new jobs.
By contrast, the nation’s first-ever standards for mercury and other air toxic pollutants which the EPA will finalize this fall — and which the Republican leadership aims to block — are estimated to create 31,000 short-term construction jobs and 9,000 long-term jobs in the utility sector through modernizing power plants. And the savings in health benefits are estimated to be up to $140 billion per year by 2016.
So the Republicans are killing jobs and people.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:00 pm
“Can we hurry up and run a pipeline full of some of the nastiest crap on the planet through the source of huge amounts of fresh water that could eventually create as many as 20,000 jobs in ten to twenty years for the health care workers and drug manufacturers and funeral directors reuired to service the cancer clusters et al.”
I think they call it “pick your poison”…….as Iran is rattling it’s sabres with the threat to close the Straight. Wonder how many will go hungry when gas (food) prices skyrocket with a loss of 1/6 of the world’s oil, not to mention the hit a fragile economy will take with those high oil prices. Guess more folks will be out of work too………
Like it or not, we are an oil dependent society/economy…….good thing the DOE was created some 40+ years ago to wean us off foreign oil…..that’s big gov’t at work for us peons.
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
7:00 pm
as soon as the Whigs go extinct, can we form a Labour or Social
Democratic party? I mean, you gotta plan for the future and all.
josef
December 20th, 2011
7:01 pm
Granny
He has a wife?
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:03 pm
md
If we really wanted to, we could be almost oil free by now.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:06 pm
Sixteen years old. Unbelievable!
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:07 pm
“And the savings in health benefits are estimated to be up to $140 billion per year by 2016.”
Bwaahahahahahahaha!
Name some dead people who died as a result of our “lax” standards. Can’t? Shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
7:07 pm
Sinkwich…. here you go. One of many articles. One of many articles.
Now sport, I expect you to back up the rest of your posts for this thread with supporting links since you seem to be very demanding for support. I am always glad to oblige but do show us more that typical trollism by demanding support but never providing any.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:08 pm
Huffinton Post, Keep?
Bwaaaaahahahahahaha !!!!!!
md
December 20th, 2011
7:09 pm
soco…..guess we didn’t really want to.
Now, we are stuck with what is vs what folks think it should be. it’s one thing to work toward a long term solution, but it must be done knowing we aren’t changing anything overnight. Having said that, we best be protecting/boasting the sources of energy that are currently propping up this weak economy or there may be nothing left when it comes time to expand the alternatives.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
7:10 pm
Bwaaaaahahahahahaha !!!!!!
Isn’t that the sound trolls make when the cover their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears and say “I too moronic to have an intelligent response to a post”…..why yes it is.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:11 pm
md
bull
the health of our our population, our children is of greater value then the health of the military industrial complex.
saber rattling? scratching and burping.
deal with it
Billybob
December 20th, 2011
7:12 pm
yawn bookman……..this is funny……the dem senate led by harry reid is unable to do anything, they don’t want anything accomplished so hussein can claim ‘do nothing congress’……..this political tactic is exposed and will not work…..they can’t even pass a budget for 950 days?…….independents and moderate dem’s see this and are shaking their heads at this point…..add that to an energized republican party and that is it for hussein…..keep posting these thoughts and maybe you can convince yourself to actually believe some of it……….oh and nice liberal 101 ‘republicans are extremists and childish and stupid’……keep exposing the nothingness that envelopes the radical leftist dem party jay…..the liberal media will not win this fight this time around……..i love exposing radical libs for who and what they are….good times
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:13 pm
md
Choices… There are alternatives out there that are viable. Nobody’s found a way to exploit them to the point that oil has been exploited. We’re able to make plastics from plant material. We can run cars off of different fuels; cooking oil, hydrogen, natural gas, etc.. Until WE actually make the cognizant choice to move away from oil, we’re gonna shoot it up like the black tar heroin that it is.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:14 pm
Like when conservatives quote Fox News, Keep?
md
December 20th, 2011
7:14 pm
“the health of our our population, our children is of greater value then the health of the military industrial complex.”
Ummm…….that “health” is currently predicated on the price of oil……that’s just the way it is. Food (transportation costs) is essential to that health……correct?
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:15 pm
Oh! God! Billy Bob and his alter-ego md are BOTH here tonight! This ought to prove interesting. Kinda like a ventriloquist and his dummy!
BADA BING
December 20th, 2011
7:15 pm
Jay….how about a color chart showing just how dead Kim Jong Il is? In blood red.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:15 pm
Need some names, ilks, names.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
7:16 pm
Brosephus, if we made just a portion of the commitment we made to the space program to develop renewalble energy, we could not only cut our dependence, cut our support of countries that the right would love to see wiped off the planet, we would create jobs and spur a host of industry and new R&D just as the space program. It is in our national security and economic interest.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:17 pm
md
you basically suggest we follow rather than lead.
not good.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:17 pm
Fish Sandwich, md, and “Billy Bob” kickin’ for the Newtsters and Willards out there. Thank God somebody’s willing to hang it out there!
Billybob
December 20th, 2011
7:20 pm
truth hurts libs…….do nothing congress template has been admitted and is true……no budget for 950 days is true……lib 101 ‘extremist child dummy’ true……independent fleeing dems true…..liberal media not winning this battle in the end true……me exposing your ilk true……class dismissed
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:21 pm
Each year power plants and other sources create tons of mercury pollution, which makes its way into our homes and bodies in fish.
Power plants are the largest source, emitting around 50 tons [100,000 lbs] of mercury pollution annually.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:22 pm
md
health predicated by oil?
i thought it started with breast milk.
oh you aren’t talking about humans….
priorities. priorities. priorities.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
7:23 pm
Sink, you apparently cannot distinguish between the reporting source and the actual information reported. I know it takes a level of intelligence that escapes many. The EPA provided the information and the estimate. Huffington Post (as did others) merely reported. If Fox reported the same story from the same information source (the EPA), I am sure you would accept its credibilty, right? Except that it has been proven a number of times with recent charts and graphs and other misinformation attempts that Fox distorts the report. Now again squirt, why dont you discuss the EPA findings rather than just act like a troll. Are you capable?
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:23 pm
Billy bob and md. You never see one without the other. They just don’t like being alone.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
7:23 pm
Thank God somebody’s willing to hang it out there!
Funny you should say that, as I had this little number in my head just a few days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF7YLcoRbFA
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
7:23 pm
Soothsayer @December 20th, 2011
7:06 pm
—-
Damn Sooth I thought you were talking about Newt’s new girlfriend
md
December 20th, 2011
7:23 pm
soco……yep, choices.
And for whatever reason, they weren’t made to this point (actually were made, but you know what I mean). So we have what we have……a very fragile economy dependent on foreign oil.
Yes, we need to find alternatives……but not at the expense of what currently props up our way of life.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:25 pm
Let’s see . . . BADA BING, Billy Bob and md all done got their “periods” at the same time. Now ain’t that interesting?
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:26 pm
josef: Thanks for sharing the story about the apartment fire downstairs.
Happy Chanukah to you and yours.
Amvet and jc as well.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
7:26 pm
……but not at the expense of what currently props up our way of life.
The same excuse since Carter.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:27 pm
“you basically suggest we follow rather than lead.”
Nothing of the sort……merely calling it like it is. Check out the effects on the food supply when we started burning all that corn. Oil is an xxx times greater denominator on that food supply. Momma can’t produce that breast milk if she’s also starving……..
USMC
December 20th, 2011
7:27 pm
“As GOP throws a tantrum in DC, Obama’s fortunes rise”–Jay Bookman
It appears that the Bartender at Jay’s vacation resort is mixing some pretty strong drinks.
Someone please call the Concierge for a FAINTING COUCH and have it wheeled into the bar for Mr. Bookman of Cabana 13! :-O
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 20th, 2011
7:28 pm
do nothing congress template has been admitted and is true – WTF
Ok I admit it’s a do nothing CONGRESS
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:28 pm
sooth,
but the question remains male or female? both sexes experience
regular peiodic hormonal fluctuations.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:29 pm
Some may look at facts as an excuse…….others will see it as reality. Doesn’t take much to look back when gas was around $4 a gallon to see what the future holds at even higher prices……the numbers bear it out.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
7:29 pm
Nothing of the sort……merely calling it like it is.
Also the same line …………………… since Carter.
Billybob
December 20th, 2011
7:30 pm
sooth,
please keep not disputing my points and keep up lib 101 character assasinations.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:31 pm
no md
i am excatly right. you want to follow. you do not want to lead.
it’s too much like work.
you want to burn corn? we don’t want to BURN anything.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:32 pm
sooth…….I’m here for your amusement……someone has to feed the conspiracies…….
I’m not Billy Bob, but your gonna think what you want regardless of what I or he says…….so have fun.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:32 pm
” Now again squirt, why dont you discuss the EPA findings rather than just act like a troll. Are you capable?”
Sure.
You lib ilks and the EPA Administrator (sorry for redundancy) said these new rules will save 20,000 lives per year. Logic tells me then, that 20,000 poor souls lost their lives THIS YEAR because of our lax standards.
Give me some names.
Thanks.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
“you want to burn corn? we don’t want to BURN anything.”
Well, maybe hydrogen.
granny
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
can’t give you a name. it’ll probably be next year.
benzene. a leukemia.
Billybob
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
CSiVC,
you are right……harry reid, on purpose, is doing nothing……republican led house is on fire passing bills and reid brings nothing up in senate……quite pathetic and transparent for all voters to see and learn and know……
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
Yes, we need to find alternatives……but not at the expense of what currently props up our way of life.
What we have readily available would not be at the expense of what currently props us up. You’re looking at job opportunity in different areas, but the big oil companies do not want anybody jumping onto their monopoly. We already have vehicles that are capable of running on CNG. We have the ability to use hydrogen for different things. Shadetree mechanics have already figured out how to run diesel engines on vegetable oil.
The blueprint is staring us in the face, but we’re too scared to take that step forward. Doing one-off projects here and there will not do it. It will take a concerted effort from everybody to get things going.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:35 pm
“you want to burn corn? we don’t want to BURN anything.”
And Utopia sounds like a wonderful place……but we don’t live there, we live here……and like it or not, we are dependent on oil. Never said I had a problem moving away from oil, only that it is what it is.
Assumptions don’t serve you too well, try reading what’s on the page.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
7:35 pm
Name some dead people who died as a result of our “lax” standards. Can’t? Shocked, I tell you, shocked!
There’s this.
A href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America”>And this.
How many examples do you want. I can bore you to tears.
Have you ever read anything about how the EPA, for example, came into existence. What do you know about Monsanto and their work with PCBs in Alabama or GE and PCBs in North Georgia. Do you happen to know why you are warned by Georgia DNR not to eat fish from certain lakes and rivers in Georgia.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
hydrogen?
teach please.
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:37 pm
What do you know about Monsanto and their work with PCBs in Alabama
I don’t even like thinking about that one. That’s close to home for me. I know people who grew up in that zone.
md
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
soco…..couldn’t agree more.
But that doesn’t change the here and now, and it won’t for quite some time. So, in the meantime, we also need to protect what we have as it is what is propping us up.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
utopia. dull.
working for the common good. exciting.
not to mention right.
priorities.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
GG: End product from burning hydrogen= just plain water.Discounting heat pollution, which you get with any energy tranformation (2nd law of thermodynamics) no harm, no foul.
josef
December 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
Mr B
Shalom! You’re welcome…it just warmed the c*ckles of me ol col heart, it did…
Sooth
md is a gentleman….don’t even think of classing him with them…
Sinwich
Have you ever had a happy moment?
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:40 pm
Yo, Tax, even wiki said that article is crap.
Even that DNC plant, Granny, can’t give me a name.
Go figure.
Kamchak
December 20th, 2011
7:40 pm
So, in the meantime, we also need to protect what we have as it is what is propping us up.
That needle is skipping in the same ol’ groove.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
7:40 pm
Logic tells me then, that 20,000 poor souls lost their lives THIS YEAR because of our lax standards
Logic tells me their names were Bob, Bill, Jane, Rachel, Sue, Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter. Science tells us they die.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
7:41 pm
Aw frack, Here’s that Peanutty link again. And this.
Now where’s that link about the lady that found out about them folks getting that hexavalent chromium in their drinking water. What was the name of that movie. Erin something.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 20th, 2011
7:41 pm
Well, this latest poll kinda reminds me of the old story of the preacher that went to visit a moonshiner. After sampling the product a little too much, he started to walk home. Along the way he got real tired. Seeing a haystack near the road he walked to it and laid down to take a nap. Some boys up to no good sneaked up and set the haystack on fire. The preacher woke up and saw the flames rising above him. He said, “In he[[, just as I expected.”
And that’s where we’ll be in November. I ain’t worried about the flames, but when No. 1 Foxy Lady gets on here the day after the election and tells us Conservatives to . . . well, you know.
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:42 pm
yes,F
i can’t give you that name.
you aren’t worthy.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
7:43 pm
Yo, Tax, even wiki said that article is crap.
Yo Sinkwich,
Go tell the survivors of the dead. Better yet, maybe the dead will come haunt you just so you’ll know how they died.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:44 pm
josef: you can say COCK on this website. I promise that you can!
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:45 pm
“warmed the c*ckles” reminded me that up until this year, my students couldn’t do an in-school internet search for Charles D*ckens.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:46 pm
Keep:
“Logic tells me their names were Bob…”
I knew Bob. He smoked three packs of Camels (no filters, of course) a day, liked to sniff glue, and voted for O’bozo.
Bwaaaaahahahaha!
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
“GG: End product from burning hydrogen= just plain water.Discounting heat pollution, which you get with any energy tranformation (2nd law of thermodynamics) no harm, no foul.”
Especially when that original heat came from the Sun.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
And Bob got a lib ilk trial lawyer to blame his lack of breath on the coal plant 1500 miles away…..
josef
December 20th, 2011
7:48 pm
Sooth
I have had them moderated for such…was trying to refer to Ian Hancock must have changed that when it was decided that maybe we couldn’t use gypsy in the same context the n word so long as we spelled it with a lower case “G”
Brosephus
December 20th, 2011
7:49 pm
But that doesn’t change the here and now, and it won’t for quite some time.
I wouldn’t say that…. If you haven’t seen the Hydra Filtration System at work, you’re in for a treat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEaavKyZ9HY
You’re talking about a system that fits into a 20′ shipping container that can be transported anywhere in the world. It’s powered by solar power and can filter water to meet EPA standards for drinking water. It can also generate hydrogen and hospital grade oxygen.
The technology is there. We’re just too scared to take that first step.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
7:58 pm
SoCo: That vid is pretty interesting, even though it looks a lot like a sales pitch to me.As far as being too scared to take the first step, there’s a whole lotta very deep pocketed folks out there who have a lot to loose if we do.
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
7:58 pm
LOL funny charts, Obama is TOAST! but you keep drinking that grape juice…
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
7:59 pm
can the heat “pollution” be harnessed for good?
md
December 20th, 2011
7:59 pm
“That needle is skipping in the same ol’ groove.”
And that may very well be………but doesn’t make it any less true.
Until things change (whenever that may be), we are stuck with the ramifications of oil, so it makes no sense to do anything to upset the apple cart before a new apple cart is built.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:00 pm
Get ready for the big drop. The country will not renew the White House lease for a radical president. My prediction that’s as good as any at this point.
TaxPayer
December 20th, 2011
8:00 pm
Here’s a nice description of some of the nasty environmental disasters from the past. Why would anyone want to reduce regulations designed to minimize such occurrences. To make an extra buck! Is it really worth it.
md
December 20th, 2011
8:02 pm
“there’s a whole lotta very deep pocketed folks out there who have a lot to loose if we do.”
And that many more that would stand to gain if we do…….the market will react when the time is right….must not be right just yet, or the investors would be all over it. There are too many that don’t give a rats ass on what the investment is, as long as the roi is there.
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
8:05 pm
GG: sure; any system can be made more efficient, which means less wasted heat. It can never be 100% efficient, and the the last couple of percent may not be cost effective, but it is possible.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:06 pm
My prediction that’s as good as any at this point.
Now that is funny. Because we all know that a guess pulled out from the hindside with bias is as good as polls and there is no science to polls at all…..of course, this is the same poster who claimed the polls supported him before…so polls are good ONLY as long as they support his desired outcome.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:07 pm
Love Canal: now there’s a suggestive description if ever I heard one!
granny godzilla
December 20th, 2011
8:08 pm
gotta make a batch or two of dough but
the market must not take precedence over the population.
never ever ever.
you can sell your soul, you can’t sell mine.,
.
.
.
did i mention my tree is a masterpiece of overstatement?
Bud Fox
December 20th, 2011
8:10 pm
blue horseshoe luvs anacott steel
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
8:12 pm
Thanks Bud, I’m all in…
Mr_B
December 20th, 2011
8:12 pm
md: I agree to a point. The problem is that the investors will always back a proven horse (fossil fuels) against anunproven one (renewables) in the short term. But in generational terms fossil fuels are unsustainable. We may have enough coal to power the country for the next 150 years, but what happens in 160 years? If we incentivise renewable energy now, our great-great grandkids won’t have to worry about it.
LydiasDad
December 20th, 2011
8:13 pm
Sure, but the Occupiers weren’t throwing tantrums. More bias from this guy.
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
8:14 pm
In all seriousness, how long do you think it took Jay to make up those lies about our savior, Obama…:)
BADA BING
December 20th, 2011
8:14 pm
sooth………………………………………………………………………………….
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:15 pm
Granny, all respects to your tree…..I left mine at the store.
But I may put some antlers on the black golden (today’s visitor) I have later.
Paulo977
December 20th, 2011
8:15 pm
josef
:He gets an F from me on education….
_________________________
Have to agree …. I am not sure Arne Duncan knows what to do!!!
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
8:16 pm
I guess Bob isn’t the poster boy you lib ilks were looking for. Too bad, though. Just after he hacked up his last lunger he told me how much he loved Granny’s posts and how every time he saw Carol Browner on the TV he got a woody.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:18 pm
“Now that is funny. Because we all know that a guess pulled out from the hindside with bias is as good as polls and there is no science to polls at all…..of course, this is the same poster who claimed the polls supported him before…so polls are good ONLY as long as they support his desired outcome.”
Well I hurt her little fragile sensibility’s again. Good.
Eatmebookman
December 20th, 2011
8:19 pm
Ah, “the rich and greedy corporations.” ZZZZZzzzzzz
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
8:21 pm
“We may have enough coal to power the country for the next 150 years, but what happens in 160 years?”
Uh, B, the flux capacitor is invented?
Now that I think about it, I miss good ol’ Bob…
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:23 pm
RCP average still has Dumbo in negative approval and that still doesn’t bode well for him going into an election year.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:24 pm
Well I hurt her little fragile sensibility’s again
Well nancy, reports about hurting my sensibility are greatly exaggerateded but I bet you pull that line out of the same place as your prior whine…..
md
December 20th, 2011
8:25 pm
Mr B…..I wouldn’t look for “proactive” from a gov’t that has a history of being “reactive”……these guys/gals are the masters of the 11th hour……and that applies to both sides. The only operate in crisis mode.
And you are correct, investors like the proven returns…..which is why nothing will happen over night or within the decade. And when it does, there will be many on the back end that will lag into the alternatives due to nothing other than cost.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:28 pm
According to the world’s largest online family ancestry database Ancestry.com, former President George W. Bush and presidential contender Mitt Romney are cousins — 10th cousins, twice removed.
So there is a possibility of another Bush family member in 2012/
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:30 pm
“Well nancy, reports about hurting my sensibility are greatly exaggerateded but I bet you pull that line out of the same place as your prior whine…..
”
Sure Shirley but don’t post in such a panic that you don’t check your spell checker. Have a nice evening.
oldtimer
December 20th, 2011
8:33 pm
Meanwhile many of usstill are against the European-Socialist…unsuccessful….broke system being proposed by our President.
Jefferson
December 20th, 2011
8:35 pm
The GOP again turns out to be duck heads. Tea reps are children at best.
josef
December 20th, 2011
8:36 pm
Make the connection
Newt’s ringtone wa Abba’s Dancing Queen…remember? And folks were asking why?
According to informed sources, it’s his new girlfriend’s favorite song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBpoTYv8th8&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8FA374D054545279
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:38 pm
VOTE REPUBLICAN 2012
We Promise We Won’t F*UCK EVERYTHING UP AGAIN!
You can trust us!
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
8:38 pm
Jeezoo, not a lot of Christmas spirit tonight among my right wing brethren.
Maybe this will assuage your wounds…
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Not too bad for a long backslidden Christian, born a Jew, new age, quasi-Buddhist post modern non-theist, huh?
(I just dig the vibe.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-D3jnhmbQ
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:39 pm
hey 1%’s……. here is a great Disco Toilet for your gift giving ideas. Remember whether you are pulling out your opinions or merely boweling for dollars, do it in style and panache. This holiday season give the gift that says “Hey you starving and homeless people throughout the world, I poop on you.” http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/crystal-toilet-jewel-in-crown-tokyo-manufacturer-4665230
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:39 pm
Oops! Didn’t mean for that to slip in there!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
oldtimer, Obama is a captive to his ideology and that’s why we haven’t really moved forward from this prolonged recession. The best thing that happened for our country was the 010 national election that put brakes on the far-left agenda. Hopefully, it will continue even more so in 012.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
Let’s all bend a knee to Bob, the only known victim of our lax environmental standards (according to uber lib ilk, Keep). It wasn’t his three-pack-a-day-Camel habit, nor his glue sniffing, but the coal fired power plant 1500 mies away that did him in.
We weep in unison at his demise.
Let us all plant a windmill in our yards in his honor.
*sniff*
Todd ... this is Todd
December 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
I’ve already given … my European Socialist … to Sally.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
8:45 pm
In Japan, we believe a deity exists in the toilet. That’s why keeping toilets clean and taking good care of it have been a Japanese custom since long ago,” he added.
Insert your Scout, Billy Orvis White joke here….. best joke gets a week’s supply of Ilkbone!
josef
December 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
PAULO
What to do? Get rid of those d*mned tests…but that ain’t gonna happen…too much money being made on them and too much kickback and lobby shekels…
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
Man, it shore must be hard to be a Fright-Winger these days. Witness Fish Sandwich and Del’s lame attacks.
I just cain’t wait for November 7, 2012. What a glorious day that’s gonna be! Fish Sandwich and Dull and Scoot and all them other Fright-Wingers is gonna be a-wondering “what happened?”
Soon yore pain will be over (or just startin’). I just cain’t wait! Good-bye, losers!
Hmmmmmmmmm
December 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
Recon,
I don’t even think it matters much who wins the election… This country is so far gone, it would take the second coming to bring us back….. I don’t mean the re election of this politician either…
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:52 pm
Ahhh poor Sooth who can’t post any truth.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
8:54 pm
Hmmmmmm,
I hear you but I’m still a believer that we’ll overcome and rise above this left wing created mess.
md
December 20th, 2011
8:57 pm
Hey Am……an early PC xmas song that all can relate to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAtnWynBsI&feature=related
md
December 20th, 2011
9:00 pm
Or for the more traditional xmas song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRsMHB2P2o
She plays a mean sax…….
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
December 20th, 2011
9:04 pm
How about FOUR MILLION TAX PAYERS DOLLARS for another vacation to Hawaii? I guess you don’t have a problem with that. MERRY CHRISTmas!!
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:08 pm
Bend Over
Oh, for the love of G-d, you dimwit! He’s the President of the United States of America…do you suggest he fly coach and stay at the Motel 6? Would that we lived in the world of Harry Truman when you could do that.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
December 20th, 2011
9:11 pm
Don’t worry GOP Bushpigs.
Fat Rush will tell you what to think on Wednesday.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
josef,
I think the president would set a wonderful example for elected officials by flying coach and staying at the Motel 6.
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:08 pm
Dang josef,you were supposed to tell Bend Over that Bush took more vacation than Obama! lol
And good eve to you sir.
md
December 20th, 2011
9:14 pm
The Motel 6?
They don’t deserve such posh accommodations………..put em on the street….all of em.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:17 pm
Del
Like I said, would that he could…now congressmen, et al…they could since, as Rep Cynthia found out, nobody knows who they are anyway!
Scooter
Hey! Long time no see! And, yeah, there is that!
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:18 pm
md
Well, I’ll go for that!
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:19 pm
“Bush took more vacation than Obama!”
Now, you’re all wrong, there. Bush was a 24/7 President. He worked 24 hours a month, 7 months of the year!
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
9:21 pm
I called Bob’s widow, Betty, to express our collective condolences for his demise due to our pathetic EPA (non)regulations, according to our resident environmental oracle, Keep.
Betty said thanks, but I wept when she told me of another tragedy in her life.
Remember when we voted about that $10 fee every time we registered our cars to fund trauma centers throughout Georgia? Jay said it would save 700 lives a year!
I scoffed and challenged him or anyone to name someone who had passed a because these centers weren’t available. He couldn’t of course, but guess what???
Betty said Bob Jr. got run over by a Prius in Valdosta and couldn’t get to a trauma center before he croaked! She said the helicopter couldn’t land because of all the windmills in the area.
A name for Jay!!!
Lucky Betty! She has a poster husband for the EPA and a poster son for higher taxes!!!
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:22 pm
Niiice, md. Love that jazzy Christmas stuff.
And who didn’t love that Lennon tune?
She reminds me of this horn blowing goddess…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfSQ3lQmJw
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:23 pm
They don’t deserve such posh accommodations………..put em on the street….all of em.
We would still have to support them md,but it wouldn’t cost quite as much.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:23 pm
How could I have possibly been so careless? I meant to say 24 hours a week and 7 months a year. This is hilarious! You have to listen to it!
BADA BING
December 20th, 2011
9:25 pm
sooth…..who cares who is president? This economic thing has to run it’s course, regardless of what party is in control. We are killing bad guys with drones, and deporting illegals at a record pace. Life is good.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:29 pm
“She reminds me of this horn blowing goddess…”
AmVet, kind of reminds me of a much younger Hillery but with the same thunder thighs.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
[B]etween 1980 and 2007 the global labor force rose from 1.9 billion to 3.1 billion, a growth rate of 63 percent. Historical transition to capitalism in many less-developed parts of the world, which has led to the so-called de-peasantization, or proletarianization and urbanization, especially in countries such as China and India, is obviously a major source of the enlargement of the worldwide labor force, and its availability to global capital. The ILO report further shows that, worldwide, the ratio of the active (or employed) to reserve (or unemployed) army of labor is less than 50%, that is, more than half of the global labor force is unemployed [6].
It is this huge and readily available pool of the unemployed, along with the ease of production anywhere in the world—not some abstract or evil intentions of “right-wing Republicans and wicked Neoliberals,” as Keynesians argue—that has forced the working class, especially in the US and other advanced capitalist countries, into submission: going along with the brutal austerity schemes of wage and benefit cuts, of layoffs and union busting, of part-time and contingency employment, and the like.
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
AmVet – A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:22 pm
Awesome choice of music as usual AmVet!!!
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
“…and deporting illegals at a record pace…”
Unmentionable says, a good start, now maybe we can send all y’all Old World people back where you came from along with Helen Thomas…
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:32 pm
“Pitch woo”??!
The only pitcher of woo is yoohoo, Jayjoo.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:35 pm
It’s NOT the good people who’ve been in Washington for decades, Jay, spending us into insolvency. It can’t be.
That wouldn’t fit into your yearlong tantrum against conservatives, the Tea Party and republicans, would it?
2012 is just around the corner.
Let’s see how Obama fares against a real flesh and blood candidate in the only polls that matter.
Z
December 20th, 2011
9:37 pm
This week the Tea Party republicans have shown their true fanatic faces. They were sent to Washington to do the peoples work and they have failed at their jobs. They have taken it upon themselves to make their number 1 goal to make President Obama a one term President. This is not what they were sent to Washington to do. Therefore come election time next year they will all be fired and removed from their positions in the house of congress. Here are the names of 4 of our Tea Party Representatives that were sent to Washington. Congressman Paul Broun, Congressman Phil Gingrey, Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, and Congressman Tom Price. Post these names on your refrigerator or on your calendar for next year, or on your Desk, just don’t forget these names because these four Tea Party Republicans as well as others from this state have failed at doing their JOBS. Vote them all out come election time 2012.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:37 pm
Marx characterized capitalism’s ability to create a big pool of the unemployed, or “relative surplus population,” in order to create a largely poor and meek working class as “immiseration” of the labor force, a built-in mechanism that is essential to the “general law” of capitalist accumulation:
“In proportion as capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.… The law which always holds the relative surplus population in equilibrium with the extent and energy of accumulation rivets the worker to capital more firmly than the wedges of Hephaestus held Prometheus to the rock. It makes an accumulation of misery a necessary condition, corresponding to the accumulation of wealth. Accumulation at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, the torment of labour, slavery, ignorance, brutalization and moral degradation at the opposite pole, i.e. on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital”
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:38 pm
F and F
“…against a real flesh and blood candidate…”
Okay, got one?
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:39 pm
Let’s see how Obama fares against a real flesh and blood candidate in the only polls that matter.
Let me know who that canidate would be and I will vote for him or her!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:41 pm
“The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”
And the lazy get more so…time to wake up America and kick the left out of our country.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:42 pm
DEL
Kick the left out of the country? Scr*w you, too!
getalife
December 20th, 2011
9:43 pm
Crushing the gop, huge cut ending the Iraqi occupation, defense funded, five points on on the polls.
He deserves the vacation.
What did the gop do? Fight against our recovery.
They deserve to lose.
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:44 pm
Thanks, Scooter, happy holidays to you and yours!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjV-0DzPeCM&feature=related
phil
December 20th, 2011
9:45 pm
They can’t even implement this dumb idea tax break to begin with.But the party that does not have a clue about business, won’t let that little fact stand in the way of more class warfare rhetoric.
Jay
December 20th, 2011
9:46 pm
“… time to wake up America and kick the left out of our country.”
But Recon, you’d walk into the Yacht Club and the place would be empty. And then what?
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:47 pm
time to wake up America and kick the left out of our country.
It would be cheaper to make them slaves and not let them vote anymore Recon!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
9:48 pm
Congrats Sinkwich! Those are the most intelligent posts you have ever made and in a row too! Complete lack of reality and any semblence of comprehension but you did manage a few sentences in a row too. Did you see the Wizard about an operating system? Here’s something you can try…. first complain about a poll by making your guess and saying its just as valid, then follow up that whine with a post about a poll showing something.
Happy Holiday! Enjoy your newfounded stretch for intelligent.
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
9:49 pm
To resume my opposition to thoughts advanced in your last column (a far more important subject), Jay, here are a couple quotes from Jefferson regarding the Supreme Court:
“This member of the Government was at first the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is….can do what open force would not dare to attempt.”
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
The plain fact is that the role of the judicial branch was much debated before the Constitutional Convention and the original idea of it being a kind of arbiter of legislation was dismissed and the presidential veto was adopted instead. It was the SCOTUS that gave itself the power of which Jefferson was sagely afraid in the early 1800s in the Marbury ruling.
Robert Yates, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, was eerily prophetic when he wrote that the court will:
“…in their decisions not confine themselves to any fixed or established rules, but will determine, according to what appears to them, the reason and spirit of the constitution. The opinions of the supreme court, whatever they may be, will have the force of law; because there is no power provided in the constitution, that can correct their errors, or control their adjudications. From this court there is no appeal.”
Can you say Plessy v. Ferguson? How about the 2000 presidential election? I mention these because you likely will not care that the SCOTUS has made pornography an instance of free “speech.” NOW do you get where Gingrich’s comments come from? They are a visceral reaction to the abuses of the court. So take off your ideological blinders for a minute or two, dismount from your high horse and grasp what a number of Americans are justly peeved about.
tc
December 20th, 2011
9:50 pm
How can so many people on here be happy about another 4 years of Obama. Please share with me what I can look forward too. Or please name one thing that he has done that we are all better off for.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
getalife
Things ain’t looking too good for Iraq (and the current President’s “advisors”–how many thousand?)–
arrest warrent issued for the vice-President al-Hashemi whose in hiding in Kurdistan…and we’ve been gone how many days? Looks an awful lot like another Mission Accomplished to me….
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
“And the lazy get more so…”
Dull: WTF do you do all day except wait for your DoD pension check at the end of the month?
Atlanta Allen
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
If I don’t do my job and do it well, I feel ashamed. Harry Reid clearly has no capacity to feel shame. He blames others after failing to pass or even propose a budget for THREE YEARS. This is the single most important job of the Senate Majority (yes liberals Democrats have a MAJORITY in the senate so quit blaming the “Republican Congress” ) and no senate has failed to handle this responsibility in the history of our republic. A competent Chief Executive would be on his a$$ about meeting the responsibilities of his office but our President is too busy getting re-elected and protecting his party to actually lead.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
Keep:
“Congrats Sinkwich! Those are the most intelligent posts you have ever made and in a row too! ”
THANKS!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
Jay, I didn’t think the left was into boating or things like that. Thought you guy’s felt it would mess up the environment and kill off the Snail Darters or whatever.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
What’s amazing is that the Republican House actually passes something, Obama and Reid say no, and suddenly the GOP is throwing a tantrum? The President still has not passed a budget as chief executive of anything, and the Republican field is weak? You guys are fully in the intellectual weeds, not knowing fact from fiction. What you know is only the “stories” that hurt your crazy nitwit cause and those that help.
Just reading the first page of your responses Jay from your readers makes me realize how narrow your message is and how incoherent they are while following you. Your followers are so far left and so deranged about the right, they are insane. Witness Mr. Wanker if you doubt.
Looks like you and your adherents are the ones throwing the tantrum–and unlike the Republicans, Tea Party and conservatives you don’t have any other message than “LOOKIE! The GOP is ________” on any given day.
Who really needs honest discussion about deficits, debt, budget crises and fiscal responsibility when you can’t pass a budget anyway?
Good luck in 2012, dimwits. Your success then would truly be a fulfillment of a total and complete critique on reason, heck on common sense.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
“Please share with me what I can look forward too.”
You can look forward to 4 more years without a dumbass Republican in office. See 2001 – 2008.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that the Imam and Strawman have a marked tendency to show up at the same time?
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:54 pm
tc, I voted against him but really? You’ve paid that little attention?
Obama signs in his first law: equal pay rights in workplace
Barack Obama yesterday drew a clear line between his presidency and that of George Bush in his support for women’s rights, when he signed an equal pay law as his first piece of legislation yesterday.
In a celebration at the White House for women and labor activists, Obama paid tribute to a former supervisor at an Alabama tire factory who fought for the legislation which bears her name.
The Lilly Ledbetter law, which allows workers greater latitude to sue their employers for unequal pay, had been blocked by Bush and opposed by Republican members of Congress, including presidential candidate John McCain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/obama-lilly-ledbetter-equal-pay
Lots of bad mojo tonight, but my lights are burning bright…
This guy was probably under-appreciated by us most of us white boys, but hell he sang back up for Todd and Utopia for their first UK concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1975. How cool is that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3OM9UuWuw&feature=fvwrel
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
9:55 pm
“You guys are fully in the intellectual weeds…”
That exactly describes the like of Pelosi and Biden, huh? They would feel so complimented.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:55 pm
You might as well have said, “when Obama shuts his mouth, goes on vacation and refrains from making policy his fortunes rise.”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
9:56 pm
Or please name one thing that he has done that we are all better off for
Not this again…
ending DADT
ACA
OBL
I am sure you can read about the others if you truly want.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:58 pm
“Dull: WTF do you do all day except wait for your DoD pension check at the end of the month?”
Well I don’t blog all day as you seem to posting reams of left wing garbage. If I collect a DOD check you must be sucking on welfare handouts but blog on if it keeps you out of the way of productive citizens.
Jeffy
December 20th, 2011
9:58 pm
Yes, God forbid someone would want some fiscal responsibility. Look, as far as constituents go, Republicans pay the bills in this country. The majority of Democrats are sucking the lifeblood of this land through SNAP, free school lunches, earned income tax credit, and any other government program that makes them a ward of the state. WHEN, and that’s a rhetorical when, the parasites who only vote Democrat for the simple reason that it promises the free ride will continue, stand on equal footing with taxpaying citizens of this nation…..maybe we can begin to have a conversation as equals. Until then it will be a parent child relationship with those who remain dependent on others for their survival.
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
9:59 pm
“Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that the Imam and Strawman have a marked tendency to show up at the same time?”
It is you. Why don’t you spend an hour or two going through past column responses (you know, click Show All and then do a find on our handles in the browser) to disprove your silly speculation (which wasn’t really a speculation in the first place but a kind of slight, eh?).
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:59 pm
Thanks AmVet,same to ya!
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:01 pm
“Please share with me what I can look forward too”
More of the same and nothing to cheer about that…but a helluva sight better than anybody from that crew of spectacular lunatic fringists being put up by the not so loyal opposition…
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:02 pm
Dull: how about this deal? I get a “job” in the Army, Marines, whatever. I “work” there 20 years. Henceforth, I can draw a generous pension and enjoy free healthcare until I croak.
Please tell me where on Earth I can find a “job” like that. Heck, the only one I can think of is one of them “evil” union jobs secured by one of them “evil” union “thugs.”
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
10:03 pm
In honor of Bob and Bob Jr., martyrs in the struggle against liberty and freedom, I’ve established a website where weep-easys and do-gooder lib ilks like Jay and his acolytes here can contribute freely so they can feel good but actually make things worse, like the Great Society:
http://Www.loserlibilk.com.
Thanks!
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
10:06 pm
“But Recon, you’d walk into the Yacht Club and… ”
Biff & Muffy asked me to write. (They were too flabbergasted and had
the vapors) They said thank you for your support and all, walmart
republicans, but you will NOT be entering the Yacht Club, unless
its the service entrance, and don’t touch anything. But vote for us
anyway. Toodles. That’s what they said.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:07 pm
Strawman…
Oh, please…get over your cheap imported self…I was merely making comment since you are one of those that the Imam takes on with a special vengence! And what was the slight? And what part of the words “marked tendency” are you missing? The last blog…I’m referring to days and weeks!
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
10:07 pm
Dang,this is a “Battle Royale” tonight. Whew!
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
“They were too flabbergasted and had the vapors”
Oh oh…someone has been reading Victorian novels again. Has to be a female as well.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
What’s really amazing is that not a word was said in the jb column about the real tantrum of 2011…. OWS.
captguitarman
December 20th, 2011
10:09 pm
This is somewhat of a head scratcher because the Pub/Cons want to put this reduction into place for a full year – worth about $1,000 + for the average family. The Dems want it in place for only two months – worth about $170 for the average family. But, it is the Pubs are being demonized by the government has got to take care of us crowd. Two reasons for this, I think. First, Boehner sent mixed signals to the Senate about supporting a reasonable agreement. He should have learned by now in this highly polarized environment where mixed and unclear signals lead – sometimes even crystal clear communication – so he handled it badly, even though the plan he supports is of greater benefit, he is risking major blame on the Pub/Cons if the reduction expires. Calling the Senate back now is a non-starter. Plus the medicare fix for the docs will not take place The Pub/Cons need to cave on this one, and hopefully learn a lesson. And Boehner needs to remember, the Tea Party (like African Americans with the Dem/Libs) have no place else to go, so he does not have to do everything they tell him to do.
The other reason is also pretty clear. The Dem/Libs will constantly pass stop-gaps, interim, and kick the can down the road solutions and resolutions because they have been doing that for decades (which as someone noted is really why we are where we are now), and for reasons not as clear, it always plays to their advantage. The Dems did not pass a budget for two years when they were in full control of the Congress. If the Pubs had not come into power in the House last year, there would still not be one. They are the crown princes of continuing resolutions which help their near term political prospects immensely (Americans, especially Dem/Libs, love instant fixes and instant gratification), but which never solve the ongoing enormous problem that this nation spends far more than it collects in revenues. For blatant political purposes and advantage, the Dem/Libs will create, set up, and orchestrate these battles that risk any number of benefits to voters, military veterans, old folks, or whomever, by following their DNA and creating measures that deal only with the present, and which provide them with the benefit of letting things pile up in a very bad way for future generations. In the near term, every fight or delay that Reid and Pelosi can create which will allow them to continue the argument of increasing taxes in a recession, they will create. And it is clear that they want this issue front and center again in February so it will look like, once again, those mean old Pub/Cons who wanted to fix it for at least a year are taking government bennies away from the people.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:09 pm
“Yes, God forbid someone would want some fiscal responsibility. Look, as far as constituents go, Republicans pay the bills in this country. The majority of Democrats are sucking the lifeblood of this land through SNAP, free school lunches, earned income tax credit, and any other government program that makes them a ward of the state. WHEN, and that’s a rhetorical when, the parasites who only vote Democrat for the simple reason that it promises the free ride will continue, stand on equal footing with taxpaying citizens of this nation…..maybe we can begin to have a conversation as equals. Until then it will be a parent child relationship with those who remain dependent on others for their survival.”
Man, how many bumper stickers do we have here?
“Republicans pay the bills in this country.”
“Democrats are sucking the lifeblood of this land”
“SNAP, free school lunches, earned income tax credit, and any other government program that makes them a ward of the state”
“Parasites only vote Democrat”
“The free ride will continue”
Please limit posts to one bumper sticker per post.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:10 pm
“Please tell me where on Earth I can find a “job” like that. Heck, the only one I can think of is one of them “evil” union jobs secured by one of them “evil” union “thugs.”
Toothlayer, go for one of those jobs but then you would have to roll your butt out of bed in the morning. Guess on second thought you’re more comfortable with taxpayer funded government handouts. Right? Blog on!
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:10 pm
Oh, please…get over your cheap imported self…I was merely making comment …blah, blah, blah..
The [poster] doth protest too much, methinks
guy
December 20th, 2011
10:10 pm
So pathetic that obama is commander-in-chief.Never thought that voters could have fallen for such a phoney!
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:11 pm
Jeffy,
Having a real conversation with these liberal chatroom-guys is the same provider-dependent relationship actually. You frame the subject in common sense. They dance around making fun.
It’s a perfect analogy of the real world, just as you said.
SNAP, indeed! Got to have another name, so leechcraft is seen as something else.
Might as well demand free college! Hey, we’ve got nothing else to do, right?
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:13 pm
STRAWMAN
“The [poster] doth protest too much, methinks”
You have firm grasp of the obvious…
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:14 pm
Sooth,
Stop cackling like a little girl.
If you want a job where you can work for 20 years and get a fat pension, the pay is FAR better in the um “civil service” (read bloated bureaucracy) sector. To get the government equivalent pension of a colonel, you’ll only need to be the droning wastoid you are. The motto is, “screw up, move up.”
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:15 pm
“You have firm grasp of the obvious…”
Yes, thanks to Perceiving the Obvious for Dummies. You should get a copy.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:16 pm
Where’s Chuck? His was still the classic uber-lib a$$ kicking post I’ve seen in awhile.
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
10:18 pm
“as far as constituents go, Republicans pay the bills in this country…”
It is MUCH more likely that I pay your bills, and that’s after a
a manifest destiny-sized head start for you.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:19 pm
Chuckies dead. The only asskicking you’re gonna see is come next November 6, 2012.
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
10:20 pm
Let’s just put it this way, in the free market place of ideas, some of you are in the bargain basement.
This guy could sing a little…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ibjLoDVbI&feature=related
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
According to new figures released today from Germany’s energy working group, AGEB, energy consumption in the country dropped 4.8% in 2011 from 2010.
German consumption of oil fell 3%, gas by 10.2%, lignite coal by 0.7% (although hard coal rose 3.7%), and nuclear by 22.9%. At the same time, use of renewable energy climbed by 4.1% and represented about 20% of the country’s energy consumption in 2011.
An increase in residential and industrial efficiency combined with milder temperatures in 2011 provided the conditions for the decrease in consumption.
So is that increase in renewable energy and efficiency killing the German economy? Analysts expect German GDP growth to be around 3% in 2011, about the same projected for the U.S.
Well we stole the highway idea and any number of other ideas….perhaps we should be following Germany’s lead.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
Um, Dull, I’m not aware of any government handouts that I get.
independent thinker
December 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
Repubs just made fools of themselves – the party of unlimited tax breaks for the rich cannot renew a tax break for the working poor and msddle class as a Christmas present – Go get em John Lewis
Boehner and the party of NO are the grinches who stole Christmas/
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:22 pm
“…and that’s after a manifest destiny-sized head start for you.”
So I take it the metaphorical race would not take place on the island. Nice adjectival phrase. Well, original in any case.
Joseph
December 20th, 2011
10:22 pm
Even a far left zeolot such as you Jay can find a silver lining in almost anything…. Rasmussen and Gallop still have the spread at -7 and -4 respectively… Can you spin that Jay???? Its simple really. Do Americans want the tax cut extension for one year or two months??? Obama is at a clear dissadvantage here…..
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:23 pm
Strawman
“Yes, thanks to Perceiving the Obvious for Dummies. You should get a copy.”
The irony of that statement, no doubt, beyond your ken. However, if you recommend it, I’ll take the advice from so esteemed a reader in the target audience…
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:23 pm
“Chuckies dead. The only asskicking you’re gonna see is come next November 6, 2012.”
Oh boy, are you on your second or third joint maybe dropping acid. Geez
getalife
December 20th, 2011
10:24 pm
I feel ilky.
Yea, Iraq will be unstable for a while but since we are broke, Iraq is Iran’s problem.
getalife
December 20th, 2011
10:26 pm
The cons don’t like the new polls so they cray about a vacation.
President Obama 52.
willard romney 42.
Four more years.
Deal with it better this time cons.
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:27 pm
“The irony of that statement, no doubt, beyond your ken. However, if you recommend it, I’ll take the advice from so esteemed a reader in the target audience…”
The irony is affected. After my last post I thought to warn you that the learned tome in question would not likely be placed in an obvious location within the bookstore, thereby presenting you with a kind of Catch-22. Ask one of the clerks to assist you.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:27 pm
Here you go, Del. One I’m sure you’ll like!
Goodnight everyone!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:29 pm
Okay it’s always fun to bash the libs but then again they’re such a pathetic lot and they make it far too easy. More important things to tend to and then Taps. Good evening y’all.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:30 pm
Joseph
The Bruin is a “far left zealot?” L-rd, Mate, how far to the right ARE you to come up with that? A centrist Harvey Milktoast, maybe, but a far left zealot…? I think not.
getalife
True, that…but let’s not go giving the President any great cheers for success, either. If he inherited the mess it was, which he did, then the mess it will become will be his legacy…
OedipusTax
December 20th, 2011
10:30 pm
Jay Bookman Embarrasses Atlanta Again!
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:33 pm
I think that was last call. GN all.
getalife
December 20th, 2011
10:33 pm
Josef,
Yes and he is cleaning up the mess with the gop fighting him every step of the way.
1811/0311
December 20th, 2011
10:34 pm
Want to “throw up” ? :
Headline: “Coburn Releases ‘Wastebook’ Detailing More Than $6.5 Billion in ‘Unnecessary’ Spending”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/20/coburn-releases-wastebook-detailing-more-than-65-billion-in-unnecessary/
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:35 pm
Strawman
“Ask one of the clerks to assist you.”
I generally do, being on a first name basis with several in the bookstores I frequent, and finding their recommendations to be of value.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:38 pm
Strawman…
Shoot, and thar I wuz, thankin’ I wuz gonna have an exchange of witticisms with one of them erudite innulecchuals I herd so much about…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
10:39 pm
Okay it’s always fun to bash the libs but then again they’re such a pathetic lot and they make it far too easy
Wow, were have I heard this kind of Sheenism before……. It’s no wonder so many of the right wingnuts here appear doomed for trollish and ignorant posts.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:40 pm
getalife
Oh, I won’t argue with that, but I was referring to Iraq…and I’m not entirely sure that he’s leaving the mess any better than he found it…
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
10:42 pm
josef, he must be the new, pro war, anti-habeus corpus, far left zealot, that is funded by Wall Street.
Stevie ray mentioned these guys earlier…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3QCu5E27U
Ahem
December 20th, 2011
10:50 pm
Charts, smarts:
Gallup has Odumbarse at 43 approve and 50 disapprove. He will not win unless he runs unopposed.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:52 pm
i think @ 1021,
OK, GOP passes a bill. Dems sit on it, declare no fun and leave town.
Republicans get blamed. Is it accurate? No, not at all. In fact, it’s happened before. Bill Clinton refused to sign a bill, and republicans got blamed in the media then too.
Remember the 90’s? Gingrich, our future President does.
George W. Bush won 2 times after GOP received the blame.
What’s happening now is even less newsworthy because no one’s paying attention to politics. They’re out shopping and trimming trees.
The trouble for you libs is that fewer and fewer regular Americans could give a crap about what the NT Times and CNN says anymore–not to mention pipsqueak, Jay Bookman.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:53 pm
Ahem,
He might have a chance if he floods all polling places with New Black Panther observers.
rahvi
December 20th, 2011
10:58 pm
Sorry to all you Birthers, Bigots, Klanners, Tea Baggers and other assorted White Trash- President Obama in a landslide…
pirate
December 20th, 2011
11:03 pm
Thank you, thank you Republicans for continuing to ignore the only candidate with actual presidential credentials……John Huntsman. He’s smart, he knows politics and foreign policy and he seems to be a pretty reasonable guy. All the ingredients you need to poll at about 2% in the wonderful Republican party. ‘preciate it!
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
11:39 pm
josef, are you an editor? a writer? lots of high end wordsmithing here
tonight, out of my league
What 'Chu Say
December 21st, 2011
12:01 am
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck – December 20th, 2011 9:11 pm
Don’t worry GOP Bushpigs.
Fat Rush will tell you what to think on Wednesday.
Now while I do not agree with calling names; some of the posters on this blog should include a footnote for quoting Rush.
I listen to Rush’s show from time to time and the one thing that I notice is that Rush never has anyone with a differing opinion on his show. Say what you will about Sharpton; but Sharpton will go toe to toe in a debate. Sharpton has appeared on many a political shows to defend his position. I’ve not seen Rush go toe to toe with anyone of a differing opinion.
I was listening to Rush yesterday (on Monday afternoon 12/19 – don’t think it was a best of Rush) and one guy called in to tell Rush that his girlfriend, whom was suffering from non-Hodgkins lympoma, had been informed by the facility at which she was being treated, that she was basically cut off due to the balance owed to the facility. Now he went on to state that she had fallen behind on payments because she was unable to keep up with the payments. I am not sure if he meant her medical premiums or payments to the treating facility directly. Well he stated that he suggested she call the Lymphoma/Leukemia society to state her case. According to the caller, she did and the society sent her a check for $5000.00. Well after a few minutes of praising the society, Rush then asked the caller “What do you think would have happened under Obamacare?”. The caller didn’t give an answer, so Rush stated “You don’t even want to think about it HUH?”.
Well, I wanted to know. I wanted either Rush or the caller to explain what would have happened to his girlfriend under Obamacare. Would the Leukemia/Lymphoma society not have donated, would the girlfriend have been able to afford the care? I mean what would have happened?
I am so sick of people throwing shyte out with nothing to back up their statement, but I’m even more tired of the sheep accepting it.
Then another guy called in and almost sounded like he was choked up because according to the caller, he started listening to Rush with his dad, and now he listens along with his 10 and 12 year old daughters. The listener went on to state that he was so thankful for what Rush had done for America and that now his daughters question what they are being taught in school? Well what the heck are 10 and 12 year olds being taught that it has to be questioned and what is it that Rush has done for America?
Someone please tell me what I am missing. What has Rush contributed to America?
I am not envious of Rush, heck I think he and his promoters are business smart as heck. They gave the angry white-American a justification for being angry all while Rush just clicks off and hangs out with some of the very people he pretends to hold in comtempt.
Nice gig if you can get and maintain it.
ls1z28chris
December 21st, 2011
12:02 am
No matter who you vote for, a politician still get in.
Remember when Obama promised to end the war in 2009? Remember when Obama promised to close GITMO in 2009?
He’s just now ended the Iraq war because his diplomats failed to negotiate an extended deadline. And he’s just signed a bill that allows American citizens, taken captive on American soil, to be spirited to GITMO without charge and without hearing because his administration insists that American is a “terrorist.”
Time to drop this fraud, despite what Bookman says.
josef
December 21st, 2011
12:20 am
Simons
If you’re still here…
I’ve done and still do a lot of different things in a checkered career…if I have to put a single word on it, it’s linguist.
ragnar danneskjold
December 21st, 2011
5:42 am
Relative oversampling of democrats also explains why the polls do not reflect domestic economic conditions nor US management of international issues.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:16 am
“Remember the 90’s? Gingrich, our future President does. ”
ohsweetjeebus … that’s funny on SO many levels …
do I remember the 90s – when the GOP shut down the government? oh, hell yes, I do.
do I remember the 90s – when the GOP impeached the president for a BJ? oh, hell yes, I do.
do I remember who was at the root of both of those actions? hell to the yes – and so does everyone else.
“future president”, indeed.
ragnar danneskjold
December 21st, 2011
6:17 am
The good news, however, is that the Taliban is not our enemy per se – seemingly our community organizer in chief is on good terms with them. The bad news, however, is that even Hugo Chavez now identifies the head of the Occupy Oval Office movement as a “clown” who as destroyed his own country.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:17 am
“US management of international issues.”
US “management” of international issues???
okay, I’ll bite … what in the name of Aunt Edna’s fruitcake are you talking about
ragnar danneskjold
December 21st, 2011
6:20 am
Good morning USinUK. “do I remember the 90s – when the GOP impeached the president for a BJ?” I suppose we can agree that the horndog in chief was not impeached for perjury (despite subsequent sanctions levied for same by a district court), as no leftist knows the difference between truth and fiction.
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:22 am
Wow Ragnar…gotta love your source…especially since what he has done to his country…
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:23 am
“The bad news, however, is that even Hugo Chavez now identifies the head of the Occupy Oval Office movement as a “clown” who as destroyed his own country.”
OHNOES!!!!! Hugo Chavez – a man who ended term limits so that he could be preskident for life and who pals around with a certain M Ahmadinajad – doesn’t like our president!!!
OH DEARYDEAR!!! whatever shall we do???
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:28 am
ragnar – right. the whole Monica thing had nothing to do with it.
you want to ignore the facts? fine – they tried to indict him for WhiteWater for years – they couldn’t get him for that, so they went for something easier – sex
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:28 am
oh, and HI NORMAL!!!
Bud Wiser
December 21st, 2011
6:32 am
While your messiah’s fortunes allegedly ‘rise’, everyone else’s sink like a stone, financially.
News reports put the Obama upcoming planned family vacation in Hawaii at @ $17 million to the taxpayers….that’s 17 with six zeroes, which, even if you throw in the family dog, comes up one zero short.
Anyway, back to the point.
Based upon the social security checks drawn by my wife and myself, this vacation could pay my SS for the next 6230 months, or 519 years, more or less. Since I probably won’t live that long, in more practical terms, it essentially amounts to the SS payments for 52 people (26 couples) for the next 20 years.
Its not as if this idiot has been on vacation the last 3 years anyway, but his arrogant personal waste of taxpayer money spits in the faces of all Americans, including you drooling minions and media stooges.
And yet you take it and worship this ignorant sap still.
You people are pathetic.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:34 am
oh, and one more thing I won’t forget …
the total cost of the White Water investigation that did nothing other than uncover a BJ???
$60 MILLION
(but I’m sure Gingrich would be happy to put that on his Tiffany’s bill)
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:34 am
Hi, USinUK…
Happy Winter solstice!
Bud Wiser
December 21st, 2011
6:35 am
Oh, and Clinton on O’Reilly last night look physically ill.
Either Monica sucked the life out of him with their tawdry little affair, or the man better change his lifestyle quick and head over to Ruth’s Chris (Rush Limbaugh’s and my favorite steak house) for some really fine red meat.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:38 am
Normal – 6:34 – and not a frickin moment too soon … these 4:00 sunsets are killing me.
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:42 am
…another case of big government hassling small business’…
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/12/20/funny-pictures-history-flog-someplace-else/
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:46 am
USinUK,
I sent this to you yesterday….
—————————
USinUK,
Are you out there?
I wanted to tell you of a “Normal Rockwell” moment I had yesterday with my 3 year old Great Grand Daughter…
She was out with her Nana shopping and when she came home I was raking leaves from our pond area. She stayed out with me, and we talked about her “day”. Then I said I’d better get busy and finish this and I started working again. As I was working, I saw that she was picking up pine straw, one at a time, and putting them in a neat little stack. I asked her if she was making a straw house.
She said, “No Grandpa, I’m helping you.” We hugged and went inside for some cookies and milk.
Good vibes like that just had to be rewarded. Gotta love ‘em…
AmVet - Pa rum pum pum pum, cons are dumb
December 21st, 2011
6:48 am
Good winter’s morning, all.
USing, I remember those dark afternoons when I was stationed there! At one point I was working swing shift (4 to midnight) and it was dark when I went to work and if I was lucky I might see five or six hours of daylight on any given day. Those winter nights out on the flight line were cold, wet and miserable.
A really sweet one about the season from Steve Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprfybQ7PO0&feature=related
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:49 am
Normal – STOP!!!! the cuteness is killing me!!!
that is the sweetest thing – I’m loving that you not only have grand-Normals, you have great grand Normals you get to hang with …
truly blessed, you are
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:51 am
AmVet – holy cow … I don’t think I’ve heard that in 20 years … (love me some Steve Miller – saw him play at Chastain back in 1993 or 94)
AmVet - Pa rum pum pum pum, cons are dumb
December 21st, 2011
7:02 am
Ex-pat, I’m here to serve. (grin)
Brother Normal, I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know of course, but you are one lucky grandpa!
All the best to you and yours.
From the parable in Matthew about the ten virgins, this standard is typically done in a very bluesy fashion (Hot Tuna did a killer rendition of it), but this Nashville chick puts a ballsy twist on it, with some almost backup Keith Richards-like guitar, to boot…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJ06G_SqGI&feature=related
Normal
December 21st, 2011
7:12 am
USinUK, AmVet,
Truely Blessed? Lucky Grandpa? You betcha!
Granny Godzilla
December 21st, 2011
7:30 am
Tantrum?
I can handle that.
Give them a two term time out.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
7:32 am
Um, Bud – you do realize that Clinton had 2 heart surgeries in 5 years, don’t you?
I don’t think Ruths Chris is on the menu.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
7:37 am
is it me … or is the resemblance truly uncanny
http://0.tqn.com/d/animals/1/0/P/t/iStock_000010954319XSmall.jpg
and
http://www.chronicle.su/wp-content/uploads/newt-gingrich-and-callista-gingrich.jpg
Road Scholar
December 21st, 2011
7:42 am
USinUK: Pass the screen cleaner, please! I am surprised though that she can smile w/o her face cracking!
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
7:43 am
Road – one screen cleaner for you
http://www.innocentenglish.com/pug-licking-screen-clean/
Granny Godzilla
December 21st, 2011
7:45 am
EEEK!
I mean really. Does she think that’s a good look?
She’s only 45 and she looks…embalmed.
Wash her face, soften the hair and smile more naturally.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
7:50 am
GG – “smile more naturally”
dude. who is the woman married to??? I’m not surprised she has a rictus smile … I’m sure she’s used to faking it …
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 21st, 2011
7:53 am
I wonder where the Nutsters hand was placed
Granny Godzilla
December 21st, 2011
7:54 am
The Wall Street Journals lead editorial kicks some GOP butt today.
“GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest.”
The crumbling continues
Normal
December 21st, 2011
7:55 am
I think Newt pinched her just as the picture was taken…
Granny Godzilla
December 21st, 2011
7:55 am
Dude?
Dudette, actually.
DavidEm
December 21st, 2011
7:56 am
Please, Republicans, schedule more debates!
The more the country gets a look at your litmus-test passers (plus Ron Paul), the more they realize what a FRINGE party you have become. Of course, your “base” doesn’t realize it, because they only expose themselves to their own echo chamber.
tom turner
December 21st, 2011
7:59 am
How do we UNsubscribe to the Republican Turd Of The Month Club?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 21st, 2011
7:59 am
A little variation on American Pie. A catchy tune our righies will be singing all day.
http://www.youtube.com/v/u_gvR2BN4XA?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
Jm
December 21st, 2011
8:02 am
Republicans not throwing a tantrum
Republicans want to pay for the tax cut so it doesn’t add to the deficit
That’s good government
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
8:02 am
GG – that was a generic rather than gender-specific dude
right what a bunch of retards
December 21st, 2011
8:03 am
God is good, wheather you are a dem or rep, this is sad millions will be without unemployment benefits, for all you tea party supportors when you go look for your unemployment check and it not there and can not feed your family, call hannity and rush limbaugh and the tea party idiots you voted for back in 2010.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 21st, 2011
8:06 am
It kills me that any one in the Repub. party can possibly consider the Nutster as a viable candidate for Pres. with his baggage.
Hell his baggage won’t fit in the WH.
Even the members of his own party (that have worked with him) consider him a wackadoddle.
Huntsman has better ideas and is more pragmatic.
Romney would be a possibility but his religion may hold him back.
Perry shot himself in the ???? with his taking the pension while cutting the Texas Gov. pensions.
Bachmann fuggetaboutit.
Paul comes across as a little out there.
Santoram ???? to out of touch
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 21st, 2011
8:08 am
Republicans want to pay for the tax cut so it doesn’t add to the deficit
This lie you tell does not fit with the other lies….. perhaps its because the Republicans have never worried about paying for a tax cut before, heh. Could it be that perhaps this tax cut is somehow different? When does carrying the water for the party become just carrying the stupid?
cosby
December 21st, 2011
8:10 am
Drooling right Jay…but how about talking facts…Obama Harry and Nancy had complete control of the government for two (2) years and failed to pass a budget…but they did pass a 2,000 page to 3,000 page health spending bill that appears to be unconstitutional. As for the payroll tax, this hardly effective the average working person and it was a reduction of a contribution to Social Security. you know, that entitlement program that was to be self funded, except the Elite DC folks left nothing but IOU’s and it is now broke and now all you guys are yelling about a tax reduction that has no real effect on the take home pay for almost everyone. Talk facts, Jay, and quite being a puppet for Obama, Harry, Nancy and the Chicago mob who have done more harm to the economy than all before them.
Vinny
December 21st, 2011
8:13 am
Oh Jay, Obama is such an inept little weasle. You fail to report that Republicans are trying to give Americans MORE of a tax break instead of the piddly litte one the Obama and the libs want to give us.
It’s just like you left wingbats – only tell half of the story to try to prop up your inept, incompetent, stupid president.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
8:13 am
“Social Security. you know, that entitlement program that was to be self funded, except the Elite DC folks left nothing but IOU’s and it is now broke”
wow, someone seems to have spiked their kool-aid …
Normal
December 21st, 2011
8:15 am
Ckeck this site out…
http://www.purplestrategies.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqTxK7VhSk
Granny Godzilla
December 21st, 2011
8:15 am
“Obama Harry and Nancy had complete control of the government for two (2) years and failed to pass a budget”
and after the false statement one quits reading
What Post 50 Americans Fear Most and Why
December 21st, 2011
8:15 am
As unemployed women of all ages look for work, cultural biases may hinder their search. While anti-discrimination laws prohibit the practice, some employers may secretly believe that male workers will put in longer hours or be more dedicated to their jobs simply because they are not the ones who are, or will be, mothers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-hannah-grufferman/what-post-50-americans-fear_b_1160050.html
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 21st, 2011
8:15 am
USinUK – Don’t knock spiked kool-aid, it’s the only way to watch the Repugs. debates
Normal
December 21st, 2011
8:16 am
USinUK,
Yes, people like that make it hard to remember that even the deluded have the right of free speech…
bob
December 21st, 2011
8:17 am
He told us that Abe Lincoln had better foreign policy than he did. I was not under the impression that Abe ran for a second term on froeign poilicy but we learn something evey day. I thought just lowering the sea levels was good enough reason to re-elect him, that and the world loves us now.
AmVet - Pa rum pum pum pum, cons are dumb
December 21st, 2011
8:17 am
For those who insult blue footed boobies by comparing them to Callista Sardonicus, shame on you!
Huntsman has better ideas and is more pragmatic.
CS, did you see this one last night?
This guy says more in one post that the Rushnuts here do in a week.
pirate
December 20th, 2011
11:03 pm
Thank you, thank you Republicans for continuing to ignore the only candidate with actual presidential credentials……John Huntsman. He’s smart, he knows politics and foreign policy and he seems to be a pretty reasonable guy. All the ingredients you need to poll at about 2% in the wonderful Republican party. ‘preciate it!
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 21st, 2011
8:20 am
Amvet – I kinda like Huntsmans get tough policy with China. Since he spent a lot of time there I think someone needs to listen to his ideas (from either party).
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
8:21 am
Common Sense – I prefer to watch the highlights on Jon Stewart!!
I mean … his Mercy Rule edition (following Rick Perry’s infamous cranial flatulence) is the best 9 minutes of television … EVER.
TaxPayer
December 21st, 2011
8:21 am
Republican house rules do not allow for payment of tax cuts. Any good Republican knows that tax cuts pay for themselves or just increase the deficit, which can be paid for by someone else.
Mick
December 21st, 2011
8:25 am
Good morning all, it took a while to find him, here’s some tom tomorrow-
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/19/1046109/-Year-in-review,-part-one
Jay
December 21st, 2011
8:25 am
Sheets
Jm
December 21st, 2011
8:28 am
The vitriol on here is sad
Liberals are sad
Fact
Obama Rules!!!
December 22nd, 2011
11:27 am
Obama will beat gingrich or romney easily!! Four more years!!!!!