On Ashley Judd, $1 trillion coins and other matters of import
I see where Kentucky-born movie star Ashley Judd continues to talk about running for the U.S. Senate against Mitch McConnell. McConnell may be in a bit of political trouble, and as Al Franken has demonstrated, it is quite possible for a Hollywood celebrity to perform credibly in the Senate. But Minnesota ain’t Kentucky, and in this case, Judd has as much chance of becoming a U.S. senator as McConnell has of being a Hollywood leading man.
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Cyclist Lance Armstrong is scheduled to appear next week on Oprah, where he may finally, publicly confess to years of performance-enhancing drug use on the way to seven Tour de France titles, all of which have been stripped from him.
The American people will supposedly forgive almost anything after a public confession, and Oprah has become our culture’s official Mother Confessor. But all the tears from all the crocodiles on the planet won’t wash away the stain on Armstrong’s reputation.
Set aside, for the moment, his use of performance-enhancing drugs and his supposedly heart-felt, offended claims of innocence. By multiple, multiple accounts, Armstrong conducted himself like a first-class, egotistical jerk throughout this entire scandal. He fooled the naive and gullible into vouching for his honesty, he strong-armed teammates into joining him in drug use, he intimidated others into silence and he conducted a decade-long campaign to ruin anybody who threatened to reveal him as he truly is, which is a self-centered, arrogant bully.
So please, Lance, spare us the dramatics and groveling. Live strong, dude.
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Speaking of cheating, arrogant, self-centered bullies, neither Barry Bonds nor Roger Clemens got enough votes this week to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I don’t have much sympathy for those guys, and if they never get in the hall, that would be fine with me.
But let’s at least be honest with ourselves. Everybody in baseball — casual fans, baseball writers, managers, agents, the players’ union, broadcasters, team owners and MLB executives such as Bud Selig included — all knew what was going on in the steroid era, and we pretended otherwise. When punch-and-judy second basemen suddenly turn into 50-homer sluggers, and when baseball records that have lasted for decades get obliterated by multiple players, it ain’t natural and we all knew it at the time. But it was selling tickets and raising TV ratings and it was FUN! Even chicks dig the long ball, right?
The baseball establishment now seems to believe that by casting all the blame on prominent scapegoats such as Clemens and Bonds, it can expunge itself of its own guilt for that era, and it cannot and should not.
I think Bud Selig should schedule a session with Oprah.
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Finally, in the stupid-government-tricks department, there’s the $1 trillion platinum coin. According to proponents of the idea, some of them pretty prominent (see here and here and here, among others), an odd provision in federal law would allow the U.S. Treasury Department to create a coin, made out of platinum, in a $1 trillion denomination. Federal assets would suddenly increase by $1 trillion, meaning the U.S. government would no longer be running up against its congressionally imposed debt ceiling.
Voila! Problem solved!
Look, the entire debt-ceiling debate is inherently silly. I get that. Congress has voted to spend trillions and borrow trillions, and it’s totally ridiculous to pretend that it can now refuse to pay that money back, which is what it would do by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Given all that, solving a silly, make-believe problem with a silly, make-believe coin apparently has some appeal to otherwise serious people.
But this is clown-car politics beneath the dignity of the United States of America. It also would dynamite what little credibility the governing process in this country might still retain, and it’s a mark of our decline that such a concept would even be broached.
– Jay Bookman
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td
January 10th, 2013
12:56 pm
Jay,
“There is no suggestion of government confiscation of firearms. No suggestion of gun bans. And any claim otherwise is simply foolish.”
Oh please. You know as well as I know there are many on the left that want to confiscate and ban guns. Look at the last part of Holder’s speech about brainwashing the children. Can you honestly tell me that he wants children to be brainwashed to believe that the 2nd Amendment is good and all citizens should have guns?
ByteMe - Got ilk?
January 10th, 2013
12:57 pm
Hey Russia, our chemists can beat your chemists any day.
Not so’s you’d notice. All the “Iron Curtain” countries were better at it than us.
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
12:58 pm
Finn
thanks for the cite i’ll reference it in the future.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 10th, 2013
12:58 pm
And Emory would be a football powerhouse.
getalife – they’d still need SOME athletic ability!
Joe: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/al-roker-pooped-pants-white-house-article-1.1235259
DownInAlbany
January 10th, 2013
12:58 pm
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
12:35 pm
Yeah, CD2 just sent Sanford Bishop back to DC, again!
And CD3 sent Westmoreland back to DC. What’s your point?
That neither the Dems or Reps are very intelligent, at times.
Regnad Kcin
January 10th, 2013
12:58 pm
“One more telling comment about Holder and the entire progressive movement…”
Here’s your sign.
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
12:58 pm
Aquagirl
That goes against everything we’ve been told too, huh? People buy AR-15’s and high capacity magazines for home defense, amongst other things, right?
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Kamchak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKm5xQyD2vE
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 10th, 2013
12:59 pm
Well, it would be a real shame if old Goggle Eyes got beat by a good lookin’ actress. I mean, he’s just as good a actor as she is. He’s been acting put out for decades.
She just puts out.Anyhow, I wonder if somebody would make one of them trillion buck coins for me. I’d use it to buy me a new doublewide and a big-a$$ pickup and might even put a couple dimes in the collection plate down at the Church of Holiness.
Well, seeing as how Bookman is scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with something to write about, what with giving us four puny topics, all I can say is I done my part to help him out here. He’s on his own from now on. He must of busted a gut writing for those old f-rts all day yesterday while leaving us to fight it out with over 1200 posts on one topic. I’d be for firing his a$$, but he’s about the only game in town, now that Wingfield needs to shut down every couple hours when his pranksters start flinging poo. Have a good p.m. everybody.
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
1:00 pm
That neither the Dems or Reps are very intelligent, at times.
No argument from me on that one. However, I don’t try to paint one as something exclusively when I know they’re both equally at fault.
jaypat
January 10th, 2013
1:01 pm
Mr. Bookman, do you have any idea of how the monetary system actually works? I don’t think so, given some of the remarks you’ve made in this post and many others in the past.
The Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta is down at 11th Street and West Peachtree. Why don’t you call them and ask them if they will explain it to you? I’m sure that there is someone there who can describe for you exactly how this works. It would be very helpful if people who are paid to comment on economic matters actually had some idea of what they were talking about.
For the record, it’s actually a double-entry accounting system. There is nothing that “backs” the currency. Its value is what someone will give you for it. No country on earth uses a system that is “backed” by anything.
The government doesn’t have to use anything to create more money.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
1:03 pm
Shorter jaypat: RON PAUL RULZ!
DownInAlbany
January 10th, 2013
1:04 pm
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
1:00 pm
That neither the Dems or Reps are very intelligent, at times.
No argument from me on that one. However, I don’t try to paint one as something exclusively when I know they’re both equally at fault.
Touche’ It’s just that D2 is my home base, so, of particular importance to me and mine.
Regnad Kcin
January 10th, 2013
1:05 pm
” Can you honestly tell me that he wants children to be brainwashed to believe that the 2nd Amendment is good and all citizens should have guns?”
td – Obviously, you still don’t understand the words that Mr. Holder is saying. Please listen as many times as necessary for you to understand all the words – then you can make a comment that makes sense (perhaps).
saywhat?
January 10th, 2013
1:05 pm
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
12:01 pm
I have never heard a woman say ‘I dig the long ball’.
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Sounds like a personal problem.
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:05 pm
You know you’re a good upstanding liberal when you reject a bold political gambit because it’s “beneath the dignity of the United States of America”.
I read this and thought, “Somewhere, Phil Ochs is either smiling or wincing, not sure which.”
Peadawg
January 10th, 2013
1:05 pm
Nothing like a little spam from kam to start the afternoon.
**in b4 spamming peapup piddle comment**
BTW, doesn’t 3,000 hits = automatic HOF?? How in the world did Biggio not get in?
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
1:06 pm
jaypat
The government doesn’t have to use anything to create more money
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technically, the government uses debt to create money…
Jay
January 10th, 2013
1:06 pm
At least two people have been shot Thursday at a high school in Taft, CAlif., KERO-TV reports.
The condition of the victims was not immediately clear.
The shooter was taken into custody at Taft High School around 9 am. local time, says KERO, which reports that it got a tip on the shooting from people hiding in closets inside the school.
KGET-TV reports that three ambulances and a medevac helicopter have been sent to the scene.
KERO said officers form the Kern County sheriff’s department were going room–by-room to secure the school.”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 10th, 2013
1:06 pm
Well as long as we can say “oh please, you know [something made up], let’s check in on the Heywood WI Report Source.
More than three weeks after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, annoyed NRA president Wayne LaPierre told reporters Monday that while he understands the seriousness of the tragedy, he had only assumed the senseless murder of 20 first-graders and six educators by a mentally unstable gunman would have blown over by now….
In addition, LaPierre said he was deeply surprised and even somewhat irritated that discussion concerning the heartbreaking loss of young life and the efficacy of existing gun control laws had continued to persist into the new year “as if people had nothing better to do.”
“Look, I get it: A bunch of kids died, and it’s really [explicative deleted] sad or whatnot, and blah blah blah, but it’s not the end of the world here, people—the beat goes on,” a visibly agitated LaPierre said. “Hell, people die in car accidents every day, and we don’t make a big stink about that. We don’t shut down—just totally shut down—everything for weeks so we can talk about it over and over and over again, do we? Of course not. Oh, but I guess I’m the bad guy for suggesting we get our priorities straight and stop acting like a bunch of mewling babies because of 20 dead kids. Is that it? I’m the bad guy?”
Peadawg
January 10th, 2013
1:06 pm
“I have never heard a woman say ‘I dig the long ball’.”
You’re mom said it last night.
**sry…couldn’t help it. i’m sure this will get moderated”
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
1:08 pm
say what?
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
12:01 pm
I have never heard a woman say ‘I dig the long ball’.
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Sounds like a personal problem.
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say what?
JAWJA
January 10th, 2013
1:09 pm
RUN ASHLEY RUN!
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:09 pm
I think the White House’s official line on the $1T coin is exactly right. Don’t rule it out entirely.
And to make it clear, I’m in disagreement with Jay on whether this is somehow “beneath [our] dignity”. It is, as smarter men than me have said, a silly but benign solution to a silly but potentially horrific problem.
If Congress wants to decrease the growth of the debt, they can pass budgets that do this. Continually playing chicken over the debt ceiling is unacceptable. (It’s fine to stomp your feet a bit and raise concern over the debt growth if you wish–obviously, both sides have indulged in this, and that’s just part of the political theater.)
Regnad Kcin
January 10th, 2013
1:09 pm
“Mr. Bookman, do you have any idea of how the monetary system actually works?… It would be very helpful if people who are paid to comment on economic matters actually had some idea of what they were talking about. For the record, it’s actually a double-entry accounting system. There is nothing that “backs” the currency. Its value is what someone will give you for it. No country on earth uses a system that is “backed” by anything.”
Jaypat – can share with us which statement of Jay’s that you are disputing?
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
1:09 pm
Peadawg
I have never heard a woman say ‘I dig the long ball’.”
You’re mom said it last night.
**sry…couldn’t help it. i’m sure this will get moderated”
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gee peadawg, i’m soooo sorry….
saywhat?
January 10th, 2013
1:10 pm
Sorry frog, you set yourself up with that one. Peadawg couldn’t resist the low hanging fruit either.
Katherine Helms Cummings
January 10th, 2013
1:11 pm
I wouldn’t sell Kentucky voters or Ashley Judd short. I would donate to her campaign just as I and many others did to defeat Claire McCaskill’s challenger. I hope she does get in the race.
DannyX
January 10th, 2013
1:12 pm
Stuart Smalley, a famous Republican has a message for his fellow Republicans:
My fellow Republicans, it was a horrible November, but let us remember, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt! We lost the election fair and square and because we were stupid. Lets remember, our party is still good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, there are still a few people out there that like us.
When we all say we should have nominated Elmer Fudd, well, you’re should-ing all over yourself. Its time to trace it, face it, and erase it. “No more Republican stinkin’ thinkin!”
We need to remember, we are a worthy party…and that’s…okay. We’ve been in a shame spiral, but now we must regroup. Our party needs a checkup from the neckup. You’re only as sick as your secrets, and it is no longer a secret, we haven’t been very nice, so we have already healed from our sickness.
I learned what love is from my parents. Which is that you find that one special person who was placed on the planet just for you, and then you put them through forty years of living hell, that’s why I’m sticking with the Republicans, for another 40 if that’s what it takes.
Remember fellow Republicans, you are someone.
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:13 pm
I don’t really have a dog in the HoF business, but:
Clemons and Bonds obviously burned a lot of bridges, and they’re not either of them exactly beloved figures. However, I feel fairly certain that both would have been brilliant practitioners of their respective defensive and offensive arts, banned PEDs or no banned PEDs. In short, their stats DO mean something, to me at least, and if I had a vote they’d go in the HoF.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
January 10th, 2013
1:13 pm
how come all these school shootings take place in LIBERAL STATES?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 10th, 2013
1:15 pm
Oh no Uncle Sam has pointed out a “war on liberals”
What sad inane deflection by the conned
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
1:16 pm
DIA
Understandable. I got moved out of D3 in the most recent shuffle. I know where you’re coming from.
Matti
January 10th, 2013
1:20 pm
td rants: At the end of this clip, Holder says anti-gun ads should run every day, and we need to “really brainwash people to think about guns in a vastly different way.”
That could only be a good thing for some folks, td. Maybe then they could get off the guns and start practicing their love with women instead. Trade that cold steel rush for a living, breathing human, and see what love is supposed to feel like!
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:20 pm
Bwaahahahahahahaha
Oh really?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/09/al-franken-bulletproof/
Erwin's cat
January 10th, 2013
1:20 pm
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning
so when are we gonna ban shovels?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
January 10th, 2013
1:20 pm
my guess is the LEFTIES didn’t like that she made WATER BOARDING look EFFECTIVE
OSCAR SNUB: Kathryn Bigelow
One of the other big surprises of the morning was Kathryn Bigelow getting snubbed for best director. Bigelow won a best director Oscar a couple of years ago for “The Hurt Locker” and delivered a film this year – “Zero Dark Thirty” – that is just shy of being a flat out masterpiece. Just watch the raid on Osama’s compound sequence and tell me that Bigelow isn’t one of the best filmmakers around. Yet this morning, she wound up empty handed. What’s up with that?
JamVet
January 10th, 2013
1:21 pm
Sammy, James Adkisson, Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph all say hello.
Well, maybe not McVeigh…
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
1:21 pm
UNCLE SAMANTHA
Google “Heritage High School, Conyers, Georgia” and ask that question again.
RB from Gwinnett
January 10th, 2013
1:22 pm
“Only gun extremists would find anything the slightest bit controversial about that quote. ”
And only a complete friggin idiot would think a person in the position Holder is in should be in favor of “brainwashing” the American people into ANYTHING. Especially into forgoing a constitutional right.
What the hell is wrong with you?!!!
DownInAlbany
January 10th, 2013
1:23 pm
BTW, doesn’t 3,000 hits = automatic HOF?? How in the world did Biggio not get in?
My only disappointment with yesterday’s HOF vote!
Erwin's cat
January 10th, 2013
1:26 pm
How did Murph not get it?…
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 10th, 2013
1:26 pm
td – Obviously, you still don’t understand the words that Mr. Holder is saying.
Is anyone surprised by that? Seriously?
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:27 pm
Well, maybe not McVeigh…
in Uncle Samantha’s case, presumably that greeting will come later.
JamVet
January 10th, 2013
1:28 pm
Albany, I’m guessing his middling .281 BA and his .234 BA in the post-season.
But overall his stats certainly look good enough for me…
Welcome to the Occupation
January 10th, 2013
1:28 pm
Good job with the silent treatment, Td. I’m impressed.
No, really. I am.
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So according to police reports, police officers responding to the butchery at the Aurora theater last summer nearly slipping in all the sloshing blood and guts they found on trying to enter the theater when responding to the call.
Proud of your country, td? Got your mop and sponges and your contractor bags ready? Time for another cleanup.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
January 10th, 2013
1:29 pm
hey bro………. no deaths…………… southerners subdued the PUNK………….. didnt even kill himself………
LIBERALS cant subdue……….. only COWER…………
getalife
January 10th, 2013
1:29 pm
So, turkey face worked with President Obama because he is scared of Judd?
Sounds like a very powerful woman to me.
The dems tried to stop w’s massive spending with the debt so it is tit for tat playground politics.
I don’t watch Oprah.
Jay
January 10th, 2013
1:30 pm
“And only a complete friggin idiot would think a person in the position Holder is in should be in favor of “brainwashing” the American people into ANYTHING. Especially into forgoing a constitutional right.”
Always glad to see presumed gun owners demonstrate their cool, rational thought process, RB.
Of course, the fact that Holder was discussing a purely informational campaign directed at young men in D.C. who carry unpermitted, concealed firearms because they “are fascinated with violence, and more particularly fascinated with guns” won’t dissuade you in the least.
It will, however, penetrate the more rational of our readership.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
1:30 pm
RB — “And only a complete friggin idiot would think a person in the position Holder is in should be in favor of “brainwashing” the American people into ANYTHING.”
Please substantiate the notion that the word ‘brainwashing’ actually appears anywhere in Holder’s speech.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
1:34 pm
Please substantiate the notion that the word ‘brainwashing’ actually appears anywhere in Holder’s speech.
I’m sure he’ll jump right on that.
Right after he provides you with those fuel fleet figures.
Ashley Judd "can" win...
January 10th, 2013
1:35 pm
Judd has as much chance of becoming a U.S. senator as McConnell has of being a Hollywood leading man.
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It was once quoted “How can Ronald Reagan actor ever become president?”
Why was Ronald Reagan a Better Actor as President Than He was as Movie Star?
Ronald Reagan was an inveterate teller of anecdotes. He loved to tell people stories both about himself and others. The problem is that so many of these stories weren’t just filled with inconsistencies, many of them were outright lies. As a perfect example, consider the story that was particularly fond of telling in his later years about being part of the film crew present at the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Now, this isn’t simply a case of mixing up facts, thinking he was one place when in reality he was at another nearby. Ronald Reagan never left the shores of America during the entirety of World War II!
Yet few people apparently ever had trouble believing his creative memory. It can only be assumed that Ronald Reagan himself must at some subconscious level have believed in the lies; if you believe them, it isn’t lying. (Can you say George Constanza?) And that is the difference between Reagan’s acting abilities as a movie star and politician He couldn’t make a goofball George Custer believable because he probably didn’t accept the idea that the hero (or villain, depending upon your point of view) of Little Big Horn could possibly have been a goofball, but he was better as George Gipp because he believed that myth.
http://voices.yahoo.com/why-was-ronald-reagan-better-actor-as-president-147575.html
mm
January 10th, 2013
1:36 pm
“End the Fed. Restore the freedom to do business in sound money and allow the market to decide what will be our new money. Gold and Silver will win out.”
The cons have a war on reality.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 10th, 2013
1:38 pm
So the National Child Slaughter R’US Association claims it’s gained 100,000 new members since just the Newtown slaughter it put on. Nice goin guys. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/nra-100k-new-members-after-sandy-hook-86001.html
td
January 10th, 2013
1:38 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
1:30 pm
Just listen to the link I provided.
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
1:38 pm
hey bro………. no deaths…………… southerners subdued the PUNK………….. didnt even kill himself………
Damn, you got the Capt. Picard Goalposts *with Enhanced Warp Drive™ for Christmas too, huh? What does that statement have to do with the question you asked? You do remember your original question, don’t you?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
January 10th, 2013
1:13 pm
how come all these school shootings take place in LIBERAL STATES?
Last time I checked, Georgia isn’t a liberal state. That is, unless you’re saying that RB, td, JohnnyReb, Scout, Recon, and all you other conservatives are truly Liberals. Your question stated nothing beyond the school shootings themselves. In your quest to try to seem intelligent, you may want to use the Home Depot method of question asking… Ask yourself twice first to see if it makes sense, and then hit submit once.
Just a suggestion.
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:40 pm
Jay, just FYI, your third “here” link is rong.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 10th, 2013
1:41 pm
The Debs was sitting around yesterday daydreaming, (while on a long boring conference call), and I was thinking to myself, “I wonder what a Conned Utopia would look like?”
Myriad of thoughts cross my mind like that when I’m bored to distraction, but anyway, I came up with the five things that would make a Conned world perfect:
No EPA — Dirty everything everywhere and millions sick and dying because of “Those damned Liberals”
Hunger Games — where you have a rich 1% who lives far away from the dirty, starving 99% — if the 99% want more food, they have to send their young to be killed to get it, (all for the enjoyment of the 1% of course).
Ellie May without the strength, or intellect — A conned woman will be good to look at, dumb, and easily manipulated. The negative would be that she couldn’t cook…..in the kitchen….
Eddie Long — A Conned man is righteous………..in public. In public he is the epitome of a SAVEd, strong virile male — in private he likes little boys. That’s why he needs Ellie May to be dumb; so she won’t notice that you’re supposed to have sex more than 3x a year.
Stepford Ethnic people — In Connotopia, the “ethnic” people will do as you tell them to do and say what you tell them to say. They’ll even sing and dance and shine your shoes on command.
And I know this is an extra one but can’t leave out:
Guns everywhere. In Connotopia everyone would have a gun. That kid on the corner? He has an assault rifle, (for hunting deer). That little old lady? She has a Mac 10, (for shopping at her favorite store).
In Connotopia everything would be perfect because everything would be exactly how they want it, forever and ever Amen.
td
January 10th, 2013
1:42 pm
Jay
January 10th, 2013
1:30 pm
Yes Jay whatever you say. Is it also not true that Holder also argued that the 2nd Amendment was written only for Militia purposes?
Jeffrey
January 10th, 2013
1:42 pm
I understand that 16 trillion dollar coins is a fantasy but doesn’t it basically tell us that inflation needs to happen It has been said we’ve never really paid the debt incurred by WWII but it is inconsequential now. Know what I mean
Granny Godzilla
January 10th, 2013
1:43 pm
Oh I do love a smorgasbord!
Ashley Judd – What with McConnell being targeted from the right, who knows? Could split the GOP vote.
Lance Armstrong – More juice than Ocean Spray.
Hall of Fame – Bravo!
Trillion dollar coin – harmless silliness as a weapon against harmful debt ceiling hostage taking – freaked out some GOP rep so bad he’s planning to introduce a bill to prevent it.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
1:44 pm
td — “Just listen to the link I provided.”
I’ll have to listen later; streaming video and audio is blocked here.
Thanks for pointing that out, though. I will watch it this evening.
td
January 10th, 2013
1:44 pm
Welcome to the Occupation
January 10th, 2013
1:38 pm
And I have not even re joined yet to give them the money they need to beat back this infringement on my rights.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 10th, 2013
1:45 pm
Debbie, Connotopia exists. http://www.iiicitadel.com
Aquagirl
January 10th, 2013
1:45 pm
No EPA
Think of the tourist dollars, I understand flaming rivers are quite picturesque.
Adam
January 10th, 2013
1:46 pm
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/taft-high-shooting-kern-county.html
Breaking: 2 reportedly shot at Taft Union High School in Kern County
January 10, 2013 | 9:59 am
At least two people were shot at Taft Union High School in Kern County on Thursday morning and the suspected shooter has been taken into custody, according to local media reports.
23ABC News in Bakersfield said that the incident happened about 9 a.m. and that the suspect was taken into custody about 20 minutes later.
The television station said it received phone calls from people hiding in closets inside the school, which was being evacuated and searched.
Calls to the Taft Police Department were not immediately returned. A Kern County sheriff’s spokesman confirmed he was heading to the scene in response to a possible shooting, but did not have additional details.
Taft Union High School District officials also could not be immediately reached for comment.
WHAT THE F***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DownInAlbany
January 10th, 2013
1:46 pm
Ashley Judd “can” win…
January 10th, 2013
1:35 pm
Kind of like Hillary’s “landing under sniper fire”?
Before someone asks…my point is, just about all of ‘em lie!
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:46 pm
freaked out some GOP rep so bad he’s planning to introduce a bill to prevent it.
yeah, good luck getting that signed into law. Why don’t they call it the “Uppity Muslim Freedom-Killing President Unilateral Disarmament Act of 2013″ while they’re at it?
Boris Badnoff
January 10th, 2013
1:46 pm
Speaking of matters of great import, why haven’t we had Bookman’s take on the departure of Freddy E?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258627/Freddy-E-suicide-Last-tweets-hip-hop-artist-shot-dead-failed-relationship.html
He was on the verge of composing an opera that would have turned Mozart green with envy. Was it the dreaded Gun Culture? Unrequited lust for the luscious Honey Cocaine? Or reading Bookman’s Blog?
Erwin's cat
January 10th, 2013
1:47 pm
Think of the tourist dollars, I understand flaming rivers are quite picturesque\
Lake Erie was
williebkind
January 10th, 2013
1:49 pm
“but this doesn’t translate as U.S. Senator material.”
Excuse me but what exactly is U.S. Senate material? Is it the kind that spends more money than they take in? Or is it the kind that speaks one thing but does another? What exactly is Senate material? I thought it was a representative of the people. I did not know about all of those other qualities implied.
Stevie Ray
January 10th, 2013
1:50 pm
JAY
I heard an argument on Mike and Mike this morning on the Hall of Fame issue for the steriod users. It seems some have changed their opinion from disregarding entry for Bonds et al to allowing it. The position is that the Hall of Fame is about the history of baseball. As such it should not exclude the 1990’s…He suggested that many unsavory characters remain in the Hall such as Ty Cobb…of course he didn’t break the rules. I don’t see why Piazza is not in….the pall of shame surrounding him is simply acne on his back.
Perhaps they should have a separate hall within the hall….the untitled Hall Of Shame if you will. At least the history of the 1990’s with records shattered left and right but keep them apart and make the controversy, not unlike the black sox, part of the theme…
williebkind
January 10th, 2013
1:50 pm
“Think of the tourist dollars, I understand flaming rivers are quite picturesque.”
Nope that’s blooming idiots. You are confused again.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
1:50 pm
D. DoRight — “Stepford Ethnic people — In Connotopia, the “ethnic” people will do as you tell them to do and say what you tell them to say. They’ll even sing and dance and shine your shoes on command.”
Is this like that scene near the beginning of Blazing Saddles where the foreman asks the black workers for a ‘work song’ and gets a Cole Porter number instead?
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:51 pm
I know I shouldn’t feed the pig, but…
how come all these school shootings take place in LIBERAL STATES?
per wiki:
“Kern is a strongly Republican county in Presidential and congressional elections. The last Democratic candidate for President to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.”
stands for decibels
January 10th, 2013
1:52 pm
Excuse me but what exactly is U.S. Senate material?
anyone who can raise the millions of dollars necessary to run for that office.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 10th, 2013
1:53 pm
Keep OMG! What the HELL is wrong with republicans? do we need to start adding prozac into the water system or what?
From your link:
The Citadel is evolving as a planned community where residents are bound together by:
Patriotism
Pride in American Exceptionalism
Our proud history of Liberty as defined by our Founding Fathers, and
Physical preparedness to survive and prevail in the face of natural catastrophes — such as Hurricanes Sandy or Katrina — or man-made catastrophes such as a power grid failure or economic collapse.
jaypat
January 10th, 2013
1:55 pm
@Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
1:03 pm
Shorter jaypat: RON PAUL RULZ!”
Ron Paul is an advocate of a “hard” money system. “Hard” money is a system wherein all the currency is “backed” by some hard commodity, such as gold or silver AND is convertible between paper, account balances, etc. and the underlying comodity.
That is the polar opposite of what I beleive. The reason no country uses it any more is because the size of the economy can never be bigger than the amount of gold on hand without adjusting the ratio of the commodity to the currency.
Adam
January 10th, 2013
1:56 pm
ANOTHER GD SCHOOL SHOOTING
When are we going to stop the madness?
JamVet
January 10th, 2013
1:56 pm
DDR,
And the icing on the Conntopia cake?
Uncle Sam swinging from a rope. Which is a bit more graphic than drowning him in a bathtub, doncha think?
Which is really quite ironic when you think about it.
(He’s supposedly white.)
Brosephus™
January 10th, 2013
1:58 pm
dB
I guess Einstein thinks that Jonesboro, Arkansas and Paducah, Kentucky are in liberal states too. Usually, I would avoid engaging the jackassery, but sometimes you have to expose ignorance for what it is.
williebkind
January 10th, 2013
1:58 pm
These shooting did happen until basketball season started.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 10th, 2013
1:58 pm
Joe: Is this like that scene near the beginning of Blazing Saddles where the foreman asks the black workers for a ‘work song’ and gets a Cole Porter number instead?
Ooh you’re good!! PS: How’d ya like that sh##tty drawers link? Fun stuff huh? I will never be able to look at ole Sh##tty drawers again without laughing. And throwing up a bit thinking about him “commando” style. (shiver)
barking frog
January 10th, 2013
1:59 pm
JamVet
Uncle Sam is not real.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
1:59 pm
Excuse me but what exactly is U.S. Senate material?
Someone that will go to DC with a stated goal to govern.
Is it the kind that spends more money than they take in? Or is it the kind that speaks one thing but does another?
Ronald Reagan says, “What?”
What exactly is Senate material?
Someone that will go to DC with a stated goal to govern.
Please pay attention, that way I won’t have to repeat myself.
I thought it was a representative of the people.
Exactly. People, not party. When McConnell said that, “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term President”, that was putting party above the people.
I did not know about all of those other qualities implied.
You wanna translate that into a legible question.
Which qualities?
Implied what.
Stevie Ray
January 10th, 2013
1:59 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
1:50 pm
I get no kicks from Champagne, mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all….but I get a belt out of you..”
At the risk of being butchered, that movie remains hysterical. Watched it again recently and the fact that fun was poked at every single ethnic group remains classic. Slim Pickens one heck of a funny man..
JamVet
January 10th, 2013
2:02 pm
frog, you keep on bursting bubbles like you’ve been doing today, you are going to fall from favor!
Good post, williebekkkind.
Stevie Ray
January 10th, 2013
2:03 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
1:59 pm
I think it’s anyone with money who can best sell a fable of how I can make a difference…I can’t imagine any other real minimum capabilities apply. Lots of good people have no money but great capacity. Some people have tons of money but see no return on investment…
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 10th, 2013
2:04 pm
Which is really quite ironic when you think about it.
(He’s supposedly white.)
Nope — Yankee Doodle Dandy is white, (and gay – hence the dandy), but Uncle Sam was originally called Uncle SamBO, so he was black.
What happened was when the white folks found out that they were celebrating a BLACK man, they immediately changed SamBO’s image to that of SAM that we enjoy today.
Of more great moments in history – Donald duck was a BLACK duck — but since Disney had already painted the mouse black, he couldn’t paint donald black AND give him a white girlfriend, (Daisy), and expect to get rich.
Now ya know! And knowing is half the battle! GI Joe!
Jerome Horwitz
January 10th, 2013
2:05 pm
Taggart – That’s no my Froggy.
godless heathen
January 10th, 2013
2:07 pm
So the National Child Slaughter R’US Association claims it’s gained 100,000 new members since just the Newtown slaughter it put on.
So the NRA put on the Newtown massacre? The over-the-top BS here just gets loonier and loonier.
Stevie Ray
January 10th, 2013
2:09 pm
In another interesting development:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/08/us-usa-guns-teachers-training-idUSBRE9070MV20130108
BRO, you think all these teachers can boast mental stability in order to own a gun and take it to class? Silly that the risk of having a gun in a school outweighs the probability that a shooter will show up at your school….Nuts.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
2:10 pm
S. Ray — “At the risk of being butchered, that movie remains hysterical. Watched it again recently and the fact that fun was poked at every single ethnic group remains classic. Slim Pickens one heck of a funny man.”
This may be apocryphal and not true at all, but I’ve read several times that Mel Brooks incessantly pestered John Wayne to read the script and to make a cameo appearance in the film. The Duke finally agreed to read the script, but turned down Brooks’ offer, saying that the film would be ‘too dirty’ for his image.
But, Wayne added, he’d be ‘first in line to see it.’
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
2:11 pm
The over-the-top BS here just gets loonier and loonier.
FAU professor James Tracy says, “What”?
http://www.10news.com/news/watercooler/fla-professor-calls-sandy-hook-massacre-a-conspiracy-james-tracy-says-newtown-shooting-staged
alittlecommonsense
January 10th, 2013
2:12 pm
The trillion dollar coin = a liberal idea that’s too kooky for even most of the liberal kooks on this blog to defend. Not too kooky for the liberal icon Paul Krugman though.
Stevie Ray
January 10th, 2013
2:13 pm
JAY
You don’t suppose GM selected Georgia for it’s business freindly environment do you???
Regardless…1100 jobs is great news..Hope at least a majority come from in-state…
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/gm-to-hire-1000-at-new-atlanta-it-center/nTr5L/?src=cb_article
williebkind
January 10th, 2013
2:14 pm
All for a SYMPATHY LAW for the Newtown kids vote here! Screw that pesky constitution.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 10th, 2013
2:14 pm
DDR, well they are going back. Apparently it will be a “walled community”. The drawings look like a castle. We know that was a great defense…. how many centuries ago?
From their FAQs:
What is the Goal of the III Citadel Project?
1.To provide a community for like-minded Patriots to live in Thomas Jefferson’s Rightful Liberty
2.To be removed and protected from peril in order to preserve ourselves, our posterity, and Liberty in the event of a national economic implosion
3.To live a free/freer life in Idaho (or elsewhere in the American Redoubt) amongst the current strong, self-reliant and Liberty-loving residents of the region
Who Started This Project?
This project began as an idea in the Patriot Blogosphere in early 2012. Since its inception, scores of Liberty-loving individuals have contributed their time, their expertise, and their financial support to make this idea become reality….
The model will be similar in many ways to that of Disneyland. It is walled, gated, private property with controlled access. People pay to enter and agree to the rules because they see value in doing so. It is all based on a voluntary agreement between the owners of the property and those who want to come inside. Millions of people visit Disneyland and interact peacefully. It’s exceptionally rare to hear of any serious problems. The key is that those people want to be there and understand what is expected of them. Surprisingly similar to what we are doing.
Stevie Ray
January 10th, 2013
2:15 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 10th, 2013
2:10 pm
Oh that’s a great story. While Blazing Saddles is still an awesome flick, I didn’t feel the same about Young Frankenstein oddly..seems to drag…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 10th, 2013
2:16 pm
All for a SYMPATHY LAW for the Newtown kids vote here! Screw that pesky constitution.
Robert and Mary Schindler say, “What?”
williebkind
January 10th, 2013
2:17 pm
The Atlanta area is overloaded with unemployment claims! I guess those new jobs must have been from some type of fiat.