Saturday open thread
Talk amongst yourselves. I’m grabbing a little rest today and gearing up for Week 2 of the Culture of Corruption book tour. Tomorrow, I’m scheduled to appear on the panel of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Yes, really.
You can watch yesterday’s Washington Journal appearance here and my encounter with Matt Lauer here.
Reader Maxwell writes that he ordered the book AND a shattered O logo magnet for his car — and sends this pic. Love it!
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Michelle, re: The Georgie Stuffynoseopolis show – sic ‘em.
I can’t wait to see it!
Spending the weekend cleaning and preparing lessons for homeschooling which will begin in two weeks. YAY
Great, I’ll get to see two of my favorite fillies Sunday. Michelle on This Week in the morning, and Rachel Alexandra racing at Monmouth Park in the afternoon.
Maxwell has a CA tag and all those decals against bho. You have guts Maxwell!
I say yesterday on HA you are going to be on the view Monday Michelle. That should be good! You are doing a great job, BTW, Michelle on your book tour.
L
Trying to find work in software development. It’s been three months since my layoff. It’s frustrating because employers can afford to be so picky with experience requirements.
Check out this story: Mexico shuts Cancun beach, alleges sand was stolen
Note the racist hypocritical galling statement from Mexico’s AG Patricio Patron: “I apologize to the tourists for this problem, but it is a question of enforcing the law.” …and yet the Mexican govt criticizes our border enforcement laws.
Going for 4,000 on the “Don’t Taze Me Bro’” thread.
Be there or be square!
Grim news
BTW Another good question
Why are we giving out clinker money for foreign made cars ?
One final post before I go
Meet the 6 medal of Honor Winners in the WOT
Guess who said the following words:
Who said that?
Barack Hussein Obama. Yes, really.
I hope the Obama White House recognizes that in fact it is its duty not just to the Senate but to the American people to make sure we can thoroughly and adequately evaluate the record of Barack Obama.
Where’s your birth certificate, Barry?
Where are your college records, Barry?
Where are your passport records, Barry?
Before the Senate can confirm your Supreme Court nominee, the Senate must first put to rest the questions about your eligibility by:
It is your duty to the American people to make sure we can thoroughly and adequately evaluate your record and your eligibility to hold the office of President.
Sowing and reaping, Barry, sowing and reaping.
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Leo Donofrio responded to my comment saying:
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My reason for posting this here is to do my part to spread this far and wide. Any MM reader who wants to send this text to their Senator has my 100% permission (and thanks) to do so.
Ask your Senator:
PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS!!!
Drudge has an alert that the government is planning major revisions to historical economic data. No link yet but this could be blockbuster to those of us whose livelihood depend on historical data.
Is it finally happening? Not satisfied with fudging current economic data, now they are going to rewrite history? If this is what I think it is, huge swaths of PHDs may be about to be put out of business.
Interesting 5 min film.
Did Jesus actually reveal name of the ‘antichrist’? According to the film maker: “When I started doing a little research, I found the Greek word for ‘lightning’ is ‘astrape’, and the Hebrew equivalent is ‘Baraq,’”
I got my copy of “Culture of Corruption” yesterday. It wasn’t autographed. I’m going to kill myself.
Michelle will PWN Steffy poo.
On my twitter
Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass demands Congress investigate anyone who challenges Global Warming for Fraud.
William Amos,
Well congress will be very, very busy investigating. Markey is a nut, the D proves it!
L
Zombieland There Are Worse Things Than Global Warming.
Imus and Chris Wallace discuss Lou Dobbs and his birther coverage.
Craig Crawford Trail Mix discusses Race and Beer He posted video on his blog.
Zombieland is coming out in October I just think it’s timely and maybe a little bit of a political Snark who hasn’t run into Obots on the Internet? Zombies who don’t think for themselves but parrot back what ever they hear? This movie trailer has some text inserted “Their Land” it sure feels like it huh?
Today is the anniversary of the Pleosti Raid, or debacle depending on your point of view. You can read more about it here:
http://www.redstate.com/skanderbeg/2009/08/01/august-1st-1943-the-ploesti-raid/
Shared before that I am a hospice nurse. I am also a Vietnam Era vet. My dad and uncle were B17 pilots in European theater. I have always been interested in these kinds of stories.
We have a VA locally and some of the WII vets go through their hospice but we also have some of them who are admitted to our non-profit hospice. Being a male nurse I tend to get more men then women and hance get many of these WWII guys.
Some months ago I was given a new patient and went to meet him. He was living with his son so I meet both of them. We did that first visit admission chatter. He shared he had been in WWII. I shared about my dad. That was about it.
That night on TV one of the cable history channels had a show about this raid. How some of the loss of life was due to poor or mis-planning, whatever you want to call it, the raid itself, etc. Was fascinating.
I saw this new patient again in 2 days. I told him about the special I had seen. His reply, “I was a gunner on one of those B24′s and I have my personal diary and logs still in a box under my bed.” Not only that but his whole countenance changed. He went from looking like my laptop does when its on battery and the screen is in that “just be bright enough to see but don’t drain the battery mode” and then I plug it in and the screen goes to that “Brighten up man, you are plugged in mode”. That’s exactly what he did. His son stopped in his tracks as well. The old coot asked if we wanted to see them. Well of course we did. He dug them out and started sharing. He wept like it was yesterday. As an enlisted man/gunner he of course was buddies with the enlisted crew on many of those B24′s. He had a first hand view of planes going down, getting shot up, etc. I’m sure it felt like all of this happened yesterday to him.
His son had no idea. The old guy said no one ever seemed interested enough for him to dig the stuff out.
I was able to make contact through one of the many web sites now up for these bomber squadrons and found the pilot of this guy’s B24 was living in a retirement community near by. I was not present when they made contact but the did get together. The old guy died not too long after. I think about him when I read or hear about this raid.
His son appreciated the opportunity to get to know his dad differently. I guess he had never thought of his dad as a young adult going through the immense stuggle of life and death of WWII. Of course the diary and logs are prized possessions now.
I wish the VA had a more aggressive and bigger hospice program. I’d be working for them if so.
On Thursday, Nicholson was fired.
Such a glaring example of why the United States is losing its historical identity of “rugged individuality.”
Modern Liberalism’s 40-year quest to destroy the psyche of the American Warrior Class will prove just as disastrous as its philosophy of “spending oneself into prosperity through other peoples’ money.”
You Can’t Reason With Zombie’s Coffee Cup.
MTPundit loves to blog about Zombies.
God bless you for doing that!!
The real debacle of the Ploesti raid was that after King Michael overthrew the fascist Antonescu government a year later and repatriated all the captured airmen, we were in no position to send forces into Romania to secure his government and deflect the Russian advance. 88-year-old King Michael, now a private Romanian citizen, is the last living World War II leader.
Had my eye on a $2200.00 clunker, the price doubled last week, thank you congress for watching out for the poor, less fortunate or what ever you want to call us people that are over the hill living under the poverty line.
I do not believe the dems do anything that is not fully planned and executed…there is no “unintended consequences”…it’s all part of the plan to “change” America. “unintended consequences” is an excuse to make their socialist views and actions more acceptable by the lemmings of the world.
I love humor like this. Meanwhile, I am contemplating my immediate future on planet earth while lightning bolts strike all around me. It is the thunderstorm from hell and we were just hit by a tornado only a few days and a few miles from us. (Germantown, TN.)
Shouldn’t this be a haiku though?
I got my copy of “Culture of Corruption” yesterday
It wasn’t autographed
I’m going to kill myself.
Being on the panel on “This Week” carries risk of other panelists ganging up on you, whereas going one on one with Matt Lauer enabled you to eat his breakfast. However, I am confident you will come out on top, since like Ajax you have proven to be stronger than dirt.
All this talk of Zombies made me think of Zombietime so I spent some time over there. I thought this tidbit was worth sharing:
I hadn’t ever looked at it quite like that. Well said, Zombie.
Culture of Corruption has been published.
I haven’t bought a copy.
I must.
Way to go prendad
You picked it up fast
I’m getting coffee
Good luck tomorrow, you’ll be fine. If you can handle that militant racist Atty. Malik Zulu Shabazz, George Stupidnopolis will be a piece of cake.
Get your coffee
I’m cooking burgers
Waiting for NASCAR
The only problem with being on a panel of lefties is that they talk over you and each other. They interrupt and filibuster. And if you aren’t aggresive enough, you won’t get your point across. They are masters at interrupting just as you are making your case. I know Michelle will do well. But they will do their best to derail her. It all depends on the moderator and if they are allowed to get away with it.
I think you wandered from the theme there prendad…..
Have you been sleeping? sick? Or just busy?
Yes, you are right. This ultimately hurts the poor.
I called the salesman we bought our last car from and told him to keep an eye on those cars coming in, because if the deal is right I’ll give him $5,000 right now for a good used car.
I suspect the dealers are going to be cash crunched for a few weeks until the government checks start coming in, so now is my chance.
Anyone know what time (central time) George Stuffanappleupyoura$$ is on tomorrow?
Since the Birther business won’t go away (as I’m sure MM devoutly wishes it would), I thought I would share these two items, a comment from the great Mark Steyn and a link to the very thoughtful writeup by Andrew McCarthy that he was responding to.
There is a problem here, unquestionably — though it is not quite the problem people might think it is.
First Steyn:
Now here’s the link.
If he didn’t it sure is very very strange. What are the chances of this happening?
This is an open thread, how in the heck can I wander from an open thread?
This Week with George S. is on tomorrow a.m. at 9:00 central time, on ABC…in case no one ever watches it. Which I don’t. But I will tomorrow.
tiredofit08,
I sent this to my brother who is a minister, reads Greek, and Hebrew. I asked him to see if this film is a nut job or could BE. If there any Jewish people who understand the words, it would be nice to get their view.
L
“I wander from an open thread?”
The theme of the haiku’s pren….
Ahhh, I see.
Burgers are done.
Hungry I am.
Bye.
I heard on Fox this am that Rick Santorum checked Specter and Casey’s schedule for the next month and they don’t have much planned…hiding from us PA peeps? How about your senators? Let’s scope them out.
That doesn’t make sense. You have to have owned a clunker for a year to be able to use in the C4C program. I hope the owner of that car doesn’t find some idiot willing to buy it.
Regarding the C4C program, yes it’s stupid. But I remember when the bailouts were getting started many posters here said the gov’t should just give the money directly to taxpayers instead. At least the C4C does have some direct benefit to people. So it’s a bad idea, but not the Dem’s worst.
Could You Imagine the reaction of the Major Media if Laura Bush had her White House “organic garden” confiscated by the National Park Service because Barbara Bush had contaminated the soil with dangerous levels of lead by using raw sewage during a previous “environmentally friendly” administration?
Poor Michelle Obama…she was born with a green foot in her mouth.
I wonder if we will find the Rose Law Firm’s billing records and Vince Foster’s personal papers in that contaminated soil?
Presuming that the appearance on The View is still “on”, I suggest that we all take out a minute or two and say some prayers for Michelle. I’ll be praying that God lays our enemies at her feet (in a heap), so she can duly trample upon them. It’s just my special way of sharing the love of Jesus with them, that’s all.
(What?! — haven’t you ever heard of “tough love”?)
My collie says:
From my politics blog: British policewomen in Somerset and Avon must wear burqas when entering mosques.
From my comics blog: Geoff Johns is continuing to insult and destroy the DC universe with their latest published atrocity, “Blackest Night”.
From my game blog: some videos of playthroughs on Green Beret and MIA: Missing in Action, from Konami.
Amazon star wars
Culture of Corruption stirs—
I have my copy.
Good one CO2….
Great Warrior Malkin
To appear on The View.
The liberals shiver.
Left review:
Conservatives—dumb.
Bush did it.
Can anybody come up with a haiku version of the Charge of the Lightworker?
Review two:
Hundreds of pages,
Each one—LIE!
The California budget crisis intrigues me. Are there any California residents who have suggestions for resolving the problem?
I would suggest an immediate cut on pay to any state employee making more than 60k.
The cuts could be staggered so that, as the left always suggests, those most able to pay for it would pay the most.
So state employees making say in excess of 100k pay a much higher portion than a state employee only making 90k.
State employees making in excess of 150k would certainly pay the most. But since they earn their living from the taxes paid by someone else, they obviously care more and would certainly want to help as much as possible.
Just some thoughts on a saturday.
CO2….
Could’ve worked in a season in that last one as in “blows hot air…”
You are good at this haiku thing!
Join us to celebrate the Swiss National Day at the Swiss Embassy if you live close to Washington, DC and you don’t have anything else to do
More info here!
“California budget crisis intrigues me.”
Aren’t they going to open up oil rigs off the coast now though? Part of the problem in California as a smaller representation of the rest of the country is their own natural resouces and means to generate actual value have been cut off. California has lots of resources that if used will generate actual wealth as in hard real assets. They can’t get to them. Could be the finanical crisis will create the pressure to shut up the environmentalist whackos….
While sitting outside a resturant waiting the typical hour to eat (the recession has hit us hard here in Oklahoma), I spotted a car with New York tags, complete with an Obama bumper sticker…moron. Go Home!
Here’s one you’ll just love:
http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/07/ethicsgate-video-democrats-dont-want.html
Collin
I just learned from the Mark Levin show that all cars turned in for the “Cash for Clunkers” program will have the engines permanently disabled and the remaining parts crushed. This will have the unexpected consequence of making it more expensive for those who can’t afford a new car to get parts for the clunkers that they drive to work everyday. Nice job Obama! Maybe “Cash for Clunkers” should be changed to “Let them drive Mercedes”
Review three, no lie :
Filipino rat-culture—
Medicine, taste it.
Let me hit the Easy Button……
Cut off all social services to illegal aliens and Wham-o instant budget surplus.
I wonder where that pair of skunks are off to now? I don’t smell anything up here in Lawrence County…
Summer winds
Bring forth certainty:
Facts spawn hate.
Thanks, js
middleton. I should
stop this now.
I’d like to see a running tally on how many of those magnetic shattered O emblems get stolen!!!
sometimes things just hit your tickle bone, this did it.
My response to that aj is that is not really something I would watch regardless of when it was on….
Happy Saturday, ya’ll. Especially you Ajers.
My apologies, Michelle if you already posted this…so hope you don’t mind me posting it again.
This was from a McCaskill townhall on healthcare. A deaf gentleman by the name of Noah Logue spoke. I think its worth the couple of minutes to view.
Noah Logue Asks Dem Officials: Will Handicapped People Like Me Get Medical Services Under Obamacare?
via Gateway Pundit, who also has pasted Noah’s written speech (some parts are inauditable).
WOW! Just watched the Lauer interview, great job MM. He looked like he was going to be sick at the end of the interview. Thanks for making him be the conduit for info that too many dumbed down Americans refuse to acknowledge about Obama the fraud.
Maxwell is driving a MINI Cooper…I got one of those, it’s a cool toy!!
Hope it doesn’t get damaged by an Obamabot.
And the crushed and chopped up parts are being shipped to China so they can produce carbon emmissions by melting down the metal and reusing for more production for their economy.
Ha! funny feebz…. u r such a brat.
JS, I was talking about what she called him not the show…..
WOW Check This Out Busted!
Palin Bullies: Exposed And Whining
Sarah Palin has been the target of the left from the very day she walked onto the public stage, and their venom continues on. The problem is, they don’t like being exposed, and now that they’ve been, they’re crying foul and one of the whiners has brought her issues to my door (via email)…
Subject: Copyright Violation
The video contains five images which I own and did not give permission to be used.
They appear at 3:34, 6:37, 6:40, 6:45 and 7:05.
http://www.nmatv.com/video/3002/Obama-and-Democrats-multiple-direct-links-to-destroy-Palin
This video has already been taken down at multiple video sharing sites for the copyright infringement.
I guess that’s supposed to impress me.
I state UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that:– I am the owner, or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
– I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
– This notification is accurate.
– I understand that abuse of this tool will result in termination of my YouTube account.
Authorized Signature: Jeanne Devon
You may contact me at this email address or by phone at xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Please let me know if you require any further information.
Thanks!
For reasons of common courtesy, I didn’t publish Ms. Devon’s (aka AKMuckraker) phone number.
And after further review (as Executive Director of NMATV), I will not censor the video in question.
The Fair Use Clause of the Copyright Law of 1976 allows for the rebroadcast of copyrighted works for the purpose of education, commentary, and criticism.
While Ms. Devon feels she may have been violated, I think the only violation is that these malicious liberal thugs got caught, have been publicly outed, and are justifiably paranoid of potential legal trouble from Mrs. Palin. Note, Ms. Devon doesn’t dispute the content of the video; just the fact her mug was inserted therein.
Meaner things have been done to Sarah Palin.
Oh, and by the way… here’s the video.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13302
I laugh every time I say it. It just rolls off the tongue so well, and still sounds like his real name. If I had a name like that, I would have changed it when I turned 21.
Phone calls to the offices of Rep. Pelosi, Senator Feinstein and Senator Boxer find no Town Hall meetings scheduled during August recess!
What are they afraid of?
Keep making those phone calls!
*I received my copy of CoC yesterday; Have to finish “Common Sense” by Glenn Beck/Thomas Paine, then it’s next; It has a great quote in there by Mark Steyn about the MSM; So true.
*I have the same bumper sticker as the Mini; Says it all for me.
*Hey Michelle, don’t let Donna Brazilly you; Or maybe that Katrina Obamabot will be on; That should be pay per view!
You did catch that MM is going to be on it tomorrow…right? Just asking. I don’t watch that show either, but tomorrow I will, only because MM will be on.
You need to ask? They are afraid of the truth. And the people they are supposed to represent. It doesn’t matter. They will be toast the next time they are up for re-election. The charge…insubordination.
Peoples eye’s are finally being opened regarding His Royal Odopeyness, stupid idiots, the writing was all over the wall from the get go.
Dunno if anyone answered your question yet, Scrapper, but “This Week with Steffanie” starts at 9AM Sunday on KSTP – the ol’ analog Channel 5. Still is Channel 5 on over the airwaves Dighital-TV (if you’ve got cable or satellite, I have no idea which channel number you’d tune into!)
“You did catch that MM is going to be on it tomorrow…right?”
You did catch that the title of the made up show is sticking an apple up someone else’s back side yes?
I like your thinking but the liberals running california will never go for it. Even a lot of the citizenry would not support it.
However cutting the pay of the state employees across the board based on there existing level of earnings could gain traction.
Besides these are good liberals who are against greed anyways so why not hit em where they live?
From Wiki-P:
Al-Burāq (Arabic: البُراق al-Burāq “lightning”) is a miraculous steed, described as a creature from the heavens which transported the prophets.
Well, he is lightning fast trying to get his agenda passed. I guess one could say he is “transporting” his teachers and prophets messages…Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
Many in history have been deemed “anti-Christ.” The One who assumes great power, whose Army is legion, who goes against or con volutes Christ’s message, and does, or attempts to do harm to man, under the guise of the “common good,” is demonized.
For them, and maybe us as well, the anti-Christ is the one that fits the profile at the time. Oops! Is that racist…profiling?
Sorry, js…I’m not understanding you here. What the heck are you taking about? Are we miscommunicating here? I was merely making a “play” on George Stephanapoulas’s name, like they do with Imadinnerjacket, etc. I thought I was being rather humorous. Where did I go wrong?
And it was funny, Scrapper!
I like “Ah! MyDinnerJacket!” better, though.
But I think jsm will have the last laugh on it – you know the the old line, “He who laughs last, was the last guy to get the joke”?
now if you had bought a bunch of the shattered o stickers you could have slapped one on…lol..I occasionally see one or two around SE OKC and on Tinker…won’t say who but you can guess…
An excellent article from, believe it or not, the Huffington Post, by Mark Joseph:
The only thing weirder that the birthers are…..the anti-birthers.
The only thing weirder than the Birthers are the anti-Birthers, who blame the Birthers for being conspiracy theorists yet actively feed the conspiracy by refusing to call for President Obama to release his birth certificate.
The state official in Hawaii who manages such things has reiterated that there is indeed an original birth certificate on file which would confirm President Obama’s having been born in Hawaii and that she has seen it, but state law won’t allow her to release it unless the president authorizes it.
So what’s the problem here? Release the original and let’s be done with this madness.
I realize there are some faith-based Obama supporters who believe without seeing, but the rest of us in the reality-based world are starting to get that strange feeling we got when Mark Sanford tried to convince us that he was away from his family on Father’s Day, hiking the Appalachian trail in order to clear his head and write a book.
During the last campaign, John McCain faced similar questions and promptly responded by releasing his original birth certificate. That’s how normal people with nothing to hide handle these things.
Most American’s aren’t Birthers or anti-Birthers, but we are beginning to wonder why the president doesn’t put this one to rest once and for all. Every day he allows this circus to continue is another day that he behaves less like the President of the United States facing weird accusations from fringe groups and more like a strange politician flying to Argentina to visit his soul-mate while pretending to be hiking the Appalachians.
Follow Mark Joseph on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/markmjm
On August 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm,
What? I have no idea what you said.
My thanks to them and to you for your service.
My uncle was a B17 copilot. I am in daily email contact with his surviving navigator, who helped me put this story together, after I found my deceased uncle and his unique WWII adventure are mentioned in 6 history books. Screenplay in the works!!
And I mean unique – the only uniformed officer to figuratively poke Hitler in the eye by stealing a swastika plaque from a German consulate.
Which shows us the pain has not yet become enough to jar the voters back to reality.
Stillwaiting, better yet, possibly you didn’t understand my post…do to the clunker program I was priced out of a used replacement vehicle. My purchasing a used replacement vehicle for me has nothing to do with the “clunker” program other than the government artificially raised the price of the vehicle I was interested in. Hope that clears it up for you.
So, the government raises the price of the cars, then offers you some money to given them your car so they can trash it, then you get the “new” car with the inflated price, and think you have gotten a deal? Sounds like Obamacare to me. And the doofuses are swallowing it hook, line and sinker. Is there ANYTHING the government does these days that even HINTS at being honest? ANYTHING?
Not true around here. You can get $4500, plus up to a $4500 factory discount, plus the salvage value of the vehicle, plus a dealer discount off the list price. It’s not difficult to get the vehicle for 1/2 the sticker price.
It might be another stupid government program, but for someone who was going to buy a car anyway it is one heck of a deal.
happy, i believe you took my comment out of context, the whole quote was: “My purchasing a used replacement vehicle for me has nothing to do with the “clunker” program other than the government artificially raised the price of the vehicle I was interested in. Hope that clears it up for you.”
I’m not buying a new replacement vehicle, I did say “…a used…”.
Happy, No. the end.
Cool we’ll find out what Rahm instructed Georgie to say on the tele comference.
If I may suggest a few minutes before going on The View on Monday, in the dressing room jump up and down and yell, kill, kill, kill.
Give’em hell! Ma’am.
Maybe I didn’t understand. How did the government’s actions raise the cost of a clunker vehicle?