Sunday night open thread
Gearing up for a new week after being blissfully unplugged with family this weekend. I’ve got jury duty in the morning. What’s on your minds?
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It hit 32 degrees today ……. WOOOOOT! Tomorrow will mark 90 consecutives days here without the temp getting to 40 degrees. That’s a record………winter without end.
Wonder if you’ll get picked…
Pelosi was quoted today as saying “It’s possible to have a bipartisan bill without bipartisan votes.”
By that reasoning:
“It’s possible to have global warming without the warmth.”
“The public wants Obamacare even though they don’t want Obamacare.”
And
“Massive Democratic party losses this November mean a landslide Democratic party victory.”
I’ve got it on the 10th, but I probably won’t have to go in – it’s only JP court.
OK, I get that you use your global warming chart to push the burnt biscuit into the chicken wire, but the subtleties of the game escape me.
Congratulations to Canada.
I doubt it. The lawyers are looking for somebody they can fool. I see a peremptory challenge in her future.
I’m angry.
People aren’t talking about this health care thing appropriately. They need to be specifically asked how this bill will help Medicare.
Their only answer is going to be ‘taxes’.
But the REALITY is that even if they pass all the bill that the D’s want (they will pass the senate bill), they are going to have to pass more dramatic health care legislation to deal with Medicare soon. Point being, this bill does nothing to fix the problem that exists.
Some people think Kent Conrad said he wouldn’t pass it through reconcilliation so that means it is dead. What Conrad said was that pieces would be passed through reconcilliation. . .
It is Conrad’s understanding that the Senate has already passed the bill. If they vote on reconcilliation it will be about provisions in the bill they have already passed. The House will have to pass the Senate bill.
Conrad was saying that they won’t be able to change things like insurance laws or abortion things. They can only change tax and spending of the bill they have already passed.
It’s far from dead. And it is much more dangerous for the fiscal health of this country than anything in history.
As usual, since you asked, I’m angry.
Michelle picked for jury duty???
Only in a prosecutors DREAM (probably a damp one at that)!
It is good and right to help widows and orphans. But if you are not a widow or an orphan, and you are able-bodied enough to work but choose not to, then you don’t deserve welfare.
Jury Duty? Whew, look out, if you’re guilty!
Had an interesting Saturday here in Hawaii, comparing national and local coverage of the tsunami. I found it most helpful to frequently check the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center website instead, which means I was one of the few in “the zone” who did not heed evacuation orders.
We escaped unscathed, fortunately.
Oh yeah, I was going to email this to you, but it’s no big deal. BE PREPARED!
This is a special announcement for Michelle Malkin directly! BEEP BEEP BEEEEEP!
I believe that the Democrats are counting on Michelle Malkin and other anti-illegal immigration hawks to cost the Republicans some seats.
Just a heads up but you can prepare. They are going to take their time on health care because they are going to go for broke on their next program once the primaries are done. . . amnesty for illegals.
They’ll put something up that the squishy R’s won’t be able to resist. They’ll vote likely in the summer and hope that outrage from Michelle and others will cause R incumbents their seats for being pro-immigration.
I’m not giving you solutions to this issue. I’m just saying it really is something you should be prepared to deal with. If you are prepared you can deal with it better. You can hammer R’s, but that’s what the D’s are going to expect you to do.
Just be aware of the likelihood (I’d do it to them if I could). . .Carry on BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEP!
Marcus Carey blogs about Kentucky politics. He made a really good point about Bunning’s last stand:
He’s right. Bunning isn’t even insisting we need to end unemployment benefits – he’s just saying that we should figure out how to pay for the extension. Sadly, he’s standing alone.
Our fearless leader eliminates prayer and God once and for all – Am I the only one that noticed the ‘pregnant pause’ when President Obama was expressing his sympathies to those in Chile? “Our hearts (pause) go out to those…” Anyone catch that? ‘And prayers’ wasn’t uttered from the great one’s lips. I don’t care if our president prays or not. That’s between him and his maker. What burns my hide is that it is likely the biggest argument between speechwriters about the speech our president was to deliver regarding Chile was not about how we might extend our helping hand to those in need, but how to remove any reference to religion in his teleprompter. I’m embarrassed for my country. And yes, I’ve prayed and will continue to pray for those affected in Chile.
All of us want a smaller government, but I do NOT trust the GOP. I doubt if they are willing to fire government workers, and that is what it takes. Unless they come on record and say they are willing to fire 1 million government workers, I have NO faith that they will do anything.
I did. I pointed it out to my husband.
Lets all send San Fran Nan, pencil neck dweeb Reid and the absent minded professor Barack, great big colorful thank you cards.
In them it should say, Thanks so very much for driving the independent vote back to us, we had every confidence you would fail but honestly, you succeeded far beyond our craziest dreams.
XOXOXO
P.S. libs, its sunny and bright were we are but we don’t want you here.
Conservatives only need apply.
Is this letter to the editor for real or a joke? You make the call.
Here is an excerpt:
Doug Van Gorder proves the adages:
1) Liberalism is a mental disorder, and
2) A liberal is a person who has opened his mind so far that all his brains fell out.
Yeesh!
Pelosi and Reid are in fantasy land. No message of any kind, except possibly losing an election, is going to bring them back to reality or dent their high self esteem. Just today on CNN Pelosi demonstrated how out of touch she really is:
Right now the message I want them to get is, its the American people who the final arbiters.
We’ve spoken clear and loud, no, stop!
They just have to pay heed.
I just read on seattletimes.com that Obowma passed his physical and he is in good health. But he can’t quit smoking. Smoke ‘em up Barry!
He probably smokes Virginia Slims. Wonder who he sends down to the 7-11 to buy them for him? “Hey Joe, go get me some smokes”!
No surprise, an Israeli study shows that smokers have lower IQs…
More from SanFranNan
Pelosi says GOP has hijacked ‘tea party’ movement
Is this woman insane?
I haven’t been called to jury duty since 2004, my first full year back in PA. Our family is related to a few judges and lawyers so I was dismissed promptly.
No travel this week, thank God. Our company has been busy and the travel schedule has been heavy!
An interesting little tidbit I picked up on the Euro english-language News/Opinion sites
Tom Tancredo — Tea Party prominent: Palin not presidential
another good site is
Spiegel Online International
I saw a few seconds of ‘This Week’ where Elisabeth Vargas was interviewing Nancy Pelosi. Is she her daughter? Or just a groupie adopting the pelosi look?
San Fran Nan, however, does not have her own seat on the line. In other words, other Dems need to fall on their swords for the noble cause of socialized medicine. Will these fearless foes of currupt capitolism and financial conservatism cry out, “I regret that I have but one [political] life to give for my country?!” Or slink away whining “He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.” If anyone wants to wager, I’ll go with the latter and give you 10 congresscritter votes.
The interview is chock full of other reality challenged revelations from dragon lady which I find very encouraging. A “new morning in America” is coming. Watch for it. Fight for it!
I have been following the discussion on the credit card industry. The common thread is that this industry will find a way to continue to scam card users. After much thought, I came up with a solution, “Make any interest over 10% subject to the usery law”. That puts the onerus on the credit card industry to clean up their own mess. They will not be able to support dead-heads and the rest of us will not have to support the industry for their mistakes.
My local school system is implementing International Baccalaurette and I’ve got our local Tea Party to support getting it removed, but it needs to be spread nationwide, this is a socialist curriculum that needs to be wiped out of our education system entirely.
Obama is the first president whose medical history began when he was elected.
Thacker Agency:
Any Republican that supports abandoning the rule of law and out national sovereignty deserves to be removed from office.
Being pro-immigration does not mean you support amnesty. Supporting amnesty mean you support illegal aliens being allowed to disregard our laws. Most immigrants (not illegal aliens) oppose letting those who ignored the laws they have complied with get away with the myriad crimes they commit to continue their illegal presence in our country.
We’re not paying his health care, are we?
Many of us see another amnesty as the end of the Republic, the stampede it will set off will be overwhelming. If we don’t stop the inundation none of the rest matters. We’ll be a banana republic before the jihadis can get us. There will never be another GOP president or Congressional majority. Importing voters for the socialists is as stupid as it gets.
Thanks to outrageous statements like the one above, there will be a new bill introduced that will forbid the use of any form or synonym of the word “crazy” and any member of the Democrat party in the same sentence (unless that word was being used to describe conservatives or the Tea Party).
/sarc off.
I have received a jury-duty summons only once in my life. I wasn’t selected. It’s just as well for a couple of reasons. One, it was about a purse-snatching at a gas station where I, and my wife, often filled up.
And two, that prosecuting attorney was HOT!! I would have been too busy ogling her to pay attention to the trial.
If you were to be selected we would miss you–but we need young and competent people on jury duty. The defendants, plaintiffs, state and accused all need young and competent people on jury. All too often those juries are the old (I am old but many tend to wander) and the civil servant.
But if that defendant or accused is a Democrat they are the bad guy-just trying to help.
Nancy Pilosi on ABC’s Sunday show just ticked me off something awful. The woman is not stupid, but she is corrupt and a demagogue. She wants her lemmings in the House to march, no run, over the cliff to plant an entitlement bomb in our national economy that will bring it to its knees in years rather than decades. Figures don’t lie, by liars figure, that’s what Obama was making those outrageous claims at the “bipartisan” whipping shed meeting on Thursday. If they succeed in passing the bill through reconciliation, truly ugly things are coming (ala Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, not to mention California!), and coming quickly, so you’d better prepare.
Take a good look at your peers on the jury, will make you pray you never go on trial.
It will be interesting to see how many socialist dems will follow Pelosi off the cliff.
Who are the mindless zealots? I believe we are about to get the answer to that one.
Twice, here, but only served on a jury once. It’s a pain to be on standby everyday, but it’s an responsibility to do. I sat on a jury judging a lawsuit of $50K on a traffic accident. We all figured out $8K in the jury room: damage, expenses and lawyer fees. That was fair. I would hate to be on a murder trial. The time lost from work would be too much.
Squirm lady, squirm
And when the camera is on you stop pushing your lower plate around with your tongue–it looks gross.
I haven’t had a chance to read all the comments yet…but did you know that John Kerry, Lindsay Graham and Joe Leiberman are introducing a new crap and tax bill this week?
I have a question – If the Empty suit has a Health Sham Bill all to himself, his, who wrote it for him?
I had to report for jury selection on a murder trial, and knew, if picked, I’d be sequestered. I could barely stand to listen to the case during the selection process. I can’t imagine dealing with that on the jury (I wasn’t selected).
I had jury duty this morning as well, but I wasn’t called in. We’ll see about tomorrow.
I’m the ideal jury candidate…no opinion on anything.
I heard, this morning, that it was noted on his medical chart to “drink in moderation only”. Now, when a patient is advised to drink in moderation only, it means he’s drinking too much. Sounds like a president who needs to address his drinking problem. This may be true or not; heard it on Glen Beck’s radio program.
From my politics blog: the Hamas has found a comfy home in England. No surprise for a terrible welfare country like that, but still dismaying, for good reason.
From my comics blog: some recent trade paperbacks of the current Teen Titans volume have turned up in public libraries, and are chock full of skin-crawling violence. I may have said this before, I’ll say it again: DO NOT let your children read this already disgusting book. And make sure to check if your local library is actually carrying this bloodfest and ask them not to.
And, from my game blog: videos of BOTH the Thunder Ceptor games! Both are a lot of fun.
I drink in moderation. I have two hands but I only use one glass at a time.
Me too, but I use a large glass.