Shorter Max Boot

ObamaCare and American Power

  • If we spend money to help Americans get health care, we’ll have less money for my wars! My precious, precious wars!

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Comments: 482

 
 
 

Needs more sammich.

 
 

Damn! That is a fucking beautiful necktie!

 
 

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Rupert Murdoch saved me from myself

 
 

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At least Rupe is robbing those who think the same way.

 
The Goddamn Batman Is Damn Glad To Have A British Butler, Because There's No Other Really Good Place In Gotham City For Toad-in-a-hole And Spotted Dick
 

The United States currently spends roughly as much on defense ($661 billion in fiscal year 2009) as the rest of the world combined. But that’s a pittance compared to what we spend on three major entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

See, the thing with guns and butter is, when you eat the butter it’s gone, but with guns, you get to take them apart and put them back together and grease up the barrel reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllll gooooooooooood, if you know what I mean. *strokes stock* awwwwwww yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

 
 

That can’t be a very tasty sammich.

 
 

Subscription wall aside, I think I can guess how it ends.

“More money on health care than the military? That means we’re putting a greater investment into helping people than hurting people. Madness, I say! How do they expect me to get an erection now?”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

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Rupert Murdoch saved me from myself

Oh, good. It’s much better this way. I’m a terrible swimmer.

 
 

Das Boot ist der shtupid.

 
 

Just for completion’s sake, the entire article can be accessed here.

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

Just for completion’s sake, the entire article can be accessed here.

Gee, thanks. Perhaps you’d like to jab a fork in my fucking eye as well?

 
 

Boot goes on to say that right now, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid make up 35% of the annual budget, which is far higher than the defense budget.

*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRAP*

Wrong!

Social Security and Medicare are OFF BUDGET items and have nothing to do with the defense budget! Furthermore, the defense budget numbers DO NOT include the costs of waging two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, so adding THOSE back in, we see that, in fact MORE is spent on defending this nation AND killing sand people than in saving the elderly from a life of dying in our streets of disease and famine.

 
 

Perhaps you’d like to jab a fork in my fucking eye as well?

As they say on Facebook: *poke*

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Just for completion’s sake, the entire article can be accessed here.

Hm, I still can’t get it. Darn.

 
 

Actor, that still didn’t allow access for me. But I did stumble upon a delicious comment:

Donald Bistrow says:

The apology tour meant Obama would fast destroy the concept of American exceptionalism. He is on a fast track by whatever means necessary.

He is a lousy poker player now but as he constantly shows his hand everyone looks around in disbelief that it’s actually happening.

Time to really Wake Up America, the rug is being pulled out and as America loses power with Obama and his ilk selling us out, we have already begun to lose the things that give us the power of individuality.

http://www.takebackthegop.net

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull the rug out from under this doubting Thomas in order to see the spots on a leopard when getting back to square one trying to explain the cock and bull story Obama is feeding us “stuck-in-our-ways” folk.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

That can’t be a very tasty sammich.

DON’T. EAT. METAL.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

The apology tour meant Obama would fast destroy the concept of American exceptionalism

Oooh, ooooh! That reminds me that wingnuts are likely furiously shitting bricks RIGHT THIS SECOND over the news of Obama’s “snubbing” of Bibi last night. There should be some doozies up now and/or soon.

 
 

T&U, check out the site http://www.takebackthegop.net. It is amazingly awesome.

 
 

That reminds me that wingnuts are likely furiously shitting bricks RIGHT THIS SECOND over the news of Obama’s “snubbing” of Bibi last night

Pammy? Pipes? Surely they must be boiling oil by now.

TinTin? DA? Anyone?

2X2L calling CQ….2X2L calling CQ…isn’t there anyone on the air? Isn’t there anyone on the air?

 
 

the concept of American exceptionalism

I think he means “American exclusionism”.

 
 

Obama and his ilk selling us out

Damn Ilk! I’m quitting and joining the Kiwanis instead!

 
 

Hoverball cats are free.

I, for one, welcome our legless feline overlords.

 
 

That reminds me that wingnuts are likely furiously shitting bricks RIGHT THIS SECOND over the news of Obama’s “snubbing” of Bibi last night

Why, lookie here!

 
 

Hey, all the more reason to be happy that NObama is surrendering to Russia, what with somewhat reducing both nations’ nuclear arsenals to just global destruction levels rather than global destruction levels to infinity no takebacks.

 
 

Boot goes on to say that right now, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid make up 35% of the annual budget, which is far higher than the defense budget.

Ain’t no better way to start a Friday with a healthy debate on which helps more people: War Vs. Health Care. War usually wins.. with its guns, bombs and pom poms its tuff to combat.

I don’t see what I did there.

 
 

“I, for one, welcome our legless feline overlords.”

You won’t take it so lightly when they’re shooting frickin’ “laser beams” out of their frickin eyes.

 
 

Hey, all the more reason to be happy that NObama is surrendering to Russia, what with somewhat reducing both nations’ nuclear arsenals to just global destruction levels rather than global destruction levels to infinity no takebacks.

And letting the Russia air force flyover England for holiday!

 
 

We could save a lot of health care money if we’d concentrate on blowing up more civilians inside the USA.

 
 

You won’t take it so lightly when they’re shooting frickin’ “laser beams” out of their frickin eyes.

Which, being cats, they’ll chase around endlessly, never quite catching up to them. It will be adorable!

 
 

“helping people than hurting people. Madness, I say! How do they expect me to get an erection now?”

I think there are “mistresses” listed on Craigslist who can help him with that.

 
 

global destruction levels to infinity no takebacks.

No back-cuts either!

 
 

“Which, being cats, they’ll chase around endlessly, never quite catching up to them. It will be adorable!”

Well, I can see I’m not going to be able to get you to properly respect the power and danger of Hoverball cats. It’s all fun and games ’til somebody gets hit in the eye with a massive flying Tribble.

 
 

RICK MORAN (really) from, ironically, “The American Thinker” (one of Actor’s links:)

Please forgive me for not being as smart and insightful as some.

That’s quite alright, you work at the American Tinker.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

T&U, check out the site http://www.takebackthegop.net. It is amazingly awesome.

Oh, man, that’s pretty brilliant.

Though it’s still not as epically bad as Cynthia “Hunger is a Great Motivator” Davis’s website. Seriously? I know you’re just a fucking nutball state rep, lady, but it’s fucking 2010! You couldn’t pay an undergrad, like, fifty bucks and a pizza to make a website that doesn’t look like 1992 shat on a plate?

 
 

It’s all fun and games ’til somebody gets hit in the eye with a massive flying Tribble Nerfcat.

Fixed!

 
 

2X2L calling CQ….2X2L calling CQ…isn’t there anyone on the air? Isn’t there anyone on the air?

Goddamn tripods. And not the good tripods…

 
 

RICK MORAN (really) from, ironically, “The American Thinker”

We are aware of his work

 
 

T&U, check out the site http://www.takebackthegop.net. It is amazingly awesome.

I love how they have the certified Copyscape “plagiarism checker” (really just a big ol’ search engine), so when you click on the chiclet to Copyscape, about a million hits on the entire page show up.

 
Ted the Slacker
 

So this week in Obama, it’s HCR, Bibi gets put in the corner, and now an arms’ reduction treaty with Russia.

The Neocon butthurt level right now must be extreme.

 
 

We are aware of his work

Roger that.

So this fine, famous gentleman is requesting Rick and his family to get brains? That is sound advice.

 
 

The Neocon butthurt level right now must be extreme.

It’s pink! Spanked Arse Pink! Code Pink! Code Pink!

(Link NSFW)

 
 

The only higher alert level for NeoCon Butthurt is Hemorrhoid Red.

For obvious reasons, no links to images.

 
 

It takes a neocon to describe our defense budget as a “pittance”.

 
 

It takes a neocon to describe our defense budget as a “pittance”.

In fairness to them, they’re used to Bush, who spent 11 cents of every budget nickle on the military.

 
 

You couldn’t pay an undergrad, like, fifty bucks and a pizza to make a website that doesn’t look like 1992 shat on a plate?

Oh contraire, mon ami!

 
No-Visible-Means
 

Money schmoney. Hoverball cats are free.

And we know what to do with them!

 
 

Obama announces nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.

I’m sure none of the wingnuts will feel butthurt about this. None at all.

 
 

Wow, Ted the Slacker has me waaay covered. I’m behind the times today.

 
 

Somebody employed that fellow as a journalist? I remember him as a sad and lonely provocateur who was allowed by the Daily Californian to write a column that everyone ridiculed so we could claim that even wackos were represented in UC Berkeley media.

You’ve come a short way, Bootie.

 
 

I heard the Erick Erickson on the NPR again this morning (second time this week — he was in a story on Wednesday). For now on, I’m just going to listen to podcasts on my way to work. I need some choad-free time before my day begins.

 
 

Wow, Ted the Slacker has me waaay covered. I’m behind the times today.

The best part of this site is that you can dig up any story on the web, carefully craft a post around it, citing links and precedents and really doing a terrific job about it, only to have some slacker cut into your fun…

 
 

OK, not “the best part”…what’s the other one?

Oh. Right. The worst part.

 
Heckuva job, whitey
 

Obama announces nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.

What does this have to with Ezra Klein, troll?

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

Man, I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to deal with all this incoming schadenfreude. Eight years of abject despair and outrage fatigue, and in one week I’m positively glutting myself on tears and butthurt. I’m going to get the bends from this, I’m certain.

 
 

Well, I can see I’m not going to be able to get you to properly respect the power and danger of Hoverball cats.

Apparently, I misunderestimated the problem

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

OK, not “the best part”…what’s the other one?

Oh. Right. The worst part.

I always take it personally, like people are deliberately ignoring my posts. Bastards.

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

This will piss you off

The heavyweight dumbfucks weigh in. I found much insightful, thoughful statesmanship here…NOT.

 
 

I always take it personally, like people are deliberately ignoring my posts

I’m sorry…what were you saying?

 
 

This will piss you off

We asked five opponents of government-directed health care for their thoughts on our new health-care entitlement.

That is an excellent focus group. If you ask five opponents of Topic A what their thoughts are on Topic A, don’t you already know what their thoughts are. It could be the glue, but that sounds like a pointless Q&A.

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

FYWSJ

Here’s a sample for you st00pid libz who don’t subscribe to Jesus’ fav mag, the wSJ. Suck it bitchez:

Persistence Is the Key

By Bobby Jindal

After forcing through a massive health-care overhaul that the public does not want, the president and Democratic leaders in Congress are threatening us with yet another PR campaign to make us like it. Good luck with that.

Meanwhile, some level of handwringing has broken out among GOP strategists. Should we push for repeal? Will it work? Is there some danger in that strategy?

Well, let’s see. We just spent 13 months arguing against the Democrats’ top-down approach to health care, contending that it must be stopped for the good of our country, the health of our citizens, and the future of our nation’s economy. So, should we try to repeal it? Only in Washington is this a hard question.

The arguments against repeal are the following:

1) It’s next to impossible. Nothing of this magnitude has ever been repealed.

2) Even if Republicans take control of Congress this fall, the president would veto repeal.

3) It will be hard to take things away from people once the government starts giving them out.

4) There are parts of the bill that the public will like.

5) We don’t want to be labeled the party of “no.”

Let’s take them one at a time.

1) It’s impossible. Wrong. There is a first time for everything. It’s similarly “impossible” for the son of Indian immigrants to get elected in the deep South. It’s impossible for an African-American to get elected president. You get the picture.

2) President Obama would veto a repeal bill. Yes, he sure would. Do it anyway. And do it again after he is gone. (By the way, President Clinton vetoed welfare reform twice before he signed it into law.)

3) It will be hard to take things away. Probably so. But the reality is that growth of federal entitlements is strangling the economic engine of our country. Someone has to draw the line somewhere. Do we want to go the way of Western Europe? If not, we better get moving in the other direction immediately.

4) There are parts of the bill the public will like. No doubt about it. There are parts I like—though I have yet to read the fine print—such as allowing parents to keep kids on their policies until they are 26-years-old. And there’s bound to be more good policy in there: 2,409 pages can’t be all bad. But the overall direction of the bill is to empower government, not patients.

5) We don’t want to be labeled the party of “no.” As it pertains to this bill, how about “hell no”? Newt Gingrich is saying we should “repeal and replace.” That works.

Mr. Jindal, a Republican, is the governor of Louisiana.

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A19

 
 

the president and Democratic leaders in Congress are threatening us with yet another PR campaign to make us like it.

Yes. Such oppression. Ads.

I can see it now: there’s little Bobby Jindal, standing on the Information Superhighway in front of Obama’s massive penis advertising tanks like he’s in Tianeman Square…

 
 

“There are parts I like—though I have yet to read the fine print” –B. Jindaling

GRRRRRRRR!

You voted “No” for something that you didn’t read entirely through?! WTF are we paying you for Jindaling? You need a time out, young man.

 
 

What a wonderful young man! I for one, have been considering sacrificing my children to further fund the military budget and secure our freedom his comfort.

My children are now healthy adults, perfect for organ harvesting. I myself, I have to stay alive to find more for these fine young patriots like Max.

 
 

“There are parts I like… ….such as allowing parents to keep kids on their policies until they are 26-years-old.” –B. Jindaling

That’s because Bobby, if he loses his job, will be able to get back on his “roommates” policy.

 
 

Let’s take Jindal apart one at a time.

1) “It’s similarly “impossible” for the son of Indian immigrants to get elected in the deep South.” It’s Louisiana, which as a state is about as close to an insane asylum as you can get. I chalk it up to the humidity and the mosquito bites.

2) “President Obama would veto a repeal bill. Yes, he sure would. Do it anyway. And do it again after he is gone.” By 2017, healthcare will have kicked in fully, and even Republicans will be against repeal, since it will mean taking Wife Cousin off the healthfare.

3) “But the reality is that growth of federal entitlements is strangling the economic engine of our country.” Right. Let’s drop the corn subsidy first, then talk.

4) “But the overall direction of the bill is to empower government, not patients.” Patients aren’t empowered now, else why would there be a need to change the fucking system, you pantholed little shitter?

5) “We don’t want to be labeled the party of “no.” As it pertains to this bill, how about “hell no”?” So don’t be disagreeable, agree to disagree disagreeably? That’s a winning strategy!

 
 

I always take it personally, like people are deliberately ignoring my posts.

We’re not ignoring you at all. As soon as we finish laughing at you, we respond to your posts.

 
 

I for one, have been considering sacrificing my children to further fund the military budget and secure our freedom his comfort.

Kate, you are an American Patriot. I salute you and your lucky sons and daughters who get to fight for the wicked free world.

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

More fun:

This Law Will Not Stand

By Mike Pence

In the dead of night on Sunday, Democrats rammed their health-care overhaul through Congress. Some say we made history. I say we broke with history, turning our back on this country’s finest traditions of limited government, personal responsibility, and the consent of the governed.

“…It was a dark and stormy dead of night…I was on my knees, minding my own business, when, out of nowhere, and I am not making this up, a demonRat suddenly shoved his unusually large package down my throat…”

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

some level of handwringing has broken out among GOP strategists.

Yes, I would definitely call that “hand wringing”.

 
 

Thank you Esteev and thank you Actor for once again, not making me have to go back and read the rest of that garbage.

 
 

“Democrats rammed their health-care”

Is it hot in here or is just the extra coverage?

 
 

So don’t be disagreeable, agree to disagree disagreeably? That’s a winning strategy!

That made me lolz.

 
 

“this country’s finest traditions of limited government, personal responsibility, and the consent of the governed.

The consent of the governed – that us governed might finally get to feel a little closer to that wonnerful world of security in good health that the high livin’ privileged asstards steal from us everyday and keep telling us is our personal responsibility to hand over to their lazy, unskilled, trustfundee asses.

 
 

Yes, I would definitely call that “hand wringing”.

Cf?

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Do we want to go the way of Western Europe?

This is a “Eurabia” dog whistle, right? (Or is he trying to drum up popular support for generous vacation and parental leave policies in the context of wealthy democracies?)

Isn’t it kind of strange for Jindal, of all people, to be warning of the oncoming hordes of swarthy immigrants?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

We’re not ignoring you at all. As soon as we finish laughing at you, we respond to your posts.

*Xanax* *cry*

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

BTW (and FYWP for eating my post), I didn’t think it was possible, but Jindal is a worse writer than he is a speaker.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

support for

Er, hostility to…can’t even use FYWP as an excuse. That’s all me.

 
 

*Xanax*

I’ve got mine in Pez Dispenser

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

It’s Louisiana, which as a state is about as close to an insane asylum as you can get. I chalk it up to the humidity and the mosquito bites

I’ve always thought of Louisiana as that gross growth on Uncle Texas’ private parts, which he likes to show to the kids after he’s had a little moonshine.

 
CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
 

Voting is so central to the American system that three of the last five amendments to our Constitution deal with it (Amendments 23, 24 and 26). Amendment 26, for instance, extends the vote to eighteen-year-olds.

But the American political Left (a.k.a. progressives) wants to extend the vote well beyond American teenage citizens. In the hope of creating instant Democrat voters, Al Gore’s Citizenship USA program rammed through grants of citizenship by waiving qualifications. At WorldNetDaily in 2001, Kenneth R. Timmerman reported:

Citizenship USA was an initiative of Vice President Al Gore that was ostensibly part of his National Performance Review to “reinvent” government. Internal White House memos, obtained by the House Judiciary Committee in 1997, showed that the vice president was well aware that the effort could be perceived as a “pro-Democrat voter mill.”

On March 28, 1996, White House aide Doug Farbrother e-mailed Gore detailing his efforts to get INS to waive fingerprinting and background checks “to make me confident they could produce a million new citizens before Election Day.”

Gore then wrote Clinton: “You asked us to expedite the naturalization of nearly a million legal aliens who have applied to become citizens.” The risk, Gore warned, was that “we might be publicly criticized for running a pro-Democrat voter mill and even risk having Congress stop us.”

But why bother with granting aliens citizenship? In the Republic of California, San Franciscans want illegal aliens to have the vote. (Somewhere down the line, expect to see the argument that if they can vote for office, shouldn’t illegals be allowed to run for office, too?) In “The Threat of Non-Citizen Voting,” Hans A. von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation notes:

Florida is not unique. Thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote in some states, and tens if not hundreds of thousands in total may be present on the voter rolls nationwide. These numbers are significant: Local elections are often decided by only a handful of votes, and even national elections have likely been within the margin of the number of non-citizens illegally registered to vote.

Yet there is no reliable method to determine the number of non-citizens registered or actually voting because most laws to ensure that only citizens vote are ignored, are inadequate, or are systematically undermined by government officials. Those who ignore the implications of non-citizen registration and voting either are willfully blind to the problem or may actually favor this form of illegal voting.

On January 5, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (the most reversed circuit in the nation) ruled: “Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act.” The plaintiff was one Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan.

On July 1, 2008 in The Nation, left-wing commentator Katrina vanden Heuvel expressed her sympathies:

In the twenty-first century, the other America is behind bars, literally and figuratively: with one of every 100 Americans in prison, we are establishing a perverse parallel America–a predominantly nonwhite one–and making it permanent by stripping those consigned there of the right to vote. It’s a hopeful sign that a growing number of states are re-enfranchising ex-felons. Vermont, Maine and Puerto Rico never deny citizens the right to vote and even allow prisoners to vote from jail, while sixteen other states as well as the District of Columbia allow citizens to vote who are on probation or parole or who have been released from prison. Recognizing the right of ex-felons to vote would grant them the power to contest this status for others and help reintegrate them into society.

Ms. Vanden Heuvel never explained the necessity of allowing psychopaths, rapists, murderers, domestic terrorists, and their like to take part in democracy. Do they have special insights on, say, the public option that the law-abiding don’t?

Rachel La Corte of the AP reports that an estimated 5.3 million felons nationwide are ineligible to vote. This cohort is a potential treasure trove of support for Democrats, as John Lott demonstrates that felons overwhelmingly vote Democrat. (What can we conclude about Democrat politicians from this fact?) From the Timmerman link above: “[M]ore than 80,000 aliens had fingerprint checks that generated criminal records, but they were naturalized anyway.”

The Left sold your birthright for a mess of votes and never batted an eye. Everything the Left has done vis-à-vis elections has been to expand the electorate; they couldn’t care less about the integrity of our elections. In Ohio, a judge has ruled that a park bench can be used to fulfill the residency requirement for voter registration. The Left’s latest assault on electoral integrity is universal voter registration, which would trample all over states’ rights and create voter registration chaos.

The “new electorate” consists of convicted felons, illegal aliens, and citizens who should never have been naturalized, but were. The “new electorate” also consists of citizens who commit election fraud. What does this mean for democracy in America?

 
 

“Isn’t it kind of strange for Jindal, of all people, to be warning of the oncoming hordes of swarthy immigrants?”

No, because when you become Wingnut you become Caucasian by default. Just ask Mike Steele, Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

Oh gawd, here we go again. CONTINUE TO SPREAD THOSE CHEEKS!

 
Ted the Slacker
 

This is a “Eurabia” dog whistle, right?

For some wingers, yes. For others it’s just plain commiefaggots, and yet others it’s surrendermonkeyism Paris Business Review ickiness.

Obviously for anyone modestly open-minded who’s ever visited Yurp, it’s all fucking stupid. Res ipsa loquitur.

 
 

Yayyy Spread The Bull…

Voting is so central to the American system that three of the last five amendments to our Constitution deal with it

I would say that an “informed populace” is central to the American system of democracy.

citizens who should never have been naturalized, but were.

The ones you don’t like because of their icky skin color?

What does this mean for democracy in America?

It means nothing, just like your posts. Democracy in America is in shambles not because of something Al Gore didn’t do. It’s in shambles because you vote on emotion — not issues or facts. You vote for people who tell you what you want to hear. Now go away, the adults are talking.

 
 

CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!! said,

…nothing that doesn’t prove he’s just a little girlie-man crybaby

 
 

Do we want to go the way of Western Europe?

Fuck yeah!

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

I’ve always thought of Louisiana as that gross growth on Uncle Texas’ private parts, which he likes to show to the kids after he’s had a little moonshine.

The other ball is Arkansas, right?

 
 

Everything the Left has done vis-à-vis elections has been to expand the electorate; they couldn’t care less about the integrity of our elections.

Hear, hear, indeed. The electorate was so much better when it meant something, back when it was just us white men who land and slaves. Expanding the electorate will just put the wrong sort of people in charge.
Harrummph.

 
CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
 

Last spring, I attended my son’s medical school graduation. As I proudly watched his class receive their M.D. degrees, I was reminded of all the years of preparation for that day. The academic requirements started early. A child who falls behind in grade school or high school will not become a doctor. Of all the ambitious new college freshmen that choose the “pre-med” track, the majority do not make it. The academic and financial demands through college, and the intense competition for medical school acceptance, insure that only the highest achievers will be successful.

The application process is incredibly challenging. There are only 130 medical schools in the United States. Six states do not even have a medical school. Nineteen states have only one. A successful applicant must graduate with a high GPA from a respected college or university. The required MCAT entrance exam is extremely difficult, and a low score almost always eliminates hope of acceptance. A high score, combined with a high GPA, improves the odds, but is no guarantee.

My son’s experience is typical. He attended a large private university with a reputation for a high rate of medical school acceptances. Approximately 25% of the students in his freshman class were pre-med. After four years, only 20% of these finished the pre-med track and applied to medical school. Then, approximately 60% of the applicants were actually accepted. Therefore, from the original class of ambitious pre-med freshmen, typically some of the best and brightest out of high school, approximately one out of ten were accepted into a medical school.

Medical school is a four-year program, and the volumes of knowledge to absorb in a short period of time are difficult for even the best students. There can be no fear of blood, gore, or foul smells. The physical and psychological challenges can be as daunting as the academic ones. First-year students all dissect a human cadaver and become anatomy experts. They move from the classrooms to rotations in emergency rooms, operating rooms, cancer wards, and every variety of clinic. They must develop a professional insensitivity to pain and suffering. My son helped sew the scalp back on a drunk driver’s head, scraped dead skin from a young child’s severely burned torso, and tried to save a mangled leg injured in a motorcycle accident.

The majority of medical school students live on student loans and finish with well over $100,000 of debt. Following graduation, they enter multi-year residency programs required by their selected field of medicine. My son is now 27 years old and in the first year of a five-year residency. His salary is $44,000 per year. He is on call every fourth night when his shift is over thirty hours. He has one weekend off per month. He will probably add at least one year of fellowship training to the end of his residency, so he will be at least 32 years old when the formal training ends, when he can finally earn a “market” salary and begin paying off loans.

Amid all the debate concerning health care reform, our lawmakers should remain mindful that without doctors, there is no health care. The special few that actually become doctors are bright and motivated, and the process is long, difficult, and expensive. Without significant incentives and compensation, the best and the brightest will simply choose other careers.

For all of us on the receiving end of a stethoscope, scalpel, or MRI, we always expect our doctors to be intelligent, accomplished, and highly trained individuals. In the drive to make health care more “efficient,” we should not take for granted that a doctor will always be there when we need one.

 
 

don’t worry, T&U.

N__B is filled with hate. Usually he takes it out on me.

 
Release the Kraken!
 

What does this mean for democracy in America?
It means whiny entitled rich white people don’t get a free ride anymore.

 
 

Continue to spread…isn’t it Tea Time? Someone’s laying their back waiting for your bag, now git going.

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

The other ball is Arkansas, right?

Choose any confederate shitstain on the map. I was actually thinking South Carolina. The proximity thing is an issue, but then things like that don’t matter to the wingnuts and therefore don’t matter to me in this instance.

 
 

Wow, CONTINUE is so dry, he’s dredging up the Bakke case now?

Son. Really. It’s a lovely Spring day out. Go outside. I’m sure the other girls will let you play hopscotch with them.

 
 

N__B is filled with hate. Usually he takes it out on me.

In fairness to N__B, you being dead makes you sort of an easy if soulless target.

 
 

Oops, that was me up there, still nymjacking ‘Release the Kraken!’
my bad.

 
CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
 

We’re going to be hearing a lot about the commerce clause, the dormant commerce clause, and preemption thanks to anti-federal health care lawsuits by state attorney generals. If they rely on the standard arguments made in such cases, they (and we) will surely lose.

Preemption is a concept of Article VI of the United States Constitution:

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

The only condition that needs to be satisfied is that the federal law be shown to have been made pursuant to the Constitution. The reach of the interstate commerce clause is well-known and documented: Basically any activity or product that “affects interstate commerce” can be federally regulated.

What affects interstate commerce? Just about everything. In one of the few cases nullifying a federal law as exceeding the reach of the commerce clause, the majority challenged the dissenters to name an area of activity that the federal government cannot regulate. Needless to say, no answer was forthcoming. When the standard is “affecting interstate commerce,” there is no activity or product that is separated by more than one degree.

To explain the fact that a certain activity has not ever been regulated by the federal government since the founding, federal courts have adopted the construct of the “dormant commerce clause.” Under this theory, the federal government has always had the power to regulate the activity in question but has only now chosen to regulate it — it has awakened the power. Having now chosen to regulate it, state law is preempted even if the state has regulated the activity for the past two hundred years.

The state attorneys general will argue that the states have always had the exclusive power to impose personal mandates on their citizens. The federal counterargument is that the provision of health care services involves goods through interstate commerce. Evidence that the states have regulated this activity for two hundred years is irrelevant with respect to the dormant commerce clause. The federal health care law having been made pursuant to the Constitution — namely, the interstate commerce clause — any contrary provisions in the state’s constitution or laws are nullified pursuant to Article VI.

There appears to be no escape from the logic of the federal argument: Once a federal law has been shown to be made pursuant to the Constitution, state laws and/or constitutions are preempted. When the standard is as broad and as vague as “affecting interstate commerce,” there is no activity that cannot be regulated by the federal government.

That there is no activity that cannot be regulated by the federal government is the flaw in the federal argument. For example, the Hobbs Act is the federal law prohibiting armed robbery affecting interstate commerce. It has repeatedly been challenged on the basis that it exceeds Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce, and it has been repeatedly upheld as a valid exercise of the commerce clause. But some cases highlight a problem: Why should some individuals be prosecuted in federal court for comparatively small (“lemonade stand”) armed robberies while others are prosecuted in state court for the same or greater armed robberies? That is, if all armed robberies affect interstate commerce, then why are some prosecuted in state courts?

This disparate and unequal treatment has struck some Circuit Court Judges as arbitrary. Some of these judges, wishing to overturn the particular case, opined that Congress should make its intentions clear as to which armed robberies should be federally prosecuted so that comparatively small cases would be excluded from federal prosecution. In support, the Clear Statement Doctrine was cited: If the federal Congress wants to change the historical relation between the states and the federal government, then it is obligated to state its intention to do so clearly and unequivocally. The only problem with that rationale is that it concedes the basic point that the federal government has the authority to make all armed robbery prosecutions exclusively federal.

If Congress has the power under the commerce clause to make all armed robberies affecting interstate commerce (that is, all armed robberies) federal crimes, then it may, according to the Clear Statement Doctrine, expressly nullify all state armed robbery laws in all states. If Congress has the power to nullify state armed robbery laws, then it has had that power from the beginning. If Congress has had that power from the beginning, then states have never had it: They merely exercised that power until Congress awakened its dormant commerce clause power.

One can substitute any activity or product affecting interstate commerce for armed robbery, and one would necessarily reach the same conclusion. Thus, if one can make a reasonable argument that divorces, adoptions, marriages, real estate transactions, contracts, personal injuries, rapes, murders, or shoplifting affect interstate commerce, then one would have to conclude that the federal government, by way of Article VI, has the exclusive right to regulate that area of law. If Congress has the exclusive right to regulate that area of law, then the states never had it.

That states regulate those areas of law now is not because their own citizens gave their respective states the power to do so in the state constitution. The people have delegated those powers to the federal government in the commerce clause, and the federal government has permitted the states to regulate until such time as it exercises its power through the dormant commerce clause.

Every power the federal government has through the commerce clause is one the state has never had. If everything that affects interstate commerce (which, by today’s standards, is every imaginable activity) can be federally regulated, then the states never had any power. If the states have no exclusive regulatory power, then they are simply temporary custodians of federal power until the federal government chooses to retake that power.

That states have no exclusive power is an absurd conclusion. But it is not easy to see now because the federal government “discovers” one power at a time. But if all activities affect interstate commerce, then what other conclusion is there?

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

Proximity matters to me, good sir! Now Arkansas is Uncle Texas’ other ball, and you better be happy putting that thought in my head, you rat-bastard.

 
 

N__B is filled with hate.

That’s not hate. That’s Sudafed and beer.

 
 

NObama is surrendering to Russia

Wingnut Translator says:
ZOMGZ0RZ! It’s Reagan & Gorbachev Hitler & Stalin all over again! Their going to unite & form COMMIE VOLTRON if good patriotoic people don’t do something fast. AAAAAA! We’re all going to be turned into meat androidz for teh NEW WORDL ODOR!!!111!!11!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!eleventy-one!

Hoverball cats are free.

Needs WRSTA (Will Render Stoners Totally Agog) warning.

You won’t take it so lightly when they’re shooting frickin’ “laser beams” out of their frickin eyes.

Heh heh heh, don’t look now but I’m pretty sure that those “laser beams” (oh you kids these days & your weird crazy names for things anyway!) won’t be shooting out of their EYES – if you know what* I mean, & I think you do ……. hehe hehe hehe.

—————————-

* I mean “spay or neuter your hovercat/s”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

That’s not hate. That’s Sudafed and beer.

Hey, we had the same breakfast!

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

Son. Really. It’s a lovely Spring day out. Go outside. I’m sure the other girls will let you play hopscotch with them.

I believe the court has mandated that Continue remain a certain distance from children, which would explain his interest in the priesthood.

 
 

Hey, we had the same breakfast!

We’re like sisters! Only, in part, hairier.

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

jim, you are hilarious.

 
 

That’s not hate. That’s Sudafed and beer.
Hey, we had the same breakfast!

American or British beer?

 
the fReed0mLov3r formerly known as tsam
 

Proximity matters to me, good sir! Now Arkansas is Uncle Texas’ other ball, and you better be happy putting that thought in my head, you rat-bastard.

Whoa–hit a nerve there…

Please accept my humble apology for making shit up wrong. Arkansas makes a fine disease ridden ball for for Uncle Texas! Walmart’s superultranational HQ being that disease, of course.

 
 

You gotta love these neocon dipshits like Max Boot. Somehow they’ve convinced themselves they are conquering empire builders like Julius Caesar, when in fact they are scrawny little fucksticks in some think tank cubicle jacking off to “Band of Brothers” episodes playing on their PCs.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

We’re like sisters! Only, in part, hairier.

Which part?

American or British beer?

British, of course. Guinness is a meal into itself. A meal that makes me feel pukey and breaks me out in hives, but a meal nonetheless.

 
CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
 

Here in Stockport, England, it was discovered that my now-82-year-old grandmother needed a heart procedure[i]. We were told that if she had it, she would easily live at least another ten years, as apart from that, she was healthy. Since we were warned that her lifespan would be short if she did not, we elected to apply to have the surgery. We then had to see whether or not the National Health Service (NHS) would allow it. Thankfully, they did.

However, there are a number of ways to have the surgery, from putting the patient out with general anaesthetic and slicing open the chest to a local anaesthetic and a simple line put through an artery in the patient’s leg. To our dismay, they decided to go for the cheapest and highest-risk option. I don’t wish to go into details, but post-op was touch-and-go for a while, as well as very stressful, and what should have been an “in-and-out” procedure has taken months to get her home. We are still unsure (but hopeful) that she will eventually make a full recovery.

Now, both sides of the health care debate have horror stories and stories of good care. (English nurses have a long-standing reputation of excellence, for example, despite their pitiful wages in comparison to their American counterparts.) We know that there is no such thing as the perfect health care setup, and that the plural of “anecdote” is not “evidence.” I use our story not to tug heartstrings (there are much worse stories of the NHS than ours — at least we were allowed to have the operation), but as a typical, everyday example of the philosophy behind a nationalized health care system, the type of system the USA took a big step towards on Sunday.

We are not a rich family, but neither are we poor. As an extended family, we have not had much need for large amounts of health care. Yet for years we have paid our taxes, a large part of which pays for the NHS. Accordingly, these taxes have probably paid for countless other people’s health care needs — everything from false teeth and cancer treatments to sex changes and abortions. However, when it came to our family needing a specific treatment, we were given the cheapest and the riskiest option despite having paid for countless others to have their services. Is it fair that the next person who has the same type of surgery may potentially be given the less risky operation despite having paid less into the NHS system, or that this person’s treatment may even be paid for by our family’s taxes? Since individual contributions are not used to judge the level of care received, people who pay less may often receive significantly better and more expensive treatment.

In addition to this, because the amount of money put into the system is fixed independent of demand (it is usually a manifesto promise to raise taxes and put more money into the NHS as opposed to being decided by actual costs), it means that the patient is seen as a burden and not as a paying customer. The money you pay in is decided (for the most part) on what taxes you pay, not on what health care you need, so you pay the same taxes whether you need 24-hour care or you don’t enter a doctor’s surgery once, as opposed to paying more or less depending on the amount of care you receive.

In privatized systems where costs are decided on basis of treatment, there is an incentive to deliver better and more expensive treatment, as more and better health care leads to more money being paid by the customer. In a nationalized system, the NHS is allocated a set amount of money, so the incentive is to get people in and out as quickly as they can, spending the least amount of money on them as possible, as there are only a limited amount of services and money to go around. It is the same rationale that means you get better food at a restaurant than you do at a soup kitchen — demanding more expensive procedures from the NHS is the equivalent of going into a soup kitchen and asking if you can browse their selection of aperitifs.

It is bemusing for an Englishman to hear President Obama tell stories of woe where Americans have been subjected to “unnecessary procedures” and “five tests instead of one,” when people in England are finding it difficult to get approved access to necessary procedures and probably wouldn’t mind a few extra tests.

The other philosophical issue is that of choice. If the reader looks back on my story again, he will see that the only choice we were given was whether or not to ask to have the surgery. The actual decision was not ours, but that of the NHS, as was the decision as to whether my grandmother had the more expensive, less risky surgery, or the cheap hack-and-slash surgery that left her in such a poor condition. Certainly there were no ominous “death panels” in the strict sense of the word, but if they had made the decision not to approve her for surgery, it would have amounted to something similar, and the decision to what type of surgery she received was almost an issue of life and death as well. At no point were we consulted as to what surgery she would have, nor were we told, “The NHS will cover only this type of surgery, but if you contribute some more money, we can upgrade to a higher level of care” — which (although wrong, considering the amount of money we have pumped into the system) would have still given us an element of choice[ii].

Nationalized vs. privatized care is not about quality of care in itself; it is more the question of the underlying philosophy that decides the care. Do we really want people who have paid more potentially receiving worse health care than those who have paid less, simply because the latter have more politically correct health care needs (e.g., there is no rationing of contraception and abortion, while the breast cancer drug Herceptin® is frequently denied to patients)? Do we want our patients treated as valued customers who can encourage a drive for higher-quality care, or as drains of the system who are lucky to get what they are given? Finally, who do we want making the decisions? Doctors free of government interference and families, or government bureaucrats and doctors with their arms twisted by government targets and rationing? Here in England, we have already made our decision on health care, and we are living (and dying) with the consequences. It is now time for you in America to make your decision.

 
 

I’m pretty sure that those “laser beams” […] won’t be shooting out of their EYES

Look, the cat’s eighteen years old and in a wheelchair…I think she’s allowed a little incontinence!

 
 

How come assholes like the babbling troll above didn’t scream bloody murder about constitutional violations when the Patriot Act was passed?

Just askin’…

 
 

The “new electorate” consists of convicted felons, illegal aliens, and citizens who should never have been naturalized, but were. The “new electorate” also consists of citizens who commit election fraud. What does this mean for democracy in America?

Mandatory gay marriages and abortions for all white people!

Stand up REAL AMERICANS(tm)!

Let us not rest until armed fetuses patrol the Mexican border!

!!!More!!!!!!

 
 

Here in Stockport, England, it was discovered that my now-82-year-old grandmother needed a heart procedure[i]. We were told that if she had it, she would easily live at least another ten years, as apart from that, she was healthy. Since we were warned that her lifespan would be short if she did not, we elected to apply to have the surgery.

I thought National Health Care was going to involve death panels?

Why does CONTINUE hate America…excuse me, England… so?

 
 

Let us not rest until armed fetuses patrol the Mexican border!

MOAR ZOMBIES!

 
 

How come assholes like the babbling troll above didn’t scream bloody murder about constitutional violations when the Patriot Act was passed?

or how expensive those two little imperialist adventures would be either?

 
 

ALT tells me fur is the new electorate…

 
 

…Since we were warned that her lifespan would be short if she did not, we elected to apply to have the surgery…”

Since you know, it cost us practically nothing, we were hoping we’d be able to whine about high costs and have an excuse to leave grandma to die in the streets like they do in America.

 
 

Nationalized vs. privatized care is not about quality of care in itself; it is more the question of the underlying philosophy that decides the care. Do we really want people who have paid more potentially receiving worse health care than those who have paid less..?.

So how much money you’ve inherited should determine whether you live or die?

Also, this argument doesn’t seem to take into account that in England you can go to private doctor.

 
 

Ahhh, but who needs a shotgun when you have this?

Ridin’ the storm out…Ridin’….

 
 

leave grandma to die in the streets like they do in America.

Aw, c’mon, Grandma can wheel herself to an emergency room any time she wants.

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

Also, this argument doesn’t seem to take into account that in England you can go to private doctor.

What are you talking about, you mean it’s not a binary choice and that actually the vast majority of these socialized health care systems allow private doctors for people that have the money but don’t tell poor people to fuck off if they don’t?

Why, that kind of thing would entirely confound the issue at hand, rendering the chief scare tactic toothless! Surely that must be wrong!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Ahhh, but who needs a shotgun when you have this?

Those mangoes are ROTTEN.

 
 

The U.S. will remain strong for years to come. But if we are looking at major threats to our global standing, we should not look at China, Iran or Russia.

♫One of these things is not like the others♫

 
 

“Aw, c’mon, Grandma can wheel herself to an emergency room any time she wants.”

That’s the spirit! Personal responsibility, get those mooching oldsters to work for themselves for once.

 
 

I went over there southernlawyer and was scared away by a popup trying to give away free copies of a Hannity book.

It was like being hit over the head, I had to leave the abuse immediately.

 
 

Those mangoes are ROTTEN

Rotten with the blood of REAL patriots! Ahhh – fear the juiciness of my CONSTITUTUTTIONALISM love!

 
 

Sorry Kate – had you stayed, Chuck Norris would have saved your heathen commiesocialist soul with his special brand of wind-chapped leathery healing love.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

It was like being hit over the head, I had to leave the abuse immediately.

You were asking for it, what with passing all those bills legally and with the support of the majority of the American people and all.

 
 

That’s the spirit! Personal responsibility, get those mooching oldsters to work for themselves for once.

Someone needs to tell Grandma to knock off her luxury cat food diet and do what people on a budget do — eat out of dumpsters.

 
tsam drops the freedom lover bullshit
 

Also, this argument doesn’t seem to take into account that in England you can go to private doctor.

Also, arguments that try to use health care systems which in no way resemble ours to scare us are bogus, disingenuous and frakn ST00PID.

 
tsam drops the freedom lover bullshit
 

That’s the spirit! Personal responsibility, get those mooching oldsters to work for themselves for once.

Yeah! Like those fuckin commiesocalestislmofascist 9/11 responders. They fake being sick and try to spoinge offa the guv. Im not paying for their fat smoking!

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

Rotten with the blood of REAL patriots!

Jefferson was an awful gardener.

 
 

Social Security and Medicare are OFF BUDGET items and have nothing to do with the defense budget!

It’s kind of off-budget, in that they use the revenue to make the deficit look smaller by talking about it as if it were a unified budget. Even so, it’s paid for by it’s own special revenue stream, so saying it’s 35% of expenditures without also pointing out that government income from the payroll taxes EXCEEDS the expenditures seems a teensy weensy bit dishonest of Boot.

 
 

Why, that kind of thing would entirely confound the issue at hand, rendering the chief scare tactic toothless! Surely that must be wrong!

Obviously the facts have a liberal bias and must be ignored for the good of the top 1%of the country.

 
 

My Browning is off budget.

 
 

Yeah! Like those fuckin commiesocalestislmofascist 9/11 responders. They fake being sick and try to spoinge offa the guv. Im not paying for their fat smoking!

Which reminds me… That teabagging libtard who called for the brick throwing campaign? Quelle suprise, he lives on government disability checks.

 
Ted the Slacker
 

That teabagging glibtard

phyqkst

 
 

But if we are looking at major threats to our global standing, we should not look at China, Iran or Russia.

It also occurs to me that Israel is a more major threat to America’s global standing, but hey: free pass forever.

 
 

Can’t we amend the health care law (that feels good to type) to give these Neocons free Viagra so that we can stop bombing brown people simply to help Neocons achieve erections.

 
 

scared away by a popup trying to give away free copies of a Hannity book

Query: if they’re such scholarly monoliths of our times, why would wingnut “authors” like Hannity, Coulter, Gingrich et al give out books for free exactly like Hare Krishnas with copies of the Bhagavad-Gita – or Moonies pimping boxes of roses on a streetcorner?

Could it because their need to disseminate useful horseshit far outweighs any consideration of trivial things like solid content, from which dire hilarity consistently ensues?

Quick, someone call wealthy man-about-town Lamont Cranston! He might have the answer I seek!

 
CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
 

RUSH: We’re going to get to this totally contrived Republicans causing all kinds of threats to Democrats story. I’ll tell you, it’s a total diversion. The Democrats are so losing the information war on the health care bill that they’re trying to do anything to distract everybody’s attention from it, and it’s as I said yesterday, this is all part of a plan to criminalize dissent. Let me just ask you a question. When is the last time you can recall a bunch of conservatives having a riot? When is the last time you can recall a bunch of conservatives disrupting a congressional hearing? When is the last time you can recall a bunch of conservatives coming out with books and movies on how to assassinate a president? The simple fact of the matter is that this kind of behavior that these people are running around scared to death of and accusing people of, they are the authors of this kind of behavior. These are the people that wrote the book on how to do this. Our side doesn’t do this kind of stuff. This is all made up, 95% of it’s made up and it’s being done to divert everybody’s attention.

Even Pelosi’s getting in on the act now. She held a news conference today: “I don’t want this to be a distraction.” That’s all she wants. That’s exactly what they want. They are losing the information war on explaining the health care bill, news keeps coming out about it. The compilation of small businesses that are going to have to lay off workers, there’s a company in Massachusetts, the largest manufacturer of defibrillators, heart defibrillators. Their business is wrecked, they say. They’re going to add six to $10 million of expenses over the course of however many years. The reality is just now starting to hit people. I’ll have more details on this as the program unfolds, such as this one. “Relief to seniors facing high prescription drug costs is one of the first changes to come under the new health care overhaul. But ultimately that won’t offset the relentless increase in retirees’ medical expenses. A couple retiring this year will need a quarter of a million dollars, on average, to cover medical expenses in retirement, according to a study to be released Thursday by Fidelity Investments.

“The estimate is up 4.2 percent from Fidelity’s projection last year. The Boston-based financial services company has updated its estimate annually since 2002 as part of its business helping employers design workplace benefits programs. The study is based on projections for a couple of 65-year-olds retiring this year with Medicare coverage. The estimate factors in the federal program’s premiums, co-payments and deductibles, as well as out-of-pocket prescription costs. The study assumes no employer provided insurance in retirement, and a life expectancy of 85 for women and 82 for men.” Now, mind you, this is before all the supposed Medicare cuts that are built into Obama’s health care reform bill. These Medicare cuts are upwards now of $600 billion. So this number can only go up. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I’m just repeating here what the State-Controlled Associated Press is saying. Retired couples may need $250,000 for health care expenses after they retire.

Okay. Let’s get right into this violence business. Every media organ that the White House controls is now on the same page, the same template, and that is Sarah Palin is inciting violence with some of her words, that I am inciting violence, that we are promoting violence, that it wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for people like me and Sarah Palin and a whole network of New Media people. They want to talk about violence? All right, you mean violence like the Black Panthers, the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia at polling places? You want to talk about violence like the SEIU, which beat up a young black man with cancer in a wheelchair at a political rally last summer? You remember all those stories about Republican offices, Bush-Cheney offices being vandalized during the campaign? Did we get three days of stories about those? You probably don’t even remember those stories. I’ve got ’em, we’ll get to them here in just a second. You probably don’t remember them. It’s amazing to me how quickly — and don’t forget Sarah Palin hung in effigy, George W. Bush hung in effigy, assassination books and movies about George Bush.
The simple fact of the matter is, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Clyburn, if you were to get out of town you would find out the American people are mad, and it doesn’t just confine itself to the Republican Party. People all over the country are losing their homes. They’re losing their jobs. They’re losing their hope for any significant improvement in the future. You fat cats are sitting around passing all this legislation, patting yourselves on the back, throwing parties, and going out to cheap bars. Stupak and a bunch of guys went to a bar ’til three in the morning on Sunday night until Monday morning after celebrating the passage of the bill in the House. You always accuse people of being out of touch. You have no clue, you members of Congress, you have no clue that the people of this country for the past year — let’s say six months, it took six months for people to figure out that your prescriptions to fix all this stuff were making it worse. So nobody has to incite any anger. Nobody has to drumbeat for anger because you’ve caused it. You’ve caused it with your arrogance, with your policies and with your legislation.

There is genuine anger. A lot of Americans, Mr. Hoyer, think you’re destroying the country, and you’re smiling while you go about it. And they don’t understand it. They’ve always thought people in Washington were looking out for them, were taking care of representing their interests and making sure stuff like this didn’t happen. But instead, they now think you’re causing it. They now think you’re to blame for it. I mean, what are people supposed to do, just sit around and pat themselves on the back and be happy ’cause Obama got his health care bill? Is that what we’re here to do is to celebrate our Dear Leader and take our comfort, satisfaction, and happiness from whatever he thinks his achievements are? Has it gotten to that point that that’s the measure of our happiness, how well our president’s doing in destroying the country? It’s amazing how quickly congressional members or ten of them, actually, almost all at once yesterday and with Steny Hoyer’s lead, with Clyburn standing right next to him, were able to make public the allegations of threats, all at once. Ten members.

I think they should release all the information, all of the tapes, whatever they have. See, no one supports threats or violence. But it’s the left that does that. It’s the left that does that in their protests and their marches. But if there are threats, let’s see them. Let’s see them all. Let’s hear them all. I don’t want to hear that you just feel threatened. For crying out loud, people feel a gazillion things each and every day. I’ll tell you what it is. These people know that what they have done is universally unpopular. They are trying to distract everybody’s attention and create sympathy for them by making up stories and lying about threats, death threats, when these people are the architects of how these kinds of threats and protest marches and violence work. I mean, we don’t have anybody on our side that tried to blow up the Pentagon. And certainly we don’t have anybody on our side who had a friend who tried to blow up the Pentagon who’s now president of the United States. We don’t have anybody on our side wiping out cops. Eric Cantor’s Virginia office was shot at last night. Eric Cantor is a Republican.

So the Democrats are saying, “We deplore the violence.” The Republicans are saying, “We deplore the violence.” The fact is this is not new, as you will hear when we go back just in recent history to recount a couple of stories for you about shots being fired at Bush-Cheney headquarters in various parts of the country. But if there are threats let’s see and hear about them, not just endless media reports saying they occurred. I’m curious to know who did what to whom. If it’s really happening out there I want to know, I really do. See, let me tell you the truth about this, and don’t doubt me. This is a strategery that was executed the moment the bill was signed. They know people hate this bill. They know they are governing against the will of the people. They know they have crammed something down our throats that we don’t want. They know, which makes what they’ve done even more reprehensible. So this strategy, executed the moment the bill was signed, it’s just too coincidental that Hoyer is ready with talking points, that ten cases are almost immediately sent to the FBI, and then when you read what the complaints are you find out it’s just a bunch of people who think something might happen.
There have been a couple phone calls to Stupak’s office. My gosh, folks, I’ve gotten more threatening phone calls on the air than these calls I’ve heard left on voice mail messages to these weenie, cowardly members of Congress. They are cowards from top to bottom. They’re cowards in representing us, they know that they have crammed something down our throats that we don’t want and now they’re acting like we are the ones who are somehow irrational or deranged, when it is they on whom the focus needs to be as to their behavior and their actions and their purpose and their motivation. We still do not know exactly what they’re talking about. Who threatened whom? And how? A gas line cut at the brother of some Virginia congressman’s house? And we assume this is a tea party activist that did it? Do we know who did that? Yet it’s reported endlessly. I know people who are active in politics who have played a public role in a number of things. Their cars have been vandalized, keyed, windows broken out.

The video of this supposed spitting incident involving Emanuel Cleaver, it now clearly depicts a guy hollering at him with his hands cupped around his mouth to focus his words and to make them louder in the noise to make sure Cleaver could hear what he’s saying. He wasn’t spitting at anybody. We have yet to hear or see any tape on the supposed use of the N-word or the F-word. And, by the way, Jesse Jackson Jr. videotaped the whole thing as he walked along. We’ve looked at pieces of video and seen that members of Congress, staff, and people are walking with the group of congressmen were videoing it themselves. Believe me, if they had, because they’ve got video of this, if they had video evidence that the N-word and the F-word were used, it would have been in the media by now. They don’t have it. I think this business of walking in front of these protesters was also a strategy to create this story so that John Lewis and Barney Frank and the others could say that they were insulted. It’s all part of a strategy because they know nobody is in favor of what they have done.

Why did Pelosi and her goofballs decide to march in the crowd on the way to voting for their bill? How provocative was that? That was an in-your-face, with that giant gavel. That’s an in-your-face, they were trying to create this circumstance and if it did or did not happen they were going to say it did. Meanwhile, in Virginia the Democrat Party is actually accusing the attorney general there, Ken Cuccinelli, of supporting segregation because his argument about state autonomy was the same argument the segregationists used in the fifties and sixties, which is a laughable claim. Now, when you’re calling people segregationists and racists because they disagree with you, is that the kind of civil debate Steny Hoyer is talking about? Every time we disagree with these people we have to hear how we’re racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, and all the rest. Is that not hate speech, especially when it’s lies? The left is the architect, the author of hate speech. They wrote the book on it. They wrote the book on hateful behavior. They wrote the book on uncivil unrest. They wrote the book on blowing up bank buildings. They wrote the book on blowing up the Pentagon. They wrote the book on domestic terrorism. Take a look at an anarchist rally any time the WTO meets anywhere in this country.
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RUSH: Who is one of the biggest heroes of the American left and the American media? Is it not that wacko in Iraq who threw a shoe at George W. Bush? Remember that? Oh, they loved that guy! Oh, any kind of violence or civil disobedience aimed at President Bush was applauded and it amused the left. And, of course, what about calling the tea party people “teabaggers”? Do you know what a real teabagger is? Well, it’s not a pretty sex act. It’s a sex act that repulses a lot of people, and the word teabagger is being associated with American citizens who love their country. What are they supposed to do, just sit around and smile about it? On June 14th, 2008, Barack Obama, in Philadelphia: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun because from what I understand focus in Philly like a good brawl.”

“They bring a knife, we bring a gun.”

It was Barack Obama who’s ordered his supporters to go out and “get in people’s faces.” From September 3rd, 2009, Thousand Oaks, California: “A 65-year-old man had his finger bitten off Wednesday even at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks.” It turns out that the person who bit off this protester’s fingers was a MoveOn.org person, a MoveOn.orger. The libs in Washington, whether in Congress or in the media, despise and hold in contempt the American people. This is how they view them. Tea partiers are “teabaggers.” The tea partiers are reflective of the public’s attitude about what is going on. They detest the citizens of this country. They seek to control us as Dingell confessed yesterday. Listen to him again from a couple days ago on the radio in Detroit.

DINGELL: Paul W. (Smith), we’re not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you, this has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

RUSH: “To control the people.” They hold us in contempt. This is how they view us. And, by the way, the way the liberals and Democrats are treating the public, why, it’s no wonder the nation’s frustrated and upset and angry. People don’t want their liberties diminished, folks. They don’t want their way of life legislated out of existence. They don’t want their hard-earned property stolen from them.

Another brief time-out. But I’m still not finished. I have barely even begun.
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RUSH: An interesting e-mail, this is a great point from a subscriber to RushLimbaugh.com. “When we have a terrorist attack, the Democrats always ask, ‘What did we do to provoke it? Why do they hate us?’ Have you heard, any of them, ask the same for something they’ve imposed on us? Have you heard the Democrats once ask, ‘Why are they mad at us? We need to understand their rage!’ We have to understand the rage of people who killed 3,000 Americans in terrorist incidents. We’re told, ‘We have to understand the people in this country, minorities and whoever else, unhappy with whatever. We gotta understand their rage. We have to expect it. We have to allow for it.’ Well, how come the anger that we feel, the Democrats aren’t interested in understanding? Why do they not ask, ‘Why are they so mad?'” The answer is because they know.

Here’s another way of looking at this, folks. I think this is a huge sign of weakness. Liberals, remember, make everybody out to be victims, and then they run their compassion tricks to get legislation passed. This is a huge sign of weakness. They have to frame themselves as being offended victims, now. This is their total self-identity. They are making no effort to cover up or mask who they really are. The sole energizing power of liberal policies is to supposedly correct injustice and unfairness. That’s why they’re doing health reform after all! “It’s unfair. There’s no justice. We have to make it fair. We have to redistribute the wealth. We have to make it all equal,” and since there is no offense (injustice, unfairness) and since they are not victim — in truth they are the victimizers; we are the victims of what they have done — they have to invent this narrative of violence against them for their own psychological well-being. If they aren’t victims they can’t live with this.

The bottom line is they are shaken. They are in a great, great state of weakness here. The-conservatives-as-violent narrative is the only way they can cope with what they’ve done here, because the real death threat is their legislation. We need to look at it that way and stop being defensive about this and turn it right around on them. Everything they have done has made us victims. We are victims of their legislation. Their health care legislation is the real death threat in this scenario. It’s a death threat against the country, as it was founded. It’s a death threat to our economy. It’s a death threat to what is the greatest health care system in the world. These people know what they’ve done, so they have to create this narrative to make themselves innocent victims so people feel sorry for them to divert people’s attention of how rotten this legislation is. It ain’t going to happen.

CBS News has a poll: 62% of the American people want the Republicans in Congress to continue challenging the health care reform bill. CBS News, State-Controlled Media: 62% want the Republicans to keep it up; 33% do not. The Democrats, the party of polls. That has to shake ’em up. Another story. This is from the Virginia Galax Gazette. It’s a local paper. October 28th of 2008: “Two people were arrested Monday afternoon after an altercation led to five Republican campaign workers being sprayed with Mace at their headquarters in Galax.” These were McCain campaign workers, maced at their own headquarters, October of 2008. Remember that? Do you remember the media wringing their hands over that, being all upset over that? Of course not. The way the liberals and the Democrats are treating the public, it’s no wonder we’re frustrated and upset and angry.

People don’t want their liberties diminished. They don’t want their way of life legislated out of existence. They don’t want their hard-earned property stolen from them. The liberals and the Democrats, the media are abusing this nation and its people, and the people do not like it. Let me ask you again: When is the last time there was a conservative riot in this country? You can’t recall one. Yet we see left-wing anarchist riot about once a year regarding the IMF or whenever there’s a WTO meeting anywhere. We see the hate speech when the Marxist left and the Palestinians march in this country against Israel. We see the anti-war left in the streets with their comparisons of Bush to Hitler. We see them attacking our troops.
What about the whole Democrat Party campaign to lose the war in Iraq, to demoralize the troops, to accuse them of rape and murder and terrorism? John Kerry, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, what was that if that wasn’t hate speech? These Democrats have to realize there are consequences for their own words and their own actions, and people simply do not like what they’re doing and saying. It has been building and building. But you don’t see this kind of behavior with at town hall protests, do you? You don’t see spitting. You don’t see vandalism. You don’t see bombs being thrown when the tea party people get together at any of their rallies. No. The liberals have to manufacture it. Or they have to find the one guy who has a stupid sign or the one guy who makes a stupid comment or leaves a stupid message on a voice machine.

But for the left this is common! For the left, this is expected — and, of course, it’s tolerated by Hoyer. The left gives tickets, members of Congress give tickets to Code Pink to come in and disrupt congressional hearings featuring Rumsfeld or the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Code Pink gets in because members of Congress give them passes, and it’s all tolerated. All this leftist anarchy is tolerated by Hoyer, by the Democrats and the media. No hand-wringing, no calls for civility whatsoever. On InstaPundit today, Glenn Reynolds has a rundown of a number of these stories. Oh, yeah, Jack Murtha! Jack Murtha calling the troops rapists and murderers at Haditha. I’m surprised it’s taken this long for some of this expression of anger to emerge. Most of this is words, which they don’t like to hear.

“Protesters ransack Bush-Cheney headquarters in Orlando,” October 5th, 2004. I don’t know the date of this, but rampaging union protesters in Florida, gunshots in Tennessee, a swastika in Madison. “If John Kerry wanted to look presidential and have a Sister Souljah moment, he should renounce all these things and say he doesn’t want their vote and urge restraint.” Now, I’m fully aware that this whole hate speech-threat propaganda is completely bogus, media orchestrated, and hypocritical. But there is no denying that there are millions of Americans who are legitimately furious with their deliberately provocative, in-your-face Democrat congressmen and senators. What about the violence inflicted by abortions? That violence is celebrated as a constitutional right. We have a president who believes that a baby who survives an abortion shouldn’t be saved. I don’t know how you can characterize that other than pure, heartless violence.

And we’ve just had a health care bill signed that now will use the taxpayer money to pay for this atrocity. We have now signed into law legislation saying taxpayers will pay for children to be murdered in the womb, and people are surprised that there’s anger at that? Especially when they were betrayed and lied to and misled for a number of months, thinking there would be some principled pro-life Democrats to hold out against this atrocity, and they caved in the end? And we got a president signing a meaningless executive order yesterday. The effect of that is to cement the notion that abortions won’t continue, but everybody knows it’s just a phony piece of paper. There’s a certain amount of irony here. Part of the anger sparked by the process of jamming Obamacare down our throats is that abortionists are funded by this bill. That’s the killing of innocent life. Angry and frustrated political speech is not even comparable to an abortion, late term or otherwise.

The violence of taking an innocent life is now being paid for or will be by taxpayers, and we’re supposed to send Obama a thank-you Hallmark card and send one to Harry Reid and Pelosi? Yeah, we’ll head down to Hallmark and get our thank-you cards out. That’s it. We’re supposed to be happy. We’re supposed to bow down and be grateful. And again: How many of you know anybody in your close circle of friends who tried to blow up the Pentagon or a police station? So remember what this is all about. This is about changing the subject, which we’re not going to allow to happen. This is about making the Democrats appear as victims against an unruly mob. This is a huge sign of weakness. They have to frame themselves as offend victims. This is their total identity. They’re shaken. They are shaken. They know what they have done. And to keep their conscience free, they have to make us the enemy and the bad people, themselves, the victims, but remember the real death threat is their legislation. The real death threat is that abomination that President Obama signed Tuesday afternoon, or morning, whatever it was.
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RUSH: Okay, we’re back, it’s Rush Limbaugh and Open Line Friday on Thursday. We’ll go to the phones. You guys ready in there to hit the phones? Steven in St. Louis, great to have you on the-program, sir, he hung up. Ah, what a coward, he’s a liberal. He was going to say he’s been listening two weeks and he hadn’t heard me say one thing constructive. We try to put liberals first in line here. Well, never mind.

I have some other stories here. October 15th, 2008, do you remember that McCain-Palin rally, that lie, the media masters talked about how at a campaign Palin rally somebody shouted “kill him” about Obama? Remember that? It turned out the only person who heard this was the reporter who reported it. Well, here’s a story that never made it out of the local media, from the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: “Secret Service Says ‘Kill Him’ Allegation Unfounded.” A member of the media made it up and then reported it. I could go all day on these stories. “Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of DC Tea Party Planners,” ABC News, September 11th, 2009. “On the eve of what organizers called A Big Old Tea Party in Washington, offices of Freedom Works were evacuated by DC Metro Police Friday afternoon after the conservative organization reported to authorities at 3:42 Eastern time it had received a bomb threat.” Algore September 24, 2008: “Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.” I’m not going to waste your time all afternoon on these things. I could. You get the point.

Let’s go to Idaho. Greg, we’ll take you since the guy in St. Louis chickened out. Great to have you on the program. Hello.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I appreciate your taking my call. Two quick points. The first one, I have never heard of the term tea bagger until it was brought up by the left. I didn’t even know what it meant. And I bet there’s a whole bunch of people out there, a whole bunch of conservatives and tea party members who have never heard the term before.

RUSH: I didn’t know what it was until somebody explained it to me.

CALLER: No. What does that say about the left who brought up that term?

RUSH: Well, you’ve got members of Congress accusing the tea party people of being tea baggers, it’s being done on purpose.

CALLER: Yes. The other thing is I smell something really fishy by these shouts and supposed spitting and death threats.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Well, not the shouting, but the supposed death threats, I smell something fishy. Why would the members of Congress walk out there in the middle of nowhere, parade around, when they haven’t done stuff like that before?

RUSH: Well, that’s a point that I raised moments ago, that this was done precisely to create the situation. The reason that Jesse Jackson Jr. was following his dad and these other people videotaping the whole thing was that he was hoping something would happen. Nothing did, or I’m sure he would have released the video. But you do have to ask yourselves, and you have to understand now, the liberal Democrats in Congress and the media, wherever you find ’em, they look at a tea party rally outside the Capitol as a genuine riot. They look at any opposition to them as a riot. They wanted to provoke an incident. They went out in what they think is the belly of the beast. They wanted to provoke an incident and when it didn’t happen, they made it up. This strategy was hatched right along with the signing of the bill. Coincidental, isn’t it that automatically yesterday, all at once, ten Democrats say that they’re being threatened?

Lisa, Annapolis, Maryland, you’re on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.

CALLER: Hi. Hi, Rush. Listen, I don’t know what tea party Barney Frank went to on Saturday, but my partner and I, I’m a stay at home gay mom, and my partner and I went to the tea party on Saturday, and people were cordial to us, they treated us with respect. At times we held hands. It’s just beyond me what the Democrats are saying about the tea party members because there were all walks of life there.

RUSH: Don’t let it be beyond you. Please understand it for what it really is, it’s a lie, it’s made up. They know they have done something reprehensible. They don’t want a guilty conscience about it so they have to turn all this stuff around and make themselves innocent victims of an unruly mob.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: We’re the peasants with the pitchforks because the real death threat is their legislation. They’re shaken. They know full well that they have aroused a majority of the people in this country with their lawless bill, with their lawless attempt to pass it and so forth. This is very serious stuff. So, please, understand it. It’s right there in front of you to be understood.

CALLER: Yes. Yes. And I just want to say thank you for all you do. I’ve listened to you for about 20 years, I’m a longtime listener, and really appreciate you out there in the trenches.

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. That’s Lisa in Annapolis. We have a sound bite roster filled with Democrats and media people saying horrible things about me and Sarah Palin and other Republicans for inciting all of this violence, all these death threats. And we’ll play some of them, play your phone calls, or take your phone calls, and also continue to update you on what people continue to learn in this health care bill that makes it a stinker. We will not be distracted. That’s what they seek, and it shall not work here.

 
 

Quick, someone call wealthy man-about-town Lamont Cranston!

Ehh, you probably don’t want to call him. He’s not what he was. He’s a shadow of his former self.

But, what the hell? Who knows?

 
 

T&U,

I liked the second comment over there,

…”lock the door kids, get down on the ground, and don’t look- mama gonna clean up the trash…”

 
 

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Apart from the fine scripts here Djur’s filterable RSS feed is still up.

http://djur.desperance.net/sadlyno/rss/feed?bad_users=|Disemv*|Truth*|CONTINUE*|

 
 

“this country’s finest traditions of limited government, personal responsibility, and the consent of the governed. — Jindali

Um … you mean the “governed” who gave “consent” to Obama and Democrats in the last election?

Why the fuck do these clowns act as if Americans didn’t already vote to decide all this?

Oh, and the fact the week is up and my sick grandmother is still alive = DEATH PANEL FAIL!!

 
 

And Michelle Bachmann is in da KrazeeHOUSE!

“It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy.”

 
 

“Vanderboegh said he once worked as a warehouse manager but now lives on government disability checks. He said he receives $1,300 a month because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. He has private health insurance through his wife, who works for a company that sells forklift products.

Born in Michigan and raised in Ohio, Vanderboegh said he was not always a libertarian. He once was active in the Young Socialist Alliance and the Progressive Labor Party. “In my youth, I was a communist,” he said. But in the mid-1970s, Vanderboegh read Friedrich von Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom,” among other books, and had an epiphany.

“From that point on, I could never take Marxism-Leninism seriously again,” Vanderboegh said. “

What a fine Patriot! He stays at home to man the keyboard, armed with a $1300 reward for eating too many Cheetohs and donuts because us librul socialists think he should be granted life. And not only that! His wife slaves to carry private health insurance premiums for him.

All so he can command others to terrorize those who want at least the healthcare he got.

Honestly, I feel proud to be an American, I reely reely doo.

 
 

Apart from the fine scripts here Djur’s filterable RSS feed is still up.

Thanks, Sub.

 
 

Also, I love takebackthegop.net. Yes, take it back from those crazy fringe wingers that have dominated the party increasingly for the last forty years. Oh for the days of the Rockefeller Republicans. Jacob Javits, where are you now?

Wait, what!?!?

Peter King and Richard Selby are RINOs?

Ohboy.

 
 

It was a typo! I swear!

Also, that rocket didn’t happen to come out of someone’s beHinder, did it?

 
 

““It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy.”

And not only that, but since HCR passed, I’ve been having this urge to bear children and have them aborted immediately and turn them into Zombie revolutionary FETUS soldiers because its the best thing a sociocommiepinkofascistfeminazi like me can do for the impending revolution today.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

…”lock the door kids, get down on the ground, and don’t look- mama gonna clean up the trash…”

Heh. I missed that. I’m only half-kidding about the shotgun.

 
 

The United States currently spends roughly as much on defense ($661 billion in fiscal year 2009) as the rest of the world combined. But that’s a pittance compared to what we spend on three major entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Combined, they cost $1.38 trillion or almost 35% of the budget, compared with 17% for defense.

Did you know that last year the government spent more money on DEFENSE than it did on silly walks?

 
 

Did you know that last year the government spent more money on DEFENSE than it did on silly walks?

How much did we spend on Offense?!

 
 

Oh for fuck’s sake. I can be patient with wingnut trolls, but cut-and-pasting huge chunks of a Limbaugh transcript is beyond the pale. Some of us are trying to eat, here!!

 
 

Which part?

Face and chest, on my side, hopefully.

 
 

And not only that, but since HCR passed, I’ve been having this urge to bear children and have them aborted immediately and turn them into Zombie revolutionary FETUS soldiers …

Any old soldier will tell you, there’s nothing like having FETUS on the ground.

 
 

Vanderboegh said he once worked as a warehouse manager but now lives on government disability checks. He said he receives $1,300 a month because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. He has private health insurance through his wife, who works for a company that sells forklift products.

Born in Michigan and raised in Ohio, Vanderboegh said he was not always a libertarian. He once was active in the Young Socialist Alliance and the Progressive Labor Party.

So when he was a working, useful member of society he was a Socialist. Now that he suckles the government teat(for largely preventable health issues) and the sweat of others’ brows he’s a Libertarian. Seriously, why are Libertarians exactly the kind of moocher parasites they accuse everyone else of being?

Also: Really. It’s a lovely Spring day out.

It’s 36 and cloudy and it was fuckin SNOWING this morning when I got up so BITE ME.

 
 

How much did we spend on Offense?!

Jet fuel costs for Air Force One 2001-2009.

 
 

“It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy.”

Wait… what? 1/6th for Health Care + General Motors + ???

Oh, maybe she is counting every company that received TARP funds? Or possibly every industry in which a company received TARP funds?

I guess the real puzzler is, if moderate regulation = communism, how were we 0% communist before Obama? Banks? Utilities? Dairy? It’s not exactly the first time that the government has laid down a few rules to reduce evil.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

It’s 36 and cloudy and it was fuckin SNOWING this morning when I got up so BITE ME.

It snowed here last weekend after a sunny, 70-degree day. It was that really wet, stingy crap. Fucking fuckers.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I guess the real puzzler is, if moderate regulation = communism, how were we 0% communist before Obama? Banks? Utilities? Dairy? It’s not exactly the first time that the government has laid down a few rules to reduce evil.

Don’t think about it too hard. She didn’t.

 
 

It’s 36 and cloudy and it was fuckin SNOWING this morning when I got up so BITE ME.

Fffft. We’re going getting 14 degrees overnight.

Crybaby.

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

Seriously, why are Libertarians exactly the kind of moocher parasites they accuse everyone else of being?

Do we really need to answer that at this point?

 
 

“Going getting” That’s right. Read it and weep.

I did.

 
 

Do we really need to answer that at this point?

Go to the drive-in and explain to your kid how the images get from the cinder block shed to the big screen in front of all the cars and you should have it covered.

 
 

I’m not crying.

*sniffle*

 
 

It’s 36 and cloudy and it was fuckin SNOWING this morning when I got up so BITE ME.

Fffft. We’re going getting 14 degrees overnight.

Forty below is the same in either Fahrenheit or Celsius.

I found that out the “fun” way growing up with my glasses frozen onto my face & my feet frozen into my boots back in Saskatchewan.

Whiners.

 
 

I’m not crying.

*sniffle*

If you want a fast pick-me-up, don’t laugh at T&U. For, you know, as long as you can manage.

 
 

I know it’s projection, but how can somebody who used to be thoughtful enough that he actually read books about stuff, and even changed his mind in response to what he read(sure, in the wrong direction, but it means he was willing to test his beliefs back then and change them when convinced he was wrong), become the thought-free, hide-bound ultra projection jockey he now is?

 
 

CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

….is gay, and I don’t mean that in a happy, homosexual kind of way.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

If you want a fast pick-me-up, don’t laugh at T&U. For, you know, as long as you can manage.

HEY! I’m right here, you know!

*Xanax* *desk gin* *cry*

 
 

Grandma can wheel herself to an emergency room any time she wants.

Hey, its uphill…in both directions!

 
 

Did you know that last year the government spent more money on DEFENSE than it did on silly walks?

How much did we spend on Offense?!

ACK!

That was Bush’s motto: The best defense is a good offense…

 
 

HEY! I’m right here, you know!

We don’t laugh at you, we laugh near you.

*sippin’ desk gin*

 
 

But in the mid-1970s, Vanderboegh read Friedrich von Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom,” among other books, and had an epiphany.

Any bets “other books” includes at least one turd from Ayn Rand?

And I hope he cleaned up after his “epiphany”.

 
 

I wish I had desk gin.

*resumes sniffing sharpies*

(most of my co-workers think I have a mustache)

 
 

desk gin

Oh you call rubbing alcohol “desk gin” too? Our office manager is getting suspicious, so I’ve had to switch to “bathroom mojitos,” or mouthwash.

 
 

(most of my co-workers think I have a mustache)

That’s not a milk mustache! I huff WiteOut.

 
 

I know it’s projection, but how can somebody who used to be thoughtful enough that he actually read books about stuff, and even changed his mind in response to what he read(sure, in the wrong direction, but it means he was willing to test his beliefs back then and change them when convinced he was wrong), become the thought-free, hide-bound ultra projection jockey he now is?

I was trying to find a way to state the painfully obvious.

But it’s kinda a big deal. And it explains a lot.

Psychological projection or projection bias (including Freudian Projection) is the unconscious act of denial of a person’s own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.

Projection is considered one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely difficult to work with, because by its nature it is hidden. It is the fundamental mechanism by which we keep ourselves uninformed about ourselves. Humor has great value in any attempt to work with projection, because humor presents a forgiving posture and thereby removes the threatening nature of any inquiry into the truth.

And note the use of humor. Not so much of that rolling out from them folks, now is there?

 
 

Evidently, the Merkin Pepul are so angry and horrified at Obambi’s healthcare bill that they’re giving Teh Prez and Congressional Dems a pretty decent bounce in the polls now that it’s passed.

That’s tyranny for ya.

 
 

Oh you call rubbing alcohol “desk gin” too?

Nnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo….yes

 
 

they’re giving Teh Prez and Congressional Dems a pretty decent bounce in the polls now that it’s passed.

Conservatives: standing athwart history shouting “HEY! WAIT FOR ME!”

 
 

well if rubbing alcohol is desk gin, I have desk gin. I use it to remove the mustache. And as a chaser of course.

 
 

“It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy.”

Mi-chelle, dumb-bell
these are words that go together well
Aaah, Michelle

And can anyone translate “From 100% of our economy was private” because the words are all in English but the meaning escapes me.

 
 

HEY! I’m right here, you know!

I said “don’t.” [checks rye supply] Yeah, “don’t.”

 
 

they’re giving Teh Prez and Congressional Dems a pretty decent bounce in the polls now that it’s passed.

And Boner’s numbers are getting, um, softer.

 
 

Conservatives: standing athwart history shouting “HEY! WAIT FOR ME I PUKED ON MY SHOES!”

 
 

And can anyone translate “From 100% of our economy was private”

Yes.

“I had a nightmare”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Oh you call rubbing alcohol “desk gin” too?

No, I actually have a flask of gin in my desk. I do, however, keep a canister of compressed air at my desk to “clean my keyboard,” if you know what I mean.

 
 

“I had a nightmare”

Mebbe. Also: “I mixed up my meds again.”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Yeah, but how many of those people are white Red-staters? The rest of y’all don’t count.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Uh, that was in response to this: Evidently, the Merkin Pepul are so angry and horrified at Obambi’s healthcare bill that they’re giving Teh Prez and Congressional Dems a pretty decent bounce in the polls now that it’s passed.

Maybe I should cut back on the compressed air…

 
 

Yeah, but how many of those people are white Red-staters? The rest of y’all don’t count.

White Red staters CAN’T count.

 
 

white Red-staters

You mean, like candy canes?

 
 

White Red staters CAN’T count.

They don’t have to count. They just go directly to “elebenty!” and they’re done.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

White Red staters CAN’T count.

Hey, now. Most of us have at least 20 fingers and toes.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Also, POOP.

 
 

Hey, now. Most of us have at least 20 fingers and toes.

Lotta nuke plants, I take it?

 
 

” white Red Staters”

Like White Russians?

Any old soldier will tell you, there’s nothing like having FETUS on the ground.

Yes, directed by the POTUS, approved by the SCOTUS and attacking a wingnut’s SCROTUS.

 
 

Also, POOP.

I love the image of this asshat and his son, paddling out across a puddle of poo, to pop a methane bubble.

Nevermind that the sudden release of pressure from a bubble “as big as a small house” would probably knock them out of the boat and into the not-very-mangoey shit swamp, but the image of a machete-wielding Indianan has me giggling.

 
 

Hey now, there is more to Indiana than toxic lakes of sewage filled with house sized methane bubbles.

There’s oil refineries too.

 
 

Hey now, there is more to Indiana than toxic lakes of sewage filled with house sized methane bubbles.

There’s oil refineries too.

And corn ethanol production facilities. Also.

 
 

‘Indiana is threatened by giant bubbles of livestock feces.’

If you easterners ever bothered to go to the heartland you’d know this is not news.

The smell of rotting manure and oil refinery sulfides are something that makes my patriot blood flow, I’ll tell ya. Its the shits.

Which is why I don’t live there anymore.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Lotta nuke plants, I take it?

Yeah…but no poop bubbles. Indiana flipped to you guys in 2008.

 
 

and attacking a wingnut’s SCROTUS.

Oooh. Have to use the sub-millimeter wave weapons then.

 
Spengler Dampniche
 

Hey, I just glanced that cocksucker over, and the numbers leave me schooled. The military is WAY less expensive than social programs. Count me in. War is cheaper than peace.

Unless those numbers are asspulls, but I can’t believe that.

 
 

‘Indiana is threatened by giant bubbles of livestock feces.’

If you easterners ever bothered to go to the heartland you’d know this is not news.

I live a two miles from a human waste processing facility. I’d trade it in a heartbeat for piles of cowflop.

 
 

…and water tables poisoned by nitrate fertilizers, can’t forget that. Gotta love that corporate freedom we gots. Until Obama and Gore start screwing with it.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

The smell of rotting manure and oil refinery sulfides

is only perceptible when the wind is coming from the south. And the east. And when it rains.

 
 

CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

… alias Rush Limbaugh Copypasta.

tl;dr =

WATB Rush is sore that wingnuts’ major ethical deficit is becoming more obvious as they continue to plumb the seedy pits of Lower Wackjobistan for someone to replace all the ex-supporters they’ve repulsed away already.

See Rush BAAAAAAAAAW.
See Rush flap his jowls in rage.
See Rush cash another humungous royalty stipend & mellow out with his scented candles.
See Rush rinse & repeat.

 
 

Nevermind that the sudden release of pressure from a bubble “as big as a small house” would probably knock them out of the boat and into the not-very-mangoey shit swamp, but the image of a machete-wielding Indianan has me giggling.

I wunner if he’ll put out his smoke afore lancin’ that beast or just say “fuck it all?”

 
 

Born in Michigan and raised in Ohio, Vanderboegh said he was not always a libertarian. He once was active in the Young Socialist Alliance and the Progressive Labor Party. “In my youth, I was a communist,” he said. But in the mid-1970s, Vanderboegh read Friedrich von Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom,” among other books, and had an epiphany.

Oh FUCK you, lying sack of glibertarian fucking shit. Sorry, but over here in NOT fucking stupid land, we don’t buy your precious “reformed-socialist” fucking fairy tales. Go to hell and die you fucking useless parasite. Epiphany–HA! Fucking moron.

 
 

is only perceptible when the wind is coming from the south. And the east. And when it rains.

Hot, still, sunny days aren’t so great either, I imagine.

 
 

“I live a two miles from a human waste processing facility.”

Most rural Americans have those right in their backyards and they like it jes fine and they’d like it more if the gubmint didn’t tell ’em how big they had to be or to get them pumped and inspectable and all.

 
 

I wunner if he’ll put out his smoke afore lancin’ that beast or just say “fuck it all?”

I’m just thinking he’ll hand his kid the machete and then say, “Yknowhut? It’s gittin’ dark here…hand me th’ propane lantern, willya?”

 
 

I wish WaPo would’ve asked that Vanderbog guy what he would do if his wife got laid off.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I live a two miles from a human waste processing facility. I’d trade it in a heartbeat for piles of cowflop.

Cow manure isn’t that bad. Chicken houses are nasty, though. And pigshit is disgusting and toxic.

 
 

Most rural Americans have those right in their backyards

Yea, but a hunnert thousand people don’t take a shit in it.

 
 

“I wunner if he’ll put out his smoke afore lancin’ that beast or just say “fuck it all?”

Shoot, whatsa matter you you silly city pansy, real men smoke while filling the tractor with a leaking gas can in the middle of a dry hay field, what’s a little methane gonna do?

 
 

He once was active in the Young Socialist Alliance and the Progressive Labor Party.

TRANSLATION:

Hot easy blonde chick with big boobs.

 
 

“Yea, but a hunnert thousand people don’t take a shit in it.”

Soma the places I’ve visited around here might make you wonder..

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Most rural Americans have those right in their backyards and they like it jes fine and they’d like it more if the gubmint didn’t tell ‘em how big they had to be or to get them pumped and inspectable and all.

Yeeeah, that’s a problem around here right now. The state’s trying to crack down on water quality and people are all pissy that they have to replace their rotting, aged septic tanks that leak shit into their drinking water.

 
Spengler Dampniche
 

tsam, you need to chillax, go with the flow, and feel the love. Of course it’s not true; the Christopher Hitchens “Road to Damascus” conversion story is just so compelling. But don’t we all love that narrative, really? It’s essential to libertarian thought: I was the enemy before I was saved.

 
 

“In my youth, I was a communist”, Vandalblecch said…

Up until he was 19 years old, he lived with his parents who gave him everything and he had to submit to their harsh, repressive ideology and their tyranny of making him pick his dirty socks up off the floor.

Years later he would read The Road to Serfdom and fall in love with the idea of a nanny state giving him all he would need.

FREEEEDUMMMMMM!

 
 

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TruculentandUnreliable said,

March 26, 2010 at 20:23

Also, POOP.

Now that’s a shit moat!

 
 

Hot easy blonde chick with big boobs.

I must have been in a different activist left as a youth.

 
 

See Rush BAAAAAAAAAW.
See Rush flap his jowls in rage.
See Rush cash another humungous royalty stipend & mellow out with his scented candles.
See Rush down another handful of Oxycontin 80 and wash it down with whiskey.
See Rush rinse & repeat.

Fiq’qored.

 
 

“Hot easy blonde chick with big boobs.”

For one night, when she was stone drunk. When she ran out the door upon rising from his bed, out went his convictions with her.

The natural course after that was libertarian, donuts, cheetohs and government cheese.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Hot, still, sunny days aren’t so great either, I imagine.

Where I grew up, it would get really, really humid. It was like there were shit vapors in the air.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

“…It was a dark and stormy dead of night…I was on my knees, minding my own business, when, out of nowhere, and I am not making this up, a demonRat suddenly shoved his unusually large package down my throat…”

Dear Penthouse American Thinker, I never thought this would happen to me…

 
 

tsam, you need to chillax, go with the flow, and feel the love. Of course it’s not true; the Christopher Hitchens “Road to Damascus” conversion story is just so compelling. But don’t we all love that narrative, really? It’s essential to libertarian thought: I was the enemy before I was saved.

::::stamping feet, wiping tears of rage::::

NO. I don’t wanna! WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

 
 

I must have been in a different activist left as a youth.

I went to school in Greenwich Village in the 70s. You couldn’t spit for hitting a blonde with big boobs who’d put up with you out.

 
 

Oh my fucking word! Spreadsheets are attacking me!

 
 

And can anyone translate “From 100% of our economy was private”

I believe she’s addressing that David From guy.

 
 

Oh my fucking word! Spreadsheets are attacking me!

I’m sure you’ll Excel in handling them.

 
 

I’m sure you’ll Excel in handling them.

Word.

 
 

But don’t we all love that narrative, really? It’s essential to libertarian thought: I was the enemy before I was saved.

I sorta like my coming of age stories to not end with the protagonist becoming a blathering, idiotic hypocrite. I think they’re supposed to go the other way, right?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I’m sure you’ll Excel in handling them.

Word.

*sigh* Lotus avoid making any more puns, please?

 
 

Shoot, whatsa matter you you silly city pansy, real men smoke while filling the tractor with a leaking gas can in the middle of a dry hay field, what’s a little methane gonna do?

I’ve spent more time in the last 8 years doing shit like that (not quite that stupid) and the thing that scares me most is a city boy trying to play rugged “back to the land” man. I watched a friend pull out a chainsaw he had just inherited and go to cutting up a downed tree in his dress clothes. He didn’t notice a key part of the saw was vibrating loose until the chain disengaged from the sprocket at full throttle. He just missed getting that chain in the face.

I packed up my saw and went home.

 
 

I’m sure you’ll Excel in handling them.

Word

Nice…and….nice.

 
 

I’m sure you’ll Excel in handling them.

Word.

*sigh* Lotus avoid making any more puns, please?

I’ll make a Notes of that.

 
 

I’ll make a Notes of that.

Easy as 1-2-3?

 
 

I’m sure you’ll Excel in handling them.

Word.

*sigh* Lotus avoid making any more puns, please?

But, it’s humor that I can keep up with. I find it very funny–or should I say…waaaaiiiiittt for it…

PUNNY?

 
 

Looks like we got a regular Open Office around here, with the jokes and all.

 
 

Easy as 1-2-3?

Even Adobe can handle it!

 
 

Oh my fucking word! Spreadsheets are attacking me!

Welcome to my world. Databases too.

Still beats my previous job working at a call center though.

 
 

I’m gonna Access that we don’t dBase this conversation with puns of this sort.

 
 

(tsam looks around and finds himself suddenly all alone in the room)

 
 

Looks like we got a regular Open Office around here, with the jokes and all.

Well, we are open, but the GIMP has to stay in the closet.

 
 

I’m gonna Access that we don’t dBase this conversation with puns of this sort.

*GASP*

That’s…that’s…a thing of beauty.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Oops, that was me up there, still nymjacking ‘Release the Kraken!’
my bad.

Krakens are a finite good- pretty soon, the Obama machine will be rationing them.

 
 

I can’t wait for the SQL

 
 

Oracle can just go ahead.

Wev.

 
 

Oracle can just go ahead.

I’m down wit OPML.

 
 

I’m down wit OPML.

Don’t bother me with Symantecs.

 
 

Krakens are a renewable resource. They are a fountain of nearly inexhaustible green power as long as we never run out of Ethiopian princess with which to feed them.

 
 

I can’t wait for the SQL

What’s funny about that is, some of us old timers pronounce it as “squeal.”

 
 

What’s funny about that is, some of us old timers pronounce it as “squeal.”

It was your Deliverance, after all.

 
 

as long as we never run out of Ethiopian princess with which to feed them.

Mine comes in the mail tomorrow!

 
 

Don’t bother me with Symantecs.

Why? Is it making your MicroSoft?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Krakens are a renewable resource. They are a fountain of nearly inexhaustible green power as long as we never run out of Ethiopian princess with which to feed them.

Nice try, the world hit Peak Kraken in 1981!

 
 

They are a fountain of nearly inexhaustible green power as long as we never run out of Ethiopian princess with which to feed them.

Do the princesses have to be Ethiopian, or will any princess do in a pinch?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Nice try, the world hit Peak Kraken in 1981!

What about offshore Kraken drilling?

 
 

Why? Is it making your MicroSoft

Nope, thankfully, I’ve got Remote Assistance.

 
 

Do the princesses have to be Ethiopian, or will any princess do in a pinch?

If we could only refine Jewish American Princesses.

What?

 
 

Nope, thankfully, I’ve got Remote Assistance.

Our Intel suggests differently.

 
 

Do the princesses have to be Ethiopian, or will any princess do in a pinch?

My twin degrees in Inuit Eschatology, and Finno-Urgic stock car racing history, suggest that yes, the princesses must be Ethiopian

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

What about offshore Kraken drilling?

It depends on the Kraken population you are utilizing- the Krakens in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, have a high sulfur content, and are unsuitable for domestic use. Said Krakens could be exported to China, though, where the emission controls are laxer.

Did I just write “emition controls”?

 
 

Releasing krakens is theft.

 
 

Our Intel suggests differently.

My Outlook is good though, no?

 
 

How long is this silly Opera going to go on?

 
 

Back to Boot:

The Air Force, which is responsible for maintaining air and space superiority—a sine que non of American power—faces a particularly big budget crunch. Its aircraft are aging and need to be replaced (KC-135 tankers and B-52 bombers are more than 40 years old), but each new plane is much costlier than its predecessor.

He is trolling Robert Farley.

 
 

Releasing krakens is theft.

Wev. It’s time to get kraken, I say.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

If we could only refine Jewish American Princesses.

What?

In a trial run, Pammycakes was used to entice a Kraken, but the beast didn’t bite. There was no control group, though, so it is not known whether the Kraken rejected her due to a high plastic content, or a generally sour flavor.

 
 

How long is this silly Opera going to go on?

‘Til I get my Roxio off.

 
 

But don’t we all love that narrative, really? It’s essential to libertarian thought: I was the enemy before I was saved.

Yeah, and “look, I’m really a thoughtful person! I had to be convinced with LOGIC and TRUTH and stuff against what I believed already, so of course what I believe now is right!” It gives them the patina of having done due diligence without having actually done anything. Of course, it doesn’t hold up because, as I was wondering above, what sort of thoughtful, questioning person accepts some ludicrous, unsupportable bullshit and instantly becomes unthinking and unquestioning?

 
 

My Outlook is good though, no?

Welllllllllllllllll…I don’t want to say.

Let me see the Palm of your hand.

 
 

How long is this silly Opera going to go on?

Safari as I know, forevah!

 
 

In a trial run, Pammycakes was used to entice a Kraken, but the beast didn’t bite.

She’s overripe. Doesn’t count.

 
 

Let me see the Palm of your hand.

What if I told you I’m an Android?

 
 

How long is this silly Opera going to go on?

Safari as I know, forevah!

Camino, you guys! Those are terrible puns! They made Mozilla angry

 
 

Safari as I know, forevah!

My Chrome’s still spinnin’!

 
 

What if I told you I’m an Android?

You’d be the enV of the neighborhood.

 
 

In a trial run, Pammycakes was used to entice a Kraken, but the beast didn’t bite.

Nah. She was too buoyant. Couldn’t drag her underwater.

 
 

In a trial run, Pammycakes was used to entice a Kraken, but the beast didn’t bite. There was no control group, though, so it is not known whether the Kraken rejected her due to a high plastic content, or a generally sour flavor.

Need I remind you, that between the name Pamela ATLAS, and the titanic …proportions of the test subject the Kraken was almost certainly afraid of biting off more than it could chew.

 
 

There’s a Google of reasons to hate these puns.

 
 

You’d be the enV of the neighborhood.

It’s because of my Razor sharp wit.

[not too worry, I slapped myself for that one]

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

It depends on the Kraken population you are utilizing- the Krakens in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, have a high sulfur content, and are unsuitable for domestic use. Said Krakens could be exported to China, though, where the emission controls are laxer.

I see, I see. Would fracking release more Kraken?

 
 

There’s a Google of reasons to hate these puns.

Don’t be such a Yahoo.

 
 

There’s a Google of reasons to hate these puns.

BING-o!

 
 

[not too worry, I slapped myself for that one]

Nokia’s hard enough for that one.

 
 

Nokia’s hard enough for that one.

Hard enough for Siemens?

 
 

Phones now? Really?

 
 

You people should get Real.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Hard enough for Siemens?

I don’t even get this one.

 
 

Hard enough for Siemens?

iPhone think so….*shaking head*

 
 

Phones now? Really?

Actor started it. But admit it, we were on a Motorola.

 
 

Phones now? Really?

Game, handset and match.

 
 

Actor started it. But admit it, we were on a Motorola.

I did not! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 

Hard enough for Siemens?

I don’t even get this one.

Veiled condom-filler reference.

 
 

It depends on the Kraken population you are utilizing- the Krakens in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, have a high sulfur content, and are unsuitable for domestic use. Said Krakens could be exported to China, though, where the emission controls are laxer.

The high sulfur content could be mitigated by a combination of tighter emissions controls and more intensive Kraken refinement. Kraken sulfur abatement is way ahead of where it was in the early ’80s when most of those surveys were undertaken and given the worldwide rise in energy prices, many technologies considered hopelessly expensive in the early days of the energy crisis must now be reconsidered.

In addition the export of unrefined high sulfur Kraken to locales where it will be exploited without any regard for the environment is immoral at best and may be illegal.

 
 

“My Outlook is good though, no?”

Its going to take some Power to Point it out, lemme put on my Red Hat and Corel a thought or two.

 
 

Its going to take some Power to Point it out, lemme put on my Red Hat and Corel a thought or two.

::blink::

Kate, you little lurker you!

 
 

“Actor started it. But admit it, we were on a Motorola.”

Which as doughboy might say, is Centro to my point. Just look out and see what’s on the Verizon will ya?

 
 

I gotta Linux up a few of these so I can rattle off a string of them. It will make for a Unix experience.

 
 

This shit be Kracken, Real Playa

I need practice.

 
 

The high sulfur content could be mitigated by a combination of tighter emissions controls and more intensive Kraken refinement.

Shorter 77south: Crackin’ the Kraken.

 
 

Just look out and see what’s on the Verizon will ya?

I wouldn’t Dare.

 
 

I’m Ubuntu walk away from this

 
 

Shorter 77south: Crackin’ the Kraken.

Well, at least he’s not frickin’ the chicken.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Veiled condom-filler reference.

Oh. I guess I need more Java.

 
 

This is why the bulk of my work consists of going outside.

If I don’t learn from this experience to track my mileage this tax year, I am truly useless.

 
 

Just look out and see what’s on the Verizon will ya?

I wouldn’t Dare.

Why? You are Virgin?

 
 

cf for that last pun

Puns needing a Cf. are Bold.

 
 

(cf for that last pun) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry)

Learned all about that during my Methamphetamine Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program.

 
 

Veiled condom-filler reference.
Oh. I guess I need more Java.

To be fair, he was a bit of a CAD

 
 

<Oh. I guess I need more Java.

I promise not to Flash you on the way to the break room.

 
 

If I don’t learn from this experience to track my mileage this tax year, I am truly useless.

Essentially, you need to be trackin’ the Kraken, no?

 
 

The word got around pretty fast that he was a Quicktime, if you know what I mean.

 
 

Essentially, you need to be trackin’ the Kraken, no?

Yes, the fracken Kraken’s what’s got me.

 
 

To be fair, he was a bit of a CAD

At least I’m not a bad Apple.

*flogs self*

 
 

Yes, the fracken Kraken’s what’s got me.

Maybe if you were hacking the Kraken’s GPS?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I promise not to Flash you on the way to the break room.

You’d better not. This isn’t an XML-rated workplace.

 
 

Oh. I guess I need more Java.

I promise not to Flash you on the way to the break room

as long as you don’t expose your private data members

 
 

To be fair, he was a bit of a CAD

At least I’m not a bad Apple.

*flogs self*

mmmmmmmmmmm, OSsex!

 
 

And on a completely unrelated topic:

Shouldn’t Max shave his haid? I mean, I look at that gnarly little patch on the front there and can’t help but think:

“Omigod, his back!

 
 

Kraken taxidermists must first move quickly to preserve the skin of this mighty apex predator. This they do by coating it with a polyurethane stain. This procedure is referred to as Shellackin’ the Kraken.

 
 

The word got around pretty fast that he was a Quicktime, if you know what I mean.

Samsung, didn’t he?

 
 

This they do by coating it with a polyurethane stain. This procedure is referred to as Shellackin’ the Kraken

But first the flesh must be made pliable and the pores opened up by taking a large stick and beating it.

This is whacking the Kraken

 
 

Actor that’s enough of the OSsex with the Emails, you’ve already been reported for Googling yourself more than once!

 
 

Shellackin’ the Kraken.

Krakens also appreciate a good joke hence the phrase, “Crackin’ up the Kraken”.

 
 

The word got around pretty fast that he was a Quicktime, if you know what I mean.

Samsung, didn’t he?

Well, he did have Karmen Hardon.

If you know what I mean…

 
 

you’ve already been reported for Googling yourself more than once

You have no idea, Ask Jeevs.

*Hates self*

 
 

you’ve already been reported for Googling yourself more than once!

I couldn’t help it! My firewall was breached!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

*Hates self*

I hear you. These puns make me feel Vaio.

 
 

After the skin is preserved and the internal armature installed, the Kraken must be stuffed with a high loft poly fill batting in the “Packin’ the Kraken” phase.

 
 

Oh, sure, you guys with your cracking, whacking and shellacking. All the fun jobs. And when you’re all done, you know who is left with cleaning up.

That’s right. Stackin’ the Kraken.

Ingrates.

 
 

I hear you. These puns make me feel Vaio.

I give that one a 7.

 
 

That’s right. Stackin’ the Kraken.

Nonsense. We’ve seen the security tapes. You been mackin’ the Kraken.

 
 

Samsung, didn’t he?

Well, he did have Karmen Hardon.

I’ll tell you what, after Panasonic there wasn’t much left anywhere. That’s what I heard.

 
 

I really must go back to that restaurant and ask what was in the wine…

 
 

Unfortunately, misguided environmentalist on more than one occasion must be stopped from damaging the mounted carcass. Today’s sportsmen must not live in fear of some eco-terrorist
Attackin’ the Kraken.

 
 

I hear you. These puns make me feel Vaio.

I give that one a 7.

Meh…I give it a C++

 
 

I’ll tell you what, after Panasonic there wasn’t much left anywhere. That’s what I heard.

Well, there was that Bang & Olufsen was all over the place after that.

 
 

OT but…. POOP

 
 

Today’s sportsmen must not live in fear of some eco-terrorist
Attackin’ the Kraken.

But that’s why we’re here because we’re…

…wait for it!…

Backin’ the Kraken.

 
 

Anyway, Asus was running around screaming “Eeee PC! Its Floppy” and shit. So that’s what I heard.

 
 

Esteev said,
March 26, 2010 at 21:38

OT but…. POOP

Ahem

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

OT but…. POOP

I KNEW IT! You guys do ignore me!

 
 

Anyway, Asus was running around screaming “Eeee PC! Its Floppy” and shit.

If only he had Acer’d his final exams…

 
 

damaging the mounted carcass

…Giggity

 
 

I KNEW IT! You guys do ignore me!

HEY!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

actor212 said,
March 26, 2010 at 21:40

Oh. Never mind.

 
 

That Kraken had better not be Slacken cause I’ll remove my backen like a cold a nutsacken.

And I aint’ kiddin.

 
 

That gas bubble in Indiana…someone really ought to be there with a camcorder.

And a Tyvek suit, of course.

 
 

TruculentandUnreliable said,

March 26, 2010 at 21:40

OT but…. POOP

I KNEW IT! You guys do ignore me!

Hello. Welcome to Sadly, No!.

 
 

That Kraken had better not be Slacken cause I’ll remove my backen like a cold a nutsacken.

Wrackin’ yer brain, eh?

 
 

If only he had Acer’d his final exams…

If he AST a question or two he might have.

 
 

Ahem

My utmost apologies… Skimming ain’t reading.

 
 

If only he had Acer’d his final exams…

If he AST a question or two he might have.

The Dell you say?

 
 

Substance McGravitas said,
March 26, 2010 at 21:43

Holy POOP!

Troublemaker…

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

This game really has lost its Lustre.

 
 

This is a Tandy string of puns, isn’t it?

 
 

I KNEW IT! You guys do ignore me!

Sorry T&U, it was just the idea of you on Gin Coffee and possible Flashing distracted me.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Holy POOP!

You’re mean. And I’m out of Xanax and desk gin.

 
 

Remember all those movies and TV shows in the 70’s with monkeys? anyone remember Macaque’n and Kraken?

 
 

And if you have a really bad case of the computer puns I suggest swigging some Kaypro.

 
 

anyone remember Macaque’n and Kraken?

No, but I remember, McKraken, P.I.

 
 

Geez, I wondered how you guys got so many comments and then I started to scroll. Got an infestation of the Cut-and-paste troll again, eh?

 
 

TruculentandUnreliable said,

March 26, 2010 at 20:23

Also, POOP

I like the look on the dude’s face in that picture. Something like “you think YOU have a shitty job?”

 
 

And if you have a really bad case of the computer puns I suggest swigging some Kaypro.

Some things make me think good. This makes me ThinkPad.

 
 

And as we wander deeper into the mists of history and writing contraptions I am going to be more Selectric with my choices. Just so you know.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Some things make me think good. This makes me ThinkPad.

Don’t think too hard; you’ll HP your pants.

 
 

And as we wander deeper into the mists of history and writing contraptions I am going to be more Selectric with my choices.

What? Can’t take a little ribbon?

 
 

Don’t think too hard; you’ll HP your pants.

IBM only where it’s appropriate.

 
 

No, but I remember, McKraken, P.I.

Those are not Compaq.

 
 

No, but I remember, McKraken, P.I.

Those are not Compaq.

I have no comeback. Amiga.

 
 

you’ve already been reported for Googling yourself more than once!

I’m gonna have to Bing you for that one.

 
 

IBM only where it’s appropriate.

Too bad the same thing doesn’t apply for Pocket PC.

 
 

Don’t think too hard; you’ll HP your pants.

That be a Gateway to Compaqing your problems.

 
 

I have no comeback. Amiga.

Aye aye, Commodore!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

IBM only where it’s appropriate.

Lulz.

God, I am so Blackboard.

 
 

That’s right. Stackin’ the Kraken.

Yeah, well, someone’s got to ship them out.

So, you know: packin’ the Kraken.

 
 

Looch slow. Like Trash-80 slow.

 
 

Canon we all just git along?

 
 

No, but I remember, McKraken, P.I.

Shirley you remember BJ and the Bear. That had TRUCKS and a monkey. A monkey called Bear. Sort of a commentary on truck driver intelligence, no?

I just hung the fast ball, please hit it.

 
 

tsam: you remind me that even then I thought teevee was stupid and used that as proof.

 
 

don’t you hate it when some goth kid decides to redecorate and he gets out the paint and starts to
Blacken the Kraken

 
 

Canon we all just git along?

You have no imageCLASS.

 
 

That had TRUCKS and a monkey. A monkey called Bear.

Bearnutz?

 
 

So, you know: packin’ the Kraken.

Well, stackin’ the Kraken requires they go in a special display case first.

First rackin’, then stackin’ and packin’.

 
 

Blacken the Kraken

Mmmmmmmm, Cajun Kraken.

 
 

First rackin’, then stackin’ and packin’.

Something’s lackin’

 
 

Our wordplay is pretty low class here. You won’t find us
Cadillacn’ the Kraken.

 
 

Well, I don’t want to RAM it down your throats kids, but I looked out the Windows and the sun is shining through the Open Frames and its Friday after 4pm and I’m packing up to go plan that organic garden I’m putting in the backyard of my daughter’s new house.

I also gotta break the news to her that she’s having a composting worm farm in her kitchen too, she’ll like that, of course she will.

Pay back is a bitch man, I tell you.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

You have no imageCLASS.

Wait, are we doing CSS now, or hardware?

 
 

Wait, are we doing CSS now, or hardware?

I was hoping we’d get around to your style sheets…

 
 

Pay back is a bitch man, I tell you.

She’s paybackin’ the Kraken!

Whoa!

 
 

I thought just the other day we were sackin’ the Kraken?

 
 

Looks like I’m leaving no time too soon.

 
 

I think I’ve been inspired to use a new euphimism – “smackin’ the Kraken”.

 
 

Wait, are we doing CSS now, or hardware?

Your Syntax is off, I think.

 
 

Looks like I’m leaving no time too soon.

I heard that!

 
 

tsam: you remind me that even then I thought teevee was stupid and used that as proof.

I did too–I think I was about 7 or 8 when that show came on. That might be the most perfect example. It’s easier to prove the stupidity today–we have “The Hills, anything on MTV, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, SyFy (wtf? pwn3d!) and pretty much everything except Familly Guy and The Simpsons.

 
 

Yes, we were sackin’ the Kraken, but in our defense: the Kraken was Slackin’

 
 

*tag* i’m it!

 
 

I think I’ve been inspired to use a new euphimism – “smackin’ the Kraken”.

You flackin’ your Kraken smackin’?

 
 

Did you see that Victoria Jackson thing?

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

 
 

Substance! NO! Truculent is gonna be…further depressed? jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I was hoping we’d get around to your style sheets…

Gimme a br /.

 
 

I was hoping we’d get around to your style sheets…

Thinking with your Wang again.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Did you see that Victoria Jackson thing?

Okay, that made me laugh. But I still hate you.

 
 

Of course the gulf of Mexico is not the only source of green Kraken power. Substantial reserves exist in the Persian Gulf too. For reference I direct you to Dr. A. J. Simpson’s seminal work: ‘Iraq & the Kraken’ by Westminster & Throckmorton 1987.

 
 

Thinking with your Wang again.

Leave Chein-Ming out of this.

 
 

You have no imageCLASS.

Really, it’s just PERLs before swine.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Truculent is gonna be…further depressed?

That’s okay. I currently have 270 antidepressant pills in various forms rattling around my bag. And I still have some “keyboard cleaner” left.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

‘Iraq & the Kraken’

Oooh, well done!

 
 

The actual Victoria Jackson thing which you have already seen elsewhere IS STILL GREAT.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003260027

 
 

I currently have 270 antidepressant pills in various forms rattling around my bag. And I still have some “keyboard cleaner” left.

Now THAT’S a Friday afternoon. KeyKleen fucts you up, man.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

The actual Victoria Jackson thing which you have already seen elsewhere IS STILL GREAT.

Speaking of drugs…

 
 

TOO LATE! RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Oh shit.

 
 

Or for that matter we cannot forget the Late Dr. Costeu’s most controversial film where he attempts to document his friendship with one of the sea’s most fearsome predators in the 1968 film:
“Jaques & the Kraken”

 
 

Did you see that Victoria Jackson thing?

Pop the Poop!

 
 

The actual Victoria Jackson thing which you have already seen elsewhere IS STILL GREAT.

“Progressive is the new word for Communist” -Victory Jackson

Uh, yeah, if you don’t know how to reed, good.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Uh, yeah, if you don’t know how to reed, good.

She’s retarded (not satire).

 
 

She’s retarded (not satire).

THE KRAKENS BEEN RELEASED

 
 

Ms. Jack’n could use some smackin’ from my Kraken.

 
 

She’s retarded (not satire).

She’s an OWL exterminator.

 
 

LOL @ Jindall;

“But the reality is that growth of federal entitlements is strangling the economic engine of our country. Someone has to draw the line somewhere. Do we want to go the way of Western Europe? If not, we better get moving in the other direction immediately.”

Like every good conservative, he brings up Europe as a straw man to shoot down but is careful not to mention what he’s actually shooting down. What exactly is “the way of Western Europe”? Is it strangling “the economic engine of the countr[ies]”? If so, then what is it that attracts those millions of African, South Asian, Middle Eastern and East European immigrants every year? It’s for damn sure none of the commie countries ever had a flow of migrants like that – so why does Europe?

Could it be that the economic engine of these countries has, in fact, not been strangled at all? It’s just an unproven theory, but here at Liberalism Inc where theories have to rest of observable facts, logical deductions and all manner of fuzzy math, it seems like it’s worth bringing up…

 
 

It’s Vicki, Miss Jackson if ya nastay.

I see she’s still in the comedy biz. Good job, grrl.

 
 

I would love to discover she’s punking the Fox/Teabag crowd.

 
 

Chris said,
March 26, 2010 at 22:26

Chris is a islamofacistkrakencommiegodlesslibrul.

 
 

I would love to discover she’s punking the Fox/Teabag crowd.

HOH MY GOD that would be, quite possibly, the funniest thing I have ever seen…except for the movie Airplane!, of course.

 
 

Hope everyone’s ready for a “wild” weekend.

Cunts better keep that shit up out my face…just sayin’

 
 

Hope everyone’s ready for a “wild” weekend.

Jesus Christ.

 
 

I don’t think that hair transplant that he’s getting is taking, either. Don’t know why, it’s certainly fertilized well enough.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Hope everyone’s ready for a “wild” weekend.

Imma make an effigy of Confederate Yankee’s grill.

 
 

From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008

Meh. In NZ our private economy goes up to 110%.

 
 

Chris said,
March 26, 2010 at 22:26

Ah, the reason why all these immigrants are coming to Europe is because we are Euroweenies.

 
 

Euroweenies: NOT halal.

 
 

Euroweenies won’t be Halal if I’ve got anything to say about it.

Not on my watch goddamnit…

 
 

She’s an OWL exterminator.

I predicate my objection to this subject on the apparent lack of SPARQLy Turtles.

::drops mic. Crip-walks stage left:::

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Re 77south at 21:09

As the cliche goes, I literally LOLed.

 
 

Release me!!!!

 
 

DON’T SMOKE THE BROWN CIGARS.

 
 

Welease the Kwaken!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

The actual Victoria Jackson thing which you have already seen elsewhere IS STILL GREAT.

RELEASE THE JACKSON!

 
 

RELEASE THE JACKSON!

Ayy–I just released on her fuckin face..WHOA!

 
 

More exciting Conservative Woodstock news:
In addition to Palin, other speakers include Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, former Saturday Night Live actress Victoria Jackson, Andrew Breitbart and others.

With a line-up like that, who needs brown acid?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

OMFG CONSERVATIVE WOODSTOCK.

They’ve got nothing original, nothing original at all.

 
 

I thought Joe-The-Not-Plumber was a heretic these days after badmouthing McCain.

 
 

badmouthing McCain.

That liberal?!?!?

 
Release the Kraken!
 

anyone remember Macaque’n and Kraken?

No, but I remember, McKraken, P.I.

“Krake And The Fat Man”

I go to work, slave all day just to get new shoes;
I come home and find Aye Been Nymjacked To A Fine How Do You Do !!!

 
 

That’s the first picture I’ve seen of the ol’ Boot.

He writes like a dork, thinks like a dork, so, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that he looks like one, too….

 
 

I thought Joe-The-Not-Plumber was a heretic these days after badmouthing McCain.

I thought people finally just realized he was a dolt with no ideas and nothing to say.

 
 

OMFG CONSERVATIVE WOODSTOCK.

They’ve got nothing original, nothing original at all.

Well, to be fair, “Ten-thousand Ignorant Cynics and Sarah” doesn’t fit well on the posters.

 
 

One of the many many reasons I miss Steve Gilliard is that he would rip Boot’s crap apart on a near-weekly basis. 🙁

 
 

“Damn! That is a fucking beautiful necktie!”

Ya–for a Christmas tree…

 
 

“Just for completion’s sake, the entire article can be accessed here.”

The shorter was more than enough, thanks.

 
 

Meh. In NZ our private economy goes up to 110%.

Spinal Tap is your Finance Minister?

I’m so moving to NZ…

 
 

The shorter was more than enough, thanks.

There are some who would be adventurous.

 
 

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Thanks a lot for this information.
It’s actually really valuable.

 
 

“The number of US forces in Jordan is small and not intended to be in preparation for a war on Syria,” Ensour stated.

 
 

Mikita also has a legitimate statue outside the United Center, though unlike Jordan, Bulls fans seem less inclined to throw a Derrick Rose jersey on it (once again, the immortalized player must be on board with the jersey, and Rose, though amazing, displayed a rather pussy-rific aversion to playing with a boo boo this season, which isn’t very Mikita).

 
 

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