It's Tuesday. It's morning. It's open. It's a thread. You know what that means? It's a Tuesday Morning Open Thread.
If you guessed correctly, tell yourself how awesome you are. Kind of like Obama does:
Newsweek: The Limits of Charisma - Mr. President, please stay off TV.
The president's problem isn't that he is too visible; it's the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words "I" and "my." (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story.
First?
ReplyDeleteheh, everyone was distracted by littleoldlady's new thread.
ReplyDelete/*happy victory dance*
So, is everybody here now?
ReplyDelete3 wood, I just gave the heads up in the thread below this one. People should start showing up soon.
ReplyDelete{red}. Like old times only better!
ReplyDelete3 wood, everyone who is anyone should be here shortly! Both PaladinPhil and I posted on the second part of lol's Fruitcup thread that this new thread was up and running!
ReplyDeletegak
ReplyDeleteWay better!
Howard Fineman is obviously a racist.
ReplyDeleteHeh, my timing as usual stinks....
ReplyDeleteUpdate to thread downstairs, ChiComs likely to veto any Iran sanctions.
Morning all.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna enjoy the Newsweek mini-criticism while I can. I have a feeling the MSM is about to unleash a last-ditch attempt at a triumphal first year for Obama. Whether it be the Olympics (weak) or Health Care (a big win for Wee-Wee), I expect a larger than usual wave of "oohs and aahs" in the near future.
Update to thread downstairs, ChiComs likely to veto any Iran sanctions.
ReplyDeleteShocker.
Yawn.
Hi JCM! How are ou doing this morning my friend?
ReplyDeleteWho is Howard Fineman? And why don't y'all drag that post up here?!
Hi Lincolntf. I agree. The MSM must do something like that.
ReplyDeleteMorning, 6P.
ReplyDeleteHope you're feeling fine today.
Hey good morning Lincolntf - despite the numbers for an ID, this is REALWEST!
ReplyDeleteHow the heck are you?
Cost Concerns Propelled U.S. Missile Pivot
ReplyDeleteThe Obama administration's scrapping of long-range missile interceptors in Europe wasn't just about security and diplomacy, according to people close to the process: It also came down to money.
"A ground-based interceptor is generally about a $70 million-per-missile asset going after a $10-$15 million [Iranian] missile," a senior administration official told arms-control analysts Thursday at a briefing explaining the rationale, according to a recording heard by The Wall Street Journal. "The trade is not a good one economically. It's not a good one from a military strategy position."
What is one of the few Constitution mandates for the Federal Gov't.
Defense.
What is the cost of a successful Iranian missile strike?
What is the cost of a successful Iranian nuclear strike?
What is the cost of a major war?
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Hi Sasquatch - PLEASE, it's realwest, not 6P or CP30 or anything else! PLEASE!
ReplyDeleteHow are you doing this morning?!
From down thread.
ReplyDelete{{{real}}} I didn't know. Sorry. This is a nice place to be. Thanks for all you are doing to make it work.
Real,
ReplyDeleteChina Opposes Iran Sanctions Sought by U.S.
The ChiComs have a veto in the Useless Nations inSecurity Clowncil. When the sanctions go down, anyone what to bet GWB's alienating the world will be blamed?
JCM - "The trade is not a good one economically. It's not a good one from a military strategy position."
ReplyDeleteAh huh. Tell that to the relatives of the dead and the wounded from that "cheap" Iranian missle you fucking dumbshit. (obviously I was not talking to YOU, JCM!).
Strategy Page
ReplyDeleteBack In The USSR
Using intimidation and violence (17 murdered journalists), the state controlled mass media has returned after a decade of a (largely) free press. That has meant the return of the vibrant Soviet period rumor networks, seeking to find the truth that the state controlled press hides. The Internet makes it easier to find the truth, although the government is putting a lot of effort into limiting what news gets into (or around) Russia via the web. The government also wants to prevent Russians from getting the truth about Russian history. The government is rewriting the history books, an effort that plays down (or ignores) the mass murders and state sponsored terror of the Soviet period. During the seven decades of communist rule, Russia had a third of its population killed off. The Soviet government killed more Russians than German armies and Nazi death camps. The current Russian government wants to keep that knowledge buried, along with all of Stalin's victims. The new government is basically a dictatorship of the politicians and secret policemen (many of them Soviet era vets), very much like the old Soviet one, but without the communist theology. The current dictators preach democracy, and believe in it about as much as their predecessors believed in Marx and Lenin. The downside of this is a business climate that lacks the rule of law, which is keeping a lot of foreign companies out, and making it difficult for Russian firms to innovate and be competitive in an international market. This, in many respects, the Russians are back in the USSR.
Hi 'Gak. Good to see you. (Don't look now, but there's some sort of UPC code trying to talk to you...)
ReplyDeleteHi, Real. How ya' doin? All is well with me. Finally a sunny day here in the Piedmont.
JCM said...
ReplyDeleteChiComs likely to veto any Iran sanctions.
Hey, Obama threw our eastern European NATO allies under the Russian bus to get those sanctions!
/can we get a reset, do over?
"Where am I?
ReplyDeleteOh...here I am!"
--Peter Lorre, Arsenic and Old Lace
Lincolntf said...
ReplyDeleteHi 'Gak. Good to see you. (Don't look now, but there's some sort of UPC code trying to talk to you...)
um, what?
I can't imagine voting for Obama and then still being in denial about him being an empty suit. Those still believing in him are either die hard Marxists who want democracy to fail or complete and utter idiots.
ReplyDeleteReal,
ReplyDeleteThey are turning 65 years of military development on it's head.
Since the end of WWII we have focused on more and more accurate weapons, with smaller and smaller warheads. Even to the point in Iraq of bolting $200,000 JDAM guidance packages on concrete bombs to turn an F-15 in a sniper platform.
Defensive systems are absolutely cost effective. A defensive systems changes how the OpFor thinks about an attack. When a missile shield is in place, an OpFor will think about the probable success and effectiveness of a missile attack.
How do measure the cost of a missile not launched, a city not destroyed, people not killed, a war not started?
Compare the head to head cost of a defensive missile and ballistic missile. Pulling the system based on that is nothing less than dereliction of duty.
Hey {gak} thank you, but the real credit here goes to Running Bare, Capitalist Piglet, Pink Freud, littleoldlady and Atilla the Honey (not to mention several others!)! They are kind enough to solicit my advice and pretend to "think about it" but fortunately go about doing what they do!
ReplyDeleteBut as an older guy it's nice to know that they still ask me! LOL!
redstateredneck said...
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine voting for Obama and then still being in denial about him being an empty suit. Those still believing in him are either die hard Marxists who want democracy to fail or complete and utter idiots.
I think the latter applies for most.
No problem, Real.
ReplyDeletefine, thanks.
midwestgak said...
ReplyDeleteJust making fun of RW's nickname. He seems to like that.
Hey {littleoldlady} just remember, where ever you go, there you are!
ReplyDelete:)
6p00e55005f9c78834 said...
ReplyDelete... but the real credit here goes to Running Bare, Capitalist Piglet, Pink Freud, littleoldlady and Atilla the Honey (not to mention several others!)!
Thank you all!
Iraqi Speaker Stresses Iran's Constructive Role in Region
ReplyDeleteTEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's visiting Parliament Speaker Ayad al-Samarraie underlined Iran's effective and constructive role in the establishment of security in the region, and called for the deepening of security cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad.
Well, isn't that special...
Russia getting cold feet re: Iran sanctions.
ReplyDeleteRussian FM: Iranian missile tests cause concern
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev opened the door for possible sanctions after a meeting with President Barack Obama last week, but hinted that Iran's offer to open its new uranium enrichment site to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and other measures might be enough to satisfy Moscow.
Any meaningful sanctions on Iran are as dead as the possum on the freeway.
The ChiComs are signaling a veto. The Soviets, I think after reading about the crack down on the press the Sovs are back. The Soviets are giving a Iran an out. Allow IAEA inspections.
Iran will say, okay will allow inspections, but with strings. The ChiComs and Sovs will take the position in the inSecurity Clowncil that Iran is cooperating.
Meanwhile the centrifuges spin, the U-235 piles up. The missiles fly, and Obama pulls Poland's and the Czech's pants down in public.
Well
and
Truly
Screwed
realwest,
ReplyDeleteHey {littleoldlady} just remember, where ever you go, there you are!
Not so sure about that today! ;-)
JCM - Not only is the cost of a ballistic missle sheild not only incalcuable from a monetary sense, but because a good shield gives you options you never would have had before. Both in war and ESPECIALLY in negotiations.
ReplyDeleteBut I also think - in retrospect - we may have put too much emphasis on those EXPENSIVE smart bombs and using them more - MUCH MORE - than conventional weapsons systems.
Remember Tora Bora? That was partly an old fashioned "arc light" strike - just dropping tons of "dumb" bombs on Al-Q in the mountains from which they were shooting at us.
Lincolntf
ReplyDeleteJust making fun of RW's nickname. He seems to like that.
I did that last night, I'm now in the witness protection program.....
;-)
realwest: Buckaroo Banzai? Is that you? :)
ReplyDeleteThe ChiComs have a veto in the Useless Nations inSecurity Clowncil. When the sanctions go down, anyone what to bet GWB's alienating the world will be blamed?
ReplyDeleteWe were told if Obama were elected, the world would love and respect us. Instead, our allies are starting to figure out they're on their own because nothing is allowed to get in the way of the image Obama wants to project.
Dangerous times.
Real,
ReplyDeleteThere is still a place for an Arc Lights, MOABs and MOPs.
But it's nice to be able to fly a small missile into a window instead of 1000 planes and 10,000 bombs to destroy a target.
Hi Wendy.
ReplyDeleteI did that last night, I'm now in the witness protection program.....
ReplyDeleteTo save time, I think we need to shorten it to six-pee.
F*ck! I'm depressed. Where's the warm fuzzy feel-good news?
ReplyDeleteshorten it to six-pee.
ReplyDelete:-X
redstateredneck said...
ReplyDeleteF*ck! I'm depressed. Where's the warm fuzzy feel-good news?
Election day 1980 and 1984.
good morning again everyone. All my chores are DONE including the financial stuff.
ReplyDeleteI was watching Juan Williams on Fox the other day saying how Obama had done and said all the right things because, look, the Russians are now saying they would consider sanctions!
The idea that Russia has been in on it the whole time seems to have escaped his poor brain.
Oh realwest. You were asking me earlier about where I was that 40 would be a dream temperature in a month or so? I posted some pictures on my blog today from two years ago in the winter. :)
ReplyDeleteJCM - I don't deny that it's nice to have smart bombs and to be able to use them with such precision.
ReplyDeleteBut there is SOMETHING TO BE SAID for telling civilians ahead of time that Death is coming, get outta the way and after a decent interval of, say 48 hours after dropping the leaflets, using the old dumb bombs. Do you remember the look in the eyes of the Taliban (YES President Obama, I said the TALIBAN) and Al-Q fighters when they surrendered after our shock and awe display? People who deal in muscle and terror, only respect and fear someone with bigger muscles and the will to use them to smite them upside the head, hard, fast and continuiously!
Listening to Hugh Hewitt of KRLA.
ReplyDeleteArne Duncan, Sec. Ed. and education acolyte of Bill Ayers interview (looking for a transcript).
Paraphrasing...
Schools should be open 12 hours a day and become the center of life for a community.....
Real,
ReplyDeleteNo doubt, I remember reading the VC where terrified of Arc Lights. No tunnels, no place was safe in an Arc Light.
Morning all.
ReplyDeleteSeems like the number of posters here grows every day....Can you dig it?
/warriors
NMM
AtillaTheHoney said...
ReplyDeleteI was watching Juan Williams on Fox...
Juan tries, bless his foolish little heart.
Lynn Cheney....
ReplyDeleteObama has spent more time with Letterman, than with his General in Afghanistan.
ROFLMAO!
The market is now down about 3 tenths of a point.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the FDIC is looking for $45 billion to replenish it's coffers.
PIMF..
ReplyDeleteLiz Cheney
Hi newmelleman. I arrived Sunday afternoon. Great to be here.
ReplyDeleteF*ck! I'm depressed. Where's the warm fuzzy feel-good news?
ReplyDeleteHAI!
Hey midwestgak...great to have you here.
ReplyDelete3 wood...
ReplyDelete$45 Billion?
That's petty cash any more....
PaladinPhil - oh I KNOW how cold it gets up there in Winter, but for crying out loud, I live in the Southland of the USA and it's barely fall and I'm freezing my tuchus off already!!!
ReplyDeleteJCM
ReplyDelete"$45 Billion?
That's petty cash any more...."
Certainly they can print that much in just a week or so.
Schools should be open 12 hours a day and become the center of life for a community.....
ReplyDeleteIn other words, they should be a combination indoctrination center/babysitter/child care center.
Real, we can help you out........
ReplyDeleteHi newmelleman! How are you today?!
ReplyDeleteWendy,
ReplyDeleteThat is awful cynical.......
But right on the nose.
JCM
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the recent Snuggie commercial where a chorus of people shout,
"THAT,s RIGHT!"?
JCM - I said I was freezing my tuchus - ass - off, how the hell is that backless snuggie gonna help with that?!
ReplyDeleteLOL!
Hey Realwest. Like you, experiencing colder than normal temps (not liking it either).
ReplyDeleteGood to see you.
gak,
ReplyDeleteNope, missed that one.
6p00e55005f9c78834 said...
ReplyDeleteJCM - I said I was freezing my tuchus - ass - off, how the hell is that backless snuggie gonna help with that?!
LOL!
'Cause when you get up off the sofa and trip on it and hit your head on the coffee table and become unconscience, you won't feel the cold.//
Hi Wendy - this is, depsite the number crap, realwest and it's good to see you!
ReplyDelete"In other words, they should be a combination indoctrination center/babysitter/child care center."
Well look at it this way, it works for the Elites, (although there is the pesky business of transporting the kids) and now it'll just make schools sorta one-stop shopping for 'em. Too bad they expect US to foot the bill and do the same to our kids.
Real,
ReplyDeleteokay, okay, point taken......
I was unaware that the left had ever stopped this kind of activity? The left is just pissed off that the right has finally caught on with what they are all about - POWER
ReplyDeleteThe left aims for critics' jugular
Liberal allies of President Barack Obama aren’t just getting mad at conservative attacks on his agenda. They are getting even in a way calculated to hit conservatives where it counts: their pockets.
Hey JCM, those do look interesting! Finally, someone who understand my, ah, point of view!
ReplyDelete:)
Gotta go get ready for a meeting (translation = smoke break).
ReplyDeleteSee yez all later.
NMM
Weather? Did someone mention WEATHER!
ReplyDelete106 today...but, according to the tea-left readers, it will drop 10 degrees by the end of the week. Looks like the long hot summer in Phoenix is almost over. Time for the 8 months of warm and sunny (as opposed to the 4 brutal months of hot and sunny)
See ya soon NMM.
ReplyDeleteHi DD. 106 yikes! That's hot anywhere.
ReplyDeleteCool Science story......Spiderman's blanket!
ReplyDeleteLook at the size of the donor though...ehhh, I don't think I want to be a Spider Wrangler.
Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry
This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk.
Weavers in Madagascar took four years to make it, and the museum says there's no other like it in the world.
Good morning all.
ReplyDelete3wood, I saved this for you. I particularly like the first comment.
http://volokh.com/posts/1253127797.shtml
50° and overcast....
ReplyDeleteHi Ufo Tofu.
ReplyDeleteHey DD - when did the LEFT NOT go after conservatives?
ReplyDeleteGreat Conservative Ad possibility - "What has _______ (fill in the name of your LEFTY/PROGRESSIVE organization of choice) ever actually done - in a positive way - to help this country?
And, by the way, where does ____________ get it's funding? Who are THEIR directors and officers? Do THEY have any conficts of interest?"
I admitt that the LEFT/Progressives have an edge here in that they have apparently VAST sums of money and tons of otherwise unemployed volunteers, not to mention the MSM and big league Unions being on their side, but I have a degree of Trust in the American people to USUALLY know BULLSHIT when they see it.
Obama's election was,in a sense, the exception that prove the rule.
Here's an even simpler Conservative AD: "If healthcare reform is SO GOOD, why aren't Federal employees and union members not obligated to join in with the rest of us? Think they know something they won't LET YOU KNOW?!"
Hey Gak, how ya liking it over there so far? I just arrived last week and I am happy as a sumo wrestler at the Golden Corral.
ReplyDeleteYou got that right RW. The left is just in shock because they don't know how to handle an activist right. They've been playing chess all these years while we have been play checkers. Now we are taking their knights and rooks and they just can't deal with it.
ReplyDeleteI have to thank President Obama for one thing ----> waking up the right. Thanks, Barack!
Good morning midwestgak. Looks like you and I are one of the few posters without an avatar. I'm waiting to get a picture of our dwarf goat to use. When I reprimand him with a light swat on the butt for getting into my tool bucket, he head butts me and then gets up on his hind legs to try and intimidate me. It's freakin' hysterical.
ReplyDeleteheh, doing some reading on HTML, and found a site that shows what not to do by example.
ReplyDelete/warning lots of marquee and blink tags in use
Time to rearrange some deck chairs. I have to pack up move to a cube across the building......
ReplyDeletelater......
Ahem. take two
ReplyDeleteDesert Dog said...
ReplyDeleteHey Gak, how ya liking it over there so far? I just arrived last week and I am happy as a sumo wrestler at the Golden Corral.
lol. It's fabulous. I'm as happy as Mammoth that just walked out of a tar pit.
Ufo Tofu said...
ReplyDeleteGood morning midwestgak. Looks like you and I are one of the few posters without an avatar.
I'm waiting until we go to our new diggs. Then I plan to get my avatar and learn how to link. I'm only going to be here for another day, then off to Lake George, NY for a couple of weeks.
I'm looking forward to our new home. Then I will move in completely.
{TOFU}
ReplyDeleteWhat, you don't fear the dwarf goat?
redstate
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to be afraid of something you're laughing at. He's truly better than television.
So, any word on the date/time of the switch over? What can a lowly Desert Dog do to assist the "team"?
ReplyDeletemidwestgak
ReplyDeleteHave you been to Empire Lake? We used to go there when we spent time visiting Binghamton.
Tofu - I've never been to NY before. How far away is Empire Lake from Lake George?
ReplyDeleteDD - last I heard the estimated date is Oct 1.
ReplyDeleteOUCH...the truth hurts though!
ReplyDeletePRUDEN: Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing'
The White House is a risky place for on-the-job training, as Barack Obama and the rest of us are learning. But the president doesn't deserve all the blame for the installation of a handsome but unprepared matinee idol in the toughest job in the world. The adoring cult, the 53 percent of the giddily oblivious electorate that took a flyer on Election Day, deserves most of it.
I gotta get working now...I will see you all later on!
ReplyDeleteSee ya DD
ReplyDeletegak, you should have been here when UFO TOFU first was able to log on. He had registration problems and it wouldn't accept his nic so he showed up as extraterrestialbeancurd.
ReplyDelete:D
I think I left an r out somewhere. So glad he was able to change back to UFO TOFU. Much easier to spell!
ReplyDeletemidwestgak
ReplyDeleteOh, I don't have a clue. I just visited every summer. I guess I should have guessed from your nic that you weren't a resident.
red extraterrestialbeancurd. lol
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't he keep it?//
redstate
ReplyDeleteYes, AND easier to spell than The poster formally known as....
Tofu
ReplyDeleteYou'd be having an identity crisis like realwest!
Must run some errands. See you later this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteMeh, I dumped my former id for something new. Besides it's easier for me over all. I have had so many nicknames over the years it's easy for me to change. :)
ReplyDeleteGood Morning (Afternoon, Evening, Christmas, Thanksgiving....) All!
ReplyDeleteNice to see the whole crowd is here and getting along nicely.
That whole missile 'cost effectiveness' thing.... has to be one of the stupidest statements I've ever seen. Who gives a cr*p how much the Iranian (or other) missile costs? If it does damage and we're somehow inclined to do a cost-benefit study, the benefit side would not be the cost of the Iranian missile. It would be the cost of the damage prevented/lives not lost.
eschew_obfucation: a good example for cost benefit study being one sided is me using a rock. It costs me nothing to use it to break a window. Now you putting up proper wire mesh that will keep me from breaking said window will cost you x amount of dollars. What's the cost of you replacing windows everytime I pick up a rock if you don't put mesh on the window?
ReplyDeleteSome people aren't thinking long term, just short term. Otherwise as it's been said, an ounce of prevention or a pound of cure.
Hey y'all - this is realwest and not only do I not have an avatar for blogspot, they've given me a number and taken away my name!
ReplyDeleteSorry I was gone so long but the meat world intruded!
And now, unfortunately I have to go for a while too.
Hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
everyone see this?
ReplyDeletethe specter of Socialism’s slow
collapse.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/world/europe/29socialism.html?_r=1
read and discuss
:D
http://blog.american.com/?p=5432
ReplyDeleteI expect to be told that I’m too squeamish. We’re in a battle for America’s soul at a pivotal moment. But the very truth of that statement—we are indeed in a battle for America’s soul—makes it a good idea to stop and think about when the American Right was truly influential. It didn’t start after right-wing talk shows got big. It started in the 1960s, as Friedman, Buckley, and Kristol were hitting their stride. It flowered in the 1970s, then reached its apogee in the 1980s when their ideas were given political force by Ronald Reagan—another man of civility, good humor, and optimism. Don’t tell me that we have to put up with the Glenn Becks of the world to be successful. Within living memory, the Right was successful. The Right changed the country for the better—through good arguments made by fine men.
so true
Heya, {ploomie}!
ReplyDeleteHope to see you later realwest. And I, too, must earn my keep. Check back with alls y'alls' later (I never can get those apostrophes right).
ReplyDeleteHey Ploome!
ReplyDelete(what happened to the rest of your nic?)
Good to see ya here.
Rush is getting his show prep from ploome; he's doing the eurpean socialists ny times article she just posted.
ReplyDelete:D
hiya red
ReplyDeletehello eschew
I trimmed down
:D
Rush knows a good thing
ReplyDelete:D
here is an over educated Jew with shit for brains
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254163540191&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(how do I post a URL?)
maybe I should just shorten to red. I need a little trimming down.
ReplyDelete;-)
ploome said...
ReplyDeletehere is an over educated Jew with shit for brains
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254163540191&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(how do I post a URL?)
_________________________________________________
Try this without the spaces:
< a href = " www.something.com "> description of the link < / a >
ploome: To make a link you have to use HTML. Just type <*a href="link here">text here<*/a>.
ReplyDelete/remove the asterisks first though.
WOOT! Just saw this and hadda come back to tell y'all about it:
ReplyDeletePublic plan debate could pit Democrat vs. Democrat
WASHINGTON - Democrats sought to give government the right to sell insurance in competition with private industry Tuesday as the Senate Finance Committee opened a second week of debate over massive health care legislation.
"We need this option because the insurance companies have failed to meet their obligation" to the public, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., accusing firms of putting profits over their customers.
He said that without his proposal, consumers would face substantial premium increases once health care legislation takes effect.
Republicans countered that private companies would eventually be forced out of business, and argued that millions would be forced to get their insurance from the government.
[SNIP]
While Democrats hold a majority on the committee, the legislation advanced by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., omitted the so-called public option. Moderate Democrats on and off the committee oppose it, and Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, the Republican seen as most likely to support the bill, has also spoken against it.
Under Rockefeller's proposal, payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers would be based on Medicare fees. Schumer's proposal called for negotiations to set the rates.
Two liberal groups are launching a hard-hitting television and Internet ad targeting Baucus that features a young father from Montana. Bing Perrine, 26, in need of a heart operation, uninsured and deeply in debt, looks straight into the camera and asks Baucus, "Whose side are you on?"
The ad is sponsored by Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, who say Baucus is too cozy with insurance and health care interests that have contributed to his campaigns and oppose the public option.
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20090929/4ac19450_3421_13345200909291965460834
And now I do have to leave - hope to see y'all later on down the road!
Hey, let turn try that ...
ReplyDeleteObama is in bed with ACORN
Hi Ploome
You need a space between a and href otherwise it gets kicked out as in illegal tag. My first HTML code evvah, yes
ReplyDeleteIt took me several tries to realize that space had to be there. I have to have the code written out on a piece of paper on my desk so I can use it when I need to.
ReplyDelete/a mind is a terrible thing to waste
Now this is a ROCK.
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil: heh, doing some reading on HTML, and found a site that shows what not to do by example.
ReplyDeleteSteve Martin, The Man With Two Brains.
haha red, I screen printed those comments on syntax and put it here on my desk so I could refer back to them. My memory for such things as syntax, hell even spelling, is terrible.
ReplyDeletethanks for the tips
ReplyDeletehi right turn
:D
Paladin, that's a huge diamond. I've seen the hope diamond on display at the Museum of Natural History on the Mall in DC. Beautiful. The mineral display at the museum is really awesome, check it out if you ever get the chance.
ReplyDeleteturn said...
ReplyDeleteObama is in bed with ACORN
anything better than Michelle
Once in a while I need to change it into a left turn, otherwise I just keep going around in circles :.)
ReplyDeleteanything better than Michelle
ReplyDeleteRACIST!
/need I
:P
ReplyDelete/islamophobe
lolol
Hey, turn
ReplyDeleteI like this one.
robomonkey, wow that is some serious HTML in action - you get dizzy just watching it (this blogger software is flaky - I keep getting strange errors and it hangs up a lot)
ReplyDeleteuh oh. must've left out that space.
ReplyDeletethis one
what red? which one? huh?
ReplyDeleteHOCK THE PLANE?
hahaha
Morning C2ers!
ReplyDeleteHi Ploome.
red, that really is one confusing sign.
ReplyDeleteIsrael gets two more German submarines
ReplyDeleteThe submarines, called U212s, can launch cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads, although when it confirmed the sale in 2006 the German government said the two vessels were not equipped to carry nuclear weapons.
*wink*
Hey, PBJ
ReplyDeleteMmm, I just got a craving for a PBG sammich!
J dammit!
ReplyDeleteCan't stand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - no offense PBJ. :.) (I'm alergic to peanuts) Good morning ... haha email just popped up "Candy Ho" wants to be my facebook friend! What a name ...
ReplyDeleteI have no friggin clue who Candy Ho is, nor do I care to find out.
ReplyDeleteI could whip up a PBJ sandwich for you Red! Cheese and crackers okay for you turn?
ReplyDeleteCandy Ho? LOL Don't touch that one.
Really....Candy Ho sounds like trouble to me!
ReplyDeleteYou know I kind of like the slower pace here a C2, you can get stuff done and have fun too.
ReplyDeletehi PBJ
ReplyDeleteC$C Just fine PBJ, thanks. I have like two friends on facebook - real popular guy. There must be "people" out trolling for new friends - that name just has to be made up. Candy Ho, sounds like a hooker or stripper or something much much worse! ha
ReplyDeleteMan who stole hot dog gets 18 months
ReplyDeleteWORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who stole a hot dog from another man sitting under a tree in a park has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Records show Judd has been sentenced to prison at least three times for offenses including assault and vandalism.
And now he can have all the hot dogs he can handle.
ok turns putting two and two together and coming up with five. I noticed correfpondence was a mispelling of correspondence so I googled CC. Is this blog named after this committee? (let me see if I don't screw up HTML)
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SOS, only they are going to go down the wrong orifice ...
ReplyDeleteturn: yes, and it isn't really a misspelling. It's a printer mark from the 17th and 18th century denoting the double "s".
ReplyDeleteStill looking for info on it.
I looked for Candy Ho on facebook and it's a little asian girl!
ReplyDeleteThanks Paladin, I'll study up on that and finish reading the wiki
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ReplyDeleteWe should start referring to congress as congrefs.
doh, if all else fails, check Wikipedia. The "f" is actually a litagture of the long ess sound
ReplyDeleteAnd here's a better article on the long s.
ReplyDeletehaha, one of Candy's friends is Donald Dong - you can't make this shit up. LOL
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ReplyDeleteI tried Facebook once. The first friend suggestion it came up with was a high school girlfriend. That was enough to get me to cancel the account!
ReplyDeleteI don't need to explain to the wife why I have my high school girlfriend as a 'friend' ;-)
I just started facebook during the period of time that I was wandering in the wilderness. I've gotten hooked on that damn farmville game.
ReplyDeleteClosing up here to move upstairs - thanks all!
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