Saturday, October 10, 2009

Saturday Morning OPEN

144 comments:

  1. HARUMPH!! AS I said at the end of the LAST thread:

    Hey Experiencedtraveller - just loved that link and the site itself! Among other gems I picked out of it are these:

    Our Founding Editor has been scouring news sites and RSS feeds all morning and has come up with these breaking news stories that followed hard on the heels of the Nobel Peace prize announcement.

    BREAKING NEWS: Nobel Laureate Barrack Obama wins VH1's "Ray Coniff Singers Lifetime Achivement Award."

    JUST IN: Homer Society honors Barrack Obama with illustrious "I Am Adonis" award.

    BREAKING: National Rifle Association honors Barrack Obama's Nobel achievement by awarding him Charlton hestons original Ben Hur Chariot.

    THIS JUST IN: French bestow Barrack Obama with Fecund Fromage Honors!

    BREAKING NEWS: Barrack Obama accepts coveted Cirque du Soleil Golden Trapeze Award.

    BREAKING NEWS: Obama anounces he will use Nobel Prize money to help all Americans: Sn-cones and elephant ears all around!

    THIS JUST IN: The International Olympic Committee has just awarded Barrack Obama the Gold medal to all events in the 2016 Rio Olympics!

    BREAKING NEWS: Barrack Obama wins prestigious Joan Crawford "No More Wire Hangers" Award

    BREAKING NEWS: Barack Obama wins the Captain Kangaroo Rollo the Hippo achievement award.

    BREAKING NEWS: Barrack Obama wins Julia Child Golden Cupcake Award!

    BREAKING NEWS: Barrack Obama wins the Charles Rangel American Taxpayer Award.

    ROTFLMAO!! THANKS A LOT FOR THAT LINK!!

    October 10, 2009 9:26 AM

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  2. And here I was thinking that everyone had disappeared...

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  3. You can never have too many waffles...

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  4. He's nothing until he wins a STANLEY CUP!

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  5. PaladinPhil said...
    You can never have too many waffles...


    ... said Phil, in a syrupy voice.

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  6. Hey, OR, I see from the last thread that you're off on a trip - so be safe and productive.

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  7. Hey hi there Dianna! How are you doing?

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  8. Very Cool, JCM...and he talked the entire time...

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  9. JCM said...
    BREAKING OBAMA WINS STANLEY CUP

    Gahhhhhh! You all better open the Liberty Pub up RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW!

    (Great air race link, JCM! Them boys are nuts.)

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  10. "Productive"... now there's an idea!

    Thanks, Di.

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  11. BREAKING OBAMA WINS STANLEY CUP
    ROTFL!! Good one JCM!

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  12. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al should submit their Healthcare "Reform" bill to the Pulitzer committee for BEST FICTIONAL WORK...they're sure to win. Although, even for a piece of fiction, some parts are pretty unbelievable.

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  13. As some wag (Taranto?) noted, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is kind of like a "Lifetime Achievement Award" Oscar... for a child actor.

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  14. Well there's at least one trophy 0bama won't win....


    This one!

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  15. Very well, thank you, Realwest.

    It's a cool, cloudy morning out here. I should be working on the patio, but I'm not.

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  16. In Soviet Russia, patio works on YOU.

    Just thought I'd point that out.

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  17. PaladinPhil said...
    Well there's at least one trophy 0bama won't win....


    This one!


    Now if I was any good at Photoshop, I could swap the Grey Cup for the Stanley cup.....

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  18. JCM: TREACHERY!!!!!!


    /please leave the only Canadian institution left to us....

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  19. Speaking of patios, here's my dilemma. We've been getting a very curious raccoon showing up on our patio at night, walking up to the screen door, and boldly looking in. I've nicknamed the critter "Frankie", since I don't know its gender, so it could be Frank or Francesca. Anyway... the other day I set out some chicken; Frankie vamoosed when I approached the door, but when I checked back five minutes later, the plate was clean.

    Now, I know the usual advice about feeding animals is that you're setting them up to depend on you. But I figure raccoons are constant foragers anyway... and Frankie has a veritable feast of garbage cans in the area to choose from. I enjoy his/her visits, so don't mind encouraging them by leaving a snack from time to time. Anything wrong with that?

    (P.s. No, of course I can't be sure that it's always the same raccoon, but don't rain on my parade!)

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  20. PaladinPhil said...
    JCM: TREACHERY!!!!!!


    /please leave the only Canadian institution left to us....


    That whole 110 yard thing is an abomination and must go....

    Raiding the Icebox
    Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada


    The United States government does have a plan to invade Canada. It's a 94-page document called "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan -- Red," with the word SECRET stamped on the cover. It's a bold plan, a bodacious plan, a step-by-step plan to invade, seize and annex our neighbor to the north.

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  21. "In Soviet Russia, patio works on YOU."

    Um, O.R., don't you have a plane to catch?!
    :)

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  22. Dianna, have you ever sent your Kimber back to the factory for any work? I'm thinking of getting front strap checkering.

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  23. I've got a little more time, real. I'm pretty obsessive about getting to the airport on time, don't worry!

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  24. OR, Raccoons are wild critters....don't leave anythng out of them and seal up your garbage as tight as possible. They are cute and furry, but they are also mean and nasty, carry an assortment of diseases and are not healthy for you or pets, if you have any.

    Growing up in Colorado, we had to call the county animal control to come into our neighborhood to clear out an entire pack of raccoons that got very used to living with humans.

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  25. No, I've never sent my Kimber in; I'm too attached to it.

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  26. JCM, DD, I certainly wasn't planning on trying to pet the thing!

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  27. Hey Dianna - too attached to it to send it back to the factory?! Would they send you a loaner or something or let you accompany it to the factory?
    I mean, I've heard that Kia's really going........oh, wait, y'all were talking Kimber.
    nevermind.

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  28. Um, O.R. - just how strong do y'all think that
    there screen door is, anyway?

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  29. That whole 110 yard thing is an abomination and must go....

    Raiding the Icebox
    Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada


    Huh, I knew there was a plan. And I believe that there still is one. No surprise really.


    /you guys wouldn't know what hit yah. ;)

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  30. I am sure President Obama will speak out loud and clear about this....right?....RIGHT???
    Iran 'sentences three to death'


    The judgements are preliminary and must be confirmed by a higher court, Isna says. Full names have not been given.
    So far the only named opposition activist reported as having been sentenced to death over post-election protests is Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani.
    The unrest was triggered by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
    On Saturday Isna quoted Zahed Bashiri Rad, a justice ministry official, as saying: "Three people who were accused (for their role) in the post-election incidents have been sentenced to death."

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  31. Desert Dog - hi my friend - it was a JOKE. See my comment just above yours!
    Sigh.

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  32. PaladinPhil said...

    /you guys wouldn't know what hit yah. ;)


    ROFL!

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  33. sasquatchonsteroids said...
    Hey, Pi Guy, when's our next Connections episode.
    Those are sweet.
    And good mornin', C2.


    I see you've apparently already logged off at this point, SOS, but if you're reading this (and/or anyone else is interested), it's coming up at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET.

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  34. Bwaaaaaahhhhaaaahhhaaa!! JCM, did you read the article? I loved this little nugget at the bottom of page four.

    Invading Canada is an old American tradition. Invading Canada successfully is not.

    During the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold -- then in his pre-traitor days -- led an invasion of Canada from Maine. It failed.

    During the War of 1812, American troops invaded Canada several times. They were driven back.
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    In 1839, Americans from Maine confronted Canadians in a border dispute known as the Aroostook War.

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  35. Oldest boy's football game was a success -- best game they've played all season. Final was 20-0; the opposing team only got two first downs the entire game. The boy played defense, which he likes, and made a couple of big blocks on one key tackle to stop them on fourth down; next play we ran it 65 yards for a touchdown, which pretty much sealed the deal.

    Got home to find that my daughter had broken the tank on the toilet. Just got finished replacing that. Ugh.

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  36. OR -- Those racoons can also mess with your foundation if they start digging around down there. I had a family living beneath my deck too this summer. They'd come out and forage at night--or the mom would and the little ones would peek out after her, cute as hell. But I heard some digging and scratching and clunking going on down there, couldn't be good ... so I sprayed some coyote piss (you can buy the stuff) around the area and that made mom pack up and find a new home.

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  37. The first invasion of Canada took place during King William's War in 1690. It failed. But there was one big invasion from the American side that did succeed, the one that won Canada for Great Britain.

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  38. Hey JCM - take it easy there big fella - the Canadians actually have 66,949 active duty troops (all branches) and ya know, they could really do us damage!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Armed_Forces
    and we only have 1,473,900 with which to fight them!
    http://correspondencecommittee.blogspot.com/2009/10/saturday-morning-open_10.html?showComment=1255195018532#c5337472643556786184

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  39. PaladinPhil said...
    Bwaaaaaahhhhaaaahhhaaa!! JCM, did you read the article? I loved this little nugget at the bottom of page four.


    If you can't invade your friends and neighbors, who can you invade?

    Don't for get the Pig War!

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  40. Ah man, way to harsh my mellow Realwest. :D

    /but you gotta wonder, how many former serving members are there out there from regular and reservist forces....

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  41. If you can't invade your friends and neighbors, who can you invade?


    That's pretty much the cornerstone of Obamamama's foreign policy.

    Fellate your enemies; bugger your friends.

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  42. Best way to deal with raccons? Landmines.

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  43. Realwest said...
    Hey JCM - take it easy there big fella -


    They would deploy the secret weapon our guys would never find objectives like the CN Tower.

    Seriously, the Canadians have been doing a standup job in Afghanistan!

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  44. Lucius Septimius said...
    If you can't invade your friends and neighbors, who can you invade?


    That's pretty much the cornerstone of Obamamama's foreign policy.

    Fellate your enemies; bugger your friends.


    From Random Thoughts: October 2009 by Thomas Sowell:

    Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Muammar Qaddafi and Vladimir Putin have all praised Barack Obama. When enemies of freedom and democracy praise your president, what are you to think? When you add to this Barack Obama's many previous years of associations and alliances with people who hate America-- Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, etc.-- at what point do you stop denying the obvious and start to connect the dots?

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  45. Pi Guy and Thomas Sowell are.....

    wait for it....

    RACISTS!

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  46. I'm shocked and appalled by the unmitigated raccoonophobia on this thread!

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  47. JCM: Hey it's all friendly kidding. We Canucks love sniping at Americans and vice versa. Great rivalries come out that way.

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  48. The dots connect easily -- Obama is a Communist. Like we didn't know that.

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  49. I've tried to love a couple of Canucks but they just slapped me.

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  50. Maybe if I hadn't tried to love them both at the same time ...

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  51. Hat trick! (keeping with the Canadian theme)

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  52. Phil,

    Could you ever, in your wildest dream, picture Hussein doing this?

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  53. PaladinPhil said...

    Our IT guy at work is Canadian.... We have lots of fun....

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  54. 'Coon makes good eatin', but you have to make sure you cook them thoroughly to kill of the trichinosis, rabies, hook worm, etc.

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  55. GOOD LORD JCM - I've searched and searched that photo and damned if I can find the CN Tower!

    And you're correct; the Canadian Forces have in fact been fighting the Taliban and Al-Q (like there's a difference)with great ferocity and I'm sure glad they're on our side!

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  56. Raccoon, suffed with a possum, stuffed with a squirrel, stuffed with a chipmunk.

    Redneck version of the "Turduckin"

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  57. JCM said...
    Pi Guy and Thomas Sowell are.....

    wait for it....

    RACISTS!


    You forgot the "DUN DUN DUHHHHH!"
    (required whenever you use "wait for it....", after the reveal)
    ;)

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  58. Uh, Lucius - what kinda work are YOU trying to duck?!
    :)

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  59. Lucius Septimius said...

    If you can't invade your friends and neighbors, who can you invade?


    That's pretty much the cornerstone of Obamamama's foreign policy.

    Fellate your enemies; bugger your friends.


    That definitely seems to be accurate!

    BTW, I sent a short email.

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  60. Lucius

    So is Shrillary....they both are dedicated Alynskyites...her thesis, that was put under lock and key, when she contaminated the White House, along with Bubba, was not released until the end....an ode to Alinsky, IIRC.

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  61. Where to get your "fresh 'coons"

    The initial picture is priceless -- I bet some junior news editor got a right ass-ripping for it too.

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  62. Realwest,
    And you're correct; the Canadian Forces have in fact been fighting the Taliban and Al-Q (like there's a difference)with great ferocity and I'm sure glad they're on our side!


    Maybe you didn't get the WH memo.
    Al-Q is the ONLY enemy.
    And the Taliban gets a seat at the table!

    //

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  63. I had an old friend who, before 9/11, was devoting all her time to calling attenion to the plight of women under the Taliban. She stopped on 9/12 promptly from what I can tell.

    I wonder what her position is now?

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  64. Pi Guy -

    I read the Sowell article, and grabbed this part:

    "What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to other people not being as wise or as noble as they are."

    Quite.

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  65. NY Nana: Nope, it's been a fine tradition up here. We have even had had sitting prime ministers appear on our comedy programs like "Royal Canadian Air Farce".

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  66. Honestly, the attitude of American leftists towards Radical Islam is practically identical to the position of the Old Left regarding the Soviet Union. If the central committee says "condemn" they condemn; if the central committee says "praise" they praise.

    Are these people so thoroughly incapable of thinking for themselves? Do they really worship authority so much that logic, morality, and basic common sense must be sacrificed in the name of blind obedience?

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  67. Dianna -- reading the Rothman/Lichter psychological of student radicals, this aspect really stuck out in my mind. Radical leftists see people as objects, not as fellow human beings.

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  68. Hey Lucius! That was a funny article, but SAD too! From your link:

    Hunting is prohibited within Detroit city limits and Beasley insists he does not do so. Still, he says that life in the city has gone so retrograde that he could easily feed himself with the wildlife in his backyard, which abuts an old cement factory.

    He procures the coons with the help of the hound dogs who chase the animal up a tree, where Beasley harvests them with a .22 caliber rifle. A true outdoorsman, Beasley refuses to disclose his hunting grounds.

    "This city is going back to the wild," he says. "That's bad for people but that's good for me. I can catch wild rabbit and pheasant and coon in my backyard."

    Detroit was once home to nearly 2 million people but has shrunk to a population of perhaps less than 900,000. It is estimated that a city the size of San Francisco could fit neatly within its empty lots. As nature abhors a vacuum, wildlife has moved in.

    A beaver was spotted recently in the Detroit River. Wild fox skulk the 15th hole at the Palmer Park golf course. There is bald eagle, hawk and falcon that roam the city skies. Wild Turkeys roam the grasses. A coyote was snared two years ago roaming the Federal Court House downtown. And Beasley keeps a gaze of skinned coon in the freezer."

    Hey Obama, where's that friggin' hope and change at now, hmmm? Chrysler is estimated to be out of business in a year; GM not far behind and what the hell is THAT gonna do to Detroit and Michigan, other than moving them to the R side of the ledger? And given who the mayor's have been, you can't blame the demise of Detroit on George Bush, though I'm sure you'll try.
    POS.

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  69. That's no lie JCM, the Taliban gets a seat at the table.
    WHO IN THE HELL IS ADVISING OBAMA ANYWAY??!

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  70. Pi Guy -

    I read the Sowell article, and grabbed this part:

    "What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to other people not being as wise or as noble as they are."

    Quite.


    I love Sowell's "Random Thoughts" columns. The rest of his columns are great, too, but there's just something about the "Random Thoughts" columns that stand out to me.

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  71. Well I gotta get moving. A dog needs some walkies and I got to get there. See you all later on tonight maybe.

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  72. Hey, Real, come on! Give Obama some slack, it's only the "NICE" Taliban....you know, the ones that merely hate and despise us, but don't want to kill us...yet.

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  73. Lucius, I discovered the moral bankruptcy of the left while reading one of Gould's books. He cited the argument that the South could have won the Civil War, and the implication was that the South should have won.

    That floored me. I never recovered any regard for the American left after that.

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  74. Lucius Septimius said...

    Dianna -- reading the Rothman/Lichter psychological of student radicals, this aspect really stuck out in my mind. Radical leftists see people as objects, not as fellow human beings.


    I'd like to read that. Is it a book or an article?

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  75. 2010 Census Still a Boondoggle for the Left

    While there may have been a collective sigh of relief across America after the news that the Census Bureau severed ties with ACORN, it made me wonder who other Census partners were.

    In short, ACORN or not, the 2010 census will be an organizing tool for the American Left.

    Here is a partial list of other census partners, according to the Census website:

    AARP
    A. Phillip Randolph Institute
    AFL-CIO
    American Federation of Government Employees
    AFSCME
    American Federation of Teachers
    Coalition of Labor Union Women
    Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
    Community Action Partnership
    Families USA
    International Brotherhood of Teamsters
    Labor Council for the Latin American Advancement
    League of Women Voters of the United States
    National Black Justice Coalition
    National Council of La Raza
    National Education Association
    Pride at Work
    Rainbow Push Coalition
    Service Employees International Union
    Southern Coalition for Social Justice
    United Workers

    My problem all along is that overtly political organizations, say SEIU or ACORN, would be out collecting sensitive information on Americans. What would stop them from zapping off one copy of personal information for themselves as they submit it to the Census Bureau? The federal government We will essentially be paying organized labor and “social justice” organizations to recruit new members.

    With such a tight grip on the Census by the Obama administration and its allies, one wonders what the end result will be and if it can be trusted.

    Workforce Alliance

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  76. Pi Guy and Dianna "What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to other people not being as wise or as noble as they are."
    AND what's genuinely frightening is that they DO BELIEVE that other people are not as wise or noble as they are. In reality (a world the political Left tries to avoid at all costs) these noble and wise Lefties will ONLY be charitible to others less wise or noble with OPM.
    Take a look at the tax returns of top Leftists (Dems) leaders for charitable contributions and then do the same for Rightist (GOP) the disparity is truly astonishing.

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  77. Phil,

    A friend in Ottawa sent it. PM Harper was just great!

    A number of our Presidents have been a pathetic bunch of clowns, but they were just being themselves.

    Is The Royal Canadian Air Farce still on TV, and is Luba Goy still on?

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  78. Well y'all it's been GRAND as usual out here, but I'm afraid I have to go and eat lunch, medicate and nap!
    I hope you ALL have a great day (and O.R. a safe trip) and that I get the chance to see you all down the road.

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  79. Realwest -- re: fund raising, it goes back their core belief that the state should give charity, too, not the individual ... so that's why the disparity in private charitable giving.

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  80. The leftist views the individual as a material unit, it consumes and produces. Justice and equity revolve around balancing the consumption and production.

    They completely ignore the physiological and spiritual needs of an individual. They think by providing certain material needs an individual will be happy and content.

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  81. Dianna -- Rothman and Lichter, Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the Left

    What the authors did was replicate (making corrections for method) the famous experiments doen by Adorno & Co. that led to their book on the "Authoritarian Personality." That book, published during WWII, has remained the main source for the oft-repeated cant that conservatives have a personality defect.

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  82. Hadda come back for this one:
    Centaur - see JCM's comment right below yours and it's what I meant when I said the Left believes in being charitable with Other People's Money, not theirs.
    Hell, when that Tsunami hit Indoesia several years ago (2005? - well, Bush was POTUS) INDIVIUDAL AMERCIAN CITIZENS GAVE MORE MONEY, AID AND ASSISTANCE TO INDONESIA - THE SINGLE LARGEST MUSLIM NATION - THAN DID ALL OF THE ISLMAIC NATIONS OF THE WORLD COMBINED.
    And I'll bet money I don't realy have to spare, that the overwhelming majority of money came from those very people that the Leftists feel are less noble and less wise than they are.

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  83. Real, Real, Real.

    But the government didn't do the giving. Individuals don't count. You know that!

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  84. Is The Royal Canadian Air Farce still on TV, and is Luba Goy still on?

    quick comment before I run out the door. Air Farce is gone now, I don't know about Luba Goy. I think she still is doing comedy somewhere.

    /now I am totally gone *poof*

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  85. Individuals giving charity removes the control element for the Statist.

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  86. Nobel Prize Editorial Cartoons

    Oh, and for anybody who is wondering about the source of "the albatross around his neck" references, it's from the poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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  87. Boxer Compares RNC Reaction To Nobel Prize To Taliban's

    I was looking at all the reactions. The ones that were negative today, that I was not surprised were negative, were the Taliban and Hamas. And then I was very surprised that Michael Steele from the Republican National Committee, would also be harsh.

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  88. Jim Demint: What I Heard in Honduras.


    Our ambassador is the only person I met there who thinks there was a 'coup.'


    The Republicans need to stop being a bunch of spineless pussies when it comes to Honduras. They need to stand up and oppose Obama forcefully and bring this issue out of the shadows.

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  89. JCM -- of course, this is a losing strategy. Comparing the RNC to the Taliban plays well among the hard core left, but continuing to use that sort of rhetoric will not play well to the center. In any event, the overwhelming opinion of the nation is that this was a joke. Does that mean that anyone who critcizes the award is a Talibani?

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  90. JCM, most people know Obama's selection is a joke. Comparing anyone who criticizes this farce to the Taliban and Hamas is just the icing on the cake. Let Nancy flap her gums. It doesn't reflect badly on the right.

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  91. I agree totally, Wendy. What is the matter with the Democrats? How can anyone with any brains look at the situation in Honduras and not come to the conclusion that Zelaya wanted to establish the same kind of government his buddy Hugo has in Venezuela? The government in Honduras acted within their laws to legally get rid of this would be El Presidente for Life.

    If Obama does not recognize the coming election, he is offically worthless in my eyes. We should be encouraging DEMOCRACY, Mr. President. Not coddling despots and tyrants.

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  92. I'm intending to write a book. Where's my Nobel Prize for Literature?

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  93. Democrats despise democracy and love dictatorship, so long as it is of the Marxist-Leninist variety. It's that simple.

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  94. My first hamburger was so good I had to make a second one. Now I think I need a nap.

    Saturdays are a good thing.

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  95. Barack Obama has just beaten out Tim Tebow for the starting QB job at Florida.

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  96. Wendya, it's Babs, not Nancy.

    Barbara Boxer, a senator who really worries me.

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  97. Lucius Septimius said...

    Democrats despise democracy and love dictatorship, so long as it is of the Marxist-Leninist variety. It's that simple.

    Kinda like Tom Friedman's article a few months back about how the Red Chinese have it right? What thought process occurs in these otherwise intelligent people to look at a system that takes away rights and suppresses freedom as anything but bad?

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  98. Wendy said...

    They've got the Congressional Report to back them up.

    HONDURAS: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ISSUES
    This report discusses the legal basis under the Honduran Constitution for President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales’s removal from office.


    The Supreme Court of Honduras has constitutional and statutory authority to hear cases against the President of the Republic and many other high officers of the State, to adjudicate and enforce judgments, and to request the assistance of the public forces to enforce its rulings. The Constitution no longer authorizes impeachment, but gives Congress the power to disapprove of the conduct of the President, to conduct special investigations on issues of national interest, and to interpret the Constitution. In the case against President Zelaya, the National Congress interpreted the power to disapprove of the conduct of the President to encompass the power to remove him from office, based on the results of a special, extensive investigation. The Constitution prohibits the expatriation of Honduran citizens.

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  99. Phil,

    Since you have disappeared into thin air, all I can say is that is sad. ;) I loved that program...and Luba Goy was soooo good.

    Feel better!

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  100. Pi Guy said...

    U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah

    Oil? OIL? Did you say OIL? Oil is EVIL, PiGuy. We should build a zillion windmills instead.....that will give us millions of jobs and free energy, AND, more importantly, make me feel all warm and fuzzy too!

    Now, were is my bong....I need another hit....

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  101. Dianna, that's right. Nancy's the one who compared protesters to Nazis.

    Let's see...

    Protest taxes and policy : You're a Nazi!

    Joke about Obama's Nobel Prize : You're a terrorist!

    It's just so hard to keep them straight sometimes.

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  102. Wendy said...

    Dianna, that's right. Nancy's the one who compared protesters to Nazis.

    Let's see...

    Protest taxes and policy : You're a Nazi!

    Joke about Obama's Nobel Prize : You're a terrorist!

    It's just so hard to keep them straight sometimes.


    And, if you don't like any of that, you are, of course, a huge racist too!

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  103. PI Guy, they want the oil companies to pay millions of dollars for leases they are not allowed to drill on.

    That's the leftist way.

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  104. Wendy said...
    Dianna, that's right. Nancy's the one who compared protesters to Nazis.

    Let's see...

    Protest taxes and policy : You're a Nazi!

    Joke about Obama's Nobel Prize : You're a terrorist!

    It's just so hard to keep them straight sometimes.


    Protest healthcare: You're a racist!

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  105. Why does the leftist at the same time hold nature as sacred and deny it?

    They worship the evolution process but at the same time deny it.

    They exempt humans from the very "rules" they claim to follow.

    In any group of organisms there is a distribution of abilities of talents.

    In any group of people in any endeavor there will be a distribution from the most successful to the least.

    When it comes to people, and only to people the leftist wishes to deny that, and correct it by the application of force.

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  106. Desert Dog,

    Of course, how could I forget the "racist" angle.

    That actually applies to everything. For instance, until yesterday, I had no idea I as a racist for laughing at Obama for receiving an award for being a President who dismisses US interests in the pursuit of world popularity (a criteria for winning the Nobel).

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  107. JCM -

    It's a desire for equality of outcome.

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  108. Krauthammer is a man among boys when it comes to seeing the forest through the trees.

    I just hope we can survive 4 years of Obama (and forget about 8 years..ugh!)

    Decline Is a Choice
    The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.


    The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post-American world. Inexorable forces beyond our control bringing the inevitable humbling of the world hegemon.

    On the other side of this debate are a few--notably Josef Joffe in a recent essay in Foreign Affairs--who resist the current fashion and insist that America remains the indispensable power. They note that declinist predictions are cyclical, that the rise of China (and perhaps India) are just the current version of the Japan panic of the late 1980s or of the earlier pessimism best captured by Jean-François Revel's How Democracies Perish.

    The anti-declinists point out, for example, that the fear of China is overblown. It's based on the implausible assumption of indefinite, uninterrupted growth; ignores accumulating externalities like pollution (which can be ignored when growth starts from a very low baseline, but ends up making growth increasingly, chokingly difficult); and overlooks the unavoidable consequences of the one-child policy, which guarantees that China will get old before it gets rich.

    And just as the rise of China is a straight-line projection of current economic trends, American decline is a straight-line projection of the fearful, pessimistic mood of a country war-weary and in the grip of a severe recession.

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  109. @Pi guy: yes, that quote is vintage Sowell. Let's forget about the terms lib vs con for a moment.

    On the one side you have a tragic view of human nature, of people that will always have human foibles, and of some aspects of the human condition (e.g., existence of violent crime or conflict) that are simply not amenable to solutions, or where attempts to "solve" them by force have side-effects ten times as bad. He calls it the "constrained vision". Another famous Sowell quote: "there are no solutions, only trade-offs".

    On the other hand you have the unconstrained vision, that basically thinks every problem of the human condition can be solved by man.

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  110. And remember all: "raaaaacist" is spelled with at least 5 "a"s ;-)

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  111. GayPatriot:
    "Since the President won the Nobel Peace Prize based on his good words and anticipation of future accomplishments, can I now get my Ph.D. based on the good idea I have for my dissertation and the anticipation that I’ll write a great thesis, even if I haven’t completed it yet?"

    Heh.

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  112. ATTENTION DRIVERS OF THE GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA:

    For your own safety, we advise you to stay away from all roads, strees and highways....

    Ozzy Osborne gets his driver's licence

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  113. Hi Desert dog: fine, a bit busier than yesterday... so I won't cr*pflood the site with links like yesterday... :-) How are you?

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  114. Yeah! Bureaucracy Scores again....

    Adopted Vancouver teen faces deportation because no one did the paperwork

    A young woman who was smuggled into the U.S. when she was a toddler, seized from her abusive parents by the state of Oregon and then adopted by American parents now faces deportation to a country she doesn't remember.

    Blanca Catt, a Vancouver teenager, was born in Mexico in 1990. A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that state child-welfare workers told Catt's parents she became a U.S. citizen when she was adopted, but that turned out not to be true.


    Just wait till they have their hands on health care....

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  115. Desert Dog,

    Do we even want to know how you came across that story?

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  116. JCM said...
    Yeah! Bureaucracy Scores again....

    A young woman who was smuggled into the U.S. when she was a toddler, seized from her abusive parents by the state of Oregon and then adopted by American parents now faces deportation to a country she doesn't remember.


    Just wait till they have their hands on health care....

    sb5k says-
    Yes - "Sorry, you have the Chinese swine flu; we'll have to deport the viruses and you with them"

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  117. Tyranny strikes Australia!! The government has over-stepped it's powers on this one:

    Racing fans "limited" to 24 beers a day

    MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Adult fans at one of Australia's most popular motor sport races, the Bathurst 1000, will be limited to one "slab" of beer a day -- or 24 375 ml cans -- as police focus on reducing alcohol-related crime.

    The 24-can rule would also be placed on mixed drinks for the V8 car race starting Thursday which draws thousands to the rural town of Bathurst in eastern New South Wales state, the NSW police said Tuesday.

    But more restrained spectators would be able to slake their thirst, if not their craving for alcohol, with up to 36 cans of low or mid-strength beer.,

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  118. Desert Dog said...
    You must obey gravity, it's the law....

    Boobs disaster for Miss Plastic favourite


    Gotta take care of them things.......

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  119. Desert Dog, how on earth does the Australian government propose to keep track of how many beers someone drinks?

    I cannot imagine how anyone manages to consume 24 beers, but tracking it is even worse.

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  120. Richard Feynman on prizes, including the Nobel which he himself got (in Physics):

    I don't like prizes

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  121. JCM said...

    Cool off road rig.

    Russian Vityaz DT-10P


    Very Cool, indeed. Pulling a stuck tank out of the snow. That is a testosterone-mobile, fer sure. I wonder how many gallons per mile it gets?

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  122. Dianna said...

    Desert Dog, how on earth does the Australian government propose to keep track of how many beers someone drinks?

    I cannot imagine how anyone manages to consume 24 beers, but tracking it is even worse.


    24 beers in one day? I would say look for the passed out guys, and you'd find your "24 canners"?

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  123. Ozzy Osborne gets his driver's licence

    Holy shit!
    No way he can save 15% by switching to Geico.

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  124. Everyone's off; after I walk doggies, I think I'm taking a nap.

    I love naps.

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  125. sasquatchonsteroids said...
    Ozzy Osborne gets his driver's licence

    Holy shit!
    No way he can save 15% by switching to Geico.

    sb5k says-
    It's so easy even Ozzy Osbourne can do it.

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  126. This week's episode of Connections is now showing upstairs!

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  127. sb5k said...

    Heh.
    Nicely played.
    *golf clap*

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