Seriousry retarded

Of course Our Lord and Savior is gonna let this situation get out of hand, he can't even get positions filled at the Treasury!

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You know...

I'm not a big fan of the government issuing mandates to individuals and businesses, but I'd make just one exception, it'd be...

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I Have An Idea To Bring Us All Together

Some of the recent activity withing the Moronosphere has become quite heated and contentious over the last few weeks.

But, I think I have the solution that will bring us all back together:

 

more...

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Michael Steele to face no confidence vote...spearheaded by Katon Dawson

The media is already drooling over this, you can already hear,

*Makes anchorman serious face*

Today, Michael Steele, the GOP's first African American Chairman, was ousted as leader in a no confidence vote led by Katon Dawson.  Dawson was famously part of a country club that refused minorities membership until recently....

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Democrats to Fast Eddie: Hey, let's Murtha some of these swing districts

Meaning give a bunch of porkulus money to districts like mine, hoping that pork will keep a conservative district in Democrat hands. 

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Yes We Can...deny veterans their benefits!

The Age of Plenty...unless you took a bullet or shrapnel for your nation.  Jonn at This Ain't Hell has more, and has been following the story for a while.  While a bunch of people are having their mortgages paid off, corporations are getting bailed out, billions of dollars in stupid pork projects are being passed like they're nothing, and yet we're going to scale back our veteran medical services? 

Yes, I know that the VA health system is a mess, and is often cited as an example of why socialized medicine is a bad idea, but this isn't like they're giving veterans the money to buy a private health plan, they're saying "fuck you, you're on your own," to these guys. 

On a purely political level, what the fuck is Obama doing?  Seriously, taking away veteran benefits while you're throwing fistfuls of money at every fiscal delinquent that walks by you?  Pretty damned stupid, and I'm guessing that Democrats in Congress will shut this harebrained scheme down because there's no way you can back this sort of idea and get re-elected outside of deep leftist territory. 

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In other words...

...JOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!1!1one!!eleventy!!!

Asshole.

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When They Ban Fish Tanks, Only The Criminals Will Have Fish Tanks

Sheesh. Arguning over $3 is one thing. But using this as a weapon? C'mon!

Daniel L. Winter, 26, spent Monday evening at a strip joint called Calendar Girls in Port Richey. A few minutes before midnight, his friends -- Ashley Decicco, 18, and her boyfriend Shaun Nater, 30 -- picked him up and they all ate at a Burger King. Afterward, as Decicco drove her car northward on U.S. 19, she asked Winter for the $3 in gas money.

Winter, who was sitting in the back of the car, said no. He couldn't pay it, he said, because his rent was due -- even though he had just been at Calendar Girls and eaten at Burger King.

Then, according to authorities, they argued and Winter slapped Decicco in the face as she drove.

This enraged her boyfriend, Nater, so he twisted around from the front passenger seat and punched Winter, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

Then Winter grabbed the fish tank.

It just happened to be in the back seat of the car. He allegedly beat Nater with it, but the fish tank had no effect on Nater, according to a report, so Winter grabbed another weapon -- a beer bottle, also from the back seat. Authorities say Winter pummeled Nater with the beer bottle, but Nater was able to wrestle it away from him -- all while Decicco drove along U.S. 19.

After getting the bottle from his friend, Nater bashed it over Winter's head several times until it broke, authorities said.

This brawl on U.S. 19 continued until Decicco pulled the car over in a Denny's parking lot and called deputies, Pasco deputies said.

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Shocka! Another Decider Having Second Thoughts About The Messiah

This time, it's Howard Fineman.

• The $787 billion stimulus, gargantuan as it was, was in fact too small and not aimed clearly enough at only immediate job-creation.
• The $275 billion home-mortgage-refinancing plan, assembled by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is too complex and indirect.
• The president gave up the moral high ground on spending not so much with the "stim" but with the $400 billion supplemental spending bill, larded as it was with 9,000 earmarks.
• The administration is throwing good money after bad in at least two cases—the sinkhole that is Citigroup (there are many healthy banks) and General Motors (they deserve what they get). [...]
• A willingness to give too much leeway to Congress to handle crucial details, from the stim to the vague promise to "reform" medical care without stating what costs could be cut.
• A 2010 budget that tries to do far too much, with way too rosy predictions on future revenues and growth of the economy. This led those who fear we are about to go over Niagara Falls to deride Obama as a paddler who'd rather redesign the canoe.
• A treasury secretary who has been ridiculed on "Saturday Night Live" and compared to Doogie Howser, Barney Fife and Macaulay Culkin in "Home Alone"—and those are the nice ones.
• A seeming paralysis in the face of the banking crisis: unwilling to nationalize banks, yet unable to figure out how to handle toxic assets in another way—by, say, setting up a "bad bank" catch basin. [...]
• Obama is no socialist, but critics argue that now is not the time for costly, upfront spending on social engineering in health care, energy or education.

Funny. Other than Brooks, more liberal pundits are having second thoughts than RINOS like Buckley, Frum, Noonan, or Allah.*

*Yes, that is a gratuitous cheap shot at the blogger most detested by his own side. But, you know what? Fuck you, Allah! You were no help last year, so you deserve what you get. And your arrogance (along with your girlish running to Malkin or Ace to defend you) isn't endearing either.

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What Is The Last Straw For You?

Mare mentioned something at H2 today that got me wondering.

Here is an excerpt:

In other words, what is the last straw for you guys?

Let me be clear: I favor democratic change at the ballot box, not violence. Voting the bums out? Yes. Protest? Yes. Paper Maiche Heads? Yes. Violence on any level*? Absofuckinlutely not.

But, it is a good point. What is the tipping point for most of us? Or, are we already there, and just need to bring the unwashed with us?

*Again, let me reiterate (especially since I will soon be working for Uncle Sam), I support only legal means of dealing with the political class. The ballot box and free speech is as far as I'll go, and anybody who goes beyond that is dead to me.

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Sacrifices

In this economy, all of us have to be prepared to bear them.  Especially when taxpayer dollars are on the line.  It's the (suddenly) fiscally responsible thing to do.

Douchebag.

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Comment of the Day

On the soundbite culture.  It gave me a serious case of the LOLs.

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A Book To Bring Us All Together

Yes, all of us. Newt supporters and Dittoheads. Dogs and cats. Granny McBotox and the ability to make facial expressions. The Cubs and the World Series. Yes, everyone. Except Frum, he can go to hell.

Bacon: A Love Story.

Mmmmmmmm.  Bacon.

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95% of Illinoisans are racist

That's the most accurate way to view this poll, I think.

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Now it's my turn to piss everyone off!

I'm going to ignore MP's (completely correct) observation about focusing on stupid things when there's important fights to be had and focus on a stupid thing.  Why?  Because I'm good like that.

This should be obvious but just to clarify:  the following comments are mine and mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of anyone else here.   My opinions.  My statements.  It's all about meeeeee.

I previously expressed in a calm and demure manner my distaste for those on the Left who attempt to deny my sexuality as I do not adhere to their politics.  Now, it's time to express my displeasure with those on the Right.  There will be far less profanity because those on the Right merely are attempting to throw me out of the club, not deny my very existence.  Proportional profanity, that's the key.

My position that my sexuality is not based on your politics also applies to those on the Right.  I am fully aware that there are many on the Right who do not want me in their party because of that whole bisexual thing.  I'm actually okay with that.  I have no problems with those whose religion deems I will go to Hell for it.  I have issues when people attempt to speed that process along.  I don't even particularly have a problem with being called names and being told I'm going to Hell.  I don't like it by any means but I accept that as the price to be paid for supporting a free exchange of ideas.  People advocating actually killing me is a wee tad different.  That's why the whole opposition to gay marriage = homophobia thing ticks me off.  If that's true, which it's not, then what words are left for those who actually want to push a wall onto them there fags and kill them?  Super doubleplushomophobia?  But I digress. 

What I do mind, deeply, is the presumption that I am lying about my politics or that I am somehow not actually a conservative or a libertarian based solely on sexuality.  That is precisely the same idiocy that the Left practices.  It is no less inappropriate coming from the Right.  If someone wishes to argue that support for gay marriage is not a conservative position, okay then.  But reading comments about those so-called gay conservatives blah blah blah really ticks me off.  Sexuality does not contain within it a certain set of political views.  It just *doesn't*.  And people need to get their heads out of their asses and stop thinking it does.

There.  I feel better now.  I promise I'll go back to boring y'all with half baked discussions of the housing crisis and shoes now.

UPDATE:  Since several people asked - no it was nothing around here.  This is my passive aggressive response to any and all comment threads that appear at Moron Central when Gabe posts about gay marriage, Prop. 8, etc.  I know better than to read the comments over there, I really do.  I also know that much of it is based on the fact that it's Gabe who is posting it.  But this has been on my mind for awhile and I wanted to get it out there.  I also think this is a situation where I need to suck it up and be the better person.  That's not something at which I'm particularly skilled.   

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"I Won"

Now let's completely change the country in every way imaginable. 

This is getting fucking ridiculous and we're over here fighting about what the word "fail" means.

I'll tell you what it means.

Permanent.  Democratic.  Majority.

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Ugh

It's a good thing he agreed to apprear on Mark Levin's show before pulling this stunt.  Otherwise, I don't think he would have survived.

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Opportunity knocks

Since we've all been preoccupied with, um, other stuff, I guess I missed some remarks Hillary Clinton made over the weekend:

Clinton told young Europeans at the European Parliament that global economic turmoil provided a fresh opening. "Never waste a good crisis ... Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security," she said.

So, this is a "good" crisis now?  Why, it's almost like the Obama administration has a set of priorities other than solving our economic woes. Like ramming through a laundry list of lefty agenda issues, or something.  Super.

Oh, and Reuters takes time to mention the ubiquitous "some" without actually quoting anybody. Classic:

But with many countries in the grip of a punishing recession, some question whether businesses can muster the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to cut carbon emissions.

No, really? Some think that maybe—just maybe—while we're in the midst of an economic crisis (that Hillary's boss keeps reassuring us could turn into a catastrophe) it might not be the right time to slap expensive new regulations on the industries that we're going to depend on to grow the economy?  Yeah, we're screwed.

I seem to remember a certain bunch of people carping about "the worst economy since Herbert Hoover" over the past four or so years.  Where are they now?

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For all that anyone cares

Here are my thoughts, such as they are, on the Rush v. everyone mess.  I will admit that my reaction to all of this is far more visceral than intellectual.  In much of the commentary and the various posts about this, the onus appears to be on Rush, and by extension his supporters, to sit back and take it.  There is an interesting debate to be had about framing and the use of language and the like.  I will defer to Jeff G. on that topic.  What bothers me is that there are those acting as if Rush is simply reacting to the wind.  For example, the latest dust up was presented as Rush attacking Newt for no reason.  I had to dig to determine that Newt clearly implied that Rush was irrational.  Yeah.  I know that when I'm called irrational (even when I totally deserve it) I react with calm and grace. 

I am deeply troubled by the fact that the emphasis is being placed on Rush's reactions, and by extension, those of his supporters, to the various insults being hurled without any obvious appreciation that the reaction is coming from things others have said.  Make no mistake about it, being called inflammatory and ugly is insulting.  Being called irrational is insulting.  Yet when a response is made to that provocation, somehow that response is what's wrong. 

This has been something that has bothered me my entire life.  When people ask me questions or make statements that I find insulting, I am supposed to simply smile and suck it up.  When I respond to that provocation, somehow I am at fault.  I reject that concept utterly.  When pushed, I will push back.  I am not responsible for starting the fight.  I am not responsible for escalating it.  What I am doing is calling people out on *their* improper behavior.  To then turn around and blame me for having the temerity to stand up and say "no, no, you will not speak to me like that" is cowardice.  It's an attempt to get away with being insulting without being held accountable for the words.  

That is the tone of much of what I am seeing.  Somehow, for some reason, those of us who refuse to take being called inflammatory, ugly and irrational are the ones in the wrong.  I'm sorry, but the refusal to grasp that possibly, just possibly, the comments hurled at Rush et al are offensive rather vitiates any credibility on the part of the person who is attempting to lecture me on the proper use of language and the need for moderate tones and whatnot.  There are only certain things for which I will lie back and think of England.  The RNC leadership is not on that list.

The two sides are not going to see eye to eye on this.  Ever.  It's beyond the point of diminishing returns to discuss it and well into simply slinging mud in an attempt to have the Final Word.  Look, I appreciate the need to have the Final Word as I am a.  female, b. a lawyer and c. a female lawyer.  Honestly, it's difficult to come up with a combination more insistent on having the final say.  I think all sides would do well to step back, accept that this is no longer a productive use of time and to direct the fury onto a more appropriate target.  No, I'm not saying why can't well all just get along.  I am merely suggesting that supporting the other side's right to be horrifically wrong may be what's needed at this juncture.

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Thoughtcrime

Just because the people being punished here are douchebags doesn't make it right:

A group of anti-Israel activists who disrupted a concert by the Jerusalem String Quartet in Scotland last August have been charged by a Scottish court with racially aggravated harassment.

At a the performance, in Edinburgh's Queen Hall on August 29, four members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) - a radical offshoot of the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign fringe group - interrupted the concert by shouting abuse at the musicians and audience.

It was claimed that the activists caused distress to both the orchestra and members of the audience.

The protesters had originally been charged with disturbing the peace, but at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday those charges were dropped in favor of the more serious charge of "racially motivated conduct."

I'd be perfectly happy seeing these people slapped with the original charge of disturbing the peace, but when you add a charge like this, well, there goes freedom of speech. Of course, this is the UK we're talking about, so that ship has pretty much sailed.

By the way, none of this is to say that the protesters aren't probably utter anti-Semitic assholes. Take a look at some of their other antics:

In December, the SPSC fabricated a story that a number of Scottish companies and institutions had terminated contracts with an Israeli mineral water supplier. The allegations proved unfounded. In January, the group staged a Holocaust Memorial Day event with a Hamas representative.

Charming, no?

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