Franken's Monster Mash

Monster Mash-up Democrats see wiggle room on Obama’s Aug. 2 debt-limit deadline The Aug. 2 deadline for raising the nation’s debt ceiling might not be as rigid a cutoff date as the administration has been saying, according to some senior Senate Democrats.

Meanwhile Franken's SNL moment in Senate “ For a moment Wednesday, Al Franken looked like he was back on the set of Saturday Night Live and not on the floor of the U.S. Senate. In a speech explaining that there would be no money to pay for military and security personnel if Congress doesn’t pass a bill increasing the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, Franken unveiled a large poster in the chamber that said, “Welcome Terrorists. Franken aimed his theater of the absurd at those who believe the U.S. doesn’t have to raise the debt limit to avoid economic catastrophe. He couched it as black humor, but certainly not as comic relief in a House and Senate deadlock that economists say puts the U.S. at risk of a financial meltdown. [Star Tribune] ” Franken's charts A previously referenced  Red State's "Seven Reasons Why August 2 Isn’t the End of the World"  chart compared with Franken's: RED STATE FRANKEN Federal Debt Interest $30 29 Social Security $50 49.2 Medicare-Medicaid $50 50 Veterans and active-duty military $9 — Defense vendor payments  — $32 Federal Unemployment Payments — $12.8 TOTAL $139 $172.7 Red State concludes: “ So that’s a total bill of $136 billion, easily covered by the $170-200 billion we’ll take in.  Of course, we won’t be able to afford everything the government currently spends on.  The Departments of HUD, Transportation, Commerce, Energy, and Education, for example, may have to take a pause while Congress works out a deal with the President.  But is that really “the end of the world”? ” Franken concludes: ???? I guess by saying if we cut anything, the terrorists win.  But it's really very simple.  It took me just 3 minutes to save $71B a month. Plus, cutting EPA's  $900 million would result in immediate 200% increased production and several $B of increased tax revenue.  End of story.

Closer Look at Herman Cain

Closer Look at Herman Cain

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In case you missed it, I'm using he new header to run interesting (to me anyway) videos.  Currently it's about ants. You can normally go full screen by clicking the full screen icon.   In addition, Archives were fixed.  You're welcome.  As a matter of curiosity, did anyone watch the TOP GEAR drive to the North Pole while it was up?

Billfold 2012

Wait!  Will you have enough to get some lettuce too?

Ka-Ching!

MISH'S 10-Point Credibility Scale

Rating the Obama, Reid, and Boehner Deficit Reduction Plans on Mish's 10-Point Credibility Scale

“ $4 trillion sounds like a lot but it is only $400 billion a year, while the deficit is $1.4 trillion. Thus it's tough to give that plan a rating higher than Jello, and impossible to give it a rating higher than fudge.  ” “ 10-Point Credibility Scale Golden Rock Solid Fudge Jello Marshmallow Cream Puff Nauseous Gaseous Imaginary Delusional Scoring the Proposals Given a $1.4 trillion deficit, the latest plan from Boehner to cut a minuscule $85 billion a year (and back-loaded at that) is somewhere between nauseous and gaseous. It's no wonder that various Tea-Party members will not vote for it. Obama's plan is imaginary or delusional depending on whether or not the President actually believes he has a plan, when he doesn't. Parts of Senator Reid's plan are gaseous and the rest is clearly imaginary. In contrast, the gang-of-six $4 trillion deficit cutting plan has something of the consistency of Jello, fudge, or marshmallow depending on details that were never disclosed. ” There you have it. Boehner has proposed a $850 billion reduction over 10 years, a minuscule $85 billion a year on a deficit of $1.4 trillion. Bear in mind it is far worse than it looks because it is heavily back-loaded. The 2012 reduction is only $4 billion. Marc Miller

Late Night Obama

Late Night Obama

Tea Party Wants Boehner, Obama Fired

Tea Party Wants Boehner, Obama Fired

“ If House Speaker John Boehner or his senior leadership team thought they had the support of the Tea Party movement, they better think again. An internal poll of the largest group in the movement, the Tea Party Patriots, found that they are dissatisfied with the House leaders, Boehner in particular, and simply can't stand President Obama. Co-Director Jenny Beth Martin told Whispers bluntly: "We're really not satisfied with any of them." [Check out editorial cartoons about the Tea Party.] ” This is keeping me from losing hope: --81.5 percent are not satisfied with the House GOP leadership. --74.1 percent, asked if they want a new House speaker, said yes or maybe. --71.7 percent are not satisfied with the performance of the House. --97.6 percent are not satisfied with the performance of the Senate. --98.8 percent are not satisfied with Obama's performance.

When is an Ideology Responsible For Murder?

When is an Ideology Responsible For Murder?

“ The left wing media was only too eager to point to [Anders Behring Breivik's] ideology as the rationale for the shooting. David Neiwert of CrooksandLiars [...] A more rational answer would require an ideology to fulfill two basic criteria in order to be blamed for a particular act of violence. First, the ideology must itself promote the sort of violence get in their faces  at issue and the type of violence that takes place must bear some resemblance to the violence being promoted. This makes sense. If a group of pacifists shot-up a school, we could say with accuracy that they'd clearly misinterpreted pacifism. The same does not hold true of neo-Nazi ideology and Jews. Second, a large number of adherents to the ideology must engage in or support the form of violence in question. It is possible for formerly violent ideologies to change over time -- no one, for example, save Timothy McVeigh, thinks that Constitutional ideology is violent anymore, despite Thomas Jefferson's proclamations about the tree of liberty and the blood of patriots. [Ben Shapiro cont.] ” Well said, but let's not get carried away Ben. Wunderkind Ben Shapiro has a mind like a steel trap, and is a member of that rarest of breeds—   hardcore Jewish conservatives.  But,  I don't remember Timothy McVeigh citing Constitutional purity  as motivation for his OKC bombing.  Instead,  it was being pissed off at the  government for WACO.    So here is my quibble, a rather large quibble— If  "Thomas Jefferson's proclamations about the tree of liberty and the blood of patriots" is no longer valid in his world,  at what point would he suggest taking forcible action to defend against a demonic government (on the off-chance one should ever emerge, of course)?

Gun Holder

A [real] journalist's guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four

" ... ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great...." ...

A "Best Ever" Selection   Left Crack-up cracking me up

“ "Oh, The Banalty" Alas, that is the Tea Party. It is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations. If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission. No American politician was more allergic to debt or taxes than Thomas Jefferson, but he also appreciated the need to have the resources to make the Louisiana Purchase and insisted that on his tombstone it be written that he founded the University of Virginia.  - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Bad Boner Emerging

Bad Boner Emerging

“ "Speaker of the House John Boehner was dealt a potentially devastating blow Tuesday when a Congressional Budget Office scoring of his debt limit proposal showed the plan would save significantly less than the $1.2 trillion promised. According to the CBO, the plan would only cut $840 billion. When the dismal score was made public, Michael Steel, a spokesperson for Boehner, said staff members were busy rewriting the legislation. 'We're here to change Washington,” no more smoke and mirrors, no more "phantom cuts,"' said Steel. [When is a cut not a cut?] ” First-off, if one wishes to strike the pose of new breed, no no more smoke and mirrors Republican leader, one does not employ Michael Steele as spokesman.

Harry Reid's Americans

Harry Reid's Americans

Obama admits - "No Default" ...

The Great Prevaricator: Pssst.  We're not defaulting.

“ In a series of phone calls, administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn't raised by the August 2 date Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government will run out of money to pay all its bills, including obligations to bond holders. Geithner made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows saying a default is imminent if the debt ceiling isn't raised, and President Obama issued a similar warning during a Friday press conference after budget negotiations with House Republicans broke down.   Read more: In fact, what will cause the ratings services to downgrade U.S. bonds is failure to produce a budget " that results in $4 trillion in savings, the result of the massive debt load the country has accumulated in recent years."   Throwing Obamacare off the train will account for $2 Trillion.  I expect Liberals to lie about everything, but when the Republican Speaker of the House plays along, enough is enough.

Two War Heros, One Named Kerry ...

Sweat, War Hero

“ John Kerry was introduced at the 2004 Democratic National Convention by Wade Sanders, a retired Navy Captain and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy who served as a Swift Boat officer in Vietnam. Like Kerry, Sanders was the recipient of a Silver Star for gallantry in action. During the 2004 campaign, Sanders functioned as Kerry lead attack dog against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, repeatedly denouncing the veterans on the air as liars and comparing them to Nazi propagandists.  [American Thinker]  SO WHAT? In the July 18, 2011, issue of the Navy Times, it was announced that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus revoked the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest valor award, which was awarded nearly 20 years ago to retired Capt. Wade Sanders of San Diego. A spokeswoman for Mabus confirmed the secretary's decision, which he made in August 2010 following a review and recommendation by the Navy Department Board of Medals and Decorations. "Mabus signed a memorandum in which he revoked the previously awarded Silver Star," said Capt. Pamela Kunze.[2] [3] "Had the subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself been known to the Secretary of the Navy in 1992, those facts would have prevented the award of the Silver Star," Kunze said. [Wiki] As one might imagine, the media has ignored this story. Even the Navy Times declined to post its own article online. Marc Miller

Boner offers Kool-Ais to GOP Reps.

House GOP revolts against Boehner plan

House Republicans do not have enough support to pass their debt-ceiling increase plan on their own, a top conservative said Tuesday as his party’s leaders tried to cobble together a coalition of Republicans willing to drink Kool-Aid and join Democrats to put the bill over the top. Lots of luck with that Boner

NASA's Magic Carpet

QOTD

“ Now that our future is behind us and America is through with all that outer space stuff, NASA can zero in on what director Charles Bolden calls its primary mission, helping Muslims feel good about their alleged scientific accomplishments. Maybe this will allow us back into space after all: - [Moonbattery] ”

OBAMA'S BASE CRUMBLES - but .....

“ More than a third of Americans now believe that President Obama’s policies are hurting the economy, and confidence in his ability to create jobs is sharply eroding among his base, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. ”

But ...this is a Washington Post-ABC poll

“ But Americans’ discontent does not stop there. The survey also found that Americans harbor negative feelings toward congressional Republicans. Roughly as many people blame Republican policies for the poor economy as they do Obama. But 65 percent disapprove of the GOP’s handling of jobs, compared to 52 percent for the president. ... and  a majority of Americans still blame former president George W. Bush for the state of the economy.  Did I say "Rabid Dog Alert?"   This is the article introduced on DRUDGE as:  WASHPOST/ABC: Blacks, liberals flee in droves..., and OBAMA'S BASE CRUMBLES, so guess who was polled?  That's right, Obama's base. The WaPost made me laff and dance a jig.

Contingency Fees: Another Name for Champerty

Torts Contingency Fees: Another Name for Champerty The Wall Street Journal Monday, November 10, 1997

I have a rather extensive file of articles I posted on Free Republic during the Clinton Terror, and from time to time find one that still has legs. This is one.  Note: Barn Army JAG Officer Chuck Martel is of course excepted, absolved, and applauded in all his endeavors.

“ [www.FreeRepublic.com] How did a crime under common law become a common practice of modern American law? It began in 1848 with the repeal of New York state's statutes regulating lawyer's fees. Known as the Field Code, this allowed victims of then-common industrial accidents to retain a lawyer. It was, as we still hear the contingency fee described today, "the poor man's key to the courthouse door." A century and a half later, on almost any given day in America, the newspapers bear witness to the evils that jurists have been warning about for centuries and are still fighting off in the courtrooms of Europe. In Florida, a settlement was just struck in the second-hand-smoke suit against the tobacco industry. This $5 billion class-action case was begun on a contingency-fee basis in 1991 by lawyers Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt, who will get $49 million. Their 60,000 clients, so far as one can tell, will get little or no money. "Fee litigation," in which lawyers specialize in defending the fees of other lawyers, is now a thriving field. There is even a publication called Mealey's Attorneys Fees to keep tort lawyers up to speed on what other lawyers are getting, lest anyone settle beneath the going rate. At the American Bar Association meeting in August, a packed seminar called "Proving and Defending Attorney Fee Petitions in Employment Litigation" was devoted entirely to instruction in the latest techniques in bill padding for employment lawyers. [Full Article]

Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting in Afghanistan? ...

Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting in Afghanistan?

British MP Rory Stewart, a quite brilliant speaker,  asks "Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting in Afghanistan?"  I didn't want to watch this, and did only because of cuzzin ricky's recommendation.  Even then I thought to quit listening several times, but could not.  I  now recommend it to you. The truth is I'd have been delighted to see us out of that wretched country long ago, save for this nagging thought.  Although never really articulated by The Great Unarticulater G.W. Bush,  central to our strategy in taking on Iraq and Afghanistan simultaneously was a need to isolate Iran within the region.  I still see that as a worthwhile, even necessary strategy.  So there's that. A thought too far I know what you're thinking.  "Okay braniac, if you were in charge, what would you do?'  Fair enough.  I'd turn both Pakistan and Afghanistan into a huge crater lake and stock it with bass. Seriously though, my answer lies in the question "How would Reagan have handled Iran over the past decade?"  I think we all have a general idea, but it never happened, so it's prolly too late.  So, this.  Get rid of Obama;  elect a government that will promote tapping 100% of our energy resources;  build that missile shield;  reinvoke the Monroe Doctrine; drive leaded gas muscle cars to our hearts content, and let the middle east rot. All of these are doable.

Let’s Lower the Debt Ceiling

Thinking Outside the Box: Let’s Lower the Debt Ceiling

“ Today, I introduced a unique bill that goes in a completely different direction than everything else we’ve been hearing out of Washington. It would force politicians to start practicing what they’ve been preaching by lowering the debt ceiling from $14.3 trillion back down to $13 trillion. Admittedly, this is not your run-of-the-mill kind of law, but it would make it imperative for Congress to think outside of the box and come up with ways to pay off a portion of our debt while drastically cutting back spending. Since 1996, the national debt has increased by an inexcusable $8.79 trillion. I firmly believe that this calls for emergency measures to reduce the debt. Moreover, in this time of crisis, liberals are pushing for a $2 trillion increase in our debt ceiling. And their only answer for our financial fiasco is to cut nothing and raise taxes on everything —  [more Rep. Paul Broun, M.D. (R GA)]  Say Amen

She'll have to be put down Timmy.

Rabid Dog Watch Democratic Rep: Debt Crisis Has Been ‘Manufactured by House Republicans’

“ (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) released a statement Monday saying the “debt crisis” has been “manufactured by House Republicans” who are “attempting to advance an extremist agenda.” ”

What is it Lassie?

What is it Lassie? SondraK slipped in the shower? Woof! Bark! Woof!  Show Me!

Late-term aborted baby girl lies in open casket

Shocking photo: late-term aborted baby lies in open casket at city hall funeral

“ Orlando, FL, July 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On this past Thursday, July 21, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, preached at a memorial service for an aborted baby girl. The child was intact and her body was retrieved after a late-term abortion. The memorial service, organized by Operation Save America, was held outside of City Hall in Orlando. [Full] ” Some of you may also have watched the Hitler Channel episode last night— where Heinrich Himmler deigned to watch his extermination squads at work shooting Jews.  The sight of it made him faint, and caused him to yell "Do it quickly ... do it quickly."   After the war of course the allies forced Germans living near the killing camps to walk through and view the piles of corpses.  I would similarly force every professional democrat to view this picture.  Bill Clinton especially,  who vetoed legislation that would haved ended what can only be described as murder.

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A simple request ...

A simple request

One lazy Sunday morning the wife and I were quiet and thoughtful, sitting around the breakfast table when I said to her unexpectedly, "When I die, I want you to sell all my stuff, immediately." "Now why would you want me to do something like that?" she asked.  "I figure a woman as fine as yourself would eventually remarry and I don't want some other asshole using my stuff." She looked at me intently and said: "What makes you think I'd marry another asshole?" merrily

Huffington: ‘The stimulus package failed’

Arianna Huffington: ‘The stimulus package failed’

“  Yes, Arianna says the $787 stimulus package hasn't worked. And you'll never guess why! Go ahead, guess.  "During the online 'Green Room' segment of ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday, Huffington said  "The stimulus package failed because it was all over the map...  It was not a targeted, clear jobs creation program." I didn't know this was still questionable.  Huffington argued:  “When you consider that infrastructure is crumbling and we have 20 percent of construction workers unemployed, surely there is something we can be doing.”  Well, that was precisely what, according to Obama, the stimulus $$ would be used for in large part - repairing crumbling infrastructure.  So what happened? #Would Obama's Infrastructure-Stimulus Proposal Spend Money in the ... www.newsweek.com/...Sep 8, 2010 #Critics to Obama: Spend the Stimulus Money Already - ABC News Jul 10, 2009 #New Obama plans: 'spend our way out' of downturn www.breitbart.com #YouTube - Limbaugh: Where Did The Dead Spend Their Stimulus Money ‏ 4min - Oct 8, 2010 That's right.  Almost all of it went to reward his friends, and create more strangling government.. EPA received more than $7 billion in stimulus funds. Most of it was directed to 4,687 projects, many of which purchased signs. And do tell me, when was the last time EPA created anything that did not undermine industry?  Why am I bothering?

Muslims hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan

Into the mix Muslims hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan

hem The boy was kidnapped Friday. It was unclear when he was killed. The incident comes amid a recent wave of attacks on local officials who are considered anti-Taliban. Less than two weeks ago, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Karzai's half-brother and a provincial council chief in neighboring Kandahar, was killed in his home by a longtime bodyguard. ” What happened in Norway is an everyday fact of life somewhere in greater Islam. I'm just saying.

Phony Arbitron Ratings

Playing "Let's Pretend" "A new Arbitron report shows Rush Limbaugh's ratings down 33 percent from a year ago and Sean Hannity down 28 percent over the same time period." Crain's New York Business Newsletter     "Is right-wing talk dying?" John Avlon asked hopefully at The Daily Beast.

“ A few years ago, Arbitron began phasing out diaries and brought in the Portable People Meters, or PPMs. These pager-sized devices automatically record whatever their wearers hear as they go about their day. No need to rely upon fallible human memories, or worry about diarists "fudging" their feedback or forgetting to send it in. The PPM sounded like the accurate, scientific ratings system sponsors and programmers always hoped would be invented. Until the first batch of ratings came in, showing conservative talk going strong and certain, urban and minority programs far lower than ever calculated before. [...] Minority station owners immediately complained. Attorneys general of New York, New Jersey and Maryland filed suits, and Congressmen Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., and John Conyers, D-Mich., called for investigations into Arbitron, charging that the PPM system was discriminating against minorities. Arbitron moved quickly to placate minority owned stations, their listeners and sponsors. Precisely what the ratings-tracker did remains a trade secret, but Jeffrey Lord's investigation led him to the following conclusion: that Arbitron raised its payouts to PPM participants from $50 a month to as high as $200 (at least according to an industry insider who spoke to Lord anonymously) in order to incentivize lower-income, and thus more minority, participation. Shortly thereafter, the Arbitron ratings of Hispanic and urban radio stations returned to pre-PPM heights, while talk radio ratings showed those precipitous drops that led to so much crowing in the liberal commentariat earlier this year. Read more: Is 'fix' in to sink ratings for Rush, Savage, other conservatives? There's a criminal aspect to this story. If it's true, it seems to me then that Arbitron has engaged in a massive price fixing scheme to redirect revenue into the pockets of the undeserving.  In other words, being Liberal, but in a criminally liable and prosecutable manner.  I'm sure Eric Holder will be all over this one.

Boehner Fox News Sunday

Boehner was brilliant  ... Well, acquitted himself nicely anyway

“ Boehner was brilliant on his FoxNews Sunday interview with Chris Wallace. Compared to the waffling of Tim Geithner in the preceding interview ...  It is the first time, in following politics for 40 years, that I have seen a Republican politician exhibit real political courage. Republicans, especially in the Senate, have become very frightened of the power of the mainstream media. They cower in fear at the thought of getting bashed by the liberals. The Old Guard Republicans have been reduced to operating in the shadows, in back rooms, committees and commissions; with their only strategy consisting of trying to win elections to get more power in Washington D.C. They have no fight in them. They have become cowards. That's why Boehner was such a refreshing surprise on Sunday. Watch the video. He is actually standing his ground and fighting when most all of the Old Guard Republicans, even conservative commentators, have turned and run, scared silly of being blamed for an Armageddon. (If the stock market drops significantly on Monday, I am buying because it will be a short term panic, which are always great money making opportunities.) Boehner is going to do the right thing for the country -- he said just that, literally, several times during the interview, and I believe him. He said that he didn't take the job for the fancy title, he took it to get something accomplished. He said he doesn't care about the Asian Markets, because he cares more about jobs and the future of America.  [Free Republic comment] What I took away from this is, yes, give Boner some credit for his public display of backbone.  Clap clap clap.  But it's clear that only pressure from House Teaparty Republicans have kept him from agreeing to even more "revenue" than the 800B in "flatter, fairer taxes"  he says are still on the table.  BTW, calling tax increases  "new revenue" doesn't show the same creativity as the  Milhouse Solution (see below)," but nice try. And again, what is this default thing I keep hearing about, if we refuse to print more Monopoly money? Default on what?  Really.  I'm old and afraid to go outside.

Revisiting The Milhouse Solution

Revisiting The Milhouse Solution

Professor Obama: :"FDR was fiscal conservative"

History à la carte Contrary to myth ...

“ [...] No one grew the size of government, taxation and spending in peacetime the way Roosevelt did, Powell said. “FDR tripled taxes and spending more than doubled from 1933 to 1940,” Powell said. “That was the biggest increase in peacetime spending in American history. Before that, the biggest increases in spending came during wars.” Further, the New Deal did not bring the economy back and prolonged recovery, Powell said, as unemployment was still at 17 percent by 1940, before war spending began to pull the country out of the depression. “There were a number of New Deal policies that make it harder and more expensive to hire people,” Powell continued. “Compulsory unionism made it more costly to hire people. The more expensive something is the less you get of it. The more you subsidize something, the more you have of it.” Despite the $500 billion spent under FDR through various programs, the unemployment rate in the United States did not significantly decrease until after the U.S. officially entered World War II in 1941, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) records from 1929 through 1944.  [Obama: FDR Was 'Fiscally Conservative'] ”

John and Mary sell the Mercedes

S'plain this Lucy Congress ditches Obama on debt talks

I found this Politico article pretty interesting when I read it this morning, especially where Pelosi had to march Harry Reid out by the scruff of the neck to keep his head from doing a 360.  He's furious that Republicans are only talking short-term debt ceiling at best. Just after I read it, Roll Call reported that Obama will veto any short term extension.  Democrats want spending maintained through the 2012 election.  How obvious can they get? But there was something else that's been bugging me.  This. John and Mary are spoiled Gen-X brats who are used to having stuff now.   While John earns a mid six-figure income, they are drowning in debt.    Finally, unable to sleep at night, they've  decided to get a grip.  They'll have to sell their home in Potomac, MD and move to Prince George's County,  where homes are cheaper and his commute to work much shorter.  Their daughters, age 13 and 15, are still crying hysterically as we speak with the news that Bullis Prep is out, and public school in.  Mary, a proliferate spender,  sobs as well while taking scissors to about a dozen credit cards.  Depending on what their home sells for, John figures that they can become solvent in from 5 to 8 years.  He calls his mortgage company, bank, credit card companies and other debtors and petitions them.  He assures that monthly interest payments will be paid promptly, with payment on the principal rationed for the time being.  Here's the responses. The Mortgage Holder: "Yes, but only if you take out a third mortgage with us." The Credit Card Company: "Yes, but only if you increase your average monthly purchases," The Car Loan Company:  "Yes, but only if you trade in for a new Mercedes S600 sedan." Mookys Rating Se vice:  Unless you take out additional loans in order to keep spending up, your credit rating will be lowered and you'll have to get credit from Crazy Al's Finance. Ridiculous?  Of course.  So explain  this to me. “ With rating agencies warning about downgrading the United States’ credit, which could lead to a surge in interest rates and a shock to the markets, (if the debt limit isn't raised) ” Am I missing something?   I'm not the only one at sea here, pretty sure of that.  Remember, we are in good shape when it comes to meeting our interest obligations - as long as we sell the Mercedes, send the kids to public school, and quit  hiring  pool-boys and  French chefs.  So what's with the threats from ratings services like Moodys and S&P?  Raise your debt limit or else ... .?                           Real Question

Nice Tent

Can you beat this guy's caption?

Peasant pheasant

Reflections about Norway

Random thoughts about something a lot of people I know and like care much more about than me and made me look at stuff about Anders Behring Breivik

“ Supra, we all know that people on the right Aslak Nore can forget about getting anything published. Believe me, we have tried at all for years. We had of course had a greater chance to penetrate the kulturmarxistiske press censorship if any of us had had a Somali background, or was an Egyptian copter but I am unfortunately not:). You must also remember that there is no free press in Norway. Aftenposten was the ONLY culture conservative newspaper in Norway, but they were known as the coup of kulturmarxister in 1972.  100% of the national mediacompanies now support multiculturalism full heart and none of these will help to underminethis ideology. It should at least be mentioned that the situation improves drastically from the man is 18 years. The reason is that most of the Muslims I spoke not have grades to get into good VGS. comments by  Anders Behring Breivik I'm not that familiar with Norwegian politiks, or even Europe's— which approximately 50 states I view as 50 Northern Californias. It would appear from Breivik's writings that if Norway had FOX News, i.e. a news source reporting news ignored by their kulturmarxistiske press, this may not have boiled over.  Just now.  The way it did. There is nothing worse than government scripted  news (except maybe government scripted educators), and we Americans at least have some alternatives.  I mean, what the hell,   I'd still throw the entire Washington press corps down a volcano in a heartbeat, and with salutary effect. Charles Johnson has much in common with Newt Gingrich.  Like Newt, he performed a valuable service to our Republic, only to later become a confused blathering idiot. .  "Kilgore Trout," the moderator of LGF (Charles?) is another left-wing hack who holds Pamela Geller (as a stand-in for conservative bloggers) responsible for  what happened. Leftist sighs of relief that Anders Behring Breivik was not another leftwing J. Loughner are audible. What?  You don't know Loughner? Unlike Loughner and Holger Meins (whom nobody remembers), the left media will (I'm betting) turn Anders Behring Breivik into an iconic symbol of evil, invoking his name as a warning every time someone asks "What?  You're not a Mahometanphobe?  Why in heaven's name not?".   The left will, and probably have, compare Anders Behring Breivik with Timothy James McVeigh.  And they'd be right. The left is so afraid of Obama-Hitler comparisons they resurrected a perversion of Godwin's Law — in the same manner they discovered (actually, manufactured) Dwight Eisenhower's adultery to absolve Clinton. (Hey, I said random thoughts) I don't care about Anders Behring Breivik anymore.  Not with Obamunistas running free. Throw them all down a volcano. Click-click. Breivik comment from James McD

Gus wanted an Indoor pool

Gus wanted an Indoor pool

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