scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
2013 - Exercise Yard, Raila Odinga Prinson, Kenya.
“
The
Constitution of the United States, whose adoption we celebrate every
Sept. 17, clearly lists the powers of each branch of the national
government. Let’s take a look at what Barack Obama, like any president,
is empowered to do and see if it squares with his actions. In Article
II, Section 1, he is sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States.” Section 2 names the president as
commander in chief of the armed forces, grants him the power to make
treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate and to appoint
ambassadors, federal judges, Cabinet officials and other federal
officers. Section 3 says the president “shall take care that the laws
be faithfully executed.”
In his two years and nine months in office, President Obama has
compiled a spectacular record of noncompliance with the Constitution.
Here are just some of the ways his administration has failed to execute
the laws while using raw, unauthorized power:
”
Obama could without question be impeached by the House if the political
will existed. It doesn't for a few reasons, not the least of
which is the Democrat controlled Senate would never vote to remove him
(nor would half the Republicans). Which is a shame because Obama
deserves being removed from office, the sooner the better.
This
list presented by the ass-hat left as justification for impeaching
Bush establishes the bar.
Anyway, I will add this article to my Sack of Stuff (Defining Articles)
that are kept in the cellar, for readers who want to reference it
in the future.
BTW, Knight does not present a comprehensive list here, but his are
fine, and recent additions to others already presented.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Chicago
mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said he
doesn’t recall anything about the Obama administration’s $535 million
loan to the recently bankrupt solar company Solyndra. [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
When
people are taped in secret, become unknowingly famous, and then are the
subject of a documentary, do they have any rights to the story? That’s
the process that led to the film Shut Up Little Man. (NSFW text)
In 1987, two
aspiring Bohemians who met at the University of Wisconsin, Mitch Deprey
and Eddie Guerriero — soon to be immortalized as “Mitchell D and Eddie
Lee Sausage” — left the Midwest for San Francisco, where they moved
into a funky apartment on Steiner and Waller in the Lower Haight.
Thanks to thin walls and alcohol, they discovered that their new
next-door neighbors were Raymond, a virulent homophobe in love with the
word “cocksucker,” and Peter, a bitchy queen prone to rejoinders of
“SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!”, both of them sad alcoholics inexplicably
sharing a one-room apartment. Their vulgar, late-night scream fights
(and occasionally, fistfights) were so entertaining that Mitch and
Eddie started recording them, sharing the tapes with friends ... . [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Unhappy members
of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the
White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
"If [former President] Bill Clinton
had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we
probably would be marching on the White House ... There
is a less-volatile reaction in the Congressional Black Caucus because
nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the
president."
”
Aside
from further demonstrating the Democrat leadership's inability to grasp
the economic reality that gummint cannot create (non-government) jobs,
Brother Kleaver confirms their putative stark racism.
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
The
working title is "Happy Faces On A Wet Derrière."
The story pretty much writes itself, but I'm stuck, as
usual, on the same old thing. Can the ingenue play
pinochle, and does she have a hare lip? Or not. This
drives me crazy.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
It looks like Pitt and
Syracuse will bolt the Big East and join the ACC. That makes a
lot more sense than having Texas,
but Pitt and WVU make more sense to me. Given my
druthers though ... Here's what I want back —
FINAL STANDINGS 1971 -------------------- ACC ALL ACC Reg Seas Games All N. Carolina 11-3 .786 26-6 .813 S. Carolina 10-4 .714 23-6 .793 Duke 9-5 .643 20-10 .667 Wake Forest 7-7 .500 16-10 .615 Virginia 6-8 .429 15-11 .577 Maryland 5-9 .357 14-12 .538 N.C. State 5-9 .357 13-14 .481 Clemson 3-11 .214 9-17 .346 ----------------------------------------- Total 136-86 .613
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Most people, unfortunately, apply the same
analysis to public debt as they do to private. If sanctity of contracts
should rule in the world of private debt, shouldn't they be equally as
sacrosanct in public debt? Shouldn't public debt be governed by the
same principles as private? The answer is no, even though such an
answer may shock the sensibilities of most people.
”
One of
yesterday's links
to people I link-to
has resulted in a starburst of energetic discovery, and to some extent
repudiation and validation of some of my own positions. This link.
American
Digest Do
Your Duty! You Have the
Responsibility as an American to Make Obama Successful.
Which also contained this post.
“
Put Debt Repudiation On the Table
I propose, then, a seemingly drastic
but actually far less destructive way of paying
off the public debt at a single blow: out-right debt repudiation.
Consider this question: why should the poor, battered citizens of
Russia or Poland or the other ex-Communist countries be bound by the
debts contracted by their former Communist masters? ... Similarly, we
the living did not contract for either the past or the present debts
incurred by the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington. -- Repudiating the National Debt -
Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily
In the old days (1970s), when perhaps the nation's only
broadly
distributed conservative
opinion came via the Wall Street Journal's Editorial pages,
every
Thursday contained what I called the " The Thursday Car-loon"
column. When I began
reading it that column was written by Alexander Cockburn ( later
by Al Hunt, who was as left-wing as Cockburn, but without the
intelligence). This is by way of saying that I think Cockburn is
a
first class A-hole. Had I simply watched the video then, I would
have left happy with the notion that Vanderleun was presenting an
easy target for disdain . Advocating the repudiation of
credit card debt is a distinctly Commie thing to do. A gentleman is
honor bound to his
debts, and must go to his grave having done everything possible to pay
them. Then, I clicked the link Repudiating the National Debt -
Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily.
To the extent that my leathery brain cells can expand to accept new and
unwelcome formulations, they did. Bear in mind that I am quoting from
the Ludwig von Mises Institute web page.
“
In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in
the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first
flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts
in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they
were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to vote
for an increase in the statutory limit on the federal public debt,
which was then scraping the legal ceiling of one trillion dollars. They
cried because all of their lives they had voted against an increase in
public debt, and now they were being asked, by their own party and
their own movement, to violate their lifelong principles. The White
House and its leadership assured them that this breach in principle
would be their last: that it was necessary for one last increase in the
debt limit to give President Reagan a chance to bring about a balanced
budget and to begin to reduce the debt. Many of these Republicans
tearfully announced that they were taking this fateful step because
they deeply trusted their President, who would not let them down.
Famous last words.
Any melding of public debt into a private transaction must rest on the
common but absurd notion that taxation is really "voluntary," and that
whenever the government does anything, "we" are willingly doing it.
This convenient myth was wittily and trenchantly disposed of by the
great economist Joseph Schumpeter: "The theory which construes taxes on
the analogy of club dues or of the purchases of, say, a doctor only
proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from
scientific habits of mind." Morality and economic utility generally go
hand in hand. Contrary to Alexander Hamilton, who spoke for a small but
powerful clique of New York and Philadelphia public creditors, the
national debt is not a "national blessing." T
”
I have to get ready for
the Redskin game, here's
the rest of it. I'll get back to
this. I think. For the record. I want to talk
about what Clint Eastwood said too.
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
SondraKistani - Seems
to be more interested in "cornholing, a simple but addictive pastime"
TUA- I should’ve known
to buy more after swiping one of the last few cartons but thought to
myself (Trader Joe's Non-Dairy Chocolate Ice Cream)
(Non-Dairy?) (Yuk)
APOTHEOSIS-
Discriminatory practices? Perfectly acceptable. Most natural thing in
the world. As long as you’re black.
Michele
Malkin The
Cash-for-Visas Program - Congress is pushing to expand a fraud-riddled
investor program that puts U.S. citizenship for sale to the highest
foreign business bidders.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
I don't
much care for either of these two, but in this instance I'm with
Greta. (Tucker Carlson owns the Dauly Caller, the article [Mike
Tyson: Sarah Palin met ‘the wombshifter’]was written by Jeff
Poor). What I find interesting is lefty sites like Think
Progress [disgraceful, explict remarks about Palin
with the headline]
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* "The thing that I found, Savannah, that really surprised me, was that
the people who know her best like her least."--Joe McGinniss, author of
"The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," to NBC's Savannah
Guthrie, Sept. 15
* "I think I was as fair as I could possibly have been, given the
fact that she told all the people who were closest to her not to talk
to me."--McGinniss, same interview
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
The District’s spy network
Photo-ticketing
machines rolling digital video 24-hours a day.
“
Mr. Brown favors use of such power only on special occasions, “not just
surveillance for the sake of surveillance - because I wouldn’t be for
that. But I think this weekend showed, my goodness, it was a very
important weekend that was taking place in this country. Imagine if
they had found something that shouldn’t be there and saved many lives.
To me, that’s more important than anything.” [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and
Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) spoke at a press conference in Washington on Sept.
14, 2011 to announce legislation to abolish the debt ceiling.
(CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
“The debt limit is an unnecessary and
counterproductive legislative hurdle that has proved to be both an
ineffective means of controlling deficits and a danger to this
country’s standing in the financial markets,” Moran said.
The debt limit “poses a serious, recurring threat to the full faith and
credit of the United States of America,” Moran said. He called it a
“legislative relic” that has been “weaponized” by Republicans for
political reasons.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Ah, sweet memories
of life— how they flood back, etc. Basic training at Fort Knox,
Kentucky, 1952, 20-mile marches in full pack in the sun:
I don’t know but I been told Eskimo pussy is mighty cold. Sound off! One, two. Sound off! Three, four. Take it on down! One, two, three, four.
Every night before retreat, Sergeant Willie Johnson beats
his meat. If Sergeant Willie didn’t beat
his meat, Private Harry wouldn’t eat. Sound off! One, two. Sound off! One, two, three, four!
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Maricopa
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona has constituted a special law
enforcement posse to investigate allegations brought by members of the
Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the birth certificate Barack Obama
released to the public April 27 might be a forgery ...
The posse.. will consist of two former law enforcement officers
and two retired attorneys, headed by Michael Zullo, a retired police
detective originally from Bergen County, N.J. WND confirmed with Zullo
and with Arpaio's office that the investigation into the Obama birth
certificate has been sanctioned fully by Arpaio's...
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
When a disturbed young man (Antonio
Banderas) kidnaps and ties up a porn queen (Victoria Abril), a
psychological power play ensues, with both serious sex and offbeat
laughs in director Pedro Almodóvar's typically bizarre look at
relationships. As the woman is held captive, she becomes torn by her
growing bond with her abductor. The film was nominated for 14 Goya
Awards -- the Spanish version of the Oscar -- including Best Picture.
Here's something of an oddity. A
chick-flick that some women will initially want to turn off, while men,
intrigued by the "Nudity" warning, will stick with and like the
Banderas character. In the end both of you will be more than
satisfied. If the female patron is married to a liberal man she will fantasize in bed (for some time
to come) about being abducted and ravaged by the (young) Antonio Banderas
character. She will not admit it. Men will give this 3.5
stars (I gave it 4) and women will give it 5 stars, but admit to
3. This is a fun, funny, sweet and happy movie believe it
or not. Or, maybe I'm just sick. (English
subtitled)
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
After the Packers / Bills
game, Buffalo released quarterback Trent Edwards, forcing the back-up
to become the starter and calling in a new back-up from the practice
squad.
During the Packers / Eagles game, the Packers injured Philadelphia
quarterback Kevin Kolb. Philadelphia then had to play backup
quarterback Michael Vick, and sign another QB from the Practice squad.
After the Packers / Cowboys game, Dallas fired Wade Phillips, forcing
the Cowboys to promote their QB coach to head coach and bring in a new
QB coach.
After the Packers / Vikings game,
Minnesota fired Brad Childress, forcing the Vikings to promote from
within and then hire from outside for a replacement.
Four weeks after losing
to the Packers, the 49er's coach Mike Singletary was fired and
replaced, again from within and a new coach was brought in to fill the
vacancy.
During a playoff game
against the Eagles, the Packers injured Michael Vick, the newly gained
back-up was then injured and the secondary backup was needed. A fourth
QB was then signed and plans put in place to trade Kolb for a future
draft pick.
During the Bears Playoff game,
the Packers injured Jay Cutler and backup Todd Collins forcing the
Bears to go with 3rd string quarterback Caleb Hanie.
Question: Is it just me, or did
the Packers create more jobs than Obama last year?
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
This is funny.
The "poll"
finds that people who rejected one asshat crook in favor of another
asshat crook now have buyer's remorse and the answer is to switch back
to asshat crook number one.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Dr.
Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced
his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in
disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is
occurring."
The official position of the American Physical
Society (APS) supports the theory that man's actions have inexorably
led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon
dioxide.
Giaever does not agree -- and put it bluntly and succinctly in the
subject line of his email, reprinted at Climate Depot, a website
devoted to debunking the theory of man-made climate change. [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Government
will track kid's weight
While Michigan's
BMI tracking system will most likely become only an entry point for further discussion and
intervention in cases of obesity, any pediatricians still
believe it's worth the effort.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If [former President] Bill Clinton
had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we
probably would be marching on the White House ... There
is a less-volatile reaction in the Congressional Black Caucus because
nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the
president."
