A.M. Links: FBI Uses Chainsaw in No-Knock Raid, No-Fly List Doubles in One Year, Romney Takes Huge Lead in Nevada
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FBI uses chainsaw in no-knock raid on the wrong front door, terrifying mother and three-year-old.
- Donald Trump threatens to endorse a GOP candidate.
- The U.S. no-fly list doubled last year.
- Romney is polling huge in Nevada.
- The DOJ is "invoking executive privilege to cover how the Department of Justice reacted when Congress began asking about" Fast and Furious.
- Nobody is buying the GM Volt.
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And I thought I made clear that I don’t support bimetallism.
“Ron Paul in league with Global Warming, pushing anti-thermostat agenda. News at 11.”
Hmm no
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“bisexual chat”
Just what, exactly, is bisexual chat?
Fust?
Ooh, embarrassing.
I don’t get the whole “Is this the first comment” meme. Either make a comment or don’t, but don’t do this half-assed pussy questioning of your own ability to post first.
FBI uses chainsaw in no-knock raid on the wrong front door, terrifying mother and three-year-old.
Didn’t everybody go to insulated steel doors in the last 30 years? Guess not.
At least it wasn’t on Groundhog day
Happy Groundhog Day to you too!
It’s my _0th birthday. Huh. My _ key doesn’t seem to be working. Anyway, I turned _0 at _:17 this morning.
40.
Ooh, Mad-Libs!
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At least they didn’t shoot the dog.
At least my joke fit the day 😉
I’m delighted they didn’t saw it in half.
Not on apartments. But that’s what she gets for choosing to live next to a possible DRUG criminal.
I’m trying to figure how a chainsaw is any quicker than a sledgehammer.
I’d think the chainsaw would almost be guaranteed to be slower than just knocking the door down.
They’re all Bruce Campbell fans.
It’s hard to blame them for that.
Sam: “I think it’s time for some Chuck Finley action.”
Fiona: “His name is Charles; you need a new cover ID.”
Sam: “Sorry Fi, I don’t think so. Chuck Finley is forever.”
I finally gave up on Burn Notice. I want so badly to like the show for its MacGyveresque scenes of them making explosives and hacking electronics equipment. And Bruce Campbell. But it just doesn’t work anymore. Also, I get the new bad guy confused b/c he’s also the minor bad guy in Justified.
I watch it on DVD, so I’m only in season four. I’ve definitely liked it so far, but I’ve heard rumblings about shark-jumpings ahead.
At least it keeps Bruce busy.
Haven’t seen any of the new season, but I’ve enjoyed it through season 4. I think it improved quite a bit after the first season, they clearly got a bigger budget and their portrayal of Miami stopped being essentially “LA-lite.”
I have the last few episodes on my DVR and have yet to find the energy to watch them. The show just lost something in this last season. I think it may have gotten a but to serious. It just doesn’t seem as much fun as the earlier episodes.
its become too stylized
Especially whenit hits the chainsaw leggings built into the door.
It’s about intimidation, not quickness.
How fucking scary would it be to have government goons with machine guns and body armor using a chainsaw to cut through your door?
Great idea for a video game.
Coming through my door with a chainsaw would guarantee a shotgun response.
A shotgun response to law enforcement would guarantee your death.
We have seen plenty of cases that suggest that isnt universally true.
Or life imprisonment. Depends on the state.
True, but how the hell are you supposed to know it’s law enforcement over the noise of the chainsaw?
Using a chainsaw to break down a door has got to be the dumbest damn thing I have heard yet about these no-knocks.
True, but how the hell are you supposed to know it’s law enforcement over the noise of the chainsaw?
Like SF said, they don’t care. If you don’t know they’re law enforcement and you fight back, that gives them an opportunity to kill you.
People don’t seek out a job that involves breaking into homes wearing body armor carrying fully automatic weapons because they have no intention of using them.
I know they don’t care. What I want to know is at what point does this become so outrageous that the elected officials start to make a stink about it? Have we reached that point yet? Why isn’t this on the front page of MSNBC, CNN, etc….? Does this not inspire an emotional response from their readership? What is wrong with people that this is not a bigger issue with them than gay marriage, Tebow, banning transfats, or “What Will Facebook Millionaires Do?”?
It’s this type of thing that can really make you hate people in general.
SN, it’s all about officer safety.
Why do you want to compromise officer safety?
It is better that an innocent civilian die than an officer be harmed in the slightest way.
Why do you not want our selfless law enforcement officers to be harmed?
I think you may be on teh drugz.
A SWAT team will be dispatched shortly to search your home.
Please resist so we can shut you up for good.
SN, you are laboring under the impression the elected officials care more about us than they do about law enforcement officials, whom they view as one of their own.
Exactly. Back in 1980-something, an old friend and I got drunk (him a lot worse than me) and I drove him back to his house. His wife had locked him out of his house. (He did drink way too much too often.) He came back from the shed and sawed his own doors down.
I can tell you even at farmland distances, that was NOT a quiet event at 2 a.m.!
Coming through my door with a chainsaw would guarantee that I have time to use the roof latch and jet pack to get away. Okay, I don’t have a jetpack, at the present time.
Yep! Let them testify in court that I was supposed to hear “POLICE” over the sound of a Stihl ripping through the front door. “I’d like to enter a demonstration into evidence.”
Let them testify in court that I was supposed to hear “POLICE” over the sound of a Stihl ripping through the front door.
The lawenforcement model chainsaw makes a distinct sound as it rips through your front door. Ignorance of the sound of the law is no defense.
Again, “I’d like to enter a demonstration into evidence.”
LEO chainsaw: yeeeAWWWWWWZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
BEM chainsaw: yeeeAWWWWWWZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Tell it to the coroner.
Which is why I advocate they right to keep and bear crew-served weapons.
Though I’m having trouble finding a good paddle holster for those.
A BAR would work just fine in this instance.
Hand-cranked Gatling in the foyer.
What, you don’t have one of those? Admittedly, reloading all the .45-70 is kind of a bitch.
ROF is too low and the 20 round mag is a hindrance. Plus, those things are *heavy*!
Re: the BAR
It’s more terrifying – you can’t discount the effect it has on the natives.
+1
Depends on what you are trying to do efficiently: The sledgehammer opens the door efficiently; the chainsaw scares the piss out of the residents efficiently.
Or, if they are armed, it gives them time to load and set-up.
Full riot gear, ceramic plates, well-armed… the chainsaw means they are hoping someone will take a shot, so they can slaughter everyone inside.
I mean, it’s not like they would be punished with anything other than a paid vacation, right?
I’ll wager .308 FMJ’s will pass cleanly through their armor without losing much velocity.
Then they just blow up your entire block…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
I always thought that that was an example of real racism in this country. If a white mayor and police department had done that, they would have rightfully gone to jail. But because the Mayor and the leadership was black, nothing happened. It was like “well if the darkies want to bomb each other, who are we to judge?”. Just appalling.
I remember that. Whatever anyone thought of MOVE or its ideology, that was some fucked up shit. Let’s just say that it did not inspire greater trust of authority in the black community.
Holy crap, I never knew that had ever happened. The things you miss from not having been alive at the time. WTF, America?
From a Street View of 6221 Osage it looks like they just put plywood over the building and it hasn’t changed since…
I remember watching that unfold on TV.
Ramona moved down to the 40’th street area near Clark Park. they have a new house, and are much more chilled out. (they used to dump sewage on their lawn and other stuff that led to the police confrontation).
Being a Philly suburbanite, I watched the whole thing live on TV. the bomb wasn’t much of a suprise, it was holding back the firetrucks after we watched that house be deluged with water-cannons all day.
the bomb wasn’t much of a suprise, it was holding back the firetrucks after we watched that house be deluged with water-cannons all day.
they were out of water at that point, duh.
Or would you have them reduce the mains pressure below normal thereby depriving Law Abiding Citizens of their water supply?
(“reduce the mains pressure below normal”, I’m aware that that’s the case anytime a fire hydrant is opened.)
The block was destroyed in the fire and rebuilt.
“Today, the site of the bombed house, 6221 Osage, is occupied by the police Civil Affairs Unit. The city rebuilt Osage Avenue, but the construction was so shoddy that years of repairs failed to fix the homes. Finally, the city condemned them and offered owners $150,000. Many took the buyout, but 24 families went to federal court. The city is appealing the judgment.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/n…..bing_x.htm
Maybe they were just really into Doom back in the day, and maybe the Pentagon hadn’t yet lent them a BFG9000. You don’t know the facts, so stop judging.
Could’ve been a pinky or imp on the other side of that door, you just never know.
Or how it gives less warning than knocking on the door.
I think it is better for the landlord who has to repair the damage. A battering ram can damage the door, jamb, wall, etc. Plus there isn’t much room for swinging it inside a narrow hallway. Then there is the effect on people on other floors. If they hear a saw, they might just think there is some construction going on vs. a police raid and a demonstration of just how easy it is to break a door down. Plus the department always wanted to expense a chain saw.
Additionally, how the fuck do you identify as federal agents while the chainsaw is running? What fucking idiot came up with that idea? Fuckity fuck fuck fuck….
Po po is retarded at all levels. The best of them have animal like cunning that is useful for deceit, but not much else.
There were police vehicles located outside the building. Therefore everyone clearly knew they were police.
(no, really. They’ve used this rational many times)
Didn’t everybody go to insulated steel doors in the last 30 years?
Most steel doors are simply pressboard and styrofoam with a thin layer of steel over them. While you can almost certainly buy a chainsaw proof door, most steel insulated doors wouldn’t slow down a chainsaw at all.
Looked it up. There’s a special “Raptor” carbide chain made for going through insulated steel doors. Firemen use them. Takes about 10 seconds.
Especially if they have one of those rescue saws with carbide tipped teeth.
[googles chainsaw proof door]
[googles .308 penetrat vest]
[places order]
[DHS reviews your google searches]
[SWAT arrives before your purchases do]
I’m thinking carbide steel rods every foot, tack welded to the sheet steel sides will fuck up a chainsaw blade right quick. And perhaps people standing within a couple feet of the door on either side.
So are they typically wearing full Class III or IV vests when they go in like this or just IIIA with plates? Anybody know?
I ask because hypothetically, a 12 ga slug will fuck up some poor schmoe wearing a IIIA vest, even with a plate.
Also, hypothetically speaking again, if you aim about crotch level with 12 ga 00 buck it seems like you run a good chance of putting somebody down with a chunk of their femoral missing. That’d take the fight out of them right quick.
Even without the femoral hit, most people don’t move very far with a broken pelvis. Supposed to hurt like hell too. Whether the pain’s enough to prevent them from returning fire, I don’t know.
Think SugarFree correctly guessed the mindset of the raiding officers:
I mean, a chainsaw?! What the fuck else are we supposed to think their motivation for the raid was?
In this raid in Schenectady, N.Y., in 2010, executed by their equivalent of a SWAT team, the officers were wearing “Dupont KXP” vests from Point Blank Body Armor. (I’d link, but the squirrels would get angry.) Dupont KXP provides III-A level protection. No idea if they had plates on top of it too. As the shooter was using a shotgun (no word on whether it was slug ammo, buckshot, or birdshot), I guess it didn’t matter much.
The shooter wasn’t involved, near as I can tell, in the underlying murder that earned his residence a visit from the SWAT team in the first place—his relatives were, however. Since it was a no-knock warrant, (although the police claimed to have announced their presence as they were going up the stairs) he was naturally convicted on all six counts, including aggravated attempted murder of a P.O.
Obviously armor policies are going to vary, department to department, but I was surprised that the just-bought PPE wasn’t level IV.
Yeah, I’ve been designing (in my head; but I might have to start making some sketches) a door made of plate steel.
Then I tell myself I really don’t need one because the probability of this happening to me is so incredibly remote and speculative as to be nearly nonexistent.
Then I tell myself I’m being too complacement and not paranoid enough.
See, I was going off the old lumberjack murdering trick of “spiking” trees. Thin steel rods in the middle of the door, just a touch of weld to the side frame, when the chainsaw blade hits it, both the rod and the blade become shrapnel.
Blue States and Red States, What Are They Up To?
Contrary to the oft-heard charges that the parties are equivalent you see quite different things being debated and passed in Blue states than in Red states. Virginia just went red, here’s something they are pushing through:
“The Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would require women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, the first of several legislative measures this year that are expected to dramatically alter abortion law in the state.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..story.html
Mmmm, that kind of paternalism from small government proponents is mighty tasty!
Here’s a quite different matter being debated in Blue states:
“The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, bringing the state a step closer to becoming the seventh to allow lesbian and gay couples to wed? Lawmakers in New Jersey and Maryland are expected to debate gay marriage this year, and Maine could see a gay marriage proposal on the November ballot.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..story.html
Don’t get me wrong, even for those libertarians who might prefer this blue state approach to gay marriage Washington marred the matter in the following way:
“Nearly a dozen amendments were debated, including several that passed that strengthen legal protections for religious groups and organizations. A handful were rejected, including one that would exempt photographers, cake decorators and other business owners who object to gay marriage from the law”
Who are they kidding? There’s no cake decorator who objects to gay marriage on grounds of conscience. “He’s all wrong for him!’ maybe, but not conscience.
+1, lol
That’s some nice cherry picking there.
Yeah, especially since it’s out of the clear blue sky in this thread. MNG just had to have his GO TEAM BLUE! fix, I guess.
“The Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would require women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, the first of several legislative measures this year that are expected to dramatically alter abortion law in the state.”
I like it! It makes the participant in the murder look at it’s victim.
Related.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..42627.html
have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
That’s smart, since the rectal exam could reveal that the patient’s erection isn’t dysfunctional at all.
Christ you are predictibly boring.
Christina Hendricks for John and company.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..Arend.html
Blake Lively for those with taste closer to mine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..azine.html
said her husband made her want to have a family
more patriarchal oppression.
Sarcasmic,
Hendricks looks great in clothes. But a few months ago the Mail had some pictures of her at the beach. And it wasn’t all that. She was kind of a cow. They really pour her into those outfits. It is two pounds of hamburger in a one pound bag.
She was pretty darn perfect in Firefly, but then she had a few too many cheeseburgers.
Those boobs are real. That means she has a metabolism needed to produce them. Hard for women like that to stay really thin after they hit 30.
Which is why you trade them in for a newer model after they start to sag.
Or you find one that isn’t built to sag, and keep it.
Sadly giant boobs have become her trademark, like Streisand’s nose. So she can’t get rid of them. She would look better if she went to a good plastic surgeon and had him reduce them into a perfect set of Ds. It would cut down on the sagging and make her look much better as she gets older.
Plus, women with big racks usually end up with the ass to match. Assuming the boobs are real.
You say this like a woman with a big ass can’t be sexy — heretic! 🙂
Aside from the GIANT tits, I don’t really see anything special about her. She’s kinda cute but not as over-the-top as people make her out to be IMO.
Blake Lively, on the other hand, is a fine piece.
“Blake Lively, on the other hand, is a fine piece.”
Nice to look at, but a terrible actress. Did you see GL?
Hendricks was good but underused in what was possibly the best film of the year last year, Drive.
I don’t think I’d consciously watch anything either of them were in. But they are nice to look at.
Even if you’re not a huge fan of Hendricks, you should definitely check out Drive. Fantastic film.
She’s fucking awesome for sure.
Meh, I’ve seen better.
Balderdash and poppycock!
I’d pass.
This^
She’s fuckable. But, you could walk into any Mickey D’s in Waianae and see a couple dozen hotter looking local girls.
I guess I am where I often am: between the two extremes. Both are hot imo.
Either’s good! I thought Christina Hendricks was plush when she was playing Saffron. Got anything in between these two?
I volunteer!
I stepped in that!
I prefer Blake Lively, but those are very nice pics of Joannie….er, Hendricks
I’ll be in my bunk.
(Someone had to say it)
The U.S. no-fly list doubled last year.
Good, ‘cuz I hate flies!
The U.S. no-fly list doubled last year.
Fuck, I’m probably back on it. So much for TRIP.
http://www.dhs.gov/files/progr…..19316.shtm
You gotta love the smiling face of the ‘deportation officer’.
Disconcerting sculptures (pretty cool).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..reets.html
That stuff is great.
it’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’m gonna have to go with the guy-in-ski-mask-with-bat. It better have a camera in it, to record peoples reactions when they round that corner…
That particular sculpture is going to get destroyed by someone with an strong reaction.
and whoever destroys it will get arrested for assaulting a mugger.
It’s either that one or the first one face down in the river.
Love the balloons.
From teh commentz:
Art needs beauty to be at its very essence. It can be provactive sure, but it needs beauty of thought or form. This IS NOT beauty. The artist has created something very unpleasant
What a shit.
The beauty is in the reactions when people see them.
What about me?
Did you see the look in the beholder’s eyes? Priceless!
Indeed.
Your eye already has a 150-foot antimagic cone, cast as a 13th-level wizard. You’ve won enough at life.
I disagree.
Victim: A figure of a stabbing victim lies prostate on a the pavement.
prostate???
Well, it IS the UK.
I think eliminating no-knock raids should be THE primary focus of the ACLU right now. I would even slack off criticizing their lack of 2nd amendment commitment if they would go full bore on that.
I’m pretty sure it’s a focus of theirs. I don’t think they should limit themselves to any one focus, they have a lot of good ones. And criticizing an org that takes 49 great positions and simply doesn’t push on a 50th is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good…
Hey, we knocked! Once. At 6am. And we gave her a whole five seconds to respond!
Let’s put some blame on SCOTUS who gutted the knock and announce rule in Hudson v. Michigan in a 5-4 decision. And you guessed it, that was Clarence “the most libertarian justice” joining the conservatives in the majority!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H…..n#Majority
Let’s put some blame on SCOTUS
Sure, plenty of blame to go around.
He may be the most libertarian justice on the bench, but look at who we’re comparing him to!
The dude oozed cool. Don Cornelius, RIP.
He really did.
Yeah – he’s bet his last money it’s all gonna be a stone gas, honey. RIP, love, and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL!
if he was all that, why’d he off himself?
Yeah, because what cool person has ever committed suicide anyway?
i asked why not who
Health issues is what I read.
Soul Train was always worth watching on Sunday Morning. It opened up a whole new venue of music – especially for a White Suburban brat.
Romney & Paul, Friends
“Despite deep differences on a range of issues, Romney and Paul became friends in 2008, the last time both ran for president. So did their wives, Ann Romney and Carol Paul…The Romney-Paul alliance is more than a curious connection. It is a strategic partnership: for Paul, an opportunity to gain a seat at the table if his long-shot bid for the presidency fails; for Romney, a chance to gain support from one of the most vibrant subgroups within the Republican Party.”
I wouldn’t read much into this other than what most of us suspected, Ron Paul is an inherently decent guy. Mitt’s been friendly to him, their wives are friends, so he’s friendly back. People can disagree on principle and be friends.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..ml?hpid=z1
A Romney-Paul ticket would be interesting for sure.
It’s what’s been planned all along.
Then Obama can campaign with “Do you really want a crazy man to be one heartbeat from the presidency?”
Better a crazy man than a dumb plagiarist.
Too late.
We did it in 2008, why not this time?
That explains RPs refusal to rule out a 3rd party run. If you make a deal with Romney you better damn well make sure there is enough personal downside for him if he breaks it. Which a 3rd party run by RP would be.
People can disagree on principle and be friends.
The hell you say. They should be trying to tear each others throats out. THIS IS POLITICS NOT REAL LIFE!
I seriously doubt Ron Paul’s organization is going to remain vibrant if it’s instructed to stump for Romney.
I wish they would see the strategic advantage there, but they don’t; they’re largely idealists (which is what makes them so vibrant).
The strategic alliance in supporting a guy who will be the civil service’s bitch?!?
The opportunity cost in supporting Romney is that the time spent stumping for him could be spent on more worthwhile pursuits, like reading the phone book from cover to cover.
Romney/Paul 2012
Romney/(Rand) Paul 2016
Paul/Johnson 2020
nah.
The strategic alliance in supporting a guy who will be the civil service’s bitch?!?
The opportunity cost in supporting Romney is that the time spent stumping for him could be spent on more worthwhile pursuits, like reading the phone book from cover to cover.
The opportunity cost in supporting Romney is that the time spent stumping for him could be spent on more worthwhile pursuits, like reading the phone book from cover to cover.
Fair warning, tarran: I’m stealing this line for later use.
You’re like the worst troll ever.
http://www.news9.com/story/166…..w.facebook
More stupid taxes, from a democrat, no less!
Rep. William Fourkiller of Stilwell says the lack of physical activity associated with playing the games and the violence they portray have been blamed for childhood obesity and bullying.
“He says the games contribute to the problems, but they can also be part of the solution because of the revenue they raise.”
William Fourkiller of Stilwell says the lack of physical activity associated with playing the games and the violence
Did news9 pickup and run with an Onion article?
The tax is stupid, of course. But kids should be outside, running around, all the time. There’s plenty of time for video games when you are old.
Yeah, but then your reflexes are shot.
Many games we played at recess when I was a kid that required running is a no-no now.
Yeah. Just about everything I hear about schools these days seems either absurd or downright evil.
And people think that childhood obesity has anything to do with food? The decrease in physical activity, both at school and at home, should be enough to account for all of the extra fatness.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02…..z1lC19o5Sf
A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.
The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.
The bribed officials, an attorney with knowledge of the investigation told TheDC, remain on the taxpayers’ payroll at the Justice Department without any accountability. The DOJ source said Holder does not want to admit public officials accepted bribes while under his leadership.
I guess it is a good thing for Holder Democrats are incapable of embarrassment or shame and will defend anyone on their team no matter how vile.
If that’s true, heads should roll at all levels.
This could be the excuse for Holder to leave before Fast & Furious starts to stink so badly that no one in the Obama administration can escape the stench.
It’s been very likely for a long time that some shady cover up stuff has gone on for Holder and others.
This may be just as bad or worse the Fast and Furious. The President’s own DOJ was taking bribes from crooked finiancial CEOs and the AG did nothing about it? So much for running against the 1%.
If this were Bush, it would be the lead story on every newscast instead the Daily Caller. How does a second rate publication like the Caller get this scoop over all of the MSM? I guess it is hard to find scandal when not only are you not looking for them, you are spending your time helping to cover up the ones that are already known.
This may be just as bad or worse the Fast and Furious.
I don’t think that it should be, but I don’t doubt that it will be.
The one thing that will hold it back is that most journalists probably think the USVI is a foreign country and thus won’t see a reason to cover a foreign bribery scandal.
So much for running against the 1%.
There are dozens of known instances of Obama administration behavior that militate against the idea that he’s “against the 1%”. However, the media chooses to ignore them.
“If this were Bush, it would be the lead story on every newscast instead the Daily Caller”
Man, you are knee jerk with the “liberal MSM” meme. Maybe it has to do with the evidenc resting at this point solely on “A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller.”
And they called them rather than the NYT or ABC why? Could it be that the Daily Caller is the only one interested in such a story?
Again, how does a second rate free paper get such a huge story over other bigger, much more funded papers? The answer is that those other papers are not particularly interested in publishing stories that make Obama look bad.
What are the chances this gets picked up in the Times or the Post? Near zero and if it does, it will get a federal page nothing to see hear story.
Compare the treatment this will get with the treatment Bush hiring a few Republicans in the DOJ got.
And of course we know now the LA Times and all the major networks knew about the allegations but didn’t pursue them. Odd that.
John, I’m not sure, but the case got started under Bush. The attack, though, is that it appears that the accusations of bribery made it to the political appointee level of the DOJ after January of 2009. And let us not let the ‘Rican Rural Telco group off the hook, who appear to be just shot through with the politically connected (although perhaps not going bigger in connection than the Governor of PR)
It is the cover up. The big story to me is that Holder, if the accusations are true, refused to take action against US attorney’s taking bribes because he wanted to avoid political embarrassment.
If that is true, how does Holder not get impeached?
Yeah, that’s the least well sourced part of the whole article. Everything else names and quotes, that part is all anonymous sources. If its a big enough deal to tell the newspaper, its big enough to put your name on.
“Not if you work for the people you are outing.”
My point is that if I care enough to tell the newspaper, I care enough to get myself shitcanned from the job. Plus, if I work for the feds and my performance reports suddenly change after doing so, I’m guaranteed to collect in a lawsuit.
I’ll be pretty surprised if Holder isn’t “spending more time with his family” by some time this summer.
Eric is no coward. He’ll stick around until the bitter end.
I’d say that’s less an indication of courage than of stubbornness. He knows damn well that resigning right before the election would be a blow to the administration’s and his own prestige.
Note to self: Use less-subtle sarcasm.
Sarcastic or not, if you’ve seen him talk, he comes across as someone who’s arrogant enough to think he can beat this.
Holder’s only hope for surviving F & F is to hold on like grim death.
Once he leaves, he becomes an easy scapegoat. You’ve all seen it in your offices – the guy who leaves suddenly takes the fall for anything that’s gone wrong, or goes wrong for the next few weeks/months.
“Oh yeah, that craptacular contract, I think Bill did that right before he left.”
Wait, why would bribing the governor of the USVI be worthwhile?
This seems like a big fucking deal. The story is extremely well sourced.
This is not exactly new behavior for this Administration. Remember the Kevin Johnson misappropriation of funds/sex scandal? The one where the Administration’s response was to fire the IG and defund its staff?
At this rate, dude is going to have to look up to Nixon for moral guidance.
Romney is polling huge in Nevada.
I guess that puts an end to the hope that Ron Paul would do better in the western states.
Lots of Mormons there dude…
Well, that is true for all of the western states, so why was everyone thinking he would do better there?
I’m not being sarcastic here, but is that true? I’ve heard of significant mormons in Idaho, Nevada and Utah of course, but how about places like NM or Colorado?
According to the LDS, yes. LDS facts and stats
Wow, interesting. Good point.
7% of the population hardly counts as a lot.
That’s still a pretty significant number if they mostly vote as a bloc. Blacks only make up about 13% of the population, but because they almost universally vote Democrat, they can swing elections in many cases.
Sounds like he needs to visit the Mustang Ranch.
+6″-8″
Plenty of Mormons there, which is likely part of the problem. I did a deal out there not too long ago and ran into that little factoid. Another one is Idaho.
Paul has to win a state soon, or it will be over. The media gets even worse when you don’t have magical momentum, though why I should care how someone did in another state is beyond me.
OK, if Mormons are the problem, Nevada has like 170,000 according to LDS statistics. Arizona has 387,000, Colorado has 142,000, Idaho has 414,000, and I don’t even think I have to mention Utah. What states does he have a chance in?
Iowa.
Which he may have won, but the media wont research it enough to let us know for sure.
If you’re talking about delegates, the delegates haven’t even been assigned yet.
If you’re talking about the actual vote, he didn’t win.
Im talking county delegates (for now) which were selected by the actual vote, which occured after the straw poll.
The county delegate count and distribution would give a good estimate of the eventual convention delegate count.
Iowa does not require county delegates to announce who they’re for.
So I can’t tell you who the 8 county delegates from my precinct will vote for at the county level.
I’m not saying he can’t win a state with Mormons in it. I just think it’s a factor in polling. They’re probably more enthusiastic and active than your average voter.
I had a couple knock on my door yesterday. After I sent them on their way, I realized I should have asked them who they were voting for and tried to convince them to vote for Paul. But I wanted them off my porch.
THE URKOBOLD HAD A COUPLE KNOCK ON HIS DOOR YESTERDAY. AFTER HE SENT THEM AWAY, HE REALIZED THEY WERE NAKED.
Montana? Wyoming?
“Paul has to win a state soon, or it will be over.”
What do you mean? It’s not necessarily about winning the nomination, it’s about getting the message out. He just has to keep running. In fact, as others drop out his numbers will actually increase.
It’s like the media can ignore him any more…
I don’t think Paul is running just to spread a message. The delegate count so far is quite low, and it’s possible Paul could pull a coup in a major state and shift the momentum. What do his numbers look like in California, for instance?
I am curious as to how he will do in the “Blue” West Coast states like Oregon and Washington…If he pushed that anti-war, pro-legalization stuff???
He’s definitely having trouble with people who think we’re all doomed if we don’t continue wars of questionable legality (from the constitutional point of view, that is). If the West has more of the less warlike GOP class, then he has a chance. Except for the Mormons.
CA is winner take all and he’s not going to win it.
I thought California was by congressional district?
It is, Tulpa was lying again.
Paul has to win a state soon, or it will be over.
Delegates at a brokered convention, biotches!
Yeah, I can totally see “Dr No” and his worshippers making the necessary compromises to form a coalition with some other candidate’s delegates.
Half the Ron Paul devotees here would blast him for going back on his principles, that’s for sure.
The Weekly Standard had a piece the other day saying that Romney can’t possibly accomodate Paul, even just for show at the convention, because there’s no possible compromise they can make that would satisfy Paul that wouldn’t outrage “normal” Republicans.
I just don’t think that’s true.
I think if Romney promised to aggressively clip the wings of the Fed, Paul would be happy and that wouldn’t alienate the standard GOP rank and file.
I also think that if Romney said, “I am not going to adopt Paul’s isolationism, but I pledge that there will be no attack on Iran without a declaration of war,” and made a handful of other procedural promises to bring the WoT back into conformity with the Constitution as Paul reads it, he could both satisfy Paul and not freak out the base.
Because ultimately the neocons could still have their little wars even if the Constitution was followed. How hard would it be for Romney to get a DoW against Iran on some trumped-up basis? Not that hard at all. Would it really be impossible to fight the WoT without the Bush and Obama-era executive power grabs? Not really. That’s where the potential compromise is: retaining the core GOP aggressive foreign policy, but compromising procedurally with the Paul camp.
I think that is about right. If Romney offered what you are saying here, it would be a momentous accomplishment by Paul. And what is the downside? Is Obama really going to run on a “save the fed from accountability” platform?
And they are not going to attack Iran without going to Congress anyway. And again, what is Obama going to say “I want to the right to go to war whether the American people and their representatives like it or not”.
And it wouldn’t be hard to roll back some of the WOT. You could spin it as, “we have won. We are safer now and we know how to do these things smarter and in a less intrusive manner”. What is the downside of that?
“”And it wouldn’t be hard to roll back some of the WOT. You could spin it as, “we have won.””
Many of the measures put in place for the WOT is not intended to go away, they will always need the WOT to justify those measures.
But then again maybe I’m giving the American public too much credit and once the measures become the norm, people will no longer really care why they are there.
There’s clearly an appetite for cutting government spending, so concessions in that direction could work. And, I agree, just some more adherence to rules when it comes to military actions could placate Paul.
Thank you.
Now, about those Cabinet positions …
c’mon people, you only have to buy the car, no one is forcing you to actually drive it.
I actually saw my first Volt on Monday. It is a truly uninspiring car. I might have seen one before, but didn’t recognize it as one because I thought it was some plus-sized model of the Cruze.
Say what you will about the Prius, but at least Toyota realized that it’s pointless to have an over-priced status symbol if it doesn’t look different from your other offerings.
Toyota was also willing to take a loss on the first few models to get the brand established. Once the SWPLs established it as a bourgeois status symbol, it became a lot easier for an average buyer to at least consider it for purchase.
COMMERCE CLAUSE!
FEEL THE POWER TO REGULATE COMMERCE AMONG THE STATES FLOW THROUGH YOU
“Nobody is buying the GM Volt People’s Car.
FTFY
Voltswagon FTW
+1, would recommend
“Republicans: Grasping Defeat From the Jaws of Victory Since….Forever?”
Luckily, like Maxwell Smart, the opposition is at least as hapless.
Fuck up? You mean you really thought the TP was a bunch of “anti-establishment” types???
I think, for a perhaps ever-so-brief period, they had seen and understood the negative economic effects of an overreaching state, yes. Call me a wide-eyed optimist.
What makes me angry here, though, is that ANYONE sees Gingrich as ANYTHING but the worst type of big government douchebag – the kind that will stick his dick in any and all possible big government scheme because he believes it will work.
I think the TP has fallen victim to the “Right People” fallacy. They can see the problem with our maxarchy when Obama is in charge, but think its not so much of a problem with the Right People in charge.
“”I think the TP has fallen victim to the “Right People” fallacy.””
The right people fallacy is similar to the slippery slope fallacy. They are not always a fallacy. Many of us think Ron Paul is the “right person” to put this country on a better track. Would Ron Paul do that, at least to the extent that the authority of the executive allows, or does it fall under the “right person” fallacy and Paul would be no better than the others?
The difference is that he wants to remove the power that the “right people” have.
I’m with you 1000% FOE on Newt. However, I guess you could call me one of the ‘skeptics’ as I didn’t quite view the Tea Part very positively due to the lack of support for Ron Paul. I see that I don’t have to change my views on them at all.
Like you can talk, Alice.
Am I the only one tired of the media’s hyperventilating over “SuperPacs?” Sure, I get they are new and playing a role and hence “news.” And Romney outspent the crap over Newt in Fl.
But without his SuperPac Newt would not have won SC.
Remember: Corporate-funded SuperPACs are evil, but unions spending as much as they want is free speech.
Er, you do realize that the law struck down in Citizens United applied to unions too, right?
Do I? Yes. Does the media? Yes, but they would prefer the peasants not.
everytime I read “SuperPac”, I have this panic attack (pac attack?) about being eaten by a 50ft PacMan while I’m wearing a costume that looks like two cherries.
+1
Most of the SuperPAC bullshit is actually people just upset about Romney’s success. Sarah Palin recently came out against them too. Nobody questions the millions that Newt got from some dumbass in Nevada, though.
I don’t really think the ‘media’ is after SuperPACs.
Get used to it. They are a beloved Lefty whipping boy and the hyperventilating therefore won’t be subsiding any time soon.
“They are a beloved Lefty whipping boy”
Actually, I think every GOP candidate has also criticized their role at some point…
I think that the establishment of both parties is probably upset that they can’t control the election narrative as much as they used to.
I’ve wondered if people care all that much. It strikes me as one of those issues that the media desperately want to be important and so they talk about it non-stop, but I can’t fathom regular people caring all that much.
The SuperPAC money has been used to actually inform voters.
Without the SuperPAC ads, the campaign would have consisted of Romney and Gingrich repeating stale bromides that are contradicted by their records over and over. With a dash of “November Version of Newt’s” fluffy clouds ads about morning in America.
That’s what I just don’t get about the journalist types who say they want a positive campaign. You know what you get when there’s a positive campaign? Content-free fluffy cloud ads about morning in America. OR candidates proposing nice-sounding plans they either have no chance of accomplishing OR that they have previously campaigned against OR that they proposed once before and then betrayed.
Yeah, I’m getting pretty tired of it too. It is just insane that these organizations who depend on freedom of the press to operate don’t seem to get the importance of taking the bad with the good when it comes to free press/speech.
I find the notion of the media hyperventilating over the notion that some unaccountable corporation could skew elections through political messaging to be tiresome. I would say ironic, except I imagine they are well aware of their privileged position and seek to maintain it.
Ron Paul: “Ok, I like a challenge. Hmm…no…Ah! I got it. I’m going to be completely honest with you, Washington Post. Old people were pretty much OK before Medicare.”
Washington Post: “Pretty much OK before Medicare…Oh, I would dearly love to not believe that were true. So I do!”
“The 1963 Survey of the Aged showed that seniors were paying especially high medical costs because they needed more care”
The lesser known Survey of the Fat showed that people who ate more had a tendency to have higher food costs.
What. The. Fuck? When has that changed? My grandmother has alzheimers and lives in a home with 24hr care. We spent the $300k from the sale of her condo on Long Island in about 3 years to care for her. Fuck these guys.
I have had three grandparents with Alzheimers and yeah, that kind of care is a money pit. After seeing how that goes for quite a few years, I have become convinced that Alzheimer’s wards should be unlocked and put out in the woods, so the inmates can just wander off and stop being such a useless, miserable, burden. I hope I am not coming off too harsh.
A big part of why medical costs have gone up at twice the rate of inflation the last 30 years has been people’s increasing refusal to admit that they aren’t going to live forever.
Eh. I won’t judge. On the silver lining side, my folks have taken the necessary steps to arrange their affairs such that they won’t be in the same situation. (I’m pretty sure my dad, in particular, has several plans for relieving his family of any burden if his mind starts to go.)
Shorter version: Paul was right but we are still going to call him a liar.
Must be a Thursday…
“We can’t disprove what Paul actually said, so we’re going to call bullshit on this other thing over here that he didn’t say.”
GM is focused on rehabilitating the Volt’s reputation. “It’s a tough road, but we’ve got to do it,” Reuss said.
We are totally committed to pounding more money down the rathole of “green cars” to satisfy our political masters.
“”GM is focused on rehabilitating the Volt’s reputation. “It’s a tough road, but we’ve got to do it,” Reuss said.””
He might not be bullshitting. Maybe they do have to do it according to their bailout rules. Government money comes with strings attached.
But the important thing is that we’re into February, and the fucking ground STILL hasn’t frozen solid in MI/OH/etc. And it was above 50 the last two days.
Therefore – CLIMATECHANGEZOMG!! I am SO looking forward to more of this!
But if you remind people of the record-breaking snowfalls in some areas last winter, that’s just the weather.
no, that was la nina…which is climate also
And how is the climateweathertemp in your region of the Buckeye state, Orin?
too warm for too long. no one ive talked to remembers anything like this. even the deniers have stopped talking except in whispers. 1/31 was 60 & sunny. >if this is climate change, I’ll take it !
And > 100 people died in the last week in Eastern Europe due to temps around -27 F.
It’s almost as if the weather patterns in a particular year vary by location in the world or something.
Oh, and Triple Asshole, this is no different from any of the recent warm winters we’ve had. LAST year was the weird one that was a whole lot like the late 70’s.
Last winter/spring, people were starting to get angry and violent because the snow and cold just would. not. end.
Then it rained for the next 6 weeks straight.
The flock of geese that lived in the lagoon in front of the Cleveland art museum last summer came back the other day. I guess it’s spring.
I know it’s the same flock because my old friend Gimpy Goose was with them. I recognized his fucked-up foot.
Yeah, I saw some geese in the Cleveland area, and more flying North in MI when I went home last weekend.
Or maybe they were just REEtard geese. I dunno. But they were definitely going North.
All geese are vermin
Gotta agree with you on this, o
I’m pretty sure there are groups of geese that overwinter as far north as they can bear because they get accustomed to people and their trash. Not all geese do the thousands-of-miles flapfest.
There are thousands of geese that winterover in Minneapolis every year.
Why haven’t you snared and eaten him yet, moron?
You save the gimpy ones for the days when you can’t catch the fit.
I’ve thought seriously about that, and about eating my other friend at that pond, the wildly out-of-place Muscovy duck.
I was out on the Eastern Shore of Maryland a couple of years ago. And in the middle of this wheat field was a large flock of turkeys. In the middle of that was this one lonely mallard. It was like he had decided to change species or something.
The geese shun him. He likes to hang out with the mallards, but they run away from him, too. I want to give him a hug.
Poor thing. If only you could find a female muscovy for him, all would be well. And geese are kind of nasty creatures.
Yes they are. I think my deep aversion and loathing of birds began when a nasty Canada goose pecked me when I tried to feed him as a kid. That or the ostrich who did the same thing. Evil, dead-eyed creatures.
They are just modern dinosaurs Dagny. I love birds. But they are a bit like cats. They are often very pretty and graceful. But if you know anything about their lives and habits, you find they are often vicious little bastards.
That they are. I keep 6 hummingbird feeders and zillions of them spend the summer here.
Such beautiful delicate creatures….that constantly beat the crap out of each other. Last summer one was even killed by two of the others.
havent you heard of turduckens? They were just waiting for the chicken to show up.
They were just waiting for the chicken to show up.
Chickens have no sense of punctuality.
Were you really in Cleveland? Like voluntarily in Cleveland?
According to the Pennsylvania rodent, we are going to get 6 more weeks of winter.
More thought was “more? when did it start?”
The thing about Groundhogs day is that it is 6 weeks before the end of winter.
Buckeye Chuck disagrees with that yinzer bastard.
We’re freezing our ass off here.
That’s because God is mad at you for…something.
/Pat Robertson
They’re going to be SOOOOO pissed when the global climate data for 2011 shows that it was a cold year.
The northeast United States is not the world. Europe is so cold right now that people are freezing to death all over. And the arctic is so cold that Alaska may turn into one giant glacier before spring comes.
What do you MEAN “norhteast US is not the world”? It is to US! And you can’t spell US without U_S!!!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
/pretty much most ‘murcans
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
Cold.
They agree.
Thanks for proving it.
This year tied 1997 as the 11th warmest year since records began in 1880.
I guess that could be considered cold if “cold” means “not one of the ten warmest years since 1880.”
A friend showed me a pic of her mothers house in Yakatat, Alaska and the snow is above the windows.
All of our cold (same situation in New England) seems to be in Eastern Europe. They have been having some sort of insane cold there.
“You can’t just say: ‘Here’s a name. Put him on the list.’ You’ve got to have articulable facts,” [the former chief of the Terrorist Screening Operations center] said.
Whew!
a name IS an articulable fact.
It’s a clean fact, too.
+subtle
nice!
Hopefully they don’t have to see the facts, just saying you have them should be enough. Transparency endangers us all!
Here’s my microagression of the day:
Today is my wife’s birthday. She only told one of her coworkers about it and said she couldn’t tell anyone else. We work for the same company. How can I get free cake if my wife won’t let anyone know it’s her birthday?
You’re supposed to set up a surprise cake for her, you jerk.
Screw that, she leaves for work before I even get out of bed.
Does she like to play the office status girls’ game? Send her a nice floral arrangement with a big happy birthday card. The free cake will take care of itself, b/c all the other jealous office ladies have to follow suit or show what callow bitches they are.
Note: this is my approximate understanding of how female heavy offices operate. I haven’t worked in one in about 8 years, so YMMV.
No, she actually told the coworker not to tell anyone because she didn’t want to make it into a big deal.
so she’s working some much-sneakier angle then…
Well of course she tells people that. Its part of the game.
(I’m being tongue-in-cheek here. I always worry about joking on people’s spouses (spice?). Its meant in good fun.)
No worries. My wife and I have been together for 22 years, I can tell this is one of the things she honestly doesn’t like making a big deal about.
Peace, I’m out.
Is that from something? We posted it once a while back, but no idea where it originated.
I haven’t been able to find where it’s from. The photography looks like it’s from a movie, I agree.
That’s what I was thinking. Or maybe a commercial.
“don’t call it a comeback, been here for years”
i forget what the commercial is for. a bank probably.
Washington Mutual? They used to have quirky commercials. Back before they decided to destroy my stock holdings in their bank.
rollup window for the win
Does anything come with rollup windows any more? Base-model Jeeps maybe? My ’04 Wrangler has them…
Why go to Snoop and Banjo’s wedding? http://www.bulawayo24.com/inde…..+jail.html
Learjet Lizzie the Limousine Liberal says she “realizes there are some wealthy individuals”–but she’s “not one of them”.
…but Learjet Lizzie is worth $14.5 million!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afd6DP5abMY
LOL, Lizzie.
What a strange revelation it’s been to find out recently that Elizabeth Warren is being called (or goes by??) Lizzie.
I’m not sure what you mean by that, but I had a girlfriend named Liz, once.
Yeah, she was my girlfriend.
Does Elizabeth Warren voluntarily go by that name? For someone as self-serious and credentialed as her, it’s not a name I would associate with her.
Upper class white people love stupid names. See for example, Scooter Libby, Pinch and Punch Salzburger.
I like the name “Lizzy” because it minimizes her seriousness–and because it sounds great with “Lizzy the Limousine Liberal” and “Lear Jet Lizzy”.
Learjet Lizzy, the Limousine Liberal, lies about her luxurious living.
See? It’s the “L”s”! If her name was Linda, I wouldn’t have to change a thing.
Lizzie Warren took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
Lizzy Warren took some facts
And gave the rich a hefty tax
When she saw what she had done
She gave the middle class a bigger one.
Bene factum!
High quality stuff.
Wealth is a state of mind. If you have the proper political consciousness, you cannot be wealthy. The wealthy are by definition the enemy of the people. And no one who has the proper political consciousness can ever be the enemy of the people and therefore cannot be wealthy.
A small business man in Montana making $150 a year who is pro second amendment and small government is wealthy. A Harvard professor earning a high six figure income who owns a Lear jet but holds the proper opinions, never wealthy.
See how it works?
no
That is because you are stupid Orin. How else could Lizzy claim not to be wealthy?
pray teh gay away john so you’ll feel othered.
It can be pretty confusing for average people, though.
When someone like Lizzie the Limousine Liberal, who claims, “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they [Occupy Wall Street] do”…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..30974.html
…but who also makes $450,000 a year–not including the consulting income she gets from her corporate clients?
It’s hard for, say, little stupid freedom loving small business people who merely net $250,000 a year? To understand how someone can lead the charge against them and their interests in the name of appealing to the poor–and could be such a disgusting liar about her own wealth.
How dare someone point out how Lizzie the Limousine Liberal lies about her wealth! There should be a law against telling people the truth in campaign advertising, I tell ya!
But Ken, she means well.
No she doesn’t.
Anybody that demagogues to the poor like that–by going after the business people who would hire them?
Doesn’t mean well.
She’s like the Nancy Grace of economic policy. Nancy Grace doesn’t mean well; Nancy Grace means to make herself as famous and powerful as possible, and if she destroys the little people she interviews? That’s a small price to pay when the goal is self-aggrandizement.
Lizzie the Limousine Liberal is like that, too. If she can’t be in charge of TARP oversight to being the head of CFPA–because average Americans are too stupid to make choices for themselves… Then she wants Ted Kennedy’s old seat in the Senate. After that, who knows?
Lizzie the Limousine Liberal could be president someday, and isn’t that more important than crushing so many small business owners? If she wants to make an omelet, she’s gotta break some well-intentioned eggs!
Her intentions are base. She’s got the same intentions as Paris Hilton.
I totally agree. I was being snide. And I will have to remember the Nancy Grace comparison. She is like Nancy Grace for rich liberals.
No doubt!
The Nancy Grace of Liberals.
That’s a grave insult to Paris Hilton. You don’t have to be a Paris Hilton fan to realize she is morally superior to virtually any politician. She doesn’t dedicate her life to acquiring and wielding power over her fellow man like politicians.
Does anyone know who exactly the target audience of the GM volt was supposed to be, was it wealthy hippies ? If that is the case how can any be surprised by the flop.
The same people who buy priusi.
I always though the plural just remained prius, like with moose.
Maybe so. My thinking is that prius is a Greek word so should therefore have a plural with an “i”.
That would be Latin. If it were Greek it would be Prios/Prioi (if it is a masculine first declension).
The plural is priora. It is neuter 3rd declension, like opus/opera.
People who never, under any circumstances, drive more than 100 miles a day and want to be uncomfortable doing it?
some gullible fool who is willing to trust GM electronics/reliability?
The only GM vehicles I trust are their RWD models of yore – preferably with a carb sitting on top of the V8. Nice and stupid (and easy to fix).
I thought The Humungus was a Ford man.
I think that there are a lot of people who would like an electric car. But they would like one that costs less, not more.
The Volt was supposed to be the Prius of the common folk. Unfortunately, the common folk hate Priuses, so sales are regularly in the toilet. Congress was even nice enough to start a panic (remember “sudden unintended acceleration”?) about Toyota and haul their leaders up to the D.C. for a show trial.
Dude seems to know what he is talking about.
http://www.anonyweb.tk
Oh anon bot – so good to see you again. LOL!
Romney is polling huge in Nevada.
Fuck. I was sort of hoping Paul would do better considering that Nevada is the West. It is a lot more libertarianish (i.e. walking around vegas looking at hookers with an open container) sort of state. But there are a lot of Mormons that live in Vegas. They have a nice temple there.
The polls looked that way last time too. Paul dramatically overperformed because literally almost no one actually shows up for the caucus.
Isn’t Nevada full of old people? And don’t old people hate Paul?
Momos
Mormon temples have a predilection for that cheesy Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Castle look.
The one in DC on Connecticut Avenue at the beltway is awful. Years ago someone painted “Surrender Dorothy” on an old railroad bridge that runs across the beltway just as you approach the thing. It got painted over. But it was probably the best piece of graffiti ever written on the Eastern Seaboard.
I remember that graffiti. I never got out that way much, so it made me damn near wreck the car laughing the first time I saw it.
The placement of it was just perfect. The giant ugly building just kind of floats above the trees and the beltway is headed right for it there. And then right under it on that bridge was “Surrender Dorothy”
That cracks me up every time I drive under that bridge. you can see they just painted over the letters.
That piece of graffiti is legendary.
Some of them are pretty interesting–the one in Mesa, AZ, for example, is a favorite of mine, and the one in Vernal, Utah, looks like a 18th century town hall.
How dare someone point out how Lizzie the Limousine Liberal lies about her wealth! There should be a law against telling people the truth in campaign advertising, I tell ya!
It’s funny how the most worsetest type of “attack ad” is the one which provides factual information about one’s opponent. Political ads should only have gauzy shots of happy children, with patriotic music playing in the background. Because that’s the truth behind the reality.
Funny that, isn’t it. The more true an ad is, the more the politicians hate it.
Jezebel is shocked-SHOCKED!-to find that the Susan G. Komen foundation is more interested in money than a cure.
Say it with me, libertarians, “NO SHIT SHERLOCK.”
The fact that they are mystified that this good organization could turn into a bad organization is so weird to me. Call me a cynic, but I kind of always distrust big organizations. Companies I trust more, because many can fail if they start to shit it up, but the idea of mission creep and ignoring the original goals happens to all things. KFC was once a roadside dinner in a gas station.
Also, this is red meat for John- one of the things that the Jezzies are squicked about is that the Susan G. Komen foundation is run by a *shudder* Republican.
Lastly, I will say this. It is interesting that Susan G. hadn’t lost these women when it hocked products containing carcinogens or -ugh- guns. No, it was not funding Planned Parenthood any more because they provide abortions with non-Susan G money.
Jezebel is shocked-SHOCKED!-to find that the Susan G. Komen foundation is more interested in money than a cure.
Say it with me, libertarians, “NO SHIT SHERLOCK.”
The fact that they are mystified that this good organization could turn into a bad organization is so weird to me. Call me a cynic, but I kind of always distrust big organizations. Companies I trust more, because many can fail if they start to shit it up, but the idea of mission creep and ignoring the original goals happens to all things. KFC was once a roadside dinner in a gas station.
Also, this is red meat for John- one of the things that the Jezzies are squicked about is that the Susan G. Komen foundation is run by a *shudder* Republican.
Lastly, I will say this. It is interesting that Susan G. hadn’t lost these women when it hocked products containing carcinogens or -ugh- guns. No, it was not funding Planned Parenthood any more because they provide abortions with non-Susan G money.
That is all feminists care about. You could lock women up in cages in this country and the jezzebellites wouldn’t care as long as they had access to free abortions.
which begs the question, who bangs em?
Good question. My guess would be previously approved and properly vetted metro sexuals.
Who ask permission for each kiss.
Nobody, which is the basis for much of the bitching going on over there.
“…the Susan G. Komen foundation is more interested in money than a cure.”
This is basically true of all advocacy organizations, whether it be Komen, the Amercian Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, or any of them. They have no interest in curing the diseases for which they advocate, as that would end the racket. They’re no better than the poverty pimps or any others who make huge money off of perpetuating tragedy. That’s a reason why the “raising awareness”/feel good for doing nothing psychology totally pisses me off. That’s all these organizations are, and they rake in loads of dough that could be going to cures, but don’t b/c they go to office space, salaries, and marketing.
Lie to me, Jerry!
Well, everyone knows that Republicans all want people to die of breast cancer.
Microaggression trolled, told “Ze” and “Cisgender” not real words.
And here was the comment that spawned it:
I’m in an Adolescent Development class, and I’m reviewing the slides and one slide about socio-economic status and achievement stated: Reasons for worse school performance of poor youth? They begin school with a distinct academic disadvantage (scoring lower on tests of basic skills). Genetic (lower IQ) and environmental (less cultural and social capital) disadvantages.
How is deleting your comments not microaggression?
You should tell them how marginalized you feel because your use of standard English is not being respected.
On a slightly more serious note, I would really like to ask these people if they realize that they actually, specifically invented the “cis-” words in order to “other” people. I mean that literally. It’s an amazing mindfuck when you think about it.
They didn’t invent them, don’t give them that much credit. they just repurposed them. cis- and trans- are prefixes (rarely used anymore) to describe opposite chiralities of molecules.
No, I know that, and I didn’t mean the “they” of the microaggression site but the “they” of identity politics in general.
Here’s my ad campaign for the VOLT:
“Why do I drive a VOLT? Because it’s a hair shit you wear on the outside, for all the world to see.”
+1. That is all a Prius is. They are ugly, unsafe, handle like a motorized brick, have no interior room and cost a fortune. And the only people who buy them are people who obviously have enough money to buy about any car they want. You never see a Prius in the ghetto, unless it is being driven by some hipster in the process of gentrifying the area.
Tell me about it. One of the first snows of the season here in Mass, I was stuck driving down a steep hill between a Prius. The guy was struggling to maintain control; gravity was calling that heavy battery pack, and its little bitty tires were resisting like a raver on Ecstasy.
an artful depiction. would read again, +1.
The people I know who drive Priuses seem to like them pretty well. I have never driven or been in one, so I have no personal opinion.
The thing that always gets me about the Prius is it’s really unimpressive mileage. I had a car with a carburetor that did better than what a Prius typically gets.
“Because it’s a hair shit you wear on the outside”
Priceless
So, for work yesterday (I work in politics), I had to go to two Rick Santorum rallies. The second featured James Dobson.
The local Wallmart has been cleared of bleach and I’m still not clean.
The local Wallmart has been cleared of bleach
that’s why you dilute the bleach with amonnia, duh.
At the Dobson event, you mean.
Here’s a question: Let’s say you have a VOLT. Let’s further say you live in Houston, or Tampa, where it’s hot and humid, and air conditioning is ESSENTIAL. How long do your batteries really last when they are adding heat to the passenger compartment as you drain them to run the A/C?
A lot less than 40 miles.
That’s why they have the gas engine. TO run the AC to keep the batteries cool.
“hair shit” OOPS
stupid keyboard
RC’z Law looms large, P.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Planned Parenthood’s relationship with the Girl Scouts of America is “very valuable,” Wednesday, at a congressional reception to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the organization for young girls.
Rep. Pelosi was featured at the reception with a group of female government leaders to promote the Girl Scout’s new initiative “To Get Her There,” which seeks to create “gender balanced leadership” in one generation.
After the event CNSNews.com asked Pelosi: “The Girl Scouts has had some ties to Planned Parenthood, do you think that’s a valuable relationship to have working together?”
“The Girl Scouts have relationships with many organizations,” Rep. Pelosi replied.
“And, yes, I think they are all very valuable.”
The Girl Scouts have been linked to the nation’s largest abortion provider in the past. In 2010, a panel sponsored by the Girl Scouts USA at the United Nations Commission featured a Planned Parenthood pamphlet called “Healthy, Happy and Hot,” according to published reports.
A portion of the pamphlet read: “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse. But there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex. Sex can include kissing, touching, licking, tickling, sucking and cuddling. Some people like to have aggressive sex, while others like to have soft sex and slow sex with their partners. There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!”
http://cnsnews.com/news/articl…..y-valuable
That is horrible. Is there any part of children’ lives that someone doesn’t want to either sexualize or politicize? Jesus Christ, a girl cannot even join the girl scouts without being bombarded with sex.
I guess there is no time or no place for anything anymore.
What is wrong with you John?
I am 110 percent behind combining Girl Scout uniforms with the White Tigress Tradition.
Because it would be nice if there were activities kids could do that didn’t involve sex education. It is the Girl Scouts for Christ’s sake. Why can’t they just camp and do craft? Why get into all of this? The only reason I can see is just to fuck with people and see if they can get parents angry.
Perhaps sticking to sex-educating one’s own children would be appropriate. Assuming others are incapable of doing so sounds alot like the rationale of the sugar-banners.
“I consider some sort of “sex education” appropriate for the older kids.”
I don’t see that. There is more to moral education that sex. And where does it say it has to involve everything. Can’t we leave the sex to parents? I think there is enough moral education out there to keep the scouts busy without getting involved with this. What does this accomplish other than to cause a huge fight?
Again, the current Directors and Leaders of the Scouting movement have chosen to include sex education as part of its moral education curriculum. You’re free to not have your child be part of the Scouts.
Perhaps the Campfire Girls might be closer to your liking.
The leaders are wrong. And my wife is a life time girl scout. But at this point, I doubt I would want my daughter to join. And that is a shame. Another institution ruined by the fucking culture war.
“Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse.”
It’s good to see that they are prepping the girls to say yes to anal.
I’ve seen the new Boy Scout Handbook and find it to be ridiculous compared to the older versions.
There’s a section on what to do if you think someone is inappropriately touching you during wrestling. Whereas, I did not see old practical information on how to shit in the woods anymore.
leave no trace. pack out what you pack in. there is no more shitting in the woods.
I’ve seen the new Boy Scout Handbook and find it to be ridiculous compared to the older versions.
The older versions from the 1960s are pretty awesome–lots of instruction on what we’d consider basic survival skills and industrial arts.
For all of his commitment to setting up a organization with morals that he and his Georgian colleagues could approve of, Baden Powell’s organization was explicitly a paramilitary one. It was there to provide a cadre of young men qualified to join the Scouts of the British Army (during his time in the Boer War he had a hard time getting leaders for those units).
Thus the uniforms and ranks and saluting and organization into a hierarchy with self sufficient mobile squads at it’s heart.
Of course, the US and World organizations never had that mission, but I like to keep that history in mind.
For all of his commitment to setting up a organization with morals that he and his Georgian colleagues could approve of, Baden Powell’s organization was explicitly a paramilitary one.
Don’t disagree with this at all. If anything, the Boy Scouts as originally set up are a perfect representative of British culture at that time, particularly the hierarchical organization you refer to. It’s right in line with the industrialization of the country and its subsequent cultural impacts–the desire to put restless human masses into understandable categories that can be directed and controlled under a common purpose.
And yes, the 1950’s Handbook was much better than the 1980’s one (I haven’t seen the more recent ones) even though some of the first aid advice was out of date. The 1980’s Fieldbook on the other hand was a pretty dinkum survival manual.
I find this comment ironic.
Really? Why is that? Why is it so unreasonable for parents to think they are not signing their daughter up for sex ed when they sign her up for Girl Scouts? What exactly is political about objecting to that?
If fact I see no reason why the Girl Scouts would be involved with Planned Parenthood other than to make a political statement. It is newspeak of the first order to then claim that the people who object to this are “politicizing things”.
But hey NM, Planned Parenthood is your tribe. So I have no doubt you will defend them.
????
I find it ironic that you comment on the tendency to “either sexualize or politicize” everything, given the habitual content of your comments.
I didn’t say anything about the Girl Scouts or Planned Parenthood.
To walk John through this:
Really? Why is that? Why is it so unreasonable for parents to think they are not signing their daughter up for sex ed when they sign her up for Girl Scouts?
I didn’t say it was.
What exactly is political about objecting to that?
It depends upon WHY you are objecting to it, of course, but this is very much a political issue in our country because many people make the topic of sex one that political parties need to have a position on.
If fact I see no reason why the Girl Scouts would be involved with Planned Parenthood other than to make a political statement.
The fact that you see a political agenda to this involvement is why your comment is ironic.
It is newspeak of the first order to then claim that the people who object to this are “politicizing things”.
More irony. You are complaining about politicizing things while politicizing things.
But hey NM, Planned Parenthood is your tribe. So I have no doubt you will defend them.
And then you double-down. How is Planned Parenthood “my tribe”? Are you saying they are a political organization because they provide family planning services? How is that political? The answer, of course, is because some (like you, John) want to make that a political issue out of that service. Your lack of self-awareness is astounding.
Are they giving these pamphlets to 10 year olds? I’d agree that that is inappropriate. But if it is high school age girls, it seems reasonable. Girl Scouts is supposed to be an educational group. Sex is a large and important part of life. Why not educate people about the fun parts of sex as well as the dangers? It’s a voluntary organization, people don’t have to participate if they object.
Full body scanners at the Superbowl?
http://www.infowars.com/full-b…..bowl-2012/
I had to go to two Rick Santorum rallies. The second featured James Dobson.
[insert Nelson Muntz quote]
There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!
Wait- is this supposed to be bad?
“No, girls, you’re supposed to hate yourselves, and your bodies are a trick by Satan to lure you to everlasting damnation.”
Fuck off.
That is not the point. Why does sex have to be involved in everything? How about we have activities that don’t involve sex? I would think Girl Scouts would be one of those activities.
Uh….I think his point was that the Girl Scouts have no place talking about sex at all.
If I had a daughter in the scouts I wouldnt want them telling her anything about sex, that is my job.
Good point. However I think part of the problem is that many parents were not aware of the sex-education angle as it was being applied surreptitiously.
Well, if a particular Scout troop is not upfront about the organization’s beliefs, that is wrong. However, parents should also do their own research as to what any organization believes and teaches. For example, there should be no excuse for an atheist to complain about not being able to express their ideology in the Scouting movement. The religious beliefs of the Scouts are clear (“A Scout is reverent.” Duty to [insert Deity, usually God, but for me and my daughter we say ‘The Dharma’] and my Country, etc.)
The same thing with sexual morality. I think most people have a problem because when they think “Boy/Girl Scouts”, they think of the young ones. However, Scouting organizations can have members up to 25 years of age (Explorers and such). I believe the moral education I received through the Scouting movement was positive, and as such I chose to allow my daughter to participate.
Agreed. If they are up-front about it, parents are free to choose either way. I have no problem with that.
Doing it on the sly, as some have, indicates that they knew full well parents would have a fit if they knew. That immediately sets off my ‘scumbag’ detector and makes my hair stand up.
oh….and here is a clue…..
Nancy Pelosi defends it.
Other people might disagree. You are not in charge of the Girl Scouts.
Paul Ryan just asked Bernanke why the Fed is destroying savings and fucking every single saver in the country by holding interest rates at zero. Bernanke stammered and stuttered out something which sounded to me a lot like, “Well, we don’t work for the people, we’re here to facilitate government deficit spending.”
He couldn’t have said that or anything close to it because it’s true.
Bernanke stammered and stuttered out something which sounded to me a lot like, “Well, we don’t work for the people, we’re here to facilitate government deficit spending.”
As well as the production of consumer credit-driven economic bubbles.
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Winter has another flight.
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Winter will not come again.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells Egyptians to not use the U.S. Constitution as a template for their constitution. Because ours is so old.
Video.
She recommends Canada and South Africa’s constitutions as examples but then says the constitution should protect from government censorship.
Now I might be mistaken, but don’t both South Africa and Canada have limitations on speech written explicitly into their constitutions?
They have much lower protections of such yes. And good to see Ruth has no respect for the document she has sworn to uphold.
That isnt exactly breaking news
“”And good to see Ruth has no respect for the document she has sworn to uphold.”‘
Does any of them?
I’ve written off SCOTUS respect for the Constutition long ago.
I’d extend this to most of the governing class. Look, for example, how we guided the Iraqis in creating their new government. US-style constitution and institutions? Pshaw! We wrote them a document that guarantees health care and “provide[s] prosperity and employment opportunities to the region”. We also spent big money on creating a federal police force that would horrify us had we one similar.
Ginsburg had one interesting quote: A constitution… will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. If the people don’t care, then the best constitution in the world won’t make any difference.
Based on this standard, the US constitution means nothing. Americans yearn for free stuff, not liberty and freedom.
I’m fine with ours being used as a template, but I suggest theirs is much stronger when it comes to protecting the rights of the citizenry.
I’m beginning to get more sympathetic to Gingrich’s plan to haul Justices in front of Congress to explain themselves.
WTF, Ruth? You think the Constitution is outdated and inferior, maybe you should fucking resign.
Bring on the Constitutional Convention, but don’t be surprised when explicit right to carry firearms and banning of abortion at the federal level are written into the new version. As well as having a document that’s about 100x as long, spelling out in painful detail things that are important now and won’t be in 50 years.
I like Ruth Bader Ginsburg better like this.
There was also a fascinating bit of mumbo-jumbo about how full employment and price stability are not contradictory goals, and the Fed has everything under control.
Why a bank is supposed to have “full employment” as a mandate has always been a mystery to me.
And how a bank that has “price stability” as a mandate, yet has instituted inflation as a matter of policy that has amounted to many multiples, is a complete gobsmacker.
you’re just not smart enough to be a TOP. MAN.
get back to your tractor pulls.
As we all know, children in their mid-teens would never, ever think about sex if some grownup wasn’t there to bring it up.
That is just the point Brooks. They think about sex all of the time. So why exactly do we need the Scouts bringing it up?
That is why these things are laughable and insulting. The last thing they need is to be told about sex. Reading about sex is for old perverts. The young have no problem figuring out sex.
Hey, who are you calling old??
Alright guys, sex is like a curveball. It takes some practice to throw and it takes some practice to hit it. And, if done properly, you’ll be very successful. But, if you start throwing a curveball too young, you’ll hurt yourself. Also, if you are expecting curveballs, the safest thing to do is lay off and take a walk or wait for an easier pitch to hit. There’s no reason to get aggressive up there when you do the team just as much good by waiting for an easier pitch to hit. You have to remember that even if the pitcher is successful throwing curves this young, he’s only hurting himself in the future.
I think it goes back to what Chesterton remarked on regarding the substitution of institutions as Ideas (for example, Education) for the responsibilities traditionally provided by the family. By taking over those perogatives and subverting the authority of wisdom and experience in favor of the fashionable, the proponents of the institutions gain greater power and influence over society.
A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.
The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.
The bribed officials, an attorney with knowledge of the investigation told TheDC, remain on the taxpayers’ payroll at the Justice Department without any accountability. The DOJ source said Holder does not want to admit public officials accepted bribes while under his leadership.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02…..z1lF0dMd5x
….and is claiming executive privilege to keep from testifying about his lying to congress when questioned about fast and furious….
Looking at this guy’s interpretation of the law reminds me of an oppositional-defiant 10 year old’s interpretation of his parents rules.
Holder seriously needs to be in jail, at the very least.
I would be surprised if Romney doesn’t beat Paul in Nevada despite the caucuses — Nevada is one of the more LDS states (next door to Utah), and LDS voters are gonna show up disproportionately in Republican primaries.
Nevada has a strong libertarian streak, but I don’t think that is enough to overcome the above.
Same deal for Idaho, Wyoming, and to a lesser extent, Arizona.
The older versions from the 1960s are pretty awesome–lots of instruction on what we’d consider basic survival skills and industrial arts.
Fifty year old Boy Scout Handbooks are terrorist training manuals; these books must be rounded up and destroyed.
and we need massive federal control of the internet to stamp out any digital backups that might exist.
By taking over those perogatives and subverting the authority of wisdom and experience in favor of the fashionable, the proponents of the institutions gain greater power and influence over society.
It’s also a convenient excuse for abdicating responsibility for your actions. I call it “expertism”. We are told to defer to the better judgement and expertise of the Expert Class; this absolves us of doing our homework.
I told somebody recently who was whining about evul financial derivatives that “Buyer Beware” was the ultimate rule. You know, If you don’t understand it, DON’T BUY IT.” His response was, “But people trusted the regulators; why would these financial instruments be for sale if they weren’t ‘safe’? It was teh deregglayshunz what done us in.”
It was certainly not a combination of greed, ignorance, and sloth. That would be hurtful fingerpointing.
Some idiot forgot to close my “bold” tag.
Now, now, Paul.
You can’t go around trying to be logical about these things.
Proper procedures were followed and are guys got to play dress up, so it’s all good.
Best. Caption. Ever.