Morning Thread (3-30-2016)

May your day be extra humpy.

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:10 AM (p4UlV)

2 Not first! But hey, shiny new thread smell.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 30, 2016 06:11 AM (J+mig)

3 So, nu?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:12 AM (p4UlV)

4 Good Morning Morons. Today is Wednesday, March 30, 2016. On this day in 1842 ether anesthesia was used for the first time, in an operation by the GA surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)

5 The families of US personnel in Southern Turkey were ordered out of the country yesterday afternoon. There is a lot of speculation as to the reason why.

http://tinyurl.com/z3a2mnv

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)

6 States are slowly reestablishing the requirement that welfare recipients work before getting benefits restoring reforms that the Gingrich congress had put in and pharaoh Obama took out with his pen and phone.

http://tinyurl.com/jo7euvg

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)

7 Trump is standing by his campaign manager over the alleged "arm incident" which is a huge nothing burger to me.

http://tinyurl.com/hu26o6o

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)

8 {sigh} Plenty humpy here. It's my birthday...the big seven zero. I was happily forgetting it when e-mails showed up reminding me. Why do people even celebrate birthdays after the landmark age of twenty-one?

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (NheJK)

9 Obama's far left SCOTUS pick is meeting with fake Republican Mark Kirk who broke ranks with his colleagues. So now the gates are open for bringing this communist to the floor for an unprecedented vote for a late term appointment. Will the Republicans fold? It looks like the bend is on.

http://tinyurl.com/gwq9ms8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (vvmPQ)

10 A second federal judge has weighed into the Scankles e-mail case and ruled that the case may be expanded due to lies and foot dragging by Clinton.

http://tinyurl.com/gnxxdvq

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (vvmPQ)

11 14 Detroit officials, 12 of whom were school principles, have been charged with fraud, bribery, and other crimes. Recall Detroit has been an exclusive Democrat run city since the 60s. It is now a cesspool of crime and failure.

http://tinyurl.com/jlp699k

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (vvmPQ)

12 The NC AG says he will not defend the NC law that prohibits individual cities from passing their own pro-Gay discrimination laws which would create a patchwork of different laws across the State. In that case he should be removed from office. The liberals were quick to pull that local county clerk who refused to issue marriage license to gay couples, why not this turd?

http://tinyurl.com/jjbb476

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (vvmPQ)

13 Scariest bridge in America? I don't think so. I have driven across that bridge and it was no big whoop.

http://tinyurl.com/jrftwul

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:16 AM (vvmPQ)

14 Militant atheists have their panties all in a knot over a water tower in OK with the name of a church on the side. The town needed a new water tower due to expanding population but the land they needed was owned by a local Baptist church. The church agreed to allow them an easement to build the tower on their land as long as they put the name of their church on the side. The town agreed and so it happened.

Now a group of out of State radical anti-religion assholes are threatening court action if they do not remove the sign. So far the town as told them to piss up a rope and they refuse to knuckle under. Good for them. And should the out of State assholes seek court action they would never get it in an honest court. Since they are out of State it would be impossible to get standing since they live nowhere near the water tower and thus have no injury to address.

http://tinyurl.com/gku3bhc

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:16 AM (vvmPQ)

15 The German interior Minister says he will push for a law that orders their new wave of muzzie migrants to learn German and integrate or get out.

http://tinyurl.com/zbjcq5z

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:16 AM (vvmPQ)

16 RINO Ryan will have a conservative challenger in his primary. I predict the RNCe will circle the wagons and protect him just like MS Thad.

http://tinyurl.com/z24djps

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:17 AM (vvmPQ)

17 More pharaoh Obama illegal activities at the border.

Thousands of Cubans rushing the U.S. border in record numbers are being greeted with a Welcome Wagon operation [that] provides them with taxpayer-funded benefits including cash, a Social Security card, food stamps, and Medicaid, according to a review of the latest immigration crisis on the border.

But impeachment and any other form of oversight is off the table.

http://tinyurl.com/hfdzm5j

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:17 AM (vvmPQ)

18 Citing unfair treatment by the RNCe Trump is withdrawing his pledge to support the Republican nominee for President if it is not him. I do not blame him.

http://tinyurl.com/gsuehr9

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:17 AM (vvmPQ)

19 Reporters were not happy with Obama for attacking them on vetting Presidential candidates, especially since he has been the beneficiary of that since he started running for office.

CNN's Jake Tapper had sharp words Tuesday for President Obama after the latter's lecture of the media the previous night, calling Obama a hypocrite because of his poor record on transparency since taking office.

Transparency has nothing to do with it Jake. The fact that you in the MFM have given him an ass-kissing free pass since he first started running for office is the issue.

http://tinyurl.com/z244ex3

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:17 AM (vvmPQ)

20 Manhattan judge rips into a thug who had been convicted of attempted murder of another black man, saying black lives don't matter to blacks with guns. He then sentenced him to 24 to 25 years in prison.

http://tinyurl.com/jcmq96f

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:18 AM (vvmPQ)

21 Alleged San Francisco State college employee assaults a white student trying to cut his hair because he had dreadlocks and she said it was appropriation of her black culture. San Francisco State says neither one involved were employees. No arrests have been made and no action will be taken by the school.

http://tinyurl.com/zgtbjks

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:18 AM (vvmPQ)

22 The man who tried to get the FBI to allow open carry at the Republican National Convention turns out to have been a Scankles supporter. IOW a Mobi.

http://tinyurl.com/jjt2mku

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:18 AM (vvmPQ)

23 I am confused here. A transgender woman has been sexually assaulted in a unisex bathroom in Greenwich Village. Was it a fake woman or a fake man? The picture shows a man but does not look like a fake man.

http://tinyurl.com/j2auwe2

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:18 AM (vvmPQ)

24 17 ME muzzies detained and released after an orgy of weapons firing in the desert near apple Valley, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/zqhok9r

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:19 AM (vvmPQ)

25 Commie Cuomo bans State employees from traveling to NC. I have an idea for NC, pass a law making it illegal for residents of NC to drive through the State and write tickets for the ones that do. Enforce idiot Cuomo's ban for him.

http://tinyurl.com/zakh7t8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:19 AM (vvmPQ)

26 RINO Rubio refuses to release his delegates at the Republican National Convention.

http://tinyurl.com/heulsgf

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:19 AM (vvmPQ)

27 Chicago bond debt reduced to near junk bond status. Democrat rule at work again just like Detroit. They are already getting federal taxpayer help, shortly they will be looking for a complete federal bailout and they will probably look for it before Obama gets away.

http://tinyurl.com/hya9yta

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:19 AM (vvmPQ)

28 Heritage report says common core is a leftist plot to centralize education in the US taking it away from local communities. This is only possible because we do not have an honest judicial system in this country.

http://tinyurl.com/zutdaqf

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:20 AM (vvmPQ)

29 The CA teacher bringing the case against the unions says her fight with the unions is not over. Maintains that her problem with the unions is that they support politicians and positions that she disagrees with.

http://tinyurl.com/jtlzkmc

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:20 AM (vvmPQ)

30 Republican leadership in the Senate says that there is no crack in their intention to not allow a vote on Obama's super liberal nomination for SCOTUS. This despite fake Republican Kirk kissing his ass.

http://tinyurl.com/hc3rz9n

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:20 AM (vvmPQ)

31 Researchers investigate the US welfare system and lo and behold, they find the obvious.

http://tinyurl.com/h2dafd7

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:20 AM (vvmPQ)

32 Senators Cruz and Lee send a letter to the female Holder accusing the DOJ of bias favoring abortion clinics over churches. No shit. Why not raise a call to impeach her instead of more grandstanding rhetoric eh?

http://tinyurl.com/zm4d3ls

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:21 AM (vvmPQ)

33 Another AGW agitator leader admits that the push for global warming policies have nothing to do with global warming and a lot to do with the communist push for wealth redistribution.

http://tinyurl.com/huc6nxl

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:21 AM (vvmPQ)

34 Article by Thomas Sowell on the hypocrisy in the Senate over the nomination of a new SCOTUS judge.

http://tinyurl.com/glunx6d

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:21 AM (vvmPQ)

35 The Daily Deals

http://tinyurl.com/hy92sxk

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:22 AM (vvmPQ)

36 Happy birthday creeper.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:23 AM (vvmPQ)

37 Nice dump Vic
thanks for all your work

Posted by: Cicero Skip at March 30, 2016 06:23 AM (FIrEF)

38 Thanks, Vic, and sorry for interrupting. Didn't realize you were doing the news. My apologies.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:23 AM (NheJK)

39 7 Trump is standing by his campaign manager over the alleged "arm incident" which is a huge nothing burger to me.

http://tinyurl.com/hu26o6o

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)

Have to disagree with you on that. It's being blown off as a nothing burger, but the tape clearly shows Michelle Fields being grabbed and shoved.

Perhaps Mssrs. Trump and Lewandowski should have apologized to Ms. Fields, which was all she wanted. But, thugs gotta thug.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:24 AM (p4UlV)

40 Vic, you were NOT supposed to do that. We're trying to forget. But thank you.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:24 AM (NheJK)

41 Are there two different tapes of the Fields/Lewandowski incident?...because people sure don't seem to be seeing the same thing.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:25 AM (NheJK)

42 33 Another AGW agitator leader admits that the push for global warming policies have nothing to do with global warming and a lot to do with the communist push for wealth redistribution.

http://tinyurl.com/huc6nxl
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:21 AM (vvmPQ)

I guess they realize that socialism a la Bernie has more appeal straight up than the global warming fairy tale.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:26 AM (p4UlV)

43 Try again

25
Commie Cuomo bans State employees from traveling to NC. I have an idea
for NC, pass a law making it illegal for residents of NY to drive
through the State and write tickets for the ones that do. Enforce idiot
Cuomo's ban for him.

http://tinyurl.com/zakh7t8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:19 AM (vvmPQ)

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:26 AM (vvmPQ)

44 41 Are there two different tapes of the Fields/Lewandowski incident?...because people sure don't seem to be seeing the same thing.
Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:25 AM (NheJK)

Well, it seems the police have taken notice of what was on the tape(s).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:27 AM (p4UlV)

45 39 Have to disagree with you on that. It's being blown
off as a nothing burger, but the tape clearly shows Michelle Fields
being grabbed and shoved.

Perhaps Mssrs. Trump and Lewandowski should have apologized to Ms. Fields, which was all she wanted. But, thugs gotta thug.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:24 AM (p4UlV)

The we disagree, I have seen the tape and it IS a big nothing.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:28 AM (vvmPQ)

46 Sad to hear of Patty Duke's passing at 69. Fond memories of watching her eponymous show.

RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:28 AM (p4UlV)

47 Another AGW agitator leader admits that the push for global warming
policies have nothing to do with global warming and a lot to do with the
communist push for wealth redistribution.

http://tinyurl.com/huc6nxl

Just an observation. I'm in the Midwest, surrounded by windmills. As time goes by, more and more of them seem to be inoperative. It's looking like the craze may be dying down.

Funny they could spend a fortune building them but can't seem to find the funds to keep them going. Of course, that's the history of liberal government from day one.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:30 AM (NheJK)

48 44 Well, it seems the police have taken notice of what was on the tape(s).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:27 AM (p4UlV)

That means absolutely nothing. She filed stupid charges and they are obligate to process said charges whether they mean anything or not. Most likely the police will drop those charges down the road.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:31 AM (vvmPQ)

49 47 Just an observation. I'm in the Midwest, surrounded
by windmills. As time goes by, more and more of them seem to be
inoperative. It's looking like the craze may be dying down.

Funny
they could spend a fortune building them but can't seem to find the
funds to keep them going. Of course, that's the history of liberal
government from day one.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:30 AM (NheJK)

Those windmills are notoriously unreliable.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (vvmPQ)

50
Say what you will, Lewandoski was in fact charged with battery. And Trump's and Lewandoski's stories are full of more contradictions and, dare I say it, lies than a Swiss cheese.

Just like with Democrats, if this happened to Cruz or Kasich people would be calling for their scalps.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (p4UlV)

51 Off to get cataract surgery. I hope it works.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (RcpcZ)

52
May your day be extra humpy.

________________________

Mine as started out extra 'lumpy'....

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 30, 2016 06:33 AM (HSmrB)

53 51 Off to get cataract surgery. I hope it works.
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (RcpcZ)

Ooh. Hope it's easy, painless and successful.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:33 AM (p4UlV)

54
Gotta get shot at the allergist. Later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:33 AM (p4UlV)

55 50

Say what you will, Lewandoski was in fact charged with battery. And
Trump's and Lewandoski's stories are full of more contradictions and,
dare I say it, lies than a Swiss cheese.

Just like with Democrats, if this happened to Cruz or Kasich people would be calling for their scalps.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (p4UlV)

Do you now what the legal meaning of battery is? He gently moved her aside from what I saw. If had had stuck out his little pinky and gently touched her on the arm he still could have been charged with battery. It doesn't mean shit.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:34 AM (vvmPQ)

56 55 Just like with Democrats, if this happened to Cruz or Kasich people would be calling for their scalps. J

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (p4UlV)

I would call for charges against Kashit for criminal stupidity.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:35 AM (vvmPQ)

57 I would also add a charge for false advertizing and impersonating a Republican.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:36 AM (vvmPQ)

58 Scariest bridge? I-10 In Louisiana, the one that looks like a roller coaster ride.

Posted by: Welcher Cleaveland at March 30, 2016 06:37 AM (mCKv9)

59 I've watched the Fields video over and over and I just don't get it.

Nothing. F'ing. Happened. It was a f--cking press scrum, and a rather mild one at that. And besides the fact that, well, nothing f--cking happened, there's Fields's troubling history of making these kinds of baseless claims.

One of our local conservative radio talk-show hosts, a Cruz supporter all the way, spent his whole show yesterday defending Lewandowski -much as I know he hated to do it- but he did it because it was the right thing to do. At least 75% of the Cruz supporters calling in agreed.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 30, 2016 06:37 AM (HMt16)

60 Those windmills are notoriously unreliable.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (vvmPQ)
Maintenance on them must be a bitch, given that they can be three hundred feet in the air.
Iowa is a major windmill producer. Until last year the local river terminal was handling hundreds of windmill parts. Suddenly that stopped and there hasn't been a blade through here in a year. Very few of them traveling on I-80 also.
Vic, do you see wind power as hopeless or are we just doing it wrong?

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:38 AM (NheJK)

61 >>> Vic, you were NOT supposed to do that. We're trying to forget. But thank you.

creeper, consider it an accomplishment. Getting old ain't for sissies.

Posted by: fluffy at March 30, 2016 06:39 AM (2hcmo)

62 Best of luck, Ed Anger.

Posted by: fluffy at March 30, 2016 06:40 AM (2hcmo)

63
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Thanks for the extra-large helping of news today, Vic.

The actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke - probably best known as the pharaoh Seti in The Ten Commandments - had a little unpleasantness happen when King George VI knighted him in 1934. As the actor knelt before the monarch, the Lord Chamberlain read out his name - "Cedric Hardwicke" - to which George barked, "Who?"

The chamberlain repeated the name, but the king didn't get it the second time, snapping, "Spell it."

But that didn't help either. As Hardwicke later wrote, the king finally whacked Sir Cedric on the back with his jeweled sword and dubbed him, rather testily, "Sir Samuel Pickwick."

And since I mentioned The Ten Commandments, here's a pic of Anne Baxter as Nefretiri:

http://goo.gl/ACMa57

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2016 06:40 AM (X6fMO)

64 The scariest bridge I ever drove across was an old wooden bridge on a dirt road across a swamp and stream down in the country in GA.

The bridge was in bad shape but it also had a broken plank standing up in the center of the bridge causing us to have to drive around it with the car tires riding actually partially off the right side of the bridge,

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:40 AM (vvmPQ)

65 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:33 AM (p4UlV)

Vi geyt es?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2016 06:41 AM (Zu3d9)

66 Thanks, fluffy. A hat tip to both you and Bette Davis.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:41 AM (NheJK)

67 The scariest bridge in the world is a little wooden bridge on Chappaquidick Island.

Posted by: Teddy Kennedy at March 30, 2016 06:42 AM (NheJK)

68 Yeah, it's totally legitimate that a hyper-partisan Democrat DA (and big-time Hillary supporter) would charge Trump's campaign manager with battery for *gasp* pulling a badgering reporter away from his boss after she was warned TWICE by the Secret Service to get away from Trump.

Can't see anything wrong with that scenario.

Posted by: Dogstar at March 30, 2016 06:42 AM (YP4En)

69 "Getting old ain't for sissies."-Vic

You got that right.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at March 30, 2016 06:43 AM (jN+3o)

70 70 is the new, well, not 21, but maybe 30 as it used to be envisioned. I can remember birthday parties for 30 featuring black balloons. I'd have cut a bitch, which could explain why parties just don't happen for me.

Used to be, by 40 you were expected to know something and act like a grownup. It's hard to say what would be the cutoff date for that now. "Only a number."

I know quite a few people who lead "perfectly normal" lives in their 80's, and a few over 90 who "still get around just fine." 70 can be a real good thing.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2016 06:45 AM (xq1UY)

71 And it doesn't matter how many Repubs meet with the SCOTUS pick. He won't be getting a hearing in Grassley's committee, so he won't be getting a vote.

End of story.

Posted by: Dogstar at March 30, 2016 06:45 AM (YP4En)

72 65 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:33 AM (p4UlV)

Vi geyt es?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2016 06:41 AM (Zu3d9)

Gornisht mit gornisht.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:45 AM (p4UlV)

73 http://goo.gl/ACMa57
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2016 06:40 AM (X6fMO)

Anne Baxter was gawjus but she had huge hands.

Posted by: Teddy Kennedy at March 30, 2016 06:45 AM (NheJK)

74 Grrr...Into the laundry with you, filthy sock.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:46 AM (NheJK)

75 60 Vic, do you see wind power as hopeless or are we just doing it wrong?

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:38 AM (NheJK)

Even if they were 100% reliable and ran continuously wind power would average 15 cents a KW/hr cost. That is many multiples higher than what regular power costs. But to add insult to injury they only run when the wind is blowing above a certain speed which in most places is not often. Throw in their high maintenance bills and it becomes insane. The last plant I worked at the average 3 year cost of generation was 0.3 cent/KWh

If we had not had an incompetent communist in the WH and two years of communist control in congress all those windmills would have never been built.

And Obama cronies are the ones that built them.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:47 AM (vvmPQ)

76 #63 George V? And I won't call you Shirley. King'd just get that wrong.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2016 06:47 AM (xq1UY)

77 Any male reporter would be laughed out of the room for making any kind of a deal out of that non-incident. Way to strike a blow for equality, Michelle Fields.

My gut all along on this is that she and her boyfriend cooked this up. He's a confirmed TDS'er (check his Twitter timeline) and it was he who was sending out the original Tweets, under the guise of "defending his girlfriend" (albeit in the most omega-male manner possible.)

Bruises, as everyone knows, don't show up for a day or two. They simply do not appear within hours of an injury. She or her boyfriend "inflicted" those tiny, superficial marks.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 30, 2016 06:48 AM (HMt16)

78 Have to disagree with you on that. It's being blown
off as a nothing burger, but the tape clearly shows Michelle Fields
being grabbed and shoved.

Perhaps Mssrs. Trump and Lewandowski should have apologized to Ms. Fields, which was all she wanted. But, thugs gotta thug.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 06:24 AM (p4UlV)

The we disagree, I have seen the tape and it IS a big nothing.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:28 AM (vvmPQ)

I'm with Vic. This is so ridiculous. I can't believe anyone is talking about it. Fields is a fraud and sounds like a Mizzou student.

Don't ever hire this "reporter." She will end up being a liability.

Here's Newt

http://bit.ly/1RpVGpe

And as usual Kelly is annoying.

People that are making a big deal of this are simply over the top anti-Trump.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 30, 2016 06:50 AM (mdo39)

79 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:47 AM (vvmPQ)

Okay. I'll put you in the "hopeless" column.

I still think we can do it profitably but we just haven't figured out how yet. For sure, what we're doing isn't working.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:50 AM (NheJK)

80
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2016 06:47 AM (xq1UY)

Yes, George V. Don't know why I was thinking of his son.

I need some tea.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2016 06:52 AM (X6fMO)

81 79 I still think we can do it profitably but we just haven't figured out how yet. For sure, what we're doing isn't working.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 06:50 AM (NheJK)

That is the whole aim of the commie windpower/solar power movement. Make all the other fuel sources so expensive to operate through insane regulations their crap becomes the cheaper option.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:53 AM (vvmPQ)

82 Trying to imagine what non-essential state business travel from NY to NC would be, anyway. Traffic engineer conference? Nasty symbolism, for sure, but in practice it cannot amount to much. It's the dirty, dirty thought that counts.

Everybody's suddenly the New South Africa, aren't they?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2016 06:53 AM (xq1UY)

83 And BTW, if the watermellons would just leave things alone the least expensive method of generation would settle around itself and there would be no issues.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:54 AM (vvmPQ)

84 VNN rocks.

Posted by: Valiant at March 30, 2016 06:54 AM (3MiF8)

85

Ted Cruz tells an AWESOME story about his mom during the CNN Townhall [VIDEO]

http://bit.ly/25vZDPB

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 30, 2016 06:54 AM (mdo39)

86 I'm no longer bound by my pledge to make my Wednesdays humpy.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 06:55 AM (DZ+I2)

87 82
Trying to imagine what non-essential state business travel from NY to NC
would be, anyway. Traffic engineer conference? Nasty symbolism, for
sure, but in practice it cannot amount to much. It's the dirty, dirty
thought that counts.

Everybody's suddenly the New South Africa, aren't they?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2016 06:53 AM (xq1UY)

Probably haigh and midlevel management State employees going down for conferences at Cape Hatteras or other beach locations in the Spring and Summer.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:56 AM (vvmPQ)

88 I don't see why Ms. Fields is making such a big deal out of a big nothing. It's like someone in the paparazzi bitching cause they got their foot stepped on.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at March 30, 2016 06:57 AM (I0sxh)

89

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 30, 2016 07:03 AM (HSmrB)

90 11 14 "Detroit officials, 12 of whom were school principles, have been charged with fraud, bribery, and other crimes. Recall Detroit has been an exclusive Democrat run city since the 60s. It is now a cesspool of crime and failure."

Hopefully, Rick Snyder, the republican governor, will apologize and take full responsibility, as he did when he poisoned all those kids in Flint.

It would help if Ted Cruz apologized too.

Because it's the best thing to do and shows we care about education, children and shit.

It's the high road.

Posted by: jwest at March 30, 2016 07:04 AM (Zs4uk)

91
Anne Baxter was gawjus but she had huge hands.

Whenever I see a picture of an actress in a DeMille film, I always look at the feet first. In his early days - I don't know how long the fetish continued - DeMille was notorious for having a thing about feet and it was well-known around the casting offices that an actress stood a much better chance of getting a part in one of his movies if she had pleasant pedal extremities.*

Paulette Goddard took the rumor to its logical extent when she was trying out for 1940s North West Mounted Police, marching into DeMille's office and putting her bare feet up on his desk.

She got the part.

*but don't wear toenail polish. DeMille hated that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2016 07:06 AM (X6fMO)

92 In an official statement first obtained by Breitbart Texas, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorsed Donald Trump for President of the United States. The unusually bold statement comes just days after a senior policy adviser for Trump made clear that future U.S. border security policy would be largely determined by the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol who are actual agents protecting the border and not by politically-appointed bureaucrats in the Border Patrol or its parent agency, Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ), if Trump is elected.

The endorsement is the first-ever in a presidential primary for the NBPC. The agents' statement makes clear that Trump's public pledge to secure the border by turning to the actual agents in the NBPC is revolutionary and an opportunity never-before-seen and one that may never be seen again. They wrote, "Mr. Trump will take on special interest and embrace the ideas of rank-and-file Border Patrol agents rather than listening to the management yes-men who say whatever they are programmed to say. This is a refreshing change that we have not seen before - and may never see again."

breitbart

breakfast time

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 30, 2016 07:07 AM (mdo39)

93 With his meeting, Senator Mark Kirk affirmed my decision to vote against him in the IL primary. I will also vote against him in November.
With republicans like Kirk, who needs democrats?

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at March 30, 2016 07:09 AM (sJuKe)

94 You cannot power this country with windmills and solar. It is impossible.

Cheap energy is coal. Nuclear would be a great option but the powers that be don't want that so they regulate it so much it's not an option. Let's face the fact that the "greens" hate people and wish most of us would step off their earth.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at March 30, 2016 07:12 AM (I0sxh)

95 jwest clocks in early with some high level sarcasm.

Well played, sir.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2016 07:12 AM (fiGNd)

96 I seem to remember Miss Fields crying while getting jostled at an OWS event several years ago.

Posted by: redenzo at March 30, 2016 07:13 AM (WCnJW)

97 Here's an Anne Baxter trivia question:

What TWO villains did she portray on "Batman"?

Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 07:13 AM (DZ+I2)

98 Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at March 30, 2016 07:12 AM (I0sxh)

A mix of coal, nuclear and NG is probably our best bet.

It should be based on market forces, not the whims of anti-progress luddites.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2016 07:15 AM (Zu3d9)

99 Thanks for the news roundup Vic!!!

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at March 30, 2016 07:15 AM (22uju)

100 I don't see why Ms. Fields is making such a big deal out of a big nothing. It's like someone in the paparazzi bitching cause they got their foot stepped on.

Your words throw me to the ground and stomp on me.

Posted by: M. Fields at March 30, 2016 07:15 AM (Pby3z)

101 97 Here's an Anne Baxter trivia question:

What TWO villains did she portray on "Batman"?
Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 07:13 AM (DZ+I2)

I know she played Olga the Queen of the Gypsies. I forgot who else.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 07:20 AM (p4UlV)

102 Happy Birthday, creeper!

Posted by: sinalco at March 30, 2016 07:20 AM (yODqO)

103 85

Ted Cruz tells an AWESOME story about his mom during the CNN Townhall [VIDEO]

http://bit.ly/25vZDPB
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 30, 2016 06:54 AM (mdo39)

If she wasn't a mailman, it ain't worth shit.

/sarc

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 07:21 AM (p4UlV)

104 I know she played Olga the Queen of the Gypsies. I forgot who else.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 07:20 AM (p4UlV)
________

You (sort of) got them both.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 07:21 AM (DZ+I2)

105 Trump is standing by his campaign manager over the alleged "arm incident" which is a huge nothing burger to me.

http://tinyurl.com/hu26o6o

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)

I wasn't around here yesterday, I assume this was a kerfluffle? Words got said? Possible bannings?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2016 07:22 AM (Dj0WE)

106 33 Another AGW agitator leader admits that the push for global warming policies have nothing to do with global warming and a lot to do with the communist push for wealth redistribution.

....Which is retarded, sir, because the feed-in tariffs levied to subsidize the green-energy shit only raises utility rates which affect the poor the greatest. I have witnessed this first-hand in the Philippines, a country which could be mostly green anyway if they let the private sector just harness geothermal.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 30, 2016 07:22 AM (VMLbt)

107 >>>>Detroit officials, 12 of whom were school principles, have been charged
with fraud, bribery, and other crimes. Recall Detroit has been an
exclusive Democrat run city since the 60s. It is now a cesspool of crime
and failure.
.
.
.
.And Detroit Public Schools have the highest per student spending in all of Michigan and have the lowest HS graduation rate. Go figure.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2016 07:22 AM (iONHu)

108 I get confused some times. It's come back to me. I never used email.

Posted by: Hillary "Felon" Clinton at March 30, 2016 07:24 AM (22uju)

109 Hillary is my name, extortion is my game.

Posted by: Hillary at March 30, 2016 07:25 AM (22uju)

110 testing

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2016 07:26 AM (3X3ZR)

111 I took yesterday off to find a new car for my wife...

My daughter wants her current vehicle, so we went looking. With all the new technology available, I finally found something worth while.

Lexus and Toyota have a new option that feeds the conversation in the front seat through the speaker system so that the back seat occupants hear it in a normal volume.

As someone who is getting a bit older and who is constantly asking in crowded restaurants with loud background sounds "What?", I was amazed at how well this worked. As my wife drove and spoke with the salesman in the front, I sat in the back and marveled at how perfectly the sound was transferred.

My cars have all had built in microphones for the past 15 years or so. Where has this bit of magic been?

Posted by: jwest at March 30, 2016 07:26 AM (Zs4uk)

112 Cuomo in New York is ready to announce the $15 min. wage. That will hurt upstate business badly...But his union buddies don't care, and Cuomo likes the $ he get for re-election for the civil service unions.
All small business will think twice before investing in NY and probably look outside of the state for a new location. Non-profits, farmers, local governments are sure taxes will have to be raised...Welcome to NY....

http://www.minimumwagerealitycheck.com/the-real-cost-of-15-an-hour/

Posted by: colin at March 30, 2016 07:26 AM (6IZ5e)

113 ....Which is retarded, sir, because the feed-in tariffs levied to subsidize the green-energy shit only raises utility rates which affect the poor the greatest. I have witnessed this first-hand in the Philippines, a country which could be mostly green anyway if they let the private sector just harness geothermal.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 30, 2016 07:22 AM (VMLbt)

==============
Green energy destroys many more jobs than it creates and causes utilities to soar.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 30, 2016 07:26 AM (iQIUe)

114 Morning horde.

*better mood...better mood...better mood

Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 30, 2016 07:29 AM (biZSv)

115 G'mornin, Horde !
In Soviet Amerika, day hump you !

Thanks as always, Vic !

creeper, I've always seen it as a celebration of surviving another year; all the more so as my cohort dwindles .... so Happy Birthday and many more !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2016 07:29 AM (3X3ZR)

116 4 Good Morning Morons. Today is Wednesday, March 30, 2016. On this day in 1842 ether anesthesia was used for the first time,

Yay!

Posted by: Bill Cosby at March 30, 2016 07:29 AM (VMLbt)

117
They don't repair the windmills for obvious reasons:
Insufficient opportunities for graft.

Hat Tip to Glen Reynolds for that one. I been using it a lot lately.

Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at March 30, 2016 07:30 AM (HPNqc)

118 Happy birthday creeper!

Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 30, 2016 07:31 AM (biZSv)

119 Ed Anger, cataract surgery was the best decision I've made in a long time. Twelve years on and absolutely no issues. You will likely wear sunglasses outside from now on because it's really bright out there but I can see bugs fly off and watch them for forty yards. You will be a better shooter too.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at March 30, 2016 07:32 AM (xhytF)

120 51 Off to get cataract surgery. I hope it works.
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 30, 2016 06:32 AM (RcpcZ)

Good luck!

Posted by: sinalco at March 30, 2016 07:34 AM (yODqO)

121 Vic, great news links - thank you. Love, love, love that Manhattan judge. Not only did he lay into the perp, he also laid into the victim for lying. As for the bridge, I've gone over it lots and lots, and while it doesn't bother me, it does bother many people. My old roommate, who is now a pediatrician, couldn't drive over it. When we would go to the beach, if she was driving, she would pull over and have me drive across the bridge. In the olden days they used to have bridge employees who would drive the cars across. Now this young man seems to have himself quite the business. Good for him.

And happy birthday, creeper! It's funny, but the older I get, the younger 70 seems to get.

Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2016 07:34 AM (2WwbN)

122 Haven't seen anymore news about the biggest civil disobedience protest in a century, that is supposed to happen on April 4th.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2016 07:35 AM (cx+YA)

123 Humpist!

Posted by: IGor at March 30, 2016 07:36 AM (BO/km)

124 AM (2WwbN)
122 Haven't seen anymore news about the biggest civil disobedience protest in a century, that is supposed to happen on April 4th.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2016 07:35 AM (cx+YA)

The Soros funded 'walk?'

Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 30, 2016 07:36 AM (biZSv)

125 A week later its like Brussels never happened.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 30, 2016 07:37 AM (iQIUe)

126 With his meeting, Senator Mark Kirk affirmed my decision to vote against him in the IL primary. I will also vote against him in November.
With republicans like Kirk, who needs democrats?

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at March 30, 2016 07:09 AM (sJuKe)

The IL primary happened a couple of weeks ago. Mary Kirk won by a 3-1 margin. RINO is too mild a term for this sellout. He's running against Tammy Duckworthless and will probably lose and should. Not that I want that mouth in Washington

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2016 07:38 AM (45oDG)

127 I'm meeting with my CPA today. Fuzizzle.

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2016 07:39 AM (BO/km)

128 I love these "civil disobedience" events that are neither civil nor disobedient.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 07:39 AM (DZ+I2)

129
Bruce with a Wang said:
A week later its like Brussels never happened.

Television is possibly the worst calamity in the history of mankind.

Sez me.

Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at March 30, 2016 07:40 AM (HPNqc)

130 This insanity of raising the minimum wage is going to destroy the states and small businesses.

You cannot increase the cost of labor by 70pct and it not have serious deliterious effects on your micro and macro economy.

A great many people are going to discover very quickly that the true minimum wage is 0.00 dollars.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2016 07:42 AM (1toUZ)

131
Rob Astorino, Westchester County executive, on Levin last night talking about HUD's nationalization of community boards.

Latter part of hour 3.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 07:42 AM (p4UlV)

132 OK, fellow morons, I've got work to do. BBL.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2016 07:43 AM (X6fMO)

133 130 This insanity of raising the minimum wage is going to destroy the states and small businesses.

You cannot increase the cost of labor by 70pct and it not have serious deliterious effects on your micro and macro economy.

A great many people are going to discover very quickly that the true minimum wage is 0.00 dollars.
Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2016 07:42 AM (1toUZ)

Not to worry. President Trump's Smoot/Hawley 2 will be YUGE.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 07:43 AM (p4UlV)

134 I think that's the one. They are walking to the Capital and occupying said place until some nebulous goal is met.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2016 07:43 AM (cx+YA)

135 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2016 07:42 AM (p4UlV)

It is amazing that whatever these crypto-socialists touch they ruin.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2016 07:45 AM (Zu3d9)

136 Minimum wage should be raised to one scratch-off ticket per hour where the rate ($5 to $500) isn't revealed until payday.

But only people with minimum-wage jobs would be thusly paid.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 07:46 AM (DZ+I2)

137 Morning all.

why not this turd?

http://tinyurl.com/jjbb476

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (vvmPQ)

Because he is the Dems choice for the Governor's race this November.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at March 30, 2016 07:46 AM (jIgQw)

138 Teen girl gets PEPPER SPRAYED at Trump event after she asks pro-Donald supporter: 'Why are you at this rally if you're a grown man?'
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Headline leaves out that she was screaming Black Lives Matter and tried to punch him. A woman behind the guy sprayed her. She got what she deserved.

http://goo.gl/Qp4fVj

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 30, 2016 07:46 AM (iQIUe)

139 Just an observation. I'm in the Midwest, surrounded by windmills. As time goes by, more and more of them seem to be inoperative. It's looking like the craze may be dying down.

Funny they could spend a fortune building them but can't seem to find the funds to keep them going. Of course, that's the history of liberal government from day one.
Posted by: creeper

One of the core technologies I work with is vibration management system for aircraft and industrial equipment. Several years ago we made a push to the wind farm market - thought it made lots of sense. Uptime, lower maintenance costs, prop balance for efficient ops, extend TBO, etc. Based on decades of aviation experience.

Got the door slammed in our faces. The entire market was based on the construction subsidy/tax credit/kick back and the ongoing subsidy for having wind farms on your grid, NOT cost of operations or life cycle costs.

Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2016 07:47 AM (cXiMR)

140 This insanity of raising the minimum wage is going to destroy the states and small businesses.

All they've done is define poverty higher. In effect, they've raised their cost-of-living and saved no one from what they claim-- Indeed, they've taken all those people who had moved up from the minimum wage and pushed them back to the bottom again.

Now less people will be hired, so they've increased poverty that way, too.

Leftists' understanding of economics is infantile.

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 30, 2016 07:49 AM (Pby3z)

141 >>ME muzzies detained and released after an orgy of weapons firing in the desert near apple Valley, CA.

Yeah, what's up with that????

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2016 07:49 AM (NOIQH)

142 17 ME muzzies detained and released after an orgy of weapons firing in the desert near apple Valley, CA.

Take a look at the pic. It looks like a lineup from one of those European refugee camps. How long until one of these guys ends up involved in some workplace violence?

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2016 07:51 AM (BO/km)

143 In those states where the 15 dollar minimum is adopted you can say goodbye to teen and youth employment as well as senior employment.

I see nothing but boarded up shops, restaurants and a metric crapton of people being laid off.

Insanity!

Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2016 07:53 AM (1toUZ)

144 Here's a better quality image of the backpackers...

http://tinyurl.com/z3cjfqg

Posted by: freaked at March 30, 2016 07:55 AM (BO/km)

145 Thanks, all, for the b'day wishes. I will take your advice and look at it as a badge of survival. Thirty years to go.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 07:55 AM (NheJK)

146 The IL primary happened a couple of weeks ago. Mary Kirk won by a 3-1 margin. RINO is too mild a term for this sellout. He's running against Tammy Duckworthless and will probably lose and should. Not that I want that mouth in Washington

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2016 07:38 AM (45oDG)

I'm pecciling in my own name. Should I win, I will go take the Oath of Office and then promptly declare a 6 year Vacation.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Armor Enthusiast at March 30, 2016 07:55 AM (WVsWD)

147 "ME muzzies detained and released after an orgy of weapons firing in the desert near apple Valley, CA."

They are clearly in need of some love and expressing their need of being cared for.

Posted by: MarK Zuckerberg at March 30, 2016 07:55 AM (1BQGO)

148 Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2016 07:47 AM (cXiMR)

Eye-opening post. Thank you.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2016 07:56 AM (NheJK)

149 Keeping dangerous aliens out of the country is not who we are!

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2016 07:56 AM (B48dK)

150 They have videos of those windmills breaking down and bursting in flames in the UK.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 30, 2016 07:56 AM (iQIUe)

151 Oct. 23, 2015-DOJ closes IRS investigation no charges against Lois Lerner.

National Taxpayers Union calculations show that Lerner could qualify for a starting pension at the annual equivalent of as much as $102,000, and up to $3.96 million over her lifetime.

You would think that on April 15th she would give the U.S. taxpayers a shout out, Thank You! or something.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at March 30, 2016 07:57 AM (jN+3o)

152 You silly gooses. An economy is a static system. If you change one thing (such as the minimum wage) the ONLY thing that changes is that people in minimum-wage jobs make more money.

Why don't you want that?

Posted by: FireHorse at March 30, 2016 07:57 AM (DZ+I2)

153 ME muzzies detained and released after an orgy of weapons firing in the desert near apple Valley, CA.

Take a look at the pic. It looks like a lineup from one of those European refugee camps. How long until one of these guys ends up involved in some workplace violence?
Posted by: freake

Pro tip: Don't throw any baby showers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2016 07:57 AM (W2taJ)

154 They are clearly in need of some love and expressing their need of being cared for.
Posted by: MarK Zuckerberg

They are very needy. Very needy indeedy.

Posted by: The goat at March 30, 2016 07:57 AM (BO/km)

155 Jean, I too pitched acoustic monitoring on a wind farm in RI because we use it on offshore oilfield structures. No interest, I suspect because they couldn't figure out how to skim it.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at March 30, 2016 07:57 AM (xhytF)

156 I just wanted to say (in relation to the ONT) that I o love Frankl's work, "Man's Search For Meaning."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 30, 2016 07:58 AM (w4NZ8)

157 "ME muzzies detained and released after an orgy of weapons firing in the desert near apple Valley, CA."

Well they're only widows and 3 year olds so that can't do much harm

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2016 07:58 AM (45oDG)

158 151 Guilty as Hell and free as a bird!(And collecting sweet ,sweet tax payer dollars)

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2016 07:58 AM (B48dK)

159 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:17 AM (vvmPQ)

I fear that the low-infos will protect Ryan. They are, for some stupid reason, proud that their rep is Speaker of the House. They don't have the foggiest idea about his actual voting record or actions, but hey, he's House Speaker and is on TV a lot! We don't want some nobody taking his place!

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at March 30, 2016 08:00 AM (P8951)

160 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 30, 2016 08:00 AM (ZQfW9)

161 Even if they were 100% reliable and ran continuously wind power would average 15 cents a KW/hr cost. That is many multiples higher than what regular power costs. But to add insult to injury they only run when the wind is blowing above a certain speed which in most places is not often. Throw in their high maintenance bills and it becomes insane. The last plant I worked at the average 3 year cost of generation was 0.3 cent/KWh
If we had not had an incompetent communist in the WH and two years of communist control in congress all those windmills would have never been built.
And Obama cronies are the ones that built them.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:47 AM (vvmPQ)

The main problem with these wind farms is that the blades on the rotors are in fact precision airfoils, rather like an aircraft's wing. They were build very precisely in order to get the maximum efficiency from the wind blowing over them.

Problem is, as they turn (when they turn), the airfoils inevitably hit countless bugs and birds, getting bug and bird splatter on them, which disrupts the airflow over the surfaces and hence reducing their efficiency.

This is why when you see one of these "wind farms" (yeah, we have a lot of them here in Texas too), half of the damn rotors are not spinning, largely due to the airfoils being "dirty", so to speak. And the require very large and elaborate cleaning rigs to keep the bug splat and whatnot to a minimum so they will work at all. You tax dollars at work....

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at March 30, 2016 08:01 AM (2Bjv9)

162 >>They have videos of those windmills breaking down and bursting in flames in the UK.

This is still my favorite story of progressive cognitive dissonance:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/q2uww6g

The way to beat progressives is to force them to rank their demands, prioritize their causes. They can't do it.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2016 08:01 AM (NOIQH)

163 What an ass.

"Cruz-Aligned SuperPAC Spending $800,000 in Wisconsin on Ads Calling John Kasich a "Liberal Governor""

Yeah, with a 70% approval rating in a musrt get state.

Posted by: Tattaglia in Miami at March 30, 2016 08:02 AM (zmZ2x)

164 Holy Land moments devotional from Rabbi Eckstein, "The Freedom to Obey"

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jou9c78

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 30, 2016 08:02 AM (w4NZ8)

165 Dave, it was all about minimizing capex/opex to get the sweet government cash, and killing aa many endangered birds as possible.

Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2016 08:02 AM (cXiMR)

166 Floor plan of Belgian premier's office was found in terror suspect's laptop, official says.

http://nyti.ms/25w2DeK

============

I wonder if they blew up their premier would the Belgians finally kick them out?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 30, 2016 08:02 AM (iQIUe)

167 Oct. 23, 2015-DOJ closes IRS investigation no charges against Lois Lerner.

As corrupt as hell from Barry on down

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2016 08:04 AM (45oDG)

168 "This insanity of raising the minimum wage is going to destroy the states and small businesses.
"

Liberals seem to think somebody that was already making $15/hr due to experience and seniority will be happy being surrounded by people with no skill or seniority making the same amount. They will now want at least $20/hr, if not more. Now the guy making $20 will not be happy and will (quite reasonably) insist on $28. All the way up the wage scale the same will hold true.

But raising the minimum wage will not cause inflation. Because good intentions are what matters.

Posted by: Ripley at March 30, 2016 08:05 AM (1BQGO)

169 "This insanity of raising the minimum wage is going to destroy the states and small businesses.

But what about the money tree that every business has. Can't they just shake it for more dollars?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2016 08:07 AM (45oDG)

170 My liberal acquaintances never met a minimum wage hike they didn't like.

To shut them up, I always ask "Why $15? Why not $50?" And there was a lot of hemming and hawing, but I always got the sense that the self-imposed limitation was political, eg it's a number that would "sell" and not a number that was grounded in reality.

Because if reality were a factor, there would *be* no minimum wage.

Posted by: Witchdoktor at March 30, 2016 08:10 AM (eytER)

171 About the white kid and the crazed black woman screeching about "cultural appropriation," maybe he should've tried ripping her Americanized clothes off her back, since she was threatening to cut off his hair. In her supposed native culture, I'm sure her attire is unheard of.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 30, 2016 08:10 AM (pVkEV)

172 nood dump

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 08:12 AM (vvmPQ)

173 I wonder if they blew up their premier would the Belgians finally kick them out?

--

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: European Socialists on a Suicide Mission at March 30, 2016 08:13 AM (pVkEV)

174 10 A second federal judge has weighed into the Scankles e-mail case and ruled that the case may be expanded due to lies and foot dragging by Clinton.

http://tinyurl.com/gnxxdvq
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2016 06:15 AM (vvmPQ)

If !Hillary ever told the truth that would be big news!

Posted by: Killerdog at March 30, 2016 08:14 AM (LgUpL)

175 "DOJ closes IRS investigation no charges against Lois Lerner.
"

What burns me up the worst is liberals saying this is all a "phony" scandal and conservatives have cooked the whole thing up in their feverish, paranoid minds.

For f***s sake!. Lois Lerner arranged a press conference with planted questions where she announced to the public practically everything she and the IRS is accused of. She took the 5th to avoid saying it under oath!

George Orwell's Ministry of Truth could never compete with today.s MSM

Posted by: Ripley at March 30, 2016 08:14 AM (1BQGO)

176 Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2016 07:42 AM (1toUZ)

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Recently I heard a pundit say that if Trump applies tariffs, the cost of IPhones will increase dramatically. Yet these pundits do not realize that raising the minimum wage will have the effect on the economy that are already in effect for manufacturing. Cognitive disconnect.

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 30, 2016 08:16 AM (BI43k)

177 Thanks for the news Vic.

JJ, I listened to hour 2 of Levin last night. Missed that interview but he said he is putting the interview about HUD in front of his paywall at LevinTV. I will probably listen after work tonite.

Posted by: Infidel at March 30, 2016 08:18 AM (THo6W)

178 Detroit officials, 12 of whom were school principles,

Unpossible. There are no "school principles."

In these parts, where the ability to put that nice round smooth edge on glassware was kind of a Big Thing for quite awhile, the initial gut-reaction to natural gas power generation has always been "Why waste it like that?"

Natural gas is an important chemical feedstock, and can do certain heat-management jobs no other fuel can do. Blowing it up the stack to make electricity is just retarded.

Also, an awful lot of NG power generation is in emergency-style "peaker" units -- most cities are ringed with them, conceptualized as things that would run a few hours a day, but now raging away 24/7 at a ridiculous efficiency rate. They're like jet engines, with no recovery of waste heat at all. A Lima superpower locomotive or a triple-expansion marine steam engine puts them to shame.

To make those economically viable, it was necessary to define the now-infinitessimal amount of mercury, and of course all the CO2, in coal exhaust as poison. This "lives saved per year" computation is a good example of how you can lie with mathematics and make it look like Science. Scares the rubes good.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2016 08:18 AM (xq1UY)

179 ...But raising the minimum wage will not cause inflation...

Raising the minimum wage will cause deflation. Because Feds and States don't want to raise unemployment insurance, SS payments, SNAP...

Automation will increase and employment will decrease. They will need to spread EBT card loading out over more days of the month. Right now you can check out at a Walmart with no waiting. Two days from now you will have a hard time finding a parking spot.

Posted by: scorecard at March 30, 2016 08:19 AM (jN+3o)

180
To shut them up, I always ask "Why $15? Why not $50?" And there was a lot of hemming and hawing, but I always got the sense that the self-imposed limitation was political, eg it's a number that would "sell" and not a number that was grounded in reality.

They're afraid to deviate from the script their leaders have given them because they know they really don't understand the economics of it. $15/hr they can parrot, because their leaders do.

Posted by: Kasich the Barbarian, Son of Mailman at March 30, 2016 08:21 AM (Pby3z)

181 The obvious question is, Why stop at $15?

If these bastids really cared about poor working people, why not raise it to $20 or for that matter $50?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2016 08:22 AM (EZebt)

182 The wife has 'Morning Joe' on while we have our pre-work coffee. They are going Full OJ Trial on the battery charges against the Trump campaign manager. I expect DNA experts to show up tomorrow.

Posted by: Keith V at March 30, 2016 08:26 AM (uqR9V)

183 Glad to see a Cruz PAC is finally taking on Kasich.

That was always the smart move anyway.

Knock off that chump or drive him down to low (1-3%) single digits, and then

when it's a two man race go hard after Trump from the right.

That way you can force him to take a stand on issues and not have to resort to incredibly lame "issues" like Fields.

Buuuuuut, there's been plenty of stupid and missed opportunities to go around this election cycle.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 30, 2016 08:29 AM (2rmvw)

184 We should follow the DPRK plan for electrical power. Turn if off at night after 11, and turn it on in the morning, and sort of keep it going off and on all day. Just think of the savings, and not having to replace all those nasty coal and NG power plants. Win, Win.....

Posted by: colin at March 30, 2016 08:51 AM (6IZ5e)

185 I would like to thank everybody for their prayers for the safe arrival of FenSprout in Europe. The plane arrived safely and he is in Switzerland. We were hoping that his phone worked over there because we sent him some text messages but hadn't heard anything. I wrote whether a long one yesterday and he wrote back, "I am having a good time."The brevity of it made me laugh. It's related to this video on the difference in text messages between men and women from Tim Hawkins. It's funny if you haven't heard it-

"Losing Our Minds Together":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-u2ybemYN4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 30, 2016 08:51 AM (w4NZ8)

186 whether=rather

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 30, 2016 08:51 AM (w4NZ8)

187 I stopped that crazed stalker female from stabbing Mr. Trump with her poison pen. He barely escaped with his life. But I never laid a hand on her.

And I'll do it again.

Posted by: Capt. Corey, Praetorian Sewer Rat at March 30, 2016 09:02 AM (Ndje9)

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