Morning Thread (4-16-2015)

"Bring me some real Iowans!!!", Hillary said. Those real Iowans are elusive.

Posted by: Andy at 07:26 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Ah, that new thread smell. Cough, cough.

Posted by: anon a mouse at April 16, 2015 07:27 AM (KnbYp)

2 Btw, VicLinks are in the OT...

Posted by: anon a mouse at April 16, 2015 07:29 AM (KnbYp)

3 Morning already!

What fresh hell will this day bring?

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2015 07:29 AM (D9OaR)

4 No, not THOSE Iowans!

Posted by: Ohiogal at April 16, 2015 07:29 AM (XJ3nY)

5 Summon me a pajama boy Iowan.

Posted by: Hillary the Horrible at April 16, 2015 07:29 AM (WCnJW)

6 Iowans are smart that way. They are like emu, when they sense the beast is nearby, they gather together and run to Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 16, 2015 07:30 AM (Dj0WE)

7 This thread needs more corn sombrero.

Posted by: wooga at April 16, 2015 07:30 AM (XK0dn)

8 People actually live like this? It will take me a month to wash off this stench.

Posted by: Hillary the Horrible at April 16, 2015 07:31 AM (WCnJW)

9 Morning!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 16, 2015 07:34 AM (9mzia)

10 I have a friend who is crusading against Common Core and making
progress. She has been relentless in finding out details on the methods
and curriculum and distributing information about what will come and
options to opt out. She has gone to numerous meetings and has managed
to get her kids exempt from much of the mandatory testing. Only problem
I see is she repeats some leftwing talking points about how
corporations are making money off the testing (mostly true but not the
real issue here) and doesn't fully understand the curriculum will be used
later to push a completely progressive PC view of American history down
the kids throat across the whole nation (which most are getting already
to some degree) . Other than that she gets it and has been very
effective so far.

Oh, she is an employee of the Cleveland public
schools (although her kids attend nice suburban schools where she
lives) And guess which party she supports and will vote for in 2016?
That's right, she will undoubtedly pull the lever for Hillary who not
only supports Common Core but would like something even more intrusive,
standardized and propagandized. Maddening. Absolutely maddening.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at April 16, 2015 07:34 AM (1BQGO)

11 Corn is the fruit of the plain.

Posted by: toby928(C) contemplates his lawn at April 16, 2015 07:34 AM (rwI+c)

12 I had to make sure the Iowans were grown organically. You have to be careful with what you eat.

Posted by: Queen Hillarious at April 16, 2015 07:35 AM (ZKGnj)

13 I'm getting more and more inured to stuff like this.

A Democrat (probably Hillary) will win the White House. Republicans may maintain the Congress, but conservatives have lost.

There is no silent majority. We're what's left and we're outnumbered.

The fact that we're right doesn't even factor into the equation.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 07:35 AM (fwARV)

14
I'm all in for Iowa ethanol! Yeah, it's Iowa ethanol for me!

Huma, isn't Iowa the place they grow beans to make ethanol?

Posted by: Sir Rodham the Inevitable at April 16, 2015 07:35 AM (P330y)

15 Morning, flappers.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 07:37 AM (U7cLk)

16 Awful lot of cornholin' in here.

Posted by: dogfish at April 16, 2015 07:37 AM (1vYi0)

17 Huma, isn't Iowa the place they grow beans to make ethanol?

Posted by: Sir Rodham the Inevitable

No sir, Iowa is where you flick my bean.

Posted by: Huma Na Huma Na at April 16, 2015 07:37 AM (rEe5u)

18 Did someone forget the keys?

Posted by: Ruth at April 16, 2015 07:38 AM (oo88B)

19 As to the Maryland kids saga, the reason there will not be any outcry is a form of cognitive dissonance. DC area Marylanders are, in general, the very people who strongly approve of government "nudging" (control).
I've already heard from two Arlingtonians (the Virginia part of DC) tut tutting the parents.

The swampland on the Potwmack is long gone...

Posted by: anon a mouse at April 16, 2015 07:39 AM (KnbYp)

20
Huma, tell the driver to turn around and go back because I left the strap-on in the motel. If we're discovered, just say it belongs to the boy driving the van.

Posted by: Sir Rodham the Fabulous at April 16, 2015 07:39 AM (P330y)

21 Many an Iowan has ripped out his corn field, put in a baseball diamond, hoping dead ballplayers would show up. Instead, the only ones who showed up were Bob Costner and Kevin Kostas.

Iowans quickly realized if you wanted Costner and Kostas to show up, you didn't need to destroy your corn field. All you really needed to do was put a massage parlor in a strip mall, and have it manned by midget trannies.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 16, 2015 07:39 AM (Dj0WE)

22 The swampland on the Potwmack is long gone...
Posted by: anon a mouse at April 16, 2015 07:39 AM (KnbYp)

It's just a swamp of a different kind now.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 07:40 AM (U7cLk)

23 I am Cornholio!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 16, 2015 07:40 AM (XK0dn)

24 A look at the sidebar confirms it: Marco Rubio is an effing joke.

The only people who are even more ridiculous than the Cuban comb-over are those who are willing to be duped a second time.

Posted by: Harley Quinn at April 16, 2015 07:40 AM (cWiXL)

25 Today on Mutual f Omaha's Wild Kingdom-

Jim and I are stalking the elusive Real Iowan.

The Real Iowan is a shy creature except when defending it's corn.

Real Iowans are best known for their beautiful mating ritual where the two lovers shove corn cobs up each butts.

As you can see, Jim is slowly approaching the mating grounds, we are hoping we can-

Oh!

Oh no, it looks like Jim's been caught up in the Real Iowan mating ritual...

Oh...oh the humanity!

Posted by: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom at April 16, 2015 07:42 AM (KUa85)

26 22,
Indeed

Posted by: anon a mouse at April 16, 2015 07:42 AM (KnbYp)

27 Hillary had a campaign event at a hotel right in my then-neighborhood when she ran for the Senate.

The entire event was staged. Locals could not get tickets, because there were no tickets. The entire audience consisted of bussed-in ringers.

Not that I would have voted for her in a million years, but since it was a big event with a famous person and right down the street, I had thought maybe we could walk over and at least get a glimpse of the swells, but it was not to be. You couldn't get within a block before being stopped by temporary fences and security.

Posted by: Citizen X at April 16, 2015 07:42 AM (7ObY1)

28

DAY 890

573 to go (646 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 07:42 AM (St6BJ)

29 Couldn't have her face a Joe the plumber asking some question she was uncomfortable answering, which would then end up on youtube. Not that faking interacting with normal people won't be embarrassing enough.

Posted by: DaveM at April 16, 2015 07:43 AM (+ZKQ9)

30
Today is Yom Ha'Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Listen to the survivors and thank the GI's. There aren't that many left.

Special thanks to the men of the 11th Armored Division.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 07:44 AM (St6BJ)

31 @13

Sadly your more than likely right.

The EC path is simply not there anymore when the Donks start out with over 200 electoral votes right out of the gate and no chance of the GOP flipping those states.

The GOP literally has to sweep the rest to win.

And we have seen how useless having the congress in GOPe hands is when you have an agenda driven donk in the White House.

So it's more than likely game over.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2015 07:44 AM (D9OaR)

32 Maddening. Absolutely maddening.
Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at April 16, 2015 07:34 AM (1BQGO)
******
So if she were Caeser (which in a way she is) she'd never say, "Et tu, Hillary?" She'd just sink down, bleeding, looking at Hillary with adoration until the end, even as she wipes the knife off on her pantsuit.
These people are unreachable. Let natural selection take its course.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 16, 2015 07:45 AM (cIoI4)

33 Posted by: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom at April 16, 2015 07:42 AM (KUa85)

I don't mind so much when Jim gets cornholed by wildlife. That's great television, but does he have to put those humongous radio transmitters around their ankles? Does anyone really ever follow up with those critters to see what ever became of them? I'm sure most died rapidly, from having a big frickin' radio transmitter around its ankle.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 16, 2015 07:46 AM (Dj0WE)

34 Hillary, why are you so wonderful?

Posted by: Real Iowan at April 16, 2015 07:47 AM (KUa85)

35 "10 I have a friend who is crusading against Common Core and making
progress. ..."

Common Core has so much wrong with it but it seems, in my community especially, that nobody cares -- at all.
In order to get the mass numbers necessary to fight it we need to attract anyone & everyone. So knowing your lefty friend is fighting it, even if her reasoning is only due to the corporate $$$ aspect, is still a good thing. She's leading a charge that will help the cause, & may ultimately be a large dark spot in not only Hillary, but Jeb as well.

Posted by: Ruth at April 16, 2015 07:49 AM (oo88B)

36 Ack! I just posted this comment in the ONT:

Re the Maryland free-range kids - I grew up and still live in the same county where these kids live. When I was in elementary school I had to walk 3/4 of a mile to school. The kids across the street got to ride the bus. There was no expectation that parents where shadowing the walkers or walking with us. No expectation that the parents set up a 'walking school bus'. The last part of the walk was through a wooded area to reach the playground behind the school. Periodically there were reports of a pervert hanging out in the woods, so we kids were warned to walk through the woods in groups, not singly, and student patrols were assigned to monitor the bridge over the stream. As an 11-year-old I was a student patrol and was assigned to escort the half-day kindergartners through the woods and to the road so they could continue walking home, by themselves if their parents weren't there to meet them.

In other words, when I was growing up, the Board of Ed expected us to do exactly what the free-range kids were doing - get ourselves home without parental supervision. And if an 11-year-old child was considered an appropriate escort for a 5-year-old, why is everyone outraged at a 10-year-old supervising his 6-year-old sister? As far as I know, the kids in my old neighborhood are still walking to elementary school, up to 3/4 mile, by themselves if their parents can't/won't drive them or walk with them.

Posted by: biancaneve at April 16, 2015 07:49 AM (Zl68m)

37 "She'd just sink down, bleeding, looking at Hillary with adoration until
the end, even as she wipes the knife off on her pantsuit."

She is also completely unaware that Hillary and other Dem politicians would like to destroy her nice suburban schools by flooding them will illegal immigrants. The invasion hasn't overwhelmed Ohio yet so she is barely aware of the problem and swallows the whole compassion BS about all kids must be take care of, even if they are from another planet. Her kids will graduate before the wave hits there and ruins the schools.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at April 16, 2015 07:51 AM (1BQGO)

38 The EC path is simply not there anymore when the Donks start out with over 200 electoral votes right out of the gate and no chance of the GOP flipping those states.

The GOP literally has to sweep the rest to win.

And we have seen how useless having the congress in GOPe hands is when you have an agenda driven donk in the White House.

So it's more than likely game over.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2015 07:44 AM (D9OaR)

Bush Sr. got 426 Electoral votes in '88. Reagan got 525 in '84. I think maybe the fault lies not in a country that has changed that much in a couple decades. I think it is a bankrupt Republican Party that has given away state after state after state because it offers them no conservative alternative.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 16, 2015 07:52 AM (Dj0WE)

39
Governing!:

Congress closes in on deal to renew Patriot Act provisions

On June 1, three portions of the Patriot Act are set to expire, including the controversial Section 215 which allows the government to collect "any tangible things" as part of a terrorism investigation. The NSA has used the authority to collect bulk metadata about Americans phone calls.

House Intelligence Committee began briefing lawmakers about the details of the Patriot Act, in what Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called "an educational process of how the three expiring provisions actually work and function in the intelligence community." Nunes said he would support a straight reauthorization, which he predicted should be able to pass Congress.

http://tinyurl.com/lwq6t6m

Bi-partisan move to renew, with some civil libertarian opposition once again. Ain't getting my hopes up after the Homeland Security budget force feeding.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 07:52 AM (kdS6q)

40 That Hillary (cankles) stages a campaign stop surprises me not. Her whole damn life has been staged, and at this point, I doubt she can go to the water closet without it being staged somehow. What IS surprising is how many people - and I'm using that term loosely - actually take her seriously.

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 07:52 AM (/XJFz)

41 >>>In other words, when I was growing up, the Board of Ed expected us to do exactly what the free-range kids were doing - get ourselves home without parental supervision. And if an 11-year-old child was considered an appropriate escort for a 5-year-old, why is everyone outraged at a 10-year-old supervising his 6-year-old sister? As far as I know, the kids in my old neighborhood are still walking to elementary school, up to 3/4 mile, by themselves if their parents can't/won't drive them or walk with them.
.
.
.
.When we were stationed at Great Lakes my kid who was 12 then was responsible for getting a neighbors 1st grade kid on and off the bus and to and from school. That was in 93.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 16, 2015 07:53 AM (iONHu)

42 I think that the people voting for Shillary are thinking the same as when they voted for JEF. It doesn't matter what she says, did, does. She will somehow fix things

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2015 07:54 AM (rEe5u)

43 Hillary!,

Is it true that you can shoot angels out of your vag to smite the non-believers?

Posted by: Real Iowan at April 16, 2015 07:55 AM (KUa85)

44 Is it true that you can shoot angels out of your vag to smite the non-believers?

Posted by: Real Iowan

And ethanol from her pores

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2015 07:56 AM (rEe5u)

45 On twitter, I asked WWE's Booker T whether he has decided whether he will be running for president. Since he has not responded yet, I guess that means he's still weighing his options.

Posted by: Formerly atnorth at April 16, 2015 07:57 AM (zw+JZ)

46 Anyone remember that Lady in Michigan that got sued by a union because she did not lave a Caretakers Certification to look after her neighbors kids for about 45 minutes each day?

This kind of crap will continue until the next revolution.

Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at April 16, 2015 07:58 AM (U7H1n)

47 Posted by: biancaneve at April 16, 2015 07:49 AM (Zl68m)

One really nasty thing about that story was how the cops held the kids at the police station for hours without notifying the parents. Because they wanted to make the parents sweat. They wanted the parents to sit there and fret that some loon or molester had grabbed their children so they would feel frantic and guilty and blame themselves. And all the time, the kids are with the cops.

That's the act of vicious fascists.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 07:59 AM (+XMAD)

48 @38

To be sure putting forth weak candidates goes a long way but we are simply never going to win California, New York, Illinois, Washington, that's 116 votes alone that are completely off the table.

The California that was Reagan country simply no longer exists.

And sadly that America no longer exists.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2015 07:59 AM (D9OaR)

49 "...And if an 11-year-old child was considered an appropriate escort for a 5-year-old, why is everyone outraged at a 10-year-old supervising his 6-year-old sister? ..."

When is was 9 years old I was a crossing-guard at an intersection next to my elementary school. You know, standing in the street stopping actual cars so other kids could cross the street safely. Now-a-days it's the senior citizens that do this job.

Note: No children were injured during any of my crossing-guard shifts.

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 08:00 AM (/XJFz)

50
The Atlantic has an extended profile on silly site Buzzfeed, including this:

Today, BuzzFeed has more than 900 employees in 10 bureaus around the globe. The growth of the sites audience is stunning: 200 million monthly unique visitors, and 1 billion video views a month, according to a spokeswoman. Some context: According to the analytics firm ComScore, BuzzFeed logged about 78 million unique visitors in March, whereas The New York Times recorded about 57 million uniques.

http://tinyurl.com/pjyetca

This morning's top stories on Buzzfeed:

Are You More Like Hermione Granger Or Luna Lovegood?
Ryan Gosling Has Dyed His Hair Black
This Man Says He's Voting UKIP Because His Buttocks Are Smooth
Straight Guys Review Hot Male Celebrities: Eyebrow Edition

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:01 AM (kdS6q)

51 That's the act of vicious fascists.

It really is. Someone in that office decided they would teach the parents a lesson.

Posted by: no good deed at April 16, 2015 08:01 AM (ZKGnj)

52 They should force Hillary! to attend the Iowa State Fair, where even the water is deep-fried. Imagine the horror on her face when taking a group photo with real Iowan peasants and their icky children.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 16, 2015 08:04 AM (PtTYB)

53 She'd be saying this in all 57 states.

8 People actually live like this? It will take me a month to wash off this stench.
Posted by: Hillary the Horrible at April 16, 2015 07:31 AM (WCnJW)

Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:04 AM (WIUGG)

54 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:01 AM (kdS6q)

Idiocracy.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:04 AM (+XMAD)

55 "...we are simply never going to win California, New York, Illinois, Washington..."

We will win these states, but it won't happen gradually. It will take a sea change, a transformational moment when the uninformed masses feel like they've been misled and "played" by the democrats for years.

More reason to start the "Don't be a Chump" campaign.

Posted by: jwest at April 16, 2015 08:05 AM (9ZZd+)

56 "... One really nasty thing about that story was how the cops held the kids at the police station for hours without notifying the parents. Because they wanted to make the parents sweat. They wanted the parents to sit there and fret that some loon or molester had grabbed their children so they would feel frantic and guilty and blame themselves. And all the time, the kids are with the cops.

That's the act of vicious fascists... "

I'd be hard-pressed not to sue that police department into bankruptcy, because there is zero defense to holding the kids without notifying the parents.

Last I checked police officers were not judges in a court of law.

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 08:05 AM (/XJFz)

57 "Re the Maryland free-range kids - I grew up and still live in the same
county where these kids live. When I was in elementary school I had to
walk 3/4 of a mile to school......."

Posted by: biancaneve at April 16, 2015 07:49 AM (Zl68m)

That
sounds about like my experience many years ago. Like most other
people here we just took care of getting to/from school ourselves
without parents supervising the whole thing. Being abducted never crossed our minds. The only dangerous part of
the daily trek was the abuse we meted out to each other or getting in a
fight.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at April 16, 2015 08:05 AM (1BQGO)

58 Bush Sr. got 426 Electoral votes in '88.

John Anderson running third party really helped.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 16, 2015 08:05 AM (xQX/f)

59 I hope Hillary takes the day off. I'm sick of hearing about her.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 16, 2015 08:06 AM (iQIUe)

60 This kind of crap will continue until the next revolution.

Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at April 16, 2015 07:58 AM (U7H1n)

Lol. What revolution?

It's cute that you think people will rise up (in more than twos and threes) in opposition to the left.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:06 AM (fwARV)

61 Nobody can eat fifty eggs.

Posted by: Dragline at April 16, 2015 08:07 AM (WZQdF)

62 Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 08:05 AM (/XJFz)

I hope they do sue!

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:07 AM (+XMAD)

63 61 Nobody can eat fifty eggs.
Posted by: Dragline at April 16, 2015 08:07 AM (WZQdF)

Ever see the movie "Pink Flamingoes?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:09 AM (St6BJ)

64 Today's menu on the Mystery Machine:

Stale beer
Pickled eggs
Pork rinds
~~Bush's~~ Beans
Beef jerky

Posted by: Fritz at April 16, 2015 08:09 AM (ty633)

65 Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:06 AM (fwARV)

Oh, eventually they will. But not anytime soon.

People are still too comfortable and complacent. They still have stuff to lose.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:10 AM (+XMAD)

66 Ever see the movie "Pink Flamingoes?"

Ugh. One of the most disgusting movies ever.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:11 AM (+XMAD)

67 "... I hope they do sue!..."
Posted by: Donna

GO FUND ME, please call your office!

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 08:11 AM (/XJFz)

68 >>>That's the act of vicious fascists... "

I'd be hard-pressed not to sue that police department into bankruptcy, because there is zero defense to holding the kids without notifying the parents.

Last I checked police officers were not judges in a court of law.
.
.
.
.Couple that with the fact the Cops knew exactly who those kids were and had every single scrap of contact information they needed from the last time they interacted with the parents.

I could see a $$$ Civil lawsuit over this.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 16, 2015 08:11 AM (iONHu)

69 60 Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:06 AM (fwARV)

The future is always unpredictable. Yes, one can certainly make very educated guesses on a macro level given the patterns of history. But it's that one random event, be it great or small, where the course of history is changed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:11 AM (St6BJ)

70 Goes to BuzzFeed:

The Instant Shakespeare Insult Kit:

http://bzfd.it/1J6BCBv

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:11 AM (/gH7O)

71 >>>We will win these states, but it won't happen gradually. It will take a sea change, a transformational moment when the uninformed masses feel like they've been misled and "played" by the democrats for years.

You would think that, but the survivors in what used to be called Detroit still vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 16, 2015 08:12 AM (PtTYB)

72 64 Posted by: Fritz at April 16, 2015 08:09 AM (ty633)

The secret of Bush's Baked Bean's? Ask Libby's (Scooter that is)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:13 AM (St6BJ)

73 Morning all.

Going away tomorrow and have to see a lot of patients and pay bills and my assistant calls in sick!

If I did not have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:13 AM (rDqRv)

74 "Send us more Japs"
- Wake Island Marine garrison; December 1941

Posted by: One-Eyed Cat Peeping in the Seafood Store at April 16, 2015 08:13 AM (aeVIR)

75 >>>>>>>We will win these states, but it won't happen gradually. It will take a sea change, a transformational moment when the uninformed masses feel like they've been misled and "played" by the democrats for years.

You would think that, but the survivors in what used to be called Detroit still vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
.
.
.That is because the State and the Fed are still pumping money into it. If that ever dries up, and I think it will in the future, then a whole bunch of people will literally have nothing to lose.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (iONHu)

76 71 You would think that, but the survivors in what used to be called Detroit still vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 16, 2015 08:12 AM (PtTYB)

Has Detroit ever run a serious conservative candidate? Or any candidate for that matter that challenged the leftist orthodoxy with any real effectiveness?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (St6BJ)

77 She wants real Iowans??? Oh - my - goad! That will be soooo embarrassing for the Republican Party.

Posted by: Liz Mair at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (sxmcX)

78 Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:10 AM (+XMAD)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:11 AM (St6BJ)

In principle, I agree with you both.

The thing is, from my chair, by the time people are angry/upset/desperate enough to DO something, the State will be in absolute control of everything, and it won't matter.

The time to fight is when you can still win. See: Power Transition Theory.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (fwARV)

79 73 If I did not have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:13 AM (rDqRv)

Doorknob, stout twine and pliers.

Have a nice trip!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:15 AM (St6BJ)

80 Hillary had a campaign event at a hotel right in my then-neighborhood when she ran for the Senate.

The entire event was staged. Locals could not get tickets, because there were no tickets. The entire audience consisted of bussed-in ringers.

-
And she's doing it again because it worked so well last time.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 16, 2015 08:15 AM (R/Ltc)

81 I cut and pasted the wrong line above. It should have referenced Reagan not Bush Sr. D'uh. Anyway here's California numbers in 1980

Reagan 4,524,858 52.69%
Carter 3,083,661 35.91%
Anderson 739,833 8.62%

Left leaning third party candidates are good. Instead of giving money to the Republican party we should start a trust fund and buy ourselves a Left leaning third party candidate. Bigger bang for the buck.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 16, 2015 08:15 AM (xQX/f)

82 78 Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (fwARV)

My point was just a general observation about history and events that can cause a sea change.

From your given set of hypotheticals (which may very well come to pass) I do agree with your statement.

But hey, you never know. And that's what we call hope.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:17 AM (St6BJ)

83 >>>That's the act of vicious fascists.

That's a cause for a massive lawsuit.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:17 AM (WIUGG)

84 The time to fight is when you can still win. See: Power Transition Theory.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (fwARV)

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

WSC

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:17 AM (rDqRv)

85 If that ever dries up, and I think it will in the future, then a whole bunch of people will literally have nothing to lose.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 16, 2015 08:14 AM (iONHu)

Yep. Once the spigot shuts off....

Americans are doing everything to avoid reality right now - but reality always asserts itself.

Unfortunately how it will assert itself won't be pleasant. Either there will be a huge financial crash or reality will assert itself the way it did on 12/7/41 and 9/11.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (+XMAD)

86 Hillary is the Red Queen

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (3ZtZW)

87 So Little VIA takes his 11th grade SATs yesterday.
His assessment:
One of the questions was to chose between two moral absolutes, IOW, the word "all" was used in each of the two selections that the student was required to select from.

And he suddenly piped up with his theory that higher education is being used not to teach students critical thinking, or how to think, but to teach students what to think.

He was pretty shocked to find that his theory pretty much paralleled my theory.

He was not overly joyful when he realized that the older he gets, the more like me he sounds.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (nK74j)

88 81 Left leaning third party candidates are good. Instead of giving money to the Republican party we should start a trust fund and buy ourselves a Left leaning third party candidate. Bigger bang for the buck.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 16, 2015 08:15 AM (xQX/f)

Now THAT is a good idea. Split the other asshole's vote. Then again, with GOP victories who needs losses?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (St6BJ)

89 Imagine the horror on her face when taking a group photo with real Iowan peasants and their icky children.

Posted by: Citizen Cake

Have her go on "Knock out a whitey night"

Keep the cameras rolling

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (rEe5u)

90 "...And if an 11-year-old child was considered an appropriate escort for a 5-year-old, why is everyone outraged at a 10-year-old supervising his 6-year-old sister? ..."

-
Well duhhh. Mom didn't provide any emergency abortion coupons.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 16, 2015 08:19 AM (xPtpM)

91
In Libertarian voter outreach news:

Naked man high on five-dollar insanity drug Flakka starts fight with cops, calls himself God and has sex with a tree.

The officer then punched Crowder in the face and he fought back, claiming he was Thor and attempting to stab the officer with his own police badge.

http://tinyurl.com/o3prrem

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:19 AM (kdS6q)

92 83 >>>That's the act of vicious fascists.

That's a cause for a massive lawsuit.
Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:17 AM (WIUGG)

Thank goodness the courts are all populated with decent honest men and women who respect the Constitution.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:19 AM (St6BJ)

93 Thank goodness the courts are all populated with decent honest men and women who respect the Constitution.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:19 AM (St6BJ)

Not to mention the juries.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:21 AM (U7cLk)

94 "Naked man high on five-dollar insanity drug Flakka starts fight with cops, calls himself God and has sex with a tree.

The officer then punched Crowder in the face and he fought back, claiming he was Thor and attempting to stab the officer with his own police badge."

Isn't that what Morons call "Thursday morning?"

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:21 AM (+XMAD)

95 "...The future is always unpredictable..."

Or, as someone smarter than me once said:

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

(HT: Yogi Berra)

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 08:21 AM (/XJFz)

96 But hey, you never know. And that's what we call hope.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:17 AM (St6BJ)

And maybe that's what's been dying in my soul-shaped cavity.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:21 AM (fwARV)

97 Back in the early 70's, I had to take two city buses (not school buses) to a Catholic Grade School on Kill Whitey Day in the Bronx. I didn't take the buses home. I ran. It was easier dealing with the pervs.

Posted by: Imsickofit at April 16, 2015 08:22 AM (wDdGj)

98 He was not overly joyful when he realized that the older he gets, the more like me he sounds.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (nK74j)

Yeah, my Dad had already passed away by the time I realized I am my Father and damn proud of it!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:22 AM (rDqRv)

99 "You would think that, but the survivors in what used to be called Detroit still vote overwhelmingly Democrat. "

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 16, 2015 08:12 AM (PtTYB)

That's because they've been told that their problems are because of republicans.

These are people far too stupid to understand basic economics, so it's unfair to think they can figure it out for themselves. The media is no help, because they are either just as stupid or they want to cover up for the democrats.

Republicans need to base a presidential election, with all the advertising power it brings, on how democrats have been using blacks and the poor while keeping them down for decades.

Focus on Social Security and how they prevented Ronald Reagan and everyone since from converting SS to individual accounts. Show charts on how much your average AA Detroit dweller would have in their own account if it had been switched in 1980.

Then explain that blacks die young compared to everyone else and how SS keeps their money, while the individual accounts would be inherited by their families.

Hammer home how this "scheme" has kept the poor from being owners and under the thumb of crooked politicians like Harry Reid.

Use a tag line that is similar to "Don't be a Chump, vote for yourself this time."

The democrats would shit themselves.

Posted by: jwest at April 16, 2015 08:22 AM (9ZZd+)

100 It will make my day today if every thread doesn't have a shitton of cow patties in it. I can't get the ignore feature to work, so he's basically driving me away from this place.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:23 AM (U7cLk)

101 You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

WSC

This.

And today's one of those days when I really have no faith that we can avoid this eventuality.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:23 AM (fwARV)

102
How now, Thou spleeny, pox--marked nut-hook!

Hast thou, Hillary! pried thine beslubbering, rump-fed gob apart-

to bestow upon thine audience of mewling, idle-headed pajama-apple johns and slatternly, dismal-dreaming harpies-

thy lumpish words and onion-eyed poltroonery?

Or hast thou merely sat upon thine toad-spotted rump and farted most foul within thine van?

Posted by: Real Shakespearean Iowan at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (KUa85)

103 Hillary's such a chump. She didn't even ask for the interesting Iowans.

Posted by: BO asking for Italians at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (/Hp3T)

104 But hey, you never know. And that's what we call hope.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:17 AM (St6BJ)

??
I thought hope was pulling a card for an inside straight or a blind girl with a great face and body?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (rDqRv)

105 Morning morons. Lord, I only ask one thing today.

Please let this be a moo moo free day.

Thanks.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (0FSuD)

106
Yeah, my Dad had already passed away by the time I realized I am my Father and damn proud of it!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:22 AM (rDqRv)

I've discovered that there are three phases to a person's life:

A - Between birth and about ten, your parents know everything.
2 - Between about ten and whenever, your parents know nothing.
ix - After whenever, you realize you were right the first time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (fwARV)

107 93 Not to mention the juries.
Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:21 AM (U7cLk)

I can't watch "12 Angry Men" any more. I now think of Lee J. Cobb as the hero and Henry Fonda as the SJW dick-weed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (St6BJ)

108 >>>> Yep. Once the spigot shuts off....

Not singling anyone out, but as a general reply: If you're basing strategy on a pile of Ifs you're likely going to be disappointed.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at April 16, 2015 08:25 AM (3ZtZW)

109 True fact, "Julia" is an Iowian!

Posted by: Humma at April 16, 2015 08:25 AM (0FSuD)

110 Please let this be a moo moo free day.

Thanks.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (0FSuD)

DENIED!!!!

Posted by: Lord, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:25 AM (fwARV)

111 Please let this be a moo moo free day.

Thanks.
Posted by: Nip Sip at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (0FSuD)

Amen

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:25 AM (rDqRv)

112 106 I've discovered that there are three phases to a person's life:

A - Between birth and about ten, your parents know everything.
2 - Between about ten and whenever, your parents know nothing.
ix - After whenever, you realize you were right the first time.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (fwARV)

Liberals never make the jump from 2 to ix.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:25 AM (St6BJ)

113 Hillary! meetups are as fake and staged as that point-and-wave and huge open-mouthed smile thing she does on the debate stage. Creeps me right the kcuf out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2015 08:26 AM (JO9+V)

114 104 I thought hope was pulling a card for an inside straight or a blind girl with a great face and body?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (rDqRv)

I thought the "prepare for the worst" bit was implied.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:27 AM (St6BJ)

115

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
Day's events to start with 2-minute siren in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and include ceremonies at Yad Vashem and the Knesset, as well as the March of the Living at Auschwitz.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:27 AM (rDqRv)

116 he's basically driving me away from this place.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:23 AM (U7cLk)

Kinda sucks how that happens.

You get one or six posters who are hateful, racist, angry jigsaw-blade-sporting sybians and a few impossible trolls and the place really starts to be less fun.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:27 AM (fwARV)

117 VIA,
Pics of a 24 hour paintball scenario this past weekend.
Player took a couple of dome knockers to the top of the noggin. I covered him and got him off the field.

http://bit.ly/1FNQJg4
http://bit.ly/1yxQYyN

�

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:28 AM (/gH7O)

118 115 Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:27 AM (rDqRv)

Reminds me to call my aunt and uncle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:28 AM (St6BJ)

119 Good GodMHave you seen the picture on the cover of Time magazine?I may be scarred fir life.

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 08:28 AM (mGBKM)

120 91 Naked man high on five-dollar insanity drug Flakka starts fight with cops, calls himself God and has sex with a tree.

http://tinyurl.com/o3prrem
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:19 AM (kdS6q)

And he is from---drumroll--Florida.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:28 AM (WIUGG)

121 >>>Has Detroit ever run a serious conservative candidate? Or any candidate for that matter that challenged the leftist orthodoxy with any real effectiveness?

Ronald Reagan could come back and run for mayor of Detroit against a paroled Kwame Kilpatrick, and it'd be Kilpatrick in a landslide. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 16, 2015 08:29 AM (PtTYB)

122 Hillary! meetups are as fake and staged as that point-and-wave and huge open-mouthed smile thing she does on the debate stage. Creeps me right the kcuf out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2015 08:26 AM (JO9+V)
---
They remind me of tuesday tea-time with my mother. *shudder*

Posted by: Liz Mair at April 16, 2015 08:29 AM (sxmcX)

123 My kids loved paintball for a while. Then they got real guns.

Posted by: Humma at April 16, 2015 08:30 AM (0FSuD)

124 "Liberals never make the jump from 2 to ix. "
As our culture continues to coddle the liberal youth of America, they face no external force acting upon their core beliefs which would cause those beliefs to shift towards conservatism.

Being stupid needs to be painful, and not fulfilling in any manner.

Once we removed the pain, the stigma, or the embarrassment from the condition known as "Stupid", we removed any externally caused reason to change.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 08:30 AM (nK74j)

125 off humma sock

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 16, 2015 08:30 AM (0FSuD)

126 Not 'Sheep to the Slaughter': The Jewish Heroes of the Holocaust

Narrative of submissive Jewish victims of Nazi Germany challenged at event remembering the many acts of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194145#.VS-rwyjGNbw

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:31 AM (rDqRv)

127 Turkish documentary says Jews have been mastermind for 3,500 years

Turkish professor says that the Jews are destroying the entire world as they search for the ark containing the ten commandments.

If you ever wondered how a "Holocaust" could take place

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:33 AM (rDqRv)

128 Embarrassed sock off!

Posted by: Harley Quinn at April 16, 2015 08:33 AM (sxmcX)

129 My kids loved paintball for a while. Then they got real guns.

I do both.
Besides, what other sport do you pay to have me put my balls on your face? (paintball joke)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:33 AM (/gH7O)

130 @126

Never forget Warsaw where they fought to the last man. Here are some more.

http://tinyurl.com/n4ubmug

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 16, 2015 08:33 AM (0FSuD)

131 Serious question: I keep on reading that IOWA is a rural state, somewhat conservative, however it was one of the first states where fag marriage passed, how did that happen?

Posted by: fromabroad at April 16, 2015 08:34 AM (rnV3B)

132 I hope they do sue!
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing
ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:07 AM (+XMAD)

*********

What if the police decided that their home did not possess adequate security, and decided to break in and rob them, in order to teach them a lesson? Yeah, they should sue. I'm no lawyer, but imho you can't justify an illegal, sadistic activity on the grounds that it will "teach someone a lesson" even if you intend to reverse it in the future. Wasn't there a family that got in trouble for pretending to kidnap a kid in order to frighten him into not talking to strangers? This is just as bad, if not worse, since these idiots were abusing their authority.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 16, 2015 08:34 AM (XrHO0)

133 Notice the punishment meted out to the parents of "free range kids" only applies to white middle class parents? It's not like the cops are arresting parents in the barrios and inner cities for letting their kids run around loose in much more dangerous environments, although we just heard about an unsupervised 2 year old who ran out into the street and got run over (and then driver and kids half brother got shot.)

The purpose is not only to drive home the point that Big Brother Government knows best, it's to continue to make child-rearing so onerous and burdensome for the middle class that they only have 1 or 2 at the very most. I've heard young people today say "I don't know how those parents in the old days ('40's-60's) did it when they had 4 or 5 or 6 kids." They did it because society didn't expect them to hover over their offspring every second of the day. If you needed a babysitter, you hired the 12 year old down the block for 50 cents an hour - not a "professional caregiver."

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (+XMAD)

134 Being stupid needs to be painful,

And exspensive.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (/gH7O)

135 The ark? Ten Commandments?

Forget it, he's rolling.

Posted by: Otto-man, Rush Chairman at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (JO9+V)

136 Everything Lady Caligula does is staged.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (V70Uh)

137 "...Republicans need to base a presidential election...on how democrats have been using blacks and the poor while keeping them down for decades..."
Posted by: Jwest

This^^^is a comment I've made, but more succinctly: You want to talk about slavery? Just look at the black plantation the Democrats have built over the last 50 years. Housing projects, unemployment benefits until death, food stamps, welfare, abortion on demand...Democrats, you DID build that.

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (/XJFz)

138 Oops. Off Slow Joe sock.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (V70Uh)

139 Bring me some interesting Italians!

What, you think I don't have some free time?

Posted by: Barack the Magnificent at April 16, 2015 08:35 AM (2TN4k)

140 "Pics of a 24 hour paintball scenario this past weekend. "

Nice.

Very nice.

It's time for Mrs VIA and I to break out our stuff and get back into the woods.

Little VIA had his first GPL tournament of the season this last weekend.

Five Man Speedball, with them being the youngest team in the tournament.
Didn't place, but they did far better then they thought they would.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 08:36 AM (nK74j)

141 Once we removed the pain, the stigma, or the embarrassment from the condition known as "Stupid", we removed any externally caused reason to change.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 08:30 AM (nK74j)

True that. Getting caught in lies should also be painful. But we see where we are. Not to mention the lack of shame.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:36 AM (U7cLk)

142
Meanwhile, Men's Health magazine --" running the same article on sit-ups every month for 20 years", is having a choose the cover model contest and a she-tranny is surging, because internet:

Aydian Dowling runs Point 5cc, a transgender clothing company that provides binders for FTM (female-to-male) individuals

http://tinyurl.com/kcqzgms

Entrepreneur!

Seriously, weirdest looking man boobs ever.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:37 AM (kdS6q)

143 127 Turkish documentary says Jews have been mastermind for 3,500 years

Turkish professor says that the Jews are destroying the entire world as they search for the ark containing the ten commandments.

If you ever wondered how a "Holocaust" could take place
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 08:33 AM (rDqRv)

First, nuke Ankara.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:37 AM (St6BJ)

144 131
Serious question: I keep on reading that IOWA is a rural state, somewhat
conservative, however it was one of the first states where fag marriage
passed, how did that happen?

Posted by: fromabroad at April 16, 2015 08:34 AM (rnV3B)

Des Moines has a lot of liberal transplants and Iowa is a strong union state.
That's my guess.

Posted by: Nip Sip at April 16, 2015 08:37 AM (0FSuD)

145 142 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:37 AM (kdS6q)

Wait, "binders?" Where's Mitt?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2015 08:37 AM (St6BJ)

146 Five Man Speedball, with them being the youngest team in the tournament.
Didn't place, but they did far better then they thought they would.

Awesome. Young guns are the future of the sport.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:41 AM (/gH7O)

147 Years ago Joos snuck into my backyard to look for the ark. They dug a giant hole, didn't find the ark, and then just left...never even bothering to filled the hole back up. Then I remembered we were having a swimming pool installed and forgave the Joos. The end.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 16, 2015 08:42 AM (BLFGI)

148 100 I can't get the ignore feature to work
Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:23 AM (U7cLk)

"The ignore feature"?

Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:42 AM (WIUGG)

149 Dayum. Did everyone's boss walk into their office at the same time?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:43 AM (/gH7O)

150 >>magine the horror on her face when taking a group photo with real Iowan peasants and their icky children.

We don't have to imagine:

Glad-handing on the road on her
Senatorial campaign, when they arrived at a 4-F Club in the land of
dairy cows in upstate New York, she saw cows and people in jeans. That
enraged her and she asked a staffer, "What the f*** did we come here for?
There's no money here'"...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/kx4br57

Posted by: Barack the Magnificent at April 16, 2015 08:43 AM (2TN4k)

151 "My kids loved paintball for a while. Then they got real guns. "

It's a real head scratcher when they run into Mrs VIA, fully geared up in all her paintball stuff, climbing out of her Volvo wagon, with her NRA sticker in the back window.

Messing with stereotypes can be a real blast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 08:44 AM (nK74j)

152 " how did that happen?"

DFL legacy and subsidies. May be conservative in their every day doings but when it comes votin' time, yeah.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 16, 2015 08:44 AM (9O+jM)

153 Tammy Wynette vs Hillary on the Ont--I enjoyed that.

We went to a Cruz function last night. Damn, he and his wife would be so much better in the WH than the current idiots or Billary.

Posted by: stace at April 16, 2015 08:44 AM (wc6R6)

154 Re: 131
Gay marriage passed in Iowa because the supreme court here made it legal. The legal world is already firmly in the liberals grasp, so the rest of the state doesn't matter. On that note, Des Moines and the eastern third of the state are pretty liberal, which is why the state is purple/light blue on national elections, despite the rural appearance.

Posted by: BO asking for Italians at April 16, 2015 08:45 AM (/Hp3T)

155 Off TFG sock!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2015 08:45 AM (2TN4k)

156
Quite interesting as you mature, discovering the older you get--for many of us--the smarter your parents become.

Shocka.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 16, 2015 08:46 AM (jeCnD)

157 Morning, morons!

I think I'm gonna have to stop hate reading FB in the morning until after the elections.

One of my "friends" just posted about how excited she was that her style icon is running for preznit. That's right.....Cankles McPantsuit.

This is the same chick who told me that Gwynnie Bee and Coldwater Creek were too "dowdy".

She's in med school, too, so it's not like she's a total LIV. I mean, I expect it from the raving loon Canucks and Brits I know, but not from someone who supposedly has a measurable IQ.

Is it too early to hit the Valu-Rite?

Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny, local Valkyrie at April 16, 2015 08:47 AM (h8UWI)

158 Found out why I can't use the Marine Corps Rugby team nickname on Saturday. They call themselves "The Bastards" and their "JV"-style team is the "Misfit Bastards". Not for our "family oriented" broadcast, so I'll have to keep up coming with new names for them. Can't just say "Cherry Point" or "the Marines" everytime.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2015 08:47 AM (2cS/G)

159 Yay, India discovers what a threat Greenpeace is. And how mafia like their accounting practices are.

http://tinyurl.com/nufb8cb

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2015 08:48 AM (49rjL)

160 A - Between birth and about ten, your parents know everything.
2 - Between about ten and whenever, your parents know nothing.
ix - After whenever, you realize you were right the first time.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:24 AM (fwARV)

***

My parents are incurably liberal, though. My father, 80, was in favor of unrestricted admission of ebola patients, since we can no longer deny those thirld world oppressed people the right to healthcare. No awareness that you've no right to endanger people. No acknowledgement of the sloppiness and lies in the way this administration handled the affair. No acknowledgement of systemic failures in these societies which create/perpetuate these problems in the first place. Haven't spoken to him since.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 16, 2015 08:48 AM (cIoI4)

161 158 I guess calling them the B-Tards is also out of the question.

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 08:48 AM (mGBKM)

162 Glad-handing on the road on her Senatorial campaign, when they arrived at a 4-F Club in the land of dairy cows in upstate New York, she saw cows and people in jeans. That enraged her and she asked a staffer, "What the f*** did we come here for? There's no money here'"...

Why that spleeny, knotty-pated moldwarp!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:49 AM (/gH7O)

163 I'm looking forward to Hillary doing multiple shots with some hard drinking regular Americans to show here bona fides. I wonder if the MSM will cover the ensuing carnage?

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at April 16, 2015 08:49 AM (1BQGO)

164 A lot of people drift left when they get older.I think it even happened to Goldwater.

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 08:50 AM (mGBKM)

165 I'm the best from the East,

I'm a wild and crazy beast,

I'm the Moo Man!

Posted by: Moo Man at April 16, 2015 08:52 AM (JO9+V)

166 "Naked man high on five-dollar insanity drug Flakka starts fight with cops, calls himself God and has sex with a tree."

-------------------

In many ways, this is the story of Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 16, 2015 08:52 AM (vd4oB)

167 Haven't spoken to him since.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 16, 2015 08:48 AM (cIoI4)

My parents are ALSO incurably liberal.

He's a stupid, stupid voter, but a good man. Yes, hard to square, but he worked his ass off making sure we were provided for, taught me about integrity (that took some work), discipline and work ethic.

I have no idea how he became so liberal, but he did.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:53 AM (fwARV)

168 The snow. Sometimes it gives me the blues, Paul.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 16, 2015 08:53 AM (yxw0r)

169 "Naked man high on five-dollar insanity drug Flakka starts fight with cops, calls himself God and has sex with a tree."

There but for the Grace of God go I.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 08:53 AM (/gH7O)

170 Hillary is the Red Queen
Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at April 16, 2015 08:18 AM (3ZtZW)

Not the Lookin Glass one, Hillary! doesn't actually believe in anything but herself.

I suspect she is the Red Queen from Resident Evil

Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2015 08:54 AM (t//F+)

171 Early entrant for Mom of the Year 2015 Award (via Insty):

"She initially joined in the teens' naked game of Twister, but ended up
f*cking an 18-year-old in the bathroom. Later, because she was still 'horny,' she brought out some sex toys and began using them on herself
in the living room. The whole naked party eventually moved to the hot
tub... The night ended for Lehnardt around 3:30 a.m., when she woke
up in her bed to find her daughter's 6-year-old boyfriend having sex with her."

Yep, the Left's destruction of the nuclear family is totes better for society.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2015 08:54 AM (2TN4k)

172 I have no idea how he became so liberal, but he did.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:53 AM (fwARV)

It's in the water.

Or...too many drugs.

Because Boomer.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 08:54 AM (oxZzd)

173 171 The daughters boyfriend was 16 not 6 but still...

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 08:55 AM (mGBKM)

174 Also the daughter blamed herself for her boyfriend screwing her mom,he was too big for her .

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 08:56 AM (mGBKM)

175 Entrepreneur!

Seriously, weirdest looking man boobs ever.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 16, 2015 08:37 AM (kdS6q)

*********

Buck Angel could kick xers butt any day.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at April 16, 2015 08:56 AM (XrHO0)

176 Also the daughter blamed herself for her boyfriend screwing her mom,he was too big for her .
Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 08:56 AM (mGBKM)

A lovely girl she is, no doubt.

Sweet, demure, lovely old world manners.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 08:57 AM (oxZzd)

177 Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 08:54 AM (oxZzd)

Perhaps, but he never really got into the Woodstock hippy bullshit. If it's in the water, shouldn't we all be liberals too? We're drinking the same stuff.

*ponders*

I bathe my KID in that water...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:57 AM (fwARV)

178 >>ix - After whenever, you realize you were right the first time.

Yep. I remember about 1 year into my first post-college job that I discovered my dad was an excellent resource on all things office politics and corporate world career advancement advice. Since I was typically stuck in traffic on Friday afternoons I would call him up and chat weekly - it was such a wonderful discovery, and perfect transition into conversing w/him as two adults. Also was so nice that when I called he stopped doing the, "Hi! I'll go get your mother" handoff.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2015 08:58 AM (2TN4k)

179 I bathe my KID in that water...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:57 AM (fwARV)

Littlest Nearsider circa, 2032:

"Hey Dad, fuck you. Check your privilege"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 08:58 AM (oxZzd)

180 For the people asking about Iowa being conservative....

Go amble around Iowa City for a bit. They think Madison WI is a bit too conservative for their tastes. I shit you not. I wouldn't be surprised if it went 80% + for Obama last time.

It's so freaking deep blue it's indigo. They've had an out and proud socialist on the city council forever, and the local abortorium is named for ol' Red Emma Goldstein. When I lived there it was impossible to get a permit to purchase a handgun because the sheriff didn't think anyone needed one.

Not Republican friendly in the slightest.

Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny, local Valkyrie at April 16, 2015 08:59 AM (h8UWI)

181 Bannion, did I miss another meetup email? (Delavalette..)

Posted by: Jean at April 16, 2015 08:59 AM (ztOda)

182 "The ignore feature"?
Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:42 AM (WIUGG)

Firefox has an add on called greasemonkey, through which you can run a script on AoS to ignore users based on their hash. I just can't get it to install right.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:59 AM (U7cLk)

183 Littlest Nearsider circa, 2032:

"Hey Dad, fuck you. Check your privilege"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 08:58 AM (oxZzd)
you forgo:
btw....i need some money......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 16, 2015 09:00 AM (u8GsB)

184 My dad was in 'nam, not woodstock.

Voted for Obama...twice. Along with mom.

Yeah, that bullshit about "wise" parents goes out the fucking window when you don't learn from mistakes of that magnitude, especially in your 60s and 70s.

I only "talk" to them via FB now.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at April 16, 2015 09:00 AM (OsWis)

185 Bannion, did I miss another meetup email? (Delavalette..)
Posted by: Jean at April 16, 2015 08:59 AM (ztOda)

Yes.

Evidently.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 09:00 AM (oxZzd)

186 People on the coasts think Midwest ,they think conservative.Not necessarily the case.

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 09:00 AM (mGBKM)

187 >>The daughters boyfriend was 16 not 6 but still...

Oop, copy/paste fail!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2015 09:00 AM (2TN4k)

188 Sent, Jean.

Check your email in a sec.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 09:01 AM (oxZzd)

189 so I'll have to keep up coming with new names for them. Can't just say "Cherry Point" or "the Marines" everytime.
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2015 08:47 AM (2cS/G)

Teufel Hunds. (Devil dogs) They will looooove that

Don't call them "Truffle Hounds" That not so much

Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2015 09:01 AM (t//F+)

190
It's very healthy growing up in a conservative family. Hard work, service to country, truthfulness, and morality are expected in all endeavors.

Making a mistake was receiving a blowjob from Judy Finsterwald and hoping no one found out. Making a second mistake was boinking Judy Finsterwald and discovering the joy of the taco, and that sir may have been a mistake, but it was eye-opening and raised the bar for a life dedicated to achievement and pursuit of the camel toe.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at April 16, 2015 09:01 AM (P330y)

191 The legal world is already firmly in the liberals grasp, so the rest of the state doesn't matter.

The judiciary needs a thorough cleaning-out. Too much toxic crud built up over the years.

Mornin' Horde. I need some fresher fresh hell, looks like what I've got was fresh under Bush. The elder.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented Christian Objectivist at April 16, 2015 09:02 AM (DT3rQ)

192 About the "free range parents"...well, they have been publicly advocating an idea which, if widely spread, would lessen the need for the smothering network of nanny-state "Child Protective Services" bureaucracy, and cut off the state money train for lots of otherwise useless "social worker" types. So, they must be Made an Example Of, to keep their Heresies from spreading to the Common People, which would damage the Social Compact and the Common Good and diminish the State. Or something to that effect.

Yeah, I'd like to see the parents sue the shit out of the cops and bureaucrats, but I reckon that the odds are against them. They just need to get themselves and their kids out of the Montgomery County asylum.

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 16, 2015 09:02 AM (vd4oB)

193 My dad is a rick solid conservative but his oldest living brother is a Obamabot who tells him he has to watch MSNBC to get the real news.Though my dad says he doesn't bring Obama up as often in his more recent phone calls.

Posted by: steevy at April 16, 2015 09:02 AM (mGBKM)

194 Is that Iowans ? .. or Iotians ... always looking for a "piece of the action"

Posted by: James T Kirk at April 16, 2015 09:02 AM (e8kgV)

195 Linc, can you just call them the Misfits?

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 09:03 AM (U7cLk)

196 >>>>discovering the older you get--for many of us--the smarter your parents become.

Not my mom, although I do understand her better. I'm being kind.

Posted by: Bigby's Pinkyswear at April 16, 2015 09:04 AM (3ZtZW)

197 Linc, can you just call them the Misfits?

Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 09:05 AM (/gH7O)

198 Wave around some ears of corn, that always brings the Real Iowans running. Make sure the Fish and Wildlife guys don't see you, though.

(And in other news, Cass Sunstein is the intellectual excuse-provider for bureaucratic fascism, but you knew that.)

Posted by: joncelli at April 16, 2015 09:06 AM (RD7QR)

199 My parents were liberal when I was a kid in the 70's - classical liberal, not craycray Lefty hippies. Somehow they, along with my siblings and me, became conservative in the 90's. It great that we all are on the same page politically. It gets interesting when we spend holidays with our mostly Lefty relatives.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2015 09:06 AM (2TN4k)

200 Yom HaShoah

http://tinyurl.com/mcaeqj7

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 16, 2015 09:06 AM (BZAd3)

201 WE can probably get away with Misfits for the "JV" match, but in the feature match, the team nickname is just "Bastards". I'll have some time to talk to the team beforehand, I'll have to break it to them that we can't use their name, hopefully they'll have some suggestions. Devil Dogs or some variation would work, I think.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2015 09:06 AM (2cS/G)

202 Hi all.

Does Hillary's campaign have a theme song yet?

Posted by: Muldoon, still solid after all these years at April 16, 2015 09:07 AM (NeFrd)

203 "Hey Dad, fuck you. Check your privilege"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 16, 2015 08:58 AM (oxZzd)

"Listen, you little bastard..."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 09:07 AM (fwARV)

204 her daughter's 6-year-old boyfriend

-->her daughter's *16*-year-old boyfriend

Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 09:08 AM (WIUGG)

205 "Listen, you little bastard..."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 09:07 AM (fwARV)

MICROAGGRESSION!!!!

Wait....

MACROAGGRESSION!!!!

Posted by: Littlest Nearsider at April 16, 2015 09:08 AM (oxZzd)

206 This has to be asked, so was the mom a school teacher?

Oh yeah the Borgias called, they want their schtick back.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2015 09:08 AM (49rjL)

207 hillary is lying about her grandparents now. Says all were immigrants even though 3 were born here. What is it about dems that makes them all liars?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2015 09:09 AM (rDqRv)

208 I think I'm gonna pull a Peter Gibbons today.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 09:10 AM (U7cLk)

209 Does Hillary's campaign have a theme song yet?

Posted by: Muldoon, still solid after all these years at April 16, 2015 09:07 AM (NeFrd)

http://tinyurl.com/kg38ehw

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 09:10 AM (fwARV)

210 Hillary! is ashamed her parents were Republicans.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 16, 2015 09:10 AM (49rjL)

211 "Hey Dad, fuck you. Check your privilege"

-SMACK-

"Check your teeth, They're over there,"

Posted by: Dragline at April 16, 2015 09:11 AM (WZQdF)

212 Youtube from the PSP Dallas tournament.

Little VIA's D-1 team competed in this.

Autostart warning.

https://youtu.be/_suokpIB5l0

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 09:11 AM (nK74j)

213 182 "The ignore feature"?
Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 08:42 AM (WIUGG)

Firefox has an add on called greasemonkey
Posted by: DangerGirl at April 16, 2015 08:59 AM (U7cLk)

Thanks.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2015 09:11 AM (WIUGG)

214 Posted by: Littlest Nearsider at April 16, 2015 09:08 AM (oxZzd)

You're starting at point A. There are two ways to get to point B - your way or my way. My way involves a no bloodshed. Your way does not.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 09:11 AM (fwARV)

215 Le dump, she is up.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 16, 2015 09:12 AM (2Ojst)

216 Just for the record, I don't think the next revolution will be a spontaneous mass uprising. It will be many small Bundy Ranchs happening one after the other,over a period of time.

Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at April 16, 2015 09:12 AM (U7H1n)

217 You're starting at point A. There are two ways to get to point B - your way or my way. My way involves a no bloodshed. Your way does not.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 09:11 AM (fwARV)

Shyeah!

Whatevs!

....

Wait, those are JHPs are they? Like 235 grain?

Posted by: Littlest Nearsider at April 16, 2015 09:13 AM (oxZzd)

218 Youtube from the PSP Dallas tournament.

The mudbowl.
We had a scenario on the other side of the metroplex that weekend.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2015 09:13 AM (/gH7O)

219 Oy! Horde!

Dump up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 16, 2015 09:14 AM (h4vJk)

220 btw....i need some money......
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 16, 2015 09:00 AM (u8GsB)

"Sorry, son, I've only got 5 billion dollars left. You know that will only get me through the rest of the week."

Posted by: Insomniac at April 16, 2015 09:14 AM (2Ojst)

221 "We had a scenario on the other side of the metroplex that weekend."

*fistbump*

And that is what Little VIA has set as his personal goal in sports life.

He's young enough, and if he keeps improving....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2015 09:15 AM (nK74j)

222 "...She's in med school, too, so it's not like she's a total LIV..." Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny

This 'highly educated =/= LIV' argument doesn't hold, in my opinion, and also doesn't apply to older folks either. I blame it on confirmation bias, where they hear, read, see what they want to hear, read, see, so long as it doesn't cause cognitive dissonance. They also fall in love with a guy/gal broadcaster and never change the channel.

I know plenty of otherwise intelligent people who are just shit-turd stupid about public policy and the realities of the progressive agenda.

And with that salvo I bid AoSHQ adios

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at April 16, 2015 09:19 AM (/XJFz)

223 Wait, those are JHPs are they? Like 235 grain?

Posted by: Littlest Nearsider at April 16, 2015 09:13 AM (oxZzd)

Nope. 60 grains. http://tinyurl.com/k8wm3h8

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 09:23 AM (fwARV)

224 He's a stupid, stupid voter, but a good man. Yes, hard to square, but he worked his ass off making sure we were provided for, taught me about integrity (that took some work), discipline and work ethic.

I have no idea how he became so liberal, but he did.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at April 16, 2015 08:53 AM (fwARV)
******
Yes, same here. I think it's some kind of misdirected survivor guilt. As Jonah Golberg said, they don't preach what they practice.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at April 16, 2015 09:23 AM (3F6F8)

225 Sitting in Reagan Airport and suddenly the "Mayberry" theme started playing over the PA system.

Is this just DC trolling me do you think?

Posted by: MTF at April 16, 2015 09:50 AM (wq+tW)

226 Relax peeps, Meghan Kelly had it right last night, Hillary is so phony, such a poor liar and speaker that if Meghan and a few friends keep piling on the Presstitutes will soon decide their reputations are not worth trying to drag this rotting corpse across the line and they will demand Moochelle or the fake indian, we here in Iowa have a town named Pocahontas good place for the fake indian to announce......I dream I dream....the Presstitutes are unshameable I fears......

Posted by: concealedkerry or submitt at April 16, 2015 09:52 AM (vXqv3)

227
Isn't there a bag limit on Iowans? she should stick with the astrocorn campaign strategy.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at April 16, 2015 10:17 AM (VvOZ5)

228 Those real Iowan probably saw her staffers dressed like Elmer Fudd and walking around with bird nets and decided "ya know I'm just gonna go inside."

Posted by: shenaniganist at April 16, 2015 01:36 PM (dkHeL)

229
Bring me more Iowans!!!

"Don't worry folks... It's not like she is going to eat you... probably..."

Posted by: Haiku Guy at April 16, 2015 02:06 PM (hmj8n)

230 There are much better examples of stories with a Dyson Sphere as the focus than the Ringworld Engineers (as good as it is).

Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton is one. (there's a sequel/2nd part Judas Unchained)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 16, 2015 09:58 PM (zRby/)

Processing 0.03, elapsed 0.032 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0127 seconds, 239 records returned.
Page size 132 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.