Morning Thread (7-27-2015)

Well done, Senate Majority Leader Reid. Well done.

Comments

1 First.

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 06:15 AM (B77dy)

2 And since I was first, you all have to go read my new blog post, Part 2: Anti-American Micro-Aggressions and the #NeoCommunist Defeat of America - http://lettersfrommy.blogspot.com/2015/07/part-2-anti-american-micro-aggressions.html

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 06:18 AM (B77dy)

3 DAY 993

470 to go (543 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, mewling mattress myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, 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 July 27, 2015 06:18 AM (St6BJ)

4
The next person who describes the GOP as "the stupid party" will get smacked.

They are collaborating with the Democrats. If the link above won't convince you, you really are not paying attention.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 06:19 AM (St6BJ)

5 2 Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 06:18 AM (B77dy)

Who are you and where have you been all our lives!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 06:35 AM (St6BJ)

6 Weekend Sports Update.
Dragged over from the dead thread

Baltimore weekend roundup...
Three dead
ten wounded
One stabbed to death.

Running it through the population corrector, Chicago would need

12 dead
43 wounded
4 stabbed to death

Actual Chicago performance?

7 dead
28 wounded
zero death by stabbing

Fighting above it's weight..
Baltimore wins again!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2015 06:37 AM (VPLuQ)

7 The next person who describes the GOP as "the stupid party" will get smacked.

They are collaborating with the Democrats. If the link above won't convince you, you really are not paying attention.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 06:19 AM (St6BJ)

They're still stupid, they've just advanced to stupid *and* traitorous.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at July 27, 2015 06:38 AM (J+mig)

8 Traitors! Our government has forsaken the American people. We are being used, our country is being used, for greed and profit. Damn them!

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 06:42 AM (rnH8X)

9 The GOP is a thoroughly corrupt institution. Yertle McTurtle is a fraud and should be behind bars.

Posted by: Anti-socialist at July 27, 2015 06:47 AM (o9lmn)

10 Was anyone able to find Dave's post from yesterday or is it still lost in the ether?

I blame Trump.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at July 27, 2015 06:50 AM (X+nFp)

11 If you live in Kentucky, and know someone who voted for the slack jawed horserace McConnell - please punch them in the face for me.

Posted by: Reality Man at July 27, 2015 06:51 AM (BNEdd)

12 @4, 7, 8, 9

Well, if we get this thread disappeared, at least we got started early.

Posted by: Agent J at July 27, 2015 06:52 AM (ueOgE)

13 The GOP has betrayed you.

Posted by: Some guy on HotAir who was 100% correct at July 27, 2015 06:52 AM (bGLSw)

14 Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 06:42 AM

And yet, about 16 months from now, people -- including a lot of the more vociferous True Conservatives here -- will go trotting off to the polls to vote for Jeb! (or Rubio, Huckabee, Kasich, whoever) because Republican!!11!!

It always boils down to the LOTE and the "if only we elected more Republicans to Congress, things would improve...."

No, I am not optimistic today.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 06:52 AM (rCmeG)

15
We are all Salvadorans now, and with a banana republic government to boot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at July 27, 2015 06:55 AM (95CzI)

16 not a dime's worth of difference, not a dime's worth of difference- Donks and Rhinos, same damn thing!

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 06:57 AM (rnH8X)

17 @10
The Thread was purposely deleted by higher-ups here, apparently. The truth may never be known to us below-deckers. I've got kinda that "walking on eggshells" feeling this morning.

Posted by: Agent J at July 27, 2015 06:57 AM (ueOgE)

18 Morning! Bring out the Vic!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2015 07:00 AM (UpGcq)

19
not a dime's worth of difference, not a dime's worth of difference- Donks and Rhinos, same damn thing!

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 06:57 AM

Well, actually there IS a difference: teh Democrats are giving the orders, while the Republicans merely function as their faithful, well-rewarded lackeys.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 07:00 AM (rCmeG)

20 14 Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 06:42 AM

And yet, about 16 months from now, people -- including a lot of the more vociferous True Conservatives here -- will go trotting off to the polls to vote for Jeb! (or Rubio, Huckabee, Kasich, whoever) because Republican!!11!!

It always boils down to the LOTE and the "if only we elected more Republicans to Congress, things would improve...."

No, I am not optimistic today.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 06:52 AM (rCmeG)

No way. Not this time. If any of the GOPotemkins are the candidate, I'm staying home.

And after reading PeetySDee's blog articles, I want to open a vein (not necessarily mine, but you get the idea).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:00 AM (St6BJ)

21 Black Lives Matter!

Will not really in Baltimore/Chicago
Two sports teams won in Baltimore, the city and the Orioles, what more could you ask for!

Posted by: Colin at July 27, 2015 07:02 AM (XI30L)

22 "I've got kinda that "walking on eggshells" feeling this morning."

No,not me.
I got my mind right Boss.

Shakin' it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2015 07:02 AM (VPLuQ)

23 Dave re-posted the whole thing on his own blog yesterday.

Here's the link

http://tinyurl.com/p83t4hb

I have no idea why that would be intentionally deleted by the powers that be.. it was a damn righteous rant, and I agree with every word.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2015 07:03 AM (UpGcq)

24 Rage-o-meter has been in the red for some time now. I have no more rage to give.

mornin'.

Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2015 07:05 AM (6xtq3)

25 You lie!

Posted by: Wilson Cruz at July 27, 2015 07:06 AM (bUmSq)

26 Know who this helps, in a roundabout way?

HRC.

Posted by: Stuff like this is why I say we're Doomed at July 27, 2015 07:06 AM (bGLSw)

27 I am just about to the point of not bothering to vote GOP in the primaries. I may vote Dem and vote for Bernie Sanders if there is even a remote shot of him beating Hillary.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2015 07:07 AM (UpGcq)

28 23 I don't get why it was pulled, either. But there are a lot of things I don't get. apparently.

Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2015 07:08 AM (6xtq3)

29 28 For example, I don't 'get' brain surgery or nucUlar science.

Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2015 07:13 AM (6xtq3)

30 29 I also don't get why McDonald's coffee needs to be served at 10,000,000 degrees.

Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2015 07:14 AM (6xtq3)

31 Rage-o-meter has been in the red for some time now. I have no more rage to give.

Rage I'm full up on. Pretty much everything else is empty.
Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2015 07:15 AM (vxBxx)

32

What difference, at this point, does it make??/?!/1/1/11?!?!?1?/1/1!?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 27, 2015 07:15 AM (HSmrB)

33 I have no idea why that would be intentionally
deleted by the powers that be.. it was a damn righteous rant, and I
agree with every word.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2015 07:03 AM

While I don't agree with every word -- lots of 'em, but not all of 'em -- it was indeed a righteous rant. Didn't pay too much attention to it when it went up yesterday, as I don't know who "Rick Wilson" is and weirddave didn't give me much of a hint as to why I should care what Wilson thinks. But wd did rip off a sharp retort to him....

For what it's worth (the bidding starts at "zero"), my own take on the Trump Phenomenon is much simpler: when you're drowning in bullshit, even an unattractive, stinky life preserver offers some hope for survival. It didn't HAVE to be Trump; could easily have been Walker, Jindal, Perry, or even Kasich, but each of them wimped out and toed the Good Politics line.

End of story.

I mean, think about it: who the hell really wants to vote for Trump? Nobody, that's who. But if he's still standing on election day, and the Game of Politics candidates are Jeb! and Shrillery, I will enthusiastically vote for Teh Donald.

There's nothing more to it. Poppin' Fresh can't figure that out, and neither can any of the other Nattering Nabobs of Conservatism.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 07:15 AM (rCmeG)

34 "For example, I don't 'get' brain surgery or nucUlar science."

Brain Surgery is pretty straight forward.

First...order replacement brain from Abby Normal's House of Brains.....

Hump...what hump?

Posted by: I-gore at July 27, 2015 07:16 AM (VPLuQ)

35 Morning, JJ!

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 07:17 AM (iHqFh)

36 That thread was not intendedly pulled. Slip of the hand and hit a wrong key. That was the explanation.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 07:19 AM (rnH8X)

37 I also don't get why McDonald's coffee needs to be served at 10,000,000 degrees.

Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2015 07:14 AM

Once you've tasted MickeyDee's coffee, anything that, as MAD magazine used to say, "numbnitizes" the taste buds -- atrociously high temps do that -- is appreciated.

I'm surprised the FTC lets 'em call it "coffee."

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 07:20 AM (rCmeG)

38 I can imagine George III's own version of Rick Wilson writing an op-ed like that one in Politico in 1776.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 27, 2015 07:24 AM (oVJmc)

39 Baltimore's news stations have begone to do a slow roll style of reporting shootings.

Up till the post Freddy Gray unpleasantness, each shooting/murder deserved its own "Breaking News" segment on the local channels.

Within the last several weeks, they have become downplayed till it's mostly a recap of the days totals on the late news, and a second tier placement on the tv news websites.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2015 07:24 AM (VPLuQ)

40 And yet, about 16 months from now, people -- including a lot of the more vociferous True Conservatives here -- will go trotting off to the polls to vote for Jeb! (or Rubio, Huckabee, Kasich, whoever) because Republican!!11!!

Not this cat.

Done and over.

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 07:25 AM (O7MnT)

41 I'm surprised the FTC lets 'em call it "coffee."
Posted by: MrScribbler
..........
No shit.. A few years ago they renamed their coffee McCaf� and "premium roast", but it still was the same shit swill as before! I tell ya.. ya gotta love the power of marketing..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2015 07:28 AM (UpGcq)

42 You know, McConnell couldn't 'lead' without followers. The reason this failure theater is so depressing/enraging is that we don't need just a few more conservative congressman to win - we actually only have a handful at all. And the Chamber of Commerce is going after those in the next cycle.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 27, 2015 07:29 AM (PHxng)

43 35 Morning, JJ!
Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 07:17 AM (iHqFh)

Dude. First, kudos on the blog and the writing. Second, those are seriously sobering, well-wrtten and depressing as hell. Third, haven't seen you around here. New to the place? Stick around. You write very goodly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:29 AM (St6BJ)

44 15
We are all Salvadorans now, and with a banana republic government to boot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at July 27, 2015 06:55 AM (95CzI)

If that's the case, then bring on the death squads.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:31 AM (St6BJ)

45
That thread was not intendedly pulled. Slip of the hand and hit a wrong key. That was the explanation.
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis

Cite? Did not notice an offical reason given, but there's 1000+ comments to scan.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 27, 2015 07:31 AM (kdS6q)

46 I move that we refer to the GOPe as Renfields (Dracula's insane bug eating lackey) in the future. As in: "Renfield McConnell today said..."

Posted by: An Observation at July 27, 2015 07:32 AM (4+Zhf)

47 42 You know, McConnell couldn't 'lead' without followers. The reason this failure theater is so depressing/enraging is that we don't need just a few more conservative congressman to win - we actually only have a handful at all. And the Chamber of Commerce is going after those in the next cycle.
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 27, 2015 07:29 AM (PHxng)

Winning the House in '10 and the Senate in '14 only made the situation even worse than when we were "in the wilderness" so to speak. I almost hope the Democrats win the White House again just to slow down the collapse!*

*(If the candidate is Establishment)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:33 AM (St6BJ)

48 Very spotty/slow internet service this morning. Anyone else having troubles?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:34 AM (St6BJ)

49 One of the things that has to absolutely be brought to the front in addition to illegal immigration, is what is now official policy of the U.S. to diminish the white population and turn the US into an AmeriMexico shit hole.

This is a direct result of the '65 immigration over haul, thank you very much Ted Kennedy to SOB.

We must severely reduce legal immigration and end chain migeation and re-orient our immigration policy back towards the 1st world and away from the 3rd world.

The U.S. simply does not need any more Mexicans, Somalis, Ethiopians, Vietnamese, etc.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 27, 2015 07:34 AM (I6d7z)

50 Passing bills without knowing what's in them. And can't tell the American people what's in them.
Unprotected boarders.
Trillions of dollars in debt.
Passing laws that exempt themselves and their cronies, but everyone else must obey.
Running crooks for political office who they refuse to prosecute.
And just flat out lie to the American people. Over and over, lie and more lies.
No wonder I have no respect or trust for this government.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 07:35 AM (rnH8X)

51 This thread is deader than the GOP.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at July 27, 2015 07:38 AM (bUmSq)

52
Roll call on On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 2327: To reauthorize and reform the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Agreed to (67-26)

YEAs 67
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Blunt (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Portman (R-OH)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Scott (R-SC)
Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 7

Corker (R-TN)
Flake (R-AZ)
Sessions (R-AL)
Toomey (R-PA)

Half the Senate GOP. See ya at the polls in Nov '16!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 27, 2015 07:38 AM (kdS6q)

53 The article on air conditioning in the ONT reminded me: Our fascist overlords are certain to regulate the heating and cooling of our homes soon. Anyone deviating from the government-prescribed temperature will be guilty of energy crime.

Note to self: Find local sources of coal.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 27, 2015 07:39 AM (YFw5T)

54
This thread is deader than the GOP.
Posted by: Beefy Meatball

Climate of fear.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 27, 2015 07:39 AM (kdS6q)

55
Two items of note whilst the hamsters are still spinning the wheel:

1) - Chi-Com stock market took a hard dive. Looks like it is crashing hard.

2) New York (not the New Yorker) Magazine features 35 of Cosby's alleged victims on the cover. Remember the one they did for Slick Willie's victims? Me neither.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:40 AM (St6BJ)

56 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2015 07:40 AM (ZQfW9)

57 52 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 27, 2015 07:38 AM (kdS6q)

Dear Lord, is Joni Ernst morphing into Renee Ellmers?

Sad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:41 AM (St6BJ)

58 To reauthorize and reform the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Reform is DC-Code for "spend more money."

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 07:42 AM (O7MnT)

59 The U.S. simply does not need any more Mexicans, Somalis, Ethiopians, Vietnamese, etc.
Posted by: Kreplach
...........
You forgot Indians and Pakistanis. I swear, some of the far western burbs of Chicago are turning into Little Mumbai.

The cineplex out here has 2 Bollywood films running simultaneously last time I was there. In Urdu, not English.

They simply bring all of their relatives over here to visit and they never leave. It's a crying fucking shame what is happening to this country.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2015 07:42 AM (UpGcq)

60
And Tim Scott too?! Now I'm really angry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:42 AM (St6BJ)

61 Joni Ernst is severely conservative.

Posted by: Mitt Rombley at July 27, 2015 07:42 AM (YFw5T)

62 39 Baltimore's news stations have begone to do a slow roll style of reporting shootings.

Up till the post Freddy Gray unpleasantness, each shooting/murder deserved its own "Breaking News" segment on the local channels.

Within the last several weeks, they have become downplayed till it's mostly a recap of the days totals on the late news, and a second tier placement on the tv news websites.

----
They may have decided to use the Detroit example. Our local news has been reporting our horrendous mirder rate in just that way.

Posted by: Chilling the most at July 27, 2015 07:43 AM (zW5rQ)

63 "The article on air conditioning in the ONT reminded me: Our fascist overlords are certain to regulate the heating and cooling of our homes soon. Anyone deviating from the government-prescribed temperature will be guilty of energy crime. "

Our local energy supplier has offered "Smart Thermostats" for some time now.
It allows them to remotely re-adjust cycle your air conditioner during peak energy demand periods during the hotter summer months.

So the technology, and ability is already out there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2015 07:43 AM (VPLuQ)

64 58 Reform is DC-Code for "spend more money."
Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 07:42 AM (O7MnT)

Also, "add layers of more unelected, unaccountable, unremovable bureaucracy, so they can fuck it up even more . . . requiring more 'reform.' "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:44 AM (St6BJ)

65 Anyone deviating from the government-prescribed
temperature will be guilty of energy crime. Note to self: Find local sources of coal.

Pro tip: Overlords only burn slightly hotter than HOA presidents.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2015 07:44 AM (vxBxx)

66 They. are. in. on. it.

Posted by: old glazier at July 27, 2015 07:47 AM (u63X/)

67 I propose we rewrite the Poem on the Statue of Liberty to:

Give us your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses,
Yearning to break in.

Posted by: An Observation at July 27, 2015 07:47 AM (4+Zhf)

68 Baltimore needs more candlelight vigils. They always quell the violence. Or not. And they are fire hazards.

Posted by: Stupid Dumbass at July 27, 2015 07:47 AM (VcOqI)

69 The left will break any law or invent new ones to get their agenda moving while having hysterics over people who support the actual laws of the country like immigration or owning a gun. They are lawless, soulless vile creatures as those PP videos shows

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2015 07:48 AM (DiZBp)

70 I have blocked all GOP incursions into my in box.

Posted by: Stupid Dumbass at July 27, 2015 07:48 AM (VcOqI)

71 Miss Lindsey Graham supports the Ex-Im Bank (because Jobz), and fossilized Republican Orrin Hatch has teh sadz because Cruz, Paul, and Rubio are rocking the boat.

http://tinyurl.com/qcb28y5

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 07:48 AM (O7MnT)

72 WeirdDave spoke well, and Rick Wilson is a worthy guy for a thread like that one.

Posted by: MTF at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (TxJGV)

73 Is Thad Cochran still alive?............That's too bad.

Posted by: Stupid Dumbass at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (VcOqI)

74 @59

It's been apparent for a long time what was going on but now it's blatant and in your face.

We have politicians at the highest levels, VP, Governors, mayors, senators outright saying, practically orgasmically, that the US is going to become a Latin country.

We have illegal aliens trolling GOP presidential candidates, we have illegal aliens making anti-white propaganda documentaries with impunity and hardly any push back.

This must stop.

The GOP and the rest of the political oligarchy class is paying with fire.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (I6d7z)

75 Nattering Nabobs of Conservatism.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 07:15 AM (rCmeG)

Gotta keep with the alliteration.

'Chattering cabal of commu-conservatism'.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (HEtQ3)

76
GOP = Remora party. Living off the scraps left in the wake of the shark.

Symbiosis. Learned it in bio class.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (St6BJ)

77 and fossilized Republican Orrin Hatch has teh sadz because Cruz, Paul, and Rubio are rocking the boat.

Rock it? Time to sink it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (vxBxx)

78 @45...Cite?

The Red state, blue state thread.

@49- Oops! Wrong server!
Sorry guys, I was meaning to download some stuff from another server and to delete the activities log there instead of killing WeirdDave's thread.
I'll be more careful next time!
posted by: Wang,theChineseSystemAdminwithRootPriviliges at July 26, 2015 02:21 pm

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (1uTkE)

79 75 Nattering Nabobs of Conservatism.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 07:15 AM (rCmeG)

Gotta keep with the alliteration.

'Chattering cabal of commu-conservatism'.
Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (HEtQ3)

Cloying Crybabies of Conservatism

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:51 AM (St6BJ)

80 By the way, The United States is - and has been for a long time - the most diverse country on the face of the planet earth.

Posted by: An Observation at July 27, 2015 07:51 AM (4+Zhf)

81 73 Is Thad Cochran still alive?............That's too bad.
Posted by: Stupid Dumbass at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (VcOqI)

No, but his voting finger sure as hell is. It's wired to McYertle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:51 AM (St6BJ)

82 Not sure who Rick Wilson is but that's a nice rant by Dave, maybe it attacks a Friend Of The Blog. For instance I was mad at Malor for his tweet accusing people against illegal immigration as racists, and Ace wrote a post in his defence (admittedly I didn't know about the wave of white supremacy flooding Twitter).

Posted by: waelse1 at July 27, 2015 07:52 AM (BpPO7)

83 The Senate has always been a slithering mass of corruption, so I guess it's no surprise leading Senators (of whatever party) are also leading corrupters.

Posted by: MTF at July 27, 2015 07:52 AM (TxJGV)

84 Gotta keep with the alliteration. 'Chattering cabal of commu-conservatism'.
Posted by: RickZ

Cloying Crybabies of Conservatism
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Swear gin Cocksuckah!
-Wu

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2015 07:53 AM (vxBxx)

85 83 The Senate has always been a slithering mass of corruption, so I guess it's no surprise leading Senators (of whatever party) are also leading corrupters.
Posted by: MTF at July 27, 2015 07:52 AM (TxJGV)

Repeal the fucking 17th Amendment.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:54 AM (St6BJ)

86 Is Thad Cochran still alive?............That's too bad.
Posted by: Stupid Dumbass at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (VcOqI)

No, but his voting finger sure as hell is. It's wired to McYertle.

I feel like the GOP has been doing a "Weekend at Bernie's" with Thad's Cockring for a long time.

Also, surprised no one has done the obvious with Bernie Sanders/Weekend at Bernie's.

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 07:54 AM (O7MnT)

87 And yet, about 16 months from now, people --
including a lot of the more vociferous True Conservatives here -- will
go trotting off to the polls to vote for Jeb! (or Rubio, Huckabee,
Kasich, whoever) because Republican!!11!!

Not this cat.

Done and over.

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 07:25 AM (O7MnT)

Huh?

Posted by: Roger Murdock at July 27, 2015 07:55 AM (JO9+V)

88
Repeal the fucking 17th Amendment.

A major part in the downfall of our country.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 27, 2015 07:55 AM (oVJmc)

89 We have politicians at the highest levels, VP, Governors, mayors,
senators outright saying, practically orgasmically, that the US is going
to become a Latin country.

We have illegal aliens trolling GOP presidential candidates, we have
illegal aliens making anti-white propaganda documentaries with impunity
and hardly any push back.

What the left fails to realize in attempting to destroy the country and all conservative opposition is that the monster eventually turns on Dr. Frankenstein. We saw a bit of it with the black lives matter crowd storming the stage on O'Malley and Sanders.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2015 07:56 AM (DiZBp)

90 Also, surprised no one has done the obvious with Bernie Sanders/Weekend at Bernie's.

Too horrifying to contemplate.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2015 07:56 AM (vxBxx)

91 i thought everyone was joking about dave's thread...it really is gone.....wtf?

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at July 27, 2015 07:57 AM (0O7c5)

92 Also, surprised no one has done the obvious with Bernie Sanders/Weekend at Bernie's.

In that version, it's the country that's dead.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 27, 2015 07:57 AM (oVJmc)

93 Mike Huckleberry's comment about the Iran deal "walking the Jews to the ovens" seems to have enraged the Leftists.

He may a douchebag, but he is dead balls on. More please.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:57 AM (St6BJ)

94 It's been apparent for a long time what was going on but now it's blatant and in your face. . .This must stop.

* * *

Won't happen because it can't happen. Not near enough torches and pitchforks, figuratively speaking, and that's what it would take at this point.

Sorry.

Posted by: Doomed, and then some at July 27, 2015 07:57 AM (bGLSw)

95 And yet, about 16 months from now, people -- including a lot of the more vociferous True Conservatives here -- will go trotting off to the polls to vote for Jeb! (or Rubio, Huckabee, Kasich, whoever) because Republican!!11!!

Hey, you better vote for Jeb, because it's very important that Hillary doesn't become president.

Posted by: Begonia, Fellator of RINOS at July 27, 2015 07:58 AM (O7MnT)

96 88 A major part in the downfall of our country.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 27, 2015 07:55 AM (oVJmc)

Read PeetySDee's blog post (look up-thread). Very well stated and worth the read.

And you are right.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:59 AM (St6BJ)

97 I also don't get why McDonald's coffee needs to be served at 10,000,000 degrees.
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2015 07:14 AM

Nothing like stopping at the drive thru for a cup of coffee on the way to work because you got up late, and not being able to drink it for a HALF HOUR.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at July 27, 2015 07:59 AM (FIrEF)

98 95 Hey, you better vote for Jeb, because it's very important that Hillary doesn't become president.
Posted by: Begonia, Fellator of RINOS at July 27, 2015 07:58 AM (O7MnT)

Jeb = Hilary in a frock.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 08:00 AM (St6BJ)

99 Read PeetySDee's blog post (look up-thread). Very well stated and worth the read.

I did and it was. A great audition tape should Ace ever need another cob.

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 08:00 AM (O7MnT)

100 It may be time for me to contribute to the GOP.

Yeah, I said it.

I wonder if a $1 contribution would prompt them to spend $200 soliciting more contributions from me.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 27, 2015 08:00 AM (YFw5T)

101 Repeal the fucking 17th Amendment.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 07:54 AM

So help me Mitch Miller, I will never understand either the Founders' original rules for picking Senators or the fuss made over the 17th Amendment.

Well, I understand the Constitution's writers a bit. But they certainly had no idea how corrupted a cesspool politics would become, or how desperately awful full-time State governments would be. Look, for example, at Illinois. Or California. Giving Legislatures in those states the right to directly add two more hogs to the trough doesn't strike me as a Good Thing.

Not that I have any faith in the voting public these days. But better them than members of the Political Class.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 08:00 AM (rCmeG)

102 Jeb = Hilary in a frock.

Rubio - Jeb with a combover.

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 08:01 AM (O7MnT)

103 74 The GOP and the rest of the political oligarchy class is paying with fire.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 27, 2015 07:50 AM (I6d7z)

I used to think so. But the total lack of any smoke after what SCROTUS did to us last month tells me we on the right will, in fact, go quietly into the good night. The GOP candidates aren't out there beating up SCROTUS, only Trump- being beaten up on by everybody in the GOP heierarchy and MFM- is even mentioning illegals, there've been no marches... From what I can see, "they" have won.

Posted by: Agent J at July 27, 2015 08:01 AM (ueOgE)

104
That thread was not intendedly pulled. Slip of the hand and hit a wrong key. That was the explanation.
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis

Cite?

Wang,theChineseSystemAdminwithRootPriviliges

"Humor. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 27, 2015 08:01 AM (kdS6q)

105 What the left fails to realize in attempting to destroy the country and all conservative opposition is that

the only thing keeping them alive is the rule of law.
Once that goes, it's open season.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2015 08:02 AM (vxBxx)

106 The Democratically Controlled US Senate

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at July 27, 2015 08:02 AM (rwI+c)

107 43 Wow. Thanks, JJ. Very kind words. I've been an AOS lurker and occasional commenter since 2010. I'm mostly active on Twitter.

FWIW, I attended a Northern VA Moron Meet in June. It was epic.

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 08:02 AM (iHqFh)

108 Can we please not mention Jeb this morning? My stomach feels a little queasy already and I have lots to do today, so I'd like to not start my workday with throwing up.

Posted by: MTF at July 27, 2015 08:03 AM (TxJGV)

109 Weekend Sports Update.
Dragged over from the dead thread

Baltimore weekend roundup...
Three dead
ten wounded
One stabbed to death.

Running it through the population corrector, Chicago would need

12 dead
43 wounded
4 stabbed to death

Actual Chicago performance?

7 dead
28 wounded
zero death by stabbing

Fighting above it's weight..
Baltimore wins again!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2015 06:37 AM (VPLuQ)

Pikers. My "safe" city Milwaukee has had 6 homicides in the last week.

Posted by: Tom "Dr. Szell" Barrett at July 27, 2015 08:05 AM (cL79m)

110 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 27, 2015 08:06 AM (kff5f)

111 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 27, 2015 08:06 AM (kff5f)

112 Bulldog, the links-master ovr at Maggies has a particularly good cartoon drawing of G. Washington up this morning, which I recommend to your attention:

http://bit.ly/1OKw0jL

Oh, and Fuck You! right back, Mitch!

Posted by: MTF at July 27, 2015 08:08 AM (TxJGV)

113 101 Not that I have any faith in the voting public these days. But better them than members of the Political Class.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 08:00 AM (rCmeG)

The Founders, bless them, knew that the system the devised would only be as good as the integrity and character of those who swore the oath, and the citizenry that elected them. They could only put in so many firewalls. They knew history and that the republic they founded was "the exception" to history, and that sadly history - even here - would ultimately repeat itself.

Oh well. I guess I can slouch towards the mass grave but one never knows what the future brings. Therefore, hope.

As Simon Wiesenthal said "a Jew who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."

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

114 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 27, 2015 08:06 AM (kff5f)
~~Don't~~ worry; the Iranian/Red Chinese/Soviet Russian Axis is on the case.

Posted by: steveegg at July 27, 2015 08:09 AM (cL79m)

115 107 Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 27, 2015 08:02 AM (iHqFh)

I enjoy finding/reading well-written posts. You be bookmarked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 08:10 AM (St6BJ)

116 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.
Sip Slurpees in the shade.

A little added twist to an AllenG favorite.

'Cause it's going to triple digit temps this week

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2015 08:11 AM (JO9+V)

117 Not that I have any faith in the voting public these days. But better them than members of the Political Class.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 08:00 AM (rCmeG)

So Mitch McConnel, Harry Reid, et. al., are paragons of virtue? I think you could count the number of non-corrupt (or only sort-of corrupt) Senators on a blind butcher's fingers.

The point was not to avoid corruption, which I'm pretty sure the founders were wise enough to know was going to come no matter what. The point was to pit the House against the Senate. A given Representative was supposed to look out for the interests of a few hundred to a few thousand people- it was expected that Representatives would advocate things good for their local constituency. The Senate was supposed to look out for the interests of the State governments.

Yes, some States were very corrupt. That's different from today... how, exactly? How is modern Chicago different from the days of Tamany Hall?

So without any real benefit, we lost the ability of the States to speak up for _their_ rights in the Federal Government.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 27, 2015 08:12 AM (kff5f)

118 106 The Democratically Controlled US Senate
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at July 27, 2015 08:02 AM (rwI+c)

You mean the "Democrat-controlled" as they are about as democratic as the GOP is "republican."

That is to say, they ain't.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 08:12 AM (St6BJ)

119 They are suppose to have another unbinding vote on Obamacare today. Another do nothing vote that should calm the knuckle-draggers down.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 27, 2015 08:12 AM (1uTkE)

120 As Simon Wiesenthal said "a Jew who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 08:08 AM

Ol' Simon must have eaten at Canter's Deli down on Fairfax Ave...their pastrami on rye was truly miraculous. One of maybe three things I miss about Los Angeles.

But yes, I am certainly down with miracles. We sure as hell need one right about now.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 08:14 AM (rCmeG)

121 Saw a headline yesterday (but did not bother to follow it), the Republican Party is looking to take a more nuanced, Popish view of abortion as we approach the new election cycle.

For the life of me, I do not understand these people.

The Republican Party leadership? Oh no, I understand THEM just fine. We have words to describe them. Precise words.

No, what I mean is, I do not understand the people who proclaim to be pro-life, pro-business, pro-rule of law, and still vote for those soulless monsters.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2015 08:14 AM (Dj0WE)

122 OT: Some lighter happier news: Happy Birthday to the greatest entertainer ever. He's made me laugh more than anyone except maybe Red Skelton or Jack Benny.

http://tinyurl.com/nj3j7tt

Happy Birthday BB!!

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at July 27, 2015 08:14 AM (nqiq9)

123 Is this new version of Harry Reid still (allegedly) the Searchlight Strangler? Or has he just sold the van and moved east?

Posted by: Stu-22 at July 27, 2015 08:15 AM (vd4oB)

124 120 Ol' Simon must have eaten at Canter's Deli down on Fairfax Ave...their pastrami on rye was truly miraculous. One of maybe three things I miss about Los Angeles.

But yes, I am certainly down with miracles. We sure as hell need one right about now.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 27, 2015 08:14 AM (rCmeG)

I got Katz's down the block with the fake-orgasm-inducing pastrami. But Canter's a great hotdog sandwich IIRC called the Buck Benny. That and a mushroom-barley soup.

**sigh**

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

125 But yes, I am certainly down with miracles. We sure as hell need one right about now.

Create a scenario where the F.B.I. cuts power to all of D.C.

Posted by: Zombie Hans Gruber at July 27, 2015 08:16 AM (JO9+V)

126 They are suppose to have another unbinding vote on Obamacare today. Another do nothing vote that should calm the knuckle-draggers down.

Yes, Turtlehead's twitter feed is all about the Obamacare repeal; not a chirp about the Ex-Im bank.

https://twitter.com/SenateMajLdr

Posted by: V the K at July 27, 2015 08:16 AM (O7MnT)

127

The GOP has betrayed you.

Again.

Again.

Traitors.

Posted by: GBruno at July 27, 2015 08:16 AM (u49WF)

128 Pikers. My "safe" city Milwaukee has had 6 homicides in the last week.

I look at other cities and Milwaukee does stand out. Of course so do many other cities. Does Milwaukee have the "Black Lives Matter" sign up like other cities?

Posted by: Colin at July 27, 2015 08:16 AM (XI30L)

129 Early dump up.

Posted by: steveegg at July 27, 2015 08:16 AM (cL79m)

130 "Happy Birthday BB!!"

He should have joined a Big Hare Band.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2015 08:18 AM (VPLuQ)

131 I look at other cities and Milwaukee does stand out. Of course so do many other cities. Does Milwaukee have the "Black Lives Matter" sign up like other cities?

Posted by: Colin at July 27, 2015 08:16 AM (XI30L)
Pretty much, especially after Dontre Hamilton got himself killed after beating on a now-ex police officer with his baton (the shoot was ruled justified, but he was fired because he patted down Hamilton).

Posted by: steveegg at July 27, 2015 08:18 AM (cL79m)

132 Carly Fiorina took Jake Tapper to school when he tried trapping her with abortion "rape or incest' the other day. Rush highlighted her response as a "how you should do it, Republicans" lesson on his show.

She is looking awesome here in the early going.

Posted by: MTF at July 27, 2015 08:18 AM (TxJGV)

133 Not that I have any faith in the voting public these days. But better them than members of the Political Class.

The
17th very badly unbalanced the system. The people already have their
Representatives, the Senate was to be a counterbalance by the corporate
State interests.

Instead, turning the Senate into more powerful,
less accountable Representatives increased the weight of the public and
diminished the balancing forces of State interests. A big blow to
Federalism.

If anything, the Senators are now MORE powerful than
the states they represent. They're not accountable to them, only to the
masses, and they're redundant as Representatives, not
counterbalancing. They serve longer, have more perks, more power (one
of 100 rather than one of 435), and exercise large ratification powers
that were supposed to be representative of the corporate States.

Now they have all the extra power and perks and just have to fool the mob once every six years, unlike facing recall at the hands of the State government that could hold them to account for making the kind of backroom deals Mitch specializes in.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 27, 2015 08:19 AM (oVJmc)

134
DUMP UP.

Corgi-signal!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 08:19 AM (St6BJ)

135 You mean the "DemocRAT-controlled" as they are about as democratic as the GOP is "republican."

That is to say, they ain't.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2015 08:12 AM (St6BJ)

Capitalization matters.

Posted by: AoSHQ Style Book, now with 150% more cuss words at July 27, 2015 08:19 AM (cL79m)

136 Is this new version of Harry Reid still (allegedly) the Searchlight Strangler? Or has he just sold the van and moved east?

Driving through Searchlight, you won't see any sign of him. There is one large double wide up on the hill behind Terrible's Gas Station Casino, the nicest home in the "city".

Posted by: Colin at July 27, 2015 08:20 AM (XI30L)

137 We have illegal aliens trolling GOP presidential candidates, we have
illegal aliens making anti-white propaganda documentaries with impunity
and hardly any push back.
____________________

1/5 of El Salvador's total population now living in the U.S.; 1/3 of Mexico's total population now living in the U.S.; Florida being overrun with Puerto Ricans fleeing the economic destruction wrought by Democratic policies on their island . . .

Where does it end? As the Titanic survivors learned, you can't let everybody on the lifeboat when it's already in danger of sinking, or everybody on the boat dies. We have record-high levels of debt, record-high numbers of people getting food stamps, welfare, disability, etc. Record-low numbers of people actually holding jobs. We can't afford to allow unlimited immigration, especially from poor third-world countries whose immigrants have little education and no job skills. And yet, our corrupt and dishonest federal government has laid out the "welcome" mat to the entire world, has encouraged millions of new third-world illegal aliens to enter the U.S., and is even flying in more third-world illegal aliens at our expense.

Meanwhile, the numbers of crimes being committed in the U.S. by illegal aliens is simply staggering -- and all but ignored by the MSM. During Obama's term of office (up to 2014), more than 600,000 crimes, including nearly 3,000 murders, were committed in Texas alone by illegal aliens who already had criminal records in the U.S. -- and probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, more crimes were committed by newly-arrived illegals, who didn't yet have their fingerprints in the system. The federal crime statistics are similar; illegal aliens represent a hugely disproportionate share of the defendants arrested and convicted of a whole range of federal crimes.

It's insanity, and it's going to destroy the U.S. if it's not stopped. Soon.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 27, 2015 08:25 AM (kGrdk)

138

And all of us rubes endlessly complaining about the scammers in congress endlessly pretending to actually represent us is getting very old and pointless.

And all the Kings horses and all the Kings men, couldn't put America back together again.

And Humpty was pushed.

Posted by: GBruno at July 27, 2015 08:37 AM (u49WF)

139 It's insanity, and it's going to destroy the U.S. if it's not stopped. Soon.

This is why I think Donald Trump's appeal = Sheriff Joe Arpaio's appeal (elected six times)

Posted by: cind at July 27, 2015 08:38 AM (nRbbW)

140 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 27, 2015 08:12 AM (kff5f)

IMO, the biggest problem with the 17th Amendment is that it allows for a senator to be in office for over 45 years! With changes in governors, there would be changes in senators. That is a good thing.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2015 08:44 AM (HEtQ3)

141 Yesterday McReid and his cronies condemned criticism of them by the likes Cruz and today they bang us up the bunghole. The most important thing is to not criticize them.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at July 27, 2015 08:44 AM (ee9LE)

142 >>Mike Huckleberry's comment about the Iran deal "walking the Jews to the ovens" seems to have enraged the Leftists.

Good. Makes it harder for them to pretend to be shocked, shocked when Iran attacks.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2015 08:49 AM (NOIQH)

143 Not sure who Rick Wilson is but that's a nice rant by Dave, maybe it attacks a Friend Of The Blog. For instance I was mad at Malor for his tweet accusing people against illegal immigration as racists, and Ace wrote a post in his defence (admittedly I didn't know about the wave of white supremacy flooding Twitter).

Posted by: waelse1 at July 27, 2015 07:52 AM (BpPO7)

Bah. Read that and I don't believe it. That whole "white supremacists on Twitter" thing has the stink of leftist stalking horse written all over it. How many times have we heard about some "racist" graffiti, "lynching rope", etc, etc that got all the usual suspects all aflutter, only to find out that it was actually some POC with an agenda or one of their fellow travelers who had done it. No, too pat. Too convenient. And Malor is a GOPe idiot. Always was. I don't know where he lives, but wait until he sees some of HIS boofoo buddies get killed by some driving drunk illegal, and watch how fast he changes his tune...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at July 27, 2015 08:56 AM (AYY6Y)

144 Pretty much, especially after Dontre Hamilton got himself killed after beating on a now-ex police officer with his baton (the shoot was ruled justified, but he was fired because he patted down Hamilton).

Any word about where the Dontre Hamilton statue will be erected?

Posted by: Michael Haz at July 27, 2015 09:16 AM (Iqcv6)

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