Open Thread Saturday
2009 September 19
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“He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.“ The concept contained within that phrase is what has set America apart, and made her the greatest nation on Earth. And it is the systematic attack on that concept, that this website is dedicated to fighting. This website is NOT devoted to making people “wealthy”, but rather to fighting the notion that the “wealth” they DO have needs to be “redistributed”.
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I think Tennessee will beat Florida today.
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Don’t know about that one, ol’ boy…
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I had a very strange and very vivid dream this morning. In this dream I was actually sitting down with Obama and trying to understand what his real thoughts and intentions were. What was his definition of Liberal and Conservative? Why was he defanging America? Why was he sucking up to the tyrants of the world? As with many dreams the details are now very hazy as to the responses he gave to my questions, but I woke up around 5 am with a feeling of dread and can’t get back to sleep.
Perhaps I’m too absorbed with this political stuff and should step away for a few weeks, but I have a feeling we haven’t seen nothing yet. It’s going to get a LOT worse before it gets better.
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http://www.nflfootballpicks.org/news/643/1/806/College-Football-Picks—Florida-Gators-vs-Tennessee-Volunteers.html
CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
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Am I banned?
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Blimey Brandon. Banned ? What bilge !
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http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
http://www.io.com/~sj/PirateTalk.html
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Hot Air is going soft like ACE.
They have caved to Pelosi and are warning their readers.
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It was in response to trolling by one of Goodtime Charlie’s drones.
They basically just want the ‘wookie’ stuff to stop.
It’s amusing, but I can see their point.
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Well, what do you expect me to say? I bleed Orange.
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I would like to make Nanny Nan cry on an hourly basis.
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Big-time Div. I college sports are a joke.
Where are the libs screaming racist, as these machines grind through and spit out functional illiterates while extracting millions from their skills?
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MPT,
For some reason, I don’t think this country has seen the worst of what Obama has in store for us. He has driven this country to the brink on racism, the economy, politics, etc.
Somebody was kind enough to get me a subcription to Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. In it, the editor writes this:
“In the financial markets, October has always been viewed with lots of pessimism, and for good reason. Some of the most significant declines in the market have taken place in October. Two come to mind: October 1929 October 1987. . . . ”
Suppose the markets tank significantly in the next few months? What would a Conservative president do? What would a Liberal do? What would Obama do?
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Let me add that there’s nothing wrong with the games per se. It’s a free country and people can do what they want with their talents.
But the programs should be completed separated from the college institutions and their educational mission.
It was an accident of history that the colleges and universities turned into the farm teams for professional football and basketball.
It has now become a grotesque joke, with the schools completely addicted to the revenue and thus committed to the hypocrital charade.
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We’re only getting started, CT. This is his first year.
We’re going to find out if the Founders in their wisdom created a country strong enough to withstand the best combined efforts of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to destroy it.
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PG, Every site gets trolls and kooks, all you have to do is ban them.
They went beyond that: “I think Kaus is totally right that Glenn Beck should tone down the apocalyptic/coup rhetoric,”
That’s Allapundit.
No, Beck needs to keep doing what he’s doing.
Allah and other soft-bellies must think this is a food fight. And that the radicals aren’t really, well, radical.
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Phineas, whenever I see your name, I’m reminded of Mikey. Remember her? She used to spend a lot of time on PP. Taught physics, I believe.
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Yeah, I agree with you about AP. He’s a squish.
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Read the Kaus piece that Allah “totally agrees with”.
It’s Rush/McVeigh ALL OVER AGAIN.
Shut up!, they explained.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/09/18/pelosi-has-a-point-about-violence.aspx
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Sure, I remember Mikey. She was one of my favs.
I miss her, anyone seen her posting anywhere else?
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Mikey was awesome when it came to dealing with certain Republicans whenever their knees went wobbly.
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I think Tennessee will beat Florida today. — RP
Now THERE is an optimist.
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Thanks for the reminder, lisab. Today is national talk like a pirate day.
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arrrrr, so it be
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I have grown tired of AP. I am no longer following him on Twitter, and I hardly visit HA anymore. why Michelle keeps him around I don’t know.
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We’ll be keel haulin’ ol Ace and ol’ Allah, by Billy Bones’ beard. Cowards and simpletons they be.
Thar’s not enough gold in King Tut’s tomb to make me sail with them, argh.
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It’s funny how much time Ace, Allah, Frum, Chekote, etc, all spend fighting with their own side. And they are fighting with conservatives.
At least during the amnesty fight, we were fighting with our own side to try and drag them to the right. These guys are trying to drag us to the left.
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Nobody’s ever been marooned from this here blog, young Brandon, but Acroso and Chekote, them swabs. To Davy Jones with em both, argh.
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They really aren’t helping, RWY, and it makes me wonder if that isn’t intentional.
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TOLD YOU SO. Obama pandered, he used you, even though the right told you his positions on homosexual marriage, you thought they were lying. You get what you get.
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Allah is such a sanctimonious douche, too.
The whole R party is gonna go down the drain because a guy at a protest held a sign that said Obama is a fascist.
right.
Oh by the way, Obama is a facsist.
Let Allah run off all the posters if he wants. More for us.
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of course, they might all end up at HHR, too.
Where the open threads be plenty and the polls be always posted. Argh…
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Allah and others on the right have no stones. What the left is trying to do is stifle any dissent period. I listen to Glen Beck almost everyday and he always says NO VIOLENCE for that is what they want to discredit us. In fact Glen makes a point of repeating it time and time again – NO VIOLENCE.
Because we speak the truth of what is happening and calling a spade a spade that they are Socialists/Communists and acting like Fascists we are crossing the line of civility. Because we are angry and it shows we are going to burn the town down – don’t think so.
Go back to Pelosi’s comments about the grass roots and we were astroturfing. It was them who astroturfs – not us. It is them who do the violence – the anti-war of the 1960’s, then later in 2000’s, the burning of the cities via riots. Yet because they do it or have done it, does not mean we do it. They project what they do on US. We are not them. Just because they turn violent when they don’t get their way does not mean we will turn violent because we don’t get our way.
Does that mean there is not a tipping point – NO. Anyone can be pushed beyond that point and there will be consequences. We need to stand on the truth (like Glen has done) and don’t back down.
If there is to be violence, let them start it but we will finish it.
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Of course the last thing you be wantin’ is to be askin a gay swab, “argh. matey, how be it feelin’ that hope and that change?
Cuz he might be tellin ya in words that would send the saltiest seadog to the bottom. Argh.
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Hear Hear, Gn, you swab. They’ll be a-startin it, and we’ll be a-finishin’ it, if they be not standin’ away, argh.
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Argh, ye be a better pirate than I, RWY.
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Hmmm. An interesting turn of events. If they are a safe design we ought to buy them by the thousands and tell GE to stick in their eye
Arrr, be ye walk the plank Immelt?
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The head of India’s Atomic Energy Commission, Anil Kakodkar, announced yesterday in Vienna a special version of the forthcoming Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) adapted to use low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel.
The original design is fuelled by a mix of uranium-233 and plutonium bred from thorium using fast neutron power reactors earlier in a thorium fuel cycle. The LEU variant is suitable for export because it does away with the plutonium, replacing it with uranium enriched to 19.75% uranium-235.
Producing 300 MWe, the unit is less than one third the capacity of a typical large reactor. It is designed to operate for up to 100 years and has a “next generation” level of safety that grants operators three days’ grace in the event of a serious incident and requires no emergency planning beyond the site boundary under any circumstances.
The design is intended for overseas sales, and the AEC says that “the reactor is manageable with modest industrial infrastructure within the reach of developing countries.”
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Sally Quinn was on O’Reilly the other night talking about the tea party signs, and how offensive they were. That is the storyline the MSM wanted to tell, not the peaceful protests and the clean grounds afterward.
I saw somewhere there were liberal plants there handing out the professionally-produced sign “Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy” in order to discredit the folks. Unfortunately, some were sucked in and carried the signs around. Naturally, the Wash Post put that on the lead story.
Sally Quinn. Arrgh. A wicked wench. Bed her and wake up without ur gold or good name.
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Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson.
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Well since it is Pirates Day….
A Pirate walks into a bar where he has had long relations with. The barkeep recognizes him instantly but has a puzzled look on his face.
“Eh, mate, you look a little worse for wear. What happn’ to yer leg?” says the keep.
“Aaaah, never mind. Pour me some Grog and I tell ye….” says the pirate. “We be to the Windwards when we happn’ on a Galleon. Mighty fight we had, cannon ball to me leg, be we took her we did.”
“But what happened to ye hand?” asks the keep.
“Pour yet more Grog and I tell ye” snarled the Pirate. “The captain of the Galleon he be a smart one he was. He had escort he did. We took on that Corvette too. Grappling hooks and hand to hand it be. That’s when a panty waist adjutant chopped er off he did. But I have the me hook now and good as ever!”
“But what about yer aye?” asks the keep.
“Yer asks too many questions yer do!” the Pirate growls. “We be a day out of Kingston on a beam reach. Going fast we were. The Gulls were sqwaking in the riggin they be. That’s when I looked up and one of dem birds shit in me eye!”
“But…” alas the Pirate cuts the keep short. “It be my first day with da hook, you daft!” he bellowed.
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Ye’ll be a mite poorer than that, if ye be bedding down with that bilge rat, mullet.
Aye. Ye’ll be missin more than yer gold, and yer pistol, ye may be missing your little bucanneer as well, before long, says I. That scurvy wench be carrying something more dreadful than any black spot. G-arrgh- norhearra, she’s got…
All sea-dogs beware.
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A hale and proper mighty yarn, ol dog. May Redbeard’s ghost be watchin out for ye, says I!
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All sea-dogs beware.
~ the right mate
The right mate knows. sea dogs roun this port nere ben too choosy. Belay teh lit’ buccaneer or take a mighty risk. Ye be wearing a hook thar as well.
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har, har, another pint-o-grog for the sea-dog with gills. They’ve got nuthin-fer-em down there in Davy Jones’ locker. Let im taste the ol Jamaican Rum again, afore he goes back down for another twenty year, says I
Argh.
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“Ye be more Alum er yer mutton, mate? Or be ye glad to see me?” chirps the beermaid.
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Oftentimes, when people want an example of a successful socialistic country, Sweden is cited as one. I hope these same people are worldly enough to see the direction this “progressive” country is now trying to take.
H/T Power Line
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Mary, I’ve sailed the seven seas, and you’re the sleekest schooner I’ve ever sighted.
Use this cheat sheet for help…
http://www.io.com/~sj/PirateTalk.html
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shiver me timbers
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Perhaps I’m too absorbed with this political stuff and should step away for a few weeks, but I have a feeling we haven’t seen nothing yet. It’s going to get a LOT worse before it gets better.
mp — dreams can oftentimes bring to light some of our greatest fears. And, night time seems to be where uncertainty flourishes the best, in a 24 hour time slot.
However, while being absorbed and aware of all this stuff can be uncomfortable, it is from such people that the antidote for Obama legislation will be derived.
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Chris Wallace commenting on his treatment by the Obama WH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNMvubV87M
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Interesting re Chris Wallace, Jan. Thanks.
I can’t figure out whether the Obama white house is defensive or aggressive. Sounds like they are being aggressive from a weak position. Most of their issue stands are indefensible once the sunlight shines on them.
I think Obama, when out of campaign mode and having to deal with real issues and talk specifics, is like a cornered animal. Could be dangerous from here on out.
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I honestly believe there will come a time when the stench of corruption from the White House becomes too much for even the MSM turn a blind eye too. When that day comes the media will be like reformed smokers and the flood gates will turn the other way — story upon story about the type of things Chris Wallace alluded to in the link above.
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Such a bonny lass as you, Jan, cannot be comin a-longside a-the good ship BJG unless ye bring some good grog, a pistol or two, and some seafarin’ yarns with ye.
Aye, speak up, dearie, we infernal sods be wantin’ a song, of shipwrecks, of gold, and of good whiskey and scurvy wenches, says I…
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mpt, I be with ye on that, lad, but I fear twill never be a-happenin’. Those damned souls of the MSM are so dead inside you can see their skulls when the lightnin’ strikes, you can, and their bony hands’ll never come off that hellish wheel, says I.
Hauntin’ their ghost ships forever, they be, by the leg of old Long John Silver. Argh.
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Yarrr, me matey. They be dead inside alrighty. Be it up to us old sea dogs to show them ye errant ways or walking the plank to Davy Jones locker they be.
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Agreed, lad.
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Better late than never reply to rwy — I’m not a very good “salty” lass or pirate, like you yahoo. My stick is “southern belle.”
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In the wrong state ye be residin’ lass, if ye be wantin ta convince me yer of the mint-julip drinkin sort, says I.
By Blackbeard’s pistol, yer from the valley, says I, or I’ll lash meself to the mizzen for a month.
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Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! A tot and some gold for young Jim Hawkins, who saved Long John from swingin’…
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LOL yahoo…you really have that pirate brogue down pat!
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Ah be seeein Mikey, herself, last year at HRP, Aaargg. don no wherebe her now.
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Huckabee wins the Value Voters straw poll. arrrgh!
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At least the vols did not embarass us today.
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BCL, a right proper disappointment, that be.
By the eyes of Capn Flint himself, says I, there be no tellin’ what lies in the minds of them wot vote fer that lilly legged, soft-handed, bilge rat from Arkansas.
Argh, but what a mangy cur he be, that one.
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What stench from the white house, have you no sense of smell america that’s the scent of roses!