Open Thread Saturday
2010 February 27
What’s on your mind?
As a Tiger in 1963, Bunning also pitched for the Phillies, Dodgers and Pirates
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Re-Ed Camp #1369 is but a blink away.
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Did somebody hold a party and I missed it? Chirp, chirp, chirp.
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Ha, the way I read your post Dr, I thought it was about a guy named Ed Camp. Funny cartoon.
There was a huge earthquake in Chile, 8.8…..that’s off the charts. I am sure it is positive proof of global warming.
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Fannie doubles down, for the 10th straight time.
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bruce, yeah it could, another reason why construct is important.
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Drudge has an article about a rush shipment of condoms being send to Vancouver as the original supply of 100,000 for the Olympic athletes is running short.
Even, as the site’s resident hockey fan, I have a hard time getting excited about the Olympic hockey team or the Olympics in general. It’s not like 1980. The hockey players are professional athletes. To be perfectly honest, I’d just as soon see a Red Wings – Black Hawks game.
In the 1970s and 1980s the East Germans and Russians spent a fortune on training Olympic athletes so they could bring home the gold. Guess which country is obsessed with winning the Olympics and has replaced the East Germans and Russians?
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AIG lost $8 billion and may be looking for more.
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Headline — “Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes” via Drudge.
BCL — ground intelligence needed. Don’t Vancouver pharmacies sell condoms??
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BC, no wonder my ears are ringing. came to the same observation we did.
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love the cartoon, drdog! I’m sure it HAS crossed the minds of our Dear Leader and his verminous ilk.
as for the party you mentioned…didn’t you get the invite?
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“Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes” ??
There are so many new sports in the Olympics these past few cycles I’m just assuming I missed one. I think they’re showing this one on NBCVD
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You can call him Al, but he won’t call yuo back.
Hahaha.
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I’m on East Coast time. I can’t keep up with the 2 AM (Eastern Time) discussions.
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I heard Bill Clinton was pretty excited to see those hockey gals smoking cigars, made him think of the good ol’ days when he was Prez.
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an elaboration on the observations we’ve all been making here:
hattip to Instapundit and NRO
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmQyOTI5NzNkMmMxY2IyYThhMjBmNjhkOWQ2MTY5YjE=
Today’s Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that.
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Yep, that’s true JR. It will be an interesting year.
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p.s., great new gravatar bruce!
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BULLETIN
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 7
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
148 AM HST SAT FEB 27 2010
TO – CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
SUBJECT – TSUNAMI WARNING SUPPLEMENT
A TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
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Surfs Up!
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There’s a TSUNAMI warning for California too.
Dig out the Beach Boys songs.
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Al Gore trashed at Apple stockholders meeting.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10459872-260.html
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6.2 aftershock in Chile. Dam! Even that one was big.
Hawaii in double jeopary. Wrap-around waves could be just as destructive.
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ya, I read about the Apple stockholder meeting. A few Kool-Aid drinkers tried to defend alGore, but the fact that the peasants are feeling bold enough to fling a well-deserved fece or two directly at him speaks volumes!
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Gotta love Ras’s numbers today.
HHOOWWW LLLOOWWW CCANNNN YYOOUUU GGOOO??
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we here in the Bay Area are not so much in tsunami danger from this one, as reminded that we sit on the same “Ring of Fire” as Chile does. And we are, sadly, overdue!
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“Pelosi has the votes as WH works on Snowe vote”
- NY Times / Politico
(look for an exact repost later today)
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43/55 and -22
maybe they should pass Obamacare through reconcilliation ??????????
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MIC, that ties the record low for Captain Bullcrap (from 12/22). I think he’s going lower this time…he certainly deserves to!
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It’s real simple for Obama now, ram through Obamacare and you are a one term President.
I’ll take that trade knowing we can kill this thing in the courts on the state level.
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#27 Does this mean the strongly disapproves have finally passed the total approves?
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Bunning waging a lonely battle against the windmill of overspending.
“Tough Shit”
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Let’s hope his Ras rating stays in the -20s this time.
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TLS, ’strongly disapproves’ EQUALS ‘total approves’ today!
and the numbers are hardening!
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Jim Bunning – only player in MLB history to pitch a perfect game in both leagues (vs. Red Sox as a Tiger and vs. Mets as a Phillie).
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Some wacko group wants Bunning removed from the Hall of Fame for holding up unemployment checks for a week.
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worth noting when looking at the RealClearPolitics round-up of polls, that the “squishy middle” is disappearing. More and more people are feeling “bold” enough to actually DISapprove of this putz when talking to a pollster. The “undecideds” are disappearing…and not re-appearing as “Approvers”!
Time for another Joint Session of Congress…eh Barry O?
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Obama’s Poll Numbers
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HUH????
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And One More!
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7 foot wave already recorded up the Chilean coast.
Entire pacific rim threatened.
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Why Obama is confused
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Haiti 7.2 magnitude
Chile 8.8 magnitude
500 times as strong.
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#42 Just saw that. CRAZY!!!! There seems to be a biggie somewhere every day or week, but that is enormous!!
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SAVE CHILE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There is the New Madrid fault that folks have been worried about for some time. If these diverse earthquakes keep happening, I’d have some emergency supplies ready, you know? CA peeps should always be prepared, so if you live in CA, get supplies as well.
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Let’s go down to the beach and watch the waves come in. Bring your umbrella.
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#44 Funny you say that, I was thinking that same thing. Trouble is, celebs got their praises for being awesome this year (you don’t think they gave a crap, do you?) so they probably will call it very sad, but there won’t be much fanfare other than that. I could be wrong though. Hopefully Sean Penn will make it to Chile and save all the people, because he is awesome- and never mind that camera crew he is making sure gets the shot and the story every time, he is not doing it for the publicity. A true saint that guy. Always working behind the scenes to assist so he doesn’t hear his name praised. In fact, how did I know he was in Haiti? I probably dreamt it.
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SAVE HAWAII !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And on the other coast……
Two feet of Snow
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#11 Nice. Are they going to be brought there by on call staffers from Planned Parenthood?
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First tsunami hits Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile. These islands inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe.
Where’s Friday
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#52 A comment from that link:
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#53 JM
Forever part of the American political speech.
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“Pelosi now has 311 votes for Obamacare”
-The Nat’l Enquirer
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#55
That will win a pulitzer.
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“Reid has Snowe, Collins, and Brown for HC vote”
-CBS News with Katie Kouric
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Speaking of Sen. Snowe.
Snowe says Obama never gave her an open invite to health care summit
By Anne E. Kornblut
Forget trying to agree on health care. The White House and Sen. Olympia Snowe cannot even agree on whether she had a long-standing invitation to the Thursday summit.
On this much both sides agree: On Wednesday, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel called Snowe (R-Maine) to invite her to the Blair House meeting with the president and lawmakers from both parties. She declined, saying she did not want to go around the established rules for including participants.
White House officials said President Obama had long ago told Snowe he wanted to include her in any public discussion about health care, and was trying to make good on that promise. When he saw that she was not on the list of members chosen by Republican leaders, he had Emanuel call to invite her, and did the same for Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Oregon).
But a top aide to Snowe disputed that account on Thursday. “The President never once in all their meetings or discussions ever told Senator Snowe she had an open invite to attend any future health care meetings,” John Gentzel, Snowe’s communications director, said.
“The first time they reached out to her about attending today’s summit was yesterday morning at 10 a.m. when Rahm called her – 24 hours ahead of time,” Gentzel said. “And if she had a standing invitation, why would they call to invite her? In fact, Senator Snowe talked to the President last Wednesday and he never mentioned the summit or health care. Sounds like they’re trying to create some history.”
Sounds like another sign that health care consensus is going to be hard to come by.
By By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post
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bc-I just read that Bunning pitched a 1-0 victory and was the offensive star hitting a home run to win the game.
Sometimes I think he was hit in the head with a pitch.
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Steny Hoyer posted a propaganda piece with AOL help this morning. In it he says this:
“Those are some of the reasons Democrats have worked so hard to pass a centrist health reform bill”
centrist? Then it would have FLOWN through Congress…with 60 Dems cheering it on even if the Repubs all voted “no”. So, did the AOL “reporter” follow up with that? Uh, no…they left it at face value…as they did every other outright lie in the piece. I read it all and almost threw up!
But that it the Dem playbook…say outrageous things to friendly “reporters” and wait for the “Circle of BS” to complete. I’ll use this statement as an example:
AOL to Hoyer: “How would you characterize this Bill?”
Hoyer: “Centrist”
-then, a day later-
NY Times: “News sources are reporting this Bill is indeed ‘Centrist’”
-next day-
Hoyer: “Even the NY Times is reporting that this Bill is ‘Centrist’”
They NEVER get tired of this game!
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“Obamacare will pass this Monday”
- the New Minority
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“Obamacare will pass Sunday night”
- HHR Phil / BJG Coyote
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“Obamacare has already secretly passed!”
- Politico
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eph, you’re on a roll!
has the White House already contacted you to replace Gibbs?
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Only one player in organized (professional, major and minor), struck out 27 batters in one game.
Anyone?
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64. No one can out “gloom and doom” Eph !!! No one !!!!!!!
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65. Stenny Hoyer
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Eph, no no no no no. The question was struck out 27 batters, not struck out 27 times, in one game
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At first, I thought this was Detroit
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mullet, I knew it wasn’t…the car in the background is shiney and new!
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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What’s on my mind? Surf’s up dude!
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Reports John ‘captain fair tax’ Linder (R-GA) my congressman is retiring.
Pretty Safe R district, fairly surprising I’m thinking health issue?
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Beach Boys songs eh?
How about one for the Democrats?
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Obumbler to speak live at 2pm… uhhh.
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Obama collapse in Gallup: 49(-1)/45(+3)
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“Pelosi now has 311 votes for Obamacare”
-The Nat’l Enquirer
Oh hell, I am scared now. The only paper left with any reputation worth speaking of. I mean, they broke the Edwards story, when nobody else would….
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Anyone asked Glover for a comment on the quake yet?
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77 – That was good for many giggles, the best yokes are 80% truth.
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An oldie but goodie on Detroit.
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KH, glad ya liked it.
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Yep, that’s right – I miss Bill Clinton! He was the closest thing we
ever got to having a black man as President.
Number 1 – He played the sax..
Number 2 – He smoked weed.
Number 3 – He had his way with ugly white women.
Even now? Look at him…. his wife works, and he doesn’t! And,he gets a check from the government every month.
Manufacturers announced todaythat they will be stocking America’s shelves this week with ” Clinton Soup,” in honor of one of the nations’ distinguished men. It consists primarily of a weenie in hot water
Chrysler Corporation is adding a new car to its line to honor Bill
Clinton. The Dodge Drafter will be built in Canada .
When asked what he thought about foreign affairs, Clinton replied, “I don’t know, I never had one.”
The Clinton revised judicial oath: “I solemnly swear to tell the truth
as I know it, the whole truth as I believe it to be, and nothing but
what I think you need to know.”
Clinton will be recorded in history as the only President to do Hanky Panky between the Bushes.”
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KH: “Obumbler to speak live at 2pm”
Obama: “I have asked the United Nations to rename the fracture in the Earth that caused this earthquake: “Bush’s Fault”. After all, the people of Chile inherited this fault, and who better to blame for it than George W. Bush. And to aid in the healing, I have dispatched Charlie Rangel to Chile, since nothing is ever HIS fault. Of course, if ObamaCare had passed then none of this would have happened…and THAT is the Republican’s fault!”
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Obama was chilling at his daughters BB game for a hour or two before returning to the WH to be briefed before his statement.
Yeah if that’d been bush….well you know.
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1min till president speaks
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Ok, Reality check.
Eph you were kidding about that Katie Couric thingee & Snowe/Colins/Brown, weren’t you?
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May the roasting begin!
Al Gore a lightning rod at Apple shareholder meeting
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You think we have border issues? Watch this at the Pak-Indian border crossing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0ue-XGl9c
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Hilarious Dr.
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MI Conservative -
My dad took me to a Tigers game when I was very young. A lefthander named Billy Hoeft was pitching, He hit two home runs that afternoon (4 in his entire career).
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#88 I half expected that to turn into this:
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Why someone hasn’t killed this bastard is beyond me. It certainly wouldn’t be any loss.
Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ‘at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253791/Is-man-broke-Bank-England-George-Soros-centre-hedge-funds-betting-crisis-hit-euro.html#ixzz0glbFJFdA
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Joe Biden just held a press conference at the Chili’s Grill & Bar on 23rd street in Arlington saying: “I don’t know what all the fuss is about, everyone’s having a fine time here!”
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drdog, that was awesome! I LOVE the hats!! And talk about full employment! Took about 20 guys on each side to close two gates!! And they have cheerleaders!!
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sigh…would that someone would say this to Obama:
http://www.breitbart.tv/rag-british-mep-launches-epic-insult-tirade-against-eu-president/
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http://www.livestream.com/honolululive1
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93- That was great!
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KH, do you know where that livestream is streaming from? Honolulu shouldn’t get any of the wave, it faces West.
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Yes Honolulu harbor area. The entire island however will get some effect, not sure where you heard your information from.
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Waves is about to hit Kilo (on big island) any minute now.
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ya, I just read there can be a wraparound effect. Honolulu isn’t due for another hour though
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Hilo
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Correct…
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You should watch me try and spell wialaia or whatever
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Hawaii Live ~ waiting
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http://www.livestream.com/honolululive1
Just showed some dude sitting on the rocks of the harbor, I wonder if it’s an attempt at suicide or maybe he just doesn’t by the hype?
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The weather channel is watching Diamondhead.
Nothing yet, probably an hour later.
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Yeah but even the reports from hilo don’t indicate much, looks like this may be a big dud, useful exercise though.
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Was scheduled to hit Oahu at 11:40 local. So it should be now… not happening so far.
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1.5-3ft in hilo… no biggy.
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I heard that as well, that it was much smaller than feared.
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Argentina new quake 6.0 – 2 dead.
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Oh dear Lord, Marie Osmond’s son committed suicide. How sad for the family.
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Argentina too? Oh my.
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This thing is a total dud, more settled science I suppose.
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If only we had universal healthcare, today would have been just a normal sunny happy day. Darn Republicans!
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“Eph you were kidding about that Katie Couric thingee & Snowe/Colins/Brown, weren’t you?”
Not according to Poltico – for the past month
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NY Times: Obama Saved Hawaii from Killer Wave
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#118 I can’t tell if you are joking or serious since this is the NYT we are talking about here.
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I know the feeling.
(was joke)
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? ON SUICIDE WATCH !!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/us/27race.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Mary,
I figure if I kill the topic with BS stupidity about this HC bill, then maybe some of our posters will get the point and move on to another topic. It’s not worth talking about anymore IMHO. The DEMS dont have the votes. If they ever do and pass it then the GOP takes both houses. Until then lets move on folks
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#121 Bout freaking time! It was never a secret that Margaret Sanger’s whole purpose in life was the extermination of the black race. She wanted the death of any babies who weren’t white. That is one thing that Obummer should have been called out on from day one……especially since he is a fan of killing babies who have the audacity to survive their own murder.
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On blacks, Margaret Sanger (founder of PP) wrote:
“human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never should have been born.”
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Mary,
Please thread that article. I think its worth it. Plus it will change the topic a bit.
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122- or maybe you’ll annoy enough people into leaving
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OT – There is a huge abortion factory across the street from the Univ. of Arizona with her name in it…
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126. That would get the topic changed then…
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“Our Country won’t go on forever,
if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery
will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!”
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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Margaret was a vile wretched woman who only a lefty would celebrate.
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This thread isn’t confined to HC, Eph. People can talk about whatever. I am just sitting here in amazement at all the tragedy today, on the heels of recent tragedy. I just know that if I wasn’t right with God I would be shaking in my boots right now.
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128 – and accomplish nothing.
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95, “Put out to grass.” Have to remember that line.
I have to come to one conclusion — Obama will run for a second term. He will do so for only one reason — to prevent wholesale investigation of his Administration top to bottom.
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I’m off to play some poker, this tsunami thing was disappointing.
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So the Secret Service DOES know where the bones are buried. Rogers the social secretary who should have been standing out in the AGW that night tagging people gets the deep six. “So long, Goodbye, Sorry we got to know ya!”
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Dr. before I go wanted to share this with you for a laugh.
http://www.neowin.net/news/apple-supplier-report-reveals-the-use-of-child-labor
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KH,
Interesting but not surprising. You can’t buck the culture no matter how many rules you apply. Heck I had a paper route at 14. Was the paper a child labor abuser? Today they probably would be labeled as such. Heck I enjoyed it and my ‘boss’ who was 16 was a great guy.
I buck Apple because they trade on their image like the Dims do. Neither of which are pristine. The classic was Apple suing Microsoft over Windows 1.1 on infringement of the Mac interface. The problem for Apple was Xerox PARC was waiting in the wings to collect as Jobs nearly stole the whole idea from Xerox. Apple found that out and it is ultimately why they dropped the suit.
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drdog: “Rogers the social secretary who should have been standing out in the AGW that night tagging people gets the deep six”
apparently you did NOT read her statement…she “decided to pursue other opportunities”
after all, if you can’t trust an Obama appointee, who CAN you trust??
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Oklahoma just had a 4.4 and apparently Japan had a 7.something last night? Holy crap!
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after all, if you can’t trust an Obama appointee, who CAN you trust?? — JR
Captain Kangaroo?
She would have gone with the ‘more time with family’ meme only she does not have any.
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JM, 139, These are just run ups to the ‘big one’ that will come in November!
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I was pretty skeptical over the whole “Health Care Summit” thingy, but I now feel it might be a good idea if they were held every week. After all, it seems the voters apparently can’t get enough of ol’ Capn’ Bullshit.
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Here is the latest from Mark Styen on our rush to Utopia thru government intervention/force – yep, looters breed more looters:
http://article.nationalreview.com/426405/when-responsibility-doesnt-pay/mark-steyn
“When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay
Welfare always breeds contempt.
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand-new, even-more-unsustainable entitlement at the health-care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen — because they’re part of the same story. It’s just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They’re at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is farther upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided instead that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter Twenty (total societal collapse): The Greeks are at Chapter Seventeen or Eighteen.”
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It seems that once again,
all us white folks have missed
a great opportunity.
While all the Black people attended
Obama’s inauguration and parades,
we should have broken into their homes
and gotten all our shit back.~~~~~
MAXINE
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#139 Global warming – the science is settled. Everybody knows global warming causes earthquakes. Unless Bush is in office, then he causes them to kill minorities….
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JM – birth pains!
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#
BCL — ground intelligence needed. Don’t Vancouver pharmacies sell condoms??
We’re back in the states now. I’m sure they do. They probably need official Olympic Condoms though. Some girls were handing out condoms on a crowded Robson Square one day. Offered us some. Took me by surprise.
JM #91, that looks like the train station in Vancouver. Check this one out on our street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVuLTPYtk4
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#146 Yep
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Leave kalifornicate ASAP
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#147 That was AWESOME!!!!!
Made my day.
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While hanging out at our favorite neighborhood joint in Vancouver, Dix Barbecue & Brewery, I thought a girl sitting at the bar looked familiar. I couldn’t place her and I kept looking. One because she looked familiar and two because she was cute. I told my wife she looked familiar, that’s why I kept checking her out.
yipes….
Anyway, it was bugging me. I kept thinking who it was and it stuck with me for a few days. Them we were out somewhere and they had the Olympics on the TV. I looked and saw her on the screen. I knew it. It was that cute sportscaster with the dimples I remembered seeing on the Olympics coverage days before. She made an impression I guess. Before I could get a better look the TV went to something else.
I went home and searched the internet and found it was Martine Gaillard. I told my wife I finally figured out who it was. I think I took some video that day at DIX’s. I’ll have to dig through it and see. Apparently recorded sightings are rare.
She was just sitting there chatting away with two guys, dimples dimpling, and putting down some beer. She apparently has good taste in beer and likes to have fun.
Martine Gaillard / Nice shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsKkZ_EX_eA&feature=channel
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“President Ford liked to say: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” Which is true enough. But there’s an intermediate stage: A government big enough to give you everything you want isn’t big enough to get you to give any of it back. That’s the point Greece is at. Its socialist government has been forced into supporting a package of austerity measures. The Greek people’s response is: Nuts to that. Public-sector workers have succeeded in redefining time itself: Every year, they receive 14 monthly payments. You do the math. And for about seven months’ work: For many of them, the work day ends at 2:30 p.m. And, when they retire, they get 14 monthly pension payments. In other words: Economic reality is not my problem. I want my benefits. And, if it bankrupts the entire state a generation from now, who cares as long as they keep the checks coming until I croak?”
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#147
Now I see why they needed 100,000 condoms.
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Now I see why they needed 100,000 condoms.
hee hee
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/#webbriefing
“Transformation [Andy McCarthy]
On Sean’s panel last night, when the conversation turned to how nervous Democrats supposedly are over what for now is teeing up like a very bad November, I felt like I was channeling Mark Steyn, Mark Levin and Rush. That is, I think our side is analyzing this all wrong: Today’s Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that. I think they’re right.
I hear Republicans getting giddy over the fact that “reconciliation,” if it comes to that, is a huge political loser. That’s the wrong way to look at it. The Democratic leadership has already internalized the inevitablility of taking its political lumps. That makes reconciliation truly scary. Since the Dems know they will have to ram this monstrosity through, they figure it might as well be as monstrous as they can get wavering Democrats to go along with. Clipping the leadership’s statist ambitions in order to peel off a few Republicans is not going to work. I’m glad Republicans have held firm, but let’s not be under any illusions about what that means. In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you’ve calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state…….
At the end of the summit debacle, President Obama put the best face on a bad day by indicating that he intended to push ahead with socialized medicine and face the electoral consequences (“that’s what elections are for,” he concluded). He’s right about that.
For Republicans, it won’t be enough to fight this thing, then deride it if Democrats pull it off, and finally coast to a very likely electoral victory in November. The question is: What are you going to do to roll this back? What is your plan to undo this?”
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Great post by McCarthy.
I was about to post it myself. I just emailed it around to some friends, and thought it should go up on the board.
Should have known the “coyote” would have it up.
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#156 Well its a pretty good summary of what I have been saying for months….
We can laugh and call Obama & CO “stupid” and gloat about a big win in NOV…..but the leftist clearly have a plan to implement their ideology and to cement a permeant electorial advantage by turning more and more Americans into looters/moochers……
But if they get this CrappyCare stuff into law, then its us who support liberty and limited government who are in a bad spot….
If it gets into law, someone in the Repulican party had better have a real plan to get rid of this and to reform and/or eliminate all the other entitlement time bombs we have….
Read Styen’s article about Greece – a country that cant even afford to have child and yet nobody wants to give up their share of the loot….
In Europe we are watching a whole continent commit societial suicide right in front of our faces – the question before us is do we intend to follow that path or to clearly break from it before its too late….
Call it “gloom and doom” if you want, but this is not the time for irrational optimism or for relaxing and underestimating your enemy….
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Gateway Pundit put up an imbeded video of Obama talking about the Chilean earthquake, and in it, he said “We can’t control nature.”
The takeaway from this is the question of why he believes in AGW.
As you might expect, the you tube video has been scrubbed, so I cannot post it.
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“We can’t control nature.”…..George Bush did it once, and it gave us Katrina….
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JM, you’re good. LOL.
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137 – Yeah I know “oh my the let a couple 15 year old work!”