UConn James

The Democrat idea of compromise is like a Real Housewife telling her husband that in order to pay off their maxed out credit card... if he works 20 hours of overtime per week, she'll stop buying a Mocha Grande Cappuccino at Starbucks before going to the mall every day.

I was told by a younger cousin who went to Simmons that when Scott Brown was campaigning last year for "the Teddy Kennedy seat," there were rallies at Boston area colleges that had attendance no one would have dared think of before, especially in Massachusetts. It may not be widespread across the demographic, but the fiscal ruination the Democrats are perfectly content to leave them is sinking in bit by bit.

I watched Russert every week. Watched the tribute show after he died. Eked through with Tom Brokaw. Watched the first David Gregory broadcast and haven't watched since. He is a sh-- reporter, gets caught in the weeds of personality politics and doesn't have a real sense of how Washington really works. I'm not saying that a MTP mod has to have worked in a Capitol Hill office like Russert, but I think it can help to have a view other than the outside looking in.

Update: It took 90 minutes for police to arrive. Link. !@#$ing... an hour and a half. Why'd they even bother showing up at all? They have modern transportation in Norway, right? And again, this is a place where the PM was going to be later in the day. Nice !@#$ing security there, Olie!

You're right. The Democrats aren't holding the economy hostage. They raped and murdered it already. They aren't pointing anything out... other than that they want the federal credit card back and the limit increased so they can keep charging HDTVs, BMWs, and designer jeans that hang in the closet. Newsflash --- THIS COUNTRY IS DROWNING IN !@#$ING DEBT!!!! THE ABILITY TO BORROW AND SPEND MORE ISN'T GOING TO HELP US GET OUT OF IT!!!!!!!

Link 1 Link 2 It seems to have died down pretty quickly. Damon's immediate Twitter comebacks were friggin' . And, I'll note, that in these links and elsewhere, GRRM uses "But" at the beginning of sentences overmuch, which makes for very odd configurations.

Oh good lord. You're turning an Amy Winehouse death thread into a PPP thing? Seriously?

Further to my response in the LBJ pants thread.... And shortly afterward, Bobby got to taste hot lead, too. Coincidence? Maybe.

Trying tell Tom... and everyone else... something we don't know. This was addressed in another thread just recently. Point is that the recession had its genesis with the liberal feel-good policy of putting poor people in homes they couldn't afford, and hoping that the high concept of home-ownership would somehow/magically make them less poor. Further point is, government should not be in the business of owning the markets, setting prices, etc. Way too many people of all stripes know exactly how to game the system to either get receive things they don't pay for (read: things that other people then have to pay for via taxes). And in addition to that, the government will often tell people exactly how to game the system.

By the by, this is a particularly clever reaction to the simmering Damon Lindelof - George R.R. Martin (writer of "Game of Thrones") feud... which started when Martin took a potshot at LOST because he didn't like how "The End" ended the series, and he thought Jacob and MIB should have been introduced earlier. This video was certainly done with tongue firmly in cheek, but it's also a not so slight rebuke along the lines of 'WTF! If we had introduced them any sooner, it would've killed any of the suspense regarding what the series was about!' ****, did Martin et al. come right out and say who the ruler of the Seven Thrones would be at the end of this first season? Who the !@#$ does he think he is to try to tell other people how to write their script? Not to mention that LOST had more literary quality in the Nikki and Paulo episode than anything Martin has ever put to paper.

Yeah, it's best to use quotes around that. This guy is every bit as Christian as my dog is a charcoal grill. And yet, the MSM will continue to identify him that way. It's one thing for them to identify people as "Islamic terrorists." The -ic covers a lot, and there is plenty of wiggle room within the Islam faith/Quran for a follower to justify killing or supporting jihad. There is absolutely no room for Christians to claim that they're killing as prescribed by their faith. If your religious values are to kill, you are not a Christian --- you are 180 degrees from Christianity. Describing someone like this as such is a complete misnomer. There is no wiggle room in the New Testament.

LOL! I almost shat my pants thinking there was going to be a new movie or something.

Gene, you're just embarrassing yourself. (Well, to a further degree than you already have. Which is tantamount to saying "Infinity plus 1.") What point do you think you're trying to make? That because terror comes from multiple sources/warped ideologies, that combating it wherever it appears is... what? Maybe you should try not attacking an extreme fringe from the opposite extreme fringe. All it proves is that you're an equal idiot.

As was said yesterday, with a 2 hour + interval b/w the blast and the shootings, it's entirely possible that he could have acted alone. And like I wrote above, they are looking into witness accounts that there was a second shooter (witness accounts are, however, all too often unreliable).

I've seen worse. I mean... I have seen better. But I've definitely seen worse.

I don't mean to sound callous, but it didn't exactly take Nostradamus to see this coming.... Link. Sad to see someone who's very talented (I've never listened to her music, but apparently a lot of people do) just self-destruct of their own volition. On edit: bbb beat me to it. I clean up my own messes, but there's no 'Delete' tab in the edit post functions.

IINM, I believe that the sideline wall is plushed padding... probably some kind of vinyl/plastic coating. (Think the type of stuff that... who was it? Mark Brunell? Anyway, a Redskins QB who was celebrating a TD and he went over, headbutted the wall (that had minimal padding) and promptly reeled backward and fell ass over teakettle, and concussed himself. Oh, wait. Doubtful it's the kind of thing that's painted rather than replaced. On edit: And if you look in certain spots in the large-file photo eball linked to, there are sections where the "wall" is wavy so as to suggest it's a thin veneer of vinyl/plastic signage. That stuff doesn't cost terribly much, and needs fairly frequent replacement anyway.

Just saw these and thought I'd share the link.... Link For any other teams that you may be a fan of, you can cycle through this thread.

If these pants kept letting loose his $ and knife from the pockets, "cut"/chafed/squashed his nuts, and were too tight in the waist, why in the hell was he ordering from the same tailor? But then again, LBJ was a very odd one. His initials were LBJ, his wife's initials were LBJ, and he named each of his children to have the initials LBJ. By accounts, once when asked why wars start, he unzipped his fly and pointed. He was a control freak --- everything from turning off the lights to his micromanagement of Vietnam that directly or indirectly led to the deaths of so many soldiers. And I really wouldn't put it past him to have been behind the JFK assassination (in cahoots with the Mob) in a whole "Macbeth"-like way. My uncle, who was serving in 'Nam ~1/2 mile south of the DMZ on the day of Tet (Pictures and several relics to prove it. He got a radio call that said, "Eight divisions of NVA headed to your 20!") has said that before he dies, he wants to travel down to Texas, eat a bunch of Ex-Lax, sit on LBJ's headstone and just have it ooze down. Some libtards call Bush II a warmonger/war criminal --- Bush is small !@#$ing potatoes compared to their own man!

There are witness reports of a second shooter. Witness reports being what they are, that's questionable but still very possible. Link Point the First: The adage is an adage for a reason. When every second counts, police help is just minutes 30 minutes away. Amazing how bold criminals can be when they know no one can/will be shooting back at them, huh? But keep trying to take law-abiding citizens' guns away, Dems! That way we can be just like England, Canada (I read they're apparently going to get rifles and shotguns back under PM Harper later this year) and other socialist paradises where violence never happens and self-defense is never necessary , huh? Point the Second: This was at an event where the Prime Minister was to attend later that day. There were no police or security in place there?!?! (Armed, at least?) Did they believe this was an impenetrable liberal Utopia?! I don't know what's feasible as for the 6 tons of fertilizer. The suspect was apparently a farmer. For mass purchases over a certain tonnage, would it be egregious for the sales company/retailer to have to witness/inspect the fertilizer application to fields? Yeah, it's relatively rare, and yeah it would obviously add to the cost of doing business, but.... Just asking here. What would be the feasibility of that?

And yet... that's democracy at work. They were voted in by their districts to reign in federal spending and the deficit and that's exactly what they're making a stand against. Without significant cuts, no ceiling increase votes. Don't like it? F--- off.

And just to be serious for a moment, this heat is especially hard on animals. Dogs, for example, don't sweat as a means of cooling --- they cool by intaking cool air and/or water. NEVER leave a dog in a car alone, even in much cooler temperatures than this. There was a segment with Sam Champion, ABC's "Good Morning, America" weather correspondent where on a ~80 degree day, the interior of a car got up to over 100 degrees in a matter of minutes, just from passive sunlight. I don't care if you justify it to yourself that you're "only going to be in the store for a few minutes" or you crack the windows (which doesn't help much). This, obviously, also goes for children. Every year, we hear about canine or infant fatalities from being left in cars. Either leave them home with appropriate care, or take them inside with you. Again... 100+ degrees in a matter of minutes on an 80 degree day.

Just a thought... do they still have the old padding?

It was blatent home-state politicking on the floor of the House, in a non-election year, behind his back. There's usually a mostly collegial manner of discourse (you know, besides that time a dude actually beat a guy to the point of death with his cane) on the floor. There were a LOT of people in support of the bill. She singled him out. Why? That was a political shot across the bow, given the givens. And, as GG pointed out, with logic from Bizarro-world. They're there to work on a budget deal, not to start an overt campaign. Make no mistake, she was taking a potshot at his seat, hoping that busy people will remember it, rather than a display of the facts come election time. Time and place, Debbie!

I think it's been shown that the guy makes his problems exponentially bigger on his very own... without getting Poojer more involved than he is. Unless Pooj wants to be on "Maury!" or one of those shows. I guess it needs to be asked --- is the au pair keeping the baby?