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Play nice!
LOL!
bwahahahahaha
That was pretty funny. Even though Mark didn’t let Larry say much, he allowed enough to show his socialist slant and serves notice these are the kind of people that support B. Hussein. Larry encourages the demise of free enterprise for what he describes as greed. This is socialism. Redistribution of wealth and nationalization of industry. I think Marks remarks were right on about the uselessness of bureaucracies by citing the Dept. of Energy as No Energy and the Dept. of Education as Illiteracy.
@ song_and_dance_man:
This leftist mindset has to be exposed at every turn.
That’s why I posted the vid…
sadm, I fixed your comment.
Got the mad skilz going LOL
@ savage:
Thanks. MightyConservative re-installed the edit feature last night, but it disappeared after only a few minutes.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Well, its working on my end.
Yankees win their 27th Championship!
I’m having a beer!
What do these dweebs expect to accomplish by calling in to somebody twice their IQ, anyway?
@ savage:
You get the extra super deluxe ‘mote control.
I’m gonna have to start listening to Levin online.
snork wrote:
Levin is as sharp of mind as our species comes bundled with.
@ snork:
yay me!
savage wrote:
Yah us too. We can now post videos.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
In a few days, we are gonna have a bunch of goodies installed.
I’ve never understood why lefties think that Caesar is NOT greedy, despite the fact that he “taxes everything that moves and doesn’t move,” as the charming Mrs. Clinton recently put it.
The IRS is by far the most efficient government department because it’s the only one that has to show results. It’s the only one Caesar really cares about.
@ savage:
Looking forward to that. I am so glad you guys took up MightyConservatives offer to help with the blog.
Whatever happened to glachorn (s?) who was assisting about 6 months ago?
I just love Mark Levin. What a Patriot. He annihilated that worthless fool (who kept calling Americans greedy) by saying, “Who would pay your salary , sir, if there weren’t “greedy” people like me out here.?”
Thanks for posting this {sav}. I missed most of Mark’s show today.
@ song_and_dance_man:
You know, he pretty much vanished. I have no idea what happened to him.
@ savage:
Oh well. It seems MC has better skills anyway.
Jeez. All I can think of is Foghorn Leghorn:
Boy’s as sharp as a bowling ball…
@ chickadee:
As soon as I can, I am going to put together a section of various podcasts and the like.
Also, I got an email from another poster who asked if we can make links open in a new window. What do you think?
And we need you precisely why?
savage wrote:
Yes do that. I always have to right click links because I don’t want the current tab to leave here.
Can I get banned for lurking?
@ savage:
I always prefer links to open in a new tab, but it’s not a big deal, I’m used to right-clicking and selecting new tab.
@ song_and_dance_man:
OK, I’ll bring it up. Shouldn’t be too hard to install that feature.
Moe Katz wrote:
Try 1.0 if you need to be banned for that. Oh yeah, dinging posts will accelerate the process.
@ Moe Katz:
Have you commented at any unapproved sites?
/Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…
Somehow, that guy seemed almost too perfect. How many think he was just somebody Levin found to play the part?
Moe Katz wrote:
You have to make a comment within 60 minutes of appearing.
You may not ding anyone, including your wife, until you have made a minimum of 50 comments. Deleted comments do not count toward your total.
Oh, IrishRose is whining.
Someone in the State of Michigan needs to cut that fat sluts pay off completely.
How do’ folks.
Never heard Levin’s show, and I don’t disagree with his points. BUT there is a trend in talk radio to shout down the callers. Comes off as rude and smarmy to me. Chris Matthews is a pro at the irrational shout down attack, and he puts me off as well.
On the other hand, Medved doesn’t mock his lib callers with derision; he does it with logic, as does Rush.
@ snork:
Well many years ago I used to comment at Jewish-Palestinian Encounter. You got to talk to real Arabs there. But they kicked me out for saying Islam needed to evolve.
that looks better. haha
@ snork:
He sounds pretty typical to me,…..and I hang around with a lot of moonbats. (Not necessarily voluntarily.)
@ wolfie:
“You may not ding anyone, including your wife, until you have made a minimum of 50 comments.”
Well heaven forfend that I should ding another man’s wife. “Thou shalt not ding they neighbour’s wife,” etc.
wolfie wrote:
The IRS gets “Direct Results.” (Community Agitators like that result too.) All the rest is to muddy the waters, soften us up, make us vulnerable to yet more money and power grabs from the commies. I watched TV the other night, I couldn’t believe all the agitprop about the environment. “Going Green” Lots of people saying bogus one liners. It ended with a sad kid saying, “Do it for the polar bears.”
Like they are NOT already increasing in numbers. Very manipulative.
The commies at the top of the Ponzi scheme do not care about wild life.
snork wrote:
If they were producing plans and technology for nuclear power plants and/or methods of storing/disposing of nuclear waste, they might have a purpose. Since they aren’t doing that, your point is valid.
One wonders about folks who would call in to people like Levin from the other side. You’d at least think they’d have put some thought into what they are going to say — this guy pretty much just had the liberal Dem / Jeremiah Wright talking points. No depth
/Thanks to the admins for the return of all the features.
@ Bunk X:
Agreed, but then to each his own as far as style goes. I like Dennis Prager myself. He’s always respectful of opponents and very fair.
@ Bunk X:
They all control the conversation, it’s just that some are more obvious about it that others. And frankly, they reason that I stopped listening to Medved is that he won’t control his pet moonbats. He needs them on a shorter leash, or the whole exchange is unlistenable.
The point Levin made regarding the source of this Lib’s income was priceless. Funny how that side rails against the very people upon whom it depends for its funding and livelihood. Guess they think the rich are in unlimited supply while at the same time crying about how we are depleting our supplies of oil and other natural resources. Seems like they have this almost back-assward
ALL radio commenters control the conversation, even sports jocks. It takes a certain gift of gab and a domineering personality that I sure don’t have (unless you ask my wife).
@ Moe Katz:
I must admit the rule that no man should ding without a certain measure of conversation beforehand is a rather good one.
@ AZfederalist:
If you recall, when Carter created the DoE, he rolled the existing nuclear functions into it. That included the entire military mission. Because of that, when Hazel O’Leary was in charge under Clinton, security at Los Alamos was essentially eliminated, and the Chinese walked away with a lot of valuable nuke technology.
As far as I can tell, that’s the only thing that agency has ever accomplished in its 30+ years of existence.
You don’t make it in radio without loving the sound of your own voice.
Umm, Savage or whoever is responsible for the Churchill quote above—I’d suggest finding something along the same lines by Maggie Thatcher instead. Churchill was born pretty high up in Britain’s class system and is related to Princess Di and Chuck’s boys, so his comments about envy don’t right quite true. Thatcher, unlike Churchill, wasn’t born on third base.
AZfederalist wrote:
Not just that, but the villainous oil companies were responsible for producing the product that we all use, and they’re there to…what was that again?
@ snork:
I disagree. I like listening to the other side, especially when they spout bizarre concepts about basic economics. Draw them out of their hidey holes, lettem make their own irrational claims.
@ Bunk X:
Tweech his own. I just don’t have your stomach.
@ savage:
Angry welfare deadbeats who are completely thankless are so disgusting. She is demanding and expectant and full of piss and vinegar about the”vested” monetary benefits she now thinks accrue to her automatically. What a loser. What a jerk.
@ snork:
Tweech. Cool.
For me, it’s boring to read the 1.0 threads anymore as most of the downdinging has stopped. CJ’s comments are usually off topic and get updinged no matter what.
@ chickadee:
That’s why she needs to be cut off completely. Maybe lack of food will do wonders for her waistline.
@ snork:
In the summer of 2008, all of the moonbats I know were railing against the high gas prices and attributing them to greeeeeeeed.
After the prices went way down, I posited that perhaps a whole slew of oil executives had experienced some sort of religious conversion. Perhaps their hard hearts had been reached by a humble Amish preacher or a Benedictine monk. Who knows? It was a miracle of moral transformation!
Hey, if high prices are due to bitter greed, low prices must be due to sweet generosity. But they nervously changed the subject.
@ Bunk X:
I’ve seen a swarm of updings on comments of his that say nothing more than “testing.” You would think he would be embarrassed by it.
@ wolfie:
I think it’s speculation by third parties rather than the oil companies, isn’t it?
@ wolfie:
Funny. There were some moonbats who saw the price of crude collapsing, and spun it into a conspiracy theory to get McCain elected. McCain had his buddies GW and Cheney pull some strings and get crude to fall from $150 to $40.
You can win when dealing with paranoid nut cases, as we all know here.
Er…can’t.
@ Moe Katz:
There was some speculation, but unlike gold, crude is hard to store. There’s only so much tankage available, and it’s expensive to lease. That tends to make the price rather brittle, as we saw.
Speculating on futures contracts is even dicier. The contract ends at a date certain, and if you don’t have a customer lined up, you’re going to have 100,000 barrels of black stuff in your back yard.
@ song_and_dance_man:
If you run Firefox theres an add-on called CoolPreviews – works lie a charm ! Can’t live without it myself. Hover over a link and the link pop-up as a new window (full sized or half – just drag edge). Move the whadda ya call it – pointer/mouse thing-a-ma-jig off the page and the pop up/page disappears – great for those times when you just need a quick bit op info or if the link turns out to be something you’re not interested in.Conversely,you can click a button so the page will remain in place and theres another button which makes the page a regular ‘tabbed’ web page. Sorry for the crummy description but trust me, once you have it you’ll feel like you’re going back to the corded telephone if you loose it – like I did the other night. WARNING !! The newest version of Firefox 3.5.4 (?)
will make the add-on inoperable. I thought I would loose my mind the other day when I agreed to a FF ‘update’ and lost this nifty add on !
Not sure why this is – maybe the developer just needs to update so as to be compatible BUT, again, I could not STAND another minute of life on the net without it !! I had to delete FF and reinstall and older version (3.0) to get the add-on back. Man was I relieved when I saw it working again. Try it – you will LOVE it !
@ snork:
But you can own future production purely on paper without physically holding it, can’t you? This is not my area of expertise, but that was my impression.
Well, my late late supper tonight was pop corn. a cup cake and a glass of wine. LOL
I gotta go folks. I’m never up this late. Enjoy your evening and be proud of the recent surge of conservatism sweeping this country.
@ Moe Katz:
Well, sure, there are a lot of factors involved in actuality.
But if you want to make a moral melodrama about high pricesconsistency should require you to do the same when prices change! Then you see how silly the formulation is.
Dang. Turn off the radio. Those stooooooopid Yankee fans are celebrating.
@ Moe Katz:
A future contract is buying a delivery in the future. As I said, if you’re going to buy those, you’d better know where the oil’s going to go, because when the ship shows up in the harbor, they’re going to want to know where to pump it to.
Some airlines (SW in particular) were using this as a hedge against an increase in aviation fuel cost. This works great while it was expensive, but bit them in the butt when it got cheap. But even they had to partner with a refiner to make the whole thing work.
As I said, this is different from owning gold, for example, because you can sit on the gold indefinitely, but the contract has to be delivered on a certain date. If you don’t have an arrangement with a refiner, you can’t play that game. And the refiners may want to play, as well.
@ chickadee:
popcorn: whole grain
cupcake: vegetable
wine: fruit
Sounds healthy to me.
well congrats yankees…from a mets fan*ughh*
@ wolfie:
But different markets and commodities are regulated differently. The public good is one legitimate factor that can be taken into account in how a given market sphere is set up, i.e. on that continuum between absolute laissez-faire and absolute collectivism. My take on it, anyway. No ideological qualms about shooting a few greedy SOB’s if it encourages the others
@ wolfie:
And it was a carrot cupcake. Wow, so I did have a healthy supper.
Kinda sorta OT–
From the OC Register, here’s a guy who won the college lottery: $100,000 to attend UCLA. Good for him, but he doesn’t know what he’s going to study, and says he wants to, “Give back to the community.”
So, if he takes $100K from “the community,” shouldn’t he owe it already? This kinda feelgood pap makes me puke.
He’s won the bucks for a great education paid for by mmm-mmm-mmm I guess, and he doesn’t know what he wants to do with it? Phew.
From the OCR:
“Serve as a role model?” Only if you want to become another socialist pig at the trough. Meh.
@ wolfie:
Oil is underpriced on this continent anyway. Most good minds in government and economics favor a laissez-faire approach while it rises to its real value. So I guess we’re in agreement.
Oh, Lord God, this is hilariously ironic. Top thread @ 1.0:
Really, Capt. Queeg? If you say so, Capt. Queeg…
@ snork:
The captain is being a petulant bitch, so let’s scuttle the ship. =)
@ Moe Katz:
No, no. I wasn’t making a policy point.
I was just poking fun at the simplistic melodrama of the leftist narrative as rendered by sentimental souls—-like poetry professors.
Well, goddammit, Frank:
Nobody took you out to the back 40 and ‘splained it all to you, did they?
@ savage:
Uh, what the hell is an unemployed person doing with their time futzing around on the internet–and paying for internet services?
snork wrote:
He does not get that he has become a parody of himself.
@ snork:
For those who fantasize about Mandy coming over here, Blogmock needs an archive of Mandy’s pissy blowoffs to refer to.
calcajun wrote:
FIFY
@ wolfie:
I agree. Sometimes I should go back to a moonbat venue just to remember what I escaped from.
@ wolfie:
Actually, if they are collecting unemployment, then they are getting essentially insurance payments for which they already paid a premium in with holdings from their pay. Welfare is the dole for which all taxpayers pay.
@ snork:
Sounds like Mandy is going over the edge.
@ calcajun:
Good point. Although it is a heavily subsidized insurance program.
@ calcajun:
Exactly right. Collecting unemployment is not a debit to those still working, but rather it’s recouping one’s taxes paid over previous years of employment.
Mark Levin sounded like he was enjoying himself quite a bit.
Good job!
@ wolfie:
You’re comparing apples to orangutans. “Unemployment insurance” is a money grab, half paid by you, and half paid by your employer, and it all goes into the General Fund, just like your Soc.Sec payments do.
@ Eliana:
How do’, Eliana.
@ Bunk X:
Howdy, Bunk X!
@ Eliana:
So how do you plan to piss off Moe tonight? Or is it a sekrit?
@ Bunk X:
I dunno – I’m giving it some thought.
@ Eliana:
He’s still getting over some kinda crud that’s been going around. I guess you could kick him while he’s down if you wanted to.
Going upstairs. New tile. New handrails. Balcony city. Chupacabras hanging from the ceiling…
@ Bunk X:
He sounds pretty energetic when he gets angry actually, but it wouldn’t hurt to see him docile instead. He could use the rest.
@ Moe Katz:
You certainly can and we almost pulled off a great deal in London. Royal Dutch Shell offered oil 90 days ahead at a negotiated price. If the price dropped below the quote we only had to pay the then current market price and we broke even. If the price rose however we got it at the 90 day bid price and the $$$$ would roll in. Just pennies on the gallon translates into massive windfall profits.
After spending 5 months getting the whole thing set up we finally got into the holy of holies at Royal Dutch Shell in Trafalgar Square in London. The multimillionaire investor (and former B-25 bomber pilot in WWII) who I was riding ‘shotgun’ for demanded a ‘deal’ plain and simple. Shell didn’t blink and I tried and tired to get Leon to take the sweetheart deal on offer but he wanted a simple discount or nothing. Shell logically gave us nothing! …. and i even had to buy Leon lunch afterwards.
So near and yet so far!
sigh!!
Dept. Of NO Energy! LOL!
Now if only windbags, like Obie, could be harnessed as an energy source, we’d never run out as it’s renewable daily/hourly. And quite green.
@ savage:
She’s a big fat liar.
This is her blog prfile.
Small business owners don’t get to collect unemployment.
Where does she get the money to do all them activities.
Hope she rides a Clydesdale, the only horse capable of lugging her ass around.
@ song_and_dance_man:
sadm – Levin offers his podcast free through iTunes. You can download and listen without commercials. If you go to his website there’s a link to subscribe.
I believe the link is http://www.marklevin.com or it might be http://www.marklevinshow.com – it’s been so long since I stuck it on my iTunes I don’t remember.
hahaha! That was funny. When a ‘tard has to always start his response by invoking the magical name of Barack Obama you know he’s drunk deep of the purple draught.
Hilarious!!
So funny I had to listen to it twice.