Over at Reason Magazine, a piece entitled Obama and the L-Word.
Here’s how predictable the president’s slippery relationship with the truth has become: Hours before the State of the Union address, Washington Examiner reporter Timothy P. Carney posted a “pre-emptive fact check” that, among other things, prebutted any presidential claim to have “stopped the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying.” As it happened, that night Barack Obama made an even bolder (read: less truthful) claim: that “we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.”
Matt Welch points out an example of why this was so obviously wrong:
In fact, more than 40 former lobbyists work in the administration, including such policy makers as Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn (who was lobbying for Raytheon as recently as 2008), Office of the First Lady Director of Policy and Projects Jocelyn Frye (National Partnership for Women and Families), White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz (National Council of La Raza), and Treasury Secretary Chief of Staff Mark Patterson (Goldman Sachs).
Fiddlesticks. Well, he means well, so what’s a lobbyist for good causes and maybe a few humongous banks and maybe a defense contractor or two?
This reminded me of another recent story, though:
Emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Obama Department of Energy is using the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) — the lobbying arm of “Big Wind” in the U.S. — to coordinate political responses with two strongly ideological activist groups: the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and the George Soros funded Center for American Progress (CAP).
But what’s a little white lie for a good cause, right?
The difference between these two most recent Democratic presidents, substantial to begin with (especially in the crucial area of economic policy), may come into sharper relief in 2010. Clinton’s reptilian relationship with the truth, suffused as it always has been with a catch-me-if-you-can sense of personal preservation, actually turned out to have some uses for the nation when he changed course after the 1994 Republican revolution and began co-opting some of the limited-government policies proposed by his opponents. It’s easier for a chameleon to change his spots.
Obama’s dishonesty, by contrast, seems to spring from a different place. As a man who has spent most of his career wowing people with his words and very little of it converting those words into deeds, he has an activist’s gap between rhetoric and reality and a radio broadcaster’s promiscuous carelessness with cutting rhetorical corners. Sure, it’s not technically true that the administration’s day-one lobbying reforms served “to get rid of the influence of…special interests,” as he claimed in a January radio address (to the contrary: federal lobbying in 2009 set an all-time record), but it’s easy to imagine that the president feels his combination of tighter employment restrictions for ex-lobbyists and stricter disclosure requirements for current ones is, in the context of the Manichean fight between “the people” and “special interests,” good enough for government work. The perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the good, and the critics who complain are just opportunistic literalists grasping for any club to beat back the march of progress. No need to give them an inch.
So no foul, since Obama’s by definition the good guy.
But there’s a less charitable explanation too. During the president’s nonstop gabfests before, during, and after the State of the Union speech, he kept repeating the fiction that the medical industry’s “special interests” were significantly to blame for scotching his health care legislation. In fact, the administration and Congress negotiated with those interests every step of the way, receiving crucial buy-in and millions in campaign contributions. Pro-reform lobbyists outspent anti-reform lobbyists on advertising by a factor of 5 to 1. There’s a three-letter word for blaming the defeat of his bill on health care lobbyists, and it rhymes with pie.
That’s not very nice.
And yet it smacks of something worse still. When a politician cannot fathom opposition to his policies except as the manifestation of wicked manipulation by bad guys, remediable only by more thorough “explanations” from the good guys, it indicates an unseemly paternalism. And if he cannot take the hint that Bush-Obama bailout-and-spend economics are deeply and increasingly unpopular, that indicates something immovable about his core economic ideology. With those two factors as backdrop, it’s hard to say which would be worse: if the president didn’t really believe what he said, or if he did.
Indeed. I’m pining for the good old days of Billy-Jeff Clinton. When he lied, all was right with the world, because you knew deep down that no matter what his lips said, he wouldn’t do anything really, really crazy. When this one tells you he’s going to do something crazy, believe him. Don’t believe a word of his justification, but believe every word of his intent.
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The ‘I Am Not George Bush’ Policy: All the borrowing at home and fighting abroad?
/Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpts:
Ah, socialism… You guys are in for such a treat! You see, I already lived in it, I know what to expect, and I also know how to immunize myself… Some of you, especially those of the “Well, some of it may not be a bad thing” and “There ought to be a law!!!” persuasion are about to experience it on your own soft tender hide. Enjoy. Don’t say you were never warned. You were. You chose to disregard it.
I wish that I had something more erudite to say about obama than , “How can you tell he is lying? His lips are moving”, but that pretty much sums up my opinion.
Raaaaaaacist dogwhistle, raaaaaaaaaaaacist dogwhistle!
@ PrincessNatasha:
Where and how did you live under Socialism? How did you “immunize” yourself?
I would appreciate learning from your experience.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Care to share some of those tips on how to “immunize” against it?
@ PrincessNatasha:
we aint there yet, the pendulum has already begun to swing back to the right.
As we watch the unfolding disaster of the Obama deconstruction of America we can be alarmed, even fearful, and it is a terrible thing to witness by anyone that loves freedom. However time may actually be our ally in that Obama is like a snail that is leaving a trail of corruption, lies, and slime behind him.
At first there is not much of a trail, but now many can catalog the ever growing trail of slime and lies, it becomes very odious. Those that had perception knew what this man was as anyone that sat in a racist black liberation theology NON-CHRISTIAN church that published its hatred, and damning of America did not need any other witness or evidence of who this man was/is.
However many do not have that perception, they needed to experience what this man is, to see his filthy vision unfold, and that is happening and the evidence is gathering. Remember the media had one job it performed before the election and that was to literally hide the Obama slime trail before the election, to hide his career, his involvement with ACORN, his ties to radicals, his beliefs, his hatred of white America…refer to comments about white cops arresting black college professors etc.
Yes time in some sense is helping us, to bad it has to come at such a price, but this pain may be what saves America, and probably the world from a new dark ages.
And may God BLESS America, and may God damn the current MSM, may the whole structure of the MSM be destroyed, by financial ruin, by exposure of corruption, I pray even by acts of God, may these enemies of freedom lose their freedom, position, and income, may they become the lowest of the low in our society, let them be hated and despised beyond any segment of society. Let them be questioned wherever they go, let not one story or report be accepted or believed.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, yes, the socialists (far lefty loons) are a minority (20%) in this country. However, they are in control of congress and the WH and are intent on ignoring the obvious will of the people. We have the majority on our side, but not time as we have to wait until November to throw the bums out. It may be too late by that time.
coldwarrior wrote:
But then there’s the next cycle. They own the institutions. In the long run, if substantial changes don’t occur, they win.
snork wrote:
The schools! We have to take back the schools! The anti-semitism alone that these asshats are teaching our youth is absolutely unforgivable!
@ vapig:
@ snork:
this has been going on since day 1…it goes back and forth, i am not sop pessimistic.
hopefully it has/will swing far enough LEFT that the right will have the will and support to undo tons of lib agenda items.
The leftist media is the reason why Obama gets away with his lies.
They support his agenda, so, they don’t adequately scrutinize or challenge him.
Leftist double standards at his service.
@ vapig:
parents can undo anything a teacher tries to put in a students head they can undo it while screaming bloody murder at school board meetings instead of being lazy.
it is ultimately up to the parents to educate the child.
vapig wrote:
Maybe the media too. Not just news, but what passes for entertainment on television. I don’t watch it any more, but I’ve heard that shows like “West Wing” had their own political agenda.
Or maybe, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” which desensitized audiences to the nuances of homosexuality.
@ coldwarrior:
My kids used to get tired of the “ok, what did they try to say today?” thing (especially in the run up to the elections)…
First I would tell them the truth of things, then I would get on the phone with the school.
Time and time again.
They did not care and ended up on my kids’ asses for stupid stuff.
I should have went to the board instead.
BuddyG wrote:
they also supported hum heavily during the elections, so they are ‘married’ to him. if he fails they fail
coldwarrior wrote:
Progs really screwed that up when they forced women to work outside the home and kicked fathers out of the house. Most people are just too exhausted to attend these things.
@ vapig:
Shopping at a gun store provides sure inoculation.
@ m:
go to the teacher first, and just once.
then go to the board…thats the management, its their jobs on the line, not the teachers. that damned union makes it nearly impossible to fire them unless there is heavy documentation, the complaints do go in the teacher’s personnel file. one of my bro’s friends is a unionized public school teacher, that’s what he told me to do
Screw Obama and his lying cronies. The temp outside is pushing 70 and I have windows open!
Aladin Sane wrote:
I think that also comes back to the schools. They are teaching kindergartners about gays and have a political agends for every aspect of the curriculum – i.e. math question: if you have 5 people in a sinking lifeboat and Abdul jumps out to save everybody what sort of racist does that make you?
NoThreat2U wrote:
me too!
i have my attic fan running as well, fresh air is nice!
coldwarrior wrote:
My father used to say ‘Think for yourself. But remember who raised you and fed you.’
coldwarrior wrote:
Let’s hope so! The leftist media provides cover for 0bama and his ilk in the ongoing culture war. So, failure of the leftist media is essential to the future of our nation.
@ m:
I do ask what she learned or heard in school, and then I explain some truth if needed.TWo weeks ago though, there was a funny one.
Teacher assigned the students to find out if Obama’s HC initiative was being represented truthfully and of not how much more would it cost than what is said.
My daughter was the only one to get the answer.
Asked how, she told them that having seen C. Krauthammer talk about it on Brett Baeir’s show she looked up his column and got the numbers there.
Class started scoffing at Fox, but the teacher took them to task for THEIR bias. Big win for me.
@ vapig:
Oh, I agree about the schools, it’s just that the bombardment from the crap on the television only reinforces it. (Maybe it paves the way for it…)
@ jimash:
lol, WOW! Good job there!
I’m terribly sorry to bring this up, since I have attempted to put Mad King Yertle’s domain behind me as much as possible. But it was just brought to my attention that the Mad King has done two things in his current thread:
1) Quoted an old post of mine, and
2) Claimed that I have sent him “harassing and obscene emails for months.”
The second is an out and out, bald-faced lie—which, perhaps, makes it appropriate for me to mention this in a “You Lie!” thread. I have not sent the Mad King an email since long before I took my leave.
The first—his quote of an old post of mine—shows that the Mad King also lies about his “nuke the posts” option; clearly, he has everything that appeared on his site archived, even if he chooses now to hide it from public view.
It’s remarkable that the Mad King could lay his hands quickly on a random post out of the 45,000-odd that he supposedly “nuked.” Perhaps he spends his evenings poring over them; if so, he is reading something far more interesting and well-written than his own scrivenings.
@ coldwarrior:
Just waiting for the rain to come and wash all the crud away now.
I don’t know how to act!!! It looks great out there
Aladin Sane wrote:
And I say that 40 years of prog infestation in the schools is what bred the writers in Hollyweird in the first place!
jimash wrote:
That’s a great story – but so rare these days. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the teacher was reprimanded because some idiot parent of a child who got their “feelings” hurt complained!
And really, what else matters? Not truth, actions, or, God forbid, consequences. And not yours or my feelings.
Barry gives himself a B +, who the hell are we to not open our wallets, bend over, and say “hit me again!”?
BuddyG wrote:
have you seen the HORRIBLE numbers the MSM have? the ratings and circulation are falling rapidly, they are failing, there is no trust in them anymore thanks to the innerwebtubes.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I think that anyone who knows you, even in this e-format would know that you wouldn’t send harrassing emails to that asshole. Childish. Screw him. We know you are better than that. He’s just trying to remain relevant. It ain’t working.
@ jimash:
Good going, and good for your kid.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
If it makes you feel better, I’d wager that I random quote from you is the closest thing to pass for wisdom posted at that site for many moons.
OT can someone tell me how to change avatars?
Some years back I helped my 5th grader with her vocabulary homework. She returned with a snide look and 2 words marked as misspelled.
The next day I went to school with her, dictionary in hand and politely informed her teacher that the words were correct.
Since then my daughter trusts me about most anything except boyfriends.
It’s all old school parenting. Beats the new math (and spelling) every time.
m wrote:
And they’d have told you to blast off, and called you a racist to boot.
imploder wrote:
Make sure the door of the booth is closed, will ya?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
he is a loser…..i watched his interview on dangerous minds and i was struck by how he wanted to impress the interviewer……it was really creepy…..i also noticed that he keeps wearing the same shirt……and he was pasty white….and had very small hands………
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Easy homey. You’re winning.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Buzz, CJ is a liar and we all know it.
NoThreat2U wrote:
UPding for that! lol
coldwarrior wrote:
Indeed. We’re planning on avoiding them altogether. A bit less income now? Perhaps, but two less adults who think they’re entitled to your money in 20 years.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Typical!
Maybe we should post his home address.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Who wants fruit and water?
vapig wrote:
Okay, that sounds fair enough. I haven’t disagreed with you about the school issue, I’ve just said it would be nice to clean up all of the crap on television too.
imploder wrote:
http://www.gravatar.com
snowcrash wrote:
Yes, but since the great ovoid has made a false accusation that cannot be directly responded to, I figured that the only way to address these lies was to air them in public.
anyone notice gas prices jumping? it’s been 2.63 around here for a couple months..today it was 2.86…..what gives?
Poteen wrote:
That would do it! Cool!
I should also note that in time she’ll respect your opinion on the BF issue as well!
@ coldwarrior:
The leftist media were able to get 0bama elected, so they still wield considerable influence and power. I hope this changes very quickly!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yes that is funny/strange. kind o’ nutzo.
And thanks Buzz and m , I loves that kid. She smart.
phoenixgirl wrote:
Its all Bushes fault…..oh wait.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Not if it’s archived properly. He can search his offline databases more easily than the online ones. Unlike the users, he can do very detailed SQL queries. If he thinks you said something about pygnoginals 3 years ago, that’s an easy search.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I think it’s safe to say that anyone whose opinion you care about doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the pony-tailed blogger says.
phoenixgirl wrote:
And that was to handle very small what?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yes, The Loozard King relies on the fact that no one dare question him on his site to often make flat out lies.
He did the same to me personally the first time I was banned from there (I had to call him on it on the blog, and threaten to post the actual letter), and has done it about The Blogmocracy generally.
Childhood Charles
Aladin Sane wrote:
I hear you – it’s in everything! I can’t even stand to go to the malls or look in magazines anymore because I’m tired of looking at half naked babies made up to look like porn stars!
I just think that’s the place to start. Clean out the heads of the kids who will eventually run things so that the filth doesn’t enter their noggins to begin with.
phoenixgirl wrote:
Crude’s been creeping up. Or more precisely, the dollar’s been sucking harder and harder.
Thank the next greenie you meet.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Makes sense. CJ’s actions confirm his stalker tendencies if he is actively researching and posting about you. More disordered thinking from CJ. Scary.
I wonder who King Liar’s Regan, Goneril, and umbilical-Cordelia are…
snork wrote:
i don’t think he has one of those
snowcrash wrote:
It’s OK; I hardly expect him to heave his vast bulk from his ergonomic chair and traverse the multiple thousand miles to anywhere near my location.
BuddyG wrote:
I really think that’s at an end because of the big fat zero! In the past people have relied upon the media to give them a heads up on their candidates background. It been real clear in the past year that they chose not to. People aren’t going to forget that!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That just tells me he fears you. Good!
phoenixgirl wrote:
Is that why Waldensian calls him Charles Nodickens?
If I can sign into this blog, does that mean I have a word press account?
It says my username is already used up.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
He is quite the paranoid git isn’t he? You aren’t the first to be accused of mass hate mail. Consider it a badge of honor, your loss must really bother him.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Those ergonomic chairs can be super expensive. Herman Miller makes a $900 version. Good thing I dont have back pain or a vast bulk. LOL
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Fear the Ned.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I’m close but not worried. A Celtic Cross on my door protects me like garlic for vampires.
snork wrote:
Makes sense. We’ve really gotta kiss these green policies – get the knowledge out there that industrial countries are clean! That it’s the greens who are lying.
Also, any green-prog GOP candidates must be defeated. We can’t have our own in a position to harm us!
I gotta leave to avoid cyber addictive tendencies.
BBL
@ snork:
ROTFL
vapig wrote:
Men! D’ye see this Spanish gold ounce? Carpenter, hand me your top maul; whoso among ye raises me that pasty-white whale shall have this Spanish gold ounce for his own!
—from “moby-Dickhead”
vagabond trader wrote:
So which is more of a badge of honor? Being falsely accused of mass hate mail, or being falsely accused of making threats? I’m going to feel left out of it’s the former.
vapig wrote:
Sorry folks! First day back to work (mini-vacation) and really tired!
Remember the Soviet Union appeared to be impregnable, a threat to freedom and democracy, and human survival, yet all during the 70′s and into the 80′s the Soviet Union was being hollowed out, decaying from within. I remember very well the fear of liberals, the kowtowing to Russia, the blubbering cowardice when Reagan was caught uttering the following on a mike that was supposed to be off on August 11, 1984:
O, how terrifying…Reagan is a CRAZY man they all intoned, “come on kiss the ass of dictators like us, we are AFRAID!”
Yet on June 12, 1987, just two years, ten months and two days from his joke, about bombing the MIGHTY and TERRIFYING Soviet Union, Reagan uttered these famous and prophetic words at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin:
“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’”
And then just two years four months and twenty nine days later that wall FELL on Nov 9, 1989.
This is the guts of prophecy, it is not the foretelling of events, it is men anointed by God that declare and create what will be. Hebrews 11:3
Rotherham’s Version
By faith, we understand the ages to have been fitted together, by declaration of God,–to the end that, not out of things appearing, should that which is seen, have come into existence.
This is the key to our dilemma now, men must believe they can speak with God’s authority (Reagan believed and he did this) and that will create a new age that otherwise would not have come into existence. Liberals hated Regan, they somehow sensed this man spoke prophetically from time to time. They do not want a world created by the word of God, they want an unjust world created by their hands, a tower of Babel, a Government of man, by man, ruled by man, been there done that ad nauseam.
And now let us look at anti-prophecy by Satanically filled men like Obama, once again in Berlin, but strangely he was not allowed to speak at the Brandenburg gate, in a sense trying to cloak himself with the prophetic mantle of Reagan, liar and thief that he is, instead the venue was at, the base of the Victory Column by the Tiergarten (Central Park of Berlin) where the false prophet Obama was cheered by adoring and deceived Europeans.
“No one nation, no matter how large or how powerful, can defeat such challenges alone.”
Really? Tell that to Regan, tell it to FDR, tell it to Lincoln, tell it to Washington and the founders, you complete tool!
Interestingly here is the comment from Wikipedia about this Victory Column (Berlin Siegessäule)
Angela Merkel had something to do about where Obama would speak, believe me he wanted to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, later he acted like he wanted to speak from a more humble location.
How Appropriate!
I believe God himself intervened and would not allow this false prophet to cloak himself with the real prophetic anointing that was on Reagan at the Brandenburg gate, but instead, symbolically arranged that Obama would speak from the location of what is accepted by many as a NAZI symbol of war and victory. With the same kind of deceived and adoring crowds that made WWII and the slaughter of Jews and Christians a reality.
@ snork:
Hey, its a lie thread,a situational thing flexible enough to suit your own experience.
http://www.weaselzippers.net/.a/6a00e008c6b4e588340120a921b3d8970b-pi
imploder wrote:
yep, you have an account.
your user name might have already been used…did you use you email addy that you use here as your login?
@ Jehu:
I remember the music that came out of that era – mostly from England, but also from our own countrymen – and the hysterics that Reagan was to be the agent in the “END OF THE WORLD!!!!!” Freaks! I also remember all the nuke movies! They really resented it when all their doomsday scenarios came to naught! I think they were sad that we weren’t nuked!
@ Jehu:
victory column in berlin has nothing to do with nazis.
@ vapig:
lol, now we’re all going to freeze starve burn or die from lack of hellcare.
@ vapig:
Nuclear end of the world, and now Climate end of the world. Those the-sky-is-falling Leftists always need a “good crisis” to get you to stop thinking and do whatever they want.
Like Regan, the trick is to flat out ignore them.
imploder wrote:
That’s ok – use any username. Your avatar will be tied to your email account. Use the same email account you use here and it’ll show up.
my congresscriter is on cavuto…i have my phone in hand….
Back to Obowma. He is a pathological liar. Bet it was a big problem since childhood but he figured out how to make it work in his chosen field.
@ vapig:
They would rather the world lie in smoking ruins, rather than it be a place where righteousness reigns. The hatred for the prophetic word (The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy) is complete, through the ages it was the motivational force behind the cruelty of Rome, and barbarism though all human history, and subsequent Kingdoms that ignore the laws of God and bring death and destruction to humanity. “Better to rule in Hell, than serve in heaven.” MILTON
@ vagabond trader:
@ WrathofG-d:
Lefty’s are always hysterical about something! What Reagan was a master of was making fun of them and showing people how ridiculous and foolish they were. We need another one like him!
@ vapig:
Amen to that!
vapig wrote:
he was also excellent at going over the heads of the press straight to the american people.
Since we are discussing lies, I wish to provide a video which evidences the reality of the IDF which is in complete contradiction to the myriad and prevailing lies we hear almost daily.
(notice the comments of the mother and how hard it was for her to let go of the propaganda she had been told her whole life, even in the face of the reality)
@ coldwarrior:
Not in its original intent and meaning, it pre-dates the Nazis by over 60 years, however since the Nazis wanted to use it as a center piece in the redesign of Berlin it has been popularly accepted as a NAZI symbol, perhaps not by all or even the majority of Germans, but never the less it has been tainted by the association with the Nazis. If you dispute this fact, then why not submit a correction to Wiki?
vagabond trader wrote:
I think all lefties are pathological liars. Having no moral compus it comes very natually to them. Only people of conscience have a problem with lying.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
A good example of how the progressive’s fight (sling mud at) those who dare disagree with them. The Mad King has no morals and knows no bounds in his fight against evil. In his own warped little mind he’s mankind’s last defender of the Truth.
coldwarrior wrote:
YES!! Something I wish Bush would have done more often. People, even those who disagreed with him, thought of him as a good person who wished the best for the country. I bet he could have kept our national moral up even in the face of the constant onslaught by the press.
@ WrathofG-d:
Actually Reagan did ignore a lot of liberal chatter, but his genius was to address their BS occasionally with wit and cheerfulness. His famous bright and cheerful, “There they go again,” was used repeatedly against liberal lies.
vapig wrote:
The core principle of the Leftist is that there is not ultimate (or I guess I should say actual) truth, and everything is simply subjective truths (one man’s…is another man’s….). To them individual emotion, desire, and perception are the creators of truth, and thus lying isn’t lying but instead personal verification of their own individual truth.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Hey Buzz, few could tempt me to travel to the Adipose Wings of Bulbous Biker site, but out of my respect for your talents and always interested in your opinions, I went looking. And I have a question considering it has been about two or three years now since I was a member of that which will remain unnamed.
What purpose is that site supposed to serve, besides defending and promoting Charles’ fragile ego? I ask, because when I left, Charles was but a bit player who started the dialogue. Now it has become almost a diary about Charles’ life, from what he eats to his daily delusions, fraught with rambling commentary about Charles, for Charles, from Charles. zzzzzzzzzz….
I was met with the typical Darwin is my religion rant, complete with “proof” from another nebulous article (Charles is so behind the current information about genetic evolution, I almost sent an email telling him to read a recent genomic technical article, but I knew he didn’t have the foundation and it would be construed as hateful email and propaganda), the charges of the right as 9/11 truthers, Paulians, home schooling wackos, Creationist fundies, some nebulous glee I guess over right-wing infighting, and a huge dose of paranoia, complete with BBC interview which I didn’t bother to watch. And at first I thought, okay so now we’ve switched sides. Got it.
But the more I read, short of the personal advertising of Charles as arbiter of all that is beauty and truth, the only common theme seems to be Charles attempting to debunk everything, a devil’s advocate advocating “nothing” complete with barking seals, parrots, and croaking toads in the comments section.
Is there some basic tenet that LGF now rests, similar to the past recognition of the dangers of radical Islam?
@ Jehu:
the only time i’ll use wiki is if i can independently verify their articles accuracy and the snip i need is well written and succinct, it is then cited with fair warning. so, i am not going to get in a edit debate over a bad point. i a m sure i could find a few germans that think the column is associated with nazis, none of the germans i knew when i lived there viewed it as such tho.
i would assume that obama speech was put in the tiergarten becasue of the sheer number of people that attended. the brandenburg gate area is too small to handle crowds that large…crowd control would be much easier in the garten.
Jehu wrote:
I’ll never forget a parady on a local radio station. Totally lib and pro-USSR trying to make fun of Reagan (they were always calling him senile then) and his refusal to talk to the Soviet Leaders. This was during a time when several of them died in succession. Dim-bulbs were actually making the case FOR him not talking to them – because WHO was he gonna talk to? They kept catching “colds” and dying!
Goodbye_Natalie wrote:
I have no idea. I don’t go there of my own accord, as there is nothing to go there for.
I would not have known of Mad King Yertle’s latest slander were it not that a friend at another site brought it to my attention—and I would not have brought it up here (I try to stay out of the LGF sections here, as it is akin to poking slugs with sticks) were it not that it contained two outright lies—the first regarding the Mad King’s fabrications of my own conduct, and the second regarding the Mad King’s retention of material he claimed to have destroyed.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Good grief – what a load of illogical mush! Made totally of the stuff that must fill their heads!
Goodbye_Natalie wrote:
“There is no blog but LGF, and Chuckles is it’s Prophet”?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Oh brother. Now he’s going to accuse you of putting out a contract on him. Sigh.
To quote a line from the first Austin Powers movie:
“But Mummy, what about those teeth!”
wolfie wrote:
Yep! Yep! Yep! No sane person would have thought that – but he will!
Back in the day’s…Da Nang, Air Force Base, a Chief Master Sgt. ya know like an E-9, big guy at the big Supply warehouse on base.
The guy was a world class “con” aka “trader” aka, “mr fix”…
we called him,, “Supply God”…
Obama may be a con, a liar, a trader,, a mr fix the deal,,,
He is no Chief Master Sgt. “Suppy God” that is for sure.
Con Man ya…
@ wolfie:
Ye gads, can’t anyone even quote the classics any more?
coldwarrior wrote:
You got that right CW. You can fool all the people some of time and some of the people all of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time. It’ll be a cold day in hell before we go down that road.
Goodbye_Natalie wrote:
The crazy right. Read the treads. Is there any other topic?
supply God oops
@ wolfie:
I’m still laughing at the Moby Dickhead post.
I was thinking about the whole “stalker” bit yesterday.
Plain & simple, Charles is now Kos. Was he stalking Kos, everyday, by pointing out the insanity? He is now Kos.
snork wrote:
Crazy right lingers on
As I face an empty dawn
With a snoring iceweasel right next to me
But I’ve surely reached the end
My thickened waist no longer bends
I’ll post another “Crazy Right” thread, you’ll see
—not Patsy Cline
gulfloafer wrote:
REally? Then it must’ve been snowing in hell in 08 because I thought for sure after Carter we’d never go down that road again. Yet, here we are!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Quoting scripture gets you into legal trouble in Canada and Sweden. Can’t get much more classic than that.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Pokeith ye slug with ye stick … then add a pinch of salt.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You always were a nicer, classier act than I was. I’m completely numb to him, and still never miss the chance to the kick the balls given the opportunity.
Unless you’ve made some quantum leap to the dark side, I can attest you were most gentlemanly of all the regulars; an example that on at least two occasions, Charles noted for the rest of us when we got out of hand. Maybe you should ask Chuck to retrieve those comments too.
Charles is too paranoid to destroy anything permanently. He’s moved all the comments to another server where he can retrieve the comments when necessary. Or, he’s marked them for deletion so they don’t appear, but they still physically reside someplace. The main reason being his primary server is such a dog, he needs the space. Trying to access a thread with more than a couple of hundred comments at his lair was always a trial of patience.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes.
But I wonder if today it would be as easy. In those days, if the president gave a speech or press conference, all of the networks covered it. It was the custom for all of them to do so, and since they had no competition from cable, they didn’t have to worry about ratings.
Today they pick and choose what they broadcast and don’t feel obliged to show a speech at all. So they will give Obama plenty of access, but they restricted Bush.
@ coldwarrior:
I can just about agree on Wiki, however other sources cite the association of the Victory Column with the Nazis, not to make a big deal of this but my point is Obama wanted to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, to synthetically duplicate the incredible and prophetic speech of Reagan. According to most reports he was denied that venue by Merkel, there was no mention in the articles I perused that lead me to believe the problem was accommodation of the crowd.
I just thought it interesting that Obama, seeking to cloak himself in the genuine authority of Reagan was reduced to a possible association with Fascists, which he has proven to have more in common with than with the prophetic vision and determination of Reagan to stop the “Evil Empire,” in its tracks.
I see this theme repeated throughout history, righteous men create or establish some truth, and not long after evil men twist and distort that truth for their own ends. Think Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations) then about a hundred years later along comes Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto. Or think of Newton, practically the founder of modern science (Newton was a devout Christian) and once again about a hundred years later the apostate Christian Darwin distorts and perverts science, and yet they made sure they buried Darwin next to Newton, as if to say, “See here lies a scientist of the stature of Newton”…not hardly!
@ vapig:
the gop is as much to blame for getting 0 elected…mccain? really?
0 looses if the gop fights hard and runs a conservative. that and bush ran out of steam and gave up the fight.
@ The Osprey:
Prophet for profit. Kinna like mo.
HIT THE TIP JAR!
@ vapig:
The buyers remorse started when the mask came off; AGW, Cap & Trade, socialized medicine, the appointments and on and on … It ain’t happening.
You’ve got to love it. One of Obama’s little minions used to work for the Tan Klan™. Lovely. And the MSM is OK with this, because, well, they’re Democrats. As Kleagle Robert C. Byrd said, what’s a little racism among friends, right?
The Osprey wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
Both valid points! Losing congress in 06 seemed to defeat him.
Work day just about over. See you all later!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That’s terrible. Only a bully would do that. And Cato and the others complain about us being stalkers. If he doesn’t like banned posters looking at his blog, why doesn’t he put the settings on private?
coldwarrior wrote:
Agreed. When he beat out Romney I KNEW it was a forgone conclusion. Bob Dole all over again. The GOP needs someone who will call it like it is a fighter not some pussy-footed PC empty suit.
@ Jehu:
i have no doubt that the 0 wanted to speak at brandenburg for the reasons you listed.
merkel had a nice, polite, built in reason to say no…crowd control and safety for the 0. i wonder who chose the column…i know both areas very well and am sure the secret service was in on this…b’berg would be damn hard to secure.
Have you guys heard about this:
The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to get the health care legislation through the House without an actual vote on the Senate-passed health care bill. You see, Democratic leaders currently lack the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill through the House. Under Slaughter’s scheme, Democratic leaders will overcome this problem by simply “deeming” the Senate bill passed in the House – without an actual vote by members of the House.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/10/dump-demcare-2000-protest-in-st-louis-keep-the-no-mentum-going/
Here’s the classic.
Speaking of classics, I hope people will forgive my reviving this, but it seems in context:
Your Last Posting
(Los Angeles)
—apologies to Robert Browning and “My Last Duchess”
That’s your last posting ever on this blog,
And henceforth your account is blocked. You’ll dog
My site no further with your words; your nic
Is banished, and I gave your posts the stick.
You know I’ll call your banning here a “flounce”
Though I’ve been waiting for some time to pounce
On your account, and with prevarications
Distort and demonize your observations.
The Toad Hall where you reveled, if you please’ll
Be given entire to the stoats and weasels,
My countenance beaming on each one that
Comes to me bearing tales of Mole or Rat,
Or Badger, or…sockpuppet. No, ‘t was not
This writing only, placed you on the spot
And caused me to invoke the ban: perhaps
You chanced to differ with my own claptrap
And stick to your position, or dispute
Conventional wisdoms to which repute
I’ve lately granted. Don’t you dare to say
That I or my site might have lost their way
Obsessing on my personal vendettas;
I am neither forgiving nor forgetter,
And will not brook a failure of obesiance
By anyone I feel owes me allegiance.
Yes, I took Rather down, on grounds that he
Could not support what he claimed factually;
But now I set my sights at lower bar
(On personalities, not things that are)
While I squat ‘midst the wreckage I have made
Like mad Kurtz ruling from his bush stockade,
Ringed ’round with skulls. For I no longer deign
To weigh a fact itself; instead, maintain
That source determines truth, and to that end
The nature of veracity I bend,
Citing to midden-heaps of rankness such
That I would not long since have scorned to touch.
A turtle is a lizard in a shell,
And I, lord of my self-created hell
Remain King Yertle of the Turtle Stack
Exalted on my Posting Turtles’ backs–
Yet conscious, as I proclaim my renown
It’s just posting turtles, all the way down,
Which is why I respond with rage and fear
Should anyone mouth what I deem a sneer
Or contradiction. So I flip a switch,
And all posts stop together, with a bitch
Given reign of my elegant designs.
Yet, if I still retained but half a spine
I would despise appearing to be led
As I now seem to, by the lesser head.
Hark! Look you! See how Glenn Beck weeps!
Do you not loathe the company he keeps
Regardless of whatever he might say?
Here is the global warming word today;
Do not dissent, the banning stick is toward
I care for no voice save that of accord!
Speaking of liars
Target in Range; Left-Wing Deflection Efforts Inbound
@ NoThreat2U:
they do that, and things may get really interesting. That would effectively be a coup.
coldwarrior wrote:
Bush got the P wading smacked out him. The Democrats after they took over were relentless in their bashing, and went unanswered. IMO the next conservative president must have a liberal media response team. Anyone who is bashed as consistently as Bush with no fighting back will lose.
@ snork:
Didn’t that POS at the swamp burn his bridge with Iowa Hawk too? Hell I remember how selrahC used to swoon over him. My have times changed. The Hawk needs to do a ball busting expose on chuckles.
citizen_q wrote:
Problem is I don’t think Obama has a real good concept of Truth or Honor. He wouldn’t recognize it if it came up and bite him in the ass. The only “Truth” to him is anything that advances his socialistic ( read commie ) ends.
@ Iron Fist:
They must have balls the size of Jupiter! Of all the *$()@#&^$ nerve!
@ snork:
Good one,Band of Fuggers,lol.
@ snork:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
LOL! Two classics!
NoThreat2U wrote:
I wonder if her bill gets dentures for her constituent who was using her dead sisters?
kansas wrote:
Damn skippy. Give it back twice as hard.
Speaking of liars
Target in Range; Left-Wing Deflection Efforts Inbound
NoThreat2U wrote:
Time for tax protests to go hot if so.
If they are going to overide the rule of law out of convienance and expediency, then what is to keep the people from going out of process in their expression of disapproval.
@ NoThreat2U:
Time to check out the current price of pitchforks at Home Depot.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Hey Buzz.This bloated pos says whatever he wishes on his blog and lies outright. He will never produce the evidence because he is such a liar. Though some people might feel some pity with the fact that he has made some very serious enemies. Enemies I,myself would not like to have. Every shadow, every sound and that feeling of someone watching you must be horrific. Pity. pity.
OT
Just got off the cell phone with one of the guys in New Mexico
He says that Democrat Gov. Richardson signed a new law about carry in New Mexico,,today….
OK to carry a gun in restraunts in New Mexico now..
can not carry if restraunt has a fill liq. lis.
beer ok I guess,,,
NRA sponsored deal@ Iron Fist:
DETROIT (AP) – A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers’ request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.
As guards cleared the courtroom Wednesday, Conyers yelled that she planned to appeal.
Conyers suggested that she was the victim of “badgering” last summer when she acknowledged a conspiracy to take bribes for her support of a Houston company seeking a sludge contract. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn says her plea deal was voluntary.
Conyers is the wife of Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers. She quit the council in June.
Prosecutors also want the judge to consider allegations that Conyers and an aide collected $69,500 from people seeking help from the city. Her lawyer denies the claims.
@ taxfreekiller:
What up socko? Been over to the swamp yet today.
@ kansas:
next time the right has to be relentless.
Just passing through but I thought I should mention the latest BBC interview with the Master Blogger.
Touted by Johnson as “LGF at the BBC” is actually one of a few “interviews” done to fill up space and airtime on the BBC world service.
What is interesting you say?
Well, today the Arabic speaking world and Persia got to laugh at the Ponytail.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_3.html
Ooooooo…..
@ NoThreat2U:
They think we’ll just sit on our hands and take it if they do it. I don’t think they are correct. They are thinking along very dangerous lines if they are even remotely considering something like this. I hope for all our sakes that MM is wrong, and this is just a spurious rumor.
@ Iron Fist:
JHere’s more on that. Unreal. They really want to see if they can play Civil War over this issue. They may get what they are asking for.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
And tiki lights?
@ taxfreekiller:
Cool! Thanks. We are winning. Slowly, to be sure, but we are winning.
@ Jehu:
I really like your posts.
snork wrote:
For sure. Got to see where we’re going, don’t ya know.
@ Possum:
Arabic? Persian? He better hope they don’t catch wind of his past, very recent past, feelings towards them. Unfortunately for him they don’t perceive time quite the same way we do. He’s in for a rude awakening.
@ Possum:
Don’t these dingleberries know that they speak Farsi in Iran, and Persian is an insult?
@ Possum:
It is a blog highlighting blogs. lol
snork wrote:
I am a dingleberry too then because I didn’t know either!
snowcrash wrote:
And there was I thinking Johnson was on the BBC, as in the BBC that brought you Monty Python and the Queen’s speech.
snork wrote:
selrahC is a farce
So, is??? none less than nothing or still zero@ Possum:
@ Possum:
I’m sure that is the impression he would like to give.
vagabond trader wrote:
If you watch his face you can tell when he is really uncomfortable. That’s when he is lying. He becomes fearful it is too great a whopper he is putting out there and he might not get away with it. He gets those crazy half closed eyes going and wrinkles between his eye brows and he can’t focus on who he is talking to. He won’t look at them. He bops his head and furrows his brow. He is a rip roaring liar but not really a very good one at hiding it. He is not a smooth operator. More like 12 year old boy who got caught smoking cigs behind the barn.
@ coldwarrior:
I think that is it, they would state the reason as “his safety,” and “crowd control,” but the REAL reason is that Merkel and probably a lot of other German leaders got a bad taste in their mouths thinking of letting the 0 wrap himself in a Reaganesque mantle. I wish it could have been something where somebody unfurled a Nazi banner behind O as he spoke, they would have been classic.
@ Iron Fist:
They really do think they are royalty. AMERICANS DON’T SERF!!!!!!
Is there anybody out there with the balls to challenge this in court? I am not so sure
@ Jehu:
Wow Jehu and BuddyG both visit in one day.
Buzz,
If anybody knew anything of past history, they would find that funny.
This is very disturbing.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/10/drudge-virus-warning-blasted-latest-free-speech-incursion/
@ Jehu:
you’re bad!
Ok, the Spanish thread is gone….
Gee i don’t think that was right to delete the thread.
savage wrote:
Thank God. That went over like a Lead Balloon, or is it Led Zeppelin?
That was a stupid thing to do. Every thread is not going to be all rainbows and sunshine. Geez.
@ Speranza:
Agreed. I had no idea it was gonna get that contentious.
snowcrash wrote:
I agree. Life is not all peaches and roses. Hey want to hear about some of my lousy blind dates in the old days?
savage wrote:
Going on vacation soon and it will be a while before I put up another thread. I need contention (as opposed to honest debate) like the crabs.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I can match you horrible blind date stories date for date.
@ Speranza:
Speranza, whatever topic you put up is fodder for discussion. No matter how personally offensive it was to some posters, it should have stayed.
The Arab League on Wednesday recommended withdrawing support for indirect
talks between Palestinians and Israelis due to Israel’s decision to approve new construction in East Jerusalem
It’s always those damn jewish carpenters who cause trouble
snowcrash wrote:
You have a good point but I preferred that it disappear down the memory hole.
@ Speranza:
Can’t we all? lol
An Israeli supermarket is looking to cash in on the infamous surveillance video of an assassination team suspected of killing a Hamas commander in Dubai with a new commercial inspired by the footage.
A new TV campaign for the Mahsanei Kimat Hinam supermarket chain shows actors wearing wigs and hats and carrying tennis rackets as they make their way through store aisles.
“We offer killer prices,” announced the advertisement’s tagline.
I love it
@ Nevergiveup:
Why does Israel even waste its time with these phony talks which go absolutely no where.
@ Nevergiveup:
@ snowcrash:
Agreed. How are we ever going to dissect the differences and come to a resolution if we just have a tarp thrown over the whole thing?
@ Nevergiveup:
I love that “Gail Folliard” gal.
Speranza wrote:
Maybe over some good Scotch and Beer one day
savage wrote:
Blind dates and fix ups – the bane of all single people.
@ Speranza:
What, you think guys own exclusive rights to that category?
Nevergiveup wrote:
That would be fun.
savage wrote:
i never dated anyone who was blind.
vagabond trader wrote:
Oh I am sure women can match horror story for horror story.
snork wrote:
i’ll go in this column…just sayin
coldwarrior wrote:
As George Costanza would say “dating a blind woman is ok because she might think I sound good looking”.
Nevergiveup wrote:
i’ll take a martini.
What did I miss in the Spanish thread?
It sounds rather notorious.
Speranza wrote:
here is an intersting/sad fact about my life. i have never seen a seinfeld episode.
vagabond trader wrote:
yeah, because we men are all prizes!
@ chickadee:
A misunderstanding. We’re all on edge with this sh!t pile of commies trying to ruin the rest of my life.
Staffers: Axelrod “Really Shit the Bed This Time”
coldwarrior wrote:
Me too, and I don’t think it’s sad.
@ snork:
Yep. Nothing should be off limits for discussion. I appreciate Speranza wanting to be a peacemaker and putting up threads to keep us engaged. Pulling a thread isn’t an option to be taken quite as lightly as it seemed to be. I suggested on that thread that anyone could go OT and derail the thread. Its a silly work around but it doesn’t make it look like we throw things down the memory hole because they aren’t pretty.
@ vagabond trader:
I came up with an original:
“Don’t trust anyone under thirty.”
I still feel like I heard it before, though.
Wake up, wake up, Rachel Corrie!
What makes you sleep so sound?
You’re underneath the Caterpillar tractor
Tryin’ to protect tunnels in the ground
The first time I seen Rachel Corrie
She was hangin’ with the ISM
Protecting the smuggling tunnels
And the arms that came through them
The next time I seen Rachel Corrie
She was lying down in the dirt
Hamas connived at her demise,
Knowing what a dead American’s worth
Get away, get away, Rachel Corrie
Tell your folks to stay home with their grief
They let you go die in a war zone
In accordance with your hateful beliefs.
—apologies to “Wake Up, Darlin’ Corrie”
@ coldwarrior:
That isn’t sad. Jerry Seinfield is an idiot. He is not even funny and his voice gets on my nerves. You haven’t missed anything.
Greetings citizens.
I was on the tread that had CJ’s post about him bever approving of
referring to Rachel Corie as St. Pancake. Work called , so I logged off.
Didn’t CJ use the term himself, before his transformation?
coldwarrior wrote:
Neither has Michael Bluth, much to his surprise.
Good evening, y’all!
@ mjazz:
LOL
snork wrote:
it’s a show about nothing.
I have never seen a single episode of The Office
Women of Mossad – Gail Folliard, Anna Clasby, and Ivy Brinton
@ snowcrash:
Actually, that was the longest I’d seen a thread stay on topic for awhile, until the thread itself became the topic and I tried to post and got caught in limbo.
@ RIX:
Even gave the poster known as St Pancake a hat tip.selrahC LIES!
Nevergiveup wrote:
snowcrash wrote:
AMEN.
Gee hasn’t Henry Waxman ever heard about nose jobs?
The only things I watch is some Fox and the weather channels.
I’m thinking of ditching cable.
@ Speranza:
I missed the entire “Friends” thing. I figured they couldn’t possibly be my friends, they were all to young. BTW, I am in my late 40′s.
Nevergiveup wrote:
he is one ugly looking walrus.
just spoke to rodan, he wishes the thread had not been taken down, he got angry with the editorial and decided to go cool off a bit. also, he has no problems with speranza or anyone else, he is very angry about the editorial. it was a mistake to take it down, he was the one that approved the post.
snowcrash wrote:
I always felt that the “Friends” crew were self absorbed yuppies that I had absolutely nothing in common with.
7-Year-Old Calls 911, Saves Family From Attack
And this 7 year old knows what the Liberals still don’t get: Keep our Military strong! He added:
“”bring cops. A lot of them! … And bring soldiers, too.”"
coldwarrior wrote:
Then lets put it back up.
STEPHANOPOULOS:A gentleman named William Ayers. He was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.
And, in fact, on 9/11, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” An early organizing meeting for your State Senate campaign was held at his house and your campaign has said you are “friendly.”
Can you explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?
OBAMA: George, but this is an example of what I’m talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense, George.
This lie should have derailed “0″(pronounced zero)s Presidential run.
Thank you Trader, I thought that I remembered that right.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m going to be gone on vacation for a while so it will be along time until my next thread. I saw today was a slow day (unlike Sunday when we had 10 threads).
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yee haw! I could clog to that!
@ mjazz:
Our cable is the worst. Every couple of years, like now, they turn the entire crummy lineup around,change all the station numbers give us more unwatchable drivel and an absurdly complicated remote and converter box.I’d dump it in a moment if the hubby didn’t enjoy his sports channels.
RIX wrote:
Geezus Louizas he sure has a selective memory.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Hi Goddess!
@ Speranza:
Egypt and Jordan could have done it.
@ Speranza:
He is impaired!
vagabond trader wrote:
My favorite channels are History International, History, The Military Channel, Animal Planet (when it is good), National Geographic, and Fox News and Fox Business. You can keep the rest!
IslandLibertarian wrote:
There are so many ugly lies and bad behavior in his past that should have derailed him. The msm should all be jailed for perpetrating this fraud on us.
@ vagabond trader:
This springlike weather is the pits./
@ vagabond trader:
try FIOS
Speranza wrote:
THAT’s different. That’s funny. I saw an episode of that on a United flight a few weeks ago.
mjazz wrote:
I think it wsa a joint oepration by several nations including Isreal, Egypt, Jordan, and Britain.
@ coldwarrior:
Back story, please!
vagabond trader wrote:
That’s the only reason we still have a TV. Sports.
snork wrote:
Nor have I ever seen King of Queens, Family Guy, Home Improvement, or Mad About you. However that “Diff’rent Strokes gang – they needed to be all rounded up.
Chuck would have made a first class Soviet, Revionist Historian.
@ Nevergiveup:
That is what I have. I got the bundle with phone, cable and internet. I would like to get rid of my phone before my cable!
@ Speranza:
TMC,FOX Movies too, and I do like true crime on Discovery Investigates.Once in a while Bravo and IFC have an interesting flick, but I concur with the others!
Discovery channel is good now and then, and I like the office, but when we moved we realized there wasn’t enough worth watching to bother paying for. Plus, most of what we want is availible on-line, or if it is good enough eventually DVD.
@ Speranza:
I hate family guy with a passion.
snowcrash wrote:
I have FIOS also. I like it better than cable.
Johnson claims he “never liked the term St. Pancake” because he just wants to finish his waffle.
@ mjazz:
Only the cleanup! We must have the pinecone crop of CT in our yard,plus all the kindling blown off our trees.
Rodan is a Spanish firebrand
vagabond trader wrote:
I disconnected the cable years ago. You can get most TV series on Nexflix, as well a movies. Don’t miss real time. Nope, no use for it. If it’s an important news event, it can be streamed on the computer.
@ snowcrash:
I’m thinking of dumping the landline and get with the 21st century.
verizon does get high ratings for service, according to consumer reports.
RIX wrote:
I wonder what his airbrushing skills are on that Mac.
@ Nevergiveup:
Who is this guy Fios and why are they talking about him?
@ chickadee:
Does everyone want that thread back up?
@ vagabond trader:
That’s funny, I haven’t raked yet and have pinecones everywhere also.
mjazz wrote:
Then stop throwing bricks thru your TV when the news is on
@ wolfie:
Cause he is BIG! lol
@ Nevergiveup:
What is that? We tried for direct tv but our property could not be sighted except by the septic field.No cables allowed there. We’d like to try ATT U Verse,we use all their other stuff, but it won’t make it here to the sticks before I croak.We were the last place in CT to get broadband.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
So we can call him St. Waffle. Or maybe his fearless leader.
savage wrote:
Well I did not want it down but not sure the purpose now of putting it back up.
mjazz wrote:
Ask around in your own community. Around here, Verizon is crappy, but I have friends and relatives elsewhere who swear by them. We have had great service from Comcast, but in other places it’s apparently awful.
@ vagabond trader:
Verizons cable service
OT/ Sorry if this has been posted already:
‘Lost Boys’ actor Corey Haim dead at 38 after ‘apparent overdose’
Speranza wrote:
where are you off to?
Leave it gone. The damage is done. Let’s just not be hasty with a big decision like that again. My 2 cents.
@ savage:
savage wrote:
i think that would be best, with the comments as well.
If you mean his own image, that needs some work.
But hey, what do I know? He’s got the water & fruit carrier.
wolfie wrote:
Service can bo so so but i have found the FIOS reception better and the channel selection better
@ snowcrash:
Ok, but it is still there if you want to see it again.
Speranza gets the final say if it goes back up since he is the author.
@ savage:
i have a caption this if ya want me to run with that.
@ savage:
Don’t really care, would rather bitch about my cable and crappy lawn.
@ coldwarrior:
Sure, that sounds great. Need a little levity, to be honest.
i guess leave it down for now, save a copy of it tho savage…we may want to revisit it.
@ coldwarrior:
ok then.
@ snork:
Rhetorical examples
Do you speak Deutsch
Do you speak Espanol
Do you speak Francios
Do you speak Hevrit
Do you speak Arabi
Do you speak Farsi
If a subject didn’t they wouldn’t understand the answer.
Shoma Farsi Hast
Do you speak Persian
@ snork:
ROFLMAO!
@ Speranza:
Never liked Friends. The Office is just embarrassing to watch. Seinfeld I love, but I understand that not everyone does.
I like Larry David’s show too. But I am off Ricky Gervais bigtime.
On another subject I think taking it down was ok. It was not a good starting point
with the article being so off.
@ Scott Madsen:
….understand the question
Its Persian in English, only Christian Amanpour and other cosmopolitan fops say Farsi to give theirselves that cachet of sophistication, or is it sophistry.
I wonder what the Japanese call their language. I know, I just ain’t sayin’ don’t want to start a trend.
@ vagabond trader:
My next door neighbor has two dishes on his roof.
I saw him up on the roof clearing snow out of them. F**k that.
Cable, cable and cable all one company, flat rate for phones, 12mbps internet, HD TV.
One bill and a discount for being a triple play customer.
@ jimash:
I like Larry David’s Show Curb Your Enthusiasm although it is misanthropic and takes shots at Republicans.
savage wrote:
You can put it back up if people want it.
OH dear, speaking of lying, my newest blog post is up, and its about David Brooks, a progressive socialist whom the Fifth Column Media want people to believe is a conservative pundit.
@ Speranza:
I guess it takes some political shots. I can ignore it in that case. Some cases I can’t.
I used to watch Bill Maher.
I visited his HBO forum after Chris Hitchens flipped off the audience.
Creepiest forum EVER ! They loosed a special beast on me. I shudder at the thought.
Then for a while I gave him 5 minutes. No more.
Now I give Jon Stewart 5 minutes.