I don’t know about you, but whenever our Fearless Leader speaks, I look around and imagine that he looks like something in our kitchen, like the water cooler. Somehow it makes it all better, because I know that our water cooler has no control over my life.
It amazes me that on 27 May 2010, the leader of the free world and the President of the greatest nation on earth had the audacity to utter these words:
“I mean, we’re still years off and some technological breakthroughs away from being able to operate on purely a clean-energy grid.
During that time, we’re going to be using oil. And to the extent that we’re using oil, it makes sense for us to develop our oil and natural gas resources here in the United States and not simply rely on imports.
That’s important for our economy. That’s important for economic growth. So the overall framework — which is to say, domestic oil production should be part of our overall energy mix — I think continues to be the right one.”
Although I completely agree with him on that, his comments came only minutes after he announced a moratorium on all domestic oil exploration and drilling. Unsurprisingly, his adoring media let him off the hook instead of calling him on it:
Of course, nobody in the Press Corpse [sic -Obama's own pronunciation] wants to be the recipient of one of these not-so-subtle gestures from President Jug Head:
One thing Fearless Leader knows is the art of subtle nuance.
If he were serious, he’d open up ANWR immediately and forge a cartel with Canada and Mexico (and perhaps other democratic countries in South America) to reduce/eliminate our trade with OPEC. Now THAT would be a legacy he could be proud of.
Unfortunately, my water cooler can’t do it, so let’s have an Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: BP Oil Spill, Energy Independence, Leftists, Media, Oil Exploration, Open thread, Press Conference, Soap Box
No
bloodcommon sense for oil!Obama is never called on his lies. The media loves him!
You can argue for every problem we face that “we’re still years off and some technological breakthroughs away from being able to”…..(fill in the blank). Cure cancer? Get beamed up a la Star Trek?
Yet another vapid statement from 0.
I still can’t undersand why folks are continually surprised when the fascist left are caught in their lies …. yet again. It is really really easy to tell when your local socialist is lying to you:-
THEIR LIPS MOVE!
Oh By the way. Did I miss a radio broadcast today Rodan???
When Obama makes one of his douchebag proclamations, everyone, states, industry, individuals, should simply ignore it. Drilling and exploration should continue. A true leader would have all hands on deck to solve this leak, not just flap his gums.
@ Aussie Infidel:
No It’s tomorrow at 8 PM EST.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Progressivism is based on a lie.
@ Rodan:
Absolutely!
It’s also the only way that progressivism can sustain itself.
@ Eliana:
They smear, demagogues and create divisions.
The TOTUS website has some good stuff up right now.
This is on the teleprompter’s blog:
Barack Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog
Because There Is No POTUS Without TOTUS
@ Rodan:
Their idea of “tolerance” is nearly-worshiping suicide bombers while despising and fighting against those who save their own lives from suicide bombers.
@ Eliana:
Yup and their tolerance doesn’t extend to Israel, Christians, White Southerners and anyone who oppose them.
@ Rodan:
Also, Proggies see no contradiction whatsoever in spending decade after decade fighting for things like women’s rights and gay rights while also nearly-worshiping societies where it’s routine for women to be murdered by their own families and homosexuals to be executed by their own governments.
Israel has Gay Rights parades but Proggies are unmoved.
They prefer societies that execute people for being gay instead.
Eliana wrote:
How right you are. Look at the front page of this pinko site: http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Reposted from the last thread, here’s an example of Progressive “logic”:
Mosab Hassan Yousef wrote a book, “Son of Hamas”, where he details how he converted to Christianity and worked as a spy for Israel. His chief Shin Bet handler, “Captain Loai,” has confirmed his account and praised him in media interviews for disrupting dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts by Hamas, saving hundreds of lives.
The Department of Homeland Security wants to deport him because they think he’s a terrorist.
Homeland Security senior attorney Kerri Calcador claimed that, “In the book, the respondent discusses his extensive involvement with Hamas in great detail. For example, in one portion of the book, a member of Shin Bet shows the respondent a list of suspects implicated in a March 2001 suicide bombing and asks the respondent whether he knows the individuals. The respondent indicates that he does know five of the people on the list and states that he previously drove them to safe houses.” Ms. Calcador concluded that, “At a bare minimum, evidence of the respondent’s transport of Hamas members to safe houses—discussed above in the Statement of the Case as but one example of the respondent’s involvement with Hamas— indicates that the respondent provided material support to a [Tier I] terrorist organization.”
God help us.
@ Eliana:
Queers for Palestine is the most idiotic organization ever. Personally I think the Left love Islam’s totalitarianism.
@ kansas:
It doesn’t matter what he says.
He’s just acting.
@ mjazz:
He put these individuals in a place where they could be captured or killed by the IDF or the Shin Bet (which is exactly what happened).
This specific act (putting the bombers in a place where he could inform on them) saved lives.
@ mjazz:
The enemy within strikes again.
Rodan – something really interesting is going on. There are a couple of volcano eruptions in Ecuador and Guatemala, and zip about it in the American media, but some mention in the Canadian media. Does the American media really care that little about what goes on in Latin America?
Hi kids.
Read the newest Hot Link I just submitted
Anyone over the age of 5 knows that they are flipping you off when they put their middle finger up on the side of their head, as in that picture.
@ Rodan:
The ditzy people in Israel’s uber-left made a float in the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade one year with a big sign that said something like, “Let’s cut a hole in the Wall [Security Fence] and F***!”
The “Palestinians” got wind of this sign and vowed to murder any gays that might go through the wall to find them for sexual purposes.
The lefties have NO IDEA who they are supporting.
@ Eliana:
As the author of the book says:
Is she kidding? Either Homeland Security’s chief attorney has zero reading comprehension, or else she intentionally took the passage out of context.
It’s akin to calling a cop a drug trafficker for bringing drugs from a bust to a safe room.
@ savage:
Umm, Chuck has already declared that a nontroversy. Forget about it. MoveOn.
Eliana wrote:
It is so Orwellian it makes your head spin. These scum are for nothing but using people for their own perverse goals. Progs care abt. no one but themselves. They will use anyone to gain power.
@ snork:
They really don’t care. In fact even America’s elites don’t care about our own backyard. Hence The rise of Hugo Chavez, his trouble making and the collapse of Mexico and its effects on us. It’s just make no sense, they American elite are obsessed with the Middle East.
@ Eliana:
Nope and they are so full of hatred for Israel/Jews that they don’t see the nature of their allies.
Well at least someone is paying attention to something other than a basketball game… Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece
@ mjazz:
Exactly!!
The Homeland Security’s chief attorney is acting as if this man put the suicide bombers into a safe house and didn’t tell Israel about it until much later when he was asked if he knew the specific individuals.
He put them in the safe house for capture!!
One of them broke his cover as a result of this, by the way. Israel had to deport this one guy and imply to the other terrorists that the deported guy was the one who had informed on them.
This ex-Hamas guy was risking his life turning such people in to the Shin Bet.
@ Rodan:
Reagan gave a damn, at least. Can you imagine what central and south would look like today if a man like Obama had been elected in 1980?
Oh, snort.
@ MrPaulRevere:
Yes he did and thank God he did.He grasped you have to secure your backyard. Since Bush I we have abandoned Latin America and now we have little influence.
@ Eliana:
Someone incapable of understanding these things definitely should not be working for Homeland Security.
Rodan wrote:
H.W. Bush ignored Afghanistan too, but I digress. We should remember that the entire prog/pinko foreign policy establishment did their best to sabotage Reagan’s efforts. Kerry and Dodd in particular.
@ MrPaulRevere:
Kerry and Dodd supported the Sandinistas.
Eliana wrote:
He is like a black conservative to these libs. It riles them up. It bothers them that a terrorist would see the light and leave jihad and islam behind to join us in the fight against terrorism. They can’t let that stand as a positive example for the muzz . Because it is such conclusive evidence that the muzz are wrong.
A Venezuelan tries to get inside the mind of Sean Penn to see why he worships Hugo Chavez:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/sean-penn-hugo-chavez-is-not-a-dictator
I still think there’s no answer except that Sean Penn is really, really screwed up.
@ chickadee:
Absolutely right!
Just now, I was looking at my copy of “Son of Hamas” on my iPad’s Kindle App and I found the source of the Homeland Security Chief’s confusion about the informer’s use of safe houses.
There were two incidents in the book:
1. A group of men had just been released from prison in Israel so his father asked the informer to find a place for them to stay. It wasn’t clear that they were involved in suicide bombings, especially since Israel had released them from prison. After the informer found a place for them to stay (a safe house), the Israeli Shin Bet handlers asked him if he knew the guys. He did! He told Shin Bet where they were located.
2. A group of SELF-DESCRIBED suicide bombers showed up on the informer’s doorstep needing a place to stay and a hidden location for their car that was filled with explosives!! He took the car from them (and put it in his own garage until the Shin Bet could pick it up) and then put the suicide bombers in a place where the Israeli Shin Bet could watch them until attacking / arresting them. The informer delivered furniture to them that had surveillance bugs in them.
In the second incident, Shin Bet was aware immediately that they were suicide bombers and the location of their explosives-filled car.
In the first incident, the informer didn’t know that they were involved in suicide bombings. They’d been released from Israeli prison and his father asked him to find them a place to stay. When the Shin Bet asked if he knew certain guys, he said “You bet I do” (or whatever) and gave their location to the Shin Bet.
IN NO WAY did the informer help Hamas or suicide bombers.
mjazz wrote:
Or working in a position which actually affects the lives of other people.
Daddy, did you plug the leak yet? Wait, Daddy how could you do that? You’ve been playing basketball and golf and aren’t going back to work until Tuesday.
@ Eliana:
Thanks for finding the reference.
If Homeland Security sends the ex-Hamas Christian convert informer back to the Palestinian Authority, he will be very gruesomely murdered (G-d forbid).
He was an informer who saved Israeli lives from the suicide bombers who had intended to mass murder as many Jews as they could in Israel.
@ yenta-fada:
In “Son of Hamas,” these stories are in Chapters 19 and 21.
@ Eliana:
I doubt this official is confused. I suspect the PLO or PA or whatever the hell they call themselves today badly want this dude back, and have made it a point for negotiations.
@ yenta-fada:
The Left loves totalitarian 3rd Worlders. hence they love Chavez. Also why they love Islam.
Rodan wrote:
How’s this for criticism? http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/29/gordon.oil.spill.obama/
The oil spill is apparently Obama’s opportunity to let us know how great he is. This is truly a “we are the ones we’ve been thinking about while having private time in the showers” moment.
Obama is a ignoramus. I doubt that our country has ever been in the hands of someone so ill-read in its entire history.
snork wrote:
We’ve got Senor Jughead and his antics to keep the MFM amused. So yes, the American media doesn’t give a crap about what happens in Latin America, unless it is Cuba or Venezuela or some other Socialist shithole.
@ Rodan:
OT – Are there really 853 comments on a DoD thread?
Sounds like Stephen Chu set him down and ‘splained the facts of life to him. There may be some hope for this guy after all.
Rodan wrote:
You mean Sean Penn is not really, really screwed up? /
@ Rodan:
It is the desire to uphold the “authentic” back to the pre-industrial world movements against the modern “inauthentic” West. It’s quite easy to love Chavez when you are living in a Yurt with Sean Penn watching Shanghai Surprise 4 times a day.
Rodan. Here is someone calling him on his appalling lies and ignorance.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/27/obama-the-thin-skinned-president/
MrPaulRevere wrote:
That rings true and is horrifying. It is so frightening to have these traitorous hacks in such positions of power that would allow them to do so much harm. They are the enemy as sure as the jihadis are.
mjazz wrote:
These people really are certifiably stupid, aren’t they?
@ MrPaulRevere:
How fucked would WE be if we went from Jimmah directly to Obama, skipping Reagan.
@ Calo:
Which thread?
snork wrote:
Will the story stop airline flights or produce policies that stop domestic energy production? Will the story further the cause to demonize the Arizona immigration enforcement bill? Will the story do anything to make Urkle look good?
If not, no, then they aren’t interested.
@ Calo:
Never mind – that was 853 comments from another site – I read that wrong.
@ MrPaulRevere:
It wouldn’t surprise me.
In his “Son of Hamas” book, the informer had some extremely harsh things to say about Yassir Arafat and his cronies. He called Arafat a traitor to his people for the crap Arafat pulled in the “peace” process.
@ Eliana:
Any mention of his propensity for non-standard dalliances, which the КГБ were more than happy to provide him?
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Very… I think Reagan gave us eight years of breathing space. His parting gift, if you will.
Maserati owner collected welfare benefits
And people expect the government to run health care efficiently?
@ Calo:
No I never saw any.
@ Eliana:
I suspected as much, in the byzantine world of Arab Islamic politics you never know.
@ Macker:
No, he didn’t talk about Arafat’s deviant dalliances.
He spoke about how Arafat didn’t really want a state (since it would mean working on things like garbage collection services and other pesky details involved in running an orderly state) and that Arafat had planned and execute the Second Intifada (much to the detriment of the people he was supposed to be representing).
Bo Obama sparks press pool ‘cooing’
The FMFM goes gaga over a frikkin’ dog.
@ MrPaulRevere:
My only hope in all of this is that there is another Reagan waiting in the wings to help rollback some of the idiocy we’re now being force fed on a daily basis.
@ We Are Government:
“living in a yurt with Sean Penn watching ‘Shanghai Surprise’”. LOL
Do you think there’s room for Oliver Stone?
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Gee, what’d she put out to get those kinds of bennies!
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Sadly Reagan seems to be the never to be surpassed pinnacle of leadership. Everyone since has been a steep downward slide.
@ Eliana:
LOL! And who’s responsible for him and his successor “governments”?
Why it’s the Paleostinians themselves. Imagine that.
chickadee wrote:
Hey, just the adult version of Elian Gonzales
@ chickadee:
They are the enemy within.
As for Sean Penn and his admiration for Hugo Chavez, Penn is the guy who went to Iran to make friends with Ahmadinejad’s government a few years back.
He went to a rally and took notes (furiously writing down everything the crowd said as it was translated to him).
The notes from their chants looked like this, pretty much:
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
Sean Penn made sure to get every word of this down on paper to show how interested he was in getting their voices heard in his liberal circles.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
This stuff goes on all the time in public housing. I’ve known several people working for public housing, including someone now at Tacoma Housing Authority, and some of the stories they could tell you…
@ yenta-fada:
I’m sure there is. It’s a very big Yurt. Communism becomes problematic when you have more than three people in one space though. Eventually, someone gets pissed off because one roommate always drinks more beer than he buys and then the whole glorious system of the revolution to rid the Yurt of the “Heineken haves” versus the “Heineken have-nots” comes to a screeching halt.
@ snork:
I’ve probably heard a lot of those stories already. Yeah, government is more than efficient to run health care, yet gets routinely scammed on welfare.
Such cognitive dissonance.
Study shows ‘gaydar’ may be real
Some more vitally needed government research?
Woman sues airline for leaving her asleep in seat
Kitten survives wash and spin in a washing machine
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
I shocked some Obamacare fans once when I pointed out that Germany has an individual mandate and millions on welfare but the system is still not equal access. I pointed out that I, since I have private insurance, often have a different waiting room and I get seen first. At one doctor’s office, the waiting room was reserved for private patients and the government patients had to sit in the hall. I decided to “share the wealth” and handed them a couple of dog-eared copies of Golf Digest before I was called in ahead of them.
German robbers destroy bank but fail to get cash
At least Butch and Sundance got the money when they blew up that mail car.
@ We Are Government:
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Yes on both accounts. At the age of 69, when most men are retired he ran for President. Why? Because of a deep love of country. He could have easily laid around the pool and enjoyed his money. He thought his country needed a strong dose of sanity, and he was right.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Usually when Germans destroy banks in my neighbourhood, it’s not really to get the money either. Here’s a clip of the May Day destruction of a bank a few minutes from my house a few weeks ago.
http://wearegovernment.blogspot.com/2010/05/hamburg-1-mai-2010-demonstranten.html
Now, no wise cracks! OK?
Mrs. Zero, prom night…….
@ MrPaulRevere:
Listening to Alan West’s response to a question about jihad gives me hope that there is at least one (aspiring) politician somewhere who gets it. At this point, I would vote for the Quaker Oats guy or the ghost of Blackbeard the pirate if they were running against Obama.
We Are Government wrote:
We had McLame in 2008. No, I’d prefer a candidate that actually stood for something and fervently believed in conservative ideals, thank you very much.
Is this the five gallon water jugs at five hundred yards thread?
Woman Dies from Toilet Brush in Her Buttocks
@ We Are Government:
I like Alan West a lot, but he will have to navigate a media boycott as a black conservative. If any man can do it, he can. I also like Marco Rubio a lot, he’s very talented. Lets speak frankly here, white politicians have been gelded by political correctness.
Hey Senor Jughead! No matter how you spin this, this ain’t good!
On Obama’s Watch, Attempted Terrorist Attacks At All Time High
@ IslandLibertarian:
There so cute when there young.
Then they get in positions of power or influence, and it all fades away.
Same goes for Susan Sarandon.
A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa .. ‘The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. However, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have eaten, or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?’
After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, ‘Wedding Cake.’
@ Eliana:
Sean Penn is a prototypical ‘red diaper baby’. His father Leo Penn was a communist.
Gee, the Obama Boom ain’t as good as originally spun
1st Qtr GDP Revised Down
@ yenta-fada:
LOL!
@ Scott Madsen:
Whoops…grammar Nazis.
Yeah, I am a dumbass with a wit
PIMF They’re…..duh
Iranian accused of stockpiling rifles, ammo near WA/Canadian border
Shades of the Millennial Bomber.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
This is greatest recovery ever! That’s what Newsweek claims.
Coming to an American clinic near you soon
UK HEALTH (S)CARE: Judge Orders Cancer Sufferer To Have Surgery… Even Though She Doesn’t Want It
@ yenta-fada:
Reminds me of a story I read online awhile back.
A lecturer at a six week company training course (where the employees were all far from home for the duration of the course) started describing what it means to face a frustrating situation:
“You get up in the morning. Your wife is in a bad mood. The kids are fighting. You go downstairs for breakfast and you stub your toe. Then you burn the toast. How do you feel?”
A voice from the back of the room:
“Homesick.”
It brought the house down.
Rodan wrote:
Didn’t Newsweek also claim their readership is up since they started shopping around to find a
suckerbuyer?MrPaulRevere wrote:
I forgot to provide documentation for my assertion
http://www.examiner.com/x-234-Baltimore-History-Examiner~y2009m3d25-The-hypocrisy-of-Sean-Penn
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Is he not really conservative? I’ve been outside of the country for a while, but I was really impressed with this answer about jihad. It wasn’t the same old “Religion of peace” bullshit, so I was pretty happy with that. Is he not a fiscal conservative?
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
They probably forced their employees to purchase several boxes per person to lift the distribution into the triple digits. Last I heard, even dogs won’t shit on it.
@ We Are Government:
How long have you lived in Germany? You must speak fluent German, right? How difficult was it to learn the language?
@ Eliana:
@ MrPaulRevere:
Thanks for the information.
I wasn’t aware of this.
@ Rodan:
It was two months ago and virtual by an accounting of fudged DOC numbers. Who reads that shit besides terminal suburbanites with 100k in consumer dept.
Read this Sally Soccer Mom and Mark the Marketing Guy, then hold on to your socks:
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article19818.html
We are all fucked and only the strong and prepared will survive….with a little luck
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
The media is pushing this Obama Boom.
@ Rodan:
…as many of them face going out of business.
Who do they think they’re fooling?
@ Eliana:
Watching anything on TV? I’m watching Revenge of the Sith on Spike TV>
@ Eliana:
Coming up on 4 years. I speak it fluently, but my mother was born here so I had a leg up. Surprisingly, I speak it more when I’m out of the country. Have you thought about learning? As a language, it is in decline due to low birthrates. There are expected to be 25-30 million fewer German speakers in a couple of decades.
@ Rodan:
No, I’m not watching TV right now.
I have some fish swimming around on my iPad, though.
Does that count?
@ Eliana:
They are propaganda artists.
@ Eliana:
Yes it does!
Rodan wrote:
They can shove it up their collective arses, as far as I’m concerned.
The more they push the agenda, the more people turn off and tune out the propaganda.
@ Rodan:
At least Kim Jong Il provides musical accompaniment and a dance routine with his death to America spiel.
@ We Are Government:
And he wrote them both!
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Our elites will never understand why they are not deified like those in France. When we turn off, they just think they need to be louder.
@ Rodan:
I should pay more attention then, maybe layout 50k for the Disney Vacation Club like they tried to sell me last week.
Their credits are good for fifty years dontcha know
@ We Are Government:
Do they try to practice their English on you in Germany?
Wow. I didn’t realize that the language is in decline.
As for me, I’m studying Hebrew. Daily. I’ve got a fantastic collection of Hebrew self-study courses and a once-per-week Israeli teacher who converses with me and answers my questions.
I’ve got a long way to go, but I am definitely progressing.
It’s a wonderful language. It’s so tricky to pronounce the guttural sounds that Israelis describe Hebrew language students as cracking their teeth trying to learn to speak Hebrew correctly.
Rodan wrote:
Having my own holiday Twilight Zone marathon, thanks to The Twilight Zone: The Definitive Collection.
@ m:
hehe. Insert Loyal and Hardy joke here.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Cool!
@ We Are Government:
Yeah I really can’t believe that there are people falling for this.
Eliana wrote:
You are quite welcome.
@ Eliana:
I’m working on my Hebrew as well. I don’t really have a problem with the sounds, but it is difficult to find a teacher here. There are a large amount of Israelis that live here. I’m trying to drag a couple into a week long marathon Hebrew session. I cooked for our Shabbaton with the Lehava girls, so it was a good chance to pick up all of the food names.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
A friend of mine has the Definitive Twilight Zone collection!!
He watched through the entire collection from the first program to the last. LOVED IT!
He pointed out that the TV Twilight Marathons pick the usual favorite episodes that everyone has seen so most of the series was new to him.
He said that they didn’t hit a home run with every episode, but he really liked seeing so many new Twilight Zone shows!! The entire series was well worth watching.
@ Scott Madsen:
Jim Willie is very long-winded, but he has a history of calling things well. Since I’m a decade long goldbug, I believe that it is the only way to preserve savings in the coming hyper-inflation (combined with deflation of some assets like your home.) The goldbug world which is small, but fanatical, is very aware of these warnings and has been preparing for times to come for a long time. The bad news is that the goldbugs are Paulians and highly inclined to blame all financial problems on the Joooooos.
@ We Are Government:
Well, I’ve got a list of the BEST Hebrew self-study courses, if you’re interested! These are courses with audio (and almost all of them have written materials, too).
I could post them right here, if you’d like.
Rodan wrote:
They fall for it because accepting things as they really are is not easy or nice. There were reportedly several people who committed suicide after watching the movie Avatar because the real world wasn’t as wonderful as the fictional Pandora.
@ Eliana:
That’s tough to go from an Indo-European language to a Semitic Language.
@ We Are Government:
By the way, do you speak Yiddish?
I noticed they are fawning over Dennis Hopper at Ace of Spades because he ‘voted republican’. I’m sorry, I wish his family well, but he glamorized drug use and cheap sex. No tears shed here.
@ Rodan:
Not only falling for it, but repeatedly falling for it well past the point of amusement. I somehow thought most people were intelligent, but a surprisingly large number of us must think exactly like that caller on the MS show posted here. Or my fav, I wish they would track down the girl who said on t.v. “I’m not going to have to pay my mortgage anymore, I won’t have to pay to put gas in my car.” Could we do a follow up with her and ask her how all of that is going?
@ Rodan:
Actually, Hebrew is such an incredibly logical language that it’s not that difficult. It takes a lot of time and effort, though.
Arabic (from the Arabian peninsula) is based on Hebrew. It’s an illiterate version of Hebrew, essentially. As little as I know Hebrew, I recognize some Arabic words as mangled versions of Hebrew words that I know.
Hebrew has written texts that go back 3300+ years so it is logical, which is truly a delight.
Eliana wrote:
As with anything television, there were some clunkers, a number of clinkers, and quite a number of episodes that arguably could be considered some of the best ever produced for the small screen. Seeing the episodes uncut and commercial free, at my pace and on my schedule, is so enjoyable that I am making watching the collection a holiday “tradition” for any 3 day weekend.
And the little extras, like commercials for other shows and public service announcements are a hoot.
@ Eliana:
I understand it quite well, but we only have a couple of native speakers here. Many of the Jews speak only Russian, or Hebrew and English. (Plus we have a mix of Persian and Sephardic Jews. Because my wife is from a persian family, I can actually speak it better than Hebrew.) I was surprised to find out here that some of the “German” I heard growing up wasn’t really German. It isn’t hard to go from one to the other though.
@ Eliana:
And modern dialects of Arabic are also illiterate versions of classical Arabic. Israeli developed a way to teach classical Arabic to Palestinians a couple of years ago because most of them couldn’t really speak it at all. it would be like giving an illiterate English speaker from Nigeria a copy of Chaucer.
@ We Are Government:
Although I don’t know Yiddish myself, I have friends who started their lives in Yiddish-only households in the U.S. and learned English in kindergarten. They’ve told me that they understand German very well.
Also, I have a friend in Israel whose wife came from Romania and grew up speaking Ladino (which is the Spanish version of Yiddish, I guess one could say). He told me that his wife can watch Spanish soap operas in Israel although she’s never spoken Spanish itself. Ladino is close enough.
Ladino came from Spain -> Hebrew + Medieval Spanish.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Grasping at straws when McLame and GW are now what is considered representative of conservative Republicanism.
*SPIT*
@ Eliana:
Some of that comes through in modern Germany as well. On Shabbat, before they bench, they sing Bendigamos. I have a couple of songs in Ladino that I understand quite well. One of my best friends here is from Portugal but I think there are very few native speakers there. Most of them can speak Moroccan Arabic though.
@ Eliana:
Spanish (Castillian) and Italian are close to the original Latin. In fact I can under many Latin words because I know Spanish. No lie, I got around Italy speaking Spanish. There are theories that Latin might of came from Greek.
@ Eliana:
“What do you call someone who speaks three languages? ‘Trilingual’”
“What do you call someone who speaks two languages? ‘Bilingual’”
What do you call someone who speaks one language?”
@ Eliana:
Yes Ladino is a Spanish dialect. Ladino means Latin, which is what Spanish derived from.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
An American!’
/
That’s an elitist response I have heard..
@ We Are Government:
My Hebrew teacher was born and raised in Jerusalem in a family that spoke Moroccan Arabic at home. His parents both immigrated from Morocco as kids. They were very strong in Moroccan Arabic and French.
The parents had a large family of children in Israel who were all native Hebrew speakers but they also understood Moroccan Arabic. They didn’t speak it as fluently as their parents, but they understand it very well.
The parents didn’t teach them French at all, though. The parents kept one language as a Grown Up Language so that they could speak privately in a small home filled with so many children.
I love his stories about growing up with parents from Morocco!!
@ Rodan:
You have heard the joke, too.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
What?
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Oh!
Washington Post: The U.S. military is developing plans for a unilateral attack on the Pakistani Taliban in the event of a successful terrorist strike in the United States that can be traced to the militant group
Report: U.S. Weighs Military Option in Pakistan
More and more I swear the idjits in charge want a successful terrorist attack so people will forget their incompetence. Sadly a terrorist strike would only give further proof of being hopelessly unprepared for leadership.
@ Eliana:
I went to a Synagogue in Morocco last year. Everyone there was in their seventies. It was beautifully done though, and the food was amazing. We had a sephardic meal this past week with lots of Moroccan dishes. The community here is almost dead though. There isn’t a Rabbi and hasn’t been for a year and a half. There was once a huge Sephardic community here in Hamburg. Most of the Persians have left as well.
@ We Are Government:
Did he and other community members go to Israel?
@ We Are Government:
People in their 70s would have been kids when most of the Moroccan Jews left for Israel.
I have heard wonderful things about the food!
How do’, folks, late to the thread. Was out with Mrs X eating animals and drinking Newcastle Ales. Haven’t had the latter in years.
Was talking with a guy who designs systems for monitoring cell phone communications for the military. There is some hot stuff going on under the wire.
@ Rodan:
That’s amazing!
Eliana wrote:
Even more amazing is he did it relatively sober!
@ Eliana:
Most of the productive people moved somewhere with more economic opportunities. There has been a massive fight between some of the people on the board of the Jewish community. They tried to have the old Rabbi removed two weeks before his retirement. After several lengthy court battles, the community was told to apologize to the Rabbi and to start paying his pension. They haven’t done so yet. They can’t hire anyone until this issue is settled, and quite frankly, I can’t imagine anyone coming here after all this ballagon. Me personally, I love the former Rabbi. I made sure we sent him a plate of food from our Shabbaton after we got done cooking.
@ Eliana:
On my blog, I am doing a week long look at French anti-semitism. (I also lived in Francistan for a few years, but I try not to think about it much.) I’m going to include a recipe for Moroccan cholent. If I get a chance, I’ll post it. France is going to be completely Gazafied in a few years.
The Flounce is ON!
@ We Are Government:
Are them “Asian youths” still having Car-b-ques weekly in France?
@ We Are Government:
Very nice!
@ Macker:
Hi Macker!
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Weekly? The last tally I heard was around 125 nightly. All of the junk yards were full of the wreckage, even before the Parisian Eurofada in 2005. There’s no diplomatic way of saying it, but France is taking the corn-holing of the century from the “youths.”
Macker wrote:
Nice, but who is the entity that you flounced from? Never heard of ‘em.
Bunk X wrote:
Hidden Frontier is a FLAMING liberal ST. They produced a fanfilm Star Trek series which just happened to involve teh ghey characters. There were more conservative members there, and they were also driven away.
I endured a 60-day ban from the site because I dared to post an avatar of Президент Оба́ма flipping the bird, with the tatterred Constitution wrapped around it. That pissed off the producer, who is teh ghey.
@ Eliana:
The Languages are very close.
@ Macker:
What? No time-out like at the swamp when you post politically incorrect stuff?
@ Rodan:
Interesting!
G’night, folks!
same here. I, unfortunately, have work to do. Bye guys.
Bunk X wrote:
Something of which you should be infinitely grateful for. I never heard of the place either, but noticed GLBT links all over the place when I snooped around a bit.
Yeesh, a bunch of flaming trekkies.
We Are Government wrote:
I was being diplomatic and more than a tab bit clueless when I said weekly. Nary a dribble of news here about what is happening, except how much the Euro-peons just LOVE Our Obama.
*BARF*
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Flaming trekkies… whatta visual.
@ We Are Government:
Haven’t seen you in this neighborhood before. Hopefully someone here had the common decency to offer you the traditional laurel and hearty handshake. Nice to meet you.
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While we’re waiting for the night crew to show up, how ’bout some Freddie King.
Dang. So quiet around here you’d think that it’s a three-day weekend or something. That means I can get away with posting this: Michael Moore’s “History of America.” I thought it was a spoof, until Oprah says, “Wow.”
Just Wow™. That’s got to be the lamest g_ddamned thing I’ve ever seen. Moore conveniently leaves out the fact that the NRA was founded by former officers in the UNION Army…uh, you know, Chubbs, the guys that were responsible for freeing the slaves…
Isn’t this the cartoon that Trey Parker and Matt Stone thought was a ripoff of SouthPark, leading to their parody of Michael Moore as a gluttonous leftist twat in “Team America”?
@ The Osprey:
Hey Osprey!
I don’t know the “history” behind that video, but it made me want to puke. It’s completely wrong on so many levels, and all Oprah can say is, “wow.”
It’s part of “Bowling for Columbine” or so I have heard.
Anyway, must get sleeps.
@ The Osprey:
Ditto. I’m done rattlin’ for the night.
@ Rodan:
Kind of like: “Chickens for KFC”, isn’t it?
Good morning, y’all.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Good morning goddess.
It’s been a while since I had a chance to say that,probably close to two years.
How have you been?
VIA
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
What do you think of “The Obsolete Man”? This I know–they’ll NEVER, EVER…remake THAT one.
Howdy everybody! Good morning!
GM GoTC
Mornin’ ya’all
@ Village Idiots Apprentice:
{Village Idiots Apprentice}!!!!
How nice to see you! Have you been here long?
I’m doing well, thanks. My divorce was final in March, and I’m moving forward with my life in good ways.
Resident Obummer is skipping Memorial Day. I don’t mind him not defiling Arlington with his presence.
{texasam7}
{citizen_q}
{BenZacharia}
Morning folks. how’s the long weekend going in America?
@ PaladinPhil:
{PaladinPhil}
It’s beautiful weather here in Western PA. I might just get enough motivation to sort out some household messiness…
@ BenZacharia:
Feel the same way. I hope he enjoys his waffles.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
{goddessoftheclassroom}
@ BenZacharia:
Morning, Ben!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
{goddessoftheclassroom}
Good MOrning, Teacher!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Just registered the other day.
While I was stationed in Japan for two years it was difficult to really stay connected to any online community. So I just sort of fell by the way side with commenting anywhere. Then I watched the train wreck across the street that many here are by now tired of commenting about, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth that I just sat back and let time go by.
Now, I am stationed in Norfolk, originally scheduled to retire the day after tomorrow, but that has been placed on hold for at least 60 days.
So here I sit, with some time on my hands, and figured it would be a good time to reach out and say hello to some very good people that I had lost track of over time.
I’m glad to see that your life is going in a good direction.Good people deserve that, and you were always one of the good ones.
@ PaladinPhil:
Ready to relax.
Our regional division, of a Fortune 25 company, had a record breaking day friday, saturday broke the older record, I’m tired.
TTFN wifffeee says it’s time to jet.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
{goddess}
Yeah the weekend has been great up here too. Been busy all over the city for me as well. Just getting some coffee in me now before I head out and do a whole bunch of things. Counter protest, a Doors Open event, then off to meet my brother coming in from China.
/have transit day pass will travel
//with camera
Mornin’ Iron. Goneski
@ PaladinPhil:
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Same here, chores a little later in the day. Letting Mrs Q sleep in a bit than I am going to “surprise” her with breakfast out.
Otherwise that is excitement aplenty for us. We have been cramped in our townhouse for years, and waiting for the market to get some sanity. We have been house hunting and have found a house we like and are trading bids with the owner.
@ Iron Fist:
{Iron Fist}
@ Village Idiots Apprentice:
You are so kind!
You seem to be in a good place, too–I’m glad.
VIA is here ?
Dang.
Well, “Top Kill” failed. Obama is fdoing a bang-up job with the Oil Spill. What a leader!
Okay, everything is almost packed, batteries are all charged. Time to move out. See you folks all later, much, much later.
@ Iron Fist:
That is interesting. I could have sworn that I saw headlines from Thursday of Friday claiming it was successful.
We need to be an unrelenting on zero as the dems and their media arms had been on Bush. The sooner he and his ilk are out of office the sooner we can start un-doing the damage.
@ PaladinPhil:
See Ya! Enjoy!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Yes, it’s been a while since I had a chance to be a father to our twelve year old son. My family stayed here in the states while I was in Japan to take care of my wife’s 98 year old Aunt. And now I commute back and forth on weekends from Norfolk to home till retirement. Our son is both enjoying me being home, and chafing under dad being home more often, and reminding him of chores and stuff. But it has been great to be closer to home
I don’t know if you remember him, but I did get a chance to meet up with Kerridean from ATS in Thailand while I was over there. After only about an hours heads-up that I was in Pattaya Beach, he wound up taking the bus down from Bangkok, and we spent an afternoon just shooting the breeze. Good guy, and it was nice to actually meet someone who I had been exchanging posts with for several years.
Oh…and before I forget, Hi Iron Fist.
Long time, no post with you too.
I hope all is well on your end.
And Ben Z as well.
Now if I just run into Mike C, all would be fine in the world of the innernut.
I really miss running into him on the early Sunday morning threads.
@ Mike C.:
Hey…Hey
Morning Mike!!!!!
Morning, VIA.
@ Mike C.:
I thought I might find you here on the Sunday morning time frame.
I hope all has gone well since last we spoke, and I think it really has been about two or more years ago.
Village Idiots Apprentice wrote:
A bit longer than that at least, since my last post AtS was in 2007. I look in here every day – Savage was kind enough to let me in to drop bread crumbs when the old GCP blew up and we were trying to put it back together. THAT is my primary hangout. I also am a regular on the sadly diminished Conservative Talk site.
Well, that didn’t work worth a crap …
GCP = http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com
CT = http://nanosecondinv.proboards.com/index.cgi
@ Mike C.:
Wow…you’re right, it has been longer then that.
I think my last post over there was about 6 months ago, when I had to mention to the husky one that he was taking a cheap shot mis-quoting me on something or other. After that, my account was mysteriously blocked. I e-mailed him, and all he said was, “try it now”. Then about two months ago, without me posting anywhere, it got blocked again. After three e-mails trying to find out which rule I had violated, and no response from him, I said “the heck with it”.
Anyhow….the thunderstorms that we were promised haven’t shown up, and it’s actually turning into a glorious day here, so I may have to sign off soon, and get the back yard ready for the annual grilling of the dead animals who have given their lives so that we eat well.
I love being at the top of the food chain!
@ Mike C.:
Yeh….I forgot to mention that your original link to GCP was dead…..let me check it out.
Iron Fist wrote:
When it looked like it was working, he couldn’t wait to prance to the microphone and take complete credit for it. Now that it appears to be failing, he’s stuck with his “we were in charge from day ONE” statement.
@ Mike C.:
Mike….So one of the first poster’s names I see at GCP is rayra.
Man, that goes way back in time.
I guess I have a new site to put in my favorites list.
Thanks!
BBL
Jummping back to Sestak – it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. It also puts the allegations that are being floated in Bloggo’s case that Zero was involved in the pay to play in a whole new light. Now I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that Zero was a passive participant.
You’ll see other familiar names there. D. Edgren (The Merciless Infidel) shows up from time to time, even.
Sadly, reaganite, Sarah D. and Fatal have all moved on, and Jheka hasn’t shown up since he got married. But there’s some good relatively new people, many from the collapse of the old Power Line Forum.
@ Mike C.:
I hope we see them all again someplace. Here or there. I really, really miss Jheka!
@ Mike C.:
Jheka got married…Boy, when I get out of the loop, I really get out of it.
I know there was some acronimity when the old GCP folded, but am ignorant of who did what, and it’s probably better that way. It allows me to remember old friends in a good light, without all the messy ‘He said, she said” stuff.
Either way, I think I ran into Swamp Woman, who I often gave grief about her crazy flock of sheep, and may swing over there to her site one day to say Hi.
Reaganite and I were talking on the phone a long time ago, around the time of his retirement about him swinging this way for a few days to check out Aberdeen Proving grounds as a possible job opportunity, but I think he settled elsewhere.
I have been lurking here for quite some time, just poking my head in and out, so I think I know a fair number of the names here, even though I haven’t been posting.
I think it’s time to make the breakfast for my wife’s Aunt, and at 98 years old, when it’s time to eat…it’s time to eat, so I will probably be back on a little later.
Take care for now, and great talking to you.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Been a long time since gonzo “swooped” in as well.
And if you remember how and why THAT refernce got started, you really know your pre-Friday Night Massacre AtS history.
“A box of rocks” is what he is…no, I think that I have seen a box of rocks do some jobs better than he is doing…
Did you plug the hole yet Daddy? Day 3.
Carolina Girl wrote:
When did they decide Bill Clinton was involved at all? I call BS on that.
Morning all…
I was at the Stand With Arizona rally last night at Tempe Diablo Stadium. 10,000 bitter clingers in attendance. ‘Zo from Pajamas Media was one of the speakers, as was Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
I thought this thing was locally organized…turns out it was the Dallas Texas Tea Party Patriots who were the core organizers…wanted us Zonies to know we weren’t alone. There were contingents of people from Texas, Florida and California there to support us Arizonans.