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After the weekend’s festivities that included final edits/formatting the Breitbart Interview Transcript, and the BlogMockRadio Show, I’m a bit burned out. So line up at the tureen on the Rec Room counter and we’ll ladle out a hot steaming bowl of bean soup, aka The Overnight Open Thread.
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website design was Built By David
just never “got” his type of funny.
now this…This is FUNNY!
oh
and chalk up a win for the 2nd amendment
Federal Judge: Citizens Can Buy Guns and Ammo During State of Emergency
Now, a federal court has agreed, ruling that state law can’t make a blanket ban that keeps the plaintiffs from carrying or buying guns and ammunition during an emergency.
“While the bans imposed … may be limited in duration, it cannot be overlooked that the statutes strip peaceable, law-abiding citizens of the right to arm themselves in defense of hearth and home, striking at the very core of the Second Amendment,” Senior U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard wrote in his order.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04/02/video-obama-campaign-disables-credit-card-verification-accepts-donation-from-nidal-hasan/
hmmmmm
wasn’t there a HUGE story on the news today about a massive
credit card theft scheme?
rain of lead wrote:
Well, now how is little Barry going to take away people guns in his emergency manufactured emergency now? This judge was obviously a illegitimate raaaaacist judge.
rain of lead wrote:
Nothing to see here comrade, please come along with us to this nice comfortable waiting area…
oh. my god!
how cool is this!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/blade-runner-street-legal-flying-car-cleared-for-takeoff/story-fn5iztw3-1226317164507
@ doriangrey:
this kinda tells me that bammy ain’t getting the bucks like he thought
he would and is having to resort to “other” measures
@ rain of lead:
Yep, having to re-run the same scam you ran in 2008 is not exactly a stroke of brilliance nor a sign of confidence. Now, if the Republicans had a pair and a spine, they’d make political hay of this fact. /yeah, never mind.
@ rain of lead:
How much would insurance be on that? I am not giving up my spot in the garage!
AZfederalist wrote:
The strangest thing happened to me this afternoon. A blank spot appeared in my network traffic monitoring software and my cell phone, which was connected to my computer via USB transfer protocol had it’s flash card corrupted. Anti-virus and mal/spyware programs all indicate the system is clear and clean with no intrusions.
Things that make you go… Hmmmmmm, IYKWIMAIKYD…
@ rain of lead:
it flys
we can park it on the roof
rain of lead wrote:
If the car costs $280K, I can’t imagine the insurance and operating costs.
One of those, “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” kind of things
@ rain of lead:
Ok I am logged in now and i am not giving up my garage spot!
@ rain of lead:
except on Christmas eve.
momcat wrote:
Hey momcat, how you feeling…
@ doriangrey:
doing good thanks for asking!
momcat wrote:
hung me up for a sec, thought I was talking to myself
rain of lead wrote:
Looks like you are.
U go girl!
Poteen wrote:
SE is definitely easy on the eyes, but sadly she is quite the moderate squishy.
Morning all. Rummaging in my photo archives yields this post…
These OOTs can be pretty slow these days, no?
I’ve seen some comments over the last few weeks from people who are fed up with the Republican Party, aka the ‘Stupid Party’, so I decided to check out some possible alternates.
List of American political parties Amazing how many of these parties are far left, although there are plenty on the far right, too.
This seems to be the most interesting of the ones I looked over.
Modern Whig party.
And the Objectivist Party
@ MacDuff:
Yeah, it depends. SOmetimes we’ll have 50-60 posts, but 20-30 mseems to mbe more the average lately. I don’t ussually post overnight anymore, because when I am up there is nobody on.
@ mfhorn:
My only problem with alternative parties is that it could take years (and that’s optimistic) for them to become mainstream and one has to be mainstream to be formidable. We’ve already seen how much damage can be done in just 3 years; my concern is we simply don’t have the time for an alternative party to mature.
@ mfhorn:
The more “diversity” you have in your political landscape the more you’re in deep trouble. You’ve to build coalitions and small parties gain unproportional power (“small coalitions” -- Germany is a perfect eyample). In so called “big coalitions” -- coalitions where the two main parties form a coalition -- political ocorruption is even more a danger and voters can’t even vote them out (Austria would be a perfect example). Work is only done on the lowest common denominator or against the will of the people who have no choice to vote them out.
What you get are parties like the “Pirates” in Germany without any clue about politics and economy who think the debt crises in Berlin is about some Millions of Euros while it is about 3 Billion Euros but gained more than 7 p.c. of the votes in the elections in Berlin and Saarland respectively and they would gain at the moment about 9 p.c. some polls even say 12 p.c. in nationwide elections.
I doubt you would be happy to have the greenies or some irresponsible party with unproportional power in charge.
@ Guggi:
Exactly. The path to true change is to work within the system we have, and change things from the bottom up. Work for power in the State governments, and in the Legislature, not try to replace the President and work from the top down. Every time that has been tried, that has been a failure. Even Lincoln’s election followed smaller gains by the nacent Republican Party in the 1850s. The Tea PArty is doing things right. It takes time to move the ship of State. This is by design. Ouyr form of government was designed to be hard to take over and shift to any particular purpose. Look at the trouble Obama may have with the Supreme Court.
Would be interesting what Mike C. has to say about this article:
@ Iron Fist:
This is how the Democratic Party was transformed into a hellhole of lefty ideology. But it works also the other way round and yes, I agree, the Tea Party movement was a good starter but will it be successful ?
@ Guggi:
We’ll just have to see on that. It is the best chance we have. I certainly hope it will be successful, but there are a lot of forces arrayed against it. And we are up against a hard time limit. I learned the other day that the CBO won’t even do projections after the year 2027 because the budget simply comes apart. So if we don’t do something before then (significantly before then; it takes time for anything to take effect), we will collapse then. If we don’t collapse before then. We are in almost as bad a position as Greece, and almost nobody wants to do anything about it. The House Republicans have passed a semi-responsible budget, but everybody knows that is DOA in the Senate. I don’t have much hope for the future of the nation. I am trying to do what i can to get me and my family ready for it. That is about all I can do.
@ Iron Fist:
If the U.S.A. collapse the whole West will collapse. Our political eleites in the West (Europe, U.S.A., Japan etc.) are out of controll. We in Europe face now another danger: a economic war with the rest of the world because of the stupid CO2 taxe.
Btw.: another German solar panel company went bankrupt: Q-Cells
@ Guggi:
Brilliant. Airbus iss one of Europe’s big exporters. Might as well make their product as unappealing as possible to the market. Do your elites all own stock in Boeing?
@ Iron Fist:
You’ve to ask Sarkozy who is the main supporter of this stupid tax.
But it seems that GM is also short sighted:
@ Guggi:
Oh GOvernment Mors is ran stupidly by stupid people. That is why the Federal Government lost a boat-load of money when they bailed GM out. Volkswagon produces the Passat here in Tennessee. It is supposed to be a high-quality car. It isn’t my style of car, though, so I won’t be buying one. Still, that is good for the economy of Tennessee as well as the bottom line for Volkswagon. It is a real win-win situation. If GM can’t learn from that, they will be buried by the competition.
@ Iron Fist:
And this is what you get when you lump together 100 experts at the Harvard Kennedy School to solve future energy problems:
Sometimes you only want to scream……