It is apparent that wealthy liberals are the ones who have Obama’s ear. From gay marriage, Keystone pipeline, taxes, contraception services – Anna Wintour, George Clooney, Sarah Jessica Parker et al are the ones who get his attention. These rich liberals are completely clueless about America and Americans because they live in life styles that only few will ever glimpse.
by Michael Barone
Who does Barack Obama listen to?
Not Republican politicians. Evidently weeks go by between his conversations with House Speaker John Boehner, who determines what legislation comes to the House floor.
[.......]
Speaker Tip O’Neill walked around the Capitol, asking member after member, “What do you hear?” In contrast, Obama, a former adviser told Vanity Fair‘s Todd Purdum, “is a total introvert. He doesn’t need people.”
But there is one group of people Obama has to listen to: the people who give him large sums of money. He recently attended his 150th fundraiser. That’s more than the number attended by the last four presidents put together.
Obama has seen enough Architectural Digest-type interiors in Park Avenue triplexes and Beverly Hills mansions, and on the block in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, where every house is owned by a billionaire, to develop an expertise in Louis XV walnut commodes and Brunschwig & Fils fabrics.
He’s also had plenty of chances to absorb the advice of the kind of rich liberals who like to give money to Democratic presidents. And the evidence that he has taken some of that advice is his initiatives on three controversial issues, each of which involves serious political risk.
The first and least risky of these stands is his endorsement of same-sex marriage. Many Democratic money-givers, straight as well as gay, have strong convictions on this issue and were probably not appeased by his assurance that he was “evolving” from his opposition to it.
[.......]
Still, his move probably turned off some older voters and puzzled others who wonder why with a sluggish economy he was spending time on an issue that he said should be handled by the states.
The second issue on which Obama seems to have been listening to his money-givers was the health insurance mandate requiring employers to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients.
Many rich liberals feel strongly that women’s “reproductive rights” (actually, the right not to reproduce) are so vital that government must ensure they have free access to contraception, even though it is widely available and inexpensive.
That’s one view. Roman Catholic bishops and leaders of Catholic institutions feel that such services are sinful and refuse to provide them. They cite the Constitution’s guarantee of free exercise of religion, while the other side relies on what courts have called “emanations” and “penumbras” radiating from constitutional texts.
The political point is that, as polling suggests, most Americans don’t like government forcing people to violate their religious convictions. That’s in line with tradition in a country that exempted those with religiously based conscientious objections from military service in a war in which more than 400,000 Americans were killed.
The third issue is the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil produced from tar sands in Canada to United States refineries and create thousands of jobs in the process.
Earlier this year, Susie Buell Tompkins, John Kerry’s fourth-biggest money-raiser in 2004, picketed outside an Obama fundraiser at San Francisco’s W Hotel to protest the pipeline. She wanted Obama’s State Department to block it because she thinks tar sands production hurts the environment and the planet.
Our neighbors the Canadians, who are not unconcerned about the environment themselves, disagree. The pipeline’s promoters say it would produce 20,000 American jobs and would tend to lower U.S. gas prices.
Obama came out on Tompkins’ side and blocked the pipeline.
If the same-sex marriage reversal seems somewhat risky politically and the contraception mandate considerably riskier, the Keystone pipeline decision seems downright foolish politically. Voters tend to favor it by 2-1 margins, and if they’re not aware of it, the Republicans (and maybe the pro-pipeline unions) will make sure they are.
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The question is, is he listening to anyone else?
Read the rest - Obama listens to rich liberals at his peril
Tags: Michael Barone
valerie jarrett and george soros.
Zero is like the bank robber Willy Sutton. He goes where the money is.
An echo chamber of clueless, elitist, hacks who support socialism for every one but themselves.
citizen_q wrote:
The new book “The Amateur” really does a number on Valerie Jarrett.
Barack is not a total introvert. As we all know, he is a malignant narcissist who doesn’t give a cr@p about anybody but himself. His beard and children are accessories. It is impossible for the average person to comprehend the lack of human feeling in this man. I worked with autistic children for a while, so I have a better idea. They were not malignant. Key difference.
@ Speranza:
Has there ever been a more evil crew at the reigns of power of this country?
Speranza wrote:
We have it on order. I’m going through that thing like an ice cream cone when it arrives.
citizen_q wrote:
The problem is that people HAVE NO IDEA. They smell the failure, but don’t know the evil. They still have vestiges of trust in government.
The elder Bush referred to us as ‘useless eaters’. No more social contract. Everybody for themselves.
Repost from the previous thread:
4 years ago today “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”–Barack Hussein Obama, speaking about Republicans at a campaign event in Philadelphia.
yenta-fada wrote:
I read it on Kindle -- it practically read itself. I finished it in no time. Right now I am reading Jonah Goldberg’s “The Tyranny of Cliches”.
Speranza wrote:
And that’s just the media!
@ Speranza:
Yep it does …. it appears he takes her advice and no elses well besides his wife.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Wonderful imagery (from The Untouchables -- mouthed by Sean Connery I believe). Can you imagine the hoopla if Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin said something like that?
citizen_q wrote:
Not in my lifetime and I am including the Nixon bunch who at least loved America.
Lily wrote:
She is a malignant influence on him. She also alienated Michelle Obama from Oprah Winfrey. Bwaaah.
yenta-fada wrote:
I do not find a single thing about him to be likeable.
@ Speranza:
Nixon, the apex of intrigue, deceit and crime…but he got the job done…this was well before the curse of AmIdol politics
bho really shot himself in the foot with Keystone pipeline. Creates thousands of jobs and brings cheap oil to the U.S. for us to refine which creates more jobs. Any dithering idiot would know the pipeline is a good thing. Even Congress tried to override him on this. But he continues to double-down on stupid. If it helps the American people it’s double no-good in his opinion.
Lily wrote:
The Republicans need to be hitting him on all his miserable failures and terrible decisions. Unlike McCain, we have a guy in Romney who for all my misgivings -- is committed to winning.
Speranza wrote:
Not only Oprah but a lot of other people too. I agree with you the book is an easy read and it does have sources in the back of the book.
Not a joke!
‘Obama Boy’ Debuts
There’s a bigwig economic conference going on in Montreal right now that I have on in the background. Greenspan has said that the euro will not survive in its present form. Someone who sounds familiar to me named Strobe Talbott just said it was mostly the Republicans’ fault that there was such hyper-partisanship in America. All of this is happening out of the news and out of the U.S.
citizen_q wrote:
You may not believe who I think was separated at birth from this guy!
story link to my above!
http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-boy/2012/06/13/obama-boy-debuts
Lily wrote:
It is a wonderful read and makes one want to scream “HOW DID THAT POSEUR EVER BECOME POTUS!”
@ Urban Infidel:
@ Speranza:
They bring a gun, we bring a nuclear weapon. Simple as that.
Urban Infidel wrote:
“Obama Girl” from 2008 has abandoned him. I guess she too could not find a job.
Macker wrote:
Concise and to the point.
Speranza wrote:
I agree Mitt Romney is doing a lot better than I expected…and that was what I had hoped for. For all the Romney bashing being done he is actually bringing the fight to bho. Right now it is drip, drip, drip and rapid response to whatever bho says. Which will make bho make more and more mistakes because he actually cannot handle this type of attack. He needs tons of people adoring or worshiping him. Which just isn’t happening this time around.
Speranza wrote:
That is because there isn’t anything to like.
He a combination of an ambitious socialist narcissist who just happened to fit the suit and learned to leverage his race.
The MFM had to say they loved him, not that those biased hypocrites needed much prodding. They faced banishment otherwise for racism.
@ Speranza:
Your misgivings are correct imo. Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan was testifying before some important Senate committee. My hubby said that the Republicans were fawning all over him rather than asking the difficult questions. These big bankers buy off both sides. Having said that, OZERO needs to be kicked out of the WH bigtime. He’s a danger to the entire planet who knows nothing about anything important.
Lily wrote:
She sits in on National Security meetings even though she has no background in foreign affairs.
Speranza wrote:
With them 54-double-D’s!!!!!
yenta-fada wrote:
Good grief. They also need to tie him into the odious Jon Corzine.
Macker wrote:
Them 54 DD’s were all air.
Speranza wrote:
Indeed! bho is truly our Manchurian president. He is the enemy.
Macker wrote:
Not sure I could call Romney a nuke… but yea, I see what you mean.
@ yenta-fada:
He is a danger to the Free World.
Speranza wrote:
We vetted Ozero better at the swamp just based on the history that was available. People have lost their minds and are slowly coming to their senses.
citizen_q wrote:
He is the ignoramus that the Left claimed that George W. Bush was.
Macker wrote:
That would require a ‘woman’ with a 54 inch ribcage. LOL
yenta-fada wrote:
Oh the MSM knew who he was and they were determined that his story would not come out.
@ yenta-fada:
Wall Street supports whoever supports them…the most destructive relationship ever…big money rules both parties
Urban Infidel wrote:
A ‘woman’ who has not seen her feet in years.
heysoos wrote:
Obama won a majority of voters who earned under $35,000 a year and voters who earned over $200,000 a year (according to “The Amateur”).
@ heysoos:
Wall Street are a bunch of unprincipled political whores.
@ Speranza:
Corzine is ‘protected’ by the system that allowed him to get where he is. They would be happy to bring people to their knees as long as they could buy up real assets cheaply. That includes whole countries such as Greece. Spain has had a bailout which made the stock market go up for about 20 minutes. What the powers that be cannot afford is to have Italy go under. Frankly, in terms of debt, the US (and probably Canada) is Greece.
@ Lily:
By the same token any idiot could have given the order to take out osama. The chest-thumping was just plain stupid.
Urban Infidel wrote:
Hellooo, citizen journalist.
Do you have any plans to do another radio interview?
@ Urban Infidel:
Oh my word. This wasn’t done in snark either? The obama campagin thinks it’s great!
Dear heavens.
yenta-fada wrote:
Had Jon Corzine been a Republican he would’ve been thrown up as the poster boy of what Republicanism is all about. PMSNBC would be talking about him every night.
Speranza wrote:
That’s the middle class that Rev. Wright’s church wants to get rid of. Sheer Marxist class warfare. Wright is the only teacher that Ozero listened to for 20 years. It got him to the Presidency. Do you really think is wants to or is capable of a different strategy? I say no and that is what will bring him down. (along with the ignorant gaffes and mental illness)
Lily wrote:
He has a glass jaw. Netanyahu showed how to deal with Obama -- be polite but do not back down.
@ Speranza:
Corzine is a Rethugblicrat.
@ yenta-fada:
I’m pretty convinced at this point that BO will personally lose the election…he’s a political idiot
citizen_q wrote:
Exactly..did he even give any credit to the Navy Seals team that did it? No..it was all him. Although he had a B plan in place it failed so it wouldn’t hurt him politically. Disgusting.
yenta-fada wrote:
He is a thin lipped sociopath who has zero empathy.
Lily wrote:
The biggest disgrace was letting the Pakistanis off the hook for harboring Osama.
Moochelle hawking her book to unicorns. A FLOTUS using the WH to make money on the side. There’s always a first time.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/05xT0hy3E77Uc?__site=daylife&q=michelle+obama
heysoos wrote:
It will be close but I am more optimistic then I was earlier this year.
Speranza wrote:
Isn’t Panetta going after Pakistan? Seriously, I can’t keep track of the ‘Ministry of Making Sh!t Up’.
BO killed OBL with his bare hands, chewed off his face and ate his brains….fact
Obama’s lack of graciousness when W. visited the White House the other day for the unveiling of his portrait sums up what Obama is all about.
heysoos wrote:
He went all Chuck Norris on him.
This has got to burn since he loves them so much.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/06/13/poll-obamas-approval-rating-in-muslim-world-nosedives/
yenta-fada wrote:
Barky has a soft spot for the Pock-ee-stahnis.
“Leon Panetta” -- now there’s a name to strike fear into our enemies. //
Lily wrote:
Bwaaaaahhhhhh!
Obama will decide to double down on picking quarrels with Israel.
Speranza wrote:
Not only that but left the man that got us some of the intell flying in the wind! Unreal.
@ Speranza:
Leon ‘the Napkin’ Panetta
yenta-fada wrote:
Soon to appear alongside Jimmy Carter’s “books” at the Wal-Mart $1 bins.
heysoos wrote:
He looks like a Mafia Don in one of those Steven Seagal films form the 1980′s.
Speranza wrote:
Tell me about it. He was just horrible. He was disgusting.
Lily wrote:
Damn, who broke the reset button?
Lily wrote:
That is so sickening. Why trust the USA when a Democrat is in power?
Speranza wrote:
There is a whole story going up vis a vis the Iranian oil sanctions. An international clearing system for world trade called SWIFT has shut Iran out. By the end of June, there are some economic tremors going on wrt to working outside the SWIFT settlement system. Nations such as China, Brazil, and Russia are using their own national currencies to trade with Iran. That means these trades go on OUTSIDE of the US dollar. The fact that commodities are priced in US dollars is a big deal. It keeps the dollar in use as the world’s reserve currency. By trading outside the dollar, it weakens the dollar as the currency of global use. It’s a big deal, and one that gets lost in the media.
Lily wrote:
Contrast that when Bill Clinton came to the White House for his portrait unveiling when W. was president.
Class (W.) v. Classless (Obama).
Speranza wrote:
No Chuck Norris would have done no such thing. Chuck Norris’s stare would have made osama bin laden instantly burst into flames.
@ yenta-fada:
Obama really wants to work with Ahmadinejad instead of replacing him with someone with sanity.
Lily wrote:
I’m pretty sure it’s a parody.
Lily wrote:
Sounds more like Rambo.
You have got to see the new Obama Boy video. You will not believe your eyes.
Speranza wrote:
Really disgraceful.
yenta-fada wrote:
Not for a while. Too busy to start the show up now. Maybe one day..
Speranza wrote:
Zero wants the Muslims to love him. Doesn’t matter which ones. Any collateral damage he does to the US and Israel is gravy.
Lily wrote:
In front of Bush he was bitching about the problems he “inherited”. Hey Barky you inherited nothing -- you asked for the job.
Urban Infidel wrote:
I’m really happy for you that your business is doing well!!!!!
yenta-fada wrote:
Obama picking quarrels with Israel is a labor of love for him.
yenta-fada wrote:
See the link in #82.
Urban Infidel wrote:
How’s work? You can email me.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Is he a bro-mosexual?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
We were watching it. Can’t figure out if it’s real or snark. Life imitating art or the reverse????
@ Urban Infidel:
Dang, you beat me to it!
Mind-boggling, no?
Urban Infidel wrote:
MacDuff wrote:
His gender is “evolving” as BHO likes to say.
yenta-fada wrote:
I think it’s meant seriously. And I think it should be sent ’round to all the churches, especially those in the black community.
Speranza wrote:
Bingo! You could tell neither of the obama’s liked being there.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
another twit with an OBoner
OT -- check this facebook page out We support musicians who play for people- not governments.
@ Speranza:
Sending the Dali Lama out the side door with the trash, Leaving a meeting with Netanyahu to just stand there for “dinner with his family”, and sending the bust of Winston Churchill summed him up for me. His churlishness with Bush was just him acting true to form.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Excellent idea! It should just go viral and be sent everywhere really.
Urban Infidel wrote:
I don’t think so. Remember how bewildered Obama’s people were—and the Left generally was—when the pro-Obamacare arguments died in front of the Supreme Court, and there were a number of articles pointing out that the Left lives in its own echo chamber which does not even countenance the possibility of a different sort of perception or point of view?
This is another example of that phenomenon. The people who put this video together cannot conceive of there being another point of view which might consider an Obama sticker over somebody’s package as something grotesque rather than celebratory.
citizen_q wrote:
No kidding there are so many more you could add…that he really is classless and don’t forget he just recently insulted Poland and refused to back down on that.
Anyone seen Philip Daniel lately? I cannnot remember the last time I saw a comment of his.
@ Speranza:
.
Exactly! You inherit at the reading of a will.
His campaign was akin to a job interview in which
he told the American public that he had solutions.
He was a U.S Senator and knew what the books looked like.
BHO has never taken responsibility in his life.
citizen_q wrote:
Contrary to what the drunk Christopher Buckley wrote in 2008, Obama doesn’t have a first class temperament at all.
RIX wrote:
He claimed he would do better so he invented a new category -- “jobs saved”.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
The obama campagin did indeed like the video. To which they should have been ashamed of it because of the sticker on the mans privates and him humping a cardboard obama and so many other things wrong on so many levels with that video.
what does a community organizer do to prepare for the presidency?
@ Speranza:
I was wondering also.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Prayers going up!
@ RIX:
Rix … don’t you agree with this…
Speranza wrote:
Thank God his father didn’t live to see that. Have you noticed that he’s pretty much fallen off the face of the Earth?
Speranza wrote:
I was wondering the same thing. I miss him.
yenta-fada wrote:
Hiya yenta!
Just logged in and haven’t read the whole thread so maybe someone’s already brought this up.
Talbott is a MAJOR asshole. He’s been flogging for global gov’t for years.
@ Speranza:
And that could neither be proved or disproved. It just
gave the Left a talking point, even though it is a
preposterous assertion.
Speranza wrote:
Sounds like a chain of Italian bakeries.
We need to drag Chuck Berry out of retirement and have him do:
Vaseline
Because we be screwed
Oh, Vaseline
Because we be screwed
We got a President who ain’t got nothin’ but attitude
In Two Thousand Eight the country went kinda strange
Voted in a President promisin’ hope and change
Didn’t take long though for folks to awake
Findin’ out his love of country was nothin’ but fake
Private sector’s reelin’ underneath his attack
Hope somethin’ will be left when we take this land back
Vaseline
Because we be screwed
Oh, Vaseline
Because we be screwed
We got a President who ain’t got nothin’ but attitude
etc.
Speranza wrote:
Leon “1/2 a loaf” Panetta.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Good one buzz!!
Buckley, Goldwater, Reagan are dead…the GOP that has emerged from those times does not impress me…marrying yourself to some political party sets you up…altho I will say that Romney looks like a genius compared to Palin, Perry, Paul and the rest of those total morons…Romney may well win the presidency, after that it’s pretty gloomy out there
We conservatives should take a lesson from progs. It’s all in the name. Tar Sand Oil, The name alone is frighting to progs. “Susie Buell Tompkins, John Kerry’s fourth-biggest money-raiser in 2004″ apposed the pipeline. I can hear her at cocktail party for the rich and famous saying ” My god what a disgusting thing to bring into the US” If we would have called the Canadian oil sands Butterfly nectar, it would have been a no brainier for the progs to accept. I sure that her and Kerry’s yachts run on pure sunshine.
Buffalobob wrote:
Tar-Sands, King of the Tundra, with his loyal caribou Ukmuk—fighting for truth, justice and cheap energy!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
The Romney campaign is freakin’ brilliant.
Oh my … people are starting to talk….making enemies in all the wrong places…
The Obama administration has taken the CIA “out of the business” of interrogating high-value terrorists and the lack of data is endangering the U.S. security, according to former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose A. Rodriguez.
If U.S. intelligence or military personnel capture a senior terror leader today, no system is in place or facilities set up where he could be questioned, said the 31-year agency veteran who was awarded several medals for his intelligence work before retiring in 2007.
“We are out of the business of doing that,” he said of terrorist leader interrogations in an interview with the Free Beacon. “We don’t have anywhere to take them. If you capture a high-value target outside the war zone, where [are] you going to take them? They are not taking prisoners in Guantanamo, [and] the black sites have been closed.”
When U.S. special operations forces recently captured a terrorist in Sudan, the only place he could be questioned was aboard a Navy ship at sea, he said.
“So we don’t have anywhere to take them, but even if we did, we are restricted by the Army field manual, so we are basically out of the interrogation business.” The manual restricts all interrogations to tactics outlined under international rules for questioning and treatment of prisoners of war in conventional conflicts.
Rodriguez, author of the bestselling book Hard Measures, also said he and fellow CIA colleagues were disgusted by President Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo asserting that U.S. officials were guilty of torture for harshly questioning terrorists.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/06/13/former-cia-counterterrorism-chief-obama-has-taken-agency-out-of-interrogating-business/
I’m sick and tired of millionaires, financed by billionaires running this country…you folks can duke it out who’s best…I’ll go smoke a bowl and count my cash
@ buzzsawmonkey:
:
I’m actually in St.Louis now,which is where he lives.
Want me to have him give you a call?
@ RIX:
don’t go near that crazy fucker…he’s gone
Speranza wrote:
T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII of the National Topsider:
“As a Conservative, I Must Say I Do Quite Like the Cut of this Obama Fellow’s Jib”
Iowhawk mocked him mercilessly.
RIX wrote:
I’d love it, but somehow I doubt he’d do a side that was not complimentary to the One.
MacDuff wrote:
“The soft and flabby face of a well fed appeaser.”
Lily wrote:
That is a REALLY good book. I highly recommend it.
I hope that Romney throws up the BP oil spill and Obama’s juvenile remark “I can’t suck it all up with a straw”.
heysoos wrote:
CHOOM!
@ Speranza:
Thank you! I was trying to remember the other book I wanted to buy from iBooks.
@ eaglesoars:
And that was the other one! Actually, I want that one in hardcover. Off to Amazon.
The Osprey wrote:
heysoos wrote:
Every one of those folks would be infinitely preferable to Obama. Actually if you gave me Perry’s record, Romney’s poise and gravitas, Gingrich’s communication skills, and Palin’s crowd pleasing ability -- we would never lose.
“Counting cash” -- that should not take too long.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hi! Stepped away. I knew the name was familiar. These guys just repeat the same thing over and over and make money doing so. How dumb are people to hire them?
heysoos wrote:
Groovy, man!
Carolina Girl wrote:
I would mail it to you but it is on my kindle.
yenta-fada wrote:
When he wrote for Time Magazine he was a huge Israel basher.
@ Speranza:
it doesn’t…I have it memorized…I no longer am involved in the stock market, sold all my gold last year, sold a house last month…I’m liquid, all cash, no debt and waiting to see what comes next
Speranza wrote:
One of the reasons I hope Romney chooses Jindal as VP
Speranza wrote:
The consistent dripping hatred for Israel that has been going on for years has poisoned the world. I don’t know how the Israelis stand it.
Seriously. At some point, when you have so many detractors, you have to feel like you are doing something wrong by simply existing.
yenta-fada wrote:
Time Magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, 60 Minutes -- have been the worst of the American media.
eaglesoars wrote:
I want him to pick a governor -- anyone would look better then Joe Biden.
In “The Amateur” the author does a number on Samantha Power.
heysoos wrote:
Cash is King!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The book on Chuck Berry here is that he is a grouchy
contarian. He refused to show up to the dedication of
a statue of HIM!
So maybe he would be willing to swim against the tide.
@ Speranza:
Jindal is a governor, of Louisiana.
Speranza wrote:
I never read that rag, so I don’t know. I do know he was in the State Dept under Clinton and there’s some Yale thing about globalization.
He was with Brookings, don’t know if he still is. He wrote a book about diplomacy and Russia (didn’t read it -- read the fawning review in the FT) -- I think he was angling to end up as Sec State in the Obama admin.
Got run over by the Clintons.
How stupid do you have to be to not see THAT coming?
eaglesoars wrote:
From what I’ve seen of Jindal, he is a very interesting choice. I hope he can stand the smear campaign that would inevitably arise.
yenta-fada wrote:
Also the racism.
@ eaglesoars:
Talbott was speaking as the HEAD of the Brookings Institute. Who pays these creeps?
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ll have to check that book out. Thanks for the tip.
yenta-fada wrote:
I’ll bet Soros is one.
Good lord! Lefarge looks like she spends her tax free salary at a tanning salon.
Fox news on the eurozone.
The woman looks like an alligator
yenta-fada wrote:
He knows the game and is thick-skinned. He doesn’t mind going against the grain, at all.
@ eaglesoars:
From 1994 Talbott recants criticism of Israel
Talbott bashed Israel in 1981 in Time Magazine for destroying Saddam’s nuclear facility at Osirak.
Speranza wrote:
He is also Catholic which he will be attacked on.
Speranza wrote:
Hubby informed me that ‘The Amateur’ was sold out when he went to order it from the 2 largest booksellers in Canada.
@ Speranza:
I’m an old pot dealer…cash rules, it’s the ultimate bottom line
eaglesoars wrote:
According to ‘Wall Street Insider’ on Ulsterman, Lagarde ACTS like an alligator.
@ RIX:
Berry is a monumental asshole…he deserves nothing except for a couple of songs and riffs that he has been well compensated for, thanks to Kieth Richards
@ eaglesoars:
Do you mean Lagarde?
Lily wrote:
Big time.
Actually, when he first came on the scene I was a bit wary. He converted to Catholicism and in his early days was a bit enthusiastic -- like engaging in exorcisms. I don’t know how old he was at the time but he was young. Don’t think for a minute that the exorcism thing won’t come up.
Also, that photo of Obama scolding Jindal on the tarmac -- that sucker is iconic of the arrogant son of a bitch Obama is -- and the Romney campaign could take it to the bank.
Trump is a wild card…in a good way.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/13/Trump-Obama-Cut-Deal-with-Saudis-to-Keep-Oil-Prices%20Low-Until-Election
Lily wrote:
I TRIED to make a play on DeFarge.
Oh well.
Jindal is a spooky guy…he’s old world voodoo, a freak
@ eaglesoars:
Jindal was in college when he & classmates tried
to “help” a female classmate via exorcism. Oops!
He apparently didn’t act in the capacity as the exorcist,
but………………
@ eaglesoars:
Zero treats everybody like they were ten years old and in need of schooling. Just another weird mannerism from His Weirdness in Chief.
yenta-fada wrote:
Yeah she is weapons grade one world economy if I am correct.
eaglesoars wrote:
I got it, and lo, it was good. hahaha
eaglesoars wrote:
As a counter it could be always be asked of obama if he always hated Jews, or was that something he picked up in the islamic madrassa he attended as a kid and reinforced by rev.wright?
@ eaglesoars:
Lily wrote:
That’s a very good description!
heysoos wrote:
He might be an asshole, but the guy is a rock icon.
RIX wrote:
I dare anybody to say they were never young and stupid.
Lily wrote:
The ass shaking segments are Ozero’s favorite parts!
heysoos wrote:
evidence please?
You guys might want to drop in on Drudge. Too many things to post here. There’s a bunch of stuff hitting the rotating device.
heysoos wrote:
He is no such thing. Apparently you have watched too many movies.
@ RIX:
yes, thanks to the Stones…he was only moderately successful at Chess records til Richards came along…and he resented them…the Stones made more money for him from his ‘Carol’ than he’d ever seen…he’s a jerk
RIX wrote:
Indeed he will be attacked on that.
@ RIX:
I’m still laffing at what you said yesterday about the SWAT team in front of the WH yelling to send out the dog and nobody gets hurt.
Is it a parodyor is not? You decide.
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s Catholic which makes him a freak.
@ yenta-fada:
I would not hold it against him, as you say he was young.
He is one of the really good governors & seems like
a good guy.
But, the Dem smear machine would go into high gear.
The reason that they are effective is because the MSM
is the media wing of the Dem smear machine.
@ Lily:
yes, he’s spooky…anybody that thinks plate tectonics and volcano research is a waste of time is spooky, if not much worse…guys like him get people killed
yenta-fada wrote:
Apparently. I can’t get in. Crashed.
eaglesoars wrote:
Your request for evidence, imo, will never be answered. Some people are not interested in actual content.
Urban Infidel wrote:
I’m sure!
@ Lily:
why do you say that?
eaglesoars wrote:
World events are moving quickly, imo.
@ Lily:
Oh yeah, we are all part of the Papist conspiracy./
But BHO studying the Koran? No problem.
heysoos wrote:
Would you be kind enough to provide sources so that we can decide for ourselves?
Thank you.
@ heysoos:
I have no idea what you are talking about. You mentioned voo-doo and then this.
yenta-fada wrote:
I was never young and stupid… I had to wait until I got old to get stupid…
RIX wrote:
Yep. That’s the deal now days.
@ eaglesoars:
no, do your own research
Ok have drudge up.
Russia and Syria. This is not news. WaPo put it on the front page today which just goes to show how brain dead they think their readers are.
madonna’s butt. We’re about the same age.
Mine’s better.
doriangrey wrote:
I’ll need a link to support that claim. lol
heysoos wrote:
Which tells me everything I need to know.
About you.
RIX wrote:
I thought everyone was all for fresh air and exorcise…
who’s a creationist?…raise your hand if you believe the earth is only 6000 years old
@ eaglesoars:
Jindal is a national figure…get with it
heysoos wrote:
Who cares if anyone is..raise your hands.
/sounds just like lgf there
heysoos wrote:
Actually, it only looks 6000 years old, because it has had work done.
Obama is a Job Creationist; he believes that he’s produced jobs that don’t really exist.
eaglesoars wrote:
On the other hand……..this is blatant.
This is for Hillary whose state dept misspelled ‘reset’.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yeah, if he was jogging he would be home free.
By the time the MSM got finished with him,
half of the country would think the Jindal was
the Grand Inquisitor.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hubba hubba for your hubby.
wrt Drudge, I was also talking about events in Europe. The Greeks are likely to vote far left over the weekend which tosses the Eurozone into a mess. There’s a huge bank run in Greece. Not a big country, but a big precedent.
@ Lily:
it matter a lot to Jindal…he’s a nut
heysoos wrote:
I’m a Creationist, but I do not by any means believe that the world is only 6000 years old. Those Creationist that do are in fact a small minority of Creationists.
Lily wrote:
It is. It is open season on Catholics.
Lily wrote:
Heysoos brings the distinct smell of the swamp here. I already know his biography. THIS IS NOT A THERAPY BLOG.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
he has his mojo workin
Since when are Roman Catholics freaks and/or nuts? They are Christians, just like Protestants and Eastern/Greek Orthodox are!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
*Lily Tomlin phone operator snort*
@ heysoos:
I believe God created the earth and the moon and the stars and everything in between if that’s your question. But not the 6000 years ago thing.
What does that make me?
yenta-fada wrote:
I think the bank run in Greece is about 1.5 billion. I wonder where it’s going? Switzerland?
Europe is going down and if anybody thinks the Germans are going to bail them out, they’re dreaming.
However, they might just invade.
No joke
@ heysoos:
I know more about Jindal than you do … he is the governor of my state. Because he is a Creationist and a Catholic he is a nut? Do I follow you there?
I’m not going to go down this road with you. You are only trying to stir things up.
doriangrey wrote:
I always convey to others that God is the Ultimate DM. He gets to pick how the Universe works.
@ yenta-fada:
yeah, I’m getting that from you…don’t rock the boat…we are monothithic and cannot handle controversy…got it
@ eaglesoars:
there are accusations that the US is actively arming the rebels.
put one more point up on the side of the caliphate!
@ m:
Jimi Hendrix?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Didn’t the Earth just flash her nipple in Turkey?
@ Lily:
yes, he’s a nut….booga booga!
Urban Infidel wrote:
Madonna is a SLUT!
Is Legalizing Weed Obama’s October Surprise?
h/t Drudge
Wow, man….tttthhhhhhhhp!
m wrote:
Dear heavens {{m}} you. are. a. creationist! Oh my!!!!!!
/so am I…so I must be a damn nut too.
m wrote:
Reasonable.
I certainly believe in the Tower of Babel, because we see it being constantly rebuilt in our own day. Think of how far away the heavens were in ancient times, compared with today when we can spy into them with probes and telescopes and have even sent people to the moon. Yet the people of ancient times decided to build a tower “to the heavens” to make war upon God, and to make a name for themselves.
You know who’s doing that today? The militant atheists with their belief in Darwin as the Prophet of the Anti-God, the modern-day pagans with their idolatrous Earth-worship and their barbarous global-warming rituals.
The Tower of Babel is the story of human arrogance setting itself above the divine, and we see that every day.
heysoos wrote:
You are only about YOU. It’s boring. Again, THIS IS NOT A THERAPY BLOG.
RIX wrote:
Don’t I know it.
Macker wrote:
Ever since the Dems discovered that they needed a new
whipping boy. Catholics are a great target becuse it is not
a class of “Victims”. Ergo Catholics must be oppressors.
Hey Reagan starred in a movie about Norte Dame!/
m wrote:
A smart Southern Belle who works tirelessly behind the scenes to keep this blog running. Thank you, thank you!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
i refer to them as ‘evangelical atheists’
@ doriangrey:
Yeah, that was a big ass bigotry brush huh?
@ Macker:
Dorian makes sense this time…listen to him…
evolution and God are one in the same…if we are Gods children then we must accept the science…maybe it’s a puzzle we are left to figure out, but to regress backward 6000 years and say this is where it began is lunacy…Jindal had this point of view 2 years ago….maybe he’s evolved
@ Lily:
Got one for ya,
The Son of God was named Jesus, because Chuck
Norris was taken.
coldwarrior wrote:
And I believe it. I also believe that Russia is helping Assad.
This is common sense. Altho’ after the Arab Spring debacle in Egypt, I think we probably should have stayed out of it.
Putin is not an idiot. He will fight the islamists till his dying day.
The day may come when we look back and realize we owe him. Hate to say it.
Like Zhukov. I get a bit peeved when I hear how the U.S. basically won WW II.
I don’t think it ever would have happened w/o Russia
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The Tower of Babel is a good metaphor. I just don’t like the ending.
RIX wrote:
NICE!!!!
i am stealing that one!
Urban Infidel wrote:
Was Turkey in the straw?
@ heysoos:
HAHAHAHA!
You’re funny. Stick around. But don’t mistake people calling you on shit as not allowing controversy.
@ heysoos:
I don’t care if Jidal thinks that his dog is the Deity.
He isn’t trying to impose his views.
He knows how to govern .
@ eaglesoars:
agreed
er… handling controversy.
@ eaglesoars:
let Putin have Syria if that is his intention…so what?…if he’s lost confidence in Irans influence then he will step in just to smack Obama if for no other reason…go to the UN and rage, see what they say
@ heysoos:
Oh no, I have much better hair and my talents lay elsewhere.
@ RIX:
Listening to anyone? Snort! All deer reader does is stutters his way though whats on the teleprompter. And just a reminder, don’t shake hands with men like Trumka until you are sure its not their hand up his anus.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t know how long Merkel will be able to tolerate the pressure. She is the only fiscally responsible large country in Europe. I can’t see war inside Europe. I can see massive civil unrest in a number of countries who have run out of other peoples money.
RIX wrote:
Mormon season! Catholic season!
Geez, where are Bugs, Daffy and Elmer when you really need ‘em?
@ coldwarrior:
Be my guest.:)
@ RIX:
we’ll see how it unfolds…I don’t really take sides too often, but Jindal is a lunatic, so hate me
yenta-fada wrote:
Hey, Nimrod was the king who built the original Tower, and the modern-day Tower of Babel builders are also a bunch of nimrods.
yenta-fada wrote:
I see it very easily.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Joy Behar thainks that Romney has a Morman fire department.
Damn it, what about my house?
@ heysoos:
Jindal believe’s in science. I honestly don’t know what you are talking about.
@ Lily:
{{Lily}}! And we’re happy nuts, too!
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m interested in knowing your views, if you care to share them.
RIX wrote:
Hey, it’s Barack Obama who wants to tax you so that you can hire More Mans for your fire department!
/loony Democrat off
@ buzzsawmonkey:
why is there never an open season on our friends in Congress?
@ m:
yes, and let me take this opportunity to say thanks to you and all the other admins for the refuge……..
*smooch*
heysoos wrote:
Hate you? Dude get a grip.
yenta-fada wrote:
I’ll write it up for an email. Don’t want to bore/derail the thread.
@ m:
@ yenta-fada:
AHH {{YENTAAA}}!
@ Lily:
google Jindal and the Volcano…it’s a hoot
m wrote:
{{{m}}}
I don’t understand this weirdo “believes in science” shit. What the hell does that mean? Do I care if the President of the US is up on the latest news about Java Man and Pithecanthropus? Hell, no—I want him to be able to tell the Islamists to go to hell, and blow them there if they don’t go nicely of their own accord.
America rose to become the greatest country in the world while being led by men who, for the most part, believed in God and believed that the Bible was the Word of God. They may not have been up on plate tectonics, but they passed budgets and negotiated treaties and did all sorts of other things that Barack Obama is wholly incapable of doing—at least if it looks as though it will benefit this country.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Word up, Romney wants your babies to die in house fires.
@ RIX:
I don’t care so much…I don’t hold grudges…we’re all in it together
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
It would make a great thread! Ask any admin. The history and political buffs would love to discuss those issues.
@ heysoos:
Booga booga volcanos! We have so many here in Louisiana.
heysoos wrote:
News Flash!
You’re on your own.
coldwarrior wrote:
That is a good term. You should trademark it.
@ eaglesoars:
And we thank yous all!
Y’all make the blog.
eaglesoars wrote:
UPPY DINGY.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Alright Buster, you are never getting your LGF account
unblocked.
yenta-fada wrote:
I’ll write it up for you. It’s nothing anyone here doesn’t know -- people would probably be bored.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
after the Louisiana Purchase and the war with Mexico I’d have to say we have done better than that punk Napoleon
@ yenta-fada:
Yes!
Hook us up Eaglesoars!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Excellent post buzz. We do have scientists that do keep track of things….also scientists that believe in AGW…and they are nuts.
yenta-fada wrote:
what a great idea!
a guest post from eaglesoars!
m wrote:
Can’t do it without your magic mojo {m}!!! Thanks!
@ eaglesoars:
Pshaw! I don’t have much to say on the history threads but I always learn a helluva lot!
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh
crap
Ok
It will take a few days.
RIX wrote:
Promise?
I used to drive The Great Weeble crazy back when he’d start one of his evolution threads by pointing out that it was science’s job to be wrong, not right—since even when science is right it is only after being consistently wrong in failed experiment after failed experiment, and that “right” is usually provisional since it is expected to be disproved, supplanted, or expanded.
He hated that, because I wasn’t being “anti-science,” but I wasn’t genuflecting at the brazen idol he was setting up either. You could tell he was itching to flick his ceremonial oxtail fly-whisk, but couldn’t see how to do it without looking more petty that he wanted to be.
m wrote:
Assumptions like that are usual made out of basic ignorance rather than malice. A lot of people have heard Fifth Column Treasonous Media propaganda pieces about Creationism or Creationist and never realize just how selectively edited those propaganda pieces are.
I know that heysoos professes to be an Atheist, and that he basically thinks all of us who believe in God are lacking in the cerebral department and that we really don’t have a proper or adequate education. This mentality is the groupthink of the Militant Atheist community.
It is I believe, a coping mechanism, that allows them to reconcile intellectual concepts that in their minds seem irreconcilable. In so far as they believe that they have embraced a rational logical approach to viewing and understanding the world around them, and that rational logical approach insists that their is a rational and logical explanation to everything.
When confronted by individuals who accept that their might not be a simply rational logical explanation to everything they jump to what seems to them the obvious conclusion, that those who do not embrace their version of a rational logical explanation must be lacking in either intelligence, education or both.
@ Lily:
I gotta do better than lately though. Y’all can blame the missing thumbnails and sporadic edits on this great economy and my second job!
>:[
@ buzzsawmonkey:
to add, i really dont care about evolution/creation. if we came from monkeys or were created by god would make zero difference in my life.
eaglesoars wrote:
okay!
thanks
eaglesoars wrote:
@ doriangrey:
Word.
yenta-fada wrote:
I’ve been around some autistic people. Some of them do have the capacity to care about other people (though functioning in the real world still poses many challenges). And they are not in any way malignant.
coldwarrior wrote:
God is perfectly capable of creating human beings out of the descendents of monkeys. I don’t care about the issue either.
@ m:
Oh you have been doing great. And thanks to all the admins here for allowing us to express our opinions.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve never found it mutually exclusive.
doriangrey wrote:
I do not judge people of faith, that’s wrong, but when you post your religious superiority I will speak out…we are equal regardless of religion
@ eaglesoars:
I look forward to your post also.
/you know a lot of history!
coldwarrior wrote:
I always say that my belief in God fluctuates, but not my conviction that God believes in me.
I would also point out that belief in God is necessary if no other way than as a “legal fiction” for the purpose of avoiding the arrogance that materialists invariably exhibit. The anti-God crowd really has no better explanation for the origins of life than the religionistas; they always fall back on “long, long periods of lots and lots of time” or “alien spawn,” neither of which really answers the question any better than the honesty of saying, “the Deity, who by His Nature is unknowable.”
Of course, the Bible is not a science textbook; it is a moral textbook. That is actually why the materialists hate it so much and want to denigrate it by first wrongly declaring it a science textbook and then decreeing it is outmoded—because it is always the morality and not the science that they really want to destroy.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
It used to get so tedious when Charlie would do the
Creationist/Evolutionist threads & there was a swarm
to support him.
Darwin when asked where the warm pool came from answered
“The Creator of course”
But he wasn’t half the scientist that Johnson is.
@ heysoos:
Who did that? Didn’t this start out as a slam against Jindal because he does believe in God?
Apparently even atheists have their own religious superiority complexes.
RIX wrote:
Hey, at least Darwin could grow his own beard.
1389AD wrote:
Temple Grandin has been a magnificant advocate. Also for animals.
Hubby met her. He was in awe.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You might say that Science can start with a ‘null’ hypothesis, and then prove it wrong. Religion, if you start with a null hypothesis, there’s no place to go from there.
Lily wrote:
i am glad it has toned down a bit in here…the primary season was getting a bit crazy
@ m:
I concur with the rest.ou & the other admins do a great
job & make this a fun place. You know unlike that other
place………
@ coldwarrior:
Yes it was.
/trying to keep myself toned down!
The essence of God is not entirely knowable to man. It takes a belief, a leap a faith, curiosity and a letting go of ego. What I do know is that if you are not humble you will never find anything.
@ yenta-fada:
Dad always used to say that religion is the only vessel that has ever safely contained human non-rationality and harnessed it for good—and that if you try to suppress non-rationality or contain it in some other way, all you get is bad science.
Urban Infidel wrote:
How very true.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
True, but he never had the scientific apptitude of Charles
Foster Johnson.
m wrote:
You got a second job?
heysoos wrote:
You mean you didn’t take plastic??
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Almost sounds like an Einstein quote:
Speranza wrote:
its people like M, so selfish, takes a second job!
well, that’s WHY there is high unemployment!
/obamabot rant off
@ Urban Infidel:
If faith was empiracally proveable, it would not be faith.
If I thought that God was the god of the Koran, I would
bale on the whole thing.
Fortunately I see it differently
citizen_q wrote:
Ask him who was his “blow” dealer in college?
@ Speranza:
Of course some of the yahoos will claim he is not a “natural born” citizen -- wait they already have..
@ Speranza:
long time ago bro…but I remember…my wife used to get so agitated listening to my history she’d get angry…I did what I did
Speranza wrote:
Or, how he managed to travel to Pakistan, and who he met there.
Urban Infidel wrote:
I disagree.
I spent all of my life until 2004 as an agnostic.
evariste (anybody remember him) the apostate Palistinian Muslim explained to me the roots of the word YAHWEH
I AM BEING.
Something happened. Really. I was on my knees barely able to breathe. My body was not mine and that’s as best as I can explain.
G-d came to visit.
Lily wrote:
Most likely spent too much time hanging around the Charles Johnson lunatic asylum at Little Green Balls.
Just run a montage of Joe “Plugs” Biden’s greatest hits.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Lucky you to have had a father so wise.
@ coldwarrior:
Is she White? I saw her picture, pretty & all that,
but White!
That makes her an oppressor by definition.
Well, unless she belongs to SEIU.
@ Speranza:
Yeop. I’ll tell you about it next time we chat on the phone.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
As the old programming joke goes, there are 10 kinds of people in the world… Those who “Believe” in Science, and those who are Scientists.
Science isn’t a belief system, it isn’t something you believe or do not believe. It is a methodology for solving problems. The term “Science” derives from “The Scientific Method”,
which has come to mean
No individual who is genuinely educated in the Physical Sciences “Believes” in Science, what they believe is that the methodology of the “Scientific Method” i.e. Science, consistently produces verifiable documentation of results. That those results, as a consequence of the consistency of their reproducible nature have an extremely high degree of confidence in being accurate representations of fact.
People who “Believe” in Science seldom understand what “Science” actually is and for all practical purposes really believe in magic or voodoo.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
So which is older, the earth or Madonna? She certainly looks a few days past 6,000…..
Honestly, I’m a young earth creationist. I believe the Bible to be truth, and the lists of names in the geneology of Jesus is either truth, or its all a fable.
eaglesoars wrote:
That happens also. When it does it is a world shaker.
Lily wrote:
In the sum of things does it really matter?
It’s like saying raise your hands if you really think Jesus walked on water or was born to a virgin. What does it really matter in our day to day lives?
To claim that Romney is anti science means that he is against something that saved his wife from dying from cancer. Bullshite!
@ RIX:
WHITE DEBIL IN THE HIZZOUSE!
doriangrey wrote:
Nicely said. My father would have agreed, even—especially—when he was sweating over why a particular experiment hadn’t worked out as expected.
face it…we could do a hell of alot better than Mitt Romney, or that stooge BO…when you put your money down on some tard like Bobby Jindal, you cut your own throat…and if a Jindal/Santorum/Perry sort o juggernaught comes down the theocratic road, I’m in full retreat
m wrote:
Yo Yo , what what! She debil!
Speranza wrote:
That was my whole point..who cares if someone is a creationist. Only someone with an ax to grid does.
eaglesoars wrote:
Amazing story. I just plug away towards finding faith over many years.
face it…we could do a hell of alot better than Mitt Romney, or that stooge BO…when you put your money down on some tard like Bobby Jindal, you cut your own throat…and if a Jindal/Santorum/Perry sort o juggernaught comes down the theocratic road, I’m in full retreat@ JeremyR:
that’s cool…I like old blues…drink!
RIX wrote:
AND a southerner!!!!
@ JeremyR:
Alright, now that’s a keeper!
eaglesoars wrote:
Me too.
No way we would’ve won without the USSR.
coldwarrior wrote:
Does Obama know about this?
coldwarrior wrote:
Go southernern women!!!!
@ yenta-fada:
Let yourself open to this.
I AM BEING.
heysoos wrote:
I have no idea what the above is supposed to mean.
We “could do better” than what we’ve got? Yeah, sure—if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Romney’s a decent man, an intelligent man, with experience relevant to the job and, it appears, a desire to actually do the job—none of which can be said for the clown currently in the White House. Jindal, from what I know of him, matches these qualities which Romney has—not point for point, but closely enough.
Neither of these guys is going to invite you or me to their house of worship, or try and compel you or me to believe as they do. In contrast, Obama is trying to force everyone in the country to worship at the altar of Moloch that he himself bows down to; that is what his contraception mandate amounts to. In short, Obama is flouting the First Amendment, blatantly; Romney and Jindal, having some appreciation for what the First Amendment protects, and by all appearances a certain amount of religious humility (something utterly alien to Obama) are far more likely to respect what the First Amendment means in practice.
Speranza wrote:
They accepted slaughter on a scale that was acceptable only to the Japanese.
There was no strategy -- there was just cannon fodder.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I consider myself very fortunate to have had a number of professors in college who were genuine scientists. They did not “Believe” in science, they employed the “Scientific Method” to understand the physical world, to solve complex problems and to explain the how and why things worked the way they do.
It sounds to me as if your father was just such a man. Dedicated not to his own personal opinions of how thing work or should work, but to discovering how they really did work. Men like your father are in my personal opinion men deserving great respect.
ADMINS: Please check your e-mail. Thanks.
coldwarrior wrote:
Are you biased against capitalizing?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Sweetie, does ‘pearls before swine’ mean anything to you?
@ coldwarrior:
I saw an an unusual Steelers fan in Austin today. White female driving a fairly new black Honda CRV that was festooned with Steelers stickers. There was a dinner-plate size sticker of the helmet logo on the driver’s door, a Steelers sticker on the rear window, another dinner-plate size helmet sticker on the rear windshield. But that wasn’t all. She had a pink peace sign and an Obama 2012 bumper sticker. I’m thinking she was might be bi-polar.
eaglesoars wrote:
Evarsite from Discarded Lies is a Palestinian? No wonder he is such an asshole. Someone also told me once he was gay (not that I care) -- so being a gay Palestinian, if he is (who would be killed by Hamas) might explain his weird postings.
@ huckfunn:
I think you have to remember you saw this in Austin. Austin tends to be bi-polar.
Speranza wrote:
i am. i believe that no form of letter should be superior to another.
actually, i used to have to use telex machines at us mission berlin for secure communications back to DC or to other embassies and there was no need to capitalize, just an old habit.
doriangrey wrote:
My father studied under Fermi, and was one of the guys who helped build the first atomic pile under Stagg Field. His work on the Super was under direct orders from Edward Teller. He knew Szilard, Rabi and Feynman, and a bunch of similar people. He was a remarkable man, and very fortunate.
@ coldwarrior:
I was just joking.
@ huckfunn:
clearly bi-polar
Lily wrote:
The Peoples Republic of Austin.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Holy crap! I want to hear all about Edward Teller.
Guts. Spill them.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes indeedy; it is what Dorothy Parker is alleged to have retorted when some sweet young thing held the door for her while saying, “Age before beauty.”
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
OH MY GOD… I would sooooo have loved to meet your dad… You are one lucky bastage to have had him for a father…
coldwarrior wrote:
this is the only place a really type, i have been using voice recognition software for writing since the late 90′s.
i just dont feel like using that software here, maybe i should try it tho….
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Have you noticed the attempted rehabiltation of that crone, Lillian Hellman?
GAH
One has to be of a certain age to appreciate Parker. It was a different time.
eaglesoars wrote:
Forget about Teller… I want to know who ended up with Fermi’s infamous bottle of wine…
Buzz’s dad most certainly knew…
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve got nothing to tell, really; Dad didn’t talk a lot about work and the people he worked with. It was a security-clearance habit, going back to the war years, and the knowledge that the FBI would go through your trash if you held a security clearance.
@ coldwarrior:
Oh dear lord, you’ve released the liberal hounds upon me.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
You do at least know about Fermi’s infamous bottle of wine, right?
Lily wrote:
Jindal is basically doing what Gov Walker in Wisconsin is doing; trying to keep a tight ship. He’s getting a lot of flak here though from the left. They call him all kinds of names.
One of the big problems in Louisiana is the state budget has restrictions on discretionary spending. The only departments that can get the cuts are in Health and Education (thanks to the 1974 State Constitutional Convention!). So he has little leeway in the budget but people here will blame HIM for cuts in Health and Education.
Back in 1974 it was a huge majority DEMOCRAT progressive constitutional convention that came up with the present State Constitution.
m wrote:
now yer in big trouble!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Well, now I know who the Calypso Louie Muslims next door work for.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Kudos to your father. I can not match your story, but
I played football for a great man who was in Naval Intelligence
at the University of Chicago , during the Manhattan Project.
One night He & his partner saw I guy wandering off of the
Campus at dusk.
They turned their car around & went to pick him up.
It was Albert Einstein. What do you talk about with him
in your car?
RIX wrote:
Albert Einstein lived four blocks from the University, three times a week he would get lost waking home. He would be so deep in thought that he would walk right past his house and get all the way downtown before he noticed that he had forgotten to stop at his own house.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yikes. Royalty.
@ Lily:
@ coldwarrior:
@ Speranza:
I’m guessing she was wearing a “Keep Austin Weird” T-shirt. Just doing her part.
RIX wrote:
Wimmin?
eaglesoars wrote:
The Stalinist from Louisiana? Mary McCarthy one said about her:
“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”
New thread!
eaglesoars wrote:
Trying is not the same as experiencing.
m wrote:
No, no, keep this thread going. I want to set my personal record of 400 comments on a thread I posted.
Anyone who claims a Republican is a nut or is weird two words for them “Joe Biden”.
@ doriangrey:
The ultimate absent minded professor.
@ Speranza:
or “Debnnis Kucinich”.
eaglesoars wrote:
*eyeroll* No cure.
RIX wrote:
Yup…
@ yenta-fada:
From what I have read Einstein was a studly ladies man.
RIX wrote:
They must have loved him for his brains and not his looks.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Feebs go through my trash because one of them is jealous I shagged a CIA guy for a while
@ Speranza:
I think it will do that naturally! lol!
WTF?
Outrage as teacher forced his 10th grade class to watch horrific video of ‘Canadian cannibal murdering, eating and dismembering his lover’
eaglesoars wrote:
Whatever happened to Walt Disney films?
@ Speranza:
Brains is teh HOT.
m wrote:
Hey I can always have a conversation with myself.
yenta-fada wrote:
Allow. Don’t try.
@ PrincessNatasha:
I gotta say, that’s one brave asshole! LOL!
m wrote:
Hmmm maybe I tried the wrong approach.
Speranza wrote:
Moochelle.
Ok, that’s not fair.
But. I don’t really care.
Romney ought to make Holder a major campaign issue.
RIX wrote:
Nope. He was a mysogonist prick.
Speranza wrote:
I have always been attracted to men with BRAINZZZZ.
RIX wrote:
Even Hawking found women who would take care of him. Think about THAT one. urk.
@ yenta-fada:
I would rather be good looking although I admit to being shallow.
@ eaglesoars:
That’s terrible. Nothing in the world could make me watch that.
Speranza wrote:
For whatever reason , he had it goin on.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Stop bragging. lol lol
@ yenta-fada:
Um, Hawking huh?
RIX wrote:
When you truly understand the space-time continuum, “slow and easy” takes on a whole new dimension.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Has to be true.
Speranza wrote:
It’s not shallow. There are attributes to facial beauty such as symmetry that are considered ‘beautiful’ all across the planet. Even babies will respond to “beauty”. It’s how we are wired. There’s an international community of the beautiful people for a reason that has nothing to do with gossip. We naturally respond to beauty in many things.
@ 215 doriangrey: I’m a creationist that believes in evolution.
RIX wrote:
No woman who is even close to normal would take on that job.
yenta-fada wrote:
Good looks is never a handicap. I never heard any man or woman complain about being too handsome/pretty.
darkwords wrote:
Same here.
@ 232 The Osprey: that will pull back all the paul bots that left him. They were at least 60 percent of my GoP precinct caucus. Mitt will want to head that off.
doriangrey wrote:
I make it a hat trick.
@ 235 yenta-fada: nah heysoos just writes a lot of sarcasm as an art. It rubs some people the wrong way if they aren’t looking for it.
/s tag is not there.
m wrote:
Did you ever notice that ‘new thread’ sometimes stops conversation completely? Personally I think it’s because everyone suddenly remembers that there’s a real life out there that has to be taken care of.
@ 241 heysoos: A lot of well meaning people accept the 6000 years as fact because their faith requires it. Baptists? It’s not really an issue until someone pushes it into the public sector. A creationist can rule as well as a non creationist if they have some integrity and respect for the country.
Speranza wrote:
Lefties are often upset about people being “lookist,” i.e., responding to attractiveness instead of choosing to go with trolls.
darkwords wrote:
You are entitled to your opinion. I just think there’s no ‘there’ there. Unless you count insults as a good thing for a blog.
yenta-fada wrote:
Yes, but if it’s YOU that is beautiful -- problems. My mother was, my sister is and a few girlfriends in high school were.
It’s a curse.
To this day -- and she’s 58 yrs old -- my sister is not sure that any man ever loved her for herself.
And Mom, the Mardi Gras queen was pretty sure that was the foundation of her value.
keep it. Not in a million years.
@ 294 doriangrey: heysoos is fine. He is a TFK knock off and brings a point of view to the blog. Maybe a little rough still. woe to the oot drinking threads.
I was 6-7 years on LGF, glad to get out of the place. The mind control was getting to me. lol
darkwords wrote:
Nothing in common with TFK. Heysoos spills his life story on every thread. Not impressed.
@ 306 buzzsawmonkey: Very good point. In my own non organized way I consider myself a person of faith, but I do find myself questioning my path and what ultimately lies behind it. My doubts seem to be of a human nature and not necessarily a divine nature.
And my test for the existence of God is to test creativity. Do it when you believe in God and do it when you don’t. See if there is a difference. you can only test it for yourself. Your individual test has no meaning to anyone else. And I think God doesn’t like to be tested and will apply a karmic lesson, so only test yourself, not God.
@ 339 heysoos: If Jindal means more middle class jobs, then he is on the right line.
@ 392 PrincessNatasha: There was a movie out about that this year wasn’t there? I think Reese Witherspoon played you.
@ 403 eaglesoars: I think back 2000 years ago when times were really tough and wonder how marriages between people went. In some of the old preserved writings you can see there were thoughtful humane men and women who worked hard and enjoyed lives together. The unfortunates were born in areas of constant war and death.
@ 424 yenta-fada: that is his way of entering the room. He commented at LGF a long time so i think i have seen his stuff about 10 years now? old timer like most the people here. just no longer bound by chuck. I feel dumb a lot of the times watching what people post but i always learn something new to keep me ahead of the new kids.
new thread!!!!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
OK, so when Fermi built the Atomic Pile, he knew that their was a significant possibility that he would get a uncontrolled run away chain reaction. That the result of that runaway reaction would be a lethal does of radiation to whomever was within several hundred yards of the pile, basically himself ad the guys building it with him.
So, Fermi had a bottle of wine that was kept on a shelf above the door to his office in the room where the pile was built. It was the “Oh Shit were screwed, better get drunk” wine for just in case they killed themselves through radiation exposure. That bottle remained up on that shelf until sometime in the mid 60′s when it mysteriously disappeared.
That bottle on wine is one of Physic’s what could be called “Holy relic’s”. Your dad would most certainly have known about it, and maybe even known what happened to it.
darkwords wrote:
ROTFLMAO… TFK knockoff, not. But I don’t think he’s a troll or anything like that. Perhaps a bit of an agent provocateur, but not necessarily a bad guy.
doriangrey wrote:
Well, by the early-mid Sixties they tore down Stagg Field where the pile had been built, to put up the new library. There’s a Henry Moore sculpture on the site where the pile actually was, and some time ago—probably the 50th anniversary of the first chain reaction—they passed out copies of a commemorative lithograph to the survivors. The ink contained ground graphite from the old original pile; both my father and my uncle got one.
doriangrey wrote:
Usually lefties who look like Helen Thomas.
darkwords wrote:
Jobs, jobs, jobs. How one thinks the Earth came into being, I could not care less.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
When they tore the place down is most likely when the bottle went missing.
doriangrey wrote:
Probably. I hated to see the old Stagg Field go; as a kid, I’d loved its medieval castle-like wall.
Funny story; back before Robert Hutchins took over the University of Chicago, and banned football, the Chicago team had been a powerhouse under Amos Alonzo Stagg. It was because of that the UC team were called “the Monsters of the Midway,” the Midway being a grassy sward to the south of the University. It was supposed to be a Venetian canal during the Columbian Exposition of 1893, but they realized that if they let the lake into it they would flood the entire South Side. So the Midway became a huge green parkway—and the honky-tonk strip of the Exposition. It’s from the Midway that carnival thoroughfares are called “midways”—and, when Hutchins banned football from the University, the Chicago Bears took over the nickname “Monsters of the Midway,” even though they have nothing to do with the Midway or the University, because it was too good a name to lose.
Of course, Chicago’s airport back then was Midway (named after the battle), so they probably figured to get away with it on that score.