My brain hurts.
Well, it was a great last night. Half of the neuro team and all of stroke service were here. The menu was expansive, the booze was flowing.
time is brain.
Saturday Lecture.
by coldwarrior ( 60 Comments › )Filed under Uncategorized at November 17th, 2012 - 9:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Allen West is still fighting> Nowhere was it omore obvious that the Republican Mandarins would rather lose than have the uncooth Tea Party Barbarians in their party than with Allen West. If it were just about Party power, I’d say Fuck ‘em, they deserve to lose, but the Democrats are going to destroy this nation. I’m just not certain that the Party Mandarins want to save the country, either. I think they are more concerned about their Georgetown party invites than they are fending off economic collapse.
Iron Fist wrote:
Just ask Meghan McCain.
@ eaglesoars:
Meghan’s boobs contain all of her IQ. She’s threatening to leave the Republican Party because of gay marriage. I’d say go, and don’t let thedoor hit your ass on the way out.
Iron Fist wrote:
heh. Or as Glenn Reynolds quipped “She should have threatened to stay”
Oh, and that’s not her IQ -- that’s her ego
it’s like waking up to find out the nightmare is real…astonishing how fucked up the world is
You are about to enter the world of Barack Obama…In this world up is down…right is wrong…dark is light…you are about to enter the TWILIGHT ZONE enjoy your stay..
Nothing like leaving the last post on a dead thread…
Iron Fist wrote:
Because they are not a party in the common sense. They are more or lesse an organization of people with some common interests in one or the other case. They really have no concept, not a working structure and everyone has an axe to grind.
the primary intention of government service is re-election….everybody, both parties
heysoos wrote:
Unless they’re Tea Party in which case their own party will try to block them, see Allen West
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, we’ll see what happens there. It is clear that the “Republicans” would prefer a Democrat in congress instead of West. I don’t reckon he’s getting any help from the national party on his recount efforts.
Not just West. Romney too, which I just don’t get.
Channel surfing. Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC.
“This is GREAT!! That beeping sound you hear? That’s the Republican party backing up over Mitt Romney”
She has a point. His comments about ‘free stuff’ may have been impolitic, but they are correct. To watch Bobby Jindal pitch a fit about ‘divisiveness’ was unsettling.
Britt Hume tweeted that somebody should probably hose him (Jindal) down.
eaglesoars wrote:
We lost, therefore the circular firing squad has been assembled in order to punish the bastards that were responsible. It’s a Republican tradition.
MacDuff wrote:
Rush was talking about it earlier in the week. Do the DEMOCRATS moan about how they have to become more like Republicans when they lose?
No. But now there is some university student -- female -- writing an op-ed piece in WSJ lecturing on how we have to give it up on the social issues -- i.e., gay marriage and abortion.
Telling people who believe abortion is nothing more complicated than baby killing that they have to give up their opposition in order to win elections is a complete non-starter.
@ MacDuff:
.
Hey Mac. I don’t like all of this scapegoating Romney.
He was not a perfect candidate, but better than McCain
four years ago & a hell of a lot better than Obama.
If Romney had a lap dog media , who knows?
@ Iron Fist:
@ eaglesoars:
How much do you wanna bet Meghan is bi?
Macker wrote:
Thanks. Now I don’t need lunch.
@ RIX:
Romney is a good man who ended up being a victim to a party that who’s leadership doesn’t share the views of it’s base. His biggest mistake was bringing on a campaign team consisting of GOP retreads, which shows a lack of judgment on his part.
He wasn’t my cup of tea, but he certainly pleasantly surprised me throughout his campaign.
Most disappointing to me is the current treatment of Paul Ryan. He’s getting it from both sides. The “establishment” is claiming that he was “too radical,” while many conservatives are saying that because he came out with a plan that didn’t do enough quickly enough, he’s not “conservative” enough.
The last I checked, he’s pretty much the only person WITH a workable plan, and practically speaking it was a good, doable start.
Bumr50 wrote:
ugh
Should read: “party whose leadership.”
PIMF.
gotta go -- later
@ eaglesoars:
When the Dems lost to Bush twice, they didn’t try to get more like the Republicans. They went harder Left. Now for Congress in 2006 they ran “conservative” Democrats , but they purged the ones that took their conservatism seriously. They are harder left now than they were during the first two years of the Clinton Administration. Of course, they lost the House because of that, but Pelosie Galore is still minority leader. We need to work better on getting our message out, but mostly we need to get mean. Dirty politics works. Romney should have been running against the tax-and-spend Democrats from day one. He was willing to get nasty to win the primaries, then played nice with Obama in the General. It is very disheartening.
@ eaglesoars:
Wait!
Do I have an odor or something?
It seems that I’ve inherited the mantle of “Threadkiller” from dear Lily lately.
@ Bumr50:
There is way too much finger pointing.
Obama is an outlier candidate & hard to defeat.
His race & far left ideology get the Dem base rabid.
As it turns out Independents are mostly Democrats.
Now the establishment Republicans want to purge the
Tea Party. Things were going so well before them./
My problem is that after four more years, what pieces
will be left to pick up?
@ Iron Fist:
The American Left (oxymoron, I know) has the long game mastered, while the GOP can’t see past tomorrow.
Another Obama foreign policy triumph:
@ lobo91
Those Iraqi Jeffersonian Democrats are so grateful to us
for troops sacrifices./
@ lobo91:
Morons. They don’t have an “oil weapon.” Some of them are apparently too stupid to remember that little fact.
@ lobo91:
They wouldn’t even have considered making making that statement had Mitt Romney won the election.
Mitt could’ve brought Clint back for that: “Go ahead, make my day.”
@ Mike C.:
Interesting.
I went to a government website to find data on Iraqi petroleum exported to the US, and it’s missing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20
“BRAKE!”
lobo91 wrote:
Oh, the Europeans will bend over.
@ Bumr50:
Of course not. Obama is the weak horse. The Mohammedans don’t respect him.
Kuwait, the UAE and The Magic Kingdom are still under the control of people who, at the very least, intend to keep on padding their ample Swiss bank accounts, and who have no intention of driving prices to the point where there will be an explosion in unconventional resource development whose effects will be to diminish their own piece of the pie. They are already uneasy over the recent rise in horizontal drilling and multiple frac work to squeeze production out of formerly unproduceable reservoirs. Suppose they held an oil embargo and nobody cared?
@ Mike C.:
And of course, oil is pretty much fungible. If you decide not to sell to A, then you have to sell to B, who stops buying oil from his previous supplier, which is promptly sold to A. The 73 embargo was actually just a supply disruption, nothing more. It ended when the Arabs noticed it was losing any impact whether they liked it or not. It would have much less effect today if repeated.
@ Mike C.:
Nobody ever claimed that Arab oil ministers were all that bright.
@ lobo91:
It seems to me that that all depends on whether or not our esteemed gubmint officials acknowledge this bluff as an ACTUAL threat…
Bumr50 wrote:
heh. No, Molly the Beagle wanted to take a nap and she wanted to be held while she was at it -- which makes doing much else a bit difficult. I finally put her on the bed and snuggled her into a pillow where she snoring away
I’ve been watching some fascinating stuff on ancient Egypt on the History Channel. It’s heartbreaking to see the glory they once built and look at the slum the place is today.
Bumr50 wrote:
Are you kidding? Obama thinks it’s a gift. Yeah, cut us off -- Americans can’t keep their houses at 72 degrees just because we can, time to learn some humility.
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks! I was getting worried…
Just got an e-mail with some info that my relatively young arse didn’t know:
@ Bumr50:
SHE’S AT FT BRAGG!!
Crap, I wish I’d known that, I would have paid my respects when I was there.
Oh, yeah, Bumr50, Martha and Bob Hope, Ann Margaret -- Hollywood hasn’t always been a left-wing asylum.
@ Bumr50:
One reason that you didn’t know that information is that it’s mostly not true.
Martha Raye was never in the military, and, as far as I know, was not an actual nurse (although she did sometimes help take care of wounded troops).
She is buried in the main post cemetery at Fort Bragg.
“It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning & managing their own government with an inability to own & manage their own business.” Calvin Coolidge
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
Sorry:-(
Assuming has made me an even bigger a**.
Bumr50 wrote:
Mister Rogers wasn’t a Navy SEAL, either.
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
LONG BUT NECESSARY ADDENDUM TO ABOVE POST:
Again, apologies.
Bumr50 wrote:
Why? She was a great lady and we were lucky to have her.
eaglesoars wrote:
I agree.
But you really have to be careful about those emails that periodically turn up. Most of them are seriously embellished.
@ eaglesoars:
I know, but it’s the principle of the thing.
This is the third or fourth time that my Dad has sent me this stuff that specifically comes with a caveat that it’s been “fact-checked” by some some org. like Snopes, and I just believe it because it came from the old man. Anyone else and I’d double check.
I just sent him a firm but polite e-mail.
@ Bumr50:
I get that same kind of thing from my mom all the time. I always check before sending it on. So far, about 95% of it’s been a load of crap.
@ Bumr50:
There’s more truth to the Martha Raye one than most of them, but it still has major errors.
I always like the ones about the alleged combat heroics of Mister Rogers and Captain Kangaroo.
Here’s a bit of what Rush had to say:
lobo91 wrote:
Srsly? I’ve never seen any of that stuff. Must be on the wrong email lists….
eaglesoars wrote:
If the libtards want their Obamacare I say let em self-deport themselves to the blue states that are going to set up the exchanges.
@ eaglesoars:
Mister Rogers
Captain Kangaroo
@ lobo91:
That’s hilarious!
eaglesoars wrote:
You’d be amazed at how many people believe those stories.
You’d be amazed at how many people believe those stories.
lobo91 wrote:
I only believed Carlos Hathcock when it comes to sniping…him and Stephen Hunter
Bumr50 wrote:
Aw, go on. Happens to everyone now and then. You’re in very good company.