Chicago is a disaster of a city economically and criminal wise. Shooting and death happens daily and the situation seems out of control. Instead of trying to solve Chicago’s problems, rumors have it that Rahm Emanuel has ambitions for higher office. Rumors have it that he is contemplating a run for the White House in 2016.
The 53-year-old Emanuel, who is busy raising money for his 2015 reelection campaign in the Windy City, has had discussions both over the phone and face to face in the past month with Democratic Party donors and fundraisers about a possible White House run, according to sources.
It’s unclear who raised the subject—Emanuel or the donors—and the mayor’s press secretary didn’t offer any clarity on who said what to whom. However, Tarah Cooper sent a photo of Emanuel’s scrawl on yellow legal paper vowing “not ever” to run “for another office” and reiterated his longstanding pledge that, in his words, he’s “not interested. Not going to do it. No. I’ll do it in Hebrew: lo.” (Emanuel, the son of an Israeli doctor, had dual citizenship until he was 18.) Others expressed skepticism that any such discussions between Emanuel and donors could have been serious.
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Yet rumors of Emanuel’s higher ambitions persist. “I heard there were some conversations with donors especially during the inauguration,” a well-known Democratic politico told The Daily Beast, referring to the January 20-21 celebrations in Washington marking the launch of President Obama’s second term. A second highly placed Democrat echoed that account.
If these rumors are true, Rahm Emanuel’s presence will make the Democrat primary in 2016, a very nasty brutal affair.
I can’t wait for his “Swan Lake” campaign ads…
Oh, this should be good….
The downside, of course, will be seeing his smarmy face all over the networks.
An oppertunity to continue taking America in the direction of Chicago. Because Chicago is such a shining success…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I’m sure he looks just fetching in a black leotard. And those cute shoes.
This will get interesting.
Iron Fist wrote:
It seems Chicago has taken over America!
Must…not…make…”She”-cago joke…
Emanuel is the meanest toe dancer ever!
Rodan wrote:
Chicago is now being referred to as “Murder City”
With the nations most restrictive gun laws, how can
this be?
Libs just say more laws.
@ RIX:
They need stricter laws!
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buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s why I call it Обамаград!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
nope. His campaign song is going to be Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer”
First, LaRue Tactical. Then Olympic Arms. Now York Arms. Anybody else see a pattern devoloping here?
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/02/york-arms-cancels-all-its-new-york-police-orders/#axzz2KvrubcNd
Hat tip -- bonz at GCP
Absolutely!/
Wow, this country has become less an experiment in self-governance than an example of the Peter Principle.
MacDuff wrote:
Speaking of the Peter Principle, California now insists that porn actors wear condoms.
@ Mike C.:
Yup and I applaud them!
A meteor slams into Russian & later today an asteroid
will pass relatively close to Earth.
Coincidence? I think not.
Cheney is no doubt in a secret, undisclosed location
manipulating events./
MacDuff wrote:
This is another example.
The Obama Boom: Industrial Production falls .01%
People think the economy is booming despite economic facts.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
What a bunch of pricks!
Look at the last three cabinet appointments, Brennan,
Kerry & Hagel. Not Americas best.
A public dancer
A dancer for power
Who’ll do just what he wants to do
A public dancer
A dancer for power
Doesn’t give a damn whom he must screw
If the only way to get out of Chicago is to become president, what chances do the gang banger have?
The Clinton machine will start taking him down any time now. They aren’t going to let anybody else have a snowball’s chance by the time the primaries roll around.
I’m sure all the dirt Panetta quietly dug up during his CIA stint on Obama’s buddies will come in handy.
RIX wrote:
As far as cabinet appointments, Panetta was the best of the lot and there will com a time when we wish we had him back.
@ RIX:
All horrible people.
Later, all of you reactionary, redneck SOBs, I have errands to run!
@ MacDuff:
@ MacDuff:
Panetta was pretty sorry, himself. He certainly didn’t cover himself with glory when it came to Benghazi. He knows nothing, he did nothing, and above all, he’s saying nothing. He’s a stooge.
@ livefreeor die:
This should prove interesting, because IIRC Rahm came to prominence as part of the Clinton machine. Perhaps it’s just my reactionary redneck paranoia but I can’t help but think there’s a larger purpose to this.
@ MacDuff:
I see them as far worse that their predecessors. It’s like one of us said during his first term “he couldn’t get any worse” and he answered “oh YEAH?????”
@ MacDuff:
Since we’re on the subject of delusional, sick, sad politicians and the Party that loves them:
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/15/harry-reid-im-going-to-call-hagel-to-say-im-sorry-for-gop-filibuster/#disqus_thread
Which prompts me to say -- since he’s in the mood to apologize, I’ll be standing by my phone on behalf of the TEA Party.
Lobo will stand by on behalf of the NRA.
@ Mike C.:
Jerry Jeff Walker -- the guy who introduced Jimmy Buffett to Key West…..
@ lobo91:
Hee Lobo -- check mine out above -- you got an honorable mention!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
What’s wrong with it ?
@ lobo91:
I hope they go to the mat for him. They need to show America and Israel exactly how much contempt for them the Democrats really have.
@ Iron Fist:
Opposing Hagel manes you are a Reactionary Redneck!
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@ Rodan:
Make that a paranoid reactionary redneck.
@ lobo91:
How much do you want to bet that Sen. Pederast lobbies Обама to make a “Recess Appointment”, Constitution be Damned?!
Guggi wrote:
We can start with “what’s wrong with it” by looking at the corruption and decay which permits pornography to operate as an open and legitimate industry.
We can then point out that if the porno industry is indeed a “legitimate industry,” mandating condoms on the dicks of its fuckboys kind of destroys the product that this “legitimate industry” is selling.
In a bizarre way, the above actually shows the Obama Economy—dickhead style—by legitimating an illegitimate industry and then regulating it to death.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Yes forgot the paranoid part.
@ Rodan:
Well, we want to be correct around here. Don’t want to disappoint the sanctimonious condescending dickheads that come here to think they aren’t providing a valuable education.
@ Carolina Girl:
Yes, we must listen to our betters!
Carolina Girl wrote:
Really good to see Ca hasn’t taken all your NC cut throat redneck attitude from you. A homegirl to this redneck!
Militant Vagina Naomi Wolf in talks to join al-Jazeera.
Macker wrote:
It’s really fascinating to think that the Senate under Reid is the first legislative body in human history to voluntarily give up some of its power.
Carolina Girl wrote:
I’m waiting by the phone.
Macker wrote:
I bet Obama was a holy terror at recess even as a little kid.
@ Tanker:
I’m still laughing over what happened in the last thread. Opposing a Nanny state makes somebody a Paranoid Reactionary Redneck!
Its just one of those WTF moments.
Rodan wrote:
Moe Katz is an asshole.
Of course, he’s really just interested in further diminishing the quality of our military. We have no need for a draft at this time, considering that we’re going to be cutting tens of thousands of positions as it is.
@ Tanker:
I love NASCAR too much. And Coors Light beer. And BBQ.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I just can’t believe that statement I am trying to make sense of it.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Pity the poor bloke sitting there removing them with CGI
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I’m sure she’ll be very fetching in a burq’a. In designer shades.
@ lobo91:
Rangel has been pushing the draft for years.
@ Carolina Girl:
The media is still talking about Rubio drinking water, but are silence on Menendez banging underage Dominican girls.
@ lobo91:
I would have pretty puppy take the call. Of course, Harry would STILL be conversing with an intellectual BETTER!
Rodan wrote:
I only agree with drafting politicians and their families
Rodan wrote:
And he’s never gotten anywhere with it.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Nothing like NASCAR, Carolina BBQ, I have my sister send it to me 10 lbs at a time! Don’t drink any longer, so in that regard I don’t redneckenize the Coors!
Carolina Girl wrote:
I could probably teach her to answer the phone. The speakerphone button lights up when it rings.
@ Rodan:
Fultonchain did the same damn thing a couple weeks ago. Wants to disagree but then sets himself up as some kind of intellectual superior, coming here to educate those pitiful amongst us who have been corrupted by the evil right wing media and Darth Cheney.
I spent two weeks in Vermont taking a military course a couple of years ago.
I don’t think there’s much danger of this happening.
Rodan wrote:
Did you catch:
I missed that one the first time around; as CG said “chilling”.
@ lobo91:
Nope, he’s like a broken record with it.
@ MacDuff:
Freedom that matters. Who determines that. That is a very scary thought process.
@ Carolina Girl:
In Fultonchain’s case I was sad by that. He’s usually a good Liberal to have a back and forth with. But he came in swinging.
@ waldensianspirit:
I can agree to that since they love to send people to war.
@ lobo91:
At present, she still has a more useful skill set than Harry.
By the way, did he ever offer any proof to quell those rumors that he’s a pederast?
@ Rodan:
I believe I said that very thing that afternoon, that I was supremely disappointed by FC’s postings that day. And frankly, he deserved every bit of ass-kicking that he got.
Forget BBQ (or whatever variety.) Gimme a good hot dog to grill (and no, I don’t mean to start up THAT war.) Love the BBQ, mind you, but sometimes nothing will do but a dog. Ate me somes just last week. And I’d like one right now…
@ MacDuff:
It is the typical Elitist attitude. They determine what freedoms matter, and if they don’t think it matters, then the State can trample it. As I said on that thread, Mussolini had a similar view of Liberty.
@ Iron Fist:
They are Neo-Feudlaists.
@ Mike C.:
No war from me -- I LOVE those 1/4-lb. hot dogs from Hebrew National. Or Miller’s.
Mike C. wrote:
No War here, love me some dogs too!
I had actually planned to see “Lincoln” until Rush broadcast the screenwriter’s appearance on the Charlie Rose show.
Reagan = evil
Obama = saint
Fuck you asshole.
@ Carolina Girl:
All hail our mighty god-king Obama!
@ Rodan:
Tony Kushner’s his name. Supposed to be smart.
Apparently not, since he does live in realville.
@ Carolina Girl:
These Hollywood types are not very smart.
Rush just played a clip of Tony Kushner on Charlie Rose:
“We have no hope of survival as a spieces if we continue with this psychotic individualism”
Kushner wrote the screenplay for ‘Lincoln”
@ eaglesoars:
Individualism is why Humanity has advanced as a species. He’s an outright Communist.
@ eaglesoars:
The Kushner jerk is insufferable. Had he put forth this interview BEFORE the movie opened, it would have died at the box office. He’s the biggest, most ignorant jerk I’ve ever seen, complete with Gay person’s hatred of everything Republican. Which is why he wrote Angels in America.
eaglesoars wrote:
Tony Kushner is an anti-Jewish Jew and a gay-liberation fanatic. The latter means that he is a “human-rights” activist opposed to the principles of the Constitution.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
He’s a Marxist.
@ Rodan:
Don’t know how often you check it, but I dropped you an email on something you might like to look at this weekend.
MacDuff wrote:
As I have said before, as soon as a Leftist starts talking about “need,” you’re in trouble.
@ Rodan:
@ Carolina Girl:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yeah, but he’s also hilarious. I’d love to take him on.
NOT a fair fight but certainly would be fun!
Rodan wrote:
Oh, that ith THO Ghey!
/Барни_Франк
Rodan wrote:
Same shit, different garments.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Ah yes, one of those one dimensional, knuckle dragging anti-intellectuals.
@ MacDuff:
Just read it, Thanks for that! I am very interested!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yup!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
You argue against the porno-industry itself but you don’t have an argument against wearing condoms since in most productions it has already become a matter of course.
What’s wrong with pornography?
Later, peeps. I’ve tarried far too long and I must scurry on to my appointed rounds so as not to antagonize my chosen female of the species. She’s most unpleasant when antagonized.
Guggi wrote:
Aside from the fact that it debases the sex act, debases the people who engage in sex acts for hire, debases the people who view them, and is an indicator of the debasement of the society that permits it to flourish openly?
Nothing at all.
@ eaglesoars:
I’d love to see you take him on, too.
He’s too much a coward to go on with someone like Levin.
William F. Buckley would have turned him into hamburger.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
If people do not like porn, do not watch it. Problem solved.
Why am I not surprised…
IIRC, Kushner’s “Angels in America” spent a lot of time sneering at Roy Cohn for refusing to admit he was homosexual even as he was dying of AIDS. Yet, in a sense, Kushner accepted Cohn’s self-definition, in the same inverted/perverted way that militant blacks do with regard to, say, Justice Clarence Thomas.
Kushner is saying to Cohn; “You think you’re special, but you’re dying of AIDS anyway, just like the rest of us faggots!” The militants say to Thomas, “You think you is special, but you jes’ a n*gger like us!” What neither Kushner, nor the black militants, recognize is that Cohn, and Thomas, are saying to their respective detractors, “No. I am not like you. I am not bounded by the limits you have placed on yourselves, even if I am sometimes constrained by the same limits which constrain you. I have decided that I can do more and be more despite those limits, and I do not, therefore, make common cause with you, who have decided to make those limits the determination of your lives.”
lobo91 wrote:
If they’re dissing “Big Tobacco” they are spitting in the face of the proud Native American heritage.
@ lobo91:
Charles harped on this a few days ago.
He feels vindicated because for years he claimed tha Big Tobacco was behind some plot involving the Tea Party, Fox News, Glenn Beck and other people/organizations.
the end is near
Hey! We missed the end of the world!
Damn. That means April 15 really IS going to arrive.
Well, what I meant by “war” was the perpetual war over which hot dogs are best. Nathan’s are good, as are Hebrew National. But once in your life, try Niman’s Ranch hot dogs. Expensive as hell. But if the gods on Olympus ate hot dogs, these are the ones they ate. Huge, fat, juicy and mondo tasty.
@ lobo91:
Stanton Glantz, the asshole who did the study is a rabid anti-smoking dick who has no credibility. So of court, Cheetos boy, not doing his research, thinks Glantz came to the correct conclusion.
Mind you, when I was transiting the Miami airport lately, I passed up all the fancy food places and got me a Nathan’s hot dog. And damned good they were, too. Brown mustard and diced onions here. Duck into the AA lounge across the floor for beers afterwards. Or before. Or both. After 6 weeks in the Third World, a decent hot dog seems more appealing than all that froo-froo food.
New Thread.
a grilled Nathan’s, some chili (no beans), a few pieces of sweet onion and a squirt of mustard…mighty tasty fare
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Aside from the fact that the sex act itself is an act of reproduction and not necessarely an act of love and as long as no one is forced to work in said industry or forced to watch their products I can’t see how this can debase anyone.
Pornography has been around since we know about human culture, nothing new.
Guggi wrote:
Not in porn it ain’t. Particularly not with a condom.
You were saying….?
Guggi wrote:
Yes, pornography has been around since we knew about human culture. How we regard it is a determination of our own culture.
Can you understand that? Try; do. If you regard what used to be called “the act of love” as a merely mechanical reproductive procedure, then denigrate the reproductive procedure to exalt the mere pleasure of the act, you are looking at a depraved society.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
What exactly is wrong with being a paranoid reactionary redneck?
You aren’t paranoid if somebody (such as death panels or jihadis) really does want to kill you!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I agree with you on that.
The public acceptance of debauchery that began in the late 1960s has contributed to the breakdown of family life and of society in general.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Sexuality is a drive to make reproduction possible. Without this drive we wouldn’t reproduce. This doesn’t say that every sex act has to be a (successful) act of reproduction. If humans need some support to fire their drive, what’s wrong with this ? Do you really believe that a sex act of a married couple after twenty years of marriage is an act of love or merely an act for relaxation of the drive ?
It worries me more that 70 percent of the French youth have never spoken with their parents about sexuality and I doubt that France is the exception but the rule.
Saw him as Obama’s chief of staff
Dog doo Rahm Rahm Rahm dog doo Rahm Rahm
He wants to be President? It is to laugh
Dog doo Rahm Rahm Rahm dog doo Rahm Rahm
Yes, he was once chief of staff
As President it is to laugh
Yes, we have to send him home
Dog doo Rahm Rahm Rahm dog doo Rahm Rahm…