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Paul Ryan is focused on the task before him. No frivolities will distract him.
Would a truly doggedly on-task type guy make a good President? Maybe not!
I like that Ryan has accepted Ezra Klein's invites on Ezra's blog.
I've only caught glimpses of this discussion because I'm not a regular Kleinite. But, it's nice to see two informed folks directly confront each other in a back and forth conversation, with a lot of detail and specifics.
If Ryan won't run for President, will he at least be the Sommelier at the White House?
Perry and Palin are just not wine savy.
Ryan would make a much better Speaker.
No. Ryan is too much of a green-eyeshade sort of guy much better suited to leadership in the House or Senate where he can be a force for fiscal sanity providing leadership by dint of his command of financial/budgetary minutia. He's not a "big picture" (you know, that "vision thing") kinda guy needed to move the masses to action; rather, he has the personality and physical mien of a CPA. Most people self-select themselves into the slots in life in which they find themselves. Exceptions aside, there IS A REASON the sort of personality that becomes a CPA doesn't become a fighter pilot and visa versa. Ryans GOP polar opposite is Perry, whose personality was made for executive branch political life.
Keep Ryan where he is..
I'm sure the Demolitioncrats would LOVE to have Ryan as VP. It would take him out of a very powerful position in the House and promote him to one that has few responsibilities and virtually no influence on public policy -- unless a Senate vote ties; and how often does that happen? He would be a fool to accept if he was tapped for veep, unless he's ready to check out anyway.
Would a truly doggedly on-task type guy make a good President? Maybe not!
If the task is taking on all of a President's responsibilities on behalf of the entire US public, then a doggedly on-task type guy would wholly eclipse the glorious, viciously partisan Obama.
He's not a "big picture" (you know, that "vision thing") kinda guy needed to move the masses to action; rather, he has the personality and physical mien of a CPA.
Oh, sure. He only stood down the great eloquent Obama on the subject of the deficit, and he moved the masses of the House to pass his deficit-reduction plan last spring. Very few in the House are as articulate as he is, and nobody else, on either side of the aisle, has thought through a plan to systematically end the endless deficits - and put it up on a website for all to see.
You can demagogue against it, sure, but until you put your own plan up in public (no Democrat has the guts) your assertions are just wind.
Paul Ryan is focused on the task before him. No frivolities will distract him.
Not even his constituents who he refuses to meet. Well that's not exactly true, he will for $15 with an appointment. Every prostitute has a price ya know.
There is no coherent argument that says Ryan is too valuable in the House to run for President that also says that he ought to run for Vice President.
Would a truly doggedly on-task type guy make a good President? Maybe not!
Two things:
1) Anytime I'm watching the news and they talk of what "may" happen, I think "may not" and tune them out. The same applies in reverse.
2) In this age of extreme frivolousness, there's a definite bias against seriousness - especially in a male. The bias, of course, is against males period (not much of a stretch for a feminist) because you don't hear ANY praise, nor is there even a search for, a "strong man" as there is for the Oprah-overloaded "strong woman," who is seemingly-everywhere. Let a strong male appear and the question of "is he too macho?" is bound to trailing not far behind. (Has anyone ever asked if a woman is "too strong"?)
All that said, when our problems are so specific - and fixable - why wouldn't "a truly doggedly on-task type guy make a good President?" Or a good anything else? Because he wouldn't pay attention to our bullshit? Well, if it's our adherence to bullshit that got us into this (and I would whole-heartedly suggest that it is) then maybe a non-destractable guy is just the remedy to the problem - the problem being, partially, our attraction to receiving attention for nothing much but trying not to be bored because, ultimately, we're boring.
We, in this case, being a nation ruled by hippies and the hippie mindset.
"Not even his constituents who he refuses to meet. Well that's not exactly true, he will for $15 with an appointment. Every prostitute has a price ya know."
Just like the above commenter's veracity is a prostitute to his ideology.
In fact, Ryan never charged anybody $15 to talk to him. The $15 admission fee was charged by the private organization (the Whitnall Park Rotary Club), in part to keep neofascist progressives like the above commenter from distrupting the meeting. And I'm sure it worked like a charm, because progressives don't like to pay for anything out of pocket.
Ron Paul for VP
Let him be the curmudgeon. Put him in charge of dismantling useless programs.
Put him in charge of deleting useless govt departments.
Let him PRESIDE over the Senate which is the VP's job. (As Palin recognized in the VP debate, flummoxing Biden yet again)
Let him be the VP in charge of obstruction.
I do not support Perry because if he is the candidate, Paul can't be VP.
John Henry
Would a truly doggedly on-task type guy make a good President?
Have we had one?
J said...
You're too stupid for politics, Cracki.
Hint: it's not about...helping the very rich and powerful by giving them additional tax breaks, de-reg, Randian crap, etc
J you're too stupid to even breath. Put yourself out of your misery and abort yourself in an environmentally and Gaia friendly way as quickly as possible. And have a nice day.
Nah, progressives are known for their little kristallnacht street theater protests with property destruction and multiple arrests for civil disobedience. And for flooding the zone with invective, gainsaying, and name calling. Progressives should embrace their inner fascist nature. Come out of the closet! Your brown shirts and armbands await you.
(Yeah, Godwin's Law blah blah blah. So what.)
He can do the most good where he is. And Sarah would be a totally awesome Department of Energy head!
Greenspan said that the only President that he had encountered who was thoroughly sane was Ford-- and Ford was an accidental President. Both Ryan and Chrystie seem sane and modest. That will probably disqualify them.
I would never argue that Ryan is totally inarticulate or that he would be a poor chief executive, only that , unfortunately the qualities that one needs to get elected to the Presidency are NOT the qualities needed to "run the government" (a dubious concept in and of itself) once elected--as the mere existence of Obama glaringly testifies. Perry, by contrast, seems to have a better mix of the two qualities needed to succeed at both tasks. The greatest "policy wonk" in the world is no good if he a) can't get elected and/or b) once elected, can't move both the nation and Congress to action by convincing both of the necessity of his agenda--that "vision thing" again--arguably possession of which the reason Regan won election originally and the lack thereof the reason Bush 41 lost his own re-election.
I would agree that if Ryan was the nominee (or Christie or Daniels), then the POTUS Obama team would be nervous. (Disclosure: I have been told this by many super K-street consultants.)
No one says that it is likely that Ryan will be the VP. Many reasons. One is that he (Ryan) does not care much of Perry or Romney. Second is that he believes that GOP will lose the fight and it would be best for him to be ready in 2016.
The verdict is unchanged: GOP is trashed everywhere by the POTUS. Every where. No place to hide for the GOP. Why? Because GOP has not had any deliverables, no vision, no diversity platform, no leadership in the world, etcetera.
At this point in time Americans are so People Magazine minded, celebrity-reality TV minded and enamored with the flashy = competence myth that someone like Paul Ryan is a an unknown known. Or is it unknown unknown?
Or maybe he is just an alien.
How about Sec Treasury in the next administration? Wherever, he has to be given a hand in us becoming financially responsible nation once again, as he seems to be one of the minority of adults left in the room known as DC.
(Imagine George Washington, Thomas Jeffereson, John Adams and the like being evaluated by today's press and people?
They were doggedly focused on the task of starting a country based on idea which never had been formulated into a working model, much a less a functioning country. Obama should be embarrassed that he tried to to be in their lineage.)
When we get over the childish need for someone flashy to be POTUS and want someone who does the job, does it efficiently, without petty petulence, and keeps the ideals of this unique and exceptional American model of citizens owning and running their lives and mutually taking care of their international identity and welfare ....)
Well, maybe we'll be through with this asinine redistributive and humans rights squashing form of federally funded personality cultism at some point.
But not holding my breath.
in part to keep neofascist progressives like the above commenter from distrupting the meeting.
Actually progressives were counter demonstrating the nazi rally in West Allis [note, not Madison] on Saturday. Wait, Althouse didn't let you in on that one? Shame! Where were conservatives that day I wonder. Apparently they were fine with nazi rallies. Hmmph.
Elected Republicans aren't nearly as dumb as their base, they will never put RyanCare on the national ticket, he is after all, the 3rd least popular Republican in America. While Ryan is sipping $300 wine with billionaires and calling the police on his constitutients, his challenger Rob Zerban is doing listening sessions at taverns where real folk are drinking $2 tappers.
But of course, Gerald R. Ford, a co-author of the Warren Report, was a high ranking member of the Bavarian Illuminati. Ewige blumenkraft!
Yes, either Energy or Interior as another slot that would also be a perfect fit for Palin.
Doesn't this news frustrate the "top runners?" Isn't there something "vanilla" about the GOP where no one comes up with a plan that satifies a majority of voters?
Yesterday, I saw a comment at a Breitbart's link ... that I thought was just top notch! The person goes by the handle: Clarity In LA. (Or, as spelled: Clarityinla). Take a look at these 13 proposals. (And even if you don't pick all of them ... why aren't these proposals on the table, yet?)
1) Repeal Obamacare
2) Repeal Dodd-Frank "Be big to fail," instead.
3) Reform the tax code.
4) Cut down the Fed's size!
5) Reform Social security. Don't destroy it!
6) Tighten borders.
This was a good one: "Issue ID cards for every single person who works in the US coming in from foreign countries. Create a database. Allow workers to cross our borders as long as they are working.
7) Require legal residence/job/taxes of aliens IF they want to use entitlements such as education, medical. Etc. For themselves or family members.
8) Allow for vouchers to replace all Federal funding of schools.
9) End corporate welfare and crony capitalism. (Sarah Palin has already said this.)
10) Legalize marijuana. Or allow states to control this. Take the Feds AWAY! (This even helps Mexico.)
11) Prevent the spread of Sharia Law. RE-STATED: No other laws supersedes our US Constitution.
12) Require ALL voters to show a valid PICTURE ID. It must contain a "mark" that you are eligible to vote.
13) Allow states to decide if they want to drill for oil. This is not a Federal decision policy!
So J is an anti-semite. Sui generis for a progressive, obviously. Who'd a thunk it.
It's not how a President approaches the tasks, but which tasks he chooses. After I know that, then I'll tell you how doggedly I want him on it.
Obama's incompetence is actually his best quality.
(I never knew I was Jewish. Why am I all of a sudden craving a bowl of Matzoh ball soup? Oy.)
Yes, JAL, if you're not at least a semi "hipster" anymore one need not apply. Think of a Taft or even TR and his mustache (remember, one of John Bolton's main criticisms--besides the fact he has no name recognition--concerns the size of his mustache). Short, gray-haired and/or bald(ing) un-telegenic oldish-looking (whether actually truly old or not) white men need not apply--no matter HOW qualified, knowledgeable, articulate and/or experienced they are..
He seems more interested and better suited to become Treasury Secretary; or, as others have implied, there are other positions (in the executive and legislative branches) which require similarly qualified individuals.
It is a mistake to assign a near divine status to executive roles (especially president) exclusively, and to disregard the other roles which also demand individuals of integrity.
Yup. Obama doesn't have to change his act. He just has to out-wait his opponents. (Including Merkel.)
The GOP's problem is "vanilla." Where we live in a nation full of all sorts of flavors. You couldn't become Baskin & Robbins, if all you offered was vanilla.
While too many of today's GOP condendahs feel safe by offering nothing at all.
What's ahead?
Perry wrote a book that when it gets read out loud by opponents ... will make him look like the democrap he once was.
And, Mitt? He's afraid of his own shadow! He runs by posing a great head of hair!
The GOP can't run a schlemiel, either. The role is taken.
And, I listened to Sarah's 42 minute speech, yesterday, in Iowa. She's carrying a lot of angry baggage. Speech was too long. Too narrow on specifics. And, her audience was too vanilla.
Did Ryan say he would consider VP? It looked to me like he declined to answer the question.
Interesting negative comments in the Journal-Sentinel about Ryan and his proposals. They make me proud to be an ex-Democrat.
Check the history of Fascism and/or fascism.
Both are socialist to their boots.
Rand, Paul and other liberals (A/K/A libertarians) may be many things but they are as far from being socialist as can be.
You better learn what fascism is before you throw the term around.
John Henry
garage - you're despicable. Do you honestly believe Republicans are ok with Nazi rallies? Do you honestly believe that? Are you that venal?
Boehner's not gonna be replaced as Speaker!
Because Boehner is actually preferred by democraps. INCLUDING VOTERS! Who will vote back in the republican majority in the House.
Pelosi is the one that's HATED!
And, make of it what you wish ... Obama hates her, too!
Hillary and Pelosi are the cans that get kicked around.
Fiscal responsibility won't even start until a president decides to toss out Cabinet chairs. One by one? Two by two?
Obama is very motivated to win.
Obama will also keep sucking on vanilla ice cream cones. It seems to pass some visual test.
I can see that nothing gets through to J. Like water off a duck's back. He has his marching orders from Media Matters.
BTW - nobody should be fooled by my occasional forays into devil advocacy. It's called SATIRE.
What about the guy the would consider "throwing the game"?
Oh, yeah....he was the rational choice.
Do you honestly believe Republicans are ok with Nazi rallies?
You tell me Alex. All I know is progressives outnumbered Nazi's 50-1 in West Allis.
Maybe Broccoli Head could illuminate.
JAL / Virgil X.: Americans can elect radically different leaders if they need to. Look at David Dinkins, who lost to Rudy Giuliani in 1993. Obama is in a simiar situation. There is no way that he can hang on to the presidency. Americans want a more competent leader; and are going to be looking to the GOP to provide one.
Actually progressives were counter demonstrating the nazi rally in West Allis
I think what Garage meant to say was that progressive socialists were counterdemonstrating the national socialist rally.
John Henry
Maybe Broccoli Head could illuminate.
"No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 10
Such language. My partner is a hip hop artist, but even his rhetoric is cleaner than that.
No, J, the National Socialists ("Nazis" as you call them) were not bolshevists.
Nor have most socialists in history been Bolshevists.
They were National, as opposed to international, socialists.
What they practiced was pure socialism. The control of the means of production for (allegedly) the benefit of the workers.
Doesn't matter whose name is on the title paper. Socialism is about controlling the means of production.
Read some history.
John Henry
Unlike you, Orwell was an anti-Fascist.
J said...
C-bob-- yr too stupid to be online trash, where yr life is in jeopardy, mafia swine
got that, tough teabagger trash
The only good communist is dead communist. Now run off and be a good communist and just fuck off and die already. You are truly the dumbest and most obnoxious asshole commenter ever. Seriously, fuck off and die already. And have a nice day.
He seems more like a guy who gets things done than someone who would have to spend all day playing politics. Making speaches. Going to fundraisers. Fighting Big Media.
Actually I don't see why any sane smart person would want to be in government.
Unless you crave power.
Ryan's is last week's wet dream. This week it's Rubio.
Accomplished guy, but he may want a little more time in grade.
PS J's here? I thought he'd be out delivering all those beatdowns he's been promising.
Virgil says: "He's not a "big picture" (you know, that "vision thing") kinda guy needed to move the masses to action; rather, he has the personality and physical mien of a CPA."
Yes, that's what it is. I have a finance background and when I see certain politicians speak, I just roll my eyes and think "that person wouldn't last 1 month out in the real world". Ryan is more like a finance-type person than a ranting politicians.
Example: Democrat says "Republicans want to kill medicare/caid/social security and starve the old folks."
It takes Ryan at least 5 or so minutes to explain the basics of his plan to save Medicare. He is more of a thinking than a sound bit ranter.
I think what Garage meant to say was that progressive socialists were counterdemonstrating the national socialist rally.
You can call it whatever you want. The left was demonstrating against Nazis. Right wing, no where to be found. You can make sense of that any way you please.
wow J has really jumped the shark. So Republicans are Nazis. Nice to know.
Hey J - are GOPers planning death camps for liberals?
hey garage - I wasn't demonstrating against the Nazis in the street either. I guess that makes me a Nazi right?
Scott said...
JAL / Virgil X.: Americans can elect radically different leaders if they need to. Look at David Dinkins, who lost to Rudy Giuliani in 1993. Obama is in a simiar situation. There is no way that he can hang on to the presidency. Americans want a more competent leader; and are going to be looking to the GOP to provide one.
You pegged it right. Obama is the second coming of Dinkins and not of Carter. By the way both men can die happy knowing that Obama has them beat in the worst ever category. As for Ryan he should stay where he is. The next president is going to need a details man to keep him or her from going wobbly. Who will be Ryan's counterpart in the senate?
garage, I didn't see any Democats counter protesting the protesters and vandels at the inner city Catholic school in Milwaukee.
Therefore Democrats are anti-Catholic bigots and also support vandelism.
garage mahal said...
I think what Garage meant to say was that progressive socialists were counterdemonstrating the national socialist rally.
You can call it whatever you want. The left was demonstrating against Nazis. Right wing, no where to be found. You can make sense of that any way you please.
Why should 'right wingers' get in the way of left-on-left fratricide?
hey garage - you obviously have a lot of free time to be engaging in all these demonstrations. Are you by chance a welfare recipient?
West Allis was kind of like Germany circa-1927.
Nazi and commies fighting each other.
Garage said:
The left was demonstrating against Nazis. Right wing, no where to be found.
Glad you finally recognize that. National Socialists/Nazis are not right wing.
So many people, like J f'rinstance, seem to think National Socialists are right wing. Glad you are smart enough to recognize that they are of the left. ie; socialists
So yeah, progressives demoing against National Socialists? Quite right. No right wing there.
To echo Cubanbob, Why should anyone want to get in the way of a left on left pissing contest?
John Henry
"...where real folk are drinking $2 tappers."
Restaurant food in Norway is insanely expensive. And, I'm not talking about especially high end places. For example at a basic eatery it cost thirty bucks for a bowl of broccoli soup, which was a side.
And btw, the food is terrible. Expensive and terrible!
I'll take some PBR and a microwaved pot (not the "medicinal" sorta pot) pie from an American dive-bar any day.
@Alex: Garage drives a BMW. Nostalgia for the Vaterland no doubt.
Yo Alex the demonic bag of teabag shit--
Way to win friends and influence people.
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The deer in the forests run free
But gathered together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch on the maple is leafy and green
The children are laughing with glee
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
Obama, Obama, please show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come
When the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon says the whisper, arise, arise
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
--The Children's 2012 Campaign Song
Progressives (who haven't had an original idea since the 19th century) have made an industry of denying that they are closet fascists. Too bad the industry is going bankrupt.
@J: The National Socialist German Workers' Party was not a leftist movement? Who knew?
That must be why they ended up with an uber-capitalist society, practicing democracy and devoted to individual freedom just like the other right-wing utopias. You know Red China, the USSR, Cuba, etc. ROTFLMAO
Would a truly doggedly on-task type guy make a good President?
Have we had one?
I can see that nothing gets through to J. Like water off a duck's back. He has his marching orders from Media Matters.
I think he might be a bot.
pbAndjFellowRepublican said...
"...where real folk are drinking $2 tappers."
Restaurant food in Norway is insanely expensive. And, I'm not talking about especially high end places. For example at a basic eatery it cost thirty bucks for a bowl of broccoli soup, which was a side.
And btw, the food is terrible. Expensive and terrible!
I'll take some PBR and a microwaved pot (not the "medicinal" sorta pot) pie from an American dive-bar any day.
You are right about Norway, my sister was just there and made the same observation. Cheaper to visit Norway by cruise ship. And the food would be better as well.
edutcher said...
Ryan's is last week's wet dream. This week it's Rubio.
Rubio is not eligible-- not a natural born Citizen, since he was born to NON US Citizen resident aliens in Miami.
Ryan stay in the House. Leftist ad homogeneous at Paul are embarrassing.
You tell me Alex. All I know is progressives outnumbered Nazi's 50-1 in West Allis.
So there were, what, 3 Nazis and 150 liberals standing around screaming at each other? Sounds like a big waste of time to me.
The Neo-Nazi rally in West Allis:
30 neo-Nazis; 100 Police, 2000 counterprotesters. 5 arrests, but no word if any of them were neo-Nazis. Seems like there was a confrontation amongst the counter protesters themselves.
5 arrested at neo-Nazi rally
Tempers flared during a neo-Nazi rally Saturday in West Allis. A group of young black men chanting "Peace" argued with other protesters (foreground) over the cause of violence outside State Fair last month.
George Martin (right, in foreground with back to camera), a national board member at Peace Action tries to mediate a confrontation between two groups arguing with each other, mostly disagreeing but finding common ground on some points during a counter-demonstration before a neo-Nazi rally Saturday.
Looks like most of the action was on the counter protester side.
I get it now! "J" is Ann Coulter pretending to be a progressive to make Democrats look bad.
You go girl!
J badly needs to get back on his meds before we read about him in the paper.
Opponents to the neo-Nazi rally attempt to drown out the speakers with song, chants and drumming along Greenfield Avenue in front of West Allis City Hall.
Makes sense that the right wing wouldn't be there: they ain't got no experience at that kind of thing, so leave it to the professionals. It does look like there was a dearth of giant puppets, though. Maybe the rain wrecks the paper mache'?
I assume this is a Tea Party guy that slipped in:
A man who did not wish to provide his name displays his displeasure for neo-Nazis during a neo-Nazi rally held in front of the West Allis City hall Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, in West Allis, Wis.
"Rubio is not eligible-- not a natural born Citizen, since he was born to NON US Citizen resident aliens in Miami."
Where is SevenMachos when you need him?
I respectfully request that you give me some of that love you are spreading. I would be honored to join those you have graced with a foul name of some sort.
To help you out, I would offer that I support smaller, smarter government, I respect Palin, Ryan, Perry, Rush, etc. I hate communists, and love the Tea Party.
C'mon give it too me.
Maybe you should comment on his blog. Although he seems less animated over there, sans "A-tard" provocation.
Goodness, he's silly.
yr wrong again like yr dyslexic hero Goldberg. Nationalism is not socialism. You don't know fuck about Hegel or Marx anyway. The nazis had banks, allowed the aristocrats, were capitalist. Not bolsheviks, dumbass.
I think what J misses, and what is ever more evident with this Administration, is that crony capitalism is just another form of socialism. It is not capitalism. The companies are not competing in the market place, but rather in the halls of Congress and at raising cash for Obama's reelection.
Probably the seminal book on this was "The Road to Serfdom", written contemporaneously to Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler by Hayek. Everything since, by the likes of J, to characterize the Nazis and Fascists as right wing is mere historical and economic revisionism.
The Nazis gave the big companies a choice - they could work closely with the government and thrive, or they could be destroyed. Most picked working closely with the government, which is why so many of the big German companies at the time ended up using slave or concentration camp labor.
Think of the slave labor as similar to tax breaks, TARP money, and green energy subsidies, such as GE has acquired under Obama. They give the company a big advantage in the market.
No, this isn't real capitalism, but rather, the crony capitalism of Mussolini and Hitler modernized and grafted onto the U.S. system, but without the nationalistic bent of Naziism.
Paul Ryan came to the battle with facts and faced down the Obama rhetoric machine...and won! There was no discussion of debt and entitlements until Ryan brought his plan forward and the Tea Party picked up speed. The GOP was pissed at Ryan and wanted Obama to drown in his own rhetoric, preferring they wait for him to come up with something and then they could pick it apart.
Ryan, showed them up and the Tea Party rewarded him for having the courage to say, "this is the issue, this is right and I'm bringing it forward to save this country, policitally correct or not." No conservative worth their salt will ever forget that about Paul Ryan.
We will also not forget Obama inviting him and sitting him in the front row at his speech and then proceeding to mock him and his plan. Obama is graceless...a sure sign of new power like new money...the constant need to flaunt it.
The question posed here regarding Ryan or any candidate is the problem. You are asking the wrong question(s) and they are the same ones that got us Obama. Let the candidates come to us, let them frame the questions with their ideas and philosophies, let them tell us what they think this country needs...and then let us decide who makes the most sense.
The question on Ryan is the cart before the horse. You can have no idea of who Ryan will be because you have framed him in your limited view before he presents himself. Then he has to spend the rest of the time beating back your preconceived idea of him.
J deleted all his anti-semitic Jew-baiting comments regarding myself. (We'll see if he shows up in the cache.)
Now, he's shifted to gay baiting.
Sometimes you wonder if people can actually hear themselves. I think that J's posts are a cry for help.
Poor tortured soul. So much hate.
Poor tortured soul. So much hate.
And so much stupidity. Let's not forget that part.
Tonight they are starting "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" on schedule. There was some doubt that would happen as one of the husbands of one of the girls killed himself a few weeks ago because of how he is portrayed on the show.
Many, many more millions of people know who that guy (Russell Armstrong) is than know who Paul Ryan is. I know youse guys do not.
But some perspective is in order. Just sayn'
Let me also add that neo-Nazis are not Nazis. The one thing that they share is their belief in white supremacy, along with the name. And, that is about it.
I will postulate that they picked the name in order to horrify the rest of the country. Aryan Nation probably does the same sort of thing, for similar historic reasons - despite the reality that there are probably real Aryan nations already in existence, i.e. India and Iran (no, the Aryans were not blond Nordic types - the word is derived from Sanskrit, and Iran means the land of the Aryan).
Until Paul Ryan can penetrate the popular conciousness and brand himself properly like Snookie or Behtanny Frankel or Lady Gaga then all of his great plans won't mean a hill of beans.
"Think of the slave labor as similar to tax breaks, TARP money, and green energy subsidies"
BH:Obama(and Nazi)-like socialism and crony capitalism was responsible for slaves in America.
J said...
yo Cuban bob--you bag of lying human filth, Rush Limbaugh pedophile-- fuck yrself yid, hijo de puto, satanist . Got that, teabag anti-chirst swine? I piss on yr mama's face,puerco
and ...like coward--Ill be getting yr IP pronto perp
Me cago en tu madre comunista de mierda. Muerete y no jodes mas. Que desgracia que la puta madre tuya que te pario no tuvo un aborto. Y tenga un buen dia.
I think what Garage meant to say was that progressive socialists were counterdemonstrating the national socialist rally.
@Maguro: Hate is the handmaiden of stupidity.
Or something.
Sorry BH,
I missed the italics.
Or maybe not.
I can't tell if you're quoting.
Thanks J.
Maybe you should comment on his blog."
Oh yea, that's gonna happen. If some loser craps his pants when visiting my sandbox, I'm not gonna go play in his.
Ryan is just where is should be. Spending bills start in the House, and having a green eye shades type of guy overseeing them is just what we need to pare down the size of the federal government to manageable levels.
Besides, what would he do as either a cabinet secretary or President? The money is already allocated by then by Congress. All he could do would be to go back to Congress and ask them to cut here and there - the courts made this explicit by rejecting Nixon's attempt to not spend money allocated by Congress.
No - keep him where he is.
I don't understand Spanish, so I ran cubanbob's comment through translate.google.com. This is what came out (for the benefit of the progressives):
"Fick deine Mutter ficken Kommunist. Fick sterben und vieles mehr. Das ist verdammt Schande, dass Sie nicht langweilen Sie sich für eine Abtreibung. Und noch einen schönen Tag."
wv: pophiolo ... Hawai'ian for "chief executive"
I missed the italics.
Sorry - don't know what happened. I tend to italicize quotes, and somehow my comments ended up in the middle of the italics. Possibly, I walked all over the terminator, and Blogger cleaned it up.
Hopefully, you all can tell what I wrote and what J wrote by the way it is written. Hopefully.
"-atheist, anarcho-capitalist swine like Rush Limblow"
I don't think I would be smart enough to understand his blog. It's way over my head.
AndjFellowRepublican said...
"Rubio is not eligible-- not a natural born Citizen, since he was born to NON US Citizen resident aliens in Miami."
"Where is SevenMachos when you need him?"
7 Machos is only posing as a Conservative. What sort of Conservative doesn't care about the rule of law and the Constitution? Besides, I've blown ALL of his silly arguments (as well as all the rest here) out of the water.
BH:Obama(and Nazi)-like socialism and crony capitalism was responsible for slaves in America.
The point was that in both cases, the government is giving large companies perks, advantages, and benefits for working closely with it. In the case of those German companies, it was low cost or no cost labor, and in our case, it is giving them tax breaks, sweat heart contracts, and a lot of money.
Now I'm jealous. Can I have an incomprehisible, hate-filled spanglish rant, too, J? I may or may not be a Mormon, if that helps you get started.
Paul Ryan's signature proposals have senior citizens crapping in their Depends from sheer terror. For no reason. Nothing he's proposed affects anyone over 55. But even Ann, who is 60, in one of her bloggingheads episodes said Paul Ryan "scares" her. And without the Curmudgeon Bloc, a race for the White House is futile.
So to answer the question, he's not going anywhere near the executive branch of government.
"No way Obama hangs on to his presidency?"
It that were true ... Obama wouldn't be the democrapic condendah. And, he is.
So far, too, Biden stays in place.
It's like coming up against, the Yankees, or something.
As to "progressives," it started with Theodore Roosevelt. And, it belongs to the elites. Because that's how they hold onto power.
It's the encumbent's role to have the advantage of already being in power.
And, when this breaks up? Well, it looks like it looked for Hoover. And, LBJ. And, Jimmy Carter. (Equal opportunity failures.)
What will Obama do to win? EVERYTHING! He'll even toss out cabinet chairs.
His favorite pick? The one Hillary is sitting in. But then, again, he has other reasons to choose between cabinet chairs ...
Now, HOW? Perhaps easily. By changing the size of the table? And? Taking his time.
Obama seems to know how to "take his time" with just about everything ... except dancing with his wife. That's over in a flash.
Are we already picking republican vice presidential candidates? Too funny.
No agenda that works with a majority of Americans. Stained by religious zealots. And, way too vanilla ...
But what is really being said by Ann's question? Your current field stinks! Gaze beyond the "obvious" contendahs.
The damaged elites can't think like they do in fly over country. They do, however, know how to build candidates that can run to pulpits!
Oh, whoever gets to run better not be carrying "baggage."
@bagoh20: It's like reading David Frum, init.
wv: wivesht (and I'm not going there, thank you)
I'd say that in our own history our government stopped slavery in a situation where the private sector would have continued to use it because it made financial sense.
So, maybe you shouldn't get so carried away w/ your metaphysical certitude as you assure us that businesses would never use slaves unless the gov made them do it. Sometimes it takes the gov to make them stop.
So, this makes the point that businesses need to be limited from doing whatever it is that makes them the most dough. Presumably slavery isn't the only situation where it's good to have the gov regulate businesses. I know some folks who are hardcore cons, and they've made hundreds of millions of dollars, and they hate regulations. But, even they realize that too little regulation can kill real-world capitalism even faster than too much.
J doesn't seem to be getting a lot of love over at his blog.
I suggest that some of us go over and comment so that he can get some traffic.
I dropped in over there to say hello and introduce myself.
John Henry
John's comment over there is hilarious.
Let me also clarify a bit. Crony capitalism is not capitalism, as that term is typically used and contrasted to socialism (just like Neo-Nazis are not Nazis, because there is no reason to believe that the former have any interest in the economic policies of the later).
Capitalism, as that term is usually used, is an economic system where firms compete against each other for buyers, and the ones that best serve their customers, while keeping their costs in line, etc. succeed, and those that don't fail. Think Adam Smith.
Crony Capitalism, on the other hand, bypasses the market, and wins by getting the government to give it special deals. The firm with the best product at the best price often does not win in this sort of economic system. Rather, the company with the best contacts and relations with those running the government often does.
The real heart of capitalism is with small and medium sized businesses. That is where most the jobs are created, and that is where most of the innovations happen (or maybe happened, with the Senate poised to pass "Patent Reform" tomorrow night - another blatant example of crony capitalism).
But large governments prefer dealing with large companies. They can bring a couple of people in the room, tell them what to do, and what they are going to give them to do it, and it happens. Hitler had his Krupp, Benz, BMW, Bayer, etc. and the present Administration has its GE, IBM, GM, UAW, etc. Everyone knows the game, and everyone at the table is playing. And, so, NBC/MSNBC turned into a mouthpiece for the Obama Administration, and its parent company at the time (GE) got TARP funds and a lot of green energy money. Everyone wins, except, of course, for those left paying for it.
Make no mistake - the Nazis were consummate planners, and that extended to their economy. National production was planned down to the widget, and implemented through a close relationship between those same large companies that received those benefits I mentioned above. Sounds a bit like a 5-year plan, except that the Germans appear to have been better at it than the Russians ever were.
There are a lot of problems though with this sort of system. First, and most obviously, the economic results are sub-optimal. How could they not be? The competitive market is being bypassed by K-street lobbyists.
Second, as Hayek pointed out almost 60 years ago, the natural result of this sort of socialism, just like with the Marxist version, is a loss of civil liberties. Those who don't want to play by the rigged rules must be made to play and pay.
So, we have raids on the Gibson guitar plants by the feds, who, conveniently ignored similar, if not identical, issues with their competitors, who coincidentally contributed to Democrats. And, we have the Clinton Administration having the IRS audit Republicans, on the basis of their opposition to the divine leadership of Hillary and Bill Clinton.
That's odd. This post was up for about 3 minutes then disappeared.
I wanted to ask J if she (he?) was this J.
J is a lightweight as evidenced by his boring comments here and the shallow "blog" he maintains. Thin thinker.
@Bruce Hayden: Hear, hear!
Actually J is an acquried taste with a strong opinion and a unique way of presenting it. He has a point of view and is trying to find a way to express in his jazzy improv style. I know that the personal attacks can be annoying but who am I to critize that since I love personal attacks my ownself.
I like to hear someone who thinks so much differently than me. You need both sugar and mustard. You shouldn't get caught up in his name calling. It's just a motif like garage's idoicy and Cedarffords anti-semitism.
He brings a lot to the blog in my humble opinion. Another voice that we should here. Just sayn'
Another similarity between the Nazis and the present Administration, along with the "progressives" that staff it and put it into power - gun control.
The Nazis very quickly disarmed their populace after coming to power. How else could they expect to be able to exterminate entire ethnic groups without getting shot when they show up at the door of those to be exterminated?
The Germans, being German, apparently quite happily turned over their guns when told to. The progressives here are having a bit more of a problem.
The problem is that in order for a socialist government to succeed, it must monopolize the mechanisms of force and violence, because it will inevitably diminish the civil liberties and economic wealth of the majority to benefit the minority in power. And, thus, it must have a monopoly of power, so that it can not be effectively resisted by those who do not benefit from the resulting new order.
(And, that is why it is credible that Operation Fast and Furious was the result of an attempt to give guns a bad name, and, ultimately to further limit their availability).
Folks can buy unfinished ebony legally. I bought a bunch recently for some custom furniture that I had built.
Gibson was buying it illegally.
And, even aspirational talking points can't change the fact that you don't need to be a so-called crony capitalist to get a good deal in America.
Has there been a tipping point where the republicans have already lost the competition?
Like when Bob Dole got selected back in 1996.
Or Kerry, in 2004.
Or when New Coke tried to replace "the Classic" one.
Given that we seem to be a nation quite divided ... And, you can win the whole pie as soon as you reach a smidgen above 50% ... Why are the republicans running such "vanilla" choices?
I don't see a winnah among them.
I see lots of baggage.
Trooper - J doesn't bring anything substantive. Just filth.
"He brings a lot to the blog in my humble opinion. Another voice that we should here."
@TrooperYork: Yeah, calling people "Jewboy" or "queer" really brings a lot to the blog. A lot of what, though?
I mean, when I get called those things, I find it difficult to respond to or even discern anything substantive that he might be struggling to say. He's like the screaming child in the supermarket. You can try to speak in normal tones with your spouse in front of the canned English peas, but then the child's scream just stops conversation dead.
In a small child, a scream is at least excusable. In an adult,flooding the zone with invective isn't.
So no, he doesn't bring anything worthwhile to the table, and he doesn't deserve any respect.
wv: stoic
"Gibson was buying it illegally."
No, they probably weren't. At worst, the documentation was messed up. By most accounts they demonstrated good faith.
@Carol: Too early to tell, don't you think?
Somewhere above someone was tweaking the Professor: Oh, yeah....he [Obama] was the rational choice.
No. He was the "seemingly normal" choice.
There's a difference.
"@Carol: Too early to tell, don't you think?"
Oh no, SHE KNOWS!
Eh, speculation is fun. Just like speculating whether Paul Ryan is interested in the vice presidency.
It sure is and the reason we're all here I guess.
Actually, I think the train flew off the tracks. And, there's mounting evidence that there's been lost opportunities!
It's not too early to tell you need more flavors than just vanilla.
And, Obama's actually pretty secure in the knowledge that he'll win another term.
It's not too early to tell.
Why is there so much anger in Iowa?
When Truman (in 1948) was dealing with poor polling numbers ... He got onto a train. And, "whistle stopped." Truman found the Heartland. Probably, because he knew it!
Dewey, on the other hand, knew how to dress well!
It's not the skills you need to win.
And, anger is just a waste of energy.
"Crony Capitalism" ...
When Sarah Palin said this and then she said we need to drill in the USA ... I thought, GEE, BUT THAT BENEFITS BIG OIL, DOESN'T IT?
Don't think you can just go into your backyard and dig a well.
Once, though. Wells made a few families in America very rich! Some even lived in Oklahoma!
The political class isn't going anywhere!
And, the religious pulpits aren't going to be supplying America with the choices that get people elected.
Why are the republicans in the pickle they're in?
No. I have no solutions.
Maybe, it's the price of lip service that needs to be played to the right? The democraps don't have this problem.
Bruce H, as someone who worked in corporate accounting for large companies, I can confirm what you say. My employers gave money to whoever was in office, Republican and Democrat, in order to buy access to the office holder. Then they could get legislation passed that was at least somewhat less harmful (say, limits on debit card fees for example).
Teachers and Unions need to learn how to grease both wheels.
They also got free money to build a facility, such as a distribution center.
But on the other hand, they also saw the bad things gov't did. All the laws and regulations and race baiting and fake but accurate lawsuits that costs company millions and millions a year in wasted money.
It's crony capitalism and socialism.
"And, Obama's actually pretty secure in the knowledge that he'll win another term."
I hope he feels secure -- right up to election day, when he loses.
Then we'll watch a mortifying string of executive orders and pardons that show America what progressivism is all about.
Then inauguration day will come. President Ron Paul and Vice President Kinky Friedman will be sworn in.
And Former President Obama will supplement his $200,000/year pension by giving obscenely expensive addresses to obscure foreign groups of wealthy crony capitalists.
J - you're truly a disgusting, filthy, pig of a troll. You don't deserve anything better. Oh and Rush Limbaugh is a brilliant analyst, so go fuck yourself.
And Former President Obama will supplement his $200,000/year pension by getting Ayers to write another autobiography for him.
Honest to God, who the fuck cares.
Ralph L: Ayers didn't get paid what he deserved.
I noticed J mentioned "carnival barkers". Picking up his talking points from Obambi? I knew left wingers had no capability of original thought, but this is extreme.
Yeah, juvenile ad hominems like "Jewboy" or "queer". You mendacious hypocrite.
Except that progressives call hypocrisy "irony." It makes the cognitive dissonance a little less shrill sounding when you remove the moral component.
I wouldn't be you for a whole pile of money. Not for all the money in the world.
Yeah, juvenile ad hominems like "Jewboy" or "queer". You mendacious hypocrite.
Ah yes. But according to Trooper, it's all very charming. You know what - FUCK Trooper York for enabling this creep.
J - if Rush wasn't so busy dining out at a $200/night steakhouse he'd sue your pathetic ass for slander. It's the lowest of the low to throw out charges of pedophilia.
So Trooper - you find THAT charming?
yr the creep Alex, illiterate bag of trash.
As will be proven soon, trash. Like piss test this week, libertarian tweek trash. Getting yr dope, yr kiddie porn, yr illegal weapons.
Get that? That's supposed to be considering class-AAA charming by the likes of Trooper York.
Bruce Hayden said...
What more resembles the current situation is Peronism.
At the rate we are going we will become Argentina. And that is not a good thing.
Trooper: unlike other commenters here of a progressive bent J is beyond the pale. Cedaford the anti-semite is nearly there but J is beyond the pale.
Scott said... I don't speak German so Ican't comment on your entire translation but I do know enough that I didn't call him a communist MoFo. I did say its too bad his prostitute mother didn't have an abortion. He likes to throw bad spanish in his rants so just for giggles I told him to to eff of and die in spanish among other things.
Scott said... Ron Paul as president and Kinky Friedman as VP now that is sight worth seeing. Can you imagine Cederford and J at the "they ain't making Jews like Jesus anymore" sing-along?
Trooper is fucking scum for enabling other scum. He's on my shitlist.
The Moving Finger writes;
and, having writ, Moves on:
nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
This site already listed as terrorist (even with Feds)
LOL - now I know you're on drugs.
No, yr on dope, Alex wicca grrl. Buh bye, occultish atheist scum
LOL - more drug talk. I'm a wiccan and atheist at the same time. Now I'm starting to feel sorry for J, like I do for all mentally ill types.
@cubanbob: Did you go over to translate.google.com and try it? Sometimes their xlations aren't even in the ballpark. Try translating something from Spanish into German and then back into Spanish again.
Yes, the world would be a better place if we had a vice-president named "Kinky." Maybe it would convince people not to take it all too fucking seriously.
(Cubans are so hot. Tell me, what is your secret?)
Why would Ryan want to be Vice-President?
@Rev: Exactly. Unless he wanted to check out of politics on a high note, of course.
Why did LBJ?
Did he like warm piss?
I had not even thought of Kinky Friedman being on the ticket.
Paul/Friedman or Friedman/Paul?
Decisions, decisions. I could live happily with either arrangement.
John Henry
As someone who doesn't comment much on politics at Althouse, I must say I am most impressed by "J". His/her comments are measured, intelligent, thoughtful, and by far some of the most articulate on this blog. I have read every comment and absorbed the meaning and find myself thinking differently about political matters all thanks to the deep thinking J.
What more resembles the current situation is Peronism.
At the rate we are going we will become Argentina. And that is not a good thing.
Are you surprised then that the Perons showed a lot of sympathy for Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy?
Hey J, you hurt my feelings.
It is not "John", It is John, as in John Henry.
Unlike you, I am not afraid to write here or anywhere else in cyberspace under my own name. Been doing it for more than 20 years.
Easy enough to find me if you Google. When you do, you will find out my physical address and my cell#.
It's all been out there since '89 in a wide variety of fora I host and participate in.
Never felt a need to be anonymous. Never had a problem.
What about you? Why are you "J"? What are you scared of?
John Henry
Keep it up, Folks, I think we are getting to her.
J sounds like she is about to have an apoplectic seizure.
Just a little bit more chaffing...
John Henry
Now, that's stupidity, with a capital S. Hayek's a laughing stock for pro. economists (even slightly conservative ones)--another gold standard libertarian who thinks if you just ..let the rich do what they want, everything will work out.
So, are you admitting that Nobel Laureates are not omniscient? If, so, lets start the laughing with former Enron advisor Paul Krugman, and his repeated claims that if we had just doubled down on the "stimulus", we wouldn't be in this recession.
The reason that Hayek's book reverberates is that it was written while these socialist regimes were at their heights. Not, 60 years later, after much of the socialism has been written out through revisionism by progressive historians and economists uncomfortable with the reality of what was going on.
His message is still valid today - that socialism naturally and inevitably begets authoritarian repression, often at the point of a gun. His three examples were, you guessed it, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Germany under Hitler, and Italy under Mussolini. The academics trying to prove otherwise just beclown themselves.
Reading J here and on her blog, I don't think she is Hispanic.
She seems much more likely to be Mexican or perhaps Honduran.
Got a green card, J?
John Henry
Hi Julie C., who wrote:
"As someone who doesn't comment much on politics at Althouse, I must say I am most impressed by "J". His/her comments are measured, intelligent, thoughtful, and by far some of the most articulate on this blog. I have read every comment and absorbed the meaning and find myself thinking differently about political matters all thanks to the deep thinking J.
For your benefit, I have posted a mashup of J's most measured, intelligent, thoughtful, and articulate comments on this thread. Unfortunately, J deleted the anti-semitic ones directed at me. It's hard to imagine that his self-censorship was motivated by shame rather than mere expediency, but whatever. Maybe he will repost his Jew-baiting just for you. Enjoy.
=====[measured, intelligent, thoughtful commentary follows]=====
Prez?? Heh. Ryan should run for like Randian assclown of America. RAA! A is, indubitably, A.
Heh. You mean... neo-fascist Randian assclowns-- like Ryan, and you, Scott-tard, and the Smurfhouse
C-bob-- yr too stupid to be online trash, where yr life is in jeopardy, mafia swine
got that, tough teabagger trash
This pro-Ryan post is probably via orders from RushBo, carney-perp-in-chief
Actually Squat, yr wrong again--Im an anti-idiot . When some illiterate biz major jaggoff--ie, you-- starts calling nazis progressives--that tends to irk reasonable people. Same effect when reading some brainfarts by like Goldberg, or Snouthammer, Ryan, most A-tards
yr wrong again like yr dyslexic hero Goldberg. Nationalism is not socialism. You don't know fuck about Hegel or Marx anyway. The nazis had banks, allowed the aristocrats, were capitalist. Not bolsheviks, dumbass.
No, Alex dumbass--like the demonic POS Goldberg, you simply don't know fuck about WWII, or world politics. Nazis may have been statists--then so is the USA, and most govts. Not bolsheviks, dreck. --they hated the marxists . But no use trying to explain shit to white trash who think Ron Paul or Sarah Klondike are reasonable people.
Yo Alex the demonic bag of teabag shit---I didn't claim republicans are nazis. garag did. There might be some wannabes--Mitt Romneytoids, even some Paultards--but they're too stupid and incompetent to be nazis---see Althouse for examples .
Anyone who takes some bag of dreck like Goldberg seriously doesn't know jack about politics.
Really there's no point in arguing with humans infected with the "Ayn Rand disorder", garag.
Sedatives about the only hope for A-tards.
yo Cuban bob--you bag of lying human filth, Rush Limbaugh pedophile-- fuck yrself yid, hijo de puto, satanist . Got that, teabag anti-chirst swine? I piss on yr mama's face,puerco
and ...like coward--Ill be getting yr IP pronto perp
hat's that Scott the satanist?
You're trying to write, but everything you say is a lie, queer. Like yr bag of white trash leader Limblow
Im opposed to Coulter, and to all GOP mafia-TP scum. Including the phony neo-nazi trash that you're fantasizing about
J is a chick? That puts the whole "benchpressing 400lbs" thing in a whole new light.
'Yr on the shitlist, Alex wicca skank
like LA DA;s shitlist...'
Sure, shithead. The LA DA would be far more interested in people who disagree with you, than your own threats of physical violence - including shooting people.
Not that any competent DA, would consider your hissy fits anything more than we do here - another internet dweeb's tough guy delusions.
And Trooper, he adds nothing whatsoever to any conversation that's worth the cost of trying to decipher his disjointed rants or wading through his verbal diarrhea. You need to up your game considerably if you think he does. The guy is pitiable. Don't enable him.
What if Roe V. Wade gave the democrats the real advantage?
The real loons tend to wrap themselves around PROHIBITION ... only to lose the political theater contest.
While running uphill the republicans tend to fall down.
What if November 2012 isn't about Obama? But about the "other thing?" About how republicans can misfire? What then?
Yeah, Maguro.
I am working on getting a picture. For the moment, based on her ethnicity, I like to picture her as about 5' tall by 5' wide with a very healthy mustache.
Don't get in a fight with her. She is like a Weeble and we all know that "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down"
John Henry
See Scott? The brilliance just leaps right out at you now that you've collected it together!
I can see the book cover now... "The Collected Deep Thoughts of J" - complete with spittle flecks and perhaps a cover photo of J, face contorted with anger.
No, Julie.
The book to picture is "The Sensuous Woman" by J. Circa 1971, still available on Amazon.
Although the word sensuous and the 5' X 5' image I have of J just don't compute.
John Henry
Actually, Julie C., you're on to something! I bet Judith Regan will be knocking on J's door shortly. She loves books like that. I'm sure it will be at least as well-written as Matt Drudge's book.
John Henry: This book is much better. I think there must be some applicability to blogging.
Or something.
His message is still valid today - that socialism naturally and inevitably begets authoritarian repression, often at the point of a gun. His three examples were, you guessed it, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Germany under Hitler, and Italy under Mussolini. The academics trying to prove otherwise just beclown themselves.
Actually, the people beclowning themselves are the ones comparing the economy in the US today to the economies of totalitarian states. And incidentally, Hayek was not opposed to some level of a social safety net, which is all that's on the table with Obama or anyone else in the political mainstream.
Trooper. I admire your open mind and your comments are both witty and biting. But you do improvisational jazz a very bad turn by comparing J's hideous attempt to be Joycean or noir to jazz which is premised on honesty. His "riffs" are a comlilation of wikipedia insights, fake Spanish and left field puking of misunderstood philosophical tracts. Even early in the day the posts are shallow and devolve as the time passes. Y.ou are a very thoughtful poster who is very supportive of open dialogue and have stood behind some real assholes in a very helpful way. But i know jazz and J Is not up to the art.
A truly doggedly on-task type guy makes a better President than the One who whined about being talked about like a dog.
I think the progressive and libertarian clusters talk past each other because to progressives, it's about personality (Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini) while for libertarians it's about process and institutions. Progressives can't seem to wrap their minds around the notion that fascism and naziism are about philosophies independent of the persons who promoted them -- philosophies very much like their own in terms of means and ends.
The progressives whine that their violent demonstrations and overheated rhetoric can't be like that of Hitler or Mussolini because, well, they're not them. This defense seems silly to people in the libertarian cluster, who can see all of the millions who got in the way of the progressive vision, and paid for it with their lives.
Personality cults are very much part of the progressive mindset. This is a huge blind spot. They can't see the danger.
Back in the day we used to go to this bar on Court St called Cousins. What wsa different about it was it wasn't the usual neighborhood gin mill with a bunch of guineas and micks farting and earting hard boiled eggs. There were hot latin chicks and nurses from Long Island College Hospital and black chicks with Angela Davis afros and an attitude.
They had a stand up piano and had jazz every night. Often they hired young girls just starting out in the music business. There is nothing like listening to a skinny young white girl fresh from Kansas singing Billie Holiday. She wanted to have soul but didn't have the esperiance. So she warbled in the background while you tried to pick up chicks at the bar.
You see it's all jazz. It might be bad jazz. Sad jazz. Not to your taste. But she might have got better. You have to give people a chance. Just my opinion.
This defense seems silly to people in the libertarian cluster
That's because that cluster is your brain, and it's made entirely of broccoli.
Hey, if you can't face it, be glib.
Seriously, you expect that tripe to be taken seriously?
Maybe you expected this:
"Oh Scott you're sooooooo smart. Yes we progressives in America are on the verge of mass murder of all opposition, not to mention many others too.
Can I have your autograph, so that I can prove I knew you before the world came to worship your brilliant insights?"
P.S. You fools can go on and on w/ your hyperbolic blather, but all you can see is that J seems to have tourette syndrome.
Congrats on the new house!
What if in June 2012, the Supreme's kick Obamacare out of the box?
The Commerce Clause is there. It's being used to justify individual mandates. Wrong on its face?
A job for THIS supreme court to make a reputation for itself as being in the vanguard of the Constitution?
Then there's the likelihood that lots of Americans are in the habit of "splitting tickets?" What's the edge for McConnell becoming Majority Leader? What if the numbers are really close?
The democraps are "happy" to go "along with socialism?" REALLY?
Again, we've got 50 separate states. They're not uniform. But rather a haphazard puzzle.
True. You don't get rid of the czars in such a picture.
And, Obama to gain a victory, he has to promise "cuts." Jobs? What a fiasco! Except for putting the draft back in, the government doesn't create jobs.
You're putting a lot of weight on Obama being hated. Overlooking how the republicans get received; as a general rule.
And, how politicians LOVE pork!
Paul Ryan ain't a condendah!
And, a good way to lose is to look like social security becomes another pot to pork.


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So here we go kids my annual Mets winter report where I will join in on all the good and bad stuff I get from my player and media friends I hope you will join in and share anything you have
So let's start with Jason Bay who is now an unrestricted free agent and will receive all of the $21 million he is owed by the Mets. The idea that he would be moved was not a surprise in self but the timing was we all thought that he would make into spring training before the decision was made but it was inevitable, 3 years were simply enough it was one of the worst deals the Mets have made, he has never produced he was a .240 hitter strike out more than 25% of the time and in 3 years hit only about 25 home runs; some think after his failure in the first year and all the health problems which cost him almost 200 games the pressure of NY was just too much for him Who knows, hopefully someone will want him maybe he can go back home to Seattle and play better baseball The kid was very very well liked by his teammates as well as the fans he never complained worked hard and we know he did a heck of a job for us in left field. Sad to thinking at the time we could have gone with Matt Holiday but choose Jason and we all know how that worked out.
It is unclear how the payments will be spread out we will have to wait for the deferment breakdown to be announced but he will be getting the money he is owed and the Mets can defer the payments over the next few years instead of paying Bay all the money at once. That would work well for us because it frees up at least a couple million dollars to spend in the free agent-market this winter.
But regardless of how much money this frees up for 2013, it won't be enough for say a Justin Upton, who is available and I keep hearing from other Mets fans they would like to see him a Met. He's owed close to $10 million next season and something kike $14 million in both 2014 and 2015. This is not to say that getting rid of Jason Bay will allow the Mets to afford Upton, or that they'd be willing to trade what it takes to acquire him and the removal of Bay from the roster and the fact that the Mets have lessened the burden his deal would've had on their books in the near term, could play into this. But even if the Bay move doesn't allow getting an Upton it would for sure put the Mets in a better position than before the Bay decision. I wish Jason much luck he is great guy and deserves another shot somewhere. With the luck of the Mets he will prolly go to a team and hit
This could also effect what happens with Wright and Dickey and how big a deal they can make them and how quickly those deals are done. It is possible now that the Bay news is out that an announcement on those two guys will follow. Wright's $16 million dollar option for 2013 was already picked up as well as Dickey's smaller option, Sandy Alderson went to Wrights home in Virginia to talk contract with him how bout that
As to what happens in the outfield unless they acquire a good right handed bat we could see the return of Kirk Nieuwenhuis, I have spoken with him a few times since the season ended and he is recovering well from that injury I would love to see Hairston who is now a free agent return as well, Mike Baxter and Jordany Valdespin are more likely to end up as pinch-hitters than starting outfielders. Can't leave out Darrell Cecillini who is killin it in Arizona playing center and currently batting.315
Then of course there is my boy Lucas Duda who just the other day managed to break his wrist at home in Cali, he is such a clumsy big goofball that ya just gotta love. I had written many times about him and his determination to make it back bigger and better than ever. He had a very good time in Buffallo recently. By the way his wrist will be totally ok before spring training; it was not the first time Lucas hurt a wrist, this time it was his right one when he learned just how heavy couches are, in college he broke his left wrist on a collision at first base.in the farm, Matt Den Dekker and Brandon Nimmo are both getting very big part of our future but just not just yet.
R.A. Dickey, along with Gio Gonzalez and Clayton Kershaw, are the finalists for the National League Cy Young Award. The winner will be announced next Wednesday.
We have re-signed Mike Nickeas to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring-training he was recently outrighted off the 40-man roster, Fred Lewis, who also had been removed from the roster, has chosen free agency The Mets currently have catchers Josh Thole and Anthony Recker on the 40-man roster.
Do to the hurricane The Hope Shines for Shannon Fundraiser scheduled for Nov 1st was posponed and has been moved to Thursday, Nov. 29
So stay tuned I will jump in as often as I can with more Mets news and of course be sure to watch Kevin Burkhardt Mets Hot Stove starting next week on SNY the show usually shown at 7pm on Thursdays will start later at 10 for a while to accommodate the basketball games but will return to 7pm soon. Kevin has been preparing for the show and promises lots of great shows heading up to his visit to spring training camp in Florida
Some good news after eliminating the Gulf Coast League team to save some buck the Mets have restored the squad for 2013.The return gives the Mets nine minor league affiliates. I especially like the rerun of the GCL team, which is for newly signed players, and will be based at the Port St. Lucie, Fla., complex.


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Do you like it? More or less hairy butt?
I like it all - awesome picture.
Hair is not important as long as the guy is clean.
clean is the most important thing s compared to hairy but a nice smooth ass i can't turn down
Great photo....show some more examples
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
QUOTE=j456e3;8531302]I can't agree more about hygiene it's not worth licking a hot ass if its dirty and can make you really sick later on.[/QUOTE]
when a guy doesn't want ass play because he is not clean. He will push your hands away and avoid that happening. On the other hand in our nieve younger years when anyone has liked ass (mainly clean) There would have been an epidemic of poeple who dropped dead because they licked a guys ass. Can you imagin how many men have licked ass and lived without catching anything.
Most guys if they want the possibility of thier ass licked or fucked clean first and are aware of what they need to do unless they are a nieve young twink.
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Ofcourse that the ass should be clean. I asked how much hair.
Not into guys with a hairy ass.
I like hairy men and their whole package, therefore, I like hairy asses. But I like others too.
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
I prefer a smooth ass or one with little hair. But if the guy is hot then I'm not gonna complain when he sits on my face!
I love to eat a butt and don't really care about hair; I could lick a bear's as well as a smooth shaved one - the only thing is it has to be arched and cheeky.
When you lick a guys ass it is one of the most personal connections you can have with that guy. You can't get any closer than when your young is in his masculine hole.
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
I'm kinda selfish but I like it done to me but I couldn't stomach doing it to someone. :-\
Licking ass, sucking cock, of course I love it, great ass in the pic. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy!!!!!!!!!!!
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An ass that is clean, in front of me, and willing - hair or no hair - is fair game.
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I prefer shaved...just a preference I guess and I prefer to have mine shaved as well. Nothing like giving and receiving in the shower...one of the best places for rimming
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a hairy ass for me.
I am straight but seeing rimjobs and asses makes me horny
Freshly showered and super hairy ass is just great. Even better when the man is totally covered in fur, front and back.
I prefer sucking cocks.
It's not about competition, or choosing between those two
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Love a smooth muscular ass. Got to eat out a personal trainer (6pk abs, tan, and smooth all over), freshly showered ass after I massaged him all over. Gave me a blow job while he sat on my face and I went to town with my tongue. Best tasting ass! I could still taste it...
I really love that too !
I'll suck a hairy ass if it gets my bottom hot and bothered, but a shaved hairless ass is an ass that I'll devour for much, much longer.....


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Sony Computer Entertainment President and Group CEO Kaz Hirai announced the successor to the PSP will feature: dual analogs sticks, 5-inch OLED display (960x544 resolution/4x the original PSP), GPS, front and rear touchpads, electronic compass on 3 axes, and front and rear cameras [via PlayStation Blog].
The unit is modeled much like the original PSP; however, there is a second analog stick under the system's iconic face buttons. The sticks look like smaller versions of analog sticks and not the thumb-sore nubs we're used to from the original system.
"There will be physical media for games, a New Game Media, a flash memory-based card," Hirai told the crowd. The second-generation of the PSP will also incorporate 3G networks and Wi-Fi. A price for the handheld was not revealed. For more on the Sony NGP, make sure to check out our other coverage from the event.
[Update: 2:02am] Sony has sent over a handful of images of the NGP (Next Generation Portable). Specs have been added after the break.
- CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 core (4 core)
- External Dimensions: Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)
- Screen (Touch screen) 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED
- Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
- Rear touch pad Multi touch pad (capacitive type)
- Cameras: Front camera, Rear camera
- Sound: Built-in stereo speakers
- Built-in microphone
- Sensors: Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass
- Location: Built-in GPS
- Wi-Fi location service support
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- Wireless communications: Mobile network connectivity (3G)
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NGP adopts a new game medium, a small flash memory based card, dedicated for NGP software titles. Taking advantage of the flash memory feature, this innovative card can store the full software titles plus add-on game content or the game save data directly on to the card. By adopting flash memory based card, SCE will be able to provide game cards with higher capacity in the future, allowing developers to store more game data to deliver rich and immersive games. NGP will also come equipped with two cameras on its front and rear, as well as three motion sensors, gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass, all of which are designed to enable users to enjoy the world of entertainment that is linked with real life experiences.
Every game title for NGP will be provided with a space called "LiveArea" where users can share the fun and excitement with other players. Users will have access to the latest information of games provided from SCE and 3rd party developers and publishers through PlayStation Network. Additionally, NGP users will be able to view an "Activity" log that is constantly updated with accomplishments from users who are playing the same game, which in turn can trigger active real-time communication among users.
SCE will also provide location-based services on NGP as part of the basic features utilizing PlayStation Network. The new application called "Near," developed specifically for this service and the network, will be pre-installed in the system to let users find out what their friends in the vicinity are playing now or what they were playing recently. Users can meet their friends and new players virtually, regardless of what games they are playing, simply by sharing their game information across different dimensions of time and distance.
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I'd never heard of Callie Angell, but I am intrigued by the idea of devoting one's mind to the study of the films of Andy Warhol and the nature of a mind that ultimately arrives at the decision to commit suicide.
I have read many articles by Roger Angell — the pieces on baseball that appeared in The New Yorker were quite wonderful. I'm sorry for him now.
From the daughter's obituary, I see that Roger Angell's stepfather was E. B. White, and that the dead woman was, in her time, close to White. Perhaps he read "Charlotte's Web" to her. From the obit:
"She untangled this web of films and revealed how they were a vital part in Andy Warhol's life as an artist..."This web... Who can untangle the reasons for suicide?
There is nothing in the article about a terrible physical illness. There is no reference to chronic depression. I assume Roger Angell, the brilliant writer, chose to present the news so starkly. But why? Why wouldn't you soften the news of your daughter's death?
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Following approval of the contract extension, Leahy thanked LACMTA directors saying their actions reflects confidence in the agency's direction and he looks forward to working with them in carrying out the Measure R programs. Measure R commits an estimated $40 billion in voter-approved funds toward Los Angeles County traffic relief and transportation upgrades during the next three decades.
At LACMTA, he is charged with leading transportation planning and programming for the county, funding construction of numerous street, highway and transit improvements running the gamut from bike and pedestrian improvements to new busways and rail lines to freeway carpool lanes and sound walls.
Additionally, after nearly 38 years in the transportation industry, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), General Manager Michael Burns plans to retire by December 31, 2013. Burns has served as VTA's general manager since 2005.
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Part of what made me fall in love with our new house was the huge screened-in porch with more than enough room for a huge living area AND a big table. We also scored a huge backyard that is super private, perfect for entertaining. Outdoor space, check. However, we didn't have a great spot for things like our grill and gas fire pit. While we had a really nice, level spot right off the screened-in porch stairs, we really wanted a paved area for those things. The other side of the porch slopes way down with more stairs from the backyard to a little area off the basement. Since the stairs from the actual house come down on this side, we thought it made more sense to have a little extension for outdoor living stuff on this side. We always thought that little area should have totally been paved already, so we took the plunge and did it ourselves.
Looking back, I think it's safe to say we definitely would not do this again if we had it to do all over. We LOVE the result, but the work was kind of back-breaking.
Let me just say before we begin... We are not experts at this and definitely did not do this perfectly. The result is pretty darn good (we think), so we're happy with it.
Here's the before...
Our original plan was to pave the entire area from the little cement slab from the porch stairs, all the way to the area where the wood stairs to the backyard begin (around the bottom-center of the photo). We soon realized that wouldn't work because our irrigation system got in the way. About a foot in from that little corner, an underground sprinkler head pops up when that section is turned on. Not conducive to paving over. So we figured instead of removing it and going through all that trouble, we'd just stop the patio a little shy of it.
This area seems small, but it nearly killed us...
The first trick was picking up the pavers. We chose these from Lowes.
For our area, we calculated that we'd need 68. Lowes helped us load them which was awesome. Unloading them was awful. Brad is really strong and could get a few at a time. I struggled with one, and I'm usually pretty strong. These were HEAVY.
Check out all the pavers piled up... At this point, I was thinking, "What have we gotten ourselves in to??" I think Waylon was thinking the same thing...
Next, we started digging. The main trick to this whole diy-paver patio thing is getting the area perfectly level. So we each took a shovel and started to sort of "skim" off the grass. It was SO hard for me to do, so Brad took over most of that job. I went around and scooped dirt and worked to further level areas that were obviously not.
Then, we worked together with our shovels to level it even further. I'll be totally honest here... We didn't "stake off" the area and use string to level it. We didn't use a level. We totally eyeballed this. However, we had a great advantage because the area was already pretty level and we had the nice wood retaining wall to sort of guide us.
Next, we put down 8 bags of "paver base". This stuff is basically really thick, moist sand. When you do this, wear gloves, people. Sometimes we didn't and I ended up with tiny cuts and splinters all over my hands and fingertips. I got really scared for a second there and thought I had totally ruined my hands. All my fingertips felt like I had at least 10 splinters in each. Not a good feeling.
Here's what that looked like during the spreading...
After you spread it (you can use it to further level your area), you can use a flat rake or even a big metal tamper to settle it all and make sure its flat and smooth.
Then you put down paver sand (not polymeric sand...yet) on top of that. Just a thin layer.
Thennnn you put down the pavers. You can put them down in any pattern you like. This is the part that started really getting to me. One by one, we took turns grabbing the pavers and bringing them over. We'd each work on one, then go get another. It really made the process go quickly. But the next day, my legs were feeling the burn...haha. All that squatting with the heavy pavers was serious business.
By this time, it was literally 11pm so we called it a day.
The next morning, we did the last (and most fun) step. Applying the polymeric sand. This step was so satisfying. Polymeric sand comes in buckets (we used two big buckets, not sure of the exact size, but you can get an idea from the bucket in the photo below) and basically keeps your pavers in place by turning to cement when you apply water to it. So we dumped it evenly to small areas at a time and spread it with a large push broom. The idea is to push it into the area in between the pavers and off of the paver tops themselves. Brad did most of the sand dumping, and I did the spreading.
Until he really wanted in on the action and I gave up the broom...
For reference, where the flower pot is on the right side of the patio, is where I always stand for my outdoor OOTD posts. So YAY for no heels in the grass anymore! haha
That little wonky, muddy area to the right of the patio area in the photo above is another sprinkler pop-up area. Yeah we could have cut out the stone pavers in a way that would allow it to pop up through it, but we didn't. We're going to get that area grassy again and maybe add some large river rocks (too large for Waylon to scarf up) in the same color of the patio to round it out a bit.
We also have some plans for the area to the left of the grill in the photo above. Eventually, we'd like to build (or maybe have it built) a stone grill enclosure there. That would free up some more space on the patio and look so much nicer.
Here's a closer shot...


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PREDICTION: OSU - 31, Florida 21
HALFTIME UPDATE: Uh...wow. Certainly didn't expect this. So much for my prediction.
POSTGAME UPDATE: Wow. I wouldn't have been surprised if someone told me before the game that the final score would be 41-14. But only if the squad with 41 was OSU.
That was UGLY. Just ugly.
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