Another Sunday

Away we go.

Comments

[Clarice]

Another thread--use italics without closing them and die!

[Rob Crawford]

What?

[Lord Whorfin says-build the damn Towers!]

I say that if the people that want to build a mosque near GZ should be given permission- if they pay all the costs associated with the demolition and rebuilding of WTC I & II- exactly as they were before 9/11. Of course, this includes pain, suffering and mental anguish. A couple of million bucks would buy me off (your mileage may vary). If someone else wants a pound of flesh, so be it.

[DrJ]

Arrrrr!!

It's Talk Like A Pirate Day, me beauties and bilge rats!

[BobDenver]

What's wrong with the Yankees? Troy Tulowitzki has more September home runs than the entire Yankee team.

[Walter]

Yankees

You know, I usually think they are the most overrated team in the game. This year, I am entertaining a different contender.

Go Rams?

[Frau Leichtmatrose]

Following daddy's suggestion, I just finished giving my zwei Pfennige in an Alaskan newspaper and liked the majority of the comments. Here was my favorite:
"Alaskan by choice, 20 years and voted in every election, local, state and federal. Buy a PACIFIER for lisa and send it to her now temporary D.C. office. What a whiny little brat!"

[Janet]

The WaPo had an op-ed today titled In the 2008 Election Hillary Clinton Lost, But Feminism Won.
It read like a joke. I guess they are worried about all the new strong women in the conservative movement.

[Frau Leichtmatrose]

Ahoi!
"Der internationale „Sprich-wie-ein-Pirat-Tag“:

Der Piratensprechtag existiert seit dem 19. September 1995. Die Idee dazu stammte von den beiden Amerikanern John Baur und Mark Summers, beide große Anhänger von Blackbeard, Störtebeker und Stiefelriemenbill. Was als Scherz unter Freunden begann, wurde dank den Medien weltweit bekannt.
An jedem 19. September soll man anstatt gängiger Begrüßungen Formulierungen und Akzente gemäß dem Klischee einer angeblich speziellen „Piratensprache“ verwenden.

Ya don't need a stinkin' birth certificate to be a pirate and redistribute the wealth, matey! Your allegiance is to Davey Jones! Arrrrrrr!

[Frau Leichtmatrose]

Klaus Störtebeker and the Victual Brothers.
LUN

DrJ, the Germans seem to have gotten the message, encouraging "Pirattitude, (which you obviously have)" and praise a cafe in Oregon that has it.

"Und ein Café mit angemessener "Pirattitude" im Bundesstaat Oregon hing die schreckliche Drohung für alle ignoranten Landratten aus: "If ye don't place yer order like a pirate, ye may get decaf!"

Decaf is a circle with a mangy D in the center, ya scabby land lubbers.

[narciso]

The most explicitly misogynist primary and general election, in a generation, and they
think feminism won

[Army of Davids]

heard this.....

"Tea Party folks are where the Republicans used to be....

The Republicans are where the Democrats used to be....

And the Democrats are where the Soviets used to be. "

fitting.

[Frau Leichtmatrose]

It doesn't really surprise me, narciso. Gloria Steinem could not be reached for an answer.

[Zeigeist?]

The New Whigs are so satisfyingly pursuing their wish for inter-species extinction by embracing their political archetype, the Tea Baggers.

Please continue your descent into the maelstrom of cultural mass suicide. It leaves room for the educable persons who are not afraid of progress.

[Janet]

Very true Army of Davids. I felt like the last Presidential election was between a Democrat & a Socialist.

[A penny is too high a price for Tea Bagger 'thoughts']

The previous post cited Bill Maher's raft of 21 visits by the erstwhile O'Donnell, but he failed to include Maher's metaphor comparing the rabid christian Right' s resembling the Taliban, and suggested changing titles of nuts like Gingrich and Demint to "Mullah" or "Cleric". Their disinformation is similar to the Iranian Revolution.

[JM Hanes]

Well blow me over, DrJ! I can't believe the number of times I've stumbled over the difference between Arrr! and Arrgh!

[You too, can be an idiot who thinks he's a Patriot]

We may be witnessing the prophetic (unintended) fulfillment of the cautionary tale told in the movie 'Idiocracy'. Every Tea=Bagger should watch, then predictably misinterpret the obvious message therein.

Some things are totally predictable.

[rse]

I'm thinking the next time we hear "but they want to abolish the Dept of Ed" as an example of loonyness, the correct response is "why would that be so bad?".

Let's start a national discussion of all the terrible ideas on education that hurt the children that are coming out of the feds using money we do not really have.

Sorry but I just hurt mercowscey explain that's why Miller cannot represent Alaska.

[centralcal]

Just heard Karl Rove on Fox News Sunday. He had dialed it down considerably, I think (re: O'Donnell).

[Porchlight]

Some things are totally predictable.

Yes, I'm sure this time last year you were predicting that the Tea Parties would be taking down the establishment in the primaries and leading the country in voting out the Democrats in November.

Keep predicting, you're doing a great job!

[Every man, woman and child for himself]

"why would that be so bad?".

Yeah, and let's dump that Ponzi scheme called Social Security and roll all those seniors onto the heap (15%) of people below the poverty line. Don' t forget the widows and orphans on the public dole when the bread-winner dies and leaves the family destitute.

Let their local charity support them.

[Frau Leichtmatrose]

Avast! There's a bilge wipe-up needed on the poop deck at 1:57.

[narciso]

The shock collar, works well, when fitted properly

[rse]

CAIR is giving Helen Thomas a lifetime achievement award on October 9, 2010.

That should be an interesting acceptance speech.

[You too can be an idiot who thinks he's a patriot]

"Yes, I'm sure this time last year you were predicting that the Tea Parties would be taking down the establishment in the primaries and leading the country in voting out the Democrats in November."

I was predicting your misintrepretation, and that you fulfilled that expectation. It's what you are best at. And I'm glad the mindless tail is wagging the republican dog.

It's a gift you keep on giving.

[sbw]

JMH, -- the difference between Arrr! and Arrgh!

I thought the difference was that the latter was Howard Dean sitting on a belaying pin.

[rse]

Well, if 2:21 is an example of the retort we can expect, this may be a winner.

Support to implement bad ideas does not equal no support for the needy.

Try again.

Do you have any idea how much of the state and local ed burden is being spent on administrators to comply with fed rules and has a negative impact on the classroom?

Seriously let's have this argument.

[Frau Leichtmatrose]

"Let their local charity support them."

Maybe someone should invent something called life insurance. Just a suggestion.

[Yeah, humans will endure your brand of slavery. Some of them without complaint.]

Zeit, I'm sure you meant 're-educable' people not afraid of progress.
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[DrJ]

the Germans seem to have gotten the message

And this year, the Dutch too! One local radio station (remember those?) was having a lot of fun with it.

[JM Hanes]

Janet:

2008 was "The Election That Changed Everything for American Women?" I thought it was the 2006 election which put Nancy Pelosi into the Speaker's chair! In fact, I'd put Pelosi up against Hillary any day when it comes to changing things, and I'd have to say the "youthful embrace of the women's work yet to be done," that Hillary apparently inspired seems to have lost a lot of youthful liberal luster lately.

[Rick Ballard]

Don't knock that 15%, Sepsis. It's the only area where real growth has occurred after four years of Dem control of the House and Senate and two years of BOzo's antics.

How's your 'free' health insurance doing? If it's still paying for your psychotropics, you ought to consider taking them.

[You too can be an idiot who thinks he's a patriot]

"Just a suggestion."

Every man woman and child for himself.

Republican solutions for the destitute.

[Captain Hate]

Some things are totally predictable.

Obama will do something bad for the economy.

Joe Biden will say something stupid.

Moochelle will wear something garish and too tight on her extremely large caboose.

The MFM and trolls will beclown themselves.

[Snarl.]

Yes, after a long absence, perhaps being re-educated, I smell the blood of the Lion.
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[hrtshpdbox]

"Karl Rove on Fox News Sunday ... dialed it down considerably, I think (re: O'Donnell)."
Poor Karl may slowly realize that some Republicans have principles and that, majority or not, the GOP might not actually benefit from a Senator Castle constantly sabotaging Republican goals. Regardless of epiphanies, Rove proves again that he can't be trusted.

" I'm glad the mindless tail is wagging the republican dog."
Democrat dogs just poop on their own tails, they're so gross.

[DrJ]

rse,

Do you have any idea how much of the state and local ed burden is being spent on administrators to comply with fed rules and has a negative impact on the classroom?

I've always wondered about that. Do you have any idea? I know the Universities have a lot of this nonsense too.

[hrtshpdbox]

"How's your 'free' health insurance doing? If it's still paying for your psychotropics, you ought to consider taking them."
Let me know when coverage extends to psychedelics (you can find me living in my van down by the river).

[Captain Hate]

Every man woman and child for himself.

I smell grammar books and dictionaries being burned in some asylum off to the left.

[Janet]

Avast! There's a bilge wipe-up needed on the poop deck at 1:57.

Hahahahaha!

[rse]

Historically about 8-9% of the education spending in this country came from the Feds so 90% was coming from state and local coffers.

With the ARRA's millions that have committed the states not to cut the percentage of ed spending in the state budget, Edujobs, and RTT that has now increased to about 20% from the feds. It's temporary money though.

In return for that temporary money, the states are turning over what happens in the classrooms to the feds and have obligated themselves on some painful maintenance of efforts in their long-term state budgets.

So the Dem position that's provoking our troll is they want to control 90% of what goes on in the classroom and have state and local taxpayers pay 90% of the bill.

And Kevin Jennings to boot for all that money.

Dr J-I believe that number is in my notes from AEI's "Penny Saved" conference from last January that is now a book.

Off to look up.

[ROA]

Biggovernment had an article about public schools since 1970 that included two interesting graphs.

The first showed % change in public school enrolment since 1970 (approximately 10%) vs. employment (almost 100%).

The second showed inflation adjusted K-12 costs since 1970 (From approximately $40K to $150K) vs. test score results (almost flat).
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[Clarice]

And she sang as she swung from the mast with a saber in her teeth:

Songtext Hildegard Knef - Die Seeräuber-Jenny

Meine Herren, heute sehen sie mich Gläser abwaschen.
Und ich mache das Bett für jeden.
Und Sie geben mir einen Penny und ich bedanke mich schnell.
Und sie sehen meine Lumpen und dies lumpige Hotel.
Und sie wissen nicht, mit wem Sie reden. Und sie wissen nicht, mit wem Sie reden.
Aber eines Abends wird Geschrei sein am Hafen.
Und man fragt: Was ist das für ein Geschrei?
Und man wird mich lächeln seh'n bei meinen Gläsern.
Und man sagt: was lächelt die dabei?
Und ein Schiff mit acht Segeln
Und mit fünfzig Kanonen
Wird liegen am Kai.
Und man sagt, geh wisch Deine Gläser mein Kind. Und man reicht mir den Penny hin. Und der Penny wird genommen und das Bett wird gemacht, und es wird keiner mehr drin schlafen in dieser Nacht.
Und sie wissen immer noch nicht, wer ich bin.
Und sie wissen imme noch nicht, wer ich bin.
Aber eines Abends wird Getös sein am Hafen und man fragt: "Was ist das für ein Getös?" Und man wird mich stehen sehen hinterm Fenster. Und man sagt: "Was lächelt die so bös?"
Und das Schiff mit acht Segeln und mit fünfzig Kanonen wird beschiessen die Stadt.

Meine Herren, da wird wohl Ihr Lachen aufhören
Denn die Mauern werden fallen hin
Und die Stadt wird gemacht dem Erdboden gleich
Nur ein lumpiges Hotel wird verschont von jedem Streich
Und man fragt: Wer wohnt Besonderer darin?
Und man fragt: Wer wohnt Besonderer darin?
Und in dieser Nacht wird ein Geschrei um das Hotel sein
Und man fragt: Warum wird das Hotel verschont?
Und man wird mich sehen treten aus der Tür gen Morgen
Und man sagt: Die hat darin gewohnt?
Und das Schiff mit acht Segeln
Und mit fünfzig Kanonen
Wird beflaggen den Mast
Und es werden kommen hundert gen Mittag an Land
Und werden in den Schatten treten
Und fangen einen jeglichen aus jeglicher Tür
Und legen ihn in Ketten und bringen vor mir
Und fragen: Welchen sollen wir töten?
Und an diesem Mittag wird es still sein am Hafen
Wenn man fragt, wer wohl sterben muss...
Und dann werden Sie mich sagen hören: ALLE!
Und wenn dann der Kopf fällt, sag' ich: Hoppla!
Und das Schiff mit acht Segeln
Und mit fünfzig Kanonen
Wird entschwinden mit mir...

[JM Hanes]

"Please continue your descent into the maelstrom of cultural mass suicide. It leaves room for the educable persons who are not afraid of progress."

LOL! Red pencils are multiplying like brooms escaping from the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

[Louie Lou]

You how you can tell the lefties are scared? They come here and tell you how scared you should be. The laughter you return probably doesn't do much for their confidence. Very entertaining.

[Army of Davids]

For the media's consumption.

From a simple Tea Party activist.

"It's the stupid economic policies, stupid"

[centralcal]

glasater has retweeted (someone named John Monahan) this and it caused me loads of laughter:

O'Donnell dabbled in witchcraft, but once she found out Pelosi was the leader, she quickly moved on.

[Spell, spook, and scandal.]

Bell that cat, Book, 'em Danno, and Candle me up an O'Donnell.
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[IDN'T HILLARY AS A GROWN UP HAVE SEANCES IN THE WH WITH ELEANOR ROOSEVELT?]

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[IDN'T HILLARY AS A GROWN UP HAVE SEANCES IN THE WH WITH ELEANOR ROOSEVELT?]

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[jimmyk]

So Maher released an excerpt of something O'Donnell said many years ago in the context of explaining how her outlook had changed. It seems to me the last time something like that happened, the speaker was practically nominated for sainthood (as she contemplated a lawsuit against the person who released the video), while the media jumped all over the journalist.

[larice]

WHATTT?????

I didn't mean to do that.

BTW glasater's remark is hilarious.

[jimmyk]

Clarice, I thought maybe that was just more than the usual amount of typos.

Great column this week as usual. And a belated congrats to young lurker (I'm getting caught up after atoning for all my sins).

[It was the money on a loon hit day.]

Ah, lazy late summer afternoon, casting out lines and spells. Clarice has a full stringer. How about some recipes?
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[Pears, use 'em or lose 'em. Or treacle 'em. This pie could withstand keelhauling.]

Pie-rated recipes. My daughter baked some loco pears and they were just sitting around in syrup, so I put 'em WalMart pie shells, and now I'm eating 'em and liking it.
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[rse]

Since we have made someone anxious let's keep it up.

Many of you may have read that these new national standards are designed to make every high school graduate "college or career ready".

Sounds nice, huh?

Want to know the definition the NGA and CCSSO have for college ready?

A student who is ready to take a credit bearing, non-remedial course at a community college and earn at least a "C" grade.

That will make a parent proud!!

Now where will the political support be when that low standard becomes widely known?

[DrJ]

rse,

Is that *any* non-remedial course? The local community college (here they're called Junior Colleges) offer things like building trades, welding, auto mechanics and the like.

[caro]

rse,how many do-overs do they get?

[Rob Crawford]

Is anyone else surprised 'cleo hasn't choked to death trying to swallow a Democrat talking point?

Anyone else disappointed?

[Rocco]

Go Pats

[MayBee]

Rand Paul pulled out of the Sunday talk shows too. NBC went crazy. But it seems not to have hurt him.

[sbw]

Apparently a "Mariano-off" can mean Mariano's off and a game-tying home run by Baltimore. Rats!

[centralcal]

Personally, I think that the MFM well is so poisoned that it is counterproductive for any candidate, who is not in a national election, to go on them.

The alphabet media (cable and network) have dropped all pretense of even trying to be responsible journalists. They are advocates and they play really nasty.

[Old Lurker]

"But it seems not to have hurt him."

Because nobody watches the damn things anymore.

[rse]

I'm assuming it's "academic" courses but what happened in Georgia when they went to one diploma for all and pronounced it college prep was the gutting of those practical, nonexportable courses in high school. That then affects the technical college system as well.

Heard Kati Haycock, Pres of Education Trust, speak about a year ago as she was praising what Ga had done and pushing it as a national model. Her complaint is that those trade courses are disproportionately minorities and thus unacceptable.

Think of it as colorblind unemployability.

[Janet]

Have ya'll seen this video of Obama removing Creator from the Declaration of Independence? The pause is kinda creepy.

I wonder if the appearance of this video has anything to do with him going to church today? If so, his resentment might peak pretty soon....having to put on a show for the damn bitter clingers.

[larice]

Honestly, MayBee, Republican candidates should just all go on strike about the alphabets until they cut out this carp.

Kim, you asked for a recipe on a fortuitous day. I found this one some years ago in a magazine in a house I rented in Gordes France. I had misplaced it and just found it again. Below it is a news recipe for preserved lemons. They are needed in this dish. You can buy them ready made in ME groceries and there are many recipes available online, but this is the fastest one I ever saw..most take about a week to do.

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Original Moroccan Chicken with Lemons (Serves 6)

2 kgs chicken legs (5 lbs)
4 onions, sliced
6 garlic cloves,minced
4 lg peeled, seeded and sliced tomatoes
1 piece fresh ginger
Juice of 1 lemon
4 handfuls of kalamata olives, rinsed
1 bunch of cilantro, chopped
6 quartered, preserved lemons

Marinade

1 glass of olive oil
1 soup spoon tumeric
salt, pepper
1 soup spoon paprika
cayenne pepper , 2 good pinches
4 pistils saffron

Marinade chicken overnight
Saute in marinade until golden
Reserve
Sauté garlic, onion & tomatoes.
Add ginger and simmer for 10 minutes

Put chicken and onion mixture in cooking pot. Simmer covered for 20 minutes. Add coriander, olives and lemons. Simmer until heated thru

Quick preserved lemons
6 thin skinned lemons, ends trimmed and cut in 6ths. 6 T coarse salt mixed with 1 cup fresh lemon juice
Put in baking dish in 200 deg oven for 3 hrs, stirring ocassionally. Let cool and cover.

[Janet]

Then this Am. Thinker article by the same author Jason McNew is very good explaining why the belief of our rights coming from our Creator is so important.

[Jack is Back!]

Clarice,

Best cooked in a Tangine. I do a great chicken tangine and a lamb one with prunes and olives. But this is Talk Like a Pirate day and for that its a 3 course meal of Hard Tack, Bone Soup and Salmagundi.

In Greenport, Long Island (on the North Fork) there used to be an Ice Cream Shop with a Pirates Boutique. You could buy all kinds of Pirate gear and clothes after you devoured your Hot Fudge Sundae.

[narciso]

The Roundtable on Fox was pretty good with Kristol, and Liz, although Nina was kind of huffy, and Juan kind of clueless again, par forthe course, I guess

[Jack is Back!]

Redskins score, Redskins score:

"Hail to the Redskins,
Hail Victory,
Braves on the warpath,
Fight for Old DC."

[NB: No italics. Redskins hate italics.]

[centralcal]

Recipes - that reminds me, as soon as the Fall weather gets here I need to try out Narciso's Galician Soup recipe.

Janet: I saw that video. Obama just gets creepier every day. I think you nailed it - omit the Creator at night, attend church in the morning.

[DrJ]

Her complaint is that those trade courses are disproportionately minorities and thus unacceptable.

Think of it as colorblind unemployability.

Indeed.

So what is the Union angle in all of this? Certainly the government is unionized, but then too are the building trades (for example). Favoring one union over another?

[rse]

What exactly does he mean by telling the Hispanic Caucus that "whatever way the political winds may shift, I stand with you"?

Also the anger in his eyes when he paused, pursed those lips several times, and then omitted Creator.

He might as well have run it up the flagpole as one of those things he hates about America.

[larice]

JIB--Mmm hot fudge sundaes..oh, to be young and slender enough for that.
This works perfectly wrll in a cook cookpot..I used to be able to get wonderful harissa in Isle sure le sorge. Here, mostly I could only find junk in cans or tubes that was largely red colored carrots--not the spicy pepper condiment you need to serve with the dish. Then I found Amore pepper sauce in tubes. It's perfect. If you can't get is anywhere else, Amazon has it. Failing that chinese chile and garlic sauce works.

Of course, you need couscous with it, and I must say I find the instant stuff (esp with some sauteed veggies stirred in) works perfectly.

[larice]

--Urgh****** Good cookpot****** Isle Sur Le Sorge***

[centralcal]

Clarice - you lost your C!

[rse]

Dr J-

Kati started out in your neck of the woods. She was once the director of the Outreach and Student Affirmative Action for the 9 campus University of Cal system.

She goes on to be VP of the Children's Defense Fund.

I do not see it as a union issue so much as an attitude that if all may not succeed, no one will.

There's also a group that's about to get a working majority on the IES board that sees all this federal education funding as a type of reparations for the nation's educational debt to minorities.

Plus there's the added bonus that no matter how ignorant and aggrieved you are, you still get to vote when you turn 18.

[Janet]

Dear larice,

We have a frequent poster here at JOM that also enjoys cooking...you two should get together once. Her name is Clarice. :)

(Or perhaps it is purposeful...La Rice, Clarice's chef name!)

[Clarice]

It's a bad day for my fingers I think.

[Barbara]

Janet: I saw that video. Obama just gets creepier every day. I think you nailed it - omit the Creator at night, attend church in the morning.

Very creepy indeed! He tortures America history into something unrecognizable all the while striking that insufferably superior pose.

[Buford Gooch]

Arrrrr, and it's time we keelhaul that scubbermouthed slime Cleo. Then we'll hang him from the yard arm. He keeps spewing bilge, but that's because he has his noggin in the poopdeck.

[DrJ]

Kati started out in your neck of the woods.

Figures.

She was once the director of the Outreach and Student Affirmative Action for the 9 campus University of Cal system.

Figures.

BTW, we're now up to 10 UCs. UC Merced was opened in 2005. Still, "The University of California," without qualifiers, still is Berkeley. Fun facts to tell at parties.

[Barbara]

"American history"

[Melinda Romanoff]

Clarice-

You could make Harissa, in small batches, cover them with olive oil in the back of the fridge.

I'll test the freezer angle myself.

[Clarice]

Here you can find the world's most delicious tapenades, harissa, olives and olive oil.
ous l'Olivier
Address: 16 rue de la République, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Phone: 04-90-20-68-90

Location: L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue

I don't know if they ship--I doubt it.

[Clarice]

**Sous l"Olivier (my computer is acting up, I'm sorry)

[Rocco]

Wow...Moss just pulled one in with one hand for a TD, what a catch!

[Captain Hate]

JiB: A fellow Redskins fan? *clasp*

[No, no, no, no Junior Farm for me, for me.]

The Dirty Golden Bear
Is losing all his hair.
He's got the gout,
His teeth are out.

He don't know what it's all about.
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[Jack is Back!]

Rocco,

I am telling you they look totally different under Shanahan and McNabb - same guys to. But its never to early for Snyder to screw it up - fingers crossed.

Talking about tapenades, Harissa, olives and olive oil - if you are ever in Miami try Cafe Pastis on S. Red Road in South Miami. I think it is between 72 and 73rd sts. You don't have to go all the way to Provence and driving and walking around Miami at night is more exciting.

Surf's up. So's the wind. Thanks Igor. Kite boarders are having a field day.

[DrJ]

LOL Kim!

In spite of the State's best efforts, Berkeley is still a great school, its well-known political maladies notwithstanding.

[Toil N Trouble]

AP: "O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment -
"How many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks in high school?" she asked fellow Republicans at a GOP picnic in southern Delaware on Sunday.

"There's been no witchcraft since. If there was, Karl Rove would be a supporter now," O'Donnell jokingly assured the crowd."

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[Chubby]

AoD: (("Tea Party folks are where the Republicans used to be....

The Republicans are where the Democrats used to be....

And the Democrats are where the Soviets used to be. "
))

Where did you hear it? I read it, or something close to it, in a comments thread at the Belmont Club a few days ago.

[JM Hanes]

Janet:

"Have ya'll seen this video of Obama removing Creator from the Declaration of Independence? "

Listening to Obama is always so instructive! I was amazed to learn that Mexicans were settling here long before "America" -- or Mexico -- was even an idea.

[Captain Hate]

COD using Rove as a foil is pretty damn smart, imo; a lot smarter than her detractors would have me believe. Keep banging that monkey, MFM.

[Jack is Back!]

Capt. Hate,

Through thick and thin. Have gone bald twice pulling my hair out and screaming at the screen - finally just sat back and developed a suspect liver - my wife has been told to sue Snyder for all he has if I die early from cirrhosis:)

It now looks like I have a chance to part my hair again and sober up.

[An alumnus, Janet Hamburg, just died tragically.]

Oh, yeah, DrJ; too much talent there. I should've hat-tipped Mills drinking song.
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[Captain Hate]

JiB, HOF Joe Gibbs coming back temporarily restored our sanity and we should be thankful for that. But I think Shanny and Allen have us well set for the future. I think the Dan means well (and isn't afraid of spending his money which may reduce your wife's ultimate take); he just meddles too much.