Saturday Morning

Here we go.

 

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[narciso]

More ridiculousness to start the morning;

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/obama-says-gop-fever-on-taxes-may-break-in-a-second-term/

[GMax]

Aint gonna be a second term so we will never know...

[narciso]

I really used to think that Rush was exaggerating;

http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-answers-this-do-republicans-want-the-economy-to-do-badly-to-help-this-coming-election/#disqus_threa

[pagar]

How many lies can a speaker speak?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/bill-clinton-hits-a-home-run-in-wisconsin-will-it-be-enough/2012/06/01/gJQAr0WD7U_blog.html

Bill Clinton speaks about shared prosperity,
there is no way that Americans can have shared prosperity when unions are stealing it all for the Democrats.

Bill Clinton speaks of cooperation, leftists can not be trusted so there can be no cooperation with them, IMO.

[Threadkiller]

I give...

Who's birthday is today?

[narciso]

Well Pagar, even among the journolisters, sargent is uncommonly gullible,

[GMax]

Sargent is like the die fan who team is down 6 in the dwidling 4th qtr praying and hoping that the "everyone go long and I will chuck up the Hail Mary" strategy is going to work. Sorry Charlie, Starkist does not want your kind of tuna...

[GMax]

Die hard fan

whose

Sheesh

[peter]

Hi, everybody in the Tidewater Virginia area for a family wedding. Just missed the tornado and water spout last night. Congrats to the Mets fans-- first no hitter (cheapened slightly by a bad call ) in the history of the club.

[narciso]

I would guess, since I don't have a piece of the Rosetta, Mrs. Hit.

[Threadkiller]

Whose...

Ugh

[jwest]

I give...

Who's birthday is today?

Posted by: Threadkiller

Mine. (starting to get old)

[Clarice]

HB,jwest!!

[rse]

Rick-

if you are around, it is funny to see what searches are now bringing people to the site. I thought you'd appreciate that "want to make serfs of all" apparently worked.

I am pleased though that "outcomes based education" works too as that's the kind of insight a veteran teacher listening to a common core presentation this summer is likely to have.

I think we are all agreed that deceit is best known as early as possible.

It really is past time for an autopsy on so many issues.

AliceH-please don't miss my comment to you on previous thread.

jib-our encounter with the sea turtle was at twilight. We needed to get closer to see what was wrong in the poor light so we could tell the turtle patrol later. We knew not to touch. I think the neighbor didn't get we were not tourists and understood what we were looking for. Really-she was not helping the poor critter that night.

[narciso]

happy birthday, J West.

[rse]

Melinda-you are not the only one who thought highly of the Taylor piece. LUN

Happy birthday jwest.

[Jane]

Happy B-day JWest.

Made it to Springfield after being rescued by some guy from killing myself for driving the wrong way down the street.

It occurred to me my car might be in danger with its OMG bumpersticker so I remembered to back into the parking place. It's pouring rain, a perfect day for a democrat convention.

I'm live blogging over at You Too

[narciso]

Wait, didn't Barney write that stupid Dodd/Frank bill, 'untergang,'

[Janet]

Happy Birthday, jwest!! Welcome to VA, peter!

[narciso]

In other seriously strange doings, they are going to follow up, the Closer, with a spinoff
starting in August, but without Kyra Sedjwick,
I don't see that working,

[AliceH]

Thanks, rse! I saw it - I am very glad my question / your answers helped.

Jane - loving your live-blog. Thanks!

[centralcal]

Happy Birthday, to jwest and my granddaughter #6, Carlie.

[jwest]

Thanks all for the birthday greetings.

In regards to the Taylor piece, why is it that those who embrace Hayek (as I do) rarely take the position he advocated concerning the appropriateness of the government having a role in a catastrophic health insurance system?

[narciso]

Ah that line from Coakley, reminds of a similar one, from PCU (1993) where a clueless
college student, says 'free Nelson Mandela'

[Captain Hate]

the Closer, with a spinoff
starting in August, but without Kyra Sedjwick

That's like The Sopranos without Tony.

[MarkO]

Happy Birthday, jwest.

[Danube of Thought]

Just because I like it so much, I'll post it again:

Minus 14 at Raz today.

Trails Romney by 4.

[jwest]

Can you imagine what the polls would look like if everyone used only likely voters and they weighted to realistic party breakdowns?

I still maintain that Obama will drop out of the running to prevent being the black Jimmy Carter, keep a few hundred million in campaign donations for a future run “when the country is ready” and that Hillary will be named the party nominee.

[AliceH]

ruh roh! Jane's last post was 40 minutes ago. Either nothing is happening, or ... ???

Do we have a JOM Bail Fund?

[GMax]

Liveblogging a Massachusetts Democrat Party gathering? Wouldn't strychnine be quicker?

[AliceH]

false alarm. THIS time.

[matt]

In other news, Fauxcohantas is reported to have been up to her pretty headdress in all sorts of those nasty real estate deals that she was so opposed to as a consumer advocate; high interest loans to family members, flipping properties....

But wait! That's it! It is really a ploy to change the conversation! Now we can call her....."Flipper!".

[Neo]

I keep coming upon this meme that the policies of Mitt Romney are those that they are using today in Europe.
Europe hasn't had policies anything like those of Mitt Romney for at least a few decades.
No, Europe took another route. They are beyond Barack Obama. They are where Obama would be if you let him be President for 10 or so more years. They are where Obama would be when he realizes that everything he has tried just didn't work they way his academic friends said it would. Europe is where Obama would be when he realizes that Maggie Thatcher was right, that eventually you run out of other people's money.

[GMax]

New Globe poll has Brown up by 2% over Warren, her negatives rising, while Brown has a 60% positive rating. And then buried in the poll which apparently did not push voters and ask their leanings at all but get a load of this:

The poll results among self-identified independents, whose votes Brown needs to win overwhelmingly in a state that traditionally favors Democrats, are particularly helpful to Brown. Fifty-seven percent of independents in the Globe survey said Warren had not fully explained the issue.

Please dig in Lizzy and insult the intelligence of all of these Indy voters. Hahahahahahaha

[narciso]

I thought Herren was the guy,but he was just fronting,

http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/06/01/meet-the-radical-doj-lawyer-forcing-florida-to-keep-foreigners-on-the-voter-rolls/

[narciso]

Is she real, or memorex;

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/06/mass-dems-set-to-ditch-true-liberal-in-favor-of-self-aggrandizing-fake-cherokee-historic-bar-exam-taking-nursing-mother-foreclosure-speculator/

[narciso]

How does this happen?

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/justices-remove-themselves-from-tom-delays-appeal-2340919.html

[Jane]

They are now doing administration things - like taking names. Patrick gave a good speech, full of lies, but crowd rousing. Ahhh the light came on.

[Danube of Thought]

The government employee retirement chickens are coming home to roost in California.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

Happy birthday, jwest.

Apparently, early June is a popular season for birthdays. Late last night, our daughter, Lauren Thompson, gave birth to Jaxon Graham Thompson on the first birthday of his late cousin, Graham Sung Hee Kitt. Mother and son are doing well.

[narciso]

Well he is Obama 1.O, how do you keep a straight face, and what do the Herald reporters do it.

[Rick Ballard]

What would be the best day for the Supremes to release the decision striking down Obamacare? ("Best" in the sense of generating the most payback to BOzo.)

If Walker is above 54% on Tuesday then my hope is that the Supremes would hold off until the 18th. At <54%, the 11th would be OK. The 25th offers an opportunity for a twofer should the GDP report on Friday come in at <1%.

[jwest]

Thanks, Jim and congratulations on the new grandson. The wife and I will be babysitting our 7 month old twin grandsons later today. There is nothing I would rather be doing.

[Janet]

Great job, Jane. So detailed. I don't know how you do it! The snark-blogging practice at JOM has made you a pro.
Follow along at YouTooCongress.com

[narciso]

Heck of a job, Cristina;

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/301632/wages-peronism-ctd-andrew-stuttaford

[Jane]

Janet,

It's a little creepy. I feel like I have to hide my screen. But it's very fascinating. I have no idea when Lizzy will make her appearance.

[Jane]

BTW Janet I declined to wear my tea party flag today. I want to make sure I get out alive.

[Jane]

I think Jim Braude is sitting next to me. People keep going over to introduce themselves to him.

[pagar]

Happy Birthday J West!

I still think one of the stories of the week should be hypocrite Obama closing the Vietnam Wall for hours on Monday to proclaim:

"Barack Obama Condemns America's Treatment of Vietnam Veterans As 'National Shame'"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888920/posts

and than on Friday going to a fund raiser co hosted by Marilyn Katz. Marilyn Katz would have to be in the top half dozen of the most vicious Anti American anti Vietnam veteran protesters of all time.

http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/06/chicago-fundraiser-for-obama-co-hosted-by-60s-radical-marilyn-katz/

In fact, It is my opinion, that there was/are few Vietnam War protesters who would not vote for Obama if they were still alive.

I don't believe Obama has ever issued a more hypocritical statement than the one he issued Monday on the Vietnam Veterans.

[hit and run]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JWEST!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAXON!!!

[hit and run]

TM:
Here we go.

Uh huh.

Thanks to Alice I recognize that as a Patronizing We.

[narciso]

And which ones would be those, I wonder?

http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/washington-post-reminds-obama-that-he-actually-needs-ideas-to-win/

[hit and run]

narciso:
I would guess, since I don't have a piece of the Rosetta, Mrs. Hit.

Good guess. But her birthday, like Clarice's, is exactly 6 months from today

[rse]

Jane-we are glad you are a radio celebrity and not video.

Are you wearing sunglasses?

Have you thought about getting a wig?

Maybe you should buy a Tshirt today in case you need to be a live-blogging interloper in the future.

America does need you to keep us informed.

[Janet]

BTW Janet I declined to wear my tea party flag today. I want to make sure I get out alive.

I hear ya. I don't put any political bumper stickers on my car cause I don't want it wrecked. Says something about Dems doesn't it....

[Neo]

On Saturday, Massachusetts delegates will meet in their state's Democrat party convention.

A PHOTO ID WILL BE REQUIRED TO ENTER THE MASSMUTUAL CENTER

Massachusetts Democrats must really hate minorities

[Jane]

No photo ID required for the press Neo.

[Voldemort Delenda Est ! Sandy Daze]

peter - the Blues will be performing at the oceanfront ~1500. So, depending on where you are at in the Tidewater area, you have the opportunity to see a great airshow today or tomorrow. . . Saw the six-ship pass directly overhead my home yesterday. It was THRILLING !

If you decide to do so, your best bet is to park at Camp Pendleton. Take the ¨Birdneck" exit off of I-264 go about three miles and you´ll be there. Shuttle buses are running all day and night. VaBch is expecting a big turnout. Almost impossible to get to the oceanfront directly, must park off-site.

rse - what do you make of Jindal´s opening to voucher education in Louisiana ?

[hit and run]

I find it comforting in an odd sort of way -- narciso can remember any little detail about anything at any time with total recall . . . except birthdays.

I can't remember jack squat about anything at any time . . . except birthdays.

[Army of Davids]

Some good numbers...

InTrades on Walker win 95%

InTrades on SCOTUS ObamaCare ruling mandate unconstitutional 66%

Raz Romney +4

[Clarice]

Great news, Army

[Clarice]

Hit, sounds like you and narciso are a match made in heaven.
If I were head of the CIA or whatever they call it now, he'd have a permanent spot next to me as a sort of living encyclopedia.

[matt]

happy birthday JWest!

[Jane]

Warren just left the stage. Don't know if DeFranco is speaking.

[Clarice]

You're a saint to do this, Jane.

[Caro]

If I were Vince Flynn or Brad Thor, I would make Narciso a character in my next thriller. And all those hereafter.

Brad Thor will be on the next NR cruise, by the way.

[rse]

Sandy Daze-

Louisiana was one of the states that got a fed DoED NCLB waiver this week. Arne would not have done that unless the voucher does not work as jindal thinks.

By and large nothing in ed works as Reps think and they keep getting pawned as a result.

The most corrupt part of the process is accreditation. That's the primary poison delivery/ enforcement mechanism. That's why charters in Ga cannot work as rhetoric desires because of accred. Parents bind themselves to terms they do not understand because they are orwellian. Plus accred standards skew from there.

My guess from that review and knowing what goes on in australia which has similar vouchers is that it will open the door for adavanED (the accreditor) to dictate what those private school can and can't do. That's also what happened to private schools in Ga which have to be accredited at high school level for grads to have access to HOPE scholarships.

I am going to write on what Quality Learning really is next and then accred but there have been comments on accred in several posts.

They do not want the private schools to be beacons of light where you still have transmission of knowledge while the public schools are busy with remaking personalities.

I just finished something quite authoritative about an hour ago that makes it clear that the academics under common core are to involve "experiencing" the content and "participating" in it a la group projects and open-ended engaging realistic problems. Again I know this from its 19th century beginnings to what happened last week. And the new names for same old ideas. At this point I just keep piling up more confirming documentation of the current blueprint and then tracking back to its beginnings.

Something to be said for foolishly bringing in a cutting edge super and principal and charter where I live. I would not have so thoroughly mastered the accreditors role in all of this otherwise. They really were the only explanation for the arrogance. I think that's a big part of what made Bev Hall think she was untouchable. When the district admins know they are misrepresenting such a fundamental area to taxpayers and parents with the accreditors blessings. I think it fuels the financial and cheating corruption we have seen.

So bottom line is that this will destroy the academic integrity of private schools in La. Also India is going after the private schools too now arguing it is part of its commitment under the UN's Education for All I wrote about most recently. So there are some more details to a very ugly story.

[Jane]

Brad Thor will be on the next NR cruise

I need to change my seating demands.

DeFranco just spoke. Now the vote.

[pagar]

"Do we have a JOM Bail Fund?"

Doesn't sound like Jane will need it today.
From reading her posts she seems pretty calm.

I hope she is up high in that building, because it sounds like the BS must be getting pretty deep. Might need a boat to go in and rescue her.

I don't believe I have ever seen that much detail in political reporting of a single event. Go Jane and thanks!

[matt]

They call her Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning
No one you see, is smarter than she
And we know Flipper, Flipper,lives in a world of wonder
And it's no blunder, she's part Cherokee!

[Jane]

Oh I am on the top of the arena, pretty much all by myself. I wonder if this is the last thing to happen.

[Ignatz]

Thank you for the econ 101 lesson, Cecil.

[Janet]

from Jane's live blogging -

Warren up ..."(she gets quiet) For so many years our champion was Senator Kennedy. I worked for him and to this day keep a voice mail he left me. She wishes she could thank him one more time and honor his memory.(She sounds like she is about to cry)"

but then THIS - "This is the people’s seat and we will bring it back to the people of MA. (Huge cheers)"

Wasn't the whole "people's seat" point made because the Dems kept calling it "Kennedy's seat"? Warren is gonna steal Scott Brown's line????

[OldTimer]

My gawd, Jane. Those applauders in the audience are so eager and determined to have their ears tickled. They refuse to acknowledge the truth or even care what the facts are. I should be way beyond being amazed at the Democrat voter's gullibility by now, but their gross ignorance of reality and willingness to believe Republicans are the problem and NOT their own ideology, still floors me!

[daddy]

Good Morning!

Jane,

Lemme' hear you holler "Jim Crow!

Call Eric Holder! Hire a Lawyer! This is outrageous!!!

MASS DEMOCRATS: NO ENTRY TO CONVENTION WITHOUT PHOTO ID

"In recent years, Democrats have argued that requiring voters to show photo IDs prior to voting is an egregious act of voter suppression...modern-day Jim Crow laws."

But "With so much at state, Democrats have decided to implement Voter ID requirements...in their state's Democrat party convention... on Saturday."

[Jane]

So do you guys care if I leave before the vote? I'm pretty bored.

[Janet]

I'd leave, Jane. They won't know the tally right away anyway.
For my little 8th congressional district foray I left after I voted & then looked for the results online.

[daddy]

“What KID asks their grandparents for legal documentation to go along with their family stories?’’ Warren wrote."

Lets see, she's born in 1949, and she tells Harvard in 1992 she's officially a Native American Women of Color.

So she was a 43 year old KID when she passed that on.

George Zimmerman should be so lucky.

[Ignatz]

--So do you guys care if I leave before the vote? I'm pretty bored.--

Only if you brought along a stink bomb to leave behind.
In a pinch a ripe dead cat will do.

[narciso]

At least in his earlier works, Executive Power, being one of them, he had a character
Dumond, I guess I had any hacking skills I'd be truly dangerous, I'm more of the John Nash
type, putting patterns together,

When did Warren work for Kennedy,

[Danube of Thought]

Will this Hayek do?

[daddy]

Jane,

Here's a question.

Maybe you've covered it but I haven't played catch-up yet.

Looks wise, is there any DEM Politician in that Convention that is as good looking as Scotty Brown?

Seems to me that from Massachusetts Dem's its usually Barney the Repulsive and Teddy K the grotesque slob and Kerry the Horse-faced French speaker and Lizzy the pathetic low cheekboned squaw.

Is there any Dem there, man or woman running for office, that would make you or me or Iggy do any salivating, or are they all unfortunately rather homely?

But feel free to leave anytime and don't hang out just to answer my stupid question.

[AliceH]

narciso - that Warren remark about working for (Teddy) Kennedy was news to me, also.

[jwest]

I believe more people will start to embrace Hayek if this keeps up.

[daddy]

Happy Birthday JWest

You don't smell a day over 30!

[GMax]

AFSCME declined to comment.

I am still laughing at this.

[Ignatz]

Any respect I had for Jazz Shaw at Hotair took a terrific beating with his description of the idiot jester of Business Insider, Joe Weisenthal, as an 'economic guru'. The most entertaining thing at BI is reading the comments ripping this cretin to shreds every time he posts. Not only is he an aficionado of the latest lefty snake oil, MMT, he lacks even the slightest journalistic chops or ethics; IOW a perfect match for the proprietor of PI the crook, Henry Blodgett.

[Ignatz]

--When did Warren work for Kennedy--

When her mother told her she did. Come on, what kid would even question it?

[Ignatz]

-Will this Hayek do?--

Never heard of her, but she does appear to have a sweet acidophilus.

[AliceH]

via Instapundit, an unbelievably sleazy political flyer in WI.

(Also at althouse, but I reckon she gets enough Instapundit traffic, she doesn't need my help. )

[Danube of Thought]

So I don't qualify as a salivator? Gee whiz...

[pagar]

"wishes she could thank him one more time"
Mary Jo Kopechne has not had the opportunity either.

Are the people at that convention smarter looking than the ones who can't get a photo ID? Besides the fact that the democrats seem to argue their voters are too dumb to get a photo ID, it seems to me that they are saying that their elected representatives are too dumb to solve a simple problem like how to make sure every voter can get a photo ID.

[OldTimer]

American Independence vs. Global Government: Are We Losing the Struggle?

This fits right in with rse's research and timely warnings. I wonder where Romney's head is on this. We don't have much time left to dilly-dally, while the termites eat away at our sovereignty. LUN

[AliceH]

LOL. In Australia. Quote "raining sheep doesn’t happen everyday" Unquote.

[Janet]

I don't believe I have ever seen that much detail in political reporting of a single event. Go Jane and thanks!

So true, pagar.

[Jane]

Home again, home again, jiggidy jig.

They refuse to acknowledge the truth or even care what the facts are.

What was interesting to me is how they phrased things. There were lots of lies, but tons of half lies.

I really need a drink after that.

And no, no good looking elected democrats. None, nada, not-a-one. Lots of hippy looking people wearing 50-20 buttons. The guy to my right was wearing a Dashiki. Jim Braude was holding court on the left.

From the response it didn't sound like Marisa would get her 15% but we will see.

[Clarice]

Leave, Jane. Whatever evil is on your conscience you've more than done proper penance. XOXO

[Dave (in MA)]

Hundredth!

Thanks for your hard work, Jane.

[Jane]

I left Clarice, and I'm home. I'd have gotten here sooner but it's raining cats and democrats.

[Old Lurker]

I know it is not new news, I guess I knew it all along. I had the pleasure of spending 6 hours yesterday at Gate C28 at Logan Airport (waiting for the storms to clear DC so I could get home). That meant 6 hours of CNN in my face.

Apparently all the folks on camera, all of their bosses, and all of their writers... and all of their viewers, if any, do believe all that c**p, hook line and sinker. Even the economic news of yesterday barely set them back and was promptly spun so as to do no harm to Obama.

There really really is a parallel universe out there and my sense is that one camp or the other is in for a very rude awakening.