Sunday Morning

Clarice Feldman writes about new media disturning the scripted conversation; Former Journolister Dave Weigel describes interference with the DNC talking points as "trolling". But not in a bad way!

I don’t use troll in the pejorative sense. Actually, I may be trying to craft a neutral meaning of troll where none previously existed. The term, in its modern Internet usage, refers to people who want to start fights online to bring the universe into an argument on their terms. It comes not from Grimm literature, but from a fishing technique in which multiple lines are baited and dragged to haul in the maximum amount of cold-bloods.

When the conventional liberal media give endless coverage to one stupid comment by a Republican Senate candidate, that's endless, headline making news. Obvi. And when conservative media do something similar with something as self-evidently meaningless as the Democratic Party platform, that's trolling. Whatever.

 

Comments

[Porchlight]

Stephanopolus (I think) said with a great smile that the person leading the polls in the beginning of September always wins the election.

This is not true, as I'm sure has already been pointed out (I haven't caught up yet) - McCain was ahead in early September 2008.

[Porchlight]

OT for Texas JOMers:

If anyone is watching the Texans game, keep an eye out for Billy Ray Cyrus' set at halftime (not sure if it will air on TV).

Mr. Porchlight will be playing fiddle in his backup band, and Mr. Porchlight's brother will be playing banjo.

I know, it's kinda silly, but a gig's a gig. :)

[Jane - It's gonna be a Tsunami in November]

Well it wasn't my google count but so be it. I'll live.

[(A) nuther Bub]

"Pollsters will tell you that they cannot always count on voters to level with them about which candidates they favor.

Hah. Pollsters blaming error on lying respondents. That was my business for three decades and I never thought of using that as an out. Damn!

It may happen occasionally, but far more likely are errors that don't show in the reliability calculations. As I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, a pollster's goal was to get completed interviews with a minimum of 50 percent of one's sample, in the old days. Now pollsters are having to accept reaching 10 percent of all attempts. That's likely to be a far more serious problem affecting results than the rare respondent being untruthful.

Loved your California then-and-now email, DoT.

[Danube of Thought]

For a rollicking good time, Google William Saletan's "Why Bush Is Toast" in the September 14, 2000 issue of Slate.

[Jim Eagle]

DoT,

You have email.

[Porchlight]

Oops, I should also have said, Florida folks might also be watching the HOU-MIA game. But it's probably less likely that the halftime show will be broadcast there.

[Danube of Thought]

Gallup is 49-44 today.

[Clarice]

Jane, google counts also change from day to day. Sometimes on the first day or so of something they are quite high and then I think they weed out duplicates and things that don't belong there. On the same search from day to day I get different results quote often.

I am sorry if I misled you.

[Clarice]

*quite often*

[derwill]

It's very hard for people to admit they've made a mistake, especially when their original decision was fueled by a lot of gooey feel-good emotion in the first place. What Clinton did when he said no president, not even himself, could've fixed the financial mess, was that he relieved a lot of voters of those uncomfortable doubts that they'd been feeling about Obama and their vote four years ago--that they were chumps, fools. Clinton told them they weren't fools, and they--being human--want to believe that. But underneath, the doubts are still there because reality is staring them in face everyday. They aren't better off than they were four years ago, and they know it. And there is the very real fear that the next four years are going to be even worse. What Romney can do with ads and in the debates is to bring those doubts and fears back to the surface again. Their is a general sense of fear and unease in this country right now, roiling beneath the surface. Even if the voers don't understand exactly why things have gone awry, they sense on a very visceral level that the we are on the verge of a disaster from which we might not recover for generations. Romney needs to tap into that fear--he needs to make people believe that a vote for Obama is a vote for a future full of penury and misery for themselves and their children.

He needs the equivalent of Reagan's bear commercial.

[Danube of Thought]

Senator Blutarsky:

"In the past 100 years, 630,000 Americans were killed in foreign wars. So what's the body count? Republicans: 30,000. Democrats: 600,000."

[Danube of Thought]

Go ahead, CH--tell me you're not watching RG3.

[derwill]

I don't think Romney would do this, but perhaps it could be done on a grass roots level like Empty Chair Day . . .

Tweet and put up flyers on empty chairs and yard signs and bumper stickers etc, of that iconic Great Depression photo of the migrant woman with her children, along with the caption: THIS IS YOUR FUTURE IF YOU VOTE FOR OBAMA.

Or something like that . . . Something to tap into the doubts and fear.

[Clarice]

From Drudge:

POLL: O 49% R 45%...
FLASHBACK: CARTER +4 OVER REAGAN IN SEPT 1980 [+8 IN OCT]...
FLASHBACK: DUKAKIS +17 OVER BUSH AFTER DNC 1988...

Derwill, I think that one's too complicated. These things come up with the right opportunity. It'll come again. I'm sure of it.

[Jim Eagle]

If CH isn't I the sure hell are watching. Finally, Doofus Dan and Mighty Mite Shank-a-Hand made a good decision and RGIII is showing what a great leader and QB looks like in Washington. Another product of a strong military family values.

[Ignatz]

--The idea that JOM folks might believe a CBS report of selective, non-context Romney remarks depresses me. "Courage", folks, as Dan would say.

Posted by: DebinNC | September 09, 2012 at 12:37 PM--

Not sure what kind of context would alter the meaning of what Romney said in the quote supplied.

"Courage" for a Romney win are quite warranted and supported by numerous historic examples.

"Courage" that the Republicans will in any meaningful way cut Leviathan back are not supported by a single historic example since the 1920's.
I hope I'm wrong but I also hope nobody minds if I don't hold my breath.

[Jim Eagle]

Porch,

The games on national TV never show halftime. The network's go to their roundtable for reviews of first half all games and analysis by all the ex-pros.

[Tonto]

May I recommend The Idiot Vote: The Democrats' Core Constituency.

[Captain Hate]

Go ahead, CH--tell me you're not watching RG3.

I'm not.

[Porchlight]

The games on national TV never show halftime. The network's go to their roundtable for reviews of first half all games and analysis by all the ex-pros.

Yeah, I figured as much, but couldn't really remember as I never watch the halftime programming past the first five minutes or so.

[Danube of Thought]

They won't, Iggy. Nobody will. The American people of today will not tolerate the things that actually need to be done. It's that simple. Do we deserve to survive as a great nation? I'm not at all sure that we do.

[hit and run]

Porchlight:
Mr. Porchlight will be playing fiddle in his backup band

"I remember down in Houston we were puttin' on a show... Them Texans raised the roof when Mr. Porch opened up his case... If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band"

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

derwill's analysis hits home. In 1980, I was a democrat and my law practice was heavily invested in the success of the Carter administration. I knew deep down Carter was a failure as president, but didn't want to acknowledge it and hoped against all evidence he could turn it around. My mother and mother in law finally convinced me that four more years of Carter would be a disaster. But it wasn't until I got in the voting booth that I was willing to admit it.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

Consarn! A person cannot even pick up the most worthless part of the newspaper without having the long reach of progdom grab you by the wrist. In this case, the USA Weekend which I only read as I put it with the trash: An interview A propaganda piece using Richard Gere as the sock puppet let's us know what the world and Gere feel/know about Mitt Romney:

...alpha types and (successful business moguls) share key assets for politicians. "You need that confidence and charisma. And you need believability." Gere feels that the candidate with more corporate experience lacks that. "People in other countries hear Mitt Romney speak, and they thin, 'He's inauthentic.' With Obama, you think, 'Yeah, he's bright, sensitive, has his foibles -- he's very human.' Romney just doesn't project that. It's bizarre that this man leading the charge for this whole other way of looking at government doesn't have that No.1 quality.

His Kool-aid is only half gone, however. Mr. Gere shares his worry (some) about squandering other people's money.

"And I agree with some of that vigilance (of the Republicans), even in terms of entitlements: Make them responsibly. Don't dehumanize people by giving too much."

Don't give too much! That's the ticket. We all know too much cheese is constipating.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

"If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band"

hit, why did my West Texas mother always tell us to stop fiddling around?

[pagar]

"Public Employee Unions — why thuggery in Costa Mesa, CA, matters to you" [Darleen Click]
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=43389
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http://www.mackinac.org/17487

"Supreme Court Rules: Union Power Grab Proposal Will Be On Ballot"

"The union-backed plan would change the state constitution and allow unions to challenge any current, past or potential law that dealt with collective bargaining."

[Jane - It's gonna be a Tsunami in November]

No sweat Clarice. (Particularly since you didn't use my last name.) That's also the number I cited on my radio show.

C'est la vie.

[Agent J]

Derwill- I posted three depression pictures on FB..I will let you know what kind of feedback I get..

[Clarice]

Thanks, Jane.

[Porchlight]

Greece/Spain/Portugal is a more current comparison than the Depression.

What do liberals expect to happen if we keep borrowing/spending/increasing entitlements? Taxes are pretty high in Europe, in case they weren't aware, and there still isn't enough OPM to keep the plates spinning.

[hit and run]

Frau:
We all know too much cheese is constipating.

Obama's had waaay too much gov't cheese.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

Yike! Wake up Michiganders.

[bio mom]

Never take an MSM panel's word about what Romney says and means. Listen yourself. On MTP today their panel was Chuck Todd, EJ Dionne, Mayor Castro who gave the DNC keynote, Peggy Noonan who seems like an airhead and certainly is no person to present the Republican point of view, and the only credible one there, Bill Bennett. Talk about a loaded deck!

[Jim Eagle]

agentJ,

I take it, one of your photos is the one by Dorthea Lange that derwil refers to?

[Ignatz]

--They won't, Iggy. Nobody will. The American people of today will not tolerate the things that actually need to be done. It's that simple. Do we deserve to survive as a great nation? I'm not at all sure that we do.

Posted by: Danube of Thought | September 09, 2012 at 02:27 PM--

The consolation of that, if true, is that it really doesn't matter too much who wins then.
Might even better to have a continuing line of corrupt Dems to get the collapse over as soon as possible.
As your previous comment demonstrated it's a short trip back to the wild west of real boobs and gunfights, maybe even duels. :)
I call dibs on Gavin Newsome and Kamala Harris.
That leaves Henry Waxman and Fortney Pete Stark, amongst many more, for others to slap across the face.

[bio mom]

I will wait to interpret where the election stands now by waiting until next week Too much background noise right now.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

"Lackie, Dammeier & McGill represent more than 120 police unions in California "

pagar, I knew (Didi) Dammeier's family and celebrated his birth at his parent's house. His father Dieter Dammeier and my husband helped start AYSO in this area. "Didi" has become a take-no-prisoners lawyer for the police unions. He recently showed the Cleoville city council who was boss. Of course, it was no real contest as the council is traditionally chosen by the League of (Democrat) Women Voters.

[bio mom]

The greatest danger of Obama reelection is the Supreme Court.

[Porchlight]

Interesting tidbit about the famous Migrant Mother photo. If you look down in the lower RH corner you will see a ghost image of a thumb. That is actually the mother's thumb, and in the original shot it was large, white and blurry. Lange retouched it so the thumb faded to gray, so as not to interfere with the otherwise near-perfect composition.

In a similar manner, Walker Evans took photos of sharecropper shacks for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and made actual white bedspreads look darkly stained in the final photos.

Never believe that "documentary" photographers aren't subject to editorial temptation, both in the way they set up shots and the way they alter the final output. They are artists, after all.

[Danube of Thought]

Richard Gere, getting in touch with his inner gerbil.

[hit and run]

Ignatz:
I call dibs on Gavin Newsome and Kamala Harris.

I'm saving that to quote completely out of context at some point in the future.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

Iggy @3:02 -
So many choices and enough for all of us.

[Captain Hate]

A fellow moron (with whom I don't usually agree) @ AoS had this to say about Wiegel yesterday:

BTW, the story with Weigel (who I know personally) is that he has veered super-liberal because he detected early on that it was his path to success in Washington, DC. He fell in with the so-called "Juicebox Mafia" -- the young, hard-left blogger-commentariat types like Ezra Klein, Greg Sargeant, etc. -- and used their connections to get each of his post-Reason jobs (he was fired from Reason magazine because he was unwilling to write articles critical of Barack Obama after he won the 2008 election: he wanted to continue focusing on "oh hay aren't those conservatives CRAAAZY?!?" shit).

He has good musical taste, but has become as personally dishonest a young journalist as there exists in mainstream DC. The funny thing is that the people on the professional Left who he's sucked up to for his jobs don't really respect him either -- though the mocke[r]y they level at him (when he's not around, and yes I've drank with these people) is mostly based on his physical shortcomings...these people can be cruel, nasty fucks.

[Captain Hate]

I meant "Weigel"; ace misspelled it in the post title.

[Agent J]

JiB @ 3:00..No I used pictures of soup lines, etc..also pointed out that "O" was leading and that history does repeat it self..

[Jim Eagle]

porch,

A pea pickers thumb. Damned important.

OT: RGIII looking great and making his whole team looking good also.

Skins 30 - Saints 14

[Ignatz]

--I'm saving that to quote completely out of context at some point in the future.

Posted by: hit and run | September 09, 2012 at 03:08 PM --

I knew somebody would.
It couldn't be in safer hands. :eye roll:

[Captain Hate]

btw the Skins game isn't on tv here otherwise I'd be watching. I've been paying attention to a game thread on a Terps board and they're going pretty crazy. So DoT I'd be watching if I could but I'm not watching any of the games that are available to me, which ordinarily I'd be doing. I'm also downloading something to fix my computer otherwise I'd be outside on this gorgeous day which I was earlier.

[Ignatz]

--though the mocke[r]y they level at him (when he's not around, and yes I've drank with these people) is mostly based on his physical shortcomings...--

Thank goodness we never engage in that here.
BTW anyone got a good shot of that colossal rear end on DWS? I'm looking to compare it to Moochelle's equally colossal one. :)

[Captain Hate]

The Redskins didn't score 30 points in any game last season, no?

[Ignatz]

--I'm saving that to quote completely out of context at some point in the future.

Posted by: hit and run | September 09, 2012 at 03:08 PM--

BTW, Hit, I'm still not sure who is prettier, Gavin or Kamala.
I'm pretty sure I know who Gavin thinks is.

[GMax]

Here is my theory on polling especially in the afterglow of partisan events like a convention. Polling is based on the statistical assumption of one to one correspondence. That is every registered voter has an equal chance of being selected. For that to be true, pollsters would have to get through to everyone they call. As A(B) notes, the success rate these days is in the single digits ( sometimes its very low single digits ). Some folks dont have a landline, and that may mean more deviation from the one to one correspondence.

Pollsters try to deal with all of this by rebalancing their sample but of course that injects judgement and if the judgement is informed by historical without properly considering changes in circumstance, that will not weight properly.

But obviously with a low single digit rate of response, lots of folks are deliberately screening out the pollster. My theory is right after a convention, partisans are more likely to pick up the phone, so you get what looks like a spike. Its not really, its just looks that way.

I cant prove this, but I firmly believe most folks have already chosen sides and there is not the fluidity that has existed in less polarized elections in the past.

[maryrose]

bio-mom:
I share your fear about the Supreme Court. It's one of the main reasons I want Obama out. That and the fact that he is both ineligible{too dumb} don't get excited TK, too immoral{because he lies about everything ala Clinton} and frankly because I flat-out don't like him.

[hit and run]

Hanson, Massachusetts

Yes, that's a one finger salute (covered up with stickers). The link above goes to a local television report on that sign and others the owner put up.

I'm not entirely comfortable with using a kid like that.

But I am hit and run and I approve of the message itself.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

Agent J - To augment your photos, CH had a link at !0:38 a.m. to a Zuckerman article showing how the numbers today are worse than they appear due to "invisible" evidence:

These dependent millions are the invisible counterparts of the soup kitchens and bread lines of the 1930s, invisible because they get their checks in the mail. But it doesn't take away from the fact that millions of people who had good private-sector jobs now have to rely on welfare for life support.

[Jim Eagle]

Iggy,

Are you a Bob Lee Swagger fan? If so, this pieceby Richard Fernadez is worth the read about Hunters new book coming out on the JFK assaination.

[maryrose]

G-max and RickB: You are the ones I will listen to until Nov 7th.
I agree with Another Bub that right now there is too much noise and misinformation.
I'll also note on early election eve of 2004 Brit Hume and company had very long faces. Later that night CW was wrong and Bush won with a mandate. Anything stated this far out must be discounted.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

We do not answer our phone unless it's someone we actually know. We've not answered even when Gallup is identified. I'm sure there are gazillions of us out there. Let them eat carp.

[Danube of Thought]

That's correct re Skins never getting 30 last year.

[Jim Eagle]

CH,

Correcto-mundo on 30 points. 1st time since the 2010 season. It helps that the Saints are so organizationally dysfunctional this year without Peyton. Brees as good as he is isn't that good.

[Ralph L]

Maryrose, I never knew you were such a racist!

[Jim Eagle]

33 - 17. Cundiff FG from 45.

Hail to the redskins,
Hail victory.
Braves on the warpath.
Fight for old DC.

[bio mom]

When people start getting nervous about Romney's statement about Obamacare today, tell them this.
Mitt's Plan

On his first day in office, Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible.

In place of Obamacare, Mitt will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens. The federal government’s role will be to help markets work by creating a level playing field for competition.

Restore State Leadership and Flexibility

Mitt will begin by returning states to their proper place in charge of regulating local insurance markets and caring for the poor, uninsured, and chronically ill. States will have both the incentive and the flexibility to experiment, learn from one another, and craft the approaches best suited to their own citizens.

Block grant Medicaid and other payments to states
Limit federal standards and requirements on both private insurance and Medicaid coverage
Ensure flexibility to help the uninsured, including public-private partnerships, exchanges, and subsidies
Ensure flexibility to help the chronically ill, including high-risk pools, reinsurance, and risk adjustment
Offer innovation grants to explore non-litigation alternatives to dispute resolution

[daddy]

Good Morning...I think.

Wake up to find that Junk DNA ain't Junk, and that we're Uncertain about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Theory.

Talk about a hangover.

What's next? Something crazy, like Conservative's control the Media Narrative?
Like Liz Warren isn't an Indian?
Like John Lewis isn't a paragon of Truth?
Like there was possibly discord at the DNC Convention?
Like Chris Matthews is not upset at a Presidential Candidate (Obama) making Birth Certificate jokes?

Bah. I'd go back to bed if I didn't have to walk the dogs.

[daddy]

Like *Shell Begins Drilling In the Chukchi?

*Yet they have to stop 3/4th's of a mile short of actual Oil.

[Jane - It's gonna be a Tsunami in November]

Wow, Capt, I want to go drinking with that person.

[Agent J]

Frau, yes I read CH link to Zuckerman, will work on getting it condensed down to one or two lines without messing up the contents. With the IQ level of those that are supporting Obama, we have to KISS. (Keep it simple stupid) an anything over two or three lines will get them confused. After all look what they did with "Hope & Change".

While traveling, I missed a phone call from Grandson in Afghanistan because that number is not in my phone..I sent him a message to call his Mother, Dad, sisters and brother.. I to do not answer unless they are in the phone or leave a message I will call them back.

[Ignatz]

--Iggy,

Are you a Bob Lee Swagger fan?--

He's like one of them guys that writes books and what not, right JiB?
If he writes in a magazine about guns or cars I might have read him.
I keep explaining that but I'm not sure everyone believes me.

I'm just not that smart, but I try not to be a liar; H/T Marko.

[Ignatz]

BTW JiB, linky no work, but I went to PJmedia to find it.

[Jane - It's gonna be a Tsunami in November]

So what happens to fringe "journolists" like Weigel when Romney wins? Seems like they have no place to go. No wonder they are doubling down.

I have never been on twitter when Weigel is posting an endless stream of blather. I guess that describes today's reporter.

[hit and run]

.

[rse]

biomom-if there's a 2nd term, it will be virtually impossible to stop this education juggernaut and it will be as if we are locked in a civil war with these publicly funded ed institutions, K-12 and higher ed, existing solely to create the mindsets for radical, existential political change.

I have been at this for a while and I am still blown away by what is coming. The only good thing is that I have tracked it to the point where the cited authority was literally George Counts and Paolo Freire and a few others who have been quite open that their ed vision is based on their Communist governing ideology. But how many parents would have any idea that is where the term "school improvement" leads? Straight into degree of compliance with a Marxist theory of the mind.

I was wandering earlier in the day if I could interest FIRE in taking on a K-12 case where the district or school is gathering data to squelch any sign of individual defiance against the collective.

[Jim Eagle]

Saints score but Skins score also. Now 40 - 25 Skins. 10 pts. each quarter.

[centralcal]

Oh, dear lord! Picture of the Day:

At Big Apple Pizza with Little Twerp

Where are the S.S.?

[Jim Eagle]

Uh,oh! Saints score. Now 40-32.

2:20 to go.

[Danube of Thought]

No rookie QB has led his tead his team to 40 points in the opener since 1950.

[OldTimer]

Obama knew about the platform all along. Didn't we know, or surmise that? Axelrod refuses to talk about it.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/09/Axelrod-God-Jerusalem-wont-talk?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Hah! Frau @ 3:29....I did just that on FB. I had posted Caro's comment & then added the Zuckerman link....then added AgentJ's photo links. GMTA

[Danube of Thought]

*led*his team

He's now over 300 yards.

[Clarice]

On FB people are posting weird pics of Biden in Wis. In one he kissed a woman on the lips ..in another he's got a biker girl sitting on his lap with 2 of her men friends glaring at him.

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Here's the biker picture.

[Clarice]

Biden unbound:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3745034752967&set=a.2997369181795.2122000.1489218826&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/318330_3745020112601_1894411031_n.jpg

[Jim Eagle]

Cam who? Andrew who?

But the Saints will get it back with 38 seconds remaining. Need a good punt from Rocca but alas touchback. No TO's left either team.

16 secs. left. 2 secs. left. Saints on Skins 40. Hail Mary caught by Skins - its over.

Hail to the Redskins,
Hail victory.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

Braves on the warpath. Fight for old DC.

Falcons win, Saints lose, Braves win, Nats lose. Good day.

[bio mom]

Just now on NRO Corner:

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Eliana, I reached out to the Romney campaign for clarification about Mitt Romney’s remarks this morning about liking some parts of Obamacare. An aide pointed out that Romney first said on Meet the Press that “I say we are going to replace Obamacare. And I am replacing it with my own plan.”

In reference to how Romney would deal with those with pre-existing conditions and young adults who want to remain on their parents’ plans, a Romney aide responded that there had been no change in Romney’s position and that “in a competitive environment, the marketplace will make available plans that include coverage for what there is demand for. He was not proposing a federal mandate to require insurance plans to offer those particular features.”

[Manuel Transmission]

amongst many more, for others to slap across the face.

Hells bells, I have seasoned citizen buddies who are shopping for Barretts. Did you see that S&W has had an all time banner year?

Ain't gonna be no business as usual if Barky steals it. [/sq-dance]

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Here's the "You got a birth certificate" joke from our hilarious POTUS.

It's not like he released one BC in 2008 & said that was IT...& the MFM yelled that he had already released the BC you moron Americans!
...but then released ANOTHER BC in 2011. It's not like he did THAT.
How hard was it to get the long form BC? After mocking Americans that were asking questions for 3 years, he finally releases it? How could that not have bothered "reporters" in the MFM? Why even play a game with it?

[Extraneus]

Why even play a game with it?

It must be kinda fun to have the media as your slaves.

[OldTimer]

"This content is currently unavailable"

Heh...FB won't let me see the Biden unbound picture, Clarice. :) - Must be as doozy!

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Even the misinformation when I read old articles (to check the dates) makes me mad all over again.

"To receive the long-form document, the president personally sent a request to the Hawaii Department of Health. White House counsel Robert F. Bauer traveled to the state to retrieve it.

The state of Hawaii has faced a regular barrage of requests for information about Obama’s birth, but privacy rules barred them from releasing the full birth certificate. The White House said the state granted this exception “in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting.”"

Really? The twins have copies of their long form BCs...all Obama had to do was request it. What took him so long? Why? That in itself should be a story.

[hit and run]

Clarice:
in another he's got a biker girl sitting on his lap

Janet:
Here's the biker picture.

Whew. I'm glad you weighed in. I was afraid Biden had assaulted you.

[Clarice]

Yeah, sure. You think it's easy to nab our biker girl when she's buried under care packages for the troops?

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

No hit, I'm not a leather wearing biker chick. I've got a little beat up 250 & I wear blue jeans & too much jewelery. No official "biker" gear at all.
I wouldn't let Biden touch me....& I don't think I have any questions I would even want to ask him. I used to carry some questions & quoted from Dreams in my purse...just in case I ever ran into Obama. Hah!
Did Michelle go to Bali with you?
What was the name of your girlfriend with the wind chime voice in Dreams?
The occasion has not occurred & we found out the girlfriend was a ...comp....lie.

[hit and run]

MarkO Thomas Sowell: Obama's Just Not That Smart

I'd like to apologize for copying and pasting the last two graphs and spoiling the whole article before you click. But I won't. That's just how I roll.

Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt. When he burst upon the national political scene as a presidential candidate in 2008, even some conservatives were impressed by his confidence.

But confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation. If he has the rhetorical skills to inspire others to have the same confidence in him, then you have the ingredients for national disaster.

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Hah, Clarice! I've got 2 new soldiers now. Both at FOB Altimar. One likes canned pineapple so I send a lot of that.
...and I still participate in my church's care pkg. ministry. Those go out once a month. I like having 2 or 3 individual soldiers though. A few are FB friends which is kinda cool. Guys don't usually say too much!

[David in Cal]

Earth to Dave Weigel: The word "troll" has no non-pejorative meaning.

E.g., I don't use "Full of shit" in the pejorative sense, but Dave Weigel's comment was full of shit.-:)

[centralcal]

Jay Cost ‏@JayCostTWS

Shhh...don't tell the MSM: average of national non-partisan LV polls in month of August was 46.7, Obama to 46.0, Romney.

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Still not where I really wish it was, though!

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Here is Biden lip kissing -

[Janet - Why does Johnny Depp hate the poor? pourquoi?]

Here he is nuzzling the biker chick.