We are slacking our way to success on Saturday afternoon.
And as we slack, we wonder - when women make different career choices that lead to lower pay, it represents a national crisis so grave that our President feels obliged to lie about it.
But when the loss of subsidies with higher income discourages the working class from actually trying to work their way up the ladder, progressives cheer the choice of free time over paid effort.
Well... since the topic is women in society, sort of, I am also wondering whether I can make it through yet another day without accidentally seeing some ice dancing from Sochi. Now this is an example of women crushing the American spirit. Most of the time we can count on male-oriented sports programming, with lots of football, basketball, beer commercials, hair loss advice, pick-up trucks, and of course, Viagra and its many, many, many competitors.
But come the Olympics the networks feel obliged to scoop up the chicks with lots of ice dancing (winter) and gymnastics, synchronmized swimming and rhythmic aerobic dancing (summer). Groan - why can't I be watching Lithuania play Estonia in ice hockey like a real American? Instead I am being offered a chance to watch Miss Unpronounceable from Unrecognizable twirl around like... well, like the finger twirling next to my head to indicate my probable mental status.
One day more...
2004: Stresa, Italy: Many people would say that this photograph, more than any others, clearly demonstrates the coming together of the powerful elites at Bilderberg. Far right is Richard Perle the architect of the Iraq war. Second from right is Jessica Mathews from the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. Seated with backs to camera are David Rockefeller and Clinton advisor Vernon Jordan.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 04:19 PM
what can I say?
Posted by: anonamom | February 08, 2014 at 04:19 PM
Mark Steyn pokes a bear with a stick.
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 04:23 PM
Anybody got any pictures of Jessica Mathews in a tiny bikini?
If so I hope it's Beasts so we don't have to see them.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 04:23 PM
And you thought your Sochi Olympics coverage was a bit of a headscratcher.
From the front page of today's ADN: Sochi Report, Alaska edition: Callan comes out
Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, the Girdwood snowboarder who missed the cut for Team USA...told the ESPN news program "Outside the Lines" that she is gay...
In other Sochi Olympic coverage, I daddy (dogwalker from Alaska) who did not make the Olympic cut, have a pimple on my ass.
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 04:33 PM
2014: Chicago, Illinois: Many psychiatrists would say this photograph, more than many others, clearly demonstrates the deterioation and unraveling of Ernie Souchak's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to a Paranoia Personality affliction.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 04:36 PM
Clarice Feldman at Richard Perle's 4th of July party (in France)
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 04:42 PM
But no bikini and she is in the south of france. Go figure.
Iggy,
That particular Jessica Mathews is Barabara Tuchman's daughter. Those kind of people do not wear bikinis but have been known to wear one piece suits.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 04:45 PM
lol, Ig! I finally had success in the other thread...
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 04:52 PM
This place is definitely weird today.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 04:53 PM
As long as you're not gay and your ass has a clear complexion, all is good, Ig.
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 04:58 PM
QUIZ TIME!
“A--h--le! You piece of s--t!”
Who said it:
A) Hillary to Bill
B) Mia Farrow to Woody Allen
C) Soro's ex-girlfriend to George Soros
D) Victoria Nuland to the KGB guy bugging her phone
E) Netanyahu to John Kerry
F) Englebrecht to Congressman Lewis
G) NBC to Jay Leno and America
H) All of the above
And the answer is...
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 04:59 PM
Barabara Tuchman's daughter.
JiB,
I really enjoyed her A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, from years and years ago.
Is anyone a big fan of anything else she has written, and if so what?
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 05:04 PM
SOCHI Olympics Update!
Beasts, (who did not make the Olympic cut at Sochi), announces that I have good complexion. Full story on the front page of the ADN any minute now.
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 05:06 PM
So this Soros creep is worth about $25 Billion and he's taking all this abuse for a mere $50 Million? Two-tenths of one percent of his net worth? That's two grand from a garden-variety millionaire. He really is stupid...
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 05:08 PM
That pic was quite a find, bird brain. It was in one of Clarice's American Thinker articles.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 05:09 PM
Allow me to rephrase that, daddy. ;)
Ok, Ig, it is weird around here today. Well, weirder than normal.
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 05:10 PM
I love Miss Marple's comment from the previous thread:
NBC has ruined the Olympics. When ABC had them the emphasis was on sport, and human interest stories were only covered when it was pertinent to the coverage. NBC makes these sob stories a central focus, which is ridiculous, as they have turned off many viewers.
I miss Jim McKay and Roone Arledge and the 1960's coverage that was done so well. Every time I see Costas and Lauer my contempt increases. I wish I could get the IOC to rescind NBC's monopoly on coverage, but that's a lost cause since NBC probably bribed them all.
Loved the old music back then, with the announcer saying "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat".
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 05:11 PM
Here's Ernie Souchak, discovering the amazingly incriminating photo of Clarice eating hot dogs at Richard Perle's house.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 05:13 PM
daddy:
Agreed! Loved Jim McKay!
Posted by: maryrose | February 08, 2014 at 05:14 PM
In 2012 Jack--s.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:14 PM
Extraneaus
Have you found any other pictures of Clarice and her friends?
Feldman and Perle have been friends for what, 40+ years?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:18 PM
"Birther Report.com Site Taken Down, Amid Phony Excuses"
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2014/02/breaking-newsgoogle-aka-obama.html?m=1
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 05:21 PM
May have to esxpand - from Johah Goldberg. A Map of the USA where the States are named after countries with their approximate GDP's.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 05:22 PM
daddy--I loved The Guns of August.
Posted by: polly | February 08, 2014 at 05:24 PM
"That pic was quite a find, bird brain."
You must admit, though, that it is photographic proof. It is proof that...that...zzzzz...
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 05:26 PM
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-most-corrupt-village-in-america/
Good grief.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 05:26 PM
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
Thank you Polly. I've got one more Library run I have to do before my hot date with Miss Marple:)
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 05:28 PM
unfortunately insight doesn't transfer,
http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/01/21/iran-good-deal-now-in-danger/gz10
Everyone talks about the Guns of August, but the one about previous generation to the First World War, is a more interesting one,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 05:30 PM
this is the one,
http://www.amazon.com/The-Proud-Tower-Portrait-1890-1914/dp/0345405013/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 05:32 PM
Danube
Do you have a close personal friendship with any (past or present) top officials at the pentagon?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:33 PM
They took down the Birther Report site? You may have to take up golf, TK! ;)
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 05:38 PM
Isn't that Clarice Feldman's good friend Paul Wolfowitz with the guy Clarice blames Plamegate on.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:38 PM
No, but I do, you stupid incipid jerk. Want do you want to know. Hell I still have a box of M&M's from Bush 41. And one day I am going to use them as a decoy to blow up the UN. Then I am going to go out and find Richard Perle and shake his hand for keeping this blog able to indentify the idiots in Chicago that we need to know about and to avoid at all costs.
Get back on your meds TBT. You truly are a stupid man or woman or Transie.
BTW, lay off Clarcie and ask me anything. I even know more dispicable people on your list than DoT and Clarice. Fire away.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 05:41 PM
I might get back into racing, BoE.
This sure frees up some time!
LOL!
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 05:42 PM
the Daily Mail, from the last thread, has some severe blind spots, even Mr. Magoo wouldn't mix upp Elizabeth Hurley and Monica Lewinsky,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 05:43 PM
JIB
Do you know Armitage?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:43 PM
Wolfowitz knew Armitage?
Whoa.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 05:44 PM
This was not one of those times;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535139/Legs-elevenski-Siberian-lawyer-18-wins-Russias-Miss-Longest-Legs-competition-106cm-pins.html
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 05:44 PM
So this Soros creep is worth about $25 Billion and he's taking all this abuse for a mere $50 Million? Two-tenths of one percent of his net worth? That's two grand from a garden-variety millionaire. He really is stupid...
There's no fool like an old quisling fool.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 05:45 PM
TBT,
Yes I do. I used to lift with him. I once beat his best weight in squats at 545 pounds. You should see my quads.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 05:46 PM
What did you used to race, TK - cars, motorcycles, boats?
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 05:46 PM
truthbefairytale
Dude - you have a problem and you need help - seriously Dude - you need help. Don't you have a family or any kind of relatives that you can be with?
Posted by: TexasIsHeaven | February 08, 2014 at 05:46 PM
Thanks to Ext: My Olympic gear:
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 05:47 PM
JIB
Who would you say he owes his political career to?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:49 PM
Formula Ford, Beasts.
Time trials, never wheel-to-wheel.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 05:50 PM
Excuse my french:
Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, the Girdwood snowboarder who missed the cut for Team USA...told the ESPN news program "Outside the Lines" that she is gay...
Who the fuck cares.
TBT that was a pix of me not Clarice so get over yourself.
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 05:52 PM
TBT,
Armitage had a political career? Well, you know something about him I never knew. All I knew is he was a guy my age who liked to lift weights. Learn somthing everyday.
But Powell, ask me anything about that coward.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 05:52 PM
JIB
You don't know shit.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 05:54 PM
Greatest Olympic Moment Evarrrr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuE60mq0r1Q
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 05:54 PM
Good stuff, TK!
I concur, Jane. Nice photo, too! :)
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 08, 2014 at 05:57 PM
That's just classic, Captain,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 05:58 PM
Well I would have picked "Do you believe in miracles?" Capn, but I really can't complain.
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 06:01 PM
JIB
Who was it that brought Colin Powell along?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:01 PM
narc, it's the only time in my life I've respected the IOC
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 06:02 PM
Here is a clue for you JIB
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:05 PM
--Who was it that brought Colin Powell along?--
The Bilderbergs?
The Rothschilds?
The illuminati?
The CFR?
Gidney and Cloyd?
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 06:07 PM
I had forgotten that El Jefe's and Moocher's pitch slid Chicago into dead last among the finalists.
My heart sings.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads f/k/a vnjagvet | February 08, 2014 at 06:08 PM
That last one is NSFW, dude!
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 06:08 PM
Ignatz
Do your parents know you're on the computer?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:08 PM
Who the fuck cares.
The Anchorage Daily News does, Jane. That's why it's on the front page. We are all supposed to be interested in the sexual preferences of a 24 year old that can't make the Sochi Olympic's cut.
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 06:09 PM
"Do you have a close personal friendship with any (past or present) top officials at the pentagon?"
Before I answer, you'll have to establish the relevance of the question.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 06:10 PM
TBT, Danube seems to be prepared to engage you and your question.
I look forward to your thoughtful response.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 06:12 PM
Ask Clarice to explain it to you.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:14 PM
Great link at 05:54 Captain. Luv it!
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 06:14 PM
TBT,
I don't know shit? I know Ernie Souchak. How come that doesn't count?
USA 1- Finland 0. Guess what sport:)
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 06:14 PM
daddy,
Is the Science Settled on Wet Hair Fibonacci Spirals?
No way! I suggest that it needs further careful study. We have to investigate the shape as a function of humidity, earth's rotation, ethnicity, gender and so forth.
I suggest beaches in LA, the Grand Caymans, Australia, the Riviera, and South Africa for starters.
I may need assistants and a pilot for all the flying required.
It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Posted by: DrJ | February 08, 2014 at 06:15 PM
TK
Perhaps you would explain the relevance to Danube?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:15 PM
Bush knew Armitage and Powell?
Whoa.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 06:16 PM
Jim, remember they had
OrcaOprah in tow. I don't think I've ever enjoyed listening to Rush as much as after that when he kept singing "Barack Hussein Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm".Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 06:19 PM
We are the Great Satan, don't you know?
Ask Finland. 9 of their players on the women's Olympic hockey team went to college in Ameirca, not to study Finnish History or Finnish Women's Issues but to play women's college hockey.
Forget the dreamers how about the fact we can't win medals because we are training everyone on our dime? Believe me, most of those title IX scholaeships are on us, the taxpayer.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 06:19 PM
Since I'm the person in the pix I'll explain it to you DOT. TBT is starved for attention. His mother hated him. His father left him. He is being paid to be here and terribly bummed that he's not getting enough attention.
I know everyone at the Pentagon TBT, as do a number of us. What is it you want to know?
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 06:19 PM
I would be happy to, TbT.
I would say it is relative to the insult about not being able to fight out of a wet paper bag.
Are you really not going to take DoT up?
Puss.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 06:19 PM
Obviously the Dark Forces figured the Birther Report was getting too close. One too many bombshells.
First Loretta Fuddy, now this. Coincidence?
(Here's the reason given for the shutdown: "Blogger just killed the BR/ORYR site due to violation of terms of service...")
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 06:22 PM
Wouldn't the reason be the violation itself?
What was the violation, Danube?
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 06:24 PM
I do see that you said "reason given."
My question is withdrawn.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 06:26 PM
Sector 7, is real, that's why they had to a bumbler like John Turturro's character. he would never be accepted, even for probationary status,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 06:27 PM
A truther saunters into a conversation, interjects:
"Did you know that Clarice is a friend of Richard Perle?"
People in the conversation stop what they're doing and respond.
"Yes. Why do you ask?"
The truther, fearing that he'll appear to be a crackpot, doesn't answer.
Weeks and further such interjections ensue.
Yet, the fear was well founded.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 06:29 PM
That downhill course is beyond belief.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 06:29 PM
Holder is extending gay rights tonite. He's speaking to the HRC and going to tell them that in addition to benefits and privileges of married people, they can no longer be compelled to testify against each other.
Isn't tyranny fun?
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 06:31 PM
Extraneus
Did you know Feldman was a close personal friend of Paul Wolfowitz?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:32 PM
"Perhaps you would explain the relevance to Danube?"
The explanation must come from TBT or no dice.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 06:33 PM
House Hunters International is in Panama. Checking out where we can move to.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 06:35 PM
Excellent question, truther.
I'm not sure if I did, but if I did I didn't care and still don't, except to the extent that I think it's swell if she was and is.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 06:36 PM
Daddy, 'the guns of August'. I have a 20 year old copy that gets let out of the unused section of one the bookcases every 5 years or so. Tuchmann is adept weaving a narative. It's a great read and it amazes each time I read it, kinda like 'the rise and fall of the great powers'.
Currently though, I'm a bit consumed by Fibonacci numbers....
Posted by: Not_bubarooni | February 08, 2014 at 06:36 PM
Isn't tyranny fun?
No
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 06:36 PM
The Fibonacci spiral seen in certain plants and shells has certain very precise characteristic that are caused by nature, and are the same everywhere they appear. Not so with the spray from the hair.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 06:36 PM
If this bit of engaging with today's moron ushers back in his certifiably insane butt-buddy Drawbridge from Sweden to drop more turds in the punchbowl of JOM threads, can we then once again please consider not engaging with this malignant imbecile?
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 06:37 PM
Do you think these people are ominous in some way, truther?
I'd like to see you answer DoT's question, but I don't hold out much hope.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 06:38 PM
Extraneus
What is your definition of "truther"?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:39 PM
Another important question.
Barbie was invented in 1959. Gi Joe was invented in 1964.
How come he never hit on her?
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 06:40 PM
Not only do I know that Feldman is a close friend of Feldman but I once watched him him eat bacon at the Tastee Diner in Bethesda.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 06:41 PM
I mean Wolfowitz not Feldman.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 06:41 PM
Max Hasting admittedly hefty tome on the Great War, has some interesting details, re the Russian Ambassador to Belgrade, the makeup of the Black Hand, of which Princip was a relatively minor figure,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 06:42 PM
--Ignatz
Do your parents know you're on the computer?--
Unlikely.
Congrats on "your/you're" though.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 06:44 PM
I asked you if you thought 9/11 was an inside job and you replied that Building 4 didn't collapse from fire.
I think that qualifies as the definition of a truther. Would you prefer a different appellation?
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 06:44 PM
Sadly, when I hear the name Jim McKay I first think of "They're all gone."
He handled that with great class.
Posted by: jimmyk on iPhone | February 08, 2014 at 06:44 PM
narciso,
Max was our neighbor when we lived in London. His library is only half the size as the Brirish Library:(
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | February 08, 2014 at 06:45 PM
A Fibonacci sequence begins with the numbers 0,1 and each succeeding number is the sum of the previous two. Thus, 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21....
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 06:47 PM
Extraneus
So you believe that WTC building #7 collapse was due to fire, and anyone who does not believe that should be mocked and ridiculed. Is that correct?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:47 PM