Fifteen Minutes, And More

As Andy Warhol sorta said, in the future verybody will be famous for fifteen minutes. And as Peggy Noonan nearly adds, every President will be infamous for 18 1/2 minutes.

Comments

[Marlene]

Howie Carr just mentioned it is Bunker Hill Day. My first thought was that the Founders must be looking down in total disgust at the current political class.President,Congress,every government functionary.

[Marlene]

OK,I'll say it. First!

[Fubar]

And it takes a lot to disgust slaveholders.

[daddy]

Before I wade into today's links to see what horrible new stuff has happened, here's a very interesting 36 second video of a compassionate Sea Lion, that has a surprising ending: Sea Lion plays with little girl, but watch what happens when she falls

[Beasts of England]

Isn't soccer the sport where they blow on their uvulas vulvas vuvuzelas?

[narciso]

It's also Smoot/Hawley day, commemoration of the greatest fustercluck in economic history, till the carbon tax comes on line,

[jimmyk]

The other day there was some discussion about Dana Loesch, and I didn't think the picture posted was so flattering. This one is better (may need to right click if you're interested in the words):

[jimmyk]

commemoration of the greatest fustercluck in economic history

I think that does a serious disservice to March 23, 2010.

[Stephanie]

Ha, beasts! I still have the vuvuzela app on my iphone. The hubs mentioned that it was nice to hear a 'quieter' WC, so I opened the app and blew him.

[Stephanie]

Oh holy....

blew IT AT him.

OMG.

[lyle]

Nothing that we don't know around these parts:

Which is why, in the end, Barry thinks he’s got game. All his life he’s been told he has. His skills, such as they are, are what’s prized in the gum-flapping community. His providential arrival on the scene as the first African-American with no “Negro dialect” (in Senate majority leader Harry Reid’s famous phrase), set the chattering classes swooning; his Columbia and Harvard pedigree assured them he was One of Us. The good will of the American people put him in the White House, as if a propitiatory offering for the sins of the past. The problem is, in the real world, he has no game. He can’t play at this level. Everything he throws up is a brick

RTWT.

http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2014/06/17/barry-harry-barry-and-harry/

[lyle]

Too funny, Stephanie!

[narciso]

point taken, but I was thinking the global impact

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Lyle--walsh is wrongly assuming Obummer wants a strong and properous USA. Obummer doesn't; he want a weak, poor and most importantly socialist America run by government bureaucrats. That said; thank God Obummer is an incompetent buffoon without game. If he were an evil genius, we'd be in even worse shape.

[Patriot4Freedom]

Ahh, the comments that will make the JOM Hall of Fame . . .

[James D.]

Five new threads today - is that a record?

[daddy]

I am confused.

Eli Lake puts out a new post titled Why Delta Force Waited So Long to Grab a Benghazi Ringleader

If anyone can read his story and figure out why they waited so long I would be interested in knowing the answer because that is the one question that he does not answer in his story.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Stephanie@4:04-- that is better than any 'typo' I ever posted at JOM.

PS: Freud says there are no mistakes ;-)

[Laura White]

I think it will still be a long time before our current POTUS figures out how woefully he lacks manhood, wisdom, or even game--all the more absurdly because his own wife has been sneering at all three of these lacks in public since before he was elected. Remember her body language and facial expression when he couldn't figure out how to get an open umbrella through an arch?

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

daddy-- there was no reason to grab a Benghazi 'terrorist' because there were no terrorists at Benghazi, just overzealous film critics. Didn't you listen to HildaBeast, Obummer and Susan Rice at the time?

[Buckeye]

1st Hit and Run, now Stephanie.

Definelty a top notch JOM humor day!

[Buckeye]

definelty was the iPad autocorrect selection. I don't think it is a word. Where did it come from?

[henry]

Buckeye, appears Apple implemented Typo Correction Zones to cover for those who got common core instead of education. ; )

[lyle]

“Since the deadly attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, I have made it a priority to find and bring to justice those responsible for the deaths of four brave Americans,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “I recently authorized an operation in Libya to detain an individual charged for his role in these attacks, Ahmed Abu Khatallah. The fact that he is now in U.S. custody is a testament to the painstaking efforts of our military, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel.”

Anyone think this is some coincidence that they just now grabbed this jihadi? Even the admin's smokescreens are incompetent. I hope Gowdy is getting closer to the WH cover up lie.

[Danube on iPad]

Typical Fubar: displaying his moral superiority to people who lived over two centuries ago by applying today's moral standards to them. And you had to own property to vote! And women couldn't vote at all! There was no same-sex marriage! How shamefully unenlightened those men were.

[daddy]

"Hillary is "rusty," is out.

The new meme is Hillary is in "Spring Training"

Or if you don't like Spring Training, you can say Hillary is in "a Learning Period".

I prefer "rusty", since I don't think anything talking about "Hillary and her
periods", is a winner.

[Stephanie]

They are going to have to expand that World Cup abbreviated show that shows the highlights from the day's action on ESPN tonight. Just about the whole Brazil v Mex game is insane.

Can we get Mexico's keeper to take charge of our southern border?

[lyle]

Why does Cankles need to learn about campaigning? She already won a "brutal" race to become Senator.

/sarc

[MarkO]

Steph,

You rock.

[Patriot4Freedom]

Rusty Cankles latest collection of fiction lies, Hard Choices, has already hit the discount rack of the local supermarket.

May be a new record for fastest time to discount, ever !

[GMax]

I go away for a few hours and I come back to find letters to Playboy...

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

--And it takes a lot to disgust slaveholders.--

Does it take more or less to disgust a FUBAR party that kills black babies rather than make slaves of them?

[lyle]

There were letters in Playboy??

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

On Planet Barry I guess capturing or shooting a few individuals after the fact while the entire ME goes up in a jihadist bonfire is a strategy.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

This never happened to me, but it happened to a friend of mine......

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

"On Planet Barry I guess capturing or shooting a few individuals after the fact while the entire ME goes up in a jihadist bonfire is a strategy."

WINNING!!

[pagar]

"“Since the deadly attacks on our facilities in Benghazi,"

http://soopermexican.com/2014/06/17/this-is-why-benghazi-suspect-khattala-was-apprehended-and-not-the-dozen-others-charged/

Grabbing this guy is the latest insult to the brave Americans who died there that night,IMO.

[Old Lurker]

Steph, when I suggested you check out the activity of the coeds at the high school down the street, I did not mean that seriously, honest.

[Old Lurker]

Dunno, Lyle, I just read it for the stories.

[MarkO]

The letters were, I'm told, in Penthouse.

I loved the editorials about the First Amendment in both magazines.

[Stephanie]

LOL, OL.

Maybe I should just sell the house and move to The Villages? ;)

[lyle]

Penthouse Forum, to be precise.

Yes, I admit it.

[Old Lurker]

Now that was funny, Steph. But I think that service is already covered at The Villages from what I read. High School, check. Retirement Home, check.

I think I should stop now.

[lyle]

And I never read ONE that went like this:

Ha, beasts! I still have the vuvuzela app on my iphone. The hubs mentioned that it was nice to hear a 'quieter' WC, so I opened the app and blew him.

I'm admit also that trying to imagine decyphering most of this from the viewpoint of a college male circa 1980 is, um... interesting.

[MarkO]

Dear Penthouse,

You won't believe what happened when our real estate agent came by to talk about listing our home.

[Captain Hate]

I don't think I need a stress test after reading Steph's comment; nor, obviously, does her hubs. And I'm on record as saying my regard for her couldn't be higher.

[daddy]

Mrs H has started yammering about there being a large number of earthquakes in Oklahoma because of fracking.

Captain,

Up here we happen to have 5 of our 47 volcano's currently going off, and there are 4 going off on the Russian side. That is an enormous amount of activity and it is all at least 4000 miles from the nearest fracking anywhere.

We also have had a bunch of mini-earthquakes going on near a village up north of Nome: Strange 'swarm' of earthquakes near Noatak confounds scientists, frightens residents.

Noatak is also many thousands of miles from the nearest fracking activities on the planet.

The linked story does say this: Earthquake swarms are more common in parts of the Lower 48 such as California, according to Julia Dutton, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. USGS researchers are also seeing “a huge amount” of earthquakes in Oklahoma thought to be associated with fracking techniques used in oil and gas production, Dutton said.

My assumption, seeing that we've got huge tectonic activity going on up here locally, and so far from any fracking, is that it is simply the earth going through it's normal processes of releasing energy, and has squat to do with fracking.

Also worth noting that within the last week a story has come out telling us that the story hyped 2 weeks ago about some glacier in Antarctica melting due to AGW, actually sits on top of a geological hot spot: Uh oh: Study says ‘collapsing’ Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica melting from geothermal heat, not ‘climate change’ effects

That fits in with Darwin's friend Hooker being on board the Erebus in Antarctica in I believe 1845 and watching a volcano exploding on the geologically active frozen Continent.

I doubt you'll be able to convince Mrs Hate with these reports, but at least you can reply that the planet at this time is rocking and rolling big time, regardless of anybody fracking, or sacrificing virgins into Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii.

According to the USGS, there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.

[Sandy Fallow Districts~Engorged Capital Daze]

(Long-ish comment IRT TK's question on Embassy Baghdad size on previous thread at 5:23 pm if you interested. No cut and paste involved.)

[Sandy Fallow Districts~Engorged Capital Daze]

...you *are* interested.

[lyle]

That fits in with Darwin's friend Hooker being on board

Dear Penthouse,

My friend, Darwin, had the greatest time on his cruise...

[daddy]

Court: $1.8M waterfront home mistakenly built on Rhode Island parkland must be removed

I wonder if the house were to be suddenly inhabited by illegals, if that would be enough to stop the Court's destruction mandate?

I am positive it would immediately result in a "Stay the Destruction" order, while all the nuances began their slow parade thru our Justice System, and my guess is if the illegals had 1 year old's in the house today, those kids would be graduating from Harvard at public expense, long before the house was actually torn down.

Let's stick Obama's illegal drunken driving Uncle in the digs as an experiment, and see how soon we get him out.

[Extraneus]

Fubar is morally superior to George Washington.

[Old Lurker]

That was a great post, Sandy. Thanks.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Wow, it's been four years already.

[Captain Hate]

LOL # the avatar, hit.

[lyle]

lyle, to himself: Hey, I see my roommate bought the latest Penthouse

[starts reading]

"Ha, Beasts!"

[Wow, didn't see this angle coming!]

"I still have the vuvuzela app"

[Never heard it called a "vuvuzela" before. "app"? Weird typo. The 's' key and the 'p' key aren't too close on your average typewriter]

"The hubs mentioned that it was nice to hear a 'quieter' WC"

["Hubs" likes a quieter water closet? What's she been doing in there?]

"so I opened the app and blew him."

[Same weird typo but at least we're getting somewhere]

[daddy]

Dear Penthouse,

My friend, Darwin, had the greatest time on his cruise...

Darwin's Beagle Diary: 21 February, 1835 (Coast of Chili)

We moved our Anchorage to none nearer the mouth of the harbor---during the last week there has been an unusual degree of gaiety on board.--The intendente paid us a visit one day & brought a whole boat full of ladies: bad weather compelled them to stay all night, a sore plague both to us & them.--They in return gave a ball, which was attended by nearly all on board. Those who went returned exceedingly well pleased with the people of Valdivia. The Signoritas are pronounced very charming; and what is still more surprising they have not forgotten how to blush, an art which is at present quite unknown in Chiloe.

And don't even get me started on Charlies comments about the Signorita's of Brazil!

And as we all recall, Huxley fell in love with a babe in convict Australia during his 1846 cruise on the Rattlesnake, and eventually had her shipped to England so he could marry her and pump out all those "Brave New World" grandkids.

[MarkO]

Dear Penthouse,

My English teacher asked me to go to her house last night to work on a project about Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

[lyle]

Now back to what Top Men are telling the rubes:

“A straight-up tea-party ticket cannot win,” adds one of the GOP’s most prominent fundraisers. “Too many Republicans and independents will just flat-out not vote for a ticket with two tea-party guys. It will not happen.”

[Marlene]

I just read the end of the previous thread. Take care of yourself,CH!
Done of us are getting any younger. : ) I haven't been sleeping well. I'll be hanging out with daddy and Gus on the late night shift!

[Stephanie]

Y'all are cracking me up today.

OH, for a cement truck for that vuvuzela, hit...

[Captain Hate]

I understand balancing a ticket. Ryan was supposed to be a sop for all us conservatives until it turned out his actions didn't dovetail with his words so well. Conservatives still came out for Romney though. They held their noses and voted for that old guy with Palin in 2008. It's the Rockefeller Repubs who bail on the party.

[Marlene]

*none of us*

[daddy]

Aw what the hell...

From: Charlies Darwin (June 17th 1853)
To: Penthouse Magazine

Dear Sirs,

Prior to my recent discovery, it was thought that all barnacles were hermaphrodites. This is not the case,

I dissected a species of barnacle called (Ibla cumingii) and was startled to find that they were all female. This was against the books! What is more, the females were covered by little black specks.I had seen these before and assumed they were parasites, but decided to take a closer look. Amazingly they turned out to be the Ibla males! These ‘complimental males’ have been reduced to mere tubes filled with sperm living parasitically on the females. I checked a related species (Ibla quadrivalus), some of its females were hermaphrodites but they still had these little males attached. This appears to me to be a sort of progression, from a hermaphrodite ancestor the sexes may have become specialised in Ibla; I. cumingii and I. quadrivalus captured this process at different stages.

This cause me to re-examine Mr. Anthrobalanus, and what a surpass; it possesses the biggest penis of any creature:

‘The probosciformed penis is wonderfully developed… when fully extended it must equal between eight and nine times the entire length of the animal!
I dare say Mrs Darwin would certainly not enjoy this adaptation in humans!

From: Penthouse Magazine
To: Charles Darwin

I dare say Mrs Darwin would certainly not enjoy this adaptation in humans!

Sir, Are you quite sure?

[narciso]

Milbank tried to go on the lam then they chees him

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/06/dana-milbanks-heritage-disaster-190551.html#.U6BySZQv38c.twitter

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

CaptH@6:13-- data please.

PS: I don't think there is any for that, unless working class white indies are counted as 'Rockefeller Repubs.'

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Dana Milbank is a willful fabulist?

This is my shocked face.

[Stephanie]

WC = World Cup

And to be accurate, beasts started it with his comment strikeout about vulvas err vuvuzelas and voila a freudian slip.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Skoot]

“But every equipment failure is not a conspiracy.” Sandy Levin. heh

Aug 15,2010
Re:From Lois Lerner: Kay, Kay Thx, Lois!

Aug 15,2010
From: Sandy Levin

To: Lois Lerner

You've got to stop these Tea Party Son's of Bitches!

[Captain Hate]

NK, either hit or Rick has the data which backs that up; we've had this discussion before. Rockefeller Repubs are those clueless high earning clowns who were featured in a linked article in 2011 iirc whining about how disappointed they were in 404 after they voted for him. They sure weren't conservatives.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Freudian slip = subconcious desire.

Please expand*

* use of still or video images are acceptable.

[Stephanie]

LOLOLOLOLOL.

Daddy, did I ever tell you that you are my favorite?

[narciso]

Well he was caught at it, by Politico, ironically, Abu Khattalah was freed by the Arab Spring, so he killed his liberator, in a certain sense, similar to Abu Jamal, freed by Mubarak's fall,

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

I am very familiar with 2012 data, less so 2008. I would love to see more.

Count me dubious. 'Registered' Repubs or high income suburban indies?

[pagar]

"Long-ish comment IRT TK's question on Embassy Baghdad size on previous thread at 5:23 pm if you interested."

Sandy, that was a great report, thank you.
I guess that Landing Zone Fernandez will get more use for a while.

[Extraneus]

Thanks for the Tess of the d'Urbervilles reference, MarkO. I had to google the summary because you were obviously a better English student than I ever was.

[Stephanie]

Please expand*

Please, expand

Wish or command?

Freudian slips are us!

====================================

"But every equipment failure is not a conspiracy.” Sandy Levin. heh

Take the blue pill....

=====================================

And with that I"m going to fix dinner...

hot dogs, slaw and baked beans. I sh*t you not... ;)

[maryrose]

Captain:
keep us posted on how you are doing healthwise. we are concerned about you and want you to keep playing B-ball and enjoying your life with all the Hatettes. The doctor approving basketball is a positive sign ,just don't go crazy trying to go for those lay-ups.
Steph: i am at the libarary and cracking up over yours posts. You are really a rockin, fun gal!=Love your posts and how is all the remodeling going?

[Captain Hate]

Count me dubious. 'Registered' Repubs or high income suburban indies?

The ones quoted in the article I mentioned were Repubs; I realize it's anecdotal with a very low sample size but I've yet to meet a real conservative who voted for 404 to make some ignorant point.

[maryrose]

should be your posts...
I agree CC that the timing of hauling this terrorist in is suspicious. Any squirrel will do in a -hit storm
Hit: your avatar made me crack up.
The guy speaking about the latest terrorist catch seemed like an idiot. He kept stumbling over his words and was an hour late to the podium. Sigh, government by the seat of your pants...

[maryrose]

CH; You are right. No real Republican can stomach Obama much less vote for him.

[narciso]

the Huntress scared him something awful, into 'choosing poorly;

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59449.html

[Captain Hate]

maryrose, the number of times I've gone in for layups in the last year you can count on one hand; I generally gave up going hard to the rack after a bad concussion. Although I'll still do it when they least expect it. I'm mostly a catch and shoot guy from midrange to three pointers. Love draining 'em from the corner.

My physical therapy Hatette already called with some professional advice.

My book group read Tess and I loved Hardy's writing; not exactly up with life but a very vivid portrayal of everything. I've submitted a list to the group of books I demanded wanted to read and Jude the Obscure was on it. Tess may have been the most pleasant surprise of all the selections by people other than me; Vanity Fair was probably the only one that comes close.

[anonamom]

Hillary is on with Brett, talking Ben Ghazi.

[anonamom]

When people lie, don't they look to the left?

[narciso]

are her lips moving, that's a sign, so which Hardy book would you recommend for a beginner,

[Threadkiller]

I agree CC that the timing of hauling this terrorist in is suspicious

Reminds me of the particular timing of the Osama announcement. That was pretty convenient for Barry's troubles at that time.

[Miss Marple]

Hillary: Long sentences about policy and negotiations in Afghanistan.

Greta: Aren't we abandoning the women to the Taliban?

BOOM!

[Miss Marple]

Hillary: The Taliban 5 aren't a danger to us because they won't be in the United States.

Greta: Bin Laden wasn't in the US.

BOOM again!

[maryrose]

narciso:'
I have read them all and I do like "Tess" and "Jude the Obscure". Hardy is such a wonderful writer.
CH: Vanity Fair is one of my favorites.
I also recommend any book by Dickens and Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" and 'Sister Carrie".

[Threadkiller]

Armed Mexican troops, police regularly jump border to cross into U.S.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/17/feds-armed-mexican-troops-police-jump-border/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

[Captain Hate]

I've only read Tess, narc, and thought it was very very good.

My questions for Rodham:

1. Have you sent a complimentary copy of the book to Juanita Broaddrick?

2. Have you forgiven Huma for comparing her dysfunctional marriage to yours?

3. How many armed chaperones did you have when Chelsea had a sleepover?

4. Did Chelsea date any offspring of non felons?

5. Can you personally drain a keg at one sitting?

[maryrose]

I love Greta! Go get her! Hil will rue the day she decided to brave a Fox interview.

[Extraneus]

So, because the IRS, with a budget of almost $12B, didn't want to spring for weekly, monthly, or yearly backups - any one of which would be the same size as the 182 or so rolling daily backups they did supposedly keep - they devised a rule that required employees to personally print out and store emails that were "federal records," defined as any e-mail “created or received in the transaction of agency business.”

Makes sense, right?

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/17/irs-regulations-require-e-mails-that-are-federal-records-to-be-stored-in-separate-permanent-system/

[Threadkiller]

Thanks for your reply on the other thread, Sandy.

[daddy]

From: Bradley Manning
To: Penthouse Magazine

Dear Penthouse,

I am a traitor to America who has endangered thousands of my fellow soldiers by stealing Top Secret data and releasing it to America's enemies. For some reason tho', I still cannot get published in The New York Times.

Any suggestions?

Sincerely, Brad.

------------------

From: Penthouse Magazine
To: Bradley Manning

Dear Bradley,

Have you considered cutting off your penis and renaming yourself Chelsea?

Sincerely, The Editor.

----------------

From: Chelsea Manning
To: Penthouse Magazine.

Thanks Penthouse for your excellent suggestion. As you can see, I am now able to have Editorials posted at the New York Times, and I didn't even have to cut of my penis. All I had to do was change my name and say that I wanted to cut off my penis. It worked like a charm.

So thanks a lot, and if you could please send me some of Lady Gaga's used silk thong underpanties, preferably autographed, I think they'll offer me a positions as their 40th Editor.

Sincerely Brad Chelsea!

[anonamom]

Gee, I feel very deeply and personally about those Ben Ghazi losses too, but I wasn't SoS. Let's see if Brett has the cajones to ask why she didn't give them the security support they wanted.

[maryrose]

Hil will be buried by Benghazi. I am sure today's arrest was timed to give her some breathing room after she muffed it up with Sawyer. No such luck. Message to Hillary-sometimes lies don't work. Ditto to the IRS.

[Jim Miller]

daddy - Often headlines are written by editors, not reporters. I suspect that's what happened on that Eli Lake article.

[Captain Hate]

maryrose, be wary of using the phrase "muffed it up" in a sentence with Rodham and another woman.