The Uncertain Trumpeter: Obama Says Events In Ukraine Not "A Great Threat" To United States

The Times reported this From Obama's remarks at a Baltimore fundraiser on Sept 12:

...Mr. Obama said the nation would also resist Russia’s incursions in Ukraine, even though he noted that the United States has very little trade with Ukraine and “geopolitically, what happens in Ukraine doesn’t pose a great threat to us.”

That should certainly help rally the US public and our European allies. How much trade does the US have with Lithuania, Estonia or Latvia, to pick a few NATO allies nearly at random? And of course this will help Putin gauge the depth of our resolve.

More from Obama:“We live in deeply troubled times internationally — challenging times,” Mr. Obama said to a roomful of Democratic donors, who paid from $10,000 to $32,400 each to hear him speak.

"Deeply troubled times"? Maybe Obama should turn off his Twitter feed - wasn't it only two weeks ago he was telling donors that “The world’s always been messy ... we’re just noticing now in part because of social media”?

Well. $10,000 to find out we live in challenging times? I gleaned that from Drudge for nothing.

TO BE FAIR: Yes, $32,400 seems like a lot of money to most of us. However, rubberneckers routinely slow down traffic to gawk at hideous wrecks by the side of the road; I assume a similar dynamic prompts people to turn out for an Obama fundraiser.

Comments

[GMax]

Fist AGAIN

[Theo]

First?

[DrJ]

First!

[GMax]

Make that FIRST sheesh

[Theo]

"Fist" does not count.

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

However, rubberneckers routinely slow down traffic to gawk at hideous wrecks by the side of the road

True but most rubberneckers ain't hoping the driver was critically injured, either.

[Danube on iPad]

I should think the people of Ukraine must be absolutely appalled.

[Theo]

A woman I am seeing is a hard core lefty. She hated Bush. She thinks the tea party are all racist birthers who only complain about government spending as a cover story. She believes that Palin really said she could see Russia from her house. She has Obama bumper stickers all over her SUV. She never disagrees with the NYT editorial page. You know the type.

In recent days, she has taken to telling everyone how INCOMPETENT Obama is. The "no strategy" comment and the endless golf games really tick her off. She is working hard to get her lefty friends to turn on Obama as someone who is not up for the job and checked out of it.

Does this matter? In many ways, no. She still believes that Republicans are evil who pay women less for the same work and shove their religion on people by not buying them birth control pills. She will vote Democratic in every election for every office.

But it is interesting how complete the rejection of him has become.

[Beasts of England]

I'll bet right now the Ukraine wishes it had some serious oil reserves. Or, at least, some blacks...

[maryrose]

Theo:
I agree. Fist does not count. Sorry Gmax
I was 18 years old when I graduated from high school because my birthday is in January and the deadline was Sept.30th.
The smartest people in my high scholl class were the ones who were 17 when they graduated. My daughter was 17 when she graduated because her birthday is in July. Everyone said she was ready doe kindergarden. If I had to do it over I would have held her back. Socially-not ready.

[maryrose]

should be school and for..

[rse]

The global perception of a Superpower President who fails to understand what is and isn't a threat is the Greatest Threat of all.

Practically told Putin that whatever he does is No Big Deal. Putin of course now gets to wonder what actions would become a big deal.

New post up http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/house-of-tomorrow-targeting-behavior-change-requires-move-away-from-declarative-knowledge/

Porch-whenever you check in, it turns out the Dana Center in Austin manages all the Aspen Institute's ed agendas for public schools under a variety of names. That came out when I was researching a 2005 workshop that led to what would get renamed as the Common Core. It's also relevant to ATL hiring the Austin Super.

[DrJ]

Rats! At least according to the clock it was a tie. :)

I'm in Arlington after a very intense and interesting visit to NSF. The topic of this panel was to look for "transformative" methods to change graduate research and professional training.

At the moment graduate training still follows the apprenticeship model, and turning out clones of one's research advisor is not proving to be that useful these days, particularly when faculty positions are few and the research increasingly is multidisciplinary.

We evaluated about 20 proposals on how this might be changed while still granting a Ph.D. from a degree-granting department. And this had to be combined with cutting-edge research.

Most were not that creative or novel, but a few were really very interesting. They may not apply everywhere, but if they are funded they could lead to a very interesting graduate study course.

One interesting item about the panel members: all could speak and write really, really well, and were grammar snits as extreme as I am. The reviews we wrote were lucid, and should provide good feedback to the proposal submitters.

I had to work late each night, so there was no time to play with my friends here. Maybe next time! That's early November, FWIW.

[Theo]

Maryrose --

My story is similar. I started college when I was 16 because of my birthday and some other odd events. It was not a good idea. I was not socially ready as you would say. It all turned out okay but if I had it to do over I would have waited b

[DrJ]

Oh, and following on last's night's conversation: I graduated from high school at 17 as well.

[Rick B]

Putin has achieved his strategic goal of maintaining Ukraine as a buffer state. He as taken Crimea and Donbas in retaliation for Lagarde's raid on Cyprus and left the EUtopian banks with exposure in Ukraine in a perilous position (Ukraine cannot repay the EUtopians without the Donbas steel). The EUtopians still have Putin's gentle fingers around their throat wrt gas and that won't change any time soon. Germany and the UK have both issued "include me out" statements regarding bombing Syria as part of the President's coalition.

I believe the President should only make remarks in public while mounted on his favorite unicorn in order to demonstrate the full measure of his gravitas.

[maryrose]

DrJ:
Missed it by that much.
I agree with Janet. All those questions should have been asked. If preezy gives a jive-ass mocking answer, then inquire as to how serious he is about being a credible, competent CIC. Put the onus of professionalism back on him. Challenge him to say if he was a half-assed stuent and if he enrolled as a foreign exchange stuent for admission to graduate school and for scholarships. If he received scholarships -how much were they worth. These are ORDINARY, easily answered inquiries. If he refuses to answer, ask why the secrecy? Do you have something to hide? If you can't remember your graduation day because you were high.then do you know how you ranked in your high school class? Top 10%? bottom10%?

[Beasts of England]

Sounds like Barry told the Ukraine the same thing Reverend Johnson told Sheriff Bart:

'Son, you're on your own.'

[GMax]

Its not the wrapper but the thought that counts. We all deep down know who was first, two threads in a row now don't we. Denying the obvious very unbecoming...

[ex-democrat]

Theo - pls don't boink the trolls ;-)

[maryrose]

should be student.
I guess all this secrecy about grades and test scores baffle me. Even Kerry allowed us to see that he received some "D's" on his report cards. It is because of this phony messianic persona he feels he has to perpetuate. He couldn't part the seas if he got a c+ in English. He can't sell a book someone else co-authored with him if he wasn't born in exotic Kenya.
He's P.T.Barnum with a tan and according to Moochelle he's got stinky feet.

[GMax]

I assume a similar dynamic

There has been several fundraisers recently where it was reported the bid and ask spread on the attendance "donation" was sufficiently wide to drive a Sherman tank though. Just not as many rich stupid people as there used to be, I guess...

[Jeff Dobbs]

“geopolitically, what happens in Ukraine doesn’t pose a great threat to us.”

Take that Mr. Russia-is-our-number-one-geopolitical-foe Romney!

Remember - Obama considers the Kennedy-Kruschchev summit a success for . . . Kennedy.

“If George Bush and John McCain have a problem with direct diplomacy led by the president of the United States, then they can explain why they have a problem with John F. Kennedy, because that’s what he did with Khrushchev.”
--stuff Obama said, 2008

Obama is confident he has Putin right where he wants him.

[Theo]

Ex-dem:

As they say, any lovin' is good lovin' .

[maryrose]

Gmax: Just kidding. See how easily I fold. Thank you in advance for all the up to date polls you provide us so frequently. I just wish time would go faster. I won't rest easy until this midterm election is behind us. Today I will phone bank again at the Republican Victory Center which is within walking distance of my house.We call for state reps, judges and Kasich.
On Weds. I go for updated training for being a poll worker on Election Day. Alsp I will attend a victory part Election Night evening for a local rep.

[Beasts of England]

Couple of Big 10 apologists were just whining about the perception of said conference and trying to play up how good VaTech could be, and then they break to highlights showing East Carolina slattering the Hokies. Ha!

[Danube on iPad]

My father graduated from high school and entered the Naval Academy at 16, graduating and marrying my mother at 20 (she was seventeen). My brother graduated from HS at 16, but by that time the minimum age to enter USNA was 17, so he parked himself at U. Va. for a tear.

[maryrose]

H&R:
Obama is the blind leading the blind Kerry {Climate Change our greatest threat} as they stumble through one foreign policy gaffe after another. It would be funny if it weren't so frightening. I don't think Obama even knows what the KGB is or that Putin used to be a card carrying member. He could have Bammy for breakfast anytime he wants-stinky feet and all.

[Stephanie accidentally OnT?]

As they say, any lovin' is good lovin' .

Two words come to mind in dating a lib... ball gag.

[Man Tran on iPhone]

At the moment graduate training still follows the apprenticeship model, and turning out clones of one's research advisor is not proving to be that useful these days, particularly when faculty positions are few and the research increasingly is multidisciplinary.

I've observed this for 40 yrs. I've never seen a clone produce a breakthrough discovery. How many wasted careers pushing string theory? Gorebull Warming? Big Bang? Dark Matter/Energy?

Re edumakashun: my dad passed his 8th grade tests at 10 and never looked back. (Pre-WWI). I was offered to move to 3rd grade at the end of 2nd after coming out of a one-room school in the hills of MT. I passed on the offer 'cause I knew I would be the runt size-wise and already was missing social skills. MT Jr was appointed by Kasich at 17 to Annapolis, but they sent him up to Newport for a year to grow up some more. That gave him two Plebe years and made him a true cynic.

[maryrose]

DOT: You come from one very smart family. Getting into the Naval Academy is quite difficult.

[GMax]

Today I will phone bank again

good for you. Its going to be a very good year, but do not let off the pedal yet.

[maryrose]

MT:
So glad Kasich gave your son his recommendation for the Naval Academy.He has inherited your brillance of mind. I am in awe of really smart people which is why I enjoy lurking and posting at JOM.

[daddy]

I guess all this secrecy about grades and test scores baffle me. Even Kerry allowed us to see that he received some "D's" on his report cards.

Maryrose,

John Kerry is still hiding his DD-214 from us, even tho' he promised he would release it to the public some 3,000 days ago.

As the Beatles used to say Everybodies got something to hide 'cept for me and my Monkey God.

[DrJ]

I've never seen a clone produce a breakthrough discovery.

Traditionally that's been a primary use for a post doc. You work with someone in a very different field in which you are interested. In the end you come out with a pretty unique set of skills and interests. That's a pretty decent base.

These days, of course, (multiple) post docs often are used in lieu of a faculty appointment.

[Stephanie accidentally OnT?]

The most important thing JOMers can do this campaign season is take the class and get approved to be a poll worker.

I've noticed the demographics of the poll workers at my local poll have changed quite substantially in the last 3 election cycles from blue hair l'il ole ladies to twenty something minorities and have no doubt that is the work of the democrats actively recruiting for those positions for nefarious purposes. Hell, it used to be a chore to get them to even vote now they are lining up to be poll workers? Right... tug on my other earlobe.

Seriously, get out and work those polls.

[Exasperated]

we have a winner Iggy at 11:46

Posted by: peter | September 12, 2014 at 12:22 PM

What???? Are you insane? Or just incredibly stupid? In any case, you've certainly lowered the bar, condoning and even praising mediocrity. Hey, wasn't that what got Obama elected, you country bumpkin?

[DrJ]

Ah, evil Anne returns.

[maryrose]

Steph:
I don't have blue hair but at the 2 locations I have worked and the one I vote at -all are elderly citizens who are meticulous about procedure and order. Young ones at the polls are looking to find an edge in getting a certain result. I must say I have seen no fraud at the places I have been. In Colorado 500 driver's licenses were issued by mistake to illegals. Will they use thos ID's to try and vote? Last day to register to vote in Ohio is Oct6th. That is why same day registration is fraud inducing.

[daddy]

Dr J,

Watched the speech of Senator Jeff Sessions last night where he went after FaceBook's Zuckerberg on Immigration.

Senator Sessions had this to say on the subject of Zuckerberg wanting to hire foreign Brainiacs ala Larry Kudlow:

I would pose a question to Mr. Zuckerberg. I read in the news that Facebook is now worth more than $200 billion. Is that not enough money to hire American workers for a change? Your company now employs roughly 7,000 people. Let’s say you want to expand your workforce 10 percent, or hire another 700 workers. Are you claiming you can’t find 700 Americans who would take these jobs if you paid a good wage and decent benefits?

Let me just say one more thing: Facebook has 7,000 workers. Microsoft just laid off 18,000. Why doesn’t Mr. Zuckerberg call his friend Mr. Gates and say: Look, I have to hire a few hundred people; do you have any résumés you can send over here? Maybe I will not have to take somebody from a foreign country for a job an unemployed U.S. citizen might take.

Sessions says we have plenty of available Hi Tech Americans capable of being hired and doing the required work. He thinks the argument that we have to do this hiring of Foreign Workers is a bogus argument. From your experience do you find that to be true?

[Man Tran on iPhone]

Thank you, Maryrose.

I had dinner last night with a family that has the biggest boat in our marina. The son and his fiancé are both Stanford engineering grads. Holy Cow, the son has invented two toys that are breathtaking. Air Shark (?) literally swims in the air under the power of a AAA battery. Netted $1M in 6 mo. by mail order. Already done his first TED talk. Totally cool kid. Laid back. No ego. The other toy is a Tinkerbell that appears to fly off a string attached to your glasses (?). Granddaughter is definitely getting one for Christmas.

[Exasperated]

You're sick, DRJ. See a psychiatrist.

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

I don't have blue hair, either. :)

WTH is Tech doing passing? They are 7 for 8 with at least one passing TD. In the triple option! Will wonders never cease.

[Sue]

Somehow I was following Nathan Wurtzel on twitter. I have no idea who he is, but binging him says he is CEO of The Catalyst in DC. This morning he was ragging on an unnamed employee for not doing their job. On twitter. I not so politely told him it was inappropriate for twitter and shut up or fire his employee. He has now banned me from seeing his tweets. That will show me, right? I have no idea who he is to begin with. ::grin::

[DrJ]

daddy,

I'm in a different field, so I can't speak to Google or Facebook. In mine, there are plenty of Amercians who can do the job. It is just that many are older, and there is a huge age bias in any tech/science business.

The thought is that the company needs all the latest cutting-edge tools, and in fact that's just not the case.

I will say that most graduate schools these days around my field are predominantly filled by Chinese and Indians. There are not many Americans in the fields these days.

[Rick B]

Gallup confirms the thud achieved by the President with his speech on Wednesday. He was 42-52 on Tuesday, he's 40-54 today.

How can we encourage the President to grab the spotlight every Wednesday until election day?

[Theo]

Stephanie --

Yes libs are into kinky stuff. It is one redeeming feature.

[daddy]

Obama is the blind leading the blind Kerry {Climate Change our greatest threat}

That Battle is unending. Local paper reports this: Supreme Court upholds dismissal of youths' climate lawsuit against state

A lawsuit filed against the state by six Alaska children claiming that officials have failed in their obligations to address climate change was rightfully dismissed in 2012, but not for the reasons cited in the lower court’s decision, the state Supreme Court said in a ruling issued on Friday.

The six minor plaintiffs -- children of ages ranging from infancy to their teens -- “do make a good case” that the atmosphere is a public trust and that environmental damage is of public interest, the Supreme Court said. The lower court erred in determining that the public-trust doctrine did not apply

This case was supported by the usual suspects and publicized by NPR. From the story you can see similar cases are ongoing in Oregon and I expect at a Court House near you.

[lyle]

Ball gag, Steph? I chortled!

[Beasts of England]

- Nekkid sushi babes
- Spankings
- Ball gags

All topics that I did not introduce to JOM. Just sayin'...

[lyle]

But you effortlessly tied them all together, Beasts. Bound, even...

[Danube on iPad]

Good for your lad, MT.

[Danube on iPad]

Bryan Preston thinks Nancy Pelosi may simply be insane. I have thought so for a long time.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/13/nancy-pelosi-just-might-be-insane/

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

They think they've broadened your horizons and you're just thankful you don't have to hear their drivel anymore.

Win win!

[lyle]

Just a note from last. I said I had seven appointments to three service academies after high school. I should have said "nominations" rather than "appointments." For those who have either attended or know someone who has. Big difference.

[maryrose]

BOE:
You didn't introduce them but they are part and parcel of why you love JOM.
Please keep the football updates coming. I don't have time to watch today. I just want to say how much I enjoy your posts. With you and daddy I know who it is without seeing your name.

[lyle]

Last *night*

And I agree on Pelosi. Insane.

[Beasts of England]

I don't know nothin' 'bout no ball gags, lyle. I am running a Bing search on it right now, though. ;)

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

Some player for Louisville has dark red dyed braids and his jersey is slowly turning pink.

Something kinda poetic about that.

[lyle]

Or you could just confer with Steph, BoE.

[Cecil Turner]

I recall watching various sport figures spout off on camera and thinking: "this guy really needs to watch Bull Durham and work on his
cliches:

You got to play 'em one day at a time
I'm just happy to be here . . .

President Obama is much the same. He gets going, usually in front of a very friendly audience, and apparently forgets what he's saying is newsworthy . . . and is going to be repeated where our allies will see it. Especially when talking about other people getting blown up, he needs to have a minder to offer him timely advice . . . like this maybe:

[Beasts of England]

lol, maryrose - guilty! Not gonna be many more highlights until today's second wave of games. A great day of cool weather and college ball! And sex toys...

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

I don't know nuffin bout no balghbbfrhhb dgfdrthbvcf gvfff.

[narciso]

he has kind of a history of being a weasel:

http://conservatives4palin.com/tag/nathan-wurtzel

I don't know Bull Durham seemed to be a fairly straight forward fellow,

I found that Dyer link re Hezbollah on a Strigoi ridden Tepid thread

[Jim Eagle]

Keeping on topic from last night and today: I graduated at 17 but started in Grade 1 - No Kindergarden. I had turned 17 just 4 months earlier.

Pelosi and Lurch are proof positive that BoTox leads to insanity and dementia.

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

Off to finish painting the kitchen and watch some football.

I bought some paint to touch up the kitchen and the color was about 3 hues off (kinda hard to match the walls from memory since you can't take the wall to the store with you), so now I get to repaint the whole damn thing.

Not like I didn't have enough chores on my plate.

[henry]

Daddy, on the tech hiring. Tech positions are very specialized. What Facebook (and everyone else) needs are people who understand touch/speak design and programming. Those MS canned do not have those skills. Retraining is expensive when you hire tech know-it-alls, it is simply not worth it to the employer. I was lucky, I found an ex Air Force woman who learned that skill set after leaving the service ... a very productive employee from day one. Trying to find more people with web style mashup skills now. Very few resumes from citizens or even green card holders. My guess is most people with these skills are young and plan to get rich via the App Store.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Ukraine has been shit on by everybody for over a century so 404 is in the company of a lot of worthless creeps. When I saw a video early in the year of some hawt doll baby imploring people to get the word out on what was going on there I figured her expectations were already low. Just ask Neda. Unfortunately her message was drowned out by a bunch of Crazy Ivans similar to the ones reacting to Volodya's Georgian adventure.

[Ignatz]

--A woman I am seeing is a hard core lefty...........She still believes that Republicans are evil who pay women less for the same work and shove their religion on people by not buying them birth control pills.--

The things that most readily sprang to mind were;
1. You register as an Independent;
2. She's really hot so you tell her you register as an Independent;
3. She's really, really hot so you say you're a lefty too, or;
4. You're both into that BDSM stuff and she routinely inflicts a great deal of pain on you for your wayward thoughts.

[GMax]

Yes indeedy Gallup confirms the lead balloon that Zero put out in prime time. Perhaps some Democrats will take a lesson that repeatedly lying is a sure way to make sure no one believes a thing you say including hi.

[maryrose]

Steph:
You are the most energetic person I know. Keep up the good work. You are transforming your home bit by bit.

[narciso]

it would be opera buffe, if it wasn't so serious:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/moderate-muslim-rebel-groups-sign-non-aggression-pact-with-isis-in-syria/

[Marlene]

The daughter was 17 when she graduated from high school because her birthday is in September. We had our most difficult parenting moment one night when she informed us that she was the designated driver for her friends (who were already 18). A group of them were going to Canada to drink and asked her to drive. We said no,that isn't going to happen. Much crying and yelling and slamming of doors followed. Parenting isn't for sissies. :)

[anonamom]

Theo, 12:32:
Why in God's name would you spend any time with such a stupid woman? Really, why?

I graduated high school at 17.

[maryrose]

CH:
So true about the Ukraine.
Also for your youngest daughter there are a good number of wonderful private schools on the East Side. Glad she could go there and receive a good education.
Jane: I thought I was the only one here who experienced an awful experience in high school math. For my graduate degree I had to take Statistics. I am eternally grateful for my "C" in that course.I barely made it through to the finish. It made sense when others explained it-numerous times but the tests were killers.

[Ignatz]

--Theo, 12:32:
Why in God's name would you spend any time with such a stupid woman? Really, why?

I graduated high school at 17.

Posted by: anonamom | September 13, 2014 at 02:23 PM --

Is that a proposition?
It sounds like a proposition. :)

[maryrose]

Marlene: I can so relate to that story.Parenting is the hardest challenge there is and taking care of aging parents simultaneously is daunting. I look back on those days and wonder how I survived.I think I started here at JOM shortly afterward and it has proved to be my salvation in more ways than one.

[maryrose]

I am amazed at the number of people on this blog that graduated at the age of 17. I feel like a piker...

[Marlene]

I was reminded of parenting not being for sissies because I just got back from the store. I've never heard so many screaming,crying kids and the parents are totally oblivious.

[Captain Hate]

Strictly a calendar anomaly, maryrose; has nothing to do with having a precocious IQ, trust me.

[Captain Hate]

Damn straight, Marlene; if good parenting was easy there wouldn't be so many obnoxious brats. Raising children is like training dogs; mainly a function of how much time you put into it. Quality time, of course.

[Theo]

Anamom --

If it is a proposition I am available.

Ignatz --

It is close to 4 except I am not the one getting the pain.

[Marlene]

maryrose,my high school math experience was traumatic,I've mentioned it before. A 9th grade algebra teacher who was so old and scary,I was in a cold sweat during that class. Summer school for algebra and in 10th grade a general math course. The teacher was great,I was the only girl in that class,the rest of the class were guys from shop. The girl who flunked algebra and the shop guys. Ha,Ha.

[Jim Eagle]

Stephanie,

Keep a paint schedule in a small notebook. Write down the mix number for each room you paint and for special details.

henry and drj,

My new project is designing a STEM lab for our middle school. Today's 8th grader by the time he completes his BS/MS it will be 2025. From NSF data 71% of STEM positions and needs will be in computer technology, 16% biotech, 6% life science, 6% engineering and 3% math.

The big money issue will be based on that do we invest in science stations with sinks, eye wash, safety shower etc. We have a s/o/a computer lab so that is covered. We only raise about $25K at our main fundraiser and that wouldn't even cover the installation or all the new plumbing much less the furniture and STEM kits. But it is something we have to do because that is where the economic future is for the students and the country.

Also doing a lot of research on grant opportunities including NSF. Motorola has a good program but small grants. We have an experienced grant writer in our parish and we are looking at all the foundations out there that support STEM education.

Any ideas?

[Jeff Dobbs]

Steph:
Off to finish painting the kitchen and watch some football.

So you won't be on a floor getting laid?

[Jim Eagle]

...14% biotech....

Grrrrrrr!

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

On break. Climbing ladders is tiresome...

I had wonderful math teachers. So much so I contemplated majoring in math but calc III disabused me of that idea. Biology was my Waterloo -I couldn't tell the liver from the ovaries from the stomach in a pig, frog, whatever. Physics just made common sense and chem was just formulas attached to real life examples, but biology was like deciphering a piece of "art" from MOMA. BLECH.

[Cecil Turner]

I also graduated at 17 (had a 2nd/3rd grade combined class and double promoted). Not sure it's worth it: felt awkward socially in HS, and hampered sports achievement a bit. I vetoed a similar proposal for my own kids.

[Stephanie riding a streetcar named Desire]

JiB I had a paint key but it went the way of the dodo in the great computer crash of 2011.

GT is gonna find a way to lose this game yet. FTR I called it earlier this week. Arrrrgh.

Back to the ladder...

[anonamom]

Whenever I am puzzled as to why someone (generally male) is doing something and ask why, a number of my partners (all male except one) will say:
"Sex, money or power."

I don't want to venture down the TMI road here, but in this day and age--what does she do that you can't get a nice libertarian/conservative gal to do?

Seriously--I can so barely stand to be in the presence of relatives and very long time friends who I know voted for that disgusting excuse for a human being in 2012 that I can not imagine entering into a relationship with a D voluntarily.

I am willing to give everyone a pass for 2008--even my poor father, who went to R conventions as a delegate and ran for US Rep voted for the guy, hoping to get "this race thing behind us."

But every person who re-elected him, after the ACA debacle, needs to be held accountable for their idiocracy or gross negligence, at best.

[Marlene]

My math experience ended with geometry in 11th grade. The teacher was a former nun and she sat all the cute guys in the front of the class so she could keep her eye on them. She gave me a grade of C because I knew the difference between a triangle and a circle. Ha.
I've done all of hubby's bookkeeping for 35 years,so I'm not a complete math illiterate.

[peter]

Sue, very early in my twitter career Nathan Wurzel chastised me for one of my tweets, which was on the occasion of Sen. McCain's 102 birthday, I tweeted that she could put on a better campaign than her son did in 2008. He lectured me about how my tweet was inappropriate. Screw Nathan Wurzel.

[daddy]

Thanks Dr J and Henry for the opinions on "Brainiacs."

On the "Ball Jokes" topic, I vaguely recall my old man every once in a great while jokingly singing a slight refrain in his deep southern accent that went like this:

"No balls at all, no balls at all,
She married a man who had no balls at all".

Since the topic was brought up, I just did a google search of that phrase, and one of the links says it is some old song from the 17th Century! Here's a link: Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men - No Balls At All

My dad was not a rude sort and never cussed except once that I recall in his whole life when he missed a Traffic Exit in DC and exclaimed "Damn", and we kids and Momma were all suddenly petrified and quiet as mice, so I'm guessing maybe he heard it in the War.

Anyhow, if anyone can find any info on the history behind "No Balls At All", I'd be interested in reading it. Makes me wonder if when Francis Scott Key was watching the "Bomb's Bursting in Air..." he didn't at first try to rhyme it to "No Balls at All", instead of that other bawdy English tune "To Anacreon in Heaven."

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Does anything characterize Beamerball more than rolling OSU and then laying a giant turd against East Carolina?

[Jeff Dobbs]

anonamom:
But every person who re-elected him, after the ACA debacle, needs to be held accountable for their idiocracy or gross negligence, at best.

Theo read what you wrote, but to him it came out, "screw Obama voters!"

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

On the Bojangles network the Hoos are doing their best to squander a fourth quarter lead against that traditional ACC rival, Louisville.

[Sue]

Peter,

That's funny. He told me, before he hid himself from me, he would decide what was appropriate on his twitter page. If he had just banned me I'd have never known because I wouldn't have missed him. I hope the employee saw my post to him. Even if said employee deserved criticism, in public, on your twitter feed is not professional.

[anonamom]

I went as far as pre calc in high school, but just do not have the neurons to begin to get what the heck that is, though I did get an A in the class, fwiw. So, never took calc.
Fulfilled my undergrad math requirement by taking Algebra again! Somebody wasn't paying much attention there to OK that choice.

[daddy]

Ungulates acting badly!

Nuttiest story I've come across so far today:

Farm volunteer head-butted by musk ox wins $10K settlement

Palmer, Alaska: Four years after an ornery musk ox head-butted a 20-year-old Mormon missionary at a tourist attraction outside Palmer, the young victim has been awarded a $10,000 settlement.

Michael Simkins was originally hoping for $200,000...

Where's Perry mason when you need him?

The case of the missionary head-butted by a mad musk ox seems funny on the surface.

He was bending over as he scooped grain into a bucket 2 or 3 feet from a fence when the animal came at him.
“...I had no reason to expect that a musk ox would charge the fence...

Mark Austin, who runs the farm as the executive director of the nonprofit, said in a deposition that musk oxen are not animals with a propensity to cause injury.

“No. No,” Austin said, according to the deposition. “They’re an ungulate; they’re not an attack animal.

[Sue]

From my brief search of him I saw where he has something to do with the NRCC. Could explain why republicans are crappy at winning.