Onward Uhh, Honorary Christian Soldiers

Jonah Goldberg blasts Obama's cheap point-scoring about evil Christianity.

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[rse]

HB JIB!!

[Capt Hate]

Louisiana’s budget shortfall is projected to reach $1.6 billion next year and to remain in that ballpark for a while.

Mr. Jindal’s first term began in 2008 with a heady surplus of around $1 billion, high oil prices and a stream of federal disaster recovery money. He threw his support behind the largest tax cut in the state’s history and, for a time, had reason to boast about an economy that outperformed the nation’s. But oil prices are fickle, and the recovery money dried up and the recession arrived, if late and in a milder strain than in other states.

[Ben]

The trouble with people is People. Nothing wrong with Christianity as a tutor, just the students;

http://everythingishistory.com/290/bertrand-russell-on-the-trouble-with-the-world/

[Capt Hate]

U.S. Economy Added 257,000 Jobs in January; Unemployment Rate at 5.7%

[new lurker]

Just read Jonah's excellent piece. I feel, again, as if I am Alice In Wonderland. Nobody is realizing what is going on.

[Capt Hate]

On Monday, Moody’s Investors Service, the credit ratings agency, noted a number of warning signs about the state’s credit outlook, including the plunge in oil prices, “muted job growth” and “a structural deficit.” John Kennedy, the state treasurer, a Republican, pointed to the report as evidence of how “fiscally irresponsible” the state had been for the last seven years.

“Governor Jindal is running for president,” Mr. Kennedy said. “I wish him well. He’s a very talented guy and I hope he’ll multitask as he’s working on his national campaign and come down and help us with this budget problem."

[Marlene]

Happy Birthday,Jack!

[NKvirusedand back]

If the jobs market is soooo good, let's end food stamps, disability pay, long-term unemployment payments, ObummerCare, MediCaid all deficit spending and raise short term interest rates to keep prices stable while workers make ooodles of $$$. OK the jobs market is fixed, let's all get to work shut down Big Gov. Right?

[rse]

ch-Louisiana has been implementing the communitarian alliance at the 'local' level that reflects the progressive agenda. I do not know how much Jindal knows, but there is no dispute on what has been put in place. It's why Bill Ayers brother moved there.

There is so much out there from various foundations touting their work in La. All the radical community organizing groups are also there beyond SEIU and ACORN.

[RickB]

Was it Obama's grandfather or his greatgrandfather who was forced by the British dogooders to stop selling Christian slaves to Mahometans? Does his family in Kenya have any links to the Sudanese Mahometans who are still catching Christians and selling them to Arabs?

Just curious.

[rse]

http://www.foundationforlouisiana.org/news_resources/wk_kellogg_foundation_offers_new_orleans_based_community_leadership_networ/ is an example

[rse]

This came out a few weeks ago. http://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/AECF_EmbracingEquity7Steps-2014.pdf

Including a "race equity and inclusion lens" in everything we do.

Loretta Lynch says "Excellent Comrade. Justice in the 21st century."

Honestly if Lynch had said that, would any US Senator call her out or object? The progressives keep touting that the action to enact their vision is not in the courts anymore.

[Ben]

"As President Barack Obama’s pick to run the Pentagon said Wednesday he’s inclined to support lethal weapons transfers, Ukraine’s president said he was confident the U.S. would do so. Meanwhile, outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State John Kerry were flying to discuss Ukraine and other issues with allies in Europe. Vice President Joe Biden is due to follow them Thursday.

“I very much incline in that direction ... because I think we need to support the Ukrainians in defending themselves,” Defense Secretary-nominee Ashton Carter told Congress at his confirmation hearing when asked if the administration should provide defensive weapons to Kiev."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-tilts-toward-arming-ukraine/2015/02/04/fa8be038-ace1-11e4-8876-460b1144cbc1_story.html

'Defensive' weapons eh? Is that why Merkel and Hollande set to visit Kyev? Muting the war drums.

[NKvirusedand back]

Christendom had its enlightment 500 years ago. Islam had a model to follow; it refuses to do so. Abrogation and fundementalism refuse to be pushed out of Islam. Simple facts. The 20th Century slaughters in the West after Enlightenment?, Hitler's holocaust, Stalin's mass murder, and earlier the Slave Trade? All involved men replacing Christ with their their temporal power. They supplanted Christ not serve him. Obummer claims today's Jihadis are doing the same to Islam? Then muslims have to put down those monsters as the West did to its anti-Christs. Will Muslims do so? Do they really want to?

[James D.]

So who's sockpuppetting CH?

The trolls are really coming out of the woodwork the last few days.

[Capt Hate]

all deficit spending

Red states are responsible for the deficit; if red states only spent as many federal dollars as they pay in federal taxes, the budget would be in surplus.

But red state politicians know that they can buy red state votes by giving them free stuff, so it's deficits as far as the eye can see.

[Captain Hate]

Clean up your site, TM.

[matt]

Funny that as soon as the oil economy becomes challenging the newspapers and his opponents want to blame Jindal for it.

[Ben]

Obama's weak critique left off one important note; Missionaries didn't behead their infidels.

http://www.suu.edu/hss/english/scriblerian/spring12/2010arg2.html

"As a result of the trust the natives placed in them, the missionaries began to set up forms of government that they themselves could be a part of and influence. They did this in a subtle manner though, beginning with simple tasks. Larry Kimura’s “Native Hawaiian Culture,” states“…William Richards, a missionary, became ‘chaplain, teacher [sic] and translator’ to the king…this is the beginning of the formal involvement of missionaries in the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom” (174). Other missionaries soon joined the king’s cabinet, including Gerrit P. Judd, Lorrin Andrews, and Richard Armstrong. These missionaries were able to convince the King to pass a policy of religious toleration as well as The Declaration of Rights and Laws in 1839 (Kimura 174). Each law passed brought the Americans one step closer to achieving Hawaiian Annexation.

Furthermore, with each occurrence of new laws passed, as well as the constant badgering of American economic forces, the missionaries were soon able to convince the chiefs and King to divide the lands of Hawaii in an act called the Mahele in 1848-1850. The Mahele was a proposition that allowed foreigners to purchase land of their own in Hawaii. This was a major feat for America, but it was another big step to the ultimate downfall of the Hawaiians. Haunani-Kay Trask tells of the result of the Mahele being created in From a Native Daughter:

Through the unrelenting efforts of missionaries like Gerrit P. Judd, the Mahele was attained in 1848-1850 (qtd. in Trask 6). Our disease ridden ancestors, confused by Christianity and preyed upon by capitalists, were thereby dispossessed. Traditional lands were quickly transferred to foreign ownership and burgeoning sugar plantations. By 1888, three-quarters of all arable land was controlled by haole (white people). (6-7)
With the Mahele set in place, foreigners seized every opportunity to get a piece of land for themselves. This lead to myriad changes to the Hawaiian way of life. With wealthy foreign land owners stepping into the picture, things like the Hawaiian League began to form. The Hawaiian League forced the king to replace the old constitution with a new one referred to as The Bayonet Constitution. In Neil Levy’s “Native Hawaiian Land Rights,” we are informed that the Bayonet Constitution “substituted the power of Western Landowners for that of the King” (861). This would, in turn, switch the voting power from noble Hawaiians selected by the chief to wealthy landowners who were able to pay taxes. This shift in the societal balance would soon affect Hawaiian decisions as a nation.

Obviously each King of Hawaii did not allow himself to be influenced so easily by the persistent pestering of the missionaries. In Kathleen Mellen’s The Lonely Warrior, King Kamehameha consistently rejected any missionary conversion techniques, and did not allow himself to be influenced by them; Kamehameha even called one missionary out to leap from a thousand-foot precipice, “And if…your god whom you say can do anything, saves you from death, then I will consider your religion” (Mellen 157). Sadly, while each king did what he could to avoid granting the foreign American presence any more rights, the surrounding circumstances continued to worsen until they had no other option. One example of this is the story of Queen Lili’uokalani. In Director Na Maka O Ka Aina’s Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation, Lili’uokalani creates a new constitution to present to her people, but her missionary-filled cabinet will not approve her presentation. This forces her to wait, and soon after she is imprisoned and the monarchy overthrown. In James Blount’s The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Third Session of the Fifty-Third Congress, Lili’uokalani states, “I yield to the superior force of the United States of America…now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps the loss of life….” (586). Had those missionaries approved her presentation of the new constitution, the fate of Hawaii might have been different. They instead chose to wait out of fear and in the attempt to keep themselves in power; they allowed the Queen of Hawaii to be overthrown and the nation to fall into oligarchy.

[NKvirusedand back]

Let's test the premise; end all deficit spending. Let the Conngress decide how to cut $100B/year from discretionary spending and $300B/year from the entitlements.
BTW the politically most likely way to do that is to zero out ObummerCare (which means massive cuts in Medicaid, because ObummerCare is primarily MediCaid), cut food stamps, zero out green energy subsidies, that about does it. Balanced budget at $3.3T, that's TRILLION $$. And every year the Feds get to spend $100B MOAR -- oh-- unless long -term interest rates spike, then more cuts are needed to pay for National Debt % to rich bond holders. That $8TRILLION in Debt Obummer racked up is a bitch.

[jimmyk]

Reposting from the last thread:

I actually agree 100% with Appalled at 8:31 [in the last thread]. Bush had reacted strongly to 9/11 and therefore his comments were a counterpoint to that, whereas Obama has been a broken record. At the same time, I almost never disagree with Iggy on anything, so I am reluctant to state that too strongly.:) Seriously, perhaps in the context of a prayer breakfast one could argue that Obama is talking about humility, "judge not,..." etc., not criticizing Christianity.

Posted by: jimmyk | February 06, 2015 at 09:40 AM

Happy birthday, JiB and Ronald Reagan (wherever you are)!

[Threadkiller]

Hawaiian kings were never mean to Polynesians prior to the arrival of missionaries.

[rse]

Look at that Embracing Equity guide and realize that's being treated as a requirement now under the Justice Department's reading of civil rights laws.

It's also being written into the ESEA Rewrite because of the obligation to close the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

[Ben]

1) The only thing protecting the junta forces are, precisely, these civilians. If these civilians leave, then Debaltsevo will turn into Saur Mogila. Until now, the Novorussians have advanced rather slowly precisely because they could not use the full power of their artillery to soften up the well dug-in junta forces. But thanks to the Voentorg, the Novorussians now have plenty of firepower now and if they decide to really open up upon the junta forces the latter will suffer the same devastating consequences as their (now dead) colleagues in Saur Mogila. Everybody understands that.

2) Tonight the junta has used white phosphorus again, and in the recent days they have used both ballistic missiles and cluster munitions. Why this sudden concern with the Debaltsevo civilians (whom the Nazis consider as "bugs" anyway)? Does anybody really believe that the Nazi freaks in Kiev care for Novorussian civilians?!

3) Kerry, Hollande and Merkel were in Kiev today. The latter two will be in Moscow tomorrow. In Germany, the Munich Security Conference is meeting. NATO is still claiming that "hundreds and hundreds" of Russian Federation soldiers are operating in Novorussia. While some US officials speak of sending "lethal aid" to the junta, others seem to oppose it.

What does that all tell you?

Me - it tells me that this is the PERFECT opportunity for the kind of false flag massacres NATO and the US are so good at. That is how the "Empire of Kindness" justified bombing the Bosnian Serbs, that is how the "Empire of Kindness" justified bombing all of Serbia and that is how the "Empire of Kindness" justified bombing Libya.

Tomorrow, such an attack will be very easy to organize. Just send a group of men to post a Claymore mine anywhere along the convoy's route, plant a 152mm shell with a remote under the road where the bus will collect the refugees, pay some patsy to hide in the ditch with an RPG, or use a regular Grad strike at any time - and, voilà, you will have exactly the kind of atrocity which was used to justify all the previous wars of the "Empire of Kindness".

Except that this time around, the goal will not be to bomb or invade Novorussia (that is something the US/NATO simply cannot do), but to create the kind if hysteria which might make it possible to save the junta forces in the Debaltsevo cauldron. That, at least, could be the plan. Also, if a massacre happens at the evacuation of refugees, then this will "prove" that the Novorussians don't care about civilians and create a "Sarajavo-like" situation in which the surrounded force gets to shoot as much as it wants while the surrounding force is crucified by the imperial propaganda for every shell fired.

I sure hope that I am wrong, but I won't breathe normally again until tomorrow evening because if no false flag happens tomorrow this will be a real miracle.

The Saker

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/

The travesty of the Balkans has been discussed here, no?

[Janet]

Hawaiian kings were never mean to Polynesians prior to the arrival of missionaries.

Yes, TK! Lets look at some of those noble cultures. The indians in Texas were eating each other.

[RickB]

RSE,

Is the law banning stupidity going to have lesser or greater weight than the law making π = 3?

Will Johnny finally be able to read after stupidity is banned?

[Janet]

Multiculturalism is great until the cannibal family moves in next door. :(

[Janet]

Loved their music but their eating my leg got on my nerves.

[Jane]

Red states?

[Jane]

When the trolls come out of the woodwork it means we are winning and they are worried.

[Captain Hate]

end all deficit spending

The red states could just send the money back or raise taxes to pay for the free stuff they've been getting.

But it's more fun to take the money, spend it, then bitch about deficits.

[Ben]

I really don't know why you brought it up, considering....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

See Also; Ethnic Cleansing.

[Jack is Back]

Many thanks for all the wishes and greetings.

Posted over at the other thread about our propane woes. All resolved once the special delivery arrives.

Odd that daddy has Rodney Stark's book on the Crusades in his book bag while I am reading Asbrdge's "The Crusdaes". And I started it weeks ago before The Champ made it the news.

JIB, Reagan, Babe Ruth and Superman = Feb. 6th. Good company:)

[Jeff Dobbs]

This was left out of the WH transcript:

"Everybody expects the Obama Inquisition! My chief weapon is predictability!... Predictability and nagging... predictability and nagging... My two weapons are predictability and nagging... and ruthless mendacity! My three weapons are nagging, and predictability, and ruthless mendacity... and an almost fanatical devotion to trope... My four... no... Amongst my weapons... Hmf... Amongst my weaponry... are such elements as nagging, predicta... I'll come in again.
…
"Everybody expects the Obama Inquisition!... Amongst my weaponry are such diverse elements as: nagging, predictability, ruthless mendacity, an almost fanatical devotion to trope, and nice blue ties - Oh damn!"

[rse]

rick-we just need to consult the official data to find out and then create policy accordingly. http://www.rss.org.uk/Images/PDF/influencing-change/rss-data-manifesto-2014.pdf

Because money is free to the public sector.

It's magic!!

[Threadkiller]

Are you suggesting the indians need to forgive the folks who were acting in a manner that is justified today in the ME?

[Captain Hate]

Fuck this shit. Until TM decides not to have a slum or a site associated with his name, I'm out of here.

[Ben]

Are you suggesting NA's need to be better christians than the Christians?

[RickB]

CH,

Just to be clear - you do understand that your response to the Pitzer College Stupidity Generator is the reason you get socked, right? IOW you peck the red button knowingly.

I understand how a Pitzer College sophomore with the brain of a flatworm has been conditioned by Featherpasser Dana Gilbert Ward to peck the red button, I don't understand why anyone else does.

[Ben]

Don't blame Cap'n for the sock-puppeting, Marmalard. No, it's not me or anyone associated with me, but facts aren't your forte.

[Captain Hate]

Because money is free to the public sector.

Right. Thank God Bush insisted that we pay for his wars instead of having the grandkids pay for it.

[NKvirusedand back]

Barone is catching up to the curve JOMers have been laying out since early 2013: http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2015/02/06/a-candidate-with-appeal-to-both-suburban-and-countryside-republicans-n1953420/page/2

[Buckeye]

Happy Birthday Jack

[NKvirusedand back]

And the ChiTown Trib comes up with the push back against Walker... he's too Midwestern. There you have it: to the ChiTrib a Third World raised hawaiian is fine, but a Midwestern POTUS.... fainting couch.

[Janet]

We all know the ancestors of "white people" were scum....I just thought I'd point out that ancestors of "non-white people" were no prize pigs either.

[Ben]

Yes, I detected the false equivalence.

[James D.]

Hey, CH (the real CH, not the jackass sockpuppet), I've got the next chapter of Winter's Tale posted...

http://writingdreams.net/?p=2975

[RickB]

No, it couldn't be Featherpasser Dana Gilbert Ward, notorious thief and consummate liar. The man who has been repeatedly asked to leave and responds by shitting on the carpet whenever he can get away with it would never do such a thing. Featherpasser Dana Gilbert Ward of Pitzer College is far too noble to stoop to sock puppeting.

Just ask him.

[Captain Hate]

Red states are the PIGS of the nation, takers on the dole just like Portugal Italy Greece and Spain.

[AliceH]

Jim Clifton: The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

Nothing we haven't been saying, but then our posts aren't as prominent as an editorial by the Chairman and CEO of Gallup.

[Marlene]

The Crusades discussion reminds me of something that happened when we were in NH a couple of weeks ago for our friend's funeral.We stayed in a hotel in Manchester one night. Hubby and the daughter went down for an early breakfast and when I met them,they were laughing. I said,what is so funny? The lobby was full of people dressed in medieval clothing and other props,including a few guys dressed in Crusader gear.When we went back to the room,we shared the elevator with a very nice lady dressed in long skirts and a hooded cape.Hubby asked her,so are you part of a special group? She said yes,I'm a member of the Society of Creative Anachronism and we're having a convention of the Eastern Kingdom. Oh,hubby said,have a good day! He and the daughter were laughing their a**es off when she got off the elevator.I glared at them and said everyone needs a hobby!

[Ignatz]

--The red states could just send the money back or raise taxes to pay for the free stuff they've been getting.--

I love, love, love this argument from pinkos because they never seem to understand the implications of it.
The imbalance they speak of can only occur if the blue states are full of rich, undeserving misers squawking and moaning about the taxes they send to the poor deserving rural red states teeming with the poor, unfortunate and aged retirees through the very social welfare entitlements the pinkos created and claim to love.

If the little pink creeps are demanding the demise of the welfare state and the wealth transfers they say they're so find of then lets roll up our sleeves and get to it. Whaddya say sock puppet?

[rse]

Just in time for the regulation of the internet

http://about.att.com/content/csr/home/blog/2015/02/connecting_more_peop.html

[Ignatz]

It's the fool who started out as Julia and got tired of getting her teeth kicked in under her own name.

[Old Lurker]

Who knew there was a new thread?

I gave JiB some Propane advice at the end of the previous thread. And I posted my rant against the WSJ reporting on jobs numbers there too.

[Janet]

Did any of you watch that video clip of Williams on Katrina? http://thehayride.com/2015/02/brian-williams-tall-tales-extend-to-katrina-too/

Not even addressing whether the stories were true or not...but the sickening condescending tone is unbearable.

"They weren't somehow good enough"

Who thought that? Did HE go over & help some of the people? Maybe HE is the one who thought that. "They weren't somehow good enough" to bother saving at the expense of filming my nightly newscast.

Maybe Brian needs to watch this - Sam Kinison World Hunger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA

[NKvirusedand back]

Ig@10:33-- that's my suggestion as well; let's zero out the deficit RIGHT..NOW. Let's see who squawks. It would not break down by state lines by the way, it will breakdown along the lines of FSA types and their Big Gov operatives who get their fat bureaucratic pensions paid off of the free shite, and the societal producers. Let's go. Cut $400B in spending as of October 1, 2015. piece of cake that's less than 9% of the Federal budget.

[Janet]

Happy Birthday, JiB!! Lots of love to you!!!

[Old Lurker]

Also my copy of Stark's "Gods Battalions" arrived this week from Amazon.

[Old Lurker]

Count me with NK and Ig on the deficit.

Too bad we changed that constitution thingy a hundred years back to shift the funding of the Federal Government from state by state assessments to a national income tax.

[Captain Hate]

Whaddya say sock puppet?

You left out the part where you pay for red state public works, ie., the Bush wars. Probably because red staters love free stuff.

[Ben]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/231945-dhs-shutdown-growing-more-likely

I guess this comes with mixed emotions, like one's mother-in-law going off a cliff in your new Maserati.

[Janet]

THis is a great line - Jindal to Obama: ‘Medieval Christian Threat is Under Control’

hah!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/398060/jindal-obama-medieval-christian-threat-under-control-eliana-johnson

[AliceH]

How much of the redistributed Fed $ is to pay for mandatory programs? How much is redistributed to Fed-defined/regulated programs?

Yeah, I'm good with stopping the redistribution of blue-state residents' wallets if we can also rid ourselves of the de jure and de facto mandatory State spending programs.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Marlene:
The lobby was full of people dressed in medieval clothing and other props,including a few guys dressed in Crusader gear.

Lutes and chausses as far as the eye could see!

[Ignatz]

--You left out the part where you pay for red state public works, ie., the Bush wars. Probably because red staters love free stuff.--

So we only pay for the stuff we agree with the government doing?
Right on gym-sock. As I said, lets roll up our sleeves again and get started. Whaddya say?

[henry]

How wonderful, Intuit halts all state tax e-filing because of fraud.

[Jack is Back]

RickB,

I read somewhere that Obama's paternal lineage is actually Saudi Arabian. Anyone who has spent anytime in the sandbox knows that many, many Saudis look like Africans in their skin tone and features.

I speculated, at the time, it was the motivation behind The Bow!

[Ben]

Why is it military leaders are more cautious than politicians with their 'gear in the rear'?

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/02/05/top-nato-general-warns-of-russian-reaction-to-arming-ukraine

[Ignatz]

I think sock pup has a pretty good idea.
The red states pay for defense budgets and border control and the blue states pay for everything else.

Then whenever anyone gets old in a red state they won't have any SS [nor fifty years of SS taxes] and they won't be able to get EBT cards.

And whenever the Russians, Chinese or islamic hordes attack us the blue states won't have anyone to defend them and they can magnanimously take in all of the deserving illegals from around the world.

Anyone in a red state not taking that trade?

[Threadkiller]

Happy Birthday, JiB!

Have you seen the wireless tank monitors?

[exdemocrat]

Obama: "For to infringe on one right under the pretext of protecting another is a betrayal of both."
Predictably, Obama misses the most obvious implication of his own statement: that the government may not (and must not) infringe upon a citizen's right to free expression on the grounds of defending another citizen's right to free exercise. You know, like pressuring a video maker critical of Islam, for example.
Instead, Obama's takeaway seems to bebe that a citizen's First Amendment right to free expression obligates that CITIZEN to respect (read: not criticize) another citizen's exercise of their right to free expression.
This betrays a staggering misconception of the Bill of Rights - one that would be disappointing in an average citizen, but shocking in a 'constitutional scholar', let alone the federal government's chief executuve.
To be clear the Bill of Rights presents limitations on GOVERNMENT behavior. Period. It imposes NO obligations whatsoever on the CITIZEN. Period.
Through so-called 'hate speech' laws etc, the government may try to infringe my FA right to free expression. However, its defense of that presumptively unconstitutional act CANNOT BE a First Amendment 'obligation' from ME to another citizen. There ARE no such obligations.and

[Threadkiller]

Are you suggesting NA's need to be better christians than the Christians?

Radical NAs need time to mature.

[Jack is Back]

TK,

Only using 500gal/year now that we don't heat the pool with propane. The tank is easy to monitor by sight and that is all I need to do from time to time. But thanks for the tip.

[exdemocrat]

Iow, NO citizen has an 'obligation' under the First Amendment to be 'respectful' to Muslims (or anyone else).

If our President (and self-proclaimed constitutional scholar) meant instead to say that, in his opinion, citizens have a MORAL obligation to be respectful, one might be forgiven for asking what system of morality inclines him to that conclusion? Judeo Christian? Islamic? Or Makingcrapuptpsupportmycurrentpoeeragenda-ism?

[Captain Hate]

So we only pay for the stuff we agree with the government doing?

More like "Red state takers haven't even paid for the stuff they agree with"

[Jeff Dobbs]

TK:
Have you seen the wireless tank monitors?

Speaking of wires . . . I'm always watching old NCIS re-runs.

Since telling Jane to "cut the red wire" if her fireplace started beeping, there have been three episodes that included bombs that had to be disarmed.

Ziva disarmed two of them and Gibbs one. Both times Ziva disarmed the bomb, she cut the red wire (one was in the rafters in a warehouse and the other was chained to a mentally challenged individual sitting on a park bench). When Gibbs cut the wire (at a bus station in luggage on a baggage cart) he chose the black one (while McGee was stammering away trying to logically figure out which one to cut as the clock ticked down to one second).

When they got back to Abby's lab, she told Gibbs that he cut the wrong wire -- if the bomb makers hadn't screwed up in the assembly of the bomb, he and McGee woulda died.

CUT THE RED WIRE!!!!

[Ben]

Just as they 'stuck' with David Gregory.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82739468/

[Threadkiller]

I just looked at OL's advice on the previous thread, JiB.

Pretty nifty.

[NKvirusedand back]

Ignatz-- roll up sleeves? Right now entitlements and interest on the $18+TRILLION debt is about 63% of total Federal spending. Add in defense spending, and that's about 82% of spending. Discretionary nondefense is about $600B. Defense could be whacked $50B and we could be kept safe; Nondefense discretionary could be whacked $100B and no one would notice except cronieson subsidies; that leaves almost $300B that has to be cut from entitlements, that's where the money is, and as OPM has run out. That will be cut, because it can't continue.

[exdemocrat]

And while whether even the government has a First Amendment obligation to respect the free exercise of a homicidal death cult maqueradibg as a 'religion' remains a good question (in my mind if not other JOMers), I SURE AS HELL DON'T.

[Jane]

I love NCIS reruns. I wish there were more NCIS LA reruns (in case the network is listening)

[NKvirusedand back]

exDem-- I put it this way. When the manifestation of the religion is murder and sedition against the Constitution, the people and the state have the obligation to defend themselves and enforce the criminal and anti-sedition laws. Any religion or cult can 'believe' whtever they wish, the manifestation of those beliefs is what empowers the people and the state to act. We have no constitutional suicide pact.

[henry]

King Abdullah bombs like he intends to win. HQs, homes, plundered oil stocks. Better, Abdullah is just getting warmed up.

[Skoot]

"Have you seen the wireless tank monitors?"

heh. I just came in from shoveling out my tank fill. Unfroze the cap with the wife's hair drier. Then took a reading with my precision analog instrument - a 12 ft piece of chair rail I ripped down 15 years ago and made pencil marks every 6 inches. No batteries needed :)

[NKvirusedand back]

henry-- I wonder how much stockpile of bombs and fuel does Abdullah have? how long can he sustain this campaign. I can't imagine the Jordian defense forces were designed to carry out this mission.

[Ben]

" Better, Abdullah is just getting warmed up."

Only Nixon could have gone to China. The end-game is another question.

[Old Lurker]

TK, there are several old line suppliers on Nantucket and lately one or two new ones. The new guy provides this service for all of his customers, for free, and this is my third winter without a hitch. His prices are the same as the other guys and he claims he has happier customers and zero emergency calls so he is happy too.

Last week when all of my fancy computer systems, power and internet went dark and before my caretaker got dug out to go check my house, I took great comfort by checking the data log on the propane guy's website where I could watch the tank level go down hour by hour confirming my furnaces were working and by extension, my generator.

[Ignatz]

--More like "Red state takers haven't even paid for the stuff they agree with"--

Isn't that the whole point of progressive taxation and the welfare state?

Just exactly where did you think the wealthy tend to congregate, the wind swept Dakota plains and those Oklahoma home hills where they weren't born?

Why do you hate family farmers and the decrepit aged and the rural poor? I thought you dipshits wrote unbearably bad folk songs about them [just so long as you don't have to live near them].

[Old Lurker]

Skoot, your broomstick would not do well in a buried propane tank. You'd have to be quick.

[Ignatz]

And never use a lighter to read your pencil marks.

[cathyf]

Totally off-topic trivia question of the day -- Alaska became the 49th state on Jan 3, 1959, and Hawaii became the 50th on Aug 21, 1959. Was there ever a 49-star version of the flag? (4 rows of 6 and 5 rows of 5 would work.)

[rse]

henry-would you like to guess where the net neutrality/need to regulate the Internet to control communication that molds public opinion in order to legitimate the State comes from?

All those are precise terms used in the chapter in the Constitution in 2020 that Soros funded. It's in the chapter on remaking the nature of the First Amendment. I should finish the entire book today, but I am thinking the US might well be safer if we closed the law school down there in New Haven.

[RickB]

"how long can he sustain this campaign."

NK,

We're providing the flying gas stations. When he runs low on bombs, if BOzo won't cough 'em up, the Saudis, UAE and Egyptians wouldn't mind helping.

I imagine the air strikes are mostly cover for moving Jordanian Special Forces into good position to start clipping ISIS leadership. Chopping the heads off of the head headchoppers is the most effective way of ending the charade. The run of the mill rabble will be handled by the locals according to Mahometan custom.

[Janet]

Maybe all those advocating for the Redskins name to be banned, should get off their high horse & remember that some of the Indian ancestors were cannibals.

It is gonna come in handy for lots of issues - Get off your high horse.

*I guess Obama really referred to getting ON a high horse - "And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place,"

Perfection or shut up....even worse, your ancestors had to be perfect.
Nobody is gonna be able to comment or take action on anything. Yikes! that is gonna be tough.

[Ignatz]

What do you call closing one law school down?

[Old Lurker]

A good start?

[DrJ]

Iggy, a good start.

[narciso]

happy birthday, Jib,

so both Carlos Slim's and the Journal, chose to go 404 on Zaphod's ridiculous remarks, another Victorious Malabar front victory,

re, Cotton's statement, it was a good start but not enough, the nature of the taskforce that is doing the releases, the same attys were the Gitmo bar, and a good crosssection of the Jayvee, AQ picks drawn from same,

[Ben]

They're anxious for someone else to do something.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/231874-senators-to-obama-arm-ukraine-now