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tapper blogs on AFP
Submitted by Tim Graham on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:17am.
ads against solyndra
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/seeking-to-muddy-waters-on-...
Have you done a search yet to
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:55am.
Have you done a search yet to see how many stories there are this morning on Solyndra after yesterday's document dump? I heard y'all talking about it last night on Cam & Company. Also can you do a serach to find out how many stories have been done by the MSM on Operation Wide Receiver as compared to Operation White Gun and Fast and Furious after the DOInJ's document dump on Wide Receiver? Matter of fact on last night's show was the first time I heard about the Solyndra document dump.
Tapper is getting in
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:55pm.
line.
This was a good one
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:23am.
I have worked in the prison system for 16 years now. I don't have to search convicts. Many of the guys tell me the things they find "suitcased" when doing strip searches. (Suitcase is a term used by cons to have something stuff up they whazoo.) There was one one time that a con had a cell phone up there were the sun don't shine. They could hear it ringing but they were not allowed to remove it. He was sent to the hospital to have it remove but on the ride there he pulled it out. This one takes the cake. This was close to home too. A .38 revolver found where the sun never shines.
PS DAVE: This guy was from Georgia. I know you can't keep Jimma Kotter, Cynthia McKinney, Cynthia Tucker, Hank Johnson and John Lewis shut up and in state but we don't need your state's scum here.
Maybe that's were Corzine's
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:51am.
Maybe that's where Corzine's missing money went. Did anybody ask Bawney Fwank to do a search before he buggered out?
He is a big void surrounded
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:05am.
He is a big void surrounded by a sphincter muscle
Let's start another pool.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:50am.
I'm betting that the man described in the attached article will be allowed to marry his neighbor's dog within five years, instead of going to prison for just "dating" it.
All those jokes you hear about the South. Maybe there is something to it?
I hope that it was, at least, a cute female breed! Homosexual "mating" with animals is probably ten years away.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/11/1768695/man-accused-of-felony-wit...
Bubba
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:02am.
Don't want to make us look bad here in the south but here is the story of a guy that had sex with a neighbor's dog I hear Dueling Banjos playing the background.
Just think.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:33am.
Someday we can have a First Lady who is a real dog!
... but that ship may have already sailed.
Another over reach by Obama and Holder upheld
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:55am.
To set the background, several months ago Holder, under the direction of Obama, sent out a demand letter requiring federal firearm licensees in the border states, CA, AZ, TX and NM keep records on multiple sales of long guns. Suits were immediately filed against about this. Basis was that only Congress can make the guns laws. One of Obama's hind tit sucking federal judges dismissed the suit saying that Holder and Obama were well within their authority to do this. As far as I can tell the judge did not quote book, chapter or line in the law that allows this. It will be appealed.
This is just another example of Bambi making law. When are the damned Republicans going to grow a pair and stop this? Enough is enough. Some of the chicken crap Republicans have introduced bills to stop the funding. To me that is BS. Go to court and stop the man, NOW. I am very mad about this.
ricklail
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:39am.
I haven't checked out your link yet, but there were some retrieved e-mails attached to this same case between the DOJ and the ATF, asking to compile numbers on crimes committed with those same long rifles that these clowns allowed to walk with straw-purchasers, so these 'crime numbers' could be used by the DOJ in gun control demagoguery. The audacity of crooks. In my opinion, this scandal alone (and there are many) is enough of a basis for impeachment.
You are right. The purpose of
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:52am.
You are right. The purpose of Fast and Furious was to push this law. Those e-mails shed some light on that. The next thing to blow up in Holder's face may just be Operation White Gun. Not much info on that just yet.
White Gun
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:27pm.
Next up Bible Gun.... Bitter Gun .....Clinging Gun...
Most guns are black.... Oh hell no can't call it that.
You Didn't Build That.
MLK menu
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:49am.
I am so full of myself this morning. The wife had to got to school today to make up for the days missed during Irene. So I can goof off until she gets home.
Anyway i want to know what you are suppsoed to eat on MLK day. Christmas and Thanksgiving we have turkey and ham, unless you live near the ocean and then you have a seafood buffet. New Year's Day we have blackeyed peas, some type of pork and some type of leafy green. July 4th it is hambugers and hot dogs. Labor Day it is BBQ and tater salad. (That is unless you are Dave and don't mind the work you can have BBQ every holiday.) Easter doesn't really have a set menu but grandmaw always make country ham, cathead biscuits, deviled eggs, green beans and tater salad. So is it appropriate to have bolgona and pimento cheese sandwiches for MLK? ( Is it spelled pimentoe?) I don't put the pimento cheese on the boglona but their is a place between Lexington and Mocksville that puts pimento cheese on hamburgers and calls it a cheeseburger.
Rick
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:18pm.
Good grief I hope when you said schools were open it didn't mean the students had to show up too!! Those little brains would be traumatized if they didn't have Saturdays off. So what if the rest of the world is beating us in
math and science, we can't put to much on the little children.
/sarc off
The students were supposed to show up
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:32pm.
but they didn't. There are 1100 students at the high school. 50 or there abouts showed up. My wife had 5 on her bus which is normally 45. Last Saturday they had about 200. This week 150 of them must have said that the others didn't get into trouble so I am not going this week.
What are "cathead" biscuts?
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:50pm.
Pimento cheese, haven't had any of that in ages and ages.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
They are well as big as a
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:36pm.
They are well as big as a cat's head
Delete
Submitted by Model850 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:39pm.
I see rick beat me to it!
government going down the drain
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:59am.
In Illinois now you must provide a photo ID and sign a book stating your name, address, and date of birth to purchase drain cleaner.
The big question for me is that since a lot of household work is done by illegals will they be exempt from the law?
Wow, Mid
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:48pm.
....and I bet you just show up to vote, "Hi I'm here to vote". No ID, no nuthin', right?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
get the government out of my grease clog!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:54pm.
No voting law could ever be enacted with those restrictions.
I pity the minorities who now will never be able to unclog their drains. Such a tragedy. Where's the ACLU? Where's the Southern Poverty Law Center? Where's the Black Caucus? Where's Jesse Jackson? Where's Jimmie Carter? Where's the UN? Where's Amnesty International?
And of course the biggee... Where is Eric Holder along with the DOJ suing the state of Illinois for violating the rights of the poor classes by denying them free and easy access to drain cleaning products?
Liberal solutions to problems
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:40pm.
Liberal solutions to problems are both hilarious and sad. I remember when some liberals believed bank robberies could be halted by making it illegal to wear shades and a baseball cap inside a bank. As if. Hahahaha. It would be a riot to compile some of their ideas into a list. Stop TeaParty assemblies by declaring protest signs 'potential deadly weapons'..they even attempted to classify lawyer jokes as hate crimes a few years back. CO2 as pollution, Guam tipping over..racist Hallmark cards..oh so many.
Tebow's Cult
Submitted by kilrod on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:17pm.
On the See BS morning show this morning they teased and introduced a segment on Tebow as about Tebow's "cult" following. Another See BS libturd cheap shot in my book.
kilrod "the Birther"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
Tebow is an attractive sports
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 4:08pm.
Tebow is an attractive sports hero; that's all. His following is no more a cult than those who idolized Michael Jordan or any number of other sports heroes. And when all is said and done, Tim Tebow has no control over our lives, nor can he force us to do anything.
It's the Cult of Obama we have to worry about. He has real power.
Alex Wagner just can't shut her yap.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:32pm.
Came across this gem this morning: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/13/msnbcs_alex_wagner_mut...
And this network keeps yelling that Fox is the voice of the Republican party, but that idiot Rage-hole says they are neutral at best?
Sure. And where do I send that bridge in New York you just bought?
Doc
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:05pm.
I'm truly thankful that I had no idea who this was before you posted. I wonder if she'd have muttered "Mohammed" if a CAIR spokeshole were speaking to her.
Just came back.....What happened?
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:42pm.
A couple weeks ago I was responding to a post here, and suddenly my browser closed and the "Windows xp 2012 virus" loaded to my computer. Had to rid my machine of it. I assumed it downloaded from this site so I blocked it for a couple weeks so I wouldn't accidentally come here before things cleared up.
Just now coming back and wanted to ask if anyone else had this happen? I'm curious if it came from this site or just a coincidence that it hit my computer while I was here.
Hi Greg, welcome back
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:46pm.
Haven't heard anyone else recently say that they'd been attacked. It happened to me quite a long time ago (I think there are worms in some of the ads), but I now use Firefox exclusively for NB, and run ad-block plus.
Glad you're all back up.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Good deal, thanks.
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:55pm.
Good deal, thanks.
Firefox
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:04pm.
I just switched to Chrome. Firefox is such a memory hog. I don't know what they did in the last couple of updates, but it basically doubled it's usage all of the sudden. I added the AdBlock Plus extension to Chrome which is working well, and a script-blocker similar to the NoScript add-on I used in Firefox. The two browsers are amazingly similar in look and feel, though Chrome uses far less resources. Just FYI for anyone interested.
Never got a virus here -that I'm aware of- though my suggestion would be a good anti-virus software. I use Norton which was free with my Comcast internet package, but AVG is an excellent, free downloadable anti-virus software for anyone looking.
Welcome back!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:03pm.
Ditto what Blonde said. I use FF with the Ad Buster plug in. I've never gotten anything bad from here....well except the nausea from seeing posts about Maher, Moore, Holder.....
GregE
Submitted by Model850 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:49pm.
I've never picked up a virus here but my ISP provides McAfee with its service. McAfee includes what it calls Site Advisor that works as an add-on to the version of FF I'm running (4.0). On many occasions McAfee will display a black banner across the top of the page with this text:
We tested this page and blocked content that comes from potentially dangerous or suspicious sites. Allow this content only if you're sure it comes from safe sites.
Whenever this banner displays I find that the BACK button on the browser no longer functions and I have to return to the main blogs page using a different method. So apparently there sometimes are some funny goings-on unrelated to the NB site itself but that come from ads (as Blonde suggested).
A new word?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:17pm.
Will this word will become a recognized English word to describe our current political situation?
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Quicker Definition
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 4:02pm.
Ineptocracy ~ Obama Administration
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Speak, girl, speak!....good
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:04pm.
Speak, girl, speak!....good dog!
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/14/dnc-chief-wasserman-shultz-democratic...
U.S. Operation Praying Mantis
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:28pm.
Obowboy, What will you do....
What Reagan did, in 9 hours.
You Didn't Build That.
⇒ Why Obama will win
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:42pm.
Certainly, I hope I'm wrong, but the more I think about it . . .
How many of us have experienced, or heard the horror stories of insurance companies whose policy it seems to be, to deny claims as a matter of principle, buckling only after much back and forth with them.
I'm afraid there are sufficient people who do indeed long for a "no questions asked" policy. It will be supremely inferior, but most Americans can't see beyond promises anyway.
I think we're going to see another 4 years of this administration.
The people want a king.
Swipe you EBT card it's free
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:57pm.
I debated about putting up this link because it is full of the F-word. Watch at your own peril. It just pisses me off that they would make a crappy rap video out of this.
Finally
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 6:54pm.
somebody is taking Obama to court over his recess appointments and it is not a bunch of gutless Republicans. The story does not mention a name but it is a right to work group. Look for one of Obama's hind tit sucking judges to throw it out saying the group does not have standing. Supreme Court here they come.
Some pure, undiluted insanity from the Grey Corpse
Submitted by Eric the Fred on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 3:08pm.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/whats-race-got-to-do-w...
It actually made me laugh out loud.
And then I felt a little sick. Once it sunk in they're actually being serious.
Holy cow! The only
Submitted by ant on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 3:28pm.
Holy cow! The only stereo-type left out is 'white men can't jump'. The left are a parody of themselves. If I were to write a farcical satire of an article I thought a liberal might write, it would never match the level of stupidity and vileness of the articles they actually do write.
"The white solution"?
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 3:38pm.
Ye gads, the NYT just goes further out on the limb before they begin to saw.
Time to suck up to those Christians again!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 8:52pm.
Ive been saying here for weeks that Obama would soon begin going to church publicly, in DC, as the campaign gets under way.
And I was right.
Suddenly, the president who stayed away because he was always concerned that he would create too much of a distraction at the church services, has gotten over his worry.
Time to dust off those halo photos...and can this be far behind?
By Easter he will be preaching in black churches again.
Huntsman's Out, Endorses Romney
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:11pm.
How odd, the UK Daily Mail has it first.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Too funny. LOL
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:59am.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/nycsouthpaw/the-new-birthers-ask-are-newt-and-mi...