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Pretty much a ho hum sports
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:07am.
Pretty much a ho hum sports weekend unless you like hockey or thug ball. The road to the college series has started with the regionals. I'll watch some of that. Interested to see if South Carolina can make it 3 in a row. I've got a 20 year old austic nephew that lives in Lexington, SC. He loves anything Gamecocks, Can't understand why. He will be at the games in Columbia come hell or high water.
NASCAR at Dover. I'll watch the start and the end. I DVRed the Hatfields and McCoys just for tomorrow.
Not much to talk about sports wise so I'll get back to my politics.
Beautiful Carolina Blue sky. Temps in the upper 70's low 80's. The wife is going to the beach on Camp Lejeune with the grandkids so I have it pretty much to myself.
Go LSU,
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:16am.
Say Rick, I see both NC teams are 1 seeds. Think either will make it?
I am sure the Tarheels can
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 12:14pm.
I am sure the Tarheels can get through to the next round. No sure at the Wusspack.
LSU had great season but seemed to falter there near the end. I hadn't heard much about SC or FL until the SEC tournament.
Going to my granddaughter's Christening tomorrow.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:42am.
My three year old granddaughter is being Christened tomorrow. Will be a very special event, because she has finally recovered from a series of surgeries on her lungs and heart. She chose her own baptismal name and Mrs. Sam and I bought her a beautiful little gold cross pendant for the event. I get to play the proud grandpa again--a role that never gets old!
Congratulations!
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:45am.
Have a wonderful time with your granddaughter on her special day.
Enjoy it. Before you know it
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 12:12pm.
Enjoy it. Before you know it she will be graduating from HS. My grandson graduated from HS last week. Seems like only yesterday when I went to the hospital to meet him for the first time.
Congratulations!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 1:20pm.
As a proud Grandpa myself, I can think of nothing more enjoyable than doing anything at all with my Granddaughter.
If you live in Vegas and have a CCW permit, be careful
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 12:25pm.
Because this could happen to you.
Unbelievable.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
From the paper I read seems
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 1:07pm.
From the paper I read seems to me the store manager needs to be held responsible. This is case where I see it being ok to sue the cops and the store.
Dave
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 1:53pm.
I never heard about this before. Frightening to say the least! Especially so with the high caliber of individuals working for LVMPD.
Wow, Dave - that's heavy!!!
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:15pm.
Wow, Dave - that's heavy!!! And, as you said, 'unbelievable'..............but it seems that 'unbelievable' continues to become
'believable' more and more these days, in so many different aspects of our society.
This story, unfortunatly, won't get much airplay - the guy was white, an ex-military man, and a successful private citizen. That'll get him no respect or sympathy in this era of 'unbelievablity'...........
Now, if he was a gangsta wearing a hood trying to steal something............................
Seems there were so many witnesses,
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:24pm.
How does the corner and officers get around that? Where is the civil case of wrongful death?
Boudin, there were many witnesses.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:20pm.
Some of the testimony is here and here .
Much like anything else, there are two sides to the story being told.
I saw that on Worldnet Daily
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:15pm.
Couldn't believe what I was reading. The idiocy of some people is astounding, and now an innocent man is dead because of such an asinine series of events.
Saw this on HotAir:
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 1:00pm.
Obamamerica.
Uh. Well. I don't know. I guess when you you get "Julia", this can't be much of a surprise. I'm embarassed for them over there. Their marketing is obviously being led by college freshman from Chicago U. Or the SEIU -who's collective IQ is somewhere south of 50.
Need to work on a 64 oz
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 1:09pm.
Need to work on a 64 oz supersized Bloomberg Kool-aid because the stores will still be allowed to sell that.
That's a pretty pathetic
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:22pm.
That's a pretty pathetic list, BK, but as you well know, there are a lot of people with double-digit IQ's, and even some with triple-digit IQ's, who will buy into this horse manure - they did it once, and they'll do it again.
I especially got a laugh out of the 'transparacy' page.
Just one thing missing BK
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:39pm.
A single fact!
Oh know
Yikes, this guy seems like a creep
Good grief
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:18pm.
Propaganda everywhere.
Gov
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:54pm.
Subsidized even
Oh, goody.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:30pm.
Baracka lowered the tax on Hybrid cars? This is, truly, amateur hour at the WH.
Built health centers for Veterans? And then tried to raise their Tri-Care premiums.
Created "Cash for Clunkers" to take perfectly good used cars to the crusher.
"Lied to the world about war casualties"? Increased the casualty count in Afghanistan.
"Created 3 Million jobs"? B as in Bovine, S as in Scatology.
"Believes in the torture of prisoners of war"? There are no POW's, there are "detainees" and "terrorists" and those who engage in "overseas contingency operations" against the U.S.
"Provided Unprecedented Transparency And Accountability Through Recovery.gov". Can you say Fast and Furious?.
Here in NC the state runs the
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 1:23pm.
Here in NC the state runs the liquor stores. They are closed on Sundays and all state holidays. The Commiecrats want them to open on Labor Day, start of the Commiecrat convention. I know one must be lite to have to listen to the crap coming out of their mouths. I say go for it. Maybe they'll get drunk enough to vote out the Chicago Jesus and put Bite Me in.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/31/3284108/party-over-here-meck...
"I'm, the one we've been waiting for..."
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:19pm.
I've got a great campaign motto for Obama: "I'm the one we've been waiting for; to get the hell out of the White House!"
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:23pm.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise is going to be making its final trip soon. I am looking to cycle up to Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island which has a wonderful view of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge and take video and pictures of the shuttle going under the bridge and into the harbor.
A few years ago I was on the bus heading over the Verrazano heading into work when I looked out and saw the Concorde being barged to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Sadly I did not have a camera on me so the only image I have is the one in my mind.
Not going to happen this time (unless the weather turns fugly). :-)
There's something you don't see every day.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:42pm.
"I am looking to cycle up to Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island which has a wonderful view of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge and take video and pictures of the shuttle going under the bridge and into the harbor."
There's something you don't see every day. An aircraft carrier with a space shuttle! I'd love to see the catapult they needed to launch that sucker! Who's bright idea was that? That's like putting an ICBM on display in a Civil War era fort.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
By the way, NewsBusters...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 3:07pm.
By the way, NewsBusters, how's that Disqus transition coming along?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Jeez, Cobra - did you HAVE to
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 6:55pm.
Jeez, Cobra - did you HAVE to ask???? I was hopin' (Obamaspeak) that they'd just drop it, and stick with what they have, because I probably won't be around if they succeed.
Our local newspaper, the New
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 3:39pm.
Our local newspaper, the New Bern Sun Journal, along with all the other Freedom Communications papers in NC and FL have been sold to Halifax Media. Does anyone know anything about Halifax Media? The Freedom papers have been libertarian in their editorials. I don't know if that will carry on. I know that people are no going to put up with a liberal rag in the towns where Freedom now owns papers in NC.
http://www.newbernsj.com/news/irvine-106899-journal-papers.html
Rick
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 8:57am.
If it's the same deal as ours, some Warren Buffet company has bought all the small, weekly papers in Southwest Virginia. They were already owned by another group. We stopped getting it when they changed the want ads to a regional format and you never knew where a phone number was from. Oh, and it was always about what the hippies were doing too.
Buffet bought the Hickory
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 11:28am.
Buffet bought the Hickory Daily Record, my hometown paper. They also bought the Statesville Landmark. Those towns are not really that far from you so they must be the in with the SW VA papers.
When I said hometown I acctualy grew up in a small town south of there. It was the only daily in the county. Newton had one published on Mon, Wed, and Fri. The edtiroial content of both were very conservative.
Fauxcahontas caught flipping
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 3:56pm.
Elizabeth Warren was caught flipping—NOT flip-flopping—by the Boston Herald. And just what was she flipping? Not her wig, or Scott Brown off.
No. Back in Oklahoma CIty in the 90s, she flipped houses, buying foreclosed homes and selling them in short order for big profits. And she nepotinized it too, lending money to relatives for them to do the same.
Read it and grin:
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1061136010
Tu quoque, where is thy sting! Ouch ouch owwww.
They tried to interview her at her home in Boston
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 4:09pm.
but she was so taken aback by the whole controversy, she could hardly offer a retort. The Herald was able to snatch a photo though.
Hey!!! She's just keeping up
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 6:59pm.
Hey!!! She's just keeping up with an old Cherokee tradition of confiscating wigwams from the Indians on the poor side of the encampment, bringing them to the nicer area (down by the river, or on a hillside with a nice view, sprucing them up a little bit with some paint and leather braiding, and then selling them to the wealthier Cherokees for a nice tidy profit!!!
It's in her blood, if the contentions about her family's role
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:39pm.
in the Trail of Tears for the Cherokees is accurate.
Her family helped to kick Cherokees off their land in the Georgia mountains and send them packing to the reservations in Oklahoma.
Profiteering the expense of others would just be part of her "heritage" if so.
I wonder why she don't claim
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 11:30am.
I wonder why she don't claim heritage in the Eastern Band of Cherokees. Seems like most people I talk with have some indian blood. Lot of those are Lumbees. I know I have some Cherokee and can prove it.
One of the sites I use for
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 6:22pm.
One of the sites I use for jobs info seems to have gone down. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
It seemed to be a good site and until recently as last night has been up. Did Obama shut it down?
FL to Holder: Blow it out your whazoo
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:26pm.
Glad to see them standing up to the bully and he is a bully using his office to bully states. Jan 20 2013 can't get here fast enough. This POS has to go
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/06/02/florida-tells-holder-to-blow-it-out-h...
Noticed Obama is backstabbing the Brits again.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:35pm.
Interesting.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100162100/the-obama-admin...
Obama really does not like the British for some reason, despite all of the kissy-face with Cameron.
Could Be From
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:58pm.
Obama's grandfather imprisoned and tortured by the Brits in Kenya. Could be Obama views Whites as Imperial Colonialists deserving of being taken down a peg or two.
In the end, I don't care what the ahole's reasoning is. He and the minions can take every "O" key from keyboards and telephones if it pleases his highness. I just want his fundamental change anti-American ass out of the White House by midnight January 20, 2013.
Not interested in busting the Logan Act breakers?
Submitted by lrgon on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 7:57pm.
They gather in secret to plan our lives for us. They do this all with a veil of protection provided by the Department of Justice and the presidency. The people's congress is fast asleep while the movers and shakers of high finance, media, political heavy weights hob nob a stone's throw away from the nation's capital.
"Oh, don't listen to those conspiracists" goes the neo and liberal conned chorus. "My, my there is nothing to see here. There's no news to bust in Cantilly, so why even mention that the world's power brokers have gathered at another yearly Bilderberg Conference," goes the refrain. "Yawn, yawn." And who is it that lectures us about Neville Chamberlain? That one went over your head, huh?
But they are there, or here, in Chantilly, Virginia. They gather each year for the elite Bilderberg conference this weekend. The growing number of activists from across the political spectrum are arguing that U.S. citizens attending the secret meeting committing a felony by violating the Logan Act.
"The Logan what?"
At the Bilderberg confab will be media magnates, titans of industry, top bankers, influential politicians, royalty and nobility, prominent academics, military and “intelligence” chieftains, and many other members of the so-called “global elite,” claims this website:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/11590-us-bilderberg-atte...
Who do you know is on the guest list? The names will be omitted to protect the guilty. But bilderbergist tell us that 50 Americans will attend and they are all very influential. Europe will have representation and China too.
But, hey, if News Busters doesn't see a story here who am I to bust a nut trying to get them to send a reporter over to Chantilly to see if they'll let the NB reporter in to see what the fuss is all about.
Oh., look, the Birch Society meeting
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 8:05pm.
issued their talking points.
Huh? Newsbusters has reporters?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 8:43am.
This will come as news to Bozell... he thinks NB is a blog.
Guess who?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 8:24pm.
Guess who's sitting in for Piers Plowman at CNN? You won't like it.
http://snipurl.com/23s4ure
Remember the worry about Ashcroft and storm troopers?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 8:30pm.
How about the dreaded Patriot Act and all the Big Brother spying on citizens?
Damn those "lawn-order" conservatives! Except it's liberals who do the real meddling—and I don't mean Mayor Mike Bloomnanny. No. Read this tactic being used by a liberal group in Wisconsin to "name and shame" voters.
http://snipurl.com/23s4wlw
When liberals bring up their gripes about civility, intrusiveness, and intimidation, tell 'em about this stunt.
The Wal-Mart camp conspiracy really had me laughing.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 9:15pm.
Do you remember the Troofers, DUmmies and other left-wing conspiracy theorists (with unadjusted meds, yet!) had the 2008 election being cancelled and all of the lefties being rounded up for "re-education" at Wal-Marts? Why Wal-Mart would want them stinking up their stores is beyond logic (as are most conspiracy theories), but it remained a joke amongst psychiatrists as the "ultimate retail therapy".
Unbeknownst to them...
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 10:44pm.
.........they have just openly revealed the real reason they want to do away with secret ballots during unionization voting.
The problem is, too many people pay so little attention to anything, or care when it's explained to them.
➚ This pic is on Drudge
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:40pm.
But why is Green Lantern cropped out of the bottom of the frame?
Apparantly the Green Lantern
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 2:31am.
Apparantly the Green Lantern is changing his name to the Hershey Halogen - if you catch my drift.
You know, cartoon characters aren't real...............but we ARE talking about the type of people who BANNED 'Joe Camel' from every showing up in the USA again!!!!
More Obama Narcissism
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 7:51am.
Moonbattery has it right: Disgrace of the Day
Disgusting. Sickening.
And all too believable.
There is NOTHING this creature won't exploite
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 8:59am.
For personal gain.
Not only that, mb
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 10:19am.
I read an article the other day....apparently the Secret Service had the Vietnam Memorial cordoned off for about seven hours on Memorial Day, so The Won could could have his little photo op (the only thing he finds the military useful for, I might add....in his own words, see #141 on "the list").
Of course, his self-aggrandizing pre-emption of The Memorial prevented thousands of people who had a real reason to be there from commemorating their friends and loved ones. All for the sake of a photo op.
Worst. President. Ever.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
His photo op ought to make
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 11:20am.
His photo op ought to make anyone who has a loved one or friend's name on that wall puke. I have 2 cousins, 3 friends and a Marine from my home town whose sister was in my class throughout school.
Jonn over at This ain't hell summed it up best, How to gag a maggot
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=30214
And what was Obama doing...
Submitted by c5then on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 2:19pm.
while some of those heros were dying? He was smoking hash in his beloved Choom Gang.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
After closing the Wall down for his photo-op,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 8:11pm.
Baracka jetted off to Chi-town for 6 fund raisers. one hosted by Marilyn Katz, rabid anti-war protester, friend of Baracka and Billy Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and member of the SDS.
What was it Jer said, we should stop our attacks on Baracka, at least for the Memorial Day holiday? I think not,.
Old and Busted: If I don't
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 8:05am.
Old and Busted: If I don't have this done in three years,
New and Hot:: We knew the road to recovery would not be easy. We knew it would take time.
IOW: That explanation is no longer operative.
And now La*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 11:29am.
Louisiana has joined 18 other states that have passed legislation to limit abortion to 20 weeks. The bill was passed in the house almost unanimously. The Senate is expected to also pass the bill on Monday. Here is interesting point. No major media outlets in La has mentioned the passage of this bill on Friday. The only media source I could find about this bill was at.......Huffington Post....LOL
The money quote was from the head of PP in La and she states......."Doctors, not politicians, should be deciding women's health issues'..... Interesting that an executive who makes big bucks off a business that makes its money off of "womens' health" would never want restrictions on" womens health" that would affect HER income...
I wonder if the believes there is a God now?
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 12:32pm.
Richard Dawson has died
http://news.yahoo.com/family-feud-tv-host-richard-dawson-died-142027262....
Talk about liberal!!
Submitted by creekrat on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 12:02am.
My wife and I are in Seattle for the weekend.....Lord have mercy on us. Liberalism is evident everywhere you go. Even our "underground" guide could not resist taking a shot at the Tea Party. even though he admitted to being a trust fund guy. One of the bicycle jitneys sported "9/11 was an inside job" There are some STRANGE folks here. Also, never seen so many homeless, such a beautiful city, but so frustrating in so many ways.