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July 1, 2009
Open Thread

Posted by Van Helsing at July 1, 2009 8:32 AM
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Good news! We'll be able to pay for all those new shovel-ready projects on the highways, by installing little devices in our cars that can track every inch we drive, and then taxing us on the distance
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 8:53 AM
Well, now we know how the Dems got cap and trade through. A $3.5 BILLION dollar bribe.
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 8:56 AM
Guess who's been put in charge of reconciliation in Iraq? Obviously, they'd want to choose someone with very discrete communication skills, and the ability to navigate subtle social, political and ideological issues with a deft, diplomatic hand. That'd be .... Joe Biden
Guess that whole sheriff in charge of the Stimulus thing didn't work out too well.
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 9:01 AM
So Obama's health care plan is to tell old people to take pain meds instead of wasting our money on operations.
Today, Obama's FDA recommended taking pain medications off the market.
So where's that leave us? Old people should go off and die in pain, I guess.
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 9:11 AM
Mega,
That 3.5 billion bribe was for one vote! I wonder how much more of this kind of thing is in that monstrosity. Don't forget to contact your senators to try to stop this piece of shit legislation.
Posted by: Stephana at July 1, 2009 9:38 AM
"Russian" voice:
"In whore house, you pay whore and you screw her. In Washington, you pay politition and she screws YOU."
Posted by: KHarn at July 1, 2009 10:00 AM
Are Buckeyes as stupid as Gophers? We should find out soon. Alec Baldwin is considering a run for governor of Ohio. As Jonah Goldberg has noted, "Alec Baldwin is too dumb to be a spell-checker at an M&M factory." Considering the current Demonrat governor harbored a convicted pedophile/sex offender on his staff, Alec Baldwin might actually be a step up.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 1, 2009 10:04 AM
Ohio??? I thought he only left Hollywood to fly over to NYC. My family lives there; what's he pestering them for?
Posted by: Karin at July 1, 2009 10:32 AM
So true its not even funny.
Posted by: Steve at July 1, 2009 10:40 AM
Thanks for the "FDA" post, mega. Here's my nickel's worth.
The guv-ah-munt nanny staters are at it again. People are not smart enough to read labels and medicate themselves accordingly so the MAJORITY of us suffer for what the MINORITY of us do. How pathetic. People fall off of step ladders because they stand on the top step and injure or kill themselves. This is despite warning labels on the ladders that say do not stand on the top step. So does that mean removing all step ladders from stores and no longer selling them?
Mother of Pearl, what is wrong with people? This is typical "snapshot journalism." Weak, poorly researched stories using few if any statisitics, facts and logic and not making a fair comparison to other types of medicines or accidents. I had a cold two weeks ago and took store brand Tylenol cold medicine one for daytime, one for nighttime. I read and followed the label directions and even took less than the recommened amount. It still relieved my cold symptoms and helped me through the day and evening. I'm still here.
If common sense pills were sold in non-prescription form, the warning would probably say "don't take any more than the recommened amount, it may make you smarter."
And don't be fooled that Advil or Aleve are safe from this sort of nonsense. All it takes is for someone to take eight Advils several times a day for a week, on an empty stomach and then die of a gastrointestinal hemmorage, or have cardiac or kidney problems because that person isn't smart enough to read and follow label directions. It will be goodbye Advil or Aleve.
Good grief, get the government out of my medicine cabinet.
Posted by: Graycat at July 1, 2009 10:50 AM
Senator James Inhofe calls Senator Stewart Smalley the clown from Minnesota. I will be so disappointed if he apologizes for this.
Posted by: V the K at July 1, 2009 11:00 AM
Moonbat gets burned walking into a fire at the 'Burning Man' moonbat festival, sues, loses. Maybe he should have just poured McDonald's coffee on himself and sued for that. Those lawsuits usually turn out better for the dimwit plaintiff.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 1, 2009 11:03 AM
Liberals are the biggist bunch of biggots around at times
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at July 1, 2009 11:34 AM
If moonbats could figure out how to pull it off they'd have starlings flocking with robins, orca swimming with seals, and rats mating with tigers.
Posted by: Jimbo at July 1, 2009 11:58 AM
"Today, Obama's FDA recommended taking pain medications off the market."
Did you read all the way through your own cited article? The last line reads: "The panel voted 24-13 to keep the products on the market."
Posted by: Anonymous at July 1, 2009 12:22 PM
It's the fact that the subject is coming up at all that's the issue, not whether cooler heads prevailed.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at July 1, 2009 12:55 PM
James Inhofe is my latest hero. President Inhofe? Well, I like the way he's talking, anyway. Calling that Stuart Smalley asshole a clown insults clowns, but it's well deserved. He has a history of being a "political humorist" as long as his guys are in charge, but otherwise turns inside out with drooling rage. Absolutely feral beast material. I have to wonder about the live people that voted for him legitimately.
Now, Burning Man, as I see it, is more of a libertarian phenomenon, not so much a moonbat one. I've always wanted to go. What sickens me is this risk-aversity the moonbats foster in us. Safe paths into a collapsing bonfire? Indeed.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at July 1, 2009 1:07 PM
Anon, the President's health care philosophy as he himself describes it is, basically, don't be giving us your sh*t about hip pain, old man, pop a pill and hush up. That 24-13 vote by the FDA means they are not close to but also not far from pulling the pain meds off the market. Do the math.
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 1:35 PM
Here's a very nice picture of a beautiful Republican lady:
http://media.bonnint.net/seattle/2/232/23272.jpg
Pretty easy on the eye. And look at that, no tattoos or pieces of metal stuck on her face.
Posted by: Kevin R at July 1, 2009 3:12 PM
That which afflicts many of the Anonymous posters here has been described.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17522_6-new-personality-disorders-caused-by-internet.html
Posted by: Viking04 at July 1, 2009 3:31 PM
Posted by: nancz at July 1, 2009 3:58 PM
Pat Condell strikes again: BAN THE BURKA!!!
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 5:08 PM
It's almost July 4th everybody. Another U.S. holiday. We all know what's been happening on every U.S. holiday since The One was crowned. Memorial Day was 'bright light' and a barrage of missile tests. Easter was "glorious satellite launch playing revolutionary tunes." Does anybody know where Waldo is? Or, what he is up to ?
Any updates on the status of the S.S. John McCain?
Posted by: batman at July 1, 2009 7:10 PM
Stuart Smalley Goes to Washington
Minnesotans, this is your new senator!
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Truer words were never spake nor writ than that cynical observation of H.L. Mencken. The good citizens and the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota confirmed their truth by electing and confirming Al Franken, aka Stuart Smalley, as United States Senator.
I had hoped and thought it was some judicial mistake or a reporting error but then I read it on USA Today so, regrettably, it can’t be an error even if the ruling was a gross miscarriage of justice: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-30-franken-senate_N.htm?csp=34
He’s just what the senate and the nation need in these critical times, an unfunny clown to complement the executive branch’s entry for the nation’s most outstanding circus performer, Joe Biden.
Lackluster, talentless comic, tireless abuser of American values, failed left wing radio talk show host Franken will represent Minnesota for the next six, long years in the hallowed hall of the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” thereby proving that H.L. Mencken was indeed a prophet in his own land.
When Democrat Franken first announced he would make a run for the senate seat then held by Republican Norm Coleman, it was widely assumed to be another joke by the media-hungry Franken but it turned out he was being serious for a change.
It was in fact a joke, a bitter jest that he would think himself qualified to be a United States Senator and believe Minnesotans would elect him.
The joke appears to be on us scoffers following months of recounts, protests, and Democratic Party chicanery that would have made Chicagoans proud. Their fellow midwesterners showed that dirty politics and ballot stuffing were not exclusive to Illinois and that the ”Land of 10,000 Lakes” could be as dumb and corrupt as they.
The Minnesota fraud that blossomed and grew exponentially was detected as early as November 8th, four days after voters cast their ballots: http://www.poligazette.com/2008/11/08/evidence-of-election-fraud-mounts-in-minnesota/. . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Posted by: Berlet98 at July 1, 2009 9:08 PM
Now - this is very interesting.
Conseratives to go 'Galt' on July 30th........
Mass Protest......Extention of the Tea Party.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Conservatives-to-go-Galt-on-July-30-protest-infensifies
Posted by: Oiao at July 1, 2009 9:49 PM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at July 1, 2009 11:07 PM
While California considers issuing IOU's to the suckers who it owes money and faces crippling unemployment and loss of middle class taxpayers, it's important to remember not all states are basket cases. Half of all new jobs created in the USA in the last decade were created in a single state, Texas. Texas is also running a balanced budget with $9 Billion in the bank. Governor Rick Perry explains the Texas way.
“You keep your taxes low, keep your regulatory climate fair and predictable, a legal system that doesn’t allow for oversuing, and keep a skilled workforce in place. Then get out of the way and let the private sector do what the private sector does best and create jobs and wealth.”
Or, you can do things the Obama/Schwarzeneggar way: Raise taxes high, regulate the hell out of everything in sight, bend over for the plaintiff's bar, siphon off billions in taxes for unions and other special interest groups, drive skilled workers to lower tax states, and otherwise meddle in the economy in every conceivable way.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 2, 2009 4:35 AM
M'Chel Obama enjoys the rare privilege of Sunday shopping in France. Stores are supposed to close on Sundays, but not for the consort of the Obamessiah.
BTW: Does Michelle Obama have a penis?.
(France, by the way, is cutting taxes to encourage economic growth, which is possible because France is led by a free-market capitalist, not a neo-Marxist community organizer.)
Posted by: V the K at July 2, 2009 7:19 AM
"It's the fact that the subject is coming up at all"
We'll make sure not to think about anything except those issues approved by you. Can we get a list?
"but also not far from pulling the pain meds off the market."
Can you imagine? I can't. Think of all those moonbats out there with hangovers to cure. They couldn't ever be for something like this.
"Does Michelle Obama have a penis?"
Do you?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 2, 2009 2:52 PM

