tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4073601742824746914..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: In the secrecy of the poll booth Obama will lose because of Joe effin BidenDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5943433525360188672012-05-15T12:03:10.454-04:002012-05-15T12:03:10.454-04:00.
In the absence of a Supreme Court decision, it ....<br /><br />In the absence of a Supreme Court decision, it will be the center that decides this issue. It may be true the center doesn't give a 'rat's ass' about this debate but only until such time as they are asked to vote on it. <br /><br />The extremes are basically pissing in the wind without that vote. So far, 37 states have come out against with 30 some passing amendments to that effect. That trend can change over time but only if there is a shift in the center.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18795474080738667012012-05-15T11:30:47.603-04:002012-05-15T11:30:47.603-04:00I am tired of this subject but christ almighty ......I am tired of this subject but christ almighty ...<br /><br /><i>you fixate way too much on religion</i><br /><br /><i>the religious right like the gay-activists of the left drive the headlines</i><br /><br />I am "fixating" on the groups that "drive the headlines" whom I have already described as "out there." "I" am hardly the center of this universe in addressing their noise.<br /><br />I noted that marriage is a multifaceted concept that includes religion as one facet.<br /><br />I offered a thesis that the rhetorical "heat" is driven more by religious considerations than State considerations, the truth of which appears to be strongly correlated with age, as previously noted.<br /><br />You're the one who can't drop it.<br /><br />Which makes one wonder.<br /><br />The so-called 'religious right' or 'evangelical conservatives' gaining too much traction within the Republican Party.<br /><br /><i>but in the end, it will likely be the center that decides this debate.</i><br /><br />Bull. The "center" doesn't give a rat's ass about "this debate" - as I have noted by addressing the points of the extremists who "are" driving "this debate."Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33410377572695872892012-05-15T02:05:01.801-04:002012-05-15T02:05:01.801-04:00Maybe that’s why, instead of highlighting the stim...<i>Maybe that’s why, instead of highlighting the stimulus (or Obamacare or much of anything else in his tenure as president), Obama told his supporters in the partially filled basketball arena in Columbus, “If people ask you what this campaign is about, you tell them it’s still about hope. You tell them it’s still about change.”<br /><br />It’s probably also why he added, “I’m asking you to keep believing in me. I told you in 2008 that I wasn’t a perfect man, and I would never be a perfect president.”<br /><br />...<br /><br />That may be why Obama is running again. But that’s no reason for us to be foolish enough to elect him again.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9781873723121116422012-05-15T00:02:16.796-04:002012-05-15T00:02:16.796-04:00Facebook still hasn't proven that its $3.7 bil...<i>Facebook still hasn't proven that its $3.7 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profits last year deserve such a lofty valuation. Last month, the company disclosed that its first-quarter profit and revenue declined from the fourth quarter of 2011, which it attributed to seasonal trends in advertising.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Michael Belanger, a lawyer from Oklahoma City, invests his personal money in the stock market. But he will be skipping Facebook's IPO because he thinks its valuation is totally "out of whack."<br /><br />Scott Schermerhorn, chief investment officer of investment-management firm Granite Investment Advisors, says the hype around Facebook's IPO is going to keep his firm away. "It's a cult stock," he says.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68774968978664050152012-05-14T23:52:35.384-04:002012-05-14T23:52:35.384-04:00Like the poo machine, Bob. Thanks!Like the poo machine, Bob. Thanks!samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23325441793294378722012-05-14T23:45:22.007-04:002012-05-14T23:45:22.007-04:00Buy Romney on Intrade now.
bBuy Romney on Intrade now.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27002970807092056092012-05-14T23:43:58.890-04:002012-05-14T23:43:58.890-04:00This article agrees with Duece -
It’s mushroom cl...This article agrees with Duece -<br /><br /><i>It’s mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud for President Obama.<br /><br />We’ll never see the internal polls, but the externals are awful: Down 8 percent to challenger Mitt Romney in the latest poll, with fewer than 180 days; disillusioned college kids, independents and the white working-class fleeing in droves. Even the barber-shops boys are mocking their Man. Makes sense that in Chicagoland, Obama Central, the internals they’re seeing are even worse. </i><br /><br />Except that the writer thinks the whole Biden thing was a set-up. Nevertheless, it's a disaster.<br /><br />It’s mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud for President Obama.<br /><br />Desperation days for Obama -<br /><br />http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/13/curl-team-obama-panics-and-its-only-may/<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27836978360958988602012-05-14T23:22:08.643-04:002012-05-14T23:22:08.643-04:00Just for Sam -
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...Just for Sam -<br /><br />http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/14/11694275-poo-machine-attracts-crowds-at-australias-subversive-adult-disneyland?chromedomain=photoblog<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42777625640188040152012-05-14T22:25:42.585-04:002012-05-14T22:25:42.585-04:00.
Evidently, love at first sight LT.
The lady ju....<br /><br />Evidently, love at first sight LT.<br /><br />The lady just wasn't here for very long. I don't think you can necessariily go by that picture she used as an avatar. Maybe you were smitten by the fact she was a professional.<br /><br />By professional, I meant lawyer, of course.<br /><br />.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47495868853846826972012-05-14T22:09:46.185-04:002012-05-14T22:09:46.185-04:00.
If I might offer an observation, you fixate way....<br /><br />If I might offer an observation, you fixate way too much on religion.<br /><br />There are few religious oriented people on this blog and the most religiously oriented of them here haven't actually taken part in this debate.<br /><br />In this country, the religious right like the gay-activists of the left drive the headlines, but in the end, it will likely be the center that decides this debate.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12396640548593923682012-05-14T22:01:50.051-04:002012-05-14T22:01:50.051-04:00Well, ok, it's closer to 7,700 miles.Well, ok, it's closer to 7,700 miles.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43257728594254848132012-05-14T21:57:02.820-04:002012-05-14T21:57:02.820-04:00Go Deb!
Deb Fischer, 61, a rancher and state sena...Go Deb!<br /><br /><i>Deb Fischer, 61, a rancher and state senator who is seeking statewide office for the first time, appears to be gaining ground on Mr. Bruning, 43. Her momentum has not gone unnoticed at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, where aides have quietly started to argue that she would be a strong challenger to Mr. Kerrey in a presidential election year in which Republican turnout is likely to be strong in this deeply conservative state.</i><br /><br />http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/insurgent-threatens-republican-plans-in-nebraska-senate-primary/<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49547778129765792272012-05-14T21:53:28.240-04:002012-05-14T21:53:28.240-04:00.
Exactly the point.
It's easy for you to sa....<br /><br />Exactly the point.<br /><br />It's easy for you to say 'call it what you want' but that sentiment is unacceptable to the activists in the gay community. That's why it is not a quibble. It's not the legal rights associated with marriage since they can get those in a civil union, it's not the word itself, it's the concept and the legitimacy associciated with the word they seek. They want their union to be considered equivalent to heterosexual marriage in hopes that it will grant more acceptance to their alternative lifestyle.<br /><br />I do not doubt you are right regarding meanings changing over time though this one has had a good long run. If you think that is a good thing, well... I personally think it is reflective of an overall coursening of our society, but that's just me.<br /><br />Divorce? Not sure what what you're talking about. Sounds vaguely religious.<br /><br />You know or should know, I'm not religious. If you follow the blog closely, you know I am big on individual rights and worry about those we lost or are rapidly losing under the last two presidents. I would say I am not anti-gay or that I don't discriminate but that sounds vaguely like an apology and I frankly don't give a shit if people think I am a bigot, racist, anti-semite, or gay-basher. The only thing I ask is if they accuse me of it they offer concrete examples backing up those comments.<br /><br />What does bother me is bullshit, propaganda, euphemisms, and lies regardless of the justification that is offered for them. <br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11952760993412500062012-05-14T21:51:59.000-04:002012-05-14T21:51:59.000-04:00And on their way back, they stopped to pick up som...And on their way back, they stopped to pick up some supplies they had left at Asotin, and bumped into a peaceful Nez Perce named Humpsillitswooskooki or whatever his name was, just back from a war party to the south against the Shoshone, with a big necklace of human scalps about his neck. Part of the year was set aside for trading with the Shoshone, and a part for mutual killing of one another. This had been going on I think since the time they mastered the ponies. Like the Aryans, and the Sioux, when they got the horse, they got fierce. And besides, catching salmon does get boring when you do too much of it. After the ponies, they were into it with the Blackfeet in Montana as well.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52651122885913011602012-05-14T21:49:10.331-04:002012-05-14T21:49:10.331-04:00stick with history, foreign policy, and energy
An...<i>stick with history, foreign policy, and energy</i><br /><br />And nary a "faux intellectual" within spitting distance of that crowd.<br /><br />Movie time.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71210695357456732072012-05-14T21:42:14.817-04:002012-05-14T21:42:14.817-04:00Idaho itself is 8,000 miles across, and they came ...Idaho itself is 8,000 miles across, and they came right through here, down the Clearwater and Snake; the total river miles of those two is over 20,000 miles. And that still left the Columbia to navigate.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43110691541130166142012-05-14T21:40:09.653-04:002012-05-14T21:40:09.653-04:00LT: constant whining about how put-upon they feel...LT: constant whining about how put-upon they feel because the "image" of the Left (Obama) is so hip/cool while the Right can't seem to crawl out of its cave network, from a marketing perspective. On a too frequent schedule, the BC crowd goes into this teenage girl angst "will I ever be loved" by the one that matters? <br /><br />Really, with that kind of attitude. Probably not.<br /><br />(I suspect secret frustration that Obama so effortlessly plays the Cult of Personality to his advantage, which he does. The Republicans have some work to do. Unfortunately they've decided to just buy their way back in - witness the remarkably one-sided money flows being funneled through the Koch organizations - hundreds of millions compared to tens of millions. Questions of policy - aside from "Less Government Now" don't seem to interest them in the slightest, which explains, imo, why the electorate is conflicted. One reason.)<br /><br />BC is best when they stay out of the social stuff and stick with history, foreign policy, and energy. They don't have the psychological reach to stray too far.<br /><br />Which is maybe what they're moaning about. I really don't know. Anyway enough of that.<br /><br />I'm going to watch a movie.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8139151692407600882012-05-14T21:32:20.566-04:002012-05-14T21:32:20.566-04:00"...crossing 8,000 miles of newly purchased U..."...<em>crossing <strong>8,000</strong> miles of newly purchased U.S. territory, to the mouth of the Columbia River.</em><br /><br />Damn! Missouri is one helluva wide state! It's only bout 1600 hunert mi from home in CA to mom's house in NW Arkansas. That makes Missouri easily over 5,000 mi wide!linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15012505843839406042012-05-14T21:23:00.177-04:002012-05-14T21:23:00.177-04:00Max, you're just too cerebral fer me.
Where&#...Max, you're just too cerebral fer me.<br /><br />Where'd the rat go?<br /><br />Say, talkin' about days gone by, has anybody heard from my old gal pal Stella lately? There's a woman I'd like to take fishin'.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54181340495692856262012-05-14T21:02:14.537-04:002012-05-14T21:02:14.537-04:00And if you think form has not overtaken function t...And if you think form has not overtaken function take a gander of BC's latest.<br /><br />It's the esthetics, stupid. <br /><br />The Left has it.<br /><br />The Right doesn't.<br /><br />Cry me a River.<br /><br />The Whine Factor in this election is already intolerable.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17618152859519879752012-05-14T20:33:05.057-04:002012-05-14T20:33:05.057-04:00Let's ramp it up a notch.
If one were to spec...Let's ramp it up a notch.<br /><br />If one were to speculate about the heat generated by the gay marriage debate, one might suggest that the real target behind the rhetorical bombast is "sex for pleasure" which is all that gays do. It also explains a lot of the opposition to birth control. Birth control neatly sliced off pleasure from procreation. Slut! (Always the Temptress.) God's Plan is being violated by grandiloquent visions of man as a Decider, in control of his Fate.<br /><br />The ultimate in decadence.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47148372845212008332012-05-14T20:12:27.174-04:002012-05-14T20:12:27.174-04:00On this day in 1804, the Lewis and Clark expeditio...On this day in 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition started their journey from a camp near present-day Hartford, Ill., crossing 8,000 miles of newly purchased U.S. territory, to the mouth of the Columbia River.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6299448251115919252012-05-14T20:10:36.460-04:002012-05-14T20:10:36.460-04:00It's been a big deal in the Evangelical Luther...It's been a big deal in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. So big it was, is, threatening to split the congregation. Don't know what the current status of the discussions are, but with the faithful becoming fewer each year, it's not exactly a great way to grow the church.<br /><br />I think if I recall correctly, it was Dominic Crossan, who has a high opinion of himself, who made a passable argument that St. Paul was a queer.<br /><br />Jesus never touched the subject.<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26570397388970855782012-05-14T20:03:58.105-04:002012-05-14T20:03:58.105-04:00Exit 132 off Interstate 29 in Brookings, South Dak...<i>Exit 132 off Interstate 29 in Brookings, South Dakota, offers two possibilities. A right turn will take drivers through miles of farms, flatland that stretches to the horizon, cut up into grids by country roads and picturesque barns—a scenic route to nowhere in heartland America. But take a left at the light, and you wind up coasting through a college town of 19,000 that’s more than 95 percent white.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Food is a natural conduit of change, evolution, and innovation. Wishing for a foodstuff to remain static, uncorrupted by outside influence—especially in these United States—is as ludicrous an idea as barring new immigrants from entering the country.<br /><br />...<br /><br />As long as Mexican food has existed in this country, government has tried to legislate it out of existence. This is partly because of stereotypes but mostly because government is government.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/14/taco-usa" rel="nofollow">Taco USA</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59745318936978426052012-05-14T19:57:02.609-04:002012-05-14T19:57:02.609-04:00But some analysts warned that eurozone policymaker...<i>But some analysts warned that eurozone policymakers were being dangerously complacent. "Whoever tells you a Greek exit would be no big deal is an idiot, lying or disingenuous," said Sony Kapoor of the European think-tank Re-Define.<br /><br />Economists fear that a disorderly exit would prompt a huge run by investors on Spanish and Italian debt, forcing those countries to seek support from an EU bailout fund, which, with a capacity of just €500bn, is widely regarded as too small to cope with those pressures.<br /><br />Official figures show that the collective factory output of the single currency area shrank by 0.3 per cent in March. And data released today is expected to confirm that the currency bloc is officially back in recession, with a contraction of 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, following a 0.3 per cent shrinkage in the final three months of 2011.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.com