tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5994807982870735106..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Hagel is no saint or unerring savant, in our saintless and savantless Federal City, but Hagel should decline to serve Obama, a president who asserts the right to kill even American citizens without judicial oversight and to send manned and unmanned planes anywhere he chooses.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43082367720177353442013-01-01T21:01:10.795-05:002013-01-01T21:01:10.795-05:00Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering some...<i>Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time.</i><br /><br /><i>Kelly Clay at Forbes reports Intel is going to blow up the cable industry with its own set-top box and an unbundled cable service.</i><br /><br />...<br /><br /><i>Before anyone gets too excited, Janko Roettgers at GigaOm is skeptical it happens. Roettgers knows the TV business very well.</i><br /><br /><i>The reason its unlikely to happen is that content companies don't really want to see cable blown up. It's been very good to them.</i><br /><br />http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-cable-2013-1<br /><br />It'll happen eventually. This cable crap can't go on forever. Viva La Capitalism.<br />DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48828288108517345072012-12-30T03:29:57.899-05:002012-12-30T03:29:57.899-05:00Trace Adkins
Tough People Do
Here is a link to ...Trace Adkins<br /><br /><a href="http://www.traceadkins.com/wired/2012/08/29/trace-adkins-debuts-new-song-tough-people-do/" rel="nofollow">Tough People Do</a> <br /><br />Here is a link to the performance at the RNC of Trace doing this song: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sxxIdc7vP8" rel="nofollow">Tough People Do</a><br /><br />TOUGH PEOPLE DO<br />Written By Chris DuBois, Jason Matthews and Joel Shewmake<br /><br />Back in 39 she was 26<br /><br />The wife of a soldier tryin’ to raise four kids<br /><br />On rationed out beans and watered down milk<br /><br />Tryin’ to keep ‘em all warm with a patchwork quilt<br /><br />That great depression ended about 1945<br /><br />But grandma lived to be 92<br /><br />See, tough times don’t last<br /><br />Tough people do<br /><br />Tough people pull themselves up by the bootstraps<br /><br />When they hit hard luck<br />And they stay strong and they keep on fightin’<br /><br />Like they don’t know how to lose<br /><br />Tough times don’t last<br /><br />Tough people do<br /><br />Those talkin’ heads on cnn<br /><br />Say we’ll never get out of this hole we’re in<br /><br />Price of gas is up and the market’s down<br /><br />And there’s a bunch of empty houses in every town<br /><br />Well, i’d interrupt that program with a little headline of my own<br /><br />This just in from the old red, white and blue<br /><br />Tough times don’t last<br /><br />Tough people do<br /><br />Tough people pull themselves up by the bootstraps<br /><br />When they hit hard luck<br /><br />And they stay strong and they keep on fightin’<br /><br />Like they don’t know how to lose<br /><br />Tough times don’t last<br /><br />Tough people do<br /><br />I’ve been out of work since mid july<br /><br />My bank account’s about bone dry<br /><br />Been lookin’ for a job no luck so far<br /><br />But I bought a little time when I sold my car<br /><br />Well, I’ll go dig a ditch if that’s what it takes<br /><br />Baby, somehow or another we’ll get through<br /><br />Tough times don’t last<br /><br />Tough times don’t last<br /><br />Tough people do<br /><br />Tough people do<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuiWpUP1nCQ&feature=fvwp&NR=1" rel="nofollow">Marines: "Call me Maybe"</a><br /><br />(I'm the guy in the back seat on the left.)Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35017593024465241932012-12-30T03:28:00.064-05:002012-12-30T03:28:00.064-05:00...just my own true opinion....just my own true opinion.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72748452629490284502012-12-30T03:27:01.379-05:002012-12-30T03:27:01.379-05:00I call Rufus Moronic.
Lessons of History and Econ...I call Rufus Moronic.<br /><br />Lessons of History and Economics mean nothing to the Socialist True Believer.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62849362458816511692012-12-30T00:14:48.444-05:002012-12-30T00:14:48.444-05:00Watching Fox News, I've formed this insight -...Watching Fox News, I've formed this insight - have you ever noticed how they invariably, in these roundtable discussions, always have the beautiful leggy ladies on the outside, not behind the table, to give those so silky smooth legs a proper showing? If not, you're probably hardly alive, so if reading this check your pulse, and make a doc appointment.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81874533867000542982012-12-29T22:42:17.710-05:002012-12-29T22:42:17.710-05:00Ah've been thinkin' that Doris lady is rea...Ah've been thinkin' that Doris lady is really Maxine. Bout 80% certain. Nice lady to be sure, just runs on at the mouth a little, like Maxine. You can get used to it, and find it adorble, after a while<br /><br />BuckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29077223780924028332012-12-29T22:28:37.618-05:002012-12-29T22:28:37.618-05:00http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/sweden-iranian-c...http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/sweden-iranian-christian-ordered-deported-to-iran-despite-facing-execution-for-apostasy-there.html<br /><br />Sweden is becoming an embarrassment.<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74933360907454200432012-12-29T22:24:04.572-05:002012-12-29T22:24:04.572-05:00Ditto.
Ditto.<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85105067158999057612012-12-29T22:23:46.237-05:002012-12-29T22:23:46.237-05:00Whole load of bullshit is what it is.
BuckWhole load of bullshit is what it is.<br /><br />BuckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21684790327451507132012-12-29T22:18:45.185-05:002012-12-29T22:18:45.185-05:00Always watchin' TV, or runnin' round, neve...Always watchin' TV, or runnin' round, never workin', or if they happen to be workin', always workin' for money, always more money, never for the joy of it, workin' like elves, makin' gadgets, can't even remember what the stars is like.<br /><br />BuckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57035231822809977882012-12-29T22:15:32.501-05:002012-12-29T22:15:32.501-05:00They're all dicks.
ha ha ha
Buck
(truth is ...They're all dicks.<br /><br />ha ha ha<br /><br />Buck<br /><br />(truth is most city folks is dicks)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32405767634367791132012-12-29T22:10:11.641-05:002012-12-29T22:10:11.641-05:00I always like when you do that. You must have put ...I always like when you do that. You must have put down poor old Buck, who rides and doesn't sit around barber shops listening to gossip, and who is wonderfully free in speaking his own true opinion, unlike most of us, except Rufus. I call it liberated.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20944297555219186042012-12-29T21:39:01.930-05:002012-12-29T21:39:01.930-05:00What a bunch of bull shit.What a bunch of bull shit.MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2848433107191865872012-12-29T20:57:43.624-05:002012-12-29T20:57:43.624-05:00Wasn't completely a rate argument - critics ob...Wasn't completely a rate argument - critics objected to the individual basis rather than household basis. One individual making over $1M was subject to the rate of xx% while two members of a household, each making $900,000 would not be subject to the same rate. Bad legislative design. There's more to come.DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84171290731917693622012-12-29T20:33:15.622-05:002012-12-29T20:33:15.622-05:00.
The time is long overdue to take the morphine d....<br /><br /><i>The time is long overdue to take the morphine drip out of the debt markets’ arm and let interest rates be based on genuine supply and demand, not propped up because of a creative Fed policy. Otherwise, this is not going to end well.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernankes-policies-could-hurt-the-economy-as-much-as-the-fiscal-cliff/2012/12/28/1abf434c-4964-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_story.html" rel="nofollow">Bernanke? Greenspan? What's the difference?</a><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24974200865243998542012-12-29T20:31:15.324-05:002012-12-29T20:31:15.324-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55782561234200691432012-12-29T20:00:19.935-05:002012-12-29T20:00:19.935-05:00It's all the fault of them degenerate urban me...It's all the fault of them degenerate urban metro lesbian atheist drug taking settlers and their friends.<br /><br />Buck<br /><br />By the way, there is plenty jobs in Alberta at 150k a year for Americans if it ain't too cold for the pussies. Which it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21911603716940707812012-12-29T19:49:04.907-05:002012-12-29T19:49:04.907-05:00.
Sorry, to hear about Dale, Bob.
However, havin....<br /><br />Sorry, to hear about Dale, Bob.<br /><br />However, having just gone through the same thing with a close relative, I would suggest you drop the idea of an obit laced with your political views.<br /><br />I can almost guarantee it won't be appreciated.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3961345870445299002012-12-29T19:48:50.744-05:002012-12-29T19:48:50.744-05:00The Economist weighs in:
The media narrative is s...<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-republican-party-is-self-destructing-before-our-eyes-2012-12" rel="nofollow">The Economist weighs in:</a><br /><br /><i>The media narrative is shaping up to pin the full blame for sending the country over the fiscal cliff on the Republicans. News coverage of Mr Boehner is characterised by a mixture of disdain and pity. The tea-party congressmen who have sabotaged his position are portrayed as delusional zealots unable to connect their professed goals to their actions in a rational fashion.</i><br /><br />..<br /><br /><i>The thing is, for a party like the current GOP, it's not clear that any of this matters. Hardline conservative and nationalist parties in many countries often maintain or intensify their commitment to catastrophic policies, even as those policies lose majority support. For the constituents of such parties, criticism from opponents tends to be irrelevant: they believe their cosmopolitan, effeminate, ethnically/sexually/religiously/ideologically deviant adversaries have always been united in a conspiracy against them. Fresh attacks from the out-group tend to merely confirm their pre-existing insular biases, and the fact that the out-group appears to be growing often inspires them to visions of Spenglerian decline rather than prompting them to ask whether there might be a good reason why they're turning people off.</i><br /><br /><i>I was talking this over yesterday with a friend who was in town from Jerusalem.</i><br /><br />So surreal. Like slow motion destruction.<br />DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44082826537147812152012-12-29T19:42:11.862-05:002012-12-29T19:42:11.862-05:00Bad news in 'Rufus World'.
French court t...Bad news in 'Rufus World'.<br /><br />French court throws out 75% tax rate on wealthy.<br /><br />Violates equality of public burdens, court says.<br /><br />I like the sounds of that - equality of public burdens. Has a nice sound to it, like liberté, égalité, fraternité. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4558036963243237062012-12-29T19:42:03.321-05:002012-12-29T19:42:03.321-05:00.
Lordy, Bobo, you are a corker.
:)
Just a fe....<br /><br />Lordy, Bobo, you are a corker. <br /><br />:)<br /><br />Just a few days before Rufus went on his F-word rampage you were using the same language with him.<br /><br />I love these people who post the vilest shit imaginable and then get applauded for it because they said it with a smile and sans four letter words as if that really makes a difference.<br /><br />You're a sanctimonious twit and a hypocrite but at least you have a lot of company around here.<br /><br />Sand!<br /><br />Hilarious.<br /><br />.<br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90239866734970373432012-12-29T19:37:07.276-05:002012-12-29T19:37:07.276-05:00Nine scary bird attacks that really happened
poste...Nine scary bird attacks that really happened<br />posted at 5:31 pm on December 29, 2012 by Mary Katharine Ham<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/29/nine-scary-bird-attacks-that-really-happened/<br /><br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21950206868620275072012-12-29T19:19:56.706-05:002012-12-29T19:19:56.706-05:00Funeral homes will write obituaries.
But, condole...Funeral homes will write obituaries.<br /><br />But, condolences.<br /><br />DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12967391491146193202012-12-29T19:04:08.305-05:002012-12-29T19:04:08.305-05:00
And yes I do know where Saudi Arabia is located....<br /><br />And yes I do know where Saudi Arabia is located.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22759971632681790352012-12-29T18:26:04.570-05:002012-12-29T18:26:04.570-05:00:)
I thought he was doing all right with the firs...:)<br /><br />I thought he was doing all right with the first three paragraphs: contrasting revolutionaries with incrementalists is fundamental to politics, regardless of party (although at present, the Republican schisms seem more urgent); the "egalitarian dream" may not be dead but the preceding charts suggest it is on life support; and the policy vs process subject has been discussed before. So far so good. A little "wordy" but manageable.<br /><br />But that last paragraph reads like a punctured helium balloon. Lost his mojo I think, or maybe his keys, or his hair.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.com