Remember when Jimmy Carter was all over the place, pimping the wonderfulness of Barack Obama — and actually advising him?
After brief laughter-inducing stints as Lincoln, FDR, JFK, MLK, Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt, how fitting it was that Barack finally settled on Jimmy Carter for his own image–considering that America is once again in the throes of a Jimmy-like, finger-wagging, wrist-slashing Crises Of Confidence, whereby Barack “Feels your pain” just like Jimmy did! (Warning! Do not click on that Crises of Confidence video link if you are already Clinically Depressed. Click on it only if you have the desire to become Clinically Depressed).
I fully expected to see Barack start having FDR Fireside chats wearing a Jimmy cardigan. To Barack, Jimmy was his Warm Fuzzy. To most Americans, Jimmy was a reminder of Odd and Even Days At The Gas line in 90-degree heat, Chicken Little cries of impending and nearly-immediate energy doom, Crises of Confidence speeches, and a time when the country was so despondent that a second term could have easily resulted in a mass suicide of American citizens. By the end of his term, Jimmy, simply put, made people wish they were dead. Trust me, anybody who was trying to get by during The Carter Years knows exactly what I mean. The rest of you can go ahead and wax romantic about Jimmy, but the truth is, it was the worst of times for them, possibly second only to These Times.
As his confidante, Jimmy gave Barack all kinds of things.
Two guys shoveling shit.
He is an Israel basher, which suits Barack just fine, and Jimmy gave him that lovely depressing and disgusted-with-you-stupid-people Aura that Barack grasped easily and transmits so well. But most of all, Jimmy gave him Jidhadist-Lover *Zbigniew Brzezinski. You know, the guy in this video, telling a bunch of goatf*ckers and woman-killers,
“Your cause is right. God is on your side.”. Yay Taliban! Now that’s Barack’s kind of advisor!
Has anyone noticed that we haven’t seen or heard much of Jimmy these days? I so wanted to be able to use all the graphics I had collected and now I have nowhere to put them, as Jimmy seems to have gotten the boot. So I guess I will just have to use them here.
I guess the Barack campaign’s mental infants finally figured out that Jimmy’s Way made him a One-Termer.
Anyways, to make sure that Barack no longer conjures up those old, familiar Carter feelings amongst the similarly beaten down Americans, we now have Jimmy posing as an Obama Critic, using the appropriate Human Rights criticisms(without actually naming Mr. Special, of course) . This should work out well since Obama so enjoys his favorite computer game of killing people with drones. Considering the way Obama rolls, this criticism could be trumped-up or real. In any event, if you subtract the drones but insert Zbig cheering Jihad on, Barack Obama is indeed the clinical-depression-inducing, finger-wagging, Recession-creating, Jew-hating Jimmy Carter. And like Jimmy, he wants Peace. Except if you are a Jew,act like an infidel, have a problem with swarms of people illegally hopping our borders to trade guns, sell drugs and use our emergency rooms as doctors’ offices, the cost of which is passed onto us – or if you wince at the thought of International Goatf*cking Laws trumping the Constitution (See Harold Koh). Ah well, minor details!
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*You can meet the Apple of Zbig’s Eye over at CNN. Her name is Mika and, in keeping with our totally unbiased, straight-reporting press, she’s probably not biased at all, right?
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: | Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Zbig, Zbigniew Brzezinski
--Graphic by Freedom Fairy
"This is not culture. This is not custom. This is criminal."
1980 was the year I cast my first vote for president and I used it on Ronnie Raygun. My impression at the time (I was actually working for Jimmy back then) was that he was simply in over his head.
During the Carter years there were several crises and he never seemed to have a handle on any of them. Nothing exemplified his ineffectualness more than the killer rabbit episode.
Well let’s not forget those 18% interest rates on buying cars. And that was the rate for people with the GOOD credit. Just a terrible time. And the sky was constantly falling. I actually can’t remember if I voted for Raygun or just stayed home. I remember being relieved that he was gone, he was such a depressing man. And it seemed that most everything he touched that had meaning to people turned to crap. The only good thing I remember is his work to get the hostages released, but Reagan got the credit for it.
LOL twas Jimmy that got car makers to come out with those revolting diesel cars. You could smell and hear them two blocks away and had to heat the engine in winter. LOLOL. I was in the market for a car and refused to let them sell me one of those losers. Three years later, people couldn’t sell their used cars to anybody with a brain. And how about Detroit pumping out those shitty tin cans, because Japan was eating thier lunch. First chance they got, they went right back to gas guzzlers and now we are to blame.
I became a first-time home owner in the late 1970′s. Mortage rate of 11¼ %; just awful, but considerably better than a car loan rate lol.
Odd/even days. I was still with hubby who had a commute of 60 miles daily. A high school buddy of his owned a gas station. Favors were given, risks taken so hubby could keep the gas tank full & thus, his job.
Thanks for taking us back, Uppity. I recall being unhappy that Raygun won. The 80′s were horrible for me. Toward the end of that decade the sun began to shine in my life. The election of WJC and ensuing prosperity completed my transition from the depths of many regrettable situations.
Little Jimmeh is most likely stashed in a White House closet, tied to a dolly wearing a straight jacket and a Hannibal Lecter mask to make sure he keeps his trap shut. I’m sure he’d like to defend his title of “Worst POTUS Evah!” now that its being threatened.
Zbigniew can be seen at least twice a month (if not more) on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, where his daughter Mika trots him out as a guest to defend Obama with her. I can see that his “apple” didn’t fall far from the tree….
I made money on the gaslines.I was working as quality control engineer on the second shift, and my husband was a grad student/teaching assistant. I used to drop him off at school, pick up a prof’s car, take a book, and go sit in the gas line. When I had that car filled up, I’d return it to the campus parking lot and get another one. I did it 4 days a week for months. I had to quit because I got pregnant, and my doctor was worried about all of the gas fumes. But while I was doing it, it paid the rent on our apartment.
Ellies, I think I mentioned over in another thread awhile ago that I actually aw a guy get a heart attack in a gas line and die.
Pamela, although I did all right under reagan with his pie in the sky programs that kept my company concurrently rolling in the dough and laughing its ass off, prosperity isn’t even a good enough word for what I and all my friends experienced under WJC. They can pretend all they want about Clinton and blow it out of their asses and blame every subsequent everything on him, the man had this economy rolling. Our economy stalled twice and nearly died twice since I’ve been alive. It stalled twice because two Bushes were horriic book ends against a good economy, who stalled everything domestic. Reagan inherited one domestic mess from Carter, Bush 1 tanked what was accomplished, and Clinton inherited the other one from Bush 1, which was tanked by Bush 2. Carter and Bush 1 and 2 had absolutely no interest in domiestic policy and it showed. Two other presidents cleaned up their messes. The economy nearly died under Carter and it is nearly dying under Obama. The thing all four of these bad presidents have in common? No interest in the American People’s struggle, no connect with the people at all, big debt-makers, big on messy wars, entranced with corporations and any benefit they could dole out, but totally disinterested in domestic policy or economy. Or people. I would find it shocking that Bush 2 got a second term but that he waws running against another out of touch A Hole with no knowledge of or interest in middle class humans, just like him. I fear this is what Obama has running against him too. This snotty snooty arrogant out of touch shit transcends party.
In any event, put a fork in all four of them for all I care. Three of them were done before they were officially done, and I expect the same for the 4th one. But they took huge chunks of America and Americans with them when they finally did the world a favor and left the oval office.
UW 8:07 AM
great summation. I was not paying a heckuva lotta attention to gov’t back then.
I won’t join in the mass trash of Jimmy, He was, and it appears that he still is, a prime target of the American psyche that pretends to love kindness and peace but actually is fueled by its testosterone worshiping majority for war because collectively it reveres and loves macho more than money or human life.
Well I expected someone to feel that way. Unfortunately every single thing I said about the economy, the interest rates, the gas lines, the depressed finger wagging, the goatf*cker and Taliban supporting, and the well-coined “Carter Malaise” happened and that does not a good president make. He isn’t recorded low on the list of presidents for nothing. Jimmy I’m sure makes a great habitat for humanity guy. Unfortunately, America is and can never be habitat for humanity. But you don’t have to join in and nobody will make you do it of course. Just don’t expect it to stop.
Pamela, I know it’s wierd, but I don’t remember not paying attention to government. It always concurrently interested me and horrified me. lol.
Who can forget the formation of the Dept of Education that has spent decades and trillions fracking up American schools, turning them into childcare centers and parents, with mandates out of touch with reality and definitely out of touch with individual district needs. Not to mention no time left for learning anything. Where we once excelled, we are now a laughing stock worldwide.
And then there is the dept of energy. But nevermind.
At times like these, I wish Teddy-boy were still alive. Remember during the 2008 campaign how his chubby ass was glued to Barack’s side, basking in his luminous glow, smiling and nodding in approval as the POS read yet another nauseating speech to crowds of adoring dumb asses.
Jimmy has been shoved into the background by the WH. Ted would probably be looking for something large enough to hide behind. lol
LOL spirit. Look what happened to howard. Twas howard’s knowlege of how to harness the internet that got Barack obama elected, after which he was promptly dirt under Obama’s shoe.
Growth in second quarter slowing down to tortoise rates. Maybe, just maybe Jimmeh is Barack’s real daddy? You just never know with composites.
As for Zibiggie’s apple? Well, I don’t think she would be sitting where she does if it weren’t for that sperm donor parental unit.
This right here.
Like Pamela, I wasn’t paying much attention to gov’t or politics back then either. I was working in the music industry (writing). In times of crisis, music (or any kind of entertainment) is a welcome means of escape, so I did have work… I also had a car back then, and I remember the gas lines – as well as having to buy a gas cap with a lock because someone siphoned my tank (twice) while it was in a high priced garage to ensure it would be safe from vandalism (HA!)
I traveled a lot during the Carter years, as well as through the Regan presidency, and came back to NY every few months for a couple of weeks. Each trip home, I would notice more and more discontent. I didn’t vote in the Carter/Regan election because I couldn’t decide which one of them was worse, so I just went back to the Greater Antilles until the dust settled. I’m ambivalent about that decision, but wonder if I would’ve felt any better had I voted. The choices were abominable.
I remember hearing about Tedward running against Jimmeh. I was delighted that someone was doing that, but again – an abominable choice (see: MaryJo Kopechne).
I returned about the same time Bill Clinton was running, and that’s when I had to live every day with the damage of the Carter presidency that still remained after Reganomics was applied. I wish I had paid more attention back then. Perhaps that’s why I do now.
That is why we pay attention now because we did live through Jimmeh. No one wants a redo.
I don’t remember the gas lines; I had just moved to NYC so I wasn’t driving but I remember the sticker shock. Gasoline went from around forty cents a gallon to around two dollars. Oil seemed to be used in everything from paint to plastic and if it was wasn’t in the product it was needed to transport it. Personally I hold Reagan responsible for gutting sensible attempts to control energy consumption. His mania for tax cutting and financial deregulation is responsible mmany of our fiscal problems today. Inflation was insane back then but at least you could get interest on your savings, not 0-.25%
Oh. And the thermostats too. We had to freeze in winter. Was it 60 degrees we were allowed? Neighbors would gather at a designated house for a few hours of evening warmth.
Lizzy, the gas lines were ridiculous. You could only get gas on “odd or even days” determined by the numbers on your license plate. I lived (and still do) in NYC, so it wasn’t necessary for me to drive very much, unless I wanted to go out of the city. A tank of gas would last a long time, but at some point had to be replenished. Imagine knowing that you couldn’t buy gas for another day because of the odd/even thing… It was more than a little frustrating.
Agree with you about Regan and de-regulation, but in all fairness, he continued it. I was not a fan of Regan, but he didn’t start that.
Richard Nixon had imposed price controls on domestic oil, and the resulting shortages caused gas lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis. Gasoline controls were repealed, but controls on domestic US oil remained.
The Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, when the average price of crude oil was $15.85 per barrel. Starting with the Iranian revolution, the price of crude oil rose to $39.50 per barrel over the next 12 months
Good point on savings interest lizzy. Under the current administration, there is positively NO incentive to save money and there is talk of increasing capital gains besides, as if this only affects rich people. Imagine earning .5% on your life savings and then being told you have to pay more taxes on the earnings. That is how capital gains affects the MAJORITY of people who save against their futures. It’s how it affects seniors who once used interest as income supplement and now get peanuts. Capital gains increases don’t affect the very rich, they affect the middle class, who take it in the neck on everything.
In many cases you are already living a Redo.
How did Jimmy make you feel? How does Barack make you feel?
First tell me – do you drag the razor across the wrist? or up the arm?
Last time we went through this stuff I felt a little optimistic that the situation would end and we would get through it. Now I feel gloomy. It seems that so many of our jobs have been outsourced-good jobs that people could support their families with. I don’t see those jobs coming back. Supposedly American corporations expect to sell their sleazy Chinese products at extortionate prices here. I don’t see a way out. Maybe it is just the difference between ages 30 and 60?
The only president in my lifetime that truly gave me hope and followed through with concrete honest to God “Good Times” was Bill. The rest of them had a constant stream of bad times happening every day.
The biggest problem with the gas crisis, besides the need for locking gas caps and outrageous prices, was the danger. People got insane due to waiting in all kinds of weather for hours to fill up their cars. There were fist fights, shootings, baseball bats and tire irons swinging, cursing out, threats, people running people over, for GAS.
I lived in Flushing, Queens at the time and my husband and I went together for safety to fill our little car. More than once, while waiting for our turn, we left the line and gave up because there were fights and the cops were called. Sometimes you waited hours and then they ran out of gas just as you got in sight of the pump. I won’t ever forget.
If I remember correctly the Georgia fool didn’t open up the reserves. They are there for emergency and that was an emergency. Didn’t obama open them a few years ago when prices got high?
And the hostage crisis got to be a huge depressing drag on us all. The daily number of days counted down on the TV screen all the time.
Lizzy, the thing is, we might have recovered more easily after 8 years than 12. It’s like having a broken door that you never get around to fixing right. It hangs in there for awhile with duct tape and things, but eventually, it just falls off its hinges and can no longer be repaired. This is what has happened to America in 12 years. In 16, well…..
Imagine earning .5% on your life savings and then being told you have to pay more taxes on the earnings.
Don’t forget to factor in an inflation rate that makes your money worth less than when you put it in. Nothing like getting dinged for a capital gain when you lost.
BTW – The British can kiss my ass.
Don’t forget the damage done to farmers by Jimmy’s grain embargo, imposed as a sanction for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. For a number farm families, already struggling financially, the embargo was the straw that did them in.
Uppity, I’m glad you mentioned Dean. He’s someone we never hear from anymore. I guess Obama threw him so far under the bus, his screams are muffled – and as we all know – that man could SCREAM. lol
You know why Reagan won so handily when he ran against carter? He made people FEEL good. He made people believe he could lead them. He made people believe in America again. That is how he won. I am afraid Romney falls woefully short of that achievement. He does not make me feel good. He bores the shit out of me. His sincerity quotient appears very low. He never talks to me. It’s no consolation that the best he can do is not make me feel worse. It doesn’t even matter if he could turn out to be a great president in the end — because Obama can beat him. Besides that, he is dancing around Obama just like McCain did. That “He’s a nice guy” bullshit is too much to bear. Again. John Smart did a post on that last week and came out and said it. Barack Obama is NOT a nice guy. I would bet he’s right where McCain was in polls last time, or possibly doing worse. We haven’t even filtered in the shit Obama is going to pull in OCtober. Don’t forget SONY is going to release that movie about how he killed Osama with his bare hands and a pencil in October. The movie for which he and his infants leaked confidential information of National Security concerns, because electing this turkey is more important than America is.
60 degrees will kill a frail senior. But then, I’m sure this bunch thinks that’s a good idea. I remember during bush reading far too many stories of seniors who couldn’t afford heat being found frozen dead in their homes and apartments. Like someone said upthread, the price of everything is going up and supplemental income has gone down for seniors and many who were laid off and had to take jobs at fractions of their previous income. Interest rates on charge cards are at loan shark rates now, worse than Carter days. And the dollar is worth less every single day. Then there are the millions of unemployed, twice the number they pimp and we all know it. They calculate the cost of living now by not including the cost of heat, gasoline and food, the three commodities that are killing people. I won’t even get into the cost of health insurance. This entire picture is a Disgusting travesty and a stain upon the USA.
Don’t forget the damage done to farmers by Jimmy’s grain embargo, imposed as a sanction for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Even worse, the embargo did diddly-squat to stop the invasion. But here’s a little-known fact: 6 months before the invasion Jimmy Carter signed an executive order giving covert financial aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet government in Kabul. The Russians “invaded” to support the government we were trying to undermine.
Yeah we paid goatfuckers to stop the Russians and they were right. We put the Taliban in place as they are today.
I think it’s pretty safe to say that these two shitty parties have taken chances apiece ruining America. This idea my party is good and yours is bad just won’t fly any longer. They are both horrible and self-indulgent pricks who couldn’t care less about the people they are supposed to represent.
Goatfuckistan – where empires go to die
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. – Rudyard Kipling
Remember when Clinton went into Afghanistan and they all yelled Wag The Dog?
Guess not, assholes.
The is the guy who just keeps on giving. In spite of the accompanying stench. This is happening today Live at 3:15
Friday July 27 2012 Pres. Clinton & Rep. Pelosi Wrap Up AIDS 2012 Conference | C-SPAN
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Pres-Clinton-Rep-Pelosi-Wrap-Up-AIDS-2012-Conference/10737432665/
I so agree with your assessment of Romney, Uppity. He brings a boredom down to a whole new low. He has the warmth of John Kerry and the dynamic personality (not to mention the plastic smile) of Al Gore. If he want’s to get elected he had better start fighting like Hillary Clinton (the only winner in the bunch), and inspire people to want to have a beer with him, like W. So far, he has shown us nothing to write home about. And, as election time draws closer, I’m guessing more and more people are planning to write in Hillary.
I agree with your assessment of Romney too, but right now we’re living with a POTUS that everyone wanted to hang out with.
I’m not looking for a personal connection – just at past performance, and this time I’m going with someone who has shown competence, intelligence and most importantly, an ability to govern in a bi-partisan fashion.
It would also help if the candidate did not have Obama’s stench of the corruption of the Chicago sewer.
A positive Carter legacy (the only??) is the elimination of the Guinea worm. (But I still remember the 18.5% interest on my first mortgage when he was Pres.)
“The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=last-worm-tropical-disease-near-eradication
I do understand what you are saying Anthony. The thing is, Presidenting is as much a PR business as it is a business of leadership, and most people DO want to feel personally represented by a president, however small the effort is. A competent CEO can dispatch his lackys to do the shmoozing. He can (and often they do) have the personality of a yak. A president does not have that luxury, especially in times where he or she is so visible. It’s not even about Charisma, as history shows us very well that charismatics generally take their followers straight to hell. It’s more about interpersonal skills and the appearance that, at least somewhere in there, a heart does beat. Take IKE. He was president at a time when having no interpersonal skills was okay and some things were sacred to the press. Today, IKE wouldn’t have a prayer of being elected.
SHV I think he may also have eliminated swimming attack rabbits too, since nobody has seen one since his own experience.
Freespirit, if we have learned one thing in the past two years, it’s that the press refuses to reveal how many Hillary writeins have existed in primaries and elections. Worse yet, a Hillary writein in many states means the vote goes to her party, as in Barack Obama.
18.5 in mortgages in the 70s. Holy chit. I wasn’t owning then so I never realized that. Fixed rate, I’m sure.
–Jimmy Carter
We keep writing her in.
OT but i URGE you to read this most disturbing thread.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/x6yef/reddits_had_a_few_threads_about_sexual_assault/
And this guy is the POS of the year.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/x6yef/reddits_had_a_few_threads_about_sexual_assault/c5jtt3p
I’m not looking for a personal connection, either, Anthony. And currently, I’m struggling between being FORCED to vote for a conservative – again,in an effort to put O out of office, or writing Hillary in – which I know, as Uppity said, will not be counted for her or even, reported. The only thing I know for sure is that Barack the Crock won’t get my vote.
I do think that if enough Americans demonstrate that they are tired of being screwed by BOTH parties – by refusing to vote for either – eventually, a party that actually represents the best interest of the people of this country would emerge. The obvious problem is that in the meantime, the crazies on the Left and the Right will remain in charge. This may not be the year to do it – because without the concerns of reelection to restrain him, I’m afraid Barack has really big plans to do his damndest to reconstruct America – and not in a good way. But, if some serious, coordinated, concerted, bold efforts are not made soon to require our elected officials to actually serve and represent us – or risk losing, I’m afraid it will be too late.
UW - those links make me want to hurl…. Especially that in the few I was able to stomach reading, there were excuses (alcohol, vicodin, etc), as well as the admission that he wouldn’t have the balls to face his victim. I have no sympathy for any of them, and my heart goes out to the victims.
FOXY – check the laws in your state re: write-in candidates. In NY, if you write someone in who hasn’t registered to be a write-in candidate, your vote will go to the person who won regardless of your feelings. In NY, my write-in would go to Obama.
Freespirit, I hear you loud and clear. There’s also a very cynical part of me that has to entertain the thought that a global economy and one global leader is inevitable.
At this time, I think voting for Romney would help to at least slow it down. ANd I also think that right now we need damage control re: the economy and jobs, which I totally trust him to do
I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind – I’m not passionate enough about my choice to do that. I will add that since 2008, I’ve reconsidered how I cast my vote because of the electoral college.
EX: I live in NY, which will certainly go blue no matter what. Its bought and paid for, no doubt about that. So, even if a dead monkey on a stick was running on the GOP ticket, I could vote for it in good conscience because it could, at most, only serve to make the margin smaller which has an awful lot of impact on the egomaniacs that are my local elected officials.
This is just my opinion; not a suggestion to anyone (unless it makes as much sense to them as is does to me) I will NEVER be screwed again after what happened to Hillary. My sentiment is that if this is a dirty game played by dirty people then the only way for me to win is to play dirty. At least I could help to slow things down
freespirit, and Foxy! if you writein Hillary, chances are the vote WILL go to barack. That’s what I was trying to say. Anthony is right.Check your state and what happens with writeins. More often than not the vote goes to the candidate of the writein’s party.
I voted for Carter. He rode in on the wave of the Watergate scandal and voters were longing for honesty, or so they thought. Jimmy wasn’t a smoozer either. He didn’t play the quid pro quo and greasing palms games that politicians play. He didn’t get along at all with Tip O’neill for that reason. The DC scum didn’t like outsiders who didn’t play by their rulz. Jimmy had good intentions and, unlike the current pResident, he practiced what he preached.
I’m so depressed and have to stop running around the house swearing. After all I spent many years teaching my students to use appropriate language not swearing when they didn’t like something or someone. For my punishment I’ll start the lawnmower and cut my straw or is that hay.
HERE’S A LINK TO FIND OUT THE STATE BY STATE RULES RE: WRITE IN CANDIDATES:
http://mfoster.com/misc/write-in_rules_2008.php
Anthony,
Always enjoy your comments – you’re a stitch or you’ll need stitches so stop away from the razor.
Thanks, Piper.
Waited so long for an answer that I ditched the razor and cracked open the bourbon……
While I am not campaigning for Romney, I will say this. I live in MA, and in the aftermath of a Romney governorship, we have near universal health insurance coverage, women can get an abortion on demand, and same-sex couples can get married. So whether he supported that stuff or not, he didn’t keep it from happening. MA still attracts a lot of businesses, and our unemployment rate is around 6%. Deval Patrick isn’t a great governor, and we’re fortunate that Romney left things at a level Patrick can handle. I don’t know what Romney would do as president, but I’m not losing sleep over the idea that he might win. He’s not Rick Santorum.
It’s my belief that since Romney was always pro choice, and since he INCREASED funding for family services when he was governer, that those two beliefs have stayed with him. He is pandering to the crazy right to get elected, it’s as simple as that. While panderers are disgusting, please note they are ALL PANDERERS and you have to live with that. I never believed and still do not believe that Romney is going to do diddly squat about planned parenthood or abortion. The only thing I fear with this two issues is if he gets a full Republican senate. This would be extremely dangerous to women, gays and lesbians. I also firmly believe this. But if he gets a split congress, we will be safer. There isn’t much anybody can do about the crazy state level and that will always have to be left to the outstanding women and men who have fought back successfully in places like Oklahoma.
Regarding mormon. Nobody seems to mind that that sack of crap Harry Reid is a mormon. That having been said, I liken Romney to JFK. JFK knew that people looked upon his religion with a suspicious eye and he was doubly careful not to ever let his religion rule his policy. I think Romney is in JFK’s boat. Secondly, mormoms are no nuttier than the fruitcakes in the fundie religious right, sorry but it’s true. As for the polygamy thing, this is not a mormom supported behavior. They are mavericks just like the crazy christians who refuse health care, or create and cast out demons or handle snakes are mavericks.
So none of the above things really bother me about Romney as i do not think he is anything but what he always was, pro family planning and pro choice. All these things worry me about romney only if congress is ruled in two houses by Republicans.
Of course all of this is just blowing smoke as I still think Obama is going to beat him.
LOL on the lawn piper.
well at least you didn’t yell at us, imust.
If I didn’t have to jump through hoops to comment there I would have said to that one guy, maybe all of them, that it’s really unfortunate that nobody removed him from the planet years ago.
I just came across this when I was trolling the youtubes.
Why is it that this made me cry just like the very first time I saw it?
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2706352.shtml?cat=500
Some great thinking on the part of the woman in the pickup.
Okay so the crazy CO shooter sent a notebook to a “professor” which details his intent to kill people, including drawings. Now his attorney claims the professor was a psychiatrist treating him so the notebook is “privileged” information and are asking for it back. UNbelievable.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/justice/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Panderer-in-Chief at it again. Obama signs military aid bill for Israel. It just happens to be on the eve of Romney’s visit! Nice that he can buy votes with our money.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-signs-israel-military-aid-bill-eve-romney-165237880.html
Cheer up, imust. Israel knows what a snake in the grass he is.
Just had some wonderful tenderloin tips with mushrooms, peppers, shallots in red wine sauce with basmati rice.
Burp.
I have no idea where Jimmeh is- but I hope barky joins him in January.
This is why bastards like him should be accidentally shot in the head and have it look like suicide. The world will be a better place without him in it ASAP.
How sweet the way she saved those cubs!!!! What a good woman.
LOL- I see the Big Dawg is at it again- endorsing the penile-impaired candidate. s/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-endorses-tarryl-clark-minnesota-8th-district-190251694.html
Even if she was “treating” him, wouldn’t she be obligated to inform the authorities if he said that he wanted to kill people?
imust- I am pretty sure you are correct- but it could be a state by state thing. I KNOW here in PA they are required by law to inform the police if a credible threat is made and if a specific person is named as the subject of the threat they must give that info as well. They can also call and have you involuntarily committed if they think you are an immediate danger to yourself or others.
It’s a fine line between being a patient and a student of a psychiatrist imust. This is going to get very interesting.
Hey! Is hay a thread killer? Or is everyone watching the Olympics?
LOL Sophie- I have the Olympics on- but sort of half watching- catching up on the threads and the comments
So far, other than the REAL QUEEN playing along at Buckingham Palace, and the David Bowie bit, this is the STRANGEST opening for the Olympics I have ever seen. AS for “Tim” “The inventor of the WWW”…Obie has some real problems – again. he said it was government. Yet here they are in London, with 1 Billion watching, saying it was a guy. HEY! He didn’t build that! And then celebrating the NHS. Normally, I would agree, as I was a benefactor of the NHS when I was in England, but now, they are broker than broke.
I hear McCartney does a smashing act. I will reserve judgement.
I am missing valuable painting time. Just waiting for this thing to “get good”
Anthony,
Mika is rude and irritating. During the 2008 primaries, any time Wes Clark or one of Hillary’s other surrogates were on, while they were on camera, you could hear Mika off camera interrupting them every single second with her “harumphs” “Hmm”, “Hah” and “Huh” — so disrespectful….as if to telegraph to the audience that nothing they said was to be believed.
I could ask why she has that job, but then…
Slumdog Millionaire was a very good movie. Who knew this would be the follow-up?
Ani – I HAPPENED to see her on a YooTooBe the other day, and she was sniffing so much off-camera while Joe was talking, I thought she was doing coke. Seriously.
imusthavepie, on July 27, 2012 at 6:25 PM said: Edit Comment
Panderer-in-Chief at it again. Obama signs military aid bill for Israel. It just happens to be on the eve of Romney’s visit! Nice that he can buy votes with our money.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-signs-israel-military-aid-bill-eve-romney-165237880.html
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Do people not notice the pandering. or do they just pretend. It also strikes me as childlike. He cannot stand anyone to have any attention for a split second.
Didn’t he also do that when Hillary was set to give a major policy speech as SoS? He would schedule a press conference at exactly the same time to steal her thunder. One would think he’d be too busy…:)
Ani – he was in such a rush to Lead from Behind, he did this: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/obama-mistakenly-promises-israel-70-billion-not-million-for-anti-missile-program/
FF:Time Berners Lee invented the Web, not the Internet. The Web is a late addition to the Internet (one might say it enjoys a parasitic relationship). Before html, we used the Internet at the command line. And the US government really did build that. Not that Obie would have given any of those geeks the time of day, being so effing cool and all and there being no choom in the computer lab, but there it is.
Oy, Uppity — now you made ME watch Susan Boyle again. I’m not just crying — I’m blubbering! Thanks a lot!
Sophie, thanks for the education. Call Matt Lauer next.
Good one, Freedom Fairy! He probably thinks we can just print the money.
Uppity, this article was just too good! I hated the way Jimmy treated the Clintons.
Although, he MAYBE said the www, but I was getting primed for painting and misunderstood. MyBad – MAYBE
FF01 — Mika is relentless – I am really surprised that the producers don’t talk to her about it — it raelly is a bad habit. Disrespect aside. The comportment is awful.
FF: I don’t like Matt Lauer. Not one bit.
Ani: You mean we can’t?!!
well…when you grow up with Zbig as your daddy…..
Uppity says: “So none of the above things really bother me about Romney as i do not think he is anything but what he always was, pro family planning and pro choice. All these things worry me about romney only if congress is ruled in two houses by Republicans.
Of course all of this is just blowing smoke as I still think Obama is going to beat him.”
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I also don’t think Romney would hurt us on choice issues. this is not his priority at ALL. I have braced myself all year that O would win another four years, but with his latest disastrous gaffes and the economy doing worse and worse I thought maybe not…
Uppity — You still think Pr.O will win?
Susan Doyle. Thanks so much for posting this YouTube. As many of us have been taught – You can’t judge a book by its cover.
Sophie — Sssshh. Don’t tell him. Might blow his whole weekend.
Late to the party, but a good read at 100 comments.
Carter’s attack rabbit = Mom jeans on MLB mound.
And Carter kept the US Team from the Moscow Olympics over Afghanistan.
Now the Olympics start as Afghanistan is disintegrating along with Syria and the whole crazy ME.
So timely.
I forgot about that insanelysane. Thanks for the reminder!
I’d just gotten my license and car in the Carter years and my parents exercised eminent domain and used my car as a gas bank. Totally sucked. By the way, the interests rates didn’t come down immediately when Reagan took office. They stayed double-digit for a while.
Anita, yes – Mika huffs, puffs, coughs, interjects, and rolls her eyes. Besides being Zbig’s daughter, she has very close ties to Valerie Jarrett (again, because of her father). They worked together a year or so ago on some speaking tour, and is overtly up her butt. Frightening that she doesn’t even try to hide it….
This here is what you call an opening ceremony:
It is frightening, Anthony. Somebody has her back big time!!
The internet was a secret for quite awhile. It was used for certain communications.
Matt Lauer, funny you should mention him. I was going to do a post on him, as he is victim to his worst nightmare. He is ageing horribly. What a blow to his ego, yet……they have no qualms about ditching his female sidekick if she gets too long of tooth. Matt can no longer even imagine he’s sexy. It must freak him out.
Weirdest.Opening.Ceremonies.Ever.
My touchpad seems to have developed a mind of its own. My curser is not working right, so if someone sees this and I disappear it’s because my laptop is down and kindly don’t let everyone act like I was absorbed off the planet just because I am not around. I’ll fix it eventually. I am not running out to buy a new laptop just to keep everybody from freaking out. So you guys will just have to live with it if I’m down. Please pass this on.