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[clearvision]

This has probably been posted here....but I think we need to forward this to every Senator & Congressman....evn an 8 year old can understand this.....maybe they will, too.

 

Very well done.

[Valin]

Warning from France....Do yourself a favor.

 

The Frogman’s Prophecies

The Dissident Frogman

Monday, November 12, 2012 · 1122 zulu time

 

Now that a slight majority of American voters have caught the French, I will share visions of the times ahead with those who are still immune to this ghastly Western Occidental disease, and with the infected themselves.

 

Hear ye, hear ye, Great American Tribe: thou hast lost thy ways and hast forged thyself chains of iron. Hear the Revelations of the prophet Frogman, he who wandered through the barren wasteland of Europa under a wooden yoke and witnessed the terrible plight and dreadful blight that will now descend upon thee:

 

TO THE GLOATERS crowing over the comments sections of every conservative and Republican websites: burn through every gallons of that sweet euphoria as quickly and fully as you can, for it will very soon become stale and leave only the putrid taste of rot in your mouth. I know you, for I’ve seen your peers and walk among them in the Land of the Frenchmen. Tomorrow, the effects of your plebiscite will pierce through the exhilaration of your victory, and they will crush you as much as they afflict those you mock today.

 

(Snip)

[clearvision]

So weather.com has a featured front page video titled "Sandy Flooding in 30 seconds". I click on it and it shows water in a store quickly rising a foot or two. Interesting. Then I get to the end and read the description....

 

Flooding from Sandy in xyz store. Occurred over 3 hours. WE SPED IT UP TO 30 SECONDS TO SHOW YOU HOW FAST IT OCCURRED.

 

Sigh.

[SrWoodchuck]

Obamabucks! Obamaphones! Free contraception! Obamacare!

 

H/T:TheFeralIrishman

[Rheo]

Pelosi Could Step Down Tomorrow

 

WASHINGTON, DC — Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will announce tomorrow whether she intends to step down or stay on for another term as the top Democrat in the House.

"I love you all very dearly, but I thought I'd tell my caucus first," Pelosi told reporters Tuesday.

[SrWoodchuck]

Pelosi Could Step Down Tomorrow

 

WASHINGTON, DC — Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will announce tomorrow whether she intends to step down or stay on for another term as the top Democrat in the House.

"I love you all very dearly, but I thought I'd tell my caucus first," Pelosi told reporters Tuesday.

@Rheo

Don't count on it......she likes looking at herself in the mirror too much.....

Can she step allll the waaay down.....in that hole in the post above?

[SrWoodchuck]

From an e-mail:

 

 

Goodbye COSTCO - Hello WalMart

 

AMERICANS CAN NOW DETERMINE WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY

 

Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics

Shopping

 

Price Club/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to

Democrats

Rite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats

 

Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats

Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% went to Democrats

 

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, 99% went to Democrats

 

Estee Lauder donated $448K, 95% went to Democrats

 

Guess, Inc. Donated $145K, 98% went to Democrats

 

Calvin Klein donated $78K, 100% went to Democrats

 

Liz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K, 97% went to Democrats

 

Levi Straus donated $26K, 97% went to Democrats

 

Olan Mills donated $175K, 99% went to Democrats

 

****************************************************************************************

 

WalMart donated $467K, 97% went to Republicans

K-Mart donated $524K, 86% went to Republicans

 

Home Depot donated $298K, 89% went to Republicans

 

Target donated $226K, 70% went to Republicans

 

Circuit City Stores donated $261K, 95% went to Republicans

 

3M Co. Donated $281K, 87% went to Republicans

 

Hallmark Cards donated $319K, 92% went to Republicans

 

Amway donated $391K, 100% Republicans

 

Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, 100% Republicans

 

B.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K, 97% went to Republicans

 

Proctor & Gamble donated $243K, 79% went to Republicans

 

Spirits

 

Southern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, 73% went to Democrats

 

Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went to Democrats

 

Gallo Winery donated $337K, 95% went to Democrats

************************************************************************************************************

Coors & Budweiser donated $174K, 92% went to Republicans

 

Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K -- 80% went to Republicans

 

*********************************************************************************************************************

Hungry?

 

Sonic Corporation donated $83K, 98% went to Democrats

 

Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K, 96% went to Democrats

*************************************************************************************************************

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, 100% went to Republicans

 

Outback Steakhouse donated $641K, 95% went to Republicans

 

Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, 87% went to Republicans

 

Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, 83% went to Republicans

 

Waffle House donated $279K, 100% went to Republicans

 

McDonald's Corp. Donated $197K, 86% went to Republicans

 

Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans

 

Heinz Republicans $64,000 Democrats $21,300! John Kerry's wife's company!!!

 

*****************************************************************************************************************

Traveling and/or dining

 

Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which 80% went to Democrats

Marriott International $323K, 81% went to Republicans

 

Holiday Inns donated $38K, 71% went to Republicans

[Rheo]

Pelosi Could Step Down Tomorrow

 

WASHINGTON, DC — Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will announce tomorrow whether she intends to step down or stay on for another term as the top Democrat in the House.

"I love you all very dearly, but I thought I'd tell my caucus first," Pelosi told reporters Tuesday.

@Rheo

Don't count on it......she likes looking at herself in the mirror too much.....

Can she step allll the waaay down.....in that hole in the post above?

Ha. I almost posted that!

[SrWoodchuck]

H/T:WeaselZippers

 

From comments at Zippers:

 

Rob ☼blueburb • snark from the Peoples Cube:http://thepeoplescube.com/peop...

 

======================================

 

First we demonstrate how even the mighty can be brought to heel for implicating the Party or the Leader, and at the same time take a slap at the Republicans (who but they would likely nominate a soldier and spy-master?)

Next, we show the magnanimity of the Leader in graciously allowing the offender to fall on his sword, then leave it to un-named underlings to drag the corpse through the streets by its heels:

Set up the patsy and at the same time plant the seeds of guilt by association to explain why he too cannot be trusted

Said mission being to deflect all blame from Benghazi from the White House and the Leader

Make it clear that all of the misinformation coming from the White

House, the Party, and, most importantly, the Leader, was entirely due to lies told by Petraeus, and plant the meme that the only possible source of information was the CIA.

Carefully exclude any reference to State Department communications or the realtime intelligence feeds from operators on the ground and assets in the air streaming live to the White House Situation Room.

[SrWoodchuck]

Perfect example of "owning" your stupid *ss vote:

 

 

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20121112-hostess-to-close-striking-bakeries-in-seattle-st.-louis-cincinnati.ece

On the first business day after bakers went on strike against Hostess Brands, the Irving-based company said Monday it will permanently close three striking bakeries, putting 627 employees out of work.

The company has no bakeries in Texas.

Late Friday, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike against Irving-based Hostess to protest cuts and give-backs in the company’s last, best, final contract offer. The contract, which was rejected by 92 percent of the union members who voted, called, in part, for 8 percent pay cuts, a company hiatus from contributions to a multi-employer pension plan and changes in work rules.

As of Monday, bakers had set up picket lines at about 23 of the 36 bakeries and production plants operated by the bankrupt snack maker. Hostess said the strike “has prevented the facilities from producing and delivering products.”

“Our customers will not be affected because we will continue to serve them from other Hostess Brands bakeries, but sadly this action will result in the permanent closure of three facilities and the loss of 627 jobs,” said Gregory Rayburn, Hostess Brands’ chief executive.

“We deeply regret this decision, but we have repeatedly explained that we will close facilities that are no longer able to produce and deliver products because of a work stoppage — and that we will close the entire company if widespread strikes cripple our business.”

The bakeries to be closed immediately are in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati.

 

 

H/T:WeaselZippers

[SrWoodchuck]

I'm old enough to remember him taking off his shoe & beating his desk with it, when he said this:

 

H/T:iOTW

[SrWoodchuck]

Own your stupid vote......#2:

 

Ohioans’ food stamp aid to be reduced

[Rokke]

Thanks for the list of political donations by business @StWoodchuck. I just went to Costco yesterday. That will be my last time. Otherwise, I already prefer most of the good guys already.

[clearvision]

Perfect example of "owning" your stupid *ss vote:

 

 

http://www.dallasnew...-cincinnati.ece

On the first business day after bakers went on strike against Hostess Brands, the Irving-based company said Monday it will permanently close three striking bakeries, putting 627 employees out of work.

The company has no bakeries in Texas.

Late Friday, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike against Irving-based Hostess to protest cuts and give-backs in the company’s last, best, final contract offer. The contract, which was rejected by 92 percent of the union members who voted, called, in part, for 8 percent pay cuts, a company hiatus from contributions to a multi-employer pension plan and changes in work rules.

As of Monday, bakers had set up picket lines at about 23 of the 36 bakeries and production plants operated by the bankrupt snack maker. Hostess said the strike “has prevented the facilities from producing and delivering products.”

“Our customers will not be affected because we will continue to serve them from other Hostess Brands bakeries, but sadly this action will result in the permanent closure of three facilities and the loss of 627 jobs,” said Gregory Rayburn, Hostess Brands’ chief executive.

“We deeply regret this decision, but we have repeatedly explained that we will close facilities that are no longer able to produce and deliver products because of a work stoppage — and that we will close the entire company if widespread strikes cripple our business.”

The bakeries to be closed immediately are in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati.

 

Need more companies to do this to union facilities where workers don't understand the new reality.

[clearvision]

Own your stupid vote......#2:

 

Ohioans’ food stamp aid to be reduced

The comments are great.

[Pepper]

@clearvision

 

from iowntheworld

 

[SrWoodchuck]

Own your stupid vote......#2:

 

Ohioans’ food stamp aid to be reduced

The comments are great.

 

The next to the last comment:

 

Xavier - November 13th, 2012

 

I read somewhere today (Jawa Report?) that it’s not blue states vs. red states; it’s the cities vs. everybody else. Look at a county by county voting map and you’ll see.

 

 

I remember seeing this before the election:

 

How Obama Is Robbing The Suburbs To Pay For The Cities

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/08/13/how-obama-is-robbing-the-suburbs-to-pay-for-the-cities/

 

By Stanley Kurtz

 

Political experts left and right agree: the coming election will be decided by America’s suburbanites. From Florida to Virginia on across the country, in every battleground state, they are the key demographic. All of which raises a question that has not been considered as yet, and ought to be: is President Obama’s re-election in the suburbanites’ interest? The answer emphatically is no.

As many Americans do not know, in the eyes of the leftist community organizers who trained Obama, suburbs are instruments of bigotry and greed — a way of selfishly refusing to share tax money with the urban poor. Obama adopted this view early on, and he has never wavered from this ideological commitment, as a review of his actions in office goes to show.

President Obama’s plans for a second-term include an initiative to systematically redistribute the wealth of America’s suburbs to the cities. It’s a transformative idea, and deserves to be fully aired before the election. But like a lot of his major progressive policy innovations, Obama has advanced this one stealthily–mostly through rule-making, appointment, and vague directives. Obama has worked on this project in collaboration with Mike Kruglik, one of his original community organizing mentors. Kruglik’s new group, Building One America, advocates “regional tax-base sharing,” a practice by which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and less-well-off “inner-ring” suburbs. Kruglik’s group also favors a raft of policies designed to coerce people out of their cars and force suburbanites (with their tax money) back into densely packed cities.

Obama has lent the full weight of his White House to Kruglik’s efforts. A federal program called the Sustainable Communities Initiative, for example, has salted planning commissions across the country with “regional equity” and “smart growth” as goals.

 

God help us! His “smart growth” will be as disastrous as his "smart diplomacy."

[Rheo]

Can anyone tell me when and how Paula Broadwell was chosen to get this position?

[Rheo]

Own your stupid vote......#2:

 

Ohioans’ food stamp aid to be reduced

The comments are great.

 

The next to the last comment:

 

Xavier - November 13th, 2012

 

I read somewhere today (Jawa Report?) that it’s not blue states vs. red states; it’s the cities vs. everybody else. Look at a county by county voting map and you’ll see.

 

 

I remember seeing this before the election:

 

How Obama Is Robbing The Suburbs To Pay For The Cities

 

http://www.forbes.co...for-the-cities/

 

By Stanley Kurtz

 

Political experts left and right agree: the coming election will be decided by America’s suburbanites. From Florida to Virginia on across the country, in every battleground state, they are the key demographic. All of which raises a question that has not been considered as yet, and ought to be: is President Obama’s re-election in the suburbanites’ interest? The answer emphatically is no.

As many Americans do not know, in the eyes of the leftist community organizers who trained Obama, suburbs are instruments of bigotry and greed — a way of selfishly refusing to share tax money with the urban poor. Obama adopted this view early on, and he has never wavered from this ideological commitment, as a review of his actions in office goes to show.

President Obama’s plans for a second-term include an initiative to systematically redistribute the wealth of America’s suburbs to the cities. It’s a transformative idea, and deserves to be fully aired before the election. But like a lot of his major progressive policy innovations, Obama has advanced this one stealthily–mostly through rule-making, appointment, and vague directives. Obama has worked on this project in collaboration with Mike Kruglik, one of his original community organizing mentors. Kruglik’s new group, Building One America, advocates “regional tax-base sharing,” a practice by which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and less-well-off “inner-ring” suburbs. Kruglik’s group also favors a raft of policies designed to coerce people out of their cars and force suburbanites (with their tax money) back into densely packed cities.

Obama has lent the full weight of his White House to Kruglik’s efforts. A federal program called the Sustainable Communities Initiative, for example, has salted planning commissions across the country with “regional equity” and “smart growth” as goals.

 

God help us! His “smart growth” will be as disastrous as his "smart diplomacy."

The Forbes article is very interesting. thanks.

[SrWoodchuck]

You are welcome, Sweet @Rheo! Here's a good one [it may have been posted here, I haven't seen it-if so, apologies]:

 

The Frogman’s Prophecies

 

http://www.thedissid...ans-prophecies/

 

Refrain:

 

Understand this: I am not a US citizen nor a resident in the USA, so this is not the bitter retort of a sore loser. This is a prophecy from a foreigner who has seen your future because he lives in it: you, my friend, who didn’t oppose Obama today will be politically extinct tomorrow.

 

 

Now that a slight majority of American voters have caught the French, I will share visions of the times ahead with those who are still immune to this ghastly Western Occidental disease, and with the infected themselves.

 

Hear ye, hear ye, Great American Tribe: thou hast lost thy ways and hast forged thyself chains of iron. Hear the Revelations of the prophet Frogman, he who wandered through the barren wasteland of Europa under a wooden yoke and witnessed the terrible plight and dreadful blight that will now descend upon thee:

 

TO THE GLOATERS crowing over the comments sections of every conservative and Republican websites: burn through every gallons of that sweet euphoria as quickly and fully as you can, for it will very soon become stale and leave only the putrid taste of rot in your mouth. I know you, for I’ve seen your peers and walk among them in the Land of the Frenchmen. Tomorrow, the effects of your plebiscite will pierce through the exhilaration of your victory, and they will crush you as much as they afflict those you mock today.

TO THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF LIBERTARIANISM, whether followers of the cranky Dr. Ron "The Bane of the Fed" or hipsters swapping commodity traders’ jokes on Zero Hedge as they wink-wink-nod-nod "wait for the Titanic to sink". You who decided against opposing the Eurobama Project rather than banking on the R&R ticket who, despite all its shortcomings (whether real, perceived or invented) would nevertheless have been far more receptive to most Libertarian ideals and would have been easier to steer in the directions you favor than the Chicago Machinist will ever be, here is an enigma:

 

Have you ever heard about the French Libertarian Party?

 

Me neither. True, there’s a couple of pretenders to the title, but they are merely social clubs, where every now and then attendants get a tingling in the pants by quoting good old Ludwig Von Mises and Claude Frédéric Bastiat between connoisseurs.

TO THE REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS AND, YES, DEMOCRATS—after all, between Lot and his family, even in Sodom there were a few righteous—who saw that great Evil roaming the land, pledged to do anything in their power to stop him but ultimately couldn’t muster a big enough army.

 

Some of you believe that shifting demographics have now relegated the American Right to a permanent minority status, and that to regain the initiative, you must disown the "Right-wing nut jobs" and "move to the center". That notion would be stupid and self-defeating enough at face value, even if it wasn’t echoed by a slew of Left wing pundits, who smelled the blood and see your doubts as a unique opportunity to demolish you further.

 

For the results of such a ‘strategic’ move, one needs only to turn, once again, to France.

 

Look at the French Right. See it? Look harder, as it is now very difficult to distinguish from the Left. Back in 1981, when the French elected their first officially Socialist president in a long time, and the French Right went on a losing streak, collapsing at the polls under what was then dubbed la vague rose ("the pink wave". Rose in French meaning both the color pink and the rose flower, emblem of the French Socialists) they figured, quite cynically, that they had to give the voters whatever they demanded—and moved left. They are now only nominatively Right wing, yet are consistently chided and scorned by the French press as right-wingers, ultra conservative and free market fundamentalists.

 

In other words, the French "Right" is now always wrong, and only has herself to blame.

[Casino67]

I am not sure how I found this site, but it has a lot of live streams of TV networks. Didn't check them all, but quite a few actually work.

 

http://www.stream2watch.me/live-tv

 

And there is no signing up for anything or downloading anything.

[Rheo]

Can anyone tell me when and how Paula Broadwell was chosen to get this position?

Can anyone tell me why one of the biggest stories of ND energy is now tied to this woman.

[saveliberty]

I found this on Rachel Lucas's site:

 

There I go, offending people again…

 

Posted on November 11, 2012 by correia45

So after my election day blog post, I received this comment. I started typing a response, but it got really big so I just made it a new post. I got this from Bob:

 

Mr. Correia,

I do get tired of this. I want you to know something. I’m a liberal, I’m a union guy, I’m a non-gun owner who believes in gun rights (but I love knives and edged weapons), and I’m a huge fan of your books. I have every one both in print and on Audible. Both the Monster Hunter books and the Grimnoir Chronicles books. I found Hard Magic on Audible, and sounded interesting. I drive a lot, so I love the audible stuff. I liked it so much I tried out MHI, even though it didn’t sound like my normal interest. I loved them.

-----------

 

Read the whole thing. Language alert

 

What prompted Bob's letter was this rant.

 

Calling @Pepper and @Valin!

[Valin]

I found this on Rachel Lucas's site:

 

There I go, offending people again…

 

Posted on November 11, 2012 by correia45

So after my election day blog post, I received this comment. I started typing a response, but it got really big so I just made it a new post. I got this from Bob:

 

Mr. Correia,

I do get tired of this. I want you to know something. I’m a liberal, I’m a union guy, I’m a non-gun owner who believes in gun rights (but I love knives and edged weapons), and I’m a huge fan of your books. I have every one both in print and on Audible. Both the Monster Hunter books and the Grimnoir Chronicles books. I found Hard Magic on Audible, and sounded interesting. I drive a lot, so I love the audible stuff. I liked it so much I tried out MHI, even though it didn’t sound like my normal interest. I loved them.

-----------

 

Read the whole thing. Language alert

 

What prompted Bob's letter was this rant.

 

Calling @Pepper and @Valin!

 

 

And he I was just starting to get all optimistic again! Where's my bottle of bourbon?

[Valin]

MD Gov to Tea Party: You Stink and You Make the GOP Stink

 

 

I am so happy that Marylands Governor and the Democrats care so much about what is wrong with the GOP. They really care and only want the best for us.