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- The lady who blew the whistle on the Petraeus scandal is now being investigated for an "improper" email exchange with our lead general in Afghanistan (John Allen) while an FBI agent is accused of sending that same lady a shirtless photo. It's like the Jerry Springer Show.
- That lady is on the cover of the paper below.
- And someone has created a "Shirtless FBI Guy" twitter account.
- The privates will be the downfall of society.
- Facebook post from a guy in Chico this morning: "All that needs to be done is the impeachment of Obumer and his entire staff along with about 80% of the rest of the muslim lovin scumbags politicians, reap it you no God fearing people, ya take God out he will take you out." (Hey, Ticket fans: That sounds like Ed Carter).
- I went to "pre-diabetes" training yesterday where I learned I should exercise and eat healthy. Ummkay. At least the instructor told me, "This is unusual because you don't look like the type."
- Matthew McConaughey has lost lots of weight for a movie role.
- Mrs. LL suffers from car sickness. That's a big problem to have when you think about it.
- There's this weird vibe from Republicans of "if we couldn't win this election, we certainly won't in the future."
- I think I can self checkout at the grocery store quicker than anyone I know. (I also can judge those in front of me which will be horrible self-checkers.)
- Three minute video of the Aggies coming home after their win at Alabama. Heck, it almost gave me chills.
- Funny line I heard this morning on the Texas secession petition: What if the U.S. simply said, "O.K. Goodbye and good luck."
- I kind of wish I was a history professor on a college campus in the South right now.
- I'm going to a two day DWI seminar at the end of the week which is exclusively dealing with blood testing based upon the growth of Vampire Weekends. I didn't plan on being a chemist.
- The lead story on the national news was that the U.S. would be the leading oil producer in the next five years, we would be self-sufficient in that area, and gas prices will drop.
- One of the Olsen Twins (who still looks 12) is dating a 42 year old and it almost is a creepy as Courtney Stodden and the Green Mile guy.
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78 comments:
The Republican "vibe" you cite shouldn't be that weird to you. If this President, with his track record, in this economic environment, can win an election, then something big has changed in the electoral process. Republicans got some adaptin' to do.
Bacon Scale
Left
3.9 out of 5
I think she kind of hot....
Middle
3.3 out of 5
Very cute
Right
2 out of 5
meh....
Very cute moms today BG. GJ
"U.S. would be the leading oil producer in the next five years, we would be self-sufficient in that area, and gas prices will drop. "
BG, that's not possible! Don't you remember, the Republicans told us that Obama has almost completely destroyed the oil & gas industry in the United States.
In other news, thousands of Republicans can be seen running amok, screaming, "The Sky Is Falling!"
Rush Limbaugh is intentionally sabatoging Republicans again with his "Obama Clause" rhetoric.
Smart move for him I guess, as he makes more money with a Democrat in the White House.
"The privates will be the downfall of society."
Sound to me like it will be the Generals, the privates were just following orders!!!
DF Saving Ryan's Privates
No way gas prices will ever come back down. Just like once an entitlement program is in place it is virtually impossible to eliminate, once Americans adjust to high gas prices there is no reason for those prices to go back down. As a matter of fact I won't be surprised by 5 dollar a gallon gas within 2-4 yrs.
The most disappointing thing about the whole Petraeus situation is the fact that we know about it at all. Shouldn't the director of the CIA been able to activate Treadstone and simply made these chicks go away?
Re: self check-=Don't trip over
your ego!
RTG: WHAT!!! Old fat chicks! Come on BG, I know you can do better that this. The one on the left has got her bingo wings going! Let's leave the senior citizens to another blog, PLEASE!
Before the election I thought I heard many of these "secession petitioners" saying they'd leave America if Obama won. They didn't say anything about taking Texas with them. If they want to pack up and go someplace else, that's fine with me.
I will remind all that it was Stephen Decatur who offered the famous toast, "To my country, may she always be in the right. But my country, right or wrong."
I'm staying.
Get "Wheat Belly"!! It's an easy read, and you will see results immediately. PS- I am not benefitting from this!
Wordy, you go right on with your "adaptin'". It is not worth it to me. There are certain issues where I draw a line in the sand. I realize I am a minority now and a dying breed, I say so be it. If we co-opt liberal ideas then we all lose. Just because we cannot win national elections does not mean we will not have a voice.
Sorry wordkyle, the rest of the country (and a large portion of Texas), knows what you've been trying to misdirect them from all along: that the current state of jobs and the economy is the result of failed republican governance. And that we shouldn't have given the tough job of cleaning up a mess back to the people who made the mess. If republicans had only messed up their own room, sure, treat 'em like a five year old and make them clean up their own mess. But the issues are too big and their mistakes so severe that they couldn't be trusted to do it.
Rage
Don't know what the instructor was thinking "not the type"; but, diabetes strikes all types. They prolly thought you should be brown, black and fat. Don't think this describes you. I have known many very thin white people with diabetes. And, it is hereditary. Also, many times after 90 years of age most people get it. Then there are children who get it. Adult on set like yours is totally treatable by food & exercise..don't worry you will most assuredly die of something else.
That Olsen girl is obviously still on drugs..what an ugly old man.
915 - I didn't say we should "co-opt liberal ideas." If you've read anything I've written about Liberal ideas over the last several years, you'd know I believe that they're poisonous and destroy human dignity. But clearly Republicans have to do something different than what they did in order to win elections. I don't know what the answer is, but becoming Democrat-Lite is not anything I'd ever recommend.
Guess the Chico Facebook guy doesn't realize Muslim's fear the same God he does. They just believe in a different messenger.
I refuse to use self-checkouts. Using them is helping corporations eliminate a job for someone that needs it.
Vampire Weekends: Shouldn't assuming your right to use the 5th
Amendment take care of that?
I got a real chuckle out of the Texas secession comments. 65,000 signatures is not funny though. If it happens I'm leaving my Texas.
I personally had 5 people call me the wednesday after the election looking for a job. They were all in the oil service industry.
Let's count the red flags from the banner story, as this woman attempts to pack as much into her fifteen minutes as possible:
* blew the whistle
* scandal
* being investigated
* improper
* email exchange
* FBI agent
* shirtless photo
"The privates will be the downfall of society."
And the generals' will lead the way!
The odd thing, to me, about the Olsen affair is that the guy is so funhouse mirror-ish looking. But, when money, power and fame are involved, looks usually get tossed aside.
A vast age difference isn't that big a deal at 26, but it's monumental at 17!
I think the difference between Olsen and Stodden is that Olsen would probably act the same way if no cameras were around. Stodden would chase the papparazzo down to make sure they knew she was there. Kinda like the way she's still chasing her extended fifteen minutes.
Aaand, the circle is complete!
Finally, a big saaaaaa-lute to Junior Samples - dead of death on this day in 1983. I think his overalls are hanging from the rafters down at the phone company, and I heard they retired his number (BR-549), probably because it has only five digits in it!
Rage,
Fine, Obama inherited a mess, we get it. What has he done to turn things around...nothing. We are not even going remotely in the right direction with record deficits, promised healthcare entitlements we cannot pay for, less jobs and less good jobs, accelerating inflation, and the Kardashians are still on.
Mr LL, you should publish a list of the petition signers from Wise County, don't you think?
9:27...This is what I hate about people that do not understand business. You look at a checker position as a good job. I'll let you in on a little secret, it's not. You think the ol' boogie man at the corporate office is setting behind his mahogany desk, twittling his fingers looking for ways to eliminate people.
The net effect of the impact of these self checkouts are nil. Maybe you have a few less direct employess but you have created more opportunities for vendors. Good jobs are the engineers, installers, machinists, and technicians that develop, build, install and maintain the self check out equipment.
Turdpile are you Mzchief in Drag?
Anyway WTF? The RTG chick on the left has Cocaine residue on her fun bags and the middle one has some kinda cheap snap on boobage device cuz you can't see a clear clevage and the one on the right is pretty much all we got left to work with.
Don't know what the petition count is up to but 65000 is about .025 percent on the population of Texas and some of the signers aren't Texans.
I don't do self checkout either. Checking might not be a good job but it beats welfare.
Wordkyle, I realize you didn't say we should co-opt liberal ideas, but you did say we should adapt. What is it we Republicans can do any different, without abandoning conservative principles, to win nationally. The reason you do not have the answer is because there is not one. The only reason I called you out is because I think your in denial on this one...adapt will really mean co-opt in the end.
Young people these days (some people call them the future) are not really concerned about money. Many of them are quite ok without ever having a car or a big house. They are unconcerned with trappings that are consistent with the American dream. Tax them at 70% and they will not care, because 70% of nothing is nothing. They are completely ok with the government being a large part of there lives. These people live in the pockets of the country that control the electorate. They are not sensitve to a bad economy and will vote based on social issues always. How do you ever win these votes with conservative principles?
9:41, I had people looking for looking for jobs too, under Bush. They were airline employees, while your oilfield workers were raking in the cash. They should have set up an emergency fund instead of blowing it on booze.
10:09 your full of it.
Get a grip if we fired every soldier that had an affair. We would probably lose at least 50% or more of the military. May'be Obammy had one to. Didn't she file for divorce before he decided to run for president? Ugh politic. BS
If the market has any say, we will never be the largest oil producer. Keep in mind that OPEC, like DeBeers, is warehousing the largest part of their inventory to keep prices artificially stable. If we start competing, OPEC will open up the wells, full bore. They'll drive prices so low every oil field worker. In Texas will starve because US oil won't be profitable.
The only way it will happen will be as a policy decision--limiting imports to keep prices artificially high enough for American production to be profitable. We'll also need alternative sources, which has never been a market decision, only a green or policy one.
Rage
I'm staying to fight for my Texas... Damn the secessionist. They f'ed up the this great state in the 1860's, damn them to Hell for trying it a second time!
My Great-Uncle would not be happy if I ran.
Ever wonder why they don't put mirrors in the self-checkout?
Wordy and 10:27, the quick answer is, "make a break from the Fundamental Christian wing of the party". The Religicans cannot win another election. If the Republicans had stuck with their economic message of "we can't afford that", they would have won 60/40.
But, they couldn't b/c they are handcuffed to the Fundamentalists. A social policy based on Leviticus and Deuteronomy is a LOSER.
Excuse me Miss on the left.... you have a little sun tan lotion on you and it's so tacky.... here I'll rub that in for you.
and thanks... that's what I'm here for
1027 - No, my comment did not advise adopting Liberal ideas or policies. You're showing a lack of imagination. Whether it has to do with party discipline, legislation or better presentation of Conservative principles, something has to change.
A shallow and imperfect, but illustrative, comparison: A car dealer has a bunch of cars which he advertises as being "great on gas mileage." They're not selling. He changes the message to "stylish and comfortable." They still don't sell. He changes the message to "fun to drive." Suddenly they start to sell. He's changed the message so that the product is more desirable to consumers. What he didn't do is cut the price drastically, classifying it as "cheap." The car dealer adapted without devaluing the car. I would never want Republicans to devalue Conservative principles by getting into a bidding war with Democrats (using taxpayer money) to buy votes.
The Olsen twins have always creeped me out. Always felt they need a couple of cheese sandwiches, stat.
In regards to this secession nonsense, I stand with Sam Houston. Who stands with the traitor, Edward Clark?
Tell Mrs LL to eat an apple when traveling,
1053 - Your point is a well-worn theme among Democrats (even your not-very-original use of the term "Religicans" illustrates your lack of thought on the matter.) Promoting any standard of moral behavior is always distasteful for Liberals, so your view is understandable.
Right on 10:09.
Tell Mrs. LL to stop looking down and playing with her phone.
DUH
Cannot wait til Obama's policies kick in on the left.
Wordy, it's not a well-worn theme among Democrats...it's a well-worn them among Independents (and/or those that have problems fully affiliating with either party). That would be your economic conservatives that are socially more progressive (i.e. the group Republicans need in order to actually win an election.
I'm not surprised that you chose to resort to insults instead of dealing with the issues. Ignoring information you don't like is your strength.
Fine. Continue to ignore the demographics so Republicans can't compete for non-white votes (including Asians, who supported Obama 70/30). Continue to adopt the Arizona Sheriff's policy on immigration. Continue to support unequal rights for homosexuals. Continue to fight against equality for women. Continue to fight against the use of contraceptives. Continue to force women to have rape babies. Santorum 2016!
...and lose.
Today's pic gave me 6 random thoughts.
Word- I see that you have your stock phrase book (unupdated version) out again today.
Promoting moral behavior based on hate and with Rush and Newt as your spokesmen is a problem.
Pretending that Mitt's career reflects that of a good businessman or good for America is a joke.
Promoting wars and military spending beyond all reason but not wanting to feed people is morally reprehensible.
Having people that live in 40,000 square foot homes that are not willing to work for affordable health care for their workers is a problem that far exceeds fictional welfare queens.
To say that the Republicans promote conservative ideas is nothing but propaganda that they use to suck in poor (and middle class) white voters. If you hate everybody else, you will vote for anybody the rich white guys put up.
Forget beating your horse about Obama being unelectable, having a bad record, etc. He has beaten your poor excuses for a candidate and a platform twice. People are not as stupid as the GOP leadership wants to believe, so you need to run viable candidates on published policies that make sense, not on empty buzz words.
You think the ol' boogie man at the corporate office is setting behind his mahogany desk, twittling his fingers looking for ways to eliminate people. 10:09
If you think he isn't thinking of ways to reduce salary, you've never worked in a corporate office.
Workdkyle at 10:58.
You missed my point, the electorate is changing dramatically. The American dream that you and I want is not really the dream of those that make up the majority of the electorate. You can re-brand the message all you want, but if you are the party that resists abortion rights or does not back gay marriage you will lose. A bad economy cannot even help you anymore. If a future candidate refuses to acknowledge these social issues, or just "changes the message" on them, he/she will be smelled out.
Obama realized this early on in this election cycle, moved left from the more moderate stance he took in 2008 on social issues, and coupled that with a popular "tax the rich" message. He knew this message would win out in the states, counties and districts that it mattered most, and he knew it very early.
Do you really think we are going to have an electorate with more favorable demographics in 4 years, and one that is willing to buy into a re-packaged conservative message?
Wordy,
I don't agree with you all that often but equating politicians with used car salesmen is spot on.
A shallow and imperfect, but illustrative, comparison: A car dealer has a bunch of cars which he advertises as being "great on gas mileage." They're not selling. He changes the message to "stylish and comfortable." They still don't sell. He changes the message to "fun to drive." Suddenly they start to sell. He's changed the message so that the product is more desirable to consumers. What he didn't do is cut the price drastically, classifying it as "cheap."
Oooh, oooh! I can do this!
"You have to have rape babies" becomes "sex is fun!"
You didn't change the underlying rape, you just called it something different. Something... more attractive.
Like I said the other day wordkyle, your party's problem is people like you. You think you can put a bow in the same bullshit ideas and people will all of a sudden start buying it.
That brand of conservativism is losing, as the country becomes more diverse and more educated.
Rage
I was not aware airline employees do not drink!
At least they bought their own booze
WordKyle fits into the "Old Fart" demographic. He will never accept, or believe the truth about his dying party. How's that Romney thing workin out for ya, Douchecanoe?
RTG: That pic was no doubt taken at Wise Co Park. Check out that trailerhood tat on the one in the middle. Classy.
And there you have the parade of deception, misstating and misrepresenting the Republican position on practically everything. Being able to repeat lies louder and more often like this was one factor in how Democrats won an election. They overwhelmed the facts of Obama's record, his deceptiveness and his incompetence.
1:41 Hate and vitriol is par for the course with people like you.
Rage,
I believe that is more diverse and less educated. Look it up. You complain about our uneducated electorate all the time. Now all of a sudden they are all geniuses. Can't have it both ways.
Iran trespassing on Saudi Arabia.
Hamas shelling Isreal from Gaza.
Syria.
Lybia.
John Kerry for Sec. of State or Defense.
Afghanistan.
Irag making deals with Russia.
Iran working towards nukes.
New nut case running North Korea.
Looming defense cuts in US.
Questionable patriotism in the White House.
And the media is focused on a Pentagon Peyton Place.
WTF?
Before you boys get to on fire about how far left the right
should lean please read
www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/
the-frogmans-prophecies
Rage;
Wrong. Our electorate is not becoming more educated, it's becoming more reliant on government handouts.
We are also seeing the emergence of a society of narcissistic individuals who believe that freedom means no responsibility.
Get knocked up? Kill the fetus.
Can't pay your house payment? It's the mortgage company's fault.
Can't get a job? Give me an unemployment check for 3 years.
How 'bout an Obama phone?
Remember, we are being led by the same 60s generation that believed in free sex, free drugs, and LBJ's Great Society. It's also a generation of youth who weren't spanked, weren't corrected, and were constantly told how great they were. It's coming home to roost now.
2:04, the Wise Co. electorate is dumb, and the Texas electorate at large is fairly dim too. What I said was that, in the context of a national election, the electorate is getting younger and more educated, which I believe to be correct. Atthe very least, with the multiple media sources on both sides, the electorate is at least more informed. And in this election, an informed electorate elected Obama.
In a couple of election cycles, a more diverse electorate in Texas may finally get rid of Governor Perry. Texas is projected to turn blue, after all.
Rage
Wordkyle,
You are correct that dems have the loudest bullhorn. There is no way to compete with that.
If you tell enough lies, enough times, the public will believe them.
Just look at the lies that Rage prints, every single day.
So many times, in the past election season, I heard Dems telling blatant lies, without rebuttal.
Damn shame.
Never thought I would see the day when the United States would be overran by a bunch of corrupt Democrat and Liberal freeloading uneducated punks.
12:08, I work in a corporate office now. Lean businesses focus on cost reduction not salary reduction. Your overall salary cost will rise with an upswing in whatever market you play in, and those will inevitably retract when the market softens. Yes, sometimes you have to cut the fat, but not really the goal of a well run business. In general, well run businesses focus on controlling costs of inputs, throughput, managing inventory costs, and using a cost of ownership approach to equipment essential to provide their good or service. If your company is solely focused on reducing salary, then they are way behind the times and likely far from being a market leader.
We all know the only reason Obama won was by cheating.
Romney clearly won the majority of the popular vote.
Rage, The Wise County electorate is not dumb, and being in step the majority just because they won does not make one smart. I do not know a single WC person that believes in forcing women to have rape babies, or keeping them from access to birth control. We do not believe in deporting all illegals, or a nixing welfare. What we do not want is to be forced by our government to subsidize abortions and birth control, welfare for life progams, and allowing illegals that are criminals full right to stay. We want to reform welfare and immigration, roll back the overreach of Obamacare and it's impact on business, and to restore an overall business friendly atmosphere to bring jobs and growth back to this country!!!
Your just attempting to keep Obama and the liberal media message going by branding Republicans as some backwoods cretins. It all boils down to money....Obama made more promises of a wider safety net for all and the majority bought his lies. Obama Hood, take from the rich and give to the poor. These promises always resound with the public during an economic crisis.
Romney DID NOT win the popular vote.
3:13
You may want to check your numbers again.
3:30 PM
Well that's what Rush told me, so I believe it!!!
Word:
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
"If only people would listen to us and hear the truth!"
"We don't need to change."
"We need more power."
To use a Republican line, if you people would only take some responsiblity for once, instead of blaming everybody else, you might do better.
The actual final popular vote was Obama 62,303,495
Romney, 58,930,322
Just so's you know.
Rage..."Rape Babies"...are you kidding me? I have said before you are one of the most disrespectful people on here. Even before Roe v Wade, victims of rape were taken to the hospital and given a D&C thereby eliminating the chance of pregnancy. I have great sympathy for any woman subjected to rape but for the woman discovering she is pregnant 3 months later with having never reported being raped, not so much. Seems a little too convenient to finally say oh wait, I was raped 3 months ago but didn't tell anyone.
If you think the electorate is more educated, you are probably correct but educated does not equal informed. As a whole, the coming generation is the least informed in generations. Their source for research is fact check sites and each of those sites have a particular bias. You can confirm or deny any topic if you want to. Most use the sites they know will affirm their position.
I am fiscally conservative but could not care less if gays marry. George W. Bush offered serious immigration reform and was damn near run out of the country by both parties. Until the republican party recognizes what is a state issue and what is a federal issue, republicans are doomed. Unless the democratic party recognizes the US cannot continue to print money and devalue our currency, we are all doomed.
3:18 Well said! Common Sense should prevail!!
3:18
You are wasting your breath. Liberals are not capable of hearing such logical talk, much less understanding it. That just went right over Rage's head. All he heard from you was "WAH WAH WAH". His liberal brain does not function in a way that will allow reason to be used.
358 - If you people would only take some time to read for once, instead of sniping in ignorance, you'd see that my original point was that Republicans need to adapt.
How is Honey Boo Boo these days, anyway?
As a fellow car-sick person, trust me, it's harder on Mrs LL than you! I ususally close my eyes when I start feeling queasy. It keeps my equilibrium from being distorted.
I refuse to check my self out ( no pun intended, Barry) if I go into a store and get no discount for doing their job????
I had rather save someone's job!!!
Romney clearly won the majority of the popular vote.
3:13 PM
I didn't know Karl Rove read this blog.
you'd see that my original point was that Republicans need to adapt.
No. Your point was that Republicans need to present the same package in a different way.
Rage
Thank you Rage, I was trying to tell that to WK, even let him know that if we did that it would be smelled out by the voters.
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