Open Thread Friday

I am trying to work up enthusiam for commenting about Andrew Dyce Clay this morning and just cannot for the life of me summon any.

Open Thread

For the life of me I have difficulty grasping the logic, even with the 'cash for clunkers' incentive, why people would knowingly go into debt trading in a decent car for one that gets a few more mpg. The 'savings' in the cost of gasoline the newer car over the older, will never amortize the expenditure for the new car.
And quite frankly, some of the cars and trucks considered 'clunkers' I've seen are pretty decent to begin with.

Guess the rationale is 'as long as somebody else (taxpayers) are paying for it, why not?'
And these people get to vote………………

I have a question that perhaps my fellow BH pundits could help out with. Being something of an amateur psychologist, I've been trying to understand the thinking of liberals for years. (I know they feel more than think.) But here goes: I can't speak for other conservatives, but to me, the word "racist" has been overused and watered down to the point that it's pretty meaningless. Yet, everywhere we turn (even sometimes on this forum by trolls and the like) we're being told that because we disagree with Obama's policies, we are, by fiat, "racist." Which begs a few questions. (a) Do they truly believe that conservatives would be perfectly content with government-run health care, confiscatory taxes under cap-and-trade, government taking over private industries, etc. if the president was white? (b) Or are they merely automatically defending a fellow lefty and casting about for something to throw at us, and 'Oh, there's that handy-dandy racist label. Let's throw that at 'em!' because their guy is (conveniently) black? (c) Or is it just something they say automatically without even necessarily realizing they're saying it, like "Bless you" when someone in the room sneezes? Thoughts?

wait, you guys don't dance around singing "Springtime for Hitler" in your brown shirts?

wait, you guys don't dance around singing "Springtime for Hitler" in your brown shirts?

http://the2minshate.blogspot.com/

Excuse me?

Nein!

When a leftie like Janine Garofolo spits that word out, it illustrates a complete lack of intelligence on her part. She doesn't have the brain cells to understand how someone could be opposed to Obama's policies, so she has to resort to the path of least resistance.

Taking a more critical look at the situation and coming to a logical conclusion requires more time and energy than she is willing to devote so she just throws racism around. It's a silly thing to say, but it's meant to "shock" people. All I do when some dolt accuses me of racism is shake my head at them as I would a small, dull child.

So my answer is lefties aren't smart enough to think of anything else and just lash out like a petulant child….

Thank you.
I'm in the process of re-railing my train of thought.

Obama brings Gates to his “Beer Can” summit.
Obama to Gates.
Professor I have really stepped in it here, my Presidency is on the line with the people questioning my racial objectivity, please we have been friends for years, do you think you could give this good police office some type of apology?
No.
Professor the economy and things are very tight unemployment is high the last thing this nation needs is more racial division, couldn’t you please help heal this racial divide between people and bring us closer together as a people, please just give this officer who would risk his life to save yours and was just doing his job some type of apology?
No
Professor young black kids are being gunned down daily in this country 15 shot just the other day in my hometown Chicago, kids they are being taught to hate and mistrust the police and are ending up in gangs as thugs and won’t cooperate with the police to make their neighborhoods safer please for the kids Sir couldn’t you just offer this policeman some type of apology?
No

Professor Gates is a man of integrety or substance just an arrogant little black prick.

I read where they are now suspending the cash for clunkers program.

"just an arrogant little black prick"

I'm thinking that this is the more accurate description. Of course A prick is a prick is a prick regardless of color.

A little light reading for open thread Friday.

The Communist Takeover Of America
45 Declared Goals
You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out.(this was posted in 2002)

http://www.boomfox.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8...

Read that and see if it doesn't apply to what's going on today.

I'm with you Jed. I think I saw one routine, but it didn't impress me.

Simple, the President's PR team is proving to us what a gosh darn wonderful guy the president is. Powerful enough to look Iran in the eye and blink, yet still simple enough to sit down with a couple of feuding guys, and help clear the air.

Starting next week the President will begin pulling orphans from the window of burning buildings, saving cats stuck in trees, and put his final touches on his new car design that gets 100 mpg from burning "bad vibes."

That's the only thing I remember from this movie. Al Bundy the disco singer – gotta love that part.

The liberal definition of a racist is anyone who disagrees with them. They do that to a lot of words, change the definition in order to frame the debates. For example pro-abortion has become "pro-choice." The list is endless.

When normal people read 1984 in high school, we were mortified by the government's control of the language. Liberals took notes.

My opinion is its one of their biggest cons, they've co-opted the English language. They decide what words mean. Which reduces the opposition (conservatives and republicans) to arguing over language, while they act.

The right really needs to work on taking back the English language.

What I wished Officer Crowley had learned was not to show up for this silly photo op. I saw him reading a prepared statement after the event, and he showed about the same enthusiasm for it as those jihadist hostages with five guys in black hoods standing behind them.

Though not as quotable as he was in Purple Rain, gotta love Morris "Yissssssss" Day as Don Cleveland with this beat: "You got to shave before you leave the house in a dress like that… and I don't mean your legs."

Mmmm, Kari Wuhrer and, yes, this movie is my guiltiest of pleasures. Excellent call with the MJ/Vince Neil funeral comparison, too.

The guys I hang out with all sit around singing the "Horst Wessel" while quaffing large amounts of imported German beer.

We're obviously the REAL "conservatives"…

Did the Obama White House take Sgt. Crowley's credit card number to bill him for the beer?

I don't see any chips or pork rinds on the table there. Not even peanuts.

Don't even think about frigging wings!

SNACKS! WHICH WOULD THEY CHOOSE?

CROWLEY – ?

BIDEN – ?

OBAMA – ? Granola?

REV. WRIGHT II – ?

Oh, and Robert Englund (Freddy Kreuger) as a hit man. "'ello 'ello."

The latest couple of reviews for G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra both seem to agree that it would be an excellent film… if not for Marlon Wayans.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/f-you-haters-el-...

http://chud.com/articles/articles/20306/1/REVIEW-...

Agreed. Iowahawk rocks! Jeff Dunham does a pretty good anti-pc bit too.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jeff+...

This takeover has got to stop.

Crowley – Irish cop from the Boston area? Ham and cabbage.

Biden – what ever some one else went through the trouble to fix.

Obama – Kobe beef medallions wrapped in arugula.

Rev. Wright – whitey.

As far as I know, he's still doing it.

The last new material I saw from him was a special last Christmas, and Achmed was a big hit.

To the tune of Oh Holy Night: "Oh holy crap, I think I blew my foot off." There's also a great piece of improv between Achmed and guitar guy.

He was on tour last March and stopped at the local arena. I really wanted to go, but me and my family had watched the Christmas special about a dozen times, so we already new the material inside and out. And at $45 a ticket, had to pass it up.

I have read about 6 articles in the last few days that the RECESSION is over…… what do you mean trying to convince us, that it is over……. I thought that if I read the NY TIMES it is the truth…. and they said its over!!! bwhahahahahhahahaha

Congress, president overstep authority
WALTER WILLIAMS
How can political commentators, politicians and academics get away with statements like "Reagan budget deficits," "Clinton budget surplus," "Bush budget deficits" or "Obama's tax increases"? The only answer is that they, or the people who believe such statements, are ignorant, conniving or just plain stupid. Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution reads: "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills." A president has no power to raise or lower taxes. He can propose tax measures or veto them but since Congress can ignore presidential proposals and override a presidential veto, it has the ultimate taxing power. The same principle applies to spending. A president cannot spend a dime that Congress does not first appropriate.
http://www.thesunnews.com/opinion/story/1003099.h...
What are we going to do ?
How can we stop Hussein Obama ?

"You've got 47% of the people in our NBC/Wall Street Journal opinion poll who have health insurance who don't like what the president is doing. The problem he's got — 47% of the people who've got coverage don't want change. They don't like what they're hearing. Now, they may not know what's good for them, but the problem is that he always knew he was going to have to persuade people with insurance, that's the largest number, not the people without insurance, for expanded coverage. So they've got a real problem."

http://www.breitbart.tv/andrea-mitchell-on-resist...

I have realized for some time now that we need a movie that critiques the 60s from a conservative point of view. Juxtaposing the songs from our youth in ironic opposition to their original intent could create powerful images.

One example: everyone remembers the frontal picture of the naked Viet Namese toddler alone on the street in an urban war zone. What if the context was the 2 to 6 million that the commies slaughtered after we abandoned South East Asia and the sound track sang, “Hey Bungalow Bill, what did you kill? Bungalow Bill?

On a day like today (meaning any that B. Hussein O. Jr.’s bankster-paid-for legislators are in session), you can almost never go wrong with Bobby Dylan guilt tripping them: “Come senators and congressmen, please heed the call. Get out of the doorway. Don’t you block up the hall.”

I have realized for some time now that we need a movie that critiques the 60s from a conservative point of view. Juxtaposing the songs from our youth in ironic opposition to their original intent could create powerful images.

One example: everyone remembers the frontal picture of the naked Viet Namese toddler alone on the street in an urban war zone. What if the context was the 2 to 6 million that the commies slaughtered after we abandoned South East Asia and the sound track sang, “Hey Bungalow Bill, what did you kill? Bungalow Bill?

On a day like today (meaning any that B. Hussein O. Jr.’s bankster-paid-for legislators are in session), you can almost never go wrong with Bobby Dylan guilt tripping them: “Come senators and congressmen, please heed the call. Get out of the doorway. Don’t you block up the hall.”

He is very quiet isn't he ?
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Rudy tells Obama to shutup !
Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama's health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity.

He also offered, in response to the president's hope that the Gates arrest would be a "teachable moment," this:

"He's actually right. It is teachable. Here's the lesson: Shut up."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Rudy_...
Hahahaha
Good for him

Mouse-like.

and here I thought i was the only one that liked that movie *lol*

BooYah!

You mean "Let's throw cupcakes and hoho's at the Muslim badguys" is OUT?

ThinkRight : Is it "Obama's tax CUTS?" on second line of the first post? The leftist pundits will NEVER admit that he did, is, or will RAISE TAXES…

re: Bill Maher's column on Birthers posted on BH home page.
This question to readers is inset in the column:
"Should the birthers’ claim be taken seriously, even if it’s not true?
Yes, it could cause trouble down the road.
No, it shouldn’t be given more publicity.'

Now THAT's the way to phrase a poll question.

As I believe Pete Townshend once said, nobody who hears "Won't Get Fooled Again" for the first time thinks it's skeptical about revolutions — he chalks it up to Roger's scream at the end.

G-Damn!

That almost brought a tear to my eye. An a-hole who has helped reign holy hell our way for a week gets an assist from his victim while his buddy strolls on by.

Chew on that, Gates and Obama.

Thanks for the link, mam.

Ford, where are you when we need you

- Up side yo obama head, damn, missed it by thaaaaaat much !!!!

The Who’s lyric, “We don’t get fooled again,” contains the same potential for ideologically opposing double entendres. The Left could listen and think about Nixon. A soldier in Viet Nam who also loved rock and roll thought about all the commie dupes back home, or worse yet, demoralizingly about Nixon.

I have realized for some time now that we need a movie that critiques the 60s from a conservative point of view. Juxtaposing the songs from our youth in ironic opposition to their original intent could create powerful images.

One example: everyone remembers the frontal picture of the naked Viet Namese toddler alone on the street in an urban war zone. What if the context was the 2 to 6 million that the commies slaughtered after we abandoned South East Asia and the sound track sang, “Hey Bungalow Bill, what did you kill? Bungalow Bill?

On a day like today (meaning any that B. Hussein O. Jr.’s bankster-paid-for legislators are in session), you can almost never go wrong with Bobby Dylan guilt tripping them: “Come senators and congressmen, please heed the call. Get out of the doorway. Don’t you block up the hall.”

and soon to be for "He Won't Stay Dead"

I. CAN'T. WAIT.

heh heh heh……..

Oh I think we've all been taught that Obama is our "daddy" now and we must obey. Had I been in Crowley's position, I wouldn't have showed up at the White House picnic table. It would have been in the Oval office with my union lawyer in tow, at a cop bar in Cambridge , or not at all. Home court advantage.
Crowley handled it well, though. He definitely wasn't thrilled to be there but he handled it well.

That was a very well edited piece! Really enjoyed it. Thanks for the link!