‘He was engaging, he was sincere’
May 21st, 2009 – 3:09 PM by Kevin DiazFreshman Rep. Erik Paulsen, four months on the job, got his first chance to meet personally with President Obama Wednesday night at a White House reception for a few dozen House members.
“He was friendly, he was engaging, he was sincere,†the Minnesota Republican recounted Thursday. “It was good. Relationship-building is important.â€
True, the Democrats have won over Paulsen’s vote on a few bipartisan measures, such as children’s health insurance and credit card regulations. But that’s not why Paulsen thinks he was invited to the White House.
“I get the sense that they’re just working on building relationships. That’s what it’s about,†he said.
The group, made of Republicans and Democrats, got to mingle with Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
“I said, ‘Mr. President, Erik Paulsen, brand new member from Minnesota.’ And he just looked at me directly in the eye and said, ‘How’s it going?’â€
The encounter was purely social, but Paulsen said he took the occasion to lobby the president on his upcoming proposal to help small businesses by separating business and personal income for tax purposes.
“He said, ‘Yeah, we should look at that.’â€
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I guess it’s “Be Kind to the GOP Day” at the Strib.
“…in other news, First Lady Michelle Obama ate lunch today. It is anticipated that she will have dinner sometime this evening, and go to bed around 11pm. Analysts suggest that she may use the bathroom, or possibly take a shower before retiring.”
“He said, ‘Yeah, we should look at that.’â€
Gee, I interpret this thread as an ode to Obama and his “decisive, brilliant” leadership.
What other story would do it?
budget, employment, war, Gitmo, Iran, Korea, etc etc
Ain’t much sunshine out there for the O-man (unless he and his staff play drinking games to Biden gaffe videos)
Well if any Republican Legislator could get away with bi-partisanship it might be Jim Ramstad’s successor. Given the possibility of a chance to make a difference in the corridors of power ‘how can you keep him down on the farm when he’s tasted of Gay old DC.’
It’s probably what’s keeping old Norm in denial. He just can’t stand the thought of returning to MN …to live.
“It’s probably what’s keeping old Norm in denial. He just can’t stand the thought of returning to MN …to live.”
I’ve spent every winter in Minnesota since 1960. I wonder if my total is ahead of Als.
God you guys are morons. You don’t see it do you? You post you blah blah blah..but really think about it.
I’m willing to bet even with being born out east and sh^t collectively Norm has spent more time in Minnesota then Al.
Frickin’ Al got out of here as soon as he could. Neither of these guys would I classify as being “from Minnesota”
So give it a rest..god almighty!
The difference as I see it Tiny is that Al’s father brought him to MN as a kid whereas Norm brought his father to
MN during Pop’s second childhood.
“It’s probably what’s keeping old Norm in denial. He just can’t stand the thought of returning to MN …to live.”
“The difference as I see”
No the difference as I see it is what you posted was moronic..PERIOD
I know you’re are trying to be witty and all. But you can do it without sounding like a complete imbecile.
adlib = gypsy biker?????
Well Tiny I congratulate you on holding up your end of the Liberal/Conservative doubles match. Don’t know where my side disappeared to, but (he) should reappear momentarily.
That’s why they call this the opinion section. Entertainment for the opinionated.
““It’s probably what’s keeping old Norm in denial. He just can’t stand the thought of returning to MN …to live.—
See even if Al had lived in Minnesota half the time since he became an adult..well even then thats a dumb attempt at taking a shot at Norm.
I can see you at the keyboard adlib, chest all puffed out, giggling and thinking “boy this is good… gigg-a-giggle”
But it isn’t and it wasn’t..really it was just stupid.
“adlib = gypsy biker?????”
No. Lucky to be alive, just the same.
Yesterday someone made roadkill out of a fellow bicycle commuter at the same intersection I pass every time I ride my Raleigh (aka Huffy) Mtn Bike to work. Our motto “Live Easy, Die Easy”
adlib Frickin’ Norms going to go someplace warm and make more money then all of us put together…so I’m not a bit worried about Norm.
Als going to be on some agriculture committee talking about Combines and water salutations and trying to keep his eyes open.
Tiny – Settle… breathe… relax…
Calm that old heart down.
I can just see you at the console, Tiny with a big snarling sneer around your steadily reddening nose as you do single battle with some strawman, much like Don Quixote lancing the sangria out of all the wineskins hanging in the inn thinking he’d slain a gang of lurking enemies. (Don’t bother me, I’m blogging!)
“adlib, Frickin’ Norms going to go someplace warm and make more money then all of us put together…so I’m not a bit worried about Norm.”
I agree with you completely on that one. He’s missing out on some prime earning time by this rearguard action. And at his age and mine we don;t have months to spare. Which is why I’m wondering if someone’s already made him an offer he can’t refuse.
Which is why I’m wondering if someone’s already made him an offer he can’t refuse.
The Republican Party doesn’t want him to give up and it’s important for his career to follow their orders. If/when he loses, he has no career as a politician in MN anymore. I think that’s a given. So he’s still doing what’s best for his career.
“Our motto “Live Easy, Die Easyâ€
Sounds like it was a tragic accident. Did the truck have the right of way? Be careful out there.
“So he’s still doing what’s best for his career.”
Can’t blame a guy for that.
Can’t blame a guy for that.
Sure you can. When it starts costing others…
“Sure you can. When it starts costing others…”
Doesn’t that happen in every field?
“Sounds like it was a tragic accident. Did the truck have the right of way? Be careful out there.”
Paper says “On Wednesday morning, just as Dumm took off from the bike lane at the intersection of Park and E. 14th Street. a semitrailer began to make a wide left turn, crossing in front of Dumm and hitting and killing the 31-year-old cyclist.”
“If both driver and cyclist were starting from a stoplight I can’t picture the event, but if both were doing a rolling stop I can see how the trucker missed seeing the cyclist and the cyclist assuming the trucker was continuing straight until he got chomped between tractor and trailer.”
Yeah, I don’t assume anything at an intersection anymore and if a vehicle stops to let me pass I’m just as likely to circle around the bumper.
Doesn’t that happen in every field?
I don’t think so. Do you have an example?
“I don’t think so. Do you have an example?”
I know what your saying DJ, I was just taking it to a different level.
No matter what your field, your best career move “costs others”.
Might be the guy you beat out for the promotion because you worked smarter. Or, did Adrian Peterson’s hard work cost Chester Taylor?
Or, did Adrian Peterson’s hard work cost Chester Taylor?
Meh. Chester got paid the same. 
Although he probably won’t make as much in his next contract…
I get what you’re saying too.
49 state legislators (list available upon request) sustained Pawlenty’s veto of the budget bill that had passed. Not being as familiar with these names as a good citizen should be, only one name stood out to me. That was Jim Abeln from one the Anoka districts.
Jim was an AFSCME endorsed Republican who I’d actually done some phone banking for and whose primary reelection bid had been opposed by Pawlenty because he’d voted to override TP’s veto of the transportaion bill.
Abeln voted with the Governor this time though, either in spite of or else because of previous differences. The intention to unallot puts MN in some new and interesting constitutional territory.
“Jim was an AFSCME endorsed Republican who I’d actually done some phone banking for and whose primary reelection bid had been opposed by Pawlenty because he’d voted to override TP’s veto of the transportaion bill.”
Ablen reminds me alot of Arlen Specter.
“The intention to unallot puts MN in some new and interesting constitutional territory.”
Care to elaborate? I thought he did this before.
Ablen? 
)
Is he related to
Dorklosi?
or
Kellihim?
“Kellihim?”
Ooo, That’s cold!!
I’ve noticed the media (local and otherwise) are parading out these new lost job numbers as a good thing, less then the previous month. Bull Sh^t! I want the people are eating dirt stories…Come On !!!!!
Paulsen was opposed by the wingnut extremists in the MN GOoP because he wasn’t considered crazy enough to be a reliable idiot in DC, like Loony Michele—she’s their (fool’s) Gold Standard, of course.
Paulsen must think he’s been beamed into an asylum run by the inmates as he cowers in the House GOoP caucus meetings, listening to the (mostly southern) lunatics lead their party into permanent rump status. Talk about doing what one is told to advance a career!
He’s voted with the GOoP crazies in lockstep opposition to all of Obama’s economic policies, so it’s clear that absolute obedience is demanded on that score. Don’t know what 3rd District voters think of that, since they voted for Obama.
But he’s also voted with the Dems on quite a number of other items, and it will be interesting to see what he does if any new financial regulations of the corrupt wizrds of the universe are (ever) proposed.
Sometimes you are encouraged about our country’s future when you see something like this. Specifically, there is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term:
This year’s term was “Political Correctness.”
The winner wrote:
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
R. J. Wiedemann LtCol. USMC Ret
Yesterday someone made roadkill out of a fellow bicycle commuter
I nearly got four yesterday, over the course of ten miles of driving.
Two decided to cross the street between intersections, neither stopped, or even bothered to look.
One ran a red light while travelling against traffic, AKA riding the wrong way.
The last was riding the wrong way up a left turn lane.
That seems to be about average, four idiots for every safe rider. They’re lucky they did it in front of an alert driver, there are plenty of people around here that are still driving in spite of being stone deaf, or legally blind.
No wonder the graduates of Tex-*ss A & M are idiots!
I think one of your right wing internet garbage troughs are deceiving you again, 2D. It’s like taking candy from a baby….
adlib, Frickin’ Norms going to go someplace warm and make more money then all of us put together…so I’m not a bit worried about Norm.
Yep, that’s what this New York to Minnesota transplant did. Well, maybe not the money part, but I have been able to save more in two years that I could in seven years of living in Minnesota.
Something to do with no Minnesota state taxes 
And I’m not seeing the number of “Jim and Jane are going to have to live in a tent” stories as I saw last fall.
Is this Recession over? We just collectively Hoped it away.
I feel good today?
“Yesterday someone made roadkill out of a fellow bicycle commuter”
Saving the planet has its risks.
I think one of your right wing internet garbage troughs are deceiving you again, 2D. It’s like taking candy from a baby….
Translation: I couldn’t find anything on Snopes.
That picture in the paper yesterday, with the cops peering into the wheel well of the truck that ran the biker over. Man. Didn’t show any gore but it sure told the story. *shudder*
David Brooks, conservative columnist, weighs in on yesterday’s speeches by President Obama and former VicePresident Cheney:
“Obama has taken many of the same policies Bush ended up with, and he has made them credible to the country and the world. In his speech, Obama explained his decisions in a subtle and coherent way. He admitted that some problems are tough and allow no easy solution. He treated Americans as adults, and will have won their respect.
Do I wish he had been more gracious with and honest about the Bush administration officials whose policies he is benefiting from? Yes. But the bottom line is that Obama has taken a series of moderate and time-tested policy compromises. He has preserved and reformed them intelligently. He has fit them into a persuasive framework. By doing that, he has not made us less safe. He has made us more secure.”
The full article can be found here:
“Forced to eat Cream Of Mushroom soup” stories
Still going to hold people indefinably with out trial. Thats my understanding. Its also my understand the “True†Leftwingers in this country are rather upset and are expressing their displeasure. I’m glad to see all my old comrades are complete FRAUDS. True?
God you’re such a Fraud True. God almighty how do you live with yourself. In the end (and its coming) Obamas polices towards GITMO will be the same as Bushs. ZERO difference. Different names for things and different spin, but ZERO difference, ZERO.
God you’re a phony.
Are you predicting that Gitmo won’t be closed at some future date, tiny? That Obama is just lying about that?
If it does close, how could Obama’s policies be the “same” as Bush’s? Do you think Obama is joking about transfers to maximum security pens in the US of A proper? How is that be “the same” as Bush?
You know that Obama has already changed many of the procedures for running the military trials, right? How is that “the same” as Bush?
And by the way, what’s YOUR position on Gitmo? Do you even have one? We’d never know from your posts!
Got your copy of “How Lib’rul Hypocrisy Destroyed America!” yet?
“Obamas polices towards GITMO will be the same as Bushs.”
Now I disagree with this somewhat.
Obama will close Gitmo, although it will be harder and take longer than he expected. Bush opened Gitmo in the first place. That’s a big difference.
I am not happy with his decision to continue to hold some of these miscreants without trial. I say drop ‘em off on the same battlefield where you snatched ‘em, and if they keep trying to attack our troops, kill them. But real Americans don’t hold someone indefinitely who we can’t convict of a crime, just because we’re afraid of what they might do. That’s chickensh!t.
Next perhaps you can translate your “translation”, vomit.
No Tiny, the real phony here is you. You b*tched and complained constantly during the Bush years how no one would give Bush his due during his term. Now, before President Obama even took office, it has been one long wailing whine on how much Obama is a fraud.
Neither of us know exactly how the Guantanimo situation will play out because Congress has a role to play in this. What is clear from the President’s speech yesterday is that President Obama is grounding his policy in the rule of law. A refreshing change from the previous Administration.
Take a pill or a sip of whatever Tiny, and stop whining.
“What is clear from the President’s speech yesterday is that President Obama is grounding his policy in the rule of law.”
Where in the law does it say you can hold someone forever with no charges filed?
“Where in the law does it say you can hold someone forever with no charges filed?”
Yeah, I’d like to read that paragraph.
Why don’t they just give each prisoner a military trial? If found guilty they should be housed at Gitmo, if found innocent send them to their country of origin whether they want to go or not. Regardless of whether the country wants them or not.
It seems to me that the problum people have with Gitmo is there are no trials, No convictions and no sentences.
“No Tiny, the real phony here is you.”
Yeah but I haven’t changed my mind on things depending on what the letter is behind a politicians name. So I don’t see how I fit into the “Phony” catagory.
But one thing we must never ever do is execute any of the prisoners.
You on the other hand seem to agree with Obamas assumption that he has the power to hold people indefinitely without Trial.
He said that? You no say a thing?
I heard this “Real Leftwing Guy” on Rachel baby last night and he was “Ticked Off”
You..you no a say-a-nothing.
Advance praise for “How Lib’rul Hypocrisy Destroyed America” (paper $29.95):
“This book will make America safer than 100 Gitmos. Strong case made for torturing Lib’ruls, which I wish we’d done.” Ex-prez Dick Cheney
“Nails Feminazis and proves that America can only be saved by eliminating hypocritical Lib’ruls!”
Rushbo Limpburger, RNC Head
“This book strongly argues that the problems that America faces today—economic, military, budgetary, political and social—all flow from the culture of lib’rul hypocrisy”. Newt Gingt*rd, Ex House Speaker, Fox talking head lice pundit
“Exposes the deep satanic depravity and fundamental evil at the root of all lib’rul thought and how it has caused every catastrophe in Murica, despite extensive control of demonic gub’mint by conservatives. Needs to read from every God-fearing pulpit!” Mullah James Dobson, Fools on the Family founder
“What’s hypocracy again?” G Bush, current pinhead
Wingnuts, get your copy today!! Rumor has it 6DJ has already bought up every available copy in Bachmannistan!
If we are in a war on terrorism then aren’t these prisoners technically POWs. Since Terror isn’t a state with borders you cannot define which prisoner is a POW or not by their country of origin. We should drop the parlor games and just try by nilitary law and be done with it. But keep gitmo open.
Also, all evidence obtained by questionable methods that were rule legal at the time should be admissible as evidence.
If we are in a war on terrorism then aren’t these prisoners technically POWs. Since Terror isn’t a state with borders you cannot define which prisoner is a POW or not by their country of origin. We should drop the parlor games and just try by nilitary law and be done with it. But keep gitmo open.
Also, all evidence obtained by questionable methods that were rule legal at the time should be admissible as evidence.
oopsie, double post. My Bad.
oopsie, double post. My Bad.
I mean, True,
Are you OK with Obama’s announcement that there are uh obviously some of these individuals who uh have sworn allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and so forth so we uh uh can’t just let them go even though we uh can’t put them on trial.
I mean, I voted for Obama and I would again right now, but geez, I don’t like this particualr decision. Every day in our criminal justice system we let people go who we know are dirtbags and probably guilty of SOMETHING and probably going to commit more crimes, but if ya got nuthin’ on ‘em that you can make stick, you have to let them go, because that’s the price of making sure a tyrannical government is not able to lock you up for no good reason, which inevitbaly happens if the government is so empowered. I mean, that’s part of what makes us the land of the Free. Do you disagree?
if we keep people locked up not for what we can prove they’ve done but just because we’re afraid of them, we’re really neither free nor brave, I think.
See what I don’t want to see True is some guy who is out giving the Taliban a haircut at the point of a gun getting hauled in by ObamaCo and kept without Trial.
That could still happen under Obama. So Obama picks and chooses who gets justice?
I said “I mean” way too many times in that last post.
But I really meant it.
Or a guy who is innocently trying to make a living by selling the Taliban some breadsticks he baked.
This could still happen under Obama. So Obama picks and chooses who get justice?
“Every day in our criminal justice system we let people go who we know are dirtbags and probably guilty of SOMETHING”
I was thinking about this.
If a guy says I’m going to kill again and his sentence is up. Do we release him today? I have no idea.
Like Charlie? If he had a release date…would we let the guy out? I assume there is a protection of society or something that would come into place.
Or would Charlie walk. Sentence served no supervision nothin’.
“Like Charlie? If he had a release date…would we let the guy out? I assume there is a protection of society or something that would come into place.”
I think there are guidelines for legally determining an individual is a dangerous psycho and committing them to a locked-down loony bin.
I bet some of the gitmo guys fit that category.
Can I walk down the street today pointing at people and shouting “I hate you. I want to kill you”
“I bet some of the gitmo guys fit that category.”
So then you end up with one lawyer and Shrink saying he’s sane another from the government saying he isn’t.
So hows Obama policy different from Bushs other then the fact there are honest people in the Justice department now?
“Or would Charlie walk. Sentence served no supervision nothin’.”
When your time’s up, your time’s up, Tiny. Unless there are some mental health issues involved. Seems to me a convicted killer talking about going out and killing again would get tangled up in a few assorted mental health issues, however.
Can I walk down the street today pointing at people and shouting “I hate you. I want to kill youâ€
There’s only one way to find out.
“So hows Obama policy different from Bushs other then the fact there are honest people in the Justice department now?”
Well, that’s a start. Hey, ya gotta start somewhere.
“There’s only one way to find out.”
You first, Vomit.
Catch is, the person has to be diagnosed as crazy if they are to be so committed. And there’s always the risk some arrogant doctor will declare he’s cured the patient and the patient gets out and does more wrong. Isn’t that what happened with the guy who murdered Dru Sjodin?
If a sane person is making terroristic threats you can chrage them with making terroristics threats and lock them up for that too, if they are found guilty. But I don’t think there’s a very long sentence.
In my mind, I just keep coming back to, Obama is going to go on holding some of these guys unconstitutionally, because he is poltically triangulating and concerned about the political consequences of abiding by our constitutional principles of the rights of the accused.
“the fact there are honest people in the Justice department now?”
People that know the difference between a terrorist and a simple Baker or Barber.
“So hows Obama policy different from Bushs”
Not building more gitmos using Halliburton subsidiaries as no-bid construction contractors, for starters.
Trueb,
I really am curious if you are OK with Obama’s continuuing Bush’s abrogation of the writ of Habeus Corpus for some of these Gitmo guys. How do you rationalize it?
“Trueb,
I really am curious if you are OK with Obama’s continuuing Bush’s abrogation of the writ of Habeus Corpus for some of these Gitmo guys. How do you rationalize it? ”
With a copy of some editorial copied from the NY Times.
Sh^t this guy doesn’t have a original thought
“I will only send you into harm’s way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support that you need to get the job done,”
-Pres. Obama, to the graduates of the US Naval Academy.
If we can take him at his word, tiny, this will mark another difference in policy from the Bush Administration.
“-Pres. Obama, to the graduates of the US Naval Academy.
If we can take him at his word, tiny, this will mark another difference in policy from the Bush Administration. ”
Whats the Afghanistan goal again?
And do you actual think we are going to get press stories everyday about supply shortages.
Saw a thing on CSPAN the other day that the troops in Afghanistan are NOT as well equipped as they should be.
You think 60 minutes is going to run with that..Come On !!!
Its a different Press world today, you know and I know it.
Tiny, you are perhaps the dumbest poster I’ve ever seen on BQ. I mean really moronic. It’s overwhelming at times.
“Its a different Press world today, you know and I know it.”
So get over it already.
Tiny, you’ve completely spammed this thread with sh1t, regurgitated from Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. Thank you.
How’s that for an original thought?
“Whats the Afghanistan goal again?”
From whitehouse.gov:
“So I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future. That’s the goal that must be achieved. That is a cause that could not be more just.”
I guess the nit I have to pick with that is Al Qaeda does not necesaarily = Taliban and that maybe really it’s the Taliban we’re fighting at this point. Anyway that’s what he says the goal is.
Got a problem with that goal?
Vomit, don’t know about you, but anytime I see a quote on the internet from a retired Marine LTC or General, I’m immediately suspicious…mostly beceause they’re promoting this idea that the military is the ultimate arbiter of “reality”, which is naturally skewed to the hard right.
Most of the military folks I’ve known in my life are generally reflective of the population in their political beliefs. In fact, I knew a particular Airborne Ranger who (when not sending rounds through his M-60) was a downright hippy. Of course the Tinys and the D2s of the world would have us believe that they’re all just champing at the bit to kill Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, which is of course garbage.
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Oh, and about the biker that got killed — both he and the trucker were following the rules. The truck driver had his signal on for making a wide turn, and the biker didn’t see it. But I agree that they shouldn’t be allowed to run red lights just because no one’s coming. If you want to be treated like a car, then follow the same rules.
Ron, you’re writing above Tiny’s vocabulary.
Ron, you’re writing above Tiny’s vocabulary.
“Got a problem with that goal?”
Naw. He has a problem with the current occupant of the White House because of the letter behind his name.
Hey .. I got a letter from KK today it went like this:
“Think Again blog is back! On May 24, I’ll be launching my new Sunday op-ed column. Every Sunday, I’ll post the column on the blog, and – depending on how things go – will be adding other posts from time to time throughout the week.
You’ve been a regular commentator in the past, and you and your compatriots have been the life of Think Again. I’d like to invite you back, starting this weekend.
Hope to see you there! ”
Not sure if anyone else here got it, but it looks like we’ll have our old home back and a place to come and visit/terrorize on occasion too.
T & A back?
We’ll be there!
Vomit, don’t know about you, but anytime I see a quote on the internet from a retired Marine LTC or General, I’m immediately suspicious
That is why I immediately went to Snopes with it.
Actually, I’m conditioned to immediately go to Snopes whenever D2 posts a quote.
There’s nothing on there yet.
I had to bust Parthian’s stones a little, because his “angry left” reaction to the comment.
Parthian,
One Kersten column should give you at least a months worth of GoOP posts.
Actually, there always seemed to be more liberal and moderate people posting there than conservatives.
Hey I didn’t get an email from KK. What gives?
She did send me a thank you note when TA shut down.
I’ll be most welcoming to any BQ folks who want to join the fray over there.
I’ll also be taking blog bets on the over-under for how many minutes it takes GO to get blog murdered again.
“Trueb,
I really am curious if you are OK with Obama’s continuuing Bush’s abrogation of the writ of Habeus Corpus for some of these Gitmo guys. How do you rationalize it?”
I am not sure whether or not President Obama intends to suspend the writ of Habeus Corpus. (Lincoln did it in the civil war when martial law was declared.)
I agree that the devil is going to be in the details and I have not seen the details laid out as to how all this will be sorted out.
I recognize that President Obama has inherited a mess from the previous Administration and I am going to give him time to sort it all out. Then I will make a judgment or I will criticize him when I think he is getting it wrong.
“I’ll also be taking blog bets on the over-under for how many minutes it takes GO to get blog murdered again. ”
HAAAA!!!!!!!!
No kidding!
“Actually, I’m conditioned to immediately go to Snopes whenever D2 posts a quote.”
Great minds ..
or ..
We just ‘get’ it?
I’ll also be taking blog bets on the over-under for how many minutes it takes GO to get blog murdered again.
Day one, halfway into happy hour.
“Hey .. I got a letter from KK today it went like this:”
*cough*brownnoser*cough*
Greg,
Did she ask about me? Don’t hold back. I gotta know. Did she say I rock?
P.S.
I’m having a blog name raffle. Its 1 blog buck per entry. All entries are final. The winner gets 1/2 the pot and an all exspense paid 3 day vacation in the country at or near Golden Vally or Plymouth. Bring a tent.
“Day one, halfway into happy hour. ”
Isn’t sunday perpetual happy hour?
Which means he’ll survive 30 min after he wakes up ..
I’m guessing he’s coming up with a list of names ..
“I’m having a blog name raffle. Its 1 blog buck per entry. All entries are final. The winner gets 1/2 the pot and an all exspense paid 3 day vacation in the country at or near Golden Vally or Plymouth. Bring a tent.”
GOmer Piles
“I’ll also be taking blog bets on the over-under for how many minutes it takes GO to get blog murdered again.”
“Day one, halfway into happy hour.”
“Which means he’ll survive 30 min after he wakes up .. ”
Hey, comon you guys. You’re all assuming Katurine hasn’t matured during her sabatical. Maybe shes a better person since rehab or whatever you want to call it.
“Greg,
Did she ask about me? Don’t hold back. I gotta know. Did she say I rock?”
Okay ..
“P.S. Not to hurt his feelings or anything, but please ask GO to at least wear some clothing when he blogs. I think it would benefit all contributors”
“GOmer Piles”
Thats one. Keep em coming.
Also you are all aware of the rules for my name changes. I’ll come out swinging with 3 different personalities…er…I mean “user names”. See ya sunday. I must make plans.
” but please ask GO to at least wear some clothing when he blogs”
Yes. almost forgot. my cape is at the cleaners. so much to do. I must be prepared.
Adios Sombreros.
“Also you are all aware of the rules for my name changes. I’ll come out swinging with 3 different personalities…er…I mean “user namesâ€. See ya sunday. I must make plans. ”
Ah .. another few for the personalities:
GOloft
GOanax
GOalium
GOzac
GO-Commando
Go-Bama
Holly GO Lightly
GOuano
“I am not sure whether or not President Obama intends to suspend the writ of Habeus Corpus. (Lincoln did it in the civil war when martial law was declared.)”
Oh. Linocln did it, so it must be OK.
Actually Lincoln did it across the board, declaring martial law. Right or wrong, at least it was applied consistently. Obama however has said he’s going to lock up specific guys without giving them a trial. Because there’s no way to convict them legally. But they’re really really scary guys. So we’re going to make an exception to the Constitution, because the most important thing is that we’re safe.
Yep.
GOing GOing GOne.
GOllum
(for this one, you must address Katherine as “my precious”).
“That seems to be about average, four idiots for every safe rider. They’re lucky they did it in front of an alert driver, there are plenty of people around here that are still driving in spite of being stone deaf, or legally blind.”
…or talking on a cell phone. If your luck runs out and you hit one of those four bikers while you’re talking on a cell phone you deserve to lose everything in a civil suit.
That is unless CS can recommend a good defense attorney who can prove the cyclist was also talking on a cell phone. But careful with that easily disproved throw down cell phone defense.
Picture a panel of city bikers on public access TV with their legs showing under the folding table. One rider has massively overdeveloped thighs and calves. the second rider has scars on face and torso, one leg in a cast and the other a prosthesis. The third one looks indistinguishable from any other citizen. Now which of these riders 1. disobeys every known rule and regulation of the road on general principals? 2. obeys the laws when to do otherwise increases the chance of causing any collision but otherwise obeys the law of conservation of momentum 3. completely stops for every stop sign and waits through every red light?
I’ll agree there are as many bad cyclers out there as there are good ones. Thankfully there are more good motorists than there are bad ones. But I’ll yield to bad motorists any day and be glad they aren’t homicidally inclined by rage at “my bad” or that of another clclist they’ve recently encountered.
Other countries seem to have a protocol allowing multiple classes of transport to blend and coexist. My hope is that Mpls MN can fully evolve to that point someday.
Hey I didn’t get an email from KK. What gives?
You’re not invited back. Take the hint.
GO names?
GOpee (get it? GOP… Go pee…)
GOing to get blGO killed
GOalition
GOat
GhOst
GOb
GOcaine
GOck
GOckadoodledoo
GOck-eyed
GOck fight
GOdependency
I’m done.
GO names?
Dumb fcuk from GObles.
Drunk fcuk from GObles.
GOpoachadeer.
G.S.A.P.A. (theres a tiny reference there)
GOgetajob
…or talking on a cell phone. If your luck runs out and you hit one of those four bikers while you’re talking on a cell phone you deserve to lose everything in a civil suit.
I agree. I’m one of those increasingly rare drivers that will not talk on the cell when driving.
But I’ll yield to bad motorists any day and be glad they aren’t homicidally inclined by rage at “my bad†or that of another clclist they’ve recently encountered.
I like to ride, but given that I’ll always lose in car-bike collision I don’t see myself as having much choice in the matter of yielding. Here in Florida, motorists tend to have little respect for bicyclists or pedestrians.
“Tiny, you are perhaps the dumbest poster I’ve ever seen on BQ. I mean really moronic. It’s overwhelming at times.”
This from a guy that admits to not only watching, but liking American Idol.
He’s got a long way to go to catch up to you Dudley.
“That is unless CS can recommend a good defense attorney who can prove the cyclist was also talking on a cell phone.”
Huh?!?
I haven’t needed one in years.
“I am not sure whether or not President Obama intends to suspend the writ of Habeus Corpus. (Lincoln did it in the civil war when martial law was declared.)â€
Doesn’t the writ of Habeus Corpus only apply to US citizens?
“Doesn’t the writ of Habeus Corpus only apply to US citizens?”
I think it applies to anyone subjected to our legal system, CS.
“I think it applies to anyone subjected to our legal system, CS.”
Hmmm. I’ll have to look it up later, way to nice out to be doing this.
“Dollar hits new multimonth low vs euro, pound, yen”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98BCFJO0&show_article=1
This is what should be front page news.
“I’m having a blog name raffle”
GOmuti
GOnad
and, of course,
GOnorrhea
““Got a problem with that goal?—
No but from you guys previous posts I was thinking you would.
I haven’t heard the phrase “Exit Strategy” since last summer.
SgtPendleton Come on that’s lame. Find one post or one comment of mine that you can link to Hannity. The guys a moron as big of one as you.
Greg 63 I got an email too. It said I should stay over here.
GOmuti
GOnad
and, of course,
GOnorrhea
Why does it hurt when I pee? Gon-o-ka-ka-khackus!
“I haven’t heard the phrase “Exit Strategy†since last summer.”
What we talkin’ about, here, Tiny? Iraq or Afghanistan?
Listen 2003 I was a democrat. Never voted for a Republican in my life. Would rather die then do that. But I Supported Bush 100% in Afghanistan and Iraq. So don’t give me that letter behind their name Bull Sh^t.
I was a puppet for 35 years..no more.
But you guys. I see a change in your posts or the absence of posts and its despicable.
Nothing will change at Gitmo and you guys are getting smoked and of course falling right in line.
Like I said I saw some “True Lefties” on Rachel last night. It was refreshing. I can’t say the same for you Stooges.
“What we talkin’ about, here, Tiny? Iraq or Afghanistan?”
Well either one I suspect. I know leaving 50,000 troops in my book isn’t getting out. And this Afghan “escalation”.
These are all things I heard a lot about now they are good things to some people where before I could swear they where bad things.
You know I’m falling in love with this Rachel Maddow chick ( I know it will never go anywhere if you know what I mean ) but at least she stays consistent. And I’m telling Ya I respect her for it.
And lets make it clear I support 50,000 troops in Iraq and I support any military action in Afghanistan. I also will back my President if he chooses to strike at Terrorists anywhere in the World anytime.
“Dollar hits new multimonth low vs euro, pound, yen
This is what should be front page news.”
CS seems to be channeling Alexander Hamilton, least known of the Founding Fathers? In my opinion he is correct.
Has America shot it’s wad, so to speak, when it comes to revolutionary invention and innovation?
If not, incentivize investment in 21st century startup technology. Let Gvt become a large venture capitalist player,in terms of stock contributions of stock in favored ventures vetted by the Science Advisor, to retirement accounts for Americorps and other other
graduate Public Service Volunteers.
Just speculating here. This is a Think (Again) Tank is it not?
“Upholding values will shield US from terror: Obama”
Wow
“Well either one I suspect.”
Actually, one we had every reason to engage, since it served as base and training ground for Al-Quada(Afghanistan). The other(Iraq) we invaded under false pretenses. Al-Quada was virtually non-existent in Iraq-until we invaded.
The only ones claiming any kind of Iraq-Afghanistan synonymity are the wing nut blowhards.
Like you, Tiny.
Still a puppet after all these years.
“I was a puppet for 35 years..no more.”
You see Mark. Tiny’s gotten more, not less mature.
Either that or it’s the Stockholm Syndrome. I’m sure there’s an interesting epiphany story here somewhere that we’ve yet to hear. “Some people say there’s a woman to blame…” (But I know it’s the Liberals’ fault. )
Earliest 97 degree F temperature on record according to Paul Douglas. Also earliest I can remember paying off the gas utility budget plan. (No bill this month and still a credit remains on book.)
I hope it’s not Globull Warming.
Told you guys Cuddyer was a stiff.
“Still a puppet after all these years.”
Always been a Hawk I’m a student of History and I know how the real world works.
Don’t like taxes anymore because I worked hard for 20 years and finally make enough money that I get taxed and don’t see it back like before. But still I don’t make that much way way way less then those rich people who make 250,000. But still I seem to be stuck in a spot where I get pissed on and no one cares. I got an extra 10 dollars a week from the Bush Tax cut and the same from Obama.
I don’t believe in the social welfare programs as they are like I once did. I guess it doesn’t work. I don’t see it working the “projects” are still the “Projects”. 30 years still the same.
Having been a Communist at 19 I think I’ve been getting pulled to center over the years while my party was moving the other way to the left.
Like I think a lot of males do, I’ve gotten more conservative over the years. But really if you look at it the Democrat party has moved to the left. Nothing wrong with that these people worked hard to make it happen. But my views today wouldn’t be to far from the Democrats of the 80′s-90′s.
“Democrats of the 80’s-90’s.”
I guess if it was Nov 1979 right now I’d probably vote for Raygun.
But hey I did vote for Anderson
“I don’t see it working the “projects†are still the “Projectsâ€. 30 years still the same.”
I don’t see having such amenities as detox centers as ever curing the problem of alcohol and drug abuse. But if where there’s life there’s hope, these facilities are there to keep hope alive for that minority of afflicted individuals that may yet reform.
Same with such unsatisfactory
“Great Societies” as the welfare projects. Christ told us the poor will always be with us and it’s true. But still the “haves” can furnish such minimal shelter for them as a child may graduate from alive and make a difference. It’s almost more for our self esteem than that of the poor that here even is such a thing as welfare.
adlib you need to watch “Gangland” its not working. From LA to NY theres no hope there. Its become a way of life from generation to generation. You stories of people making it out are few and far between.
I’m not saying let them die on the streets but lets admit it doesn’t work and start over. Start over with the first rule being that there are consequences for your actions. Pay for the first kid but none after that. Pay for and train them for a job and if they blow it the first time no second chance.
Something..do something.
But don’t tell me it works and don’t tell me more money will help.
Oh “Gangland” they had Chicago once and showed the “Projects” when they where band new. My god looked liked as nice as any apartment complex might look today.
Something happened and it became a jungle and they had to take it down.
So that roads been gone down.
I’m thinking …. maybeeeeeee…. GOe Jam.
“So that roads been gone down.”
This is true. London in Dickens time had some pretty nasty slums; Victor Hugo wrote about the poor in France in the mid-1800s. It’s certainly not a new phenomenom, nor a manifestation of the capitalism. There has always been the poor among us. What to do about it?
I think of it as a test.
Of our humanity.
“The only ones claiming any kind of Iraq-Afghanistan synonymity are the wing nut blowhards.”
Well then count me in. I’ve got your “synonymity” right here. An unabashed state sponsor of terrorism (25K to suicide bombers). With a 737 fuselage for hijacking practice. Who terrorizes a whole country and thumbs his nose at 17 UN resolutions and gulf war I cease-fire conditions.
What was one of Pelosi’s excuses??
Remember those times.
“Told you guys Cuddyer was a stiff.”
At this rate he may get a double cycle!
“I think of it as a test.
Of our humanity.”
I’m OK with testing our humanity. I just have a problem with our constantly confusing enabling with humanity.
“I think of it as a test.
Of our humanity.â€
GOh the humanity!!
Hmmmmmm……..Naw, never mind.
“What was one of Pelosi’s excuses??”
Just…One more…..face lift…..and I……am……..
Im turning japanese
I think Im turning japanese
I really think so
Turning japanese
I think Im turning japanese
I really think so
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I really think so
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“Remember those times.”
Oh I do, CS. Cheney all over the media saying Iraq caused 9/11. Iraq had WMDs and posed a danger to the US. Iraq had a nuclear program. Etc, etc, etc. All bogus. Alot of bluster on the part of a moron. Was Saddam a tyrant? Without a doubt. There’s lotsa tyrants out there in this world of ours. That was not why we invaded Iraq, however.
You cannot equate Iraq with Afghanistan, if you’re talking about the our response to 9/11 and the war on terror. Two different scenarios.
“I just have a problem with our constantly confusing enabling with humanity.”
Agreed. The trick is to strike a balance between ignoring and enabling the poor. Tiny points out real outcomes of our war on poverty in the projects. Simply enabling the poor ain’t gonna work. It’s the same on the other end of the spectrum. Ignore the poor and eventually you will have a very big problem on your hands.
I’m not standing here telling you I have the solution. People have lived in poverty since there have been people. I think it’s another rung we’re gonna have to climb as we evolve.
I hate to pull a CNC(pontificate and then leave), but I’m outta here for the weekend. Those walleyes arn’t just gonna jump into the boat by themselves, ya know.
Everybody have a great weekend!
GO fishing!
“and showed the “Projects†when they where band new. My god looked liked as nice as any apartment complex might look today.”
If you had ever been in one of those Chicago projects you’d never say something as ignorant as that.
I was a visiting nurse in those Chicago projects in the 70′s. The “apartments” were small, cramped, and their walls were nothing more than bare cinder blocks. The kitchens had the cheapest appliances that were always breaking down. The elevators were also always breaking down and the grounds were poorly lit. There was only concrete around them. No grass or playground area for the kids. Having seen them up close and personal I can say they most definitely did not look like any nice apartment complex.
“The kitchens had the cheapest appliances that were always breaking down.”
Sounds like the government reaction to the wounded knee stand off. They were better off gutting the non-working plumbing and water pipes for scrap. the mould from leaking roofs literaly made the structures un inhabitable within 2 years.
Told you guys Cuddyer was a stiff.
Yeah, that last at-bat was terrible…
I don’t see having such amenities as detox centers as ever curing the problem of alcohol and drug abuse.
I work security at a place with multiple bars. We had a drunk/homeless guy passed out on the property. Woke him up and asked if he wanted an ambulance (because he couldn’t stand up and it’s protocol to ask). He said, “take me HCMC” (add drunken slur). My boss, who was working that night, told him it was a waste of resources, but he wanted it. Ambulance pulls up. Paramedics hop out and say, “Oh god, not this guy again.” But they took him to detox.
But, I also have a friend who, after he spent 3 days in detox after his 2nd DUI, has been sober for months now and is an active member in AA. So it helps some, but there will always be some who abuse it.
Tiny, both you and Hannity believe that there’s something wrong with Islam — that’s really stupid, and it shows that neither of you have been paying attention.
Adlib – it sounds like you’re saying that breaking/bending traffic rules is something bikers do in order to stay safe.
I’m fine with that – I’m even fine with bikes not signaliing. Good bikers telegraph what they’re going to do anyway.
But regarding running a red light when no one’s coming — how is that more safe than waiting for the light to change? Or if the traffic is stopped at a light, how is moving up inbewteen the cars and running the red light safer? If someone riding a moped or motorcycle did something like that, they’d get a ticket. Why shouldn’t bikes?
Oh “Gangland†they had Chicago once and showed the “Projects†when they where band new. My god looked liked as nice as any apartment complex might look today.
Public housing is always considered “nice” by people who don’t have to live in it. I lived in public housing from 1979-1982. It was brand new when we moved in, and they didn’t even bother to paint the walls. If you tried to wash dirt off, you’d rub it right down to the drywall. Stove was always breaking…the toilet had about a 1.5″ waste tube, so a toddler could plug it up. It sends you a message – that you’re not important enough to have reliable things. It’s the petty humiliations like that that drive you nuts.
In Chicago, they didn’t even bother to put the halls on the inside of the building – 15th floor and the only thing holding you from the edge is a cyclone fence.
SgtPendleton says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 am
Tiny, you are perhaps the dumbest poster I’ve ever seen on BQ. I mean really moronic. It’s overwhelming at times.
Jim says:
Gosh, this is way too harsh.
Tiny, I think you have many fine postings that are thought provoking.
I realize the left has had some ugly! weeks lately, so I can understand their crabbiness.
Alas, I think it will get much worse thru the summer for our leftie friends, now that pelosi has been outed, and Obama flips and flops like a fish out of water.
adlib says:
Earliest 97 degree F temperature on record according to Paul Douglas.
Maybe, but this IS clearly influenced by man.
Paul Dorkus seems to ignore obvious manmade implications, such as the heat island effect of asphalt, concrete, and jet/car exhausts. It WAS a nice day,
but 25 miles north in Blaine, we peaked at a mere 87. That is pretty amazing.
Similarly, as I have posted in the past, our farming activities are heat absorbing magnets.
Granite Falls (and I will be there tomm) hit 100, and this time of year the whole area is black
farm fields that simply sit and absorb solar energy. Even by march, those fields are snow free while the
grassy areas remain covered in snowv that reflect the sun’s energy.
Gosh, might Paul Dorkus think heat islands of thousands of sq miles of black farmland might impact daytime temps?
I find it hilarious that “experts” use the ever expanding heat island of the metro, esp airport, to make historical comparisons on temperatures. But, look to our recent science/media handling of the “swindle” flu to see the lack of common sense so prevalent today.
monty state: “hate to pull a CNC(pontificate and then leave),…”
Sorry guys I didn’t know you missed me. I have been traveling a lot and I have a life.
While I am gone can some of the libs explain what Obama’s plan is on the Gitmo prisoners? At least President Bush had the integrity to take a stand and live by it. Obama is just making campaign speeches while Rome is burning.
In his world of crazed climate denial, 6DJ imagines that temp data cannot be accurately recorded anywhere in the world, and that record high temperatures are in some bizarre way “false”.
Of course, the temps are false for all urban “heat islands”, but also false for all rural farmland environments….only 6DJ’s suburban homeland can be accurately measured! Fancy that!
And of course the farm fields of Granite Falls have NEVER been tilled before 2009, that “black earth” effect is completely new to the (fake) globull warming era! Hoo boy, what a doofus our Mr Science is.
The denialist “heat island” claim was extensively examined by the IPCC in its last report and found to be baseless. The increasing temps recorded all over the globe (ocean, land, rural, urban, highland, lowland) are accurate. The IPCC climate scientists have declared the increase in global surface temps is “unequivocal”, except to ignoramuses like 6DJ.
But of course, Mr Science with his “black dirt” and “heat island” effects knows way, way more about accurate temp measuring than NOAA and NASA and all other national institutions all over the earth….God, the appalling egomania.
Hey, Jim, what was the “real” temp in Granite Falls and Mpls that day? Oh, I forgot, that data you couldn’t say—you just know the recorded measurements are comically wrong! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHA!
To be clear, I’m not making any great claims for our (latest) record heat day—I’ve seen reports that it was due mostly to an unusual front configuration. One must look to large collections of temp data when dealing with climate.
According to NASA, 2008 was the 9th warmest year globally, well within the 10 warmest years ever recorded, and 2007 was tied with 1998 as the second warmest ever. And from this data the braindead denialists bray that this constitutes proof of “global cooling!” Once a brain stops functioning, it usually can’t be restarted. 6DJ is Exhibit A.
We’ll have many, many more record high temperature days in our future, because the greenhouse effect can’t be denied, and because a major greenhouse gas, CO2, is constantly increasing due to human burning of fossil fuels, thus releasing ever more ancient, stored carbon into the atmosphere.
Those are the facts, for the rational. For the denialist irrationalists, it’s (debunked) “urban heat islands” and never-before-seen black earth farming, and no reliable temp records except their backyard in Blaine, MN—all with a whole lotta of sand in their eyes, ears and mouths. The fruits of denial.
“Hey, Jim, what was the “real†temp in Granite Falls and Mpls that day? Oh, I forgot, that data you couldn’t say—you just know the recorded measurements are comically wrong”
Record high/low temps are weather, not climate.
Day after day weather is called a weather. Measured throughout the year you get a Weather Pattern. 5 years of Weather Patterns is called a Flock. 20 Flocks is a Gaggle. Every doubleing of a Gaggle twice by threes is a Herd. After so many Herds your able to develope a Study that can be compared to, when tilted sideways and looked at from beyond, The real world climate. Then you take said Study, while gathered around the campfire at night, and repeat to all the little children. Thus it becomes a spooky story. Eventually it takes on a life of it’s own. From spooky story it develops into a 3rd rate plagerized slide show. Then governments all over the world through the money of hard working poeple at it to scare it away. Then they give it a name. A name of all names. “Globull Warming” becomes a legend and from there it is put down in book form and called a Fairy Tale.
Groups are formed to promote the book. You have the Gullabalists, the Gorists and Bulbers. Other smaller groups cuagulate into the Peddle Pushers, Hybrid Whores and Chicken Littleists. They ally themselves around a single personality that will lead them out of the darkness, King Carbon Al.
*shudder*goose*bumps*shudder*
For the 3rd year in a row we are unable to use the higher elevation campgrounds in the Cascade Mountains due to record snowpack and low temperatures.
Globull Warming? I think not.
Record high/low temps are weather, not climate.
I fully agree.
I think parth was disagreeing with me, but again with his blathering, who really knows? He thinks asphalt doesnt lead to artificial warming in dense urban areas? Ok…. )
I will stick with my original point, man can and does affect surface temperatures, of this there is no doubt.
That is different than climate, agreed.
And the Gore-ists insist on CO2 purity ie it must be the only factor in our global nightmare. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.
Parthian seems to worship at the CO2 shrine, but fortunately 20 years after the laughable James Hansen warnings, we can still get snow in Duluth and Grand Marais in late May.
The swine flu shows the weakness in our govt and its paid scientists—dont claim the sky is falling in the near future, because 99 out of 100 times, you’re gonna be wrong. And as the swine fly proved, you look like knotheads.
Hey Parth, stop wearing you facemask, the flu really isnt going to kill you—you know Obama “saved the day.”
He will save us from CO2 next!
)
Dora says:
I was a visiting nurse in those Chicago projects in the 70’s
Dora is a nurse? Or was a nurse?
Hey, wasnt she in a movie in the 1970′s with McMurphy, Chief, and Billy Bibbett?
I think that was her, I do, anybody….
was that her?
“was that her?”
No. Dora was one of the the nurse co-stars in “Debbie does Dallas”. She was the one with all the hand creams and lotions.
Hello from Pierre South Dakota. They have no state income tax here, no real problem with gangs, illegal immigration, welfare migration, etc. In other words, this is a conservate state and they don’t attract the problems that liberal policy attracts in Minnesota. Also, jobs are leaving high tax Minnesota and coming here.
Sounds perfect for a wingnut like you, 2Dim!
Say, why don’t you emigrate to SD, 2D? The 2D family could be sort of a modern day Joad clan. “Minnies” fleeing the lib’rul high-tax dust bowl seeking (low wage) jobs!
We could take up a collection at BQ and the various strib blogs where you’ve been banned for your gas expenses……it could be the beginning of an excitin’ new “low tax”, unwashed clothes, no health care, speed limit ignorin’ life for you!
In fact, if you don’t move to SD, 2D, you’re a hypocrite. Teach all us lib’rul Minnesotans a real lesson!
6DJ says: Gosh, might Paul Dorkus think heat islands of thousands of sq miles of black farmland might impact daytime temps?
I find it hilarious that “experts†use the ever expanding heat island of the metro, esp airport, to make historical comparisons on temperatures
Regardless of Paul Douglas’s politics all I took from his appearance last Friday night on Almanac was that 97 degrees was a record high metro temperature for a certain date, but I suspect 100 degrees you said Granite Falls registered was part of same heat wave.
I don’t know enough about the heat island effect in the metro to suppose that it deflects the tornadic activities to the cooler areas surrounding the Twin Cities. Does Nature have in a “greatest good for the greatest numbers” Jeremy Bentham-esque philosophy thing going? I doubt it.
I know the mother of child killed in Hugo by a recent “act of God.” Her other child was severly damaged too. She is a good Christian, and I doubt God had nothing anything to do with the tragedy.
“Tiny, both you and Hannity believe that there’s something wrong with Islam — that’s really stupid, and it shows that neither of you have been paying attention.”
“Tiny, both you and Hannity believe that there’s something wrong with Islam — that’s really stupid, and it shows that neither of you have been paying attention.”
Sorry but no but I have stated I wonder how it fits into the “Modern World”. Its backwardness in its treatment of woman on and on. I hope we see a Lutheran Islam someday soon.
And really SgtPendleton you and Dora seem to silent a lot of times to this regard.So I don’t how stupid it is to be against “Honor Killings” and “Hands being chopped of for stealing”. Or Gays or Gays being hung for being gay.
I know its stupid to be stand loudly ( even Big Mouthy) against these things and then remain silent in some hopes of gaining some “Halo” Points.
I can’t think of any major world religion ( Now I said Major ) that hasn’t conformed to the times. I do believe Islam was moving in that direct and while we sleep the traditionalist began a “war” against modernization of Islam. Thats the war in we are in now.
Read your history look at Lebanon in the 60′s, Turkey today, Jordan. Its a far cry from the way Saudi and Iran operate.
So this “battle” is really an “Islam civil war”. And I assume we would want the more moderate form to win.
Partisan,
Just about all of the problems Minnesota faces right now are caused by liberal policy.
“But regarding running a red light when no one’s coming — how is that more safe than waiting for the light to change? Or if the traffic is stopped at a light, how is moving up inbewteen the cars and running the red light safer? If someone riding a moped or motorcycle did something like that, they’d get a ticket. Why shouldn’t bikes?”
At a redlight a bicyclist should always slow to a stop if there is any trafic that otherwise has the right of way or that is inconvenienced by the biker proceeding on through. If there’s no traffic from the other direction I suppose he could circle around into the other right of way and then turn left from there if he didn’t want to remain at a stop.
In the bike lane on the left side of a one way however it is sometimes helpful to the motor traffic turning left if the cyclist goes on thru and gets out of their way. Might even have saved the recent victims life if he had. Cyclists that ride between cars, like couriers, assume the the same occupational hazard themselves. Recreational bikers on parkway trails are relatively safe. But if cycling commuters aren’t rolling they’re more at a disadvantage to MV’s than a lopsided pedestrian.
“But, I also have a friend who, after he spent 3 days in detox after his 2nd DUI, has been sober for months now and is an active member in AA. So it helps some, but there will always be some who abuse it.”
I almost forgot the other benefit society receives from having detox centers. Aside from allowing the police to “clean up Dodge” in record time each day, detoxes also provide cautionary lessons for individuals such as your friend. Rubbing shoulders with chronic recidivists and the frequent flyers in these facilities can scare someone straight. Others just “do it ’til (they’re) sick of it…do it ’til they can’t do it no more”, as the Jesse Winchester song goes.
TA’s back.
Tiny why is it takes me being a complete asshat to get you to post like a normal person?
I’m silent about it because most of those whackos (1%) don’t represent mainstream Islam (99%). If you visited a predominately Muslim country, you’d realize this is about 10 minutes. The fact is, Islam has conformed to the times — and just like Christianity, there are some folks who reject that — fundamentalists.
At a redlight a bicyclist should always slow to a stop if there is any trafic that otherwise has the right of way or that is inconvenienced by the biker proceeding on through. If there’s no traffic from the other direction I suppose he could circle around into the other right of way and then turn left from there if he didn’t want to remain at a stop.
Cars can do that too. You didn’t address my question – why should it be okay for a bike to run a red light?
But apparently, you and my mom are two of the 512 Jesse Winchester fans living in the US. LOL – I like to tease her about it because back in the late 70s, he had a song about “Stems and Seeds” and she had no idea what he was singing about.
“Cars can do that too. You didn’t address my question – why should it be okay for a bike to run a red light?”
A cyclist “running” a red light is not
what I advocate. When it comes right down to it pedestrians should wait out a red light too even if the coast is clear and even if they’re marathoners. If they need to maintain momentum they should maybe do a token detour down a ways and if the coast is absolutely clear. But hey, I’ve even ridden on sidewalks when for e.g. a moving van blocks the bike lane.
If autos do that you have anarchy when it comes to litigating loss of life and property. If a cyclist uses all the available options and suddenly becomes a pedestrian it’s unexplored legal terrain.
Yep, Katherine is back! Time to switch back to a real blog, not a tool for the democrat soci@list party.
Yep, Katherine is back! Time to switch back to a real blog, not a tool for the democrat soci@list party.
I was thinking “Time to switch back to a real blog, not a blog with garbage stories about nothing”
At least KK can raise a good discussion. Even if you don’t agree with her, it’s better than stories about bad plumbing in Washington.
Bye, 2D—don’t let the BQ door hit you in the *ss on your way out!
Our loss will be T&A’s gain, indubitably….
D2 is a double poster. He likes to join both blogs and generally posts the exact same post on both blogs.
“Our loss will be T&A’s gain, indubitably…. ”
I don’t like that Next..Next..Next.. format over there. Makes me uncomfortable.
“I don’t like that Next..Next..Next.. format over there. Makes me uncomfortable.”
Like the guy with open stalls who slips in right next to Ya, uncomfortable.
That’s fine adlib – for me it’s a lot easier to treat a bike like another vehicle if it’s following the same rules.
I don’t like that Next..Next..Next.. format over there.
I don’t get it. “Next..Next..Next..”? What does that mean? I can’t really tell the difference between the two blogs.
“D2 is a double poster.”
You’re right DJ. I’ll probably check in on the inferior blog as well. It’s funny though how the number of hits on BQ went way up only because Katherine Kerstine’s readers wanted a place to go after the Strib shut her down.
“I’ll check in on [BQ] as well”.
Thank God! I was worried BQ would lose its only racist! You know how we demonic lib’ruls love “diversity”…..
The great thing about you, 2D, is that your existence and babbling boobery is better than any argument a lib’rul could ever make against “conservatism”.
I just checked out TA. It doesn’t appear to be very different from BQ, except the topics change regularly. Just like over here, people are off topic after the second or third post. It was fun having the TA regulars over here, hope they continue to visit.
“President Barack Obama assailed North Korea Monday for new missile tests, saying the world must “stand up to” Pyongyang”
Are you guys as pumped up about the Jon and Kate plus eight Premiere tonight as I am?
“But apparently, you and my mom are two of the 512 Jesse Winchester fans living in the US. LOL – I like to tease her about it because back in the late 70s, he had a song about “Stems and Seeds†and she had no idea what he was singing about”
Didn’t want to bring your mother into it, but if she raised an intelligent son like you she probably also knew what he was singing about.
“I just checked out TA. It doesn’t appear to be very different from BQ, except the topics change regularly.”
The topics change regularly at Think Again, PLUS they are good topics, not the boring crap BQ puts out.
I should have said “boring politically correct crap BQ puts out”
Here’s a double post for ya DJ!
I went through the town of Cottonwood Minnesota (detours) on my way back home from Pierre, SD today. It was nice to see that they had a billboard dedicated to the four children killed on their school bus by an illegal alien.
LOL no Adlib – she had no idea. But she’s just kind of like that – very much thinking the best of people, and at that time, just a little naive about things like druges. I think if she’d had the opportunity to go to college, she’d have joined the Peace Corps or something like that.
D2, your posts are boring crap – unless you’re talking about something non-political, like your kids.
Sarge,
Sorry to hear that the truth bores you. Maybe that’s why you like Obama so much.
Goodnight all!
My post today is on the DDay thread below, where John I. and I discuss Memorial Day.
It was amusing to watch the new TA thread, as the TA regulars happily returned to re-enact abortion/morality arguments they likely have made dozens of times before, even if they were somewhat tangential to KK’s actual post.
Her post was vintage Bachmannite extremist, quite insane and foolish, although none of the TAers seemed too interested in it……but it’s good that they got their blog back, helluva thing to shut down a community blog!
President Obama just nominated Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Supreme Court Justice. The Bigot’s head must be ready to explode.
“The Bigot’s head must be ready to explode.”
Just like yours did when Alito was nominated?
“President Barack Obama named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice today”
The guy is “Mr Historic”
“President Obama just nominated Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Supreme Court Justice. The Bigot’s head must be ready to explode.”
Elementary school 1968 3rd grade “Class everyone is equal. We should not judge people by their race or religion or on and on and on”
So here we are 40 years later and Supreme court judges and just about everything else in our society is not based on best qualified but based on what race or gender you are.
What happen?
There is no “best qualified” person to be on the Supreme Court. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people in the country have absolutely top level experience and talent.
Alito and Roberts were picked because they were young conservative extremists, not because they were “best qualified”. They were concluded to be the most reliable crazed right wingers that could be found by Bushco. Their actual qualifications were no better than many, many others.
And the GOoP base expected white males to be nominated as well. That’s what “conservatives” like to see—-keeping things looking the way they always have looked, with white people in charge and on top of the heap.
Her post was vintage Bachmannite extremist, quite insane and foolish
Typical. Don’t bother refuting any of it, just make fun of it. Sounds like your mind has gone soft from reading too much garbage about bad plumbing in Washington or Eric Paulsen’s thoughts on meeting the President. But yeah, THIS is the good blog…
I’m anxious to see what kind of smear and fear campaign the far right wages against Sotomayor. Remember, Steele is trying to turn the GOP into a big tent party and now the drug addled gasbags are going to come out raging against the first Hispanic woman Supreme Court nominee. Anyone care to predict how low the GOP can go in the Hispanic approval polls? I’m thinking single digits but I’ve always been an optimist.
DJ, she used the Memorial Day holiday — which is suposed to honor people who died fighting for us — to make a political point about the size of government. That was dumb.
Imagine if a liberal columnist would have said, “Today is Memorial Day…and this is a great case for why we should raise taxes on rich people.” It would be ridiculed – and rightly so.
You seemed to really miss her column – and that’s fine, but it was nothing but a (lame) attempt to suggest conservative values are universal values — that’s b.s. and Parth is right in pointing that out.
And the GOoP base expected white males to be nominated as well. That’s what “conservatives†like to see—-keeping things looking the way they always have looked, with white people in charge and on top of the heap.
Just as the Dem base expected, as was reported weeks ago, a hispanic (qualification #1 in the Offical Liberal Guide to Saving the World) female (qualifcation #2 in the Offical Liberal Guide to Saving the World) that’s what guilty white liberals like to see.
Give yourselves a pat on the back, you deserve it.
that’s what guilty white liberals like to see.
You mean a court that is representative of our nation? Is that what us guilty white liberals like to see?
Us guilty white liberals must’ve had quite a say when O’Connor was nominated, or when Thomas was nominated. O’Connor was the best thing to come out of the Reagan regime, and that’s not saying a lot but there it is. Thomas continues to be an embarrassment but Bush nominated him to be a conservative tool and he has fulfilled that role magnificently. Our President Obama has broken new ground and nominated a Hispanic woman who will now be fully vetted and then subject to a confirmation vote. I think this is a little early to cast this decision aside so easily. This is certainly not going to be a “Harriet Miers” moment for our President Obama.
If the GOP is really concerned about Hispanics (they aren’t), they’d paint her as not representative of true Hispanic values — that’d be hard to do in her case, since she’s got a story that lots of Hispanics can sympathize with.
The GOP threw away a lot of that nascent support when they took a hard right turn on immigration.
DJ:
What was amazing about Kersten’s first post is how nothing has changed. There was no financial melt down. The lack of effective regulation nearly collapsed the banks. Thousands have lost employment. And yet even though the government response has been to avoid and economic catastrophe, Kersten sees the government as just deciding on a whim to take over the American economy.
It is painfully obvious that Kersten has no clue of what has happened and how to fix it. It appears that Kersten does not think there ever was anything to fix.
With someone this clueless, DJ, why would anyone notice or care what Kersten is saying?
If the Supreme Court was truly reflective of American Demographics, it would look like this:
7 White
1 African American
1 Asian
4 or 5 would be women
1 would be Hispanic or Latino of any race
See that, CS, that’s how you get liberal heads to explode, send them on an all expenses paid guilt trip.
I learned how to do that from my mother
“Typical. Don’t bother refuting any of it”
I wrote a lengthy post at TA demolishing KK’s extremist nonsense, the only commenter to even address KK idiot arguments.
And the last I checked, no T&A had written a syllable in response. Typical.
DJ, she used the Memorial Day holiday — which is suposed to honor people who died fighting for us — to make a political point about the size of government.
These are KK’s first two paragraphs:
On Memorial Day, we honor our nation’s warriors and their courageous defense of freedom. Their sacrifice is the highest and best, but it comes with an important caveat.
Our soldiers defend freedom outside our borders, but it is the rest of us who must constantly strive to build and maintain it within. While America’s troops patrol the mountains of Afghanistan, we must guard against encroachments on freedom here at home. It is up to us to ensure that our way of life is worthy of protection by our men and women in uniform.
It seems like she did a pretty good job of honoring our troops. She utilized it to segue into her point about big government. What’s dumb about that?
but it was nothing but a (lame) attempt to suggest conservative values are universal values
Can you tell me how you got this out of the column? I didn’t get that. She was expressing her opinion. That’s her job.
You mean a court that is representative of our nation? Is that what us guilty white liberals like to see?
I think he was trying to say that main consideration that went into the pick was that it not be a white male. Everyone else is qualified. I’m not saying she isn’t qualified (I know almost nothing about her), for the record.
With someone this clueless, DJ, why would anyone notice or care what Kersten is saying?
Why would anyone care what is written by the BQ authors? But if you want to only read things that you agree with and not challenge your mind at all, feel free. That’s your choice and quite frankly, I don’t give two sh!ts if you ever come back.
You mean a court that is representative of our nation? Is that what us guilty white liberals like to see?
What do guilty white liberals want to see? Whatever distracts them from the fact that their closest contact with a person of color was that time they sat two rows down from the one black kid (who was raised in Edina) in their sociology 101 class.
I’m sure Sotomayor is well qualified, but that has nothing to do with why she was chosen. Obama’s white, liberal half chose her.
“And the last I checked, no T&A had written a syllable in response. Typical.”
You’re suprised that no TAers are paying attention to you? Nice ego there buddy.
“I’m anxious to see what kind of smear and fear campaign the far right wages against Sotomayor.”
I’m sure they look to the “Borking” of Miguel Estrada for hints.
“I’m sure Sotomayor is well qualified, but that has nothing to do with why she was chosen. Obama’s white, liberal half chose her.”
This is true. Just like W’s white, conservative half(actually, more like 3/4 to 7/8s) chose Roberts.
“This is true. Just like W’s white, conservative half(actually, more like 3/4 to 7/8s) chose Roberts.”
I belive Bush is half white conservative, half white conservative,
and half white conservative.
The Big question is, did Bush choose Roberts BECAUSE he is white?
Because DJ, I find it offensive that someone would take a holiday that’s supposed to be about REMEMBERING soliders who died for our country, and use that as a rationale and excuse to promote her political agenda — small government. It’s disrespectful.
It’s like this: “Today is Memorial Day, a day we remember soliders who gave the last measure of themselves to their country. Which is also a great day to remember to use a measure of Crest Whitening Gel every day! To keep your pearly whites pearly white!”
For someone who died serving our country, today’s political parties and disagreements are about as significant as toothpaste. The value of their sacrifce transcends any petty political argument. It should never be minimized — KK minimized it by using it to make a point. That sucks.
I can’t say I’m surprised by it.
I find it offensive that someone would take a holiday that’s supposed to be about REMEMBERING soliders who died for our country, and use that as a rationale and excuse to promote her political agenda
So you’re saying that political columns can’t be written on Memorial Day? At least not if they mention our soldiers at the beginning? Paul Allen, local sports talk radio host posted this on his blog on Memorial Day.
Bless all those who have defended our country. To leave your nookie-blanky and head a zillion miles overseas is something most of us cannot comprehend. I know I cannot.
Leaving families and heading into potentially perilous conditions to represent The Colors is admirable and for whatever it’s worth I pray for those who give like that, past, present and future.… MY HORSE: SIR SWERVALOT ran a game third but wasn’t good enough to win Sunday at Canterbury. I touted BERT BLYLEVEN, at the track yesterday with the SAMPSON family, and he made a win bet. Secured him to join The ‘Show this week, so hopefully that’s not in jeopardy after said defeat. After losing a wager on ‘Swervy I thought, “Bankroll dead, wife nagging, bit diseased.” We’ll get them next time.
Certainly it’s not disrespectful to honor our troops and then move on to something else, is it? And, as Mrs. Kersten said, I do believe it’s important that while “[o]ur soldiers defend freedom outside our borders, but it is the rest of us who must constantly strive to build and maintain it within.”
I fully agree with that statement. Then she went on to describe what she would like to see happen with the country. You obviously don’t agree with what she wants because you are on different sides of the political spectrum, but that doesn’t make her views disrespectful to our troops. That’s all I’m saying…
“The Big question is, did Bush choose Roberts BECAUSE he is white?”
Again, this is true. Especially in contrast to O’s selection(ie Sotomayor got the nod, according to the right, because she is female AND hispanic).
And to be honest, I have no idea if ethnicity played as large a role in the Roberts selection as did political philosophy. One would think that if there was a minority, especially a female minority, candidiate available at the time that could pass the political litmus test, he/she/it would have been put out there.
I mean, you don’t think the dems are the only ones engaged in race/gender pandering, do you?
“The Big question is, did Bush choose Roberts BECAUSE he is white?â€
Or perhaps because he was Catholic? To preempt the selection of yet another Catholic of any race before nominating for e.g. an Evangelical or at least considering a Judge of another faith, or lack therof?
I guess Barack wasn’t too concerned about that demographic and I’m sure the Pope could not possibly comment.
DJ, I’m not sure your Saint Katherine is the same one who’s column I read.
Obviously, she can write whatever she wants on memorial day, but I think you’re intentionally ignoring my point — following the D2 method of debate: keep repeating your point over and over again without acknowledging what the other person says. So you’ll be relieved to know this is my last post on this issue. The day is meant to honor those who gave the ulitimate sacrifice. She’s not honoring them by using it to promote her agenda – period.
Paul Allen is confusing Memorial Day with Veterans’ Day. It’s silly and stupid to make light of it in that way, but I consider what KK did worse.
I lied. One more post: it’s not her views that are disrespectful, it’s that she’s using what’s essentially their day to promote her agenda. She’s not saying, “Hey today’s memorial day.” and then moving on to something else. She’s making a connection between the day and her issue of big bad government.
I don’t know why this is so hard for you to understand. What if I said, “Today’s Memorial Day. Just like our parents and grandparents fought for us, we should fight for free and easy abortions for all women.” The principle of what she’s doing is the same – she’s linking the holiday to her agenda.
Yeah but SgtP, you forget, IOKIYAR (translation: it’s ok if you’re a Republican).
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