* Happy Veteran’s Day! And happy birthday to my brother, Joe foo’ the Marine. Funny how his birthday almost always lands on the same day as Veteran’s Day.
Anyway, thanks to all veterans who, by killing evil foreigners, allows me the cushy life of being able to earn money making fun of politics.
* A national poll still has Herman Cain on top with Newt Gingrich now tying Romney for second. Of course, a national poll means little since a few freak states are what actually determines who is ahead, but I’m still holding out hope for an upset. Every time all the pundits are all wrong, an angel gets its wings.
* Obama has yet again made another bold declaration of “Present!” Since the decision on whether to build the Keystone pipeline put him between environmentalists and union workers, he’s punted the issue until after the 2012 election. I thought this guy liked jobs and stuff? Oh wait, he likes his job and wants to do whatever he can to keep it, even if practically it makes him a useless coward. Hopefully, after November 2012, he’ll be able to make a decision on the pipeline with a clear head knowing he’ll only have the job for a couple more months.
* Leo Panetta is warning that sweeping military cuts would invite aggression. Does he mean from the enemy or from Republicans?
* Cain has apologized for calling Nancy Pelosi “Princess Nancy”. Pelosi’s actual title in the harpy hierarchy is “Grand Buzzard”.
* Now people are getting shot over Occupy Oakland. This whole movement started as some vague strike against Wall Street, and now it seems more like they’re trying to start the planet of the apes.
* Wisdom of the Day: “This 1% everyone keeps talking about are the critics who liked Jack and Jill, right?” –Cole Stratton
* BTW, I’ll be taking next week off from my day job. Part of that is because my aforementioned brother is visiting home on leave, and the other part is to leave me free to promote my book which comes out next Tuesday. So, still expect me to blog each day — and also probably have some radio appearances to announce.
Amazon has started ranking my book
Hilarious! Harvard students have a gated “Occupy” camp – only Harvard students (and, presumably, their valets) are allowed in.
Cat, I say you should go leave some ‘presents’ in their camp.
Nancy is much more like an evil step-mother than a princess.
Tempting, Carolyn, mighty tempting. But Lord knows what I might catch. I hate fleas – even the well-heeled 1% fleas. I think I’ll stay with my relatively sanitary litter box.
Frank….The birthday was yesterday…November 10th! I’m surprised Joe Foo didn’t smack you for getting it wrong!
I though Nancy was the archetypical evil stepmother/queen from the Disney movies. Butercup will get you familair with those soon enough.
People are getting shots at Occupy Oakland? That’s probably a good thing as Occupy Atlanta tested positive for drug-resistant Tuberculosis. I’m sure Oakland could use the protection.
Oh… wait. They’re getting “shot.” You mean, “shot-shot?”
Whoa. So the bottom 99% of the top 1% hates the top 1% of the top 1%? I wonder if the bottom 99% of the bottom 99% hates the top 1% of the bottom 99%?
Somebody needs to spread this idea to the OWS crowd posthaste. It might throw them into an infinite loop like happened in that sci-fi show and they’ll turn on each other. No, not that one, the other one.
On second thought, that whole plan hinges on OWS knowing how percentages work, so it’s probably a bust. As an unstable anti-semite once said, “those occupiers are animals! animals! do you know what animals are?”
Frank, you have your mission and your moment: Beat Bill Maher and make him cry like the pants-crappin’ sister-baby he is.
Hmmm.
So, they’re getting “shot-shot,” eh?
Apparently, other things are going on too, like:
death-death
rape-rape
sick-sick
mace-mace
shout-shout
grope-grope
cuff-cuff
dumb-dumb
@Jimmy: Oh… wait. They’re getting “shot.” You mean, “shot-shot?”
He means “put a cap in yo bitch ass” shot.
Obama made another bold decision, like waiting on the golf course for hours before offing bin Lauden? That kind of bold decision? Or to add butter to his waffles bold decision?
shot-shot
drunk-drunk
lazy-lazy
flea infested-flea infested
@Crabby – another reason why DamnCat is staying home! It ain’t just the fleas-fleas.
@DamnCat,
Great link…and I love how they’re “occupying” in shifts, so that students fill in while the other students go to class. Someday, this will make for a great recounting of their tinge of rebelliousness during their college years, to be shared over drinks at the club.
Does he mean from the enemy or from Republicans?
Same thing to the democrats
“put a cap in yo bitch ass”?
Caps are now worn by “yo bitches” INSIDE their hind ends? Is Macy’s having a Black Friday sale on “ladies ass caps”? Or are “ass caps” the sort of things sold in the “incontinence” section of the Rexall?
“Anyway, thanks to all veterans who, by killing evil foreigners, allows me the cushy life of being able to earn money making fun of politics.”
You are definitely welcome. It is for great Americans like you that we go into harms way. I certainly did not do it for any stinking hippy since they can literally described as the domestic enemy.
“Amazon has started ranking my book, and it’s already number 3 in political humor for the Kindle. Hopefully it can get past Bill Maher when it actually comes out.”
Who?
What Richard said. -Me (former submariner)
I am organizing the occupy IMAO movement. We want FrnakJ to give us free stuff and nuke the moon shirts and bacon, and tuna, and pictures of t-shirt babes on cars with guns. We also have other demands as soon as someone tells us what they are.!
@Jimmy: My daddy’s sub, the USS Pickerel.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0852403.jpg
Fair winds and following seas, sailor. Thanks for your service.
Crabby, much appreciated. I sincerely hope your Daddy’s sub was the SS-524 and not the SS-177 lost in WWII. In any case, thank your Dad for his service for me, wherever he is!
And to all the active duty service men and women – you ARE veterans. Thank you! and come home safe.
From the fields of Saratoga to the ridges of Gettysburg to the woods near Chateau-Thierry to the skies over the enemy at Midway to the wastes of North Korea to the sweat and blood of Hue to the rocks of Afghanistan to the valleys of Iraq, the world stands amazed at the few.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll keep saying it until told to stifle. Brokaw did our vets a disservice by calling our WWII vets the greatest generation. To be sure, they were a very special breed; however, as one who reads military history, they are all our greatest generations.
The valor of our service men and women has remained constant since the War of Independence, even during times we have not been constant in our support.
Whenever I discover someone is vet, I thank them for their service. It is always appreciated. A couple of weeks ago, I thanked a sailor (Viet Nam or post Viet Nam), and he said that no one had ever thanked him before. I felt weird to be the first in 40 years to personally thank him.
Thank you to all here who served. It’d be an honor to do so in person.
We don’t deserve the fine women and men in uniform! But America is a special place that produces the best and the brightest such as these! God Bless each of you and offer His protection to you in coming weeks, months and years! We cherish each one of you for your service and the protection you offer us and our freedoms! Kick some ass and then come home safe!
@Jimmy: SS-524. That picture was taken in 1952. Dad is alive and kicking.
Burma,
I’ve embraced my love for the Civil War this year. And I can say that you’re right about Brokaw. But what can you expect for the media? Don’t make me rant about this Penn State business again. The ignorance in this country appalls me, especially when it shows in regards to the military and great but flawed men like Paterno. Rand was right about one thing at least. Stupid people with powerful voices constantly tear down greatness, and they do it intentionally and unintentionally.
Anyway, I highly recommend you do some reading on Civil War battle history. I’m continually amazed when I read about the fighting of the 24th Michigan on the first day, the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, the 1st Minnesota filling the gap on the second day, the Irish Brigade in the Wheat Field, the Gibraltar Brigade at Cemetery Hill, and on and on – all at Gettysburg alone. That my own great great grandfather was there with the 107th Pennsylvania is, of course,
I hit the comment button too soon. That my ancestor was there is, of course, essentially icing on the cake if you will.
That’s great.
Which side was he fighting for?
Oh. PA. Okay. My eyeballs suck.
Wildo, Marko. Recommend a title or two and I’ll take a look. I’m more of a 20th century guy, but I should prolly try for some variety. I tried to wade my way through Grant’s autobiography, but I couldn’t, although he was a superb writer.
For those who don’t know, Grant was swindled on a business deal and found out he was penniless just before he contracted cancer. In order to provide for his wife after his death, he decided to write his autobiography and did so at a furious rate — all the while racked with pain, often excruciating pain. He finished the masterpiece five days before he died. The book brought his wife a fortune ($10M in current dollars) after he died.
Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb: A great man and his wife.
Since we won’t be nuking the news until Monday, I thought this Op Ed from the NYT merits mention. You see, the plan for us to become an economic powerhouse is to abandon Taiwan. How will this magically transform our economy? Here’s where the genius of the plan comes. We get China to forgive $1.4 trillion of debt in order for us to leave Taiwan. LA! The beauty of the plan! The author admits that we’ll turn our backs on Taiwan soon anyway. We might as well make some money for abandoning another ally.
Think about it. How much could we get from Saudis for abandoning Israel? Lots! I don’t think we get anything for abandoning France.
Oh, great, thanks Crabby – I can’t get your link to load to see it. But when I was on “pig boats,” we used to talk about the great boats and the Pickerel was one of them.
Shouldn’t we send Jerry Sandouski into OWS to “care” for some of the children and spread the love around? Perp State, indeed!
It’s time for enviro-mentalists to set a good example and live in pipe free homes!! That pipe in Alaska has caused massive overpopulation of those moose like things, one of the leading causes of GLOBAL WARMING O_O !!! Everyone knows that.
I wonder how many billions of gallons of oil this stupid pipe will pass right over on it’s way to…where ever it’s going? Maybe they’re right, screw the pipe and just drill for oil instead! No pipe, “problem” solved. How hard was that?
I hope our US veterans took advantage of “Free Punch A Hippie” day yesterday.
“Grand Buzzard”? NO! Buzzards are useful in cleaning up a mess. Here are some better choices from the Stanford-Binet scores;
Genius
Very superior
Superior
Average
Dull
Borderline deficient
Moron
Imbecile
Idiot
With due respect for the voters and the Constitution, I pick Moron
Meh, I’m good on not going forward with the pipeline, at least as it is laid out now. If they re-route it away from the fresh water source, that’s fine. If you think a shortage of oil is bad, try a water shortage. Not that a pipeline means automatic water contamination, but I think water is precious enough that it is more prudent to just move the pipeline away. I think the enviros got this one right (at least as far as the water part goes; I still say build the pipeline).
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114172-Barrel-Aided-Crime-Spree-Ravages-Skyrim
Ahhhhhh!!
/insert Obama Bucket joke
Gaaaaaaa. Enough with the pipeline already. There already IS a Keystone pipeline, runs from Alberta to Oklahoma. Google Transcanada, XL map.The XL project just extends it to Texas where the refineries are, and adds a branch thru Montana to pick up some actual American crude from the Bakken shale there. What I didn’t realize til today was that without XL the crude will be hauled in RAILROAD cars. That happen to belong to Obama’s buddy Warren Buffett. Are thousands of railroad tankers less likely to leak than a pipeline? Billions a year to Buffett if Obama kills XL. What a deal.
Oh, and the syncrude from the Alberta sands is cleaner than regular crude oil; you can’t shove the bitumen tar thru a pipe so you partly refine it ( upgrading) on site in Alberta. Yes, Frank, an engineering degree IS a curse. Like taking the red pill, sorta. You can’t go back.
Good Luck on the book. I will buy a copy.