* So it’s looks like Rick Perry is dropping out. He seemed like such a good candidate with his conservative credentials and Texas jobs record, but then in the debates he appeared inebriated, confused, and like he wasn’t completely familiar with the English language. It was just a scary prospect to make him our nominee. Also, him calling most Republicans “heartless” for not wanting to pay for college tuition of illegal aliens indicated that maybe he didn’t have a firm a grasp of conservative principles as we thought.
It seems strange he’d drop out only two days before the South Carolina primary… unless he really wants to see Mitt Romney defeated. Intrade had Gingrich with an 8% chance of winning that primary, but now he’s jumped to 30%. So maybe there is a chance to finally bring down the establishment candidate Romney who is being shoved down our throats and instead elect the insurgent… former Speaker of the House.
What are we trying to do again?
* Iowa said that Santorum actually won their primary caucus by 34 votes… but they can’t certify it cause pigs done ate the votes or something. Why do we let Iowa be the first primary state to vote? If they can’t even get a simple vote together, I’m starting to wonder why we even let them be a state.
* Obama has decided not to approve the Keystone pipeline. It would have provided oil and jobs, but it’s not like we really need any of that right now. What it also would have done is make environmentalists unhappy, and can you really put a price tag on the happiness of environmentalists? If you did, it would apparently be billions of dollars.
* Obama is claiming in new ads that evil billionaires are after him. Oh no, poor millionaire being bullied by billionaires!
Hey, if you ever want a good example of a millionaire who has done nothing useful to society to earn it, you got a great example sitting right there in the White House. What useful thing has Obama ever done that would lead to him being rich? Community organizer? His success does seem like an indictment of capitalism.
* According to a recent poll, 52% of people think Obama has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing.” So next time someone charges that Obama has ruined the economy, he can point to this poll and say, “No, most people say I’ve hardly done anything at all.”
* Wisdom of the Day from Brian Lehman:
Movies are best enjoyed knowing nothing about guns, computers, science, or human nature.
* I finally figured out what’s bothered me so much about all the anti-SOPA stuff. It’s that a lot of people outraged by it are the same people who are for ignorant politicians regulating everything else in our lives. It’s like they don’t care if we’re free in the real world, but they just want to pretend to be free online. Why can’t they muster this outrage when know-nothing idiots tell us what light bulbs we can buy or people who’ve never even held a gun try to dictate how they should be made?
And really, the government has more of a claim to regulate the internet than other things since it created the internet — or at least Senators Al Gore and Ted Stevens did when they duct taped together a bunch of tubes.
pigs done ate the votes or something. Why do we let Iowa be the first primary?
Pigs didn’t eat the votes. It’s “or something”, in this case the “something” being that we turned the votes in ethanol, which I have graciously agreed to store
in my basement.
Also, Iowa not only doesn’t have the first primary, it doesn’t have a primary at all. It has a caucus, which combines all the worst but most-amusing characteristics of a primary, hog-calling, and Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (both of whose physiques would fit in quite well here) playing Twister.
Not only does Iowa have a caucus, the caucus vote on Jan 3 was a “poll” and not the actual vote. At least, that’s what I heard.
But of course, Romney won Iowa regardless of the vote or poll or whatever they do there with their pigs.
The same leftist groups who are against SOPA (a stand which I agree with) are also the same groups pushing hard for “Net Neutrality” regulations which would allow the FCC to essentially regulate the whole internet any way they wanted.
Iowa doesn’t have the first primary. New Hampshire does. Get it right or I’ll tell everyone you keep naked pinups of Nancy Pelosi under your bed. ROAR!
– Love,
Carolyn the native NH reader
The pigs didn’t so much eat the ballots as convert them into bacon. You don’t hear anybody complaining about more bacon now do you?
Absolutely right about the SOPA protests. When I saw Google (which allows China to censor its content) and Wikipedia whining I immediately became pro-SOPA without knowing anything about them. Conservative reflex: When I see protesting, I immediately disagree with it just in case, but find out what it’s all about so I can change my mind if necessary. 95% of protests are done by hippies with dumb monkey faces.
Rick Perry was a great candidate until he opened his mouth.
“Obama is claiming in new ads that evil billionaires are after him.”
Obviously, that was a translation error. It should have read, the world’s most evil billionaire is behind him. Surprised Soros’ people didn’t catch that error.
I don’t think the Canadians have too much to worry about. The Chinese will gladly buy their oil if we don’t want it. With all the money we’re sending China in interest payments on our debt America will actually be buying the oil for them. So it’s a win-win for everyone….except for the US. But as you mentioned the environmentalists will be placated and how can you put a price tag on that?
Of course evil billionaires are out to get Obama. The majority of them are members of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy™.
So… Santorum won Iowa and Rasmussen now has Gingrich up by a point in South Carolina. That turns Mr. Inevitability into just a former governor from a liberal New England state that has only won in a neighboring liberal New England state (where Democrats are allowed to vote in the Republican primary). Add that to being the guy who lost to the guy that lost to Obama last time and suddenly everyone is starting to acknowledge that the emperor has no clothes.
But as you mentioned the environmentalists will be placated and how can you put a price tag on that?
I’d use a pneumatic nail gun to put a price tag on an environmentalist, myself.
SOPA is scary, and I’m not one who’s always pushing for regulation. SOPA is the spawn of Hollywood. Enough said? Worse, SOPA is crafted by Hollywood and US Senators. Alarm bells? Nah, no problem because the Justice Department will enforce it. That Holder guy would never take political considerations into account in a question of whether to
shut downpressure a website over an alleged violation.Somewhere, there is a liberal who is exclaiming that conservatives aren’t so much concerned about the Constitution when it comes to the First versus the Second Amendment.
Mebbe I can ‘splain this in language that conservatives can understand: The powers under SOPA are to the Internet what national gun registration would be to firearms.
Give all of North America’s oil to China.
The government may have created the government, but it bloody well didn’t further its innovation. I cede all other arguments to Burmashave on this matter.
The key to enjoying movies is to watch only anything you might see on TCM.
White Heat? Yes, thank you, very much, TCM.
Top of the world, ma.
@Iowa Jim: Dude, I am certainly glad I wasn’t eating when you regaled us with the mental picture of two huts playing twister.
So I read that most of the Iowa votes that are unaccounted for were for romney. So tell me again why its a bad thing that pigs eat votes?
Anagrams! Hippies hate Anagrams!
Movies are best enjoyedPoliticians make laws for us knowing nothing about guns, computers, science, or human nature.There, fixed it.
So, you mean if Christina Ricci fires a gun powerful enough to lift Michael Clarke Duncan two feet off the ground and send him flying 20 feet backward, the recoil would also be powerful enough to knock her at least an equal distance up and back? Pfft! Physics, schmysics!
There is a large backlash against SOPA. However, I can’t help but wonder how many of those protesting are thinking SOAP?
Best joke on the site: seeing an ad from the Democratic Governors Association in the Google AdSense window on thew left.
15 anagrams? Maybe it’s “Hippies hate Granmaas…”
SOPA: Internet control brought to you by the same folks that don’t understand health care.
SOPA: The latest and potentially most far reaching effort by the same folks convinced Congress to make it illegal to sell a DVD player that lets you skip over upcoming previews if the maker wills it — ostensibly so you can’t skip the scary “FBI Warning.” The same folks who produced a “powerful” encryption scheme for DVD’s, so powerful that it took about 47 days to crack it. I recall that reverse engineering that encryption (and copying a copyright DVD) is still illegal. It is still illegal to export that code out of the US. The same folks who fought tooth and nail against recording telecasts and renting movies after VCR’s came out. The same group, and this would be before some of you were born, that fought against the recording of vinyl albums to magnetic tape. The same folks who made it illegal to sell a DVD player with the wrong country code — a “security” feature designed only to allow Hollywood to do rolling film releases. The same organizations that fought tooth and nail against ripping MP3’s from compact disks — to the degree that Sony actually loaded its CD’s with rootkits that could phone home if the user copied the content. The same group that got famous for attempting to fight P2P with bots that fingered 70 year-old grandmothers — who didn’t know what an MP3 is.
I’d call that a bad track record. The problem is that they’ve finally figgured out how to go after the testicles of the Internet. If you can control DNS, you can control very much.
Oh, and the same folks who came very close to requiring chips be installed on all computers in order to prevent alleged unauthorized copying. That one died after significant protest. Mebbe the protest came from hippies. If it did, I’d walk up to them and shake their monkey hands.
Hee hee. I love that FrankJ fixed it. Good man, Frank. Good man.
Saw a sign today along the interstate here in Minnesota. “Concentrate on Driving”. And I slapped myself on the forehead and thought “you idiot”…all these years and you haven’t been concentrating on driving! So from now on I am going to be concentrating on driving so I won’t have much time to think of anything else! I’m concentrating on it right now…
I had to Google ‘save a pretzel for the gas jets’.
Now I get it.
It’s true what they say, “He who laughs last, didn’t get the joke.”