tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post1059251682534563216..comments2024-03-19T07:20:02.485-05:00Comments on Althouse: Fake outrage over Alan Simpson's twist on the phrase "sucking on the government tit."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55679424529401636682010-08-26T22:24:21.511-05:002010-08-26T22:24:21.511-05:00Thanks, DBQ.Thanks, DBQ.jungathearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052796343893692840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38191221463691843542010-08-26T22:05:43.495-05:002010-08-26T22:05:43.495-05:00Perhaps this is small beans, but the proper term i...Perhaps this is small beans, but the proper term is milch cow not milk cow.<br /><br />thanks,<br />tommypUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053830138060194237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55384418056094445302010-08-26T20:36:17.420-05:002010-08-26T20:36:17.420-05:00I'll certainly concede that on the day numbnut...I'll certainly concede that on the day numbnuts left office unemployment was just under 8% seasonally adjusted. I'll also concede that it peaked by the end of last year above 10% and has at least halted its wild ride up.<br /><br />I won't concede that Bush's policies pushed the economy over the edge of the cliff and it was a miracle that Obama could rescue things and keep them from going to unrecoverable depths.<br /><br />I fail to see how Obama is responsible for Bush's disaster...but then again when 9-11 happened that was blamed on Clinton so I guess there is some precedent for blaming the guy before you. Right folks?<br /><br />Oh and Bob...no roses yet for the Obamaman but if you want to pin the tail on the donkey, I think Bush is in Texas hiding out. Can't miss him. Looks like Alfred E. Newman without the flicker of intelligence.Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57842196624814884052010-08-26T20:18:23.392-05:002010-08-26T20:18:23.392-05:00Unadjusted in the last month of Bush's office ...Unadjusted in the last month of Bush's office the unemployment rate had climbed to 7.6 percent. I read somewhere that it could be higher today, but then I live in the real world and am not scraping by in the cheap seats on the east end of the long island.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61538342937561464832010-08-26T20:13:19.202-05:002010-08-26T20:13:19.202-05:00HD - Bush left office on Jan 21, 2009. It was Oba...HD - Bush left office on Jan 21, 2009. It was Obama who promised that the Stimulus bill would keep the unemployment rate from exceeding 8 percent. After 18+ months in office, 63 percent of stimulus funds spent, and a 9.5 percent umemployment rate - its past time to pin the rose on the Obamaman.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11415427249898754955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20672428492408939042010-08-26T20:11:34.262-05:002010-08-26T20:11:34.262-05:00HD House: You are wrong. Under no system of meas...HD House: You are wrong. Under no system of measurement was the unemployment rate as high at the end of Bush's term as it is now. <br /><br />Stupid. Drunk. Fool.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74533891273252205282010-08-26T20:00:51.404-05:002010-08-26T20:00:51.404-05:00Michael said...
"That was my point about the...Michael said... <br />"That was my point about the unemployment rate being about twice the rate now as at the end of GWB. You dumb fuck."<br /><br />now now little Michael. I know reading with comprehension is a challenge to you. The stats you cite were "yearly average" unemployment rates not "when Bush left office". If you look back you'll find that in the beginning of 2008 the non-adjusted unemployment rate was under 5%. In the last 3 months of Bush's term and during the first 4 months of 2009, the mess THAT BUSH CREATED rose to present levels. The true unemployment rate is probably twice what is recorded at BLS which is what they and most experts freely admit. And you can scream "don't blame bush" all you want but his policies were a catastrophe of mismanagement, greed and bungling. Simply put, the economy went into the crapper under his "leadership" and was in freefall when Obama took office.<br /><br />No one is arguing that there isn't rampant unemployment right now and that jobs are scarce. The point, numbnuts, is that unemployment took hold under Bush and accelerated at the fastest pace since the depression.<br /><br />Don't get so touchy about being stupid ok? I understand your need to vindicate that looser but your dog just doesn't hunt. Take comfort in the fact that you aren't alone - half the world is below average.Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32544237726068233932010-08-26T18:59:30.549-05:002010-08-26T18:59:30.549-05:00What? No tit bits? Is there an anglophile in the h...What? No tit bits? Is there an anglophile in the house. <br /><br />Just for a while.M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81080498035127776312010-08-26T18:40:13.320-05:002010-08-26T18:40:13.320-05:00HD: Oh, I forgot, my point. My point is that you...HD: Oh, I forgot, my point. My point is that you shouldn't post when drunk or hungover which puts a window of about 5 mid day hours. Tops. That was my point about the unemployment rate being about twice the rate now as at the end of GWB. You dumb fuck.<br /><br />http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htmMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74689464645133387512010-08-26T18:36:20.186-05:002010-08-26T18:36:20.186-05:00HD: So the unemployment rate 18 months ago was hi...HD: So the unemployment rate 18 months ago was higher than now? Thanks for a liberal's view. Glad things are demonstrably better under the new leadership.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41632853817175995402010-08-26T18:31:26.676-05:002010-08-26T18:31:26.676-05:00BJM said...
"What a bunch of cry babies and h...BJM said...<br />"What a bunch of cry babies and humorless scolds."<br /><br />yeah that john boehner is really something and mcconnell...a regular laugh riot...<br /><br />anyway, you are right....although i scold myself for every letting Bush get near the oval office and it does wring the humor right out of me to think that anyone misses that dolt.Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58199982636906132842010-08-26T18:28:37.956-05:002010-08-26T18:28:37.956-05:00Michael said...
HD House: Remind me, what was the ...Michael said...<br />HD House: Remind me, what was the unemployment rate when Bush left office?"<br /><br />higher than now and we have added about 3 million new persons into the measured pool of eligble workers...what is your point?Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9154269929845924882010-08-26T17:46:19.959-05:002010-08-26T17:46:19.959-05:00Sometimes I think Ann Althouse is really not very ...<i>Sometimes I think Ann Althouse is really not very bright. <br /></i><br /><br />Imagine, then, what we think of <i>you</i>.Charlie Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586506407851173416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84500712583392299912010-08-26T17:40:16.316-05:002010-08-26T17:40:16.316-05:00Oh and by the way AllenS, the Dow was in the middl...<i>Oh and by the way AllenS, the Dow was in the middle $7000 the last day of Bush's presidency....so what was your point again?</i><br /><br />Well, the Democrats did promise a "New Direction" during their 2006 campaign. <br /><br />Unfortunately for everyone, the direction the Democrats decided to take America was <b>down</b>.AC245https://www.blogger.com/profile/12345073208349984409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20178745047650408062010-08-26T17:20:37.689-05:002010-08-26T17:20:37.689-05:00HD House: Remind me, what was the unemployment ra...HD House: Remind me, what was the unemployment rate when Bush left office?Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63746439159453571162010-08-26T17:16:35.592-05:002010-08-26T17:16:35.592-05:00My grandfather raised milk cows and sold Surge mil...My grandfather raised milk cows and sold Surge milking machines. I still have a glass they gave away as a promotional item, which had their marketing slogan during the middle of the last century. It was a farmer pointing at a cow with only one of the items in question. He was saying, "If I had only one cow, and she had only one tit, I'd still user my Surge milker!"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964480012987102443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22242920836788147052010-08-26T17:13:50.594-05:002010-08-26T17:13:50.594-05:00AllenS said...
" I wonder what Barack and Mi...AllenS said... <br />" I wonder what Barack and Michelle did today? Are they eating well? "<br /><br />spoken by one who doesn't appear to have missed too many meals....<br /><br />Oh and by the way AllenS, the Dow was in the middle $7000 the last day of Bush's presidency....so what was your point again?Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50750306410336064642010-08-26T17:08:58.273-05:002010-08-26T17:08:58.273-05:00I am reminded of Henry Ford's refusal to build...I am reminded of Henry Ford's refusal to build other than four cylinder cars because he had "no use for an engine that has more spark plugs than a cow has teats."<br /><br />Didn't stop him from buying Henry Leland's Lincoln plant, though.<br /><br />"Sucking the government tit" to mean accepting money for value or not is a very, very old expression. Simpson needs to get booted with the rest of the crowd I disparaged yesterday if he hasn't the balls to defend such an eminently correct statement.Richard Faginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578733720191838363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42051098234842722572010-08-26T16:59:52.376-05:002010-08-26T16:59:52.376-05:00How come nobody is calling it the T-word?
Brian: ...<i>How come nobody is calling it the T-word?</i><br /><br />Brian: You don't need to put your P in a V right now.<br /> <br />Peter Bretter: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juf5o1mueVk" rel="nofollow">No, I need to B my L on someone's T's</a>.<br /><br /><i>A quote in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall which means, Blow my Load on someone's Titties.</i>Wincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002449963597087316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8887482254693496262010-08-26T16:57:35.261-05:002010-08-26T16:57:35.261-05:00AST,
"How come nobody is calling it the T-wo...AST,<br /><br /><i>"How come nobody is calling it the T-word?"</i><br /><br />Because Al Sharpton ain't "outraged" about it.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19830600029709499422010-08-26T16:53:51.538-05:002010-08-26T16:53:51.538-05:00Slow Joe Biden should be the poster boy for what&#...Slow Joe Biden should be the poster boy for what's wrong in our government and in Washington, DC.<br /><br />But to be fair, I think the Bidens suffer from a lack of blood flow in their brains.I'm Full of Souphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241724007440718575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23321101685938163582010-08-26T16:34:36.653-05:002010-08-26T16:34:36.653-05:00Why did Simpson retreat? He could have made his cr...<i>Why did Simpson retreat? He could have made his critics embarrassed look dumb and elitist by pointing out a literary reference they didn't get and a country-style pronunciation they weren't in touch with.</i><br /><br />Because there's no way he could win that argument. Every day he didn't apologize would be another day that Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow would have their teats in a wringer, and the explanation would never be heard.Charlie Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586506407851173416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37033783425435784012010-08-26T16:09:25.652-05:002010-08-26T16:09:25.652-05:00How come nobody is calling it the T-word?How come nobody is calling it the T-word?ASThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14591247136037620408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49357733761308049402010-08-26T16:08:10.635-05:002010-08-26T16:08:10.635-05:00The only thing I disagree with him on is the choic...The only thing I disagree with him on is the choice of milk cows. A sow is a much more apt comparison. Each piglet attaches itself to a particular nipple shortly after birth and returns to it repeatedly until weaned. Our government has become one big sow.ASThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14591247136037620408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37053042710301915842010-08-26T15:51:01.335-05:002010-08-26T15:51:01.335-05:00[Sigh] Let's go to the OED, where the word &qu...[Sigh] Let's go to the OED, where the word "teat" refers to "the small protuberance at the tip of each breast or udder in the female mammalia" is pronounced "tit", "tyt", or "titte" and has the ever popular diminutive "tittie".<br /><br />Then we have the word "tit" which is defined as "a sharp or sudden pull" or, in the phrase 'tit for tat' "one blow or stroke in return for another", or "as a term for a small animal or object", or "a name for a horse small of kind", or a deprecatory term for "a girl or small woman" ('a silly tit'), or in nail-making "a loose piece of steel used to jerk the finished nail out of the bore".<br /><br />Sorry, but nowhere in the OED does it define the word "tit" as part of the breast or udder (udder, heh) of the female mammalia. So there.Swenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05608951312289132410noreply@blogger.com