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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Marion Barry: Weiner a 'good Democrat'
[THEHILL] Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion The Bitch Set Me Up Barry
... the worst administrator, with the possible exception of Boss Tweed, ever elected to public office and then reelected and reelected when he got out of jail... No. That's not true. Boss Tweed wasn't elected to anything...
said Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner
...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City...
is a "good Democrat" who should be talking more about his accomplishments in Congress.

In an interview Saturday night on Geraldo Rivera's show on Fox News, Barry said, "One bit of advice to the congressman: I'd stop talking so much about now and start talking about what you did for seven terms while he was in the Congress. He's a good Democrat."

A couple weeks ago, Barry said he can "identify" with what Weiner is going through.

Earlier in the interview, Barry and Rivera clashed about the ex-mayor's past brushes with the law.

Barry, who is now a D.C. Council member, balked at Rivera's characterization of his past drug scandals.

Barry accused the federal government of attempting to set him up, and twice used an expletive on the air. Rivera asked him to apologize, and Barry later did, saying he was "sorry he got upset."
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, Weiner is a good democrat, all right. One of the best.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/29/2013 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I think Mayor Crackpipe means 'normal Democrat'; poor choice of words, could happen to anybody...
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I Believe it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2013 0:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Wasn't it LaTrine SoAndSo from the NFL who actually said "the b*tch set me up?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/29/2013 2:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps the mayor can loan the congressman his patented excuse. Leather might be annoyed, but it's (already?) time to move on. Tray Tray would want to get get past this and would fully understand (if he wuz alive) the opression the Weiner has endured.


Did I leave anything out?
Posted by: Shipman || 07/29/2013 5:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, you know what they say, Marion - It takes one to know one!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/29/2013 6:23 Comments || Top||

#7  My comment would be too vile to print.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 6:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Marion Barry is too vile to print. I hope Geraldo told his viewers that the interview was rated "R" so they could get their children out of the room.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/29/2013 11:23 Comments || Top||

#9  A good Democrat. Talking about damning with faint praise.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/29/2013 20:50 Comments || Top||


Economy
Barack Obama expresses reservations about Keystone XL pipeline project
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Barack Obama
I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go...
has given the strongest indication to date that he holds reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, saying the project would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices.
Two words: North Dakota.
In an interview with the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, the president disputed a main justification for the pipeline -- its economic benefits -- and reaffirmed he would reject the project if it expanded carbon pollution.

The comments were seen by campaigners as evidence that Obama, in the wake of last month's landmark climate change speech, was leaning towards rejecting the project.

Obama has been under growing pressure from campaigners, party donors, and Democrats in Congress to reject the pipeline, which would expand production from Canada's tar sands.

He adopted some of their arguments in his comments on Saturday, knocking down pipeline supporters' claims of a big jobs boost, saying Keystone would register little more than a "blip" on the employment rolls.

"Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator. There is no evidence that that's true," Obama said in the interview.

"The most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline -- which might take a year or two -- and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in a economy of 150 million working people."

The president -- without prompting by the news hound -- then noted that the project would not bring down gas prices, and might even raise them.

However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Obama said -- as he did in his climate change address last month -- that his decision on the pipeline would be based on the pipeline's effects on climate change.

"I'm going to evaluate this based on whether or not this is going to significantly contribute to carbon in our atmosphere. And there is no doubt that Canada at the source in those tar sands could potentially be doing more to mitigate carbon release."
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oops.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2013 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I can't find the article now, but (I know this is a shock to y'all) Obama's lying about the jobs numbers; a lefty org. claimed job creation at a far higher number, and completely ignores indirect job creation (refineries, etc.).
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Keep it up shitforbrains;
the UP and BNSF will gladly fill in for the pipeline and also create an increase in pollution since nobody has figured out a way to make diesel engines pollute less than a pipeline. don't cry then when a railroad accident occurs.
does this gguy EVER make an intelligent decision?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/29/2013 1:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, consumer access to more product always results in higher prices....but only in an Obama world.

Blue state pipeline jobs tends to increase so-called White Privilege. That's his REAL concern.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 6:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Champ wants to trade Keystone for his immigration bill which is currently sitting in the House. Right now he wants us to stress that we might lose Keystone. Then he'll make a "deal" with the House. House R's will claim victory because they got Keystone approved.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/29/2013 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  No jobs and no economic benefit is why the Chinese have no interest in it. Ooops.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/29/2013 11:30 Comments || Top||

#7  I think he wants the Canuks to sweeten the pot:

"there is no doubt that Canada at the source in those tar sands could potentially be doing more to mitigate carbon release."

Or both. Or because he wants to make a crisis out of the issue. Whatever makes him look the best.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/29/2013 11:56 Comments || Top||

#8  At some point the left needs to throw the environmentalists under the bus and fix the economy or the blue model will collapse entirely. Question is, before 2014 or after.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/29/2013 14:35 Comments || Top||

#9  BHO's grasp of economics lacks opposable thumbs. But let's assume, for the sake of argument, 2000 jobs is the number.

a) it may be a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of jobs we need, but it is 2000 jobs we don't have now. And who says we need a single project to all the needed jobs at once?

b) those 2000 workers need support - food, fuel, tools, living quarters, clothes, you name it. All those things mean jobs for someone else.

I think the real problem here is the pipeline creates jobs for the wrong people.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/29/2013 23:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Bill and The Hildebeast not happy over Weiner comparisons
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 08:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Leather's bikini shoot is not all that flattering. But then Monica was no beauty queen either.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/29/2013 11:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Abedin, with her husband at her side, declared last week, “Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs.Â’Â’

“Who didn’t think Huma was referring to the Clintons when she said that?’’ asked another prominent Democrat


Uhhhh, me, for one. Never occurred to me! But then, I'm not the Center of the Universe, either.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/29/2013 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The thing that is getting the Clintons upset was Huma calling Clinton donors and implying that failure to contribute to the Weiner campaign would be help against them once Hildebeast becomes POTUS.

The Clintons are afraid any money given the Weiners will be subtracted from the Clinton kitty.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/29/2013 12:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Huma looks skanky & surly in her wedding picture. He looks like Pee Wee Herman at a gay bathhouse.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/29/2013 12:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Burghers: Would it be premature to place Antnie and Huma-Huma on the Fort Marcey Park watch list ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 13:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Would it be premature to place Antnie and Huma-Huma on the Fort Marcey Park watch list?

"Marcy Park"? And, what is "Antnie"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/29/2013 14:02 Comments || Top||

#7  AlanC: Eh, I still think Badanov's comparison holds. Weiner had prime rib at home and went out for Taco Hell.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/29/2013 14:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Antnie = Ant, Anthony.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 14:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Snowy, that don't look like no Prime Rib to me. That looks like the stuff they turn into low grade hamburger.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/29/2013 16:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Leather's bikini shoot is not all that flattering.

Looks like Kim Kardashian to me.
Posted by: gorb || 07/29/2013 17:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Interesting how Huma does not look like a very happy bride in that wedding photo. See how the flowers are pointed down and she's all stiff - just look at her arm - straight down.

Looks like a political wedding to me. One he wanted and she wasn't that interested it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/29/2013 17:11 Comments || Top||

#12  "One he wanted and she wasn't that interested in"

I'd love to know what/how much her payoff was - and from whom.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/29/2013 17:22 Comments || Top||

#13  comments on facebook:
"I bet you were hot before electricity" and
"Is it possible to get varicose veins in your back?"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/29/2013 18:26 Comments || Top||

#14  sorry - re: the bikini photos
Posted by: Frank G || 07/29/2013 18:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Dammit Frank - I just had to go look.... Anyone have some eye brillo?

You heard of a 'tramp stamp'? She has the entire book!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/29/2013 18:39 Comments || Top||

#16  I have to agree wid Billary - at least they + the Kennedy's + even Gary Hart knew the value of DISCRETION, i.e. a married man NOT taking pics of his ********* and then putting it out on channels where only everyone, anyone can see it, + then still to expect privacy due to same.

IMO either Wiener the Pol is an incompetent, or else he has covert, ulterior agendas for doing what he did a SECOND = SOON-TO-BE-THIRD? TIME???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/29/2013 19:48 Comments || Top||


Obama worried over fraying US social fabric: Report
[Al Ahram] Obama said the financial meltdown of several years ago is still having a negative economic impact on middle and working class Americans, who already have been losing ground for at least a generation.
Oh, damn that George Bush!
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The guy who caused it is now the guy who's worried about it? What codswallop.
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  He's worried the 'social fabric' isn't fraying fast enough.....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/29/2013 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  NO, he wants it to hold together until he's out of office. THEN fail.

(Can't be his fault then)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2013 0:48 Comments || Top||

#4  C'mon, Jim. It won't be his fault no matter when it happens. It is either Bush's fault, or the Republicans, or the Tea Party, or someone else's fault. Never Obama's. Nothing is his fault. Ever.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/29/2013 1:15 Comments || Top||

#5  until he's out of office

A huge assumption there, RJ.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/29/2013 1:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Cause, meet effect.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/29/2013 2:37 Comments || Top||

#7  The "fraying" began after Second Manassas. It's, it's, it's apartheid America I tell you! We've simply never recovered from the forced diaspora and Lee's slave holder wrath.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 7:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes, like the arsonist giving a PSA on fire safety.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 07/29/2013 9:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Peggy Noonan Gets it Right :-> ! : Obama Got To Point Where People Stopped Listening To Him Faster Than Most Presidents

Frankly I agree, stopped listening to him years ago...
Posted by: Au Auric || 07/29/2013 10:15 Comments || Top||

#10  "until he's out of office" Nope, he wants it to happen as soon as possible so he can stop the elections and stay in power.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/29/2013 10:33 Comments || Top||

#11  She gets it right after she voted for him. I stopped listening to her. She has the hutzpah of Wiener. Why does any conservative listen to her?
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 07/29/2013 11:08 Comments || Top||

#12  "until he's out of office" Nope, he wants it to happen as soon as possible so he can stop the elections and stay in power.

I suspect our beloved president can't wait to retire. So long as he's in the White House people will keep demanding he actually do things and negotiate with people and stuff. Once he is officially retired, he can charge lots of money to make speeches during the day, while the evenings can be devoted to being feted and photographed and consulted in private dining rooms without having to do the work of studying up on the issues.

That man was born to be retired.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/29/2013 11:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Middle class was not losing ground for a generation, they were putting gains into housing which was doing well until the pop.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/29/2013 14:36 Comments || Top||

#14  I think you have him pegged exactly right Trailing Wife. But that still will not prevent him from using every power granted to him by the presidential office to enact destruction on the capitalistic system which drives our beloved American way of life.

The man is lazy to the core. But his slothfulness is so overpowed by his own insatiable narcissism it will continue to propell him onto the global stage for decades. Add Michelle Obama to the mix and it conjurs up to some pretty ugly predictions.

I would portray the future Obama as a globe trotting Al Sharpton on steroids, except Al Sharpton is only a racist. Obama hates everything about America except whatever feeds his own narcissism.

Posted by: junkiron || 07/29/2013 14:47 Comments || Top||

#15  I stand by my prediction --- unless something happens to Obama, 22nd amendment is dead after 2014 elections (where I expect new DOJ anti-election fraud task force to shine).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/29/2013 15:31 Comments || Top||

#16  "new DOJ anti-election of Republicans fraud task force"

FTFY, grom.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/29/2013 15:34 Comments || Top||

#17  You might also have said: "new DOJ election fraud task force"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/29/2013 15:37 Comments || Top||

#18  True dat, grom. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 07/29/2013 15:39 Comments || Top||

#19  I just realized something.

"Obama said the financial meltdown of several years ago is still having a negative economic impact on middle and working class Americans, who already have been losing ground for at least a generation."

If a generation's more than thirteen years, does this mean they're finally admitting the Clinton administration was worse than they said?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/29/2013 18:51 Comments || Top||

#20  TW nails it.

LAZY
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 18:54 Comments || Top||

#21  FORWARD to the Detroitification of America!
Posted by: Airandee || 07/29/2013 20:15 Comments || Top||


Anthony Weiner vows to hang in there
[USATODAY] Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner
...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City...
vowed Sunday to stay in the New York City mayor's race, as he confirmed his campaign manager quit and his top rival said he was not qualified to lead the nation's most populous city.

Weiner said that campaign manager Danny Kedem resigned after revelations came out last week that Weiner continued to send salacious messages online to women, even after resigning from Congress in 2011.

"We knew this would be a tough campaign," Weiner said while campaigning in Brooklyn. "We have an amazing staff, but this isn't about the people working on the campaign. It's about the people we're campaigning for."

The tumult in Weiner's staff was first reported by The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
. Hours later, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn repeated criticism on NBC's Meet the Press that Weiner has displayed "a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth and a real lack of maturity."
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, the Weiner's still inside?
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah... but his campaign has gone a little limp... But he still carries on in hope that it will stiffen up again.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/29/2013 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: junkiron || 07/29/2013 0:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's keep it up, guys!
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 0:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Drudge headline - he's 'sticking it out'...
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 0:59 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll bet all the comedians are praying that Weiner stays in - it will give them material for months.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/29/2013 1:18 Comments || Top||

#7  I just wish he'd get rid of that ridiculous car.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 7:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Why would he quit? He's still in the race. He's holding his own.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/29/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  OTOH some say he already blew his wad.....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/29/2013 11:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Reports of his deflation are premature.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/29/2013 12:17 Comments || Top||

#11  So he's going to stick it out?
Posted by: gorb || 07/29/2013 13:38 Comments || Top||

#12  He's a stand up guy.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/29/2013 15:19 Comments || Top||

#13  I'll take your word for it. I'd rather not peruse his image library..... yuck....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/29/2013 15:25 Comments || Top||


Axelrod: Weiner 'delusional,' should quit
[THEHILL] David Axelrod
...a -based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out....

, a former senior adviser to President B.O., said Sunday that former Rep. Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner
...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City...
is "delusional" and should drop out of the race for New York City mayor.

"I think it's time for him to go away and let New York have its mayor's race," Axelrod said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Axelrod said he had not commented on Weiner because he is personal friends with Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, but he said the time has come for him to stand down.

"At this point it's absurd. He is not going to be the next mayor of New York. He is wasting time and space," Axelrod said.

Weiner's campaign was rocked last week by new revelations that he sent lewd messages and photos to a young woman, a full year after resigning from Congress for the same behavior.

Weiner's campaign manager reportedly quit on Sunday, but Weiner has not dropped out of the race.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Huma Abedin - isn't she Hillary's Saudi girlfriend?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/29/2013 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  The phrase they're using is 'protege'...
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2013 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  3dc, according to Wikipedia, Huma was born in Michigan. Her father was a Muslim from India; her mother is from Pakistan. She spent some time in Saudi Arabia as a child, but came back to the US for college.

So, she's not actually Saudi. Whether or not she's Hillary's girlfriend is up for debate.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/29/2013 1:25 Comments || Top||

#4  You know... if some of Huma's nastier Muslim friends think Weiner has DISS'ed her with his actions... he may well have nowhere safe to run to. At least nowhere Al Qada or the Muslim Brotherhood can reach. I hope he likes the US station in Antarctica...
Posted by: 3dc || 07/29/2013 1:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Common 3dc! For Muslims its always woman's fault.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/29/2013 1:58 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm not PC correct enough for "protege". Call it like it appears.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/29/2013 1:58 Comments || Top||

#7  I suspect Ms Abedin is the daughter Mrs. Clinton never had -- all successful and political and all. After all, her real daughter quietly hangs out with NGO types, talking about possible decorators for the apartment instead of moving and shaking -- and lying as necessary -- to change the world.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/29/2013 5:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh goodness TW, that was way Ben Casey.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/29/2013 6:00 Comments || Top||

#9  "At this point it's absurd. He is not going to be the next mayor of New York. He is wasting time and space," Axelrod said.

Not to mention oxygen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 6:51 Comments || Top||

#10  ...oh, come on. He's just the air breathing device for the male genitalia. Oxygen is his reason to exist.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/29/2013 10:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh goodness TW, that was way Ben Casey.

I don't understand, Shipman. It's been an awfully long time since I was a young, intense, idealistic surgeon at County General.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/29/2013 11:20 Comments || Top||

#12  Of course Axelrod is friends with Abedin - she's cozy with the Brotherhood, and Axelrod is cozy with Hussain, who is also cozy with the Brotherhood.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/29/2013 12:00 Comments || Top||

#13  You cut the charming, albeit overly jowled, young Miss Clinton without benefit of ethers.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/29/2013 14:50 Comments || Top||

#14  TW: "At her wedding to Weiner in 2010, Clinton told guests if she had a second daughter, it would be Abedin."

Hearsay, but I believe it. Being a disappointment to my own mother, I imagine Chelsea is relieved that there's someone to take the heat off. So she can pursue her own interests, like . . . interviewing the Geico Gecko. Snicker.
Posted by: RandomJD || 07/29/2013 16:08 Comments || Top||

#15  Found scribbled on the back of a faded dinner menu from the jolly old Leviathan.

https://www.google.com/search?q=palesteena+youtube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesteena

From the islamic Motor City
Came a maiden, pious, pretty:
Huma is her name
Such a clever girl is Huma!
She's our muslim clothes-horse puma
Really classy dame

She's such a politician
She got a swell position
To go across the sea to entertain
And so they shipped poor Huma
To dance and play the tuba
And grace 'em with her presence so urbane

They say that Huma is the Queen of Tony Weiner
Just because she plays his concertina
He only likes one song,
She plays it all day long.
The imams think it wrong
But oddly they keep shtum about it

Hill heard her play once or twice.
Oh! Murder! Still it was nice.
All the pols, they dress like Huma.
Some sport scandal, some rock rumor
Down old Chocolate City way.

Huma's habibti Hilly-Billy
Helped her meet a Hebrew willy
Who she thought was grand.
On a camel's back a-swaying
You could hear Miss Huma playing
Down teh Vineyard strand.

She didn't like the limelight
"Oh, maybe just a spotlight"
And Tony sat and listened with a tent.
And as he tried to kiss her,
You heard an Arab whisper,
"Oh Huma, how we love your instrument!"

They say that Huma will be Queen of Gracie Mansion
'Cause she plays for Weiner with such passion
She plays both morn and e'en
Just like the muezzin
Her drawers might be green
Please don't glower,
Gets her power.

At peace talks, she played so fast
Those fascist joos were aghast.
While the Arabs danced so silly
She would wink at Hilly-Billy
Down old Palesteena way.

Huma, she's the Queen of Tony Weiner.
Goodness, Gotham loves her concertina.
Each movement of her bags
Delights the tabloid rags
And makes them squeal like f--s
How they love it
Want more of it.

When she squeaks
That squeeze-box stuff,
All those sheiks
Just can't get enough.
They get fat and she gets leaner
As she chokes that concertina
Down old New York City way!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/29/2013 18:35 Comments || Top||

#16  Will y'all please quit posting that picture?

I'm running out of eye bleach. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 07/29/2013 20:29 Comments || Top||

#17  Barbara, look at the bright side - they could have posted something MUCH worse.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/29/2013 22:01 Comments || Top||

#18  and something Huma mighta seen for the first time (*shriek!*) IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Frank G || 07/29/2013 22:17 Comments || Top||


President Obama calls the United States and Europe 'developing countries' in latest embarrassing gaffe
[BLOGS.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] You can imagine the derision that would have flowed from the liberal "mainstream media" if George W. Bush had referred to the United States as well as its European allies as "developing countries." This is exactly the term he used in an interview with The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, which has just been published. In the interview, given in Galesburg, Illinois, the site of his distinctly unimpressive speech on the economy at Knox College last Wednesday, President B.O. had this to say to news hounds Jackie Calmes and Michael D. Shear:

And one of the interesting things that we don't talk about enough is the contrast between what's happened in the United States and what's happened in a lot of other developing countries, Europe in particular. It's pretty rare where we have the chance to look at two policy approaches and follow them over several years and see which one worked. And the fact is there are a lot of European countries who followed the prescription that the House Republicans are calling for right now, and not only have they lagged well below where we've gone in terms of growth, in many cases their debt and their deficits have actually gone up because their economy is still effectively in recession. And although we haven't been growing as fast as we would like, we have consistently outperformed those countries that followed the recipe that the House Republicans are offering right now.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obamby's the gaffe, and we continue to be the striaght line in the runnning gag.

Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/29/2013 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Simple psychological projection at this stage. Reality, when he finally gets us there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2013 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Decline is a type of "development", isn't it?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/29/2013 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  "Developing" = progressing toward communist utopia as the Hegelian dialectic plays out. Not quite there yet, but on the way. Developing. Doubtful Zero knows who Hegel was or what a dialectic is, but that wasn't a slip or a gaffe.
Posted by: RandomJD || 07/29/2013 19:03 Comments || Top||



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