It’s your fun vice president, Joe Biden! Why won’t he get into the SUV-limousine thing like his security team keeps telling him? Because this is Wilmington, and Joe Biden knows every single person in town, so he keeps jabbering to everybody (endangering America).
Or, as Wonkette commenter/special warblog correspondent President Beeblebrox tells us, “The Secret Service guys were all like ‘Joe, get in the limo!’ and Joe was all, ‘No, wait, I gotta say hi to this guy, he’s my mom’s aunt’s barber’s neighbor!’ This went on for many minutes — Joe would go to the limo, then he would see someone he knew and go back to the crowd, repeat, etc. Best VP ever.”
Sure, “best VP ever” if you prefer your vice presidents to be friendly Delaware uncles instead of what America really needs: sadistic Satan-worshiping blood sausages like Dick Cheney. Let’s enjoy the rest of Beeblebrox’s photographs from the big Chris Coons-Barack-Obama-Joe Biden rally on Friday.
Says our correspondent: This nasty-ass “Farmers for O’Donnell” pickup truck kept cruising the streets as we waited to get into the rally. The back of the truck cab was full of canes & walkers. I think I saw a Rascal back there too.
Hooray, Jeebus is returning on May 21 of next year, only two-thousand years late. And then Jesus will BURN O’DONNELL AT THE STAKE because Ye Shall Not Suffer a Witch. What else is going on here?
Here are Biden and Obama and their little buddy Chris Coons. Says our correspondent: A now-defunct Delaware political blog used to call him “The Head” because, well, his head is huge and he is short.
No visit by the president is complete without some amazing portraits set up on the sidewalk by a talented local artist. Are these the best Delaware paintings ever, or simply the best paintings ever?
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My wife suffers from the same affliction. It is her punishment for having ancestors that came 2 ships after the mayflower. For some reason she responded to my attempt to discuss Ovide Lamontagne's name by yelling and throwing things at me.
"Owama and Joe Widen's Delabare Bitch Hunt"?
Good catch, walking wounded Wonkette Cunt Brigadier!
Elmer Fudd reveals his true identity!
Yay! I see you've successfully incorporated the "wounded cunt" term into the Wonkette lexicon. I can't believe the Ayn Rand Fanboi club gave us that gem.
In Delaware farmers farm mostly chickens amirite?
I guess they just want Xtine to Keep Fucking That Chicken.
Gotta get your cock one way or another.
Well, the tailgate of that truck was just cold COATED in some sort of shit…
And thank you for some fine report/warblogging!
May 21, 2011? Premier Christian Cruises sold me a cruise package scheduled for after the rapture?? They didn't even offer me a discount! (Not that I'll need it.)
"Farmers for O'Donnell".
Sure. And then when sales of the vegetables Americans are using to masturbate plummet, they'll second guess that decision.
But then too late farmers. Toooo late.
I like the First Family on acid painting….
Drink Me!
It truly is some of Vice President Biden's motorcade's best work.
They turned another ped into a speed bump?
I had forgotten that Obama was forced to take the Oath of Office in a cotton field with the Spirit of Barney Rubble looking over his shoulder…
Dear Farmers,
Keep this shit up and you can kiss this annoying daylight savings time bullshit goodbye. Changing the hour on the clock doesn't give your corn or your soybeans another hour of sunlight, you self-ignorant socialist-hating socialists. Oh, and more arugula please.
for the turnstiles
PS farm subsidies is communism and you know it.
"friendly Delaware uncles instead of what America really needs: sadistic Satan-worshiping blood sausages like Dick Cheney."
Friendly Delaware uncles who occasionally drop the f bomb near an open mic. Yep, me and Joe could be kin.
Glad to see The Kenyan and The Blabbermouth have decided to resort to the "Clubbing Gay Baby Harp Seals Approach" to campaigning.
Kicking The Living Shit out of a hopeless loser like Xtine is a lot more fun, and a lot less effort, than campaigning against a more viable GOP candidate in the other races that are up-for-grabs due to the Complete Ineptness of the Obama Administration.
And you can claim credit for your "mandate" when Sabrina ends up weighing the same as that duck.
Live feed from the Obama/Biden campaign blitz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
Neilist, you old Guy Fawkeser, they're not just kicking invalids. In the past couple of weeks both Barry & Biden been workin' up here in the real Warshington for the Patty Murray and Barry is comin' back next week supposedly to campaign, but there is talk that the real reason is that it's just impossible to find good lutefisk in the District. Even if the dean of distribution Nate Siverfish has Patty's odds of winning at over 70%, it's not a total gimme. Well, maybe.
70%, you say? I'd say it would be more like 30%, except for the machine that helped steal the gubernatorial race from Rossi in 2004 will be back in play. But I'm back now from nearly two decades in the progressive hell hole called California, and doing what I can to make sure ol' Patty can once again become one of us peons. She almost makes Ma'am Boxer look smart. Almost.
Look here re: "over 70%". Regards a *Machine* in Washington, what kool-aid have you been drinkin' di_da? As someone who learned politics in Chicago when the real Dick Daily was mayor, you don't know from machines if you think one exists in Warshington. Rossi is a two-time looooooser, and this will be strike three. Although you have to acknowledge he did better than the god-squader Ellen Craswell in his run for gov, he's gonna loose to our beloved mom in tennis shoes by a margin similar to another god-squader, Linda Smith.
BTW, ya never got back on who runs clevelandsteamer.com, er streamingliberty.com? Always put high trust in no-names-listed websites as being the source of cogent thought.
Rossi is a two time loser? I thought he won the election in '04, then the first recount, then the SECOND recount, but then, "Oh wait. Looky what I found!", lost the third recount. I guess he should be 3-2, huh?
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGdXSnj7xMGIUBfltXNyo...
Something doesn't have to be big or old to be a machine. The progs have their fingers in the Washington political pie. I say this, not for you, because you don't deserve a spot on the lifeboat, but for the younger folks out there who can still be saved from you Social Darwinists and moral relativists.
And who cares where the video came from, it's right on the money. Who's bright idea was it to put fascism at one end of the political spectrum and communism at the other when the two have SO much in common? The trouble with progs is that they substitute education for common sense.
Yo, Neilist, you DID see in the news that O'Broomstick raised $3.4 million in about 5 weeks, right? That's not something to fuck around with.
Considering that the Head was kind of viewed as a sacrificial candidate when everyone assumed Mike Castle would get the nomination, the fact that he's anywhere from 11 to 21 points ahead of O'Broomstick is pretty damned miraculous, and the Dems would be crazy to let this one go. So of course our crazy uncle/VP and his boss had to come to Wilmington to campaign for the Head.
I wonder how much of that $3.4M came from donors within Delaware.
At this point, the question is how much is from donors within the United States.
How many who are actually human?
Went to a congression candidates forum here in New Jersey and a bunch of the Shouting Hollering Intolerant Teabagging republicans rudely interupted the Democratic candidate in the first forum for District 6. Then changed shirts and stayed for the second forum to rudely interupt the Democratic candidate for District 7. After the event, about 25% left in cars with out of state license plates. Before the event, I was told, many of them were given checks when they arrived.
On May 21, 2011, the rapture shall begin and all of those zipper heads will be whisked somewhere else.
And the rest of us will breathe a sigh of relief.
I knew something was wrong with me when my old fundamentalist preacher would describe the reign of the Anti-Christ during the Tribulation and I'd think "Hey, some of those are some pretty good ideas."
That's a Saturday, folks, if you want to get the breakfast slam at Denny's on your way to the rapture.
Millions of Christians will be raptured during brunch, and the servers will actually be able to get a decent tip for once from their left behind gold fillings.
That's terrible news for those of us on Manhattan's UWS: both unable to keep and bear shotguns… and the few folks floating up to Hebbin will all be frigging שיקסע joggers or lost tourists, clawing their way out of the 1 & 2 trains?
How do you do Hebrew on here? Seriously.
А БВГД Е ЖЅ ЗИ ІКЛМНО П ҀРСТ Ѹ !
Half a year to go – great. Do they have some sort of guarantee? I'll be horribly disappointed if this is wrong.
Wouldn't it be great if the fundies went to live in the desert or a cave until then?
All fundies…yeah, that would be cool. We'd need a pretty big space, something the size of Australia maybe. But not Australia because Australia seems pretty cool. We could call it Fundy Island.
What happens if we're the ones taken away and the zipper heads are the ones left behind?
Wouldn't that be a kick in their nuts?
That would be awesome. That even fits somewhat with the Jehovah's witless POV…except they'd be on Earth tending the box-hedges while all of the cool folks are kicking it in heaven. Hell, I'd even be conciliatory to he asshole left-behinds. We'd simulcast the Jimi Hendrix concert to their workstations.
Why is Jimmy Carter in that bottom picture? And if Jesus is returning May 2011, I'm going to quit paying any of my credit card bills. Screw 'em!
but Republican Jesus is a Libertarian who wants you to continue being indentured to the corporations and banks, especially the credit card place most of whom are incorporated in tax-free O'Donnell heaven of Delaware
I wonder if Hussein and BFBiden will be campaigning for senator Feingold? Ha ha, just kidding!
UW-Madison, last time I checked, was still part of Wisconsin. Snark implies a grounding in reality, fool.
Not to mention that Biden and Michele have both been here since.
BTW UW-Madison:31 Ohio State:18!!!
Wootwootwoot!!!
Hopey was already here, … and Yeeeeeaaaasssss 31 to 18!!11
Brats for everyone !!1
my bad…
Emma Connolly, a University of Wisconsin senior who's majoring in history, is among the discouraged liberals.
"When he first campaigned, I was really impressed," she said of Obama during an interview in the student union building on the shores of Lake Mendota. "When he came to Madison this fall, I listened and compared the rhetoric to what happened over the last 20 months, and it sounded inauthentic. It's all about an administration that didn't come through."
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/15/1875359/oba...
Shorter Emma Connolly: I want my unicorn!
Seriously, no one gives this administration enough credit, considering the opposition in our dysfunctional legislative branch. Ms. Connolly, you want real change, then work to get more moderates and liberals elected to the seats currently held by Republicans. As a wise man said during the healthcare debate: Obama can promise whatever he wants, but shit doesn't get done in the Senate without Ben Nelson's say-so.
And the reality is that Obama has passed much of his agenda. Biden was right – healthcare was a big fucking deal. The idea has only been kicked around for 60 yrs or so…
Nixon's plan in '74: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/Sept...
Emma, those are big girl pants in your dresser drawer. Wear them.
I thought you had to be smart to get into Madison- guess she is a legacy or an athelete.
Sigh. Poor Russ.
Yeah, it looks like you bought in on the theme being sold in this article, iburl, and since it's McClatchy, you might've let your guard down. I'm not sure why, but McClatchy's Thomma seems to be flogging that old "Obama has failed the young liberals" narrative. He's broadly portraying Wisconsin as reliably liberal, and then pointing to Feingold's tough race in order to support his theme that it's the stink of Obama that's fouling up the Wisconsin liberaltopia.
The truth is, Feingold's never really been a "shoo-in" candidate, and in all his elections, he's never gotten more than 56% of the vote. Here's a much more nuanced article that provides more useful information about Feingold's uphill battle than Thomma's lazy, fluffy, waste of ink. (I'm not betraying my irritation here, am I?) ;-p
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/...
The smartest thing Mickey Kaus ever said: First, shoot the fish in the barrel.
Delaware could be the first state in the union to elect a Munchkin for Senator! Munchkin pride!!
The Ferengi side of Chris Coons' family couldn't be prouder.
Doesn't Barbara Boxer count?
Well, a Manchin for goobernor in WV is pretty close, and he's already in office, for the moment. "First State" my ass.
Barbara Munchkinkulski? And she had the Ewok vote, too.
The greco-roman porta-potties allow Delawareans to pee directly onto the US constitution.
Fancy-Smanchy turd dumpsters there, you betcha!
There is no goddamned way that moronic fuckstick in the pickup truck and his sister-wife will ever be subject to the estate tax.
Just wait until he gets that settlement, then the bucks will be rolling in…
Because of urban sprawl lots of shitheel small farms will break the $1,000,000 mark, more than you suspect will be appraised at far more than that. Say what you like about inefficient uses of capital but that's a death sentence for most of 'em, sell pa's farm to pay the taxman…
You do know that prior to the 1 year expiration of the estate tax the exemption was more like 2.5 million? That it will likely be higher than that when the two sides finally work out a compromise to avoid the massive hit scheduled for 2011? That the estate tax only applies above the exemption? And that there are plenty of ways (including incorporation) to minimize or bypass the estate issues altogether?
I have a hard time sympathizing for anyone who is sitting on a family farm and not actually paying the couple of grand to an estate lawyer to get help/plan ahead.
You do know that prior to the 1 year expiration of the estate tax the exemption was more like 2.5 million?
Actually more like 3.5 million.
And the fact it only tends to affect around 2% of the entire population makes it really hard for me to assume this is a common issue for dirt farmers.
You do know that you're talking out your collective asses, right? The 2011 Estate Tax Exemption will be $1,000,000 unless our Great Leaders act. Sure, in prior years it has been more but in prior years it's also been a lot less, like $675,000 in 2000… And yes Virginia, plenty of dirt farmers get nailed, check out farm sales prices in your area if you are so inclined.
And the whole 'incorporate and avoid estate taxes' is pure crap. You may be able to reduce estate taxes through lower appraisals depending on the asset but if it's liquid, as in cash and securities, or land, which can be easily sold, you're meat.
The problem is that the estate tax USED to be seriously progressive and varied according to how distantly related the beneficiary was. The upshot was the direct descendants kept the family farm, 3rd cousins paid more while robber barons' familes paid dearly regardless….
Yeah, but if you hire a decent estate lawyer, you can set up an estate plan to get away from the estate tax. And you know what's funny? Thomas Jefferson, that noted teabagger, didn't even believe that you should be able to pass on your property to your heirs. He wrote a letter to James Madison that I remember well from law school: "The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living' ." In other words, he was a dirty, Koran-owning soshalist. So those whiny farmers who depend on gubbmint crop subsidies ought to be glad that the Colossus of Virginia didn't push his ideas about inheritance too hard.
TJ wasn't a teabagger; don't forget they're writing him out of history down in Texas.
Just plain wrong, the whole 'estate planning business' is geared to set up family partnerships that cloud title by spreading ownership among the family and thus provide an excuse for lower appraisals as no one wants to buy into a closely held family business… This may work with a complex business but farmland is another matter as a sale is much easier than a business entity, the IRS shoots down these schemes every damn day.
In the May 11 picture, does the green shirt on that woman say that she's "staff" of SALT?
No, "pillar".
Well a Lot was at stake.
Hey Prezzie Beeb, thanks for the great "First State" Senate candidate update, mate!
(I like to rhyme when I masturbate.)
So is the strategy here to cost Coons the race by raising O'Donnell's profile so she'd be awashed in out-of-state campaign cash, or do they just want to create a sympathy vote for her by making her look like a victim of the establishment political machine?
She'll be washed in the blood of the Rove.
Nah, the strategy was that Barry and Joe could be back home in time for dinner tonight. Whereas, campaigning for Boxer or Murray, not so much.
One would hope that their strategy was to raise awareness of O'Donnell to use her as a sort of bogey (wo)man to motivate people to kill the Republican Teabaggers with fire.
But that would require planning and foresight, and we're talking about Democrats.
Biden really wants to be that guy that everyone wants to have a beer with. It might help if he was buying.
fuck all, xtine revirginator could well pull this off. i haven't seen the poll numbers and i'm not going to look, being presently too high and relaxed to be bothered and anyway, i don't much believe the polls this far out from e-day, but it's all show-biz, baby, and she's got it. she's a fucking–or nonfucking–or both–star compared to what's on the other channel.
as for joe endangering america, good luck with that, looks like the job's already done. didn't happen overnight and won't be fixed overnight. evans of the chicago fed said today that economically, we're stuck in a swamp and we can't get out. him and some other poobahs think they know how we can rig up some more ropes to help us pull ourselves out, seeing's how the ropes they've been using aren't strong or long enough. we'll see, now won't we.
guns and butter, you can only have heaping tables of them both for so long before something's gotta give. we finally got ourselves our nanny state. with unemployment so high that tens of millions of people of all ages, races, and creeds are essentially on the government payroll, and with inflation so low that people can plan reasonably for the basics–but they can't afford much more than that and the banks don't want to loan with interest rates so low, they know the prime is going to go up, all they have to do is wait–it's an untenable situation, a pressure cooker where the lid will blow off if the heat's not lowered.
the fed said back when this whole fiasco broke big that they wouldn't monetize their way out of the national debt, but it's looking like that's going to be the way out, maybe the only way out short of a more sudden default. there was never any painless way out of the global economic collapse, our politicians and apparatchiks have been lying to themselves and to each other and to us, while we've been sitting around texting each other "whiskey tango foxtrot? whiskey tango foxtrot?" and half the time repeating and believing the same lies.
so, i got high and i thought of all that, and now i'm going to get higher and not think at all.
How do you do that? When I'm high I can't even make change, much less put a coherent sentence together.
Welcome to The New Normal! We hope you'll enjoy your stay.
Surely, to be that coherently pessimistic, you are nowhere near high enough. Gawd.
even when i'm as high as i can get, i'm nowhere near high enough. and don't call me surely.
Has anyone ever determined that they're as high as they can get and lived to tell about it? Did Hunter S. Thompson pull it off?
U R making my brain hurt.
Greetings fellow heavyweight. Apt screed too.
Guano harvesters for O'Donnell!
Shouldn't there be a 6th picture, one with Biden's motorcade just plowing through the crowd? Or was this a bloodless visit?
Too soon?
I sure hope Christine repeals that
inheritancedeath tax before God kills us all on May 21st.You know the image of the IRS going after God has a certain beauty to it. I mean fuck… if they can get Willie Nelson, I don't see how God's going to be chill enough to slip past
Thx for all the fish, prez.
Ah, I just figured out that the painting on the lower right is of Denzel Washington, Condoleezza Rice, Jimmy Carter, and Phyllis Schlafly. Wait, what? What's Denzel doing in that picture?
That can't be Phyllis Schlafly either. She wouldn't be caught dead in a painting with Jimmy Carter, let alone a couple of Negroes. Besides, that looks like a disembodied head. Wait — did Dinah Shore have her head frozen like Walt Disney did?
I think Joe was waving at the barber that gave him his plug job. Looks like its about time for a touch-up, Biden.
Those paintings add a whole new dimension of terror to The Washington Color School.
Oh please. Look it up.
Damn- I know the Washington Color school well- seriously(hate to give this away) but the director of my grad program was the widow of Morris Louis. Wonkette does have some smarypants people here.
I like how "we the" is in some fancy font, while "farmers want" is kinda scribbled in there. I wonder what the sign originally read?
Also, let's stop the 55% death tax, and replace it with a 75% megadeth tax!
If you're gonna tax Megadeth, shouldn't there be a Slayer proviso in there somewhere?
The story behind May 21 is pretty funny: http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17...
What is WRONG with these people?
I suspect the type of personality that tries to shoe-horn current events and right-wing paranoia into rambling Biblical symbolic text either has its roots in either a lack of critical thinking skills coupled with an upbringing of parental psychological bullying, or they think they can make a buck at it by selling books/videos/lectures to groups of people with a lack of critical thinking skills coupled with an upbringing of parental psychological bullying for money.
Just a theory, though.
sounds like he's got the math down. i didn't know our lord and savior was tacked up on april fool's day. joke's on us, i guess.
i'm looking forward to may 22, 2011, speaking of jokes being on people.
Well the good Mr. Camping was off by 17 yrs or so on his first attempt to pin God down on the Day of Destruction, so despite having followers "from the Bay Area to China" (bobbing in the fucking ocean, I presume) odds are pretty good that he is wrong again…
The Bible code- what a load of crap. People are so amazingly stupid- oh, wait, we knew that already,. sorry.
What is WRONG with these people?
They have a hard on for the end of the world. Which actually goes a long way towards explaining their pleasant dispositions.
That really is pretty funny. It turns out that the execution of Jesus of Nazareth amounts to a metaphysical signing of a mortgage contract that could be calculated to be "paid off" by May 21, 2011! So Jewish bankers really do rule the universe. Hunh!
If my dad ever runs for President, the Secret Service will be ready, thanks to Joe Biden. For years whenever I wrote a check in my hometown, the recipient would look at it and exclaim "Oh, you're TOMMY'S DAUGHTER!" I considered having Tommy's Daughter in the name field of the checks.
I love ya Joe, but do your kids a favor and show some restraint.
Not to run completely off-topic, but I wanted to extend an apology to you, PsycWench, for something I wrote earlier in the week. I made an off-hand comment involving the r-word and a much more offensive notion before remembering that you'd previously mentioned having a special needs child. I rewrote the comment immediately after realizing my boneheadedness, but the damage had been done, and a message had probably been sent to your inbox. I've since deleted it, but I just wanted to apologize for being such a royal douche. I know Wonkette is full of people intentionally acting like dicks, but hitting close to home is over the line, and I wanted to say I'm sorry for writing something that nasty. You might not even remember what I said, or even my having said it, but I still wanted to say I'm deeply sorry just the same.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled snark. Hambiscuits, etc.
Retard?
Republican?
I am very touched, really I am, by your clearly heart-felt apology. Rest assured that in a world where Sarah Palin uses her kid with Down syndrome (and Rahmbo's use of the "r word") to advance an attack on health care by invoking "death panels", the occasional use of the word "retard" pretty much bounces off me. It's probably something that the culture as a whole should be wrapping up, but I know it's just a word people use and it's not meant personally at all.
On the other hand, on sites like Salon, it has been made clear that a handful of people are pissed that people (like Sarah Palin and myself) who know via amnio that their baby has Down syndrome go ahead and have the baby anyway. How dare we burden them with our children who will probably never live independently but will also never be drug dealers, gang members or Republicans? THAT'S where I take offense. I appreciate the recall of a re-considered term that might be offensive, but if it's just a word, that seems fairly innocuous.
It's worse when you're known by your dog. "Oh you're Cricket's master". Try that one on your checkbook.
What exactly do they farm in Delaware? Besides credit card numbers and teflon.
They also farm breast cancer. Delaware is one of the leading states in breast cancer. X-tine wouldn't know this because a breast self exam could lead to exploration of her naughty bits and pieces as a lusty afterthought.
X-tine is trying to appeal to the people that we used to refer to as sLOWER Delaware. I live in Delaware for 25 years, and no one from the upper parts of that wonder of three counties and a handful of zip codes would go for her special brand of horse shit.
The entire length of Delaware is 99 miles. She chose to pick upon the second smallest state because she is just that small minded. In a state of anything more than five counties, she would be run out on a rail.
Delaware has the most eastern coast of an a Air Force base, hence the fallen brave soldiers being returned home to Dover. If you want this joke of a woman being the senator of this state, then vote for this scam of a person.
Is lower Delaware really that redneck-y? It just seems so strange to me because I live in a blue area of the huge state of Texas, where most of the geography is rural. The "liberalizing" influence of the University of Texas and the state capital extends for at least a 99-mile radius.
Does overall scale have something to do with it??
The scene with Biden was unbelievable…. Joe was cold asking his SS guys to take pix of him with his haberdasher/barber/whoever else he happened to spot in the crowd. I kind of got the idea that he must be a handful for them but also a lot of fun to hang with, kind of like your uncle who never married and lets you read his old issues of "Club" magazine and drink beer sometimes. And, hell, anyone who's lived here in DE for more than 10 years has some sort of Joe Biden story.
I was also expecting more teabaggers to be protesting, but then that would have required them to come into the scary city where all the Blacks live.
You mean there are people who *don't* have Joe Biden stories?
Looks like he literally talked the ear off of the guy in the upper left corner of the pic…
Obama and Biden must've been really tight on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee together, because Barry voluntarily wanting to spend 4-8 years with this guy is otherwise pretty inexplicable.
Aw, give poor Joe a break. I like the big grinning doofus. He's a lovable galoot.
Corn people for O'Donnell….HE WANTS YOU TOO, MALACHI !!!
You know what the worst part about Rapture predictions is?
When the day comes and goes, and they're still here, they always conclude "I guess my prediction was wrong," never "I guess I wasn't worthy."
its usually someone else's fault, mankind sinned, the gays or something, there's always a way out for the leader. for the followers, its usually a bigger problem.
No, they'll blame the Jews for not building a 3rd Temple in Jerusalem, reviving animal sacrifices, etc.
Why are they wasting time in DE? I can understand Biden but why isn't Obama helping Russ Feingold? Is O toxic in Wisconsin?
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends:
Not with a bang but a gimper.
re: Vote To Restore Our Constitution
So I'm at the Jefferson Memorial today, and in case anyone forgot, one of the panels has these words:
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
So take your teabagger propaganda sign and shove it up your incompetent Medicare ass.
Sounds like the intent of this founder was for us to ignore his original intent.
Why did America's founders love the terrorists and hate America so much?
librual bullshit
So he foresaw a day when slavefucking might be considered wrong?
What are you on, and will you share?
Or are you the new Nadine, spoken of in prophecy?
This double team, shock and awe visit to Delaware is nice, but either one of them showing up in Anchorage would give Scott Mcadams the visbility he needs to win, or maybe they could hit Wisconsin or Kentucky, well, Kentucky maybe just send Joe. and Bill.
Hey, does anyone know how to show replies to posts automatically instead of having to click to reveal the tree of replies?
Anyone who can do that is a witch.
Yeah: read comments on articles with well less than 100 comments.
Replies appear to have a mind of their own — if there's a way to control them, especially on longer threads with lots of comments, then the evil witch who knows the trick ain't talkin'.
I wish. Clicking reply is my least favorite part of this brave new world.
What's with the shooting pentagram in your campaign sign, Chrissy, if you've given up your witchy ways?
You mean its not a diagram of a hydrogen atom?
The billing on the marquee:
Tonight only! TWO Head Coons and Joe "The Vampire*" Biden!!!
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/archive/236/tag/Joe...
Sure, Biden knows everyone in Delaware, because they're his cousin's piano teacher's uncle or whatever. But everyone in Texas knows 'ol Gee W Bush, because he executed their retard cousin. It's not quite as hard to do that as it might seem, because the family trees are mighty convoluted in them parts.
If only Chris Coons could get Biden to stop calling him "l'il fella", things would be just about perfect.
Which Witch?
24 hours and still waiting for approval.
When did Wonkette pick up Vitter's mother?
He DID get approval from his mother for those diapers & buttplugs, didn't he?
Naughty boy!
Hold a big sign up that proves your a moron!
I got stuck on Picture #1. The SS man in the far left corner looks as though he is about to do an "Oh Fuck" and bury his face in his hands.
I made the mistake of reading HuffPo first this morning. Jesus god those people. The sky is falling, Obama sucks, the dems sucks, the Republicans are going to win the world and Sarah Palin runs the Universe. Arianna REALLY dislikes Obama, doesn't she? Is she rooting for a Republican sweep?
Thank god for my dear Wonkette….where there's still a little levity left in the world. In the form of the Giant Headed Coons and his Witchy counterpart, Sabrina/Christina.
Hopey didn't do what Arianna told him to. That makes her mad. Thus she exacts her revenge. Never forget that Ms Stassinopoulos' conservative congresscritter/failed Senate candidate ex-husband chose to go ghey rather than stay with her.
Sarah: Empress of the North Pole
..and, HuffPo's obsession with Glenn Beck! Geez, they give that media-whore a lot of play!
"sadistic Satan-worshiping blood sausages"
Thank you for that, I approach the day with a smile.
People supporting someone like Christine are missing some vital signs:
" Vote for Christina, We are The Neanderthals, We want our caves back"
I even doubt they would have a comma in their signs.
lol, i 1st read that as "we are the netherlands" and had nary a clue as to wtf you were saying but thought it quite humorous nonetheless.
The Neanderthals cared for their sick, cared for each other and cared for their disabled and old. So, health care, welfare and Medicare / Medicaid huh? Socialists!
Teabaggers have devolved too far to believe in evolution.
Real Neanderthals would never vote Republican.
Well, when you think of it, it makes sense that the Children of the Corn people should come for O'Donnell.
May 21, 2011: will there be liveblogging?
Doubt it. Ken will have to recruit zombie bloggers.
The obvious key to winning any election is having local artists paint you and your family and exhibit it on a sidewalk anywhere in America. As an artist, and a highly paid political strategist here in France, this is exactly my advice. And don't they look great that first and second family! You can hardly tell they're Americans except for that give-away portrait of Obammy with the Koran and Das Kapitol. I approve those paintings!
French guy-or American guy living in France- If you are coming to the Stewart-Colbert Rally- please bring me some verveine tea- cold season is coming.
Juging from the face he is making. Uncle Joe looks like the kind of guy who would put his two fingers behind your head if you were taking a picture with him.
But would you have a beer with him?
The power of C.O.D. compels you!
The power of C.O.D. compels you!
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uncle joe is like america's sage broom to clean up eight years of cheney.
Wow, it's amazing how many Delaware farmers fall under the 'death tax', with estates of over one million (after deductions and such).
No funny.
The amount does need upgrading.
It doesn't take much in land, home and outbuildings to make that amount. The county's pumped up valuations from the boom don't translate to income or sale value. I'm a land rich and dirt poor tree hugger. Our health insurance premiums are now greater than our income but I do have somewhere to live and food to eat. I pride myself on being able to make my tax payments every six months. When I die the now old growth forest I've rescued from the chainsaw and paid for all my life will probably be raped when the land is sold to pay this tax. My beautiful giants, the work and love of a life, gone. My heirs certainly won't be able to pay it. Just saying.
No funny over.
Jesus is returning May 21? If that's Memorial Day weekend, I've got plans. Sorry, Jeebus.
I like the picture on the bottom right with Michele, Obama, Uncle Joe and MILF. Michele is sticking her tongue out saying "whaaattsss up". I like that lady Michele. Nice rump, with all due respect the First Lady.
Looking at the first pic of Joey, why do the secret Service makes so easy to pick them out..come on people. Who they are? the dudes with dark sunglasses. They must follow a Hollywood script.
In a little more than two years, Barack Obama will be bringing Sarah Palin her coffee. Ha ha ha ha!
Ha, so apparently some rent-a-cop put a reporter in handcuffs at a Joe Miller event, because of how much Joe Miller loves the Constitution.
linky
Freedom!
I bet that Dodge truck spends more time being worked on in Farmer Johns backyard than it does cruising the streets with that homemade sign. I would be surprised if it made it around the block annoying people more than twice before breaking down.
No, you're talking out of your ass.
The CBO estimates that only a tiny fraction of small businesses and family farms will be subject to the estate tax in 2011 (< 200). Even those farms facing the estate tax will only owe around 20% of the estate's value. Moreover, very few farms subject to the estate tax will be forced to liquidate their farms in order to pay the tax.*
My point stands: There is little fucking possibility that this pig-fucking cretin and his sister-wife will be subject to the estate tax.
*All of this is discussed in great detail, and backed up with actual evidence, here:
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=...
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10841/Estate_...
You are telling me I do not know what I am talking about because what MAY happen in 2011.
And the whole 'incorporate and avoid estate taxes' is pure crap. You may be able to reduce estate taxes through lower appraisals depending on the asset but if it's liquid, as in cash and securities, or land, which can be easily sold, you're meat.
And the whole "make an argument about something no one posted to bolster your feeble" stance is pure crap.
But we had fun and no one had a eye put out…
Wow, links to sources. What a great idea!
That CBPP study is for 2009. Last time I checked that was in the past, we're talking 'bout the future here. In 2011 it's automatically back to 55% tax beyond $1,000,000, read your own damnable links.
Plowman is the same clown that whines about debunked email forwards of Pelosi's trips. So I doubt they really care about reality versus something about the mean old Democrat Party to cry about.
I, for one, think linking to "sources" is a poor idea. Often such links lead to Internet locations wherein big andtherefore largely un-understandable language is employed, er, used. We don't, IMHO want to confuse the 'Baggers any more than the "Baggers already are.
As Charles V said in 1370 "Too many links shit the chili" but this has since been taken out of context…
You must have missed BerkeleyBears comment: "And that there are plenty of ways (including incorporation) to minimize or bypass the estate issues altogether?"
You're right, you're right, it's now been proven beyond a doubt Pelosi only used the 757 once, the rest of the time she takes a NASA Mobile Launcher Platform back and forth from DC to SanFran…
Ooh, you are fun. Look, fuckwit, I'm not the one with the deficit in reading comprehension here.
You have yet to provide any evidence that more than a handful of small farms are subject to the estate tax in any given year and that, of the tiny number of farms that are subject to the estate tax, significant numbers are forced to liquidate their farms.
As the CBO brief mentions, in 2005 only 2.1% of farmers who died that year had to file estate tax returns. Furthermore, when the estate tax exemption was $675,000 (much lower than the $1,000,000 figure you keep throwing around) in 2000, only 8% of farmers who faced the estate tax did not have enough liquid assets on hand to pay the tax. In other words, we are talking about a tiny fucking percentage of farmers (and people more generally) in this country.
Your immunity to facts and evidence and your poor reasoning skills are simply astounding. Are you by chance a libertarian?
Go back, way on back Mr. Pottymouth, like back up to the beginning of this august discussion where you made the absolute statement : "There is no goddamned way that moronic fuckstick in the pickup truck and his sister-wife will ever be subject to the estate tax." The Tax Policy Center estimates 108,000 estates will be filing estate tax returns for TY 2011, even if you accept only 1.3% of those will be for dead farmers then that's 1,404 farmer estates. Your allegation that the person in the pickup will absolutely not be one of them is laughable, why else would they care? Are you judging on the basis of the message, is it the old truck that throws you off or do you just have contempt for folks that actually work for a living?
Wait. OK, so 1404 dead farmers paid estate tax. 8% of those lost the family farm. 8% times 1,404 equals 112 real farmers in a year.
Out of over 2,000,000. http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/demographics...
So, a loss of .005 percent of farms due to the estate tax per year. Waaaaa!!!
Speaking only for myself here, I'm inclined, based on the photo of the old beat-up truck with sloppy "fonts-is-fonts" signage, to believe that Mr. Farmer here is about as likely to face the woes of forking out the Paris Hilton tax as was Not-Joe-The-Not-Plumber, who liked to go around complaining that Uncle Sam was gonna nail him when he eventually got around to getting his plumbing license and buying into a business. About as likely as an inbred hillbilly's teeth growing in straight. But hey, Sam Walton drove around in a dirty old pick-up, so anything's possible.
It's just so silly for po' folks to go around complaining about all the problems rich people have to face when it comes to money. Not for being poor and hard-working, you see? But it somehow comes back to hurting the little guy in the end, when you give super-rich people the store. And I'd lay odds that this Cletus is one of the little guys, working hard to keep his farm and make a living. It's not so much the dirty truck as the signage. Good god.
Yup, I suspect he's 'recycled' that sign from somewhere, still hard to make the call on what he owns though. I drive old Dodge trucks as well but we got hit by estate taxes, probably will be again in the near future. My back hurts and I've got grease under my nails most days, if this is rich God help the poor man…
Kind of reminds me of the majority of the people that claim letting the Bush Tax Cuts expire for people making over 250,000 a year will kill the economy, are the same people that probably won't see 250,000 in their lifetime. Never underestimate the stupidity it takes to vote against your own best interests.
More with the links, this is much more fun if you make up your own facts and figures. And you'd feel different if you were .89285714% of those 114….
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