A chilling new report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington shows that this member of Congress’s campaign committee and PAC paid out a total of $304,599 in salaries and $48,742 for services during the 2008 and 2010 election cycles to his daughter, daughter’s mother-in-law, brother, grandson, granddaughter [*PAUSES FOR BREATH*] another granddaughter and a grandson-in-law, making this Representative the most nepotistic member of Congress by volume of family members on the campaign dole. And that’s only from 2008 and 2010! Who is it!? Don’t forget to scribble down your guesses on the back of your unemployment check stubs!
Hooray, and the Oscar goes to Doctor Congressman Ron Paul. Now we know why Ron Paul is always running for president: So that his family members always have jobs, what a guy. But Ron Paul is far from alone — in fact, his entry takes up only four out of three hundred and forty-three pages of this campaign expenditure report. Congress seems to be much better at job creation than they are letting on! Here are some more shining examples:
Top five representatives paying the most money in salaries or fees to family members:
• Rep. Alcee Hastings, (D-FL) paid his girlfriend $622,574.
• Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) paid his wife $512,293.
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) paid her daughter and grandson a combined $495,650.
• Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) paid six different relatives a combined $304,599.
• Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) paid his wife $238,438.
• In total, representatives paid $5,575,090 in salaries or fees directly to family members.
In sum, everyone have sex with Alcee Hastings. Recession: solved. [CREW]
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So is Paul still getting paid to be a congressmoron while he is campaigning for another job?
Sure.
I mean, it's not like Congress works or anything…
His constituents are still getting more for their money than Michele Bachmann's are.
Really? I thought Paul, likp Bachmann, had only managed to get a single piece of legislation passed during his entire career. Please let me know if I'm wrong, my InterToobz connection is *horrendously* slow, and half the time Firefox tells me it can't find GOOGLE (WTFOMGWTF??!).
I've literally had Google searches that returned "We could not find Google.com. Would you like to search again?"
AHAHAHAHA!! In the US? Oh god that's rich.
Damn I miss you, gorgeous. Hope the Ann Arbor thing is moving smoovely. (Hugs the foxy little one) Now remember NOT to let ANYONE tie you up till you give your roommate their address and DL details!
Poor Z, disconnected from the umbilical cord. Come home soon, babycakes.
(Hugs teh nut most fondly) Soon as my mission is accomplished, sweetie, I'm so on that plane.
I love my sister, and duty is duty, but damn I so miss home! Mostly, I miss my superfast InterToobz connection that allowed me to Wonketz alla time. Here, half the time when I can even GET TO Wonkette, the commenting system won't let me in. And responding to comments is iffy, at best. I get "timed out," and my responses don't show up. Hell, even other people's COMMENTS don't show up. (Whine, whine, whinge)
Well, Rep. Paul put out those excellent racist newsletters that he now can't seem to remember.That's an accomplishment.
Truth be told, he didn't do much when he WAS in the office. His one useful piece of legislation in all his years in Congress was to sell off an old courthouse in Galveston.
THIS is why I need to read ALL teh replies! Pls 2 forgib! Teh connexion it is SLOW!
So is Paul still getting paid to be a congressmoron while he is campaigning for another job?
Yes, and he double bills the first class airfare to Congress and his campaign.
The chair recognizes Mr. Lewis of California:
Hey, Laaaady, I got a bunch of cash for you right here.
Nutty Professor!
But they love him in France.
Wah wah wah wah nice laaaydeee …
I knew there was something fishy about those "family" cookbooks.
The cover looks like Ron is serving his wife on a platter. That's what he meant when he said he wants to serve mankind.
"It's a cookbook!!!!"
One penny short of 10 Ameros for 28 pages of recipes? For that we ought at least get a doobie's worth of MJ for the brownies recipe.
You need to come to this country. Can't find NOTHING for less than 10 Ameros.
Hurry, hurry, and get your signed copy for only $59.99!
How come you never make ME none of those offers?
Oh, you meant "cookbook." Never mind.
Besides, for you, I'd make a special deal.
"Hi, there, Representative Paul! I have A Modest Proposal for a Cookbook!"
Don't think I didn't see what you did there.
Not too Swift today?
Bit of a pain in the old Gulliver, my Droogies.
So *this* is what small government looks like!
The smaller the family the smaller the government, I guess.
It's funny — when he said he wanted big changes in our government, I didn't realize he meant he wanted to change it to a monarchy.
Just think of the Rent Boy expenditures….
They just pay that in meth and shame
Well … if tey kept it in teh fambly …
How does Paul get away with it? I always had to take a vacation day to interview for a new job.
Really? You never had a sick cat?
I used to travel 200+ days a year, I'd have a very dead cat.
Well, *mostly* dead, true.
There's a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead.
That's about the average amount of time a cat sleeps during the year anyway, so you might've been OK.
ZOMBIE CAT WANTS TO EAT YOUR BRAAAIIIIINNNNSSSSSS!
All you have to do is put out a 55-gallon drum full of dry cat food and a bucket of water in the kitchen and the cat will be fine. It might look like Newt Gingrich by the time you get home, but, hey, it's not like the cat would have actually missed you.
We need to talk (fondles ash wood bat), ya li'l rodent.
That's because cats actually have self-respect, unlike those filthy, slobbering poop-machines that make the ludicrous claim that they are "Man's best friend."
That's only true if you define "best friend" as "someone who behaves as a perverse mix of Glenn Close's bunny-boiler and Sally Fucking Field at the Oscars."
Aw, c'mon. They need us, they just have trouble saying so sometimes. I've had a couple who would let out a "where is everybody?" yowl and come running into the room for some lovin' when a person called back.
To be fair to Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, I think Bob Dole is the only candidate that quit his job before campaigning for the next one.
**cough, Crazy Eyes, cough, cough**
Seriously, my brother ran for congress in Memphis' 13th district. All I got was a lousy bumper sticker.
You have to get a committee chairmanship, or develop a niche issue, to get serious donation money into your PAC (Bribes). Note that its the PACs that are paying these moneys to the relatives. In Ron Paul's case, of course, he has figured out a way to get half the cranks and dingbats in america to think he is a God. He should quit politics while he still has time to go the L Ron Hubbard route, he'd make more money.
The good news is Ron Paul won't be hosting and family reunions at the White House. He'll just have to take them to the Waffle House.
I thought waffling was Mitt's forte….
Mmmmm, waffles.
In honor of his southern pandering, he's switched to chicken and waffles. Which would pretty much sum up his policy stances.
Doesn't sound too safe to me. Isn't that where they hand out the post-it notes for who dies today?
That would be Der Waffle Haus!
It's perfectly safe. As long as you're already Dead.
Ron Paul's PAC is 100% financed via Moonshine sales…
You got a bumper sticker for free? It didn't cost you anything? Every time someone I know runs for office, they want ME to write them a check. For the troops. Or something.
Oh boy, it was the 9th district, lol. I just found this on the intertubes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriscasey/88469967/
HA, your brother has two first names, just like Ron Paul! Well, except, not two first names for him, unless, you know …
Jeanette is my ex's first name, except that her's has two "n"s because her mother didn't know how to spell Jeanette.
Forgive my saying so, Barb, but your bro? Looks like a total square.
Actually, when I saw his picture on that Flick'r page my first thought was "Wow, he really resembles Screwy!" Not Gingrich, THIS guy:
http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Ro…
Any relation?
Screwy's from the planet Polie which OMG YOU GUYS makes perfect sense. How else to explain "Barb"s other-worldly command of the snark?
Hopefully you're just toying with us and cruelly making us love you before you and your fellow travelers turn this craptastic little planet upside down, shake it, and start fresh.
My brother IS a total square! Looks exactly like Al Gore, his hero and acts like him too.
Is your brother Prince Mongo? Also, Memphis is a shitty place to get into politics; one of the many reasons I moved to the opposite end of the state. That, the oppressive heat and the crow-sized mosquitos
(Quietly scratches another place off possible list of vacation destinations)
Yaknow, I suspect TN ain't gonna get a whole lot more tourism anywho, anaconda the new Scopes Monkey Law they'all just passed.
Tanz, he lives in Hawaii now.
What? How'd he pull that off? Wait a minute! Did he sleep with Alcee Hastings?
I dunno, what did Alcee Hastings do to get that punishment.
I take it then that he has no Presidential aspirations.
Flaming, all he talk about is being POTUS, seriously. He ripped me a new one for voting for Obama.
The family that grifts together…
The Palin's led by example.
I believe Newt paid in whore diamonds even when he was in Congress. It's the ethical thing to do.
I thought Callista was paying Newt.
I believe Newt ^^WAS^^ paid in whore diamonds even when he was in Congress. It's the ethical thing to do.
FIFY, NNTT
Is this the same Ron Paul who said Secret Service protection was a form of welfare?
Guess he's got his family to look after him – and for him to look after!
The same Ron Paul who's minions proclaim to the world that he is a Washington Outsider.
Jackie Harvey Libel!!!
I always considered Paul to be a fraud when it came to his libertarian/small government/no welfare bull. But his cult eats that shit up.
To be fair, his followers appear to have some serious issues around logic, rational thought, THOUGHT, and mental health. War and pot seem to be their issues. Everything else, meh.
He's gonna legalize WEED, bro!
So Dr. Paul is concerned about federal spending on things like Medicare and Medicaid….he should be, those are taking monies from his families pockets. I propose a new law….Congressjerks cannot have close family or main squeezes working for them….what a crock of shit!
When my wife worked for the state in Illinois, it was widely known that at a certain level you could get your spouse employed. But to pass the smell test they had to actually be minimally qualified for the job and not be in your department. I never took the opportunity because it would make her beholden to certain people we didn't want controlling our lives.
This would have been much easier.
Not nearly as much now, but when I started working for the state, nepotism prospered in my Agency. One day I walked past a small room with a microwave oven in it with a sign that said, "Clean up after using this – your mother doesn't work here". It was all I could humanly do to keep on walking and not go back and write on the sign, "If you're an employee, your mother probably does work here."
I'm sure all of these wives/girlfriends/daughters/etc are the most-est qualified candidates for each of these jobs. Oh yeah.
They're qualified for one job in particular.
Taking a gubmint salary?
Bada bing!
Considering that a lot of the beneficiaries are children or grandchildren, what you;re implying is just – ick. Guess these are Southerners we're talking about.
Kentucky, no less.
They gots all kindsa time in Kintucky…
Your girlfriend was referring mostly to wives and girlfriends.
Daughters? Well…when in Rome, fuck your kids or something.
Oh man, I may have to start spouting off that catchphrase at random.
Family members are usually the most-est qualified for keeping campaign secrets secret. Just sayin'.
Can you think of anyone ELSE who would want to fuck/be related to these assholes? NO? Well, then.
Those blimps don't float themselves, y'know.
Oh? Hmmm… I did not know that.
Upfist!
Somebody tell the Paultards how much of their money is going to relatives of "Dr. Paul" and see how fast it takes their heads to explode.
AUDIT THE PAUL CAMPAIGN!
It's a PLOT!! A CONSPIRACY to bring down the ONLY honest man EVAH to run for office! Lies, spread by librulz h8mungerz!
I mean, hey, remember how they reacted when all his Nazi/White Power/racist ties came up?
Apples and oranges. Nazi/white power/racist ties are the party planks.
Aaaaaand, I just lost everything I spent the last 20 minutes composing. I am now too pissed off and whiney to recreate it. Please-don't cry for me. After I calm down (by drinking many alcoholic beverages) I'll attempt to recreate it.
#%*^~!! (code for "Argh!")
You need one of these too, sweetpea. (Hugs teh dubyatf)
Have you noticed how it's only ever when you write something BRILLIANT that your computer EATS it? It lets all your stupid, mistaken, incorrect comments out, no probz. Just the smart ones. Damn machines. It's a CONSPIRACY!
Frothy, that virtual hug was better than an oatmeal cookie.*
*Oatmeal cookie:
Equal parts Jaeger, butterscotch schnapps, Baileys
Better than anything that comes out of yer oven, fo SHO.
Sympathy … it's also a bitch when you copy a big gob of text, then copy something like a web address, forgetting that browsers' clipboards only hold one item at a time.
I highly recommend using this little beauty … it's saved me much cursing since I got it: set it to run at startup & it'll save as much of your precious cuntpaste as you want, for as long as you want.
Um … I think you meant cutnpaste, not cuntpaste, sweetie. Although if it saves CUNTpaste, I sure plan to be using it A LOT.
Hey, a man's gotta keep his family Fed.
Ron Paul is Jed Clampett?
That's not congressional transcendence.
Ron Paul doesn't believe in small government so much as he believes in large family
No birth control. Even though HE could write the scripts for them.
…and largess for the family
I guess that'll sink Ron Paul's chances for the nomination.
Sad, and he was so close.
To be fair, Buck McKeon – from my district – is Mormon. That money might be spread over several wives.
He was mine, before I escaped to NV. Now I plan on returning, as soon as I can swing it. He's pretty dreadful, but he speaks to the mouth-breathers in the far reaches.
True fact: Alcee Hastings is the poorest member of Congress, mostly because he still owes millions of dollars from his impeachment as a judge. Fortunately, he has a rich girlfriend.
Well, he does NOW….
I'm more interested in the most nymphomatic member of Congress.
Lindsey Graham?
The list is very similar.
Virginia Fox… always hungry for the Hitachi Magic Wand
Or, in a pinch, the transvaginal ultrasound
Sybian or GTFO.
Eww, God Almighty, she looks like a startled possum.
You know what they say down Virgina Foxx way…
ROTFLMAO!
That is perfect.
I think there's been enough articles about David Vitter.
If isn't Kirsten Gillibrand why be interested?
You know what they say: keep your friends close, and your family closer…
Giggity.
You never know when you're gonna need to touch them up for a loan.
I suspect for our Congresswhores, it's more like FEEL 'em up … ew, barf.
Jerry Lewis is corrupt? Do the French know!?!
Momma Schoenkopf, however, assures us that she is not a paid Wonkette operative.
As if any of 'em ever were! But, yeah.
Those t-shirts were awesome though. Looks great on Mrs. Radio.
To be fair I think it's not so much that Ron Paul is a shameless hypocrite but that he understands his own principles and their implications about as well as his followers do.
A true Ayn Rand disciple.
For half a million dollars, I will be more than happy to give Paul Ryan the best blowjob of his life. But he only gets one. And bitch better not call me again.
I'd give him a HJ for 250,000. I mean, that's cheap considering.
$250K would certainly buy you enough hand sanitizer, lord knows. I've earmarked my ill-gotten gains for dental dams, mouthwash, and a metric ton of chewing gum.
… no thanks, bartender. If the first four shots didn't get rid of the taste, nothing will.
YES, that joke IS in my awful collection, and I LERVE it. (You can tell it at any gay bar and probably half the people in there will chime in on the punch line.)
Now to check whether you have any real standards … how much to suck off Joe Walsh? Or Mitch McConnell? Mitch's dick looks like a turtle, too, uncut.
As long as it doesn't look like his *face,* I can handle it. (So to speak.)
Oh please. You're assuming that I'd be able to pry away Kyle Simmons from McConnell's crotch long enough for me to exercise my due diligence. And as far as Joe Walsh, he'd have to pony up some big bucks (sorry kids, no child support for you!). Plus, his marvelous hair would be excellent for grabbing, since he'd be doing all the work.
And here I thought Mr. Paul would let leave his family to the whims of the Free Market, like he wants to force the rest of us to do.
His family earned it…by being born related to him.
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) paid his wife $238,438
Have you seen this guy? The wife should raise her rate IMO: http://mckeon.house.gov/
I like the little mini-McKeon that pops out and starts yammering away about representative governments or something when you visit that link.
He looks lonely. We should introduce him to that equally pathetic Michael Steele gif Wonkette used to have lying around.
He scared me!
Gah!
Hey, ya know how sometimes you taste something new and after you gag and spit it out you're all "Dude,that tastes like cat litter/the stockyards/taint smells?"
McKeon *looks* like he *sounds* exactly like Chris Farley does when he giggles in that Gap Girl sketch.
Tell me I'm wrong. A lot of good it will do.
Whores 'R Us.
American Exceptionalism in action, people.
~
No wonder he loves the Constitution. It has given him so much.
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) paid his wife $512,293
This wife needs to up her rate as well: http://jerrylewis.house.gov/
At least I won't need to take a masturbation break today…
He looks like the offspring of Martin Landau and Xur from The Last Starfighter.
I thought Peter Graves was dead?
Oh wait. Maybe he came back. That would explain how he got so ugly.
Why do all of these congresscritters look as if some ugly hairy creature has taken up residence on top of their butt-ugly heads? Are they renting space to some animals from the National Zoo so that the government can save money?
(ROTFLMFAO) Dood. There are not enough upfists.
At least I won't
needWANT to take a masturbation break today…And if you keep his picture by your bedside, I guarantee you will NEVAH AGEN be plagued by the SIN of masturbation.
You guys take masturbation breaks? Nice gig. We only got coffee or smoke breaks at my old job.
You know how you go to the terlet sometimes and there's someone in a neighbouring stall and they're just *awful* quiet except for the occasional *breathing*?
Oh, wait, you're a gurl, and teh laydeez don't do that stuff so much, or not at work, anyway.
We don't have time for masturbation breaks at work.
We have to keep working and just think of England…
You know you're asking too much of government when it should be small enough to drown in a bathtub yet still have a teat for every single member of your family. Also, mealtimes would be awkward.
I think his family requires a hot tub. Just sayin'
"does he look like a bitch?"
favorite guess who question to ask.
In July 2000, I happened to be in Mexico for the historic election that swept aside the PRI and swept in, like a welcomed (?) dust bunny, the PAN. Got to discussing with a Mexican colleague how odd it seemed to me that the incoming arch-conservative Vicente Fox was being backed by the Partido Verde. She told me that there was nothing odd about it at all, noting that the 'Green' Party was, "un empresa familiar, a 'family business.'
Funny, I don't remember a specific 'Nepotism Clause' in NAFTA. Hold on, let me give El Sup a call.
O/T Oh look, the Duggars, stars of the TLC show Fucking For Jesus, released a new video endorsing–wait for it–Senator Frothy Mix for Preznit.
If it's not going to end with The Aristocrats, I'm not clicking thru.
Sex-Crazed Right-Wing Cultists Endorse Sex-Crazed Right-Wing Cultist:
Details at eleven
They've only been on TV for years now. So they finally figured out a more efficient way to reach their people than door-to-door communication? I guess driving around in that van was getting pretty smelly with HOW MANY kids in diapers at once??
It fits, since Rick wants to force every family to be like theirs.
If by "to be like theirs" you mean "publicity whores who keep having children so they can sponge off other people's sympathy and charity, all the while engaging in so many harmful pregnancies that their children aren't meeting several significant developmental milestones," then yes. And G*d help us all, everyone.
19 lids! I thought I saw an overworked uterus in the background of one of those shots.
Actual Photo.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! etc.
I understand that it gets a lot bigger when it's full.
If only Barb could have donated hers to Mrs. Baby-Pooper.
Who the hell are the Duggars?
I get the impression they're a bunch of reality-teevee grifters who make the Palin clan look classy. (I don't even own a teevee, but there's so much crap on it these days that every other medium is contaminated.)
It's worse than that. They're part of the Evangelical Christian "Quiverfull" movement, one of whos goals is to Mass-Produce as many Soldiers for Christ as possible. Fine in theory, assuming all those children will stay Faithful, Or Sane. Or Alive.
I don't have any problem with people believing anything they want or living in any silly-assed manner they choose. I do take issue with the TLC channel allowing these people to make a public spectacle out of themselves, turn their huge family into a money-sucking machine and assisting them in promoting their radical Dominionist Cult.
I actually do kind of have a problem with this for two main reasons. Sometimes, these families have more children than they can actually support. Also, I've seen families like this where they basically partner up the older children with younger children, and the older children basically become the parents of their (buddy). I don't believe in children forced by their parents to basically become surrogate parents. I've actually seen this in my extended family with families with far fewer children. It's not fair to the older children.
Arkansas. Bless their hearts.
Three out of five for the party of small government. I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find that there is nepotism in the GOP! But, then again, who else would act as a parrot for a Teapublican?
Why is it always this way? I swear I wish I hated something so that I could find my true hypocritical calling. I don't know what in the hell to do that is the opposite of who I am besides becoming a Republican. Then I can haz gov'ment PAC too?
"this member of Congress’s campaign committee and PAC paid out a total of $304,599 in salaries and $48,742 for services during the 2008 and 2010 election cycles to his daughter, daughter’s mother-in-law, brother, grandson, granddaughter [*PAUSES FOR BREATH*] another granddaughter and a grandson-in-law"
If that's the "Free Market," no wonder Ron Paul loves it so much.
He gets money for free, and his family spends it at the market. What's not to like?
A member of Congress paying a spouse for "services?" hmmmm, wouldn't that make the spouse kind of a…. Oh, what's the word I'm looking for? I just had the word, damn it. Hey, Rush, what do you call someone who gets paid by the government to perform services for their spouse?
Rush: "It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."
That's a lot of whore diamonds.
And THAT'S how you get the dishes done folks! Teenagers be damned.
Judging by the other figures quoted, Ron Paul is seriously underpaying his relatives.
They're related to Ron Paul, so I'm sure we're not talking about future Nobelists here.
You pay the family you have, not the family you wish you had.
is seriously underpaying his relatives.
Duh – Libertarians. You pay what the market allows. Apparently, there is a labor surplus of Paul relatives which drives down wages for all the other Paul relatives. Clearly, if the Pauls want higher wages from Ron Paul, they need to build a border fence.
I anxiously await Lynn Cheney's condemnation of this sordid and corrupt practice.
Don't you mean "Terrorism Expert" Lynn Cheney?
Lynn? Or Liz?
Lynne
Correction. Liz, daughter on Fox. Lynne, mother Cheney.
I hope the bastard is using gold Ameros to pay them.
Point of order! It's not nepotism unless the money's actually going to your nephew.
Or grandson. I've always thought some deep dark secret in Roman culture lay behind the fact that the Latin word for the two is the same.
He looks like John Edwards after a forty-year sojourn in the desert.
Jokes on them, they were all paid with "fiat money"
Dang, Chrysler's lobbyists really *do* have a lot of influence….
Having a flashback to the first Newell era's invasion of the Paultard National Mall Jamboree.
It's a sad, sad day when a white American male can't practice nepotism with his own family!
You can have sex with Alcee Hastings, but for a real pay day may I suggest trying a K St. Lawyer instead (ahem… AHEM). Or fuck it, just do John Edwards and get ready for the golden parachute of a lifetime (aka the next Edwards baby). Good pay, bad genes.
Can I have sex with Sherrod Brown? Gratis.
Only if you don't send Rush Limbaugh the video.
Because he wants to get sexed up by Sherrod too?
He does? That Slut!
You got to get through Connie, first.
Dr No (to anyone but family.)
He needs all that help to battle the Gubmint Insiders and protect the Constiushun
Alcee Hastings may be one of "ours", but he's still scum. It takes a pecularly blatant ability to abuse office to get impeached as a federal judge.
Wasn't he impeached for taking bribes?
Alcee is only one of ours because the democratic party in Broward county, Florida is corrupt as shit. Any time someone has attempted to primary him the machine sweeps in and blows his opponent out of the water. I should know, his district lies just west of my own.
I see that being a douche bag is bipartisan.
Authoritarian incest.Disgusting.
Can we bring RICO charges?
USA!!!
Ooooh, big spender, that's like fifty grand apiece — Dr Paul is soaking his contributors to let his family members live in filthy-rich-teacher style!
First Rule with Dr Paul: NO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS!
Throw the bums out.
Not to sound like a whingey mcwhingester (which of course I do), but I'd rather this not be the last post of the night. It's difficult to snark on these oinkers shuffling up to the trough.
Oh, don't mind me. I'm just cranky because I've been working since 3am and I've only just cracked my first beer.
OT, these 100-year-old colour photos of Russia are kinda fun
Here, I think you might need one of these.
(Hugs Fukui-sanYesOta)
Thank you, kind sir. Much appreciated.
Whadda are ya, some kind of communist, putting up pictures of communists? But I agree, and I'm sure Mitt Rmoney said SOMETHING ridiculous today that we could all laugh at.
CRACK ANOTHER BEER!….Whew!!!…
There's some interesting activity at the end of the WONKETTE EXCLUSIVE post.
#wakeupnewell also too.
Oooh, that might be a trick!
#ginjaninja
Thanks for that photo link, F-sYO. Coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Get some rest, Eh?
Wow, F-sYO, thanks for posting those. Way cool.
Pretty clear the Paul's look upon feeding off the public purse as the family business.
O.K., no one else will say it, no one wants to, it's up to old Eeyore here: Maxine Waters??????…
Insert <Neck roll> here…
Aw, I'm glad for the jolly ol' elf. It's about time he came in first at something.
OT Sky Geekery Update:
It looks very much like the Thrice Postponed NASA-Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) 5 rocket salvo launch from the Wallops Flight Facility on the coast of Virgina, USA, is going to go off tonight! Coutdown's started at 8 PM EDT (-5hrs Zulu), the launch gantries are up to launch elevation and the weather should be fine. Launch window is 12 Midnight to 3 EDT (-5 Z). You can watch a livestream from the Wallops facility Here. . There's also a live feed on Ustream.
To review, these suborbital rockets will rise 65 miles to the upper jet stream, releasing plumes of aluminum oxide smoke
which will burst into flame,forming large visible luminous clouds,igniting the Van Allen Beltsallowing NASA scientists to track the 300 mph windscooking the planet like a Thanksgiving Turduckenin a perfectly safe and effective manner.Enjoy, everyone!
Well, dammit, another weather delay 'till Sunday. Humph!
Clearly an internicine turf war among Big Government Agencies. HAARP is reflexively changing the weather so that NASA can't uncover its secrets.
Or the overnight staff at the HAARP array have been drinking again.
"Heh heh heh…let's dial up some winds and high altitude stratus for those fuckers now! Bwa, ha ha ha ha ha *BELCH*"
A colleague of mine was involved on the receiving end of a HAARP moon bounce experiment. Because they were transmitting right near the ionosphere plasma frequency, they had to do it at night, when absorption is less. As drunk as they were, they still managed to get the Alaska-NM bounce angle right. Don't mess with HAARP graveyard shift engineers.
To be serious for a second, I've been wanting Alcee Hastings to stand down for quite a few years, now. That he topped the list didn't surprised me in the least; he's a crook. Oh, and Maxine Waters. Too.
Please sir, may I have some more illusory pottage?
Paul Ryan will offer you some illusory pottage for the low low price of cutting taxes for the rich and "widening the tax base" (=making poor people pay more).
Back in my gloriously misspent youth, we could get an ounce of Mexican illusory pottage for, like, $40, which is pretty small beer compared to the
low lowastronomical price of those tax cuts.BTW, how much does each congresscritter get to run his or her Washington office?
Somewhere between $100K and $200K. Why? You planning on running?
Sounds like a great racket, but unlike the sociopaths in Congress, I couldn't put up with the headaches.
Ron Paul is not getting much bang for his buck.
OT, and I apologize if this matter was brought up in one of the 13 other blog posts today, but the Square State's newest felon-in-residence is going gray.
Whew! For a second there I thought you said "gay".
I'm pretty sure that's one of the available options at the Federal Country Club.
There was a documentary the other day with his barber. The shocking reveal was that his hair was colored! The Barber's startling prediction was that within a month he would look like George Lucas!
Dude, nobody uses the word "colored" any more.
Really? I read where he said Blago's hair would look like Jay Leno's. NAME YOUR SOURCE, DERRICK.
Oh, gurl. If you know *anything* about Derrick, you *know* a little bird told him.
PS: Derrick takes the most fantastic pikkies of teh birdies. Check 'em out. FANTASTIC.
Yeah!
I might post a few more tonight. I'm working tirelessly through 9,000 photos/50 Gbs. I'm a little behind on my cataloging. I haven't even had the chance to mess around with Lightroom 4.0 yet :(
You better leave me alone!
No! Anything but my beautiful hair!
They were the ones eating the pie!
Libertarians. It's all 'ultimate freedom for all' just as long as they get the lion's share of it. This is another paulturd dropped.
Nepotists are people, too; my friend.
Nepotistic? More like nepoTASTIC!
"Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!"
Nepotism?
Isn't that where they have sex with dead people???
To be fair, it would be mighty hard to tell with Ron Paul…
Maxine Waters is technically my congressperson, even though I haven't been anywhere near the U.S. in years. I keep voting for her, partly because of the D- in front of her name, but more because of the R- in front of her opponents'. But I knew her name would be on that list. Crookeder than a dog's hind leg.
Keen!
HMMMM. Speaking of Family Values … can we by any chance get a "Most Inbred Member Of Congress" report next?
It'd take a miracle.
I'm uncertain about that.
Have fun storming the Senate.
Histori, first you would have to assume that it is true. Then you would have to assume that my name is Barbara. : )
I'll give you a scratch under the chin for being so darned cute.
I heard that it's hip to be square.
Plus, squares make the best husbands. Or end tables.
Birds are teh besssst.
Owls, everyone loves owls…
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/orphan-baby-owls-fin…
It's a Pack thing. You wouldn't understand.
Also, the next time you're in a earthquake-collapsed Building, stuck in an avalanche or drowning, feel free to call on your Rescue Cat.
Or Bird.
Sure, "Barb", you government plant you.
Ah, so "Barb" is merely a description of your wit – got it. And forget the chin, scratch behind the ears …
Hey, now, THAT's an oatmeal cookie I could actually LIKE!
Thanks, sweetness! (digs around for teh booze)
Goes without saying, old thing. Goes without saying.
I'll second that!
Were you trying to prove my point? 'Cuz ya did a helluva job right there, you did.
My littlest feline (Gojira Helen Wheels, a mostly Russian Blue) has taken to leaving her toys IN my bed every night. The partner tosses them downstairs in the morning, and she drags them back upstairs and hides them under the sheets every night. An old, very hairy, much-gnawed yellow foam ball, a small, catnip-stuffed fish, and a cotton-stuffed cloth voodoo doll that has a male on one side and a female on the other.
Personally, I think she's making offerings to Feline Deity, hoping it will bring me home. I'm SO touched! (Mostly amused, but yes, also touched.)
Yay!
Oh my God, Starfangled! You remember that! If I go on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, I want you as a phone a friend, please.
Oh, I think you should totally adopt that picture, if only for a day. Alas, I'm so intimately linked to <– picture, that bad juju would ensue should I switch out of it.
Go, Nut, Go!!
I don't think I'll forget it. I just thought it was so hilarious. still makes me giggle every time I think of it.
Linky no work my feathered friend.
hmm. try this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7d-0yiyal5A/TbwooUpu3RI…
This person has a website and they come in and bang, bang, bang away so that people will look at their profile, find them interesting and join their blogs. First, you must be interesting here before anyone gives a rat's ass about your blog.
Oh, Barb, am I the only Wonketeer that doesn't have any crazy siblings? Well, OK, two of them are Repubs, but not crazy Repubs.
I have 8 brothers and sisters, all crazy. I only speak to Nancy because I like to torture her with the stories of my happy life. In my entire life, I've only allowed her in my home once for a visit. I couldn't stop her, lol.
True story, my awesome neighbor, Doug saw Nancy in my back yard and asked if she was my mother, in front of Nancy. We are 1 year apart in age, born in the same month.
You will never meet two women who are more polar opposites. Nancy is a blonde, with sky blue eyes, I am a red head with blue-green eyes. She's a hoarder and I am OCD. She blows goats and I am afraid of goats.
I can't lie to you, my name is Barbara.
Oh, Derrick Wildcat, you are a BIG reason I want to come home immediatement! I can't seem to connect to any of the photo sites from here, and even when I can it can take up to 1/2 hr for a photo to load.
I vant to see yor pitchers! Dammit.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be
Last post on this thread, PINKY swearz.
This one time, in the grocery store checkout, the cashier asked me and my sister which of us was older. . . Okay, possibly not as dramatic as Doug asking Nancy if she was your mother except my sister and I are 8 years apart and she has, for years, telegraphed her feelings of pity that she got all the looks. I'm the elder sister, btw, (oh, and we were born in the same month, too) and when the cashier asked "Who's older?" I gave my sister a side-eye to make a flounder weep, just in time to catch her shooting the hate lasers out of *her* sky blue eyes. She's got blonde hair, too. My eyes are hazel, which can appear green, depending. But my hair's not red, it's blonde-ish, and my sister's name isn't Nancy, although that is the name of my ex-best friend.
Oh–and my mother's name is Barbara.
ALL TRUE.
Once summoned, the Pinky Swear must be faithfully observed.
Two very good points. I don't like to stick my nose too far into people's personal lives (because I'd appreciate it if they'd stay out of mine) but those sort of things are clearly beyond the pale. What the Duggars are allowed to do is nothing less than child abuse, IMHO.
Who said that? Hawkeye?
and thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?
Very very Cool! I've been warned about those guys. They'll light you up.
Miss you too, Papa Bear. The Ann Arbor move isn't happening until May, so you'll probably be back in the country to hear all about me stressing and shredding my gorgeous ginger locks in frustration.
And you'll like that the first things I packed for the big day were my handcuffs. Girl's gotta plan ahead.
Oh dear, we've always known you were touched. Plus, that sounds exactly like what was under the Xmas Tree one year. I'd love to say that was when Ol' Pop gave up the sauce, but alas…
Still: Catnip-stuffed Fish!! Worth every black-and-blue, I tells ya.
"Cuntpasta" (the final product) & "cuntpaste" (the action) (….. heh, which I plainly fucked up in using instead of the former) are both contemporary degenerate idiom derived from "cutnpaste" … & cavil if ye must, but their precious aura of brute prurience makes them both sound perfectly spiffy-doodle-dandy to me.
IDIOMOCRACY NOW!
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