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Early 50s CPA effectively (not yet legally) married to the first woman (and most beautiful girl I had ever seen - literally) I met on my first day at college, and she to the first guy she met on her first day at college...not coincidentally, the same day and the same college (BC)! Best friends at school, though we went our separate ways after school and neither heard from nor saw each other during the intervening 23 years, until serendipity brought us back together.

Staunch conservative, I talk to the TV and to all the (other?) bad drivers on the roads. Love sports - golf (8.4 index currently), hockey, baseball, college football, Patriots, patriots, Mets. Have played golf in Scotland twice (including all the Open venues) and Northern Ireland twice. Have played the Old Course twice (first time went 39/43) and have never been in a bunker there.  Was on-site for the 1999 Brookline Ryder Cup. Best non-participatory, non-family sports event I've ever attended.

Master of the 24-hr rebuttal. Amateur punster. Fed up with trying to drill common sense into Libs. Far too addicted to Rico (and other pol sites) for my own good.


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Tom Meyer

Denise McAllister: 

That’s right, folks, nothing to see here. Not in Boston, where two jihadists killed 5 people and injured 280. Not in Benghazi where Islamist terrorists, including the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia, killed an American ambassador and three others. Not in Fort Hood, Texas, where Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim radical, yelled “Allahu Akbar” and then killed 13 people and injured 32 others.

I'm loath to defend the president, but I think he's entirely right.

If we time-traveled back to October2001 and told our past selves that under the next president's watch, the United States would suffer three large-scale attacks...

"Those sound horrible, but we thought you said these were major attacks."

My reading of Denise's words is that she wasn't conflating 9/11 and the others.  She didn't say the ones on Obambi's watch were "large-scale" or "major" attacks like 9/11.

Obambi's operative words worth ridiculing, and that I took to be the thrust of her comments, are "... and our homeland is more secure" in the context of Boston, Benghazi, and Ft. Hood.

Yes, that IS a big lie.

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Denise McAllister

Nick Stuart: A Main Feed post that begins by violating Godwin's Law!

Next someone is going to suggest we are well into a relentlessly progressing program of gleichschaltung.

That opponents of the regime are being harassed by government agencies like the IRS, ATW, EPA, OSHA, DOJ, and so on according to Fuhrerprinzip.

Pretty fevered stuff.

I think Godwin developed that "law" on the assumption that online comparisons are always unwarranted. In the area of this administration's tactics of propaganda, I think it is very warranted, so I unabashedly violate Godwin's law.

It's not Godwin's Law at all.  Context matters.  Not all such references are absolutely and always Godwin's Law.  Say what you will about Wiki but this seems about right (emphasis mine):

"Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet Newsgroup discussions, the law is now...invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches."

There's nothing inappropriate about Denise's use.  Her context is spot-on and illuminating.

If her mild use is "fevered," then the world doesn't have enough aspirin.

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Except Nicholson's courtroom scene at the end actually made sense.

If McCain were correct, then the Dems would have no problem agreeing to the 60-vote limit, because they'd certainly get 5 Republicans to cross over.  IF McCain were correct in his slur against his fellow GOPers.

So clearly, he's not.  Clearly, the Dems can't count on getting even FIVE Republicans to agree.  McCain is a albatross, a liability, a political also-ran, and he needs to be put out to pasture or marginalized to the fullest extent possible.

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This may be off-point, but I don't remember any objective analysis or standard determining that the Cambridge cop was "stupid" or acted "stupidly."  It was Gates who provoked and escalated the incident to the point where he needed to be arrested.  At least that's my recollection.

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I think that as long as the media act as the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party (which will be until the republic's demise unless we do something about it), the low-information voter will buy whatever the media sells.  And they'll sell the Democrat Party.

And if Marco Rubio gets what he thinks he wants, even the media won't matter anymore.  (Would someone please ask him, regarding all his assurances about taxes they'll pay and fees they'll pay and voting they won't be allowed to do and healthcare they won't be allowed to have under his plan for amnesty, what happens if a SCOTUS strikes down those restrictions?  Do all the illegal legals become illegal again?  Or did he really just fall off the turnip truck?)

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I'm going with the "Or."

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DocJay: Look out everyone, there's a large black man in this post. Run for your lives. On a side note, an older black gal just hit on my 18 year old son tonight. They have a date. She's college ROTC and they were both in uniform tonight. Beyond gorgeous too, where'd he get game like that?

Um, didja misplace your camera?

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Bryan G. Stephens: None of it matters. It won't matter. Nothing will come of it. The Media will not report it straight. No damage will be done. Our side will lose.

We cannot win. The press will lie, and report any lies given to it and the people will listen to the lies. Period.

Agreed.

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It has to be Obambi, folks.  He's got zero strength, zero willpower, zero experience fighting alone (probably zero experience fighting, period), he's henpecked and subservient to Moochelle, he has no idea what it takes to win anything (EVERY victory he's ever enjoyed has been the work of OTHERS).

He is a pansy.  He is soft.  He is unprincipled.  He is spineless.  He doesn't know pain.  He doesn't know want.  He doesn't know an honest day's work.  He golfs, for crissakes! (And I can say that - I golf, too.)

He'd crack under the mere sound of running water.

All the others have been tempered by battle.  Even Jay Carney, who must do Obambi's dirty work every day.

But Barack Hussein Obama?  He doesn't have a CLUE what pain and suffering feel like.  He'd sing until the cows came home.

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She may not have the pedigree of a Cruz, but in the Senate she'd be unmistakeable as the pitbull with the lipstick.

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ctlaw: It was not a complete movie. There was almost no biography. You really almost have to have known all about Breitbart going in.

It is mosly a follow Breitbart arround documentary concentrating on the aftermaths of the ACORN, Planned Parenthood, n-word, and Weinergate episodes.

It could have had 10 minutes of biographical background, 10 minutes about the founding of Breitbart.com, and 20 more minutes fleshing out his strategies on how he put out the four stories in question.

Agreed.  When I started reading Righteous Indignation I thought the preponderance of bio stuff was superfluous.  But by the time I finished the book I realized it was imperative.  Haven't seen the movie, but I suspect it could've benefited from a bio foundation as the book did.

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Read it and weep...or read it and re-arm?

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skipsul: I got so tired of hearing about 24 all the time, now I have to hear about it again?!?  Ugh.

Me too!  Not only Rush, but the drive-time sports guys on WEEI in Boston would spend half of Tuesday mornings talking about it.  After years of enduring that, I decided to give it a shot with Season 5.  And never regretted it...until Season 7.

If your "ugh" is in the context of never having seen the show, I strongly recommend Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 1.

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MLH: Tony is actually dead now, right?

He may have been traded to Castle for a player to be named later.

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Aaron Miller: I watched24 via Netflix back before the days of streaming. I couldn't imagine watching that show in particular only 1 episode per week.

I saw the 24 light at the beginning of Season 5 (Rush kept talking about it, so I finally thought I'd go see what the fuss was all about).

I was so hooked after the first two 2-hour episodes (hours 1-4) of Season 5 that I immediately went out and bought Season 1 on DVD. 

And I watched the last 12 hours/12 episodes of Season 1 in one 30-hour period...during tax season!

So yeah, getting only 1 hour per week was pure torture.  Hmmmm...

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Sweet and Low

Franco

I've always avoided this show, partly because of Fey's imprint on my brain as a duitzy Sarah Palin, and of course Alec Baldwin. However these two are talented and they are not one-dimentional liberal lefties as I have come to learn.  Adam Carolla just said he thinks 30Rock is one of the best written shows on TV in the last 10 years, and I value his opinion. You have pushed me over the tipping point. Thanks, I bet I will like it.

Heck, I understand that, towards the end of the series run, it was implied that the show's hillbilly might actually be God, or at least a high ranking angle.

Jeez, how about a Spoiler Alert first!!!

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