Here is today’s open post thread, discuss whatever you want. To get us kicked off, here is Cracked’s top 5 pathetic groups that people think will rule the world. Here is their take on why we shouldn’t worry about the Illuminati:
But more importantly, this seems to be the ultimate product of the paranoid mind, in that depending on who you talk to, the Illuminati includes everyone. Not just governments and corporations, but also Hollywood.
So every single ideological difference you think there is between political parties, competing companies and even the makers of your favorite TV shows, is fake. In reality, they all meet behind the scenes, with perfect secrecy, with perfect cooperation, to control everything. They’re having round-table meetings in the penthouses of five-star hotels where they decide that America needs a terrorist attack this year while using their sinister connections to implant secret messages into Hannah Montana songs.
Personally I think Cracked is part of the conspiracy too. It’s a good read though.
July 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Just to be clear, I think it’s the Protocols of the Elder’s of Zion who control us all, oh and those Stonecutter guys from the Simpsons led by Rush Limbaugh.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hey BMac, we are putting a hurting on your Cards today! Still, I love the Holiday pick up for you guys.
BTW – I don’t expect the strongly disapprove % to hold at 40%. I suspect it will settle in at 37 to 38%. The trendline is still down. With each passing month, more and more people are coming to understand what Skippy’s leftist agenda really means to America.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Yeah, I think that Holliday pick-up helps a lot. I’m very worried about the Cubs right now, hopefully we can pick it up a bit when we get back home. We’ve got a 6 day homestand coming up, so lets keep hope alive.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
The cards are way better than the Cubbies this year. I can’t see you guys losing the central.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
canada, germany, and other allies are considering pulling troops out of afghanistan
i thought obama had complete international support
July 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Lisab,
That is an easy one. It’s Bush’s fault. He upset our allies so much that not even Obama The Great can stop them from leaving.
That would be a talking point courtesy of The Daily Kos.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Boooosh, and his cowboy diplomacy. It’s a good thing we have such smart diplomacy. Good thing we didn’t get that hillbilly Palin elected or we’d be in real trouble.
/sarc
July 26th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Some interesting detail from Rasmussen Reports – 76% of those polled found him to be liberal. This is a 6% increase in the last month. More disconcerting for the Dems – 48% now find him to be VERY liberal. This is 20 points higher than when he was elected.
It is very easy to calibrate your words during a campaign and appear to be an acceptable center/left candidate. When it comes to actually governing, we are finding out that Obama is more liberal than any President in history – by far.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I have a suggestion.
Whenever a liberal is getting his a$$ handed to him and loosing a debate/argument by way of facts, truth, documentations, sheer intelligence or relevance and decides to use grammar and spelling as a rebutal they should be banned as if they were spamming profanities.
Ya know, when they’re sitting around the campfires kumbayaing each other do they stop each other mid sentence and ask “how are you spelling that” or “you should of said it this way ” ?
Its like the road rules. They’re all pretty much the same for all of us. But hey if I dont come to complete stop or mis-spell something the odds are that were all going to get there safely anyway.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Bryan.
I thought it was the Freemasons led by Eskimo igloo ice cubers birthed by Palin ?
July 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Lol Mickey, liberals are very pedantic.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
you know if you rearrange the letters in Sarah Palin’s name you get
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omg … she is a muslim!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
NURSE forced to help with late term abortion or lose her job!
“A Brooklyn nurse claims she was forced to choose between her religious convictions and her job when Mount Sinai Hospital ordered her to assist in a late-term abortion against her will.
The hospital even exaggerated the patient’s condition and claimed the woman could die if the nurse, a devout Catholic, did not follow orders, the nurse alleges in a lawsuit.”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07262009/news/regionalnews/nurse_forced_to_help_abort_181426.htm
July 26th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
well I think a nurse should be able to opt out and the hospital is responsible for staffing and calling in someone to assist who is for it. But in reality they really may not have had someone and a nurse is basically general labor and can unfortunately expect to have to make that choice. Health care working conditions are barbaric for many and lack in many normal human rights. ergo. lawsuit versus lost and future wages.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Brian to hear you talk you’d think we live in the former Soviet Union. We have the best healthcare in the world. Not perfect sure, but the best in the world.
lisab, nice tip I may post this story, I’ll give you credit of course.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
you may have the best health care, but one day I turned a corner downtown in one of our biggest US cities and saw I estimate 10,000 homeless lining up on skid row for the beanery pots to be laid out for feeding time. This was nowhere reported on the news. I thought this was a big story, but it was politically unpalatable. Nobody wants to tell it. A certain percentage of these folks turn up in hospital e.r.s tripling your wait time and quadrupling your bill to a grand plus. We are not dealing with reality here. Denial is too preschool for me.
July 26th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
“Denial is too preschool for me.”
(yeah, you just lie thru your teeth)
How stupid can one person be ? Huh ?
No ones denying anything. Where the hell did you get that from ?
We have the best system and the best health care in the world. But its like a car thats never been tuned and just keeps going down the highway picking up more crappy passengers (ie lawsuits, fraud, gratuitous billing). It needs to be streamlined, back to basics. THATS ALL !!!!
We dont need this humongous system that Obama wants which any fool knows has so many ulterior purposes its damn frightening. They tried it here in Hawaii and it failed. It only lasted 7 months before the scammers came out and robbed the state, next thing that happened was the private market was started loosing business left and right. Finally the state couldnt afford to cover all these folks who otherwise could actually pay their own insurance.
I’ll say it again.
Anyone who thinks the fed or even state can run a public health insurance/care program for that entire population is a f*ckin idiot.
These people are insane to the point that in order to have a freebee they’re willing risk so much more thats at stake. They dont care if more people end up dying or sick, if the country goes bottom up. They just get all lit up and could care less about anything at the sound of free medical.
If you schmucks cant see that by harnessing the banks, the unions,the insurance companies and health care is what it takes for the dems to lock in votes for 2012 I cant begin to tell you how gullible you are.
This is exactly what the dems have been doing with minorities for the last 50 years. Get em all hooked on entitlements and then when the next election rolls around they start fear mongering by saying “the republicans will take it all away from you”
Well you know what ? Shortly after that election, even if you get your entitlements your going to lose them because it JUST CANT BE SUSTAINED ON THE COUNTRYS INCOME !! So, the dems will get elected, you’ll get your free box of bandaids. In about 6 months there will be no more money for bandaids, the dems will be in office, and you’ll all be f*cked with dirty bandaids. You wont even be able to buy one in the private sector. They all went out of business. Now weve got a country full of people who not only have no medical but couldnt afford it if it were there.
Brian, you wouldnt know reality if it climbed up your butt and popped out you mouth and screamed in your face “here I am “!
July 26th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Sharia Plan? Whoa, that’s like dog spelled backwards is god. But worse. By the way, if you rearrange the letters in Barack Obama’s name, you get Big Fat Idiot.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
And now I will spend the next two hours trying to improve the comments section for our guests. Wish me luck.
Oh, is 25 comments per page enough? You can, of course, just click the “show all” comments link, but I will make that more intuitive.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
i already noticed the improvement, it does make the paging much better
July 26th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Wrong micky, you assume way too much. I have stated I would be pretty happy myself with a few reforms, cover pre-existing conditions, insurance portability from job to job, fill in the medicare prescription donut hole, honest accounting of both chargers for services and insuance eob’s, and expansion of medical and nursing school run inner city and rural clinics and hospitals, tuition forebearance to med and nurs students, and malpractice reform, no punitive damages. And yes a co-op insurance exchange to try and get more people enrolled in insurance and health programs. You could say we need to rebuild medicare and medicaid, and that would need a deeper look at. And an evaluation committee on how all this is working.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Come to think of it you can rearrange the letters in Barack Hussein Obama’s name to cleverly spell, well, Barack Hussein Obama. What the hell did we do?
July 26th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
boy micky when you lecture me about reality I find it most interesting. It has occured to me you may be wearing red lenses and I just can’t see the world the way you do.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Yea right Brian.
Yet you counter me with no specifics and only go to my person.
The problem is that you want the fed to run the whole deal. You’ve pretty much defended Obama. And thats all I need to convince me that you’re an idiot.
As far as concepts of reality goes….
you’re a liar who can only make sh*t up to get his point across. Its plainly evident that anyone who sees the world in terms he has to construct, fabricate out of whole cloth, does not engage in reality.
People who dont lie thru their teeth are the ones more likely to see rerality for what it is.
The only reason I read your sh*t is to remind me and keep me grateful that theres still some level of sanity out there amongst the gen population.
People tell me I’m nuts and then I read your sh*t and automatically dont care what they think or say