gdp's Comments

ScrappleFace : Obama's Texas Gaffe Denied, TSA Denies Stripping Grandma

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:19:03 +0000

This is all very interesting, but ... Wasn’t there some famous event that took place on this day? Some tragedy that resulted in a huge loss of human life? Something we ought to be remembering? Ah! There ya go! On December 7, 1946, a fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia killed 119 people, making it the deadliest hotel fire in United States history. Not to mention, Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928!

ScrappleFace : Occupy DC Barn Comes Down, USPS Slows Down, Cain Drops Out

Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:45:24 +0000

Get your Christmas cards in the mail quick, boys & girls! Be on the safe side -- pick out cards that feature fuzzy bunnies instead of reindeer ... Happy Rama-Hana-Quanz-mas, y'all!!!

ScrappleFace : Obama Sings with Santa, Hillary Gives Bath to Buddha

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:46:41 +0000

And another thing -- isn't it time for our political leaders to abandon that antique nonsense of taxing us to pay for their spending? We are already borrowing 41 cents of every dollar we spend: I say, have the courage of your convictions and borrow the whole thing! Let the Chinese pay for it! After all, who do you think the Chicoms are gonna loan their money to, if not us? The Europeans ? !? (Snort!)

ScrappleFace : Obama Sings with Santa, Hillary Gives Bath to Buddha

Sat, 3 Dec 2011 04:06:57 +0000

Gotta love those falling unemployment numbers! Of course, they are falling (in large part) because so many of the "discouraged" long-term unemployed have simply given up on trying to find jobs. It's a bit like saying, "Euthanise 'em when they get sick, and we'll have the healthiest society on the planet!"

ScrappleFace : Super Committee Fails, NASCAR Fans Boo First Lady

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:31:25 +0000

Good evening, Scott! I hear you won your election. Congratulations! Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Carry on ...

Big Government : Wisconsin Open Thread

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:12:04 +0000

Hobbits 3. Orcs 2. Stay tuned.

Big Government : Bachmann Surges, Tied with Romney in Iowa

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:00:43 +0000

Message to Mitt Romney: "Money can't buy me love!" ~~ Paul McCartney (1964)

Big Government : Thursday Open Thread: May 5th Edition

Thu, 5 May 2011 14:55:18 +0000

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” ~~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Big Government : Connecticut Governor: Pass State Budget Without Union Concessions

Sun, 1 May 2011 05:53:57 +0000

... shared sacrifice ... Now, there's a catchy slogan! “It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.” ~~ Ayn Rand ; The Fountainhead (1943)

Big Government : Connecticut Governor: Pass State Budget Without Union Concessions

Sun, 1 May 2011 05:48:52 +0000

An hours drive in any direction puts one outside the State of Connecticut. Yes, you're right! Unfortunately, then you're in New York ... or New Jersey ... or Massachusetts ... or Rhode Island ... or the People's Paradise of Vermont ... [/s]

Big Government : The Kiss-Your-Sister Budget Deal Is Finalized, but Claudia Schiffer Still Ain't Your Sibling

Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:45:16 +0000

Gloom, despair, and agony on me! Deep, dark depression, excessive misery! If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all Gloom, despair, and agony on me!!! Keep in mind: we could have this budget deal, and Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-Justice-elect JoAnne Kloppenburg too! Just sayin' ...

Big Government : Deal Reached to Avoid Government Shutdown

Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:36:13 +0000

Of course this deal is a piece of crap! If you are not prepared to play a long game, brace yourself for further disappointments. American did not slip into this slime pit in a day -- don't expect that it can be pulled out of it in a day, or in a week, or a year, or an election cycle, or two, or three. “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” ~~ Thomas Paine, in The American Crisis: Number II, December 1776

Big Government : Wisconsin Supreme Court Open Thread

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:46:53 +0000

Klepto-burg by a nose! Who would have ever predicted that? [/s]

Big Government : Wisconsin Supreme Court Open Thread

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:15:15 +0000

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” ~~ Emma Goldman

Big Government : April 5th: As Crucial and Close Election Looms in Wisconsin, Unions Double Down Intimidating Local B

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:05:03 +0000

Nice little State you cheese heads got here. Be a shame, anything bad happened to it ... [/s]

Big Government : Friday Free-for-All: Chaos Edition

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:44:49 +0000

“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.” ~~ Will Durant, historian

Big Government : Tuesday Open Thread: Washington Edition

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:37:15 +0000

“I bet, after seeing us, he [George Washington] would sue us for calling him ‘Father’.” ~~ Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Big Government : Barack Obama Is No Ronald Reagan

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:25:47 +0000

How does Barack Obama compare to Ronald Reagan? Reminds me of the famous quote : “History repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” ~~ Karl Marx

Big Government : Saturday Open Thread: Lincoln Edition

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:38:35 +0000

Part II : "I will not even qualify my opinion to meet the declaration of one of the Judges of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, 'that a negro descended from African parents, who was imported into this country as a slave is not a citizen, and cannot be.' I say that this Government was established on the white basis. It was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and never should be administered by any except white men. I declare that a negro ought not to be a citizen, whether his parents were imported into this country as slaves or not, or whether or not he was born here. It does not depend upon the place a negro’s parents were born, or whether they were slaves or not, but upon the fact that he is a negro, belonging to a race incapable of self—government, and for that reason ought not to be on an equality with white men." ~~ Stephen A. Douglas

Big Government : Saturday Open Thread: Lincoln Edition

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:36:21 +0000

That quote is from the fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate. For contrast, let's inspect a quote from Senator Douglas, from the same debate. Part I : "Lincoln maintains ... that the Declaration of Independence asserts that the negro is equal to the white man, and that under Divine law, and if he believes so it was rational for him to advocate negro citizenship, which, when allowed, puts the negro on an equality under the law. I say to you in all frankness, gentlemen, that in my opinion a negro is not a citizen, cannot be, and ought not to be, under the Constitution of the United States." ~~ Stephen A. Douglas