Fuck its silent in here.......

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I like this...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/paul_ryan_obama_birthers.php

Paul Ryan has figured out a way of letting the birthers down gently.

Like many of his fellow congressmen, Ryan has been bombarded for years with letters from conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama was somehow secretly born in Kenya and so is ineligible to be president. The missives began even before Ryan became one of the president's biggest foes on budget issues and more recently as he joined the GOP ticket alongside MItt Romney.

But unlike some in his party who have been embarrassed by their own clunky and awkward responses to the birthers, Ryan has come up with an easy solution to deal with them.

He simply sends them a copy of the president's birth certificate.

Intrepid Reader:  Teabag Nation

Damn.  They've gotten to Paul Ryan now, too.

[Slaky]

I like this...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/paul_ryan_obama_birthers.php

Paul Ryan has figured out a way of letting the birthers down gently.

Like many of his fellow congressmen, Ryan has been bombarded for years with letters from conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama was somehow secretly born in Kenya and so is ineligible to be president. The missives began even before Ryan became one of the president's biggest foes on budget issues and more recently as he joined the GOP ticket alongside MItt Romney.

But unlike some in his party who have been embarrassed by their own clunky and awkward responses to the birthers, Ryan has come up with an easy solution to deal with them.

He simply sends them a copy of the president's birth certificate.

Intrepid Reader:  Teabag Nation

Damn.  They've gotten to Paul Ryan now, too.

Nice.

Seriously though I can at least respect the man for trying to raise the level of discourse a little.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

[morpheus]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

This got me to thinking: is this standard practice?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/09/19/romney-fundraiser-rules/1579351/

Attendees at fundraisers for Democrats and Republicans alike typically are asked not to record events.

So yeah, I guess it is.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

This got me to thinking: is this standard practice?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/09/19/romney-fundraiser-rules/1579351/

Attendees at fundraisers for Democrats and Republicans alike typically are asked not to record events.

So yeah, I guess it is.

Yeah, but... Clearly they didn't say this that one time, or David Corn would have never been able to put that video on the internet.

Total boner by the Romney campaign.

[Bort]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

This got me to thinking: is this standard practice?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/09/19/romney-fundraiser-rules/1579351/

Attendees at fundraisers for Democrats and Republicans alike typically are asked not to record events.

So yeah, I guess it is.

Yeah, but... Clearly they didn't say this that one time, or David Corn would have never been able to put that video on the internet.

Total boner by the Romney campaign.

I blame the Joker.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

This got me to thinking: is this standard practice?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/09/19/romney-fundraiser-rules/1579351/

Attendees at fundraisers for Democrats and Republicans alike typically are asked not to record events.

So yeah, I guess it is.

Yeah, but... Clearly they didn't say this that one time, or David Corn would have never been able to put that video on the internet.

Total boner by the Romney campaign.

I blame the Joker.

[morpheus]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

This got me to thinking: is this standard practice?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/09/19/romney-fundraiser-rules/1579351/

Attendees at fundraisers for Democrats and Republicans alike typically are asked not to record events.

So yeah, I guess it is.

Yeah, but... Clearly they didn't say this that one time, or David Corn would have never been able to put that video on the internet.

Total boner by the Romney campaign.

I blame the Joker.

Improved.

[Quality Start Machine]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

This got me to thinking: is this standard practice?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/09/19/romney-fundraiser-rules/1579351/

Attendees at fundraisers for Democrats and Republicans alike typically are asked not to record events.

So yeah, I guess it is.

Yeah, but... Clearly they didn't say this that one time, or David Corn would have never been able to put that video on the internet.

Total boner by the Romney campaign.

I blame the Joker.

Improved.

Theory upheld.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Hey, everyone... check out this asshole.

[Internet Apex]

im drunk, but I still call it a draw.

I'd call it a dud. Mind you, the neighbor was cursing like a sailor for often less than apparent reasons, but Obanana simply pussied out on numerous opportunities to go for the jugular in favor of making the cheeseburger gesture. (The preferred reference would be to the foam-and-shaving-cream toy of the '70s, but this may require Chuck intervention, as it's not coming to me.)

Crazy Foam?

^^ (||)

[R-V]

Hey, everyone... check out this asshole.

Stew - were the Gilded Age plutocrats as insufferably whiny as our current crop of oligarch taintpuddles?

[CBStew]

Hey, everyone... check out this asshole.

Stew - were the Gilded Age plutocrats as insufferably whiny as our current crop of oligarch taintpuddles?

One of the things that labor has become accustomed to is an employer's threat that if the union wins a representation election conducted by Gil's NLRB the employer will shut down all or some of its operation and employees will be fired.  The employer knows that the union's only answer is to file an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB.  It takes years to adjudicate.  If the NLRB has been appointed by the likes of George Bush (either one) the union will probably inevitably lose.  Even if the union wins the workers whom it organized are replaced, or disillusioned because the union has been exposed as a toothless tiger and the employer wins anyway.  But the employer's threat in an organizing drive is at least directed to the workers who affect the outcome of the representation election.  In this case the workers are being threatened with dire consequences if tens of millions of other people vote in a way that the employer disapproves.  Comparing this guy and his wife to the king and queen of France is not far off.

[Gilgamesh]

Nobody told anyone at the fundraiser that remarks were off the record

OFF THE RECORD!

Fork was right?!?!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Fork was right?!?!

I guess someone's in big trouble at The Journal, among other places.