Weekly Open Thread

FIRST!

PATVANN please say thank you to your son for us ,good day,the wind and cold is here now,bye 🙄

@Patvann:

Have your wife, daughter and everyone give him a big hug for me, you do the big bear hug thing and then all could repeat, if you wish!! 😉

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks, new great-granddaughter arrived, family came in from Colorado and we all packed up and went to Missouri, just got back and I somehow managed to get the flu.

My furniture is all moved around and my rugs are rolled up because our little granddaughter is now flying around in her walker and I don’t feel up to putting everything back together again, it will wait.

Hope everyone enjoyed Easter with family, bet John is fantastic on an egg hunt, did he share?

@Donald Bly:

The only thing that will be different is the picture on the wall… it will be one of “King Obama” probably in ObaMao Pajama with sickle and hammer scepter

I believe “King Obama,” thinking the sickle and hammer might be a bit much at this point, is standing in the doorway with a bat in his hand ready to make life a bit worse for the already beaten down man. That’s Geithner in the window hauling away his last remnants not wanting to be a witness to the rest of it.

My first impression was the Jack of Hearts on the wall should be changed to the ‘suicide Jack’. That is the one that appears to have the sword running through his head. Jack of clubs, I think.

Looks to me to be a fellow with a bad gambling problem. He’s lost everything,including his wife and children, and is about to lose his health to an enforcer of the loan shark to whom he owes money.

Hey, taking advantage of the open thread. I have a friend from Brazil looking for a good American history book. I tried a few other threads and got some recommendations, but nothing seemed to fit. Anyone know of a book that would be good for someone from a foreign perspective?

Thanks in advance…

Patvann, thank your son for me. So in awe of what he does.

Does anyone know the title/artist/origin of the picture in this post? It almost has a Nighthawks feel to me.

The American Idol President lives up to his name:

April 8, 2010 | 9:33 AM ET
Obamas to Appear on “American Idol”
The President and First Lady took time out of their busy schedules on Wednesday to sit down for a taping with “American Idol” as part of the hit show’s fundraising event set to air next week.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama laugh during a taping for the television show
“Idol Gives Back” is a two-hour charity performance that has already raised more than $140 million in contributions for global organizations.

This year’s beneficiaries include Children’s Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children’s U.S. Programs and the United Nations Foundation.
The special episode typically features big-name stars. It will air on Wednesday, April 21 at 8 p.m. ET.

Holy shit ❗ Now I have to miss Idol because these creeps are going to be on hogging the show from the real talent. 😈 {{{{gag}}}} I can’t stand to look a them. Watch the ratings drop on that night. 😛

Oh, and notice that Schumer and most democrats supported the attacks.

From a customer, this was in the Aspen paper, one of the most Liberal holes in the world. I have worked there every spring for over 20 years. For me it is hilarious! To think that it was in the paper, oh man, the times they are a changin!

Subject: Fwd: Aspen Times Article / Gary Hubbell
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> Barack Obama has Awakened a Sleeping Nation GARY HUBBELL ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY
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> Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100
> years. Truly, he is the savior of America ‘s future. He is the best thing
> ever.
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> Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent
> presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America ‘s
> resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that
> we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care
> have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus
> spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy;
> unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a
> decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels,
> and there is a seething anger in the populace.
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> That’s why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America .
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> Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society
> like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism,
> Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer
> metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.
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> Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck,
> contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games
> on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips –
> they’ve gotten off the fence. They’ve woken up. There is a level of political
> activism in this country that we haven’t seen since the American Revolution,
> and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the
> American political and social consciousness.
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> Think of the crap we’ve slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years a s
> liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom
> and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on
> the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the
> fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was
> regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having
> been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them
> cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators
> decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and
> stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of
> society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support
> legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity,
> indolence, ignorance and “disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and
> re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers
> routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with
> dubious torts.
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> We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief,
> and we went on with our lives.
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> But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction
> and unrest.
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> In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling
> places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms.
> ACORN – a taxpayer-supported organization – is given a role in taking the
> census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up
> child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government
> position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies
> are taken over by the government, and the auto workers’ union – whose
> contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense – is rewarded
> with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment
> bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses
> as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights
> and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack
> Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure
> one-sixth of the American economy.
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> I don’t know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some
> business, and I stepped into the court clerk’s office and changed my voter
> affiliation from “Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that
> the Republican party is perfect, but at least they’re starting to awaken to
> the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to
> hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim
> our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world’s policeman
> and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.
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> Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They’re organizing, they’re
> studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they’re reading history
> and case law, they’re showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of
> conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a
> revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our
> priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a
> violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the
> original document that has guided us for 220 years – the Constitution. Just
> as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there
> will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A
> hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when
> America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack
> Hussein Obama.

ARCHER52 i did not know you where here i send a message to tell you you have only 3 books left to sell at yahoo bye i will receive mine soon

Thanks Missy, if the revolution (voting type) is taking root in Aspen, it is really catching on fire. Perhaps one of our Field Grade Officers might send Mr. Hubbel an email and introduce him to the site. Maybe ask him if he wants to fire one off for us.

This is the kind of stuff that gets me fired up! Yippee!

Long live the Republic!