1 I'm betting that the parents consider themselves intellectuals. Nobody's as intensely stupid as an intellectual.

2 Oh, for heaven's sake. These people are idiots and attention whores. If it looks like dog crap and smells like dog crap, well....

3

CNN and Fox both got “punked” so they are hard on the attack.

4

Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Can we get a flaming skull for this? DougPowers.com has the link to Wash Times article. What did the money buy?

$20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

5
haha @ "hrm"

That's falconese for yes, I think.

6 Fuck the balloon boy, who gives a shit?

7 We, uh, *VOMIT*

8 Instead of a reality show, these dimwit parents should be forced to pay for all the emergency services. They can fight it if they like and hopefully go bankrupt in the process....I know, I'm not sympathetic in the least but am so fed up with these idiots, just like I am so sick of most reality show 'stars' out there - bloody waste of oxygen.

9 I'm already tired of this story. The family is crazy, so crazy shit is gonna follow them wherever they go.

10 Ya know, I really wouldn't object if the Navy named one of their DSRVs after Ted Kennedy.

11 Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects Why this isn't a huge scandal is anybody's guess.

12
Balloon Boy -- the boy who was never in the balloon.

Misnomer? Shouldn't we be calling him...

Hiding In The Attic Boy?

13 Pity the balloon wasn't filled with hydrogen.

14 Heene is on video talking about Hillary as a reptilian.

Somebody page Charles Johnson. This one's hawt!

15 Ya know, I really wouldn't object if the Navy named one of their DSRVs after Ted Kennedy. Oh, well DONE sir. Well done.

16 Oh have no fear, some lame network will give them reality show they so desperately want.

17 This thing is a perfect diversion. CNN: Can you believe this balloon kid?! I mean, he was in the balloon, but not, then he was in an attic, then he told Wolf Blitzer they did it for a show, then he VOMITED! Also, the kids have a rap video called Pussified. Isn't it fascinating? We could cover this all day... I think we will. Congress: Nobody is looking, lets ram this shit through.

18 3 CNN and Fox both got “punked” so they are hard on the attack.

Oh, so then we can assume CNN is also working full-tilt to figure out who planted those fake Limbaugh quotes their guy was spreading around, right?

/sarc

19

You people with your facts and deductive reasoning.  We were watching their body language.  You hear that?  Their BODY LANGUAGE. 

20 Which makes this quote from Balloon Boy's Brother even more provocative:

That quote is from attic box boy...not his brother.

21 ..and were Morons?

22 The 6 yr old vomited twice when asked about his "we did it for the show" comment. The lies are getting to him. This is child abuse. Oh, and when he ran to the bathroom to puke, his parents just kept on the the interview ... until Diane Sawyer suggested that one of them go help him.

23 If these twits faked this, and I am beginning to think they did, they should be liable for all costs and expenses incurred by the police, and then face criminal fraud charges in court.

24 Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects Hey, lookit tha' shiny balloon!

25

Money for the Kennedy Institute was inserted by Mr. Inouye and Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat. Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, and Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican, sought the funding for the World War II museum.

Well, I'm a Louisiana resident now, thanks to the US Air Force sending my husband here. They will be hearing from me.

Disgusting.

26
Don't worry, Warden. Falcon is only regurgitating some worms.

27 I'm betting that the parents consider themselves intellectuals.

The dad's an "amateur scientist" and contractor.  He can't be much of a scientist - he lives next to Colorado State but isn't employed by them. 

28 " Fuck the balloon boy, who gives a shit?" If my flight was delayed or cancelled because of this bullshit, I'd want these idiots to be prosecuted. The authorities need to force these morons to pay for all emergency services diverted for this nonsense.

29 I know what these kids need and it's not a reality show.

30 27
My point being, you can blame "contractors" as much as "intellectuals" (actually more so) for this nonsense. 

31 Memo to the world: The Nation Below Canada is profoundly unserious. Do not park your assets or asses there. As a friend, they will betray you. As an enemy, they will not threaten you. See Ammianus Marcellinus, "The History of the Late Roman Empire."

32 These people are so yesterday.

33 Obviously, money diverted from the military is a bigger and more important story. But this thread is about these idiot parents. We definitely need another thread on the asshole senators who allowed that to happen and also, who got what.

34

This does call for more investigation, but it is also disturbing the extent to which the quote is being twisted.  The boy did not simply say, "we did this for a show," as is the version used in most media accounts.

What he DID say, as is quoted accurately here, "You guys said that, hrm, we did this for a show."

That first part, "you guys said that . . . " is the difference between a little kid admitting to a lie and simply repeating what the media had told him.

35 They must have committed at least one felony in this process.

36 The kid is good.  Even the puke was fake.

37 I accidentally became tethered.

Yeah, that's what happened.

38

Oh, and when he ran to the bathroom to puke, his parents just kept on the the interview ... until Diane Sawyer suggested that one of them go help him.

When Diane Sawyer cares more about your children than you do...

That's probably on the books as a reason to remove kids from their parents' care.

Not to pick on Diane Sawyer especially. Although she was a beauty queen, which makes Sarah Palin contemptible, so wouldn't it do the same for Diane?

No, no, I didn't think so.

39 I really don't know how people really sound on a 911 call in the grip of panic.

Incomprehensible, or not panicked at all, usually.

I listened to a lot of them for an old job, and the only people who fell between "can handle shit" and "can't handle shit" were misrepresenting the situation, trying to sound panicked or not panicked without knowing what that really sounds like. Calls that sound "real," like on a cop drama, are all fake, somehow.

They do fool juries reliably, though, because juries don't hear a lot of them, except on cop dramas. Keep that in mind, hobo-killers.

40 Wow, I just stopped by that green lizard site and boy does CJ have a woody for hot air or what?

41
Speaking of hoaxes and the media getting punked...

Remeber the Raelians, the cult who were stringing the media along for weeks (back in 2003?) on the claims they cloned a human baby?

The media so wanted it to be true to stick it in Bush's xtian face.

42

New 2012 Rass Poll

 

29% of Republican voters are stupid and liberal:

 

GOP 2012: Huckabee 29% Romney 24% Palin 18%

43

We definitely need another thread on the asshole senators who allowed that to happen and also, who got what.

With their pictures. Replaced with the flaming skull for each one.

Damn, the smoke coming out of my ears is setting off the smoke detector.

44 Posted by: Mama AJ at October 16, 2009 02:29 PM If you're talking about the diverted military dollars for pork. Put down all sharp objects. Olympia Snowe got a buttload of it for Humvees. They only thing is that the Humvees are in Maine and will stay there.

45 29% of Republican voters are stupid and liberal: GOP 2012: Huckabee 29% Romney 24% Palin 18% Don't you mean 43 percent?

46 Hey, look! Balloon Boy!

47

I was on the "the kids got out of hand and he was probably refering to 'Wife Swap' when he said 'show'" bandwagon, but now I'm changing my mind. I knew they were grade A fruitbars to begin with, but the evidence just keeps piling up.

Sad part is, I can see my sister and her husband pulling some crap like this in a couple years. Either that, or they'll be in jail for trying to pray one of their (future) kids well. The point is that I know this kind of crazy, and you really can't put anything past it.

48 Math is hard. 53 percent.

49

29% of Republican voters are stupid and liberal:

 

GOP 2012: Huckabee 29% Romney 24% Palin 18%

Sure hope we have more options come 2012, otherwise it's Obama for another 4 years.

50

What he DID say, as is quoted accurately here, "You guys said that, hrm, we did this for a show."

That first part, "you guys said that . . . " is the difference between a little kid admitting to a lie and simply repeating what the media had told him.

It looked to me like he was saying that to his dad...not Wolf.

51 Supposedly the family also called the news first before calling the cops.

52

Don't you mean 43 percent?

 

True dat; if this holds up looks like I will be voting third Party in 2012 and the Republican Party will be officially dead.

 

At least Pawlenty got loud negative ratings.

53

Olympia Snowe got a buttload of it for Humvees. They only thing is that the Humvees are in Maine and will stay there.

Hey, if it keeps the Canadians out...

 

54 auinsc 50: I didn't see the clip itself, but everything I've heard/read says the dad was the only one who could hear Wolf. Dad relays the question to the kid, kid replies to the dad. So yeah, "You guys" would refer to the parents, not to the media -- especially for a six-year-old.

55 F these idiots.
Not worth the column inches, IMO.

56

auinsc 50: I didn't see the clip itself, but everything I've heard/read says the dad was the only one who could hear Wolf. Dad relays the question to the kid, kid replies to the dad. So yeah, "You guys" would refer to the parents, not to the media -- especially for a six-year-old.

That is exactly what happened. "You guys" = "media whore parents"

57 Wow.  Americans really do love to focus on the most irrelevant of topics.

58

HotAir has a link to Sarah's Facebook/NRO article. The woman packs more common sense into one paragraph than can be found in the entire city of DC.

We rely on petroleum for much more than just powering our vehicles It is essential in everything from jet fuel to petrochemicals, plastics to fertilizers, pesticides to pharmaceuticals. Ac­cord­ing to the Energy Information Ad­min­is­tra­tion, our total domestic petroleum consumption last year was 19.5 million barrels per day (bpd). Motor gasoline and diesel fuel accounted for less than 13 million bpd of that. Meanwhile, we produced only 4.95 million bpd of domestic crude. In other words, even if we ran all our vehicles on something else (which won’t happen anytime soon), we would still have to depend on imported oil. And we’ll continue that dependence until we develop our own oil resources to their fullest extent.

59
Asshole Dad believes that REPTILIANS ARE RUNNING THE WORLD!!!!1!!!!111!  That's all you need to know, right there.

Oh, and even if they do try to make them pay for the rescue mobilization, it's not like the deadbeat can keep a job.   There's not much money in 'storm chasing'.

60 #57 You gotta problem with that?

61 I'm not usually this much of a thread hijacker, but Attic Boy and his family deserve it.

62 Did everyone see that picture of MY balloons? 

63

OT

Men Behaving Madly

Ms. Dowd tells us why David Letterman did not abuse the employer/employee relationships.

(He's NOT a Conservative)

64

This story does not interest me at all. It is retarded. Who gives a shit about a boy in a bubble, who cares.

65

A couple of years ago the Kim family "got lost" up in my neck of the woods. We always thought that it was some kind of a set up for a movie or book deal. It did not turn out so well for Mr.Kim. This stinks also.

 

66
This story does not interest me at all. It is retarded. Who gives a shit about a boy in a bubble, who cares.

What are you looking at? You never seen a kid in a bubble before?

67

Olympia Snowe got a buttload of it for Humvees

Well, that explains the aways constipated look.

68

Nuke the planet from space. It's the only way to be sure.

Seriously, I'm beginning to have my doubts that the human race deserves to continue.

69

#66

Moops. The Moops conquered Spain.

70

Electric cars might work in Los Angeles, but they don’t work in Alaska, where you can drive hundreds of miles without seeing many people, let alone many electrical sockets.

It's not perfect since she didn't add "you dumbsh*ts" but it's damn close.

71 Someone should fart in a balloon and put the family in it.

72

PGIS: It does, if only for a chance to redeem ourselves.

In other words, it's a cosmic "If I have to tell you one ... more ... time ...

73 And, today, everyone's just a little bit sicker in our sick, sick world.

74 Another moron added to the mix? Where is this gigantic septic tank that holds all idiots? How miserable they must have been living in a free society. Now that their savior B.O. has arrived, they can reveal themselves for what they are.

75 @40  woody for hot air

I think that this is part of a coordinated attack against Michelle Malkin.  It's just too coincidental that Olbermann goes on a rant against MM the same week that CJ decides to renew his attack on her site. 

_{I've heard from anonymous sources that} Charles Johnson is an unethical whore. 

76
Moors!

77

Nuke the planet from space. It's the only way to be sure.

Before we do that, can we line up a kid--any kid--to puke on Anderson Cooper?

78 (waves hands over head jumping up and down)

Hey everybody.  Lookie here!  Boobies!!

79

Tethering seems to have been yesterday's theme, eh Meggie?

Hard to buy the "unintentional" claim in either case.

80

When I see the video, I believe it is a hoax. I think the give away is the father. His reaction is so fake, it's stupid.

Also, if it was his invention he should of known that there was no way it could even lift the boy.

And, generally I am a very good at reading people. After watching all the interviews and the video there is no doubt in my mind it was a planned hoax. There is just something really telling about the Father's behavior.

81 Reptilians?  Never heard of it.

82 My point being, you can blame "contractors" as much as "intellectuals" (actually more so) for this nonsense.

Huh?

83 When I see the video, I believe it is a hoax. I think the give away is the father. His reaction is so fake, it's stupid.

I don't know.  He acted the same way on "Wife Swap".

Wait, did I say "acted"?

84
Hannity is talking about this.  Damn, he really is dumb as dishwater, isn't he?  Maybe he really should run for office.

85 Too bad we don't have exile as a punishment for publicity/celebrity whoring. Exile to some tiny little island somewhere, with a once-per-month mail packet, and no media, cameras, or internet.

86 @82

I was responding to the first post that was linking intellectualism as a root cause of this stupid stunt. 

87 at least when John Denver fucked up in an experimental aircraft, he got it right: plummet to your death and make a really big splash. The Keenes are poseurs-

88

I'm not really into spanking.... in this case I am

spank the parents.

89 @86 I'm sorry, I didn't understand your slur on people who make a living as contractors.

90 plummet to your death and make a really big splash.

Thank God I'm a country buoy!

91 now Fox has video of the jiffy pop balloon taking off.

That thing wouldn't have been able to lift a squirrel off the ground, let alone a kid.

Every person involved in the search and rescue should be allowed to punch that douche of a father in the face.

92

29 53% of Republican voters are stupid and liberal:

 

GOP 2012: Huckabee 29% Romney 24% Palin 18%

Posted by: Vic at October 16, 2009 02:29 PM (CDUiN)

FIFY

93 Oh Lord. I have immediate family on the Larimer force. I'm going to have to call* him this weekend and see what's really the what.

_{* "call" could mean any non-face-to-face means of communication.}

94 I thought this whole thing stunk to high heaven the moment I heard what the father's first reaction to the incident was.

There he is, watching his son float away in a runaway baloon and his first instinct is to call...  the FAA?!

Maybe I'm unsophisticated, but I would think that one's first reaction would be to call 911.  Unless, of course, one is aware that making a false call to 911 is a crime.

A false call to the FAA, not so much...

95
This guy's problem is that he has not learned the proper way to
harness the tremendous power of hot air and market it to the media. If he had followed the examples of Dodd, Rangel, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Sharpton or Jackson, he would have gotten somewhere. They know how to convert methane into gold.

96

please, not Fuckabee

 

97 i mean, for fuck's sake- our bench is huckabee romney and palin? in a country of 300,000,000, that's our bench?

98 It is sort of frightening that the whole country was aware of this, some glued to their television sets for the duration.  But, as pointed out by a friend this morning, "this was a fabrication of cable television.  If there were no cable television there would have been no story, it would have been a couple of lines int he paper and on the local news, never would have made the nightly news".   Makes you wonder if he is right.

99 Here's the 911 call, which sounds kinda fake to me.

Heard a guy on a local (Denver) radio show this morning who'd met the dad while working as a camera man at a local theater, where Wife Swap wanted to capture some footage of the Heene's "thespian predilections." This camera guy says he came away from the experience believing Papa Heene was quite the actor. If that's the case, the I have no trouble believing this call was a put-on. But who knows . . .?

100 Mama AJ, you know what else you get by drilling oil? HELIUM. Without which this thread would not be possible.

101 @ 97 ...our bench is huckabee romney and palin? in a country of 300,000,000, that's our bench?

According to some people, apparently. Who would you offer up? Who do you see as a viable candidate?

102 I've got a 9, 5 and 3 year old. That is definitely one those embarrassing "young child telling the truth" moments. Like when you stay you don't like your sister-in-law because she farts too much, and the next time at Thanksgiving you hear "Daddy doesn't like you Aunt Sally because you fart too much."

103 David Letterman paid them to keep himself out of the news for a few days.

104 Who names a kid "Falcon"?

105
Give Sheriff Joe Arpaio 10 mins. with this Don Herbert wannabe and we'll have ALL our answers.

106 Oh the humanity!

107 i mean, for fuck's sake- our bench is huckabee romney and palin? in a country of 300,000,000, that's our bench?

2004 DNC Convention keynote delivered by Barack Obama, State Senator from Illinois, candidate for US Senate.

2008 GOP Convention keynote delivered by Rudy Guiliani, former mayor of NYC and failed 2008 GOP candidate for President.

The GOP is all crust.

108 Can we get a new post please? I do not care what it is on it could be paint drying I do not really care.

109

John Edward and Anna Cuming Scott, that's bloody who.

They took chances; they knew they took them.

110

Who are the Moops, Alex?

111 Duncan Hunter 2012

112

Who are the Moops, Alex?

It's not the Moops, you idiot. It's the Moors!!!

113 Can we get a new post please? I do not care what it is on it could be paint drying I do not really care. That paint you see drying is government approved, eco-friendly institutional Collectivist Grey, made from bio-degradable soybeans and US dollars. You may choose to have other colors in your life, grey is not compulsory. However there is a 500% surcharge on other colors, to defray the cost of painting the lives of the poor, the needy, the transgendered, the half-white, and those victimized by the era of Corporate Big Paint which thankfully ended in Year One, or 2009 AD.

114 Yeah, whatever happened to Duncan Hunter. I never really got a good look at him before McCain was anointed.

115

I'd like to go up against you, Blitzer. Come to think of it, that's what Trebek's mother said to me last night.

116 Okay, I'm starting to get horny for the T-shirt chick. Maybe I should concentrate on my work for a while.

117 "102 I've got a 9, 5 and 3 year old. That is definitely one those embarrassing "young child telling the truth" moments. Like when you stay you don't like your sister-in-law because she farts too much, and the next time at Thanksgiving you hear "Daddy doesn't like you Aunt Sally because you fart too much."

Posted by: Ken at October 16, 2009 03:30 PM (YcjCJ)"

It is so fascinating how children naturally just tell the truth.  It sort of makes the adults around them better people cause you don't want to put them in the position of knowing that you think Aunt Sally is a fatty.  My friend has a funny one.  She and  her hubby were discussing the school principal.  The children overheard.  The next day the guy went into the second graders class and the kid said to him "what is a pompous ass?'  To buy himself time, like all good educators he said to the kid "Timmy why do you ask that" and Timmy replied "cause mommy says that's what you are". 

118 the last primary was the parade of fools -- Guliani, Huckabee, McCain... one worse than the next.

Hunter was the best of the bunch but the Republicans voters were too busy running from one dream to the next and then moving on when they realized they picked the wrong one. It was like a game of musical chairs, and McCain only got picked because the music stopped at the right time

119 Can we get a new post please? I do not care what it is on it could be paint drying I do not really care.

Ace went shopping.

120 Curiouser and Curiouser...  I think I remember seeing a photo this morning of the attic access, with a set of pull-down folding steps.  I don't see how a six-year-old acting alone could pull down the steps, climb up in there, and then pull the steps up behind him, including figuring out how to fold them up before pulling the trap door shut. An adult could do it but I don't think a six-year-old, even a feral, non-pussified six-year-old could do it.  I don't think he'd have the strength, even if the springs engaged once you got it lifted part way up.   There's just no way a 50-lb kid got up in there by himself, retracted the steps, closed the hatch, and then hung out for several hours while all of this was going on. 

121 I've dropped my case of beer and I can't get up!

122 Perhaps we should just adopt the French Revolutionary Calendar and call today 25 Vendémiaire CCXVIII. We have adopted a lot of the French pose anyway... systemic unemployment around 10%, anemic or nonexistent growth, a government office and bureaucracy for nearly every human activity (a favorite department is the French Ministry for Social Cohesion), endless race problems, entitlement doles everywhere, the head of state bootlicking foreign tyrants... The list gets too long. Too bad we won't adopt the French attitude to nuclear power. So we've got that going for us.

123 George, It all started with that damned metric system

124 Balloons?  Never heard of them.

125

and McCain only got picked because the music stopped at the right time….

 

McCain got picked via very stupid Republican primary rules. Something they are not even talking about changing. What is bad is that the Dems will not even being holding a primary this time, therefore there will be NOTHING that prevents them from crossing over in States like SC.

 

Hunter did not have a chance last time because he was a House Representative from CA and had zero name recognition among the average voter. Campaign finance rules, coincidently authored by McCain, prevents people like him from getting a leg up.

126 After dropping out, Duncan Hunter endorsed Huckabee.  That makes me question his decision making skills and immediately dismiss him.  

127

George, It all started with that damned metric system

Yea, sure, blame us.

128

Please tell me that they are going to calculate the cost of the rescue to the last dime and present it to this asshole.

That's the last I want to hear of these idiots.

129 put a fork in me.

130

if it keeps the Canadians out...

Hey!

;^)

131
Ace went shopping.

Posted by: CUS at October 16, 2009 03:52 PM (wOGfT)

LOL!  I didn't know Ace had a ponytail!  Doesn't Charles have a ponytail? 

132
Nope. The family won't pay a dime.

The police have determined the family was not faking and really thought the kid was in the jiffy-pop balloon.

133 Primary voters arent average voters -- and in the past a lot of no names even made it the oval office.

But youre right -- the McCain Feingold law hurts the underdogs and the Republican rules are crazy

I think Hunter would have had a better chance if the field was thinner and everybody didn't get infatuated with Guliani and Huckabee during the debates and early primaries

134 Yeah, whatever happened to Duncan Hunter. I never really got a good look at him before McCain was anointed.

Duncan Hunter is still representing the same Congressional District.  It's just his son this time.

He had no chance. People didn't know him which also explains why Huckabee is going to win just about every straw poll for the next two years.  He hosts his own gawful show on Fox News Channel.

135

136
Of course if the police said otherwise, it would mean an admission that they too were fooled by the family of attention whores.

137 Oh, and I can't believe that the mom is a fellow yellow!  Obviously, she wasn't born in the US as she is way to deferential to her freak husband.  I love how they called him a "fringe scientist".  That's what they should be calling all those scientists who embrace man caused global warming.

138 Meh. I'm feeling like Hudson today, "Game over, man!" What with my business falling to less than 25% of what it was under the Evil McChimpyBush's era, and even during Clinton's years, the future looks bleak. The inevitability of socialized medicine looms, and Mark Steyn is right. Our relationship to government will be irreversible, no matter what happens in 2010. And does anyone see younger people voting non-demotard? Is even a tenth of the twentysomething generation conservative, by which I mean voting against demotards? Obastard's preferred pain pills may be in high demand given our prospects. I could use a fistful right now.

139 Kasich will win the gubernatorial election in Ohio.  Watch him as a possible '12 candidate.

140

Posted by: DebinIA at October 16, 2009 03:52 PM (UYcqZ)

Great point!

141 If you look on the Home Depot site, it appears that the ladder locks into place when you pull it down as a safety feature probably to prevent you from being locked in the attic when no one else is around. 

142
That makes sense.

After all, we have a fringe president and a fringe government.

143   

144 I'm betting that the parents consider themselves intellectuals. Nobody's as intensely stupid as an a self-described intellectual.

FIFY, since I'm an intellectual.

145 Obastard's preferred pain pills may be in high demand given our prospects. I could use a fistful right now.

Posted by: George Orwell at October 16, 2009 04:05 PM (AZGON)

Would you like the red pill or the blue pill?

146

147 There's just no way a 50-lb kid got up in there by himself, retracted the steps, closed the hatch, and then hung out for several hours while all of this was going on. 

Posted by: DebinIA at October 16, 2009 03:52 PM (UYcqZ)

I think they're using the term 'attic' a little loose here.  It was a space above the garage.  There is a video somewhere of the kid showing how he climbed up.  No pulldown stairs involved that I recall.

148

But this thread is about these idiot parents. We definitely need another thread

Look, its Friday....so, of course, everyone is on full "what documents are the administration going to dump on everybody cause it Friday afternoon" lookout.

149

$20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

 

don't errr drink and drive and kill someone unless you are liberal royalty.

150 In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "Balloon Boy" Falcon Keene was asked why he didn't come out from the garage attic when his parents called for him. In response, the 6-year-old said, "Um. You guys said that, hrm, we did this for a show." Axelrod told me the same thing. NOW what the hell do I do?

151

Nope. The family won't pay a dime.

The police have determined the family was not faking and really thought the kid was in the jiffy-pop balloon.

Really?  I bet this lunatic wishes she would have been dealing with the police in Colorado then.

Of course the police thought that it was real at the time it's what they find out later that leads to charges.

152  

153 $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Errah, the Edward M. Kennedy School of Distilling and Pickling?

154 Errah, the Edward M. Kennedy School of Distilling and Pickling?

Posted by: George Orwell at October 16, 2009 04:11 PM (AZGON)

The John F. Kennedy School of Neurology and Taxidermy.

155      

156

-- and in the past a lot of no names even made it the oval office.

 

Only when they were picked from those evil smoke filled closed door sessions of Party bosses.

 

The last “unknown” was in fact a representative from the House, James Garfield.

157 $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Errah, the Edward M. Kennedy School of Vehicular Safety and Philandering?

158

it appears that the ladder locks into place when you pull it down as a safety feature probably to prevent you from being locked in the attic when no one else is around.

Yes. I had to disable that feature.

159 #156 I'm starting to long for the days of smoke-filled roooms.

160
Has Ace had a relapse, or did he just lose the keys to the blog again?

161        

162 Crap, i was hoping this was going to be a much funnier thread.  Like the Home invader vs. Samurai Defender a ways back.  Got nothing to look forward to but a shot of Jack after work, an hour to go.

163 Has Ace had a relapse, or did he just lose the keys to the blog again? Making his Friday afternoon Valu-Rite purchases?

164 been checking this out, it's a hoax.

165

Falcon not in Baloon

PEACE PRIZE!

Family's a bunch of loons

PEACE PRIZE!

Thinks they're from the moon

PEACE PRIZE!

Bush

NO PEACE PRIZE!

166 Crap, i was hoping this was going to be a much funnier thread. Like the Home invader vs. Samurai Defender a ways back. Well, having the black, sucking horror of fascism descend over a once-free and productive land does tend to mute the tone of a discussion. On the other hand, maybe we'll get a kitteh in the ONT.

167 Mr. Ace, just how do you plan on transporting 1500 gallons of our product? I don't think four Ewoks and a wheelbarrow will cut it.

168 don't errr drink and drive and kill someone unless you are liberal royalty.

Or me!

169 101 @ 97 ...our bench is huckabee romney and palin? in a country of 300,000,000, that's our bench?

According to some people, apparently. Who would you offer up? Who do you see as a viable candidate?

Posted by: Curly Mustard at October 16, 2009 03:28 PM (sOpAl)

 

that's just it: I don't see anyone. No charismatic candidate. No experienced get-things-done type people. Just politicians whose major skillset seems to be the process of getting elected, and gaming the workings and trappings of office. I see no one who inspires me. I see cardboard people.

170 Damn sock.  Turn on I command you!

171 hahahahahaha

172

I'm all in favor of a Heene Family reality show.

As long as they're dressed in orange jumpsuits and picking up trash by the side of the road.

173 Uh,

Been on reality show = batshit crazy or media whore

and, most likely, dregs of society.

Really, what decent family would debase themselves for such entertainment?

174 On the other hand, maybe we'll get a kitteh in the ONT. You kitteh must be compliant with SarbOx, the EPA ruling on cat dander and carcinogens, 50% of your litter must be minority litter, 75% of it must be recycled, and your kitteh must show certificates for attending 120 hours of transgender sensitivity training. Failure to comply is a felony with maximum penalty of 100 years in prison or 200 hours of Obama's historical speeches, whichever hurts most.

175 I was 90% sure this was a hoax, until I read that the family has already been in a reality show (Wife Swap).  That pushed it up to 100%. 

176

Posted by: Not Steve Crowder at October 16, 2009 04:20 PM (fwSHf)

Bwhahahaha!

177

29% of Republican voters are stupid and liberal:

 

GOP 2012: Huckabee 29% Romney 24% Palin 18%

Huckabee?  Really?

Uh oh.  Looks like Obama is going to get his "10 years".

178 Oh, and honestly, I am doing laundry now--can I have my Peace Prize?

179

Posted by: Number of times CNN fact checked a SNL skit about Bush at October 16, 2009 04:28 PM (SPSOE)

Huckabee would be better then Obama after 4 years, but he's def. not my pick for the nomination. Just watch his show & constant pandering to the left

180

Yes. I had to disable that feature.

Posted by: Edward Rochester at October 16, 2009 04:13 PM (2qU2d)

You guys are making me LOL! 

181

OT

did anyone see Fred Armisen on Parks And Recreation as a Venezuelan govt official, visiting Pawnee Indiana and describing all the things that can get you sent to jail in Venezuela?

182 Oh, and honestly, I am doing laundry now--can I have my Peace Prize?

Posted by: runningrn at October 16, 2009 04:28 PM (HnxtZ)

 

Sorry, we're out. Grammy?

183

$20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

Errah, The School of Water Safety and Emergency Medical Services

184 O/T:  The very well rested, gone for two weeks, Maria on CNBC is having a lovely conversation with Timmmaaay on CN now.

185

It is so fascinating how children naturally just tell the truth. 

Except they don't.  Kids lie all the time, and they dissemble and go hide to avoid the truth all the time.  And even when they do not outright lie, they say things that are false.

In this very case, his brothers, children themselves, falsely stated that they saw him climb in and that he was in the balloon when it took off.

186 Ameteur Scientist = Meth lab.

187 Posted by: Bender at October 16, 2009 04:57 PM (FDZUn)

They only lie when they are taught to lie.  They come from the womb with an inclination to tell the truth.

188

Regarding the Republican nomination process:

It ought to be a rule that open primary delegates only count as half votes at the convention. The only reason McCain succeeded was that cross-overs and independents voted for him. McCain also got a lot of military and retired military support.

The other problems:

1) Smuckabee's campaign's playing to the Southern Baptist crowd. Subtly feeding into anti-Catholic (Brownback) and anti-Morom (Romney) sentiments.

2) Guiliani's dumbass "wait for Florida" strategy

3) Fred! starting too late (I supported Fred's campaign monetarily but voted for Romney in the Alabama primary because Fred stopped campaigning after South Carolina.)

 

 

 

189 They only lie when they are taught to lie.  They come from the womb with an inclination to tell the truth.

Posted by: curious at October 16, 2009 05:03 PM (p302b)

Bullshit. Ask a two year old who broke a cookie jar. Nobody has to teach  him how to lie.

190 I think I saw a TV show like this when I was a kid.

191   Haley Barbour.   He can win it.

192 This looking for someone charismatic is stupid.  I don't care what the media says,  Barack Obama is NOT charismatic.  He's cold, arrogant, and ugly with a speaking voice that has the SAME TONE while he's telling a joke, conferring the medal of honr,  explaining how health care isn't going to kill us, really, it won't, or attacking Bush.   He is a poor speaker.

The reason everyone acts like he's charismatic is because THEY SAY SO.  The crowds ACTED like he was charismatic (remember all of those fainting women?).  The crowds for Obama were under massive peer pressure.   All it took was two or three girls to start saying he was dreamy,  and pretty soon everyone was saying it and gals were fainting.  It's all hype,  which is continuing with the media to this day.

Mitt Romney is every bit as charismatic as Obama,  which is to say "not much."  BUT,  he's actually handsome and his wife is a pleasant person.  So if he comes to your town,  get out there and act like he's the neatest thing since sliced bread.  Same with whoever else runs, even (shudder) Huckabee.   Palin, Pawlenty,  I don't care.   I really hope Sarah is the nominee but what we want is the story that "the GOP has a bench full of charismatic contenders" not "the GOP candidates are boring."

We MUST change the message.  So ACT like all of these people are swell!  Applaud like hell and whistle and shout if you are at one of their appearances.  Make the media look around and say "WTF?"   Make them write stories about how Pawlenty has caught fire, or Huckabee is surprisingly inspiring, or Palin is a warrior princess.   We have GOT to excite the public,  and as Rummy once said,  "You go to war with the army you've got."  (Yeah,  I know, he made mistakes,  but that's still a good quote.)

These are the candidates we have.  Barring the rise of someone completely out of the political spectrum like Steve Wynn,   we have to work with them.  So let's just act like they are great.  It will confuse the media and annoy the democrats.

193

CLEAN UP ON AISLE 193!!!!

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194

I can't get this out of my head, but do you think the parents gave the kid ipecac syrup to make the kid 'sick' for this mornings interviews so he wouldn't have to answer any questions?

No parent would EVER make their kid appear on tv if he was sick.  Give me a break.

I'm hoping more people, (including the police) see if the kid was dosed with codiene or ipecac to make him sick.

I hope the police chief is playing dumb on tv saying he 'believes them'... or maybe the global warming human extinction movement should be allowed to continue

195 They only lie when they are taught to lie.  They come from the womb with an inclination to tell the truth.

Children lie as easily as drawing breath.  Their reality is fairly flexible.

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