1 Moron of the Day - "John Murtha's a good man."

And did they really expect Murtha the Maggot to talk with them about this??

Speechless...just plain speechless...

2 Mutha; a walking advertisement for spontaeous abortion.

3

Yours, mine, our tax dollars at work. At least now I truly understand why we have elections and send our representatives off to Washington.

To do the very important work of building empty monuments to yourself.

4

"What's the opposite of PROgress?

CONgress.

How about a RepubliCAN?

DemocRAT"

http://tinyurl.com/dzdq94

5

You people around here that wonder why the idiots around here keep sending this jackass to Congress? Tah-dah!

For the record, I voted for Bill Russel, his opponent last election. But his slogan for his reelection was, and I'm not kidding "Vote Murtha, he brings home the bacon."

/Sigh

6 Holy cow. Are you saying politicians use the enormous power and money of the Federal government to buy votes, fill their bank accounts, and pimp their vanity? No effing way! Unless he's a Rethuglican, of course.

7 A REFERENDUM HAS TO BE PUT ON THE BALLOT, FOR THE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR TERM LIMITS.  You really can't expect THEM to vote themselves out of office on a regular basis, they found the secret to permanent wealth and power, get elected.

8 OT

Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's first 100 days pretty well:

Barack Obama promised to be a nontraditional leader, and in some ways he is. He is the first president to have gone abroad and apologized so much for his country's supposed sins, the first to sit calmly by while his country was savaged by the likes of Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega without making a protest, the first to try to persecute a past administration for its political judgments, and the first to investigate a predecessor and his administration for having been a success.

The first job of a president is to safeguard his country and fellow citizens, which Bush did, to the apparent dismay of the opposition. Usually, an investigation takes place after someone has failed in his duty, to find out what went wrong so that it can be changed and improved on. But no attacks on U.S. soil in the seven-plus years between September 11, 2001, and January 20, 2009, is a record of success. Do the Democrats want to find out what went right, and then change it, to avoid repetition? The way that they're going, they probably will.

9 Where is this airport that no one is using it?

10 If this airport is in the middle of no where, why was it built?  someone must have had some reason for building it since ANY plane in north America can land there, including Air Force One.

11 Quick question:  When was this airport expanded?  Was it built sometime between last November and now?  Seems odd that ABC (or anyone from the MSM) would now all of sudden show some interest in how Murtha gets dollars funneled to his district.  I seem to remember Nov, 2004, two weeks after the election when the Washington Post ran an article about some shady land deal in Nevada involving Harry Reid.  I guess now we're going to have to admit that the MSM is non-partisan. 

12 If this airport is in the middle of no where, why was it built?  someone must have had some reason for building it since ANY plane in north America can land there, including Air Force One.

There were reasons: It helped Murtha's vanity, probably put money in the coffers of construction companies that support him, and he can show he had it built when re-election time comes around. Your tax dollars at work.

13 All right. 

Can we start shunning residents of Murtha's district now?

Like, make it as socially unacceptable to be a Murthite as it is to be a member of NAMBLA or the KKK.

How about disclaimers on Job postings after all that Equal Opportunity Employer gobbledeygook?

*No Murthites need apply.

That sort of thing.  Even if you're pretty sure no one from Pennsylvania would even be likely to apply, just so 'those people know' where you stand.

Sure it would be unfair, since not everybody that lives there voted for him.  But kind of like the fact that there might have been the rare Irishman who wasn't a lying, shiftless, drunk back in the day, you just can't be too careful.

I have a dream that someday, an innocent child whose only "sin" was to have been born in Johnstown, PA will gaze upon the separate drinking fountains for "Citizens" and "Murthites"  and be terribly scarred by the realization that an accident of birth or some unknowable sin committed by his forefathers has rendered him somehow fundamentally inferior in the eyes of society.

14 There were reasons: It helped Murtha's vanity, probably put money in the coffers of construction companies that support him, and he can show he had it built when re-election time comes around. Your tax dollars at work.

All three daily flights have the same destination: Washington DC.

15 Me, I wonder what's buried under the tarmac.
Okay, thread hijack, since no open blog is up yet:

Being a moron, I'm slow, and behind the times again. And here I thought
I was keeping up. Did any of you'se morons know that
"The tenor of international climate negotiations has emboldened the Indian government to claim in a February filing with the United Nations that the West owes it billions of dollars in compensation for climate change. These payments, it said, should be mandatory and not 'subject to decisions of developed country governments and legislatures.'"

16

Our local airport got $1 million in stimulus money, part of it was supposed to pay for new signage. According to law the contract must be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The bi-county board of commissioners, however, won't award the contract because the lowest bidder isn't totally unionized.

So screw me -- my tax dollars aren't to be spent to get a job done right at the lowest cost -- they're to be spent buying union votes.

Oh -- and screw the people sitting on their asses waiting for the project to start.

This is how it works in Pennsylvania.

Links to the story:

Link 1
Link 2

17 ABC finally does some real journalism, but then decides to play "Guess That Party" game.  We know who Murtha is, but for the average low-information voter, they'd probably assume it was one of those corrupt republicans.

18

I think that airport needs a good Feces Bath.

 

Several hundred pounds of fresh feces, applied liberally through a pressurized hose...

19 @Tinian

“I did not second this for several reasons,” Munchak said. “One, I am a strong union proponent … I always want unions first. This is a non-union company, number one. And other information came to light that they don’t meet the standards.”

FIFY

20 If I didn't actually read this article in Politico just now, I'd think it was in the Onion.  Kerry is a complete disgrace.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is seeking permission from both the Federal Election Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee to invest $300,000 in campaign funds in a documentary film on injured Iraq War veterans.

Under a proposed agreement with White Mountain Films, the company that would make the documentary, Kerry would serve as executive producer for the film. Kerry would not be paid. The filmmaker, George Butler, is best known for making “Pumping Iron,” a documentary about bodybuilding that helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career. Butler also produced a 2004 documentary on John Kerry’s life story.

Among Kerry’s duties for the film would be “making introductions with respect to potential investors” for the documentary, which is tentatively entitled “Keeping Faith.”

Kerry’s request is unprecedented for a sitting senator, although Marc Elias, Kerry’s campaign lawyer, noted in his “advisory opinion request” to the FEC that the commission has given campaign committees “wide discretion in deciding how to spend their funds.”

Kerry’s campaign would be guaranteed a 20 percent return on its investment if the documentary is made, according to the campaign committee’s request with the FEC. Neither Kerry nor his campaign committee will have any rights to the film itself.

21 Can you people in Pennsylvania please educate yourselves on the corruption surrounding each and every one of you??? From your governor, congressional reps, mayors, local council people....you have rot to the core all around you! Please wake up and make some positive changes for your state politically before all of your business- owning productive citizens have fled and you are left with an irreversible stinking welfare state...you are just about there. Heed the warning!

22 Our local airport got $1 million in stimulus money, part of it was supposed to pay for new signage. According to law the contract must be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The bi-county board of commissioners, however, won't award the contract because the lowest bidder isn't totally unionized.

You have to figure that the low bidder with union labor will somehow find a way to use mainly illegals at far below minimum. He knows as long as the union bosses themselves get their tribute, what Democrat is going to complain about using illegals

23 All three daily flights have the same destination: Washington DC.

They're subsidized too, right? I'd be scouring the passenger logs.

24 Kerry’s campaign would be guaranteed a 20 percent return on its investment if the documentary is made, according to the campaign committee’s request with the FEC.

So, are they saying that they think that they will make a profit off of people paying to see a propaganda film or is this just a baked in the cake way for the "investors" to skirt max donation limits?

25

This is the inevitable result of the marriage of Liberalism and the Media.  We can wail all we want on AoSHQ but until we take action nothing will change; until we protest and boycott those products and services that support these scumbags, like the advertisers in the NYT every time they reveal another national secret or try to destroy our leaders like they did to Bush.  For years I have been repeating the Mantra:   THE RIGHT MUST LEARN TO BOYCOTT!!!

CALLING ALL MORONS:

REPORT TO YOUR LOCAL TEA PARTY ON JULY 4TH!

26 Why is that the dorkbats always want to display Veterans in a bad way, especially the traitor and sob john f*cking kerry, I would like just one chance before I die to give him the worst beat down he has ever experienced!

27 Posted by: Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter at April 25, 2009 02:00 PM (5r0Tz)

Times must be hard for Mr. Heinz if he has to tap his campaign bucks for this flick.

Maybe Theresa needs to raise his allowance.

28 Someone would have to be around to pull me off of him so I don't go to jail. hahahaha

29

Times must be hard for Mr. Heinz if he has to tap his campaign bucks for this flick.

 

Not really; he doesn’t need campaign money to get reelected. He’s got to spend it on something and this way he can launder it so it can go back in his pockets.

30 Everyone in the USA/world is aware that Brave Men get hurt in war, what is the purpose to show them striving to overcome their wounds. Unbelievable how dorkbats are like ghouls!

31 30

agreed - the dems are quite ghoulish, and the obama win has only encouraged them.

32 Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter,

Yeah but I take pleasure in knowing that they will tumble like the house of cards they are trying to build.

33 John is a real nasty mo-fo to boot. He has no regret's smearing our troop's and funneling billion's of tax payer dough to his little corner of Pennsylvania. He's not a U.S. senator, he's a crime boss.

Republican's should have done something about crook's like this when they had the chance, unfortunatly this worthless pos will die a U.S. Senator thank's to his spineless constituency who have no problem voting this turd to term after term.

They are bought and paid for.

The guy's past 70 and morbidly obese,..... yea stroke, heart attack I'm talkin' to you.

34 Everyone in the USA/world is aware that Brave Men get hurt in war, what is the purpose to show them striving to overcome their wounds. Unbelievable how dorkbats are like ghouls!

Maybe Mr. Heinz's purpose is to expose the new administration's scandalous efforts to have wounded vets pay for their own medical care....


And maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.

35 Blazer,

Maybe O'Reilly should keep sending waters after him like that time in the elevator, murtha's face got so red that I thought his BP jumped 500 points. hahahahah

36 In the far distant future, people will wonder why such a place was built, and ponder over the significance of such grandeur in the middle of nowhere.

The only rational conclusion they'll come to is that it was built as a landing pad for alien space ships...which makes a lot more sense than the real reason.  Occam's Razor will fail those distant future archaeologists.

37 That word, INVEST, in the Kerry article sturck me.  Made me wonder if they are permitted to invest their campaign monies?

38 It is quite funny though, three flights a day to one place, DC.  Guess they yell at the corporate guys for taking private planes but with 8 or 9 people on the plane with you isn't this a private plane too, without the labels?

39 O/T - Scientists are looking at the possibility of a catastrophic geomagnetic storm in 2012. That would really play havoc with the blackberry and teleprompter.

The Geomagnetic Apocalypse

40 kbdabear,

Heard that on coast to coast am.

/sarc

41 Read a post on another blog wherein someone was ruminating about these business guys/gals saying essentially, if everyone is corrupt, then where do you go if you aren't and who do you go to if you want to get away from the corrupt?  It is a real simple scary question.

42

"The school's Web site says police are looking for George Zinkhan. He is a marketing professor at the school in Athens, which is about 70 miles east of Atlanta.

Athens-Clarke Assistant Police Chief Alan Brown tells The Athens-Banner Herald that there is "some indication he may have had multiple weapons.""

http://tinyurl.com/cycgph

43 muffy - whats going on at UGA? my law school alma mater

44 sung to the tune:The Beverly Hillbillies Theme
The Johnstown Hillbilly

Come and listen to a story about a man named John
A poor ex-marine, who could barely run a con,
Then one day he was in the government,
A scrappin' and a scramblin' for every red cent.

Bribes that is, green gold, dirty cash.

Well the next thing you know ol' John's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said John move away from here
Said Washin'tony is the place you ought to be
So he loaded up his bags and moved to DC.

Georgetown, that is.
Easy Cash, K Street.

Well now its time to say good-bye to all that extra dough.
And John would like to thank you folks fer payin' for the show.
You're all invited back next year on Apir-il fifteenth
To leave a heapin helpin of your hard earned paper green

Government money that is. Set a spell. Leave your shoes too. Y'all come back now, y'hear?

45 "Ga. coroner: 3 dead in shooting, professor sought" (from the AP)

46 Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter, the school president said everyone is shocked and saddened.  This is happening way too much and it isn't even a headline anymore.

47 Beto The Elder,

Hey Baaato, good one hahahaha

48 Unfing believable! What the hell is the matter with all of us. Why do we allow this to happen? I bet this is just one example of billions of our dollars spent on special interest projects that politicans get. It is sickening. We need term limits...new represenatives that are there for the people and not power. Let's start getting rid of the old corrupt people and find folks who care about this country. Think of what we could have done with this money..new highways...the list goes on. GD it!

49
45/46
I have a five shot .22 mag revolver that fits in my pocket.
If some asshole thinks he's shootin' me and I have time to get it out, he's toast.

50

And other information came to light that they don’t meet the standards.”

FIFY

Posted by: Deety at April 25, 2009 01:59 PM (aVzyR)

Deety: Notice how Munchack couldn't specify the "other information"?

From the second link:

;">When reached in New York after the meeting, B&H Taxilane Lighting owner Michael Boland said he employs both union and non-union labor.

He previously completed lighting work and other safety improvements at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport and several other airports, he said.

“We don’t take it hard. We understand during the tough times, local people are looking for work for the local work force no different than we are,” Boland said. “When the smoke clears and the dust settles, they will find we are as qualified as anyone on the list to do what we do. This is the only thing we do. We only work on airports.”

They did previous work at the very same airport ( ;">Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport), without complaints. And since they only do airport work, it's highly unlikely they "don't meet the standards".

Munchack is a Democrat who wants to pay more for the project in order to buy union votes with my tax dollars.

FIFY

51 "NAM!
How's the weather out east?

52 Terri, my friend, the accountant, is having a permanent headache these days.  Not only is he an accountant but he is an organizing freak in his spare time.  all he says these days is "oh, what I could do with all that money".  Sometimes he says "Why didn't they just pay off everyone's mortgage and then go on to the credit cards and student loans.?"  He is truly upset and the bestest Democrat you will ever know.

53 Beto The Elder,

Beaucoup rain last night but nice and sunny today. ;-)

54 And Teri, yes he is gay and has a significant other and wants a relationship recognized in the law but, he doesn't think it should be a marriage.  So he hasn't had a good year.

55

Call out the DHS. Looks like George Zinkhan is a rabid right-winger:

For example, the Presidential Session of the 1998 conference of the Association of Consumer Research focused on “Alternative Representations of Consumer Research,” and featured Morris Holbrook and Takeo Kuwahara exploring stereographic and three-dimensional representations, John Sherry, John Schouten, and George Zinkhan “capturing consumption through poetry” and Deborah Cours, Deborah Heisley and Melanie Wallendorf engaging in a performance presentation.

56 Hells Bells.

The little airport that Alaska asked for would have serviced more people and provided a NECESSARY link through the frontier.

57 "John Murtha's a good man."

Clearly a deranged man in need of psychological therapy.

58 It's enough to want to start a tax revolution.  Fucking waste of our money.  Absolute waste of our money.  Fucking unbelievable waste of our money.

59 where do you go if you aren't and who do you go to if you want to get away from the corrupt?

Become a democrat.

60 Are we living in bizarro world?  Or is this not going to end without a bloody revolution?

I know there are supposed to be no posts about shooting people, but what are the real alternatives given that even the worst congressmen get re-elected, and the mafia unions are in the middle of our government?

I guess we just give up, and surrender ... they broke every rule, but we are so pure and innocent, that "we" will just take it up the "A" while the country crumbles?

I'll survive just fine on my little farm, but most of society is being enslaved, as I see it.   A great chance for freedom to reign is being pissed away, it seems ...

Well ... thank God I lived in a brief period and place where man had more freedom than in most of history ... it could have been good ...

61

There is a peculiar kind of loser that comes from Johnstown, PA.  They believe in nothing and are not to be trusted. They charm and then they steal. I speak from experience. John Murtha is simply a man of the people.

Not everybody in Johnstown is like that. But far too many are. Enough.

62

3 flights a day with 20 people going through the airport a day--I bet there are more employees than passengers.  That's a heck of a carbon footprint.  I think we need to get the Man Bear Pig on the case.  Yeah, right!  Frickin unreal! 

63 Sickening. Proof of the need for term limits. His beneficiaries in Johnstown will never vote out this corrupt sack of dung. Who votes against Santa Claus?

64

I have a five shot .22 mag revolver that fits in my pocket.

Everyone knows you can kill with that piece Beto, but you better hit'em right.  When I used to carry, I used to carry a .357 snubbie cause I never knew if I'd have time to hit 'em right, so I wanted to use enough gun to increase my chances. 

65 Speaking of hitting 'em right, when I was younger I actually wanted to do the Deathwish thing and I did twice.  I really did want to kill an attacker and pulled my pistol twice on them in two different situations defending myself and my ex-wife (when we were where we should not have been and we knew it).  I'm really glad now it never happened.  But if I could get away with offing a lowdown rotten scumbag like Murtha or Irans Ayatollah's I really think I wouldn't hesitate to make this world a better place.

66 It's not in the middle of nowhere.  There's a Lowe's AND a Home Depot nearby.

*Sigh*

I'm embarrassed to admit I grew up in his district.  And I'm not embarrassed to say how glad I am I don't live there anymore.

67 Nike Sneakers

68 JOHN MURTHA in THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING BRAIN

69 How come no one is calling this the airport to nowhere?

70 Now you all have done.  Janet Nazipolitano gonna be coming after us now!

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