Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on August 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
“‘I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it’s like to watch somebody you love, who’s aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that,’ an impassioned Obama told a crowd as he spoke of Madelyn Payne Dunham. He took issue with ‘the notion that somehow I ran for public office or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma.’”
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“A commenter on the Whole Foods forum, identified only by his handle, ‘PracticePreach,’ wrote, ‘It is an absolute slap in the face to the millions of progressive-minded consumers that have made [Whole Foods] what it is today.’
‘You should know who butters your hearth-baked bread, John,’ wrote the commenter.”
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Then of course there are the sobriety checks … same principle, though maybe there’s more justification for them.
Rosmerta on August 16, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Ah oh! The internet appears to be broken.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 12:51 AM
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 12:51 AM
i sent you a request
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Put a wig and some Mom jeans on him….
katy on August 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM
BB, where are you coming from?
There would be four of us from MN, and if it’s a go we are rendezvousing at the Korean War memorial with a few other veterans we know from that area and then heading for wherever the action is. If things get heated, we plan on loitering and following the wave.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Back around 1977, President Ford had the entire US innoculated against swine flu. I got my shot at my college. It can be done again.
But Bush…errr…whoever, won’t go where Ford went. Evil Republicans!
Liam on August 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Long Island, NY
aint a bad drive
after getting through NYC, it’s a straight shot down the New Jersey Turnpike
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 12:53 AM
My bike has a wedge seat in back, the passenger needs to lean forward and snuggle-up to stay aboard. You can understand the..uh..uncomfortableness that such a ride could produce.
A car for him is better. Yes, better.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Nite Upstater85,and I’m going as well,
goodnight H/A,and America:)
canopfor on August 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM
call the local sheriff and see what’s up. call the DA. Write a letter to the editor.
Sounds like nonsense to me. Unless there is a reason to stop you they have no right to stop you. I beleive in CO that is the law. may be different in NJ, which stinks.
katy on August 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Or it may be that Douglass lady at the White House.
Dire Straits on August 16, 2009 at 12:56 AM
She makes me want to bang my head against the wall. I don’t which is more annoying her going on and on or me wanting to take up for her when people get after her?
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Bishop, when we were up there on Tax Day my favorite places were the war memorials. My grandfather served in WWII and I thought that one was beautiful. I broke down on the Vietnam memorial. I was commenting to my mom about the distinction of being the last man on the wall and I lost it. It was so emotional. I am looking forward to showing all the sights to my husband.
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Bishop, you must rise above your phobias and trust your metrosexaul innerchild inside.
katy on August 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM
The official death camps for the old will be called:
The Obama Wellness Transition Centers.
Dhuka on August 16, 2009 at 12:58 AM
night canopfor/upstater
katy on August 16, 2009 at 12:58 AM
have nice nights, everyone.
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Who?
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 12:58 AM
But with who?
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Well there ya go, if you can find the Korean War memorial you could find us and all would be golden. You wouldn’t have to stay with my crowd of course, we plan on looking for people who don’t agree with us and getting to know them, but you would probably have to meet us afterward to get a place to stay.
Anyway, at this point nothing is set but I’ll keep you in mind if it all works out for me and the boys to get out there.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
AnninCa.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Night. I am approving you now.
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM
I’ve been around the block when it comes to getting in lefty face
so, I’d love to join you in getting to know some.
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Typical white Americans better pay attention….if he can see her as “just a typical white person” in her utmost time of need,…someones in trouble.
christene on August 16, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Probably.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Back then we trusted the gov more than we do know. They we’re not to be trusted anymore than now but we didn’t have to information we have now.
Knowledge is power and they know it.
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM
I looked carefully and found no such inner child.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM
C-ya BB
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM
it may be hiding behind that 9mm
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:02 AM
Wait a minute. Whole Foods was providing exactly what Lent wanted. Lent is certainly welcome to go elsewhere — in fact, several elsewheres, but he needs to think about what he will be doing to the environment while he does so.
I have to love liberals — they always get themselves into these lose-lose situations. And, as we’ve witnessed, the moment they grow up and get rich, they shut down their giving in favor of making other rich people who can’t protect their loopholes give instead.
I also love Mackey’s pointing out the ultimate Thatcherian thought — “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
unclesmrgol on August 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM
It might not be where he wants to go, but it is certainly where he is going.
unclesmrgol on August 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Capital! Afterwards we relive the excitement in a good Irish bar and have the young waitresses apply liniment to our knuckles.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Thanks for your thoughts, katy, I’m glad checks aren’t everywhere.
Good night, all!
Rosmerta on August 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM
It is too bad the article does not ask Obama about
WoosterOh on August 16, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Did anyone what the Colorado “townhall” today? The Montana one was less canned then the New Hampshire show. I just can’t bring myself to watch him.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 1:07 AM
Ugh…the Euro Pellet?
My sidearm launches flying ashtrays.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 1:07 AM
night rosemerta
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Capital! Afterwards we relive the excitement in a good Irish bar and have the young waitresses apply liniment to our knuckles.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Plenty of HA women to dothat
one last thing
women be warned!
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 1:10 AM
good night rosemerta
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Will you be carrying in DC?
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:12 AM
We went to a really cool pub over by Union Station. Live music.
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 1:12 AM
The thought doesn’t scare me.
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Was in college back then too. Didn’t get that flu shot and have no intention of getting this one either.
chemman on August 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM
I just saw that Instapundit has a post about how the IRS is going to be used to enforce Obamacare if enacted and I want to know more.
Goodnight everyone and sweet dreams.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2009 at 1:15 AM
You got a time set yet? I would like to hang out with bikers I know (even online). I was considering this ride big time, DC is 5.5 hours away and I been wondering how many I could round up for a weekend trip.
Hog Wild on August 16, 2009 at 1:15 AM
He1l no…I want to stay out of jail, not to mention I have no idea what the laws are for the states I would need to drive through to get to DC.
Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 1:16 AM
night Cindy
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:17 AM
No time or date set, though the basic plan is to hop aboard the express to hell a few days prior to 9/12; trailer the bikes in a custom shell and head for Baltimore. Meet up with my old friend out there, maybe carouse locally beforehand and then head in very early on the big day.
Depending on how things go, we might also do some leisurely riding after the
dogfightand go to places such as Gettysburg.Bishop on August 16, 2009 at 1:22 AM
My parting gift to you all… nighty night.
Bachmann/Palin
A girl can dream can’t she?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106941
katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:24 AM
Cindy:
G’night. W/r/t IRS, I was tweeting about a part of this on 8/14 (Twitter.com/raybury).
Around page 167, the House bill includes an individual mandate and punishes non-compliance with a tax of the lesser 2.5% of taxable year income or the national average premium, prorated for the period you were not covered by an “acceptable” plan. You can avoid the tax by keeping your current “grandfathered” coverage (until you change jobs or the plan is cancelled) or get a plan that complies with all the fun requirements Congress will impose.
(The whole page 16 thing does not mean you will need to go to the “public” plan, but will have to have a plan that Big Brother Barack approves.)
Oh, you can also avoid the tax by being Amish. Or belonging to another religion that meets government approval as providing for alternative coverage, so long as it existed before 1951 and MEETS GOVERNMENT APPROVAL.
I certainly favor individual responsibility, and current provisions for COBRA (feds paying 65%) make it a lot easier to be responsible. But imposing a tax over a choice, albeit a dumb one in most cases, is very different from the current incentive to keep coverage at all costs:
Because with health insurance your finances might be ruined for a very long time, or you might not get the degree of care someone with insurance would, with the life-and-death and quality-of-life consequences that carries.
raybury on August 16, 2009 at 1:34 AM
“katy on August 16, 2009 at 1:24 AM”
would Michelle be able to stand being “palined” constantly? if so, more power to her …
Buckaroo on August 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM
I’m sure that there will be a thread closer to the event on the 12th. Maybe we can finalize something. If nothing more than to present more “hoodlums in leather jackets” like we were called during the Gathering of Eagles. Good times! I’m pretty sure I talked to Michelle Malkin at that event, but she had a tobaggan on during that event, I kept saying to myself “I know her”. My heart will be broken if she replies she wasn’t there….
I’ll go to work Monday to see how many I can round up for a ride.
Hog Wild on August 16, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Didn’t granny die right after the Failure in Chief visited Hawaii?
Did anyone dust the outlet for O prints?
Wingo on August 16, 2009 at 1:38 AM
Has anyone been in a Whole Foods store… and see the prices…
Kini on August 16, 2009 at 1:39 AM
TMK!
alohapundit on August 16, 2009 at 1:49 AM
I’m in the military we get jabbed befo’ everybody else.
Seen Boondock Saints?
See you on da flip siiiide!
alohapundit on August 16, 2009 at 1:52 AM
OT:
Yale’s motto, Lux et Veritas [Light and Truth ]has been obliterated in this shameful effort to pursue not light and truth, but Islamic approval. And Yale University Press will get that approval because it has proven that it operates under Islamic law (sharia), which prohibits both images of Mohammed, and criticism of Mohammed. And woe to anyone who draws or publishes a critical image of Mohammed.
Last night, I picked up a 1967 book called The Battle of Silence by Vercors, the alias of J. Bruller. It is the wartime memoir by the publisher of a secret anti-Nazi press run in the midst of Nazi-occupied Paris. The first sentence is unforgettable:
When the Nazis occupied France after the defeat of 1940, French writers had two alternatives: collaboration or silence.
The parrallels are distinct if incomplete. The Nazis imposed the censorship by force; The Muslims are imposing censorship by threat of force backed up by occasional bloodlettings. Yale has many, many alternatives — publish the pictures, for Chrissake — but it has seized on the two natural reactions of the already-enslaved: collaboration and silence.
MB4 on August 16, 2009 at 1:55 AM
Good to see you posting again. :)
Dire Straits on August 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone–to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink–greetings!
George Orwell
alohapundit on August 16, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Funny how Bill Maher never insults Mohammed.
Why’s that?
Maybe because Bill is a coward.
If he ever did, I’d be a little jealous I was not muslim.
You have to respect how they don’t take sh*t, even if you like me find their religion tyrannical.
Let this be a lesson to the right. You don’t get nearly enough respect if you let the left run over you.
Hear that GOP? We are not asking you to lop off heads, just hoping you can preach out against the growing government.
Sapwolf on August 16, 2009 at 2:24 AM
Prescient! I like it.
alohapundit on August 16, 2009 at 2:27 AM
Sorry to go all metro on you but…
HotDamnDiggityDogDookie! Glad you didn’t join the Foreign Legion afterall.
Limerick on August 16, 2009 at 2:54 AM
No, they’re going to compassionate “voluntary” consultations, where thy try to convince grandma, or some family member of grandma’s, that the “right” thing to do, is to tell her own doctor to “pull the plug.”
So much more ethical, that way.
notropis on August 16, 2009 at 3:12 AM
And I thought Obama’s grandmother died like like “a typical white person“.
profitsbeard on August 16, 2009 at 3:12 AM
going to *have* compassionate….
Sorry. Lost a word.
notropis on August 16, 2009 at 3:13 AM
Do the same thing the rest of us do….blame it on that Chinese keyboard you are typing on. Rigga-fratta-ragga-rigga commies anyway.
Limerick on August 16, 2009 at 3:14 AM
Ann, I think thats my biggest beef with your comments. They’re mostly about you. Do you form your political beliefs based on what you hope or fear other people might think about you?
hawkdriver on August 16, 2009 at 3:15 AM
Ann, I think thats my biggest beef with your comments. They’re mostly about you. Do you form your political beliefs based on what you hope or fear other people might think about you?
hawkdriver on August 16, 2009 at 3:15 AM
+ 100
Hawk You are spot on. Hope all is going well for you.
Dire Straits on August 16, 2009 at 3:30 AM
I guess it never occurred to the progressive-minded numskulls that the Whole Foods CEO was a Capitalist.
jjrakman on August 16, 2009 at 3:33 AM
From the WSJ article:
So, just why do radical leftists today fight against:
1) financial responsibility,
2) taking responsibility for your own lifestyle choices, and…
…last but not least…
3) freedom ?!?
Lockstein13 on August 16, 2009 at 3:34 AM
Man, everything, and I mean everything is about Him. He’s like the Marxist version of Nixon.
Remember what Sarah Palin said at the convention about running for president not being a voyage of self-discovery?
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM
Damn Christianists! Trying to impose their religious beliefs on us, one way or another.
(Seriously, Obamism really IS a religion, isn’t it? Maybe he WAS in Rev. Wright’s Church “Every Sunday, 11 a.m.” as he once claimed…. )
notropis on August 16, 2009 at 4:01 AM
1921 C DRUM on August 16, 2009 at 4:17 AM
Jerry Rivers is a “dollop of excrement”.
The phrase that pays!
1921 C DRUM on August 16, 2009 at 4:46 AM
Does anyone else find it odd that to even have any clue what the hell this post is about, you have to go read the two links in the post, then return to this page and re-read the post until any of it makes sense?
What the hell does whole food have to do with healthcare or Obama’s grandmother?!
TheBlueSite on August 16, 2009 at 7:01 AM
Whole Foods has always had high quality produce and fresh meats and a great bakery. Knowledgeable consumers will always support great products delivered with great service. My ONLY problem with the stores, and why I don’t shop there more oftenm is the liberal nutroots circus in there. Maybe this will clear some of the KOOKs out of there and make the shopping more enjoyable.
gonnjos on August 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Welcome to the Internet.
Jim Treacher on August 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM
AP had too many red bull bacon vodka drinks last night
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Ditto. Someone made an oblique comment last week that you had died. I didn’t know if it was real or not, and didn’t ask. But I sure was sorry–and also a little glad that you could avoid all the crap that’s coming down the pike. Glad to see you back u old coot.
JiangxiDad on August 16, 2009 at 8:04 AM
The Bamster just can’t resist being cute, can he.
Cutesy cracks like that energize the opposition..
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:24 AM
lol
he loves being cute
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Sad excuse of a president.
tarpon on August 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Obama tries to give the impression that he was in personal contact with his grandmother on a regular, if not daily, basis.
The compassionate, caring grandson.
B.S.
But how many times did he visit her in the last 15 years? Maybe 2,3 times?
(How many times did she come to visit him in the last 15 years? Probably zero.)
His grandfather also died – no mention of those visits to the dying grandfather…
And he doesn´t mention the fact that when his mother was dying he did not visit her and was not even there when she died.
albill on August 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM
When the going gets tense, he just can’t seem to help himself. He can’t resist getting cute.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM
he’ll try to bite like a little puppy
but wont break skin
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM
That’s what I thought too. Wish someone had asked him that at the town hall meeting.
Normally I would question someone’s expression of grief over loss of a grandmother. But the Bamster was exploiting his grandmother’s death for his own political gain, and that needs to be challenged.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM
It’s only been 8 mos. Will he burn up? How long before he cracks up?
JiangxiDad on August 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM
*Normally I wpould NOT question…*
Ugh
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 16, 2009
45 minutes into every conversation with Obama:
“So, enough about me. What do you think of me?”
SKYFOX on August 16, 2009 at 8:38 AM
LOL
can you imagine him with speed dating
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM
This pussy will bite you.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Posts aren’t showing up. Cindy is right, the internet is broken.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:45 AM
The guy who wrote that column, has he been called a racist yet?
HA! So I wasn’t the only person who thought that.
scalleywag on August 16, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Ed’s new haircut broke it
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Yup, it was the ole Cindy Sheehan trick: Exploiting the son’s death to fight against what he gave his life fighting for.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Probably.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM
So true. AnninCA has a very narcissistic stile of posting. She manages to take any thread and make it all about her. Probably the biggest thread killer here…
Ampersand on August 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM
I’ve decided
That if its between thinning hair and going bald in my older years
I’m just taking it all off, Morrissey and Bruce Willis style
blatantblue on August 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM
My first attempt at posting this got censored.
petefrt on August 16, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Wasn’t Whole Foods the grocery where Obama shopped in his Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago? I thought he famously said in Iowa, “Hey, have you seen what they’re charging for arugula in Whole Foods.”
Whole Foods under the bus?
BuckeyeSam on August 16, 2009 at 8:56 AM
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