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Comment on: Crawfish's Swamp

10-30-09 The Weekend Claw

41 Comments
Friday, October, 30, 2009 6:48 PM Patrick Bohan writes:

Crawfish

Every year it seems these baseball games get longer and longer. They are approaching that 4 hour pre game. Imagine that, 8 hours of baseball not including the post game.

That stat on women favoring private insurance by a 64-27 number is stunning to me since most women are liberal-leaning. Good opportunity for the GOP to recruit women.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 7:19 PM Jim writes:

Where;s the chili?

First off, I want some of that chili!
Unfortunateley the Dimsfleeing NY move to Dade county, put millions into the Miami/Dade DNC to make this state like NY so our taxes go through the roof (leftist paradox). Here's another irony, Luqman Ameen Abdullah got his training while in a maximum security prison and was taking his orders from a radical muslim who also was in that maxium security prison. Isn't that where the messiah wants to send Gitmo detainees?
Car companies were giving huge discounts before cash for clunkers, so people tha tused it paid about the same..Funny that!
Oh and after the last claw, I had to take a Scozzafava!

Thats some spread there Mud Bug, but I still want the chili!

PS, check out my new blog, it fits the season and will accent your blog quite well.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 7:34 PM The Crawfish writes:

Patrick B

The Administration is going to say that the poll was flawed because it was done by a conservative group.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 7:47 PM The Crawfish writes:

Jim

You probably wouldn't recognize it as good chili, because of the rules of championship chili cookoffs. Nothing but liquid and meat in the final product, and no thickening agents. No peppers or onions, etc.

I know all about the liberal Noo Yawker invasion of Florida. Too damned stoooopid to realize that the liberals had screwed up Noo Yawk, so they keep voting that way.

His Majesty wants to help muslim terrorists in any way he can, so that isn't surprising at all.

And the car companies jacked up the prices so that the cash for clunkers would make the take home price about $1000 below what it would have been before the program and before rebates.

Hope you wiped after that Scozzafava.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 8:24 PM Chuck writes:

Good one, Crawfish, but...

"You probably wouldn't recognize it as good chili, because of the rules of championship chili cookoffs. Nothing but liquid and meat in the final product, and no thickening agents. No peppers or onions, etc."

Heck, I'm from Gerogia, not even Texas, and even I know that rules like that pertaining to chili are just WRONG! No peppers or oinions, and I guess no beans either? Did somebody let some Yankees make up those rules?

Next thing you know, somebody will be tryin' to tell me how to cook my collard greens without a hamhock, too!

All of which is just about as ridiculous as our "moderate" GOP supporting the RINO-lite in NY-23. Hope the Dems lose big time in Virginia (I'll be voting Republican), get nosed out in New Jersey AND the Conservative wins in NY-23.

Maybe, since the WH and Congress Dems wanted to ignore about a million TEA Partiers and 9/12ers in the DC march and protest, those election outcomes would get their attention.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 8:53 PM clyde writes:

Crawfish

Friday Funnies. Here goes... I'm still going to use Obamaween and take 90% of the little spooks candy.mwahahahahaha A)Basebore. THANK GOD it is 'Dega Week!! B) These azshats need to lay off the Kool-Aid. They have drank FAR TOO MUCH of the stuff. C) Just bidness as usual. These bozos need to be treated like rabid 'coons. D) Larry David needs to be told that under the Fairness Doctrine,he'd have to p on a picture of the Pedophilic Phalse Prophet.I bet the thought of THAT would make the moron think twice.E)The problem with libs fleeing Noo Yawk is once they land elsewhere,they FORGET how bad they screwed up N.Y. with their asinine voting for libs all the time. Kind of like a cat soiling one litterbox,and moving on to the next.F) What a waste of money. Donate to Obama,meet with morons. Sheesh.G) You're welcome,and you KNOW they'll be in it up to their eyeballs.H) Isn't this one of Alinsky's rules? Seems like it. Too bad the OLDM moronic media will NEVER get it.I)They'll see who conducted the poll,and since she is an R,they'll simply dismiss it.And,of course,the willing steno pool will drool and slobber all over themselves to regurgitate whatever the Cluck-in-Chief or his myrmidons say. Cont'd...
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 9:06 PM clyde writes:

Crawfish

Friday Foolery cont'd... J) As well he should,but would be better if NO media were around. K)Good article. Mess-iahs,however,listen to NO ONE. Especially the best-qualified. L) The idiots making up the top echelon of the GOP keep this crap up,they WILL wander aimlessly for 40 years. Deservedly so.HOW many times do these clowns need to be biotch-slapped with that 2x4?M) 3 words. Under. What. Authority. N) The gov't having the largest share of GDP growth ought to SCARE the bejesus out of ANY sane economist.O) See M) Again,I ask... UNDER WHAT FUKKIN AUTHORITY?!?? P)Cash for Clunkers. Good name for a game show,lousy for taxpayers. The big 4 foreign car firms LOVED it. Q) THAT outfit looks like something I've seen the "ladies" on the Cass Ave. corridor wearing. While"open for business". Good heap once again. Sure hope the crazy old man don't get chewed up in "The Big One" at 'Dega. They are slowing them down with an even more restrictive restrictor plate this week. THAT ought to work well for breaking the pack,eh? C ya Tuesday.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 9:14 PM Eric writes:

crawfish

I always get annoyed by the pregames. Pregames for baseball? That's like a pregame for golf, completely worthless.

Chili sounds really good, by the way.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 11:52 PM Gar Swaffar writes:

Mike Steele

Won't bother Scuzzyfavors to leave the race, Steele is a Republizombiecan til the bitter end.
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Friday, October, 30, 2009 11:59 PM Gar Swaffar writes:

Liquid and Meat?

No peppers, no onions?
Quick, get those folks to the ER, they have either bumped their head and have a concussion or are having a TIA and need help immediately.
Best gig: I get to be a chili judge at the Chapel in the Pines Chili Cook Off - every year!
15-25 chilis of every type...all with peppers, onions, beans, beef or venison or turkey or......
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 8:06 AM AfterShock writes:

So many avenues for comment and...

so little time. Great commentary and insights Crawfish. GOP/RNC caught my eye. Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich and the like are ensuring as best they can that the DamnDems keep their majority well after 2010. I trust Newt even less than John McCain, and I'm very disappointed in Michael Steele. They believe a win is a win no matter the cost to team morale. But words and actions mean things, they say something about who we are and what we stand for. They haven't learned a thing since the last election. Political ho's, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Dede Scozzafava indeed. I'm shaking my head in disgust.
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 10:27 AM The Crawfish writes:

Chuck

You can use peppers, onions, and such in the cooking, but you have to fish all of that out before presenting. My cousin puts her peppers and onions in a cheesecloth for easy removal.

Let's hope these elections knock some sense into some heads at GOP HQ
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 10:41 AM The Crawfish writes:

clyde

a) Got THAT right, brother!
b) I think they've got a Kool-Aid IV in their arms
c) quit insulting rabid coons
d) And on the holy man of the left, The O
e) Stooopid is as stooopid does
f) Maybe WE should donate, and conduct our OWN briefings!
g) Targets in the open!
h) Some of the old media is starting tocatch on to the bovine excrement
i) ah, you've read the script!
j) Just the official military photographers
k) He is the know-all and see-all Messiah. Nobody knows better than he
l) The way things are going, they might be replaced by a coalition of the Conservative Party, Constitution Party and Libertarian Party
m) The authority of Obama, P-Lousy, and Reid. That's all that matters
n) sane and Democrats are mutually exclusive terms
o) same answer
p) Didn't help GM or Chrysler too much
q) She's a fashion nightmare, but the fashionistas are falling all over themselves with praise. Go figger.
May the 14, 39, and 5 be the only Chasers to miss The Big One on lap 10.
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 10:42 AM The Crawfish writes:

Eric

How much strategy discussion is needed for: pitch the ball, try to hit the ball, try to field the ball?

No chili today here in the cold and wet northeast...making GUMBO!
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 10:44 AM The Crawfish writes:

Gar

Those are the rules for the international chili competitions. I don't understand it either. My cousin won the cookoff at the State Fair of Texas recently, 2007 or 2008.
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 10:45 AM The Crawfish writes:

AfterShock

I don't have any idea what they're doing.
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 11:17 AM R E writes:

the commiequeer party truly is

Despicable. That video is what they believe Crawfish, to them that video is the doing away with America, their goal.
I want some of the chili too. As a matter of fact I would like to have about 4 qts washed down with milk, boiled eggs and several ice cold Buds then line failure osama mm mm mm, dingy harry and red nannie up about 15 feet behind me for a double over gut punch spray.
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 11:55 AM BrianR writes:

Hmmmm....



"Well, despite the fact that Obama’s books were ghost-written by unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, the leader of the National Endowment for the Arts has declared that Obama is 'the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.'"


Do I smell a Pulitzer to join that Nobel on the mantle?

These libs are laughably incestuous and masturbatory. It really is hilarious.

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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 12:14 PM BrianR writes:

Great news!



Another RINO bites the dust!

Scozz just dropped out of the NY race!

Another black eye for Steele and the establishment GOP RINOs, including Gingrich.

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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 12:53 PM buck writes:

Buck's

1. Radio stations around here seem to pre-empt talk shows for baseball, football and basketball. Seems the thing they all do.
2. The pre-game shows last longer than the real game. Yup. On another track, back in the days when the media thought Americans were half smart folks, you got the president's "fireside chat" or whatever and that was it. Today you get some yokel taking more time than the prezx telling you wat the prez said.
3. Most powerful writer since Julius Caesar... Well look at what those idiots CALL "art". Sends a tingle up my leg....
4. Desecrating the flag. Yup. Had to quit watching my favorite animated cartoon, "Family Guy" when he used an American flag to wipe his butt about two weeks ago. I don't understand. That show comes on a Fox channel and Rush even "appeared" on it...
5. Remember the tither all the media got into some time back when it was alleged the koran had been dropped in the toilet at Gitmo???
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 12:54 PM buck writes:

Buck's II


6. Nope. That's the problem with damnyankees. Texas is a great example. They moved to Texas and then started advocating their damnyankee ideas and now Texas is "Texas" only far out and away from the big cities. Don't know how long you've been gone from the Metroplex but you ain't gonna like it when you get back.
7. Jobs saved. Never have figured that one out. A "Job" is either a necessity or it isn't. If it is a necessity it doesn't need "saving". If it is not a necessity then it will go away no matter how much money is thrown at it. Companies do not have unnecessary jobs.
8. What was it Reagan said? Something like, "The closest thing we have to immortality is a government program." Something like that.
9. That's something government-like. WE shelled out $24,000 for someone to purchase a $15,000 Kia! I kinda bristle anyway at the government using MY tax dollars on this. It is like I am helping someone else purchase a car I cannot afford for myself.
10. The classiest lady in the White House in my lifetime was probably Laura, Barbara or Nancy...Republ
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 12:56 PM Gray Ghost writes:

Crawfish

"...HBO “comedian” Larry David’s latest episode of his series features him urinating on a portrait of Jesus Christ. To the liberal mind, it is perfectly okay to attack Christianity, the flag, the Constitution, and traditional American values, but if you attack heterophobes, Islam, blacks, non-drybacks, and such you are a despicable human being."

Now why do you think that is, Crawfish?

Could it be that Liberals are scared that Muslims will kill their young a*sses if they attack Islam?

On the other hand, Christians (while willing to die for their faith, as the saints that went before them) are NOT going to hurt the Liberals if the Liberals attack Christianity?

Could it be that Liberals are bullies? And not even competent bullies?

PS: The Scozz pulled out of the NY race! A tip of the hat to BrianR!

Personally, I want to tell all RINO Elites: "Eat shiite and die." (They are almost as guilty as the Democrats in this fiasco now happening at the federal level.)
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 2:05 PM FinalRac writes:

craw

I sent a donation to Doug and found out from the manager, today, DEDE did drop out. Good news. BTW, the same thing happens out here on the Left Coast when I want to listen to Sean, the Dodgers take all the air space. BTW, Steele also today, along with Pataki said Doug is now the GOP welcomed candidate. Better late than never and Pataki is campaigning all round the district with Hoffman.
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Saturday, October, 31, 2009 5:35 PM BrianR writes:

Hahahaha, Gray!


Stop holding back!

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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 7:19 AM beachmom writes:

Crawfish

I wouldn't doubt that a chili cook off would cause earth changing winds.
Personally, I like a little dark chocolate added in near the end. Mole is made w/ chocolate a lot of the time so that's a good addition. It rounds out the flavor. It's good with the heat.

One of the talk radio stations up here turns to sports occasionally but they don't have pre-games or post-games that last for hours. Of course our closest team is Boston. Thank God for small favors.

The libidiots don't care that most women or most anyone else doesn't want the govt. "option". They'll say what they want as is demonstrated with Reid & Pelosi & Barry.

Larry David will get his reward for being such a dumba22. That show isn't even funny.

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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 9:45 AM The Crawfish writes:

R E

As soon as you mentioned the eggs, I knew where you were going
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 9:53 AM The Crawfish writes:

BrianR

I think they're going to come up with a new award. The Obama Prize, so HE can sit on the mantles of all good libs.

Even as Scozz dropped out, the media types, including Fox News, were calling her a "moderate Republican" when she's really a left-wing Democrat. Mrs. Crawfish isn't the political junkie that I am, but when I told her that Scozz's husband is a union organizer, and that she supports Card-Check and is a friend of ACORN, Mrs. Crawfish said "She's not a Republican at all!"
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 10:27 AM The Crawfish writes:

buck

1) If I want sports, I'll tune to a sports station. The main exception is NASCAR, which has traditionally been found on country music stations
2) Well, with THIS Prez, you need analysis, since what he says never matches what he really means
3) They're peeing on our heads and telling us that it's raining
4) The evening animated shows seem to be an outlet for offending everyone, kinda like "All In The Family" was back in the 70s.
5) But offending Christianity is SUPPOSED to happen
6) That's why I prefer Ft Worth to Dallas
7) Claim thousands of jobs "saved" but millions of jobs have been lost. Only liberals would buy that logic
8) Once more, the Wisdom of Reagan
9) It should hack off ALL Americans
10) Probably Barbara Bush
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 10:30 AM The Crawfish writes:

Ghost

I believe that it is because they see Christianity as something judgemental and something that tells them that some actions and lifestyles are WRONG! They side with Islam because Islam is against Christianity, not realizing that Islam would murder THEM in a heartbeat.
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 10:36 AM The Crawfish writes:

FinalRac

Steele will welcome anyone who isn't a declared Democrat.
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 10:40 AM The Crawfish writes:

b-mom

You've got to deal with the Bahstahn Red Swox...I'm sorry.

The unholy triumverate knows better than the people what the people want and need. Put your faith in the State and the Party.
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 3:56 PM Sue writes:

Crawfish

Yes, we get the baseball games too in CA. It usually is during Sean, so you have to find another station that carries him to listen.

Love Pelosi and her stupid bill. All of those pages, give me a break. Like the woman even knows what is in it, but hey lets have a press conference and taught our greatness.

Always good stuff.
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Sunday, November, 01, 2009 5:56 PM The Crawfish writes:

Sue

Heck, Neal Boortz isn't even on at all in the Filthadelphia market!
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Monday, November, 02, 2009 7:18 AM beachmom writes:

Gee, what a shock

Scozafavva has come out in support of the dem candidate in NY-23.
Showing her true colors and making the RNC and Gingrich look like chumps.
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Monday, November, 02, 2009 11:15 AM The Interface writes:

Same problem in the Windy City

...WIND 560-AM here routinely pre-empts conservative talk shows for the sports broadcasts of the games. I suspect it's a matter of money. They are probably getting a substantial portion of their budget by broadcasting these events. Alas, our brain-dead (no wonder the dumbocrat zombies are so malnurished these days) wants its sports jollies more than reality.
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Monday, November, 02, 2009 11:55 AM The Crawfish writes:

b-mom

More on that in tomorrow's edition
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Monday, November, 02, 2009 11:57 AM The Crawfish writes:

Interface

I like sports, but that's what sports stations are for. Besides, baseball now has ratings MUCH lower than Rush, Beck, Boortz, and Beck.
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Monday, November, 02, 2009 9:00 PM Saltwater writes:

"Honor" hit and run now murder

Sadly, the following story:

'Westernized' Daughter Run Over By Iraqi Father Dies

Police say Faleh Almalechi ran over his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki.

PEORIA - A 20-year-old girl who was allegedly run down by her strict Iraqi father for becoming "too Westernized" has died of her injuries.

http://kfyi.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?fe ed=118695&article=6242646

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Monday, November, 02, 2009 9:14 PM arik writes:

Crawfish

Check this one out:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/commander_in_chief_o r_commande.html
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Tuesday, November, 03, 2009 8:49 AM The Crawfish writes:

Saltwater

They should execute him by stabbing him with a pig foot.
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Tuesday, November, 03, 2009 8:59 AM The Crawfish writes:

arik

Great column. At times like this I wonder why I don't hit American Thinker on a daily basis, 'cause I miss these gems when I don't.
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