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9/9/2014

Can’t You Totally Relate??

Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:23 pm



[guest post by Dana]

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Smart kid. It’s about the only thing that makes sense right now. Throw yourself on the couch in complete frustration at what is happening in the world today. (And wouldn’t it be just so typical if the president never even noticed – either the boy in the photo or the American people!)

–Dana

36 Responses to “Can’t You Totally Relate??”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (4dbf62)

  2. ooh look a picture of obama not getting any work done

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  3. Heh.

    Dana (4dbf62)

  4. Those God-awful paintings and hideous chest of drawers on the left say all I need to know about his (or Moochele’s?) taste in design.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  5. regionalism is a thing again I think

    (this Curry guy though … it looks like the kind of commie propaganda art claire shipman would decorate a breakfast nook with)

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  6. I think it’s Uncle Joe taking a nap.

    Gazzer (26a83c)

  7. from that regionalism link above

    The initiative was part of the “Wisconsin Idea,” a progressive, almost utopian philosophy that the university should play an active role in the social, political and economic betterment of the state — a wide-ranging effort that still comes off as dazzling in its ambition and apparently lasting success.

    they drink their own urine like it was dom perignon, these rarefied new york times propaganda sluts do

    i find it distasteful

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  8. throne-sniffer!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  9. this photo from today of our useless coward-in-chief with his useless cowardly whore-minions is even more disturbing than the one in the post

    omg though pelosi has super-huge breasts like she could do porn

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  10. throne-sniffer!

    Colonel – No, future Capital “J” journalist getting a head start on his career!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  11. It looks like possibly a spandex cami under the jacket, so there’s just as much chance it’s a well padded support underneath. Sorry to disappoint…

    Dana (4dbf62)

  12. oh.

    I thought we’d found a way for her to be useful.

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  13. goggles do nothing, pikachu,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  14. I never thought of the “Wisconsin idea” as a utopian idea, as much as I thought it was an understanding of public higher education as being a resource for the state. Back in the day, if you graduated in the top 50% of your class you were guaranteed admission, and the tuition was low and the state subsidized it highly. Actually, the people took it for granted and didn’t realize how great a university it was. Though it did become as left as left can be in the 60’s, actual true-blue anarchist revolutionaries who wanted to blow up things and kill people.

    In the summer the ag school would have short term courses for farmers in the state. Professors who could have gone anywhere stayed there because of the overall environment (and hockey).

    There really was the idea that the state supported the school, and the school was a resource for the betterment of the state.

    Could have been utopian, I guess, but I thought of it more as good citizenship and good stewardship.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  15. The university was not pretentious, not a place for the elite, but a place for residents of the state to get an education.
    A bit of a different mindset than out here in the east.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  16. #9 happyfeet everyone in that room could vanish and I wouldn’t care less.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  17. i agree Mr. Hoagie

    thank you Mr. Dr. I think i’ll explore this wisconsin thing a little more

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  18. There really was the idea that the state supported the school, and the school was a resource for the betterment of the state.

    Oy! Did you really say “for the betterment of the state”? You’re loosing me MD in Philly, you’re loosing me. A school is supposed to be for the betterment of the student, not the state. Why should a 25 year old house painter supporting two kids on 38k a year pay taxes so some kid can get a degree in law and make 250k a year while not working? If a person wants advanced education they should pay for it themselves. I did. I worked, yeah say it ain’t so! And I’d bet when the spigot of continuous state and federal funds is turned off watch the tuition drop like a stone when the state no longer supports the school.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  19. Given the type of people that Obama attracts and parties with — given his history of lounging around Chicago bath houses — I don’t think it’s advisable for that kid to be smashing his face in an area where many butts have previously been.

    A few days ago I was watching a snippet of media coverage where Obama is talking about one of the White House chefs and a dessert of his that’s supposedly very good. Barry jokes about one of the ingredients perhaps being crack (ie, cocaine—for the naifs out there), and Michelle standing nearby smiles and says something like “no—no, it’s not.”

    Even without his history of drug use, that moment made me think: Wow, America, so this is what you’ve come to, this is who you’ve allowed to represent yourself.

    Mark (1e11aa)

  20. I knew someone at UW who was applying to med schools, and had already been accepted to Wash U. in St. Louis, which was his first choice, when he had an interview at Harvard. When he was asked in a harvard-centric tone, “What can you bring to Hahhhvaard?”, answered, “Well, I guess my dirty socks…”
    At least that was his story.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  21. i wonder if obama ever smoked crack in a bath house while he was enjoying a tasty dessert after having gay sex

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  22. Well, Hoagie, you have a good point. I think the idea was that we all support education through high school because it adds to the community, not just the individuals educated. The idea was extended to higher ed. One example, as I said, there were high school only educated farmers who could go and for a relatively small fee have several weeks of education on the newest things in agriculture, which would help the dairy industry and the state. Likewise, someone could go to med school in state and not be burdened with such high loans that they could not practice in small town Wis. Obviously it didn’t always happen that way, but the odds of a person being a small town doc in Wisconsin after going to an out of state private school and getting a lot of debt would be small.

    It became a national leader in biochemistry after vitamin D metabolism was better understood, leading to supplementation in milk, as something that helped not only the industry of the state but the health of all of its citizens.

    Here in PA there is little reason to stay in state for school, especially if you are bright and can go anywhere else you wanted, then perhaps little reason to come back, as well.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  23. @21
    Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?

    Gazzer (26a83c)

  24. I agree about the inflation of tuition prices with government aid, but in Wis state funding did keep tuition down, meaning the painter could afford to send his kids to college, and as state funding decreased the tuition significantly increased.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  25. The most iconic thang about Dweedle is he simply gags, ever.last.time.

    What self-respecting Prom Queen have you even heard of that cannot swallow?

    gary gulrud (46ca75)

  26. My late grandmother was a prom queen, gulrud, you Jihadi birthin’, chicken little, piece ‘o Minnesota white trash!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  27. jus’ kiddin’

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  28. 2. ooh look a picture of obama not getting any work done

    happyfeet (a785d5) — 9/9/2014 @ 5:31 pm

    President American Idle.

    Steve57 (685cca)

  29. 27. Amerikkka says, “Your 15 minutes, preening, are up. GTFO”.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386781/obama-outed-if-only-quin-hillyer

    gary gulrud (46ca75)

  30. i did not know mooch was a prom queen.

    mg (31009b)

  31. 18. Hoagie (4dfb34) — 9/9/2014 @ 7:42 pm

    And I’d bet when the spigot of continuous state and federal funds is turned off watch the tuition drop like a stone when the state no longer supports the school.

    24. MD in Philly (f9371b) — 9/9/2014 @ 8:00 pm

    I agree about the inflation of tuition prices with government aid, but in Wis state funding did keep tuition down, meaning the painter could afford to send his kids to college, and as state funding decreased the tuition significantly increased.

    There’s a national market for college tuition, so removing state subsidies does nor cause prices to drop, and prices are propped up by loans, which are getting much too high. State colleges also have/had less overhead, but the pverhead probably went up with time..

    Internet classes seem to be the way prices may go down again. That may also work for non-public high schools and even lower grades.

    In New York City, City College (and its various branches) was free for 130 years – from 1847 to 1977. Now it has climbed up to about $6,000 a year. Omce you break “free” prices start climbing.

    Admission till 1970 was only for the better prepared students, then iit became all high school graduates, then later they had remedial courses..

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  32. If that had been my kid, I’d have been on him like a chicken on a Junebug.

    Evidently standards for liberals’ children aren’t very high.

    creeper (d4d914)

  33. @22 Here in PA there is little reason to stay in state for school, especially if you are bright and can go anywhere else you wanted, then perhaps little reason to come back, as well.

    While born in Wilmington, DE, I spent the rest of my younger years in PA. Spent 4 wonderful years at PSU, graduated and moved away. Never looked back. PSU was fun back in the day (late 60s). But the opportunities were elsewhere.

    Bill M (906260)

  34. Is face-couch worse than face-palm?

    Kevin M (b357ee)

  35. I would feel better if Obama took another vacation. Preferably in Somalia or Yemen or some other success of his.

    Kevin M (b357ee)


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