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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Happy 48th

This day should spark more birthers comments.

Anyway, Happy Birthday POTUS, caption photo.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday, Pres. Obama.

Many happy returns of the day.

LiberalLaugh said...

President Obama, you take the cake!

Happy Hawaiian Birthday!

BaaaaaaWHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Anonymous said...

Cash in this Clunker.

Anonymous said...

You are a great man. May you have many more that allow you to be the elder statesman that you are destined to be. PIV calls you the great one with disrespect. I call you the great one with respect.

Anonymous said...

9:58 AM Oooh boy,how do you breath with your head up there?

Anonymous said...

Who would have guessed that Orly Taitz, and the Israelis are behind the 'birthers', even producing fake Kenyan birth certificates. In light of these new revelations, America is showing its ignorance. Guess Mr. Obama should just let Israel build settlements anywhere they damn well choose.
Happy Birthday Mr. President.

Anonymous said...

Let's all sit down and settle our differences over a beer.

hermit thrush said...

i don't really think any of us should refer to obama as "the great one." of course it sounds churlish and disrespectful when said with sarcasm, but i find it even worse when said in earnest. obama has been president a whole half of a year! it's already clear that he's way better than bush, but it's also way too early -- to the point of absurdity -- to say that he's anything even approaching great. he might turn out to be great, but he might turn out to be only mediocre, or even disastrous. he just hasn't really done much yet.

sycophants for bush did quite a lot to poison the republican well during the past eight years. we don't need a repeat of that on the democratic side.

Anonymous said...

C'mon Klerm, he was great before he was elected. The Great One was the first candidate to benefit from overwhelming support of media. They chose him, and people like you swallowed. Now that he is in office, greatness is a mere formality. I'm surprised that you, of all people, are offended by this label.

Trust me bro, when I refer to Obama as the Great One, the tingle down my leg is real and genuine, just like that unbiased reporter stated during the campaign. I can't believe you would question my feelings about such a great man.

hermit thrush said...

oh brother, anon, can't you address me by my actual name even once? pretty please? is that really too much to ask?

DownstateOperative said...

hermit thrush

That is Bruno. Bruno is not real smart and to him using the wrong name is the only way he can get attention since he has nothing of substance to contribute. Sad.

Anonymous said...

I will think about that, Kerm.

Downstate, I can feel the love. Thanks.

hermit thrush said...

dso --
yeah, dear anon and i go back a little ways. i think bruno's not a bad name for him, but he doesn't seem to be warming to it. i suggested a few names to him back in january or so, mostly along bird lines, but he didn't take to any of them either. for someone who comments around here literally all the time, and seems to be pretty passionate (if horribly misguided and deluded and rude) in what he says, you'd think he'd want to take a screen name. maybe he should try "loon"?

Anonymous said...

I HAVE seen loons all summer long on the St Lawrence. Now why is that? Usually I'm lucky enough to see them only in the spring and fall, but not this year. Very strange behaviour for deeeze birds. I got into a mess of 'em a couple weeks ago north of AB, shut off the motor and drifted. They put on a concert.

DownStateOperative said...

"Downstate, I can feel the love"

Yer a sweet talkin' thang.. Bruno

Anonymous said...

2009 6:20 PM
You can blame it on global warming.Loons prefer cooler water temps because the fish don't go so deep. so the experts would say they are here because it's getting danger hot and we are almost out of time to fix it.So vote yes for cap & tax !

Anonymous said...

If the loons prefer cooler water, and they are here throughout the summer, maybe it's because the season is cooler than normal. Thusly, global cooling.

Capntax, as you call it, will become a reality. The loons are safe.

Anonymous said...

9:21 PM I meant it as a sarcasm. I agree it's colder this year my garden is doing terrible with all the nights we have had in the 40s & 50s I wish I could have a little global warming. Just a little so my corn will grow.Days are numbered now if frost comes in early sept.no corn for me OH WELL good year for lettuce.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I know. The global warming crowd knows their only hope is to keep talking about it. Like the ozone scare of a couple decades ago, if they repeat the lie often enough it will become an accepted truth, to many.

hermit thrush said...

Like the ozone scare of a couple decades ago, if they repeat the lie often enough it will become an accepted truth, to many.

that is an incredibly ignorant thing to say -- not just because the ozone hole is as real as the sky is blue, but because the problem is being successfully combated through regulatory changes in public policy. current projections suggest that the hole will be repaired sometime around 2068.

our experience with the ozone hole is an excellent reason in favor of addressing global warming with changes to public policy.

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