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Thanks, Buffett

Posted on | July 7, 2010 | 42 Comments

by Smitty

After I go to all that trouble defending you, you reveal yourself a total sycophant.

What’s next, a Charlie Crist endorsement? The weather is here. Wish you were credible.

Aside: I think I was supposed to eat some crow over Chuck DeVore’s non-triumph in the California primary.

You may all point at me and guffaw now.

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42 Responses to “Thanks, Buffett”

  1. Jimmy Buffett Should Stick to Singing :: The Lonely Conservative
    July 7th, 2010 @ 7:56 pm

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  2. Lonely Conservative
    July 8th, 2010 @ 12:05 am

    I used to listen to Buffett all the time until I found out he’s a big libtard. I hadn’t heard anything recently and was starting to wonder if he’d seen the light. I guess not.

    Linked you here: http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/07/jimmy-buffett-should-stick-to-singing/

  3. Lonely Conservative
    July 7th, 2010 @ 8:05 pm

    I used to listen to Buffett all the time until I found out he’s a big libtard. I hadn’t heard anything recently and was starting to wonder if he’d seen the light. I guess not.

    Linked you here: http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/07/jimmy-buffett-should-stick-to-singing/

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    July 7th, 2010 @ 8:24 pm

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  5. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 8th, 2010 @ 12:50 am

    Crow is a staple on the buffet? Who knew?

  6. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 7th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

    Crow is a staple on the buffet? Who knew?

  7. smitty
    July 8th, 2010 @ 12:58 am

    @Ran,
    Sheryl Crow has not been stapled to the buffet; she might be tempted to, you know, eat, and even begin to resemble a female of the opposite sex.

  8. smitty
    July 7th, 2010 @ 8:58 pm

    @Ran,
    Sheryl Crow has not been stapled to the buffet; she might be tempted to, you know, eat, and even begin to resemble a female of the opposite sex.

  9. richard mcenroe
    July 7th, 2010 @ 9:14 pm

    Smitty hold off on the crow. After the Gabor sisters Whitman and Fiorina lose us Boxer’s seat and the governorship,you might want to send it back to the kitchen…

  10. richard mcenroe
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:14 am

    Smitty hold off on the crow. After the Gabor sisters Whitman and Fiorina lose us Boxer’s seat and the governorship,you might want to send it back to the kitchen…

  11. Dandapani
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:25 am

    Who’s Buffett?

  12. Dandapani
    July 7th, 2010 @ 9:25 pm

    Who’s Buffett?

  13. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:30 am

    Smitty – um, what exactly is a “female of the opposite sex”, if not Rue Paul?

    Maybe she’d be better better off looking like a “female unopposed to sex“, if you catch my drift.

    Yeah, yeah, it’s shameless blogwhoring, but you have to admit, Falero’s babe is a LOT hotter ‘n Crow.

  14. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 7th, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

    Smitty – um, what exactly is a “female of the opposite sex”, if not Rue Paul?

    Maybe she’d be better better off looking like a “female unopposed to sex“, if you catch my drift.

    Yeah, yeah, it’s shameless blogwhoring, but you have to admit, Falero’s babe is a LOT hotter ‘n Crow.

  15. smitty
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:38 am

    @Ran,
    FOTOS is an old Popeye reference to Olive Oyle in one of the cartoons.

  16. smitty
    July 7th, 2010 @ 9:38 pm

    @Ran,
    FOTOS is an old Popeye reference to Olive Oyle in one of the cartoons.

  17. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 8th, 2010 @ 3:05 am

    Smitty – Thanks. Ugh.

  18. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 7th, 2010 @ 11:05 pm

    Smitty – Thanks. Ugh.

  19. Jimmy Buffett
    July 8th, 2010 @ 4:27 am

    Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame,

    But I know, it is all Bush’s fault.

    Hey sorry for stabbing you in the back Stacy, but I have to tow the party line and blame Bush, even if BP was totally in bed with Barack Obama. I have to cater to my base. I know Obama is screwing it up in the Gulf, but if I change the Katrina narrative, my Coral Reefers might get confused. They can bearly keep it straight now with all the reef…I mean sponge cake.

  20. Jimmy Buffett
    July 8th, 2010 @ 12:27 am

    Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame,

    But I know, it is all Bush’s fault.

    Hey sorry for stabbing you in the back Stacy, but I have to tow the party line and blame Bush, even if BP was totally in bed with Barack Obama. I have to cater to my base. I know Obama is screwing it up in the Gulf, but if I change the Katrina narrative, my Coral Reefers might get confused. They can bearly keep it straight now with all the reef…I mean sponge cake.

  21. Jimmy Buffett
    July 8th, 2010 @ 4:28 am

    Sorry to you too Smitty.

  22. Jimmy Buffett
    July 8th, 2010 @ 12:28 am

    Sorry to you too Smitty.

  23. Erich Madden
    July 8th, 2010 @ 5:01 am

    Does pointing out that one is restraining one’s self from saying “I told you so” still count as having said “I told you so”?

  24. Erich Madden
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:01 am

    Does pointing out that one is restraining one’s self from saying “I told you so” still count as having said “I told you so”?

  25. Estragon
    July 8th, 2010 @ 5:21 am

    Look, Jimmy’s no political guy. He will freely admit he probably would have followed in the path of 90% or more of pop sensations and frittered his money away had it not been for his Uncle Warren, who knows a thing or two about making money.

    Unfortunately, Warren drank the Democratic Kool Aid long ago, and it seems to have affected Jimmy, too. Of course, he’s a total hypocrite like most rich lefties. Taxes on the rich are “unconscionably” low and ending or limiting the estate tax is “immoral.” By those strong words, you might expect Warren to have made voluntary contributions to the Treasury, and not to try to structure his own estate to avoid any taxes on his death.

    But, you would be wrong if you did.

  26. Estragon
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:21 am

    Look, Jimmy’s no political guy. He will freely admit he probably would have followed in the path of 90% or more of pop sensations and frittered his money away had it not been for his Uncle Warren, who knows a thing or two about making money.

    Unfortunately, Warren drank the Democratic Kool Aid long ago, and it seems to have affected Jimmy, too. Of course, he’s a total hypocrite like most rich lefties. Taxes on the rich are “unconscionably” low and ending or limiting the estate tax is “immoral.” By those strong words, you might expect Warren to have made voluntary contributions to the Treasury, and not to try to structure his own estate to avoid any taxes on his death.

    But, you would be wrong if you did.

  27. richard mcenroe
    July 8th, 2010 @ 5:22 am

    Erich — “Be careful what you wish for…you might getit.”

  28. richard mcenroe
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:22 am

    Erich — “Be careful what you wish for…you might getit.”

  29. Estragon
    July 8th, 2010 @ 5:24 am

    Oh, and Smitty ~ Be careful, dude! That bird looks seriously undercooked.

  30. Estragon
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:24 am

    Oh, and Smitty ~ Be careful, dude! That bird looks seriously undercooked.

  31. Joe
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

    Winston Groom, the guy who wrote Forrest Gump, lets loose:

    There are approximately 2,000 skimmer craft in the U.S., some large, some small. At present, more than two months after the leak from Deepwater Horizon began, just 400 of these are located in Gulf Coast waters.

    Where are the other 1,600? They are tied up from New York to Alaska and points along the way by federal regulations that confine them to areas that might have an oil spill.
    The Dutch, Norwegians and other nations have massive oil-skimming ships that could deal with that 30-mile-long spill in short order. But because they only capture 96 percent of the oil they skim up and process, and put 4 percent back into the water, they are forbidden by federal EPA regulations to skim up oil slicks such as those headed for our shores.

    Instead, BP is forced to fight the slicks with dispersants that leave 100 percent of the oil still in the water. But that’s OK with the EPA and the clowns in Washington.
    Recently, we were informed by the Press-Register that an oil slick in Mobile Bay could not be skimmed because the owners of the nearly 200 private boats working for BP out of Dog River and Fairhope had not passed an OSHA test for oil handling required by government regulation.

    For two months, 13 oil-producing countries plus the United Nations have offered to send us their huge oil-skimming tankers and other vessels that can collect a thousand times the amount of oil that the shrimp boats or barges, let alone small outboard boats we are currently using, can collect.

    But the Obama administration has dragged its feet on accepting these generous offers because of a labor-union law called the Jones Act that permits only U.S.-built ships crewed by U.S. seamen to operate in U.S. waters. Finally, on Tuesday, the State Department said it was “working out the particulars” of accepting the help.

  32. Joe
    July 8th, 2010 @ 9:30 am

    Winston Groom, the guy who wrote Forrest Gump, lets loose:

    There are approximately 2,000 skimmer craft in the U.S., some large, some small. At present, more than two months after the leak from Deepwater Horizon began, just 400 of these are located in Gulf Coast waters.

    Where are the other 1,600? They are tied up from New York to Alaska and points along the way by federal regulations that confine them to areas that might have an oil spill.
    The Dutch, Norwegians and other nations have massive oil-skimming ships that could deal with that 30-mile-long spill in short order. But because they only capture 96 percent of the oil they skim up and process, and put 4 percent back into the water, they are forbidden by federal EPA regulations to skim up oil slicks such as those headed for our shores.

    Instead, BP is forced to fight the slicks with dispersants that leave 100 percent of the oil still in the water. But that’s OK with the EPA and the clowns in Washington.
    Recently, we were informed by the Press-Register that an oil slick in Mobile Bay could not be skimmed because the owners of the nearly 200 private boats working for BP out of Dog River and Fairhope had not passed an OSHA test for oil handling required by government regulation.

    For two months, 13 oil-producing countries plus the United Nations have offered to send us their huge oil-skimming tankers and other vessels that can collect a thousand times the amount of oil that the shrimp boats or barges, let alone small outboard boats we are currently using, can collect.

    But the Obama administration has dragged its feet on accepting these generous offers because of a labor-union law called the Jones Act that permits only U.S.-built ships crewed by U.S. seamen to operate in U.S. waters. Finally, on Tuesday, the State Department said it was “working out the particulars” of accepting the help.

  33. Rae
    July 8th, 2010 @ 2:02 pm

    Heh. Fred Thompson tweets:

    Jimmy Buffet: oil spill Bush’s fault. Why trust his opinion? He can’t even keep track of a shaker of salt. #ftrs #tcot

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/07/social-media-fred-thompson-wit-and-wisdom.html

  34. Rae
    July 8th, 2010 @ 10:02 am

    Heh. Fred Thompson tweets:

    Jimmy Buffet: oil spill Bush’s fault. Why trust his opinion? He can’t even keep track of a shaker of salt. #ftrs #tcot

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/07/social-media-fred-thompson-wit-and-wisdom.html

  35. thirteen28
    July 8th, 2010 @ 4:54 pm

    Buffet.

    So.

    Overrated.

    zzzzzz.

  36. thirteen28
    July 8th, 2010 @ 12:54 pm

    Buffet.

    So.

    Overrated.

    zzzzzz.

  37. Wondering Jew
    July 8th, 2010 @ 5:25 pm

    Ah Smitty, I tried to warn you about Buffett’s fall from grace. Experience is the best teacher, I’m afraid, but she keeps a dear school.

    I’m glad to see that you have repented, however.

  38. Wondering Jew
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:25 pm

    Ah Smitty, I tried to warn you about Buffett’s fall from grace. Experience is the best teacher, I’m afraid, but she keeps a dear school.

    I’m glad to see that you have repented, however.

  39. Wondering Jew
    July 8th, 2010 @ 5:28 pm

    BTW– I did like the reference “The Weather is here, I wish you were Beautiful”– knowledge of which shows that you are a student of Buffett’s work, rather than a Margaritaville-inspired dilettante.

  40. Wondering Jew
    July 8th, 2010 @ 1:28 pm

    BTW– I did like the reference “The Weather is here, I wish you were Beautiful”– knowledge of which shows that you are a student of Buffett’s work, rather than a Margaritaville-inspired dilettante.

  41. Jenny
    July 8th, 2010 @ 11:50 pm

    “Aside: I think I was supposed to eat some crow over Chuck DeVore’s non-triumph in the California primary.

    You may all point at me and guffaw now.”

    Been there, done that Smitty!

  42. Jenny
    July 8th, 2010 @ 7:50 pm

    “Aside: I think I was supposed to eat some crow over Chuck DeVore’s non-triumph in the California primary.

    You may all point at me and guffaw now.”

    Been there, done that Smitty!