Another fine Confederate Yankee moment
Is there anything that Barack Obama can say, no matter how seemingly benign, that Bob Owens will not react to by jumping up and a-hootin’ and a-hollerin’ that B. Hussein Obama is a big ol’ commie? I mean, get a load of this:
Via TPM Election Central comes word that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is once again trying to create a new marketing theme, and this one will launch tomorrow.
Why this design?
According to an Obama aide, the new effort dovetails with a renewed push by the Obama team in Pennsylvania to poke fun at John McCain’s recent claim that he would rather hear the roar of “50,000 Harleys” than the cheering of 200,000 Berliners.
As the Obama camp was quick to point out, McCain opposed legislation that would have forced the U.S. government to buy American-made motorcycles. […]
“Harley riders aren’t typically supportive of Democratic candidates,” the aide says. “But we’re making a play for them by saying that Obama’s economic policies are the true patriotic ones.”
They. Don’t. Get. It.
Patriotic purchasing doesn’t come from buying products just because they’re made in America, but instead comes from choosing American-made products because you have faith that American companies such as H-D put the time and effort into building a quality American-made product you can be proud of, making you want to own it.
There is nothing patriotic about forcing Americans to buy specific products, but socialists like Obama are by nature anti-capitalistic, so should we be surprised that his campaign gets this wrong?
Next week: Confederate Yankee lambastes Obama for brushing his teeth on a regular basis. You can see it now, can’t you: “B. Hussein Obama thinks he’s better than the rest of us by using fancy organic toothpaste that he bought at Whole Foods. Here in the Heartland, however, we’re all quite content to down a box of Junior Mints in the morning if our breath needs a-freshenin’.”
1) Barack Obama is not a socialist.
2) Protectionism is not socialism.
3) Barack Obama is not a socialist.
4) Seriously, Barack Obama is not a socialist. How out of touch with the known universe do you have to be to believe this?
Someone needs to tell C-Fed little boys in small Mexican villages are putting time and effort into building quality bullshit blog commentary anyone could be proud of.
He should watch his back.
Funny how someone who would be the first to say that government != people conflates them in a post to attack Obama.
Talk about setting up an unwinnable argument–I’m more patriotic than you because I really feel it in my heart, whereas for you it’s just a pose.
With all this Alkon stuff going around, I’ve been commenting way too much from overworked outrage centers and not engaging nearly enough in pedantic nitpicking, so to help bring about a little balance:
The BMW C1 is made by Bertone, which is Italian.
John McCain’s recent claim that he would rather hear the roar of “50,000 Harleys”
If you check the kerning, I think you’d find that what McCain actually said was that he’d rather “hear the roar of Cindypills faking an orgasm while parading topless in front of a huge crowd of bikers, you know like a trollop.”
Can’t think of much to say about CY, except that he’s a fucking idiot as usual. However, I do like this new Obama logo… the design is reminiscent of the FDR programs. At first, I thought CY was going to bash the campaign because the New Deal was some sort of big commie plot, but that would require him to have an ability to pick up on subtleties.
OBAMA IS 1 OF THEM COMMIES GONNA GETCHA UNLES U VOTE MCCAIN CUZ HE AINT O1NE OF THOS COMMIES I SMRT DON SURBER AN INSTANPUNDIT SAY EM SO
Does the Wankee not realize that forcing the government to purchase product X =/= forcing meatballs like him to purchase product X? Governments have purchasing mandates placed on them all the time.
Dumbass
Blue Buddha said,
It would also require a knowledge of history, and that’s mutually exclusive with this type of conservative.
How out of touch with the known universe do you have to be to believe this?
Out of touch enough to call yourself something as ball-smackingly dumb as “Confederate Yankee” and still expect people to take your drivel seriously.
Patriotic purchasing doesn’t come from buying products just because they’re made in America, but instead comes from choosing American-made products because you have faith that American companies such as H-D put the time and effort into building a quality American-made product you can be proud of, making you want to own it.
Yeah, quality, well-built, pridey products like Mercedes Benz and BMW and other fine Americ- … what?
Is he saying that Amerian-made products suck, so buying them is wrong, except they don’t suck so you should buy them anyway and in your face, Obama!!! Logic just curled up in a corner and died.
Also – ‘patriotic purchasing’? What a fucking moron.
Just so ya’ll know…a certain Perfessor has weighed in with his “thoughts” on the Amy Alkon Extravaganza. Because he’s a brilliant law professor and certainly not a waste of Tennessee taxpayer money, Reynolds equates The Malfunctioning Glenn Reynolds Robot doing his thing in Alkon’s comment thread with, um, Liberal Fascism.
Um, Confederated Yanking?
Ruht Roh.
[…] Original post by Brad […]
This swine has cloven to the heart of our nefarious conspiracy, my fellow cadres!
IT’S TWOO, IT’S TWOO!
Making the US government buy domestic products is the Krupp Donation Fund of LIEberal McFascizm!!!!1ein!1!
It’s socialistic to buy American products made by private industry??
What next, buying stock makes you a communist?
Don’t mention China’s state interference and direct state ownership in industry. That’s OK, I guess.
Patriotic purchasing doesn’t come from buying products just because they’re made in America, but instead comes from choosing American-made products because you have faith that American companies such as H-D put the time and effort into building a quality American-made product you can be proud of, making you want to own it.
Faith is belief without evidence. Believing a company makes quality products you would be proud to own without evidence of such is not patriotic. It is STUPID. Why do wingnuts have such trouble with that dichotomy?
I suppose its the same reason people still buy Harleys with motors derived from a WWI biplane in them.
Additionally, although the red-headed scooter rider is cute as a button, there’s no way that Barack Nanny-State Obama would accept scooter riders without helmets into his campaign.
Also, Obamamessiah? It’s Obamessiah – geez, learn to spell your own made-up words.
Finally, citing TPM Election Central? Without mentioning that Josh Marshall is afflicted with the worst case of Bush Derangement Syndrome outside of FireDogLake? Pffft.
Wait. He’s suggesting there might be poorly made American products.
Right, I’ve got the splintery rail, who’s got the tar and feathers?
I’m absolutely flabbergasted by CY being audacious/stupid enough to clearly quote a source describing Obama’s support for “legislation that would have forced the U.S. government to buy American-made motorcycles” and then turn around and refer to it as a socialistic attempt to “forc[e] Americans to buy specific products.”
Seriously, Yanqui, if the US government can’t dictate its own buying policies, what exactly do you expect it to do?
In Soviet America, buying policies dictate you!
The Malfunctioning Glenn Reynolds Robot doing his thing in Alkon’s comment thread with, um, Liberal Fascism.
This is not an endorsement of The Malfunctioning Glenn Reynolds Robot, nor will I support his campaign for Secretary of Edumacation.
But ‘the real’ Glenn Reynolds IS even stupider.
It just seems they get to make up their own definitions.
They don’t know what “liberal” means.
They don’t know what “conservative” means.
They don’t know what “fascist” means.
They don’t know what “socialist” means.
They don’t know what “democracy” means.
They don’t know what “freedom” means.
But they have their own ideas about what these words mean, and if they then seem to be making no sense, it’s because YOU haven’t updated your dictionary…
mikey
So, “buying American” is not a behavior tied to a measurable property of the product being produced, or the company producing it — rather, it is the amount and type of faith expressed by the purchaser as evaluated by right wing commentators.
Oh.
Okay then. Sure.
The old saw about how you can’t have a battle of wits with an unarmed man applies to Cornfed Yanker as if it was written for him specifically.
I suppose its the same reason people still buy Harleys with motors derived from a WWI biplane in them.
No, the reason they do that is so they can be louder than fuck. Which is why I hate them.
It’s the end-game of Orwell’s Politics and the English Language. Words are used by the author with hidden meanings in the hope that the reader substitutes the meaning she’s familiar with.
That essay also laments that “fascism” lost all specific meaning, and now just means “bad”. It’s really sad, especially when you contemplate the real danger that both extreme nationalism and corptocracy pose to the modern world. Fascism was a good word for describing that, but the meaning has been squeezed out.
Also, if you look at the kerning on the logo… What to pedantic?
Anyways, that’s Arial! What type of idiot chooses a sans-serif to represent America? Sure Lanston Monotype Machine Company was founded in Washington DC, but Monotype Corp Ltd was IPO’ed on the London Stock Exchange – and Agfa is a Eurotrash multinational.
If you’re going to attack the Obamessiah on his anti-American-ness for telling people to Buy American, you gotta mention the typeface.
Does anyone remember a sound byte that was going around that said that not investing in the stock market was unpatriotic?
Everybody knows that nothing says USA! USA! USA! like Trajan.
Argghhh! I meant too pedantic. Nice – a typo when I’m trying to split the hairs on a non-existant argument. I guess it’s back to outrage for me.
not to add injury to injury, but it’s “existent.”
i dont usually spell-nazi, but with the context i just can’t resist.
I am sure CY feels that if you believe in your heart of hearts that Ducati is superior to other motorcycles, you fucking hate America.
This guy isn’t just a tool, but a shed full of them.
Eat yer import, CY!
i dont usually spell-nazi
Is there something wrong with that, Mr. Apostrophes-R-4-Losers?
Damn, that should be “Loosers”.
I knew Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I was friends with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And Barack Obama is no Franklin Denalo Roosevelt.
As the Obama camp was quick to point out, McCain opposed legislation that would have forced the U.S. government to buy American-made motorcycles. […]
Uh…OK. So Harley isn’t the best brand for the government to buy because, um, what’s that Bob?
Patriotic purchasing doesn’t come from buying products just because they’re made in America, but instead comes from choosing American-made products because you have faith that American companies such as H-D put the time and effort into building a quality American-made product you can be proud of, making you want to own it.
So, it IS the best brand, but only if you believe it in your heart.
Whatever.
Since this is, at its core, a union message from Obama one can only assume that conservatives hate unions more than they love America.
“The insinuation from the mike campaign that Dragon-King Wangchuck, a former prisoner of war, misspelled something is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.
Hey man, loud pipes save lives. When you can hear the biker coming from a block away, it’s harder to cut into his lane because you “just didn’t know he was there.” I remember well the feeling of helplessness I experienced as the lady in the Cadillac cut in front of me like I wasn’t even there. I honked my pathetic little horn to no avail and then my choice was to eat her bumper or drop my bike and hope I didn’t break a leg. If my bike had been louder than fuck, it would never have happened. Also, Confederate Yankee gives ignorant hicks a bad name.
I vote that “… a former prisoner of war” become the new “… or the terrorists win” catch-phrase to explain away everything.
I’m still mad that “… or the terrorists win” displaced “children are our future”. Damned terrorists.
noun verb POW
Look if it doesn’t exist, how can it possibly be speeled worng?
Take that Lie-brals. Another victory for Teh Surge™
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But seriously, that BMW C-1 is pretty sweet.
Funny, the girl on the bike in the picture he posted is someone I would definitely like on my side… ventral side to be exact!
Even funnier, CY isn’t allowing comments… is this the legacy of “Sadly, No”?
Vinoth Kumar = Kaye Grogan?
What next, buying stock makes you a communist?
From memory, Marx & Engels supported the British Joint Stock Companies Act of 1844 on the grounds that it potentially opened up the ownership of capital to collectives of otherwise powerless individuals.
See, modern capitalism itself is a communist conspiracy!
All now being revealed, I shall pack my tent and retire to work.
First, I agree with vinoth that this whole site has some very nice pots.
Second, he says that There is nothing patriotic about forcing Americans to buy specific products.
Does he know that the U.S. government has policies in place, requiring expenditures of money from U.S. coffers on American companies if at all possible? When returning Peace Corps volunteers cash in their airline tix to get traveling money, they are instructed to spend that money on American products if possible; and I believe that government contracting rules require that prefernce be given to American-made products or American-provided services if it’s an option.
Those are long-standing rules, as I understand it. Reagan-era rules, even. Is he saying Ronald Reagan is unpatriotic? Well, IS HE??!!?
The fact is, thanks a lot, Brad. I could have done without Dueling Banjos in my head today.
For people who spend a lot of time on the highway – real bikers, I can understand. But other than that, who really needs a 1200cc Revolution engine? People with small dicks, that’s who. If you’re commuting on a Harley, you deserve that fat ass gas bill – and the motorcycle does not make you look any younger.
I look forward with bated breath to bitter complaints that the military still buys ships and planes built in the US. Also, bands at July 4th galas play too much Sousa.
Spaketh Bobby-O:
This progressive thinks that many people who self-identify as “bikers” are mindless sheep who, in an attempt to be perceived as “rebellious,” slavishly adhere to an extremely restrictive set of personal appearance attributes and belief systems. “I am unique,” they cry as they don their identical fringey leather vests and yarmulke helmets and rev their custom-painted $25,000 paint-shakers as they embark on their twice-yearly 50-mile Big Ride with 200 of their closest buds, “just like everybody else!”
Or at least those were among the thoughts running through my head last May while riding my DL650 through a snowstorm just west of Tahoe.
IOKIYAR. Confederate Wankee and others of his ilk have worldviews that don’t make any sense…until you figure in the One Rule.
Wankee would love a union-busting, shoddy product making, whining to big gummint to tariff-whack the Japanese company like HD. It’s the faith that it’s All Merkin that matters. Even as they whine to Teh Gummint to bail them out and keep the mean old competition away from them.
I see a future Wankee post. The Gummint cuts a no-bid subsidy check to HD to build all Fed motorcycles. HD cuts 300 jobs, outsources to India, gives the board a 300% raise. Later, illegal gay jihadis escape when the entire HD fleet is grounded for safety and quality issues. Wankee proclaims “your(sic) the socialists, HD roolz!eleven!”.
Of course not, it’s only literally the entire fucking point.
I see, so the “patriotic” part comes from blindly believing that a K-Car is better than a Civic, and an Argus C3 better than those piece-a-shit Nikons and Leicas. That was not explained to me.
I look forward with bated breath to bitter complaints that the military still buys ships and planes built in the US.
Check John “POW 4 Ever!” McCain’s voting record. (Did you know he also scored the winning touchdown in the big game against Central High?)
Why has the Wankee preemptively shut down comments? He must be afraid that the jack-booted liberal fascists are going to come over and make fun of him in an effort to forever silence him. Just like we did to Anne Frank!
Speaking of outsourcing equipment for the Dept of Defense, the motorcycle thing was regarding Homeland Security. Here’s a handy link explaining it:
Having only Americans supplying equipment to the US armed forces and to the people in charge of keeping terrorists out of America and of responding to emergencies and disasters? Disgraceful. And that’s JiSM3’s word for it.
But remember – Obama’s the naive and inexperienced one.
that logo’s a little too goatse, for me.
By Bob’s premise and a little logic, Bush would be an ultramegadoubleplusungood socialist for giving all those no bid contracts to Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, etc. Or maybe because Halliburton is no longer based in the US, that makes it acceptable.
If McCain came out with a sticker that said “Buy Dubai/Vote McCain”, would Bob be OK with it? If Halliburton or another Dubai-based company came out with a motorcycle, would Bob be OK with Bush forcing the government to use it? It seems like he would have to be.
So surely he must be objecting to the patriotism/nationalism angle. There is no freaking way he can bill himself as being both an economic libertarian and a Bush fanboy. If it were any other country other than America and any Republican politician who put this out, he’d be plastering that sticker all over his mom’s car right now.
He has the comments turned off so I can’t ask over there. Anybody want to take a stab at what his response would be? The wingnut emulator in my brain is pretty advanced but I’m really drawing a blank here.
Jeez, why all the hatin on Harleys? You guys seem to have some inherent prejudices around scooters and the people who love them. As someone with a couple hundred thousand miles under the rubber on first an old panhead and later on a Shovelhead that was pretty much built from the ground up twice, I can tell you that it is not only possible to love those loud, dirty scooters, but to create an impression rolling into Boise or El Paso that you’re just never going to get to enjoy from your prissy Beemers and such…
Sheesh…
mikey
Jeez, why all the hatin on Harleys?
They wake my kid up for no fucking reason.
I find Harleys to be a perfectly acceptable motorcycle for vibrating in a straight line across the Heartland.
(and for me to poop on)
BTW, as Law & Order C.I. fans know:
“Nicole Wallace” is the name of Olivia D’Abo’s recurring character: a sociopathic child-killing, husband-killing, seductive monster (and that’s the worst kind), who plays in effect Moriarty to Vincent D’Onofrio’s Bobby Goren. I’ve seen her in three shows and for all I know there will be more.
Just sayin’, etc.
I’m not getting how a bill requiring the government to buy American-made products would knock over Wankee’s grill.
When China lifts the restrictions on maximum cc engines, I suspect HD’s will become a huge status symbol there. That’ll probably create the incentive to start producing them there. CY will then wave his made-in-China US flag and proclaim another victory for socialist capitalism. Idiot.
When we lose our institutional memory on how to build stuff, we’ll be on the fast track to 2nd world status.
I’m not getting how a bill requiring the government to buy American-made products would knock over Wankee’s grill.
The drunken Halliburton exec races through his back yard in a Hummer.
Me, I’m not too concerned with “creating an impression” when I’m riding my motorcycle. Nor do I especially care whether my bike is seen as “prissy,” but maybe that’s because I’m a homo so it doesn’t matter anyway.
Anyway, you’ll notice that I cleverly inserted the weasel word “many” into my anti-RUB rant.
Wait, I think I’ve got it.
1. American manufacturing = blue collar workers with benefits.
2. Blue collar workers with benefits = commie bastards.
3. Commie bastards = unpatriotic.
4. Supporting policies that would encourage manufacturing in America = unpatriotic.
Harleys are fine, albeit terribly overpriced, motorcycles. I don’t imagine, though, that there’s any mechanical advantage to a HD over a Honda/Kawasaki/Yamaha. As for the pipes, it’s not just HDs anymore – pretty much every bike over ~700cc has straight pipes nowadays. Odd that cities don’t enforce noise ordinances.
OT: I spent some time reading the entire front page at Alkon’s place. Man, talk about a self-absorbed, arrogant, self-aggrandizing, spoiled brat! She could use some writing classes, as well – her writing is even worse than her attitude. But, as I said earlier, I don’t know that she’s racist, so much as she just thinks she’s superior to everyone. How she came to be an “advice columnist” (get a real job!) is beyond me.
Why has the Wankee preemptively shut down comments?
The voices in his head are all the feedback he needs.
The fact is, if you go over to CY’s place and call him “Confederate Stankee” in comments, he’ll ban you.
PolitiFact:
Why does John McCain hate America?
Why does John McCain hate America?
He just doesn’t understand crony capitalism. Or maybe Georgia will become a major supplier soon.
If true, that policy is a load of bollocks. Here is the problem.. Harley don’t actually make a suitiable bike for government use.
The army for example. NATO has standardised on diesel fuel for all ground vehicles. The UK military use a japanese dirt bike, with a diesel engine fitted by a specialist firm. They go pretty well, and by all accounts are great to ride because they have bags of torque. Do harley davidson make a world class offroad bike with a modern diesel engine in? do they fuck.
Who else needs motorbikes? The police! traffic bikes, escort bikes, etc etc. In places with sensible purchasing policies, they use honda goldwings, or big BMWs. Both bikes with an enclosed shaft drive that needs no maintainance, and modern, low stress engines, in a flat 4 or flat 6 layout, which produce more than adequate power, without being noisy, intractable, or harsh. Also, these engines last forever. Hundreds of thousands of miles with long service intervals. Harley davidson produce NOTHING which is more suitable for the job. Their engines are harsher, use far more fuel, dont last as long, and have shorter service intervals.
Harleys are simply not designed as work bikes. They havn’t been since the 70s at least. They are bassically all about looks, noise, and style. If you demand subtance over style, you are out of luck.
What happens if I buy foreign-made products but have faith that they are genuinely American-made with 100% American intent?
Do I win?
Jeez, why all the hatin on Harleys?
Because if a car made that much noise you’d get a ticket. Harleys are given a free pass to violate many neighborhoods’ noise ordinances. The Japanese don’t seem to need their bikes to be heard 3 miles away.
Harleys: They come complete with Audio Penis Enlarger.
very political campaign has its weak spot. Every human being has his own blind spots. In politics and war, it’s those blind spots that eventually make for victory or defeat. When an opponent discovers that weak spot, he just needs to hit it over and over again to win.
In Iraq, Al Qaida’s blind spot was its penchant for bloody random killing of innocent civilians. It turned the tribes against AQ. Every time they car-bombed another peaceful marketplace they made more mortal enemies. That’s why they lost.
For Barack and Michelle Obama, the biggest blind spot is Ego Tripping — the temptations of boastful grandiosity. It’s Obama’s need to be seen as Jesus Christ Superstar. They have to “remake the world,” “stop the rise of the oceans,” “we are the change we’ve been waiting for.” The Obamas keep getting drawn into that blind spot, even when it’s not smart politically. Arrogance is their Achilles’ heel.
That’s why the PR rally in Berlin drew them so magnetically.
A Nuremberg-style mass rally in Germany is not exactly the natural stage for an American presidential candidate to strut his stuff. It’s exactly the opposite of the usual politician’s schtick in America. “I’m just a little ole country boy” assures the voters that you don’t have the swelled head.
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Jimmy Carter, even an egomaniac like LBJ knew that much. But the Obamas don’t seem to care. The temptation of Ego Tripping overwhelms their common sense.
And that’s the truth, because the COACH said so. Boo-yah!
“I’m just a little ole country boy” assures the voters that you don’t have the swelled head.
In other words, people are stupid and you should lie to them.
Thanks for helpfully clearing that up.
Oh, you can hear a japanese bike 3 miles away! the exhaust isnt loud, but the high pitched howl at 16000rpm carries a looong way. It isn’t half so annoying as the loud blat blat of a harley at a pathetic 2000rpm though.
Harleys are all about “look at me” which is why the riders always go so slow.. So everyone can get a good look. Japanese bikers are normally more “now you see me, now you dont!”
The vainity is more offensive than the chrome, or the agricultural enginnering. New harleys are nothing but vainity.
Many police departments do use Harleys with belt drives, which are not quite as maintenance-free as shaft drives, but are still pretty reliable — much more so than a chain. And here in the U.S., the frequency of required maintenance is offset by the ubiquity of Harley dealers. Parts are cheap and plentiful, which is not the case for, say, Triumph or Benelli.
Goldwings are actually made in the U.S., but I don’t think many PDs are using them. Too big. However, some of them have started using Honda ST1300s, which have V4 engines and shaft drives. BMWs too, though I’m not aware of any BMWs with flat-4 configurations.
Some Honda motorcycles are made in America.
This.
I believe that or the terrorists win
Teach them well and something lead the way
Something something beauty they possess inside
Let the terrorists’ ululation remind us how we used to be
I decided long ago something something Bobby Brown
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away MY! DIG!
NI!
TYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Harley parts are “cheap and plentiful”? plentiful I will concede, but cheap, no. Nothing HD do is cheap. Too much money to be made out of mid life crisises to charge reasonable rates.
The low dollar may add some incentive to buy Harleys, but I cannot see how they could be widely suitable. I would certainly not want to use a Harley in a police persuit. For military use? fergeddaboudid.
Interestingly (based on a few Google searches and a cursory review of his archives), when the Pentagon Contracts With Airbus story came out, Confederate Yankee was silent while his fellow wingnuts freaked out.
Will this Harley part make my guitar louder? Add bottom?
Of course, there is a huge difference between “made” (or at least assembled) in america, and made in america by an american company.
All kinds of international companies assemble crap in the US. It is handy for the whole continent, and labour costs are cheap cheap cheap! As long as you don’t pay for their healthcare of course. Being able to pollute as much as you want is just a bonus!
“made in the USA is going to end up like “made in china”. The crappy assembly line work goes to wherever there are people willing to work for a bowl of rice a day. Give it 4 years of Mcain, and there will be no shortage of americans willing to work for food. They may demand ketchup too though.
Aw man, it’s too bad he didn’t allow comments, because I really want to explain that someone who chooses to call himself “Confederate Yankee” does not get to fucking lecture anyone else about patriotism. The foundation of the Confederacy, and the levying of war against the US, were acts of treason (the survivors “got away with it” thanks to the Amnesty Proclamation).
HD: High Dollar.
The one sitting in my garage would put our kid thru a couple years at a good school. See file: Mid Life Crisis,Husband.
Hey, if those who break away from a nation by force, and declare themselves a new nation are traitors.. Then all americans are traitors to the crown, and in no position to talk of patriotism.
I don’t know if that makes much sense, but lets pretend it does. Americans shutting up about patriotism could only be a good thing.
Why has the Wankee preemptively shut down comments?
No time. There’s a hurry-cane a-commin’ an he needs ta lash down his grill.
The fact is, I think it’s time to bring back the video of Mr. Yankee laughing.
Wow. Bucket is more random that The Truth. But he’s developing a style – that’s nice. The catchphrase needs work:
That’s pretty weak actually. A little Stone Cold and a little Johnathon Coachman is way too much Vince McMahon. Finishing up with a big stew is okay though. Maybe you can stick with the stew theme, something like:
Hot Damn! That’s good CUM-bo!
Yo, coach – When Clif said
“Actually, there’s so much in Lewis’s post that a wannabe Gary Ruppert trollbot could simply cut and paste random sentences from the post into his or her favorite comment section and have material for the next several months.”,
he wasn’t really making a request.
Yeah, but not traitors to the US. As far as I know, nobody calls themselves “Yankee Doodle Dandy” or whatever the crap and then gives people shit for not liking Queen Elizabeth II enough. The Confederacy existed for one reason: to split from the US by force, so that they could continue to own other human beings as property. It’s quite simple: you can be rah-rah for the US, or rah-rah for the Confederacy, but not both.
Although I totally agree that it would be a lot better if people were more concerned about the ideas and acts of nations than about “national identity”.
Senator Obama’s beliefs and political views are in line with those of the American Communist Party. Americans will reject the man who holds Socialist Marxist viewpoints from sitting in the White House.
As President Ronald Reagan once said, “It is a time for choosing.” In less than three months Election Day will be upon us. It is a privilege and our duty to vote. If we don’t vote, we deserve the government we get. You should love your country enough to do some investigational homework before giving any person seeking a legislative position your approval. They are there to represent us, and too often they do not.
We are living in complex days. The whole world faces turmoil. We are besieged with problems from all directions. The media has caused irreparable harm to America. It has impacted the general public’s cognitive reasoning to be aware and discerning.
“The need is for a great foreign policy president of the quality of Truman, or Reagan. To win a long war begun by our enemies, we are going to need more than an attractive but essentially empty vessel.” — Iain Martin
Many are asking: “how did we get here?” We allowed the far Left wing of the Democrat Party to purposefully degrade our president for more than seven years for their own expediency and political gain. President Bush has kept our economy in stellar shape during his two terms in office.
Our nation is going through hard times. However, we’re not in a depression. We will be if the Democrats succeed in further damaging our nation’s economy by insisting on higher taxes and not allowing off-shore drilling.
I’m Urban Meyer, and the SPREAD says I’m right!
We are living in complex days. The whole world faces turmoil. We are besieged with problems from all directions. The media has caused irreparable harm to America. It has impacted the general public’s cognitive reasoning to be aware and discerning.
This is very true, but not in the sense that you apparentlly mean it.
Fuck Harleys. This lone wolf is all about the Segway scooters. Bitch best be gettin’ outa my damn way, i gots a leather handle pouch!
The whole world faces turmoil, viscosity and thermal breakdown. The Earth quakes and the heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains.
ndeed do many things come to pass.
Okay, much better. Urban Meyer – that’s actually not bad considering the etymology of Meyer. Maybe you should drop the Coach bit, it doesn’t fit.
As to the SPREAD. That’s fantastic – the spread actually says that you’re wrong – and that makes it perfect as a right-wing troll sign-off. Plus we can then pillory you constantly about how Urban Meyer SPREADS for JiSM3, or about how there’s more CUM stains on the SPREAD. Perfect.
I had a problem connecting to the site! For like a minute! ZOMG, Amy Alkon’s boyfriend must be behind this! Quick, find his IP and call some geeks on the phone! Frea Speach! Frea Speach!
If the world would only switch to Penzoil synthetic, it wouldn’t face as much viscosity and thermal breakdown, and there would be less carbon residue on various parts. Lab tests show that even though all the oil was drained out of the world, it still ran for several hours.
“Lab tests show that even though all the oil was drained out of the world, it still ran for several hours.”
Yeah, but it was real noisy there towards the end.
“Lab tests show that even though all the oil was drained out of the world, it still ran for several hours.”
Yeah, but it was real noisy there towards the end.
And don’t get me started about the mess on the floor.
CY closed comments out of an excess of concern for the free speech rights of his loyal readers. There is no greater threat to liberty than a free and open debate on the issues. Sarcasm is slavery and if we are not vigilante the ideology of Snarkism will cause even more death, destruction, whining and gnashing of teeth than it already has. Think of the children or at least the childish.
People, have we not learned anything from this weekends marathon seminar in Advanced Metaphysical Alconometrics.
Semi-OT:
Even when Michelle Malkin is right, she’s an idiot.
“ChiComs”?? Seriously??
Anyways, that’s Arial!
That typeface is so not Arial. The M is completely different.
If we learn from our experience the terrorists win!!!!
This line of argument being made by Mr. CY is absurd. If the powers that be that control Republican party had their way, every single company and corporation would operate completely offshore so they wouldn’t have to pay Americans meaningful salaries, pay for the little healthcare benefits they are still paying for, etc. And we have to find a way to buy only stuff that’s made in America because we are patriotic?
I find the modern wingnut mind an incredibly scary place to even contemplate.
Alternatively, if we learn from our experiences as POWs then we should not mention our experiences as POWs…
mikey
Pow, pow, pow, maní picado.
I mean, remember when McCain was like “as someone who was tortured, I can tell you that torture is actually a bad thing” and suddenly he was a traitor to the US and Dear Leader until he dropped that whole thing a couple days later?
Rockwell Bold is the Harley-Davidson of typography.
That is all.
Confederate cranky
A defense contractor in the hands of Foreign nationals?
Race Riots in New Jersey, you say?
What the hell is going here?
Explain yourself!
“Rockwell Bold”
good porn name ?
good “MacGyver” name ?
From the Malkin post in question:
Can stupidity reach a critical mass and implode like a black hole? Malkin is pushing the boundary.
Now for something slightly more on-topic. Best mocking variation of “Confederate Yankee”:
Cum-fetid Hankie
Beat that, Sadlynauts.
mikey, HOW! DARE! YOU! QUESTION! MCCAIN’S! PATRIOTISM! AND WARHEROITUDINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and same to you Doctorb. If that’s your real name.
“Ms. Malkin? Terry Gilliam on line 1, and the shades of Orwell and Kafka on lines 2 and 3.”
The name “Confederate Yankee” is almost but not quite as historically tone-deaf as “Campus Crusade For Christ”.
Nothing like the smell of warherotudiness in the morning. It smells like shitmoat.
That Michelle Malkin, she’s no Amy Alkon.
Just thought of a good name for a band “Alcon & the Shitmoats.”
I do love typing that word. Shitmoat, shitmoat shitmoat, shitmoat. I think I need help.
From The Rocky Horror Picture Show (audience participation line):
Incidentally, have you not seen the Rocky Horror Picture show?
If not, get thee to a midnight movie theater poste-haste. (You can also rent the DVD or download an “evaluation copy” via Torrent at no more than a minute or two in excess of the time taken to drive to Blockbusters.
Bonus question:
The RHPS was released in 1975 and rapidly became a cult classic. I experienced it at the age of somewhere between 10 and 15. I saw it at the erstwhile “old-fashioned” cinema in Harvard Square. The air in the theater was thick with marijuana smoke with the stick of a few pretentious Harvard men smoking clove cigarettes from Indonesia to add that much more spice to the flavor.
In spite of my age and the drugs involved, I was smitten with Susan Sarandon and for several years after that as a young teen she was a major focus of my new-found pubescent love.
How many of you current gentlemen hipsters whipped up a batch in honor of Susan “Dammit Janet” Sarandon on some lonely night in the late 70s/early 80s?
One more “blast from the past”:
I seem to recall seeing it again one midnight at the Exeter Theater in Boston. Does anyone else remember the wonderful Exeter Theater – on the corner of Newbury and Exeter Streets in the Back End?
Great wheel of time, I curse thee!
i think “campus crusade for christ” is one of the worst-named organizations i’ve ever encountered in all my days on earth.
L.O.L. Amy’s intrigued:
Having worked in Gov’t purchasing departments, there are plenty of ways around the ‘Buy American” and “Buy Small Business” rules. For one thing, if the small business or american product doesn’t meet requirements, they can buy foreign-made, though preferably thru an American company. All that speechifying is just… noise. Like the Harley.
Bunch of pikers.
Confederate Americans are the most patriotickest Americans there is, because of their Southern accent, their white skin, their Baptist faith, and their fervent desire that Americans launch wars and kick ass as much as possible. How could it not be so?
Jeezus Krist Monkey Boy, and I thought I was old.
In other geezer news:
sarah, I remember Dedicating my Life to Jesus Christ at a campus crusade way back in the day. ‘course I was in elementary school at the time and didn’t know WTF I was doing. All came home to roost pretty damn soon though, when I was harassed on the phone by the crusade people for not paying my pledge. Couldn’t a been more than 10. Leastwise I think it was the campus crusade thing. Maybe it was Billy Graham Kiddie Crusades for Christ. Fuck if I remember. Buncha godbags. Fuck ’em.
“Rockwell Bold”
good porn name ?
Even better as a WWF name. Who watched Rockwell Bold vs. Akzidenz-Grotesk? What a smack-down.
Malfunctioning Glenn Reynolds Robot™:
I love ya, man, whoever you are!
LOL I bet that robot is on his way to Gitmo!
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Ah yes, Rocky Horror. I saw it in ’77…in college.
That was the same year we had a visit in our dorm from CCC-bots, who wanted to talk to us about the “Christ-ly” messages in Eagles songs. IIRC, Hotel California was hot hot hot just then.
I found RHPS to be more entertaining but really, with enough…enhancement…nearly anything can be made entertaining.
Hey, you kids get off my lawn!
Thunder, I think they’ve been sent to Shitmoat, not Gitmo!
In Shitmoat, nobody can smell you scream.
Or the other way.
Patriotic purchasing doesn’t come from buying products just because they’re made in America, but instead comes from choosing American-made products because you have faith that American companies such as H-D put the time and effort into building a quality American-made product you can be proud of, making you want to own it.
Wait a minute – I thought it was commonly understood that Harleys were *lower* in quality than Japanese bikes, requiring more maintenance and breaking down more often.
When I was a teen in the seventies, I had a t-shirt that said, “I’d rather push my Harley than ride a Kawasaki.” Really, it was so common for Harleys to break down that Harley printed t-shirts joking about it . My boyfriend and cousins all had sporties or hogs. They were always working on them. Back in those days it was a lot of fun. We’d cruise around and drink lots of beer and I’m amazed that we all lived to tell about it.
I still liked the sound of loud engines, bike or car, and the sound of fireworks, right up until I became a parent and began to hate anything that would wake up my kid. I learned to freaking hate the sound of firecrackers particularly, not only because they woke up my kid, but because when he was little we lived in kind of a rough neighborhood and you’d always have a moment when you’d think, “Someone’s shooting outside my window!”
I think Harleys are a lot more reliable than they once were, and have been since the resurgence in the 90s. They’ve become such a symbol of weekend yuppie wannabe tough guys from the suburbs that they’ve lost the mystique they once had that mikey refers to.
Wow. Bucket is more random that The Truth.
Given his post lengths, I think he’s more of a Dumpster.
Read the quote again. It’s not about the quality of the product — it’s about your faith that the product was quality American made, a faith to be judged & approved by thinkers such as Comefeatherit Hanky.
mznicky, oneman: the college godbags haven’t changed much. when i was going to college in the early 00’s, i tried to find a christian group that didn’t freak me out. i avoided campus crusade for christ altogether, because i figured if they were dense and/or evil enough to name their organization campus crusade for christ, i wouldn’t like them anyway. intervarsity and the other christian groups i tried were way into “finding godly truths” in popular movies and songs…and loved to host events where they’d screen part of a hit movie and then move into the alter call portion of the evening. they kept telling us to invite our “unsaved” friends, and implied that it wasn’t really necessary to make it clear that the event was anything more than a showing of the complete movie. needless to say, i gave up on campus christian groups before too long, but i was really sad about it.
and the first concert i went to was…dc talk at the billy graham crusade. my dad was madder than hell that i went; he told me through clenched teeth that he’s never forgiven billy graham for his support of the vietnam war. he blessed military helicopters on their way to kill people. crazy.
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He’s right, you know. I find it kinda ridiculous that Obama is so pro-American products, pro-Americans, and so on. I think it’s posturing to get to the xenophobic rednecks (not that all rednecks are xenophobes, obviously) and to the idiotic notions about foreigners “stealing our jobs”. We’re in a global economy. American products aren’t necessarily better, and if they aren’t, then we should purchase foreign products. There’s nothing patriotic or unpatriotic about that. If anything, we ought to put restrictions on labor conditions, safety standards, and such for the goods we import to keep American industry competitive, but this protectionism thing is not actually good for the consumer.
And I think Obama, who’s kinda militantly pro-American things, actually understands that things from other countries are also good, and he’s using that as a way to win over independents. I definitely trust his respect for other nations, which is one of the main reasons I support him. (One of the many, obviously; more important is that I kinda like this country, and I don’t want to see it completely destroyed, which would happen if McCain were elected.)
I just want to find out more about these non-xenophobic rednecks.
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My first spamlink(splink?)! I HAVE ARRIVED!
yes, tigrismus! i just got splinked too! i’m so proud! or ashamed! i can’t tell!
The tiny fascist small little fascist thug fascistii are using some kind of technology to post garbage spam links to the comments of this blog, just like the actual Fascists did in Spain and Italy. This is typical of people who don’t agree with me, because all of those people are too stupid and immature to argue like reasonable adult people (meaning people who are privileged and judgemental but flatter my vanity) and resort to namecalling like the tiny little turds they are.
And then they try to flood this blog with nonsense, or crash my computer by posting things like ATH0 #&H#OIN#@@ NO CARRIER
choosing American-made products because you have faith that American companies such as H-D put the time and effort into building a quality American-made product you can be proud of, making you want to own it
Harley-Davidsons, or as we call them here HELOC-Davidsons, are terrible motorcycles. I have been riding motorcycles for, let’s see, over 30 years, and I wouldn’t be caught dead on one. Oh I’ve tried to like them. The guys at the dealership will hardly let you leave without test-riding one. I can’t deal with the feet-forward, legs-spread position one must take. I call it the “fuck-me” riding position. And they are so painfully, sluggishly, snailly-SLOWWW. And then we get to their mechanical and operating disabilities, and then you get to price.
They are a product America should be ashamed of, and every state that does not have a buy American law is dumping them for police use.
For God’s sake people, Harley still uses rolling-element rod bearings in a pickle-fork arrangement. Not even other manufacturer who make similiar engines will use this ancient technology (modern engines use plain bearings with a high-pressure oiling system. By “modern” I mean every other frickin’ car or bike on the road!) And a 45 degree engine might be nice to run a paint-shaker, but not much else.