America’s Shittiest Website™ — The Illustrated Edition
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Tintin
Here’s what happened over at America’s Shittiest Website™ after Nancy Pelosi referred to “500 Million” American jobs:
And here’s what happened there after Andy McCarthy, one of their own, talked about “billions of American lives” threatened by terror attacks:
Ya think Andy “USA! USA! USA!” McCarthy was counting Central Americans, South Americans and Canadians too?
Judging by his work in the past, Andy McCarthy really needs an editor. It’s a shame NRO doesn’t have one who can fill that position. Nope, they’ve not one editor there whatsoever.
Ah there he goes wetting his diaper again. *sniff* Aww, he’s left a runny load in there as well. Would someone please please please change it already? The stench is palpable.
Not to mention Obama’s “Fifty-seven states” and Biden forgetting which article of the Constitution talks about the executive branch.
But of course Obama, Pelosi, and Biden are Democrats so they’re brilliant! Republicans are either dumb or evil evil EVIL.
Republicans are either dumb or evil evil EVIL.
What he said.
Well, RedStutter75, I think we can safely conclude that you, at least, are a dumbfuck and missed the point of the post, which wasn’t to excuse Pelosi’s mistake. Wipe the cheeto dust off your face and read it again. It’s mostly pictures so it should only take you ten minutes or so.
George W. Bush was at least smarter than Joe “Plagiarist” Biden.
They must be taking a nap after eating acres of freeper dick.
Central & South Americans, Canadians, and about everyone in Western Europe and Africa, and I’m not sure you make it past 3 billion.
Then again, when was Andy McCarthy ever plugged into reality?
George Blart was at least smarter than Joe “Blartist” Blarten.
Biden got all kinds of things wrong during the campaign, but never heard a peep either from libs on the MSM.
But you jumped all over Palin for even the tiniest of mistake.
Putin rears his head over your butthurt.
Yeah Palin got her arsed kicked unfairly. I mean, if someone asks me what newspapers I read I haven’t got a clue. I just read them all.
How about when Biden didn’t get the right article of the Constitution for the executive branch?
Or said France kicked Hizbollah out of Lebanon?
RedStater’s comments have the unmistakable tone of a 14 year old taunting another kid in the hallway by the lockers.
Clearly, McCarthy was counting all the spermatozoan Americans who would never have a chance to be spilled on the ground to the likeness of Ann Coulter or in the ass of a twelve year old altar boy.
in the ass of a twelve year old altar boy.
Clearly, RedStater was one of those altar-ed boys…
Yeah Libs…you jumped all over Palin for saying she could see Russia from Alaska and not being able to name a newspaper-all of which she said she reads. Don’t even get me started about how you all cruciifed her for thinking that dinosaurs and humans coexisted.
In closing I’d like to say…SUCK IT ASHELY JUDD!!!!!!!!!! She’s creating “abundance” up thar in Alaska!
The thing is, you CAN actually see Russia from Alaska.
Meanwhile, France did not kick Hizbollah out of Lebanon as Biden claim. But the MSM and the libs said NOTHING.
Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
This sort of misspeaking is only to be expected, especially from Repubs who often count on Americans’ not being able to understand the difference between a million and a billion. That way, they can say that spending 850 billion on blowing people up is cool, but 850 million on social programs is a horrible waste – the only difference is the outrage with which the sum is pronounced.
you jumped all over Palin for saying she could see Russia from Alaska
No one denied this.
What we denied was that this made her a foreign policy goddess, like you asshole thought!
Ooooh, RS…you don’t really want to go another round with The Champ, do you?
Run away, little boy, or we will blart you into oblivion yet again!
The socialist bank bail-out + the socialist spending bill=TWICE the cost of the Iraq War!
What about the supposed foreign policy expert Biden saying France kicked Hizbollah out of Lebanon, or Article I was the part of the Constitution that talks about the Executive Branch? What about that, Actor212?
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Bush retired at the same time this troll started infesting the blog.
It’s not like Bush is busy writing his memoirs, after all, since nobody will pay for them.
I’m going Godwin.
RedStater, get your FUCKING Nazi ass off the Internet. Mommy’s calling, she wants her “toy” back since the milkman couldn’t make it over today.
Meanwhile, France did not kick Hizbollah out of Lebanon as Biden claim.
You are mistaking a one-time miss-spoken remark for a “claim.” A “claim” is when you not only say you’re a foreign policy expert because you can see Russia from Alaska, you repeat it, rephrase it several ways, defend it and have your surrogates defend it.
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The thing is, you CAN actually see Russia from Alaska.
Do you really think that was the part we were mocking?
Biden never had to defend it becuase NOBODY in the MSM jumped on him for it! A clear case of bias.
Huh? Huh?? What about that? Huh? Huh? Whaddya say to that, huh? Pay attention to me! Lookit me!
$800 billion for 23,000,000 Iraqis, money that we will never ever see again = No problem
$1,000 billion for 300,000,000 Americans to build lives, bridges and businesses = OMFG! WE’LL GO BANKRUPT!
Or going on speaking engagement for millions like Older Bush and Clinton. Or helping the poor like Carter. Or showing Pickles a good time. Or returning to a hobby. Or edumacating himself. Or thinking over his mistakes.
Fxd.
$1,000 billion for 300,000,000 Americans to build lives, bridges and businesses pork.
FTFY.
Susan,
Bush actually has a job offer.
I think it involves French fries.
Pickles is probably glad he’s down in the den with that old computer of Poppy’s, and leaving her to her smokes and Danielle Steele novels.
The stimulus is a pork bill.
I didn’t know Caribou Barbie believes dinosaurs and humans co-existed. Wow. She’s far, far stupider than I thought, and I already thought she was unbelievably fucking stupid.
I was close. It involves greeting people.
“Stimulus” plus TARP equals twice as much money over a space of a few months than the entire Iraq War, which was spread out over several years!
$1,000 billion for 300,000,000 Americans to build lives, bridges and businesses pork.
I’m glad you believe your neighbors’ lives are pork, RedStater.
Be sure to tell them that the next time you need help with your broken down old truck.
Exhibit G is Sweden. In 1993, Sweden took the prize for big government. It spent 71% of GDP at a time when even France was spending less than 55%. By 2007 Sweden’s spending was trimmed to 51% of GDP. Still not a small government by any means, but smaller than France’s, at 52%.
Over that time, 1993 to 2006, its real GDP per capita grew 42% compared to France’s 24%. As its government shrank below France’s, it’s GDP per capita swelled above it — from 94% of France’s to 108%. Sweden cut its government burden and saw its economy take off.
LESSON FOR AMERICA
Spend just over half your GDP on your people, and your economy will boom!
Thank you for supporting the liberal position.
We got a shiny new train from the stimulus. Now we can get a few cars off our miserable freeways. So the pork is actually a necessary expense that will improve our city and attract businesses, conventions, and sports events. And everyone who benefits is a redstater!
OK, now that the troll has warmed up and is going through his list of Limbaugh talking points, it’s time to ignore him.
You can get the same talking points on Fox News, and the people delivering them are marginally more pleasant.
Here’s the other thing: Biden and Pelosi love is barely present in the liberal snarkosphere. Obama gets a particularly hard time. But it’s more like anti-anti-communism.
Yeah, communism sucked — but the ninnies who thought they were so butch to oppose it, kill a couple million gooks and bring us continually to the brink of nuclear war are even bigger assholes, because we have to live near you and your actions bring us closer to death.
Good point, G.
Did you want pie? I have a great Key Lime pie sitting here.
Yeah, it’s a bit like winding up a little set of chattering teeth and letting them go. It’s fun, especially if you can get the pets to chase it, but pretty soon you remember that you actually have a life.
Thing is, I don’t think George W. Bush would make a very good greeter at Elliots Hardware. You’d probably find him sneaking out AWOL for a nip at the flash in his locker, and he sure wouldn’t know how to locate the toilet plungers for people.
Susan, what a perfect image! Our little set of red dentures.
We got a shiny new train from the stimulus.
We did? Where? I haven’t been paying close attention.
Trains = awesome.
Geez, I’m glad he’s back to taunting you guys. He’s been flogging the shit outta me watching videos of Lindsay Graham whine. So much so that I’ve got the dry heaves.
I think the missus is going to “leave the iron on” one day and watch Little Distillery on the Prairie burn. She’ll move to France where she’ll sleep with young Arab men and smoke Gauloises.
Houston–I heard they just funded a train that will go from the U of H to Bellaire. That will be very cool.
Having government subsidized choo-choo trains isn’t stimulus, it’s pork. Nobody rides those light rail systems our side of very large major cities in the northeast. The one the built in Tennessee failed spectacularly even WITH oodles in government pork.
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The profitable Northeast Amtrak line should be PRIVATIZED, and the rest abolished. It doesn’t turn a profit.
Nobody rides those light rail systems our side of very large major cities in the northeast.
Maybe, cuz, you know, THERE AREN’T ANY TO RIDE OUTSIDE THE NORTHEAST?????
And Tennessee is for pussies like Instapundit.
I’ll tell you what, I’d love it if they built the Exposition Line in L.A. – no one can make it across town by car in less than 3 hours now, during rush hour.
Chatter chatter chatter. Pop!
“Maybe, cuz, you know, THERE AREN’T ANY TO RIDE OUTSIDE THE NORTHEAST?????”
There are, just nobody rides them. Because, believe it or not, most people don’t like to have to wait for choo-choo trains and sit with weirdo strangers to get around. They like the freedom, independence, and privacy of driving.
But I know leftists hate all three of those.
Have you ever tried MARTA in Atlanta? Or CATS in Charlotte? They’re complete tax payer money-wasting jokes.
Chatter. Chatter. Chatter.
Pie!
The thing is, you CAN actually see Russia from Alaska.
the thing is you really really cant
George still rules their world:
Anger, Republican style…
Face it–most Americans don’t like mass transit. They see it as for weirdos, hippies, and poor people. Why do you think they never turn profits?
Hey, Susan. what kinda pie you got?
Blart.
So, let me see if I get this straight:
Government-subsidized trains = bad.
Government-subsidized roads = good.
Got it.
Scrunch schrunch schrumch.
Chatterchatterchatterchatter!
Galactic Dustbin: “the thing is you really really cant”
That’s because you loony libs built a light rail bridge to nowhere that is blocking the view. SUCK IT LIBS!!!
Loony libs = stuck on blart
Mass transit pie. Steel crust, coffee filling, book to read on the side.
Government-subsidized trains = bad.
Government-subsidized gas = good
Sorry, Major, I had to fix this for even more effect.
I love my train systems.
I love that I don’t have to go to my garage and get in my car and fight traffic for an hour, that I can hop on my subway and be where I need to be in less than 30 minutes.
I think we should tear up the interstate highway system, that godawful drain on America’s budget and force folks to drive off road wherever they need to go.
Maybe, cuz, you know, THERE AREN’T ANY TO RIDE OUTSIDE THE NORTHEAST?????
Not enough, certainly. Strangely, here in Utah there is a surprisingly enlightened public transit system including light rail in Salt Lake City. Of course, since this is Utah, it was originally not run on Sundays, but they very quickly changed that due to public demand – ridership was far in excess of what was expected, and has continued to be high. Maybe you have to live here to appreciate just how huge a deal this is, but Utahns voted for a tax increase to support public transport. In 2008 they started a commuter rail service between Ogden and SLC, which AFAIK has been very popular.
I feel very lucky to have these things available, especially living in a red state.
Second, there is a disturbing pattern of what I would call “the apocalyptic style.” We are not just to worry about global warming, but that there will be NO more agriculture at all soon!
It’s almost like claiming that a relatively powerless voter-registration organization is going to “destroy the fabric of democracy,” except it’s not quite that stupid.
and sit with weirdo strangers to get around
Other people frighten me.
I see blartstate nation is really posting hot and heavy today. There’s also an additional tang of desperation. Could it be that s/he got laid off recently? Possible wingnut welfare cancelation victim?
It’s almost like claiming that a relatively powerless voter-registration organization is going to “destroy the fabric of democracy,” except it’s not quite that stupid.
Or that a band of loonies with boxcutters are an existential threat to America.
My car broke down on the freeway last week. It was terrifying. I couldn’t get out of the car because of the traffic. My heavy car rocked every time a car went by. I had to be towed off the road before I could do anything at all.
It’s funny how conservative chatterers don’t think of how the government uses cars to bleed us dry. Fines, inspections, government ID on you at all time–it’s fascist, that’s what it is.
Xecky,
When you describe the British rail system to Americans who live outside of the Northeast (and obviously, salt Lake City), to a man they wonder why we can’t have that in America.
And then they climb in their SUVs to negotiate that 3 degree incline out of the mall parking lot in four wheel drive.
and sit with weirdo strangers to get around
Tsk tsk. Why does RedBaiter hate Americans who live in his part of the homeland?
I’m travelling in Tampa right now, and it’s amazing to me how bad the traffic is here – it’s even WORSE than in LA.
And then they climb in their SUVs to negotiate that 3 degree incline out of the mall parking lot in four wheel drive.
The soccer moms need that four-wheel drive in their GMC Yukons to tote the kids to ballet practice. Their husbands need Dodge Rams with HEMI POWER to carry other low-level codepunchers to Flinger’s for jalapeno poppers.
“and sit with weirdo strangers to get around”
Please disregard my Freudian slip that exposed the root of my political philosophy: paranoia.
OK back to blarting!!!! SUCK IT WEIRDO LIBS!!!
My favorite is the local moms with Hummers. Seeing them try to navigate the narrow streets in front of the schools is funny.
I WANT KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ TO PISS IN MY MOUTH
Oh, honey. You poor thing. They have medication for that, I hear.
The soccer moms need that four-wheel drive in their GMC Yukons to tote the kids to ballet practice.
Ballet?
In a red state?
Maybe they ought to take the girls to home economics and take the boys to ballet classes. It seems more right.
Well duh! OF COURSE we can’t have extensive, clean, efficient, rapid, inexpensive, frequent, safe rail transport in the YOO ESS AIIEEE. Cuz, if we did, we’d be like EUROPE!
This lesson in RedState logic was made possible by Al Gore and the US Government. And, by readers like you.
RedStater75 said,
February 6, 2009 at 21:16
The stimulus is a pork billPlease stimulate my pork butt.…weirdos, hippies, and blart people.
When you describe the British rail system to Americans who live outside of the Northeast (and obviously, salt Lake City), to a man they wonder why we can’t have that in America. And then they climb in their SUVs to negotiate that 3 degree incline out of the mall parking lot in four wheel drive.
Heh.
Embarrassingly, I was initially opposed to the light rail development here – but mainly because I thought it was going to be some kind of ripoff boondoggle related to the 2002 Winter Olympics, because for sure there was plenty of that going on. Perhaps it would have been, but they got good people to work on it, and they’ve expanded it since.
I did always think it was a good idea if handled well. I was especially impressed with my fellow Utahns – not just because they were even willing to pay for the service, but in that they’d use it at all. I thought they’d be more like our legislators, who would die – just die! – of shame if they had to do something “poor” like ride public transpo.
And Tennessee is for pussies like Instapundit.
As a pussy-American Tennessean who (unfortunately) knows Instapundit personally, I totally take total offense at that remark.
You’re not a Tenesseean LIKE Reyonolds, MzN.
You’re not a Tenesseean LIKE Reyonolds, MzN.
I’m claiming the standard friday afternoon exemption for the poor quality of spelling.
As a pussy-American Tennessean who (unfortunately) knows Instapundit personally…
Is he really as two-dimensional as he appears on my computer screen?
Does he have a whiny voice? In my imagination he whines a lot.
All disrespect to America’s Shittiest Website, given that McCarthy’s post responds directly to Hanson’s, I think the “billions” was an intentional joke without much actual humor in it.
Ballet? In a red state?
Why, yes! Yes, we do! Skyscrapers, n’ everthang!
Re: Instapundit —
Is he really as two-dimensional as he appears on my computer screen?
Yes.
I wouldn’t really call it a whiny voice. Rather flat and annoying though. Truth be told I only met him once at a university thing. Eeeww. He’s known around campus as a self-promoting wind/douchebag.
Ballet? In a red state?
Why, yes! Yes, we do! Skyscrapers, n’ everthang!
I’m assuming The Nutcracker involves a bunch of white guys sitting in rocking chairs throwing beer cans at each others crotches.
Man, I wish we had trains here. I’ve loved trains since I was a little kid, and I haven’t gotten to ride one since elementary school. My folks took a vacation to California last year, and they took the train most of the way. I had them take pictures of the train for me. Siiiigh. Trains.
‘Round here, the only trains are the ones hauling freight. What I wouldn’t give for a good Amtrak line here.
That makes sense.
actor212: You know what happens when you ASSUME things? Sure you do.
“Most Americans” don’t like public transit because they don’t have public transit; at least, nothing that’s better than the means of transportation of last resort. When pork-cutting Republican politicians decide to defund public transit, the schedules thin, maintenance is postponed and service is cut, and eventually regular passengers stop riding once delays and lack of service becomes too inconvenient, which starts its own negative feedback loop of decreasing fares and politicians pointing to the revenue loss as a reason to cut transit funding further. It’s just another example of how Republicans destroy government services so they can convince voters that government services suck.
I make AS out of SUE ME?
Well said, NC.
RedStater75, change your nom de blog to “ComicRelief 4evr!” I like you.
“and sit with weirdo strangers to get around”
And some of them are girlz! I mean like real, period-having, sabre-toothed-vagina GIRLZ!! And they scare me! No girlz in my car, dammiot.
Look, here’s the shorter Red-State:
“There’s still Cheetos! What is everybody so worried about!”
…and sit with weirdo strangers to get around
A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t alienated with your crazy right-wing bullshit yet.
Few years back I recall hearing about some congresscritter bitching about subsidies and pork for some rail project for his district. I’m not going to bother to look it up but the giust was, he said “we don’t subsidize the airlines and they make money.” Well, no, dipshit, we do subsidize the airlines. Smaller cities (many of which would be better served by (high speed) rail), build airports with tons of goobermint money.
We still don’t charge trucks the real cost of building and maintaining the roads.
What killed rail in the U.S.? Government subsidies of other transportation systems.
Developing rail systems would cut carbon emissions drastically, save more energy than filling every attic in the country with 10 feet of insulation, spark a whole economic sector of equipment and service suppliers, and get us all where we’re going quicker (in many cases) and with less hassle.
Shall I continue with reasons why so many murricans are against it?
Nah, didn’t think so.
Wow, actor. Why are you being such a dick to me?
Oooh, scaryness! You have to be on the lookout at all times when you’re a conservative. Feminists! Brown people! Poor people! Old people! People who talk to themselves!
Be vewy, vewy quiet and alone in your basement or the scary people will get you!
I ride MARTA to work every day. Thanks for asking.
This place gets incredibly boring when you feed th’ trolls, especially the lame-ass ones like RedStater75. Borrr-ing.
You hate cars because of culture. You hate the freedom personal transit in big, luxorious, powerful vehicles represent. You want us all to drive Geo Metros and ride plastic toy choo choo trains because of culture.
“I ride MARTA to work every day. Thanks for asking.”
Do you have fun sitting next to three unemployed thugs who just got out of prison, two single welfare moms with 10 kids, and a homeless person that smells like shit?
Please tell me he peppers his real-life conversations with the occasional Heh or Indeed.
A consistent theme of strongly conservative posters that I have seen on another forum, is that they will never contemplate what they have written or apologise for factual errors. Thus there would never be an admission of a mistake from ASW since that would mean that they had made a mistake. I think that is one of the reasons for their dominance of the American political system and it is being shown again at the moment. The right is in full war paint and making a huge noise. The foot soldiers are ringing the phones, the cohort organisers are running the usual BS articles the politicians are in verbal diarrhoea mode, wanking on about things they would back in a heartbeat if it came from their party. And as they were in power when all this was being set-up (the quagmire) one might expect some introspection, but Sadly,no.
What to do? Well without a time machine and tactical nuclear strikes I’m a little short on ideas. Suggestions?
Mass transit is for losers, hippies, pinkos, poor people and the homeless.
John Rocker? That you?
Anyway, my work commute is actually among a lot of people in nurse outfits (not THAT kind) because my stop is one after Medical Center Station.
DN Nation: I only talked to him that one time. I don’t recall any “Heh”s or “Indeed”s.
Also, I like how you’re talking trash to someone saving an assload of money on travel expenses. Yep, I shore are dumb.
No Read The Whole Thing? He didn’t end the conversation by telling you that Megan McArdle has more? He didn’t break into convulsions at any sentence containing the letters D, O, D, and D? Boo.
You can thank me for subsidizing your commute through gas taxes, now.
Another kiwi, eventually they’ll destroy everything around them through sheer force of numbers, like in “Idiocracy.” Until then, we mock.
The whole “public transport bad” deal goes back to the John Birch Society (maybe in opposition to Eisenhower’s Interstate System; after all, Ike was a commie dupe) who expressed the idea that it was some sort of commie plot to cut down on people’s freedom.
Their freedom to follow jobs to cheap labor states, we guess.
I apparently think that sticking up for Sarah Palin and insulting people who live in cities is a viable electoral strategy for 2012.
MzNicky sez, “He’s known around campus as a self-promoting wind/douchebag”
To be fair, that sounds like 90% of the senior faculty in humanities that I met in grad. school.
Mass transit is for losers, hippies, pinkos, poor people and the homeless. Whereas my 1994 Toyota Corolla with 210,000 miles on it works ok most of the time for when I deliver pizza. To people who are at home with their families and have lives.
So, what did Amrikika’s Shittiest Wecksite say about this?
Of course, I mainly hope the Taliban wasn’t offended.
erlking: True that. The Ole Perfesser is just rather more shameless about it than most.
Of course, I mainly hope the Taliban wasn’t offended.
As I’ve said elsewhere, 9/11/01 changed everything and 1/20/09 changed it back.
Modern conservatism has devolved into bragging about how shitty mileage one’s SUV gets. No wonder they got their ass handed to them on Nov. 4.
Luxorious? As in like unto temples built by Amenhotep III? Replaced the old GM Thebes?
Wow, actor. Why are you being such a dick to me?
Huh? It’s not intended. My apologies if it’s coming off wrongly.
Luxorious? As in like unto temples built by Amenhotep III? Replaced the old GM Thebes?
You need to dumb it down a little, tigrismus. Consider your audience.
Yeah, it’s a bit like winding up a little set of chattering teeth and letting them go. It’s fun, especially if you can get the pets to chase it, but pretty soon you remember that you actually have a life.
We’ve got a little laser keychain thingie that the cat and dog just love. Preferable.
There’s a joke about a troll here somewhere, but right now I’ve got to go make myself a drink….
HUMMER H2 said,
February 6, 2009 at 22:37
You can thank me for subsidizing your commute through gas taxes, now.
And you can thank us for paying for your highways.
You better believe, loony libs, that there are no trains here in Gainesville, where we’ve got a SPREAD of ROADS that go everywhere us McCaniacs need to go! Badoodle-boo-yeah! Just because you crazy commies are too dumb to get a job doesn’t mean that we have to fund your laziness! Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Urban out.
And you can thank us for paying for your highways.
I pay gas taxes. This not only builds your trains, but also the roads that your food and other commercial goods transported to you on.
You don’t pay any gas taxes when you ride the train.
That was awesome.
HUMMERS: You can also thank the federal government for its $100K subsidy to small businesses letting them write off the price of a brand new, heaver than 6500lb GVWR vehicle, thus creating a market for the Hummers and allowing douchebag owners of gyms and the like a giant vehicle to wrap their slogan on.
Coach Meyer conveniently leaves out the fact that the traffic in Gainesville is absolutely, unbelievably horrible, at least when UF’s in session.
He also forgets this uncomfortable fact: Tim Tebow wears Greg Hardy pajamas.
Rebels 31, Gators 30
Nutt out.
I pay gas taxes.
Thank you.
BTW, my train is bigger than your Hummer.
HUMMER H2 said,
February 6, 2009 at 22:51
And you can thank us for paying for your highways.
I pay gas taxes. This not only builds your trains, but also the roads that your food and other commercial goods transported to you on.
You don’t pay any gas taxes when you ride the train.
And you can thank us for paying for your highways.
Gas taxes build highways.
Trains don’t.
Congrats! You’re a sucker!
But what about Almond Joy?
“There’s a joke about a troll here somewhere, but right now I’ve got to go make myself a drink….”
Mind if I join you?
The Interstate Highway System:
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System (or simply, the Interstate System), is a network of limited-access highways (also called freeways or expressways) in the United States that is named for the President who championed its creation. The Interstate Highway System is a subsystem of the National Highway System. The entire system, as of 2004[update], has a total length of 46,837 miles (75,376 km),[1] making it both the largest highway system in the world and the largest public works project in history.[2]
While Interstate Highways usually receive substantial federal funding (90% federal and 10% state) and comply with federal standards, they are owned, built, and operated by the states or toll authorities. For example, the original Woodrow Wilson Bridge (part of Interstate 95 and Interstate 495), was maintained by the federal government; its new span is now jointly owned and maintained by the state of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia.[3] There are also other Interstate Highways within the District of Columbia, which is federal territory.[4]
Financing
About 56% of the construction and maintenance costs are funded through user fees, primarily gasoline taxes, collected by states and the federal government, and tolls collected on toll roads and bridges. The rest of the costs are borne by the federal budget.[29]. In the eastern United States, large sections of some Interstate Highways planned or built prior to 1956 are operated as toll roads.
So, 44% is funded thru my income taxes, Hummer.
You may now kneel before me and kiss my boots.
Why would trains need highways? They run on rails.
What percentage is your train funded by gas taxes that you don’t pay?
Damn, but I hate being right all the time!
Your point?
Is the Hummer H2 the one that shares the shitty chassis of the Tahoe, or the one that shares the shitty chassis of the Colorado?
Your point?
You’ll notice RedStater jumped tracks from how the gas taxes are used to public transportation funding, nevermind that the gas tax doesn’t even cover the costs of paying for the highway system.
a drive-by to weigh in on the public transit – Denver has the core of a very fine light rail system and it is very popular. I use it to get to my downtown (congested traffic area) job. In 2006, the cowboy-hat-ski bum- libertarian types (yes, that is irritating) around here voted to RAISE their TAXES to extend this system.
Have to point out that the NashvilleStar made money last summer when gas prices shot past $3 a gallon. People couldn’t dump their gas guzzling SUV’s fast enough. This despite the train (a singular train) only runs from Lebanon, TN through Mt. Juliet and into Nashville. A real light rail system would be a huge boon to Middle Tennessee. Especially with gas prices about to go back up next spring.
Also, I love to ride Marta in Atlanta and Washington, DC. Most of the people sitting next to me where coming and going from work or the concert we just attended. Safe, fast, and cheap.
Houston Nutt-so-
Don’t mean a thingy if ya ain’t got that ringy! Badoodle-boo-yeah! Kiss my two, loony Coach Nutt-so!
Current derailed (heh) thread gives me an excuse to link to Fatima Mansions again.
What percentage is your train funded by gas taxes that you don’t pay?
In NYC?
Zero, actually.
60% comes from fares, 25% comes from bridge and tunnel tolls, and the rest from income taxes.
Now, you could make the case, I suppose, that bridge and tunnel tolls subsidize the train, but for nearly every bridge that has a toll, there’s a bridge that parallels it for free, so in effect, those tolls are voluntary payments.
Tim Tebow’s whiny little girl tears after his pummeling by my Rebels tasted so sweet. Where’s your savior now, Timmy?
I drive my car to one of the northernmost MARTA stations to take the train to Thrashers games all the time. Fast, efficient, and the train stops right under Phillips Arena. Only insecure, tiny-dicked idiots disparage mass transit.
Might as well take this opportunity to crow about how really awfully impossibly horribly shitty mass transit can be. Look at my otherwise fine city of Portland, OR. Christ, sometimes it’s FIFTEEN minutes between busses! And the red MAX light rail line has their last inbound run from the airport at like midnight – what a waste! And during peak hours, it’s TEN FUCKJING MINUTES between trains. Both MAX and The Streetcar are always a bit crowded in the downtown area, probably because it’s fucking free fer chrissake. What kind of way is that to run a mass transit system?!?
Oh, and I’m having a beer and a shot of Wild Turkey right now, so lachiem!. Hey, don’t make fun, it’s all I have in the house.
In 2006, the cowboy-hat-ski bum- libertarian types (yes, that is irritating) around here voted to RAISE their TAXES to extend this system.
Amazing to see, isn’t it? In November of ’08 people in Utah County – which is to the state of Utah what the state of Utah is to the U.S. in terms of being even more white, Mormon, and John Birchy – voted to raise their sales taxes to get the commuter rail line run down there and join the Salt Lake City transportation district for our other transit goodies.
And since ballet practice was mentioned upthread, could someone explain to me what an ‘entrechat’ is? Google translates it as “Between cat”, which does not get me very far.
So that was you, eh Red?
Smut,
It’s French for “braided” as well.
Trains benefit drivers by reducing road traffic at peak drive times, which in turn reduces gasoline consumption as cars traveling near the speed limit use less fuel per mile than cars stopped or significantly slowed by congestion.
Trains are also good because they are choo-choos. Some of them try really really hard too.
Not many people know that in my youth I was Second Crow in the NZ Ballet’s production of Van Gogh. Unfortunately, in an excess of enthusiasm I headbutted First Crow to take over his pas-de-deux with the Absinthe Fairy, and then whirled her round so fast that she flew off-stage into the orchestra pit. She skittled the whole woodwind section and hospitalised the oboist. They never did find the reed.
Choo choo choo choo, beep beep.
could someone explain to me what an ‘entrechat’ is?
I think it’s that move where a dancer hops up in the air, points toes, and moves their feet side to side really fast so that first the left foot goes in front of the right, then the other way around. “Braided” is a good word for it.
entrechat
From the Italian, capriola intrecciata. Intricate (or literally, woven or stranded) leap.
I love how the troll went with the angle of the exploitation of the Hummer. Yes, Hummer H2, you do deserve to be exploited. To your own miserable death in a scrapyard.
And the argument “My taxes pay for your ___” is always rather bold, radical, and paradigm-shifting. To a fourteen year old.
ok smut, now you have to do an entrechat for us.
And the argument “My taxes pay for your ___” is always rather bold, radical, and paradigm-shifting. To a fourteen year old.
And it’s even more compelling when the person bleating it is wrong, like RedStater here.
And the argument “My taxes pay for your ___” is always rather bold, radical, and paradigm-shifting. To a fourteen year old.
has the distinct air of the hummer drivier huffing at the cop who pulled him over for running a red light; “My taxes pay your salary, officer!”
Rusty Shackleford–
You must drive some Jap scrap ricer hybrid. Eat my carbon!
Bah bah, RedState, are you just a fool?
Yes sir, yes sir, I’m a tool…..
Here’s the thing about us liberals, Reddie.
We don’t need substitute penises.
See Russia from Alaska?
dfez:
Discussion at noaa
I drive an Aston Martin V8 Vantage. I could trade it in on seven Dodge Rams but I need to have at least one car that runs.
ok smut, now you have to do an entrechat for us.
You are invited to my imaginary performance of Les Chiens du Reservoir (music by Glasnost, choreographed by Perestroika).
ok smut, now you have to do an entrechat for us.
You are invited to my imaginary performance of Les Chiens du Reservoir (music by Glasnost, choreographed by Perestroika).
RedStater75 said,
February 6, 2009 at 23:37
Eat my fist, traitor. RedStater, fucken Traitor.
Les Chiens du Reservoir
Smut Clyde will be the dancer wearing the [fill in color here] leotard.
Q: Why is RedStater/Hummer trolling here, instead of running NRO?
A: They rejected him as WAY overqualified! (A wingnut welfare “job” still pays the bills, y’know. And it’s not like they can compete in the free market of employment with the rest of us.)
Look who’d come to dinner:
some Jap scrap ricer hybrid
I am outraged by other people’s personal choices. Now, listen to me yelp about freedom some more.
muluette is French for “Small Mullet”
at least it should be.
Jesus Christ, not Jesus Christ? The whole of history and you pick THREE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALIVE?
J— said,
It will a be a lavender leotard, that doesn’t quite match the skirt.
http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=25835
Congrats! The fact that the residents of a tiny village on a remote Alaskan island can see an essentially uninhabited Russian island/weather station is certainly reason enough to believe that Sarah Palin had foreign policy experience! That’s how she was able to protect us from Putin rearing his head in Alaskan airspace.
Ooh, I’d love to see Woody and Urban get into a knockdowndragout.
Meyer is a known wiener. Ever notice how he always looks like he has a huge rod up his ass? Totally.
If Diana and I could have dinner with five people from history we’d pick Jesus, Jimi Hendrix, Superman, Luis Guzman, and Zeus.
Rebels 31, Gators 30
Nutt out.
D.N. Nation:
Of course one might niggle that Sarah Palin said “from my home” which might be construed as Anchorage or Juneau, but is definitely not Little Diomede. If you give her the whole state, then people living in Cleveland can certainly see Kentucky from their home.
To be fair, Bush was actually in the same room as the Russian head of state, but he might as well have been riding his mountain bike into a D.C. policeman, for all he gained from the experience.
Well, in the last election, the people of King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties (WA) finally, on the seventh or eighth try, voted in the light rail system we could have had after the Forward Thrust election in 1968.
It’ll be financed by a regressive sales tax increase, but what the hell. We’ll eventually have trains running every 15 minutes or so and the line will run from Everett through the bus tunnel in downtown Seattle, to Lakewood, south of Tacoma, with the first line coming in from Auburn, through Sea-Tac airport and downtown to the U District. The same ballot issue also included a large expansion for Metro and Sound Transit systems.
Better way, way, late than never.
Oh, yeah, we voted 70/28 Obama. Eat it, Red State!
Smut, it’s this:
entrechat definition
en·tre·chat (än?tr? s?hä?, än?tr? s?hä?; Fr äntr’ s?h??)
noun
BALLET a leap straight upward during which the dancer crosses the legs and beats the calves together a number of times
Etymology: Fr earlier entrechasse, altered (as if < entre, between, among + chasser < OFr chacier, chase) < It (capriola) intrecciata, lit., intertwined (leap) < intrecciare < in-, in + treccia, a plait: see tress
Webster’s New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Disgusting cruelty. Unless you use the whole of the calf.
It would be me and Urban at a table with Woody Hayes, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Buffett, George W. Bush and Florence Nightingale.
Woody Hayes? Woody Hayes???
In my undergraduate days I waited tables at the Faculty Club at Ohio State. The Saturday morning athletic boosters’ buffets were known to waitresses for the disgusting sexist drunken behavior of the guests. Sometimes the Great Man would appear and speak, and he was just as much a jerk as the others.
Righteous Bubba, you cracked me up.
Everyone else beat me to the explanation.
iDo you have fun sitting next to three unemployed thugs who just got out of prison, two single welfare moms with 10 kids, and a homeless person that smells like shit?
When he says things like this is when RedBaiter reveals how very very ignorant he is.
No fooling.
When we lived near San Francisco we rode BART a lot, to Oakland Athletics games, to SF for shopping and sometimes when I needed to work on a project there, and one summer to take my girls to ballet class. Yes, I own an SUV but it’s a small one and taking BART into SF and to Walnut Creek made life a lot easier if I didn’t have to worry about where I was going to find parking in SF for the Urban Assault Vehicle, or when the sissy in front of me on Crow Canyon would finally take their foot off the brakes and DRIVE!
Now I take the METRO from Fullerton to Union Station in LA when I meet mr opiejeanne for lunch on days he’s got a hot date with UMWD.
Yes, I’ve seen one or two “scary” people, but you can see them a lot more of them outside the grocery store, if you’re paying attention. More of them these days than in the past. Mostly what we saw on the commuter trains were people with jobs, people going shopping or going to games.
Honestly, I’m so tired of people who are afraid of other people.
Coaches? You wanna talk COACHES? This is for Urban, actor, and that Nutt guy:
(Ms.) Pat Summit, coach of the GODALMIGHTY University of Tennessee “Lady Vols,” became the winningest college basketball coach OF ALL FUCKING TIME, MALE OR FEMALE, last night, with her ONE THOUSANDETH (1,000th) win.
Eat it, everyone in the whole fucking sports universe of everything forever.
If you see him again, could you give him a wedgie for me?
I have to admit, I like pie too, and I like the fact that I can take the train to a place that makes a good pie. I also like sitting next to weirdos, especially when they’re sexy weirdos who look like the ex I’m still carrying a torch for, and we’re hitting it off until Atlantic Avenue comes to interrupt our tete-a-tete, and we exchange info. I especially like it when I’m drunk as a lord’s bastard and the train will get me home safely, because my little Jap ricer is safely parked at home. I especially, especially like it when my little Jap ricer is parked for days at a time because I ride my American made, though faggoty bicycle to work, because it’s, like, macho, to celebrate my freedom by saddling myself with car payments and ninety-dollar fillups.
henry lewis: No longer employed by the university, I probably won’t run into him again, but who knows? It’s a tiny town. If I do, I’ll wedgy him just for you. Well, and myself, and several others, as well. Unless I’m angling for another university gig. One never knows.
>2009: Republican Pete Sessions proudly compares Congressional Republicans to the Taliban.
I find this a truly offensive comparison, frankly.
From what I understand, the Taliban are actually quite sincere in their religious mania.
The only question is, which one is Mr. Blartstate? I would go for one of the 10 kids, the one called Dopey or perhaps the one called Sneezey. Possibly he gets the two-for-one deal and smells like shit, too.
Do you have fun sitting next to three unemployed thugs who just got out of prison, two single welfare moms with 10 kids, and a homeless person that smells like shit?
Hmm… the Wikipedia sayeth:
As of 2004, the three states with the lowest ratio of imprisoned to civilian population are Maine (148 per 100,000), Minnesota (171 per 100,000), and Rhode Island (175 per 100,000). The three states with the highest ratio are Louisiana (816 per 100,000), Texas (694 per 100,000), and Mississippi (669 per 100,000).
Plus, everybody in NYC knows that parolees leave Rikers by bus. Not sure how they leave the “Bernard Kerik Complex”, formerly known as “The Tombs
Plus, everybody in NYC knows that parolees leave Rikers by bus. Not sure how they leave the “Bernard Kerik Complex”, formerly known as “The Tombs
At The Tombs, they’re released to the street outside and given subway fare.
Rikers does bus them out, but only to the Queensboro Bridge plaza, where they can catch any number of subways or buses home.
Rikers does bus them out, but only to the Queensboro Bridge plaza, where they can
catch any number of subways or buses homeblow the money they get upon release on hookers.Couldn’t resist, old boy.
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Coach Urban Meyer said,
February 6, 2009 at 22:50
“Just because you crazy commies are too dumb to get a job doesn’t mean that we have to fund your laziness! Put that in your pipe and smoke it! ”
My pipe is already filled, thanks.
Ya know, when the Atlantic Ocean rises and begins to drown you and your fellow Fellati, er, Floridians, don’t even think about asking for help from or moving to California, Kai? Thx, Bai.
Disgusting cruelty. Unless you use the whole of the calf.
I used the brisket,
but you used the whole of the calf
[/waterboys]
Come in, she said
I’ll give you
sausages and brawn
-B.Dylan
hey the m and b are next to each other, almost
Choo-choo trains are funny!
Palin 2012
You libs hate personal freedom, indpendence and privacy – this is my explanation for your call to fund better public transport (inlcuding choo-choo trains and buses for weirdos and black people instead of brmm-brmmm cars which are the best and my Dad drives one which is better than your Dad’s).
Not only do you hate freedom, independence and privacy but you also also also… you opposed Guantanamo Bay, secret prisons, kidnapping of random people, torture, the presidential power to detain US citizens without trial, the Patriot Act, the right of the Feds to check your reading list, and warantless wire-tapping. Because you care more about “freedom” and “privacy” than about saiving the lives of weirdos and freaks in your precious buses.
[Teacher’s note: You aren’t making sense]
No wonder you libs keep on losing elections all the time.
If the MSM owned by Disney, General Electric and Time Warner didn’t hate capitalism so much, libs would have no chance at all!
Coach Summit is pretty good – for a basketball coach!
Nutt out.
Hummers don’t pay taxes, PEOPLE do.
And the majority of taxpayers don’t drive Hummers.
Now bugger off, RedStateHater.
Total pwnage! Woo hoo!