I am simultaneously very impressed and concerned with your mental health.

I’m ashamed to say that I get the ref.

Song sung FUCK YOU
for jamming that tune into my head.

Asshole!

A-bom skiddily bom skiddily bom bom bom!

I don’t quite get it (parts maybe) but I’m enjoying it.

Am also enjoying Letterman’s response to THE OUTRAGED.

Is it just me, or has Gavin’s writing style gotten progressively, uh, abstract?

Two-bit starchild I was
Born for kissin’ mostly
Good times with hard-luck women
Nothin’ ain’t ever hold me
You like leather heels
Na na na na na

P is for PENIS
And that’s good enough for me.

I’m ashamed to say that I get the ref.

Me too.

I can’t remember anything important but I can remember some cartoon I watched in 1974.

I am simultaneously very impressed and concerned with your mental health.

Just wait until Little Studebaker is born and Gav’s writing on 2 hours of sleep a night. I anticipate some brilliant (if very abstract) output from him then.

YU spelt it rong.

PENUS
PENUS
PENUS

(As seen at 3Bulls!)

So this isn’t about Orrin Hatch’s latest automotive mishap?

Color me confoozed.

I anticipate some brilliant (if very abstract) output from him then.

Yeah, that’s gonna be some high-octane genius nonsense.

That’s either an MF Doom verse or a close fascimile thereof…

Yeah, that’s gonna be some high-octane genius nonsense.

Which is not to say that his current work isn’t Sublime.

I can’t remember anything important but I can remember some cartoon I watched in 1974.

Since I’d already forsaken cartoons and was busily sneaking into R-rated movies by 1974, please enlighten me.

Yay bore scare dork care burp erm, blart blart blart!

You can’t teach a young Intertuber new tricks:

DABLLC (4 minutes ago)
Old enough to know that the language and insults you use here are immature and typical for a 17 year old. Eventually you will see you? can debate an issue without both. People will respect you and listen to your opinions. It’s a process…. you’ll get there

nunurox (3 minutes ago)
well in the mean? time get out of here old man the internet is for the young people

Is it just me, or has Gavin’s writing style gotten progressively, uh, abstract?

Lately I’ve wondered if Daily Show writers are inspired by SN. Jon Stewart’s scripts have been more Gavin-like. For instance

Since I’d already forsaken cartoons and was busily sneaking into R-rated movies by 1974, please enlighten me.

I still watch cartoons. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood!

Forgive me, but isn’t it a kinda of Dada visual poem based simultaneously on Neil Diamond, Hanna-Barbara, and the Childrens’ Television Workshop?

Besides being awesome I mean.

Perfect amount of crush, needs a teensy bit more porn. Of course, it very well may be that that’s more a statement of personal preference rather than an objective assessment of your work.

I don’t quite get it (parts maybe) but I’m enjoying it.

Saturday morning cartoons plus AM pop, both circa mid-1970s.

So when are you libs going to take responsibility for the act of Leftist Terrorism committed the other day? Hmmm?

I hardly think replacing Miss Creamjeans with the runner-up qualifies as Leftist Terrorism, Twoofie, but I take full responsibility nonetheless.

I enthusiastically encourage the right wingers to continue their campaign to convince the world that anti-Semitic anti-black anti-Communist crazy Freeper von Brunn was a leftist; it will work as well as trying to demand that Americans believe that Sarah Palin was a misunderstood genius. Please keep it up. Please.

So when are you libs going to take responsibility for the act of Leftist Terrorism committed the other day?

You mean the release of Land of the Lost? I had nothing to do with it, but as a former Hollywood liberal fascist I apologize from the bottom of my heart. We should indeed hang our heads in shame.

Oh, and as a current New York liberal fascist I’d also like to apologize for Poison appearing on the Tony Awards. Talk about a terrorist act!

“So when are you libs going to take responsibility for the act of Leftist Terrorism committed the other day? ”

I turned on the fan and sprayed air freshener in there afterwards but, OK, I’m sorry.

You mean the release of Land of the Lost? I had nothing to do with it, but as a former Hollywood liberal fascist I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

You know, I watched the original LotL when I was about eight years old, and even then I knew it was dreck – but I watched it anyway, enjoying it (as the kids today do say) ironically. Still, making the movie of it be a spoof seems wrong somehow, though I lack the critic chops to say why.

The only thing that seems at all amusing about the movie is that Will Ferrell played a character called “Marshal Willenholly” in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and now this.

El Cid said,

I enthusiastically encourage the right wingers to continue their campaign to convince the world that anti-Semitic anti-black anti-Communist crazy Freeper von Brunn was a leftist; it will work as well as trying to demand that Americans believe that Sarah Palin was a misunderstood genius. Please keep it up. Please.

Oh that non event?

I’m sure troofie was reefer-ing to Dave Letterman’s assault on young, innocent Amerkans everywhere.

Denying them their rights to be molested by Republican party members/furries, and suggesting that Alex Rodriguez could do the job instead.

I’d love to take repsonsibility for how Newt Gingich lost his mind on live cable, but that’s more like errorism. Or perhaps aneurysm.

I enthusiastically encourage the right wingers to continue their campaign to convince the world that anti-Semitic anti-black anti-Communist crazy Freeper von Brunn was a leftist; it will work as well as trying to demand that Americans believe that Sarah Palin was a misunderstood genius. Please keep it up. Please.

Hate crimes don’t exist, and also liberals are responsible for all of them.

I’d love to take repsonsibility for how Newt Gingich lost his mind on live cable…

Wait – did this happen? I was out of touch last week.

Nocturnal Intermission.
Intermission Accomplished.
Quit Intermission the pure Aryan bloodlines.
I Am Aware Of All Inter(net tra)missions.

Intermission you at all, since you’ve been gone – away.

This is all too high-falutin for me. As I’ve written extensively in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, the New Republic, the TLS and mentioned over and over at talks at Ivy League and Seven Sister schools, I am just a simple down-to-earth populist simple by God plainspoke simple populist woman from a populist place of Texas, just about the most down-to-earth place God ever DID put on this earth. Texas. Woman. Hee-haw. Texas.

See, where Molly Ivins parody troll fails is forgetting that Molly Ivins was sharp and funny and never condescending.

Troofie intruding on cartoon intermissions. What kind of low life is this guy?

Any half way normal adult would happily snooze while the kids eat cereal and enjoy their private time in front of the teevee. Trust troof to spoil it. Jerk.

See, where Molly Ivins parody troll fails…

Among many other ways, yes.

But remember, Molly Ivins criticized Gee Dumbya, which can never be forgiven, even though he was a cowardly appeasery appeasey-deasey liberal who Rush won’t carry water for anymore.

Let’s all go to the lobby!
Let’s all go to the lobby!
Let’s all go to the lobby,
While wingnut heads explode!

Troofie gets more and more unhinged, and is starting to disturb me.

When was Troofie ever hinged?

I assumed he was held loosely in place with a rusty c-clamp.

The thing about “Hong Kong Phooey” that always bothered me as a small boy. He’s a dog, right, and the only other anthromorphic dog-person was the janitor, Penry (that’s right, short for “Penrod”). And the cat hung around both. Yet no one was able to figure this out. Also, the fact that either were dogs was never brought up. Imagine that, a culture tolerant enought to accept dog-men who never wore pants yet couldn’t see through the simplest of disguises.

Also also, the operator had a crush on Hong Kong Phooey, an anthromorphic dog that did not wear pants but knew not only kung fu but how to drive. Furries really aren’t all that weird.

Troofie gets more and more unhinged, and is starting to disturb me.

Me too, I’m hoping his mum has a key to lock the basement door and the gun cabinet.

Wait. Why do we have a Molly Ivins parody troll, now?

Also, it seemed to strike no one at the police station at odd that the janitor was a talking dog. Also, the voice was Scatman Crothers, so the dog was a janitor with an older black man’s voice.

Now…
From the makers of Land of the Lost…
Hong Kong Phooey, The Motion Picture!

Song sung FUCK YOU
for jamming that tune into my head.

I usually don’t take it literally when people say that, but at this moment in time, that fucking K-Tel greatest hits piece of rubbish is playing on an endless loop in my own head. That was a shitty thing to do.

I know most artists are break-out-in-hives-allergic to discussing their own creative processes but I’d donate a kidney to hear Gavin talk about how he developed and perfected his “surrealist set-up that makes the punchline go pop in your head” approach to humor. Truly a Master of Allusion.

That was a shitty thing to do.

Okay, let’s change the record; would you prefer “Holly Holy,” I Am, I Said,” or “Forever in Blue Jeans” (which my mother misheard and cheerfully mis-sang as “The Reverand Blue Jeans”)?

This is the Ultimate Fat Man,
of Ultimate Density.
Dittoheads,
and Party Implosions,
As far as we libs can see…*

*

I’m reminded of that scene in Spinal Tap when the band found themselves with a one-foot-tall stone trilithon for a stage prop.
You could say they were unhenged.

“Forever in Blue Jeans” (which my mother misheard and cheerfully mis-sang as “The Reverand Blue Jeans”)

Tell her she wasn’t alone in that.

I still prefer to think it as “Reverend Blue Jeans” – who I imagine as a kind of a easy-livin’ Methodist kick back and have a beer with the folks kind of guy.

I’d donate a kidney to hear Gavin talk

Whose?

Intermission

As long as we’re talking organ donations…

Intermission

And FYWP.

I’d just like to clarify in case the troll mistakes people using its name before it introduces itself as some kind of mark of respect or admiration: it’s not. It’s not even fear or serious irritation. It’s in exactly the same tone as one might use to bemoan a fresh outbreak of herpes. In fact, that’s basically what we’re doing here.

Heh.

I remember how I really pissed my sister off 25 years ago. Our aunt and cousin were out visiting, and we took them to Eureka Springs where there are all these cool artist and crafts shops. And my sister is instead buying a bunch of fake gold chains for her boyfriend. So I say, “WTF, are you trying to turn him into NEIL DIAMOND or what?”

My cousin starts cracking up, and my sister didn’t speak to me for the rest of the day. But it was still funny as shit.

I remember how I really pissed my sister off 25 years ago. Our aunt and cousin were out visiting, and we took them to Eureka Springs where there are all these cool artist and crafts shops. And my sister is instead buying a bunch of fake gold chains for her boyfriend. So I say, “WTF, are you trying to turn him into NEIL DIAMOND or what?”

I tend to mistake Neils Diamond and Young, so in addition to hilariously misreading your anecdote at first I have a really difficult time with rhinestone cowboys or Dr. Who fans.

Whose?

Charlie’s, natch.

Just watched the Letterman response to the Palin’s outraged public comments and I think he slapped them Palins but good. Kind of pitch perfect. He really gave them (and the Douchnozzle Kazoo Formation Marching Brigade) nowhere to take it. “Poor taste: Sure, we do that all the time. Advocating rape? Didn’t do it and would never do so.” He re-read all the jokes again, just to make his point.

Most comedians have a dark side, a “don’t fuck with ME, you shit-brained heckler” kind of capacity, that Letterman showed tonight. Or at least, that’s what I saw. I wonder what the Palins’ next move is, if any. It’s their play now.

Sweet Home Carolina, doo doo doot.

Right. After this shit I’m done for the day. I’m going to go watch some guys throw a ball around on TV and pretend that I live in a country where that would end her so-called career.

By Lee Cary
After Congress passes a national health care plan, nationalizing public education will be next. (Extremely long article removed by the management. Surely a link would have been sufficient? –S,N!)

(Eastern Economic Journal, 2008, 34, pp. 24-25)

And there it is. Federal control over “some kind of equal opportunity educational system” might lead to more equal development of innate skills, but it would need to be supplemented by a redistributive tax system that spreads the wealth to accompany an equalization of skills. A twofer, as it were.

Unless the nation pushes back against the trend, local communities will lose control over their neighborhood schools and a Beltway School Czar will be in our future.

For the very first time, non-Muslims have begun to take note of the victims of Islamic honor killing, and to serve notice to their killers that the victims will not be forgotten, or their murders ignored. Memorials to Aqsa Parvez are being erected in the Canadian town of Pelham, Ontario, and in Jerusalem.

Remember Aqsa Parvez? She was brutally murdered by her father and brother in December 2007 for refusing to wear the Islamic headscarf. But that was only the beginning: the abuse of this girl continued. She was buried in an unmarked grave. Her family refused to acknowledge her life, as she had “dishonored” them. In defiance of her devout father and brother, she had refused to live under the suffocating dictates of Islamic law. The eleventh grade student began taking off her hijab, a traditional Islamic headscarf, when she went to school, and would put it back on when she returned home.Her dad would go to her school during school hours and walk around trying to find her, trying to catch her not wearing Islamic garb, talking to boys or hanging out with “non-muslims”.”She wanted to dress like us,” said one friend of Aqsa. “To be normal.” For this, her family prefers that she be forgotten – unknown, unloved, unmourned.

Last December, when I read that Aqsa lay in an unmarked grave, I felt sick. I started a memorial fund to get her a headstone. But I had no idea how difficult and ugly it would be simply to honor a teenage girl in Canada who just wanted to live free — and how eagerly Western non-Muslims would aid and abet the family’s efforts to dishonor her in death as they did in life.

Readers of my weblog, AtlasShrugs.com, opened their hearts and their wallets, and contributed $5,000 for a headstone for Aqsa. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joined the effort, and we approved a design for a headstone that read, “In loving memory of Aqsa Parvez, Apr. 22, 1991-Dec. 10, 2007 — Beloved, remembered and free.” All was going according to plan until, after much silence, Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario, where Aqsa is buried, advised me that the family (yes, the family that murdered her) had refused to “sign off” on the headstone. The director of the cemetery said: “The family wants changes and is planning on coming in to see me. They did not book an appointment yet but I hope to see them soon.”

Of course, the family never came, and when we inquired as to purchasing a plot near Aqsa’s body, we could not. Not a tree. Not a rock. Not a bench. All the plots were owned by the Islamic Society of North America. I tried to contact the family at that time, but they would not take my calls — I spoke to the them once, but they pretended not to speak English. And they were adamant: the family refused to allow the headstone to be put on Aqsa’s grave, and according to the cemetery, could remove it if it were placed there by others.

But those of us who had contributed to the Aqsa Memorial Fund were determined to make sure that Aqsa would be memorialized. We checked into other locations, made plans, only to see them canceled at the last minute out of … fear. We checked into the arboretum at the University of Guelph in Ontario, but a university official wrote me to say that “no matter how worthy, a memorial to Aqsa Parvez would draw much public attention and would thus be inconsistent with current use of The Arboretum.”

But not everyone was ready to cower before Islamic anti-woman violence. Scott McLeod, the fire chief in Pelham, Ontario, proposed a resolution honoring Aqsa to City Councilor Aqsa Parvez Peace Park PlanSharon Cook — and she went to work getting it passed. The Aqsa Parvez Memorial will be erected in Pelham this summer! A granite bench will be inscribed: “In loving memory of Aqsa Parvez, Beloved, Remembered and Free.”

This will be placed in the Aqsa Parvez Peace Park.

Yes, the Aqsa Parvez Peace Park. I think she’d like that.

And in addition, there is the Aqsa Parvez Grove we are planting in American Independence Park in Jerusalem, Israel, where the plaque will read: “In Loving Memory of Aqsa Parvez and All Victims of Honor Killings Worldwide.”

The memorials in Pelham and Jerusalem are the first indication that in the Free World we are not going to stand by silently while the Islamic world brutalizes women and treats them as worthless trash. They are two small steps toward widespread resistance against honor killing in the West and elsewhere.

Thinkin’ about Molly, damn she’d be havin’ herself a field day with this circus right here.

The American people are pretty well convinced that the mortgage meltdown was the fault of greedy bankers, stupid borrowers, and the odd Friend of Angelo Mozilo like Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT). That’s hardly surprising, since the mainstream media has shown a vivid lack of interest in getting to the bottom of it all.

That’s why we have Thomas Sowell. His latest book, The Housing Boom and Bust, is a workmanlike analysis of the housing crisis. It’s short enough, at about 50,000 words, for anyone to get through on a weekend.

Needless to say, Dr. Sowell does not find that the meltdown was all the fault of greedy bankers — or even foolish borrowers. He puts most of the blame on politicians and activists that insisted that the US had an “affordable housing” crisis when it didn’t. The government agencies that implemented the will of the political sector — the Federal Reserve System, Fannie and Freddie, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development — they were the guilty suspects with actual fingerprints on the victim.

When analyzing a political scandal, our liberal friends usually like to expose the “myths” that the stupid American people were in thrall to. Dr. Sowell does not descend to such oversimplification, but we will.

Myth #1: The Housing Boom was Nationwide. No it wasn’t. It was concentrated in just a a few places. News reports and scholarly research have found that even during the boom affordable housing “has been the norm across most of the country, but with glaring exceptions[.]” Writes Dr. Sowell:

Almost invariably… these are places where severe local government restrictions on land use, and other impediments to building, have driven the cost of houses and of apartment rents to levels that take as much as half of the average family’s income[.]

In cities like Dallas and Houston where there are few restrictions on land use, home prices have not skyrocketed; nor have they collapsed in the downturn. “In Dallas the home price decline was only 3 percent.”

Myth #2: Greedy Bankers Foisted Sub-Prime Loans on the Poor. Oh no they didn’t. It was government. You see, liberal politicians and activists were convinced that banks were unjustly denying loans to minorities and low-income borrowers. They even had studies to show that minorities were discriminated against. The solution? Force. Liberals would force the banks to loan money to less-qualified borrowers.

Various community activists across the country have been able to pressure banks into making concessions in money or in kind, in order to get those activists to withdraw their objections to pending mergers or to banks opening new branches in another state, for example.

Myth #3: Lack of Regulation Caused the Crisis. Actually the regulators were part of the problem. With the politicians cheering them on, the regulators were all over the banks forcing them to lower their lending standards. And when the regulators finally did try to restrain the banks, the politicians reined them in.

When the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight… turned up irregularities in Fannie Mae’s accounting and in 2004 issued what Barron’s magazine called “a blistering 211-page report,” Republican Senator Kit Bond [R-MO] called for an investigation of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, tried to have their budget slashed, and sought to have the leadership of the regulatory agency removed. Democratic Barney Frank [D-MA] likewise declared: “It is clear that a leadership change at OFHEO is overdue.”

These three myths are familiar. They are verses from the favorite refrains of the liberal songbook. You can also find them in the “whereas” sections of countless liberal Enabling Laws. Whereas there’s a national crisis; Whereas business is to blame; Whereas government doesn’t have enough regulations: Now therefore… more liberal administrative power is the answer.

Then the liberals act surprised when the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in, and government ends up hurting the very people liberals want to help. The result of cranking up house prices in San Francisco is that “the black population has been cut in half since 1970.” Who knew?

Whatever your grand vision, you cannot ultimately escape from the costs of your vision, writes Sowell.

One of the biggest differences between economic decisions in the market and political decisions in government is that costs are an inescapable factor in economic decisions, while political decisions can often ignore costs[.]

But not forever.

For some legitimate functions of government, like defense, excessive cost goes with the territory. When you are defending against Hitler, you crank up the National Debt to 150 percent of GDP and worry about paying it off later.

But cranking up the National Debt over 100 percent of GDP to clear up the mess after some liberals had a dream of “affordable housing” that they thought other people should pay for is something different. After paying for that, people might just decide they want to change their governing elite for another one.

Christ. Mr. Cut N Paste is here,

Good excuse to go to bed.

*pastes a shitload of crap nobody will bother reading*

As Thomas Sowell has explained, legalized kidney sales are the only thing that could have prevented the Bush Depression.

Also, badgers!

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Honoring the Victims of Honor KiLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLing
The LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLiberal Housing Crash

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You know, I gotta give the right credit.

After having deified General David Petraeus into some sort of God-Caesar during TEH SURRRRGE, I would have thought it would have taken the right more than 6 months to start calling him a surrender-crat terrorist lover just because he now works for Obama.

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You’ve got it, ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLec!

(Interesting side-note: ‘LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL’ is the third-most common given name in Wales.)

Copy-Paste Failtroll kind of mystifies me. I mean, isn’t the whole point of being a troll that you think your words heal the deaf and make the blind see? It just doesn’t make much sense (even troll-sense) to me for needle-dicked little narcissists like Troofie Troofie Two by Four to subcontract their douchery out to whatever wingnut welfare queen just popped up in their inbox.

Wow!
Ka-Blooey

What will Bay (too much baggage for 1 person to unpack) B. think?

C

MOAR

I mean, isn’t the whole point of being a troll that you think your words heal the deaf and make the blind see?

There are some trolls who believe so. When it comes to politics blogs, though, they’re just dumbshit rightards who are just a nearly-insensate gob of anger. Their posts are pretty much single-minded bullshit like this ringtone.

Via Balloon Juice, Andrew Breitbart leaves a fun, polite voicemail in the Gawker mailbox about how James von Brunn really is teh leff.

James von Brunn really is teh leff.

A multiculturalist? Doesn’t that mean he grows flowers?

Copy paste troll makes me laugh.

Dr. Sowell does not descend to such oversimplification, but we will.

Lolz.

Simpletons do as simpletons will. Not to mention, Sowell.

A multiculturalist? Doesn’t that mean he grows flowers?

If you think I is exaggeratifyin’, go listen to the voicemail.

If you think I is exaggeratifyin’, go listen to the voicemail.

I went and had a look at the Gawker piece. Wowsers – it’s Unhingement Week! Part 1 of Altogether Too Many, I fear.

When will you libs finally admit the surge WORKED?

Via Balloon Juice, Andrew Breitbart leaves a fun, polite voicemail in the Gawker mailbox about how James von Brunn really is teh leff.

Rumor has it that Matt Drudge has another hat for his balls, and I’ve always wondered if he even takes it off when he’s being sucked off. Pity Andy and I aren’t on better terms; the only alternative is getting Drudge drunk, and I have standards.

When will you trolls explain how von Brunn can be a Birther and a “leftist”?

As soon as Extremists admit that history will never be kind to George Bush.

As soon as Extremists admit that history will never be kind to George Bush.

That’s a tall order. I mean, history is already kind to George Bush.

Sure, he might be the worst President now, but if you look at the entire matter historically, by which I mean you stop paying attention after the 2004 election, he just barely skates by Jefferson Davis, and in the far future distinguishing the modern Republicans from the Confederacy will be as difficult as puzzling out from first principles whether an anonymous writer was a Ghibelline or a Counter-Reformist.

“Don’t say penis in this house!”

“Penis! Penis, mom! Big, fucking, erect penis!”

Sorry, I had to channel Tom Cruise from Born on the 4th of July.

When will you libs finally admit the surge WORKED?

Oh, I have no problem with admitting it made a difference in Iraq. Problem is, for the three years before it started, you wingnuts were denying the very problem that made the surge necessary. Maybe if the administration had not botched the occupation in 2003-2004. But that’s what happens when you restrict your pool of applicants for the CPA to interns from The Heritage Foundation and other right wing “talent” pools.

Guys, again if you’re gonna screw with the troll put ‘St.’ in front of your name, or use a name starting with ‘St.’, or whatever: makes using the killfile to ignore troll-baiting that much easier.

But cranking up the National Debt over 100 percent of GDP to clear up the mess after some liberals had a dream of “affordable housing” that they thought other people should pay for is something different.

Totally! I mean, it’s not like we had a Republican president for the last 8 years with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress for 6 of those last 8 years, as well as a Federal Reserve chairman urging people to get adjustable rate mortgages.

I guess it didn’t hurt that the SURGE also coincided with the completion of the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad (there are pretty much no more ethnically / sectarian mixed neighborhoods) and somehow I don’t think Democrats would have been allowed to rely on a strategy based on paying off the Sunni guerrillas not to attack us.

Robert Reich did an excellent piece on deficit-hawkery on Salon recently; the upshot is that national debt is only meaningful inasmuch as it forms one of the factors in the debt-to-GDP ratio. If mortgaging weren’t based on insane casino logic and followed the rules it pretended to, it would work the same way: ultimately what matters about getting yourself into debt is a mixture of how hard making the payments is going to be with your income and how much collateral you have to cover further loans.

The only period in which America has actually experienced something like a crisis of extreme debt was during World War II, which (for obvious reasons) was an ancillary problem until the war ended; but afterwards, having debt at 120% of GDP was a serious problem, which is why the Truman years were the only period of contraction of the national debt since it came into its own in the 30s.

Right now, the government’s chief priority is to arrest economic instability, restore sensible growth levels, and in so doing recreate consumer confidence and increase the spending multiplier however possible. The best way to do this is to move funding from areas where it’s liable to be saved to areas where it’s liable to be spent and respent. The best way to accomplish that right now is to re-progressivize the tax system (gradually, because immediately hiking marginal taxes to the point that we no longer run a deficit would probably have serious negative consequences), increase payments ultimately going to the lower-to-middle classes, and find a way to increase the amount of American capital staying in America and the amount of foreign capital moving in. A good start would be to crack down on sweatshop labor – it doesn’t just effectively destroy jobs in America, but the jobs it creates overseas pay less than a living wage.

And most of all, we should definitely avoid anything that expands sub-living-wage employment in the US. Wal-Mart and other employers which depend on huge amounts of labor at below its market value are effectively subsidized by welfare, social security, and Medicare/Medicaid – it’s not the intent of those programmes and represents a misuse of taxpayer money.

The long and short, though, is that right now we need to run deficits to keep the GDP high. The kind of policies we would need to create a surplus or balance the budget would result in serious GDP contraction, and it’s much better to have a $11t debt with a $12t GDP than a $10t debt with a $10t GDP. The former represents a serious impending crisis and the latter a potentially fatal economic catastrophe.

For every comment as long and dull as that one, alec is required to post ten short ‘n’ funnies. To be nice we won’t make it retroactive. Also for purely practical reasons.

For every comment as long and dull as that one, alec is required to post ten short ‘n’ funnies furries.
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There.

Did The Surge work, liberals?

I will pay for good money for a Desktop Size version of that picture.

Did The Surge work, liberals?

Not sure, honey. Is it in yet?

Surge is out of work, he’s returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder the chickenhawk repukelickans refused to help him with, and now he’s angry and prone to violence.

Heckuva job, troofie!

Okay, let’s change the record; would you prefer “Holly Holy,” I Am, I Said,” or “Forever in Blue Jeans” (which my mother misheard and cheerfully mis-sang as “The Reverand Blue Jeans”)?

I took Stone Roses’ “I Want to be Adored” to be “I wanna be a dog” It’s more cool my way.

Heckuva job, troofie!

That’s totally unfair. Considering how hard and deep the Republicans supported ’em, it’s obviously the troops’ fault.

The Krug-man has gone shrill:

Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment…

…And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased…

…when Mr. Limbaugh peddles conspiracy theories — suggesting, for example, that fears over swine flu were being hyped “to get people to respond to government orders” — that’s a case of the conservative media establishment joining hands with the lunatic fringe…

…[S]upposedly respectable news organizations and political figures are giving aid and comfort to dangerous extremism.

What will the consequences be? Nobody knows, of course, although the analysts at Homeland Security fretted that things may turn out even worse than in the 1990s — that thanks, in part, to the election of an African-American president, “the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years.”

And that’s a threat to take seriously. Yes, the worst terrorist attack in our history was perpetrated by a foreign conspiracy. But the second worst, the Oklahoma City bombing, was perpetrated by an all-American lunatic. Politicians and media organizations wind up such people at their, and our, peril.

Colonel Feeler Ginsburg-Terraces’s Fudgy Monkey Borscht

Ingredients:
1 gallon monkey
1 cream
1 tablespoon wine
6 bunches enchanting black triggerfish whisker
6 bags baking soda
1 gallon sesame

Dryly grease a cookie sheet. Place the monkey into a large pot. Use a food processor to mix the wine with the cream. Drizzle resulting mixture over the monkey. Find some pulque and drink it. Butter – very intelligibly – the black triggerfish whisker, baking soda, and the sesame. Pound everything together. Abandon for 33 minutes. Serves 2 friends with ecstatic stomachs.

Nothing to see here…keep moving along…

HITLER’S WORST MISTAKE:HE DIDN’T GAS THE JEWS.by James von Brunn

Heil Hitler ! James von Brunn
http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2009/06/holocaust-museum-shooter-was-ron-paul.html

As posted on the Ron Paul for President website. Hat tip to…Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs.

The fact that von Brunn denounced a conspiracy of Jews, blacks, and liberals for ruining the Constitution and praised Hitler only makes him more liberal, ’cause the righties say so.

The fact that von Brunn denounced a conspiracy of Jews, blacks, and liberals for ruining the Constitution and praised Hitler only makes him more liberal, ’cause the righties say so.

I know that when I’m looking for a far left screed I skip right past Chomsky and The Nation and go straight to Free Republic and look for birther threads.

Sung Soong Bluuey,
Noomber-oone-a soo-per gooy.
Sung Soong Bluuey,
Qooeecker thun zee hoo-mun iye-a.

Me-a und yuoo, ere-a soobject tu,
A cer thet joost vun’t stup.

Unteel yuoo teke-a zee blooes und geefe-a a sung,
A Sung-Soong-Bluuey chup,
A Sung-Soong-Bluuey chup (hee-yeh).
Bork Bork Bork!

HITLER’S VORST MISTEKE:HE DIDN’T GES THE JEVS.by Jemes fun Broonn

Remember, zee un-Cunsteetooshunel Federel Reserfe-a Ect (1913) gefe-a JEVS cuntrul ooff Emereece’s MONEY. Fullooed by cuntrul ooff Emereece’s preencipel suoorces ooff inffurmeshun . Ierly oon, dooreeng zee ver-turn 20t Centoory, zee oonly bruedcest netvurks : EBC, CBS, und NBC — vere-a JEV oovned. Tudey, JEVS cuntrul ELL impurtunt suoorces ooff inffurmeshun (zee mejur netvurks, Noospepers, Megezeenes, Buuk-poobleeshing, Teen-Pun Elley, Mooseec & Recurdeeng Indoostry, Hullyvuud, Incyclupedeea Breetunnica, Poobleec schuuls und Uneefersities, zee Cethuleec Choorch, itc.). Beet by beet Leeberelism escended. Beet by beet zee Cunsteetooshun ves re-a-interpreted. Beet by beet gufernment insteetooshuns und Cungressmee fell intu JEV hunds — zeen U.S. deeplumecy, booseenesses, resuoorces und munpooer ceme-a under JEV cuntrul. Vheete-a mee set oon zeeur cullecteefe-a esses und deed NOTHING — NOTHING BOoT TELK. Nefer beffure-a in Vurld heestury hes a greet Neshun beee cunqooered su cumpletely, vheele-a ooffffereeng NO physeecel reseestunce-a ! Vheete-a telkers LOFE zeeur Inemeees. Tudey, oon zee Vurld stege-a, Vheete-a mee ere-a LEOoGHED ET, zeeur vumee tekee, reped, und bred by strunger mee. Und Emereeca ? Emereeca is a Thurd-Vurld receeel gerbege-a-doomp — stoopeed, ignurunt, deed-bruke-a, und termeenel.

Prepere-a tu deee-a, Vheete-a Emereeca — yuoo deserfe-a it.

Heeel Heetler ! Jemes fun Broonn

Clearly von Brunn is calling out the Chicken Hawks, Keyboard Kommandos and Yellow Elephants…

White men sat on their collective asses and did NOTHING — NOTHING BUT TALK. Never before in World history has a great Nation been conquered so completely, while offering NO physical resistance !

…so he must be a liberal.

…so he must be a liberal.

Hell, that’s practically what you’d hear at any Berkeley poetry slam.

Clearly von Brunn is calling out the Chicken Hawks, Keyboard Kommandos and Yellow Elephants….

If that lazy, diaper-soiling, Cheeto-stained demographic ever got their act together…

Well, let’s just be thankful that it will never happen.

This is the part that really gets to me:

Today, JEWS control ALL important sources of information (the major networks, Newspapers, Magazines, Book-publishing, Tin-Pan Alley, Music & Recording Industry, Hollywood, Encyclopedia Britannica, Public schools and Universities, the Catholic Church, etc.).

Tin-Pan Alley? I know the guy is 88, but, jeez, my father-in-law is 87 and even he has fond memories of the Beatles. And apparently Mr. von Brunn hasn’t kept up with the latest attempts by the RIAA to stop people from downloading songs, if he thinks that anyone controls the “Music & Recording Industry.”

If that lazy, diaper-soiling, Cheeto-stained demographic ever got their act together…

If they ever did, Jonah Goldberg would be elected president, for he is their King.

VON BRUNN IS A LIE-BRAL AS HE LOVED THE FEDERAL RESERVE SO MUCH THAT HE WENT TO THE BUILDING IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE OUT WITH PAUL VOLKER AND HAVE HIS BABIES. YOU COMMUNISTS ARE WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE JUICE TO DESTROY WHITE CIVILIZATION WITH ELECTRICITY LEAKING OUT OF POORLY DESIGNED SOCKETS IN MY WALLS, CAUSING ALL CAUCASIANS LIKE ME TO BECOME MENTALLY INERT, SO THAT THE MONGREL RACES CAN BEGIN.

That was a good one, Rugged. Reminds me of this guy.

In graduate school, I studied yeast physiology and stumbled onto the basic control mechanisms for mushroom formation. But I was forced into seclusion by mental pain, so I moved onto the previously vacated family farm and did mushroom research. Mental pain is not depression or schizophrenia. It is memories of pain too close to the surface and contacted by external stimuli.

Damn, “RUGGED,” my grammaw thought that ‘lectricity was gittin’ outta them leetle holes in the wall too. How the fuck old are you?

FON BROoNN IS A LIE-BREL ES HE LOFED THE FEDEREL RESERFE SO MOoCH THET HE VENT TO THE BOoILDING IN EN ETTEMPT TO MEKE OoOoT VITH PEOoL FOLKER END HEFE HIS BEBIES. YOOo COMMOoNISTS ERE VORKING TOGETHER VITH THE JOoICE TO DESTROY VHITE CIFILIZETION VITH ILECTRICITY LEEKING OoOoT OoF POORLY DESIGNED SOCKETS IN MY VELLS, CEOoSING ELL CEOoCESIENS LIKE ME TO BECOME MENTELLY INERT, SO THET THE MONGREL RECES CEN BEGIN.
Bork Bork Bork!

I’ve done some mushroom research in my time, so I think I know where that guy is coming from, El Cid.

Oh, and Andrew Bretbart left someone a nasty voice mail. Also.

It’s such a fucking slander on people like me. This guy’s political philosophy is more akin to the drivel that you hear on a college campuses that delineates us by group and not by individuality…. It’s deeply offensive that you would use this for political gain.
http://gawker.com/5287371/andrew-breitbart-holocaust-museum-killer-was-a-multiculturalist

He continued: “Blart blarty blart blart blart. Blart blart. Suck on it, libs!”

You should listen to that Breitblart hate fest. My favorite line: “So fuck you beyond the pale!” That’ll teach ’em, Andrew.

St. Rulemaker: Alec and I have a deal. He does long form, I do short form. He writes the essays, I write the dick jokes. Except when he writes the essay-length dick jokes, in which case I call him a scab and piss endlessly in solemn protest.

Poor Jeffrey Goldberg – he actually thinks Debbie Schlussel is going to retract “this absurd piece of analysis:”

“Make no mistake. Muslims created this atmosphere where hatred of the Jews is okay and must be “tolerated” as a legitimate point of view. The shooting today is just yet another manifestation emanating from that viewpoint-another manifestation of the welcome mat that Muslims rolled out for fellow anti-Semites of all stripes to no longer be afraid to come out of the closet.”

http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/the_stupidest_thing_said_so_fa.php

Goldberg admits he’s never read Debbie before, so he apparently is unaware that she is bugfuck crazy.

As soon as the Icthyophagi arrived from Elephantine, Cambyses, having told them what they were to say, forthwith despatched them into Ethiopia with these following gifts: to wit, a purple robe, a gold chain for the neck, armlets, an alabaster box of myrrh, and a cask of palm wine. The Ethiopians to whom this embassy was sent are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world. In their customs they differ greatly from the rest of mankind, and particularly in the way they choose their kings; for they find out the man who is the tallest of all the citizens, and of strength equal to his height, and appoint him to rule over them.

The Icthyophagi on reaching this people, delivered the gifts to the king of the country, and spoke as follows:- “Cambyses, king of the Persians, anxious to become thy ally and sworn friend, has sent us to hold converse with thee, and to bear thee the gifts thou seest, which are the things wherein he himself delights the most.” Hereon the Ethiopian, who knew they came as spies, made answer:- “The king of the Persians sent you not with these gifts because he much desired to become my sworn friend- nor is the account which ye give of yourselves true, for ye are come to search out my kingdom. Also your king is not a just man- for were he so, he had not coveted a land which is not his own, nor brought slavery on a people who never did him any wrong. Bear him this bow, and say- ‘The king of the Ethiops thus advises the king of the Persians when the Persians can pull a bow of this strength thus easily, then let him come with an army of superior strength against the long-lived Ethiopians- till then, let him thank the gods that they have not put it into the heart of the sons of the Ethiops to covet countries which do not belong to them.’

So speaking, he unstrung the bow, and gave it into the hands of the messengers. Then, taking the purple robe, he asked them what it was, and how it had been made. They answered truly, telling him concerning the purple, and the art of the dyer- whereat he observed “that the men were deceitful, and their garments also.” Next he took the neck-chain and the armlets, and asked about them. So the Icthyophagi explained their use as ornaments. Then the king laughed, and fancying they were fetters, said, “the Ethiopians had much stronger ones.” Thirdly, he inquired about the myrrh, and when they told him how it was made and rubbed upon the limbs, he said the same as he had said about the robe. Last of all he came to the wine, and having learnt their way of making it, he drank a draught, which greatly delighted him; whereupon he asked what the Persian king was wont to eat, and to what age the longest-lived of the Persians had been known to attain. They told him that the king ate bread, and described the nature of wheat- adding that eighty years was the longest term of man’s life among the Persians. Hereat he remarked, “It did not surprise him, if they fed on dirt, that they died so soon; indeed he was sure they never would have lived so long as eighty years, except for the refreshment they got from that drink (meaning the wine), wherein he confessed the Persians surpassed the Ethiopians.”

The Icthyophagi then in their turn questioned the king concerning the term of life, and diet of his people, and were told that most of them lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, while some even went beyond that age- they ate boiled flesh, and had for their drink nothing but milk. When the Icthyophagi showed wonder at the number of the years, he led them to a fountain, wherein when they had washed, they found their flesh all glossy and sleek, as if they had bathed in oil- and a scent came from the spring like that of violets. The water was so weak, they said, that nothing would float in it, neither wood, nor any lighter substance, but all went to the bottom. If the account of this fountain be true, it would be their constant use of the water from it which makes them so long-lived. When they quitted the fountain the king led them to a prison, where the prisoners were all of them bound with fetters of gold. Among these Ethiopians copper is of all metals the most scarce and valuable. After they had seen the prison, they were likewise shown what is called “the table of the Sun.”

Also, last of all, they were allowed to behold the coffins of the Ethiopians, which are made (according to report) of crystal, after the following fashion:- When the dead body has been dried, either in the Egyptian, or in some other manner, they cover the whole with gypsum, and adorn it with painting until it is as like the living man as possible. Then they place the body in a crystal pillar which has been hollowed out to receive it, crystal being dug up in great abundance in their country, and of a kind very easy to work. You may see the corpse through the pillar within which it lies; and it neither gives out any unpleasant odour, nor is it in any respect unseemly; yet there is no part that is not as plainly visible as if the body were bare. The next of kin keep the crystal pillar in their houses for a full year from the time of the death, and give it the first fruits continually, and honour it with sacrifice. After the year is out they bear the pillar forth, and set it up near the town.

Oh, yes, I see. That was kind of stupid.

Did The Surge work, liberals?

Well, a little late to the party. Okay, here’s my answer to your question, with apologies to the Overlords.

Sadly, No!

Baghdad:
#1: An Iraqi man was killed and an American soldier was among those wounded in an attack on a US military patrol in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, security forces and military officials said. “An Iraqi man was killed and four other people were hurt,” a security official said. The US military confirmed that a patrol was hit in the Rusafa neighbourhood of the capital, but gave a different toll, saying one American soldier and one Iraqi citizen had been wounded.

#2: Around 3 p.m a mortar round hit a mosque in Karrada, central Baghdad on Wednesday. Four civilians were injured.

#3: Around 3 p.m a mortar round hit a mosque in Karrada, central Baghdad on Wednesday. Four civilians were injured.[sic]

#4: A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded the driver and two passers-by in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, police said.

#5: Four people were wounded by a roadside bomb near al-Mustansiriya Square in northern Baghdad, police said.

#6: “An IED emplaced by unidentified persons on the main road on Falastine street, eastern Baghdad, leaving four civilians wounded,” a security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Looks like they double counted one, but that sure as shit ain’t “greeted as liberators”.

Incidentally, since I’m so late, perhaps I should be posting yesterday’s Iraq news:

A car bomb blew up Wednesday in a packed outdoor food market in one of the most peaceful areas of Iraq’s Shiite south, killing about 30 people and wounding dozens more. The blast raised fears that militants may be planning more strikes in remote, poorly secured areas, seeking to stretch Iraq’s security services as they take on a bigger role in Baghdad and other flashpoint cities.

IOW, FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. Iraq, even the precious Surge-a-licious Baghdad area – IS STILL A DEADLY FUCKING HELLHOLE. Oh sure the ethnic cleansing squads have mostly hung up their boots, and running firefights don’t run longer than a few hours anymore – but your stupid fucking surge don’t mean Shit. Fuck. All.

Did The Surge work? Fuck You.

It’s such a fucking slander on people like me. This guy’s political philosophy is more akin to the drivel that you hear on a college campuses that delineates us by group and not by individuality

“people like me” != people delineated by group. Those two sentences, RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO EACH OTHER = internal consistency fail.

Catholic Church, etc.). Bit by bit Liberalism ascended. Bit by bit the Constitution was re-interpreted. Bit by bit government institutions and Congressmen fell into JEW hands

When Brunn says “liberalism”, obviously he means conservatism.

You libs are the ones at fault. Obviously.

Logically, there is no reason why that picture should be at all funny. And yet.

Believe it or not, I had the Hong Kong Fooey’s metal lunchbox when I was a kid. That one and Adam 12, can’t remember which one was first.

Then Bluto the bully took it from me and threw it into traffic. But I got him back, he almost ended up in traffic with it.

The other one got left on a lawn somewhere when I forgot it while picking up acorns and whistling into the caps.

Ah, memories.

Believe it or not, I had the Hong Kong Fooey’s metal lunchbox when I was a kid.

I still have mine, or at least I think it’s still at Dad’s house. I used it to store toy soldiers, the kind that burn really well and drop sizzling blobs of flaming plastic when you light ’em up. The fact that I know that means that I’m a troop-hating liebrul.

Von Brunn is teh left?
Ok, two can play at this game. Let’s see, the first WTC bombing took place on Clinton’s watch. And as the wingnuts all tell us, 9/11 happened too early in Bush’s term to have anything to do with Bush and so obviously also happened, in essence, on Clinton’s watch. Ergo, the terrorists hated Clinton! Therefore the Islamic extremists MUST be right wing terrorists. It stands to…reason?

Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight

But now I am jaded
You’re out of luck
I’m rolling down the stairs
Too drunk to fuck

Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I’m too drunk, too drunk, too drunk
To fuck

I like your stories
I love your gun
Shooting out truck tires
Sounds like loads and loads of fun

But in my room
Wish you were dead
You ball like the baby
In Eraserhead

Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
It’s all I need right now
Too drunk to fuck

Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I’m sick soft gooey and cold
Too drunk to fuck

I’m about to drop
My head’s a mess
The only salvation is
I’ll never see you again

You give me head
It makes it worse
Take out your fuckin’ retainer
Put it in your purse

I’m too drunk to fuck
You’re to drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
It’s all I need right now Oh baby
I’m melting like an ice cream bar
Oh baby

And now I got diarrhea
Too drunk to fuck
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Oooohhh