Inglourious Basturfs
Below is a good argument how things totally ought to be one way and not another, and therefore actually are, once you squint at them properly.
Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:
JIM LINDGREN: “The biggest problem with the media’s understanding of the Tea Party movement is that some on the left assume (1) that the Tea Parties are Astroturfed at least as much as some of the left’s own demonstrations and (2) that the educated right hates Obama at least as much as the educated left hates Bush and Cheney. So far, I haven’t seen much evidence of either.”
Ah, you see, the biggest problem with the media’s understanding of the Tea Party movement is that,
- Some on the left assume that,
- BECAUSE some of the left’s demonstrations are:
- ‘Astroturfed,’ i.e., organized by activist groups, esp. with pre-printed signs,
- THEN the Tea Parties in general must to an equal or greater amount be:
- ‘Astroturfed,’ i.e., organized by lobbyists pretending to be grass-roots advocates for the interests of ordinary citizens (e.g., health care reform), while actually playing these citizens like bitch pachinko for their real clients, (e.g., insurance companies).
- BECAUSE some of the left’s demonstrations are:
- THEREFORE, if all on the left both:
- Assumed or were empirically convinced that it is the left that is more Astroturfed, and,
- Ignored the right-wing zealots who are running around mad with hatred for Obama as not relevant to the charge, ‘people hating Obama,’ because educated people in America tend to hate Bush and Cheney more than they do Obama,
- THEN the biggest problem with the media’s understanding would be solved.
We’ll get right on it — as well as on a new, more inclusively they-do-it-too definition for ‘Astroturfed’ basically to mean, ‘to be so Urfed at something as to have the Ass Trots.’
This will be tied to a character, the Astro Turfer, a metallic-skinned alien riding an astronomic Turf Board who is the herald for a great and sinister force. And he’ll do stuff and give short speeches, and it will all be very exciting as it goes along, with all the puns like ‘Turfin’ USA,’ ‘Turf’s Up!’ and who can even say what else.
… that the educated right hates…
That which does not exist is incapable of emoting.
/spock
I, too, found “the educated right” to be almost as amusing as “military intelligence.”
Honestly, no one’s worried about the ejjimacated right, because no one w/ an ejjimacation can shoot straight, & there can’t be more than 75 or 80 of them.
“Educated Right” = Trust funders, Think Tankers, and Mechanical Engineers, so maybe.
Early morning OT update: Studie remains in a holding pattern. We might maybe make it through this move… maybe. Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
Yet it must be said, giving birth during the move would make for the most charming of anecdotes years from now.
Ya know?
I have no doubt that little Studie will be providing no shortage of charming anecdotes all by himself. We don’t need his birth to be particularly eventful.
Studie, I know you’ve heard rumors about all the cool stuff like skateboards and birthdays and dinosaur museums and football games and stuff, but, really, you have to weigh all of that against sharing a planet with the likes of Glenn Reynolds.
There, DMM, that ought to get him to stay put ’til he’s old enough to start school. Grad school.
Educated right: every teabagger’s nightmare. Assuming wingnuts have enough neural function to experience dream activity.
Next up.
Educated right. Is he talking about the Obama administration? And they’re all hating on the boss?
Palace intrigues. Interesting theory. Where do the tea parties fit in?
I have no doubt that little Studie will be providing no shortage of charming anecdotes all by himself. We don’t need his birth to be particularly eventful.
I’ll cancel the dirigible flyover.
LDMM, I’m crossing my legs and thinking clenching thoughts on your behalf. Although, remember, it would give you a great excuse for not helping with the move – you’d get to lie about and, errr, push and scream and…
Second thoughts, I’ll go back to the clenching.
One more.
Educated right. It deserves a prank postcard, like the jack-a-lope or the 25-foot-long rainbow trout (just caught one today!).
The jokes just write themselves.
Between that, Malkin, Bachmann, Buchanan and the other right wing idiocy of recent vintage, I’m wondering if this isn’t some secret federal stimulus plan for the Sadly Naughts to keep the content coming.
LDMM, I’m crossing my legs and thinking clenching thoughts on your behalf. Although, remember, it would give you a great excuse for not helping with the move – you’d get to lie about and, errr, push and scream and…
I’m helping as much as I can, but no one is really expecting me to do much as it is (especially with all the Braxton-Hicksing that I’m doing). Gav has been absolutely amazing with how much of our furniture he already has moved (I hope you guys appreciate the posts he’s putting up, because he’s writing them during time he should really be sleeping).
Anyway, I guess the biggest problem with me going into real labor during the move would be keeping Gav from getting it done, since there’s no way he wouldn’t be at the hospital with me. No one really needs me for this whole moving thing…
“So far, I haven’t seen much evidence of either.”
I’m imagining him making the face that OJ made when trying to get the glove to fit.
Anyway, I guess the biggest problem with me going into real labor during the move would be keeping Gav from getting it done
I feel for you guys. Shirley there’s a SadlySignal you could beam across the brooding urban sky.
Sleep deprivation? Is that what’s giving Gavin’s prose its elusive je ne sais quoi?
Wasn’t John Cole the educated right? He saw what the right was doing to Graheme Frost over SCHIP and ditched the party.
Central to my point, Cal Thomas:
And good luck holding things in during the move. I’ve moved while my ex was eight months pregnant. No fun that.
I think it was Terry Schiavo episode that pushed him over the edge.
Ah right, I mixed up which episode of abhorrent inhuman monstrosity sent Cole careening into sanity.
I hope you guys appreciate the posts he’s putting up, because he’s writing them during time he should really be sleeping
Aha! So we find out what’s behind those weird stream-of-unconscousness posts & footnotes!
Volokh does a fair job playing at “educated right” anyway. See how he hedges with “I haven’t seen much evidence of either…” Classic weaselosity. He visits Drudge every day, and surprisingly hasn’t come across any articles talking about Freedomworks or the prehatched plan to have the CNBC guy freak out on the air.
DAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOUUU MR. LEWIS!
Would Mount Taylor sunset pictures help?
kingubu said, September 3, 2009 at 12:27
Ixnay on teh inosaurday museums mention, kingubu. Perhaps my earliest memory of really wanting to go somewhere…
Aha! So we find out what’s behind those weird stream-of-unconscousness posts & footnotes!
Nah, that’s just the brilliance shining through.
So in summation: No, U!!!11
Dear un-educated right,
Your betters don’t think much of you but are happy to exploit you for whatever purpose suits them.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Javafascist
PS Yes, they are talking about you. You are not part of their “educated” class. Sorry.
Dear un-educated right,
They won’t listen if you don’t speak their dialect. It’s “unedumacted.”
that ought to get him to stay put ’til he’s old enough to start school. Grad school.
I read about a recent study that found a large percentage of fetuses are, for economic reasons, living with their parents.
Personally, I think the mascot should be the dog from the Jetson in Chia….
ChiaStro
Now, has anyone flat out claimed that protests organized by ACORN are “grassroots movements”? Cuz I haven’t seen that, except from the numbnutz on the right.
Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
You liberals and your issues of “convenience”…next thing you’ll tell me, you want Studie sucking at her/his mother’s teat, or worse, on the welfare like Ellie Mae’s babies…
“Yeah, yeah. I read da slip right dis time. I’ll be back next week, say, for the Studie, dat OK?”
Why do people have a problem understanding that everything not organized by the living spirits of the Founding Fathers, aka the Tea Party movement, is in fact an ACORNSEIU conspiracy, including the traffic lights which turn red just when a conservative approaches the intersection?
Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
I thought there were some engineer/architect types on this. Someone put a post-it note on their shoes, wouldya? If that doesn’t do it we’ll have to consider a pocket protector recall.
you want Studie sucking at her/his mother’s teat, or worse, on the welfare like Ellie Mae’s babies…
or going into some “labor movement.”
or going into some “labor movement.”
*golf clap*
including the traffic lights which turn red just when a conservative approaches the intersection?
All conservatives ought to remember the old conservative saw “Better dead than red,” and floor it.
or going into some “labor movement.”
Hm. Dr Mrs is a rapacious plutocrat, and Studie is an innocent proletariat, on strike for better working conditions….
Galt! Tree of Liberty/Blood of Tyrants! Neville Chamberlin! Islamofascism! Saladin! Abortion Holocaust! Crusades! Nero! Quisling! Thermopylae! Wolverines! Pol Pot! This! Is! SPAAARTAAA!
Early morning OT update: Studie remains in a holding pattern. We might maybe make it through this move… maybe. Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
I keep wheedling and cajoling, but I get the sense he’s impatient. Is there a definite earliest OK date we can give him? I’ve been saying the weekend, but would Friday be workable? Negotiations are all about give and take.
This will be tied to a character, the Astro Turfer, a metallic-skinned alien riding an astronomic Turf Board who is the herald for a great and sinister force.
That force would be UnitedHealthalactus?
I thought an Astro Turfer was George Jetson’s space dog digging a hole in his “turf.” Which would, of course, lead to him digging through his apartment balcony and falling to his death 500 feet below.
Dear un-educated right,
Your betters don’t think much of you but are happy to exploit you for whatever purpose suits them.
You expect us t’ read that whole entire sentence?!
the herald for a great and sinister force
I’m Galactus-intolerant.
Could you all shut up for once. Some of us are trying to do work over here at our very successful small business doing honest hardworking american job stuff. Thank you.
Rastro Turfer can fly, fish.
~
Some of us are trying to do work over here at our very successful small business doing honest hardworking american job stuff.
Yeah, hush you guys!
Those envelopes aren’t going to stuff themselves, after all!
I’m Galactus-intolerant.
You won’t be, once Disney turns him into a gruff-but-lovable dogfaced character…
You stop Innertubing, hokay? You stoff mo envlopes! Mo! Must stoff mo!
Now, has anyone flat out claimed that protests organized by ACORN are “grassroots movements”?
I haven’t seen that from anyone on the left but…it wouldn’t be inaccurate to describe protests organized by grassroots citizens’ groups as “grassroots movements” as opposed to, you know, protests organized by Washington lobbyist groups. There is actually quite a large difference in protests organized by groups that exist for the sole purpose of representing and advancing the interests of their actual citizen-members and those organized by people being well-paid by big business to whip the rubes up into a frenzy, usually with the use of false information, to get them to protest against things that will advance their interests.
One of these things is not like the other; one of these things does not belong…
Jennifer, that’s a very good point, but as some on the far right would point out, when an organization has a lobbying arm and it’s own political party, I think you can start to say it’s not so grass-roots.
That said, it sure beats having a corporatocratic source of funding supplied by the AMA and every stinking insurance company that makes gobs of money off our deaths.
actor212 – you could say that if you wanted to repeat what the right has been claiming for years, which is that there is no difference between an organization made up of and with an agenda driven by citizens rather than one that merely serves as a mask for the corporate interests/political party that funds it and sets its agenda.
In other words, according to the right, there is no difference from groups that are citizen-directed and groups that sheepherd citizens and are corporate or political-party directed. But in actuality, there is a quite a huge difference, which is why they bothered making up the lie that there isn’t one in the first place. Because they know that the honest truth makes them look bad. So they want to pretend that ACORN is of the same bad mold that their groups are.
Example: they started labelling adamently non-partisan groups that had been around for decades as “liberal” back in the mid-90s – groups like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters. Because, you know, this notion that people should have an idea of what their government is doing and more than that, a say in it – that’s a “liberal” idea. To note the obvious, it used to be a “conservative” idea as well – that was before the Republican party and its financiers decided that they could more easily accomplish their goals if they didn’t have to tell anyone what they were up to. So they inoculate their zombie-minions with the fear that they’ll get teh evul liberul all over themselves if they pay any attention to groups that, for example, publicize how much politicians are being paid to do the bidding of the financiers. And so on.
Same thing here.
LDMM, I’m glad you are not participating in lifting and carrying. I know it’s tough to just stand by while others are working, but you DO NOT want to go into labor with a pulled back muscle. And of course the hormonally relaxed ligaments aren’t providing nearly the stability they usually do.
Studie, if you wait a few days you can share a birthday with me!
I’m not disagreeing with you, Jennifer. All I’m saying is things grow up beyond their labels, good and bad.
Ahem.
1) Name a “liberal ” university that does this, Cal. I’m unaware of a university that requires someone to be an atheist, for example.
2) Liberty “University”. Regents “University”. Those are conservative, yes? They supplied over 150 employees to the Bush DoJ, after all. Try telling the professors you’re an atheist and see what happens.
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities. Some professors require their students to repeat back to them on test papers and in theses what the professors believe.
Really?
Cuz I went to a Moss League…we weren’t quite Ivy…University, very liberal, and had a strident libertarian polisci professor, so when I submitted a paper on the evils of socialism…yea, it was a stretch…he failed me for that, and then took ten points off my grade for the course for NOT THINKING FOR MYSELF!
Re: the astroturfers: I was employed by Common Cause back in the day when a group called “Term Limits USA” dumped a shitload of money into our state to encourage the people here to enact term limits (and they did). Term Limits USA was a Republican front-group dedicated to making it easier for wackjob Republicans to get elected by barring from office long-term Democratic officeholders who were long-term because their constituents were happy with them.
Our response was to write and pass a bill stating that any national astroturfing organization was for all intents and purposes an Arkansas PAC or political committee once they reached a threshold of something like $10,000 spent in state, provided that this amount equalled at least 2% or more of the national organization’s annual budget. Applying the rules for Arkansas PACs and political committees meant that they would have to disclose where they got their funding in order to engage in paid advocacy of any large scope within the state – release and publicize a donor list. Et voila, no more DC-based astroturf campaigns here since – it’s been 17 years now.
but would Friday be workable? Negotiations are all about give and take.
Dis sort of information could be useful to some of us, you know.
Dis sort of information could be useful to some of us, you know.
You know, the USPS, a GOVERNMENT-RUN service, would have gotten it right the first time…
In the old days, we made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to beat the band – once a week, maybe. We had mouths to feed! Sometimes, those little ones, their eyes would roll back into their heads. We didn’t know why. It just happened. Then, four out of five dentists surveyed recommended Dentyne to patients who chewed gum, so we wondered: were the children so eager for pb&j they forgot to spit out their breath freshener? Then, it turned out Wonder didn’t really build strong bodies twelves ways, so we wondered: are we building weak kids? Later, scientists determined sugar rotted baby teeth, so we wondered: were our little charges gumming their food so hard they introduced air into their semi-circular canals and passing out? Finally, too many people developed peanut allergies and went into anaphalactic shock and the program was reluctantly disbanded. Sometimes, it’s the luck of the draw, kid.
It seems that a belligerant anti-health-care-reform protestor got his finger bitten off by a pro-reform-protestor at an event in California yesterday, after the anti-reformer made the mistake of punching the pro-reformer in the face. If he’d just kept his hands to himself, his finger would still occupy its original location.
Bonus: the anti-reformer was 65 years old; after the pro-reformer bit the finger off and spat it on the ground, the bite-ee picked up the finger and took it with him to the hospital – where presumably it was stitched back on courtesy of socialist healthcare.
Hey! A guy’s gotsa make a livin’ ya know? Stuffing envelopes for Ngyuen…I mean, my other highly successful business is, er, a little slow right now. That’s it, a little slow.
Bonus: the anti-reformer was 65 years old; after the pro-reformer bit the finger off and spat it on the ground, the bite-ee picked up the finger and took it with him to the hospital – where presumably it was stitched back on courtesy of socialist healthcare.
Not Medicare!
*Gasp*
Keep up those not-yet-giving birth thoughts, ok?
I thought there were some engineer/architect types on this.
I just finished a design for temporarily holding up a collapsing wall. How do you think DLMM would feel about some aircraft cable looped around her spine and attached to an 8×8 in front?
And spitting the finger on the ground? I love that detail.
*Ptui*
“There’s your fucking finger, Grandpa. Now pick it up and fish out your Medicare card and get the damn thing sewn back on. And next time Pops, I’m gonna spit it down the sewer drain.”
I just finished a design for temporarily holding up a collapsing wall. How do you think DLMM would feel about some aircraft cable looped around her spine and attached to an 8×8 in front?
I dunno. What color is the cable?
You won’t be, once Disney turns him into a gruff-but-lovable dogfaced character…
Funny you should mention that.
The problem with Glenn Reynolds is that the problem with Jim Lindgren is that “some on the left” is absolutely meaningless. “Some”? How many are we talking about here, a random sampling of trustafarians that at a particular given moment are so stoned that they aren’t sure how many toes they have? And don’t even get me started on who’s “left”; Pat Buchanan could count because he has actually talked to Rachel Maddow.
He’s a disingenuous, quasi-racist, transhumanist, genocide-endorsing, play-libertarian hack? Hehindeedy!
I dunno. What color is the cable?
Galvanized. Dull silvery gray.
I did see that, Xecky, at my good friend Miss Cellania’s site, which is why I went there…
I dunno. What color is the cable?
Galvanized. Dull silvery gray.
PERFECT for a gender-unspecific baby.
The problem:
withGlenn Reynolds isthatFixed!
There’s your fucking finger, Grandpa
You’ll get my cold, dead fingers when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers!
The problem
withis Glenn Reynoldsis that.Haz fizxed?
Studie, STAY. STAY. There’s a good boy.
Also, I just made the mistake of reading Buchanan’s latest Heil Hitler! while sitting on the pot. I really do need to pay more attention to our modern technology as I stopped myself just in time before wiping my ass with my iPhone.
Me too slow with tags…
I stopped myself just in time before wiping my ass with my iPhone.
Ok, I laughed at that.
There’s an app for that.
I stopped myself just in time before wiping my ass with my iPhone.
There’s an app for that.
*waterspit*
OK, that there was funnay, Ah don’ care who y’are…
“iWipe”
There’s an app for that.
iWipe?
Curses!
There’s an app for that.
“iGene”
Or, if I could spell or type.
“iGiene”
I did see that, Xecky, at my good friend Miss Cellania’s site, which is why I went there…
Ooh neat! Thx for the link.
Disney / Marvel is less weird, IMO, than the Disney / Squaresoft mashup “Kingdom Hearts” video games – and those were pretty cool. I’m curious to see what happens with all that.
There’s an app for that.
I’d be in trouble with that one – I can’t tell my app from a hole in the ground.
There’s an app for that.
“iGene”
I just snorted my nostrils out my nose.
There’s an app for that.
“iGene”
ayLidSex
(anagram it)
There is actually quite a large difference in protests organized by groups that exist for the sole purpose of representing and advancing the interests of their actual citizen-members and those organized by people being well-paid by big business to whip the rubes up into a frenzy, usually with the use of false information, to get them to protest against things that will advance their interests.
I suppose technically protests organized by MoveOn and various Socialist/Communist parties are, technically, not grassroots…
…but you bring up an important point, there – OUR protests are based on Reality; THEIRS are based on 99 44/100% pure bullshit and lies.
BTW, even though I’ve been not commenting on it, I too am (I would say “pushing” but that’s not exactly an appropriate word) cheering for Studie to delay his emergence.
And congrats on the move, LDMM. Been there, done that in the middle of Long Island’s hottest week on record.
anagram it
Daily Sex
Sax Yield
A Sexy Lid
I Sexy Lad
Sadly Ex, I
Ex Lays Id
Lax Id, Yes
Ya Lid Sex
Extraneous spaces, PeeJ.
There’s an spp for that
No no, it’s called “iPood”
lysdexia is a niap. As aer citsaps gerfins.
I hvea retsilbs on ma gerfins!
Apparently, Troofie has been busy trying to kill the Saudi prince using assohol…
Pink iWipe
There’s an app for that.
I downloaded iLeostomy and now I have to tweet into a plastic bag.
Can’t let this thread go on without linking to Blood Devastation Death War and Horror
They’ll soon have an app to treat butt problems, iSuppose.
Can’t let this thread go on without linking to Blood Devastation Death War and Horror
Veiled penis reference (Python. Get it?)
They’ll soon have an app to treat butt problems, iSuppose.
Well, there is an app “Hot Buns”…
I downloaded iLeostomy and now I have to tweet into a plastic bag.
Tee hee!
Apparently, Troofie has been busy trying to kill the Saudi prince using assohol
ARTHUR Now what happens?
BEDEVERE Well now, Launcelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall and then leap out of the anus and take the Saudis by surprise, not only by surprise but totally unarmed!
ARTHUR Who … Who breaks out?
BEDEVERE Er … We … Launcelot, Galahad, and I … Er … leap out of the anus and …
The network also quoted an expert as saying that the method of concealment aimed the blast away from the target, while blowing the bomber to bits.
So what would you call it? “Buttbomb?” Feh. “Assblast?” Boring. “A-bomb?” Been there.. “Proctocharge?” Too long. “C-Fart?” The mind reels…
OT (? is there a “Topic” really? ever?) Name that Toilet!
Classic from The Sneeze .
A few faves:
The Shitoon
H.R. Flushnstuff
Senor Burrito-Completo
Big Hungry Joe
Ol’ Smeller
Loretta
The Six Million Dollar Can
There Will Be Blood
Poopacabra
Crapalodeon
Denny’s
So the secret to using the buttbomb is to get the other guy to smell your farts? Also, DO NOT PULL THAT FINGER!
It’s a classy day.
Can’t let this thread go on with no Penis.
LDMM: stand close to the TeeVee and turn on Glenn Beck (not that way; you people get your minds out of the gutter!). Turn the volume up loud.
I promise that Toaster, Jr. will be scared straight. He’ll be pulling your cervix closed from the inside.
What, TMI?
LDMM: stand close to the TeeVee and turn on Glenn Beck (not that way; you people get your minds out of the gutter!). Turn the volume up loud.
I’m a-guessin’ she’s gonna opt for the aircraft-cable spinal wrap, muhself.
The Unexcused Finger.
So what would you call it? “Buttbomb?” Feh. “Assblast?” Boring. “A-bomb?” Been there.. “Proctocharge?” Too long. “C-Fart?” The mind reels…
BMBM?
you people get your minds out of the gutter!
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, at least in Euclidean space.
The shortest distancec between two minds is a gutter, at least in PeeJ space.
you people get your minds out of the gutter!
I can’t. My mind goes where my body goes.
From NVM’s link:
I’m all for 62 year-olds being able to make love to their wives, and there is nothing I enjoy more than a good tort. HOWEVER, having to pee like a woman isn’t exactly a night at Abu Ghraib. I do it any time I’m in the women’s room – it’s just polite.
Also, if you aren’t able to go to the beach, work, or spend time with friends without flashing your penis… so in summary, Also.
Classic from The Sneeze .
Ooooh, The Sneeze!
Recommended reading, especially “Steve, Don’t Eat It!” and the saga of the brain on the tree.
The Unexcused Finger.
OOOH, Mr. Kotter! I know this one!
It’s Poe, right? It turns out that the finger is hidden on a hand all along.
there is nothing I enjoy more than a good tort
You’re a lawyer, then?
there is nothing I enjoy more than a good tort
You’re a lawyer, then?
No, he frequents pristetoots.
You’re a lawyer, then?
No… and actually, I should have said that there is nothing I enjoy more than an angry mob sacking the castle after lord whatsisname ran down the miller’s daughter in his carriage and didn’t even bother to flip a gold coin out the window as he sped away.
But torts are as close as we get these days.
This talk of torts is making me hungry.
I should have said that there is nothing I enjoy more than an angry mob sacking the castle after lord whatsisname ran down the miller’s daughter in his carriage and didn’t even bother to flip a gold coin out the window as he sped away.
Tell them to bring their torches & pitchforks, just in case he’s also working on bringing the dead back to life.
Oh, and have fun stormin’ t’ castle!
This talk of torts is making me hungry.
I just bit off a ladyfinger.
LDMM,
I don’t know if they come in different sizes, but…
Attack Of The Arab Assblaster
I don’t know if they come in different sizes, but…
So THAT’S how that chick in Tijuana was able to claim she was a virgin twelve times!
OT (? is there a “Topic” really? ever?) Name that Toilet!
Alabama.
So THAT’S how that chick in Tijuana was able to claim she was a virgin twelve times!
“..to go where no donkey has gone before…”
Name that Toilet!
NRO Corner.
Seats (#)1.
One cup.
BMBM?
Hmm. Likee. Also: “Bumbum.” Or is that the same thing?
Name that Toilet!
NRO Corner.
Hmmm. I would think the toilet would be on the floor above the Corner’s offices. One holer, straight drop, etc.
The toe sucking discussion also got my stomach rumbling.
Name that Toilet!
Liberal Fascism.
It’s a very serious, thoughtful POOP that has never been made in such detail or with such care.
Name that Toilet!
Glenn Blecch OR Loud Obbs OR Teh Pigman OR Stalkin’ Malkin OR Pammycakes.
Your choice, plus soup and salad.
Name that Toilet!
Wal-Mart. Also.
Fingers? Ewww.
I would have spit it out too. After all, you never know where they’ve been.
Name that Toilet!
Rush, as in “Be sure to flush the Rush!”
“Fingers? Ewww.”
Wait.
Branes are OK but fingers, ewww?
That’s just messed up.
Fingers are bone-in, OneMan.
“Fingers are bone-in”
Veiled PENIS reference.
I wonder if the bite-ee got a chance to say “Scuse mah finGAH!!!” before it got bitten off.
Fingers? Ewww.
What about branes? One never knows where they’ve been.
Branes are OK but fingers, ewww?
That’s just messed up.
No kidding. Mostly because with the average winger, you do have an idea where the fingers have been (bag of Cheetos, wanking off) … but you don’t even want to know where the brain has been.
Damn you, Looch.
What about branes? One never knows where they’ve been.
If we’re talking about the Branes of writers like Glenn Reynolds and other perrenial S,N! faves, I think it’s safe to assume they would be bland, tender (from lack of exercise), and absolutely tasteless.
OMFG. Glenn Beck is going to receive the keys to the city of Mount Vernon, WA, where he gew up.
This is simultaneously incredibly disturbing since I grew up not many miles from there and wholly unsurprising…because I grew up not many miles from there.
There are a lot of people carrying signs, Change the locks.
OMFG. Glenn Beck is going to receive the keys to the city of Mount Vernon, WA, where he gew up.
Mt Vernon, WA…why does that sound familiar to me…?
What about branes? One never knows where they’ve been.
Squished up in the 11th Dimension.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. A northwest Washington man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while hunting an opossum that had been snatching his chickens.
Yep, sounds like the fine rugged pioneer stock you’d expect Teh Glennster to come from.
Hopefully Bleccch will emulate this person and go out and shoot himsefl in the leg, like Real Americans do.
Squished up in the 11th Dimension.
I was wondering how long it would take for that response.
bland, tender (from lack of exercise), and absolutely tasteless
What would The Lunch Lady say?
Name that Toilet!
La Porte de l’Enfer
bland, tender (from lack of exercise), and absolutely tasteless
What would The Lunch Lady say?
I can’t say (it’s in the contract), but I imagine it would go something like:
“Everybody complains on spaghetti day, kid”
Squished up in the 11th Dimension.
I was wondering how long it would take for that response.
Architects, engineers and now what? Astrophysicists? Or are you guys just quantum mechanics with universal grease all over your hands?
Or are you guys just quantum mechanics with universal grease all over your hands?
It’s more like bulk fiber.
Architects, engineers and now what? Astrophysicists?
Unfortunately just a physics geek whose mathematics couldn’t keep up with my aspirations.
Some folks are just insane in the M-Brane.
Unfortunately just a physics geek whose mathematics couldn’t keep up with my aspirations.
Right there with ya, pal. When I found out Ricci curvature wasn’t about Christina I lost interest.
Hey, I learned something (after scurrying around a bit). Now my brane hurts.
It’s Poe, right? It turns out that the finger is hidden on a hand all along.
It’s under the floorboard. Still cracking its knuckles. Those policemen are pretending not to hear it, toying with me.
all the Braxton-Hicksing that I’m doing
Is it a Braxton, or a Hicks particle? Make up your mind plz.
Is it a Braxton, or a Hicks particle? Make up your mind plz.
Scuse MAH string-a’s!
Sounds like string theory.
Or dark matter, depending on how one looks at it.
Central to my point, Cal Thomas:
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities. […] Why is it OK at liberal universities to tell professors what they want to hear, but not OK at conservative ones to do the same?
Sounds like Cal Thomas is trying to help out S,N! by self-shortering himself. We could probably re-write his argument, along the lines of “This is how we behave at conservative universities so therefore liberal universities must have been doing it first”, but the result always ends up as long as the original.
Now you’ve gone and reminded me of the lullaby I used to sing to Doktorling Sonja when she was small:
Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown of parity
That’s why black holes have no hair.
That’s why black holes have no hair.
Fuzzy wuzzy was a hole
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy wuzzy wuznt fuzzy, was he?
OH YES HE WAS!
Teh full version, repeated from an earlier thread (to which I shall not link because it was full of bad food-related puns):
Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown, of parity,
Johnnie’s so late at the fair.
He promised to write me a Theory of Ev’rything,
He promised to tie it all up with a superstring,
Instead of a closed group he gave me an open ring
That’s why black holes have no hair.
I gots a delivery heah. To Da Corner. Only it sez here that I have to go up to the floor above and drop it through some hole or sumpin so dat dey get it or sumsuch. It’s deez boxes heah. One’s sumpin called Cluons. De udder is Validons. Up dere? Ok, tanks.
One’s sumpin called Cluons. De udder is Validons. Up dere? Ok, tanks
Wait. Where are the Klingons?????
Oh, dear, where can the matter be
When it’s converted to energy?
There is a slight loss of parity
Johnny’s so long at the fair.
Where are the Klingons?
They’re determinedly holding on to the package.
Central to my point, Cal Thomas:
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities.
Um, so Mr. Cal is setting up a nice wicke^H^H^H^H^H straw man and preparing to lock someone – *ahem*, to knock it down.
Remind me again why this guy has a national column and I have a shitty blog that never gets updated?
Is it a Braxton, or a Hicks particle? Make up your mind plz.
It’s a Hicks Braxton, also known as the “pea in a pod” particle.
Wait. Where are the Klingons?????
Circling Uranus.
Pere, do kids know what “^H” means these days? Also, why do they call it “dialing” the phone? Also.
Pere, do kids know what “^H” means these days?
I miss my HP TSB…
scuse his finGAHS
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/09/fingered_protesting_man_bites.html
this story has it all : fingahs, moveon.org, astroturds, etc.
Psst, kg….Been there, bit that
Pere, do kids know what “^H” means these days?
Probably not, the little my-lawn-trodding bastiges.
But I don’t know the magic to convince WP to do the strike-through text, so I have to work with the character set I have, not the character set I want.
do kids know what “^H” means these days?
Your emoticon, I do not recognise it.
Your emoticon, I do not recognise it.
It’s a backspace character you young rapscallion! And get offa mah lawn!
Pere, it’s just “strike” in the brackets, not “strike-through,” but everybody knows ^H is a baby bird on an i-beam.
Hey, I still hit ^[ for escape in vim because the key travel is shorter.
People who know what ^H means will be first for the death panels
Oh dear, what can dark matter be?
Oh dear, heat death and entropy
There’s been, a breakdown of parity
That’s why black holes have no hair.
This wins four whole fried Internets and a Coke.
scuse my redundancy, should have finghured you’d covered that.
The bitten finger, having been spit, is sewn on.
But not all ye wingnuts, nor all teabaggers and shits
Shall justify its stoopid, not one bit
Nor all thy Dial remove the smell of turd.
People who know what ^H means will be first for the death panels
Oh goody! A game show! What can I win????
” works in preview (your tricksy, lying friend) but if you want the real deal, the literal inside the brackets should be ‘strike’
My weak desecration of Omar Kayyahm is humbled by Smut Clyde’s genius. I stand in awe.
I can hz “Mute Inglorious Melt-down” joke about Beck?
awfuk
imagine there’s matched (L+R) angly brackets with the literal ‘s’ between them just up there.
kthxbai
And I misspelled Khayyam. I’m goin’ back to bed.
PeeJ
“” and “” is your friend
AW FUCK! It worked in preview!!!!!
PeeJ, you need to spell out strike inside the angly bracket thingies.
And I forgot to put away my fake ID. I had to buy beer.
everybody knows ^H is a baby bird on an i-beam.
It looked to me like a nose over a mouth with sideways-closing mandibles.
Perhaps I am revealing too much about my home planet.
The way to do
thisis like <strike>this</strike>Tell us of your homeworld, Usul. Wait, just let me grab this DEET first…
The way to do
thisis like <strike>this</strike>But look what it got the air-trafffic controllers under Reagan.
The way to do
thisis like <strike>this</strike>Yeah, yeah. That’s what I thot I sed.
I liked the intertronz better when it was all lower case.
Smut Clyde said,
I can hz “Mute Inglorious Melt-down” joke about Beck?
Only if you make it. But you have my attention. I like Beck jokes, especially when they involve the beck-neck.
Glenn BleccchLet’s see if that works.
Also:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/03-8
You stay classy, Michael Steele.
Huzzah! Now I needz not bother children who haz no idea what teh ^H means.
BTW, I knew Blecccch was a piss-poor piece of work along about March 2002, when he was pissing and fretting about nobody commemorating the 6-month anniversary of TEH BESTEST AWFUL DAY EVAH by, oh say, invading Iraq or something.
Back then he was just a cut-rate K-mart knockoff of Limbaugh with hipper style. It’s so
nice pitiful that he’s found his own niche of crazy to inhabit.FYWP
Yeah, yeah, you closed that tag. Of course you did.
When the RNC chair took a written question on health care, he blasted the public option, saying that “every time the government gets involved in something it doesn’t work.”
Yeah, except for the Post Office, the VA, the GI Bill, the TVA and CCC, the National Highway system, the creation of the InterToobz, the phone system (until 1982 or so), the Pentagon, the rebuilding of Europe after WWII, Social Security, Medicare, Tricare…
OTHER THAN THAT, the government can’t do ANYTHING right. Yup.
The Emperor has no close.
Tag.
Yeah, yeah, you closed that tag. Of course you did.
I did so, you fink.
Oh and the Public Broadcasting system.
The way to do this is like
thisBaby let me show you how to do this. You’ve got to move this. You’re doin fiiiiiine…..
“Baby let me show you how to do this. You’ve got to move this. You’re doin fiiiiiine…..”
Suddenly I have the feeling I’ve wandered into a strip club.
Is it hot in here or is it just me?
Baby let me show you how to do this. You’ve got to move this. You’re doin fiiiiiine…..
Nice Barry White there, ped.
Nice Barry White there, ped.
I prefer the Evil Barry White who uses his subsonic hypnotic powers to make birds fly into windows.
Ima striking this hole thread.
~
LittlePig – if you’re around, check out Joke Line’s horror at the stupid in our hometown. And add a comment explaining to him why it’s the way it is, like I did.
Oh, and also too the National Parks system.
Yup d’ gummint done fucked that one up, shurenuff.
At least in Steele’s feverish imagination.
Well, he probably does think the government fucked up the National Parks system. That’s millions of acres of land where nobody’s building anything, nobody’s drilling for anything, nobody’s emitting any pollutants… It’s a waste, is what it is. I’m sure I remember reading that Ayn Rand was literally pro-pollution; not just opposed to regulation, or downplaying the severity of the problem, or whatever, but actually in favour of the presence of poison in air and water because it was a sign that capitalism was working. National Parks Are Theft!
One of the many things I wish somebody would ask these “You can’t trust the government to do anything right” people is, “Why, then, are you in favour of letting them torture people who have not been charged with a crime? Or spy on people who haven’t been charged with a crime? Or, you know, bomb the shit out of foreign countries? Do they suddenly become infallible if you put a gun in their hands? What?”
Well, he probably does think the government fucked up the National Parks system. That’s millions of acres of land where nobody’s building anything, nobody’s drilling for anything, nobody’s emitting any pollutants… It’s a waste, is what it is.
Well do I have some great news for him!
Better link
Filthy trash-shitting Mexicans.
So a veiled mierda reference?
Why do I get the feeling DMM dropped her litter tonight?
I dunno, AMY.
So what would you call it? “Buttbomb?” Feh. “Assblast?” Boring. “A-bomb?” Been there.. “Proctocharge?” Too long. “C-Fart?” The mind reels
Now why didn’t anyone propose Hindrocket? You’re slipping, peeps!
I’m HOPING we’re not hearing from them because of the move…
Do not mess with my National Rosy Parks.
I’ll get all rosy-fingered Dawn on yurasses.
~
I’m HOPING we’re not hearing from them because of the move…
I’m sure someone will let us know when The Kid makes his appearance.
I’m sure someone will let us know when The Kid makes his appearance.
If it ain’t on Drudge, it didn’t happen.
Wait. Where are the Klingons?????
I don’t know no nothin about no Klingons. And I get all da way up to hole above der offices and dey tell me dey don’t want the damn Cluons or the Validons. No! Instead, dey tell me dey ordered a bunch of Bogons, whadevah dey are. And a pallet of Cretons. I asked da people down stairs if dey tought deese Corner guys would want any Morons, cause I got a truck full a dem, and dey said dem Corner people had more than their share. Go figure.
rosy-fingered Dawn
Interest, newsletter, subscription, it’s for a friend. Who only reads the articles.
it’s for a friend. Who only reads the articles.
Your “friend” isn’t going to start singing “Delta Dawn” is he?
Rosy fingered Dawn?
Bad news for Dawn. She’s taking a fall.
rosy-fingered Dawn
One thing that I enjoy about swinging on the swings at the playground is overhearing what the kids are talking about these days. The downside is that you kind of look like a pedophile. Some choice quotes from a group of 7-10 year olds at around 9 PM in Dolores Park:
“I am not a lesbian, so don’t even think that way”
“You can’t get a girl pregnant with your finger”
“Don’t watch porn, you’ll get addicted!”
“Girl, I know it’s true, I saw it on YouTube!”
“I am not a lesbian, so don’t even think that way”
Megan Fox fan.
“You can’t get a girl pregnant with your finger
Future tentacle-porn addict.
“Don’t watch porn, you’ll get addicted!”
Current tentacle-porn addict.
“Girl, I know it’s true, I saw it on YouTube!”
Future Senator John Blutarsky.
Your “friend” isn’t going to start singing “Delta Dawn” is he?
So I ask The Tart who sang “Delta Dawn” and she has gone and looked up the lyrics on the Intraweb and is now singing them with her less-than-Dulcet- toned-pipes and curse you, my friend, curse you!
curse you, my friend, curse you!
“Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan.”
Here’s a little song I’d like to dedicate to Pat Buchanan, Glenn Bleccch, Malkin, Pammycakes, and the whole nauseating gang.
I don’t know but I think Pat Buchanan may be trying to corner the market on HITLER. Just a heads-up, people.
I really ought to be beyond astonishment when it comes to these people being utter filth-in-human’s-clothing … but I saw this today & now have bruises & lacerations on my thighs from how fast & far my jaw dropped. Good thing MY country will pick up the tab for the medicine from that wingnut-related injury.
Verbally hocking a loogy on a girl whose Mom just died of cancer? Par for the course from the crowd that spawned gems of warmth & empathy like Jeanne “Those Fucking Nuns Got What They Had Coming” Kirkpatrick or Pat “Mein Kulturkampf” Buchanan.
But justifying said lung-gerbil by comparing her valid outrage over the needless premature demise of a beloved parent to the gun-wielding ultra-right shitheels being egged on to a marathon of idiocy by his own party?
Put down the horse-syringe & back slowly away from the eight ball, Mr. Steele – methinks someone needs a visit to DetoxLand.
HITLER is a renewable resource. Not even P. B. can get all of it.
What about P. B. & J.?
HITLER is a renewable resource.
More like kudzu. Or flies. There’s always plenty no matter what you do.
So, stand down on that Buchanan cornering the market alert, ‘K?
HITLER is a renewable resource.
It’s our responsibility to manage it properly and cull the herd when it gets to large, lest they eat each other.
On second thought, let ’em eat each other. More fun to watch.
I’m HOPING we’re not hearing from them because of the move…
Yes, move. Very, very exhausting. No Studie yet. Hopefully have all boxes moved tomorrow.
Ugh.
Stay, Studie! Stay!
Or I’ll send you Ann Coulter’s latest column!
Or I’ll send you Ann Coulter’s latest column!
Of course I had to look.
Ah, the “Whole Point of Getting Medical Treatment is Seeing Others Suffer and Die Because They Can’t Have Any” argument. I wish more people would use this.
Actually, I wonder why someone hasn’t opened a swanky, $1000/entree restaurant in NYC with glass cages full of starving brown people at each table? I’ll bet it would be a big hit with a certain set.
“No Studie yet.”
So…the Beck treatment worked then.
So…the Beck treatment worked then.
I would like to sell you an elephant whistle.
pedestrian,
These are people who would be vehemently against a breakthrough that would allow everybody to live happy and healthy into their 120s unless there was some way for them to go to 130. The very idea of equality in anything is anathema to them. They think so little of themselves that they must always and constantly have some banal reassurance that they are “better” than everyone else. Sad and kinda gross for them. Boring and irksome for the rest of us.
The zero sum philosophy certainly has its place. Making all else secondary to it is simply absurd.
Your restaurant, of course, would serve only endangered species, because where’s the fun otherwise?
Or the cork.
Not, apparently, parody, nor is it a lampoon, nor satire:
More Friday Morning Web Log Pimpin’ right here, you betcha.
zero sum
I blame Notation Polish Reverse for the popularity of this term.
Your restaurant, of course, would serve only endangered species, because where’s the fun otherwise?
If it is called “Bastards”, or if Alan Pellay is one of the waiters, then you have lost my custom already.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 3:22
I love you and wish to bear your children.
Okay, maybe not the children part.
And water torture! The sink in my kitchen and the shower head next to my bedroom has dripped repeatly every few seconds for the past 2 years! In sterio, drip, drip drip! I should be in a mental hospital!
Why yes. Yes you should.
I love you and wish to bear your children.
Okay, maybe not the children part.
It’s just as well. I’m unbearable.
But not inscrutable.
Not, apparently, parody, nor is it a lampoon, nor satire:
But it does look familiar. Li’l Missy has herself a Mini-Palin kind of deal going on, complete with fanboys (like “Bazookaman” — now there’s some rough trade) and a bunch of commentary that spins around the event horizon of stupidity before disappearing into a black hole of pure lunacy. Secession? Sure? Why not?
Here is the way I believe it works at liberal universities. Some professors require their students to repeat back to them on test papers and in theses what the professors believe. Unless students hate Republicans, revile George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, renounce God, support abortion and gay rights, they can sometimes expect a lower, even a failing grade – “Unfortunately not Silent” Cal Thomas
You got me there. For example, consider the following test problem:
I mix 17.5 g. of oxygen gas with 2.0 g. of hydrogen gas and allow the hydrogen and oxygen to react. How many moles of what compound forms? What is the limiting reagent?
Many of my general chemistry students get lower grades or even fail because they write responses like “1.0 moles of water form” and “hydrogen is the limiting reagent” when, in order to get full credit, they should be writing things like “I hate Republicans and revile George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan”.
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Alternative snark:
You got me there. For example, consider the following test problem:
I mix 17.5 g. of oxygen gas with 2.0 g. of hydrogen gas and allow the hydrogen and oxygen to react. How many moles of what compound forms? What is the limiting reagent?
I will give (general chemistry) students lower grades or even fail them for not correctly identifying water as the product, etc. And it is well known that to say “hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water”, etc., is tantamount to saying “I revile Ronald Reagan” as facts have a well known liberal bias and empirical observations even more so.
I confess, when I require students to solve limiting reagent problems, I’m really indoctrinating them into liberal ideology!
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
Yeah. I feel so neutered.
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
It’s like the teabaggers shut down our town hall.
I just read the next post (sans comment window) and I am increasingly thinking that peak wingnut is an illusion. It’s not gonna happen. When someone’s whole world view and emotional framework incorporates a constant doubling down on their unshakable beliefs (in the face of ever-mounting evidence wrongitude) how can one assume that a “peak” will ever be reached? There’s always one more summit over the next one. I am sure there is some well-considered theory that postulates that will be a collective collapse of wingnuttery into itself in the 11th dimension or whatever (and would love some pointers to such discussions if for no other reason than to inspire a little hope) but damn, these people are off the deep end.
“ever mounting evidence of wrongitude”
Moar kofFiE
I had a comment box, but when I tried to post I got the message that comments were closed. When I refreshed there was no comment box. It’s a shame too, as what I was trying to post was the all-time wittiest and bestest reply the intertubes haz evah seen!!11!1!!!
was trying to post was the all-time wittiest and bestest reply the intertubes haz evah seen!!11!1!!!
No, no. See my post above.
Looch, I said that many comment threads ago. it’s an ever expanding alternative universe.
Quite a controversial theory at the time, too.
Now, it just seems all too obvious, doesn’t it?
Anybody else not getting a comment box on the next post?
Yeah, but fuck it, I’ll make my comment here.
Schilling for senate?
No. Al Nipper for senate!
Yeah sure.
A zombie WOULD say that.
Woop! Woop! Woop!!!
Brad thread inoperative! System failure!
One of the hamsters must have slipped in the wood chips and knocked the rubber band off the drive wheel.
Or is it gerbils?
A zombie WOULD say that.
Well of course he would. Stupid, slow-moving brains housed in bodies with similar characteristics? That’s kinda like a Kodiak bear astride an Alaskan stream during the salmon run, isn’t it?
(And for ZRM’s sake, with Sarah Youbetcha out of the state and not poised a hundred yards away with her quad 50. cal anti-aircraft battery ready to smoke the poor critter.)
Test
pretty early to be hatin on the zombies, isn’t it?
Test
Veiled scrotal reference.
pretty early to be hatin on the zombies, isn’t it?
No hatin here. Just thinking that enlightened self-interest is a good example for all of us.
What’s wrong with the comment section in the next post?
What’s wrong with the comment section in the next post?
Teabagged.
Why do keep hearing this on the next thread?
Here’s how wack it’s getting out there:
“JERICHO, Ark. – It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn’t hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.
“The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_re_us/us_shot_in_court
Michael Bay=HITLER.
Whew. Jericho is over by Mississippi, in flatland country. Those people are crazy.
(/native of Western aka Hillbilly Arkansas)
it’s an ever expanding alternative universe.
Ever seen the book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds?” It was written in the late 1700’s IIRC, (I can’t lay my hands on my fecking copy–Spagdamnit– I hate moving) and covered all sorts of speculative bubbles like the tulip mania and the South Seas swindle. I came across the book during the Internet insanity of the 1990s (I was covering it out of San Francisco at the time) and it helped explain to me why Yahoo! (which had no real revenue stream at the time) had a market cap bigger than Ford or GM (or both, can’t remember). The point I got out of the book was something like: “People go insane en masse but come to their senses one-by-one.” Mebbe we will see something like this occur here, but I think the combination of fear, uncertainty, racism and flat-out ignorance among many of our fellow citizens may retard that process to the point that the numbers of people coming to their senses will simply be overwhelmed by the numbers going batshit insane.
I would be happy, nay, thrilled, to be completely and categorically wrong about this, BTW.
But not inscrutable.
Must. Not. Fix.
“The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.”
My favorite part of the story, discussing how the new police force had been over-zealous in enforcing speed limits was some geezer saying they tagged him for doing 58 mph in his driveway.
Looch,
Go read Krugman’s blog from 9/2/09 (I linked to it on my blog today, item #8).
Marvelous story.
tagged him for doing 58 mph in his driveway.
He must have lived at Tara!
I’m imagining Scarlett O’Hara’s modern counterpart…Paris Hilton?…speeding down her driveway in a Porsche.
“Fiddle me, Dee”…
Fuck me? No, fuck you! Always blamin’ my ass ’cause you can’t close a markup tag… Let’s see how you like no comment box, motherfuckers.
But not inscrutable.
Must. Not. Fix.
No. Thing. To. Fix.
Must. Not. Fix.
“Excellent impulse control, Actor! Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?”
Inscrotable.
“Excellent impulse control, Actor! Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?”
I find it inconceivable.
Hey! Who turned off the comments on the upstairs thread? I had something really important to say about the latest wingnutbagger poutrage, but now I forgot.
Dear WordPress,
Dear, sweet, gentle, kind WordPress:
I think the problem is that parents are given no opportunity to review these Obama Satanic communist Nazi-inspired comment boxes before they’re left out on the naked Internets where the children may be exposed to them. Around eight o’clock. On a school night.
If only we might persuade a leading American intellectual to provide a Republican response to the comment box, I’m sure we could resolve this.
Bipartisanally yours,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Cap
Gosh, y’know, I would so totally leave a relevant comment on the new thread, if only I, you know, could.
JUST SAYIN’.
Did someone forget to put another quarter in the commenting meter?
Or did Little Studie put up a picket line across it?
I can’t lay my hands on my fecking copy–Spagdamnit– I hate moving
If you don’t mind reading on teh ‘lectric compooter, I’m sure Project Gutenberg has a copy.
(Which has nothing to do with Steve Gutenberg, thank the Goddess.)
But not inscrutable.
Must. Not. Fix.
No. Thing. To. Fix.
I take that as a challenge….
But not inscrew
utableFIXED!
Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?
This is a bit off-topic, but central to my point:
It’s nice you have spare Ritalin, but when it’s my turn to bring snacks, I make a special effort to find something more cookie-like.
@Looch
Chas. Mackay’s _Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds_ was first published in 1841. It’s in the revolutionary liberal (in the 19th-c. sense) and laic spirit of the 1840s. Religion as an idea fairs badly in its accounts of the Crusades and the Witch Craze of 1400-1650, as do the pre-modern sciences of alchemy and the art of divination. (And if you’re apt to regard any of the latter things as absolute retardants of human progress, you can credit the major influence of this book on the English-speaking world.)
FIXED!
Way to kill a pun.
“Excellent impulse control, Actor! Does anyone else in the group want to say anything about Actor’s decision?”
If I can explain, I was channeling Brando in On The Waterfront, you know, that famous scene in the back of the car where he says “I wanted ta be someone,” where, you know, most actors would have done the whole “I wanted to be someone.”
As Lee Strasberg once said to me after a scene study class, “Less is more, more or less.”
Late to the party but man, some of youse guys are really fucken^H^H^H^H^H^H old. [0x0D 0X0A]
I propose “Studly” as the nickname for Young Studebaker, (assuming he is of the X-Y chromosomal persuasion), rather than “Studie”. It’s more, well, more studly, frankly. Also, when the little tyke misbehaves in the future, his ancestors can admonish him with a gentle, “Studly, No!”
So let it be written; so let it be blogged.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:09
FIXED!
Way to kill a pun.
Don’t blame me for horning in on your seduction scene.
Studly would be short for Studlebaker, and that would just be WRONG.
4:15 minutes…Sadly,No! Commenters Held Hostage By Rabid Right Wing Censors….
DEVELOPING
I’ve just finished sending E-mails to my local school board members who took it upun themselves to secede my county from the union and ban the president of said union from speechifying to the tender young ears of our students. If only W were still around to inspire our youth. I still remember his rousing speech on how all you needed was a C average and you could grow up to be presnut!
Gosh, y’know, I would so totally leave a relevant comment on the new thread, if only I, you know, could.
Thanks be to Boognish! I was worried that someone dosed my browser.
It’s OK–no hostage crisis. Everyone is just sitting, mouths agape, stunned at the brilliance of my suggestion.
Studly, No!
Don’t blame me for horning in on your seduction scene.
WTF?
I’d like to hear more about these magical seduction horns.
Since the WordPress hamsters seem to be out on strike, may I suggest replacing them with long-legged Mack Daddies from the Holiday Inn.
N__B said,
September 4, 2009 at 17:22
Don’t blame me for horning in on your seduction scene.
WTF?
teehee!
I’d like to hear more about these magical seduction horns.
It’s a Viking thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Ok, they’re more like pillaging horns, anyway.
Q: How do you seduce a Viking?
A: Move.
NVM,
it’s not that WordPress is on strike, it’s that other thread is the VIP section and there’s the red velvet rope to prove it.
Elitist-ists!
Wapsie: Thanks for the correction, my memory is shit. Among a number of us back in the day (think mid-late 1990s) we kept asking ourselves and each other questions like: “How does Netscape have a market cap of billions when they have not had a single quarter with profits?” Or, the aforementioned Yahoo! example. The guy who gave me the book actually worked for MS (he left soon after) with the admonition, “READ this.”
And Actor: I read (all 8 pages!) of Krugman’s piece. It would seem to be that even extremely intelligent, well-educated people (in this case, economists of the highest order) can be swept along in mass delusion as easily as the saps who would trade an entire household of goods for a single tulip bulb. Not that this comes as a suprise, but it’s nice PK lays this out so clearly.
And, note Brad Delong, mentioned in Kurgman’s article. For those of you not acquainted with him, he has hisself a blog and he is so damn smart that I learn stuff from him even when I don’t have a clue (Often? No, very often) as to what he is talking about.
IOKIYAR
IOKIYAR
Every time I see a clip of GHWB talking I think of Anne Richards:
“Poor George. He can’t help himself. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
Well, since I CAN’T COMMENT *<—hint<—hint* on the new thread, I guess I'll have to do it here:
Tintin adds: And, of course, these are the same fuckwits who want to put prayer back in the schools. Indoctrination (even if that were what Obama was up to) is okay as long as it’s indoctrination that they like.
And Creationism and Bible-based abstinence, as well.
What ARE these morans afraid of? The President speaking to kids – his he going to use his subsonic mind control powers to hypnotize them?
Or are they just worried about them seeing a black man in a position of authority?
No, really, it’s okay. I didn’t want to say anything anyway. No, no, no, it’s FINE. Really, it is.
Further IOKIYAR.
St. Ronny did the same thing.
Not that this comes as a suprise, but it’s nice PK lays this out so clearly.
What should not have been a surprise, after I thought about it for a moment, was that stupid money forces out smart money.
Why should the financial markets be any different than any other endeavour that mixes intelligent people with idiots?
Look at our news. Look at movies. Look at TV. Look at practically anything.
man, if the comment box doesn’t come back soon, I might end up doing some WORK yet today….
What a day! Whay a day! What a day for an auto da fe!
Oh, freakin’ lover-ly. I wroted a commet but WordPress eated it.
Anyway, it was about the new thread (the one WE’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH to comment on) and made the point that the same hypocrite idjits objecting to the President speaking to schoolkidz didn’t object to crestionism and Bible-based abstinence, too also.
You think mayyyyybe it’s something to do with them being exposed to a vaugely Centrist/barely Left black man in a position of authority (or even just a black man in a position of authority, period)?
The elite:
Woodrowfan
N__B
LD
Major Kong
Just Alison
The Tragically Flip
Maybe we should just cut and pasta the next post into this comment section and get on with it. But seeing as it’s not my house and all…
The Dirty Half-Dozen?
crestionism n., the belief that one’s plumage determines one’s cosmological importance. Mine’s bigger neener neener neener is a common crestionist assertion.
I think Obama might as well go for broke, then, and while talking to the kiddies he should just swing a pendulum in front of their eyes, hypnotize them, and command them to finish their homework. And then get gay-married.
I mean, it doesn’t matter what he does – the right’s going to demonize it. So go for it.
mean, it doesn’t matter what he does – the right’s going to demonize it. So go for it.
I disagree.
The more outlandish their whining, and the more reasonable he looks, the more liberal he can get once the country scopes their agenda out and says “Ewwwwwwwwwwww!”
It’ll be like the boy who cried “wolf”…
The elite:
Woodrowfan
N__B
LD
Major Kong
Just Alison
The Tragically Flip
N__B…how COULD you????
Well fuck it, I’ll say something: “Look, as much as Schilling is beloved in this state for bringing the Sawx two championships” BELOVED MY ASS. I used to listen to ‘EEI every afternoon and got the impression Schilling was fairly widely viewed as a self-congratulatory asshole and all-around douche.
Why should the financial markets be any different than any other endeavor that mixes intelligent people with idiots?
I liked the part where Krugman tells of how Larry Summers (feh, eh, whatever) starts a position paper with “THERE ARE IDIOTS-Just look around you.”
And of course, this line of thought bodes poorly for the whole “peak wingnut–will people come to their senses?” discussion. Idiocy overwhelms intelligence, if only by force of sheer numbers.
Hmm. Maybe we should secede.
There’s an opportunity to cost-effectively improve teacher-student ratios by spreading word Obama will deliver a brief video message every school day.
There’s an opportunity to cost-effectively improve teacher-student ratios by spreading word Obama will deliver a brief video message every school day.
AND lift the mean IQ in every classroom at the same time!
I think Obama should do some kind of Clockwork Orange-y thing and force the schoolchildren’s eyes open while he shows them increasingly fast subliminal clips of Noam Chomsky, Soylent Green, Triumph of the Will, Warren Beatty’s Reds, the assisted suicide scene from Million Dollar Baby, and Will and Grace.
Not exactly sure how I ended up on a list of “the elite”.
Obama should … force the schoolchildren’s eyes open while he shows them increasingly fast subliminal clips
In my school, you got to do that if accepted into the Audio-Visual Club.
Not exactly sure how I ended up on a list of “the elite”.
Don’t play “faux patrician populist” with us! We are NOT Republicans!
Obama’s going to mandate all school cafeterias serve Dijon mustard!
Nobody else is either, but now we have to read your shitty editorials at the Washington Post.
Obama’s going to mandate all school cafeterias serve Dijon mustard!
She should be along any minute now…
Lunch Lady, are we gonna have arugula?
Obama’s going to mandate all school cafeterias serve Dijon mustard!
But will the Lunch Ladys across America support a Honduras-style coup?
But will the Lunch Ladys across America support a Honduras-style
csoup?Fizored
Is any else not getting a comment pane for the latest posting?
Is any else not getting a comment pane for the latest posting?
Nope. Just you.
(And the entire known universe, but whateve)
Join the proletarian masses.
now we have to read your shitty editorials at the Washington Post.
Oh, that’s good.
We’ve been roped off, owlbear.
I dunno if anyone’s noticed yet, but it seems like
there’s vegetables on that sammichthe next thread isn’t accepting new comments.k, cuz I was like totally freaking that Obama had completely surrendered to Republicans and banned all discussion of what terrified little bigots they are.
We’ve been roped off, owlbear.
Owlbear, do you know anyone inside? We could just come in with you.
I’m not dressed hot enough to be able to comment on that thread, I guess.
Owlbear, do you know anyone inside? We could just come in with you.
Heck with that! If I could find the bouncer, I could slip him a fifty.
the next thread isn’t accepting new comments.
Yeah, we’d noticed – I blame InstaBrad.
I’m not dressed hot enough to be able to comment on that thread, I guess.
See? If you chose a nym that was anagrammable…
Well look, I AM dressed hot enough, but the bouncer TOTALLY LIED TO ME.
See? If you chose a nym that was anagrammable…
g: go like this: 6
They’ll let you right in.
And can you come out and get us?
A plaid wool coat, pack boots and a hunting cap with ear flaps doesn’t count as being dressed “hot”. Just dressed “warm”
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Is any else not getting a comment
Fortunately, my Mom helps me sound out the big words and explain the more difficult concepts.
You think you’re pissed? I haven’t had to wait this long since Steve left my name off the VIP list at Studio back in ’77!!!!!!
I guess this is what it’s like to be told to head over to the free-speech zone.
A plaid wool coat, pack boots and a hunting cap with ear flaps doesn’t count as being dressed “hot”. Just dressed “warm”
Ah, the “Red Green” collection. Very nice. Very nice indeed.
I didn’t want to comment anyway, so there.
Isn’t Studio54 a Hardee’s now?
You know, when they pull that rope back there’s gonna be a rush to get in. I don’t know if I want to be that close to the door. I think I’ll move———————->over here.
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Perhaps Obama could put this whole school controversy behind him by rewriting his speech in consonants only.
Related: I suggest American business look to Wheel of Fortune: they’re still charging a mere $250 to buy a vowel (1970s prices!), and are thriving!
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Well, ya know, that whole disemvoweling episode kind of tipped their hand, and the S/N vowel demographic is weakening as a result.
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
Oi! Y U “AIEEEE!!!!”?
Isn’t Studio54 a Hardee’s now?
BITE YOUR TONGUE!
It’s the home of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
And in the daytime, an Arbees.
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
That’s because we’re always being facetious with them.
it seems like the next thread isn’t accepting new comments.
I think it’s because of Brad’s update where he swallows Tom Brady’s dick in one gulp. He usually gets abused in the comments for his Brady fellating, so maybe he’s just trying to avoid that.
“BITE YOUR TONGUE”
mks thit thard tth tipe tho…
While we wait, entertain yourselves with this link whut I stole from the Wonkette:
!The Legendary Campaign of the Stealth Goldberg!!!
Maybe Brad is longing for the days S,N! got comments in the single digits.
Or maybe they’re trying to tell us something.
owlbear1 said,
September 4, 2009 at 19:07
“BITE YOUR TONGUE”
mks thit thard tth tipe tho…
Website, newsletter, subscribe…
While we wait, entertain yourselves with this link whut I stole from the Wonkette:
Ok, I watched. When I got there the polling question (are you laughing, bored, angry, etc.) in response to the Stealth Goldberg’s campaign pitch had 56 percent at “laughing.” My vote pushed it up to 57 percent. Fifty-seven percent in not a passing grade, people.
!The Legendary Campaign of the Stealth Goldberg!!!
He’s….rather purplish.
Fifty-seven percent in not a passing grade, people.
61%, now.
He’s….rather purplish.
He’s a purplamerican.
and “s” and “n” are right next to each other on the keyboard. My keyboard, anyway.
Isn’t Studio54 a Hardee’s now?
BITE YOUR TONGUE!
It’s the home of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
And in the daytime, an Arbees.
AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IN.
AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IN.
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
I think TinTin’s added update about school prayer has brought the wrath of the lord down upon Sadly, No! and particularly that thread. There is no hope for us, we are condemned to WordPress hell.
I’m wearing shoes!
The elite:
Woodrowfan
N__B
LD
Major Kong
Just Alison
The Tragically Flip
N__B…how COULD you????
It was unexpected. Major Kong was sitting there, in his flight suit and cowboy hat, reading off the contents of the emergency ration kit, and when he described the gold rubles I knew I had to have him right then and there.
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
As a kid, I took this advice to heart. I thought it would get me out of going to church on Sundays.
I’m wearing shoes!
Board of Health says, for it to count, you must wear them on your feet.
AND WE STILL CAN’T GET IN.
What? You want to get Out in a time of public emergency? Next thing we know you’ll be taking off your shoes!
Wait, you said “get in? Nevahmind.
Further than usual off topic, I’ll be MIA shortly. I’m off to Berlin with Mrs. __B in search of some tasty fried SebRolls – a delicate mixture of politics and soft-core lingerie ads.
I’m wearing shoes!
While googling the phrase “no shirt, no shoes, no service” I discovered that Cory Lee is an exception to the rule. If she wants to run around shirtless, I’m pretty sure she’ll still get all kinds of service <wink> <wink> <nudge> <nudge> </say more>
Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria.
Socks can eat anywhere they wish.
tasty fried SebRolls
I’d comment on the BradRolls (the ones with the spicy elitist mustard and arugula) BUT I’M NOT ALLLOWED TO.
What level of hell was that? It’s been decades since I read Inferno. Just so I can get my bearings.
There are only 10 kinds of hell. 1 for those who understand binary and 1 for those who don’t.
“I think it’s disturbing that people don’t want to hear the president, but we live in a diverse society.”
That’s kind an odd way of putting it. I suppose saying, “but some of the parents are fucking ignorant jagoffs” wouldn’t make it into the paper.
N__B, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
There is no hope for us, we are condemned to WordPress hell.
What level of hell was that? It’s been decades since I read Inferno. Just so I can get my bearings.
It’s actually Limbo, where the inveterate shoeless and shirtless are sent.
N__B, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
It’s built of LEGO bricks, so it should come down pretty easily.
so, N__B is going to Berlin to rebuild the wall with Legos? Legos are from Switzerland, aren’t they?
Suddenly, things are falling into place. Stacking up, as it were.
I’m wearing shoes!
The Tragically Flipflops?
The Tragically Hip Waders?
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
“Very Funny, Scotty, now beam down my pants, please.”
So now with unemployment at 9.7%, it is pretty clear that what happened over the summer was a dead-cat bounce and the economy is setting up for a hammering the likes of which has never been seen. Can Hopey and the Democrat Party weather the storm? I think not.
There is no hope for us, we are condemned to WordPress hell.
I’m commenting too fast.
And so’m I.
And…cue the trool (not a typee).
26 years, you say?
Tell me, who was President again in ’83? For two full years? Starts with an R…. liked jellybeans and monkeys.
Oh, but I’m sure two years in back then, the unemployment rate was actually the fault of the previous Democrat. Meanwhile, half a year in now, and it’s totally on Obama.
Fer gawds sake Truthy, just use your real nym. With badgermatic it’s easy enough to just add the new name anyway so you might as well bite the bullet.
Reagan and his Fed chief intentionally started that recession to wring inflation out of the economy. It was sharp and painful, but short. This, in the other hand, is a prolonged depression. Like I said, it will be a hammering the likes of which has not been seen, ever.
So now with unemployment at 9.7%, it is pretty clear that what happened over the summer was a dead-cat bounce and the economy is setting up for a hammering the likes of which has never been seen.
Gawrsh, maybe if we started to invalidate the corporate charters of companies that decide to outsource their labor, we’d get al lot of those jobs back.
But *GASP* that might mean INTERFERING with the sacred holy blameless free market!
And is “Hopey” supposed to be an insult? ‘Cause it’s a really, really lame one (but what’d you expect from wingnuts?).
Reagan and his Fed chief intentionally started that recession
Parody troll, gotta be. Not even Troofy is that stupid and credulous.
Read about that recession. It was caused on purpose by raising interest rates to ridiculous levels, kngubu. They knew it would crash the economy but they needed to get rid of inflation, and fast.
Compare that to now. Rates are at zero and the economy is STILL tanking! Your side is fucked.
Oh you libs, you still don’t understand how this works?
All BAD NEWS is attributable to the democrats, whether in power or not; all GOOD NEWS is attributable to Republicans , whether in power or not.
And this WILL be good for John McCain and/or Sarah Palin. Say, isn’t she known as the Power Palin?
setting up for a hammering the likes of which has never been seen.
Ah, the prediction bidness. Tricksy, I’d say. Ya never know how badly you could miscalculate (i.e., be marinated in FAIL). Wasn’t there something about a Mr. McCain taking this state and then that one and here and there and people would wake up and some sort of freak-out would begin? Sentient beings learn, especially from mistakes. Others, not so much.
So, “I meant to do that” is now a political strategery?
Who knew Pee Wee Herman was a Republican. Although we should have guessed, what with the whacking off in a movie theater thing.
So, you’re saying that Reagan intentionally put people out of work? Put the lives of hundreds of thousands of American citizens at risk for an agenda which was not actually accomplished and instead took Bill Clinton eight long years fighting against Republican obstructionism to rebuild our nation’s surplus because of the no-tax-and-still spend policies of Reagan and his cronies?
Further, you’re saying that two years, of which I’m betting was only the prelude to a much longer recession (or do you not remember the numerous market fuck-ups of the 80s?), was [i]not[/i] a prolonged depression, while half a year [i]is[/i]?
Not even Troofy is that stupid and credulous.
what, you haven’t been paying attention?
The first ’80s recession was the Carter Recession, Trotsky. And yes, Reagan intnetionally caused the economy to sharply contract for a short period in order to kill inflation. It was the lesser of two evils (hyperinflation vs. recession).
And Reagan ended it easily enough. When inflation was held down to a reasonable level again, he cut interest rates and the economy boomed thanks to that and his tax cuts. Hope has tried massive government spending, and it has failed. He can’t cut interest rates, because they are already at zero. He can’t cut taxes, because the Democrat Party won’t let him. So he’s fucked.
So, you’re saying that Obama is now dealing with the Bush Recession, since he’s not even fully out of his first year, which was apparently long enough to get Bush off for all those dead American citizens on his watch.
Good to know.
So, “I meant to do that” is now a political strategery?
Added bonus, Reagan didn’t increase interest rates, he merely stayed the course at the previous administration’s levels. Thus, the Reagan “intentional plan to lower inflation” was actually stolen from Jimmy Carter.
This is the Barney Frank/Chris Dodd recession, Trotsky. Or the Fannie and Freddie Recession if you want to call it that.
So, “I meant to do that” is now a political strategery?
Of course!
Besides the recession thing, Reagan also deliberately contracted Alzheimer’s.
He was then better able to focus on the country’s problems without the distractions of a functioning hippocampus.
Republicans on the economy: like a dude standing in the crowd at house fire with a book of matches and a hard-on, laughing at the firefighters from not working fast enough.
No, no, we insist on the President being responsible just as Carter was. So clearly this is Bush’s problem that we’ve inherited.
The first ’80s recession…
Wheeee!! Recessions are only bad when you can blame a Democrat for them, otherwise it’s wise fiscal stewardshipmanship.
BTW, Mr. Economic Geeenyous, even the ultra-conservative WSJ is conceding that the stimulus – Obama’s stimulus is working.
Stick that in your “Hopey” and smoke it, sunshine.
So here’s our political strategy for 2012:
Find someone who is young and was against TARP, the auto bailouts, and the “stimulus” from the beginning, nominate him and run on a platform of “change”.
Wait. Wait. We are having an argument about the seriousness and gravitas of the Reagan economic team? Erm, two words: Laffer Curve.
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment, dipshits.
I will NOT be ignored, missing comments section from the first thread! I WILL NOT be IGNORED!!!
[begins to boil the missing comments section’s pet bunny]
When inflation was held down to a reasonable level again, he cut interest rates and the economy boomed thanks to that and his tax cuts.
Gawrsh again, that doesn’t explain the shitty economy under G.H.W. Bush.
Also, Joe Scarborough. Because we just won’t be satisfied until a young woman mysteriously winds up dead in his office again.
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment.
But obviously you’re saying Reagan’s plan, which was the last time unemployment was this high, was a sign that his plan was working.
So clearly, Obama’s plan is working, since unemployment is this high.
Fuck you, libs! Reagan also intentionally defeated the USSR and Godzilla (the evil Godzilla, not hte good one) and the 50′ Welfare Mom in a Cadillac. And a pony. And he solved world peace and cured cancer and when he farted, rainbows of jelly beams shot out his ass and it smelled like Jesus. So FUCK YOU libbies.
Bush 41 bended over for the Democrat Congress and raised taxes. Bush 41 was the worst Republican President in modern history for that reason. That, and not going all the way into Baghdad like he should have.
And, and. There was this little thingy called the Reagan defense build-up. That was (gasp) government spending (albeit narrow-spectrum).
Shorter Troolie: You make your points with the history you wish you had, not the history you had.
Except for the fact that Obama says he wants to STIMULATE the economy, while Reagan wanted to SLOW it to kill inflation.
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment, dipshits.
Ah, so we’re reduced to calling the WSJ “dipshits”. Nice.
When inflation was held down to a reasonable level again
By Paul Volcker, Carter appointee. THANK YOU JIMMY CARTER!
If Reagan’s plan to kill inflation had “worked” like Hopey’s stimulus, inflation would have skyrocketed to 50%.
And what of it? Clearly Obama’s plan has been a great success. Unemployment has matched that of Reagan, which means only good things, correct? After all, nothing Reagan did was terrible, so if the statistics emulate his results, then we’ve succeeded.
I’m glad you’re on board with this, troll. It’ll make things much easier once you just sit back, relax, and accept that Obama’s plan has worked.
If the “stimulus” was working, we wouldn’t be seeing 9.7% unemployment, dipshits.
Correlation, causation. Also: subjunctive, learn it, moe-run.
You know, if Troolie thought the Kewl Kids were the conservatives, he’d be over at Freeperville making the Librul case for things. Just a’ sayin’.
I’m going to put it slowly to you, retard:
Reagan said his plan would get inflation under control. It did.
Obama said if his stimulus plan DIDN’T pass, unemployment would be at 9.5% right now. By HIS OWN PROJECTIONS if it didn’t pass. It passed and unemployment is HIGHER than he projected if a STIMULUS HADN’T BEEN PASSED!
Hopey is an incompetent FAILURE. Deal with it.
When Ronald Reagan delivered a roundhouse kick to those nuns in Nicaragua, Central America shook with such violence that Saddam Hussein acquired chemical weapons. Beat that Chuck Norris!
I think we can all agree the stimulus didn’t work as well as it might have, though: needed more spending, and the stupid tax cuts neutered it.
@ Substance McGravitas:
You should envy g his unanagrammable nym. Your anagram is: Canvasser’s Magic Butt.
I’m sure he is, Looch. He’s exhibited plenty of characteristics to show he finds no meaning in anything he does, so flipping sides like that is very probable. He holds nothing sacred, because as a troll, he’s just after reaction. He has no real politics, just things he believes will annoy his current targets.
Or, to summarize, there isn’t just only one troll on Sadly, No!, there’s only one troll on the entire Internet.
Canvasser’s Magic Butt.
Too bad it’s not “Canvasser’s Magic 8 Butt”; if it were we could turn him over and KNOW THE FUTURE.
RFNC or FAIL.
Reagan complained bitterly about Volker’s rate policy.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926514,00.html
St. Ronny wrung inflation my ass. More revisionism.
Also, no. Obama’s plan has succeeded. You see, similar to you, I don’t give a shit. 9.5, 9.7 whoopity frig. What’s important is that I say Obama’s plan has succeeded, because I make truth through my words and actions. While you try to keep up with me with your quaint notions of reality, I’m blazing forward, making a new world.
Also, as per Reagan, Obama plans to use that speech to the nation’s schoolchildren to announce that ketchup is now a vegetable.
Oh, Jayzus. First we’re stuck with a stale 2-day-old threadbare thread thanks to WordPress awesomeness, and now we’re infested with some infantile troll. Yuck. Fuggit, I’m going to try to get some actual work done. Thanks a pantload.
g is one of those muscle-bound troglodytes, so he can have his hell with the beer and the football and monster trucks and so forth.
Also.
there’s only one troll on the entire Internet.
Busy troll.
“You stoff mo envelopes!”
I haven’t bought a John Barth book since that one with fortune-telling via assfuck, so [insert some excuse to have mentioned fortune-telling via assfuck].
re: anagrammatica
I’ve just discovered why I can’t resist responding to the troll. Compare this embarassing bit of shame to this awesome bit of pwnzoritude.
Monotrollism, as opposed to Polytrollism.
Now I’m curious what an atrollist is.
Oh, so I’m only a week behind the times? I’m really getting hipper! Or is it hepper? Unfortunately it chokes on my nym—too long, I guess.
Now I’m curious what an atrollist is.
One with functioning pie-script?
I think that’s an agtrollstic, D-K. Someone who doesn’t know if there is or isn’t a troll, because they haven’t seen enough evidence of either case.
My old nym, Lurkbot==Blurt OK. Is that close enough to a “Blart” joke to fit in here?
Perhaps someone from the Bikini Atroll?
No, really, I’m not sure, but we must be careful not to confuse “trollism” with “troilism” (though, come to think of it…)
I’m a Trinitrollist: The Truth, The Fool, Gary Ruppert, three trolls, of one substance, now and forever, amen.
Reagan and his Fed chief
JIMMY CARTER’s Fed chief, I think you meant to say. It’s not like you to try to take credit from a WINNER and give it to a LOSER like some sort of dirty socialist would do, so I’m guessing it was an honest mistake. I shall bookmark it.
Also, who brings you candy? I bring you candy.
Can Trool spew hatred so toxic that even He is disgusted?
I haven’t bought a John Barth book since that one with fortune-telling via assfuck
Hol up now: how can you see the little floating fortune with a PENIS all up in teh BUTTOCKS?
I’m a Trinitrollitarian: The Truth, The Fool, Gary Ruppert. One troll in three bodies, now and forever, amen.
I will begin burning Unitrollitarians at the stake immediately. “Michael Servetus, your pyre is ready!”
If Trool is so spiteful and ignorant, why is there so much pointing and laughing?
In the Beginning there was Darkness on the Face of the Void. And Then Trollfie said Something Racist About It.
It sticks to the tip.
(painfully obvious penis reference)
What happens when an incontrovertible fact meets an incontinent troll?
As I recall a character was something like the whoracle of Delphi: insert offering, receive fortune.
Wow. I think he’s gone.
Thank god.
the Zombie’s Wager:
Endeavour then to convince yourself, not by abatement of responses to Trool, but by the increase of your ridicules. You would like to attain reason, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of asshats, and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their internets. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, bless yourself with St. Prefixes, have Badgers scripts at ready , and such as; by a simple and natural process this will make you control the conversation, and will sharpen you—will enhance your proudly critical mockery…
Now, what harm will befall you in taking this side? You will be faithful, honest, humble, grateful, generous, a sincere poster, truthful if argumentative. Certainly you will not have those concerny pleasures; but will you not have others? I will tell you that you will thereby gain in this thread, and that, at each comment you make in sarcasm, or at each citation you post, you will see so great certainty of LULZ, so much nothingness in what Trool blathers, that you will at last recognize that you have wagered for something certain and infinite and humoeous, for which you have given nothing.
Verily, there is much weeing.
humorous.
WordPress made me misspell that.
And N__B.
and Gavin’s move.
I leave to pack and you all start drinking? Fuck, I need a beer.
With badgermatic
It slices, it dices, it gnaws your face off.
Start drinking?
I’m not sure you know us that well….
Also, having checked out that anagram thing, I think I’ve recognized why this nym works so well against the troll.
PROVOKING NASTY NEPOTIST
I think he’s gone.
Doubtless pondering with many a chaste sigh and glance toward Heaven the GLORY that was Jimmy Carter’s Fed chief and his mighty success in the war on inflation.
I liked the nym “A Rag Man,” but I can’t imagine what its anagram might be.
SadlyNO hates Vowels!
That’s because we’re always being facetious with them.
Srly u mean ‘facetiously’.
I leave to pack and you all start drinking? Fuck, I need a beer.
You probably don’t need any beer-drinking suggestions but I invariably wind up at Marcus-Bräu on Münzstraße 1-3, Berlin. And there’s the Lemkes brewpub (which now has a second branch — they took over the Luisenbräu brewpub over in Charlottenburg).
I just want you all to know that after Word Press ate my one comment, the second one was even more cleverer.
Now, when they eventually both show up, I’ma look like a maroon.
You probably don’t need any beer-drinking suggestions
No, but beer-buying suggestions are welcome.
Now, when they eventually both show up, I’ma look like a maroon.
Yes, but it’s a lovely color and will really add some spice to the otherwise drab color scheme here. There, I said it: DRAB.
Anagram name BRAD.
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I just ran out to one of the incredibly numerous and fantastic food carts so I missed some of the above. But,
Reagan and his Fed chief intentionally started that recession
You mean Paul Volcker? Carter’s fed chief? Who was forced into drastiuc measures to fight the Nixon/Ford inflationary fiasco? Who had things pretty much in control by the end of Carter’s term and then had to *try* to deal with Reagan’s insane monetary policies? You mean that guy?
Oh, Tandoori chiecken, rice, some wonderfully complex veggie sides and excellent naan. $6. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
No, but beer-buying suggestions are welcome.
If you’re in the neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg, there’s a little bottle-store tucked in between Prenzlauerallee and Kastanienallee specialising in Bavarian beers.
As I recall a character was something like the whoracle of Delphi: insert offering, receive fortune.
Are you sure you aren’t confusing this with one of the sub-plots in Creatures of Light and Darkness?
If you’re in the neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg, there’s a little bottle-store tucked in between Prenzlauerallee and Kastanienallee specialising in Bavarian beers.
Or you could just spend the evening shotgunning PBR tall-boys and crushing the cans on your forehead. Either way, really.
Doubtless pondering with many a chaste sigh and glance toward Heaven the GLORY that was Jimmy Carter’s Fed chief and his mighty success in the war on inflation.
but but but Ford had little buttons! People wearing little buttons!
Tandoori chiecken, rice, some wonderfully complex veggie sides and excellent naan. $6. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
And where are you that such food miracles are provided to thee?
Never read that. What I’m thinking of was in this one I think.
Pere, Portland (no, silly, there’s only one that matters) is on the bleeding edge of an emerging trend: gourmet food carts. So many food folk – chefs and foodies and restaurauteurs – have invaded Portland that we’re very deep in talent. Add in the economy which makes it really really hard to open new restaurants and you get something wonderful happening.
foodcartsportland.com has some links to the national attention we’ve been getting. They’re springing up just everyfuckingwhere. And I LOVE IT.
If I hadn’t been on my motorcycle, thus unable to transport it, I would have gotten mango lassis. Dang.
Not to get the in the way of any high-quality snarking or anything but has anyone actually emailed one or all of our Sadly Overlords regarding the missing comment box next door?
EVERYONE EMAIL GAVIN.
He has nothing on his plate lately.
So many food folk – chefs and foodies and restaurauteurs – have invaded Portland that we’re very deep in talent. Add in the economy which makes it really really hard to open new restaurants and you get something wonderful happening.
Damn, that’s a great idea.
Shame we’ll never see it in South Carolina.
no, I think we’d all rather whine about it.
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist, my comment makes more sense.
Eat their branes! EAT! THEIR! BRANES!
of course, since I was originally replying to a comment from Subbstance, if he didn’t exist, my comment would be just as senseless.
Hmm. Maybe I should just blame WordPress.
To be fair, in my circle wishing for my non-existence is quite normal.
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist…
Who?
Zombie Rotten McDonald==Morbid, Malcontent Doze. Just Sayin’.
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist…
Who?
Oh, they exist; they just got sent to the 5th dimension by anagramming Mister Mxyzptlk.
if you pretend Substance and Pere don’t exist
I think, therefore I NOM NOM.
And don’t eat our branes, you’ll let the universe next door leak into ours.
Of course, “Doze, Morbid Malcontent!” seems to make better sense….
KLTPZYXM!
aw, shoot, nothing happened.
From the Forbidden Zone:
Readers from other countries often get upset when I tell them that the American right is louder and crazier than any right-wing movement in the developed world. “But we have wingnuts too!” they’ll insist as they’ll link to something crazy a Tory backbencher said eight years ago.
Don’t we wish our wingnuts only spouted off every eight years or so, instead of nanoseconds between idjit rants.
The universe next door holds noisy parties and fills its front section with old cars jacked up on blocks. It is dragging down the value of this universe. Bastards.
aw, shoot, nothing happened
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EVERYONE EMAIL GAVIN.
Um, yeah, I didn’t think I had to mention that would be a dick move.
And the maroon paint on the universe next door’s window trim — it clashes with the rest of the street. Don’t we have a neighbourhood covenant to prevent this sort of thing?
Don’t we have a neighbourhood covenant to prevent this sort of thing?
I think the council is over in NGC 7413 if you want to call them.
The long-distance charges are going to be a bitch, though.
It’s always the reverse racism against carbon-based bipeds.
The long-distance charges are going to be a bitch, though.
I always reverse the charges.
But try getting the proton stains out of your amber cat fur.
That was a joke which, in its conception, represented me of me being stupid, which apparently didn’t play, as I am stupid.
Proof!
What’s all this then?
Comments available an item over.
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
September 4, 2009 at 23:35 (kill)
Zombie Rotten McDonald==Morbid, Malcontent Doze. Just Sayin’.
Yeah, I found that out back when the anagram maker was a new toy.
I whined about it then too.
there’s only one troll on the entire Internet.
Grand Unified Trool Theory.
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Don’t we have a neighbourhood covenant to prevent this sort of thing?
If you got complaints, pal, YOU can deliver the nasty-gram.
Since my whole nym is too long, I just tried putting my title in separately. I got: “Heed Nervy Revert Weakened Text Goofball.” There’s just all sorts of cosmic significance in there somewhere, I think.