So, rather than start a fund so the keyboard commandoes can pay for veteran steak dinners, they’re going to harass a private business for not providing handouts?

They really have killed irony.

The left takes a daring stance against feeding veterans.

There’s not really any malice in her posting the phone number of that woman. Once she sees the support for the meals program, she will be more likely to help save it.

I didn’t find any problem with Malkin posting the numbers of those anti-American protesters, and I don’t find any problem with her posting this number.

Anyways, the left has no real ground to stand on, because they’ve been posting Malkin’s home address all over the place, and then trying to act like it’s not happening.

I suspect that the suggestion –that the posting of the Malkins’ address and phone number was done by people on her own side, to help drum up support for further nasty acts on their own part– likely has more than just a grain of truth.

It’s not like this is the first time it’s happened. The most famous example, I’d imagine, was the burning of the Reichstag.

Sorry, I’ve gone all Godwin…

…one of those faceless, overdeveloped communities full of middle-market McMansion tracts that nobody decent would choose to live in.

Actually, it’s more like Mike-and-Carol-Bradyville out there than McMansionland.

Gary, have you had a decent bowel movement recently? It might help. A lot.

For real? Who cares? If this really was an issue, don’t you think someone (the American Leigon) would take steps to find another eating establishment to take the place of Fran O’Brien’s? I’d like to see a place run by a liberal step up and do this, just so conservatives will STFU about the whole thing.

Actually, it’s more like Mike-and-Carol-Bradyville out there than McMansionland.

There’s been a lot of development there in recent years. Lots of Tyvek and felling of trees…

Gary, have you had a decent bowel movement recently? It might help. A lot.

He has no problem with bowel movements – he’s very regular releasing them on this board.

Gavin, are you saying that even though we heard a whole bunch of stuff about maps, phone numbers, addresses, and death threats in re: Malkin yesterday, her personal info wasn’t actually posted anywhere except those two sites, and that those two cases might have been plants? Do we have evidence of anyone here, for example, having seen that personal information posted on the Web? If so, these people (Malkins, Malkinites, and right-wingers) really, really, give me the willies. They are absolutely evil, devious, and creepy, and not in any way that should elicit perverse admiration.

It turned up in comments a lot of places, always anonymously. I haven’t seen any evidence that anyone actually posted it until yesterday.

The left takes a daring stance against feeding veterans.

Jesus Christs Tits in a Mason Jar!! How do you even get from wherever to this? What is wrong with the cognitive capabilities of these freakin idiots? Oh yeah, Gary. Because I think this is the worst administration in over a hundred years, I want veterans to starve. I mean, aren’t you ever EMBARASSED??

I didn’t find any problem with Malkin posting the numbers of those anti-American protesters, and I don’t find any problem with her posting this number.

My goodness, what a surprise. Which brings us back to the basic and fundamental dishonesty of these wingnut assholes. There is no behavior so egregious, no criminal act so reprehensible, no traitorous crime in the name of clinging to power that these bigoted, perverted thugs could possible commit that Gary and his ilk would NOT approve of.

If you’ll recall, there were republicans involved in the investigation and impeachment of Nixon. There were Democrats involved in the investigation and impeachment of Clinton. But to these people, it isn’t about the preservation of our great nation. It isn’t about upholding their oath to support and defend the constitution. It isn’t even about the rule of law. It is about the preservation, at any cost, of unbridled power. And, I promise you one thing, friends and neighbors: Not only will it not stand, it will be their ultimate undoing.

Dammit. Now you’ve even got me sucked in. I’m gonna go have a long lunch at dave and busters, complete with a large quantity of gordon biersch, and when I get back here we better be funny again, or there’s gonna be trouble…

mikey

How do you even get from wherever to this?

You would be with Malkin if you wanted Veterans to get free meals.

You all do support the troops, right?

There is no behavior so egregious, no criminal act so reprehensible, no traitorous crime in the name of clinging to power that these bigoted, perverted thugs could possible commit that Gary and his ilk would NOT approve of.

Name one crime that I approve of.

There were Democrats involved in the investigation and impeachment of Clinton.

Only 5 Democrats voted to impeach Clinton and no Democrats in the Senate voted to convict.

Yeah, they were reeeeeally involved. Weren’t they?

It isn’t about upholding their oath to support and defend the constitution.

Can you name where we have violated the constitution?

When folks like Gary post around here, it reminds me of those ads in the back of porn magazines that would say “Bi? Curious?”

In this case “Sadly, No!? Curious?”.

Not that I’ve ever seen the back of porn magazines before.

Hey Gary, how do you feel about Bush cutting back medical benefits to Veterans? Or making troops pay for their meals in the hospital when they’ve been injured? If you support the troops, then you’re against Bush.

You do support the troops, right?

actually I think this one was my bad, not Michelle’s.

When I initially wrote the post, I cut and copied the contact info without really thinking about what I was doing. I later went back and edited out the phone numbers.

Michelle cut and copied the post before I got to the editing.

I’m not well versed on the subject, but I believe that Michelle posted a press release put out by UCSC’s Students Against War. SAW included their own contact information in the release, which is what was posted when Malkin ran the story.

I think that the response to post Michelle’s address was a bit of an overreaction….

I got a sixpack and a pizza against anyone who thinks that Gary has read the Constitution at any point in the last five years.

Thanks, John. I added an update.

Who is John? That’s a pretty common name, probably the commonest, but I feel like I’m supposed to know.

never mind.

how do you feel about Bush cutting back medical benefits to Veterans?

Actually, medical benefits have been increased. Although some future benefit increases may have been limited slightly.

Or making troops pay for their meals in the hospital when they’ve been injured?

Prove it.

And this shows the paradox of the left when it comes to spending. They want Bush to balance the budget, but they oppose any spending cuts. Because the left wants to gut the military and raise taxes.

Gary,

You’re wrong. About everything. Just go ahead and accept that. You will wake up tomorrow, the sun will be brighter, your breakfast will taste better, and it will be the best day of your life.

Gary, are you suddenly anti-free market?

I believe I speak for the left when I say that we’d like the government to actually use our tax money to pay the troops decently and not hack into their benefits so they can afford their own steak dinners. Do the troops really feel better about getting a handout than they would about providing for themselves and their families? They don’t, the ones I know anyway, seem like the kind of men (and women) who deal well with charity.

Seriously, Gary, if you can’t be more like annieangel and provide entertainment along with the heaping doses of Raging Stupid, maybe you should go troll one of the less snarky blogs.

Gary, are you suddenly anti-free market?

It’s not anti-free market to urge a company to do something.

It’s anti-free market to use the government to force business to do something.

Sidhe, we have a deficit, where would you reduce spending?

Gary’s the reason I hate debating with so-called conservatives.

“The Left” (are you listening, Norbiz) wants to “gut the military” – no, but we’d be a little happier if they spent their money wisely, rather than on Bush’s Big Adventure.

“The Left” wants to raise taxes. That’s a great partial statement there, Gary, but it leaves off one important piece. We want to raise taxes on the wealthy whose taxes have been reduced so much that they’re hardly paying at all. I think I can speak for “The Left” when I tell you that we’d like to lower taxes on people below the poverty line.

It’s just this sort of disingenuous hackery that makes the Right so damned infuriating.

Gary’s right you know. It’s all a plot by the lefties like Ted Kennedy to steal the steak from our brave veterans and make them eat nothing but frog’s legs, snails and lettuce. And they won’t stop there. It’ll be Gary’s Cheetos, Funions and Laffy Taffy next.

we have a deficit, where would you reduce spending?

Iraq is a good place to start. $100 billion here and $100 billion there, and soon you’re talking real money.

Gary, I hate to break this to you, but WE didn’t create the budget deficit, George Bush and his rubber stamp Republican Congress did that. Maybe you should have asked them when they were running up these massive record setting deficits what they should have been cutting, if financing the war by taking out loans from the Chinese, or if those tax cuts for the rich were such a great idea. Nah, it’s easier to blame the liberals. After all we hate America so much we don’t want to rack up the credit card debt to pay for unnecessary things.

Yeah, Gary, the Republicans say they love military service members, but THE FACT IS they couldn’t care less about them once they leave active duty. http://veterans.house.gov/democratic/press/109th/3-17-05budget.htm
This release is from 13 months ago. Has it gotten any better? Typical Gary/Republican stance: What have you done for me lately?

We have a defecit?

C’est incroyable!

Where could this defecit have come from? Have the defecite monsters been eating our free market cookies all up again?

Quelle domage!

“The left takes a daring stance against feeding veterans.”

Gary, are you fucking nuts? Hilton Hotels made a business decision involving a lease. Since when is Hilton Hotels “the left”?

How many veterans have you fed?

Sidhe, we have a deficit, where would you reduce spending?
Are you really that dumb? Askign this – THIS! – here?

If you really are, then I have a question for you: how do you think that deficit came about?

Oh, the Hiltons are total leftists.

Paris Hilton was at the last YSA meeting I attended, calling for the overthrow of the American goverment and brandishing a kalashnikov.

We all got baked and watched Noam Chomsky videos afterwards….it was pretty awesome.

Oh, wait….now I’m in the wrong thread.

Have the defecit monsters been eating our free market cookies all up again?

I’m laughing so hard I’m wiping tears from my eyes. Damn you, Jillian!

the left drank up all the hennessy i got on my shelf

When Digby first posted on this, people whose names I had never seen anywhere on any lefty blogs before were busily attempting to post Malkin’s personal info. I was watching Digby (or Tristero, or whoever) scrubbing these comments as fast as they popped up. Now that I know others had the same experience, my tin foil experience is complete 😉

Cheers,

GW

For what it’s worth, all the comments I saw at various places were posted under the samed user name, one I’d never before seen post at any of those places.

“one I’d *also* never before seen,” seconding Gentlewoman.

And “samed”? What the hell? Is the smoke from the last thread drifting up here? That would explain the munchies.

…the hell? I detest Malkin, but I’ve never seen her involved in anything this… weird before.

Hmm. Someone with the lovely moniker ‘killthebitch’ posted links to the Malkins addy and the satellite map in my comments on a post about Malkin. I edited the comment to remove the links (with an explanation to why I was doing that) but let the comment stand, because I don’t like to go so far as removing entire comments.

Wonder if that was actually a plant?

I hate to go looking at ISP numbers, but it might the same person popping up everywhere.

Also, as revenge against Malkin, how crazy would it be if Paris Hilton hacked Malkin’s cellphone and posted on the internets the bitter text messages with Debbie Schlussel about Ann Coulter, and Pamela of Atlas Shrugs’ private line at her secret shack-up digs with John Bolton?

Man, that would be cool.

It wouldn’t stun me if some leftist went around to a lot of leftist blogs to post Michelle Malkin’s personal information on the internet.

The leftist intimidation campaign will not succeed because Michelle Malkin is too strong to appease the left.

Could be the same person … could be an unhinged lefty or righty, who knows? What we learn, though, is that “the left” was not “posting Malkin’s home address all over the place …” as alleged by Gary Ruppert … uh, I mean, “the right”. All of it.

A newcomer here to this blog … so perhaps I have not become jaded by his comments.

Wow, that Gary Ruppert is a knob with, apparently, no life whatsoever. Must be hard typing with one hand whilst trolling left-wing websites on another dateless Friday night, while he frantically masturbates with the other.

I think that Gary Ruppert is the one who’s been going around posting Malkin’s personal information. Prove me wrong!

I went to the Iranian Cultural Centre today in Ottawa to get the Irarian-Canadian take on the developing tensions in the Middle East. I happened to mention l’affaire Malkin…

..we all ululated until we coughed.

Gary’s certainly dropped below the Mendoza line. He might need another spa day.

Jeff, you may be new, but it’s as if you’ve been here all along. You have some powerful insight mojo, my friend.

And I would like to see the IP addy of the “killthebitch” Malkin-info-poster investigated, just to see whether it is really The Left or not.

Wow, Gary. So “some leftist” comprises a “leftist intimidation campaign”.

By that logic, this is what the average snake looks like.

I rolled back a few threads and read some of “Gary”‘s comments … this guy can’t be for real. It is physically impossible to jam your head THAT far up your ass. “Gary Ruppert” is probably sitting at his computer thinking of asinine things to say and laughing at all of us as we refute them.

DA’s poster was not the one I meant, I’d forgotten that one. “themole” was the one I was thinking of.

My commenter had “themole” as its homepage too, tigrismus.

Gary, care to explain to me how one “leftist” posting to all the lefty blogs Michelle Malkin’s address constitutes an intimidation campaign on behalf of all leftists?

I could write: Garry Ruppert 1-(976)-Troll and 55 Wingnut Avenue, That Fake Disney Town in Florida, Florida in a bunch of blogs (non political even) and you’d (if that was for some insane reason, your real address/telephone number) get a whole bunch of crank calls. You might even get crazy leftist calling you. Personally I think the whole posting personal information online is crazy since the only people who would call a private number of someone they don’t know without permission are either nuts or telemarketers.

killthebitch and themole also appeared on Jesus General. Someone there said they might be the same person.

Oh, so perhaps it was the same person. I followed the link from one blog, there was only a “buy this domain” placeholder.

Yeah, it was a placeholder on the ‘killthebitch’ in my comments, too. Smells pretty fishy. Certainly this whole ‘Malkin’s address splashed across the internet’ meme is looking more baseless by the minute, and it’s my growing suspicion that the whole thing was rigged in advance.

A mole? This sounds like a job for George Smiley.

Gavin, when did you stop beating Michelle Malkin’s wife? Prove it. Right now.

I’m not even sure I get the issue. If Hilton’s going to close the restaurant, I’m guessing it’s because it’s not making money, right? So they should leave the money-losing restaurant open just to give away free meals to vets on Friday nights? What Republican would support a money-losing proposition?

I’m puzzled.

What Republican would support a money-losing proposition?

The ones who can channel trillions of dollars into deficit spending?

Ok, show of hands…who here still thinks conservatives actually understand real money?

Yep, the Left is coming out against free meals for vets.

The fact is that the left thinks that the only acceptable charity is from the Government. Which is why red states donate more to charities than blue states.

Yawn.

The fact is that the left

Does anybody else get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside everytime they read this intro to a point? It’s almost as good a set up as “This one time, at band camp”

I also love the description “The Left,” like there’s some giant building with a big sign on it that says “THE LEFT” in big letters where we all eat caviar, drink French wine and conspire to give aid and comfort to terrorists, destroy the military, urinate on the flag, ban the Bible and make speaking Arabic mandatory.

Jeff, you mean you never got an invitation? Dude, you were on the list.

Yep, the Left is coming out against free meals for vets.Gary, if that’s the case, then why is there a Recommended Diary on the front page of Daily Kos, posted early this afternoon and having 180 supportive comments (at last count), about this free-meals-for-vets business? The person who wrote this diary, after following through with his own protest to Hilton, posted the diary to draw attention to the matter and give specific suggestions as to actions to take to help the restaurant in question.So, Gary, just because you wish liberals were bad people and the opposite of everything you say you believe doesn’t make it true. Liberals get things done; they don’t simply go trolling on websites just to make flaccid and easily refuted points, and then take a nap, like some I could name.

like there’s some giant building with a big sign on it that says “THE LEFT” in big letters where we all eat caviar, drink French wine
Hey, that actually sounds like a pretty good idea! Throw in some mandatory lesbo action and you can count me in.

Jeff, you forget we also give kids “the gay” at such functions.

Liberals get things done; they don’t simply go trolling on websites just to make flaccid and easily refuted points

Emphasis mine.

Jeff, you forget we also give kids “the gay” at such functions.

Ah yes. Also, mandatory abortions at the door.

I can’t believe I’m gonna do this. But I’m back from lunch with a pretty decent beer and catfish buzz. And I think I’m having an out of body experience, ’cause I’m watching myself type this and I always swore I would never do this:

Hey Gary. I’m your worst lefty nightmare, so far to the left I make Ted Kennedy look conservative. I think Michael Moore is a hard-ass righty. You know what else I am? I’m a vet. Ten months in South Viet fucking Nam and Cambodia, Febuary to December, 19 goddam 70. 3d Brigade, 1st Cav. A little place called An Loc. You’d have loved it, Gary. A hundred thousand armed killers, looking to work out on each other. Hueys, Claymores, Ma Deuce on the Mike one one threes. I’m sure you would have fit right in.

I know what it sounds like when a high velocity round strikes a human being. I know what it feels like to be under sustained mortar fire, pathetically scratching at the ground trying to make a hole. I know what it is to tap a kid with 5 syrettes of morphine cause he’s so fucked up he wouldn’t WANT to live. I know what it is to take lives, individually and wholesale.

So you listen to me Gary, you unredeemed piece of human garbage, and you listen well: You can tell me my ideology’s wrong. You can tell me my fiscal and foreign policy opinions are stupid. You can tell me that there’s some REASON, somewhere, for this criminal war in Iraq. You CAN NOT tell me about veterans. See, I already know you’re not one, so put it away. ‘Cause if you had served, you would NEVER have gone down this path.

Brad, Gavin, Jillian, Mal, all the rest of the kind, positive human beings on this site, I apologize for that. It’s not something I wave around or share. It’s just not important to who I am today. But when the wingnuts start throwing around “War is Good” and “You don’t support our Troops” and that shit, I get a little irrational myself. I learned my hatred of war IN war. Children, war NEVER fixes anything. It breaks things, hurts people, destroys families and dreams, and the “winners” ain’t really, believe me.

So once again, I’m sorry for the rant. We now return you to your regular programming, already in progress…

mikey

Emphasis mine.
Word choice oh-so-emphatically mine.

Marita, is it still within theone-week deadline? Is anyone keeping track?

“Themole” did the same thing at Ezra Klein’s blog.

Pretty powerful stuff, Mikey, thanks for sharing it.

Hey, mikey, feel free. Bravo to you. Who could have imagined that behind the name was someone brave enough to have gotten through that hell and still be able to post amazingly funny messages to humorous websites. If only those who had “other priorities” at the time had the kind of life experience you had, they’d never engage in that easy, thoughtless slandering of the Left that is part and parcel of being a right-wing extremist these days. They should be ashamed of themselves.

So once again, I’m sorry for the rant. We now return you to your regular programming, already in progress…

You don’t have to apologise for that. Gary wibbles and babbles and whines and whinges and moans and groans and do you see him apologising?

Ha.

Wonderful, Mikey.

“Which is why red states donate more to charities than blue states.”

Ah. Gary? How about a little evidence, hon? “More” how. Total dollars? Per capita? As a percentage of the donor’s gross income? What’s the definition of a charity? A church? An environmental group? A college or university? A private school?

But you won’t provide an answer to this, because you don’t have one. You’re pulling this, like all the rest of your statements, right out of your ass.

Oh, and yeah, the left is definately opposed to free meals for vets. You gotta take a stand somewhere. I mean, why should animal doctors get freebies when physicians that treat humans have to pay?

No apology necessary,mikey.

Wow … that was pretty much as good a smackdown as I’ve seen.

Feed Mikey more catfish!

Seriously, thanks for that.

g: A google on red state blue state charity will find what he’s referring to (one example. I think the real issue is the difference between correlation and causality. Political preference is correlated with charity, but it’s also covarying with religiousness and poverty. The stats measure proportion of income given, and it is well-known that this decreases as income increases.

Of course, considering that Gary never answered my “false dichotomy” follow-up, I fully expect logical-fallacy-boy to do the same here. He’s not interested in dialogue — he is simply a memebot.

Mikey: Lovely bitch-slap. Good on you.

One on the house for mikey! Slainte.

Oh, and for anyone who cares, Bas-O-Matic is doing a thorough analysis of the evolution of ‘themole/killthebitch’ comments throughout the left blogosphere, over at my place.

(Cobaggish, yes, but not strictly blogwhoring)

Elendil, the problems with that study were manifold, but the fact that tithing counts but donations to non-tax-deductible groups like the ACLU or the Sierra Club don’t was one of the biggies.

Thanks you guys. I really appreciate that. ‘Cause, you know, I took it out of it’s secret box up on the back shelf to whack Gary with it, and that means I’m gonna have “those dreams” tonight.

But you know what? If Gary were to actually THINK about it, not change his ideology or politics one little bit, just come to recognize that as Americans we ALL love our country, we just disagree on what our country should be, then something was accomplished. But if merely lying, demonizing and dehumanizing those who disagree with him, and supporting unexamined the actions of a specific political party continues to be the primary modus operandi, then I wasted a bottle of single malt scotch and a perfectly good night’s sleep.

mikey

“I took it out of it’s secret box up on the back shelf to whack Gary with it, and that means I’m gonna have “those dreams” tonight.”

Bravo, Mikey, for the righteous rant, but please don’t risk your emotional well-being on Gary, because not only is he a knucklehead, but also nothing seems to get past the concrete that makes up his skull.

But we loved it, thank you very much!

And thanks, elendil for the link. I note from the link that they claim more people in red states tithe to their church. Which, of course, begs the question — if one gives money to what is essentially a “club” one belongs to, where the funds go to maintain the phsycial plant of the clubhouse and pay the salary of the guy who presides over the club’s membership meetings, and prints the club’s regular newsletters, is it charity?

I didn’t read all the comments, but this issue is also the most recommended diary at dailykos.com right now.

Under the ‘what can you do’ heading, there is listed the contact information of the executive VP of Hilton Hotels.

His business contact information. (address and fax number)

So, Gary, I guess the rest of the left didn’t get that memo about being against charity for vets.

(Also Manny Ramirez just hit a homerun. Take that Canada!)

Hey, Mikey……

You rule. You’re not the only one who thinks Michael Moore could stand to move his (generally pretty darn funny) tuchis a little farther to the left end of the political spectrum, either.

And if it’s a rough night, you can always hang out with us for company. My uncle’s a vet, too, and he unfortunately no longer registers on the “functioning human being” scale. I know a little bit about how bad it can be, and I’m glad it didn’t get you like it got him.

Hopefully, partaking of teh funny will help keep you smiling.

FWIW, “themole” did it on EVERYBODY’s BLOG. It left the exact same comment at over 100 blogs, based on my referral logs (he links to me in the comment).

I mean, I like the hits and all, but if he’s not a plant, he’s a dick.

You guys just HAVE to play internet detective on this one.

Please? Pretty pretty please? Track them down and find out who they are?

You never have to reveal any of it, unless you find out the culprit is in some way linked to the Malkins.

But if you DO find that out…maybe TIME will make you the Bloggers of the Year or something.

I see that DA as usual is way ahead of me.

Thanks Jillian. Please tell your Uncle I said Charley Mike. And if you ever need a surrogate uncle, I’m an old guy with long hair and a weird sense of humor–kind of what Gavin has to look forward to in a couple decades, after the repeated disappointments and defeats of life. I’d be happy to provide that service.

So put on the coffee, it’s liable to be a long night, but I feel kind of good about it. Not in a gay way, though.

Bring teh funny!!!

mikey

like there’s some giant building with a big sign on it that says “THE LEFT” in big letters

Perhaps you know this already, Jeff, but the owner of that building is a man named The Left. All these horrible things are his fault.

Demogenes Aristophanes: Has Bas-O-Matic posted this analysis?

It’s in the comments of this post.

N-Q.

I am little concerned Gary. You seem to be spending so much time here on Sadly No! I fear you are neglecting the world’s greatest campaign ever. Get our the vote Gary! I know you can do it.

Cheney/Coulter ’08: Keep America Rolling

It wouldn’t stun me if some leftist went around to a lot of leftist blogs to post Michelle Malkin’s personal information on the internet.

One could drop an anvil on your blockhead without stunning you.

Well, it is technically true about the charity thing as I understand it, however, given that those of us in blue and deep purple states (like me in Iowa) foot most of the federal bill for the Red States, who tend to be a “money hole” for Federal (and charity) dollars.
We’re all doing our part, dears.

But redstaters HATE the nanny state, GG! How can this be?

Jillian, that is class warfare! They hate that too.

GG, it’s technically true in the “liars, damn liars, and statistics” vein.

lies, even.

To be honest I am not averse to giving the phone number of people in business who are doing things I disagree with in an attempt to convince them to change their policies. I, among many others posted the numbers and E-mails of many Ford and subs. Execs when they caved to the AFA and pulled adverts from GLBT advocacy venues. Net result being that they bloody well changed their policy. I am not a fan of Malkin but I can’t say that this is actually a problem.

Jillian, that is class warfare! They hate that too.

Oh, I love American class warfare. It’s so deliciously ironic.

But…but….

America is a classless society! I learned it in school, so it must be true.

Sure, maybe some people are poorer than others, but it’s not like we have class issues here, just individual problems of motivation. Anyone can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they really want to.

‘Sokay!! I promise. I don’t have ANY class!!

mikey

er, two extra words. Pedro Feliz…

867-5309

167 Hemdale Street
Los Angeles, CA

I take no responsibility for what resides there, but if you do call, be sure to ask for Jenny.

America is a classless society! I learned it in school, so it must be true.

Pshaw…As IF. America’s hysteria and confusion over class is what the rest of us, who live in overwhelmingly middle class societies with established, but largely insignificant elites love so much about the country. The tension, the drama, the satire.

The Simpsons wouldn’t exist if the classless/uber-classed America didn’t exist.

Um, wow.
Pardon my absence, I spent the afternoon wrapping a guy in aluminum foil.
It occurs to me, with Gary’s “We have a deficit, where would you cut the budget”, that we might all have been better off if I’d gotten Gary to volunteer for my little experiment.

Gary would definitely have benefited from A) having a chick put her hands on him and B) being covered in tin foil. Also, it made it really hard to understand what the guy in question was saying, so I think that’s another net plus.

Gary, and pardon my forthrightness, are you fucking nuts? Jesus fucking Christ on a unicycle, you total goddamned fuckwit.
Look, dummy, this has been adequately covered here by others, but Jesus. Just, Jesus.
Well, you know, dummy, let’s start with the few billion that’s been, gosh, mislaid somewhere in Iraq. Let’s take a look at the bigass handout to the pharmaceutical companies that is the humorously named “prescription drug benefit”. Let’s talk about assorted fines from assorted regulatory agencies we haven’t bothered to collect because the companies who got tagged are contributors to the GOP. How about all the cash we’re throwing away on faith-based sex ed? Oh, you know, for that matter, let’s talk about those fucking tax cuts.
That’s not even to label myself objectively pro-terrorist by getting into the dubious merits of the Iraq invasion to begin with.

Gary, I’m sorry daddy works late and mommy is always drunk when you come home from kindergarten, but seriously, it’s not a good idea for kids your age to hang out on the internet. I understand you’re bored and lonely. How about if we get you a hamster?

Mikey – I’m trying to think of an eloquent response, but my brain has shut down for the evening. So I will just say, Thanks. I very much appreciate your post.

Long time lurker here, and I really just come to soak up teh funny that is doled out in abundance…

That said: Thank you Mikey for the best comment I’ve seen in a long time on any blog. God (and all her noodly appendages) bless you for your past and continued service to the country.

My best wishes to you.
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Cranky Butler, shame on you.

Mikey – yes to Pedro Feliz, but what in the world is happening to Tim Worrell? Two very bad appearances in a row … although of course, the BOB is tough on pitchers and Coors is murder.

DA, yer KILLIN me. As a giants fan, I’m used to wanting another stick or a number one starter or better middle infield defense. But dood. Middle RELIEF? I mean, isn’t that where old starters go to die? How do you even say, geez, I really wish the giants could trade for a middle reliever or two!! Key Riste!!

mikey

I have to say that, for once, I don’t completely disagree with Malkin here–it’s just that she went about it ineptly and with no class. The info in the kos post is a more appropriate route to go to contact the Hilton corp. At issue, even more than the Hilton’s snub of the vets is their stunning refusal to comply with equal access laws. The restaurant is in the basement, and is only accessible by stairs-no elevators, and the escelator has been broken for six years. The diary details the ridiculous rigamarole that the disabled must go through to reach the steakhouse. Also, as far as I know, the restaurant isn’t a money-losing concern. It seems they’ve been there forever, are popular, and can afford to treat the disabled vets to dinner once a week. So, good on them!
Oh, and Gary? You remain an idiot of singular magnitude.

Cranky Butler, shame on you.

Wha…? I don’t get it.

Although, admittedly, now that the full-on insomnia has kicked in, I should write mikey a more thoughtful comment.

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that mikey had beer with lunch. Lunch??! Is that still allowed?

Well don’t expect me to explain it to you.

Mikey – big Giants fan here as well. Lifelong, in fact. Middle relief is where old starters used to go to die … now it’s where almost starters and not-yet closers go to prove themselves. Servicable middle relief is huge these days.

And one key component to the Giants’ success during the Barry years (other than the obvious one – Barry) has been a 1-2 punch in the ninth innings. Mike Jackson-Beck, F-Rod-Nen, Worrell-Nen … those were the best seasons, when they could count on the eighth inning plus the closer.

It’s supposed to be Worrell-Benitez now, but man, I’m worried about Benitez ever coming back full-on this season and I don’t think Worrell’s it as the closer. Tyler Walker’s been crap, Fassero’s no solution, everybody else in the bullpen is strictly matchups. They need to fix it soon.

Puh, you think you guys have it bad? My Cubs’ best player is out 2-3 months thanks to fucking Furcal (stupid irony that Cubs almost signed him… now I hate him with a passion…).
P.S. I had the misfortune of experiancing Worrell and Fassero both… and they are, in fact, teh sukc. Fassero’s arm died about five years ago, and the rest of his body didn’t seem to notice (nor, apparently, did MLB GMs).

Mikey: Wow. Thanks for sharing that, I know that’s like opening Pandora’s Box. We don’t often see that kind of integrity here in the bog. Many blessings to you and your family, and thank you for your service.

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that mikey had beer with lunch. Lunch??! Is that still allowed?

No, it’s cool. I work for this very mellow guy. Old hippy actually. He doesn’t pay for shit, but he’s very understanding.

Tyler Walker’s been crap, Fassero’s no solution, everybody else in the bullpen is strictly matchups. They need to fix it soon

Hah! Tyler walker is the WORST. Fassero is like older than me. Taschner’s back in triple a. Kline is gasoline on a fire. Now Worrell is the king of the 3-Run gopher and Benitez, on his first day back in the lineup, well, let’s say he didn’t impress. That Munter kid has something, so of course Alou’s gonna use him til his arm falls off. Sheesh, I WISH I understood Hockey…

mikey

Gary: Get bent.

I think Mikey’s driven Gary away, or something.

Cheerleaders for war always hate to face what it is they’re cheerleading. That was an amazing, and much needed comment…If only actual vets like you were heard more, instead of smirking apologists telling us that ‘supporting the troops’ is sending them off to suffer and die.

Not sure how exactly I should point this out, but I think Gavin’s all wet on this.

I did some detective work and found the site that appears to be pimping Malkin’s address.

I followed one of “themole’s” links in one of the comments he/she left on a blogger’s site.

It leads to a site that appears to be somewhat leftish (if making Zack de la Rocha look reactionary makes one leftish).

But here’s my problem: I could point it out to y’all, hell even link it, but I don’t want to be accused of furthering any bad juju, they’ve still got what is supposedly her address posted. It’s not on the front page, but one link away and you can find it.

So should I spill the beans or should I just let sleeping dogs lie and say “Gavin’s wrong, nuff said”?

I mean my karma’s black enough…..

We have already amusingly mocked MM’s choice of dwelling lifestyle; bring me fresh wingnuttery!

SuperTroy, it’s not really a question of who was behind the outing of Malkin’s addy … it’s a question of how many?
And the answer is: one or maybe two kooks.

To which outliers Malkin and her hordes are crediting “the Left” with “plastering” her info all over the internets. Dishonest? Yeah, just a tad.

SuperTroy, it’s not really a question of who was behind the outing of Malkin’s addy … it’s a question of how many?

If you say so DA.

Good, now I feel much better, even if the bulk of my detective work has been some to be somewhere below one of those Scooby-Doo knock-offs Hanna Barberra subjected us to throughout the 70’s.

Goddammit, that last anon was me.

No, I was definitely wrong with the speculation, etc.

That doesn’t let Malkin off the hook for trying to play victim-poker (one of those pages has been up since ’04 — it’s not exactly news). But it calls for an update. Thanks!

But DA is right too. (It’s almost 4:30AM, and I’m staying up to do an airport run — not at my super-sharpest at the moment)…

Well yay then, I think. Everyone (save Garry) gets to be a little bit right today.

I call dibs on being Fangface.

Demogenes also gets points for being the first person I’ve noticed in a few days to actually use “hordes” correctly.

Honestly, if we’re gonna keep having blogslapfights over things like immigration policy and mocking ombudsmen and victimization claims by minorities who write for VDare, I think we need an impartial party to sponsor a seminar on the usage of “horde” and “hoard”.
May I suggest [adult swim]?

And Marq? You’re right, and I don’t entirely disagree with this particular variation of Malkin activism either, though I think it would be in this case as so many others a very short game of Spot The Hypocrisy.
But let’s pretend it’s a change of heart rather than a cynical ploy.

If a restaurant wants to offer free meals to vets, more power to ’em. If a new owner scuttles the program, they deserve to be treated like scrooges. But that’s that whole free market thing the right is always so fond of. Personally, I think corporations have a duty beyond enriching shareholders, and good works in the community would be part of that, as would, I dunno, complying with accessibility regulations.

But it goes back to that whole “standing” issue I was arguing the other day. If the only time you’re going to make some sort of argument is so you can scream “Gotcha!” at people you pretend are opposed to your strawman, then you’re a disingenuous twerp.

If you have principles, argue them. Stuff like “the left comes out against feeding veterans” is genuinely pathetic.

Getting to the party late, but I wanted to join in the thanks to mikey for his post. One can hope that Gary’s silence since then means he’s actually taken it to heart.

Cranky Butler, shame on you.

Wha…? I don’t get it.

I was tlaking to somebody else. A butler who is often cranky. Why did you feel that was addressed to you? Are you a butler? Or perhaps a Butler?

I honestly doubt that Gary has taken anything to heart. If he had an intellectually honest bone in his body, he might, but he has proven himself again and again to be nothing more than a spewing sewer outlet of talking points. Certainly nothing so abstruse as an actual real-life person with an actual real-life story is going to divert him from his party line.

I’m guessing it’s because it’s not making money, right? So they should leave the money-losing restaurant open just to give away free meals to vets on Friday nights?

Yeah. That’s the funny thing, isn’t it. You have all these free-market fundamentalists on the right who constantly argue (especially when making the ridiculous charge that Air America is “failing”) businesses that aren’t making it will (and should) fall by the wayside and that “government handouts” (even to vets, which is why they’re always slashing veterans benefits) is t3h 3vil!

And yet, out of the other side of their mouth, they say it’s okay to coerce (via death threats) big business (our new lords and masters via the K-Street Project) give vets handouts.

Go figure.

I think Mikey’s driven Gary away, or something.

I think you’re right, but I notice that there were no Gary comments on the thread below.

I propose that Sadly, No! post a picture of cute Iranian boys with every article. Seems to have a troll-repellent effect.

Great smack down, Mikey! I hope the demons stayed away last night.

Cranky Butler, shame on you.

heh

First of all, no Giants talk. Ugh!

Second of all, DA, you rapscallion! You scoundrel!

Hey, why does this gary creep hate our troops and our freedoms? Damn but these America hating bushites creep me out!

I’d like to hope that Mikey’s breathtaking sincerity had some effect on Gary, but that strikes me as exceptionally unlikely.
There’s clearly no shame in him.

And Tak, I have no idea if it works, but yes, let’s try that anyway. Can we get some pictures of cute chicks, too?

Personally, I think Gary passed out in a pool of his own vomit after an evening of drinking grain alcohol and battery acid, or got caught-up in a 36hr hate, or something equally moronic, but if mikey’s wonderful post had anything to do with Gary’s continuing absence, more good on him (mikey, not Gary)!

Yeah, it was a placeholder on the ‘killthebitch’ in my comments, too. Smells pretty fishy. Certainly this whole ‘Malkin’s address splashed across the internet’ meme is looking more baseless by the minute, and it’s my growing suspicion that the whole thing was rigged in advance.

The address I saw posted was actually not Malkin’s current address (don’t ask me how I know). Apparently they moved to down the block a while back, but they did stay in the same suburb.

That suggests to me that Malkin herself (or Jesse) was doing it, posting an address that seemed accurate, but wasn’t – thus giving themselves the benefit of martyrdom without actually facing any risk at all. Fucking brilliant, baby.

“So once again, I’m sorry for the rant. We now return you to your regular programming, already in progress…”

mikey

Posted by: mikey | April 22, 2006 01:12 AM
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…and of course Gary the fucking coward runs and hides only to return in some other post.

Short-term memory loss there Gary?

Er… there is still an address in this comments section. I guess it needs to be deleted?

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