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Torkel Torkelson the Red wields his atgeir against Alan Grayson but only manages to impale himself on it:
Alan Grayson is the corpulent congressman from Florida.
Yes, that’s right. Erick just called someone else corpulent. The only reason for this apparent total lack of self-awareness is either that Erick has no full-length mirror at home or he thinks that corpulent is an erudite term for Jewish.
This post would be worthy of note if only for Erickson calling someone else fat, but it deserves a place in the Red State hall of fame for yet another reason:
Today comes word of an even more damning story. A gay couple down in Florida was facing foreclosure. ACORN and Alan Grayson rallied to their cause.
Cheyenne Bowers and his partner David Paxton thought they had gained a valuable ally.
They were in a fight to save their home. He thought a pledge from an eager incoming freshman congressman to help them out through numerous programs might do the trick.
“Expansion of existing federal programs like the FHA loans and the VA loans be more readily available at better terms than we’ve seen up to this point,” said Grayson in December 2008.
The non-profit ACORN along with Grayson invited the media into Bowers and Paxton’s home to talk about fighting the foreclosure crisis, particularly fighting Bowers and Paxton’s foreclosure nightmare.
When the cameras went away, so did Alan Grayson. The foreclosure went through. The couple, in seriously bad health, were put out on the street.
Leaving aside the absurdity of Erickson’s new-found sympathy for a gay couple, which is somewhat akin to Michael Vicks joining the ASPCA and getting all weepy about sled dogs in the Iditarod, the most ridiculous thing here is that the rest of the article that Erick cites completely contradicts his characterization of the incident.
Grayson says he referred Bowers and Paxton to housing counselors, found him an attorney and attempted to get him disability benefits.
But despite all the programs and promises from politicians, it all came down to Household Financial who simply would not budge. …
But at the end of the day Bowers and his partner Paxton were high risk. They had no income. They were disabled, both facing life-threatening illnesses. Bowers needed a liver transplant … .
In the end, no one could force the lender to stop the foreclosure process.
“I’m not some sort of super hero, I don’t have magical powers. I can’t keep people in their homes if they’re not paying their mortgages indefinitely,” Grayson said. …
The couple’s home went up for auction last Thursday, but they had no buyers so that bought them some more time. They are currently still in their home.
So let’s see. Grayson didn’t exactly leave with the cameras. The couple is still in their home. Erickson is too lazy to finish reading a 500-word article or, even more likely, he’s just a disingenuous hack who hoped that no one else would click through his link. But above all Erickson needs, among other things, a full-length mirror installed in his double-wide in Macon. Maybe we should set up a PayPal fund to get him one.
[h/t to commenter Ted the Slacker]
Thirst!
How insensitive of you Tintin! Erick is not fat. Clearly Erick is pregnant.
Grayson didn’t pay off their mortgage for them, offer them six-figure jobs at his law firm, including full medical coverage with no co-payments and free pharmaceuticals, redecorate their home and personally fellate them, therefore he’s a phony-baloney, attention whore, and besides, he’s fat, also.
So not only does Erick Son of Erick need a full-length mirror, he also needs reading glasses.
I would be very, very interested in learning whether or not Household Financial actually holds the paper for that mortgage. Because if they don’t, they cannot foreclose, thanks to several recent court rulings.
It’s like the perfect storm of libtardism.
Or would that be more like hitting the trifecta?
“It’s like the perfect storm of libtardism.”
Exactly, which I’d willing to bet is why Erik the Fat didn’t get the entire article finished before he wrote; he just couldn’t blow the chance. Like so many other opportunities in wingnut land — they come and then they go so fast when the light of truth and/or comprehension hits them.
But in the end…and in the end…but in the end…and in the end…
I’m not anonymous, that was me that said that, if anyone cares really.
In the end.
Erickson: And therefore, all you supposedly homeless gay loving libs turn out to be a bunch of hypocrites!
Erickson: Update, a reader has brought to my attention that technically the homeless gay couple in question isn’t actually homeless. But that just proves my point, that I actually had the thought that Grayson and his homo bum loving heart would leave when the cameras did.
Despite the fact that he didn’t leave with the cameras my research concludes that Grayson would have left, so the point stands.
But that just proves my point, that I actually had the thought that Grayson and his homo bum loving heart would leave when the cameras did.
Well, to be fair, it is what Erick would have done.
One wonders whether Torkel McDorkel has ever written one of those boiler-plate “what we need is a return to SHAME in this country” moralizations.
‘Cause he really shouldn’t be able to look at himself in the mirror when he’s shaving, let alone check himself for flab in a full-length model.
I think Ericson lives in a TRIPLE-wide.
and if those libruls didnt help the deviants get a new house well it’s all hilary, i mean obamas fault, cos capitalism is good!
On what planet is this guy:
http://images.politico.com/global/news/090617_grayson_shinkle_297.jpg
considered “corpulent”?
Oh, that’s right, planet fucktard.
It’s good to know Mr. Erickson is a gay-rights advocate.
Is he pro-Choice now, as well?
Is he pro-Choice now, as well?
Well, if Obama suddenly decided to be against abortion, he’d totally be.
Well, Michael Moore’s fat and that’s close enough.
I’m just a club to you aren’t I, Erick?
A full-length mirror? Naw, Erickson would just spend all day hissing at that too.
This jackass must be a real hoot to work with on a daily basis.
Take this post for instance, he is so incompetent he thought he was being arrogant.
Dudes not much of a blogger if he can’t even be arsed to RTFA.
His own link points out the villain pretty plainly – big business.
Ironically, the company that’s got them dangling on the cliff of living in a home that’s up for sale probably could care less if that particular household is same-sex or not … so even if EE’s pro-same-sex opportunistic horseshit wasn’t being advanced opportunistically (& ignorantly) it would still fall flat.
Big business favors the use of a buzzword like “equality” as a PR banner under which they can (among other things) chum down a range of wages with a stockholder-unfriendly high-end to a single cheaper & more easily managed lowest-common-denominator.
On what planet is this guy (Grayson) considered “corpulent”?
Why is that man attempting to swallow a barbell sideways?
I made you a joke about “Full-Width Mirror Fund”, but SHUT UP SMUT
Um. Where is Gavin? I misses him like I misses Fafblog.
And where’s Bruce?
Buying Daily Bugle editor J. Erick Erickson a mirror would be pointless, as, like most wingnuts, he has no reflection.
Now I’m confused. I can’t tell which is more utterly bog-stupid, this or the freaking out over telling kids to eat their veggies. Can we get little cards to hold up so we can keep score?
Also, corpulent? Inigo Montoya. etc. Also.
That is actually the answer to any number of pressing mysteries.
Also a fine candidate for my next nonexistent album title.
Being a nerd and all, I’d just like to point out that to see your entire body, you only need a mirror half your height. Put the top jus above eye-level.
Trouble with half-length mirrors is you can’t fit through them so you get stuck in looking-glass world. Actually this explains a lot.
Slightly OT but it seems Grayson either really doesn’t care about politics or he understands the muddled middle of America really deeply.
Note that Grayson’s district has elected GOoPers in the past (previously, e.g., by Ric “Cheeseburger” Keller, which brings this all full circle back to corpulance). And Grayson is not saying “oh noes, I must be centrist to keep my seat”. Assuming Hagar the Horrible is right, AG’s saying “I’ll make a splash by, um, standing out and making a splash — perhaps that will keep me noticed and popular?”
So Mary, Joe … there may not be a Santa Claus, but moving to the center is not the way to court so-called centrist voters — so-called centrist voters are not really centrist, they just don’t care about ideology and want to elect candidates who “get ‘er done”. The GOP monopolized that brand (which is why centrists would so often fall for GOoPers … not because centrists were all that conservative — if you actually poll them for their positions on issues, they are pretty liberal) until their batshit crazy started showing and it was obvious that they were as incampatent as my spelling (or more so).
Now what Dems need to do to maintain our majority is not to “move to the center” because that’s where the American people are but to “get ‘er done” — people need health care, etc. — nu? pass a bill that will make health care more accessible. Harry Reid has finally figured this out. Grayson rode into office realizing this.
But even amongst the liberal base, some liberals still think that appealing to the (anti-ideological) center means moving toward the center ideologically when what it should mean is making sure government works (at all levels — smoothly and efficiently) so people can trust government to work at things like running a public option or even being a single payer for health care. This point isn’t Tom Friedman. It’s practically Michael Moore. But he’s fat, so I guess we can ignore him. Also.
The problem isn’t with the reflection.
He sees what he sees regardless what he sees.
“he thinks that corpulent is an erudite term for Jewish.”
Yes. It’s a matter of Comparative Religion 101: whilst Christianity has an otherworldly orientation and is concerned about the soul, Jewish morality is focused on the detailed minutiae of living in this world and is concerned about the body.
Hence “corpulent”.
Also, Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 84a (can’t get this URL to work as a link, so you’ll have to copy and paste: http://daatemet.co.il/issues.cfm?ISSUE_ID=421). Also.
Had the gay couple known better, they would have called upon the awesome power of the Red State Strike Force.
Whoa, fame for Slackman… that might encourage ye fellow lurkers to do your own poo-diving when teh Sadlies, with the honorable exception of Tintin, are witholding their productivity.
I didn’t read through to see that Ericky-Bobby didn’t get the foreclosure story correct. The corpulent remark was just an instant bullseye. I think he perhaps meant combative… but in the trike-force universe easy to imagine that corpulent and combative are kind of synonymous.
The fact is, shut up. Proof that the left really hates gays and will throw them under the bus to defend ACORN. We are doing better. We are deFUNDING ACORN.
What El Cid said. Also.
One does wonder what awesome help the GOP would have provided for this couple. A pair of boot-straps so they could pull themselves up? An email with the story of the Obama loving waiter and the guy who leaves no tip? A copy of Atlas Shrugged (paperback of course)? An “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” bumper sticker?
On planet fucktard, being mean as a snake is a *good* thing.
Psst, Erick…Christianity…you’re doing it wrong…
Erik bin Erik is unclear on the concept. How does the process of “helping a constituent” escape an elected official? Or is uninformed blather like this what he does in Macon City Council, and how often do the other members want to strangle him for it?
“Jay Are Eff said,
October 28, 2009 at 10:37
Being a nerd and all, I’d just like to point out that to see your entire body, you only need a mirror half your height. Put the top jus above eye-level.”
You fail at nerd.
Top of the mirror halfway between you eyes and the top of your head.
ALL YOUR MIRRORS ARE BELONG TO US!!!
Returning you to the scheduled program in 3….2….1….
I don’t know why I keep coming here hoping to see intelligent analysis of issues when all you ever do is make fun of people who disagree with you for being fat or whatever. I know you can be smrat people and you don’t help your cause one bit when you do this. You should be trying to rally people to Obama’s agenda, not just engulfing in petty namecalling. This country is in serious trouble and it needs compromise and understanding, not petty attacks.
? Erick Erickkkkson was making fun of people for being fat. There’s nothing wrong with being fat, but if you’re fat, don’t fucking make fun of other people for being fat. And this isn’t a site which exists to ‘rally people to Obama’s agenda,’ that’s Daily Kos, or the White House website, or Obama for America. This is different.
? Erick Erickkkkson was making fun of people for being fat. There’s nothing wrong with being fat, but if you’re fat, don’t fucking make fun of other people for being fat.
Oh he made fun of him did he? All I saw him say was that Grayson was “corpulent.” IDK what dictionary you use but mine says corpulent is defined as:
excessively fat; “a weighty man”
That sounds like a pretty fair description of Grayson. Just because someone may be heavy themselves doesn’t mean they’re not allowed to accurately describe someone else as also being heavy. Grow up and move out of your mom’s basement.
Grow up and move out of your mom’s basement.
Ooooh, snap! No one here has ever heard that one before–ouchie! Please, do share with the rest of the class precisely how you feel this website should be run, again. Nothing is more convincing than some random, drive-by concern troll giving us all a nice lesson about what we should be doing. Later today, we’ll all be visiting the Greyhound station restroom to pull dicks out of your mouth, also, too.
Has any self-respecting person ever described themselves as “Grrrl”? Is that an Xbox Live tag?
And I’m assuming that’s the fake Iris troll trying out a new tack.
Has any self-respecting person ever described themselves as “Grrrl”?
A misogynist too? Don’t worry honey someday a real live girl will talk to you.
I’ve been calling myself “grrrrl” since my punk rock days sweetheart.
Sheesh.
Center Left Grrrl.
“I don’t know why I keep coming here hoping to see intelligent analysis of issues….”
See, that’s your problem right there. I suppose you watch Conan O’Brian for his keen insights into world affairs.
See, that’s your problem right there. I suppose you watch Conan O’Brian for his keen insights into world affairs.
I watch Conan b/c he’s hawt. Somehow I doubt any of the S,N writers could ever provide the same kind of eye candy. rofl
Yes, Substance, I saw her hanging out there, too. You were quicker than me remembering where. I hope you didn’t buy her a drink there.
Hardly corpulent
Oh noes you found my totally seKret intrawebs posting history!!!
No, we just know how many bars you get thrown out of.
he has a fat face
Grrrl. Rofl. B/c hawt.
Is it 1999 again?
The Center Left Grrrl has a point. I am somewhat concerned that we are not addressing the real issues here, and supporting Obama in his coalition building with the Republicans and Reaching Around The Aisle to have a straight up non-partisan approach to the serious real issues we are facing. All this snark plays right into there hands and is just what Hitler would do.
“Center Left Grrrl said,
October 28, 2009 at 14:56
[cut]
excessively fat; “a weighty man”
That sounds like a pretty fair description of Grayson. [cut] ”
Umm, are we talking about he same Grayson here? Democratic congressman from Florida? Alan Greyson? Have you seen what he looks like? Because excessively fat is NOT what I would first use to describe him. My desciption would roughly be “average, dark hair, a bit older gentleman”.
Are we talking about the same person?
Well I think he’s fat. But then again I’ve traveled and I don’t have typical American standards for healthy body weight. What most Americans think of as normal would be considered VERY fat in most of Europe.
I also read Huckleberry Finn for the grammar, I go to the gift shop at the ball park for bargains, I listen to Rush Limbaugh for the subtle, nuanced discourse, I eat at Taco Bell for the nutritional value, and I go to demolition derbies for the safe-driving tips.
Oh my. Thers already fricasseed Ms. Center Left Grrrl just yesterday. She’s slow on the uptake.
Is there really anyone who proudly describes themselves as center-x in terms of politics who isn’t a concern troll.
First up, it’s always a lie to mean, super-far-right playing a parody of a concerned soft-leftie notable by how their “moderate” stance is based on bizarre super-far-right ideas of governance or social politics.
Second, even when earnest, it just states that the see centrism and being between two poles as more critical to their identity than an honest consistent ideology. Thus as democrats continue to be centrist to center-right and republicans go bat-shit, they invariably move to the right and start scouring the left for something, anything to let them play an equivalence game so that they can avoid being an actual democrat and thus not wonderfully “impartially” centrist.
Third, seriously, is there really anything more annoying than someone who will willingly and proudly declare themselves a centrist? It’s like a giant tag for assholism. It ranks right up there with someone who thinks that bipartisanship is a good unto itself. See cable pundits.
“Center Left Grrrl said,
October 28, 2009 at 15:28
Well I think he’s fat. But then again I’ve traveled and I don’t have typical American standards for healthy body weight. What most Americans think of as normal would be considered VERY fat in most of Europe.”
Actually, I think he is pretty average for a man in his fifties even along european standards.
I listen to Rush Limbaugh for the subtle, nuanced discourse, I eat at Taco Bell for the nutritional value, and I go to demolition derbies for the safe-driving tips.
OMG anyone who isn’t on the far left must listen to Rush Limbaugh!
Well I don’t listen to Rush and I don’t eat junk food. I keep my body and mind both healthy and well conditioned.
Actually, I think he is pretty average for a man in his fifties even along european standards.
Well I went to Paris after graduating and I can tell you this is definitively NOT true.
Oh and riot grrl was about radical feminism and was pretty much universally on the communist end of the liberal spectrum. Let’s just say that worrying about “too much government in health care” would cause Sleater Kinney to take out your kneecaps with a tire iron.
“You’re no rock’n’roll fun…”
Ooooh, you DO sound hawt! I’ll bet you’re an ex-stripper! With CIA connections! Can I just BE you? Please?
Comment 1:
I don’t know why I keep coming here hoping to see intelligent analysis of issues when all you ever do is make fun of people who disagree with you for being fat or whatever.
c.f. Comment 2:
Oh he made fun of him did he? All I saw him say was that Grayson was “corpulent.”
Lurn 2 rede grrrl, the post is making fun of Erickson for being exactly wrnog about teh article, or in Tintin’s words:
Oh and riot grrl was about radical feminism and was pretty much universally on the communist end of the liberal spectrum. Let’s just say that worrying about “too much government in health care” would cause Sleater Kinney to take out your kneecaps with a tire iron.
I was never that much into the politics end of it and I outgrew that phase when I turned 16 anyway the way most people who don’t live on the internet do. But I still have tons of feminist and even lesbian friends and they tend to agree with me on most issues.
Oh, and let’s go to the tape one more time:
I don’t know why I keep coming here hoping to see intelligent analysis of issues…
BWWAAAAHAHAhaHaHaHAHAHAHahWAAAHHHAAHahaHA!!11!!one
IOW, POOP.
PENIS. Also.
I’ll bet you’re an ex-stripper!
Oooooh look another entitled misogynist who enjoys degrading women in the most cliche’ possible ways but pretends to be a “liberal”. You’re a dime a dozen these days. I’ll bet you just looooove when you get to call Palin a “slutty stewardess” or demeaning any woman who doesn’t conform to your idea of a good little liberal girl.
Alan Grayson is the corpulent congressman from Florida.
Concern troll is concerned.
Hey look! It’s Center Right Grrrrrrrrrl!
Talk about “concern trolls”!
I am also a civil engineer and have lived in ten different countries and I can do yogic tricks that milk your penis, as well as having friends from different religions and colors.
CLG-
Sistah, I can assure you on behalf of the feminist and lesbian communities. We’re not your friends and listening to one Hole album because the singer was dating Kurt Cobain does not a riot grrl make.
Thers already fricasseed Ms. Center Left Grrrl just yesterday. She’s slow on the uptake.
No, Snarl, we laughed her ass off Whiskey Fire so she had to find some other place to wear her heart on…
Her sleeve. Also.
“But I still have tons of feminist and even lesbian friends…”
Of this I’m sure.
An hey, I bet you even have some ethnic friends that agree with you too, right?
Sistah, I can assure you on behalf of the feminist and lesbian communities. We’re not your friends and listening to one Hole album because the singer was dating Kurt Cobain does not a riot grrl make.
Ewww Courtney. I had a beer with Kathleen Hannah after a Le Tigre concert so SUCK IT.
I’ll bet you’re an ex-stripper!
Oooooh look another entitled misogynist who enjoys degrading women in the most cliche’ possible ways but pretends to be a “liberal”.
You don’t know the history,sweetcheeks, so you might want to sit down and listen for a while before jumping ugly.
Say…do you do it on the upstroke? We’ve heard that one before, too, from bigger Fools than you.
Le Tigre concert
So you went to a concert of…old polo shirts?
Well I went to Paris after graduating and I can tell you this is definitively NOT true.
She went to Paris, looking for d00ds
That would make Grayson seem excessively fat.
She was impressive, riotously aggresive
Denouncing folks at the drop of a hat
And socialized medicine
For a fifth of the country
Made her lie-beral-ity a falin’
The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
In three years she’ll vote for Sarah Palin.
An hey, I bet you even have some ethnic friends that agree with you too, right?
If I told you I had some Asian girlfriends who agreed with me it would convert you right? I’ll bet you’ve got the Yellow fever rofl
And they agree with her, especially the lesbians. They all just understand that health care to poor groups often in artistic ventures as many lesbians work or in non-profits like many feminist activists work is just too much too fast for centrism. Also her lesbian friends agree that they shouldn’t get married because that isn’t centrist and proper and besides, Obama was mean once to gays so they’re all voting for republicans.
Don’t you see the webs within webs? Wooo.
I’ll bet you just looooove when you get to call Palin a “slutty stewardess”…
Did everyone catch the “tell” there?
Well I went to Paris after graduating and I can tell you this is definitively NOT true.
Watching the Travel Channel while eating bon bons qualifies as “going to Paris” now?
“Well I think he’s fat.”
Well, then, it MUST be true if our concern troll thinks it is.
Looks like I didn’t get up early enough today.
A civil engineer riot grrl?
I’m gonna need to see the vault copy.
And they agree with her, especially the lesbians. They all just understand that health care to poor groups often in artistic ventures as many lesbians work or in non-profits like many feminist activists work is just too much too fast for centrism. Also her lesbian friends agree that they shouldn’t get married because that isn’t centrist and proper and besides, Obama was mean once to gays so they’re all voting for republicans.
In point of fact even tho most of my Lesbian friends ARE artists of some kind or another they’ve also mostly had to actually grow up very fast. Something most far leftists NEVER seem to do. They recognize what issues are important and take moderate stances on those and don’t want to go psycho suicide slut at the drop of the hat the way far left social liberals do.
A civil engineer riot grrl?
You forgot “punk”.
Also.
Also, big Sarah Palin fan.
You know I missed this the first time. CLG supposedly lived in Europe for years, including France…
The place with the REALLY socialized medicine, of a quality so mind-blowingly stupendous that every single American who has gone has whimpered to leave and lose it. I’m in Denmark right now, the huge difference of government-provided free healthcare for anyone in the student class blows one’s mind and is a welcome and beautiful treat.
It is fundamentally impossible for someone to live there and rant about the incredibly moderate reforms in the Senate. I know it’s obvious she’s lying out her ass, but I just wanted to highlight the most egregious example.
Watching the Travel Channel while eating bon bons qualifies as “going to Paris” now?
Sorry sweetheart but I actually bothered to in fact travel the world after college instead of just going off and getting a nice safe job the day I graduated.
It has come to my attention that you all have been engulfing in petty namecalling. Stop it at once!
You know I missed this the first time. CLG supposedly lived in Europe for years, including France…
I never said years just that I’d been there. Yes I had to deal with the socialist medicine and it was terrible.
I smell dirty socks. Did someone leave a grrrrrrrrrrrl puppet lying (pun intended) about?
Our Grrl sez: “You should be rallying people to Obama’s agenda..”
Um, like this…
“First Obama goes into all this gay rights crap that nobody cares about, and now Reid introduces the Public Option? Most of us don’t want to see socialized medicine.”
You go grrl – way to rally people to that agenda.
I’d call you a douche, but douches actually perform some useful function…
What an interesting fantasy life you have. You are the very model of a modern Meghan McCain.
Yes I had to deal with the socialist medicine and it was terrible.
Yes, that’s why they ALL outlive us!
…Sweety.
The album Psycho Suicide Sluts was turning point for Bono’s Conscience. Although it did not sell very well, and most critics panned it, in later years they pointed to it as a necessary turn away from the socially-fraught lyricism they came to be known for.
Center Left Grrrl,
Your boastful boastfulness has won my heart. Your Internetertrons claims of being ridiculously awesome and claims of secret yoga style sex techniques have me astounded and stupefied. Please hang around – hopefully I’ll have the chance to introduce you to out good friend “up-on-the-backstroke”.
Snort, yeah, CLG, now I’m even more convinced that these people exist. Sistah, I’m IN the lesbian community. I spent a good number of years in what is considered the most conservative lesbian community in the USA, San Diego North Park (I’m talking they still rock butch-femme as the main dynamic). You’re lies are WAY transparent. But thanks for playing, sistah.
I took chances and succeeded, and I once partied with Bikini Kill, so suck it, leftists. Oh, and socialized medicine doesn’t work in Europe. They need our innovation.
You’re lies are WAY transparent. But thanks for playing, sistah.
Nice grammar, sistah. I think you meant YOUR lies. Which are TRUTH in point of fact.
The album Psycho Suicide Sluts was turning point for Bono’s Conscience.
I think they did try a reunion: the “Slutty Stewardesses” tour…
I’m convinced now that CLG isn’t eeven female…
jjcomet-
I’m sure her totally real dyke friends are nodding along to “gay rights crap that nobody cares about”.
All of the people in her head agree with her.
I once partied with Bikini Kill
I’m sooooooooooooooooooo impressed.
Could someone please pick my jaw up off the floor for me? I’ve got my hands full trying to stifle yawns.
Look, I have been tremendously successful, I am smart and I look good. Why hate the playa? I have lots of friends who are gay and lesbian, did I mention that?
Sorry sweetheart but I actually bothered to in fact travel the world after college instead of just going off and getting a nice safe job the day I graduated.
No, no, no!! You’re reading from the wrong troll handbook!!!
See, right here on page 32 it says “be sure to tell liberals they are on unemployment or welfare instead of getting a good job when they graduated like you did”
Darling, two weeks with a Eurailpass and a couple days in the Montmartre youth hostel does not constitutute “traveling the world.”
Center Left Grrrl said,
October 28, 2009 at 14:56
? Erick Erickkkkson was making fun of people for being fat. There’s nothing wrong with being fat, but if you’re fat, don’t fucking make fun of other people for being fat.
Oh he made fun of him did he? All I saw him say was that Grayson was “corpulent.” IDK what dictionary you use but mine says corpulent is defined as:
excessively fat; “a weighty man”
That sounds like a pretty fair description of Grayson. Just because someone may be heavy themselves doesn’t mean they’re not allowed to accurately describe someone else as also being heavy. Grow up and move out of your mom’s basement.
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Center Left concern troll is CONCERNED.
Where’s the Goddamned Batman when he’s needed.
Worst. Concern. Troll. Resume. Evah.
people are imitating me already? whatever, it’s the SINCEREST form of flattery i hear.
As well, I play bass and I skate in my local Derby leagues.
I will never vote for a liberal again if they take away my freedom to choose my doctor.
I am posting this from Aarhus, Denmark, believe me when I tell you, you have no possible conception on how transparently idiotic you are. What you are saying is akin to saying, I’ve been to Ghana lots of times and I didn’t see a black person once.
Yeah, I’d hazard a guess that “she’s” neither center, left, nor has ever been a “grrrl”, much less punk, ever dealt with the health care infrastructure of France, or had a coherent thought.
Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out. Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out. Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out. Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out. Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out. Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out. Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Ding dong dilly! Badoodle boo yeah. You just got served a SPREAD of truth! Urban out.
The “me” at 15:56 is not me. Namestealing bitch.
I made 2.2 million dollars last year.
I don’t know why I keep coming here hoping to see zombie porn when all you ever do is make fun of people who disagree with you for being dead or whatever. I know you can be SMART people and you don’t help your blart one bit when you do blart. You should be trying to sequester people in an old mall, not just trading in recipes and shit moat references. This blog is in serious trouble and it needs compromise, understanding, and a nice brain pate, not POOP jokes.
I will never vote for a liberal again if they take away my freedom to choose my doctor.
I’ve never voted for a “so called” liberal in my life. I am a mainstream Democrat which is the point I am trying to make in fact.
Yo yo yo, CLG, there’s only room for one of us here, holla if ya feels me
“I will never vote for a liberal again if they take away my freedom to choose my doctor.”
I knew we’d come around to this tired old shibboleth before long. Pretending to be gay and a punk saps your creativity after a while I suppose and you eventually have to rely on the tried-and-true right-wing bullshit. You’re now becoming boring…
socialized medicine doesn’t work in Europe. They need our innovation.
Novartis = based in Germany
Astra Zeneca = HQ in London
CT scanner = developed in Europe
Discovery of the HIV virus = France.
Um, don’t look now, but they seem to be doing purty good on they own, sistah.
You’ll never believe this, but people stop my boyfriend on the street and ask if he’s George Clooney. To which he always replies, “if I were, would I be hanging around with this hot world traveller and all these lesbians?”
Jacob-
But surely not!
Next you’ll be saying that it’s some pasty white anti-feminist doing a parody of what he remembers of feminism and that the female and lesbian friends also don’t exist.
Blasphemy!
“I know you can be smrat people…”
“Nice grammar, sistah.”
CGL And pray tell us, who does a “mainstream Democrat” vote for – Joe Lieberman?
I knew we’d come around to this tired old shibboleth before long. Pretending to be gay and a punk saps your creativity after a while I suppose and you eventually have to rely on the tried-and-true right-wing bullshit. You’re now becoming boring…
Firstly that wasn’t even me that was someone imitating me because people around here seem to resort always to that when they can’t win an argument legitimately. Second of all, I never said I was gay or still a “punk” just that I used to be punk I guess and I have alot of gay friends.
Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Da Cool Coach doesn’t know why he keeps coming here hoping to see awesome analysis of issues when all you silly socialists ever do is make fun of peeps who disagree with you for being fat or whatevskie! I know you loony libs can use yo noggins and you ain’t doin nuttin for your cause one bit when you do this! You should be trying to rally your homies to Obummer’s socialist agenda, not with the razzle-dazzle and shim-sham! This country is in serious trouble and it needs Super Sarah, the Power Lain, not petty attacks. Urban out.
Trolls hate namestealing even more than when someone goes trip-trap trapping over their bridge….
Nice grammar, sistah. I think you meant YOUR lies. Which are TRUTH in point of fact.
Oh what a giveaway! Honey, don’t you want to take that one back?
They need our innovation.
Taking money from people for nothing is not an innovation.
Of course, my boyfriend also lives in Canada, so you folks probably won’t get the chance to stop him in the street.
Mainstream democrat, doesn’t vote for liberals…My GOD!
I’m sorry Joe Lieberman, you are right, but I’m afraid to say the woman you worked with to pass protections for military wives, while lesbian and while remembering you more fondly than your consituents, is not your friend.
Just amazing, the foul invective and insults hurled at someone who does not wear the right clothes and attitude to be in your club. No wonder you are such a small minority with no power. If only you would listen to alternate voices, including those you disagree with, including Republicans and those who supported Hillary, maybe you’d be getting som traction with health care. You will get NONE with petty insults, unwelcoming taunts, and no serious, reasonable bipartisan debate or with deal killers like a public option — this is still the land of economic freedom. Try reaching around the aisle for once!
“I have alot of gay friends.”
No, no, no! It’s “Some of my best friends are gay.”
And are they also tired of all of Obama’s “gay rights crap?”
She has a lot of gay friends. See? That’s what gives her so much credibility for her arguments on health care reform.
“Of course, my boyfriend also lives in Canada”
You mean they haven’t yet killed him with their socialized medicine?
She has “piles” of gay friends. She even lets them use her bathroom.
CGL And pray tell us, who does a “mainstream Democrat” vote for – Joe Lieberman?
If I lived in Joe’s district I would definitely get behind some Joementum. I like Reid when he doesn’t cave into the extreme leftwingers. Mary Pryor, Mark Warner, Evan Bayh. I’m a HUGE Obama supporter right now but that could change if he keeps giving into liberals and doesn’t stay the middle road.
She has a lot of gay friends. See? That’s what gives her so much credibility for her arguments on health care reform.
And against gay rights. Which her gay friends agree with her on.
She has a lot of gay friends. See? That’s what gives her so much credibility for her arguments on health care reform.
Well, I mean, considering the Baucus bill was just window dressing and we all know how FAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS gay tastes are in window dressings…
I will never vote for a liberal again if they take away my freedom to choose my doctor.
World-wide travelling civil engineering grrrl, where is it that you went where you lost the freedom to choose your doctor?
I’m a HUGE Obama supporter right now but that could change if he keeps giving into liberals and doesn’t stay the middle road.
The fact that liberals are angrier with Obama than right wingers tells you….errr, what, precisely?
*snort*
Actually, I believe her stance is that having a beer with riot grrls gives her arguments against health care reform the credibility, or ‘street cred’ as the grrls would say.
Or maybe it’s being a civil engineer. Not sure on that.
But the Canadian boyfriend thing….
My gay friends are mostly worried about more serious issues than a piece of paper saying it’s okay for them to get married. They didn’t vote for Obama to push some radical gay agenda, they wanted a period of healing and consenus building, just like I did and still in fact do.
Non-ironic use of Joe-mentum. I’m telling you, Joe Lieberman is CLG.
I never claimed to be a civil engineer that was someone imitating me. In fact I actually work in accounting.
I youstabee a center-left supporter of Democrats, but the risk of possibly giving those odious uninsured poor folks a chance of getting basic medical coverage has made me see the light.
Amen, CRG. We need more consensus and reaching around, more reasoned discourse and serious debate. Otherwise nothing will get done.
That’s funny, I had no idea gay people thought of gay marriage as part of “some radical gay agenda”. Who knew?
No I definitely DO still support Obama as of this moment. I’d say he has a good chance to be our best President since Reagan if he can keep fighting the good fight and not cave into special interests.
I never claimed to be a civil engineer that was someone imitating me. In fact I actually work in accounting.
OK, that’s fucking funny. I hope Tintin is watching, cuz he needs to be able to raise his game to keep up.
Concern Troll is nymstolen concerned.
non-ironic use of “radical gay agenda”, never mind, it’s Maggie Gallagher. I guess she is female.
“Non-ironic use of Joe-mentum. I’m telling you, Joe Lieberman is CLG.”
He’s building consensus for his filibuster!
also, did i mention i have a boyfriend who also lives in Canada, also? He hates the socialest medicine.
…our best President since Reagan…
Your wingnut is showing.
Whoever keeps pretending to be me and saying they/I have a boyfriend in Canada is lying.
No I definitely DO still support Obama as of this moment. I’d say he has a good chance to be our best President since Reagan if he can keep fighting the good fight and not cave into special interests.
I think Cerberrrrrus is right. TOTALLY Joe Lieberman. All that’s missing is “…which is why I am going to vote against everything he tries to do.”
So do these fake trolls start their show on Whiskey Fire before taking it on the road to Sadly, No!? Is there a fake troll off-Broadway?
Everything I say is a lie. I never said that.
Whoever is nymstealing me and mocking our good friend, Center Left Zombie. err, grrrl, had better stop it. They better, I’m warning you.
Remember, gays don’t want to be married, they want to be fired for being gay, want to be murdered for being gay, want to be dishonorably discharged from the military, and don’t even want things to avoid foreclosure on their house, cancellation of their already meager insurance or freedom to pursue a job they want.
All lesbians want is for right-wingers to feel less butt-hurt.
You can trust this analysis, she had a beer with a dyke musician once.
16:16 is a namstealing bitch.
Center Left Grrrl said,
October 28, 2009 at 16:17
Everything I say is a lie
Harcourt Fenton Mudd?
And the gays LOVED Reagan.
No, really. No hard feelings whatsoever.
Reagan was the best POTUS since Nixon.
Stop stealing my nams.
Also.
Remember, gays don’t want to be married, they want to be fired for being gay, want to be murdered for being gay, want to be dishonorably discharged from the military, and don’t even want things to avoid foreclosure on their house, cancellation of their already meager insurance or freedom to pursue a job they wan
Oh right because anyone who isn’t a part of the radical gay agenda wants to hunt gays for sport with impunity I totally forgot about that!
I youstabee a punk, but that Ronald Reagan is so dreamy…
WTF?!?!?!
No love for GWB?
I call Fake Center-Left!!
Why are we arguing with this guy? He’s a paper-thin fabrication of some feverish ideal of some worldly, hip, non-nonsense, moderate female Democrat, spewing right wing talking points like some malfunctioning Glenn Reynolsdroid. Obama “giving in” to Liberals? Oh please, Mr. Concern Troll, do tell us how your hawt ex-stripper avatar and her CIA connected husband (sorry “boyfriend in Canada”) would save the Democrat (sic) Party if only we wouldn’t be so darn lefty?
Yeah, Pryor is real “mainstream Democrat.”
-A self-described evangelical Christian who once stated that he could believe in Young Earth creationism
– Pryor was one of 12 Senate Democrats who voted to adopt S.3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006[5], which restricts from an entire class of people the writ of Habeas Corpus [6], admits as legal evidence information obtained by coercion or torture [7], and provides for an effective amnesty to government officials who might otherwise face criminal charges for having authorized torture or abuse of prisoners prior to the bill’s passage
– Pryor is affiliated with a political organization called the Family and has stated that through the Family he had learned that the separation of church and state was a sort of secular exaggeration and that “Jesus did not come to bring peace. Jesus came to take over.”
Nice mainstream Dem, there.
My boyfriend isn’t Canadian. In fact, I’ve never had a boyfriend, really. But I hope to meet someone nice in my accounting department. Everyone here is pretty middle-of-the-road, which suits me perfectly.
For lunch I’m having a plain hamburger with extra nothing. Yummy!
Why are we arguing with this guy?
Better than working.
Who’s arguing, though? Mostly Mockery, special today.
I never FUCKING said I had a FUCKING boyfriend in Canada that was someone pretending to be me because they couldn’t FUCKING argue in any cognizant regard.
“I’d say he has a good chance to be our best President since Reagan…”
OUTED!!!!!!!
So Pryor can’t be a Democrat because he’s a Christian? You guys are really going to derail Obama’s revolution before his first term is even expunged aren’t you?
ex·punge (k-spnj)
tr.v. ex·punged, ex·pung·ing, ex·pung·es
1. To erase or strike out: “I have corrected some factual slips, expunged some repetitions” (Kenneth Tynan).
2. To eliminate completely; annihilate.
“Nice grammar, sistah.”
“So Pryor can’t be a Democrat because he’s a Christian? You guys are really going to derail Obama’s revolution before his first term is even expunged aren’t you?”
Reading comprehension fail (quelle suprise!). I never said one can’t be a Christian and a Democrat, but sweetie I’ve never met an Evangelical Christian who held any views close to what could be described as “mainstream Democrat.” If you don’t know the difference between evangelical and mainstream Christianity, you are even stupider than your posts make you appear.
Oh look the name stealing troll slipped up and kept the fake name in a post that made no sense whatsoever. Poor kids you aren’t very smart are you?
And “his first term is even expunged?” WTF? Hie thee to a dictionary , GRRL…
I youstabee a punk, but then I saw how much persecution Christians were facing in the United States of America…
WTF?!?!?
Oh I see so you decide what is “mainsteam” and what isn’t?
why are we arguing with this guy?
My dataset is aligning. And I’m getting some good laughs hearing what some right-wing dude thinks lesbians and socialized medicine is like.
I mean c’mon, non-ironic use of “radical gay agenda”, “joe-mentum”, and wingnut southern baptists are of course just what christian means are wonderfully delicious tells.
Do go on about how your gay friends feel about Reagan.
Well I don’t think socialized medecine and the radical gay agenda are very “mainstream” either and I think if Obama caves into it he is going to completely lose my support and the support of most of the people I know and respect.
ARM, stop stealing my HAMS!
Baste my roast, libs!
“Oh I see so you decide what is “mainsteam” and what isn’t?”
Boy you really are thick, aren’t you? The term “mainstream” with regard to any group means “reflecting the views of the majority.” Do you really think that the majority of Democrats hold the same political and social views as evangelical Christians? Dammit, I demand smarter trolls!
Put it this way I gave Obama money last time around and volunteered for him and supoprted him whole out but if he puts the socialized option on the table I will not be doing ANY of these things next time maybe not even voting for him.
Dammit stop stealing my nym! That just shows how immature you all are! You can’t argue with me like grown-ups, so you mock me. Oh yeah, real mature. You’re just like all the boys in my class! I hate you all! I hate you! I hate you! Hate you! Hate you! Ronald Reagan was the bestest president ever, my daddy said so, and Daddy would never lie to me!
snrk, radical gay agenda
Oh right because anyone who isn’t a part of the radical gay agenda wants to hunt gays for sport with impunity I totally forgot about that!
So wanting to be employed, physically safe, and financially secure is part of the “radical gay agenda” now. OK, got it.
Hey Center Grift Trrrl: try harder, buddy.
I once partied with Bikini Kill, so suck it, leftists.
I thought it was Le Tigre, poseur. Get your Kathleen Hannah groups straight. And read her lyrics sometime before the next time you namedrop her while you’re sneering “leftist” at people.
If I lived in Joe’s district
Said “district” is called Connecticut.
So Pryor can’t be a Democrat because he’s a Christian?
Young Earth Creationist isn’t Christian, it’s two-centuries-behind-the-times-Christian.
Cerberus,
Are you an American living in Denmark and if so, how long?
kg
I gave Obama money last time around
Oh? Had he run before 2008?
I know. Radical gay agenda:
6:00 am Gym
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Hair appointment
10:00 am Shopping
12:00 PM Brunch
2:00 PM (Here’s the really important part)
1) Assume complete control of the US Federal, State and local Governments as well as all other national governments
2) Recruit all straight youngsters to our debauched lifestyle
3) Destroy all healthy heterosexual marriages
4) Replace all school counselors in grades K-12 with agents of Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels
5) Establish planetary chain of “homo breeding gulags” where over -medicated imprisoned straight women are turned into artificially impregnated baby factories to produce prepubescent love slaves for our devotedly pederastic gay leadership
6) Bulldoze all houses of worship
7) Secure total control of the INTERNET and all mass media for the exclusive use of child pornographers.
2:30 PM Get Forty Winks of Beauty Rest to prevent facial wrinkles from stress of world conquest
4:00 PM Cocktails
6:00 PM Light Dinner
8:00 PM Theater
11:00 PM Bed
h/t Pam Spaulding
I thought it was Le Tigre, poseur. Get your Kathleen Hannah groups straight. And read her lyrics sometime before the next time you namedrop her while you’re sneering “leftist” at people.
That was someone imitating me, genius.
kg-
Until June. I love it here, but I really miss my friends and partner so I’m looking forward to coming home.
…he is going to completely lose my support and the support of most of the people I know and respect.
Good. Fuck you. I hear the libertarians are building a new utopia in the desert somewhere.
Opt-out public option available only to those in the Health Exchange, i.e. something like a quarter of Americans =/= socialized medicine.
Allowing gays to join the army or get married =/= radical agenda.
And for the shitbags you respect like St. Ronnie, worstest preznit save for GWB? If they give up on the Obama administration because he wants to give health coverage to the uninsured – fuck them too.
Hey, fake trolls who are impersonating someone else aren’t allowed to get pissy when someone impersonates them, OK? It’s impolite, even for a fake troll.
“Put it this way I gave Obama money last time around and volunteered for him and supoprted him whole out but if he puts the socialized option on the table I will not be doing ANY of these things next time maybe not even voting for him.”
OK, busted again. I’ll be glad to grab any number of quotes from the presidential campaign in which Obama expressed his support for health care reform,including a public option:
“”The time has come for universal health care in America […] I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country.”
But you voted for him anyway. Were you not paying attention then, or do you typically vote for candidates who promise to implement policies with which you disagree?
Cerberus,
Thanks. I’m going to drag my wife to Europe one of these years and Denmark is high on the list.
Put it this way I gave Obama money last time around and volunteered for him and supoprted him whole out but if he puts the socialized option on the table I will not be doing ANY of these things next time maybe not even voting for him.
Wow. Triple threat.
People are supposed to EARN things like health care not just be GIVEN them. That’s how it works. Sorry to burst any bubbles or deconstruct any castles in the sand.
Hey, I think the tiresome concern troll has moved on. Now whaddawe do?
People are supposed to EARN things like health care not just be GIVEN them.
Christ tells us differently, centrist.
Ooops, never mind. Hello Mr. Concern Troll
OK sorry peoples but I have better things to do right now (ie a real life to live) so CLG is OUT for now.
kg- You should, it’s really beautiful here, take some hiking trails and hit the gay district of Copenhagen and of course Christianshavn (anarchist province of Copenhagen, very bohemian).
but I LIKE my castle in the sand!!!
Plus, it’s your own fault if you get an expensive type of cancer or AIDS, or if your insurance company denies your claim, or if you can’t afford a $10,000 deductible. Mainstream America doesn’t help those who can’t help themselves, lefties.
That was someone imitating me, genius.
Oh, I’m sorry. You were the first name-dropping idiot, but not the second . My bad!
PS: I’ll second Cerberus recommendation. Denmark rocks.
Concern Trolls have “lives”?
huh.
Snrk. And we get the libertarian whine.
Never been to Denmark except the airport, but we spent about 3 months in Oslo. Wonderful. Even though it was winter.
G- my parents visited Norway several years ago through a home-exchange program, and absolutely loved it. My mother recommended reading “Kristen Lavransdatter”, and I am halfway through book 2. Have you heard of it/readit?
Never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music, myself.
I have a feeling if I go I’ll never want to come back.
gotta go, these castles don’t construct themselves, youknow.
I truly believe that Center Left Grrrl is a feminist, gay-friendly ex-punk aficionado.
…In Chris Muir’s world.
gotta go, these castles don’t construct themselves, youknow.
Don’t let any bubbles deconstruct your radical left wing agenda!
Oh, shit! When I put together *my* radical left-wing agenda this morning, I completely forgot about forcing all straight people to become gay while reassigning them all to Pakistani immigrant doctors. Think I can still get this accomplished if I give up going to the driving range this afternoon?
Never could get into Kirsten Lavrandsdottir, but I’m willing to try again.
Well, I gotta go. Gotta get to work at my government-funded job, leeching off the taxpayers to support and promote gay art and Mexislamofascist culture! Ta ta!
OK sorry peoples but I have better things to do right now (ie a real life to live) so CLG is OUT for now.
Thanks for dropping by and declaring victory.
Castles made of sand…melt into the sea…eventually.
actor-
If you like, you should check out No Relax. Catalan feminist punk band and the singer is determined to be hot.
Link
Um. Where is Gavin? I misses him like I misses Fafblog.
Gav will be back before long. He’s got a lot going on right now, dealing with an infant, and the loss of a parent and all. Have no fear – he still loves you all.
In the meantime, here’s more Daily Dash, so you can see what’s distracting him from wingnut deconstruction.
Cere,
What is it about this band that reminds me of Gwen Stefani?
Is it the bad hair or the bad music?
Third, seriously, is there really anything more annoying than someone who will willingly and proudly declare themselves a centrist? – Cerebus
I lot of Americans actually describe themselves as centrists (or moderate liberals or some such).
Then again, a lot of Americans are annoying and many more Americans are assholes.
That wasn’t me that ate those brains, it was someone pretending to be me!!
How ya doin, you lovable scamp?
The Democrat Party is in deep trouble in[…] New Jersey.
Corzine Ahead in N.J. Governor’s Race, Poll Finds
Meh. Not so much!
Holy moley, even Dash is mocking the Concerned Leftist Trrrrroll.
genes will tell, i guess.
That’s an 18 point swing, Troofie. Christie was up by 13, down by five, and Corzine even cut into Dagget’s total!
Meh. Not so much!
Don’t you mean Sadly, No! ??
the loss of a parent and all
Condolences.
Third Party Spiders? Is that an offshoot from Ziggy’s band?
Um, we get little Riot Grrrrl and then Troofie suddenly appears?
Smarter trolls, please.
“If it’s that bad for him in Virginia, I can only imagine what Ohio and Florida will be like next year!”
I guess we better bookmark it then.
Of course it is. Of course it is. Shall we Bookmark This(TM)?
Seriously, though, Troofus- You’ve been gone for a couple of weeks, and this is the best you came up with? Back to the Super 8 with you…gotta get some fresh material, holmes.
<iHow do you feel about Virginia, Actor? McDonnell ahead by 11 points, in a state Hopey won by 6.
If it’s that bad for him in Virginia, I can only imagine what Ohio and Florida will be like next year!
By all means, make a call.
So we can bookmark it, you know.
Actor, I think you’ve got a Sekrit Admirer!!
CLG stealer nymjack changeback FAIL.
Hee hee hee.
also.
So was Troofie playing dress up as Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl before he had his milk and cookies earlier?
the loss of a parent and all.
Hey, condolences as well.
And BTW, the AG candidate in VA
AG in Virginny is the best you got?
Makes this zombie lib feel kind of warm inside, which is kind of funny considering the death and all.
Speaking of getting crushed… who is it that controls both houses of Congress, and the White House, by significant margins? Who’s CRUSHING who, Coach?
actor-
Or not.
Actor, I think you’ve got a Sekrit Admirer!!
Not so sekrit, if you ask me. Big ol’ mancrush. Wonder what hot ex-stripper wife thinks about that?
The Democrat Party is in deep trouble in both Virginia and New Jersey. Big government liberals in Washington have alienated swing voters with big spending, higher taxes, a nationalized auto and banking industry, and suffocating regulations.
Troll is right in one sense — pace what some of you have had to say, the Democrats are in big trouble in NJ (that Christie is loosing and blew a 15 point lead doesn’t mean the Dems are safe in NJ — it just means that the GOP is in deeper trouble than are the Dems).
OTOH, I dunno about the political dynamics in VA, but having lived in NJ (and currently working here), I can say that Trollie is 100% wrong about why the Dems are in trouble in NJ. The majority of NJ voters live in the I-95 corridor which is one of the most deeply left-wing parts of the country, and either don’t give a rat’s ass about “teh evil socialist big gummint in DC” or they actively support it.
The reason why NJ Dems are in trouble is because NJ Dems are doing a heckuva job (as in “you did a heckuva job, Brownie”) in running NJ itself (and even some of the folks NJ sends to Congress are involved with NJ political machines and hence part of the problem).
I know the so-called liberal media will spin any GOP victories in NJ (e.g. in 2010) as “even the liberal I-95 corridor rejects the leftism of Obama, Reid, Pelosi and CO”, but just because even the liberal media says it (and they are oh-so-pro-liberal and giving our spin … not!) doesn’t make it true.
If the GOP does (Hashem forbid) get its act together and start winning elections, even Congress-critter/Senate elections, in NJ — that doesn’t mean NJ voters are fed up with big gummint socialism (well, certainly the voters out in the Red NJ boonies are and long have been) but rather that they are fed up with corrupt machine politics and the NJ Democratic party.
The (NJ) Dems are alienating “swing voters” alright. But not because of their ideology and voting records in Washington but because of their behavior in NJ itself.
Snrk. You reach for that dream sistah troofie. You reach for that dream.
Also Matthews, a lib? Snrk.
Well, if he’s an accountant who hangs out with Bikini Kill, he’ll be traveling to Paris soon to complain about the health care system to the CIA….
Man, the backstory is getting complicated
Wow! I wonder how in the hell Troofy was able to call this!
Right, DN. I think I’ll go to bed, because tomorrow the Great Zombie Freakout will begin.
we just voted against Bush
…who wasn’t running.
Hmmmm. Analysis FALE.
We’re ahead in Babylonia. We’re ahead in Fresno. We’re ahead in Cheese. We’re ahead in heads. My god, my head is turning into a head. HEADS!!!!
I think it’s worth noting that at least Troofus is now openly admitting that Obama won. It’s small, but it’s a start.
DAS, substitute “liberal” with “conservative” in your analysis,
In other words, up is down, black is white, and my daddy does SO love me!!!
Bookmark this, libs: I like to play dress-up in girly clothes before trolling sometimes.
“But I still have tons of feminist and even lesbian friends…”
But no fat ones, that’s just icky.
“But just like Carter, Hopey will be a one term FAILURE.”
So Papa Bush was a failure, and Clinton was a huge success. Got it.
Actor, I think you’ve got a Sekrit Admirer!!
Not so sekrit, sadly.
Oops forgot to close the tag.
Sorry ’bout that.
We’re ahead in Cheese. We’re ahead in heads.
Must have the head cheese vote locked up!
Bookmark it, glibs!
You can vote against someone who isn’t running zombie.
Yeah, I agree McCain was running as a zombie.
Just wait until we nominate someone who was against the bailouts from the start, nominate him, and run on “change”.
Who fits that bill in the Republican Party? Ron Paul? Tinkerbell? The spoogemopper in the bathroom stalls?
Girls are icky, says the troll, but he’s definitely not gay…
mmhmm.
It’s cute how you libs see me everywhere, but I’m not “Grrrl”, the left wing lesbo dyke. Fuck her.
Just what she needs. Another mysogynist.
Mommy update: Dash started staring at the HiFi in awe when the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine came on. A good sign?
Just wait until we nominate someone who was against the bailouts from the start, nominate him, and run on “change”.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, and what planet will you be recruiting from?
I think it’s worth noting that at least Troofus is now openly admitting that Obama won.
Better. He’s admitting Obama won AND that Bush was teh suck!
I’ve never met an Evangelical Christian who held any views close to what could be described as “mainstream Democrat.”
I’m a progressive and a Evangelical (although i’m reconsidering that title). and a Calvinist to boot.
See, libs! Everyone, um, hates you.
Yeah, run Cornyn, Troofy. You do that.
Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, (and my personal favorites) John Cornyn and General David Petraeus.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!
Two on that list were measured, weighed and found wanting! They couldn’t even beat McCain!
Pawlenty…yea, there’s someone who’s designed to suck the air out of a room.
Petraeus? LOL! Too funny. If he’s smart, he won’t even endorse someone.
John Cornyn?
Dood, pass that doob you been smoking…
Like we care about McConnell. Maybe he gets elected, maybe he doesn’t. As pointed out above regarding NJ, governor races are local, and are not referendums on national parties, but who gets shit done. So McC MAYBE gets in, promptly fucks things up, and gets tossed out again. Either way, unless you live in Virginny, it’s not much concern, and if the Republican Party is seeing it as a silver bullet for their woes, more power to ’em. Part of the fun of watching them circling the toilet.
But Preznit? Not only do governors rarely make that shot, he’s a nobody. Better to go with Paul Ryan, who’s at least a typical Republican Corporate Whore.
Or maybe YOU Troofy. YOU could be president, just as likely. You could run with Center Left Girl as a running mate.
Troofy, it’s a shame more Republicans don’t follow your example and publicly call for an end to all of the socialism in America. You know, like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, etc. Why do you suppose that is?
I’ve never met an Evangelical Christian who held any views close to what could be described as “mainstream Democrat.”
I’m a progressive and a Evangelical (although i’m reconsidering that title).
I’m all that and ordained. I wouldn’t take the comment seriously, jas dye.
jas dye-
And there is also Fred Clark of slacktivist.
It’s funny how Troofie is putting so much hope (pun intended) in an election that represents 2% of the nation….*snort*
Cornyn? Actual letter from Senator Douchebag from Saturday:
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/2009/10/24/1024letters_edit.html
Wants rape victims to go to arbitration because otherwise, they would hire a lawyer and, well, the lawyer would GET PAID!!!! The shyster.
Troofie, “Big Bad John” could barely beat a Noriega in his last election!
IN TEXAS!
By all means, run the fucker. It will finally put paid to any hope that you have that this country is going to regress to its childhood!
Yes, Petraeus would be a nightmare. I hear his cancer treatment has not been successful, so he’d be the first zombie to, errr, lurch for President!
Cornyn? Why ain’tcha supporting Rick Perry? Are you soft on freedom, Troofy?
Gee, you guys are no fun. I leave for few hours to go to spanish classes, and you drive away the fake concern trolls who claim to know europe, and bring out troofie…
Man. All troofie does is whine. And make stupid predictions.
Isn’t it odd how he’s left the Slutty Stewardess off his list?
LD-
Yeah, troofie’s drag as a wordly feminist lesbian was much more creative and prone to hilarious overreaching. Troofie as troofie…sigh.I guess all that creativity(sic) was too hard.
Troofie as troofie…sigh.I guess all that creativity(sic) was too hard.
He’s just Johnny One-Note on the skin flute…
Oh we addressed it, Troofie. You’re soooooooooo excited about an election for 2% of America! ROFLMAO!
Yesss, John Cornyn is a cowboy. Cowboys love them some fringe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt05KC3Add8
Why ain’tcha supporting Rick Perry for *president*, ya big silly? Don’t you think he’s the Manliest Manly Man in Manlytown?
“He has ranch and is a cowboy, stupid fucking moronic clueless shitbag voters love that.”
FTFY.
“He has ranch and is a cowboy”
That surely came from fake troofy, right? Right?
It’s hard to tell anymore.
I just realized something. The wingnuts have essentially devoted their entire life to a game. The game of wingnuts versus libtards, which they have cheered on not on actual benefit to their lives or ideology, but entirely the game itself. They live for victories and defeats and nothing else.
While we are all trying to figure out how to get people what they need, standing up for personal injustices that we have felt or has been felt by close friends, they are chasing desperately a need to win something, anything to plug themselves back in the game and the quick rushes they provide.
Essentially, we have one party that is a coalition of people who want to do various things to help real people and another party of drug addicts and sports fans.
Intirguing.
Personally, I’d love to see Jack Abramoff’s name trotted out again for Cornyn2012! It would be so good for the country to be reminded.
Shorter me: The wingnuts care about nothing else other than beating liberals at something, anything and will sacrifice everything else for that cause and that cause alone.
“…they are chasing desperately a need to win something, anything to plug themselves back in the game and the quick rushes they provide.”
That’s why they love wars so much. Well, as long as other people fight them for them.
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Okay, I’ll bite. McDonnell likes his women barefoot and pregnant and he is winning in Virginia. That tells us either Deeds is a bad candidate or a majority of Virginia voters are ready to party like it’s 1959.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, another Bush.
Is this based on the “Third time’s a charm” theory, Troofie?
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Deeds is a bad candidate
This is the collective wisdom.
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DAS, substitute “liberal” with “conservative” in your analysis, and “USA” for “NJ” and THAT is what really happened in 2008. America is a center-right country, we didn’t vote for Socialism, we just voted against Bush (who didn’t govern as a conservative). – Change Troll
So Bush lost because he didn’t govern as a conservative? I guess conservatism never fails it only is failed, eh?
As to your larger point, it begs the question of whether America is a center-right country, but let’s assume it is (and let us note Cerebus @ October 28, 2009 at 15:30 above who works out the implications of what it means to be “center-x”). Does this mean that Americans are ideologically most supportive of candidates just right of center on the political spectrum and that the most successful candidates (barring backlash voting) are those who are closest to this ideological sweet spot?
Hells no! Most Americans have a distrust of ideology (and even of examining ideological assumptions). Most Americans are center-x because, not wanting to think about ideology too hard, they fall into the trap (c.f. again Cerebus’ remarks) of “both sides are partially right and both sides are partially wrong, therefore the truth is somewhere in the middle”. Since they don’t care about ideology, they want people in office simply who get things done and first do no harm.
The GOP was in part so successful for almost 30 years because they were the party of “we aren’t ideological Euro-weenies but we just wanna kill Commies/Terrorists/whomever — and that’s doin’ something” — i.e. the GOP spoke the language of “get ‘er done”. They also were constantly critiquing government mis-actions, so people trusted them to not make those mistakes (if you don’t do anything, you don’t do wrong things).
But eventually it has become obvious that the GOP does a lot of harm, is ideological and nucking futs besides. So were 2006 and 2008 anti-GOP backlash? As S. Palin would say, “you betcha”. But does that mean that if the Dems govern as socialists this will alienate “center-right” America? No — even if you assume America is “center-right”, what would alienate the “center-right” is not socialism but SNAFUs.
And perhaps I am ideologically biased here, but it seems to me that if the Dems actually go out and get health care reform done right (i.e. introduce some of teh evil socialism into the mix), etc., they’ll have more luck with so-called center right America than if the Dems continually try to “compromise” and the compromises that result make matters worse for most Americans.
The American people want to see results, not sausage making. And since teh evil socialist Dems are the ones whose policy ideas will produce results, no matter how supposedly “center-right” the American people are, they will stick with us moonbats. OTOH, since all the “moderate Dems” wanna produce is more horse-trading (with said traded horses being ground into sausage), if the moderate Dems have their way, then the American people will reject the Dems in favor of the GOP (assuming the GOP can manage not to be nucking futs for the length of an election season, which seems to be a challenge — c.f. Christie blowing a 15 point or whatever lead!).
we must all get behind his “mandate”.
Man date. Something Troofy know alot about? Wants to know alot about? Hmmm???
“Change is Coming to America said,
October 28, 2009 at 18:02
The whining from libs if Jeb Bush won would be so sweet.”
Wouldn’t it really. Everyone would turn into conservatives, US would rule the world, and unicorns would come out of their hiding places to play with kids while real men would ride dragons.
What? By definition, we are talking about fantasy world settings, are we not?
I notice when a lib loses, its because he was a “bad candidate”.
The same is true when a Republican loses.
Or wins.
I notice when a lib loses, its because he was a “bad candidate”.
But when a Republican loses, its because the Democrat candidate was awesome and we must all get behind his “mandate”. – Change Troll
If I taught psychology rather than chemistry, I could use this as an example of projection — considering that “even the liberal media” says, when a conservative looses, it’s because he’s a bad candidate but when a Republican wins, we must get behind his “mandate” (c.f. Newt, GW Bush, etc.).
I remember being told back in 2000 that 6 electoral votes equaled a “mandate”.
There’s also Jeb Bush.
Jeb 2012: “I’m the smart one. No, really. I am”
even if you assume America is “center-right”, what would alienate the “center-right” is not socialism but SNAFUs.
This is why Republicans are even competitive in politics.
If you don’t DO anything, nothing gets done wrong.
Until you hit a Katrina moment.
Shorter me: The wingnuts care about nothing else other than beating liberals at something, anything and will sacrifice everything else for that cause and that cause alone. – Cerebus
Of course, that can be a problem for us. If you have one side in it to win (in part because they don’t believe that government can actually do anything constructive, so winning is the main goal for them) while the other side actually is interested in governing (because they believe some good might come of it), the side that’s playing to win will, everything else being equal, win more often than not.
Fortunately, perhaps in 2006 the American people woke up to what is going on?
DAS-
The first thing I learned about the right-wing is that it’s ALL projection. Whatever they claim liberals are doing, one should immediately investigate them for it to save some time.
Until you hit a Katrina moment. – actor212
Bingo!
The general disconnect happens when you assume that state/local politics directly reflect national politics, as if the country were a giant Risk board where each state could be Red or Blue and nothing in between. Even if, say, Christie is elected in NJ, there’s nothing short of a major hurricane that would make the state vote for a Republican senator in 2014 or a Republican presidential candidate in 2012, because New Jersey Republicans are still basically Blue Dogs compared to the national caucus.
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
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“But when a Republican loses, its because the Democrat candidate was awesome and we must all get behind his “mandate”.”
Wait. Didn’t you drop in here to gloat about some future victories and how that proves you’ll have some “mandate” started? ‘Cause you can’t have it both ways, Troofie ol’ gal.
I don’t care what anyone says, this doofus never gets old:
It’s the little things, really.
With the media the way it is today, and the 24 hour coverage, state and local politics DO equal national politics.
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
Most Americans can’t even name the Vice President if you spot them the name “Joe”!
Yer an idjit.
Stop hitting myself!
People say the Libertarian Party is dead — but how can that be when several of them have been elected to state legislature?
People say Socialism is dead, but Bernie Sanders is a SENATOR!!!!!!
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Center Left Grrrrl is hilARious. Though it saddens me to think how much time she must have had to spend around people who are actually like that, to nail the persona so perfectly. The “since my punk days” detail almost made me drown in my tea.
You have my sympathies, CLG, but also my admiration on a job well done! Brava!
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Troofie was more entertaining as the “Day by Day” version of a riot grrl.
Prognosticating troofus is boring (and wrong).
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The general disconnect happens when you assume that state/local politics directly reflect national politics
Exactly. The potential election of a Teabagger AG in Virginia makes me quake in my boots for the future of the Democratic Congressional agenda….Not.
Twoofus, are you aware that Attorneys General don’t write legislation?
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Aw c’mon Troofus, don’t shy away from the one thing you’ve ever done around here that was mildly entertaining. Man up, girlie.
winning gubernatorial elections?
Well, you guys are certainly putting the “goober” back in them. But in case it’s been a while, “winning” is the one where you get more votes than the other side.
I was NOT fucking riot grrrl
Much to riot grrl’s relief.
Troofus what’s yr riot grrrl zine called?
A state which deviated from a 40-year pattern of voting only for batshit insane conservatives in 2008 is getting ready to elect another batshit insane conservative for a local race. This proves that the entire country hates Obama and Democrats.
Hey Tintin, I know your real name and address, and phone number, and I’m going to post it real soon. How does that make you feel?
Also I know how to hack your site, I took classes on computer programming and internet science recently. Just wait.
If you’re so tough, post your own info.
Also I know how to hack your site, I took classes on computer programming and internet science recently. Just wait.
Make sure you pull out before you come, ok Troofie?
Troofie has l33t skillz!
Yeah, Virginia currently has 1 Democrat and 2 Republicans in the top 3 state positions, a Republican House and a barely Democratic Senate. The Republicans will basically take the governorship and keep the other 2 top slots (Lt Gov and AG), retake the Senate and maybe add a seat or two in the house. A good year for the Republicans, but not exactly a disaster of earth-shaking proportions for the Democrats given that this is a pretty red state overall.
Of course I’m old enough to have been active in campaigns in 1982 when the Democrats did pretty well in the mid-terms and I kept hearing that Reagan was in trouble in 1984. And after 1994 I kept hearing from republican coworkers how Clinton was doomed in 1996.
Ruh roh! Why do I think we’re about to have another Troofy name-stealing episode?
Wow, talk about faith. Twoofus BELIEVES!
A guy in a finge political movement MAY get elected to a state office that carries out already enacted legislation, which means that it’s entirely possible that a full term later (regardless of his performance in that office, I might add) he MAY consider quitting that job and running for a national legislative office and MAY even prevail in the primary, and MAY actually win. And then once sworn in MAY even enact some laws that MAY get voted on.
[Wipes away a tear]. Such faith is so touching, it makes me weep.
Hey Tintin, I know your real name and address, and phone number, and I’m going to post it real soon. How does that make you feel?
This would be the “start debating me on the ideas” part of Twoofus’s argument.
Haven’t read all (or any) of the comments, and I know I’m repeating about 50 zillion people, but Erick the Anti-Svelte attempting to pretend he gives a damn about a gay couple is hi-larious.
we didn’t vote for Socialism, we just voted against Bush
So, you voted for Obama!
And the comments are pretty darn amusing. Also.
(Nothing about teh ghey or Grayson. Just a bit of teabagging and people declaring they’ nevar give money to the Repubs.)
Troofie last week:
Ha ha libs! Obama’s gonna campaign for Creigh Deeds. Your candidate is DOOMOED!
Troofie today:
Ha ha libs! Obama’s thrown Deeds under the bus. Your candidate is DOOMOED!
“He has ranch and is a cowboy”
Primus?
http://www.last.fm/music/Primus/+videos/5513962
You can laugh, but they laughed at Reagan, too.
Laughing at Reagan in 1980 was a wise response – & it’s a great pity that more did not laugh at his earnest espousal of Voodoo Economics & extremist anti-government bullshit. More laughter might have defused the time-bomb that was his political career before it blew America’s face off.
That laughter still continues in some quarters to this day … a perfectly rational activity when one is confronted by a clown.
Jeb Bush is “the smart one” … so in contrast to Dubya, you’ll only wind up with ONE additional pointless war, or only ONE skyscraper levelled by terrorists in a totally preventable attack, or only a few tens of thousands more lost homes & jobs! Obviously such a major “improvement” would make him the best POTUS since at least George Washington! How in the world can America pass up such a sweeeeeeeet deal?
Just a bit of teabagging…
None surprised. Irky Irksome’s post closes with a prediction of Dede Scozafava cruising to victory over some incumbent Dem, and Hoffman.
He’s at odds with the heads of the GOP on this, Big Pharma and GET OFF MAH PHONE! have both declared Scozzafava not conservative enough.
Why didn’t the Republicans nominate someone a little less Bush-esque to run for President, then? It’s as if he’s pretending that they just let whoever walked in off the street on November 3rd run for President for them.
Let’s see…..the right hated GHWB for his “read my lip” betrayal. They repudiated GWB even though he and his minions tried to enact their policies, because he was so amazingly incompetent they ran away from his failure. So now they’re going to go back to the well of the Family Bush for another candidate?
Pull the other one – it’s got bells on.
I will admit that Grayson does kind of have a fat head.
But have you seen Erickon’s melon? It’s like a fucking orange on a toothpick! I’ll bet he cries himself to sleep at night on his wee pillow!
I eat my boogers and smell like farts, but its the wimmin’s fault I can’t get a date.
Hey Tintin, I know your bra size and left pinkie ring finger size and am going to post them real soon. How does that make you feel?
That is so immature, stealing someone else’s nym. Typical Lib.
Mark my words, Libs. The Republicans are going to take back the House in 2010!
Nuh-uh! It’s immature stealing the nym that I stole because ACORN and Al Gore!!!1!
classes on computer programming and internet science
Snerk.
What are you, 13? Srsly. Are all conservatives fucking maturity-stunted assholes?
In other news the Obamas are elitists:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/26/a-doghouse-made-out-of-veal-too-much-gravy/
Erick Erickson, dishing out his signature Viking move, the ‘Blood Feeble’.
AARrrggh! No catching up with this thread evar
Are all conservatives fucking maturity-stunted assholes?
Yes, SATSQ
Hey Tintin, I know your real name and address, and phone number, and I’m going to post it real soon. How does that make you feel?
Also I know how to hack your site, I took classes on computer programming and internet science recently. Just wait.
Ah. Mrs. Trampoline’s 7th grade computer science class. Were you in the first or fourth period?
And. Internet science? The Interons haz science?
“Change is Coming to America said,
October 28, 2009 at 18:33
I took classes on computer programming and internet science recently. Just wait.”
This explains why troofie is stuck on an endless loop. I think his comparisons also assume the presense of some sort of
#define IS_REPUBLICAN 1
for any of his IF-statements.
Internet Science 101: t00bz and IntrawebZ
Oh no! If the troll hacks this site he’ll discover our made-up email addresses.
All I saw him say was that Grayson was “corpulent.” IDK what dictionary you use but mine says corpulent is defined as:
excessively fat; “a weighty man”
That sounds like a pretty fair description of Grayson.
“Excessively fat”, not “maybe considered a little on the heavyset side if he lived in Yurp.” Jesus, he doesn’t even fit the fucking definition you pasted in, numbnuts. Also: misogyny means people hate women en masse. Here, they just hate you. Punkin.
I took classes on computer programming and internet science recently
Oh noes script kiddie is in our base killin our doodz!
I hacked u a cite but I ated it.
My cat’s breath smells like cat food
Lady Doctor Missus Mommy Marita – get the They Might Be Giants CD/DVD combos of kids music – “Here Come The ABCs,” “Here Come the 123s,” and “Here Comes Science.” Not only is it the best kids music ever, but the DVDs will auto-repeat on an infinite loop, so you can shower and/or sleep.
What most Americans think of as normal would be considered VERY fat in most of Europe.”
Bavaria is not part of Europe. Technically it is a branch of Texas.
Internet Science 101: t00bz and IntrawebZ
Final exam, question 1:
The internet is:
a) a truck
b) a series of tubes
c) ???
d) profit
N.C. said,
The general disconnect happens when you assume that state/local politics directly reflect national politics, as if the country were a giant Risk board where each state could be Red or Blue and nothing in between.
DAS said,
The reason why NJ Dems are in trouble is because NJ Dems are doing a heckuva job (as in “you did a heckuva job, Brownie”) in running NJ itself…
Yep. Case in point for both of these: California. We’ve got a Republican Governator (who sometimes acts like a R, sometimes like a D, but usually just like an Ahole). He got elected because his predecessor was seen as being ineffective in dealing with budget issues and the electricity mess back then. He got re-elected by … basically, pretending to have Democratic opinions during the election. But he’s about it as far as Republicans in statewide office go. Large Dem majorities in the Assembly and State Senate (although the minority Republicans in the Senate are able to use the state constitution’s requirement of 2/3 majority to pass a budget as an effective veto). Two Dem U.S. Senators. Gobs of Dem house members. Obama won the state so handily that the campaign was shipping us volunteers to other states for GOTV efforts, since CA was a lock.
The R primary for the Governator’s replacement seems to be pitting Fail vs. Epic Fail, so I look forward to this anomaly being corrected about a year from now.
The internet is a series of boobs.
The internet is SERIES BISNESS.
On planet fucktard, being mean as a snake is a *good* thing.
Psst, Erick…Christianity…you’re doing it wrong…
Christianity on planet fucktard.
My mother recommended reading “Kristen Lavransdatter”, and I am halfway through book 2. Have you heard of it/readit?
Reviewers weren’t enthusiastic about the movie.
Teh internets are a series of tubes
I had a beer with Kathleen Hannah
Too bad you can’t spell her name.
Oh, I guess the Fool (in his new “Camille Paglia’s punk rock accountant niece” mask) has already left the thread. Too bad. I actually met Kathleen Hanna many years ago, and the idea that she would hang out and drink beer with someone who moans about the “radical gay agenda” is highly unlikely. Even if she was cute.
Reviewers weren’t enthusiastic about the movie.
Maybe people liked the movie, but couldn’t resist rating it Ø.
Tw00fie as a Riot Grrrl was, perhaps, the most amusing EPIC FAIL! of all time.
And yet, there really are people like that, who spend a few years slumming in the underground so they can name-drop, but never listen to the lyrics because only nerds care about that stuff.
CRG is almost believable, but knowing that Troofy has enough knowledge of rock trivia to have played The Fool for several months (notice how The Fool never came back after Troofy slipped and used the wrong nym on one of these threads), it’s got to be him.
Hello? Is this thing on?
In the meantime, here’s more Daily Dash
I do not trust that roguish expression.
“So a duck walks into a bar, see…”
So, when can we expect the ep!c h@xx0r that Troofie shall surely bring down upon our heads?
What I love are the rightards getting all excited about a local race in Virginia. “Oh, yeah, hippies, the GOP is BACK! Look how well we’re doing in Virginia!!!eleven!
And normal people scratch their heads and say “Yeah, Virginia. Stronghold of the Solid South for a generation.” Sure, Obama the Magic Unity Pony ™ won there, but it’s still the South, for Chrissake.”
I mean, rly? Virginia? You’re getting all excited about a local Virginia race? What’s next, Orrin Hatch getting reelected in Utah?
hey CT has a republican governor. that’s why we voted for McCain and sent all those republicans to the house and the senate!
wait, what?
I mean, rly? Virginia? You’re getting all excited about a local Virginia race? What’s next, Orrin Hatch getting reelected in Utah?
It truly underscores the magnitude of the butthurt.
Hey Tintin, I know your real name and address, and phone number, and I’m going to post it real soon. How does that make you feel?
Also I know how to hack your site, I took classes on computer programming and internet science recently. Just wait.
ya know hacking is illegal, right?
“that’s why we voted for McCain and sent all those republicans to the house and the senate!”
You could have kept Republican Joe “Droopy” Lieberman home, thanks very much.
You can take classes in “internet science” to learn how to hack other people’s websites? How come my local community college doesn’t offer this? It’s not fair!
Musta got a letter from ther Governator.
You can take classes in “internet science” to learn how to hack other people’s websites?
These classes inspired an upcoming movie, titled The Men Who Stare at Goatse.
I hope I’m not too late to say this, but YOU try walking through the mall in an Erick Erickson suit . . .
For maximum twistedness you gotta read this thread high. Shit, I don’t think I’m ever findin my way outta this maze!!!
@OneMan: alas, he was re-elected during the few years I lived in maryland.
B4 FTW!!!1!
thread closed. Y’all can go home.
I tremble before your exaggerated hacker skillz, and clutch the case of my Dell at night, whimpering in fear.
Give me a fucking break, Troofus. If you weren’t already hacking your high-school database to change your grades at age 16 you aren’t going to learn how from the fucking Video Professor. I have an MCSE and 14 years of IT experience — I know how to secure a website, or a computer, but I never had the hooligan urge to learn how to crack one.
And if you succeed, I hope you get fucking arrested and jailed. You do realize that it’s not 1987 anymore, and the law takes hacking seriously, don’t you?
“Secret English court seizes billions in assets from the mentally impaired”
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/secret-english-court-seizes-assets-of.html
Aw, he’s not really fat. He’s just a couple of feet too short for his weight.
Consensus Building Liberal writes: .”We need more consensus and reaching around.”
Spoken like someone who could use a good reach-around.
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