Brave man, willing to enter the debating square unarmed.

Of course, it’s still slightly better than his military record…

Oh shit, its the ‘Strong Horse’ OBL argument again. To start with its bollocks, and Crack-Pipes and Steyn’s buying into it, again, is just sad.

I don’t care how tasty those mangoes look, I’m not getting out of the boat.

Got out of the boat, & grabbed a mango before fleeing in haste & fear. Turns out it was just a big green doodie:

Smith takes as his prooftext Osama bin Laden’s comment in 2001, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.” What Smith calls the strong-horse principle contains two banal elements: Seize power and then maintain it. This principle predominates because Arab public life has “no mechanism for peaceful transitions of authority or power sharing, and therefore [it] sees political con?ict as a ?ght to the death between strong horses.” Violence, Smith observes is “central to the politics, society, and culture of the Arabic-speaking Middle East.” It also, more subtly, implies keeping a wary eye on the next strong horse, triangulating, and hedging bets.

Does the bold part sound like any other culture or political party we might have some acquaintence w/?

One more Dungo:

On a larger scale, one accounting finds 15,000 terrorist attacks since 9/11.

Could someone refresh my memory as to the annual number of murders in the U.S.?

There were 17,034 murders in the United States in 2006 (666,160 murders from 1960 to 1996). In 2004, there were 5.5 homicides for every 100,000 persons, roughly three times as high as Canada (1.9) and five times as high as Germany (1.0). Most industrialized countries had homicide rates below the 2.5 mark. Overall the homicide rate in the United States was similar to that of some lesser developed Eastern European countries.

Whew. Can’t imagine what it would be like to live in the violence filled Arab world.

++added vomit-value: Sarah Palin Endorses ‘Bomb Iran’

And, for all you elitist snoots who never watch tee vee cuz it’s just sooo déclassé, a possibly better way to deal w/ those “filthy ‘Abs” than killing their horses or what ever it was that “Crack” wanted to do.

And finally: “DP.”

Heh.

“…Arabs….they are a little people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.” T.E.Lawrence (well, assisted by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson)

On a larger scale, one accounting finds 15,000 terrorist attacks since 9/11.

Crack does realize, doesn’t he, that “terrorist attacks” include NON-Arab entities? Like the Tamil Tigers, Basque separatists, Chechen rebels, Israeli settlers, etc. usw.

Oh, no, wait, he doesn’t. ‘Cause only Ay-rabs are terrorists ’cause of their evil religion and their weird inhuman language and yadda yadda blurp blurp blurp.

Bunch of violent thugs, always involved in a war, if not more than one war…

Wait, who?
~

Your Sarah Palin STOP MAKING FUN OF TRIG!!!1 of the day.

The episode of the animation featured Chris – the Griffin family’s son – bringing home a girlfriend with Down’s syndrome.

When quizzed by his parents about her family, she said that her mother used to be Alaskan governor.

Hey, at least McFarland didn’t have them asking how many frequent flier miles she had accumulated on her birthday.

Flash! AAAAA-aaaaahhh!

Why is there a picture of Ming on this post?

I love how these guys can portray the most cynical backing of authoritarian brutes by the U.S. foreign policy establishment over decades as actually a weak-kneed attempt by “liberals” and foreign policy surrendercrats to kow-tow to the Arab street.

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

I’ve always wondered…Judaism is a very tolerant religion. It has to be, having been honed for centuries on the grinding wheel of intolerance and injustice.

So why is it the most hateful, spiteful and irrational people with regards to Middle East policy– people like Pipes and Pam Atlass– are Jews?

Crack does realize, doesn’t he, that “terrorist attacks” include NON-Arab entities? Like the Tamil Tigers, Basque separatists, Chechen rebels, Israeli settlers, etc.

Does that include the Virginia snipers, the West Virginia (among other) massacres, the anthrax attacks, the killing of abortion doctors and bombing of abortion clinics?

Or are those too “white” (and yes, I know the snipers and the WV killer were not) for Pipes’ liking?

Does that include the Virginia snipers, the West Virginia (among other) massacres, the anthrax attacks, the killing of abortion doctors and bombing of abortion clinics?

Ah, WELL, harrumph harrumph, those weren’t REALLY “terrorism” in Crack’s view, you see, not being carried out by Arabs with their Satanic brainwash suicide language and all that.

From the article:

the Muslim commander, Khalid ibn al-Walid, who in 636, Steven Stalinsky relates,

sent an emissary with a message from Caliph Abu Bakr to the Persian commander, Khosru. The message stated: “You should convert to Islam, and then you will be safe, for if you don’t, you should know that I have come to you with an army of men that love death, as you love life.”

This is totally different from “Kill them all. God will know his own” during the Albigensian crusade, seven centuries later, because shut up that’s why!

Oh, damn. Six centuries. Six. Mumble, mumble.

The number of terrorist attacks tallied worldwide before our invasion of Iraq was less than 300, now by crackpipes admission they number over 15,000.

So the only rational conclusion this twit can derive is that our profligate employment of violence against the Arab world in order to appear the “strong horse” is the correct strategy, based on some neocon asshole’s interpretation of a sound bite from a rambling bin ladin monologue.

Sheer fucking genius.

Mumble, mumble.

You do get style points for mentioning the Albigensian crusade…

Let’s see what the judges scored: 5.9 (Russia), 5.9 (America), 5.9 (Japan), 3.4 (Languedoc)

We felt really bad when our Navy ship shot an Iranian civilian airliner out of the skies and killed hundreds of innocents, such so that the ship sailed back into port under traditional fanfare and honors and many in the crew received medals.

The violence and cruelty of Arabs often perplexes Westerners.

That’s the first sentence of the first link. I read it and got right back in the motherfucking boat.

What’s up with the Languedoc? And the Albigensian crusade? What do you think this is? Needs more PENIS.

I am sick and tired of all the disrespect and racism against the Albigeoisie-American community.

And it ain’t nobody’s business except those invited to know how langue anybody’s doc is.

And it ain’t nobody’s business except those invited to know how langue anybody’s doc is.

But it’s central to my point!

How can you have any pudding if you don’t langue your doc?

The creatures known as “Arabs” are not like you and me; they are brutal and savage and only understand force, which we who are so unlike them should be only too eager to apply expertly and ruthlessly.

No irony there, that’s for sure.

no, please, no……. stop the madness….

I always win. Is there no one on this planet to even challenge me?
–General Zod

The creatures known as “Arabs” are not like you and me; they are brutal and savage and only understand force, which we who are so unlike them should be only too eager to apply expertly and ruthlessly.

Could be worse: Dennis Prager feels the same way about children. Black children, specifically.

(PS The mangoes are sweet and delicious at that link)

Who is that terrorist-looking dude in the pic – oh.

Alt. Shorter Daniel Pipes: I look so much more like the Hollywood caricature of an Arab terrorist than Keith Ellison I’m severely overcompensating.

Also, prooftext? Seriouisly? This is a word now? Is it anything like the lietext, turdtext, and insanetext that Pipes employs?

Also, prooftext?

Must. Not. Reach. For Mangoes.

(PS The mangoes are sweet and delicious at that link)

I’ll take your word for it and leave it at that.

I wish this whiny little bitch would just go over to Israel and grab a gun.

At least, I wish he would stop referring to “the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.” As a Stanford alum, this drives me crazy. The HI is physically located on the Stanford campus but otherwise has nothing to do with the university.

OT, here’s a candidate for your next post: welfare makes black women fat.

Dennis Prager is not afraid to beat your child.

welfare makes black women fat.

And yet, the obesity crisis didn’t take true hold of the country until after 1996’s welfare reform program that threw most single mothers off the roles…

As much as I know conservative ranks are filled with mindless racists and that for the last decade, Middle Easterners have been the prime targets of that racism, it still boggles the mind to see how many of them there are.

How about the fact that the United States today is a society that’s become completely unable to look at the world in non-coercive terms? When discussing Iran’s enrichment program, the debate is all about whether we should bomb now, bomb later, let Israel bomb, or start another war altogether – do we sound like a sane and non-violent people? Our justice system is just crazy about punishment over rehabilitation, to the point that we’re the only Western democracy that still murders its criminals. The only part of our government we trust and take care of is its military (half the world’s military spending).

Guess what; Americans, particularly conservatives, are obsessed with death, brute force and being the stronger horse. (Look no further than Pipes’ own assertion that the murder of 1,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza was “too weak.”)

Actor212,
“I’ve always wondered…Judaism is a very tolerant religion. It has to be, having been honed for centuries on the grinding wheel of intolerance and injustice.”

I don’t think it’s particularly peaceful compared with other religions (the Old Testament contains the murder of newborns, the invasion and theft of all Canaan and at least one genocide, just off the top of my head). But if you want to know “why,” Harry Truman had a pretty perceptive (though politically incorrect) assessment of Zionism;

“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes. Look at the Congress[ional] attitude on DP — and they all come from DPs.”

Human nature trumps Judaism.

I didn’t say peaceful, I said tolerant.

The Jews I know seem to be fairly flexible when it comes to judging people on their behavior. I don’t know Joe Lieberman, so I exclude him on that technicality.

They seem to accept that people are flawed and that it really is up to God to decide whether someone should be in the Book of Life or not. Now, I compare that to the Christians I know, who would judge you at the drop of a hat, despite the axiom of “hate the sin, love the sinner”.

And I don’t think Truman’s observation is limited to Jews. Anybody who finds success, either as a culture or an individual, tends to forget where (they) he came from. Indeed, the people who do not are rare enough that we all sit up and take notice of how he “didn’t forget”.

Re-reading Truman’s quote, it seems even Truman felt it was human nature not specifically Semitic.

So why is it the most hateful, spiteful and irrational people with regards to Middle East policy– people like Pipes and Pam Atlass– are Jews?

History loves irony, I think. My wife once asked a former Israeli colleague of hers about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The colleague’s response was to “explain,” rather offhandedly, that one had to realize that the Palestinians were basically uncivilized subhumans who would have to be resettled elsewhere before peace could occur. Failing that, the conflict would continue and the Palestinians would “gradually die out,” and while one could be sympathetic, one also had to understand that this was the reality.

I think I reached satori when she told me that story. It’s an odd mentality

Also, there are plenty of hateful, spiteful, and irrational people on the Arab side who really do want to see the Israelis exterminated; they just don’t make it on TV in the US. Much.

Sorry, but this is really worth the read;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes

Besides the fact that he’s a birther who thinks Obama is or was a secret Muslim, this guy has been wrong about fucking everything in his supposed area of expertise for the last twenty years;

1) Supported arming Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war because, he argued, it could be “the basis for a fruitful relationship.”

2) Claimed that invading Iraq would “reduce” terrorism and President Mubarak was wrong to say otherwise (later admitted he blew that call).

3) Was one of the many jagoffs shaking their heads and commenting on the Oklahoma City bombing and how it bore clear and obvious Middle Eastern traits.

4) After writing a long and cynical article after the Gulf War explaining that American troops had no prospects of occupying Iraq and that there was a terrifying possibility of sectarian war (http://www.danielpipes.org/209/why-america-cant-save-the-kurds), suddenly reversed his policy ten years later when it became politically necessary for conservatives to support the war in Iraq.

This guy isn’t just a racist, he’s a fucking clown. He’s a political hack who knows as much about his supposed “area of expertise” as he does about the dark side of the moon, and has been wrong and wrong again on every issue he’s tried to predict. And this is what passes for think tank material in this country – God help us.

Trilat,

No doubt, and by no means did I want to leave the impression it’s only Israel’s fault and by extension the American Jew.

But, we support Israel already. We don’t need an ethnic cleansing policy.

1) Supported arming Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war because, he argued, it could be “the basis for a fruitful relationship.”

But it was! Just look at how rich Hussein became!

So why is it the most hateful, spiteful and irrational people with regards to Middle East policy– people like Pipes and Pam Atlass– are Jews?

Besides an obvious personal and historical tie to the region, one which was heavily emphasized and /or created by the late 19th / early 20th century Israeli nationalist movement, remember that you’re talking about an extremely tiny subset of the American Jewish population.

The most ridiculous charges of StalinHitler totalitarianism against Hugo Chavez of Venezuela or the overthrown President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras were, respectively, conservative Venezuelans and Hondurans.

The exile Cuban community in Florida and New Jersey are the insanitites who historically saw Fidel Castro’s hand in every single happenstance of anything they didn’t like in the entire hemisphere if not beyond.

And so on and so forth.

“The creatures known as arabs” etc. sound just like the right wing Israelites to me.

“Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side…” What a complete putz.

Chris said,
February 17, 2010 at 18:02
“And this is what passes for think tank material in this country – God help us.”

This is what comprises just about every think tank I know of–and the media, including NPR, just loves to drink the vomit from their herpified pukeholes. They are, in my opinion, the footsoldiers in the corporate fight against labor, health care, education, and humanity in general. Their lies are directly responsible for quelling the backlash that should have come from the Bush administration’s suggestion that we invade Iraq.

The creatures known as “Arabs”

Because no one would think Jews were untermenschen, right Danny?

Seriously, what’s is Pipes problem?

Shouldn’t we be more worried about things that could actually kill us?

Fear everything people! The world is not as safe as we originally thought wish! Bomb shelters/ Panic Rooms for sale! CHEAP!

3) Was one of the many jagoffs shaking their heads and commenting on the Oklahoma City bombing and how it bore clear and obvious Middle Eastern traits.

but but but he used a TRUCK BOMB! Q.E.D.!!!!!`1`

From Esteev’s excellent link:

The now-infamous Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and his bomb-laden underwear toward Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, had 290 passengers and crew, all of whom survived. Had the inept Abdulmutallab actually succeeded, the death toll would not have equaled the 324 traffic fatalities in Nevada in 2008

We must immediately transport the entire state of Nevada to Gitmo.

OT: Michael “Guess what? I’m a Tea Partier” Steele refuses to be seen in public with them

So why is it the most hateful, spiteful and irrational people with regards to Middle East policy– people like Pipes and Pam Atlass– are Jews?

Anybody can be a racist, it’s an equal opportunity human trait.

And the Wikipedia article is hilarious*. This guy is an “academic” who scolds academics for not being racist enough in their teaching, and a war-monger who was on the board of directors for United States Institute of Peace.

*for very small values of hilarity, and of the horrified sort.

We must immediately transport the entire state of Nevada to Gitmo.

I couldn’t agree more. And to go further with Michel(l)e Bachmann/Malkin’s interment camp fantasies, we should probably lock up most Asian people because, well, they aren’t the best drivers and, hence forth and such, they pose a greater threat to humanity than most terrurts.

Department of HomieDon’tPlayThat is more like it.

We must immediately transport the entire state of Nevada to Gitmo.

Don’t forget to not charge/Mirandize them. They are enemy combatants regardless of what Newt Gingrich keeps getting confused about.

[Side note: if you don’t read the article linked above, do yourself a favor and click it just to drink in the Newt’s jowls — so very worth it]

Esteev, that article is great, and makes me think back to the climate change discussion we had a day or two ago and their seeming need for utterly incontrovertible, typo-free proof that would make it so obvious not even the willful could deny it but ONLY in the matter of climate change. Wars in the middle east, military action against Iran, limiting the Constitutional rights of citizens, torture, etc, these things require only the possibility that something maybe might could happen to justify, but OMG CLIMATE CHANGE IS FAKE CUZ IT’S SNOWING CASE CLOSED.

In Iraq, the administration ignored advice to install a democratically-minded strongman.

This is very rich in flavor. First, the obvious contradiction of a democratically minded strongman (no hyphen required, Pipes). Second, the idea that one could be installed by a foreign power, which would only remove him if he ever came to represent anything other than that power.
Finally, the link is to his own bullshit column. I at least expected a neocon thinktank report or a Wall Street Journal editorial. Does he really think everyone’s going to jump when he gets high? He can’t even be arsed to name a candidate, probably because his last one (Saddam Hussein) failed so poorly.

tigrismus, yes I would agree that the climate change/GWT have their similarities. Sadly, I think that climate change poses a more imminent threat to humans (not just Americans because I think that most people on the Right only care about Americans… that live on their block with their same ideals) than terrusts mainly because too many people (in gov’t) ignore it. You hit the nail on the head with:

the possibility that something maybe might could happen

Things that have a higher probability of happening include increasingly severe storms and car accidents seem to matter little. Mainly because you can’t build/sell tanks and stealth star fighters to battle tornadoes or drunk drivers. (Although that’d be hella cool).

Mainly because you can’t build/sell tanks and stealth star fighters to battle tornadoes or drunk drivers.

You might sell a couple of tanks with the “this will protect you from any drunks on the road” line.

this will protect you from any drunks on the road

OK great, I’m safe on the roads, but what about when I’m traveling down a tube on the Internets with the likes of Pipes?

Sadly, I think that climate change poses a more imminent threat to humans

That’s why your link about going crazy-cakes for practically non-existent threats while almost totally ignoring real ones made me think of how the climate change denialists and super-loopy neocon types are so often the same folks. Seriously, one woman I knew though there was NO evidence for climate change, but was totally convinced Saddam had moved all his weapons to Syria before we invaded.

Mainly because you can’t build/sell tanks and stealth star fighters to battle tornadoes or drunk drivers. (Although that’d be hella cool).

Maybe one of us should try to convince the Pentagon that you can – get some of that sweet black budget money, string ’em along on a fool’s errand, and keep ’em from making trouble because they’re too busy messing around trying to figure out how to bomb tornadoes.

And there’s always the possibility of tying it in to a lucrative action figure line for sale at Wal-Mart.

I just wanna say that Keith Ellison is my congressman and Al Franked is my senator. Unfortunately Tim “shitstain” Pawlenty is my governor.

OK, FYWP.

I made a really good comment about how we should get the Pentagon all worked up about how you might be able to bomb hurricanes so we could siphon off some blakc budget money (and the subsequent action-figure line we’d sell at Wal-Mart) and WP ate it. Bastidge.

WordPress is the greatest threat to our way of life that we currently face in the country.

“Seriously, one woman I knew though there was NO evidence for climate change, but was totally convinced Saddam had moved all his weapons to Syria before we invaded.”

I know one woman who believes that too. But in my case, it’s someone working hard to try to land a job as an intelligence analyst in one of the big agencies. If she ever makes it, I for one pray to God my life never depends on her intelligence “analysis” skills.

You might sell a couple of tanks with the “this will protect you from any drunks on the road” line.

After being cut off or crowded out of a driveway by yet another asshole in an SUV, I’ve often fantasized about owning a tank. Or at least a vehicle with a nice, big cowcatcher up front.

Chris, the invasion and theft of all Canaan…

The Jews made that up to make themselves look tough to their neighbors says Robert Wright in The Evolution of God.He claims there is no archaeological evidence to support the story.
Of course, Mr. Saddam Hussein made claims to be able to do similar things to his neighbors and Pipes had rather a different take on the matter. And he didn’t have to await archaeological evidence, he had UN inspectors to tell him Saddam was just pulling the world’s leg. And we see how that turned out so far, as per Pipes: We WIN!!!!!!!!!

OMFG you know who Crack looks like?

Mr. Boogalow!

AIEEEEEE

And more than a little like Sardo Numspa.

Seriously, one woman I knew though there was NO evidence for climate change, but was totally convinced Saddam had moved all his weapons to Syria before we invaded.

Well, in her defense, we were very very very very very ascared at that time.

Now I’m ascared… of those people who say that they aren’t swayed by right-wing propaganda but also admit that they only watch Fox — I know too many of those.

“Why is there a picture of Ming on this post?”

I propose a new line of photoshops of conservatives as SciFi villans. Jonah Goldberg as Jabba the Hut etc.

You might sell a couple of tanks with the “this will protect you from any drunks on the road” line.

…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?

…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?

That would be the 120mm cannon on the front of your tank, Commander.

…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?

MOAR TANKS!!!!!

…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?

If you can’t beat them, join them?

“In Iraq, the administration ignored advice to install a democratically-minded strongman. ”

Do they not read what they write, or do they not understand the words? That statement is so contradictory and stupid that one doesn’t know where to even begin criticizing it. Installed/democratic/strongman. One of these things is not the like the others…can you guess which term doesn’t fit?

pedestrian said,
February 17, 2010 at 20:39
…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?
MOAR TANKS!!!!!

Remember kids, an armed society is a polite society. Just like the West before the law arrived.

Arrogant Americans need not apply.

Thank you, George W Bush, for limiting our employment opportunities…IN OUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY!

Just like the West before the law arrived.

Sweet! We’ll have to drink bourbon because there’s no clean water!

what about when I’m traveling down a tube on the Internets with the likes of Pipes?

I recommend a modem Trojan.

…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?

When tanks are outlawed, only outlaws will have tanks.

Re: Arrogant Americans need not apply.

An EEOC attorney actually got involved with this??

Diana Johnston, an attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said a hiring decision based on national origin would be a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination by employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

This wasn’t discrimination against Americans, just Americans or are, you know, a$$ holes. If more companies had this kind of policy, the workforce would be smarter, more culture-conscious and, probably, more productive because of the lack of morans.

Arrogant Americans need not apply

Ferne Wolf, a St. Louis-based employment law attorney, said the posting “sounds like national origin discrimination” and suggested the advertisement be brought to the attention of EEOC officials.
…
Wolf continued, “You’d think they would know better. Maybe they need a lawyer. There’s plenty of good defense attorneys in Chicago.”

“Me, for example”

Perhaps we should outlaw outlawry. Then only outlaws will be outlaws, and the tautology will work itself out in a couple decades.

What they should have done was claim the job was nominally based in Shanghai or Beijing, and then they could have left this up, because China probably has a policy that employers have to hire Chinese nationals first.

Then only outlaws will be outlaws, and the tautology will work itself out in a couple decades.

But that might create a critical mass of outlaws and then we’d all fall into a Black Bart Hole.

“When tanks are outlawed, only outlaws will have tanks.”

Tanks aren’t outlawed, they’re already legal.

Constitution of these United States, Amendment II: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

No one said a damn thing about guns. Strict-constructionistly, I have a constitutional right to keep my own fucking H-bomb. Bearing it might be difficult from a practical standpoint, but it’s my right to try! Goddamn Supreme Court!

Arab public life has “no mechanism for peaceful transitions of authority or power sharing, and therefore [it] sees political confict as a fight to the death between strong horses.” Violence, Smith observes is “central to the politics, society, and culture of the Arabic-speaking Middle East.”

Does the bold part sound like any other culture or political party we might have some acquaintence w/?

Why yes it does and I can also tell you exactly where they get it from. They got it from Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt rather than Leo Strauss. Everything is there, the New World Order, the state of exception (Ausnahmezustand) justifying torture and a unitary presidency but especially in his concept of the political as

the enemy is whoever is “in a specially intense way, existentially something different and alien, so that in the extreme case conflicts with him are possible.”

John Searle has criticized this saying that democracy is not based on hating your political enemy so intensely that you want to kill him but on accepting certain institutional facts, namely that we don’t kill our political rivals, as constitutive of our very way of life.

They are literally Nazis. They literally want a fascist dictatorship in the US and the world.

Perhaps we should outlaw outlawry. Then only outlaws will be outlaws, and the tautology will work itself out in a couple decades.

I can’t tell if it’s the rubber cement I’ve been huffing all day or your comment but my mind is blowwwwwwwn.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Michelle Malkin is sold into slavery!

Michelle Malkin is sold into slavery!

That is hilariously awesome and greatnesslyic!

Anyone find is amusing that Malkin owns a”center-right web site” (HA!) called Hot Air. Hot air.. hmm.. isn’t that reserved for balloons and buffoons?

The posting obviously isn’t suggesting that German neo-nationalists are encouraged to apply. There is a presumption that people from other countries who are living in the US have had some experience in cultural humility.

Still, they could have included the bit about having an understanding of Chinese culture and left it at that.

That also means Cap’n Ed is a serf, too.

Ahmed Chalabi’s tanned and rested and ready to make a comeback, kind of like Mitt Romney. And if I remember right, the Shah of Iran’s kid is looking for a job- we could install him and be greeted as liberators with flowers and sweets.

Still, they could have included the bit about having an understanding of Chinese culture and left it at that.

They would have been inundated by a slew of resumes from folks in Huntsville, Alabama who have eaten dim sum.

I propose a new line of photoshops of conservatives as SciFi villans. Jonah Goldberg as Jabba the Hut etc.

I can’t wait to see who crops up as Jar jar Binks.

I can’t wait to see who crops up as Jar jar Binks.

JarJar was a villian?? My world has just been flipped on its axis.

the weak and untested tend to have an exaggerated view of the effectiveness of brute force; those who have been called upon to wield it have seen just how often the result goes awry…

Wait — you mean Hot Air and Malkin couldn’t make it in the marketplace of ideas and had to be **gasp** bailed out by a media conglomerate?

HORRIFICCHEERLEADERSOCIALISTBLOGWHORE!!

I wasn’t scared. Huh. Remember the “proof” offered in support of Saddam’s WMD’s? Photographs of train cars?

I remember watching Powell’s “speech” (I think it was Powell). It went something like this: “We know Saddam has WMD’s, and we know where they are… North, South, East and West of Bagdad!”

I laughed (HA-ha!) and said: “Hey, what about Up and Down? Aren’t there any WMD’s in the air or under-ground?”

My conservative Dad & 3 brothers shouted “Shut Up!” so I left.

JarJar was a villian??

He did submit the proposal that the Chancellor seize martial powers as Emperor.

Don’t forget when Colin Powell at the UN presentation for the Iraq war waved around his little bottle of Nutrasweet or whatever to go “BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY ANTHRAX BOOGITY BOOGITY”.

That and trying to run PR for My Lai.

. . . and then They didn’t find any WMD’s and I wondered (to myself) “Did they look in the Sky?” Snort! Glerk! -cough-

…and what protects me from the drunks who have tanks?

If you can’t beat them, join them?

Escalade Escalation

JarJar was a villian??

well, maybe not technically, but he has been pointed to as one of the most obvious indicators of how much Lucas ruined the movies….

This is central to my point.

But in actually, I find p-shooping wingnuts as villains gives them too much credit for competence. Also, many of them might actually find it complimentary.

Do they not read what they write, or do they not understand the words? That statement is so contradictory and stupid that one doesn’t know where to even begin criticizing it. Installed/democratic/strongman. One of these things is not the like the others…can you guess which term doesn’t fit?

Their definition of democracy is that which promulgates free markets and allows multinational corporations to act with impunity.

Of course, their language is Newspeak, not English.

Installed/democratic/strongman. One of these things is not the like the others…can you guess which term doesn’t fit?

You think “democratic” doesn’t fit in that triumvirate, but that’s because you are using Oldspeak.

In Newspeak, “democratic” has nothing to do with the rule of law, or basic fundamental freedoms, or even an electoral process. It just means pro-US.

So you see, there is no contradiction.

was there some job posting i missed advertising big bux u can work at home bug bux 4 being stoopits and making a loudmouthed idiot of yourself? cuz it does seem like an awfully popular career choice these days…

Curse you BBBB and your fast typing fingers!

JarJar was a villian??

He nuked the whole franchise- what did Darth and the boys do to match that?

But in actually, I find p-shooping wingnuts as villains gives them too much credit for competence. Also, many of them might actually find it complimentary.

C’mon, how many competent villains are there? “Tie him up to an overly-complicated deathtrap, and leave the room” is the usual villain M.O.

I think Malkin would make a great Queen of Blades.

YEEEEEEE DAWGGY!!!

We’uns hyeeah in Souf Kerlyna — we don’t need yer damn worfless fedrul currency, by God!

South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.

Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin” in South Carolina.

And while you’re damn at it, why don’t keep yer damn calendar and hours and standardized measurements to yourself, Federal Whore of Babble-On?!

Curse you BBBB and your fast typing fingers!

These fingers were produced by the Free Market, unlike your slow, socialized Canadian fingers.

WOLVERINES!!!

The fact that Canada has a higher wolverine population than the U.S. is central to my point nuncupatory. These are not the wolverines you are looking for.

It just means pro-US.

I would argue that it’s not even a pro-US position, it’s a pro-Exxon, KBR, GE, Wellpoint, Monsanto…et al. ad nauseam.

Oh, kee-ripes… Please keep your South Carolinian stoopid on your side of the border. We’ve got all we can handle, given our Senators and Governor. Thenkewverymuch.

South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.

This kinda of thing really makes me want to cry… because you must have a next to no operational brain cells if you a) elect someone with tthese ideas or b) are someone with these kinds of ideas. Even in my glue sniffed haze I think straighter than 99% of GOP politicians and 100% of the state of Souf Kerlyna.

Do South Carolinians have enough jobs to even see any federal currency? I thought they already mostly bartered rice, Myrtle Beach tourist kitsch, and dumb right wing politicians.

JarJar was a villian??

He nuked the whole franchise

Hullo???? Hayden Christensen????

South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.

Apparently, Mr Pitts is on the payroll of China, because I hear he’s got yuan in his pocket.

I thought they already mostly bartered rice, Myrtle Beach tourist kitsch, and dumb right wing politicians.

Hey, that’s not fair. There’s also those pine needle baskets.

Hey, that’s not fair. There’s also those pine needle baskets.

Why would anyone need a basket for pine needles?

Esteev said,
February 17, 2010 at 20:48
Just like the West before the law arrived.
Sweet! We’ll have to drink bourbon because there’s no clean water!

Living in a 3rd world country has some rewards. Not many, but I’m SO down with drinking my breakfast!

St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
February 17, 2010 at 20:56
Perhaps we should outlaw outlawry. Then only outlaws will be outlaws, and the tautology will work itself out in a couple decades.

Ladies and gentlemen, today’s internet WINNER!

Well played, sir.

Why would anyone need a basket for pine needles?

Ever walked in a pine forest? Those needles get EVERYWHERE.

Why would anyone need a basket for pine needles?

Ever try to carry them in those cheap plastic bags you get in SC?

Why would anyone need a basket for pine needles?

Damn you, tig, and your fast hands and funnier punchline!

“Of course, their language is Newspeak, not English.”
“You think “democratic” doesn’t fit in that triumvirate, but that’s because you are using Oldspeak”

Well, that’s disheartening. This just proves what is central to Crack’s point. I’m an idiot terrorist coddling socialist America hater, which is central to the point of “those” people only responding to blunt force and maybe ice cream if they aren’t totally indoctrinated by BinLadenism. Thank you for setting me straight. Now I’m rethinking that whole bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran thing.

Heh–
“Slow down, you’re posting too fast”

TYWP for protecting me from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or crashing my brain due to excessive speed.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

South Carolina, laughingstock of the Lower 48.

I seem to recall someone went all ballistic on someone recently about S.C. and what they felt was giving the state a bad image. I mean, they’re doing it so fucking well in the State House – why compete?

Cripes, he’s not even on Wikipedia so I can’t find out how wingnutty he’s been up to this point, either.

(btw, WTF is he asking? S.C. should coin our own money? In gold & silver exclusively? Where’s he thinking we’re going to get enough metal to do that? Has he thought this out at all???)

Sitting here in Charleston, reading about the latest embarrassment from S.C. It’s pretty run-of-the-mill wackadoodlery. Go ahead and pour the scorn. We deserve it.

Then come and enjoy our amazing beaches. Forget Myrtle Beach. It’s crap. Come to Hilton Head, Folly Beach, Isle of Palms. The Low Country is gorgeous, and the food is fantastic. Spend lots of money. It’ll help those of us who are sane try to diminish the crazy-stoopid here somewhat — which believe me you don’t the half of, be glad (or terrified) to know.

Oh yes, and the worst craziness generally comes from upstate, not from the coast. They are really batshit up there.

I find it absolutely adorable, all these Southern politicians saying they’ll pick up their ball and go home. Does anyone think Souf Kerlyna could last a week without federal dough?

WTF is he asking? S.C. should coin our own money?

Confererate dollars.

“Their definition of democracy is that which promulgates free markets and allows multinational corporations to act with impunity.”

Heh, the worst thing is it’s completely true. That’s why elected leaders like Chavez and Morales (also the Sandinistas, Allende, Lumumba, Arbenz and Mossadegh) are routinely called “dictators” while Mubarak is considered a bulwark of democracy.

Spend lots of money.

I don’t have a pocket full of gold.

The trick with Daniel “Crack” Pipes is that his father, Richard “I knew Harry Lime” Pipes thought he killed the USSR with rigged CIA reports and mind bullets, so Danny Boy thinks the only way to bring democracy or Hot Topic stores (some think the two are interchageable) to the Middle East is doing everything the CIA did to the Warsaw Pact but with extra forcefullness and crudity (because they’re not white people.) Expect bucketfuls of blood and trenches of corpses if anyone is fool enough to listen to Mr. Stratego.

Isle of Palms

And it’s wonderful town, Jacme.

And I don’t think Truman’s observation is limited to Jews. Anybody who finds success, either as a culture or an individual, tends to forget where (they) he came from. Indeed, the people who do not are rare enough that we all sit up and take notice of how he “didn’t forget”.

huRR HACK** Irish coff, coff