Mmm-mmm, not getting out of the boat for this island either. Nope, I can see the piranhas from right here.

And here’s a clue, Meggie: reconciliation is all about budget bills. That’s what budget reconciliation is.

Could we please get less-stupid wingers? Please? Do it for the children.

No piranhas, just some vaguely omnivorous but mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness.

Laugh if you like, but none of you has given me any reason not to fear that Barack Obama plans to shove his enormous dark and sweaty health care plan down my throat.

I was going to post the “it is a budget bill, health care passed with 60 votes” rejoinder but actually I don’t care as I don’t feel like we should be defensive about letting the majority actually rule.

But yeah, “8/15th = almost every” is a good one. As I recall, Obama won almost every (28/50) state in 2008. Also, the Democrats control almost every (59/100) seat in the US Senate.

Obama’s hot, throbbing health care plan is being rammed down my throat – again and again and again and again and again and again and again!

Just because I’ve learned how to handle Obama’s thick-shafted, veiny health care reform love pump as it thrusts deep down into my lower trachia, it doesn’t mean I really like it!

Crackin’ journalism, Megan. After all, it’s not like health care spending in any way affects the budget.

8/15 is a simple majority. By this logic, 51/100 == “Almost Every Senator.”

Hey, almost every Senator supports health care reform!

Somalia, libertopia on earth.

Somalia, libertopia on earth.

Dear Senators, please earmark some money for McArdle to be sent there. kthx.

mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness

That’s one of those Mormon Green Jello™ creations, right? W/ or w/o tiny marshmallers?

Late to the party- the power was out at work, so I couldn’t be present for the resident troll’s spiraling, swirly descent.

Reconciliation looks good, jobs bill passed- we’re approaching the LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL event horizon!

B/4, you missed little.

McA. is so hideous I haven’t had the stomach lately to wade through her typing, even for the big Soros check they pay at Fire MMcA.

Indeed, none of the cob loggers there can put up w/ her any more. Wimps, all of us.

Cover of Time?

B/4, you missed little.

I was really looking forward to another public breakdown.

Maybe that’s just the Scotch talking!

“I was really looking forward to another public breakdown.”

It’s the appletinis!

Missionary position? In Mogadishu one trusts.

D. Aristophenes:

“…mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness”

M Bouffant:

“That’s one of those Mormon Green Jello™ creations, right? W/ or w/o tinymarshmallers?”

Sounds more like aspic to me.

“…mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness”

Sounds like Lutefisk to me.

This should have been a Shorter – Damnit, I clicked through and now my Friday’s ruined. Just for a fucking laugh, the James Joyner bit that ME-gan cites is based on that recent NYT piece on reconciliation. The one with this graphic.

I…they…um… WOW this is DUM.

What’s wrong with being stupid and liar ? These are tems that do not exclude. Perhaps mutually inclusive , especiallly in Gov’t.

For every gov’t employee liar there are at least a half dozen AFSCME frauds covering his but.

Whoever this doesn’t know is still just paying dues and has not bothered t ask what ti’s for.

Have you met Mr. Chance yet?

Whoever this doesn’t know is still just paying dues and has not bothered t ask what ti’s for.

OK buddy put down the crackpipe and step away from the keyboard!!!

Oh, the answer to the question is Dumb. It’s a pretty EPIC level of stupid, but we are talking about ME-gan here.

No piranhas, just some vaguely omnivorous but mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness.

With a frickin’ LASER BEAM strapped to its head.

The Joyner piece is fantastic. 8/15 may well be almost every time – but 7/15 is totally unprecedented. WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Also, too, I’m going to spend the day combing through the internets archives reviewing the reams of columns that McAirhead’s surely written about the UNPRECEDENTED use of the filibuster by the republicans to obstruct EVERY FUCKING BILL that has passed into the Senate forcing the dems to use reconcilition as an end around. Surely there must be wads and wads of deliciously syrupy Megan spewings about this UNPRECEDENTED action, right???

What she was saying was that almost all the bills passed under reconciliation on August 15th were budget bills. It’s obviously the case, since she can’t possibly be a blithering idiot who would expect her readers to not know simple mathematics. Then again, she’s a libertarian. Those people aren’t big on the whole What Comes Next part of their philosophical leanings.

Ron Burgundy: Brian, I’m gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.
Brian Fantana: They’ve done studies, you know. They say 60% of the time, it works every time.
Ron Burgundy: That doesn’t make any sense.

8/15 = 53.3%
Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote, 53.7% if you count only Obama and McCain…. split the difference, that means….
My God, Obama won almost every vote! That proves we live under a Stalinist dictatorship like North Korea!

Almost every act passed under reconciliation (8/15) has in fact been a budget bill.

So what she’s saying is that Democrats not only get to do a health care amendement via reconciliation, but they also get to ram SIX MORE THINGS down our throats before they’ve used up their freebies?

Kinda makes you want to whack her in the haid with a 2 x 4, don’t it?

Kinda makes you want to whack her in the haid with a 2 x 4, don’t it?

I’m a traditionalist. The 2×4 should be rammed down her throat.

2×4 snorkeling?

Karl Rove is “proud” of waterboarding. What an odious little fuck.

I was going to post the “it is a budget bill, health care passed with 60 votes” rejoinder but actually I don’t care as I don’t feel like we should be defensive about letting the majority actually rule.

Yeah, even granting her stupid premise she’s completely wrong in her usual comprehensively self-pwning way. I’d like to think that her continued presence at the Atlantic is part of an elaborate joke played on mass media by the Atlantic’s publishers – maybe a “how low can you go!” competition with the Washington Post and New York Times editorial pages – but I guess it’s far more likely that the truth is more mundane and depressing.

If there were fifteen reconciliation bills between 1980 and 2007 (i.e. 15/28) then almost every budget has had to have some sort of reconciliation fix!

Wait. That up thar was a real sentence? In its entirety? I’m not getting out of the goddamn boat to check.

53 Percent! Almost every!! Huh, indeed.

Looking back yesterthread, I saw where Troofie gave up his scrolltroll mask and went venturing back into LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL territory. And I missed it. Dang.

It is one of the great humiliations of modern society that we have to listen to such anointed lying shit-heads as Megan McAddled as though she has ever added anything to intellectual discourse.

The notion that anyone had to spend even one second seeing or hearing such shit is a sign that the punditarian establishment is openly hostile to any notion of intellectual rigor or accountability.

Anyways, here were the arguments that the graphic was supposed to address:
1. Reconciliation is some super-rare and arcane measure that almost never gets used.
2. Reconciliation is only ever used to address taxes – never anything else, especially not health care.
3. Reconciliation can only be used to reduce the deficit.

These are the three big talking points that have been circulating since the beginning of the year, if not earlier. The facts indicate:

1. Reconciliation gets used a lot. Five times during the dark times of king Geroge’s reign of terror. I could make a joke about how that’s almost every year W was in office (so I did), but the point is still that the reconciliation process is somewhere around half as common as the budget process. Talk about rare!
2. The column titled “Policy” shows the breadth of items addressed by reconciliation – from farm subsidies to student loans. Nine out of fifteen of those bills had something to do with Medicare and or Medicaid including such important budgetary issues as creating “federal standards for nursing homes under Medicare and Medicaid”.
3.Up until George W. Bush took office, reconciliation was only ever used to lower the deficit. Of the five times reconcilliation was used in this period, three of the bills increased the deficit. This is a moot point anyways since the Senate HCR bill reduces the deficit.

Maybe it’s like August 15th…

Holy shit, have you guys read her bio on The Atlantic’s site??? It may be the A number 1 most douchiest of douchey things I have ever read in my life.

Also, Megan McArdle is a douche.

ME-gan says

The word “unprecedented” doesn’t strike me as all that troubling–we’re not in court.

So, unprecedented except for fifteen times.

No, she means unprecedented in that this is for health care reform. So, unprecedented except for those nine times that reconciliation was used for health care reform.

Umm, actually she means unprecedented in that this isn’t a budget bill. So, unprecedented except for those seven times when reconciliation was used for non-budget bills.

Oh, my bad – I’m twisting her Joyner’s words. This is unprecedented in the sense that it’s reconciliation used for a non-budget, non-tax bill. Except for those other two times.

Okay, I’ve got it. What the Dems are planning – using reconciliation for a non-budget, non-tax bill to implement health care reform is totally frigging unprecedented. Except for that one time in 1996 when Medicaid was separated from welfare.

Okay, I’ve got it. What the Dems are planning – using reconciliation for a non-budget, non-tax bill to implement health care reform is totally frigging unprecedented. Except for that one time in 1996 when Medicaid was separated from welfare.

I think a more reasonable explanation is that she is a sloppy writer and/or doesn’t know what “unprecedented” even means.

And “we’re not in court” makes me want to punch her. Bitch, you’re a fucking writer. It’s YOUR JOB to use words correctly.

just some vaguely omnivorous but mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness.

I really need to start remembering to shut off that fucking webcam…

UNPRECEDENTED!!11!freemarketsruleventyone!!
Truly she has a dizzying intellect.

So, unprecedented except for those nine times that reconciliation was used for health care reform.

For extra cupcakey goodness, have a peek at what the R in COBRA stands for.

Laugh if you like, but none of you has given me any reason not to fear that Barack Obama plans to shove his enormous dark and sweaty health care plan down my throat.

Oh Dagny, quit playing coy.

T&U beat me to it. “Unprecedented” means “without precedent” which in turn means, “never happened before.” Being a lawyer has fuck-all to do with anything. Words have meanings and those meanings do not just magically change to mean what you want them to mean because you make an improper word choice.

Something that has happened before cannot be “unprecedented.” It can be “rare” or “uncommon” or “seldomly occuring”; it cannot, by definition, be “unprecedented.”

You go ahead and punch her, T&U; I’ll stick with the 2 x 4.

Um, when did anyone say all the time?

All I’ve ever heard was that reconciliation was used to pass the Bush tax cuts. That’s hardly all the time, unless by all the time you mean all the important legislation the Republican led Congress passed in eight years under Bush apart from the Patriot Act.

it cannot, by definition, be “unprecedented.”

It can if it falls down the memory hole of Republicans.

You go ahead and punch her, T&U; I’ll stick with the 2 x 4.

Actually, beating her over the head with a dictionary sounds nice….I’ll have to think about this some more.

The use of “unprecedented” here is literally ironic.

The use of “unprecedented” here is literally ironic.

Dude, I literally shit my pants laughing.

Oh, and NSFW if you, like, have a job or something.

D-KW – that’s why I always sang that song as “Isn’t it Moronic”.

The use of “unprecedented” here is literally ironic.

One might say its unprecedented.

Holy shit, have you guys read her bio on The Atlantic’s site??? It may be the A number 1 most douchiest of douchey things I have ever read in my life.

Ok, you got me out of the boat, and forget tigers holy shit there be dragons here:

While working at Ground Zero, she started Live from the WTC, a blog focused on economics, business, and cooking. She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set.

Uhm, no Megan, the operative variable here is whether you know enough about economics to be an “economics blogger” and you don’t get to put yourself in the class of people with their actual PhD’s in the subject.

it’s it’s it’s

If it’s any excuse I’m simultaneously writing a proposal and filling out my passport renewal form.

Thanks to The Tragically Flip, I had to get out of the boat: and a year spent as sort of an executive copy girl for one of the disaster recovery firms at Ground Zero

Along with a couple of hundred other NYC engineers and thousands of fire-fighters, construction works, cops, and random volunteers, I worked at the WTC site. There are no words for how much it frosts my balls that she calls working in an office a few blocks away as “her time at Ground Zero.” Did you spend a year spitting black? Then you did not work at Ground Zero, you useless piece of garbage.

Uhm, no Megan, the operative variable here is whether you know enough about economics to be an “economics blogger” and you don’t get to put yourself in the class of people with their actual PhD’s in the subject.

Oh, yeah. And there’s this: “Megan McArdle was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and yes, she does enjoy her lattes, as well as the occasional extra dry skim milk cappuccino,” which caused me to roll my eyes so hard they practically fell out of my head. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.

Y’know, I think I hate this woman more than pretty much anyone. Her combination of stupidity, poor writing skills, shitty taste in food, and clueless, privileged cobaggery make me rageful.

Y’know, I think I hate this woman more than pretty much anyone.

I don’t know about that. I just went from barely knowing who she is to wanting her to die in the space of ten minutes.

Y’know, I think I hate this woman more than pretty much anyone.

I don’t know about that. I just went from barely knowing who she is to wanting her to die in the space of ten minutes.

Really, I think that is actually a more accurate description of my feelings. I’m sure I don’t hate her more than anyone else EVER, but at this very moment, I certainly do.

Shorter Scott Johnson:

Howie Carr makes a serious point about Pat Kennedy asking the media to focus on substantive matters:

Chappaquiddick, druggie!

I guess it didn’t die with Ted.

depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set.

OMG.

I am sure some folks have some substantial disagreements with Brad Delong’s positions (and I mean, informed, intellectually sound disagreements) but for the most part I find him insanely intelligent and more often than not on the mark as to economic issues. He is (IMO) a Big Brain with compassion–a relatively rare commodity. Megan throwing out “outlying variables such as Brad Delong” is the height of arrogance (and a galactic-scale lack of self-awareness).

I wish I could say such a thing is unprecedented but Sadly, No.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.

Did you spend a year spitting black?

And this. She is a presumptuous bimbo, isn’t she?

She’s so scarred from her time at GZ.

Fecking drama queen.

Actually, beating her over the head with a dictionary sounds nice….I’ll have to think about this some more.

May I recommend the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary? Perhaps there’s a large print edition.

Perhaps there’s a large print edition.

Dropped from a third floor window, preferably.

May I recommend the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary? Perhaps there’s a large print edition.

Dropped from a third floor window, preferably.

Genius! I was worried about my arms getting tired, but I’ll just let gravity do the work for me!

OT, but awesome headline:

http://www.dbtechno.com/health/2010/03/12/12-year-olds-turning-to-huffing-household-chemicals-for-cheap-high/

Actually, beating her over the head with a dictionary sounds nice….I’ll have to think about this some more.

mount the dictionary on a pile driver.

She’s so scarred from her time at GZ.

This is why she drinks extra dry skim-milk capuccinos. Many would have turned to whiskey or bourbon, but she went right for the cheap drunk. Makes a real man of her.

….ooo, wait, I better put that down for the Wingnut Processor Mark II: Blogger Specialisation.

Did you spend a year spitting black?

N_B – I was flying patrols over NYC shortly after 9/11.

I can’t believed you had to work in that hell hole. I hope you haven’t had any long term medical problems from it.

Well, some small solace, N__B. Hot off the presses:

Ground Zero workers win $718M in compensation

Argh! That’s Aussie dollars. It’s $657 million US. Sorry.

Holy shit, have you guys read her bio on The Atlantic’s site??? It may be the A number 1 most douchiest of douchey things I have ever read in my life.

I think “A=A number 1 douchiest of douchey things” is a more accurate assesment for Jane Galt’s c.v.

and a year spent as sort of an executive copy girl for one of the disaster recovery firms at Ground Zero

I imagine her politically connected dad got her this job on the public’s dime, while a more-qualified candidate, maybe a single mother from Corona, Mott Haven, or Bed-Stuy with office experience, could have done it better.

I was flying patrols over NYC shortly after 9/11.

You couldn’t see it, but we waved to you guys. It was surprisingly silent on site because the debris and dust swallowed sound, and the jets were one of the few external noises that we heard.

I can’t believed you had to work in that hell hole. I hope you haven’t had any long term medical problems from it.

My doctor understands my paranoia and my insurance hasn’t yet stopped his running extra tests on me during check-ups. So far, some extra damage to my already-damaged knees seems to be it.

Ground Zero workers win $718M in compensation

Hopefully I never qualify…

She would fit in perfectly here.

My doctor understands my paranoia and my insurance hasn’t yet stopped his running extra tests on me during check-ups. So far, some extra damage to my already-damaged knees seems to be it.

That’s good to hear. I can’t even imagine…

It was surprisingly silent on site because the debris and dust swallowed sound

It wasn’t just in the pit. I’m up by Grand Central, and the entire island of Manhattan just stopped. I’ve never experienced it before and hope to God to never experience it again.

No trains. Buses barely ran. A few cars and taxis, but they were swamped by the people wandering aimlessly barefooted or sneakered, dust-coated and exhausted, towards the only totems they could find: mass transit (which was shut down), or bridges and tunnels (which were closed to traffic). The occasional pay phone with long lines stretching down the block because cell service was farked.

It was eerie, and yes, Kong, I saw you and the F-16s flying overhead, streaking the clearest blue sky in memory with white contrails.

The only contrails in the sky.

I imagine her politically connected dad got her this job on the public’s dime, while a more-qualified candidate, maybe a single mother from Corona, Mott Haven, or Bed-Stuy with office experience, could have done it better.

I think that’s pretty much the story of her life.

I will refrain from typing “HATE” with 45 As, but God, I want to.

I can’t even imagine…

I got off very easy, at least in part because I had no exposure on 9/11 and limited on 9/12. I personally know any number of people with severe PTSD, a dead policeman (rescue services), and a few people with breathing problems who aren’t likely to see 2015.

Incidentally, the NYTimes graphic that spawned this mess? Described as “15 major reconcilliation bills”. i.e. the list is not comprehensive.

Even wikipedia’s list of examples goes to 21.

So for example, H.R.2488 which, amongst other things provides “incentives for education savings and health care, and for other purposes” and had its Conference Report passed in the Senate 50-49 didn’t get counted since it was vetoed.

I will refrain from typing “HATE” with 45 As, but God, I want to.

Might I suggest imbibing of the demon rum?

No trains. Buses barely ran. A few cars and taxis, but they were swamped by the people wandering aimlessly barefooted or sneakered, dust-coated and exhausted, towards the only totems they could find: mass transit (which was shut down), or bridges and tunnels (which were closed to traffic). The occasional pay phone with long lines stretching down the block because cell service was farked.

Oh yeah, I experienced that, too. But two weeks later, when everything above Chambers Street was moving again, it still felt like I was wearing earmuffs when I was on Vesey or Church.

“No piranhas, just some vaguely omnivorous but mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness.”

I made it once. Needs more garlic.

But two weeks later, when everything above Chambers Street was moving again

Even then, it seemed awful quiet, like everyone was tiptoeing around.

all the time =/= almost every

Another take, by someone who put a lot more work in than I’m capable of.

mostly disinterested flounder in a gelatinous and mildly uncomfortable state of social awkwardness

Make that a codfish and that’s the recipe for lutefisk.

Even then, it seemed awful quiet, like everyone was tiptoeing around.

I’ll take your word for it. I was 14 hours a day downtown, so everything else (like my apartment on 32nd) seemed very lively.

Can I vote for both?

(shakes fist)

Damn you, M. Bouffant, Troll Analyst! With your getting-there-first-with-the-food-joke.

I really do have to read the whole thread before offering my feeble efforts.

It was eerie, and yes, Kong, I saw you and the F-16s flying overhead, streaking the clearest blue sky in memory with white contrails.

The only contrails in the sky.

I was safe and sound in Kansas, so obviously, my experience doesn’t compare, but I remember what a beautiful day that was and how shockingly blue the sky was. The magnitude of what happened didn’t really hit me until I was walking to class and I saw the trails in the sky where 2 or 3 planes had turned around and headed back to the airport. It was very strange.

I will refrain from typing “HATE” with 45 As, but God, I want to.

Might I suggest imbibing of the demon rum?

Unfortunately, I left my desk rum at home. My Sarah Palin-like co-worker isn’t here today, so I didn’t think I’d need it.

It was eerie, and yes, Kong, I saw you and the F-16s flying overhead, streaking the clearest blue sky in memory with white contrails.

I was flying the KC-135s that refueled the F-16s. It was almost surreal seeing these guys pull up beside us with live missiles on the wings.

I will refrain from typing “HATE” with 45 As, but God, I want to.

Go ahead, “HATE” with 45 As doesn’t strike me as all that troubling–we’re not in court.

I didn’t make it down to the WTC site until early October ’01, when I went to visit a friend who lives by the Brooklyn Bridge. Up in Yonkers, though, we’d get that smell when the wind blew in from the south- I remember screaming at the T.V. whenever some flack would come on the say that it was safe to be down there.

I was safe and sound in Kansas, so obviously, my experience doesn’t compare, but I remember what a beautiful day that was and how shockingly blue the sky was.

It was the same sort of day in New York- a pristine late summer day.

B^4

There was only one day at work where the winds turned to the north and the scent drifted up. It was the Wednesday a week after the attacks, and I remember the smell distinctly.

When I was a kid, we lived across the river from a fat-rending plant that would take decaying pig carcasses and scrape the fat off to use for soap.

Yes, this was across from one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the world, in a time before pollution control and air quality regulations.

That was the smell of rancid fat, that September Wednesday. It was gag-making. I knew it was unsafe.

She was a fucking copy gopher? “All before the age of 30!” Jesus H., Jane Galt she ain’t.

Her checkered work history includes three start-ups, four years as a technology project manager for a boutique consulting firm, a summer as an associate at an investment bank, and a year spent as sort of an executive copy girl for one of the disaster recovery firms at Ground Zero . . .all before the age of 30.

I can’t quite tell if we’re supposed to be impressed by this. “Checkered” suggests not, but “before the age of 30” does. But good God. She worked at start-ups? Oooh. A summer associate position? Yeah, you and 95% of the college graduates in Manhattan. And does a “technology project manager” actually DO anything?

Also, when I hear “executive copy girl,” I think…well, I’ll leave out the more invidious interpretation, but mostly I think of some overprivileged rich girl who spent most of her time wandering around the office, fiddling around on the Internet, and maundering about how awful it was (which it was, but people who had real work to do didn’t have anywhere near as much time to maunder). As someone else suggested, any number of everyday folks would’ve handled the job with twice the experience, four times the balls, and eighteen times the competence.

That was the smell of rancid fat, that September Wednesday. It was gag-making. I knew it was unsafe.

On a somewhat lighter note, the second worst smell I encountered downtown was an abandoned hot-dog cart that had been crushed by the north tower. The smell of rotting meat was overpowering and everyone was tiptoeing around that spot until a grappler jockey decided to unearth it. Hebrew National gone bad is not good.

The worst smell was in the remnants of the 1 train tunnel, which had become a de facto sewer.

Why does a disaster recovery firm require a copy girl, which I usually associate with, you know, magazines or newspapers?

N__B,

I remember seeing some of the first photographs of the 1 tunnels, with the beams piercing them like stalactites in some weird iron cave, and wondering just how bad things were down there in the lowest sections of a disaster scene. Gravity and all that.

I think the boat sank and N__B and T&U are fighting over the one life preserver that was on board.

She was a fucking copy gopher? “All before the age of 30!” Jesus H., Jane Galt she ain’t.

Especially considering that her dad was a regular recipient of the bounty flowing from the government teat.

Oh, and NSFW if you, like, have a job or something.

HA! Not since Obama took office. I got a magic pony and all the welfare I can spend, which means I have a whole pantry full of Mad Dog wine and a mountain of mary jane to sell at the playground from my Cadillac!

Why does a disaster recovery firm require a copy girl, which I usually associate with, you know, magazines or newspapers?

The four big CM forms that handled the site, the big engineering firm that coordinated all the engineers, and a few subs all had offices – mostly in PS89 – and had office support staff. Making sure everyone got maps, memo, reports, and so on. The need was real, just not for inexperienced prima donnas.

I remember seeing some of the first photographs of the 1 tunnels, with the beams piercing them like stalactites in some weird iron cave, and wondering just how bad things were down there in the lowest sections of a disaster scene.

God’s trash compactor. Floors of the towers were compressed down to about 12″ high. “Spears” was the nickname for individual columns from the two big buildings that had fallen. I saw a few embedded 10 feet in the ground.

I know I was digging out bits of steel from the concrete in the Verizon building years later as souvenirs.

Her checkered work history includes three start-ups

Were any of them hers? I’m guessing NO.

Why does a disaster recovery firm require a copy girl, which I usually associate with, you know, magazines or newspapers?

You assume she was writing copy. I assume she was making copies.

I assume she was making copies

Considering she’s in journalism it was an easy mistake to make!

Ooooh noooo, the first tag fail of the day and it’s mine.

Tagnixmus.

And copy boy or girl is someone who gophers copy from a reporter’s desk to an editor or down to the printers.

I know, not a viable job now, but even back in 2001, it might have existed.

Best line of the week, from Borowitz:

Colleagues Praise Massa for Reaching Around the Aisle

It was the same sort of day in New York- a pristine late summer day.

That was the most surreal part. I was in North Carolina at the time, and it was one of those absolutely magnificent days when it seems almost cosmically unjust to have to go inside for any length of time. Then the cellphones started ringing, and there were an amazingly large number of people crying while talking on the phone, and the people who weren’t crying were dialing over and over trying to get through to *somebody*.

The less surreal part came when I stopped wondering *whether* someone I knew had been killed and started wondering *how many* people I knew had been killed.

I was safe and sound in Kansas, so obviously, my experience doesn’t compare, but I remember what a beautiful day that was and how shockingly blue the sky was.

It was the same sort of day in New York- a pristine late summer day.

I had to work and didn’t want to be inside on such a beautiful day, but now I’m glad I did. I probably would have been glued to the TV all day and would have seen unedited footage from the first few hours.

You assume she was writing copy. I assume she was making copies.

A totally appropriate job for a 27-year-old with an MBA, no?

Tagnixmus.

Yeah, when I go Galt THEN who will produce the tag-fail around here, huh?

Oh crap, for a second I forgot where I was. Never mind.

A totally appropriate job for a 27-year-old with an MBA, no?

Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

A totally appropriate job for a 27-year-old with an MBA, no?

Either way, I suppose. She’s certainly a role-model for failing upward.

Yeah, when I go Galt THEN who will produce the tag-fail around here, huh?

Oh crap, for a second I forgot where I was. Never mind.

You’re just a cog in the tag-fail machine.

A totally appropriate job for a 27-year-old with an MBA, no?

Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

It’s like rain on your wedding day!

KAPOW!

!

You’re just a cog in the tag-fail machine.

Mongo merely pawn in blog of life.

Nicely done, Sub.

Is it ironic that there are no examples of irony in that song? Riddle me that!

tag-fail

I! W? N?

Oh. Wait. tag-fail…

This just in: Republicans aren’t turned on by large packages being shoved down their throats.

Could’ve fooled me.

FYWP!!!!!!!!!!

So, anyway, apparently, it does not turn Republicans on to have large packages shoved down their throats.

Could’ve fooled me.

Hmmm, just comparing my own resume to McMegan’s…by the time I was 30 I had earned a degree in architecture, served as executive director for a non-profit and as the assistant director (actually day-to-day operations PLUS brainstorming strategy etc) for a successful state-wide public initiative campaign, worked as a lobbyist at the state legislature for Common Cause, and completed all the academic requirements for a master’s degree in education. Plus doing a lot of other various and sundry work to keep the bills paid.

Which explains why she’s writing for the Atlantic and I’m not.

Actor: best fag-tail website = SmolderingHotButts.com

Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

But not unprecedented.

FYWP.

I am going to try this one more time.

So, I’ve learned today that Republicans aren’t turned on by large packages. No word on how they feel about said packages being shoved down their throats, however.

SmolderingHotButts.com

I thought that was a hot-sauce site.

I don’t have an mba, actually I’m pretty much a slacker. My resumee makes ME-gan look like a polymath.

But your mom thinks I’m hot.

SmolderingHotButts.com

You think I don’t know that? I’m still collecting royal–

Um, I’m aware it exists, yes.

I had a similar feeling after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It was such a beautiful autumn day, then there was the earthquake, but it was still a beautiful autumn day. I’d been out running, and I heard the noise like a bunch of heavy trucks rolling by, even though it was too late in the day, and the dry leaves were sifting and floating off the trees, even though it wasn’t windy. So I kept running, and then afterward I stopped at the market and smelled the vinegar and stuff from the few bottles that fell, and then someone told me the Bay Bridge had collapsed.

Also, Megan needs to get a real job. Event planning, maybe. Senior assistant to Sally Quinn. Put guest columns where hers were, starting with a little something from Elizabeth Warren.

You know, I didn’t actually check that after I made it up, so caveat spectator.

It’s cute how she brags about her “checkered work history” that happened “all before the age of 30” as if it’s something to be proud of. When I read that resume, the first thing that crosses my mind is “can’t hold down a job.”

Actor: best fag-tail website = SmolderingHotButts.com

They posted a really great Ayn Rand retrospective, Fire in the Hole Hand.

T&U – funny, I posted pretty much your exact comment about the package on my blog earlier this morning – and embedded the image from that site.

They posted a really great Ayn Rand retrospective, Fire in the Hole Hand.

Don’t forget Atlass Surged

Hmmm, just comparing my own resume to McMegan’s…

I was thinking about that, too. I’m a huge slacker and I’d say my resume is just as good as hers, if not better. Oh, and I worked and paid my way through school–I’m sure she didn’t. I’ll bet Mommy and Daddy still help to support her.

I had a similar feeling after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Me too. Tuesday night, putting the paper to bed, and whoops, no power.

Very eerie, quiet night in the city, except for the sirens and smoke (mostly from the Marina District).

Someone brought a generator to the local watering hole the next block over. It was the only place with electricity for blocks. It drew people like moths.

T&U – funny, I posted pretty much your exact comment about the package on my blog earlier this morning – and embedded the image from that site.

I know. I totally ripped it off.

Kidding, of course. That serves as a reminder that I need to check your blog!

I had a similar feeling after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

The idea of earthquakes as a personal experience rather than as design criteria scares the shit out of me.
– East-coast coward.

In my secret identity, on 9/11 I was all “WTF WTF WTF” like everyone else, but my boss was doing the stiff-upper-lip thing and said that we had to carry on like it was just a normal day. I kept refreshing the NYT page, though, and was amazed that it was still up (although some of the front-page pics didn’t load). Frankly, I was starting to get burnt out on my job and was wishing that I could have gotten one of those dot-com jobs where you get paid the tall coin for not having to do much of anything; you know, kind of like copying-and-pasting someone’s flagrantly bogus pseudo-analysis of legislative procedures, adding my own nonsensical one-line follow-up, and calling it a job well done and taking the rest of the day off to harangue the staff at Dean & Deluca’s as to why they hadn’t restocked the Titanian purple salt yet. Yeah, something on that level, that would have been frickin’ sweet.

T&U – I just took it as an indication of great minds thinking alike…IN THE GUTTER!

“…Because Life Goes On, Damnit”

The idea of earthquakes as a personal experience rather than as design criteria scares the shit out of me.
– East-coast coward.

I have been afraid of a giant earthquake along the New Madrid fault since I learned about it as a child. I can handle tornadoes. But the EARTH MOVING UNDER MY FEET? Fuck that noise.

But the EARTH MOVING UNDER MY FEET?

But your mom likes sex with me!

I have been afraid of a giant earthquake along the New Madrid fault since I learned about it as a child. I can handle tornadoes. But the EARTH MOVING UNDER MY FEET? Fuck that noise.

My favorite scientific factoid of all times: seismologists have measured, now, resonance from the 1811 New Madrid earthquake. The earth is very heavy and has a very low natural frequency. So cool, as long as one is not present when it fucking happens.

Personally, I’m hoping the Cat 3 hurricane and the Richter 6 earthquake they predict for NYC hit simultaneously.

They be some rad surfing when that happens!

Hey, toss in the Cumbra Prieto landslide in the Canary Islands and we can bill ourselves as the closest alternative to the North Shore of Oahu.

For at least a few minutes, at any rate.

Whew. I was halfway to gazoogle to figure out what Jet Li had to do with it.

Cumbra Prieto is some major end-times shit. Much creepier though, because we know at some point, it WILL happen.

End times for the East Coast. I imagine us Left Coasters won’t feel a thing.

In my secret identity, on 9/11 I was all “WTF WTF WTF” like everyone else, but my boss was doing the stiff-upper-lip thing and said that we had to carry on like it was just a normal day.

My 21st birthday was the next day, and Mr. T&U (though he wasn’t Mr. T&U at the time) insisted on taking me to the bar to celebrate, but I don’t think there was anyone who could pretend it hadn’t happened. That did not go well at all, but I can hardly complain because I was very, very lucky.

My favorite scientific factoid of all times: seismologists have measured, now, resonance from the 1811 New Madrid earthquake. The earth is very heavy and has a very low natural frequency. So cool, as long as one is not present when it fucking happens.

That is really, really cool! I thought it was pretty amazing that the day was shortened just a little by the earthquake in Chile, but of course, I wouldn’t want to experience it, either.

End times for the East Coast. I imagine us Left Coasters won’t feel a thing.

Aw, not even a tinge of sadness for your lost compatriots? Jerk butt.

FYWP

Aw, not even a tinge of sadness for your lost compatriots? Jerk butt.

On the other hand, McMegan is an east-coast resident…

On the other hand, McMegan is an east-coast resident…

We can trade.

On the topic of the New Madrid fault: I actually experienced my first earthquake while living in Chicago. Many years later, I moved to the SF Bay area to take a job, and none of the earthquakes I felt there actually had as much noticeable effect, even the one where the epicenter was only a few miles from my apartment. The Chicago one rattled tables and bookshelves and books fell to the floor. The most noticeable California one I felt freaked out my cat and made me feel like I was in a boat.

I’m sure you’re all utterly fascinated by this.

I guess that’s a fair cop. DAMMIT.

Sigh, I half-want to sign up w/ the Atlantic, both for giving McArdle hell & for sneering at the Atlantic in general for pissing away a serious history of journalistic/literary cred (& “coincidentally” toboggoning their way toward receivership in the process).

But as enjoyable as this sounds at first blush, there’s precious little point in going through such a hoop just to wind up swan-diving into Moderation Limbo [ takes off sunglasses ] … without a truss.

Aw, not even a tinge of sadness for your lost compatriots? Jerk butt.

On the other hand, McMegan is an east-coast resident…

Being in the proximity of McMegan is a huge burden for our eastcoastian citizens…I think that might be asking a little too much…

PS–Hope I didn’t offend in that last post. I try not to be all dramatic about September 11 because it obviously didn’t affect my life that much and I HATE it when people try to act like it did. /serious

So cool, as long as one is not present when it fucking happens.

True. But it wasn’t as though we worried over it. And small quakes were kind of exciting.

But tornadoes? How the fuck do you live in Tornado Alley?

Is it just me, or does Amy Alkon look like Grace, the producer’s assistant from Wag the Dog?

I try not to be all dramatic about September 11

9/11 was one of those life-altering events that happens once a generation, and it really doesn’t matter the degree to which it impacted you immediately, because the repercussions, good and bad but mostly bad, will be felt for the rest of this century.

Heh.

We have mini-tremors here in Arkansas pretty regularly. Some years ago there was one big enough to be felt in Little Rock, but I was sleeping and never noticed anything. The next morning I was flying out to a meeting, and the woman sitting next to me brought up the earthquake; I said I had slept through it and she said she had been sleeping too and it woke her up. I replied that I’m a heavy sleeper and would “sleep right through the Rapture.” Which was kind of an odd thing to just pop out of my mouth since, you know, I don’t believe in it at all. My seatmate said, “Now that’s some heavy sleepin’!” Which, yeah, because don’t a bunch of them believe that there’s going to be skeletons rising up through the air to meet Jesus? So sleeping through that would be like WAY more than sleeping like you’re dead.

does Amy Alkon look like Grace?

As played by Anne “I’m a lesbia–oh, wait!” Heche?

The thing about earthquakes is that there’s no malice. None. Now, in the aftermath, there may be culpability for injury and damage due to shoddy construction, or poor relief planning, but the event itself just happens. Nobody hijacked the Pacific Plate or the North American Plate. It’s odd, but I’ve always found this a little comforting. Or maybe it just makes it less horrifying. Or maybe it’s less caustic when there’s no one to hate.

The thing about earthquakes is that there’s no malice.

Unless you’re Pat Robertson.

Yeah, well Pat Robertson can only celebrate. He can’t tell earthquakes what to do. He is but a wee puny creature, as are we all.

But tornadoes? How the fuck do you live in Tornado Alley?

You get used to it. We haven’t gotten many serious storms where I live now. I’ve only had to take shelter a couple of times in 6 years and they weren’t close at all.

My hometown was hit very, very hard when I was 19 and never really recovered (though I don’t know how much of that was the tornado and how much of it was meth and the shitty economy). But it had never been hit before in its over 150 year history. It’s just one of those freakish things that happens every once in a while and there’s nothing you can do about it, so you don’t worry.

I don’t recommend, however, standing on the porch in your underwear while you watch the tornado roll in as my grandfather liked to do.

Or maybe it’s less caustic when there’s no one to hate.

If only. Pat Robertson and others seem all too capable of attaching blame to specific people for these types of things. This most excellent whiteboard cartoon by solidsharkey makes the point much better than I can.

The first time I heard the tornado warning siren – tested the first Monday of every month in tornado season! – I assumed World War III was happening. Didn’t get out of bed though.

9/11 was one of those life-altering events that happens once a generation, and it really doesn’t matter the degree to which it impacted you immediately, because the repercussions, good and bad but mostly bad, will be felt for the rest of this century.

I know…I just remember people using it as an excuse to be melodramatic assholes with 300 American flag stickers on their SUVs, so I try to steer clear of being like that!

We had a tornado hit 4 blocks from here year before last. It didn’t destroy any homes or cause any injuries, thankfully. It more skipped across the tops of the trees, sucked them out of the ground, and dropped them on houses. So there was damage to a lot of homes, though none were flattened like they would have been from a direct hit. But that was one spooky night – the best hidey-hole in my house is the front hall closet, literally one step backwards from the front door, so even though I wasnt in my underwear, I was at the front door with it open, and I heard the thing come through. Couldn’t see a thing because it was pitch black – all the power was out and it was nighttime. I remember thinking when I heard it, “yeah, that sounds like a freight train, but not one that’s right here.”

The thing about earthquakes is that there’s no malice.

Unless you’re Pat Robertson.

Any beneficent earthquake would have taken him out long ago.

You guys know she was given $25,000. by the New America foundation, right? “Outlining a better policy model for thinking about failures at the individual and institutional level will be the focus of her fellowship.” One of the board members of the foundation is David G. Bradley, the owner of the Atlantic. Another is Fareed Zakaria, who had her on his GPS show a while ago.

And there’s her article in Time, on just that subject–the failure of everyone else to understand the current crises, which she aided and abetted. Her own failure are left for others to analyze.

Actor, you’ve got the wrong character; I’m talking about Motss’ assistant, played by Suzie Plakson.

On Topic and Tooting my own horn alert!

James Joyner has clairified exactly how this is unprecedented.

It’s a non-budget, non-tax bill, seeking to reform health care under reconcilliation – that also isn;t going to get at least 60 votes in the Senate. Yup – totally unprecedented if you consider that small smattering of conditions. It’s so very simple.

When I look at post-tornado photos I see slabs of concrete with piles of debris on top. While there were a few demolished homes in the Bay Area (and yes, fires) none of them looked like they had been hit with a 500 lb bomb (yes, the freeway looked like it was bombed, I’ll give you that). I suppose it’s just being used what risks you live among, but tornadoes seem completely binary–they miss you or your house is gone.

holy crap, I got lost in a seismically-related wikipedia link-loop.

Aw, not even a tinge of sadness for your lost compatriots? Jerk butt.

I meant physically. I will miss everybody except the entirety of DC. And Megan McCardle.

Hey, if a giant tsunami makes a bunch of Ranroids disappear, is that like Going Galt?

I grew up in Topeka, Kansas. I miss lightning storms and thunder and tornadoes.

Yeah, they’re destructive, but they are so… elemental.

I think a little terror-induced respect of old Mother Nature is a good thing.

the best hidey-hole in my house is the front hall closet

Can I just say that “hidey-hole” is one of my favorite terms ever? We don’t really use it here, though. I hate that we’re on the second floor and only have an interior bathroom…it makes me nervous.

I just remember people using it as an excuse to be melodramatic assholes with 300 American flag stickers o pairs of Dependz in their SUVs, so I try to steer clear of being like that!

Foar moar justice, fecksed.

I miss lightning storms and thunder and tornadoes.

I am with you for two of the three. Violent lightning storms are the best entertainment Ma Nature has to offer, as far as I am concerned. Nothing beats standing in the open door of a barn or garage and watching the lightning strike the hills around you.

Skkeeeaarat–BOOM.

We don’t really use it here, though. I hate that we’re on the second floor and only have an interior bathroom…

Would an outhouse make you feel more secure?

You guys know she was given $25,000. by the New America foundation, right? “Outlining a better policy model for thinking about failures at the individual and institutional level will be the focus of her fellowship.”

😮

I grew up in Topeka, Kansas. I miss lightning storms and thunder and tornadoes.

I grew up in Kansas, too. Lightning terrifies me, but it’s amazing to watch on the plains.

Harry Reid weighs in on reconciliation, brought to you by the Shrill One;

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/harry-gives-em-hell/

“As you know, the vast majority of bills developed through reconciliation were passed by Republican Congresses and signed into law by Republican Presidents – including President Bush’s massive, budget-busting tax breaks for multi-millionaires. Given this history, one might conclude that Republicans believe a majority vote is sufficient to increase the deficit and benefit the super-rich, but not to reduce the deficit and benefit the middle class. Alternatively, perhaps Republicans believe a majority vote is appropriate only when Republicans are in the majority. Either way, we disagree.”

Outlining a better policy model for thinking about failures at the individual and institutional level

Twenty-five large for a mirror?

Wow.

Would an outhouse make you feel more secure?

Like an absurd old-timey movie where the dude is taking a dump and the tornado lifts up the outhouse and he’s left there with his pants down?

No. But it would be funny!

You guys know she was given $25,000. by the New America foundation, right?

Imma go and open a vein now. Later, dudes.

8/15 = 53%

Roughly half is not really “almost every act.”

Would an outhouse make you feel more secure?

I know of at least one person who is comforted by an outhouse.

(scuse my finGAHs)

Mind you I’ve never lost my house to a tornado, so I’d probably be a lot less flippant if I had…

Outlining a better policy model for thinking about failures at the individual and institutional level

Twenty-five large for a mirror?

They do say write what you know, so…

According to Megan’s logic, almost every person is female and anyone who claims to see males “all the time” is wrong!

Megan’s logic

See? Now right about there is where you veered off of the road…

They do say write what you know, so…

**Cleans mirror**

**Looks up New America web site**

How the fuck do you live in Tornado Alley?

“God hates mobile homes. When tornadoes come, they become mobile.” – Dr. Johnny Fever.

Excuse me?

PENIS.

I was thinking there was a dearth of penis around here.

She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set. </i?

Almost every act passed under reconciliation (8/15) has in fact been a budget bill.

On the other hand, little slip-ups like this tend to make people think you’re a vapid waste of oxygen who doesn’t know shit about anything. Just ignore my previous comment, then.

For the concussive dictionary therapy:

May I recommend the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary? Perhaps there’s a large print edition.

Back in the mid-90s, I had the compact version of the OED: two oversized volumes that weighed close to 30 pounds if you include the box and the 4×6 inch magnifying glass (there were four “normal” pages reduced to fit on each page–maybe even 6—wow it’s been a long time!). The “full” version of the OED was 24 volumes, normal type.

So yeah, you might need a large print version to break through Megan’s anti-clue shield.

…Megan boils a mean radish…

This has got to be a euphemism for something, but I can’t figure out what.

Dorothy, it was 4 pages of TINY type on bible paper. Hell was when the plastic pieces used to slide the volumes out of the case broke…

…Megan boils a mean radish…

This has got to be a euphemism for something, but I can’t figure out what.

You’ve heard of prairie oysters? Welcome to Upper West Side oysters.

[Pat Robertson] can’t tell earthquakes what to do.

Don’t tell HIM that!

“Outlining a better policy model for thinking about failures at the individual and institutional level will be the focus of her fellowship.”

Megan certainly has succeeded on thinking about failure.

PS–Hope I didn’t offend in that last post. I try not to be all dramatic about September 11 because it obviously didn’t affect my life that much and I HATE it when people try to act like it did. /serious

Of course not, you’re not using 9/11 as a cudgel to browbeat “liberals” and “unamerican traitors”. It was a devastating day for all of us, but we have our lives to live.

The idea of earthquakes as a personal experience rather than as design criteria scares the shit out of me.

Here’s a little extra terror sauce for your nightmare. We had one in 1987 in teh Hudson Valley- it hit around 6 AM. It was strong enough to wake me, I had a hunch about what happened, then went right back to sleep.

I grew up in Topeka, Kansas. I miss lightning storms and thunder and tornadoes.

After a few years of climate change, you may have them yet again

I know of at least one person who is comforted distressed by an outhouse Althouse.

FIXED

almost every person is female and anyone who claims to see males “all the time” is wrong!

I see males. All the time.

I see males. All the time.

Could be worse. D-KW’s mom she-males all the time.

We had one in 1987 in teh Hudson Valley- it hit around 6 AM.

I remember that well. It hit early morning. My then-wife and I both woke up, rolled over to look at each other, said “earthquake” and went right back to sleep.

NYC gets them about every other year, something on the order of 1.2 on the Richter scale.

D-KW’s mom gets about 8 on the rictus scale.

You’ve heard of prairie oysters?

Yes.

So why the hell isn’t Doug Rader in the baseball hall of fame?!? After all, he has a lifetime batting average of 251. That means that in half of his career at bats he hit the ball almost every time! So therefore the dude hit almost 500 for his career!!! Definitely hall of fame numbers.

You guys know she was given $25,000. by the New America foundation, right?

Small consolation, but that’s $25,000 that’s not going to the RNC.

Pass the popcorn, mother! The Jesus Freaks are joining the Teabaggers!

This ought to be fun!

NYC gets them about every other year, something on the order of 1.2 on the Richter scale/

You can’t feel a 1.2, at least that’s what Mom’s told me about her experiences with you.

LEAFS SUCKS is apparently in one of the earthquakier parts of Ontario. Given that a lot of it is sitting on the Canadian Shield, this still means that we almost never get noticeable quakes. Four years ago we had a 2.7 in the area – it made the news.

Small consolation, but that’s $25,000 that’s not going to the RNC.

Yeah, it’ll be going to buy plastic crap and gourmet salt from Kitchens Und So Weiter or some such.

I was woken up by an earthquake here in MA about 5-6 years ago, thought it was a big truck out front except that it went on too long. The bed ride was pretty fun, but big enough to shake things off would have been less so.

The Jesus Freaks are joining the Teabaggers!

I imagine they were always a major contingent- it’s just that their teabaggery took the fore then, and their pastors hadn’t caught up with Fox. Now, if someone were to somehow use Southern Baptist bigotry to poison Glen Beck’s well, that would be a most unforeseen turn of events.

You can’t feel a 1.2, at least that’s what Mom’s told me about her experiences with you.

Look, no one told me I was playing my kazoo in a frikkin’ cathedral, a’ight?

Finally got to S,N! today and I feel dumber because I read MM’s sentence more than twice.

It’s OK that I am currently using my computer in the shower, correct?

T&U,

I like the 3D version.

It’s OK that I am currently using my computer in the shower, correct?

Is it the new model with the built-in soap dispenser?

It’s OK that I am currently using my computer in the shower, correct?

If you’re reading McArdle, it can only enhance the experience by clearing the muck off your flesh faster.

Is it the new model with the built-in soap dispenser?

Indubitably, my good man! But what it doesn’t do is Protect From Teh Stoopid, like the new Mac (not the Cardle kind, obvi).

Look, no one told me I was playing my kazoo in a frikkin’ cathedral, a’ight?

Indeed.

Protect From Teh Stoopid, like the new Mac

The iPad has a narrow edge. It may be possible to decapitate with it, a la Oddjob.

But what it doesn’t do is Protect From Teh Stoopid

That’s where the doctors from Sadly,No! laboratories come in.

I took filled the shampoo container with cognac, being, well, all bald.

As you can tell from my grammar fail, the cognac has taken hold!

Hot dog in a hallway, I know, I know it’s serious!

Oh, and by “in the shower” i really mean in a covered pool. It’s starting to close in on my monitor. Bruce knows what I’m talking about.

Hot dog in a hallway

Ixnay on the KW’sDay Ommay odecay…

It’s OK that I am currently using my computer in the shower, correct?

Only if it’s actually plugged in, running on battery power is very dangerous. Those things are FILLED with CHEMICALS!!!

…Megan boils a mean radish…

This has got to be a euphemism for something, but I can’t figure out what.

I has a lot to do with a ping pong ball, a nine iron and 4 stray cats.

Except the Li-ion batteries, that is, but cats don’t like to get wet so also dangerous in the shower.

Oh, and by “in the shower” i really mean in a covered pool. It’s starting to close in on my monitor. Bruce knows what I’m talking about.

I hope your dressed. It’s unsafe at best to have your junk near anything written by McArdle.

running on battery power is very dangerous

i’m, like, totally suing the pants off of Dell.

It’s unsafe at best to have your junk near anything written by McArdle.

I dangle five pound weights to keep them from climbing back up inside my torso.

It’s unsafe at best to have your junk near anything written by McArdle.

Thanks for looking out for my junk, T&U. I knew you cared.

I has a lot to do with a ping pong ball, a nine iron and 4 stray cats.

Just to clarify, at least one of the cats has a limp.

“Pass the popcorn, mother! The Jesus Freaks are joining the Teabaggers! This ought to be fun!”

Notice that it took them almost an entire year to tweak Scripture to the point that it supported teabagging. These people are getting slow in their old age.

As a counterpoint, this is worth noting from another religious source;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-james-martin-sj/glenn-beck-to-catholics-l_b_490669.html

Notice that it took them almost an entire year to tweak Scripture to the point that it supported teabagging

I could have sworn that teabagging is mentioned somewhere in the Song of Solomon.

Just to clarify, this Onion article is not about Megan McArdle. Although it still may be.

I could have sworn that teabagging is mentioned somewhere in the Song of Solomon.

Why, indeedydoozle!

Dark am I, yet lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Kedar,
like the tent curtains of Solomon. [c]

6 Do not stare at me because I am dark,
because I am darkened by the sun.
My mother’s sons were angry with me
and made me take care of the vineyards;
my own vineyard I have neglected.

7 Tell me, you whom teabag, where you graze your flock
and where you rest your sheep at midday.
Why should I be like a veiled woman
beside the flocks of your friends?

I could have sworn that teabagging is mentioned somewhere in the Song of Solomon.

The bit about “grazing among the lilies?”

It’s unsafe at best to have your junk near anything written by McArdle.

Thanks for looking out for my junk, T&U. I knew you cared.

I’m a humanitarian like that.

*ahem*

“I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.”

“I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.”

Veiled blowie reference?

Veiled blowie reference?

Hooey and the Blowtie?

Veiled blowie reference?

I meant for it to be a veiled teabag reference, but wev.

I meant for it to be a veiled teabag reference

Teabagging while veiled is so gauche.

Teabagging while veiled is so gauche.

But teabags ARE gauze!

Oh. Gauche. Nevermind…

The most salient part of Vice President Biden’s speech in Tel Aviv came toward the end of his address — after he spoke about the “unbreakable bond” between the U.S. and Israel, after he assured his audience that the administration has an “ironclad commitment to Israel’s security,” and after he reassured skeptical Israelis that America “stands shoulder to shoulder” with the Jewish state.

Once these nice pieties were out of the way, Biden got to the real, unbalanced U.S. position vis-à-vis Israel and the Palestinians — again “condemning” Israel for moving ahead with plans for more housing units in East Jerusalem, while showering fulsome praise on Palestinian President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad.

Having lauded Abbas and Fayyad as “willing partners” for peace and competent leaders to bring about a genuine two-state solution, Biden added in the same paragraph this contrast with the Israeli government:

But instead, two days ago, the Israeli government announced it would advance planning for new housing in East Jerusalem. Because that decision undermined the trust required for productive negotiations, I — and at the request of President Obama — condemned it immediately and unequivocally.

Biden’s comments are doubly revealing.

First, the vice president made clear that it was Obama who made the decision to “condemn” the Israeli government — one of the harshest criticisms ever leveled against Israeli leaders by an American president.

Second, Biden — voicing Obama’s views — refrained from uttering anything approaching similar incendiary criticism of Abbas’s multiple anti-Israel and anti-peace provocations.

The closest the vice president came to expressing any displeasure with Palestinian provocations was when he told his audience that “you’ve been frustrated by the unwillingness of some Palestinian leaders to curb incitement.” This remark didn’t even rise to a slap on the wrist, and it carefully omitted identification of who these Palestinian leaders might be. It’s not something that need worry Abbas in the slightest.

Biden’s juxtaposition of slamming Israel hard and refraining from bringing up anything about Abbas’s multiple impediments to advancing the peace process makes a mockery of Obama-Biden pledges to hold all sides equally accountable when they get out of line.

Repeating words spoken earlier in the week by U.S. envoy George Mitchell, Biden told his Tel Aviv audience: “The United States will continue to hold both sides accountable for any statements or any actions that inflame tensions or prejudice the outcome of these talks.”

Oh, really?

If Biden were true to his words, he would have denounced Abbas’s persistent glorification of suicide bombers; Abbas’s incitement campaign against Israel in Palestinian Authority media, schools and mosques; and Abbas’s retention of clauses in the PLO/Fatah charter that call for the total elimination of the Jewish state. He also might have “condemned” Fayyad for joining Abbas in legitimizing terrorist murderers. Doesn’t such conduct also “undermine trust required for productive negotiations”?

But while firing away at Netanyahu, Biden kept his powder dry with Abbas and Fayyad.

Why?

The answer rests with Obama’s failure to make good on his promises to hold the Palestinian Authority, Arab leaders, and Israel equally accountable for their actions and statements. When the chips are down, only Israel’s government arouses Obama’s ire — never Arab leaders or Abbas.

It’s this unbalanced pursuit of an elusive peace that has thrown Obama’s diplomacy off-track from the start. First, while overlooking Arab/Palestinian provocations, the president pursued a one-dimensional pressure campaign to get Netanyahu to impose an absolute freeze on housing construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That got him nowhere, except that Abbas was so delighted with Obama’s exclusive focus on Netanyahu that the Palestinian leader abandoned direct negotiations and decided that he could get more by using Obama as his negotiating proxy.

Now, Biden and Obama have repeated the same diplomatic mistake. Faced with Israel’s ill-timed announcement of plans for more housing units in East Jerusalem, they immediately fired their heaviest verbal guns at the Israeli government — without pausing to consider that these housing units are not apt to be built for another several years and without thinking through that this unprecedented U.S. slap at Israel would again stoke Abbas’s disinterest in direct negotiations while making Israelis wonder why the U.S. picks on only them.

Even the Israel-unfriendly New York Times opined on its editorial page that Obama’s diplomacy has been clumsy and counterproductive.

In recent days, Syrian President Assad played host in Damascus at a chummy get-together with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah chieftain Narsrallah — without Obama sallying forth with fulsome denunciation of the Syrian leader and his guests. In fact, it was just the opposite: Obama is making new diplomatic overtures to Assad by sending a U.S. ambassador to Damascus. A few days later, Ahmadinejad was embraced by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, who listened patiently as Ahmadinejad uncorked his vile tirades against Israel and the U.S. Again, no harsh condemnation of what happened in Kabul.

Only Israel seems to get Obama’s dander up, as illustrated by Biden’s sharp comments this week. It’s not exactly something to inspire confidence or expectations of even-handed U.S. mediation down the road.

HGooey and the Blowtie

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CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE YOUR FAT ASS!!!!!!!!! said,

“GOATSE!”

CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD FEAR

I’m the resident editor!

The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to the other customers and the passers-by and said melancholically: “We are watching the world of yesterday.”

Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old he is not going to emigrate himself. “I am too old,” he said. However, he urged young people to get out and “move to Australia or New Zealand. That is the only option they have if they want to avoid the plagues that will turn the old continent uninhabitable.”

Many Germans and Dutch, apparently, did not wait for Broder’s advice. The number of emigrants leaving the Netherlands and Germany has already surpassed the number of immigrants moving in. One does not have to be prophetic to predict, like Henryk Broder, that Europe is becoming Islamic. Just consider the demographics. The number of Muslims in contemporary Europe is estimated to be 50 million. It is expected to double in twenty years. By 2025, one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families. Today Mohammed is already the most popular name for new-born boys in Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other major European cities.

Broder is convinced that the Europeans are not willing to oppose islamization. “The dominant ethos,” he told De Volkskrant, “is perfectly voiced by the stupid blonde woman author with whom I recently debated. She said that it is sometimes better to let yourself be raped than to risk serious injuries while resisting. She said it is sometimes better to avoid fighting than run the risk of death.”

In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared “humanist”) author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder’s interview. Van den Boogaard says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like “a process of mourning.” He is overwhelmed by a “feeling of sadness.” “I am not a warrior,” he says, “but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”

As Tom Bethell wrote in this month’s American Spectator: “Just at the most basic level of demography the secular-humanist option is not working.” But there is more to it than the fact that non-religious people tend not to have as many children as religious people, because many of them prefer to “enjoy” freedom rather than renounce it for the sake of children. Secularists, it seems to me, are also less keen on fighting. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, this life is the only thing they have to lose. Hence they will rather accept submission than fight. Like the German feminist Broder referred to, they prefer to be raped than to resist.

“If faith collapses, civilization goes with it,” says Bethell. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in Europe. Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means “submission” and the secularists have submitted already. Many Europeans have already become Muslims, though they do not realize it or do not want to admit it.

Some of the people I meet in the U.S. are particularly worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. They are correct when they fear that anti-Semitism is also on the rise among non-immigrant Europeans. The latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe (at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism. People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others who do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because they are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their view everyone must submit.

This is why they have come to hate Israel and America so much, and the small band of European “islamophobes” who dare to talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have to choose between submission (islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that they have chosen submission – just like in former days when they preferred to be red rather than dead.

Actor. Why? Why? And why?

CONTINUE TO SPREAD TROOFIE’S FAT ASS!!!!!!!!! said,

“I have an STD!”

Look, “Goatse” would have warned a sane man…

RAPE BY MUSLIMS, epidemic in Europe, and headed this way, thanks to ever-increasing Muslim immigration to the U.S.
“We don’t make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity.”

We know that rape is very common in the Islamic world, because the only people who suffer are the rape victims themselves being sentenced often to death, for being raped.The Muslims have brought their rapist ways to the west, where their God says that all women are fair game for raping excet for married covered Muslims. Not, only are women targeted for rape because they are not covered but because Muslims believe they are in a constant battle against the enemy, the free world to spread Islamic law, so all women of that country are considered “war booty”…

Thus it is clear that this is not only a British problem but a problem for Western cultures -Islam teaches muslims to not only feel entitled to rape our “inferior” women but see rape as a victory over the infidel on their path to Islamization of the world or Global Caliphate. It is time to look at big picture and see the ever growing numbers of rape of “kaffir” women as not just a muslim crime but also an act of terrorism.
“We will take your women as war booty”

Muslim rape of non-Muslim girls is rampant

All over the world where Muslims have immigrated, the local police have lost control to Islamic thugs. Muslim gangs are more dangerous to societies than theCrips, Mafia, and Yakuza who at least cater, in the most part, to voluntary forms of crimes; gambling, prostitution, and drugs. If you don’t want to gamble, get a full-service massage, or snort some cocaine you don’t have to do business with them.

Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway – Authorities Look the Other way

Malmø, Sweden. The police now publicly admit what many Scandinavians have known for a long time: They no longer control the situation in the nation’s third largest city. It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants. Some of the Muslims have lived in the area of Rosengård, Malmø, for twenty years, and still don’t know how to read or write Swedish. Ambulance personnel are attacked by stones or weapons, and refuse to help anybody in the area without police escort. The immigrants also spit at them when they come to help. Recently, an Albanian youth was stabbed by an Arab, and was left bleeding to death on the ground while the ambulance waited for the police to arrive. The police themselves hesitate to enter parts of their own city unless they have several patrols, and need to have guards to watch their cars, otherwise they will be vandalized. jihadwatch

PLANCKSCONSTANT
The Law Of Sweden: Indigenous Swedes must embrace rape by Muslim gangs

467 rapes against children under the age of 15 were reported in 2004 compared with 258 in 1995. Legal proceedings continue this week in a case involving a 13 year old girl from Motala who was said to have been subjected to a group rape by four men. (Note: These four men were Kurdish Muslims, who raped the girl for hours and even took photos of doing so)
…
rape can indeed be linked to Islamic teachings of Jihad, and even to the example of Muhammad himself, his Sunna. Above all, it is connected to Islamic notions of the role of women in society, and their behaviour in the public sphere.
…
The German journalist Udo Ulfkotte told in a recent interview that in Holland, you can now see examples of young, unveiled Moroccan women with a so-called “smiley”. It means that the girl gets one side of her face cut up from mouth to ear, serving as a warning to other Muslim girls who should refuse to wear the veil.

Hijab, the Islamic veil, is thus not ”just a piece of cloth”. It serves as [b]a demarcation line between proper, submissive Muslim women and whores, un-Islamic women who deserve no respect and are asking for rape. The veil should more properly be viewed as the uniform of a Totalitarian movement, and a signal to attack those outside the movement.[/b]
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the safety of young Scandinavian women is sacrificed in order to keep the glossy image of a multicultural society intact. It is a chilling demonstration of an Eurabian continent that now appears to care more about not upsetting relations with its immigrant population than about protecting its own citizens.

HVK

THE MUSLIM RAPE OF BRITISH GIRLS

Yet again comes another tragic incidence of a muslim man raping a young British girl – this time a 14 year old girl, innocently walking her dog, was raped by a man “described as Asian, in his early twenties…” Of course the politically correct media-speak word “Asian” consistently means Muslim.

This latest crime leads one to wonder just how many rapes of British girls and women, by muslim men, have recently occurred in the UK. Below are some VERY recent incidents of muslim rape in the UK:

The one noted above – Girl -14 -raped while out walking her dog

Man jailed for committing more rapes while on bail for rape

Sex Attack by mosque leader “Changed my girl” says Mum

Muslim man kidnaps 14 yr old school girl for sex

Muslim Men rape four British School Girls at Amusement Park

UK Muslim preacher jailed for rape

OPINIONATOR
UK EPIDEMIC – MUSLIM taxi drivers raping British girls and women

Recently a BBC announcer was sacked/fired for requesting a “non Asian taxi driver”to transport her young unaccompanied 14 year old daughter. (Out of concern for her daughter’s fears/mental well being & safety)

Of course, the “racist” club was trotted out by the mainstream media and others to verbally bludgeon Sam Mason for having the audacity to demand an “English driver”. But was Sam Mason really exposing her racism or was she reacting, as any mother would, to the facts that there is a ongoing epidemic of muslim taxi driver rapes in the UK? (Note: the media prefers the more vague term “Asian”)

Not surprising – the mainstream media, is aiding and abetting these rapes, by refusing to “connect the dots” and report on the clear evidence: The growing numbers of predatory muslim taxi drivers (some posing as taxi drivers)raping British girls and women.

Here are some – but far from all – examples of muslim taxi driver rapists:

Abul Malik. 29. raped 19 yr. old female student – he was angry she didn’t have all the fare money

Salam Rahman, 27, and his friend, 26-year-old Mohammed Elahi – along with two other men – gang raped two woman – a newlywed and a city worker . (Police said after the case that they feared these were not isolated cases and appealed for any woman who may have suffered a similar attack to come forward.)

Assadullah Razaq, 31, raped 28 yr. old secretary

Mohanid Al obaydi, raped 22 yr old woman

Ghulam Haider, 49, brutally raped 16 yr old girl

Murtaza Mateen, aged 47, lured 42 year old woman into his taxi & raped her

Shahjahan Islam, 27, linked by DNA to attempted rape of lone young woman

Rami Kayyali, 26, found guilty of raping young woman

Asian (Muslim) – bogus taxi driver, in his mid-20s, wanted for attempted rape of 18 yr. old girl

Asian (Muslim) male, aged in his late 20s or early 30s, wanted for brutal rape of 24 yr old woman

Asian (Muslim) “taxi driver”, in his 40s, sought in rape of teenager

OPINIONATOR
Young British schoolgirls being groomed for sex by Muslim men

Leading Muslims in UK endorse killing and raping of Non-Muslims

In a startling disclosure from an exchange at an East London mosque, Imam Abdul Makin and a leading Muslim lawyer have supported the killing and raping of non-Muslim, declaring all non-Muslims as guilty and subject to lethal abuse.

The disclosure occurred in a question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin — as reported at a site called Islam Watch here. He reportedly stated “Because non-Muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prophet.” He then called in a legal judgment by saying “If you don’t believe me, here is the legal authority, the top Muslim lawyer of Britain.”

That top Muslim lawyer in Britain is Anjem Choudary, who says “You are innocent if you are a Muslim. Then you are innocent in the eyes of God. If you are not a Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God.” Choudary said. “I must have hatred to everything that is not Muslim.”

JONATHAN TURLEY
Muslim Rape in Norway

The number of rapes in the Norwegian capital Oslo is six times as high as in New York City.

There has been an explosive increase in the number of rape charges in the city of Oslo, but both the media and the authorities consistently refuse to tell us why. They did do so, however, in 2001, when two out of Norway’s three largest newspapers, Aftenposten and Dagbladet, reported that most of these rape charges involve an immigrant perp, which again mostly means Muslims. Both newspapers have since then conveniently “forgotten” about this, and have never connected the issue to Muslim immigration although the number of rape charges has continued to rise to historic levels. They are thus at best guilty of extreme incompetence, since their former articles about this issue are still available online.

Two out of three charged with rape in Norway’s capital are immigrants with a non-western backgroundaccording to a police study. The number of rape cases is also rising steadily. Unni Wikan, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, in 2001 said that “Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes” because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. The professor’s conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: “Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.”

BRUSSELS JOURNAL

Somali Muslim Gang-rapes in Norway

ISLAMIC RAPE JIHAD

“Each of us was raped by between three and six men….One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head into pieces with an axe in front of us.” This happened in Darfur, from which Sudanese military personnel actually airlifted women to Khartoum to serve as sex slaves.

Meanwhile, Indira Dzetskelova, the mother of one of the child hostages in Beslan, Russia, reports that “several 15-year-old girls were raped by terrorists.” Her daughter “heard their terrible cries and screams when those monsters took them away.”

What does rape, then, have to do with these religious conflicts? Unfortunately, everything. The Islamic legal manual ‘Umdat al-Salik, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.” Why? So that they are free to become the concubines of their captors. The Qur’an permits Muslim men to have intercourse with their wives and their slave girls: “Forbidden to you are … married women, except those whom you own as slaves” (Sura 4:23-24)

FRONT PAGE
In Australia, Norway, Sweden and other Western nations, there is a distinct race-based crime in motion being ignored by the diversity police: Islamic men are raping Western women for ethnic reasons. We know this because the rapists have openly declared their sectarian motivations.

AUSTRALIA: When a number of teenage Australian girls were subjected to hours of sexual degradation during a spate of gang rapes in Sydney that occurred between 1998 and 2002, the perpetrators of these assaults framed their rationale in ethnic terms. The young victims were informed that they were “sluts” and “Aussie pigs” while they were being hunted down and abused.

In Australia’s New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because they were not wearing a headscarf. And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy clothing, invited men to rape them.

DENMARK: A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi created uproar when – like his peer in Australia – he stated that women who did not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped.

GREAT BRITAIN: And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped. He added, “For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct.”

NORWAY: In Norway, journalist Fjordman warns of a rape epidemic. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen stated that the steady increase of rape-cases and the link to ethnicity are clear, unmistakable trends. Two out of three persecutions for rape in Oslo are immigrants with a non-Western background and 80 percent of the victims are Norwegian women.

SWEDEN: In Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, “Gang rapes, usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become commonplace.” A few weeks ago she said, “Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old Swedish girl.”

FRANCE: In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence – after enduring years of repeated gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects – and wrote a book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, “any neighborhood girl who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore.”

INDONESIA: Unfortunately, Western women are not the only victims in this epidemic. In Indonesia, in 1998, human rights groups documented the testimony of over 100 Chinese women who were gang raped during the riots that preceded the fall of President Suharto. Many of them were told: “You must be raped, because you are Chinese and non-Muslim.”

PAKISTAN: Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported that in April 2005, a 9-year-old Pakistani girl was raped, beaten with a cricket bat, hanged upside down from the ceiling, had spoonfuls of chillies poured into her mouth, and repeatedly bashed while handcuffed. Her Muslim neighbours told her they were taking revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi children and informed her they were doing it because she was an “infidel and a Christian.”

SUDAN: In Sudan – where Arab Muslims slaughter black Muslim and Christian Sudanese in an ongoing genocide – former Sudanese slave and now a human rights’ activist Simon Deng says he witnessed girls and women being raped and that the Arab regime of Khartoum sends its soldiers to the field to rape and murder. In other reports, women who are captured by government forces are asked; “Are you Christian or Muslim?” and those who answer Christian, are gang raped before having their breasts cut off.

CONTINUE TO SPREAD MY LEGS!!!!!!!!! said,

“MOM’S BACK IN THE NERVOUS HOME!”

“Goatse” would have warned a sane man…

True but I just smoked a joynt. Also, we are posting under a McArdle article so…. our intellects have been derailed somewhat.

Young British schoolgirls being groomed for sex by Muslim men

INTEREST!

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Young British schoolgirls being groomed for sex by Muslim men

Troofie’s actually posting Mandingo fears? Damn…

RAPE BY MUSLIMS, epidemic in Europe, and headed this way, thanks to ever-increasing Muslim immigration to the U.S

HAHAHAHAHA as if the only people who rape ANYwhere in the world are Muslims.

CTSTW, read this you need it.

Yes, N__B, apparently rape has become a large trigger in the Muslim world.

Not that Troofie gives a goddam about the fact that, here in America, women are raped far more frequently by true blue red-blooded American men.

You can say it’s not goatse, but you can’t make me believe it.

You can say it’s not goatse

It’s not!

It’s just a mirror site.

a large trigger

Veiled Roy Rogers reference.

You can say it’s not goatse, but you can’t make me believe it.

I swear its not. Trust me like you trust The Shorter™. I, unlike actor, do not enjoy the extreme nether regions of men!

I, unlike actor, do not enjoy the extreme nether regions of men!

Now just a cotton-picking minute!

I do not “enjoy” the nether regions of men…it’s quite painful to look at, in fact.

Over. And over. Again.

Over. And over. Again.

Veiled DKW mom’s ref?

It’s just a mirror site.

Liar, it’s probably Rick Astley.

Rick GOATSley.

Rick GOATSley.

Now I’m imagining goatse featuring Rick Astley. Sick.

Rick GOATSley.

o/~ Never going to giii-i-i-i-iive you up…Na-a-a-a-a-ah! o/~

Am I the only one who noticed that goatse man is wearing a wedding band?

You looked that closely, Jen???

actor212 – in seeking to avert my eyes from the main subject of the photo, yes, I noticed the wedding band.

Which means someone is married to that massive asshole. And when I say “massive asshole”, I mean literally.

Which means someone is married to that massive asshole. And when I say “massive asshole”, I mean literally.

Hey, there’s somebody for everybody, right?

*whew*

Cuz if you were studying the photo, I was going to ask for your number.

Interested in him as a matrimonial prospect, Jennifer?

A lid for every pot, T&U.

Interested in him as a matrimonial prospect, Jennifer?

It seems I have to re-establish my heterosexual bona fides after yesterday.

heterosexual bona fides

PUT THAT THING AWAY.

PUT THAT THING AWAY.

This may take a while…

It seems I have to re-establish my heterosexual bona fides after yesterday.

I can’t help it if I’m cute.

I can’t help it if I’m cute.

You’re a stuffed muffin, alright

Is that goatse or the latest Coke dispenser?

“The Jesus Freaks are joining the Teabaggers!”

That would be fine with me, if it means they are going to propose that the Federal government declare a Jubilee for mortgages and the national debt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_%28Biblical%29

Kill those who insult Islam!

Speak for yourself, I hold it aganst this ignorant twit.