I we stop talking about black people then they simply don’t exist.

Too bad we don’t have George W. Bush to kick around;

He’s still around. Your type as his enablers just wish he would pull a black history month and just go away. Everything is now Obamas fault.

” NPR will lurch to much, much further to the left, ”

Let’s hope!

because, you know, it would be boring to report the grim facts about the thousands of Japanese lives potentially still at risk from exposure to cold weather, uncertain water supplies, failing waste-water treatment, disease outbreaks, and food shortages, and the day-by-day struggle to dig out and figure out how to rebuild, etc.

then why don’t you do it then, fuckwad?

I get it! Steven Fester Hayward!

Do I win a waffle?

Poor W. He got to assrape the country for 8 years and then escape to a life of cloistered wealth and privelege, consequence-free. I do feel for him.

Hate to go OT so early in the thread. Well, maybe it’s not entirely OT…

http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Tea-Party-and-Religion.aspx

Surprise surprise, the teabaggers are tools of the white, religious funnymentalists.

Steven F. Hayward
F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow

Experience

* Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1992-present
* Member, California Departmental Transportation Advisory Committee, 1996-2001
* Contributing Editor, Reason Magazine, 1990-2001
* Bradley Fellow, 1997-98; Henry Salvatori Fellow, 1993-94, Heritage Foundation
* Public Interest Member, California Citizens Compensation Commission, 1990-95
* Director, Golden State Center for Policy Studies, 1987-91
* Executive Director, Inland Business Magazine, 1985-90
* Richard M. Weaver Fellow, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1985-86
* Director of Journalism, Public Research Syndicated, Claremont Institute, 1984-87

Dr. Hayward has spent his entire working career writing wingnut propaganda.
~

(short summary: It’s not 1979 any more, and Jane Fonda seems happy to stay in retirement

You meanie lefties, stop making fun of Bush!

Regarding NPR/PBS hatred for America and/or the military, I would site the only 5 minutes I’ve listened to NPR in the last ten years. A segment on Gitmo described various “torture” techniques used by the CIA and guards at Gitmo. The initial claims involved things such as sleep deprivation, 24 hour lights, cool temperatures in cells, etc. The complete list included things claimed by released detainees that had been proven false, e.g. extinguishing cigarettes on detainee arms who oddly had no scares to show for it. The NPR folks treated all claims equally (and did not acknowledge which claims came from legit sources and those that didn’t). They knew some claims were false, but that wouldn’t have conformed to their anti-military view of the world.

Last time I heard of a conservative reporter talking about Gitmo, it was someone from PJM. He went down and scuba dived for a few days, then went in front of the local soldiers and made a speech about how the people he knew at Hollywood wanted to close down their base, but he wanted to expand it for freedom’s sake. The presence of a military detention center at Gitmo wasn’t mentioned at all.

Presumably, this is what conservative media outlets mean by accurate reporting.

I find it funny that Hayward and Stein heard “Black History Month” and thought, “Hey, that’s a good idea, giving the negros only one month to talk about their history. That ought to shut them up the rest of the time.”

I didn’t get outta the boat, but from Chris’ blockquote:A segment on Gitmo described various “torture” techniques used by the CIA and guards at Gitmo,,,

I’m glad there are scare quotes around “torture”.

OT, but I don’t think the FSM loves me enough to make this happen:

http://theweek.com/article/index/213338/2012-watch-dont-underestimate-michele-bachmann

gardening, cooking, interesting people and places in the broadcast area

If you do all that with more weapons then funding will be restored. And more blaming others.would help too.

Funny, I can remember getting angry because NPR used the term “enhanced interrogation techniques” instead of “torture.”

Yes, kid, Saltines are crackers.

Look at Festers reusme’. Some of those positions he held for over one year!

Did you cut and paste that Chris? Curious that the brilliant Dr. doesn’t know the difference between ‘site’ and ‘cite’. Though citing things is probably unfamiliar to him after such a long career in whingnuttistan. Also, “scared”? Freudian slip?

No, I am not above a spelling flame, not when some idiot claims academic superiority.

I’m glad there are scare quotes around “torture”.

I’m glad he only mentioned the three least harmful forms of torture and completely failed to provide anything more exhaustive. Nothing about waterboarding or beating people or any of that stuff.

Even without being able to get out of the boat, these mangoes are juicy!

The local PBS station back in Duluth would carry the Red Green show on Saturday nights. Very highbrow and elieetist.

“gardening, cooking, interesting people and places in the broadcast area

If you do all that with more weapons then funding will be restored. And more blaming others.would help too.”

Heh. Yeah. Trying doing all those things–RESENTFULLY.

“Surprise surprise, the teabaggers are tools of the white, religious funnymentalists.”

You don’t say.

“Mr. BBKF will now show how to till your garden with a sub-machine gun!”

TruculentandUnreliable said,

Funny, I can remember getting angry because NPR used the term “enhanced interrogation techniques” instead of “torture.”

Let’s shame the NYT, too.

(Plus more links to Glennzilla, he deserves them.)

So according to The New York Times, it’s journalistically improper to call waterboarding “torture” — when done by the United States, but when Nazi Germany (or, more generally, China) does exactly the same thing, then it may be called “torture” repeatedly and without qualification. An organization which behaves this way may be called many things; “journalist” isn’t one of them.

~

I’m pretty sure Lydia Bastianich is a communist.

Hello … my name … um … my name is Mark, and I’m addicted to mangoes. I’m especially hooked on mainlining comments:

Contributions may spike in the short term, but it will quickly recede. Liberals are not known to be very charitable unless they can use other people’s money. Besides, NPR is just one of many, many left-wing media outlets.

Sadly, no!

I also like to do more than one article at a time, which I know is bad for me:

[One of the most pathetic jokes in the history of human history, which he follows with … ] (Hat tip: my investment-banker guy. Hey, if Jonah can have an expert posse, I want one too.)

We all know that when it comes to Japan’s building codes and regulations regarding their nuclear facilities, the foremost “expert” upon which people claiming to be journalists should turn to is … “investment banker guy.”

The dumb is strong with this one …

But it’s just the unremarkable story that the U.S. advises a larger evacuation zone near the reactors in Japan than the Japanese are calling for

Pffft, the US government is saying BS to the Japanese government and calling for a wider evacuation of US citizens, including military families, to protect American lives? So what? What about the US nuclear industry? Who will stand up for them?

Oh, and I now just have 11 more steps to go!

W00T!!!

Oh, and I now just have 11 more steps to go!

You’re in AA?

Sadly, no!

Thanks a billion for the post.

I’ve heard that before, and usually dismissed it on the grounds that the average conservative was richer than the average liberal (e.g. McCain giving more to charity than Obama: true, but if I had so many homes I couldn’t even remember their number off the top of my head, I could probably afford to give more as well).

Hadn’t even considered the religious angle. And of course it’s true that a ton of that money has nothing to do with charity – particularly in evangelical churches that are more likely to channel it into bringing Christianity to the wogs than bringing food to the homeless.

I wonder if AAA has drive thru sobriety meetings?

I wonder if AAA has drive thru sobriety meetings?

i dunno, but they may be able pop your trunk so you can retrieve your bottle after you’ve fallen off the wagon…

A lack of identification with those in need may explain in part why a 2007 report from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found that only a small percentage of charitable giving by the wealthy was actually going to the needs of the poor; instead it was mostly directed to other causes — cultural institutions, for example, or their alma maters — which often came with the not-inconsequential payoff of enhancing the donor’s status among his or her peers.

Bit long, but and interesting read in NYT. May have to skip ad.

DANG!

which often came with the not-inconsequential payoff of enhancing the donor’s status among his or her peers.

Yeah, why the fuck donate money unless they’re going to name something after you?

Besides, NPR is just one of many, many left-wing media outlets.

We have 2 NPR stations in our area, so we give to both. And actually, my somewhat absent-minded spouse went online to renew our membership, and went by mistake to the site of the station we used to listen to in another city (remembered the call letters and thought they were for the station here), and joined up there too. So now we are members at 3 NPR stations.

For decades, surveys have shown that upper-income Americans don’t give away as much of their money as they might and are particularly undistinguished as givers when compared with the poor, who are strikingly generous.

The Republicans had best stop playing the class warfare card, they may get it.

MOAR grammar Nazi for the sloped-forehead, slack-jawed conservative intellectshual:

“Contributions may spike in the short term, but it will quickly recede.

Wrong, wrong, WRONG. “ContributionS” is NOT an “it”. “ContributionS” may be a “they”. Or just drop the “it” altogether and don’t replace it with anything. Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say and….oh.

Now I understand.

Strangely, the number of NYT pages people have been linking has spiked lately – across all the blogs I read.

Does this have something to do with their new improved paywall, or wot?

Brevity is the soul of wit,

isn’t that what the Dude says?

Note to NPR, PBS, the New York Times and especially to Democrats:

When right wingers accuse you of being lefty liberals, changing your programming, editorial policies or political behavior to imitate theirs will not endear you to them or lead them to stop bullying you. They will still attack you, accuse you of being an enemy, and ultimately seek to destroy you. The only difference your attempts to ingratiate yourselves to the right wingers will make is to make your own supporters less likely to defend you.

That is all.

Member, California Departmental Transportation Advisory Committee, 1996-2001

Splitter!

They will still attack you, accuse you of being an enemy, and ultimately seek to destroy you.

This is true, and likely as not they’ll redouble their efforts – and their chins – whenever they sense blood in the water.

we also have a ‘gala affair’ each year. we haven’t raised ticket prices for the past 4 years…tickets are $45 each, you get free champagne and wine, horsey doeuvrveys, fancy meal and entertainment. the vp at one our local banks complained yesterday that the ticket prices were too high and that’s why she and her husband who owns a construction company do not attend…w.t.f.

I’ve used this example before, but… friends in college, spanned the spectrum from dirt poor to filthy rich backgrounds. The only one of us whose family felt entitled to cheat on their taxes was also the very wealthiest one of us: supposedly millions of dollars salted away in an offshore account, which she also thought was completely justified. All the rest of us were comparatively poorer: not one ever cheated Uncle Sam. There’s a commentary in there somewhere.

There’s a commentary in there somewhere.

Rich people fucking suck?

Wiki-Hayward:

He thinks that recent global warming is partially due to human activities, but not entirely. He has demurred from giving exact percentages. He has advocated that the world engage in geoengineering projects to mitigate global warming, such as spraying saltwater in the air to increase cloud cover over the oceans and thus reflect back sunlight.

You’re in AA?

Nope. MA: Mangoes Anonymous. I’m trying to go cold turkey, but finding it difficult. Especially on Friday afternoons.

—

The poor are givers, as that link from Snort (which I would’ve posted had he not first) shows pretty convincingly. IMHO, it’s because they get it — they’ve been there, done that, and had to pawn the t-shirt for food money.

A great deal of those in the top tax bracket, however, didn’t earn a fucking dime they have — they either inherited it, or won the Wall Street Lottery. They didn’t make, invent, or start anything … they haven’t had to put in a real day’s work … they’ve never wondered how they’d pay the electric bill, or get groceries, or fix the car …

Yet they’re convinced they’ve earned everything they have and, thus, the poor must deserve everything they don’t.

Q.E.attherich.D

Pitcher needz moar litebolbz.

More Fester:

He has remarked, “the environment is too important to be left to the environmentalists”.[4]

He has remarked, “the environment is too important to be left to the environmentalists”.[4]

And thought he sounded like Oscar Wilde while remarking it, doubtless.

I ain’t sceerd of magoos:

Steven F. Hayward is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (www.aei.org) in Washington, D.C., and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute (www.pacific-research.org) in San Francisco

The American Enterprise Institute and Pacific Research Institute are both heavily funded by oil billionaires Koch Industries, and Richard Mellon Scaife (Gulf Oil).

And thought he sounded like Oscar Wilde while remarking it, doubtless.

this made me laff…and then think about dilettantes…

Oops, half tag fail. From Sourcewatch.

Koch Industries? Sounds familiar.

Humourless dilettantes?

This guy (and his resume) highlight an ongoing reality of of the-right wing noise machine: it is just another form of Public Relations.

P-fucking-R.

There’s a good opening article in last month’s Harpers on Glenn Beck and PR as well, that highlights this fact in a more pointed fashion than I can. But to me, all of these tools, in one way or another, are part of the huge Public Relations efforts that drive conformity, subservience and compliance.

They are flacks.

Needs a 40-watt, he does. Although I doubt he has the amps to light it. Let’s try a five and see if he can make that glow if we turn off all the lights.

Gah, these people are mutants and tools.

“Rich people fucking suck?”

You mean THE ACHIEVERS and THE JOB CREATORS?

Who schedules a conference call for 3:30 Friday afternoon?!? I’m off to go drinking.

Have one on me, DKW!

Have one on me, DKW!
Body shots?

Humourless dilettantes?

They are neither waterlike nor glasslike: Ureane Humorless Dillettantes.

Wouldn’t work on me now–it would just slide off.

Conservative Big Government run amok.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/war-poor-minnesota-republicans-want-b
“St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month. This represents a change from their initial proposal, which banned them from having any money at all.”

I can just see IT.

Snort, where do you find this stuff? That is fabulous.

I’m surprised you didn’t photoshop his pic–it’s just asking for it.

I fucking hate them so fucking much. They are such pieces of shit.

<House File 171 would make it so that families on MFIP – and disabled single adults on General Assistance and Minnesota Supplemental Aid – could not have their cash grants in cash or put into a checking account. Rather, they could only use a state-issued debit card at special terminals in certain businesses that are set up to accept the card.

fuck! don’t fucking ven fucking get me fucking started!

see, i am so pissed off that i just had a massive tag fail…but you get the idea…

and fucking spelling too!

Wow. It sounded like a snarky wonkette headline.

I have no idea what to say. They really hate the poor, don’t they?

What must it be like to have such an ugly soul?

You know what? Anybody who makes under $20,000 a year should just have a fucking tattoo on their foreheads that reads “POOR” so we can shame them properly, especially if we see them buying unnecessary items like socks (just darn the ones you have!) and toilet paper (leaves work fine and they’re free!).

“St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month. This represents a change from their initial proposal, which banned them from having any money at all.”

The Obama Administration welcomed this move by the Republicans, and said it would be willing to compromise at a figure of $30/pocket.

Newly hired Obama Capitulation Czar, William Daley, said “While ideological purists and dirty smelly hippies will object to this reasonable compromise, I expect that all the sane people in Washington will see the wisdom of this new way forward. We are winning the future, one shameless surrender at a time.”
~

What must it be like to have such an ugly soul?

This assumes facts not in evidence.

And ya can’t get a soul by churchin’ up. Just don’t work that way.

Also, the fact that this affects PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES is especially evil. Poor people have transportation challenges enough as it is–add in mobility and other issues and WHAT THE FUCK?

The Obama Administration welcomed this move by the Republicans, and said it would be willing to compromise at a figure of $30/pocket.

What??? You wanted to give them all unicorns to eat and/or sell? Get real, manic progressive. Obama’s a pragmatist playing eleventy dimensional chess. If he didn’t do this, Republicans would eat poor people’s babies. Obviously you hate the poor.

What must it be like to have such an ugly soul?

Imagine a goatse in front of your face, forever.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Stomp the Poor!

At least they are not telling the poor to eat more vegetables because that would Obama-Hitler-Veggie-Fascism of the worst sort.

“would be” also.

“Imagine a goatse in front of your face, forever.”

Geez. No wonder they’re so hateful and nasty.

Wow. I wish I had any hope that the vast swath of poor republicans will make note of that odious crap next time they head to the voting booth, but I’m sure they’ll be distracted by a gay African abortion or something.

Between this and their lust for never-ending war, perhaps it’s justa plan to produce more slaves recruits for the next grand adventure against the rest of the world’s poor folk.

Ugh.

And I will give NPR $100 right this second if they promise to never make me listen to David Brooks’ whining shit again, and I’ll tack on some more cash if they also please get rid of the horrendous trash that is “Marketplace” that I hear every fucking night. How ’bout a nightly “state of labor” report from this supposedly “liberal” bastion instead? Yeah, right. I’ll never need to sign that check…

Michelle Obama is fat.

OK, two quick questions:

1.) If rich people are job creators, WHERE ARE THE FUCKING JOBS ALREADY? Are they saving them for a surprise job party?

2.) If Michelle Obama is fat, how does she maintain her scandalous bear arms? I mean, srsly. It’s hard to be fat and have those kinds of guns at the same time. *facepalm*

gay African abortion

So you’re saying I SHOULDN’T have set up that Gay African Abortion kiosk by the voting booths?

don’t fucking ven fucking get me fucking started!

I.W?N?

Bear arms?

Imagine a goatse in front of your face, forever.

Sooo, do they carry mirrors around with them, or what? How do they keep from running into things?

I thought the Second Amendment covered that, or uncovered that at it were.

Imagine a goatse in front of your face, forever.

Sorry, can’t help myself…..

FEED HER!

LittlePig, I fucking hate you.

Filmed in Arkansas!

I tried to resist. but the “in front of your face” was too much…

Bear arms

“Bear arms?”

Not all my jokes are winners.

I thought it was a good pun, VS. The First Lady often bears her bear arms.

and even bears her bare bear arms.

This is getting unbearable.

Michelle O with bear arms? What a Grizzly image

Our new shredder warns against putting a baby in it. I appreciate that, as that could be an awful mess.

Right to..

How else can you make bebecine?

Take the diaper off first. Maybe not so messy then.

I was thinking babyque, myself.

Snort said,

March 18, 2011 at 23:12

Right to..

Borg says no. Must be some really bare arms.

Have you guys seen this shit yet?

Fucking. Awesome.

cuter bear arm

It’s Mini__B!

Awwww.

I think Mini b is chubbier. But just as cute.

Yippee! I am now a victim! Move over Sarah, there’s plenty of room on that cross.

“the horrendous trash that is “Marketplace””

But. But. But. They have commentary from Robert Reich _at least_ once every six weeks or so. IT DOESNT GET ANY MORE LIBERAL THAN THAT

There are very important tags for bloggers to cut and paste right here.

I feel giddy!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

My lawn has been martyred!!

Don’t let McGravitas near the baseballs! I just watered the grass!

The Obama Administration welcomed this move by the Republicans, and said it would be willing to compromise at a figure of $30/pocket.

Newly hired Obama Capitulation Czar, William Daley, said “While ideological purists and dirty smelly hippies will object to this reasonable compromise, I expect that all the sane people in Washington will see the wisdom of this new way forward. We are winning the future, one shameless surrender at a time.”

If you’re going to make up quotes by national Democratic politicians to blame them for things some Republicans in Wisconsin are getting up to, including having those Democratic politicians insult you, and man is that bit of it ever fucking weird, why not go all the way and try your hand at chain email creation? It works well for the wingnuts and look at the comment at 22:49. You already tricked someone. You’ve got a future in this.

Or you could slowly back awaaaay from the blogs and go get some fresh air before it ever gets that far.

Last line is central to their point.

I think Mini b is chubbier. But just as cute.

I just gone done entertaining him.

From the mango at the fiery whiskey place:

Do you think a potential employer who reads something like what we discussed here and here would consider hiring you?

Wow, that would be awful. Just think of some poor sod getting fired because of being stupid on the interweb.

My quickly waning faith in humanity tells me she simply must have tenure. There’s no fucking way she wouldn’t have been fired by now otherwise.

NAP TIME

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Keep your hands off my son, woman.

My head asplode from SQUEE.

Keep your hands off my son, woman.

Don’t worry. Your son is safe, I’m exactly mobile and agile these days.

not

I’m exactly mobile and agile these days.

You’re a software developer?

This song is too short. It’s so gorgeous, I want it to on forever.

You’re a software developer?

Ha!

This song is too short. It’s so gorgeous, I want it to on forever.

Agreed. I want the drummer’s sweet suit also too.

I heard this on the radio thing. No ears so I think it’s this.

NAP TIME

ZOMG.

Marketplace has Kai Ryssdal. His name is fun to say.

” NPR will lurch to much, much further to the left, ”

The face of socialism.

Speaking of Marketplace, I’m listening now. I think Reich should be on.

I mean, he’s usually on on Fridays.

So is Bobo.

Kai Ryssdal. His name is fun to say.

He looks exactly like I expected him to look. I hate him even more.

I’m listening now.

Why would you do that to yourself?

OMG HE DOES.

The face of socialism.

Careful. That’s family.

Why would you do that to yourself?

Because it’s what I do. I listen to NPR pretty much any time I’m at home or in the car except when classical music plays and Garrison Keilor and the Car Talk guys are on. Or it’s something I’ve already heard.

I’d rather watch the News Hour, but I don’t have a TV.

Careful. That’s family.

Tee hee. That reminds me, one of the Boston baseball announcers was talking about Melky Mesa, and mentioned he was no relation to Melky Cabrera. Um, yeah.

Jesus Christ, I am such a “liberal”.

You need to enter the world of the podcast. Lotta good documentaries out there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts

On topic for an earlier thread

except when classical music plays and Garrison Keilor and the Car Talk guys are on

So you’re saying you hardly listen at all then?

Admit it, you just really like Kai “Smugface” Ryssdal.

Kai Ryssdal, Tess Vigeland… Sounds like a bunch of SOCIALESTS!

Substance, I listen to a fair amount of podcasts, but part of it is that if I’m catching up on my blog reading, writing, etc, I want to be able to tune the radio out if I want to and not care if I miss anything. So I really only listen to podcasts when I’m doing something that doesn’t require a lot of brainpower, like cleaning. Which is why I’m always behind on my podcasts.

So you’re saying you hardly listen at all then?

It’s true that Keillor (two or one “l”–do I give a fuck?) is on, like, 22 times a day.But there’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition and To the Best of Our Knowledge, which is like a Baby Boomer This American Life, but usually pretty good.

Admit it, you just really like Kai “Smugface” Ryssdal.

I think I’ve been indoctrinated by listening to his voice while I’m half-asleep for years.

BTW, I find that fundraising spot Alec Baldwin did for NPR incredibly irritating, but the way he says “Kai Ryssdal” always makes me laugh.

And they didn’t have the Marketplace Minute this time, thank GOD.

Everytime Marketplace plays their sad (DOW down) music, I hear my father’s voice singing:

Don’t know why
There’s no buttons on my fly
Got a zipper…

Every time, too.

Talking about Marketplace has made me want to go back to the other thread with the warpr0n. Or listen to Nickelback. Stop me from hurting myself!

Peanut, County Line and I have just left a dance party at the VFW lodge in Edison where we drank warm beer mixed with homemade peach wine. I’m driving because I drank the least, only four glasses. County’s up front with me, Peanut’s in the back, leaning over the front seat with his elbows in our ribs. It’s about two in the morning and because it’s dead summer, all windows are down in my ’64 Impala.
Suddenly, about a quarter mile ahead, a giant white tailed buck steps out of the forest into the middle of the road, stops and stares directly into the headlights.
Peanut: “Goddamn, look at the size of that cow!”
County: “Holy shit! That’s one’uh Bennie Davis’ holsteins!”
Me: “Y’all are fucking out of your minds, that ain’t a cow, that’s a damn deer!”
I mash the brake and start flicking the bright dim switch on the floor board.
Peanut: “Let’s shoot it!”
County: “Yeah, let’s shoot that asshole Bennie Davis’ cow!”
Me: “It ain’t a goddamn cow y’all, it’s a fucking deer!”
We are now within twenty feet of the “animal” and have come to a full stop.
Me: “See, that’s a deer”.
County: “You’re fucked up. You know what you’re problem is?”
Peanut: “Yeah, you’re fucked up. You can’t tell the difference between a goddamn wild animal and a fucking cow. You done turned into a dumb shit, that’s your problem. Fuck you.”
County: “Yeah. Fuck you. We know where you’re coming from. Weirdo.”
Me: “You know what. You know what y’alls problem is, fuck it, it ain’t worth it.”
County: “Who gives a shit. You’re weird and Peanut and I done discussed it. Ain’t that right Peanut?”
Peanut has slumped over in the back seat and is snoring.
County: “Fuck Peanut. And fuck you too. Dumbass.”
Me: “It’s a deer.”
County: “Fuck you.”

Oh, calm down. Now I’m listening to the latest Arcade Fire and drinking perry. Better?

I can’t believe I’m not sick of this fucking record yet.

“BTW, I find that fundraising spot Alec Baldwin did for NPR incredibly irritating,”

He did several. The Ho didn’t like it either. His consideration was whether it would be a boost to revenues or would turn people off. His decision was that it would likely turn people away. He didn’t want to run the spots during their last pledge but his boss, who is mostly clueless and has no taste, just thought it was great. I winced every time I heard it.

(He still beat goal though)

Better?

Yes, much.

Now I’m writing in my Moleskine. I hate myself.

He did several.</I.

I think I've only heard that one with *Kai Ryssdal* and the one with Ira Glass.

Fucking tag fail.

Umm, he did several but that one got all the attention.

I love the Kinsey Confidential podcast!

Ooh, I’ll check that one out.

I’d totes work for the Kinsey Institute, if it weren’t in Indiana. And I weren’t a complete slacker.

Umm, he did several but that one got all the attention.

I think they only played those two on my local affiliate, although I could be wrong.

Confession: Sometimes I’ll even listen to Car Talk if I’m too lazy to get up and put on music instead.

Sometimes I’ll even listen to Car Talk

I find the meaningless laughter soothing.

There are very important tags for bloggers to cut and paste right here.

Thanks.

I find the meaningless laughter soothing.

Sometimes I even laugh along even though it’s not funny. I do like it when caller know less about cars than I do, which is a fucking feat.

“when caller”? I am only 1.5 drinks in. WTF?

Marketplace antidote — moar cute animals

I do like it when caller know less about cars than I do, which is a fucking feat.

It’s nearly impossible to listen to Car Talk if you actually do know about cars. I’m always yelling at the radio — “You dumbasses, that’s not the problem, it’s obviously X !”

I love baby elephants soooo much.

Mmmmm….jumbo veal….

And why does Will Shortz _always reply to _every_ statement, question, handoff, comment, … with ‘yes’?

Liane Hansen: You were in Boston this week.
Shortz: Yes, there was …
Liane: Remind us of the challenge …
Shortz: Yes, it was….
Hansen: who is …
Shortz: Yes, …

Drives me nucking futz, that does.

You’re evil. They have graveyards, you know.

And why does Will Shortz _always reply to _every_ statement, question, handoff, comment, … with ‘yes’?

I never noticed. Now it will drive me crazy, too.

Oh God, Liane Hanson doing the music segments…ugh.

Shut up, that’s who said,

March 18, 2011 at 23:40

The Obama Administration welcomed this move by the Republicans, and said it would be willing to compromise at a figure of $30/pocket.

Newly hired Obama Capitulation Czar, William Daley, said “While ideological purists and dirty smelly hippies will object to this reasonable compromise, I expect that all the sane people in Washington will see the wisdom of this new way forward. We are winning the future, one shameless surrender at a time.”

If you’re going to make up quotes by national Democratic politicians to blame them for things some Republicans in Wisconsin are getting up to, including having those Democratic politicians insult you, and man is that bit of it ever fucking weird, why not go all the way and try your hand at chain email creation? It works well for the wingnuts and look at the comment at 22:49. You already tricked someone. You’ve got a future in this.

Or you could slowly back awaaaay from the blogs and go get some fresh air before it ever gets that far.

Thanks for the shouty-out, anonymous clown troll.

While I’d like to claim credit for the subtle sophistication of my satire, it belongs to the Obama Administration…Because people could believe that they would say something like this.

P.S. It was Minnesota Republicans who thought up this particular maneuver, dumbass.
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“Sometimes I even laugh along even though it’s not funny.”

That makes me laugh. Sometimes I’ll just think real hard about something, anything, until it makes me laugh. I can laugh at the way a bird flies.

would have been esp diptychy with 2 photos, possibly involving a urinal or some such?

Hey Snort, is that a young Paul Weller in that stroller?

Regulators, mount up.

sorry, I’m all hopped up on guafenesin and codeine

K-Lo:

“The people who say such things don’t know her, have never spent time with her, and are responding to a caricature of what they think she is,” Rebecca Mansour, who works at Palin’s political action committee, says. “Do you remember Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s famous quote about anti-Catholicism?” she asks me and answers: “He said there are only a few people who hate what Catholicism really is, but there are millions who hate what they think it is. If these critics would spend a few hours reading her words, listening to her speeches, and studying her actual record of accomplishments, there is no way they could say such things about her and still claim to be intellectually honest.”

I dunno, I’m pretty sure “stupid asshole” would still hold.

” NPR will lurch to much, much further to the left, ”

Let’s hope

Iknowright? I can’t wait for them to replace Marketplace Money with Laborplace Wages; then I’ll know they’ve taken that leftward turn the pundits are always talking about.

You’re evil. They have graveyards, you know.

Possession of graveyards is not proof that they don’t taste good.

And why does Will Shortz _always reply to _every_ statement, question, handoff, comment, … with ‘yes’?

Less abrasive than saying “JESUS will you shut the fuck up?” And I love the car talk guys when they crack themselves up and can’t stop.

As you can see still catching up on the thread:

Funny, I can remember getting angry because NPR used the term “enhanced interrogation techniques” instead of “torture.”

Exactly right, you know that quote from the source is absolute bullshittery because NPR still to this day refuses to call torture torture so he’s just fucking imagining the whole scenario about “the last time he listened”.

Assholes.

If these critics would spend a few hours reading her words, listening to her speeches, and studying her actual record of accomplishments, there is no way they could say such things about her and still claim to be intellectually honest.

Yeah, it’s too bad she’s received so little press that her words and accomplishments are practically unknown.

For me to read about her actual record of accomplishments wouldn’t she need to, you know, have some?

Oregon Beer Snob said,
March 18, 2011 at 22:48

I see OBS can ‘ahem’ my Marketplace comment. But the point stands!

Not a lookist (I’ll hate for whatever reason I can find.) but I believe that an image of Rebecca Mansour may tell us something.

OK, now we’ve learned more about me. Here’s Rebecca.

OK, now we’ve learned more about me. Here’s Rebecca.

Should I feel bad because MB’s photo link made me literally laugh out loud? That’s a sour puss!

As Palin considers whether to run for president in 2012, Mansour, 36

More evidence that a life serving evil really puts the years on.

Should I feel bad because MB’s photo link made me literally laugh out loud?

Yes, but that’s okay. It made me laugh, too.

TU,

the wayyyyyabove link to Thers and the people who threatened to throw baseballs on A.A’s lawn was great. Thank you.

Hit the Whiskey if y’all get a chance. Priceless ridicule of Althouse by the populi.

Shut up, that’s who said,

You are Lanny Davis, and I claim my five dollars.

M. Bouffant said,

Not a lookist (I’ll hate for whatever reason I can find.) but I believe that an image of Rebecca Mansour may tell us something.

Hollywood Without Borders will soon be raising funds in a neighborhood near you.
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Who edits this shit?

Regarding NPR/PBS hatred for America and/or the military, I would site the only 5 minutes I’ve listened to NPR in the last ten years

The complete list included things claimed by released detainees that had been proven false, e.g. extinguishing cigarettes on detainee arms who oddly had no scares to show for it.

This fucker’s a professional writer?

This fucker’s a professional writer?

As ittdgy noted above, he’s a professional propagandist and a wingnut welfare queen, so not necessarily.

I blame someone’s iPhone.

Does K-Lo still do the proofreading over there?

Does K-Lo still do the proofreading over there?

I think she outsourced it to an offshore affiliate.

Quick notes from last thread:

Major Kong: Perhaps I was unclear. IMO, the B-52 is one of best warplanes ever designed (US or elsewhere). I was pissing on the B-1.

Chris: Sharp observations about F-35 ‘design’ and procurement.

LanceThruster: Great contextual coda (0:47) for the warplane strand of the thread.

Quel Frommage for B^4 and ThreadBare:

One plane to rule them all, and in the theater bind them.
In DARPA, where the eggheads lie.

Lord of the Wings?

Gotta catch up on this thread now. Probably in lurker-mode today. (I’m working on the Duchy this weekend, B^4!)

OK, now we’ve learned more about me. Here’s Rebecca.

Wayne Knight (Newman from Seinfeld) and Tiny Tim had a love child?

There’s something very Blue Meanie going on there, too.

(I’m working on the Duchy this weekend, B^4!)

How soon before you take it public?

Wayne Knight (Newman from Seinfeld) and Tiny Tim had a love child?

You nailed it!

Iknowright? I can’t wait for them to replace Marketplace Money with Laborplace Wages; then I’ll know they’ve taken that leftward turn the pundits are always talking about.

et al

I’d be happy if they stopped stacking the deck with various wingnut welfare queens being hailed as experts. Hell, I’d be happy if they just identified what their affiliations meant rather than announcing that they are “Fellows at the American Enterprise Institute” or wherever as though that bestows credibility.

Full disclosure- I was interviewed by an NPR reporter who sat in on one of the monthly lectures I attend, and I gave her a substantial five minutes about the importance of making science comprehensible and accessible to the layperson. I made the fatal error of cracking an off the cuff joke, and they fucking put that on the air instead of any of my substantial comments. Fuckin’ soundbites, how do they work? I vowed never to make a quip- I know they’ll soundbite me, so they can bite me. I’ll only give substantial soundbites to the mofos- discrete thirty second responses.

Maybe she was getting back at me, because I took her to the woodshed just a bit- I made a comment about how most universities offer a “physics for poets” type course, and she said she didn’t want to take a watered down course so she ended up not taking any science courses at all. Facchinello! I let her have it after that.

At the risk of a TL,DR flirtation, there haven’t been any media types dropping by the lectures for a while- once they figured out it the lectures were serious hard-science lectures attended by a wide cross-section of mostly well-adjusted people, they stopped coming. They were looking for a “look at the freaks” story, but they sure as hell didn’t find one, so they stopped coming.

Oh yeah. I was going to mention this. Just in case anyone was under the mistaken impression that there is such thing as a Justice system in America.

Holy crap, that “Rizzo guy” looks like something cooked up by ILM!

Cracklin’ thread!

VS: Thanks for Sunshine. Resonates from a former life.

Beer Snob: Thanks for the critters. There’s a special delight in young critters.

MB: Am I the only person who a striking resemblance between Mansour (4:14) and Danny DeVito’s ‘Penguin’? (Okay, I’ll admit to the sweet smoke.)

rodertrudis: Loved your story! (0:56) I started laughing during your set-up….and keep on through the end of the dialogue. (Also your did such a fine job setting up Peanut and County Line in earlier threads.) Man, I really hope you’ll come to the Duchy during Collaborative Short Story Week.

thunder: Excellent troll smackdown! Plus bonus points for economy. Only needed three sentences,a triple-spin ZAP…POW…SLAM.

B^4: Looks like you’ve got weekend duty; I’ll back for convo. (First I want to write something On-Topic about NPR and PBS.)

Fenwick, you ready to unveil the Duchy (VR of some sort…)? If you put something up, you can get positive feedback/advice from the commentariat.

Nothing to it, but to do it, old boy!

AP video: Libyan plane goes down.

PBS: Don’t have TV at all now. Never had cable. Back when I used to have TV, my only choices were PBS or network sludge. So I watched a fair amount of PBS: documentaries, the NewsHour, Masterpiece Theater, Mystery, and Red Green (brilliant!). Enjoyed it then, but don’t miss it all that much now.

NPR: (Don’t hate me T&U) I never could understand what people saw / see in NPR (other than savvy Nina Tottenburg). Got some friends and relatives who love it, listen all the time in car; they persuaded me to try it, so I kept it tuned on my car for a full week (with a Baltimore-DC commute).

Can’t stand NPR’s sheer blanditude and timidity (e.g. ‘enhanced interrogation’ vs ‘torture’). SNL’s Delicious Dish was a pitch-perfect send-up. The only thing I really enjoyed that week was the live broadcast of the Iran-Contra hearings…and that was George Mitchell tearing Ollie North a new asshole.

I think there are a lot of us without T.V.s.

I’m pretty much with you on the blandness of NPR, but it’s better than the OMG!!! sensationalism of much of the media.

Again, I’ve got a personal animus against NPR because they pulled a stunt I thought they would have been “above” when they edited the brief interview I gave them. Hell, I did an interview with a Russian magazine called Snob, and I thought the reporter did a better job than the NPR reporter. GRRR…

MB: Good for them, after the way they’ve gotten pounded by those fuckers for the last month.

Hiya, B^4! I’ve been way too slow getting the blog up. I suppose I should just let go and let it rip…crude though it is. I want to launch it on a weekend…because people seem to have more time to engage with the Internets Toobz over the weekend. I was actually hoping to get it up yesterday…but I had to wrangle the proposal, and Libya hijacked my attention, and yadda-yadda-more-excuses.

How about this? I’ll set a firm date to uncork the bottle. Next Friday… 26 March. In whatever shape it’s in. I used to be good at working against deadline and under pressure; maybe a self-imposed deadline is the way to go here.

It’s been really hard for me. I’ve got to go through Help tutorials and I google questions all the time. The real problem, of course, is apprehension: I’ll put the blog up … and it will come down like the Hindenburg.

Also there’s the suffers-by-comparison thing. My thing looks and feels so crude and rudimentary alongside the blogs I visit. (As I understand it, I can spiffify it later. At least the look, design, and features aren’t carved into stone.)

Oddly, I’m not concerned at all about generating content. (Maybe I should be?) My real problem will be to tighten-up what I write. I have a liesurely and digressive style. (Put another way: I’m a windy sonuvabitch.) Not good for visitors in a hurry.

Okay. Next Friday–hell or high water–the blog goes up. Firm fixed date.

The quicker you get it going, the quicker you can get advice from the regulars (this place is like the writers’ circle for some brainy wiseacres). In a few months, Substance McGravitas will have you putting up animations of Qaddafi being chased by a jumping granny.

MB: It appears the rebels brought down one of their own aircraft. A few had defected, but they held them back until Benghazi.

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BTW, artillery is in position and working over Benghazi’s perimeter. Gaddafi struck into the western side yesterday, apparently expelled.

But don’t sweat it. Maybe in a coupla few days, the NFZ will finally show up. Maybe not. Let’s wait until the Really Big Important Summit in Paris finishes their consultations on Saturday. No urgency at all. Who knows? Perhaps they’ll do something before Tubruk falls. Or not.

I saw there was a Pew poll that show US divided on the wisdom of an NFZ: 45% against … 44% for … 11% no opinion. My position is no secret. (For what it’s worth, I was proud to part of the 27% against the Iraq idiocy.)

I wanted intervention early. Back when Gaddafi had only tenuous control of Tripoli (about 9-12 square miles)…and every other significant city and oil facility was in the rebel hands.

You know, back before thousands–no hyperbole–of civilians had been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees fled, and the infrastructure of the entire country had been wrecked. You know, way back three weeks ago when Gaddafi was barely hanging on by his fingers, and all that was needed was to stamp on them and this whole tragedy could have been avoided.

Everyone knows that I like the sweet smoke. Well, I’m going to buy some cheap wine today and go on an Epic Drunk.

I’ll be drinking to the revolutionaries and to the courage and heroism of the people of Zuwariya (I shudder to think of the reprisals there) … Misrata (How are 600,000 people still holding out with only captured small arms?) … people still in the ruins of Ajdabiya … and the million people in Benghazi. Maybe somebody will help them some day. Maybe not.

I am so fucking bitter right now. I feel sorta like a Libyan.

I am so fucking bitter right now. I feel sorta like a Libyan.

If you’re drinking while bitter, be safe about things.

As a drunkard-American, I try not to be bitter when I’m drinking- it just compounds the bitterness.

Oh, the Big Important Summit in Paris? That’s because the everyone needs to talk about Gaddafi’s announcement of his cease fire. (The Arab League apparently wants to ‘explore’ that route, or some nonsense.)

Here’s a question: What the fuck have the military staff planners been doing? It’s been @ ten days since the NATO vote. The assets should have staged.

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Here’s another take. No intervention yet because the Big Important Summit needs the nicety of a casus belli. This whole tNFZ(+) thing has been oh-so-very-neat-and-legal-and-tidy for weeks. Why stop now? They need Gaddafi to continue to kill civiilains, because that’s the triggering language of the resolution.

Sorta tough for the people massacred between the Resolution and the Action, huh? Well, let’s jump through this last hoop–this one drenched with Libyan blood–to make this Definately-and-for-Sure Absolutely Legal.

I’m much calmer now that I understand what the Big Important Summit is about.

But I still feel like puking.

Yeah, B^4. I’m not going on the Epic Drunk, now that I’ve figured out what’s going on and why there hasn’t been a strike or even a probe.

I get carries away sometimes: I get passionate about things. I also get compassionate about things, too. In a weird way, they’re both tangled up for me in Libya.

Also, I don’t drink very much at all, maybe two beers a week. I’m a beer guy. (Also like white wine; don’t like liquor much.) Haven’t been on an Epic Drunk in well over a year. The sweet smoke is much better.

Speaking of compassion, how are they doing?

While I’d like to claim credit for the subtle sophistication of my satire, it belongs to the Obama Administration…Because people could believe that they would say something like this.

What does it say about the Obama Administration that you read about some Republican fucknucklery in Wisconsin Minnesota and made it about the former and,,,,,,

Does this line of thinking sound familiar to you? Is it central to your point that you conned some sucker with it?

From AJ: Indications a that the NFZ(+) will be under the command of US Admiral Samuel Locklear, with HQ in Naples. Locklear holds three concurrent commands: US Naval Forces Europe … US Naval Forces Africa … and [NATO] Allied Joint Force Command Naples.

Oh crap. No one here but me. And a tired old troll with tired old stuff. I’ll leave now and let him jack off in private.

Good idea, Louisiana Lou. You wouldn’t want to be hanging around a shithole filled with D-minus intellects when you could be doing important work on your blog.

From AJ: Indications a that the NFZ(+) will be under the command of US Admiral Samuel Locklear, with HQ in Naples. Locklear holds three concurrent commands: US Naval Forces Europe … US Naval Forces Africa … and [NATO] Allied Joint Force Command Naples.

Interesting. So the U.S. would be taking the lead, after all? Or is it just because of his position in the NATO chain of command?

to be fair to K-Lo, compared to her, Palin IS accomplished…

I think there are a lot of us without T.V.s.

This is why I am here. I serve a purpose.

Wayne Knight (Newman from Seinfeld) and Tiny Tim had a love child?

Yep, you nailed it. Just so long as you didn’t nail her.

I don’t care if other people hate NPR; I actually agree that it’s bland, corporatized, etc etc…and it’s gotten MUCH MUCH worse in the last 10 years or so. (Especially the last five).

But it’s something that’s been in my life since I was a child, and measure my mornings by it (“oh fuck, local news is coming up, I need to get my ass out the door” or “SHIT Marketplace is on and I am LATE”). There’s a certain amount of comfort in that. I leave it on like some people leave the TV on in the background, you know?

I am a creature of habit.

Well, color me unsurprised.

Why do evil corporations so often have logos/names that are like fictionalized versions of evil corporations’ logos and names? I mean, LOOK AT IT.

…and it’s gotten MUCH MUCH worse in the last 10 years or so. (Especially the last five).

That’s due to the Republican influence. But the Republicans still are going to hate on it, no matter what they do.
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Why do evil corporations so often have logos/names that are like fictionalized versions of evil corporations’ logos and names?

This would have made a great corporate logo if it wasn’t already associated with a famous enterprise that has since gone out of business.

It’s come to this. Now the wingnut trolls are defending Obama.

If I were not on an iPhone I would soundly AHEM you, B4. Please ctl-f ‘spelling flame’. and AHEM yourself. Thank you.

You stay classy, Ben Weasel.

T&U, that logo definitely has a “James Bond sneaking around blowing shit up” vibe.

And to B^4 I agree completely about the need for more and better science communication. In the age of the internet it’s harder than ever for most people to judge what is good science and what is nonsense.

From his Wikipedia page: “He is a practicing Roman Catholic, which explains why he enjoys punching women in the face. Especially multiple women within seconds of each other. He is also really annoyed by flying ice cubes that come into contact with him.”

Bless it. I love the internets.

“I’m about to go play for free for douchey rock critics and music industry hacks. I’m ashamed of myself.”

Then don’t do it, fuckface.

He’s a complete and utter piece of shit. Punching women, calling people faggots, and acting like a general douchewad is TOTES punk rock.I hope his label drops him.

I am loving his wikipedia page, though: “His controversial zine, How to Make It Look Like An Accident and Other Dating Tips, remains out of print.”

There really is no such thing as Peak Wingnut

Calling people faggots is TOTALLY punk!!! Yeah!!!1

You know, way back three weeks ago when Gaddafi was barely hanging on by his fingers, and all that was needed was to stamp on them and this whole tragedy could have been avoided.

You don’t just “throw the switch” and voila! instant air campaign!

It takes time to get forces in place. You need to deploy air refuelers, most of which are National Guard these days so you can’t just activate them on a moment’s notice. You need to find countries willing to let you use their bases. You need to stockpile bombs and spare parts. You need to deploy high-value assets like AWACS and J-STARS.

Even if you were going to do this with just carrier-based aircraft you need (I believe) three carriers on station to be able to run around-the-clock operations.

There really is no such thing as Peak Wingnut

Yeah, there was testimony about that during the hearing I blogged about a while ago. (Some of my hovertext is still making me laugh).

/peeeeemp

Ben Weasel’s always been an asshole.

Oh, I know. Apparently he spends a lot of time on a punk board calling people “cretins” and saying homophobic shit.

Shorter Verbatim <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028639.php"John Hinderaker:

Many liberals have an almost solipsistic view of the world; they seen unable to understand that there is a big, wide world beyond our borders that we do not control.

Of course, this is the same guy who wrote, “I’d never heard the word ‘macaca’ before it was used against Senator George Allen.” It’s strange to encounter a person whose hobby is being a two-bit propagandist.

I wasn’t familiar with him at all…and now I know I have no reason to be familiar with him. Unless I ever get a chance to punch him in the face.

Lettuce not condemn all weasels for the misbehavior of a few bad actors (212).
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Many liberals have an almost solipsistic view of the world; they seen unable to understand that there is a big, wide world beyond our borders that we do not control.

What the FUCKING FUCK, Hector Projector?!!!!!

Question: Why do none of my comments show up at Wonkette?

Ok, so this probably won’t mean anything to people who don’t follow basketball, so I’ll throw in some explanation. Bill Walton was, for a brief time, the greatest player on the planet, or close to it. Then he had some injuries and remade himself as a very successful bit player. He was also a Deadhead and New Age weirdo (actual quote from a member of the 1972 Soviet national team: “Bill Walton was a hippie at this time and would rather be in the mountains than play in the Olympics.”)

After his playing career he became an announcer, and in that role he frequently says bizarre things. I remember once he called Robert Horry one of the top five defensive players in the NBA. Nobody could understand why he said that, because Horry was probably not one of the top five defensive players out of the ten on the court at that time. Someone, I think in Yglesias’s comments section, then issued this theory: Bill Walton’s memory only lasts a few seconds, and you need to filter everything he says through that understanding. After that, it all makes sense. So if he said “Robert Horry is one of the top five defensive players in the league right now, what he really meant was “Robert Horry just made one of the top five defensive plays I’ve seen in the last few seconds,” which was probably a 100% true statement.

I think Hinderaker’s political analysis suffers the same sort of affliction. All that matters, all he understands or cares about, is what’s happening right now compared to who’s in power. And what’s happening right now defines the sides as they’ve always been. So in 2009 when Barack Obama calls himself a citizen of the world, it shows all lierals to be rootless traitors who hate the U.S. But if someone emigrates to Brazil now, it’s because the Democrats are destroying the country because they can’t see beyond our borders.

Bill Walton is an on-air troll. I appreciate the art of trolling.

All that matters, all he understands or cares about, is what’s happening right now compared to who’s in power. And what’s happening right now defines the sides as they’ve always been. So in 2009 when Barack Obama calls himself a citizen of the world, it shows all lierals to be rootless traitors who hate the U.S. But if someone emigrates to Brazil now, it’s because the Democrats are destroying the country because they can’t see beyond our borders.

Imma gonna repeat muhself about the Right Wing Noise Machine, and I do so because I think it helps me understand their otherwise inexplicable ability to say anything at any time no matter what they said before.

These people are PR flacks. Having dealt with many of these critters in a past life, it is clear all they care about is spinning the current issue in the best possible light.

Spin, defuse, clutter.

I just find it much easier to see them clearly if I strip away any semblance of “journalism” or “reportage” from their ramblings.

They are spin meisters. Flacks.

PR people.

Insipid enablers of a crippling mindset that acquiesces to an ever more horrific status quo. That’s the entire raison d’etre of the massive PR industry.

And yes, I am probably Captain Obvious (or Major Overreach) but to me, this seems to help me see these turds as what they are.

Fucking flacks.

Johnny Pez, Lanny Davis would be even less likely to defend Obama as a wingnut but the “d-minus intellects” crack was a reference to something the goofy douche calling himself Fenwick in this thread said in the last one when he forgot to change his name back to Louisiana Lou. I think he might actually be Bill Walton. Or maybe Joe Morgan. When he’s taking your side of an argument you know you’re way off track.

“If these critics would spend a few hours reading her words, listening to her speeches, and studying her actual record of accomplishments, there is no way they could say such things about her and still claim to be intellectually honest.”

If you spent a few hours doing those things, there is no way you could claim to still have an intellectual neuron left inside your skull.

vacuumslayer said,

Question: Why do none of my comments show up at Wonkette?

Hmm. No idea. You’re registered with “Intense Debate” and all that?
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Here’s proof that peak wingnut is impossible – Obama didn’t pick Hillary for VP ’cause she woulda wacked him

Dimwitted Trool said,

Does this line of thinking sound familiar to you? Is it central to your point that you conned some sucker with it?

It’d be better to slink away rather than repetitively expose your lack of reading comprehension, trool.
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mark f said,

March 19, 2011 at 18:42…….”I think Hinderaker’s political analysis suffers the same sort of affliction…”

That really is a brilliant way of setting up Hinderaker’s anal sis. I don’t know that much about Bill Walton, but I had read a little about his own play by play. Thanks.

“Question: Why do none of my comments show up at Wonkette?

Hmm. No idea. You’re registered with “Intense Debate” and all that?”

I have. All my comments “await moderation,” then end up in purgatory, I guess, cuz they never show up.

1. Bwaahahahah, profits!!
2. ???????
3. Uncle Sam save us from us!!!

I think Hinderaker’s political analysis

Captain Tedious again.

It’s not analysis. It’s spin.

Big.

Diff.

Er.

Ence.

I like Bill Walton. He got the most out of his talent, even after his repeated foot injuries got him to a point where his lift was comparable to the thickness of a sheet of charmin. In an age where coaches like Bob Knight were truning kids into hoops machines, he was a true individual.

Yeah, he would constantly say dumb things when he was an announcer, but he was entertaining. As long as he was paired with someone knowledgable, it was fun to watch.

And BTW, Horry could play defense. He just rarely bothered to.

Everyone knows that I like the sweet smoke. Well, I’m going to buy some cheap wine today and go on an Epic Drunk.

kind of feel the same way about today’s developments in Libya, but for different reasons. Picking sides in a civil war, always a winner…..

Many liberals have an almost solipsistic view of the world; they seen unable to understand that there is a big, wide world beyond our borders that we do not control.

Indeed, this is why they advocated the invasion of Middle Eastern countries, convinced that the US forces would be welcomed with flowers and cake because that’s what the invasion plan laid down.

Good idea, Louisiana Lou.

I done been totally pwned. Salutations and elegant saber-salute, O Mysterious Prnakster. Gonna catch up the rest of thread now.

VS, try emailing Ken Layne.
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A good summary of what is going on in Libya right now can be found here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/18/libya-ceasefire-un-resolution-military-tactics

You don’t just “throw the switch” and voila! instant air campaign!

Bows to the expert. Not a zoomie, only a ground-pounder. I know there is a LOTof prep involved. I suppose I was using the Kurdish NFZ as a model. Put that up pretty fast…though Iraq’s airspace was already pretty much secured. But it was put up unilaterally by a few countries, easier planning problem.

BTW, Major K, what is your assessment of the sophistication of Libyan AD? Based on what I can find, it seems pretty crude in terms of weapons. Even with upgraded SAM-3’s. (Soviets had ’em deployed when I worked in the mid-70’s. Bit long in the tooth for modern AD?) I’m very interesting in learning more about the zoomie stuff. I’m out of my depth, and I’ve tried to flag that in my comments here at S,N.

Thanks, thunder. I’ll try that.

Many liberals have an almost solipsistic view of the world

That’s what the reality in his brain is telling him, anyway.

This is some funny shit.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/union-thuggery-against-althouse-and.html
March 17, 2011
Union thuggery against Althouse and Meade:
“We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go.”
“We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day. We will harrass the ever loving shit out of you all the time. Campus is OCCUPIED. State street is OCCUPIED. The Square is OCCUPIED. Vilas, Schenk’s Corners, Atwood, Willy Street – Occupied, Occupied, Occupied, Occupied. Did you really think it was all about the Capitol? Fuck the Capitol, we are the CITY… We have the numbers and we don’t back down from anyone. We all know each other. We all know each other. We know each other from Service Industry Night at the Orpheum, because we’re regulars at the same coffee shops, restaurants and bars, we know each other from the co-ops, we know each other because we’ve had a million jobs each (and we all worked at CapTel at least once), because we live in every shitty townie house in ever-changing groups of 2 – 7 people, because we are young and horny and screw each other incessantly, because we’re all on facebook, and because we aren’t anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL FUCK YOU UP. We will throw our baseballs in your lawn, you cranky old pieces of shit, and then we will come get them back. What are you gonna do? Shoot us? Get Wausau Tea Patriots to form an ad hoc militia on your front lawn? That would be fucking HILAROUS to us. You could get to know the assholes on your side in real fucking life instead of sponging off the civil society we provide for you every single day you draw breath.”
Posted by Ann Althouse at 1:43 PM
Tags: Althouse + Meade, threats, Wisconsin protests

Christopher said…

So. . .that “civility” thing is offically dead now?
3/17/11 1:44 PM

“We know each other from Service Industry Night at the Orpheum, because we’re regulars at the same coffee shops, restaurants and bars, we know each other from the co-ops, we know each other because we’ve had a million jobs each (and we all worked at CapTel at least once), because we live in every shitty townie house in ever-changing groups of 2 – 7 people, because we are young and horny and screw each other incessantly, because we’re all on facebook, ”

Shorter Althouse: I fail to see the humor in this.

the “d-minus intellects” crack was a reference to something the goofy douche calling himself Fenwick in this thread said in the last one when he forgot to change his name back to Louisiana Lou. I think he might actually be Bill Walton. Or maybe Joe Morgan. When he’s taking your side of an argument you know you’re way off track.

So I DO have a useful function after all!

I will reveal nothing about my True Identity. I am a man of Many Disguises.

gocart mozart said,

A good summary of what is going on in Libya right now can be found here.

But we can’t afford Social Security: We’re broke!
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Mister gocart, your employment prospects!
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Black History Month is February. The nastiest, coldest, dreariest, dullest, most depressing month of the year, the shortest but not by enough. To me this has always seemed the chronological equivalent of restricting Indians to “reservations” on shitty land with no water and nothing to eat.

Joe said:

“I wouldn’t worry Meade house…as they are weed-smokin’ hard-f#ck’n people, I figure by this afternoon they’ll have something else to do, like bang some skank, score some sensimilla, go hang out and play some X-box….Next week someone will ask them about their boycott of Meadehouse and they’ll all be, “Oh yeah right doood, we WERE gonna do that weren’t we?”

Pigeon holing, always with the pigeon holing.

smut clyde said,
March 19, 2011 at 21:49 (kill)
Many liberals have an almost solipsistic view of the world; they seen unable to understand that there is a big, wide world beyond our borders that we do not control.

Indeed, this is why they advocated the invasion of Middle Eastern countries, convinced that the US forces would be welcomed with flowers and cake because that’s what the invasion plan laid down.

Gulf Clap.

First strike included 110 cruise missiles and French fixed-wing sorties over Benghazi, including strikes against Gaddafi ground heavy weapons. Now in damage-assessment phase, with USN saying it looks like Libyan AD has been “severely disabled” (not the milder “damaged”)…though the assessment isn’t yet complete.

Major Kong: Really, my only understanding comes from reading historical accounts of Desert Shield / Storm. One book devoted substantial detail to the concepts and careful description of the Iraqi AD defenses and the operations to suppress them. (As a consultant, I later designed a command-post exercise (CPX) for the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)–a Seal/Special Forces operation–elements of which included local fighter cover, air EW, and refueling from Diego Garcia, with no overflight permission.) Never dealt with it at all in the Army; only had necessary knowledge of AF / ground opns. So that’s my base of knowledge; I’m nowhere near you on zoomie stuff.

heh

Indeed, this is why they advocated the invasion of Middle Eastern countries, convinced that the US forces would be welcomed with flowers and cake because that’s what the invasion plan laid down.

Actually, if words could be imbued with mass, the above would certainly crush that mendacious jackass into paste.

what is your assessment of the sophistication of Libyan AD

I’ve been retired for 4 years now so I’m out of the loop.

From what I’ve read, Libya’s air defenses aren’t all the impressive. SA-2s and SA-3s mostly, which are Vietnam-era systems. Plus they’ve been under embargo for a long time so I don’t know how much of their stuff is even operational.

The SPICE must flow!!

Yep.

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen said,

The SPICE must flow!!

Bingo, Baron.
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Yes Mr Meade, I may come to regret my google-able statements

“But we can’t afford Social Security: We’re broke!”

Bombs are not pension checks. Get with the program and by that I mean exploding social security checks.

My poo-poo’s smell funny.

Picking sides in a civil war, always a winner…..

Well, yes. But. A massacre’s a massacre, even when (some of) the victims are decently equipped and fighting back.

While I question the effectiveness and end result of all this, I don’t think there’s any reasonable moral objection to bombing a military that’s committing atrocities. Iraq ’03 (which Glenn Greenwald is banging on about lately) was insane because it was invasion and conquest. This is essentially peacekeeping, with Teddy’s big stick. Doing nothing when we can do something would be far worse.

Doing nothing when we can do something would be far worse.

Our slogan for the last 50 years.

How’s that working out for us?
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Doing nothing when we can do something would be far worse.

Ready! Fire! Aim!

It’s a damn shame about the Libyan rebels, but the fact that the neocons all want us to intervene is a sure sign that intervention would be a bad idea.

“Operation Odyssey Dawn”? As someone pointed out at Balloon Juice, this is a name that promises 10 years of wandering randomly around the Mediterranean, starting fights and losing crew after crew.

It abbreviates nicely to “O.D.”

Don’t let N_B see this.

And Paul the octopus, dead at two. It’s an animal Holocaust in Germany.

James Wolcott is uncivil:

To me, Odyssey Dawn suggests the name of a Seventies porn star, one of those spacier ones who made a couple of films until the prospect of working again with Ron Jeremy sent her back into the soap bubble from whence she came, and off she floated.

300!

(Just to keep it even.)

Ann Althouse is a douchebag.