Eff You, Fred Hiatt
Blarg, Fred Hiatt’s WaPo denounces uniquely greedy Iranian plutocrats!:
Iran’s rich eat ice cream covered in gold as poor struggle to survive
By Thomas Erdbrink, Friday, August 5, 2:02 PM
TEHRAN — Gold-flecked ice cream wasn’t part of the picture that Shiite Muslim clerics painted during the Iranian Revolution, when they promised to lift the poor by distributing the country’s vast oil income equally across society.
But more than three decades later, record oil profits have brought in billions, and some people here are enjoying that decadent dessert. The trouble is, it’s just a small group of wealthy Iranians. Despite the promises of the revolution, many here say the gap between rich and poor has never seemed bigger….
Funny, here’s a story I came across yesterday:
Even Marked Up, Luxury Goods Fly Off Shelves
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Published: August 3, 2008Nordstrom has a waiting list for a Chanel sequined tweed coat with a $9,010 price. Neiman Marcus has sold out in almost every size of Christian Louboutin “Bianca” platform pumps, at $775 a pair. Mercedes-Benz said it sold more cars last month in the United States than it had in any July in five years.
Even with the economy in a funk and many Americans pulling back on spending, the rich are again buying designer clothing, luxury cars and about anything that catches their fancy. Luxury goods stores, which fared much worse than other retailers in the recession, are more than recovering — they are zooming. Many high-end businesses are even able to mark up, rather than discount, items to attract customers who equate quality with price.
If the avarice of the Iranian elite makes them more eeeeeeeeevil — IOW, for a neoconman like Fred, more bomb-worthy — what’s that make the American elite for him? More fellatio-worthy? Discuss.
Iran is inherently evil, thus any story about Iran proves how evil it is. The USA is inherently good, thus anything the USA does proves how good it is, especially if it involves blowing up evil countries like Iran.
If the Iranians are eating ice cream it is proof that their revolution was successful, for ice cream is a western value. Soon we will read that public executions have been banned in major cities, which in penal circles is a quantum leap forward into the 20th century.
25 sheets of gold leaf (5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) seem to cost $10, so if they use one sheet per ice cream, it adds $0.40 to the cost. Not the most extravagant of luxuries. Actually, the Cadbury’s Flake in a “99” probably costs as much. Bugger, now I’m going to have to find an ice cream van to stop it and buy one!
“If the Iranians are eating ice cream it is proof that their revolution was successful, for ice cream is a western value.”
The Persians were consuming “snow balls/cones” well before the Christian era, and introduced the first frozen dessert in about 400BCE. Wikipedia suggests that the Arabs were the first to produce frozen desserts containing milk in about the C10th. Just where was the “west” at that point?
penal circles
We cannot allow the Iranians to get ahead of us! We cannot tolerate a cock-ring gap!
It really hurts when your skin gets caught in it.
Ah, but their elites are evil and our elites are good. Their elites get to where they are by oppressing people and our elites get to where they are through good clean hard work. Haven’t you heard?
Dammnit, animus.
OT: Christie the Hutt is still a bloated, corrupt sack of shit, but he got one thing right.
“This Shariah Law business is crap. It’s crazy, and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies.”
There goes your chance at a presidential nomination.
“presidential NOMination.”
Fixed, for Fatness.
Iran has ice cream-eating elites.
We have job creators.
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Lolz
Been a while since I’ve posted/used tags… it’ll come back to me.
I’ve been lurking lately though and I must say, tintin has been on fire!
“We have job creators.”
Well someone has to make those $9,000 jackets and $800 pumps! Personally, I just like wearing them; with nothing else but a smile.
Can you not make the simple distinction between Mulsamunists hoarding a country’s wealth and living like kings, and those precious ‘Merkin Galtian supermen enjoying the just fruits of their labor and buying cars that cost ten times the average annual pay of their employees?
Excuse me a sec — (glurgglegaggphumphfsnafgle, oh thank you Mr. Koch, sotasty!) — just what the hell is wrong with you?
the gap between rich and poor has never seemed bigger
still on the menu
animus in the first comment hits the nail on the head of course. And Hiatt truly is and evil twisted piece of shit. (Sorry, not even an attempt a humour it’s been too depressing lately.)
I’ve been lurking lately though and I must say, tintin has been on fire!
HTMTintin, y’mean?
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Also, I don’t remember Khomeini and his hard-core Islamist being all that gung-ho about social justice. That was the Communists, and Islamic Socialists. Who got purged pretty quickly after Khomeini consolidated power. And, earlier on, it was the goal of Mohammad Mosaddegh. You know, the one the CIA overthrew in favor of the Shah.
Tintin, HTML Mencken, me, vacuumslayer, Gary Ruppert – all one guy.
I believe you meant “all one hermaphrodite.”
Meanwhile, Wal*Mart is having to sell smaller packages of toilet paper because the serfs can’t afford the giant, economy size anymore. stupid Iranian shariah-practicing towel-heads don’t even have Wal*Mart! So we win!
Gag, tags. Here’s hoping I didn’t italicize the entire universe forever.
Damn you, VforVirginia! Damn you all to Hell!
May you burn in hell for all eternity for what you have done!
If Judgment is anything like what some people claim, you’re about 40 years late with the condemnation. But it’ll be a hella party, and all my friends will be there!
The White Street Journal cranks the power-shitting to 11:
I think this is a less direct version of Teh Nigger Twitch that Fux Noise was fixated on after loudmouth Joe accused him of being a liar on the Congress floor.
So Fred Hiatt is engaging in class warfare?
If the Iranians are eating ice cream it is proof that their revolution was successful, for ice cream is a western value.
Persian ice cream is fantastic and far more inventive and tasty than American ice cream.
Have some faloodeh!
Mr. Cantor cautions that he isn’t a “psychoanalyst”—before politics, he was a real-estate lawyer and small businessman—but he says, “It’s almost as if someone cannot have another opinion that is different from his. He becomes visibly agitated. . . . He does not like to be challenged on policy grounds.”
Cantor, the guy who is physically unable to get any closer to a smile than a nasty sneer, who claimed an accidental bullet that broke his office window on its way down showed he was a target just like the actually targeted Democrats, who worked like Hell to make sure no decent bill was possible, who is a member of the group who acts like compromise even to thwart the destruction of the country would be treasonous? I’m also not a “psychoanalyst,” but I’ve seen enough movies to recognize projection when I see it.
I hope Tintin is still around as well.
I appreciated his holding of the fort all these months (years?), and I believe I saw some comments that were somewhat ungrateful, so to speak.
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Shorter Hiatt:
Slurp, slurp, glrgh, glrgh, slurp, slurp.
Cognitive dissonance is no problem for one who actively avoids thinking.
Bookmark it, libs!
Personally, I’d be all for striking a blow for equality by bombing Nordstrom’s
I mean, robbing
Fred Hiatt is the op-ed page guy, not the news editor. Aim higher! There’s more sucking at the WP than him.
Substance, the guy responsible for the WaPo’s decline is Donald Graham, who inherited the empire from his mom (a far better person and publisher).
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Because OUR glorious country is based on free-ance and pe-ance! And shut up you dirty hippies! That’s why.
Stay the course
Will this never end?
Heh. Awesome
No shit moment:
Stone cold thread killa.
Indeed. There are also people down the chain; it’s a cabal and not a fiefdom.
This is how they work that “ruling class” meme, whereby tea party people rail against the “elites” until they scare themselves with their Jacobinism and rush to explain that they didn’t mean rich people per se, but rather blacks who benefit from affirmative action and are not Clarence Thomas, and hippies.
“The biggest thing to keep in mind is that when F-16s come screaming up to you, they are probably trying to tell you something,” said Norad spokeswoman Stacey Knott.
And it’s not, “Oooh, cute plane”?
/Myrtle
VforVirginia!
[flails arms like Kermit]
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**flails back at Jeffraham**
Hey V — didja know a bunch of Sadlynauts (and me, too) have recently stopped smoking?
Wanna join our cult?
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And it’s not, “Oooh, cute plane”?
/Myrtle
That cracked me the hell up–she thought they were admiring the undeniable cuteness of her Cub. This lady is a tallest stack of awesome I’ve seen in a long time.
That cracked me the hell up–she thought they were admiring the undeniable cuteness of her Cub. This lady is a tallest stack of awesome I’ve seen in a long time.
Happens to me allatime when I’m out flying my SkyVespa.
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Jets were scrambled from Toledo, Ohio, when air traffic controllers were unable to contact her.
You know who else has scambled from Toledo, Ohio?
That’s right…me.
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You just do not understand! Ice cream covered in gold is reserved for our plutocrats and not to be shared with those inferior, dusky hued, third world plutocrats.
Those Iranian billionaires are unctuous, swarthy Musselmen, while our American billionaires are upright, God-fearing supermen, whose natural ability made them rich. Besides, eating ice cream with gold leaf is decadent, while trying to steal elections through dirty tricks actually benefits the common schmo because J.Q. Public really isn’t that bright, and his or her betters know what’s good for society.
It’s axiomatic!
Surprised the F-16s were able to slow down enough to actually intercept that thing.
Top speed of a J-3 Cub is somewhere around 85 mph. An F-16 lands at around 160.
Besides, eating ice cream with gold leaf is decadent
Like I linked before, the current Guinness world record most expensive dessert is to be found in NYC. Now, perhaps it’s only sold to visiting decadent Iranians, but I kind of doubt it.
Love:
This lady is a tallest stack of awesome I’ve seen in a long time.
I think she’s a spoiled rich lady who just wasted more government money than a family on welfare/food stamps would get for a whole year, but I’m cranky.
while our American billionaires are upright, God-fearing supermen, whose natural ability made them rich
A “master race”, if you will…
Recognition and gratitude are not part of the Universal Declaration of Human Entitlements, and are almost as rare as the baths these spoiled brats take.
Aw, the article was also written out of love.
I wonder how much that FAA bullshit came from Inhofe wanting to land wherever he goddamned well liked.
Whaaaaa?
Her activism is inspired by the love of life, this world, and this civilization. She wants to protect us all — even the moral mutants on the political Left who hate this civilization and thus hate Pamela. Every normal loving person expects his or her love to be mutual. But that is not how the world works. Recognition and gratitude are not part of the Universal Declaration of Human Entitlements, and are almost as rare as the baths these spoiled brats take. One just has to accept it and not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Those dirty Norwegian kids were killed with love,,, ever read Krishna’s counsel in time of war, loony libs?
Mango from the comments:
There is only one answer to the Islaminization of America: the Biblical answer. Listen to “The BIBLICAL Answer to the Islaminization of America” at
The only way to prevent a takeover by religious fanatics is to submit to religious fanatics of the right sect.
Inhofe link:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/sen_inhofe_scared_the_crap_out_of_out_of_airport_w.php
Yeah, that story seems familiar. Entitled assholes acting like entitled assholes, and always ignoring the amount of money they require the government to spend on their behalf while railing about the minimal, means-tested entitlements poorer people get.
3. Disagree, but avoid ad hominem attacks.
Pfft, yah, and take a bath you spoiled hateful hippies.
3. Disagree, but avoid ad hominem attacks.
YOU fucking take a bath you asexual, pasty little freak. I’m sure the main level of your mom’s house has a shower, try using it, creep.
If I were El Presidente (with extra special powers, like deciding an American citizen could be killed without a trial), I’d merge Oklahoma, North Texas, and New Mexico into one state: New North Texalahoma*.
And also I’d make D.C. a state with two voting Senators.
The SAFER Act (“Saving America From Evil Republicans”).
* Or perhaps North Texahomexico?
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Well here’s a fine comment by a thinking man or woman.
* Or perhaps North Texahomexico?
That would really piss off right-wingers, calling them homos and Mexicans.
(Emphasis mine.) The transformation has made it to the automatons.
Maybe they could learn some humility, BBBB.
At least they’d have two fewer wingnut assholes in the Senate.
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Whaaaaa?
Tsam –
It gets better. A year or two ago, there was an additional comment that read “The clause regarding “hate speech” has been deleted because readers criticized it as being too loosely defined. We agreed.”
Easy to imagine what that means – they got too many complaints from casual readers about racism in their articles and comments sections, so they decided to not even pretend to be against hate speech (which is, after all, what Pajamas Media’s all about).
Oops, I am assuming that New Mexico’s Democratic Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall would beat Coburn and Inhofe.
Which might be tougher when you throw North Texas in there.
Problems, problems.
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Problem solved: merge Texas and Oklahoma : Texahoma.
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There is only one answer to the Islaminization of America: the Biblical answer. Listen to “The BIBLICAL Answer to the Islaminization of America” at
By definition, there IS no Biblical answer to the “Islaminization” of anything, or anything remotely Islam related, this because Islam didn’t exist until hundreds of years after those sacred Biblical writings.
Of course, I’ve read comments accusing Muslims of killing Jesus before, so it may be too much of me to expect PJM readers to know that…
can’t we just give Texas back to Mexico? pleaseeeeeee
Mmm…gold-flecked ice cream
Maybe they could learn some humility, BBBB.
Well, if they were forced to become gay Mexicans, their food and dress would improve dramatically.
By definition, there IS no Biblical answer to the “Islaminization” of anything, or anything remotely Islam related, this because Islam didn’t exist until hundreds of years after those sacred Biblical writings.
They’ve got Biblical answers to everything. If any Muslim organization tried to impose sharia law on the U.S., they’d be squashed by the Smithfield pork company and Anheuser Busch. I think right wingers are so concerned with sharia law because of envy- they want to impose their own authoritarian moral code on this chaotic, glorious culture.
Fuck, al Qaeda is just as much a conservative organization as Pat Robertson’s organization.
can’t we just give Texas back to Mexico? pleaseeeeeee
Just keep poking Perry with a stick until they secede. Just a matter of time…
I think right wingers are so concerned with sharia law because of envy- they want to impose their own authoritarian moral code on this chaotic, glorious culture.
Well, that goes without saying.
can’t we just give Texas back to Mexico? pleaseeeeeee
Just keep poking Perry with a stick until they secede. Just a matter of time…
And after all the ex-Reb states have followed their lead, I foresee another wall being built on our Southern border, to keep out the refugees fleeing the economic disaster that it’ll turn into virtually overnight.
Then, conservatives in Montana, Indiana, West Virginia or God knows where can start bitching about them instead of Mexicans and Central Americans. That’ll be funny to watch.
Substance, that shrieking harpy link was vomit-inducing.
She should be shunned.
Substance asked:
I wonder how much that FAA bullshit came from Inhofe wanting to land wherever he goddamned well liked.
Yep, he was a major player in this debacle. He was making threatening noises about 2 months ago.
There are few Senators I despise more.
BBBB notes
They’ve got Biblical answers to everything. If any Muslim organization tried to impose sharia law on the U.S., they’d be squashed by the Smithfield pork company and Anheuser Busch. I think right wingers are so concerned with sharia law because of envy- they want to impose their own authoritarian moral code on this chaotic, glorious culture.
Indeed. This point is supported by the GOP in Congress 1994-2006 and GWB from 2000-2008 signing on with Saudi et al to disapprove any time the UN made any claims for women’s rights or family planning world wide.
Indeed. This point is supported by the GOP in Congress 1994-2006 and GWB from 2000-2008 signing on with Saudi et al to disapprove any time the UN made any claims for women’s rights or family planning world wide.
I love it when they then turn around and waggle their finger at feminists and gay rights activists going “but we hate Muslims, and Muslims are anti-you! Why aren’t you on our side? Why can’t you appreciate what we’re doing for you?”
I foresee another wall being built on our Southern border, to keep
outin the refugees fleeing the economic disaster that it’ll turn into virtually overnight.Fixed to reflect Berlin Wall reality.
I saw the Pam is LOVE thing in the in-box this a.m., but Substance is a braver fellow than I.
Not as if I didn’t know it would be the same old “The Grand Kleagle doesn’t hate
niggersdarkiesspicscolored people, he just LOVES White People so so much.”The given reason for the FAA shutdown was that the droolers were opposed to subsidies for rural airports that probably wouldn’t have scheduled air service w/o the will-sapping horror that is gov’t. subsidies.
So, screw your ignorant cracker constituents, Tea Bag Caucusers. See how that works out.
The given reason for the FAA shutdown was that the droolers were opposed to subsidies for rural airports that probably wouldn’t have scheduled air service w/o the will-sapping horror that is gov’t. subsidies
ALSO SOCALIST UNIONS ZOMFG
I don’t entirely understand the economics of this ice cream; it, according to The Post, costs $250.
For that price I could buy 7.5 liters of Goldschlager, which just seems like a better value.
So, screw your ignorant cracker constituents, Tea Bag Caucusers. See how that works out.
What would happen if the teabag regions got back the same amount of money they put in, instead of most of them getting back well over a dollar for every tax dollar they send to DC?
Shit, I KNOW what would happen: it would be Obama’s/Democrats’/any and everyone else’s fault. I know this because some idiot on NPR just blamed Obama for the tea baggers’ debt ceiling cluster fuck.
Keep your government paws offa our Medicare, tigris!!!
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Fuck, al Qaeda is just as much a conservative organization as Pat Robertson’s organization.
Just think how many wingnut heads would explode if all the news people (except Faux of course) always referred to Al Qaeda as “the conservative muslim organization, Al Qaeda.”
It wasn’t Erik, son of Erik, was it?
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For that price I could buy 7.5 liters of Goldschlager, which just seems like a better value.
Or you could buy lots of stuff to drink or eat that doesn’t have massive chunks of un-ionized metal in it.
For that price I could buy 7.5 liters of Goldschlager, which just seems like a better value.
If i must invest in gold I may as well do it 7.5 liters at a time. Besides, how else can I make it through an afternoon of wingnut radio?
She should be shunned.
I read this as ‘stunned’
And was nodding along in agreement….
un-ionized metal
I first read that as un-unionized metal.
the current Guinness world record most expensive dessert is to be found in NYC.
We’re number 1! We’re number 1!
Do the Iranians put gold flecks on ice cream made from human milk?
For example: http://tinyurl.com/4x6kmv2
I read this as ‘stunned’
And was nodding along in agreement….
I did too, and thought “stunned, that explains her writing style.”
I first read that as un-unionized metal.
No scab metal shall pass these soup-coolers!
massive chunks of un-ionized metal in it.
wait. Gold has a union?
OK, tsam and S. slow down.
Okay, Sadlies — I have 150 Google+ invites to hand out. Want one? e-me at jprestonian and that google mail place.
The catch: I would appreciate it if you would add me to a circle (which you can later delete), and let me know you’re from S,N! I would add you to a S,N! circle, and I might include you in a solicitation of feedback about how I might be able to survive by creating one or two jobs for myself in this jobless recovery. You wouldn’t have to participate, but I think there’s a good braintrust here, and would appreciate some feedback. I just don’t want to clog up the forum here with serious stuff (this is where I come to laugh and have a beer, after all).
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It took me a day to get caught up with all the new threads, great to see HTML back again.
tit’s amazing:http://tinyurl.com/4x6kmv2
Zombizzle don’t like da speed.
TAXES!!
Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s talk about naked women.
CBS evening news just did a story on Gov Rick Perry and his appearance at an evangalical meet up down in Texas. Thirty thousand people! All in one big stadium. Most with their hands raised over their heads. Gov Perry reminded everyone that he loves ‘Merica and only loves Jesus Christ more. They cheered. CBS interviewed a pastor looking dude who said these evangelicals were teaming up with the tea party folks, to make the even more formidable Teavangelicals (“if you will”). If I will? Why do people say that?: If you will? If I will what?
If I will what?
Vomiting would be a good choice.
Ibn Thunder: Wrong on New Mexico. Put the crazee in Texas and Oklahoma together. NM is one of those Big Square States, you might easily have mistaken it for AZ, which indeed shoul be joined at the hip to OK and TX.
What has NM done to rile you up so?
can’t we just give Texas back to Mexico?
What do you have against Mexico?
I know this because some idiot on NPR just blamed Obama
tigris: Why does anyone listento NPR? Much less a whiplash-sharp person like yourself?
S. cerevisiae !!!
Aw, aren’t you sweet? It was still on after This American Life and I was too lazy/too busy zombie farming to change it. Baseball game replaced it soon after.
Yeah, I was wondering about the New Mexico hate myself. Can’t think of too much lunacy that’s come out of there.
Although there is a certain element in New Mex. that likes to remind people that they are not really Meskins, but descendants of the Spanish conquistadors.
Hey, I revised the New Mexico lumping in before you folks came a long!
Anyways, here are some of my many pics from visits to New Mexico.
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Timeline, anyone?
I like New Mexico. The climate and the politics are both preferable to Arizona.
There is only one answer to the Islaminization of America: the Biblical answer.
Ah, genocide. Is there any problem it can’t fix?
All the ones that can’t are fixed with beer, S.C.
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If you will.
I like NM plenty much! Imma gone move to Albuquerque next year, after 20+ years in Charm City.
Don’t know Arizona climate except for the extreme south near the Messican border. (Intel school at Fort Huachuca).
I liked June and July there….the ‘rainy’ season; I got to see the desert bloom. It is SO lovely. One weekend I rode up into Blacktail Canyon with some classmates–my first real journey on horseback. I fell in love with desert southwest.
The Major is right: The Crazee of Arizona is strong. [See: state legislature, governor, law enforcement, Washington delegation.]
Beautiful scenery it has. Loathsome politics.
For that price I could buy 7.5 liters of Goldschlager, which just seems like a better value.
I was just thinking that if consumption of little gold flakes is the mark of the economic elite, then I was WAY richer as a poor-ass, but sometimes poor-alcohol-decision-making university student than I am now.
Another reason to invest in gold now: It’s edible!
Another reason to invest in gold now: It’s edible!
But once we deport all the illegal aliens who will there be to pick the gold leaf?
Panning for
goldPOOP!!!Update from the road, Reedsport OR.
http://imgur.com/PVAPZ
Made me think of D-KW.
No way I can keep up, even read the treds. Re unionized, Asimov said something about how to read it. Sitting down to dinner in Gold Beach. Ciao.
Yeah, Pup and run.
Just like you read about.
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Update from the road, Reedsport OR.
What the hell are they eating in Reedsport that 2 flushes are necessary?
The fact is, the downgrade in our credit rating uis a wakeup call to the liberals and the left. We can’t afford medicare, social security and free handouts to the fucking lazy blacks anymore, and we will have to tighten our belts. However, do not look to classwarfarize the rich and take the money they earned through there own hard work, this is America and class warfare never works, especially when they create all the jobs that the lazy fucking blacks don’t want.
The fact is, socialism. Hitler invented it, Liberals perfected it.
The fact is, that sign in the crapper was inspired by ME, ME, ME!
What the hell are they eating in Reedsport that 2 flushes are necessary?
Careful 4B, the low-flush toilet holocaust will be upon us.
My favorite bathroom sign: PLEASE DO NOT THROW CIGARETTE BUTTS IN THE URINAL
Underneath is written “As they become soggy & hard to light.”
Careful 4B, the low-flush toilet holocaust will be upon us.
They make dual-flush toilets (handle up for liquids, down for solids) now- I can picture some ass like Doughbob of Ace O’ Playdoh and Bacon stumbling across one of these and using the heavy flow option just out of a sense of pee (heh) vishness.
The one time in my life that I ate a dessert topped with gold leaf, I was at a party hosted by my wife’s (then) boss – the head of orthopedic surgery at a teaching hospital. Would the WaPo claim that this means that doctors are being paid way too much and are too distant from the poor? It’s not that I’d disagree with that statement, but I’d be interested to see the author continue his thought and draw the logical conclusion
It’s not that I’d disagree with that statement, but I’d be interested to see the author continue his thought and draw the logical conclusion
There is no logical conclusion, there’s just raw emotion, ranging from indignation to rage.
The fact is, the downgrade in our credit rating uis a wakeup call to the liberals and the left. We can’t afford medicare, social security and free handouts to the fucking lazy blacks anymore, and we will have to tighten our belts.
Minus the racism, that’s exactly what one of my relatives posted on facebook as commentary for the downgrade.
Ignore the S&P’s own commentary: “”More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.” Surprisingly, people lose confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to pay them back when the money they’re owed starts being used as a political football.
But of course, that would imply noticing that something other than Obama, socialism and spending are to blame for the whole thing. And we can’t have that.
Well, Sadly, No is back from upgrade limbo! Let’s check it out….
This whole “gold-encrusted=extravagant” fantasy has been with the conservatives for years. I remember just before Apollo 15 (the first mission with a rover), they had a Lunar Rover on display at the Pacific Science Center. Of course it was covered in gold heat-reflecting blankets. Some gomers near me said “Trust the Gummint™ to gold-plate everything!” Of course, I was ready with the figure that all the gold on a Lunar Rover cost $4 (1971 dollars and gold prices, but you get the idea). So nothing has changed in the last 40 years.
Welcome back, everybody!
Sadly, No! went down.
You know who else went down?
Hitler!
The Blackberry doesn’t think Hitler is a word.
“For that price I could buy 7.5 liters of Goldschlager, which just seems like a better value.”
And just imagine how many cases of Skittlebrau you could get.
just finished reading a vanity fair article on the saudis and 9/11 and then went further back to the good ol’ days when the bush boys first got to be good buddies with the house of saud…
What the hell are they eating in Reedsport that 2 flushes are necessary?
Whole dungeness crab?
What happened? Forbidden? If you will….
Scene: Basking & Robbins, Opalaka, Florida July 9, 2pm
Boy it feels good in here!
Yeah, we got the ac running like a juke box! How can I help you
Gimme two scoops rocky road in a cup. Put some sprinkles on top too.
Okay, and you sir?
Two scoops french vanilla with some gold flakes in a silver cup.
Sir?
Two scoops french vanilla with some gold leaf in a silver cup. Silver spoon too.
Sir, we have the vanilla, but we don’t have the, the uh…gold? You said gold, right?
That’s right. I want gold sprinkled on my french vanilla. Silver cup. Silver spoon.
I can help you out with the french vanilla, but we don’t have any gold leaf. Or silver cups. Or silver spoons.
Let me speak to the manager.
I am the manager.
Here, let me show you this article from the paper.
I see. In Iran they eat gold with their ice cream.
And in New York.
And in New York.
That’s what I want.
We don’t have that.
Why not?
I don’t know why not, this is Baskin Robbins, in Opalaka, Florida. Not New York, or Iran.
Oh. I get it. They’re like better than us. Is that what you’re saying?
No. I ain’t saying that. I’m just saying this is Opalaka. There ain’t a Tiffany’s here neither.
What’s a Tiffny’s?
A jewelry store.
I ain’t here to buy no goddamn jewelry.
Watch your language, sir.
Well, give me some goddamn gold on my ice cream like in these pictures and I’ll quit cussing.
No, and you’ll quit cussing or I’ll have to call 911.
Oh, I get it. If a customer can’t have what he wants at the goddamn ice cream store you call the fucking police.
Basically, that’s correct. Next.
I ain’t never coming back in here. Judy, let’s go.
Harold, that’s the fourth time you done tried to buy that french vanilla shit with gold and what not.
So?
Well, all you’re doing is pissing everybody off.
So?
Well, Harold, we live here.
Oh, I get it. Your on their side.
I am sorely disappointed that there are no new features from the new server.
I was hoping that at the very least one’s avatar would appear after posting clever (or not) comments, not just while composing the comments.
I was hoping that at the very least one’s avatar would appear after posting clever (or not) comments, not just while composing the comments.
My avatar doesn’t even appear during composition. PITY ME.
My avatar doesn’t even appear during composition. PITY ME
Hah! my avatar is golf leaf encrusted
Mine’s rather crusty too.
not just while composing the comments.
Try composting the comments, see what that does for ya.
Do not for a minute think that typing “composting” did not occur to me.
Try composting the comments, see what that does for ya.
Humorous humus?
My avatar doesn’t even appear during composition. PITY ME.
Probably because you don’t have enough Gravatar.