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Thanks to a comment on this thread, we find out about the greatest fundraiser to be held so far this year:

Atlas does not live by words alone, contribute to the damn thing! […] Seriously, it takes enormous time and effort to build this alternative media outlet, help Atlas run.

As is often the case, the comments are the best part:

I don’t subscribe to newspapers or magazines because I can get all the news that MATTERS TO ME – from Atlas Shrugs.

(We’re the backup players, and she’s out front, the lead singer – it’s like we’re ‘The Who’ and she’s our Roger Daltry) [link]

Isn’t it more like she’s the “older brother” from 2Gether and the readers are William Hung? [Sadly, No! is more like Die Fantastischen Vier, only more numerous — kind of like The Three Musketeers.]

Then again sometimes it’s the comments that don’t make it that are even better:

Went over to Titz-on-a-Blintz to see how Pammy’s fundraising was going and inquired if she paid for her breast implants with a similar blog beg. First time I ever had a comment deleted anywhere.

 

Comments: 214

 
 
 

Only a fascist would ask that question.

 
 

She probably got hers from a defense contractor like Kat Harris.

 
 

they had better beware or keith moon will strike their server with a lightning bolt.

 
 

I’m thinking more “Fellowship of the Ring” being led by Gollum.

 
 

I’m surprised she has to ask, given the qualiteh of her sickophants.

 
 

Wasn’t there some comments along the line of: “I’d like to contribute… but, duh… how do I do that?”

 
 

If that’s the first comment you’ve ever had deleted…..

You just aren’t trying hard enough.

 
 

Hmmm… You mean her loyal fans aren’t rushing to subscribe to her blog: $18.00 for thirty days of straight spam delivered?!?!? Where’s the loyalty? Where’s the love? [Oh yeah, love is a fascist attribute).

Hmmm… where’s the wingnut welfare when you need it? Presumably people aren’t rushing to pay $150.00 per week to advertise on Atlas Shrugs either. Go figure.

Seriously, Pammie really seems to think she’s providing some vital service here. Hasn’t she ever heard of FrontPageMag, Arutz Sheva, Family Security Matters, Gamla Online, LGF, &c.? I mean, you know, she isn’t exactly providing a unique service here.

To echo most of her wingnut fans: Get a job!

 
 

What would Ayn Rand do?

 
 

I was thinking about asking each of my ten readers to each pony up $.75 so I could get a six pack of beer. Then I thought if I asked for a dollar each, I could get the 90 Minute IPA.

 
 

You only say that because you haven’t sat there.

Eeeew. I need to bathe now.

 
 

One of Pammie’s commenters:

I don’t subscribe to newspapers or magazines because I can get all the news that MATTERS TO ME – from Atlas Shrugs.

A therapist would cost more.

But in your case they’d be well worth the price.

 
 

If that’s the first comment you’ve ever had deleted…..

You just aren’t trying hard enough.

No kidding. I’ve been banned from Confederate Yankee several times.

You’ve gotta want it, buddy. You’ve gotta want it.

 
 

Atlas Shrugs is the Ann Wilson of blogging. But her commenters aren’t the rest of Heart, but are Mike Reno.

 
 

All kidding aside, this is nothing. Atrios deleted one of my comments and banned me from commenting, for saying “the guillotine – an idea whose time has come – again” in response to someone else’s comment about guillotines.

Compared to that, Pammy is a champion of free speech.

 
 

kindness said,

January 18, 2008 at 1:36

If that’s the first comment you’ve ever had deleted…..

You just aren’t trying hard enough.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that…

…I’d have five cents. >_> <_<

 
 

hee hee… I’ve been banned from Free Republic & LGF… and proud of the fact.

 
 

I guess the alimony/child support is drying up what with the ex being all mobbed up and part of a homicide investigation. Maybe. Or maybe she really thinks she’s special.

 
 

The greatest thing about this fundraiser is this line:

“. Go here, or I’ll have to get a day job (as opposed to this day and night job).”

So here we have a self-proclaimed Randian, whose blog is named after an Ayn Rand novel, proclaiming herself to be a parasite in Rand’s terms. No wonder she’s a shrieking harpy.

 
 

Yeah, I find the idea of a blog named for an Ayn Rand screed begging for funding utterly hilarious as well.

 
 

anangryoldbroad said: Or maybe she really thinks she’s special.

That’s the vibe I got, you know, that she seems to really think she’s providing some service that people just can’t do without. Hasn’t she been online at all? I mean, like, where does she think she gets most of the articles and links that she reposts?

 
 

…Ayn Rand screed begging for funding utterly hilarious as well…

Irony is fascist.

 
 

I’m going to give Pam an invisible hand-out…

 
 

By the way, I’m pretty sure Pammie lied about looking into a P.O. Box:

“UPDATE: Checking out the PO Box thing….at $40 bucks a month, not going there. Email me offline at AtlasShrugs2000 at 1 o l and I’ll give you an address.”

How much? USPS has standardized prices for its P.O. Boxes and none of them come to $40 per month ($480 per year). I guess maybe she isn’t in the US… ?

Then again, lies are just part of the service and charm, so maybe it was a deliberate “lil sumpin xtra” for the fans?

 
 

Another excellent comment preserved here before Atlas Nukes it:

I’m not going to give you any money but maybe you’ll enjoy the first song in this link. It seems timely somehow and I hope you enjoy it.

 
 

And Pete, what do you do?

 
 

LOL… it is really funny watching the fans try to defend Pammie’s aversion to work. I assume probably some here posted the comment that Pammie should work for a living like the rest of the untermensch, but some of the responses are funny as hell coming as they do from right-wing psychos who generally hate anyone who makes or has less money than they do…

For example:

“To the twit/ingrate/leftie/ostrich who wants Pam to get a day job – it is obvious that you have nothing but contempt for this site, and Pam’s tireless efforts to protect the future for the next generation. Please do all of us a favor and take your venom elsewhere.”

All that for suggesting that she get a job? hee hee…

 
 

If there’s one thing that gets the righties’ tighty-whiteys all in twist, it’s the suggestion that they aren’t above doing the kind of work (manual and/or low-paying) that they advocate for the masses. The comment that got me kicked from freeperville was on a thread where the freeps were all moaning about their tech jobs being outsourced. I was uncivil and downright fascist – I suggested that they could find work if they didn’t think they were “above” working in construction trades or the like. Freepers no likey being told that maybe they need to re-train because they jobs is gone.

 
 

Yeah, tell me again why we liberals who have to actually work for a living and pay bills are the ‘elitists’ while non-working right wing raving bloggers talk all about their awesome understanding of Uh-merika and the ‘Common Man’.

 
 

One could also go with The Silhouettes.

 
 

Pam’s tireless efforts to protect the future for the next generation

I guess all these 101st Keyboard Kommandos actually believe all their own garbage about how important they are and think they got what it takes to bring down all those ebul terrasts!

 
 

LiberalFascistLover said,

January 18, 2008 at 2:18

By the way, I’m pretty sure Pammie lied about looking into a P.O. Box:

“UPDATE: Checking out the PO Box thing….at $40 bucks a month, not going there. Email me offline at AtlasShrugs2000 at 1 o l and I’ll give you an address.”

How much? USPS has standardized prices for its P.O. Boxes and none of them come to $40 per month ($480 per year). I guess maybe she isn’t in the US… ?

Then again, lies are just part of the service and charm, so maybe it was a deliberate “lil sumpin xtra” for the fans?

…or either that, she’s looking for a “PO Box” at a UPS store. After all, she seems more like the type to support an upstanding multinational private business rather than the pinko government.

Even so, $40/mo. is still too high for a mail drop at a UPS Store. They typically start at around $15-20/mo. The only way it would be that high is if it was located at a “prestigious” address, such as Manhattan.

 
 

PO box fees. Maybe she’s mistaking “semi-annual” for “monthly”?

 
 

Another excellent comment preserved here before Atlas Nukes it:

Thanks, salvage. It ain’t gonna last, it ain’t gonna last, it ain’t gonna last but if she deletes it it means she clicked the link.

I don’t think she’s going to get much cash out of her commenters which makes me wonder what next year’s calendar will look like.

 
 

So who’s paying for the thrice yearly full family trips down to Miami Beach?
Does this mean the criminal case involving her ex is affecting business?

I’ve been banned 4-5 times by Rick Moran, even helped bring him to stop allowing comments…… I should check if that’s still in effect. The love Rick and I share cannot be silenced.
Ann Althouse, who I am not, never banned me, as I don’t want to give her the concentrated attention it would require, but she has deleted about half the comments I’ve ever left her.

 
 

Oh, wow. Rick has turned comments back on.
Let’s not go tooooooooo crazy, everyone.

 
Principal Blackman
 

First of all, “Titz-on-a-Blintz” is fucking genius.

Moving on, that entire thread is genius, but not for the reasons its participants think (that one poster clearly wants a tour of Silicone Valley). The sad part, though, is that irony is getting a savage beating over there, and I enjoy irony.

 
 

(We’re the backup players, and she’s out front, the lead singer – it’s like we’re ‘The Who’ and she’s our Roger Daltry)

The relative importance of the “backup players” and Roger Daltrey aside, if we want to take this cringeworthy analogy a bit further:

The Who broke up for a while so it would not be inappropriate for Pamatron to take a break.

 
 

in my opinion there are only two stops worth making on the atlas silicone valley tour. while the view is excellent from the mountain top, the drink on tap is pretty fucking horrible. maybe it’s a bad vintage, or maybe the grapes themselves are rotten. who’s to say?

 
 

Doing my part:

OnceAndFutureFascist said,

I heard that there would be punch and pie. I CAME HERE FOR PUNCH AND PIE!!

 
 

I just asked the Great Gazoogle if Pamela’s ex-husband was still under investigation for running scams at his auto dealership. No luck, but the GG did direct me to a jew-hating white supremacist who has compiled a disturbingly detailled dossier on Pamela’s affiliations and home, the latter from public records. Everything one would need to perform the Stalkin Malkin maneuver is there: home address, number of bathrooms, acreage, value, number of bathrooms and property tax for the year 2005.

Well, the taxman cometh and the alimony checks might be a bit light, what with Michael Oshry’s legal problems, so I guess Pam’s making up the shortfall with a bleg.

And it is rather funny that Michael’s father endowed a chair in Aquatic Microbiology at Ben Gurion University in the Negev desert.

 
 

Ben Gurion U may be in the Middle of the desert, but it’s a few hours by car to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Eilat/ Northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba which is known for some beautiful coral reefs. Can you beat that?

Man, I actually feel kind of bad for Pam if she’s got a white supremacist pulling that on her.

 
 

I’d never do a Stalkin Malkin, but I really would like to meet Pam in person, partially just to see if I’m right and she’s really Iggy Pop in drag on an extended, bizarre jag. The problem is it’d require me to frequent her site, to watch for protests.
Plus her fans are fucking psychotics. I would not feel comfortable around them.

 
 

I’m the deleted comment guy who made the implant inquiry, and I’m so pleased that others enjoyed it. You guys have made my day.

In fact, you’ve inspired me to get out there and strive to have comments deleted all over the wingnutosphere. Only problem is that on the infrequent occasions my stomach is strong enough to hazard the stench of those seething hellpits, I usually discover they (SURPRISE!) don’t allow comments. Considering what I might have posted if they did, I can’t entirely blame them.

And for the sake of writer’s honor, full disclosure: I did not invent “Titz-on-a-Blintz,” I just revised the spelling and punctuation of the original wit who did. Do I remember his/her screen name? Sadly, no.

 
 

hee hee… I’ve been banned from Free Republic & LGF… and proud of the fact.

I’ve never even been banned from AmericaBlog.

I’m such a loser.

 
 

Plus her fans are fucking psychotics. I would not feel comfortable around them.

We need to put together a strike team. You with the vidcam. Me with a sock fulla nickels and a pair of sap gloves. Sidhe with the potato chips. Mortician with the encyclopedias and bimler with the akavit.

C’mon, what could go wrong?

mikey

 
 

a jwhite supremacist who has compiled a disturbingly detailled dossier on Pamela: home address, number of bathrooms, acreage, value, number of bathrooms and property tax for the year 2005

This guy sounds downright obsessed with the number of bathrooms.

 
 

I’ll be the wheelman. I lost my license anyway.

 
 

mikey said,

January 18, 2008 at 3:47

We need to put together a strike team. You with the vidcam. Me with a sock fulla nickels and a pair of sap gloves. Sidhe with the potato chips. Mortician with the encyclopedias and bimler with the akavit.

Colonel Mustard in the study with the candlestick…

…wait, what are you talking about again?

 
 

A single bathroom is Fascist.

 
 

Actually, the Oshry-endowed aquatic microbiology program is looking for tenure-track material. Coral reef studies? Well…

Responsibilities: Research in the area of classical and/or molecular microbial ecology of water bodies (groundwater, etc.), biological treatment of wastewater and bioremediation.

…in other words, Oshry-funded sewage treatment.

AWESOME

 
 

I’ve been banned from LGF 3 times. It was like walking into the lamest frat bar of all time (hey, some of my good friends were frat boys, so it’s ok!), asking for a black and tan, and being forcibly ejected for “sullying” the place. The 2d time I walked in with a false mustache and ordered a Jameson – same result. The 3d time I wore Budweiser shorts and asked for a Bud Lite. I drank it for a while, but was forced to set it aside (cause I can’t drink that stuff; I really can’t) and ask for a Johnny Walker Bla – tossed before I even completed my order.

 
 

The stupid fuckers over there are having trouble setting up a paypal account. Look guys, if something as simple as that floors you, we wont be looking at you to defend us when the jihad starts…….

As for banning, took me ages to get banned from LGF, suppose I just wasn’t trying. It was the most innocuous thing they banned me for too. At the tail end of some long thread about killing all brown people, or something, they started whining about how about how liberals all sat around smoking dope, while they were the hard working types. One particular dufus started pretending he was some big shot in the oil industry, but when I questioned him a bit too much (he was obviously lying), he accused me of stalking, and summoned big Chuckie to protect him. Strangely enough, for the next three weeks, I got a pile of threatening comments on the website address I supplied to LGF, funny privacy policy, that.

 
 

Oh, dear — Pammy deleted my most recent comment in under three minutes! And I even tried to be sweet, too. Since it will be the last for now, please allow me to preserve it here for posterity:

I don’t know why you keep deleting my comments. I merely thought your contributors deserve some sort of assurance that their donations won’t be wasted on additional cosmetic surgical enhancements — only because we love you just the way you are.

It’s not like I asked her anything rude, like “Gosh, how often d’ya have to water them ‘plants?”

 
 

I’ll be the wheelman. I lost my license anyway.

Hell, if Billy’s gonna drive, we can start drinking right away!

What?

mikey

 
 

3.5 bathrooms is classic wishy-washy liberalism. That missing .5 is our birthright and we’re going to take it back.

 
 

Can I come mikey?

I’ve got some borscht that went south at least a week ago – oh, and a ladle!

 
 

“We need to put together a strike team.”

Oh man, I would soooo buy a Liberal Fascist Strike Team lunchbox!

 
 

…and ask for a Johnny Walker Bla – tossed before I even completed my order.

Blended scotch? I’d throw you out, too.

 
 

I’ve got some borscht that went south at least a week ago – oh, and a ladle!

Biological weapons? I’m not sure. Is that a place we really want to go?

mikey

 
 

mikey said,

January 18, 2008 at 4:18

I’ve got some borscht that went south at least a week ago – oh, and a ladle!

Biological weapons? I’m not sure. Is that a place we really want to go?

mikey

If that’s the case, then I’ll whip up some mean lutefisk.

 
 

Johnny Walker is Scotch?

In what rule book?

I stepped off the bus in Memphis, stumbled into the first saloon I could find.
I bellied up to the rail and I summoned my barkeep, ordered up tequila, some salt, and a lime.
She said, “Son, you ain’t from around here, is you?”
and I said politely, “No, no, maam, I ain’t”
She said, “Son, well, let me give you a little bit of friendly southern advice. We don’t use that junk round here for nothin’ cept well, maybe, thinnin’ out paint.”

–Jack vs. Jose, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

Same same Johnny Walker…

mikey

 
 

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phleabo said,

January 18, 2008 at 4:13

…and ask for a Johnny Walker Bla – tossed before I even completed my order.

Blended scotch? I’d throw you out, too.

Remember, it could be worse. He could’ve ordered Cutty Sark or J&B

 
 

Ahh hell, with bad borsht and good lutefisk we’ll have the pammies on the run in about one minute…

mikey

 
 

Come on, phleabo, asking for a single malt would have gotten me killed! I was under duress I tell you! DURESS!!

 
 

…wait, what are you talking about again?

I don’t know, but I wanna to play too. Especially if we have a cool theme song like ATHF.

 
 

asking for a black and tan, and being forcibly ejected for “sullying” the place.
Imagine the response if you’d ordered a snakebite.
I can’t come on the strike team; I’m too busy protecting the future for the next generation. Large amounts of the future are currently piled up in our spare bedroom, covered in camouflage netting so the Time Bandits can’t find it, and Frau Doktorin Penny is beginning to look at me askance. And akimbo.

 
 

Arky – Professional Peace Disturber said,

January 18, 2008 at 4:25

…wait, what are you talking about again?

I don’t know, but I wanna to play too. Especially if we have a cool theme song like ATHF.

Speaking of ATHF…

01-31-07. Never forget.

 
 

Man, I’m getting old. I used to *be* bait, now I’m reduced to carrying it…

Really, I don’t see what’s anti-Randian about taking advantage of stupid people so you don’t have to make effort on your own. Seems perfectly compatible with social darwinism.

 
 

I’d say we should do a reverse Stalkin Malkin, but there are kids involved.
Maybe we should get in the Mystery Machine and take a road trip to find out what happened with Confederate Yankee’s tipped over grill.

 
 

Damn you, different brad. I was just about to inquire into the status of Atlas’ Juggs’ grill.

 
 

Given that she’s Roger Daltrey, perhaps it would be good to ask about her squeezebox.

 
 

J— said,

January 18, 2008 at 4:38

Given that she’s Roger Daltrey, perhaps it would be good to ask about her squeezebox.

She goes in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out…

 
 

mikey said,

January 18, 2008 at 4:02

I’ll be the wheelman. I lost my license anyway.

Hell, if Billy’s gonna drive, we can start drinking right away!

Now THAT sounds like a plan!

Cheers, everybody.

 
Tim (the other one)
 

Atlas Begged

 
 

Shalom, gentlemen.

 
Tim (the other one)
 

Jesus, I summoned saul !!!!

 
 

Blue Buddha said, …or either that, she’s looking for a “PO Box” at a UPS store. After all, she seems more like the type to support an upstanding multinational private business rather than the pinko government.

That’s a bit funny since the USPS is a private company, not a government agency today, part of that whole privatizing the gov’t thing…

But then again, we don’t really expect Pammie to know about things like reality and current events, that would completely undermine her whole schtik…

 
 

Truth is, liberals hate patriots and truth tellers and Israel and Our President Supporters like Pam Atlas. She is the voice of sanity here in the heartland, she calls it like she sees it without the elietism, like the coastl types you are. She has got your number, nailed dead to rights, punks, liberals, USA haters, angry leftists.

 
 

And plus her bathrooms.

 
 

Blue Buddha, thank you for that reminder of the day the whole world looked towards Boston and nearly died laughing.

 
 

Nightmarish day at the zoo that passes for “teh office” these days.

Management is insane, customers live on another planet, and the goalposts? Can’t even find the fuckers.

So I’m hitting the scotch hard, with a tilapia fillet prepped for breading and pan frying, haricot verts with a nice spicy hollandaise, and a big funky green salad with wild mushrooms and pine nuts.

Just waiting for the right moment to light the candle, y’know?

mikey

 
 

We need to put together a strike team. …

We really did that here in Denver. We have a little rabid right-wing formation called “Americans Against Terrorism” here that we call the “Denver Whiteshirts” because their uniform is white a tee-shirt with the Israeli flag on the front. Anyway, they hooked up with our local Freepers/JDL-Kahanists and the like and played a big role in organizing some pro-war (and yes, I mean overtly “we love the blood” “kill’em al, let G-d sort’em out!”) rallies here.

So we – the Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign & the “black-bloc” anarchist kids – got together and formed a “rapid response” team that showed up at every event the “Americans Against Terrorism” did. They went from being viewed as zealous but welcome to controversial and unwelcome almost everywhere once we made it clear that we would show up wherever they did and make anything/everything they did controversial.

As far as I know, they’re not around any longer, but we are 🙂

 
 

That is beautiful.

Activism in the face of mindless hatred.

We need that, and more.

Thanks for that….

mikey

 
 

lobbey said: The stupid fuckers over there are having trouble setting up a paypal account. Look guys, if something as simple as that floors you, we wont be looking at you to defend us when the jihad starts…….

Intelligence and the ability to follow simple instructions are fascist.

duh.

 
 

saul

shut up.

everyone else: johnny walker blue is excellent, a superb blended over ice. not everything has to be smoky fucking single malt you bougy wankers!

and i say this as a bougy wanker of the first and second type.

now, my drink of the evening (and mikey you are invited to join me in one and then tell scary vietnam stories) has been http://www.drinklucid.com/ lucid absinthe. i feel no more fucked up than usual, i must report.

 
 

Biological weapons? I’m not sure. Is that a place we really want to go?

If that’s the case, then I’ll whip up some mean lutefisk.

Lutefisk’s toxicity is chemical, not biological. A common confusion.

 
 

Wow, um. J. Yeah.

Remember many months ago how I professed my undying attraction for Pammy?

*sounds of violent vomiting*
Um. Yeah. *cough* Thanks for that emetic, J. I owe ya one.

 
 

We have a little rabid right-wing formation called “Americans Against Terrorism

I fucking LOVE that construction. The implication being that there are actually Americans FOR terrorism.

It’s no wonder I’m not welcome on so many political demonstrations.

I tend to react, er, somewhat aggressively to that kind of bullshit…

mikey

 
 

Strangely enough, for the next three weeks, I got a pile of threatening comments on the website address I supplied to LGF, funny privacy policy, that.

That right there is why I don’t comment on the dark side. They can’t be trusted to behave in an ethical manner, seeing as how they don’t really grasp the concept of ethics – or human decency, for that matter.

 
 

now, my drink of the evening (and mikey you are invited to join me in one and then tell scary vietnam stories)

I’d be honored. Let me know when the Illum rounds and the swaying shadows and the hand to hand and the morning after horror gets old. Up til then, I’ll keep telling you the bad parts. ‘Cause there’s lots of fuckers who will tell you the “glory” and the “necessary” parts.

But it’s the body parts that give me pause…

mikey

 
 

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Heh, while we’re discussing the abuse of personal information, back when our hosts were on a Megan McArdle posting binge, I wandered over there and commented on a thread or two. It was that one where she was deleting the comment text and replacing the link with some Bible site (I mean, wtf?!). I posted something, and she e-mailed me. I freaked out and deleted the damn thing, but that was kind of a lesson learned for me—if there’s a chance you can’t trust the proprietors, don’t leave authentic personal info.

 
 

No, if she were a true Randian she would take so much web traffic that the government would shut her down because they don’t like anyone to be more successful than anyone else. Then she would run off to the mountains with the first guy who was man enough to rape her and build a new internet all by herself. She and her friends would all be filthy stinkin rich and nobody would be able to find her and take her money.

Speaking of which, do women ever have wet dreams?

 
 

I confess that I was scared off Scotch when I tried Dewar’s, and it tasted just like turpentine smells. I’m willing to give it another shot, if you Scotch drinkers can assure me I’ll not suffer like that again.

I’m a Maker’s Mark girl, myself.

 
 

Oh, and wtf is with that e-mail address that the shrieking harpy (just doing my liberal fascist part there) posted? 1 o l? Is that some kind of special JDL domain system?

 
 

Damn welfare queen. She needs to pick herself up by her own bootstraps.

 
 

What would Ann Ryand have to say about this?

My guess is she would tell Pammy to get a fracking job, or blow up her own building or something, I dunno, never could get through a Ryand book…

 
 

I just mailed Pammy a check for two gazillion dollars, and several coupons for a free large fries with the purchase of a Big Mac (one coupon per household, please).

 
 

mikey said: That is beautiful. Activism in the face of mindless hatred.

Thanks. It was really a lot of fun and we totally subverted several of their protests. For example they decided to join some national campaign organized by the neo-Kahanist “Jewish Taskforce” (JTF) group protesting NPR (“National Public Radio” which is just a shade to the left of Fox or Der Sturmer) for having the chutzpah to portray Palestinians as actual human beings. About 30 of them made it out.

We didn’t hear about it until the very last minute and the NPR office is somewhat out-of-the-way, so all of three of us (me – a big blond Jewish guy, a little cute Arab girl, and an older activist guy who happened to live in the neighborhood) showed up to counter-protest. Nevertheless, we were all friendly and nice so ultimately about a dozen neighborhood kids (completely non-political, but having fun ticking off all the grumpy mean looking AAT people) ended up hanging out with us waving Palestinian flags and the like.

The next thing you know, we totally usurped their whole protest. They forgot all about NPR (the whole reason they were ostensibly there) and totally redirected their whole protest at us, which was just too funny. Oh how we laughed and egged them on. When the cops came they had fun too, we got along with them fine, whereas the AAT people were threatening violence and acting like your average impotent right-wing thugs. So the cops and the neighborhood kids were with us and NPR got off the hook since no one could possibly guess the protest was directed at them as opposed to us.

Just one of many of our “rapid response team” stories. It was a lot of fun.

 
 

Candy said,

January 18, 2008 at 5:20

I confess that I was scared off Scotch when I tried Dewar’s, and it tasted just like turpentine smells. I’m willing to give it another shot, if you Scotch drinkers can assure me I’ll not suffer like that again.

I’m a Maker’s Mark girl, myself.

You need try some Buffalo Trace. Now that’s some good bourbon.

 
 

Candy. All scotch is not the same. I like the Islay. You, I’m thinking, not so much. Check out the highland and speyside malts.

Thing is, scotch is gonna get into your wallet just like an obsession for really good zinfandels will. Thirty to a hundred bucks a bottle. So, as a regular gittin drunk kinda deal, it’s gonna be dependent on your income and your family obligations.

And if you start to, well, for lack of a better term, GET it, you’re gonna want to push the edges, and, well, dammit, you write big checks to explore that.

You groove on makers mark? Me too. Nothing wrong with staying there…

mikey

 
 

What is with Pammy’s insistence that suicide bombers are the ONLY legitimate Muslims? Does she really think that we are going to try to kill all one and a half odd billion of them? Or is she just itching for more bomb footage?

 
 

A few tequilas actually make very good sipping liquors. One relatively inexpensive one is El Tesoro de Don Felipe, Reposada. The most commonly used tequilas are noxious. I can’t afford Herradura Reposado too often, thankfully, or making it to work would often be difficult.

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

Speaking of snooty firewaters, you guys ever have Edradour? It’s a single malt Scotch, made by three guys in Scotland’s smallest distillery. An acquaintance of mine toured the distillery when he was in Scotland on business, and brought me back a wee sample. It was fucking ambrosia. I went from never having appreciated a good scotch to craving this stuff. I took it in the tiniest sips and made the little 50ml bottle last a week. Some good shiznazzle, as the kids might once have said.

 
 

Bob Somerby points at Matt Yglesias, and laughs.

THE LATEST SUCCESSFUL D-STUDENT: Then there’s Yglesias, with this sad, groaning piece, expressing the latest consensus.

I agree with Bob. Dick Cheney and Cathie Martin know who butters Russert’s toast, and on which side.
Why doesn’t Yglesias?

 
 

Booker’s bourbon for special occasions. Woodford Reserve for all the rest.

 
 

Thanks, mikey, I’ll stick with the Makers until I’m out of school and makin’ the money. (Jeebus knows MM is pricey enough by my budget.) Then I’ll take up your suggestions.

BB – Buffalo Trace, eh? Sounds like a character in a Larry McMurtry novel, not that there’s anything wrong with that! 🙂

 
 

Grumpy said,
Damn welfare queen. She needs to pick herself up by her own bootstraps.

Don’t you mean “brastraps”?

 
 

I personally am sipping cheap brandy (Christian Brothers). Its cold here and the cheap brandy knocks the chill right of you.

 
 

I remember that one time when my friend’s deadbeat ex-husband found himself unemployed for something like the third time in a year, her stepfather told him, “well, I guess you better get busy sucking some dicks.”

I wonder if this option has occured to Pam.

 
 

whoops… “right OUT of you” — I blame the cheap brandy.

 
 

I love cheap brandy. It got me through the winter in Western Wash.

(Look out the window at fog. Take a drink of brandy. Gaze out window at fog and rain. Take a drink of brandy. Repeat as needed.)

 
 

LOL @ “I wonder if this option has occured to Pam.”

Indeed. After all, her crowd is all about women being in their place and properly servicing men as per the Bible, right?

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

El Cid el said: “A few tequilas actually make very good sipping liquors.” Indeed. Chinaco Anejo is sippable, with lots of subtle tones and flavors. It’s kind of expensive at $40 a bottle, but worth it if you want a good sipping tequila. At the extreme end of the spectrum, I once split a $50 shot of Rey Sol tequila with Bartcop at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. It’s tequila that’s been aged in oak casks that have been used to age bourbon. Not surprisingly, the tequila tasted a lot like bourbon. If you’re going to drop $250 bucks for a bottle of tequila, would you want it to taste like bourbon? (God knows there’s nothing wrong with bourbon; I’m just saying.)

 
 

BTW, if you haven’t seen it, the Pantload got totally pwn3d by Alan Colmes.

Pitiful, just pitiful.

 
 

Candy said: I love cheap brandy. It got me through the winter in Western Wash.

Absolutely. If you want to knock the chill out AND buy 1.75 litres for under $20, cheap brandy is the way to go. Oh, and it doesn’t taste as bad as say, cheap gin or cheap bourbon…

 
 

well, I guess you better get busy sucking some dicks.

Now that’s just not using the brain God gave him. If he moved to a red state, he could get busy getting his dick sucked. In Pammy’s case… well I’ll bet more of her fans would buy a membership if they knew she had a few webcams…

 
 

Some of the best I’ve ever had was homemade mezcal in Mexico. Just like some of the best brandy I’ve ever had was homemade by an Italian (Sicilian) family.

 
 

“Its cold here”

I blame the Stock Show. Grrrrr.

 
 

When my student aid comes through, I’ll have to buy me a couple bottles of good booze.

What? Isn’t that what one is supposed to do with student aid? At least I’m not blegging for my likker money, like Atlas Glugs.

 
 

MileHi Hawkeye said: I blame the Stock Show. Grrrrr.

Thats why I’m glad its cold. Ever been here when the stock show is on and its warm? The whole town smells like cow shit (like Greeley). I’ll take the cold over the stock show funk any day. 🙂

 
 

I’m mulling doing a graphic of “Liberal Fascist Strike Force”, modeled on the painting of Liberty by Eugen Delacroix. I can visualise her flag having the smiley face…but whose image would replace her face? Hillary? And the people behind her, and under her feet…heh. It’ll take a day or two. Suggestions welcome.

 
 

Thats why I’m glad its cold. Ever been here when the stock show is on and its warm? The whole town smells like cow shit (like Greeley). I’ll take the cold over the stock show funk any day. 🙂

Well, there is certainly that. Too bad the cold doesn’t keep away the “cowboys” who say stupid things that make us all look like hicks.

Bitter cold and teh stoopid is not a good combination. Besides, I’m Iowa, I’m immune to the smell.

 
 

*from* Iowa

I blame the THC

 
 

As a founding member of Liberal Fascist Strike Force, I’d ask that Bill Hicks and/or Hunter S thompson be somehow involved in the graphic.
Maybe a play on the gonzo fist?

 
 

As a founding member of Liberal Fascist Strike Force, I’d ask that Bill Hicks and/or Hunter S thompson be somehow involved in the graphic.
Maybe a play on the gonzo fist?

I was picturing something along the lines of the movie poster for Mother, Juggs, and Speed.

 
 

BTW, if you haven’t seen it, the Pantload got totally pwn3d by Alan Colmes.

Pitiful, just pitiful.

Ah, that was a thing of beauty. Colmes . . . off the leash at last?

 
 

“Too bad the cold doesn’t keep away the “cowboys” who say stupid things that make us all look like hicks.”

LOL, it isn’t really all that bad. I live and work right downtown and frankly the “cowboys” (modern welfare queens who only exist thanks to gov’t welfare and subsidies, and then bitch and moan about welfare and subsidies to others) stand out like a sore thumb. They certainly don’t belong here or fit in here.

 
 

MileHi, it’s bitchin’ cold here in TEh Ioway. We’re going into the below zero deep freeze this weekend. Cheap brandy fer sure. I think it’s about 8 out right now. That being said, I like the cold. At least all that disgusting slop is frozen good and solid and won’t be tracked into my home for the next few days.

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

As a fellow traveler, willing dupe and standby patsy of the Liberal Fascist Strike Force, I’d like to see Hillary and Hitler in tights as they touch their fists together and say “Liberal Fascist power, activate!”

 
 

I have a sincere question — not meant at all to be critical. But all the stuff about Pam’s breast implants, “Titz on a Blintz,” & etc., while I think it is is all extremely funny, I’m not sure I — much less a conservative — could get away with that.

What if Pam were black; is there some food type one could substitute for the blintz and not be accused of racism? (Watermelons come to mind, but I can’t imagine anyone thinking they could “safely” say that.)

 
 

Bob Somerby points at Matt Yglesias, and laughs.

Thanks for that, ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©. Is there a means to get a Daily Howler feed that I’m too clueless to figure out, or do you have to do it the old fashioned way and visit the site?

 
 

No it’s just that Doughbob isn’t even a match for the Tame Lib Colmes…

Getting cold tonight, and I’m having a few Atwater IPAs while redmarking a construction set that’s due tomorrow and watching MST3K in the background….. only thing missing is a bit of herb.

No rapid response actions for me tonight, unless we cab it….

 
 

I live and work right downtown

As do I. It is certainly an…entertaining parade.

I’m looking forward to running into Doug Bruce on the Mall one day soon…

 
 

Like this, Jennifer?
I’m still partial to the gonzo fist.

 
 

Candy–

You’ve got the cold we’ve had for the last few days. Below zero wind chill this a.m. I’m getting too old for the cold.

It’s very hard to drag myself out of a nice, warm, comfortable bed and slog off to work. It’s just not right! Hey–maybe I could beg for $ from my co-workers and retire…

 
 

Thanks for the link, different brad.

Yes, that’s exactly it.

 
 

“As do I. It is certainly an…entertaining parade.

Not so much. In fact, I totally spaced it and work right along the route (on 17th). I ran out for a cigarette at noon and everyone was lined up on the street, but they hadn’t even closed off the road at that time. So I went back upstairs and went back to work (unlike Pammie and the other wingnuts, being a Left “elitist” I actually have to work for a living). By the time I came back down for another smoke the whole thing was over. Oh well…

 
 

MileHi, you should give the blegging a shot! Who knows where it might lead?

I’ve always said that I don’t mind the cold as long as my poor elderly car starts, which it still does, like a charm. Just lately, though, I’ve been having a problem with the doors freezing shut. The last ice storm we had, I broke the outside handle on the driver’s side door, and now have to crawl across the front seat to open the door. It sucks.

 
 

Oh no, I was refering to the tourista’s on the mall and not the actual parade. I used to live on 17th & Glemarm, so I’ve seen enough parades.

 
 

Damn there’s a lot of Iowa people here.

My mom grew up near Ottumwa and most of her side of the family is still in that area. I was up there the week before Thanksgiving. It makes me sad to see so many of the farms deserted, with no one living on them. Nothing like when I was a kid.

 
 

That does suck. I don’t miss the ice-storms…

I think I’ll save my blegging until I need that major organ. A man’s got to have some pride, you know.

 
 

Thanks for that, ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©. Is there a means to get a Daily Howler feed that I’m too clueless to figure out, or do you have to do it the old fashioned way and visit the site?

I do it the old fashioned way, myself.

 
 

“Oh no, I was refering to the tourista’s on the mall and not the actual parade. I used to live on 17th & Glemarm, so I’ve seen enough parades.

Gotcha. I avoid the Mall too during the stock show, I live up on Quality Hill (Capitol Hill, near the Gov’s mansion), so hang out more over there when all the idiots are in town.

 
 

I about halfway between Don’s Mixed Drinks and Cricket on the Hill.

 
 

Waste not, want not, that’s my motto . . .

Jennifer, most of what family I have that remains is still in Ottumwa. Every male in my family from my great grandfather, great uncles, gramps, uncle, and three first cousins works for the postal service (typical Irish civil service people. My gramps was a railway mail clerk until they shut it down in the 60s.) So by Ottumwa standards, they live high on the hog. It’s sad the way all the industry in Ottumwa is gone. I never go down there, not even on the holidays the last couple of years.

Fun Ottumwa fact: Tricky Dick Nixon was stationed there for a while during WWII, and wife Pitter Pat worked at a local bank.

 
 

OK, J, that picture of Madame O’ Shry was fucking scary. And I just had a big meal, too.

But it does point out that a different brad is not quite right when he accuses her of being Iggy Pop in drag. I think that picture makes clear that she is the love child of Iggy Pop and E.T.

 
 

Wasn’t Radar O’Reilly supposedly from there too?

Did your Gramps work for the Rock Island Line?

 
 

My McClure grandfather was with the railroad in Ottumwa. Don’t know which one. The family is actually in Fairfield now; Ottumwa’s just the closest “big” town.

 
 

I about halfway between Don’s Mixed Drinks and Cricket on the Hill.

We’re probably within walking distance to one another then, I’m in one of the big towers at about 9th and Logan.

 
 

Ah yes, Fairfield. Home of Maharishi U. Definately a top flight liberal fascist school.

 
 

“…the Pantload got totally pwn3d by Alan Colmes.”

“Please send my regards to your mom.” Sean Hannity to Jonah Goldberg at the end of the ‘interview.’

 
 

Mona, wouldn’t your not allowed for liberals target be wearing blackface, to make the comparison complete?

They are fake after all. And it’s not like Pammy is trying to hide them so we can all focus on the quality of her ideas.

 
 

SomeNYGuy said

Don’t you mean “brastraps”?

I couldn’t get Reagan or Obama to approve the change to the template.

 
 

someone mentioned eduador upthread-i just saw that and passed over it tonight for a darrouze armangac

but the absinthe kept me from even getting a chance to open it.

and wow, colmes really did smack jonah around. he really did. even hannity seemed a bit non-plussed by the whole thing.

what i’d really like to see is something along the lines of: “gee jonah, you are calling my belief system out as the same as the nazis, and because of that i am going to punch you in the fucking face.”

after which the person would punch goldberg in the face.

 
 

No, Gramps worked for the US Postal Service. They used to move the mail by train, mostly, before trucking and flights took it over. His route was between Chicago and I think Omaha. From the tales he told, it was basically kind of a rolling party. Some of my earliest memories are of going to the depot with my Gram to take him a chocolate malt when the train stopped briefly in mid-route.

Yep, Radar was supposed to be from Ottumwa.

Only other interesting Ottumwa stuff is Tom Arnold (a grade or two ahead of me in school, but I remember him) and the James Gang (the outlaws, not the rock band) used to hide out east of town at Cliffland.

 
 

Jennifer, I went to school all the way K – 12 with some McClure girls. They lived just off Wilson, as I recall.

 
 

Is this the Boston sports – Bill Simmons thread? I heard people were really going on about his latest column. Where can I find that?

 
 

My paternal unit was an engineer on the RR. He went through the “Big O” all the time on the way to Silvis. I grew up on trains–and in bowling alleys, but that’s another story.

You went to school with Tom Arnold? Good lord. Was he always such a twit?

 
 

what i’d really like to see is something along the lines of: “gee jonah, you are calling my belief system out as the same as the nazis, and because of that i am going to punch you in the fucking face.”

after which the person would punch goldberg in the face.

Can you only imagine how hard he’d cry and blubber?

 
 

I miss the summer so much. It’s not that I mind the cold but I like to go up to the park on Main St. and sit on the grass with shoe polish smeared over the bald spot on my head and let the combination of the broiling sun and the volatile organics work their magic. Has to be black shoe polish to get the real good high but the brand doesn’t. Sure you have your shoe polish snobs who will go on and on about Lincoln’s Stain Wax or Kiwi Parade Gloss but fuck them. You’re going to get fucked up no matter the brand and if you over do it and come to in a hospital room 3 days later surrounded by horrified family members, streaky black stains set starkly against the newly acquired ghostly pallor of your face and neck, nobody is going to consider the horror of the situation or the very public humiliation of the family mitigated one bit by your mentioning that at least you used an upscale brand of polish. Trust me.
You liberal fascists with your non deadly intoxicants.

 
 

All I remember about Arnold was that my friend, who shared a class with him, said something like, “That Tom Arnold is so funny! He had the whole class rolling around laughing.” For some reason, that stuck in my head, and when he hit the tabloids, I remembered it.

I know that a friend of mine who worked at the Ottumwa Country Club while the whole Tom and Roseann thing was going on said that Tom was always super nice and that Roseann was a bitch and a shitty tipper.

I spent a lot of time in bowling alleys too. Playing pinball mostly and pretending to be really tough. Good times.

 
 

Lawnguylander said,

January 18, 2008 at 6:55

For some reason, that makes me want to read “Naked Lunch”

 
 

I’ve ran into him at all kinds of Iowa events–even at the Iowa bar here in Denver–and I’ve always come away someone embarrased for him.

Well, this liberal fascist has to work for a living tomorrow. It’s off to bed for me. ‘Night.

 
 

ZOMG!

If we don’t contribute:

“Pam Atlas, she’s quit! Gone! Gone like all the others! Left her laptop, her mixers, her pushup bras, everything! Just vanished! Took some tanning cream and the vodka bottle–they found the freezer door open and empty–that’s all! No word, no note, no explanation! They called me from Washington, but it’s all over town! The news, I mean, the story! They can’t keep it quiet! They’ve tried to, but…Nobody knows how it got out, but it went through the internets like one of those flame wars, the word that she’d gone, and then…before anyone could stop it, a whole bunch of them vanished! Doughy Pantload, Instaputz, HindRocket, Swankster, Ann “Special” Althouse, Mann Coulter, Stalkin’ Malkin’, even Marie Jon’! Deserting us, in spite of all the penalties we’ve set up! She’s quit and the rest are quitting and those internets are just left there, empty of crunchy wingnuttery! Do you understand what that means?”

“Do you?” I asked.

He had thrown his story at me, sentence by sentence, as if trying to knock the smile off my face, an odd, unmoving smile of bitterness and triumph; he had failed. “It’s a national catastrophe! What’s the matter with you? Don’t you see that it’s a fatal blow? It will break the last of the country’s morale and economy! We can’t let her vanish! You’ve got to bring her back!”
“Byte me,” I replied.

 
 

I can’t even begin to describe how awesome that cowalker comment was.

 
 

someone mentioned eduador upthread-i just saw that and passed over it tonight for a darrouze armangac

with you on that, while I always like a good Malt, in my two years in France I developed a real taste for Armangac, I just can’t stop drinking the stuff when I start. My Scottish father thinks I have turned to teh gay side, but at least I don’t steal his Malt anymore.

 
 

after which the person would punch goldberg in the face.

Its the first time I have seen the little dolt in action, and he is a weasily little fuckwit. His arguments seem to fail around without much thought about them and he ends ups whining and moaning like, god, I don’t know, but it is pathetic. Colmes is usually a bit weak, but rips him a new one here, Jonah, have you no shame, man….

 
 

The fact is you liberals are Teh Suck. Why, I’ve been banned 4-5 times by Goldstein AND Ace O’Spades…

Er, what I meant to say is, the Dims are showing their true colors this year with Hitlerly and Barrack Hussein. The fact is only Mitt can keep us safe from Islamofascism. GOP in ’08!

 
Tim (the other one)
 

“The fact is only Mitt can keep us safe from Islamofascism. ”

Actually, the fact is, I think it’s his hair that’s gonna keep us safe.

 
 

it is obvious that you have nothing but contempt for this site, and Pam’s tireless efforts to protect the future for the next generation.

Protect the future? What the fuck does that even mean?

Is she a cyborg, sent back in time to protect Skynet?

 
 

Ah yes, Fairfield. Home of Maharishi U. Definately a top flight liberal fascist school.

I saw a play there once. Censorship was such that two prostitutes who walk into a bar and have a line or two to say were remade as strikers.

 
 

Atlas Begged

I’m posting that one right now.

 
 

We’re sorry, your comment has not been published because TypePad’s antispam filter has flagged it as potential comment spam.

Sigh.

 
 

Perhaps she should offer Richard Mellon Scaife a squeeze of her tits,.

 
 

I’ve got a single malt stash that I’m nursing, because it’s too fucking expensive to buy with exchange rates being teh suxxor right now. But Evan Williams Single Barrel is pretty fine.

Armagnac is great. I drank too much of it in the South of France. The stuff that doesn’t get exported is the best: single estate, long aged, and still cheap (in Euro terms) compared to big-brand cognacs.

And I’m looking into the logistics of setting up a Calvados (apple brandy) distillery in apple country. Instead of selling soft cider, distill the stuff into liquid gold.

 
Tim (the other one)
 

“We’re sorry”

I like the “we’re” like there’s a team of people that are on that shit right now !

How can she afford them ?

 
 

robert green: I’ve had some of Ted Breaux’s stuff, and though Lucid is apparently less hardcore than the stuff he sells in Europe — or mail-order to the US if you’re careful and lucky — I’d be interested in giving it a try.

I remember when he was posting on the Sephulchritude forums about how he’d got the recipe sorted, and just needed the facilities, and everyone called bullshit on him. But he got the distillery, and he’s making the absinthe, and it put every bullshit bright green Czech effort to shame.

 
 

Saying — “the guillotine – an idea whose time has come – again” — is just not very smart in any context.

I think when John Lennon said “if you go carryin’ ’round pictures of Chairman Mao, no one will want to make it with you anyhow” he was referring to the same thing.

Writing comments on someone else’s blog about murdering people is not welcome or appropriate. Nor is it funny.

 
 

Pamela:

I am in awe of your selfless contribution to our intelligent ongoing discourse. In particular, I really respect how you’ve taken the practice of objectivism to it’s logical extreme – rather than producing useful products and charging what the market will bear, you’ve simply asked us – the enlightened – to pay you what we think you’re worth!

Your bill for my time is in the mail!

 
 

Frau Doktorin Penny is beginning to look at me askance. And akimbo.

“Whirra, whirra — it’s the narrowin’ o’ the eyes! And the tappin’ o’ the foot! And the folding o’ the arrrrumms!!!…

Sorry. Terry Pratchett flashback. Carry on.

 
 

It’s a little known fact that Dagny Taggart once had to post on her blog for fund to keep her trains running. Of course that wasn’t in the book, but it is inconsequential.

I also hear that Rearden Metal is made partially from copper stripped from the walls of foreclosed homes.

As long as Pammy is beggin for money….she might as well look in the obvious places!

 
Qetesh the Qaveat Qat
 

I’m not a drinker of Scotch, but I am an appreciator of fine wines, and was forced to do some appreciatin’ a coupla weeks ago. I had three house guests, one from interstate (Brisbane, about 3 hours away by plane) and two from Hong Kong (about 10 hours away by plane), and they fancied seeing some wineries.

Well, I live in a weeny city whose main claim to fame (other than the annual “First person taken by a shark this summer!” headline) is that it’s in the middle of three major wine zones. So we picked one, the Barossa Valley, and headed north for some tasting experiences. And they were mighty fine tasting experiences, mighty fine indeed.

And despite being mostly on the dole and neck-deep in debt, I splurged on a coupla bottles for friends and family, and selfishly came home with one for my very own self – Para 21-year-old tawny port, a luscious drop from the glorious Seppeltsfield winery. They gave us just a sniff (not a taste, mind, just a sniff) of the 100-year-old Para vintage, and I nearly spontaneously combusted. That is some extremely fine beverage there, my friends. If I had children, I’d sell one to get a bottle of it.

 
 

Armagnac is great. I drank too much of it in the South of France. The stuff that doesn’t get exported is the best: single estate, long aged, and still cheap (in Euro terms) compared to big-brand cognacs.

And I’m looking into the logistics of setting up a Calvados (apple brandy) distillery in apple country. Instead of selling soft cider, distill the stuff into liquid gold.

Depends where you are, if there is, or has been French type about, the stuff that is exported ain’t to bad. I’m in Vietnam now, and although its a tad more expensive than Europe, there is a reasonable selection of the good stuff. We can even get Normandy Cider…….

I find Calvados more of an acquired taste, and the shit stuff can be real shit, like a crappy whiskey hangover (I still cant look at bottles of Johnny Walker). As for your distillery, if your needing a taster……..

 
 

Good news: one of our liquor shelves contains (in no particular order) Glenfiddich, Lagavulin, The Glenlivet, Bushmills (original), Bushmills (16 year), Highland Park, Aberfeldy (enjoying now), Talisker, Knockando, The MacAllan, Blair Athol, Dalwhinnie, Glenkinchie, and for some reason Captain Morgan Spiced Rum. I think that last is in there because that shelf happens to be high enough for the bottle to fit.

Bad news: we’re out of Oban, which is my favorite. There are three bottles left on Vancouver Island right now, and we’ll be driving an hour and a half to go get one we’ve reserved.

Don’t drink whisky – it does terrible, terrible things to your ability to reason.

 
 

Oh boy, it’s fancy drink night again at S,N. And here I am with my Green Death and Old Crow stinkin’ up the class of the place.

 
 

Ah, look – if you’re aiming for some good budget scotch, you could do a lot worse than the Balvenie 12-year.

I hear Howard Roark is holding a raffle so he can buy a bottle.

 
 

I’ll chip in fifty smackers if she’ll stop. If she sucks my wang, I’ll make it a hundred. It’s much more decent work than rightist rabblerousing and I’ll enjoy it a lot more. Win-win.

 
 

Protect the future? What the fuck does that even mean?
I have now given up on trying to protect the future — on account of the narrowin’ o’ the eyes and the tappin’ o’ the foot from the Frau Doktorin — and am now working on protecting the past for the previous generation.

The part of the past that I’m particularly focussed on is 12 years old, and comes in bottles labelled Oban.

 
 

Lawnguylander said,
I like to go up to the park on Main St. and sit on the grass with shoe polish smeared over the bald spot on my head and let the combination of the broiling sun and the volatile organics work their magic.

The fact is that this comment made me laugh so much that my keyboard is now covered with a mixture of NapiSan and pulverised toadstool.

 
 

Doug Watts said,

January 18, 2008 at 8:24

Saying — “the guillotine – an idea whose time has come – again” — is just not very smart in any context.

I think when John Lennon said “if you go carryin’ ’round pictures of Chairman Mao, no one will want to make it with you anyhow” he was referring to the same thing.

Writing comments on someone else’s blog about murdering people is not welcome or appropriate. Nor is it funny.

Well, it’s awful good of you to come round here and point that out, since Atrios doesn’t have a place to do it himself.

FWIW, the comment in question is about as close to a “threat” as one invoking tar and feathers or pitchforks and torches – which is to say, not close at all. Beyond that, a comment that doesn’t mention any specific person or persons again can hardly be construed as a threat. And then there’s the whole issue of similar things being said by others and being ok, even the same words being used and being just fine.

Is it an inflammatory thing to say? Yeah, I guess it is. Is it a threat? Only to someone who isn’t thinking about it – at all – who assumes that yes, it is possible that the person making the comment could 1) muscle past the phalanx of security surrounding the unnamed figure(s) assumed to be the “target” of the “threat”, 2) kidnap those figure(s) and 3) take them to a guillotine that’s been set up and waiting, all while 4) holding the security and other law enforcement officials at bay while carrying out the “murdering”. All of which we know is commonplace occurence in modern-day America. The biggest mistake in making the comment was the failure to psychically divine that it was something that was acceptable for others to do, but not for me, that only when the comment came from my keyboard would it induce the vapors.

Guilty as charged. I guess if I was more with the group-think program, I would have known all this up front, eh?

 
 

Awww man, I said you didn’t hear it from me….well, while I’m outted, I might as well say that I had nothing to do with the calendar. Nothing. All I said was to set up a CafePress store.

So, who’s going to be my body-guard at CPAC? Malkin already might try some of her cheerleading kicks on me…..But that wasn’t me who left that comment, it was another (Lex) Skink Tyree (Azagthoth). We are legion, you know.

 
 

Seriously, it takes enormous time and effort to build this alternative media outlet, help Atlas run.

*getting 9mm Glock*

Ah likes watchin her boobies bounse…

 
 

Psst, Pam.

If you do a full-on nake, I’d buy it for a dollar.

 
 

Pam’s tireless efforts to protect the future for the next generation.

TRANSLATION: Dude, she swallows!

 
 

“Titz on a Blintz” – that’s funny!

There’s a reality show on Bravo about late-forty-something bimbos right on the cusp of losing their looks. Pammy should look into that – “Real Harpies of Nassau County” should do well on daytime TV.

 
 

Wow, that’s the best photoshop job on someone’s face you guys have ever done.

It IS a photoshop job…right?

 
 

(We’re the backup players, and she’s out front, the lead singer – it’s like we’re ‘The Who’ and she’s our Roger Daltry) [link]

If this analogy is accurate, some other crazy person is writing Pammy’s posts while she’s jutting out her boobies.

 
 

some other crazy person is writing Pammy’s posts while she’s jutting out her boobies.

Just like Britney Spears!

 
 

I’d guess Jesse Malkin first, but Jesse’s a better writer. Just look at Michelle’s site in comparison.

 
 

“Oh man, I would soooo buy a Liberal Fascist Strike Team lunchbox!”

Paging Gavin – Pshop project stat!

 
 

Looking at that… unfortunate picture accompanying the article, I wonder if the caption shouldn’t in fact be “Atlas’ Jugs.”

 
 

Do you understand what that means?”

“Do you?” I asked.

Teh Rapture? (hoping) Funny that she could take the vodka with her.

 
 

Jennifer said,
January 18, 2008 at 16:31
Doug Watts said,
January 18, 2008 at 8:24
Saying — “the guillotine – an idea whose time has come – again” — is just not very smart in any context.

I dunno, Jen. I’m kinda with ya on the “idea” part.

 
 

Years ago I was brewing wormwood beer — according to my mate Fitz, it “managed to taste like white noise and have the same mental effects as a botched prefrontal lobotomy”. Haven’t tried absinthe, though.

There’s a shop in Berlin selling only absinthe (plus the drinking paraphernalia). I used to pass it on my way to sessions at the Marcus-Bräu brew-pub… I probably passed it on the way back as well, but I can’t remember that.

 
 

Years ago I was brewing wormwood beer

We used to make Peyote tea. Just grind up the buttons and steep ’em in hot water. Mild weirdness ensues.

If you follow the recipe and cook ’em into mesc, you get this foul smelling brown sludge that will make you vomit no matter how much chocolate milk you drink. Of course, even after you vomit you are frying for three days, and yeah, it’s totally worth it. But you’ll have to burn the single-wide to the ground, you’ll never get the smell out.

I got five or six tickets for peyote picking. No big, a thirty five dollar ticket and a judge telling you to “seek help”. Dude, that’s what I was doing when they wrote the fucking ticket!

Then there’s shrooms. Fuckers grow in cow patties. Yum, huh? You know you’re good, you wash ’em, they’re in your hand, you KNOW, y’know? But stilll, your brain says “what if these are POISON?” (you have to hear it in the voice of the wicked witch from Oz). But finally, valor (or stupidity) being the better part of discretion, you chew the bastards up, wash ’em down with more chocolate milk, and wait to either get off or die.

Good times…

mikey

 
 

For some reason, the San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi) used to be a popular garden plant in NZ, so that was the mescaline source of choice. Yeah, the juice was disgusting, no matter how you tried to mask it. At least I never resorted to enemas.

 
 

I need a new TypePad account so I can comment as other than “Pim’s Ghost”. Until then, I just keep commenting since I no longer get replies. I must confess, the CafePress store was my idea, I just had no idea it would involve a calendar. So blame me, it was all my fault. I also thought in lieu of these looming financial woes now posted on da blog that my suggestion to ask for contributions and/or a sponsor from anyone opposing Barack (Hussein Mohammed) Obama was fairly sound.

Maybe I need a new bumper sticker for my CafePress store: “Friends don’t let friends go to to Brussels and become genocidal maniacs”.

It’s far worse, BTW, than just MittBott being able to “save us” (read: nuke Iran). She has called both Hillary and Obama anti-Christs. I forget where and how many times, but for once in the video. I went ahead and left a comment about her fund-raising post inspired me to donate to the Obama campaign. My mine is still reeling from reading this blog finally. I am honestly stunned.

 
 

Take you anti-psychotic medications and check all interactions!
How was THAT after a Religious Extremist Terrorist Monster Attack!
Hey, tell the WHACKJOBS that the simple minded man informed me last night, “HONEY! Its the ones with the STRONGEST faith that seek the CHOICES for their FAITH after something like what MONSTERS for PEOPLE of the LACK just put you through!”
You know people those PSYCHO-MANIACS, SOCIOPATHS, NYmphomaniacs, sexual DYSfunctionals, HUMAN TRAFFICKERS, TORTURERS, assaulters, arsonists, accusers, assumers, Gamblers, ILLEGAL druggies, Alcoholics, Murderers, Rapists, Incestors, Bestialitors, Child Voyers, WAS IT AS WELL CHILD PEDOPHILERS and the MONSTERS did not tell me WHILE I worked my ass off for you MUTHERFUCKER PERFECT PEOPLE! Shall I GO ON!
Guess What!

 
 

HOW ABOUT MY CRITICS who THINK what I THINK is important! Where I don’t THINK anything they have to say is of any significance to ME!

You are NOT WORTHY OF ME!
I Quit Nursing Dur to your BULLSHIT MONSTER TERRORIST AMERICAN’S!

 
 

OOOPS, typo DUR means DUE TO!
Shall I dropped a few NAMES for your great INTERVENTION!
Or How about YOUR GREAT BEHAVIORAL STUDY!
How about HYPOCRITES USING MUSIC AS A WEAPON!
Don’t listen to MUSIC torturers if you are MUSICIANS! Otherwise that would make you BONAFIDE TOP SHELF CLASS A HYPOCRITES~!

 
 

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