Shorter last-ditch GOP election message: “VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND THE TERRORISTS WILL KILL YOU!!! KILL YOU!!!! YOU ARE SO FUCKING DEAD IF YOU PULL THAT LEVER FOR THE DEMS, YOU SORRY-ASS BITCH!!! DON’T EVEN THINK OF DOING IT UNLESS YOU WANT BIN LADEN SUICIDING HIMSELF IN YOUR HOUSE AND SKULL-FUCKING YOU IN THE ASS!!!!!!!”
But remember, to quote Gary Ruppert, “the Republicans are the party of hope and ideas.” Loserz.
I don’t know why so many of these are Australian. There might’ve been a trend around here, back in the day, in which radio would test-play breakout Australian bands briefly, leaving a few dozen people like me with a hazy and unconsummable excitement over them.
I was living in my dad’s girlfriend’s parents’ basement when this hit the radio. I was 12 or so, and the perquisites of living there included a historically amazing Advent reciever/amplifier — a budget deck that’s since gained a lot of respect in the audiophile circuit — and a good set of all-ear headphones. One big moment was really hearing the Cars’ ‘Touch and Go’ through those headphones, with Roy Thomas Baker’s super-spatial production and heavy stereo panning. I wouldn’t know how to describe such things for years afterward.
And this came up one day. I didn’t know what to make of it, but knew it wasn’t ordinary rock. It was a little better and more exciting, nicely creepy. The band was called ‘Angel City’ in America, probably because of the Bill Aucoin creation, Angel, who were supposed to be Kiss’s polar twin. I think there might’ve been a dumber, more ‘rock’ video that turned up on MTV, very seldom, a couple of years later. It’s certainly the case that Great White would do the same unfortunate cover-job on a couple of these guys’ songs that Quiet Riot did on Slade’s.
The Angels – No Secrets (4:16)
In retrospect, it’s sort of a Saints, echt-AC/DC, Radio Birdman thing. Nice! Also in retrospect, these Antipodean guys were all about 1) The downmarket vintage guitar, and 2) The ’30s-cut suit, and doing little ironico-masculine pantomimes in them (viz. Split Enz and all subsidiary entities).
See, one time when I was…AIEEE!
[grim orchestral vamp]
[Pamela appears with a sulfurous bang]
“Slavishly” vs. “Niggardly”
By Michelle Malkin · October 18, 2006 10:22 AM
Michael Steele: Smeared againWhen I first read that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, had apologized for accusing GOP Senate candidate Michael Steele of “slavishly” supporting the GOP, I thought it might be a case of political correctness run amok.
I have criticized his unhinged Democrat attackers before for their obnoxiously over-the-top racist comments. Initially, I thought the Hoyer comment did not rise to that level. It made me think of the silly brouhaha over a local D.C. government official’s use of the word “niggardly.”
I was prepared to write that Hoyer had gotten a bad rap…
…Um, what?
I was prepared to write that Hoyer had gotten a bad rap…
Above: A bad rap.
So, Hoyer was too hip for the hippie, the hip-hip the hop-a-you don’t stop a-rockin’, to the bang-bang-boogie, say up-jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat?
Stop while you’re ahead, Michelle.
But then I read more about the context of his remarks and Hoyer’s past history of race-based insults against Steele. Hoyer didn’t just innocently use the word in ordinary conversation. He employed it during a comedy routine in front of a crowd of mostly black business owners:
Black business owners: The new White Citizens’ Councils, chez Malkin.
This chart says it all, doesn’t it?
It’s time for them to go. Kick their sorry asses out.
I like New York, and on the whole I like New Yorkers; but sweet Jesus do I hate New York sports teams, and even moreso, I hate their fans.
Which is why — along with being a St. Louis Cardinals fan — I’m having so much fun watching this year’s MLB playoffs. First the Cardinals advanced from San Diego, the Padres still reaping their karmic dues from employing John Birch Society members in the 80s. Meanwhile, the stathead/robonerd darlings, the Oakland A’s, after finally winning a post-season series (against a cold Minnesota team), quickly reverted to their Big Loser status and were trounced by the Detroit Tigers, who in turn had just decisively plowed through Satanbrenner’s team, the New York Yankees, the coverage of which was completely predictable:
After humiliating the Yankees, the Tigers got to watch as the national media trained all of its focus and attention on … the Yankees. And they are acutely aware that Wednesday’s Game 2 will be shown to about five homes outside of Michigan and Northern California, Fox preferring to beam the NLCS to America.
Obviously good triumphed over evil in the American League, but in the senior circuit, evil is still very much on the prowl, what with the New York Mets easily dispatching the L.A. Dodgers in their division series.
This year, the National League’s branch of New York evil is pretty talented. Before last night the LCS was tied 2-2 between the Cardinals and the Mets; honestly, I’m surprised the Cardinals have put up this much of a fight. I still think the Cardinals will lose, even though it’s all for nought anyway, because whichever team advances is guaranteed to be annihilated by Detroit.
So, whatever. Anyway, yes, the Mets are a talented bunch this year; but more interestingly, they aren’t, for once, an obvious bunch of assholes. First Baseman Carlos Delgado is a great player, a heck of a world citizen, and is really just too good a person to be wearing orange and blue. Manager Willie Randolph has always been a class act. Etc. But whatever the decency of their players this year, it’s too little too late for the fan base and the franchise which remains, as a whole, POND SCUM.
I feel inclined to blow my mind, get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun.
Shorter Michael Medved: Our only hope is that voters can look at a devastated forest and still see some trees.
Shorter Rich Galen: Elections mean nothing; final control of Congress will be won by partisan and parliamentary gamesmanship and, if necessary, bribery.
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Preemptive birth control and coercively culling the population are basically the same thing, in that each has been supported by progressives at one time or another – including now.
Shorter Mike S. Adams: I’ve been reading gun magazines in the can again.
Shorter Tony Blankley: Petulant conservatives who stay home from the polls to punish Republicans for not being perfect are stupid fucking peasants.
Shorter Paul Weyrich: Democrats have become so thoroughly steeped in far-left radicalism that they’d never even consider choosing as House Speaker an independent like my good friend, Ralph Hall, chairman of the Free Congress Foundation board of directors.
Shorter Maggie Gallagher: If Rick Santorum loses the election, Hillary will no doubt ram through her controversial proposal for mandatory gay marriage.
Shorter Ben Shapiro: Even if Democrats wrest control of Congress from the Republicans, they won’t win enough seats to be of any significance.
Shorter Walter Williams: When it comes to reppin’ for free trade, my man Pat Buchanan’s got a little slack in his mack.
Shorter Michelle Malkin: Bleeding-heart elitists like Angelina Jolie miss the point when it comes to seeing heart-rending images of human suffering. They should do what I do, and obsessively seek out convoluted ways to discredit the photographer.
Shorter William Rusher: Should we go to war against North Korea and Iran? I would say yes, but this is a matter for President Bush to decide.
Shorter Brent Bozell III: Media coverage of Harry Reid’s alleged ethical violations has been grossly underplayed, but coverage of Dennis Hastert’s has been just about right.
Shorter Terence Jeffrey: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone kept producing children until they eventually got one who grew up to cure cancer or quarterback a winning Super Bowl team?
Shorter Paul Greenberg: Am I missing something? When did the phrase, “I take full responsibility,” come to mean not taking any real responsibility at all?
Shorter Linda Chavez: Racial preference in college admissions is reverse discrimination against whites and Asians, and does a disservice to the handful of blacks and Hispanics who qualify on their own merits.
Shorter John Stossel: Dude! Imagine how cheap your dog’s collar would be if there was no government!
Shorter Austin Bay: Based on current birth rates, Mark Steyn predicts a looming population showdown between Muslims and Republicans.
Shorter Jacob Sullum: As a libertarian, I support the efforts of the fine people of Nevada and Colorado to legally roll themselves a number now and again – and I don’t mean at the craps table.
Shorter Chuck Colson: As the leading world power, the United States is in a unique position to help curb religious persecution around the world. As Christians, we must vote Republican.
Alternate title: Charles Johnson: “Israeli Press, Defense Analysts, Others, Everyone, You, Him, The Little Men Who Live in the TV — Anti-Semitic.”
The sad decline continues at Johnson’s boutique hate site, Little Green Footballs — although apparently not yet avalanchingly enough for a full medical intervention.
Above: Johnson, with a camera angle that doesn’t make him
look like an animate bowling pin in moist Ralph Lauren.
This campaign ad is truly stunning (via Sully):
That is so bigoted and vicious that I almost respect it. The Dems simply must learn to be meaner, or they’ll be chainsawed by stuff like this.
I haven’t been doing a lot of wingnut takedowns lately, mostly because reading them has become damaging psychologically. I mean, just last week my shrink outright forbade me to ever read Powerline again. But this column by Dr. David Noebel could be the best wingnut debut I’ve read since Coach Dave’s infamous “Spaghetti-Pusher Leadership.” Let’s get ‘er done:
Will the Real Sodomy Party Please Stand Up?
By David A. Noebel
One has to shake the head violently to see if the neurons are still connected to believe that all of a sudden the Republican Party is the party of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Ah, clear and well-constructed prose. It’s truly the hallmark of all great wingnut pundits.*
Everyone with an ounce of grey matter knows that the Democratic Party is the Sodomy Party in America. There hasn’t been a homosexual issue that the Democrats haven’t either backed or initiated since the ACLU determined that homosexuality would make a great stick to poke in the eyes of conservatives, traditionalists, and all natural law advocates.
Them homosexuals sure do love a-pokin’ things don’t they?
So I thought of a great* idea for a mix CD tonight. It’s called “Honky Songs: Tunes for Sad Middle Aged White Folks Who Still Think They’re Hip.” My playlist so far is as follows:
1.) “If I Had a Million Dollars,” Barenaked Ladies
2.) “Only Wanna Be With You,” Hootie and the Blowfish
3.) “Achy Breaky Heart,” Billy Ray Cyrus
4.) “Margaritaville,” Jimmy Buffett
That’s a pretty good 1-2-3-4 punch of pathetic white people songs, but I’d like more suggestions. Send ’em if ya got ’em in ye olde commentes.
*By “great” I mean, “really goddamn motherfucking goddamn fucking awful, motherfucker, I said godDAMN!!” Just to clarify and all.
Gavin adds:
