“Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni has eight arms and two tentacles, a sharp beak, and hooked suckers which….” [BLAARGH!! CHOMP CHOMP. PBBBBT.]
“…proves the awesome utility of pandering to the bullshit populism of Creationists! Praise Jebus, students!”
Eeek it is to late! The evil wingnut beast did eat PZ and then poops inky blackness on science!!!
Shhh! We are like Levi-Strauss persons among the natives. Look it is their snake doctor! We must observe the crazy wingnut creature! It goes into the Klonopin trance….
“Blarggh! I will slap you with my cock, reveal your identity, then my tribe will snuff you with axe handles and make sexual remarks about your children! Yet I am a victim!“
Pattycake, Pattycake, Double-standarding hack:
“Pasty’s teh funny so I got his back!”
Count Cockula & Deb are the same, if you’d see,
But, no! – ’cause you’re a fucking wanker, and Jeff’s the wankee.
People should forgive Mel Gibson just as I have forgiven Ted Turner, but they won’t because they really just want to discredit the The Passion of the Christ.
Credit: ‘Shorter’ concept invented by D^2 and later perfected by B^3.
In response to this post Glenn Reynolds replies in part with the following:
While I think that Drum’s comparison with U.S. and Israeli strategy today with Soviet strategy in Afghanistan — if that’s what he means, which isn’t quite clear to me — is wrong, I think that his reference to “casual genocide” as the preferred strategy of pro-war people is pretty clear, and pretty absurd. Yeah, you see that kind of thing in blog comments sometime, but I think most people support current U.S. military efforts because they fear that ignoring the problem is likely to produce more death and violence over the long term, not less. (Hence the frequent invocations of 1936 and 1938). That’s certainly my view.
My emphasis. Note that once again Perfesser Corncob reveals himself to be a master at weasel-phrasing. The emphasized passage is not quite a denial, and yet the reader is clearly meant to assume that Reynolds never engaged in rhetoric like that.
(Also notice that — of course — Kevin Drum doesn’t bust Reynolds on this, no doubt on the grounds that sensible centrists must pretend that Reynolds is a serious person, qualitatively different from Coulter, Savage, Ledeen, et al.)
And you thought only abortionist, commie institutions like PBS thumbed their noses at the free market by undertaking annoying pledge drives. Sadly, No! Bradrocket already covered Pasty’s self-pitying scheme, and now I see that the White Trash at Red State are begging, too.
But whereas Pasty only offers a righteous cock-slapping to his contributors, Red State boasts that their donors will get a preview of the new site, Red State 2.0! For only 25$, you too can look through the knothole and behold their shiny new corrugated tin shack, complete with (portable, naturally) burning-cross yard ornaments, glossy faux-marble Ten Commandments signs, some spiffy yard sale tables, and a handsome cement pond in which Box Turtle Ben shall peacefully frolic so long as that “whites only” sign stays up on the privacy fence. Tarnation! ain’t that worth the 25$ you’d otherwise blow on a gallon jug of moonshine or a quarter-gram of crystal meth? Yessir, shur nuff is!
The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that “according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as ‘innocents’ of the enemy.”
All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians,” the statement said.
(Efrat Weiss)
However, the Yesha Rabbinical Council cited a Deb Frisch Exception, saying that the leaving of icky comments about people’s families on the Internet is a terrible atrocity to be condemned by all civilized people — and for which the only redress is banning the trollmassive cash donations.
Brought to you by pow-pow-Powerline: An exercise in circle-jerkingly citing IDF press releases and right-wing Israeli media as authoritative news sources, while still screwing up the most basic details of a story — resulting in an approving link from the Minneapolis Minge Ninjas. Objective: Justify the Qana attack via speculation and creative blameswitching.
Shrader and Gannon did not question the rather unique makeup of the families hardest hit in the attack (my bold):
Israel suspended air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours starting early Monday in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike on a house that killed 56 Lebanese, almost all of them women and children.
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Red Cross officials said 56 were killed and police said 34 children and 12 adult women were among the dead.
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In Qana, workers pulled dirt-covered bodies of young boys and girls dressed in the shorts and T-shirts they had been sleeping in out of the mangled wreckage of the building. Bodies were carried in blankets.
Two extended families, the Shalhoubs and the Hashems, had gathered in the house for shelter from another night of Israeli bombardment in the border area when the strike brought the building down.
“I was so afraid. There was dirt and rocks and I couldn’t see. Everything was black,” said 13-year-old Noor Hashem, who survived, although her five siblings did not. She was pulled out of the ruins by her uncle, whose wife and five children also died.
34 children. 12 adult women. Not a single adult male officially listed among them. How strangely asexual these “civilian” families seem to be.
Except for the ten adult males killed, seeing as 56 is ten more than 46 (for most definitions of ‘ten’).
Coming Soon: Presence of adult males in Qana death toll proves Hizbollah using victims as ‘human shields.’ Get on it, boys!
Update: ‘Were the Qana Bodies Staged?’: A bonus exercise in selective sourcing and convenient amnesia, in which Confederate Yankee grabs a story from a right-wing Israeli journal (whose only source is IDF press statements), swallows it whole, and adds some me-too commentary.
These guys have it so easy, man.
Among other interesting features (for instance, a new, improved timeline helpfully provided by the impartial IDF), we learn that unlike that time in the distant past when an American missile killed al-Zarqawi — that legendary figure remembered down a long, long march of ages from a time when the world was young — those killed by the concussion created by explosives don’t ever look reasonably intact on the surface and die of internal injuries, like al-Zarqawi did, and as was widely explained all over the place, lo! those distant several weeks ago.
Coming Soon: It’s All the Media’s Fault (Somehow).
