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Newest Item On The Homosexual Agenda: Financial Meltdown
First teh gays were trying to destroy the institution of marriage. Now, according to Mark “Brown People Suck” Krikorian, teh gays have been going after financial institutions as well. This means, of course, that the current financial meltdown is the fault of teh gays and teh n**gers.*
Yesterday at America’s Shittiest Website™, Krikorian squeezed out a post titled “Cause and Effect,” about a diversity press release from Washington Mutual:
I really thought this was a joke, but it’s not. WaMu’s final press release, before it sank beneath the waves (h/t Sailer):
WaMu Recognized as Top Diverse Employer—Again
…
SEATTLE, WA (September 24, 2008) – Washington Mutual, Inc. (NYSE:WM), one of the nation’s leading banks for consumers and small businesses, has once again been recognized as a top employer by Hispanic Business magazine and the Human Rights Campaign.
…
The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights organization, also awarded WaMu its second consecutive 100 percent score in the organization’s 2009 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), which measures progress in attaining equal rights for GLBT employees and consumers. WaMu joins the ranks of 259 other major U.S. businesses that also received top marks in the annual survey. The CEI rated a total of 583 businesses on GLBT-related policies and practices, including non-discrimination policies and domestic partner benefits.
Teh gays are, apparently, so busy being fabulous and indoctrinating three-year-olds into the finer points of The Homosexual Agenda, that they just forgot to pay their loans. The next thing you know, bankers at Lehman Brothers were jumping out windows over bad gay debt. Cause and effect, indeed.
After being widely ridiculed over this nonsense, Krikorian tried to refine his connection between the diversity press release and WaMu’s failure. No, says Krikorian, the real problem was that the bank was so busy kowtowing to teh gays that it didn’t realize that it was making loans to inner city deadbeats:
[My] point was not that gay … employees caused WaMu to fail, but rather the irony that the bank was touting its diversity just as it was about to expire due to a mortgage meltdown driven by policital [sic] correctness about diversity.
Silly faggots, loans are for straight white people.
*The meme that the Community Reinvestment Act, which allegedly forced banks to make loans to lazy inner-city blacks, is the root cause of the credit crunch continues to circulate through the cheet-o-sphere, most recently appearing at a blog written by a pretend nun. As I’ve already shown, the idea that the CRA and deadbeat Negroes caused the problem is, succinctly put, cheeto-flecked crap.
El Cid said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:03
No, what it shows was that the PR department was allowed and encouraged to do its job, whereas the sections whose responsibility was to look over the security of its loans & investments were told, “f***, dude, just get the f***ing money, and don’t worry about all that sh*t, ’cause G.W.’s got us, man!”
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:04
None of the wingnuts can explain why the housing bubble burst in McMansionville, rather than in teh ghetto.
JF Sebastian said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:07
Is it any coincidence that Clay Aiken finally comes out and WaMu fails the very same week?
I think not.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:09
Always nice to see:
(h/t Sailer)
Robert Waldmann said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:17
Speaking of gays and the financial crisis, does Mr Krikorian look a bit like congressman Frank to you too ?
You know how much Krikorian is enjoying the titans of finance on there knees in front of Barney.
I proposed that the Paulson plan should be amended to require Frank to cosign on all deals just because I wanted to make homophobe heads explode.
Clif said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:20
I didn’t pay attention to that . Steve Sailer also runs VDARE, an SPLC-designated hate site. Nice.
Gundamhead said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:30
Yeah, cuz poor Blacks and their gay financier overlords borrowed $700billion+
Spinning rims and Lattes ain’t cheap you know.
henry lewis said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:38
Shorter Mark K.:
I’m going to blend two flawed observations and call it irony.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:42
A large percentage of U.S. currency bears traces of sodomy.
g said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:42
And isn’t it suspicious that Barney Frank is leading the House committee on the bailout?
Susan of Texas said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:57
I hear Krikorian visits inner-city high schools once a month to lecture the black girls about the dangers of taking out a loan. Once minute you’re footloose and fancy free, the next minute you’re bouncing a 9-pound baby mortgage.
Susan of Texas said,
September 27, 2008 at 16:58
“one minute”
Jennifer said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:06
None of the wingnuts can explain why the housing bubble burst in McMansionville, rather than in teh ghetto.
A good point that hasn’t been made nearly enough, if at all.
I don’t know about where the rest of you live, but here in my neck of the woods, no one was building “starter homes” over the past decade. The bulk of building was 3,000 sf + McMansions, with all the cliches – granite countertops, 10′ ceilings (this, as home heating costs were doubling and tripling), fancy woodwork, etc etc etc.
A couple of years ago, my boss bought two building lots downtown and planned to build new “old” homes on them (houses that would blend in with their historic neighbors). I convinced him early on to plan on homes with 1800 – 2200 sf maximum, since the only stuff being built out in McMansionville was more house than most people really need or can realistically afford, and there was a market for well-designed smaller homes with good kitchens, bathrooms, and storage space – and no one else was building them.
Then, after a year of planning and costing the project out, I convinced him not to build at all. The market was going soft; in the 6 – 9 months it would take to build the houses, it was going to be softer yet, and there wasn’t enough profit margin in the project to cover holding the houses until the market improves.
To his credit, he took my advice.
My question now is: since the upper end of the market was so overbuilt, is there any chance that many of these properties will ever find a buyer who realistically can afford them? My guess is, no. By the time those buyers come along (10 to 15 years from now), those houses will be dilapidated wrecks from sitting empty for so long and having been scavenged by crack and meth heads for the copper plumbing and wiring. Many of them will be a total loss.
El Cid said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:11
How will I know if teh gays and teh blacks are getting ready to steal my home?
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:14
How will I know if teh gays and teh blacks are getting ready to steal my home?
White men will be getting unconscionably rich.
owlbear1 said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:16
The way to go with this ‘bailout’ is to actually acquire the real estate. No loans, no gifts, but straight sales.
THEN all of that land should be returned to its natural habitat.
You know, just to piss of Republicans…
crossbuck said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:21
Jennifer,
That McMansion shit is so poorly built, that 15 years is a very optimistic estimate of its soundness. If that crap can last 5 years unoccupied or unmaintained, I’ll be damned surprised. I hear enough stories from people who bought them that leaks, way out-of-plumb, and crap wiring stories are too banal to be repeated.
MzNicky said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:25
crossbuck: By contrast, I understand that modest Habitat for Humanity houses, built with low-interest loans, community volunteerism and donations, and the future homeowner’s “sweat equity” are known to withstand hurricanes and other natural disasters with little to no damage. hmmm.
MzNicky said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:26
Should amend that to say “withstand hurricanes” etc. while other crappy McMansion-type houses don’t fare as well.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:35
Mark Krikorian and Barney Frank – separated at birth?
J— said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:37
And then here in Florida, I imagine elsewhere as well, you have developments that are half built, with empty lots as well as houses that did get finished but not purchased as they have liens on them because the contractors haven’t paid their subcontractors. People are going to think twice before buying.
Me said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:42
bankers at Lehman Brothers were jumping out windows over bad gay debt.
It must be all those Brokeback Securities I keep hearing about.
eidos said,
September 27, 2008 at 17:44
Who wants to bet Krikorian isn’t on the down low?
SamFromUtah said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:08
By the time those buyers come along (10 to 15 years from now), those houses will be dilapidated wrecks from sitting empty for so long and having been scavenged by crack and meth heads for the copper plumbing and wiring. Many of them will be a total loss.
Just what I thought. There’s a development of McMansions in my old hometown that’s especially tragic that way, because it was built just in time for the bubble to pop and the site used to be a belovéd vintage mini-golf course. The city was looking into getting buyers to preserve the place, but the McMansion developers end-ran them and snapped it up, making a plum offer to the owning family, who had 20398 grandkids’ worth of Mormon missionary funds to populate. So yay, destroying a community landmark to build crappy ostentatious houses that won’t be occupied and finance the spread of Mormonism. Wotta clusterfuck.
Nylund said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:08
I got a funny feeling it was all the fault of the minorities because you never ever saw a white person on “Flip this house” or even watching it. That show was straight ghetto. All those new exurban developments and tacky McMansions, they scare the white people away in droves. All those granite countertops and skylights? It was like, “what is this, Compton?!”
gbear said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:10
Newest Item On The Homosexual Agenda: Financial Meltdown
Well all I can say is that Financial Meltdown has definitely become a part of my homosexual agenda.
DrDick said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:14
Hmmmm. For someone who clearly enjoys repeatedly shoving his head up his ass, Krikorian seems oddly hostile towards Teh Gay.
The Homosexual Agenda said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:15
Yessss. Everything is going exactly as planned.
Just wait until you see our next fabulous plot unfold.
Ta ta for now.
PeeJ said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:21
What’s especially amusing is how we evil gays bought all those run-down inner city properties and gentrified the neighborhoods driving values way up. No bubble there, those properties aren’t the ones in trouble.
Robert Green said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:27
does getting fucked in the ass by my banker make me gay? because if it does, kevorkian or whatever is pretty much right on the money.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:28
Quick! Honest and earnest troll!
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/1845.html#comment-696261
gocart mozart said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:31
Seriously though, you have to admit that Freddie Mac is a very gay name for a lending institution.
Anonymous for Professional Reaons said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:31
It’s so true about the McMansions thing. The ultra “fuck em” conservative watchword is “bought more house than they could afford”, and when they’re saying it they think they’re talking about poor people, but they’re not. Sure, some people at the lower end of the scale, the ones who could only qualify subprime, were talked into biting off a little more than they could chew, but the key word there is little. They’d buy a 2 Bd, 1 Ba bungalow rather than, well, nothing.
The mortgage brokers’ bread and butter was upper middle Americans, the ones who could afford a $1500+ mortgage payment, because they were also susceptible to the “geez, why settle for a 2Bd, 1 Bath bungalow when you could have a 5 bedroom 3 1/2 bath house on the lake for the same payment [for the first five years].” Entire subdivisions were built on that very principle. I got into appraisaing about five years ago, and on day one, before I hardly even knew what a mortgage was, I was wondering what the hell people were doing getting into interest-only mortgages, and although I don’t usually know the terms of the loans I’m appraising for, I did get a kind of funny smell of denial every time I walked into a McMansion development.
I still get that funny smell, but now it’s usually of “left-behind food” or “forgotten that the window was open.”
David Robinson said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:33
Remember when garnering the Best Picture Oscar for Brokeback Mountain was on the Homosexual Agenda?
Apparently homosexuals can destroy world financial markets but are incapable of swaying an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote.
gocart mozart said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:38
. . . and Fannie Mae is a none too subtle wink in support of buggery.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 27, 2008 at 18:48
Sallie Mae favors easy money.
Jeopardude said,
September 27, 2008 at 19:22
[My] point was not that gay … employees caused WaMu to fail, but rather the irony that the bank was touting its diversity just as it was about to expire due to a mortgage meltdown driven by policital [sic] correctness about diversity.
I’d like to point out the delicious irony that WaMu touted its friendly service and smiling tellers just before it went belly up.
Sure, makes sense.
henry lewis said,
September 27, 2008 at 19:26
a 5 bedroom 3 1/2 bath house on
the lakethe man-made megapondFixed.
Ripley said,
September 27, 2008 at 19:36
Somewhere, deep in Mark Krikorian’s mind…
Super fruity gay couple: “Yes, we’d like to buy a house.”
Loan Officer: “Great! How much do you need?”
SFGC: “Oh, about a million dollars. It’s a really nice house.”
LO: “OK, let’s get started on the paperwork.”
SFGC: “Oh, no – we don’t want to fill out paperwork or pay the loan back, actually.”
LO: “Huh? It’s a loan – you have to pay it back.”
SFGC: “Well, how bout if we just come in once a month and give you a really nice blowjob, instead?”
LO: “Hmmm.. sounds good! We’ll have the deed and title to you by the end of the week!” (Man, this is gonna be sweet!)”
Banking Industry: “Whoopsie doodle!”
Legalize said,
September 27, 2008 at 19:56
“It must be all those Brokeback Securities I keep hearing about.”
Win.
Linnaeus said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:14
That McMansion shit is so poorly built, that 15 years is a very optimistic estimate of its soundness. If that crap can last 5 years unoccupied or unmaintained, I’ll be damned surprised. I hear enough stories from people who bought them that leaks, way out-of-plumb, and crap wiring stories are too banal to be repeated.
Indeed. Where I live, the lots aren’t big enough for McMansions (even taking into account the proportionately small lots that they are being built on these days), so the building bonanza taking place here (in a declining housing market, still) is comprised mostly of condos and smaller houses. I’ve watched several of these new buildings go up over the past four years in my neighborhood; I’m no expert, but they did not look well-built at all. Not that I’ll ever be able to afford a house in this city, but were I in the market for a house, I’d probably avoid anything built in the past decade or two.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:17
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tigrismus said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:24
I hear Krikorian visits inner-city high schools once a month to lecture the black girls about the dangers of taking out a loan.
*snerk* Awesome.
Vic said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:28
Oh my god! The WaMu ads where the friendly young black man takes on the mass of elderly white bank presidents! It all makes sense now. It all makes so much sense. If only those ads were never made, then none of this would have happened.
Robotic Richard Simmons said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:32
I think Larry Craig may have called Mark “The Barney who won’t refuse to fuck me” one too many times.
Lesley said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:40
Tell me he’s just another bloated guts heading for colon cancer asshole typing on the intertubes and not somebody who “testifies” anywhere about anything.
jgmurphy said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:48
Gaaad, where do I begin?
A couple of days ago I noted that hoodless Klanswoman (and I use “woman” advisedly) was dishing out this gruel to the fuming base—i.e. angry white guys——–possibly to prevent them from casting a jaundice eye on capitalism itself, whose “free market” will eternally rip off people like them.
In her latest column, the Coultergeist proclaimed that the entire global meltdown was the work of Nazi liberals who forced cowering, sobbing bankers (and you know how bankers always quake in the presence of those scary ACORN people) into granting half-million-dollar loans to unemployed dusky heroin addicts camping out in the bank lobbies and eating all the free candy.
Better they should blame the faggots and the Negroes than vent their wrath on the merciless international pirates who endlessly poisoned financial portfolios with shaky loans that they sold on the open markets under the rubric of inflated value writeups, knowing they would eventually blow up when they were in somebody else’s hands.
Having toiled in the real estate market for over a decade, I can tell you confidently what you already know: this fiasco had virtually nothing to do with minorities or gays and everything to do with unscrupulous financiers that mis-represented portfolio holdings. The bank rating establishment was to blame, too—as well as laundry list of other villains, such as:
Commission-hungry loan brokers who encouraged homeowners to over-borrow against their equity. Even though many loans were risky ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) that were time-bombs in the making, people were (falsely) reassured that if their payments shot up next year, they “could always refinance.” Obviously, that turned out not to be the case.
Unscrupulous real estate operators who worked with crooked appraisers to over-value properties, using aspiring first-time home-buyers as unwitting “mules” to close fraudulent loans
Greedy bankers who used high-risk mortgage portfolios as collateral to fund even riskier overseas investments
Remember that the bankers themselves, and their cohorts, the mortgage brokers, encouraged borrowers to think not about the total amount they were borrowing, but only about the size of the monthly mortgage payment. Since the astonishingly low rates of the late 90’s and early 00’s kept the payments low even on pricey homes, this helped drive home prices into the stratosphere. Endless price inflation could not last, of course—-when the interest rates began to rise a few years ago, the bubble began to collapse—and it all came crashing down.
The last time the market crash in the 1930’s, the popular villains were the Jews. The yokels were told that Jewish financiers had raided the financial system and left everyone penniless (this is how Hitler rose to power). This time out, the blame is being foisted on other hated minorities.
Ah, tradition.
J— said,
September 27, 2008 at 20:54
Off topic Ejectia. Bill Whittle goes to the hospital for a kidney stone. An excerpt:
You know where that one’s going, right? He ends the piece claiming his experience serves as a valuable lesson and guide to the current financial crisis.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:05
Bill Whittle goes to the hospital for a kidney stone.
Wow.
I believe there is a panoply of non-torture options to choose from these days.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:11
there is
Yes, there is options.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:24
Yammer yammer me me this is funny.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:25
…oh, just go with it!
(You were right the first time – there is a panoply…)
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:28
There is optionsXpress!
Fozzetti said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:34
And the Repugs refuse to vote for a Bailout bill that includes helping the homeowners. Why?
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:35
There is optionsXpress!
…not THAT’S what I call a panoply!!
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:35
not -> now
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:39
“Not now, dear, I have a headache.”
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justme said,
September 27, 2008 at 21:57
Back when I was in the building trades, hrmnahrmna-years ago, we used to refer to builders of that sort of shit as “condo hacks”. The “it only matters from the sheetrock in” mindset has now expanded from the gerbil-warren people-tupperware that was the condo craze of a quarter century ago to these enormous ass-pimples that buyers nowadays have the audacity to think will make them look better than they are. I suppose that these folks see a huge, “beautiful” house and assume that, well, nobody would build such a fabulous abode and do it wrong. Fail. It is predatory building to go with the predatory lending.
Back where and when I was doing it, if we were building a real house, it was so damned overbuilt it wasn’t funny. This may have been just the contractors that I worked for, but it seemed to be fairly prevalent practice. If it came across as a nice house, it was probably well built. This, of course, also required skilled labor that actually knew the difference between making something solid and tossing up some matchsticks, and paying them.
Now, it seems the thing to do is hire the cheapest pack of twits with hammers you can find, skimp like mad on anything that isn’t obvious during the first walk-through, and chuck in the low end units from a premium brand for kitchen stuff as lipstick on the pig. Well, there’s a recipe for satisfaction and growth if ever I’ve seen one. The newest craze in my earthquake-prone town is high-rise luxury apartments. If the structural stuff is done with the same attention to quality that the interiors reportedly have been, we’re going to have some very interesting four block long low rises rather than the four block high bit that’s there now. Strangest of all, this thing was rolled out and sold well before completion. Even in the late stages, people were not allowed any sort of walk through, or only the single person on the contract was allowed in, with the agent, no appraiser or bank rep. This for units in the $500K to $2M range. If that doesn’t set the alarm bells a-ringin, I just don’t know what would. And yet, they sold.
More and more, the race to the bottom is showing itself as the defining concept of our times. From lending/borrowing ethics to homebuilding to virtually every other facet of our lives, cheap and fast have run good out of town.
And it’s all the fault of teh gays! It ain’t called the race to the bottom for nothin, y’know.
Lesley said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:00
Paul Newman dead at 83 :(
It’s always the good non cheeto eating ones.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:10
Even in the late stages, people were not allowed any sort of walk through, or only the single person on the contract was allowed in, with the agent, no appraiser or bank rep.
Great guacamole. Yeah, if the person selling you the house/condo/whatever is afraid to let you bring in a competent third party, just get the fuck out.
libarbarian said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:27
If all those gays hadn’t taken out loans to higher fabulous interior decorators, then none of this would have happened.
Our Dead Selves said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:29
This for units in the $500K to $2M range. If that doesn’t set the alarm bells a-ringin, I just don’t know what would. And yet, they sold.
Alarm bells never sounded because we (as a culture) are so concerned with our image– it’s more important to look rich than to actually be able to afford our house. Same thing w/ SUVs, massive credit card debt, etc. Are consumers partially to blame for the credit mess? You bet your biscuits they are.
justme said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:30
Yeah, it amazed me when I heard about it. If someone who wanted millions of my dollars dealt with me like that, I would not only buy them the garden weasel, but I’d insert it for them, too.
On a lighter note, you too can interview Sarah Palin.
RB’s recipes have nothing on this.
Claggart said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:31
I’m sorry , but why do you insist on using that annoying “teh”? And if you insist on using it, why don’t you use it all of the time?
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:36
I’m sorry , but
This always convinces me that someone is sorry.
Anyway, that Palin interview site seems to be based on a Markov chain. You too can Markov chain the Palinator and receive gems like:
Simba B said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:43
Anyway, that Palin interview site seems to be based on a Markov chain.
Yes.
justme said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:45
Heh, clearly I’m not enough of a math geek. Shame, really. Yeah, the link I got it from mentioned Markov.
From teh wiki…
Oddly ironic, applying such a process to a campaign that seems built on it in the first place.
See: regulation, banking.
Joe Max said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:51
My first reaction was that he was going to blame gay people for inflating prices in gentrified neighborhoods by speculating in housing with their gay-gotten gay investment gay money.
Hey, I should be writing the wingnut talking points for them!
WereBear said,
September 27, 2008 at 22:57
A few years ago I did a lot of cab riding in DC (which, BTW, is the best cabbing experience I’ve ever had) and when the topic turned to the different neighborhoods we were riding through, every driver acknowledged the gay couples who had transformed various niches.
Smut Clyde said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:00
Mark Krikorian frequently testifies before Congress
I should add that to my CV. “Smut Clyde frequently testifies before juries.”
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:01
See: rethuglican, governance.
If only conservatism did not failed so consistently.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:01
The extra ‘ed’ is for extra Edmund.
justme said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:02
Smut Clyde,
I’m not sure it counts if it’s in your own defense.
justme said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:05
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach
Smut Clyde said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:18
B is for Basil, assaulted by a bear market.
J— said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:20
The extra ‘ed’ is for extra Edmund.
I thought it was just K-Loian English.
Weekend link roundup « The Popular Front for the Liberation of Discordia said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:24
[...] Sadly, No! – Clif has all the details on how the homosexual agenda caused the financial meltdown. [...]
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:25
The secret is out. Bigotry is like smearing the blood of a lamb on the lintel of one’s door. It’s true! A corporation can engage in bad and even illegal practices until it’s blue in the face without any consequences … PROVIDED they hang up little signs that say “We hate teh Ghey,” and the set the dogs on any non-Caucasians who wander too close to the building.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:29
…not that there’s anything wrong with the blood of a lamb on the lintel….
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:31
…except for the lamb (and maybe the lintel)…
You Can't Put Lipstick On A RePIG said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:37
> is there any chance that many of these properties [McMansions] will ever find a buyer who realistically can afford them?
I read an article, can’t remember where, that in the opinion of some housing expert these McMansions could very well eventually turn into multiple-dwelling units. Think of big Victorians in cities that have been turned in six-, eight- or more- plexes.
IOW, those McMansion cul-de-sacs will turn into suburban ghettos, to use some old terminology.
It is charming to see the dividends the “free market’ is bringing us.
Smut Clyde said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:38
I have taken the vegetarian option. I smear lentils on the jamb of my door.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:41
Big Victorians were designed/built with multiple small rooms and stairwells – conducive to redesign to multiple dwellings. Open concept/cathedral ceiling McMansions may not fit the bill (especially if the construction is fundamentally “cheap”).
You Can't Put Lipstick On A RePIG said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:42
> Anyway, that Palin interview site seems to be based on a Markov chain. You too can Markov chain the Palinator and receive gems like:
One of the best snarks I ever heard years ago was the riff somebody did on Raygun, taking clips of his statements Ray Stevens style and turning them into Markovian hilarity. You can find it in mp3 form on the net now. I’ll search for the name if somebody wants it.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:44
I have taken the vegetarian option.
Greedy liberals want to take all our vegetarian options!
You Can't Put Lipstick On A RePIG said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:45
> Open concept/cathedral ceiling McMansions may not fit the bill (especially if the construction is fundamentally “cheap”).
That just adds to the fun. Imagine shoddily-built lofts to eliminate those high ceilings and give another “floor” for more renters. Imagine shoddily-built stairwells and acres of cheap drywall installations to wall off big rooms.
Gary Ruppert said,
September 27, 2008 at 23:51
The fact is, the liberal media and the hate USA leftists are too chicken and PC to call out the “diversity” loans divisions for watering down the value of the mortgage market, look, alot of these minorities, especially the blacks and mexicans, are irresponsible and they are asking for a handout to help them? THe Dems? Instead of the professionals who were scammed and forced to be nice and conscientious, look where that got us, no more enforced PC niceness, you just hate hard work and want to forment classwar.
Lesley said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:00
I wonder if they’re taking new citizens.
mikey said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:01
Umm, why would you smear the blood of the lamb on Intel and not on AMD?
mikey
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:05
the blood of the iamb (courtesy of Wikipedia
take that, intel
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:07
(of course, ? = some character that WP can’t deal with …!)
Rightwingsnarkle said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:11
IOW, those McMansion cul-de-sacs will turn into suburban ghettos, to use some old terminology.
Your comment reminded me of something I recently saw at the very fine Bag News Notes, which specifically mentions Merced, California.
With some help from the google, I found this:
El Cid said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:21
A reduction is necessary for many classic sauces.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:35
…especially those incorporating lamb and lentils
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:37
These slapped up homes aren’t going to last long enough to be viable once the housing market recovers. Even if not, they have too strikes against them in an energy crunch; they’re suburban, and people can’t afford the commute anymore, and they’re poorly insulated and have wasted space that will take bucks to heat/cool.
And yes, with winter coming on it’s be all “heating” but having lived in the south, I can tell you they have the same energy costs facing them, only it’s in the summer, not the winter. My junior high in Florida got built for air conditioning, so the windows don’t open. In contrast, my high school was old, but it had high ceilings and big windows, so it was just barely habitable.
Without a/c, the sealed buildings will be suitable for roasting turnips, not running computers.
Gary Ruppert said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:42
The fact is, you are not debating me with facts or engaging in any meaningful discourse, and the fact that it is liberals forcing banks to make loans to minorities that got us in this mess. Some people are irresponsiblwe with money. If most of them are black, does that make me racists, for saying a fact?
Our Dead Selves said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:44
You just keep repeating yourself, Gary. Bugger off.
Simba B said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:45
Better fake Gary plz.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:45
Some people are irresponsiblwe with money. If most of them are black, does that make me racists, for saying a fact?
Absolutely, and incontrovertibly, yes. (The “saying”; the “fact” remains to be demonstrate. – Nice of you to go for the plural, you racists, you.)
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 0:46
d
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:00
irresponsiblwe with money
I remember the good old days, when parody trolls didn’t lower themselves to the level of Elmer Fudd impersonations.
mikey said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:06
I remember when Elmer Fudd woulda kicked their skinny asses…
mikey
Lobster Porn said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:09
Mmmmmm, lamb and lentils…
Susan of Texas said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:12
You want to know what does make you racist? Your racism.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:19
A Raisin in the Sun
As we toy with bugtussle gary, it’s worth remembering the classics.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:22
So, Gary, I’m not really sure how that ties in with teh homos
raping our childrensubverting our banking system. Are you trying to say that all teh gays are also black, and bad with money? If so, this is a whole new, awful front in the War On Terror that must be taken very seriously. I, for one, shan’t sleep well until this is sorted out.Please clarify.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:35
A reduction is necessary for many classic sauces.
Today..? for you..? we take a couple dollars off
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:40
…but you still have to pay the $50 for parking.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 1:58
…a mortgage meltdown driven by policital [sic] correctness about diversity…
retarded… and scary.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:00
(sorry, I should have said)
criminally ignorant… and scary.
mikey said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:03
Nope, y’had it right the first time.
Anybody who still thinks there’s something interesting or funny in Parody Trolling is retarded. AND criminally ignorant…
mikey
Lesley said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:10
:) susan of texas.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:11
knee-jerk PC… can’t help it
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:20
mikey,
Rugged has had his moments, but otherwise, yeah, pretty much.
mikey said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:31
Hell yes.
Rugged gets it right. If they could learn from that mother how to do it, it would be pretty much a nonstop hoot.
But the rest of them are pretty much utterly clueless.
It’s sad. There’s nothing to be gained in trying to have a dialog with them.
And over and over again, it ruins what would otherwise have been some pretty interesting, not to mention amusing, conversations…
mikey
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:31
And they go to sleep at night… and dream of… Ru Paul.
In a big house.
Burning the mortgage on a bonfire made of Bibles.
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:40
Bibles? Pshaw! I prefer to burn my mortgage on a bonfire made of babies. Needless to say I do this inside my 50 room house for which I have no insurance because I blow all my money on Clay Aiken posters.
When the house burns down I go out and buy another, but that’s all right because my neighbors houses have burnt down too. I only do my mortgage burning on windy days.
Oh, you know I’m just kidding! Clay Aiken’s haircut gives me a pain.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:45
but mikey – you’ve got to have some “contra” (sorry) in the thread to keep it interesting – it’s just too bad that it’s so pathetic.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:50
…maybe some recruitment is in order (some sort of “troll-competency” test”
mikey said,
September 28, 2008 at 2:51
Dood, pathetic is always equal to pathetic.
There are, and have always been, smart, funny, and interesting voices in this community, and they don’t march in lockstep. But there’s what, four or six or maybe eight people who KNOW they can fuck up any conversation here by posting outrageous hate-speak under the guise of some right-wing troll. And for fucks sake, time and again the good people of the commentariat buy into the bullshit. It’s genuinely painful.
Do yourself a favor. Pic a week or a month from ‘07 or ‘06 and read some Sadly posts before it just got mindless and stupid.
You’ll see what I’m talking about…
mikey
g said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:02
Ru Paul? Now if Ru Paul were running for president, I’d vote for her.
g said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:03
I only think the parody trolls are funny when they’re talking to their real-troll counterparts. Otherwise…..meh.
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:09
Ru Paul has a better sense of style than Bible Spice, and is more intelligent, and coherent.
Plus, that would take care of any gender issues. So there.
Lesley said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:22
werebear, me thinks you’ll appreciate this.
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:24
As you all know, Sen. McCain serves on three Senate committees: Armed Services, Commerce, and that other one, the one you don’t hear much about. Which one was it? Oh, yeah, Indian Affairs. It turns out McCain has a number of close friends and associates who have been intimately involved with bringing Indian tribes’ interests, particularly their gambling-related program activities interests, before Congress, particularly the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. What do you know.
Hey, Gov. Palin. Thanks to the New York Times, you can now answer Couric’s question and tell her McCain has sought to regulate gambling on and off the rez, although not always evenly or consistently.
Southern Beale said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:34
Wait .. I’m so confused. First they said the financial meltdown was the fault of Bill Clinton and black people. Now it’s teh gaiiiiiis? Next up …. teh Jooooooooos! But never, ever the tried and true principles of Reaganomics and deregulation.
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:38
All four and probably more, Southern Beale. That’s the beauty of a paranoid mind. It’s capable of building and sustaining the most elaborate, self-contradictory, and laughable constructions. They are their creations; they are ours to marvel.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:39
… before it just got mindless and stupid.
Well, I must admit that I’m a relative newcomer, and my experience of the balance between political commentary, snark, silliness, and trollery is only what I’ve seen in the time I’ve been here. If there was a golden age, I’ll believe it (the present is good, too) – and I’ll admit that the trolls/parody trolls/troll-busters are annoying, but I’m not sure to what extent the “good people of the commentariat buy into the bullshit” (unless you mean occasionally feeding the trolls/parody trolls). Sometimes a response to a (faux)troll comment is as interesting as anything else – though I’m sympathetic to the danger of troll-feeding.
nabalzbbfr said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:39
Barney Frank!
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:42
If there was at some point a Golden Age, then it means we are bound for a Dark Age. It is inevitable. Perhaps we are already in it.
mikey said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:46
Sometimes a response to a (faux)troll comment is as interesting as anything else
Yep. Ultimately, it’s every readers decision, and perhaps I am the one who is yelling at clouds here.
But it’s not what it was. Hell, it’s not even what it wants to be. And I’m saddened by that. But you’re right – it’s MY problem to be dealt with….
mikey
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:49
Thanks, Lesley, that was delightful.
It is somewhat a function of the human brain to wax nostalgic, since we have filters that endeavor to blur pain and sharpen our joys. It is possible to circumvent this, with trauma or philosophy, but that’s the default.
As for me, the Glenn-Beck-robot-body-sex thread is one that made my ribs hurt for days. And it wasn’t that long ago.
Onward, and Upward!
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:49
…well, you’ve got to stand up for (and state) what you believe in and desire – I wouldn’t call that your “problem” – it’s your position (and a good one).
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:54
See Obama crush McCain like a jelly bean at the Big Meeting in the White House.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:58
…(didn’t mean to suggest that you haven’t already stood and stated your position – I know that you have – clearly and convincingly)
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:02
I’m finding that hysterical. You know, jelly beans resist at first, but they don’t bounce back like gummy bears.
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:04
It was necessary to sell the golden age, in order to pay for our pwn age.
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:05
they don’t bounce back like gummy
bearsdicks.ignatov said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:21
“But it’s not what it was. Hell, it’s not even what it wants to be. And I’m saddened by that. But you’re right – it’s MY problem to be dealt with….”
Shorter Mikey: “Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot.”
I kid, Mikey, cuz I love ya, baby!!!
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:29
I think Palin should drop out and be replaced by a wax apple.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:30
…with a wax worm in it
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:37
I was the shadow of the wax worm slain…
Jennifer said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:37
Don’t knock the gummie dicks. Before their advent, this was your primary “eat a bag of dicks” dining option.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:40
Okay, J–
Tell me it isn’t all like this, because I got to here…
and nearly assaulted my keyboard with stomach acid. Good, Lord. The petty theatrics are just too much. I’m not sure if it’s worse if he really did do that, or if they all decided to just say so.
Aaaaaacccckkkkk.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:42
your primary “eat a bag of dicks” dining option.
Eeeew. (Mind you, they’re very tasty.)
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:47
If and when Gary Ruppert progresses to the next step of his eliminationist rhetoric, and tries to set up a genocidal death-squad modeled on the Interahamwe, I imagine that he’ll call it the Irresponsiblwe.
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:47
Apparently McCain is the “strong and silent” type:
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:48
I take that as part of the setup, justme. Go to page three for big finale at the White House, where the Maverick faces off against the community organizer and loses face.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:50
Jennifer,
I thought this was what you used to get.
ckc (not kc) said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:51
oh, now that’s just too obscure (Jude?, Jude?..) Or should I say, obscurwe?
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:52
Or just see WereBear’s comment at 4:47.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:53
J–
Good, because I don’t think that the image of a WP reporter giving McCain’s Andy-Kaufman-in-a-Mighty-Mouse-suit impression a big sloppy blowjob would do me any good at all right now.
Or ever.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:56
And for the record, Jennifer, I am a huge mirugai fan.
jim said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:57
Needs more shooping.
Enlarge by circa 70% & put “Surprise Buttsecks” on his folder?
Insert large marital-aid into his empty hand?
Add a pink cyborg-monocle & a word-balloon saying “Nigras & Loanfags are OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!!!!1!1″?
Give him a horned Viking helmet?
Put his head on a glistening leather-boy’s body?
Oh the possibilities ……….
Smiling Mortician said,
September 28, 2008 at 4:59
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, pressed Boehner hard
Heh.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:02
Hmm, Casablanca’s on. Back later.
Gary "The Rugged Truth" Ruppert-Montana said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:12
Heartland, is fact the.
I’m writing everything backwards from now on, just to prevent unwanted palindromes.
Get it? PALINdromes.
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:18
Here you go.
Source: In a new letter to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) obtained by ThinkProgress, 31 members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) call Bachmann’s claims “ridiculous” and ask Boehner whether her comments represent the views of the Republican Caucus.
Well? Do they, Mr. Boner?
Susan of Texas said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:18
I dearly love to slay trolls, but these are unworthy of combat. Give me a stout-hearted, honest troll who has the conviction of his stupidity.
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:21
Oh, for the days of Angel Annie and Shoelimpy. Such were the joys.
Susan of Texas said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:21
I almost forgot–Jonah Goldberg makes a funny. It’s so amusing when he begs for help.
Dean Booth said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:22
OT, but breaking news: Repubs plan big televised wedding of Palin’s pregnant daughter!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4837644.ece
It would be great if they could be married by Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Soon after the wedding ceremony, Todd Palin and Wright, both drunk, start chanting “God Damn America!” but McCain puts an end to it by hitting Wright over the head with a folding chair.
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:23
Thank heavens Goldberg turned to writing. If he sent out calls for help during neurosurgery, it might be even more horrible.
El Cid said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:24
Pssst — the New York Times editorial board becomes shrill. Praises New Deal, blames Reaganism for the current mess.
El Cid said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:28
If Jonah Goldberg begs for help…
…who are we to not come to his aid?
Susan of Texas said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:31
You might say it’s our duty.
J— said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:40
Time to log in to that sleeper email account.
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:43
Jonah Goldberg: when Wikis go bad.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:57
Oh, no. Does he include factual inaccuracies? I’m not sure that qualifies as “discrete”.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:58
Oh, for the days of Angel Annie and Shoelimpy. Such were the joys.
Good god. It was pathetic me who begged geeks for the pie script precisely because of those nitwits.
Rugged in Montana’s okay by me, and I have a real weakness for the Coach Urban Meyer shtick. All Rupperts and Malfunctioning whatevers are in the killfile depending on my mood.
Funny responses to trolls are funny, unfunny responses to trolls that teach me something are good, responses to trolls that do neither make me very interested in adding the responder to the killfile as well.
If a troll gets you to write more than he does your funny/informative quota goes way way up.
The Oracle said,
September 28, 2008 at 5:58
The Republican Party is using the same tactics “perfected” by the Nazis in pre-World War II Germany.
Blame the blacks. Blame the immigrants. Blame the Jews. Blame the gays.
The right-wingers blame everyone but themselves.
And a meaner, crueler society arises for everyone, including the children, like the one “Massah” McCain was promoting in his debate the other night with Barack Obama. Hell, “Massah” McCain wouldn’t even look at Barack Obama.
And then the neo-Nazi, neo-fascist right-wingers roll out their propaganda cannons. “Compassionate conservative.” Blacks and minorities caused the Wall Street meltdown. Teh Gays caused WaMu to collapse.
This neo-Nazi, neo-fascist propaganda pattern is always the same. The elitist white guys who’ve committed all the crimes and caused all the problems are never to blame. The righteous never are. The right-wingers never are. And another country goes down the right-wing toilet.
Obama/Biden ‘08
Vote to get some new people, honorable people, honest people into the White House and throughout the executive branch of our democratic government, or vote for “Massah” McCain and have four more years of “Massah” Bush and “Massah” Cheney-type neo-Nazi, neo-fascist right-wing propaganda and policies, which will surely destroy our nation.
A Concerned Reader said,
September 28, 2008 at 6:11
The fact is Gary has been infested by witches and is now channeling Elmer Fudd.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 6:15
Vote to get some new people, honorable people, honest people into the White House and throughout the executive branch of our democratic government, or vote for “Massah” McCain and have four more years of “Massah” Bush and “Massah” Cheney-type neo-Nazi, neo-fascist right-wing propaganda and policies, which will surely destroy our nation.
I was leaning McCain until that eloquent statement shocked me awake.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 6:23
Hey all? My chinchilla just died. When the coroner opened Captain up he found a security camera right next to Captain’s heart. Sometimes there’s just too much sad news, ya know?
protected static said,
September 28, 2008 at 6:59
Au contraire, Jennifer. (Tho’ we are sticking with a Pacific NW thing here…)
Mmmm… Dicks. Bags of hot, meaty, juicy Dicks.
What?
Djur said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:10
I remember the first time RB used his “my pet just died” JanusNode routine a number of people quite sweetly commiserated with him.
Lesley said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:16
Overnight somebody should change Wall Street to Bail Street.
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:18
When one of our resident cat population died last week, I thought about asking RB for a suitably-consoling Rainbow-Bridge-Related message.
Mehitabel the Abyssinian is in mourning, though she shows it in strange ways, like pulling pizza crusts out of the garbage in the middle of the night and bringing them to bed.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:34
Can you tell what’s on my mind?
A brand new house, it drives me wild
I’ll call my banker on the phone
Then suck his bone
These kinds of deeds are such a high
Ooh, hoo, hoo, hoo
He gives me loans
We made it on his office desk
I watched his three-piece-suit burlesque
He looked at me with such a smile
My face it shone
Sex and business is grotesque
Ooh, hoo, hoo, hoo
He gives me loans
Bank boy, bank girl
I want that contract to unfurl
Bank boy I’m gonna make him penetrate
I’m gonna make you be a girl
Ooh, hoo, hoo, hoo
Bank boy bank girl
And though my credit is quite shot
I’m on a one-half acre lot
And even if I have a payment to postpone
When I’m with him it’s just so hot
Ooh, hoo, hoo, hoo
He gives me loans
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:35
I got the dead pet lines from actual dead pet comments on the web because I’m a horrible horrible person.
Lesley said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:41
sung to the tune of China Girl?
henry lewis said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:46
although not always evenly or consistently.
There’s your mavericky right there.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 7:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAXvTvO0TI&feature=related
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 8:15
Heh, I was going to say Ca Plane Pour Moi, and there it is next up on the Tube.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 28, 2008 at 8:21
This is more illustrative but it’s interrupted with sketches in German:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlsfsypBi8&feature=related
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 8:26
Hrrm, listen to song before commenting.
Also, you’re a horrible, horrible person for reminding me how long ago that was.
BRB, gotta tell the kids to get off my lawn.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 8:36
Oh. My. God.
The SNL Palin “interview” rules! Never before has the best line come from the real transcript rather than the writers.
henry lewis said,
September 28, 2008 at 8:41
Worst October Surprise ever.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 8:47
Because that’s all they have left.
Wow.
"Two Buck Chuck" said,
September 28, 2008 at 9:25
In the narrowest sense, a stochastic process has the Markov property if the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states, i.e. it is conditionally independent of the past states.
Ironic that the same process that generates ‘fake” Palin responses was similar to the model for calculating risk for financial derivatives.
Brandi said,
September 28, 2008 at 9:25
Two weird Palin items:
http://interviewpalin.com/ uses Markov chain-generated reactions to let you conduct your own simulated Palin interview.
And this somewhat disturbing article: McCain camp prays for Palin wedding
Brandi said,
September 28, 2008 at 9:27
Gah, I’m sorry I missed the earlier references to the Markov Palin interviewer. Guess I had what my old boss used to call “a blonde moment.”
That second story should be interesting, though.
Jennifer said,
September 28, 2008 at 9:32
Jonah’s doing an update? Maybe someone should let him know he’s now in Urban Dictionary.
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 10:27
As opposed to Reynolds, who aspires to upload his consciousness into a robot body, Jonah would be content with replacing himself with Wiki software. I reckon he deserves credit for being realistic.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 10:40
It would be more likely to pass a Turing test.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 10:53
Also, if anyone hasn’t seen the SNL-Palin skit yet, here it is.
A bunch of fun parody, and then – boom, about halfway in, almost verbatim excerpts from the real interview. I nearly pissed myself. Fucking brilliant. It goes to show, you really can’t write better comedy than these fools conjure up unintentionally.
Smut Clyde said,
September 28, 2008 at 10:59
I’m a horrible horrible person.
When the vet rang to report that Harry-cat’s condition was inoperable, my first thought was that at least we could make a teaching moment of it, and further our daughter’s education by staging an autopsy. The Frau Doktorin’s response to this suggestion was unaccountably negative.
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
September 28, 2008 at 12:39
Step 1. Scream at the press to leave Palin’s family alone.
Step 2. Ask the press to race out to Alaska and intrude on Palin’s family.
Step 3. ???
I notice the people gushing over the possibility of a tactically placed wedding don’t care what Bristol and the Fucking Redneck might want. The strain of having strangers stomp through their wedding might cause some tension, but so what? By the time the issues that causes leads to a divorce we’ll have won the election! Family Values, bitches!
Wow. Those people really chow down on the goeducks.
Lemmy Caution said,
September 28, 2008 at 12:39
Hey, is it true that the brain-damaged nitwit who regularly posts here as “The Truth” is really Bob “Cornfed Wankstain” Owens.
Cos if it were so, that would be, well, kinda sad ….
WereBear said,
September 28, 2008 at 13:00
And we liberals mocked the wisdom of a Palin pick! Yes, she brings problems, but she also brings solutions.
I have no doubt, at all, any more, that this event will take place. These are the people who bullied the Alaska legislature, voters in several states, and their own candidate.
They would regard two teenagers as a piece of cake.
justme said,
September 28, 2008 at 22:20
Even the sorry-ass Bush clan had the class (?) to keep their youngun’s wedding from becoming a political media event.
These clowns? Not so much.
Like I said, that’s all they have left.
Dreamweasel said,
September 29, 2008 at 21:02
Step 4: PROFIT!