Comments on: Yeah, Nina, That’s The Ticket

By: marc

marc — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:11:32 +0000

I’m glad you guys pointed out that it was supposed to be a saddle. I thought it was a health class pamphlet-esque rendering of a vagina.

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:40:47 +0000

The one decently composed painting (the battle in front of a castle) appears to be a copy of a Delacroix. Mon Dieu, a Frenchman, and one suspiciously interested in Muslim subjects.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:10:23 +0000

I shall pay you a visit WITH my collection of walking sticks so that I may um persuade you of the wrongness of this notion.
I for one am eager to contribute financially to the Avenging Gentlewoman Walkingstick-of-Doom travel fund, in order to bring this scenario about.

By: hamletta

hamletta — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:46:35 +0000

Wow! They had one of those paintings in my hotel room.

Really? You’re lucky you weren’t eated by bedbugs!

I guess I missed the part where Planned Parenthood was funded by the federal government.

Yes, and…I didn’t miss the part where the forced-birthers have been squawking about the skajillion-dollar abortion industry for decades. Head ’splody now…must sleep.

By: Gentlewoman

Gentlewoman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:28:35 +0000

Alternatively, we could simply cancel the $625bn in Social Security disbursements because those old geezers and disabled people should have planned better in the first place.

I shall pay you a visit WITH my collection of walking sticks so that I may um persuade you of the wrongness of this notion.

I planned. I saved. I invested. And then the LTD insurance company, about 3 years after I became obviously too disabled to work, allowed as how they might pay me a portion of the agreed benefits an all I had to do was hire a lawyer and sue them. Since, by the time they made this generous offer, I had blown through all of my retirement savings, the lawyer-hiring portion of the program had to be done without. To the surprise of no one, no portion of any benefits were ever paid.

Count your blessings–the cognitive vagaries of my MS have caused me to be unable to recall the safe place in which I put the key to the CLOSET FULLA SHOTGUNS.

I could be, like, superhero persuasive with a closet fulla shotguns.

But, hey, the $20K intern would be really handy because it’s harder for me to do laundry and wash floors now. And I can’t drive, so maybe the intern can make the likker runs and such.

I have holes in my brain and take heavy doses of various neurological drugs and I still cannot reach the depth of fuckitude of Teh Mind of Nina May. Just. Can’t. Get. There.

Too bad, seems like a Happy Place! Happy! Happy!

By: Daphne Chyprious

Daphne Chyprious — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:09:35 +0000

Man, that’s the best example of inside out, upside down, backwards thinking I’ve come across in, well, forever.(Dictate that you don’t get to discriminate anymore, huh.) But they really do view the world from that perspective, don’t they? Like the opposite side of the kaleidoscope…the myopic side.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:54:43 +0000

I’d suggest killing the “Black Budget” for all the exotic wartoys & dirty-tricks the Pentagon loves so much – there’s a good 1/4 of your financing right there … then you could trim a good $200 billion of fiscal suet out of the rest of the Pentagon, & nobody without a Halliburton/SAIC/Boeing-based portfolio would even notice … ohh yeah, the top-heavy DHS has fat, tons of it, & so does the DOE.

Make the damn pols fly Coach & you’ve saved at least a few tens of millions more, per annum – not to mention the fringe-benefit that they can’t get away when some pissed-off prole wants a straight fucking answer to a real question for a change. The YouTube infotainment possibilities are downright exhilirating.

Social-spending is like a whopping 6% of the USG budget (if that) & it’s been cut to the bone long ago. Someone send this nice lady some Haldol, & for Ah Pook’s sweet sake, pay her NOT to paint. That Reagan thing is just flat-out gackworthy.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:10:46 +0000

Wow- her paintings stink.

By: The Goddamn Batman

The Goddamn Batman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:54:05 +0000

I understand that she does a very special “limited edition–for serious collectors only” version of that Reagan painting where you know exactly where’s the rest of him, if you catch my drift. Peggy Noonan owns three copies–bedroom ceiling, shower stall, and laundry room, opposite the slightly-unbalanced washing machine–and Ann Coulter has it tattooed on–OK, gotta stop. I’m squicking myself out, here.

By: (Lex) Palianated

(Lex) Palianated — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:53:18 +0000

Susan….Homeskool…love it…ROFL

By: Snorghagen

Snorghagen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:48:31 +0000

I was worried about all this economic turbulalence that I’ve been hearing about, but Nina May’s carefully thought-out solutions have convinced me that the situation is well in hand. I’m gonna go flip me a few houses so I can afford to buy a great big mess of fine art.

Hm… is it just me, or does that look like an English saddle?

Saddle? I thought that was a giant paramecium.

By: t4toby

t4toby — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:22:44 +0000

Oh, man.

Epic Fail.

By: cowalker

cowalker — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:12:58 +0000

I’d never seen a portrait done on purple velvet before. I wonder if she takes commissions. I could get a picture of a unicorn on purple velvet. Maybe on the beach, emerging from pale lavender waves. Mmmm.

By: StringonaStick

StringonaStick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:12:27 +0000

I don’t know, but the stirrup in that painting is definitely your faggy english saddle stirrup and not your manly western saddle stirrup. How dare she desecrate St. Ronnie’s memory like that!

By: The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:11:52 +0000

It could be that her first language is German, capitalization of nouns is mandatory from Der Affenmensch to Meine ZImmer.

By: folderol

folderol — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:20:47 +0000

Ripley, way up yonder:

Hm… is it just me, or does that look like an English saddle?

Sir, I use English saddles. I know English saddles. English saddles are a friend of mine. That, sir, is no English saddle.

Don’t really know what it is. Apparently, neither does the artist.

By: Susan of Texas

Susan of Texas — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:00:13 +0000

Perhaps it’s from watching “Upstairs, Downstars” and taking notes, passing time until the plantation economy Uncle Newt promised them makes its glorious return.

By: Riiiiiiiight

Riiiiiiiight — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:53:07 +0000

Not to mention that the lion’s share of HHS budget is medicare and medicaid. Good luck with Florida’s electoral votes when those older voters find out they’re on their own.

By: Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:53:00 +0000

“It’s the same impulse that makes them say forsooth and fortnight, a combination of angophilia and confused respect for tradition.”

I think you give them too much credit. It’s the language (to them) of Shakespeare, as spoken by Olivier and Clair Bloom and Anthony Quayle and *that* lot–the language of noble, effective, dashing, and heroic people who stir thousands and conquer foes *just by talking.* Which is all they do.

(Apart from the garden-variety pretentiousness, of course.)

By: g

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:43:03 +0000

[W]hy not defund Planned Parenthood and apply that money to the crisis?

I guess I missed the part where Planned Parenthood was funded by the federal government.

Or does she have a bold new plan that we steal the bank accounts of random private non-profit organizations to finance the bailot?