No need for hesitation or excuses. We celebrate and encourage pedantry here.

I looked at that link to Kabuki Katie’s comments and all I can say is, she thinks the Left is angry? Those people have spikes on ‘em. I almost posted something to that effect but I’ve already had my daily run-in with a jerk who emailed me something nasty through my profile, after I asked him to stop shouting (posting everything in bold and large letters) about Obama’s birth certificate.

I have to say that I’m surprised to hear that Katie’s not only married but has children. Now I wonder if she went on the cruise without her husband, because I didn’t spot him in any of her photos and she was sure talking like scary fan girl about some of the stars of NR.

BrianX, that guy you mentioned just makes me hurt. My youngest worked as an entertainer on a 4-day Disney cruise last year so we had to go and see her dance. She was worked pretty hard too, 60 to 80 hours a week (because she got into every show she auditioned for after she was hired to be Alice during the day), but it was worse for our cabin steward and the waiters on the ship. They were all so good to us and so nice, and we talked to all of them about their homes and families. We had a great time even though our kids are grown and we don’t have any grandchildren yet. (And our towel monkey was better than hers.)

You never read the account of last year’s cruise, did you? These people have serious, serious entitlement issues. The nicest thing they could possibly say about the cruise staff is “good thing I’m not them”. If you want a good example, google “Cory the Driller” — he was some dude was trying to set himself up before the election as another “Joe” the “Plumber”, and he sent around a widespread email forward (you can read it on MyRightwingDad) that got him interviewed on Fox News. He actually bragged about skipping college because he was “ready to take on the world” and slagged employees who dared ask for a decent wage to work for him. Triple Cory’s salary and put him in a business suit, you get the sort of person who would go on the National Review cruise.

If by “yet” you mean “therefore”, you got it.

Together we…we…

…we named her…Baby. I thought she loved Baby…

NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER!!!1!!!1!1

Mark Steyn (funnier than Hell)

Haha! Hell sure is funny! Hey, check out that babe over there, she’s good-lookin’ as shit!

I would think this to be SOB for all the overprivileged wingnut welfare cases sick enough to qualify for the trip.

Yea, but I couldn’t leave it alone, lefty that I am… ;-)

So KabukiKate thinks its OK to mock overworked staffers on a ship that’s clearly understaffed in a capitalist-approved manner of getting as much productivity out of as little personnel as possible.

Interesting.

I’ve taken cruises. The crew works hard, really hard. The cruise is pricey, but the staff appears to see very little of it.

I was talking to a bartender. In the day, he’d work the breakfast buffet (6:30 AM) man the gangplanks at port (9-5:30 or so) and then be back at the bar by 6 in order to serve drinks until 1AM.

You couldn’t hire an American to do that kind of schedule, and these folks are not paid particularly brilliantly (which is why they live on tips).

And yet, Katie mocked them.

Interesting.

I could only base my statement on what KazookiKate wrote. I can’t be responsible for her being a horrible reporter. I had to assume her statement about Granny “throwing her copy of NR” was fully descriptive.

Given her description of Granny’s anathemic reaction to anything conservative, it seems unlikely that Granny was all that interested in what the right wing was talking about.

Except to hear Bill Buckley overclock his thesaurus.

Actually, for a conservatard, a pretty good response. Good on you Katie. Just one minor nitpick – you use the term The Angry Left. If the toxic contents of your Inbox are as advertised, perhaps this is an appropriate usage – but let me remind you that the tagline for your blog is:

Imagine no liberals….its easy if you try….no hippies whining, above us only sky….

= Comedy Gold

I mean, the whole thing is comedy gold, but I love it when they pepper their victimhood screeds by victimizing others in the same way they believe they are victimized.

Most of all, she seems completely unaware that anything you put on the internet that is not password protected can be read by anyone, and people may react in ways you don’t expect, or like. And if you ask for money, people might just offer you some. I don’t know why that bothers her so much.

Oh, and look, she seems to have gotten my yahoo e-mail shut down.

Translation: I was indoctrinated early by Conservative Maoists.

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