Comments on: It… Begins

By: Howlin Oats

Howlin Oats — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:12:21 +0000

Nerf guns.

By: HewnMatter

HewnMatter — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:04:37 +0000

Have been happily lurking for awhile. Happy to help out the little Boston tykes and bully for you guys. I got Ferdinand – who I remember fondly as a kind of red diaper bull and pacifist…or was I high? Until the new islamosocialfacist regime brings in the new unlimited-free-toy’s-and-pony-for-every-kid policy for the 2009 season, I guess we’ve got to pick up the slack. Good work folks. Happy Holidays.

By: kefauver

kefauver — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:26:35 +0000

Where did you get that storm trooper pic? The Jawa Report?

By: Je support les troops

Je support les troops — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:33:22 +0000

I think that these portable CD players at $17 each are one of the best values on our list:

Jwin Electronics JX-CD335RED Red Persona

http://amazon.com/Jwin-Electronics-JX-CD335RED-Red-Persona/dp/B000BZ1P3A/

We had to surgically remove several portable CD players from my daughter’s person between appx. 5th grade and 9th grade. So many of the toys in the wishlist (and the alternate wishlists) are for younger kids. CD players could make a bunch of older kids very happy.

Anyway – the Sadlynauts list requests FIVE of these with FOUR already bought. Perhaps that number could be bumped to encourage MORE?

My daughter and I just bought TWO from the wishlist for Christmas in the City.

By: vastleft bugfucker

vastleft bugfucker — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:01:12 +0000

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! OH NOES!!!1!

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By: alec

alec — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:59:19 +0000

His Grace – I’ve posted this question to the PUMAs at a number of sites, and never gotten a response of any kind:

You say Palin was the victim of sexism, that her abilities were denigrated on account of her gender, and she is completely experienced and capable. So…what about the winking? Why did she think it was a good idea, in the middle of what was essentially a job interview where she needed to demonstrate her seriousness and ability to perform a serious job, to flirt with the interviewers? How can you object to being reduced to nothing more than a sex object when that’s what you are portraying yourself to be? Do you want us to vote for you because you are capable and serious, or because you’re cute and flirty? Talk about your mixed messages.

This is the best concise description of why any facially feminist argument for Palin collapses that I’ve encountered. Talk about objectification: any system that would subsume in dignity the President of the United States to some roughneck on the basis of the former having ovaries is not just vile but actively anti-American, and she either honestly bought into it and wanted to participate in it or she felt that the kind of person she wanted most to attract was the kind of person who thinks of women as such a firmly-fixed second class that the place of a female President is in the First Family Kitchen and the Lincoln Bedroom.

We’re dealing with people whose problem with the burqa is the fact its q doesn’t have a u. You throw in with them, you don’t really have a right to lecture anyone about misogyny.

By: Az

Az — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:14:07 +0000

I don’t know if this has been already posted but chief Korir has lost his tripod site . Good for him that he got his wordpress blog back . Like an experienced crook that he is he has so far managed to be one step ahead of the law .

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:49:23 +0000

Cletus – I’m not mad at Palin so much as I find her insufferable. I think she’s a quintessential Jr. High School “mean girl” who covers her inadequacies by lashing out at others. Everything I’ve read about her seems to bear this out as well – the backstabbing, the vindictiveness, the sense of entitlement…ugggh. But I’m with you – I hope the Republicans promote her as high as they can, because she turns off a lot more people than she turns on.

By: Cletus von Clausewitz

Cletus von Clausewitz — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:11:26 +0000

Are we really mad at Palin because she’s lame? Or are we mad at her because she’s so lame and now is unjustifiably famous and powerful? Its like she won the Contessa lottery. How hilarious is it that the more her lameness is pointed out, the harder her supporters defend her? And use modern sensibilities (she feminist-like!) that they’ve always rejected.
I hope she will use every wile to remain in the forefront of Republican politics.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:52:51 +0000

His Grace – I’ve posted this question to the PUMAs at a number of sites, and never gotten a response of any kind:

You say Palin was the victim of sexism, that her abilities were denigrated on account of her gender, and she is completely experienced and capable. So…what about the winking? Why did she think it was a good idea, in the middle of what was essentially a job interview where she needed to demonstrate her seriousness and ability to perform a serious job, to flirt with the interviewers? How can you object to being reduced to nothing more than a sex object when that’s what you are portraying yourself to be? Do you want us to vote for you because you are capable and serious, or because you’re cute and flirty? Talk about your mixed messages.

By: His Grace

His Grace — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:45:39 +0000

Jennifer… The Palin aspect is particularly bizarre, especially given that the Hillary blogs wear up in arms insisting that any woman picked by Obama for VP would have been an insult (because no woman other than Hillary was qualified to be the especially useful position that traditionally is VP). Then the minute McCain picked someone who happened to not be a man, well, she was the next Hillary for some unexplained reason. Hell, they were even rationalizing Hillary’s conduct up until now, explaining that she was just playing ball because of, well, that was never explained, but she secretly WANTED Palin to win. Hell, now they can’t seem to comprehend that a) Maybe Hillary has ambitions other than fulfilling their deranged fantasies and b) on the whole wanted a democratic president this year and wants him to be successful.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:38:53 +0000

ITTDGY – ha! Classic. I couldn’t help dropping a comment about their misplaced rage against Howard Dean. Oh, so HOWARD is a big meanie because he wasn’t on the Hillary bandwagon? Cry me a fucking river. Oh, well, just NEVER MIND that Hillary and the DLC actively worked to sabotage his 2004 run, that Bill and Hillary fought tooth and nail to keep him out of the DNC chair, or that as recently as 2006 they tried again to have him ejected as chair of the party…right before his 50 state strategy began bearing fruit and showing up the DLC tactic of only contesting “Democratic” states for the folly it was.

What fucking rock have these people been living under that they don’t know any of this?

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:23:18 +0000

TGW is also along for the ride, Jennifer. P.S. Haha! IFTTDOYA- Go back and play with the kiddies at S,N!. lindylu | 11.22.08 - 8:12 pm | ~

By: alec

alec — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:08:58 +0000

When I was a kid, we made do with having Dad take us to Wyoming

Jeez, don’t blame yourself. It could happen to anyone.

By: Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:58:46 +0000

It’s too bad they don’t make little beginning demolition kits.

When I was a kid, we made do with having Dad take us to Wyoming and bringing home a trunkload of firecrackers. We improvised the rest, though my brother did once build a pretty ingenious little wooden bridge that we could repeatedly blow up and reassemble.

Re: Sea-Monkeys, the Great Salt Lake is heaving with the little fuckers. They die and rot by the quadrillions out there and the stench off the lake from it is truly unbelievable.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:49:34 +0000

It’s really an odd place, where people scream about how racist AAs must be for voting 95% for “O-zero,” yet in the same breath want women to vote as a block in the next election, apparently for the known feminist Sarah Palin. It’s a place where Obama won by accusing Hillary Clinton and her supporters as being racists, but yet the nomination was stolen from Hillary because of misogyny. Obama is also a hard line marxist, while simultaneously being Bush III.

Boy howdy, you’re not kidding. The Palin stuff is what I have the hardest time wrapping my head around. It doesn’t matter if you agree that Hillary was well-suited for the presidency; if you don’t believe the same of Palin, you’re a sexist. Why? Because men have been supporting men all these years because other men also have penises, or something like that, and so now women need to get with the program and support other women because they have vaginas. Never mind that neither men nor women had much choice about supporting men up until about 30 years ago, since candidates were virtually always men. And McCain was “pushing back” against misogyny by nominating Palin, not crassly insulting Hillary supporters by assuming that women would vote for one vagina as readily as another.

Those folks are all on a one-way train to CrazyTown.

By: J—

J— — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:49:18 +0000

Chief Editor Korir's time on the cross:

If it [the tape] is not for real, then why have put myself through the suffering of even loosing my site 3 times? If it is not for real, then why do I put my life in danger drawing attention form Obama die hard? Sometimes, I just sit and think, is it worth it? But then again I believe that God wants it to happen because when I get down he lifts me and my spirits up.

I like the religious tilt API has taken of late. I also like the spelling of that special verb we know and love.

By: His Grace

His Grace — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:38:33 +0000

Jennifer, I mostly lurk at NoQuarter, though I have been known to make an appearance on some of the minor blogs that are home to NoQuarter posters. It’s really an odd place, where people scream about how racist AAs must be for voting 95% for “O-zero,” yet in the same breath want women to vote as a block in the next election, apparently for the known feminist Sarah Palin. It’s a place where Obama won by accusing Hillary Clinton and her supporters as being racists, but yet the nomination was stolen from Hillary because of misogyny. Obama is also a hard line marxist, while simultaneously being Bush III.

Right now I think my most favourite fevered delusion is how they well and truly believe that he isn’t going to be inaugurated because he really was born in Kenya and is also Indonesian. One fevered commenter wrote that both Clinton and McCain have known since May that Obama is ineligible for the presidency, although she failed to explain WHY neither of them decided to use it against him.

By: alec

alec — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:26:13 +0000

I got banned from commenting over there, for the unforgiveable sin of pointing out to one of the looniest denizens that he was full of shit about Fannie and Freddie causing the economic meltdown, and the even more unforgiveable sin of including actual facts including percentages of subprime loans that were attributable to Fannie and Freddie and the vanishingly small percentage of foreclosures in their portfolios. My punishment? I was told to go play with the Freepers…who also ban people for posting factual information they’d rather not hear.

And, hilariously, believe F&F are responsible primarily because it allows them to pin the issue on blacks and a famous homo.

Which might well be what No Coloreds is into these days, who knows.