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Brother, can you spare a kidney?
A fellow from Denmark draws our attention to a recent Thomas Sowell column. Let’s see how many words Thomas needs before he uses the N-word!
Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.
Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of. Nazis were free to be Nazis under Hitler.
Wow, 42 — pretty impressive. Let’s continue!
There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate, and colleges where your application for admission will not be accepted, unless you have engaged in activities arbitrarily defined as “community service.”
Yes, all these damn liberal universities and schools — forcing their students to do community service. Those damn sons of bitches at Liberty University:
Community service is required for all undergraduate resident students[.]
Oh, wait. Fortunately, Thomas isn’t done yet. Because a man who only needed 42 words to drop the N-bomb is surely capable of going on to advocate beating the homeless:
Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.
Is a community better off with more people not working, hanging out on the streets, aggressively panhandling people on the sidewalks, urinating in the street, leaving narcotics needles in the parks where children play?
Now where did Thomas leave his kick me sign? Ah, here we are:
This is just one of the ways in which handing out various kinds of benefits to people who have not worked for them breaks the connection between productivity and reward, as far as they are concerned.
Good news, everyone: We’re # 2 for wingnut welfare!
I am sure those who favor “community service” requirements would understand the principle behind the objections to this if high school military exercises were required.
And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.
Supposedly students are to get a sense of compassion or noblesse oblige from serving others. But this all depends on who defines compassion. In practice, it means forcing students to undergo a propaganda experience to make them receptive to the left’s vision of the world.
Because how could anyone even argue with Thomas’ basic premise that community service is a liberal brainwashing scheme. It’s unpossible.
Bonus points — Comment 5 to Sowell’s column:
Indeed, Hitler’s brown shirted minions were a government sponsored community service organization.
bargal20 said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:19
What did you do for this loaf and fish, fucker?
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:24
And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.
I dunno – is it a hawt gorilla?
You’re forgetting that liberals are objectively pro-bestiality.
Rick Massimo said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:26
I am sure those who compare “community service” requirements to Nazism would understand the principle behind what asshats they are being if they were asked whether schools had the right to veto stories in the student newspaper and search students’ lockers and backpacks without warning or warrant, as a series of unelected-activist Supreme Court decision in Ronald Reagan’s ’80s established that they do.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:30
If it was Magilla Gorilla I might do it because, you know, he’s famous.
tigrismus said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:30
They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.
Like slut-shamers and fag-bashers! We just LOVE that kind of stuff!
luneylegume said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:33
Song birds are not dumb
Some birds songs beg
“Please don’t sing along”
Cass can’t make it
Kristin said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:34
In practice, it means forcing students to undergo a propaganda experience to make them receptive to the left’s vision of the world.
So, he has just admitted that service to the poor is part of the left’s vision, and that doing community service will cause someone to become part of the “left.” In other words, doing community service and being part of the right are mutually exclusive?
It’s easy to see why there are so many blogs devoted to tearing down the stupidity of these idiots.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:35
Proving once again that Thomas Sowell is Jonah Goldberg’s houseboy.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:36
Sowell’s a moron, yes. He’s also lazy as fuck.
Sowell today:
Sowell, 11/6/07:
A broken record on a morally bankrupt point. Well done, Tom.
Legalize said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:37
“And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.”
Well, you see ….
Never mind. Pass. Pass.
El Cid said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:38
I am sick and tired of you bleeding heart liberals making it so fun and carefree to be homeless. Maybe if people around the world didn’t know how sort of fun-time academies you were creating in the homeless shelter, there wouldn’t be so many people voluntarily abandoning their homes so as to cavort with liberal charity. If you would only take Econ 101 you would understand this.
Mr. Wonderful said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:41
“Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.”
Similarly, contributing money to charity is widely regarded as “virtuous”–as if encouraging freeloaders, laziness, sponging, mooching, and other forms of getting something for nothing is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.
Matt T. said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:43
I wonder what set him off. I mean, sure this is standard “I’ve got mine” wingnut boilerplate, but generally something specific irks these yay-hoos, like seeing Orlando Bloom without his shirt makes Ben Shapiro write about the ickiness of gay people. That sort of thing, so I wonder why Thomas Sowell, Professional Grumpy Old Fart, is hacked off about having to do some bullshit that you can totally fake if you’ve left the house at all during your high school years to get into college. Maybe he has a dartboard with topics to get frothing about each and every week (at least) in his life.
Arky4That1 said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:44
gRape Ape.
Ah, my handbasket to hell has just arrived.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:45
Obama. Tom was opearating in hacky-old-coot mode for the past decade. The rise of Obama really brought a ragegasm out in him.
Or maybe that was the incontinence.
justme said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:47
So now it’s the “Thousand Points of Spite”?
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:47
Because the dangling carrot and the busy stick works so much better!
ahem said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:48
“Are there no prisons?”
(And I see that America’s Shittiest Website™ already went there.)
Till said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:49
Welcome to Germany. I didn’t grow up here, but my understanding is that all young men must serve nine months military service, or civil service as an alternative.
By the by, I helped with Catholic religious instruction as my community service. Mostly because it was convenient and the teacher was a friend of the family. Anyway, you don’t have to see icky poor people if you don’t want to.
Loneoak said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:52
I was going to be homeless, but when I realized that my community offers inadequate services to the homeless I decided not to be homeless.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:54
Community service is evil! It says so in St. Ayn’s Holy Book! John Galt would not approve! St. Ronny would stare sternly at the suggestion.
Arky4That1 said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:55
Hmmm…
[<a href="http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=1"via the DFHs of the DVA]
Arky4That1 said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:56
FYWP:
Hmmm…
(I think it chocked on my embedded link, which was to that nest of DFHs, the DVA)
Arky4That1 said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:57
(Will this work, or does WP truly suck the giant Sowell Schlong?)
http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=1
PeeJ said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:57
The solution then is simple. Don’t define them arbitrarily but rather using a rigorous taxonomic scheme. Or one could simply avoid those cawlidges and higth schools. Or one could stop jerking one’s own chain and do a better job of emulating one’s mentors – Weyrich comes to mind.
Arky4That1 said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:58
OK, I should also point out that because those stats are from an Bush Admin. agency so feel free to assume they’re VERY conservative. For compassions sake, of course.
Now I will shut up.
(FYWP!)
johnbinpt said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:58
“narcotics needles”? I had no idea that the medical supplies industry manufactured special hypodermic needles designed specifically for narcotics abuse. Learn something new every day.
justathought said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:59
“Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.”
Aren’t people in a homeless shelter off the street, and therefore, by definition, not vagrants?
Wouldn’t that mean that working in a homeless shelter actually helps reduce vagrancy?
I mean, I know it’s America’s Shittiest Wewbsite@™ and all, but really…
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:00
…unless you do fucking PHYS ED. Truly there are harsh and valuable lessons to learn within the dodge-ball ring, but community service may provide something nearly as useful.
justathought said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:02
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:54
Community service is evil! It says so in St. Ayn’s Holy Book! John Galt would not approve! St. Ronny would shake his jowly wattles disappointedly at the suggestion.
Finagled Your Tipple
DocAmazing said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:05
if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla”
So you ding-a-lings that smell like ylang-ylang wanna play ping-pong with King Kong’s ding dong, or it’s off to Sing Sing for a long, long…
bulbul said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:10
How many words does Thomas need before he uses the N-word?
Call me picky, but I don’t think this works as the Ultimate Question, either. On the other hand, I like it better than that “six times nine” bullshit.
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:11
Aren’t people in a homeless shelter off the street, and therefore, by definition, not vagrants?
Well if you insisted on being pedantic about it, you might quibble with a statement about “handing out various kinds of benefits to people who have not worked for them” — because if some has worked for a benefit, then you are not “handing out” benefits, you’re feckin’ paying them. But I like to think that we are better than that.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:15
Via the godlike Thers a whole fucking AEI interview with the current president. I forget his name.
Green Eagle said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:16
“Indeed, Hitler’s brown shirted minions were a government sponsored community service organization. ”
If, by “brown shirted minions”, this jackass is referring to the SA (known colloquially as the “brownshirts”) he is wrong as usual. The SA was funded by the Nazi party from its inception in (I think) 1921 or so. As soon as the Nazis did become indistinguishable from the government, the smacked the brownshirts down hard- have you ever heard of the night of the long knives?
They can’t even get the facts right about their closest historical soulmates.
Tommmcatt said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:16
Incidentally, the brown shirts were disturbing and dangerous precisely because they swore allegiance to Hitler himself, not to the Nazi Party or, after the Party became the state, any other governmental or military agency.
But I am expecting knowledge of history from wingnut commenters, which is like expecting knowledge of mechanical drawing from chimpanzees.
Tommmcatt said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:17
Green Eagle is a genius.
EnfantTerrible said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:19
Shorter TS: “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Tommmcatt said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:20
By the way, where are the pet trolls? Usually any mention of Hitler makes them all erect and shiny…
The Truth said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:26
Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.
J. A. Baker said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:34
Okay, Mr. Sowell, then explain, under your rubric, the right’s opposition to abortion, the right of gays to be treated like human beings, religious freedom for non-Christians, etc. etc. etc.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:34
High-level back-and-forth – with punchline! – from the AEI forum:
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:39
> MR. DeMUTH: The essential point is that in history, in wartime, Presidents do well not leaving the war to the military, but being the supreme commander themselves.
Continuing the wingnut tradition of being clueless about history.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:40
Would the gorilla give a reacharound?
Oh, PZ would wish likely wish us a Happy Monkey, were he here.
Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.
Clearly the gorilla.
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:42
in wartime, Presidents do well
There’s an unstated statement of priorities here.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:50
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:50
Whoops.
Essential point? It’s “central point,” dummy.
Another gorilla said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:50
Hey! we are vegetarians, mostly, and we live in communes but we don’t do the backyard sausage dance.
Not with freakin’ humans anyway, we got some dignity.
Bettencourt said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:52
Sorry to be so ignorant, but has anyone explained recently why Sowell has the nickname “Kidney” on this, my favoritest of all blogs? Unlike the other fabulous nicknames (Doughy Pantload, Assrocket, K. Lo, The Human Steyn, et al), I have never understood the history of this name.
Though I often think fondly of his great plan to have helicopter snipers intercede in police chases; you just can’t make stuff like that up.
Tommmcatt said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:55
Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.
See what I mean?
DMG said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:56
TANSTAAFL!
except wingnut welfare would qualify as a free lunch, thus screwing the pooch
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:57
So me and Ralph were talking on the thread downstairs, and we seem to think that The Truth is D.N. Nation.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 2:58
G*d damned Marxist Salvation Army bell ringers!!!!
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:00
Am I the only one really irritated by the Salvation Army ads?
I’m like, “Hey, imagine how many kids you could feed with the money you spent on this.”
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:07
Meat Loaf og Karla DeVito
Music, the universal language.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:08
The pet trolls are all out on patrol.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:10
There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate …unless you do fucking PHYS ED.
Mine, in dopey suburban Ogden, Utah, was one such.
Worse, they required a course called “Responsible Parenting”, which was all about how, since every single one of the girls was assumed to be headed for marriage and knockage-up the day after graduation, you might make the best of it and not be shitty teenage parents. The boys were assumed to be getting married and conducting the knockings-up a bit later, like at the age of 21 or so, after they’d served their Mormon missions.
The class was a total joke, too, more of an indoctrination into conservative mommy-and-daddy culture than anything useful. Pfaugh.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:11
All anti-Christmas warriors must hail our hero Charles Dickens.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:11
Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.
What’s with the “or”? You need to learn to dream big. Shit, that’s what wanking is all about.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:12
“knockage-up”
*quibble*
“knock-upage”
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:12
I’m like, “Hey, imagine how many kids you could feed with the money you spent on this.”
I blame the Papists. And the Illuminati. And those bastard Masons. And the reptilian Greys.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:13
What did you do for this loaf and fish, fucker?
First comment and it wins the thread. Well, from here, anyway. Now let me go read the rest of the comments.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:14
*quibble* “knock-upage”
Hm, I guess I hypercorrected.
How about “up-knockage”?
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:17
First comment and it wins the thread.
That happens a lot around here.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:17
Filipinos often get to take an awesome course – in university no less – along the lines of “Towards a Healthy Heterosexual Relationship”.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:17
This is the strangest thread I’ve read here in a while, and that’s saying something. What, I don’t know.
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:19
Results 1 – 10 of about 4,260,000 for “knocked up”.
Results 1 – 10 of about 51 for “knock upped”.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:20
“Another book that you famously read”
Uh — “famously read”? Because, for Chimpy McShitbrains to have read anything would be of famous note? Or something? blergh??
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:22
Filipinos often get to take an awesome course – in university no less – along the lines of “Towards a Healthy Heterosexual Relationship”.
Jeebus. I can just imagine what that’s like.
Actually, I wouldn’t be against good parenting and relationship classes – and anger management and stuff like that – if it were somehow presented non-coercively and not tailored to fit some sort of weird throwback social order. I just have no idea how you’d pull that off.
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:22
The last time I tossed money into a Salvation Army bucket was just before I found out they had spent several hundred million dollars lobbying to make sure that they wouldn’t have to meet the federal employment non-discrimination requirements in return for sucking up a bunch of “faith-based initiative” taxpayer largesse. That was something like 5 years ago.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:24
How about “up-knockage”?
Does this involve trading your non-spouse for a more valuable specimen?
Gundamhead said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:24
Jesus, how does someone get to be this much of a fucking asshole anyway? This is your brain on gLibertarianism.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:24
Have you not heard the Tale of the Three Shakespeares?
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:26
Results 1 – 10 of about 4,260,000 for “knocked up”. Results 1 – 10 of about 51 for “knock upped”.
OK. In general, where I use a verb/particle combo like “knock up”, I do prefer to put the conjugations on the verb. Though I could imagine they could become lexicalized to the point where the verb and particle aren’t separable.
But if in doubt, just make fakey German out of it, e.g. aufgeknacht.
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:26
Whoops. That was several hundred thousands of dollars. Not millions.
Still, I don’t toss money into the pot to help fund their lobbying campaigns in support of bigotry.
Osama bin Ruppert said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:28
The fact is, you liberals have no respect for the laws of economics.
Another gorilla said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:33
It is the laws of physics which I disdain, hah!
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:35
Jennifer, I haven’t supported them either, since I found out how uncharitable they can be.
Probably why the commercial makes me so ticked off.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:40
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:11
All anti-Christmas warriors must hail our hero Charles Dickens.
Oh my god, that is the funniest thing I have ever read! The writer actually says that people love Dickens’ Christmas Carol because they literally believe that ghosts visited Scrooge (not just a fictional character, but real!) on Christmas Eve and turned him from a crotchety old free-market capitalist into a Big Government Liberal!
I thought Sowell’s piece masterfully presented the raw meanness and cruelty of the Conservative ideal, but this Paul Edwards fellow really pushes the crazy envelope.
These people are amazing – every day they come up with something even more insane than they did the day before! Peak Wingnut is nowhere in sight.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:40
It is the laws of physics which I disdain, hah!
Forest mushrooms give me the gift of flight through the galaxy, aided by a wise, patent leather panda from the 137th dimension.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:40
And my italics were off! I swear it!
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:42
Forest mushrooms give me the gift of flight through the galaxy,
Just don’t eat the bright orange ones.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:42
An awesome Town Hall sign-off:
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:42
Jennifer: Well shit. I just tossed a $20 into their pot yesterday. The Salvation Army has been one of my Xmas donations, especially since Target got all snooty and banned them a few years ago because their corporate PR geniuii deemed them not hip enough. Sort of a perverse/reverse kneejerk reaction on my part. Oh well.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:43
Heh heh. It’s like an extra helping of Christmas stupid. I LUV U TWNHALL!!1
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:45
Have you not heard the Tale of the Three Shakespeares?
That would be William and his younger brothers, Tell and Overture.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:46
nation that respects biblical marriage
Well, hellfire and damnation! Marrying Bibles? What’s next? Man on dog sex? Goat blowing? Box turtle marriage?
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:46
It is the laws of physics which I disdain, hah!
Not to mention laughter and loving.
Goats said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:50
We would like to have a few words with Mr. Kaus on the laws of loving.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:51
Just don’t eat the bright orange ones.
The way to eat those is to drink the urine of someone who ate the orange one (true story). Least, that’s what the Sino-shamans used to do. I bypass that myself, being allergic to urine (“It’d been a pretty wild night down at the Blood Clot….”).
shaun said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:58
I was going to ask why he doesn’t present some conservative-approved community service ideas since that would actually be productive instead of just blowing hot air but then I realized that;
1) that question answers itself
2) maybe that’s what he was trying to do with the whole mandatory military service thing.
FlipYrWhig said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:59
This puts a whole new spin on John McCain’s favorite rape joke.
Tommmcatt said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:03
#
ahem said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:48
“Are there no prisons?”
(And I see that America’s Shittiest Website™ already went there.)
I just clicked through to that page,
Jesus, what a bitch.
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:05
Biblical marriage?
You mean polygamy and concubines?
No wonder the wingnuts are for it.
Loneoak said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:06
Yeah, the Salvation Army is thoroughly anti-gay. They’ve lobbied hard against same-sex family adoptions, have a history of kicking out homosexuals from their shelters and programs, and refuse to employ anyone with a lisp. No self-respecting liberal should give those assholes a penny. I usually want to kick over their stupid little money pot and kick the bell-ringer in the crotch, but then I would probably end up on Bill O’Reilly.
Robert Waldmann said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:06
You know W once did some community service (which was certainly totally voluntary and not because he was busted for snorting coke) . Does that mean that Sowell considers him a Nazi ? Maybe Sowell was the guy who posted the Bush/Hitler video at moveon.org.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:16
Maybe one of you LIEbral brainiacs can help me out here: One of the bikers here at the Blood Clot just called me a “twatwaffle”. Any idea of what that means?
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:18
Any idea of what that means?
It depends. Is the biker from Britain, the U.S., or somewhere else?
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:19
It’s an expression of fondness, especially when uttered by Seuropeans.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:22
RiM: I’d tell you but then you’d have to kill me.
Re Salvation Army: Well that tears it. Tomorrow I’m gonna go knock over that fucker at Kroger’s and get my $20 back, plus a perfectly legal rate of interest, then I’m taking it to the local animal shelter. Don’t ANYONE tell me the Humane Society is anti-gay. I don’t think I could take it.
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:22
It sounds like he would like to put butter and syrup on your intimate parts.
Make sure he goes with 100% New York Maple syrup. It’s the best!
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:23
Any idea of what that means?
Give us an idea of the context. If he followed up by saying, “and you shore do have a purty mouth”, we’ll have a much better idea.
Hungarian Tourist said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:24
Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime.
bayville said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:27
Huh!? Is that the definition of Liberal Fascism?
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:27
RUGGED: According to “Urban Dictionary,” which as an elder-American I consult regularly:
twatwaffle:
n.1 An elitist; someone unaware of their own limitations and highly critical of others.
n.2 A general prick. See: douchebag, n00b.
v.1 To ban; to totally pwn.
“That Tom Cruise is such a twatwaffle.”
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:29
Really, why shouldn’t a twatwaffle have a more literal meaning like a vaginal sponge or something like that? In which case it would be a generally positive thing and one could hold up one’s head with the other twatwaffles.
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:30
Well, okay, MzNicky, but in my defense it doesn’t leave out the delicious toppings.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:32
Much obliged, Ms MsNicky, may G*d reward you for your kindness. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a trayful of Brandy Alexanders to drink before taking that rather over-sized biker out to the sidewalk to give him a stern dressing down.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:34
The Blueberry Syrup lobby haz an objection.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:37
why shouldn’t a twatwaffle have a more literal meaning like a vaginal sponge or something like that?
According to an unimpeachable source (the “Seinfeld” quotes atop the S,N! webpage), I think vaginal sponges are now extinct. A currently fertile woman may have more information than I can provide.
Pere Ubu said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:37
All anti-Christmas warriors must hail our hero Charles Dickens.
Thank you, RB.
Between that and Glenn Blecch’s playing of “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” this morning I now have ammo for my latest blog post.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:38
…before taking that rather over-sized biker out to the sidewalk to give him a stern dressing down.
Ooh! Liveblog this pls.
Life on Earth said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:41
Joe Max said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:42
What the silly man said was:
Here’s a clue for you: they’re both myths, but some people think the more unbelievable myth is historical fact.
There’s nothing wrong with myths. Myths define our cultural language and heritage. The Christian Nativity myth has a similar poetic power too: think of Linus reciting Matthew in “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.
I guess I don’t understand what the guy is bitching about. Oh, yeah… wingnut…
Loneoak said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:43
Fixt.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:43
Is the biker from Britain, the U.S., or somewhere else?
Somewhere else. This is Butte, MT, we are talking about here.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:46
A currently fertile woman may have more information than I can provide.
I asked the young lady next to me at the bar and she shrugged her shoulders. She says she uses Saran Wrap™ as “it keeps flavors in and refrigerator odors out” (whatever that means….I think she’s a bit tipsy).
Loneoak said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:49
RUGGED FTW.
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:49
Well, if they saw a change of heart, the nominally religious among us might feel more warmly towards it.
If it’s used simply as a large fish to beat people with, not so much.
After Scrooge woke up the next morning, he was at least a big tipper.
I’d settle for that.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:50
Ooh! Liveblog this pls.
After a trayful of Brandy Alexanders, I’m pretty much limited to pointing with my finger, weaving back and forth and occasionally falling down.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:56
RUGGED: We were just discussing unpleasant refrigerator odors down on the Kay Hymietown thread.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:56
I’m pretty much limited to pointing with my finger, weaving back and forth and occasionally falling down.
That might still be a pretty good read.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 4:58
That might still be a pretty good read.
I am thinking webcam here.
Pere Ubu said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:00
RUGGED: We were just discussing unpleasant refrigerator odors down on the Kay Hymietown thread.
Apropos of that – do any of you know what’d cause a really really nasty smell in a frdge – kind of an acidy rotting-fruit funk? Everything that looked dubious has been cleaned out, and it’s still there. It’s positively Chtulhoid, and it’s seeping into everything we have in there.
Guest said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:00
I can’t get upset about the Sowell piece because it’s just too clear that he doesn’t give half a shit about the issue, and neither do his commenters. It’s really just completely meaningless, objectless whining. Totally vacuous.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:04
Pere Ubu: A forlorn, forgotten three-year-old box of baking soda?
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:06
do any of you know what’d cause a really really nasty smell in a frdge – kind of an acidy rotting-fruit funk?
It’s happened to us a number of times. The only time when it survived a cleaning was when some ancient moldy fruit had fallen behind the crisper drawer and gotten overlooked.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:06
That might still be a pretty good read.
I doubt it. The way I’m accessing the internets at the moment is by using one of the original “brick” cellphones, typing ASCII code into the keypad and transmitting it to the Commodore 64 in my basement lair. It takes a lot of concentration, more than I’ve got when I’m chockoblocko with the Alexandered Brandies.
Besides, I’ve got too have my wits about me when dealing with this wily snake, can’t be inputing ASCII and dodging rounds from an oversized sidearm, now can I?
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:08
This sounds like heat-triggered decomposition to me. Have you checked the fan & the light bulb areas? Taken the cover off? Circulating air is great to make the freezer frost free, but can draw things into areas they shouldn’t be. And where we don’t think to look.
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:12
Quick, Robin, to the BatCave!
Mo's Bike Shop said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:13
I remember that. They were trying to promote Blazing Saddles as a midnight movie.
All these Madeline Kahn impersonators would line up on stage for the…um…
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:15
acidy rotting-fruit funk
Check the condensation drain for blockage. If you’re sure the whole interior is spotless, empty everything out and put a big bowl of bleach on the bottom shelf. An hour or so of chlorine fumes ought to do the trick of blotting out any odors the plasic interior may have absorbed.
Pere Ubu said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:15
This sounds like heat-triggered decomposition to me. Have you checked the fan & the light bulb areas? Taken the cover off?
No and no, but I suppose I know what I’ll be doing this weekend. Bleugh.
(Hey – I thought us DHFs weren’t supposed to care about such domestic tasks as refrigerator-cleaning. Or it’s the Pussification of the American Male, or the Femininization of Society, or something. Hey, maybe I should write an essay and send it to ClownHall – wingnut welfare here I come)
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:18
I would love to see some one of us sneak under the barbed wire and become a Clown Hall poster child.
Another Kiwi said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:24
Writing teh stupid like you really mean it would be a tough gig. And you probably have to be someone’s “cousin”
Gerald Curl said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:27
Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:30
I would love to see some one of us sneak under the barbed wire and become a Clown Hall poster child.
Would we be able to tell the difference? Most of it already reads like the Onion™ization of the InterTubes.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:36
Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.
You’re onto a good analogy there, but I can’t help thinking there’s a more appropriate verb than “thinking”.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:46
Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.
And exactly when has anyone ever seen any signs of anything that might remotely be labeled thought at Townhall?
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:47
I can’t help thinking there’s a more appropriate verb than “thinking”.
I believe the word you are looking for is “wanking.”
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:47
You’re onto a good analogy there, but I can’t help thinking there’s a more appropriate verb than “thinking”.
We (meaning my borg) had a verb sent out merger-wide today.
The alleged word “decisioning” was used in reference to some loan approval application.
I can only assume that the Decisionator authorized this travesty.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:54
The alleged word “decisioning” was used in reference to some loan approval application.
That’s some prime corporate leechspeak. I’m well out of that stuff – I get the academic style of nonsense these days. Last time I was around corporate types the phrases in vogue were like “positively impact the body of product, going forward.”
I believe the word you are looking for is “wanking.”
Hmm….
“Townhall is the wanking man’s Renew America.”
It does work, but now it’s a bit too nonspecific. After all, Renew America is also the wanking man’s Renew America.
alec said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:55
The Salvation Army is probably the single instution where the sin-sinner dichotomy is most useful. I’d wager most people giving their time there aren’t actually aware of how fucking awful they are on certain issues.
Really, what they ought to have is guys with bells and hoods for Amnesty International.
alec said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:56
I think you underestimate just how much wanking is required of one to read Townhall.
Brandi said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:56
[Target's] corporate PR geniuii deemed [the SA] not hip enough
More like “well, we’ll make an exception to our ‘no solicitations’ policy for them– no, wait, that sets a precedent that can be challenged by other charity groups. Forget it then.”
As of 2006, Target had alternate ways for the SA to get money from them without being at the doors, but I don’t know if that’s still the case.
Personally, I might’ve considered giving to them in the past if they did carillon ringing.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 5:59
I think you underestimate just how much wanking is required of one to read Townhall.
Conceded. I only read the parodies and fiskings and shorters, not the actual site.
Ripley said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:06
When I was in school, we were required to pass CPR, via PE class, to graduate. Imagine my flabbergastation at the notion that I might be asked to provide emergency medical care – FREE OF CHARGE, mind you! – to some ne’er do well who’d chosen to fall where he’d stood and, instead of living, suddenly let his heart stop beating and wait for someone else to come along and save him.
Ingrates! Malcontents! Jackanapes! Hooligans, all !
Ripley said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:08
The alleged word “decisioning” was used in reference to some loan approval application.
My buddy works in IT and said their new corporate buzz word is ’solutioning’. No, he wasn’t thrilled with it, either.
Cletus von Clausewitz said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:09
I was “aiding and abetting vagrancy” this morning when I gave a guy playing a guitar in the subway $0.50. He told me he would be in a different tunnel in the evening and I said I would see him there and give another $0.50 A Bush assistant US attorney charged me with “conspiracy to commit vagrancy” and “accessory before and after the fact of vagrancy”. Now I’m looking at five years at Eglin. Meanwhile, Bernie Madoff is accused of stealing $50 b-b-b-billion and he went home by posting bail using an immovable object.
Another Kiwi said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:09
Combined with the self-abuse occurring on the page and, one presumes, at the keyboard, there must be some sort of Hoover dam in operation.
slip said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:20
Townhall is the one wet-suited man’s Renew America.
Better?
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:21
Previous memos had left me with the impression that central-gubblement funding of social services was a Bad Thing because it discouraged philanthropy and individual charity. Sowell does not like individual charity. The answer is staring him in the face*: MORE CENTRAL-GUBBLEMENT FUNDING.
*For values of “The answer” that include “my arse”.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:22
“Townhall is the one wet-suited and buttplugged man’s Renew America.”
All fixed for you for free.
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:26
fucking PHYS ED.
NZ schools classify this as “extracurricular activity”.
Me said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:27
Dang. I was all set to volunteer at my local food bank, but Josef Goebbels showed up and ranted at me about “lebensraum” and some other shit. Then another dude identified only as “An Austrian corporal” got up and yelled at me some more, though I have to say he was a pretty good public speaker overall. His fans are pretty loud, though.
Eventually, I gave up and went home.
mikey said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:29
So, Dammit.
I got an invitation (it’s a long story, and no, world war III did not result) to a christmas reception at the russian mission in San Francisco today. My big ol denim clad pony tailed presence may not have contributed to the best of diplomatic relations, but the food was good and the chicks were consistently hot.
So I missed a bunch. I’m gonna pour a scotch and try to catch up…
mikey
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:29
fucking PHYS ED.
We didn’t have fucking in phys ed in my school. Might have enjoyed it more if we had.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:31
I spent the first eight months of this yr. in a homeless shelter & sleeping under a piece of playground equipment. I’m still semi-homeless. By chance, I found myself in a shelter located next to the VA here in West L. A. The number of homeless vets (Example: guys who spent the maximum three mos. in the VA’s residential alcoholism program, & then found themselves on the street after their time was up) is pretty astounding. I wonder what that fuck Sowell has to say about that, what w/ his “military service” bullshit. I’m guessing that if he ever served, it was two yrs. as a draftee when the U. S. wasn’t engaged in a war. (That is, a looong time ago.)
I also wonder what Tommy would say if I & some of those homeless vets showed up at his house & offered to do a little “community service” involving his dentures & the other end of his G. I. tract. Seriously.
Sowell is an absolute moron. No comprehension of reality whatsoever. And writes like a fucking sixth grader.
Some of those lazy, aggressively panhandling (which usually, Mr. Sowell, you unspeakable fuck, results in a swift ticket, arrest, or at the least an invitation to “move on” by the forces of repression) public-urinating homeless may be seen here..
ATTENTION SERVERMEISTER GAVIN: While whining, let me add, “Why can’t we check our links in preview any more? Waaa, waaaah!”
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:34
We didn’t have fucking in phys ed in my school. Might have enjoyed it more if we had.
Think about that – I was always the last kid picked for the team in dodge ball, and I can’t imagine that sort of experience would improve with a different activity.
Rather over-sized biker said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:34
Has RUGGED been on the turps again? He just invited me out to the sidewalk where he gave me this dressing-gown. It’s rather stylish, with embroidered Chinese dragons and everything, but it doesn’t go with my helmet.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:36
So I missed a bunch.
Maybe not, compared to good food and hot chicks. But welcome!
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:38
I can’t imagine that sort of experience would improve with a different activity.
There is that. It would seem we share a common experience there.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:46
It would seem we share a common experience there.
Heh.
Then again, high school P.E. was nowhere near the nightmare Jr. High P.E. was – my coach was a good guy and mostly just graded on whether you showed up, were in some approximation of gym clothes, and participated. Under that regime it might not have been too bad.
That junior high coach was a piece of work, though, no lie. I’d rather do gorilla community service than have him involved in any sexual activity I got anywhere near.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:56
Izzat so? Then why’d you spend half of your two-bit column on that one aspect of “community service?”
And by the way, there are a hell of a lot more ways to do community service than helping the disabled, down on their luck & just plain fucked up. No matter how fascist it is of those educators to make “the kids” do something they don’t want to, there are usually options that don’t involve poor people.
Whoever above asked why Sowell got this particular bug up his ass could assume that a young person of Sowell’s acquaintance may have stood in a line handing out socks or cookies to vagrants, & perhaps informed much older relative Thomas that not all the bums were pissing in their pants, panhandling or too stinky to stand. He’s probably afraid of any “service” which may destroy his favorite myths, so he’d best nip it in the bud.
noen said,
December 19, 2008 at 6:56
M. Bouffant – having been on the street myself I know what you’re going through. I don’t really know what else to say, everyone’s experience is their own.
noen said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:05
“Last time I was around corporate types the phrases in vogue were like “positively impact the body of product, going forward.””
I prefer to old fashioned word for it – newspeak.
Stag Party Palin said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:12
We didn’t have fucking in phys ed in my school. Might have enjoyed it more if we had.
Thank God. All-boys school. We had to content ourselves with matriculating.
DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:16
All-boys school. We had to content ourselves with matriculating.
Not British then?
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:16
…and emulating the older boys.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:18
Newspeak indeed. Though “going forward” is about as stupid as it gets.
noen, I’m doing fine now. And didn’t have any horrible experiences. But for that asshole to make statements like that…Arrrghh!!
Still, as more & more people hit the streets through little or no fault of their own, we can only hope Thomas starts spewing this more often than his current every 13 mos. rate.
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:23
Thread needs more photographs of polydactylous cats.
handy said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:25
Let’s see how many words Thomas needs before he uses the N-word!
Damn, I thought you were referring to that other N-word. What does that say Sowell, me, or either of us.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:27
Newspeak indeed. Though “going forward” is about as stupid as it gets.
Agreed. There was an empty-suit VP at one place I worked who used it all the goddam time (that snippet of bullshit I included was verbatim from him on many occasions).
The only difference between leechspeak and Newspeak is economy, I think – wasn’t Newspeak supposed to be really compact, while corporate babble is meant to fill pages with nothing? The overall authoritarian intent is pretty much the same.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:28
handy, you aren’t the only one. I often forget that other N-word. Don’t think the overlords didn’t know what they were doing.
islmfaoscist said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:28
“This is a difficult time for a free market person.”
– Legacy Boy, articulating his cognitive dissonance in that AEI interview that Bubba linked.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:31
As I remember it, the ultimate goal of Newspeak was something along the lines of eliminating language altogether, or reducing it to one or two words w/ the “plus/double-plus/good/un-good” modifiers.
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:31
Thread needs more photographs of polydactylous cats.
Smut Clyde, are you stealing my Balloon Juice comments?
PeeJ said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:34
showed up at his house & offered to do a little “community service” involving his dentures & the other end of his G. I. tract.
Don’t do it! He doesn’t deserve having his edento-colonic trauma fixed for free. You’d just be aiding and abetting whingnut auto ass-biting.
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:35
BTW, the cat’s name is “McLovin”.
That’s a great cat name.
Todd said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:37
Thomas Sowell, uh, writes…
things…
…like for a living.
(!?)
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:38
As I remember it, the ultimate goal of Newspeak was something along the lines of eliminating language altogether…
That’s right, to shave it down to where all you could say was, pretty much, “Yes, sir.”
Now that I think of it, (good) duckspeak was not so different from corporate bullshit, I guess. And Sowell’s article, to get back to that topic thing a bit, is a fine example of wingnut duckspeak. As Guest above said,
I can’t get upset about the Sowell piece because it’s just too clear that he doesn’t give half a shit about the issue, and neither do his commenters. It’s really just completely meaningless, objectless whining. Totally vacuous.
Dan said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:39
Now come on. If you had actually CLICKED THROUGH those 672 links on whitehouse.gov, you’d know that they were all public statements by the President comdemning the inherent fascistness of community service.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:42
BTW, the cat’s name is “McLovin”. That’s a great cat name.
My wife calls our new little great-nephew that. Sooner or later I’m sure we’ll make him one of these.
Candy said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:44
How many have studied the impact of drunken idlers on other people in their own society, including children who come across their needles in the park — if they dare to go to the parks?
Holy shit! People are slamming alcohol these days? I had no idea. I thought that sort of thing would kill you. Even I wouldn’t have tried that, back in the day. Jeez, the kids these days.
Oh, and please don’t hurt the Salvation Army bell ringers. My kid got caught with his girlfriend’s cigarettes at school, and his community service was ringing teh bell for the Salvation Army. He had to take his little atheist butt down to the grocery store and stand in the bitter cold and some of his friends came by and mocked him. It’s a rough gig, and they ain’t all Xtian soldiers, apparently. (He did have another choice of community service, but this was all but unsupervised – in fact he just left and went home early one night, and no one ever said anything – and seemed like an easy out, but then the weather turned viciously cold and he was hating it.)
islmfaoscist said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:48
“I — you know, there is a debate that basically says, well, maybe certain people shouldn’t be free.”
– Legacy Boy, exposing the hippies’ secret agenda of hatin’ in that AEI interview that Bubba linked.
noen said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:57
“noen, I’m doing fine now. And didn’t have any horrible experiences. But for that asshole to make statements like that…Arrrghh!!”
The experience itself is terrifying, traumatic even… yeah, I’d say there is a certain amount of trauma involved. You are helpless, dependent and vulnerable. There is a good deal of stigma attached to it too as Sowell proves. And it can be deadly. Here in Minnesota we do our best to keep people alive especially now. It was ten below zero this week here.
I have very mixed feelings about all of it. I’m not sure I can explain why.
noen said,
December 19, 2008 at 7:58
Oh… and I’m glad you’re ok. I wanted to be sure you heard that.
noen said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:03
Pere Ubu – about your fridge… did you know that you can remove those drawers at the bottom? I have a feeling there is a science experiment waiting for you beneath them. Hope it doesn’t bite.
cowalker said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:19
Matthew 25, Verses 31 – 46
So, um, Sowell believes that when we refuse to help those who are actually in need–those who have failed to attain economic success for whatever reason–we are doing what Jesus wants?
Wow. I wonder what Biblical verses he would quote to support his disdain for the poor, the intellectually challenged, the mentally disturbed and the unlucky?
Loneoak said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:35
I don’t understand the ancient hatred of goats. When you get down to it, goats are substantially cooler than sheep. Sure they bathe in their own piss, but is that so bad? It certainly is bad enough to automatically go to hell.
Loneoak said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:36
RIP Mark Felt, your code name will forever be both the best porn name and undercover source name.
noen said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:41
Cowalker – seriously, there are certain factions of Christians who do not read the social gospels. They do not read those passages and their preachers do not preach from those texts. Authoritarians do not think on their own. They might come across those passages but there is a ready explanation and a lot of social pressure to discount the social message in favor of other interpretations.
In fact, there are a good many “Christians” who believe that once you are saved you can do no wrong as long as you are “right with Jesus”. From their point of view anything someone who has been saved does is by definition God’s will. If you think about it, it makes a certain amount of sense. If there really is a God and if it really is possible to know his will for you and the world, then it must follow that it’s possible to know with absolute certainty that some course of action isn’t just the right thing to do but right for all eternity.
Just think about that.
justme said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:49
This thread also needs more ninja kitten videos, more lighter blending videos, and just remember folks, teh gays will eat your children.
The more antipodean among us may have seen teh kittehs before.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:54
Why even think about it when you can just do it?
justme said,
December 19, 2008 at 8:58
cowalker,
Lalalalalalalalalalalala I can’t hear you.
(The youtube wars have never seen such carnage)
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 9:12
Also, Ubu, sometimes underneath the refrig. can be the trouble spot.
Christopher said,
December 19, 2008 at 9:53
If I had heard somebody say that I would’ve gone, “That’s what she said, BOOM!” and I’d sort of punch the air when I said boom.
I think I’m starting to get the hang of corporate etiquette.
Okay, as for Sowell, my community service involved pulling some species of invasive vine out of the ground at a public park. I guess that just encourages the trees not to do it for themselves.
Jennifer Graham is a terrible person. I’m poor too; I’ve been living in low-rent housing provided by the government for a long time now, and I lived next door to the people Jennifer describes. For five fucking years.
Oh, the cops were there a lot? boo hoo. I shared a wall with people who constantly held screaming matches and threw furniture around. They had little kids. At the end of their time as my neighboors, the police hauled everybody out of the house after a particularly bad fight. To be honest, I think they were supposed to have left already, but I had as little to do with them as possible. Later that night I discovered water coming out from under the walls we shared with them. They had completely trashed the place, and left the faucets on, flooding it. Going in with the handyman, I was a little bit afraid somebody would still be there.
You know what? That didn’t turn me into an asshole towards other poor people.
Yeah, god fucking forbid that the woman’s little nine year-old daughter get one nice day in her horrible home life. I guess Tiffany will never learn to earn her own way in life if people just keep giving her free toys. And what the fuck do you mean you “suppose” it’s a good thing that homeless kids can go to the same school as your precious kids?
And what the hell makes you think living in a car is going to make this woman any more responsible to her kids?
And where the hell do you get off assuming that all poor people are like the one single example you’ve had to deal with in your life?
“The prospect of me getting my $5 back — as well as a dozen or so rolls of Scott tissue — is bleak.”
Fuck you sideways, lady. You and your toilet paper.
Sadly, No! said,
December 19, 2008 at 10:26
Some time ago (measured in years), Sowell complained that the government doesn’t let people sell their organs — and why should the damn nanny state get in the way of someone choosing to sell a kidney? I think the original post on this, however, was over at World O’Crap.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 10:30
Jennifer Nicholson Graham:
“— Jennifer Graham is a freelance journalist who lives in Richmond, Virginia.”
Does she just sit around until something or person offends her, & then whip it off to the NRO?
“People like us.” Yech.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 10:33
Allow a man to sell his kidney & he’ll eat for a few yrs. Teach a man to grow an extra kidney or two & he can become an investor!!
Mickey Kaus said,
December 19, 2008 at 10:50
When you get down to it, goats are substantially cooler than sheep.
I find your views fascinating and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 10:56
How many have studied the impact of drunken idlers on other people in their own society
Apart from Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, and one or two other obscure English authors.
Heywould Jablome said,
December 19, 2008 at 11:06
Is there an e-mail where I can encourage this dipshit to commit painful suicide with a rusty fork? Seriously?!? He’s got to be the worst, dumbest, most offensive wingnut out there.
another jim said,
December 19, 2008 at 11:36
Perhaps what the White House website is a typo -they actually mean community *cervix*. AKA, the middle class B.O.H.I.C.A. project.
An initiative which I’m sure Sowell could get behind.
another jim said,
December 19, 2008 at 11:37
Agreed with Heywould. Sowell is the worst. With this column, he’s even after Kristol, David Brooks and Goldberg. Although he is arguably less damaging to the world than Kristol.
D Johnston said,
December 19, 2008 at 11:48
seriously, there are certain factions of Christians who do not read the social gospels.
This is/was common among the premillenials and other “The End Is Nigh” types. You see, several decades back one of the bigwigs in those movements (possibly Hal Lindsay) decided that the Beatitudes and the rest of the Sermon on the Mount only applied to the post-Second Coming world. That freed them up to act like complete assholes.
RUGGED IN MONTANA said,
December 19, 2008 at 11:56
Brazandied Alexpazanerdz!!!!
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 12:01
Hey, RiMJob, do you really live in Butte, “The Richest Hole on Earth?”
Smut Clyde said,
December 19, 2008 at 12:23
That’s right, to shave it down to where all you could say was, pretty much, “Yes, sir.”
For a moment there I thought you were talking about the jarhead haircut.
El Cid said,
December 19, 2008 at 12:58
You liberals won’t admit it, but really what characterized the rise of the Nazis was their indulgent attitude towards the homeless.
A Mom Anon said,
December 19, 2008 at 14:09
Oh good christ. These dumbasses really can’t stand the thought of anyone doing something for someone else. Or someone getting something they didn’t get. Even though their lives are comfortable and it’s no skin off their ass.
One of the kids at my son’s high school did publicity,promotion and got donated items to send care packages to troops in Afghanistan for his community service. Would this assclown object to that?
WereBear said,
December 19, 2008 at 14:40
Yeah, what is it with the “Beatitudes only apply to the Second Coming” Thing?
Waaaay after, because they won’t be around for the first feature.
I’m familiar with the Southern Baptist view that says just by being alive, we are scum. Only be being saved can one move into the category of potential scum, but it requires constant vigilance lest a nipple or a sip of alcohol, even a stray thought, will transform us into ravening sin creatures.
Now all I think of is the Python sketches where the prayers are about beseeching God not to boil us.
Perhaps Pere Ubu should check the fridge for a lurking Southern Baptist.
jurassicpork said,
December 19, 2008 at 15:05
If you read a story about black people getting hunted down, shot and killed with impunity, you’d think it was a story about post election Zimbabwe or antebellum America. But you’d be wrong: It’s a tale of post-Katrina New Orleans.
smedley said,
December 19, 2008 at 15:11
It might be constructive to us DFHs if we could actually see a normal workday for Sowell. I imagine it goes something like this:
1) Awakened by Mrs. Sowell at 7:00 AM
2) Breakfast provided by Mrs. Sowell at 7:30
3) Arrive at the Hoover Institute at 8:30
4) Read daily talking points from NRO, Human Events, Media Research Center, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, TownHall, RNC
5) Lunch from 11:30-1:00
6) Nap from 1:00-2:30
7) Doodle
8) Have secretary check e-mail
9) Write down “thoughts”
10 Have secretary combine today’s “thoughts” with previous day’s “thoughts”
11) When five paragraphs of “thoughts” have been achieved, have secretary send to TownHall
12) Leave for home at 5:00
13) Check mail on way home to see if payment for “thoughts” has arrived.
Pere Ubu said,
December 19, 2008 at 15:23
Perhaps Pere Ubu should check the fridge for a lurking Southern Baptist.
It might be. Lord knows we got enough of ‘em down here.
Then again it might be Mormons. Those bastards are always trying to track me down.
Pere Ubu said,
December 19, 2008 at 15:27
Meanwhile, CNN.com:
Terrorists’ use of invisible ink spotted
OMFG they figured out the thing with the lemon juice and a light bulb! And they probably found it on Teh InrtaWebs! OH NOES WE IZ DOOMD!
Here’s to a post at Hot Air about how we should keep lemons away from the Moosies – just in case.
Lex (Agent of Chaos) Azagthoth said,
December 19, 2008 at 16:20
You see, several decades back one of the bigwigs in those movements (possibly Hal Lindsay) decided that the Beatitudes and the rest of the Sermon on the Mount only applied to the post-Second Coming world. That freed them up to act like complete assholes.
While still proclaiming that they don’t believe in “man-made” traditions or dogma and only sola Scriptura. How this hypocrisy stands is always baffling to me, and I am a Christian. Sheesh how I can’t stand the pre-trib/pre-millenialist POV. Yech.
J.D. Rhoades said,
December 19, 2008 at 16:24
“Are there no prisons?”
(And I see that America’s Shittiest Website™ already went there.)”
Oh. My. God.
My letter to the author:
Dear Ms. Graham:
I’m sorry you ran into a poor person who you thought was icky and Not Like You, and even sorrier that you now despise all poor people as a result. I’ve worked with abused and neglected children for the past eight years, most of them poor. Trust me, I’ve seen parents a lot worse than Tiffany’s. And yet, somehow, I’ve never felt the need to write a mocking screed against the poor at Christmas time.
I assume you’ll fall back on the classic “I was just making a joke” defense beloved of hateful “conservatives”. If so, then you should probably not try your hand at satire any further. You don’t understand it, yu have no grasp of the purpose of satire, and you’re really bad at it.
Oh, and if the loss of the five bucks affected you so deeply that it’s all you can think about, even while nursing a sick child, then please forward your mailing address to me. I’ll send you a nice crisp fiver, because it’s Christmas, and I hate to see anyone in this much distress at Christmas.
As for your assertion that you “now stand in defense of Darwin and natural selection, and of Ebenezer Scrooge, the real Scrooge — before he went soft like me,” please go back and read the story to the end. The part where Scrooge, after being shown where the compassionless life leads–to a lonely, unmourned and unhappy end–goes out on Christmas morning with a song in his heart and actually helps people, even though they’re Not Like Him. You know, sort of like the fellow whose birthday we’re celebrating. May you, instead of a lonely and unmourned grave, find that you end up like Scrooge:
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!
Merry Christmas,
JD Rhoades
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 16:36
I’d like to see a remake of “Trading Places” with M. Bouffant in the Eddie Murphy role and Thomas Sowell in the Dan Aykroyd role. That’s what these privileged nutters need: A heapin’ helpin’ of the sort of life that obviously fills them with such strong fear they project it as sneering hatred.
Philly Boy said,
December 19, 2008 at 16:44
I think Tom Sowell’s typical workday goes more like this:
1) Awakened by Mrs. Sowell at 7:00 AM
2) Breakfast provided by Mrs. Sowell at 7:30
3) Take dump at 8
4) Photograph dump at 8:05
5) Post photo of dump as column at Town Hall at 8:15
6) Back to bed
7) Awakened by Mrs. Sowell at noon
8) Lunch provided by Mrs. Sowell at …
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 17:10
When wingnuts tell me that Sowell is one of the great thinkers in America, I’ve been referring them to this. Just a sample:
Brilliant.
Sublime.
Masterful.
Giggity.
Whoops! K-Lo might want to erase that one from the NRO archives.
And my favorite, the very essence of Sowell’s banal existence, the very essence of what he thinks passes for relevant scholarship:
Sowell wondering why they call them buildings if they’ve already been built must have been left on the editing room floor.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 17:17
A post on Teh Xmas and conservatives, I haz it.
Commodore Webminda Syrup said,
December 19, 2008 at 17:39
Brazandied Alexpazanerdz!!!!
Berlin Alexanderplatz!
Philly Boy said,
December 19, 2008 at 17:47
I think the raison d’etre for Sowell’s columns is that if you’re going to read on the shitter, you may as well read shit.
His work reminds me of the joke in which people in prison get up on stage and tell jokes. They all know each other’s jokes, so instead of reciting the jokes again, they just say numbers, each one of which refers to a joke, to save time.
Other wing-nut columnists at least attempt to provide evidence to back up their claims. The evidence often is fabricated and usually is linked to their claims by specious logic, but at least it’s there.
Sowell never bothers with evidence. He just makes an idiotic claim he knows his readers are going to love, follows that up with another idiotic claim he knows his readers are going to love just as much, and keeps going until he falls asleep on the john or runs out of space, whichever happens first.
It’s the ultimate example of preaching to the choir and he is a master at it.
It’s fitting he works for the Hoover Institution because the man sucks. Hard.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:09
Yeesh – WordDePress seems to have eated my post.
Ah, well, you can find teh new post at the homepage link.
You know, I get VERY conservative at times when I get depressed. All I need to do is stay off my meds for a few weeks and BINGO! Fat city on the wingut spondulix express!
The only problem would be my screaming invective at everyone in my life, kicking the cats and dogs and having to live out of my car since noone will put up with me. Hmm. We all have to sacrifice, I guess.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:32
It seems Rahm Emmanuel is feeling the heat from his involvement in the Illinois Governor scandal.
Wow, a link to a Malkin article.
That’s some serious journalisming there, podner.
Not.
Legalize said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:34
Wow, Twoofie a link to Malkin post – and ONLY A WEEK OLD!!
Mooser said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:34
A little holiday gift from Alaska: Levi Johnston’s Mom Arrested on Drug charges, Bristol Palin Due Saturday
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:38
Uh oh! You know what time it is, America!
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:38
Levi Johnston’s Mom Arrested on Drug charges, Bristol Palin Due Saturday
…due to be arrested on drug charges?
I sincerely pity all the Palin kids. What a fuxx0red life they’ve been dumped into.
Bill Nye the Science Guy said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:39
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on..
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
itwasntme said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:39
Pere Ubu: that might be a dead rat behind your fridge. Happened to me last week.
The Dumbest Dumb that Ever Dumbed said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:40
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Exhibit A on Why The United States Should Force The Truth To Be Neutered said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:40
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:43
Pere Ubu: that might be a dead rat behind your fridge. Happened to me last week
In a house with six cats and three dogs?
Well, then again, 90% of the cats are chickenshits who wouldn’t know what to do with a mouse if they caught it, and the puppy would try to make freinds with it.
I still think it’s a Mormon.
Maybe the Stupidest Thing Ever Said (non-Gateway Pundit Division) said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:43
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on..
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
SQTSQ said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:44
Because you enjoy failure?
Until you clowns actually make some progress in- y’know, an actual election- shut up and sit down at the kiddies’ table. We’ve got a country to run, thanks.
Why The Truth Should Stop Posting At Sadly, No! Until He Can Admit What A Laughably Wrong Hack He Is said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:45
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on!
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:46
I still think it’s a Mormon.
Sounds like you’ve smelled Salt Lake City, then. But that’s just the lake.
tigrismus said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:48
I still think it’s a Mormon.
I thought they weren’t allowed to be fruity OR funky?
Great Moments in Conservative Thought, 2008 Edition said,
December 19, 2008 at 18:59
One of these things is not like the other…
- P.J. O’Rourke
- David Brooks
- Kathleen Parker
- Freaking Rich Lowry
aaaaaaaaaand…
- The Truth, Sadly, No!’s dumbest troll ever
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:05
“Telfon Fraud” of course refers to George Bush
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:08
Shorter “Telfon Fraud”
All of this debunked shit must be restatedm
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:09
Troofie, we’re not really talking about the election. We’re talking about how bombastically wrong you were then, implying that you are just as wrong and proud of it now.
Double or nothing?
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:10
Funny how after eight years of the most repugnant, deceitful, law-breaking, bankrupt-ideology-driven, crony-ridden, EPIC FAILURE of a presidency this country has ever seen, some assholes are already calling Obama a fraud and a failure when there’s been nothing but pure speculation about his “cooruption” and WHEN HE HASN”T EVEN BEEN SWORN IN YET.
Shorter: just shut up and blow me, already.
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:10
“Here’s a little prop bet for you: Who do you think will resign first, Rahm or Jesse Jackson Junior? Double yer money if either gets arrested. Ah, this popcorn tastes good!”
How about you take Governemnt Informant Jesse Jackson JR.?
Great Moments in Conservative Thought, 2008 Edition said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:11
One of these things is not like the other…
- P.J. O’Rourke
- David Brooks
- Kathleen Parker
- Freaking Rich Lowry
aaaaaaaaaand…
- The Truth, Sadly, No!’s dumbest troll ever
Seriously, dude, if you want to just hand Washington to Democrats for the next 12 years, keep doing this song and dance. When even wingnut hacks are getting the point, it’s time to move on.
Great Moments in Conservative Thought, 2008 Edition said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:12
And by the way, Troofie, I can keep this up forever. Seeing how you run and hide from threads whenever your nonsense is destroyed, it’s obvious you can’t. Too bad, so sad.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:18
Maybe it’s Der Troofie I’ve got under the fridge. His posts do have a funky rotting acidic stink to them.
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:18
Shorter “Telfon Faud”
“My hatred for America is so stong I msut rage agianst strawliberals”
Great Moments in Conservative Thought, 2008 Edition said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:19
One of these things is not like the other…
- P.J. O’Rourke
- David Brooks
- Kathleen Parker
- Freaking Rich Lowry
aaaaaaaaaand…
- The Truth, Sadly, No!’s dumbest troll ever
Seriously, dude, if you want to just hand Washington to Democrats for the next 12 years, keep doing this song and dance. When even the hackiest of the wingnut hacks are getting the point, it’s time to move on.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:20
Duly noted. 10-4. You can leave now.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:22
Duly noted. 10-4. You can leave now.
I wish that’d work. But wingnuts are characterized, in part, by a belief that “victory” means “stay around forever”.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:25
See, Commie Atheist gets the point.
So, when are you gonna blow me, already? Down on your knees now, that’s a good boy.
actor212 said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:33
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar, but render unto Hitler that which you give to your fellow man.
actor212 said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:34
How come we haven’t heard from the Affirmative Action Princess lately?
She’s home baking cookies with the kids.
Next?
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:35
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle
Once you’ve had Ghost, you never…um, get to boast? Have cinnamon toast? Want to eat roast?
No, I’ve got it…When you fuck a ghost, it’s forever.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:36
No, I’ve got it…When you fuck a ghost, it’s forever.
Just watch out for the ectoplasm stains on the bedsheets.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:39
Ghosts have a rough time getting hard.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:50
Ghosts have a rough time getting hard.
That would explain the Total Abstinence Principle.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:54
Ah, this popcorn tastes good!
Hey! Who took my bag of Jenkem-flavored popcorn? I was saving it for my dog.
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:55
Funny how D.N. Nation always shows up amidst a flurry of Truth postings and various unidentifiable sockpuppets.
jim said,
December 19, 2008 at 19:59
“I wanna get Biblical, Biblical,
I wanna get Biblical, Biblical,
let’s get into Biblical!
Let me hear your burning-bush talk,
your burning-bush talk …”
(/olivianewtonjohn)
Verily & (heh) indeed! Much like Renew America is the thinking man’s FreeRepublic, & FreeRepublic is the thinking man’s persistant vegetative coma.
PROTIP: if it just emerged from the puckered arsehole of a well-fed bovine, it’s NOT schadenfreude pie, dude.
Since you’re the same airhead that predicted exactly the same fate for Obama before election-day, your words give any lucid reader nothing but sweet sweet comfort.
Hmm … bullshit-flavored popcorn? To each his own.
Bon appetit!
Lex (Agent of Chaos) Azagthoth said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:00
Ugh….not ghosts…..mea culpa again…
LittlePig said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:10
Bargal 20 pretty much won the thread from the get-go. For these people to remotely present themselves as Christians requires a level of cognitive dissonance that I have trouble even imagining.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:14
Bargal 20 pretty much won the thread from the get-go.
I am validated!
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:18
…wingnuts are characterized, in part, by a belief that “victory” means “stay around forever”.
Just as we liberals sometimes love being wrong, sometimes we hate being right.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:22
Troofie consistently makes the error of assuming that even one of us are interested in what he’s doing.
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:22
Closing in on the Teflon Fraud said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:14
Dear D.N. Nation,
Plz die in a fire.
Best,
Lyndon and your BFF Ralph
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:23
RIP Mark Felt, your code name will forever be both the best porn name and undercover source name.
Felt may have been a hero when it came to Watergate, but the rest of his resume is pretty fucked up:
Journalists and many others lionizing the former FBI official — rightly — for his contribution in helping to bring down Richard Nixon, should not overlook the fact that Felt was one of the architects of the bureau’s notorious COINTELPRO domestic spying-and-burglary campaign. He was convicted in 1980 of authorizing nine illegal entries in New Jersey in 1972 and 1973 — the very period during which he was famously meeting Bob Woodward in a parking garage. Only a pardon, courtesy of Ronald Reagan, kept him out of jail for a long term.
So the man knew a thing or two about illegal break-ins. COINTELPRO was the Patriot Act on steroids.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/the-other-side-of-deep-th_b_152323.html
Read, as they say, the whole thing – good stuff about the old Crawdaddy magazine (which I remember from my misspent youth) and featuring a federal agent named George T. Twaddle.
commie atheist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:24
Troofie, still waiting for my BJ. Man up already, will ya?
Some People Call It Vigilantism, The Goddamn Batman Calls It "Community Service" said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:25
The obvious solution, then, is homeschooling, in which case you can tell your community to suck it–unless, of course, you end up in the military; and come back home with PTSD, drug addiction, etc. and need someplace to go after your fundie parents kick you out because of all the screaming at night.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:25
Unions: Obama ‘gays in military’ moment?
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:30
Seriously, D.N. You are trying to evade people’s filters now. That’s just pure asshattery.
Get Bent.
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:31
Go away, DN, or at least stop evading people’s killfiles.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:31
C’mon. Give yourself credit. You put up way more effort than just “predicted.”
You were here, virtually 24/7, slamming your dong on the table begging for it to be analyzed. You had every nuance, every facet of McCain’s Stunning Victory outlined, analyzed, and repeated over and over and over again.
You were wrong, a hundred, thousand times wrong, on everything. Everything! Everything from America Hating Michelle Obama to the electoral map to America Loving Sarah Palin to, to, to.
Great! Good for you! Glad you aren’t suicidal, or depressed, or even feel the slightest twinge of remorse for hitching your wagon to one of the biggest Fail Trains in American political history. Glad the destruction of your political group doesn’t have you down. I am so happy for you. See, if I made myself seem like the level of ass you displayed for the past half-year, I don’t know if I could show my face around here anymore. You clearly have no regrets. Or shame/dignity. One of those.
Now that you’ve informed us thoroughly how much you’re enjoying the Obama transition, would it at all be possible if you just left? I mean, why spend time with us losing losers who lose lose lose? We’re so sad an depressed, what with winning the election but it being bad or something or other. Why hang around with us sad, sad sacks? Why not go back over to CY and celebrate your victory over, um, thingy there?
Anyone who thinks that this issue (and I strongly disagree with Obama, FWIW) will cast long-term shadows over the Obama Presidency is delusional.
Greenwald has never been an Obama fan. Your point?
And the answer to that question, per the article: Um, not really anything.
Yep, we’re so…um…boned.
Your optimism, even in the face of humiliation, failure, and everyone pointing and laughing at your ignorance/incompetence/inadequacy, is truly a sight to behold, Truth. I applaud your spirit, if not anything else in your wretched life.
Jennifer said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:32
I’m just making sure you know how much I’m enjoying this.
Important. Because no one here is aware that stupid people are easily amused, just as no one here has ever seen a toddler point at its own poop with pride.
Thanks for that crucial clarification.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:32
Also, check the IPs. I’m not The Truth. I assumed his name a few times back in the summer, but always made it obvious I was mocking him.
Interesting said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:33
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:35
Is this racism really necessary?
I’m honestly at the point where I think it’s time for Truth to be given the H.A.A.M. treatment, if you know what I mean.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:37
“Interesting”
Like I said, check the IPs. Truth and I are apparently looking at this site at the same time. I like it here, which is why I’m here a lot. He’s a desperate troll, which is why he’s here a lot.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:37
I think it’s time for Truth to be given the H.A.A.M. treatment, if you know what I mean.
Seconded, if only because it’s learned how to change its name to avoid piefiltering.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:38
I like the way Nina Easton backed her story with comments from a lawyer who works for management in union-related issues, but did not provide any opposing viewpoint.
Almost like she was a FAUX nooze employee.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:41
I just liked the headline. Unions? Think FAAAAAGS!
N.C. said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:42
Yeah, Salon dot “Haus of Camille Paglia” com is the ultraliberal far-leftist paper of record, boy howdy, yep, central to my point, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.
N.C. said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:45
You just got served up a SPREAD of BORING WHITE PRIVILEGE, libs!! Badoodle-doo-fourteen-words!!
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:48
WE CAN HAZ NOO TREAD NAO?
KTHX
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:48
You just got served up a SPREAD of BORING WHITE PRIVILEGE, libs!! Badoodle-doo-fourteen-words!!
I imagine that looking sort of like canned deviled ham, only pastier and with no flavor. Just lots of fat and salt.
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:50
Badoole-boo hidely… uh-oh.
MSN.com:
Franken opens first lead in Senate race
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:50
Holy Christ. New thread please Sadly overlords! This one has been dealt a most cruel death.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:52
Fixed.
Ralph Nader said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:53
D.N. Nation: It’s a sad sad little person who posts repeatedly as a troll and as an alleged non-troll at the same site boring everyone to bits. Why don’t you ‘fess up now and tell everyone how you voted for me in 2000.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:54
…boy howdy, yep, central to my point, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.
This is killing me for laughing. Thank you.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:55
Why don’t you ‘fess up now and tell everyone how you voted for me in 2000.
This, on the other hand – I’d thought a mutating troll was as bad as an S,N! thread could get, but I’d forgotten about Nader-fights.
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 20:58
Something tells me D.N. Nation says “check the IPs” precisely because he knows our hosts would never do that for something this trivial. Or something.
All I know is I’m really fucking tired of this faux-troll and sockpuppet crap.
Lyndon LaRouche said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:00
Also, kind of interesting how the troll goes quiet whenever D.N. Nation has to defend himself from sockpuppetry charges.
MzNicky said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:00
Pere Ubu — (I think it was you who had the refrigerator odor problem?) — It is indeed possible to have rodent pests even in a house with multiple cats and dawgs. We had four cats and three dogs in the house we lived in years ago and once a rat got caught somehow inside the wall in the basement. OMG it was the WORST. We couldn’t figure out exactly where it was even by crawling into the ceiling and peering down between the floor joists with a flashlight. Finally had to call a varmint control person to come deal with it.
actor212 said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:00
I predicted an Obama loss. Sadly, that was not to be. I am however enjoying the meltdown currently happening around him.
Meltdown?
A kerfuffle that won’t be remembered by June is a “meltdown”?
Dick, Iraq was a meltdown. The economy is a meltdown?
A couple of gay activists getting upset over a Nazi giving the invocation?
Man, I’ve had root canals that bothered me longer…
PeeJ said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:04
Nina Easton didn’t use the right bones for her “analysis.” Or dance properly when casting them. Or something. That is one of the most pathetic attempts at journalism I’ve seen lately. She even says “that may be wishful thinking” then goes on to map out the entire next four years based on that one wish. Heckuva job, Ninnie.
El Cid said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:11
I was just surprised that Sheena Easton was still working.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:14
Clearly you have this figured out. Also, it would make a load of sense for me to demand that…um…I be banned. Or something.
Whoops. See above.
Or wait, maybe I only posted as The Truth posting as “Affirmative Action is Racism” because you made this point, which is in fact central to my point.
Also, I see how his URL is now “DNISNOTTHETRUTHDAMNIT,” apparently wanting to take credit for his own spew, or perhaps it’s just me wanting “me” to take credit for “”my”" own spew, or, um, just check the damn IPs.
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:16
Also,
Once again, fixed.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:17
She’ll cook the books
She musta took
A whole hour just to make up her case
PeeJ said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:17
Another thing: Tru/Matt/goober/Commander/whichever fuckwad you are today, your shtick is longing to return to its origin. Shtick it up yer ass already. Or do the two ginormous black dildoes already there make that too difficult?
t4toby said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:20
One of my daughter’s friends (2nd grade) is fond of going around announcing (very loudly), “I like Pie!”
I think of Troof and laugh every time I hear it.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:25
I think of Troof and laugh every time I hear it.
LOL! And you know that your daughter’s friend is actually telling The Truth, too.
M. Bouffant said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:27
Why thank you MzN., ‘though I’m generally considered more the John Belushi type. (If he’d not messed w/ refined drugs & lived.)
D.N. Nation said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:27
Hey, looks like Troothy found hisself a paying gig.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:30
You’ll be less sanguine when “tonguejack my shitbox” comes along.
actor212 said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:32
Actor212, I think Rahm Emmanuel’s resignation – coming BEFORE the inauguration heheheheh!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*rereading*
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
t4toby said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:35
Yeah, that or Bag o’ Dicks. I’ll let you guys know which is first.
t4toby said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:37
I think Truth is kinda like his homie, GWB. You can take anything they say and expect the opposite to be true about 99.99% of the time.
With the remaining .01% devoted to phrases such as, “I gotta take a shit”, and “Does something smell around here?”
Magnus Ridolph said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:37
It is indeed possible to have rodent pests even in a house with multiple cats and dawgs.
Possibly, but I suspect otherwise. Just the other day I went to get a diet Pepsi and I could swear I hear a low “boodley-boo” from under there.
And our Cheetos keep disappearing.
Odd.
Another Kiwi said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:40
According to the cast list there is a Hooker #1 in Trading Places which would suit Mr. Sowell down to the ground .
a different mikey said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:46
I’m pretty sure this is the first time ever that I’ve agreed with Lyndon LaRouche.
gocart mozart said,
December 19, 2008 at 21:50
When I was in school back in the day, we had this thing called “home work”. We were forced to do work without pay! Imagine that in this day and age. Work without pay is SLAVERY. WAKE UP PEOPLE ! ! !
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 22:24
“The fact that Michelle Obama made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to promote racial discrimination is obscene. ”
Wait, she is Strom Thurmond or a founder of teh minutemen?
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 22:48
Wait, she is Strom Thurmond or a founder of teh minutemen?
Heh. I applaud the Minuteman leader for one thing – like Chief Editor Korir, he made money from, and fools of, a bunch of hard-right suckers.
Racism is Racism said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:09
*cough*hack*spew*Every fucking Southern Republican*kaff*Richard Nixon*urp*Southern Strategy*retch*Oooga-booga*argle-bargle*!!
t4toby said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:26
Hey! Is D.N. the Truth?
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:29
Wow, the old Robert Byrd play, the oldest trick in the Troll handbook
Did Strom Thurmond denoucne his racist past liek Robert Byrd?
OH waiit Trent Lott Celebrated his past as a fan of American Appartheid
Olexicon said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:30
How Many Balck Republican Senators and Congresspeople are presently serving?
Coach Urban Meyer said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:47
Ding dong dilly and such, shoot, Truthy…playing the Robert Byrd Card? Really, dude?
Xecky Gilchrist said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:55
Boy howdy, yep, I like pie, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.
The Citizen said,
December 19, 2008 at 23:55
d00dz, thx for the linky. Gotta get a hamster for the wheel now, the shrew is running out of steam … ;-)
Someone upthread: Yeah – Meat Loaf was pretty much unavoidable during my formative dorm-years. Never quite been able to figure out who is God, Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman?
actor212 said,
December 20, 2008 at 0:17
Never quite been able to figure out who is God, Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman?
Dude.
Clapton.
Bitter Scribe said,
December 20, 2008 at 5:24
This thread has been pretty amusing, but I’m sorry, this Sowell fuck just isn’t funny. He’s a shithead who makes a living slandering poor people, and if he were white, he’d be barely eking out a living writing for VDare or some other racist org. Being black and being willing to slime other black people is the only reason he’s as prominent as he is. Talk about affirmative action.
The Truth Hangs Around Dead Threads and Argues with Himself said,
December 21, 2008 at 0:03
Three Democrats did stuff as recently as thirty years ago (when John Murtha was caught on tape REJECTING a bribe). Enjoy your hypocrisy, libs! Jibba jabba lawnmower nebula Tarkanian &c.
Laura Bush Brutally Murdered Her Ex-Lover with Her Car said,
December 21, 2008 at 17:34
Yes, lets!
John "Wet Start" McCain, responsible for the deaths of 172 U.S. servicemen said,
December 21, 2008 at 21:46
This conversation makes me uncomfortable…
Nimrod Gently said,
January 13, 2009 at 23:35
NAZI PLEASE