I got off the boat. Silly me. I found this in Charles “poop my pants in fear daily”‘s fine column.

“Of course, this case is just a reflection of a larger problem: an administration that insists on treating Islamist terrorism as a law-enforcement issue.”

It’s war. And therefore no rules apply.

What an unmitigated coward.

“GAH! GAH! GAH! My colostomy bag is FULL!”

Ooo, my all-time fave photoshop masterpiece.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Not so shorter political right in this country: why do liberals love terrorists so much they treat them as petty criminals? we hate terrorists who wish to establish the same kind of soft-core theocracy we wish to establish and hence we view them as soldiers for a cause. Since we support their cause, we are happy to be terrorized by them as that’s what they want … OTOH, liberals refuse to be terrorized by them and view them as mere criminals? What’s up with that?

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How come you guys are not selling “Always trust the shorter (TM) (R) (C)” t-shirts yet?
My favorite:

One of the reasons Scott Brown won in Massachusetts was his focus on the Mirandizing of Abdulmutallab.

This was good, too:

“By cutting off funding for the KSM trial, Congress can send Obama a clear message: The Constitution is neither a safety net for illegal enemy combatants nor a suicide pact for us.”

So the Constitution is a Holy Document except in those cases when a lethal risk arises the odds of which are akin to getting eaten by a werewolf.

Good lord. According to the Hammer O’ Crap, the guy who shot the Army recruiter was a scary scary terrorist too, as was the Ft. Hood shooter.

Krauthammer’s point seems to be that whoever he deems a terrorist shouldn’t be read their rights. What he fails to explain is how you’re going to know who is a terrorist vs who is a mere criminal before you question him – or before Krauthammer writes his next column.

Utter FAIL.

Jennifer,, that just leads to treating EVERYBODY as a terrist, and we won’t know for sure until they are tasered and waterboarded.

It’s what he wants.

Wait. Was I Mirandized!!!!!!
Mom!!!!!

Krauthammer is a sociopath, and if he could walk, he’d be the “it puts the lotion on its skin” guy.

What he fails to explain is how you’re going to know who is a terrorist

That is of course the crux of the problem that the Constituion addresses. No one person or group of people should dictate who the Constitution applies to and who it doesn’t otherwise the document is worthless. And how come they haven’t said a thing about the terrorist that killed an abortion doctor getting “Mirandized”. Why aren’t they calling for him to get enhanced interogation so we can learn more about terrorist activity in Kansas. you never know, there might be a ticking time bomb out there right now!

I do, however, think we should probably waterboard O’Keefe. Just to be sure, you know.

Also, per Krauthammer, he doesn’t deserve legal defense. terrist, yanno.

Western governments have traditionally considered terrorists as simple criminals, while refusing to acknowledge (and thereby legitimize) their political agenda. We could declare this a war, too – that would change the entire situation, but there are ways of doing that. Or we could determine that terrorists have a special status (like, pirates used to be considered the common enemies of mankind, a not-quite-war situation where it was considered okay to use military force anyway).

But none of these options appeal to the right wing because they each come with their own set of rules and laws. They want to operate completely free of any restrictions. Newsflash to Chuckles; it’s the GOP, not us, that’s chosen to use the rhetoric of war while refusing to legally declare it. Until war is legally declared on al-Qaeda, their members captured on our territory are just petty criminals, organized criminals if you want but still no more than that.

Krauthammer appears to be pretty easy to scare.

You know who else we treated like a petty criminal.

Put them in wheelchairs !!!!

Was that beyond the pale?

Permanent Krauthammer:

Mooslems got no rights. The end.

I don’t even like mangoes. WTF was I thinking?

•The Obama administration wishes to Mirandize terrorists and try them as petty criminals, when in fact the appropriate response is to invade their bodies, kill their spirit and convert them to Judeo-Christianity.

What’s the difference between that and an exorcism?

Washington D.C.- President Obama today announced that the use of a blog or a newspaper column to scare the bejeebus out of American citizens is considered a terrorist activity. In an early morning raid the Department of Homeland Security rounded up 42 terrorists including Charles Krauthammer. The terrorists have been shackled and hooded and are being flown to Eglin Air Base where they will be loaded on to a C-130 and flown to Guantanamo Bay for incarceration and interogation.

See what kind of fun this administration could have it it weren’t for that darn Constitution getting in the way.

Speaking of making shit up, it really pisses me off that the lie keeps being repeated without question or correction:

CabbageWhacker:

After 50 minutes of questioning him, the Obama administration chose, reflexively and mindlessly, to give the chatty terrorist the right to remain silent. Which he immediately did, undoubtedly denying us crucial information about al-Qaeda in Yemen, which had trained, armed and dispatched him.

Sadly, No!

For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked — to U.S. Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.
[…]
He spoke openly about what he’d done and why, and provided valuable intelligence,
The FBI interview with the suspected bomber lasted about 50 minutes. Before they began questioning Abdulmutallab, the FBI agents decided not to give him his Miranda warnings informing him of his right to remain silent.

He and they are not only pants-wetting, terror-masochist crybabies, they’re fucking liars.

Completely OT, just to cheer myself up because this shit depresswes the fuck out of me, I mention the best Obit EVAH!

This article appeared in this week’s Newsweek (hey, I read it because “know your enemy” and all that).

The Shit Hammer is firmly lodged in the Neocon firmament; therefore, any action taken in the Middle East (or thereabouts) that weakens Israel’s enemies is good, any action which accords “those people” rights or even a measure of humanity is bad.

Once you apply this filter, it’s easy to see that all of Kraphammer’s writings boil down to the exact same message.

You libruls just won’t admit Kraphammer’s right even though Obama made the Christmastime crotch-bomber the Nucular Wepin Securitee Zar.

And how come they haven’t said a thing about the terrorist that killed an abortion doctor getting “Mirandized”.

Well, we all know the answer to that one.

The good thing is, the system worked in this case. And on MOTHERFUCKIN’ KANSAS DAY, too!

Over at BigLegalProblems.com…

Shorter O’Keefe: Teabags will set me free.

Also, “jammed” phone-lines, not what he thinks it means.

One of the reasons Scott Brown won in Massachusetts was his focus on the Mirandizing of Abdulmutallab.

Scott Brown was willing to demagogue an issue to scare people into voting for him. Perhaps the Republicans could take a lesson from this example!

PENIS. And such as. Also.

Chris said,

January 29, 2010 at 18:22

This. A thousand times, this.

Teabags will set me free.

Yeesh, that one’s ripe for a Fisking.

Shorter Jimmy OK: No, really, we weren’t trying to tap or cut any phone lines. We needed to get in to the phone room because… um… brb, jail.

Also, no son, you are not an “investigative journalist”. You are a soon to be convicted felon.

On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building.

So like, everything’s cool now? Right?

I’m staying in the fucking boat. I know what awaits me should I leave. But my question is, why don’t the Dems use this? “The Republicans hate the constitution. They want to take away your rights to a free trial. They want to impose martial law.” Gold, right? Sadly, the Dems are spineless and the average American is mindless.

Also, the Xmas Crotch-Bomber doesn’t DRIVE A TRUCK!!!

I have connections that will get me out of trouble when I do stupid things. In fact, I have connections that will pay me to do stupid things. I will always be in yer kichen doin’ stoopid things.

the appropriate response is to invade their bodies

Not-so-veiled rape reference.

See, O’Keefe missed the real story opportunity.

Instead of trying to make up some fake story about telephones, he could have just as easily gone in to that federal building and started asking staffers if they have ever seen their Senator wearing diapers or if they knew if their Senator walked around with used condoms in his pocket.

Hilarious!

just how does the us armed forces stationed in the mid east prevent and or stop some knuckle head stuffing his jeans or shoes or whatever with some explosives?

After 50 minutes of questioning him, the Obama administration chose, reflexively and mindlessly, to give the chatty terrorist the right to remain silent.

We have since learned that the decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab had been made without the knowledge of or consultation with (1) the secretary of defense, (2) the secretary of homeland security, (3) the director of the FBI, (4) the director of the National Counterterrorism Center or (5) the director of national intelligence (DNI).

More Shorter: “The Obama administration chose to mirandize the terrorist, and we later learned that this decision was made with the involvement of the Obama Administration.”

Pretty easy to trust the Shorter (less Nestor Pistor channelling Caligula, more Gallagher channelling Martin Bormann) when it sounds precisely the fucking same as Krauthammer does all the time.

No one person or group of people should dictate who the Constitution applies to and who it doesn’t otherwise the document is worthless. And how come they haven’t said a thing about the terrorist that killed an abortion doctor getting “Mirandized”. Why aren’t they calling for him to get enhanced interogation so we can learn more about terrorist activity in Kansas. you never know, there might be a ticking time bomb out there right now!

“It’s … it’s full of WINs!”

Some of you lieberals are forgetting that during the Bush years torturing and imprisoning without restrictions worked perfectly.

For further comedy, dip your toe into the comments on Chuckles’ column. Some of these morans complain that the Fort Hood killer got Mirandized. Imagine that! A United States citizen and member of the Armed Services got read his rights. The horror!

My mirandizing Abdulmutallab, they have immanentized the eschaton!

Say THAT 3 times fast, mofo!

Some of you lieberals are forgetting that during the Bush years torturing and imprisoning without restrictions worked perfectly.

Well I personally believe, and this is just gut instinct and not based on much in the way of factual evidence, that the torture in Abu Ghraib was done and publicized in part to help escalate the Iran war. If I am right on that, it really did work perfectly.

So James O’Keefe can have a thought that might be considered reasonable. Wuh.

*huh. FYWP.

James O’Keefe said,

January 29, 2010 at 20:34

Oops, nym change FAIL! I will go sit in the corner and hang my head in shame now.

How come you guys are not selling “Always trust the shorter (TM) (R) (C)” t-shirts yet?
Actor212 was working on a design I was going to liberate and print onto shirts.

I knew that was you, Sirius.

I think Krauthammer and the rest of these pants-wetting idiots should be forbidden to watch “24” or play World of Warcrap, or whatever video game is feeding their moronic fantasies, until they get a clue.

Willy said,

January 29, 2010 at 20:41

How come you guys are not selling “Always trust the shorter (TM) (R) (C)” t-shirts yet?
Actor212 was working on a design I was going to liberate and print onto shirts.

I want mine to say “Stay in the boat — the mangoes aren’t worth it!” on the back.

As <a href="http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2010/01/adequate-adequate.html&quot; Drifty points out:

“…that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it.” OK, that’s the only factual error I could find in this speech, but its kind of a big one. Because every citizen of the United States, not just those who “abide by the law”, deserve the full protection of that law.

That is, in fact, one of the pillars of our democracy, and it is actually fairly shocking that it got past not just the White House speech-writing team, but former Constitutional Law Professor, Barack Obama.

To which I would add that the protection of the law must apply to everyone, not just every “citizen of the United States”. If we deem that our laws and our system of justice are a model for the rest of the world, then those laws should apply to anyone who is subject to them, whether they are “one of us” or not. Being born here, or having parents who were, does not confer some magical super-humanity upon you.

Being born here, or having parents who were, does not confer some magical super-humanity upon you.

Why do you hate America!?!!!!1!!!one

Ah, FYWABOD, WP. Y’all know Driftglass–go there. (if you don’t, you should)

Always trust the shorter. The mangoes really aren’t worth it.

“How come you guys are not selling “Always trust the shorter (TM) (R) (C)” t-shirts yet?
Actor212 was working on a design I was going to liberate and print onto shirts.”

Funnier if you printed it across the front of shorts.

The Republicans hate the constitution

On the contrary, they revere the constitution. They think Moses brought the Constitution down the slopes of Mt. Sinai with those other ten rules. They just want to see it apply in the way the Framers intended, ie: only to white, male property owners.

This is probably a big part of why only white, male property owners (well, and white males who live in property owned by their white parents) still vote for them in large numbers.

just how does the us armed forces stationed in the mid east prevent and or stop some knuckle head stuffing his jeans or shoes or whatever with some explosives?

Because shut up, that’s why!

Also magic flypaper ponies strategy whiskey democracy sexy liberation crusade.

Shorter O’Keefe: Teabags will set me free.

Whereas some are prone to disagree:

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LOL same person who refuses to release the UNEDITED tapes from ACORN waaaaaahing about journalistic integrity ROTFLMAO

a felony is a felony is a felony

perhaps the same respected & renowned journaliste who magically transformed a few tired bored community-workers playing along with a couple of prats into a vast malevolent monolith of menace against innocent Americans may want to Google “gaining access under false pretences” or “tampering” in a spare moment – perhaps between fluffy hyperbolic communiques like the one above – knowledge is power, after all

unless the “tapes” also refute the sworn statement of the FBI agent, this is all much sound & fury signifying jack-squat … & someone’s been ridiculously lucky not to be already under suspicion of terrorism, because his & his trustafarian brahs’ “innocent shenanigans” (a mere 4 weeks after a foiled jet-bombing attempt) are also EXACTLY like the actions of a terrorist-cell doing a “dry-run”

WheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe!

Funnier if you printed it across the front of shorts.

Or the back.

someone’s been ridiculously lucky not to be already under suspicion of terrorism

This. A thousand times, this.

Imagine if this guy’s name had been Muhammad Al-Sharif. If he wasn’t already in Guantanamo by now, being enhancedly interrogated to prove that he’s the bosom friend of the President of Iran, Krauthammer would be writing editorials decrying the liberals who thought he should be Mirandized when he was arrested.

POOP!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

TIGER!! IT’S A FUCKING TIGER!! (Sobs uncontrollably.)

Speaking of poop, anyone see the Obama/Repuke confab today? I missed it, but the consensus seems to be that the Kenyan Usurper made them all look like the whiny ass titty babies they are:

I’m reasonably certain I’ve never seen anything like it. GOP House members were fairly respectful of the president, but pressed him on a variety of policy matters. The president didn’t just respond effectively, he delivered a rather powerful, masterful performance.

It was like watching a town-hall forum where all of the questions were confrontational, but Obama nevertheless just ran circles around these guys. I can only assume caucus members, by the end of the Q&A, asked themselves, “Whose bright idea was it to invite the president and let him embarrass us on national television?”

Note, however, that this wasn’t just about political theater — it was an important back-and-forth between the president and his most forceful political detractors. They were bringing up routine far-right talking points that, most of the time, simply get repeated in the media unanswered. But in Baltimore, the president didn’t just respond to the nonsense, he effectively debunked it.

Republicans thought they were throwing their toughest pitches, and Obama — with no notes, no teleprompter, and no foreknowledge — just kept knocking ’em out of the park.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/022159.php

Of course, the Liberal Media isn’t totally willing to give the big O his props:

of course, minority parties in the House have no real governing power so today’s event is more show than substance.

http://twitter.com/chucktodd

Chuck Todd, ladies and germs. He’ll be here all week.

Video here:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/01/29/HP/R/28993/President%20Speaks%20at%20GOP%20Retreat.aspx
Transcript here:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/speech/173/

Thanks for the link, commie atheist, but I think we crashed their server by all running over there to watch at the same time. At least, I’m getting a message that it’s not working right now.

The antis are going to get a rude awakening. See, we doctors are now getting the message and are buying guns. It took 20 years for us to wake the fuck up..

Enough is enough.

And that Roeder used a pussy gun to kill Tiller. I have a bigger gun.

……Foo.

“he’d be the “it puts the lotion on its skin” guy.”

Francis Dolarhyde, from The Silence of the Lambs. Well observed, sir.

Sorry, Wonderful, Francis Dolarhyde was in “Red Dragon.” The “It puts the lotion on its skin” guy was Buffalo Bill, or Jamie Gumb.

(Why am I such a geek I know this?)

AHHH! YOU’RE RIGHT. AND I WAS SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF.

Thanks, g.

BTW, if you listen to nothing else, listen to the pastor’s invocation at the start of that C-Span Obama video. If that doesn’t leave you an atheist, nothing will. “Lord God, you are attentive to all human needs…let us pray for our brothers and sisters in Haiti…Wait, what?”

Another Orly Taitz filing. The President is trying to have her killed. Also he owes her money.

treating tourists as criminals encourages them because they think mirandizing involves being allowed to dance around to cool brazilian music while wearing bananas on your head

krauthammer always wanted to say chicki boom boom buts nobody ever lets him have any fun

Another Orly Taitz filing. The President is trying to have her killed.

Yeah, the great maniacal dictators of history are all well known for allowing their detractors to run around loose and file lawsuits and so forth.

I mean, just look at Lubanov V. Stalin, or Feng V. Mao.

Another Orly Taitz filing.

This is fun. I love reading the ranting of lunatics. For instance:

“When she brought two legal actions…on behalf of the members of the US military, as a form of intimidation and retaliation, she was sanctioned $20,000.”

Gotta watch where you place those clauses.

“Here comes the plaintiff Dr. Orly Taitz ESQ”

Fuck it; we can just stop right there.

The President is trying to have her killed. Also he owes her money.

I can’t help but imagine what wingnuts think the conversation was between Abdulmutallub and the FBI was.

“Ok he’s going to put the bomb right under the-”
“NO NO STOP TALKING WE HAVE ORDERS DIRECTLY FROM THE PRESIDENT TO MIRANDIZE” (Gives the whole mantra: silent, lawyer, etc.)
“Wait wait, I have the right to remain silent, well if I knew that I wouldn’t of given everyone up immediately after getting caught.”

Orly Taitz filing

i think she should be filed daily until all the crazy edges are filed right off of her

This is fun.

But wait, there’s more!

Several convicted criminals and document forgers were working in concert and appear to be following the same instructions, submited perjured affidavits to court and forged her signature, in an attempt to influence the judiciary and undermine her in the eyes of the community and undermine her law license.

People are TRYING TO MAKE ORLY TAITZ LOOK DUMB.

Hmm…I guess everyone else liked Obama’s speech in Baltimore a lot better than I did. The first two refutations were definitely, holy shit, did that just happen? The others, ehh…but if the media wants to mark this up as Republicans embarrassing themselves, I won’t stop them.

The President is trying to have her killed. Also he owes her money.

Well, he owes ME money too, so that’s understandable…..

At least it wasn’t another Orly Taitz filling.

“Is it safe?”

“YOU PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND! HE’S TRYING TO PAY ME TO HAVE ME KILLED!”

but if the media wants to mark this up as Republicans embarrassing themselves, I won’t stop them.

Actually, the Repukes themselves are calling it an embarrassment:

RUSSERT: Tom Cole — former head of the NRCC, congressman from Oklahoma — said, “He scored many points. He did really well.” Barack Obama, for an hour and a half, was able to refute every single Republican talking point used against him on the major issues of the day. In essence, it was almost like a debate where he was front and center for the majority of it. … One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: “It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/29/russert-gop-obama/

Speaking of poop, anyone see the Obama/Repuke confab today?

I did, and, going in, I was thinking “why the fuck would his advisers let him do this???” Not only does it risk giving them a shot of credibility they don’t deserve, one slip-up, one brainfart, one “I dunno, let me get back to you” and hyenas would be all over his ass.

By the end, I was ready to send the White House a fucking cupcake. He PWN3D them with a capital O. Smacked down their bullshit right to their faces on national TV.

By the end, FNC had cut away early to try to control the bleeding (the rest stayed riveted) and GOP Hill staffers were already crying in their beer to Luke Russert about how televising the event was a huge fucking mistake.

The most precious moment, though? After getting a 90 swirly from the Prez, the losers all mobbed him for his autograph. Classic.

Darn you, commie atheist (and my slow fingers). Darn you to heck!

HahaHA! Love it!

One of the little shits said “Off the record” that “It was a mistake to invite him here.” Now, I don’t have too much faith in the American people’s political intelligence, but even they can tell when some slimy little GOP rat is trying to control the flow of information. Keep digging your own grave, Repubes! I’ll get the popcorn.

Next time they’ll just invite the teleprompter; that’s clearly the focus of all the trouble.

The fact is, the Nuremberg trials were both an embarrassment and significant security risk. Sentiment is widespread that it is quite insane to spend $200 million a year to give the killers of millions the largest propaganda platform on earth, while at the same time granting civilian rights of cross-examination and discovery that risk betraying allied intelligence sources and methods. The nations behind this radical ploy are either dangerously un-serious about the threat posed by the National Socialist movement, not having learned the hard lessons of the pre-1939 mentality, or have deluded themselves into thinking that game of cops & robbers followed by a steak dinner and HBO at club Fed will telegraph anything but subservience to our fascist enemies.

I guess the GOP done believed their own line of bullshit a little too well.

“It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”

Gosh, Mr. Republican! You think so? You think maybe Bush could have done the same – really? *snerk*

I guess the GOP done believed their own line of bullshit a little too well.

That’s exactly it, and they make the same mistake on every freakin’ issue.

“DURRHURRHURR Obammy’s and empty suit who can’t talk without a teleprompter, DURHURRHURR, let’s put him on TV for an hour and wait for him to fuck up.”

I think my favorite moment was at about 40 minutes into the Q & A, where he said, “I’m havin’ fun.”

Think Poutscammer has TRUCKNUTZ on the back of his wheelchair?

Too soon?

yea, Pere, that’s the thing. They’ve convinced themselves that Bush really was competent, and they expected Obama to be no better…

Of course, kingubu said it before me and better, so we hates him foreverz….

Speaking of poop, anyone see the Obama/Repuke confab today? I missed it, but the consensus seems to be that the Kenyan Usurper made them all look like the whiny ass titty babies they are:

so he’s captain of the debating team. so what? we all knew obama was dreamy and smart and hopey and dreamy and changey and brilliant and did i mention dreaaaaaaamy?

so far this has meant what? theater is theater is theater, baby, and anybody who gets suckered in by it is a chump and a mark. it was true when dreamboy dubya donned the flight jacket and gave the thumbs up. it’s true when obama says pretty words to prove how smart he is.

I was eating lunch in a bar (…what?…) that had three different feeds of Obama from three channels, out of sync, with no sound. It was fascinating in a spirograph kind of way. But without knowing what he was saying, it was clear that he was not breaking a sweat.

Loving the GOP constantly whining that he’s been ignoring them…

Lol,

I think I just heard someone say that politics was theatre!!

it was true when dreamboy dubya donned the flight jacket and gave the thumbs up. it’s true when obama says pretty words to prove how smart he is.

While Obama is the Duke Nukem Forever president, there’s a substantial difference between demolishing your political opponents to their faces and parading in front of your fans in he-man drag.

Jeebus, Orly Taitz’s brief is freaking illiterate.

Loving the GOP constantly whining that he’s been ignoring them…

Loving the GOP whining even louder now that he’s paying attention to them.

My friends, we are objectively pro-terrorist:

Bin Laden Rebukes U.S. on Climate Change
By JACK HEALY
Published: January 29, 2010

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera.

it’s true when obama says pretty words to prove how smart he is.

Thanks for proving one of Obama’s points for him.

This is part of what’s happened in our politics, where we demonize the other side so much that when it comes to actually getting things done, it becomes tough to do.

You know who else had a Kraut hammer?

we all knew obama was dreamy and smart and hopey and dreamy and changey and brilliant and did i mention dreaaaaaaamy?

sniff sniff…is that…projection I smell? From a onetime purity troll, perhaps?

Obama is not immune to criticism, given the year he’s had. But if people are going to dismiss anything short of an overnight revolution of American politics as “theater”, then we ain’t getting anywhere any faster.

Warner Todd Huston has a new look. New for me at least.

Warner Todd Huston has a new look. New for me at least.

I liked his look before he started wearing a rug.

Warner Todd Huston has a new look. New for me at least.

Bully!

Guess the reading of miranda rights explains why no one has ever been convicted of a crime, no matter how many witnesses there were, or how iron-clad the evidence against them, or how much they confessed to anyway. Oh—those terrible liberal rulz. Clutch pearls.

The Republicans brought a duck to a gunfight?

Warner Todd Huston has a new look.

He’s pre-Brimleyed.

Obama is not immune to criticism, given the year he’s had. But if people are going to dismiss anything short of an overnight revolution of American politics as “theater”, then we ain’t getting anywhere any faster.

by the same token, if people bark eagerly and clap their flippers together like trained seals every time obama says a few nice things, we also aren’t getting anywhere fast.

I like the ‘Ken and Ken’ article .

OT: So I’ve been reading all the scholarly responses to Doughy Pantload. This was the best one:

http://www.hnn.us/articles/122245.html

Stupid editor should have put it first. I nearly gave up at Griffin, he was so impenetrable, not to mention hysterical (and no, I don’t mean hysterical as in funny, although I suppose it could be unintentionally funny, if you take as given the presence of some good friends and the right drugs, you know, like a bad movie).

*-I realize hysterical is sexist, so if somebody can suggest an alternative word…

By the same token, if people’s minds reflexively slam shut every time Obama says anything (like they obviously do), we’ll get nowhere even faster.

*-I realize hysterical is sexist, so if somebody can suggest an alternative word…

PENIS.

if people bark eagerly and clap their flippers together like trained

oh yes that’s what i do everyday absolutely

Yes, but if people crudely caricature the state of minds of other people who they’re discussing policy with we’ll get nowhere even fasterer.

On the gripping hand, if the people whose minds slam shut remain so despite exhortations to get a grip on reality, we’ll get nowhere at high fractions of C.

I know I’m late and all that, but I do have a comment that just must be made:

How the holy fuck can I Trust the Shorter (TM) if you fools keep quoting the piece of bubonic-plague-strength stupid that was shortened?!

Seriously. Stop shitting in the boat. Some of us are neat freaks who like a tight ship. (Wait. What?)

How the hell can Trust the Proverbial — and Literal Even! — Shorter (TM, Circle C, SM, S&M, M&M, and BMF, etc, etc, etc,) if you fools keep quoting the bubonic-plague-level stupid that was shortened?!

Stop shitting in the boat, lest I make you swab the deck.*

P.S. Hope this twasn’t a double post. If so, FYWPYFCMF.

(*Salad tossing reference … ?)

heh, I hear ole OBL’s weighin in on teh “climate change”. hear he thinks algorees a fatty too, heh

Kap’n K-Hamms:
*Brandishes lollipops*

“These aren’t the hammer!”

Well, since the thread has sort of stalled away from the topic of Krautwhammer.

Bitter Scribe said,”I think Krauthammer and the rest of these pants-wetting idiots should be forbidden to watch “24? or play World of Warcrap, or whatever video game is feeding their moronic fantasies, until they get a clue.”

World of Warcraft would only feed his moronic fantasies in the same way that Avatar would (or does, c.f., Jonah). WoW is telling a story of triumph over slavery, racial harmony in the face of bigotry, triumph over tyranny, sustainable co-existence with a planet (albeit intelligently designed by Titans, and “balanced” by warring elemental demi-gods). It’s largely coherrent for a world where magic and demons are real and tangible forces co-existing and often conflicting with technology and society.

The moral choices a player makes are her own and are not coerced: never want to harm an animal? Don’t. Don’t want to kill miners or farmers encroaching on your ancestral lands? Don’t. I know of two quests out of nearly 10,000 that involve torturing an enemy captive (ticking time-bomb!), choosing not to torture in either of these cases doesn’t penalize you, but nor are you rewarded. IRL, we’re rarely paid in gold for following through with humane decisions. (Look, non-Krauthammer players even question the act on the commentary for that quest.)

You’re also free (or not) to commit acts of eco-terrorism! (And a zillion other things you may or may not consider right or fun — turning the undead (or worse, necromancy… ZRM); enslaving demons; communing with ancestral spirits; feeding and raising raptors; restoring certain time-lines; fighting over a miserable patch of snowy mountains; and so on.)

Too long?

The SOTU left me cold – too much Reagan, not enough FDR – but seeing this smackdown more than makes up for it.

“Republicans thought they were throwing their toughest pitches, and Obama — with no notes, no teleprompter, and no foreknowledge — just kept knocking ‘em out of the park.”

That the Goopers would do something this foolhardy tells me that behind the scenes (having the Scott “Treasure-Trail” Brown/Pre-Owned Ford F150 Truck ticket beating an abominable opponent with a “GOP? Who, Me?” campaign notwithstanding) they’re equal parts deluded & desperate. Did they sleep through his debates with Johnny Wet-Start? Every time they let him have a podium, they wind up being his bitch – so yeah, why not try that again?

The cherry on the Footbullet Sundae is that they got him national TeeVee time afterward signing autographs for Republicans … & Man-Baby Karl Rove wept.

MOAR PWNAGE PL0X

I read the transcript. Now that was pretty sweet. I think I’m going to take Obama back and give him a second chance.

(Doesn’t hurt that I had RENT on tonight at work. Mi-miiiiiii.)