God damn, I’m almost tempted to get out of the boat, Tintin. Not for the fat hairy guy, but to read about stoning a whale…

Almost want to do it, but I’ll hate myself if I do it…

MUST RESIST.

too late

To use the example from Exodus, if your ox kills a second time, “the ox shall be stoned

i would not feel so all alone

um, the “condescending” link is forblunget

[Tintin: The link is now fixed. I am deeply sorry and humbly apologize to all people who, as a result of driving my link, were caught in a runaway web browser and were killed or injured. Fortunately for me, and for Akio Toyoda, ritual seppuku is no longer an acceptable method of apology to those who have been injured by your wanton negligence.]

Yeah, and it’s not working either.

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o/t, but this is weird. BigLegal Problems thinks that the redesigned symbol for the missile defence agency, or some such thing, is actually a secret Muslim plan by Obama to enslave us all.

Nutters.

Temporary link, enough to get you to the next gas station or call box.
Take your choice of condescensions.

Meanwhile, Mr. Chait of TNR doesn’t get it.

Anger at condescending liberals seems to burn deep within the hearts of conservatives in ways that I fail to understand.

[…]

I don’t get the right-wing’s chronic anger when highly intelligent people like Al Gore and Barack Obama try to speak to the average American about complex issues while assuming, correctly, that the audience may not have much information about the subject at hand.

Let me explain it to you w/o seeming condescending, Jonathan. algore is fat & BHO is a you-know-what. Anything else you need to know?

Oh, gob. The thing to which the Belgian guy meant to link is in here: Commentary live-buggers the Healthapalooka. Stay in the boat if you wish, but it looks like one of those deals where they get everything 180º wrong. As you might expect when Pod is reduced to moaning about condescension.

Hey, also totally o/t but did anyody else read this Limbaugh quote (he was talking about Glenn Beck but that’s not central to my point):

“There are motivations for people who do what they do–and I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist, I think I know what’s going on”

Stand back, everybody!

I’m a HIGHLY TRAINED BROADCAST SPECIALIST!!

(Shock, awe.)

Let me explain it to you w/o seeming condescending, Jonathan. algore is fat & BHO is a you-know-what. Anything else you need to know?

I think the explanation is simpler still. When your political success depends, and has depended for thirty years, on telling people comforting lies, the thought of somebody speaking possibly unpleasant truths would be very frightening.

Shorter me: Jonathan, they’re pissed off because they don’t want anybody explaining the complex issues to the audience.

libfags are not only condesending, they are dumb

It is condescending to speak truthfully about topics. Real Americans simply scream whatever TeaTard phrases have been recently sanctified. Anything else is tyranny.

After the whale has been stoned…whale chowder for everybody!

Enough with the pictures of killer whales attacking their trainers! They are wild animals for gawdsakes

I always thought that Yetis were snow monsters. Yet this one seems to be vacationing at a Sandals resort. With a kidnapped human baby, no less.

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

Y’know, it’s really funny…when we talk about peace before war and all that stuff, we’re accused of dragging out the tired old DFH arguments.

But when they want to talk about failed solutions, well, it’s simply that we didn’t try hard enough and no one listened to them.

Tell you what: let’s go back to the Great Society days, start over and really give that a try? If it fails again, then maybe, MAYBE, we’ll give them a chance to speak up.

Let me explain it to you w/o seeming condescending, Jonathan. algore is fat & BHO is a you-know-what. Anything else you need to know?

Also, you forget to throw random words like Socialist, Communist, Progressive, Muslim, Maoist, Fascist, Bolchevik & Liberal around, either along or combined. it helps particularly if the eventual sentence makes absolutely no sense.

After the whale has been stoned…whale chowder for everybody!

*sipping herbal tea quietly*

I am SO getting the popcorn to watch this.

Also, you forget to throw random words like Socialist, Communist, Progressive, Muslim, Maoist, Fascist, Bolchevik & Liberal around, either along or combined.

They ought to take a page out of Carlin and just use one lonnnnng word: commiepinkohippiefagjunkie

biblical injunction to stone a whale to death

That sounds like hard werk. Can we stone him until he sees colours?

Also, you forget to throw random words like Socialist, Communist, Progressive, Muslim, Maoist, Fascist, Bolchevik & Liberal around, either along or combined.

I think “Statist” is the one they’re using now.

“Doctor, the patient is bleeding.”

“Get me plasma, stat.”

“The patient is going into shock.”

“Get me plasma, stater.”

“The patient has valid insurance.”

“Get me plasma, statist.”

Stoned? Sounds like he already had the munchies…

I think Stoned Whale would be a great band name.

But global warming is a myth!

I’m not sure that’s even slightly shorter.

Shorter: Is it safe to say “uppity nigger” yet?

Is the Orca going to give the child back to its mommy?

if your ox kills a second time, “the ox shall be stoned

REEFER MADNESS! THE HORRORS OF MARY JANE!

Stoned whale picture at;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41955221@N05/4054028525/

I have appendicitis? Well you don’t need to sound so condescending when you tell me about it, Doc.

My carburetor’s shot? Look, Mr. Mechanic, you don’t have to sound so uppity about it.

Fortunately for me, and for Akio Toyada, ritual seppuku is no longer an acceptable method of apology to those who have been injured by your wanton negligence.

It’s still acceptable, it’s just no longer mandatory.

Whenever I see that picture, I think of this passage from Lovecraft:

Well played, Dark Avenger, but I think of this passage:

There were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight.

Yea, well, whenever I see that picture of J-Pod, I think of Bozo the Clown’s mugshot.

Or maybe Lindsay Lohan’s. Can’t remember which is scarier.

So I like, got out of the the boat ‘n junk, and like this dude is wikked smaht.

Check this shit out:

Here’s how. By not being condescending. That’s how.

Whoa. I’ll bet he knows Kung Fu.

I’ll bet he knows Kung Fu.

He sure as shit doesn’t know “Wax on! Wax off!”

But global warming is a myth!

Awesome. We’ll all save money on winter coats and boots and stuff.

He sure as shit doesn’t know “Wax on! Wax off!”

I’ll bet if you caught him at a rest area, he could should you a thing or two about waxing on and off.

What about waxing wroth?

What about waxing wroth?

Have Roth wax the dean for a while.

I got out of the boat for the orca thing. The idiot, who cannot write, seems to feel that they are called killer whales because they have some deep-seated desire to murder humans and do so frequently, “What about the term killer whale do they not understand?” Which is somewhat bitterly hilarious as orcas are far more likely to be killed by humans, not least because we *suspect* they would like to kill us, even though documented cases of orcas killing humans are practically nonexistent.

More to the point, anyone who kills a captive animal just because it mauls some fucker who illegally sneaks into its enclosure, or kills a wild animal because some other fucker moves into its home and loses an arm or a poodle–particularly in this century in this country where if you’re remotely in danger of being mauled by anything other than a domestic dog it’s because you went really, *really* far out of your way to be there–is also an evil fucker. The Renew America author, which is a term I will use loosely here, feels that this is somehow the fault of crazy animal rights people, though I’m willing to bet he’d feel it was perfectly reasonable to kill someone who broke into his home.

Saw this one coming from a mile away. Obama was kind of an asshole yesterday, but I don’t care, because the opposition deserved nothing more. “I don’t have time for your childish bullshit” is as good an image for him to project as any these days.

kills a wild animal because some other fucker moves into its home and loses an arm or a poodle–particularly in this century in this country where if you’re remotely in danger of being mauled by anything other than a domestic dog it’s because you went really, *really* far out of your way to be there

Do NOT pick up the next issue of National Geographic.

Actually in recent years mountain lion attacks are way up. And not in areas traditionally thought of as remote either. I recall a few years ago a mountain lion attacked a biker on a pretty busy mountain bike trail in either CO or CA. Personally I believe the solution is to ban the manufacture and sale of all barbecue sauce flavored sunscreens.

I think “Statist” is the one they’re using now.

yeah, i forgot that one. Correct me if I am wrong, but is the opposite of Statism not Anarchism?

Saw this one coming from a mile away. Obama was kind of an asshole yesterday, but I don’t care, because the opposition deserved nothing more. “I don’t have time for your childish bullshit” is as good an image for him to project as any these days.

I have to say it’s about fucking time. We’ve let those douchebag Republicans get away with saying dumb shit like that since …well, forever. What they say is stupid and tiresome and insufferable, and they need to be called on it.

Actually in recent years mountain lion attacks are way up.

You mean cougar attacks. This is true. On a related note, Whale Chowder’s mom says “Hi.”

Actually she says “Oh God, that was better than the time I entertained the Shriners convention.”

Personally I believe the solution is to ban the manufacture and sale of all barbecue sauce flavored sunscreens.

Great! Now I’ll never get laid!

Except by D-K’s mom.

You mean cougar attacks. This is true.

They spiked during the 2008 Dem primaries, and that’s been gunking the stats up ever since.

Actually in recent years mountain lion attacks are way up.

Make sweet love to them and they’ll be less cranky.

Great! Now I’ll never get laid!

and thats different from now, how?

and thats different from now, how?

Well, that’s shut up, that’s why.

Great! Now I’ll never get laid!

Switch to hummus flavored sunscreen and attract healthier gassier women.

Switch to hummus flavored sunscreen and attract healthier gassier women.

…who wear Birkenstocks and never shave their legs???

Personally, I’m glad cougar attacks are on the rise. I loves me some cougar. Mmm mmm mmm.

DKW, your mom went to the clinic and says you need to get there too…not sure what that’s all about…She looked worried and embarassed.

Good morning, actor212, my computing device indicates that you just asked what I am wearing, what I’m gonna have for breakfast, and whether I would condescend to go out with you in anticipation of possibly meeting your somewhat hideous needs. There is a “Sadly, no!” on its way to you oh no splat.

Nice link Sub McGrav!

I’ve loved Motorhead since seeing them on The Young Ones! (A few years back…)

Obama was kind of an asshole yesterday, but I don’t care, because the opposition deserved nothing more.

Better late than never. MOAR of this. In higher concentrations and with greater frequency.

And not just ’cause it makes ME feel good. He wins with it.

Here’s how. By not being condescending. That’s how.

Oh yeah, nothing condescending about his tone.

Switch to hummus flavored sunscreen and attract healthier gassier women.

…who wear Birkenstocks and never shave their legs???

Do you any of you guys actually know any women besides DK’s moms?

Man, these 4 martini breakfasts are playing havoc with my braincell.

Do you any of you guys actually know any women besides DK’s moms?

Considering they wear Birkenstocks and don’t shave their legs, um, no.

Good morning, actor212, my computing device indicates that you just asked what I am wearing, what I’m gonna have for breakfast, and whether I would condescend to go out with you in anticipation of possibly meeting your somewhat hideous needs. There is a “Sadly, no!” on its way to you oh no splat.

When did I get cast in the remake of Sleeper?

Wait?

“Somewhat hideous”?

I must not be trying hard enough.

Do you any of you guys actually know any women besides DK’s moms?

No. Like water flowing downhill, we tend to seek the path of least resistance.

I must not be trying hard enough.

Do or do not… there is no try.

we tend to seek the path of least resistance.

Women never seem to understand this really simple point, do they?

Men are really simple. Hell, even an idiot like Jeff Foxworthy figured us out!

That whale was a serial killer. We may have solved a few cold cases.

What about the term killer whale do they not understand?

Stupid libtards. DO you know that they will drive on the parkway, and park on the driveway? That’s why God has forsaken America.

Well, as we move into wild areas, the animals tend to end up wherever they can manage some sort of living, I suppose, so I guess cougar attacks in areas we may think of as safe aren’t necessarily a shock, but I would suggest that we may not be thinking of these areas properly if we consider them safe because no one has been attacked recently.

As far as Obama being condescending to assholes, I am reminded more and more often lately of a co-worker who, when asked by an underling to maybe stop being so condescending because it was mean and stuff, announced, “I’ll stop being condescending when you stop being stupid.”

He never actually did stop being condescending in this person’s direction, which was considered entirely reasonable by everybody else. Sometimes, when people are demonstrating, not that they disagree with your argument, but that they refuse to hear your argument, you have to call them assholes and walk away.

Now, if we could just convince Obama that calling them idiots for refusing to participate in the democracy is not going to convince them to participate, but that he actually has to follow up by walking away. There are some people you can’t shame into being constructive, and they are frequently the people you can’t argue, persuade, or compromise into it, either.

…apology to those who have been injured by your wonton negligence…

Wassamatter, melamine in your dumplings?

After the whale has been stoned…whale chowder for everybody!

Well, maybe not for everybody but usually I can stand to do DKW’s mom if I’m stoned enough.

Maybe the Democratic establishment could stop being condescending to people on their own side, who don’t deserve it, now that they’ve started sending some the way of the GOP, who very much do. So far, the flip side of nodding respectfully at the inanities and insanities of their enemies has been sneering at their own liberal wing any time a member of it questions the establishment line on anything.

Maybe the Democratic establishment could stop being condescending to people on their own side, who don’t deserve it, now that they’ve started sending some the way of the GOP, who very much do. So far, the flip side of nodding respectfully at the inanities and insanities of their enemies has been sneering at their own liberal wing any time a member of it questions the establishment line on anything.

Right on. Know your enemy.

“Saw this one coming from a mile away. Obama was kind of an asshole yesterday, but I don’t care, because the opposition deserved nothing more. “I don’t have time for your childish bullshit” is as good an image for him to project as any these days.”

‘Twould have been nice if this had been his default setting ten or eleven months ago, instead of him waiting an entire year before it came to this.

I’m no political strategist, but the fact that he had to wait an entire freaking year before he finally woke up to the fact that no, the GOP really really isn’t going to work with you no matter how many times you reach across the aisle is inexcusable to me. Where was he for the last thirty freaking years of American politics?

Chris, he was also elected, if you remember both his victory speech and his inauguration address, as someone who wanted to reach across the aisle, and not to get a handjob, like Bush.

So he had to make a sincere effort at it. We can disagree about how long he waited to change that (I agree with you, a year is too long) but he had to wait some amount of time.

We did, but I’d say it became clear enough fairly early on in the summer (or at least halfway through) that the GOP wasn’t interested in anything other than saying no. When he finally made the health care speech in September, that should have been the end of debating and the beginning of pushing through health care reforms through any means necessary, reconciliation included (it’s not like it hasn’t been used for major legislation more recently).

Instead he kept right on waffling, and waffling, and waffling, and waffling. Everything Obama did until this last week seems to indicate that he really thought the Republicans and Lieberman were honest politicians who also wanted to solve this for the good of the American people and that if he’d only talk to them they could find a reasonable middle. I’d say that’s terminally naive on a Neville Chamberlainesque scale.

That child looks like she has a sunburn and is about to cry.

Fortunately for me, and for Akio Toyada

The Japanese have clearly entered Marx’s phase of capitalist decline and decadence, because he hasn’t even quietly and swiftly resigned in shame.

Chris, remember tho that they didn’t have Al Franken on board until the spring. It was hard to hold a cudgel to the Republicans if they could turn around and legitimately filibuster anything.

Not saying he shouldn’t have pushed harder to keep his own imposed deadline of the August break, but there were externalities that I can appreciate hampered him.

That child looks like she has a sunburn and is about to cry.

HINT: It ain’t the sun that’s irritating the child.

That picture creeps me out.

It’s not so much that he’s feeling up a child, but that it seems to be “exciting” him.

I knew Mr Podhoretz was a pedophile. I just knew it.

bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight.

Little known fact: those were the lyrics Paul McCartney discarded after he saw a blackbird singing in the dead of night.

“Incredibly tasteless reference to Bryan Fischer’s claim at RenewAmerica that SeaWorld is going to hell for not having followed the biblical injunction to stone a whale to death.”

I followed that link, not knowing what kind of silliness to expect, but this article by Fischer is one of the strongest arguments that these people are completely bugf*ck insane and need neutering ASAFP…

I can never be sure what these guys mean with their words. I’m not sure what he means by condescending. I do know how they do it.
You must hate america, you are treasonous, you are aiding the enemy.
That’s what they do. What do they call that?

Even among fundamentalists, not all are so blindly literalistic as Fischer. A significant minority (the “modernizers” or “accommodationists”) argues that while under the old covenant the whale would have to be stoned to death, the covenant of Grace permits us to use hand grenades.