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Keep On Fappin’ There, Andy
Everything Andy says would make more sense if said
while he was wearing a pink bunny suit
Andy McCarthy, J.D., Esq., Attorney-at-Law, America’s Shittiest Website™
The “Bush Did It” Defense of the Ground Zero Mosque Imam
- Lefty liberal Dhimmicrat sharia-loving JournoList Greg Abu Hussein al-Sargent thinks he’s so smart pointing out that it was the Bush administration that first sent the Ground Zero Mosque terrorist imam to the Mideast as a cultural emissary of the United States. What al-Sargent fails to realize was that the Bush State Department was overrun by Muslim terrorist infiltrators and that there was nothing Bush could do about it. In fact, Bush personally was absolutely, completely, and one-hundred percent opposed to the imam’s trip but completely powerless to stop it.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 14:34
In Bush’s defense, he probably didn’t remember this a day after it happened. Therefore he’s not responsible.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 14:40
I fail to see what either the Bush or Obama administration has to do with a local land-use issue in Manhattan. That’s probably why I can’t get me a sweet gummit lawyerin’ job like Andy did.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 14:45
I fail to see what either the Bush or Obama administration has to do with a local land-use issue in Manhattan.
It’s HOLY LAND and the federales are supposed to regulate our HOLY SITES. Just like, you know, how no one is allowed to build anything where the prison ships killed thousands during the HOLY REVOLUTION (except for landfill and about a third of the lower east side) and how no one is allowed to build anything where thousands died during riots during the HOLY
CIVIL WARWAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST FREEDOM-LOVING SLAVEHOLDERS (except for all of Chelsea and midtown).OT even faster than usual: blog-pimp for those of you with a taste for demolition porn. Click on my nym.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 14:53
Andy refers to the Washington Post as a “Democratic [sic] Party organ.”
There’s a Clinton joke in there somewhere, but I lack the instruments to locate it precisely.
g said,
August 13, 2010 at 14:55
In fact, Bush personally was absolutely, completely, and one-hundred percent opposed to the imam’s trip but completely powerless to stop it.
But Bush was the flight-suited deciderer! Not a wimpy man-boy like Obama, who is exerting hypnotic mind-control to impose the iron rule of Socialislamism upon America.
Chris said,
August 13, 2010 at 14:59
Yet another thing they point to in an effort to prove that Bush was a liberal.
(At the time I saw him reaching out to the non-homicidal Muslim community, e.g. the majority, I didn’t think it made him a liberal. I just thought it made him a non-prejudiced, rational and decent human being following longstanding American tradition. Sadly, the above is pretty much the definition of “liberalism” for the GOP, so…)
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:09
Andy refers to the Washington Post as a “Democratic [sic] Party organ.
…adjusting range….
“Silly Andy, he’s remembering it wrong – Bill Clinton was the Washington Pole, not post.”
Scott said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:12
What was McCarthy’s Bush-era preznitential nickname? Please tell me he had one…
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:13
Ahhh, the wingnut mind, one of the few places where thoughts such as “STOP BLAMING BUSH FOR EVERYTHING!!!” and “EVERYTHING IS CLINTON’S FAULT!!!” can co-exist.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:13
Andrew McCarthy is a furry!
Mysticdog said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:15
What was McCarthy’s Bush-era preznitential nickname? Please tell me he had one…
Pouty McRagebritches
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:15
You’re right, Rusty, you really can’t get a joke out of it. Just no way to shoehorn “horny as a ten-peckered billy goat” into that sentence.
MrToad said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:20
How long has everybody been playing “whack-a-mole” on these guys with no discernable difference? We’re all in the lounge chortling at their stupidity and they’re still steering the Titanic. You tell me who’s winning.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:25
Writing for NRO is hardly being “in charge.”
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:26
How long has everybody been playing “whack-a-mole” on these guys with no discernable difference? We’re all in the lounge chortling at their stupidity and they’re still steering the Titanic. You tell me who’s winning.
I don’t come here because it makes a discernible difference. I come here because chortling in the lounge is the way I deal with the fact that they’re currently winning.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:27
Writing for NRO is hardly being “in charge.”
That, too.
Although I will say the fact that such clearly insane people can influence ANYONE in this country is disturbing.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:36
When you are in government — and, in particular, when you are in a presidential administration (which I was not) — you do what you can to change policies you think are wrongheaded, but once a decision is made by the official empowered to make the decision you have two honorable choices: carry out the policy in good faith or resign. You can’t trash the policy from within by, say, leaking to the Washington Post about how boneheaded it is. That is dishonorable. You also can’t quit over every policy disagreement; you have to be prepared to quit over the policies you can’t live with, and follow through if those policies are adopted; otherwise, your task is to carry out policy faithfully — even if you don’t agree with it — but use the influence you have on the inside to move the government toward sounder policy.
So you’re supposed to carry out the policy faithfully by trying to sabotaging it at every available opportunity? Sounds like wingnut logic- we destroyed it to save it!
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:40
Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™
So where was Andy when Bush was in office? I don’t recall him clanging a fire bell, demanding a McCarathyesque purge of the State Department and the impeachment of Condi Rice. Do you?
Citizen_X said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:41
But I’m all for them steering the Titanic, as long as I’m not on it. It’s name ought to be changed to something more American though, say, the Americanic or the Christianic.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:41
How long has everybody been playing “whack-a-mole” on these guys with no discernable difference? We’re all in the lounge chortling at their stupidity and they’re still steering the Titanic. You tell me who’s winning.
Ann Coulter – discredited by MSM
Rush Limbaugh – discredited by MSM
Michelle Malkin – laughably irrelevant; discredited by MSM
Sean Hannity – under investigation for fraud
Bill O’Reilly – discredited by MSM
Michael Savage – discredited by MSM
I’m not sure ANYone is steering the Titanic.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:43
I’m not sure ANYone is steering the Titanic.
Well, Glenn Beck, but he’s a sissy crybaby short pantser.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:45
I’m not sure ANYone is steering the Titanic.
That only leaves Dean Glenn Beck.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:46
Now that Beck’s founded a university, doesn’t that make him an elitist academic?
Pork Shoulders. Also.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:49
Pork Shoulders. Also.
They’re much better in the original Swedish.
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:51
Now that Beck’s founded a university, doesn’t that make him an elitist academic?
Absolutely not because SHUT UP THAT’S WHY
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:52
Pork Shoulders. Also.
HALMP.
By the way, I realized what a ridiculous liberal hipster I am this morning when I dropped my This American Life mug and it broke, spilling free-trade, organic, locally roasted French press-brewed coffee and local, hormone-free milk from pastured cows in poured from returnable glass bottle all over my kitchen floor. At least it wasn’t soy milk, I guess.
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:52
(muttering)…Crazy assed Yankees don’t know Boston Butt is a shoulder cut…Damn Erik bin Erik and his evil Egg.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:53
I don’t know what the fuck that sentence was supposed to say, except that I am a fucking hippie.
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:55
I don’t know what the fuck that sentence was supposed to say, except that I am a fucking hippie.
A very weak attempt at humor, my dear. I’m really off my game today.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:56
B-L entry:
I realized what a ridiculous liberal hipster I am this morning when I dropped my This American Life mug and it broke, spilling free-trade, organic, locally roasted French press-brewed coffee and local, hormone-free milk from pastured cows in poured from returnable glass bottle all over my kitchen floor. Aghast, I cried “My This American Life mug and my free-trade, organic, locally roasted French press-brewed coffee and local, hormone-free milk from pastured cows! Whatever shall I do?”
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:56
A very weak attempt at humor, my dear. I’m really off my game today.
No, I was talking about my own sentence, not yours!
I’m off my game because I’ve only had a half-cup of hippie coffee.
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:57
Hell that’s the idea with B-L structures. No problemo.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 15:57
Crazy assed Yankees don’t know Boston Butt is a shoulder cut
In fairness to us, it’s hard for Irky to tell his ass from his elbow. We just follow his lead.
LittlePig said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:02
A guess a B-L structure is a set of Markov chains with missing links!
Whoa, this isn’t the math convention, sorry folks….
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:04
You have a floor in your kitchen? Elitist capitalist pig dog.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:06
How do I know I’m a ridiculous liberal?
I don’t mispronounce any of these.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:07
When did Dubya ever control anything that happened during his administration? He only ever did what Cheney, Rumsfield, and the other big kids told him he had to do (which is what he was appointed by the Republican SCOTUS to do), so this is no excuse at all..
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:07
A guess a B-L structure is a set of Markov chains with missing links!
And here I thought it was something you built when you really needed to take a B-M…
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:08
I don’t mispronounce any of these.
Uh, me, neither.
tigris said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:08
Although I will say the fact that such clearly insane people can influence ANYONE in this country is disturbing.
Yesterday I read a comment (on a poll showing the Republican party is even less popular than the Dems) crowing about how come November “the adults will be in charge again.” I think one has to come to the realization that a certain portion of the electorate is made up of shockingly stupid people with no capacity for memory.
So where was Andy when Bush was in office?
No, it was DIFFERENT when Bush did it because Rauf wasn’t building the OMG(n)GZ(n)MWTF to dance on the ashes of the dead. Plus, Andy was a member of the administration so he had to toe the party line like a good little Bundist. He didn’t say much after he left because SHUT UP.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:09
There’s a Clinton joke in there somewhere, but I lack the instruments to locate it precisely.
Perhaps he is referring to the fact that they are a bunch of dicks, which are obviously Democratic organs as the Republicans are all dickless wonders.
ignatov said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:09
OT – Stephanie Miller just came out of the closet on her radio show.
77south said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:10
How do I know I’m a ridiculous liberal?
How do I know I live in flyover country? I have only spoken six of those words out loud. But I did pronounce them correctly.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:11
OT – Stephanie Miller just came out of the closet on her radio show.
She’s a lesbian?
I’m in mourning.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:11
Okay, this is a little creepy.
creature said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:12
Qwiet, we’re hunting wabbits!
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:12
I have only spoken six of those words out loud. But I did pronounce them correctly.
If one of them was to identify a stall in the food court at the local mall, that doesn’t count.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:13
How do I know I live in flyover country?
Hey, now, I’m in flyover country, too, but we can still get organic flax seed oil and tempeh here…
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:14
but we can still get organic flax seed oil and tempeh here…
Big deal! Walk into any kindergarten and tempeh is all they paint with…
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:14
If one of them was to identify a stall in the food court at the local mall, that doesn’t count.
Hermes has food court stalls?
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:14
It’s not “un-GOO-yen”? Learn something new every day.
77south said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:16
If one of them was to identify a stall in the food court at the local mall, that doesn’t count.
No thank you. I never eat at Sudoku hut. It gives me gas.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:18
Hermes has food court stalls?
Yes. Hermes Wormies.
I never eat at Sudoku hut. It gives me gas.
But it’s so easy to order off their menu! Hell, they give you half of it anyway!
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:19
No thank you. I never eat at Sudoku hut. It gives me gas.
Too many vegetables?
BTW, any time I hear someone say “Suduku,” I reflexively want to slap them. Sounds like some sort of invasive plant species…
Pryme said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:20
OT – Stephanie Miller just came out of the closet on her radio show.
She’s just trying to get Rachel’s audience.
Seriously: good for her. But her weekend (and following Monday) is going to be a small media storm.
smedley said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:25
“Ann Coulter – discredited by MSM
Rush Limbaugh – discredited by MSM
Michelle Malkin – laughably irrelevant; discredited by MSM
Sean Hannity – under investigation for fraud
Bill O’Reilly – discredited by MSM
Michael Savage – discredited by MSM”
All of which only proves that there is a liberal media that must be destroyed by Andy and his fellow Cornerites. And lasers.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:25
But her weekend (and following Monday) is going to be a small media storm.
I’m not sure. So many women have come out as lesbians lately and they’ve hardly had the kind of ruckus that happens when a man comes out. Plus, she’s got the radio gig and the occasional Olbermann/MSNBC interview. It’ll be more hectic than usual, to be sure, but apart from a few snarky asides in Rightblogistan, I figure it will pass quietly.
We libs really don’t give a rat’s ass.
Well, except I would have boned her in a heartbeat but now that door is locked.
The Goddamn Batman Refuses To Acknowledge Anything He Did In The Nineties Because, You Know, Joel Schumacher said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:29
My version of the shorter: The Obama Administration can’t blame the previous administration because the previous administration did it first.
Also, Thank Gawd It’s Friday. I didn’t spill my coffee but it’s not really doing the job anyway. I may have to chug one of those little vials of caffeine syrup in order to make it through the afternoon, even though it makes me feel like I’m vibrating in place and kind of blurry the way the Flash is when he gets antsy.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:30
We libs really don’t give a rat’s ass.
This is part of why I’m surprised Arnold Alkon hasn’t come out of the closet yet. She could take a page from the Gay PaidRat and come out, which would do three things:
1) Increase tolerance of homosexuality among her target audience.
2) Deflect our trannie jokes
3) Allow her to suck at the teat of right wing¹ welfare harder, since she’d be a bona fide asset to the cause, like Gay PaidRat.
¹VohyouknewIwasgoingthereR
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:31
Why would it deflect our trannie jokes?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:32
I’m vibrating in place and kind of blurry the way the Flash is when he gets antsy.
His attacks of ADHD must be a sight to behold.
The Goddamn Batwoman Plans To "Investigate" The Dinah Shore Open And Some Of Its Hotter Attendees, If You Know What She Means And I Think You Do said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:32
actor212, maybe she’ll talk to Maddow instead and they can flirt for fifteen. I’d buy that for a dollar.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:32
“Our”?
Speak for yourselves, kids. I hate tranny jokes.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:33
Why would it deflect our trannie jokes?
We can’t make fun of an actual out-of-the-closet trannie for being a trannie! That’s politically incorrect.
However, it wouldn’t stop us from picking on his stupidity.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:33
Anybody read this crap from Weigel yet?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:33
actor212, maybe she’ll talk to Maddow instead and they can flirt for fifteen. I’d buy that for a dollar.
Boy howdy would I!
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:35
Anybody read this crap from Weigel yet?
Everytime I see his byline, I keep wishing he was Terri. (SFW)
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:37
If you want to correcter in you pronunciation you say it more like “eng yoo en” but mostly elide the ‘e’s. But then you’d be a slope loving elitist gookofascist.
lawnorder said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:38
That photoshop made me spill my coffee!
I should have known better than to come browse SN with anything liquid nearby :p
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:38
Anybody read this crap from Weigel yet?
Weigel is a wanker.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:39
That photoshop made me spill my coffee!
Is it locally-roasted, free trade, organic coffee?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:39
Anybody read this crap from Weigel yet?
I think he has a point: it’s easy to get complacent. Remember, in January 2008, Hillary Clinton was the presumed nominee, with only John Edwards posing a serious threat. Imagine if either of them had worked a little harder or their staffs been that much more dedicated.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:40
Is it locally-roasted, free trade, organic coffee?
Mine is and I live in “They don’t even fly over it country.”
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:41
Oh man, COOL! Chrome SF is coming to NYC!
Marco said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:41
“Bush administration “outreach” efforts and cultivation of all the wrong Islamic activists (i.e., the Islamists) were foolish — just as were the similar efforts by the Clinton administration and today’s more intense efforts by the Obama administration. There was no shortage of conservative critics saying so at the time — I started the second I left government in 2003 and never stopped.” Andy
Anyone remember Andy doing that? No? Me neither.
smedley said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:43
Sorry, T&U. I agree with Weigel. At least one of the three crazies will win. Probably Paul. Remember, he is in KENTUCKY, the state that currently has Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:44
I think he has a point: it’s easy to get complacent.
True, but all he has going for him is the enthusiasm gap (which is real, given the Democratic wankers in Washington) and the Teabaggers tend to scare the crap out of centrists and moderately sane Republicans. They are also batshit crazy enough to potentially mobilize disenchanted Dems. Angle and company could well neutralize the that gap in their races. Won’t do much nationally, however.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:44
I’m more annoyed with him comparing crazy fucking Teabaggers to non-establishment Democratic candidates.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:45
“Fair” trade, dear, not “free” trade. Turn in your liberal card immediately.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:47
Oh man, COOL! Chrome SF is coming to NYC!
You can order online with free shipping. Or are you just excited to go see the stuff in person?
Incidentally, I’ve wanted this sweater for a while, but couldn’t really justify the purchase since I didn’t ride my bike much in winter.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:47
I’m more annoyed with him comparing crazy fucking Teabaggers to non-establishment Democratic candidates.
There is that. Heaven only knows that noncorporatist progressive Democratic candidates who support policies backed by a large majority of Americans are just like batshit crazy far right fringe extremists.
g said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:47
OT – Stephanie Miller just came out of the closet on her radio show.
What do her dogs think?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:47
“Fair” trade, dear, not “free” trade.
Goddammit. I can’t believe I did that.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:48
So, he’s saying that non-establishment Democrats are the same level of crazy as TeaTards? Talk about pulling a premise out his ass!
It was more that the non-establishment candidates weren’t the Republican lite ones that the DLC favored. And for that, thank thank goodness.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:50
Or are you just excited to go see the stuff in person?
This.
It’s really hard in NYC to find a store that carries a full line of bike apparel, much less apparel I can wear off bike, like walking into an office building or something. REI, and EMS, and that’s about it, and they cater to woodsy bikers.
I’ve seen Chrome’s line online, but nothing beats shopping in person for specialty clothing
DAS said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:50
actor212, maybe she’ll talk to Maddow instead and they can flirt for fifteen. I’d buy that for a dollar.
What straight male or gay female red-blooded liberal wouldn’t pay at least twice as much for that?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:56
It’s really hard in NYC to find a store that carries a full line of bike apparel, much less apparel I can wear off bike, like walking into an office building or something. REI, and EMS, and that’s about it, and they cater to woodsy bikers.
We have ummmm……..a bike/outdoor shop that carries shorts and some gloves.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:57
What straight male or gay female red-blooded liberal wouldn’t pay at least twice as much for that?
Why you gotta exclude my people like that?
77south said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:58
What straight male or gay female red-blooded liberal wouldn’t pay at least twice as much for that?
me. I would hope Rachel would have better taste than to flirt with Amy Alkon. But it just hit me that you probably meant she should flirt with Stephanie Miller.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 16:59
We have ummmm……..a bike/outdoor shop that carries shorts and some gloves.
My local bike shop is pitifully under-inventoried in even that, but it’s understandable: most people who bike around me use it for commuting. They have helmets by the truckload, tho, and bike accessories like lights and bells by the bushel, but one small rack of clothing that mostly looks used anyway.
Speaking of bikes, introducing the iBike
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:01
We are all Ground Zero now.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:03
My local bike shop is pitifully under-inventoried in even that, but it’s understandable: most people who bike around me use it for commuting.
Yeah, I’m not really complaining, because I just commute on my bike. It’s odd to me, though, because the majority of bikers here, up until recently, were were serious bikers. I’d think they’d have more stuff for them.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:04
It’s odd to me, though, because the majority of bikers here, up until recently, were were serious bikers. I’d think they’d have more stuff for them.
Didn’t your governor just cancel the Tour de MO?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:04
We are all Ground Zero now.
A much more enlightened position would be “No mosques except those in special neighborhoods where all Muslims are forced to live,” no?
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:05
Only if it was a walled and gated community. It worked so well in Warsaw.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:07
What straight male or gay female red-blooded liberal wouldn’t pay at least twice as much for that?
Why you gotta exclude my people like that?
Your people have been excluding him for years.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:08
My local bike shop is pitifully under-inventoried in even that, but it’s understandable: most people who bike around me use it for commuting.
I am beginning to feel much better about my little backwater city in the remote wilderness of western Montana. We have REI, a butt load of bike shops with a full array of gear (not that I ever wear any of it) and all of our sporting goods stores also carry a full range of bike gear. Of course we are a very bike friendly town and mountain biking is kind of a national sport here.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:08
Louie Gohmert goes bugfuck crazy on Anderson Cooper
TERROR BABIES! TERROR BABIES! TERROR BABIES!
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:08
Didn’t your governor just cancel the Tour de MO?
Yup. I think he’s trying to play at this whole “fiscally conservative/NO EARMARKS” game.
But we have a lot of trails in this area and my city has had a shitload of bike lanes put in over the past couple of years, so I think we’re not really representative of Missouri as a whole.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:11
I think we’re not really representative of Missouri as a whole.
What, you guys have all your teeth and don’t run shine?
*ducks under desk*
FWIW, I am from NE OK and both my parents were from MO (St. Louis and SW Mo).
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:14
What, you guys have all your teeth and don’t run shine?
Why, I even have indoor plumbing!
FWIW, I am from NE OK and both my parents were from MO (St. Louis and SW Mo).
I’m actually originally from southeast Kansas.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:16
we’re not really representative of Missouri as a whole.
Do you like living in Branson?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:17
Do you like living in Branson?
I can guarantee Branson DOES NOT have bike lanes.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:19
Great. Now I want to go to the Dixie Stampede.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:20
“Pork Shoulders. ”
I’ve tried to pork shoulders but it’s awkward and a lot of people don’t like it, believe it or not
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:22
I’m actually originally from southeast Kansas.
My home town was only about 15 miles from the Kansas border. I have fond sorta memories of the cowboy bars in Caney, KS, when I was in high school.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:22
My grandmother used to live in Branson (she’s passed away some time now). It’s beautiful country but I went to one of the shows they have there. It was just too bizarre.
I think Branson is where they get the word jingoism from. It was just so in your face and everywhere you went.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:24
I have fond sorta memories of the cowboy bars in Caney, KS, when I was in high school.
Caney’s about an hour south and west from where I grew up. I used to go to debate tournaments there all the time.
It’s beautiful country but I went to one of the shows they have there. It was just too bizarre.
Yeah, and unfortunately, it’s getting too expensive for the kitsch factor to be that much fun. The Ozarks are gorgeous, though.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:25
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:28
My grandmother used to live in Branson
My mother grew up about 70 miles north of there where my grandfather was farming 60 acres of flint rock and post oak with a horse team up to 1968. No indoor plumbing and only wood heat. Had a wood cook stove as well up until I was in grade school (my uncles bought them a gas stove and paid for a propane tank). Beautiful country, but dirt poor.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:30
Why, I even have indoor plumbing!
*whew*
Cuz I’d hate to come visit and have to hold it until I got back to the airport.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:31
I think Branson is where they get the word jingoism from. It was just so in your face and everywhere you went.
Branson’s the town where the city planners went to Vegas and said “It’s just not over the top enough”.
guitarist manqué said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:32
I’d like that list of pronunciations better if it didn’t start with ‘epitome’. I knew a wonderful elderly woman from the East Side that proudly pronounced it as epi-tome because she knew what it meant that it was the last book on the subject.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:33
Cuz I’d hate to come visit and have to hold it until I got back to the airport.
It’s not so bad when you get used to it. You just have to watch out for the bears who are doing it there, too.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:37
Cuz I’d hate to come visit and have to hold it until I got back to the airport.
Wait. When did I say you could come visit?
Besides, we don’t have an airport. The only way to get here is on horseback, and I’m not sure all your etchings would fit.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:38
We have REI, a butt load of bike shops with a full array of gear (not that I ever wear any of it) and all of our sporting goods stores also carry a full range of bike gear.
We used to have a really fine array of sporting goods stores that sold real equipment at reasonable prices: Modells, Herman’s, CampMor, and any number of independently owned sporting goods stores where you could get personal attention.
As with bookstores, the independents were the first to go, succumbing to the chains (some survived, particularly specialty stores).
The Herman’s went bankrupt, and CampMor had to shut down. Sports Authority came to town, but unless it’s a really popular sport like baseball or American football, they have very little gear selection.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is really solid, but they tend to stay in suburban malls, and I feel silly driving to buy bike equipment.
The irony of it all is, independent specialty stores– bike shops, fishing tackle, scuba dive shops, and golf shops– thrive now, but mostly because they can get their hands on stuff you can easily buy on the internet for less, but because these sports tend to attract people who have no clue about what they are doing, the shops get a premium for servicing newbies.
I like to support my local bike shop as best as I can, so when I need something I know I could buy online and install myself, I take it over to them to buy, because they’ll throw in a tune-up for free, or check my lube and tire pressure at the very least, which is the stuff I really hate doing myself.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:39
You just have to watch out for the bears who are doing it there, too.
Missouri bears pee in the airport?
Oh. OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
D’oh!
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:40
Wait. When did I say you could come visit?
Oh? You weren’t inviting me?
Besides, we don’t have an airport. The only way to get here is on horseback, and I’m not sure all your etchings would fit.
You’d be surprised: a dab of glue here, a bungee cord there, and next thing you know, galloping etchings!
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:42
Missouri bears pee in the airport?
They’re easily identified by their wide stances.
77south said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:45
You’d be surprised: a dab of glue here, a bungee cord there, and next thing you know, galloping etchings!
Isn’t that still illegal in most states south of the Mason Dixon line? Crossing state lines with the intent of corrupting an equine. That or involving a horse in seduction or attempted seduction?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:47
Crossing state lines with the intent of corrupting an equine. That or involving a horse in seduction or attempted seduction?
True. Horse illegal, but donkey? Hotay!
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:48
Dick’s Spurting Goods is really solid
Ummm, ….
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:48
Oh? You weren’t inviting me?
I was just talking about bike lanes! No wonder you have so many restraining orders.
Woodrowfan said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:48
I don’t come here because it makes a discernible difference. I come here because chortling in the lounge is the way I deal with the fact that they’re currently winning.
ain’t that the truth! Preach it sister!
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:49
PENIS?
Woodrowfan said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:52
But does Missouri have fish-slapping bears??
If not bike lanes, I bet Branson has lanes for those motorized wheelchairs….
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:52
I was just talking about bike lanes! No wonder you have so many restraining orders.
Most of which…ok, many of which…OK, ONE of which expired because she’s of legal age now.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:53
Dick’s Spurting Goods is really solid
Ummm, ….
I can’t believe I actually went back and checked.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:54
If not bike lanes, I bet Branson has lanes for those motorized wheelchairs….
Fuck, the bike lanes might as well be here half the time.
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:54
Shorter Jonah Goldberg:
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:56
Flying sucks
I see Jonah got hit with the extra ticket tariff for using the belt extender.
H. Rumbold, Master Barber said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:56
Just tossing in a pet peeve: karaoke, not Cary-Okie.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:57
“And, third, fair or not, flight attendants are sort of like what used-car salesman and dog catchers used to be: one of those occupations that gets mocked in the popular culture”
Because being the founding editor of some shitty ass shithole on the internet because of mommy’s money is such a respectable job, asshole.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:58
Flight attendants are of far more use than Jonah Goldberg will ever be. At least they bring me drinks…
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 17:58
“And, third, fair or not, flight attendants are sort of like what used-car salesman and dog catchers used to be: one of those occupations that gets mocked in the popular culture”
The difference being, no one ever died because a used car salesman or the dogcatcher missed his CPR class…
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:00
Jonah’s just jealous because he wanted to go down the giant slide.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:00
What’s with the ear of corn?
I’ve always found flying fairly pleasant – when it’s not, it’s the other passengers that are to blame. The attendants never upset me.
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:03
Speaking of working class heroes, Jonah’s crowing about an upcoming Amity Shlaes appearance on the Glenn Beck show to discuss the awesomeness of Calvin Coolidge.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:03
I hate flying, but it’s just because I feel really cramped and uncomfortable. Also, the recycled air kind of disgusts me.
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:06
What’s with the ear of corn?
For reasons I cannot fathom, Jonah seems to be considered very witty in an outrageous kind of way by fellow Cornerites and their readers. It’s like they think he’s 1970s vintage Steve Martin or something.
I think the corn is supposed to be a pun on “The Corner,” as in “one who corns,” whatever that means.
tigris said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:07
But does Missouri have fish-slapping bears??
Heh heh heh…
Because being the founding editor of some shitty ass shithole on the internet because of mommy’s
moneymouth(and lack of a soul and a conscience) is such a respectable job, asshole.Faex’d.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:08
I think the corn is supposed to be a pun on “The Corner,” as in “one who corns,” whatever that means.
STFU. NOOOOOOO.
mycroft said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:10
What’s better than being a feckless, fork-tongued son of a bitch? Being glibly, gleefully open about what a little flibbertigibbet you are. As Andy explains:
It’s a specious argument. Bush administration “outreach” efforts and cultivation of all the wrong Islamic activists (i.e., the Islamists) were foolish — just as were the similar efforts by the Clinton administration and today’s more intense efforts by the Obama administration. There was no shortage of conservative critics saying so at the time — I started the second I left government in 2003 and never stopped. But the point is that I had to wait until I left government.
Adorable. It’s like Chris Tucker’s character in Friday “I’m not scared of Deebo. I got mind control over Deebo. I say what I wanna say about him. And when Deebo come around, yeah, I shut up. But then as soon as Deebo leave, you know I’m gonna be talkin’ again.”
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:12
“What’s with the ear of corn?”
Jonah *is* cornholio
mycroft said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:14
It’s a specious argument. Bush administration “outreach” efforts and cultivation of all the wrong Islamic activists (i.e., the Islamists) were foolish — just as were the similar efforts by the Clinton administration and today’s more intense efforts by the Obama administration. There was no shortage of conservative critics saying so at the time — I started the second I left government in 2003 and never stopped. But the point is that I had to wait until I left government.
Oh, Andy. The only thing better than being a spineless little fork-tongued flibbertigibbet who lacks the courage of his own meager, mean little convictions is have so blissfully little self-awareness that you brag openly about your own careerism and slipshod personal integrity.
Nom de Plume said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:17
Loadenhosen:
Psst, somebody tell lardass that in the unlikely event of a water landing, that interior decorator would very likely help guide his leviathan butt to safety.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:19
Psst, somebody tell lardass that in the unlikely event of a water landing, that interior decorator would very likely help guide his leviathan butt to safety.
And then tell the other passengers to cling to J-Go’s unsinkable bulk until the Coast Guard arrived.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:20
Psst, somebody tell lardass that in the unlikely event of a water landing, that interior decorator would very likely help guide his leviathan butt to safety.
And if he had a coronary from an overconsumption of Cheetos, the interior decorator would most likely perform CPR on him to save his life. Unfortunately for said interior decorator, of course.
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:29
I think the corn is supposed to be a pun on “The Corner,” as in “one who corns,” whatever that means.
And here I was thinking he was planning to stick it up his ass.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:37
“one who corns,”
And here I was thinking he was planning to stick it up his ass.
Same thing.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:38
And then tell the other passengers to cling to J-Go’s unsinkable bulk until the Coast Guard arrived.
I’d be worried about Jonah swallowing me.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:41
How do I know I’m a ridiculous liberal?
I don’t mispronounce any of these.
I mispronounce quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau.
Thank you. said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:44
Just thank you. I’m still laughing.
No, wait, that bunny suit pic is worthy of a contribution.
[goes off to empty pockets and dig through couch cushions]
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:45
Jonah, being a rugged Randian individualist, would surely spurn any form of socialistic succor.
jim said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:45
In Bush’s defense, he probably didn’t remember this a day after it happened.
If rumors of Bush (along with his entire Inner Circle of GOP elite playmates) being totally gorked to the tits on Ambien 24/7 after September 11th are true, you can be pretty sure he didn’t even remember it WHILE it happened.
Louie Gohmert goes bugfuck crazy on Anderson Cooper
Oh my, does he ever. He walks … he talks … he crawls on his belly like a reptile – & I bet his narrative is solid gold with the Elvis-faked-his-own-death demographic who leave the thinking-business for those fruity-poot city-boys.
Yes, surely terrorists are going to come to the US to breed Killer Kidz, because all the local ones just LOOOOOOOVED having had Uncle Sam level their hometowns too much to pick up an AK47.
Loopy Louie’s coda is revealing in more ways than one:
“Look at the story. Look at the hole. Help us fill the hole, Anderson.”
TEH TRUTH IS IN THERE!
(noseplug & disinfectant not included)
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:50
…Kris Kristofferson in Convoy (Oh, how I used to love that movie!).
Did the movie change, Jonah, or was it you?
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:53
socialistic succor.
I had that once. Some of the slogans were hard to make out past the slurping noises.
Marion in Savannah said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:54
PENIS?
That’s teh funny.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:56
Help us fill the hole, Anderson
What’s really going on here?
Angry Geometer said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:58
Throw in the fact that his interests on his Facebook page include “fashion, interior decorating, spirituality and recovery,” and he hardly sounds like Kris Kristofferson in Convoy (Oh, how I used to love that movie!).
HA HA HA! Recovery is for fags!
The difference being, no one ever died because a used car salesman or the dogcatcher missed his CPR class…
What somebody had a heart attack because of a big scary dog? Or from the amazing low price on this roomy, affordable Buick LeSabre?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 18:59
Jonah seems to be considered very witty in an outrageous kind of way by fellow Cornerites and their readers
They think he’s witty, but they’re only half right.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:02
that interior decorator would very likely help guide his leviathan butt to safety.
Add to the “Don’t count on it” list…
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:15
Geez–I leave for a couple of days, then post a couple of
zingersshitty jokes and everybody runs. What gives, ‘nauts?Whale Chowder said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:16
We are all Ground Zero now.
God, you can practically set your watch by it (does that phrase date me? It’s the only thing that will… *rimshot*): somebody gets up-in-arms about some “liberal outrage,” in this case the so-called GZM, it gets some popular steam (face it, GZM isn’t popular) and then: some right wing nutbar tops it by taking it to its logical conclusion, in this case, “no more mosques in America.”
Sooooo fucking predictable. And yet, just like 9/11 itself, no one could have predicted….
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:20
Geez–I leave for a couple of days, then post a couple of zingers shitty jokes and everybody runs. What gives, ‘nauts?
I’m around. Just didn’t want to dominate the thread.
And I need a nap desperately. I’m falling asleep at my desk.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:21
I’m around. Just didn’t want to dominate the thread.
And I need a nap desperately. I’m falling asleep at my desk.
one of these things is not like the other
one of these things just doesnt belong
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:22
one of these things is not like the other
one of these things just doesnt belong
What can I say? I’m a changeable woman.
Lurking Canadian said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:23
Just tossing in a pet peeve: karaoke, not Cary-Okie.
I go back and forth on this. I say it “properly” (like a Japanese person), but I’m not sure that it’s the “correct” pronunciation. Karaoke is a word that has been assimilated into English. When assimilated, the pronunciation shifted. This happens all the time. English loan words used by the Japanese don’t sound much like their English equivalents, either, which is why reading katakana in the ads on the bus is such a fun game.
Other obvious examples: Paris, Berlin, Warsaw…
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:25
“Just didn’t want to dominate the thread.”
I’m pretty sure actor would like a little domination.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:26
I go back and forth on this. I say it “properly” (like a Japanese person), but I’m not sure that it’s the “correct” pronunciation.
Yeah, I feel like a pretentious douche pronouncing words that have been incorporated into English “correctly.”
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:28
When assimilated, the pronunciation shifted.
Say “Bo’s arts” (with a good, hard T*) for the Beaux Arts style around a Frenchman and watch the blood spurt from his ears.
*Veiled Boston subway reference.
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:30
Just tossing in a pet peeve: karaoke, not Cary-Okie.
I can stand that, but don’t pronounce hara-kiri “Harry Caray.”
(This may be because I could never stand Harry Caray.)
Humpty Dumpty said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:30
“but I’m not sure that it’s the “correct” pronunciation.”
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less. The question is, which is to be master… that’s all.
Chris said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:30
Sooooo fucking predictable. And yet, just like 9/11 itself, no one could have predicted….
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. Although Muslim Americans have been expecting a similar development pretty much ever since 9/11.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:30
Other obvious examples: Paris, Berlin, Warsaw…
You prefer the Alex Trebeck pronunciations?
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:31
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
Jonah Goldberg’s posting at Sadly, No! now.
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:31
You prefer the Alex Trebeck pronunciations?
I’m pretty sure Trebek’s a winger, but I love how snide he is when nobody gets the answer anyway.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:32
Yeah, I feel like a pretentious douche pronouncing words that have been incorporated into English “correctly.”
It’s one thing to pronounce them correctly, it’s quite another to be corrected by a supremely douchy fucking language snob. That irritates me far more than pronouncing the words as they were intended.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:33
it’s quite another to be corrected by a supremely douchy fucking language snob.
I believe, sir, that it’s spelled “douchey.”
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:34
I’ve got to ask you about the Penis Mightier.
Erik Errickson said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:35
“Pork Shoulders. ”
I’ve tried to pork shoulders but it’s awkward and a lot of people don’t like it, believe it or not
Curious enough to try.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:35
I’m pretty sure Trebek’s a winger, but I love how snide he is when nobody gets the answer anyway.
“Ohhh, sorry, no.” Says the Trebeck. You can hear the silent “God, you’re fucking moron” as if to say he knew the question to the answer…It is a kind of funny, but it also makes me wonder how he has made it this far without getting one of those activator buttons thrown at his head.
Lurking Canadian said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:36
You prefer the Alex Trebeck pronunciations?
I’m not sure I know how Trebek says it, but I think my point is completely the opposite. You sound (as T&U put it) like a pretentious douchebag if you say “Vorsov”, “Bear-Leen” or “Paree” in the middle of an English sentence. In a sense, those are not words in Polish, German or French anymore. They are English words with particular pronunciation that refer to cities in other countries, the inhabitants of which pronounce the names of their towns differently. It isn’t “saying it wrong” to say “Warsaw”. That’s the city’s name in English.
Similarly, if you pronounce Pierre, ND like Pierre Elliot Trudeau; or Brett Favre’s last name like it’s spelled, you said it wrong.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:37
I believe, sir, that it’s spelled “douchey.”
Ha! Now just do that mixing a singular verb with a plural noun and you’ll be ready to be a TV pundit!
“There’s alotta people out there…”
(My snobbery at work)
Oblio's Cap said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:37
I believe, sir, that it’s spelled “douchey.”
It’s always about Steve with you, isn’t it?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:38
Similarly, if you pronounce Pierre, ND like Pierre Elliot Trudeau; or Brett Favre’s last name like it’s spelled, you said it wrong.
Indeed. Although it fucking takes everything I have to grit my teeth and pronounce Versailles, Missouri like “Versales.”
“Nuhvayda” (Nevada, Missouri), and “Miamuh” (Miami, Oklahoma) don’t bother me much. But “Versales”? Arrrg.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:38
but I think my point is completely the opposite
Trebeck would pronounce Pah(hack)ee with the nasal hack that made the French so darned likable.
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:39
Wait, so how’s Pierre, ND, supposed to be pronounced?
Not “PEE-air”?
Froley said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:41
Did the movie change, Jonah, or was it you?
If The Corner was a 1970s movie, Jonah would be the fat Southern sheriff.
And how dare he invoke the name of Kris Kristofferson who stands for practically everything Jonah is against.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:43
BTW, when I go to Taco Bell, I order the “Pizza Mehicana” and the “Burrito de Siete Capas.”
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:44
The only thing better than being a spineless little fork-tongued flibbertigibbet
There are very few people on this planet who are…comfortable…using a word like flibbertigibbet.
Fortunately, I’m one of them,
Nicely played sir.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:44
Versailles,
I do pronounce that Vare-sigh…I took French in high school and instinctively pronounce obviously French words (somewhat) correctly. I actually try NOT to do that if I remember.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:44
(phonetic spelling of “Mexicana,” of course).
Lurking Canadian said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:44
Wait, so how’s Pierre, ND, supposed to be pronounced?
As I understand it, “Peer-ee”. I don’t understand it either, and if I ever had to find “Versailles, MO”, I would have been hopelessly lost without T&U’s help today. Versales? Really?
You know, there’s a name some Americans have: Dupree, which is most likely a back-formation from Dupuis originally used by people who didn’t want to be called “Dupp-wiss” all the time. I’m surprised Versailles, MO didn’t decide to spell their town “Versigh” or something, so people would at least say it right.
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:44
So I finally got around to reading In Cold Blood not long before those two Capote movies came out. I learned in a parenthetical in the book that the Arkansas River is pronounced like “Ar-Kansas,” not ending in “saw” like the state of Arkansas. I noticed in one of the movies (I think the one with Philip Seymour Hoffman) Capote does a public reading from the book, of that very passage. And the actor pronounced it like the state, even though the correct pronounciation was right there in the sentence. Given that the note was there and the reader was the guy who wrote the note, I wonder how likely that error would’ve been.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:45
If The Corner was a 1970s movie, Jonah would be the
fat Southern sherifffat chick in tube top, espadrilles and hot pants.Fixed, because “sheriff” was giving Honah WAYYYYYYYYYY too much credit.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:45
I actually try NOT to do that if I remember.
Me, too, because people will look at you like you’re an insane asshole if you pronounce it correctly. BUT IT HURTS!
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:47
I learned in a parenthetical in the book that the Arkansas River is pronounced like “Ar-Kansas,” not ending in “saw” like the state of Arkansas.
Yup. And there’s an Arkansas City, Kansas…do NOT call it “Arkansaw City.” Usually, we just call it “Ark City,” because who the fuck wants to say “Kansas” twice in just three words?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:48
Me, too, because people will look at you like you’re an insane asshole if you pronounce it correctly. BUT IT HURTS!
Here in Western Idaho (Eastern WA), that sorta shit might getcha punched in the awful perty mouf.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:48
Versailles, Kentucky is also pronounced “Ver-sales.”
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:48
Oh, and actually, it is pronounced “Arkansaw” in Arkansas. In Colorado and Kansas, we pronounce it correctly.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:48
Versailles,
I do pronounce that Vare-sigh
It’s “verr-sigh”….
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:50
I’ve got to ask you about the Penis Mightier…
…than the sword?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:50
because who the fuck wants to say “Kansas” twice in just three words?
One more time and Michael Keeton pops out and does funny stuff.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:50
D’Iberville, MS is “Dee Iberville.”
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:50
It’s “verr-sigh”….
Non. Vare-sigh, mon ami.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:50
because who the fuck wants to say “Kansas” twice in just three words?
Who the fuck wants to say “can’s ass”, period?
Everyone in Possession of Shoulders said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:51
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:51
I also find it funny that Pittsburg, Kansas is spelled, well, “Pittsburg.” Like, did they forget the “H”? Did they think it would confuse people? So weird.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:52
Monsieur, j’ai apprender le francaise a sept ans, et je suis consider un parler nativ.
Il est “verr”.
And if you so much as hint to a Frenchman an “a” in their, he’ll guillotine you.
And that’s pronounce “gee-o-teen”.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:53
Who the fuck wants to say “can’s ass”, period?
It is a pretty terrible word. Anyone will sound nasal pronouncing it, much less its inhabitants who tend to flatten their a’s anyway.
Chris said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:53
I’m pretty sure Trebek’s a winger, but I love how snide he is when nobody gets the answer anyway.
SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, the episodes the ones with Sean Connery. Ten minutes of “Trebek” getting owned continuously.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:53
I also find it funny that Pittsburg, Kansas is spelled, well, “Pittsburg.” Like, did they forget the “H”?
Actually, no. Pittsburgh, PA is the only one that has the “haich”
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:54
SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, the episodes the ones with Sean Connery. Ten minutes of “Trebek” getting owned continuously.
The Penis Mightier?
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:55
I’ll take the rapists, Alex.
Froley said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:55
Southern Indiana is full of towns with French names that the locals can’t pronounce. My favorite is Gnaw Bone which supposedly comes from Narbonne.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:55
The Penis Mightier
That’s so going to be my professional wrestling name.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:56
Southern Indiana is full of towns with French names that the locals can’t pronounce.
They manage to do hokay with French Lick, tho…
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:56
Actually, no. Pittsburgh, PA is the only one that has the “haich”
Ah ha!
tigris said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:57
Indeed. Although it fucking takes everything I have to grit my teeth and pronounce Versailles, Missouri like “Versales.”
Walhalla, SC = “Wall-holler”
Honoraville, AL = “Whore-Nore-ville”
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:57
Monsieur, j’ai apprender le francaise a sept ans, et je suis consider un parler nativ.
OMG. WHY? Seven years?
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:58
SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, the episodes the ones with Sean Connery. Ten minutes of “Trebek” getting owned continuously.
That’sch not whatchya motha schaid lascht night.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:58
“Suppose I’m in a town called Fecksburg and once upon a time Fecksburg used to have a silent “h” at the end, and we Fecksburgians all agree we want our “H” back. What should we do?”
Change the name to Fucksburgh?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:59
I’ll take the rapists, Alex.
SWords for 200, Alexch!
Chris said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:59
Monsieur, j’ai apprender le francaise a sept ans, et je suis consider un parler nativ.
Qu’est ce que c’est que ce bordel?
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 19:59
Although it fucking takes everything I have to grit my teeth and pronounce Versailles, Missouri like “Versales.”
“Nuhvayda” (Nevada, Missouri), and “Miamuh” (Miami, Oklahoma) don’t bother me much. But “Versales”? Arrrg.
How about “Prayg” (Prague, OK).
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:00
OMG. WHY? Seven years?
Just worked out that way. In elementary school, because we would finish the regular curriculum by like December, we had “enriched” education including languages. Then I had to take language in middle and high schools and French just seemed like an easy “A” for at least the first few years.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:03
Qu’est ce que c’est que ce bordel?
C’est moi, apres sept verres du vin.
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:05
Who the fuck wants to say “can’s ass”, period?
Try calling it “Kaw”, which is the proper name of the tribe for which it is named. That would also make Arkansa “Quapaw” and Texas “Hasinai” (Haw -sin-eye)
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:06
Louie Gohmert goes bugfuck crazy on Anderson Cooper
Crazy teahadist!
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:07
“Nuhvayda” (Nevada, Missouri), and “Miamuh” (Miami, Oklahoma) don’t bother me much. But “Versales”? Arrrg.
How about “Prayg” (Prague, OK).
Burrrrlun, NH. (Berlin)
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:12
O. M. F. G.
smedley said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:14
Maybe Jennifer and littlepig will join me in a petition drive to get “Kansas” pronounced “Kansaw.”
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:14
O. M. F. G.
I think it is time to call in the Orkin man, the crazies are crawling out of the woodwork this year.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:16
I think it is time to call in the Orkin man, the crazies are crawling out of the woodwork this year.
Y’know, if I was making up a parody campaign, like for the National Lampoon or maybe even Mad Magazine, I couldn’t come up with a crazier slogan than “Defeat The British Empire”….
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:17
Try calling it “Kaw”, which is the proper name of the tribe for which it is named.
I was actually aware of this, as I had to take Kansas history twice because I switched schools and GOD FUCKING FORBID they gave me anything else to do.
77south said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:17
The sad part is, i think these:
rebuilding our economy with a future-oriented Mars colonization program, CCC-style youth training program, and Glass-Steagall reorganization of the banking system.
are way better ways to spend money than on our current two wars. Why are good ideas espoused by loons? Not all of her ideas are good, I am cherry picking of course, but way to ruin the credibility of ideas that could help.
Angry Geometer said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:17
It isn’t “saying it wrong” to say “Warsaw”. That’s the city’s name in English.
I’m not crazy about pronunciation shibboleths; they seem stupid either way — nukeyulur or Pockiston. Especially when they’re not even right! If you want to go full Polish, it’s “varshava”, not “vorsov”.
However, Japanese is the easiest to pronounce language on the planet and there should be no transliteration at work — the Polish mean a different sound by the “w” symbol than we do. The Japanese don’t have a “w” symbol.
If “karaoke” were a Gaelic word or some shit, it would sound like “cah-row-kay”, right? Carrie Okie is neither correct English nor correct Japanese.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:18
I don’t……what???
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:18
Why are good ideas espoused by loons?
See, for them, this is a moment of clarity. For a normal politician, these are fucking far out drug addled fantasies.
Angry Geometer said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:19
O. M. F. G.
It’s Rachel Maddow’s evil twin! Things are going down just like I predicted in my Maddow fanfic, “Crisis on Infinite Rachels”.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:21
Things are going down just like I predicted in my Maddow fanfic, “Crisis on Infinite Rachels”.
Does it include a steamy sex scene between Rachel and Stephanie Miller?
g said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:22
We have REI,
I’m so old I remember when REI was a co-op.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:22
Go to Austin TX. Get directions to drive down “San Juh Sinto” or “Gwahd uh loop” street. I think they do it specifically to piss off the wetbacks.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:26
However, Japanese is the easiest to pronounce language on the planet
Which is why I cringe whenever I hear an ad for “aaa kew ruz.” I am unable to imagine a Japanese speaker saying that. Do they even have that sound in Japanese?
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:26
the Polish mean a different sound by the “w” symbol than we do.
You, sir, are a wyrodne, stop stirring the pot!
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:27
Yes actor, I was reading that earlier. She’s the La Rouchie who confronted Barney Frank and he said arguing with her was like arguing with a table, with apologies to the table.
I’m just a simple person from Minnesota. How do you people on the east coast get so crazy? I once saw a La Rouch (I can’t be bothered to spell his name correctly. He isn’t worth the effort) campaign ad on TV like… back in the 70′s or 80′s. It was a half hour of pure insanity.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:29
I’m just a simple person from Minnesota. How do you people on the east coast get so crazy?
?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:30
I’m just a simple person from Minnesota. How do you people on the east coast get so crazy?
?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:31
I mean, not that I’m judging. The two states I’ve lived in most of my life have given us Sam Brownback and John Ashcroft.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:32
I once saw a La Rouch (I can’t be bothered to spell his name correctly. He isn’t worth the effort) campaign ad on TV like… back in the 70?s or 80?s. It was a half hour of pure insanity.
*sigh*
Every year, Lyndon LaRouche would run for…something. Even off-years, when there wasn’t a mayoral race or governor’s race or President’s race, he’d find SOME office to run for. We wondered whose money he was laundering, but I digress.
To understand LaRouche’s popularity in NY, you have to understand that there is an element, something like 5-10% of the electorate, that will vote for any fucking loon, so long as he or she isn’t “establishment”. I’m not sure how he got enough money to run so many campaigns so poorly, but he managed.
smedley said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:34
“Go to Austin TX. Get directions to drive down “San Juh Sinto” or “Gwahd uh loop” street. I think they do it specifically to piss off the wetbacks.”
Bingo! It dates to a foregone era when the messkins knew their place. And you forgot “Manshack.”
77south said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:35
I’m not sure how he got enough money to run so many campaigns so poorly, but he managed.
The joke’s on us, he was doing political performance art. Do you think it was easy to run for that many offices and not get elected to any of them?
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:35
She’s the La Rouchie who confronted Barney Frank and he said arguing with her was like arguing with a table, with apologies to the table
I have to confess, I developed a crush on her… she’s like Audrey Tatou, only with a head injury.
Apologies to head injury victims.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:36
Apologies to head injury victims.
STOP PICKING ON TRIGG!
Wait. What?
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:36
O. M. F. G.
Sigh. If I only lived one district over I could vote for her!
tigris said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:38
Mark, you have GOT to go to the weenie roast!
mark f said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:42
It’s on a Friday for some reason. I guess LaRouche-ites don’t have jobs?
Whale Chowder said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:42
I’m so old I remember when REI was a co-op.
Oh it still is. Just spent our dividend in there the other day.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:44
Sigh. If I only lived one district over I could vote for her!
Uh, have you got seven feet of
English soilfloor space I could crash on? I’d like to meet the candidate and discuss a manned mission to Venus.Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:44
Every year, Lyndon LaRouche would run for…something. Even off-years, when there wasn’t a mayoral race or governor’s race or President’s race, he’d find SOME office to run for. We wondered whose money he was laundering, but I digress….To understand LaRouche’s popularity in NY, you have to understand that there is an element, something like 5-10% of the electorate, that will vote for any fucking loon, so long as he or she isn’t “establishment”.
In the mid-1980s, two LaRouchies actually got the Democratic nominations for lieutenant governor and secretary of state. It came about partly because the oafs running the Democratic machine at the time pushed as their SOS candidate the daughter of a Chicago alderman who led the opposition to Harold Washington. As a result, a lot of black voters sat on their hands or voted for the other woman, not realizing (or caring) that she was a LaRouchie.
Insanity ensued. The LaRouchies held a series of batshit crazy press conferences in which they demanded that everyone who questioned them be tested for AIDS and refused to talk to CBS because it was the “Communist Broadcasting System.” The gubernatorial nominee (Adlai Stevenson III, as well-meaning and ineffectual as his dad) had to jump off the Democratic ticket and run as an independent. He got creamed, of course.
Ah, memories…
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:45
Um, the state I was referring to above is Illinois, if anyone cares.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:46
I’d like to meet the candidate and discuss a manned mission to Venus.
Careful how you say that. She might mishear and next thing you know, she’s climbing on top of you.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:51
Michele Bachmann — For some reason I had forgotten all about her but ok ok you have a point. We haz teh crazee in Minn-eeee-soda too.
I’ll just remind you all that my congressman is Keith Ellison and my senators are Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken so neener…. :P
Whale Chowder said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:51
She might mishear and next thing you know, she’s climbing on top of you.
I must be hanging out here too much…I thought that was his intention. VeiledCrazyPersonConquestReference.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:53
I heard Keith Ellison is a terrorist.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:54
I heard Keith Ellison is a terrorist.
And he took the oath of office on the Quran
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:55
You know who else took the oath of office on the Quaran, right?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:55
Hey, what’s up, extra “a”? How are you? Trying to make me look stupid?
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:55
I forgot about the Quran thing. Didn’t he behead a Republican on YouTube too?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:55
are way better ways to spend money than on our current two wars. Why are good ideas espoused by loons? Not all of her ideas are good, I am cherry picking of course, but way to ruin the credibility of ideas that could help.
Nah. Let’s stick with bailing out billionaires and letting working people lose everything and watch their “retirement savings” evaporate in an unregulated stock market dominated by bailed out billionaires.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:56
“I heard Keith Ellison is a terrorist.”
Poe’s law in action
Keith Ellison: From Nation of Islam to Terrorist’s Congressman
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:57
Keith Ellison: From Nation of Islam to Terrorist’s Congressman
Well, of course! He’s black! How is this a surprise?
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:58
“You know who else took the oath of office on the Quaran, right?”
I pronounce Quaran, koo are ayn is that wrong?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:58
Let’s stick with bailing out billionaires and letting working people lose everything and watch their “retirement savings” evaporate in an unregulated stock market dominated by bailed out billionaires
Well, the solution is really simple, isn’t it? Let’s all just become billionaires!
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:58
Another late comment, but…
PENIS?
That’s what you get with pubic polls.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
August 13, 2010 at 20:59
Careful how you say that. She might mishear and next thing you know, she’s climbing on top of you.
You say that like it wouldn’t be fantastic. Of course, I imagine there’d be a rueful day of reckoning, but I’ve always been weak for the wild ones.
Oh, and while planetary probes are on topic, here’s a little something for the Heartlanders, via Tentacled Overlord.
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:00
Thems are some ugly mangoes, Noen. I wonder if there’s any prominent Muslim who doesn’t fall under the “militant” category.
I should start a Militant FYWP monitor. FYWP.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:01
You people don’t know jack about crazy. Here in the lovely 5th district, we got rid of a long-time Republicrat Speaker of the House for a supreme douchebag weasel lawyer.
Teh crazee. We haz it.
tigris said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:01
NRO: “This NRO Section Is Currently Offline”
So anyhoo, what WAS McCarthy’s point in shooting his man-juice over the uncitationed-and-full-of-shit Moonie Times article? The Kizimkazi grant was given in 2008, when McCarthy WASN’T working for the administration and had just published a book about how horrible Muslims are, why didn’t he speak up then? Why did he only start talking about it with the publication of his latest book, about how horrible Muslims AND The Left are, and pretend Obama was to blame? Why does it seem like, though he’s written multiple books about it, he either doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about or will stoop to anything to zing Obama?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:02
Well, the solution is really simple, isn’t it? Let’s all just become billionaires!
More than willing to give it a try!
The funniest part is that most working class conservatives think that if their taxes were cut, they would become billionaires overnight. Tools. And not the useful kind.
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:03
Man, Illinois doesn’t get any of the fun wingnuts. And Keyes doesn’t count-he’s a furriner.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:03
Oh, and while planetary probes are on topic, here’s a little something for the Heartlanders, via Tentacled Overlord.
Ouch. At least I had *just* graduated high school when all that shit started.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:06
Oh, And we also have Gaea the vaginal beaver
So Ha!
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:07
Something smells fishy*.
*Not a VVR
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:07
Holy shit! Keith Ellison is black, too?
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:11
Holy shit! Keith Ellison is black, too?
WHAT????????????????????????????????????!!!!????????
Chris said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:11
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/reunion_with_amex_angel_dFCLsWzzXEj2mwhFn6g2IJ
Ain’t that something…
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:11
Something smells fishy*.
HAH! Caught you, hook line and sink her.
Major Kong said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:12
Here in Ohio we get “bell fountain” out of Bellfontaine.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:12
” most working class conservatives think that if their taxes were cut, they would become billionaires overnight. Tools. And not the useful kind.”
No, they definitely don’t make me think of things like “Personal Pleasurizer”s.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:12
Unbeatable crazy here in Washington
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:13
<i.Valentine said he bought deodorant, body wash, a pack of Nat Sherman cigarettes and Vitaminwater. It all cost about $25, he said.
Nat Sherman?
Boy, even the homeless folks here have expensive tastes. Kools not good enough for him??
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:13
No, they definitely don’t make me think of things like “Personal Pleasurizer”s.
May I recommend a mental health professional for you?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:14
Unbeatable crazy here in Washington
Mice in vaseline…wasn’t that a Stone Temple Pilots song?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:14
No, they definitely don’t make me think of things like “Personal Pleasurizer”s.
Um, thank God?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:14
No, they definitely don’t make me think of things like “Personal Pleasurizer”s.
Strike my last remark. Somehow I managed to skip over the word “don’t”.
Willy said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:15
Man, Illinois doesn’t get any of the fun wingnuts. And Keyes doesn’t count-he’s a furriner.
We did have
Jabba the HutHenry Hyde, and although a local, Dorothy Tillman.tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:16
Mice in vaseline…wasn’t that a Stone Temple Pilots song?
Sometimes it blows my mind.
I think the song predates the case, so I believe the act was inspired by the song. When you think of weird, I think this case is the current heavyweight champion.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:16
“May I recommend a mental health professional for you?”
I think I just need the right tool.
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:18
Willy: Tillman wasn’t a wingnut. She was just a nut.
Phyllis Schlafly (sp?) is probably Illinois’ greatest wingnut, unless you count Ronald Reagan.
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:20
And there was nothing “fun” about Henry Hyde. He was a disgusting, pompous, obnoxious, overbearing piece of shit who oozed a mixture of hypocrisy and Crisco from every pore.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:21
Man, Illinois doesn’t get any of the fun wingnuts. And Keyes doesn’t count-he’s a furriner.
Blago? Really? He’s the funnest psycho to come along in years!
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:22
I think I just need the right tool.
I guess those are low-budget mental health professionals, aren’t they?
Anonymous said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:22
I heard Keith Ellison is a terrorist.
He sure murdered the mellotron on most of ELP’s albums.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:24
“I guess those are low-budget mental health professionals, aren’t they?”
Yup. And usually more compact and readily available.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:25
Yup. And usually more compact and readily available.
Also, more affordable. And portable.
Willy said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:26
Blago?
Right under my nose, how could I miss him? But he’s a dem.
Best I can think of right now is Jack Ryan, and all he had was the usual Republican kinks (from the wiki) Check out the last sentence:
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:27
Blago’s not a wingnut either. To the extent that he had a political philosophy beyond “gimme,” he was a liberal Democrat.
noen said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:30
Someone once told me that there isn’t anything you can do to, with, on or in your body that someone somewhere hasn’t already perfected.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:31
For jack Ryan just Seven of Nine wasn’t enough.
Whale Chowder said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:35
Mice in vaseline…wasn’t that a Stone Temple Pilots song?
I don’t know about that but David Bowie predated it by a number of years, although the lyric was obscure at best:
“putting out mice….with vaseline”
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:35
I think I just need the right tool.
*raising hand*
Willy said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:36
And there was nothing “fun” about Henry Hyde. He was a disgusting, pompous, obnoxious, overbearing piece of shit who oozed a mixture of hypocrisy and Crisco from every pore.
Let’s not forget the election to replace that fat shit.
Tammy Duckworth, disabled Iraq war vet, was beaten by lap dog Peter Roskam after all sorts of dirty tricks about Duckworth being a carpetbagger cuz she lived outside the district by 3 miles (IL does not have a district residency requirement so it wasn’t an issue until Roskam manufactured it.)
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:36
It was revealed that six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as “a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling.”
In fairness to Jack, if I was married to Jeri, I’d show her off, early and often.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:38
Blago’s not a wingnut either.
I know he’s not a wingnut, but he’s highly entertaining. The gimme gimme attitude sure is reminiscent of a wingnut.
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:39
In fairness to Jack, if I was married to Jeri, I’d show her off, early and often.
I would, too, by beaming with pride as she entered a room on my arm. Not by pressuring her to have sex in public.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:40
<i.I would, too, by beaming with pride as she entered a room on my arm. Not by pressuring her to have sex in public.
Look, you show off your way, I’ll show off mine, K?
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:40
Fucking HTML tags..how do they work?
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:43
“I think I just need the right tool.
*raising hand*”
Hand? Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s my last joke about sex toys.
Bitter Scribe said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:44
Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s my last joke about sex toys.
We’d like to believe that, VS. We really would.
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:45
Fucking HTML tags..how do they work?
lIkE the inner workingS of a
fine Swisswatch./em>actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:45
Hand? Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s my last joke about sex toys.
I didn’t want to block anyone’s view.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:45
Look, you show off your way, I’ll show off mine, K?
I remember playing that game in the playground at grade school. With your mom.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:45
Hmmm.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:45
Hand? Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s my last joke about sex toys for 15 minutes.
FEEXED.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:46
I remember playing that game in the playground at grade school. With your mom.
Yea….she kept you busy while your mom did the custodial staff.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:50
“TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:45
Hand? Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s my last joke about sex toys for 15 minutes.
FEEXED.”
Hey. I’m w classy lady. Look at these gorgeous pearls I’m clutching.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:51
Look at these gorgeous pearls I’m clutching.
Those aren’t pearls…
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:55
“Those aren’t pearls…”
actor!! Goddammit!
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 21:55
actor!! Goddammit!
You have to admire the artistry.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:03
Aw man! Alvin Greene of South Carolina has been indicted…I guess the Dems will have to get a real candidate now…
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:19
Ok, that makes infinitely more sense. I was kinda confused at first.
pedestrian said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:25
Man, Illinois doesn’t get any of the fun wingnuts
How have you never heard of Peter “Porno Pete” LaBarbera? You clearly don’t go to many fetish fairs or you would have seen him conducting his “research”
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:41
tsam kilt tha thred.
deering said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:45
“For jack Ryan just Seven of Nine wasn’t enough”
Gotta give the man credit, though–he replaced Fisher Stephens as the “How I Had A Romantic Royal Flush, But Way Overplayed My Hand” king.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:49
he replaced Fisher Stephens as the “How I Had A Romantic Royal Flush, But Way Overplayed My Hand” king.
Yea, but Jack never won an Oscar.
Al Swearengen said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:52
Apparently to today’s conservatives, the best way to honor our ideals is to take a big shit on them.
Chris said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:54
Apparently to today’s conservatives, the best way to honor our ideals is to take a big shit on them.
You know, that might just be the best shorter for every conservative article ever reproduced here on Sadly, No!
Smut Clyde said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:55
I’d like to meet the candidate and discuss a manned mission to Venus.
I am appalled by the lack of Uranus jokes.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:58
“How have you never heard of Peter “Porno Pete” LaBarbera? You clearly don’t go to many fetish fairs or you would have seen him conducting his “research””
Omg, that’s totally “I hated that porn so much I watched it twice”
Smut Clyde said,
August 13, 2010 at 22:59
Also,
Newly discovered planet has ability to make grown adults snicker like 10-year-olds.
actor212 said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:00
Those asstronomers are brangin’ tha sex-c!
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:03
I thought Sexanistan was over by Uzbekistan.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:03
Someone once told me that there isn’t anything you can do to, with, on or in your body that someone somewhere hasn’t already perfected.
This is basically true, but only after my extensive travels.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:05
FYWP! That first sentence was totally preceded by <i>. Damnit.
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:10
It was revealed that six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public
I love Jack Ryan. Without him, American politics would never have contained the phrase “large-breasted cyborg in a catsuit.”
Angry Geometer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:11
Right-wing bloggers pick the most evil figures in American history with predictably idiotic results:
Looch said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:11
I am appalled by the lack of Uranus jokes.
No one like to be the butt of Uranus jokes.
Looch said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:14
Or “likes.”
I make Trig feel good, I do.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:15
Right-wing bloggers pick the most evil figures in American history with predictably idiotic results:
Um, for real? Jesus.
Looch said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:16
Jimmy Carter. Evil? Jimmy Carter?
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:16
re: pedestrian’s link to Pam’s House Blend to a commenter’s link to an Amazon list…well, this is nice to know: you can get Nazi-themed S&M books gift-wrapped! Whew! Good to know. That truly would be the gift for the man who has everything. And I mean everything. And probably lots of stuff I DO NOT WANT.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:16
In the comments, someone suggests that Joe McCarthy should be on the list…
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:17
The Southern born-again? Interesting. Gotta love the wingnut mind.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:17
Jimmy Carter. Evil? Jimmy Carter?
Right? Incompetent? Sure? Wishy washy? Okay. Simply disagree with him? That’s fine. But evil???
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:18
JANE FUCKING FONDA?
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:19
She didn’t SUPPORT ARE TROOOOOPS!
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:19
JANE FUCKING FONDA?
To be fair, they’re thinking of Jane Fonda in Barbarella, distracting men with Uranus.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:20
Jane Fonda in Barbarella was STUPID HOT. What are they…fags?
DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:22
Right-wing bloggers pick the most evil figures in American history with predictably idiotic results:
Um, for real? Jesus.
Nah, Paul was the one who screwed everything up with the misogyny and intolerance.
Whale Chowder said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:22
JANE FUCKING FONDA?
One of my friends, generally a cuddly, reliable liberal, went off on a Jane Fonda in Hanoi rant a couple years ago. Of course, his dad
dropped bombsflew jets over Viet Nam. It’s hard for some people to let some things go.DrDick said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:24
Of course, his dad dropped bombs flew jets over Viet Nam. It’s hard for some people to let some things go.
Shit, a bunch of my friends were ground troops over there (yes, I am that old) and none of them got particularly worked up over her, though a few thought what she did was stupid.
Whale Chowder said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:25
edit: went off in a widely-distributed email
N__B said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:26
edit: went off in a widely-distributed email
That makes the tissue clean-up much easier.
Looch said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:31
In the comments, someone suggests that Joe McCarthy should be on the list…
And then some nutjob freaks out defending Joe.
Lovely.
There’s got to be a Uranus joke in here somewhere, right?
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:31
Right-wing bloggers pick the most evil figures in American history with predictably idiotic results
What, no Charles Darwin?
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:31
McVeigh tied for 9th. Very nice. I noticed that Osama Bin Laden is conspicuously missing from that list.
Looch said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:32
Ah! I have it!
Joe McCarthy’s nickname was “Tail Gunner Joe.”
Ta da!
tsam said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:32
I suppose this means citizens…that’s why he’s not there?
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:35
It’s romantic that Bill and Hillary tied.
vacuumslayer said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:39
Rusty S. For The fucking WIN!!! That made me guffaw.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 13, 2010 at 23:57
Oh thank thank you thank you Rick Warren. ba da … bing!
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:01
Well, one of them finally came out and said it.
N__B said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:06
Well, one of them finally came out and said it.
And yet, given the sickness of our society, he will not be ostracized.
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:09
Fucking Cal Thomas, how does it work?
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:10
BTW, is that Ralphie’s bunny suit from A Christmas Story?
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:11
That came out wrong.
Whale Chowder said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:12
Ow, my mind’s eye, my beautiful mind’s eye. Must…find…brain…bleach…
Rusty Shackleford said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:16
That Cal Thomas article is a gold mine.
Also:
Yep. Conga line.
vacuumslayer said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:31
“Rusty Shackleford said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:11
That came out wrong.”
That’s what he said.
Smut Clyde said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:32
Dear me. Evidently Cal Thomas does not love America. Why does he not leave it and move to Afghanistan?
vacuumslayer said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:34
“America’s problem is not entirely at the top; rather it is mostly at the bottom.”
Well it depends on whom you ass,er,ask
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:36
Americans not on the list:
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
John Allen Muhammad
Billy The Kid
Jesse James
Bernie Madoff
Gary Ridgeway
The Enron executives
Charles Ponzi
Bonnie and Clyde
Fred Phelps
I could keep this up all day long…
Hey! Nice VbonerR
Thanks!
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:38
it would have been another judge, because America’s problem is not entirely at the top; rather it is mostly at the bottom.
Secretly a top, I see.
More of “the poor are fuckin’ this place all up” drool. Yawn.
tigris said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:40
Right-wing bloggers pick the most evil figures in American history with predictably idiotic results:
Several plain old folks who don’t even reach unlikeable much less evil, and several these people would put on their heroes list if they were honest.
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:40
“There was absolutely no knowledge, rumor or suspicion” of Vaughn Walker being a homosexual at the time of his nomination by President Reagan
Otherwise his nomination would have hit the trash can alongside Mickey Mouse and Madonna and one of the guys from Battlestar Galactica-not-that-new-pos-but-the-way-cool-original-word…? Yeah, that’s what I thought you fucking scumbag sack of shit.
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:41
and several these people would put on their heroes list if they were hones
Or perhaps more intelligent than a bag of doorknobs.
M. Bouffant said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:41
Leave Billy The Fuggin’ Kid outta this, the lamestream media victimized him.
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:42
That’s it, we’re doomed. Now the homos are gonna take over everything.
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:49
Leave Billy The Fuggin’ Kid outta this, the lamestream media victimized him.
Meh. Fine. There is evidence to support that claim.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
August 14, 2010 at 0:49
Umm, I’m a bit confused. Is this thread now about fucking Jane Fonda in Barbarella? If so,
I!
N?
W?
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 1:05
You know, while I thought Jane Fonda looked sexy in Barbarella all right, I’ve never been able to make it all the way through that movie. Cat Ballou, either.
g said,
August 14, 2010 at 1:51
Judge Vaughn Walker has joined a conga line of similarly activist judges who are accelerating us down the path to destruction.
Is this like the Dancing Itos?
(sorry, can’t link from here. Google it if you don’t get it.)
g said,
August 14, 2010 at 1:55
Right-wing bloggers pick the most evil figures in American history with predictably idiotic results:
Jimmy Carter. Evil? Jimmy Carter?
Yeah, seriously – what’s his particular transgression? I know they hated him because he was Reagan’s opponent, but EVIL? For what? Building houses for poor people?
Snorghagen said,
August 14, 2010 at 1:56
The Judicial Conga Line of Doom. Have they made any films?
Lurking Canadian said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:04
Carter was a “traitor”. Honest to God, that’s what they think. He singlehandedly disarmed the USA, which would have led to the inevitable triumph of Godless Communism, until Raygun saved us. Also, he deliberately let Iran take Americans hostage and didn’t do ANYTHING to save them; like for example, he never launched a rescue mission that failed; or cut a backroom deal to sell them weapons so they wouldn’t release the hostages until after the election.
I once saw a letter to the editor in a woodworking magazine, in which the subscriber vowed to cancel his subscription when they put “that traitor” on the cover.
The one that surprises me is to see Chomsky ranked ahead of Ames. Ames sold out the CIA’s assets in Russia and got dozens of people killed or imprisoned. Chomsky…says mean stuff. Clearly, Chomsky’s the monster there.
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:12
View of the teaparty:
Net neutrality = government regulation.
These motherfuckers are hopelessly fucking stupid. I swear they’re all lead poisoning victims who accidentally eat a whole bunch of bad acid every day.
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:13
The one that surprises me is to see Chomsky ranked ahead of Ames.
Anybody ranked ahead of McVeigh is a little shocking. It does make it rather obvious that the poll respondents are all dumb as fuck.
Chris said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:17
Well, one of them finally came out and said it.
That’s old news. Dinesh D’Souza made a speech to the Council for National Policy years ago that said basically the same thing.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:23
It was difficult for me to focus on Jane in that flick. Some angelic thing kept drawing my eye. As I recall. Dang, now I’m gunna hafta do googling on my fucking iPhone. Hey Ho! Can I use the desktop? Please – I’ll pause the pr0n and leave it up…
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:24
Judge Vaughn Walker has joined a conga line of similarly activist judges who are accelerating us down the path to destruction.
I think it’s time that certain alpaca paid this junklicker a visit.
Pupienus Maximus said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:30
Conga line? WTF? Cal, George Will wants to speak to you about modern culture.
M. Bouffant said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:34
Building houses for poor people?
Mostly for that book a couple yrs. ago comparing Israeli policies to apartheid. The Hostage Crisis was completely his fault too.
Reactionaries really should appreciate him as the Judas who enabled Jebus Reagan to take power.
M. Bouffant said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:36
Damn lurking Canucks w/ their knowing stuff about the U.S. of A. & typing fast!
Damn, I say.
M. Bouffant said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:39
PM, if you can’t get the H off the P, that was John Philip Law, I think.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:46
@ Chris:
Yeah, I know, and Pat Robertson et. al. said the same thing that very day—but the way I parsed their spew was that this was a punishment from God on our heathen ways, without actually saying, if I understand Thomas correctly, that they were right to do it.
Anonymous said,
August 14, 2010 at 2:52
Anybody ranked ahead of McVeigh is a little shocking.
McVeigh placing on that list is a bit of a surprise.
Chris said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:03
McVeigh placing on that list is a bit of a surprise.
They were so sure at the time that he was a hajji bomber, maybe they’ve just forgotten that he actually wasn’t.
Anonymous said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:11
I suspect they’re just embarrassed he killed a bunch of kids. If there hadn’t been a daycare center attached to that building they’d probably be just fine with it.
Looch said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:13
They were so sure at the time that he was a hajji bomber, maybe they’ve just forgotten that he actually wasn’t.
He was a secret sleeper cell Anchor Baby (THIS SHIT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES). On the vault copy of his birth certificate his name is T’Imah Al-Mavaheh!
jim said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:13
I noticed that Osama Bin Laden is conspicuously missing from that list.
Huh? Osama Bin Who? Never heard of the guy! (/wingnut)
Evil? Jimmy Carter?
Asking Americans to turn down the thermostat & put on a sweater is WORSE THAN HITLER*! Besides, he openly admitted in Playboy to feeling “lust in his heart” – thus he is obviously a menace to the human race without parallel in modern times.
_____________________
*Also left off the list, due in no small part to the little-known “Operation Brazil Boy” that will produce a VERY unique candidate in the GOP’s 2012 primaries.
Rick Santelli said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:15
For what? Building houses for poor people?
YES. WHERE THE FUCK IS MY FREE HOUSE? CAW! CAW! CAW!
(That’s the sound of a crow)
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:19
I suspect they’re just embarrassed he killed a bunch of kids
Oh, American kids, yes. Iraqi, Afghani and Pakistani kids getting killed is the work of the Lord. Becuz muslims and shutup thats why.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:22
I don’t think that could be it. To (loosely) quote Jesse Jackson, they’re SO concerned about children from conception to birth, but from birth to death they couldn’t give less of a damn.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:26
They think Jimmy Carter is “History’s Greatest Monster™” because when St. Ronnie of the Ray Gun started running for president, Carter didn’t immediately resign in his favor, and in fact ran against him! What if he had won? Imagine the horror! Didn’t think of that, did you, loony Libs: HMMMMMM?
tsam said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:29
Didn’t think of that, did you, loony Libs: HMMMMMM?
Shit! Ya got us there! Consider it bookmarked.
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:32
*Also left off the list, due in no small part to the little-known “Operation Brazil Boy” that will produce a VERY unique candidate in the GOP’s 2012 primaries.
So that explains that little “landing strip”.
It’s funny, I needed something trashy to read, and I just finished reading the novel.
Smut Clyde said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:40
without actually saying, if I understand Thomas correctly, that they were right to do it.
Can’t be arsed searching back through the S.N! archives in search of Shorter Dinesh D’Souza columns, but IIRC he went at least as far as Thomas in claiming that terrorist attacks on the US were justified by the nation’s moral decline.
Not to mention the various religious-political figures who’ve explained that they feel more of a kinship with the Taliban than with US atheists, since although the former are wrong in the exact details of their religious fundamentalism, at least they’re religious fundamentalists. The whole “At least it’s an ethos” argument.
Lurking Canadian said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:40
Damn lurking Canucks w/ their knowing stuff about the U.S. of A. & typing fast!
All your lines are belong to us. You have no chance. Make your time!
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 3:42
Not to mention the various religious-political figures who’ve explained that they feel more of a kinship with the Taliban than with US atheists, since although the former are wrong in the exact details of their religious fundamentalism, at least they’re religious fundamentalists. The whole “At least it’s an ethos” argument
Not to mention serious “fatwah envy”.
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:04
Thing is, we liberals can’t come up with an equivalent list, because half of us don’t believe in “evil”, and the other half would prefer to save that word for people other than politicians and writers we don’t like.
But what the hell. In no particular order, Phelps, Limbaugh, Atwater, Rove, Cheney, Nixon, Reagan, Ayn Rand, McCarthy, Jesse Helms.
noen said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:06
Jimmy Carter ranks are most evilest president evar because he gave away Panama that why. That was AMERICAN SOIL!
El Cid said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:07
Oh shit. Now Barack Obama has openly announced he supports letting Osama bin Laden build an Al Qa’ida suicide air force base where the new World Trade Center will be.
Another huge dark program from the surly areas of the world that he is forcing down America’s unwilling throats…
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:08
They think Jimmy Carter is “History’s Greatest Monster™” because he forced – forced I tell you – St. Ronnie Raygunz to sell arms to Iran so he could buy drugs from the Contras to give to black kids in Oakland.
N__B said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:10
Not to mention serious “fatwah envy”.
In this country, that’s called “chubby chasing.”
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:11
I did too close that html tag!
noen said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:16
“I did too close that html tag!”
But did you sacrifice your first born to WordPress huh? huh?
justme said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:16
Just wanted to say that I luuurve teh bunny suit.
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:20
But did you sacrifice your first born to WordPress huh? huh?
Mmmm, no. But he is bigger than me and he lives in Oklahoma and then I would have to take care of his wife and kids.
Bitter Scribe said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:25
Good. Whatever else you say about the man, Obama has a sense of honor.
Substance McGravitas said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:26
THIS WOULD TOTALLY GROSS OUT THE MUSLIMS.
jim said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:26
So that explains that little “landing strip”.
No, that would be “Operation Brazilian Boy” – the well-groomed brainchild of Larry Craig, David Vitter & Ted Haggard.
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:29
THIS WOULD TOTALLY GROSS OUT THE MUSLIMS.
Hell, that totally grosses me out.
El Cid said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:33
Another freedom-loving, Constushull patriot’s name piles up on the Obama body count, as he goes further and further towards a commonist Shania law fatcyst tatership.
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:36
Conservative shock jock and blogger Hal Turner was convicted Friday for making death threats against federal appeals court judges in Illinois.
I’m looking forward to the release of The Turner Prison Diaries.
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:38
THIS WOULD TOTALLY GROSS OUT THE MUSLIMS.
Asslicking: ur doin it wrong.
noen said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:39
Hal Turner is Sean Hann-i-tities bff. I wonder if he’ll interview him from jail?
Cargo said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:43
How did John WIlkes Booth get on that list? He’s the freakin’ wingnut patron saint.
Top Ten Actually Evil Americans
10) Richard M Nixon
9) Dick Cheney
8) George Wallace
7) Curtis LeMay
6) G Gordon Liddy
5) Bernie Madoff
4) Kenneth Lay
3) Andrew Jackson
2) Bull Connor
1) Jefferson Davis
Rush, Glenn, Coulter et al. are poisonous to the national discourse, but they’re pikers compared to the rogue’s gallery above.
reagan could probably be in the top 20.
El Cid said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:46
The exclusion of Reagan, whose leadership either built upon or enabled or empowered most of the rest of that list, is a pity.
noen said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:46
Nixon and Cheney should be higher I think. Madoff and Lay only stole money compared to Nixon that isn’t much.
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:47
Top Ten Actually Evil Americans
I wouldn’t even put Bernie Madoff on that list. Sure, he was an evil asshat, but his scheme wouldn’t have been feasible without some serious denial on the part not only of government regulators, but also of clients whose desire for PHAT LEWT outweighed their bullshit detection skills.
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:47
reagan could probably be in the top 20.
I don’t know, I might put him in there with Tricky Dicky. How about Dubya (who really was an evil little sociopath, even if he was rather a dim bulb), or are you just covering his sins with Cheney?
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:49
I wouldn’t even put Bernie Madoff on that list. Sure, he was an evil asshat,
Just a sleazy con man in a nice suit with good connections running an old fashioned Ponzi scheme. Hardly real evil, more trivial nastiness.
El Cid said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:50
Bush Jr. just counts as Reagan’s 2nd order, even more fucked up dumber clone.
Cargo said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:50
I kind of view Dick Cheney as the engine behind BushCo. Bush himself was just a fratboy douche along for the ride.
You guys are right about Reagan though.
Revised List Of Top Ten Evil Americans
10) Richard M Nixon
9) Dick Cheney
8) George Wallace
7) Curtis LeMay
6) G Gordon Liddy
5) Kenneth Lay
4) Ronald Wilson Reagan
3) Andrew Jackson
2) Bull Connor
1) Jefferson Davis
I still think my top three are valid. Reagan’s sins are many, but he did not secede from the union, personally sic dogs and firehoses on civil rights marchers, or attempt genocide upon native americans.
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:54
I think Custer should be on the list.
Son of the Morning Star, indeed.
Cargo said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:54
Nixon – tricky dick
Cheney – responsible for BushCo and would have bombed Iran if he could
Wallace – segregation forever
Curtis LeMay – had he been allowed to, would have started WW3
G Gordon Liddy – a true full on unrepentant fascist
Kenneth Lay – enron
Reagan – caused all this shit we’re dealing with now
Andrew Jackson – trail of tears
Bull Connor – firehoses
Jefferson Davis – the Confederacy
Smut Clyde said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:56
Everything Andy says would make more sense if said while he was wearing a pink bunny suit
How can we be sure that he is not wearing a pink bunny suit even now?
DrDick said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:56
attempt genocide upon native americans
Technically, it was more “ethnic cleansing” than genocide. He did not seek to actually exterminate the Indians, just forceably relocate them. FWIW, I am an “expert” on the folks he relocated and my son is Oklahoma Cherokee, so Jiksini Diwahli (“Devil Jackson” in Cherokee) is pretty high on my list.
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 4:58
How can we be sure that he is not wearing a pink bunny suit even now?
Smart money says it’s a tiger-striped bunny suit.
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 14, 2010 at 5:14
I think any top 20 list, if not top 10, would include Karl Rove, Lee Atwater, and Joe McCarthy. Put together, they’re the forefathers of the Republican party’s obsessive need to smear and ruin its opponents and salt the earth behind them.
B^4 said,
August 14, 2010 at 5:19
I think John C. “Nullification” Calhoun has got to be a contender as well.
Maybe “South Carolina” should get honorable mention.
Dr. Archetype said,
August 14, 2010 at 5:47
Just for some OT lulz, go here and dig all the calls for armed revolution because gays get to marry.
Hey, is that the rule of law I smell?
There’s a lot of ignorance of the law and judicial process on display also too, but I think this was my favorite:
Yeah, where did a judge get the idea that his legal rulings were law? Musta been the commies what done it!
And finally, a history lesson:
I don’t know where this Valdemar Republic is, but it sounds like a hell of a weekend destination spot.
Angry Geometer said,
August 14, 2010 at 5:54
I don’t know where this Valdemar Republic is, but it sounds like a hell of a weekend destination spot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_(fictional_country)
John Cole said,
August 14, 2010 at 5:57
Rahmbo Emmanuel and Nancy Pelosi might make Obama go to war with Iran which would be a shame I guess sort of. I don’t want this exact war right now maybe although I understand the need to have all wars eventually and some war all the time. I just wish Obama had some way of stopping Rahm from making him do things but we can’t really hold that against Obama, who is dreamy and the best President of the last 100 years, even better than Bush who I thought was the best President ever before I realized he was actually the worst ever. Also gays should be allowed to marry but we can’t worry about that too much right now so you know, rock and roll. Hey who has a recipe for watermelon soup????
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
August 14, 2010 at 6:04
Seriously, forget McVeigh and Booth. How the fucking fuck did Nixon get that far into the poll? Seriously, he managed to beat out both Clintons?!
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
August 14, 2010 at 6:07
I don’t think Jefferson Davis should take the rap for the Confederacy either. Oh, we should have hung him “from a sour apple tree” all right, but he wasn’t a leader of the Secession movement. One of the “Fire-Eaters” like Robert Toombs should occupy that slot. He wanted to restart the African slave trade!
And Nixon—meh. I remember how I literally used to foam at the mouth with hatred for him, but after 8 years of saying: “I thought I hated Nixon, but what wouldn’t you give to have him back right now?” I can’t really see him in the top ten.
I agree with Spaghetti Lee—Lee Atwater should have a position of honor on that list. We might have gotten over Reagan without him.
How about:
10) Rush Limbaugh—for perverting our political discourse and being the unelected Führer of a political party that is still capable of electing candidates that will do mortal damage to the country.
9) Pat Robertson—for truly evil pronouncements on occasions like 9/11 and the Haiti earthquake
8) Jerry Falwell—need I say more?
7)Dick Cheney—for being the hand inside the ignominious sockpuppet who ran the country into the ditch.
6)Ronald Reagan—for being the willing, if stupid, figurehead for the insane ideologues who put us in our present position, and since we’ll never know who all of them really were, somebody should take the blame.
5) Lee Atwater—for cementing the turn to the right that destroyed our political process and using every evil trick in the book to accomplish it.
4) Bull Connor—for trying to perpetuate into the late 20th century the evil philosophy of:
3) Nathan Bedford Forrest—the perpetrator of several massacres of black US soldiers trying to surrender, and the founder of the KKK, to carry on the fight against the Constitution started by:
2) Robert Toombs—the chief motive force behind the secession movement which began when the Dred Scott decision by:
1) Chief Justice Taney—made civil war inevitable.
I know the sytax is kind of tortured, but I was trying to stay with the upside-down arrangement.
Revolution said,
August 14, 2010 at 6:07
“Revolution is coming, it must come.”
Alright, but we’ll have to snuggle afterwards. We never snuggle anymore.
Richard Nixon said,
August 14, 2010 at 6:10
I cut a couple of deals that I can’t go into right now. Suffice to say that though things looked bleak on this poll (which was conducted mostly by Rockefeller Republicans and closet pinkos anyway) down the road Nixon is going to own the rightwing blogosphere. Then Nixon will burn it down, put the fire out with his piss, and salt the urine-soaked earth then make Kissinger get down on his knees on the salty piss-soaked earth and offer up prayers to Chthulu.
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 14, 2010 at 6:13
“California is a tyranny.”
In the same matter that Obama is a socialism? Indefinite articles are theft.
upon which your liberty depends.
Theft is also something that includes passive voice.
Best thing that could happen would be if Califorina dropped off into the Ocean.
But this hotel will keep standing, until you pay your bill. Keep that in mind, boys.
Now this black robed nazgul
Oh my god, this would be so awesome! Someone, make this happen!
They’re creating another Valdemar Republic.
I’m guessing he was going for Weimar Republic, but got hilariously confused somewhere between the cerebrum and the fingers.
noen said,
August 14, 2010 at 6:57
“then make Kissinger get down on his knees on the salty piss-soaked earth and offer up prayers to Chthulu.”
I’d pay to watch that.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 14, 2010 at 7:12
THEY FUCKING FORGOT HOWARD ZINN WTF????
Useless. Fucking useless.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
August 14, 2010 at 7:19
(That’s the sound of a crow)
I loled. I’m also a little drunk. And pathetic.
Smut Clyde said,
August 14, 2010 at 7:19
They’re creating another Valdemar Republic.
I’m guessing he was going for Weimar Republic, but got hilariously confused somewhere between the cerebrum and the fingers.
Ah, perhaps this explains it:
In the country of Valdemar, all sexual orientations are acceptable and welcome
Spaghetti Lee said,
August 14, 2010 at 7:41
In the country of Valdemar, all sexual orientations are acceptable and welcome
News to me. Is this one of the many, many fantasy and sci-fi authors who are wacko wingnuts?
Whale Chowder said,
August 14, 2010 at 7:46
I nominate Grover Norquist to the list of America’s most evil. He is a master at manipulating the message and making “taxes” a dirty word.
Also the current Pope. Fucker’s got plenty of innocent blood on his hands.
Also pretty much everyone who was ever involved with The Family and I’m talking about something much more dangerous than the Mafia.
cAnceR haT said,
August 14, 2010 at 8:12
Doesn’t this guy in the bunny suit sometimes show up onstage with the
flamin’ GLIPS?
justme said,
August 14, 2010 at 11:38
Too many fucknuggets to fit in any readable list. All the nominees here are worthy, but so many more remain. The media moguls like Murdoch. String-pulling industrialists like the Kochs. Central Bankers from both parties. The American Enterprise Institute, and all its sister wingnut welfare think tanks. Anybody attending CPAC who isn’t associated with the American Milk Solids Council. The list is truly endless.
N__B said,
August 14, 2010 at 12:03
And Nixon—meh. I remember how I literally used to foam at the mouth with hatred for him, but after 8 years of saying: “I thought I hated Nixon, but what wouldn’t you give to have him back right now?” I can’t really see him in the top ten.
Except that Nixon’s deal with Ford – “you get to be president, I get pardoned before I’m convicted” – did more to poison politics in this country than any other single act I can think of. The right is convinced he was unfairly impeached (despite bipartisan support) because nothing was ever finished…leading to the Clinton impeachment and the ever-present threat of impeachment against any democrat for daring to be a democrat.
Anonymous said,
August 14, 2010 at 13:04
Is this one of the many, many fantasy and sci-fi authors who are wacko wingnuts?
It’s Mercedes Lackey. I don’t know anything about her politics (and I’ve only read one of her books. No great shakes to me).
Chris said,
August 14, 2010 at 13:55
Another huge dark program from the surly areas of the world that he is forcing down America’s unwilling throats…
Ah shit…
It was the right thing to say, I can’t say otherwise. Probably not the smart thing, though.
El Cid said,
August 14, 2010 at 14:00
Truthfully it should be something like a Venn diagram or pyramid of evil.
Lurking Canadian said,
August 14, 2010 at 14:14
3) Nathan Bedford Forrest—the perpetrator of several massacres of black US soldiers trying to surrender, and the founder of the KKK, to carry on the fight against the Constitution started by:
Agreed. Forrest was conspicuous by his absence from the first list.
tigris said,
August 14, 2010 at 16:10
“I guess the voters don’t matter anymore. When that happens, get ready for hell.”
Yeah, I remember the fit these guys pitched when Bush was appointed by the courts over Gore. No, wait, that’s a hallucination. The spinning sensation and aura should have clued me in.
Alright, but we’ll have to snuggle afterwards. We never snuggle anymore.
Aw, I’m totally up for spooning the Revolution.
Bilo said,
August 15, 2010 at 3:37
Krikey, that little dick Dinesh has an entire BOOK blaming you and me for Osama attacking us on 9/11. He has pushed this idea for years — the reason they attacked us is that they’re religious fundamentalists who are very upset, and since so many of their issues also upset Dinesh, yes, we must appease Dinesh by appeasing Al Qaeda.
http://www.amazon.com/Enemy-At-Home-Cultural-Responsibility/dp/0385510128
Title:
The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
Dick.
Lots of one-star reviews, at least. Lots.
Origuy said,
August 15, 2010 at 20:59
Is this one of the many, many fantasy and sci-fi authors who are wacko wingnuts?
I’ve read most of her books. I really doubt it; the libertarian thing doesn’t come out in them like Heinlein’s or Hogan’s. I think she’s closer to being a DFH, even if she does live in Oklahoma.
Snorghagen said,
August 16, 2010 at 3:45
I come here seeking refuge from badly formatted text.
Chris said,
August 16, 2010 at 3:53
As do I, old bean.
actor212 said,
August 16, 2010 at 16:08
Just for some OT lulz, go here and dig all the calls for armed revolution because gays get to marry.
Nothing like polishing your barrel because your neighbor can marry legally.
g said,
August 16, 2010 at 20:37
Are there other castaways on this deserted island?
Sting said,
August 16, 2010 at 22:08
Are there other castaways on this deserted island?
No one here but meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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