Drinking Antifreeze Also Annoys Liberals, Daniel
Posted on November 11th, 2010 by Tintin
ABOVE: Dan “Baby J-Dough Loadberg” Foster
Shorter Dan Foster, America’s Shittiest Website™
Cigarette Warning Labels, Now With More Pictures of Corpses
- The nanny-state liberals at HHS are proposing new and more graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. I’ll fix them. I’m going to start smoking again. That will really piss the liberals off.
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Breathing carbon monoxide pisses us off too, Dan.
The nanny state liberals at HHS are proposing new and more graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. I’ll fix them. I’m going to start smoking again. That will really piss the liberals off.
Five or ten years less of having to listen to you, than if you’d listened to us?
Oh, I’m apoplectic already, old bean. Not as apoplectic as if you started running with scissors, gargling with Drano, or riding a bicycle onto the Capitol Beltway with your eyes shut, though.
There’s no way that shorter is accurate. Also, is he gonna add an update condemning pro-life activists from showing pictures of chopped up, dead fetuses?
I’m a liberal and I get really mad with people who play Russian Roulette with five chambers loaded. So mad that I think the government should ban it!
There’s no way that shorter is accurate
I foolishly got out of the boat. The last line is “I’m thinking of starting again”. Pretty accurate, I’d say.
In other news, give us money because there is no way the conservative message would get out there without dribs and drabs here and there from the common man!
The message here is clear: 1) Your government believes that you are an idiot and a child.
And, in his case, it is correct.
We should make nanny state laws that make the following illegal:
disemboweling oneself
ramming sharp objects through ones own temples
cramming large, sharp, and irregularly shaped objects up ones own ass until one just cannot cram anymore
gargling with caustic substances
using pesticide as a breath spray
A lot of the books on the shelves still have those little white catalog-number strips at the bottom of the spine, from whichever library they were stolen from.
The nanny state says he can write that shit and I cannot whack him in the face with a shovel. IS THIS JUSTICE?
I’d walk a mile to avoid clicking on that link.
–Or should that be “I’d rather fight than click?”
I’m a liberal and I get really mad with people who play Russian Roulette with five chambers loaded. So mad that I think the government should ban it!
But, it’s not the same without a gun…
I think the worst Republicans around are the ones who hold their elected leadership accountable for the consequences of their actions.
I’d really hate those people if I could find any.
Raaa Maaaa Mara! Maaa maaa ramama!
She’s such a talent.
Worst Steve-from-Blues-Clues- impersonator, evah!!!
You know, liberals as a group are vehemently opposed to anyone having the right to operate a band saw while under the influence of PCP. Just thought you should know, Danny.
It would really piss me off if he smoked 3 packs of Camel straights a day, drank a quart of rotgut whiskey every night and had beer and cold pizza for breakfast, and ate a diet of double bacon cheeseburgers with a large fries, and slathered it all in bacon grease.
Is that shirt green enough or what?
Minty!
Cigarette warning labels are theft!
People dressed in black, riding tri-cycles, and peddling down the highway.
Hate ’em.
It just makes my liberal blood boil when people gargle Clorox.
BOIL I SAY
People juggling 20 year-old sticks of sweaty dynamite.
Hate them too.
From a distance.
My den is appointed with rich Corinthian death-paneling.
Did I miss something, or is Danny still, you know, free to smoke all he wants if he wants to? Only with, you know, warning labels. That nobody’s forcing him to do anything by printing.
I mean, christ – WARNING LABELS.
GRR AHHH BLART I HAZ WRNING LABEL NANCY PELOSI WANTS TO STEAL THE CIGS OUTTA MY MOUTH ARGLE BARGLE JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY BLART BLART
Thin-skinned much, Danny?
I mean, christ – WARNING LABELS.
How can ya be a victim if you’re warned up front?
Hmmmmm?
What really pisses me off is people who run out onto the freeway at rush hour blindfolded.
From the mango barrel (aka “comments”):
At what point does the government’s war on tobacco become unconstitutional?
Cigarette warning labels = TYRANNY
No knock warrants, prison time for pot possession = FREEDOM
God I love those NRO guys!
No knock warrants, prison time for pot possession = FREEDOM
And forcing teenage girls to cheer for their rapist is totally awesome!
Also, too:
We aren’t children who need pictures to understand that smoking cigarettes is bad for us and we certainly don’t need to remind people who have cancer how devastating it is. We get the message.
Actually, there are such creatures known as “children” who actually do have enough money to purchase cigarettes, which, being proven phyiscally addictive, tends to result in a decision made as a minor having lifelong impact. Maybe they don’t “get the message” unless it was damn clear.
Once again, for conservatives all things are about them personally. If it won’t personally work on them, it’s a failure, if they don’t like it. Is there any difference between solipsism and conservativism or are they completely synonymous?
You know what really pisses me off? When wingnuts are honest and reasonable.
[Lets assume for the sake of argument that I would be angry if it were to ever happen ite]
If he started smoking he would probably be able to win the heart of that leather bear daddy he’s been crushing on.
I hate it when wingnuts stop reproducing. I JUST. CAN’T. STAND IT.
Warnings up front encourage victimology from wimps who don’t perform their electrical experiments at an early age.
For instance, I stuck a piece of wire into an electrical socket at the garage where my dad’s Dodge Dart was being repaired back in the 60s.
I learned a valuable lesson in “how to turn your index finger black”.
Many years later, I voted for Barack Obama in the Ohio primary. You see how this works?
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Worst Steve-from-Blues-Clues- impersonator, evah!!!
Dude needs to stop standing athwart the Thinking Chair yelling, “stop” and just sit in the motherfucker for a spell.
I want our wars to start coming with pictures of corpses, too. So many Americans get hooked on imperial conquest in their teens.
Would Foster cut off his own penis if it would upset a liberal? Well I for one would be very upset, so I suppose he better start looking for a clean, sharp blade.
my trek through the garden of mangoes continues..
Someone tell them that Thank You for Smoking was satire!
Yes, it was satire. It was satirizing PR flacks who lie professionally because, and here’s the key they really exist. The Cigarette executives really did sit before Congress and baldly deny that smoking was addictive as late as 1994. You can’t satirize something that has no objectionable basis in reality. There’s a term for that “fantasy” and it isn’t satire anymore. Fuck.
It’s like mangoes on your wedding day:
It’s ironic, isn’t it. On the one hand, nanny do-gooders want to warn of the dangers of smoking cigarettes and want to legalize marijuana on the other.
Yeah, requiring a lethal product to include notice of that fact on the label is completely hypocritical next to a desire not to imprison people for consuming a less addictive and harmful product.
I, personally, think it is swell that we subsidize the tobacco industry to the tune of $1 billion over the last 15 years, then spend more to design pretty pictures to put on the packages to convince people not to use the product that their tax dollars helped grow. That’s just good sense.
Wow. He looks like a water buffalo fucked a forklift.
As a matter of fact I will now repair to the Thinking Chair to see if I can remember in which order the open and close tag commands should be put. I have only tried one of the two possibilities and want to be sure I know what I’m doing before I come back and try again.
Yeah, requiring a lethal product to include notice of that fact on the label is completely hypocritical next to a desire not to imprison people for consuming a less addictive and harmful product.
What liberals want for cigarettes is exactly the same thing they want for marijuana. Legalize them, regulate them, tax them, put a big honking warning label explaining to the potential buyer exactly what he’s exposing himself to by taking the substance, and if having been forewarned he still wants to mess himself up, let him.
Somehow, the concept of equanimity is one of the hardest ones for the conservative brain to figure out. This isn’t the first time they’ve accused liberals of favoring one thing over another because the liberals suggested the two things be treated the same way.
You know who else wanted warning labels on cigarettes?
Cigarettes are the Jews of liberal drug policy.
You ought to respect my Constitutional right to remain ignorant of the consequences of tobacco use.
You know who else wanted warning labels on cigarettes?
Actually just remembered this really was one of Jonah’s serious points equating Nazis and liberals.
Damn those LIEbruls and their totalitarian notions of informed consent!
As nanny-state liberal I say Ugly Sticks need warning labels, too, because DAMN.
Traffic signs are a harbinger of Communist brainwashing!
Ignore them, Danny! Save yourself!
Stop signs are Red, my man.
As nanny-state liberal I say Ugly Sticks need warning labels, too, because DAMN.
WARNING: Do not apply to own face
Those mandatory warning signs printed on bottles of hydrofluoric acid really piss me off.
We really need to put signs on meat grinders saying:
WARNING: Do NOT stick your penis in this machine while it is in operation!
Actually just remembered this really was one of Jonah’s serious points equating Nazis and liberals.
Thank you for that. Great article. Paxton takes down Goldberg with far more calm and class than I could.
It gets worse friends, the dying woman in that one label is a foreign socialist.
The proper term for that process is intellectual evisceration.
More Jonah Goldberg spectacular stupidity, commented on by Balloon Juice;
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/11/10/stupid-or-evil/
Thank you for that. Great article.
That was just one of several! Dave Neiwert organized a number of actual historians to tear Jonah to pieces. Don’t miss Jonah’s contribution and Neiwert’s response. One of the historians actually challenges Jonah to a public debate to which Jonah never replied.
One of the historians actually challenges Jonah to a public debate to which Jonah never replied.
Of course not.
Can you remember the last time a prominent conservative actually had a debate with anyone on anything, in public? (Presidential debates don’t count).
No, that’s true. The Desmogblog guy’s book makes that point in a chapter showing all the ways global warming denialists have worked hard to avoid ever having the climate change debate aired in a court. They keep threatening to sue Gore, Suzuki, Dr. Mann etc, but somehow between the millions of petrodollars and piles of sincecures none of them have gotten around to actually filing paperwork to sue anyone over the obvious “fraud” of climate change.
That man’s expression shouts out “Someone has put electrodes in the limbic pathways of my brain, and is now pushing buttons to see what each one does.”
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Alkonholics Untie! said,
November 11, 2010 at 5:35
Wow. He looks like a water buffalo fucked a forklift.
That was fucking funny!
Tragically Flip has it exactly right regarding the climate change denialists. Read Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway. The war against science that disagrees with ideology has been going on for many years.
I watched the Hartmann/Medved debate on YouTube some months back. I’m not sure of Medved passes for prominent, though. I do like the part where Medved has to try quickly voice support of the “fair tax” and ends up trying to defend somehow making the thing regressive. Silly stuff.
Wow, that dude has some serious gayface. Like Ted Haggard gayface. Just sayin’, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but damn, that’s a gay face.
I mean, like a shipping container fucked a semi….
Is that shirt green enough or what?
Minty!
I wonder how many “KOOL” premium points he had to spend for it.
I hear Jesus (who is also Ronald Reagan, John Wayne & Anita Bryant) is just waiting for enough patriotic Americans to simultaneously swan-dive into wood-chippers so as to sound the screamy squishy grindy Final Trumpet. Also, it makes liberal homo-lesbian pot-smoking eco-terrorists cry & stop having gay abortions.
They keep threatening to sue Gore, Suzuki, Dr. Mann etc, but somehow between the millions of petrodollars and piles of sincecures none of them have gotten around to actually filing paperwork to sue anyone over the obvious “fraud” of climate change.
Gutless jamtarts. Where’s their “can-do” spirit? Heck, they oughta just GO FOR IT! After all, look how well that worked out for those Intelligent Design brainiacs!
“Every single one of those hundreds of millions of thermometers was under direct orders to give false readings, orders that came from none other than George Soros himself, your honor. Our case is airtight – I have the proof right here in this magical crack-pipe!”
CON_SPEER_A_SEE!!!! HHOOOOOOOOOOAXXXXXX!!! GUBMIT_ EEEEEEEVVVVIIIIIILLLL!!!!11111!!!!
Orly?
Like a monkey fucking a football, so are the days of our lives…
Like a monkey fucking a football, so are the days of our lives…
Think about how this poor fella must feel.
He looks like the moldy twinkie forgotten under Bruce Vilanch’s left tit.
He’s not nearly as funny though.
Do not attempt to iron clothes while wearing them. Just sayin’.
cramming large, sharp, and irregularly shaped objects up ones own ass until one just cannot cram anymore
Well, that’s a twisted knicker for you: normally, it’s the conservatives who want to outlaw liberal sexual practices.
I am pleased to see that the Buttpage lives on:
http://www.well.com/~cynsa/newbutt.html
Indeed.
I can only imagine the the expression on the face of the fella next to him on the train.
Well, that’s a twisted knicker for you: normally, it’s the conservatives who want to outlaw liberal sexual practices.
Liberal sexual practices? Do they entail actually caring that your partner(s) get(s) off?
Quick: someone encourage him to cut the filters off so he can really “show them.”
White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts
Don’t worry, the Whitehouse has the rationale right here.
Next up: Democrats and Republicans working hand in hand to cut social security so the poor and middle class can bear the burden of reducing a deficit created by the wealthiest people in America.
So much for hope. Or change.
I’d be perfectly willing to give up my tax cut, if only it would pay for things that improve my standard of living (like roads, public transportation, the evisceration of for-profit healthcare insurers, an assurance that I won’t be eating nothing but nettles and acorns* in my senescence).
To be truthful, I love nettles, and acorns are okay, but take a lot of prep-work to make them palatable. I just want to be force to eat these things to the exclusion of other things.
Wow, my grammar in my last comment was completely sub-par. I blame sleep deprivation.
Heh. Just watched “James May on the Moon”. Shorter version: UK car enthusiast James May gets to play space tourist and fly in a U2 to 14 miles altitude.
The scary thing here is that the U2s are 1950’s technology, and they has not been surpassed in the subsequent six decades. They were built at a time when the US could construct the interstate highway network, and godnose what else. A few years after the U2 program, you Yanks would have no qualms about investing the resources and technological development to put people on the moon.
And now, after 40 years of conservative backlash, you have people like Jonah Goldberg explaining that the social security system is bankrupt and cannot give back to old people the money they invested in it; while the economy cannot sustain the infrastructure because that would imperil either rich people’s after-tax income, or the army’s overseas activities, or both.
You people are so fucked.
After reading the historians’ critiques of Liberal Fascism, all I can say is don’t pick a fight with someone who produces shit by the pantload.
Referring to the last thread re: Wingnut Tricky Facial Hair nyms, here’s one for consideration:
“The Taint Cushion”
Thankeeeeeewwww.
don’t pick a fight with someone who produces shit by the pantload.
I think the phrase you are groping for is “the Gish Gallop“.
No. I like it when people I dislike die. Shit, I still smile when I think of what happened to Michael Kelly. I hope this fucker dies a slow, agonizing death.
Gallop? Jonah’s more of a trotter, in terms of intellectual speed. Galloping requires effort.
You people are so fucked.
Hell, your mention of the Gish Gallop reminds me that we still have creationists, and flat-earthers.
Speaking of lunatics, I re-watched “Boobarella vs. the Reptilians” and the take-home line (this could rival “fuckin’ magnets…”) is:
I am fully versed in physics, politics, earth history, and alien affairs.
One thing I have learned from Goldberg’s columns is that after 50 years of standing athwart history shouting ‘stop’, the US economy has declined to the 3rd or 4th-world level where it can no longer afford to save its own citizens from ill-health and starvation.
A second thing I have learned is that anyone questioning American Exceptionalism (i.e. the belief that the US is spared by a special divine dispensation from the vagaries of history to which every other nation is subject) is an anti-American 4th-column traitor
I am fully versed in physics, politics, earth history, and alien affairs.
This attempt to update the G&S Modern Major-General song does not work for me.
Wow. He looks like a water buffalo fucked a forklift.
dont talk about J-Lo’s & k-Lo’s love like that
One thing I have learned from Goldberg’s columns is that after 50 years of standing athwart history shouting ‘stop’, the US economy has declined to the 3rd or 4th-world level where it can no longer afford to save its own citizens from ill-health and starvation.
Banana republic with nukes.
Your government believes that you are an idiot and a child.
The way Foster responds, I’m scoring that 1-0 to gubmint.
I’m going to start smoking again. That will really piss the liberals off.
Freedom tumors!
Trig is a big Dan Foster fan.
Just sayin’.
You know what libs really hate? When you take a statue of the Empire State Building and drive it up your nose with a ballpeen hammer. We really want that to stop.
Libs also hate it when you shave your butt with a blunt razor and sit in a bathtub full of gin.
Ooo, the thought of neocons setting themselves on fire and diving headfirst into a pit of spikes makes this soshulustislahomo sooo angry!
Foster – Australian for dickhead.
When you take a statue of the Empire State Building and drive it up your nose with a ballpeen hammer.
smarts.
So…
Pics showing the bodily harm that comes from smoking on a cigarette box = BADWRONG ATTEMPT TO CONTROL MY ACTIONS.
yet…
Pics showing aborted babies on a fake wanted poster of an abortion doctor = ABSOLUTELY ACCEPTABLE.
Gotcha.
That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class taxpayers can keep their tax cuts, given the legislative and political realities facing Obama in the aftermath of last week’s electoral defeat.
No. He’s not going to say “Fuck you” to the GOP and go ahead and try to pass a center-left selection of policies. Nope, he’s going to pull a Clinton ’96 and try to appease the bottomless-stomached wolves by throwing them meat. May I remind him how well that worked out for his predecessor.
He’s breaking his pledge on a drawdown in Afghanistan as well. Undoubtedly it’s partially because he’s hoping that “supporting the troops” (by keeping them in harm’s way) is going to stop GOP assertions that he’s anti-military and therefore anti-American. NAWGONNAHAPPEN.
Somebody should tell Dan that the liberals aren’t really plotting to ban masturbating yourself to death.
It does annoy me when nutters drink anti-freeze…because that means there’s less for me.
When you take a statue of the Empire State Building and drive it up your nose with a ballpeen hammer.
When the moon hits your eye like 73,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg of rock, that’s amore.
If having a big obnoxious “pot will make you listen to shitty music and eat shitty food and enjoy it anyway” sticker is all it takes to legalize it, I say let’s do it…
it’s important to realize it’s not about the sensationalism of the warning labels; it’s about giving people enough information. They don’t want restaurants to have to say how many calories or how much sodium there is in their food, either. McArdle had a typically McArdle rant about this recently — somehow having enough information is anti-libertarian to her. Knowing how many calories are in that Big Mac is a curtailing of freedom.
You know who also gave citizens enough information to make an informed choice about crucial health decisions?
I wonder if he’s aware that the government encourages people to vote? I think it’s clear what he and his friends need to do to stick it to the nanny state.
Thanks for reminding me of Michael Kelly, soullite. I had to hit the wikipediar for a refresher course. There my fuzzy memory was confirmed, he’s the only fancy lad war cheerleader pundit to have put his ass out there and paid for it. (They’ll probably put up a statue of him someday.) And from his page, I clicked further for more inside-baseball history explaining just how The Atlantic Monthly got shitty.
P.S. Apparently, the got shitty era had something to do with neocons, empire, and the Middle East. This was also on my mind as I dug through piles of crap in my hovel to take old magazines to recycling, and I found a large wad of post-9/11 Atlantics, the last year of my subscription, and cover after cover was about our important role in running the Middle East, or torturing people, or… yeah, that was around the time I stopped reading…
But I also remember a pro-eugenics (in a polite, high class kinda worrying way) cover story a few years before all that that also got me losing enthusiasm.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kelly_(editor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Bradley
P.P.S. And that, boys and girls, is how the groundwork was laid for the hiring of Megan McAwful.
May I remind him how well that worked out for his predecessor.
Them tax cuts weren’t a great idea, either.
Tonight we will cough in Hell !!1!!11!!!!!
(They’ll probably put up a statue of him someday.)
Uh, close…
They don’t want restaurants to have to say how many calories or how much sodium there is in their food, either.
See, that’s the funniest thing about these temper tantrums the right throws over this warning label or that reduction in ingredients.
No one’s telling them not to smoke or eat a Big Mac or buy a bag of potato chips.
If you want to smoke, smoke. All the government is asking is that you know it can kill you. If you don’t know that already, then this is a good thing. If you know it already, you’re going to ignore the damned label, full stop.
(My personal like here is the UK label, which is a simple “Smoking Will Kill You”.)
If you want to line your arteries with cholesterol and your GI tract with byproducts, by all means go ahead and eat a Big Mac. But suppose someone wants to eat one but also doesn’t want to suck down all that crap? Why are you limiting his or her choice to make an informed decision?
And salt? Gee, it’s not like there’s no salt shakers nearly every place you go, including the Mickey D’s where you’re scarfing down a deathburger! But damn, let someone else make the decision.
And there’s also the issue of the nanny-statism of big corporations, who dictate how much salt they put in their products and how many cancerous byproducts in their cigarettes and the crap in their burgers.
THAT nanny-statism they’re OK with? Huh?
THAT nanny-statism they’re OK with? Huh?
The conservative blind spot (for those who sincerely believe in it, as opposed to those for whom it’s just a scam) is the belief that tyranny can only come from the government – not the states or the corporations or private individuals. Therefore, less government = more freedom.
Of course that’s not how it works. When government’s too small, someone else steps in and fills the gap, and that someone is neither elected nor restrained by the Constitution.
But try explaining that to them.
They’re anti-knowledge and anit-information. Out in the political streets, the battles are fought by a bunch of gut thinkers whose main nerve reflex is NOBODY TELL ME WADDADO! But really, the lobbying power resisting labelling is just corporate power, those who fear a 0.9% drop in sales because of some small number of more rational customers who might read the label and act accordingly.
What I find to be almost as funny a cliche are the do-good libs who think all of these labels are going to make a dent in the problem. The public! It must be informed!
There seems to be a growing gulf between those who try to live rationally, using science, logic, knowledge, and those who seem stuck in another century, using tradition and folklore and forwarded emails to get their information about the world. Seat belts, smoking, bicycle helmets, name the issue, it’s obvious. The Consumer Reports crowd vs. the “mah grampaw lived to be 92 and he smoked!” crowd.
I know what side I’m on, but I point and snicker at the CR crowd, sometimes. But when it comes to global warming, the gut thinky people are going to fuck us up, big time.
“I’m pretty sure we used to put water on these things.”
Do you know how sad I’ll be if this choad actually does this and gets lung cancer as a result?
I will be negative sad.
The message here is clear: 1) Your government believes that you are an idiot and a child.
And he’s going to prove that in his case it’s true.
They’re anti-knowledge and anit-information. Out in the political streets, the battles are fought by a bunch of gut thinkers whose main nerve reflex is NOBODY TELL ME WADDADO! But really, the lobbying power resisting labelling is just corporate power, those who fear a 0.9% drop in sales because of some small number of more rational customers who might read the label and act accordingly.
Well right. The populist “NOBODY TELL ME WADDADO” sentiment goes exactly nowhere in today’s America unless it’s backed by some really powerful money. Just ask the marilize legajuana crowd.
I know what side I’m on, but I point and snicker at the CR crowd, sometimes.
But here’s the thing: do you snicker and laugh at them when, say, you read a warning on a hair dryer “Do Not Use In Shower”?
Cuz that’s not their problem. That warning, among many others, comes because some idiot did indeed decide to shortcut his toilet and dried his hair while he rinsed off his legs and then sued the manufacturer, whose lawyers then said “Hey, look, better CYA and put a warning on the hair dryer”
Those boobies… they… jiggle… **Homer drool**
For me, the take-home line is the title: “Wild Colleen Thomas Media Blits!”
Media Blits? Sounds like a snack…
Here’s my equivalency and the argument I use for when government steps in.
I wear a helmet when I bike. If it was mandatory in my state, I would do it gladly.
The helmet costs $100. The ticket for not wearing one would probably be slightly less, say $50 (but I can get ticketed multiple times).
The government decided to ticket helmetless drivers not because they want to make me safe, but because if I have an accident with a car or fall off my bike, the costs to the community in terms of emergency room visit, stitches, X-rays and so on, whether it’s covered by insurance or not, is far higher than the cost to me of my helmet or the ticket.
Think about it: even if your insurance company is completely cooperative and pays 100% of your claim, it still means that a doctor had to be there to stitch you up, a radiologist has to be there to fire off the X-ray machine, a nurse has to be there, the admitting clerk, and so on and so forth.
Now, you can argue they’re there anyway, but if enough people behaved more safely, maybe the staffing costs could be reduced a little. Maybe so many nurses wouldn’t be needed, or doctors or technicians.
And the insurance claim still needs to be filed and there’s a wait between the costs incurred and the reimbursement, and then there’s the hassle of tracking down lost payments, and so on.
So the government is telling me that I’m going to pay for exposing the community to those costs.
I got no problem with this.
Media Blits? Sounds like a snack…
When you’re hungry for soundbites but not the entire news program.
No one’s telling them not to smoke or eat a Big Mac or buy a bag of potato chips.
What it’s really about is that conservatives are actually very sensitive souls. They oppose things like warning labels because they feel criticized while indulging in their favorite bad habits, and they simply can’t stand someone criticizing them.
They really have such low self-esteem they can’t manage to enjoy themselves if even a hint of consequences is raised in their minds.
They’re wilting flowers of ego.
Now you can sleep with bacon.
Libs also hate it when you shave your butt with a blunt razor and sit in a bathtub full of gin.
Don’t judge me.
It’s like all those people who were going Galt in 2009. Why are you still here? Seriously get going, prove the depth of your conviction.
Oh you have…
I’ve got no problems convincing you about bike helmets, actor.
It’s the gut-thinky crowd that can’t even think about 1/4 the angles you just explored there. All the labels in the world won’t save them. Won’t read ’em, won’t believe ’em, don’t think about the future. (And that really is the big issue re. the gulf between the CR/Volvo pussies crowd vs. the no-seatbelts/smoking crowd, an awareness of the decades to come.)
My favorite dumb warning label: I bought a mirror for my bike helmet. WARNING: Objects in mirror are actually behind you.
I still hope that was a joke.
It’s the gut-thinky crowd that can’t even think about 1/4 the angles you just explored there.
Yea, thinking is an issue for Americans, no doubt about it. Worse, we’re infecting other nations with the same disease.
Websites like Snopes do yeoman work trying to debunk the falsehoods that we get handed to us on silver platters by people with agendas. That distresses me, that entire websites have to devote their energy to telling people, “Y’know, if you actually read the news…”
Excellent point, g. As they see it, do-good libs are finger-wagging schoolmarms of virtue.
Which is sometimes kinda true, but it bothers me a lot less than it bothers them, because, unlike their finger-wagging theocrats, my finger-wagging scolds are … heh heh… right. And less dangerous. And not heavily armed.
I think it was Barbara Ehrenreich, back in the mid 90’s, when she had a column in TIME magazine, that explained the gender gap between Dems and GOP as not a female problem, but a male problem, how men (and she was thinking/hinting Newt and his ilk, IIRC) have the mindset of petulant 3rd grade boys for whom the government is the evil schoolmarm who’s always taking away their toys and stopping the fun. No matter how childish or irresponsible they were being.
Here’s an example of what I mean about Snopes.
Look at all the false stories that Snopes has had to debunk. We’ve heard nearly every single one of them uttered by someone on the right who actually has some…well, for a conservative…credibility.
ESPN fired Joe Morgan.
If you’re a paranoid functional illiterate even warning labels are mocking you.
ESPN fired Joe Morgan.
Ken Tremendous could have made it.
I’m reminded of this guy:
http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_d61cc109-3492-54ef-849d-0a5d7f48027a.html
Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in travelled off an icy section of Interstate 80 and rolled several times in a ditch. Kieper, who was riding in the back seat of the Explorer, was ejected from the vehicle.
…
In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce.
“It is my choice what type of safety precautions I take,” he wrote.
“There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
Here’s an example of what I mean about Snopes.
Snopes is bias!
Media Bltis – easy to digest
“There seems to be a die-
hardwith their heads’ through the windshield in order to spread their viscera all over the highway group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”How about a little cash for the poor schmuck that has clean up after y’all?
In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce.
I wish I could ask Derek “Headless” Kieper which was more expensive: to enforce the law or to hold a funeral.
Snopes is bias!
I don’t trust any website that can’t even be arsed to link to its claims.
the mindset of petulant 3rd grade boys for whom the government is the evil schoolmarm who’s always taking away their toys and stopping the fun
Or, in this case, gently reminding them in a quiet voice that what they’re doing is bad for them.
Quiet reminders? WOLVERINES.
I was giving thought to this just yesterday. Perhaps one component of their antipathy comes from the constant reminder that they are doing something they themselves know to bad for them but they just can’t help supersizing that Happy Death Meal. They resent it.
Apparently, Mickey Kaus has gotten into the fast food business
Perhaps one component of their antipathy comes from the constant reminder that they are doing something they themselves know to bad for them but they just can’t help supersizing that Happy Death Meal. They resent it.
Yea, I was thinking along similar lines and someone upthread alluded to a similar thing.
But I would imagine this would be the perfect opportunity, rather than whine, to make a stand in support of a nasty habit that you prefer.
I out a word there didn’t I?
Here’s an example of what I mean about Snopes.
The Obama/Swine Flu Prophecy has to take the cake.
“But I would imagine this would be the perfect opportunity, rather than whine, to make a stand in support of a nasty habit that you prefer.”
HAHAHA No, they don’t take stands. Unless you consider passive aggression a stance.
Unless you consider passive aggression a stance
Yea, that’s kind of my point: all the energy expended on a rant to protest what you perceive as intimidation or oppression, when you make a stronger statement by just buying a fucking Big Mac.
Y’know, I’m wondering if there isn’t some “get rich quick” scheme going on in the corridors of the right wing, whereby there’s a “tried and true” formula to web hits and ad revenues and recognition, and all you have to do is follow the formula.
1) Start a blog
2) Draw a connection between some everyday annoyance and liberal philosophy
3) Buy a link from Ol’ Dr. Perfesser
4) ???
5) Profit!
4)Demonstrate you have zero critical thinking skills and love to parrot Hammity, Limpy, and Blech.
4)Demonstrate you have zero critical thinking skills and love to parrot Hammity, Limpy, and Blech.
I’d promote this to 2A)
Oh, I’m pretty sure the Perfesser is giving those links out for free. He generates plenty of cross pollinating revenue from the hits, and it’s one more post that only requires a “Heh, Indeed” plus the link, for minimum effort.
They stopped making toxic antifreeze, but thanks for makng the suggestion anyway, Tintin. The goverment made them stop because of you know, dead children. Stupid, dead, liberal children who fail to understand the free market and need a nanny state… or a nanny. Stupid effing liberals.
The goverment made them stop because of you know, dead
childrenfish.Fixed for accuracy in media.
Of course, only a brainless asshat conservative would ignore the mounds of testimony during investigations that attributed antifreeze in run-off to mass die-offs of fish and shit like that, and blame “liberals”….
Liberals were the fuckers who had to ask what was killing all the fish!!!!
Also asking “Why?”, fucking haters!!!
More than just BACON!
Perhaps one component of their antipathy comes from the constant reminder that they are doing something they themselves know to bad for them but they just can’t help supersizing that Happy Death Meal. They resent it.
Ha ha, they resent it because it spotlights their own lack of self-control, then they lecture and work to punish poor people, fat people, people with unwanted pregnancies, ad infinitum for not will-powering themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Heh indeedy! Gotta take a sheety.
1) Start a blog
2) Draw a connection between some everyday annoyance and liberal philosophy
3) Buy a link from Ol’ Dr. Perfesser
4) ???
5) Profit!
I guess I should have, in the wake of Foster’s visit and comment (mako rojo, of course) pointed out that the profit comes as liberal websites begin to attack you, which in turn forces conservative websites to defend you.
After you’ve, you know, bribed them and shit…
I’ve heard that HHS is thinking of requiring a warning lable on Cheetos that states: “Consuming this product while viewing online pornography may result in unexpected skin discoloration.”
Other things I wish Teabaggers would find annoying and ignore:
– Low fuel warnings on cars
– Don’t Walk signs
– Do Not Feed The Bear signs
– Smoke detectors¹
¹After they’ve been triggered
Of course, only a brainless asshat conservative would ignore the mounds of testimony during investigations that attributed antifreeze in run-off to mass die-offs of fish and shit like that, and blame “liberals”….
They’ll tell you right out that consumer and environmental protections cut into PROFIT! and therefore are bad bad bad. Combine that with the third-grade “you’re not the boss of me!” mentality and you have a potent stew of truculent* and regressive.
Which is good, somehow, in their books.
*not to be confused with our own Truculent &c.
http://www.seco.noaa.gov/ENV/Factsheets/antifreeze.html
According to the Annual Reports of the American Association of Poison Control Centers covering 1991 to 1994, about 3,400 poisonings related to ethylene glycol occur each year with about 20% of these incidents reported among children under six.
Same link cover risks to the environment from runoff, etc. Fish and children don’t make choices about safety, adults do. It’s the same argument Clinton used to make about gun control where children were killed by their own mishandling a gun they found somewhere. The “guns don’t kill people” argument doesn’t work for that.
From the Snopes is librul!! link:
Snopes is liberal bias because it doesn’t admit that all liberals are terrorsymps!!!
Ha ha, they resent it because it spotlights their own lack of self-control, then they lecture and work to punish poor people, fat people, people with unwanted pregnancies, ad infinitum for not will-powering themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Yeah, that’s what I meant to say.
More than just BACON!
As they say in Amish country (among other places), “everything but the oink.”
“People dressed in black, riding tri-cycles, and peddling down the highway.
Hate ‘em.
”
Especially when they do it in the dark.
Snopes is liberal bias because it doesn’t admit that all liberals are terrorsymps!!!
That’s a little too constraining. Snopes is liberal because facts have a liberal bias.
Ha ha, they resent it because it spotlights their own lack of self-control..
I disagree about the self-control. After super sizing everything, they balance it all out with a Diet Coke.
about 3,400 poisonings related to ethylene glycol occur each year with about 20% of these incidents reported among children under six.
Hey, Danny?
Could you confirm those figures, please?
Here, I happen to have this old jug of antifreeze. I can even let you have a chaser of beer, if you’d like.
Hey, Danny?
Why did you misrepresent the report?
The risk to children is down the list after….
Indeed, the children poisoned discussion isn’t until you reach the FAQ, which sort of, you know, makes it supporting information to the actual report….
Liar. Fucking conservative lying whining baby weasel.
I heard that it wasn’t those few thousand children it was the tens, even hundreds of thousands of pets dying agonized deaths that caused the embittering of ethylene glycol. When it first came out I used to peel off the “Embittered” stickers and wear them ’till they fell off. And I heard it from bureaucratic regulators not anonymous cabbies.
Powerline-level cocksucking:
“I hate the human love for that stinkin’ mutt. I can’t use it. Try to make it real compared to what.”
They stopped making toxic antifreeze, but thanks for makng the suggestion anyway, Tintin.
By the, um, way, Danny…when did this happen? Could you please specifically point to the FDA or EPA regulation banning ethylene glycol? Or even the recommendation?
Cuz, you know…”Ethylene glycol solutions became available in 1926 and were marketed as “permanent antifreeze,” since the higher boiling points provided advantages for summertime use as well as during cold weather. They are still used today for a wide variety of applications, including automobiles. “
Snopes is liberal bias because it doesn’t admit that all liberals are terrorsymps!!!
Snopes has a liberal bias the way the Mythbusters do, since the Mythbusters refuse to confirm the “Obama is a Kenyan Muslim” truths.
WOLVERINES!
“Also he was a fake conservative, a progressive if you will, and I never voted for him even ONCE.”
From Subby’s link:
1) who knew you could fail upward all the way to the Presidency?
2) “consequential,” yes, but not in the way this jerk thinks. We’ll be dealing with the consequences of this President for the forseeable future.
Miss him? Like I miss that very nasty rash I got from DKW’s mom.
This is why I keep coming back to S,N. Well, and the photoshopped horrorshows.
…a life that most certainly did not point to him becoming one of the consequential president’s of our time.
Oh no doubt! There were definitely consequence’s to electing him!
Geez!
From the comments at the Corner The second image from top bears a striking resemblance to Obama!
Yeah, it’s a black male so therefore looks exactly like Obama. They all looks alike I tells ya.
From the comments at the Corner The second image from top bears a striking resemblance to Obama!
Yeah, it’s a black male so therefore looks exactly like Obama. They all looks alike I tells ya.
Especially from the nose down.
I read this for the laughs, but I am not clever enough to comment. But if you all could do Wisconsin a favor and leave comments over at our new teabagger governor’s suggestion page:
http://www.transition.wi.gov/stateemployee_suggestion.asp?locid=177
you all will have my deepest gratitude.
BACON!
The best part of the read is how the President’s voice comes through on every page. Like the man, the prose is direct, humble, frequently funny, and always humane. He’s probably one of the most decent men to ever hold that office and if you think you miss him now wait till you read “Decision Points.”
He realizes these people don’t actually write their own memoirs, right? That there’s a ghostwriter doing it for them?
Man the W-love is beyond sickening.
I remember one year getting a Jones Soda
ChristmasHoliday Pack. There was a bottle each of Christmas Tree, Ham, Turkey and Gravy and one other that I don’t remember. Good sodas.If both real and fake Gary Ruppert can comment you can too.
Ever notice that Google has TWO “O”s in it?
Could not believe that Kanye recanted his (true) statement so I went poking around. Yeah, true enough but teh GOOG brought up another article, indicating that Bush (shock!) lied in his memoir. More interesting, though, was this little gem:
Knew all the longhorns…biblically.
Dragon-King, just for you.
Kitten, I sent a suggestion to your Gov twobee that he live up to his parties screed of less government by not showing up for work or taking a paycheck.
That’s it. I woulda swore there was a turkey and gravy in there too, but I guess my memory’s playing tricks on me.
…a life that most certainly did not point to him becoming one of the consequential president’s of our time.
Consequential president’s what? The suspense is killing me.
And Kitten Parade, if you stay I HAVE STRING!!!
Speaking of Bush’s legacy, check out the trend for his ranking
2002 – 23rd
2005 – 19th
2008 – 37th
2009 – 36th
2010 – 39th
Its funny you say that snort, Dude campaigned for Milwaukee County executive several years back with the promise that he would fix county government and then get out. Years later, his doofus face his still with us.
Actually, I can’t see how he is going to save money, seeing as his administration is going to be stocking up on adult diapers. He’s BFF with Stalkin’ Malkin you know.
Incidentally actor, ethylene glycol and fishkills aren’t due to automotive anti-freeze. The levels of ethylene glycol you would need to induce toxic responses in aquatic organisms is extremely high. IIRC, the issue was with de-icers at airports.
He’s probably one of the most decent men to ever hold that office
Aside from all the dead people, the tortured people, and the crippled people, the people who were spied on, the people who lost their houses, the people who lost their pensions…
tigris, you just want me to stay so you can laugh when I jump and miss the string.
Oh no, I’ll laugh when you catch it, too.
He’s probably one of the most decent men to ever hold that office
Unfortunately Obama’s decency is contaminated by his secret Muslimness.
Foster works for the National Review and he’s talking about a “nanny state”?! Kettle meet pot. I once lined my cat’s box with that rag and it cost me new carpeting. Hard Snitting Jornalism! As long as he crayons in a story that obfuscates any real attention away from the corporate overlords who buy ads at that propaganda mill, then he gets his cozy paycheck. Don’t forget the lecture circuit, he makes good $ because he’s an expert at……yeah. He’s probably the one that screams the loudest when his medical insurance doesn’t cover his “special” pills.
Last one Dragon-King
I was pretty sure I had a turkey and gravy one at some point. The Barack limited “Orange You Glad For a Change” was meh, but Christmas Tree was a fantastic soda. Especially with a little gin in it.
I read over on Balloon Juice about a guy who died when his family ignored their carbon monoxide alarm. Not sure about his teabag status tho.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/11/10/psa-listen-to-alarms/
Incidentally actor, ethylene glycol and fishkills aren’t due to automotive anti-freeze. The levels of ethylene glycol you would need to induce toxic responses in aquatic organisms is extremely high. IIRC, the issue was with de-icers at airports.
Hey, I’m just quoting the gubmint.
You know, the people with a fucking lifetime’s experience in such matters.
Actor, funny enough I can’t remember who told me about the switch in antifreeze except that it was related to someone being disappointed that they could no longer leave it out for neighborhood dogs to drink, and die. Can I fall back on the gun contrl argument? btw, who’s Danny?
faxxored
Can I fall back on the gun contrl argument?
Only literally, Danny.
He had no idea what was happening in the world. He was so fixated on being a Texan.
This reminds me of another former governor from another large state…who could I be thinking of?
Ethylene glycol antifreeze is still made and sold.
The newer orange antifreeze is for newer cars that require it, but the old stuff will be around for quite a while yet. Never put the old stuff in a newer car.
newer orange antifreeze
NOM NOM NOM
I would totally watch a kitten parade.
Good luck persuading them to march in step.
Tie their legs together.
Perhaps “organize a kitten parade” will come to replace “herding cats”.
I hate to say this, but that DHHS proposal annoys the hell out of me. It makes ME want to take up smoking.
I hate to say this, but that DHHS proposal annoys the hell out of me. It makes ME want to take up smoking.
It’s a warning label, for crissake!
Take the cigs out of the package and put them in another box if it offends. Jee-zus. What’s the problem?
It’s easy enough to cover the labels: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3155630.
He’ll, it’s a marketing opportunity! Packet covers, warning label parody stickers to put over the warnings, and as already noted, those nice sparkly little cases you can flip open dramatically.
And I have to say, nothing makes me want a smoke more than an antismoking ad. I don’t think this is lost on the tobacco company focus group leaders.
I always enjoyed arguments with the ‘anti motorcycle hemet law’ guys. None of them would take me up on a bet to drop straight back onto pavement, no helmet, smack back of head on pavement (about the height of the actual fall from a machine) versus me wearing a helmet , doing likewise. But they would get very animated and agitated about how helmets were dangerous ‘because of…every unsupported misinformational bullshit about helmets…’ Chuck Darwin, my hero.
NO coolant (antifreeze) is potable! Color, brand, application don’t matter. No approved fluid you put in a vehicle is safe to ingest. Waste vegetable oil for diesel use is not kosher for highway use (no road tax revenue generated- no manufacturer approves it in their diesel vehicles, either). So it doesn’t count, but Danny can drink all that he wants!
BTW, Danny, smoking is for fags! What brand you smokin’? Skin Fillter Thins? Fire one up after that load o’ grease, baby!
“DrDick said,
November 11, 2010 at 4:56
It would really piss me off if he smoked 3 packs of Camel straights a day, drank a quart of rotgut whiskey every night and had beer and cold pizza for breakfast, and ate a diet of double bacon cheeseburgers with a large fries, and slathered it all in bacon grease.”
Why? You probably do that yourself you fat fucking liberal pansy!
Yes, God forbid that purveyors of addictive, carcinogenic poison should be required to label their product as such, or that (along similar lines) schools should be forbidden to sell junk food to their captive audience, or that consumers should be able to determine quickly and easily just how much fat, cholesterol and salt is in their hamburger. That damn nanny state!
It’s a warning label, for crissake!
It’s not JUST a warning label, for fuck’s sake. They already HAVE warning labels.
Shit, just ban cigs already if they’re that bad. Don’t let’s have the federal government micromanaging the marketing of the damn things.
Apparently there’s research that the warning labels work, that gory labels work, and that changing the labels work. Bans obviously won’t.
“changing the labels works”
“My den is appointed with rich Corinthian death-paneling”
ok, I’m late to the party but that made me spit fine box wine on the keyboard.
Stupid warning labels all becuase someone got carless and decided to hire the lawfirm of BUZZARD,VULTURES,HYNAH,SLUG & SNAKE and file a stupid lawsuit then becuase of this we get stupid warning labels
LAST!!! But only for a moment, then the moment’s gone.
All we are is dust in the wind.