Good News, Everybody!
Posted on December 12th, 2010 by D. Aristophanes
If the Obama compromise goes through, this guy will be getting his giant tax break!
As Lauri Apple puts it, maybe uber-rich hedge douche Dan Loeb was ‘just trying to outdo Khloe Kardashian in this week’s poor word-choice contest.’
Fuck, I wish there was a God.
Gimme five minutes with this guy and a nine-iron, and I’ll give him a reason to have that persecution complex.
Yuck. Funny (and by “funny,” I mean, “appalling and infuriating”) that the only time these dumbfucks give a shit about domestic abuse and rape victims are when they’re talking about their poor, persecuted selves.
Ahh, such is the life of a courtier.
Maybe you should have paid 60k for dinner?
I could maybe understand their hysteria if they were being taxed out of their wealth…but aren’t most of these douches making record profits and paying less in taxes than, well, ever?
but aren’t most of these douches making record profits and paying less in taxes than, well, ever?
They’re not children. They were mostly in the biz back in the 90’s when he had the tax rates on the rich that we would be going back to if this country wasn’t fucking insane. And they know damn well that those tax rates didn’t prevent them from making mucho bucks. So all this whining and bitching is nothing but a sham, motivated by greed. Of course, it’s natural for them to act like this, but what gets me is that so many people who make 40, 30, 20 thousand a year are lining up to fight for them. It’s insane.
I could maybe understand their hysteria if they were being taxed out of their wealth…but aren’t most of these douches making record profits and paying less in taxes than, well, ever?
They should go to bed every night thanking the baby Jesus, Alan Greenspan, and the ghost of Milton Friedman that they have *any* money to complain about being taxed when they’re lucky that they’re not hanging from lampposts.
They’re not children.
Physically, anyway.
The entire basis for this shit-stain’s livelihood just got bailed out by the government, leaving him more than enough money to buy access to the President of the United States and he still manages a rape fantasy?
Me? I’m indulging in a ‘gitmo fantasy’.
Dan Loeb:
Cliff-o-tine candidate. After being dragged behind a car through a gravel pit and then rolled in sea salt.
Seriously, fuck these people. Spit on them. They are scum.
I mean seriously. Remember March 2009? What happened to “Jump, you fuckers”? Why didn’t we stay angry at them? Are people just that easily manipulated?
The usual sarcasm just doesn’t work here really. He truly does not understand how damned unpleasant a person this reveals him. Given his wealth, there will be many people who make their living telling him he deserves everything he has (and more) because he truly is a superior breed of homo sap sap. So he simply won’t.
Now imagine that he is where he is, and he thinks he deserves where he is, because he was born into a family that stole all that wealth centuries ago. Imagine all that anger as you have seen a child of yours slowly starve to death while soft-skinned tape-worms like this make jokes about your poverty to each other, not caring whether you hear or not.
If you can imagine all that, you can get a feeling for the Russians in 1917 and exactly why the Romanovs were shot, mater,pater and fils in a cellar.
Seriously, this level of rude, deliberately cruel, contemptuous dismissal of the reality of other’s lives, is hideously dangerous to our democracy and the relative peace we have all benefited from for the past 70 years.
they’re lucky that they’re not hanging from lampposts.
This would do as well, without the waste of good sea salt.
This would do as well, without the waste of good sea salt.
I’m willing to contribute some of McTardle’s pink Himalayan sea salt to the cause…
Also, hi! How are you?
Oh, I’m still angry, Spaghetti. And this kind of thing makes me feel all guillotine-y.
I say if they keep crying, we give them something to really cry about…like FDR-era tax rates.
” he has (and more) because he truly is a superior breed of homo sap sap. ”
They really do believe this, ya know. Remember, they are “the achievers”.
Along the lines of “might as well be hung for a horse*”, I have an indescribable urge to keep punching him until I break my hand.
*I’m trying to be modest.
Hey VS,
A Guillo-tini sounds like it could be some delicious gin and vermouth based drink.
Mmmmmmmmmm. I’ll have to invent this when I’m no longer knocked up.
A Guillo-tini sounds like it could be some delicious gin and vermouth based drink.
Maybe that’s how we could trick them.
“We, the American taxpayers, would like to ask forgiveness for our impertinence, O Wall Street Overlord, and would like to treat you to some free Guillotinis as a token of our gratitude! Now if you’d just put your head right here…”
IT’S A COOKBOOK!
A Guillo-tini sounds like it could be some delicious gin and vermouth based drink.
Maybe that’s how we could trick them.
Added to the list.
Also, hi! How are you?
Good, good. New job, new house. No more crazy, selfish GF.
Adjusting to calm. Sanity.
It’s an adjustment.
And. Thanks for asking. Also.
The Coup? Noice.
The Coup? Noice.
If directed at me, yes, very noice. And way overdue.
Time and distance leave with “what was I thinking?”
And, a few apologies to my son.
But all good now.
Yay, me!
I say if they keep crying, we give them something to really cry about…like FDR-era tax rates.
Or a pick, a shovel, and a hundred-foot dig line. And no work gloves. In August. In Florida.
There is an entire industry of HR professionals who specialize in manufacturing theories to support this. Elliot Jacques is a particularly pernicious one ( here is linkie) that works on “Stratums” of (essentially) your worthiness, from 1 – 9 . 1 is a peon, 2 is your manager, 3 is her manager and so on. Now this is where it gets weird.
* Level 7 is CEOS of Fortune 500 companies, very senior public servants
*Level 8 is CEOs of GM, GE etc
*Level 9 is Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, Einstein, Churchill etc
Yes, Jack Wlech, Carly Fiorina and the idiot who drove GM into the ground are one step away from semi-divinity. Yes this is a serious HR theory, probably implemented in your soulless corporate now, and FFS executives lap it up. Who wouldn’t believe some bright, cute young Harvard graduates telling you that are in fact close to being a God and that you deserve an extra couple of million a year as the company is fucked if you don’t stay?
God knows, that’s how Faust went, and he was a better man than me.
FYWP!
Here is the link
http://www.well.com/~art/s%2Bb12001cm.html
Why not give their tax refunds to them in gold– Crassus-style?
A little sensitivity please. He feels profoundly violated in a way you as a non-hedge fund can’t understand, so his choice of metaphor may baffle you.
Like some folks can’t relate to Cleveland delta blues
From Zeb’s link:
Such jobs are good fits for “level one” people, who can cope with thinking about a time horizon of one day to three months.
Can’t you just feel the love?
Indeed. Not to mention that, after fucking the rest of us into a hole we won’t be able to climb out of for decades, again, they have had somewhere north of a year’s entire GDP of the wealthiest nation on the planet shoveled into their coffers for their efforts. At our expense.
Fuck these people.
Much as I love the cliff-o-tine concept, it’s far too civil for this lot. Ass-raping with a rusty Garden Weasel™ is a good starting point. And yeah, we’re going to need some of that sea salt.
shortale
Holy shit. Classic.
I’m only thirteen and I love the blues.Grew up on the flaming banks of the Cuyahoga. MM was a seminal figure in the transition from teen idealist to cynical adult.
That was the first time I ever got out of the boat, Zeb. And I’m never doing it again. The mangoes have botulism and I already have a cold.
Nice to know that my peon status is hard-wired into me and beyond my ability to change or challenge in any way, though.
Billions in record profits, a licence to pillage & a Get Out Of Jail Free card = abuse?
I CAN HAZ SADISTIC DOMINATRIX PLZ?
That’s a lot of fun. I’m writing a Huffington Post piece about being out of work for six months, with limited prospects ahead — yet, at the same time, I know I can’t publish it because it will instantly shit up my future employment prospects. For one or another reason, we all end up suffering in isolation.
Glad to help you reconnect, Ugly Hunchback!
Whenever I hear that “the city is burning” trope, I always think “Oh, yeah? Tell me when your city’s RIVER is burning, then you’ve got something to talk about!”
“I’m Everyone I’ve Ever Loved” was the best investment of paper route money I ever made. And to think you can’t find a copy in this age of cheap digital media.
Culture is truly dead.
Yes, it is genuinely awful. Sadly it is a moderately effective way of picking future management people as we are a lot more timid and follow-the-leader than we would like to admit.
The danger isn’t from being identified at the bottom (even though it hurts), it is the stupidity of telling powerful people (that are unable to think beyond the next bonus period) that their prejudices, group-consensus opinions and random brain-farts are actually the equal of the great Greek philosophers.
The danger for them is that they confuse a lack of ability or desire to manage, with being actually stupid or ignorant (and vicky verser). Couldn’t be further from the truth.
shortale,
spent a lotta time running from Cleveburg, but there was some good stuff. Not a lot, but some.
Another MM YTube clip on the side was “Why Don’t You and I Get Normal”….just perfect for the time. Careful or you’ll start a run on Mull……………hmmmmmm, come to think of it…….this is just the kind of thing he would do.
I think we need to get our beloved Lunch Lady to whip Loeb up a nice big plate of fugu sushi … about an hour or so after she downs some peyote & shrooms.
Hmm … don’t mind me, just connecting dots here … uh oh, LOGIG ALERT: if the global economy is torpid as hell, & the aristos are making even MOAR filthy lucre than they did even in the coked-up profit-mania of the 1980s, wouldn’t they want to keep the economy flatlining like this forever? WWSD (What Would Scrooge Do)?
Culture is truly dead.
*looks in back of fridge, screams like a little girl*
Not!
LOGIG?
“That would be illogigal, Captain.”
A smart person, even if they don’t give a shit how people feel, should at least have the sense not to say the wrong things in the wrong company. But today, there’s a trend of conservatives who’ve lived in their own cocoon for so long they don’t even realize what’s offensive and what’s not anymore.
Someone I knew in college got an email-joke from her dad which was basically two pages of text making fun of the 50% underclass getting handouts, like, oh, you know… there were several jobs mentioned, “teacher” among them.
She thought it was the funniest thing ever, and somehow thought it’d be a good idea to read it aloud to two working-class friends who both happened to have a parent teacher. I wasn’t there, but from what I understand, the eruption of general disapproval was loud enough to wake the dead, and (naturally) left her sullen and resentful and concluding that her working-class friends were the real elitsts.
I’d normally just laugh, if I didn’t see the same shit popping up all over the Internet. Disconnection from reality and fellow citizens is at a level that shouldn’t be possible in a 21st century democracy, and still rising.
It’s not just “don’t realize.” It’s “don’t give a shit.”
If what they say or do offends you, then you’re clearly not important enough to matter.
A smart person
Shirley, you jest.
That fucker can eat a bag of dicks. Seriously, it’s *exactly* like being a battered wife.
Good, good. New job, new house. No more crazy, selfish GF.
Yay! All good developments.
Those types of people should be required to wear signs, I swear.
Hi there princess!! Do you need a big strong man to keep you safe? Come and sit in my van…
Careful there, Hoft! This is a liberal site, so there might be Muslim sleeper agents disguised as little girls lurking about.
…That sounds kind of hot, actually. Excuse me for a moment.
Surly, I joust.
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Those types of people should be required to wear signs, I swear.
Flashing lights would be nice, too.
Oy.
Lordy, that’s some home truth right there. I seriously believe that in fifty years, if anybody has time to do more than make flint arrowheads, scientists will figure out something — in the water, the food supply, or the air — caused a massive spike in medical problems like sociopathy, psychopathy, and all those good things. Let’s throw in ADD and autism, while we’re at it. This can’t be normal.
Then again, I’ve been looking for accounts of how it was in the weird polarized 1930s and 1950s, and sadly™, it appears that the assholes have always been with us.
John Lennon’s Tomato Juice Punch
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon duckbilled barracudina semen, plausibly mixed
1 cup tomato juice
Add the duckbilled barracudina semen to the tomato juice. Serve in a large jug. Run.
Are there no pitchforks? Are there no tumbrels?
Ahh! So you are working for Dyncorp after all!
Imagine no stomach lining,
I wonder if you can…
I seriously believe that in fifty years, if anybody has time to do more than make flint arrowheads, scientists will figure out something
I don’t think it’s chemicals. And while I wouldn’t call it a mental disorder, I think there’s definitely a cognitive process going on there. I spend a lot of time arguing with libertarians about philosophy, and at times I can see how their philosophy works in a mechanical sense, the sort of cold calculation behind it. It’s a very seductively logical philosophy (especially for people who have been given every conceivable advantage since birth, and they and I both have), and sometimes I catch myself thinking, “Wait a minute, these people are sociopaths. I’m not like them.” They’re mostly scientists, and I’m not, which I’m sure has something to do with it. Not that scientists are sociopaths, but they’re more apt to admire hard logic than a liberal arts guy.
Call it a false feedback loop, I guess, or like some kind of thought virus. I remember reading Krugman talking about how so many people bought into neoliberal Chicago economics because their theories and platitudes were so beautifully simple and direct. I think the same sort of thing’s going on here. For people who claim to be so open-minded, libertarians sure have some rules that they’ve practically superglued themselves to. I guess that’s as a good as a chemical imbalance.
If corporate whoredom is overcoming your moral gag reflex, this chap could indeed swallow a bag of dicks. At the same time. With twirly tongue action.
I seriously believe that in fifty years, if anybody has time to do more than make flint arrowheads, scientists will figure out something — in the water, the food supply, or the air — caused a massive spike in medical problems like sociopathy, psychopathy, and all those good things. Let’s throw in ADD and autism, while we’re at it. This can’t be normal.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy-no. Not sure about ADD or autism, but the rest of that nastiness is biologically mundane. We’re a dominant species, & squatting unopposed on top of the food-chain doesn’t exactly encourage pacifism or empathy.
I recall Chomsky’s account of average Americans right after WW2, laughing merrily at local cinemas as they watched gruesome footage of the victims of Hiroshima. What we call “crimes against humanity” were SOP for rulers around the globe for about 99.5% of recorded history – the few rulers who didn’t torture, rape & enslave on a whim were the deviant weirdos.
The humanists of the Italian Renaissance paved the way for the Enlightenment, & the (highly under-rated) Enlightenment was a big step in our collective evolution – but it took until our grandparents’ lifetimes for that ethical upgrade to really take effect.
Every time a wingnut calls for slashing funding for education, a Visigoth has an orgasm.
Interest &c.
How tragic:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518604576013273744399388.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_US
This would work well as sarcasm, but unfortunately it is not.
they’re just doing the same thing to us that we do to them (na -nana -na-na), except it’s easier for someone who sucks , to actually suck in public (finally I can be the asshole everyone knows I am … but I get paid for it.) It’s way harder to go through fucked – up shit , knowing your right but nobody gives a fuck. Anybody can talk shit. Who’ll back it up? Not this fuckface.
2:16AM local time, back from the second fire alarm of the evening, third if you count that time the alarm acted up for like three seconds. Oy vey, no me gusta.
I posted this in the comment thread where it occurred, but since, given the ebb and flow of traffic to a blog like this, I have no doubt it will be seen by exactly no one, I’m reposing (with some editing) it here as a mea culpa- because the issue is serious enough that it merits an apology:
Original T&U:
Dumb assed me”
D. A:
You’re right- i didn’t connect T&U’s comment to mark f’s comment, (convoluted I know, but at this point it’s too complicated to explain without referring the reader to the original htread) and missed the context. I apologize, I was out of line there. I’ve just seen too many people on the supposed left side of the isle suddenly buying into right-wing retorts regarding racism in order to diminish valid objections to obviously out of line framing of criticisms of the President, and African Americans concerns in general. For various reasons, it’s a very sore spot, and elicits a knee jerk response on my part from time to time, especially when Ive been dealing with it on various fronts for a couple of weeks now. Especially when one of those fronts is my sons grandmother, who has apparently taken advantage of her once a week visit to pump his head full of all kinds of bullshit “questions” on the issue.
I feel like lately, a lot of people I previously respected sound like they would be one of those people in the background of Harriet Christian’s ranting going “right on!” It’s depressing, and demoralizing, and I apparently let my irritation with get out of hand in this case.
Again, my bad, I apologize to both T&U and D.A.
Granted, I’m sure no one cares, but I wanted to clear that up, if only to ease my own conscious, and in fairness to T&U.
Uriel – no worries, man. We all make mistakes. Thanks for taking the time to clarify.
Uriel, you have David Brooks’ support for the rest of what you and P.S. Nick Saban were saying, so you’ve got that going for you.
Then he’s got to bring this networking style to the larger issues. It’s easy to cut a deal that explodes deficits. It’s harder to cut one that reduces them. But there are more networks waiting to be built: to reform the tax code; to reduce consumption and expand productivity; to reform entitlements.
That’s it, go after Social Security, Obama. You’ll have David Brooks (and Uriel and P.E. Nick Saban) behind you all the way.
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“…I’m writing a Huffington Post piece about being out of work for six months, with limited prospects ahead — yet, at the same time, I know I can’t publish it because it will instantly shit up my future employment prospects….”
Spengler, isn’t this why noms de plume were invented? (Ah, delicious plumes! So cold! Nom nom nom nom.)
Seriously, all you have to do is take a sampling of our nyms and switch things around a little.
2:16AM local time, back from the second fire alarm of the evening, third if you count that time the alarm acted up for like three seconds.
Try landing a 757 at that hour with that little sleep – that’s basically what my job is.
PENIS.
Granted, I’m sure no one cares, but I wanted to clear that up, if only to ease my own conscious, and in fairness to T&U.
No problem. I appreciate it when people call others on their racist bullshit, and if I happen to be an unintentional casualty occasionally, oh well.
Thanks a fucking lot, everybody. Now Uriel is so upset he decided to rethink his role in the “All Niggers Must Hang” Klan Parade float we were putting together. We need somebody his height to hold up the noose, and it’s not like midgets grow on trees.* There’s a real short Chinaman who said he’d do it, but it won’t look the same with some chink up there. I may end up having to use a real lawn jockey, but they add a shitload of weight. The golf cart is struggling as it is.
*Vstrange fruitR
So look at how the Village constructs its mythology. The real story, of pretend moderates stalling action by pretending to be persuadable, has been rewritten as a story of how those DF hippies got in the way, until the centrists saved the day.
The worst of it is that I suspect Obama’s memory has gone down the same hole.
-Paul Krugman
You’ve got Dana Milbank, too, Uriel. Fine company!
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T&U, you mentioned Henry Rollins a thread or two back.
Next Tuesday at 10 pm:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1602259.php/Henry-Rollins-on-Nat-Geo-Explorer-Born-to-Rage-Dec-14
Henry goes searching for “the warrior gene”, an alleged genetic predisposition to aggression and violence. (I wonder if it’s related to the gettin’ tattoos gene?)
Mary Landrieu, answering the party’s casting call for the role of Madame Defarge, denounced the deal as “morally corrupt.” Keep her away from knitting needles,
What strikes me about this, is that he thinks the French Revolution was morally wrong. Not just the whole guillotining-gone-mad thing, but the very foundational basis of it on the part of the peasants. We should all just accept our grinding, awful fate without complaint because we chose the wrong vaginas to crawl out of.
On-topic (I promise not to do this again):
The idea that there are some people that can see the larger picture, plan on a longer-term basis does not upset me, or that they may have some higher* value to society than someone that lacks this capacity.
What angers me is that almost all of these people use those skills for self-enrichment and naked, unvarnished greed. Those with similar capabilities who choose to use such skills for a broader, more common good, end up fighting for every scrap of recognition and acknowledgment in the form of society actually enacting their vision and contributions.
“Visionaries” that use their unique skills for self-enrichment at the expense of those who lack such DNA-lottery gifts deserve scorn and a spit-bath. Then rock salt, bowling balls, weed-wackers and assorted other creative atonement.
*”higher” does not mean to imply “given special citizen status.”
What strikes me about this, is that he thinks the French Revolution was morally wrong.
Sitting in one’s comfortable bourgeois reading chair, enjoying ‘Tale of Two Cities’ again or, as one ancient Tory I know does, watching ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ once a week, keeps the romantic flame of doomed royalty alive. That’s OK as long as one doesn’t conflate it with political truth. In the real world a few more wild-eyed, insatiable Mme. Degarges would have some value.
I typed ‘Defarge’, really I did.
FYWP does stuff like that.
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And, like Looch, to go briefly On Topic, the idea that muck-stained peons, farmers, serfs and other workers of the soil and natural cycles are unable to see beyond a week or two denies all agricultural history and reality. Every one believes that they have a special ability in their own field, only those that make gazillions believe that it makes them better than the hoi-polloi. This worm stob’s magical skills would not help him farm I bet.
Guess it’s the European version of the South’s romantic and glorious Lost Cause over here. Amazing how long our culture indulged their fantasies on that…
Funny, I didn’t find Tale of Two Cities to be opposed to the moral foundations of the Revolution, even if Defarge is malevolent and cruel. The depictions of the Nobility literally running over peasants with their carriages and the hardships while they lived in opulence showed that Dickens believes the peasants had a valid grievance or two.
It is Dickens after all. But I suppose rich fucks could easily miss that and only take what they want from the book.
Actually, I was referring to Edo’s music choice. But I’m always psyched when I hear, er, read someone’s made a positive life change. SORRY for sounding like a cheesy motivational speaker.
SORRY for sounding like a cheesy motivational speaker.
It’s snowing and 29 degrees outside. But I need to go to work and get some things done before Monday rolls around.
Who can talk me into this?
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What fascinates me is that these people who basically just make money by…I guess…what? money making money think they are special snowflakes, the true Masters of the Universe. Their “work” sounds silly and unimportant me.
I’d say if anyone deserves to feel that way about themselves it’d probably be creative types (like me) or maybe scientists and people who do science-y stuff. It seems to me those people are actually doing the truly important, interesting, life-altering stuff. Of course, I’d never say (or even think that) because I’m not a huge douche and I understand that everyone is probably making some sort of difference in the world, even if just in some small way. And that there are all sorts of incredibly talented, bright people toiling away, not making any kind of money or getting any sort of recognition.
Tony Robbins is out. I will be filling in!
Unless you go to work, the terrorists will win.
Also I hid some candy under your desk.
Sub just put Tony Robbins out of business. GREAT. Another person in need of a job.
Well, I’ve got my boots on (don’t worry, I didn’t awake before dawn).
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Ass-raping with a rusty Garden Weasel™
I can see that I need to develop a Bankster Processor alternative to the Wingnut Processor.
This is going in it. Milwaukee Law Firm and Fonzie Impersonators will contact you to work out a flat fee for the concept.
There is candy at the cubicle diagonally across from mine.
And I’m sure no one else will be there to catch me scarfing it.
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For one or another reason, we all end up suffering in isolation.
welcome to zombiehood.
They drink it here, they drink it there,
Those winos drink it everywhere,
The night before heaven, the next morning hell,
That damned cheap rotgut: Muscatel!
Swedish city is all faggy and pompous:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/science/earth/11fossil.html
See what degrading things you’re forced to do when your nation doesn’t have 12 nukeyuler aircraft carriers? They’re playing with potato peels, fer chrisskaes!
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Tony Robbins is out.
well, he’s always been FAB-ulous!
Broder is on board!
I take everything back, Uriel and P.E. Nick Saban.
You guys are right, Obama’s Bush tax cut capitulation is a genius maneuver!
After all, when have David Brooks, Dana Milbank, and David Broder all been wrong about something before?
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Wow, Krugman is starting to use the term DF hippies. I’d vote for him if he wanted to be, you know, preznit or something.
PENS isn’t right…about anything.
And he’s got a head so square you could rest a drink on it.
Actually, I was referring to Edo’s music choice. But I’m always psyched when I hear, er, read someone’s made a positive life change. SORRY for sounding like a cheesy motivational speaker.
No, no, not at all. I was thinking “coup de grace” and nothing could be more appropriate. Thanks for the unintended, non-motivational kudos. I take them where I gets them.
Who can talk me into this?
I’m on a grand jury until 12/23. So for the next two weeks I’ll be getting up at 5, sitting at my desk 6 to 9:30, then heading to the courthouse to help indict street-level drug dealers. Go to work, you’ll get no sympathy from me.
N_B, can’t you slip in a couple of Loeb types along with the street-level drug dealers? Maybe a Cheney or two?
can’t you slip in a couple of Loeb types along with the street-level drug dealers? Maybe a Cheney or two?
If only. The orientation video talked about fancy cases and political corruption; the ADA who briefed us afterward made it very clear: two to five cases per day, mostly minor felonies.
Hey, the quality at Sadly No! has dropped off markedly.
Where’s demonic Tintin! The imaginary communists are dying to know!
Did I just hear a pathetic cry for attention?
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Do badgers cry pathetically?
Ssssh! Keep quiet…maybe he’ll think no one’s here!
Be vewwy vewwy quiet..we’re hunting wabid wingnuts.
Awwww, those badgers are so keeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyooooooooooot!
Slackers. 100+ comments but no POOP, no buttseks, one lonely PENIS and where fuck is DKWs mom?
Is actor here? Question answered.
no POOP, no buttseks, one lonely PENIS
Among the list of felonies that I may be hearing about in court was something they referred to as “sodomy.” I’ll keep everyone posted when they give us a definition.
where fuck is DKWs mom?
Dude, it’s Sunday! Where do you think she is?
She’s banging five dudes at a time dressed as a nun.
Ooooh! Thanks, N_B. I’ll have a glass of wine and satin chemise ready.
Where do you find five dudes dressed as a nun?
Castro St., silly boy.
Don’t need to get out of the boat to realize that the hoi polloi are gonna need a slap to get ’em motivated to step off the ledge or get pushed. The French Revolution was a good concept, but now we have Tasers and jack handles. Vive le revolucion, bitchez! These elitist assholes are just accelerating the inevitable collapse of American society. I don’t know if I should be happy or dismayed at this point. Perhaps I’m just upset that I probably won’t be around for the Televised Revolution. Dammit
Some besmirch the gods:
The protective layer of cake did NOTHING.
I was gonna bring this up earlier but forgot to… I can’t imagine something like those protests taking place here. I mean, I know there were some out in California recently. But I can’t imagine them going on at a national scale. Americans are just too lazy, too apathetic. Of course, I can’t imagine Americans demanding free higher education in the first place.
This is a big…thing…for me, though. I feel STRONGLY that every high schooler who maintains a C average should get to attend a state school for free and that those who don’t meet the grade, should be able to attend a trade school free.
You’re right, VS, Americans aren’t clamoring for more school. Stoopit school! It makes you all pompous and faggy.
The Pantload had a good column today. Yes you read that right. It was about the stupidity of the non-partison fetishists. The Pantload! Reasonable! We are surely living in the last days.
Hmm, can’t find a link. I swear I read it in this mornings local fascist fishwrap. Perhaps I was only having a psychotic episode.
Americans are just too lazy, too apathetic.
Don’t misunderestimate the power of our corporate media.
It’s not just that they lie, subtly and less so, it’s this construction of a “liberal” and a “conservative” media…way more effective than just serving up one voice, e.g. Pravda.
And yet it works for the same purpose: serving those with the money and power.
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“I feel STRONGLY that every high schooler who maintains a C average should get to attend a state school for free and that those who don’t meet the grade, should be able to attend a trade school free.”
SOSHALALISM! HARUMPH! If God and The Founders had wanted free education, they wouldn’t have created crushing student debt.
Kate O’Beirne is an evil c-unit who needs to die in a fire.
ifthethunderdontgetya Johnson is right!
When supporting a slight increase in the minimum wage or a slight increase in upper tax rates gets you labled as engaging in ‘CLASS WARFARE!’ (Storm the Bastille everyone) and supporting a middle of the road healthcare package and loans to the auto industry gets you called a Marxist revolutionary, what would be the corporate media’s reaction to real social activism?
Kate O’Beirne is an evil c-unit who needs to die in a fire.
Sweet Jeebus on a Cornydog. This right here is mental illness.
Or, she a witch.
Burn her.
She “is” …etc.
Lacks the depth, warmth and charm, etc. but yeah about the torchy bit.
Of course, that sort of screed will move her right up the ranks in teatard land.
James O’Keefe?
TruculentandUnreliable Johson is right!
She’s just following in Ronnie Raygun’s footsteps.
“They told us a lot of people went to bed hungry. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet! Hyuck hyuck hyuck! Also, ketchup is a vegetable.”
“SOSHALALISM! HARUMPH! If God and The Founders had wanted free education, they wouldn’t have created crushing student debt.”
Heh. Exactly.
“You’re right, VS, Americans aren’t clamoring for more school. Stoopit school! It makes you all pompous and faggy.”
Well, they certainly aren’t clamoring to make it free or even affordable. And they should!
“what would be the corporate media’s reaction to real social activism?”
Um…we’ve seen it. Comes in two forms: apathy or outright mockery.
IFTDGY is blooging from werk.
Good for you! Hope you’re getting double time for it.
I’m telling!
You’re fetching, too!
Well, thanks! Unless you mean I’m actually fetching something…
“Felch” is spelled with an L.
Shut up, Sub!
Wasn’t he with the hamsters and stuff? Or was it gerbils?
So it looks like there’s some football guy playing today named “Vollmer”. Wouldn’t it be cooler if his name were “Voldemort”? Yeah, it would.
I always heard gerbils.
Holy fuck I just looked up “feltch”. How did I not know the meaning? And could I please go back to not knowing?
It’s an actual word – or soundalike – in some Eastern European languages meaning nurse. HA HA.
We’re both right. http://www.urbandictionary.com/iphone/#define?term=feltch
Um, yay?
“It’s an actual word – or soundalike – in some Eastern European languages meaning nurse. HA HA.”
Stick to breast milk, people!
Also did you see Boing Boing recently? Cthulhu sex toys.
Some things just can’t be unseen or unlearned. This site has caused me to wish for actual brain bleach many times.
I know.
I always heard gerbils.
I have a slight ringing. Tinnitus, I believe.
I think they can fix that gerbil thing, by the way.
Lulz. I wish I’d made that joke.
Did somebody say, “Gerbil up Richard Gere’s butt”? Why, just earlier this weekend I was perusing:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/richard_gere.htm
http://www.well.com/user/cynsa/newbutt.html
http://www.well.com/user/cynsa/bulb.html
has anyone linked to this feltcher yet?
So, the staff is planning next weeks menu. Gerbils, Gere-ass, milk…..any other suggestions?
Oops. Try this one: Captain Obvious buys food with food stamps
VS, at some point, don’t you have to start considering whether or not the bebe can hear you? Oh wait, never mind. I forgot that while bebe might hear you, bebe cannot read what you type. So let that be a lesson, okay: no reading aloud from your screen or the urban dictionary or 95% of anything we say here. Except this: “Larkspur says ‘Hi, wee little cute bebe!'”
Yow. Mathew AssBoyle seems dismayed at the Universities. I’ll bet there’s other so-called ‘information’ they are spreading around as well. Some of it might even involve (whispering-shhhhhhh) health care .
Hunchy, I want something with this cheese I had recently. Can’t remember the name. Starts with a “p” I think…it’s orange and it’s got Parmesan in it I think. It’s seriously the best cheese I ever eated.
Lark, I too am concerned. Either this child will be charmingly and happily eccentric…or will be logging lots of time on the therapist’s couch.
Either this child will be charmingly and happily eccentric…or will be logging lots of time on the therapist’s couch.
Both.
Looch, entirely possible.
I think there’s a cheese made of gerbil milk. That might be it.
Also one called fromage boehner, which is orange.
See, I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ – or raisin’ – no children, on account of OMG all of a sudden I hadn’t done it yet, and then it was too late. But I care a lot about them. Looch is right. I don’t know if you are going to have god- or goddess-parents for your bebe, or FSM-parents, but I think it should be their job to get the psychotherapy fund started, preferably at one of the bebe-showers. Because even though I don’t have kids, I used to be one, and I’m oldish, so I see stuff, and it seems clear that whatever you do, you are going to fuck something up. You try hard, and you love them, and you try to always remember that you are Mom, not best friend, but you are always going to fuck something up. That’s just the deal. Everybody does it, it always happens, and everything can still be okay, even FABulous.
Have you remembered what cheese it is? Sigh. I hate being lactose intolerant.
Now you made me picture gerbil milkmaids. Gah.
I sure haven’t and it’s driving me crazy.
*puts dollar in Therapy jar*
VS,
Chef says yer crazy, but in case you are not…..I used this new thing called
goggle or something like that…..
http://www.cheese.com/all.asp
hmmmm, hot gerbil milkmaids…..I’ll bet there’s already a website.
Yummy stuff.
Aged goudas are pretty fine too.
Inappropriately lascivious hug for justme! I kept thinking Padano.
How did you know, justme? It wasn’t even on h-back’s delightful and remarkably detailed goggle-list.
Kate O’Beirne is an evil c-unit who needs to die in a fire.
You will never understand
how it feels to live your life
with no meaning or control
and with nowhere else to go
You are amazed that they exist
and they burn so bright
whilst you can only wonder why
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you’ll never get it right
’cause when you’re laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your dad he could stop it all
OT; caring about poor people for the first time of her life, the GOP’s beauty queen took a tour of Haiti and did a little speech about those poor, poor people and how much they need the U.S. to continue airlifting stuff to them. She takes an oblique shot at Obama for not being down there with her and therefore not caring for those poor, poor people.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_palin#mwpphu-container
In the comments section, someone has the good grace to point out the fucking obvious;
Well spoken. She and her rich friends are always going on about how wonderful life would be if charity was voluntary; well here’s her fucking chance. Put up or shut up, okay?
Not to mention that this is the same bitch who still cheerleads for the Iraq war and called for a repeat of it in Iran earlier this year. Yeah, Sarah Palin cares about poor third world yokels… I believe that.
She and her rich friends are always going on about how wonderful life would be if charity was voluntary; well here’s her fucking chance.
She HAS contributed: she gave the Haitians a chance to gaze upon her in person. Any moment now, the entire nation of Haiti will rise as one and say “Thank you, Sister Sarah…just for being you.”
*puts dollar in Therapy jar*
The Rotten Little Perisher is 12 now. He does a little bit of a check in with a therapist due to the divorce four years ago, that’s ’cause he one of them thar sensitive types. Big antennae. Highly receptive. Intoooitive.
Now, I haven’t fucked him up too much. But tune-ups are not a bad idea. Too many kids go without who could use it. And these days the achievement demands are freaking too many kids out (probably not around these parts).
One from both column A and B is a very good outcome.
whoa. shrill Yahoo commenters.
bwaahahahahahahaha.
She probably lauded the Pappy/Clenis fund too right?
bwahahahahahahaha.
bwaahahahahahahaha.
Welcome to my labor-a-tory! [checks hands] I’m off to the lavor-a-tory!
Inappropriately lascivious hug for justme!
Harummph.
Just like it happened to my great grandpa. I spent almost a full minute doing a search, then get dumped for some smooth talkin cheese expert.
Look out below!
Upon further reflection on the Haiti thing, I wonder if Palin didn’t just shoot herself in the foot.
Historically, whenever a Republican pretends to care too much about poor black people, the rest of the party opens up on them with both barrels. It happened to Trent Lott when he said on BET that he supported affirmative action (trying to make up for his gaffe during Strom Thurmond’s eulogy); he was forced to step down within a week. It also happened to Bush when his approval rating started falling after Katrina, not just because of people who felt he wasn’t doing enough, but also because some of his peckerwood base felt he was doing too much.
Could this be a blow to Palin’s image with the conservative base? I’d be a very happy dude if it was.
A hortatory comment, N_B.
A lady I know had very much the same reaction to it. The semi-orgasmic description stuck with me.
She was pretty spot on about the purple-wax Cabot cheddar, too.
Mmmmmmmm… cheese…
Hell, she can see it from her back yard.
Disconnection from reality and fellow citizens is at a level that shouldn’t be possible in a 21st century democracy, and still rising
I think Chuck and Camilla’s close encounter with the unwashed was a salubrious reminder of the real world that exists outside the bubble. Unfortunately, I don’t think the prince’s brush with ugly reality will lead him to enlightenment.
Uh, am I the only freak who’s up at this hour?
C’est freak, le sheik.
Am I the only freak who’s up this early?
Well, sort of…I’m still in bed.
What hour is it?
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What hour is it?
The witching hour!
Here it’s 7:37.
Off-topic, but the newest participant in the “Everyone Laugh at Donald Douglas” fun-zo-tron is Boing Boing.
Donald must be bitter because no one wants to use interesting dildos on him. Btw, Sub mentioned this unthread.
BTW, I would totally put one of those on mantle. Conversation-starter, people!
My. My mantle.
Off-topic, but the newest participant in the “Everyone Laugh at Donald Douglas” fun-zo-tron is Boing Boing.
How soon before he starts trolling them?
I don’t have an account… do they know about “Sasquatch Isreal”?
She and her rich friends are always going on about how wonderful life would be if charity was voluntary
Didn’t you know? ‘Voluntary’ means ‘someone else has to do it’. It’s the same with the ‘all-volunteer military’.
Didn’t you know? ‘Voluntary’ means ‘someone else has to do it’. It’s the same with the ‘all-volunteer military’.
“Voluntary” also means “with arbitrary strings attached”, such as adherence to a particular religion or sexual identity.
Three stooges and a tax cut deal
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Click for the pics if nothing else. So wrong.
Watched Inception last night.
Christopher Nolan will be getting a sternly worded letter from me soon.
There’s the alt text, too, VS.
With the screengrabs and the pics.
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I’m on my iPhone now but I’ll be sure to peep the lulz lata.
Gave you further reason to be Disgruntled, I take it.
I didn’t see it, the trailer just really weirded me out. I’m looking forward more to the A-Team movie coming out this week. Good mindless action we can believe in. Beyond that, 2011 potentially looks like a good movie year.
I don’t have an account… do they know about “Sasquatch Isreal”?
I believe someone mentioned it the post they did about his Elizabeth Edwards skreeefest.
I considered posting some more details about Donalde (has no readers other than the liberal sites he trolls, Sasquatch Israel, etc.) in the most recent thread, but I don’t have an account there either, and the post was already old enough that I wasn’t sure it’d get many further reads…
I’m curious to see Sharlto Copely playing Murdoch.
But really I just wanna see Despicable Me. That’s my kinda movie.
A-Team was fun if you take it for what it is (i.e. “Good mindless action we can believe in.”)
If you’re an A-Team purity troll, you might not like it tho.
But who among us is not an A-Team purity troll?
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I’m curious to see Sharlto Copely playing Murdoch.
Best performance in the movie, imo. He really fit the part, as opposed to the others that just sort of vaguely resembled the original.
I’m a cranky movie critic though, so ymmv.
“But who among us is not an A-Team purity troll?
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I pity the fool who isn’t…………
Well, I hadn’t even seen the show before I saw the movie, so no purity trolling from me. They did a pretty good job of preserving the spirit of eighties TV enjoyable ridiculousness, I think.
In the same vein, I wish an Airwolf or MacGyver movie were in the works.
But who among us is not an A-Team purity troll?
Those of us under 30? Or is watching the A-Team a ritual that all children must undergo?
Zacktly.
In the same vein, I wish an Airwolf or MacGyver movie were in the works.
Close enough?
But who among us is not an A-Team purity troll?
*firing up stogie*
I love it when a plan comes together…
In the same vein, I wish an Airwolf or MacGyver movie were in the works.
Well, you know, Airwolf was loosely based on a movie called “Blue Thunder.” It was produced knowing that a direct TV spin off called “Blue Thunder” was in the works (with Dana Carvey?????)
Oddly, Bellisario had thought about spinning off a helicopter series in conjunction with a possible pilot introduced in an episode of Magnum PI.
Bellisario has this knack for ripping off better, more intelligent series and movies and making parodies of them. Like NCIS (which can trace its lineage to JAG and CSI).
Now if we could just get B.A. on the plane…
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Sadly, no!
No, I did not know that. It made for a good show, though. Maybe I should try “Blue Thunder.”
Wasn’t JAG also a Bellisario project (a much better one than NCIS)?
“The quality at Sadly No! has dropped off markedly.”
I disagree. I’m a regular lurker-ish reader. In my opinion, this thread has been outstanding so far, both On-Topic and Off-Topic. I suspect TinTin is off Twitter-jousting with idiots. Ifthethunder nailed it perfectly:
“Surly, I joust.”
Wasn’t JAG also a Bellisario project (a much better one than NCIS)?
Worse yet, he tends to rip himself off 🙂
Sub mentioned this unthread.
Another zombie thread?
A hortatory comment, N_B.
He said something about DKW’s mom?
“Don’t misunderestimate the power of our corporate media. It’s not just that they lie, subtly and less so, it’s this construction of a “liberal” and a “conservative” media…way more effective than just serving up one voice, e.g. Pravda.”
Ifthethunder is onto something with the Pravda analogy. I would like to see this–or some close variant–worked into a kick-ass shorthand for general use. Way, way better than The Village. ‘The Village’ sounds too damn quaint and bucolic … and it has to be *explained* to non-lefties.
Plus it would piss off the Media Whores more.
“I would like to see this–or some close variant–worked into a kick-ass shorthand for general use. Way, way better than The Village. ‘The Village’ sounds too damn quaint and bucolic … and it has to be *explained* to non-lefties.”
How about “Sally Quinn and her working girls?”
How about “Sally Quinn and her working girls?”
Prostinewsers.
((How about “Sally Quinn and her working girls?”))
Works as movie title.
By the way, can anyone explain how to produce italics or the nifty block-quotes? But explain it really, really, really simply…so simple that a 60+ Luddite can understand it? Thank much!
Use Firefox and add this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/491/
Otherwise you gotta type your text between i and /i in triangle brackets (a left and a right one for each i) or blockquote /blockquote in triangle brackets.
Aha! I asked the same question a few months ago. Here’s how it works –
For italics, you write this [i] then write the text, then do this [/i] to closer the italics.
Block quotes = [blockquote] (insert text) [/blockquote]
Bold = [b] (insert text) [/b]
Crossed out writing = [strike] (insert text) [/strike]
BUT instead of using the [ and ] brackets like I just did, you use the little alligator mouth things that look like this, .
Now, the only thing I still haven’t figured out is how to link words to a URL. But everything else is explained above.
Now, the only thing I still haven’t figured out is how to link words to a URL.
[a href=”link here”] Type text here [/a] Only with the angle brackets.
Link link.
Shorter Dan Loeb:
I bought the fucking government and even though it has done everything I’ve asked of it, I am very upset about it’s attitude.
General Experiment number one, action!
Yahoo.com
Yee Haw! Thanks, actor. My training is now complete.
Thanks for explanations! I’ll copy them for reference. Now I think I’ll scurry to TinTin’s new thread. I always seem to check in when there are a bazillion comments to read. So it will be nice to watch a thread form from the beginning.
My training is now complete.
Now you are a Sith Lord?
So it will be nice to watch a thread form from the beginning.
it’s like watching sausage being made. “Nice” isn’t the word most people would use.
BTW, I would totally put one of those on mantle.
OMG you’re a squid! I KNEW IT!
My training is now complete.
Actor has taught you well. Now let me complete your training.
Engines stop running
But I have no fear
‘Cause Cleveland is burning and I
I live by the river
Really? Oh shit!
If the world were awesome like a Law and Order episode, this fucking douche would be found dead behind a dumpster with skin under his nails and his balls missing.
You know, Michael Moriarty was awesome in that.
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