Jesus Shrugged
Posted on June 6th, 2011 by Tintin
Above: Renumuhrka’s Dan Poop
Shorter Dan Poop, Renumuhrka
The Sword
- The Bible says that government may only tax to buy guns to kill people not to rebuild tornado-damaged homes or provide health care for sick people. Or, as Jesus said succinctly of the moochers and parasites: “Tough noogies, folks.”
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
you know who else was fixated on swords?
Arthur Pendragon?
Jesus’ favorite book?
That’s right,
Mein KampfAtlas Shrugged.~
Christians may thank Paul who (without knowing it, most likely), 2000 years ago, gave them countless justifications to behave like total bastards.
wow. interesting that god wants us, not to help the poor or heal the sick, but to strike down our enemies. (said enemies, apparently, being anyone who disagrees with Dan Popp. also interesting that he quotes Paul, I notice all these wingers are really interested in everything Paul had to say (who was a Pagan for a long time, became a Christian only when it was profitable for him)
should. never. get. out. of. the. boat.
It’s always funny how they manage to draw these convoluted Randroid statements by “explaining” what disparate Bible statements “really meant” in light of half-remembered and mostly distorted “historical context,” but somehow fail to miss the big, blinking red light about rich people entering the kingdom of God.
By the way, when Jesus said “pay your taxes,” he was talking about taxes to the Roman government. Lo and behold… the Roman Empire had welfare (isn’t that what they keep telling us is the reason it fell?)
I got out of the boat, but the mangoes were moldy and rotten. My eyes glazed over the second paragraph, so I’m still left with trusting the Shorter.
right. king arthur liked pulling on swords.
I’ve said hello to Dan in the parking garage, that is the extent of our “Friendship”.
And none of those hello’s involved smiles!
Isn’t this just pretty much Shorter Entirety of RenooMurka?
Some people just need a-slappin’…
Christalmighty, what a tool.
I did a thorough analysis of the code in the bible, and in Thessawhatsians Chp 26 vv 31-31(c), it clearly says:
I am having a difficult time interpreting the meaning, but I have a feeling that if I was a “Christian, husband, and small businessman” I could get:
(thx Tbogg)
I HATE THESE FUCKING IDIOTS!!!!11!
I’m surprised they haven’t changed their gospel to ‘Lord of the Flies’ yet. It’s a much shorter book and totally captures their worldview.
In my personal corner of heaven, I’m going to get to watch these bastards starve to death because they’re living in a society that has no use for belligerent idiots with God-delusions. And they’re going to get absolutely no heavenly hand-outs to help them survive, because as the Bibble says, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap…”.
According to Scripture, the Creator has not ordained government to feed us, to heal us, to educate us, to employ us, to guarantee a comfortable retirement, to insure us, to loan money to us, nor even to rebuild our homes after tornadoes…. Nowhere in the Bible, that I’ve found, does God command government to give handouts to people.
It doesn’t command capital punishment, either, but he can read between the lines(picking verses from multiple translations to shape the meaning to his liking) to make it permissible government activity. Also interesting to me that while Popp focuses on Joseph selling grain to the Egyptians, he skips right over the bit where it says Joseph TOOK all of the food produced in the country for 7 years… And check out what happens in chapter 47 if you think the authors of Genesis are painting this as a good, just government program… everyone in the nation ends up a serf of the state. Does Popp think that’s God’s ideal government?
Not my house, not my problem.
We all know tornadoes and terrorist attacks only happen to teh gays and because of gays and abortions. Gay abortions and such.
We must not forget that Jesus said “it is easier for a gay man to enter heaven because he goes in through the back door”.
How is going back to the Middle Ages renewing anything? Can someone answer that for me?
Mr. Poop sure seems to know exactly what Paul was thinking. That’s a neat trick seeing as how Paul’s been dead now for lo, these many years and his original writings have translated repeatedly over that span of time.
The bible doesn’t have any internal coherence, anyway. Especially when you try to incorporate Old and New Testaments and teach both combined as Christianity. But it’s great for cherry-picking a quote or two to “prove” a point.
We must not forget that Jesus said “it is easier for a gay man to enter heaven because he goes in through the back door”.
It was said that he spoke that to a packed house.
It’s a much shorter book and totally captures their worldview.
Yeah, but it ends with the leading man feeling all bad that they devolved into savages.
tsam: How is going back to the Middle Ages renewing anything? Can someone answer that for me?
Well, I think they figure that if they go back to before the Europeans discovered America, they can send people over in fast boats and institute their Republican Christian hegemony before the secular humanists and the gays get here and open Amurika’s shores to the Mooslim menace, or something.
What they didn’t count on was the presence of the socialist Vikings. Vineland for the win!
They might as well be worshiping Zardoz.
The gun is good. The penis is evil…Go forth and kill!
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…not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense again, saith the Lord.” – Raytheon 12:19
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What they didn’t count on was the presence of the socialist Vikings. Vineland for the win!
We were here first, so you splinter faction christians need to GTFO!
Wasn’t that a muscle car from back in the day? the Pontiac GTFO?
It wasn’t by accident that Paul Revere rode his horse to Britain to tell them we’d never give up the 2nd Amendment which would arrive some time in the future.
It wasn’t by accident that Paul Revere rode his horse to Britain to tell them we’d never give up the 2nd Amendment which would arrive some time in the future.
He was clairvoyant. Like Jesus. Ergo, founding fathers, even if they weren’t really founding fathers, are JUST LIKE JESUS.
Now I’m getting it.
The British chose to ignore the books in the Bible about the independence of the colonies in pursuit of the liberty of gun rights, and they paid dearly for it, as can be seen by its great poverty, devastation, and especially Godlessness today.
Yeah, but it ends with the leading man feeling all bad that they devolved into savages.
When one of these trucknut Repigs gets elected in 2012, we may have a closer look at social decay with the pedal to the metal, so to speak. Problem is, those fuckheads don’t have the analytical skills to feel bad about fucking everything up.
These folks interpret Jesus saying, “The poor will always be with us” as a blank check to rob, cheat and steal from them. Not to put words in his mouth, but I don’t think that’s what he intended. But then I’m an elitist, employed, liberal asshole, so what do I know about the Good Book?
But then I’m an elitist, employed, liberal asshole, so what do I know about the Good Book?
You only “KNOW” the good book if you can make fat stacks of cheese off it, player.
In truth he has a good point.
Luke 6:20-21. Blessed are you who are poor, for yours in the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Deut. 15:7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.
Deut. 26:12. When you have finished paying the complete tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and the widow, that they may eat in your towns, and be satisfied.
Lev. 19:19ff. Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger.
Luke 12:33. “Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves purses which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near, nor moth destroys.”
Luke 3:11. And [John the Baptist] would answer and say to them, “Let the man with two tunics share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise.”
Mt. 5:42. Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.
God did not say the government should care for the poor – god said YOU should. Fucking socialist god.
Poop’s column makes a lot more sense when one realizes that he’s reading from the Randian Second Edition of the Bible.
In that one, Jesus kicked dirt in the face of the lepers while downing mead with the money changers. They’d just kick around and laugh and laugh about how all those lepers and sick people were just lazy bums looking for a handout — after all, there were plenty of jobs out there they could be doing, even with one arm!
So, yeah. As long as you absolutely ignore what Jesus actually said in the actual Bible, you can totes use the book to claim that the poor and the sick just deserve to die so they can stop inconveniencing all the rich folks.
They might as well be worshiping Zardoz.
Or… PENIS!
Prov. 22:9 He who is generous will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.
Deut. 15:10. You shall give generously to [your poor brother], and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.
Is. 58:10. “And if you give yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will become like midday. And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.”
Luke 14:12-14. “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment come to you. But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Mt. 19:20ff. The young man said to Him, “All these commands I have kept; what am I still lacking?” Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
Shall I go on?
Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Hoo boy, looks like you crazy commies just got a SPREAD of TRUTH from the one, the only, Super Sarah, the Power Palin! The funky fact of the matter is, Paul Rip Rockin’ Revere DID ring bells and shouted a lot when he warned the British that they better watch out for the true Tea Party’s SPREAD of REVOLUTION; it’s you dumbo Dorkocraps who are getting everything wrong! As usual, Da Cool Coach might add, which he DID! Badoodle-boo-yeah, punks!
You jokers don’t know what hit ya when Da Cool Coach and ConservoMentum ’12 are in the hizzy! Urban out.
Ezek. 16:49ff. “Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it.”
Is. 10:1-3. “Woe to those who enact evil statutes, and to those who continually record unjust decisions, so as to deprive the needy of justice, and rob the poor of My people of their rights… Now what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the devastation which will come from afar?”
Jer. 5:28f. “[The wicked] do not plead the cause, the cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; and they do not defend the rights of the poor. Shall I not punish these people?” declares the LORD. “On such a nation as this, shall I not avenge myself?”
James 5:1-6. Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. …Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and with you have withheld, cries out against you; and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Luke 6:24. “But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.”
Luke 16:19-25. “Now there was a certain rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, gaily living in splendor every day. And a certain poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
Now it came about that the poor man died and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.’
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony…'”
Yeah, all that truth spread… just sittin’ there in the pasture. Makes for good mushroom huntin’.
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OOOH wait! Wait, I know this one! I got into a kerfuffle (as they call it in Washington these days) with some persons on the Faceboek recently who, being devout Xtians, informed me that Jesus was 100% behind wealthy people, personal industry, and bootstraps. He was a libertarian.
They are not joking. This is what’s being taught in those megachurches, on teevy, and in amongst those newfangled prayer meetings for bourgeoise suburbanites. Jesus is being remade in their image. Fair beans, of course, because he’s also imaginary, so he can be anything we want him to be. But the BIZIBBLE clearly states he was a socialest, and if that makes Jesus a moran, so be it, don’t follow what he done said.
I wonder how many times said book was rewritten to suit contemporary contexts before it was more or less fixed into its Jamesian form?
Paul had formerly been a Jew, not a pagan. And by the way, the beginning story in chapter 5 of Acts of the Apostles is some scary hardcore communist stuff.
That only proves that God is a soshulist hippie who…
wait.
what?
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition — and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.
“Randliness is next to godliness! Real prophets love profits! God hates handouts! Pay no attention to the filthy Jew hippie handing out free loaves & fishes behind the curtain! TEH GREAT PAPP HATH SPOKENETH!”
More like Jesus Puked, amirite?
See, I’m a big time atheist. Like many big time atheists, and in contrast to almost all Christianists, I have actually read teh bibble.
Coach and Sarah prove the ‘nuts know their history as well as they know their Bible.
I have actually read teh bibble.
You poor bastard. Catlick CCD as a wee one was enough to convince me it was all bullshit. No need to go to the source. Where would I get all those hours back?
(N.B.: I did, once, actually try to read the bibble. I didn’t even get through the creation of the earth.)
They are not joking. This is what’s being taught in those megachurches, on teevy, and in amongst those newfangled prayer meetings for bourgeoise suburbanites. Jesus is being remade in their image.
Activate cynicism mode:
Jesus has ALWAYS been remade in the image of whatever people wanted to hear. For everyone who looks to their god for guidance, there’s at least one (I’m being very generous here) who looks to their god for confirmation of what they already believe, and license to turn your nose up in righteous contempt at those who, by disagreeing with you, disagree with God.
(IMO, “we create God in our own image” holds true whether or not there actually is a God, btw).
Paul would have fit right in with today’s megachurch megalomanics. From Romans 13:
“13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed”
Even though it comes via government & not the general public, surely Popp would rejoice at this exhibition of municipal “Muscular Christianity” in action!
They are not joking.
Prosperity Gospel, aka Calvinism 2.0: if THIS won’t bring on the mankind-crushing white-hot apocalyptic rage of Yahweh, NOTHING will!
And by the way, the beginning story in chapter 5 of Acts of the Apostles is some scary hardcore communist stuff.
Or the doings of a rabid cult.
from dan poop’s bio on his small business (colors audio):
He even dabbled in Music Theory. The theory of his music teachers was that Dan just didn’t have any talent.
how right they were…
Jesus has ALWAYS been remade in the image of whatever people wanted to hear. For everyone who looks to their god for guidance, there’s at least one (I’m being very generous here) who looks to their god for confirmation of what they already believe,,,
Jesus fucked your mom.
For the Lord’s sake, respect all human authority — whether the king as head of state, or the officials he has appointed.
ha, ha! jesus says you have to respect obama’s authoritay!
(N.B.: I did, once, actually try to read the bibble. I didn’t even get through the creation of the earth.)
Ditto.
Even though it comes via government & not the general public, surely Popp would rejoice at this exhibition of municipal “Muscular Christianity” in action
Wow–feed the hungry in the name of God, go to jail.
Invade Iraq in the name of God, get a phatass retirement and be the object of war fapping for generations to come.
I can’t explain why, but something seems amiss here. Am I just crazy?
(N.B.: I did, once, actually try to read the bibble. I didn’t even get through the creation of the earth.)
i stalled out during the ‘begats’…
“(N.B.: I did, once, actually try to read the bibble. I didn’t even get through the creation of the earth.)
Ditto.”
As a literary device, I don’t think “In the Beginning….” can be topped.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” – Isaac Asimov
I also read Asimov’s Guide to the Bible. Devastating.
said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.don’t feed the animals!Paul had formerly been a Jew, not a pagan. – Doctorb
He claimed to have been a Jew. His attempts at “Rabbinic reasoning” would have gotten him flunked out of the Yeshiva if he were really Jewish.
I made it all the way through. It had more to do with being battle ready than curiosity.
That was about the time I developed this pathological hatred for religion.
“Rabbinic reasoning”
HA!
Rabbinic reasoning. Like military intelligence and compassionate conservatism?
As a literary device, I don’t think “In the Beginning….” can be topped.
Really?
“It was a dark and stormy night”
Come on now.
“Call me Ishmael.”
Call me Sasquatch Isreal.
I’m a pretentious muslim folk singer.
Silly, it’s renewing the Middle Ages! You too can have all the feudalism you so richly deserve. And your medical treatment options will go back to just being bled with leeches, because that’s all you’ll be able to afford. See? Saving Medicare!
Supply-side Jesus lives on.
to wound the autumnal city.
So howled out for the world to give him a name.
I _still_ can’t decide whether brilliant or pretentious. Maybe both?
Hmmm. One might be provoked to ask the question: How might such a command relate to a government “Of the People, By the People, For the People”?
Oh.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Saving Medicare!
Hogeye Grex is a helper, just like Paul Ryan.
BTW, my buddy and I traded bikes for a bit of our ride yesterday. He drives a Fat Boy, which was surprisingly comfortable, though slow and with a stupid foot position. The brakes on that pig were terrible.
He climbed off my bike and said, “Now I understand why you bought that bike. That thing is badass.” Yeah.
“All this happened, more or less.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Then it got worser. Really bad, just fucking awful.”
“It was a dark and stormy night”
“Call me Ishmael.”
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”
Yeah. Sure. But, “In the Beginning….” accomplishes what it needs to: It stifles debate. When was it? It doesn’t matter. It was the Beginning. Do not concern yourself with it anymore. It just WAS.
If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me…
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”
This is a novel all unto itself.
“In the beginning”
But how could it be the beginning? God is, by implication, said to have existed before making this tornado/flood/hurricane/war factory. What we he doing then?
Smashing fire ants and avoiding tough questions?
“He was a stark and wormy knight.”
You ever think about space: Is it endless – if not, what’s at the end, huh?What was before time? Nothing? What is nothing? This doesn’t bother anyone else?—robert barone
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
–Friedrich Nietzsche
Interpreting the Bible as for private charity but against taxpayer-funded social programs is a very weak position. Let’s posit that a charity, or act of charity, and some government agency have a goal in common. Each of these means should be judged as to how efficiently it attains an end.
The isolated act of charity, then, might well be judged inefficient, compared to more organized (more social) means of distributing food to the hungry, etc. Non-governmental charities might be more or less efficient, but as bureaucracies and social endeavors, they shade into govt. territory; if these bureacracies and organizational efficiencies are good, then they are good when adopted by govt. The only remaining quibble we might have is their means of funding (taxes). But again, paying taxes to fund specialized bureaus is arguably more efficient than personally investigating and funding, one at a time, any number of private charities… all this has been addressed many times.
In short, making a fetish of disorganized charitable acts, or private orgs with the same goals, cannot possibly please the god of the bible, who seems to have some actually concern for the needy, and disdain for the rich, earthly Caesars, etc.
In short, making a fetish of disorganized charitable acts, or private orgs with the same goals, cannot possibly please the god of the bible, who seems to have some actually concern for the needy, and disdain for the rich, earthly Caesars, etc.
LALALALALALALALALALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU
Interpreting the Bible as for private charity but against taxpayer-funded social programs is a very weak position. Let’s posit that a charity, or act of charity, and some government agency have a goal in common. Each of these means should be judged as to how efficiently it attains an end.
“Charity is a cold, grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.”
– Clement Atlee
“Charity has always eased the rich man’s conscience, long before it eased the poor man’s stomach.”
– French proverb
There are more quotes about charity; Ayn Rand, the prophet who inspired Paul Ryan to get into politics and is endlessly quoted on every right wing blog, had some choice ones against the concept, which raises the question of how dedicated those guys really are to the concept of voluntary help to the poor.
What happened to that whole “render unto Caesar” business (which dealt directly with taxation) and Matthew 25:31-46.
how dedicated those guys really are to the concept of voluntary help to the poor.
see the stephen colbert quote upthread…
What happened to that whole “render unto Caesar” business
Oh, you mean chopping the chicken?
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It was a dark and stormy POOP
“What happened to that whole “render unto Caesar” business
Oh, you mean chopping the chicken?”
I had a Caesar’s salad with anchovies last week. I don’t think I can go back to anchovie-less Caesar’s.
Astrology + Stagecraft = Religion?
Scanned my Gideon Bibble cover to cover, & still lack any shadow of an itch to reread it again 22 years later. So it goes, eh?
DENOMINATION = MOOT: No club that’s all yabba-dabba-doo about stuff like holy wars or slavery or human sacrifice would want me as a member – I’d be much too much of a 24/7 Captain Buzzkill.
Caesar Cardini’s original salad did not have anchovies. The dressing did include Worcestershire so that’s probably where the misguided notion came from. I use anchovy paste in my Caesar dressing, just the way I roll. The fact is, I use anchovies in all sorts of dishes where people wouldn’t normally suspect them. Umami FTW!
Thus spake St. Julia:
Thus spake St. Julia:
another reason why she will always be a goddess to me…
Is there rampant confusion between anchovies and Worcestershire of which I am not aware?
Worcestershire, in the original formulation, contains anchovy. That’s where the umami comes from.
Blightbart is back with more photos. Nothing directly incriminating just yet.
Aw, holy fuck.
I don’t know how anyone expects to hear the dialog over the sounds of wingnut fapping.
tsam, have you seen this?
I thought it looked odd.
tsam, have you seen this?
I thought it looked odd.
I thought the photo looked odd too, but then I am thoroughly unable to take phone pictures of myself.
The fact that Buttfart manipulated the photo makes perfect sense. No surprise–typical of a fucking half wit like him to think nobody would ever figure that out.
I don’t know what to make of all of this.
Aw, holy fuck.
I don’t know how anyone expects to hear the dialog over the sounds of wingnut fapping.
This is in no way creepy.
Also, Sarah Failin’s “apology” to Mitty was pretty awesome.
“ooooh so sowwy” It didn’t mask the “SUCK MY DICK” statement between the lines well.
Also, too. I put this in the last thread, post mortem.
It’s spreading from teh wiki.
I don’t know what to make of all of this.
Oops.
Probably others have pointed out, but we seem to be living in this version of SNL:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/87/87acommon.phtml
Did we have the Andrew Malcolm version here yet?
wtf? Breitbart climbed the podium at Weiner’s presser to make it his own drunken rambling, blaming Weiner as complicit in accusing Breitbart of being the hacker….I didn’t see anybody claim BB was the hacker, nobody thinks he’s smart enough.
Holy fuck!
Weiner sent it!
Blartblart got one right!
Divided by zero!
Not resigning.
Good for Weiner.
to wound the autumnal city.
Oh get the Dahlgren fan.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
That’s NOT WHAT THE PASTOR SAID.
LA LA LA CAN’T HEAR YOU
The fact that Buttfart manipulated the photo makes perfect sense. No surprise–typical of a fucking half wit like him to think nobody would ever figure that out.
That being said, I was on line in the bank this afternoon, and CNN (friggin CNN!!!) was running a story that “additional photos of Anthony Weiner” were coming out.
Journalism is hard work.
CNN (friggin CNN!!!) was running a story that “additional photos of Anthony Weiner” were coming out.
well, to be fair, they had to run it because their counterpart hln, has waaaaay to much casey anthony stuff to be able squeeze the weiner’s issues in, too…
hard
also, you said hard…
heh, heh…radio show hosts giggling like mad over weiner…news guy mentions something about rick santorum…one host asks about his weiner, and other host says, ‘no, he’s probably got something else in his hand.’
The pic with his stomach is just begging for some alien baby to pop out of it.
The pic with his stomach is just begging for some alien baby to pop out of it.
whose pic? weiner’s or poop’s?
That being said, I was on line in the bank this afternoon, and CNN (friggin CNN!!!) was running a story that “additional photos of Anthony Weiner” were coming out.
I caught it on MSNBC. Nice that they have precisely ONE credible person on that whole fucking network.
Journalism is hard work.
Multi level crushing.
Well done.
Weiner’s.
Blartfart will be insufferable now.
…Blartfart will be insufferable now…
No, Brietbart will be even more insufferable, now.
Just because Weiner’s dickhead, that doesn’t mean Brietbart isn’t a dickhead.
I thought Weiner handled himself okay in the presser and his, um, transgressions are a zillionth of what Giuliani put us through but…but…giving Brietbart a gift like this is evil.
‘He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad.’
Or, while we’re on Sabatini: ‘Antony of Egmont contemplated the world with disapproval. He had reached the conclusion that it was no place for a gentleman.’
Surprised nobody’s done 1984 yet…
Wasn’t it Larry Flynt (Hustler) who offered good money to anyone who would turn over the dirt they had on a pol? Well, Flynt has been superceded by 1. Technology &, 2. Stupidity. Fuhreal, Weiner must be an A-rate dumbass thinking this shit wouldn’t be picked up. And even more infuriating, the wife (kids?) will suffer the greatest humiliation. Stupid Shit, Vol. 2011. Entry number sixteen million and four: A. Weiner pulls a boner, undone by an asshole.
Weiner lied to a lot of people and for that he should go. Maybe not forever but for now at least. He needs some help too, I don’t think that wanger tweets are all that healthy.
Breitbart has got the scalp and will wave it around the campfire at the Iron Keyboarders Cheeto Roasts. Now he just has to explain the rest of his and O’Keefes bullshit.
Hey, and a big shout out to those who analysed the tweeted photo and said it was not Weiner. Heckuva job.
I don’t think that wanger tweets are all that healthy
here ya go…
A.K., hear’s my thought on that:
How come you never seen Poop and Arnold Alkon in the same post, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Weiner lied to a lot of people and for that he should go. Maybe not forever but for now at least. He needs some help too, I don’t think that wanger tweets are all that healthy
Why, precisely? He tweeted a consenting adult. He did this, as I understand it, before he was married and informed his wife in a timely fashion.
And he’s never lectured me about my infidelities or any gay man or lesbian about their behavior.
He stays, and dammit, we ought to put up a fight for him!
He stays, and dammit, we ought to put up a fight for him!
I can’t get too worked up about defending him. He behaved idiotically and that’s a particular shame because he was an excellent voice for the left who has committed an incredible error.
He’s a dumbass. How did he think he’d get away with lying about it?
And his biggest sin: giving Blartbart a fucking win. Grrr!
And his biggest sin: giving Blartbart a fucking win. Grrr!
Second biggest was making me even more cynical. Memo to future self: never think “NObody is THAT dumb, that they’d really do such-and-such.” Because sweetness, they totally are.
Yeah, Weiner was a putz, but he stays. As I recall, Chris Lee resigned because he wanted (unsuccessfully) to cover up the fact that he also solicited liasions with transgendered ladies.
Weiner has never been an anti-sex crusader, he hasn’t cheated on his wife. Weiner stays put!
Weiner stays put, but I am fucking irritated with him for being such a dipshit.
Am I a horrible person because I just don’t care about this sort of thing?
Weiner stays put, but I am fucking irritated with him for being such a dipshit.
This.
I’d be fine with him staying but I wouldn’t be heartbroken (except for selfish reasons) if he was pressured out of office.
Am I a horrible person because I just don’t care about this sort of thing?
Not because of that, no.
(kidding!)
“Not because of that, no.”
It’s the hobo-murders, isn’t it?
I don’t care about the wanger pictures. He should go because he lied about it.
Others who have lied should go as well.
They go away and work in a down town soup kitchen until they learn what they should be doing in government.
Others who have lied should go as well.
But they’re not going, A.K. They’re still in office, voting for tax cuts for rich people, and cutting Medicare/Social Security, etc. for everyone else.
The Madam in Senator Diaper Dave Vitter’s case was convicted of racketeering and committed suicide rather than go to prison.
Dave the Shitter, who was one of the ‘family values’ scolds back when the goopers were all hot and heavy to impeach Clinton, is still a Senator.
What you’re asking for is more voluntary disarmament from a party the specializes in surrender.
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Others who have lied should go as well.
Also, Weiner was never a social conservative, like Mark Sandford, Newt Gingrich, John Ensign, Larry Craig, Dave Vitter, Mark Foley (need I go on?) and the like.
Weiner stays put(z), he is hard on the people who need to be slapped around by a Weiner.
It’s the hobo-murders, isn’t it?
Nah, if we’ve learned anything over the last three decades, it’s that poor people don’t count.
No, it’s the dearth of milk-swollen bewbies pictures on your blog. These days it’s all Dewdxkull* all the time. Why do you hate us?
* a xerendipitous typo
I see what you mean, Thunder and you are talking about absolute arseholes so you are probably right.
I don’t care about the wanger pictures. He should go because he lied about it.
Others who have lied should go as well.
They go away and work in a down town soup kitchen until they learn what they should be doing in government.
I don’t think this sort of thing, and things much much worse are all that uncommon among our so-called leaders.
They should work in a soup kitchen, but not to atone for being pervy wankers.
The problem is that we keep thinking these polished, silver spoon rich bitch brats are actually qualified to do anything besides boss servants around and feel all superior and shit. When you find a rich guy who wants to hold public office, he or she should actually be shot in the head on the spot. They don’t want to job to help others. They want it to make themselves richer.
No, it’s the dearth of milk-swollen bewbies pictures on your blog.
Do you want to stop her political career before it even starts? NO TWEATS.
Also, FUCK ALL THIS.
Dickpics (EPIC ones, I might add) of the tsam do, in fact exist.
If you haven’t photographed your own naughty bits, maybe you fucking should. Fuckin squares.
Do you want to stop her political career before it even starts? NO TWEATS.
I see what you did there.
She’ll thank me in the morning. Like D-KW’s mom does (profusely).
But at any rate, I was only helpfully informing her why she was a horrible person. She asked, after all, and I’m a helper, yes I am.*
*commas for sale, 20¢ a bushel
Do you want to stop her political career before it even starts? NO TWEATS
HAHA
1) TEATS
B) yes, we like our vacuumslayer with a soul. I say we keep her.
Weiner was a putz
Based on the pictures, more like a schmuck.
Dickpics (EPIC ones, I might add) of the tsam do, in fact exist.
Episode 104443 of Things I Did Not Need To Know.
Don’t care if you take pics of your junk. It’s the sharing that’s a problem.
Yeah. You definitely ONLY want to send them to people who want them.
And you did too need to know that. I am an open book, man, right down to the phony name under which I post all my internet tough guy rants.
Wow, color me surprised that a politician could lie so convincingly.
Or not.
Bummer though, I thought he was smarter than that. WTF is it about people that they do this kind of stupid shit? I don’t really give a damn that he’s horny and his hot wife isn’t evidently enough for him (again, WTF?). It does seem like there are a couple items that are rather important for a public figure to remember:
A) Don’t lie/cheat/steal/etc.
B) Remember A
3) If you ignore A and B, don’t leave any trace.
IV) If you get caught because you ignored A and B and 3, DONT FUCKING LIE ABOUT IT YOU IDIOT!
Dumbass.
Dumbass.
Who knew shit you put on the internet would get out into the public realm?
You have to the largest dumbass on Earth if you think a single thing that’s connected to the internet is the least bit secure.
OTOH;
I’ll be the Weiner didn’t use upward of a million in campaign funds to cart his side action around the country and buy silence from insiders…**while his wife is battling cancer.
I don’t think he’s got a kid with the maid…
I have heard nothing about diapers
Or cigars (yechhh)
No toe-tapping in an airport bathroom (WTF?)
Pretty sure he didn’t divorce a wife who was dying of cancer to marry his Stepford Mistress.
Gosh, these are the just the ones I didn’t have to googlize.
OT guys – happy D-Day anniversary.
Who knew shit you put on the internet would get out into the public realm?
the old rusted-out camper™³²®© is my real name, and I am the most trusted journalist in America.
P.S.
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I got yer crotch shot right here.
Well, if nothing else this little wankfest revealed a glaring hole in twitter.
Lesson to be learned?
Don’t go out on a limb defending any politician. Make the lying wang wavers do that for themselves.
I’ll have trouble thinking of Weiner as anything more than a frustrated porn novelist, tho.
And I imagine BriteFart is terrified of gmail right about now. 🙂
“he’s horny and his hot wife isn’t evidently enough for him”
Why do people always say stuff like this? Men cheat on intelligent, sexually attractive partners all the time. They also fail to cheat on unattractive partners all the time. Look at Arnie — is the woman he impregnated more attractive than Maria Shriver?
Cheating is a product of the cheater, not the cheated-on. People who don’t have a specific interest in cheating don’t do it.
he’s horny and his
hotwife isn’t evidently enough for him.There, fixed. Happy?
Did someone say PICTURES OF DUDESKULL?
I’m as suspicious of twitter as I am of Eff-Book.
And sell-phones.
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Yeah. And his pics weren’t even that naughty.
Also, I will not be getting into politics…naughty pictures and violent temper and all that…OK, not a violent temper, but I have been known to want to stomp on some wingnut face from time and time.
More of an opening paragraph:
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.
More important thoughts on what Jesus was like
You mean Mahatsamatman
Who dropped that stuff and called himself tsam.
This is all anybody needs to know about Jesus.
I’ve got a friend in jizzed-in-my-pants
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Fuck’s sake, this Weiner thing.
It’s okay to lie about wars, torture, eavesdropping, the economy, medicare, health care, welfare and the death penalty, but GOD HELP YOU if you lie about a saucy picture.
If we’re going to kick people out, can we start with the mass killers and work our way down to the adulterers, please?
The worst thing is that that lying bastard Breitbart is going to get more media exposure.
As for Mr. Popp’s article, first of all, he’s saying that if you’re a Christian in a government that serves a largely (ostensibly) Christian public, you should model the government on the Bible.
What’s that? Should it be modeled after the Kingdom of Israel or the commune founded by the apostles?
Neither. It should be modeled after the oppressive Pagan kingdoms of Rome and Egypt. Duh.
And leaving aside that that’s a really iffy theological position, when he says,
He’s either lying or such a poor scholar that he shouldn’t be passing himself off as a bible teacher.
Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy all command farmers, by law, to give a portion of their crops over to the poor. I am an atheist and I knew this off the top of my head.
They also say that all debts are to be cancelled after seven years and that even if a person owes you a debt, you aren’t allowed to take everything they own and make them destitute.
So I guess Weiner’s weiner isn’t that big a thing, so to speak.
So I guess Weiner’s weiner isn’t that big a thing, so to speak.
Not as far as i’m concerned. He just needs the world’s biggest “COME ON, MAN!”
Discretion; yer doin it wrong.
Hey! I jizzed first!
Holy cheap date, vs!
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OK, not a violent temper, but I have been known to want to stomp on some wingnut face from time and time.
you also have a tendency to hit zombies with a banhammer.
Soft-porn for bikers: Bet you wish you could take that inevitable last ride on this newly-paved stretch.
Oh FYWP.
Just trying to hassle vs here.
SURE YOU PUT THAT ONE UP, YOU MOULDERING PIECE OF WORDPRESS FILTH.
WordPress has a small penis.
zombies.
Well now I’m curious.
OK, not a violent temper, but I have been known to want to stomp on some wingnut face from time and time.
You are awfully quick to use the ban-hammer on zombies though.
ban-hammer without the hyphen makes WP squirmy.
Eh?
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“You are awfully quick to use the ban-hammer on zombies though.”
That’ll teach you to tease me about my MUSIC.
no, we were talking about Top 40.
WordPress has a small penis.
Which it tweets incessantly.
WP must be flexible to be able to tweet its own penis.
Or else it’s detachable, as King Missile surmised. I am visualizing Dick Van Dyke in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang singing “Toot Sweet” and twittling on the little thing.
“June 7, 2011 at 2:59
no, we were talking about Top 40.”
INSUFFERABLE.
King Missle? Holy crap. Haven’t heard a reference to them…or THEM…in eons and eons.
fish sent me some of their earlier stuff.
Fish is mah fren.
I don’t like that guy.
He Celine-rolled me!
fish is banned.
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He Celine-rolled me!
yeh, he does that to everybody.
SOMEONE tried to warn you….
Don’t be irritating teh fish. By Grathar’s banhammer he will be revenged
WordPress!1!
No, should I be?
Best SF book ever? Pretty close, at least. Although:
And one of my favorite openings:
Only 7-miles? Meh.
I just wish we had the dry days LA gets, with the roads we already have. Then again we’d probably also have the population to go with it…
Ooh, gonna take a guess at that last one… is that the opening to Zelazny’s Amber series?
Don’t be irritating teh fish. By Grabthars ban-hammer he will be revenged
Hah hah zombizzles is right teh hyphen is the key!!!
Evidently not, but whatevs.
Hah! I Googled it — got the author right, but wrong novel. Also an excellent read.
One of my favorite beginnings, from not one of my favorite authors:
Ill advised click
The internet used properly:
Well, you can’t. He’s got a point there.
I was all right until it got to “Godfather insane” bit. Got me, there.
The internet used properly
That is unpossible.
That is unpossible.
You can say that after being introduced to JAZZ BONER?
Seriously?
JAZZ BONER
I was not aware that Anthony Weiner is a musician.
You can say that after being introduced to JAZZ BONER?
It was not a proper introduction, so I will be forced to cut* Mr. Boner dead, socially.
*Veiled FORESKIN HOLOCAUST reference, socially.
I was not aware that Anthony Weiner is a musician.
Weiner’s Opus;
wah wah wah waaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
It was not a proper introduction, so I will be forced to cut* Mr. Boner dead, socially.
*Veiled FORESKIN HOLOCAUST reference, socially.
Well played, sir.
In today’s top story:
Andrew Buttfart is STILL an incredible douche loser assface bike-seat-sniffing shit eater.
Oh, and now he’s …**sniff** he’s….A VICTIIIIIMMMMM, WAHHHHH
It’s pretty fucking sad that Shirley Sherrod showed more class and dignity after losing her job as a direct result of Buttfart and Ballsack, and Obama the Coward.
Fuck you, Andy. Go to hell and die.
wow, killed this fucker early
Episode 104443 of Things I Did Not Need To Know
That’s a LONG way down on the list, WC. So are you saying there’s a chance?
Perhaps someone who is a lawyer or familiar with this type of law can answer a question for me.
Buttfart stood in front of a press conference and claimed to have a far more explicit photo than the previously released photos. He then threatened to release the photos if he didn’t get an apology and a cease and desist…
Is that not a crime? A form of extortion?
Thinking about picking one of these up
Did someone say PICTURES OF DUDESKULL?
On behalf of my wife, “Awwwww”. What a fine looking young man!
OT guys – happy D-Day anniversary.
Amen. God bless every man and woman who stood up and did their jobs between 1939-1945.
10,000 dollars to look like a total douchebag? I can do it for way less money than that!
Blartblart got one right!
Blind pig, acorn.
One of my favorite beginnings, from not one of my favorite authors:
By “not one of my favorite[s]” do you mean you actually dislike Raymond Chandler? And if so, why?
One of my favorites:
Although like much else in the book, it doesn’t stand the test of time. How many folks will remember what a “dead channel” used to look like other than the “No signal!” screen on a particular model of HDTV?
How many folks will remember what a “dead channel” used to look like other than the “No signal!” screen on a particular model of HDTV?
Apparently Neil Gaiman used the line (or something very close to it) in Neverwhere to describe an utterly cloudless bright blue sky (which is also, I suppose, going to fade into history just like Gibson’s staticky grey sky).
O, B.S., the seven miles are the recently re-opened part. The whole thing is 66 miles (106 klicks).
How many folks will remember what a “dead channel” used to look like other than the “No signal!” screen on a particular model of HDTV?
Alas, even the ancient NTSC tee vee I have in the kitchen throws out a blue screen after a couple of secs. of white noise.
One favorite beginning,
How many folks will remember what a “dead channel” used to look like
How many will soon remember what “static” from a “radio receiver” sounded like? Or a “dial tone” from a “telephone”?
Hell, I can still remember when movies were “2D” and humans communicated by forcing air past their flapping lips to directly vibrate each others’ tympani, a time when our species was so amazingly unsophisticated that we still thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea.
How long do you think it will be before the “television” as a separate appliance is gone altogether? A display is a display is a display at this point. I suppose it could take a while, as “teevee” is a powerful and deeply ingrained word in the American psyche. My poor old beast died several months ago, and I don’t miss it enough to replace it. And I’m old(ish). “Wireless” once meant AM radio. Phones aren’t really phones anymore. And what child of the new millennium knows what a typewriter actually sounds like?
Time marches on. Which is fine, as long as it marches the fuck off my lawn.
rassafrassapaganfraggagrassa
Within the next few years, flat panels will be largely replaced by microprojectors small enough to conceal in a pen or jewelry. Before humankind has fully adjusted to the change (but long enough for us to accumulate warehouses full of such devices) direct retinal projection via eyeglasses and contact lenses will render them obsolete, only to be replaced in turn by…
*looks over shoulder*
Hey, quit hassling me! Jobs already gave his keynote, I’m not giving up any proprietary goods here, Microsoft guys don’t even read S,N! comments.
My assumption is that the amount of spectrum that will be required to
give everyone cancer from the microwavesallow everyone to have three to five portable WiFi devices will mean the end of terrestrial, over the air broadcasting. Satellite radio for commuters, everything else will be landlines.However, I don’t want to watch telebision on my devil-box, esp. as I have a 40″ tee vee (which I suppose I’ll connect to the Internits eventually).
I am amused by typewriters (still have an SCM electric portable which I got in 1965) because my father, a WWII in the Pacific vet, would jump, thinking it was a Japanese airplane shooting at him, every time someone started to type near him for several yrs. post-war.
Fortunately I am somewhat immunized to the concerned warnings by the Peak Spectrum crowd about the imminent shortages of bandwidth as a result of having once purchased, in order, a 300 baud, 1200 baud, 2400 baud, 9600 baud, 14400 baud, 28800 baud, and then 56K modem. (The latter few were thought to be quite literally physically impossible until suitable compression schemes were devised, at which point they were treated as uninteresting and obvious.) Now I download a GB torrent in a few hours. Love (and pr0n) will find a way.
The sky above Maison d’Etre is currently the muddy green of a trampled-on lawn just before I tell those kids to get off it.
By “not one of my favorite[s]” do you mean you actually dislike Raymond Chandler? And if so, why?
I mean that he’s not one of my favorites. I think Hammett and Himes run rings around him in his own genre. I don’t dislike him, but he’s not my first choice when I want something hardboiled.
My problems with Chandler can be simplified to this: he’s more concerned with a good turn of phrase than with his plots. Famously, Howard Hawks and William Faulkner – two intelligent men – had to ask Chandler who killed the Sternwood chauffeur because the plot of The Big Sleep makes no fucking sense. It’s a great read if you don’t think about it, which is an unfortunate thing to have to say about any book.
For some reason, my favorite Chandler is Farewell My Lovely.
Plots, plotz. Chandler’s stuff isn’t who-dun-its, so who cares.
Buttfart stood in front of a press conference and claimed to have a far more explicit photo than the previously released photos. He then threatened to release the photos if he didn’t get an apology and a cease and desist…
thats what i was wondering, if Weiner has any balls he would have called him on it, but no, after of week of prevaricating and buggering about, he gives captain dickhead back his pulpit.
Do you suppose now that he has got his apology, he will apologise to Sherrod or ACORN?
As for the technology chat, I just got my first HDTV, and frankly, im not impressed, too many god-damn buttons….. get off my lawn, you pesky kids…..
How many folks will remember what a “dead channel” used to look like
I’m old enough to remember test patterns.
Plots, plotz. Chandler’s stuff isn’t who-dun-its, so who cares.
Not people who really like his work, obviously. I like a plot that makes sense, even in a non-who-done-it (for an example of one I like with a very simple plot: Red Harvest).
I’m old enough to remember test patterns.
We’re about the same age, and I remember staring at a test pattern during one of my early experiments with altered states.
Did the Native American w/ the feathers talk to you?
NYC test patterns were the boring bulls-eyes with random letters around the perimeter of the screen.
Nobody here is older than Smedley!!1!!1!
I remember test patterns………………………..on the RADIO!!!1!!1!!11
Ha. Kids today. In my day we had to make our own test patterns with two pieces of chalk and an empty packet of Granny’s bran cereal.
I’ve got to go with N_B here. Chandler’s not bad but I much prefer Hammett.
I remember test patterns………………………..on the RADIO!!!1!!1!!11
We painted ours on cave walls.
Before cable proliferation, local stations would show old movies late at night. The first four or five times I attempted to watch “The Big Sleep,” I thought it had succeeded in its titular purpose.
humans communicated by forcing air past their flapping lips to directly vibrate each others’ tympani
I paid a hooker good money for that last night
I thought it had succeeded in its titular purpose.
Heh heh. He said titular…
Teeheehee.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jun/07/margaretthatcher-sarahpalin
Major Kong said,
June 7, 2011 at 13:33 (kill)
I’ve got to go with N_B here.
I disagree with every word you’ve said, but I’ll defend with a non-zero percentage of my life your right to say it.
Palin is going to Sudan? In July? She either needs a new travel agent, or she thinks Sudan is somewhere in the Alps. I vote the latter.
is it too much to hope her entire entourage abandons her there in the most remote part of the country?
I disagree with every word you’ve said
Honey? Is that you?
Someone told her that they have the 4th of July in Sudan so she wanted to be there for the parade.
Someone told her that they have the 4th of July in Sudan so she wanted to be there for the parade.
Maybe she’ll see the Sudanese version of fireworks…
Palin is going to Sudan? In July? She either needs a new travel agent, or she thinks Sudan is somewhere in the Alps. I vote the latter.
Does she mean South Sudan? It has a big Christian population, which has taken a lot of crap from the Muslim government of their former nation, and for that reason is near and dear to the hearts of some in the evangelical community. I could see her doing that as a stunt.
Love to see the look on her face when she realizes the Christians there all look like the President she’s trying to bring down, though.
She’s likely to love them when seen in their natural habitat.
I was in Tucson for the Fourth in 1993. It was 109 degrees. They set “A” mountain on fire.
Kudos to the lamestream media for pointing out what that “gotcha” question was that got Palin to talkin’ about Paul Revere:
“What have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit?”
who kills people by touching them named Crocodile
Who names their touching people?
Palin is going to Sudan? In July? She either needs a new travel agent, or she thinks Sudan is somewhere in the Alps. I vote the latter.
She’s checkin’ out a place where they’ve got that libertarian spirit workin’ for ’em.
She has always wanted to ride in one of those chairs they have….
Surely that would be Somalia. No government at all, and piracy is enterprise in its purest form.
But I was posting more because of the Thatcher snub – “Sarah Palin is nuts”. The Iron Lady’s aides don’t mince words.
(Thatcher, btw, was an insane evil witch who was fractally wrong about almost everything: but she was neither cowardly, lazy, or stupid, which puts her ahead of Sarah Palin on three fairly important points.)
So going back to Weiner’s weiner for a second, I’m puzzled by this:
He was willing to lie about sending the picture, but he stopped short of lying about it being a picture of him.
WTF?
I mean seriously, how do you decide how much to lie? “I’ll say my account was hacked but if they ask if that’s my dick, I’mma have to fess up.” Really, What the fucking fuck?
Surely that would be Somalia.
Sarah Palin is tired of these gotcha questions from the lamestream media!
I have the same reaction to Weinergate that I had to Spitzer and Clinton. I couldn’t care less about what they do in their private lives, or with whom. It’s not about character or moral failing. It’s not even about the lying. Of COURSE you lie about illicit sexual dalliances–that’s what “illicit” means. It doesn’t have any bearing in their political/professional lives. I don’t buy the whole, “if he would lie about sex, he would lie about healthcare, or the budget” argument. Two completely different countires. What the affair DOES call into question is judgement, and plain, basic stoooopidity.
Look, you’re a fighter for all the right causes; as such you’ve made some extremely powerful and wealthy enemies.You simply can’t afford to hand those enemies any weapons to use against you. Secrets are weaknesses. Secrets about your weaknesses WILL be found out. You simply can’t expect to keep your personal kinks from being brought to light–especially in the internet age, and when they are, your causes, your crusades, everything you fight for, and the things your supporters admire about you will be harmed.
If you can’t control your icky little impulses, fine, whatever. Knock yourself out. If you get caught, it’s between you and your family. But stay the fuck out of public life.
Your granny got bran cereal to eat?
LUXURY!
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Ah, that does make a difference.
Brain cereal? When my granny wanted to have nasty prions cause her brain to get all holey and spongy she had to,, well, I don’t know exactly but I hear it had something to do with taking a trip to Kilkenny and engaging the locals in conversation.
the seven miles are the recently re-opened part. The whole thing is 66 miles
In a bit over a month, I’ll be riding Lolo Pass, in Idaho.
Can. Not. Wait.
Nasty pr0n is the best kind of pr0n.
Brain cereal gets spongiform in milk.
Brain cereal, it’s not just for breakfast for zombies anymoar.
now I’m hungry.
No brains nearby. Liver sausage will have to do.
That reminds me – haven’t made Leberknoedeln in quite a while.
Me, I like branded cereal better than that generic stuff.
And I can eat bran serial again and again.
Brain Cereal.
Hmmm. Appears The Ho and I swapped phones this anti matter. The liver dumpling comment, you probably knew, was moi.
The liver dumpling comment, you probably knew, was moi.
tough to tell around here. I was scared to Google, in case it was Smut Clyde with a fiendishly clever trap.
According to Scripture, the Creator has not ordained government to feed us, to heal us, to educate us, to employ us, to guarantee a comfortable retirement, to insure us, to loan money to us, nor even to rebuild our homes after tornadoes…. Nowhere in the Bible, that I’ve found, does God command government to give handouts to people.
Poop’s column makes a lot more sense when one realizes that he’s reading from the Randian Second Edition of the Bible.
The Conservative Bible Project?
OOOH wait! Wait, I know this one! I got into a kerfuffle (as they call it in Washington these days) with some persons on the Faceboek recently who, being devout Xtians, informed me that Jesus was 100% behind wealthy people, personal industry, and bootstraps. He was a libertarian.
They are not joking. This is what’s being taught in those megachurches, on teevy, and in amongst those newfangled prayer meetings for bourgeoise suburbanites. Jesus is being remade in their image.
The “funny” thing is, if their own Holy Writ is accurate, they’re condemning themselves to hell. In exchange for worldly safety, money, and power, rightwing Christian leaders have pretty much literally made a deal with Satan, whether he exists or not.
That’s why I call them ‘Christianists.’
Consumer Unit 5012 said,
June 7, 2011 at 18:57
Interesting link. Kind of confirms what I thought about seminaries being giant rationalization-inducers, where you memorize by rote what you’re supposed to think of all these Bible verses, which ones you emphasize and which ones you gloss over, how you’re supposed to reconcile this one with that one, etc. Was sorry to see the Campus Crusades for Christ creed specifically mentioned, since I have a relative strongly involved in that, but I’m not at all surprised.
See also: EULA, bibble, comparison.
N__B: the chauffeur problem in The Big Sleep was a bit unusual: several of Chandler’s early novels are him actually taking short stories he wrote and Frankensteining them together: in particular, The Big Sleep is a fixup of “The Curtain”, “Killer in the Rain”, and a little chunk from “Finger Man”; Chandler probably lost track of the chauffeur trying to get everything else to fit together nicely by deadline.
Fucking Ho. No “find in page” bookmarklet nor “scroll to bottom” either. I’m not-married to a Luddite.
Back on topic! From Consumer Unit’s link:
That doesn’t sound particularly glibertarian to me…
Oops, forgot the other half:
Also from your link, this quote,
I freely admit that I find the Bible incomprehensible much of the time, so I’m not sure exactly what this one’s supposed to mean, but does anyone else think it’s kind of weak sauce to base Biblical literalism off of this?
It says scripture’s inspired by God and that it’s “profitable” for various things, but that’s kind of a far cry from “literal,” to my ears. The story of the tortoise and the hare is “profitable” in the sense that you can learn/teach something from it; that doesn’t mean a tortoise and a hare actually got together and ran a marathon. The next sentence again calls it a good work, but that’s rather nonspecific in the same way as well.
Seems like they’re extrapolating a hell of a lot from these two verses. And like the article says, it’s the verse they use to defend their “it’s all literally true” doctrine – I don’t remember any more clear or strongly worded verses about it.
Of course all today’s “conservative” would get out of that passage is “right == good, left == bad” and ignore the rest of it.
(Thatcher, btw, was an insane evil witch who was fractally wrong about almost everything: but she was neither cowardly, lazy, or stupid, which puts her ahead of Sarah Palin on three fairly important points.)
We remember her–her and the sexual tension between her and Ronnie Raygun, who was cowardly, lazy and stupid, in addition to being insane and evil.
that doesn’t mean a tortoise and a hare actually got together and ran a marathon.
Silly zombie–there are no brains in the construction industry.
Get a job at NASA maybe?
King Arthur: Good idea, O Lord!
God: ‘Course it’s a good idea!
Chandler probably lost track of the chauffeur trying to get everything else to fit together nicely by deadline.
We all know the butler did it, anyway.
Silly zombie–there are no brains in the construction industry.
why would I eat the brains of the folks who build my work? O yeah, forgot: nobody’s gonna be building much of anything for a LONG WHILE.
Anyway, if I walk across the street, there are cubicle farms fulla lawyers. they never miss it when I snack on a couple.
several of Chandler’s early novels are him actually taking short stories he wrote and Frankensteining them together
Fair enough and nearly every pulp writer did that at some point, with The Dain Curse being an egregious example by one of my favorite writers. But IMO there are weird plot gaps in nearly all of Chandler’s work. He doesn’t, to me, seem very interested in consistency.
Of course all today’s “conservative” would get out of that passage is “right == good, left == bad” and ignore the rest of it.
But when we are all facing God and He is facing us, all of us on the left side will then be on God’s right hand.
why would I eat the brains of the folks who build my work?
There are always more of them. They bweed like wabbits.
I just got done with a consultation meeting at our county courthouse–I wrote the spec for replacement of all of these awesome historical exterior doors that are long overdue for rehab. It also involves access control, power operators, all the fun stuff that makes historical society people really brane-eating mad.
All I heard from the contractor: “Who’s responsible for…?” “Who’s going to do the installation of….” “What’s going on with this…?”
I had a hard time not ripping this guy to shreds. General contractor–yeah. More like General dumbass…
/rant.
King Arthur: Good idea, O Lord!
God: ‘Course it’s a good idea!
Arthur: We have a quest! A quest to find the Grail!
Robin: A quail?
Arthur: The Grail, it’s a cup.
Robin: Are you saying that God, the all powerful and all knowing, has misplaced a cup?
Chandler wrote the Bible? This explains some of the plot inconsistencies.