Here, Let Me Ruin The Fourth For You
Posted on July 4th, 2011 by Tintin
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What July 4 Means To Us (II)
- Cliff May: July 4 reminds me that the Muslims are still out to get us.
- Michael “You Mean I Need Auto Insurance?” Graham: Independence Day reminds me of how appalled John Adams would be that the liberal nanny state of Massachusetts forbids me to set off fireworks or light an outdoor fire unless I’m cooking food.
- Checker Finn: I want to take this occasion on July 4 to say how proud I am that undocumented aliens can go to public schools and get an education, which is why I’m almost never allowed to write anything for this blog.
- Jon David Kahn: July 4 reminds me of a guitar I once bought, which I mention because you probably have never heard of me or my chart-busting megahit song “American Heart.”
- Alex Castellanos: Fuck Castro!
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Some 4th of July good news.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/201173145538817561.html
Turkey has extended official recognition to Libya’s rebels and offered at least $200 million in aid as part of a diplomatic shift away from the regime of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, met with rebel leaders in Benghazi during a one-day visit to the country on Sunday. He said his country now recognised the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
Thank god for valium!
No dodgeball? This country is BULLSHIT!
It’s difficult to dodgeball when the MUSLIN AGENDA is being rammed down your throat.
In my day, the fries were extra salty and we loved it.
July 4 celebrates the birth of the United States and the modern democratic experiment. In the 20th century, both were threatened by Nazis and Communists. In the 21st century both are threatened by Islamists and Jihadists.
Yes, because the “Islamists and Jihadists” have already conquered Europe, and will next invade and take over the United States if we don’t wage all-out war to stop them.
Oh wait– these guys actually think all that’s true. It’s harder and harder to write a “shorter” about these paranoid lunatics.
Since it’s clear that Muslims have subjugated Europe, anyone want to guess what percentage of the population of say the UK is Muslim? Go ahead, I’ll wait.
2.7 percent.
Many are nostalgic for the days before they were conquered, when it was more like 2.2 percent.
“Because in that wood touched by God, there is infinite possibility”
Sounds like god needs tO learn some boundaries. It’s called sexual harassment, GOD.
I say we torture and invade like the Nazis and the communists and beat the ladies down like the Islamists.
Sounds like god needs to learn some boundaries
GOD’s envious of DSK. Pathetic.
For now my gesture is entirely symbolic, and unlike 1776 , there appears to be no frontier to which I can flee, at least not on this planet. But if anyone can suggest a viable exit strategy, I’ll consider it…
Go to your room.
In my day, the fries were extra salty and we loved it.
They were also fried in whale oil!
Also orgasms.
Great nations rise and fall. Then they smoke a cig and roll over, leaving lessor nations in the wet spot.
And so today, July 4, 2011, I declare my independence from the United States of America.
Then why the fuck are you still here?
– From Orwell’s little known first draft of 1984
“Jon David Kahn: The place was quiet which I thought unusual for this type of store. I sat down, and reached for the closest guitar. I hit a chord; it rang rich, and true . . . almost out of character, like an underdog that didn’t know it was underdog. A voice behind me: “Not the best guitar in the shop, but God did something to the tree that made the wood for that one.” I said “I’ll take it.”
Whenever I pick up that guitar, I remember those words. Because in that wood touched by God, there is infinite possibility: There is Freedom . . . and that’s America.”
Show me on the guitar where god touched you.
Um, “lesser”, too. My only excuse is that I’m at work rather than drinking, an inalienable right promised to me.
It’s a pity that your taxes were raised by the succession of unelected dictators who have ruled this great nation for the past 100 years, and that you got nothing in return for paying those taxes.
Here, have a nice dose of polio with an apertif of smallpox. Don’t worry – it’s not fatal if you can get to any of the fine for-profit hospitals that now (don’t) serve the health needs of a very large swath of America – particularly rural America – on the rutted-out unpaved roads you got in return for not paying any taxes.
Simpleton.
Dear New Republic,
I never thought this would happen to me…
When asked what kind of country we have created, I responded “A republic if you can keep it.” I fear that Mr Anonymous and his fellow like-minded fools have already failed us.
“The Declaration bemoans the fact that the King of England had blocked many of the colonies ’ laws, whereas today the feds’ judicial henchmen routinely overrule the American electorate’s will in matters such as immigration , gay marriage, and anything else that obstructs its agenda’s steamrollering path.”
Fucking constitutions! How do they work?
“Fucking constitutions! How do they work?”
Don’t do it. Youll get paper cuts on your dick.
Fucking constitutions! How do they work?
They protect bigots from the tyranny of the minority.
If I was that big a whiner, I’d be Anonymous too.
I guess I could whine about the disappointment I feel about living in a country where patriotism unfortunately seems to about being the biggest whiner, and your love of freedom is questioned if you point this out.
Shorter anon troll: I’m a racist.
Liberty? no! food stamps! WIC! affirmative action! in state tuition! welfare! free daycare! free healthcare! subsidized housing! gimme gimme gimme from the taxpayers!
But liberals did it too! Bush Derangement Syndrome etc!
For all values for which “symbolic” = “sitting on your ass and bitching about how you can’t get ahead because of poor brown people.”
How about you get on board this rocket we’re going to shoot into the sun? Is that “frontier” enough for you?
“Liberty? no! food stamps! WIC! affirmative action! in state tuition! welfare! free daycare! free healthcare! subsidized housing! gimme gimme gimme from the taxpayers!”
Well, ok…as long you join one of those anti-white mobs and rid us of some of these mouth breathers.
as long you join one of those anti-white mobs and rid us of some of these mouth breathers
That’s just an open invitation to shambler-fascism.
Liberty? no! food stamps! WIC! affirmative action! in state tuition! welfare! free daycare! free healthcare! subsidized housing! gimme gimme gimme from the taxpayers!
Pinche puto tonto baboso gabacho hijo de puta, pick your own goddamn cucumbers.
Don’t show my post to zrm!
“Pinche puto tonto baboso gabacho hijo de puta, pick your own goddamn cucumbers.”
And then fuck yourself with ’em.
most of us don’t work. we sit and watch tv and collect the free stuff liberals give us from the taxpayers. soon we wont have to learn english either since even children’s propaganda shows written by liberals like” dora” are brainwashing kids to speak Spanish.
Before I go to work (summer fundraising event), I have to simply note that the poor troll obviously doesn’t have anything better to do to celebrate the Independence Day holiday. What a pathetic cobag! Lonely, pathetic, racist, sitting in his darkened room, his only emotional outlet is unsuccessfully trying to raise the hackles of people he hates.
D00d, you can’t count coup because you’re woefully outclassed, and your targets really don’t give a shit about your opinions. Please, do everyone a favor and blow your goddamn hands off with a blockbuster while celebrating FREEDUMB!
Happy Independence Day to all Sadlynaughts!
most of us don’t work…since conservatives have passed laws making it illegal to pick the vegetables lazy conservatives think they’re too good to pick. Which is why we’re sitting and watching tv while all your crops rot in the fields.
I’ve always wanted to be brainwashed to learn Italian.
Happy July 4th to you too, B^4. I’m pissing off too – time for the cookout & swim party.
No cobags allowed.
“But if anyone can suggest a viable exit strategy, I’ll consider it…”
Somalia.
most of us don’t work. we sit and watch tv and collect the free stuff liberals give us from the Blue State taxpayers. soon we wont have to learn english either since even children’s propaganda shows written by God Botherers like” Veggie Tales” are brainwashing kids to speak Domininionist Dogwhistle.
Jennifer beat me to the answer to this, but I’ll throw my 2 cents in anyway: Sure you’ve been consulted, every time you went to the polls to vote — unless, of course, like so many of our Galtian overlords, you didn’t bother to vote. Oh, you DID vote but you lost, because not everybody else was a selfish greedhead like you? Too bad.
And you can take that crack about “herds” of “Mesoamericans” and choke on it. You’re talking about friends and relations of mine. My ancestors came over in 1719 from Alsace but that doesn’t make them, or me, any better than, or any different from, the people you’re so afraid of and hateful towards — most of whose ancestors were here long before either mine or yours, after all. If this is your idea of how to celebrate Independence Day, I suggest you follow your ancestors’ example and emigrate someplace where you can spew freely — I’d say Somalia, except what have THEY done to deserve YOU?
I’ve always wanted to be brainwashed to learn Italian.
Da vero, faccia bella?
Independence Day reminds me of how appalled John Adams would be that the liberal nanny state of Massachusetts forbids me to set off fireworks or light an outdoor fire unless I’m cooking food.
Oh for fuck’s sake; those regulations are the reason people in Massachusetts can enjoy the thrill of breaking the law when they set off fireworks. Adds character to the whole fireworks display thing.
You fucking pansy.
Anonymous is kind of stupid.
Let us remember that in 1776 you could die from an infected blister, there wasn’t electricity and clean water, and you had to wipe your ass with porcupines.
there
appears to be no frontier to which I can flee
You could try Somalia. From what I hear, it’s about the freest-from-government country around right now.
Show me on the guitar where god touched you.
Right here. The F-Hole.
Well, it was the priest, but he’s God’s Representative, right?
That’s just an open invitation to shambler-fascism.
Look at those pictures up on top and tell me I’m wrong. Or if you need more convincing, get off the boat and READ what they wrote.
And we liked it that way!
In italiano
Grazie, uomo dolce.
vacuumslayera
Ooooh…Italian.
if anyone can suggest a viable exit strategy, I’ll consider it
Go shooting with Jim Hoft?
The string of photos of the scribblers, looks like a Christmas card from a Hillbilly fambly. “We all done had a good yar. Cousin, uncle, brother Fetus done gived us a sqirrel for Chrissymust”
Coola, righta?
I see the Somalia idea is pretty popular. Whaddayasay we take up a collection for his (one-way) ticket?
OT: Somebody sure seems fascinated with what he imagines (while he furiously masturbates) is gay sex.
The last one is not to be missed.
I’m pretty sure he’d disapprove of getting some sort of socialistic handout like that.
OT: Somebody sure seems fascinated with what he imagines (while he furiously masturbates) is gay sex.
Interesting stuff. The ad kicked up “Bleach Cosplay”, which I don’t understand, as I imagine that would involve a lot of running around screaming “IT BURNS!”
I LOLed. I actually peripherally know it’s some sort of anime thing…but the first thing I thought was “My insides are melting!”
The troll’s just pissed that I screamed when he tried to put me in his van. Even then, he definitely struck me as a Minuteman, IYKWIM(AITYD).
Even better, go shooting by yourself. That is an exit method favored by many traditionalists….and plenty viable, too!
Please do consider it.
Super-sharp thread ya got goin’ here, folks.
Teh wimmins are the bestest! Loud applause and much larfter for VS and Jennifer!
In 1776 we had to wipe our asses with porcupines and we loved it. Take your liberal elitist T.P. and stick it up your . . .
But if anyone can suggest a viable exit strategy, I’ll consider it…
This may come as a surprise, but I do actually have a professional code of ethics (from one of my professions) that prevents me from promoting the obvious option.
This may come as a surprise, but I do actually have a professional code of ethics (from one of my professions) that prevents me from promoting the obvious option.
Yes, I’ve heard before that tattoo artists aren’t allowed to write “Kick Me” on a forehead.
But if anyone can suggest a viable exit strategy, I’ll consider it…
Ah, too bad he stipulated “viable” because I was going to suggest “suicide.” How about the deep freeze to be thawed out when the conservatives finally fix everything?
This may come as a surprise, but I do actually have a professional code of ethics (from one of my professions)
They want it back.
There once was an Uncle called Sam
Who all the gay hippies would ram
He’d try pleading and begging
For feminist pegging
But his mouth was too stuffed to say “ma’am.”
You had porcupines?
Luxury!!!
HEY!!! He stole that line from me. And let me tell you, when cruising the convent that is the best pick-up line evah!
when cruising the convent that is the best pick-up line evah!
Not “Want some beads?” I’m crushed.
Not “Want some beads?” I’m crushed.
That line is great if you just want to see nun boobies, but if you want to “get to heaven” your best chance is the wood touched by God line.
Does he mean Castro the former Marxist revolutionary turned track suit wearing consumer of US news?
Or the district of San Francisco?
The last one is not to be missed.
SOMEONE did a lot of hands on research at the bath houses. Oh yes theydid.
We cannot leave Afghanistan too early, lest it turn out to be a chaotic fundamentalist state with nearly no centralized power and an elected government merely a front for wealthy interests and fundamentalist power blocs.
When we do finally leave Afghanistan in a responsible way, in whatever number of centuries which are required, the fact that it will turn out the same way is in no way whatsoever a failure of THE SURGE, the most brilliant military policy ever invented including ice cream.
All I’ve heard is that Thread Bear is a superior mutha.
Having fucked Castro (a good deal of it, anyway) but not Castro, thusly gaining some insight into Castro fucking, and seeing the glint in Alex’ eyes, imbetting he has a thang for older guys.
“Yes, I’ve heard before that tattoo artists aren’t allowed to write “Kick Me” on a forehead.”
What about “pedophile?”
Has nobody mentioned wetsuits and dildos?
BTW, Ive been meaning to ask: WTH is the origin of the wetsuits and dildo reference anyway?
Thread Bear is a superior mutha…
(Shut your mouth)
But I’m talkin’ about Thread Bear
(Then we can dig it)
“But if anyone can suggest a viable exit strategy, I’ll consider it…”
How’s this sound:
1. Gather up all our troops and equiptment
2. Load them on transport planes
3. Fly them home.
Lmgtfy.
Revised exit strategy – garuanteed to be approved whole-heartedly by Fox News and, therefore by proxy, all wingnuts:
1 Sell a large number of expensive government owned transport planes to Xe (formerly Blackwater) at an outrageously low price. Be sure to include a large tax credit into the transaction.
2. Gather up all our troops and equiptment
3. Award Xe with a no-bid government contract at an exorbitant fee for the use of their transport planes
4. Load the troops and equiptment on the Xe transport planes
5. Fly them home.
Now, let’s not go nuts. Look at what ice cream accomplished in the Battle of the Bulge.
So what the fuck, the holiday is ACTUALLY on a Monday?!?! Fine. For meatless Monday we will have caprese salad – the $15 caprese, not the $7 caprese (Cf. Jaques Pepin). Orzo salad with arugula, toasted pine nuts, ricotta, dried cherries, basil. Grilled Atlantic lobster tails. Grilled, marinated Flintstones-type NY strip steak. The Ho made a lovely pear tart.
We cannot leave Afghanistan too early, lest it turn out to be a chaotic fundamentalist state with nearly no centralized power and an elected government merely a front for wealthy interests and fundamentalist power blocs.
Sounds like us if the GOP wins another election or two.
Why am I thinking of Dien Bien Phu?
Oops – don’t forget the lemon! Few things are not improved by a goodly squeeze of lemon.
Dien Bien Phu would not have been improved with a goodly squeeze of lemon.
The juice runs down my leg.
They only want to fuck the Constitution because they love it so much.
They only want to fuck the Constitution because they love it so much.
It’s all good fun until somebody gets a paper cut.
If you fuck it in the amendment you don’t have to worry about little baby constitutions.
Baby constitutions can’t take most solid food and shit all sorts of interestingly-colored legislation.
Mr Hoft said I would get in trouble if I told anyone
Feliz dia de independencia!
Juepuchica! El Western Union esta cerrado!
Concerts Held To Wish World’s Poor Good Luck
ROME—More than 40 artists, including U2, Death Cab for Cutie, Rihanna, and Rage Against the Machine, performed at six simultaneous concerts across the globe Saturday as part of a new benefit show to wish the world’s desperately impoverished the best of luck. The $200-a-ticket event raised more than $80 million, which will be put toward thousands of good-luck cards and balloons for developing countries and a fund for future charity performances. “I hope you will all join me in extending a hand of friendship to the have-nots, shaking their hand once, and walking away,” Al Gore said in a special message via satellite. “You’ve had it pretty bad, and it’s not likely to get better. May God help you all. See ya!” Producer Quincy Jones also brought all the participating artists together to record an all-star track that will be made available to the poor through iTunes
Also, important news for Bieber fans!
http://www.theonion.com/video/justin-bieber-found-to-be-cleverly-disguised-51yea,18178/
Its funny because it could be true.
http://www.theonion.com/video/live-senator-addresses-rumors-of-horse-affair,20703/
Ahem. Too lazy to link.
“vacuumslayer said,
July 4, 2011 at 20:27
“Fucking constitutions! How do they work?”
Don’t do it. Youll get paper cuts on your dick.”
Then…
“Pupienus, food pron obsessed Emperor of Portland said,
July 5, 2011 at 3:12
Oops – don’t forget the lemon! Few things are not improved by a goodly squeeze of lemon.”
And to bring this joke full circle, I simply say
“OUCH”
old news, gocart
The gloves are off in NJ. If the comment is too long blame VS who is too tired right now to click on a link.
By Tom Moran
Star-Ledger Staff
Senate President Stephen Sweeney went to bed furious Thursday night after reviewing the governor’s line-item veto of the state budget.
He woke up Friday morning even angrier. “This is all about him being a bully and a punk,” he said in an interview Friday. “I wanted to punch him in his head.”
Sweeney had just risked his political neck to support the governor’s pension and health reform, and his reward was a slap across the face. The governor’s budget was a brusque rejection of every Democratic move, and Sweeney couldn’t even get an audience with the governor to discuss it. “You know who he reminds me of?” Sweeney says. “Mr. Potter from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ the mean old bastard who screws everybody.”
“Last night I couldn’t calm down,” Sweeney said. “To prove a point to me – a guy who has stood side by side with him, and made tough decisions – for him to punish people to prove his political point? He’s just a rotten bastard to do what he did.”
After all the heavy lifting that’s been done – the property tax cap, the interest arbitration reform, the pension and health care reform – and the guy wouldn’t even talk to me?” Sweeney asks.
“I sat in my office all day like a nitwit, figuring we were going to talk,” Sweeney says.
As for the vindictive cuts, Sweeney’s list of suspects is a long one.
The governor cut the Senate and Assembly budgets, but not his own, a move that is unprecedented. He cut money from the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services, the outfit that sided with Democrats on this year’s revenue estimates.
He mowed down a series of Democratic add-ons, including $45 million in tax credits for the working poor, $9 million in health care for the working poor, $8 million for women’s health care, another $8 million in AIDS funding and $9 million in mental-health services.
But the governor added $150 million in school aid for the suburbs, including the wealthiest towns in the state. That is enough to restore all the cuts just listed.
“Listen, you can punch me in the face and knock me down, do what you want,” Sweeney says. “But don’t be vindictive and punish innocent people. These people didn’t do anything to him. It’s like a bank robber taking hostages. And now he’s starting to shoot people.
“I liken it to being spoiled. He was angry because he wanted a mutual budget. But do you hurt people because of that? Do you take $8 million in AIDS funding away? Legal services is drowning as it is, and you take away another $5 million? I’m just so angry that he hurt people like this to prove a point. He is a cruel man.”
The governor refused to discuss this, as did his chief of staff, Richard Bagger, and his treasurer, Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff. Republican legislative leaders, who have been reduced to impotent Bobbleheads in the Christie era, say only that they agree with the governor, whatever he says.
“He’s mean spirited,” Sweeney said in the Friday interview. “He’s angry. If you don’t do what he says, I liken it to being spoiled, I’m going to get my way, or else.” And: “He’s a rotten prick.”
http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2011/07/sweeney_has_strong_words_for_c.html
Christie’s chief of staff is Dick Bagger !!!!!
Did you watch the horse one VS? I larfed and larfed.
Sounds like Sweeney would appreciate my Fat Bastard poster.
Kids won’t eat for a month but whoa dogie did we blow some shit up tonight!!
I sent Sweeney my poster, along with this message:
I didn’t mention that I’m not from NJ; I just know that the Dems there have helped Fat Bastard do a lot of really shitty things to ordinary people, and figured this would be a good opportunity to rub noses in that.
completely and utterly off topic, but I got off the boat (well out the car) last night and purchased about 30 juicy mangoes for the equivalent of $3.
Sometimes it is good to get out the boat, rhetorically speaking!!
VS,
Wetsuits-R-Us
The original story.
completely and utterly off topic, but I got off the boat (well out the car) last night and purchased about 30 juicy mangoes for the equivalent of $3.
Chutney!!!
Thanks very much, Hogeye.
And, gocart, I was not AHEMing you. Just noting Id already made the BRILLIANT papercuts on dick joke.
Chutney!!!
if it wasnt 40 degrees outside, id say yes, however a third have already been eaten, another third will go into my copyrighted mango, line and white rum cocktail, the other third, probably, the cocktail again….
Is that really Michael Graham’s photo, or TinTin’s version of a sketch by a policeman investigating pedophilia?
I hope N_B doesn’t mind my doing this, but he has a really important entry up at his blog. It really is must-read. Like, really, must-read.
I was going to wait until there was some traffic here to blog-whore. I mean, there’s no point hiking up my skirt on an empty street.
Well, maybe just for fun.
I’ve been up since 5:45…so according my clock it’s not too early to talk food pr0n. Last night I mAde goat cheese and olive stuffed chicken breasts and roasted carrots. Amazing what a little butter and brown sugar and some high heat will do to a carrot. Everything was delish. Of course it was–I made it.
I mean, there’s no point hiking up my skirt on an empty street.
Doesn’t it feel nice to air it out though?
Great post, BTW. Good timing too, because it’s going to take me months to digest it.
I saw on a chalkboard outside a restaurant that they were serving “warm goat tart.” I sure hope the word “cheese” was missing.
Doesn’t it feel nice to air it out though?
You could just set a hair-drier on “cool”. And then not tell us about it.
Mmmmmmm, warm goat tart.
Is that really Michael Graham’s photo, or TinTin’s version of a sketch by a policeman investigating pedophilia?
That’s actually him. Michael Graham, aside from being a third-tier Cornerite, is a talk radio guy in the Boston area. A year or two ago he was pulled over for running a stop sign and arrested because his vehicle wasn’t registered. That’s his mugshot.
What I like about Michael Graham is that he spends about 90% of his time on the radio making of the “nanny state” and using a very grating mock whining voice to describe the pro-“nanny state” argument. But when he was arrested, whose fault do you suppose it was? Certainly not Michael Graham’s, that’s for sure! No, it was the head of the RMV’s fault! He even had her on his show a few times to berate her, if I remember correctly, and spent a few weeks dragging her name through the mud. And why was it her fault? Because the RMV didn’t send him a letter telling him to renew his registration.
I should note that here in Massachusetts we’re due to register our vehicles every two years, and our license plates have bright & colorful stickers informing us when we’re due.
Actually Graham was arrested for driving on a suspended license. His license had been suspended because he hadn’t renewed his insurance. At least that was the story I saw. And that is his mugshot from the arrest.
By the way, this NRO series has managed to make Orson Scott Card look like a sane person. What does the 4th mean to him? He has a family cookout with a flag theme. Meanwhile Charlotte Allen is reminded that she hates Barack Obama and someone named David Gelertner likes that America welcomes Christians, Jews and atheists alike to worship the Bible and not have abortions.
You’re probably right. I should’ve looked it up. Either way, if Graham didn’t live in an oppressive Nanny State someone from the government would’ve held Graham’s hand and made sure he was up to code.
By the way, this NRO series has managed to make Orson Scott Card look like a sane person.
You’ve got something against sci-fi advocating genocide?
“Otto Reich?”. I’m starting to think they’re punking us and making up these names.
My state rep made the national news!
“Otto? Otto Parts?”
“The idea of the badge by lobbyists to me, I kind of find that revolting.”
Not only should lobbyists have to wear a badge – the badge should weigh 500 pounds and be too big to fit through the door of the statehouse.
Last time this guy was mentioned in the news he was pulling a two-bit Godfather routine at a city council meeting because no one called to ask his permission to discuss a topic pertaining to his childhood neighborhood.
I have to go back again to that piece about Stephen Sweeney in NJ. I find it somewhat amusing that he only woke up to the fact that Chris Christie is a bastard when it was his own ass in the grinder, after he assisted Christie in fucking the unions and everyone else. The naivete of these Democrats…if it didn’t fuck over regular people, it might be quite touching. You’d think a politician in New Jersey – Jersey, for Christ’s sake – even a Democrat – would have seen this coming. This guy heads the Senate, which tells me he’s been in politics for a long time…and yet, his shithead-meter didn’t peg into the red the first fucking time he ever laid eyes on Christie? And now, after doing the dirty work of helping Christie fuck over working people, only now he’s figuring out the guy is a total prick? Perhaps the most amusing part of the whole sickening story is where Sweeney refers to Christie as a “punk.” No, Sweeney – you’re the one who got punked. You gave this guy the blow job of political cover, and now, he’s going to leave you twisting in the wind.
You gave this guy the blow job of political cover, and now, he’s going to leave you twisting in the wind.
Jersey politics exists to make us all feel better about our states. We may have corrupt pols, idiot pols, sheep-fucking pols…but at least we’re not Jersey.
Only cooked one real meal over the weekend but it were a good ‘un. One of our home raised chickens, honey brined for four days for poulet avec quarante gousses d’ail (baked in a sealed ceramic dutch oven) a simple pilaf, big green salad and a cane syrup/pecan bread pudding with creme anglaise.
I will second or third the recommendation for N__B’s post about the coming anniversary. And click through to his friend’s article/requiem, Breath of Ashes, it’s good.
Saw “Tree of Life” Sunday. It will be a favorite of critics, but a box-office failure.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney went to bed furious Thursday night after reviewing the governor’s line-item veto of the state budget.
Wow, the first Democrat in 30 years to actually get angry about this shit. True to form, however, he’s really really fucking mad AFTER he gave away the farm. Yeah, thanks for having our backs, Sweeney. You have a seat in hell reserved between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
I mean, if Obama and especially Clinton are going to hell for their centrism, that’s pretty fucking depressing. America is never going to elect a candidate as progressive as you seem to want. Even before the corporate money got involved, our system just wasn’t designed that way. Even FDR had to back off in the middle of the New Deal.
Another dinner party hero vanquishes a straw liberal.
That doesn’t prevent Obama or Clinton from going to hell though, does it?
That doesn’t prevent Obama or Clinton from going to hell though, does it?
Maybe we can get Holden Caulfield to volunteer as a catcher.
I mean, if Obama and especially Clinton are going to hell for their centrism, that’s pretty fucking depressing. America is never going to elect a candidate as progressive as you seem to want. Even before the corporate money got involved, our system just wasn’t designed that way. Even FDR had to back off in the middle of the New Deal.
Um, yeah. You’re right about one thing, we won’t elect someone as progressive as I seem to want. However, it would be nice to not have these guys sit there and watch as they try to take down all of FDR’s social programs that have been very successful at helping to keep people from starving to death or dying from things like minor infections or the flu.
Clinton and Obama are NOT centrists. They’re Republican Lite, and they have been very helpful in selling the Republican brand and in making it look like progressive ideas are something that only starry-
eyed communists would ever want.
Clinton and Obama are NOT centrists. They’re Republican Lite, and they have been very helpful in selling the Republican brand and in making it look like progressive ideas are something that only starry-eyed communists would ever want.
After all, Obama is a dyed-in-the-wool Alinskyite fellow traveler who believes in every word Marx ever wrote, and even he thinks capital gains taxes are too high.
Another dinner party hero vanquishes a straw liberal.
Why does every right wing comedian open with a wistful anecdote from yesteryear these days? It’s not nearly as funny as just saying Obama is a N166er.
I mean, if Obama and especially Clinton are going to hell for their centrism, that’s pretty fucking depressing. America is never going to elect a candidate as progressive as you seem to want.
It is thanks to “New Democrats” like Clinton and Obama that the Democratic party is not only not progressive, but is now no more than a catalyst for the worst the Republican party has to offer.
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After all, Obama is a dyed-in-the-wool Alinskyite fellow traveler who believes in every word Marx ever wrote, and even he thinks capital gains taxes are too high.
The commie fucker even protected billionaires from having to pay a few extra hard-earned tax dollars. I don’t know how the Republicans can even stand to live in this country anymore.
America is never going to elect a candidate as progressive as you seem to want.
I’m an optimist so grain of salt &c.
It was probably a long time ago that people thought America would never elect a Catholic and now we have a half-black muslim from Kenya. You’re right about the system and how it favours big money and all that jizz, and certainly Citizens United doesn’t help.
But you gotta hold out hope, for that bending arc of history. Some day the shitweasel ruling class is going to overreach too far and too often.
Sure they get a lot of cover from the Fourth Estate, but even that is worth less and less everyday. The erosion in faith and trust in our news media has gotten to the point where Jon Stewart is arguably the most trusted name in teevees news. That journalists and reporters have trustworthiness polling somewhere between politicians and auto mechanics.
That as much as the Moral “Majority” is such a well organized and easily duped target of pandering, they are now so outside the mainstream that we’re still getting ghey married in moar and moar jurisdictions of fabuolousness.
That demographically speaking it should be worse. Even as we grow older and crankier and moar yelling about teh dang gubmint with our pants to our armpits and an onion tied to our belts, even as teh Boomers start collecting their Social Security cheques – teh ought eight election was a pretty big landslide wave. And sure it came at teh expense of teh Dark Times at the Start of Teh New American Century,,, Okay, that was too high a price to pay. But anyways, there’s this mitigating factor – if teh Tea Party People or their ilk ever do manage to install some fucknut shitbag asshole into high public office, the backlash puts us closer to an anarcho-atheist, anti-military, minimally-corporate-owned Administration. Or nucular winter. wev.
Even FDR had to back off in the middle of the New Deal.
Which caused a relapse into the Depression, which was only ended by the massive spending of World War Two a few years later. Politically, it’s probably impossible to get FDR in office today, much less someone less cautious than he was. But practically speaking, that’s what’ll need to happen if we don’t want to keep going through recession after recession.
While I mostly agree with DKW in his rant this penultimate idea here is not supported by the evidence. I clearly remember (for 1979AD values of clarity) this argument being batted around when the Gipper was elected and how his policies and those of his minions (Watt for example) would wake up the American voter and create a backlash. Instead the Overton Window moved and what is now possible legislatively wise has changed for the worse.
But you gotta hold out hope, for that bending arc of history.
Did you not know you’re posting at doomandgloom.com? Come on now.
This arc will not bend until starvation starts pulling its weight.
It’s also worth noting that a lot of the fuck-over-the-poor ideas haven’t had a lot of support at the polls in and of themselves, but pragmatic Democrats seem to think they have to make nice with idiots.
re: anti-conservative backlash
Well it sounded reasonable to me, and it’s going to be my mantra in the unlikely event of President Bachmann.
OT – I dunno if you’ve seen this bit of Newspeak yet but I’m looking forward to teh Truth-o-meter taking a go at it.
I clearly remember (for 1979AD values of clarity) this argument being batted around when the Gipper was elected and how his policies and those of his minions (Watt for example) would wake up the American voter and create a backlash.
Yeah. I have little patience for the theory of “let’s hope the other guys make things so much worse that we can get our chance.”
jurisdictions of fabuolousness
Laughed at this.
But practically speaking, that’s what’ll need to happen if we don’t want to keep going through recession after recession.
Practically speaking, the ruling class has us right where they want us. Everyone is a self-proclaimed deficit hawk these days (How many dumbasses do you meet who calm themselves progressive but fiscally conservative?). Cleaning up the messes we’ve made in education, worker compensation and deregulation are going to be painful and scary in the short term. Ballooning deficits, scary debt, lots of comments from the peanut gallery, etc. It takes courage to see these things through, and until the alternative is literally starving to death, I don’t think people here have the courage. They still think a deficit on the macro level is anything like a deficit in their own household.
Yeah. I have little patience for the theory of “let’s hope the other guys make things so much worse that we can get our chance.”
If they all starve to death in the Tsar’s famine they’ll be sure to vote for us next time! It’s foolproof!
Hmm. Test.
Sweeney had just risked his political neck to support the governor’s pension and health reform, and his reward was a slap across the face.
Is Sweeney really that stupid? Did he really think that kissing up to NJ’s bully governor would protect him from the bullying? Politically, what was he thinking? He’s not going to be too popular amongst Democrats after this debacle but even still no GOoPer is going to vote for him. So what’s he gain?
I guess he gains the news-media’s support (after all, the media loves them some bipartisan party-line crossing, especially if it means pain for the middle and working classes). My wife figures he’s not so stupid but knows he’s gonna get a lot of publicity (and hence be able to fundraise beaucoup bucks) out of his stunt.
“Here’s the deal on our Medicare plan: ObamaCare ends Medicare as we know it.” – Paul Ryan
WTF? How do these people even get elected. I work at an airport. I deal with ground transportation here. If I did my job as diligently as Paul Ryan, when somebody asked me about taxi service to Sarasota my reply would be:
“Here’s the deal on our taxi service to Sarasota: Greyhound does not go to Billings Montana.”
Jersey politics exists to make us all feel better about our states. We may have corrupt pols, idiot pols, sheep-fucking pols…but at least we’re not Jersey. – N__B
I live in NY and work in NJ. So I live in a state with the silliest legislature ever and work in one of the most corrupt states in the union. Oh, fer fun!
Meanwhile, am I the only one who thinks MadTV should have done a sketch with Marvin Tikvah being elected to the NY assembly (“come-on, Shelly!”)?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
But what the fuck do I know?
NY doesn’t have a silly lege. It has a meaningless lege. Everything is decided by the three men in a room (for the non-NYers: the governor, the Senate Majority Leader, the Assembly Speaker) and the munchkins all fall in line.
Half the cell phones in my office just went off. Casey Anthony somethingsomething outrage!!!!!!
Some day the shitweasel ruling class is going to overreach too far and too often.
Eight years of Bush and Cheney wasn’t bad enough?
And it wasn’t just the 2008 election…in many ways, 2006 was bigger, given the strong position the GOP had going in.
And yet this was all squandered (and more) in the House, with just 2 years of “changing the tone” (but not the policies) by our New Democrats.
Going into 2012, the Democrats have 23 Senate seats at risk, there are 10 Republicans, and 2 independents.
Anyone care to make a prediction?
~
In commenting on pictures I never use any language as modern as Latin. On the occasion in question my quotations were from cuneiform script, and the particular sentence referred to was the pre-Ninevite phrase “hully gee.”
Independance Troll seems to have been deleted, but I bet I can guess what I missed …
Shorter Anonymous:
We never forgive (Obama for the economic clusterfuck Bush created).
We never forget (unless the person being indicted is a Republican).
We whine like a toddler with diaper-rash whenever anyone suggests that we pay our fair share.
Expect us (to always see ourselves as victims while we vote for MOAR raping of the downtrodden).
Now THIS is good trolling.
Unlikely that Uncle Sam will be calling the suicide hotline, though – between the Byzantine registration process, an absurdly skewed level of representation, Citizens United & upcoming voter ID restrictions, the grim spectre of real democracy isn’t likely to be menacing the amber waves of grain any time soon.
democracy always led to tyranny and national suicide.
A free press always leads to Funky Winkerbean.
Equal rights always leads to Santorum-on-dog sex.
Blind justice always leads to a shortage of white canes.
A free press always leads to Funky Winkerbean. – N__B
To Funky Cancerbean? You don’t say … I guess there are carcinogens in newsprint and spending too much time in front of a computer reading the funnies rather than exercising also increases cancer rates …
The triumph of capitalism.
NY doesn’t have a silly lege. It has a meaningless lege. Everything is decided by the three men in a room (for the non-NYers: the governor, the Senate Majority Leader, the Assembly Speaker) and the munchkins all fall in line. — N__B
Come-on, Shelly!
Didn’t Hollywood get the message of “Citizens United?” The case was ostensibly about the free-speech of the producers of a hit piece on Hillary. Well, it is now the law of the land, because, as we all learned on Schoolhouse Rock, it is the Supreme Court that writes laws in America. So, are our Hollyweird overlords going to get with the program and create films showing Romney in bed with both a dead girl and a live boy? How about Bachmann and her hubby in a three-way? Or a movie showing Gingrich as he actually is?
Or a movie showing Gingrich as he actually is?
O GOD THE HORROR MAKE IT STOP
I highly recommend N_B’s post at his place. Follow the links inside, too.
http://nedbeaumontjr.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/after-9-11/
Or a movie showing Gingrich as he actually is?
O GOD THE HORROR MAKE IT STOP
Directed by Sam Peckinpah: Newt on Callista IN SLOW MOTION!
The triumph of capitalism.
M.B. will be heatbroken.
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I’m not sure where American democracy is headed, but I sense that it will have something to do with cars.
Just to be clear, the three-way with Bachmann and her hubby would be mmf, not ffm.
More like mmmmmmmmf
More like mmmmmmmmf
That’s the sound the Gimp makes, right?
Cattle cars?
That’s the sound the Gimp makes, right?
Yes. Thank you very much for reminding me of that sequence.
Meanwhile, am I the only one who thinks MadTV should have done a sketch with Marvin Tikvah being elected to the NY assembly (“come-on, Shelly!”)?
i could have gotten behind this…
I’m not sure where American democracy is headed, but I sense that it will have something to do with cars.
back seat…prom night…
back seat…prom night…
If the GOP wins big in ’12:
back seat…sinking into a swamp…
back seat…prom night…
Fumbling…blue balls…
Notes from the road: Ireland has notably shitty beer selection, RyanAir sucks, Scotland’s ales are tasty and someone actually learned how to play Smoke on the Water on bagpipes.
The Panther. Do not tease it.
Smoke on the Water on bagpipes. I have that cd.
Ireland has notably shitty beer selection
Let me guess… all the places were serving Bud…
The Panther. Do not tease it.
Becauth thith kitty will thcrape you. ROWR……..puuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Let me guess… all the places were serving Bud…
That’s an IMPORT beer in Ireland, which automatically makes it good.
Also, I must report that I experimented with Bloody Marys (the drink) and bacon this weekend. All of my mixtures were more or less abject failures. I’m proud of the fact that I tried hard, but nothing came of it.
So, if any of you find yourselves inclined to invent a Bacon Mary, save yourself the trouble and vodka. The Bloody Mary (provided it has pickled asparagus in the garden) cannot be improved.
Great name, great logo, excellent slogan. Someone deserves a raise.
Add a little cilantro.
Yeah. I have little patience for the theory of “let’s hope the other guys make things so much worse that we can get our chance.”
And yet I (not the Anon who spammed here earlier) have seen Sadlynaughts who seemed to go for this idea. “Fuck it, let’s vote in a Republican. Let it all burn.”
Well Anonymous, being Anonymous and all, I’m sure you’ll call out the offenders.
Let me guess… all the places were serving Bud…
That’s an IMPORT beer in Ireland, which automatically makes it good.
this fact created so many bad feelings in me when i was there a few years ago…but the guinness soon smoothed thosen feelings away..,
“Fuck it, let’s vote in a Republican. Let it all burn.”
Hey, the 2008 election is history. Let it go, Nonny!
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Nobody wants to go through that. I don’t like the idea either. That’s expressing frustration at the indisputable fact that the voters in this country are roughly 50% dumber that shit. As I said before–we have way too many self-described deficit hawks in this country. When we want to go kill brown people, money is no object. When a brown person is trying to spend a little money so no more bridges fall into rivers, suddenly ITZ SOCALIZM GODDAMT!
Oh, I’m sure someone’s getting a raise, iykwimaityd.
Does “Dr” Bachmann own stock?
but the guinness soon smoothed thosen feelings away..,
Recipe for Guinness, based on my own observation of the taste:
Open a can of Van-De-Kamps Pork and Beans.
Strain out pork and beans, set aside for future visit from in-laws.
Add 1 can of malt liquor beer to 1 can worth of pork and bean gravy.
Serve out of “special” tap with a liberal helping of superiority.
Enjoy.
Let me guess… all the places were serving Bud…
…and Coors and Miller and lite variants thereof. Turns out that Smithwyck’s is a pretty good local ale for when you can’t chew through one more Guinness. And whiskey is always an option.
N__B…I thought I had commented on your post but it didn’t turn up at your place. Did vs finally convince you to ban me? Good post in any case.
tsam, I saw this at TGOS this morning. Love the money quote.
So, they failed at the literal Permanent Republican Majority. Eh, fuck it. They’ll just make it an effective PRM.
Can these fuckers just go Galt already?
Good news everybody!. Except conservatives, for them this is very bad news.
FY WP.
http://translate.google.de/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vwa.nl%2Factueel%2Fnieuws%2Fnieuwsbericht%2F2014081%2Fgezondheidsrisico-s-erotische-artikelen-met-ftalaten-beperkt
Oh, N__B, that first paragraph over at the linked BofA hits home in more ways than as 9/11 or solely NY observation.
More on that later, I think.
You gave this guy the blow job of political cover, and now, he’s going to leave you twisting in the wind.
Needs moar metaphors.
N__B…I thought I had commented on your post but it didn’t turn up at your place. Did vs finally convince you to ban me?
I think you used a different email account, so it was in moderation until I approved it. It’s up.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who has blog-pimped for me, but it’s time I stand on my own blog. As far as off topic as it’s possible to be, I’m simultaneously blog-whoring, book-whoring, comment-whoring, and asking you to visit an old friend’s site.
Oh, N__B, that first paragraph over at the linked BofA hits home in more ways than as 9/11 or solely NY observation.
Most of that essay has several levels. It’s one of the reasons I think it’s so good.
Eh, fuck it. They’ll just make it an effective PRM.
Which is sad, because it seems to me that this shadow majority is much more effective than an actual majority. To a dumbfuck, it has the outward appearance of being the will of the people who elect these scarecrows that show up in congress and vote.
Turns out that Smithwyck’s is a pretty good local ale for when you can’t chew through one more Guinness. And whiskey is always an option.
indeed…
Recipe for Guinness, based on my own observation of the taste:
for shame, sir…for shame…
…and Coors and Miller and lite variants thereof.
Rough estimate of the quantity of Miller Lite I drank this weekend: 68. 4 days, 16 to 18 beers per day.
I like Miller Lite. I’ll take that shit over Guinness any day. The only “good” beers I like are hefeweisens and belgians. Too expensive for me. But then I don’t drink a beer here and there.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who has blog-pimped for me, but it’s time I stand on my own blog. As far as off topic as it’s possible to be, I’m simultaneously blog-whoring, book-whoring, comment-whoring, and asking you to visit an old friend’s site.
I enjoy it. Keep it coming. I’m not very good at bouncing around to other blogs, so a notice here is entirely welcomed–and I do speak for everyone here, whether they agree or not.
Norquist immediately replied: “We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.”
ho, ho…it is out in the open, now…i have had a sneaking suspicion of this for a while now, but didn’t think that fine, patriotic, god fearing republicans played such games…
You gave this guy the blow job of political cover, and now, he’s going to leave you twisting in the wind with sticky hair and still lower self-esteem, which you didn’t think was actually possible until now
Not moar metaphors, but definitely more crude and nasty.
I do speak for everyone here, whether they agree or not.
That Miller Lite has you full of piss and vinegar.
tsam reminds me of friends, a couple, who brought Miller or Bud or some such shit to a party at my house. I had a keg of … Bitburger, I think it was already tapped. They apologized and explained “we don’t like beer with flavor.”
god fearing republicans played such games…
Country first, remember?
awesome brews that you used to be able to buy in pigs
ಠ_ಠ
Checker Finn? Isn’t a Checker Finn a guy named Antti who drives a cab?
I like Miller Lite. I’ll take that shit over Guinness any day
The last time I was in Dublin the young people were drinking Budweiser of all things. Guinness is considered to be an “old guy” beer in Ireland now.
First time I was in London I was shocked to jave them suggest Budweiser. I said something to the folks there and they pointed out that the Budweiser in the cooler came from Budvar, Hungary. Oh, I see, I said.
There isn’t much choice for a power drinker who pays about $800/month in child support and still spends roughly half the time with his kids. I still want to vomit at the thought of what I have sacrificed because of my fucking smoking habit over the last 25 years.
I do love Blue Moon, and I’ll take any Hefe you got, but I just cannot afford much more than the cheap shit that happens to be on sale at the moment. At least I didn’t claim to like a malt liquor or some shit that is available in a torpedo, right?
I haven’t tried much in the way of other exotic types of beers because I have terrible luck when it comes to that. Some douche talked me into buy an IPA once and I wanted to bash the glass over his fucking hipster melon. That stuff was liquid shit.
I’m simultaneously blog-whoring, book-whoring, comment-whoring
What are you wearing?
AFAF
What are you wearing?
Tee shirt, shorts, Mini__B’s drool.
Oh, baby!
“That Miller Lite has you full of piss and vinegar.”
That’s funny. I’ve only heard that expression used a few times. Funny too that it comes from Steinbeck. He also described Alice Trask as “humorless as a chicken”, which was the absolute best way to describe my Aunt Ladydoris.
I always thought Heineken was a really tasty beer, and Becks too. Usually they were beyond my budget, so I normally drank PBR (drinking man’s friend, EQT band!). Now it’s Tona or Victoria.
PBR! Takes me back to freshman year at college…
They apologized and explained “we don’t like beer with flavor.”
Most of us philistines are comfortable in our conspicuous absense of culture and good taste. We don’t like beer with flavor. Although I DO actually like beer with flavor, I’m good with shitty beer too.
I always thought Heineken was a really tasty beer, and Becks too. Usually they were beyond my budget, so I normally drank PBR (drinking man’s friend, EQT band!). Now it’s Tona or Victoria.
I do like Heineken and Beck’s, but I do NOT like PBR for some reason.
That Miller Lite has you full of piss and vinegar.
Common colloquialism ’round these parts…
Also, people here pronounce their home state as Warshington. WTF?
Half the cell phones in my office just went off. Casey Anthony somethingsomething outrage!!!!!!
Perfect encapsulation of why we are completely, absolutely, & totally screwed.
And by “we” I mean you all.
Perfect encapsulation of why we are completely, absolutely, & totally screwed.
That’s right. 26 American soldiers/marines died in Iraq in June. I had to Google that because I haven’t heard it on the news. I have, however, seen LOTS of LIVE FUCKING COURTROOM COVERAGE OF THE WHORE TRIAL.
Thank you MSM.
Journalism, Murdock style.
I really, really, don’t want to live in this country anymore.
tsam,
I went to a wedding last year (maybe the year before), and the groom had brewed all the beer for the party. It was very good and fairly strong. He said it cost about thirty cents a bottle to make. He had recycled a couple hundred Grolsch(sp?) bottles, the ones with the flip top, but he said any good screw on bottle would make do.
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N__B said,
July 6, 2011 at 1:20
PBR! Takes me back to freshman year at college…
Takes me back to May, 2011….
but he said any good screw on bottle would make do.
He sounds like Whale Chowder’s mom.
You can home brew into 2L plastic pop bottles. The funneh knobby bits at teh bottom do a great job at holding the yeast sediment – you just gotta remember to decant. I suppose smaller plastic bottles work too, but why bother?
Protip – one of the keys to homebrewing is immaculate sanitation. Only go with plastic bottles if you have a good way of cleaning them out.
Cleaning out the plastic bottles.
Remembering to decant.
immaculate sanitation
An obscure tenet of Catholic theology
Cleaning out the bathtub after making the beer.
I rarely weigh in on beer and such, being a devotee of the sweet smoke.
I only drink beer while watching baseball, playing poker, shooting pool, or shooting the breeze. I leave the beer commentary to OSB, s. cere, and the other Sadlies with truly cultivated taste.
Nevertheless, I’m totally down tsam’s recipe for Guinness. I’ve never had any yeast-based liquid so difficult to wrestle down my throat.
Oh well. There’s a Fenwickian proverb that seems to apply….
Every child knows that taste is in your mouth.
Fix: OBS. Insert ‘with’ in 3rd para. Sorry.
No! I will never, ever forgive you!
Then I made a typo in my name. Yay, hypocrisy!
’m simultaneously blog-whoring, book-whoring, comment-whoring
Then why isn’t ‘Big Bad Bald Bastard’ an active link in yer comment? You haven’t pulled the plug on blogging, I hope?
There isn’t much choice for a power drinker who pays about $800/month in child support
i will cut you all the slack in the world for this…i will also readily admit that i do drink a lot of mich golden light…mostly because it is, imho, one of the better tasting cheap beers…
i’m not a beer snob whatsover…i will drink whatever is available…becoming a bartender really changed my tastes in drinking and i usually go in for a lovely martini over a beer…also, we get free booze after work, so you know imma have the good stuff…
I forgot to mention some beers I’ve enjoyed.
(1) Spatenbrau. (Spade Beer). A Munich brewer. If I was to pick my favorite beer, this is it. I drank Spatenbrau in the service. (Later, back in the United States, I tried an ‘export’ of Spatenbrau and was disappointed.)
(2) Tuborg and Heineken. I drank the ‘European’ version of these beers and enjoyed them both; they were my ‘default’ beers in Scandinavia and the Low Countries. i like export Heineken in the US. Only had export Tuborg once, and–like the Spaten–it was disappointing in comparison to these beers in Europe.
(3) Magic Hat Tap only. A Baltimore brew, I think. Best beer I’ve had in the U.S. (But I’ve not sampled widely and probably don’t have as sensitive a beer-palate as other Sadlies.)
(4)Resurrection Tap only. (Another Baltimore brew?) The favorite of a friend who knows beers well. I like it, too. The name itself is delightful.
Okay, so I’ve at long last weighed in on beer….after reading many enjoyable conversations between beer afficianados here at S,N.
I really, really, don’t want to live in this country anymore.
Jennifer: I’ve already left it. I’m merely an exile living in the land in which I was born.
Now I owe my allegiance to the realms of imagination.
bbfk: I like yer nym expansion! Seems perfect for the person I imagine you to be from your commentary at S,N.
Yet another triumph is mine!
I’m from Chicago, so when I hear “Fenwick”, all I think of is pasty white private school boys, but I’m sure you’re cooler than that.
Fenwick – another Danish Tuborg devotee!
I drank the shit out of some Tuborg while traipsing thru Denmark and was sorely disappointed when I returned home to the export version.
That having been said, I’m not with the opinion expressed by some here about the Guiness. I like the stuff – but only when I’m drinking on a fairly empty stomach. Otherwise, it’s nearly impossible to get a pint of it down – like drinking a loaf of bread.
Resurrection Tap
Notes from the road: Ireland has notably shitty beer selection, RyanAir sucks, Scotland’s ales are tasty and someone actually learned how to play Smoke on the Water on bagpipes.
Finally someone notices, our Scottish ale is pretty good, but not exported very far. You occasionally find Caledonian 80′ exported, but thats about it. We’re like the Italians with wine, we keep the best stuff.
(2) Tuborg and Heineken.
Going to have to call you on that. Both are fine, in there own way, but there are better lagers kicking about the low countries, also some of French stuff is fine too. Next time your over, look out for ‘Brand’ beer, now owned by the Heineken/Kronenburg beer monopoly. Rare in bars, but you’ll find it in the supermarkets. Kicks Heiny up and down the straat!!! Juliper, a Belgian lager is also not too bad and great for post Trappist beer binge hangovers!
Yeah, my housemate rates ‘Tuborg Classic’ he had on tap in Denmark.
Scotland’s ales are tasty
Belhaven; you can’t go past it.
Ruddle’s, Sussex Best, Tribute all good.
For anyone in Australia, Boag’s Draught and Carlton Draught, Cooper’s Pale Ale.
Otherwise, it’s nearly impossible to get a pint of it down
It takes determination. At a wedding in Galway, I drank ~30 pints in 9 hours, but I was simply trying to match pace with the groom.
Finally someone notices, our Scottish ale is pretty good, but not exported very far.
Twisted Thistle NOM NOM NOM
Maybe we can get Holden Caulfield to volunteer as a catcher.
A wry joke, this.
At a wedding in Galway, I drank ~30 pints in 9 hours, but I was simply trying to match pace with the groom.
Good gravy, man! In America that’s tough enough but in IRELAND?!??!?!?!
Twisted Thistle NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Who wrote the book of love?
“Twisted Thistle NOM NOM NOM”
We ain’t gonna take it
Budvar, Hungary.
Wars have been fought over less.
Budvar, Hungary.
Wars have been fought over less.
Jenkin’s Ear agrees. Also, says “owie.”
For sheer inanity, nothing beats the Pig War.
Quick thought experiment: Casey Anthony is fat and/or Black. Still think she would have gotten off scot-free?
Sorry for bringing this up here. I’m just kind of bummed to learn that you can murder your child and not pay any penalty for it in Florida. Well, it’s Florida. It’s to be expected.
Jenkin’s Ear agrees.
I tried arguing with Jenkins about this but he couldn’t hear me.
For sheer inanity, nothing beats the Pig War.
Disappointing to find that no trebuchets were used.
Magic Hat is in Vermont, and they do make some good ones. Are in the Baltimore area? Clipper City/Heavy Seas is there and their Dubbel Cannon is nice, and Dogfish Head is Delaware and they have some fabulous beers.
I’m just kind of bummed to learn that you can murder your child and not pay any penalty for it in Florida. Well, it’s Florida. It’s to be expected.
Yeah, I know, right. But just try one little euphimism in a movie theater and see what happens.
I didn’t follow the Casey Anthony trial – at all – so I’m not about to start second-guessing a jury who sat through god knows how many hours of testimony. Second-guessing juries is why in a lot of places corporations can pretty much harm you however they please, free in the knowledge that if they are punished for it, the punishment will be capped at a fairly low amount because we all know better than juries who sometimes impose really high judgements as a means of getting across a message: “don’t do that again.” If we all know better than the jury because we’ve been following things on TV news…well, think about that for a minute. When’s the last time TV news told you everything you need to know about anything rather than just spinning things for maximum titillation?
And if they did get it wrong, what the fuck is wrong with this country that people are more upset about that than they are about the god knows how many innocent people who have been imprisoned/executed because of jury fuck-ups that went the other way?
Last but not least, everyone being so sure they know better than the jury – great way to denigrate the service of those jurors. Those people gave up their time to sit on that jury and do their duty. Meanwhile, a lot of people who are bitching about their verdict do whatever they have to do to get out of serving. When do you suppose is the last time legal expert Kim Kardashian served on a jury? Or any mega-bucks “celebrity” or CEO? How about….NEVER? Because those folks’ time is too important and valuable to waste it on trivial things like justice for their fellow citizens.
Yes, I watched Hot Coffee yesterday, which is one more reason why I want to leave this horrible fucked up country.
A few thoughts:
I didn’t follow the Casey Anthony trial either, though it’s hard to watch any news at all without picking up–if just by osmosis–the major facets of the case.
I have no problem second-guessing juries. There are lots of morons on in this country and I’ve no doubt many of them end up on juries. (See: OJ Simpson trial.)
They did their civic duty. Awesome.
I think you can care about one thing and not have it be to the exclusion of other things. I’m pretty sure that most people are capable of caring about more than one thing at a time.
Also, I would differentiate between caring about the trial itself and caring about what the larger implications of the VERDICT may be. Hence, my point about Casey Anthony not being Black and/or fat.
One more thing: Even if you agree that the case was circumstantial (including the fact that she chloroformed her child, which is aggravated child abuse) –and I’d be awfully surprised if 90% of murder trials WEREN’T, since I doubt most people confess to murder and the vast majority of murders aren’t taped– the fact is that she did not report her child missing right away and instead went out and partied. How is that not child neglect?
Fewd for thought.
vs – I can’t speak to any of that because I know nothing about the case or trial, having endeavored to remain ignorant about it. And FWIW, that wasn’t intended as a slam on you for having an opinion about it, but more at the entire milieau around these court TV cases, where everyone becomes convinced they know everything about it and the juries are peopled by the stupid loser folk who don’t have more important things to do, which then gets turned around on us when corporations want tort reform to make sure some “dumb jury” doesn’t render a big verdict against them when they knowingly harm people and the public agrees that yeah, these juries are all made up of stupid people. And increasingly, we lose access to jury trials altogether, as more and more companies require arbitration agreements for employment, or access to services, or etc.
Yeah, juries fuck up sometimes. But would we really prefer a system where we don’t have them? Where an arbitrator, hired by a big corporation, is the one deciding who’s at fault, and incredibly, deciding over 98 or 99% of the time that it isn’t the corporation who paid them to arbitrate?
And I still stand by my point that it’s appalling how people get more upset by the one person who they believe “got away with” something than they do about innocent people unjustly accused, convicted, and punished.
Why are the nazi’s so determined to keep me silent, or render all of my attempts at communication ineffectual?
If this sounds familiar, it’s probably because of the 1939 Errol Flynn film, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Let’s start at the beginning by explaining how a camera works.
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