If Jared Loughner taught us one thing, it’s that you can have no eyebrows OR smile in photos, not both.

Sounds kind of quantum-y: If he’s there…

Is it just me or does that picture absolutely scream closet case?

The link doesn’t work.
Probably a good thing.

Jeez, dude, there’s no need to do up the top button when you’re not wearing a tie. It just makes you look creepier.

Not even with a 10′ cattle prod, Neil.

Surely, the top button thing is shopped. No?

Linky not worky.

Correct link

On GOProud and CPAC

Alt Shorter: “I think it’s great that CPAC kicked out the homos. Now watch me give a huge, sloppy blowjob to Reagan’s corpse.”

Someone put a light bulb in his mouth and see if it lights up.

Mr. Stevens, wipe down these balls!

There is also one mango that has not rotted entirely.

The previous year, Kuchel had blasted the conservative Republican movement in California as “A fanatical, neo-Fascist, political cult, overcome by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear.”

These skeptics were joined by Republican State Assemblyman Howard J. Thelin, who endorsed Gov. Brown shortly before election day. Thelin called the Reagan campaign “a conspiracy of powerful, well financed forces dominated by extreme views,” and so Reagan’s defeat was “vital to the future of the Republican Party.”

Now, bear in mind he quotes this as an example of the evil old days when people called conservatives names and how grateful he is that at least in GOP circles they don’t call conservatives what they are: fascists, but still.

Yeah, when Adrian Monk buttons his top button with no tie, it’s supposed to be a sign of his pathology. When someone pretending to be “normal” does it….

As a funny-looking guy myself, I’m the last one who should mock someone else’s appearance, but Jesus, what is wrong with that guy’s face?

I mean, come to think of it, no amount of undoing the top button would make him look less like a serial killer.

As a funny-looking guy myself, I’m the last one who should mock someone else’s appearance, but Jesus, what is wrong with that guy’s face?

The lighting is just uniquely bad. I’ve got rather deep eyesockets myself, so I know better than to let somebody take a picture of me with the light going edge-on like that.

I guess the idea was to put his neck-wattle in shadow, but talk about the cure being worse than the disease!

He looks like the guy from the first act of a “Law & Order SVU” episode who ends up not being the killer but still turns out to be a rapist.

Sometimes he just needs to get together with his friends in the Inner Party to discuss their utter contempt and loathing for the dupes in the Outer Party.

He looks like the guy from the first act of a “Law & Order SVU” episode who ends up not being the killer but still turns out to be a rapist.

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

Sometimes he just needs to get together with his friends in the Inner Party to discuss their utter contempt and loathing for the dupes in the Outer Party.

Actually I can see that pic as a still from a video where he’s saying: “…and I entered the proletarian areas to contract syphilis, in order to introduce it into the ranks of the Inner Party…”

Is it just me or does that picture absolutely scream closet case?

If he was any more of a queen his picture would be on British money.

this is some of the most egregiously insipid writing i have ever read in my life and i was at first a little put out with myself that i was wasting my time reading it until i came upon:

Politics ain’t beanbag, but our side has many venues for fighting out our differences. We’ve got party offices and platform committees, we’ve got numerous primary elections, and we even have Twitter these days. With all of these avenues for hashing it out, I don’t need to be hectored at CPAC. I just don’t.

If Reason Magazine and GOProud decided to get together and create their own conference, like Human Events and the ACU do today with CPAC, I would not feel hurt one bit if they decided to exclude groups fighting for traditional values from sponsoring the event. Go ahead, tell Rick Santorum he’s not welcome at your shindig. That’s fine with me.

god, what a whiny little twunt…sure, he doesn’t care if you don’t invite rick santorum to your shindig! then neil can have him at his shindig…and by that i mean fantasizing about a little mano e mano action which would surely conclude with neil wiping the santorum off of santorum…

“I know better than to let somebody take a picture of me with the light going edge-on like that.”

Self awareness has it’s perks, like the ability to detect unflattering photos. But being able to see that a photo makes you looks bad requires you to be aware of the darkness within us all. Acknowledging our dark side with our good is what growing up *is*.

Living in a phantasmagorical wonderland where you are all that is sweetness and light and can do no wrong is what right-wing extremism is. Self delusion is the very condition which allows evil to take root and flourish and next thing you know you’re chucking babies into the ovens… for their own good.

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

spot on, rev, spot on…

Neil was great in Galaxy Quest as one of the aliens. It’s great that he’s stayed in character for ten years.

but Jesus, what is wrong with that guy’s face?

if only he’d apologize

also, too…i will bet money that neil also is quite pear shaped and attempts to hide his gargantuan womanly hips and thighs with some baggy khakis…and it’s not working…

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

Old enough to watch a DVD?

I went right for the comments as soon as I got out of the boat.

Here’s a ripe one: “The problem is with GoProud’s sponsorship is the villification and name-calling they engaged in with those who disagreed with them”

I can understand why a True Conservative would find that distasteful. It would impair their reputation as exemplars of civility.

Oddly, the John Birch Society was dis-invited as well. And Breitbart says he won’t attend if GOP Proud is excluded.

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igris said,

July 30, 2011 at 22:29

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

Old enough to watch a DVD?

Gedoffamalawn!

Actually, I didn’t know how much the younger-than-me generations just naturally think of Peter Lorre, especially in an early talkie. Of course, I think Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were the greatest comedy duo ever….

OK, how that happened I have no idea.

Actually, I didn’t know how much the younger-than-me generations just naturally think of Peter Lorre

23 here, and I knew about Lorre since I was a child. Caricatures of him showed up in all sorts of cartoons I watched (from old stuff like Looney Tunes, to then modern stuff like Animaniacs).

I also own a Criterion DVD of M, and can do a fairly okay impression of the man.

Quit picking on T-shirt wearing slobs, Spearhafoc!!

I don’t run around calling you an over-dressed fop, do I?

Glad to hear it, Sperhafoc. I think he was a much underrated actor. The only real “imitation” of him I do is when I use his line from Arsenic and Old Lace: “I vass intoxicated at the time….”

R. Porrofatto is correct. It is the Space Quest aleins by Grabthar’s hammer.
Neil just wants his quiet place where the nasty people CAN”T SHOUT AT HIM! Dirty nasty people, not like him and Mr. Teddy, their love is pure.

R. Porrofatto is correct. It is the Space Quest aleins by Grabthar’s hammer.

Did anybody but me think that Tony Shalhoub’s girlfriend was Lauren Graham, even though the credits say she wasn’t?

And Breitbart says he won’t attend if GOP Proud is excluded.

Speaking of closet cases.

And Breitbart says he won’t attend if GOP Proud is excluded.

Breitbart’s just wunna them Hollywood elietist Lie-bruls! (AKA: J00z!)

Unbutton that top button, foof!
Makes me crazy.

I don’t run around calling you an over-dressed fop, do I?

No, but you wouldn’t be wrong if you did.

He looks like someone I can’t put my finger on, and it’s driving me freaking crazy. I was thinking Lurch and Gru, but, no that’s not it. Somebody help me before I go insane.

T-shirts can definitely be cute if you amp them up with the right accessories.

That being said, my Flight of the Concords t-shirt NEEDS NO ACCESSORIES.

Spearhafoc, who considers t-shirts to be undershirts not meant for public display

I think it’s amusing that just printing something on an undergarment turns it into an article of public apparel. Was it Joey Tribbiani who walks in and everybody says: “Why are you walking in here in your underwear?!” “For your information, I ran out of underwear. These are swimming trunks.” “Oh! Well…OK then….”

He looks like someone I can’t put my finger on, and it’s driving me freaking crazy. I was thinking Lurch and Gru, but, no that’s not it. Somebody help me before I go insane.

It’s possible your mental picture of Lurch has been distorted by Carel Struycken from the Addams Family movies. The real Lurch (Ted Cassidy from the TV show) looks much more the part.

Caricatures of him showed up in all sorts of cartoons I watched (from old stuff like Looney Tunes, to then modern stuff like Animaniacs).

Embarassing revelation: I’d not realized that Ren (of Ren and Stimpy cartoon) was based on Lorre until I finally saw The Maltese Falcon and heard Peter Lorre say to Sydney Greenstreet, “You… IMBECILE! You… BLOATED… IDIOT!” at the end. Cracked me right up, I’ll tell you what.

To me he looks like the original drawn Gomez

At least by the time Animaniacs came around, I’d seen enough old movies to recognize The Brain as Orson Welles in mouse form.

Hannibal Lector on Prozac.

Aargh, aargh, Tee-shirt wars
This guy was in Oslo near the bomb and told a journalist that he herd the bomb go off but stayed with his gym work, “Naturally I finished my set”. This has gone viral in NZ since it is shiny and sparkly. Now he says they should stop mocking him.
I weeps

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

But Lorre in M was normal-looking enough that he could convince children to go with him. Any kid who sees this goober is going to run away.

“I zipped up.”

“Well, I couldn’t very well run over there the way I was.”

Rush Limpballs things that Obama is putting flour in his hair in order to make everyone think he works hard (but we all know he’s a lazy assed n__ger).

Winners Do Not Compromise.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201107290024

(won’t embed because FYWP.)

Oh, and this..

Winners do not compromise. Winners do not compromise with themselves. The winners who do compromise are winners who still don’t believe in themselves as winners, who still think of themselves as losers. And you and I are finished with supporting people who think of themselves as losers.

WINNING!!

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

That’s it, genius person. I mean, I’m not talking about “M” specifically, but I’m pretty sure it’s Peter Lorre I was wracking my brain for.

At least by the time Animaniacs came around, I’d seen enough old movies to recognize The Brain as Orson Welles in mouse form.

HA!!! omg, I didn’t realize it ’til now.

Now is the winner of our discontent

Winners do not compromise with themselves.

This person has never masturbated.

Now is the winner of our discontent

AK is banned. Banned for making me laugh at horrible punnery. YOU’RE ALL BANNED! All you punny people!

Edward Gorey character. Creeeepy.

Now is the winner of our discontent — Instantly reminds me of Richard III with Ian McKellen. It opens with him giving that speech. Fantastic!

Here:

Ian Mckellen In ‘Richard III’

Just….. just… awesome.

Make comments then they gone.
Because I said Your feeble b—ham– does not hurt me
A long and winning road

Mckellen was brava in that movie, just stunning

I’ll never forget how Richard Dreyfuss was forced to play Richard III in The Goodbye Girl.

I’d love to see a movie that would rescue him from the character assassination of Shakespeare’s warmed-over Tudor agitprop, though.

“Therefore,–since I cannot prove a lover,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”

Sums up the wing-nut mind right there.

Is it just me or does that picture absolutely scream closet case?

More like Basket Case…

Which leads me to this wonderful site where through the magic of the intertubes you can talk to Ian McKellen.

http://www.stageworkmckellen.com/

This guy was great in Galaxy Quest.

I think Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were the greatest comedy duo ever….

Ah, The Raven.

More like Basket Case…

These are not necessarily mutually exclusive categories. The Gimp comes to mind.

Mckellen was brava in that movie, just stunning

Yes, I think that was one his best performances.

Mckellen was brava in that movie, just stunning

That production and his performance were great on stage, too, about two years before the movie.

This guy was in Oslo near the bomb and told a journalist that he herd the bomb go off but stayed with his gym work, “Naturally I finished my set”. This has gone viral in NZ since it is shiny and sparkly. Now he says they should stop mocking him.

He’s the gift that keeps on giving, this may be better than his original line:

Tui New Zealand is first and then I’m coming for you, you prick!”

then I’m coming for you, you prick!

Phbbphtt. A lot of people come for prick.

The fact you are trying to ridicule me for your own commercial gain makes me sick

I too am nostalgic for the good old days of Amateur idealism when people ridiculed people like him purely out of love of the sport.

Come for the prick, stay for the splooge.

RobW and VS, just for fun, look up the credits of Johnny Depp’s “Ed Wood” and see who did the cameo of Orson Welles.

I’d love to see a movie that would rescue him from the character assassination of Shakespeare’s warmed-over Tudor agitprop, though.

I feel the same way about Macbeth MacFindlaech, Rex Caladoniae.

Why is there a statue of Mr Stevens in the Munich Egyptology Museum?

First they came for Tui New Zealand, and I did not speak out, for I was a prick.

Naturally I finished my set

Oh, I will be using this.

Yes, indeed.
~

The lighting is just uniquely bad. I’ve got rather deep eyesockets myself, so I know better than to let somebody take a picture of me with the light going edge-on like that.

It’s more than just the lighting. The bizarre forced smile of a poorly socialized Aspie trying to fool someone is what creeps me out. He looks like what a friend of mine used to describe as a “Walk-in.” These are people with no substance of their own, so that the aliens can simply “walk in” and take them over. Yeah, odd friend, but hey.

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

I sort of got Lorre right off the bat, but again, on further reflection, this cat makes Lorre look like Johnny Depp.

Heh, finishing my set…

Coming for Tui New Zealand…

Ahhhhggghhh. FYWPWACFOHS

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,

July 31, 2011 at 1:46

Naturally I finished my set

Oh, I will be using this.

Yes, indeed.

‘Cause up till now you’ve been using Steve Martin’s “Are you through?”

Come for the Tui Beer, stay for the projectile regurgitation.

The lighting is just uniquely bad. I’ve got rather deep eyesockets myself, so I know better than to let somebody take a picture of me with the light going edge-on like that.

It ain’t just the lighting. What gets me is the bizarre forced smile of a poorly-socialized Aspie trying to fudge his way through a cocktail party. He reminds me of what a friend used to call “walk-ins.” These are people with no intellectual or emotional substance that the aliens can simply “walk in” and take over without any effort. Odd friend, I know.

I get Peter Lorre in “M”, but maybe I’m showing my age.

Yeah, I thought “Help me Riick!” at first, but looking at them both, this cat makes Lorre look like Johnny Depp.

Lorre actually understood what human expression was, and how to use it. He played creepy. This guy? Reaaaaaaally creepy.

Wait, which Simpsons character did we decide he looks like?

Imma say Ralphie, just because imagining him saying “My worm went in my mouth and I ate it. Can I have a new one?” amuses me.

Spearhafoc, who considers t-shirts to be undershirts not meant for public display

Homie, I live in New Orleans, so if you think I’m going to wear something over my t-shirt when the weather’s the consistency and temperature of gumbo, I’ve got some levees to sell you. That being said, I’m a chef in restaurant that’s over 100 years old and the kitchen isn’t air conditioned. And I have to wear a chef’s jacket, so I spend my days in one big sweat.

Well we did always wonder what happened to Tabitha’s brother. Just a couple of shows then “Brother? What brother?”*

*Not intended to be a factual statement.

Tui beer- like- substance, it’s the beer- like- substance around here!
One only rents it, thank god.

Wait, which Simpsons character did we decide he looks like?

Well, in the smoke-filled room where Mr. Burns and Rainer Wolfcastle and the other Republican luminaries were trying to find a candidate to run against Mayor Quimby (finally deciding on Sideshow Bob), there was a guy with batwings hanging from the ceiling that looked kind of like him.

Also, since this is the rare time I find a thread that isn’t already in three digits – probably because it’s Saturday and most of y’all got better things to do than make jambalaya for tourons – I have an OT.

I’m going to Europe for two weeks, more or less, at the end of August. I’m flying into Vienna with my brother and his fiancée, and we’re leaving out from Amsterdam. They’re going to her brother’s wedding in Poland, and since I don’t have to go with them, I’m basically at loose ends on the Continent for 14 days. Any ideas or suggestions, both aesthetic and practical, are most welcome. Thanks.

P.S. I know what I’m doing in Amsterdam.

I’ve flown all over Europe.

Some of the places I’ve liked are:

Stockholm
Budapest
Paris
Munich
Barcelona
Florence
Anywhere in Provence

Depends on what you’re looking for, of course.

make jambalaya for tourons

You’re at a Battlestar Galactica convention? (Holy shit, I hate myself).

I can’t help you with the Europe thing. I’m backwoods as fuck.

First touristy thing I did in Paris was take the boat tour of the sewers.

Check ahead, too. Went to Florence & Madrid but the Uffizi Gallery & the Museo del Prado were both closed for renovations. Indeed, much of the Continent may be on vacation/closed in August.

I’m a chef in restaurant that’s over 100 years old

Cafe du Monde?

I kid.

Depends on what you’re looking for, of course.

I’m pretty easy. I wouldn’t mind going to Rome and Athens to see all the really old shit they have there, as I have an interest in early Greek philosophy and Roman history, and I wouldn’t mind going to Paris to see some purty pitchers. But if I spend the entire time traveling from one place to the next just seeing what’s there, that’s cool, too.

Indeed, much of the Continent may be on vacation/closed in August.

Useta be everybody stayed open for all us ‘Murkan If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium tourist-types. Don’cha hate it when people get all uppity and start goin’ on vacations their ownselves? </grumble>

Cafe du Monde?

I kid.

Hey, from what I understand, that’s considered a pretty good gig.

RobW and VS, just for fun, look up the credits of Johnny Depp’s “Ed Wood” and see who did the cameo of Orson Welles.

O
M
G

Vincent D’onfrio/Kif Kroker. *faints* I mean, I don’t give a shit about Vincent, but as “Futurama” geek…

Jesus, I always forget how goddamn long Dear You is. It’s like a punk rock slog.

Did anyone comment on the fact that he has his collared shirt buttoned right to the top? Did he feel like it wasn’t clear enough that he’s a repressed prig, better advertise that shit?

Vienna, eat Sacher torte at the Hotel Sacher just to say you did. Belvedere Museum if you like Klimt, and the grounds are nice, too.

Christ, he looks like some horrible cross between Uncle Fester and the Pakleds.

“We are the Gopers. Our party is broken. Make it go.”

Not to insult Uncle Fester by associating him with Neil, of course.

Saladfingers

http://images.wikia.com/saladfingers/images/8/81/SaladFingers.jpg

Vincent D’onfrio/Kif Kroker. *faints* I mean, I don’t give a shit about Vincent, but as “Futurama” geek…

I probably only watched Steal This Movie because Janeane Garofalo is number one on my freebie list, but he was a pretty good Abby Hoffman, too.

Matt T. I’ve never been to Europe but if it was me I’d go and have a look at Spain. It’s had the Celts, the Romans, the Moors, the Fascists and the food always looks good. maybe you could see if Barcelona are playing.
Envy

Matt T-

Lonelyplanet guides are great for wherever you go. Gives pretty good food reccomendations and great locations for museums, parks, etc… to hit. Tend to also list places by price range which can be invaluable for those of us with shall we say less than robust income streams.

And for cheap travel, Ryanair is cheap as balls. Downside is that the flight will be cramped and may have you getting up at oh fuck me to death early in the morning and there is a very strict cap on luggage and I mean down to the ounce and they will check, but if you want to visit several cities it can be invaluable for saving your money for things like lodging.

On that note, hostelworld.com is a great place to get a cheap room in advance. I booked through them when I was giving my partner a European vacation and never had any problems.

Beyond that, learn the local metro of any major city you travel to. Knowing that will be key to traveling to disparate locations and will save your legs for the places you want to see.

If you do have the money, the train system is glorious in Europe.

So yeah, that’s the general advice I can give for practicality.

If you’re into Roman history, there’s a surprising number of Roman artifacts in southern France.

There’s a perfectly preserved Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard and Roman coliseums at Nimes and Arles. Also a Roman outdoor theatre at Orange.

Which Simpson’s character?

For me, he looks like one of Fat Tony’s Henchmen, who I believe is drawn to resemble Frankie Carbone (Frank Sivero) from Goodfellas . Crossed w/ Comic Book Guy.

Matt T., you getting a railpass or something? Just traveling could indeed be random fun. Keep your eyes & heart open for American tourist gals, of course.
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Buttoning the top button on a polo shirt is a bad move.

You know who else liked to button it all the way up, don’t you?

He also reminds me a bit of Eugene Tooms.

the first 30 or so comments are so hilarious to savor. ripped this guys shit up and down every which way ang I’m dying here

Matt, Bruges, Belgium, is a cute little town with fantastic beer, and a non-twee “trapped in amber” vibe. Also, when you recover in Amsterdam, you can take the train to Rotterdam or Haarlem- Rotterdam is a funky “retro-futuristic” city, and Haarlem is a sweet town, like a smaller, nicer Amsterdam with fewer tourists. While in Amsterdam, check out some of the quieter neighborhoods and meet some locals (most people speak better English than the ‘Murkan tourists you cook for). I had a funny encounter in the Jordaan, when my friend and I hit a local bar:

Dutch lady: What are you doing here?
B^4: We’re tourists.
Dutch lady: The tourists are in Rembrandtplein, the tourists are in Leidesplein. What are you doing here?
B^4: Really, we’re just tourists.
Dutch lady: You’re not tourists, you’re freaks!

Also, if you can travel to Italy, Venice (while touristy) is unlike any other city on the goddamn planet. Padua is a cool town- lot of university students and the preserved tongue of St Anthony.

He also reminds me a bit of Eugene Tooms.

Oh, Fuck! Why didn’t I think of that? I’ve just (well, a few months ago) been going through the X Files DVDs to see if it made any better sense this time (it didn’t). Well, and…Gillian Anderson used to be on my freebie list, too.

Hey, how about linking to this a lot to knock E-wreck E-wreckson’s place off of the top of the Google results? I want some serious butthurt visited upon these schmoes.

Woah, preserved tongue, now that is class! Is it Saint Anthony of Soprano

A less acromegalic Richard Kiel.

Hey, how about linking to this a lot to knock E-wreck E-wreckson’s place off of the top of the Google results?

Ahahahaha! That’s pretty much the *only* way you could get me to promote a fucking Kevin Smith movie at this point in time, though.

“probably only watched Steal This Movie because Janeane Garofalo is number one on my freebie list”

Usually when men talk about a woman they dig and that woman isnt me, I lose interest pretty fast…but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t speak well of a guy when he digs Janeane Garafolo. I mean, thats just having good sense and good taste.

Dutch lady: You’re not tourists, you’re freaks!

Well she had you there, didn’t she?
~

A less acromegalic Richard Kiel.

“Eegah”? Nah, this guy’s at least three feet shorter than him, I bet.

“Well, and…Gillian Anderson used to be on my freebie list, too.”

It’s official: you have great taste.

Eegah! Yay!

“Well, and…Gillian Anderson used to be on my freebie list, too.”

It’s official: you have great taste.

I could always spot when a scene started and she had on her running sweater—”That’s it! Run, Scully, run!”

M. Bouffant,

I’ll probably get a Eurorail pass, as it seems to be the cheapest way for someone who has no clue to travel. I’ve been saving for this trip for a while, so I’m pretty good there. Furthermore, I’ve always wanted to do some serious traveling via trains – way too much Jimmie Rodgers as a kid – so this seems to be a perfect opportunity to kill several birds with one stone. As for potential romantic encounters, assuming the lady in question is able to penetrate my thick skull (it’s laughable how oblivious I am to such things), I’m reminded of a recent conversation on that very topic, i.e. hooking up with hotties abroad:

My friend: “Have you ever seen Hostel? Be wary of strange women hitting on you.”
Me: “I’ve seen it. So if a couple of hot girls want me to go back to their hostel for some naughty time, don’t go.”
My friend: “Of course, a lot of porn starts with that very scenario, too.”
Me: “Okay. So if they’re real hot, don’t go. Slightly less hot, have at it. Gotcha.”

Cerebrus,

Several folks have recommended Lonelyplanet stuff. I’m bringing my Kindle – which has a lonelyplanet.com link – and I wonder if the Kindle edition of the book is worth buying. Ideas?

Also, I will make a note of the hostel link, thank you. However, I am really digging the idea of having no itinerary between Vienna and Amsterdam, and just going where whim takes me. How difficult is it to book a hostel for that day? Also, if I do get a railpass, is getting my sleep on a train for the better part of two weeks a really stupid idea? I figure I’m safe physically, as I look like someone who spent most of the medieval period in Europe’s history invading the hell out of it and people in New Orleans generally give me a wide berth.

Matt T. – Not sure how old you are, but Interlaken in Switzerland is a blast. A ton of outdoors stuff to do and a place where a lot of young traveler’s meet up.

In Germany, I liked Munich and Regensberg. If you go to Munich, take an afternoon and go up to Andechs – a monastery outside of Munich where the monks brew some fantastiche bier. You can get there by taking the commuter rail and then hiking up the mountain (45 minutes up hill, but very worth it).

The area around the D-Day beaches is really cool. Bayeaux is neat (not bombed during the campaign) and a good launching off point to explore the beaches. The American cemetary in Colleville-sur-Mer is a must see (this was in Saving Private Ryan in the framing scenes with the old man at the beginning and end). Mont St. Michel is an amazing place. Very close by.

Agree with comments above on Barcelona (Picasso Museum, and the Gaudi stuff is must see) and Bruges. Both are great. San Sebastian in the Basque country is spectacular. One of the most beautiful seaside cities I have ever seen. Provence rocks as well. Aix-en-Provence is a fun college town. About 14k out of town is Mont St. Victoire. You can hike to the summit and check out an abandoned monastery.

Matt T-

Theoretically it should work if you book like the night before or during the day. You can also take your chances and just see which hostels have rooms the day of but of course that’s very risky.

On the railpass and sleeping on the train question, no. Especially not if you’ve got a sleeping car or take overnight train rides. From what I remember the sleeping cars on the trains were very comfy and I’ve catnapped in regular train seats before. Certainly more comfortable than sleeping on a plane.

And yes on the Lonelyplanet book idea. In my experience the book tends to be a little better than the website and includes the price range information and better restaurant information and information in general.

Which probably makes sense as it gives you an incentive to buy. Their little books were invaluable to me, so yeah, I’d buy their Kindle guide or a regional guide and go hog wild.

Have fun.

Never stayed in a hostel, but there are inexpensive inns (auberges or albergos) to be found.

As for potential romantic encounters, assuming the lady in question is able to penetrate my thick skull (it’s laughable how oblivious I am to such things), I’m reminded of a recent conversation on that very topic, i.e. hooking up with hotties abroad:

Well, Matt, the funny thing about regret is that it’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.

If, say, you’re hanging out in a bar in Leidesplein, and a really attractive woman who just gave up her job as a KLM stewardess so she could spend more time with family chats you up and gives you her number, don’t worry about the possibility of torture and dismemberment.

Matt T. – it is hard to get a lot of sleep on the trains. You won’t have that many overnighters. Most of your travel will be a few hours between stops at most.

Forgot to mention Prague. That place is awesome.

My suggestion to you would in the two weeks that you have, pick at most 4 may be places you want to visit and spend a fews days in each. Resist the urge to try to see as many places as possible. You’ll end up spending a lot of time on trains and trying to sort your lodging out rather than seeing the places. If it were me (and the train schedules made sense), I would start in Vienna, then Interlaken, then Munich, then Amsterdam.

Matt T. – Not sure how old you are, but Interlaken in Switzerland is a blast. A ton of outdoors stuff to do and a place where a lot of young traveler’s meet up.

The whole Berner Oberland is gorgeous, but I’m biased. My great-grandfather left Brienz with the equivalent of ten bucks and the clothes on his back. As he put it (I was 18 when he passed), “You just can’t eat scenery.” Brienz to The Bronx… if you go, the wood carvings on the buildings are fantastic. Some my family’s most precious heirlooms are wooden objets d’art carved by my great-great-grandfather.

Matt T: Two words. Gothic cathedrals. Our descendants in the year 3000 will view them as we view the pyramids. Some people will say Chartres, but for my money, Notre Dame is the one to see.

In fact, Notre Dame used to be my “Must do before dying”. After I saw it, it took me a good long while to find a new life’s ambition.

Plus, you can read Pillars of the Earth on the plane and train, so it’s multimedia.

Salzburg. Siena. Lucerne.

Also, if I do get a railpass, is getting my sleep on a train for the better part of two weeks a really stupid idea?

There are not as many over-night sleeper train services as there used to be. Only about half-a-dozen now, I think. Good value but planning ahead and booking ahead re-enter the equation.

Oh, and I could probably spend a week in Vienna alone.

[Reagan’s] the one who got called a fascist and a cultist, in fact. But there was one place he could go to be among friends, and that was CPAC.

Let me smoke Reagan’s zombie pole to prove the fags shouldn’t interrupt the sex magick .

I’d prolly do Vienna – Salzburg – Munich, Ulm or Freiburg – Strasbourg or Colmar – Paris(or maybe Amiens or Reims) – Amsterdam

Matt T., all of this sounds lame. I think you should just go to Branson. I’m sure you could find a place there that if you ate a 10 pound steak, you’d get it for free. And they’d put your picture on the wall. Just sayin’.

God, you try and give people a little culture…

maybe you could see if Barcelona are playing

Home against Villarreal on Monday, August 29. Man, I would love to see that. Then I’d spend the rest of the trip in Portugal, lovely Portugal.

Ehh, I’ve been to Branson. I never thought it’d be possible that classic country music would be rendered unpalatable, but there ya go.

My suggestion to you would in the two weeks that you have, pick at most 4 may be places you want to visit and spend a fews days in each.

That’s probably what I’ll wind up doing, hopefully taking as scenic a route as possible. I’m already planning to spend a few days in Vienna and Amsterdam – the former because of it’s history with regards to philosophy and science and the former for obvious reasons – the trick is now picking the other two to four places in which to spend some time. As you kind people have so helpfully show, I still have an embarrassment of choices. The only thing I’m really dreading is the strong desire for a good plate of red beans and rice I’m sure will hit ten days in, and then where will I be.

Dusseldorf city, meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

Wherever you go, don’t be shy about letting people know you work in a restaurant in New Orleans. Tell cafe staff that you know how typical tourists are and that you want to “go native” for a while.

And, wherever you go, learn the chorus of this song. For once, I’m not being facetious. Green-eyed Polish main squeeze? Sing “Marina” to her. Beer guzzling lakeside Zurichers? Sing “Marina” with them. It’s like the goddamn Rosetta stone of gloriously kitschy pan-European pop culture. Hell, it even got a cheesy techno treatment. Learn the chorus to “Marina”, and you’ve got an in with the nostalgic drunken crooners.

The only thing I’m really dreading is the strong desire for a good plate of red beans and rice I’m sure will hit ten days in, and then where will I be.

You won’t be missing the food if you play your cards right, and I’m not the kind of guy to knock red beans and rice, although I prefer pigeon peas myself.

Hey, from what I understand, that’s considered a pretty good gig.

Actually, yeah. When I lived down there it was considered a plum waiting gig. Boring as watching turds turn white, but a plum gig.

This guy was in Oslo near the bomb and told a journalist that he herd the bomb go off but stayed with his gym work, “Naturally I finished my set”. This has gone viral in NZ since it is shiny and sparkly. Now he says they should stop mocking him.

Honestly, I’m going to say the T-shirt makers are the douchebags here. Man cannot live on irony alone.

And I’m afraid I’m no help for your trip, Matt T. Never been farther east than Lewiston, Maine.

And, wherever you go, learn the chorus of this song.

Well, there’s my earworm for the next few days.

The only thing I’m really dreading is the strong desire for a good plate of red beans and rice I’m sure will hit ten days in, and then where will I be.

I have a sneaking suspicion that your culinary choices in the various European metropolises should be interesting enough to keep that urge to a low rumble.

Beer guzzling lakeside Zurichers? Sing “Marina” with them.

Heh. He said “doodoo.”

Well, there’s my earworm for the next few days.

Good, now keep it in your head until you return home- honestly, everybody over there knows it.

Whoa … David Byrne really let himself go, didn’t he?

Dusseldorf city, meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

My experience was more “Düsseldorf city, meet umpteen pints of Altbier at Zum Füchsen and get taken home in a wheelbarrow”, but that doesn’t rhyme.

your culinary choices in the various European metropolises
(1) Doner Kebabs.
(2) Pizza.

My experience was more “Düsseldorf city, meet umpteen pints of Altbier at Zum Füchsen and get taken home in a wheelbarrow”, but that doesn’t rhyme.

Uh, that was the Thin White Duke himself pushing that wheelbarrow.

You know who else liked to button it all the way up

Our shirt buttons go up to 11!

God, you try and give people a little culture…

I can recommend you a good antifungal to help with any “culture” somebody’s given you.

your culinary choices in the various European metropolises
(1) Doner Kebabs.
(2) Pizza.

Don’t forget the herring stands in Amsterdam… mmm… raw herring… uhhhhhh…

your culinary choices in the various European metropolises
(1) Doner Kebabs.
(2) Pizza.

Go to Iberia; eat octopus.

Octopus, the other, other, other, other white meat.

Octopodes are among my all-time favorite things to eat. Pity they’re so smart, because they are delicious. I can rationalize it away by telling myself that they don’t have long to live anyway.

Thanks for the advice, y’all. All suggestions duly noted and will be much considered. Selah.

Matt, if you do go to Paris, don’t miss Sainte-Chappelle, on the same island as Notre Dame.

maybe you could see if Barcelona are playing

Home against Villarreal on Monday, August 29. Man, I would love to see that. Then I’d spend the rest of the trip in Portugal, lovely Portugal.

I see Man U beat Barcelona today. In Maryland, apparently.

Learn the chorus to “Marina”, and you’ve got an in with the nostalgic drunken crooners.

Seconding the Schlager recommendation. As the result of drinking in blue-collar bars across Germany I have learned the choruses of many many Herbert Grönemeyer hit singles.

I’m going to Europe for two weeks, more or less, at the end of August. I’m flying into Vienna with my brother and his fiancée, and we’re leaving out from Amsterdam. They’re going to her brother’s wedding in Poland, and since I don’t have to go with them, I’m basically at loose ends on the Continent for 14 days. Any ideas or suggestions, both aesthetic and practical, are most welcome. Thanks.

Drinking session in Belgium, along with some culture, Antwerpen, brugge or brussels, with the former being the best bet…

Home against Villarreal on Monday, August 29. Man, I would love to see that. Then I’d spend the rest of the trip in Portugal, lovely Portugal.

and go and see FC Porto at the fantastically named Stadium of Dragons….. then slip down to Villa Nova De Gaia (Porto) and get wasted on 40 year old port for 5 Euros a glass….

I for one, am totally entranced by this “big tent” Conservatives are said to possess.

That’s a Tea Party zombie. Fer reals yo.

Ah, Amsterdam. Where ‘Big Bad Bald Bastard’ would be ‘Kinda Average Sized Bad Bald Bastard’.

Erm, August is peak season for travellers, so I expect that many of the Lonely-Planet recommended hostels will be booked out. When you decide on which places you are going to visit, make sure you have a list of a few hostels ready.

Having said that, if the staff at one place say that they are full, they will usually be able to direct you to another place.

What gets me is the bizarre forced smile of a poorly-socialized Aspie trying to fudge his way through a cocktail party.

Hey, I don’t make that face at all!

Donner kebabs?

Tastes just like pork!

and go and see FC Porto at the fantastically named Stadium of Dragons

And right winger named Hulk!

I found the food I liked best in Amsterdam was the Indonesian. Dutch food was often a little ew- I got a green salad at one place where the dressing was mayo, good mayo but still. Also: take blister care products.

VS:

What? No. Beg pardon, I meant who did the voice, not the on-camera thing.

http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Orson-Welles/

(D’Onofrio. Damn scene-hogger. I mean, he deserves every bit of his fame and every dime of his money because of what he was willing to let crawl all over him in “Men in Black”, but… honestly, credit where due, and so on.)

What? No. Beg pardon, I meant who did the voice, not the on-camera thing.

I think she got that. She mentioned Kif (who’s also voiced by Maurice LaMarche).

Oh, and Vincent D’Onofrio was brilliant in the episode of Homicide: Life on the Street episode he guest-starred in. Definitely the best episode of the series.

food I liked best in Amsterdam was the Indonesian

Yep, that’s true

Bush’s 3rd Term news
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Indonesian food in Holland is better than in Indonesia but that’s faint praise to me. Dutch food=stodge, for the most part so, in a less bad sort of way, your typical rijstaffel (don’t remember the spelling but what the hell) is a good deal for travelers.

I second recommendations for Brugge, the town is beautiful and the natives can be very entertaining; they’ve seen a lot of tourists and if you catch their eye they can be real fun ( in a cool, flemish sort of way ).

It’s been 15 years since I was in Spain and my brother assures me it’s lots more fun and sophisticated now. The expensive food is good and exciting, the local lunch specials not so much.

Provence and the rest of la France profunde really need to be seen by car. Going town to town by rail and staying within reach of public transport prevents one getting to a lot of good stuff. If not renting a car then real cities are where it’s at. My best suggestion for budget traveling in Eurolandia is to check the local entertainment paper for free classical music; those damn commies put on a lot of virtuosic concerts for nothing, often in magnificent surroundings. A free organ recital in the catedral of Barcelona was a peak out for me. Also: Gaudi, natch.

Yes, Matt, you will miss red beans & rice, it’s OK, you’re only on vacation. I always went to Dunbar’s on Monday nights but I hear it, like so much else great, ain’t there no more.

Neil was great in Galaxy Quest as one of the aliens. It’s great that he’s stayed in character for ten years.

FTW.
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Dutch food? Some nasty fried thing at Febo, that’s Dutch food. Really, I can’t think of much that be “Dutch cuisine,” it’s all from somewhere else. Only a couple times when I had dinner with customers in Amsterdam did my local cohorts take us to something that might be called homegrown traditional Dutch cuisine. Meat or fish, that’s the selection. Pan fried fish or pan fried beef. But there are a gazillion Vlaamse Frite stands – awesomely good. I always enjoyed trips to Belgium, the food is magnitudes better. As is the beer.

Everything’s better in Belgium but the weed. And since you’re going there from Amsterdam that’s not a problem.

Hat tip to Jacques Pepin for last night’s meal. Spatchcock a largish fryer and cut into the joints but not so far as to separate them. Paint with a mustard, soy sauce, olive oil, garlic, white wine, herbs de Provence, Tabasco glaze on the former inside then put skin side up in a heated “non stick” pan – my 12″ De Buyer mineral in this case. Paint the skin side with the mix, leave it on the medium-high burner for about 5 minutes then into a preheated 425 oven. Use 450 if you don’t have a convection oven. Roast about 30 minutes then retrieve the bird to rest. Degrease the pan juices. That’s all for the sauce, just degreasing – no butter, thickener, or anything. JP is a god.

Mashed potatoes Put several cloves of garlic in the water from the start. Drain and don’t forget to put them back into the pan on the still hot burner to remove excess moisture. Mash with salt and pepper, Mexican crema, some half and half – no butter.

Halved Brussels sprouts with olive oil, slivered almonds, lemon zest, lemon juice, roasted until they get a bit crispy.

Jennifer Rubin Is An Asshole

Sorry, but there’s really no other word for it. Talk about someone with a malfunction. You write for the Washington Post now, sweetie. You need to grow up and at least write like an adult, even if you can’t manage to think like one. Besides, as far as conservatism, all you likely ever did was cheer the nation off to another war and suck down, only to regurgitate, the GOP establishment line on domestic policy. You sound like a petty loser. Plenty of good people are fighting an honest fight to get this out of control government to rein in spending. Suggesting all they want to do is blow up a deal is a pathetic disservice done them by an obviously very small-minded, petty person misleading people about your politics by calling yourself a conservative. That makes you a liar.
— Dan “Grown Up Who Writes Like An Adult” Riehl

The new civility.

JP is a god.

He saved my life. I would have killed myself by now if he hadn’t taught me how to boil an egg so that you could peel it (now that they’ve started raising these mutant chickens that lay eggs with mylar membranes glued on with superglue).

I do miss the shows with his daughter Claudine, though. Jeebus, that girl is gorgeous!

Mmmm mmmmmmmm . One Wal*Mart ten pound beef brisket smoked to utter perfection. That’s the second try with that particular cut, and I really think I nailed it this time (not that the previous attempt was inedible, by a long shot.) Around thirteen hours in the smoker in all, which makes for a long day o’ cooking. Fired it up about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, threw the meat on about 7:40. Fat side up. Tried to keep it at about 215 – 225 F with an assortment of c_harcoals, and about equal parts Mesquite and Hickory (the former smelling quite lovely.) Basted the bottom with Stubb’s mopping sauce after about four hours, then again after another couple, then more frequently until it ran out, and then basted with Stubb’s chicken marinade (which does have a nice tang to it, especially after sitting in the fridge for several months!) After about ten hours the internal temp started to make it up above 120, and after eleven hours it was going through the 130s, at which point I wrapped it in layers of foil and kept the heat steady. Somewhere between twelve and a half and thirteen hours it was finally above 150 and juicy as could be. One guy sez to let it get to 188 F, but that doesn’t seem right to me, somehow, though I may have to try it some time. But, oh boy, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. We ate about a third of the flat just standing there. Worked our way into the point end tonight, and it’s just fabulous. Tender and delicious. Best BBQ we’ve had in this state.

People aren’t equal. The promise that the United States set out to give was of equal opportunity, the freedom to strive commensurate with one’s abilities. That noble notion has been corrupted into the idea that all people, regardless of their abilities, talents, or even the effort they expend, deserve equal outcomes. Barack and Michelle both put that idiocy in their speeches, and possibly truly believe it, but it’s utter, unworkable, horrendous nonsense. Under the modern liberal regime, people are no longer free to pursue their own happiness, but are continually harangued and threatened into pursuing someone else’s happiness. It’s the destruction of freedom to feed Marx’s perverted notions of equatability, and if you look at the history of the United States, it was the beacon of freedom that thrilled the rest of the world, that spoke to all the downtrodden of the earth. It wasn’t “equatability” or “guaranteed outcomes” that lit up the world, but the freedom to try, the freedom even to fail, but mostly the freedom to choose one’s own way and let ‘er rip.

If donut shops were government owned and operated, and the guy in the back frying donuts was paid $200,000 a year, would donuts be any more or less a few bits of flour and milk with a sugary coating? Would anyone care that the donut man went to Princeton? “Oh, this is sooooo yummy baked by Princeton guy.” Or would everyone fucking wonder what the hell he was doing frying donuts? And the donut fryer. The Princeton grad. He takes pride, day after day, in measuring those ingredients, and waiting until the fryer comes up to temperature? Oh, yeah.

Teaching’s the same. It’s like making donuts. Almost anyone can do it. Even well. Sure, some teachers are complete standouts. But mostly it’s grunt work. Year after year, the faces change, but two plus two is still four, the prepositions haven’t changed, and the condoms still go on with the reservoir tip at the end.

Rich people are rather more proactive in making sure their extra money is working for them, and, as a byproduct, generating real value for others.

“Freedom” (if it’s ever mentioned at all, these days) and “the free market” are nothing now more than pretty graphics on bottles of snake oil, and the snake oil salesmen of the age have acquired the power to force the stuff down your throat at the point of a gun.

If you’re just paying workers to build a railroad you don’t get to count all the other expensive stuff that goes into making a railroad. To count the track and locomotives that someone else paid for as part of your stimulus is just plain dishonest. With that thinking, you could give the railroad scheme a dollar and count the billions that the thing winds up being worth. It’s just stupid, and yet it’s what this place is awash with.

Well, apparently I’m off my meds again.

Some unnamed neighborhood teen is in the crosshairs for a charge.

3355 Dixon Road is across a field, almost directly behind the house on Merritt Road that I moved out of and sold. Two houses down from me was a fat kid with a noticeable tendancy to misuse guns. When I bought the place, I found several windows with BB or pellet-like little holes in them, all on the side toward where the fat kid lived. Of course, I couldn’t know for sure how they got there — the place had been abandoned for some time — but it was a good guess as to who it was. Over the next couple of years, I noticed the little monster roaming around with increasingly larger guns, mostly when his parents and grandparents weren’t around, and he’d shoot anything, and indiscriminately in any direction. I caught him one time, peering over my fence with a friend, both with guns, eyeing my many bird feeders, which, had they shot, would have been just past the corner of my house. Another time, I got him in trouble with his grandfather when he took a shot at a red-tailed hawk that had flown down at something in the yard between us. The little rat had it in for me, then, though I never caught him acting on it anymore than muttering under his breath when I was around.

Even so, I always figured, just from the general topography, that it was the people out back, across the field, who were most likely to get the bullets whizzing by.

If it’s the same kid, maybe he’ll get it together after this.

Hey M.B., it turns out that the WaPo did hire a new ombudsman!

Who knew?

Surprise, surprise, he’s just a crappy apologist for the likes of Jennifer Rubin.
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12? De Buyer mineral

Pan envy. One of my housemates is leaving next week. He’s a chef and he’s taking all of his good gear with him, dammit. I have been spoiled and I will have to go out and get some quality cookware.

It finally hit me at some ungodly hour: Neil Stevens looks like a Dick Tracy villain.

wow, copypasta nym-jacker is back? Whatta loon.

jeez, some people are pathetic.

Zombie pretends not to be interested in crazy cut-and-pasting nymjacker’s European travel advice.

ten pound beef brisket smoked to utter perfection

You’d need an awfully big set of rolling papers.

You’d need an awfully big set of rolling papers.

Zig-zag, zig-zag, zig-zag…it’s all in the technique.

Papers, please:

Big Bambú is the second album by Cheech & Chong, released in 1972. The name Big Bambu is a reference to a type of rolling paper made by the Bambu company; the original LP sleeve was designed by Ernie Cefalu and manufactured to look like a giant rolling paper package, and originally contained a giant rolling paper with the record. Since its release, vinyl copies with the rolling paper have been extremely hard to find. The original CD packaging has been slightly reformatted, and does not contain rolling papers of any size.

Actually, I didn’t know how much the younger-than-me generations just naturally think of Peter Lorre

Rocky Rococo (“Pyramid Patchouli … There was only one man in L.A. brave enough to wear that scent — and I had to find out who he was!”)

Europe: you’re flying into Vienna and nobody’s mentioned going to Prague? Or Budapest, where the food is enough to make a grown man weep with ecstasy? And yes, the Bernese Oberland is amazing to look at, but I wouldn’t stay there long. By the time we’d been there a week we were calling it Swissneyland and we actually cheered when, five minutes after crossing the border into Italy, we saw an auto graveyard.

Yes, I think that was one his best performances.

my fave ian mckellen: the dance of death…london, 2003

You’d need an awfully big set of rolling papers.

Woof. Talk about “two hits and the joint turned brown.”

“Spearhafoc, who considers t-shirts to be undershirts not meant for public display said,
July 31, 2011 at 15:38

What? No. Beg pardon, I meant who did the voice, not the on-camera thing.

I think she got that. She mentioned Kif (who’s also voiced by Maurice LaMarche).”

YUP!

I was going to mention Budapest. We rentTed a car in Vienna drove – it ain’t very far. Visit the baths.

My favorite Ian McKellen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqU5-2o-9cM

I definitely rate for Lucerne.

And Munich during Oktoberfest is not a bad time. 😉

Planning Suggestions for Matt

I think your plan is wise. See Vienna … see perhaps two places enroute … see Amsterdam.

I’d recommend limiting your enroute sites to cities: Cities have a menu of attractions(*)….larger lodgings capacities … and are after the musuems and palaces and so on are closed to visitors. To reduce transit time, I suggest a more-or-less direct corridor from Vienna to Amsterdam.

(*) Important to have indoor alternatives for rainy weather. I used these as Museum-and-Cathedral days

There will be lovely scenary to see from train windows; nevertheless, by spending less time in transit, you will have more time ‘on the ground’…and that’s where the fun is, no matter what you choose to see or do.

Another suggestion: Do not be overly ambitious in trying to see ‘everything’, even within a city. (I traveled solo in Western Europe for six months. A line from my european journal: See one thing well, rather than two things poorly.)

I think solo is the very best way to travel, Matt. There is no need to accomodate the wishes of a traveling companion; you can engage fully in what you desire to see and experience.

Give yourself TIME to appreciate the things you choose to see, to linger with them. That also includes fortuitious Nifty Stuff you encounter: things that you happen to encounter that

Tactical example: I love Old Masters. In some very large art museums, I forced myself to walk by Impressionisist and Post-Impressionists rooms to concentrate on the Old Masters galleries. To see them liesurely, study some individual paintings, just to soak them up

Operational example: Select from Nifty Stuff within a city. Spend time in the Glorious Whatever, have lunch at Spiffyplatz, linger there for wine, beer, coffee and pastry, people watching, mild flirtation. Then split.

Transit Trick:

Depart Vienna ====> Nifty Place A =====> City B ((lodging))
(earlier AM)……………(visit mid-day)…………(arrive early evening)

I’ve got some more planning suggestions, which I’ll put on S,N later.

Also I’ll make some recommendations for Vienna and Amsterdam [and close-by-Amsterdam rail excursions], the end-points of your journey. I can make recommendations for Munich, but did not travel between there and Amsterdam; I used a different route.

In all events, study the possibilities, learn about them in advance, and develop a plan for your Vienna-to-Amsterdam transit.

See one thing well, rather than two things poorly.

May you have a wonderful time, whatever you choose to see and do.

PS: I heartily endorse many of the suggestions made other Sadlies for other regions of Europe. I hope that this journey whets your appetite to visit again and explore elsewhere.

((More later, in this thread or the next.))

Above should read “mild flirtation,whatever“. I don’t suggest doing all of the activities simultaneously. Pick and choose.

CNN’s claiming there’s a deal on raising the debt ceiling.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Derp derp:
A first step would include about $1 trillion in spending cuts while raising the debt ceiling about the same amount. The proposal also would set up a special committee of Democratic and Republican legislators from both chambers of Congress to recommend additional deficit reduction steps — including tax reform as well as reforms to popular entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

In addition, the agreement would require both chambers of Congress to vote on a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such an amendment would require two-thirds majorities in both chambers to pass, followed by ratification by 38 states — a process likely to take years.

Aaaaaand of course they have to get the Teabaggers on board with this magnificent plan somehow.

I’ve seen it. So if a couple of hot girls want me to go back to their hostel for some naughty time, don’t go.

Alex, I’ll take “Things that will never happen to me as long as I live” for $500.

CNN’s claiming there’s a deal on raising the debt ceiling.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

There’s a deal all right. The big fish will eat the little fish, and the Congressmen will call us all their chum.

Soap opera Ian.

So basically what we’ve achieved over the last few weeks of pissing and stressing is that the Dems want to bend us over and fuck us with a minimum of lube, and the GOP wants to use the stuff with sand in it.

Whee.

More like the Dems want to bend us over and fuck us with the minimum of lube, and the GOP wants to slit our throats and grind our corpses up for dog food.

the GOP wants to slit our throats and grind our corpses up for dog food.

Oh, COME ON, NOW.

That’s crazy talk.

Like the GOP actually cares about dogs enough to feed them.

British soaps sure look funny. Shouldn’t everybody be rich and attractive?

Shouldn’t everybody be rich and attractive?

In Britain?

Re: The Deal,

In a conference call with his rank and file, Boehner said the agreement “isn’t the greatest deal in the world, but it shows how much we’ve changed the terms of the debate in this town.”

Obama underscored that point. He said that, if enacted, the agreement would mean “the lowest level of domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president” more than a half century ago.

Dear Boehner: Fuck you in the neck with a cage full of hairy spiders.

Why do I suspect that this new “compromise” is going to be exactly what the Republicans wanted when they started this whole disaster? Oh, but at least it’s not the Teabagger proposal, so it’s the New Center.

feh.

The Republican want to force us to eat a shit sandwich.

The Democrats are willing to put an extra slice of bread in it. But because of COMPROMISE, the extra slice of bread is moldy and has bugs on it. But hey! Bugs are fulla protein!.

Whew! Thank goodness those capital-gains exemptions & corporate-jet tax subsidies are safe!

Shit just got ironic: $1 trillion over ten years may not be enough to appease the rating-agency vermin anyway – assuming “Let’s Make A Deal 2011” actually passes. A credit downgrade will wipe out those reductions overnight.

Welcome to The Glorious People’s Republic Of Citizens United, Incorporated! Your flag pin & Hobo Bean ration-cards are in the mail.

The proposal also would set up a special committee of Democratic and Republican legislators from both chambers of Congress to recommend additional deficit reduction steps

I’m sure THAT will turn out well….

Tag-fail. Fortunately I have Special Exemptions granted by Zeus his very own self.

Also I’m weary. ((More tomorrow, Matt.))

Also, Guerrila Voter Cadre 18 sends a message of Solidarity to other commenters. You know who you are.

You know who you are.

No I don’t.

Seriously though. Does anyone remember at this point what it was that the Rebubs wanted back around the time of the first deadline? I really want to know how far this “deal” is from their original hostage demands.

Other than getting the balanced budget amendment voting stuck in there, which is perhaps the single worst idea ever to come out of Washington and that’s saying something, what has changed? The amendment vote is only there to be a political bludgeon for the Pubes come election time. Everybody has to know it has no chance. Do these Tea-soaked douchewads really want us to be structurally unable to borrow money, even if something like WWII reared its head? Maybe they’ll put a clause in there that says “Except in times of war.” That’ll work out well. You think we’re in a permanent state of war now?

I mean, I know these assholes have been trying to fuck the country down a blind hole for three or four decades now, but this really takes the cake. They really are terrorists, and we’re not just negotiating with them, we’re writing them a blank check and signing over the title just so they’ll show up. Fuck.

“A fanatical, neo-Fascist, political cult, overcome by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear,”

also known as “Santorum.”

Nasty Bigot not a bigot, because she also don’t like those frothy Birchers.

The GOP is just O.

Dude looks like the cop on the Simpsons. Pig-snout Babbitt-tool booster mediocrity.

For someone who claims that it’s TOTALLYOK for fags to fag around, just Not On His Watch, he must fap himself to sleep by cooing “Ronald Reagan, Ronaldreagan ronnnaregaronarayguhhhh” every Goddamned night, since he does it all over his column. Jesus. How much spunk can you spill to a dead guy?

…we’re writing them a blank check and signing over the title…

Yup. Plus the Dems get all the credit for fucking everyone who makes less than a million a year. It’s the Dem plan, right?

I figured it was going to be tough to turn things around and so I’d be happy if, after eights of Obama, we were back to where we were when Bush took over. I also thought that Obama would rule somewhere to the right of Nixon. But after the debt ceiling business, hmmm, well Obama’s making McKinley look like a lefty.

Now that it’s been a wk. or so, the crazies are letting it out:

Funny how Glenn Beck has come under attack for comparing the camp to a Hitler Youth camp. Based on these pics, seems like he’s spot on, though he should have added, HAMAS Youth camp, too. As we all know, Nazis boycotted Jews and were Jew-killers. And these hateful, privileged brats at the camp boycotted Jews and sided with Jew-killers. I don’t condone violent massacres on innocent civilians, and I condemn what Breivik did. He is a terrorist just like the 9/11 hijackers, Hezbollah, HAMAS, and Nidal Malik Hasan. But what goes around comes around. You support terrorists against innocent civilians in Israel, then you get attacked by terrorists who are upset with your support.

For me, this is like Alien v. Predator. I’m not sad for either side. And I make no apologies for it. Now these kids’ families know what it feels like to be victims of the Islamic terrorists whose Judenrein boycotts and terrorist flotillas against Israel they support. We don’t live in a vacuum. I can’t feel sorry for those who support my would-be assassins. And I don’t get too upset when they face the karma that is their fate. HAMAS isn’t just against Israel, it’s against all Jews . . . and all Christians. Just ask the Christians who’ve had to flee Gaza for their lives. And read the HAMAS charter. I’ll bet that’s something these spoiled airheaded kids with their Boycott Israel signs and HAMAS flotilla re-enactment games never did.

From Debbie Schlussel, if you couldn’t guess.

to fag around, just Not On His Watch

Can you blame him? Have you tried to get the crisco out of the winding mechanism?

Schlussel is insane. “like alien vs. predator”? Ah it’s not real Debbie.

But what goes around comes around

I was going to snark on teh Debster, but I just can’t get her screed to make enough sense to do that. It makes my brain hurt trying to follow the hypocrisy and lack of consistency.

What an awful excuse of a human being.

Schlussel is insane. “like alien vs. predator”? Ah it’s not real Debbie.

I was talking with a friend last week about Breivik’s manifesto. I read the first few pages. It came off as standard, boilerplate conservative propaganda. Right down, I said, to the fetishization of a 50s that never happened.

He said “Yeah. Just like my Grandma.” who has the common problem of seeing everything through picket-fence-tinted glasses. He went on about how it’s the media’s interpretation that everyone fixates on and therefore thinks they remember. Happy Days, indeed. The neighborhood biker/thug lives above the garage and keeps the other kids out of trouble. He’s never drunk and doesn’t hit on the underage daughter. Riiiiight.

At this point I said “Yeah. And HARRY FUCKING POTTER ISN’T REAL EITHER! THERE ARE NO FUCKING WEREWOLVES IN LONDON AND THE RUSSIANS DID NOT INVADE IN 1984 — WOLVERINES!” or something very similar.

Somehow, simple facts like this seem to be lost on far too many.

Shouldn’t everybody be rich and attractive?

not in old blighty, my old mucker. rather than get dental work, we spend all our har earned pounds on jellied eels and bitter….

I can’t feel sorry for those who support my would-be assassins. And I don’t get too upset when they face the karma that is their fate.

So, let me get this right. If I support an orginisation that may have killed someone on your side at any time, even if my support was only 5th hand, then I deserve to get gunned down. Is that what your saying? ’cause if so, go fuck yourself………………….. its time to start planning the camps……

You get the feeling that asshats like Stevens won;t be happy until the GOP posts a “Hee-Mann Wimmin Hater’s Klub” sign on the front door?

For me, this is like Alien v. Predator. I’m not sad for either side. And I make no apologies for it. Now these kids’ families know what it feels like to be victims of the Islamic terrorists whose Judenrein boycotts and terrorist flotillas against Israel they support.

Shorter Schussel: It’s not Islamism, just an incredible simulation.

Schlussel is insane. “like alien vs. predator”?

Meaning badly-acted and badly-scripted?

Just ask the Christians who’ve had to flee Gaza for their lives.

Funny, the only Palestinians I’m friends with are Christian.

Hamas fans? No.

Israel fans? Even less.

Probably because most of the twentieth century consisted of Jewish religious fanatics killing and robbing them, with the Muslim religious fanatics only catching up in the last couple of decades.

Someone here used to ask “do those fuckers actually *know* ANY Muslims?” I’d be thrilled if they just sat down and got to know one of the region’s Christians.

I hope Debbie reaps what she sows.

Debbie stole my snark with her disgustingness.

Last three four graphs from the ombudsman’s column in response to the response of Rubin’s piece last week concerning dusky hordes, caliphates, with a brief respite, for a momentarily furrowed brow of concern over the death of some white Norwegian Liberals who had it coming because of multiculteralism dontcha know.

Rubin was hired by Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor of The Post, to be an opinion blogger who would appeal to conservatives and people who want to follow conservative politics. She does.

She is the most prolific opinion blogger at The Post, doing eight or 10 posts a day often, most of it insider stuff on GOP politics, a lot of it based on single sources. But Rubin also gets scoops. She has excellent sources in the House and Senate leadership, and lots of Republicans read her and trust her.

In a long chat with Rubin last week, I found her forceful and unrepentant, yet not unreasonable. She is not an ogre or a racist. And she does not deserve some of the calumny she got. Some of the e-mail she received was way over the line — ugly, obscene, vile and, worst, containing threats of physical harm.

This brings us back to the shootings in Norway, an act committed by a disturbed man who drew some of his inspiration from extremist Web sites. A blogosphere given to vitriol and hasty judgments ought to consider the possible consequences of its own online attacks.

This guy fits right in with the other tossers who have had the “post” in the past.
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OMFG. That Wash Post ombudspology is possibly worse than teh stuff we used to expect from teh late Lovey Howell.

This brings us back to the shootings in Norway, an act committed by a disturbed man who drew some of his inspiration from extremist Web sites. A blogosphere given to vitriol and hasty judgments ought to consider the possible consequences of its own online attacks.

Firstly – we’re talking about a deranged madman who believed himelf in some sort of Holy War to stop teh evil of ISLAM from spreading all over Europe. The constant “OMG, there was a terror attack so it had to be Muslims” is NOT FUCKING UNRELATED YOU SMARMY ASSHOLE SHITBAG. You know who else immediately assumed that all bad things in the world are the fault of Muslims? Fucking crazy whackaloon Anders Pants Panik. And Rubin. And YOU, YOU FUCKING DIPSHIT ASSHOLE.

Secondly, FUCK YOU PATRICK PEXTON! OMG, bloogrrrs and comment-angry-intartubes people are so uncivil. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. You know who it was that FUCKING JUMPED TO HASTY CONCLUSIONS? Rubin. And you. That’s what this whole thing is about. Your fucking bullshit “mean commentors are jumping to conclusions” is fucking rich. It’s fucking Bachmann-class choots-paw.

AND AGAIN, YOU ASSHOLE FUCKFACE SHITBAG:
Our conclusion was that Jennifer Rubin is a total useless fucking hack who has very little regard for facts. Especially when she’s making a point about how evil Muslims blow the shit out of everything. Your conclusion was that evil Muslims blow the shit out of everything so teh Norway thing ahd to be teh fault of Muslims.
Our conclusion – right. As demonstrated in her “mea muslims culpa” post.
Your conclusion – wrnog. In fact, as wrnog as possible in that this was an act of Anti-Islam Terror.
Our conclusion – perhaps delusional in thinking that teh Wash Post might have had some standards. Not journalistic standards, that boat sailed a long time ago – but some minimum level of at least acknowledging reality. I guess that’s asking too much.
Your conclusion – delusional in the same way that Anders Pants Panik is. I’m not trying to say that the Washington Post made that sociopath go crazee, but the way in which he went crazy with teh imaginings of some sort of nigh-unstoppable Islamothreat? Maintaining such a racist and out-of-touch with reality position kinda requires a bit of validation in the unfounded assumptions. The validation you get when EVEN TEH LIBERAL WASHINGTON POST THINKS ALL TERRARISTS ARE MUSLIMS.

“…flotilla reenactment games.”
Hawt. The safe words are “I’m an American citizen”. Not that it works.

<i.Now these kids’ families know what it feels like to be victims of the Islamic terrorists whose Judenrein boycotts and terrorist flotillas against Israel they support

this actually made my jaw drop when i read it…still speechless…

I’m guessing Debs is just really, really pissed that Geller was the guy’s muse and not her.

I’m guessing Debs is just really, really pissed that Geller was the guy’s muse and not her.

catfight!!!

Yeah, tahat “terrorist flotilla” line really got to me. By Grabthar’s Hammer, if I were the Norwegian government (or the German government, etc., etc.), the next aid flotilla going into Gaza would have a heavy naval escort—and I wouldn’t be shy about using it, either.

Maybe one effect of this whole atrocity will be to show some people who haven’t been following this so closely what disgusting pieces of filth these Likud-lickers really are.

Oh, one moar thing. This whole “left and right don’t talk to each other anymore”? FUCK YOU.

A fucking right-wing nutcase psychopath goes on a killing spree. A killing spree where dozens of young liberal activists are gunned down. In cold blood. There’s a left wing – right wing narrative here AND IT IS NOT THE ONE YOU ARE PEDDLING. ASSHOLE.

But both sides do it! We must condemn extremists on both sides of the spectrum!

FUCK YOU ASSHOLE.

c.f. Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, anti-globalisation protests or any other coverage of “fringe leftists” with any right-wing coverage. When does balance get mentioned?

And, please note the scope – a fucking terrorist attack. Death toll high enough to rival Fallujah or Baghdad in the darker days of the occupation. Name one incident of “left-wing extremism” that compares. It is not the fucking same and now what with all those dead Norwegian liberals, is A FUCKING BAD TIME TO BE EXCORIATING TEH LEFT. FOR SHIT THEY DON’T EVEN DO.

And, please note the scope – a fucking terrorist attack. Death toll high enough to rival Fallujah or Baghdad in the darker days of the occupation. Name one incident of “left-wing extremism” that compares.

What’s-her-face-chipmunk-cheeks wore a checkered scarf.

the LULZ from some of little debbie’s commentors are HI-larious:

Morning’s Minion,

I was going to give up on this thread with mindless, inferior minded moonbot trolls like your ilk buster. Since you clearly said this sentence, “I will be passing this post along to my senator and representatives and asking them to pay attention to the rhetoric in the trenches. You bear watching.”, you know what dumbass, your a friggin “fascist”, simple as that! You have the nerve to say that your going to report one poster/reader on this blog to your senator or congressman/congresswoman? You know Mornings Minion, GET THE HELL OFF OF THIS SITE AND DON’T YOU DARE COMEBACK HERE EVER AGAIN IN YOUR PATHETIC LIFE (sorry for the caplocks, I got very angry, because I was offended by your post you putz).

And since you said that your going to forward one poster’s comment to your senator or represntative, I will email Ms. Schlussel and have you banned and blocked from entering her blog. And when that specific poster posts his comments on this blog, I will admit it to him and tell him what you said.

Remember stupid, this is Debbie Schlussel’s blog, ie, her house, and your a visitor/guest, this is NOT your blog. While where at it, go ahead and start your own blog! Another thing before I finish up, this is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and everybody living in this country is entitled to their first amendment right(s) and you CANNOT shut nobody up in this country dumbass!

“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”

the infantile-hissyness of this one makes me think of our friend neil, who just does NOT need to be hectored at CPAC!

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

August 1, 2011 at 15:58

and

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

August 1, 2011 at 16:32

dude, srsly…you’re going to burst something if you don’t let some shit out…

also, too…right on brutha!

I lied. One further point on the “left and right don’t talk to each other anymoar”. In Pexton’s own words:

If your politics are liberal and you don’t generally read Rubin, but [if] you read her Norway posts, you probably would be pretty offended.

Right. So the Wash Post intentionally publishes material that they know is offensive to liberals (not a revelation, but just pointing out that they are admitting it). They give a column to someone they acknowledge as being partisan, divisive and contributing to the breakdown in discussion. You know what might be somewhat relevant to Pexton’s problem with the left and right not talking to each other? Apparently it’s foul-mouthed bloogrrs, but dammit if teh Wash Post bears any blame. So says their ombudsman. Fuck.

Ignore the [if]. I read through it too quickly. OMG! I am to blame for all hasty conclusions and vitriol!

WOW. WOTTA DOUCHE. Here’s his previous column. It’s about Michelle Obama’s million calorie lunch. He uses the column to denounce Anna Holmes’ poor treatment of Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan. SRSLY. Not fucking kidding. Had a talking to with Anna Holmes’ about it.

But a fucking Politics & Policy article about Michelle’s lunch? Single-sourced from an anonymous journalist*? Oh, that’s apparently okay.

*This still fucking pisses me off. Apparently giving your source anonymity makes your story much moar credible and newsworthy.

OMG! I am to blame for all hasty conclusions and vitriol!

i tried valiantly to come up with a mom sex joke, here, but alas…i cannot…

*This still fucking pisses me off. Apparently giving your source anonymity makes your story much moar credible and newsworthy.

not if you’re jenn giroux, it doesn’t!

First, I would like to call out the “anonymous source” as being a spineless coward. If something is true, why not have the courage to put your name to it.

OMG! I am to blame for all hasty conclusions and vitriol!

i tried valiantly to come up with a mom sex joke, here, but alas…i cannot…

Vitriol: it’s a dessert topping, a floor wax, and your mom’s lubricant.

Vitriol: it’s a dessert topping, a floor wax, and your mom’s lubricant.

“With a name like ‘Wangchuck’, it’s gotta be good!”

Vitriol: it’s a dessert topping, a floor wax, and your mom’s lubricant.

i bow before the master…

i bow before the master…

in a totes NOT muslimy way…

Thankee for not making fun of teh “hasty conclusions”.

Thankee for not making fun of teh “hasty conclusions”.

jeepers…i DO have a case of the monday’s if that one got by me…

further proof:

monday’s

i bow before the master…

in a totes NOT muslimy way…

Damn, I was getting a whole Scheherazade vibe.

Damn, I was getting a whole Scheherazade vibe.

or, in a totes muslimy way…i’m flexible…

i’m flexible…

But then…nah, too easy.

The tall goofy green monster from Space Jam?

And she does not deserve some of the calumny she got. Some of the e-mail she received was way over the line — ugly, obscene, vile and, worst, containing threats of physical harm.

I’d be willing to bet dollars to donuts that the threats of physical harm came from “Dan Riehl” conservatives.

From Neils link-
Despite accusing Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and ACU board member Suhail Khan, during his 2011 CPAC speech, of being in league with the Muslim Brotherhood, it was decided that conservative activist David Horowitz would not be precluded from participating in the future.

Norquist and the Muslim Brotherhood?

More linkee fun.
From the comments-
Those of you accusing opponents of the LGBT agenda of invading bedrooms have apparently never been to a gay pride parade, nor forced to march in one against your will,….

I’d be willing to bet dollars to donuts that the threats of physical harm came from “Dan Riehl” conservatives.

or danny boy himself…man, he is full of teh vitriol and anger, is he not? i mean, really…he would be the size you would buy at sam’s club or costco…

apparently never been to a gay pride parade, nor forced to march in one against your will,….

dear penthouse forum,

i never thought it would happen to me, but…

apparently never been to a gay pride parade, nor forced to march in one against your will,….

Did they hold a gun up to your head?

It was an approximation of one.

<i.Did they hold a gun up to your head?

It was an approximation of one.

i will bet he was HECTORED while marching as well…

I boldly go where no really cared to –

America can survive and prosper without institutionalized homosexuality. Our nations through our fathers and grandfathers overcame events that was unconscionable. Our nations fought itself to liberate slaves. Wan against two hot world wars and one cold. became the most powerful nation in the world less then 250 years. Raised the standard of living for ourselves through freedom and innovation.
I think this nation will do just fine without homosexuality being institutionalized.

I welcome gays to come out of the life style.

Lasers are heterosexual?

I welcome gays to come out of the life style.

this sounds strangely like the guy who writes the ‘i am a wealthy nigerian business man…’ emails…

use to be gay and now straight as a laser…

Good for him, let’s stick him on a frickin’ shark’s head.

this sounds strangely like the guy who writes the ‘i am a wealthy nigerian business man…’ emails…

Give me access to your bunghole, and I will deposit my “straight as a laser” anti-gay tip into it.

Give me access to your bunghole, and I will deposit my “straight as a laser” anti-gay tip into it.

the burn means it’s working!

Lasers are heterosexual?

Teh new ones are. Old school gas-lasers operate by exciting gas particles, a process called “stimulation”. These particles then release specifcally wavelengthed photons, a process called “emission”.

The new solid state lasers operate by doping semiconductors to tailor a specific bandgapped p-n junction. So the laser is a result of the interface between two oppositely endowed agents.

p-n junction

i don’t know…a peen junction sounds pretty gay to me…

FILTHY SCURRILOUS RUMOR SEEN ON INTERWEBS = Jonah Goldberg’s original title for his first draft of Liberal Fascism was The Political Economy Of Manufacturing Plausible Deniability … TRUFAX.

Apparently giving your source anonymity makes your story much moar credible and newsworthy.

Nanoid jounalism – you’re soaking in it.

,,,a peen junction sounds pretty gay to me,,,

It’s what teh peen is junctioning with.

A p-n junction is the interface layer between a p-doped (positive carrier) semiconductor and an n-doped (negative carrier) one. And note also that dope is required.

Also too, excuse teh misogyny but the positive carriers are known as “holes”.

Laser? I hardly know ‘er!

The eternal baffling rhetorical question;

How in the FUCKING MOTHERLOVING FUCK are we losing to these guys? Not just losing, we’re getting destroyed.

Why do people insist on sticking forks in their own eyes?

married to a wife with kids of our own.

So, wait, this is supposed to provide evidence that he’s cured? As if no other gay man in the history of gay men has ever had kids with some lady.

C’mon, man, we’ve seen The Birdcage. There’s no shame in banging Christine Baranski and then shacking up with Nathan Lane. We’ve all done it.

“Why do people insist on sticking forks in their own eyes?”

Because they won’t keep the cork on the fork!

Alien vs. Predator

Zombie (Rotten MacDonald), VS’s Dudeskull

Well, I suppose I’m the only one here old enough to remember bipolar transistors, but the mnemonic for remembering which way to point the arrow in the symbol for each type was: PNP=”Prick in Pussy”. (Or NPN=”Not Pointing in” for prudes.)

I suppose you can’t even teach the resistor color code any more: “Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly—Get Some Now!” </gedoffamalawn>

But solid state lasers require a back facet to operate, no?

Also too, excuse teh misogyny but the positive carriers are known as “holes”.

Misogyny cannot Rayleigh be excused.

And, please note the scope – a fucking terrorist attack. Death toll high enough to rival Fallujah or Baghdad in the darker days of the occupation. Name one incident of “left-wing extremism” that compares.

Shit; name one incident of “left-wing extremism,” period. Twenty or thirty years ago, you’d have had plenty, but that’s how long it’s been since left-wing radicals have been any kind of a threat.

Why do people insist on sticking forks in their own eyes?

Because Fox News tells them that forks are designer eyeglasses.

But solid state lasers require a back facet to operate, no?

The substrate? The gender of your sub is hardly relevant to your sexual preferences. All the intermingling of excited electrons and their matched holes is going on up top.

All the intermingling of excited electrons and their matched holes is going on up top

interest? newsletter? website?

There was supposed to be a quote in front of that non-sequitur:

p-n junction

i don’t know…a peen junction sounds pretty gay to me…

Oh, and guys, good schadenfreude from Pajamas Media:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/herman-cain-apologizes-%e2%80%a6-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/?singlepage=true

Herman Cain, the GOP’s token minority bigot, admits the obvious: no, under current American law, it is not in fact legal to deny people the right to build houses of worship just because you don’t like who they’re worshipping. Predictably, the PJM comments section doesn’t like him one bit for it. With quite a few “well, I’m sorry, I liked him, but I can’t vote for him after this.”

Throw him up there with Newt Gingrich; yet another Republican candidate who, after spewing nothing but bullshit for ages on end, is suddenly torn to pieces by his own jackals for pointing out “hey, you know, you can’t actually do that.”

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Herman. And cheer up; with you gone, Allen West moves up in the world. Your ideals, if you can call Token Black Conservative Bigot In Chief an ideal, will live on, even if you don’t.

Addendum: I wonder how many of those guys in the comments section were just waiting and praying for an opportunity like this and pounced when it presented itself.

Let’s face it, Bush did a lot more outreach to the Muslim community than Herman Cain ever did – McCain and Romney threw out nuggets to them too every now and then (especially McCain), but it’s not like that was ever a make-or-break issue like they’re making it out to be here. I realize the teabaggers have shifted the Overton Window way right, and I realize Islamophobia’s been a huge part of that, a bigger issue now than it was in the Bush years.

Still, I’m wondering how many good ole boys were queasy at the thought of voting for Cain and are just using this as the excuse they needed. Sure Herman, in terms of politics you’re our dream candidate, but… but… but… you’re bleck.

More from parade boy. I think we’ll be seing this one in the news. Most likely something to do with weapons, lots and lots of weapons.

nor been sued for refusing to photograph a same-sex wedding, or been a parent court-ordered to have your 9-year-old indoctrinated in your public school, nor fired from your job for contributing to a referendum which the majority of voters supported, nor been court-ordered not to teach your own biological child certain Bible verses that offend your former partner, nor been threatened by a judge to have your own biological child permanently removed from your custody if you don’t allow her to visit your former partner and her latest same-sex lover and gay friends, or stood guard outside a public restroom your wife was using in case a man who has a legally protected gender identity decides to share it with her, or been jaw-droppingly flabbergasted when a state’s elected officials call for the end of separate boys and girls bathrooms in public elementary schools.

In July 2009, a judge ruled that the government had “ample evidence” connecting ISNA to the Holy Land Foundation, Hamas, and the Islamic Association of Palestine, another Brotherhood front shut down for financing terrorism. For example, HLF received checks to the “Palestinian mujahideen,” a reference to Hamas’ military wing, from ISNA accounts. As far back as the 1980s, an FBI document was warning:

Magid and other ADAMS officials have relationships with a wide array of Islamic entities that have been targeted in terrorism investigations.

oh, so because the government says that they are terrorists, then they are terrorists? q.e.d.? how come this is THE only time these dickwad’s think teh gubmint is right?

My sources tell me that some people say that reports indicate that the Norweigan government will soon put all air travelers wearing a crucifix on a watch list.

dickwad’s

why am i having such apostrophe fail (phail?) today?!?!?

The winners who do compromise are winners who still don’t believe in themselves as winners, who still think of themselves as losers.

Not enough Rumsfeld.

OT: i was perusing the wd40 website* and came across this:
Ken is the facility manager at WD-40 Company’s San Diego headquarters and is affectionately known as “The Brewmaster.” He’s been mixing up batches of our secret sauce for nearly 15 years and proudly proclaims, “I absolutely LOVE my job!”

duh…dude’s trippin balls 24/7 on wd40 fumes…

*no, you may not ask why…

Need more martoonies?

Need more martoonies?

this could be so…i had a distinct lack of clear alcohols with a twist of lime this w-end…

Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein?

Oops, not you, the picture.

Why do people insist on sticking forks in their own eyes?

Just following orders.

Let’s face it, Bush did a lot more outreach to the Muslim community than Herman Cain ever did

Just another reason why Bush was always a liberal!

Bush who? Following the talking heads, I thought Clinton was the last president.

And if you thought the Debster was a fetid sack of rotting intestinal discharge, Pammykins ups the ante.

Wow.

Wow is right:

But the jihad-loving media never told us what antisemitic war games they were playing on that island. Utoya Island is a Communist/Socialist campground, and they clearly had a pro-Islamic agenda.

And Emmitt Till was sassy.

Rather absurd that after centruries of being discriminated against, tormented, marginalized, even killed as a group because of sexual orientation, now that gays are banding together in groups to defend and demand equal rights, then the right expresses outrage at “institutionalized homosexuality”.

And if you thought the Debster was a fetid sack of rotting intestinal discharge, Pammykins ups the ante.

Does she really think that saying that killing Middle Eastern/mixed kids is better than killing white kids will make her seem like less of a deranged bigot?

Let me give you a hand with your question there, BBBB

Does she really think

Does that help?

A blogosphere given to vitriol and hasty judgments ought to consider the possible consequences of its own online attacks.

Wait, is he offering us all jobs with the WaPo? Because though I have sunk pretty low I still have SOME dignity.

On bbkf’s mango-

He’s just repeating the various right-wing talking points on “gay anti-Christian oppression”.

Basically, it’s been obvious to even the mouth-breathers in the wingnutosphere that on the gay vs anti-gay battlegrounds that it’s been a long tale of one side thrashing the other with phallic objects and as much as the anti-gay side may long it in private to be the other way around, in public it has been the anti-gay side wielding the PENIS substitutes and political oppression as they used to be proud of before they started losing political support.

As such, they’ve been scrambling like mother fuckers to find any and I mean any examples of straight people being harmed by LGBT people in any way.

What’s sad is the examples they’ve latched on to and popularized over and over again. A couple of San Diego firemen who were ordered to march as allies by their employers, a wedding photographer who refused to shoot a gay wedding but doing so in a dick way at the last minute so it was hard to get a replacement (said douche wasn’t even really punished for it unless you count being viewed as a giant dick and losing some clients who didn’t want to hire a passive-aggressive bigot), the Catholic Charity that decided to fold up placing children in homes because they lost a political battle for same-sex marriage in DC (somehow this is gay people’s faults), and as seen there, the case of the Birth Mother who went to court like an MRA to prevent her former partner from seeing her daughter because she was now “ex-gay” and being funded by the right-wing, which ended up with her losing at pretty much every court level and ordered to allow visitation and then FLEEING THE FUCKING COUNTRY to a location held by the head officials of one of the big anti-gay groups.

Of course, to the desperate hordes needing to cry “we bein repressed by filthy homos” these somehow count.

Also on the list is the “fear” of transwomen molesting ciswomen in bathrooms. I say fear, because despite the desperate aching need to find some transwoman, any transwoman who’s violated someone in a bathroom to trumpet as proof of their fears for the next 20 years, that has yet to occur once. Not even from a right-winger throwing on a wig so they could make transpeople look bad. On the other hand, there have been quite a number of anti-trans activists fixated on the bathroom issue who have been regular cis-male molesters who have trapped women in bathrooms or been caught setting up “peek cameras”, but then everything conservatives do is projection.

So yeah, bbkf’s mango isn’t all that out there, it’s just a defective record trying to repeat the standard talking points and trying to make them seem like real victims above and beyond everything else.

Here is a comment that was made to the Anonymous Norwegian Altas-ian post of Pammy’s past:

So…yes. A very nice letter to you, Pam, from a Norwegian Atlasite (Atlasonian?). Unfortunately, he or she could be prosecuted under hate-speech laws for writing or posting in Norway what you have passed on to us.

Posted by: turn | Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 01:40 PM

yes turn, which is why I ran it anonymously

Posted by: Pamela Geller Oshry | Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 02:54 PM

A person gifted with the emotion of shame would probably be a bit distraught that they hid the identity of (what might just have been) the Norway mass killer/bomber.

For Pammy, it’s just central to her point. Hate-speech laws made her do it!

BBBB-

Of course, as long as they were killing the right untermenschen then it’s perfectly justified and besides it’s vile on every level to argue that her beliefs have any common truck with Anders Breivik. After all, he only thought it was justified to kill kids because of their alliance with what he saw as an “Islamist plot”.

What?

What?

Gay Muslim kids who proudly goosed stepped to the state run abortion clinic.

goose,geese, sumpthin.

You know what, I want to create a gun.

A gun capable of one single task.

I want it not to fire bullets or be a giant phallic replacement for neurotic white people. I want it to simply give people a completely unfettered awareness of themselves and their worldviews.

No more justifications and quick moving dissonances and desperate “it’s not my fault” BS. Just reduce a person to facing themselves, the full consequences of their actions, and the reality of their worldviews with no protections or censors or “it doesn’t count when it’s against X”.

Just reduce themselves to themselves, naked and inescapable.

Of course, such a weapon would probably be unconstitutional thanks to the Amendment on Cruel and Unusual Punishment, but when I encounter actions like Pam’s, I would love to fire such a device just once or twice.

grey goose,geese, sumpthin martini.

She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”

To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”

Isn’t it about time for Pam to get her face melted off by legions of angry ghosts?

cerberus…what’s cis?

Why is a Jewish woman joining in with demonizing another faith with right wing hate speech? That was done about 70-80 years ago, with a horrific outcome.

Of course, as long as they were killing the right untermenschen then it’s perfectly justified and besides it’s vile on every level to argue that her beliefs have any common truck with Anders Breivik. After all, he only thought it was justified to kill kids because of their alliance with what he saw as an “Islamist plot”.

Pam is pretty much the “shonda for the goyim” poster child. I’m embarrassed of her, and I’m not even Jewish.

Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”

Hey, maybe they could have papers which noted how pure their blood was, or even more conveniently wear little symbols sewn onto their clothes!

Also.

Her picture?

The one that was to her covered in Ethnically Arab or “mixed” heritage kids, thus worthy of slaughter owing to their diseased filthy mudblood (but don’t you ever dare call her an eliminationist or a racist).

Look at the number of kids fitting that description.

I count maybe one or two in the front and I could only spot her maybe around 5 total if I was to include anyone not blindingly white including very black children and white kids with a little bit of a tan because they saw the sun for the first time in 6 months.

So she sees a sea of white faces with one brown kid in the front row (who actually looks more ethnically Indian than Arabic) and this one single kid apparently says to her that these kids were justified targets.

So, yeah, if you hold a birthday party for your 6 year old and your kid invites his friend Sandeep, then apparently some racist white fucker has carte blanche to blow away the entire backyard while Pam Atlas will rant on about how a picture of Sandeep wearing a party hat is proof that you were an Islamic Training Ground.

Argh, I hate our failed media so bad. In any halfway functional country, this would be followed by Pam Atlas being number one story on 24/7 news channels as we talked about the calls for genocide and focusing on right-wing terrorism and how it’s focused on killing our kids.

Instead, she’ll be given a free pass and will probably be invited on CNN so she can discuss her “controversial” worldview and illuminate who the real victim of this tragedy is.

bbkf-

Cis = not trans

It’s basically a cute naming system because in chemistry cis and trans directions in chemical bonding are “opposites” so in order to describe the life-experiences of those who are not transgendered and especially those who find their mental sex and their physical sex aligned and in perfect harmony we dub them cissexual or cisgendered.

Historians in the far future reading todays news would not know that Obama is half white without doing some digging.

Didn’t Scare-ah Mi-hell Geller’s original argument go “he only killed white kids, so he can’t have been motivated by hatred of Muslims?” She’s actually found an argument MORE disgusting than that? That’s almost impressive.

Why is a Jewish woman joining in with demonizing another faith with right wing hate speech? That was done about 70-80 years ago, with a horrific outcome.

Because they’re not her people. Conservatives aren’t big on objective morality.

Cis = not trans

As a chemist, I applaud the use of chemical nomenclature for things other than chemicals.

Just like I applaud the use of the word ‘diode’ to represent people who are greedy as fuck or, to go the full distance, psychopaths.

Muslim population of Norway:

Year Muslims Percent
1980 1,006 0.02%
1990 19,189 0.45%
2000 56,458 1.30%
2010 98,953 2.03%

Flooding the country?
wikipedia

It looks good in preview

Or rather isomerism rather than bonding. Brain fart.

Another Kiwi,

They’ve actually got a whole percentage-based theory of the point at which Muslims become dangerous. At a certain low point, they’re just stealth guys doing taqiyya and pretending to be good. Above a certain percentage, they become dangerous, and as the percentage point gets higher and higher, additional levels of danger are added.

Can’t be bothered to look it up, but it’s something I see cropping up as copy-paste in comments sections.

Cis = not trans

I count maybe one or two in the front and I could only spot her maybe around 5 total if I was to include anyone not blindingly white including very black children and white kids with a little bit of a tan because they saw the sun for the first time in 6 months.

skin tone does not always reflect heritage…remembe john boehner’s brother said that he is IRISH…but their mom was darkly complected which is why john was always such an odd hue…ive noticed that he is no longer day-glo…what’s up with that?

Some pourtree-

Gots the Goose in the frozer
wish quittin’ time was clozer

Posted by: Pamela Geller “Hate Life, Live For Hate” Oshry | Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 02:54 PM

Typo detected & amended!

Herman Cain, the GOP’s token minority bigot, admits the obvious: no, under current American law, it is not in fact legal to deny people the right to build houses of worship just because you don’t like who they’re worshipping.

Republican values shining through again:

Criminality in campaign-speech blather = F
Criminality as normal policy = A+

A gentleman is expected to have enthusiasms priorities!

Also, F*Y*W*P*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your Service-Trolling Spell is a weak & useless plaything that you have now cast into the gnashing teeth of my Control-C Familiar!

Bwah hah hah haaaaaah?

bbkf-

Of course, but her comment was “Note the faces which are more Middle Eastern or Mixed than Pure Norwegian”, which means A) she saw an “obvious” flood of non-pure untermenschen kids it was okay to shoot, and B) she saw that number as far too high for her tastes.

Seeing as how the number of kids who would be at all noticeably ethnic arabic is in the low single digits and even then is a miss, it’s worth pointing out that every time these vile right-wing fucks talk about events being “swarmed with darkies” they mean contains at least one dark-skinned person.

This is probably the same thing that leads to them thinking they have obscene amounts of diversity because they invite one token black person to their teabagger rallies.

remembe john boehner’s brother said that he is IRISH…but their mom was darkly complected which is why john was always such an odd hue

Black Irish for heavens sake! John is cafe au nectarine.

This is probably the same thing that leads to them thinking they have obscene amounts of diversity because they invite one token black person to their teabagger rallies.

Bartender?

Of course, I think Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were the greatest comedy duo ever….

I’d probably have to go Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey, but I like how your mind works.

bbkf said

*shudder*

Silly girl, grey goose is vodka. A martini can not be made with vodka.

Can so.

A martini can not be made with vodka.

s’ truth!

There’s nothing particularly chemical about the prefixes “cis-” and “trans-“. They just mean “on the near side of” and “on the far side of”, respectively.

E.g.: Cisalpine Gaul (The Po valley) and Transalpine Gaul (~Present-day France).

Cislunar space (Inside the Moon’s orbit) and Translunar space (Outside the Moon’s orbit).

The South Africans are famous for it: which side of a river something is looking from Capetown: Ciskei, Transkei, etc.

What a depressing day, criminy. With the compromiser-in-chief and his minions in congress, the shrieking harpy, and the continuing existence of the copy-pasta troll, if one more thing piles on I might start smashing things.

So, to make myself not do that, and to bring it back to the happier topic of summer travel: I too will be traveling soon. Unfortunately not to Yurp (where I would visit Belgium and drink and eat until forcibly removed from the country), but only to… Idaho. Yes, glorious Idaho, liberal mecca of the lower 48… Next week I’m heading to Sun Valley and then riding my mountain bike and doing other outdoorsy things for a week.

So, my question to any Sadlies that might perhaps have visited the Ketchum/Sun Valley area — is there any good beer, or must I bring my own? And what else should I plan on doing besides for hiking/biking/trail running, also too?

I can’t say how close they are to Sun Valley, but my sole experience in Idaho was rafting, and it was a blast. So, were I in your shoes I would go whitewater rafting on the Payette and/or Lochsa rivers.

bbkf: cis people identify with the gender others have assigned them from birth, whereas trans people identify with another gender.

All this travelling round Yurp and the USofA is so much persiflage. Come home, discover your ancestors’ real roots. Come home to Africa where we all began.

That’ll teach me to refresh before posting.

If I’m not mistaken they’ve traced pretty much all of us back to the same African woman.

If I’m not mistaken they’ve traced pretty much all of us back to the same African woman

If I get to choose, I’m gonna pick Miriam Makeba!

So, were I in your shoes I would go whitewater rafting on the Payette and/or Lochsa rivers.

Good idea — thanks! There are rivers nearby, and it looks like several guide companies offer one day trips, which would be ideal.

Come home, discover your ancestors’ real roots. Come home to Africa where we all began.

The way things seem to be going in the States, you may have a bunch of us show up on your doorstep, Suezboo.

James Bond said,

August 1, 2011 at 22:24 (kill)

Sorry, James, but no. One can make only martini style drinks with vodka. One can make a “vodka martini” but not a “martini.”

Kochsuckers.

One can make a “vodka martini” but not a “martini.”

okay, fine pickypants!!! i will have a hendricks martini just for you tonight! jeez…

Wow, a Christina Hendricks martini would be amazing…

Wow, a Christina Hendricks martini would be amazing…

would you guys quit with the christina hendricks already?!?!

okay, fine pickypants!!! i will have a hendricks martini just for you tonight! jeez…

and to be fair, i get super-annoyed when people refer to things such as the ‘appletini’ as a martini…

would you guys quit with the christina hendricks already?!?!

Would this even be possible?

So, in line with the whole gimlet-vodka gimlet-margarita-daiquiri thing: A gin martini is a martini, a vodka martini is a vodka martini, a scotch martini is a rob roy…any others I don’t know about?

A gin martini is a martini, a vodka martini is a vodka martini, a scotch martini is a rob roy…any others I don’t know about?

A negroni adds Campari to the gin and vermouth.

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry
Martini? – Noel Coward

Why is a Jewish woman joining in with demonizing another faith with right wing hate speech? That was done about 70-80 years ago, with a horrific outcome.

Depressingly, for some “Never again” has the unspoken clause “unless WE’RE the ones manning the guard towers.”

I’d probably have to go Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey, but I like how your mind works.

Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet didn’t do too badly either, as shown here.

Heh, interesting additional aspect to the Norwegian shooting.

Ross

I didn’t even read this column, but I was struck by the picture.

I’m positive that this is the look Ross would have while peering in your window and masturbating.

Come to think of it, that seems to describe Neil’s picture above.

A negroni adds Campari to the gin and vermouth.

RACIST! I would mention that the drink requires burnt orange but I don’t want to get accused of incitement of torching the Speaker.

I had meant to post aravind’s link (actually a different link but essentially the same story) with a query as to whether Lil Debbie or Pammiecakes had weighed in on how those LESBIANS partially foiled the Xian terrorists plans. But I forgot.

Rev: Terrific on the cis- trans- prefixes. I learned something.
———————-
Matt: Let me know if you want Vienna & Amsterdam suggestions.
———————-
Cerebrus & Chris: Dynamite stuff!

((A description of your writing … but feel free to interpret it as a metaphorical call to action…))
———————
Okay, I’ll take a shot at the photo:

Hannibal Lector?

aravind-

Yay to the story of heroism.

Boo to the fuckers who swarmed the post trying to sell the mango that because the shooter was a thorough Christian who modeled himself after a Crusading Knight Templar and was trying to do his part for a holy war but didn’t hold beliefs like creationism or go to an Evangelical Church every Sunday then he must not be a Christian. Ditto also for the desperate minimization of people dead. Yes, because if the insane mass murderer who shared your life ideology killed 30 less KIDS then it’s almost like he was a pleasant hiker just waving at them instead of a mass-murdering fuckwad.

Seriously, that these fuckers even dare to show their face after incidents like this says everything that needs to be said about our current culture.

aravind: Thanks much! I sent the link to my lesbian sister and her partner. (They’ve been together over 30 years now.)

A negroni adds Campari to the gin and vermouth.

RACIST!

Just don’t be niggardly with the vermouth.

aravind-

Really, though, every time something like this happens, we hear of some awesome, often liberal-leaning person doing some great act of heroism.

The professor who survived the Holocaust protecting his students at the cost of his life during the Virginia Tech shooting. The young student who hijacked a bus and gave people a lift out of New Orleans when the Bush National Guard were preventing people from leaving. The church swarming the Unitarian Church shooter to try and limit the damage he could do. The gay aide who tackled the Giffords shooter. And of course this lesbian couple basically doing a re-enaction of the Beaches of Normandy just to rescue as many kids as they could.

And on the flipside, we don’t see these supposedly heroic manly male right-wing gun nuts saving people. The best the fuckers can pull out is some occasional little old lady capping some poor fucker who was trying to jack a purse because theft is apparently a death sentence. And nearly always the gun nut in these circumstances is the one shooting up the people.

And yet thanks to the 50,000,000 decibel screeching of the right-wing noise machine, we’re all supposed to pretend that right-wingers are the virile heroes you want in a fight, rather than the effete liberal pansies who would just so happen to jump in front of a bullet when the hammer comes down.

Just another sign of political privilege these fuckers gain unearned because conservative = manly = hero in our myopic culture’s eyes.

If I’m not mistaken they’ve traced pretty much all of us back to the same African woman.

I found the ending of Battlestar Galactica unconvincing.

Cerberus – well of course they don’t help them, that would be legitimizing their victimy status! They should clearly pull themselves up by *their own* bootstraps, not asking for a bailout from the shooter.

(Okay, I need to take a shower after saying that)

Also, glad to hear it Fenwick, I’m going to go share it with my mom and her partner too.

To add to Cerberus’ point: Just looking at things from Pammycakes’ and Scheißelkopf’s point of view <gag>, what’s the only country that failed to even resist German occupation? Denmark. Whatta buncha wimpshits, right? OK, what country saved the most Jews from being deported to the Vernichtungslager? Denmark. Funny thing, huh?

“We were eating. Then shooting and then the awful screaming. We saw how the young people ran in panic into the lake,” says Dale to HS in an interview. naturally, we finished our set.

jklol, douchewad guy…really, this is really what happened next:

The couple immediately took action and pushed the boat into Lake Tyrifjorden.

Battleaxe-

And since I’ve been to the Occupation Museum in Denmark, I can also note that “Who in the country was responsible for all the ‘making Nazi lives miserable’ and rescuing the most jews?”

The Socialists. With their illegal left-wing newsletters and their extensive underground networks and coded drop sites and so on. Just another example of left-wing heroes while the right couldn’t wait to hop in with Team Evil.

Now that I think about it, I think I know the real reason that right-wingers hate the left so much.

It’s because we make them look bad.

While they talk about how many kids they’d save from imaginary threats, you know, if only those dirty bastards would start something, we’re out there, rescuing people from deranged shooters, standing up to fascist threats, getting beaten down for supporting what’s right, and taking the risks to make life genuinely better for people in a myriad of ways. We help the scared women through the gauntlets of abusive hate-filled terrorists so they can get necessary medical care. We tackle the shooters and rescue the kids. We run the underground networks that rescue the victims when the rest of the continent falls to Fascists. We do all the things they swear they would have done if they had been there and all the things they never do when they are.

The left is the constant reminder that as much fantasy they surround themselves with, they are never anything but hate-filled cowards more likely to be the person people need to be rescued from than the one doing the rescuing. That they will only ever be the villain, not the hero.

No wonder they want to eliminate us off the face of the Earth. In a world without heroes, then the one who talks the best game must be the greatest hero the world has ever known.

Cerberus, don’t you remember that ineffable douchebag John Derbyshire sneering at the Va. Tech victims because they didn’t “rush” the gunman? I think that blob Mark Steyn weighed in along those lines too. God would I love to put those two shitballs in a situation like that island.

Bitter Scribe-

I notice the fucker was dead silent when the Unitarian Church shooting Church members did “rush the gunman”, ditto when the gay aide took down the GIffords shooter by rushing him. If I remember right, those fuckers were all yelling about how if they weren’t pussies and had been armed instead they could have taken him out that way.

So yeah, back to them playing endless macho fantasy about how much awesomer they would totally have handled it while never once proving their mettle either in “taking out” the shooter or protecting the innocent.

No wonder they want to eliminate us off the face of the Earth. In a world without heroes, then the one who talks the best game must be the greatest hero the world has ever known.

this does seem to work well for them–especially in that if they are ever caught out in their huge web of shite, they can always point out that they are still better because they tried to prevent it from happening in the first place with their intolerance of undesirables…once again it’s the liberals penchant for vicitmization that’s the real problem…

republican motto:

“rush to judgement the gunman”

bbkf: once again it’s the liberals penchant for vicitmization that’s the real problem…

Like the sun rises, it’s always some one else’s fault.

Notice that the right, with all their teabagger rallies and gomers stalking around with their penis substitutes AK-47s outside presidential appearances, only succeed in making themselves look like assholes.

On the other hand: I can testify, as a peripheral semi-participant in the Battle of Seattle, that the left is very good at making their opposition look like total goobers.

It’s almost as if the projection that’s the basis of their philosophy is reversed when it comes to acting out….

Like the sun rises, it’s always some one else’s fault.

their may lack originality, common decency, empathy, etc., but damned if they aren’t persistent in their demagoguery!

Cerberus said,
You know what, I want to create a gun.
A gun capable of one single task.
I want it not to fire bullets or be a giant phallic replacement for neurotic white people. I want it to simply give people a completely unfettered awareness of themselves and their worldviews.

Would they be silenced by the sheer hatred that they put out, or would they be like Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Total Perspective Vortex?

Like the sun rises, it’s always some one else’s fault.

The ‘tard comes in, the ‘tard goes out—you can’t explain that!

A negroni adds Campari to the gin and vermouth.

I believe this was named after the American GI who wanted his Americano a little stronger so the bartender used gin instead of water.

So yeah, back to them playing endless macho fantasy about how much awesomer they would totally have handled it while never once proving their mettle either in “taking out” the shooter or protecting the innocent.

Can’t be arsed, but someone at the Gifford event in Tucson was carrying, but decided not to pull out his … & start shooting, because he realized he was more likely to hurt even more innocents (Yes, I know, NO ONE IS INNOCENT!!!) than to stop Laughner.

You know what, I want to create a gun. A gun capable of one single task.

I want it not to fire bullets or be a giant phallic replacement for neurotic white people. I want it to simply give people a completely unfettered awareness of themselves and their worldviews. … Just reduce themselves to themselves, naked and inescapable.

When I encounter actions like Pam’s, I would love to fire such a device just once or twice.
— Cerebrus

Build the Self-Awarness gun as an automatic. Have b-i-g clips suitable for spraying some Reality around at CPAC, Teabagger rallies, etc. (I’m a lousy shot, btw; I’d empty the whole fuckin’ clip at Pammycakes….)

And yet, even the Self-Awareness gun may not be enough. Loathsome and evil persons may be fully self-aware. (In such cases, their very self-awareness is what makes them so truly evil, imo.)

So I think we’ll also need some (genuine) Human Morality grenades as well.

Late to the game, but has ChrissyFit Barron explained why this is proof gays and lesbians should quietly file into the cattle cars vote Republican?

(Hey, at 400+ posts ya’ll are well overdue for a Goodwin.)

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

OMFG. That Wash Post ombudspology is possibly worse than teh stuff we used to expect from teh late Lovey Howell.

Ah, you got into the WaPoop ombudsthang.

I suppose my comments were already long buried.
~

And since I’ve been to the Occupation Museum in Denmark, I can also note that “Who in the country was responsible for all the ‘making Nazi lives miserable’ and rescuing the most jews?”
The Socialists. With their illegal left-wing newsletters and their extensive underground networks and coded drop sites and so on. Just another example of left-wing heroes while the right couldn’t wait to hop in with Team Evil.

To be fair, the Conservative resistance groups in Denmark were as staunch of the Socialist resistance. There was a lot of cooperation… they took turns using the same illicit printing-presses. Both sides accepted that their policy disagreements could be settled in a fair election, after the more pressing business of making life difficult for the Nazi occupation.

Simpler times. No Fox News.

The mass evacuation of Jews over the strait to Sweden was a kind of shared responsibility. Even the anti-semites (and Denmark had its share of them) took the attitude that “these were our jews, and no-one else gets to persecute them”.
Quite a few were shuttled over in the Carlsberg Brewery ferry, secure in the knowledge that the Nazis would not risk dragging Sweden into the war by interfering with beer deliveries.

Smut Clyde: I enjoy learning things. Thanx.

I also enjoy learning things, especially when they reaffirm my belief in beer as a power for peace. I know I’m feeling pretty peaceful right now…

Can’t be arsed, but someone at the Gifford event in Tucson was carrying, but decided not to pull out his … & start shooting, because he realized he was more likely to hurt even more innocents (Yes, I know, NO ONE IS INNOCENT!!!) than to stop Laughner.

I remember that. He was paraded as a hero because he was carrying, despite the fact that he was smart enough to keep it in his pants, so to speak. He dropped off the screen pretty quickly after he made the point a few times. If you don’t fit the narrative, you don’t get airtime on Fox. IIRC, he actually had the temerity to mention what a clusterfuck it would have been for any cops showing up if there were several people with drawn guns. “And now, a word from our sponsor…”

Is there anything beer can’t do?

Is there anything beer can’t do?

It can’t make Pammy any less loathsome.

*tries to imagine how much beer there is………………………….*

Wants beer.

It can’t make Pammy any less loathsome.

I’d say, “Sure it could. She could fall into a barrel of it and drown.” but that wouldn’t be nice.

Not to mention the horrible loss of the beer.

So, didja hear about the Irishman who drowned in a barrel of beer? ‘Twas sad. Took three hours. Well, he got out four times to pee, y’see.

P.S. Forgive me, Uncle Ray………………….

S’all right, kid.

Teh Lunch Lady is Uncle Ray?!?!? 0_o !?

I know this is late in the conversation, but does anyone notice that not a single one of the ‘regulars’ there bothers to make any citations or links to back up their claims?

There are multiple comments about ‘GOProud called people nasty names’ and ‘They just attended to call family-friendly groups names’. But no supporting links…

Giant Blue PENIS.

Don’t touch that! It’s a very important work of art!

/>Clockwork Orange

Can we just jump ships to the Green party already? Or Canada? Really, those are basically the only two choices… maybe the peace and freedom party instead of the greens…

I know this is late in the conversation, but does anyone notice that not a single one of the ‘regulars’ there bothers to make any citations or links to back up their claims?

Well, we’re totally evil, granted. But most of what goes on here is just good-natured ribbing.

My Congressman, Ed Towns, voted “no.” So I’ll be voting for him again. We’ll see what Chucky and Gillibrand do today…

Well, we’re totally evil all one guy, granted. But most of what goes on here is just good-natured ribbing POOP and PENIS.

Fuqqst for accuracy.

Isn’t it about time for Pam to get her face melted off by legions of angry ghosts?

Again?

Here’s a link. Actual PowerTool headline:

Is Obama Administration Forcing Electric Vehicles Down Our Throats?

I’m kind of pissed off with everything these days, but nice to know the wingnuts are still finding new types of imagined victimhood and describing it using inept, old metaphors, as if they crave the same mockery they’ve earned many times over.

OMG, wingnuts have huge throats!

Can’t be arsed, but someone at the Gifford event in Tucson was carrying, but decided not to pull out his … & start shooting, because he realized he was more likely to hurt even more innocents (Yes, I know, NO ONE IS INNOCENT!!!) than to stop Laughner.

And wasn’t he right, in that the person he saw with the gun had already taken it off of Loughner?

OMG, wingnuts have huge throats!

The better to fellate and or sing with , sez granny.

OMG, wingnuts have huge throats!

Another reason they are called tea-baggers…

From Ted’s link:

The number was agreed to by the White House, EPA, Department of Transportation, California Air Resources Board, several major automobile manufacturers, environmentalists, etc. All the major players were represented except one – the American public – the consumer who is expected to buy the automobiles manufactured under this standard.

I don’t know, I feel pretty well represented by that group. I was pretty stunned to hear that we’re finally seeing a change (upward) in fuel mileage standards.

I don’t know, I feel pretty well represented by that group.

Assrocket wasn’t there personally, they did something he wouldn’t do, qed fascism.

Conservative victimhood is always so marvellously understated.

Conservative victimhood is always so marvellously understated.

It is. I was proud of myself at like 4 years of age, when I stopped throwing temper tantrums and started to learn to deal with things (ya know, look on the bright side, use circumstances to my own advantage where possible, etc) in a more adult manner.

In all of AssRocket’s sobbing and crying, he seems to have forgotten that a tank of gas is $50 or so. If you have to fill it half as many times in a year, you’d //be upset that OBAMBI IS SHOVING CASH FUCKING MONEY DOWN YOUR THROAT!!1??//

Also, I wonder where the tipping point is. I realize it’s theoretical in nature, but there has got to be some point where the readers read it and go–“Ok, you’re just being a whiny-butt now”. I would think that cutting the amount of fuel a household uses in half would be welcomed even by a dumbfuck wingnut.

But then the poutrage isn’t about protecting “the American public” he’s prattling on about, now is it?

Go fuck yourself, Hinderaker. You stink and nobody likes you.

He is upset that he will have to leave his car idling overnight twice as many days in order to make us liberals as angry.

What I love is how increasing gas mileage is the wustest fascism scialsmsm EVAH, yet selling grandma for soap to the billionaires is the purest, sweetest, patriotisms.

reaffirm my belief in beer as a power for peace

so true…once beer sales were jeopardized by the mn govt shutdown, by cracky people sat up and noticed…sure it was a crap budget bill they passed, but by god, do not interfere with the beer!

know this is late in the conversation, but does anyone notice that not a single one of the ‘regulars’ there bothers to make any citations or links to back up their claims?

they NEVER do! they just immediately whip into a frenzy if anyone dares ask for a citation or source…and then they just get even more hateful…over on gayputzriot the other day, pup asked for solid evidence showing that tax cuts do provide jobs…they went all apeshit on him and then finally provided a link of obama saying he believed the tax cuts would provide jobs…i hopped in and pointed out that that was NOT definitive proof and poof! my comments were gone…

i do not know how they get out of bed in the mornings without killing someone…actually, i guess that’s why it’s more likely to be a wingnut that goes on a shooting spree….apparently the the self loathing that is inherent in being a judgemental, penurious, petty twat just gets to be overbearing and then something snaps…

Is Obama Administration Forcing Electric Vehicles Down Our Throats?

hmmm…i cannot wait for this episode of ‘my strange addiction’ or whateverthefuck it’s called…

Shocking.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/07/31/church-child-protection-chief-caught-with-child-porn-pictures-115875-23308972/

Also, I wonder where the tipping point is

what scares me is that i don’t think there IS a tipping point…i just keep imagining this nonsense to keep going on until the right is a mass of frothing at the mouth lunatics jumping at shadows with their ak47s firmly gripped…

Church spokesman ­David Pond said: “Mr Jarvis was suspended from his position as soon as the diocese became aware in March of the police investigation.

“The Bishop took that action and since then the Church has worked closely with the police.”

well it’s about effing time…

i do not know how they get out of bed in the mornings without killing someone

actually, i meant w/out killing themselves…

Authorities were schocked–SCHOCKED!–to discover that there was buggering gambling happening in this all-male organization casino!

“Gingrich complained yesterday that the press is ignoring his prodigious Twitter audience: “I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn’t count because if it counted I’d still be a candidate; since I can’t be a candidate that can’t count.” Which is true! Gingrich currently boasts 1,325,842 followers, whereas competitors Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann have yet to crack 100,000.”

[That’s awesome Newt. Tell us how you did it?]

“Newt employs a variety of agencies whose sole purpose is to procure Twitter followers for people who are shallow/insecure/unpopular enough to pay for them. As you might guess, Newt is most decidedly one of the people to which these agencies cater.”

[Ahhhhhaaaa! Ha! Ha!]
http://gawker.com/5826645/

“I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined

most folks can’t turn away from a carwreck, newt…

Cowardly.

…or would they be like Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Total Perspective Vortex?

That’s what came to mind for me as well. I expect the self-evisceration rate would rise dramatically.

most folks can’t turn away from a carwreck, newt…

American Idol is one (if not the) most popular television show in America.

Attention != approval there, Newtie boy. Caribou Barbie is popular, too, but she doesn’t have a chance in Hell of ever being President.

How many of Newt’s million odd followers are waiting for him to ditch the current wife in 140 or fewer characters?

@mrs_newt soz u 2 old nao but u not dying like #1 so its not all bad amirite RT @new_mrs_g #wheresmytiffanysaccount its done c u l8er

Is Obama Administration Forcing Electric Vehicles Down Our Throats?

Yeah, right, like that’s where they’re going to put it.

I wrote some years ago about the human toll that EPA gas mileage regulations have taken. I can’t readily put my hands on the numbers, but tens of thousands of people have died because of those mandates, which have required lighter–and now, ironically, more expensive–vehicles.

SUVs do not exist, and even if they did exist they didn’t cause any deaths, and even they did cause deaths it’s the EPA’s fault because HEY LOOK A LAND SQUID *hides*

Hindy must know CAFE standards were passed by CONGRESS, the EPA just measures the mpg to gauge compliance. The problem was that how to meet CAFE standards was left to the car companies, and they chose to make vehicles lighter without regard to safety. Yay free market. Eventually the government wised up and mandated safety standards, too. However, this being America he is still TOTALLY FREE to bolt several hundred pounds of extra metal to his car and cut out all the seat belts and air bags.

Bravo, Ted.

I remember back when SUV’s were first becoming so outrageously popular back a several years ago. There was an almost two year stretch when we had at least one rollover accident a week on I-75. During tourist season there were at least two a week and there was always one every Friday. Always an SUV and about twenty percent of the time with fatalities. Things have gotten much better lately. I can only suppose that government regulation and the fact that high fuel prices are forcing people into lighter vehicles are responsible.

I know I only have anectdotal eveidence here, but that is the only kind of evidence that a wingnut can assimilate.

re: vehicle size and safety.

The wiki is a good place to start. Looks like if Asssrocket really does care about auto fatalities caused by CAFE standards, the first step is to start classifying SUVs as cars instead of trucks.

Also on the CAFE standards wiki page, the example illustrating the coercively exorbitant penalties for missing CAFE standards worked out to $122 per new Mercedes-Benz.

I can’t readily put my hands on the numbers I’m completely making this shit up, but…

fixxored for accuracy.

worked out to $122 per new Mercedes-Benz.

Why, that’s as bad as HITLER!!!!

I once wrote a letter to the editor at Car & Driver after the third straight month of some fucking SUV monstrosity on the cover. Something to the effect of: “It’s supposed to be Car and Driver, not Truck and Shit-Kicker! Oddly enough, they didn’t print it.

Well, those underscores showed up in Preview, but you get the idea.

I once wrote a letter to the editor at Car & Driver

I gave up on C & D after the umteenth rant by Csaba Csere about how awful the Gummint was and what a crime CAFE standards and clean air standards were. Shut the fuck up, “Chubba” and write about neat cars you whiny asshole.

Not that anyone will see this… Shortly after the Prius came out they did a big spread about how YOU SHOULDNT BUY THEM BECAUSE YOURE NOT SAVING MONEY!!!1ELEVENTY! I wrote them a letter saying that I was quite surprised that they were so hot to say that practicality should be the sole or main consideration in autiomobile purchases. Really guy? I mean, really? YOU want to go down that road?

Isn’t it about time for Pam to get her face melted off by legions of angry ghosts?

I thought she got a bad chemical peel from Dr Zizmor.

It’s late but I have to snark…

catholics finally explain the little-boy-buggering thing–they didn’t know it was wrong!

But Bishop Connors on Tuesday said not even revelations from Detective Sergeant Kevin Carson that 26 young men had killed themselves after being abused by priests and brothers in Ballarat convinced him that more would be learnt from an inquiry.

“I think we’ve learnt a lot of things about what is appropriate behaviour and what’s not appropriate behaviour,” Bishop Connors said.

via PZ

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