Biff Tannen is Their God Now

“Our Tannen at the sockhop, hallowed be thy name. Your punchings come, your trees to get out of here, in the Wild West as it is in the future. Give us this day our daily butthead, and give us our Hello McFlys, as we also have taken his wallet. And call us not the chicken, but deliver us the future betting book. Amen.”

Jim Geraghty, National Cuckoo:
Gird Yourself for the Tsunami of ‘Bullying and the 2012 Race’ Columns

Well it’s nice of wingnuts to warn us in the title what we can expect from them for the next 6 months.

Shorter (or second-to-last port before Jungle):

  • Ah, fuck, why did we decide this election should be decided on personality rather than policy? Oh right, our policies suck. Well, fine then, bullies are a fiction of your imagination, you fucking nerds you.

Or to put it more simply:

Alternate Shorter (or last port before Jungle):

  • Really, wasn’t everyone a bully when they were in high school?

So yeah, shock of shocks, the Smiler turns out to have been a childhood bully.

NO! REALLY?!?

The guy who is a low-functioning sociopath, tortured his dog because he could, tortures his kids on long road trips because he can, and enjoys firing people for the power trip was also a bully when he was a kid?!? That’s as shocking as when the bottle of Jasmine Green Tea in my fridge contained liquid ambrosia from the Gods (damn I love having a Korean grocery store pretty much next door to my apartment)!

And this presents a problem for the right-wing. Cause most people don’t like bullies, especially high school bullies. And most people have a lot invested in pretending said bullies that tormented them in school have gone off to have lives of quiet misery and failure rather than being rocketed to the tops of Fortune 500 companies based on their casual enjoyment of other people’s suffering.

But the right-wing need to defend Mitt Romney. Reflexively. He’s their guy, the guy they need to fall behind, the guy they’re literally ordered to drop behind and shine the ass of.

And it’s really not hard for them to do so on this issue. It hasn’t been a very well kept secret that the right-wing pretty much is entirely a retirement home for high school bullies and assorted douchebags at this point. I mean, pretty much all their tactics are just upscaled high school bully tactics. Tough talk and intimidation aimed at the most weak-appearing and most-outcast members of the general population, openly picking on said outcasts in overt ways, whining to the teachers (media) whenever their victims fight back in the slightest, talking tough about who’s ass their going to kick, stalking the girls and threatening them, verbal abuse, dirty tricks, etc…

So yeah, to the right-wing, this is Christmas! The guy they’ve been glumly following out of necessity has finally given them the sign that he’s one of them. He’s shaved off the head of the damn fag that gave them their first hate boner. He tricked that stupid blind teacher into a door to show that damn cripple who’s boss. He’s been there, given that swirlie to the nerd.

Every ounce of their body wants to celebrate and they can’t. Everyone hates bullies. And the right-wing is already in hot enough water with their unending bullying of women and latin@s in the last couple of years, not to mention their stead-fast resistance to all anti-bullying laws.

So what to do?

Well, if your the right-wing (or an unsurprisingly large number of our bought-and-sold media), you completely fail to hide your allegiances.

But enough setup, it’s time to see how Jim fights his personal losing battle against his own glee.

The rules of modern political journalism are that everything that occurs in a candidate’s life* is fair game for a thorough examination, and everything is imbued with some deeper meaning that reveals some key, fundamental truth about how the candidate will perform as president, and indeed the policies that president will pursue.

Yes, wonder who invented those rules that said the most important offices in the world were a glorified popularity contest to be decided on who’s winning the day? Could it be the party with terrible policies that also happens to own most of the media? Nah, that’s crazy talk.

But nice to see that now that you’re stuck with a sociopath disguised as a robot against the most affable doormat the world has ever seen, you’ve suddenly seen the errors of your ways and want to talk policy.

And not a moment too soon. We’ve got a backlog here! So should we start with the Republican stated goal of trashing the economy to win the 2012 election, the current War on Women, arguing that companies should own their employees, your proposed plans to eliminate Medicare, or your stated opposition to ever fixing our broken health care system?

(This isn’t true, as I’ll argue below, and I didn’t write those rules. But the world of political journalism still operates by those rules, whether or not we like them.)

We’ve seen this approach applied to the president:

(Followed by three post titles that are well-worn recent wingnut dog-whistles and distractions about the president barely hidden as links to theoretically liberal posts just talking about the Drudge leftovers)

… So no then, eh?

I know, I know, the Constitution is very clear on the “Conservatives win everything and liberals aren’t allowed to fight back or even campaign” clause, but what can you say. These modern liberals are sneaky sonuvabitches.

So undoubtedly, the tale of Mitt Romney being a prep-school bully is going to unleash a tsunami of the anecdote’s “deeper lessons” and “disturbing implications” and “revealing glimpses of hidden psychology” and so on for days, mostly from commentators who would look at a comparable anecdote about Obama and probably shrug. Lost in many of these arguments will be the idea that people change, and that perhaps the childhood, teen years, or even young-adult years of a person in their 50s or 60s aren’t the most illuminating or revealing factors in who they are today.

Well of course. Childhood actions aren’t really equivalent to adult actions on a 1-to-1 level. You know, like arguing that Obama and Romney are just as bad because Obama made a joke about eating what was served to him as a child while Romney tortured a dog in the very recent past as a theoretical grown-up.

Yeah, on it’s own and if the Smiler had shown any genuine remorse instead of basically going “ah shit, I’m sorry I got caught”, it would probably have been nothing. But when it turns out the Smiler’s life is made up of nothing but “isolated incident” of cruelty after another, it becomes another thing entirely.

That is to say, it becomes one specific thing. A thing that begins with a P- and ends with an -attern. That’s right, I’m talking about the Forest Green Rovers!

Probably didn’t help the Smiler’s case that this particular bit of no shit came after he fired his underused gay capo. Especially after he tried to dodge the blame for that fallout by claiming to have never been a homophobe in his life.

Almost every smart adult can point to at least one extraordinarily stupid, careless, or cruel thing they did in their younger years.

Yes… and… … wait

I couldn’t have read that right.

Did you just basically assume that every single American adult (sorry, just the “smart” ones wherein smart means completely idiotic right-winger poured into a generic suit) can personally identify with bullies?

Oh sure, you were careful to coach the term in so much wiggle-room you can weave and argue later, but still. There is such a thing as context you know.

Wow, couldn’t even make it past the first paragraph out of the setup, could you?

To be fair to Jim though, most of the people he knows would answer yes. Mainly because they don’t even let you apply to work for the National Review unless you’ve performed at least one swirlie in your life.

My guess is that much of this commentary will focus on bullying, and how Mitt Romney supposedly never lost his bullying tendencies

My guess… undoubtedly…

No, Jim, I had no idea this was a panicked attempt to get ahead of a legitimately damaging story and feebly try and bury it. You disguised it so well what with not bothering to wait for any actual criticisms before you started taking the combine harvester to the scarecrows.

And what’s the word for when you’ve invented a strawman to destroy and it still ends up kicking your ass?

— never mind that he’s one of the most polite, even-tempered, and careful and cerebral figures in modern politics —

The Smiler is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.

and how a President Romney would bully Congress, the American people, and the world.

I don’t think we needed evidence of his high school bullying practices to guess that one.

Fuck, I don’t even think we needed an actual candidate to guess that one. I mean, the Bush years pretty definitively demonstrated that that’s pretty much the Republican default mode these days.

Inevitably, commentators will draw upon their personal experiences with bullying. I’m struck by how few people say that they weren’t bullied at all during their childhood and teen years. But just as it is mathematically impossible for everyone who was “always the last one picked for sports” to be the actual one, most people’s childhood anecdotes add up to teeming crowds of bullying victims but few bullies to be found. If almost everyone was bullied to one degree or another, the one’s experience as a bullying victim probably shouldn’t be cited as some sort of special knowledge or insight, a gnostic revelation into the mindset of others.

Ha! As if anyone is actually bullied. Why they’re just making up those incidents. Like Ol’ Billy from school. Making up all those crazy stories about how I would beat him up all the time. Well, Billy, how are you going to tell those stories with a black eye? Yeah, as I said, nobody is really bullied and having your mom call my mom about it is snitching Billy and you know what happens to snitches.

But on a more serious note, I guess this is Phase II once it becomes painfully clear that the homophobic resistance to the Anti-Bullying laws is no longer even remotely sustainable without looking like the KKK. Arguing that we don’t need bullying laws because bullying victims just lie about bullies existing in order to punish those over-oppressed white christian conservative males… who just randomly happen to be bullies.

Also, bonus points for writing it literally one paragraph after your throwaway “wasn’t everyone a bully in high school” bit.

Nick Gillespie wrote about the perception of a “bullying crisis” in the Wall Street Journal last month:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

He quoted 6 straight paragraphs from the World’s Douchiest Libertarian (an impressive feat to say the least).

Yeah, no.

Douche Shorter (nope, still firmly jungle at this point):

  • Faggy liberals actually doing the important leg work to force everyone to actually recognize bullying and stop turning a blind eye to it is proof that bullying is fixed now. And if it’s fixed now, it never existed. And if it never existed then trying to fix the bully problem is proof that the real bullied people are bullies unfairly being singled out over PC bullshit like bullying a kid for being a fag. Therefore, Anti-Bullying Measures must be opposed like the Liberal Fascism that they are. P.S. If kids want to stop getting beat up, they need to act less like pussy fags asking for a beating.

And that’s not so much shorter as verbatim.

… On an unrelated note, I should probably feature one of his articles somewhere in here.

But back to the original douchebag.

Of course, someone will read all this and insist it’s a defense of bullying or something.

Nah, really? Someone will read a giant mess of text supporting bullying while arguing that bullies are the real victims and read it as a defense of bullying? Who could do such a thing! Obviously only one group is so conniving, so manipulative, so completely hateful as to manage it.

That’s right, so called bullying victims. We’ve got our eyes on you. Our eyes on your increased onset of suicide and layers of bruises and emotional scars… um… Nick, help?

The knee-jerk accusation of insensitivity or support of cruel violent behavior is aggressive, coercive, abusive . . . if only we had a term for that sort of thing.

Ah of course! Bully victims (and those who recognize and speak out about it) are the real bullies!

Thanks for that Nick, I almost had sympathy for some of those buttheads!

 

Comments: 771

 
 
 

Farst!!

 
 

“aggressive, coercive, abusive”

Outrageous, egregious, preposterous! Being a bully is your civil right. They’re trampling on your civil rights!

And I bet you’ve had some emotional trauma as well. Some self-esteem loss, some alienation. Alright alright. Let’s get you in to see the doctor.

 
 

Also, too, I’m pretty tired of this goddamned meme here. It’s like, “You can Win any Argument with Liberals by Using this One Simple Trick”.

Rich people are the REAL poor people.
Murderers are the REAL dead people.
Socialists are the REAL Fascists.
Educated people are the REAL idiots.

For God’s sake give it a rest already.

 
 

It works for them to do it backwards too.

Poor people are the REAL rich people, for they are rich in spirit

Dead people are the REAL murderers, for they are killing us all with their debt that we acquired

Facists are the REAL socialists, because these two terms are used without regard for their analytic content and so you can say stuff like this.

Idiots are the REAL educated people, because their heads aren’t filled with leftist nonsense from the ivory tower perverts.

Of course, it needs to be able to work both ways, so that it will still operate when the wingnut grabs ahold of something (Osama bin Laden is the most evil man ever!) before he knows which end he’s got (, , , which is why politicizing his death is so awful!)

 
 

Biff Tannen was always their god. To be right-wing is to be a selfish bully.

 
 

John, isn’t it “I can’t win any argument with liberals using any other trick but this”?

Nobody is going to give it a rest, because it’s easy to bully the liberals into rolling over and falling silent.

 
Billy the Bully Corpratist
 

Yeah, I’d just as soon make a profit off your death as look at you.

Hey now, why the all the hate?

 
 

Stupid capitalist: intelligent parasites don’t kill their hosts.

 
 

Both Sides Do It — it’s the conservative sermon on the mount!

 
 

Stupid capitalist: intelligent parasites don’t kill their hosts.

Nah, but they suck all the life out of them that they can, while seeding their spawn everywhere the host goes.

Kinda like the Chicago boyzzzz.

 
 

Faggy liberals actually doing the important leg work to force everyone to actually recognize bullying and stop turning a blind eye to it is proof that bullying is fixed now. And if it’s fixed now, it never existed. And if it never existed then trying to fix the bully problem is proof that the real bullied people are bullies unfairly being singled out over PC bullshit like bullying a kid for being a fag. Therefore, Anti-Bullying Measures must be opposed like the Liberal Fascism that they are. P.S. If kids want to stop getting beat up, they need to act less like pussy fags asking for a beating.

Yup, that’s pretty much it without euphemism or evasion.

 
 

Does America have more bullies than soshulist Yurrup? Why or why not?

 
 

We cannot afford a bully gap, gentlemen.
~

 
 

First Law Of Robotics is “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

Thus Mitt is innocent, QEmuthafuckinD!

But really, like most sociopaths, a traumatized kid was just a pleasant but not very memorable afternoon for Mittster. 10,000 ‘right-sized’ workers? He remembers a .0035% uptick on Bain stock that afternoon, it was fabulous! The foreign advisor that quit, a perfect republican in almost every way, but there was something off about him? That sort of personnel decision shouldn’t even cross his desk, check with HR/FRC/AFA.

This Gerahgty dude has his tongue so far up Mitt’s ass he can tickle Mitty’s uvula.

 
 

OT out of the gate.

I have to say that last night I witnessed one of the most successful trolling campaigns I never expected to see in this space. Having prepared in advance by peppering the place with shopworn pedantic bullshit it lit the fuse, derailed the thread entirely, managed to get more attention than it could have possibly hoped for and walked off with a herd of goats.

I hate to say it but i have to score it this way: Trolly 1, S.N! 0.

If you must engage, do so with mockery, and if that fails to have the intended effect, then ignore the attention whore, but most of you know that allready.

 
 

Hey, I still think we could have buried it in filked rap lyrics and tree puns, but everybody with jobs and lives got drunk and wandered away.

Or is that “got drunk to wander away”?

*evil grin*

 
 

If you must engage, do so with mockery, and if that fails to have the intended effect, then ignore the attention whore, but most of you know that allready.

A bulldog will beat a skunk 10 out of 10 – but it’s not worth the fight.

 
 

I have to say that last night I witnessed one of the most successful trolling campaigns I never expected to see in this space. Having prepared in advance by peppering the place with shopworn pedantic bullshit it lit the fuse, derailed the thread entirely, managed to get more attention than it could have possibly hoped for and walked off with a herd of goats.

I don’t agree at all. Stomping on trolls is a grand old Sadly tradition, and this particular troll – arrogant, ignorant, tedious, and abusive – was especially stompworthy. If the thread is derailed, so what? Happens all the time. We’re derailing this one ourselves, right now.

Now, if the troll shows up week after week, and deliberately derails and dominates every thread by suckering the same posters into endless pointless arguments, that is a problem. See Twoofie for example.

 
 

There are rails? Why wasn’t I told?

 
 

Cause most people don’t like bullies

Sadly, no. I seem to remember a president who basically won his re-election because he was seen as a bully and yet also seen as the candidate you’d want to have a beer with.

 
 

I seem to remember a president who basically won his re-election because he was seen as a bully and yet also seen as the candidate you’d want to have a beer with.

Grover Cleveland libel!

 
 

The knee-jerk accusation of insensitivity or support of cruel violent behavior is aggressive, coercive, abusive

Holy shit, that is the dumbest part of a thoroughly dumb piece. And knee-jerk my ass, bub, you just wrote an entire fucking article hand-waving away Romney’s ACTUAL cruelty and yet have the balls to say anyone who disagrees is the real bully? Also too for fuck’s sake, someone who writes for the august publication that birthed “The Corner” really has no place complaining about the dumbing down of political coverage.

 
 

The Putzriot has been fluffing the Mittster for several days over this, repeating over and over again that “if he did it (which Dan doubts, because one of the five witnesses is a Democrat) then it’s something he stopped doing years ago.” Oh, ok. I suppose we should all applaud Romney having obtained, by age 65, the restraint that keeps him from assaulting random persons because he doesn’t like the their hairstyle.

I think it’s more like this: when he was a teenager, Romney assaulted a weaker kid to curry favor and popularity with his classmates. As a vulture capitalist, Romney bullied workers out of jobs to curry favor and popularity with shareholders. As a presidential candidate, Romney is now stating support for a constitutional amendment to make sure it’s clear to everyone that gays are second-class citizens, to curry favor and popularity with homophobic bigots.

No, of course the child is not the father of the man.

 
 

Would love to see hundreds or thousands of anti-bully, anti-Romney people show up at GOP rallies wearing Andy Warhol wigs and clicking scissors (children’s scissors obviously so security doesn’t freak).

 
 

So let me get this straight…

Bullying is ok, because it toughens up those femmy little guys who aren’t good at playing with balls and rolling around on the floor hugging other guys and maybe don’t enjoy showering with a ton of other men…

And since we called Bitch Rmoney a bully because he is a bully, this bitch is crying in the corner because he got…bullied?

That’s what I thought.

 
Frustrated Entrepreneur
 

…show up at GOP rallies wearing Andy Warhol wigs and clicking scissors (children’s scissors obviously so security doesn’t freak).

Purple plastic scissors.

 
 

Let me blog-whore a PENIS!

 
 

In fairness, this is not exactly news. The Republicans have been engaged in a campaign of national bullying for the past 30 years.

 
 

DrDick –

Just because they insist on attacking the weak, running up the score, ignoring pleas for help, flaunting wealth and power in front of those without, and silencing opposition voices is no reason to use the shaming language of “bullying.” You might hurt their feelings.

 
 

Well the faggy nonconformist had it coming because he looked like a fag and you know boys will be boys and stomp the shit out of that. Who can blame them when that’s what their reptilian brains tell them to do? But then Mittens says gee whiz he can’t remember such a thing, but if it happened and if someone was hurt, then he’s sorry, sort of, but double gee whiz it was the 60s and no one even knew what faggotry was way back then, so it had nothing to do with that (if it ever happened in the first place). It’s much more likely two rough and tumble boys went at over who got to play stink finger with the town tramp. Yeah, that’s the ticket. The fact that faggy fag cried like a baby while being pinned down and having a maniac go at him with scissors is just proof that 1) he’s not a real man anyway and 2) he had it coming and 3) why would anyone “normal” give it shit and 4) bwahahahaha. The Republitards just love heads-I-win, tails-you-lose argumentation and defining problems out of existence.

 
Captain Picard
 

gracie said,
May 16, 2012 at 16:17

Would love to see hundreds or thousands of anti-bully, anti-Romney people show up at GOP rallies wearing Andy Warhol wigs and clicking scissors (children’s scissors obviously so security doesn’t freak).

Make it so.

 
 

I’m assuming every Romney rally from here on out will involve the crowd picking out four or five people, selecting them as the Designated Nerds, and beating them up for the Mittster’s approval. Whoever gives out the best ass-whuppin’ gets to be Secretary of Education!

 
 

accusation of insensitivity or support of cruel violent behavior is aggressive, coercive, abusive . . . if only we had a term for that sort of thing.

“Conservativism” works pretty well, no?

 
 

Sylvia Plath wrote:

Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

I think that, actually, more men than women are in love with bullies; I have seen no better description of Bill O’Reilly’s audience than ‘guys still in love with their middle-school gymn teacher’.

 
 

Oh, ok. I suppose we should all applaud Romney having obtained, by age 65, the restraint that keeps him from assaulting random persons because he doesn’t like the their hairstyle.

he did at least learn something from the incident…he learned that short, permanently shellacked hair is not easily cut when you are tackled by five bullies…

 
 

I have seen no better description of Bill O’Reilly’s audience than ‘guys still in love with their middle-school gymn teacher’. – Gerald Fnord

Thank you for that mental image. Now every time I happen to meet someone who likes Bill O’Reilly, I’ll not be able to help picture him getting all hot and bothered by a middle-school gym teacher. Then again, what you say is no doubt quite true. But sometimes the truth hurts!

 
 

The 1% bosses of this nation, not to mention the shouty media, are all sociopathic bullies, who celebrate their, uh, bully-tude. Conservatives, especially oh-so-victimized while males, mostly were true victims of bullying in their youth and/or adult years (bullying does not stop upon graduation). This babble is meant to make all those former “nancy boys” feel like they’re now part of the Club of King Bulliers, and ooooo, don’t that feel great??

Jokes on them cuz the 1% Bullies are still bullying those twerps, but now it’s a bigger laff riot cuz the dweebs gleefully bend over to take it thinking that they’re dishing it out. bwahahahahahahahaha

 
 

I don’t know if they think they’re dishing it out, or unaware that they’re taking it…but they do know that someone else is getting it worse than they are.

….so the djinn tells Ivan, ‘I can give you anything, but the only catch is that your neighbour, Sergei, will get it double.’ Ivan does not hesitate to say, ‘Put out one of my eyes.’

 
Lurking Canadian
 

We should also on no account pay any attention to the fact that Romney was so un-troubled by the incident that he claims not to remember it, but he’s “sorry if anybody was offended”.

Because a total lack of basic human decency is what you want in a President, I guess. Really, it’s unfair just to bring it up.

 
 

Vet for thee (Obama)
Not for me (Rmoney)

 
 

Yeah, if we give him a pass on his behavior as a teen – for the sake of argument, mind you – we’re still left with him chuckling as he discusses it, passing it off as a prank, and giving the asshole’s apology. He’s in his 60s and hasn’t yet learned to at least pretend to care about other people?

 
 

Is it just me, or did the Romney bullying story put an abrupt end to the Obama dog-eating story?

 
 

He’s in his 60s and hasn’t yet learned to at least pretend to care about other people?

oh, but he adores his wife and has been repeatedly described as willing to go to ANY lengths for her…his boys have been raised the same way…ann rules!

perhaps she also fed and/or feeds his sociopathiness?

 
 

@ RUKidding: I actually think that conservatives are more composed of childhood bullies than the victims. I was a victim of it, and now actively seek opportunities to emasculate any bully I see. The net effect of my bullying (due to being smaller than the other kids and very socially awkward) was a conditioned response of hating ALL PEOPLE. It took me years to get past that to a degree that allows me to be sociable.

It’s a conservative that always asks what a female rape victim was wearing or if she was under the influence of something, or calls her sexual history into question.

It’s a conservative that honestly believes that bullying is some sort of service to the victim–helping him or her learn to conform to social norms that he/she considers correct because–well, you know conservatives are the only people who live right.

Victim blaming, victimhood, rationalizing, projection—all the purview of the bully rather than the victim.

Concerning the “in love with the MS gym teacher”: What I remember of my MS gym teacher was that he was the consummate jock. Terrible hair, terrible mustache, and a bottomless well of self-importance, while counseling the nerdy eggheads on the virtues of getting repeatedly plastered by those fucking rubber dodgeball balls as a method of toughening them up for “the real world”.

 
 

TPM:

With a vote in the House scheduled Wednesday on the Violence Against Women Act, […] The weeks-long skirmish over the VAWA

Some things should NEVER be acronymmed. Eeeew.

 
 

“perhaps she also fed and/or feeds his sociopathiness?”

Was that Ann and Mitt on the cover of last week’s “Time?”

 
 

okay…here’s what i find most troubling about mitt’s ‘apology’:

“I don’t remember that incident and I’ll tell you I certainly don’t believe that I, I can’t speak for other people of course, thought the fellow was homosexual,” he said earlier in the interview. “That was the furthest thing from my mind back in the 1960s, so that was not the case. But as to pranks that were played back then, I don’t remember them all, but again, high school days, if I did stupid things, why I’m afraid I got to say sorry for it.

so, if we take him at face value about his lack of homophobia then, he would much rather prefer that we see him as a guy who was so incensed by a classmate’s long hair that he had to do something about it?!?! yeah…that’s much more healthy…

and he’s ‘afraid’ he has to apologize? i know that ‘i’m afraid…’ is generally just a turn of phrase, but it’s always been problematic to me in that it is mostly used in a dismissive manner and negates any semblance of empathy…

 
 

The weeks-long skirmish over the VAWA

since my hysterectomy i don’t have that problem any more…

 
 

I like how he doesn’t remember it except how he remembers it totally wasn’t a gay thing.

 
 

Was that was Ann and Mitt on the cover of last week’s “Time?!!!

ftfy

 
 

According to the court documents, Rodriguez-Alvarez questioned why the teacher did not see what he was doing, and when asked whether he thought the fire was the teacher’s fault, he said she wasn’t doing her job.

Wingnut screed concerning lazy union thugs in 5…4…3…

 
 

I like how he doesn’t remember it except how he remembers it totally wasn’t a gay thing.

how the hell did that escape me?

 
 

“I’m afraid….” usually prefaces bad news. “I’m afraid I’m going to have to punch you in the junk for your insolence and because I enjoy that sort of thing.”

“I’m afraid I have to apologize” = “Sorry my conservative brothers and sisters, but in the interest of pandering to people who have a shred of humanity in them, I’m going to have to offer up this apology. Luckily for me, none of you will pick up on the fact that I remember that this wasn’t about percieved homosexuality, yet remember nothing about the incident. That’s the beauty of being a Republican. My voters are so fucking dumb that you could tell them gay marriage isn’t a civil right and they’ll eat it up like hog slop and oh, I should stop talking now before one of you figures it out…”

 
 

He didn’t even have enough balls to do his own bullying. He had to round up a posse to take on a supposedly queer kid. What an utterly fucking contemptible asshole.

 
 

Oh look, a nym-jacking copypaste troll.

 
 

Congrats tsam on teh nymjack.

 
 

Oh look, a nym-jacking copypaste troll.

lucky…

 
 

Congrats tsam on teh nymjack.

Thanks, bro!

 
 

Hand sanitizer and a lighter was all it supposedly took to burn part of Woodburn High School to the ground, according to one of the suspect’s family members and court documents.

also, too…i guess this makes teh kiddies drinking hand sanitizer not look that bad, eh? i await colbert’s commentary…

 
 

A few words on that Gillespie piece, if I may, because I believe it says a lot about the libertarian worldview.

First, one of his prime examples of helicopter parenting is from Colorado Springs. That would be the same Colorado Springs that famously cut every city service, sold police equipment and turned their parks over to private companies rather than raise property taxes by a few cents. If they cancelled their Easter Egg hunt, it’s probably because the city is broke and that excuse about overeager parents was something they knew their conservative constituents would believe.

A bit further down, we have this line:

Now that schools are peanut-free, latex-free and soda-free, parents, administrators and teachers have got to worry about something.

Gotta love that dismissive tone when talking about peanuts. Apparently, if you want to make sure that sending your kids to school doesn’t literally kill them, then you’re a “helicopter parent.” The most generous explanation I can offer is that Gillespie doesn’t realize how serious food and latex allergies are, which puts him into the same category as Megan McArdle glibly remarking that being ugly is worse than being asthmatic.

Followed by this:

Since most kids now have access to cable TV, the Internet, unlimited talk and texting, college and a world of opportunities that was unimaginable even 20 years ago, it seems that adults have responded by becoming ever more overprotective and thin-skinned. (Emphasis added)

Excuse me, Kemosabe? Most kids are going to college?

And Ed Brayton wonders why no one takes Reason magazine seriously.

 
 

And such a delightful nymjack as well. If there’s any Sadlynaught who’s in love with teh Confederate Flag of Treason, it’s got to be throat slitting tsam.

 
 

the serendipity of the previous two comments is delightful…

 
 

also, too…i guess this makes teh kiddies drinking hand sanitizer not look that bad, eh?

You know, my FIRST thought was somebody tried freebasing it. What does it say about society that I would etc etc etc.

 
 

the imperial empire in Washington DC

As opposed to the other kind of empire?

 
 

And such a delightful nymjack as well. If there’s any Sadlynaught who’s in love with teh Confederate Flag of Treason, it’s got to be throat slitting tsam.

It’s PERFECT. It’s like this asshole knows me. He couldn’t have picked a more intolerant liberal bully than me!

 
 

It’s PERFECT. It’s like this asshole knows me. He couldn’t have picked a more intolerant liberal bully than me!

admit it…you LOVE your confederate flag underoos!

 
 

I am a Southern American man and I proudly define myself as a Dixiean

That’s all you had to say to convey the message that you’re a loudmouthed, ignorant, white trash, traitorous fucking anti American piece of shit who needs his nuts kicked up into his throat. You didn’t have to bother typing all that other phony bullshit. Just a little tip for ya, there, bro.

 
 

admit it…you LOVE your confederate flag underoos!

I NEVER wear underwear. But if I did, I would definitely have Robert E. Lee Underoos. No doubt about it.

 
 

Seriously, copy-pasta nym-stealer, if you’re going to be so unimaginative that you can only post other people’s words under other people’s names, could you at least make sure the words you steal aren’t moronic?

 
El Manquécito
 

How to STOP Anti-Dixie Hysteria

‘Cause anyone opposed to slaughter in support of treason and misty nostalgia thereof is hysterical (female). Got it.

 
 

Rubbing the Dixiean.

 
 

Seventh, I must confess, I am a Catholic, and as a Catholic I have a deep sense of justice

HAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOLOLOLO LMFAO THAT’S FUCKING HILARIOUS

GUD 1 BRO

 
 

I thought Catholics were a common target of the KKK and other such organizations full of people with heads full of pig shit.

 
 

As opposed to the other kind of empire?

Teh Metric empire has been invaded by Twilight fans.

 
 

I NEVER wear underwear

so…you totes weren’t kidding with the unzipped fly incident and your weiner showing…

also…never?!?! what do you do if you are in an accident? how can you make sure you have clean undies on?

 
 

It gets better.

When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christians, this was the first word that came to their mind when asked about the Christian faith. The same was true for 80 percent of young churchgoers. (The next most common negative images? : “judgmental,” “hypocritical,” and “too involved in politics.”)

 
 

so…you totes weren’t kidding with the unzipped fly incident and your weiner showing…

also…never?!?! what do you do if you are in an accident? how can you make sure you have clean undies on?

My weiner wasn’t actually hanging out–that’s a little more distance than I can cover.

Sometimes I sort of hope I’m in an accident without undies on…but I’m totally not a creepy perv.

 
 

I am the fastest typer EVER

 
 

I am a Southern American man and I proudly define myself as a Dixiean.

In South America, real men use Dixie Cups.

 
 

OK, overlords, this is becoming tiresome now.

 
 

Chanting our battle cry, “Freedom or death!”

BUT I WANT CAKE.

 
 

Did anyone else read the nym-jacked tsam comments in the voice of Hamilton, the calm low-gravelly-monotone-monologue-reciter racist SNL character played by Will Forte?

There aren’t any good clips online that I could find but this transcript does the spirit of the character justice, and, I think, provides the basis of a valid comparison with our Southern-American friend here.

Hamilton’s speaking at a funeral. Earlier in the sketch a distraught family member noticed the deceased’s watch was missing.

“[low grave voice] This year I’ve seen so much death. My cousin Earl died in my arms after a horrible run-in with a water-taxi. Mother died 2 weeks later in an accident for which I’m currently being framed. But perhaps the most tragic death is the death of the American dream because of the failed economic policies of Barack Hussein Obama. I say his middle name because it matters. This is a man who will be shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center letting a bunch of turbans run willy-nilly to terrorize my United States of America. So say goodbye to your loved ones and enjoy 2009 because 2010 is going to be a bloodbath of biblical proportions. I took the watch.”

 
 

BUT I WANT CAKE.

Then I shall let you eat it.

 
 

Cake vs. freedom really depends on the cake.

 
 

Did anyone else read the nym-jacked tsam comments in the voice of Hamilton

Nope. Foghorn Leghorn.

 
 

Well, the troll’s convinced me. I’m gonna rush out and the get the Confederate flag tattooed on my butt.

 
 

copypasta tsam said,
May 16, 2012 at 20:02

I was unaware of the existence of that song. That is some seriously butt-ugly 19th century versifying.

God be our shield, at home or afield

God be our muscles, at home or in Brussels

 
 

And it’s really not hard for them to do so on this issue. It hasn’t been a very well kept secret that the right-wing pretty much is entirely a retirement home for high school bullies and assorted douchebags at this point. I mean, pretty much all their tactics are just upscaled high school bully tactics.

I dunno, the “pundits” always struck me more as the bully’s toadie, the contemptible shit who egged the bully on to attack the quiet kid who was slightly below them on the pecking order. I can’t imagine “Derb”, for example, stuffing some little squirt into a locker, but I can imagine him telling the prop on the rugby team, “Good show, old chap!” afterwards.

 
 

Well, the troll’s convinced me. I’m gonna rush out and the get the Confederate flag tattooed on my butt.

i would also put one above each hooter, and also on the side of your neck…be PROUD, girlfriend!

 
 

Did anyone else read the nym-jacked tsam comments in the voice of Hamilton

I always read wingnut excretions in the voice of the Sergeant in “Alice’s Restaurant”. I picture them reading it from a laminated card that the Rush Limbaugh show graciously sent them for free if they donated to the latest fascist organization that is using Rush to reach a couple of million morons. From my Army experience, that sort of thing was rehearsed speech that was neither composed by nor given any thought by the douchebag reciting it.

 
 

Maybe this guy could get together with the last thread’s copypasta nymjacker (assuming it’s not the same asshole), who targeted Major Kong with that interminable, inane thing about a time traveler who came to warn us about future Sharia law.

Let’s see…how about something written from the perspective of an eager 1861 secessionist, about a time traveler from 2012 who came back to warn him that not only would black people be free and allowed to marry whites, but one of them would even become president!

 
 

Cake vs. freedom really depends on the cake.

It’s red velvet with a scale model of Atlanta in marzipan, which is then sprayed with Armagnac and set alight.

 
 

Well, the troll’s convinced me. I’m gonna rush out and the get the Confederate flag tattooed on my butt.

Hoping that a picture of this is your next project posted on DA…Again, I’m NOT a creepy perv. That would make that flag barely (heh) tolerable!

 
 

Gee, tsam is a long-winded mofo, isn’t he? (Or she). My scroll wheel is smoking from the effort to get past the bullshit…

 
 

Dixie nostalgia. Is there a surer sign of willful ignorance and contemptible knee jerk contrariness? Is there simply no better ideal to cling to than the banner of a people so in love with the forced abduction, bondage, torture and murder of millions of their fellow humans, that they would go to war and slaughter hundreds of thousands more of their fellow countrymen, including sometimes their own brothers uncles fathers and sons to defend this atrocity? And so fucking what if your ancestors didn’t own slaves themselves. They were dumb enough to fight on behalf of those who did. That makes them suckers.

The first and nearly only time our nation took a collective stand against evil, and you want to clothe yourself in the banner of the bad guys? Did you cheer for Torquemeda when you first learned about the inquisition? You’re proud of your heritage? Which part? Stealing land from Indians? owning slaves? Aiding and abetting slavery? slaughtering your fellow countrymen? systematically disenfranchising and oppressing the people the law said you can’t kill anymore, and then killing them by moonlight when that wasn’t enough?

If I had that kind of heritage, I’d say I was adopted.

 
 

But Tone Troll, this wasn’t about slavery. It was about state’s rights!

 
 

My Battle Hymn can beat up yer Battle Flag:

HE is sounding forth the trumpet that shall never call defeat
HE is sifting out the hearts of men before his Judgement Seat

Pro-tip: always pre-sift your hearts for proper measurement.

Oh! Be swift, my soul, to answer HIM
Be jubilant [as in Jubilee Year] my feet
Our GOD is marching on [Richmond]

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As HE died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

Glory, glory! Harry Lewis!….

 
 

Well, the troll’s convinced me. I’m gonna rush out and the get the Confederate flag tattooed on my butt.

No, no, no. The only appropriate place for that tattoo is as a tramp stamp. I think that should be obvious. Sheesh.

 
 

I was unaware of the existence of that song. That is some seriously butt-ugly 19th century versifying.

You owe tsam a kick in the junk for exposing you to it.

God be our muscles, at home or in Brussels

That’s fucking hilarious. You should do the whole song!

 
 

Gee, tsam is a long-winded mofo

Just to clarify, throat-slitting tsam is only medium-long-winded. I’m teh mofo. Fake tsam is actually Texanna’s prom date.

 
 

That song mentioned Stephens, the VEEP of the Confederacy, who famously said: “Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.”

But, of course, the war was not about slavery. Nope.

 
 

perhaps she also fed and/or feeds his sociopathiness?

Ya think?

 
 

no. The only appropriate place for that tattoo is as a tramp stamp.

No way. Now that I’ve seen that, I know I could never compete with the HAWTNESS.

 
 

It looks like we didn’t Gird Ourselves for the Tsanumi of the Election-Year Nym-jackers….

 
 

To realz Tsam (not nym-dixie-jerking “Tsam”) vis bullying & conservatives: get what you’re saying (way up above before all the, er, cut ‘n pasting of moronicness) about conservatives perhaps being bullies all along. I agree that certainly a cohort of ’em are, but I’m thinking more of the millions (and they are LEGION) of the cheeto-breathed keyboard “warrior” dittoheads.

I guess like minds can disagree, but it’s my “take” that a whole lotta them thar dittoheads wuz the poor peckerheads in school and later at the office who got to be kicked around by the jocks ‘n such. Then find their inner mojo by listening to El Lushbo & that ilk and go: yeah yeah, it’s the libtardz who’re terrible. PISS ON ‘EM!! And then self-idenitfy with the 1% thinking somehow that *makes* ’em all worthy ‘n stuff, and that by voting against their own interests (to “show” the lazy LIEbruls and dastardly minorities, who are ones REALLY ripping them off), they get to be part of the 1% club and be the REAL BOSS.

Just my thoughts. It can go either way, of course.

BTW congrats on the nym of nom nom. I’ve had a few of those, myself, on another blog I post it. Kinda flattering in a very weird and obnoxious kind of way. Whatever…

 
 

Oh, and Provider_ — I too have to slightly defend yesterday’s troll bashing. While I myself took admittedly a bit too long to engage the badger shields, it was still a good exercise. I say that because we have now fully exposed the new troll-that-shall-not-be-named as a proper troll — I think we can agree that a comparison of the commentariat here to those at stormfront qualifies. Up to that point I suspected it as a troll, but it was hiding behind a perhaps-plausible-pedant facade that needed to be torn down.

And I mean hey, I even wrote a song about it that was brilliant too short.

 
 

Texanna has an extremely bright future in all-anal porn.

 
 

BTW, if some troll named vacuumslayer comes around saying Rainbow Dash is the best Pony and stuff like “Rainbow Dash Rules, all other ponies suck ass!” well…ok, that was me.

 
 

Fighting for the property
We gained by honest toil.

Yeah, those slave traders put in some seriously long hours.

 
 

Well of course. Rainbow Dash is best pony*.

*Mane Six only. I rate for Derpy Hooves

 
 

ponies suck ass

We don’t want to read your new clopfiction, dude.

 
 

but I’m thinking more of the millions (and they are LEGION) of the cheeto-breathed keyboard “warrior” dittoheads

You’re probably right–I reflexively associate all assholes with bullies, for reasons I discussed above. But yeah, I see your point about the fat lonely keyboard warriors who use military jargon to look like they’re tough or have experience with that stuff beyond watching endless loops of Hamburger Hill and Platoon.

Kinda flattering in a very weird and obnoxious kind of way.

It is, isn’t it? Could be the attention whore in me. That’s the only “big” part of me if ya know what I mean and I think you do…

 
 

BTW, if some troll named vacuumslayer comes around saying Rainbow Dash is the best Pony and stuff like “Rainbow Dash Rules, all other ponies suck ass!” well…ok, that was me.

LOL–you just knocked Snordhagen out of the lead!

 
 

Bullying is now codified and celebrated at every turn in our “society.” Just look at all those loser “reality” shows & the weird contrived bullying that’s supposedly so “exciting” and “cool.”

Conservatives are encouraged to believe that they, too, are just big fat old bullies like the real ones, aka Mitt Rmoney.

Not really. Just sad pathetic loser assholes dreaming about how they’re bullies just like their conservative “heros.”

 
 

Texanna has an extremely bright future in all-anal porn.

Heh, the “south” will rise again…

 
 

Texanna has an extremely bright future in all-anal porn.

Her first film was “Terrible Swift Sword”.

Sorry, I just can’t give this joke up.

 
 

Her first film was “Terrible Swift Sword”

Funny. I thought it was entitled “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.”

 
 

Well of course. Rainbow Dash is best pony*.

*Mane Six only. I rate for Derpy Hooves

I don’t know anything about the Ponies. And I just learned about Derpy from the fine people at ED. And, of course, all the accompanying illustrations for his/her(?) entry is him/her fucking something.

 
 

Surely you meant: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Gloryhole.”

 
 

omgf Internet, I am disappoint.

NSFW.

 
 

Uh, I didn’t click through on account of Encyclopedia Dramatica and such. Let me state that I don’t rate for Derpy in that way.

Also too, Doctor Whooves.

 
 

Her first film was “Terrible Swift Sword”

Funny. I thought it was entitled “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.”

Not “The Cumming of the Lard?” A touching tale of a boy and his stump-broke sow.

 
 

NSFW.

C’mon, what workplace is so backwards they don’t mind some freaky cartoon pony sex?

 
 

C’mon, what workplace is so backwards they don’t mind some freaky cartoon pony sex?

I blame FYWP for sneaking that extra word in there.

 
 

Surely you meant: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Gloryhole.”

It’s possible because I was certainly distracted by all the Glory Halleluja’s being shouted throughout that, uh, opus.

 
 

None of those ponies can even come close to a unicorn!

 
Reactionary Racist Hynmals, Inc.
 

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig, festem Schritt.
Kam’raden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschier’n im Geist in unser’n Reihen mit.

Die Straße frei den braunen Batallionen.
Die Straße frei dem Sturmabteilungsmann!
Es schau’n aufs Hakenkreuz voll Hoffnung schon Millionen.
Der Tag für Freiheit und für Brot bricht an!

Zum letzten Mal wird Sturmalarm geblasen!
Zum Kampfe steh’n wir alle schon bereit!
Bald flattern Hitlerfahnen über allen Straßen.
Die Knechtschaft dauert nur noch kurze Zeit!

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig-festem Schritt.
Kameraden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschieren im Geist in unseren Reihen mit.

 
 

It’s good form to link to the full audio for full effect:

Fick mich, du miserabler hurensohn
Fick mich, du miserabler hurensohn
Streck ihn aus
Streck aus deinen heifien gelockten.
Streck ihn aus
Streck aus deinen’ heinen gelockten
Streck ihn aus
Streck aus deinen heiften gelockten schwanz
Ah-ee-ahee-ahhhhh!
Mach es sehr schnell
Rein und raus
Magisches Schwein
Mach es sehr schnell
Rein und raus
Magisches Schwein
Bis es spritzt, spritzt, spritzt Feuer!
Bis es spritzt, spritzt, spritzt Feuer!
Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!
Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!
Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!
Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!

 
 

None of those ponies can even come close to a unicorn!

I’m pretty sure there were both ponies and unicorns coming at the link VS posted.

 
 

Bis es spritzt, spritzt, spritzt Feuer!
Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!

i LOVE a nice spritzer while relaxing on the sofa…

 
 

On topic: I’m convinced that the GOP is made up of people that really enjoyed Revenge Of The Nerds right up until [SPOILER!] the jocks lose at the carnival.

 
 

>>>The South shall rise again!

Take it down from the pole Irish traitors,

The flag we (Irish) republicans claim,

It can never belong to Free Staters. . .

 
 

Texanna has an extremely bright future in all-anal porn.
– – – – – – –
Her first film was “Terrible Swift Sword”.

He is trampling out the vintage
Where the dingleberries of wrath are stored

 
 

Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!

BLAST YOU OBS! Fucking earworms.

 
 

Texanna has an extremely bright future in all-anal porn.

“Dick-It’s Charge”

 
 

well, if obs is going to go all on-topic with us, here’s what i’ve been thinking about: a while back when obama told the supremes to not piss him off with his socialist healthcare bill, there was much buttrage that he was using his ‘bully pulpit,’ which yeah, how dare he…not that i’m condoning that cuz i think he was really treading on some dangerous ground there…

…but the wingnuts see no equivalence in the gop using their bully pulpit of majority to flat out say, ‘we’ll screw everyone over in our quest to make obama fail.’

am i EVER going to understand the ways of the world?

 
 

Texanna has an extremely bright future in all-anal porn.

“Dick-It’s Charge”

really? you just can’t give it up, can you?

 
Lurking Canadian
 

am i EVER going to understand the ways of the world?

Do you remember the scene when O’Brien asks Winston Smith if he would throw acid into the face of a small child if he thought it would hurt Big Brother?

That’s roughly how the Republicans see the world, with “lie-bruls” in the Big Brother role. “Extremism in the defense of privilege and wingnut butthurt is no vice!”

 
 

OT

Haha

</Nelson>

 
 

Heh. Earworms…

If you like Pina Col–OWWW! Who threw that chair??

 
 

really? you just can’t give it up, can you?

Texanna can! BOOYAH! HOOOOOOOOO! WOOT

 
 

really? you just can’t give it up, can you?

I’m going out for some beers and a neuroscience lecture, so I’ll have time to get over it… meanwhile:

“The Siege of Dicksburgh”

 
 

Reactionary Racist Hynmals, Inc. said,

Ummm, you realize that’s all in Swahili, right?

 
 

Keep ’em cumming, BBBB!

 
 

Texanna can! BOOYAH! HOOOOOOOOO! WOOT

shouldn’t she be referred to as texanal, now?

 
 

shouldn’t she be referred to as texanal, now?

LOL-NO SHIT. Wait–some shit? Lotsa shit? Whatever. That was funny.

 
 

Texanal–how did that go unnoticed for so long? That was like a $100 bill lying on a crowded sidewalk.

 
 

Wait–is lying correct? Or is it laying? Daffney?

 
 

Flame away, muthafuckahs. I’m on lunch break under my bridge!

 
 

One last one before heading off the Brooklyn:

“The Santorum Campaign”

 
 

Oh, god, I killed another one.

 
 

My receipt for a chicken burrito says:

BURRITO CHIX-GUAC

There were NO chicks in that burrito. tsam ANGRY.

 
 

BURRITO CHIX-GUAC

Burrito chicks being investigated by the Guantanamo UnAmerican Activities Committee? Sounds like a big deal!

 
 

For I will consider my Wing-nut Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily trolling for him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in the opposite way, lest he be thought a Mooslim.
For is this done by copy pasta seven times round his round of sites with elegant quickness.
For then he smelleth his own musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer and basement.

 
 

Burrito chicks being investigated by the Guantanamo UnAmerican Activities Committee? Sounds like a big deal!

Oh shit. That was spy correspondence and I just revealed it to the whole world. If I disappear or begin posting offensive, racist Dickseyland shit all over the internet, it means I’m dead.

 
 

Sounds like a big deal!

Those Burrito Chix should just shut up and make lunch.

 
 

Gerald Fnord said,
May 16, 2012 at 22:09

The Wingnut’s Prayer. Suppose you could sell framed copies of that! Be sure to include concrete anchors with them…

 
 

Those Burrito Chix should just shut up and make lunch.

I only made it to Joe Mauer and had to take an unscheduled trip to the bathroom. He’s SO DREAMY.

 
 

OT

Ha-ha

I’mma gonna reread that if I ever need help getting “in the mood.”

 
 

Picking up after BBBB:

The Battle of Pee Ridge

The Fort Pillow Massacre

John Brown and Harper’s Fairy

Missionary Position Ridge (and the sequel, Lookout Below Mountain)

 
 

OMGWTFBBQ!!!

I only made it three syllables in.

 
 

I only made it to Joe Mauer and had to take an unscheduled trip to the bathroom. He’s SO DREAMY.

shut up…i didn’t get any joe mauer! no fair!

 
 

First Bull Run

Second Bull Run

Fredricksofhollywoodburg

Forts Henry and Donald, Son

The Yazoo Campaign

 
 

shut up…i didn’t get any joe mauer! no fair!

back off, bitch. That’s MY man.

 
 

Sumpter? I don’t even know her!

 
 

March to the C Cups.

 
 

First Bull Run

Led to First (and Second) Manassas on Fire

 
 

Battle of the Crater

 
 

back off, bitch. That’s MY man.

yeah…that is not what you said a couple of posts ago…i believe you were complaining, COMPLAINING, mind you that joe fucked you hard in your fantasies…

 
Surreal American
 

Battle of An*tit*am

 
Surreal American
 

Battle of Bow-Chicka-mauga.

 
 

Sheridan’s Ride

 
 

From the OT video: “Orly Taitz, born and raised in the Communist Soviet Union, knows first hand, the bleakness of a totalitarian regime and the depravation of Constitutional rights.”

In other words: “Grew up somewhere other than America and want to run for public office? IOKIYR!”

Also: if she was born and raised in CSU, there’s a good chance she didn’t think anything was wrong with the regime until she got older and actually came here to the land of milk & honey.

 
 

Also: if she was born and raised in CSU, there’s a good chance she didn’t think anything was wrong with the regime until she got older and actually came here to the land of milk & honey.

Orly’s Moldovan, which is essentially Romania but even poorer. After the soviet collapse many higher-ups in Moldova were looking forward to a unification in the style of Germany, but Romania didn’t want them. I figure she comes from a legitimately shitty place.

 
 

One of my grandparents was Moldavian. She ran away as fast as she could, 105 years ago.

 
 

“Mitt Romney supposedly never lost his bullying tendencies — never mind that he’s one of the most polite, even-tempered, and careful and cerebral figures in modern politics — and how a President Romney would bully Congress, the American people, and the world.”–NR/Geraghty

Supposedly? He never did. He just learned how to REALLY screw people over while appearing superficially polite, even-tempered, etc. He grew as a bully. This is obvious and almost beyond dispute.

I take bullying seriously for all kinds of reasons. I was bullied somewhat. I grew up under much harsher conditions than most conservative pundits. More interestingly, my best friend during high school was a brutal bully. He was usually on my side; I didn’t have the self-respect to suspend our relationship. Eventually we drifted apart. Shortly thereafter he became involved with a girlfriend of mine — we woulda broke up soon anyway — at which time he threatened my life in utter seriousness. (He got the girl.) A couple years later he performed a contract killing and was immediately nabbed by the police. He is still in prison.

He killed for money. Years before, he’d explained to me that he would kill for money. But then, he didn’t have the opportunities or the (overrated) abilities of a Romney. Same motivations, though. People may think I’m mixing apples and oranges, but I see a couple of narcissistic, bullying, amoral sociopaths. One’s a lower-caste loser and one’s an upper-caste winner.

 
 

“I figure she comes from a legitimately shitty place.”

All the more reason to call her on her BS if she honestly thinks California is turning into Moldova.

Even if Pelosi or Boxer were outright crooks, they are the ones being corrupted, not the corrupters. How does running for office solve the “corruption problem” if you don’t deal with the puppet masters?

 
 

yeah…that is not what you said a couple of posts ago…i believe you were complaining, COMPLAINING, mind you that joe fucked you hard in your fantasies…

Just to interfere with your Gaydar.

 
 

Rule of thumb: If a given location in Europe changed countries more than twice in the 20th century, it was/is a pretty shitty place to live.

 
Alsace-Lorraine
 

I say GOOD-DAY, sir!!

 
 

Harrumph.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

Rule of thumb: If a given location in Europe changed countries more than twice in the 20th century, it was/is a pretty shitty place to live.

Its getting better though. After all they got rid of Orly.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

Also,
You can Gdansk if you want to.

 
 

Fredricksofhollywoodburg

The Union forces were commanded by General Ambrose Burnbootie.

(It should be pointed out that Burnside’s unusual facial hair gave his head a pronounced prick-like appearance.)

 
 

What’s Orly doing living in California? Shouldn’t she be in some red-state real-america Mecca like Altus Oklahoma or Lubbock Texas?

 
 

BTW, bbkf, I think you’re “shellaced hair” comment upthread is definitely one for da calendar. I chortled.

CHORTLED.

 
 

From the Taitz link:
A Better California Awaits, if Our Support Is With Dr. Taitz!
She’s obviously hired the finest sloganeering experts money can buy.

If you don’t elect Orly, California will do poorly.
Vote for Orly Taitz, or suffer horrible fates.
Those who oppose Taitz desire warthogs for their mates.

 
 

I had a sort of friend in high school. She was an exchange student and while extremely bright often made charming mistakes with the English language. My favorite was when she would say “I was sooooooooo laughing.”

Well…I was soooo laughing.

 
 

The way to make California better might involve getting Exxon to run it.

 
 

I had a sort of friend in high school. She was an exchange student and while extremely bright often made charming mistakes with the English language. My favorite was when she

one day at our key club meeting, somebody was like ‘OMG!’ and then of course i had to ‘OMG!’ and then i remembered our asian foreign exchange student key clubber…and i pointed out that we should be inclusive and then said, ‘oh my buddha!’

ahhhh…good times…

 
 

BTW, bbkf, I think you’re “shellaced hair” comment upthread is definitely one for da calendar. I chortled.

why thankee, ma’am…let’s cross our fingers!

 
 

The way to make California better might involve getting Exxon to run it.

Substance’s link is unusually on-topic. The rant in question is along the lines that “Since corporations are people, they should be acting like Nietzschean Ubermensch. However, my face remains boot-free. Why aren’t corporate persons bullying us in the way we deserve instead of concentrating on making money for their owners?”

 
 

The way to make California better might involve getting Exxon to run it.

That reads like Michael Reagan’s been swilling Night Train for a week.

Talk radio and Fox News’ 4 million viewers can’t save a bunch of sheep…

No, but they can develop deeply satisfying relationships with them.

 
 

I’ve always wondered if Michael Reagan is such an asshole because his brother got his dad’s name and really isn’t crazy…

 
 

Michael Reagan’s rantings have killed the thread.

one day at our key club meeting

Is a “key club” anything like a key party, and what are the membership requirements? AFAF…

 
 

: I’m convinced that the GOP is made up of people that really enjoyed Revenge Of The Nerds
OBS nails it. We’re going to pay for all of those movies. from “Animal House” on.
The Surrender at Appobuttocks

 
 

Michael Reagan is such an asshole

Can’t be arsed, but I think “Dutch” & the wife he ditched (You know, the real movie star.) for Nancy adopted little Mike. Think Christine Crawford.

 
 

Can’t be arsed
Memo to self: steal Daphne’s nym to insist that this phrase should be followed by a gerund (“can’t be asked looking”) rather than an infinitive (“can’t be asked to look” — a mistake made by all too many people in these days of lax usage.

 
 

Open primary this yr.; I urge all Californians to follow my lead.

Convenience, not blog-pimping; saving us the trouble of linking to/you the bother of clicking on all the video drivel we’ve encapsulated in one item.

 
 

I urge all Californians to follow my lead.

That is an interesting slate of names…

I really hope Gail is related to Gordon somehow, and adopts “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” as her campaign song. And I think Donald Krampe needs more potassium in his diet.

 
 

The way to make California better might involve getting Exxon to run it.
Michael Reagan calls upon the manly corporations of America to rise up, exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, and eject the cruel oppressive elected government in the name of Freedom.

No, really.

 
 

>(It should be pointed out that Burnside’s unusual facial hair
>gave his head a pronounced prick-like appearance.)

But it was un-knightly of you to point it out:
http://oglaf.com/intermission/1/

(I want that cartoon interpolated into “Game of Thrones”.)

 
 

Our statement “Can’t be arsed,” admittedly could (in its above context) be assumed to be connected to an unwillingness to copy & paste the words “Michael Reagan” into Bing, but was actually a much broader, general statement.

We’ll take your usage advice under consideration should this occur again.

 
 

exercise their 2nd Amendment rights

More like hire BlackwaterXe to exercise those rights for them, but that’s just details, really.

 
 

a mistake made by all too many people in these days of lax usage.

BASTARDS!

Obviously they can’t be arsed to finish the phrase.

 
 

Can’t be arsed, but I think “Dutch” & the wife he ditched (You know, the real movie star.) for Nancy adopted little Mike. Think Christine Crawford.

That’s right–I think I remember hearing this at one time but couldn’t arsed

 
 

Plus which, no one noticed from PM’s link way up there?

In an anonymous survey in April, only 12 percent of faculty and staff said that they planned to stay at Shorter University, a 139-year-old Baptist school, reports Inside Higher Ed. More than 50 resigned before the new contracts were even distributed, and certain departments, such as science and fine arts, have been “eviscerated,” according to Michael Wilson, a tenured librarian for the university who’s worked there for 14 years.

Where will the next generation of Shorter writers come from?

 
 

…TO GIVE A SHIT. Sorry.

 
 

Hey Mikey! Bitter much? LOL.

 
 

Heh. Earworms…

Better than brainworms. (That photo’s going to haunt me for a while.)

 
 

Memo to self: steal Daphne’s nym to insist that this phrase should be followed by a gerund (“can’t be asked looking”) rather than an infinitive (“can’t be asked to look” — a mistake made by all too many people in these days of lax usage.

But you can’t be arsed and do it?

 
 

Better than brainworms.

Why did I click on that? Why!?!

 
 

Weisseberger’s design was part of the project ‘Realisation of art and sustainable development”

Sustaining a boner for that long hurts.

Or so I’ve heard.

 
 

Oregon Beer Snob said,

May 17, 2012 at 1:36 (kill)

Better than brainworms.

Why did I click on that? Why!?!

You had to rule out sarcoidosis.

 
 

OBS, I get where yuo and others are coming from, but I knew it was trollying as soon as it accused cerb of not reading the comments, as I had followed the previous threads in which it had made “suggestions” regarding syntax and grammar, had read cerbs courteous responses to those suggestion, which I am almost certain that it did infact read.

also too I had been away for awhile, had to sift through all of that shit watching the holier-than-thou, goalpost relocating, shape-shifting grammarian was managing to enjoy it all the more.

I am all for using trolls as a scracting post, to sharpen the focus of arguments test strategies, for pointing and laughing, etc. And maybe it would not have been nearly so annoying if I had been taking it in in real time as opposed to all at once. Anyway, disappointed, because I was looking for some larfs, I decamped for other pastures.

 
 

Oh, my. I have yet to comment.
.

 
Party Purger (The Intolerant Liberal)
 

I’m so sick of hearing any right-wing fuckhead smugly using the adjective “intolerant” towards anything left-leaning as if they just scored some major intellectual victory.

Why do rightards consider riding the “liberals are the REAL intolerant ones” hobbyhorse to be so effective? Aside from the usual need to cover their own faults through massive projection that infuses their every thought and action, that is.

Looking at your standard dictionary definition of the word intolerance as follows:

“unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.”

it’s pretty clear that the term is pretty broad (it has an etcetera in it for pete’s sake), even perhaps too broad as it actually provides cover for both liberals and conservatives to both use the term. The problem is that the answer to question “intolerant to what?” is different depending on who you ask.

When liberals call conservatives intolerant, they’re generally using it in the sense of “unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect persons of different races (non-whites) or backgrounds (non-heterosexuals, non-authoritarians).”

When conservatives attempt to call liberals intolerant, AND we give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they’re not just pretending that liberals are the group who make 75% of their political hay out of oppressing minority, women and non-heterosexuals (admittedly this is a common “tactic” of your garden variety foxwatcher), we can assume they’re trying to use it in the sense of “unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs.”

You know what? In this sense of intolerance, they are correct. I am unwilling and refuse to tolerate or respect right-wing opinions or beliefs.
I don’t believe that what passes for right-wing ideology like the following should be respected or humored:
* trickle-down/Laffer curve economics
* cutting taxes magically results in higher government income
* reducing income via tax cuts on the wealthy don’t need to be paid for
* everyone needs to pay some income tax (‘skin in the game’ chestnut)
* government does everything wrong
* church and state separation is a myth
* the second amendment has everything to do with guns
*
Every one of these are either wrong on their face or have been proven to be wrong for years now. No matter how many times the conservative “thinkers” will always claim the ideas aren’t bad, they just weren’t done right or put in place by a Real(tm) Conservative. The time for tolerance of this is over. I personally think intolerance for stupidity and lies and being controlled by corporate messaging are A-OK. This is good intolerance, the kind that pushes people to stop being lazy and actually improve life in this country.

The kind of backwards, knuckle-dragging intolerance rightards live and thrive on? Not so much. This is apples to oranges, and it’s rather unfortunate that both these things find a home under a single term that can be used technically correctly, if misleadingly.

Once again and in every. single. case. If you look past the surface and actually check out the nuance and truth behind a point of contention between right and left, the right is full of shit. And oh so happy that the foxwatchers are either too stupid, too lazy, or too self-deluded to bother looking any further than the surface they love to polish up and show off.

Conservatism! Perfect for the stupid!

 
 

Conservatism! Perfect for the stupid!

I read this first as

Conservatism! Perfect the stupid!

I think it works as well.

 
 

But you can’t be arsed and do it?

tigris is INTOLERANT.

 
 

I am often half-assed. Or is that harf-arsed?

 
 

Or is that harf-arsed?

Split bumfinitive.

 
 

Split bum soup.

 
 

I sure wish whoever wrote this blog would come back to update it for the 2012 election.

 
 

Refusing to tolerate stupidity just proves that liberals are the true fascists!

 
 

I love My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic but I can’t and won’t defend Derpy Hooves. I didn’t even know about the character until after I’d finished the first season – it’s more of a background gag thing there. There was apparently a larger appearance of DH in an episode in the second season (I’ve only watched a few episodes of it so far) that was really offensive. Not looking forward to that one.

MLP also has issues with race, having patronising stand-ins for black people and Native Americans, and had a very unfortunate episode that seemed to be attacking atheists and skeptics.

It’s a very problematic show in a lot of ways…on the other hand, Pinkie Pie is so very delightful. It’s a conundrum.

 
 

Every one of these are either wrong on their face or have been proven to be wrong for years now. No matter how many times the conservative “thinkers” will always claim the ideas aren’t bad, they just weren’t done right or put in place by a Real(tm) Conservative. The time for tolerance of this is over. I personally think intolerance for stupidity and lies and being controlled by corporate messaging are A-OK. This is good intolerance, the kind that pushes people to stop being lazy and actually improve life in this country.

Preach it. Keep these fuckers accountable by always, always calling them on their bullshit, calling them on their lies, cutting off the mike when they try to change the subject (thank you Ms. Hall), and confronting them when they attempt to use bullying tactics. Call their asses OUT.

 
 

I think Pinkie Pie ignores the good eating possible if one bakes the other fingers.

 
 

No use crying over spilt bum soup

 
 

Wow, Spearhafoc, that’s depressing.

I thought some sanity intervened on the Derpy issue. For example, that’s not her name, per Hasbro.

 
 

crying over spilt bum soup

Talk about salt in the wound…

 
 

Anybody up for some manly love at the interstate rest stop?

If you know what I mean. *slurp slurp*

Suck like a captain.

 
 

If I were to pretend to be a cocksucking me I would use less commas and more semicolons; I’m half-assed that way.

 
 

Preach it. Keep these fuckers accountable by always, always calling them on their bullshit, calling them on their lies, cutting off the mike when they try to change the subject (thank you Ms. Hall), and confronting them when they attempt to use bullying tactics. Call their asses OUT.

I don’t get the Ms. Hall reference; otherwise, I’ll just note that if you’re waiting for the media to referee by “cutting their mike,” don’t hold your breath. That’s why they invite these trogladytes on tv/radio in the first place, in the hope that they’ll be incendiary. Setting the record straight is no longer a part of their job description.

 
 

North Dallas 30-watt, take it back over to the Putzriot’s place.

 
 

Tamron Hall, Jennifer. It made the rounds the other day.

 
 

on the other hand, Pinkie Pie is so very delightful. It’s a conundrum.

Glue made from Pinkie Pie would surely taste much better than that made with Derpy Hooves.

 
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon
 

There was apparently a larger appearance of DH in an episode in the second season (I’ve only watched a few episodes of it so far) that was really offensive.

In all honesty, it’s not that bad. Derpy’s essentially a pony-equivalent to a klutz and/or stooge. The scene in question is just a prolonged sequence of slapstick gags thrown together to create the impetus for the later plot of the episode.

Everything “offensive” about Derpy, including the name Derpy, is basically the result of the internet deriving a persona out of a background horse with wall-eye and the producers deciding to roll with their odd periphery audience.

 
 

Cue: even the liberal MSM can’t stand Mitt Romney’s campaign shills.

 
 

Gah. FEWER COMMAS. Also I encourage the troll to get JanusNode.

http://www.janusnode.com/

 
 

more semicolons; I’m half-assed

More than two semicolons and you’ll find yourself out back.

 
 

Mais oui, nothing sucks like a VAX!

You never worked on a Valid, didja?

 
 

Is a “key club” anything like a key party, and what are the membership requirements? AFAF…

believe it or not i get arsed this a lot…and no…it’s high schoolers for bob’s sake, so…EWWWWW!

 
 

Seems sort of weird to me that any of the NRO bozos would feel a need to stick up for bullying … because for a really long time, America WAS the world’s bully – & plenty of JustPlainFolks thought that was AWESOME. Back then, right-wingers favoured Stoicism over Emo & would’ve never dreamed of playing the victim card, no matter how rewarding – & most had nothing but contemptuous rage for, say, Nixon baaaawing about what a raw deal he got in his Checkers speech, or any similar diplay of human weakness of any kind.

To be sure, Reagan had a certain subtext of conservatives struggling under the yoke of liberal oppression in his schtick, but I think it was Gingrich who turned the GOP around to where they’d be perfectly fine not just with rebooting Congress as WWF-minus-athletic-talent, but also with sounding like Soccer Moms with cheating hubbies & a bad case of PMS 24/7, as long as it got them what they wanted.

Bullying just isn’t cool any more.

I blame the Interwebs.

 
 

Substance McGravitas said,
May 17, 2012 at 5:32

I love cocks. Big, fat ones.

Finally something we can agree on!

 
 

That’s a big one!

You may find a use for this: ☀

 
 

oh, hey! the daughter was crowned ‘miss well-spoken’ at tonight’s miss fabulous pageant…i wonder where she gets that from?

 
 

Had a good nap (in the jumpseat) on my way down to Memphis. Fell asleep at wheels-up and woke up when we touched down.

 
 

Repuke voters really get off on the big bully daddy kicking ass on the brown skins around the world and cracking down on DFHs, welfare queens, and ooga booga scary “urban” types at home. Nixon, St.Ronnie, W, and now Mittens.

 
 

Tonight the go to bed muzik will be Elgars’s firts symphony. TTFN!

 
 

Let us remember the Tom “Suck on this” Friedman school of international relationships in terms of being a bully. Now, how this could be possibly result from a culture that rewards bullies, is completely beyond me but some fancy schmancy sciencey types might try to.
Before the cock crows three times, Substance will deny it.

 
 

If your cock is crowing, you might want to see a doctor.

 
 

Hey, what brand of tea was it? ^-^

 
 

New video up. Thought I’d share it with the Sadly posse.

 
 

I’m off to Providence. Talk to you tomorrow.

 
 

Elgars’s firts symphony.

I rate for his 3rd Symphony. I know the story has it that it was completed posthumously by someone else, but the truth is that Elgar faked his death for publicity purposes.

 
 

I’m off to Providence. Talk to you tomorrow.

How much Lovecraft fanfic begins that way?

 
 

If your cock is crowing, you might want to see a doctor.

Oh please!

Have you never heard the famous saying “Pride goeth before the balls”???

You’ll be fine. Ignore the drips.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Ask your doctor if Urigallus is right for you.

 
 

JP, are comments closed at your blog? I couldn’t find a place to comment.

 
 

You guys and your cracks about split bums.

 
 

re:POOP

Teh shirt and hoodie are pretty sweet, but I don’t approve of teh tote bag.

 
 

You never worked on a Valid, didja?

That would be a no. I actually love vaxen and wanted to work for Digital, but they got ettetted in a shocking display of corporate violence. But that phrase came to mind and I had to repeat teh funneh.

 
 

Is a “key club” anything like a key party, and what are the membership requirements? AFAF…

In the case of Florida Blue Key, don’t think there is a difference. Those kids are mean douchebags who party harty and brag about their hookups. The girls are all future shrill first wives of america. There’s probably more rape than gets reported, and plenty of humiliation, although I’m trying to figure who told them to diet from age 9, stunt their growth by 8 inches, keep their weight under 95lbs wet, then chugalug in the sorority house despite that miniscule, overburdened liver, and go out… all of 17 and crazy… and try to get into a meat market club with their cousin’s ID, what, and hope your “friends” manage to successfully get you home instead of that dildo upperclassman boy who keeps coming over when your eyes stop focusing? Oh, that’s right: your moms.

“Remember, darling, don’t put out until Daddy and I have called our PI to verify his parents’ finances.”

 
 

To be sure, Reagan had a certain subtext of conservatives struggling under the yoke of liberal oppression in his schtick, but I think it was Gingrich who turned the GOP around to where they’d be perfectly fine not just with rebooting Congress as WWF-minus-athletic-talent,

The boomers came of age, and the rich and important ones never went to war.

The older gen was all “suck it up” because of social pressures when they returned from WWII. Since those immediately younger got sent to Korea, it was less a blip and more something that perpetuated for a while. Lots of factors… great loss of life, mass experience shaping mass culture, sense of mass sacrifice, and the authoritarian fear machine in the 1950’s ramped to 11 because of the closed nature of Communist societies. Who knew what was going on over there?

Let me know if I missed anything.

 
 

Hahahahahaha, expect great sales among the crowd who attend Billl O’Reilly’s every live show.

My local Bill-O fan said it was “incredible”.

Wonder if he knows Billo’s wife left him for a cop and Billo tried to use his buddies high up in the police force to intimidate both of them because How Dare She get sick of ole combover face and his bloviating and sexual-harassing and hitting on other women but How Dare She decide another man than TeH Bill Of Broadcasts Nyuz looks like a better option. How now!

 
 

Nixon had a secret plan to fool the rubes, W. has taken that notion to the next level and monetized it.

 
 

Will Bush incorporate, launch an IPO, and then expatriate to a “friendly” country that will let him exploit the people, evade prosecution for his crimes, and not pay taxes?

Oh wait, that would be the United States.

 
 

So for $24.95, Bush will “share” his prescription for economic growth with us?

Why didn’t he bother sharing it for the eight years he was president?

 
 

Well, this is amusing.

Epistemic Closure at the Atlantic? No, Just Ignorance by John Hinderaker

In which Hinderaker objects to charge of “epistemic closure,” defined by Julian Sanchez and used in this case to mean the righties’ tendency to close themselves off to information sources that may contradict their preferred narratives, being levied against him.

I virtually never respond to attacks by liberals, because 1) I hardly ever see them, and 2) when I do, they are rarely worth the trouble. But this piece by Conor Friedersdorf in the Atlantic is worth noting because through its ineptitude, it inadvertently reinforces my point.

Shooting oneself in the foot and then declaring victory? Does Jonah Goldberg know that Hindy’s on his turf? Also, Friedersdorf is a conservative. Also too, Hinderaker links to a piece in National Journal, not The Atlantic.

(By the way, I have actually studied epistemology, and in my opinion the phrase “epistemic closure” is not just pretentious, but inapt.)

Very unpretentious parenthetical.

if Friedersdorf has a Twitter feed, I can’t find it

Friedersdorf linked his own feed in the very first sentence of the NJ article.

Hinderaker goes on to brag that while Mitt Romney has about 14.5 million fewer Twitter followers than Barack Obama does (and 400k fewer than Michelle Obama), the “right” still “dominates” the “battlespace” that is Twitter because some people have successfully trolled the “Julia” hashtag. Seriously, that’s his argument.

 
 

So now they’re against vetting?

 
 

They’re against vetting rich white Republicans, duh! Like, everyone knows that you don’t vet them!

 
 

Also, Hinderaker totally dominates Freidsdorf on Twitter:

Someone named Conor Friedersdorf tried to attack me. Big mistake

 
 

Jennifer,

If 2008 was any indicator, I thought the prescription was to elect a black Democrat president. And if it weren’t for conservative bigots patriots and the media’s short-term memory, it would have worked better.

 
 

As soon as some rightard twits the following:

I M John Galt. Librul media godless soshulism lower taxes hollyweird god hates fags smaller government libruls R the real racists. Wolverines!

…there will never again be a need for conservatives to come up with anything new to twit. They can just forward the twit above to all twit followers, and so on, and so on, and prove once and for all that they dominate the Twitter machine because more people have seen their twat than any other twat that has ever been twitted to twit-twats.

 
Hinderaker's mom
 

Son, dumb, vicious, and lazy is no way to go through life.

 
 

Friedersdorf moves from the uninformed to the irrelevant:

hinderaker srsly says this? regarding a post ranting about how the right is the bomb on twitter? cuz that’s sooooo relevant?

 
 

Someone named Conor Friedersdorf tried to attack me. Big mistake

Is there anything lower than an twitter Tough Guy?

 
 

vs,

When I saw that I thought, “Is he gonna eat his spinach now?”

 
 

Is there anything lower than an twitter Tough Guy?

Please click on the link. The accompanying picture is a hoot.

 
 

When I saw that I thought, “Is he gonna eat his spinach now?”

Then he’ll show you, Pryme!

Please click on the link. The accompanying picture is a hoot.

You’re shaking in your boots, don’t try to hide it, markf!

 
 

Is there anything lower than an twitter Tough Guy?

Instagram tough guys.

 
 

Instagram tough guys.

That made me LOL.

“My sepia-toned photo of sea oats totally pwns yours, fuckface.”

 
 

But really guys: we’re heading into dangerous territory when “critical thinking” and “compromise” now means “liberal.”

 
Surreal American
 

So for $24.95, Bush will “share” his prescription for economic growth with us?

Why didn’t he bother sharing it for the eight years he was president?

So how many pages of “cut taxes” typed over and over again will that book contain? It’ll be like that scene in The Shining, except that Bush’s inner demons will have to keep explaining things to him.

 
 

Why didn’t he bother sharing it for the eight years he was president?

He did. That’s why we had the slowest growth since like forever.

 
 

us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html

Before I realized that it was actually “U.S.,” the most objectionable part of the link to me was the use of “us” in place of “we.”

 
 

“To be sure, Reagan had a certain subtext of conservatives struggling under the yoke of liberal oppression in his schtick, but I think it was Gingrich who turned the GOP around to where they’d be perfectly fine not just with rebooting Congress as WWF-minus-athletic-talent, but also with sounding like Soccer Moms with cheating hubbies & a bad case of PMS 24/7, as long as it got them what they wanted.”

To my mind, Limbaugh was a major factor in mainstreaming the GOP base’s ability to simultaneously gloat while whining as if they were the greatest victims in the history of the world.

 
 

Official Missouri Hall of Famer Rush Limbaugh

Holds the all-time pitching records for balking in runs and for acting like a flaming asshole. There was more competition on the second record than the first.

 
 

re: dixie chicks mention waaaaaay up thread
re: jp adding me to blog roll

shorter me blogwhore: i don’t fucking get it…

 
 

Signs that the country is evolving this way start with the Oval Office, when a black man dared to be elected president thus causing a multitudinal wave of darks to be born in this country, oh noes!

fixxed to accurately reflect wingnut mind-set…

 
 

Rush Limbaugh watched as his bust for the Capitol’s Hall of Famous Missourians was unveiled on Monday, May 14.

since this is rush, i bet they followed the mn state fair’s time honored tradition and carved the bust out of butter…

 
 

Mmmmm…butter BOOBs….

 
 

Mmmmm…butter BOOBs….

thanks for the tip! i’m making a note of that for later…

 
 

Hey, if Assrocket thinks Tweets from the 101st Keyboarders will catapult Willard into the White House, let him.

Heartily concur on Limbaugh’s role in the Great Wussification: I used to listen to him back in the 90s in much the same way one stares dumbfounded at a train-wreck, & the endless mewling poutrage over bullshit & trivia was a wonder to behold – & it never really ended … hell, even his hate-a-thon on Sandra Fluke essentially boiled down to “WAAAAAAH, why does SHE get to testify at some big shindig in Washington & not meeeeeeee???”

 
 

I think Rushie was upset that Ms. Fluke gets to see a naked woman in the shower on a regular basis and he does not.

 
 

I think Rushie was upset that Ms. Fluke gets to see a naked woman in the shower on a regular basis and he does not.

also, she gets to have teh sex…and he does not…unless he travels and pays…

 
 

Is there anything lower than an twitter Tough Guy?

Probably not, though I might be able to come up with a close second. My Stalker troll left me a comment at my blog that simply said: “tl:dr (No Charge).”

To be honest I have been standing in a puddle of tears since I read that.

This whole projection racket they got going really fucks ’em up. Tehy think that we are the same whinging narcissistic crybabies that they know themselves to be and feel that they are doubly oppressed when tactics they know to get under their skin fails to get under ours.

 
 

Is there anything lower than an twitter Tough Guy?

Notice too that Friedersdorf’s “attack” was drily objecting to the basis for Hinderaker’s silly gloating.

 
 

I think Rushie was upset that Ms. Fluke gets to see a naked woman in the shower on a regular basis…

I have to admit that I don’t quite get this, because as far as I know Fluke has a male fiance, presumably lives in an apartment with him, unless she is an active user of a gym membership…Of course I could be guilty of missing some seriously meta-hyperbolic gag (which would leave me ashamed and in the corner).

Now if you changed gets to got to, then I imagine that would be the case, unless you are using the rights assumptivating accusation of lesbianism (which of course make no sense at all, not they ever will again).

Anyhoo, still don’t get it.

 
 

Sorry bbkf…backs slowly and suplicatingly out of the room…

 
 

I have to admit that I don’t quite get this

I assumed the joke was that the naked female body she saw was her own.

 
 

I was assuming, without evidence, that Fluke does not avert her eyes while soaping and rinsing herself…just as I see a naked polar bear in the shower every day.

 
 

whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html

3..2..1…wait for it……….soooooooooooooo?

 
 

also, she gets to have teh sex…and he does not…unless he travels and pays…

This got me to thinking.

Do you really think that someone, who on some level is self loathing, who uses his power to degrade and humiliate the least among us and anyone who might challenge the sadistic power structure that he represents, has ever had what we might call deeply meaningful and fulfilling sex?

To start with you should have a reasonably favorable opinion of yourself your partner, which would indicate a possession of empathy and caring for others and I don’t see a glimmer of any of these things in Rushbo. I think paying for it (paying for a simulacrum of consent as it were) and being set up with parties that can at least feign an interest in whatever kink he’s got going (wouldn’t surprise me if there might be some sub tendancies).

He’ll kicking the shit out of the powerless for 3 hours a day, enjoying a chorus of ditto’s from a bunch of slackjawed idiots may be all the release he needs, with the sex juncket just being for show.

Sorry guys, had to get that off my chest while the tea was steeping. All of that shit popped into my head between reading bbkf comment and suddenly realizing that I had a pot of water on boil and hoped that I wasn’t burning the pan, or the house down. The timing as far as the tea water is concerned was perfect, that my mind got to wandering, not so much.

My gift to you.
.

 
 

Heh, I was confused too. I thought N_B was channeling Monica Crowley there for a sec.

 
 

That many typos and dropped words ususally means I need to get it outta my hayed!

That feels much better.

 
provider of dragon_tsam
 

I think Rushie was upset that Ms. Fluke gets to see a naked woman in the shower on a regular basis and he does not.

Yeaaaahhh, I’m gonna hafta go ahead and sympathize with that sentiment.

 
 

I was assuming, without evidence, that Fluke does not avert her eyes while soaping and rinsing herself…just as I see a naked polar bear in the shower every day.

Of course, it is always shit like that that trips me up. I think I am beginning to see why i was never particularly good with riddles. Always looking for deeper meaning and shit. I need to keep an eye on my blind spots.

I’ll be under the pointy hat in the corner for a bit.

 
 

Jonah Goldberg came up with another “the MSM is in the tank for Obama WAAAAAAAAHHH!!!” column this morning. That was the opening solo in a chorus we’re going to hear for the next five months.

 
 

Sorry bbkf…backs slowly and suplicatingly out of the room…

hey, i’m a sharer…i shouldn’t be the only one to have all the tagfails…

 
 

was drily objecting

this is nuanced…too difficult for yer average wingnutter…

 
 

has ever had what we might call deeply meaningful and fulfilling sex?

in a word: fuckno!

also, damn you to hell for making me think of rush making sweet, sweet love to some poor female…

 
 

Do you really think that someone, who on some level is self loathing, who uses his power to degrade and humiliate the least among us and anyone who might challenge the sadistic power structure that he represents, any wingnut, anwhere, has ever had what we might call deeply meaningful and fulfilling sex?

I think you hit it* right when you noted empathy — I mean great toe-curling sex (in my mind anyway) requires a pretty solid understanding of your partner’s wants/needs.

Since wingnuts show absolutely no ability to feel anything but contempt for anybody else, I can only imagine their two options: hate-fueled rage sex and/or “it’s time to pump out another kid, take off your pants” sex are pretty pathetic spectacles. And I don’t want to find out.

*What?

 
 

3..2..1…wait for it……….soooooooooooooo?

“Haven’t you heard of Shoa? Huh?, We are talking Demographic Genocide here people, Demographic Genocide!!!!11! You know what happens when they get the power? Huh? They are gonna come for us and do everything we ever did to us but times eleventy!!!!

Wake up people, they’ll kill us all!”

Skreeee!

 
 

…we ever did to them… Though on second though managing to turn oneself into a bed shitting fool makes the original formulation work as well…

 
 

Appreciate the Shorterizing, OBS!

Bravo. You did however forget to mention the drunken date rape sex (as in she said yes, but them promptly fell asleep, so i did her anyway).

 
 

You know what happens when they get the power? Huh? They are gonna come for us and do everything we ever did to us but times eleventy!!!!

You mean I’ll be punished very severely by Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez and Lucy Liu?

 
 

And in my book “promply falls asleep/passes out” immediately renders null and void, any prior consent granted.

 
 

I have a sneaking suspicion that Rush likes being on the receiving end of Cleveland steamers. And, of course, that he munches scat.

 
 

You mean I’ll be punished very severely by Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez and Lucy Liu?

If you are very lucky, man Jackpot lucky.

Honestly though, while there might be a few wanting or looking for some kind of retribution, I think most of us will be holding our breaths waiting for the inevitable backlash as the cornered animal of “former majority” lashes out for the last time (think Kamikaze WWII). I’d bet the barn on that happening.

 
 

If you are very lucky, man Jackpot lucky.

Because if so I’d be willing to, you know, take one for the team. That’s just the kind of guy I am.

 
 

Yeaaaahhh, I’m gonna hafta go ahead and sympathize with that sentiment. – tsam

What’s the old joke? …

Q: Why don’t men have boobs?
A: If we did, no man would ever stop touching himself and leave the house.

 
 

Whoohooo, it seems that whe have to set the badgers loose, ’cause now OBS has the honor. And now he is Jacking URL for authentitude.

 
provider of dragon_tsam
 

It’s OBS’s turn today!

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs
 

We must napalm the badgers.

 
 

Oh, goody. I missed my nymjacking copypasta troll last time so, uh, yay? I guess?

I would like to thank the academy, etc.

 
 

“(By the way, I have actually studied epistemology, and in my opinion the phrase “epistemic closure” is not just pretentious, but inapt.)”–Hinderaker

Being a shit-heeled yokel, when I first saw that phrase in political discourse, I occupied myself with understanding what was meant by it in context. Then I’d just keep reading as if nothing had happened.

“[Friedersdorf’s] failings, however, don’t have anything to do with epistemology.” Hmm. True in roughly the same way that Hinderaker’s being an enormous twat has nothing to do with ontology.

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs also, nothing sucks like a slain vacuum
 

I’ll bet some of trolldoosh’s best friends are black but he does NOT like N*****RS.

 
 

And in my book “promply falls asleep/passes out” immediately renders null and void, any prior consent granted.

Yeah, see, so it really still falls under “hate-fueled rage sex.”

 
 

Dammit troll, put your own name on that bullshit.

 
 

“Whites account for less than half of U.S. births”

For example, many conscientious whites have been unable to account for the president’s birth. Their standards of accounting prevent it, as in so many cases. Unanswered questions and all that. Nothing personal.

 
 

Why do people think copypastaing a bunch of other people’s random racist screeds into a comment thread, under yet another person’s name is appropriate, clever, or rational? I mean seriously, what the fuck? What a weird hobby.

Timing’s good though, I’ve got to head out for a while, you can ignore anything from “me” that isn’t obviously the real me — and it is pretty fucking obvious — until I get back later today.

 
 

Because doing so will make questions about Romney’s religion fair game, that’s why.

And who had more influence on each candidate, one preacher of the FOUNDER OF THE RELIGION, a polygamous, traitorous, theocratic charlatan?

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs also, nothing sucks like a slain vacuum
 

I feel that my earlier statement bears repeating. Catholics were a common target of other Southern Nationalist (ie sTuPiD Motherfuckers) since the inception of all of those groups. So….not sure how being catholic and a racist southern pride guy mixes, but it’s a little like a jewish nazi, dontcha think?

 
 

Al Sharpton’s a race-baiting jerk!

No fake OBS, you sir, are the Race-Baiting Jerk. As are all of your fellow travelers. And of course you have earned every right to be. I can’t imagine what 400 years of Slavery and indentured servitude and Jack Crow laws designed to claw at and damage your dignity would have done to me and mine if we had been on the other side of the ledger.

Those indignities, plus the race riots (where we burned you out of town and stole your property because we though you had risen a bit above your station), the lynchings (with postcards), the Sundown Towns, Redlining, forcing you guys to take the sittiest factory jobs, it goes on and on, and I feel your pain. You my friend have every reason in the world to play the “race” card if it redresses in the slightest any of the suffering that my people have forced yours to endure.

.

 
Surreal American
 

And who had more influence on each candidate, one preacher of the FOUNDER OF THE RELIGION, a polygamous, traitorous, theocratic charlatan?

Unsure about the traitorous part. In my book, packing up and leaving the U.S. because you disagree with the laws does not equal being a traitor. It’s certainly not on the level of TIDOS treachery. Unless there is some information I’m missing.

 
 

People, this is what happens when you let the government remove God from our lives. If Sharpton is a Reverend, then I’m the Bishop of Rome.

Holeee Fuck! You mean they let White People be Pope now? Did someone neglect to send me a memo? I just knewit when they passed that civil rights act that the day would come when a Wigger would become Pope.

What is the world coming to?

 
 

I am amused to note thaty I am now getting spam from “Affordable Forklifts.” Subject “Forklifts to fit any budget.” Can’t imagine they have a large open rate.

 
 

forcing you guys to take the sittiest factory jobs

Forgot about that one.

My grandfather worked at a steel mill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukens_Steel_Company

The hottest, toughest, shittiest job in the mill was worked by what was called “The Black Gang”. I believe it involved placing metal straps around stacks of red-hot steel plates.

My father slacked off his first year in college. When he went home for summer vacation, he expected to get a fairly cushy summer job at the mill. Instead, he found himself working on the aforementioned “Black Gang” as a taste of his future if he didn’t study harder.

 
 

OBS I think that the hate fureld/rage falls under the grudgefuck category which i place under the banner of consent. The example I brought up falls under the Rape/did not consent or revoked consent umbrella.

Of course we might need to assemble a mutualy agreed to flow chart, though I doubt that either one of us is inclined, though such a framework might be necessary to for the basis of some laws in the post collapse era.

Besides i am having too much fun imagining that Negroes landed on Plymouth Rock and imported Europeans for agrarian labor and other purposes.
.

 
 

dang, and here I am still using this pallet jack. what a sucker.

 
Surreal American
 

not sure how being catholic and a racist southern pride guy mixes, but it’s a little like a jewish nazi, dontcha think?

I believe the anti-Catholic sentiment became more prominent in the South (and other regions of the U.S.) during and after WWI with the revival of the KKK and a wave of non-Protestant immigrants that occurred during the same time.

 
 

Ah see that ahhs been graced with the Jackery now. But folks its really OK, this poor kids family was stolen in the night from some European Coastal town some 300 years ago and has a lot of rage to let go of, and if he’s gotta use MY name to paste his racist screeds, I say have at it boy! Oops, I meant to say have at it son. I forgot that you might find “boy” a tad offensive.

 
 

Being proud of your ethnicity strikes me as dumb, since you had no say in it. It’s like being proud of having blue eyes or being born a robot, like poor Mittens.

 
 

It would be nice if people did judge the content of the character instead of the color of the skin like Dr. King so eloquently stated. Why don’t you start and do your part today?

I am my poor, disadvantaged, and beleagured white friend, I try really hard not to get scared when I see a few of your younger males walking down the street, plus I am loaning you my name so that the Black Panther Special ops don’t make a visit to your door. So at least I am trying to get over my bigotry and race based hatred, hell I even have a few white friends, and when any of my co workers start going on about “those fucking Wiggers” i give ’em a dirty look and try to explain that not all of “them” are like that, that most white people I know are hard working good people that go to church on sunday, while reminding them that we have a few rotten apples in our basket too.

Keep on keeping on, my brother from a white mother!

 
Surreal American
 

I have to say that I too am concerned with the activities of the DC Empire. Especially since Marvel Studios seems to be kicking their ass in cinematic ventures.

 
 

Especially since Marvel Studios seems to be kicking their ass in cinematic ventures.

I call Ghost Rider on that one.

 
 

Being proud of your ethnicity strikes me as dumb, since you had no say in it.

Of course, but I can’t help but be proud of my Southern Heritage. You know how all the Black Schools (and I’ll admit that they are in the main vastly superior to the white ones) are Called Lincoln, Jefferson, of Washington? That’s because all of those great fouding fathers and the winning President of the civil war were proud Black men. It is how I was raised, and I am trying my best to ameliorate its effects on my outlook towards the pigmentally challenged.

One day at a time little sister, on day at a time.
.

 
 

you can ignore anything from “me” that isn’t obviously the real me — and it is pretty fucking obvious — until I get back later today

well, i would appreciate a code word…but i guess it’s too late now…

 
Surreal American
 

I see your Ghost Rider and raise you Green Lantern.

 
 

Add to upthread ACW puns: Balls Bluff.

 
 

“I am amused to note thaty I am now getting spam from “Affordable Forklifts.” Subject “Forklifts to fit any budget.” Can’t imagine they have a large open rate.”–Pupienus

“Forklift” must be a euphemism for something sexual. But what? Watching a man in a hardhat guide two long steely prongs up under some stuff has never struck me as sexual.

 
 

Instead, he found himself working on the aforementioned “Black Gang” as a taste of his future if he didn’t study harder.

😆

I am pretty sure that that woke his ass up in a hurry. just curious what did he end up studying after he found the proper focus?

 
Surreal American
 

You know how all the Black Schools (and I’ll admit that they are in the main vastly superior to the white ones)

Especially after desegregation when all through out the South private black academies were formed, leaving white public schools chronically underfunded.

 
Guerilla Voters Cadre 18
 

We’re not dead either. Solidarity against Leprosy and Plague.

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs also, nothing sucks like a slain vacuum
 

well, i would appreciate a code word…but i guess it’s too late now…

It’s called a “safe word”

 
 

I have to say that I too am concerned with the activities of the DC Empire.

Prepare yourselves for a rushed, craptastic Justice League movie in about 3 years. The costumes alone will supply snark bloggers for years.

I call Ghost Rider on that one.

I don’t think Marvel/Disney has the movie rights to Ghosty, Spidey or X-Men yet. But when they do, watch out: every fucking movie with be a cameo stuffed, homage-filled bonanza (“Cool! Wolverine bumped into Punisher while looking for Spider-Man!”).

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs also, nothing sucks like a slain vacuum
 

Watching a man in a hardhat guide two long steely prongs up under some stuff has never struck me as sexual.

Look closer: The hardhat with NASCAR stickers all over it, a chew-can ring on the pocket of the mom-jeans, hair, hair and more hair, protruding from places that belie evolutionary indexes, the meth problem, and 7th grade equivalent education. TRY to tell me that’s not sexy.

 
 

“Forklift” must be a euphemism for something sexual. But what? Watching a man in a hardhat guide two long steely prongs up under some stuff has never struck me as sexual.

you’ve obviously been doin’ it wrong…

well, i would appreciate a code word…but i guess it’s too late now…

It’s called a “safe word”

also, jackwagon…it would be a code word…safe words are for people who do unspeakable sexual things to each other…ohhhhh, i see…

 
 

Also: there are no more Confederates; just the off-spring of sore losers who would rather divide the country than work with people of different races, creeds and religions to make it better.

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs also, nothing sucks like a slain vacuum
 

also, jackwagon…it would be a code word…safe words are for people who do unspeakable sexual things to each other…ohhhhh, i see…

Jackwagon? That’s a good safe word…

 
 

also, too…is this recent outbreak of trolling supposed to be teaching us a lesson or something?

 
provider of dragon_tsam and KongSnobs also, nothing sucks like a slain vacuum
 

Also: there are no more Confederates; just the off-spring of sore losers who would rather divide the country than work with people of different races, creeds and religions to make it better.

You know…morons

 
 

We need a traditional, Southern, Christian Monarchy to rules over Dixie. Democracy has failed.

Mow you are stepping out into the deep end a bit, my white brother, and I have it on good authority that you guys can’t swim so well, so come back into the shallows. however i am pleased to see that you have written some of your own material and that is a great start.

What you need is to start taking responsibility for your selves, but we, your enlightened Black overlords, larded with guilt for the crimes we have foisted upon your race in the past will be happy to lend you a hand so that you might recover some of your lost treasure (’cause if i can be real, son, you guys built this country on the sweat of your backs, and we skimmed the cream and held you down).

So i think we can afford to part with enough of that stolen wealth to give you each 30 acres and a mule, really start following the 14th ammendment and make sure that you get equal rights, and provide for a White Guy Bill that will help you or your children access to education opportunities historically denied you, as well as low interest loans allowing you the capital to build a decent house and start a business if you have a good idea for one.

It really is ownly fair tothe both of our races. I am reminded of jesus who said That what you do to the least of us you do to me, and i for one am sick of this knot in my gut, so whattya say?

 
 

I think you hit it* right when you noted empathy — I mean great toe-curling sex (in my mind anyway) requires a pretty solid understanding of your partner’s wants/needs.

Since wingnuts show absolutely no ability to feel anything but contempt for anybody else, I can only imagine their two options: hate-fueled rage sex and/or “it’s time to pump out another kid, take off your pants” sex are pretty pathetic spectacles. And I don’t want to find out.

Plenty of people have selective, tribal empathy – lots of love and friendship and attention for “your people,” just not for anyone else.

(That doesn’t extend to Limbaugh, who really does seem psychologically defective in at least a few ways, and for whom your analysis probably does apply).

 
 

also, too…is this recent outbreak of trolling supposed to be teaching us a lesson or something?

No, but it is allowing me to indulge in one of my favorite alternate history exercises and the light of absurdity it shines on the current discourse. Appologies to anyone to whom it might be driving crazy.

I got to drive a forklift around when i worked at the brewery, enjoyed the hell out of it, though there were a couple of close calls, given the size of some of the loads, the extremely uneven surface transitions and dodging parking lot potholes fully loaded. I am pleased to say that I did not drop or damage a load. They are really rally useful when you need one.

Though pallet jacks are also the awesome!

 
 

No, but it is allowing me to indulge in one of my favorite alternate history exercises and the light of absurdity it shines on the current discourse.

eh…you are funny…i was just over to yer blawg…and my big question is: how you doin’?

 
 

@ProviderOBS_Dragon etc.

If I may indulge a bit of utterly irrelevant curiosity…did you have any kind of scanner/wireless transmitter system on your forklift? And how well did it work?

 
 

I endorse pallet jacks. I used an electric one and it’d really scoot around the aisles. The skilled could use their body weight to make the unpowered jacks move in a kind of skating motion.

 
 

I got to drive a forklift around when i worked at the brewery,

sometimes hubbkf lets me ride his lawn tractor* but nobody in their right mind would trust me with something lke a forklift or pallet jack…

*no

 
 

You mean I’ll be punished very severely by Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez and Lucy Liu

Why does Major Kong have all the luck?

 
 

“sometimes hubbkf lets me ride his lawn tractor”

Could you ride that thing over to my house on Saturday? I”ll be there with a beer in hand looking for spots that you will, inevitably, miss.

 
 

d’oh…disco is really dead now…

 
 

Could you ride that thing over to my house on Saturday? I”ll be there with a beer in hand looking for spots that you will, inevitably, miss.

wow, it’s like you know me…

 
 

Just chiming in to congratulate OBS on teh nymjack and others on their pallet jacks.

 
 

“Look closer: The hardhat with NASCAR stickers all over it, a chew-can ring on the pocket of the mom-jeans, hair, hair and more hair, protruding from places that belie evolutionary indexes, the meth problem, and 7th grade equivalent education. TRY to tell me that’s not sexy.”

See, in my mind’s eye, the hardhat guy is naked and shaved, but all business. Perhaps on account of the meth, he’s really keen on moving all the pallets to the other side of the warehouse. And back.

 
 

I am pretty sure that that woke his ass up in a hurry. just curious what did he end up studying after he found the proper focus?

He majored in Psychology, served 4 years as an officer in the Army, resigned his commission rather than go to Vietnam in 1964 and ended up working in sales the rest of career. He’d probably still be working if he could. One of those people who would have had a “Thank God it’s Monday” coffee mug.

 
 

That Colorado preacher who protested *$$ by BUYING some coffee then dumpting down the sewer? Whoda thunk, he’s a convicted child abuser. The only surprise here is that the abuse wasn’t sexual.

 
 

HAHAHAHA

[Jonah Goldberg] reminds me of C.S. Lewis in some regards. He’s got a great grip on reality and logic. His new book is incredible. Get it.

Retweeted by Jonah Goldberg

 
 

Oh, and leap-frogging back to Bitter: Jonah Goldberg continues to prove that he’s the worst paid writer in American politics.

Seriously; people give him cash in exchange for what he writes. This should not be legal.

 
 

mark,

I think he meant to put a “?” after “Get it.” He had to.

 
 

Republicans anxiously discourage racially-charged super PAC Black Community GOTV strategy

fix’d

 
 

</b> ahhh fuhhhhhhh

 
 

Weird, that actually worked. Well, I’ll be damned.

 
 

FUCK YEAH WORD PRESS!

 
 

“CnservativePunk”? WTF did I just click on?

 
 

That settles it: Word Press hates me the most.

 
 

“He’s got a great grip on reality and logic.”

He’s strangling the life out of ’em as best he can.

Thinking about Goldberg’s bloated red face has all of a sudden inspired an invention. It’s a ring, like the ones some gentlemen are purported to wear, but bigger. This one’s like a torc to keep the blood in your brain. The more you think, or hang upside down, the more blood goes to your head, but how to keep it there? A brain-ring, that’s how.

 
 

I thought Todd Seavey was the conservative punk.

 
 

You show me someone who’s “proud to be white,” and I’ll show you someone who has absolutely nothing else to be proud of.

 
 

d’oh…disco is really dead now…

“I will surviiiii…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz<needledrop>zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp”

Too soon?

 
 

…and my big question is: how you doin’?

Running on fumes, while still looking for some work that will caccomodate my dodgy knee, but I remain in good spirits most of the time, though a new anxiety has crept into the picture, as it seems that the landlord is looking to sell the house I was planning on staying in for a while. Unfortunately I have not heard back from the Bike shops in town and fear that the managers of both are unwilling to hire someone who they both percieve as a threat to their jobs (which I could be if I wanted their jobs, which I most certainly do not) I could go freelance but am facing a barrier of entry problem currently. Other than that, Dandy!

Thanks for askin’.

 
 

Yeah, I know. But still.

 
 

sometimes hubbkf lets me ride his lawn tractor* but nobody in their right mind would trust me with something lke a forklift or pallet jack…

*no

That’s a bunch of fun, but the Dixie Chopper, now that is a ride like no other, that thing is like the fighter-plane of lawn mowers. I have, let’s say, just managed to keep one of those things under control in some rather dodgy situations (the guy who owned them always drove the one with the freshly treaded tires.

 
 

“I will surviiiii…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp”

Wrong singer. You should be looking for those dead girls. Uh huh.

 
 

Why does Major Kong have all the luck?

DAS, when the brown hordes pry this country from the cold, dead finger of the pigmentedly challenged, we have agreed to hold a lottery. So your chances are as good as Major’s.

He’d probably still be working if he could. One of those people who would have had a “Thank God it’s Monday” coffee mug.

I don’t think i have ever felt that way about a job (unless* I was getting paid to learn something I wanted to know, which usually didn’t last too long, being a fairly quick study). It is a gift if you can’t wait to get back on the job. he must have been really happy with his work.

*Or there was a lady that I was chasing involved.

 
 

“but the Dixie Chopper, now that is a ride like no other, that thing is like the fighter-plane of lawn mowers.”

So I’m guessing it’s a deluxe riding mower with the Confederate flag painted on each side?

 
 

You show me someone who’s “proud to be white,” and I’ll show you someone who has absolutely nothing else to be proud of.

Here’s my thing on this: aren’t “white” people in America basically descended from Irish, German, Dutch, English, French, Scottish and a whole bunch of other European-based nationalities? So basically you’re renouncing your ancestors to be proud of your skin tone?

 
 

White people are mutants and descended from Neandertals. I guess that’s something to be proud of. You know, if you’re proud of being a mutant.

 
 

I think whiteness requires that you endorse polkas.

 
 

not a gator said,
May 17, 2012 at 20:56 (kill)

Weird, that actually worked. Well, I’ll be damned.

not a gator said,
May 17, 2012 at 20:57 (kill)

FUCK YEAH WORD PRESS!

Pryme said,
May 17, 2012 at 21:04 (kill)

That settles it: Word Press hates me the most.

Naw, it doesn’t break with your run of the mill unclosed tag. It takes a special kind of unclosed tag. Two of us have been slapped upside the haid by Tintin for deliberately breaking WP and OBS recently claimed he learned the trick as well.

Not saying you should take it as a challenge or anything, I’m just sayin.

 
 

If I may indulge a bit of utterly irrelevant curiosity…did you have any kind of scanner/wireless transmitter system on your forklift? And how well did it work?

Oh Hell No!!!

This was like a thirty year old Yale, that needed replacement tires like ten years ago (at least). They did eventually get another one in as production increases demanded it. A penny was not spent in that place unless it was in posession of guaranteed fertility.

I was tasked with lableing a batch of 100 brand new kegs and after the third, I had come up with a plan (because otherwise It was gonna take days) Got the keys to the truck purchased some casters (out of pocket, figuring I would be reimbursed when ti was clear how many hours my device would save), spent about 20 minutes assembling the contraption, and rather than a week the job only took a couple of days. The labels came out beautiful. When I see one of their kegs in the wild, I can tell immediately if I labled the thing or not. Oh and I got my money back.

 
 

You know, if you’re proud of being a mutant.

I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you!

 
 

Double double, toil and trouble
Web-page fail and web-page, uh, wubble or something.

 
 

Don’t ride that Dixie Chopper near Natalie Maines, OK?

 
 

I got to drive a forklift around when i worked at the brewery, enjoyed the hell out of it, though there were a couple of close calls, given the size of some of the loads, the extremely uneven surface transitions and dodging parking lot potholes fully loaded. I am pleased to say that I did not drop or damage a load. They are really rally useful when you need one

You’ve never had the experience of forking a grand piano around. Let me just say that the center of gravity on a grand piano makes it very tricky. I think they actually have counterweights for them, now, but in the bad old days, you’d just have a co-worker sit on it. I once saw a grand piano do a double flip off a pair of forks when the guy who was counterweighting it forgot what he was there for, jumped off the piano to open a door.

You haven’t won your wings until you’ve dumped a piano.

 
 

A penny was not spent in that place unless it was in posession of guaranteed fertility.

That makes it a food or beverage plant, all right.

I remember one of the first ones I toured. They were having backups due to a balky case-packer, so I asked the foreman, “Do you have an accumulator?”

He laughed and said “Right over there,” pointing to a couple of guys frantically snatching cases off the conveyor and hand-stacking them on a bare patch of floor.

 
 

Not saying you should take it as a challenge or anything

Hmmm…You sure ’bout that?

 
 

I think whiteness requires that you endorse polkas.

And accordions. Don’t forget accordions.

One of the best lines in In Pharaoh’s Army was Wolff’s description of a captain he couldn’t stand: “Captain Kale owned records of people playing the accordion, and could tell the difference between them.”

 
 

“but the Dixie Chopper, now that is a ride like no other, that thing is like the fighter-plane of lawn mowers.”

don’t be dissin’ the mighty john deere…

Thanks for askin’.

best to you…

 
 

best to you…

as a fellow traveler in pain and dodgy joints…

 
 

DAS, when the brown hordes pry this country from the cold, dead finger of the pigmentedly challenged, we have agreed to hold a lottery. So your chances are as good as Major’s.

Louis CK has some thoughts on that subject.

 
 

Uh, in my 21:47, make that “balky palletizer.”

 
 

wow…did the tigers get really crappy overnight or something? the twins won against them TWICE in a row! wtf?

 
 

“CnservativePunk”? WTF did I just click on?

A wingerscreed Twitterfeed?

Pro tip: Always check the address location in the status bar, that little tip saved me the trouble.

You show me someone who’s “proud to be white,” and I’ll show you someone who has absolutely nothing else to be proud of.

Ding Ding, Ding.

Well he might take pride in how shiny he keeps his TruckNutz, but that’s be about it.

So I’m guessing it’s a deluxe riding mower with the Confederate flag painted on each side?

Not by default, though I have seen a few in the wild so emblazoned. Dixie Chopper. The model I was running is probably about 20 years old by now, but prperly maintained they have a long life.

Yeah, I have done some death defying on one of those as well (though only once, and the guy who ran the operation was pushing it as a small drizzle had started before we started the job, and their were inclines beyond the recommended allowences…)

I have been in some crazy assed spots from time to time, I need to start writing them down for posterity. I tend to fall on the what have I done for me lately side of the ledger and tend to forget past triumphs and near misses…

I was gonna address Pryme and the Goldberg getting paid thing, but i would rather stay out of a funk (though i feel your pain).

 
 

And accordions. Don’t forget accordions.

Accordionists aren’t necessarily white.

 
 

So basically you’re renouncing your ancestors to be proud of your skin tone?

I’ve not heard it put exactly that way, but yes, I think you are on to something. Now concerning the immagrants of Schotch-Irish and lower class English variety might not so much be renouncing their ancestry as wanting to forget about it in the first place. i think the other groups mentioned have done a better job of maintaining ties to the motherland.

There is a small town about 50 miles south of here that was settled by German Catholic immagrants, and they wholey embrace the culture of their ancesters.

Similarly, I think that people of French and dutch extraction are more likely to emulate the Germans in this regard.

 
 

Naw, it doesn’t break with your run of the mill unclosed tag. It takes a special kind of unclosed tag. Two of us have been slapped upside the haid by Tintin for deliberately breaking WP and OBS recently claimed he learned the trick as well.

Well, that’s reassuring. I guess.

*horribly tempted to play with WP until it breaks*

 
 

“Here’s my thing on this: aren’t “white” people in America basically descended from Irish, German, Dutch, English, French, Scottish and a whole bunch of other European-based nationalities? So basically you’re renouncing your ancestors to be proud of your skin tone?”

Compared to some folks, I don’t know much about my ancestry. I go with the label “white” because that’s the fashion, I am a confusing hybrid, and I have little info. Pride isn’t a consideration.

One label that bugs me is “Anglo.” At least one online dictionary says it can mean “a white American of non-Hispanic descent,” but that’s very unsatisfying. It’s conventional, not informational, like saying “Indians” to mean diverse natives. (Navajos (Dine) I have met tend to call whites “Anglos” regardless of ethnicity.) While we’re at it, why not use “Nigerian” for everyone that looks vaguely African?

 
 

You’ve never had the experience of forking a grand piano around. Let me just say that the center of gravity on a grand piano makes it very tricky. I think they actually have counterweights for them, now, but in the bad old days, you’d just have a co-worker sit on it. I once saw a grand piano do a double flip off a pair of forks when the guy who was counterweighting it forgot what he was there for, jumped off the piano to open a door.

Holee Shiite!!! Wow.

First I think that the last thing I would want to use a forklift on would be a grand, understanding all of the issues you raised (I might like to check out the edge from time to time, but i ain’t looking for no ulcer).

The jumping off to open a door bit is Classic! Having on occasion been pressed into service to counterbalance an unsteady load or two, I was always very cognizant of the gravity of the situation (pun not intended).

I’ll have to say that I’ll pass on the wings, though managing to keep a 2 pallet stack of new bottles on which some unseen packing material had snagged the top of the garage door (2 inches of clearence during the best of times) from crashing down might get me some points. Sometimes the though of having to clean up an enourmous mess (like the prospect of grevious bodily harm) can bring your mind into sharp focus.
🙂
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I once saw a grand piano do a double flip off a pair of forks when the guy who was counterweighting it forgot what he was there for, jumped off the piano to open a door.

That got a genuine laugh out of me. I tip my hat to you, sir or madam.

 
 

Thanks bbkf. Hope that hubbkf is doing alright. Sorry about the Twins. It looks like my Reds are shooting for the moon (another .500 season) though they remain in 2nd place.

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The next conservative folk hero?

They are already scrubbing the photo’s of him (Stalin Style) out of the FraternalOrderOfRatfucking club photo albums. Oh and he was always a Democrat.
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I get annoyed at being called a Yankee, given that I’m Irish (boo, hiss), but ultimately, don’t terms like anglo and english (in Amish usage) and yankee just refer to the language you speak? Which is English, whether I choose to acknowledge that fact or not.

 
 

All this talk of mowers is depressing me. We’re renting a house from a nice guy who left his mower behind. Damn thing stopped working and it’s my duty to mow anyway. People keep knocking on the front door offering to mow for money. They all quote twenty bucks. Next time maybe I’ll cough it up. I don’t see how the job is worth more than ten, though.

 
 

not sure how being catholic and a racist southern pride guy mixes
In the 3rd episode of “John Safran vs. God”, John interviews a Kalifornian KKK leader. The leader explains that membership criteria have evolved, and yes, they welcome Katholic members nowadays. John explains that he’s Jewish, buth otherwise he shares most of the Klan’s values, can he join?
The interview goes rapidly downhill after that.

 
 

They are already scrubbing the photo’s of him (Stalin Style) out of the FraternalOrderOfRatfucking club photo albums. Oh and he was always a Democrat.

The fact that the congregation took out the trash rather than whine, cry victim, and beg for money proves that he and they are liberals, RINOs, and cafeteria Christians.

 
 

“but ultimately, don’t terms like anglo and english (in Amish usage) and yankee just refer to the language you speak? Which is English, whether I choose to acknowledge that fact or not.”

To a degree they do, but you’ve gotta be white to get so-called, and nobody has to hear you talk first.

 
 

Sorry about the Twins.

no, sillyboots…they actually won TWO GAMES IN A ROW! it’s a minor miracle!

also, thanks for well wishes for hubbkf…we are more than a bit nervous about tomorrow…but you know me…every time i think of going to see dr. dong, i think of this…

 
 

Navajos (Dine) I have met tend to call whites “Anglos” regardless of ethnicity
Fair enough; the fuckers all look the same, amirite?

A paper came out in one of the anthropology journals a few decades ago, listing some of the terms of abuse used by the different First Nations to insult one another. Must dig it out.

 
 

When I was in between flying gigs I spent some time working at a oil processing plant in Louisiana. It’s where they turn base-stock into motor oil, transmission fluid etc.

I got to drive a big forklift on occasion. It had a manual transmission and what looked like tractor tires on the front. I also got to drive a crane, which was pretty cool.

My job title was “assistant plant engineer” which could be anything from building machinery to writing code. Didn’t pay worth a crap, but it was fun work.

 
 

“Fair enough; the fuckers all look the same, amirite?”

I could never really hold it against em. “I hate when you Indians call me Anglo” sounds petty.

 
 

The interview goes rapidly downhill after that.

HA! That’s hilarious. Y SO SERIOUS, KKK?

 
 

Canadians are defined by people asking what it means to be Canadian.

 
 

I worked at a large multiple-venue event facility. We did events everywhere, and often had to forklift things like pianos around from building to building. The place we stored them in was at the bottom of a steep hill.

Every experienced forklift operator knows that if you have a heavy or overbalance load and you’re going downhill, you back down. One newbie was forking a piano down the hill and went forks-first.

This time it was an upright, pretty easily balanced. But not if you head down a steep hill forks-first. He hit a bump or braked or something and it just fell over. Because the back of the piano was to the lift, it landed on its keyboard.

The sound they make going down is awesome, I have to say.

 
 

The interview goes rapidly downhill after that.

Reminds me of when Playboy recruited Alex Haley to interview the head of the American Nazi Party (“I’ve been called ‘nigger’ many times, Commander, but this is the first time I’ve ever been paid for it”). They also got another black guy to interview whoever that jerkoff was who helped invent transistors and then spent the rest of his life “researching” how blacks were inferior.

At the time I thought it was gimmicky and kind of tacky, but you need something to fill space between the tit shots, I guess.

 
 

Actually, there was a Justice League movie that started production a few years ago. It was shut down by the writers strike and hasn’t resumed. I remember the rapper Common was cast as Green Lantern (the black Lantern John Stewart, not to be confused with the Jewish comedian Jon Stewart).

As for the Marvel vs. DC thing, I have to say that I prefer DC’s stash of characters. That said, the Marvel Studios films (the ones leading up to The Avengers) have been a lot more consistent in quality. The DC movies, all done by Warner Bros., which owns the company, are allowed to be their own thing instead of fit into a larger universe. That leads to lows like Green Lantern but also highs like The Dark Knight, so I’m not sure quite what to think of it.

If the Marvel movies have a fatal flaw, it’s a lack of individuality. They often feel more like a product than a piece of artistic expression (as much as blockbuster films can feel like a piece of artistic expression).

And accordions. Don’t forget accordions.

Resisting urge to post Christina Hendricks “playing the accordion while singing in French” video…

 
 

They all quote twenty bucks. Next time maybe I’ll cough it up. I don’t see how the job is worth more than ten, though.

Well, they got to cover the costs involved in getting from their place to yours, maintainence upkeep, time between jobs etc. You know the usual. If it was a kid down the street, or someone using your equipment, I can see your point, but for a commercial operation, even a semi shady one it is almost not worth it to depart the truck for anything less. Plus the time unloading and loading the rig (even if you have a postage stamp yard…

Just my .02.

You might see how much it would cost to get the current mower fixed, might be as simple as a spark plug, or might cost enough to easily pay for a new one in which case the 20 might not look so bad after all.

 
 

It’s a ring, like the ones some gentlemen are purported to wear, but bigger. This one’s like a torc to keep the blood in your brain.

They’re called “ties”.

 
 

ROMNEY: I’m actually gonna — I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was. I’ll go back and take a look at what was said there.

My momma dun always tole me say the truth so you don’t get caught trying to remember all the things you said. Mitt has that problem with respect to his many positions. “Let me thnk, was that when Iwas a moderate or was that when i was a tea partier? What was I saying I believed at that point?”

 
 

They’re called “ties”.

Trufax, I had my leash on today, second time in as many weeks. OTOH, teh yokes of my corporate overlords are at least pretty colours.

 
 

Golem – if it’s not a big yard, you might look into buying a used electric mower – should be able to get one for $100 or less. I switched over 10 years ago because I was tired of my arm getting pulled out of its socket trying to start the gas mower.

Plus, now I don’t have keep gasoline, change oil or sparkplugs, etc. And the electric mowers are really lightweight, too, so they’re easy to handle.

 
 

Come Skynet’s reign, you’ll regret the electric mower.

 
 

Plus, now I don’t have keep gasoline, change oil or sparkplugs, etc. And the electric mowers are really lightweight, too, so they’re easy to handle.
Speaking of being tethered by a leash,,, I’ve a battery electric model. Teh mobility gained by not worrying about running over teh cord is mitigated by teh fact that teh batteries weigh a metric fucktonne.

I still enjoy standing on teh lawn with Ultra-Ninja in my arms and telling her that “someday all of this will be yours,,, to mow.”

 
 

I think we can all agree that remote-controlled lawnmowers are a bad idea.

 
 

“ROMNEY: I’m actually gonna — I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was. I’ll go back and take a look at what was said there.”

If his opinion hasn’t changed, what’s to remember? He can just say what he thinks, and it’ll come out the same as before. If his previous opinion was worthy of “standing by,” why did it change, if it did? The puzzler is not that Mitt stood by one idea, then changed is mind and now stands by another. It’s that he stands by contradictory ideas at the same time! Cumulatively! His steadfastness is trans-dimensional.

 
 

I still enjoy standing on teh lawn with Ultra-Ninja in my arms and telling her that “someday all of this will be yours,,, to mow.”

Has she tried to run away yet?

 
 

But what if we move before U-N is big enough that her doing yardwork doesn’t immediately summon Children’s Aid?

I ain’t moving. Teh last two moves saw my Walk Score go from 91 to 75 to 58. I am one or two change of address forms away from a remote sekrit lair (possibly carved into an active volcano) and that is NOT happening until technology advances enough for me to find reliable sources for teh remaining missing components of Teh Device.

 
 

I still enjoy standing on teh lawn with Ultra-Ninja in my arms and telling her that “someday all of this will be yours,,, to mow.”

Shya, if she’s a true Ultra-Ninja, a couple of swings of her kusarigama should do the trick.

 
 

FYWP.

That was the codeword.

OBS recently claimed he learned the trick as well

Oh, I did — remember how yesterday Cerb said the thread had been broken twice — yeah, the first was Pryme, the second was me trying to fix it. Nobody noticed because Cerb fixed both of them at once.

Anyway as simple as it is, I’m surprised FYWP doesn’t just strip it out out like it does all the other stuff. Wait, no I’m not surprised at all, it’s FYWP.

 
 

I didn’t know “Derpy Hooves” was even a thing. I just thought it was one of the five million inane injokes that comes from the reddit/chan complex.

 
 

I’m pretty good with a forklift because I move these and you want to be gentle when you hit them with the forks and attentive thereafter. They have a persuasive way of teaching you how to do it.

I saw a piano ruined when I worked as a mover in my youth but I’ve never dropped one off of a forklift. Now I’m thinking about it.

 
 

And I will admit that this newfound power has been somewhat hard to resist. I mean who would care if I turned just one stanky old thread all bold and italic and such? I mean one couldn’t hurt right? And what about strikethrough? I really need to find out if that one works too.

Sigh. I’ll be good. S’no fun though.

 
 

You could pepper them through all the old threads. Strikethroughs would frustrate the Matt Furey fans.

 
 

You could pepper them through all the old threads. Strikethroughs would frustrate the Matt Furey fans.

TROLL SCHOOL!

 
 

Good lord. I have discovered, on my very own computer, a completely sincere cover of this. It is NOTHING without chorus-singing afro guy.

 
 

You could pepper them through all the old threads. Strikethroughs would frustrate the Matt Furey fans.

It’s really mean to tempt me like that! I bet our benevolent Sadly overlords wouldn’t approve.

 
 

And I will admit that this newfound power has been somewhat hard to resist. I mean who would care if I turned just one stanky old thread all bold and italic and such? I mean one couldn’t hurt right? And what about strikethrough? I really need to find out if that one works too.

I seem to remember we had a thread like that a ways back. It got pretty ugly until someone dropped the code tag, which iirc preempted the others and at least made it legible. Then Carl Tintin showed up and gave everyone the shame-carrots.

 
 

Whoa, El, biggest Rubik’s Cubes EVAH!

 
 

I’m pretty good with a forklift because I move these and you want to be gentle when you hit them with the forks and attentive thereafter.

You’re a braver man than I. I’m more than a little scared of bees.

 
 

RE: the electric mower: the cord is really not a problem, at least it shouldn’t be for smart folks like you. You figure out your mowing pattern; at the beginning of one pass you hold the cord with your left hand while you’re holding the mower handle; when you get to the end of the pass and turn the mower around, PRESTO! The cord you’ve been pulling behind you on your pass across the lawn is already laying on mown grass and isn’t in your way when you go back across the lawn.

Really, I’m surprised I have to spell this out.

 
 

Ha ha, someone called dapne has pointed out a repition that Thers made in a post at Whiskeyfire.
She’s everywhere, she’s everywhere.

 
 

Also a repetition. As well

 
 

Daphne, daphne daphne. “H” key is working now

 
 

What if you have trees on your lawn?

 
 

I’ve yelled at them to GET OFFA TEH LAWN, but they just won’t leave.

 
 

also, too…is this recent outbreak of trolling supposed to be teaching us a lesson or something?

Yes, it’s teaching me the many facets of the cleanup button.

 
 

Won’t leaf. Fuck. wev.

 
 

Trees? Oh my god, that’s an insurmountable problem.

No, it isn’t. Really. Mowing a lawn with an electric mower, even a lawn WITH TREES! is not a big deal. People always think the cord is going to be a huge PITA but it isn’t. You figure out how to make it work really quickly.

 
 

I made it work by getting a cordless. Do I regret it every time I have to push teh thing up teh three foot incline at teh edge of teh lawn? Yes. Yes I do.

 
 

Ditch the lawnmower, get a sheep or plant perennials.

Sez the guy who lives in an apartment. Luckily, the weeds growing out by the sidewalk are delicious lamb’s quarters.

 
 

Weeds? Pshaw – those are indigenous vegetation to be protected from aliens like roses etc.

 
 

Weeds? Pshaw – those are indigenous vegetation to be protected from aliens like roses etc.

Or from foragers who like tasty greens?

 
 

Wait. I thought little lambs ate ivy.

 
 

I’ve got a spot I’ve completely given over to Lamb’s Quarters, it’s good stuff. Better than spinach and easier to grow. Threw out some nettle seeds, B^4, hoping to give it a spot, too.

 
 

I’ve been a Cubs fan my whole life, but this motherfucker is going to have me rooting for the White Sox.

 
 

JP, are comments closed at your blog? I couldn’t find a place to comment.

Well, not intentionally, but in effect, yes they are. Until dirk gently has time to look at the XML to make FortyToo work for me, again. Switching to the new Blogger template meant that I had to change the code for that, and every time I did, Blogger barked at me for “malformed XML.” So, I had to turn it over to the code expert.

This is the real reason why I left the IT field, and decided blue collar work was my thang. 😉
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BWA HA HA. So I came to this thread and y’all were talking about, you, know, weed. And I was gonna rave about NY’s governor Andrew Cuomo (don’t hit me) cuz not only did he legalize gay marriage,but he wants to legalze “medical” mary jane. YAY!!!

But, no, you old people are actually talking about weeds in your garden? Really?

I can call y’all old cuz, it’s a loooong 4 months before I am 50.

Also? I’m a teeny bit drunk.

 
 

Not stoned?

 
 

We can talk about the other weed, too, yannow.

Me and my brother-in-law have been joking about how if we would just grow some, our financial problems would be over.

 
 

I had to change Mini__B the last time he weed.

 
 

Also? I’m a teeny bit drunk.

Ah, that would explain the flood of commas.

Also too, the Oregon Attorney General race was decided largely by the winner’s promise to pay no attention what so ever to medical maryjane (which has been legal here for years) issues. The loser had the very bad sense to say the state should get more involved in cracking down on “abuses.” Yes, there are abusers but he came off as totally anti-pot and went from a fair lead to sucking hind teat on election day.

 
 

I love how fast he backed down on the smear campaign. God, it feels good to make the wingnut-monkeys DANCE.

 
 

No N_B – drunk. And here’s comes my rave There are two organizations who spend the most lobbying money on anti-weed legislation. Wanna guess who they are? Wanna? OK, I’ll wait

They are: the liquor industry. Of course. If weed were legal, I’d never have another drink for the rest of my life. Think about it – no calories, no hang over, and the high is over relatvely soon.

The other???? The prison guard unions. There are close to 4 million prisioners in American prisions; $800,000 for small quantity drug possession. How many guards does 800,000 prisioners equate to? BOATLOADS!!!

 
 

Hey Pup; commas? What are commas? A flood of? Oh wait, yeah – I just looked back. SHUT UP – grammar boy!!!

And abuse. What is abuse??? Of a legal substance?? Like, I dunno, cigarettes?

Please don’t make fun of my question marks 🙂 Is there a flood?

 
 

The issue is abuse of the medical marijuana growing and dispensing rules. About which most Oregonians don’t really give a fat flying Philadelphia fiddler’s fuck.* Those who do care are against stepped up efforts to enforce those rules.

suck on that, daphne

 
 

Pup is gonna go all comma chameleon on us, I just know it.

 
 

I’ve been a Cubs fan my whole life, but this motherfucker is going to have me rooting for the White Sox.

No shit. It actually has me soured on baseball. I didn’t really care about a Bush being an owner, I mean, it’s not like the Rangers won anything. And Steinbrenner I just loved to hate. He got me watching.

But this dude? Just disgusts me. I hate to think I’m even marginally empowering this poison.

 
 

Dear Dude – Mr. Pup. OF COURSE there is abuse. The whole point of medical marijuana laws is to make the unusual, usual. All I (as a girl; but only for a minute or two cuz I’m old) have to do is walk into a dispensary and say “OW, my period hurts!!!!!” and I will get a prescription. Yay America… Yay, NY???

 
 

And I was gonna rave about NY’s governor Andrew Cuomo (don’t hit me) cuz not only did he legalize gay marriage,but he wants to legalze “medical” mary jane.

Get back to me when the Wrong Cuomo does something about stop & frisk and cops slapping young black and hispanic men with criminal charges for concealed marijuana. (Cuz who are you gonna believe, Occam’s razor or a lying police officer?)

 
 

If your chameleon is in a coma, you’re going to need a very tiny IV.

 
 

And “fat flying Philadelphia fiddler’s fuck” is my new saying. Especially since all the commas and appostrophies are in the right place.

 
 

Maybe even a tiny III.

 
 

The other???? The prison guard unions. There are close to 4 million prisioners in American prisions; $800,000 for small quantity drug possession. How many guards does 800,000 prisioners equate to? BOATLOADS!!!

Ohhh, so that’s what PBA spends its money and time on? That explains sooooo much. One, that they utterly suck as a collective bargaining agent or union or fraternal association or whatever the fuck they are this week. Two, that they accomplish nothing for their members.

Here’s some Schadenfreude: PBA at the state prisons in Florida just got raided by the Teamsters about six months ago.

 
 

YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR, PUPIENUS!

 
 

Hey not – I agree. But if you think the gov has any pull in NYC; think again. I agree with you, but Cuomo has no control over that. He may have legal control, but NYC pays way more taxes than the rest of NY, and money talks.

 
 

Now, some real fun times? The county sheriff bad-mouthing FOP (who raided the prison unit and kicks the sheriff’s dept’s ass repeatedly) and going on about how much she looooooves PBA.

Anytime management goes out of their way to fellate your union, hold onto your wallet.

 
 

NYS will be behind on the pot issue. They can’t not be. I’m just wondering who after Massachusetts will decriminalize minor possession next, assuming VT hasn’t already (or beat them to it, as they so often do beat Massachusetts to everything). Hm, Maine?

North… Carolina?

I..o..wa? It could happen, right? (lol)

Wyoming. Western states. Gotta be.

 
 

I suppose Pup is better latin never. He was just roamin’ around though.

 
 

It’s going to be on the ballot in WA and CO this fall. I think the OR organizers decided to hold off for now.

 
 

I had to change Mini__B the last time he weed.

There is growing support for the legalization of medicinal wee wee.

 
 

There is growing support for the legalization of medicinal wee wee.

Now I’m stuck with the image of a legion of lobbyists singing “Urine the money / Urine the money / You’ve got a lot of what it takes to fill a john.”

 
 

vs haz commentary.
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And that makes a vas deferens.

 
 

The issue is abuse of the medical marijuana growing and dispensing rules. About which most Oregonians don’t really give a fat flying Philadelphia fiddler’s fuck.* Those who do care are against stepped up efforts to enforce those rules.

Except the abuse is so blatant. In California and Oregon, you can see newspaper ads for “clinics,” conveniently located next to the “dispensaries,” that advertise “cards in 30 minutes.”

When I was in Oregon not long ago, I read about how the principal of an alternative school in Portland was upset because a “dispensary” set up shop next door to his school. A lot of his kids have substance abuse problems.

I like pot as much as the next guy, but this kind of blatant system-gaming can’t do any good in terms of general respect for the law.

[/concern trolling]

 
 

Hey bitter – that’s the point. To make the “abnormal” seem “normal”

And then the gaming will stop. Like I said above – OW my period hurts

 
 

A lot of his kids have substance abuse problems.

Yet strangely enough they managed to get their hands on illeagal substances to abuse anyway. And in any event if they want some weed, they’ll find it whether there is a dispensary nearby or in some shady neighborhood where there might be reliable sourcing.

Prohibition, not unlike abstinance (but that is another if related discussion) are proven failures in addressing those problems. I only think that weed (at least for those of us who take to it) is only a gateway drug in the sense that if you can’t find some you might be inclined to hit the parents liquor cabinet, try to get someone of age to get you some booze or try something you haven’t before because it happens to be available and you want to catch a buzz.

The hysteria surrounding pot is ridiculous. I would much rather come across a band of giggling teenagers than a pack of drunken idiots, but then that is just me. I do understand that there are a number of folks out there that just don’t get it, or that it doesn’t work for them (which is a shame), but then I hate cilantro, so I don’t feel like I am missing anything, even though the vast majority of people I run into love the stuff.

The War On Drugs has always been about funneling large sums of taxpayer monies into private hands while serving as protection racket for Big Pharma, Liquor concerns, and the Prison Industrial Complex.

 
 

<i.I’ve been a Cubs fan my whole life, but this motherfucker is going to have me rooting for the White Sox.

I feel yer pain my friend. I’m a lifelong Reds fan and had to put up with Marge (the nazi’s weren’t so bad) Schott. She is dead now.

/Praise be to her awesome and powerfull noodly appendages.

 
 

Thanks to a marker thrown my Another Kiwi over at Roy’s, I am now contemplating doing a Samual Jackson Lincoln rendering of the Gettysburg Address.

What can I say, I like an absurd challenge, and though am likely to fail miserably, I must at least try.

“87 fucking years ago some of the most brilliant bastards we have ever seen…”

 
 

There are a lot of arguments flying around that the only people who want pot decriminalised are themselves stoners. Well, I’ve never done pot but I fully support legalisation.

I’ve also never had more than a sip of alcohol but that doesn’t mean I’m Proprohibition.

 
 

Don’t get me wrong—I want pot decriminalized too. I also think that it has a legitimate medical use. But this business of giving anyone and everyone access to medical marijuana is a half-assed approach to decriminalization that will eventually blow up in people’s faces.

 
 

This whole conversation reminds me of a dinner I went to a few years ago with my hairstylist friends. The 20-something daughter of one of them came to dinner with her severely uptight boyfriend, and they were directly across the table from me. Somehow conversation drifted into the terrible pain the daughter was having each month during her cycle, and how nothing had helped, the doctor had tried this, and that, and that, and nothing worked. I listened to the whole thing, and then said, “why don’t you just smoke some pot?” I thought the boyfriend was going to stroke out; the rest of the table hooted. I said “what is the world coming to when the old farts have to explain this stuff to you kids? You should know this already. Pot’s the only thing that works.”

The daughter later broke up with the uptight boyfriend and started smoking to alleviate her problems, and yes, it did work. I consider that a legitimate medical reason to smoke, one that I would use in my defense if I had ever got caught with any of the devil’s weed. Of course, within the next year or so I’ll probably no longer have that excuse, so suggestions for a new one are welcome.

 
 

Legalize it. At the very least, make it available medically. I have found marijauna very helpful in easing (non-phyical) pain, as a supplement to anti-depressants and mood stabilizers.

Marijuana is still illegal in Maryland. I lost my source two months ago; I have been in a sharp downward spiral ever since, despite upward adjustments in my prescribed mediations.

Today I applied for entry into an intensive (daily) outpatient clinic. I will also enter a weekly mood disorder clinic in June. (Today the treatment team also asked me if I wanted to re-enter the hospital. I’ve been out of the psychiatric unit for eleven years. I’m mulling it over tonight. Perhaps I should.)

I know marijuana has had significant medical benefits for me. Legalize it.

 
 

Legalize it.

This.

I have had dysthymia since about age 14, and will be 49 next month on the solstice. A low-dose of citalopram keeps that shit in check for me, but I would love to add something more natural to the routine. Alas, I cannot, as my awesome new job would be forfeit if someone backed into my work truck in a parking lot even if I were in the next county.
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But this business of giving anyone and everyone access to medical marijuana is a half-assed approach to decriminalization that will eventually blow up in people’s faces.

You are painting with a broad brush friend, and I am not exactly sure what you are getting at. A little more specificity might be helpful. Exactly who do you refer to when using the phrase “anyone and everyone”, because as far as I am aware there are age limits in place for the medical stuff, the legal stuff as there are with tobacco and alcohol.

Yet, anyone and everyone who is so inclined still seems to have no trouble in getting ahold of whatever floats their fancy. I would also like to hear a more detailed description of “half-assed approach.” While i will respect in advance that due to the possibility that you have personal experience that has colored your view on the subject, I am seriously wondering how the concept of government regulated distribution of the jane (with tax revenues accrued) is in any way worse than the system we have now.

The previous is meant as a serious inquiry and not an attack in any way shape or form.

 
 

Also, for the fans of the kittehs, both my guys, in one frame, TWICE.
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Speaking of marijuana, this is what’s happening in my neighborhood:

Pot farm destroyed

No kidding, last week i was driving to work and I ended up behind a state police pickup truck carrying a half-adozen camoflage-clad guys in the back, with guns.

I had no idea what it was about – I thought it was a film shoot.

They pulled over to the side of the road in a wild, creekside spot, and then I passed them and didn’t see them past that.

 
 

Q: Why don’t men have boobs?
A: If we did, no man would ever stop touching himself and leave the house.

Speaking as a formerly grossly overweight guy, not really.

 
 

Medical reason, ala Jen, Fen, and Jef, are certainly a wedge in the door to justify the decriminalization, and i must admit that the shit has helped me keep my head screwed on during particularly traumatizing periods of my life. And while I might seem a little strident in defence of the sweetness, it is only because I have appreciated the medicinal and recreational benefits. I also may be one of the rare folks that does not fuck shit up under the influence.

Then again, I have yet to meet a natural pharmacological that would induce me to do anything I would not do sober (as it were), with the possible exception of one night, and in this case the culprit was alcohol (and I was extremely horny, so i can’t entirely blame the alcohol either). It was the first and only time I woke up and thought, “WTF were you thinking?”

I feel for you Jeffraham and Fenwick.

If someone can present a justification for the prohibition of legalized Jane that doesn’t involve anecdote as evidence or projection based hysteria, I am all ears.

 
 

What separates us from the beasts? The fact that we criminalised marijuana and legalised tobacco. Proves without doubt that we’re dumber than rodents.

 
 

Or, as a great man once said: Legalise It.

 
 

The fact that we criminalised marijuana and legalised tobacco. Proves without doubt that we’re dumber than rodents.

Shithouse Rats, are laughing at us. I don’t think that Jane was a concern,until Dupont managed to synthesize long polymer chains using petroleum by products.

/DFH, CommieSymp, You Betcha.

 
 

I don’t think that Jane was a concern,until Dupont managed to synthesize long polymer chains using petroleum by products.

Corporations—not only are they people, they’re good people, with only our best interests at heart.

 
 

Alright, no one has mentioned Mrs. Doktor Helen Perfesser’s latest; it’s your turn to suffer:

I say “bullshit.” Straight white men are today’s whipping boy. Scalzi’s fawning commenters start out telling him how brilliant his little essay is while this Uncle Tim and some (but not all–some commenters fight back) of his sycophants eat it up.

In my upcoming book with Encounter Publishing entitled “Male Strike: Why Society’s War Against Men is Suicidal and What to Do About It,” I discuss these Uncle Tim types (those who put down other men) whose life is made easier by pandering to women and other men who are either Uncle Tims themselves or White Knights trying to save a damsel in distress. There is always a benefit to putting down straight white males. What’s yours, Scalzi?

My question to readers is, what is the best way to handle an Uncle Tim who puts down other men, laughs at their misfortune and even gets ahead politically with this behavior?

Can we just go ahead & call any woman who’s constantly complaining that MassaGreat White Daddy is getting a raw deal an “Aunt Helen,” then?

 
 

I discuss these Uncle Tim types (those who put down other men) whose life is made easier by pandering to women and other men who are either Uncle Tims themselves or White Knights trying to save a damsel in distress.

When I was enjoying my alternate history experiments above (Negroes landing on plymouth rock, eventually settling the land while sending forth to europe for slaves), it was a gag and a reminder, illustrative of the arrogance and stupidity of the current discourse.

While mr. dr. helen is brandishing a sock filled with dog whistles and looking forward to the sock party to end all sock parties, i must admit that I had not considered the particular angle.

Jim crow is not as bad as Uncle Tim. I figured that not only did I know from Hubris, and Hyperbole, but from the coming possibility of the sock in question, I had yet to imagine that they were capable of such engineering.

Please to pardon the most of my misstyped output for the day, week month, wev, etc.

Uncle Tim?, Really? Damn.

speaking of markers thrown, beyond the pale, and gutshot’s.

I should not be surprised that it would come to this, in fact i have predicted this for awhile.

Uncle tim? a perjorative to acquire ont the fence white folk who don’t necesarrily have issues with Obama, yet might be driven back into the pasture via insult?

I can only come up with one analog. Uncle Tim = Nigger Lover.

Which is why this is freaking me out a bit.

I have to let this sift and apologize while appreciating your indulgence.
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Can we just go ahead & call any woman who’s constantly complaining that MassaGreat White Daddy is getting aCan we just go ahead & call any woman who’s constantly complaining that MassaGreat White Daddy is getting a raw deal an “Aunt Helen,” then? raw deal an “Aunt Helen,” then?

I will consider adding it to my equation, thank you.

I think her constant sits sits somwher betwixt Kepler and Newton or might serve as an outlyling dark matter constant.
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I wonder if my first attemp to publish something substantive should be titled, “Dog Whistles, Recognize!”

 
 

Thanks for the update, Pup. I think I read somewhere that the three west coast states had the highest pro pot sentiment.

At risk of inciting pearl-clutching among concern trolls everywhere, I’m not really sure I understand why cocaine is illegal either.

Cocaine was only banned because it was an ingredient in a lot of “patent” medicines (useless cough remedies), along with good old jaw-dissolving mercury, and there was a lot of concern that these syrups were being administered to kids and, well, the “patent” (not really) remedy industry used to lie about the formulations of their products. But, after Congress went after the toxic-waste-in-a-bottle industry, suddenly there was a need to take a drug which, while not exactly considered the Queen of Recreation, wasn’t exactly leaving a death trail across the West either (unlike alcohol, which got prohibited by constitutional amendment–now that’s harsh), and sick the g-men on it.

I don’t get it. Cocaine makes some people behave like assholes, but so does alcohol. It’s a drug of abuse but… what isn’t these days? It’s hardly heroine or oxycontin or any of the far nastier pain pills that very sick or in pain people get prescribed and end up dependent on or getting rebound pain from or end up in trouble with the law over. And while, yeah, pure cocaine can be deadly, the indios chewed coca leaves for centuries as an analgesic and if they seem addicted to it, well, you try hacking it as a subsistence farmer in Northern South America. Remember how construction workers used to have liquid lunches back in the day?

The people that abuse the shit have access to cocaine anyway. Druggies have access, too, despite all of the real war and metaphorical that has been raged. I would not recommend snorting cocaine to give that little boost of confidence at work but it, like codeine, is still in use as a (reportedly) very effective remedy for cold symptoms. It’s not particularly addicting. (And it’s not heroine, which is nasty, nasty stuff and always has been.)

Why can’t we decriminalize, put it back on the prescribable drugs list and if that goes okay, allow it to be sold OTC, subject to strict labeling requirements and maybe low doses and slow dose release for safety. People have died from high doses when abusing cocaine but they’ve also died abusing Tylenol and that’s OTC. There’s a lot of illogic in the drug standards.

The ends do not justify the means here.

And, yeah, decriminalize pot, but I think there’s plenty of credible evidence that pot use by teenagers damages their brain development. I’m sure pounding back beers isn’t much better, but let’s not kid ourselves. Brain development doesn’t really finish until mid-20’s. That’s why tobacco companies try to hook young teens and not the 18-35 demo every other advertiser wants.

I think in medical marijuana states everyone over 60 should just get the card, no questions asked. I’m sure that demographic has plenty of pain, sure ;-), use is not harmful and is actually beneficial as a appetite enhancer. People over 60 live longer if they retain higher body weight. (The science on younger people is a little different.) As for the rest, decriminalization of possession of small amounts and ticketing for public use would be fine by me… I don’t want a contact high or anything like that, thanks, as I have a CDL I can’t afford to lose. Please ticket the shit out of that. But a ticket is all it should be.

In some states, for example, they punish the correct folks for skirting the law. It’s illegal to sell tobacco or alcohol to minors and, in fact, illegal not to card anyone under 35, but it’s not illegal for the minor to possess. The cops go sting the problem sellers and after they rack up a few big fines there’s always the threat of losing their license to sell the stuff. I think that’s the way to go in terms of deterring inappropriate use–while also respecting when parents make a decision that differs from tptb.

 
 

by “people that abuse that shit” I mean WS MOTUs. By druggies I meant poor people. WTF was I thinking, I don’t know.

 
 

I consider that a legitimate medical reason to smoke

Anyone know any legitimate medical reasons to eat Psilocybin semilanceolata? Failing that, culinary reasons? AFAF.

 
 

More bridge pr0n at my place.

 
 

I discuss these Uncle Tim types (those who put down other men)

Mrs Doktor Helen Perfesser’s argument would be a lot stronger if her index case of John Scalzi had in fact been putting down other men.

 
 

As Pup Max so eloquently put it,

PENIS.

 
 

The first drug laws passed in the US were laws against smoking opium that were passed in San Francisco and Virginia City. This was right after the trans-continental RR was completed and these cities had an influx of Chinese laborers. The laws did not make opium illegal, only the smoking of it because that was a peculiarly Chinese habit. San Francisco also passed a law that same day banning men from wearing ponytails. This is the first of many instances where drug laws are passed more for racist reasons than medical ones.

The first marijuana law was passed in Utah when the legislature basically enacted all Morman religiuos prohibitions into law.

In the port cities of the South, dock workers, who were primarily former slaves, were given cocaine when they came to work. Blacks were not permitted to drink alcohol and it wasn’t long before they turned to the recreational use of cocaine instead. Which soon led to stories of supposed cocaine-fueled violence by blacks down South– topped by inflammatory and unsubstantiated accounts to Congress of how cocaine was leading to the raping of white women by back men– lead to calls for further restrictions.

 
 

but I think there’s plenty of credible evidence that pot use by teenagers damages their brain development.

Citation, please. “I think” “credible evidence” doesn’t quite make the grade without sourcing the latest peer reviewed study on the subject.

Now if you want to exchange “pot use” (whatever that is exactly) with “binge drinking”, I would suggest that you have a point. In any event, i don’t think I or anyone else is arguing for legalization of any of the shit in question for toddlers and teenagers, though wiley teenagers will somehow manage to get their hands on the shit regardless.

 
 

…but I think there’s plenty of credible evidence that pot use by teenagers damages their brain development.

Hey, I think you may have the key to getting marijuana legalised right here. Repug pols are obviously keen on having a brain-dead uneducated electorate. So we play up this idea (it doesn’t actually matter to Repugs wether there is credible evidence or not) and we will soon have a majority in Congress ready to make marijuana legal.

 
 

My only issue with legalization is that there is currently a massive industry dependent on teh contraband nature of pot. Note, I am not referring to “illicit” pot growers with half a dozen plants in teh back forty or teh “dealers” that divvy up a couple bats a week. I’m referring to teh folks that are reliant not on pot as a product, but rather teh criminality of it.

Thi is not just organized crime, but also teh foot soldiers of teh War On Drugs. These are violent anti-social jerkwads (at least generally speaking) and you don’t want to suddenly leave them with a lot of free time on their hands. Widespread easy access has got to be phased in over time. I’d probs go with legalization but with a massive tax that declined over time. It could be pitched to anti-pot conservatives as harnessing market-like economic forces to address teh problem, followed by a series of tax cuts.

 
 

Anyone know any legitimate medical reasons to eat Psilocybin semilanceolata? Failing that, culinary reasons? AFAF.

As a purgative with respect to the very real problem of “cranial rectal inversion” in the former case…cluinary, culinary, culinary….[diced, sauteed in butter and olive oil, with garlic and onions, finished off with a dash of salt, some balsamic vinegar and lemon juice and then gently folded into some partially mashed potatoes prior to the final mash]*…hmmm, got nothing with respect to the latter.

*No guarentees that the mushroom in question, even prepared after this fashion, will not taint the mashed potatoes, but i would be willing to give it a go
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Food!

 
 

Which soon led to stories of supposed cocaine-fueled violence by blacks down South– topped by inflammatory and unsubstantiated accounts to Congress of how cocaine was leading to the raping of white women by back men– lead to calls for further restrictions.

Black people still manage to serve their former masters unwittingly to this very day. Forget “content of their character”, I would love to live to see the day (not really at all) when a group of persons of color are watching a TV or some other form of mass media, and one of them utters with regard to a white person “he sure is a credit to his race”.

I have long carried the burden, as have many others I would presume, of behaving in such a fashion, that I might be considered by bigots and or other random white folk who may yet straddle the fence, to be a “credit to my race.” In the misguided service of attempting to open, lids sewn shut. It has gotten fucking tiring.

I will continue to comport myself with dignity and compassion and lend assistance to friend , stranger or foe, when called upon or when circumstanced demand it.

 
 

Provider, I’ve heard blacks describe experiences where when they hear there’s been a crime committed, they pray it wasnt a black guy who did it…because they’re so scared they’ll get swept up in that “blacks sure are trouble” net. I can’t imagine what that must be like.

 
 

I will say this Provider, you are a credit to this blog.

 
 

These are violent anti-social jerkwads (at least generally speaking) and you don’t want to suddenly leave them with a lot of free time on their hands.

Dragon, are you sure you don’t want to revisit the first part of this sentence, I mean I do recognise that you went full weasel with the “at least”. And as far as the second part of the sentence is concerned, please explain any real difference between putting “those” people out of a job and shuttering a factory with respect to “suddenly leaving them…lot of … time…” given that your average factory or place that employs more than a given number of people is most likely to have a few “violent anti-social jerkwads” on the payroll.

Just look at your statement again, examine how loaded it is with supposition, assersions, and assumptions that you percieve shared by the majority.

I mean for x’s sake, we are talking about governmental regulation of the jane here similar to the current model of booze and tobacco, not crack huts:trade; and HorseyHorsy™ franchises.

I think i will shut up for the interum and find some other amusement.
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Provider, I’ve heard blacks describe experiences where when they hear there’s been a crime committed, they pray it wasnt a black guy who did it…because they’re so scared they’ll get swept up in that “blacks sure are trouble” net. I can’t imagine what that must be like.

Yep. happens quite frequently. Fortunately i live in a town that does not have a whole lot of black folk living in it, and by fortunately, I mean, there have only been a few times when i read the description of a perpetrator in the paper and thought “oh fuck” and ran through a mental checklist of shit that might get my ass in jail that I might need to leave behind. I have personally enjoyed watching cops play spot the crime with me (looking for anything that they could use to justify at trip downtown) and have been interviewed by same on more than a couple of occasions because I “fit” a description.

A fucking treat it is, I assure you.

For every white kid rolling down the street in his car with an 8 ball in his pocket and a pound in his trunk I would imagine that a thousand black folks are questioned by police about this or that, while the cops in question are playing spot the crime.*

*these figures pulled out of my ass, but i doubt that they are far from the truth.

Thanks Thread Bear… (wan 🙂 )

 
 

At DK-W’s link, they quote the National Drug Abuse Task Force as saying that marijuana is the most abused illicit drug.

The problem here is that federal law regards any use of marijuana as “abuse.” Meanwhile, the facts are that, unlike the legal drugs of tobacco and alchohol, marijuana is not physically addictive and does not cause the next-day physical and mental impairment that an alchohol bender does. If you’ve got a flight to catch, you’d much rather the pilot had smoked a joint the night before than that he had downed a fifth of vodka.

But we only test for one of them, and it’s not the one that would, when used off-the-job, cause impairment when on-the-job. Meanwhile, we’ve constructed this huge drug-testing apparatus that’s intended to find out one thing and one thing only: which employees are smoking a joint when they get home from work? The drug testing regimen currently in place won’t detect if you’ve used cocaine, heroin, meth, or any number of other addictive drugs more than a few days (at most) previously. But they’ll pick up if you were in the same room with someone who smoked a joint two weeks ago. Then there’s the issue of who’s getting tested: the janitor who mops the floor at the hospital gets drug-tested; the surgeon who operates on your heart or brain does not. And none of the tests prove anything at all about behavior at work – they represent merely a way for the employer to worm his way into his employee’s private life – and now they are attempting to expand that worming-in to birth control. Really, who didn’t see that coming? In the past 30 years they’ve gone from “you can’t work for us if you don’t do what we tell you to do in your time off” to tethering everyone to work 24/7 with email and smartphones; now they’re going to start dictating whether or not you’re allowed to have sex without getting pregnant.

The revolution is long overdue.

 
 

I think that i am gonna watch this wonderful BBC production titled
The incredible Human Journey A because it is awesome and hits my prehistorical/anthropological bone, B because it is really well done (being a gentleman amateur scientist with a focus on the disciplines in question, I am not so easily impressed) and C because the host/narrarator is *hot*!!! The fact is that if you were sent to central casting to find a woman for me the list would start with “brilliant, kind, charming, easy on the eyes. If you happened to bring back an MD with a Phd in anthropology along with a couple others (paleoosteopathy + one I forget) then we are approching the realm of hog heaven. Not that I would be remotely worthy.

In any event, i shal catch the all later.
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Provider – I was referring only to members of organized crime and the anti-drug police forces that fight them. Only to those folks who’s livlihoods and identities are reliant on pot being illegal.

Does that clarify?

 
 

And somewhere, in her time-out purgatory, daphne is screeching about the improper use of “who’s” instead of “whose.”

 
 

I’ve given it some more thought.

I stand by it. I am not talking about pot smokers – medicinal or recreational. I am not talking about the existing cottage industry of folks who produce enough for their own use or even those that produce enough for a couple dozen folks.

I’m talking about the segments of organized crime that are reliant on the illegality pot. I’m talking about cops that conduct no-knock raids in full SWAT gear because of marijuana. I’m talking about folks that run grow-op factories with stolen electricity, toxic mold covering the walls and armouries of unregistered small arms in teh closets.

Is teh average pot smoker is less prone to violence than teh average non-pot smoker? I don’t have teh data, but I would be surprised if wasn’t true. BUT, since pot is illegal and one of teh major fronts of teh War on Drugs – there is all sorts of bad, violent, horrible shit associated with it. And bad, violent, horrible people too. I just don’t want those folks to suddenly find their purpose in life gone and in search of some new torment to inflict. At least not all en masse in a short period of time.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

I assume all of the horrible violent wierdos in the drug trade would, after a short while switch to distributing heroin, cocaine, or meth. The production is different but I would imagine the distribution would be nearly the same.

I have heard but cannot verify that in Madison right now, heroin is easier to get than weed. Which tells me the war on drugs is having some unfortunate side effects. Every week or so in Madison there I read about another horrible traffic accident caused by someone trying to drive on heroin.

I know I would rather the people who are driving stoned be on pot than heroin, traffic around here is bad enough without drivers driving off the beltline at 65 mph when they pass out.

 
 

And somewhere, in her time-out purgatory, daphne is screeching

I’m hoping Smut can provide the proper Bosch painting to illustrate this.

 
 

That’ll teach me to play concern troll.

I’ll clarify as best I can: My objection is not, repeat NOT, to pot itself. Nor to people with legitimate medical needs being allowed to smoke it legally.

My objection is to this silly, half-assed, yes-it’s-legal-no-it-isn’t situation where states like CA and OR are saying one thing and the feds are saying another. It’s the macro equivalent of a teenager crouching by his bedroom window with a joint, blowing the smoke out the window, burning a stick of incense and anxiously listening for Mom’s step on the stairs.

As much as you and I may disagree with federal policy, when states allow this wink-wink-OK-here’s-your-“green-card” policy, it puts the feds in an untenable situation. Either they override the states, enforce the law strictly and get to be heavy-handed assholes, or they look the other way and let huge numbers of people openly get away with thumbing their noses at the law.

That’s what I think is unsustainable. It’s also unfair, and not just to some gimlet-eyed drug warrior at the DEA. It’s unfair to the people who operate the dispensaries and the people who depend on them for medical pot, because they never know when the federal hammer will come crashing down.

The alternatives, in decreasing order of preference to me personally, are:

1) Legalize it completely, possibly on a state-by-state basis.
2) Make it available only to people with legitimate medical needs, and enforce that standard, with penalties for people who try to game the system.
3) Ban it once and for all, under all circumstances.

Lenny Bruce said in the 1950s that pot will eventually be legal because the kids who smoke it will grow up to be legislators, but by then, no one will smoke it anymore. Neither one of his predictions seems like it will come true in my lifetime.

 
 

If it is “time-out” purgatory, shouldn’t it be Dali?

 
 

Jennifer, I agree completely about the uselessness of drug tests. It’s become a self-sustaining billion dollar industry now so it will be hard to change.

 
 

Hey Jeffraham, lookit here

Found on a friend’s Facebook. Hilarious pic.

 
 

Black people still manage to serve their former masters unwittingly to this very day. Forget “content of their character”, I would love to live to see the day (not really at all) when a group of persons of color are watching a TV or some other form of mass media, and one of them utters with regard to a white person “he sure is a credit to his race”.

Come on, man, I KNOW you say that about me!

 
 

I wonder how the firms that use drug testing to screen employees are handling the medical marijuana laws in places like California and Colorado. Since the tests are only set up to catch pot smokers, they aren’t really helping to “screen” anything if the employee who pisses positive whips out a script from his doctor.

That’s probably the best reason for completely legalizing it.

 
 

If it is “time-out” purgatory, shouldn’t it be Dali?

Or even weekly.

 
 

it puts the feds in an untenable situation

It does, though I’m looking at the Justice Dept’s recent statement that they won’t defend DOMA for an example of how this could become far less untenable with a simple executive order. That would be a big step toward decriminalization at the federal level.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Oh hey, Look who just got his iPad back from Teh Ho’s conference in Denver.

 
 

Drug testing needs to outlawed completely. It’s no different than searching your home. Until they come up with a “are you high right now” test, drug testing is an absolutely unconstitutional invasion.

I would much like to be spared the bullshit “what-ifs” about airline pilots being stoned at the controls. Legal or not, that statistic wouldn’t budge a single mm if pot were legal and drug tests didn’t occur.

 
 

To quote Bill Lee, I’ve tested a lot of drugs, but I don’t think it should be mandatory.

 
 

Regarding pot, I have a friend who has had chronic Lyme disease- she’s no spring chicken anymore, and she had a constant dull ache in her joints. A few months ago, she told herself, “Fuck it, we’re doing it live I’m going to toke up.” Ever since she’s reacquainted herself with her old friend Mary Jane, she’s felt better and her general state of health and well-being has improved.

She’s a white woman in her mid to late forties, so nobody is going to hassle her. I’d like everybody to have the same access to palliative pot (and boredom is a condition that requires palliative care).

 
 

It does, though I’m looking at the Justice Dept’s recent statement that they won’t defend DOMA for an example of how this could become far less untenable with a simple executive order. That would be a big step toward decriminalization at the federal level.

It would also be a political windfall for the Kenyan Usurper- it would be a surefire GOTV effort for just about all demographic groups.

 
 

My company policy: If you have drugs, we want to test them.

 
 

It would also be a political windfall for the Kenyan Usurper- it would be a surefire GOTV effort for just about all demographic groups

Especially those 20-something dumbfuck Paulbots. I almost hate them worse than teabaggers. They don’t even KNOW what the federal reserve is, but they’re pretty sure it’s Illuminati because of the comic book they read. Well, sort of read.

 
 

tsam – I agree, but it’s not going to be outlawed, for the simple reason that the employer piss-test is voluntary, in the sense that if you don’t want to piss in the cup, you don’t have to – nor do they have to hire or employ you. About the only thing that would rid us of the piss-test is strong unions, and – surprise! – by an amazing coincidence, drug testing didn’t show up until the unions were in decline. But national legalized marijuana or just legal medical marijuana would put an end to it, I think, because that’s the only thing they’re testing for anyway. And it’s not because employers are generally all that worried that an employee might be smoking a joint when he gets home from work – it’s because they want to be sure you know that they own you for that $12 per hour, and since pot is the most widely used illegal drug and stays in the body longer than any other, they’re more likely to “catch” you on that than anything else. So that’s what they look for.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

I have heard some ski resorts out west have moved from drug testing to ‘fitness to work’ testing for some positions like lift chair attendant. They make each employee take a test which is essentially a video game which measures their reaction speed, and maybe some other factors too. This lets them screen out people who are to impaired to work for any reason, including not just illegal drugs but over-tiredness and prescription medication as well.

 
 

They don’t even KNOW what the federal reserve is, but they’re pretty sure it’s Illuminati because of the comic book they read. Well, sort of read.

Read…fapped to…it’s a fine line.

 
 

It’s going to be on the ballot in WA and CO this fall. I think the OR organizers decided to hold off for now.

I wondered what had happened, but couldn’t be arsed to check into it — I remember signing a petition a while back but hadn’t heard anything since.

This lets them screen out people who are to impaired to work for any reason, including not just illegal drugs but over-tiredness and prescription medication as well.

And makes sure that they can actually continue to hire snowboarders to work the lifts, ’cause otherwise, no fucking way. Dude.

 
 

@ Jennifer;

I agree, the only way to actually sort the problem out is make it exactly as legal as alcohol. I own a business and would never dream of drug testing one of my employees, for illicit or legal drugs. As long as they show up to work unimpaired, I got out of them what I paid them for. What they do with their weekends is of absolutely zero concern to me, and I feel like anyone who is worried about an employee smoking a joint on Saturday night with his/her friends is a fucking creepy fascist who probably needs to be put down like any other dangerous animal.

 
 

Read…fapped to…it’s a fine line.

Playboy really blurs that line, though. At least in my experience. I’m sure I can recall reading at least a few articles.

 
 

About the only thing that would rid us of the piss-test is strong unions, and – surprise! – by an amazing coincidence, drug testing didn’t show up until the unions were in decline.

A nationwide refusal to submit to testing would make my heart sing like a wild thing. I wonder who could organize such thing? There used to be these things called unions…

Also: PITY PARTY FOR TSAM!

I just smashed the living fuck out of my index finger. Caught it between a 110lb steel door and a truck. OWWWEEEEEE.
You commies will have to convert the pounds to kilos yourself. I can’t be arsed.

 
 

That’ll teach me to play concern troll.

Can you teach me? I LOVE being a troll!

 
 

110 lbs = 3.2 hectares.

I think.

 
 

Drug testing is heavy-handed horseshit, I totally agree. I only got piss-tested as a condition of employment once, and I ended up leaving after eight weeks.

(To be fair, that had nothing to do with the people there. They were nice, but the magazine was called Industrial Paint and Powder, and it was every bit as exciting as it sounds. I leapt at the next job offer that came my way.)

 
 

Drug testing is heavy-handed horseshit, I totally agree. I only got piss-tested as a condition of employment once, and I ended up leaving after eight weeks.

Actually, insurance companies are a major driver of drug testing policies. The same ones that come in and make sure you have fire extinguishers around and a burglar alarm, etc…They give discounts for being a fascist piece of shit boss.

The last drug test I took was in the US Army in 1989. I will never take another one as long as I live.

 
 

Drug testing is heavy-handed horseshit, I totally agree. I only got piss-tested as a condition of employment once, and I ended up leaving after eight weeks.

As a transportation worker, I’m subject to random drug tests. I actually got tapped for one last night.

We were inbound and got a message on the datalink “Employee #……. report to flight ops immediately after landing”

That means time to start drinking water because you’re going to have to pee in the bottle. It’s annoying mainly because it cuts into my already short nap time.

 
 

tsam, you can get pointers at Whiskey Fire.

 
 

I do know that this particular door is 914mm x 2180mm. 18 gauge steel sheets closer and lock reinforcements and 7 gauge hinge reinforcements. All I know is my finger DOES NOT APPROVE.

 
 

They were nice, but the magazine was called Industrial Paint and Powder, and it was every bit as exciting as it sounds. I leapt at the next job offer that came my way.)

The new job wasn’t at Kruger Industrial Smoothing, was it?

 
 

Can you teach me? I LOVE being a troll!

You, who are on the node must have a code that you can troll by.
And so become concerned because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your trolls well, their blogger’s hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your fears, the one they picked, the one you’re known by.
Don’t you ever ask them why, if they told you you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they goad you.

 
 

Ask not for whom the comment trolls, it trolls for thee.

 
 

You commies will have to convert the pounds to kilos yourself. I can’t be arsed.

That’s about 8 stone!

 
 

Straight white men are today’s whipping boy.

NO DISCOUNTS.

 
 

The new job wasn’t at Kruger Industrial Smoothing, was it?

They got bought out by Cogswell Cogs.

 
 

tsam, you can get pointers at Whiskey Fire.

Hmmmm. yeah, no. I think I’ll teach myself.

Here’s one: I don’t know how you can legalize pot. Kids will have much greater access to it (look how many kids smoke cigarettes). Plus airline pilots will suddenly be allowed to smoke wacky weed. Is a 200 casualty plane crash WORTH being able to grow dreadlocks and smoke ganja like a dirty fucking hippy? I think not. Grow up libs. If you had jobs you wouldn’t have time to smoke weed. I know about this, I used to smoke a lot of weed, but then I decided I needed to take care of my family.

How was that?

 
 

Speaking of the herb, heard on NPR this morning that the coroner’s report showed that Treyvon Martin had some in his system when he was killed. I’m sure there are already shitheads out there using this to justify his murder, but I can’t be arsed to go find such things.

 
 

I don’t get the airline pilot example either. Major Kong is fucking pie eyed during every flight, and (to my knowledge) hasn’t crashed a plane yet. Pilots fly better when they’re relaxed, man.

 
 

I only got piss-tested as a condition of employment once, and I ended up leaving after eight weeks…. the magazine was called Industrial Paint and Powder, and it was every bit as exciting as it sounds.

What, were they afraid tokers couldn’t keep up with the fast-paced world of paint and powder publishing?

 
 

Wait. The door is sized in millimetres, weighed in pounds and spec’ed in steel gauge? Let me guess, it’s location is given in UTM co-ordinates except instead of metres, the units are furlongs.

 
 

How was that?

Needs moar “Won’t somebody think about the children?!!?”

 
 

And goad I shall, until invoked is Godwin

 
 

I don’t get the airline pilot example either. Major Kong is fucking pie eyed during every flight, and (to my knowledge) hasn’t crashed a plane yet. Pilots fly better when they’re relaxed, man.

Well, as long as the pilot shares with the passengers nobody will be too concerned about crashing anyway. But then that little bag of peanuts ain’t gonna cut it.

 
 

They got bought out by Cogswell Cogs.

I have invested heavily in Cogswell Cogs, I truly believe that they are the future.

 
 

Yes, OBS, I read some idiot commenter on the Chicago Tribune (I like mangos!!!) saying that he had “TCH” in his system and was therefore paranoid and somehow that justified getting shot.

This permissive culture. What with the hep cats and their reefers and Skittles.

 
 

Wait. The door is sized in millimetres, weighed in pounds and spec’ed in steel gauge? Let me guess, it’s location is given in UTM co-ordinates except instead of metres, the units are furlongs.

Well, it’s complicated. See, we here in the United States of America are as scared of the metric system as we are of wet farts and dogs with foamy mouths. So when we’re talking to BillyJoeBob the goddamn contractor, everything is Bertish units. When we’re talking to factories and measuring for door preparation specifications and such, we’re increasingly using metric as a way of being more accurate and less fucking dumb. See, fractions are pretty much devil spawn. Decimals, however, are not. But we cling to our fractions and base 12 systems here like rednecks with their guns and bibles.

 
 

Needs moar “Won’t somebody think about the children?!!?”

You’re right. I’m going to make a CHECKLIST!

 
 

The door is sized in millimetres

Also, they’re not. That was a 3’0″ x 7’0″ door. Nominally. It’s net size is 2’11-3/4″ x 6’11-1/8″. There are also metric doors that are 900 x 2100, then there are the standard sized doors converted to metric which are 914 x 2180. Like I said, it’s needlessly complicated and rather stupid.

 
 

The vast majority of teh stuff we consume and produce here in Canuckistan comes from and goes to teh US. Despite being officially metric for a third of a century (that’s 1.31 gigaseconds in metric) we’re still thinking about our height in feet and inches.

 
 

I remember finding out ages ago that a “two by four” isn’t actually 2″ by 4″ and being completely flabbergasted by that.

 
 

Well, as long as the pilot shares with the passengers nobody will be too concerned about crashing anyway. But then that little bag of peanuts ain’t gonna cut it.

Here’s a picture of my passengers. They’d probably like the peanuts:

http://i45.tinypic.com/2e2m72a.jpg

 
 

The whole problem is that bragging about a 0.2032 meter cock just doesn’t work.

 
 

problem WITH THE METRIC SYSTEM

 
 

What, were they afraid tokers couldn’t keep up with the fast-paced world of paint and powder publishing?

They were afraid that they’d transition to huffing… what with that “gateway drug” bullshit, and all.

 
 

The whole problem is that bragging about a 0.2032 meter cock just doesn’t work.

But converting to centimeters makes one seem more “impressive”.

 
 

See, fractions are pretty much devil spawn

You’ll note I screwed teh one third up, but teh conversion of 41 years to seconds is pretty much bang on.

 
 

In aviation almost everybody uses feet for altitude and nautical miles (6000 feet) for distance.

A few countries like Russia and China use meters for everything.

 
 

“I have invested heavily in Cogswell Cogs, I truly believe that they are the future.”

How about a dog-walking treadmill? Seems they would be popular with the tea-party crowd.

 
 

The whole problem is that bragging about a 0.2032 meter cock just doesn’t work.

What is the success rate for cock-braggery in the first place?

 
 

But converting to centimeters makes one seem more “impressive”.

The CGS system is a tool of the devil. My car burns 80 cubic millimetres per metre and that’s teh ways I likes it.

 
 

I fucked an electron once. She was unsatisfied.

 
 

What is the success rate for cock-braggery in the first place?

“Who do you think you’re going to please with that little thing?”

“Me!!!!”

 
 

How about a dog-walking treadmill? Seems they would be popular with the tea-party crowd.

Jane, stop this crazy thing!!!

 
 

What is the success rate for cock-braggery in the first place?

Tiny.

Maybe we can more precisely measure the success rate in metric?

 
 

Teh official number is actually 62, but I’m stompy LEAFS SUCK traffic is pretty horrible.

 
 

How about a dog-walking treadmill? Seems they would be popular with the tea-party crowd.

That just won’t fly, then Jonah would have one less excuse when he wants to blow off a post.

 
 

…in Madison right now, heroin is easier to get than weed.” ~ Helmut

I’ve been expecting this to be the case for a long time. We’ve been in Afghanistan over ten years now. It amazes me that heroin hasn’t been a big news story for a correspondingly long time, including news of huge heroin busts.

 
 

Those opressed by teh Imperial system, UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your Gunters chains!

 
 

Seems the women of Sadly are ignoring the cock jokes.

 
 

Prolly accompanied by eye-rolling………

 
 

It amazes me that heroin hasn’t been a big news story for a correspondingly long time, including news of huge heroin busts.

Excuse the tinfoil hattery, but this could be due to the fact that a lot of heroin addicts are introduced to opiates through the use of prescription painkillers. Get hooked on oxycontin, turn to horse when the prescription runs out.

This is central to my point.

 
 

Cogswell Cogs was purchased and looted by Bain Capital. It is now a hollowed out shell of a corporation, I mean, person. Mittens approves mightily, whistling on his way to the bank.

 
 

Cogswell Cogs was purchased and looted by Bain Capital.

w00t! Now is teh time at Spacely Sprockets when we dance!

 
 

Corporations are people. This is Bain Capital.

 
 

he wants to blow off a post.

Heh…

 
 

Excuse the tinfoil hattery, but this could be due to the fact that a lot of heroin addicts are introduced to opiates through the use of prescription painkillers. Get hooked on oxycontin, turn to horse when the prescription runs out.

That’s the truth, actually. Heroin is less damaging to the system than those goddamn pills too.

 
 

Get hooked on oxycontin, turn to horse when the prescription runs out.

I’m pretty surprised that prescriptions for that stuff run out. A population of addicts is a subsidy to the pharmaceutical industry; you’d figure they’d supply some lobbying power to oppose crackdowns on the prescription habits of doctors.

 
 

DKW, I am sorry that I misunderstood, you, in that case we are obviously in accord. I woke up with a burr undermy saddle this morning and feel the need to appologize.

meanwhile I need to figure out how to…it really doesn’t matter.

 
 

Hey, no problem Provider. There are all sorts of folks suffering through unrelenting chronic pain due to teh laws unrelenting of chronic – and I’ve got my panties in a bunch over thugs and bad cops. Plus, sometimes I ain’t teh clearest writing-er-of-stuff.

 
 

Spacely Sprockets is next. They have a much fatter pension fund and their cafeteria serves the most scrumptious moon pies.

 
 

My NHL season, much like D-KW’s ended in January or early February. Fortunately I have minor league hockey to fall back on. After splitting two games in Las Vegas my hometown Everblades will be playing game 3 of the Kelly Cup championship series this evening. The Blades are a perfect 8-0 at home in the playoffs this year, but the Wranglers are a near perfect 7-1 on the road. Tonight something will have to give and I fully expect the Wranglers to do all the giving.

 
 

Spacely Sprockets is next. They have a much fatter pension fund and their cafeteria serves the most scrumptious moon pies.

Their Chef-o-Tron has a way with Soylent Green.

 
 

Speaking of companies in dire straits, WTF Curt “Schilling for moar taxpayer dollars”? Amalur sold a third of a million units in it’s first month. Sure that ain’t Skyrim sales, but it’s pretty impressive for a new dev and new IP. Unless Schilling blew teh whole wad on teh one gaem and was hoping for Skyrim like sales.

 
 

You only need to see someone with a bad case of muscular dystrophy toke up to know that pot laws are bunk.

Quantum Lunge File: After recently obtaining a certain bitchen-kewl Little Red Book online, now I am back to slurfing down books several at a time not unlike a rubby gargling Night Train (just finished off Doktor Maddow’s Drift on the ride home from work this morning)… & I have also begun inflicting inroads into Kindle.

Previously I’ve averaged about a book or two a year for the last decade or so. Scooped loads of writing on the Intertrons daily, but none of it epic scale volume-type-input.

Being a pretentious git, I set out long ago to read “The Classics” of fiction, biography & history in toto & the (mercifully unsuccessful) process was very richly rewarding, but it also eventually inexorably ground the lust for biblio-fodder completely out of me.

Yeeeeeeeeah, binge reader off teh wagon, phreeks!

*brain-belch*

? ? ? ? ?

 
 

I’m pretty surprised that prescriptions for that stuff run out. A population of addicts is a subsidy to the pharmaceutical industry; you’d figure they’d supply some lobbying power to oppose crackdowns on the prescription habits of doctors.

But they sure as hell don’t.

My sister has had chronic, unending and undiagnosable pain for more than 35 years. The only thing that leaves her able to cope is opiate-based pain meds, and after years of building a tolerance, she now requires doses that would stun a moose. Finding a doctor to prescribe them is enormously difficult. She has one now but lives in mortal dread that the DEA will crack down on him.

I have no idea why the pharma companies don’t fight this. Possibly they feel the bad publicity wouldn’t be worth the extra sales. Those folks have black belts in cold-eyed cost-benefit analysis.

 
 

My Soylent Green tastes like Edward G. Robinson.

 
 

SOLYENT GREEN IS BREITBART!!!!

 
 

Breitbart puts the “soil” in “Soylent”.

 
 

On the topic of oxycodone, let me introduce you to drugmonkey the pharmacist:

http://drugmonkey.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-this-ive-learned-about-cvs.html

Retail pharmacies highly encourage pharmacists to fill even the most questionable prescriptions for opiates.

I’ve been prescribed morphine and oxycodone for MS pain. I hated the morphine and stopped taking it. Everyone I’ve ever talked to who had been prescribed morphine hated it. I take the oxy occasionally and it takes the edge off the pain, but I never notice any “high” to speak of so I’m not even tempted to take it for recreation.

 
 

Retail pharmacies highly encourage pharmacists to fill even the most questionable prescriptions for opiates.

I’ve seen that doctors get a lot of scrutiny, but do pharmacists get in that kind of trouble?

 
 

I’ve seen that doctors get a lot of scrutiny, but do pharmacists get in that kind of trouble?

Not in WA state, though I’m sure they’ll be the next target. Law enforcement in this country has a stellar record of directing attention and regulation at the wrong people.

To wit: If you want to buy any medicine with pseudophedrine (a component of meth) in it now, you have to provide identification, which they record in a book and send to the state.

The net effect is that people who just want the goddamn medicine end up in a state database, which I’m TOTALLY sure will only be used for meth manufacturing investigations, and I’m also totally sure there aren’t any flags on purchases that exceed a certain frequency, which I’m sure won’t earn you a knock on the door from law enforcement and would never result in a search warrant.

The other, more scary effect is this: It’s beyond dispute that addicts and manufacturers will obtain this stuff by any means necessary. When put in this position, there’s a much greater chance that they will obtain it at gunpoint or hijack truck shipments, which increases the chance that some poor grocery worker will end up getting killed because of an indisputably stupid and ineffective law. This had absolutely no effect of the meth situation in Washington.

 
 

I think in medical marijuana states everyone over 60 should just get the card, no questions asked.

Old dude applauds Not-a-gator.

I will say this Provider, you are a credit to this blog.

This.

Also thanx to the person who linked to Peter Tosh. I played that on the radio station soon after its release. It was a blast to hear it again after all these years.

 
 

I went back and checked: thanx to Lexicon Devil.

 
 

Pup: HOOOOLEYYYY SHIT.

Well, I wouldn’t call that going too far, I’d call that outright mental illness. That guy is a huge pile of FAIL. 1) Klingenschmitt-FAIL, 2) The striking and creepy resemblance to Karl Rove-FAIL, 3) Seriously? Infect animals? FAIL, 4) Marketing–FAIL, I could keep going, but you all know this.

 
 

“The problem is, nobody’s born a homosexual,” he said, explaining that all gay people are converted via “marketing” because the LGBT community “has an agenda” to “repopulate their population by recruiting the children of heterosexuals.”

Boners: they’re what’s for dinner.

 
 

I’m still not sure why it isn’t much easier to just get methadone. If people want it, fucking give it to them. Get the fuck off their junk and let ’em fucking have it. Shit–what’s the fucking point in trying to forcefully reform an addict. The success rate is what? 0? People (this is both anecdotally and factually based) who seek drugs give no fucks about the law. All we do is drain resources and create crime with all of this fucking bullshit. It’s dumb. It’s exceptionally dumb to criminalize doctors for doing their fucking job. Find a relatively safe opiate, let the addicts have it and shut the fuck up. It doesn’t solve many problems, but it would help lower the overdose rate, help prevent violent crime, keep pharmacy workers safer, and probably reduce burglaries and thefts.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

All we do is drain resources and create crime with all of this fucking bullshit. It’s dumb. It’s exceptionally dumb to criminalize doctors for doing their fucking job. Find a relatively safe opiate, let the addicts have it and shut the fuck up. It doesn’t solve many problems, but it would help lower the overdose rate, help prevent violent crime, keep pharmacy workers safer, and probably reduce burglaries and thefts.

But someone somewhere might miss out on suffering! They don’t care to have addicts out of jail when they could be working sub-minimum wage jobs as prison labor.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

If drugs were legalized and universal health care implemented, we’d have the lowest crime rate …basically ever. Then we’d have to have something for all of those bored policemen to do. Like pay serious attention to fraud and embezzlement and all of the other flavors of white collar crime. I’m all for taking unnecessary police off the streets and putting them in brokers offices and boardrooms.

 
 

A local university does a lot of work regarding drug issues, Vancouver being the kind of place it is.

 
 

Like pay serious attention to fraud and embezzlement and all of the other flavors of white collar crime. I’m all for taking unnecessary police off the streets and putting them in brokers offices and boardrooms.

And maybe help defend battered women and kids instead of cleaning up the murder scenes.

 
 

HM,

That’d be pretty sweet. But what would really happen is that they’d probs just increase their amount off beating teh shit of teh homeless.

Plus folks who run large networks of grow-ops are going tip have to make up teh revenue shortfall when teh price of pot falls through teh floor.

 
 

A local university does a lot of work regarding drug issues, Vancouver being the kind of place it is.

IS THIS STILL GOING ON? WHERE IS THIS PLACE?

 
 

IS THIS STILL GOING ON? WHERE IS THIS PLACE?

Downtown.

Here is some more dubious work although it’s much more poetic: if junkie lab-rats have a less horrific lab-rat life will they still want the junk?

 
 

Look, I’m not saying all cops suck. I don’t even mean to say that all narcs suck. But these are populations with a distinct non-zero population of suckiness. And that Fighting Crime in teh War on Drugs gives a lot of assholes their sense of purpose in life. Busting guys for insider trading or issuing non GAAP quarterlies ain’t gonna turn their cranks (even if it did have a moar significant impact on their communities).

 
 

Spearhafoc, who is hung like a pimple said,

PENIS

Now I know that arm warmers aren’t just for cycling and running, they’re very handy on all those occasions I want to take shirtless, pantless penis pictures and still stay toasty.

 
 

I woke up with a burr undermy saddle this morning and feel the need to appologize.

Why are you people so angry??

 
 

Also, Major: you guys are flying BIRDS around?? What kinda crazy government program is this?? Next we’ll be teaching fish to swim, fer chrissake. Harumph.

 
rodert rudis, wiki addict
 

POOP!

 
 

Here is some more dubious work although it’s much more poetic: if junkie lab-rats have a less horrific lab-rat life will they still want the junk?

That’s quite a hypothesis there, considering that opiate addiction gives no fucks about social or psychological demographics. Sounds like this guy was skimming a little smack offa the top, rather than investigating an educated guess at a newer explanation of addiction.

 
 

I read some idiot commenter on the Chicago Tribune (I like mangos!!!) saying that he had “TCH” in his system and was therefore paranoid and somehow that justified getting shot.

“He’s harmless. Back in the sixties, he was part of the free speech movement at Berkeley. I think he did a little too much LDS.”

 
 

That was a 3’0? x 7’0? door. Nominally. It’s net size is 2’11-3/4? x 6’11-1/8?.

New Zealand carpenters always have to worry whether they are measuring the clearances in metric RCHs or old Imperial ones.

 
rodert rudis, wiki addict
 

Major Kong said,

May 18, 2012 at 19:50

…….

A few countries like Russia and China use meters for everything.

Gosh Major, I’m not so sure about that. I was in China once and none of the taxis had meters.

 
 

New Zealand carpenters always have to worry whether they are measuring the clearances in metric RCHs or old Imperial ones.

UGH. So many potential fuck ups….

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

New Zealand carpenters always have to worry whether they are measuring in radians or degrees.

 
 

Also, Major: you guys are flying BIRDS around??

I think they’re chickens. There must be some sort of chicken frequent-flyer program.

 
 

New Zealand carpenters always have to worry

The whole 6 vs. 9 business is real trouble.

 
 

Of course we’re south of the equator so our drill bits turn in the opposite direction here.

 
 

New Zealand carpenters always have to worry

Earthquakes will do that in construction professions.

 
 

former-navy-chaplain-insists-gay-demons-can-infect-animals

When the authorities inevitably catch him with his cock in a petting-zoo pony, he has his “excuse” premade.

 
 

Also, Major: you guys are flying BIRDS around??

Artist’s conception

 
 

I don’t wanna know how your toilets work.

 
 

On the plus side the toast lands butter-side up.

 
 

Liberal birds. Hitching a ride with a hardworking major instead of flying themselves.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

We ship them motors, they buy generators. They ship us generators, we buy motors.

 
 

BBBB, that was may favorite game back in the day.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

On the plus side the toast lands butter-side up.

Except that’s the minus side there.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Or did I get that backwards? Left Hand Rule, Right Hand Rule, all the same to me.

 
 

BBBB, that was may favorite game back in the day.

I hope you’re talking about “Joust” rather than the petting zoo!

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

I am unable to find a link to something I read (I think I read it, maybe it was my own idea) that blamed maxwell’s demons for gathering under one edge of the falling bread to make it flip sticky side down. GAY Maxwell’s demons!

 
 

Them lil’ ponies can run!

The keys to Joust and a few thousand other games:

http://mamedev.org/

 
 

I finished migrating everything from our failing old server to the bright perky new ones today. I have only one thing to add to that: POOP!

 
 

Hey Jeffraham, lookit here

I know a lot of cats that love to recline in bathroom sinks. Neither of mine are the type, though.
.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Nope, tsam, there isn’t. How do I know this?

let’s try again.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/18/ex-priest-guilty-of-conspiring-to-kill-boy-who-accused-him-of-rape/

 
 

JP, are comments closed at your blog? I couldn’t find a place to comment.

Now fixed! Yay, dirk!
.

 
 

George W. Bush has some wisdom to share.

When I want in-depth analysis of Middle Eastern affairs by someone with a real understanding of the region, I always look to George W. Bush.

 
 

George W. Bush has some wisdom to share.

Whoever wrote that speech for Bush makes mostly sound, if banal, points. But I was intrigued by:

[I]n Central Europe…democratic institutions and attitudes did not spring up overnight. From time to time, there has been corruption, backsliding and nostalgia for the communist past.

Not to mention, which you didn’t, a civil war. Which was ultimately broken up by a NATO airstrike and peacekeepers under Clinton. And during the 2000 campaign, Condi Rice, that over-promoted briefer whom you went on to make Secretary of State, sneered at peacekeeping as “kindergarten-building.” Funny how that attitude came back to bite you in the ass in Iraq, isn’t it?

 
 

I’m so bored!

Somebody entertain me! Now!

 
 

Will a little soft shoe do?

 
 

There once was a pervert called Spearhafoc
Who got engorged at the sight of a steed forelock
The petting-zoo ponies
Put out for the bronies
And now he’s just nursing his wee sore cock.

 
 

I finished migrating everything from our failing old server to the bright perky new ones today.

Click of death yesterday. VERY VERY annoying.

 
 

And now he’s just nursing his wee sore cock.

How did you…?! Who told you?!

Oh, right, my nym.

*Ahem*

 
 

Oh wait. Spear, you one of those guys who likes to see the Ponies doin’ it?

One of the ponies must have red mane.

 
 

Oh no, I just think the show is funny. No clopping* for me.

*Clopping, I learned, is the fandom’s name for masturbating to the show or fan art of the show…

This is one of the many reasons I don’t personally associate with MLP: FIM fandom. *Shudder*

 
 

How did you…?! Who told you?!

Oh, right, my nym.

*Ahem*

Actually, the governmental agency that determines the Canadian Content of the media companies has installed webcams in your bedroom and bathroom old chum. Do your patriotic duty and FLAUNT IT!!!

 
 

I’m bone tired. Feels so good to recline.

 
 

*Clopping, I learned, is the fandom’s name for masturbating to the show or fan art of the show…

It’s hard to articulate how disturbing I find this.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Oh, I see. Wait, no I don’t. How is a pimple hung?

 
 

Somebody entertain me! Now!

You want entertainment? Excitement? Suspense? Sexual arousal? Here you go!

 
 

Wow, I know what I’LL be doing tonight.

 
 

*Clopping, I learned, is the fandom’s name for masturbating to the show or fan art of the show…

It’s hard to articulate how disturbing I find this.

And that was before I found out the wankers were wearing iron “shoes” on their “hooves”.

 
 

Still probably better than “Twilight.”

 
 

And that was before I found out the wankers were wearing iron “shoes” on their “hooves”.

Wha–?

 
 

Masturbating is so much easier these days. Why when I was young we only had old Ann Landers columns and we had to use Elmer’s glue for lube.

 
 

Still less disturbing than clopping.

 
 

Masturbating is so much easier these days. Why when I was young we only had old Ann Landers columns and we had to use Elmer’s glue for lube.

Luxury! All we had were Mamie Eisenhower Gone Wild videos and some old copies of Spiro Agnew’s Backdoor Gazette with the pages stuck together. The only lube we had was pumice. And we considered ourselves goddamned lucky!

 
 

Click of death yesterday.

Shouldn’t buy your hardware from Samurais R Us.

 
 

I actually don’t have a problem with Furries or any other kink, no matter how out there, as long as everything is dealt with safely and consensually.

That said, it’s still pretty gross and junk.

 
 

How soon before some “fan” artist animates 2 Ponies, 1 Trough?

I actually don’t have a problem with Furries or any other kink, no matter how out there, as long as everything is dealt with safely and consensually.

The best thing about the sexual envelope-pushers is that they will ultimately make things better for all sexual minorities. How can the prudes make gay people seem monstrous in a word full of paraphiliacs?

 
 

Ooh! Ooh! I can do that too:

Women are the real rapists because the way they dress and act.

 
 

The only lube we had was pumice.

Ooooooh, pumice! Mummy, Father, I’m orf to the pahtio to play the grahnd piahno!

 
 

You’re all a buncha sexual preverts.

 
 

Ooooooh, pumice! Mummy, Father, I’m orf to the pahtio to play the grahnd piahno!

I nearly sharted on that one.
.

 
 

I’ve watched that video a few times today, SMG.

Gilbert Gottfried yelling “My Clitorus!” is both hilarious and highly disturbing.

 
 

How soon before some “fan” artist animates 2 Ponies, 1 Trough?

I see no ponies, I see no trough!

 
 

Gilbert nails it. Right through the forehead. But from what i’ve heard this is an improvement.
Ha ha upside-downies with the smart jokes! We’ve seen how you build your homes!

 
 

We’ve seen how you build your homes!

Rassin’ frassin’ pomo horseshit.

 
 

Horseshit?

It all seems to come back to horses in this thread.

 
 

Yes, it’s Bridal Week, here at Sadly No!

 
 

Suddenly!
Johnny!
He gets the feelin’!
He’s bein’ surrounded by!
PONIES! PONIES!
Comin’ in in all directions!
White! Shinin’! Silvah! Studs!
With their nose! In! Flames!
He saw…
PONIES! PONIES! PONIES! PONIES! PONIES! PONIES! PONIES! PONIES!

 
 

New post.

 
 

Last!!

 
 

But we only test for one of them, and it’s not the one that would, when used off-the-job, cause impairment when on-the-job.

If your claim is that they don’t test transport workers for alcohol, I’m sorry, but that’s just not true. And they pee test for a lot more than THC these days.

What’s stupid, though, is that you could take an overseas vacation and toke up in a place where that’s perfectly legal, come home and get pulled for a pee test two weeks later and be out of work 6 months because a tiny trace lingers in your system. That’s bullshit. Why do they have any say into what I get up to on vacation?

(You can also get dinged for eating Hamentaschen. Myth validated by mythbusters!)

 
 

My objection is to this silly, half-assed, yes-it’s-legal-no-it-isn’t situation where states like CA and OR are saying one thing and the feds are saying another. It’s the macro equivalent of a teenager crouching by his bedroom window with a joint, blowing the smoke out the window, burning a stick of incense and anxiously listening for Mom’s step on the stairs.

Agree. Fed law will probably be the hardest to roll back, given how the senate favors rural states and the house is divvied up to favor wingnuts, HOWBEIT empty Western states do seem to be trending pro. Also, too, Senators are afraid of seniors and they are the most anti demo.

But you’re absolutely right–the greatest harm for the least good is being done right now by federal anti-marijuana enforcement. It needs to stop. Dismantle the whole shebang (give the money to the FDA and USDA so they can hire some frigging inspectors and study how to prevent more e coli and salmonella outbreaks).

Decriminalize coke while you’re at it. Cocaine seems to cause more violence when illegal than legal, no matter how much we poo poo it.

Alcohol has a wicked side, too, but we all know how well prohibiting THAT turned out.

 
 

Jennifer, I agree completely about the uselessness of drug tests. It’s become a self-sustaining billion dollar industry now so it will be hard to change.

Silly peasant, always thinking you should have a right to a private life that your employer is not entitled to have access to.

 
 

I wonder how the firms that use drug testing to screen employees are handling the medical marijuana laws in places like California and Colorado. Since the tests are only set up to catch pot smokers, they aren’t really helping to “screen” anything if the employee who pisses positive whips out a script from his doctor.

Well, for a Wal-mart floor clerk I’m sure the whole thing is quite the waste of time, but have you looked at DOT physical requirements lately? Scrip my ass, you whip that narcotic out and it’s good night, Charlie, why don’t you apply back again later when that slipped disk/cancer/bronchitis has cleared up.

Phew, hydrocodone will get you fired. You don’t grok how REAL this shit is all up in this bitch.

 
 

“Even the liberal Supreme Court” decided that private employers have the right to demand pee tests even for jobs where the results are irrelevant!

In the steering-big-metal-objects-at-death-defying-speeds industry, it is, of course, mandatory.

Jennifer, I’m not saying I don’t think it sucks. I think it sucks very much. I think it’s dehumanizing and degrading. I think testing should only be done post-accident, not even “reasonable cause” because supervisors are dumb. If somebody seems impaired, take them off the job. They’re probably just fatigued, which is (making a wild-ass but not at all uninformed guess here) like the #1 actual cause of deadly accidents where professional operators are at fault.

Disagree with pre-employment testing too. Just call their damn references, you punk-ass hiring managers. It won’t kill you. As Katt Williams so wisely tells us: If you ain’t got no job and you ain’t smokin no weed, I dont know what the fuck you are doing wit yo life.

 
 

I would much like to be spared the bullshit “what-ifs” about airline pilots being stoned at the controls.

Pilots are fucking falling asleep at the controls and that is a big fucking deal. Thank your lucky stars for those fancy multi-million $$$ computers that actually fly the damn planes, or they’d be dropping out of the sky all over the place.

Barely-over-min-wage pilot more fatigued than a frat boy on a finals cram marathon for a class he can’t afford to flunk (or dad will fucking kill him?) == Deregulation at work.

 
 

A nationwide refusal to submit to testing would make my heart sing like a wild thing. I wonder who could organize such thing? There used to be these things called unions…

Guyzzzz, the unions took it all the way to Teh SCOTUS in the 1980’s.

I’m sorry.

🙁

 
 

That means time to start drinking water because you’re going to have to pee in the bottle. It’s annoying mainly because it cuts into my already short nap time.

What? That’s a fucking raw deal, man! Our fearless overloads have to test us on the clock.

 
 

Also for refusing the drug testing regime, I have some coworkers who would have been retired by now, if not for bucking a system against which they were powerless… some lost years of pension credits. :(((

 
 

thread bear, those are some phat rhymes.

 
 

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