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Aroo! Aroo!
Six Meat Buffet has entered the Photoshop Challenge…
Update: Although apparently they redirected the link to divert people who click over from here. (Wuh?)
Copy and paste into teh browser:
http://sixmeatbuffet.com/archives/2006/11/30/weve-been-challenged/
Steve said,
December 1, 2006 at 22:34
Well, they’re good sports.
Righteous Bubba said,
December 1, 2006 at 22:38
Well, they’re good sports.
Maybe they’ll be funny. Who can tell in this crazy world of ours?
Is the topic still a Day by Day remix?
D. Aristophanes said,
December 1, 2006 at 22:38
That link leads to something called conservativethinking.com … is that correct?
Anyway, on conservativethinking.com I found this wonderful post:
I’m Tired of Being Called Stupid
By Chris Short
hehe
TR said,
December 1, 2006 at 22:58
I’m afraid I’m going to need some guidance to get the ha-ha funny part of their photoshop.
Why exactly is Charlie Rangel sniping at our troops? Is he a self-hating veteran? Or is there some Korean War Vets for Truth group out there insisting his wounds were self-inflicted and his Bronze Star undeserved?
JillK. said,
December 1, 2006 at 22:59
Teh lame. Very.
J— said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:13
Although apparently they redirected the link to divert people who click over from here. (Wuh?)
A bold strategy–We redirect them there so we don’t have to face their sneers here.
Marita said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:15
Oh, look. A badly photoshopped video game thing. Gav, are you going to go with the Dick Cheney Special Edition of Duck Hunt, or is that way too obvious?
On the upside for the obvious part: At least they’d get the joke.
MCH said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:19
Is this merely an “Aroo!”, and not something worthy of an “Ahh-OO-gah!”?
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:21
How would the Silent Scope inspire Deb Frisch to go after Jeff Goldstein and family? It’s not like the Goldsteins would be serving in uniform overseas or anything like that.
hugely said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:22
yea i went over there - their PS skillz suck, their idea that CNN snipes at our armed forces is teh lame - just a tired regurgitation of the wingnut meme that the press somehow hates America, or facts have a “well known liberal bias” or something
do something funny at least that has some “basis in reality” - like liberals are potsmoking hippies who want to tax American’s god-given right to .50 caliber sniper rifles so we can buy late night pizza topped with extra hemp while reading Marx, Paine, Sartre (or having hot man2man sex)
but yes good for them for taking the challenge…
hugely said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:25
i’d vote for the DuckHunt idea - good one Marita
It is very easy to “get” the joke that way - anything more subtle would at minimum require a switch to smartfood popcorn from cheetos
fresh said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:32
wah WAH
Spokane Moderate said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:33
I must agree with… well… everybody so far. That was poorly done.
Cadet Happy was much better at this. He had better PS skillz and at least seemed like a decent guy (or gal?), in spite of being on the wrong side of politics. These guys just seem angry.
His Grace said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:41
Well, not that I think that the DuckHunt idea wouldn’t be hilarious, I think a photoshopping of the Islamic Extremists’ Rage-o-meter is in order.
Call it the conservative outrage-o-meter and we could feature such bold things like Media Photoshop alert, Improper use of the score of Silent Night, and my favourite “NBC calls it a civil war? How dare they?”
RobW said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:45
late night pizza topped with extra hemp
Oh hey, it’s lunchtime. Thanks for reminding me.
mikey said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:50
I’m not sure I’m ready to comment on their Photoshop skills, but the postings are entirely incoherent. I kept having the feeling that I was trying to read another language, one that seemed to be a lot like English, but the words had different meanings and went together in differnt patterns. These are some dangerously stupid individuals - angry and meanspirited too, near as I can tell. They are certainly not going to be “good sports” and admit it when Gavin skools ‘em, hands ‘em a pair of training wheels, a plastic helmet and a Lunchables in a bag and sends them off to try again.
Damn, I remember when “Smart Conservative” wasn’t an oxymoron…
mikey
M.Sphinx said,
December 1, 2006 at 23:54
Well, they still won’t let go of Deb Frisch, so you might as well bring up the fake anthrax guy.
sohei said,
December 2, 2006 at 0:04
Gavin, after you post your reply, be sure to lean down over SMB’s prone corpse and say, “You got knocked the fuck out!”
Cuz its Friday, bitches.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 0:04
Well, they still won’t let go of Deb Frisch, so you might as well bring up the fake anthrax guy.
Did we ever see a mug shot of that guy? Gav could always put his face on this album cover. I could dig that.
Innocent Bystander said,
December 2, 2006 at 0:04
Well, that was a wasted 5 minutes. Is that a “boys only” clubhouse site?
Anyways, the photoshopping, like their politics is well sucked.
Kathleen said,
December 2, 2006 at 0:29
LOL on the Duck Hunt, Marita. teh awesome.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 0:57
The most current post at six meatheads is about some dood in texas (I think, I’m a little numb from my experience over there) who is using pig races (seriously, that’s the story) to prevent the people on the next property from building a mosque. But that’s not the bad part. The bad part is the comments, a fever swamp of racial hatred, religious intolerance, cultural paranoia and simple xenophobia. I left quite an angry comment over there, and would recomend (if you have a strong stomach) that perhaps you might want to also…
mikey
Cur said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:03
Maybe they went with teh suck skillz!!!1!! to show irony?
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:13
How cowardly of me is it, mikey, to admit that I clicked over to Meatbags, couldn’t find the post you refer to, and went away relieved? Some days life just seems too short to track down the ugly.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:19
Hey, you know the drill, Mortician. If you hump ruck all day and come home with sore feet and full magazines, it was a very good day…
mikey
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:23
I think they deleted your comment, mikey. Cause they’re brave christian soldiers like that.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:33
Hmmm, it still shows up in my browser. I’m not ever sure how these moderated comments are gonna work. I really would have thought they’d rather argue and call me names than delete my comment. Here’s what I said:
Here’s the righteous URL
mikey
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:36
Url don’t work cause they have the misdirection crap active.
But there’s no comments on the post since after your comment, maybe it’s still awaiting moderation. I’m gonna wait to see if they can face the music before I try n piss em off.
owlbear1 said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:37
Left him some advice.
#
Here is something that may interest you.
“Rebus�
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
I think you will find rebuses are a much better fit for your style of photo manipulation.
For instance; in the above pictures you could have simply posted the picture of Paula Zahn, and the video game with plus sign between them and followed it with an equals sign. Your readers could then have easily surmised you were sending the message, “Women telling me things I don’t want to hear should be shot!�
Applying a Rebus mentality to your second picture I think really helps communicate your abject terror of black men.
See, Rangel + Rifle = “Oh Lordy!, Oh Lordy! Whatever we gonna do!?�
As your image are constructed now I’m not really sure what it is you are trying to say.
Hope this helps! :smile:
comment by owlbear1 — Friday, December 1, 2006 @ 6:35 pm
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:43
Clicked over again, even after a full day of humping ruck (thanks for the metaphor, mikey) and still no mikey comment for me, so thanks for including it here.
And apologies to Demogenes, who already mentioned this upthread, but who the fuck is this Chris Short ignoranus (my favorite word from last year’s Mensa Invent-a-Word competition)? He says he’s tired of being called stupid by “those that employ me,” which he further identifies as members of Congress. Aside from the unforgivable use of the wrong relative pronoun, unless this guy’s a House page or a Senate staffer, wtf is he talking about? Does he not get that, at least in theory, they work for us? And if he is on staff in D.C., well, I guess that explains a lot (although why he’d be working for Rangel, the true object of his ire, is beyond me).
Matt T. said,
December 2, 2006 at 1:44
Ya know, I’m still not convinced Goldstein and Frisch didn’t pull an Andy Kaufman-Jerry “The King” Lawler thing on us. She’s that “word warrior” loon, right? I may be confused - and I am stoned, so there’s a possibility - but I still missed why that had to be such a huge deal to actually get press from the MSM, not to mention the blogosphere uproar. Don’t threaten kids, and if you have to do that in a political discussion you have now and forevermore lost, that goes without saying (or should). But christ…that should’ve been it, really, but the wingnuts just kept kicking it up and apparently expecting a level of outrage similiar to what must’ve took place after Lincoln was shot.
And that damn woman is a loon. If I’m thinking of the same woman, of course. Still…way to look like a bunch of big ol’ titty babies, guys. Surprised they didn’t do something based on Althouse’s nerve-tingling fear of the free-range hooter.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 2:00
Deb actually was in a thread here, Matt. It was one of the greatest comment threads in the history of the interwebs. And it didn’t seem so much like playacting as the sad slide into alcoholic incoherence. I can’t remember when the thread was or the topic whut started it, sorry, but it also featured patterico. It was awesome. Someone here must have a less hazed memory.
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 2:05
I wasn’t hanging out here at that point, diffbrad, but I did check out all the Word Warrior stuff when the shit hit the fan with the kid-threats (so yes, Matt T., you’ve got the right person in mind — and I wish I had some of whatever you’re smoking right now BTW). My completely unqualified opinion is that she’s sadly unbalanced, has absolutely no meter to gauge what’s OK and what’s beyond human decency. Having said that, I also think Goldstein & Co. were (and likely still are, though I haven’t wandered over that way in a while) utter douchebags in their haste to a) milk it for more than it was worth and b) refuse to find a more relevant opponent.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 2:20
Actually, I think you WERE here, Mortician. We had Deb, Patterico and the oj simpson nutjob all in one thread during a weekday afternoon, probably about september. It was hilarious. I was supposed to be working on a huge video project and ended up having to bill a bunch of hours I was playing on S, N!, laughing my ASS off, and then work all night fer nuttin to get my part done in time. But it was worth it for the sheer insight into seven different kinds of crazy…
mikey
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 2:45
Yes, I think that was my first experience with OJ-Man in all his weirdly passionate glory. It all comes back to me now . . . the laughter . . . the tears . . . wonder what I was drinking back then?
Matt T. said,
December 2, 2006 at 2:49
(so yes, Matt T., you’ve got the right person in mind — and I wish I had some of whatever you’re smoking right now BTW).
Damn right.
D. Sidhe said,
December 2, 2006 at 2:50
Not to take away from Marita at all, for whom I often experience flashes of envy at her wit, but the Daily Show actually did a nice little animated Duck Hunt with Dick Cheney as, I recall, some Elmer Fudd, hunter, deal.
And the Rangel thing was funny only if you’re the sort of person who actually understood Ruppert’s “voted for America” thing from that other thread. There’s a prerequisite bedrock understanding that to be anti-Bush is to be anti-American and anti-troops.
J— said,
December 2, 2006 at 3:11
Mikey and Smiling Mortician: Is this the thread in question? It has all three of them trolls. I was away and missed it and will have to read it later tonight.
the_millionaire_lebowski said,
December 2, 2006 at 3:42
Did you guys know that “glycolysis” comes from the Greek glykos (sweet) + lysis (to loosen)? What Greek does Sadly, No! come from?
Oh wait, surely it’s French, being we’re all surrender monkies. Which I don’t really understand anyway. I mean, can monkies even surrender? And doesn’t France have one of the more impressive military records in the Western world? I call misnomer.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 3:44
Not to take away from Marita at all, for whom I often experience flashes of envy at her wit, but the Daily Show actually did a nice little animated Duck Hunt with Dick Cheney as, I recall, some Elmer Fudd, hunter, deal.
D’oh! Must be where the idea got lodged in my brain.
Here’s hoping I do a little better with the whole original idea thing in my thesis.
(Anyone wanting to give me thesis writing sympathy is welcome to. Due next week! Gah!)
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 3:56
YAY J! That’s it!
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 3:57
Oh holy shit, J, yes. That was it. I have never in my life been more ambivalent about the word “thanks” than I am at this moment as I say thanks for the link. I re-read (re-experienced, re-lived) the entire thread in all its vicious glory. I’m not really overstating in saying that it felt like a reunion with a bunch of people with whom I lived through some horrible catastrophe or natural disaster. Anyway, I smiled at the end because the OJ guy got the last word, which was somehow fitting.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:07
Oh, man, I miss mariogeorgenitrini. I can’t think of anyone else who would have even responded to my rabid bear with a chainsaw question.
I wonder what his thoughts on OJ’s nixed book are.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:17
If you hold a ten-inch folding knife, and drive it into an effigy of your ex-spouse while repeating over and over “there’s no place like…ah, fuckin, just killemall”, he’ll appear in this thread…
mikey
fiver said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:17
OK, I looked at their site, and I just have to ask: What exactly is a cheesewipe? I’m guessing from the context that it’s supposed to be some kind of an insult. Are they insinuating that the commenters at Jesus’ General wipe their butts with cheese? That’s not just illogical, it’s impractical. Cheese is expensive these days. Oh, and their Photoshop skilz are teh suck.
The Deb/Patterico/OJ guy thread was the best thing ever. Back in those days we had *real* trolls, not this whiney princess shit.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:17
Mikey?
Me a “NUTJOB”?
Now Now Mikey, be nice>>>>LOL.
Hey Mikey, has Patterico (AKA Patrick Frey) stopped posting here?
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:21
Y’know, I don’t know if anybody’s like, mentioned it or something, but most of these blog things have this “Preview Button” kinda feature. Now I’m not askin’ anybody to do anything that would interfere with, say, their drinking or bingo night or anything, but what are the chances that this here blog thingie might join the nineteenth, or even the twentieth century?
What?
Just Askin’…..
mikey
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:21
Sadly, No? OR Sadly, YesS!11one!
Are you teh real Mario, Mario?
________________________
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mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:24
Toldja…
Hey, Mario. Haven’t heard a peep. Where you at on the book?
mikey
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MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:26
Hi Marita,
I have LOT’S of thought’s, and I know some issues about OJ Simpson’s nixed interview with Judith Regan and his nixed book.
Check it out:
The BIG problem is, is that TOO MANY OJ Simpson Case Prosecution people broke the law during and after both cases, and Simpson knows this, and is snubbing his nose at them, DARING them………..
It’s a white-wash and a chess game.
OJ Simpson has been using me as a “HUMAN SHIELD” for a long time, and I’m SICK OF IT, but………..?
Bottom line in his case:
OJ Simpson is GUILTY of the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman and someone helped him do it, Simpson DID NOT Murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman alone. My Ex-in-Law Rocky Bateman Unloaded “The Missing Bag” and it’s contents in a lake in the early morning hours of June 13th, 1994, and also got rid of Murder Evidence for Simpson on the afternoon of June 14th, 1994.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
_________________
The OJ Simpson Case
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:29
I wonder what his thoughts on OJ’s nixed book are.
Ack Marita! You might as well scream “Beetlejuice” three times. (Kidding - he seems to have given up on enlisting any S,N! comrades.)
My sympathies to you (and BradRocket) on the thesis. If you had attended a thoroughly lame-ass grad school like I did, you would never have had to write a thesis.
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:30
Hey, mikey, I remember doing the whole spin-three-times-in-front-of-a-mirror-in-the-dark-with-one-candle-burning-saying-I-believe-in-bloody-Mary thing when I was, like, nine — but your way worked much better. And it’s only a little creepy to think about who else lurks here 24/7 waiting for an incantation.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:33
Well Mikey,
I posted here:
“There Are No Words to Describe the Crazy That Is OJ Simpson Blog …
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 Says: October 21st, 2006 at 9:53 am. OJ Simpson is financially
desperate. … MarioGeorgeNitrini111 mariogeorgenitrini111 __________ …
http://www.damnimcute.com/need-help/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-crazy-that-is-oj-simpson/ - Cached”
even before OJ Simpson said he needed money. I knew he was is dire need of money from a contact of mine.
Mikey, this is going to PLAY-OUT-BIG. Actually, I thought it was going to play-out-big years ago. You think it’s gotton “Nasty” now? Just wait.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
grampaw said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:34
I dunno, this looks like a tough one for Gavin to respond to. I mean, when you add “support our troops” to “video game,” you get mostly stuff that doesn’t exist.
Like, is there a game where you have to collect purple band-aids and wave troop-support signs while running away from recruiters? No, there isn’t. How about a game where you control a squad of grizzled marines, going house-to-house in an urban battlefield looking for women and children holding flowers and candy for you? Nope. Hasn’t been done, hard to convey in an image.
Maybe you could do something with that “America’s Army” game series. Like, “America’s Army of Actual Soldiers Who Volunteered To Serve Their Country And Are On Active Duty Right Now And Not Sitting At Home Dicking Around With Photoshop To Impugn The Patriotism Of Others” but, you know, not so wordy.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:35
Hi Maddie! Glad to see you here.
Ah, ‘94. Late may, on a really crazy suicide speed run, I got arrested. The whole oj thang, with the white bronco low-speed chase happened while I was bailing out and going into rehab, to struggle once again with those elusive and murky twelve steps. It was actually a good time in my life, and know what? It worked out ok….
mikey
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:39
(Kidding - he seems to have given up on enlisting any S,N! comrades.)
See, now this is the type of stupid shit you end up posting when you’re taking care of a 3-yr old and it takes 45 minutes to compose a 5- sentence blog comment.
fiver said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:40
Wow, speak of the devil. That was fast.
If he’s got so much info on OJ, you’d think he’d write a book, or talk to the press, or do just about anything other than spend all his time lurking in comment threads until someone says his name.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:41
Mortician, you’ve got to get your mind around the fact that there are peeps out there monitoring the intert00bz looking for a mere mention, and they WILL show up instantly. Mario is fun. Goldstein is not. Many others fall into that continuum. But we’ve got all of our shit in one sock, right bay-bee?
mikey
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:41
Alternatively, maddie, you can go for a degree that requires a novel, a play, some short stories, some poems . . . but no thesis! Ah, grad school was great for us lefty, artsy, never-get-a-real-job-with-that-degree hippies . . . alas, by the time of OJ’s slow-mo run for the border, I was in my fourth year of tenured servitude, thus proving dad wrong.
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:45
you can go for a degree that requires a novel, a play, some short stories, some poems
Are you shitting me? I really should have more carefully investgated higher education before settling on drugs and motorcycles…
mikey
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:48
Fiver?
MOST people in The Press (Media) hate my gut’s. A book is not going to be for me, FOR reasons,
and there is “NOTHING” like The Legal Power of The Internet.
Please read my website’s:
http://www.myspace.com/mariognitrini111
http://blog.myspace.com/mariognitrini111
http://tinseltowncoldcase.blogspot.com/
and you can get a feel for what I’ve been through,
and
Read my latest blog. I have posted an 18 Minute audio tape of me going into to Parker Center and trying to have some people arrested on Citizen’s arrest.
My 18 Minute audio tape/Parker Center/OJ Simpson/Citizen’s Arrest’s, ECT http://www.box.net/public/0svlgofhx4
and please check out:
Some of My Legal Documents from The OJ Simpson Case.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:55
Hey Mikey! I too remember well the OJ chase. I had just finished my lame-ass grad school program referenced above. I couldn’t get a job. I was living with my mother (had been for a year). My dad had just died and I broke up with my fiancee (wah wah!) I spiraled into a severe clinical depression wherein in I lost 30 lbs (5′7″, 95 lbs).
Ooo, ooo, but “Friends” started that year on the teevee. Sadly, it almost felt like a lifeboat for me.
Heh, good times. My rehab came later.
fiver said,
December 2, 2006 at 4:56
Uh, that’s nice and all, Mr. OJ guy, but I still don’t see what the comments at Sadly, No! have to do with any of it. We mock people, not help them.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:04
Fiver,
Mock me all you want. You wouldn’t be the first.
I like this website. I visit it everyday. Fiver, whether you believe me or not, a lot of people (and Some very High-Profile people and lot’s of Government people) read what I say on my website and other website’s.
There’s nothing like THE LEGAL POWER OF THE INTERNET, FOR ME………………
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:06
Thanks for the sympathy, maddie! I had this strange idea a few years back about going to a not-lame-ass grad school. I’m kind of regretting that right now. They have these “academic standards” thingies that are a total drag.
My roommate and I just listened to the first few minutes of Mr. Nitrini’s citizen’s arrest audio file. I can honestly say that it’s better than anything on TV right now. I wonder if someone could put it to music…
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:19
I like mario a lot more than AA, if it ever comes to that.
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maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:27
Now Gavin, I know this is a biggie. But could you please provide a photoshop visual of the LEGAL POWER OF THE INTERNET.
(No, I got no ideas beyond that.)
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:30
Now Gavin, I know this is a biggie. But could you please provide a photoshop visual of the LEGAL POWER OF THE INTERNET.
I think it should incorporate Al Gore in a judge’s wig and robe, somehow.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:35
Hi there. Six Meat Buffet fan here. From what I’ve seen, it’s clear that you don’t know how to use Photoshop to make believable images. I suspect I can wipe you off the map all by myself, without even calling for backup from 6MB. So, how would you like this duel to go? Should we just mock you? Mock your site? Mock liberals? Liberalism? Socialism? Mock the poor track record of liberals donations to the poor?
The ‘Sadly, No’ name begs to be made fun of (’Do liberals use their brains? Sadly, no’… you get the idea). Should that be part of the game? Are there some guidelines? I’d love to give you some examples, but I don’t know the rules of your game. But I’m willing to play! :)
As you know, people who aren’t hippies need rules to both enjoy a game and to determine a winner. Smoking weed and playing hackysack doesn’t qualify as a duel. Please lay down some ground rules, or I’ll stick with the (certainly overdone by now) idea of making fun of your blog name.
Thanks in advance!
Kevin
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:39
Hi Kevin. We’re glad you’re here. Let me introduce you to your daddy. Gavin?
mikey
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:42
I wandered over to Kevin’s site and checked out his alleged mad photoshop skillz. Meh. Gavin could mop the floor with him. I’m not sure it’s worth the effort.
Mario, I don’t suppose you’d be willing to citizen’s arrest this Kevin guy, would you? He’s totally bringing this thread down.
J— said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:43
Wow, Gavin, you may be in too deep. This Kevin dude has got mad photoshop skills.
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:49
Hi Kevin!
So, how would you like this duel to go?
I realize this isn’t going to happen, but what I would really like you and your fellow wingnuts to do is put your asses where your mouths are and go enlist.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:52
Nope Marita, No citizen’s arrest for Kevin. He’s done me no wrong.
But these people I may try again to arrest:
Ronald Y. Ito–LAPD RHD Detective who was involved in The OJ Simpson Case and Saga.
Kim Goldman Hahn–Daughter of Fred Goldman and Sister of Ron Goldman.
Tom Lange–Retired LAPD RHD Detective who was involved in The OJ Simpson Case.
SGT. Guiterrez–LAPD Cop who tried to kill me in the early morning hours of October 4th, 1995.
J.H. Hart–LAPD Cop who tried to kill me in the early morning hours of October 4th, 1995.
Gil Garcetti–Ex-Los Angeles District Attorney who was involved in The OJ Simpson Case and Saga.
Marcia Clark–Co-Lead Prosecutor in The OJ Simpson Case and Saga.
Bob Parsons–LAPD Detective who Conspired to Illegally cover-up………………
Stephanie Medina–Former KCAL Channel 9 Employee.
Diane Dimond–Former TV Tabloid Show “Hard Copy” Employee.
Eric Garcetti–Councilman in Los Angeles, son of Gil Garcetti.
Dana Garcetti–Daughter of Gil Garcetti.
Harvey Levin–Former KCBS Employee.
Joe Salvino–LADA Investigator in The OJ Simpson Case and Saga.
Lisa Bloom–Court TV Anchor.
Gloria Allred–Brown Family Attorney in The OJ Simpson Case and Saga.
Tom Sneddon–Santa Barbara District Attorney
Plus LAPD Captain Richard C. Wemmer, commanding officer
West Los Angeles community Police Station.
Maybe more………………………………
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
mikey said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:56
Dood, c’mon, I’ve told you guys war stories. Tell us the story of 10/04/95. I’ve told the story of getting hit. Gimme yours…
mikey
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:57
But Mario, what about Patterico?
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:58
Kevin — Roolz, schmoolz. Choose your destructor! Preferably not something as lame as making fun of the S,N! name or weed-smoking jokes.
…people who aren’t hippies need rules to both enjoy a game and to determine a winner.
weak
Thers said,
December 2, 2006 at 5:58
The ‘Sadly, No’ name begs to be made fun of (’Do liberals use their brains? Sadly, no’… you get the idea).
Oh dear. Gavin has gone too far this time. Who could have ever imagined an opponent so skilled in Teh Funny would have arisen?
Eeek. I say, eek.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:01
I hate to break it to you, Kevin, but weed ain’t just for hippies no more.
I get high daily, yet I have no tie dye, no grateful dead albums, nor phish, no hacky sacks, and no copies of high times.
I do, however, have long hair, if you’re desperate to find something to latch onto.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:09
Well, a different brad,
When I get Legally put Patrick Frey (AKA Patterico) on a witness stand in a legal court of law, my suggestion for him would be for him (Mr. Frey) to tell the truth or take the 5th amendment. Should I catch him lying on the witness stand (I’m real good at catching lying scum like Patrick Frey), I will legally arrest him ON THE SPOT!!!!!!!!!! PERIOD. And if he thinks I won’t legally arrest him ON THE SPOT if he lies on a the witness stand in a legal court of law while I am asking him questions, that’s Mr. Frey’s call.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:09
I really should have more carefully investgated higher education before settling on drugs and motorcycles…
Well, mikey, my motto has always been Why choose when you can have it all?
Smoking weed and playing hackysack doesn’t qualify as a duel.
Spoken like a guy who’s never done it at championship level, Kev.
what I would really like you and your fellow wingnuts to do is put your asses where your mouths are and go enlist.
From your mouth to Smedley’s* ears, ITTDGY.
But Mario, what about Patterico?
Oh, here we go . . .
*Smedley, the god of smiting blowhard hypocrites.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:09
Y’know, I don’t know if anybody’s like, mentioned it or something, but most of these blog things have this “Preview Button� kinda feature.
[sobbing]
It’s not my fault!1
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a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:10
That, Mario, is an answer I’m prepared to accept.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:12
Oops.
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MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:13
Mikey,
You want to know the 10/4/1995 early morning ambush on me?
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:14
Well I hope you’re proud of yourself, mikey. You made Gavin cry.
I’m gonna regret asking this, but Mario, in your opinion, are there either illegal courts of law or legal courts of unlaw? Because you seem pretty intent on the idea of legal courts of law.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:16
I too would like to know the story of that morning, Mario.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:18
I too would like to know the story of that morning, Mario.
I’m in! Edge of my seat…
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:18
Thanks,
a different brad.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:21
What a tease Mario is!
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:22
…Mario, in your opinion, are there either illegal courts of law or legal courts of unlaw?
Oh lordybee, SM. We’re in for a long night with that one.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:22
Also, Gavin, if you’re still around, the 910 group has some really… interesting stuff in their yahoo group. Is there a SN! email I can send a few of the tastier bits to?
(Assuming you aren’t a member yourself, which may be an unfair assumption.)
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:24
I saw you accepted my accepting of your challenge, but still don’t understand what we are going for. Your link to an old image with the Jaws shark attacking a woman (here) increases my confusion. From that image, it’s clear we aren’t going for Photoshopping quality. Are we just dueling for humor value? of Ann Coulter as a liberal. It’s not much better than the shark image, but probably equally as funny…
Rules, people! There’s no way to win without them. Also, I can only play this weekend. I’m a conservative, so obviously I have a job :(
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:25
I know, maddie, but in my defense, I did offer up pre-emptive regret. And I don’t have to get up early tomorrow.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:26
ack, bad tags, I guess. Please allow me to repost:
I saw you accepted my accepting of your challenge, but still don’t understand what we are going for. Your link to an old image with the Jaws shark attacking a woman (here) increases my confusion. From that image, it’s clear we aren’t going for Photoshopping quality. Are we just dueling for humor value? Here’s one of Ann Coulter as a liberal. It’s not much better than the shark image, but probably equally as funny…
Rules, people! There’s no way to win without them. Also, I can only play this weekend. I’m a conservative, so obviously I have a job :(
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:31
Hey, Kev. Here on the interwebs, when you mess up a link it’s customary just to say something like Oops, here’s the link. No need to repost the entire message. This will save you valuable time better devoted to that “job” thing that you have and we’ve all just read about in magazines.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:32
Hi ifthethunderdontgetya!
…what I would really like you and your fellow wingnuts to do is put your asses where your mouths are and go enlist.
Good plan! I’ll get right on that when you and your fellow moonbats join the peace corp or become human shields. All of these ideas are morally equivalent, right?
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:34
OK, I see I should have provided an example for you, Kev. Sorry about that.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:35
Here’s an old advertisement for my old company. We sold tongs for very specific problems, such as this one, with which I’m sure you are familiar :).
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:35
Smiling Mortician,
Apology accepted.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:37
Kevin, please try harder. Your bland style is just out of place here. You meant to say why haven’t we followed the model of Lindh and gone to Afganistan and joined the Taliban.
And the answer is quite simple: the Taliban are, like the right here, rabidly anti-drug, except when clandestine sales can fund them. Some of the finest pot in the world has long been grown there, so we’re not going to enlist when we can’t toke up after killing the infidels.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:39
Here’s one describing what the Libertarians of the world think of the Democrat’s plan to rob the working class to give to… someone. Obviously not the poor, since they remain poor after all of these years of trying. The labor unions maybe?
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:39
Enough with the stalling, Kevin. CHOOSE YOUR DESTRUCTOR!
Kevin's boss or mom or someone said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:41
Kevin’s busy right now.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:43
Enough with the stalling, Kevin. CHOOSE YOUR DESTRUCTOR!
Can he choose Michael Moore as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? See, it’s funny, because Michael Moore is, like, fat. Right Kev?
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:43
Ah, Kevin, speaking of products targeted to a certain demographic, you missed this one before…
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:43
‘different’ brad,
Yes, that would be a reasonable plan for you as well. Get right on it! I won’t argue with you about drugs though, since I fully support legalizing them and taxing them so that they cost 50% as much as they do now.
And don’t listen to people who call you ‘different’. It’s what makes you ’special’! The short bus is just gravy.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:45
Maddie said,
“Enough with the stalling, Kevin. CHOOSE YOUR DESTRUCTOR!”
I choose maddie.
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:45
Can he choose Michael Moore as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?
That would at least be a damn decision.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:46
Ok, the cheetos lotion is pretty good :(
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:47
OK.
I got home about 2:30 PM on October 3rd, 1995, and had a drink. I just shook my head and thought, UNREAL……… but I still wasn’t sure if OJ Simpson was guilty or not. But with what I had investigated and been through, at that time, I was leaning toward’s his guilt, and even then, if he was guilty, I knew he couldn’t have done it himself.
Anyway, later on I went over to this lady’s house and I had some more to drink. After about an hour, there were 2 guys in suit’s across the street where she lived, just standing there for about 10 minute’s, so, I went over and wanted to see what they were up to. They told me that they were there to talk to someone in one of the apartment’s. I went back inside my lady friends apartment, but these 2 guys just stood by their car. After about 20 more minute’s and these 2 guys still there, I felt that “SOMETHING” wasn’t right. SO, I wanted to see what was going on. I got into my car and went back to my apartment, and sure enough, these 2 guys followed me in their car. I thought to myself, WTH?????
I stayed at my apartment for a while, and then went back to my lady friends house. Didn’t see anyone follow me at that time. My lady friend and I decided to go to a bar a little later on. Well, Sure enough, when I was driving, someone (s) was/were following me and her. This went on for quite a while from bar-to-bar that we went to. At approximately 1:00AM in the morning of October 4th, 1995, I WAS AMBUSHED by LAPD Officer SGT. Guiterrez and LAPD Officer J. H. Hart. There is a lot more that went on in this period of time that I will not get into. I am saving it for a court of Law.
Anyway, I was beaten Horribly. Broken Ribs, My head was swelled up like a watermelon (I still have headaches), and more……………. Please go here and see what I looked like 4 days after These two Illegal Scum LAPD Cops tried to kill me. Scroll down to the bottom.
nicole simpson’s letter to cora fischman-never before publicly seen19 Sep 2006
well, here it is i am having a problem with the letter staying visable. i’ll work
on the problem. here’s the text: “cora,sorry i…
mario g. - myspace blog - http://blog.myspace.com/mariognitrini111
BUT,
I’M STILL HERE……………….
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:47
Don’t be maddie, be happy-ie!
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:49
Fair enough, Kevin. If you’re going to continue to be relatively calm and sane and even have a sense of humor of sorts I hope you’ll also be willing to explain what you’re still doing supporting one, or more, of the greatest failures in our nation’s history?
Smiling Mortician said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:49
If the Cheetos lotion is so good, Kevin, why the frownie-face?
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:53
Oh Kevin, “I’m melting, I’m melting.”
And, hey, Mario 11!1!1.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:53
Because we are in a battle here, right? My competitor has proven that he is not inept. It was easier when his previous examples showed that he was. It was meant more as a hat tip than a frown.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:53
Oh. And, Kevin, the difference is i’m not the Brad who posts here.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:54
Try this link:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?f…f2-704871986699
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 6:58
I don’t think that’s the link you wanted to post, Mario. It tries to make me join MySpace.
Are you trying to show us your face after the beating, or the letter?
In other news, Kevin’s sense of humor makes me sad.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:04
Brad,
I’m even worse than those sickos supporting the war. I want to expand it. Dramatically. I agree with you that the handling of this war is p*ss poor. The only way to win a war is brutality. We should have learned that by simply comparing our actions in Vietnam vs every other war ever, vs. the results.
If you want to save lives, end war quickly. And to end war quickly, you have to kill A LOT of people. Sad, but true. I am for destroying all buildings near IED’s. I am for destruction of Mosques if enemies reside there. I am for complete bombardment of Syria and Iran if they don’t support peace in the middle east. No invasion, no rebuilding of infrastructure. Just destruction.
More lives will be saved in the long run. I realize that this is a concept that is incomprehensible to the left, but as nuking Japan proved, it is nevertheless true.
I shall return to my attempts to be funny now.
How ’bout those Red Sox?
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:04
Sorry about that. I can’t get the link. Well if you go here:
nicole simpson’s letter to cora fischman-never before publicly seen 19 Sep 2006
This is the date of my blog with the picture of me 4 days after the ambush (At the bottom).
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Nicole Simpson’s letter to Cora Fischman-never before publicly seen
Please go here:
http://blog.myspace.com/mariognitrini111
and scroll down to the Sep. 19th date.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:06
I’m starting to think joining the 910 was a wise move indeed, tho there’s still not much there yet. But this blog from one of my fellow 910ers makes it all worthwhile with just the opening entry, which asks a truly vital question; why do people do the things they do?
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:12
“Oh. And, Kevin, the difference is i’m not the Brad who posts here.”
I figured that out, but I’m having fun being a troll, so have to lash out at everyone. I really had no choice but to make fun of your name. It’s some kind of law:).
I must say that, other than Maddie, you are a fun bunch of liberals! I don’t understand your commitment to supporting the bad guys in the WOT, but regardless, I shall Photoshop you into oblivion!
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:14
The number you have reached… nine, one, oh, is not in service. Please check the number, and dial again.
Some Guy said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:15
Poor Logic Senses… tingling…
“Good plan! I’ll get right on that when you and your fellow moonbats join the peace corp or become human shields. All of these ideas are morally equivalent, right?”
Sadly, no!
Ohh, that’s catchy.
Firstly; human shields? That’s… what? Go home and try again. Use less “makes no logical”, this time.
Second, your argument is based on hyperbolic logic, that Joining the Army is to Advocating War as Joining the Peace Corps is to Wanting Peace.
See, the differentiation between the two is that when you advocate a war, you are saying, “we should send thousands of fellow Citizens of the United States (but not me, of course.) to die and be wounded, and spend billions of dollars to do it.”
Conversely, advocating against war is the same as saying, “We should not send thousands of fellow Citizens of the United States to die and be wounded, nor should we spend billions of dollars to do it.”
No where in that arguement is there anything about “oh those poor people. Who’s going to tend to their sheep?” It’s about “this idea is bad and should not be done.”
So, if we take your “All of these ideas are morally equivalent, right?” arguement, and apply it to this, then, obvious, the moral equivenlant for us “moonbats”, as you say, is to NOT join the Amry.
Well, I haven’t joined the Army (they wouldn’t take me anyways), which, therefore, means that I, and any else who has not enlisted, have actually performed our moral responsability in regads to our war-waging beliefs.
While you all* have not.
See, you strike me as one of those who worry that Al Qaeda and Mr. Mophead are a serious threat to the United States and, indeed, to all of Western Civilization. This would mean that, in addition to getting a 400 on the written portion of the SATs ( I hate the SATs), you do not understand the differance between Sensible Goals and Fantastical Desires.
I point you to http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html
Or, if we’re going to keep things simple and nostalgic, “Calvin and Hobbes”, where Hobbes actually gets his wish, a sandwhich, while Calvin does not recieve his nucular powered rocket sled with heat seeking missles and lasers guns.
.. That Orson Scott Card post done got me riled up.
*By “All”, I mean the majority of Right leaning pundits and blog writters.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:17
But this blog from one of my fellow 910ers makes it all worthwhile with just the opening entry, which asks a truly vital question; why do people do the things they do?
That blogger makes a really excellent point: People who give to charities are completely selfish bastards! I couldn’t agree more.
I couldn’t see your picture, Mario. Sorry.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:17
Ye gods, the Kurtz option? Madness is never an answer.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:19
I choose maddie.
I choose Michelle…
MarioGeorgeNitrini111 said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:20
That’s OK Marita,
It’s there (My Picture), I just can’t get the direct link up.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
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The OJ Simpson Case
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:21
Don’t trouble Kevin with that logic crap, Some Guy, he’s busy trying to be clever. It’s probably taking a lot out of him.
Pinko Punko said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:23
I VOTE for the Pammie version of BErskerer, or maybe Tempest with insty’s angled head.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:33
Pinko, you never write.
Pinko Punko said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:34
SORRY that comment was from earlier, I just closed my browser.
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:35
I must say that, other than Maddie, you are a fun bunch of liberals!
Huh? wha? What’s not fun about Ghostbusters?
I’m a very insecure liberal (so many of us are), so if I offer to buy you a year’s worth of Cheetos lotion, can we kiss and make up?
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:36
Oh wait, you did write…I didn’t see the email….
Frah!
Mo's Bike Shop said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:37
We’ve Been Challenged
Obviously. Probably from a young age.
Mo's Bike Shop said,
December 2, 2006 at 7:47
If I said they lack perspective, will I get sucked into a black hole?
e
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:04
Thanks for noticing my cleverness Marita! What are you doing tomorrow night? Are you single? I’m conservative, so you have to worship Jesus as your saviour and all, but can’t we hang out?
Marita said: “People who give to charities are completely selfish bastards!”
Uh…
Some guy,
*sigh*. I will do this once. It is the duty of conservatives to explain reality when they visit a hippie site. I hate to, but there is a chance someone might view reality, so I have to.
“…your argument is based on hyperbolic logic…”
No, yours is. My logic is based upon facts and statistics.
“We should send thousands of fellow Citizens of the United States (but not me, of course.) to die and be wounded, and spend billions of dollars to do it.”
Are you suggesting that someone is telling our soldiers, “Go to Iraq, and find a way to either die or lose some body part.”? If so, you are an idiot, and not even a Conservative or a Libertarian could knock any sense into you. On the other hand, if you are saying that someone is stating that bad guys are trying to kill us, and we have to kill them first, then I (sorta) understand you. But I disagree, and think that the good of being there outweighs the bad. The military seems to agree. Send something to the people at http://www.anysoldier.com and then call me wrong.
“Conversely, advocating against war is the same as saying, ‘We should not send thousands of fellow Citizens of the United States to die and be wounded, nor should we spend billions of dollars to do it.’”
As most conservatives and true liberals agree, we should destroy tyranny. I understand that a lot of pseudo-liberals would prefer to smoke weed than save the world, but can’t you let the regular people save us?
I just don’t have the energy to go on. It’s so sad to watch our great nation be destroyed by something as menial as political correctness. I don’t buy into that.
But I’m still willing to photoshop you to death. Tomorrow.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:06
She’s mine, bub, and I ain’t sharin’.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:06
“I’m a very insecure liberal (so many of us are)”
Indeed :)
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:10
Still need rules though. I’m some kind of crazy conservative after all. You all know how they make no sense whatsoever. I heard they use big words!
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:18
Gee Kevin, I’m flattered, and I’m sure our time together would be terribly intellectually stimulating and polysyllabic and all that, but I’m afraid I’m spoken for.
Gav, sweetie, what time was that ritual sacrifice we were supposed to go to tomorrow night? I hope it’s not too early. I was hoping to get another tatoo before we left. And should I wear the goat skin robes or the hemp tunic? Please advise.
Ted said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:26
I heard they use big words!
They come in handy during criminal trials.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:30
Bloody weekends with their endless, whizzing parade of ritual sacrifices…
I was hoping to get a jump on destroying Christmas this weekend.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:31
Here is sitemeter image. There is NOTHING at my site that would appeal to you. Don’t click on my site. It’s not about that. I despise people who choose to ignore facts and blame America for the terrorism in the world today.
Do you understand? If you think we are fighting a non-existant problem, then I despise you. You are part of the problem. We will definitely be hit again, and you get to claim responsibility!
I’m not being funny. When people die in our military, it is sad. But if you malign their service, you are an *sshole. I know liberals are not big on donating their spare cash, but can’t some of you go to http://www.anysoldier.com and send our boys something? It’s easy, and it’s even relatively cheap! Can’t you support the people in the field while whining about whatever you are whining about today?
I’m just sayin’.
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:32
Yes, indeedy, K. I’ve sent at least 4 care packages that I can recall through anysoldier.com. (It may be 5. The war has gone on so long now I’m starting to lose track.)
Is this the place where I insert the smiley face? :)
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:34
Wow. Most people only build one straw man at a time. Kevin’s totally trying to make himself a whole family of ‘em.
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:36
For the record, I was responding to Kevin’s posts at 8:04 and 8:06.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:37
maddie! You’re alive!
I was afraid you had melted. (If you had, I was going to call dibs on your flying monkeys - it’s so hard to get good help these days, y’know?)
Where has Mario gone? Mario, don’t leave us! We like you way better than Kevin.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:42
I’m not being funny. When people die in our military, it is sad. But if you malign their service, you are an *sshole.
Is Mikey around? This is certainly a Mikey moment right here.
If you think we are fighting a non-existant problem, then I despise you. You are part of the problem. We will definitely be hit again, and you get to claim responsibility!
I think we have differing ideas of what the problem is. The last time I got genuinely mad here (as opposed to fake-mad or snarky, as in many of the posts) was over a friend of mine who was killed at the WTC, and the way that certain conservatives with no personal connection to the 9/11 attacks were ‘adopting’ victims to honor, in public, as though they had known the people.
The time before was when my sister very narrowly missed being blown up at a bus stop in London.
I’m not mentioning these things to claim any special pissing rights, but I also don’t want it to be so easy to discount people here as ‘hippies’ or ‘unserious’ because they disagree with the right-wing plotline. It’s simply not like that.
Neil said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:43
You should try the hippie thing, Kevin. It’s really far out. Check it out: First, we sow the seed, nature grows the seed, and then we eat the seed.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:44
“Yes, indeedy, K. I’ve sent at least 4 care packages that I can recall through anysoldier.com.”
Yay! Perhaps you aren’t a pseudo-liberal, and actually want to liberate people? I salute you, and hope that you get a new name similar to ‘happy-ie”. Can you convince your crazy brethren to support freedom as well? I’m poor, but will send you $150 if you can. We won’t eat well for a month, but we want to live in peace. Can you do it?
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:48
Kevin, Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, except for helping them recruit. You give them too much credit, too much power. Afghanistan is related, and Iraq is probably the main reason we’ve let it slide so far back.
I don’t believe the threat is so grave it justifies killing hundreds of thousands if not millions, sorry. I’d prefer our time and effort were spent doing things that might actually stop them. No one takes the threat of Al Qaeda less seriously than this administration, considering the way they use it’s threat for political gain.
And much as I’d like to help a soldier, the fact we’re spending billions and billions and billions and billions and…….
Better than half the taxes I pay every year should be to the benefit of the soldiers, considering how the money is allocated. Maybe you should be more upset at the people giving that money to corporations which keep that money from helping the soldiers. Besides, that whole meme of the left hating the soldiers is quite dead. We’re now the ones who run vets for Congress.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:50
Damn no preview button and my lazy habits. final sentence of second chunk should say its not it’s. i try and ignore typos, but that one bugs me.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:57
Also, I meant to say “had no relation to Iraq”. There’s a small relevance now, entirely created by our presence there.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 8:57
I’m less concerned about the typos, different brad, and more concerned with your unconscionable treatment of Kevin’s straw family. Can’t you see they’re all he has?
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:00
Gavin said:
When it comes to the liberal’s ideas to steal from the working class, Mikey wouldn’t eat it. He hates everything, especially unjust laws.
Seriously, I’m hoping for a Photoshop war, Gavin. It will benefit you. You will not only learn from the poor skills of the Reuters stringers, but you might learn how to successfully create a shadow. You know, a believable one. Trust me, you will benefit.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:02
Well, if he’ll identify which ones he considers the children of the family, I will most certainly leave them unmolested.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:04
I will go a step further and offer to teach you how to make a shadow for $7. I’m a Conservative after all. Aren’t we all about the money?
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:05
Yeah, yeah, start a new layer, copy the figure, select the outline, fill with black, lower the opacity, skew/perspectivize/free transform…
We so need to have a talk about matching brightness/contrast and color settings among different picture elements.
Dakota Blue said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:07
The War in Iraq is simply not an effective way to fight the threat of terrorism. The worst case scenario that I’ve heard discussed on the Right is that if we leave Iraq now, Al Qaeda will take over the country and turn it into another Taliban-era Afghanistan. Now, this is pretty unlikely given that the average Iraqi hates Al Qaeda even more than the U.S. and views them, to some extent, as invading foreigners, too. But let’s say that it happens anyways - there’s still no danger to us! If the enemy is visible and has a public identity, they’re very easy to knock off (see Afghanistan, 2001; Iraq, 2003). Our enemies are mostly very poor and undereducated. The only way that most of them are ever going to conceivably harm Americans is if we do exactly what we are doing now: going into their backyard and allowing them to take potshots at us. It’s a strategy that plays directly into their hands, and which we continue to pursue chiefly because Bush and others can’t bring themselves to believe that the initial invasion could have been a mistake.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:08
I’m a bit afraid, different brad, that he’s using them as straw-human shields. Disgraceful. Someone should notify the proper authorities.
On that note, I should get some sleep. I have a long day of stealing from the working class and disrespecting the troops ahead of me tomorrow. ‘Night, all!
Dakota Blue said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:10
By-the-way, what’s with this “steal from the middle class theme?” Seriously. Cause all I hear the Dems talking about is increasing the minimum wage, making college more affordable, and reducing the national debt.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:16
“We so need to have a talk about matching brightness/contrast and color settings among different picture elements.”
No Mr. Gavin, we don’t. We all ‘get’ that you don’t know how to blend images. It’s no big deal. You probably have other qualities. It’s just wrong for you to issue a photoshop duel when you haven’t mastered even the simplest part of photoshop.
I for one am glad that you are willing to move on! Are you also willing to admit that bad guys should be killed? We may be on the road to reconciliation.
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:19
*Better than half the federal taxes I pay. I’ve no idea what percent of state n local taxes go to the troops, most likely much much less.
Thank goodness i proofread papers.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:25
Cut it out Brad. No one is believing that you pay taxes. You are a Democrat. They don’t work. You think I’m joking, don’t you :). We know.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:26
No Mr. Gavin, we don’t. We all ‘get’ that you don’t know how to blend images. It’s no big deal. You probably have other qualities. It’s just wrong for you to issue a photoshop duel when you haven’t mastered even the simplest part of photoshop.
Oh, I think you’ve been erroneously looking at the images I posted to make fun of, this past week. The ones from conservative blogs.
I’d do this one somewhat differently now, but let’s talk a bit about blending.
…In terms of this picture, I mean. That’s via the ’statue’ tutorial that all over the place, isn’t it? Except it looks like someone tried to blend the cheek with the smudge tool at 100%…
maddiehappy-ie said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:27
Thanks, Kevin. I certainly support our folks who are stuck in the sandbox with only the crappy shit Halliburton and various other sucking-off-the-government-teet defense contractors supply. As such, I send care packages as often as I can.
I will happily try to convince my “crazy brethren” to support both freedom AND peace. It might be a tough sell convincing them to go your route, since most of them tend not to think that killing, wounding, and maiming thousands of innocent people is the road to freedom and peace (silly libruls!). I admit, sometimes I’m skeptical myself.
But apparently my donations to anysoldier established some sort of “pro-war” creds with you, because I’m not some dirty hippy who just wants to spit on the troops returning home from war. I guess this is our kiss-and-make up moment. I feel so proud.
As for my screen name, it’s a derivative of my grandmother’s name, Madeline.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:33
Dakota Mauve said:
“By-the-way, what’s with this “steal from the middle class theme?â€? Seriously. Cause all I hear the Dems talking about is increasing the minimum wage, making college more affordable, and reducing the national debt.”
Yes, I don’t understand that theme either! Increasing the min. wage is a nice fake-out for the 2% of Americans who earn the minimum wage. Way to mislead America, Democrats!
Just so you know, I’m a regular working class joe, so I am one of the 50% of Americans who pay taxes. And for all of us I say, quit smoking weed and get a job you friggin’ bum. I’d smack you if you were near me.
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:34
Marita - I’m a loyal reader and lazy commenter. If it wasn’t for the few (ahem) glasses of wine I had tonight, I probably would not have been this engaged.
As such, I will to you all of my flying monkeys, to do with as you see fit. If you send them the way of Kevin, Gary Ruppert, Annieangel, other assorted wingnuts and trolls, or even that OJ character, I will sleep well.
nite all
a different brad said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:35
No Kevin, I’m one of those spoiled liberals who comes from a very comfortable background. I don’t work but I have enough income I pay plenty of taxes. And of course i feel guilty about the money, but it comes, ultimately, from my family owning a business college for generations before selling to an invading chain in the 80s. By the time my dad took over it was mostly about teaching business skills to lower income folks. So yer type folk can’t say jack, n i don’t feel too guilty, especially considering i’ve used the loot to learn instead of party.
All of which has nothing to do with anything, but there it is.
Kevin said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:37
Yay, maddie has become happy!
Yeah, sadly it’s hard to ’splain things to peaceniks. But I support you! Remember to say that freedom comes BEFORE peace. Other than that, good luck. Some of those socialists have forgotten how important freedom is! Your work is cut out for you.
maddie said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:39
sar·casm (sär’kăz’É™m) n.
1) A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2) A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:41
Since others who are supposed to be in bed are still up commenting as well…
maddie, next can you explain to Kevin what a false dichotomy is? I don’t have the strength.
Gavin M. said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:44
He said I didn’t have blending skillz. I couldn’t let that pass.
You know, he left Reagan’s ear in that Rushmore picture. Does any other figure on Rushmore have an ear showing?
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:48
You know, he left Reagan’s ear in that Rushmore picture. Does any other figure on Rushmore have an ear showing?
Umm…. how about these?
Honestly, if he has done any photoshop work that’s even slightly impressive, I do wish he’d point it out. It’s not immediately evident on his blog.
Marita said,
December 2, 2006 at 9:49
Oh wait, you said on Rushmore, not in Rushmore. My bad.