Erik Pont d’Avignon, l’on y danse!
I’m surprised no one’s laughed at the notion that increasing trade barriers on oil will reduce the price of gas. If you produce more oil than you use, then sure blocking up trade’ll let you get away with Venezuela-like gas prices. If you’re demand for precious black gold is insatiable – not so much. Perhaps SowellFan can explain this for us with the law of economics.

Not if the American people hold there elected representives accountable and demand that the oil ALL OF IT goes to American and America only!

Q: Eric hates the free market captialism that made our country strong because: a) he’s a Marxist, or b) he hates America. Discuss.

I don’t recognize this place. Through the looking glass indeed, down the rabbit hole and into some place where lies have more currency than than the truth,

Mikey, your post made me think of this quote from “They Thought They Were Free”

“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in — your nation, your people — is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”

Somebody stop this madness, please?! How about sending all those bigoted wingnuts to Alaska…let them drill for oil up there in the snow…with sticks and screwdrivers!

No. No, no, no, NO. We have entirely too many wingnuts here as it is, we don’t need any imported wingers.

Erik Pontoppidan said,

1. Border security & enforcement of our immigration laws.
2. the Second Amendment.
3. Pro-life.
4. Sanctity of marriage.
5. War on Terrorism and National security.
6. Lower taxes.
7. Smaller government, less spending, less regulation.

1 – Biggest influx of illegal immigrants in living memory – heckuva job, Georgie! With borders as big as America’s, you’d literally have to draft every adult in the land to stand guard to make it a reality – & it’d STILL fail hard. Oh, & thanks for reminding me that McCain is now campaigning against HIS OWN BILL on immigration – you are such a pal.

2. You mean like when they had Blackwater confiscating all those guns in NO after Katrina? THAT “the Second Amendment”? Only reason it still exists is that folks haven’t been using Republicans for target-practice – once their hides are threatened it’ll become the same Charmin as the rest of the Constitution, & you know it.

3. Not if that life is post-partum though – & definitely not if it’s dark-skinned &, oh, say, Iraqi or Afghan. Yeah, & that whole death-penalty thing kind of screws the pooch on “Pro-life” too – it’s been considered pretty much barbaric in the rest of the industrialized world since before you were a gleam in Daddy’s eye. Deal. Can’t you at least TRY to be honest & say “anti-abortion” instead? Baby Jesus won’t cry, I promise.

4. Having a party so packed with divorcees & known pedos as your Home Team for marriage-protection is sort of like asking David Duke to chair the NAACP: bonus points for chutzpah but WOW do you ever look fucking stupid doing it with a straight face. Do hard drugs much?

5. Tried to sell out Port Security to Dubai. Didn’t do jack to get bin Laden. As noted above, that Embassy in Iraq IS American soil, by law, so you can STFU about the “no attacks since 2001″ horseshit too. You’re also omitting the simple truth that what the US is doing in Iraq IS terrorism, as defined in any half-decent dictionary – they were minding their own business, you kneecapped their entire country & are now propping up a pack of crooked bastards who are keeping them in 24-7 misery, while forbidding them from running any non-US-approved parties in their “elections” … feel more secure yet?

6. Ooh, I think we have a winnar!!!111!1one! I bet all the people losing their jobs & homes will be SO grateful that the tax base no longer supports silly things like emergency aid or shelters, too. Besides, only liberal elitists use things like roads, power-plants or water anyways, right? The Glorious People’s Free Market will get you all a pony that craps caviar any minute now, right? Oh, & just like his “Read My Lips” Pappy, he’ll jack taxes sky-high the minute he’s told to, shrugging with the same goofball smirk on as ever – the American public is shit on his shoe as far as he’s concerned: he obeys those who own his ass & knows that ANY major disobedience to their wishes is a guarantee of either a shiny set of handcuffs, or a 9mm hollow-point Retirement Plan.

7. LOL! DHS is like a tutorial in how to waste mountains of public money while accomplishing fuck-all. Is that FISA amendment part of the “less regulation” master-plan too? Americans can only WISH their government would get smaller, but funnily enough, every GOP regime keeps expanding its scope & authority exponentially. You feel like rolling those dice one more time, honey? It’s your life.

Bonus points for being a mercantilism-cheerleader.
Too bad you’re already so far in hock to China – what makes you think they’ll let you welsh on them with isolationist policy, or that you even have that option at this late date? Consult your calendar – it is NOT 1937 anymore.

Well here’s the sticking point. The intended audience is New Yorker readers, who will, in all likelihood, get it. It might perhaps take one mental gyration further than the usual chuckle over a cliche juxtaposed with some new-fangled piece of technology or culture.

Let me rephrase that: A joke isn’t funny if the intended audience, woefully lacking in a sense of humour due to its inability to interpret things other than literally as well as its stubborn inclination to rationalize and thereby perpetuate a state of denial.doesn’t get it.

“Nobody” in this case being a proportion of people and not nobody. Fuck them.

They should have had an inbred, uneducated slob from the Fartland imagining the Obamas that way. Or maybe a member of one of ‘those’ organizations in full regalia. You know, a dream bubble a la Dave Berg.

That would have made it clear to the bottom feeders who live among us that it was a rib. Trouble is, jokes aren’t funny if nobody gets them or if people can’t laugh at themselves, the wingnut contingent being central to my point.
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This may have something to do with the fundamentally different worldviews of conservatives and liberals….

Liberals, often being possessed of some level of compassion and empathy for others and a modicum of social awareness, have a harder time being “very happy” while they know that others are suffering, the environment is in peril, our human rights are being violated, etc.

Conservatives, generally displaying a callous and nigh-sociopathic disregard for anything beyond the wants and desires spawned in their own withered, black little turd-hearts, can sleep like babes while the rest of the world burns, just as they “got theirs”. “Very happy” is considerably easier to achieve on a daily basis when you don’t give a flying fuck about anyone but yourself.

Inveterate Wanker’s analogy is a bit messed up here. He should have said “pre-Copernican” (geocentric) rather than “neo-Copernican” (heliocentric).

All I have to do is copy “Erik Pontoppidan” into my little scripty-poo, and refresh the page, and from then on out, all he says is “I farted.”

Gary Ruppert farts a lot.

Dead Americans don’t count unless they were on this side of the Magick Line.

You forget! The Magick Line growed up around the U.S. fortress embassy in Baghdad. Were those attacks on this American soil not by terrorists?

Jonathan Swift described this state of affairs succinctly as “the supreme felicity of self-deception.”

Fixed: “There I go being all elitist; I eat toast”

The dirty elitism of liberals takes many forms. Us in the heartland must make sure all our bread is White and Untoasted. If those things were good enough for Jesus, they’re good enough for me!

You are all, and I mean ALL, nasty poopyheads.

As the guitar player says, there’s a lot of pretty thoughts that I ain’t thunk.