It’s Raining Links!
“… and then I said, ‘look, lady, I don’t know if I can take sixty-seven more of those.'”
- What’s Little Debbie on about now?:
Then there is the married nationally syndicated conservative talk show host who only hires female interns, assistants, and producers because he likes to proposition them. To my shock, this person once got very upset with me when I briefly colored my hair red, as if this person had some vital, personal interest in me being blonde. It was a very weird, dark energy and gave me the creeps. To make matters worse, a local conservative radio talk show host out West tells me he lost his job at one radio station because an awful female radio host this national talk show host is extremely close with and rumored to be seeing on the side wanted the slot. This national host told the station that if she didn’t get so-and-so’s show slot, “I’ll pull my show from your station.”
This person has been going on and on and on and on about John Edwards for weeks. He even talked about how you never cheat on your wife or go to a hotel room with someone who is not your wife. Well, duh. Too bad this person can’t tell it to his mirror.
Sean Hannity? Neal Boortz?
- Marie, sweetheart, you talk to Jesus when you go to church. I talk with Him after I funnel a half case of Schlitz. You say tomayto; I say tomahto. Muah.
- Huzzahs for our pal Roy Edroso, who’s now got a full-time, paying gig! It’s nice to see our side’s best writer join Digby and Glenn Greenwald as exceptions to the general anti-meritocratic rule of the liberal blogosphere which holds that anyone who got the Iraq War wrong or (and, usually and) belongs to this clique of fuckin’ snot-nosed douchebags gets promoted and everyone else starves. Roy wrote a fine obit of Bernie Mac. Speaking of the late Mr. Mac, I didn’t know he was a White Sox fan; more importantly, I never knew the role this Great American Hero had in jinxing the 2003
Nazi Child MolestersChicago Cubs. Rest in peace, you champion of decency.
- One of the dudes at the Hardhat Times matches presidents to their baseball player equivalents, a pointless exercise and a potentially massive flame-generator. (I wish I’d thought of it.) Example: Richard Nixon = Denny McLain, which sounds just about right. And JFK = Maury Wills is inspired. On the other hand, I would have made Reagan = the whole ’86 Mets team, and of course G.W. Bush’s baseball equivalent has to be Barry Bonds (one stole elections, the other stole hitting records), not, as the HT guy has it, A. J. Pierzynski (though P. can almost match Bonds in sheer assholery).
- Stupid and evil, I’m tellin’ ya, stupid and evil. But Mc2x4’s a made (wo)man in the Clique (call them the New Villagers). If The Atlantic ever would fire her (unlikely), I’m sure she’d immediately ease into another paying gig at, say, The American Prospect.
- Hah! Well played, sir!
- Videotaping the occupiers and settlers was a fantastic idea, and it’s already, apparently, paying dividends. Of course the guilty will only get wrist-slaps, but that’s better than nothing, and besides, the more brutality they capture on film, the more the wingnuts’ claims that it’s all made up look preposterous, the more world opinion is swayed against Israel’s policies and pressure is brought on it to change.
[Now going back to some older stuff I saved…]
- I enjoyed this essay more than any other political article I’ve read all year, and it’s one of the best short analyses of wingnut/neocon history I’ve ever read. One point among many: Several of the usual suspects (the sort who, in first getting acquainted with neocon history, in 2003-4 read Rise of the Vulcans and thereafter thought they knew everything) praised Jacob Heilbrunn’s wishy-washy They Knew They Were Right. Robin’s piece is a nice antidote to the general liberal acclaim. Heilbrunn, like Gary Dorrien, is not a completely trustworthy former neocon or neocon fellow traveler (anyone who characterizes Norman Podhoretz as “a compulsive truth teller” is full of shit). FWIW, the only former neocons worth reading are Fukuyama (with reservations) and Michael Lind (who was always more of a Daniel Bell sort of neocon anyway).
- This is the best beatdown on David Brooks at least since the Philly Magazine article which researched Bobo’s crackpot sociology and found a genormous tissue of lies. And not only is Sleeper’s piece that good in the sense of annihilating Brooks, it’s such a shrill, full-throated advancement of pure populism that I’m frankly surprised Josh Marshall published it. MOAR like this plz.
- Adolph Reed, Jr. critiques Obamaism. I know it will piss off a lot of readers, and I’m not saying I agree with everything Reed says, but it’s well worth reading in full. (Hanx to reader Alan for teh link.)
What a pompous asshole Brooks is. I tried to read his “Bobo” book in college, apparently his one claim to fame. It was as though he had this flash of insight that lasted a second, and then described it for the whole book.
Hey man, ever hear of developing an idea? Or is that for sissies?
Dibs on Bill O in the Little Debbie pool! (She’s put a lot of clues on the table…some intrepid amateur detective should be able to figure it out, me thinks.)
And to Marie: oh ye of little faith! If you have programmed your young ‘uns sufficiently then they should be able to withstand all worldly temptations and even join a frat/sorority without succumbing to the evils of peer bong and anonymous hookups. Why have you forsaken your god?!?!
Finally, no way does W=Bonds. Sure they both cheated but at least one could actually do something impressive after cheating. He’s closer to Pete Rose (but without any talent.) The arrogant sneer, the cheating, the fuck you all mentality. I’m sure there is a minor leaguer who had all these but never made the bigs. And that really is W.
Bill O, of course. Completely slipped my mind. That’s gotta be it.
Still, something happened between Costco Coulter and Hannity. They used to get along, now she calls him “Vannity” and rips him every chance she gets.
And where is Coulter? She used to be ubiqutous. Not that I miss her, but it’s odd. She was their favorite attack dog for so long…
I dunno, I’m thinking Micheal Savage on that one. We know Bill O is a sexual harassmenter (I coined it! Must credit me!) so that would be old news. Besides, I’m pretty sure he has male underlings.
Savage has that creepy, Alpha-male, purity-idealistic air about him.
Coulter is rapidly approaching 47. As such, the men are really starting to lose interest in putting up with her crazy because she’s passably hot (the same kind that most people who haven’t had horrible deep-fryer accidents are).
I expect them to trot out Malkin a few more times this year, but she seems to have managed to piss off the Alpha males, so she’ll just be a place holder until they can find a new crop a crazy-with-tits to pony around. Not an enviable task, as the Young Republicans have managed to make themselves about as appealing as the Hitler Youth.
That’s a lotta links – and I’m tired from having stayed up late last night arguing with idiots.
Adolph Reed, Jr has also been on Doug Henwood’s Behind the News talking about Obama recently. You can listen to it a here http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#080717 .
And where is Coulter? She used to be ubiquitous. Not that I miss her, but it’s odd. She was their favorite attack dog for so long…
Like pit bulls that are trained to attack viciously but then begin to lose their fights, she’s probably been taken out back of the shack and shot.
HTML,
So what’s your beef with Gary Dorrien? His first book (The Neoconservative Mind), in particular, seems pretty indispensable to me.
IB – Imperial Designs was enthusiastically recommended to me by a certain fairly famous lefty historian. It’s been a while, and maybe it’s because I had such great expectations, but it seemed to me really tepid and parts (I don’t remember which now and am too lazy to dig it up and flip through the dog ears) of it almost willfully credulous of neocons’ statements. To not understand that neocons argue in massive bad faith is to not understand neocons at all. I’ve not read the Neoconservative Mind. Should I?
I hope Roy remembers that he is an artist when the napalm starts to fuck with the waves.
HTML,
Yes, you should read it. It’s a much better book than ID. It’s not perfect (what is), but it’s probably my single favorite book on the neocons. I was also disappointed by ID, which felt to me like it had been rushed to print (I was reacting to the same thing you were: the over-reliance on quoting the neocons). The Neoconservative Mind is particularly good on the intellectual roots of neoconservatism, which these days are often too glibly and unspecifically reduced to “Them Straussians them Straussians and them Trotskyites. And them Straussians.”
Reed’s mostly correct on Obama / Obamaism, but I think it should be borne in mind that Obama is running as the candidate for the Democratic Party, the actually existing Democratic Party, which is the more liberal wing of the two business parties.
That this is the case doesn’t make me bitter and cynical (other things have done that sufficiently) about the fact that I still massively prefer that vastly saner (yet still dangerous and harmful in many ways) party and its actually existing candidates to the bat-sh*t loonie / destroy everything now Republicans we’ve seen in absolute power here recently.
So if I get Marie Jon”s article correctly, she doesn’t want any university students to know what alcohol is, not even chemistry majors. She also wants legislation outlawing drinking games.
Funny, if she were talking about trans-fat instead of alcohol, Jonah Goldberg would be calling her a Nazi right about now.
Blaspheme not the Cheetos™!
/wingnutosphere
I am both amused and somewhat confused by the snark and anger on this post. But one thing in particular stuck out: why would The American Prospect hire Megan McArdle? Why is there such distaste for that magazine? I apologize if it is too early and I am just being dim and not getting your sense of humor, but it seems like a lot of people bash it for no reason other than a more moderate sense of liberalism. It’s not The Nation or Mother Jones, but I don’t think its intention was to be. Even if it is moderately liberal, why would it hire McArdle?
It was as though he had this flash of insight that lasted a second, and then described it for the whole book.
Even that wasn’t particularly flooring. Tom Wolfe already made essentially the same point in Radical Chic.
McArdle? There’s McMegan McSmuggypants McCheeseEatingVegan in there?
Will not click. Will. not. click.
Awww, geez – I clicked. Holy fuck I hate that woman.
From Norman F. in Debbie’s comments:
Debbie’s point is decent behavior should not be a matter of partisan controversy. There was a time in this country when every one knew the rules. Sadly, no one knows what the rules are any more. A married man should stay faithful to his wife. There was a time when I wouldn’t have to say it since every man behaved respectably but now I feel I have to say it since my views seem freakish.
Clearer proof of wingnuts’ delusions about some long-lost Golden Age of human morality, I have not seen.
Mr. Reed needs to take a sedative and write shorter sentences. geesh.
I get and agree with many of his points, except to add:
1) Obama is a politician trying to get elected in the very political-social environment that Adolph decries
and
2) The alternative is completely unacceptable
There will be plenty of time to hate Obama down the road. Under MCain, there may not even be a road.
as if this person had some vital, personal interest in me being blonde
yeah, I’m thinking as if, too, but probably not the way she meant it.
an awful female radio host this national talk show host
This has got to be a short list. Ingrahams? That one from San Fran, Melanie Morgan?
I love blind items.
“Be aware that college has trappings that include all the rituals of campus life.”
from the marie jon column, i present to you the most useless sentence ever.
I can say without hyperbole that the Hardhat Times magazine piece is the greatest thing in the history of the English language.
“Be aware that shark infested waters contain dangerous animals.”
Speaking of The Atlantic, did anyone see they leaked all the memos and e-mails from Hillary’s campaign? Talking about catfight! It’s good fodder for Larry Johnson, Iris, Lambert, et al.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809/hillary-clinton-campaign
Until the next Marie Jon’ column, of course. Early favorites are “God is essential to a religious life” or “I am aware of all internet traditions.”
The fact is, Barack is constantly trying to convince himself that he is OK. The outside world is just a crutch to prop up his self-esteem. But the US Constitution says nothing about the Presidency serving as psychotherapy. All of us feel small at times — certainly when we are little kids. We spend the first decade of our lives literally looking up at adults, and wondering about their amazing powers. So we all have the seeds of feeling small and weak. If we are lucky we outgrow those self-doubts in a healthy way. If we’re not so lucky, those feelings of helplessness can haunt our adult lives. One of the deep perversities of Leftist ideology is to seek out those sad and helpless feelings we all encounter and reinforce them, so that the worst emotions begin to dominate the lives of Leftists. That’s what “Black Liberation Theology” is all about. It aims to take feelings of inferiority and redirect them into rage and hatred at the enemy, real or imagined.
After watching A.J. Pierzynski’s performance at a MN Twin, I really have to agree that he’s the baseball equivalent of G.W. He was a whining snivelling brat who had the ability to turn everything around him into a shitpile. When he left MN, there was much rejoicing (and also joy in knowing that we now had a player named Boof Bonser. We need a president named Boof).
Mr. Mencken, I have tried to be more than fair. I stuck up for all you guys during Sammich Hoopla: The Sammich Hoopla-ing. I flung poo at the commenter who accused you of being a centrist. I understood and defended your reasoning in the Ron Paul Affair. But you have finally gone too far:
Now it is on. From hell’s heart I stab, etc, etc.
Anyhoo, Ms. Jon’ perfectly demonstrates the ultimately pitiable nature of American fundamentalist Christianity. It seems unable to survive the least little challenge or alternate opinion, despite all that talk of moral certainty and “solid rocks.” These modern-day “Warriors for Christ” would have been lining up for emperor worship in the 1st Century CE because they were afraid of noogies. That’s the only thing that reassures me about our slide toward theocracy: the fact that the New Dominionist Christian Order will promptly collapse when someone shouts “Boo!” while waving a copy of On the Origin of Species.
McArdle must have amazing networking skills. She has no evident talents, but she keeps popping up everywhere. Yesterday she was on Marketplace talking about applying Wall Street hedging strategies to one’s everyday life. It was as inane as you would expect.
It’s pretty clear what’s going on. The Village isn’t getting any younger; they need new blood badly. And McArdle will fit right in. She has all of the necessary gifts: being conversant with what true Heartlanders think and feel despite never living outside of places like the Upper West Side and D.C., the ability to project her own thoughts onto the mythical Middle American, and the courage to present batshit insane arguments without any underlying support or logic.
You can almost hear Richard Cohen and Cokie Roberts leading the chants of “We accept you, one of us!”
The core concept of Wall Street hedging strategy is to buy a handful of stocks (usually good performers or “oversold” stocks) and short sell a handful of stocks (usually companies doing poorly or “overbought” stocks) simultaneously. The theory is that in a bull market, your short position would lose much less than your long positions, and in a bear market, your long positions would lose much less than your short positions.
Other than investment, I don’t see how you can apply this to “everyday life”. And given that most brokers will laugh at you if you try to short a stock with less than $10k in your account, plus you need much more cash than that to buy/short a decent amount of stock in 10-20 different companies, it’s not something everyday folks can often do.
If she was talking about spreading your investments and efforts over at least a dozen different things rather than one or two, such that if one of them fails, you’re not up shit’s creek without a paddle… that’s not “hedging”, that’s called “diversification” or “portfolio theory”.
Florentine de la Sponzenhouser O’Sheanningmool D’Poulihanningman von Trinklingtonnyman MacRoopleybowser said,
[quote]The fact is, Barack is constantly trying to convince himself that he is OK. The outside world is just a crutch to prop up his self-esteem. But the US Constitution says nothing about the Presidency serving as psychotherapy. All of us feel small at times — certainly when we are little kids. We spend the first decade of our lives literally looking up at adults, and wondering about their amazing powers. So we all have the seeds of feeling small and weak. If we are lucky we outgrow those self-doubts in a healthy way. If we’re not so lucky, those feelings of helplessness can haunt our adult lives. One of the deep perversities of Leftist ideology is to seek out those sad and helpless feelings we all encounter and reinforce them, so that the worst emotions begin to dominate the lives of Leftists. That’s what “Black Liberation Theology” is all about. It aims to take feelings of inferiority and redirect them into rage and hatred at the enemy, real or imagined.[/quote]
congrats for the most wildly baseless psychobabbletastical evidence-free speculation on obama’s inner mental and emotional workings i’ve seen this side of fox and friends! i take it you’ve been somehow reading b. hussein obama X’s personal journal for the last five years in order to be privvy to this spectacular insight?
on the other hand, your handle kicks ass, so that makes it all okay.
p.s. to java, i’d never heard of marie jon but her adeptness at crafting hollow sentences that chew at their own tails makes me think i should maybe start reading her regularly. in the legendary words of enid from ghost world, it’s so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.
p.p.s. i wish i knew how to quote. 🙁
Use <blockquote>
Actually, by about the fourth century, when Christianity was taking hold as the imperial religion, the pictures of Christ had him seated on the throne of heaven with a halo. The halo was originally the symbol of imperial majesty, not divinity. The Romans wanted to move from Christ the beggar to Christ the emperor, a figure they felt much more comfortable with. Most of the early dominionists thought (I use the term loosely) dates from this period, even if the modern practitioners are protestants.
thanky.
Megan plain doesn’t know what words mean.
Shit, this is a woman who said
Casual visitors probably wonder whether we’re just hateful people over at FMM. Possibly, but mainly it’s that she’s the unholy fusion of Ann Althouse and Cokie Roberts and she gets worse daily, which should be impossible.
Lately she’s been alternating between patting herself on the back for supporting Obama and saying she won’t vote for him because he cares too much about the economic welfare of other people.
At least she provides a target rich environment, I suppose.
gbear, better a president named Boof than a pitcher named Boof.
Who’s the Jew of Conservative Fascism?
Hoosier, wouldn’t that be…um, Jews?
Ummm… yeah. Doesn’t that second sentence kind of invalidate the first sentence? Basic set theory would tell you that if fascism does not equal conservatism, then the fascism set would in no way, shape or form contain the right wing ideology set. Maybe someone needs to draw her a fucking Venn diagram.
This is from her personal hedging commentary:
There are lots of opportunities to do this in every day life. Start with your 401K. You’ve probably got a lot of company stock in it. This is exactly the wrong approach. Instead, you should buy stocks that do well when your company does badly. If you work at Nutrisystem, buy shares in Krispy Kreme. If you’re an automotive engineer, short GM and invest the proceeds in Exxon Mobil securities.
As Blue Buddha described, this is a strategy outside the abilities/resources of the Average Joe investor. McArdle really brings the stupid by applying it to 401k plans. Those plans are primarily designed for long-term investment. Even if your 401k plan has a feature like a self-directed option that allows you to invest in stocks and funds outside of the normal ones in your plan, it’s unlikely that option would give you the flexibility needed to effectively employ a hedging strategy.
So as much as i despise Marie Jon’ (really…ping pong balls as “drinking paraphernalia?”), her basic advice is sound. When you send your kid off to college (which will happen soon enough in my own family), you should talk to them about binge drinking and STDs, among other things (balancing a checkbook, personal hygine, dating safety, etc.)
In fact the smart parent won’t have waited until the kid was about to go off to college. Even the smart parent who homeschools their kids (oxymoron? you decide) needs to be working with their teens on these things.
That said, trying to enforce an abstinence-only program for both booze and sexx0rz from a distance is a losing proposition. As a one-time yoot who went just a little crazy when released from the authoritarian thumb of my own parents, I can serve as an example and possibly as a warning to others.
I’m better now.
Just sayin’: it might be better to suggest that the kid use their own judgement than a flat “don’t do that” success-wise.
Nah. If there’s at least one element in one set that’s not in the other then they are technically not equal. However, I like to think of these two statements:
“Liberals believe in socialized medicine, which is a form of socialism, which is related to national socialism, which is fascism. Soon after the government pays for your hospital bill, we’ll start invading other nations to grab resources”
or
“Conservatives believe in using military power to obtain resources”
I’m certain we can all see that the first is much more plausible!
HTML Mencken, I swear you are trying to kill us all via stupidity. Schlussel and Marie Jon in the same post? My brain hurts.
I think she’d get more use out of a drawing of a Venn diagram fucking.
Actually, wasn’t Doughboy’s point (made with great care) that Fascism=liberalism, NOT fascism=conservatism? Shit, she can’t even get it right when it is one of her sides’ leading lights.
As far as McGarble’s hedging strategy advice goes, I think there are rules against allowing shorting within a retirement account, and there is no way in hell a 401(k) account would have that capability. Most people I know have an extremely limitied number of funds to choose from in their company’s 401(k) offerings, and none allow any kind of betting on the downside. Of course, only someone who has no need to worry about a 401(k) would be so bald-assed stupid about the whole system, and then make it a point to display their stupidity in public.
What happened to Marie Jon’s superfluous apostrophe? I kinda miss the little bugger.
I especially like the National Review “comedy” show ad graphic featuring testimonials from stylized hooded klansman. Classic.
Gerald Curl said,
August 12, 2008 at 19:17
This is from her personal hedging commentary:
There are lots of opportunities to do this in every day life. Start with your 401K. You’ve probably got a lot of company stock in it. This is exactly the wrong approach. Instead, you should buy stocks that do well when your company does badly. If you work at Nutrisystem, buy shares in Krispy Kreme. If you’re an automotive engineer, short GM and invest the proceeds in Exxon Mobil securities.
As Blue Buddha described, this is a strategy outside the abilities/resources of the Average Joe investor. McArdle really brings the stupid by applying it to 401k plans. Those plans are primarily designed for long-term investment. Even if your 401k plan has a feature like a self-directed option that allows you to invest in stocks and funds outside of the normal ones in your plan, it’s unlikely that option would give you the flexibility needed to effectively employ a hedging strategy.
I’m going out on a limb and saying that there is NO 401k plan that would let you short a stock.
Obama is running as the candidate for the Democratic Party, the actually existing Democratic Party, which is the more liberal wing of the two business parties.
Gore Vidal: There is but one Party in US politics, the party of property, and it has two wings: the right wing and the very right wing…
And thus she can start arguing for personal social security accounts.
Not a bad answer. I was more looking for someone to answer as if they were Megan McArdle.
It does make sense to put your 401K money in an different area than your career, especially if your career field is subject to a boom and bust cycle. If you worked a dotcom in the 90s and your 401K was also heavy on techs, then tech crash could have easily wiped out both your job and your retirement savings.
It’s not hedging, but it’s not simple portfolio diversification either.
didn’t marie jon used to have an apostrophe at the end of jon? like jon’ ?
My 401k plan allows you to short a stock. You have to sign up for a separate “self-directed” option in which you dump some of your 401k funds. You can short sell, but you have to maintain a certain amount of money in your cash account. I signed up for the option because I wanted to buy some mutual funds and stocks that weren’t available on my main plan, but I haven’t shorted any stock. Sometimes I feel the self-directed option is just a way for the 401k managing bank to get more fees from stupid people like me.
Oh, Mencken, don’t tell me you’re one of those puerile Cubs haters? I’m so disappointed.
Thanks for the link to my story about the IDF shooting in cold blood of a bound & gagged Palestinian civilian. Man, you got the power as they say. Just one little link here sent my site traffic through the roof. Thanks so much.
In other news, McCain leads Obama amongst likely voters. Discuss…
Also (since I seem to have been temporarily banned last night):
Liberals denounce mouth-breathers on web site who confusedly blame victims of police violence, but don’t bother with a Howard University Law School audience that applauds (twice) a speaker who calls for killing all white people. Discuss.
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since I seem to have been temporarily banned last night
Yeah, no one’s gonna buy that one. Not around here.
Liberals denounce mouth-breathers on web site who confusedly blame victims of police violence, but don’t bother with a Howard University Law School audience that applauds (twice) a speaker who calls for killing all white people. Discuss.
Okay. In incident one I agree that there are mouth-breathers on that web-site. Thanks very much for the opportunity to reiterate it.
Well, Simba me droog, something was up. I just went back on the earlier threads and found my posts, but they didn’t show up for hours.
Spam filter. It’s been happening to all of us.
In other news, McCain leads Obama amongst likely voters. Discuss…
Okay.
RB, on Nov 4 you will learn the difference between registered voters and likely voters.
Liberals denounce mouth-breathers on web site who confusedly blame victims of police violence, but don’t bother with a Howard University Law School audience that applauds (twice) a speaker who calls for killing all white people. Discuss.
How many Ann Coulter books have you bought, “Trufe”?
Gotcha by the short hairs, ain’t I?
How so, actor? I own no books by Ms Coulter – why would I?
RB, on Nov 4 you will learn the difference between registered voters and likely voters.
Oh poop, Truthy, it was pretty obvious what you were doing with your word choices, but you wanted a discussion. More.
‘Twas no apostrophe, commie, ’twas sperm. It bided its time, then sprinted into Marie’s womb. She is now pregnant with fraternal tildes.
In other news, McCain leads Obama amongst likely voters.
And by “other news,” you mean the conservative media, which non-delusional people call the media.
Because another conservative said that one liberal speaker said all white people should be killed, I can only assume that all liberals think that white people should be killed.
Liberals. Hmf.
(This seems to be the best I can do today. For my next trick, I shall say “Michelle Obama” and “Rev. Wright” over and over again, and then claim I was banned.)
Not so fast, TR. The Howard University Law School audience applauded the line about killing white people, and then gave even bigger applause when the speaker (a previous lecturer at NC State) finished.
Do you think you can just wave that away by pointing at anonymous comments at some lightly-read website?
I do want to talk Michelle Obama at some point; I’ll wait for an on topic posting.
Round up all the likely voters.
Do you think you can just wave that away by pointing at anonymous comments at some lightly-read website?
Just watch: [waves]
Done.
Why try to learn a new behavior at this late point in the game?
Something in a footnote to that TL;DR Mencken link really grabbed me by the boo-boo.
You’re lucky you already admitted in the preamble that you were baked – that suspicion is a bone I cannot resist the urge to pick clean.
“Fate” (a caveman-era concept) doesn’t have it in for the USA – but much of it is owned by sociopathic shitheads who care not a jot if they destroy it whilst racking up another jumbo-bucket of blood money. Ask some of Reagan’s confederates in the Screen Actor’s Guild if they think he was just “stupid” when he was selling them down the river to Tail-Gunner Joe … or anyone “blessed” with viewing W’s knee-slapping “please don’t kill me” Karla Faye Tucker imitation (at which he himself immediately giggled with naked glee) as to his innocent-ignoroid status. Don’t kid yourself: shit doesn’t just “majorly happen” under these guys’ watches – they make damn good & sure it goes down, just like they want it to, & then they exploit the hell out of it. A central part of their schtick is just that: get off scott-free by virtue of acting dense enough to later claim they “just didn’t know what they were doing” … don’t believe the hype. These fuckers were/are EVIL.
What a shock! As usual, it smells like you are full of shit. In fact, the first link I cite shows Obama’s lead over Wet-Start actually INCREASING. Sucks to be you, dude. Oh, & that took me all of 2 minutes. You really do have a Ph.D. in Fail, The Trout.
Depart.
Jim, I am totally going to start calling McCain Wet-Start. At least, I will when I’m around people who know stuff about naval aviation and what happens when av-gas, high-explosives and rocket fuel mix. I salute you, sir.
From the latest Gallup:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among “likely” voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. McCain still trails slightly among the broader universe of “registered” voters.
So again, liberals, there is a difference between registered voters and likely voters. And I know you are worried about the trend over the past month – may it continue!
So again, liberals, there is a difference between registered voters and likely voters. And I know you are worried about the trend over the past month – may it continue!
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O the horror, the horror!!!111!one!
Yes, The Trout, we’re just shaking in our boots now, by gum!
Hmm. Let me guess: your untrimmed fingernails have punctured yet ANOTHER inflatable love-sheep, so now you’re back again to “educate” &/or “taunt” us … would you mind maybe having more than one lousy poll from one lousy day next time?
kthxbai
Keep harping on that. Why don’t you suggest this tactic to the McCain campaign? It’s right up their alley in relevance, decency and honesty.
Go right ahead. Seeing as how nobody on your side has anything meaningful or relevant to say, I don’t expect anything better from you.
Look, I don’t know what’s up with Schlitz, but it never ever was hard to get one from where I used to live in the LaCrosse, WI metroplex. Maybe the AP doesn’t get out that much. Personally, I prefer a good Blatz myself. (When’s the last time that you had a good Blatz?)
Lately, since I’m ever so poor, I’ve been drinking Hamm’s. I like it a lot, it’s very tasty for cheap swill. It gets the job done, has no bitter aftertaste, and doesn’t seem to give me the headaches that the dark Mexican beers which are my taste preference seem to cause.
Now that Schlitz is back in the stores here in Iowa I may give it a shot again. In my teen years we called it Shitz because it was reputed to cause the runs. Of course, all beer does that, taken in sufficient quantity.
We used to be able to get Blatz around here, ploeg, but I don’t think I’ve seen it in years. My mom and gramps used to drink a lot of Old Mil and Milwaukee’s Best. Also Grain Belt. There’s a Cajun restaurant here in town that carries a lot of those old beers. It’s fun to go there and eat gator and drink cheap beer on crappy beer night. Well, it was before the June flood, anyway. They’ve not reopened yet.
Oh fuck. Truthy’s back on the Kamau Kambon thing. Troof nugget, my favoritest trollnut, you are absolutely correct – Kamau Kambon called for the extermination of all white people and about half the audience gave him crazy applause, all both of them.
You know at those comic and science fiction conventions? Apparently young women go to those things dressed up as their favorite characters – often in quite skimpy and risqué outfits. These crazy kids call it “cosplay” and the hot chicks get way more applause than Dr. Kambon has ever dreamed of. Clearly young women if brightly colored fetish wear is going to be the new apocalypse. People applaud for them all the time!
Interesting poll. They asked for the voter’s preference without prompting them with any candidate names. I note that Hillary got 1% using this method. Maybe this is the way to do it. Without name prompting, maybe even casual voters are forced to actually think about who they support.
Oh fuck. Truthy’s back on the Kamau Kambon thing.
It’s just a lower-rent version of Ward Churchill. Wingnuts love to elevate nobodies to infamy. Even the most obscure wingnut mocked on this blog has a wider and more receptive audience than any of the fringe non-entities that wingnuts spend hours on.
Point, us.
And the next post is about … the Attorney General.
Is he a nobody?
“Sadly, No” also likes to keep it current at least … and how old is that video you keep harping on about a guy no one here ever heard of before you started harping on him?
Don’t you have some faux outrage about something a little more current? Maybe you get your panties in a twist about Michelle Obama again. That’s always amusing.
Oh, and I was wondering if you ever cited anybody here praising Stalin after you accused us of praising Stalin.
Or was that among the many queries that you ignore?
The Truth said,
August 13, 2008 at 6:07
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teh Twoof, write if you get work, or some new material.
By the way, that IDF Colonel actually seems to have been promoted to head a training facility. So he can, one guesses, impart his skill at ordering prisoners shot.
Do you really think you can pretend that Conversation A is more significant than Conversation B?
Sure. Why not?
Um, “Truth”, if I may call you that without excessive irony…nice editing. Try and be a bit more honest with your quoting from now on. I’m referring specifically to the bits I wrote that completely refuted whatever “point” you were trying to make, and that you chose to exclude.
Thanks.
Truth,
Look, the last time you brought Kamau Kambon around, I spanked your ass with that garbage – I notice how this time round he’s an ex-NC State lecturer and there’s no video link. When last we left off, it was apparent that you had SFA except some crazy bookstore owner ranting like an idiot.
You want a fisking of a three fucking year old eliminationist rant? What for? I doubt that either of the people who applauded would remember the event let alone read about it here… You know what, dig me up some transcript and I’ll put my Lordship Salvation research on hold and get right on it – I seem to revel in these pointless exercises in futility. Seriously, Truthy, you accuse us of intellectual dishonesty because we aren’t going to caper and dance at your every whim -well I’ll caper for you. Your “calling out BS” skillz scare me too much not to.
Digby has a paying gig? Someone please enlighten me.
Do you really think you can pretend that Conversation A is more significant than Conversation B?
Let’s see – A was some jagoff (4 years ago) making a theoretical case that’ll never actually happen, & B was another jagoff (just recently) referring to the real-life killing of a single mother & wounding of one of her children. Yep, I’d say B wins, given that such an atrocity is highly likely to recur. No “pretending” required.
Can you maybe try NOT making a total raging asshat of yourself? Just one single solitary time? Because at this point, you’re a premium argument for retroactive abortion.
Thanks for not replying, by the way. Smack your ass, & you just come right back & ask for more. I just love ignorant little puds like you that never EVER admit defeat, no matter how many times they’re proven to be full of shit.
Keep the Aspidistra flying, The Trout! You shall prevail!!!!11111!!1!
Your humiliation, my schadenfreude.
Y’all come back now, y’hear?
DK, if you want the video, you can go back to the previous article where I link to the C-SPAN coverage of the Professor’s lecture and the applause he received at Howard University Law School.
Jim, I suspect most people think differently than you do about an incident where an ex-NC State lecturer gets applause from a black audience when he suggests wiping out white people. Of course, you’re puerile enough to think there is some sort of “victory” or “defeat” to be had here. No, this is just me calling out liberal hypocrisy – a fun and easy hobby. I expect a bunch of spoiled, sheltered kids like you to chest pound, throw silly insults, and revel in your double standards, and you don’t disappoint.
No, the only defeat I’m interested in is the one indicated by the Gallup poll I linked to above. A ten point swing in favor of McCain by likely voters – how sweet it is!
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Truth-nugget,
I’m not writing my own transcript for fisking. Give me a break – I’ve already agreed to a pointless exercise in futility because of your 1337 calling out skillz. Oh, and when did our BS become hypocrisy. Calling out liberal BS sounds a lot better than calling out liberal hypocrisy.
Ya know what, forget it. You’re too fucking lazy to do anything other than repeat wingnut talking points over and over, even after the nutto-sphere’s gotten over it. But just so that you don’t unleash your ph33rsome calling out special move double buster finisher, I’ll start in on Dr. Kambon right here:
Whoo-weee. This might be as good as Jesus-is-Lord.com
Cor. Blimey. Shiver me timbers! it KaMoby Kambon the Grat BlackNificent Whale – the biggest cath in all of cuckoo-land. He’s a super powered dynamo of purified precious bodily fluids! He needs almost no sleep! His doctor says he’s healthy! Aieee – whitey must run and hide!
I’m gonna skip a few, because there’s a lot of this. In fact, let’s go right down to his list of issues – that way we’ll know who to vote for in November [my comments in brackets]:
What?! Fluoride poisoning? I was just fucking kidding earlier about the precious bodily fluids. Dear sweet Jesus-is-Savior.com – The Truth’s nemesis, the evil white eliminationalist is fucking Jack D. Ripper. Okay guys, we’ve got to get on this – clearly Kamau Kambon is going to cause gucking nuclear holocaust if we don’t!
Whoo, I got so scared by the fluoride poisoning tahd mi tpynigs wnet t0 h3;;.
Vi>1. The Truth said,
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I believed that’s pronounced “duhhhh…”
Looks like the fluoride got me too. Drat.
I hope the flouride doesn’t get upstairs, there’s trouble enough already.
Kambon’s quite a piece of work, isn’t he? I like this statement:
I am not homosexual or a child predator
Not unlike saying “i am not left-handed or an axe murderer.”
I am not a Republican.
Hey, where’d The Truth go? We’ve finally gotten around to making fun of his Bad Scary Bete Noir, who seems to be a very ridiculous, albeit, healthy, man.So what?
Fluoride got my punctuation. Goddamn fluoride.
I guess it has to be asked.
Fluoride or pelicans?
“Looks like the penguins done it!”
“Oh no, it wasn’t the pelicans. It was fluoride that killed the thread.”
I feel bad now for picking on Dr. Kambon.
No meat, no dairy, no eggs – sure I’ve met vegans who lead positively delightful fulfilled lives even without bacon. And as a non-smoker the no smoking doesn’t seem too bad BUT
No coffee WTF?! No refined sugars, no refined flour, no booze, no drugs, no late nights and double shifts every day.
Jesus-is-Lord.com, Dr. Kamau Kambon – you gotta relax. Have a beer for fucks sakes, sleep in a little. At this rate, it seems like having whitey opress you would be a much better deal.
DK, the screed you posted is from the Professor’s website. The video link I provided yesterday (just go to youtube, put the guy’s name in, and the C-SPAN coverage will pop up) is the damning evidence.
Why? Because the Howard University Law School audience openly applauds eliminationist rhetoric about white people?
Oh, and J Neo?
Welcome back to Teh Funny! Where have you been?
The Howard University Law School audience just got my vote.
They hate white people! And the Truth!
So what now? Do white people bar their doors in fear of marauding, genocidal Howard University students? Why exactly should we give a shit about what some crackpot said somewhere? You’d think the Very Healthy Doctor had, say, endless TV and radio time to spout eliminationist rhetoric or something.
When the Kill Whitey channel’s ratings surpass those of Fox or Clear Channel, I’ll be concerned. Till then, BFD..
A bridge Troof far,
I’m sure Harvard University Law is delighted with your constant linking of them to Kamau Kambon. We already did this dance, Harvard’s renounced Dr. Kambon, NC State’s renounced Kambon, fucking everybody who doesn’t shop a t BlackNificent books has renounced Kamau Kambon – except for maybe Jesus-is-Lord.com
Three years ago a certifiable nut, we’re talking beyond parody crazy, we’re talking one part Richard Simmons, one part Jack D. Ripper and several parts unmitigated loony-juice gave a speech. It was stilted, but for something covered on C-SPAN – it was remarkable charismatic – i.e. it had slightly more appeal than John You Can Believe In.
That audience must have been packed. Packed I tell you – Could have been a dozen people in that room. And considering that it was a four hour sesssion, at least two thirds of them were giving talks.
The applause? Pay very close attention to the video, because it sure is easy to miss. You know, if I was part of some lecture event and I was in a mostly empty room, and the bulk of my audience was people also giving talks – I’d applaud any crazy shit in hopes that the favor is reciprocated.
But you’re caught up on the fact that there’s video of the event. And it’s not mobile phone cam – or even handi-cam video. It’s fairly professional video, shot from a serious camera. It must have been something important – it was on TeeVee!
It was on fucking C-SPAN!
Geez, I hope Bill-O finds a new meme to push. Troof news a new gig, this Kamau Kambon thing is deader than a JiSM3 pep rally.
J Neo ponders
May I suggest this as Teh Self-Referential Snark of the Day?
Oh, and DK, t was Howard University, not Harvard, there’s a big difference.
How so, actor? I own no books by Ms Coulter – why would I?
May I suggest this as Teh Self-Referential Snark of the Day?
Truth.
Well you certainly got me there. I typed in the wrong Law School name. Just before I took a short vacation too, so now my witty rejoinder will be lost in the ether…
It don’t matter if it was Larry, Curly or Moe Law School – The Kamau Kambon thing is fucking garbage. Don’t bring that weak ass shit here again. Seriously, you had to correct your stupid accusation multiple fucking times, and it still amounts to zero. Fuck – for someone who prides himself on calling out others you are a FUCKING PANSY ASS LOSER.
So either address the fucking issue that NO ONE OTHER THAN YOU GIVES TWO SHITS ABOUT KAMAU KAMBON or shut the fuck up about him. – Which would be a great rejoinder if in fact you haven’t shut up about the BlackNificent fluoridation fighter. Ah well, at least I enjoyed my break.
Heh, I wondered where you were during this whole Alkon thing, DKW.