Shorter Larry Kudlow
Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Brad
- Won’t someone — anyone — hear the desperate pleas of incredibly rich people crying out for help?
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Yes, before a single word has been spoken by anyone of any importance at the convention, the Dow has decided to plunge in honor of what some of them might say in the future.
“Did anyone say free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity?”
Why, yes, I do believe someone did. Best take that line out before you get accused of plagiarism. Can anyone think of a substitute?
Ugg. I really don’t need to know the size of his butt plug.
So called “doctors” say that hitting yourself in the nuts with a ball peen hammer will hurt, but I don’t believe a word of it because I prefer to think the agonizing pains stem from bolts of pure evil that flash across the country when more than three Democrats get together.
And this is, after all, the first time EVER that the stock market has dropped 200+ points in one day.
Damn Democrats.
Did you guys know that there is a profession called “wealth counseling” – for people with too much money? The Rich – the last oppressed group in America.
The fact is, sssssssssnnnnnnniiiiiiiifffff – snfsnf!!
Rich people ain’t happy. From the day they’re born till the day they die, they THINK they’re happy, but believe me, they ain’t.
Meanwhile, the Barron’s cover story called “Dueling Visions” by my friend Jim McTague says that Obama wants to repeat the mistakes of Herbert Hoover, raising individual and corporate taxes and siphoning needed investment capital out of the markets and into the hands of bureaucrats.
Christ, what an asshole. That’s like saying Obama wants to repeat Herbert Hoover’s mistake of eating breakfast. Taxing individuals and corporations didn’t cause the great depression, you dipshit.
They did, however, certainly help us get out of it.
The fact is, the markets are down on fears that a Republican could be elected president in 2016.
Shorter Kudlow: Obama will force me to cut down so that I’ll only have enough candy for one nostril.
That’s some expert analysis from Sniffles. By his logic the market ought to rise about 10-percent during the GOP Convention next week.
Since Sniffles’ financial track record has been so superlative over the past eight years, I’m thinking of buying a couple hundred shares of”Blue Chips” Friday mornin’ to take advantage of the situation.
Kudlow:
Yes, that would be none other than Barack Obama, in the very New York Times Magazine article Kudlow cites.
Of course, from the rhetorical corner into which Kudlow and the rest of The Corner crew have backed themselves into, any statement that doesn’t come across as singing the praises of their ideal type of completely unfettered, state-free markets is heard as an admission of socialist tendencies.
Of course, from the rhetorical corner into which Kudlow and the rest of The Corner crew have backed themselves into, any statement that doesn’t come across as singing the praises of their ideal type of completely unfettered, state-free markets is heard as an admission of socialist tendencies.
Plus pitchforks and torches on the road up to the castles of the rich.
Strike an into. Reader’s pick.
Won’t someone — anyone — hear the desperate pleas of incredibly rich people crying out for help?
How many tables must a man fold up, before they call him a man?
Holy dumbfuck on wheat toast! Y’know, if Kudlow were a real fucking economist instead of some reactionary fuckwad, he’d realize:
— Stocks tend to go down more often than up on any given Monday.
— A 200 point drop in the Dow in one day is nothing (where the hell has he been for the past several months?)
— Oil has jumped up a bit, even with the dollar looking strong today, which tends to be bearish on stocks.
— There was more negative news about credit crisis this morning (same ol’, same ol’… again, where the fuck has been for the past several months?)
The answer my friend, is blowin’ up your skirts,
The answer is blowin’ up your skirt.
Actually, I have a bad feeling about this. “Waaah! We’re rich!” might be the next “Let them eat bread.” Or at least “But I need all these shoes!”
Funny, he didn’t have a problem with socialism when Bear Stearn’s worthless ass was bailed out.
I heard someone speculate this morning that the tornado near Denver could be attributed to the presence of Democrats. Cause, you know, God really hates Democrats, especially in Colorado. Those tornadoes that happen in Oklahoma and Kansas, I guess those are just kind of “oops” moments that tend to happen with really old people.
Shorter Larry Kudlow: “You wanna split this eight-ball?”
Did you guys know that there is a profession called “wealth counseling” – for people with too much money?
It’s not like you’re going to make a living if you offer the service of “poverty counselling”.
Larry Kudlow’s kitchen table.
Cloris Leachman joined the cast of “Dancing with the Stars”, which is obviously the fault of the Democrat party. On the other hand, home resales rose more than was forecast, due to the policies of Republicans.
You have found yourselves companions, walking along the same road; he’s carrying nothing, you have an excessive load. He’s carrying nothing with him, you are carrying more than you need. You are overloaded; give him some of what you’ve got. At a stroke, you feed him and lessen your load.
You are walking along a maze of twisty little passageways, all alike. You are carrying an excessive load of 3 enchanted swords, 2021 gold coins, and 4 maps.
You are walking along a maze of twisty little passageways, all alike. You are carrying an excessive load of 3 enchanted swords, 2021 gold coins, and 4 maps.
The fact is, cast Ease Burden.
I see that the dais in the photo says he’s at a Americans for Prosperity hootenany. Now, say what you will, but I’ll bet their parties are a lot better than the Misery United folks.
Larry Kudlow’s a fuggin’ con artist. You will, of course, notice that he says nothing whatsoever about the 200- and 300-point single-day drops the Dow’s been taking during the summer. Oh, no. (eyes roll)
Barry Ritholtz has Kudlow’s number, but good. Follow the linkages within.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/08/market-selloff.html
Fortunately I am entitled to a sizeable
tax rebatesaving throw against “feed companion”.Funny, he didn’t have a problem with socialism when Bear Stearn’s worthless ass was bailed out.
will he whine and cry when Detroit gets the $50 billion bail out it wants?
Why did the Democratic National Convention kill all those people in Darfur today?
He should look at the House of Lehman, and it’s future CEO, Bart McDade, who contributed $2300 to Rudy this year. Oil and the financial services sector brought the market down today.
And tomorrow there will be a bounce. The market has been predictable lately.
The fact is, liberals hope and pray to their God of Darwin that the stock market will tank, just to make conservatives look bad, even though it will wipe out all of their assets as well. They are biased. And full of hate.
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Galactic Dustbin said,
August 26, 2008 at 0:25
Funny, he didn’t have a problem with socialism when Bear Stearn’s worthless ass was bailed out.
will he whine and cry when Detroit gets the $50 billion bail out it wants?
The fact is, this is not socialism. It is strategic market intervention. Socialism is when any old bum who wants money gets it free. I suppose you’d rather we had no jobs and no money, but the shadenfreud that you “stuck it to the man?” ask me when you stop a bailout that bankrupts you all. At least my investments are diversified in pro-USA accounts.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Darwin R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Hate to say it, but rich people are not only the biggest investors, they’re also the biggest spenders. According to the Tax Policy Center, Obamanomics would boost their average tax bill by $94,000 to as much as $653,000. Phew.
Show me the returns. I am yet to see any top 1% give-up six figures in taxes. Now Bill Clinton. Not Stephen King. Not Oprah. Not that asshole Ellison…..
Gary, Mickey Kaus called. He wants his goat balls back. He said to tell you that they’re not a toy.
Is that shadenfreud anything like sunnyfrued or partlycloudyfreud?
When I saw the market had fallen big today, I knew some idiot would connect it to the Dem convention. Thanks Larry.
The fact is, liberals hope and pray to their God of Darwin that the stock market will tank, just to make conservatives look bad, even though it will wipe out all of their assets as well. They are biased. And full of hate.
It’s funny, but the NYSE actually has risen with each Democratic administration since FDR. It’s a historic fact. No one wants the market to tank.
Now you conservatives seem to enjoy the Dollar tanking. Bad, bad, bad.
I remember back in the early ’80s when all these cocaine dealers suddenly found that their biggest problem was the cardboard boxes and trash bags full of cash that piled up all around them.
Some of ’em actually had to rent places just to store it.
They didn’t need wealth counselors, they needed Bekins…
mikey
Is the lectern a photoshop? Are there Americans who are against prosperity? Other than libs, I mean.
The picture reminded me of an old joke:
Kudlow is explaining that he met a genie one day, and asked for something very special.
And got a little man who plays the piano.
Did anyone say free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity?
Not that it matters, because we don’t have it. We have something even better for Larry, a plutocracy where certain large corporations (e.g., G.E.) are favored over other ‘individuals’.
And these ‘individuals’ richly reward their sycophants. (For further examples, see all the millionaires toiling away in the corporate media.)
Kudlow is trying to hint that capitalists will be willing to flush everything down the crapper if we don’t vote in the Republicans.
“Nice little markets you have here. Shame if anything happened to them.”
Shorter Kudlow.
I think corporations can ruin themselves without evil Democrats having to lift a finger.
I’ve been struggling with two huge corporations at work… and when I call, it’s like that Twilight Zone episode where everyone speaks a different language.
I don’t know their CorporateSpeak, and they are unable to know what I want from simple, clear English.
It’s insane.
If this fine Republican was doing cocaine, there is a simple explanation. In fact, a number of them:
1) youthful indiscretion (‘youthful’ means under 99 years old for republicans)
2) he was using it to stay awake and make more money which would trickle down and make YOU richer. In fact, if you think his coke use is wrong you are unAmerican!
So this old guy is combing a beach with a metal detector and finds an oil lamp. He rubs the sand off of it, and a genie pops out and says, “I’m an very powerful genie, but I can only grant you ONE WISH. What will it be?”
The old man says, “Well, I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I get terribly seasick and have acrophobia, so I can’t fly there either. I want you to build a highway connecting Hawaii to California so that I could drive there.”
The genie replies, “But the amount of materials needed to build that highway is huge, and I’d have to design the miles long pylons to make sure they don’t collapse, and there would have to be a fully functioning service station every so many miles so that you can rest and get gas. Where will I find all the people to operate those stations? It’s nearly an impossible task!”
The genie then says, “Do you have another wish?” The old man says, “Well okay. For throughout the 80 some-odd years of my life, I haven’t been able to understand women. Therefore, I wish to be able to do this.”
The genie says, “So, do you want two lanes or four lanes?”
The fact is, stop the class war liberals. It’l never play in Peoria. I would support McCain/Cheney 08 with my life need be. I am pro-USA. Fuck liberals.
One of my CSRs came in to work one day last week. He had a tiny head. I was all “dude, what the hell? You’ve got a tiny head!!”
And he told me he was walking down the beach and found this old lamp. He rubbed the sand off it and a beautiful Genie popped out. He said “mikey, I’m tellin ya, this was the most incredibly gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen.” Apparently she told him he could have one wish. “Anything?” he asked. Anything, she assured him.
Well, he was enraptured by her beauty. “I want to have sex with you” he told her. The Genie blushed and sternly told him “You can wish for anything in the world but I’m not going to fuck you”.
“Ok” my CSR agreed. “Then how about a little head?”…
mikey
Did you guys know that there is a profession called “wealth counseling” – for people with too much money?
christian h: Don’t know if this is what you’re talking about, but MrN. is an investment advisor and he informs me that sometimes the very wealthy need specialized advice in deciding upon which charitable foundations to set up, how to do it, etc., plus how to give the most money to the things they support the most. Many of these, by the way, are wonderfully liberal causes. Just sayin’. Someday I hope to be rich enough to give (almost) all of it away. Who doesn’t?!
The fact is, stop the class war liberals. It’l never play in Peoria. I would support McCain/Cheney 08 with my life need be. I am pro-USA. Fuck liberals.
The fact is, my dear namesake, the class war will stop when we’ve finished our own French Revolution. So if you’ve got a ton of money, Gary, we’ve got a guillotine with your name on it.
“Ok” my CSR agreed. “Then how about a little head?”…
The fact is, people who tell nauseatingly bad jokes should be pelted with cantaloupes.
Heartland.
Breaking! Daddy Yankee endorses John McCain.
Longer Larry Kudlow: Here’s a post I made on this earlier: LINK
Long story short, Clinton oversaw a several hundred percent increase in the DJIA and under Bush it’s lost to inflation badly. Also, The InTrade Dem08 contract is not particularly well-correlated with the DJIA. The layered assumptions necessary for Kudlow’s comments to make any sense at all are just absurd.
Won’t someone — anyone — hear the desperate pleas of incredibly rich people crying out for help?
No. Some of are actually waiting our opportunity to kick them to the curb and piss on them.
Class war is when Democrats bring up income inequities. When republicans CAUSE them it is merely Holy Capitalism at work.
> christian h: Don’t know if this is what you’re talking about, but MrN. is an investment advisor and he informs me that sometimes the very wealthy need specialized advice in deciding upon which charitable foundations to set up, how to do it, etc.,
Charity and foundation counseling takes up about 5% of their time. The other 95% is taken up with figuring out which tax loophole will net them the most.
Or is Larry Kudlow so sane that he just blew your mind?!?
The fact is, the only jokes that play well in Peoria are ones where a man tells you how to tell whether or not you are a redneck, and ones where a fat man in overalls mocks homosexuals and says “git-r-done”, unlike liberals, who would rather go to elitist socialized plays and Hollyweird movies.
Heartland.
I had an allergy attack this afternoon. The Democrats probably wafted the pollen across the Rockies.
Executive salaries are a distortion of the pure market and should be regulated. Profit that is not paid out to shareholders or re-invested in the business (ie finds it way into CEO salaries and bonuses) distorts the market too. The bail outs are just plain shitmoating. Not that Obama will make the necessary changes. The gloss of changing the government here in Oz has worn off right quickly. We’re glad the other side lost. The rest is poor-punishing business as usual.
Gary Ruppert, The Fact Is, Heartland is getting Heartburn from thinking you represent them.
Doesn’t he ever wonder why an economic recovery progtam is necessary?
AlchemyToday’s quickie analysis is pretty darned good, but surely someone’s done some in depth research into the performance of the economy based on the party of the President. Well, if it isn’t our friend the Great Gazoogle:
Yes, and what does the study say?
Oh dear. But surely that’s the only study which shows this…
Wait. Kudlow has an explanation for all of this – spending!!! Well, he’s actually claiming that you can’t tax the rich because they spend the most so you’ll be killing the economy, but let’s look at the idea that Democratic administrations spend like drunken sailors and that’s what gives them a boost in economic performance…
To borrow a phrase, Sadly, No!
Since 1978, Increase in spending under Dem admins = 9.9%
And under Republicans? 12.1%
And there you go.
I’m not trying to claim that tax and spend Democratic policies are the most economically sound, I’m just saying that they are better than the don’t tax and still spend policies of the GOP.
Basically it comes down to this. Please make fun of “Obamonomics” and Democratic economic policies – because it’s demonstrable that Republican policies are worse. OR perhaps Democrats make bad stewards of the economy, but at least they don’t buttfuck the living crap out of it and then make it clean up the mess.
Although, perhaps the economy will realize it has to behave properly for John McCain, seeing as how for five long years, McCain’s only economy was a severely reduced economy of freedoms. Because he was a POW! Did I mention that McCain was a POW? Because he was. A POW that is. POW!
Well, if we’re telling terrible genie jokes and risking the cantaloupes:
Two guys had been adrift on their life raft for several days, and they were getting very thirsty. They found a bottle bumping the raft one morning, and eagerly tried to open it, but instead of water, they got a genie.
A grumpy genie, who said, “I’ve only got one wish on me, so make it a good one!”
The first guy, a little delirious, exclaimed, “I want all the beer we could possibly drink!”
And behold, the ocean turned into beer.
The second guy smacked his friend in the head. “Great move, numbnuts. Now we have to pee in the boat!”
Well, if we’re telling terrible genie jokes
I always liked the one about the Polish guy and the Mongol Hordes.
Ummmm… who?
But, but, Bill Ayers, and Reverend Wright, Lolo Soetaro, and, um, you know, uh, Communist!!!
Did anyone notice those recent McCain ads where he highlights what Biden has said about Obama in the past?
Did anyone else get reminded of someone who got turned down by a date? I mean, Biden went out with Obama, not McCain!
John… Joe Biden’s just not that into you.
Since when did Lisa Kudrow start giving financial advice?
Daddy Yankee is an unbelievably irritating reggaeton performer. Or in other words, he’s a reggaeton performer.
The other 95% is taken up with figuring out which tax loophole will net them the most.
Believe it or not, there are rich liberals who understandably take as much advantage of tax loopholes as rich conservatives do in order to maximize the bang for their philosophical buck.
Bill Ayers!!
Bill Ayers left toe jam in my butter dish.
Bill Ayers blew his nose on my drapes.
Bill Ayers had sex with the neighbor’s cocker spaniel.
Bill Ayers left his dirty underpants in the lobby.
Bill Ayers ordered the “Broadside” collection of Buttplugs from QVC on MY credit card!
Bill Ayers drank all the Dr. Pepper…
mikey
Democrats made me put on this wetsuit!
Hell, I take advantage of tax loopholes.
What there are at my level, anyway… which ain’t much. If I could get the cats as dependents, I’d do it.
Especially now. I don’t want those bloodthirsty assholes killing more people with MY money, know what I mean?
Run….. COWARD!!!!!!!11!!!!!!11
Hey, ‘bear, y’might as well.
But here’s the news. Those bloodthirsty assholes are gonna kill people with or WITHOUT your money. That’s kind of what the whole deficit thingie is about.
Free killing. Airstrikes without remorse. Leveraged Occupation.
Just wait’ll they expose a couple of those half trillion dollar nuke aircraft carriers to a modern hostile power and lose ’em.
You’re gonna see them borrow a trillion bucks from the chinese, the saudis, the british, the germans and the candadians SO fast it’ll amaze you for it’s collective stupidity.
When you find a way to put THAT big a hole in the ocean, how could you pass it up? Hell, babe, the North Vietnamese couldn’t threaten our Carriers. What do we have to fear from anyone in 2008?
mikey
Since Barack Obama has no credibility as Commander in Chief compared to the incomparable John McCain, What can he possibly do to span this unspanable chasm? – Dick Gregory
Ladles and jellyspoons, you’re liberal media, hard at work.
Your, even. They ain’t mine, anywho.
My dear misguided liberal friends, how foolish you are.
What you fools want is a post-Christian socialist cradle to grave nannystate like they have in Europe.
Allow me to opine, your’re the class I’m the teacher. The modern socialist state in the European Union has taken over the primary impulses of citizens and replaced them with secondary ones such as whether we should have a 5 or 6 month vacation or whether to go to the beach or take a nap.
By providing for their defense after the Second World War with the hope of stopping old national rivalries, Europeans no longer have any primary impulses left. Primary being National Defense. And the establishment of the nannystate with cradle to grave entitlements, welfare, free daycare, free health care, high taxes, massive government regulations ect. have taken away the rest of the Europeans primary impulses which are providing for ones family and most importantly procreation.
By letting in massive amounts of muslim immigration Europeans are further destroying their once proud nations. To top it all off, with the moral-relativist PC crowd in place forcing the population to worship at the alter of multi-culturalism, all sense of a unique national identity amongst Europeans is gone. To even speak of a British National Identity, or a German National Identity, or a Swedish National Identity or a Dutch National Identity ect. is considered racist and intolerant and is actively discouraged and in some cases even prohibited by law!
And when you have all these muslim youths mooching off Europe’s welfare system and keeping their alien Islamic identity while not assimilating into their host nations culture you have a recipe for disastor.
Especially give Europe’s abysmal post-Christian birth rate average of 1.34 children per woman and the average muslim immigrant birth rate of 3.5 children per woman. When the youth of say Sweden are taught that they have no unique national identity, that western civilization and culture is not superior to any other and that Christianity is “intolerant” its no wonder the youth of that nation are converting to islam in rising numbers and becoming radicalized!
All people are looking for something bigger than themselves. And if its not their own Nation’s unique culture, religion and heritage they will find that of another. In this modern world unfortunately its radical Islam.
This is what liberals wish to export to America. This Politically correct, secular, moral relativist, multi-cultural hyper-balkanized garbage. This is what they wish for America to become. A multi-cultural irreligious cesspool of a nation like the once great nations of Europe have become.
May God help us if they succeed.
A multi-cultural irreligious cesspool of a nation like the once great nations of Europe have become.
Yep. The last, best hope of any advanced culture. We get to that “cesspool” or we die in tribal wars and imperial dreams.
I can’t see a downside to a multi-cultural irreligious nation. And many european nations are not only doing well for themselves, they are doing well for their citizens. We should be ashamed….
mikey
Daddy Yankee endorses John McCain.
I wondered who that guy was! I saw McCain on C-Span appear with him, and his sunglasses, at some middle school in Phoenix, Ariz., today. The backdrop behind McPOW was chockablock with squealing young girls of indeterminate ethnic origin. It was pathetic.
Allow me to opine, your’re the class I’m the teacher.
Well, that sounds familiar. Okay guys, time to get out the whoopie cushions and spitballs again. Oh and Mr. Erik? Our last teacher let us pour chocolate milk down his pants and lock him in the sauna.
Kudlow’s an idiot. Back when he split his show with Jim Cramer I could at least enjoy Cramer laying into him on occasion. Once they split, I had to leave the room whenever my father had Kudlow’s show on. I used to play a game guessing how many words he’d get out before saying “Goldilocks,” which he never seemed to define in a satisfactory manner. If you’re ever forced to watch him, you can probably alter my game into a drinking game and you stand a good chance of passing out drunk before you have to listen to too much of that greedy, clueless, selfish, corporatist ass. I really dislike that man somewhere near Kristol levels. However, I love that the internet has places where I can get this stuff off of my chest. Thanks, Sadly, No!
The fact is, “Pontoppidan” sounds like the generic name of a narcotic painkiller.
You say:
like it’s a bad thing.
Be sure to post the monuments, scientific advances, and works of art you’ve created while you’re out there ridin’ the range and gittin’ down in the dirt like a real Amurrican.
Health care is for sissies! Real men, as we all know, just ignore the gnawing pain until they die on the toilet, like Elvis.
I’m a brainless tool for rich republicans who can’t even keep count of how many mansions and yachts they own.
This shit is hilarious… what do you want to bet, Pontoppidan is unemployed, was never in the military, and can’t even get it up, much less procreate.
“And many european nations are not only doing well for themselves, they are doing well for their citizens.”
Oh, really?
Allow me to tell you the story of a 54 year old Belgian train conductor named Guido Demoor. In june of 2006 he got on bus number 23 in Antwerp Belgium to go to work. Then later during the trip, six muslim youths got on the bus and started harrassing other riders. There were some 40 other passengers on board but nobody said or did anything, except for Guido. He asked the youths to cut it out and they proceeded to attack him and beat him until he was killed. Of those other forty passengers, none intervened on his behalf. When the bus stopped all forty passengers got off the bus. Three of the youths were arrested and were found to be of Morrocan origin. The ringleader escaped. And of the forty other passengers only four came forward to speak to police!
See what happens when an entire nation is emasculated by multi-culturalism? That nation’s “men” won’t even stand up to an alien invader and defend their own national honor! This kind of shit would never be tolerated here in America. A brave passenger(s) would have pulled out a .357 magnum and blown the raghead bastards brains out!
Your’re the class
Im’m the teacher
Check out the ass
On Arthur Treacher
That Pontoppidopoulis guy is right. Let’s get that thing he was saying was what we all wanted.
I thought “Pontopiddan” sounded like the academic term for “urinating under a bridge or overpass”.
Or in an underpass.
But no, it was a real guy and he invented the danish or something.
Fixed.
What you fools want is a post-Christian socialist cradle to grave nannystate like they have in Europe.
Given that they’ve got a higher standard of living, better education, better environmental policies, fewer stupid wars, and are overall just happier with their lives compared to Americans, I think I could get into that. Denmark in particular is looking good.
Erik Pointyhead says “When the youth of say Sweden are taught that they have no unique national identity…”, he really means “waaah, white supremacy is being marginalized.”
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By prufeeding fur zeeur deffense-a effter zee Secund Vurld Ver veet zee hupe-a ooff stuppeeng oold neshunel reefelries, Ioorupeuns nu lunger hefe-a uny preemery impoolses lefft. Preemery beeeng Neshunel Deffense-a. Und zee istebleeshment ooff zee nunnystete-a veet credle-a tu grefe-a inteetlements, velffere-a, free-a deycere-a, free-a heelt cere-a, heegh texes, messeefe-a gufernment regooleshuns ict. hefe-a tekee evey zee rest ooff zee Ioorupeuns preemery impoolses vheech ere-a prufeeding fur oones femeely und must impurtuntly prucreeshun.
Bork Bork Bork!
“Erik Pontoppidan” was actually the last Catholic Bishop of Greenland. You see, when he was appointed as Bishop of Bergen, his jurisdiction extended as far as the Greenland colonies. At the time, no-one had actually sailed to Greenland for a couple of centuries, so they had no idea that the colonists had all
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Has anyone bothered to ask the great Gazoogle about the sources of Zombie Bishop Pontoppidan’s most recent cut-&-paste screeds? I would do it myself, but right now I have to varnish the cat.
There.
We’ve run rings around you logically.
I think it is very relevant to point out that having been watching her speech at the convention in HD, Michelle Obama is f***ing hot. Hot. Hot.
I’ve posted some of Bishop Pontoppidan’s info meself, Herr Clyde.
But nobody cared *sniff*.
I have to varnish the cat.
Oh noes! not again!
A lack of national identity is one of the reasons the youth of Europe are enlisting in the ranks of jihadist islam in record numbers. Their multi-cultural welfare state is a threat to our National Security.
They have done absolutely nothing about the Wahhabist preachers of hate in the mosques of their immigrant groups. The war on terrorism really fails to do justice to what were up against. It should really be called the war against wahhabism. Islam itself may or may not be a religion of peace. I don’t know, I’m not an expert on Islam and I don’t claim to be. However If I were President I would declare the Wahhabist branch of Islam to be a religion of pieces.
There is no reconcilation with wahhabism. It is a evil, barbaric, hateful ideology whose stated objectives are the conversion of the whole world to Islam and anyone who refuses must be killed.
How can you coexist with that kind of ideology? And thats exactly the type of Islam being preached in mosques throughout Europe. Wahhabism is the state religion of Saudi Arabia, a totalitarian nation that actively funds and exports wahhabism.
I know where this is gonna go. Bush supports the Saudi Royal family blah blah blah. I know he does and he’s wrong! Saudi Arabia is our number one enemy. And their brand of Islam is the brand of Bin Laden and Al Queda and is the brand of islam being coddled by the welfare states of Europe.
Therefore Europes decadence and multi-culturalism is not only a threat to them but to America as well.
Michelle does look pretty damn good, doesn’t she?
On the other hand, Cindy McCain looks a bit off. It’s sorta weird how Republicans always go for women who look… drugged.
Erik Pointyhead says “In Europe, a man named Belgie McFakeexample was downloading porn from a street kiosk when a horde of Belg-Islamofascists came up and demanded that Belgie’s pornstar wear a burqua and have hairy armpits. A soccer stadium’s worth of Europeans slithered by without helping Belgie or shaving their armpits. The roving IslamoWalloonians succeeded in browbeating (literally) an Ecruropean.”
I’m copyrighting Ecruropean !!!!
Well, I can happily say I’ve never slept with a Republican, but I can’t see even trying it without drugs.
Erik, man, I hate to be so crass, but you are one racist prick. Being paranoid about protecting some pure national identity seems crazy to me. Throughout human history people have moved around, interbred, drawn and redrawn borders. National identities, like nations themselves are far from permanent. The American identity you worry about so much has always been shaped and reshaped by people coming from all over the world, willingly and unwillingly. If we have a national identity it is one that has set an example for reaching out and joining together a wide range of other identities. It must suck to live a life in fear of anyone who isn’t like you, to feel a twinge of panic around anyone with a different skin tone or cultural background.
Moron, if you called it “The War on Wahhabism”, then, once the Wahhabis were defeated or exterminated, your citizens would say, “OK, the war is over. Now let’s stop spending ourselves into debt, and by the way we want Habeas Corpus back.”
If you call it “The War On Terror”, then by definition it’s not over until nobody is scared again, ever. You never have to give people Habeas Corpus back, you never have to stop spending the nation into debt.
Don’t they teach you clowns Propaganda 101 anymore? Shit… better trolls please.
Now now. Michelle Obama in a strong, intelligent, compassionate woman…..who is f***ing hot even without the benefits of HD. That was quite a nice speech and this little family moment right now is adorable.
America’s National Identity my poor liberal friend, is at its roots Judeo-Christian culture which our Great Nation was founded upon.
Sprouting up from those Judeo-Christian roots are the Biblical principles of individual liberty, capitalism, hard work and self-relience.
We as an American Nation have one God- The God of the Bible, one Nation- The United States of America, One language- the English language, and one Culture- Judeo-Christian culture. That my friend is our American National Identity.
I know I know, you weren’t taught these fundamental American truths by your liberal college professors. But they were well know to Americans until the PC revisionist garbarge of the 1960s took hold of academia.
The youth of Europe are not converting to Islam. There are a larger number of Muslim immigrants. That’s different.
It is kind of adorable that there’s a crew of right wingers driven to scream that the Islamic threat to us is so serious that it might change where Europeans go to church.
Tell that to the Russian troops fighting in Chechneya. Two of the Islamic militants killed by Russian troops were German converts to Islam. I’ll try to find a link for you oh so skeptical liberals.
Is it just me, or does Erik remind anyone of the Jack D. Ripper character in Dr. Strangelove obsessing over the commie conspiracy to corrupt America’s “precious fluids”?
OK. You’ve cited 2. Wow, because, like, the war in Chechnya has involved so few radicals, that must be, you know, like, a huge percentage.
Gosh you’re f***ing irrelevant. I kind of think it’s cute how you’re trying so hard.
War on wasabism? What’ll I put on my effete elitist sushi?
Tell that to the Russian troops fighting in Chechneya.
Dude. Pay a little bit of attention, fer gawd’s sake.
The Chechneyans were FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
We supported them.
The Russian army killed 1.2 million of them and leveled all their cities.
We were AGAINST it, you dick. It was a WAR CRIME.
Remember those? Or does it not count if it’s not commited against Jews?
Stupid simpering bag of flaccid shit…
mikey
It’s sorta weird how Republicans always go for women who look… drugged.
Drugged! Drugged! Ha! I’d tell you about “drugged” if I could! You don’t know from drugged Republican women until Big John gets Ron or Ehrlichman or Haldeman or one of their fucking little minions to stab you in the patootie with a syringe full of Lord knows what! You wanna talk weird! I…I…ohhhh….
Parody Troll.
Now I’m going to bed, you yolks attempt to behave yourselves.
Thrillhouse, my foolish liberal friend allow me to enlighten you.
American National Identity is at its roots the Judeo-Christian culture which our Great Nation was founded upon.
Springing up from the roots are the Biblical principles of individual liberty, capitalism, hard work and self reliance. Those go together to form the unique American character.
That my friend is the American National Identity. I know I know, you never heard that from your leftwing college professors. But these were well know facts to all Americans until revisionist history took over academia in the 1960s.
Michelle Obama just hit a Grand Slam outta the park.
Looking forward (soooo much) to hearing Cyndi “speak”.
If WordPress eats your post for no one to read, does it make a sound?
Damn. Better trolls please.
Maybe Maple Leaf Foods can cater deli meat sandwiches at the RNC. They have a surplus and no one is buying in Canada. In case you’re thinking I have ill will towards Republicans, nothing could be further from the truth. I just figure those folks are already so toxic their systems can handle the risk.
Kudlow is the douchiest of all douchebags. It makes you wonder why Kudlow would even want to blindly worship “capitalism” since he also believes that the stock market is so sensitive to things like Democratic conventions, etc. Perhaps Kudlow doesn’t really believe that line of bullshit but thinks his viewers are just stupid enough to go along with it. What a fucking douche.
Yes, Michelle Obama rocks.
With all the professional speakers tonight, she was the best on every level.
Good night to all.
Thats funny thunder, since your’re not using your real name either maybe I should call you a parody?
Why should I tell you liberals my real name? So you can post smears against me like you do to other rightwingers on a daily basis?
Erik Pontoppidan the 18th century Danish Bishop was one of the great men of Western Civilization. Which is why I post under that name. I really doubt that your mommy and daddy named you ifthethunderdontgetya? Though given the crazy names leftist celebs give their children I guess its not so far fetched after all.
Every time I hear some right-winger discuss how American identity is based on the “christian principles” of capitalism and hard work, I realize that none of them ever actually finished reading The Protestant Ethic. Weber posited that modern capitalism sprung in part from the self-denying Calvanists but that what it created was a soul-crushing monster of capitalist society. An “iron cage.” Is this really what they want or are they just too lazy to think about what they’re quoting?
Whine whine, whinge whinge, Americans don’t like the same shit you do, they like rap music & heavy metal & they fuck Mexicans, you just don’t understand it, yadda yadda. C’mon, doesn’t this shit get old, even to you??
Erik Pontoppidan: if “capitalism, hard work and self reliance” are so essential to our American character, how come so many wingnut Republicants hate Obama for his hard work and success?
By the way- the notion of “capitalism” was almost brand new when Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. This nation was quite new too. How could “capitalism” have already been such a strong part of our national character from the very beginning? The largest part of our national economy was based on land ownership and agriculture- the forces that helped broad-scale capitalism flourish in the United States wouldn’t be sufficiently strong for another 40 years after the founding of this nation.
A left wing university professor
Capitalism in its rudimentary form was an Anglo-American tradition starting with the Magna Carta in AD 1215 were it abolishes absolute monarchy and establishes private property rights. The first in world history. Which of course carried over to the British Colonies in the Americas and elsewhere.
I really doubt that your mommy and daddy named you ifthethunderdontgetya?
Actually, my real name is thenthelightningwill™³²®©.
This is just a pseudonym I use so that I won’t attract too much attention while shopping for groceries, etc.
The fact is, the white European patriarchal colonialist imperialist paradigm has shifted. Get over it, fathead, and prepare to bow down to the new colored president of what’s left of the US and the “free world.” Now get your pompous ass in here and take out the garbage.
an entire nation
emasculated
by multi-culturalism
This sounds better if you imagine it sung in the distinctive
whinetimbre of Mark E. Smith.Oh now we’re doing the Judeo-Christian bit. Fun. I don’t know how well capitalism actually works with that. I’ve read my New Testament. Those apostles were living and working together, providing for each other and selling off their possessions for the greater good of their community. They were pretty lousy capitalists what with all of their teacher’s statements against being obsessed with acquiring wealth. As for personal liberty, Leviticus is chock full of limits on that, especially the parts on what to do with slaves. Hard work has been around since the beginning of humanity or we wouldn’t be here today. It didn’t take Judeo-Christian ethics of hard work to build Greece or Rome, but those societies certainly gave us more guidance in setting up a democracy than any Judeo-Christian background did. If we were supposed to have a theocracy, the country would have been set up that way. Regarding self-reliance, a background telling you to constantly ask an invisible higher power to do stuff for you isn’t being self-reliant. None of the “roots…which our Great Nation was founded upon” are exclusive to or even necessarily compatible with Judeo-Christian values. Please don’t take this wrong. I like a lot of what Jesus is said to have said and done, but a lot of what I like best doesn’t fit with America’s version of Christian values.
Erik:
Perhaps you should actually read some of the writings of the early political economists who wrote about capitalism. For example, Adam Smith and David Riccardo were both quite critical of the role of landowners in the production of goods and felt that landowners contributed little to production but received more than their fair share of the earnings, thus putting a squeeze on both the capitalist and the worker.
The Magna Carta (and the Norman invasion preceding it) did more to establish the feudal system than they did to start capitalism.
Haiku:
Entire nation
Emasculated (large ouch)
Multi-culti’s fault.
Capitalism in its ‘rudimentary’ form about the time of the Magna Carta wasn’t capitalism. It was mercantilism and manorialism. You know, back when London was much smaller than the larger, more populated, more technologically sophisticated cities of the Americas.
Mercantilism is actually the best economic policy ever devised by men. It allows for free market capitalism within the nation’s borders but establishes tarrifs on foreign goods thereby protecting the host nation’s jobs and industry. It was advocated by Alexander Hamilton and was the offical policy of Conservatives and the Republican party until Richard Nixon. I posted a few months back that I believe mercantilism is the in our best national interest. We need to get back to National capitalism and put our Nation first instead of building up third world dictatorships like the global elites want to do.
Erik,
Where do you get a “free market” from when large business concerns are permitted to exercise so much power on capitol hill and in our local communities?
Government has no business regulating private business operating within our National borders. The only rule should be to prevent business from moving American jobs overseas.
The fact that large business concerns have such power is a good thing for the most part. Business provides jobs for poorer Americans so they can move up on the economic ladder.
Its the wealthy who create jobs not the poor, so by punishing the most productive members of a society you end up hurting the poor who are unable to find a job because the government keeps penalizing the people who provide jobs.
Thanks, everyone else, for the somewhat more recent examples you’re all citing. I wish I’d thought of it, but that Judeo-Christian label gets to me. I spent too many Sundays in church and too many nights in religious education to hear all of that racism, hatred, greed, and fear get put in the same category with the values of peace, love, hope, reaching out, helping….you get the idea…that I was brought up with. It’s crap like that the helped push me out of organized religion. I figured if the divisions, labels, and ceremonies were so important to other people they could have them and I’d settle for keeping the humanity and compassion for all people. That’s just, like everything else, my take, and I’m sorry if I started a shouting match.
Yeah, cuz the Republicans are all over that.
Thrillhouse, the values you hold dear are diametriclly opposed to the values of the wahhabist branch of Islam we are fighting.
Let me ask you this, if the muslim fanatics become as entrenched here as they are in other parts of the world do you think they will uphold your values of peace, love and hope?
…and now we’re on free-market capitalism but I just can’t keep up my rage. Totally free markets don’t work and screw over the vast majority while benefitting the small minority at the top until their foolishness and selfishness comes back to bite them in the ass. That’s all I can muster for the moment, and it actually ties back into the original point of this thread to some degree. Yay!
Actually a significant minority of Republicans still support mercantilism. They are called PaleoConservatives which is what I consider myself to be.
Some prominent Republican supporters of Mercantilism are Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes and Ron Paul. All PaleoConservatives.
Hey Eric, been reading too much Mark Steyn again. Just for your info, the Belgian bus story is bs. Additionally, if you think us Europeans are falling under the influence of Sharia, feel free to come visit as share you opinion. I know a few Feyenoord fans and Amsterdam coffeeshop patrons who might disagree.
And if we’re on the subject of Genie jokes:
Two guys in a locker room after their racquetball game. One guy notices that the other has a cork in his butt. “If you don’t mind my mentioning it”, he says, “that cork looks really uncomfortable. Why don’t you take it out?”. “I can’t,” laments the first one. “It’s permanent”. “I don’t understand,” says guy two. First guy says. “I was walking along the beach when I tripped over an oil lamp and a big puff of smoke happened. Then a huge man in a turban came oozing out. He said, “I am Hassan the genie. I can grant you one wish.” And I said, “No shit!”
Fanatics of any background who espouse hate, fear, and eliminationist rhetoric aren’t doing a good job upholding those values that I hold dear. If I had my way, we’d do more to lift up people, both here and abroad, so that radicalism doesn’t hold as much appeal. A system of helping the rich and screwing everyone else certainly wouldn’t accomplish that and would leave more people desperate and more susceptible to radical ideologies.
shorter Erik: “The commies are putting flouride in our water, Mandrake!”
Erik:
Aggregate demand for domestic goods and services creates employment. The wealthy simply reap the benefits of cheap and plentiful labor or by owning the land that factors into production.
Your last comment reads like the typical conservative, supply-sider apologist. Keep in mind that the government does much much more to help businesses and the wealthy than it does to hurt them. The government maintains the infrastructure that makes commerce possible, it helps to educate future business leaders and professionals, it provides for a rule of law to protect property rights (and yes, employee and consumer rights). The government is also charged with protecting smaller businesses from the predations of larger businesses and to protect shareholders from insider trading and other unfair advantages.
I can go on and on how our government goes a long way to protect the interests of the wealthy and of businesses. It seems to me the least the wealthy can do is pay their fair share of taxes instead of sheltering most of their wealth abroad and whining and moaning about how their inheritances are (were) taxed and about how tough it is to pay taxes on capital gains.
lobbey, he spells it with a “k.” I thought you were calling me out for a second since I spell it with a “c.” Although if he’s not up for it, I’ll gladly come visit Europe in his place.
As for genie jokes, I really wish I had my Friar’s Club joke encyclopedia handy.
I really wish I could keep up the fun, but bed is calling. Good night everyone. (Yes, I’m one of those people who occasionally feels the need to inform everyone I’m leaving.)
Actually Thrillhouse, the reason I just started posting again last week after a long hiatus is because I was on vacation in Italy for a month.
I had mixed emotions. I both at once enjoyed myself seeing the history of western civilization with my own eyes. The Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, Byzantines and Normans. All there ruins of a once people peoples of the west.
Then I was sad. Sad because in Sicily where I spent most of my trip “refugees” from Africa are given 40 euros a day to do nothing! They don’t work, they don’t assimilate into Italian culture and they commit the overwhelming majority of crimes in Italy. And there religion? You guessed it, Islam! The collapse of a once great nation that birthed the likes of Julius Caesar, the Medici family, Leonardo Da’ Vinci and Guiseipei Garabaldi has now been reduced to a terrorist coddling welfare state.
Good thing Italy has a good cuisine because thats about the only good thing modern Italy has left.
12 Apostles = Commies
damn shame…
“And there religion?”
Where religion ??
Elitist! Elitist! Elitist! That is where arugula comes from! Elitist bastard! Fancy pants! What’s wrong, Myrtle Beach not good enough for ya?
And if you don’t like how Italy turned out, you probably should ring up the CIA, which manipulated Italian elections through payoffs & false flag terror (P2 anyone?) from 1948 up until, well, who knows?
cue Godfather theme
I was angry and appalled to see graffiti on an ancient Greek temple in Taromina Sicily!
I know this may sound a little harsh but I think the penalty for spray painting public propery in America or anywhere should be that the perpatrator gets his thumbs cut off.
I can’t believe the Italian government allowed some (probably muslim) hoodlums to spray paint an ancient Greek temple. If something similar was done to an American National Landmark the perps would be looking at a hefty fine and or jail time.
Actually, my mistake. It was in Syracusa, Sicily. Not Taromina.
Artist’s impression of the original Zombie Bishop Pontoppidan, after he took up necromancy and went on the Black Pilgrimage to Chorazin. This is all documented by that scrupulous historian M. R. James.
A Billionaire’s Tribute to Bush
We suffered through eight years while Democrats led;
We were holding our own but not pulling ahead.
A minority group needs a sheltering wing,
But we poor billionaires had no champion to sing.
Bush arrived just in time, with a glint in his eye
Like the spark from a jewel: makes a girl heave a sigh.
From a background of privilege-Queen Liz he calls “cuz”-
He is true to his class in the deeds that he does!
Into Andover, Yale and Harvard he slid
On an oil-slicked path that is still up for bid.
When he needed a place in the National Guard,
His family made phone calls and it wasn’t hard.
Number 1 on the list opened up like a shot,
So he flew and he drank and he partied. A lot.
When drug testing started he faded away,
Ending his service a bit short on days.
The Guard didn’t mind since he had the right name–
And had dated Trish Nixon of similar fame.
There was money for bailouts when trouble arose,
And enough silver spoons for his mouth and his nose.
So Arbusto went bust! “What me worry?” he joked.
“I make money on failure, ‘cos I know the right folks.”
His baseball decisions gave the Rangers a pain,
But the point was to profit on eminent domain.
He was lifted to governor on family tides:
George Bush doesn’t walk-he gets highly pimped rides.
Great corporate wealth, and well-financed smears,
Bore him on to the White House for eight blessed years.
The system worked for him—he felt moved to give back—
To keep wealth for the wealthy by cutting our tax.
Shrinking the middle-class leaves more cash for US.
And the way he explained it they didn’t even fuss.
We had eight years of help in establishing our right
To control planet earth and to show might makes right.
But plan for the future—Don’t leave it to fate.
Send money to McCain in 2008.
Mmmm…..just got back from vacation. What’d I miss?
I find it incoherent to complain about rich people paying more tax because they spend the most and at the same time complain that the government spends too much.
FUN!
The collapse of a once great nation that birthed the likes of Julius Caesar, the Medici family, Leonardo Da’ Vinci and Guiseipei Garabaldi has now been reduced to a terrorist coddling welfare state.
Oh, please. “Once great nation” was a collection of city-states until the mid 19th century. Caesar, the Medicis and DaVinci would have no idea what you were talking about.
Idiot.
So an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman were having a pint in a pub one day.
The Englishman notices a fly in his beer. He plucked it out, and discreetly flicked it aside, saying, “Hmph, well, no harm done, then, eh?”
The Irishman notices a fly in his beer. He carefully plucks it out, holds it up, and says, “Ah, wee little beestie, ye’re one of God’s creatures.” He then gently puts it outside the pub door – “May your road be blessed, wee creature!”
The Scotsman notices a fly in his beer. He plucks it out, and, shaking it over his beer shouts: “Och, ye bluidy bastard!!!!! That’s my beer!!! spit it out, dammit, spit it out!!!!”
Mr Pontoppidan,
Any Italyan will tell you its the zingere, http://www.topix.com/it/rome/2008/05/12-20-italian-tolerance-goes-up-in-smoke-as-gypsy-camp-is-burnt-to ,and not the mooslems who are the problem. In the future, please fact check your bigotry more carefully. Thank you in advance.
Also, their cheese is better and there women are hotter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Italian_female_models (sorry no cheese link)
“Once great nation” was a collection of city-states until the mid 19th century.
I suspect that the present instantiation of “Erik Pontoppidan” is aware of that fact, and is reveling in the irony of adding Giuseppe Garibaldi to the list.
As for complaining that invading barbarians have vandalised the priceless and irreplaceable monuments of antiquity, do we really want to go there?
Not sure about capitalism, but carpooling is definitely biblical:
Acts 5:12 At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one Accord in Solomon’s portico.
What, you expected pictures of hot Italian women instead of informative biographical information on hot Italian women? Get your minds out of the gutter.
Here is an informative cultural video from Italian television.
Guiseipei Garabaldi
I didn’t know Garibaldi was half Chinese
I really don’t need to know the size of his butt plug.
Same as his hat size, which is smaller than you’d expect.
Democratic presidencies are good for manufacturers, producers, and innovators. Republican presidencies are good for corporatists, lobbyists, and other forms of parasitism. Of course Kudlow hates and fears democracy, same as every other vampire hates and fears sunlight.
The fact is, elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.
So far as you know.
Bwahahaha!
FYWP
Erik, the fact is, the Heartland and I are disappointed in you. Was our proud Judeo-Christian nation not good enough for your vacation? Or are “paleoconservatives” just another word for out-of-touch Hollyweird leftists like Ron “Blimp” Paul? Flying around in a balloon doesn’t play well in Peoria.
Eric: “We need to get back to National capitalism and put our Nation first instead of building up third world dictatorships”
Maybe you could talk National Capitalism out of shipping jobs overseas then.
Eric: “refugees” from Africa are given 40 euros a day to do nothing!”
One wonders how the Euro manages to keep its head above water, let alone rise against the dollar for most of the summer.
Eric: “The collapse of a once great nation”
Do you have the word “Craftsman” stamped into your forehead? Because you appear to be a most productive tool.
This kind of shit would never be tolerated here in America. A brave passenger(s) would have pulled out a .357 magnum and blown the raghead bastards brains out!
Well, I’m really late to the bash Erik PantPoopy-dan party but I really wanted to address this wonderful fantasy he has. Um, Erik – you do know that giving guns to everyone means that the six Morrocan foreigners would have had easier access to firearms. Also, with forty passengers, one victim, six thugs and a driver on a bus, unless it was one of those magical buses that have freedom powered-protect-the-innocent force fields – there’s no way a guy with a .357 magnum would have been able to “blow the raghead bastards brains out!”. Please just visualize what would happen if someone pulled a gun on a crowded bus – crowded with people who all already have guns.
Here’s another question for the gun nuts in the audience – at what point is it reasonable to administer vigilante capital justice? Six youths administering a fatal beating – you’ll probably get a bit of support for, some guy arguing over the cost of a fare – probably not. But where in that range do you dry the line – and how do you make every other gun owner respect the line that you’ve decided upon, and how do you tell when that line’s been crossed? Maybe Erik Pontoppidan can do it since he knows everything and is never wrong – also John McCain was a POW so he knows who to shoot and when – but the second amendment that they’re so in love with also applies to registered Democrats.
I wonder if Bishop Erik thinks that spray painting graffiti onto a temple is a crime that should be stopped by someone exercising 2nd amendment rights. And what if it later turned out that one of the vandals was a POW? Like John McCain was? Surely having spent time as a POW mitigates any guilt from defacing public property.
And since I’m hogging the thread… Mercantilism? WTF?
Erik, mercantilism died in the 1800’s. Maybe you’ve heard of Adam Smith? Holy Hey-Zeus – imagine if the global economy was resticted in size to what it was in the 1800’s… But I totally see why Erik lurves him some mercantilism – forget the rising tide lifting all boats, if Erik scuttles everyone else’s boats (mooslems first) then he’ll have all the dock spaces for hisself.
PENIS
Damn Larry Kudlow is such an embarrassment. Why is it that the business class continues to watch the channel he has a prominent place in, CNBC?
Also, these guys have to do much better than “Obamanomics”. Obama’s tax plan isn’t much beyond “let the Bush tax cuts expire as they were written into law to do”.
Oh, and just to spread it around a little – remember how Troofy was all-upons about the Dems hiding their greatest liability, you know keeping Michelle Obama out of the spotlight.
Good luck trying to sell that story.
Garibaldi – This is off topic but reminds me of an amusing and instructive story. I was dating a guy – call him Crazy Larry – who had long, gorgeous, wavy black hair. Imagine my surprise when he introduced me to friends he’d known since high school and I discovered his nickname was “Baldy”. I asked why this would be, and his friends laughingly told me that one time Larry arrived in History class, badly stoned and not having done his reading, and was instructed to write a brief essay on one historical personage from the past week’s reading and lecture. Well, Crazy Larry could remember bits and pieces of the lecture on Garibaldi and as he could remember little else chose him for the essay, but having never seen the name in print Larry phonetically rechristened the gentleman Gary Baldy.
Always do your homework.
Another thing, all this talk about how the Dems are doomed and what not. Check out the crowd. Also note that this venue was deemed too small for the main event – so Barry’s doing his acceptance speech in front of like, three times that many people.
I was angry and appalled to see graffiti on an ancient Greek temple in Taromina Sicily!
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, first, it’s Taormina. Second…Greek…really? LOL!
Thus we can see that Erik can spend a significant amount of time in a country and absorb NOTHING of it’s culture or history, which explains his naive views of America.
Tell me, you can be honest…it was a Perillo Tour, wasn’t it?
I know this may sound a little harsh but I think the penalty for spray painting public propery in America or anywhere should be that the perpatrator gets his thumbs cut off.
Sounds like Sharia law to me, bucko. You sure you’re on “our” side?
I, elitist that I am, spent 2 months in Italy many years ago. I recall a historical site that had these huge frescos of various myths (my Austrian art history friend referred to this site as the “soft porn of the times”). I was shocked to see graffiti at the base of these quite old frescos, especially considering the laser detectors that screamed when you stepped too close. Then I noticed that the graffiti was dated 1215, 1345, things like that. A translation of the museum info indicated that the graffiti was indeed that old, and therefore was preserved by the curators.
But if I’d had my .375 when those ancient bastards were defacing those frescos I would have wasted their ass!
That would be the same small-business sector that’s been getting the Nail-Studded Corncob Treatment every time the GOP gives multinationals another rimjob. Thanks to which they’re now on life-support just like the economy is as a whole – no coincidence there. No mistake either – the Goopers know that hungry desperate people are slightly more apt to vote for them than are clear-headed, well-off people. Their game-plan is simple: Disaster Capitalism uber alles, & Repo-Depot take the hindmost. They simply don’t care how many innocent lives they destroy, as long as it gets them a few more votes (for details, see “Iraq”). Did someone say “domestic terrorism?”
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Oh hell – Erik The Redneck is all over this thread – does Nilodor come in a 5-gallon size?
Let’s see:
Advocates nationalist economics, but then blows his own vacation money over in Europe, thus making a total ass of himself? Check.
Outed as a sockpuppetting cut-&-paste loser, but comes back for more, acting even more arrogant than ever, with zilch to back it up except MORE xenophobic bile? Check.
Rants about the imminent threat of America becoming an “irreligious multicultural cesspool” depsite history’s monotonous record of death & destruction at the hands of the two-legged vermin (you know, good upstanding patriots – like Pol Pot & Adolf Hitler) who’ve sold their country this exact same weak shit? Check.
Warnings about extremist Wahhabi fanatics – right alongside advocating mutilation for those who dare to enagage in illegal street-art, a position any Mullah would give a big THUMBS UP? Check.
You couldn’t “teach” fish to swim, you sad sack of smegma.
Get a clue.
Then get back under the bridge … unless you ENJOY being laughed at.
Then I noticed that the graffiti was dated 1215, 1345, things like that.
See, the subtle differences between “Maricon 1982! Yo yo yo, la rasa!” and “per un buon momento vedere Maria” is lost on Erik.
Indeed, the concept of defacing public buildings is completely alien to Italian culture. Do they even have a word for ‘graffiti’?
C’mon, kids, it’s the greatest story never told.
I mean, how else do you account for the magnificent 4% increase in the market in the 8 years George Bush has been president::”
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after watching Kudlow today I googled for ‘Kudlow is an idiot’. you would not believe … or maybe you would … how many hits there are.