It… Begins
Once again this year, rather than destroy Christmas in the usual way — by saying ‘happy holidays,’ and sticking people in the butt with giant, sharpened candy canes, and peeing in creches, and saying “Mmm, these Necco wafers are good, do you want some?” and then giving Christians a wax paper roll of communion wafers which they then mistakenly eat to their horror, and by celebrating Hanukkah or Ramadan and so forth — our plan, as liberals, is to work within the system, to send spies into Christmas itself, and to bring this so-called holiday to ruin by the grinding of its own fell cogs.
This year our spies on the inside have provided us with a special Amazon toy registry so that Sadlynauts can buy toys for homeless, non-productive children — thus “spreading around” i.e. “redistributing” wealth, in accordance with the wishes of President Hussein X.
The toys ship from Amazon to Christmas in the City, a 100% volunteer organization that mentors and supports homeless families in Boston. More than 2,000 children attended last year’s gigantic annual Christmas party, and many more children who couldn’t come to the party were hooked up with presents. The toys need to arrive by December 19th to be put into wheeled canvas mail bins and rolled out into a screaming crowd of joyful kids.
Anyone who would like to see a toy added to the wishlist can post a link in comments, and the Doctor Missus will add it, as long as it’s appropriate (please, no Mark Steyn with Kung Fu Grip or Chatty Pammy dolls) and seems likely to match up to a child’s wishlist.
Updates to come, as well as. . .did I post party pictures last time? Here’s the secret toy room, last year, a little while before the deluge.
As in Star Trek, everyone wears color-coded shirts according to their function. Above you can see some red-shirts (who, as in Star Trek, are mostly interchangeable and tend to be the first disintegrated by aliens or renegade space probes). Irony and her good friend Jonah Goldberg may be pleased to learn that the Doctor Missus and myself are security — i.e., blackshirts.
Errr… in addition to requests to add toys to the list, I’m happy to answer any questions about CITC that anyone might have.
Irony and her good friend Jonah Goldberg may be pleased to learn that the Doctor Missus and myself are security — i.e., blackshirts.
May Ceiling Cat bless your souls!
😉
Bless you, Gayslamic traitors.
I’m afraid we’re minions of Basement Cat, ITTDGY.
After more than a year, this continues to be my favorite toy of all.
It would make many of the kiddies quite happy I’m sure…
mikey
Great idea – I’m going to pass because I always do the local “Angel Tree” thing, where you get a specific kid’s name and wishlist.
I would point out to those who join in this effort (or a similar one in your locale) that clothing is appreciated by not only the parents, but also the kids as well, who may not have ever had an article of clothing that wasn’t a hand-me-down. Just as long as you don’t substitute clothing for toys!
Anyone who would like to see a toy added to the wishlist can post a link in comments
Lil’ Miss Liberal Slut Home Abortion Kit, Now With Xtra RU-486 and SuperDuper Suction.
On a serious note, do the kidz like books these days? I vote The Story of Ferdinand for the little ‘uns and His Dark Materials trilogy for the older ones. Let’s turn them into pussies and atheists.
Mikey – those are super cool, but a little above the price range that CITC sets for these toys ($50 max). CITC does have a program called Adopt-A-Family, where a family that is moving from a shelter into permanent housing is assigned a team of volunteers to help them make the transition permanent. It would be sweet to see about hooking those families up with these.
Jennifer – good for you! If anyone is in Boston wants to actually get a specific kid’s name and wishlist, please let me know. That’s actually how CITC likes to get toy donations (I set up the online toy drive to allow lazy people to participate as well). And I have to say, gift cards to clothing stores are among the most requested gifts for kids over the age of 12 or so. Getting to pick out a brand new outfit is a rare luxury that means a lot.
Loneoak – the kids do like books, and they get them. In addition to a toy from their wishlists, all the kids will get a gift bag that contains (age-appropriate) stuff like mittens, hats, stuffed animals, books, etc. CITC has a pretty reliable book source (I think), but I’m happy to add The Story of Ferdinand to the CITC list in your honor.
Crap.
NOW you do this, when I’m no longer working in the Toy department at Wal-Mart. I have no friggin’ idea what the younguns want these days.
Legos or any of the compatible knockoffs. You can never go wrong with Legos.
Pere Ubu – I made the registry based on what the kids usually put on their wishlists (I’ve been seeing them for a few years now), so it’s a pretty sure thing that these toys will match up with this year’s requests. Legos are always a safe bet – I’ve got the Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb Lego set on this list (I kind of wish I had it myself).
Mr. Potato Head, in any of his current guises (for example, they have a line of totally sweeeeeet MPH’s dressed like the cast of Star Wars) is a must have for the discerning 6-year-old, IMHO.
Tommmcatt – Mr. Potato Head Pirate Kit has been added to the list. Arrrrrrr!
You can never go wrong with Legos.
Seconded. Legos rock.
Mr. Potato Head, in any of his current guises…is a pussy.
Mr. Potato Head was cool back in the 60s, when he a) looked like an actual potato and b) had those drug-crazed eye parts you could put on him.
Those brown plastic lumps that pass for Mr. Potato Head today…feh.
…but I have to say the most intriguingly named toy on the wishlist so far is the Baby Einstein Animal Exploration Tunnel. It makes me think of Fantastic Voyage, for some reason.
Those brown plastic lumps that pass for Mr. Potato Head today…feh.
Umm….arent’ you supposed to use a real potato? that’s what I always did. Back when we used to get five bees for a quarter.
Cheap: slide whistles.
Also, I got my friends’ one-year-old nifty bit of propaganda for his birthday, in anticipation of our Socialest Republic’s new Dear Leader.
What happens to toys that need batteries? There’s nothing worse than a wizzbang machine running out before the turkey gets to the table. Or are batteries cheap in the US?
ps, in that picture there appears to be a pictoral logo of a sinister hand messing about with the weather. Is Bill Ayers involved in the kidnapping of santa? It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
Euripides – I’ve seen massive bricks of batteries in the toy room, and I generally see spare batteries attached to the presents that will require them. So I think CITC has that covered. Although it’s certainly a good point.
Mr. Potato Head, in any of his current guises…is a pussy.
You have earned the wrath of the great and terrible Darth Tater!!!!!!
doctor who doctor who! hey! (for the kids) doctor who doctor who! hey! (for the kids) doctor whoooooo doc-doc-doctor whoooooo
doctor who doctor who! hey!
Oh yes, the Sonic Screwdriver Fun Set is a guaranteed hit.
It needs batteries, though.
Well, I’m not certain that my OTHER favorite toys would evoke broad approbation.
Maybe it would be best if I just recused myself from this conversation…
mikey
Mikey, are you saying those kids should stay off your carefully booby trapped lawn?
Excuse me, but this is way more freaky scary than a smooth blob of plastic in Darth Vader drag.
Oh yes, the Sonic Screwdriver Fun Set is a guaranteed hit.
Oops, I said that not realizing there really is such a thing.
Bilibo.
Well, YEAH.
The problem with greasing the neighborhood kids with your painstakingly planted interlocking area denial weapons is twofold.
First, they fire enough of the CW and I can’t even go outside for two weeks. Then there’s the whole problem of disarming the whole chain and resetting the spent devices. All in all, it would be better if we didn’t do holidays at mikey HQ…
mikey
What kid wouldn’t love nunchuks?
Plus, these are legal.
2 more Mister Potatoheads coming your way.
I was gonna buy one, but then I’da had to pay for shipping, which I think is outrageous. So I bought a second to save money.
I bought Mister Potatohead because it was the first item on the list, and I have a short attention span. It’s also the toy that most reminds me of wingnuts, and if Christmas means anything, it means remembering wingnuts.
Wait, you want me to give something to someone who hasn’t given anything to me ?
I see where THIS whole thing is going..
Dude, Santa’s elves in that bottom picture look, um, black?
I’m sorry, I’m afraid I don’t understand what you are asking, Gavin: you want me to give you…what now? And you go and give it to the orphans?
By the way, I would imagine the Sarah Palin action figures could be had for a song now. You can tell kids it’s Tina Fey.
Since we’re all going to be tarred for dissing Christmas anyways, I thought I’d change my standard Holiday Greeting from “Holiday Greetings” to “Season’s Greetings- There is NO GOD.”
I’m going carolling later, here’s the lyrics to my Noël:
Jesus loves the little children
He’s our pedophilic messiah
Red and Yellow, Black and White
They’re all precious to Short Eyes
Jesus loves the little children
The “real” Santa Claus:
http://www.beforesanta.blogspot.com/
“Season’s Greetings- There is NO GOD.”
“Cthulhu fhtagn – serve well that you may die relatively painlessly”.
As long as we’re gonna sit around drinking spiked eggnog, telling each other about our holiday preferences, I’d like to say that this christmas story needs more play.
I would love to contribute, if I weren’t borderline in need of charity myself. It’s great that you guys are doing that.
Probably the best gift my kid ever got for xmas was a set of Eyewitness videos. He watched the Planets video over and over again. It was probably his favorite, but he liked all the ones in his set. We still have them.
The more versitile a present is, the better. Kids play with legos, blocks, dolls, and building materials like erector sets more than toys that have one purpose.
Well, sure, but if you can give them some practical, applied organic chemistry they can not only make righteous biker crank, they can make improvised explosives.
Now here’s my question.
Facing a future as uncertain as ours, what skills would you WANT them to have?
mikey
Facing a future as uncertain as ours, what skills would you WANT them to have?
mikey
I think one of the most greatest things ever I learned was calculus, and natural history.
OK, 2 of the most…
I have a question: when the note from the Salvation Army “Angel” tree says the kid would like “A Science Kit”, what DO you get?
Last year I actually did find a boxed “science kit” at target, but it looked pretty lame to me, you know: artificial volcano etc. I got a nice microscope to go with it. But I was dubious. Of course there ARE smart kids who like science…in which case I’d like to get them something really interesting.
Suggestions would be welcome.
Fozzetti – It’s more engineering than science, but there are a few cool K’nex kits that explain how simple machines work. Might be an idea.
I think the microscope is a good bet, though. If they have some spare slides they can look at all sorts of stuff.
These “volunteers” sound suspiciously like community organizers. Good thing I’m not afraid of volunteers.
Throw in three Care Bears from me. (Kids still like teddy bears no?)
How do you work out the payment…how do we get the money to to you?
Oh, there’s a special Amazon list here. Thanks, Lesley!
Gavin, I’m processing the order and it’s telling me
*** We’re sorry. This item can’t be shipped to a Wish List or gift registry address. ***
???
Lesley – I just changed a setting that will hopefully fix that. If it doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll give you the CITC shipping address so you can enter it manually.
Thanks so much!
Completely OT but…check Huff Post article on Michelle & Ann:
Looking for a calendar to keep track of your social commitments in 2009? Forget Pirelli and its nudish, high fashion models photographed in Africa by Peter Beard. Look no further than the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s “Pretty in Mink” calendar, celebrating “smart, conservative women role models” like Ann “Total Fag” Coulter and Michelle “In Defense of Internment”
I entered it manually and it’s working now.
That’s awesome Lesley! Thanks!
(and thanks to everyone else who is helping, both with this toy drive, and with toys in their own communities!)
Hmm – do they make Mithra Dolls?
Given the nature of the original holiday, maybe that’s not such a good idea.
Sigh.
Not being prone to doing the whole Amazon/PayPal thing, as I am plastic-deprived, I’ll see if maybe I can just slip them some mazuma directly to help with their subversive activites, on behalf of “S,N!”
For once in my life, I’m actually doing pretty well (albeit still poor by most folks’ standards). Having a bit to spare is quite a rush after many years of charity gift-bags &/or Sally Ann turkey-dinners at this time of year.
Good chance my main Xmas gifts will be such donations – to UNICEF & Red Cross – because the Yuletide is so much better with a full belly, a roof & four walls, & much-needed medicine when you’re one of the many who’re less fortunate than we are… not a lot of family or friends (oh the joys of being an antisocial bastard at holiday time), so yeah, I’m one of those twisted freaks that gives most of their Santa-loot anonymously to perfect strangers.
Oh, & I’ll be working on Xmas, too, so I think I’ve got most of yez beat when it comes to racking up heavy-duty Antichristmas-heresy points – mmm, holiday pay.
Death to the scarlet-robed infidel & his mutant reindeer minions!
Looks like WordPress ate your link or something, Fozzetti.
The first step is understanding where we are on the survival scale.
Jim knows his address. Thanks for all your gifts, Jim.
While it’s easy to see where the top of the scale is, the bottom seems to just keep stretching. Is it hungry kids in detroit or houston? Is it a guy serving twenty to life in Riverbend for one mistake eleven years ago?
Is it the widow with two kids in the Sudan, living in a refugee camp, risking rape every time she gathers wood? Is it what’s left of a family in Faluja or Chechnya, victims of one high tech mechanized onslaught after another? Is it the remains of an extended Tutsi family in Goma, slaughtered and hunted for fifteen years?
How do we understand our place in all this? What are we to be thankful for, and for what are we guilty? Forty years ago I learned that I don’t like this place much, and the devil isn’t a character in a book, he’s a greedy, arrogant man with an army.
The dead are not the ones we need to mourn. We need to find a way to make the world a little better for the least among us, the ones who only wish for nothing.
Every year, I simultaneously hate and love this time of year. It seems to bring out the best kinds of generosity in us all, and yet we seem to find it so easy to turn out back again in january.
I love you all. Please love each other…
mikey
well this time of year i usually donate to the charity that provides natural breast feeding for orphans everywhere…tits for tots.
just kidding. i will buy a baseball glove for the kids…because kids need to learn how to play baseball.
That would be the logo of the former Strategic Air Command (A mailed fist w/ bolts on a field of sky & cloud, or something.) which was the part of the USAF w/ the nuclear weapons & so forth. (They still have the bombs, they just call it something else.) What are Santa & those other dudes doing w/ the Air Force?
It’s kind of an exercise in utilitarian ethics, if you try to calculate which option would create the greater increase in human happiness — support for homeless families in your own country, or for homeless families in a refugee camp in some other country. Either option sounds good. I’m with Red Cross, who take their tithe out of my bank account every month rather than all in December, but there are no wrong answers.
There are also deontological ethics, which I can’t handle because it sounds too much like deodand and deodar.
The fact is, Liberals hate Christmas because they cannot take Christ out of it. They try, but fail, with media bias and leftwing brainwashing in schools. Here in the Heartland, we will fight for Christmas and for Freedom and for USA.
Ruppert: Beware on KrampusNacht!
I’ve given toys the past few years and it is an absolutely amazing operation Christmas in the City runs.
On another note, I’m always shocked at those who complain that liberals are trying to destroy Christmas. First off, I’ve always thought that all of the commercialism associated with the holiday cheapened Christ’s message rather than strengthened it. And second, Unitarians played a very important role in making Christmas a celebratory holiday in the first place, and everyone knows we Unitarians are looked at with disdain by the conservative religious types.
The fact is, liberals are ALWAYS trying to destroy Christmas. This is a fact.
The dead are not the ones we need to mourn. We need to find a way to make the world a little better for the least among us, the ones who only wish for nothing.
Hey, Mikey, I think this year we did that by buying the world a brand new President.
The fact is, liberals are ALWAYS trying to destroy Christmas. This is a fact.
He’s got a point: liberals ought to get out of the way of the hordes of Talking Jesus dolls and the Jesuscorders and Jesusphones and Jesuspods and Jesustrees and Jesusscarves and shopping at Jesusmart and Jesusdale’s and eating Jesusducken (Stuffed With Real Savior!) and drinking sacramental wine until we yoost go nutz at Creemuss!
Every year we used to pick two names off the holiday tree (How Pagan!) at the local big hotel (there is only one) and buy them something cool, but it’s in receivership or something this year, so I’ll check this one out instead.
As a science nerd myself, I know these toys are appealing:
Dinosaur anything. They have playsets now, and last year we got our five year old nephew a lump of dirt with a little pick and brush, so he could excavate his own dinosaur and put it together. He went nuts for it, and somewhere, a Wingnut’s head exploded.
Microscopes are always cool.
Rocks and geology, anything that lets them walk around their world and discover it. “That’s quartz in our driveway! That’s granite in this wall!”
And I agree that kits that draw on their imagination get played with a lot more than one where the batteries do all the work.
One of these headed your way, because nerds love trains, and I bet there’s at least one nerd kid out there jonesing for something more interesting than a cosplaying tuber.
Hey, here’s a great toy idea. What kid wouldn’t love a 3D glow-in-the-dark dinosaur skeleton puzzle? After you put it together, it will look really cool in your room when you’re going to sleep each night!
Although I haven’t lived in Boston for a few years now (and I like to try and donate local), I was happy to kick a few toys to CITC this year. It is my sincere belief that all kids should have Legos, and CITC is a really great program.
My local x-mas donations went to some classrooms here in Rochester through the donorschoose.org people. I mean, sure those damned fat-cat teachers and their high salaries and cushy union jobs shouldn’t be begging me for pens and paper for their students to use, but I just can’t stop myself.
As always, I’m late to the party. Our large apartment building does a thing every year for the Women’s shelter. The kids write want they want on a card and most of the people in the building grab a card and supply that particular thing.
These are families escaping abusive homes who have almost nothing. The kids ask for things like shoes, backpacks/bookbags or sleeping bags as often as toys. (John and I ended up going a bit crazy last year ’cause it was such fun buying stuff; I think we filled six or seven cards)
So what I’m saying is, though I have almost no contact with children and have no idea what they look for in toys, you might consider “useful” but fun stuff as well. For example, we kitted out three kids with backpacks to which we clipped on little flashlights, compasses, mini telesopes, that sort of stuff.
[/my $0.02]
No one expects the Christmas Inquisition!
Our two weapons are peace on earth and goodwill towards humanity and a fanatical devotion to share good fortune…Our three weapons are….
Hey guys, great job and thanks for doing this/ posting on this.
My office here in Boston just decided to forgo the usual Secret Santa that everybody hates, and we happily replaced it with CITC/Toys for Tots donations. I’ll make sure to drop in a few things!
You guys are the best. Evah.
Thanks for doing this. What a great idea.
ox,
K.
If you are not a Bostonian, check out http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
They are a charity that sends games to children’s hospitals around the US and internationally. Sitting in a hospital is boring, the games really help the kids!
Jay C. – what a fabulous idea! Would that all businesses would adopt it – instead of crappy gifts for co-workers, gifts for kids who won’t get anything otherwise. That’s an idea that needs to be spread around. In fact, you’ve inspired me to choose a few names from the Angel Tree for the people in our company. If each person gets one thing on the list, we should be able to outfit at least a couple of kids very nicely.
OT, but this made me laugh so hard I think I pulled a muscle (or perhaps a mussel):
I think the above is an example of the wonderfully brilliant conservative business acumen that has made the American economy the powerhouse it is today.
(A prayer going out to the god of tags.)
When I was a kid I so wanted my very own C.R.M. 114 discriminator. They prolly don’t make those anymore. *sigh*
PS – maybe some kind person or thing will get us kids a new preview for Xmas.
a cosplaying tuber
Use a real one and in a couple months it can be a furry as well.
Hell yes. This is, incidentally, why you kind of want to be careful about legos: the newer sets are pretty custom-fitted and imaginationless. Be sure to look for the big, simple-blocked sets – generic figures, generic blocks (diverse blocks are good, sets desiged specifically to make the Temple of Doom aren’t – they’re closer to tchotchkes more than toys).
Similar sets which are similarly useful mostly for older children would be Knex, Erector kits,and that’s the limit of my knowledge. Anyone else who knows more would be great. Knex in particular are awesome – you can make all kinds of neat shit with them, including fairly complex machines.
And in case the list stratifies, I’ve always found that construction toys are pretty good for kids of either sex. This is even more true the younger they are.
It does occur to me that preview might be able to be resurrected on each of our computers by use of Greasemonkey.
Perhaps the management could point us to the WP plugin they used, and we could pilfer the Javascript from there?
This is, incidentally, why you kind of want to be careful about legos: the newer sets are pretty custom-fitted and imaginationless
The Lego skeletons are very cool, though, I must say.
If only I could have done something like this with Legos.
Simba! That’s brilliant!
A home improvement project!
mikey
Aw, crap.
I mean like this.
Mah link it got eated.
like this with Lego skeletons.
It’s too bad they don’t make little beginning demolition kits.
A little plastic bottle of Potassium Perchlorate.
A little plastic bottle of 80 mesh aluminum.
Some half inch pvc pipes and caps and glue.
A dozen feet of fuse.
Ah, hell, you could throw in some safety glasses for the nanny culture.
THAT would be cool. Kids would have FUN with it…
mikey
Pere Ubu – damn, that was quite the stroke of luck that all those skeletons were buried right where the dude pointed his sword…
Pere Ubu – damn, that was quite the stroke of luck that all those skeletons were buried right where the dude pointed his sword…
FAIL – everyone knows skeletons grow from hydra teeth.
Skeletons are usually said to be in closets, no? They don’t have the balls to come out.
I think the people who keep their skeletons in the closet are ashamed of them. Those of us who are proud of our skeletons let them serve as hosts when we have cocktail parties…
mikey
everyone knows skeletons grow from hydra teeth.
Ah, but can they swim?
Ah, but can they swim?
Well no. This would be a hydrofail.
Hey, you want to see something funny?
The denizens at Secret Agent Flowbee’s place have aroused themselves for the first time since the election to a new object of scorn and hatred: Hillary Clinton.
Apparently Clinton’s impending acceptance of the SOS position has opened their eyes to the fact that she is, in fact, a politician. And not so different from “the One”, after all.
Where oh where will they find a leader who fulfills their standards of purity and selflessness?
Jeniffer, I found this trawling NoQuarter today… a brief sample:
Oh, if only the free market and diligence against global Islam had won the 2008 election, like God intended. Maybe we could have just let honourable, doughty President Bush stay in office for Hillary’s term!
Over at TGW, I’m fairly certain I posted a comment:
Obama stole the nomination from Hillary?
This is what you’re saying?
But it seems to be gone now. A couple of posts below that one, they’re crying about the treatment poor Sarah Palin is getting.
Loons.
FAIL – everyone knows skeletons grow from hydra teeth.
Then it turns out to that they’re really only brine shrimps. Total disappointment.
Skeletons?
Considering what I have learned with nothing more than a Hadrisaur pelvis with an embedded fossilized .375 H&H Magnum slug, you know, the one in my sock drawer with the magnetic monopoles, I can only imagine what an entire Hadrisaur skeleton might teach us.
But skeptics keep resisting my argument of “The Buttocks”.
Fools….
mikey
Then it turns out to that they’re really only brine shrimps. Total disappointment.
I wonder if young brine shrimp ever dream that they’re gonna grow up to be sea monkeys?
His Grace – heh.
I got banned from commenting over there, for the unforgiveable sin of pointing out to one of the looniest denizens that he was full of shit about Fannie and Freddie causing the economic meltdown, and the even more unforgiveable sin of including actual facts including percentages of subprime loans that were attributable to Fannie and Freddie and the vanishingly small percentage of foreclosures in their portfolios. My punishment? I was told to go play with the Freepers…who also ban people for posting factual information they’d rather not hear.
Of course, I just changed my IP and screen name, and went right back to needling them the next day.
I wonder if young brine shrimp ever dream that they’re gonna grow up to be sea monkeys?
Topic of unpublished
novella by Richard BachFar Side cartoon.Always “Teh Buttocks”
is the argument;
skeptics still resist.
Bugger. Try again:
Always “Teh Buttocks”
is the argument, but the
skeptics still resist.
Bugger.
What on Earth has that got to do with Teh Buttocks?
And, hilariously, believe F&F are responsible primarily because it allows them to pin the issue on blacks and a famous homo.
Which might well be what No Coloreds is into these days, who knows.
Jennifer, I mostly lurk at NoQuarter, though I have been known to make an appearance on some of the minor blogs that are home to NoQuarter posters. It’s really an odd place, where people scream about how racist AAs must be for voting 95% for “O-zero,” yet in the same breath want women to vote as a block in the next election, apparently for the known feminist Sarah Palin. It’s a place where Obama won by accusing Hillary Clinton and her supporters as being racists, but yet the nomination was stolen from Hillary because of misogyny. Obama is also a hard line marxist, while simultaneously being Bush III.
Right now I think my most favourite fevered delusion is how they well and truly believe that he isn’t going to be inaugurated because he really was born in Kenya and is also Indonesian. One fevered commenter wrote that both Clinton and McCain have known since May that Obama is ineligible for the presidency, although she failed to explain WHY neither of them decided to use it against him.
Chief Editor Korir’s time on the cross:
I like the religious tilt API has taken of late. I also like the spelling of that special verb we know and love.
It’s really an odd place, where people scream about how racist AAs must be for voting 95% for “O-zero,” yet in the same breath want women to vote as a block in the next election, apparently for the known feminist Sarah Palin. It’s a place where Obama won by accusing Hillary Clinton and her supporters as being racists, but yet the nomination was stolen from Hillary because of misogyny. Obama is also a hard line marxist, while simultaneously being Bush III.
Boy howdy, you’re not kidding. The Palin stuff is what I have the hardest time wrapping my head around. It doesn’t matter if you agree that Hillary was well-suited for the presidency; if you don’t believe the same of Palin, you’re a sexist. Why? Because men have been supporting men all these years because other men also have penises, or something like that, and so now women need to get with the program and support other women because they have vaginas. Never mind that neither men nor women had much choice about supporting men up until about 30 years ago, since candidates were virtually always men. And McCain was “pushing back” against misogyny by nominating Palin, not crassly insulting Hillary supporters by assuming that women would vote for one vagina as readily as another.
Those folks are all on a one-way train to CrazyTown.
It’s too bad they don’t make little beginning demolition kits.
When I was a kid, we made do with having Dad take us to Wyoming and bringing home a trunkload of firecrackers. We improvised the rest, though my brother did once build a pretty ingenious little wooden bridge that we could repeatedly blow up and reassemble.
Re: Sea-Monkeys, the Great Salt Lake is heaving with the little fuckers. They die and rot by the quadrillions out there and the stench off the lake from it is truly unbelievable.
Jeez, don’t blame yourself. It could happen to anyone.
TGW is also along for the ride, Jennifer.
P.S. Haha!
IFTTDOYA-
Go back and play with the kiddies at S,N!.
lindylu | 11.22.08 – 8:12 pm |
~
ITTDGY – ha! Classic. I couldn’t help dropping a comment about their misplaced rage against Howard Dean. Oh, so HOWARD is a big meanie because he wasn’t on the Hillary bandwagon? Cry me a fucking river. Oh, well, just NEVER MIND that Hillary and the DLC actively worked to sabotage his 2004 run, that Bill and Hillary fought tooth and nail to keep him out of the DNC chair, or that as recently as 2006 they tried again to have him ejected as chair of the party…right before his 50 state strategy began bearing fruit and showing up the DLC tactic of only contesting “Democratic” states for the folly it was.
What fucking rock have these people been living under that they don’t know any of this?
Jennifer… The Palin aspect is particularly bizarre, especially given that the Hillary blogs wear up in arms insisting that any woman picked by Obama for VP would have been an insult (because no woman other than Hillary was qualified to be the especially useful position that traditionally is VP). Then the minute McCain picked someone who happened to not be a man, well, she was the next Hillary for some unexplained reason. Hell, they were even rationalizing Hillary’s conduct up until now, explaining that she was just playing ball because of, well, that was never explained, but she secretly WANTED Palin to win. Hell, now they can’t seem to comprehend that a) Maybe Hillary has ambitions other than fulfilling their deranged fantasies and b) on the whole wanted a democratic president this year and wants him to be successful.
His Grace – I’ve posted this question to the PUMAs at a number of sites, and never gotten a response of any kind:
You say Palin was the victim of sexism, that her abilities were denigrated on account of her gender, and she is completely experienced and capable. So…what about the winking? Why did she think it was a good idea, in the middle of what was essentially a job interview where she needed to demonstrate her seriousness and ability to perform a serious job, to flirt with the interviewers? How can you object to being reduced to nothing more than a sex object when that’s what you are portraying yourself to be? Do you want us to vote for you because you are capable and serious, or because you’re cute and flirty? Talk about your mixed messages.
Are we really mad at Palin because she’s lame? Or are we mad at her because she’s so lame and now is unjustifiably famous and powerful? Its like she won the Contessa lottery. How hilarious is it that the more her lameness is pointed out, the harder her supporters defend her? And use modern sensibilities (she feminist-like!) that they’ve always rejected.
I hope she will use every wile to remain in the forefront of Republican politics.
Cletus – I’m not mad at Palin so much as I find her insufferable. I think she’s a quintessential Jr. High School “mean girl” who covers her inadequacies by lashing out at others. Everything I’ve read about her seems to bear this out as well – the backstabbing, the vindictiveness, the sense of entitlement…ugggh. But I’m with you – I hope the Republicans promote her as high as they can, because she turns off a lot more people than she turns on.
I don’t know if this has been already posted but chief Korir has lost his tripod site . Good for him that he got his wordpress blog back . Like an experienced crook that he is he has so far managed to be one step ahead of the law .
This is the best concise description of why any facially feminist argument for Palin collapses that I’ve encountered. Talk about objectification: any system that would subsume in dignity the President of the United States to some roughneck on the basis of the former having ovaries is not just vile but actively anti-American, and she either honestly bought into it and wanted to participate in it or she felt that the kind of person she wanted most to attract was the kind of person who thinks of women as such a firmly-fixed second class that the place of a female President is in the First Family Kitchen and the Lincoln Bedroom.
We’re dealing with people whose problem with the burqa is the fact its q doesn’t have a u. You throw in with them, you don’t really have a right to lecture anyone about misogyny.
From the WordPress site:
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
OH NOES!!!1!
I think that these portable CD players at $17 each are one of the best values on our list:
Jwin Electronics JX-CD335RED Red Persona
http://amazon.com/Jwin-Electronics-JX-CD335RED-Red-Persona/dp/B000BZ1P3A/
We had to surgically remove several portable CD players from my daughter’s person between appx. 5th grade and 9th grade. So many of the toys in the wishlist (and the alternate wishlists) are for younger kids. CD players could make a bunch of older kids very happy.
Anyway – the Sadlynauts list requests FIVE of these with FOUR already bought. Perhaps that number could be bumped to encourage MORE?
My daughter and I just bought TWO from the wishlist for Christmas in the City.
Where did you get that storm trooper pic? The Jawa Report?
Have been happily lurking for awhile. Happy to help out the little Boston tykes and bully for you guys. I got Ferdinand – who I remember fondly as a kind of red diaper bull and pacifist…or was I high? Until the new islamosocialfacist regime brings in the new unlimited-free-toy’s-and-pony-for-every-kid policy for the 2009 season, I guess we’ve got to pick up the slack. Good work folks. Happy Holidays.
Nerf guns.