Groundhog Day
It’s December 7th every day, and we don’t know why!
We moved to a new server a few days ago, and as you can see, the transition has been more interesting than perhaps one would like for it to have been.
There’s new stuff up every day, as usual, but the main page somehow keeps reverting to December 7th, and then not doing that for awhile, but then doing it again. We’re working to fix this, with steamed eyeglasses and spinning propeller beanies, and/or plumber’s craCK, OR SOME DAMMIT I HIT THE CAPS LOck key. Dammit, that’s annoying.
Item: As of 10:50 EST, December 12th, the most recent post is , and if clicking that link doesn’t magically cause the main page to leap into the present (as it sometimes seems to do), all the intervening stuff can be seen by navigating in a backwardsly direction via the links at the top of the page. -G
Shorter Jackie **GINGRICH** Cushman:
- It still is a wonderful life when you get paid by the Heritage Foundation to summarize the plot of a movie that everyone has seen three dozen times. The fact that I am the daughter of Newt Gingrich is completely and utterly irrelevant, thank you very much.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Oh, come now, surely you can’t expect the offspring of wealthy Republicans to actually work for their money, do you? I mean, have you seen the job market out there?
Charming man her Dad
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While she was in the hospital recovering from surgery for uterine cancer, he appeared at her bedside while she was still under the effects of anaesthesia, and tried to coerce her into signing off on a list of divorce-related demand .
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And
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He remained married to Ginther until 2000, when they divorced. Shortly thereafter, Gingrich married Callista Bisek, with whom he later admitted to having had an affair during his second marriage,[11] at approximately the same time that he was leading the Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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Is their one prominent wingnut who is not a hypocrite ?
Is there one prominent wingnut who is not a hypocrite ?
I don’t believe Mickey Kaus has ever come out against goat-fucking, so there’s one.
“Hello, Mr. Newspaper Publisher, I would like to submit this column to your paper about how much I enjoy “It’s a Wonderful Life” and what the movie is about and stuff like that.”
“Are you nuts? Why would we publish something like that? We’ve got entertainment reporters who write about movies. And even they wouldn’t bother turning in something so utterly pointless, moronic, and nonsensical as a pedestrian tribute to a holiday movie that’s already been written about dozens of times before.”
“Oh, did I mention my dad is Newt Gingrich?”
“Oh, sorry, would you prefer your payment in cash or by direct deposit?”
Life is always good for the Wingnut Welfare Queens. Party all day and night, drive around in your big expensive car (take that, Lie-brul treehuggers!), and no need to actually work. St. Ronnie would be so proud.
Is their one prominent wingnut who is not a hypocrite ?
No.
This has been another edition of ….
totally off topic, but has anyone else checked Salon lately? Alex Koppelman has written an article about “why the stories about Obama’s birth certificate will never die.”
The comments are already running to 68 pages. A nut calling himself something stinks seems to have been on his computer for, oh, maybe 48 hours, and is still going strong.
A nut calling himself something stinks seems to have been on his computer for, oh, maybe 48 hours, and is still going strong.
Well that explains why I haven’t seen troofie around lately.
In this holiday season, I remember A Christmas Story, in which we learn the Christian lessons of the season, such as not cursing in front of parents, not falling for double-dog dares, and lying one’s head off after breaking one’s glasses while shooting a Red Ryder BB gun.
And it’s so badly written a fifth-grader would be ashamed to claim it.
Just because I have no money left for going to the movies, I looked at the lowest rated (by Clown Hall lurkers) article she ever wrote. It was about fat people. Go figure.
And now for the real thing: It’s a Blunderful Life
I’m a bit puzzled as to what look MzJackie is going for in that photo. Seems like she’s dressed for a bbq party at Tara, although Scarlett would never wear a dress that cheap. Seriously. It looks like it was made out of rayon bathroom curtains instead of the front parlor’s velvet drapes. And then there’s the Carmen Miranda fruitbowl hat, and the black choker and all. Perhaps Sarah Palin’s stylists could help? Surely they could use the work.
In all seriousness, with no sense of malice, her article reads like the back of a DVD movie synopsis (with too many spoilers) mixed with an amazon.com “from the publishers” book blurb.
No original thought, thesis, research or insight. Just pure regurgitation and paraphrasing.
In short, its about the same level as an 8th grade honors English course.
Does she really get paid to write things like this? There are thousands upon thousands of writers of much better quality who will work for free just to get published. Obviously Townhall does not believe in the free market.
More of that hard-edged journalistic gold that townhall.com is so justly famous for.
Snark all you want – I’m sure Daddykins just LOVED it.
Wingnut Welfare means never having to say “I know what I’m doing.”
Wow. As someone who’s written a 25 page paper on It’s a Wonderful Life and done a lot of research on the movie, she completely fucking misses the point and has absolutely zero insight on the movie as a whole. What a mess.
Er, meant to say, “As someone who’s written….I BELIEVE that she completely misses the point.” Stupid sentence structure. *grumble*
Spawn of Satan or is that satin, (the sheet of evil,) according to an Italian-Catholic friend. Newt fathered all the children in Colorado City. It is his yearly Christmas gift to the boonies Warren Jeffs built. Is it genius or a pathology when Newt speaks? My vote is for him being marginalized or institutionalized, it would make all of our lives wonderful this (banned word) holiday season. My two favorite holiday films are “Eating theNewt” by John Pisses, and “Fishing With Newt, the art of netting bastards,” by Steven Schpeilberg. Tortured? Yes.
Wingnut Welfare… The Next Generation.
Has anyone ever been accused of Wingnut Welfare Fraud?
Or is that the whole point?
I really like those black velvet chokers.
They make my motor run.
Thanks for watching this edition of To Much Information About mikey.
Now, it must be December, ’cause next up is a Norelco Electric Shaver commercial…
mikey
She needs a Burberry scarf to complete her look.
haha gold
Judging from her criteria:
No Republicans will be having a Merry Christmas this year.
There is Cosmic Justice!
Of course, since she’s full of shit, Republicans will merrily pile presents under the tree, be sure to visit the mistress before the obligatory family gathering, (leaving her alone with the vodka bottle,) and try not to mar the festivities with the dismal showing of the scion’s final grades (for this I endowed a library?)
Just like every year.
Has anyone ever been accused of Wingnut Welfare Fraud?
Only if they are actually competent.
the dismal showing of the scion’s final grades (for this I endowed a library?)
Well, at least they are not Fs, which all that the library would buy him. Would have called for a whole slew of endowed chairs to pull them up to Cs.
A nut calling himself something stinks seems to have been on his computer for, oh, maybe 48 hours, and is still going strong.
Now, you see….that’s the difference between pharmaceutical methamphetamine and the biker grade stuff.
It’s never been my faourite holiday film anyway. Around my shack we prefer Miracle on 34th St. (lesson: divorced moms should stop blaming every guy they meet for their ex’s faults), A Christmas Story (lesson: you”ll shoot your eye out) and A Christmas Carol starring Alistair Sim (lesson: all the versions that don’t star Alistair Sim stink on ice).
One thing that Jackie brings up that I never understood: supposedly George saves Mary from being an old maid. How’d that work again? If George had never been born, Mary would have married Sam Wainwright, a rich man who would have actually taken her away from Bedford Falls, something George failed to do. Capra never managed to explain that, or how George’s absence ‘from Mary’s life ruined her eyesight.
A Christmas Carol starring Alistair Sim (lesson: all the versions that don’t star Alistair Sim stink on ice).
Ahem.
I believe you are forgetting the classic Mr. Magoo version.
Hah!
mikey
Mary, the ruined eyesight and George’s absence are easy to explain: masturbation! No George = no nookie = you’ll go blind if you don’t stop that.
Though I doubt that was what Capra had in mind at the time.
Dear Partner has a great fondness for the Gene Lockhart one, from the thirties.
It’s a bit off the source material, as common for the era, but has a great scene where Mrs. Cratchit hides in the pantry, certain a laughing Scrooge means the ax murders will soon commence.
I prefer the George C. Scott version. It has some of the greatest scenery-chewing actors all in one place (including the Equalizer as Christmas Present), and it’s got a really bitchen Christmas Future.
My favorite war on Christmas video:
“it’s early December, which in our home means putting up the Christmas tree, white outdoor Christmas lights”
because only LIEberals use those tacky, tacky colored Christmas lights (sticks out tongue).
Rugged –
Xmas has surrendered. Having drug itself maimed and bloody from the field of battle, it implores in the name of mercy and decency, “No more!”
Mein Gott! A Republican who’s in favor of affordable housing, ie, Bailey Building & Loan — if only in 1946 b&w movies in which the deserving poor are caricature Italian laborers.
How does It’s a Wonderful Life pass conservative muster? Mr. Potter is obviously a Republican, berating George for lending to “garlic eaters”.
Otherwise, I heartily agree with MaryRC’s picks.
deserving poor are caricature Italian laborers.
Bear in mind that in 1948, Italians were not really quite white. They would not achieve full whiteness until the 1950s, just as the Irish did not achieve it until the early 20th century or the Jews until the 1960s.
“It’s early December, which in our home means putting up the Christmas tree, white outdoor Christmas lights”
because only liberals put up those tacky, tacky colored Christmas lights (sticks out tongue).
The Mr T version rules them all.
Completely off topic, but go see Milk the first chance you get.
Beyond being a loving portrayal of a true political hero, Gus Van Sant nails the wingnut mindset. S,N! fans will appreciate Josh Brolin as Dan White along with the other assembled players of wingnuttia. I was unfamiliar with Anita Bryant before I started reading up on Milk recently–she really created the fReichtard mode.
And fuck Ahnold for vetoing the official Harvey Milk Day bill.
Bear in mind that in 1948, Italians were not really quite white. They would not achieve full whiteness until the 1950s, just as the Irish did not achieve it until the early 20th century or the Jews until the 1960s.
Black people should probably achieve whiteness around 2056.
Sorry, those Jesus comments are me.
Black people should probably achieve whiteness around 2056.
Ain’t gonna happen in this century or the next. Wingnuts need somebody to hate and feel superior to. Hispanics may become “white” in this century and maybe some Asians (though I doubt it).
Fxd.
Capra never managed to explain that, or how George’s absence ‘from Mary’s life ruined her eyesight.
Those glasses were a disguise to conceal the shame of having to work for a living. Also, masturbating to romance novels in the library after closing is terrible for your vision.
Hispanics may become “white” in this century and maybe some Asians (though I doubt it).
Cubans are getting there – after the special election in NOLA, maybe the Vietnamese.
Jesus Comments:
Hey Jesus! Hollywood BDSM outlet called. They want their crown back.
Jesus, jesus, bathe much? Phew, you smell like something died.
Jesus christ, what WON’T you do for attention, jesus?
Y’know, jesus, they have these things they call JOBS.
Y’know, jesus, there are smarter things to do than fuck with the romans…
mikey
Come on guys, we’re never going to get to 1000 comments at this rate. Do I have to pull out the nuclear option?
Nazi Jesus:
Jesus, mikey, that was me, not Jesus.
Any idea how to get fucking WordPress to recognize your preferred handle, not the joke handle from another thread? I don’t want to be Jesus anymore.
Japanese Jesus:
http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/ancient/0163.html
Biker Jesus:
http://blog.nola.com/bourbon/2005/02/biker_jesus_karaoke_jesus_and.html
Well, I see SOME of us did not grow up female in the ’50s and early ’60s. Mary Bailey without George ends up with poor eyesight because she has to become a librarian. Everyone knows librarians have poor eyesight because they have to read all the time, which is why you must always snag yourself a man before it’s too late.
Thanks MaryRC for your astute observation about Sam Wainwright. I never even thought of that.
Bill Murray’s “Scrooged” is my favorite version of Christmas Carol. I love David Johansen and Bob Goldthwait and when Carol Kane smacks BM in the face with a toaster. Happy holidays indeed! Until it gets all unbelievably schmaltzy at the end.
Baby Godzilla Jesus:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12748936
Loneoak: It should work if you just change your name in the “Name” block under “Leave A Comment.” You may have to re-enter yer e-mail address etc.
And let this be a lesson to you. It’s not nice to pretend you’re Jesus.
While in our house we put up the festive green and red razorwire and the sign on the chimney “We don’t want no stinkin’ presents”.
war on Christmas
I don’t want to scare the children so I refer to it as the Pillow Fight on Christmas.
Doesn’t work if you just change your Name, that’s the problem. Let’s see if it works with an email re-typing.
Communist Jesus:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snegotron/1081416423/
Pat, wow, that Salon discussion thread is a perfect example of how CTers “think.” No proof, no evidence, will ever dissuade them, yet they’re just “asking questions.”
Nope. Didn’t work. WordPress is not playing nice with Safari, I guess. FWP.
Although it may not be nice to pretend to be Jesus, it was funny.
So you wait until now to share this? If I could see the goddam keyboard I’d protest.
I’m in Safari too. Here’s what happens if I just change the name to Jay-sus,
Huh. Oh well. WP is Satan.
Now I’ll just use an alternate email and that should probably take.
Nope, still doesn’t work. Reverts back to Jesus with my original email.
This is has been a waste of a thread, brought to you by the letters ‘F’, ‘W’, and ‘P’.
Woodrowfan, yep, that’s exactly it. And it’s been going on since Friday morning.
I don’t really know what to say about these guys. When they were just standing on peach crates on the corner, haranguing the passersby and handing out flyers to anyone who couldn’t avoid them, they might have been merely an object of ridicule.
But now they can recruit each other on the intertubes and feed each other wild ideas that only beget wilder ideas. And once it actually becomes a part of something that the Supreme Court has to actively consider and turn down, it’s actually pretty scary.
Bottom line, they are using this as just another way to delegitimize Obama’s presidency.
Sorry for the serious stuff. Back to Jesus…..
the Pillow Fight on Christmas.
Police action on Christmas.
Enforcement of UN Resolutions on Christmas.
Also, masturbating to romance novels in the library after closing is terrible for your vision.
During opening hours there are a whole different set of problems.
war on Christmas
Operation Omnipresent Cameltoe.
Also, masturbating to romance novels in the library after closing is terrible for your vision.
During opening hours there are a whole different set of problems.
Mostly with the mass ticket sales…
Operation Humbuggery
LoneOak (if that’s your real name):
Just delete your Sadly, No! cookie.
You’ll have to put in your info again ’cause it will all be blank.
But when you submit it will save again…
mikey
Thems’ fightin’ words among my people.
We watch the Mr. Magoo version every year.
All I said to the guy was, “Do you need a hand with that?” I thought it was a heavy book and he was having trouble lifting it.
…delete your Sadly, No! cookie.
(it’s not as bad as it sounds.)
Chapter 12.
In which Pooh buggers a hum.
Or hummers a bug.
Oh god, dirty Pooh jokes. I am going to hell.
Pooh and buggery don’t mix.
In which Pooh gets stuck and can’t pull out.
“Bother,” said Pooh, as Eeyore sneezed the crack all over Wol.
There was honey involved.
Pooh and Piglet came upon Eyore in the Hundred Acres Wood, tangled up in a rope net. “I forgot my safe word,” said Eyeore.
I see your mind is in the gutter again, S.C.
Actually the do. It’s called Santorum.
Though Christopher Robbin searched all over the wood, Pooh was nowhere to be found.
Apparently, that rotten gangsta kid down the street, “Little Jackie” Paper, came into the wood and took a Pooh…
mikey
Chapter One.
In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore, but then bought by Owl at a mortgage-foreclosure auction.
In which Pooh gets stuck and can’t pull out.
That would be
In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
It was the bears in the woods, so I’m told
We are all in the gutter, ITTDGY, but some of us are looking up skirts.
Another kiwi said,
We don’t want no stinkin’ presents
We don’t need no Yuletide cheer
No season’s greetings in the mailbox
Santa leave those gifts at home
Hey! Santa! Leave those gifts at home!
All in all it’s just another trip to the mall.
All in all you’re just another dick at the mall.
This is the season when I like to get my humbuggery on. Now if I could just find a hum to bugger.
Conservatives show their respect for the spirit of self-made entrepreneurs by giving cush jobs to their kids.
What gets Christopher rubbin’ is Pooh bare in the woods.
I like a traditional Hum Bugger. You know, between firm white buns with all the Condom Mints…
mikey
Sentimentality makes the subject more receptive to propaganda.
I included this information for RIM, the amateur psychiatric comedian/slanderer commenter who wasted time tracking the comments of another commenter who could not care less.
And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. But they played with sticks instead of fir-cones, because they were easier to mark.’
Just what Pooh is sticking, and where, and what is to become of all these Pooh sticks lying around is left to the reader…
I included this information for RIM, the amateur psychiatric comedian/slanderer commenter who wasted time tracking the comments of another commenter who could not care less.
My brain/head thing must not be working well today as I can’t figger what that means.
Hopefully God will be so busy sorting you out He won’t come after me for laughing my ass off.
“These tears? No, they aren’t from laughter. Really.”
But why would you play Poohsticks with fir-cones anyway?
If the game was intended to be played with fir-cones, it would be CALLED Pooh-fir-cones. Which sounds like a good name for a Shortstop…
mikey
Recommended reading.
One cannot play Poohsticks in the same river twice.
Not sure what that means but it sounds profound.
I’m pretty sure that after you finish a vigorous game of Poohsticks, that river is no longer fit for human consumption.
I think they even have a special rule they call the “Cholera Rule”….
mikey
MzNicky: You have a second on “Scrooged”. Also, you may remember that when it was televised during the 2001 Christmas season, ABC edited out Frank Cross’s “Your life might just depend on it” “Scrooged” promo, apparently believing we’d all still be so rattled after 9/11 that our delicate sensibilities couldn’t handle it. Actually, we never needed it more.
As usual, the Pythons have it:
Scrooged, yes, yes.
Mentis Fugit, LOVE the name.
I still find The Exorcist inspiring. It didn’t even make Ann Coulter’s list of films in which religious figures are the heroes! That bitch!
How about The Addams Family? That scene with the carolers…..that was great.
Film Theory:
That Capra meant post-war America had really become Pottersville.
The fact is, liberals will never get the Pottersville that their socialist policies will create. Here in the heartland, we use free market and moral values to keep media bias at bay with hard work.
Rupe, if you can’t see that Pottersville is the direct result of capitalism, the “free” market & unregulated banking there’s no point in acknowledging you.
Wait…no reason anyway.
..we use free market and moral values to keep media bias at bay with hard work
This SO needs to be someone’s vision statement. (& t-shirts!!)
Here in the heartland our two chief weapons are the free market, moral values and hard work. Our three chief weapons…
I’m trying to imagine how one would keep media bias at bay with free market and moral values (the hard work goes without saying!)
Perhaps someone could draw me a diagram.
(PS Jackie whats-her-name needs a real job.)
mikey, mzNicky, Righteous B;
SmutClyde, actor212, and thee;
won’t sum up;
though comments top;
three hundred and thirty three.
mikey, mzNicky, Righteous B;
SmutClyde, actor212, and thee;
went down to the pub;
for brewskis and grub;
with their pants draggin’ round their knees.
mikey, mzNicky, Righteous B;
SmutClyde, actor212, and thee;
pushed George off the bridge;
put Mister Martini in the fridge;
and dressed Donna Reed in scandalous long-sheer-ree.
mikey, mzNicky, Righteous B;
SmutClyde, actor212, and thee;
smeared Citicorp with honey;
sent ants to get their money;
and complained about brussels sprouts vociferously.
This Cetus is Bill Dylan , the cousin of Bob Dylan.
compare here
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
Whilst one talks of the existential questions that confront us , the other sings of brassicas.
Except of course it is Cletus not the more famous Cetus.
Almost as profound as Teh Tao of Pooh
Candy said,
Not to be confused with the Tower of Poo, which is probably surrounded by a shit-moat; nor with the Crock of Shit, though that at least brings us back on topic.
…Winnie the Pooh, for example, represents the principles of Wu Wei, or Wei Wu Wei….knowing when to act and when not to act
Hey, whoa, hey!!… sounds good to me
mikey, mzNicky, Righteous B;
SmutClyde, actor212, and thee;
went down to the pub;
for brewskis and grub;
with their pants draggin’ round their knees.
Pretty sure this would be worth doing.
Regardless of pants…
mikey
Shit moats . . . wonder what Alkon’s up to these days. Perhaps a visit to her shit-moated blawg would liven things up a bit.
Nope, no livening up; I’m just as blue and blah as before. My blood pressure’s a little higher, though. God she’s hateful.
..lazy, single female mooches to pump out children by the half-dozen
a great combination of resentment and projection
Candy.
As my long-time therapist would tell me.
You KNOW these people are assholes. What exactly are you seeking when you seek to engage them?
It’s a genuinely fair question. Want to fight? Ok, this makes sense.
Check it out and just get queasy? Hmm. What are you looking for from them? They will always give you what they are. You are NOT surprised by them. So, it’s worth asking? What and why?
The Sadlys do it because it is what they do, and their blog is built on it, and people expect them to do it.
But why would you? What can it give you? Or more importantly, what do you THINK it might give you…
mikey
A break in the monotony?
where possible, do not let jerks assert shit.
Poop!
(..uncontested)
where possible, do not let jerks assert shit.
That is a good motto.
Except of course it is Cletus not the more famous Cetus.
Clenis, me thinks.
can somebody go by and bust up Jackie’s chiffarobe?
As God is Jackie’s witness, she’ll never go hungry. Ever. Not so long as the wingnut gravy keeps flowing.
Regardless of pants…
The bars I am familiar with tend to follow a pro-pants policy.
That is a good motto.
How can you people sleep at night, knowing that somewhere in the Bloggosphere, some jerk is asserting shit?
While we’re Gingriching, let’s hear a big Howdy and I Love Ya to Candace Gingrich. She’s Newt’s half-sister, but she’s kind of a whole sistah to me.
Sadly, it’s what I live by, day by day (a long, long story).
Next time you’re looking for an inspiring name for a military action, Operation Uncontested Shit has merits.
A Sisyphean task.
(I did say “where possible”)
Testing…
Are we back now?
Well, lookee here.
Why, it’s Sadly, No! You remember them, dontcha? They used to be a pretty popular little political blog. Poor bastards, they just couldn’t “stay up”, if you know what I mean, and I’m pretty sure you do.
They probably coulda hired the sysadmin from “Hot Air” cheap – those guys never “go down”, if you know what I mean, and I think you very well might…
mikey
Oddly enough, I was down for scheduled maintenance myself.
Oh wow, like Jackie rully still has thes job, I’m shorrrrrrrrrrrre? No way!
That was quite the hiatus there. Is everything well maintained now?
Well, hello there, you ol’ Sadly, No! site! You know, it’s simply amazing how much I’ve been able to get done today.
Now — what’s all this about being pantsless in a bar with a bunch of guys? I’ll have you know that never happened! Well, not in a long time anyway. Dammit.
How does It’s a Wonderful Life pass conservative muster? Mr. Potter is obviously a Republican, berating George for lending to “garlic eaters”.
Exactly. If she wanted to be original, she could at least have talked about how Potter is the real hero of IAWL, the way Edwin Meese defended Scrooge.
(It’s instructive that a lot of people couldn’t decide at the time whether Meese was kidding.)
Maintained, yeah, you hit the ground running.
Possibly, Brooks notes, it is due to an increased feeling of control, a change of focus from our problems to helping others with theirs, or the now-proven release of endorphins (natural opiates) that leads to a “Helper’s High.”
Opiates?
hang on…if a guy smokes a doob, he’s put in jail, but these folks are all about these organic opiates???
So our old friend Khalid Sheik Mohammed would like to confess and plead guilty.
Except he’d have to be able to PROVE to the court that the confession wasn’t coerced, when the government has already acknowledged torturing him.
Jesus. Way to go, bush. Motherfucker could fuck up a DRY dream…
mikey
A nut calling himself something stinks seems to have been on his computer for, oh, maybe 48 hours, and is still going strong.
A fitting moniker… d00d’z been poopsocking on Salon!
I may not know how I’m going to make it through, but one thing I am sure of: I’m going to beat the crap out of that brain-dead old drunkard, Uncle Billy.
So now the upper class is telling us how to turn our eyes to Jeebus to help us through this vale of tears?
I say free the slaves, burn down the effing plantation, melt down the silver, and steal everything that will fit on or tie to a saddle. Then they can tell us how to bear our suffering.
Man, I was getting the shakes from jonesin’ for Teh Sadly.
And MzN, it is an unfortunate truth that as we age, the desirability of keeping our pants thoroughly up rises exponentially. Well, speaking for myself, anyway.
And to all of you who believe Ms. Cushman’s access to the media is thanks to her relationship to Gingrich the Newt, why, one quick glance at her writing….
Oh. Bitch.
I have forgotten the very funny thing I was going to write.
something stinks is still at it, along with a number of others. The comments are in the 600’s over there. Three days running. A veritable treasure trove of conflicting, contradictory made up stories about how Obama can not possible be qualified to be President.
Dig a little deeper, and one or more of them will admit to believing in all sorts of other conspiracies. My fave is that NASA is hiding evidence that there are alien life forms in our solar system. Or something.
Almost as entertaining as sadly no, precisely because they are not trying to be funny. Hey, I wonder if they’ll hit 1000 before Salon puts a stop to it.
A “vale of tears” is not actually a large amount. It’s one of those old apothecary measures. You need about two vales of tears to make a decent martini.
I’m gonna take the position that a Tear Martini would be quite nasty.
Sobbed, not Stirred…
mikey
Potter would be the good guy in the rightwing version of this story; unless his financial institution needed a bailout. Then they would talk about those union guys drinking all the time down at Martini’s
As someone not in the least ashamed of his love for this film (the final scene melts my cold liberal heart every time), it irritates me a little that her article has at least two errors as to the plot:
1. Clarence doesn’t meet George Bailey until 2/3rds of the way through the film. The George Bailey background is given to Clarence by the head angels.
2. George actually fathers four children: Janie, Pete, Zuzu and Tommy.
Also, as others have pointed out, she misses the explicit message of people over profits.
I have often wondered if the vale of tears originated at Port Vale football ground when The Vale have not had a good day.
BTW welcome back SN! let’s not break up again,ever!
Remember the guy from the conservative film website who posted the essay about how the Empire were really the good guys in “Star Wars”?
Four words: A Muppet Christmas Carol.
I’m gonna take the position that a Tear Martini would be quite nasty.
I’m gonna take the position that any drink based on gin is already intrinsically nasty beyond all redemption. For extra nastiness, the classic recipe uses the tears of a clown.
It’s early December, which in our home means putting up the Christmas tree, white outdoor Christmas lights and reading our favorite holiday comments. Inevitably, every year we read J— and Susan of Texas. However, my favorite Christmas comment is mikey’s on stupid assholes.
The story begins in response to Candy on December 8, 2008 at 4:14. Faced with stupid times, Candy (played by Candy) stands on a blog overlooking a shit moat and contemplates suicide. Mikey’s mission on Earth, (which will lead to him getting his wings if he is successful) is to turn Candy’s life around, leaving her once more in good cheer. Mikey does this by leading Candy through a practical lesson on the utility stupid assholes provide: opportunities for hostility and/or misery.
I may not know how I’m going to make it through, but one thing I am sure of: I’m going to beat the crap out of that brain-dead old drunkard, Uncle Billy.
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How can IAWL possibly be a conservative movie, if someone from a good background has to earn his wings?
I’m gonna take the position that any drink based on gin is already intrinsically nasty beyond all redemption. For extra nastiness, the classic recipe uses the tears of a clown.
Aw, fuck! And I was just earwormed with “Don’t Worry, Be Happy…”
OK, this one’s a far better song, but still….
Tisk, are none of you ex-Catholics? We make very good atheists.
Salve Regina
Hail, our Queen and Mother blest!
Joy when all was sadness,
Life and hope you gave mankind,
Mother of our gladness!
Children of the sinful Eve,
Sinless Eve, befriend us,
Exiled in this vale of tears:
Strength and comfort send us!
That Salve Regina is just the thing after a long bike ride.
Who needs a boyfriend when Sadly, No goes down on me several times a day?
I can hardly wait until they fix the economy by finding the misplaced deposit that has brought down financial institutions all over the world. I wonder what’s taking them so long?
Ms Cushman may indeed live in a beautiful world since one can get paid to write reviews of movies that cannot have reviewed more than 20 gazillion times.
Perhaps Devo summed it up best
Devo , It’s a beautiful world
I’m gonna take the position that any drink based on gin is already intrinsically nasty beyond all redemption.
Most of the fellers down at the Blood Clot drink Negronis, which is a gin/Campari concoction. I’ll stick to Brandy Alexander.
I can’t see the name Cushman and not think of Cushman (Cushie) Percy from the World According to Garp.
In this case, rather fitting.
Most of the fellers down at the Blood Clot drink Negronis, which is a gin/Campari concoction.
If everything gin is nasty, and everything Campari is tasty, which rule wins in a Negroni? How does the vermouth affect the outcome?
as we age, the desirability of keeping our pants thoroughly up rises exponentially.
This is why old men pull their pants up to their armpits. True true.
The barman at the Old Entomologist whips up a cocktail involving brandy, orange juice and several secret ingredients. Two glasses are enough to make you simultaneously horny and nauseous, so it’s called a Brangelina.
The Old Entomologist eh? A hornets nest?
Has this site gone belly-up or what?
…good grief, all of a sudden a bunch of new posts showed up I hadn’t been seeing before, and a ton of comments on this thread. Well, glad it’s working now. Hello, all.
Off topic, but our friends over at API claim that they have been personally invited to the Obama inauguration, in secret!
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/api-chief-editor-invited-to-obama-inauguration-as-us-president-on-the-20th-of-january-2009/
This is turning into a better hoax then the “whitey” tape!
Actually I wouldn’t be too hard on her–Doonesbury had a quote from her just recently excoriating her dad for his bitter determination to inflict republicanism on the USA in the face of the fact that it wasn’t wanted. She’s obviously a slightly better thinker.
However, I tend to agree with her assessment–it’s STILL a Wonderfully Privileged Life
Dude, you need to get back to work here. How am I suppose to screw off at work if I don’t have your site to read.
what the dealio?
Where the frick did everyone go?
Are you guys still mad ’cause of what I said the other day?
Testing….is this thing on?
Why are people trapped in this thread? There are other threads around y’know…
I love Capra movies- hell Mr Deeds Goes To Town, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Meet John Doe, those were fairly radical movies for their time, being paeans to the common man and all. And damn It’s A Wonderful Life is a dark, brilliant film, another one that celebrates the working Joe over the rich bitches. What I can’t figure out is why the the neonuts would celebrate this movie, especially in the current climate of corporate sleaze bringing down the economy and all. Shit, Lionel Barrymore’s character in the movie is the perfect symbol for the greed and inhumanity that has brought us to where we are now, and George Bailey is definitely a progressive populist, so go figure.
Arrrgh! My RSS reader shows that you’re updating, but when I go to the site, there’s nothing new!
Halp!
Where did everybody go? The page shows 136 comments but when I go in to read them there’s 187 and no new posts. I’m getting kinda tired of looking at ‘lil Jackie’s smug face.
Please let me back in the treehouse- I’ll be good, I promise!
Dear Sadlynauts,
I’ve got a wingnut friend who is totally into Michelle Malkin, and I’m trying to convince him that she’s batshit crazy.
So far I’ve got the “Kerry shot himself” crap and this article from America’s Shittiest Website, where she blames the economic collapse on Hispanics–I mean illegals.
Anyone got some primo Malkin?
You know you’ve got a good blog when people moan when you’re not there.
Where are you b’stards? You don’t expect ME to read those right-wing blogs, do you? That’s what we come here for.
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
I thought there was a new post.
From you SECRET reader who NEVER posts.
WTF is going on? You retired?
The absence of Sadly, No makes my procrastination more difficult!1!
Why are people trapped in this thread? There are other threads around y’know…
Maybe they’re reading the site on a mobile device like I am right now. On my desktop the site loads normally but from my blackberry it shows this post as the most recent. Once the full post with comments is loaded I can see a link at the top to the next thread so it’s possible to navigate through to subsequent posts but what a pain in the ass. Clearing the cache, the browser history, cookies, all futile. Please send help. We can’t hold out much longer.
Odd. When I am at home I can see the new postings, but when I try to read Sadly No at work (a university fwiw) THIS is the most recent post I can see, regardless of whether I use IE or Firefox.
Probably a broken cache or proxy, Woodrowfan.
I’m one of those poor bastards who’s still looking at that awful picture of Jackie Gingrich. I’ve cleared the cache, etc. This has been true on two different computers and a couple of different browsers. It’s not happening with any other site.
Maybe, but I have the same problem at work *and* at home (this being the last post I see), and there’s no commonality about the Internet access whatsoever.
Try a proxy server and see what happens.
Or this: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/14964.html
Slightly O/T
Anyone who lives in the LA area should do themselves a favor and see the Troubadour Theatre Company’s holiday classic…It’s a Stevie Wonderful Life. It’s at Gary Marshall’s Falcon Theatre in Toluca Lake.
yargh! Another data point! Having the no new posts problem here on my iPhone, too. Laptop fine. Every other website in the world fine. It’s just SN on mobile. Weird.
Having the same problem, RSS feed shows new posts, home page still shows this post at the top. Tried on two computers, five browsers each. Not a cache issue.
This is the newest one that I’m seeing, too 🙁
Anyone got some primo Malkin?
A visit to John Cole’s placemight help you out.
A small helping of simple, easy to understand stupid.
This blog sucks. They update like once every five days.
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too – keep up the great work!
For the love of Gawd and all that’s holy in the snark-based community, please make Jackie Gingrich GO AWAY!!!!!!
For some bizarre reason, if I look at S,N! in several web browsers I don’t see any updates since Dec. 7 (Jackie **GINGRICH** Cushman). This seems to be true on my Mac at home (in Safari, Camino & Firefox) as well as on some browsers in the office on the Windoze. But I know that there are later posts because when I check using IE on my office Windoze box I see the updates, yet IE on a Windoze PC in another office doesn’t get it. I’ve cleared the cache several times and restarted and can’t seem to get the new posts.
I see that others here are also detecting this issue. I’m glad it’s not just me, but has anyone found the bug? I also tried to report this on the contact page but every time I hit “submit” it complains that I am not allowed to access “/wordpress/” on this server. Makes it pretty impossible to report problems directly guys!!
Hamster to badger upgrades are tricky.
Thom, you ungreateful slut! I can recommend Dlisted. Michael K updates like a million times a day
We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
The nightmare of eternal recurrence has been realised!
Who thought the editors of Sadly, No! would be responsible?
Now I have to go home to read the latest snark.
For some bizarre reason, if I look at S,N! in several web browsers I don’t see any updates since Dec. 5
Ditto. This is most distressing. I am missing my daily dose of teh funny.
I can see the new updates at home (Cox Cable being my ISP,) but not here at work (where I have AT&T DSL,) using the same computer and same browsers. So telling people over and over to “delete cache” is unhelpful; clearly, the problem is not on our end.
Are the people who run this blog even aware of the *GINGRICH* problem?! I worry (a) none of them would check newer comments to this posting (why would they), (b) the Contact form doesn’t work, (c) nobody who has this problem has any other way to contact them (email)… I’m getting closer to just giving up and deleting this blog from my list…
Bring out your dead!
[clang]
Bring out…
[rewr!]
…your dead!
[rewr!]
[clang]
Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER:
Here’s one.
CART MASTER:
Ninepence.
Sadly, No:
I’m not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here’s your ninepence.
Sadly, No:
I’m not dead!
CART MASTER:
‘Ere. He says he’s not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
Sadly, No:
I’m not!
CART MASTER:
He isn’t?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. He’s very ill.
Sadly, No:
I’m getting better!
CUSTOMER:
No, you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.
CART MASTER:
Oh, I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations.
Sadly, No:
I don’t want to go on the cart!
CUSTOMER:
Oh, don’t be such a baby.
CART MASTER:
I can’t take him.
Sadly, No:
I feel fine!
CUSTOMER:
Well, do us a favour.
CART MASTER:
I can’t.
CUSTOMER:
Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won’t be long.
CART MASTER:
No, I’ve got to go to the Robinsons’. They’ve lost nine today.
CUSTOMER:
Well, when’s your next round?
CART MASTER:
Thursday.
Sadly, No:
I think I’ll go for a walk.
CUSTOMER:
You’re not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn’t there something you can do?
Sadly, No,: [singing]
I feel happy. I feel happy.
[whop]
CUSTOMER:
Ah, thanks very much.
CART MASTER:
Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Original by Monty Python who still have a website they post daily on, as in each day of the business week, sometimes weekends even, hardly on holidays, but still……..
They know, it’s been commented on several times. The thinking is it might be a DNS issue since they just changed servers and not everyone is experiencing it. Your DNS will catch on eventually, or you could change your settings to force it to use another, or as someone posted here you could add the site to your hosts file. Also, others have said they can get to the new posts via the RSS feed.
It’s definitely NOT a DNS issue. I can see the posts by RSS feed, and I can go directly TO those posts (for instance, try clicking on http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/15030.html). However, I still get this post on the front page.
Just don’t forget about the hosts file change. That is easily something that would slip your mind and then when you can’t access the site at all…perhaps they change IPs again down the road…you will never remember that you did that. I thought of that fix too but refrained from saying anything for precisely that reason.
Also, be careful. Many anti-spyware/anti-virus programs will either lock the hosts file, or interpret changes to that file as an adversarial act. It’s possible all you would need to do is remove the read-only property from the file, and ideally, a good security program would allow an override and/or be able to tell it was you and not a virus doing the editing, but there are a lot of stupid security programs out there.
Be gone, foul bug!
¿?
click start, chose ‘run’, type in ‘cmd’
In the resulting command window, ipconfig /flushdns
You know, this could eventually become a new Epic Zombie Thread. But we’ve got a lot of work to do.
Additionally, S,N! seems to be working fine on my computer(s).
Hm, I have an idea. Could someone suffering the Groundhog Day issue try this link? It should show the current, up-to-date homepage. That will narrow it down some.
Seems to work fine on my work Mac. When I get home I’ll check it on my pc just to be sure.
This can actually be pretty useful.
I’ve got a 1993 Ford Tempo with a bad water pump. Do I have to take the alternator out to get to it? And do the gaskets need sealant?
Thanks.
Djur’s link works, but I’m still getting the old stuff when I go to sadlyno.com.
My guess is proxy servers that have a long TTL for these DNS entries. Thye may be breaking the TTL specification or the old hosters DNScould have a long TTL that has not timed out. If it’s set for a week, things should resolve by Sunday.
Sucks, tho.
OK, if this is the default site from now on, somebody gotta change that f’n picture. Thom, I’m not totally sure, but isn’t the water pump built onto the front of the block? I don’t think the alternator needs to move; and hopefully the fan comes out without trashing the radiator. ‘Murcan mobiles aren’t really made to be worked on tho–just get another one!
No – water pump’s in back. I can tell cuz that’s where the screamingly-loud grinding sound I pretended not to hear is coming from. (And I’ve changed it before, years ago.) The alternator may have to come out just to get to the tensioner. Not sure. Gonna do it tomorrow.
P.S. I can’t believe I actually just used Sadly, No!/AutoHelp.com. What’s that thing the kids do? Oh yeah: BWAAAAAAAAA…
P.S.S. Les, check the comment 3 above yours.
Djur, that link works for me!
Yeah, no… doesn’t matter which browser I use it’s all Gingrich all the time.
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Biggie Smalls
Biggie Smalls
Djur, that worked for me…
You have to check this out: A search engine for the wingnutosphere:
— Search Wingnut Blogs
It’s a custom Google Search that only indexes the wingnut blogs. Not only entertaining, but a useful tool.
I guess Sadly no is broken. or am I in some loopety loop time warp/ It must be Obama’s fault somehow/
doop de doop. Just posting to win the commenter cookie and move Scarlett Gingrich’s pic off the damn homepage…
No, it’s actually the fault of The Clenis.
GINGRICH