What did you do for this loaf and fish, fucker?

And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.

I dunno – is it a hawt gorilla?

You’re forgetting that liberals are objectively pro-bestiality.

I am sure those who favor “community service” requirements would understand the principle behind the objections to this if high school military exercises were required.

I am sure those who compare “community service” requirements to Nazism would understand the principle behind what asshats they are being if they were asked whether schools had the right to veto stories in the student newspaper and search students’ lockers and backpacks without warning or warrant, as a series of unelected-activist Supreme Court decision in Ronald Reagan’s ’80s established that they do.

I dunno – is it a hawt gorilla?

If it was Magilla Gorilla I might do it because, you know, he’s famous.

They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.

Like slut-shamers and fag-bashers! We just LOVE that kind of stuff!

Song birds are not dumb
Some birds songs beg
“Please don’t sing along”
Cass can’t make it

In practice, it means forcing students to undergo a propaganda experience to make them receptive to the left’s vision of the world.

So, he has just admitted that service to the poor is part of the left’s vision, and that doing community service will cause someone to become part of the “left.” In other words, doing community service and being part of the right are mutually exclusive?

It’s easy to see why there are so many blogs devoted to tearing down the stupidity of these idiots.

Proving once again that Thomas Sowell is Jonah Goldberg’s houseboy.

Sowell’s a moron, yes. He’s also lazy as fuck.

Sowell today:

Is a community better off with more people not working, hanging out on the streets, aggressively panhandling people on the sidewalks, urinating in the street, leaving narcotics needles in the parks where children play?

Sowell, 11/6/07:

Even the simplest acts have ramifications that spread across society the way waves spread across a pond when you drop a stone in it. Among those who make a difference by serving food to the homeless, how many have considered the history of societies which have made idleness easy for great numbers of people? How many have studied the impact of drunken idlers on other people in their own society, including children who come across their needles in the park — if they dare to go to the parks?

A broken record on a morally bankrupt point. Well done, Tom.

“And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.”

Well, you see ….

Never mind. Pass. Pass.

I am sick and tired of you bleeding heart liberals making it so fun and carefree to be homeless. Maybe if people around the world didn’t know how sort of fun-time academies you were creating in the homeless shelter, there wouldn’t be so many people voluntarily abandoning their homes so as to cavort with liberal charity. If you would only take Econ 101 you would understand this.

“Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.”

Similarly, contributing money to charity is widely regarded as “virtuous”–as if encouraging freeloaders, laziness, sponging, mooching, and other forms of getting something for nothing is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.

I wonder what set him off. I mean, sure this is standard “I’ve got mine” wingnut boilerplate, but generally something specific irks these yay-hoos, like seeing Orlando Bloom without his shirt makes Ben Shapiro write about the ickiness of gay people. That sort of thing, so I wonder why Thomas Sowell, Professional Grumpy Old Fart, is hacked off about having to do some bullshit that you can totally fake if you’ve left the house at all during your high school years to get into college. Maybe he has a dartboard with topics to get frothing about each and every week (at least) in his life.

And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.

gRape Ape.

Ah, my handbasket to hell has just arrived.

That sort of thing, so I wonder why Thomas Sowell, Professional Grumpy Old Fart, is hacked off about having to do some bullshit that you can totally fake if you’ve left the house at all during your high school years to get into college.

Obama. Tom was opearating in hacky-old-coot mode for the past decade. The rise of Obama really brought a ragegasm out in him.

Or maybe that was the incontinence.

So now it’s the “Thousand Points of Spite”?

handing out various kinds of benefits to people who have not worked for them breaks the connection between productivity and reward

Because the dangling carrot and the busy stick works so much better!

“Are there no prisons?”

(And I see that America’s Shittiest Website™ already went there.)

I am sure those who favor “community service” requirements would understand the principle behind the objections to this if high school military exercises were required.

Welcome to Germany. I didn’t grow up here, but my understanding is that all young men must serve nine months military service, or civil service as an alternative.

By the by, I helped with Catholic religious instruction as my community service. Mostly because it was convenient and the teacher was a friend of the family. Anyway, you don’t have to see icky poor people if you don’t want to.

I was going to be homeless, but when I realized that my community offers inadequate services to the homeless I decided not to be homeless.

Community service is evil! It says so in St. Ayn’s Holy Book! John Galt would not approve! St. Ronny would stare sternly at the suggestion.

Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.

Hmmm…

About one-third of the adult homeless population have served their country in the Armed Services. Current population estimates suggest that about 154,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.

Right now, the number of homeless male and female Vietnam era veterans is greater than the number of service persons who died during that war

[<a href=”http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=1″via the DFHs of the DVA]

FYWP:

Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.

Hmmm…

About one-third of the adult homeless population have served their country in the Armed Services. Current population estimates suggest that about 154,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.

Right now, the number of homeless male and female Vietnam era veterans is greater than the number of service persons who died during that war

(I think it chocked on my embedded link, which was to that nest of DFHs, the DVA)

(Will this work, or does WP truly suck the giant Sowell Schlong?)

http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=1

There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate, and colleges where your application for admission will not be accepted, unless you have engaged in activities arbitrarily defined as “community service.”

The solution then is simple. Don’t define them arbitrarily but rather using a rigorous taxonomic scheme. Or one could simply avoid those cawlidges and higth schools. Or one could stop jerking one’s own chain and do a better job of emulating one’s mentors – Weyrich comes to mind.

OK, I should also point out that because those stats are from an Bush Admin. agency so feel free to assume they’re VERY conservative. For compassions sake, of course.

Now I will shut up.

(FYWP!)

“narcotics needles”? I had no idea that the medical supplies industry manufactured special hypodermic needles designed specifically for narcotics abuse. Learn something new every day.

“Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”– as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.”

Aren’t people in a homeless shelter off the street, and therefore, by definition, not vagrants?

Wouldn’t that mean that working in a homeless shelter actually helps reduce vagrancy?

I mean, I know it’s America’s Shittiest Wewbsite@™ and all, but really…

There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate

…unless you do fucking PHYS ED. Truly there are harsh and valuable lessons to learn within the dodge-ball ring, but community service may provide something nearly as useful.

DrDick said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:54
Community service is evil! It says so in St. Ayn’s Holy Book! John Galt would not approve! St. Ronny would shake his jowly wattles disappointedly at the suggestion.

Finagled Your Tipple

if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla”

So you ding-a-lings that smell like ylang-ylang wanna play ping-pong with King Kong’s ding dong, or it’s off to Sing Sing for a long, long…

How many words does Thomas need before he uses the N-word?

Call me picky, but I don’t think this works as the Ultimate Question, either. On the other hand, I like it better than that “six times nine” bullshit.

Aren’t people in a homeless shelter off the street, and therefore, by definition, not vagrants?
Well if you insisted on being pedantic about it, you might quibble with a statement about “handing out various kinds of benefits to people who have not worked for them” — because if some has worked for a benefit, then you are not “handing out” benefits, you’re feckin’ paying them. But I like to think that we are better than that.

Via the godlike Thers a whole fucking AEI interview with the current president. I forget his name.

“Indeed, Hitler’s brown shirted minions were a government sponsored community service organization. ”

If, by “brown shirted minions”, this jackass is referring to the SA (known colloquially as the “brownshirts”) he is wrong as usual. The SA was funded by the Nazi party from its inception in (I think) 1921 or so. As soon as the Nazis did become indistinguishable from the government, the smacked the brownshirts down hard- have you ever heard of the night of the long knives?

They can’t even get the facts right about their closest historical soulmates.

Incidentally, the brown shirts were disturbing and dangerous precisely because they swore allegiance to Hitler himself, not to the Nazi Party or, after the Party became the state, any other governmental or military agency.

But I am expecting knowledge of history from wingnut commenters, which is like expecting knowledge of mechanical drawing from chimpanzees.

Green Eagle is a genius.

Shorter TS: “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

By the way, where are the pet trolls? Usually any mention of Hitler makes them all erect and shiny…

Usually any mention of Hitler makes them all erect and shiny…

Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.

Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.

Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of.

Okay, Mr. Sowell, then explain, under your rubric, the right’s opposition to abortion, the right of gays to be treated like human beings, religious freedom for non-Christians, etc. etc. etc.

High-level back-and-forth – with punchline! – from the AEI forum:

MR. DeMUTH: Another book that you famously read was Eliot Cohen’s “Supreme Command.” And he later went to work for you.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, he did.

MR. DeMUTH: Do you think he got it right in that book?

THE PRESIDENT: I can’t even remember the book. (Laughter.) I remember reading it, but give me a synopsis. (Laughter.)

MR. DeMUTH: That —

THE PRESIDENT: You can’t remember it either. (Laughter.)

MR. DeMUTH: No. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Just teasing. Did he work for you at AEI? Is that why you’re —

MR. DeMUTH: He was on our Council of Academic Advisers.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, okay. I did read it.

MR. DeMUTH: The essential point is that in history, in wartime, Presidents do well not leaving the war to the military, but being the supreme commander themselves.

> MR. DeMUTH: The essential point is that in history, in wartime, Presidents do well not leaving the war to the military, but being the supreme commander themselves.

Continuing the wingnut tradition of being clueless about history.

Would the gorilla give a reacharound?

Oh, PZ would wish likely wish us a Happy Monkey, were he here.

Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.

Clearly the gorilla.

in wartime, Presidents do well
There’s an unstated statement of priorities here.

The essential point is that in history, in wartime, Presidents do well not leaving the war to the military, but being the supreme commander themselves.

Whoops.

The essential point is that in history, in wartime, Presidents do well not leaving the war to the military, but being the supreme commander themselves.

Essential point? It’s “central point,” dummy.

Hey! we are vegetarians, mostly, and we live in communes but we don’t do the backyard sausage dance.
Not with freakin’ humans anyway, we got some dignity.

Sorry to be so ignorant, but has anyone explained recently why Sowell has the nickname “Kidney” on this, my favoritest of all blogs? Unlike the other fabulous nicknames (Doughy Pantload, Assrocket, K. Lo, The Human Steyn, et al), I have never understood the history of this name.

Though I often think fondly of his great plan to have helicopter snipers intercede in police chases; you just can’t make stuff like that up.

Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.

See what I mean?

TANSTAAFL!

except wingnut welfare would qualify as a free lunch, thus screwing the pooch

So me and Ralph were talking on the thread downstairs, and we seem to think that The Truth is D.N. Nation.

G*d damned Marxist Salvation Army bell ringers!!!!

Am I the only one really irritated by the Salvation Army ads?

I’m like, “Hey, imagine how many kids you could feed with the money you spent on this.”

Meat Loaf og Karla DeVito

Music, the universal language.

The pet trolls are all out on patrol.

There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate …unless you do fucking PHYS ED.

Mine, in dopey suburban Ogden, Utah, was one such.

Worse, they required a course called “Responsible Parenting”, which was all about how, since every single one of the girls was assumed to be headed for marriage and knockage-up the day after graduation, you might make the best of it and not be shitty teenage parents. The boys were assumed to be getting married and conducting the knockings-up a bit later, like at the age of 21 or so, after they’d served their Mormon missions.

The class was a total joke, too, more of an indoctrination into conservative mommy-and-daddy culture than anything useful. Pfaugh.

All anti-Christmas warriors must hail our hero Charles Dickens.

Who should be in my masturbation fantasy tonight? Michelle Obama? DrDick? Or Hitler? Hmm.

What’s with the “or”? You need to learn to dream big. Shit, that’s what wanking is all about.

“knockage-up”

*quibble*

“knock-upage”

I’m like, “Hey, imagine how many kids you could feed with the money you spent on this.”

I blame the Papists. And the Illuminati. And those bastard Masons. And the reptilian Greys.

What did you do for this loaf and fish, fucker?

First comment and it wins the thread. Well, from here, anyway. Now let me go read the rest of the comments.

*quibble* “knock-upage”

Hm, I guess I hypercorrected.

How about “up-knockage”?

First comment and it wins the thread.

That happens a lot around here.

Worse, they required a course called “Responsible Parenting”

Filipinos often get to take an awesome course – in university no less – along the lines of “Towards a Healthy Heterosexual Relationship”.

This is the strangest thread I’ve read here in a while, and that’s saying something. What, I don’t know.

Results 1 – 10 of about 4,260,000 for “knocked up”.
Results 1 – 10 of about 51 for “knock upped”.

“Another book that you famously read”

Uh — “famously read”? Because, for Chimpy McShitbrains to have read anything would be of famous note? Or something? blergh??

Filipinos often get to take an awesome course – in university no less – along the lines of “Towards a Healthy Heterosexual Relationship”.

Jeebus. I can just imagine what that’s like.

Actually, I wouldn’t be against good parenting and relationship classes – and anger management and stuff like that – if it were somehow presented non-coercively and not tailored to fit some sort of weird throwback social order. I just have no idea how you’d pull that off.

The last time I tossed money into a Salvation Army bucket was just before I found out they had spent several hundred million dollars lobbying to make sure that they wouldn’t have to meet the federal employment non-discrimination requirements in return for sucking up a bunch of “faith-based initiative” taxpayer largesse. That was something like 5 years ago.

How about “up-knockage”?

Does this involve trading your non-spouse for a more valuable specimen?

Jesus, how does someone get to be this much of a fucking asshole anyway? This is your brain on gLibertarianism.

Because, for Chimpy McShitbrains to have read anything would be of famous note?

Have you not heard the Tale of the Three Shakespeares?

Results 1 – 10 of about 4,260,000 for “knocked up”. Results 1 – 10 of about 51 for “knock upped”.

OK. In general, where I use a verb/particle combo like “knock up”, I do prefer to put the conjugations on the verb. Though I could imagine they could become lexicalized to the point where the verb and particle aren’t separable.

But if in doubt, just make fakey German out of it, e.g. aufgeknacht.

Whoops. That was several hundred thousands of dollars. Not millions.

Still, I don’t toss money into the pot to help fund their lobbying campaigns in support of bigotry.

The fact is, you liberals have no respect for the laws of economics.

It is the laws of physics which I disdain, hah!

Jennifer, I haven’t supported them either, since I found out how uncharitable they can be.

Probably why the commercial makes me so ticked off.

Righteous Bubba said,
December 19, 2008 at 3:11

These people are amazing – every day they come up with something even more insane than they did the day before! Peak Wingnut is nowhere in sight.

It is the laws of physics which I disdain, hah!

Forest mushrooms give me the gift of flight through the galaxy, aided by a wise, patent leather panda from the 137th dimension.

And my italics were off! I swear it!

Forest mushrooms give me the gift of flight through the galaxy,

Just don’t eat the bright orange ones.

An awesome Town Hall sign-off:

It is not too late to save the family in America. Our movement simply needs to remain focused upon creating a nation that respects biblical marriage and the multiplied benefits it gives to us, and our children.

Let’s roll.

Jennifer: Well shit. I just tossed a $20 into their pot yesterday. The Salvation Army has been one of my Xmas donations, especially since Target got all snooty and banned them a few years ago because their corporate PR geniuii deemed them not hip enough. Sort of a perverse/reverse kneejerk reaction on my part. Oh well.

Heh heh. It’s like an extra helping of Christmas stupid. I LUV U TWNHALL!!1

Have you not heard the Tale of the Three Shakespeares?

That would be William and his younger brothers, Tell and Overture.

nation that respects biblical marriage

Well, hellfire and damnation! Marrying Bibles? What’s next? Man on dog sex? Goat blowing? Box turtle marriage?

It is the laws of physics which I disdain, hah!

Not to mention laughter and loving.

We would like to have a few words with Mr. Kaus on the laws of loving.

Just don’t eat the bright orange ones.

The way to eat those is to drink the urine of someone who ate the orange one (true story). Least, that’s what the Sino-shamans used to do. I bypass that myself, being allergic to urine (“It’d been a pretty wild night down at the Blood Clot….”).

I was going to ask why he doesn’t present some conservative-approved community service ideas since that would actually be productive instead of just blowing hot air but then I realized that;

1) that question answers itself
2) maybe that’s what he was trying to do with the whole mandatory military service thing.

And I bet that if one were to decide that “community service” means “getting fucked up the ass by a gorilla,” then liberals might find community service not to be that attractive after all.

This puts a whole new spin on John McCain’s favorite rape joke.

#

ahem said,

(And I see that America’s Shittiest Website™ already went there.)

I just clicked through to that page,

Jesus, what a bitch.

Biblical marriage?

You mean polygamy and concubines?

No wonder the wingnuts are for it.

Yeah, the Salvation Army is thoroughly anti-gay. They’ve lobbied hard against same-sex family adoptions, have a history of kicking out homosexuals from their shelters and programs, and refuse to employ anyone with a lisp. No self-respecting liberal should give those assholes a penny. I usually want to kick over their stupid little money pot and kick the bell-ringer in the crotch, but then I would probably end up on Bill O’Reilly.

You know W once did some community service (which was certainly totally voluntary and not because he was busted for snorting coke) . Does that mean that Sowell considers him a Nazi ? Maybe Sowell was the guy who posted the Bush/Hitler video at moveon.org.

Maybe one of you LIEbral brainiacs can help me out here: One of the bikers here at the Blood Clot just called me a “twatwaffle”. Any idea of what that means?

Any idea of what that means?

It depends. Is the biker from Britain, the U.S., or somewhere else?

Any idea of what that means?

It’s an expression of fondness, especially when uttered by Seuropeans.

RiM: I’d tell you but then you’d have to kill me.

Re Salvation Army: Well that tears it. Tomorrow I’m gonna go knock over that fucker at Kroger’s and get my $20 back, plus a perfectly legal rate of interest, then I’m taking it to the local animal shelter. Don’t ANYONE tell me the Humane Society is anti-gay. I don’t think I could take it.

Any idea of what that means?

It sounds like he would like to put butter and syrup on your intimate parts.

Make sure he goes with 100% New York Maple syrup. It’s the best!

Any idea of what that means?

Give us an idea of the context. If he followed up by saying, “and you shore do have a purty mouth”, we’ll have a much better idea.

Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime.

Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom. – Thomas Sowell.

Huh!? Is that the definition of Liberal Fascism?

RUGGED: According to “Urban Dictionary,” which as an elder-American I consult regularly:

twatwaffle:

n.1 An elitist; someone unaware of their own limitations and highly critical of others.
n.2 A general prick. See: douchebag, n00b.
v.1 To ban; to totally pwn.
“That Tom Cruise is such a twatwaffle.”

Really, why shouldn’t a twatwaffle have a more literal meaning like a vaginal sponge or something like that? In which case it would be a generally positive thing and one could hold up one’s head with the other twatwaffles.

Well, okay, MzNicky, but in my defense it doesn’t leave out the delicious toppings.

Much obliged, Ms MsNicky, may G*d reward you for your kindness. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a trayful of Brandy Alexanders to drink before taking that rather over-sized biker out to the sidewalk to give him a stern dressing down.

Righteous Bubba said,

December 19, 2008 at 4:29

Really, why shouldn’t a twatwaffle have a more literal meaning like a vaginal sponge or something like that? In which case it would be a generally positive thing and one could hold up one’s head with the other twatwaffles.

The Blueberry Syrup lobby haz an objection.

why shouldn’t a twatwaffle have a more literal meaning like a vaginal sponge or something like that?

According to an unimpeachable source (the “Seinfeld” quotes atop the S,N! webpage), I think vaginal sponges are now extinct. A currently fertile woman may have more information than I can provide.

All anti-Christmas warriors must hail our hero Charles Dickens.

Thank you, RB.

Between that and Glenn Blecch’s playing of “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” this morning I now have ammo for my latest blog post.

…before taking that rather over-sized biker out to the sidewalk to give him a stern dressing down.

Ooh! Liveblog this pls.

They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.

Why, just the other day I was castigating a homeless man with my shoe while I waited for the light to change and a police officer arrested me! Apparently the liberals have taken away a man’s right to beat his social inferiors!”

Oh my god, that is the funniest thing I have ever read! The writer actually says that people love Dickens’ Christmas Carol because they literally believe that ghosts visited Scrooge (not just a fictional character, but real!) on Christmas Eve and turned him from a crotchety old free-market capitalist into a Big Government Liberal!

What the silly man said was:

Interesting, isn’t it, that the hearts of the non- or nominally religious are warmed by the genuinely fanciful and unbelievable story of a miserly old man having his heart fundamentally changed by the appearance of three apparitions one Christmas Eve, yet these same hearts assign to the category of myth the assertion of the Christian Gospel that God himself has visited us in the person of His only Son.

Here’s a clue for you: they’re both myths, but some people think the more unbelievable myth is historical fact.

There’s nothing wrong with myths. Myths define our cultural language and heritage. The Christian Nativity myth has a similar poetic power too: think of Linus reciting Matthew in “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.

I guess I don’t understand what the guy is bitching about. Oh, yeah… wingnut…

Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom threaten my persecution complex.

Fixt.

Is the biker from Britain, the U.S., or somewhere else?

Somewhere else. This is Butte, MT, we are talking about here.

A currently fertile woman may have more information than I can provide.

I asked the young lady next to me at the bar and she shrugged her shoulders. She says she uses Saran Wrap™ as “it keeps flavors in and refrigerator odors out” (whatever that means….I think she’s a bit tipsy).

RUGGED FTW.

yet these same hearts assign to the category of myth the assertion of the Christian Gospel that God himself has visited us in the person of His only Son.

Well, if they saw a change of heart, the nominally religious among us might feel more warmly towards it.

If it’s used simply as a large fish to beat people with, not so much.

After Scrooge woke up the next morning, he was at least a big tipper.

I’d settle for that.

Ooh! Liveblog this pls.

After a trayful of Brandy Alexanders, I’m pretty much limited to pointing with my finger, weaving back and forth and occasionally falling down.

RUGGED: We were just discussing unpleasant refrigerator odors down on the Kay Hymietown thread.

I’m pretty much limited to pointing with my finger, weaving back and forth and occasionally falling down.

That might still be a pretty good read.

That might still be a pretty good read.

I am thinking webcam here.

RUGGED: We were just discussing unpleasant refrigerator odors down on the Kay Hymietown thread.

Apropos of that – do any of you know what’d cause a really really nasty smell in a frdge – kind of an acidy rotting-fruit funk? Everything that looked dubious has been cleaned out, and it’s still there. It’s positively Chtulhoid, and it’s seeping into everything we have in there.

I can’t get upset about the Sowell piece because it’s just too clear that he doesn’t give half a shit about the issue, and neither do his commenters. It’s really just completely meaningless, objectless whining. Totally vacuous.

Pere Ubu: A forlorn, forgotten three-year-old box of baking soda?

do any of you know what’d cause a really really nasty smell in a frdge – kind of an acidy rotting-fruit funk?

It’s happened to us a number of times. The only time when it survived a cleaning was when some ancient moldy fruit had fallen behind the crisper drawer and gotten overlooked.

That might still be a pretty good read.

I doubt it. The way I’m accessing the internets at the moment is by using one of the original “brick” cellphones, typing ASCII code into the keypad and transmitting it to the Commodore 64 in my basement lair. It takes a lot of concentration, more than I’ve got when I’m chockoblocko with the Alexandered Brandies.

Besides, I’ve got too have my wits about me when dealing with this wily snake, can’t be inputing ASCII and dodging rounds from an oversized sidearm, now can I?

acidy rotting-fruit funk

This sounds like heat-triggered decomposition to me. Have you checked the fan & the light bulb areas? Taken the cover off? Circulating air is great to make the freezer frost free, but can draw things into areas they shouldn’t be. And where we don’t think to look.

Quick, Robin, to the BatCave!

“twatwaffle”.

I remember that. They were trying to promote Blazing Saddles as a midnight movie.

All these Madeline Kahn impersonators would line up on stage for the…um…

acidy rotting-fruit funk

Check the condensation drain for blockage. If you’re sure the whole interior is spotless, empty everything out and put a big bowl of bleach on the bottom shelf. An hour or so of chlorine fumes ought to do the trick of blotting out any odors the plasic interior may have absorbed.

This sounds like heat-triggered decomposition to me. Have you checked the fan & the light bulb areas? Taken the cover off?

No and no, but I suppose I know what I’ll be doing this weekend. Bleugh.

(Hey – I thought us DHFs weren’t supposed to care about such domestic tasks as refrigerator-cleaning. Or it’s the Pussification of the American Male, or the Femininization of Society, or something. Hey, maybe I should write an essay and send it to ClownHall – wingnut welfare here I come)

I would love to see some one of us sneak under the barbed wire and become a Clown Hall poster child.

I would love to see some one of us sneak under the barbed wire and become a Clown Hall poster child.

Writing teh stupid like you really mean it would be a tough gig. And you probably have to be someone’s “cousin”

Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.

I would love to see some one of us sneak under the barbed wire and become a Clown Hall poster child.

Would we be able to tell the difference? Most of it already reads like the Onion™ization of the InterTubes.

Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.

You’re onto a good analogy there, but I can’t help thinking there’s a more appropriate verb than “thinking”.

Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.

And exactly when has anyone ever seen any signs of anything that might remotely be labeled thought at Townhall?

I can’t help thinking there’s a more appropriate verb than “thinking”.

I believe the word you are looking for is “wanking.”

You’re onto a good analogy there, but I can’t help thinking there’s a more appropriate verb than “thinking”.

We (meaning my borg) had a verb sent out merger-wide today.

The alleged word “decisioning” was used in reference to some loan approval application.

I can only assume that the Decisionator authorized this travesty.

The alleged word “decisioning” was used in reference to some loan approval application.

That’s some prime corporate leechspeak. I’m well out of that stuff – I get the academic style of nonsense these days. Last time I was around corporate types the phrases in vogue were like “positively impact the body of product, going forward.”

I believe the word you are looking for is “wanking.”

Hmm….

“Townhall is the wanking man’s Renew America.”

It does work, but now it’s a bit too nonspecific. After all, Renew America is also the wanking man’s Renew America.

The Salvation Army is probably the single instution where the sin-sinner dichotomy is most useful. I’d wager most people giving their time there aren’t actually aware of how fucking awful they are on certain issues.

Really, what they ought to have is guys with bells and hoods for Amnesty International.

It does work, but now it’s a bit too nonspecific. After all, Renew America is also the wanking man’s Renew America.

I think you underestimate just how much wanking is required of one to read Townhall.

[Target’s] corporate PR geniuii deemed [the SA] not hip enough

More like “well, we’ll make an exception to our ‘no solicitations’ policy for them– no, wait, that sets a precedent that can be challenged by other charity groups. Forget it then.”

As of 2006, Target had alternate ways for the SA to get money from them without being at the doors, but I don’t know if that’s still the case.

Personally, I might’ve considered giving to them in the past if they did carillon ringing.

I think you underestimate just how much wanking is required of one to read Townhall.

Conceded. I only read the parodies and fiskings and shorters, not the actual site.

When I was in school, we were required to pass CPR, via PE class, to graduate. Imagine my flabbergastation at the notion that I might be asked to provide emergency medical care – FREE OF CHARGE, mind you! – to some ne’er do well who’d chosen to fall where he’d stood and, instead of living, suddenly let his heart stop beating and wait for someone else to come along and save him.

Ingrates! Malcontents! Jackanapes! Hooligans, all !

The alleged word “decisioning” was used in reference to some loan approval application.

My buddy works in IT and said their new corporate buzz word is ‘solutioning’. No, he wasn’t thrilled with it, either.

I was “aiding and abetting vagrancy” this morning when I gave a guy playing a guitar in the subway $0.50. He told me he would be in a different tunnel in the evening and I said I would see him there and give another $0.50 A Bush assistant US attorney charged me with “conspiracy to commit vagrancy” and “accessory before and after the fact of vagrancy”. Now I’m looking at five years at Eglin. Meanwhile, Bernie Madoff is accused of stealing $50 b-b-b-billion and he went home by posting bail using an immovable object.

I think you underestimate just how much wanking is required of one to read Townhall.

Combined with the self-abuse occurring on the page and, one presumes, at the keyboard, there must be some sort of Hoover dam in operation.

Townhall is the one wet-suited man’s Renew America.

Better?

Previous memos had left me with the impression that central-gubblement funding of social services was a Bad Thing because it discouraged philanthropy and individual charity. Sowell does not like individual charity. The answer is staring him in the face*: MORE CENTRAL-GUBBLEMENT FUNDING.

*For values of “The answer” that include “my arse”.

“Townhall is the one wet-suited and buttplugged man’s Renew America.”

All fixed for you for free.

fucking PHYS ED.
NZ schools classify this as “extracurricular activity”.

Dang. I was all set to volunteer at my local food bank, but Josef Goebbels showed up and ranted at me about “lebensraum” and some other shit. Then another dude identified only as “An Austrian corporal” got up and yelled at me some more, though I have to say he was a pretty good public speaker overall. His fans are pretty loud, though.

Eventually, I gave up and went home.

So, Dammit.

I got an invitation (it’s a long story, and no, world war III did not result) to a christmas reception at the russian mission in San Francisco today. My big ol denim clad pony tailed presence may not have contributed to the best of diplomatic relations, but the food was good and the chicks were consistently hot.

So I missed a bunch. I’m gonna pour a scotch and try to catch up…

mikey

fucking PHYS ED.

We didn’t have fucking in phys ed in my school. Might have enjoyed it more if we had.

I spent the first eight months of this yr. in a homeless shelter & sleeping under a piece of playground equipment. I’m still semi-homeless. By chance, I found myself in a shelter located next to the VA here in West L. A. The number of homeless vets (Example: guys who spent the maximum three mos. in the VA’s residential alcoholism program, & then found themselves on the street after their time was up) is pretty astounding. I wonder what that fuck Sowell has to say about that, what w/ his “military service” bullshit. I’m guessing that if he ever served, it was two yrs. as a draftee when the U. S. wasn’t engaged in a war. (That is, a looong time ago.)

I also wonder what Tommy would say if I & some of those homeless vets showed up at his house & offered to do a little “community service” involving his dentures & the other end of his G. I. tract. Seriously.

Sowell is an absolute moron. No comprehension of reality whatsoever. And writes like a fucking sixth grader.

Some of those lazy, aggressively panhandling (which usually, Mr. Sowell, you unspeakable fuck, results in a swift ticket, arrest, or at the least an invitation to “move on” by the forces of repression) public-urinating homeless may be seen here..

ATTENTION SERVERMEISTER GAVIN: While whining, let me add, “Why can’t we check our links in preview any more? Waaa, waaaah!”

We didn’t have fucking in phys ed in my school. Might have enjoyed it more if we had.

Think about that – I was always the last kid picked for the team in dodge ball, and I can’t imagine that sort of experience would improve with a different activity.

Has RUGGED been on the turps again? He just invited me out to the sidewalk where he gave me this dressing-gown. It’s rather stylish, with embroidered Chinese dragons and everything, but it doesn’t go with my helmet.

So I missed a bunch.

Maybe not, compared to good food and hot chicks. But welcome!

I can’t imagine that sort of experience would improve with a different activity.

There is that. It would seem we share a common experience there.

It would seem we share a common experience there.

Heh.

Then again, high school P.E. was nowhere near the nightmare Jr. High P.E. was – my coach was a good guy and mostly just graded on whether you showed up, were in some approximation of gym clothes, and participated. Under that regime it might not have been too bad.

That junior high coach was a piece of work, though, no lie. I’d rather do gorilla community service than have him involved in any sexual activity I got anywhere near.

The most fundamental problem, however, is not which particular activities students are required to engage in under the title of “community service.”

Izzat so? Then why’d you spend half of your two-bit column on that one aspect of “community service?”

And by the way, there are a hell of a lot more ways to do community service than helping the disabled, down on their luck & just plain fucked up. No matter how fascist it is of those educators to make “the kids” do something they don’t want to, there are usually options that don’t involve poor people.

Whoever above asked why Sowell got this particular bug up his ass could assume that a young person of Sowell’s acquaintance may have stood in a line handing out socks or cookies to vagrants, & perhaps informed much older relative Thomas that not all the bums were pissing in their pants, panhandling or too stinky to stand. He’s probably afraid of any “service” which may destroy his favorite myths, so he’d best nip it in the bud.

M. Bouffant – having been on the street myself I know what you’re going through. I don’t really know what else to say, everyone’s experience is their own.

“Last time I was around corporate types the phrases in vogue were like “positively impact the body of product, going forward.””

I prefer to old fashioned word for it – newspeak.

We didn’t have fucking in phys ed in my school. Might have enjoyed it more if we had.

Thank God. All-boys school. We had to content ourselves with matriculating.

All-boys school. We had to content ourselves with matriculating.

Not British then?

…and emulating the older boys.

Newspeak indeed. Though “going forward” is about as stupid as it gets.

noen, I’m doing fine now. And didn’t have any horrible experiences. But for that asshole to make statements like that…Arrrghh!!

Still, as more & more people hit the streets through little or no fault of their own, we can only hope Thomas starts spewing this more often than his current every 13 mos. rate.

Thread needs more photographs of polydactylous cats.

Let’s see how many words Thomas needs before he uses the N-word!

Damn, I thought you were referring to that other N-word. What does that say Sowell, me, or either of us.

Newspeak indeed. Though “going forward” is about as stupid as it gets.

Agreed. There was an empty-suit VP at one place I worked who used it all the goddam time (that snippet of bullshit I included was verbatim from him on many occasions).

The only difference between leechspeak and Newspeak is economy, I think – wasn’t Newspeak supposed to be really compact, while corporate babble is meant to fill pages with nothing? The overall authoritarian intent is pretty much the same.

handy, you aren’t the only one. I often forget that other N-word. Don’t think the overlords didn’t know what they were doing.

“This is a difficult time for a free market person.”
– Legacy Boy, articulating his cognitive dissonance in that AEI interview that Bubba linked.

As I remember it, the ultimate goal of Newspeak was something along the lines of eliminating language altogether, or reducing it to one or two words w/ the “plus/double-plus/good/un-good” modifiers.

Thread needs more photographs of polydactylous cats.

Smut Clyde, are you stealing my Balloon Juice comments?

showed up at his house & offered to do a little “community service” involving his dentures & the other end of his G. I. tract.

Don’t do it! He doesn’t deserve having his edento-colonic trauma fixed for free. You’d just be aiding and abetting whingnut auto ass-biting.

BTW, the cat’s name is “McLovin”.

That’s a great cat name.

Thomas Sowell, uh, writes…

things…

…like for a living.

(!?)

As I remember it, the ultimate goal of Newspeak was something along the lines of eliminating language altogether…

That’s right, to shave it down to where all you could say was, pretty much, “Yes, sir.”

Now that I think of it, (good) duckspeak was not so different from corporate bullshit, I guess. And Sowell’s article, to get back to that topic thing a bit, is a fine example of wingnut duckspeak. As Guest above said,

I can’t get upset about the Sowell piece because it’s just too clear that he doesn’t give half a shit about the issue, and neither do his commenters. It’s really just completely meaningless, objectless whining. Totally vacuous.

Now come on. If you had actually CLICKED THROUGH those 672 links on whitehouse.gov, you’d know that they were all public statements by the President comdemning the inherent fascistness of community service.

BTW, the cat’s name is “McLovin”. That’s a great cat name.

My wife calls our new little great-nephew that. Sooner or later I’m sure we’ll make him one of these.

How many have studied the impact of drunken idlers on other people in their own society, including children who come across their needles in the park — if they dare to go to the parks?

Holy shit! People are slamming alcohol these days? I had no idea. I thought that sort of thing would kill you. Even I wouldn’t have tried that, back in the day. Jeez, the kids these days.

Oh, and please don’t hurt the Salvation Army bell ringers. My kid got caught with his girlfriend’s cigarettes at school, and his community service was ringing teh bell for the Salvation Army. He had to take his little atheist butt down to the grocery store and stand in the bitter cold and some of his friends came by and mocked him. It’s a rough gig, and they ain’t all Xtian soldiers, apparently. (He did have another choice of community service, but this was all but unsupervised – in fact he just left and went home early one night, and no one ever said anything – and seemed like an easy out, but then the weather turned viciously cold and he was hating it.)

“I — you know, there is a debate that basically says, well, maybe certain people shouldn’t be free.”
– Legacy Boy, exposing the hippies’ secret agenda of hatin’ in that AEI interview that Bubba linked.

“noen, I’m doing fine now. And didn’t have any horrible experiences. But for that asshole to make statements like that…Arrrghh!!”

The experience itself is terrifying, traumatic even… yeah, I’d say there is a certain amount of trauma involved. You are helpless, dependent and vulnerable. There is a good deal of stigma attached to it too as Sowell proves. And it can be deadly. Here in Minnesota we do our best to keep people alive especially now. It was ten below zero this week here.

I have very mixed feelings about all of it. I’m not sure I can explain why.

Oh… and I’m glad you’re ok. I wanted to be sure you heard that.

Pere Ubu – about your fridge… did you know that you can remove those drawers at the bottom? I have a feeling there is a science experiment waiting for you beneath them. Hope it doesn’t bite.

Matthew 25, Verses 31 – 46

When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’

Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’ And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’

Then they will answer and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?’ He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’ And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

So, um, Sowell believes that when we refuse to help those who are actually in need–those who have failed to attain economic success for whatever reason–we are doing what Jesus wants?

Wow. I wonder what Biblical verses he would quote to support his disdain for the poor, the intellectually challenged, the mentally disturbed and the unlucky?

I don’t understand the ancient hatred of goats. When you get down to it, goats are substantially cooler than sheep. Sure they bathe in their own piss, but is that so bad? It certainly is bad enough to automatically go to hell.

RIP Mark Felt, your code name will forever be both the best porn name and undercover source name.

Cowalker – seriously, there are certain factions of Christians who do not read the social gospels. They do not read those passages and their preachers do not preach from those texts. Authoritarians do not think on their own. They might come across those passages but there is a ready explanation and a lot of social pressure to discount the social message in favor of other interpretations.

In fact, there are a good many “Christians” who believe that once you are saved you can do no wrong as long as you are “right with Jesus”. From their point of view anything someone who has been saved does is by definition God’s will. If you think about it, it makes a certain amount of sense. If there really is a God and if it really is possible to know his will for you and the world, then it must follow that it’s possible to know with absolute certainty that some course of action isn’t just the right thing to do but right for all eternity.

Just think about that.

This thread also needs more ninja kitten videos, more lighter blending videos, and just remember folks, teh gays will eat your children.

The more antipodean among us may have seen teh kittehs before.

Why even think about it when you can just do it?

cowalker,

Lalalalalalalalalalalala I can’t hear you.

(The youtube wars have never seen such carnage)

Also, Ubu, sometimes underneath the refrig. can be the trouble spot.

“positively impact the body of product, going forward.”

If I had heard somebody say that I would’ve gone, “That’s what she said, BOOM!” and I’d sort of punch the air when I said boom.

I think I’m starting to get the hang of corporate etiquette.

Okay, as for Sowell, my community service involved pulling some species of invasive vine out of the ground at a public park. I guess that just encourages the trees not to do it for themselves.

Jennifer Graham is a terrible person. I’m poor too; I’ve been living in low-rent housing provided by the government for a long time now, and I lived next door to the people Jennifer describes. For five fucking years.

Oh, the cops were there a lot? boo hoo. I shared a wall with people who constantly held screaming matches and threw furniture around. They had little kids. At the end of their time as my neighboors, the police hauled everybody out of the house after a particularly bad fight. To be honest, I think they were supposed to have left already, but I had as little to do with them as possible. Later that night I discovered water coming out from under the walls we shared with them. They had completely trashed the place, and left the faucets on, flooding it. Going in with the handyman, I was a little bit afraid somebody would still be there.

You know what? That didn’t turn me into an asshole towards other poor people.

“When I finally called the school, I was told that Virginia has some sort of homeless act, and Tiffany can continue to attend our school forever, even if she lives in a car. Which, I suppose, is a good thing. It troubles me, however, that the school’s response to the rest of the story — the neglect, suspicions of abuse, proof of lawbreaking — was to send the child “home” with a form with which the mother can obtain free Christmas gifts.”

Yeah, god fucking forbid that the woman’s little nine year-old daughter get one nice day in her horrible home life. I guess Tiffany will never learn to earn her own way in life if people just keep giving her free toys. And what the fuck do you mean you “suppose” it’s a good thing that homeless kids can go to the same school as your precious kids?

And what the hell makes you think living in a car is going to make this woman any more responsible to her kids?

And where the hell do you get off assuming that all poor people are like the one single example you’ve had to deal with in your life?

“The prospect of me getting my $5 back — as well as a dozen or so rolls of Scott tissue — is bleak.”

Fuck you sideways, lady. You and your toilet paper.

Some time ago (measured in years), Sowell complained that the government doesn’t let people sell their organs — and why should the damn nanny state get in the way of someone choosing to sell a kidney? I think the original post on this, however, was over at World O’Crap.

Jennifer Nicholson Graham:

Tiffany moved to our cul-de-sac in February, the same week that we moved in. Initially, we were thrilled to see another set of movers unloading Little Tykes products a few houses down. But it didn’t take long to realize that Tiffany’s family were not, as we Grahams lightly put it, PLU: People Like Us.

“— Jennifer Graham is a freelance journalist who lives in Richmond, Virginia.”

Does she just sit around until something or person offends her, & then whip it off to the NRO?

“People like us.” Yech.

Allow a man to sell his kidney & he’ll eat for a few yrs. Teach a man to grow an extra kidney or two & he can become an investor!!

When you get down to it, goats are substantially cooler than sheep.
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How many have studied the impact of drunken idlers on other people in their own society
Apart from Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, and one or two other obscure English authors.

Is there an e-mail where I can encourage this dipshit to commit painful suicide with a rusty fork? Seriously?!? He’s got to be the worst, dumbest, most offensive wingnut out there.

Perhaps what the White House website is a typo -they actually mean community *cervix*. AKA, the middle class B.O.H.I.C.A. project.

An initiative which I’m sure Sowell could get behind.

Agreed with Heywould. Sowell is the worst. With this column, he’s even after Kristol, David Brooks and Goldberg. Although he is arguably less damaging to the world than Kristol.

seriously, there are certain factions of Christians who do not read the social gospels.

This is/was common among the premillenials and other “The End Is Nigh” types. You see, several decades back one of the bigwigs in those movements (possibly Hal Lindsay) decided that the Beatitudes and the rest of the Sermon on the Mount only applied to the post-Second Coming world. That freed them up to act like complete assholes.

Brazandied Alexpazanerdz!!!!

Hey, RiMJob, do you really live in Butte, “The Richest Hole on Earth?”

That’s right, to shave it down to where all you could say was, pretty much, “Yes, sir.”
For a moment there I thought you were talking about the jarhead haircut.

You liberals won’t admit it, but really what characterized the rise of the Nazis was their indulgent attitude towards the homeless.

Oh good christ. These dumbasses really can’t stand the thought of anyone doing something for someone else. Or someone getting something they didn’t get. Even though their lives are comfortable and it’s no skin off their ass.

One of the kids at my son’s high school did publicity,promotion and got donated items to send care packages to troops in Afghanistan for his community service. Would this assclown object to that?

Yeah, what is it with the “Beatitudes only apply to the Second Coming” Thing?

Waaaay after, because they won’t be around for the first feature.

I’m familiar with the Southern Baptist view that says just by being alive, we are scum. Only be being saved can one move into the category of potential scum, but it requires constant vigilance lest a nipple or a sip of alcohol, even a stray thought, will transform us into ravening sin creatures.

Now all I think of is the Python sketches where the prayers are about beseeching God not to boil us.

Perhaps Pere Ubu should check the fridge for a lurking Southern Baptist.

If you read a story about black people getting hunted down, shot and killed with impunity, you’d think it was a story about post election Zimbabwe or antebellum America. But you’d be wrong: It’s a tale of post-Katrina New Orleans.

It might be constructive to us DFHs if we could actually see a normal workday for Sowell. I imagine it goes something like this:

1) Awakened by Mrs. Sowell at 7:00 AM
2) Breakfast provided by Mrs. Sowell at 7:30
3) Arrive at the Hoover Institute at 8:30
4) Read daily talking points from NRO, Human Events, Media Research Center, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, TownHall, RNC
5) Lunch from 11:30-1:00
6) Nap from 1:00-2:30
7) Doodle
8) Have secretary check e-mail
9) Write down “thoughts”
10 Have secretary combine today’s “thoughts” with previous day’s “thoughts”
11) When five paragraphs of “thoughts” have been achieved, have secretary send to TownHall
12) Leave for home at 5:00
13) Check mail on way home to see if payment for “thoughts” has arrived.

Perhaps Pere Ubu should check the fridge for a lurking Southern Baptist.

It might be. Lord knows we got enough of ’em down here.

Then again it might be Mormons. Those bastards are always trying to track me down.

Meanwhile, CNN.com:

Terrorists’ use of invisible ink spotted

OMFG they figured out the thing with the lemon juice and a light bulb! And they probably found it on Teh InrtaWebs! OH NOES WE IZ DOOMD!

Here’s to a post at Hot Air about how we should keep lemons away from the Moosies – just in case.

You see, several decades back one of the bigwigs in those movements (possibly Hal Lindsay) decided that the Beatitudes and the rest of the Sermon on the Mount only applied to the post-Second Coming world. That freed them up to act like complete assholes.

While still proclaiming that they don’t believe in “man-made” traditions or dogma and only sola Scriptura. How this hypocrisy stands is always baffling to me, and I am a Christian. Sheesh how I can’t stand the pre-trib/pre-millenialist POV. Yech.

“Are there no prisons?”

(And I see that America’s Shittiest Website™ already went there.)”

Oh. My. God.

My letter to the author:

Dear Ms. Graham:

I’m sorry you ran into a poor person who you thought was icky and Not Like You, and even sorrier that you now despise all poor people as a result. I’ve worked with abused and neglected children for the past eight years, most of them poor. Trust me, I’ve seen parents a lot worse than Tiffany’s. And yet, somehow, I’ve never felt the need to write a mocking screed against the poor at Christmas time.

I assume you’ll fall back on the classic “I was just making a joke” defense beloved of hateful “conservatives”. If so, then you should probably not try your hand at satire any further. You don’t understand it, yu have no grasp of the purpose of satire, and you’re really bad at it.

Oh, and if the loss of the five bucks affected you so deeply that it’s all you can think about, even while nursing a sick child, then please forward your mailing address to me. I’ll send you a nice crisp fiver, because it’s Christmas, and I hate to see anyone in this much distress at Christmas.

As for your assertion that you “now stand in defense of Darwin and natural selection, and of Ebenezer Scrooge, the real Scrooge — before he went soft like me,” please go back and read the story to the end. The part where Scrooge, after being shown where the compassionless life leads–to a lonely, unmourned and unhappy end–goes out on Christmas morning with a song in his heart and actually helps people, even though they’re Not Like Him. You know, sort of like the fellow whose birthday we’re celebrating. May you, instead of a lonely and unmourned grave, find that you end up like Scrooge:

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!

And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!

Merry Christmas,

JD Rhoades

I’d like to see a remake of “Trading Places” with M. Bouffant in the Eddie Murphy role and Thomas Sowell in the Dan Aykroyd role. That’s what these privileged nutters need: A heapin’ helpin’ of the sort of life that obviously fills them with such strong fear they project it as sneering hatred.

I think Tom Sowell’s typical workday goes more like this:

1) Awakened by Mrs. Sowell at 7:00 AM
2) Breakfast provided by Mrs. Sowell at 7:30
3) Take dump at 8
4) Photograph dump at 8:05
5) Post photo of dump as column at Town Hall at 8:15
6) Back to bed
7) Awakened by Mrs. Sowell at noon
8) Lunch provided by Mrs. Sowell at …

When wingnuts tell me that Sowell is one of the great thinkers in America, I’ve been referring them to this. Just a sample:

You can fall in love with an individual but you marry into a whole family.

Brilliant.

One of the many fashionable excuses of our time is that some words or actions were “taken out of context.” Those who say this seldom, if ever, bother to say what these words or actions mean when taken in context.

Sublime.

No music moves me like the third movement of the Grieg Concerto. Am I not supposed to appreciate it because I am not Norwegian?

Masterful.

Where are all the beautiful movie actresses? There are some better looking women on television news programs.

Giggity.

Why did special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald put a reporter in jail and ruin a government official’s life in an “investigation” of things he already knew, including the fact that it was Richard Armitage who revealed that Joe Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA? Perhaps it was the corrupting influence of unbridled power.

Whoops! K-Lo might want to erase that one from the NRO archives.

And my favorite, the very essence of Sowell’s banal existence, the very essence of what he thinks passes for relevant scholarship:

A reader asks: “Why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?”

Sowell wondering why they call them buildings if they’ve already been built must have been left on the editing room floor.

A post on Teh Xmas and conservatives, I haz it.

Brazandied Alexpazanerdz!!!!

Berlin Alexanderplatz!

I think the raison d’etre for Sowell’s columns is that if you’re going to read on the shitter, you may as well read shit.

His work reminds me of the joke in which people in prison get up on stage and tell jokes. They all know each other’s jokes, so instead of reciting the jokes again, they just say numbers, each one of which refers to a joke, to save time.

Other wing-nut columnists at least attempt to provide evidence to back up their claims. The evidence often is fabricated and usually is linked to their claims by specious logic, but at least it’s there.

Sowell never bothers with evidence. He just makes an idiotic claim he knows his readers are going to love, follows that up with another idiotic claim he knows his readers are going to love just as much, and keeps going until he falls asleep on the john or runs out of space, whichever happens first.

It’s the ultimate example of preaching to the choir and he is a master at it.

It’s fitting he works for the Hoover Institution because the man sucks. Hard.

Yeesh – WordDePress seems to have eated my post.

Ah, well, you can find teh new post at the homepage link.

You know, I get VERY conservative at times when I get depressed. All I need to do is stay off my meds for a few weeks and BINGO! Fat city on the wingut spondulix express!

The only problem would be my screaming invective at everyone in my life, kicking the cats and dogs and having to live out of my car since noone will put up with me. Hmm. We all have to sacrifice, I guess.

It seems Rahm Emmanuel is feeling the heat from his involvement in the Illinois Governor scandal.

Wow, a link to a Malkin article.

That’s some serious journalisming there, podner.

Not.

Wow, Twoofie a link to Malkin post – and ONLY A WEEK OLD!!

A little holiday gift from Alaska: Levi Johnston’s Mom Arrested on Drug charges, Bristol Palin Due Saturday

Uh oh! You know what time it is, America!

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

Levi Johnston’s Mom Arrested on Drug charges, Bristol Palin Due Saturday

…due to be arrested on drug charges?

I sincerely pity all the Palin kids. What a fuxx0red life they’ve been dumped into.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on..

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

Pere Ubu: that might be a dead rat behind your fridge. Happened to me last week.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

Pere Ubu: that might be a dead rat behind your fridge. Happened to me last week

In a house with six cats and three dogs?

Well, then again, 90% of the cats are chickenshits who wouldn’t know what to do with a mouse if they caught it, and the puppy would try to make freinds with it.

I still think it’s a Mormon.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on..

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

Ah, but read it, Magnus, and you’ll see exactly why conservatives are enjoying themselves.

Because you enjoy failure?

Until you clowns actually make some progress in- y’know, an actual election- shut up and sit down at the kiddies’ table. We’ve got a country to run, thanks.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but ‘no big deal, change can’t come overnight’ will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on!

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

I still think it’s a Mormon.

Sounds like you’ve smelled Salt Lake City, then. But that’s just the lake.

I still think it’s a Mormon.

I thought they weren’t allowed to be fruity OR funky?

One of these things is not like the other…

An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble.

– P.J. O’Rourke

Now it’s just a circular firing squad with everybody attacking each other and no coherent belief system, no leaders. You got half the party waiting for Sarah Palin to come rescue them. The other half waiting for Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, to come rescue them. But no set of beliefs, really a decayed conservative infrastructure. It’s just a world of pain.

– David Brooks

The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley Jr. was handed over to Joe Six-Pack. Know-nothingness was no longer a stigma, but a badge of honor. The Republican Party’s Baghdad Bobism with regard to Palin, a denial so pernicious that party operatives were willing to let her sit a heartbeat away from the presidency in a time of war and financial collapse, revealed what really ails the party. The ‘P Factor’ isn’t a single person but a sickness that will have to be acknowledged and cured–Republicans will be reciting their newly tailored principles only to themselves.

– Kathleen Parker

Tuesday’s Republican debacle was, as the social scientists say, ‘over-determined.’ It had many causes. Was it brought on by congressional corruption, Bush administration incompetence, intellectual exhaustion or John McCain’s failings as a candidate? All of the above — and then some….

One temptation will be to say that if only Republicans had stayed truer to the faith, especially on fiscal discipline, none of this would have happened. Earmarks unquestionably contributed to the culture of corruption that has so bedeviled Republicans in recent years. But fighting them became an overriding obsession of some conservatives and of McCain, as if opposing earmarks alone — 1 percent of federal spending — would constitute a winning economic agenda.

– Freaking Rich Lowry

aaaaaaaaaand…

Ah, but read it, Magnus, and you’ll see exactly why conservatives are enjoying themselves.

Me, I’m making a big bowl of popcorn and watching this whole scam collapse in front of my eyes. Will the entire Obama administration meltdown before inauguration? So far, Obama has managed to decouple himself from his Minister of 20 years, his buddy who helped him buy his house, his political sponsor, the governor of his state, and now it looks like his chief of staff is next. He truly is the Teflon Fraud. Along with the Angry Affirmative Action Princess, he and Michelle make one hell of a first family.

Yep, I’m enjoying the show. You all got fooled.

– The Truth, Sadly, No!’s dumbest troll ever

“Telfon Fraud” of course refers to George Bush

Shorter “Telfon Fraud”

All of this debunked shit must be restatedm

Troofie, we’re not really talking about the election. We’re talking about how bombastically wrong you were then, implying that you are just as wrong and proud of it now.

Double or nothing?

Funny how after eight years of the most repugnant, deceitful, law-breaking, bankrupt-ideology-driven, crony-ridden, EPIC FAILURE of a presidency this country has ever seen, some assholes are already calling Obama a fraud and a failure when there’s been nothing but pure speculation about his “cooruption” and WHEN HE HASN”T EVEN BEEN SWORN IN YET.

Shorter: just shut up and blow me, already.

“Here’s a little prop bet for you: Who do you think will resign first, Rahm or Jesse Jackson Junior? Double yer money if either gets arrested. Ah, this popcorn tastes good!”

How about you take Governemnt Informant Jesse Jackson JR.?

One of these things is not like the other…

An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble.

– P.J. O’Rourke

Now it’s just a circular firing squad with everybody attacking each other and no coherent belief system, no leaders. You got half the party waiting for Sarah Palin to come rescue them. The other half waiting for Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, to come rescue them. But no set of beliefs, really a decayed conservative infrastructure. It’s just a world of pain.

– David Brooks

The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley Jr. was handed over to Joe Six-Pack. Know-nothingness was no longer a stigma, but a badge of honor. The Republican Party’s Baghdad Bobism with regard to Palin, a denial so pernicious that party operatives were willing to let her sit a heartbeat away from the presidency in a time of war and financial collapse, revealed what really ails the party. The ‘P Factor’ isn’t a single person but a sickness that will have to be acknowledged and cured–Republicans will be reciting their newly tailored principles only to themselves.

– Kathleen Parker

Tuesday’s Republican debacle was, as the social scientists say, ‘over-determined.’ It had many causes. Was it brought on by congressional corruption, Bush administration incompetence, intellectual exhaustion or John McCain’s failings as a candidate? All of the above — and then some….

One temptation will be to say that if only Republicans had stayed truer to the faith, especially on fiscal discipline, none of this would have happened. Earmarks unquestionably contributed to the culture of corruption that has so bedeviled Republicans in recent years. But fighting them became an overriding obsession of some conservatives and of McCain, as if opposing earmarks alone — 1 percent of federal spending — would constitute a winning economic agenda.

– Freaking Rich Lowry

aaaaaaaaaand…

So by all means keep talking about the election. I’m way past my disappointment; without the Teflon Fraud elected, how could we be enjoying this meltdown? But for you liberals, the disillusionment is just beginning.

Here’s a little prop bet for you: Who do you think will resign first, Rahm or Jesse Jackson Junior? Double yer money if either gets arrested. Ah, this popcorn tastes good!

– The Truth, Sadly, No!’s dumbest troll ever

Seriously, dude, if you want to just hand Washington to Democrats for the next 12 years, keep doing this song and dance. When even wingnut hacks are getting the point, it’s time to move on.

And by the way, Troofie, I can keep this up forever. Seeing how you run and hide from threads whenever your nonsense is destroyed, it’s obvious you can’t. Too bad, so sad.

Maybe it’s Der Troofie I’ve got under the fridge. His posts do have a funky rotting acidic stink to them.

Shorter “Telfon Faud”

“My hatred for America is so stong I msut rage agianst strawliberals”

One of these things is not like the other…

An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble.

– P.J. O’Rourke

Now it’s just a circular firing squad with everybody attacking each other and no coherent belief system, no leaders. You got half the party waiting for Sarah Palin to come rescue them. The other half waiting for Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, to come rescue them. But no set of beliefs, really a decayed conservative infrastructure. It’s just a world of pain.

– David Brooks

The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley Jr. was handed over to Joe Six-Pack. Know-nothingness was no longer a stigma, but a badge of honor. The Republican Party’s Baghdad Bobism with regard to Palin, a denial so pernicious that party operatives were willing to let her sit a heartbeat away from the presidency in a time of war and financial collapse, revealed what really ails the party. The ‘P Factor’ isn’t a single person but a sickness that will have to be acknowledged and cured–Republicans will be reciting their newly tailored principles only to themselves.

– Kathleen Parker

Tuesday’s Republican debacle was, as the social scientists say, ‘over-determined.’ It had many causes. Was it brought on by congressional corruption, Bush administration incompetence, intellectual exhaustion or John McCain’s failings as a candidate? All of the above — and then some….

One temptation will be to say that if only Republicans had stayed truer to the faith, especially on fiscal discipline, none of this would have happened. Earmarks unquestionably contributed to the culture of corruption that has so bedeviled Republicans in recent years. But fighting them became an overriding obsession of some conservatives and of McCain, as if opposing earmarks alone — 1 percent of federal spending — would constitute a winning economic agenda.

– Freaking Rich Lowry

aaaaaaaaaand…

See, Commie Atheist gets the point. Almost. It’s not me calling Obama a fraud – he is – but rather your fellow liberals.

And you can’t run from that. I’m just making sure you know how much I’m enjoying this. Happy holidays, hypocrites!

– The Truth, Sadly, No!’s dumbest troll ever

Seriously, dude, if you want to just hand Washington to Democrats for the next 12 years, keep doing this song and dance. When even the hackiest of the wingnut hacks are getting the point, it’s time to move on.

I’m just making sure you know how much I’m enjoying this.

Duly noted. 10-4. You can leave now.

Duly noted. 10-4. You can leave now.

I wish that’d work. But wingnuts are characterized, in part, by a belief that “victory” means “stay around forever”.

See, Commie Atheist gets the point.

So, when are you gonna blow me, already? Down on your knees now, that’s a good boy.

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar, but render unto Hitler that which you give to your fellow man.

How come we haven’t heard from the Affirmative Action Princess lately?

She’s home baking cookies with the kids.

Next?

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle

Once you’ve had Ghost, you never…um, get to boast? Have cinnamon toast? Want to eat roast?

No, I’ve got it…When you fuck a ghost, it’s forever.

No, I’ve got it…When you fuck a ghost, it’s forever.

Just watch out for the ectoplasm stains on the bedsheets.

Ghosts have a rough time getting hard.

Ghosts have a rough time getting hard.

That would explain the Total Abstinence Principle.

Ah, this popcorn tastes good!

Hey! Who took my bag of Jenkem-flavored popcorn? I was saving it for my dog.

Funny how D.N. Nation always shows up amidst a flurry of Truth postings and various unidentifiable sockpuppets.

Biblical marriage?

You mean polygamy and concubines?

No wonder the wingnuts are for it.

“I wanna get Biblical, Biblical,
I wanna get Biblical, Biblical,
let’s get into Biblical!
Let me hear your burning-bush talk,
your burning-bush talk …”
(/olivianewtonjohn)

Townhall is the thinking man’s Renew America.

Verily & (heh) indeed! Much like Renew America is the thinking man’s FreeRepublic, & FreeRepublic is the thinking man’s persistant vegetative coma.

Me, I’m making a big bowl of popcorn and watching this whole scam collapse in front of my eyes. Will the entire Obama administration meltdown before inauguration?

PROTIP: if it just emerged from the puckered arsehole of a well-fed bovine, it’s NOT schadenfreude pie, dude.

Since you’re the same airhead that predicted exactly the same fate for Obama before election-day, your words give any lucid reader nothing but sweet sweet comfort.
Hmm … bullshit-flavored popcorn? To each his own.

Bon appetit!

Ugh….not ghosts…..mea culpa again…

Bargal 20 pretty much won the thread from the get-go. For these people to remotely present themselves as Christians requires a level of cognitive dissonance that I have trouble even imagining.

Bargal 20 pretty much won the thread from the get-go.

I am validated!

…wingnuts are characterized, in part, by a belief that “victory” means “stay around forever”.

Just as we liberals sometimes love being wrong, sometimes we hate being right.

Troofie consistently makes the error of assuming that even one of us are interested in what he’s doing.

Closing in on the Teflon Fraud said,

December 19, 2008 at 20:14

Dear D.N. Nation,

Plz die in a fire.

Best,
Lyndon and your BFF Ralph

RIP Mark Felt, your code name will forever be both the best porn name and undercover source name.

Felt may have been a hero when it came to Watergate, but the rest of his resume is pretty fucked up:

Journalists and many others lionizing the former FBI official — rightly — for his contribution in helping to bring down Richard Nixon, should not overlook the fact that Felt was one of the architects of the bureau’s notorious COINTELPRO domestic spying-and-burglary campaign. He was convicted in 1980 of authorizing nine illegal entries in New Jersey in 1972 and 1973 — the very period during which he was famously meeting Bob Woodward in a parking garage. Only a pardon, courtesy of Ronald Reagan, kept him out of jail for a long term.

So the man knew a thing or two about illegal break-ins. COINTELPRO was the Patriot Act on steroids.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/the-other-side-of-deep-th_b_152323.html

Read, as they say, the whole thing – good stuff about the old Crawdaddy magazine (which I remember from my misspent youth) and featuring a federal agent named George T. Twaddle.

Troofie, still waiting for my BJ. Man up already, will ya?

There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate, and colleges where your application for admission will not be accepted, unless you have engaged in activities arbitrarily defined as “community service.”

The obvious solution, then, is homeschooling, in which case you can tell your community to suck it–unless, of course, you end up in the military; and come back home with PTSD, drug addiction, etc. and need someplace to go after your fundie parents kick you out because of all the screaming at night.

Unions: Obama ‘gays in military’ moment?

Seriously, D.N. You are trying to evade people’s filters now. That’s just pure asshattery.

Get Bent.

Go away, DN, or at least stop evading people’s killfiles.

I predicted an Obama loss. Sadly, that was not to be.

C’mon. Give yourself credit. You put up way more effort than just “predicted.”

You were here, virtually 24/7, slamming your dong on the table begging for it to be analyzed. You had every nuance, every facet of McCain’s Stunning Victory outlined, analyzed, and repeated over and over and over again.

You were wrong, a hundred, thousand times wrong, on everything. Everything! Everything from America Hating Michelle Obama to the electoral map to America Loving Sarah Palin to, to, to.

I am however enjoying the meltdown currently happening around him.

Great! Good for you! Glad you aren’t suicidal, or depressed, or even feel the slightest twinge of remorse for hitching your wagon to one of the biggest Fail Trains in American political history. Glad the destruction of your political group doesn’t have you down. I am so happy for you. See, if I made myself seem like the level of ass you displayed for the past half-year, I don’t know if I could show my face around here anymore. You clearly have no regrets. Or shame/dignity. One of those.

Now that you’ve informed us thoroughly how much you’re enjoying the Obama transition, would it at all be possible if you just left? I mean, why spend time with us losing losers who lose lose lose? We’re so sad an depressed, what with winning the election but it being bad or something or other. Why hang around with us sad, sad sacks? Why not go back over to CY and celebrate your victory over, um, thingy there?

Here are the top three headlines at salon at the moment:

Human Rights Campaign chief slams Obama
By Thomas Schaller

Anyone who thinks that this issue (and I strongly disagree with Obama, FWIW) will cast long-term shadows over the Obama Presidency is delusional.

How new is Obama’s New Politics?
By Glenn Greenwald

Greenwald has never been an Obama fan. Your point?

What’s Obama hiding about Blagojevich?
By Joe Conason

And the answer to that question, per the article: Um, not really anything.

I’ll put the swami hat away for now and just observe this whole fraudulant house of cards come tumbling down.

Yep, we’re so…um…boned.

Your optimism, even in the face of humiliation, failure, and everyone pointing and laughing at your ignorance/incompetence/inadequacy, is truly a sight to behold, Truth. I applaud your spirit, if not anything else in your wretched life.

I’m just making sure you know how much I’m enjoying this.

Important. Because no one here is aware that stupid people are easily amused, just as no one here has ever seen a toddler point at its own poop with pride.

Thanks for that crucial clarification.

Also, check the IPs. I’m not The Truth. I assumed his name a few times back in the summer, but always made it obvious I was mocking him.

Obama’s Corrupt Past said,

December 19, 2008 at 20:29

D.N. Nation said,

December 19, 2008 at 20:31

Did you know that Obama’s wife, the Affirmative Action Princess

Is this racism really necessary?

I’m honestly at the point where I think it’s time for Truth to be given the H.A.A.M. treatment, if you know what I mean.

“Interesting”

Like I said, check the IPs. Truth and I are apparently looking at this site at the same time. I like it here, which is why I’m here a lot. He’s a desperate troll, which is why he’s here a lot.

I think it’s time for Truth to be given the H.A.A.M. treatment, if you know what I mean.

Seconded, if only because it’s learned how to change its name to avoid piefiltering.

I like the way Nina Easton backed her story with comments from a lawyer who works for management in union-related issues, but did not provide any opposing viewpoint.

Almost like she was a FAUX nooze employee.

I like the way Nina Easton backed her story

I just liked the headline. Unions? Think FAAAAAGS!

Yeah, Salon dot “Haus of Camille Paglia” com is the ultraliberal far-leftist paper of record, boy howdy, yep, central to my point, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.

You just got served up a SPREAD of BORING WHITE PRIVILEGE, libs!! Badoodle-doo-fourteen-words!!

WE CAN HAZ NOO TREAD NAO?

KTHX

You just got served up a SPREAD of BORING WHITE PRIVILEGE, libs!! Badoodle-doo-fourteen-words!!

I imagine that looking sort of like canned deviled ham, only pastier and with no flavor. Just lots of fat and salt.

Badoole-boo hidely… uh-oh.

MSN.com:

Franken opens first lead in Senate race

Holy Christ. New thread please Sadly overlords! This one has been dealt a most cruel death.

Affirmative action is racism, DN. I know it is near and dear to your hypocritical hearts, but discriminating on the basis of race is wrong.

The fact that Michelle Obama made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to promote racial discrimination is obscene. Now that is something about which you liberals show absolutely no shame. I’ve pointed it out time and again, and I realize you are set in your racism, but Michelle has definitely earned her nickname of the Affirmative Action Princess.

Just like the One is now the Teflon Fraud.

Fixed.

D.N. Nation: It’s a sad sad little person who posts repeatedly as a troll and as an alleged non-troll at the same site boring everyone to bits. Why don’t you ‘fess up now and tell everyone how you voted for me in 2000.

…boy howdy, yep, central to my point, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.

This is killing me for laughing. Thank you.

Why don’t you ‘fess up now and tell everyone how you voted for me in 2000.

This, on the other hand – I’d thought a mutating troll was as bad as an S,N! thread could get, but I’d forgotten about Nader-fights.

Something tells me D.N. Nation says “check the IPs” precisely because he knows our hosts would never do that for something this trivial. Or something.

All I know is I’m really fucking tired of this faux-troll and sockpuppet crap.

Also, kind of interesting how the troll goes quiet whenever D.N. Nation has to defend himself from sockpuppetry charges.

Pere Ubu — (I think it was you who had the refrigerator odor problem?) — It is indeed possible to have rodent pests even in a house with multiple cats and dawgs. We had four cats and three dogs in the house we lived in years ago and once a rat got caught somehow inside the wall in the basement. OMG it was the WORST. We couldn’t figure out exactly where it was even by crawling into the ceiling and peering down between the floor joists with a flashlight. Finally had to call a varmint control person to come deal with it.

I predicted an Obama loss. Sadly, that was not to be. I am however enjoying the meltdown currently happening around him.

Meltdown?

A kerfuffle that won’t be remembered by June is a “meltdown”?

Dick, Iraq was a meltdown. The economy is a meltdown?

A couple of gay activists getting upset over a Nazi giving the invocation?

Man, I’ve had root canals that bothered me longer…

Nina Easton didn’t use the right bones for her “analysis.” Or dance properly when casting them. Or something. That is one of the most pathetic attempts at journalism I’ve seen lately. She even says “that may be wishful thinking” then goes on to map out the entire next four years based on that one wish. Heckuva job, Ninnie.

I was just surprised that Sheena Easton was still working.

Something tells me D.N. Nation says “check the IPs” precisely because he knows our hosts would never do that for something this trivial. Or something.

Clearly you have this figured out. Also, it would make a load of sense for me to demand that…um…I be banned. Or something.

Also, kind of interesting how the troll goes quiet whenever D.N. Nation has to defend himself from sockpuppetry charges.

Whoops. See above.

Or wait, maybe I only posted as The Truth posting as “Affirmative Action is Racism” because you made this point, which is in fact central to my point.

Also, I see how his URL is now “DNISNOTTHETRUTHDAMNIT,” apparently wanting to take credit for his own spew, or perhaps it’s just me wanting “me” to take credit for “”my”” own spew, or, um, just check the damn IPs.

Also,

Actor212, I think Rahm Emmanuel’s resignation – coming BEFORE the inauguration heheheheh! – will be remembered as the first faltering step of the one-term Teflon Fraud administration.

Once again, fixed.

She’ll cook the books
She musta took
A whole hour just to make up her case

Another thing: Tru/Matt/goober/Commander/whichever fuckwad you are today, your shtick is longing to return to its origin. Shtick it up yer ass already. Or do the two ginormous black dildoes already there make that too difficult?

One of my daughter’s friends (2nd grade) is fond of going around announcing (very loudly), “I like Pie!”

I think of Troof and laugh every time I hear it.

I think of Troof and laugh every time I hear it.

LOL! And you know that your daughter’s friend is actually telling The Truth, too.

I’d like to see a remake of “Trading Places” with M. Bouffant in the Eddie Murphy role and Thomas Sowell in the Dan /Aykroyd role.

Why thank you MzN., ‘though I’m generally considered more the John Belushi type. (If he’d not messed w/ refined drugs & lived.)

Hey, looks like Troothy found hisself a paying gig.

One of my daughter’s friends (2nd grade) is fond of going around announcing (very loudly), “I like Pie!”

You’ll be less sanguine when “tonguejack my shitbox” comes along.

Actor212, I think Rahm Emmanuel’s resignation – coming BEFORE the inauguration heheheheh!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*rereading*

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You’ll be less sanguine when “tonguejack my shitbox” comes along

Yeah, that or Bag o’ Dicks. I’ll let you guys know which is first.

I think Truth is kinda like his homie, GWB. You can take anything they say and expect the opposite to be true about 99.99% of the time.

With the remaining .01% devoted to phrases such as, “I gotta take a shit”, and “Does something smell around here?”

It is indeed possible to have rodent pests even in a house with multiple cats and dawgs.

Possibly, but I suspect otherwise. Just the other day I went to get a diet Pepsi and I could swear I hear a low “boodley-boo” from under there.

And our Cheetos keep disappearing.

Odd.

According to the cast list there is a Hooker #1 in Trading Places which would suit Mr. Sowell down to the ground .

I’m pretty sure this is the first time ever that I’ve agreed with Lyndon LaRouche.

When I was in school back in the day, we had this thing called “home work”. We were forced to do work without pay! Imagine that in this day and age. Work without pay is SLAVERY. WAKE UP PEOPLE ! ! !

“The fact that Michelle Obama made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to promote racial discrimination is obscene. ”

Wait, she is Strom Thurmond or a founder of teh minutemen?

Wait, she is Strom Thurmond or a founder of teh minutemen?

Heh. I applaud the Minuteman leader for one thing – like Chief Editor Korir, he made money from, and fools of, a bunch of hard-right suckers.

*cough*hack*spew*Every fucking Southern Republican*kaff*Richard Nixon*urp*Southern Strategy*retch*Oooga-booga*argle-bargle*!!

Hey! Is D.N. the Truth?

Wow, the old Robert Byrd play, the oldest trick in the Troll handbook

Did Strom Thurmond denoucne his racist past liek Robert Byrd?

OH waiit Trent Lott Celebrated his past as a fan of American Appartheid

How Many Balck Republican Senators and Congresspeople are presently serving?

Ding dong dilly and such, shoot, Truthy…playing the Robert Byrd Card? Really, dude?

Boy howdy, yep, I like pie, hoody-poo servin’ up a big spread of badoodle-boo-yeah, &c.

d00dz, thx for the linky. Gotta get a hamster for the wheel now, the shrew is running out of steam … 😉

Someone upthread: Yeah – Meat Loaf was pretty much unavoidable during my formative dorm-years. Never quite been able to figure out who is God, Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman?

Never quite been able to figure out who is God, Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman?

Dude.

Clapton.

This thread has been pretty amusing, but I’m sorry, this Sowell fuck just isn’t funny. He’s a shithead who makes a living slandering poor people, and if he were white, he’d be barely eking out a living writing for VDare or some other racist org. Being black and being willing to slime other black people is the only reason he’s as prominent as he is. Talk about affirmative action.

Three Democrats did stuff as recently as thirty years ago (when John Murtha was caught on tape REJECTING a bribe). Enjoy your hypocrisy, libs! Jibba jabba lawnmower nebula Tarkanian &c.

Yes, lets!

This conversation makes me uncomfortable…

NAZI PLEASE