He wrote that speech all by hisself he did.

And also, you can trust republicans because of Katrina. No srsly, trust us. also.

And those mag-lev trains! You know if something is levitatin, the Debbil must be involved. And Bobby Jindal knows how to deal with the devil.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/bobby_jindals_dance_with_the_d.php

The link to Jindal’s career as an excorsist. Of course, from what I heard “extortionist” is wear he’s headed now

Jindal’s “response” had about the same relevance to Obama’s speech as Republican policies have to reality. This is a good thing for Republicans.

Jindal: The stimulus bill is wrong, bad, the absolute worst thing to do. You’ll never see me accepting Obama’s offer of $3.8-billion for my state.

Never say Jindal’s not a man of his word. He took $3.7 billion.

Jindal: government can never help the American people, and I hold up the glaring example of the Republican response – or lack of it – to Hurricane Katrina as proof!

Anyways, I propose we sign a non-aggression treaty with the Gnome King to prevent more volcanoes, not any of yer fancy-schmancy “science”! Who’s with me?

{crickets}

The comments are where the comedy gold is:

No.18.
those of you that disagree with Governor Jindal are socialists!

Disagree generally or with specifics? I guess some of the Republicans that would disagree that they lost their way might get a bit antsy at being called socialists.

Piyush Jindal chose his nickname from the Brady Bunch kid.

Oh, and he hates hates that stimulus money… but is willing to compromise by stripping out the commiesocialist unemployment assistance part and keeping the rest.

Bobby Jindal => the tan Gollum.

It’s kind of incredible realizing that we’ve already seen the first casualty of the 2012 election only a month after the winner of the 2008 election took office.

I’m…not sure…I will ever be able to hear Jindal’s name and not immediately rhyme it with swindle.

Shorter Entire American Right Wrong Wing:

Since we’re abject failures at every non-rape activity we occasionally bother to attempt, that means everybody else in this country sucks, too.

Wow, I just listened to Jindal’s speech, and I’m embarrassed on behalf of all of you Americans. Lordy lordy, where did they dig him up from? I was apologising to my cat, fergodssakes!

What a complete doofus. Yeah, Jindal/Palin 2012!

Honestly, though, hasn’t it been a lovely circus the last few weeks? The breaking waves of foaming right-wing frothitude, each wailing about something different, as though the world’s about to end because there’s a democratic darky in the Whitey House.

About a month, it’s been, hasn’t it? And there’s all the righty commentators in one corner shrieking how Obama’s burned the economy, while in the other corner there’s ol’ Bobby Jindal, just the brownish reincarnation of good ol’ Ronald Reagan, makin’ us all feel jus’ peachy, as if the world is young and innocent, and how Americans can do anything.

In that case, I’d like American Bobby Jindal to shut the fuck up.

But wasn’t Bobby the Brady kid who eventually went on to become a complete druggy? Or was he the one who committed suicide? I know he was the annoying brat, but I had a feeling something unpleasant happened to him in later years.

Sorry, I’m not as knowledgeable about my Brady lore as I should be.

He *really* named himself after Bobby Brady?!? Really? And the Repubs think he’s their best hope? Bwahahahahahahaha!

Honestly, this year is comedy gold.

They’re going for the pity voter!!

Palin/Jindal in 2012!

Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!!!!!

This

“Jindal is going to blow President Teleprompter out of the water tonight.”

Conservative Clown Troll is . . . Clownish!

I’m still having trouble with the governor of Louisiana mocking attempts to predict and prepare for natural disasters. Hah, volcanoes!
Even Fox was down on Jindal’s performance. He’s toast.
The often overlooked part of the exorcism story is at the end, where he claims they also cured their friend’s cancer.

I heard he’s going to chase away the deficit by unleashing the Hill Witch.

That was my first experience with the MSNBC opinion tracker graphic. I thought it was a hoot that when Bobby J said “Republicans have lost their way” that ol red line dropped down from it steady 90% to around 50%.

Sonsabitches can’t accept *any* kind of responsibility.

While I don’t really care that his real name is Piyush Jindal, since we got to hear Barack Hussein Obama over and over and over I think we might want to go with it.

You really should listen to me.

I’m the governor of a Confederate Shithole.

Alt.shorter.jindal: I admit that Republicans have screwed everything up; however, that cannot deter us from our goal of winning back your trust by continuing our failed past policies while reflexively blocking every attempt to correct the problem because it was proposed by a halfrican with a D next to his name. Many the many-armed monkey goddess bless America!

Let me see if I’ve got this right: The Republican party’s fairness-doctriney “We Get To Give a Rebuttal to the Butt-head President On National TV Too” response to President Obama’s address to Congress, February 2009, was given by a 37-year-old Indian anchor-baby named Piyush Jindal who’s been governor of Louisiana for about a year and who, having converted to Catholicism from Hinduism, has participated in an exorcism, and who used his own party’s piss-ass response to Katrina, which devastated his own state, to trot out the threadbare trope that “big gubmint sux” and thus he’s not taking B. Hussein X’s stimulus money. Is that about it?

Even (especially?) when the Rethugs are trying to emulate the Dems without overtly appearing to do so (i.e., “let’s us get some colored boy too”) they fuck up, to the hilarity of all. Hmmm… wonder if there are any actual working minds left that may be trying to slither out from under all the charred timbers and rotted shambles of the party formerly known as Republican and start anew? Like with some fresh non-insane ideas, if they can come up with any?

Gov. Jindal says:

When they arrived in Baton Rouge, my mother was already 4 ½ months pregnant. I was what folks in the insurance industry now call a ‘pre-existing condition.’

Gov. Jindal should have said:

When they arrived in Baton Rouge, my mother was already 4 ½ months pregnant. I was what some folks in my political party now call an ‘anchor baby.’

Suck on that, Malkin!

I liked the beginning of the address where he talks about his parents having to beg doctors because they couldn’t afford to pay for the delivery. MoveOn should work that into an ad for UHC; “Bobby’s Story”, set to sad music.

He’s nailed the Howdy Doody thing. He’ll be invited to all the GOP fund raisers…as long as he uses the service entrance…

Jindal-Palin, Jindal-Palin, Jindal all the way…

Watching Bobby Jindal was like watching a really really really fucking boring trainwreck. Seriously, “pre-existing condition”? Seriously. You’re quoting the insurance industry? Dude. Seriously.

Also. Creepiest entrance into a room ever. Also.

What was it, the sunken, soulless, slum-dog eyes? Or maybe that combined with the strange, sing-songy, Sunday-school/kindergarten teacher voice and the rigid posture? Or was it maybe the dated, dada engine speech that was really just a series of tired Republican talking points and strawmen, or the fact that it was written (or should I say generated) by someone or something that had obviously not read President Obama’s speech?

Whatever “it” was, I gotta say I LOVED it!!!

So…..I demand to see Bobby Jindal’s birth certificate!!!

He’s an anchor baby!

The wingnuts didn’t like it at all. Substantively, it is the same speech Palin gave in terms of conservative boilerplate, but the stylistic difference is that Jindal wasn’t snide and sneering. Wingnuts hate that. They demand contempt for liberals from their leaders and if Jindal can’t load up on scorn, he has no future in the GOP.

From another sharp-as-a-tack commenter:

Jindal was fantastic. obama needs to get a new speech pattern.

Of course then there’s the matter of the governor of Louisiana mocking disaster preparedness in bewailing of money for volcano monitoring. I expect the mayor of Pompei would have been a Republican were he alive today.

I have to say, I was thrilled he hit on what has to be my current GOP favorite talking point, the !OMG AND THEY TOTALLY ARE GONNA BUILD A HIGH SPEED MAG-TRAIN FROM DISNEYLAND TO LAS VEGAS OMG!
Which always gives me an image of little kids in Mickey ears being forcibly strapped into high speed bullet train seats and whisked off to SinLand where they would be forced to gamble their paper route money while being seduced by a roomful of prostitutes and dandies
.
Oh, republicans, you just make political theater such delicious entertainment!

Lawd amighty, the opposition response has been outsourced.

Good evening and thank you for calling the Republican Party. My name is Piyush… I mean, “Bobby.” How may I help… I mean, I will be in the process of honoring the response for the Grand Old Party for the next interim.

You. Can’t. Make. This. Shit. Up.

In the essay (purchase required), Jindal describes an emotional friendship with a classmate, “Susan,” recently diagnosed with skin cancer and reeling after the suicide of a close friend. Susan’s behavior becomes stranger, and she is surrounded by “sulfuric” smells. Finally, one night at a prayer meeting, she collapses in a seizure — and the exorcism begins:

The students, led by Susan’s sister and Louise, a member of a charismatic church, engaged in loud and desperate prayers while holding Susan with one hand. Kneeling on the ground, my friends were chanting, “Satan, I command you to leave this woman.” Others exhorted all “demons to leave in the name of Christ.” It is no exaggeration to note the tears and sweat among those assembled. Susan lashed out at the assembled students with verbal assaults.

Jindal then describes how the whole situation made him physically uncomfortable, and he wondered if the same demon afflicting Susan was responsible for his state of nervousness:

Whenever I concentrated long enough to begin prayer, I felt some type of physical force distracting me. It was as if something was pushing down on my chest, making it very hard for me to breathe. . . Though I could find no cause for my chest pains, I was very scared of what was happening to me and Susan. I began to think that the demon would only attack me if I tried to pray or fight back; thus, I resigned myself to leaving it alone in an attempt to find peace for myself.

After a lull in the event — it in fact lasted “a few hours” by Jindal’s reckoning — Susan attempted to run away, but was dutifully pinned back on the floor by her friends:

Maybe she sensed our weariness; whether by plan or coincidence, Susan chose the perfect opportunity to attempt an escape. She suddenly leapt up and ran for the door, despite the many hands holding her down. This burst of action served to revive the tired group of students and they soon had her restrained once again, this time half kneeling and half standing.

After what sounds like a number of hours, and a failed attempt at getting help from a preacher (he refused to assist), the exorcism finally concludes in dramatic fashion:

It appeared as if we were observing a tremendous battle between the Susan we knew and loved and some strange evil force. But the momentum had shifted and we now sensed that victory was at hand.

While Alice and Louise held Susan, her sister continued holding the Bible to her face. Almost taunting the evil spirit that had almost beaten us minutes before, the students dared Susan to read biblical passages. She choked on certain passages and could not finish the sentence “Jesus is Lord.” Over and over, she repeated “Jesus is L..L..LL,” often ending in profanities. In between her futile attempts, Susan pleaded with us to continue trying and often smiled between the grimaces that accompanied her readings of Scripture. Just as suddenly as she went into the trance, Susan suddenly reappeared and claimed “Jesus is Lord.”

With an almost comical smile, Susan then looked up as if awakening from a deep sleep and asked, “Has something happened?” She did not remember any of the past few hours and was startled to find her friends breaking out in cheers and laughter, overwhelmed by sudden joy and relief.

Jindal writes proudly about the experiment’s conclusion: “When the operation occurred, the surgeons found no traces of cancerous cells. Susan claimed she had felt healed after the group prayer and can remember the sensation of being ‘purified.'”

(lifted from tpm election central)

I think I can sum up the GOP prospects for the 2012 elections this way:

Bobby, we hardly knew ye.

Even Fox News said his speech was amateurish and childish. He sunk his chances at higher office, but good.

I feel faint. How will we ever recover from this ass-drubbing?

Or better yet: Jindal/Wurzelbacher!

I can see the yard signs now: Not Bobby/Not Joe

Slumdog Governor/Not The Plumber 2012!

you should add “I may look like I’m intelligent, but as soon as I open my mouth you can tell I’m as much a yokel as anyone! And I wrote this speech for a third grade class I was supposed to visit last week!”

Palin/Slumdog Millionaire 2012!!!

Oh shit,Actor212 beat me to it.

still…must…post…

This dorkus malorkus is the guy who’s supposed to beat Barack Obama in 2012?

Presidential elections are won by the guy who appears to be the alpha male. And Piyush ain’t it.

I for one demand to see Piyush “Bobby” Jindal’s long form birth certificate, and will not be satisfied until I am transported back in time to the day of his birth to witness it first hand. And even then I will be pretty sure it’s a hoax. Also, he was raised a Hindoo! You can’t trust those people, they won’t even eat a nice juicy real American steak!

Palin/Jindal, eh, OTB?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm…

Polesmoker/Soulpoker 2012!

I for one demand to see Piyush “Bobby” Jindal’s long form birth reincarnation certificate

Fixed for religious accuracy.

Palin/Jindal 2012–now with twice the FAIL!

It just keeps getting better. That juicy pork for volcano monitoring? In Alaska. Oh gawd I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Thank you Sarah, thank you Piyush, thank you thank you thank you.

The best part of all this is that Palin-Steele-Jindal were NOT chosen specifically on the basis of their sex or race. The biggest affirmative action program in history is NOT what this is. This blatant sex/race pandering is the OPPOSITE of what it appears.

Oh but wait. Now, I bow to no one in my seething hatred of David Brooks. But do not fail to click here–

http://tinyurl.com/asnlll

–to see his epileptic, can’t-talk-fast-enough statement of disbelief in the horribleness (“nihilism”) of Jindal.

Dave! My man!

So that Jindal guy’s freakin ridiculous, but the Slumdog Millionaire/Indian call center ethnic jokes? Lame – the kind of horseshit Republicans resort to.

How about Apu from the Simpsons? Would it be OK to make Apu jokes or would that bruise your delicate sensibilities?

cdc – agreed. slumdog, apu, outsourcing jokes, fuck that noise. That’s not like our side.

It doesn´t matter one jot what ethnicity he is, peepuls! What´s more of interest to me is how come he´s been issued with the standard-model Republican hairdo, which looks like it belongs on a frigging Lego man and hasn´t been remodelled since the mid-1970s.

Can I point out that he looks like he’s auditioning for the Bollywood release of Gilligan’s Island?

Whatever the opposite of “gravitas” is, that’s what Bobby Jindal has.

uberuber: Perhaps Susan was possessed by the Jezebel spirit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95FXn5AtOxw

(Why can’t my linkies get a proper burial anymore? Phooey.)

cdc said,

February 25, 2009 at 18:46

Hear, hear, cdc. The guy went on tv last night and made an asshole of himself and cheap ethnic jokes are necessary? The Palin = polesmoker joke is pretty fucking stupid too. Why would anyone think that’s a funny thing to say on a liberal blog?

Yes, if there’s one thing I have it’s ethnic pride.

it was Fat Tuesday, the man should have been on a float sucking down hurricanes like any good public figure in LA would do.

That’s not like our side.
I believe in a post-partisan world, one in which even decent human beings can be assholes too. Sure there’s a strong correlation between “being a total dick” and “consevatism” – but that don’t mean that progressives have to be all huggy-kissy all the time (except Scarlett Johansson – she can be huggy-kissy at me all the time if she wants).

Anyways, if I understand Bobby correctly, he’s saying that the best advice you can get is from someone who took his second trimester wife and immigrated to a new country where he had no contacts or prospects of employment. Yeah, that’s the type of thinking we need to get through these economic tough times.

You elected Republicans to champion limited government, fiscal discipline, and personal responsibility. Instead, Republicans went along with earmarks and big government spending in Washington.

Went along with? “Went nuts with”, might be a bit more accurate. Also, “got rich off” “paid off friends with” “put on diapers and lapped up”

Didn’t CNN online run a big front-page story yesterday about Jindal being the new rising GOP superstar? Wish I’d bookmarked that thing.

The wingnuts didn’t like it at all.

Oh, I don’t know about that:

I’m delighted; watching the speech what I get is bedrock conservatism put forward in a calm, reasoned manner in terms everyone can understand. Looking around the right blogosphere, I’m seeing a lot of “he was wooden” or variants on that theme in his delivery. Leave the glitz to intellectual lightweights like Obama – I’ll take the red meat of Jindal’s policies any day of the week, and after the people get a bellyfull of Obamunism, they will, too.

You can always count on Mark Noonan to bring the stupid.

If he can actually repair Louisiana by 2012 (and not just say he has) then he might actually deserve to be president. Don’t hold your breath, he hasn’t got a prayer.

Hear, hear, cdc. The guy went on tv last night and made an asshole of himself and cheap ethnic jokes are necessary? The Palin = polesmoker joke is pretty fucking stupid too. Why would anyone think that’s a funny thing to say on a liberal blog?

Um, cuz she was pregnant before she was married, asshole?

Just a thought….if you have a problem with me, Lungie, tell it to someone who gives a shit.

OK, fine, no more ethnic references.

It now officially uncool to refer to the honorable Governor of the Great State of Louisiana as “Gunga Dim”

Let this be noted.

Jacob Singer,
Bookmark to your heart’s delight.

And no more sexual orientation jokes, Steer, don’t forget that.

Cuz I sure won’t!

“Whatever the opposite of “gravitas” is, that’s what Bobby Jindal has.”

Levitas? No, that’s what Joe Biden has — looking like a goofball and knowing it. I don’t know what to call what Jindal has; however, I do know he gives off a cloud of Campus Christian Fellowship that I can smell from the opposite coast.

Also, WORD on knocking it the fuck off with the ethnic cracks. Leave that shit to the likes of Rush.

intellectual lightweights like Obama

Ha. Ha ha. HaHaHaHa. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahaha!!!

I’m proud to be the Great Asian White Hope of the Republican Party. I’m proud of my deeply held Hindu Catholic faith. Why should I be ashamed of a fine name like Piyush Bobby?

It’s you libs who are paying attention racists.

I’m still having trouble with the governor of Louisiana mocking attempts to predict and prepare for natural disasters.
It sets a bad precedent. Next you’ll be trying to predict hurricanes.

I know this is a trivial question, but it’s troubling me:

Why, if Bobby Jindal is only 37 years old, is his neck approaching 70?

Will Bobby Jindal now hit the talk-show circuit to complain about how the mean press was mean to him because he wasn’t one of their kind? Isn’t that what all Republican gubernatorial embarrassments do for a second act?

Isn’t that what all Republican gubernatorial embarrassments do for a second act?

I’m afraid that’s what he’ll have to settle for, since I don’t think any of his kids are old enough to get knocked up out of wedlock. But it’s the South, so there’s always hope.

You elected Republicans to champion limited government, fiscal discipline, and personal responsibility. Instead, Republicans went along with earmarks and big government spending in Washington.

See it was Washington’s fault. Not teh super-hero, cherry tree one, the town. Now that Exorcism Bobby is here, though, it’s going to be all right. And it’s better than being a terrorist blond, anyway.

after the people get a bellyfull of Obamunism, they will, too.

Just you hold your breath for that, Nooners!

Some,

After all, 13 is just a number.

Um, cuz she was pregnant before she was married, asshole?

What does that have to do with fellatio, or anything, for that matter?

And don’t call longuylander an asshole. Asshole.

Some NYGuy: OhMyGOD. It’s really … DICK CHENEY!! In a faux thirtysomething Hindu-guy MASK!!! Run away!!!!

You know, an exorcism isn’t just something you get together with your college buddies and do, like a Catholic version of a ouija board. You’re supposed to have approval from a bishop, and also to be, you know, a priest who is trained as an exorcist. This whole thing sounds like those Pentacostalists who are technically Catholics or something. Or the story’s distorted somehow.

See, I tried to warn you about the PC police. Niggers.

Oh, you’re absolutely right, random troll!

According to Lawnguylander and the other bluenoses here, sexual propensities and how they play into hypocrisy is no longer a fit subject for ridicule on Sadly, No! Clearly I am being totally unPC!

But “asshole”? I’m afraid you have to take back this comment, along with any cracks about Larry Craig, David Vitter and any number of other perverted Republicans you might have made.

Asshole.

Susan lashed out at the assembled students with verbal assaults.

“Get the fuck off me, I need to go to a fucking hospital, you fuckers!”

Why, if Bobby Jindal is only 37 years old, is his neck approaching 70?

It’s because his throat needs to distend so he can swallow all the GOP crap he later regurgitates.

Alternate shorter Jindal:
“The American people can do anything,
Children can do anything,
American fighting men and women can do anything.
I repeat, the American people can do anything.
Me? I can do almost anything. Not sucking? That I cannot do.”

Since I have an asshole — and I’m guessing the rest of you also have assholes — I think we’re entitled to say “asshole.”

I don’t drink coffee, sir. I don’t drink hot liquids of any kind. That’s the devil’s temperature.

It’s because his throat needs to distend so he can swallow all the GOP crap he later regurgitates.

You know, this is closer to medical fact than you might think. One of the potential side effects of bulimarexia is premature aging of the neck. The dancer Vera-Ellen is an example of this, and her costumes were designed accordingly.

Seriously.

I forget who said this already in this thread, but the reason Jindal really failed last night was because he didn’t come off like a bully.
The Repub base wants to vote for assholes. The mean kids in elementary school. People whose every public utterance is a joke at the expense of their opponent.
In other words, imho, Palin is all but guaranteed to get the nod. It’d take…. a lesbian affair with Rosie O’Donnell or summin to stop it.

Clearly I am being totally unPC!

Don’t know about that. But clearly you are being an asshole. A thin-skinned one, at that.

Ouch.

Um, cuz she was pregnant before she was married, asshole?

New rule, anyone who starts off a comment with “Um” is automatically a douchebag. Also, “cuz” is off limits unless you’re ironically using it as an abbreviation for cousin. Of course if someone has already shown himself to be an unfunny, bigoted and sexist douchebag who’d fit in better at Ace’s place I guess it doesn’t really matter.

According to Lawnguylander and the other bluenoses here, sexual propensities and how they play into hypocrisy is no longer a fit subject for ridicule on Sadly, No! Clearly I am being totally unPC!

Doy.

It’d take…. a lesbian affair with Rosie O’Donnell or summin to stop it.

But if Palin had a lesbian affair with Mary Cheney, that would be just fine.

New rule, anyone who starts off a comment with “Um” is automatically a douchebag.

Since you made no provisions for quoting someone else, you’re a douchebag too.

Poor Lawngie…you don’t realize just how badly you’ve been exposed. Read on, son, read on.

You bridge and tunnel people…

But if Palin had a lesbian affair with Mary Cheney, that would be just fine.

It would be irresponsible for us not to speculate.

Or speculum.

A thin-skinned one, at that.

Says the anonymous troll….

It would be irresponsible for us not to speculate.

Or expectorate.

I’m just glad you didn’t say “ejaculate”. It’s bad enough one liberal is in hot water with the PC police here…

New rule, anyone who starts off a comment with “Um” is automatically a douchebag.
Awww, shit. I love starting comments with Um.

I appreciate the need to be understanding of other people – but aren’t progressives allowed to be total dicks too?

I know that I still have my fair share of bigoted and sexist proclivities. I guess your point is that it’s important to at least recognize that having those prejudices isn’t something to be especially proud of. Okay, I get that – but sometimes some very offensive things do need to be said – and with both Palin and Jindal, there are some very offensive things that ought to be said.

actor: Jesus Christ, put a sock in it already. What a douchebag.

actor: Jesus Christ, put a sock in it already. What a douchebag.

Says the anonymous troll….

You already used that snappy comeback once. Boring douchebag.

Sarah Palin is an abstinence-only family-values moralizer who got pregnant before she was married and whose “barely-legal” daughter recently bore a child out of wedlock.

Piyush Jindal is a Hindu anchor baby who changed his name and religion to win elected office via the party that ran on Barack Obama being a foreign-born Muslim not-entirely-white terrorist fascist communist bisexual.

I’d say it’s impossible to slur people of that ilk, so all bets are off.

D-KW,

I can guaran-damn-tee you that if anyone else had said them but me, this wouldn’t be an issue for Bridgeandtunnelguy.

I’ve let him fester in his own pus for a couple of weeks now. I just wanted him to know I haven’t missed his slashes by giving him an elbow to the jaw.

You already used that snappy comeback once. Boring douchebag.

Says the anonymous troll.

Again.

And anyone who starts a comment with “new rule” has to send Bill Maher an ounce of really primo weed, and show us the receipt.

Piyush Jindal is a Hindu anchor baby who changed his name and religion to win elected office

Slumdog Governor, in other words.

Apparently, some people haven’t seen the movie.

SomeNY,

Did you know Maher and Ann Coulter are going to hold a debate at Radio City in two weeks?

I’m tempted to see if he asks her out. Again.

I can guaran-damn-tee you that if anyone else had said them but me, this wouldn’t be an issue for Bridgeandtunnelguy.
Possibly, I dunno – but there’s a difference between being an asshole and being a paranoid asshole. I fully support your calling out Jindal and Palin – I kinda envy your damn-the-torpedoes approach to it, but there’s no need to get defensive about it.

IOW: Calling Palin a loose slut? How’s that more offensive than speculation about Kaus’ goat blowing? Poking at Anchor Baby Piyush, the new face of the Party of Strong Borders? I agree that that should totally be fair game. Painting yourself as the Big Bad for the PC Police? That’s wingnut-style Martyr Syndrome and it makes your argument look a bit shaky.

Bill Maher is a douchebag.

I appreciate the need to be understanding of other people – but aren’t progressives allowed to be total dicks too?

Um, I strive to be a dick so I hope so. Anyway, I’m not trying to be the thread police but if someone like you says something borderline offensive that’s different. Being funny on a humor blog absolves a lot of sins.

Bill Maher is a douchebag.

I’m not sure that justifies stealing his material, and I’m damn sure declaring “new rules” on someone else’s blog is de trop.

You bridge and tunnel people…

Um, this unacceptable 212/646ism must not go unopposed… perhaps a brief blast of 718 will cause you to back down from your Jee-o-graphic Jingoism.

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

February 25, 2009 at 22:16

Oh no! Better apologize quickly or do you want to be called a troll now too? Be careful or you’ll end like me, devastated with a broken jaw and saddled for life with some hurtful new nicknames. He may bide his time, for weeks even, but he’ll get you eventually, oh he’ll get you.

Have not seen such charisma since Fred Thompson! Bobby in 2012! 2016! 2020!

NYGuy: Did I say stealing someone’s material was justified? I merely observed that Bill Maher is a douchebag. Geez, why’s everybody so TOUCHY today! Furthermore, I don’t think Maher’s got a trademark on the words “new rule” anymore than BO’Reilly and Faux News did on “fair and balanced.”

…but if someone like you says something borderline offensive that’s different
Flattery will get you anywhere.

New Rule: All comments have to include at least one bit of Dragon-King fluffing. Or contain the word PENIS.

I just hope we can all agree that the ethnic jokes are pretty much off limits. Except for jokes about Finns, because they are shifty and sly, speak an agglutinative language, and, besides, who the hell could resist making fun of someone who looks like this?

This is too weird for me.

I am aware of the internet tradition that “Aware of all internet traditions” is material stolen from ‘vanderleun’ on a LGM thread.

Also, Finns are notorious for drunken inapprpriate behaviour.

I had no idea Bill Maher invented the making of new rules. That’s embarrassing. I thought I stole it from some commenters here a while back. I just wanted to be as de trop as everyone else. I can’t seem to fit in anywhere.

Hte buttocks?

I can’t seem to fit in anywhere.

Sure you can!

Just know you role and shut your mouth!

How hard is that?

B^4,

Make all the jokes you want about Finns. We could use the exposure.

Um, I strive to be a dick so I hope so.

You succeed almost to a right-wing degree.

Lawnguylander said,

Oh no! Better apologize quickly or do you want to be called a troll now too?

Wow. Satire just flies right past you…

Teh Great Gazoogle informs me that Finns actually look like this.

volcano monitoring

I know SmutClyde already addressed this, but it really shows the lack of self-awareness prevelant in these conservatives. His constituents benefit virtually every year from the hurricane monitoring and predicting done by NOAA and The National Weather Service. Both funded by federal dollars.

But funding this is an egregious waste of taxpayer money.

Seattle , Bobby, Seattle.

Thank gord we don’t have some kinda, oh I dunno, supervolcano in our heartland showing signs it becoming more active (and overdue).

Make all the jokes you want about Finns. We could use the exposure.

Yeah, any extra exposure of Kiira Korpi would be extremely welcome.

Now, about that bridge and tunnel crack…

I stand by that, B^4.

And I say that as someone who owns a pied a terre in Queens and a brownstone in Brooklyn. 😉

Now, about that bridge and tunnel crack…

Yes, it’s way past time to repair our nation’s infrastructure.

Teh Great Gazoogle informs me that Finns actually look like this.

Could be worse. Celine Dion won that as well.

a pied a terre in Queens

I hope you don’t call it that when you’re in Queens; you could wind up with a mouthful of loose teeth.

Whoa, so you are B&T, and a Manhattanite? How can you live with yourself?

Maybe I should have started that second sentence with an “um”.

How can you live with yourself?

I’m usually beside myself with grief.

I hope you don’t call it that when you’re in Queens

No. I call it a “Pahtmint”.

I speak fluent Queens.

“I’m from Queens.”

“Really? I’m from normal parents.”

Being funny on a humor blog absolves a lot of sins.

In that case, I hope you went to confession today before you went and got your ash handed to you, cuz your absolution is in the mail along with your stimulus check, Republicant.

I’m usually beside myself with grief.

If you used that pied a terre in Queens more often, you wouldn’t have to be beside yourself.

Mea Tulpa!

I often file my receipts bilocation, B^4

you went and got your ash handed to you
This is what happens if your doppelganger dies, and you opt for cremation.

This is what happens if your doppelganger dies, and you opt for cremation.

I prefer milk and two sugars in my copy.

Ah! I get the volcano thing.
1) The largest volcano in the Solar System is on Mars. It is called Olympus Mons.
2)Mars is being monitored by NASA
3) Bobby knows that some rude bits of women are called the mons.
4) A very famous strip club in Tampa is called the Mons Venus.

He doesn’t want people to get paid Public money ,or even pubic money for that matter, to go to strip clubs, even on Mars.
Frankly, even a wishy washy liberal such as I, can see that monitoring strip clubs would be of doubtful benefit to the community unless it is to make sure that when the econocalypse happens, there will be a solid base of Adult Entertainment left, to build on.

Frankly, even a wishy washy liberal such as I, can see that monitoring strip clubs would be of doubtful benefit to the community unless it is to make sure that when the econocalypse happens, there will be a solid base of Adult Entertainment left, to build on.

My duty to my country is now clear. I can haz stimulation stimulus monee?

If we’re going to outsource nudie bars, I’m leaving.

I watched Jindal’s speech, all three hundred years twelve minutes of it … & he’s definitely got a voice made for silent movies. Palin, Jindal, Limbaugh – are Republicans congenitally tone-deaf or what? Combine that dulcet vox with the charisma of Adolf Eichmann & the intellectual firepower of Pee-Wee Herman & you’ve got yourself a recipe for GOP triumph in 2012!

WTF? PC in my “Sadly, No!”??? No wonder it smells weird in here.

Go, Purity Brigade, go – please, save all us impure ignorant hateful heathens from ourselves, just in time for the Global Hug-In … let us know how that works out for you here (consult the “Survivalist Jokes” thread for details).

Yes, how DARE anyone make Sri Lankan call-centre jokes about the glib chirpy little bastard whose party sent so damn many American jobs overseas! Let alone descending to the conceptual Auschwitz of crude sexual innuendo in regards to Sarah “Rape-Kits Only $79.99 While Supplies Last / Abstinence 4-Evar” Palin … oh teh shame!

Snark is cruel, snark hits below the belt early & often, & (best of all) snark never hesitates to cross the line … preferably after either napalming or urinating on it. Noone has earned it like the Republicans have since 1999, & I look forward to watching them gag on it for many many years to come.

PS: “New rule”? Neither new, nor an actual rule.

Via Great Orange Satan: even though Jindal is an “Intelligent Design” proponent, his account of his actions during Katrina is an example of evolution.

GARN! Href FAIL!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/24/23132/9395/253/701495

“The Republican government fucked up Katrina, so why trust a Democratic government to get this right?” I see Jindal is adept at the Republicans’ favourite game of blaming the Democrats for everything, even when they’re not in power.

Jindval is an idiot, and a distraction. I liked Obama’s speech, I thought that it addressed what it needed to and lay forward priorities and morals, which is the first step towards solutions. I feel really inspired about is when he talks about energy and infrastructure. I’m really glad he’s finally taking Dean Baker’s advice (most eloquently written in “From Financial Crisis to Opportunity” in the book Thinking Big) and stopping the tax breaks for corporations that send their jobs overseas.

The pukes who decided that making fun of Jingal’s ethnicity and place of birth is funny need to park it.

Jim says: “WTF? PC in my “Sadly, No!”??? No wonder it smells weird in here.”

Jim, you’re the type of rootless person that would go on Red State and rail about niggers and then come to Sadly, No! and rail about whatever is on the menu here. Nobody except a right wing tool or a juvenile, never-fucked loser guy uses the expression “PC” anymore.

You want to come here and make a bunch of cheap, shitty racial and ethnic jokes and be excused because the brown skinned nigger you are insulting is a Republican. And then you whine when people call you on it.

Nobody wants you around.

Shorter Jindal:

“I’m brown too!”

Sorry if that sounds unPC. I’m really knocking the GOP. I just can’t shake the idea that if Jindal were white, he’d be just another young cracker, with no pedestal from the party poobahs. They think BHO is prez only because he’s the flavor of the month.

Maybe.. shorter GOP: “We’ve got a brown one, too!”