Republicans: Gaining Back America’s Trust
RICK MORAN THINKS THE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS are amateurish and disorganized. At Playboy, on the other hand, they think they’re suspiciously well-coordinated.1 Both are right!
Of course they’re amateurish. Most of these people have never organized a protest before (hence the tendency to do things like forget bullhorns). That’s what you get at the beginning of a movement. But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out, than when 20,000 of the usual suspects organized by ACORN or ANSWER march with preprinted signs. If this keeps up (and I think it just might) the amateurishness will fade away soon enough. Then Moran will probably complain about the loss of authenticity.
The Playboy folks, meanwhile, miss two things. One is that, as reader Miles Wilson noted, these protests predate Santelli.2 The other is that modern technology allows a bunch of people who don’t know each other to coordinate a nationwide campaign “suspiciously” well. Somebody should write a book on that subject some day.
UPDATE: Some related thoughts here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Robert Crawford writes: “I get the feeling that if the tea parties were organized by a group as far-right as ANSWER is far-left, *THAT* would be the major story.”
Trying to Deny our Grassroots Efforts
I’m going to piggyback onto my previous post about the article written about the Seattle Tea Party. Something I neglected to mention was a comment he made, in addition to a comment made by a sociologist from Eastern Illinois University.
1. From Eugenia Deerman, a sociologist who studies conservative social movements –
How grassroots the movement really is, is debatable, says Ms. Deerman at Eastern Illinois University. “I’m suspicious only because … the conservative movement has repeatedly used this tactic of creating an appearance of grassroots activism when they’re actually very well orchestrated,” she says. “It allows them to mask this ongoing ideological battle that’s super-invested in small government, low taxes, and a free market.”
2. From Dennis Mooney, a tweeter and self-described liberal, asked by TCOT to report on the Seattle Tea Party –
What’s ironic about the teaparty concept is that is was hatched up by CNBC not #tcot. After having milked their Jim Cramer “they know nothing” moment for months CNBC management needed another scripted rant to boost ratings. That twitter upstart @stocktwits had the nerve to issue a call to boycott CNBC. They needed a new champion of the average person. Rick Santelli’s name got major applause today. Their plan worked. We have a new champion for the everyday guy who does not want to pay for his neighbors extra bathroom.
So it seems that we have an attempt to discredit conservative grassroots movements, and thereby their power and sincerity, by leveling a charge of “well orchestrated” or “corporate.” It is a denial put forth in order to cool the rising passions and energy by trying to suck the life out. Let me just say this: I planned the first Porkulus Protest c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y on my own. I paid the $50 for the permit and I started emailing people. Not one GOP official, county or state, showed up or offered to help. I planned the Tea Party with the help of one other woman, again I paid the $50 for the permit, and we started emailing people. And again, not one GOP official helped. It is so insulting to insinuate that we are not an authentic, and admittedly ragtag, group of citizens that have finally had enough, and are finally willing to do something about it.
If anyone is well orchestrated it is the Moveon.org crowd that is funded by billionaire George Soros. It seems to me that she not so much studies conservative social movements as sits at home and postulates about them. I challenge her to actually come speak with some of us to see how far removed we are from any sort of official machinery, but I know it’s a scary world outside that ivory tower.
Notes:
1- The notorious Mark Ames and Yasha Levine article is no longer available at the Playboy link, but can be seen at Exiled Online under the alternate title, “Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine: Is CNBC’s Rick Santelli Sucking Koch?“
2- The ‘porkulus’ protest in Seattle was announced on February 10th and happened on February 16th, and is in both respects the first of the stimulus protests. (Rick Santelli’s spaz on CNBC took place on the 19th.) A second Seattle protest followed on February 27th that was similarly, but not identically organized.
SIXTEEN????
LOL!
Somewhat related “scare quotes” here.
Don’t kid yourself- you are not watching a suicide. Rather we are watching a murder, followed by arson to destroy the evidence. If the republican Party is still around when the outrage becomes great enough for a real investigation into what has gone on, lots and lots of them will be headed for long jail terms. Much better to get out while the getting is good, and it’s still possible to leave with their ill-gotten gains.
But they want to make sure there’s a nice little side show to distract us, while they say: Those people Jindal, Palin, Limbaugh, etc, who coul;d they hurt? What have they done?
At this point it’s not a political party, it’s a bunch of decoys.
My dream is that some unsuspecting right-winger passes by these “protests” and shouts out “Get a job!”
My dream is that some unsuspecting right-winger passes by these “protests” and shouts out “Get a job!”
I approve.
It appears that my words in a previous thread were taken closer to fulfillment. President of the Club for Growth, Pat Toomey is seriously considering challenging rino Snarlen Arlen Specter for his Senate seat. Looks like one rino is about to be weeded out.
Sorry, forgot the link.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/papoliticsblog/
My dream is that some unsuspecting right-winger passes by these “protests” and shouts out “Get a job!”
Or maybe some of Megan McArdle’s 2 x 4 wielding thugs will happen upon the scene.
And congratulations and good luck, Dr. Missus Marita and Gavin! That is going to be one smart and funny kid.
SIXTEEN????
LOL!
actor212 pwns self.
I’m hoping that Congressman JD Hayworth challenges, and defeats John McCain for his Arizona Senate seat. McCain, though a patriot, is still a rino and has been a thorn in the side of conservatives for many years.
If Republicans had a closed primary open only to previously registered Republicans, than Fred Thompson would have won the primary and The One would not be President. McCain was a weak candidate which is why Obama is President.
Don’t forget to wear Brooks Brothers.
I love it
In Seattle conservatives’ defense, living here must be very similar to living in Utah for a progressive.
They can have their little teabagging parties a few blocks from where I work. It will never overpower the copious amounts of herb, polar fleece and wool socks with birkenstocks.
Never.
In fact, when the next one happens I’m going to mosey on down there and do some Moran Watching. I’ll let you know if I get any good pictures.
Wait, What? there’s going to be a little Margav?
That is going to be one hell of a kid.
Look out! He may have a rudimentary penis!
Or she for that matter…
Dudes, I’m at the bar! Let’s bring it! Simon? Lamb Henry? Where is everybody?!
*chortle*
Twenty minutes in and already ur-Lord Harold has pwned himself.
Fred Thompson (as “Fred Dalton Thompson”) showed up on Life on Mars the other night. Did his usual shtick, which he seems to have much more of a flair for than politics.
That guy would have been a shit president, like Reagan was.
I still suspect that the Ashley Todd story (she’s the young woman that claimed someone attacked her because she had a John McCain bumper sticker on her car) was helped along by someone in the Republican Party and not just a result of her mental problems.
Lord Harry: Harald Hardrada would have been King of England if only the Witenagemot hadn’t backed Harold Godwineson!
William the Conqueror: Suuuuure. You go on believing that.
Ahh, I like it when Glenn Reynolds drops the Hehindeedies and lets loose with what he really thinks:
ACORN? Fine, I can still buy that as the wingnut bogeyman, what with all that mass voting fraud
that never friggin happenedthat was the main reason why Obama got hisself elected. Obviously, I’d expect better from a law perfessor, but yeah yeah, we’ve said this about many things Reynolds has promoted.But ANSWER? Dude, ANSWER? Really? Wingnuts are still bloated with rage against ANSWER? Is it 2003?
PeeJ said,
March 2, 2009 at 20:08
SIXTEEN????
LOL!
actor212 pwns self.
One of the attendees was bringing five guests.
As for Freddie T., when a man running for president runs on the platform that he doesn’t really want the job, well…I’m not sure how we couldn’t have seen Thompson’s implosion from a mile away. Well, by “we” I kinda mean “Op/Ed superstars.”
OT – Studebaker:
Congrats on the Studebaker, DMM and GM!
Darth Revan has already Godwinesonned the thread!
I still have a recording of the lil’ monster’s prenatal swooshing heartbeat which I hear every now and then via the iTunes shuffle. Creepy scientific advances are a whole new realm of sentimentality.
That’s a fine lookin’ toaster, ma’am. Congrats.
For some reason, the teabagging thing reminds me of this
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actor212, keli+5+5.
Dear reactionary conservative wankers,
Hope you are enjoying the unique delights of being part of an utterly useless protest movement! Don’t worry if you feel like a laughing stock, after all that never stopped the good ol’ Nader supporters!
Never mind those haters, you just keep on doing your thang.
And I will keep on doing my thing, which is laughing at your sorry asses.
The problem with conservative protest movements is that unlike leftists, conservatives have actual lives and have to work.
It’s like that joke that they were going to hold a Million Jew March after the Million Man March, but nobody showed up beacuse they all had to work.
Hmm, your cephalopod looks to be missing a few limbs.
If your morning sickness doesn’t improve, consider getting a Relief Band. I got my sister one and she said it helped tremendously.
BTW, shouldn’t you guys be protesting global warming in D.C. today?
Oh, wait, it’s snowing! In March!
It’s like that joke that they were going to hold a Million Jew March after the Million Man March, but nobody showed up beacuse they all had to work.
Funny, I didn’t hear that one. We must run in different crowds.
I drink your milkshake!
I . . . DRINK . . . IT! I DRINK IT UP!
Hi there!
Estimated attendance: 11 people attended
and
Who attended?
11 attendees
But it’s the “LOL” while getting it wrong that makes it autopwnag3.
actor, are getting enough sleep these days?
“#actor212 said,
March 2, 2009 at 19:46
SIXTEEN????
LOL!”
Like I said, conservatives and libertarians have actual lives outside of politics.
The Kleagles and I were cleaning beer out of the inside of our hoods for a week the first time we heard that one!
“The Kleagles and I”
Hey, I wasn’t there!
Keep posting “we have jobs! And lives!” every couple of minutes and eventually we’ll believe you!
President of the Club for Growth, Pat Toomey
Did he have to overthrow Sy Sperling? I miss him; he wasn’t just the president of the company, he was a
victimclient.HAW HAW HAW HAW! It’s cold out so there’s no global warming! God, how do they keep coming up with these devastating, original zingers?
Hey, I wasn’t there!
You know as well as I do, Senator, that you renounced the Klan years ago – and even apologized for your involvement.
You are dead to us.
Oh look – another wanker who can’t seem to grasp the difference between climate and weather.
If I wanted to play that game, I could point out that 1) the heaviest snowfalls in the DC area are always in March (usually in the last two weeks) ; 2) last Friday, DC almost hit 60 degrees; and 3) next Thursday, it will be > 60 degrees
Hmm, your cephalopod looks to be missing a few limbs.
That’s just fewer socks I have to knit, tigrismus…
I did say “nigger” on Fox News though.
It’s like that joke that they were going to hold a Million Jew March after the Million Man March, but nobody showed up beacuse they all had to work.
Are you saying that Jews are subhuman?
Oh look – another wanker who can’t seem to grasp the difference between climate and weather.
It’s like saying “there’s no recession because I got paid today.”
actor, are getting enough sleep these days?
Meh. I never read a Meet Up page before and I assumed the 11 meant that eleven people had responded and Kelli’s five were beyond the RSVPs.
So sue me! 🙂
So what you’re saying is the great “Silent Majority” didn’t consider this an important enough cause to invest a vacation day in, is that it?
I did say “nigger” on Fox News though.
Everyone says that on Fox News.
Shouldn’t a group of protesters with the balls to name themselves after the Boston tea party actually, y’know, *do* something?
At least dress up in injun costumes.
If Republicans had a closed primary open only to previously registered Republicans, than Fred Thompson would have won the primary and The One would not be President.
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa….ohgod….ohgod…Ha! HA! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….dyin’ here….heehee….pant….wheeze…. [thud]
Everyone says that on Fox News.
Hell, Juan Williams says that about his own children.
Now, I readily acknowledge that I have zero experience reading ultrasonically generated images of proto humans, but I keep looking at that pic, Doc, and it looks kind of, well, insectoid to me.
I think I must be doin it worng….
mikey
On the other hand, it motherfucking snows in June in some places too, so i guess that proves your point exactly.
The problem with conservative protest movements is that unlike leftists, conservatives have actual lives and have to work.
Hey, I’ll bite: yup, absolutely, a liberal is far more likely to have an unorthodox job that would allow them to take an afternoon to go to a protest. I’m happy with my flexible job that treats me like a human. Conservatives can suck on their 8-6 schedule with a 3 hour commute and whine all they want. They created that awful world and they should have to live in it. I’m not sure why that counts as “actual lives” tho.
I thought Western Union stopped delivering sonograms.
So what you’re saying is the great “Silent Majority” didn’t consider this an important enough cause to invest a vacation day in, is that it?
Be fair. Economy’s in rough shape after the Bush-Cheney years. Might not’ve been able to get a day off. Lose the job, lose the house, don’t have health care because it’s too expensive, so if the kids get sick…
Think about it. Supporting the GOP for the past eight years means the average GOP supporter doesn’t have the financial ability to support the GOP now. Gotta drive ’em crazy.
Samsational!
I’ve had lots of lulz here at the expense of delusional wingnuts, but seeing Fred Thompson nostalgia just takes the cake.
Fred Thompson got 11 delegates. That’s 0.5% of the total delegates that were up for grabs. His best finish was a second-place finish in Wyoming. But he would have won the whole damn thing if it wasn’t for you hippies crossing party lines and voting for that groovy longhair John McCain!
HAW HAW HAW HAW! It’s cold out so there’s no global warming! God, how do they keep coming up with these devastating, original zingers?
They have a whole website of “cartoon pictures” (as bermanpost.com put it) dedicated to this propostion:
http://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/
More evidence of the very, very serious nature of conservative thought.
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§ 1.1.1.1
“negro” is acceptable and preferred.
When dealing with southern guests, “nigger” or “nigra” may be substituted.
“Darky” and “junglebunny” may be used only if your contract specifically allows. Cf: Corporate hiring guidelines, §1.2
“Stepandfetchit”, “spearchucker” and additional terms may only be used by guests.
They need to find a new term to replace “Porkulus”. Every time I hear it or see it in print I can only see Rush Limbaugh in a toga.
“McCain, though a patriot, is still a rino and has been a thorn in the side of conservatives for many years. ”
Innat cute? Someone who still thinks “Republican” means “conservative”?
It’s not McCain who’s been a thorn in the side of conservatives, dear boy. It’s the GOP, the Bush administration, and the horses they rode in on. Why don’t you de-commission the lot of them and start over?
Lord Harry said at 20:09
If Republicans had a closed primary open only to previously registered Republicans, than Fred Thompson would have won the primary and The One would not be President.
1) When is “open enrollment season” for the Republican Party? Do any of the plans include orthodontia? substance abuse treatment? orthodontia abuse treatment?
2) How long a period is “previously registered”? Two years? Four years? Eight years? What if I was previously registered under my slavename?
3) “Obama Won Because Registered Republicans Voted For McCain”??? Its New!!!
4) Congrats to G & DMM !
I can’t work the dagnab blockquote.
DrMM: That is just the CUTEST little thing! Did you see a wienie?
But remember, it isn’t really a human.
Between Freddie T., Palin, Jindal, Mittens, and Rudy, the GOP sure is good at churning out candidates who lose their popularity at an exponential rate.
I’ll admit that Obama was a flimsy candidate at the beginning (I didn’t prefer him until around November ’07), but there was at least something there. That’s why he rose above completely flaming out. The above crew didn’t even have that. Rudy had ONE strategy. It didn’t work. Fred took, like, TWO debates for everyone to leave. Palin/Jindal only had to talk for FIVE minutes. Amazing.
We got our ultrasound the same day the newspaper had a gigantic scare headline on the front page about potential damage to fetuses from ultrasounds. Yay!
Hell, someone who still thinks “Conservative” means “conservative”.
Envelope please?
And the PeeYewLitzer for extraordinary ignorance and lack of limagination in cartooning goes to……
ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/
Also, WP is a fucking climate change denying cartoon
Lord Harry: Harald Hardrada would have been King of England if only the Witenagemot hadn’t backed Harold Godwineson!
I will give him just six feet of English soil; or, since they say he is a tall man, I will give him seven feet!
Mostly lurker coming out of lurkdom (side note: why does WP say I’m posting too fast, when I haven’t posted in DAYS?) to say hearty congrats to Dr. Missus Marita and Gavin! So exciting!
Also, do these conservative blowhards actually think that liberals don’t work? All liberals are unemployed and sitting around ordering diamonds with a $300/month welfare check? Are they that stupid, or do they have nothing else to offer other than cliched Rushspeak because they are too intellectually lazy to come up with an original thought?
I have decided to launch a counter-protest movement in which liberals show up with large kettles of boiling water (grand chaudron d’eau bouillante) and make tea out of the erstwhile conservative’s tea bags, then hand out cups of hot tea to the homeless and unemployed.
Then everyone urinates on the conservatives.
I think it’s a fairly good plan, except I want to keep the number of counter-protesters below the number of protesters, which may be difficult.
I also wish to note I am still enamored of the term ‘beclown’ and hope it remains in the general parlance.
DrMM: That is just the CUTEST little thing!
Am I allowed to make H. R. Giger comparisons here, or is that encroaching on Ace-of-Spades territory?
I had no idea that little Studebakers looked so much like large prawns.
Are they that stupid,
Yes.
This episode of SA2SQ was brought to you by……
I had no idea that little Studebakers looked so much like large prawns.
I gasp! It really IS a mantis shrimp!
Republican primaries should be open only to American citizens who been registered as a Republican for at least one year. That way, Democrats and Independents won’t be able to vote for the most liberal candidate in a primary that is supposed to choose the candidate for the Republican nomination.
Since our party is dominated by conservatives, it should be conservatives who get to decide who our parties nominee will be. Liberals have the Democratic primary to vote in, and Independents will be just fine voting in only the general election.
Since our party is dominated by conservatives
Objection — assuming facts not in evidence.
Fred Thompson’s schitck is as follows:
Appear on screen- viewers go: “Oh that guy, OK I know what charicter this is going to be”
Mumble some folksy warning/advice in one to two scenes to the main charicter to move the plot along.
Pick up check.
take nap.
and that was just his senate career.
Harry, you should give up your title, move here to the colonies and fix things.
Shorter Lord Harry: “Fred Thompson is so perfect, wise, and charismatic that he would have beaten Obama, whom liberals worship as a messiah without reason.”
Self-Awareness: I DUNT HAS IT.
Now, I readily acknowledge that I have zero experience reading ultrasonically generated images of proto humans, but I keep looking at that pic, Doc, and it looks kind of, well, insectoid to me.
To be fair, the stills don’t do the live show justice. I had no idea how wiggly the little one would be – stretching out, doing the backstroke, even standing on its head. And hiccuping a lot. Mikey, if it helps, it looks a lot less insectoid if you don’t view the dark spots on the head as eyes and a nose-hole (which they’re not) but consider that the baby is on its back and viewed in profile. And still has a proportionally really large head.
MzNicky, we’re only at 12 weeks, so they can’t tell the sex yet. We’re not sure if we’ll find out when they are able to tell us – if it’s a girl I certainly don’t want to get buried in pink crap. I’m thinking a girl means blue but with flowers on it. 🙂
I gasp! It really IS a mantis shrimp!
Well, Gav has always *really* wanted one.
Little Studebaker is totally prwned.
The little one reacts poorly to Marita and Gavin’s request to clean up.
We got our ultrasound the same day the newspaper had a gigantic scare headline on the front page about potential damage to fetuses from ultrasounds. Yay!
Oh Gawd, Bubba, that’s awful. Was this around the time that Tom Cruise was rumored to have obtained his own ultrasound for constant monitoring of Katie’s womb? I remember stories about overuse of ultrasound coming out then…
But what about the laser eyes?
at 12 weeks, so they can’t tell the sex yet.
Damn, they sure start sex education on them childrens young these days.
One problem the Seattle Teabaggers had: They announced they were going to consume tea (and coffee). Strict constructionist teabaggers don’t roll that way, so they didn’t show. They are the silent majority of teabaggers.
Somewhat back on topic, which is crashing faster: the economy or the Republican party?
I had no idea how wiggly the little one would be – stretching out, doing the backstroke, even standing on its head.
Wait till it starts using your pancreas as a high dive board…
Congratulations to you both.
Somewhat back on topic, which is crashing faster: the economy or the Republican party?
In the spirit of bipartisan compromise: the economics of the Republican party.
And still has a proportionally really large head.
Perhaps the little nipper will grow up to be an incredibly competent valet. From my readings, that looks like fairly easy work, given the right rich dipstick.
I know you guys like talking about food from time to time. I just had six hot wieners from new york system completely loaded with a side of chilli cheese fries. Sometimes the simple stuff is simply the best.
I can’t work the dagnab blockquote.
When, oh when will S,N! enable the <dagnab> tag?!
Almost seven years ago. There was one particularly awful story about some pregnant doctor with easy and frequent access to a machine.
Use [blockquote] except with non-square brackets.
If Republicans had a closed primary open only to previously registered Republicans, than Fred Thompson would have won the primary and The One would not be President. McCain was a weak candidate which is why Obama is President.‘
How’d that Rush Limbaugh “chaos theory” work out for you?
“To be fair, the stills don’t do the live show justice. I had no idea how wiggly the little one would be – stretching out, doing the backstroke, even standing on its head. And hiccuping a lot”
But remember, it’s just a clump of tissue, not a human.
Loves me some MODOK, Righteous Bubba.
Pro-Abort said,
March 2, 2009 at 21:57
“Retroactive abortion” is a consummation devoutly to be wished in your case.
After all, you’re just a clump of tissue, not a human.
Hi folks! I’m just checking in from the future which is where you’re going to spend most of your time. I’m only one day ahead so I don’t think it’s going to muck up the time stream too much to give you little heads up. Be sure to catch me tomorrow when I scramble to apologize to the party base for my insubordination to Mr. Limbaugh.
I keep asking my next year me if he’s going to take over the chair but next year me seems to have difficulty getting his mouth open, for some reason. Maybe he broke it and it’s wired shut? I can’t imagine what else could be wrong.
I think probably there might have been more homeless people in Westlake Park that day than there were Young Republican Protesters.
apologize to the party base for my insubordination to Mr. Limbaugh
Spit or swallow?
One of my son’s ultra sound pictures featured him making a very clear thumbs up sign. His mom wondered at the time if he was telling us everything was cool on the inside and he was healthy or if he just wanted to show us that he had inherited my freakishly big hands with especially long thumbs. Both it turns out.
I was going to make some snarky comment about “nice womb” or “what nudity ain’t enough for you lie-beral pr0nographers” – but I think I’ll just go with Congratulations!
How can anybody be pro-choice after seeing that?
1) When you say its”open only to American citizens”, do applicants to the Republican Party have to produce the vault copy of their birth certificate? I do have the gestalt copy of my birth certificate, its truthy, will that do?
2) When you say “Republican for at least one year”, are there any penalties for early cancellation? What if another political party offers more nationwide free minutes for voting? What kinds of mobile devices do you offer for political participation, 3G or just pamphlets?
3) When you say “it should be conservatives who get to decide who our parties (apostrophe/ possessive/name: Party’s) nominee should be”, does that include Romney and Huckabee?
Empirical evidence – reading “The Holy Bible” makes you stoopid.
Bonus material:
How can anybody be pro-choice after seeing that?
Because the other option is to deny choice, thus forcing people who don’t want to give birth for financial or health reasons – or really, any reason the woman feels is justified – to undergo a potentially life-threatening experience. Denying choice means you deny a person’s very humanity. Being pro-choice means every woman has the opportunity to decided what is done with her body.
How anyone can be anti-choice and still claim to like human beings, even the small ones, is beyond me. And for the record, using a liberal couple’s happiness at impending parenthood is pretty scummy, but the anti-choice lobby proved long ago it really doesn’t care about real people, just those in potential.
Rahm Emanuel is playing this “Rush Limbaugh is leader of the GOP” thing like a fiddle. Rush can’t resist taking the bait.
The whole situation is made out of awesome kickass.
All kidding aside, I am REALLY worried that Barack Obama is turning me into a Socialist. Or maybe a Communist. Those are pretty much the same thing, right? I lay awake at night thinking about Marx and that awful grease paint mustache he used to wear. I can’t even watch the CNBC analysts arguing about whether or not its better to buy stocks today or tomrrow without wondering if they really know what they are talking about. I mean, if you can’t trust CNBC, who can you trust?
I’m probably going to look like a fool answering your post, but here it goes. Since only American citizens can vote in American elections I felt it necessary to say American citizens rather than just people which could mean anybody.
As for the conservatism of Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, I think Mitt Romney has shown himself to be a true conservative when he was governor of Massachussets. He said what needed to be said in order to get elected governor in that most Democratic of states, but he proved himself a conservative when he was in office. Mike Huckabee is a bit on the squishy side for my tastes. He is soft on illegal immigration for one and he raised taxes several times as governor of Arkansas. I give him credit as he is solidly conservative on social issues, however its either the whole package or not at all.
he proved himself a conservative when he was in office
So forcing employers to provide health insurance is a conservative value?
Jason Pye is my new hero.
I can’t even watch the CNBC analysts arguing about whether or not its better to buy stocks today or tomrrow without wondering if they really know what they are talking about. I mean, if you can’t trust CNBC, who can you trust?
IMO, the only person worth watching on CNBC is that cute redhead who gives the quick business headline rundown on Larry Kudlow’s program, but then I have to watch Kudlow’s program in order to see her.
Liz Claman was well worth watching, but she jumped ship and went to the Faux Bizniss Notwork.
“Because the other option is to deny choice, thus forcing people who don’t want to give birth for financial or health reasons ”
So if a woman isn’t able to take care of her two day old baby, it would be a-ok if she dumped her/him in a trash can?
Mitt did so well in the primaries, too! Best of luck to him!
So if a woman isn’t able to take care of her two day old baby, it would be a-ok if she dumped her/him in a trash can?
A two-day old baby and fetus in the 12th week are not the same thing, and no one’s ever suggested that being pro-choice means one is pro-dumping already born babies in dumpsters. Moron.
But you bring to mind an interesting question for an anti-choicer like you apparently are. Considering a woman who did dump her two-day old in a dumpster would certainly receive and deserve justice, what do you think should be done to punish women who get abortions, if indeed the two scenarios are exactly alike as you seem to suggest?
Even we find Lou disgusting.
CPAC look out!
The abortionist should go to prison since he is the one performing it. The woman should get a lesser sentence.
But still let me get it straight: you think having a baby like the above one getting its skull broken in half and its brains sucked out is ok because the woman can’t afford to have a kid? Wow.
Haven’t you guys ever heard of “adoption”?
The abortionist should go to prison since he is the one performing it. The woman should get a lesser sentence.
Such as? Manslaughter? Murder two? Would she allowed to have children later on? What sort of corrective measures do you suggest.
But still let me get it straight: you think having a baby like the above one getting its skull broken in half and its brains sucked out is ok because the woman can’t afford to have a kid? Wow.
No. I think every woman should have the choice as to what happens to her body, especially when it comes to childbirth, and no one should force her to do otherwise. Apparently you think you have that right and, as you say, wow.
Haven’t you guys ever heard of “adoption”?
How many kids have you adopted? Gotta be at least two, right?
The baby is not “her body”.
the anti-choice lobby proved long ago it really doesn’t care about real people, just those in potential.
I believe it was Barney Frank who said “Anti-choicers believe life begins at conception and ends at birth.”
And again, the fetus in the picture is not a “baby”, it’s a fetus. That’s science, son, and all your wishing otherwise won’t make it so.
Who let the dogs out? Hello, my fellowizzle Americans. It’s rad to be speaking with you today. I want you to know that I’m a
truenot trueliberal center-leftist centrist conservativeraging wingnut crazy, which isnotto notnotsay that I’mnotnot liberal.*getting popcorn pie*
I’m not sure that an abortion troll is going to do much for this, but it might be fun watching.
Jason Pye is my new hero.
And the other guy on there with the hair helmet. Wow. Did he look like a Bill Hader character on SNL to anyone else?
For extra fun, here’s one of the comments to the YouTube vid:
Because if there’s anything that security at the White House mailroom will respond well to, its receiving envelopes with a crushy, powdery-feeling enclosure. Yeah. That will make friends.
You liberals have a curious morality.
A little unborn baby can eat shit or die–even right up to before birth, since you believe in abortion on demand–but we have to give a luxury apartment and promise not to even leave a mark Khalid Sheikh Muhammad
Can we please not feed an abortion-troll?
Because if there’s anything that security at the White House mailroom will respond well to, its receiving envelopes with a crushy, powdery-feeling enclosure. Yeah. That will make friends.
Hey, they smoke dope too!
The baby is not “her body”.
No, the baby isn’t, because it’s been born. As I’ve said, “baby” isn’t another word for “fetus”. And yes, the fetus has a serious effect on the woman’s body while it’s gestating.
You really don’t know what you’re talking about, do you. I’d suggest you educate yourself on basic human biology before you go off telling women that you should be allowed to make serious medical decisions for them.
;
Trolls the feed don’t.
CPAC look out!
He looks ready to take over the WORLD!
“And again, the fetus in the picture is not a “baby”, it’s a fetus.”
Yeah, “just” a fetus.
From upthread:
“To be fair, the stills don’t do the live show justice. I had no idea how wiggly the little one would be – stretching out, doing the backstroke, even standing on its head. And hiccuping a lot””
Yeah, it’s just a fetus. It can eat shit or die.
I would find the entire argument regarding abortion a lot more compelling if the anti-abortionists gave one single damn about the kids after they are born. Hey, if you are poor, tough sh*t. Your mom has AIDS, well then, let the kid be a warning to everyone who is “promiscuous”. Or even, if you really thought that abortion was so evil (and I admit that I have mixed feelings about it), then maybe, just MAYBE you might give some serious consideration to better sex education and preventative measures. But no, social conservatives are so damn worried that kids might be having sex (and enjoying it) that getting pregnant by mistake or even when raped is better than a little prevention.
If you all want to get serious about unwanted pregnancies, then you should actually do something about it rather than just tell everyone how evil everyone else is that don’t share your views.
Can we please not feed an abortion-troll?
Well, I’m obviously not feeding this one anymore. The fuck Khalid Sheikh Muhammad have to do with anything? And here I thought I finally found a sincere social conservative and not some meathead.
So Matt, abortion on demand for any reason? Up into the ninth month?
What about premature births? Since they’re only still “fetuses” and can’t survive without the mother, I guess she can “chose” to pull the plug on them at any time, right Matt?
Sorry for feeding troll, the.
Oh FUCKING HELL. An anti-choice troll on the same thread as the sonogram image?
I like pie! I really reeally really like pie!
MzN, it was causitive.
And the other guy on there with the hair helmet.
Yes, the hair helmet is great. I also like how the woman from Chicago keeps saying “spontaneous” over and over again, as if she’s trying to convince herself. But my favorite, favorite moment is when Cavuto wonders if these very spontaneous protests don’t actually represent a broad political sentiment and Jason Pye cuts him off to object. Silent majority, deep traditions! As I said, he is my new hero.
Yo, yo, yo, what is up, homies? It’s the Mittzilla back and ready for action. You’ll
notnot find that I’m notnotanuntruenotconservative! Who wants an autograph, yo? Looking at YOU, K-Lo!MzNicky,
My apologies. Thought he was a sincere anti-choicer and not just some meathead troll. ‘Course, it’s hard to tell the difference. Both are pretty pig ignorant and hateful.
Mitt, forget what I said about Michael, you be da man! You be da man!
In 1850 I suppose Matt would have been saying “It’s not a person that’s owned as property, it’s a negro. And I support that “choice” to own a negro”.
Oh FUCKING HELL. An anti-choice troll on the same thread as the sonogram image?
What did you expect, the Anti-Gay Agenda troll?
An anti-choice troll on the same thread as the sonogram image?
That’s what passes for clever in trollville.
So, what about an abortion nine months into the pregnancy Matt?
Oh FUCKING HELL. An anti-choice troll on the same thread as the sonogram image?
No kidding. Piss off out of this thread, eh troll? My spawn is not a pawn for your proselytizing.
Mitt Romney: This is how you do it (via).
*swoon*
Hey, fucknuts. I am adopted and I’m also pro-choice. The Beneficent State in its Infinite Wisdom forced my mother to have a baby that she didn’t want, and it damn near killed her and me too. I have cerebral palsy, and if I didn’t have access to socialised medicine, I would have bankrupted my adoptive parents by now. Chew on that for a while. Actually, without access to socialised medicine, my biological mother would have died giving birth and taken me with her.
Do you hate your own mothers so much, your own daughters so much, your own sisters so much, that you’d force them to go through something that could kill them and/or cause permanent disability or illness (look up “preeclampsia” and “gestational diabetes” sometime, just for shits and giggles). No abortions means dead women and dead children. Of course, that’s of no consequense to you, is it, because all of you hate women.
So how come you’re all about FREEDOM and PROPERTY RIGHTS until and unless it’s a woman exercising her FREEDOM to choose whether she’s going to grant PROPERTY RIGHTS to the potential person living inside her body? Frankly, if you tried to take up residence inside my body, I’d kill your worthless ass too, if that’s what it took to get you to leave.
(For the record, I think I’d rather be shot than gestate, but that’s another matter.)
Strangle the abortion-troll! Strangle it in the cradle, as it were.
“Hey, fucknuts. I am adopted and I’m also pro-choice. ”
How would you have liked to be aborted as a “fetus”?
Pregnant Woman Sees Jesus Image in Ultrasound
It astounds me how disgustingly gross right wingers have to get when they feel the need to scare people. It doesn’t seem matter to them that the consequences of their positions is to see people starve and crack each other’s over the head with pipes, their brains oozing out onto the ground around them as the rats nibble at their entrails, noooooooooooooooooo!
“So how come you’re all about FREEDOM and PROPERTY RIGHT”
The baby is not the mothers property. The baby is entitled to the right to life that we all have.
Yo yo yo, please peep this rhyme, my homies!
My name is Mitt and I’m here to say
Vote for me on election day
My last name’s Romney and I’m not commie
I drop rhymes like it’s 1999
You can’t handle this truth, it’s uncouth
How you fear me, can’t get near me
I’m a steak so sear me
Was centrist, then twist
On this, liberalizzles, I’m wingnutty
So Hugh Hewitt’s putty
In my hand, my merry band
Of CPAC foos be spreading the news
That I’m Mitt, I’m the shit
I just thought I’d bring it up because I personally know a lot of women who were pro-choice until they saw an ultrasound image of their own child. It really puts perspective on things.
No abortions means dead women and dead children. Of course, that’s of no consequense to you, is it, because all of you hate women.
Bingo.
Doctor Missus Marita,
I apologize for feeding the troll. Thought he was a genuine anti-choicer using y’all’s to-do to spread some ignorant forced birther bullshit. Which, of course, he was, but unfortunately, he’s obviously too friggin’ ignorant in science, medicine and basic logic to pollute the thread anymore.
Again, an unborn child’s right of self ownership (life) should trump the inconvenience of a woman who decides she wants to “break the lease” on her womb
A lot of women use the “health” exception to get abortions for things like headaches and mood swings. It’s too wide an exemption.
Man, it didn’t take long before somebody Godwinsoned this thread, did it?
Is it Steak Lasagna or Lasagna Steak?
Nope. Thrilled as can be, taking the best care of myself that I can, gobsmacked by the ultrasound, and STILL PRO-CHOICE. Sorry to ruin your tidy misconceptions of the uniformity of feminine thought. Now please find somewhere else to play.
Yo yo check this out, for the second verse, don’t get terse, I’ve got partners in crime to do some rhymes:
(Glenn Reynolds)
Heh indoozle
Read the whole thoozle
Pics from the tea party
Are all hearty
For the brain, you see
Heh indeedy
(Bob Owens)
Mah mah grill
Mah mah mah grill
Mah mah grill
Mah mah mah grill
Have you ever seen what a real abortion looks like?
Man, it didn’t take long before somebody Godwinsoned this thread, did it?
I thought Mitt’s rap had a great taste, yet was pleasingly less filling.
No worries Matt, I just fed it a morsel or two myself, since it seems to see our happy occasion as a means to its particular end.
But now, let’s stop the feedings, and get back to snarking on Teabaggers, sharing recipes, and comparing little Studebaker to sea creatures. Huzzah!
Anti-choice types do not give a flying fuck about the fetuses involved. They are far more concerned with punishing women for having Teh Sex for purposes other than pro-creation, because it offends JEEEZUS-AHHH! It’s not about the precious little snowflake womb babies, it’s about stifling sexual freedom, and more importantly, controlling women.
As a person who lacks a womb, can I please ask that everyone else who also lacks one, might shut the fuck up before women decide they have the right to tell US what we can and cant do with our reproductive organs?
Lets not go there okay?
/trollfeed on/
Troll: The day YOU can get pregnant is the day you have anything at all to say about the issue. End of story.
You’ve been asked politely to leave, twice. Now FUCK OFF.
/trollfeed off/
I really really really really like pie!
A lot of women use the “health” exception to get abortions for things like headaches and mood swings
Cite one.
This is a myth.
Lou – here’s my advice to you. If you don’t agree with abortion, don’t have one. Leave other people alone.
I lay awake at night thinking about Marx and that awful grease paint mustache he used to wear.
I, for one, welcome our new Groucho Marxist overlords.
Oh, well, on-topic… I really don’t have anything to add. Conservatives are pissing and moaning about a Democratic president’s economic plan when it’s obvious that they, one, don’t really understand the basic presimes of the plan (such as bitching about “raising taxes” when most of us will se a tax cut, just not those of us who’re fucking filthy rich) and, two, they hypocratically ignore the mountains of cash Bush-Cheney poured into a deep, bloody hole for NO FUCKING REASON AT ALL and, even more amusing, attempt to claim that since Bush is out of office, the last eight years didn’t happen.
I mean, I’d be shocked at their ignorance and hypocracy and their sheep-like need to lead and their mendacity…but I’ve been paying attention to politics since that third-rate actor was in office, so I know who dealt it, as it were.
DMM I will pay you* to name your progeny Studebaker. I think that would be a great name and has awesome nickname potenetial.
*in the imaginary currency of my choosing. Current returns do not indicate future performance. Please invest wisely.
There are plenty of pro-life women:
http://www.gargaro.com/noabort.html
http://www.feministsforlife.org/
Just because I’m not a woman doesn’t mean I can’t comment on it, anyway. Do I have to be a soldier to protest a war?
BTW, if you haven’t seen it already, today’s Google search page is a winnah.
comparing little Studebaker to sea creatures
It looks like one of the Guild Navigators from Dune
We can tell!
Lou, here’s my advice for you: if you don’t like slavery, you don’t have to own a slave.
Without comment.
g said,
March 2, 2009 at 22:43
Can we please not feed an abortion-troll?
g said,
March 2, 2009 at 23:03
A lot of women use the “health” exception to get abortions for things like headaches and mood swings
Cite one.
This is a myth.
Lou – here’s my advice to you. If you don’t agree with abortion, don’t have one. Leave other people alone.
a woman who decides she wants to “break the lease” on her womb
women don’t “lease” their own bodies, jerk. But it looks to me like you’re not likely even to be an hourly guest.
Have you ever seen what a real abortion looks like?
Are you offering to post your pic?
Sorry. May I atone by offering up a most excellent curry meatloaf recipe?
Also, WP is an ongoing abortion.
That ultrasound image is Week 12, Dr. Mrs. Marita? Does this mean the third trimester will correspond with the dog days of summer? Whee!
I see Jason Pye is the one who posted that video. And he has his own YouTube channel. Dare I delve into it to see what else he’s posted?
Hey YOU don’t have to own a slave!
Speaking of recipes, I love a nice baked brie topped with spicy mango chutney and toasted slivered almonds. And easy to make, too. Just toast the almonds, top the brie with the chutney & almonds, then pop in the oven at 350 for a few minutes – say, 5 – 8. Serve with crackers and slices of granny smith apple.
oops
anyway,
Do I have to be a soldier to protest a war?
Get a clue, Lou. Conservatives must be non-soldiers to support a war. The logical contrapositive is “you’re a worthless piece of shit.”
Congrats to Doctor Missus Marita and Gavin! Best of luck to all of you.
Jennifer: That sounds like a keeper. Will cut and paste that one into my InternetualTubes recipe file.
Doctor Missus Marita, congrats on Studebaker. I can remember seeing ultrasounds for the first time and marveling at what was developing in my wife’s body. Ignoring the increasing idiocy above, I’ll offer you my wishes for a healthy pregnancy and upcoming membership in the world of parenthood.
So you have to be a sick person or doctor to discuss health care?
Do you have to be a teacher to discuss education reform?
It’s such stupid logic.
Anyway, so I guess you guys DO think a woman should be able to get an abortion in her 9th month and unplug the respirator on a premature birth if she changes her mind since neither of those are real people according to you.
I love mango chutney almost as much as I love my children. I have a wonderful mango chutney torta recipe if anyone wants.
He said what needed to be said in order to get elected governor in that most Democratic of states, but he proved himself a conservative when he was in office.
Lying to get elected is a conservative trait, I will concede.
Pretty much. So looks like your job here is done, right?
D’oh! Forgot to mention Gavin. Sir, congrats on the Studebaker, and hope you enjoy your impending journey through dadhood.
Of course, ultrasounded images always remind me of seahorses, which are from the genus Hippocampus- another fantastic name for a kid.
Then again, the seahorses are part of the family Sygnathidae, and who wouldn’t want to name their baby that?
Lying to get elected is a
conservativepolitician’s trait, I will concede.Fixited.
And secondly, what a fucking asshole. A class-less, sociopathic asshole.
Fuck.
the seahorses are part of the family Sygnathidae, and who wouldn’t want to name their baby that?
“Ignatz.” hmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
As a big curry fan, I have to say that a pile of mango chutney and a good supply of popadoms to scoop it up with is a real treat.
I love mango chutney almost as much as I love my children.
The chutney tends to give me gas. Can I have the kids with maybe a bleu cheese dressing on the side?
a pile of mango chutney and a good supply of popadoms to scoop it up with is a real treat.
mmmmm….mango chutney…..
Not to derail the curry discussion, but Chicken tikka masala is crack. Discuss.
I want to know if Matt thinks a woman should be able to get an abortion in her 9th month and unplug the respirator on a premature birth if she changes her mind since neither of those are real people according to Matt.
Hello, Matt?
Have the courage of your convictions.
Yes, but do you have any recipes for children?
(Too far?)
Let me add my congrats to Marita and Gavin.
And I second the choice of “Studebaker.”
(Too far?)
Not too far, so much as too late. Actor212 beat you to it.
So. Fcking. Romantic.
“abortions for some, miniature american flags for others”
Yes, but do you have any recipes for children?
Well, I like to do the younglings of a breed…lambs, pigs, and so on…on my charcoal grell. I learned this from Bob Owens and he swears by this for the abandoned kids in orphanages down there…you know, the ones no one adopts?
But then again, he likes to eat the dark meat, so maybe a nice roast would be better.
And I second the choice of “Studebaker.”
Well, it beats “Gavarita” all to be damned.
Could we at least have a law where women who are pro-abort have to look at an ultrasound of their unborn child before it’s killed, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
Honestly, Chicken tikka massala is something you stick in a sandwich. It barely qualifies as curry. Don’t get me wrong, it is tasty, but it isn’t exactly a good balti is it?
When I do a chicken curry, I often cook the chicken in a mix of spices which more or less resembles tikka massala, partly because of the aesthetic effect you can get where the meat is a different colour to the sauce, and if you do it right, has a different flavour too.
But tikka massala as a main dish? Even more of a copout than a mild rogan josh.
Tell you what is good though? Dump your mango chutney into the rice and mix it up. It makes a very good side dish for rich, hot curries. A nice contrast really.
Well, it beats “Gavarita” all to be damned.
I think my wife ordered one of those the other night out at the bar. Always the foo foo drinks for her, never the straight stuff.
too far?
Funny you should mention the deliciousness of children. When The Boy and The Girl were tots I found them so indescribably cute and adorable that one day I actually almost took a bite out of The Boy’s precious little chubby arm. Remembered he wasn’t carved out of cookie dough just in time.
What? TMI?
Dr.Mrs., these and other strange but true stories will one day be yours to share!
Honestly, Chicken tikka massala is something you stick in a sandwich. It barely qualifies as curry
BOO! Just because it’s more English than Indian doesn’t mean that the weak amongst us can’t love it as a main dish.
Could we at least have a law where women who are pro-abort have to look at an ultrasound of their unborn child before it’s killed, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
No.
Now FUCK OFF.
Dr.Mrs., these and other strange but true stories will one day be yours to share!
It’s wonderful for a baby to be bought into this world that is wanted and loved and more important, the parents have made the decision to have.
Funny thing about abortion and stuff…the birth rate in the US keeps climbing, despite these millions of procedures, which just means that women are deciding to have their babies later.
But no one ever talks about the babies they actually end up having, and how they’re loved and stuff…
Pie, MzN.
After all, we’re not even allowed to see the coffins of the dead soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan by his crew.
“Gavarita”? The hell? Obviously, the child must be named MARVIN.
Could we at least have a law where women who are pro-abort have to look at an ultrasound of their unborn child before it’s killed, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
No. Not even if there’s a law that war supporters have to look at pictures of children in the cities they’re advocating the carpet-bombing of.
“No.”
Why not? What about parental notification? I think that if a young girl has to get her parents to sign a permission slip for a school field trip, they should get to be notified on if she’s having an ABORTION, too!
Sockpuppet, I have a fairly low threshold with my curries, what with me being reared ‘Murkan, so I take what I can to enjoy.
they should get to be notified on if she’s having an ABORTION, too!
I wonder why so many conservatives refuse to acknowledge the rights of the born…
Marita: Once you go kashmiri, you will never go back..
My own speciality is unholy curry. Pork sausage jalfrezi, and curried roast beef filled yorkshire puddings.
Naming thread please…
Victoria Davis Hanson
Do I have to be a soldier to protest a war?
I’m a disabled veteran, and I’m against the war in Iraq. Can I tell you to GFY now?
Also, if my wife couldn’t have had the abortion your fellow travelers didn’t want her to have, I’d be a widower now. How very brave of you to demand that other Americans suffer for your principles.
Thelma Louise (girl)
Naming thread please…
Oh, I think we can just designate this one a naming thread.
I was thinking something with a superfluous apostrophe myself.
Have the courage of your convictions.
You know, it’s amusing to think that someone is just a fool they actually consider it’s important to goad a response out of another person on an internet message board. Like it’s some kind of face to face confrontation. Like it means anything.
Lou, why don’t you just make up the response? That’s how meaningful it is – you could even sockpuppet a response to yourself – would that give you the jollies you seem to crave?
You’re posing a fake question to people you don’t know, who may not even be reading your increasingly “urgent” prodding, to prove a non-existent “point” that means nothing to anyone but yourself.
And you laughably think that whether someone responds in your pre-determined way is “courage” or convictions.
What if someone typed an agreement with all your straw-man assertions? Do you think that would mean anything at all?
What you are doing is a pathetic joke, even on a serious policy blog – and you’re so stupid you’re doing it on a humor blog.
Tedious troll is tedious.
I think the baby name should include an unnecessary apostrophe. That would be so sweet and nostalgic.
Oh shit, I know.
Malia.
Sasha goes for both boys and girls.
Brentina Bozell.
If a boy, name him Sue.
Why stop at just one, g?
✂
Chutney* glazed meatloaf for two
easily doubles or even trebles
1 T blanched sliced almonds
2 T vegetable oil
1 small shallot, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 t peeled, minced fresh ginger
1/4 c. chopped dried apple
1 medium celery rib, fincely chopped
1 1/2 t curry powder**
salt to taste
1/4 c. plain dried bread crumbs
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 lb lean ground beef
3 T mango chutney
preheat to 350
toast almonds on a baking sheet – about 5 min.
Swirl oil into mediem hot saute pan, add shallot, garlic, ginger. saute until fragrant strring cosntantly – 30 seconds or so
Add apple and celery and saute until softened – 2-3 minutes
Sprinkle on curry and salt and stur well. Trasnfer to bowl and let cool until easy to handle.
Meanwhile, use a fork to mix bread crumbs and egg in a small bowl until oist and uniform. Add to vegetable mixture then crumble in the ground beef. Mix well (oh just use your goddamn hands already). Don’t overmix!
Form a rounded loaf on a nonstick baking sheet or one lined with parchment or a silpad. Melt the chutney by stirring it in a small saucepan over low heat for a minute or two or nuke it for 30 seconds then stir. Spread the chutney all over the meatloaf.
Bake about 45 minutes (150 F on a meat thermometer in the thickest part for medium, 160 F for well done) Remove from oven, sprinkle with the almonds and let rest for 5 minutes before serving.
Depending on how piggy you are, ther *might* be leftovers for a fabulous meatloaf sammich.
* I usually have Major Grey’s on hand so that’s what I use.
** I usually make my own curry powder but sometimes I get a jar from Penzey’s, which I find to be very good.
FYWP with a bushel of mangoes
I think the baby name should include an unnecessary apostrophe. That would be so sweet and nostalgic.
In the tradition of 80s hair bands, you can always throw a few superfluous umlauts onto the vowels.
I think we should name the baby “Recipe”.
PS – I’m having muscle problems today, please excue the horrendous typing. Reminds of when I got kicked out of med school for poor penmanship.
Boy’s name: Bruce.
Girl’s name: Iris.
Ahem.
PeeJ–
Ain’t Penzey’s the bee’s knees?
Why is it a strawman? I guess you all don’t believe in “choice” after all.
If it’s a boy: Trollslayer
If it’s a girl: Trollslayer
Did someone mention gratuitous Umlauten? A name is not sufficiently metal if you can write it without using Unicode.
The newly-acquired Siamese kitten here at Maison d’Etre revels in the name of “Fairypöö Cupcake”, which demonstrates why I cannot be trusted with suggesting child names.
Meanwhile, in movie B,
Nebraska Court finds God Hypothetical or Fictitious
I was thinking something with a superfluous apostrophe myself.
Gavita Stomatopoda Studebaker’
I’m thinking RB could JanusNode a couple of suggestions.
I think that ruling is more about point A than B or C, PeeJ. It is an abstract question as to whether God would know about the case. The papers weren’t served, therefore the case has no merit.
Works for me!
I guess you all don’t believe in “choice” after all.
Yep, if that makes you feel better. Now piss off.
Simba B said,
March 2, 2009 at 23:54
Ahem.
Text filer?
Fairypöö Cupcake
LOL!
Hoo boy.
For some ridiculous reason I un JanusNoded myself on one machine, thinking I would fuck around less. FAIL.
I guess you all don’t believe in “choice” after all.
Speaking of strawmans – this is an adorable little one. I think I’ll name it Strawy.
If you aren’t going to use “Fairypöö Cupcake”, can I have it please? I LOVE that one.
Smut, such name can be written without Unicode by using the non-umlauted counterpart: Fairypoeoe. I believe the spelling reformers prefer this.
What you call wasting time we (the commentariat here) call productive.
Those with Umlauts go under Bad Misspellings in one taxonomy of names.
Smut, such name can be written without Unicode by using the non-umlauted counterpart: Fairypoeoe.
How about “Fairypœœ”?
(type œ to get the o-e-ligature.)
In the case of the trolls, waste is their only production. They are highly… umm, let’s say faecund.
(type œ to get the o-e-ligature.)
Thanks for that tip! I always wanted to know how to do a tœœbal ligation.
I always wanted to know how to do a tœœbal ligation.
Isn’t that where you take the deep-voiced instruments out of the brass band?
So, anyway, here’s that pork chop recipe I forgot to post yesterday.
1. In large saucepan, combine 1 cup dried fruit and raisin mix, 1 cup chicken broth, 1/4 cup apple juice, 3 TB margarine, 1/3 tsp cinnamon and 1/8 tsp nutmeg. Bring to a boil. Stir in 6 oz. herb-seasoned stuffing mix. Remove from heat.
2. Arrange 4 (4 oz.) pork chops in bottom of 3 1/2 to 4-quart slow cooker. Pour 1/4 cup apple juice over pork. Sprinkle with 1/8 tsp salt and 1/8 tsp pepper. Top with stuffing mixture.
3. Cover; cook on low setting for 5 to 6 hours.
4. Remove stuffing from slow cooker; place in serving bowl. Stir gently; serve pork with stuffing.
Doesn’t work in preview, but let’s see…
Dropping in to give congrats to you breeders.
MzNicky said,
March 2, 2009 at 23:29
Could we at least have a law where women who are pro-abort have to look at an ultrasound of their unborn child before it’s killed, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
No.
Now FUCK OFF.
Seconded.
Bort?
Judas Peckerwood said:
I agree. Last week at the end of the first hour, after he had gone on and on about porkulus and greedy Americans wanting something for nothing, Rush said: “The new symbol for America is a big fat pig.” I wonder how many other people took it quite differently from the way he meant it.
Woo Hoo Doctor Missus Marita!! Smiling for the Camera all ready
For some ridiculous reason I un JanusNoded myself on one machine, thinking I would fuck around less. FAIL.
Crazy talk!
Looks like I touched a nerve.
I know it must be difficult to come to the realization that your political position means the brutal mass murder of innocent unborn children, but eventually you will accept it and become pro-life.
I like mango chutney with chana masala and basmati.
On the name topic, will little studebaker be a Reed? Because Demon Reed sure has a nice ring to it. Although Oelig Reed ain’t half bad either.
Could we at least have a law where people who want to buy Charmin have to view acres of virgin forest being logged, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
eventually you will accept it and become pro-life.
OK. bye now. Your work is done.
Because Demon Reed sure has a nice ring to it.
Oh, if the last name is Reed, I’d recommend “Clarinet” for a girl or “Bassoon” for a boy.
Could we at least have a law where people who want to troll the internet have to watch Rush Limbaugh masturbate, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
Haha. Why would it be a Reed? Have I not been paying attention for the past who knows ho wmany months? Did I just jam my foot into my mouth? All these questions and more may well be answered in the next episode of D-KW looks like an idiot. Many installments already in post-production.
After skimming this thread, I’ve got one concern:
In the Ultrasound, I could not see TEH BUTTOCKS!!
For some ridiculous reason I un JanusNoded myself on one machine, thinking I would fuck around less. FAIL.
No wonder you’ve been posting more.
RIghteous Bubba, that was awesome.
…thinking I would fuck around less.
Sounds like a terrible decision to me.
Perhaps even a cry for help…
mikey
Nice picture, Marita and Gavin! And if you go with ‘Studebaker’ for her/his first name, you can always use Marin (Mar’in? M’a’rin?) as a middle name. “S. Marin” is the perfect take-me-serious-world teenager name, I think…
Mikey, whatever your qualms, you have to admit that young Studebaker-Marin is already better looking (and probably more physically active, too) than most of the top-tier wingnuts. Whose photo would you rather see on your monitor first thing, the morning after the night before — Jonah Goldberg, Ann Coulter, or the Spawn of M&G?
They need to find a new term to replace “Porkulus”. Every time I hear it or see it in print I can only see Rush Limbaugh in a toga.
Rush-Limbaugh-in-a-toga is Snorkulus, hoovering up every unguarded pharmaceutical and/or calorie within his
gravitational pullreach.Could we at least have a law where people who want to buy Charmin have to view acres of virgin forest being logged, to make sure they really know what they’re doing?
well, the vegans are trying this with the ‘meet your meat’ link up there, but it’s kind of backfiring. It’s just making some of us hungry.
Isn’t that where you take the deep-voiced instruments out of the brass band?
The Tœbal Legation sends a strongly-worded diplomatic protest in response to this action.
If it were any more strongly-worded, it would be a triplomatic protest.
Where’s Andy, Lou?
That confused me for a minute, D-K, until I figured out that you had me married off to the wrong proprietor of this blog. This baby’s last name will quite obviously be “M.”.
On a bad name note, teh Gav and I spotted this before it ever appeared on FailBlog.
On the name topic, will little studebaker be a Reed? Because Demon Reed sure has a nice ring to it. Although Oelig Reed ain’t half bad either.
Pedig if it’s a boy. Filig if it’s a girl.
For a while our doktorling had the second name ‘Withajay’, because so many people misspelled her first name, ‘Sonja’.
Before that, I was calling her ‘Innominata’ for a while, but the Frau Doktor put the kibosh on that.
On the name topic, will little studebaker be a Reed?
Liberals really are more generous and sharing than conservatives! And obviously: Shawm’.
The newly-acquired Siamese kitten here at Maison d’Etre revels in the name of “Fairypöö Cupcake”, which demonstrates why I cannot be trusted with suggesting child names.
Dang, Smut Clyde, now you’ve made me commit a mortal sin of jealousy! I wanted a Siamese kitten, or at least a talky mao-cat crossbreed from one of the many local rescue groups, but the Spousal Unit had to go impulse-adopt the World’s Ugliest Papillon Rescue instead. Six non-apes (three papillons, three cats) is pretty well maximum carrying capacity for our 900-square-foot environment, so I’m skrood until one of the geriatrics fails their saving throw, and after investing 15+ years (and, in Buta-Hime-Sama’s case, many thousands of dollars) on those geriatrics, even thinking about that makes me sad.
I mean, well, kids are cute’n’stuff… but BABY KITTEHS, now *that’s* a subject that makes my eyes sparkle!
I wonder if Lou has anything to say about the tender and caring attitude towards infants Sen. Dave Schultheis has displayed recently.
Ahhh, the sacred cow of liberalism, abortion. You liberals claim to care so much about human rights and yet care nought for the most vunerable among us, the unborn.
This just goes to show the blatant hypocrisy on the left. If someone rapes and murders a seven year old child you liberals will oppose the death penalty for such a monster, and yet you support the murder of a unborn child in the womb who has done nothing wrong.
Liberals always on the wrong side of every issue, soft on crime and terrorism, tough on unborn children. Liberal hypocrisy at its finest.
And obviously: Shawm’.
If the rules allow musical-instrument names, then on behalf of the Tœbal Legation I would like to nominate ‘Sackbutt’.
AWWW look at the widdle straw fetus. Innit cute?
on behalf of the Tœbal Legation I would like to nominate ‘Sackbutt’.
…for a girl, or Bagpipe for a boy.
The Tuba Legation wonders if Trombone is not fancy enough for you.
Also Banjojo.
Lord Harry bleated: (snip)
Yawn.
So let me get this straight lefties, because apparently my feeble reactionary mind can’t seem to grasp the logic in this. You think its ok for a woman to have an abortion during any stage of her pregnency, no matter what the reason is?
Even if the reason is as ridiculous as she doesn’t feel like having a kid? Not that she can’t have the kid due to health reasons, but she just doesn’t feel like giving birth when she was stupid enough to have unprotected sex?
Eulalia? Euphemia? EUPHRATES?!?!
Eulalia? Euphemia? EUPHRATES?!?!
That’ll be enough of that!
The Affair of the Lone Banana
One wonders if Lou was for all those abortiions commited by American Cruise Missles oN Iraqi mothers
Perhaps the little nipper will grow up to be an incredibly competent valet. From my readings, that looks like fairly easy work, given the right rich dipstick.
Are you a Wodehouse fan too, Matt T.?
In view of the sooner-than-you think singularity when AI exceeds human intelligence and proceeds exponentionally (sp) from there, the best first and middle names for a child coming into the world right now is “Soylent Green”
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6311
I wonder if Lou has anything to say about the tender and caring attitude towards infants Sen. Dave Schultheis has displayed recently.
Life begins at conception and ends at birth. So, whatever the little bastards get after they leave the womb they richly deserve.
Suffer the little children, etc.
Brandi @ 0:51:
Wow. Those Colorado state legislaturors sound positively Tennessean.
There is no such think as a ‘trom’. These ‘trombones’ of which you speak were implanted in the rocks by the devil, in order to test your faith.
I’ll ask you liberals another question. If you feel so passionately about the abortion issue as I know you do, you should have no trouble answering it.
Do you liberals think that it is ok for a woman, who has no health problems related to her pregnency, to have an abortion just because she doesn’t feel like giving birth when their are other options available such as adoption?
Come on liberals, it’s not a hard question to answer, just be honest.
Scheduled for release this summer is a motion picture, The Singularity Is Near, starring the actress Pauley Perrette and a gaggle of aging boffins who’ve never acted in a movie.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6311
I don’t think it’s very nice to call Glenn Reynolds an aging buffoon, evenif you do disagree with…what’s that? Oh, never mind, then.
/trollfeed on/
Yes.
Now fuck off.
/trollfeed off/
On a bad name note, teh Gav and I spotted this before it ever appeared on FailBlog.
Wow. ESPN is right up there with Orangejello and Lemonjello.
(and yes, those are actual names given to real life kids)
Now that we’ve outlawed abortion, let’s proceed to the next steps.
1) outlaw birth control since it’s a form of abortion
2) outlaw education because it messes with the “natural intelligence” that God gave you
3) outlaw exercise because if it interferes with the “natural body” that God gave you
4) outlaw cancer treatments because that tumor might turn into some kind of cute, cuddly little baby
Don’t worry, we have lots more in the planning stage, but don’t want to scare you hippie lazy commie Obamafascist socialist evil libruls.
Lord Harry, if you love the youngun’s so much, then you don’t have any problem with the government taking some of money to help out kids, right?
Personally, I’m partial to Esme.
Could be, but…
What? No love for my 0:41?
That settles it. I’m having an abortion RIGHT NOW!
I loves killfile.
Republicans: Gaining Back America’s Trust
Please be reasonable, America … Republicans only have
theiryour best interests in mind, after all … how can theyrip you, your children, & their children’s children off YET AGAINget back into power if you won’t give them some sympathy in this their hour of need & just let your guard down one more eensie-weensie little time? Have you no hearts? Think of the poor suffering CEOs! They’re all the way down to wiping their arses with five-dollar-bills now – those bills on their butt-floss rolls were HUNDREDS not so long ago, y’know! Some of them are even having to lay off their pedicurists & pet-shrinks now too! Verily the Obamageddon is upon us, repent, repent (we take cash, checks, credit-cards & beer-bottles as payment – no refunds)!In conclusion, freedom, terrorism, family values, tax-cuts.
“Studebaker Hawk, he’s really outtasight,
Studebaker Hawk, he does it every night,
Studebaker Hawk, he treats the flies alright,
Studebaker Hawk, that’s why they never bite – YEAH!”
We really get angry whenever we imagine a woman enjoying having sex just for the sake of having sex. It is DISGUSTING!
Sex should take place as soon as a girl is ready to start breeding, and ONLY for the purpose of making babies. Some of us prefer the African method with clitorectomies to make sure there is no enjoyment of (disgusting) sex by a girl, but I’m not that extreme – I just want girls to have to take pills to deaden their dirty areas so they don’t enjoy (disgusting) sex.
After they get pregnant like God intended, then they must abstain from any (disgusting) sex until they give birth. Then they must have sex again to make more cute, cuddly little babies.
Repeat until the girl can’t have any more or until she dies of birth complications. We really don’t care which one.
So let me get this straight lefties, because apparently my feeble reactionary mind can’t seem to grasp the logic in this. You think its ok for a woman to have an abortion during any stage of her pregnency, no matter what the reason is?
Sigh. I’m going to explain this once. Please note that I don’t speak for everyone.
I do not “think its ok.” I think it’s none of anyone else’s business, and I think it’s none of government’s business. That’s the whole point of being pro-choice; that one allows others to make their own reproductive decisions, that one stays out of the reproductive decisions of others and that whether a woman chooses to abort or to carry to term, pro-lifers support the choices made and the process by which individual women come to their decisions. Incidentally, most if not all of us also support the provision of good-quality women’s health care, as well as good-quality health care to the children of indigent women who choose to carry to term. In short, IMO, pregnant women should have access to good-quality health care and should be permitted to make their own reproductive choices (to abort or to carry to term) without state or Federal involvement.
If you think abortion is murder, fine. I encourage you to live your life in accordance with that belief, and I encourage you to look at all options other than abortion for all pregnancies to which you are a party. No one here’s going to demand you abort or anything like that. In fact, most (maybe all) of us here would like to see you/your wife/whoever covered under universal health care so that if you/your wife/whoever gets pregnant and chooses to carry to term, the kid’s chances of being born hale, hearty and healthy are maximized.
That all being said, you can fuck right off when it comes to telling others how they should choose. My wife damn near died ten years ago, and certainly *would* have died if she hadn’t had an emergency abortion. Moreover, I think that anti-choicers who put in exceptions (e.g. no abortions except in certain circumstances) are some of the lowest, most craven and cowardly forms of life on earth. If y’all think that abortion = murder, then don’t puss out and start saying that ‘murder’ is okay in certain circumstances. Do like one of your troll brethren said earlier and ‘have the courage of your convictions. Try making them ALL illegal. Just come right out and say it. Get your GOP pals to say so, too.
And then see what happens. Go ahead, cowboy. Strap on a pair of nuts and just go for it.
Even if the reason is as ridiculous as she doesn’t feel like having a kid? Not that she can’t have the kid due to health reasons, but she just doesn’t feel like giving birth when she was stupid enough to have unprotected sex?
Not my business, not your business and certainly not government’s business. You are certainly free to disagree with or to object to such cases, but neither you nor I nor government shouldn’t have the least bit of influence or say over what any woman chooses to do when pregnant.
Clear?
/troll feed
I saw these on medical records (22 years in Health Insurance IT – I’ve seen it all). I have also seen Aquanetta (both on medical records and at the local Walmart on a name tag). Sometimes life really is stranger than fiction.
We LOVE babies. At least the pre-born ones. Every sperm is sacred!
But God Damn It, cut my fucking TAXES! Stop spending so much on those lazy welfare mommas and all their litters! Why should we have to take care of their babies??? DISGUSTING!
My two favorites (I don’t know if they’re true or not, but I like them so they are true for me):
Usnavy (Maracaibo, Venezuela).
Usmail (interior, Puerto Rico).
I have also seen Aquanetta (both on medical records and at the local Walmart on a name tag).
Yeah, well…
http://www.filmbuffonline.com/InRemembrance/Aquanetta.htm
Teh Gav would like you all to know that he has added another note to this post that he would like you all to take a look at.
It has Malkin crazy in it. And that’s a special kind of crazy.
I don’t know if they’re true or not, but I like them so they are true for me
Isn’t that the freeper motto?
Thank you OB-GYN Kenobi, I commend you for your honesty, as that was all I was asking for. I also offer you my condolences over the situation with you wife, and I pray that the two of you live a long happy life free of any complications.
That being said however, I have to take issue with you when you say that abortion is none of government’s business. In fact, governments only responsibilites are the administration of justice and national defense. Since I, and many others, including many in the medical profession believe that a fetus is alive, than it is the belief of many that abortion is murder and should be treated as such by the appropriate authorites.
That’s some tasty crazy in there, Doc.
Yeah, well…
http://www.filmbuffonline.com/InRemembrance/Aquanetta.htm
I remember her from Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. Live and learn.
Since I, and many others, including many in the medical profession believe that a fetus is alive, than it is the belief of many that abortion is murder and should be treated as such by the appropriate authorites.
Your beliefs do not compel action on the part of anyone other than yourself.
If you want to live in accordance with your beliefs, then go for it. And be enough of an adult to permit me, my wife and others the same courtesy.
From the Malkin link:
It is so insulting to insinuate that we are not an authentic, and admittedly ragtag, group of citizens that have finally had enough, and are finally willing to do something about it.
If anyone is well orchestrated it is the Moveon.org crowd that is funded by billionaire George Soros.
The plaintive cry of the frustrated wingnut.
“clueless-bitter-and-wrapped-in-tinfoil”
Oddly enough, that’s what I’m having for lunch.
If anyone is well orchestrated it is the Moveon.org crowd that is funded by billionaire George Soros.
I know you are, but what am I?
I know you are, but what am I?
No kidding. Said the lady funded by Scafie.
I agree with Lou when he said earlier that abortion doctors should be imprisoned for murder, and that women who recieve abortions should recieve a lesser punishment, a severe fine perhaps.
However abortion should not be legal, just as murder is not legal.
This is a good thread. It could be a better thread, though, if you know what I mean and I think that you do.
Malkin:
Good lord! Have the rebels been shot yet?
nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more
I agree with Lou when he said earlier that abortion doctors should be imprisoned for murder, and that women who recieve abortions should recieve a lesser punishment, a severe fine perhaps.
However abortion should not be legal, just as murder is not legal.
Then we have a difference of opinion, and I do not believe it will be settled by any further discussion here on this blog. You have asked for opinions and viewpoints, and I have given you mine. I see no reason to pursue this conversation further.
Have a good evening; I shan’t be engaging you again today. Tomorrow may be different. Then again, it may not be.
The conservatives are revolting! The conservatives are revolting!
“Looks like I touched a nerve”
I would so like this to come to mean (in general parlance, as of course it already does here):
“I’m too stupid to live”
Y’know, if I actually believed babies were being murdered by the dozens, hundreds, even thousands in my own locality, I wouldn’t be typing impotently on a keyboard. I’d be doing whatever was necessary to stop it. I suspect anybody posting here would do the same.
If they actually believed babies were being murdered, that is.
OB-GYN, if abortion is murder which many believe it is, than what in your opinion differentiates it from other forms of murder?
And if you believe as I believe you do, that murderers should be punished by the appropriate authorities, then why shouldn’t abortion doctors be treated like any other murderer?
“Looks like I touched a nerve”
That would be the autonomic nervous system nerve that triggers the urge to defecate.
So, Lord Harry, how much are you paid per comment? Since you *are* paid to comment, as many believe you are.
Lord Harry, you sound like my kind of Republican!
I know you agree with me that girls must have the babies that God gave them if they engage in (disgusting) sex. Don’t you hate it when girls actually ENJOY sex?
But you might be a closet librul, since you think the girl should only get a fine if she has an abortion. You aren’t really pro-life, are you? Only by penalizing girls who get abortions with stoning to death will we stop the killing of the cute, cuddly little babies.
You’re with me on this, aren’t you? Otherwise you’re one of those pro-abortion libruls.
The conservatives are revolting! The conservatives are revolting!
Yeah, they stink on ice!
The conservatives are revolting! The conservatives are revolting!
No shit! They stink on ice!
Thank you, ca.
DAMN YOU COMMIE ATHEIST!!!!1111!! Arggguhhh
Smut Clyde said,
When, oh when will S,N! enable the <dagnab> tag?!
You misspelled “Dagny Taggart”.
And thank you, Mr. Brooks.
Mel Brooks, either you or I owe each other a coke, I believe (I am vaguely aware of most internet traditions).
fuckity fuck fuck that was me not Mel. Begone Mel! Out! Out, I say! And that these misogynist godbag fuckwit trolls with you. In the name of Jesus.
And TAKE them with you too!
Time for a drink.
MzNicky Johnson is right!
Via Malkin’s freak-out over the GOP getting played hard on this Rush is the Face of the Party thing, here, for your enlightenment and entertainment, are Michael Steele and Chuck D on D.L. Hughley’s show.
I know the local DA personally. A real hardcore conservative, but a nice guy anyway. He’d scoff at the notion that a fine is just punishment for murder.
If we agree with you will you shut up and go away?
Your beliefs do not compel action on the part of anyone other than yourself.
If you want to live in accordance with your beliefs,
Objection! “Willingness to profess any claim that serves to press the readers’ buttons” does not constitute “having a belief”. Witness is assuming sincerity on the part of the troll.
DAMN YOU COMMIE ATHEIST!!!!1111!! Arggguhhh
I love arugula!
And yes, most likely I am damned. But all the really swell people are.
I just had an abortion for the sole purpose of pissing off the trolls.
Via Malkin’s freak-out over the GOP getting played hard on this Rush is the Face of the Party thing, here, for your enlightenment and entertainment, are Michael Steele and Chuck D on D.L. Hughley’s show.
I actually saw that when I was filpping channels. I loved it when Steele started going on about Chuck D growing up in the projects and Chuck starts laughing at him.
If we agree with you will you shut up and go away?
I don’t know if that was directed at me, g, but if it was, my point was that an honest person cannot simultaneously believe that (1) abortion is murder and (2) women who get abortions should only be fined.
The internal logic of the anti-choicers is really, really easy to pick apart.
Steele tried to establish his credibility with Chuck D by referencing the neighborhood where he grew up.
“And what struck me about hip-hop as a genre, as music, as whatever you want to call it, a culture, was the fact that you have guys like yourself who come out of the projects, come off the street,” said Steele. “Myself, I grew up on Eighth Street in DC. That’s a whole different world from where I am right now.”
Chuck D offered a quick correction.
“I grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island,” he said. “It’s not the projects. It’s where black people live.”
Pwned.
From the Stalkin’ Malkin link thoughtfully supplied by J—-, we have this little snippet:
“You should also think more broadly about how this distraction feeds the White House/Alinsky agenda”
That ex-Wall Streeter Tim Geithner is the most stealthy socialist! He’s been under Deep Cover for decades, just waiting for Obamafascist Malcolm X to get into power to put his REAL plans into effect.
Believe it or not, that is the high point of sanity in Stalkin’s rant.
You can actually see the Schadenfeude appear in front of your eyes as you read that article. It appears as a thin, filmy substance floating in front of the monitor. LOL
and Chuck starts laughing at him.
Chuck D’s expressions throughout are priceless.
Oxymoron Alert highest level alarm!
I just had an abortion for the sole purpose of pissing off the trolls.
I just had a piss for the sole purpose of aborting the trolls.
That ex-Wall Streeter Tim Geithner is the most stealthy socialist! He’s been under Deep Cover for decades, just waiting for Obamafascist Malcolm X to get into power to put his REAL plans into effect.
The thing is, I could really find common ground with the freepers if they focused on the TARP giveaway, because I really think that’s one area where Obama’s doing it wrong. But instead, they have to break out all the bullshit talking points about welfare cheats and socialism and birth certificates. If you want a revolt against giving rich people more money after they’ve proven themselves to be failures at running their damn companies, then I’m there. But don’t tell me that extending unemployment benefits is wasteful. Because that’s just plain stupid.
I just had a piss for the sole purpose of aborting the trolls.
I thought #2 was “aborting the trolls”.
If you want a revolt against giving rich people more money after they’ve proven themselves to be failures at running their damn companies, then I’m there.
I noticed very little howling when George W was bailing out the richies – it all came after a certain President was inaugurated. If John Sidney had become President these very same policies would be the highest wisdom.
These are modern conservatives – principles have nothing to do with their actions.
And it don’t stop.
I resent your implication, sir. I am a man of the people. I proved it by asking the lovely Ms. Palin and the admirable Mr. Plumber to help out my campaign.
Wow. Steele just set a new record for osculating Rush’s cysts. I was thinking it would be a couple of days at least. Daaayum.
g: I’ve been having this tiresome endless argument with anti-choicers for at least 15 years now. Used to be on the board of dirs. for Planned Parenthood here in Tenn. (oh the tales I could tell) — you can talk til you’re blue in the face to these rigid “life begins at conception” true believers and it will never change anything. I really do understand their passion over the notion that having an abortion is “murder.” I do. It is not an enviable position to take, to say that women have the right to terminate a pregnancy if they so choose, for whatever reason. I personally have a lot of trouble with second-trimester abortions, and think third-trimester abortions should be only to save the woman’s life. This is the most heart-wrenching situation I can imagine for anyone to be in, as Ob-Gyn K. described upthread. It then becomes a MEDICAL emergency, an excruciatingly traumatic event, and the LAST people who should be involved in it are godbag woman-hating nosey-assed jerkbags who think they “know” what “God” would do or what the fuck ever.
Again speaking personally I have no problem with abortion in the first trimester; to me, if the fetus can’t survive on its own outside the womb it’s not a “human” in the same sense that an actual live term born child is. The real answer of course is, as Clinton said, to make abortion “legal, safe, and rare.” That’s all DFH/PP feminists ever really wanted I think. And of course some real sex ed in schools (abstinence only my ass) would be a great start on that. Not to mention effecting a culture in which young girls and women are treated and encouraged to treat themselves as human beings rather than potential sexbots. But that’s another rant for another day I s’ppose.
In the new game of chicken between Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh, the loser is…Michael Steele, who now says he never meant to diminish the voice and leadership of Limbaugh.
In an interview with the Politico, Steele said: “My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate…There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
This comes after Limbaugh tore into Steele for declaring on CNN that Rush isn’t a leader of the Republican Party, but is an “entertainer” whose rhetoric is “incendiary” and “ugly.”
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” said Steele. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.”
Ugh. Yet another spineless Republican. Sad.
I thought #2 was “aborting the trolls”.
No, silly — #2 is “dropping the kids off at the American Enterprise Institute.”
Kiss that fat bastard’s ass!
What Republicans need is the support of the country and western community.
And yes, most likely I am damned. But all the really swell people are.
commie atheist: I didn’t really meant it! Honest.
MzNicky, I can only imagine what it must be like to be a lone voice of sanity in the wilderness. I applaud your courage.
Aw, I knew that. No prob.
I agree with this about 95% I would go further and nationalize the banks who got more than X billions or Y% of their asset base in bailouts. The executives would stay in place but become Civil Service employees with a base salary and a bonus calculated LINEARLY with the profits they can prove they created. No buddy-system exceptions on the bonus. If the idiot executives didn’t like that system fire them and let talented people take their places. Risk management would be an absolute requirement of every investment decision. If a bank objects to the risk management requirements tell him/her to give back the bailout money.
Besides, ca is right. All the cool kids are into damnation.
Kiss that fat bastard’s ass!
Yes, massah Rush. Whatever you say, massah Rush. Just please don’t make fun of me on your show any more, pleeeeezzzeeee….
J–: OMG. I really don’t know how much more schadenfreude I can take, but I hope to find out!
FWIW Rusty, I don’t think g was talking to you.
Hey, maybe we could use the Palin name generator for our little Studebaker…
I for one will give Michael Steele the benefit of the doubt. I still have high hopes for him that he will lead the Republican Party back to its conservative principles.
He said he had no intention of insulting or marginalizing Mr. Limbaugh in any way, and I’ll take his word for it, unless or until he says another equally careles comment.
That being said however, Republican officials should always be carefull not to speak ill of Mr. Limbaugh, or else they’ll fail the rino test and be marginalized themselves.
I would go further and nationalize the banks who got more than X billions or Y% of their asset base in bailouts.
Amen. I don’t see how this can possibly go away without auditing the assets, and no bank is going to go first voluntarily (and I don’t blame them). Nationalize away, clean out the crap, make the investors honest capitalists by having them accept their loss (if there is no risk, it ain’t capitalism), recapitalize and turn ’em loose again, though with serious regulation.
It is clear that conservatives lack the moral compass to be allowed to operate in a deregulated environment.
I am astounded at the speed at which Steele was forced to lick OxyRush’s gigantic ass. Hilarious.
As the DJI drops faster and faster, the wingnut whining gets louder and louder. It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of fascists.
Oh please. The Republican party hasn’t been conservative since Eisenhower.
My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate…
Oh, yes, those inarticulate Negroes.
If you want to get technical, life actually begins BEFORE conception.
Because dead sperm cells can’t swim worth a shit.
So all you rightwingers, with your constant wanking, are nothing but heartless sperm murderers!
I don’t know if that was directed at me, g, but if it was, my point was that an honest person cannot simultaneously believe that (1) abortion is murder and (2) women who get abortions should only be fined.
No, rusty, I didn’t mean you. My point to the troll is, what difference does what we type here mean? Who cares what his questions are, and what difference does any answer make? I could answer yes, no, blue, or purple, and it wouldn’t make a fly-speck of difference. So if letting him think he “won” makes him feel happy, fine.
and if by saying this, I make it so he knows my answers don’t mean anything, then stop asking.
Dr. Missus Marita, I don’t think you want to do that…..Won’t that be naming the little tyke after a snow-mobile or chainsaw?
“I would go further and nationalize the banks who got more than X billions or Y% of their asset base in bailouts.”
Amen. I don’t see how this can possibly go away without auditing the assets, and no bank is going to go first voluntarily (and I don’t blame them). Nationalize away, clean out the crap, make the investors honest capitalists by having them accept their loss (if there is no risk, it ain’t capitalism), recapitalize and turn ‘em loose again, though with serious regulation.
This is happening every week, as more and more banks are being taken over by the FDIC. I don’t see why the same principles can’t be applied to the “too-big-to-fail” banks.
I would, however, like to see the CEOs fired. Fuck ’em.
Yeah, that must have been tough work MzNicky. Respect.
Do tell.
This ass is still here stinking up the place?
SHUT UP!!!1!
I’ll check back later. In the mean time, someone may want to turn on a fan or open a window. That stink ain’t goin’ away on its own.
Here is a question. Which is worse? For a woman to decide she doesn’t want a child and terminate a pregnancy with no fuss in a matter of days, or to make her decision, and be fucked about by a regressive and unhelpful legal and heathcare system for so long that she is months along by the time she gets that abortion?
RUSH LIMBAUGH: BIGGER FATTER UNHINGED: Coming to a party convention near you!
The “too big to fail” banks have Congresscritters in pocket, of both parties.
Democracy, yeah right.
Its called New York System. They are like hot dogs, only smaller and topped with ground beef, minced onions, celery salt and mustard.
Very good, though a bit pricey I might add. I had them with a side of chili cheese fries.
I figured that since you liberals talk about food quite often, than why can’t I as a “troll” contribute to the discussion?
You forgot: “And, for God’s sakes DO NOT use tax dollars for birth control!!!”
It is not so much that. The problem is that conservatives value money more than anything, and if profits can be increased by breaking laws or screwing the American taxpayer, they’ll do it in a nanosecond.
I have actually calculated the ratio of added profit vs. what a conservative will do to achieve it.
*) $100 of extra profit = the conservative will cause 10 minority people to be made homeless
*) $1000 O.E.P = the conservative orders 1000 55 gallon drums of toxic waste from his factory dumped onto public land in the middle of the night
*) $10,000 O.E.P = the conservative’s products causes 17 minority, 12 white, or 6 upper-middle class Americans to die
*) $100,000 O.E.P = the conservative will kill one of his distant relatives
*) $1,000,000 O.E.P = the conservative will kill one of his close relatives
Ewww, you really have to read the Politico article to get the depth of Steele’s inability to stand up for himself:
Steele, who won a hard-fought chairman’s race on Jan. 30, told Politico he telephoned Limbaugh after his show on Monday afternoon and hoped that they would connect soon.
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently. What I was trying to say was a lot of people … want to make Rush the scapegoat, the bogeyman, and he’s not.”
“I’m not going to engage these guys and sit back and provide them the popcorn for a fight between me and Rush Limbaugh,” Steele added. “No such thing is going to happen. … I wasn’t trying to slam him or anything.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19517.html
Rahm Emmanuel is a fucking genius.
Oh, and as far as baby names, I like “Sharia Law” for a girl.
Lord Harry, are you still here? You are the ORIGINAL pro-abortion fake “pro-lifer”! If you don’t call for the stoning death of any sinful girl evil enough to get an abortion, then by DEFINITION you are pro-abortion.
Go back to your librul buddies, you evil abortionist! Lord Harry, you are about as “pro-life” as that evil Clinton or that evil Obama!
I don’t have any proof of this particular ratfucking, but I’ve been musing on that idea since before the election.
It wouldn’t be that hard to put together – just an e-mail list circulated amongst the cheetos-eaters, divvying up the liberal blog targets that appear regularly on Memeorandum.
Has anyone else noticed an increase in trolling elsewhere? Or this could be a new kind of ersatz “denial-of-service attack”, so to speak, directed at this blog. S,N! is kind of a thorn in many a wingnut blog’s side – pointing and laughing does tend to piss anybody off.
It’s the wingnut’s idea of a “grass roots action” – go annoy people in the comments on liberal blogs. They don’t even have to leave the basement!
Is that pathetic or what?
Hey That Girl, you sound like you might be pretty hot, you wanna get together some time?
Sorry, but at the risk of sounding prejudiced, I like my onions a little more butch.
It’s just the way I was brought up.
I only eat at New York System once a year since I’m a weight-lifter and it’s very fattening. Like anything else though, once in a while it won’t kill ya.
Is it Steak Lasagna or Lasagna Steak?
We’re still working on that. Fun trying to figure it out. Arteries scheduled for a Roto-Rootering next Tues.
Dean Baker calls out the teabaggers’ hero, Rick Santelli for the stooge that he is:
Santelli’s screed is part of a continuing effort to blame the poor and minority communities for the economic meltdown. There are millions of people who think the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was responsible for bad mortgages, when most of these mortgages were either made by institutions that were not covered by the CRA or were loans that would not have been covered by the Act even if the institution was covered. Of course, the idea that government bureaucrats were forcing banks to make loans that were hugely profitable at the time is laughable on its face.
At some point Santelli and his followers are going to have to deal with reality. The problem is not poor and moderate-income homeowners or African-Americans or Latinos. The perps in this case were rich bankers, the vast majority of whom were white males.
Their enablers in policy circles were not the bleeding hearts trying to help the poor, but the Wall Street envoys from both political parties; people like Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin and, of course, Alan Greenspan. The people who sank the economy were the rich and powerful, not the poor and minorities.
If Santelli wants to really be the friend of hardworking homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages, he might try yelling about the bank bailouts. According to the latest news reports, the taxpayers just sent another $30 billion to AIG, almost half as much as President Obama set aside to subsidize mortgage payments.
The checks to AIG and other financial institutions may be necessary to keep the banking system operating, but we certainly have the right to demand that the shareholders and bank executives don’t profit from the bailouts. It would be great if Mr. Santelli would speak up about the real beneficiaries from these scams – the bank executives and wealthy shareholders. But the big-mouthed commodity trader probably doesn’t have the courage to attack anyone with real power.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/02/the_santelli_screed_hits_wrong_target_on_mortgage/
… or to make her decision, and be fucked about by a regressive and unhelpful legal and heathcare system for so long that she is months along by the time she gets that abortion?
Sockpuppet: Yes, and by which time it is more physically dangerous, and usually more emotionally difficult, for her to have the abortion, not that that’s ever a concern to hardly anyone. And that’s if she can find a provider. Some estimates put at 80 percent the no. of women in the U.S. who would have to travel a considerable distance, even out of state, in order to even get an abortion. Think of all the conservative and/or rural areas that exist in this country. And that’s if she’s got enough of a support system, not to mention the $$, to even pursue that option in the first place. Which if she doesn’t then she’s a welfare queen/white trash slut who should be despised by all and let’s all whine and gripe about our sacred tax dollars being used to help her and her unwanted-in-the-first-place child(ren) get by at that point. Her fault! Shoulda kept her legs closed! Fuckall Yadda yadda, no win at all, I got so burned out on the whole thing I can hardly stand the whole idiotic ball of rhetoric anymore.
I’m a weight-lifter
Oh NO. “Lord Harry” = The Fool. Next he’ll be threatening to beat people up.
Gafydd ab Mugh for a boy. He’ll just love Gerber’s Strained Sammiches.
“Sharia Law” – what a darling name!
Or it could be Shania Law.
How can I get in on all this teabagging? Does she take credit?
“I’m a weight-lifter”
Oh NO. “Lord Harry” = The Fool. Next he’ll be threatening to beat people up.
Actually, he’s Vox Day:
As long as my masculinity is again being called into question, I suppose it’s as good a time as any to answer a few of the regulars who emailed to ask about what’s been going on in the workout front, particularly about an injury I’d mentioned a while ago. I don’t know if it was age getting the better of me or if it was just my propensity to overtrain, but something deep inside my shoulder had been bothering me for a long time, so I finally listened to Spacebunny and kept my bench under 165 for about a year.
The rest seems to have helped quite a bit; today was my second heavy lift in over a year and the shoulder held up fine without even a twinge of discomfort. It felt great and everything except the very last rep at 270 went up easily. I suspect it will take a while for me to get back where I was, but I seem to have retained a bit more strength than I’d dared to hope.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2009/03/iron-talk.html
What a man! (swoon)
This. Interestingly, the “no exceptions” crowd is only about 10-15% of the public. But only a mere handful of those seem to have the courage of their convictions. Sex offenders receive far more harassment and violence than doctors who perform abortions do.
Because they know, at some level, that it’s different. That a partially-developed fetus with no uniquely human aspects besides its DNA is not a child, no matter how much they try to convince themselves that it is.
He’s a weight-lifter? Then that explains this:
“In fact, governments only responsibilites are the administration of justice and national defense. ”
All those reps and jerks and cleans and what-all have deprived his brain of sufficient oxygen to realize he’s volunteering for a society without:
1. The FDA
2. Social Security
3. The Interstate Highway System
4. The Pure Food and Drug Act
5. clean water
6. clean(er) air
7. a stable monetary system
8. What little competition remains in major industries.
9. The F.O.I.A.
10. etc., etc., to be enumerated by any intelligent eighth grader.
How sophisticated or intelligent do you have to be, to realize that under the absence of societal mechanisms like those above, US society would resemble that of Dickensian England in about two years? Apparently more than libertarians are capable of. God love ’em.
This comes after Limbaugh tore into Steele for declaring on CNN that Rush isn’t a leader of the Republican Party, but is an “entertainer” whose rhetoric is “incendiary” and “ugly.”
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” said Steele. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.”
Lather, rinse, and repeat.
I predict Rush Limbaugh will emerge as a topic of conversation with Republicans on a lot of shows.
And in every case, whoever steps over the line in trying to distance himself from Rush will, like Cheney’s victim, step forward to apologize to Rush after Rush shoots him in the face.
Thereby further reinforcing the perception that Rush is, in fact, the leader of the Republicans.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
after Rush shoots him in the face.
That brings a nasty picture to mind…
It is only a matter of time before some bright spark decides to portray the Obama administration as frivolous unrealistic and Marie-Antoinette-like, by organising a series of pearl-necklace protests.
It is clear that conservatives lack the moral compass
Excuse me, we are in the 21st century now, and it is time to be saying that “conservatives lack a moral GPS unit…”
Speaking of nasty pictures . . .
No, conservatives do have a moral GPS unit. But it seems to be on the fritz, it only says “turn right”. “turn right”. “demand tax cuts” “turn right”.
It always says, “recalculating,” in that passive-agressive voice my GPS uses.
No, conservatives do have a moral GPS unit. But it seems to be on the fritz, it only says “turn right”. “turn right”. “demand tax cuts” “turn right”.
Heh, us DFHs are everywhere. Subplot on last week’s ER, the antithesis of cutting-edge television, had a couple being treated for hypothermia after driving into Lake Michigan because their GPS kept insisting ‘turn right, turn right’. Doctor-character says, “I’m guessing I know which candidate you voted for last November,” and the bird-faced wife looks at pasty pudgy husband and whines, “we’re *afraid* of change!”
No, conservatives do have a moral GPS unit. But it seems to be on the fritz, it only says “turn right”. “turn right”. “demand tax cuts” “turn right”.
As illustrated in this clip.
I love Wikipedia. It’s so educational.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_necklace_(sexuality)
Jesus. I drop in to congratulate Gav and DrMs on their impending poop factory, only to discover somebody’s been leaving heaping bowls of troll chow all over the goddamn place! If you feed ’em all the time they never leave. And shit everywhere.
This is elementary stuff, pipples.
If you feed ‘em all the time they never leave. And shit everywhere.
Same as it ever was.
Goat Boy, are you by any chance related to the beloved itinerant Goat Man of my early years?
And then, they can protest the Obama administration’s amnesty to illegals by holding Dirty Sanchez rallies, next.
Dirty Sanchez rallies
That’s what they’re going to call their anti-immigration protests.
it is time to be saying that “conservatives lack a moral GPS unit…”
Oh go ahead w/ your fancy-schmancy GPS unit. I give this whole electricity thing about ten yrs. (fifteen max.) before it runs out.
Then you’ll be begging for a needle w/ a charge in it.
I love Wikipedia. It’s so educational.
I particularly love the scholarly footnote in that entry, crediting the in-depth discourse analysis of “Sex and the City” episodes to
Yes, please! Please, Republicans, continue to kiss Limabugh’s butt. Get even more arrogant about it. In public. Loudly and often. Make big, wet smacking noises while doing it.
Pleasepleaseplease?
Jizz spider! Piss in the dugout!
You kids and your crazy talk.
I’ll just leave this here.
FIFY
Goat Boy, are you by any chance related to the beloved itinerant Goat Man of my early years?
That depends. Was he a throbbing vermillion cock demon sent to make enough precious womb babies to to feed the abortion industrial complex? Because if so, yeah, that’s probably Dad.
I’ll just leave this here.
Ha! I’d seen that before. The image of the man playing timed chess against the scowly baby kills me every time.
Then you’ll be begging for a needle w/ a charge in it.
Hey, I’ve been clean for 20 years.
My favorite part of the fallout from Michael Steele in the hour of chaos (it’s occurred to him the fucker has authority) was the threat Limbaugh threw down today:
He’s so fucking self centered that he threatened their ability to raise funds to help elect senators that might be able to help counter Obama’s agenda just because his feelings got hurt. I bet they’re wishing they had crushed Limbaugh when they were in charge of the DOJ. Maybe they’re expecting a politicized DOJ from Obama that will do that for them but it’s not going to happen.
I’m a pessimist about 2010, but keep it up, Jabba.
More juicy Big Hollywood goodness from some loser:
Republicans, conservatives are sick and tired of being talked down to, sick and tired of being lectured to. And until you show some understanding and respect for who they are, you’re going to have a tough time rebuilding your party.
Peevish children: “Stop lecturing us!” “We don’t wanna know nothin’!!!” Stop talkin’ down to me, Mr. Big City Edumacated feller!!”
They are begging for it, aren’t they?
And if the chairman of the national committee doesn’t understand/respect who they are, who the hell will? This becomes more amusing every day.
Oh, garghhh, now we have to put up w/ wks. of mis-interpretation (wilful or otherwise) of this Watchman thing, & how it’s conservative, & how someone in it is bad & exactly like The Prez, & on & on …?
Shoot me now.
Oh, how could y’all forget the very fount of baby names?
Left blank, we get: Knife Pile
“Studebaker” yields: Soup Landmine
My vote goes for Soup Landmine, but I do wish it would come up with something to do with tentacles.
One of the comments:
I know I’ve seen someone post a link to Superdickery here, before, but this comic cover seems (in?)appropriate for the topic.
How did they KNOW?!!
Wealthy businessman=ultra-leftist.
So their summer protests in Ohio will be Cleveland Steamers?
From the Watchmen “article”:
Translation: “I have absolutely no idea on how to deconstruct a narrative.”
(now that the left’s ceded “liberty” to the right)
Nolte’s absolutely (& only) correct to put “liberty” in quotes.
Some sort of plant terrorism going on?
Don’t seed your liberty around here.
See best pics of the Goatman Ches McCartney at http://www.www.chaserl.com/goatman
My favorite part of the fallout from Michael Steele in the hour of chaos (it’s occurred to him the fucker has authority) was the threat Limbaugh threw down today:
I’ve just realised whom Limbaugh reminds me of.
I was reading about the Goatman here just yesterday.
These threads are just getting weirder and weirder.
OT My latest pshop.
It’s been a while, but this was just too good to pass up.
Thank you.
What’s the original pic? Some kinda Fred Thompson deal?
1. Rush Limbaugh: Too Big To Fail?
2. Rush Limbaugh: Too Fat To Shit?
Compare and contrast.
So their summer protests in Ohio will be Cleveland Steamers?
Or Cincinnati chili dogs.
It would be great if they started a Teabag Party with a presidential candidate named Earl Grey.
Or Larry Craig.
They’ve already got the Cobag Party.
As for the goat man, as a kid I used to see him walking up and down the side of US 41 outside of Atlanta with his goat wagon. Dad would say “Kids, look, it’s the GOAT MAN!!!” He was like a fixture for a lot of us in Georgia back in the late 60s.
Or Larry Craig.
theme song for the campaign?
har har…from crapitol hill
“dirty Larry, he’s unbuckling his beltway”
Happy Birthday to You! [John J. Miller]
“
OthersAnti-choice wingnuts have extracted a pro-life rallying cry from Horton Hears a Who.”corrected.
So here’s what I did.
I seasoned and breaded a boneless pork chop. Seared it in a hot pan on both sides and then tossed it in the oven to finish.
Meanwhile I threw together a black pepper and garlic milk gravy. Goddam that’s good.
I threw a cup of egg noodles into the pot, and threw a handful of sugar peas, a handful of snap peas and a handful of porcini mushrooms in ye olde steamer with a handful of bruised up fresh herbs (c’mon, you know which ones).
So there you have it. I put the noodles no the plate, hit ’em with a chunk of butter and some ground black pepper. Laid on the chop. Drizzled the milk gravy over the top, set the peas and peas on the side of the plate, hid in the corner and devoured the the damn thing.
Whoever said this whole food thing was difficult never just wanted to eat.
Or something….
mikey
surely you included a libation?
Hell yeah.
Bovine Cocktail. Ice cold.
Can’t be beat…
mikey
How great is it that at the same time as the Repugnacans are bunglicking Fat Junkie Bigot, Al Franken is going to be seated as a Senator. When Franken first wrote “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot”, many of Fat Junkie Bigot’s lies were exposed, and the Fat Junkie Bigot’s response was that he’s “just an entertainer, not a politician”. Now, everything he says will be parsed and evaluated, and every shitty thing will be pointed to and every Repugnacan Congressman will be asked to defend it.
Always good to see mikey post here. And what is it with this NRObots and their inability to look at art outside of their own political categories. As a Christian, I hate it when other Christians do this all the time in re: to how “spiritual” or “gospel-like” a given movie/book is/isn’t. Why can’t we let art be art, which is something I always believed is best appreciated/analyzed/whatever on many layers. Yes, given the strength of themes in a work or an author’s known intent may lend certain weight to some layers over others, but I always believe that art (even bad art) usually attempts to accomplish things on multiple levels. And I believe most people actually get this. Only those with a singular agenda don’t, and they end up a with flat, wooden, lifeless view of the world.
Anyway, sorry for that little rant.
Damn porkchops sound great.
I like to deglaze pan with a little brandy after throwing in some minced shallots. Fire = good. Also, cream instead of milk and you don’t need butter.
I needed to do something with the chops in my fridge…
mikey?
I am somewhat grossed out by finding it’s your fuck that I don’t care about. Not that there’s anything wrong with it….
you don’t need butter.
J’accuse!
yeah, but you gotta admit, whether you care about it or not, it’s a righteous fuck…
mikey
Cream = butter, unprocessed and more elitist.
Tres magnifique!
Crank up the “BlameGame”:
Lil’ Richie Lowry – 3/2/09:
Give Lil’ Richie Lowry some credit for being consistent, eh? Here is Captain Starbursts on 10/16/2003.
For the record, Tuesday is Obama’s 40th full day in office.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Bush had been in office 260 days.
Baby names:
Senator Twirling
Mannerly Queries
King Manuel Klos
Wields Hitnaykbeenovouv
Intellectfopro Maricela
Baby names:
Senator Twirling
Mannerly Queries
King Manuel Klos
Wields Hitnaykbeenovouv
Intellectfopro Maricela
Why not a little Native American Meets Appalachian motif:
Stands With A Beer.
Zoho Zoklefufpukcroo
Brigadier General Private Apparatus
Chancellor Gumpruqulaycqu Baptistry
Nubpoycjayeye Tiffani
Theresa Electing
Queen Powerfulfav Randal
Naoma Giswequ
Myrtle Quooc
Mavis Fernande
Maritza-Shandi Croutledrip
Lady Kejvaych fa Partnership
Longings Confident
Deedra Updated
Taylor Slotted
Prince Fubteenour
I am terribly disappointed. I would have sworn – nay, I do swear – I recently used the phrase “fat flying philadelphia fiddler’s fuck” on teh interwebz. I was sure – nay, I am sure it was right here at the most magnificentest of blogs EVAH.
I have been disappeared. Teh great gazoogle sez
Huh? Wha’bout searching in the S,N! toolythang? No?
WTF?!?!
What is going on here?
Until I get to the bottom of this (and I mean that in the most non-sexual way) I shall be forced to SPEW OUT RECIPES!!!!!!
salt and pepper the chops
preheat oven to 325 or so
dredge the chops in flour (I just sprinkle on Wondra Flour and pat it in). A pinch of dried herbs – herbes de provence works nicely – ground between the fingers and dusted on is a nice touch.
Heat an oven proof pan to medium hot then drizzle in some extra virgin olive oil and toss in a big mass of pureed garlic.
Immediately add the chops and swirl the pan once then let it sit for a minute to develop a nice crust. Saute just one to two minutes or so then flip the chops over, douse them with a big glug of balsamic vinegar and toss them in the oven.
They’re done in like five to seven minutes. Remove from oven (careful! hot pan!), Plate, and if necessary tent with foil.
Return the pan to the heat. Add a big splash of dry white wine (I use dry french vermouth; it’s no good for drinking but faaabulous for cooking) to deglaze. When reduced almost to a syrup, whisk in some butter to make a nice liaison.
Drizzle sauce over chops and strew over them some finely chopped scallions or fresh chopped herbs.
Brigadier General Private Apparatus
WIN.
To puree garlic:
Peel the cloves by smashing them firmly under the flat edge of a wide-ish knife blade. The skins come right off. Chop coarsely. Sprinkle on some kosher salt and drag your knife blade across the garlic, pushing down on the blade to puree the chopped cloves. Draw the knife toward you, with the sharp edge angled down towards the cutting board, and away from you.
Do NOT, as some bozos on teevee have been seen doing, chop with your expensive knife into the salt/garlic mix. No, that fucks up your edge as well as Bush and Rove fucked up government.
Drag the blade across a few times and voila, pureed garlic in a trice.
erm, I wuz tawkin bout pork chops. Sorta neglected to mention that part.
Gasubnets Giysipefoprpree
Netting Al
Olene Julianne
Dohhans Briefings
Nurse Girlfriend
Guru Naoma-Kelsi Margret
Neomi-Randee Visualizing
Officer Xinseparately Bestowed
Puppies Timber
Flurriedyupre Nodexikcri
Tudguqu Sabrina
Beefpolymorphic Carla
Mansions Taypefafuf
Nurse Girlfriend
Late to the party, stepping over troll droppings, I read that somebody had a protest rally in Westlake Park. Either commuting or on errands, I pass through downtown Seattle on foot almost every day, and never saw a trace of them. They must have been the most useless protesters ever.
By way of comparison, when Serb nationalists (!) protested NATO’s bombing campaign of 1999, a noticeable crowd appeared. (At least one of them was carrying a hand-made sign with a blatantly racist symbol of Serb triumphalism upon it.)
Bigoted foreigners out-draw self-styled patriots. Who’da thunk it?
Hello?
Is this thing on?
Is Is there anybody out there?</a
Did anything annoying or weird happen while I was away from the internets?
Did anything annoying or weird happen while I was away from the internets?
Figure the odds.
Fun was had at the expense of others.
Figure the odds.
So that’s a yes.
Oh, look up at 20:34.
I see, (was blind but now I).
Fun was had at the expense of others.
Does the fun never end?
No it does not.
I think I’m going to have to subscribe to the RB youtube channel.
Those guys come around to your house and take your furniture iffen you don’t pay on time. And theys no Pron on that channel, just talking animalz and the like.
I invite our littlest future blogger for a splash about.
Pickins are slim there, but it’s like an avalanche, building slowly, then:
Extinction Event!
(There are those who find talking animals to be pornographic. Not I, but some.)
Well, to be fair, can you blame Republicans for lining up to kiss the pimple on Rush’s ass? After all, that pimple kept him out of Vietnam, and being a fearful and superstitious lot, I”m sure they think if they show it enough deference it’ll bring them the same sort of good luck.
I think I’m going to have to subscribe to the RB youtube channel.
I am worried about RB turning it into a youtuba channel.
That would involve tœbal libations.
I was going to bring this latest pregnancy to term for change. But now I’m going to skip down to the abortion clinic on my lunch break instead to have the wee innocent’s skull crushed and its brains sucked out through a tube, just to piss off Lou the Anti-Choice Troll.
In fact, for every comment Lou posts here, I’m going to abort a defenceless unborn child.
Lord Harry,
I only eat at New York System once a year …. Like anything else though, once in a while it won’t kill ya.
Oh, I agree. Go ahead and put a 9mm round through your brainstem, but you really shouldn’t make a habit of it.
I agree with Lou when he said earlier that abortion doctors should be imprisoned for murder
I’m glad you agree with a national healthcare plan, since you care about American lives so much.
Then you’ll be begging for a needle w/ a charge in it.
That’s what he said
How can anybody be pro-choice after seeing that?
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Have you ever seen what a real abortion looks like?
Dude, nobody wants to know what kind of pr0n you like. Seriously.
The baby is not the mother[‘]s property.
According to Leviticus, it is.
*in the imaginary currency of my choosing. Current returns do not indicate future performance. Please invest wisely.
Can I get a prospectus?
The papers weren’t served, therefore the case has no merit.
If you’re Omnipresent, what do you put down for a mailing address?
If you’re Omnipresent, what do you put down for a mailing address?
Everywhere, altho if the guy had been clever, he would have sent a certified copy to the Vatican. You know, the “Miracle On 34th Street” gambit.
If you’re Omnipresent, what do you put down for a mailing address?
No need.
If you’re Omnipresent, what do you put down for a mailing address?
Will the address of Rush Limbaugh’s Mansi-Quarium in Palm Beach do?
If there’s no good female form of “Gavin,” I’ll just mention my sister’s name: Givhan. Definitely not overused. The kid won’t be running into other Givhans everywhere she goes… unlike Studebaker. Every Thomasina, Regina and Arianna’s gonna be named Studebaker.
Hm. Only eleven days behind now. Gotta take a break.