I think you mean “the the inFEILD fly rule.

[Tintin adds: Yes. Thanks. Typo fixed.]

People don’t really believe that the government is doing all this because they’re incredibly concerned about the general public missing Survivor, the soaps or the NCAA tournament, do they?

Survivor instead of American Idol?

ALLUSION FAIL

Elsewhere on American Thinker:

“Calculated insult of the malignant narcissist?”

That fucking Obama

the the inFEILD fly rule

…aw, now it’s gone before the jokes about what’s “inside” the “fly” could fully develop!

The dumbass is strong with this one.

One can certainly compare TV to the panem et circenses of ancient days — but on the other hand, Doug does miss a few salient differences.

What, the spelling was fixed but not the the “the the”?

…the reason being is that he missed that.

Maybe the the is the the new teh.

I blame the typos on my having watched the “Breaking Bad” marathon last night straight through to the end.

Teh teh fact is, this is central to my point.

What every wing nut needs though most seem to already have one

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Humor&url=http%253A%252F%252Fzapatopi.net%252Fafdb%252F

I’m not one to agree with the wingnuts, but I noticed a couple of months ago that they were pushing this digital transition pretty heavily, and had a similar thought.

Namely, that it sure seems like the powers that be are placing a lot of priority on making sure that the continuity of television viewing by the dumbest members of society is not broken.

It is particularly glaring on PBS, where they keep having these asinine chats between two hosts discussing the transition. Over. And over. And over.

Does that make me a partial wingnut?

Don? (last paragraph) or Doug? Not that it really matters.

[Tintin adds: Fixed. No more cable marathons for me.]

From the page RS links to above

“Brown was left blind in one eye after a accident and has been suffering diminished site in another.”

I know how that feels, I once had a site in one eye and a moat in the other. What a relief when the site finally diminished

I just can’t stop laughing every time I see that The American Thinker logo. Please tell me that someone over there has a sense of humor – they can’t REALLY be overlooking the fact that it looks just like Uncle Sam is sitting on the crapper?

Actually Harry Shearer has had a bug in his bonnet about the DTV transition for a couple years now.

OTOH, he’s in the industry, so his reason for caring is probably a little more informed….

Good to know that Shearer is one my team here.

I am known to accessorize with foil now and again.

they can’t REALLY be overlooking the fact that it looks just like Uncle Sam is sitting on the crapper?

The original modification.

Oh, crap…

Second try.

My second try.

FYWP FOR THE ELEVENTIETH TIME!!

“Namely, that it sure seems like the powers that be are placing a lot of priority on making sure that the continuity of television viewing by the dumbest members of society is not broken.”

The Neilsen company estimates there are 14 million people in the US who rely on analog broadcasts. Most of them live in low-population counties with few or no inexpensive options to get TV reception otherwise. That means a lot of disgruntled voters in remote and rural congressional districts.

And really, there wasn’t that much priority. The government set aside all of, what, a million bucks for the digital converter coupon program?

No, the people who want to see this go right are the mobile companies. That 700mHz slice of magnetic spectrum is worth billions. They want the plebes onto digital so they can mine the bandwidth with wireless devices.

…television is the number-one preferred delivery method of government indoctrination, fear-mongering and demogoging [sic].

I thought that was what the fluoride in the drinking water was for!

…television is the number-one preferred delivery method of government indoctrination live plastic surgery, fear-mongering weight-loss/humiliation “contests” and demogoging wingnut talking head retards [sic].

“Namely, that it sure seems like the powers that be are placing a lot of priority on making sure that the continuity of television viewing by the dumbest members of society is not broken.”

Uh, no. Fox News is only on cable, which isn’t affected by the DTV transition.

Great post. Hadn’t known about the fire hydrants. Forewarned is forearmed, etc.

foredamned is foreskinned?

I converted my pork trough to digital all on my own – you can too!

Yes, how dare the government ensure that the public airwaves are accessible to the public. Who do they think they are, public servants or something?

foredamned is foreskinned?

Dang it! Just when I thought it was safe to not think about Smut Clyde’s feral foreskin!

And a belated Yowzah to Jennifer for finding a job which also ticks off wingnuts. It’s two-two-two “special purposes” in one!

…parasitic ponies for everyone!!

…hyperinflated parasitic ponies!!!!

as television is the number-one preferred delivery method of government indoctrination, fear-mongering and demogoging

This is just on Faux News. The other networks are too busy kissing Limbaugh’s pimply ass, sucking Grover Norquist’s tiny cock, and pimping Newt Gingrich, James Cramer, and everybody else who created the current economic clusterfuck.

You try walking around the mall in a hyperinflated pony suit.

No, us.

NIGGERS

The fact is, I am behind all your current troll problems.

Nothing like …
nothing like a pony!

Nothing like a dame!

JIGGERS!

…but a good cigar is like “is” is

“everybody else who created the current economic clusterfuck.”

Hey! Don’t look at us! It’s all that black guy’s fault now.

My pork trough catches the overflow from my shit moat. Or is it the other way around?

BOOGERS!

This whole buy gold thing. Does that mean when hyperinflation hits along with massive food shortages that I can go to the burnt-out building where my fellow citizens are bartering goods and take out one of my gold coins and shave a little piece off the edge with my pocket-knife in exchange for a sack of potatoes? Or even just one potato, depending?

Who the fuck is this Right Wing Realist bozo? My evil twin?

Who the fuck is this Right Wing Realist bozo? My evil twin?

Nah, it’s Truthy. Killfile.

A commenter comments:

It alwasy comes down to the immagrants… Outsourced or tax free jobs, now TV?

This is about as stupid as they can get. The gov’t. mandates the conversion of telebision, so that the wireless companies will get all the bandwidth Johnny Ancient-Fish mentioned. Then, since “the people” don’t have much choice in the matter, the gummint helps them to continue to receive telebision, probably more for emergency warning purposes than to keep the sheep sedated/indoctrinated.

And I’d just bet that the money the wireless companies pay for their new spectrum will more than cover the cost of the mail-in rebate coupons.

I can’t remember where else I’ve seen it, but this is not the first complaint from the forces of repression & stupidity about the conversion. I don’t get it, but it seems they have to complain about anything & everything. I’d guess they don’t realize that telecom cos. will be making zillions from this, otherwise they’d probably STFU.

Does that mean when hyperinflation hits along with massive food shortages that I can go to the burnt-out building where my fellow citizens are bartering goods and take out one of my gold coins and shave a little piece off the edge with my pocket-knife in exchange for a sack of potatoes? Or even just one potato, depending?

Have you brought your freebie converter box/boondoggle?

We’ve had eight years of uninterrupted, near-dictatorial powers and we’re looking forward to sixteen more. We are more powerful than any Republican attempt to stop us. More than their God, even.

But but but, if we’re not sowing seeds of discord and disgruntlement everywhere, we have no reason to exist!

Another commenter there comments:

>>”But books, oh, how we all drool over them, which is why we are at library in first place, not for movies.”

I am never taking a book out of the library again.

I once had a site in one eye and a moat in the other.
The shit motes in the eye are the worst.

…socially engineered hyperinflated parasitic ponies!!!!!!

Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and the Community Reinvestment Act led us into this mess

That’s right, little minion. Keep it up. Good boy! With enough repetition some may even start to believe it’s true.

Wasn’t “Parasitic Ponies” a Hawkwind song?

Frank? Dodd?!! Pleeeze. Drops in the bucket compared to the monstrous catastrophes WE created! Dumbass.

The worst part of a parasitic pony is when it bursts out of your chest.

Wasn’t “Parasitic Ponies” a Hawkwind song?

I think it was Linda Ronstadt’s first backup group.

Here in NZ, half the population still have low-speed dial-up tooth fillings, which limits the bandwidth for downloading official propaganda into our brains at night.
We have a national ethos of self-reliance and independence, and we will not accept any government subsidies to install satellite-signal decoders in our hard palates.

In fact, George Bush was basically an undercover Democrat. Everything he did was intended to sully the Republican brand.

Power Tool is either so fucking stupid he forgot digital conversion was a BushCo idea, or he’s just a disingenuous piece of shit.

I’m inclined to think it’s the former because his pants wetting panic is based on the premise that people MUST WATCH TELEBISION or BLACK HELICOPTERS WILL SWOOP DOWN AND MUTLITATE THERE CATTLE.

Also, The The is a great band. Though.

A different commenter:

This whole DTV thing makes me crazy – when was the last time any of you saw a pair of “rabbit ears” on someone’s tv or someone adjusting the antennae on their roof???

I will never believe that there are MILLIONS out there watching 3 channels in this day and age – just not buying it. There is something wrong with this……………

Don’t confuse me w/ the facts. My mind is made up.

And back to the “immagrants” guy:

The subscribership for the mexican, and spanish channels is the only sectar of Television that is growing exponentially using the free TV bunny ears and Signal, rather than through a cable system. This is BIG Money as commercials – Right now there is no real census of how many people are receiving the signal. The more people who apply for free DV box cupons, the better the undersrtanding of these people are. As long as they will be migrating in, or better said (until we leave), the TV Change will not happen.
O’ who’s paying for the Free Cuponed Boxes? When people say Cupon >it means Not Market Price.

It’s not only the immagrants though, its about the Cable companies making money. *** Also *** Note that to get Digital Channels through a cable service, you’re paying for a digital box (and are taxed on it). Until it is mandated, this cost will still be on your bill. I could not get HD Signals to my home without “upgrading” the analog service to digital -and it is a higher plan.

Made up that this is actually a secret census of Hispanics. (That’s what he said.)

And I think he’s wrong about the necessity for a digital box if you’re a cable subscriber. (But why shouldn’t he be wrong about that? He’s wrong about everything else.)

We had the goods on Bush. That’s why we he did everything we told him to do. What a sad little puppet he was.

But books, oh, how we all drool over them, which is why we are at library in first place, not for movies

Well, in addition to the “euwwww!” this incites, I am perplexed to hear that conservatives are using a government-funded resource like a library.

The subscribership for the mexican, and spanish channels is the only sectar of Television that is growing exponentially using the free TV bunny ears and Signal, rather than through a cable system.

I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbequed iguana
I’d take requests on the telephone
I’m on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can’t understand just what does he say?

And I think he’s wrong about the necessity for a digital box if you’re a cable subscriber.

Yes and no. You need a really new and fairly high-end TV, but if your television supports something called “Clear QAM” and so does your cable company, you can get something akin to the traditional analog basic service without a box.

sectar

Not until you’re older, son.

And I think he’s wrong about the necessity for a digital box if you’re a cable subscriber.

It depends on your TV; if it’s not a digital or “digital-ready” TV you do.

And what do you bet Mr. couldn’t spell his way out of a bowl of alphabet soup is one of those “English only” folks?

How do you subscribe to broadcast signals via rabbit ears?

How do you subscribe to broadcast signals via rabbit ears?

My guess is the door-to-door salesman who sold him his 1967 Zenith model probably sends him a bill every month.

fear-mongering and demogoging
Demogorgons!

No matter how dumb the right wing pundits or trolls (is there really any difference?) get, there’s always further for them to go. Amazing.

As I understand it, it’s a matter of geography whether rabbit ears work for you or not.

Broad flat plains let the signal reach much further than having mountains in the way. But that doesn’t even matter; there are places people live where cable just doesn’t go; there’s not enough density to make it worth their while.

These are the folks who used to have those huge satellite dishes in their yards. Yes, it’s a rural thing; for a reason.

The cheap converter box is to NOT screw over those people who cable already has. They won’t lose whatever signal they are used to getting. A one time, refundable, converter box cost.

It’s making sure a government decision doesn’t mess people up. Which would explain why the wingnuts hate and fear it.

What I actually meant (all dependent on the cable system, of course) is that if you have a NTSC cable ready tee vee, or even a not-cable ancient tee vee, if your cable provider sends a non-digital, no box required, basic cable only signal to poor folks, the poor folks won’t need to rent a cable co. box.

Time Warner in L. A. was still doing this as of a yr. ago.

The analog and digital signals co-exist in most cable systems still. The way they were doing it when I still lived at home was that digital was an addon package, and that the analog channels were analog regardless of your equipment.

This is why you see satellite companies advertising that their signal is “all digital”.

Actually all the cable companies are committed to supplying the local broadcast channels in analog form for at least two more years after the transition (or after the original February 17th date, anyway.)

It’s my understanding that the Government actually got a little money for these frequencies when they sold them to the cellphone pirates, unlike the peanuts they sold off channels 70-83 for; but that’s the motivation for this switch: the lust of the Communications companies to make vast sums of money off the use of spectrum that is the undivided property of the American people. Kind of like the fate of the whole country west of the Appalachians: sold to cannibals for pennies a square mile, and now people think individuals owning whole counties worth of “ranch” is a concomitant of “freedom.”

This is BIG Money as commercials

Burt says stop talking about big this and big that.

Poor lil’ Burt.

Who is this Burt anyway? “I’m going to read from my new book: ‘Conservatives drive like THIS, and liberals drive like THIIIIS!'”

To me he will always be “Hutt-Burt Prelutsky”.

Sorry my wife and I, have had out life’s saving taken from us in the last four weeks. From now no mercy.

Damned hyperinflated parasitic shittybank ponies

WOLVER(hack, hack)INES

Butt-Hurt Prelutsky works, also.

Hyperinflated parasitic ponies are known to attack en masse.

I think it was Linda Ronstadt’s first backup group.

I thought that was The Reverse Cowgirls.

Hyperinflated parasitic ponies are known to attack en masse.

We believe we have the solution to your problem.

“Ride the White Hyperinflated Parasitic Pony” = worst drug song ever.

worst drug song ever.

Also the worst western-themed porn.

Why should *I* have to pay for some bozos TV reception?

We will stop paying for your roads, too. Hopefully one day you will be riding your Hummer over a bridge and it will collapse beneath the weight, and we won’t have to deal with you anymore.

Butt-Hurt Prelutsky works, also.

The last time he worked, they were still using vacuum tubes.

I already pay for the roads I use through gas taxes.

Why should *I* have to pay for some bozos TV reception?

Your name just came up. It’s nothing personal.

If you think I can afford a Hummer — even from a crack whore — you’ve got the wrong wing-nut.

Why should *I* have to pay for some bozos TV reception?

You’re not paying for it, *I* am.

You’re paying for all those EXTRA Nuclear Missiles that will never be used…

Better hyperinflated parasitic ponies than a menacing bunch of pink peonies.

With the economy in the tank all the Democrats in Congress can do now is hope and pray that the Dear Leader doesn’t fuck things up any more than he already has.

Not that it’ll make any difference in the minds of the voters, it’ll simply save what’s left of our once great republic from the specter of totalitarianism that Obama seems content on unleashing.

It’s nice to be remembered. We’ll keep that in mind. When we’ve taken over. Remind us. Just in case.

So how long did you stare at the computer screen while typing that Dougie P?

hehehehehehe

I think this needed a “precious bodily fluids” reference. Can’t go wrong with Strangelove when mocking paranoid right wingers.

…”you’ve got the wrong wing-nut”

are there going to be t-shirts??

Hyperinflated parasitic ponies are known to attack en masse.

Thank $Diety I’m not catholique!

(well, now that he’s gone, all my comments just sound silly!)

(sorry, sillier.)

We wouldn’t know.

After all, we just want to be entertained, not challenged.
God forbid we put any effort into it.

Sadlies, you need to read Debbie Schlussel’s review of Watchmen. Some good material there.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/03/the_watchmen_li.html

Sadlies, you need to read Debbie Schlussel’s review of Watchmen. Some good material there.

I think all you need to know about that movie is in the poster—

“From the visionary director of ‘300’”

I have to agree (Invisible Pink Unicorn and/or FSM help me!) with the wingnut that the delay in implementing DTV is stupid. Let’s face it, some people will never do anything about it until they’ve lost their signal. That’s called human nature. Everybody else had ample warning. Let the horror of no TV signal hit and then deal with it.

My guess is that intense government concern over this impending disaster is due their fear that the most irrational and prone to acting persons out are the ones who have failed to get converter boxes. They will be the ones making phone calls to government offices, muttering “What happened to my TV shows, why didn’t anyone tell me, I’ll take out the SOBs at city hall, blarrg schpit footzle.”

I have to agree (Invisible Pink Unicorn and/or FSM help me!) with the wingnut that the delay in implementing DTV is stupid.

I disagree with the wingnut. Let the market take care of it. There should never have been DTV legislation in the first place.

OT, but deserving of cartoon comment…

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=680&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1407944&om=1

Regarding the comeek referenced by ckc:
Can’t anyone on the right understand that it wasn’t the $5Tr mortgage market that tanked the economy but the $50Tr in side bets (CDOs and such) that were placed on the mortgage market?

…hmmm, not exactly the comment I would have offered

…hmmm, not exactly the comment I would have offered

Me neither!

FYWP

One nice thing about Schlussel’s blog is that she responds to her commenters in ALL CAPS, making the crazy nuggets easy to find. Viz:

IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A WHOLESOME FAMILY FRIENDLY MOVIE YOU DUMB BITCH. DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SEX SCENES JUST BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO DO IT WITH YOU.

That Lester fella is down to his last compartment.

There should never have been DTV legislation in the first place.

I don’t know. It’s not a “free market” issue, as the airwaves are publicly owned. “We the Peeps”, via our douchebag proxies, decided that bandwidth could be more usefully apportioned than the, what, 50 or 70 year old existing distribution. Congress decided that it was worth all of us having to get new TVs or whatever to be able to do things with some very useful “real estate” that may not have been possible with technology in the ’40s. There was certainly no way in hell the ossified broadcast industry was just going to up and make the change of their own accord, even if we gave them the new bandwidth for free. Congress had to tell them to GTFO the frequencies it wanted.

I’m not entirely happy with the outcome. My reception still kind of sucks, and I live in a major city. That this was the once in a lifetime chance to do away with pulldowns and drop frame code, but noooOOOoooo, can’t have that, was a really stupid thing. Potentially having bandwidth that works through walls for first responders definitely seems like a good idea. Six—half-dozen, I suppose. I do like the idea of extra channels, though.

Of course, ultimately, it turns into a big fucking cash grab for someone, which is a huge part of what’s wrong with things on a rather larger scale, and is a subject that will be left for a different rant.

Oh crap, that was a commenter, not Debbie.

Which just proves my point

God, how I love demogoging.

Oh, demogog, demogog
demogog all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
demogog, demogog
demogog all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Which just proves my point

Central. Central to your point, Rusty.

Sorry ckc. I guess I’ve become inured to the Obama=Hitler meme. After Dough E. Pantload’s shit-tome the Right’s hyperbole amplifier’s been set on 11. Like country music, I just tune it out. My bad.

…Sorry ckc.

…you aren’t by any chance Canadian, are you?

there is a small town in eastern massachusetts, 20 miles from boston, americanthinkerton. already when you pull into town you find yourself in the country, isolated, with that unique new england feeling of loneliness. on a late fall day in 1926 young doug powers found himself driving in on his jalopy. the local bed and breakfast had a room and doug settled in for the evening by the fire.

the proprietor, one marie’ jon, sat down next to mr. powers as an odd light played across her face from the wood burning in front of her. “so mr. powers, are you here to write about the phenomena that have occurred of late in the hills by the old swank pasture?”

this question may have seemed out of the blue, marie’ was right–powers was here on behalf of the globe and the man always got his story.

“ms. jon’;;, i am indeed interested in the events of last june 21st. is it true that all the town’s cows are still missing, and the alkon place is now surrounded by a fecal body of water?”

“indeed, mr. powers.”

“one more question, ms. jon’&*&*$(@&$: who is demogog”

the fire went out. it was as if a spectre had entered the room, but little was mr. powers to know that this was only the beginning of his descent…

into the IDIOT WORLD OF AMERICAN THINKER

Robert Green said,

March 8, 2009 at 2:22

This is fucking genius. You win 100 Internets, sir.

No, not Canadian but I spend time there (Quetico PP/Ontario) while on vacation. I live in the greater Chicago area but grew up in WI.

Me no got tooth fillings. Me safe. All your base are belong to us.

One nice thing about Schlussel’s blog is that she responds to her commenters in ALL CAPS

This is, nonetheless, true.

The world suddenly seemed to tilt, and Doug looked frantically around. He jumped up and moved quickly toward the back of the room, where the dim, dusty shelves of unread tomes seemed to provide some concealment.

Doug was amazed to see Marie’s face bloom in a rapturous smile, as the room filled with the stench of brimstone and pizza farts.

“What is it?”, Doug demanded, crouching now in genuine fear as a cacophony of evil voices seemed to pull the very air out of the room. Marie only smiled. “It is Rush, come for another reckoning” she said in in a husky voice, her eyes wide with anticipation.

Doug was frightened. “Am I worthy?” he asked in a quavering voice.

“None of us are worthy” said Marie Jon’ as she hefted a nearby axe (Doug wondered how he had not seen it earlier) and advanced on the hapless pundit…

TBC

Debbie Schlussel strikes me as having an all-caps personality.

“Contender Ministries” offer us The Coming War of Gog and Demagog, an Islamic Invasion?.

Good news! Julia Gorin is now posting at the Big Hollywood.

Debbie always brings teh funnie

YOU APPARENTLY HAVEN’T BEEN READING THE COMPLETELY OBSCENE DISGUSTING COMMENTS, MANY OF WHICH I’VE HAD TO REMOVE

OT but what the hey:
While researching the Bacon Explosion I found this:

Jonah Goldberg at NationalReview.com wrote, “There must be a reason one reader after another sends me this every couple hours.”

Clueless in every regard.

YOU APPARENTLY HAVEN’T BEEN READING THE COMPLETELY OBSCENE DISGUSTING COMMENTS, MANY OF WHICH I’VE HAD TO REMOVE

, PRINT OUT AND SAVE FOR “DEBBIE TIME” LATER

Don’t get Doug P. started on the topic of pedogoging.

Is pedodemagoging when you berate a student? Inquiring minds want to know.

CLOWN (AN APPROPRIATE NAME): YOU’RE NOT A READER OF THIS SITE, OR YOU’D KNOW THAT I RESPOND TO ALL COMMENTERS IN CAPS, B/C THIS PROGRAM GIVES ME NO OTHER WAY OF DIFFERENTIATING MY RESPONSES TO COMMENTS.

A strange program indeed, one that would not allow the blog proprietor to post comments on her own blog.

If I had a blog, I would set it up so that all comments appeared in a cutesy typeface with little hearts or smiley faces over the eyes — except for my own responses, which would appear in a firm masculine typeface so they stood out.

Umm, “over the i’s”. But you knew that.

If I had a blog

Drums fingers, waiting…

f you take your kids to see “Watchmen,” you’re a moron.

If you see it yourself, you’re also probably a moron and a vapid, indecent human being.

Um…Debbie did go see the movie, right?

THIS PROGRAM GIVES ME NO OTHER WAY OF DIFFERENTIATING MY RESPONSES TO COMMENTS.
By strange coincidence, I use exactly the same excuse for shouting during conversations.

Oh I could while away the hours
Telling truth to powers
Cutting through the fog
In my thoughts I would Pwn you
And I wouldn’t let you say “Poo”
If I only had a blog.

I could comment on the shitty
Like some eloquent Walter Mitty
If I only had a blog.
With my words I would bring change
Like a patriot on a gun range
If I only had a blog….

mikey

I RESPOND TO ALL COMMENTERS IN CAPS, B/C THIS PROGRAM GIVES ME NO OTHER WAY OF DIFFERENTIATING MY RESPONSES TO COMMENTS.

That little “Posted by:” too tough figure out?

Oh I could while away the hours
Telling truth to powers
Doesn’t Marianne Faithfull sing that?

Damn it Mikey that’s great stuff. I love it.

Why do the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and the FCC hate the free market?

Apropos of nothing much except having a little fun with teh wingnuts:

Recently, the lefty troll Right Wing Snarkle played a little cute because he used some of Mr. Krauthammer’s thoughts on Preisdent Obama’s tax hikes to oppose my thoughts about the tax hike.
Well, take a look at this Snarkie!
Mr. Krauthammer essentially calls President Obama a liar.
What do you think of that, Snarkie?!

Damn! I hate it when the cal me ‘Snarkie.’

Anywhoozle, my 2 minutes of internets fame came on Charles Krauthammer Hits The Nail On The Head.

BTW, my cited use of Craphammer is in the comment section of the eloquent Its War Against Success In America.

Oy, wingnuts. Who’d even guess such stupid existed?

versus

This is why I am banned from Karaoke nights.
If I only ran a pub, there would be silent Karaoke nights, for mimes.

Some say… the Sun revolves around the Earth. Some say….

And I wouldn’t let you say “Poo”

Except for that part I loved it.

as she hefted a nearby axe (Doug wondered how he had not seen it earlier)

If I had a blog

If I only ran a pub

Someone undergoing a mid-life crisis here?

Clueless in every regard.

“Bacon Explosion” just has to be Doughy’s new nickname.

If I had a blog
I’d yammer in the mornin’
I’d yammer in the evenin’
All over the place
I’d yammer ’bout wingnuts
I’d yammer ’bout douchebags
I’d yammer ’bout love between the lefties and the libruls
All over the place

If I had a good blog
Deedle deedle deedle, deedle deedle deedle deedle dee
All day long I’d deedle-deedle-blog
If I had an awesome blog

Wouldn’t have to work hard
Deedle deedle deedle, deedle deedle deedle deedle dog
All day long I’d bloggy bloggy blog
If I had an awesome blog

I want a blog
Just like the blog
That libeled dear old dad!

From J—’s link, we find the Orange County (Not the real one, btw.) Mug Shots of the Wk.

East Side, West Side, all around the ‘net
I held forth on the state of things ’cause chicks I could not get
Wingnuts and girls together, me and fire dog lake
We tripped the light fantastic with nothing important held at stake
East Side, West Side, all around the town
Sweet Tbogg did his happy thing without gaining much renown
All the fellas dug him, Atrios and Ackerman too
I read them all in my underpants in blissful solitude

East Side, West Side, we try to make the grade
We started swinging with Krugman, drinking the Soros Kool Aid
On to Teh Great Orange Satan, then a last drink at Tee Pee Emm
We won’t get home until morning ’cause Teh Sadlys are drunk again

mikey

Mug Shots of the Wk.

Wow, mug shots by charge is cool.

My bloggie lies over the ocean.
My bloggie lies over the sea.
My bloggie does not publish comments,
Unless they’re agreeing with me!

Hah! I have neither fillings NOR a teevee set!

Here – just take a look through these sunglasses, & it’ll all become clear …

Drinkin black coffee
Drinkin black coffee
Drinkin black coffee
gonna stare at the blogs

*yawp* (barbarically)

I just woke up from my nap and haven’t read through the comments yet so bear with me if I rehash old material. I have to chime in here because I was pretty close to this whole enchilada in a professional capacity for several years.

The total clusterfuck of DTV cutover was planned and executed almost completely by the Bush admin. The delay, as many NAMericans know, is because they totally screwed up with getting people ready. The gummint run, gummint mandated, gummint administered program to make sure people wouldn’t be cut off from their presshusss teeeveee had, much like the creation of the Internetzes had, one central, overarching Congrefcritter who was “driving” the whole deal. The program started late, changed directions several times, dithered, dallied, did some 180’s, sucked up some more money, did some more 180’s, and so on and so forth. That nutball Congrefbeotch insisted that the gummint supply digital:analog signal converters (tuners) to every American that wanted one at gummint expense.

It’s because that socialist program of giving things to people who were too lazy to buy a new TV was totally mismanaged, bungled and generally screwed up by design that caused the aforementioned wise solon in Congref (the one who “invented” it) to scream “NOOOOOOO! We have to try again!”

Can anyone identify that 2008 Presidentially ambitious Senator I’m talking about? Hmmm?

Wow, mug shots by charge is cool.

You wouldn’t want to look at just any old arrestee, would you?

Are the usual party crashers elsewhere? Perhaps they are getting that extra hour of sleep that daylight saving will be taking away. Any one that old & wretched needs it.

I don’t know what blog it is that I love so,
I only know I never wanna let it go
‘Cos it started somethin’, oh, can’t you see
That ever since I blogged there I think of pee
It happens to be true, I only want to blog with you.

Bonus classic video.

I’m….. waitin for wordpress
Got 26 comments in the mess
go to sadlyno load the page
feelin trick and snarky for idiots’ rage
Said I’m…..waiting for wordpress

Thanks, Lou.

Bonus freepers go to jail schadenfreude.

ESS AY turd ay night.

So, Kirk or Picard?

SLOW Blog (da NA na nana, nanana)
Take it EASY (da NA na nana, nanana)

*embarrassed cough*…yeah…leeeeet’s pretend that didn’t just happen.

PeeJ, please!!

The classic vid is the original, dead ten yrs. last Monday.

Well yeah, but the BCR’s were such a 70’s abomination that I HAD to put that up. It’s classically bad, you know?

I just wanna make blogs with you….

Thanks for the great link, Bouffant, but you’re being too lenient with PeeJ. Anyone who’d choose the Bay City Rollers over the Divine Dusty should be forced to clean Limbaugh’s toilet with his tongue. And I say that with love.

So bad it’s bad.

This is a thing I’ve never known before, it’s
called easy blogging. This is a place I’ve never
seen before, and my shit box tongue jacked

I theenk the proteon guy had the right idea – just forget that.

That’s some of that “tough love,” isn’t it?

Writing a web log is not easy. Web logging is some serious shit. It’s like constipation, forcing the exact words out.

Sez real author Richard Meltzer, about real writing.

I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army – your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.
Ezekiel 38:1-6

Forty thousand headmen couldn’t make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
I know just where my feet should go and that’s enough for me
I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea

Hadn’t traveled very far when suddenly I saw
Three small ships a-sailing out towards a distant shore
So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit
And found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot

Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose
I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change its mind
And soaring high above the clouds I found a golden shrine

Laying down my treasure before the iron gate
Quickly rang the bell hoping I hadn’t come too late
But someone came along and told me not to waste my time
And when I asked him who he was he said, ‘Just look behind’

So I turned around and forty thousand headmen bit the dirt
Firing twenty shotguns each and man, it really hurt
But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload
And by the time they’d done that I was heading down the road
(Winwood/Capaldi)

The Bacon Explosion posting has since been viewed about 390,000 times. It first found a following among barbecue fans, but quickly spread to sites run by outdoor enthusiasts, off-roaders and hunters. (Several proposed venison-sausage versions.) It also got mentions on the Web site of Air America, the liberal radio network, and National Review, the conservative magazine. Jonah Goldberg at NationalReview.com wrote, “There must be a reason one reader after another sends me this every couple hours.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html?_r=1&em

Heh. Indeed.

Your own personal weblog
Someone to read your prose
Someone who knows

“Bacon Explosion” just has to be Doughy’s new nickname.

Middle name.

Doughy Bacon Explosion Pantload.

blecchh

BurtJack Prelutsky says, “It’s a very boring day.”

There’s a penguin on my head…

I suppose a link would help…

I just wanna make blogs with you….
If that is a SAHB reference, I am impressed.

To write… the unreadable blog
To code… in aitch-tee-tee-pee
To add… Cascading sty-le sheets
To drink… endless coffee…

A man’s best friend is his blog.

Good night, then.

When you’ve a blog
You’ve a blog all the way
From your first little post
To your last dying day
When you’ve a blog
And the shit hits the fan
You’re compelled to write
You’re a blogging-type man
You’re never alone
You’re never without comments
When company calls
You’re always in the basement

I’ve only got the germ of a song; perhaps someone could work with it. To the tune of The Smiths’ Girlfriend in a Coma:

Moron with a keyboard
I know, I know
He’s “serious”…

MB thanks for the Dusty. She’s great even when she’s lip syncing. Now I have to go listen to Son of A Preacher Man for a couple of hours. Maybe The Look of Love ten or twelve times too.

Actually Harry Shearer has had a bug in his bonnet about the DTV transition for a couple years now.

Indeed. Personally, I’ve long wondered whether the DTV transition is some sort of corporatist GOoPer plot. Why the #@$% do we need higher resolution to watch the crap on TV?

Actually, there is a problem with the DTV transition — some of us liberal, urban types live in places without good TV reception in our apartments and don’t have enough money to get cable. What happens when they switch to DTV? According to some our on the apartment roof antennas will no longer work … although I’ve been told in here in left blogostan that this won’t be an issue, what is to stop the transition from being used as an excuse for our stupid management corporations to stop maintaining the roof-top antennas leaving us without TV?

Of course the DTV transition delay is a liberal plot. It’s to delay the enactment of a GOoPer plot (in conjunction with the cable companies) to ensure we urban liberals can’t get out PBS (and our kids go nuts without PBS kids) unless we pay $$$ for cable.

Is that tinfoil hat enough for y’all?

oooooooooh — someone has serious control issues

touche!

You are The Man and you rule your den.

it would have to be The American “Thinker” website where one of the qualifications for its writers appears to be a recent traumatic head injury.

FTW, Tintin, FTW.

This is a test.

This is a test.

The INFIDEL fly rule!