I’d also imagine that these same film producers couldn’t possibly expect me to go to a public theater and be forced to sit with the “people” to see this flick.

Wait. Aren’t these the same folks who only two days ago were outraged at the amount of taxpayers’ funds went to escort The One to a hamburger joint?

Get this, did you hear The One actually plans on holding fancy dinners in the White House for “visiting heads of state” – I guess he thinks they’re important because they’re visiting him, or something. No doubt they’ll send out press releases about these elitist dinner parties. The arrogance!

As all the other President’s, including Saint Ronnie and both Bushes, did.

[Tintin adds: Fixed. Thanks.]

The President’s Did is usually friendlier and less odoriferous than the President’s Didn’t.

Look, Im rushing to post something to keep you guy’s amused and didn’t carefully proof the post for errant apostrophe’s, and all you ingrate’s can do i’s complain? Hear, complain’s about’s thi’s coment to, ok? It”ll makes you’s all’s feel’s bettur.

Richard Nixon said “Big Jake” (John Wayne) was the best movie he had ever seen at the White House. It was in the newspapers. I say Richard Boone made an excellent villain, and Nixon was awed.

the dimmest of the RedState dimwits

Doesn’t that title get conferred to other Trike Force members on a rotating basis?

i went there, and the schmoe (incivil me) has already backed off the ‘going to the public theatre meme’. now he’s all ‘they issued a press release’ and ‘he’s just showing off that he’s not an elitist’. even redstates’ petty backbiting shit has got ‘pathetic pansy’ all over it. (end of apostrophe laden smug-atribe)

This shit is so stupid that even the Red State commenters are calling Warner out on it. Being accused of stupidity by a Red State commenter is probably even worse than being called a cranked-out lunatic by Atlas Pam.

Worse than being called Islamophobic by an LGFer.

Looks like the dude’s working on a mohawk to go with that face mullet.

Haven’t Decided What My SN Name Is Yet (formerly Newbie McNoob) said,

May 9, 2009 at 19:27

Ah, but see? When you are the most Regulary McRegular, you can use Newbie McNoob for bonus irony points.

Irony will always get you points around here.

Irony will always get you points around here.

I always get my shirts pressed at the cleaners’.

No, if he went to a regular theater, these douches would just start a rumor that he had an expression of euphoria every time Chekhov was on screen. I can see Swank’s take now:
“Is this expressed joy unrelenting at the site of boys of Old Mother Russia a sign- clarity unmatched- that The Boy is of the homo persuasion, or the Marxo-Communist? Time only shall tell, as his policies of evil give us of USA Vulcan Nerve Pinching.”

Look, Im rushing to post something to keep you guy’s amused and didn’t carefully proof the post for errant apostrophe’s, and all you ingrate’s can do i’s complain? Hear, complain’s about’s thi’s coment to, ok? It”ll makes you’s all’s feel’s bettur.

I wonder what Bob the Angry Flower would have to say about that?

Aargh! He would probably say something about malformed HTML:

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

News flash: stupid man writes, stupidly.

The real question here is whether Obama will get to view the vault copy.

Mr. Huston has nothing to worry about. He is not likely to be elected “ruler of the free world” as no such position exists. Even if there were, wouldn’t we be more inclined to elect someone who might know the definitions of common expressions, someone who speaks our language, you know, like… English?

Oh wait! Noblesse oblige is a phrase that comes from those cowardly Frogs, isn’t it? There’s the rub. I’m sure Mr. Huston once knew the definition of noblesse oblige but lost it in the Vulcan Mind Wipe he had just before he ate his first Freedom Fry.

The galaxy is full of life, not all of it intelligent. Live long and prosper, Mr. Huston.

“I’d also imagine that these same film producers couldn’t possibly expect me to go to a public theater and be forced to sit with the ‘people’ to see this flick.”
Lemme tell you a story, kid…

Oh, and, of course, we’d be hearing about how Obama ordered a faggy, elitist package of Frenchified Raisinets at the concession stand rather than the Twizzlers that real Americans eat.

Chocolate Skittles!1

I find it interesting that most (and not just some) of the commentators disagree with Huston.

this is the most incompetently run administration since at least Kennedy’s, and maybe even since Roosevelt’s. The Air Force One incident, the swine flu overreaction, endangering the financial sector with stress tests, and on and on

God I love RedState.

Irony will always get you points around here.

Well ok then. I would like to avoid an irony deficiency whenever possible.

The fact is, Obama is out of touch with the Heartland of America. He doesn’t even have the decency to see a true American original film in a real movie theatre, much less a drive-in movie theatre.

If my unemployment benefits hadn’t run out and my welfare application been denied I would have seen StarTrek five times by now! Someone give me a doller.

The fact is, real Americans like myself do not go to the local Bijou for this science fiction nonsense, preferring the Heartland values of “Cum-Chugging Slut Pillow Fight”.

When viewing movies in a “noblesse oblige” frame of mind, it helps to wear a powdered wig and have a snuff box nearby.

Otherwise the experience is sadly incomplete.

“When viewing movies in a ‘noblesse oblige’ frame of mind, it helps to wear a powdered wig and have a snuff box nearby.

Otherwise the experience is sadly incomplete.”
Aww, he invited Barbara Bush to watch it with him? That was sweet.

President’s office writes a press release! The scandal!

Does Mr. Warner understand that’s he’s arguing with the most basic of standard public relations stunts?

The Obamas wanna see a popular movie! They love the same things you and I do.

Movies at the White House. Dijon mustard. Teleprompters. Pretty soon they’ll attack Obama for breathing air, flossing his teeth and sleeping with his own wife.

I can’t imagine this has anything to do with the color of his skin. Not for a minute.

I’d have to be completely unaware that my actions could easily be seen as one of arrogance, one that reveals a disregard for those I am supposed to be leading, one that ignores the concept of being a servant to the people. …

You’d also have to be completely unaware of subject/object agreement, as in, if the subject is plural and is a reference point for the object, then the object needs to be plural. Also.

Obama has been sleeping with his wife?!!1?

OMG this Administration is d00med.

“Obama has been sleeping with his wife?!!1?”
Heh, indeed. We have Teh Tape!

this is the most incompetently run administration since at least Kennedy’s, and maybe even since Roosevelt’s

Wow. Somebody’s been asleep for the last eight years.

Obama has been sleeping with his wife?!!1?

Yes, Lord knows what those two have been doing in the People’s House! Probably PR0N se-sexy-sex stuff, you know how those people are after all. Why not just let ’em film “Girls Gone Wild” there, not that Obambi probably likes girls, if y’knowwhatahmean.

Jennifer:

You’d also have to be completely unaware…

Take it is easy on the guy. He’s probably been trying to read Atlas Shrugged, and we all know how that sucks the talent out of anyone. He’s also writing for the august publication RedState of the Prestigious InterWebs. Also. 🙂

Obama has been sleeping with his wife?!!1?

He briefly considered cohabitating with a paramour, but that sounded too French-like for Real Americans

Editor Korir has acquired an explosive, inflammatory tape in which Michelle Obama can clearly be heard calling her husband “honey.” He will release it to the media immediately upon receipt of ten thousand Post Toasties box tops and a free pass to see the new Star Trek movie.

This is a little late, but here goes:

At 19:19, the part of Tintin will be played by Skwisgaar Skwigelf.

Thank you.

Not “sugar buns?”

Speaking of elitists and their movie watching habits, why would the President’s Chief of Staff take a male Secret Service agent with him to the theater? There can only be one explanation. He’s a faggety fag fag.

When you are too stupid for the Red Staters, you are too stupid to live.

When you are too stupid for the Red Staters, you are too stupid to live.

If by that you mean too stupid to breathe, well, sadly no.

At 19:19, the part of Tintin will be played by Skwisgaar Skwigelf.

I thought the part of “Tintin” was being played by the oboe.

“I thought the part of “Tintin” was being played by the oboe.”
Whereas I thought it was that kid from “Billy Elliott” in a motion-capture suit. You have broken my heart, Peter Jackson. Again.

I love the commenters that are claiming that the only “outrage” is that Obama is leaking it to the press and that the press is all over it. Funny, I only heard about it through them. Also, isn’t the President’s entire schedule released every day?

Where was Mr. Bunched Undies when this emerged?

So as a lot of people know, [George W. Bush] watches first-run films in the White House movie theater, a cushy 40-seat room on the ground floor near the entrance to the East Wing. The theater has been updated over the years, but its most extensive renovation came during the made-for-Hollywood presidency of Ronald Reagan, when the major studios of the time — Disney, Universal, Fox, Paramount, Columbia, MGM and Warner Brothers — put up $150,000 to make sure the president watched their wares in an environment as cosseted as the screening room of an entertainment mogul.

…

Laura Bush sees more movies than does her husband, including the best-picture Oscar winner, ”Million Dollar Baby,” which she watched in the White House theater with friends on a recent weekday afternoon.

The movies are sent overnight directly from the studios, in 35-millimeter film format, as soon as the White House requests them. The system was set up many presidencies ago by Jack Valenti, the adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson and the recently retired president of the Motion Picture Association of America.

Wait. Aren’t these the same folks who only two days ago were outraged at the amount of taxpayers’ funds went to escort The One to a hamburger joint?

They sure are. He goes out, they whine. He stays in, they whine. It’s almost like there’s absolutely nothing he could do that would please them, isn’t it? You get the feeling Obama could allow citizens to own machine guns, ban abortion, do away with the estate tax, privatize Social Security, and build a fifty-foot wall across the Southern border and they’d STILL find something to whine about.

Leslie,

It’s different when a Republican is POTUS. You see, the GOP has a Divine Right to the White House. At least that is the impression I get from the wingnuts-in-exile.

Or to make it shorter: IOKIYAAR

“I’d also imagine that these same film producers couldn’t possibly expect me to go to a public theater and be forced to sit with the “people” to see this flick.”

President in a crowded, dark, noisy room with multiple entrances and exits.

Secret Service approved! 😀

I’d like to see a before and after wingnut gallery.

trouble is, there’s usually no “before” with these folks.

I’d like to see a before and after wingnut gallery.

No, you wouldn’t.

Nobody would.

This is even more ridiculous when you realize that a mind-blowingly good home theater could be put in for less than probably one night’s worth of a Presidential visit to a theater with the Secret Service.

Of course, the right would probably rather Obama and Pelosi at all go out without security anyway, so, there’s that.

Didn’t we kinda collectively decide after that whole Lincoln debacle that we didn’t want our sitting Presidents taking in a show at the public theatre? What the fuck is this loon babbling about?

I also like this from one of the RedState commenters:

“…let’s hope he’s too incompenet to implement his Maoist agenda, at least.”

(If you’re going to accuse others of being incompetent, it’s probably best not to misspell “incompetent”).

…his Maoist agenda

Do they sell those at Office Depot? I would like a little red calendar book with peasant-inspired aphorisms.

Jennifer said,

May 9, 2009 at 19:58

I’d have to be completely unaware that my actions could easily be seen as one of arrogance, one that reveals a disregard for those I am supposed to be leading, one that ignores the concept of being a servant to the people. …

It’s ok Jennifer, he has three ones there so obviously that’s plural. Or even plural plus one…or um oh dammit he should have just gone with more apostrophe’s,’ That alway’s work’s.

rather than the Twizzlers that real Americans eat.

Real Americans do not eat Twizzlers, as they are made of plastic and ass. Real Americans eat Red Vines. Someone should notify the movie theaters here in commie Massachusetts.

Here comes an “s!”

What happened to Obama’s plan to promulgate Sharia Law in these United States? Maoist agenda? Oh Red Staters, 1965 called. They want their Red Chinese-fueled paranoia back.

Nobody remembers all the publicity about how much Eisenhower liked High Noon? Do they think he went out and saw it at the Bijou? Wankers!

The Apostrophe said,

May 9, 2009 at 21:18

Here comes an “s!”

Here comes the discusion on wether the exclamation point should be inside or outside the qoutation mark

Hey, at least he’s watching Star Trek. It could be worse – there could be a new Star Wars movie out.
:::ducks flying debris::
Should I have warmed up with my Woodrow Wilson joke?

Perhaps Warner Caught His Head In A Mechanical Rice Picker

Or else he took too much LDS when he was a member of the Free Speech Movement.

The Obamessiah just didn’t want America laughing at his gay French arugula-flavored popcorn with Grey Poupon mustard seasoning.

[Twizzlers] are made of plastic and ass.
ZOMG! Just like Carrie Prejean!

“They don’t even have gravity in Wanker County, but they get the Home Shopping Network?”–Al Bundy

…and a hearty FYWP. Imagine blockquotes around the Twizzlers line, if you will.

But fortunately, there was an American missionary living close by who was actually a, uh… skilled plastic surgeon in civilian life.

“I’d also imagine that these same film producers couldn’t possibly expect me to go to a public theater and be forced to sit with the “people” to see this flick.”

Well, yes, actually. Because they never do, either.

[Twizzlers] are made of plastic and ass.
ZOMG! Just like Carrie Prejean!

If she had an ass, she’d be…well, not perfect…not acceptable…not…. [Emily Litella] Never Mind! [/Emily Litella]

I’d like to see a before and after wingnut gallery.

Gary Ruppert!

Gary Ruppert!

It’s a fine line which of those faces is worse, really.

But fortunately, there was an American missionary living close by who was actually a, uh… skilled plastic surgeon in civilian life.

ZOMG! That’s what happened to Obama’s pointy ears! I knew he was an alien sent here to earth to be…well, born in Kenya, and..uh…fake his birth certificate, and…uh…steal the election, and…uh….uh…well, something! Wake up and smell the coffee, sheeple!

Well, at least Former Governor Huckabee can still inspire hope. Note, however, his amazing skill at turning the fundie death grip on the GOP into the thing that will surely save it and restore the Republican Party to leadership of the country — and by “country” we should understand that to be the CSA.

Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

(CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party’s outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming “irrelevant as the Whigs.”

In an interview with the California newspaper The Visalia Times-Delta, Huckabee said the GOP would only further decline in influence should it alienate social conservatives — largely considered the most energetic and loyal faction of the party.

“Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs,” he said in reference to the American political party that largely disbanded in the mid 1800s.

“They’ll basically be a party of gray-haired old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy and wondering whatever happened to the country. That will be the end of the party,” he said in the interview published Thursday…

…”The idea that we ought to moderate basically means we ought to fundamentally change our philosophy,” Cheney also said. “I for one am not prepared to do that, and I think most of us aren’t,” he told conservative talk-radio host Scott Hennen…

…”I’m frustrated with all these people who are jockeying for the position to be the ‘leader,'” he said. “It’s almost like we’re worried about who’s going to be the drum major and we don’t have a piece of music yet.”

Right. Okay. The problem the Republicans have, according to Huckabee, is that they haven’t done enough to attract and retain “social conservatives”. For example, they could have it be a GOP party initiation ceremony where any prospective Republican first has to blow up an abortion clinic or, if that’s too messy, launch their own anti-evolution museum.

It’s funny, though, that Huckabee’s vision of a nightmare Republican Party future seems to me to be a much less frightening prospect than what the screeching beasts have done to the nation over the last 30+ years.

First they will lure Obama into a movie theatre, then they will get Reid and Pelosi into an elevator.

Has anyone made the obligatory Marie Jon’ reference re. Tintin’s apostrophe catastrophe?

Well, it’s actually pretty disturbing to contemplate what would happen if that naive Obambi actually succeeds in imposing his relentless and jackbooted reign of tyranny, aided by the enthralled media, arousing the ridicule of the rest of the world as he flaunts his celebrity and popularity, sending his ACORN and youth corps minions in lockstep to confiscate our guns while ignoring the bold and mighty wave of teabagging populace; The One, with his ghetto, crack-smoking ways, so elitist and out of touch with ordinary Americans, ordering Dijon mustard and offending the Queen with his lack of protocol, wasting the taxpayer’s money by flying in the presidential private plane and having private chefs prepare watermelon, fried chicken and motherfucking iced tea for him and his Mau-Mauing angry caviar-preferring wife and her welfare queen mother. Why, there’s no end to the corrupt and machine-politics dirty tricks that helped his carefully planned rise to power, though he’s incapable of speaking without a teleprompter!

I have it on very good authority that Obama serves, in the White House theater, nonpareils!!1OMG1!

Has anyone made the obligatory Marie Jon’ reference re. Tintin’s apostrophe catastrophe?

Okay, here it comes:

More like Tinne Tin’.

Hooboy. Several commenter’s at red’state claimed that the problem i’sn’t him watching at the WH but that THEY HAD TO HAVE A PRESS RELEASE ZOMFG!!!! TO FLAUNT IT!!1!

Umm, Politico says that they have a source who says [leaked] Obama asked to see the flick. The FAIL over there is tw0 awesome.

Doesn’t that title get conferred to other Trike Force members on a rotating basis?

Usually to whomever posted last.

I’m really sorry. I want to mock so many aspects, but I’m still stuck at the beginning.

Who in this country doesn’t know that the White House had its own movie theatre. It’s the aspect told to every single child about why being President is awesome, promoted in most “tours of the White House” picture sets and part of common knowledge.

I mean, it’s the number one statement about the Presidency. The president gets his own movie theatre. Of course a giant geek is going to watch the number one geek movie out this year and why would he shut down an entire public theatre, wasting gas and money when he OWNS HIS OWN MOVIE THEATRE FREE OF CHARGE.

To turn that into a negative takes a special level of dumb. That’s like yelling at him because he’s got a giant office or has fancy housing accommodations or that attempt at the Inauguration to blame him for having Secret Service agents.

The first film to be shown inside the White House was The Birth of a Nation, a racist epic that celebrates the Ku Klux Klan as America’s saviors. Woodrow Wilson screened it in 1915 (probably in the second floor Central Hall), in part to repay a political debt to southern supporters, and such choices have tainted his place in American history ever since.

Woodrow, you racally ol’ Liberal Fascist, you.

Um, “rascally.” Preview Fail.

Haven’t Decided What My SN Name Is Yet (formerly Newbie McNoob) said,

Larzuwbebeg Johnathan the Flavorist
Servilepool Rarest-Saxonization the Internist
Neechkennith Formulates-Harvesting the Lynx
Reconnectsach Salve the Spaghetti eel
Bucknogo Tented
Mrs. Disinclinedni Dog-Scrawls
We Creyikoy the Turner
Fomjazoys Cimekibthich the Speckled trout
Darwinclocr Lenora the Jazzy Patent attorney
Demistie Bastards-Launchings
Private Oceania the Slender Swordtail
Conedeliciously Bookish-Endangers
Falters Genoa the Jerusalem cricket
Baron Supplanted the Tapicer
Dr. Dapyarns Jeffrey the Teacher
Chief Warrant Officer cassi-Emery Fullefpayqushi the Murray cod
Delorasleeh Mitsuko the Awe-inspiring Bonytongue
Uncle Zoystaken Levi
Mac Apprentices
Savanna Darci the Copepod
Bruce

I swear to God the last is absolutely a JanusNode product. Screenshot available on request.

I miss Bruce.

Do you know why I like reading S,N! ?

These little insightful peeks into the rightwing nutjobs make the local stupid people look reasonable by comparison.

Don’t get me wrong, we all have our idiots. But somehow it just seems that no matter how stupid our idiots are, the US always grows “better” ones.

So, I guess what I am trying to say is when it comes to creating Idiots; US is number one, atleast on quality. ;P

YU ESS AY!!
YU ESS AY!!!!!
WE’RE NUMBER !1ONE1!

LD makes a central point.
Is it the water, or what?
Teh RW is just pissed off because for 8 years the Preznit watched cartoons and they could relate to that

You wait for the freakout on June 4th when Obama goes to Egypt to address teh Muslin world.

You think they were freaking out about Obama going to the Americas Summit and shaking hands with Hugo Chavez? Wait. You liked the appetizer of “ZOMG Obama completely bowed to the Saudi King and asked him to make him a Prince of the Muslins”? He’s going to be in Egypt surrounded by Muslins.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the screeching traveling back in time to our ears.

“Grow Up, Read the Thread, Then Post”

Why doesn’t Obama live in a one bedroom efficiency with a hot plate and an electric fan?

I mean, ooooo, look at me, I live in the White House. I’m Mr. Fancy-Schmancy pants.

F@#k*n’ elitist.

I mean, I could live in the White House, too. Of course, I’d have to jettison every ounce of self respect I have as well as fall to a nearly psychotic view of my own superiority to assume that the world should stop and cater to my every whim.

For we real Americans in heartland of USA, quantity is quality!

I’d also imagine that these same film producers couldn’t possibly expect me to go to a public theater and be forced to sit with the “people” to see this flick.

Yeah, and what’s with the President of the United States getting his groceries delivered? Why can’t he go to the store like the rest of us? And I think it’s pretty damn arrogant of him to live in the White House when there are plenty of other houses in the area. Huh, and what about those Secret Service guards? You don’t see me needing a bunch of heavily armed guys as an escort when I go outside…

Verily, Mr. Houston is one dumb motherfucker.

I think I’ll take this nym out for a spin.

Shouldn’t that marguee read “Wrath Of The Face Mullet”?

I’m sure everyone remembers how the conservative right wing greatly appreciated and praised Jimmy Carter’s efforts to make the White House a more humble and cost-effective place (no fancy china plates, solar water heater collectors) and how loudly they objected to Ronald & Nancy Reagan’s re-fancifying of the White House (ordering all new china and taking the solar collectors down).

Right? Remember?

The More You Know:

I’ve using M. (Or Malignant) Bouffant (before that, “Dr. Jazs”) as a nom d’art since 1974, long before your system of tubes, & I didn’t need no stinking robot devil-box to make up my handle (“10-4, good buddy!”).

Kids today. Damnation.

You know, I never minded older people much when I wasn’t one, & I’m really enjoying being one.

Lenora the Jazzy Patent Attorney

I think this is a good time to mention that I’ve invented a new kind of sackbutt.

Anybody with any Frog-speak knows it’s not noblesse oblige but Droit de Signeur that Obama’s demonstrating, the right of the king to a private showing..

Wyatt Watts III sez,
I mean, ooooo, look at me, I live in the White House. I’m Mr. Fancy-Schmancy pants.

Oh, they don’t mind that. What they do mind is Colored Aristocracy living in the White House.

Does your sackbutt have a snappy sound?

taking the solar collectors down
I love that Reagan anecdote. It exemplifies the sneering right-wing attitude towards environmentalism so perfectly.

I love that Reagan anecdote. It exemplifies the sneering right-wing attitude towards environmentalism so perfectly.

Either that or they were afraid that the magic sun boxes on the roof would anger the soul of the Sun to think that the mere peanut farmer could capture its energy and then the sky would become angry and withdraw its love from the nation, leaving them all to shiver and die.

I think this is a good time to mention that I’ve invented a new kind of sackbutt.

Did you know “sagbut” is an accepted synonym? And lots of older instruments were such-and-such d’amore, like “oboe d’amore” or “viola d’amore.”

I think you see where I’m going with this.

I demand that this Negro-Yankee tyrant attend public theatres to show his affection for the people. Heh, heh.

I mean, ooooo, look at me, I live in the White House. I’m Mr. Fancy-Schmancy pants.

PAH-dun me whilst I fly mah AERO-plane!

How come we even got to have a Prezdent? Ain’t they expensive? George W. Bush at least raised all his own cattle and fed at the ranch and lived in Crawford Texas and never made us pay for nothin.

Pere Ubu sez,
PAH-dun me whilst I fly mah AERO-plane!

Maybe I don’t travel the intertubes as often as I should but, I have been expecting this Vonnegut quote for over a year now. First time I have seen it!
Again, pardon me if it is old hat.

Aieee!! beware the magic sun boxes on the roof.

I mean, ooooo, look at me, I live in the White House. I’m Mr. Fancy-Schmancy pants.

Unlike pretzel-choking Bush and his K-Mart attired bride. Never mind that the Bush’s have always been expensive, wasteful, wealthy parasites. They look and sound a step above trailer trash and that’s what matters.

It’s fun reading sadlyno comments. It makes the stupid bearable.

More common than the common knowledge that the White House has a private theater is the fact that Lincoln went to a public theater. Methinks there is some serious pathology crying out from the stupid.

George W. Bush at least raised all his own cattle and fed at the ranch and lived in Crawford Texas and never made us pay for nothin.

And he cleared all that brush – for free. Now we’re gonna be overrun with the stuff.

Instead of obliging his noblesse, shouldn’t the President have been exercising his droit de seigneur. I think that’s what kind of dog he has anyway. I think the in no way racist Red State Trike Force would find this at least as scary.

‘Then there was that great hairy thing of his,’ said Nanny Ogg.

There was a perceptible change in the atmosphere. It became warmer, darker, filled at the corners with the shadows of unspoken conspiracy.

‘Ah,’ said Granny Weatherwax distantly. ‘His droit de seigneur.’

‘Needed a lot of exercise,’ said Nanny Ogg, staring at the fire.

‘But next day he’d send his housekeeper round with a bag of silver and a hamper of stuff for the wedding,’ said Granny. ‘Many a couple got a proper start in life thanks to that.’

‘Ah,’ agreed Nanny. ‘One or two individuals, too.’

‘Every inch a king,’ said Granny.

‘What are you talking about?’ said Magrat suspiciously. ‘Did he keep pets?’

– From Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett

I’m so glad someone’s mentioned the Pratchett droit de seigneur reference. Says it all, really.

And g, hope you’re not beating yourself up about your few seconds of shock after the accident: as others have said, shock is entirely natural and out of your conscious control. Your actions once you regained conscious control were entirely beneficent.

Ogk. Time for breakfast and girding of loins for Mothers Day. Can’t take Mum to the zoo with ungirded loins: what would people think?

Can’t take Mum to the zoo with ungirded loins: what would people think?

I think here in the Bible Belt you can actually get arrested for walking around with your loins ungirded. Especially on a Sunday before 1 PM.

Hey hey,

http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/east-wing/theater/family-theater-2005-speech.jpg

Wtf, teleprompters?!

As far as is known, President Barack Hussein Obama has never choked on a pretzel.

How come we even got to have a Prezdent? …

True, dat, bout the Dumbya. We dinnt hab no preznit dat hole time. Dunna wot we did hab, but ferfsher wernt no prezynit.

As far as is known, President Barack Hussein Obama has never choked on a pretzel.

Only because he puts that fancy froggy mootard on them!

Dude, has a sitting President even watched a flick in a public theater, ever?

Didn’t we lose a president at the theater? Like, I dunno, Lincoln? Sure, it was a live show, but moving pictures were a bit experimental at the time.

Sheesh, that photo is a wonderful find. It could only be improved if there was a smudge of Dijon mustard on Chimpy’s chin.

OT, but these David Lynch mashups are pretty good. I especially liked #2, If Dirty Dancing had been directed by David Lynch, and #5, which re-cuts Blue Velvet as a trailer for a lighthearted romantic comedy.

I didn’t need no stinking robot devil-box to make up my handle (”10-4, good buddy!”).

Oh, go on, give it a try.

Has Warner Todd Huston gone through several makeovers in the last few years? I seem to recall him having a full-on beard at one point, and also the clean-shaven look. How about a Warner Todd Gallery?

[Twizzlers] are made of plastic and ass.
ZOMG! Just like Carrie Prejean!

This is to fonny forever.

The David Lynch mashups are good, but these are my two favorites.

Sheesh, that photo is a wonderful find.

Bush in the White House private movie theatre with a teleprompter. The little half-glasses are a bonus.

Digressing – what kind of reading glasses does Bush wear, do you think? I have to use the damn things now, and it’s a chore finding a pair that looks good, feels comfy, doesn’t fall apart in two weeks, and doesn’t cost a fortune.

I shop online and buy them by the dozen – my price point is ten bucks. Now, my mother wears them too, but buys hers at the Dollar Store and won’t pay more than $5.

Do you supposed Bush gets the prescription version, through his government-paid optical policy? Does he buy the $75 dollar fancier reading glasses you can get online, or the $300 designer frames like Prada and Ralph Lauren?

And what of Obambi? at 47, is he hiding his need for reading glasses from the nation?

Dude, has a sitting President even watched a flick in a public theater, ever?

IIRC, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and other preside…er, make that holders of the office of POTUS* have attended live performances at the Kennedy and Lincoln Centers from time to time.

As for sitting POTUS’s watching movies in a public theater: Even gala premiere showings of movies where not just every Joe Six Pack-Drinking Plumber off the street can walk in and buy a ticket. Nope. I can’t recall any such happening ever.

* I try to avoid placing the words “President” and any variation of “George W Bush” near each other whenever I can manage that.

g – try Ross Dress For Less. Good quality glasses, cheap price.

As for sitting POTUS’s watching movies in a public theater:

No “Ernest” movies came out during Dubya’s reign of error.

g, the various chain drugstores usually have a fair selection, & few are over $10.00.

The 99.99 Cents Only store on occasion gets a shipment.

And look up the “G. W. Bush wipes his glasses on Letterman’s producer’s sweater” clip. Then you’ll see what the bastard sported.

Dunno about Lincoln Center, but pretty sure there’s a “Presidential Box” at the Kennedy Center, which is doubtless relatively secure.

The irony of a prez getting killed at either place would be worth it, though.

How short our memories are. In the wake of the Obama’s Mustardgate, how could we forget George W. Bush’s political dirty trick against John Kerry – the Cheez Whiz Deception of 2004?

For those who don’t recall, John Kerry was mocked for ordering his Philly cheese steak sandwich with (!!) Swiss cheese, while George Bush made a point of stating he liked it with Cheez Whiz, unlike his elitist Frenchified opponent..

Unlike Obama, who was simply filmed while ordering the condiment of his choice, Bush actually touted his condiment choice in a speech, saying “This is the 32nd time I’ve been to your state of Pennsylvania, and, you all know the reason why, don’t you? It’s because I like my cheesesteaks Whiz With.”

It wasn’t until later that it was revealed Bush actually doesn’t eat his cheesesteaks Whiz With, he likes his with American cheese.

BEGALA: And I notice that President Bush claims that he eats his cheese steaks with Cheez Whiz. But the local press here checked it out and found out, no, he was not telling the truth about Cheez Whiz….Can a man who lies about Cheez Whiz really be our leader?

Oh, yes, of course the Letterman reading glasses clip – I’m quite familiar with it. No doubt there is footage somewhere of the evil mastermind/hopelessly naive idealist Obambi doing something similar, perhaps using the hem of the Blessed Shroud of Turin to clean the face of his teleprompter.

Is it me, or do those chairs look like the most comfortable fucking theater chairs ever?

No “Ernest” movies came out during Dubya’s reign of error.

It’s difficult to make “Ernest” movies for Dubya when Jim Varney shuffled off his mortal coil almost a year before Bush stole office. Alas for George the Lesser, no one else took up the role of Ernest P. Worrell after Varney”s demise.

Has Warner Todd Huston gone through several makeovers in the last few years?

I liked this look.

New Attacks in Swift Boat Ad War

Aired August 23, 2004 – 16:30 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

I think it’s safe to close the book on this one, guys.

Re: the Warner Todd gallery of horrors, what happened to the whole “I haz a bukit?” photoshop theme for him?

Dunno about Lincoln Center

Jesus, M. Bouffant, I was just speculatin’ about a hypothesis. I know I don’t know nothin’.

I liked this look.

Goo-goo-ga-joob indeed.

That’s a mustache etched in stone, there.

It’s difficult to make “Ernest” movies for Dubya when Jim Varney shuffled off his mortal coil almost a year before Bush stole office.

You mean, this never really happened?

As far as is known, President Barack Hussein Obama has never choked on a pretzel.

To be fair, Bush didn’t either. He was just drunk.

Quick Draw Huston.

Quick Draw Huston.

Heh.

Yumpin’ Yiminy, it’s Warny Huston.

So we missed the actual WH Correspondents dinner and are now watching the dissection on MSNBC. Any thoughts?

Funniest comment of all from the last link is one that begins with “It pains me to say it, but you have to cut Obama some slack” & ends with “Let’s take the high road on this one” … LOL WUT.

Hey, that Islamohomoabortist logic-based treason may fly on YOUR homeworld, but in the fractal made of Cheetos & Johnny Walker Red that is RedState StrokeForce’s galaxy of spite & trollophilia, that shit just won’t fly – enjoy your EPIC CONTEXT FAIL, oh n00bish one.

,blockquote. we missed the actual WH Correspondents dinner and are now watching the dissection on MSNBC. Any thoughts? fuck those douchebags. nobody owes them respect for their parties.

g said,

May 10, 2009 at 4:29

So we missed the actual WH Correspondents dinner and are now watching the dissection on MSNBC. Any thoughts?
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My knee is sore.

we missed the actual WH Correspondents dinner and are now watching the dissection on MSNBC. Any thoughts?

I think you should go outside and look at the moon. Here in teh glorious librul pair-o-dice, it’s absolutely beautiful.

Any thoughts?

Saw it on C-SPAN. Prez had a couple of good jokes. Wanda had a few funny zingers that are sure to make Freeperville a fountain of entertainment for a day or three.

Mostly it was despicable and vile for all the same reasons that corporate/department Christmas parties are, with one notable feature: because everyone in the room was either a celeb or in the DC press, jokes were not judged by the number of volume of laughs, but by the number of not-quite-surreptitious glances around the room to see who was and wan’t laughing. 150 perfectly coiffed sunflowers twisting back and forth in the wind.

Yuk.

I say FUCK MATLOCK WITH A RUSTY CHAINSAW!1!

That stupid senile reich-wing fuckshit.

ifthethunderdontgetya wrote:
Molehill Out of a Budget Mountain
The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the “line by line” review long promised by President Obama — and found theoretical savings almost invisible to the naked eye.
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By David S. Broder
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Now go eat your green jello, you right-wing shill.
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5/9/2009 11:23:40 PM
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Of course, I’d have to jettison every ounce of self respect I have as well as fall to a nearly psychotic view of my own superiority to assume that the world should stop and cater to my every whim.

It is a little known fact that film distribution companies have been know, every now and again, to distribute film. So a request for a copy of a wide distributiuon motion picture is unlikely to stop the world. Though it will slow it’s rotation ever so slightly if they ship it east to west.

When It Comes to Judges, ‘Pragmatic’ Means Unprincipled
How the president reasons that disregarding the rule of law can be a virtue.
Wall Street Journal

Oh yes! This is the exact same op-ed space that’s been filled with shitstains justifying torture for the last month.

Well, now I saw it on CSPAN. I thought Wanda wasn’t all that great, although she had her moments.

Saying Hannity could be broken by being seated in the middle in Coach was hilarious.

“noblesse oblige” doesn’t refer to the privileges of nobility.

I thought it was a kind of sweet white wine. But then I also thought that “viola d’amore” was a liqueur. Perhaps my brain is trying to tell me something.

Noblesse oblige http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige
“the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française defines it thus:

1. Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly.

2. (Figuratively) One must act in a fashion that conforms with one’s position, and with the reputation that one has earned.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the term “suggests noble ancestry constrains to honourable behavior; privilege entails to responsibility.” Being a noble meant that you had responsibilities to lead, manage, etc. You were not to simply spend your time in idle pursuits.”

The dumbfuck didn’t even realize it is a compliment..
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Our last president, depite his aristocratic upbringing, lacked noblesse oblige.

There’s a big difference between “wealthy upbringing” and “artistocratic upbringing”.

The Kennedys have a sense of noblesse oblige.

The Republican definition of “noblesse oblige” is “traitor to his class/race”.

Dunno about Lincoln Center

Jesus, M. Bouffant, I was just speculatin’ about a hypothesis. I know I don’t know nothin’.

No, no, I meant I didn’t know anything about Lincoln Center, but I’ve seen Prezzes in the box at the K. Ctr.

Tuned to Mighty Sorry, No Body Cares to catch the rubber chicken action, but it’s over. Nothing but “Scared Straight” & “To Entrap A Loser” re-runs.

The wknd. is lonely for leftists.

g said,
May 10, 2009 at 7:04

“There’s a big difference between “wealthy upbringing” and “artistocratic upbringing”.”

I meant it in the sense of “So what do call this Bush presidency performance? The Aristocrats!” (rimshot)

Nero definitely considered himself an artistocrat.

Bush Presidency mimed.

You know, I heard the other day that the Obamas don’t even cook their own food. They have it done for them, by cooks paid with tax dollars!

Bush Presidency mimed.

Does the White House have its own internal street, for private street-theatre performance?
Inquiring minds are also wondering whether the private cinema is equipped for 3D movies, and if not, WHY NOT.

Of course, it all makes one wonder how one of Star Trek’s titular characters might view Obama’s demands?

I can never remember which one’s “Star” and which one’s “Trek”.

They even got Farked; this asshat is getting less respect than a broke-ass Ferengi.