Shorter Bill Kristol
Posted on July 12th, 2009 by Brad
- Barack Hussein Obama’s vision of using the government to help everyone is far more terrifying than my dream world of perpetual warfare.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Say, this reminds me, I have a semi-regular gig writing over at the Commonweal Institute blog. In my latest, I discuss why the neocons have held such a such a sway over our national security dialogue. Did you know that Bill Kristol has, at one point or another over the years, advocated using military force to take out Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan and the Somali pirates??!! When fighting two wars at the same time ain’t enough, bring on Kristol to promote starting another four!
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The GOP has a better chance if they followed the advice of Billy Crystal. What that is, I don’t know. Find Curly’s Gold? Works better than Kristol’s best plan as history has proven time and time again.
He gets extra points for calling other condescending though. There isn’t enough Windex in the world to keep his glass house clean.
Only four? But there are, like, 160 countries, right? What are we waiting for?
You don’t think America should fight a six front war? What are you, some sort of appease-o-crat? A defeatist who hates the troops?
Are you people saying that each and every one of our soldiers couldn’t fight an entire nation or illegal armed force in and of themselves? You hate the troops?
They do advertise “An Army of one.”
I was under the impression Shorter Bill Kristol was Cornelius Fudge.
AMERICA COULD FIGHT SIXTY-HUNNERD BILLION FRONT WAR! KPOW KPOW WEHHHHHHEHHEEEEEEEEEE BLALLLLAAAAAAM TAKE THAT YOUR TETRRORISTS WE WIN!1!!1
Aaaaaaannnnd– they’re off!
No, I have to disagree with myself there. I propose we eliminate the middlemen and allow the Southern GOP to directly rule the USA in the name of the Taliban, since they basically want the same thing, just with a different God at the top, and hopefully they can negotiate that out.
The problem is coons.
I’m honored to be so feared as to be copied now, though. I sure hope I can always be this witty.
Bill’s neocon enthusiasm for war-war comes from a different place than his daddy’s — since unlike his daddy he was never drafted and so naturally he never served. Isn’t it remarkable how his teevee appearances and columns have now shifted from singing the praises of Palin back to warmongering and drumbeating, though?
Funny, it’s almost as if he was starting to get uncomfortable with the idea of being thought of as “Palin’s Brain”, like he was nicknamed “Quayle’s Brain” back in the day when he was Dannyboy’s chief of staff…
Hugo Chavez is a tame, moderate reformer; we need a real revolutionary. I’m really disappointed in how I’m apparently abandoning my former radical creds. I’ll have to stand up to myself more.
You don’t think America should fight a six front war?
I hate Chinese Checkers.
Uh! Bull so horny!
Uh! Bull so horny!
Uh! Bull so horny!
Me troll you long time!
Castro is a bureaucratic state socialist. Real revolution comes from below. How dare I keep arguing for all this stolid hierarchy? I suck!
Kristol wants to fight Mary Poppins now?
A nanny state does sound scary, sending out attack swarms all parachuting down with their umbrellas.
Gee. Look who’s back.
Wait — so now I believe in significant private property and private sector incomes too? Jeesh, I’ve really lost it. Pretty soon I’ll have to stop replying to myself, as I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten much, much stupider over the afternoon.
Yeah, Cid, it’s like you’re just advocating whatever right-wing bogeyman comes along, rather than any actual socialist leaders. Where’s your demands for us to become more like Sweden?
Why, even the right-wing believes the Swedes are more pure on account of their refusal to breed with other “species” (wink wink, nudge nudge, eugenics is awesome!). I almost suspect that you’re not actually speaking half the time.
Hey N_B,
I think you’ve already won. New thread!
I am SO CLOSE to getting a pity-fuck from Obama. I can taste it. It tastes like Grandma.
Troofie, please choose whether our ultimate intent is to turn the country over to Commies or Muslims. Anything less is sloppy storytelling.
Trust fund incomes are capital gains, not income, so no worries for you, lovable little namestealing troll!
Kristol wants to fight Mary Poppins now?
A nanny state does sound scary, sending out attack swarms all parachuting down with their umbrellas.
Mary P. would KICK HIS ASS, but a spoonful of sugar would make it easier for him to take.
Anything less is sloppy storytelling.
Or clever Hollywood-style prep work for the inevitable sequel.
Troofie, please choose whether our ultimate intent is to turn the country over to Commies or Muslims.
I’m guessing it’ll settle on Muslims. Via Wal-Mart and massive deficit spending, the Redoublechins are the ones who were trying to mortgage the U.S. to the RED CHINESE.
Okay, this time I’ll post ’em before the thread dies.
Shithouse troll animated gif
Shithouse troll with audio (Yes, that’s the real deal)
Tiny little shithouse troll for embadgerment
Aw, who am I kidding. I don’t give a rat’s ass about left or right, rich or poor, straight or gay, etc, etc,. I just love to troll!
well, good.
I would have hated to be forced to eat a Sadlynaught’s brains.
Also, I have to take issue with a comment here.
Lenin and Che were the greatest people of all time.
Clearly, this is just entirely off.
There are three greatest people of all time.
Muhammad (pbuh), Karl Marx and Paul Lynde.
I would have hated to be forced to eat a Sadlynaught’s brains.
No doubt. Who knows what horrible gutters those things have been in?
well, this one at the least.
Who knows what horrible gutters those things have been in?
Speak for yourself, Xecky. My brain’s been dragged through a clean, well-appointed gutter.
And isn’t that enough, really?
[note to zombies: if it is found necessary to eat Sadlynaught brains, look for N__B first. His brain is cleaner.]
[probably not as much alcohol as Smut Clyde or Bubba-Burt’s though]
My brain’s been dragged through a clean, well-appointed gutter.
Toronto?
note to zombies: if it is found necessary to eat Sadlynaught brains, look for N__B first.
Note to zombies: N__B’s been playing Half Life 2 for years. [splat]
I still like the one I created: http://gickr.com/results/anim_a4791cb5-6a29-dcd4-11df-666e77a549d1.gif
Toronto?
Let’s face facts. You have your choice of racist stereotypes – Tonto and Kato – or the creepy not-quite-NAMBLA thing with Robin. It’s tough no matter which way you turn.
Note to zombies: N__B’s been playing Half Life 2 for years.
Jeez, man, take a break!
I don’t see how being a glazed vid screen junkie with cramping digits will help, but you know, if it helps you sleep….
cramping digits
Those are what, numbers when they’re having their period?
I thought with numbers it was called a “decimal point”.
SadlyKnows, please take this on.
You have your choice of racist stereotypes – Tonto and Kato – or the creepy not-quite-NAMBLA thing with Robin. It’s tough no matter which way you turn.
That is your comment going way over my head, man. I just thought Toronto, Canada (being the basis for Metropolis) had clean gutters.
That is your comment going way over my head, man.
Sorry.
Toronto, Tonto…not-quite-homonyms for a not-quite joke.
The Tonto Blue Jays?
That seems insensitive.
The Tonto Robins.
What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of journalism. – Megan McArdle
Wow, that’s sort of “I know you are but what am I” by proxy. That’s some pretty advanced wingnuttery.
The Tonto-Geddys.
Hell, I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore.
cramping digits
Scuse mah finGAHs!
What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of journalism. – Megan McArdle
Well, let’s see. He’s articulate, hilarious (intentionally I mean) and better with words than almost anyone in journalism right now, having honed his skills working for years as a correspondent in Moscow.
She’s inarticulate to the point of entirely unintended hilarity, the worst thing to happen to the English language since Mr. Potatoe Head, and can see Russia from her house.
So, yes, aside from the fact that they’re entirely the opposite, they’re exactly the same!
Maybe she meant the comparison in reverse vampire fashion.
Very nice. If nice is the right word.
N_B is a Bad Man.
One underscore! ONE!!!
Ever wonder how an idiot like Kristol has managed to continually fail upwards? Here’s how he got his start:
“I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture. Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol during the first Bush administration.
“The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, and how he got his start in politics. Irving recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat Moynihan, then Nixon’s domestic policy adviser, and got William an internship at the White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC [Republican National Committee] and secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government.
“With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. ‘I oppose it,’ Irving replied. ‘It subverts meritocracy.’ ”
Excerpt from Rocky Mtn. News.
Well done, justme!!!! My nephew will be so pleased to have contributed to the effort!
jennifer obviously doesn’t understand that Affirmative Action only applies to minorities and women.
Being born to the right family and prevailing upon family connections is the only Merit that counts.
That oversized elf calling anyone else the Sarah Palin of journalism is simply further proof of Irony’s untimely demise.
meh
Despite all of his bloodthristy war mongering, Kristol’s most significant effect in terms of causing massive destruction is that wrought on the Republican party by his almost single-handedly selecting Sarah Palin. This will be his most lasting legacy.
Listening to John McCain stumbling through the insane process of trying to defend her quitting (“No, it’s not an implicit “promise” to finish a term when you’re elected, hell I would have left the Presidency after a couple of years for all I know”) today was hilarious.
I’ve always been kinda partial to drifty’s Kreepy Kristol Klown
Kristol wants to fight Mary Poppins now?
No, this nanny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVnciua-MRk
Because, you know, she’s Jewish.
I’ve always been kinda partial to drifty’s Kreepy Kristol Klown
A candy colored clown they call the Kristol
Tiptoes to my room everynight
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep, everything is alright
I close my eyes then I drift away
Into the magic night I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream
My dreams of war
Um, not the party with the crazy people telling us the census will make us slaves.
who do you think the American people will vote for in 2010 and 2012?
Clearly, the guys who caused it with tax cuts for billionaires – which is also their new platform.
Cagney & Lacey said,
July 12, 2009 at 23:27
The problem is coons.
Nope. The real problem is Koontz
What?All I did was wear this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass.
Boy, I can do ANYTHING, can’t I? Troofie, get your nose out of your mother’s panties and make me a sammich.
Whereas, I don’t have any hard-earned tax dollars because I’m too awesome to get a fucking job.
although, all the things I said in the other thread notwithstanding, time like this when it trots out old, long- debunked Limbaugh talking points as if they bear any weight at all, when the Mikey Option seems attractive….
I likes it.
Clearly my small business occupies SO much of my time. Is it possible white supremacist Christmas tree ornaments aren’t the guaranteed market I thought they were?
a successful small business that allows him nearly unfettered time to spew shit all over a blog at all kinds of insane hours, not to mention the efforts to get around the banhammer.
tell us about the hot ex-stripper wife too, kid.
I understand why Baby Troof calls his penis a “small business”, but I don’t get the “successful” part. Ohhh, wait, it’s successful at being small. Never mind.
So does the troll realize that with all of the body swapping it’s impossible to tell who’s trolling and who’s not, it just seems like random people are making racist or inane statements all over the place, which with all the sarcasm around here is impossible to differentiate from just normal commenting, so it’s all watered-down so the trolling is actually pretty much lost?
I suppose not actually.
If there were two functioning synapses at work then spending ones life trolling satire blogs with serious arguments would seem too much of a waste even for a Republican.
“The original point” =/= whatever unsolicited Rush assnugget you brought up.
Has he just dropped all pretense of pretending to be other people, now?
My life has gotten less complicated now that I’ve decided I’m meant to be a woman. Hold on, I have to find my craft scissors.
@1:45: In other words, I am not only a colossal fucking pussy, I’m not as nvncbl against banning as I like to claim.
I am running a successful small business
Aaahahahahahah. Haha. Ha. Haha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Seriously?
I believe nymjacking to avoid killfile is a banhammer offense, kiddo.
Man, killfiling must be annoying Must make it MAD.
That is proof positive that Troof is 15 years old, autistic and full of rage. Seriously, “you own a successful small business”? What kind of morans do you think we are?
Now I’m going to have to clean the soda off my desk. That was just priceless.
Who fucking cars? I’ve got thousands of IP addresses.
Makes you feel like a BIG MAN, doesn’t it? Fuck, you can have that. If the ability to use proxies is what makes you feel like something less than a worthless hunk of organic matter, then congratulations.
Who are we to take that away from you?
I AM autistic, and I readily acknowledge that you’re a fucking idiot. Sorry, thanks for playing, go bite your own dick.
government work is not truly a job
Remember when the Wingnuts were pretending to care about cops and firefighters? That was fun.
wait, someone’s fucking CARS now?
Are they GM cars?
Come on, Troof. Tell us more about that successful small business of yours. Let me guess, you make $100,000 a year, and you live in a 3 bedroom house with a wife and kids? And there’s a BMW 5-series in your garage? No…make it two.
Seriously, this is just gold.
Well, dumbass, it’s nice that you categorize me as someone the other regulars want to read, because the regulars here are some of the smartest people on the planet. Most of them, anyway – I of course exclude you, the successful small businessman with nothing better to do than to troll people smarter than yourself.
BTW, regulars, I took some shots at Kristol in the comments over there, including posting the bit about all the affirmative action assistance he’s gotten over the years.
I AM autistic.
Like we didn’t figure that out 100 million years ago when you started here. Seriously, it’s time to start letting your mom take you to see the nice doctor man.
No, that was seriously me. I am autistic.
Hokay, this is getting borderline unreadable and it’s pretty clear to me that responding to nymjacked comments is asking for trouble.
I think it’s time for Gavin to show up again and make him promise to behave or some such, just to get the trolling back down to a manageable level.
Seriously, this is too much.
Instead of even considering feeding the troll, I would like some recommendations for werewolf films with realistic werewolves in them please, sadlys?
Are we all supposed to pretend that I’m NOT Simba B?
I was trying to avoid getting nymjacked, but whatever. Looks like it’s time to go on hiatus again.
Dog Soldiers.
What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of journalism. – Megan McArdle
Today’s Boston Globe Ideas section pegged her as one of the bright lights and great hopes of conservatism. Man, conservatives are FUCKED.
I don’t use the kill file, partially because I don’t use a browser that supports it and partially because I don’t give a shit. I’ve been bopping around the internet long enough that the Internet Tough Dude Real Talk persona doesn’t bug me.
Are we all supposed to pretend that I’m NOT Simba B?
I’m okay with that, as long as you don’t make me use fuckin Fortran….
euripides:
Werewolf.
Not the Nicholson feature. It does, however, feature Estevez.
JOE Estevez,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118137/
If you’re not strong, get the MST3K version.
oddly enough, the Asperger’s comment might be accurate. If it is, it’s only borderline and has never been diagnosed, so I’ll just keep on keepin’ on, knowing that there’s a certain troll with a shrivelled little soul (among other shrivelled little things) who really, really doesn’t like having his ass handed to him on a regular basis.
Nymjacking.
Phase 4B.
I’m using the nyms of various regulars so you won’t be able to killfile me, N.C., because you will still want to read what the regular writes.
By god, that’s the most immature and pathetic thing I think I’ve seen in the past decade; it’s not as if anyone was reading your racist nonsense anyway, except occasionally to mock it…. but to actually declare that you are so unstable and desperate that you are consciously aware you will do anything to get attention, but are too weak and ill to apply yourself in any more meaningful sense is really quite staggering.
You know troofus, mental illness is actually quite common. Everyone here will know someone who suffers from it. But you are an antisocial, violent, racist, misogynistic, arrogant prick… and that’s what people are ragging on. If you actually tried to deal with your illnesses, not only would you not be a sad sack of a shut-in at home failure, people might be more sympathetic. Instead you rage and yell and try and control and fail, fail, fail at every thing. You do it to yourself. Just you. It’s your own fault. Take responsibility for your life like the good conservative you claim to be. Go educate yourself. Get medication. Learn to be a better person. Or just learn to accept that we clever, sexy, witty liberals will always, always do better at life than you.
Given that unemployment was already in double digits in November (those of us who aren’t retarded trolls are well aware of the way the Bush administration perverted unemployment statistics, like everything else they touched), I think we know who Americans voted for with unemployment in double digits – Barack Obama.
Another way to look at it is that the Republicans fucked up so royally that they got a black guy with the middle name Hussein elected, as well as hand the Senate majority over to the opposition. It’s impossible to imagine them being pwn3d more than that.
I’m okay with that, as long as you don’t make me use fuckin Fortran….
Fortran ain’t so bad. It’s COBOL that’s the real zombie language.
Er, saving your presence.
Hey look everyone, my son is a moron too! I’m so proud.
Maybe something like Futaba Channel’s tripcode system would be nice, but I have no idea how feasibly that could be implemented on WordPress.
eh, in a little while one of the mods will get back from their glamorous lifestyle and notice the trollery; the nymjocked comments will disappear forever.
At least killfile allows the comments to be autopsied, if one is foolish or drunk enough. But the when the mods intervene, it’s gone forever.
I’ll give this to P.J. O’Rourke: when covering the Iraq War for Rolling Stone, he described flying into Kuwait, and seeing the engines of war spread out as far as the eye could see on the horizon, and the first thing he thought was that it sure was a hell of a lot more expensive to steal oil than to just buy it.
A trillion dollars buys a fuck of a lot of oil.
Dog Soldiers – meh, I thought it was good until I saw the ‘werewolves’ who looked like my dog after a bath, but thanks anyway!
Zombie, Sounds like one of those ‘so bad it was good’ types, but I’m tempted. If you like that kind then I recommend ‘Raptor’ (2001) UK version. We got the 8 min looped sex scene which was cut in the US because Boobs are socialist or something.
N_B is a Bad Man.
Googled “Half Life 2” did ya?
i am an american aquarium drinker
i assassin down the avenue
Joe, PJ has been missing the point for so long it’s impossible for him to even see it anymore.
The point wasn’t getting the oil, it was putting it into the RIGHT corporation’s hands, so they could control it and make more money.
The acquisition was accomplished through military means, becasue that way, the American Public could foot the fuckin bill. if exxonEtAl had to foot the bill, the profit would be decreased.
They don’t really give a shit whether any of us can afford gas or anything, as long as the profits are increasing.
Zombie, Sounds like one of those ’so bad it was good’ types,
um, No. Just bad. Stock up on weed, and you might be able to giggle through the accents.
NB (dropping ALL the underscores. That’ll teach ya!): Naw, I knew what Half Life was about. Hey, everybody wipes out zombies, we’re an oppressed minority. don’t get me started on the unfair depiction in the media.
It was your Tonto Robins thing. ewwww…
Well, quick Captain Obvious, to the DUH-mobile!
Really, that was kind of central to my point. If they really cared about the little people affording anything, it’d be different.
But it’s like what “The Surge”© actually entailed: buying off the Sunnis with cold cash. It’s cheaper to buy them off than fight them, which is central to THEIR point.
Anybody have any thoughts on Brad’s original question, about “why the neocons have held such a such a sway over our national security dialogue”? I’m not so sure about his theory that the “simplicity of the neocons’ narrative” makes them more attractive to journalists. Lots of people of the left have simple narratives to offer, but you don’t see them on Meet the Press every week.
Proving once again that Risk should be kept from your child until 90 years of age.
Well, quick Captain Obvious, to the DUH-mobile!
Well, sor-REEEE Professor!
well, sarcasm aside, MY point was that it’s NOT cheaper for the oil companies to buy them off. Much cheaper for the American Military to soften them up first. After the country is bombed to shit, you can get much more favorable terms.
The Truth needs counseling.
Chris Muir sez something.
I think that the simplicity is part of it, but it’s also a very flattering narrative, too. The combination of conciseness and patriotism makes it an alternative to any sort of narrative that involves complicated solutions or the idea that not everything the US does is praiseworthy.
Anybody have any thoughts on Brad’s original question, about “why the neocons have held such a such a sway over our national security dialogue”?
I think it’s the automatic perception that neocons are such war hawks (bombombom-bombomiran) that they must know something about keeping the nation safe, even though most of their expertise comes from peeking over at their friends’ board during a game of “Battleship”.
The combination of conciseness and patriotism…
This, and for the knuckledraggers, implicit racially-motivated bloodthirst.
So many axes of evil, so little time. Where’s Superman when you need him?
This, and for the knuckledraggers, implicit racially-motivated bloodthirst.
yeah, the bombing gets the base all riled up, and then they are easier to manipulate.
I think that could be a huge part of it. The war war war sells the news, which helps the neocons get face time.
The war war war sells the news, which helps the neocons get face time.
Yes. And it doesn’t hurt that the news is also owned by the big defense contractors, right?
How does that quote go?
“War is a force that give us meaning.”
(did I mangle it? I can’t even remember the source.)
Yes, I mangled it.
“War is a forces that giveS us meaning.”
Let’s see if I can strike out.
“War is a force
sthat giveS us meaning.”This, and for the knuckledraggers, implicit racially-motivated bloodthirst.
“‘Scuse my finGAHs, [insert ethnic slur here]!”?
Jennifer, I feel it only incumbent on me to warn you, subject-verb disagreement is a capital offence on 12 systems.
“war is a force that gives U.S. meaning”
It’s “WHORE is a force that gives us meaning”, dumbass.
I just keep getting worse, libs. I’m the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and not going away anytime soon.
How long until Hopey’s approval rating is 30 percent?
A trillion dollars buys a fuck of a lot of oil.
The point is that they weren’t stealing the oil on their dime, they were stealing it on the taxpayer’s dime.
Whenever repigs get into power, they feel the taxpayer’s collective wallet is theirs.
“WHORE is a f
oarce that gives usmeaninglulz”Phyxed, Senator.
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C’est chic. Le Freak.
I’m the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and not going away anytime soon.
How long until Hopey’s approval rating is 30 percent?
You mean, double Bush’s?
And triple Cheney’s?
“I’ll give this to P.J. O’Rourke: when covering the Iraq War for Rolling Stone, he described flying into Kuwait, and seeing the engines of war spread out as far as the eye could see on the horizon, and the first thing he thought was that it sure was a hell of a lot more expensive to steal oil than to just buy it.”
I agree. That’s how we got California from Mexico.
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I’m guessing this is some kind of exercise in postmodern aporetic deconstruction?
Oops. No love for teh Cyryllic, eh WordPress? Well, I uncovered a special hidden passage in Mein Kamph that may shed some light on our dear Troofie’s fragile mental stage:
I’m the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and not going away anytime soon.
Funny, you’re a dead ringer for Troofie’s mom.
Bookmarken Sie diese, die Liberalen,
Do you have it in Linear B?
I’m not bothering until Red Badger puts it into Fortran.
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The meaning of Star Wars is the Force.
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I really am a pathetic, dried-up old cunt, aren’t I? Tee hee.
The Howling
The Company of Wolves
Ginger Snaps
The Company of Wolves
Underrated and damned near unknown.
Recommendation for werewolf films:
All I’m coming up with is “An American Werewolf in London”. Unless you count “The Shaggy D.A.”
The Company of Wolves: I love this movie. Neil Jordan directed it from an Angela Carter script based on her book The Bloody Chamber, and it lives up to its pedigree. Just gorgeous.
Ginger Snaps is great too.
Whenever repigs get into power, they feel the taxpayer’s collective wallet is theirs.
Likewise when they’re out.
Teen Wolf, Too!
Chris Muir sez something.
First time I’ve ever seen clothes on his female characters. Chris figured it wouldn’t look good to run the usual strip of naked, spinally challenged females while calling the president a “sexual predator.”
Also, while not a werewolf film in the strictest sense, I thought The Brotherhood of the Wolf was quite enjoyable.
Chris Muir sez something.
Day by Day is probably the last thing I’d want to cite – but if Chris Muir thinks it wasn’t a creepy pervy ogle, then that’s definitive. He is after all something of an expert in the subject.
Hey Jennifer! Why don’t you stop blaming poor people and Barney Frank and learn the meaning of terms like “credit default swap”?
Thanks Gabriel!
In response to Jennifer, all I can offer is that what they have to say is useful to the powerful, and that it is simple, nationalistic, moralistic, and anti-rational, which seems to appeal to too many people.
Who fucking cars? I’ve got thousands of IP addresses.
I keep them at my successful small business. Between the lemons and the sugar.
‘m fckng nvncbl.
Hey, is the dude with the hot stripper wife and CIA contacts still around? That guy was awesome.
You really want to know what caused the recession?
Ahhh, nevermind. I just don’t have the heart to tell you.
Goldman Sachs:
Dude, come on. You didn’t really expect the world to eat all those poison securities and not take a gigantic wet dump of financial diarrhea, did you?
Thanks other sadlies too! One day we should discuss the underated ‘horror movies starring trees’ genre.
A man glancing at a woman’s ass isn’t predatory behaviour, unless Chris Muir is drawing it.
Werewolf movies? Try Brotherhood of the Wolf (mine own review, no less!). More gristle than you ever want to encounter.
@Euripides. Not sure there’s quite as much material there, although you do have the Evil Dead and Chinese Ghost Story films, plus The Guardian.
Plus, maybe, The Day of the Triffids.
Hollywood is the last place you want to send a young tree. They’re barely out of the nursery and they’re on the couch of some producer who thinks knot means yes.
BTW, was Chris Muir saying what I think he was saying? Because maybe it’s just that I’m currently a snot-gurgling troll (yes, i’ve got a cold) and hence have dropped 50 IQ points, but he seemed to be saying that the video shows the O-man was not ogling that botty. Which he didn’t seem to be (unlike Sarkozy, who gave it a good long ogle), but I wouldn’t have thought that would bother Muir.
Plus the “Republican senators == perverts” trope? Wow, I must be hallucinating!
One day we should discuss the underated ‘horror movies starring trees’ genre.
Nightmare on Elm Street?
They’re barely out of the nursery and they’re on the couch of some producer who thinks knot means yes.
Those producers – a real pine in the ash, bustin’ cherry and leaving hickories right where they show.
I couldn’t figure it out either. I think it might have been “Michael Jackson was a bigger pervert than any Republican senator.”
@Euripides – oooh, yes, I second the recommendation for A Chinese Ghost Story (another of my reviews! I’m pimping my brand all over the joint today). Simply glorious – I liked it so much I named one of my cats after the heroine.
‘horror movies starring trees’
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
How Green Was My Valley
Silent Running
..why the neocons have held such a such a sway over our national security dialogue.
Direct prostate stimulation?
They’ve been around forever. Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest guy to ever serve as Defense Secretary.
Also see The Power of Nightmares.
I’m disappointed that none of you have ever seen ‘Trees’ (nevermind ‘Trees II: The Root Of All Evil) which is a remake of Jaws, but in a forest with a ‘Great White Pine’ 🙁
‘This was no lawnmower accident!’
pun away!
That was no lawnmower accident, that was my wife.
The person perched on the desk in the black sweater appears to be Michael Jackson (frames 5,6,7).
I don’t understand Lesley, where does he appear from? Why isn’t she freaked out that she is talking to a dead man? Why are they sharing the same nail varnish?
I have no idea, but he or she is grateful. Note the thank you.
“Gonna need a bigger logging truck.”
The Golden Rule. Them what has the gold like it best when the rulebook consists of “I Win” – & nothing else. Their particular brand of hokum also goes back a long long way – America flirted with isolationism in the 30s, but its love-affair with interventionism dates back to Ye Olde New England days.
Like Michael Parenti said, the economy’s grand poobahs don’t give a shit if it takes 10 dollars of YOUR money to make one dollar of THEIR money – or 100 – or a thousand, for that matter. But if it costs so much as a nickle of their own money to make that dollar, that means that OH NOES RAGNAROK IS HERE AMERICA IZ DOOMED!!!1!1!
If other folks’ kids have to die for that dollar to find its natural home in their numbered Swiss bank-accounts, that’s okay with them too. War = a money-tree that’s perpetually autumnal & sheds piles of sweet sweet cash. It’s less & less about the swag you can glean from the rubble of the enemy’s cities, & more & more about squillion-dollar sci-fi weapons-platforms in space & remote-control Stealth Tanks that can do Mach 3 underwater, fuelled by Dom Perignon – naturally, the poobahs get the no-bid contracts & Joe Sixpack gets the bill. Guess which industry is “miraculously” NOT losing money right now, even in a harsh recession?
Camwhores like Kristol are the grease that keeps the money-wheel spinning. If not for cheerleaders like him, the policy he roots for might be examined based on its actual merits & not its Rah-Rah-Siss-Boom-Bah Factor … & such a disastrous detour into reality would chump the whole scam in a New York Minute. The sponsors don’t give a damn if he never gets one right – just as long as he waves those pompoms & shakes his ass on cue.
“Smile, Pinecone!”
PENIS!!1
ALSO!!
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
BTW: Why do you suppose someone who has “thousands of IP addresses” (not to mention a successful small business and a hot stripper wife) has to take so long to get himself back into trolling every time he gets the banhammer?
horror movies starring trees
Don’t forget Hitchcock’s classic thriller about a top-secret international wood-working ring, The Lady Varnishes.
Dude, that’s not a bug. It’s a feature. It’s called relative wealth.
You have less = I have more. Zero sum.
Pretty soon I’ll be able to get botany PhDs for what I’m paying the illegal Mexicans to do my gardening.
I see we’ve met.
Well, so much for dinner.
horror movies starring trees?
Well, anything with Keanu Reeves…
Just parachuting in here to add Burma to the list of places Kristol advocated military action:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100501895.html
Could be more out there, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_%28film%29
“One day we should discuss the underated ‘horror movies starring trees’ genre.”
Not a movie just yet, but:
http://waynespitzer.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/%E2%80%9Calgernon-blackwood%E2%80%99s-the-willows%E2%80%9D-by-wayne-spitzer-early-scriptment/
I haven’t looked at the movie script, but the original short story was definitely creepy.
I suppose Invasion of the Body Snatchers would qualify as a horrortree movie, no?
Apologizing for anal on-topicalness:
Other words you won’t find: oxygen, water and sunshine.
Why does Obama want Americans to die due to a lack of sufficient air, water and exposure to sunlight? I mean, if he is in favor of oxygen, water and sunlight, why isn’t it in the bill?
Last call!
You heard me. Time to go.
I know it says 10:42, but it’s 01:51 here. Git out.
*To drunken pelican*
Shit. Missed last call.
*consumes badger*
Don’t say mean things about Kristol. Without Kristol, David Rees would be packing up his hurt locker.
Hey, look, CNN’s broken:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/12/timing-of-focus-on-cheney-cia-very-suspect-matalin-says/#more-60106
Fixed:
A one-time female Sith Temple companion to former Vice Lord Dick Cheney suggested Sunday that recent reports about Lord Cheney and the CIA are a distraction designed to avert attention away from the policy struggles of the Obama administration.
…
“This is very suspect timing,” the Sith Matalin said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “The president’s agenda is almost in shambles. His [poll] numbers are dropping. Isn’t it coincidental; they gin up that Death Star shit.”
…
“Every time they get in trouble . . . they dredge up William Kristol for the talk shows,” Matalin also said, making a reference to past comparisons between Lord Cheney and the villain in various “Stars Wars’ movies and arms systems.
Anyone seen Kristol’s sloppy seconds, aka Did he Douthat, today?
Shorter pukefest:
Strawmen + Non Sequiturs = Teh awesome rhetorical questions!! Benedict’s my homey. Also.
I wonder what Muir is hinting at with the ‘Wingnut face mullet’ on the infant?
I just wanted to note on the Chris Muir comic, I think I understand what he is trying ot say(which may or may not be a bad news about my intelligence):
First there is a big outrage about Obamas sexual mischiefs and pervertism, but when they check the video footage, it comes clear that this is not based on anything.
Then the obvious jump in conclusion is that since republican politicians are always in headlines about sexual scandals and pervertism, somehow this also applies to them and they are really not guilty at all, just presented unfairly.
Also, the sister looks just like MJ because he died and every comic writer is supposed to include some sort of reference about him to comic.
I wonder what Muir is hinting at with the ‘Wingnut face mullet’ on the infant?
Right-wingers are so manly that their manliness precedes puberty.
Horror movies starring trees? Well, there’s Alan Moore’s classic run on the comic book series Swamp Thing, whose central character is basically a sentient tree – rather, he’s an electromagnetic frequency who can ‘build’ himself a body out of any vegetation available. He takes on aquatic punk vampires, a proto-feminist werewolf, the amassed ghosts of firearm victims (in a story based on the real-life Winchester Mystery House), a serial killer and a radioactive hobo… he also ‘re-greens’ a desert planet, lands on a world populated by sentient vegetation (doesn’t go too well when he tries to build himself a body), and beats up Batman. It was written in the 80s and, I think, has aged pretty well – and it’s clearly been a massive influence on titles like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Or freedom, or liberty
“If he’d just kept mindlessly spewing the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’, I would’ve been sold!”
Douthat:
Neither do EU politics, but you don’t wank on about that.
Jokes on you, Pirates aren’t a country so it wouldnt be a war,
You know, I thought there was no way even Muir would use a term like “sexual predator” to refer to a guy looking at a woman’s butt.
Nope, he went there. Even if to discredit it.
Guess what the first car the “New GN” makes will be?
A big ass, full-size, rear wheel drive, V-8 powered can of whoop ass called the Chevy Caprice. So much for “green cars” 😉
Pirates aren’t a country so it wouldnt be a war
*cough*War on Drugs*cough*
*cough*War on Terrah*cough*
Meant to say “New GM”.
Thanks other sadlies too! One day we should discuss the underated ‘horror movies starring trees’ genre.
yes….. tuned into something last night that featured a bunch of B-movie actors getting chased by a huge fish in the Mississippi delta. Was fantastic, but was too drunk to take note of its name…
LIBERALS GIVE IT UP YOUR GOD OBAMA IS FALSE AND YOUR RELIGION SOCIALISM IS NOT IN THE BIBLE, FREEDOM AND TRUTH WILL WIN
lookit the badgers! Wheeee!
I wonder how many pounds of carbon all those taxpayer funded Caprices will raise?
Was fantastic
Couldn’t have been the Sci-Fi Channel, then.
What, did everyone go back to bed?
What, did everyone go back to bed?
I wish. I’m just trying to put off using the blow dryer. Gads I hate that thing. The longer I wait, the dryer my hair will be and the less time I’ll have to use it.
Shorter Paul Mirengoff:
Are we tax-exempt?
You have offended me, sir. Arrr.
The_Day_of_the_Triffids
I’d love to see that ol’ flick again. It was a staple back in the “late night horror movie” days of television.
Wasn’t “Day of the Triffids” from the same guy who wrote “The Midwich Cuckoos”? Not tree-related, but scary as all hell anyway.
So how much will a second stimulus cost the taxpayers?
So how much did tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% cost the (rest of the) taxpayers?
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and the distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Tax cuts aren’t spending. It isn’t money taken out of anyones pocket, its the government simply taking less money.
Here’s a nice fact, btw:
In 2003 1782.5 billion dollars taken in by the feds.
2006, After the tax cuts? 2407.3 billion. The tax cuts worked, and if they were extended instead of being let to expire the economy would regain confidence.
Hmm, the deluded ramblings of a sociopath whose only purpose in life is to stalk this site, or an animated gif of Confederate Yankee pooping? I’m going with the poop for now.
Yeah, like Paul Mirengoff would actually have a high-paying job if the “meritocracy” public myth was reality.
That’s the thing, ya know – I have no problem with people believing their little fantasies like “all criminals get caught”, “America is a Christian nation”, “Americans are all about family values”, etc. etc.,as long as no one like that gets in charge of real life activities, where their fantasies can screw up actual human beings’ lives. But when people get hurt (or in the case of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people die) because of those fantasies, that’s when hands have to be slapped. Bad enough that mass murderer enablers like David Frum and Bill Kristol walk the earth free, but to give them newspaper columns…Ugh. What further proof do you need of the Old Good Boys Club? Meritocracy my hammy ass.
America is a Christian nation
HAH! We wish.
Prigs like Mirengoff DGARA about Christianity; they just fap off to the idea of keeping the wimmenfolk barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. They scoff at all that ‘love and peace’ stuff that that Yeshua ben Yosef guy was all about, and nothing gets them as enraged as the ‘socioeconomic justice’ and ‘blessed are the poor’ stuff.
Well, ya gotta understand that when they say “Christian nation”, they are talking about “Get Into Heaven Free/All Our Sins Are Forgiven So Knock Yourself Out On Sin” Jesus, not “Turn The Other Cheek/Love Your Neighbor As Yourself” Jesus.
If the Old Boy comes back, it better be with Power and Glory, because if he comes back as a Palestinian saying that stuff he’s Gitmo-bound for sure.
I don’t recall Jesus saying that the Roman government should coerce people into giving up their posessions, or use government force to make them give to charity. Jesus advocated VOLUNTARY actions, a FREE choice!
Wasn’t “Day of the Triffids” from the same guy who wrote “The Midwich Cuckoos”?
John Wyndham, who (as I recall) also wrote something called “Chocky” which was made into a TV series for awhile but I know nothing about other than it was popular with the Brits and has a goofy name.
Here’s a nice fact, btw:
RedCon likes to pick
his nosecherries.He’s throwin up some random numbers and giving zero context for them.
But thanks for providing yet another good look at how W shovelled all that surplus he inherited into the pockets of the wealthy few.
Matthew 22.15-46
The Question about Paying Taxes
15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.
16 So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality.
17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?’
18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, ‘Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites?
19 Show me the coin used for the tax.’ And they brought him a denarius.
20 Then he said to them, ‘Whose head is this, and whose title?’
21 They answered, ‘The emperor’s.’ Then he said to them, ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’
22 When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.
I don’t recall Jesus saying that the Roman government should coerce people into giving up their posessions…
Render unto Caesar some vodka, clamato, Worcestershire and Tabasco.
I don’t recall Jesus saying that the Roman government should coerce people into giving up their posessions
Guess you skipped over the part about “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s”
Don’t worry, you’re going to hell. God told me.
Wheee! GM forced Youtube to pull TEH GHEY CAMARO ad, which as it turns out wasn’t even made by GM in the first place:
Recent online car ads featuring muscular men in tight briefs were too racy even for a sports car manufacturer. General Motors has reportedly pulled the videos, which promoted GM’s Chevrolet Camaro to a homosexual audience.
The videos, which were posted to YouTube, featured male models leaning seductively over the hood of a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, wearing only tiny yellow underwear emblazoned with the car’s logo. They were created by a Camaro enthusiast to promote “Gay Day at the Movies,” a Los Angeles event that featured a screening of the new Transformers movie. Chevrolet supplied the vehicle used in the video, said company spokesman Adam Denison in an interview with MSN Money last week.
After reviewing the videos, GM decided they were “not in good taste,” according to USA Today.
Yeah, why couldn’t it have been a half-naked chick, after all? That’s ALWAYS tasteful!
Apparently Leftists don’t understand the Bible very well.
He was responding to a trick question, and what his answer means is that “everything is Gods, so the government deserves nothing.”
Oh, I’m sorry, Troofie! I forgot to take into account that you might be one of those “King James or it’s heresy” types, so here’s the section from the “real” Bible:
Pharisees: the trolls of their time.
Address my posts, Jesus!
He was responding to a trick question
Jesus – the Sarah Palin of ancient Palestine.
Apparently Leftists don’t understand the Bible very well.
Tell us where you got your PhD in Biblical Studies, as well as your PhD in Aramaic and Greek.
Apparently you don’t understand “God told me you’re going to hell”. Bookmark it, friendless loser idiot.
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
A+++ would troll again. Well played, whoever did this one.
Regarding the triple tax taunt and caesar renderings – hey, that sammich has gots vegetables in it!
Thou art an idiot. Pay your damned taxes. Given that the president has a Jewish name, and he’s a dark-skinned brother like me, you can think of it as paying me. Except not. Cause paying me is called tithing, and you haven’t been doing that one either.
Now if you’ll excuse me, all this talk of rendering is making me hungry.
JC OUT.
Jesus – the Sarah Palin of ancient Palestine.
Intrepid Idumaean Investigator: Jesus, when you were talking about the difficulties of a camel passing through the eye of a needle, which camel were you talking about – dromedaries or bactrians?
Jesus – All of them. I can see Hecatompylos from my house, and when the head of Artabanes II rises up…
what his answer means is that “everything is Gods…”
I doubt very much Jesus was a polytheist / pantheist, and you’re very likely going to be burned at the stake as a heretic for suggesting it.
Apostrophes have consequences!
I’m not Troofie but whatever.
Jesus didn’t say “Render unto Caesar half your income, at the point of a gun, and Caesar shall spread the wealth.”
Jesus – All of them. I can see Hecatompylos from my house
WIN.
I knew the Bible had some racist bits in it, but really.
Um – newsflash: we’re not the Roman Empire. We don’t have a Caesar (though we have had a couple wannabes like Bush 43).
Our foreign policy does bear some striking resemblances to the Roman Empire, of course, but politically, we are a republic with elected representatives, and the electorate has some say in how the government is run. The election of Obama was ultimately a choice by the American people to shift course away from the policies of empire and toward a more humble and humane foreign policy.
Economically, what Jesus advocated was collective action and care for the poor by not by almsgiving or philanthropy for which the individual takes full credit (the way of the Pharisees) but by communal distribution (as when he fed the multitudes).
Meanwhile, in other PENIS….
Also, screw moose. Camels are the superior mode of transportation. Also, et cetera.
RSS funny:
Cool, now we can quote what Jesus didn’t say to win arguments. Did Jesus ever say, “Go Galt”?
Game. Set. And Match.
Meanwhile, in other PEEnis.
RedCon said,
July 13, 2009 at 13:58
Jokes on you, Pirates aren’t a country so it wouldnt be a war,
Arrrrrrrrrrrdress my mast, lubbers!
A little-known fact about Jesus is that he liked fancy French mustard seeds.
Meanwhile, in other PEEnis.
That is fucking beautiful.
Tattooing is one thing.
But on your DICK? That’s hardcore.
Also, I think Jesus has been hanging with the cool coach.
Zombie OUT.
“I’m Not Troofie But Whatever” would make an excellent nym for a troll. Cuz it’s you know, believable.
just saying
Jesus was using the urinal next to me at work today, and he said taxes are OK, because he was more concerned with the life after, and all that business about a camel passing through the head of a pin. or something.
I dunno. I had a firehose thing going.
But Yeshua? totes average.
It’s almost as though he took a community and organized them, like a small town mayor of some sort.
It’s not leftovers, kid. It’s shepherd’s pie.
As long as we’re doing PENIS again:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-08-26-walrus-fossil_N.htm
doing PENIS again?
who stopped?
Speaking of PENIS tattoos…didya hear the one about the guy who went to the tattoo parlor and asked to have an image of a $100 bill tattooed on his PENIS?
The tattoo artist tried to dissuade him, telling him that an intricate tattoo on that part of the anatomy would be extremely painful, but the man persisted, so the tattoo artist asked him why, in particular, he wanted THAT particular tattoo on THAT particular part of his body.
“Three reasons,” said the man. “First, I like to play with my money. Second, I like to watch my money grow. But most of all, it’s because my wife sure does know how to blow $100.”
Ba-da-bum. Be here all week, order the veal, etc.
“Half your income, at the point of a gun”
I am the only place this makes any fucking sense.
OT. Schumer, Whitehouse and now Durbin – the D strat in the Sotomayor confirmation is basically to point out that John Roberts is a fucking dillhole.
Fucking beautiful. All they gotta do to counter accusations of bias is to drag out the Chief Justice and say “well compared to this guy, Sotomator’s a model of impartiality.”
Sotomayor. All this intense sompetitive urination makes me tipe bdaly.
“the D strat in the Sotomayor confirmation is basically to point out that John Roberts is a fucking dillhole.”
Okay then, Shorter Ds: “I dare you reptiles to not vote for the Latina”.
Incidentally, 40% of the stimulus package is tax cuts.
So I guess those don’t count when we start talking about the ‘generational debt’? Good to know.
The GOP target is 23 votes against. These “confirmation” “hearings” are basically just “political” “theater” – well I mean even more than “usual”.
The beautiful part of it is that Dems are using this opportunity to correctly point out John Roberts’ activism and complete lack of any actual “judging”. They could have used any of the right-wing nutjobs like Scalia or Thomas to make the point – but instead they are using the “exceptional” and “brilliant” legal mind of “always siding with the prosecution”. They’re bumping the Overton.
Yeah, funny too how even the Old Testament/Angry Jesus types who, for instance, hang their bigotry against Teh Homos on a few isolated verses don’t have peep to say about the Jubilee system, strict laws against abusive lending practices (usury), and requirements for care and feeding of the poor. Talk about state-controlled redistribution of wealth and legal mandates for a social safety net, the Bible is soaking in it.
They’re bumping the Overton.
is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Flattery could scarcely come from a sweeter well. The greatest Attorney-General America never had.
You best be trollin’ there, boy-bitch.
I’ve read that puppy from cover to cover (PROTIP: skip The Book Of Numbers unless you’re a CPA with an appetite for monotony) – & I didn’t find much in the way of either big words (other than some of those wacky names) or subtlety anywhere therein … not too surprising since it was written to be preached to malnourished rural illiterates with reality-tunnels as narrow as capillaries.
If you’re trying to find any deep & intensely edgy modern-day-friendly metaphors illustrated there, You’re Doing It VERY Wrong.
† Old Testament = 1/2 Hammurabi, 1/2 Pol Pot, as re-interpreted by Salvador Dali having a bad-hair day.
† New Testament = George Lucas meets Karl Marx, with a zesty dash of David Cronenberg thrown in at the end to tease the as-yet-unwritten sequel.
(Needs more “The Bible 2 – Tag-Team Mayhem: Gog & Magog Versus Romulans & Klingons!”)
Talk about state-controlled redistribution of wealth and legal mandates for a social safety net, the Bible is soaking in it.
I’m sure if we were to insitute a conservative patriarchical theocracy in the United States there’s not much they could do that the wingnuts would disapprove of.
(For that matter – have these “daycare is a Stalinist obscenity” types ever, ever spoke out against Israeli kibbutzim? So collectivism is okay if God’s behind it?)
is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
No, just delusional julep-drinking Wangchucks. I’d certainly be delighted if the plan actually was to move the conversation in a direction where John Roberts could be recognized for the ideologue and partisan hack that he is. Remember that time leading up to the Roberts confirmation? Near universal praise of his acumen and keen insights? Well, now he’s being used as an example of prejudiced arsehole with less impartiality than Rush Limbaugh.
But then again, I’m an optimist – and this is probably way too positive a spin on what’s going on.
a CPA with an appetite for monotony
a zesty dash of David Cronenberg thrown in at the end
really? I would be thinking more a collaboration between James Cameron, David Lynch, George Romero and John Waters.
With Pixar doing the CGI stuff.
…the as-yet-unwritten sequel.
You made Brigham Young cry.
Bible II: Ecumenic Boogaloo
Near universal praise of his acumen and keen insights?
Not me. He looks like an escapee from the Disney animatronics lab.
Kristol: Republicans can propose instead incentives for economic growth and job-creation consistent with free markets and limited government…
You know things are getting bad for these people when it takes them 18 words to say “Cut taxes.”
Republicans can propose instead incentives for economic growth and job-creation consistent with free markets and limited government
Notice also that it’s inconCEIVable to Kristol that (A) (economic growth/job creation) just might be incompatible with (B) (free markets/limited gummint).
An example might well be Singapore – there’s one of the least free governments around aside from an outright dictatorship, and they’re doing spectacularly economically last I heard.
Singapore has low taxes, low regulation, and free trade.
You made Brigham Young cry.
Know what else probably makes The Founder cry?
Two men kissing.
Singapore may be SOCIALLY conservative/authoritarian, but economically they have a FREE MARKET!
Singapore has low taxes, low regulation, and free trade.
So I’m sure you’d be more than happy to live there, right?
Don’t bring any chewing gum, though – it’s against the law, and you can get arrested for not flushing the toilet. And there’s govenrment censorship of the media and entertainment.
But low taxes! Wheee! Paradise on earth!
Though I don’t like dictatorships, perean right wing ones are better than left wing ones.
Right wing ones may not let you vote or be socially conservative, but they don’t alter the basic foundation of economic growth (private property). So you may not be able to chew gum in Singapore, but you can be a free participant in the market and make a good living. Compare that to Cuba!
Same for Somalia. You win teh prize.
(For gosh sake. Singapore has a Ministry of Happiness. And you’re cool with this.)
Singapore has low taxes, low regulation, and free trade. … Same for Somalia. You win teh prize.
What you libs keep forgetting when you point out these libertarian paradises is that they’re all 100% composed of minorities.
Er, shut up, you know what I mean!
Which is really weird, because only really intelligent people would set up countries run on Free Market Principles™ and everybody knows that untermenschen are too stupid to do that.
Because shut up, that’s why.
Ah, so that’s what a “perean right wing dictatorship” is.
Sooooooo… evidently all Obama would have to do for RedCock to get on the Sotero Bandwagon would be to move his platform to the right. ‘Cause as long as you can make money off of someone else’s effort, it makes the smell coming from the smokestacks in the big camps on the outskirts of town that much less stinky.
Singapore has a Ministry of Happiness.
MinHap doubleplusgood! Lowtax freemark plusgood too!
Perhaps no one told RedCon that Singapore has a national health insurance system, managed out of a state-owned savings fund of which all citizens are mandated to be members and into which they put a minimum of 40% of all earned income.
But hey, businesses love it!
“Ah, so that’s what a “perean right wing dictatorship” is.”
Huh. I thought it had something to do with, “Don’t cry for me, Judea.”
A pleasing image from Clown Hall:
One can only imagine what Ross Douthat would pay to experience the moist and graceful gravitas of Pope Benedict.
Singapore, unlike Somalia has an effective army, court system, and police to protect life and legal property.
Meanwhile, in other PEEnis.
If only he’d dialed that extra “E”….
This thread needs more walrus penis.
Jesus didn’t say “Render unto Caesar half your income, at the point of a gun, and Caesar shall spread the wealth.”
Technically, it was rendered at the point of a gladius, the sheath of which was known as a “vagina” in Latin.
Obama is free to cane people for chewing gum as long as he lowers Sean Hannity’s taxes a couple of percentage points.
Singapore, unlike Somalia has an effective army, court system, and police to protect life and legal property.
Oh, come on, Reddy, you collectivist wuss-ass! You’re supposed to carry a gun to protect your life and property! And Somalia has total freedom in what you can pack, limited only by the padding of your wallet!
That’s what the Second Amendment is all about, after all – blowing away troublemakers! Courts and police are for decadent socialist Europeans!
That’s not what I said, lol. I just said if I was forced to choose, I’d choose a right wing dictatorship like Singapore over a left wing one like North Korea or Cuba. At least in Singapore I could have a comfortable middle class lifesyle and be allowed to make money.
And verily there shall be a mighty chorus,
There shall be a rendering of garnishes,
There shall be a gnashing of tea bags.
Slinkeys for everyone! Everybody gets a slinkey!
What?
Well, they make me smile.
At least in Singapore I could have a comfortable middle class lifesyle and be allowed to make money.
Could have done the same in Nazi Germany.
Just sayin’.
At least in Singapore I could have a comfortable middle class lifesyle and be allowed to make money.
You’d have to overcome your chickenhawk tendencies. Singapore has National Service.
Pere, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think what you meant to say was that Germans are the Singaporeans of Liberal Fascism.
Germans are the Singaporeans of Liberal Fascism
Just making the point that if you were a middle-class German along about, oh say 1941 or so, things weren’t too damn bad. And, as we can see from the examples of Farben, Bayer, Krupp, Porche, u.s.w. things weren’t all that bad for the enterprising businessman either.
Which is kind of central to RedCock’s point – oppress all the Slavs you want, set up death camps on the ourskirts of town, but as long as I can make a buck who cares?
AH-OOGA!!!!!!!
Urban Meyer says he never will coach Notre Dame
What is central to his point is to keep you arguing seriously about bullshit.
ourskirts = outskirts
FYWP and your Slice.
Just making the point that if you were a middle-class German along about, oh say 1941 or so, things weren’t too damn bad. And, as we can see from the examples of Farben, Bayer, Krupp, Porche, u.s.w. things weren’t all that bad for the enterprising businessman either.
Which is kind of central to RedCock’s point – oppress all the Slavs you want, set up death camps on the ourskirts of town, but as long as I can make a buck who cares?
I read you loud and clear, and I agreed – but I was just making the point that it’s kind of rich for the parrots of Goldberg to squawk about how Hitler is supposedly a ‘left-wing’ dictator for his economic policies when his ‘white people are better than everyone else’ and ‘FIGHT EVERYWHEAR’ policies clearly put him on the right.
LOL Nazi Germany was a left-wing dictatorship! Way to prove my point!
Oh, and the fact that he was colluding with big American businesses like Ford.
You know, I’ve had enough of your “left-wing dictatorship” bullshit.
DEFINE in what way Nazi Germany, North Korea, et al were/are “left wing”. And don’t give me any of that shit about how “the word SOCIALIST was right there in the NAME!!!” because if you do, we’ll be forced to point out that by your weak-ass “reasoning”, China is a “republic”.
As well as american politicians like Prescott Bush.
Jennifer, they were vegetarians. After all, think of how LITTLE German cuisine is based around meat…
umm, wait.
Doesn’t Singapore ban ownership of most handguns and rifles? Aren’t they also proud of their reputation as a “Nanny State”? Except that abortions are readily available, much more easily than in most of Asia? Plus aren’t Christians a minority, roughly equal in number to Muslims? I guess conservative paradises ain’t what they used to be.
Hitler and the Nazis promoted a Christian nationalism, anti-communism, anti-Semitism, and return to traditional values which most Christians appreciated. The Nazi party platform specifically endorsed ‘positive’ Christianity.
Sounds kinda…fundamentalist right wing, to me.
Seriously, RedCon – learn to read at a 5th-grade level. Hitler was a right-winger in every possible sense of the word. He was a pre-emptive interventionist, he persecuted ethnic minorities pursued policies of ethnic cleansing under an agenda of extreme nationalism, he welcomed investments from big businesses to build up his war machine and he imprisoned, detained and killed workers’ rights advocates and pacifists.
RIGHTEOUS BUBBA IS TRYING TO OPRESS ME!!
RedCon said,
Ah yes, the classic “I know you are but what am I” debate ploy, popular on second grade playgrounds everywhere.
Leftous Bubba is trying to oppress us all, tigrismus.
IMPRESS. It’s all about the vanity with me.
It’s all about the vanity with me.
You might want to consider sanding it down and revarnishing it.
Can somebody actually be so uneducate din History, other than petulant douchnozzle Jonah Goldberg that the Nazi party was left wing, I blame the American education system
Tablenac!
other than petulant douchnozzle Jonah Goldberg
New nickname for the Pantload: Doughnozzle!
Doughie Nozzle load
Singapore, unlike Somalia has an effective army, court system, and police to protect life and legal property.
I thought if you had concealed carry you wouldn’t need any of that other stuff?
DEFINE in what way Nazi Germany, North Korea, et al were/are “left wing”.
I’m sure his response (if her gets around to one) wil be something on the order of “blah blah alleigance to the State blah blah”. ‘Cause that’s what dictatorships do, y’know – free countries like ours would NEVER request someone risk their life/property for their country, and sure as hell wouldn’t demand some sort of Pledge or something that everyone said periodically to renew their Alleigance.
I guess conservative paradises ain’t what they used to be.
Not since that bit of… uh… unpleasantness.
William Gibson once described Singapore as “Disneyworld with the death penalty.” Sounds like right-wing paradise.
Is the nanny state the one that runs around the world bombing everyone?
Was William Gibson a Subgenius?
There is no slack in Singapore.
Or, uh, see the top of the thread again. It’s been a while.
Was William Gibson a Subgenius?
“Was”?
Did the saucers come and carry ’em all off when nobody was looking?
Gawrsh, it’s been a while since Jennifer asked Reddy to define what makes the Nazis “socialists”.
I somehow envision him desperately flipping through the Cheeto-stained pages of his copy of Liberal Fascism, looking for the “proper” response.
Of course it is. Just like Eddie Money is the richest guy in the world.
Alternate somewhat longer shorter Kristol:
Only soulless grown-ups who never grew out of their toy soldier stage deserve nanny states.
And maybe corporate malefactors if it’s central to my point.
+ nu thrd plz…
“Was”?
At the time he wrote the article.
“Just like Eddie Money is the richest guy in the world.”
A position previously held by Johnny Cash.
OMG who would be so vile as to call someone Hitler?
Actually, I had a Qabbalist tell me that the word “gimel” is the Hebrew word for “camel” and also the word for “rope”.
(Yeah, languages are weird – like you can LEAD a horse to water but you can’t make him drink it if there’s LEAD in it.)
So, in his Jewish opinion (commenting on a Christian trope), what Yeheshua was actually saying is that it’s harder for a ROPE to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven, which makes a whole lot more sense than a camel.
From the “get a brain, morans” department, a comment at the above link states:
“Hollywood cretans are just pathetic!!!”
I suppose Hollywood spartans are O.K. (To be fair, a number of the other commenters also caught this.)
Andy, what’s even funnier about that is that when called on the ‘cretan/cretin’ mixup, several of the wingnut commenters chortle that the stupid libtard just failed to catch the commenter’s deft wit and impressive command of history.
We’re fans of Hollywood Spartans. They give us boners while we make lame-ass Iraq analogies.
Also, “Forrest Gump” teaches us the wages of faggotry.
(“Forrest Gump” was what Daddy called his belt)
Joe max, ya gotta admit though it’s pretty damn hard for a camel to go through the eye of a needle….
Threads and trolls both start to smell after a bit. In the case of treolls, it’s a very short bit. For threads, 26 hours exceeds the useful shelf life.
Will it blend?
What librul scholars leave out, of course, is that “camel” is Hebrew slang for “dust mite”.
For threads, 26 hours exceeds the useful shelf life.
And yet we post…
Totally off topic (is there a topic anymore?), but when I say I’m in love, you’d best believe I’m in L-U-V.
I suppose the commenter COULD have been referring to the “Cretan Paradox” (“All Cretans are liars” => “All Hollywood liberals are liars”), but that seems unlikely.
Actually, Troofie, this statement suffers from many errors.
No one is paying taxes “at the point of a gun.” No one is executed for failure to pay taxes. You can go to jail. However, there is a difference between going to jail and being shot dead. But I realize it’s not as dramatic.
Also, “spread” is exactly what Caesar did with the wealth, in particular Emperor Claudius, who was in power at the time. Following the tradition established by his uncle Augustus, he authorized massive public works, all paid for by taxes. Aquaducts, plumbing, sewers, irrigation, roads, buildings, schools, piers, plazas, statuary, public baths, messengers, doctors, barbers, and a subsidy of wine and bread given to all citizens and freemen. (Not to mention police and fire services, and of course, the army.) Imperial Rome basically invented the modern social welfare state.
And Yeheshua knew all this quite well, as did every other citizen of the Roman Empire. There’s no way he could NOT know it.
Here’s a history lesson for you, Troof:
Will it blend?
Maybe that’s how a rich man can get into heaven, too….
Funny how the Romans really had this whole imperialism thing figured out. Yeah, they’d kick your ass, but they’d extend the benefits of civilization, even citizenship, to the conquered, even adopt a goddess or two as a cultural sop to the provincials. Us? Lately, we’ve been strictly of the “Kill them, take their stuff” school of imperialism, all too often with a side of “My god is bigger than your god”.
Man, I hope Holder decides to put Cheney in the hot seat.
…which makes a whole lot more sense than a camel.
So says you. I have it on very good authority that Jesus was speaking of camels. Roasted camel to be precise. And he was talking about POOPing the next day. If you’ve ever had roasted camel, you’d know what he was talking about.
Maybe that’s how a rich man can get into heaven, too….
If he’s rich enough he can just buy a big-ass needle.
Not a big ass-needle. Or heck, maybe he could buy that too, but I bet that would make it harder. To get into heaven, I mean.
VIAGRA IS ERECTION FRAUD!!!
Woulda been funnier if what he was talking about was linked like it was supposta be.
HITLER WAS A LEFTIST, ITS SO OBVIOUS YOU DUM LIBERALS
Actually, I had a Qabbalist tell me that the word “gimel” is the Hebrew word for “camel” and also the word for “rope”.
I had an uncle who once told me that the word actually was something like “cameron,” which is supposedly ancient Greek for a thick, heavy sailor’s rope.
Although this guy was a little like the nutcase father in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” who was obsessively certain that every single word in every language could be traced back to Greek, so that could very well be bullshit.
WE WILL RESTORE FREEDOM IN USA
Yeah, yeah, by restoring the permanent Redoublechin majority, no doubt.
Are you for fuckin’ real, PATRIOT ACTION?
A big ass needle?
Sounds like the next Republican sex scandal.
KEEP YOUR BIG NEEDLES OUT OF MY ASS, PATRIUT AKSHUN!!!
LOL Nazi Germany was a left-wing dictatorship!
It’s howlingly funny how the Riech-wing can’t bring themselves own Adolph, yet they ape him in every way they can get away with. I’m guessing that their next projection will be to label the KKK as a “liberal” group, follwed by the Promise Keepers being “socialists”. Trust me, it’ll happen.
I apparently think that the DJIA has lost 3,000 points since the stimulus passed. Really. Check out today’s cartoon.
Woulda been funnier if what he was talking about was linked like it was supposta be.
I’m curious – did you just google eye of the needle or did you know about this ahead of time.
For the record, the movie that scared the hell out of me as a kid was <a href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/' rel='external nofollow' class='url' The Haunting
Creepy camera angles and lots of implied action.
Okay I don’t know if that worked or not so here goes again.
The scariest movie I ever say was The Haunting
I of course remember the other pithy comment I included in the original post.
CAPS ACTION referring to “DUM [SIC!!!!] LIBERALS” makes me wonder if he’s been a) actually paying enough attention to the thread to have seen the whole moran/cretan thing and thus b) an elaborate, frighteningly convincing parody. Either way, I just wanna take him home, put a little sweater on him and call him George.
I of course remember the other pithy comment I included in the original post.
arrrgggh I don’t remember….
Billy Mays phoned in. Jesus has given him exclusive promotional rights for the new Camel Master Liquidator 9000. Purees ANY camel in seconds and if you order now, we’ll include a lifetime supply of needles! But wait, there’s more….
It would have been quite a surprise to the Nazi and Italian Fascist movements to be told they were ‘on the left’. It would have really put a bummer on their beating and killing of Socialists and Communists, and it sure would make all those Mussolini quotes about how the Fascisti differed from the left and the Socialists and the Communists by realizing that there was no class struggle within nations but a nationalist struggle between nations.
What, did RedCon run away? Or is he still trying to unstick the pages of his copy of Liberal Facism to find an answer to today’s little pop quiz?
Look, liberals are against letting companies do whatever they want. Nazis are against letting companies do whatever they want. The things they want to ban companies from doing and why and how that’s enforced and whether or not one or the other institutes a program of mass slaughter is irrelevent. I’m sorry if you libs can’t live with that uncomfortable truth.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
KEEP YOUR BIG NEEDLES OUT OF MY ASS, PATRIUT AKSHUN!!!
Eat his branes! EAT! HIS! BRANES!
The scariest movie I ever say was The Haunting
Great classic horror. That door scene made my skin crawl right off my body.
liberals are against letting companies do whatever they want. Nazis are against letting companies do whatever they want.
Crows are black. Kettles are black. Therefore, crows and kettles are the same thing.
Address it!
Address it!
I did! Now I feel kind of dirty.
Liberals breath oxygen, Nazis breathed oxygen. I see how one could make the comparison.
Oh come on, you couldn’t see the sarcasm dripping off that post.
Oh come on, you couldn’t see the sarcasm dripping off that post.
Sadly, Poe
Ok, Anthony’s post has been addressed to the proper authorities. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
Oh come on, you couldn’t see the sarcasm dripping off that post.
Is that what that was? Oh thank God.
Following the tradition established by his uncle Augustus, he authorized massive public works, all paid for by taxes. Aquaducts, plumbing, sewers, irrigation, roads, buildings, schools, piers, plazas, statuary, public baths, messengers, doctors, barbers, and a subsidy of wine and bread given to all citizens and freemen. (Not to mention police and fire services, and of course, the army.)
But aside from that, what’ve the Romans ever given us, eh?
A general comment on the avatar picture of Mr. Fail Kristol….
It implies too much “mastery of the force”. This, of course, is the farthest thing from reality. As Liberals, our worship of Reality should keep us from making such a crazy implication in our photoshopping work.
Instead, I suggest the deepest, darkest outhouse hole as a starting point for the proper image of Fail Kristol.
The POOP is the bonus here, folks.
Oh come on, you couldn’t see the sarcasm dripping off that post.
well, it DOES explain the lightly greased camel in the comment below.
Or maybe the needle was lightly greased. I couldn’t tell.
But in any case, it would be better if it was greased with duck fat.
Or you could use an image from Spaceballs rather than Star Wars.
Or you could use an image from Spaceballs rather than Star Wars.
Giant Helment?
wait, Bill Kristol is the Shithouse Troll?
scuse mah war-monGAHS!
WE WILL RESTORE FREEDOM IN USA
I guess we’ll be falling back to the pre-Bush II borders?
Instead, I suggest the deepest, darkest outhouse hole as a starting point for the proper image of Fail Kristol.
The POOP is the bonus here, folks.
Oh no no no…there’s more WIN to this than just POOP…this could go full-bore Shithouse Troll.
Scuse mah finGAHs!!!
Uh…I swear zombie rotten mcdonald’s post wasn’t there when I posted that last one, despite the timestamp.
FYWP!!!
Modern Zombies have one advantage: speed. Speed and Stealth…
TWO major advantages: Speed, stealth, and an almost fanatical hunger for brainz…
THREE!! .. oh, hell, I’ll come in again.
Look, liberals are against letting companies do whatever they want
It would be delightful if the putative Left in the U.S., now that it is in power, governed according to this notion for a few years. I won’t be anticipating it, though.
Carlyle, incidentally (according to both Borges and Chesterton) was the (more or less) accidental grandfather of Nazism. It would certainly have come as a shock to Carlyle that he was “on the Left.”
Apropos of nothing, but I would totally fuck Dalia Lithwick. Bitch got it goin’ on.
It would be delightful if the putative Left in the U.S., now that it is in power,
You’re serious about this, right? Teh Left is in charge??!?! Damn, and here I thought it was just the slightly squishy, barely-left-of-conservative centrists who won the election for Prez and hold most of the seats in Congress. What the hell was I thinking?
What the hell was I thinking?
Funny, Camile, that’s what I said after I read one of your books.
Ha ha, apropos of seeing her on Rachel Maddow today is more like it!
P. S.: Find some age-appropriate booty to bother, Ms. Paglia, you dirty old woman!
You’re serious about this, right? Teh Left is in charge??!?! Damn, and here I thought it was just the slightly squishy, barely-left-of-conservative centrists who won the election for Prez and hold most of the seats in Congress. What the hell was I thinking?
Excellent parody of Paglia. Particularly the ignorance (is it real? is it feigned? you can never quite be sure) of the meaning of “putative.”
I’ve got dibs on Dalia Lithwick.
Lithwick? Really? I guess she does look good (in comparison) in that picture where she’s mugging for the camera with her arm around her buddy Althouse. Otherwise, not so much.
Hey, that Ms. Althouse is no slouch either. (And my best — buys the most, that is — customer. Hubba hubba.
WHAT? No strike-through in the name box? Yuck foo, Weenie Press!
Try to blame me for that missing closing parenthesis.
Camile, according to the Political Compass, the current ruling junta in the US is slightly to the right of centre.
Me, I’m well down in the lower left quadrant, with Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Fine company to be in, I think.
Conservative Jesus. He lies a lot.
Just Alison: the problem with that chart is that I’m down there with you, but then so is Ralph Nader. Given the fact that he’s helped more conservative republicans than leftish Democrats in his political career, I’m not sure I like him keeping company with us.
Conservative Jesus. He lies a lot.
Indeed. It is central to his &etc…
commie atheist – I think there’s a difference between his views and his effect, and that’s probably because of the weird political/election structure in the US. I’ve been meaning to do a post on this for Alternet – one of these days, when I get (a) the urge, and (b) some free time (or should that be ‘guilt-free’ time?).
In short, what yez need is preferential voting – it works better than straight win-lose in terms of getting what most people want (or least people don’t want). Not to say the pollies then go and do what they promised, but it’s at least a better guide to the political temper of the place than your first-past-the-post, two-party system.
Yeah, I’d love to see that kind of system instituted here, but I doubt it will ever happen. There’s too much money to be made in keeping the status quo intact. and unfortunately that rules in these parts.
Hope you write that article soon. I enjoyed your review of that werewolf movie…didn’t want to make me go see it, though. I’ve got a pretty low gore threshhold.
post, I meant.
Don’t speak too soon, CA – all it takes is a few decades of work from millions of people to change a political system. 😉
Glad you enjoyed the review. I’ve not written any reviews, nor watched any films, for centuries (subjective) – sad, because I used to love it. Maybe I’ll get back to it next year. The gore quotient nearly did for me, too – my tolerance has increased somewhat, but the gristly noises (and the buckets of blood) were a bit sick-making. But I went to see it with a male friend who, while quiet and un-macho, is completely undismayed by that sort of thing, so I was shamed into staying (didn’t want to run out because I’d have felt like a total wuss-bag).
We kan haz new thread now? Pretty please/
Hey, there’s been a new thread for a little bit now…
did you just google eye of the needle or did you know about this ahead of time
“Shitting through the eye of a needle” is a phrase I’ve been aware of from before there were internet traditions – but I did google in order to find the UD link.