A Totally Unexpected Reaction
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by D. Aristophanes
ABOVE: Because Bolton likes to watch.
Not Noticeably Shorter Pam Atlas, Escorts Against Islam:
MUSLIM TERROR ATTACK: ‘NINE shot dead’1230 Wounded, Mass Shooting at Fort Hood, US Army Base, Malik Nadal Hasan is MUSLIM CONVERT
- MUSLIMSMUSLIMSMUSLIMS!!!1!
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
AND SHEPHARD SMITH WILL NOT SAY HIS NAME! SHEPARD SMITH ISLAMOHOMOMARXOFACIST AOOGA!
She hasn’t found a way to blame it on Obama yet?
Someone’s getting sloppy in their old age.
God, she’s frightening.
Can you imagine spending your life running around the globe sucking off pudgy neocon trolls while ALL-CAP thoughts hurtle through your brain at an amphetamine-grade pace? Because Pam can.
Well, there was a nominal Obama-bashing, talking about the lack of blood in his initial remarks.
Also, a backhanded swipe against his lack of aggression in addressing a Native American gathering. I guess he didn’t bring the H1N1-impregnated blankets.
Can you imagine spending your life running around the globe sucking off pudgy neocon trolls while ALL-CAP thoughts hurtle through your brain at an amphetamine-grade pace? Because Pam can.
truly the modern Ayn Rand.
You liberals think the Muslim is your friend, and you always defend him.
He does not think much of your friends, the women and the gays.
This is but a foretaste of the blood feast to come if we keep letting them in.
Islam and freedom are incompatible.
The MSM will somehoe not report his Muslim race, and they will try to blame this on guns or the Tea Bagging Patriots. We will not stand for this in the Heartland.
Hey, “the blood feast to come” would make a good band name.
Shooter was a citizen born in the USA.
You’d think her grand-kids would have told her her to put a shawl or a coat or something on before they took that picture.
Muslims should be stripped of citizenship and shipped back to Mecca. They are a clear and present danger to our Republic for which it stands. We will not be tread on.
blood feast
Didn’t MST3K do that movie?
You liberals think the Muslim is your friend, and you always defend him.
we defend AMERICANS. Why do you hate American Patriots in the American Military?
He does not think much of your friends, the women and the gays.
So you’ve got THAT in common with the people populating your fevered nightmares.
Moderators, it’s time to disemvowel this creep. People are dead and no one knows the whole story, and we don’t need this racist hateful crap. Please. disemvowel it.
Faggot not only should not be able to be married, they should not get any special rights.
Muslims should be stripped of citizenship and shipped back to Mecca
FRIDGE NOTE TO THE ASSHOLES:
dude was born in Virginia. He’s as American as you are, probably more because he volunteered for military service.
Moderators, it’s time to disemvowel this creep. People are dead and no one knows the whole story, and we don’t need this racist hateful crap. Please. disemvowel it.
or gray it.
“Can you imagine spending your life running around the globe sucking off pudgy neocon trolls while ALL-CAP thoughts hurtle through your brain at an amphetamine-grade pace? Because Pam can.”
She doesn’t have to imagine.
Did Pam used to be a little less crazy? I mean, this is some Timecube level shit here. Wasn’t she once like, another Michelle Malkin or something?
so who wants to go over to free republic and see what enlightened things theyre saying?
“so who wants to go over to free republic and see what enlightened things theyre saying?”
Not it. I visited Lil’ Debbie Snackcakes’ place and I’m all out of brain bleach.
Sockpuppet:
Will they frontman for …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead?
Yes, that’s a real band.
I have no idea what you guys are talking about Re: troll, which is the awesome majesty that is: The Killfile.
or gray it.
I like the graying more than the disemvoweling. It gives an air of mystery to the trolls, like “SPOILER ALERT (highlight text to read): I’m a racist neocon flibble blabble.”
Oh, and I never trust the shorter, but in this case I’m actually shocked that the whole <font color=red size=7> thing was actually in the original. (Okay, she actually did it the right way, with <span> and CSS, but I assume that’s to TypePad’s credit, not hers.)
And I said “actually” twice in the same sentence. Good for me.
so who wants to go over to free republic and see what enlightened things theyre saying?
I had rather go sit in the men’s room at Grand Central Stations, for I feel the things I hear there will likely be of more value and less offensive altogether.
I clicked. I shouldn’t have, but I did.
What amazed me was the sheer incoherent, stream-of-unconciousness style of the whole thing.
And a swipe not only at Obama, but against Native Americans too!
How dare Obama be at a Native American gathering when a terrible and unpredictable event occurred instead of at a Koran-burning rally? IT FILLS ME WITH RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a swipe not only at Obama, but against Native Americans too!
Consider yourself ahemmed.
BREAKING: OBAMA NUKES TEHERAN UPDATE: BUT IS ‘THE ONE’S’ HEART REALLY IN IT?
I guess he didn’t bring the H1N1-impregnated blankets.
Yes, 3-day sore throats, mild nausea and fever will surely finish the job the colonists half-assed!
Also: worst dress ever?
so who wants to go over to free republic and see what enlightened things theyre saying?
OK. I thought it might be enlightening. But now I need a decon shower.
Ahh, but there are some glimmers of intelligence and critical thinking, but only rooted in gun fetish, and only motivated to ‘prove’ that it was a jihadist sleeper cell:
Also: worst dress ever?
Seconded!
IslamReligion and freedom are incompatible.At least act as if you know something.
What year is this? november 2001? I’m having flashbacks.
So when are we bombing Virginia?
Trust shorter?
hey, that may akshuali make more sense than Iraq, akshuali…
And I’m sure they will.
That should be:
MUSLIMSLOOKATMYTITSMUSLIMSLOOKATMYTITSMUSLIMS
I can’t wait to see how Cornfidiot Wankee manages to insert his “If only they had guns,” tripe into this nightmare.
And then I will punch him in the cock.
The shooter, Major Hassan Malik, is confirmed alive. He is out of the OR and will survive. So maybe Pam can ask him about his Jihad herself.
What year is this? november 2001? I’m having flashbacks.
Me too! The way the Conservatives are rallying behind President Obama because he’s the Commander in Chief and a War President!
Just like they did for President Bush!
That’s how we know the GOP is based on Principles, and not the cynical Pursuit of Power!
Mme. Geller-Oshry:
Mlle. Schlussel:
So they were aware of this SIX MONTHS AGO..who was President six months ago..well, let’s see..unless I have been hiding under a rock, it wasn’t George W Bush..it was Barack Obama..
That’s right. In addition to trying to kill Grandma, tie up traffic in Manhattan by going on date night, indoctrinating school children, President Obama’s been spending his time personally intervening in performance reviews of selected Muslim soldiers. Must be why he doesn’t have time to meet with the Generals.
Damn.
He was a psychiatrist.
D to the A to the M to the N.
The shooter, Major Hassan Malik, is confirmed alive. He is out of the OR and will survive
Where’d you see this?
He was a psychiatrist.
So probably not being assisted by Scientology adherents, then.
Larger, more detailed pic of Pass-Around Pammy & Bobby, if you want to see just how awful the dress is, & how her extensions aren’t the same color. (Drapes don’t match the drapes. Huh.)
Is calling her “Pass-Around Pamela” hideous sexist crap, or is she really a whore? (Pronounced “hoor” in best NY/LI fashion.)
You decide. (Warning: Pam w/ Jim “Gateway Punchingbag” Hoft. May be too much stupidity at once for more sensitive viewers.)
WTF? Even Bush wouldn’t be dumb enough to declare war on the U.S. Army.
At least not directly.
Stupid fuck knuckles.
Oh well, should be interesting to see how quickly this becomes 911 times worse than 9/11.
I wouldn’t go calling her a whore. Firstly, that implies somebody is buying, and I’m all out of brain bleach.
Secondly, It is an insult to prostitutes everywhere, most of whom I am sure are perfectly agreeable people.
g, saw the Ft, Hood CO (? General, at least) on MSNBC say the shooter was still alive, & stable.
arky, psychiatrists are the worst, & least helpful of the head-candling professions. The more education, the less they really help you. Mostly glorified pharmacists these days.
Fuck you Pam and the breasts you floated in on.
Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims
Islam! Islam!
Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims
Islam! Islam!
Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims Muslims
Islam! Islam!
Snaaaaaaaaaake…
Hasan is wounded and alive. He is probably not the shooter who still seems to be at large on the base. Anyone who reads, listens to, or pays any attention at all to Mrs. Oshry is either an idiot or bored out of their mind.
Hasan is wounded and alive. He is probably not the shooter who still seems to be at large on the base.
????? Well, I imagine we’ll find out eventually what happened.
I’m assuming that the Red State Strike Force has been activated and is deployed outside military bases and other important civilian targets, guarding vigilantly against possible appearances of Oscar the Grouch.
Imagine. An act of war, apparently committed by a Muslim, against a country that is currently occupying two Muslim countries, and is threatening a third one.
Hasan is wounded and alive. He is probably not the shooter who still seems to be at large on the base.
No. He has been identified as the shooter while two others have been released. While there are some conflicting reports about number of people involved, (maybe one other person, but only in occasional reports that may be out of date) Hasan is identified as the shooter everywhere I have read. What I am seeing, anyway, is as the story settles, he is the one and only shooter.
Too right El Cid. At the first sign of danger Erick the Red’s valiant warriors will loosen their bowels and create an impassable shit moat around the target.
purvis, I watched the press conference and certainly did not get the impression that anyone thought it was someone other than Hasan.
Meanwhile, Muslim and Islamic groups brace for a backlash. Lovely.
I’m sure that the way these soldiers would want to be remembered is for their deaths to be used as an excuse for a bunch of bloated old retards to make incredibly racist statements under the guise of making national security judgments. In fact, when I die, can you guys all do that for me?
It’s a promise, dude. The Gypsies won’t be forgiven for how they will have led to your death.
I am having a hard time believing one man, with apparently only handguns, managed to shoot 43 people. I’m certainly no weapons expert (and this guy was a psychiatrist–was he?) Even with a semiotic assault weapon, it would be difficult to make that many shots. If it was a pistol, or pistols, he would have had to reload, or at least switch weapons, probably several times, I would think. I mean, for every shot that connected, surely there would have been at least as many misses, unless the guy was an incredible marksman.
Sorry–should be “semiautomatic”, above, not semiotic. Unless the weapon fired abstract symbolic systems, of course.
with a Bakhtin stock and a Panopticon sight
MUSLIMSLOOKATMYTITSMUSLIMSLOOKATMYTITSMUSLIMS
She should name them Ali Booby or something.
a semiotic assault weapon
It rapidly shoots inkblots at people?
It’s a promise, dude. The Gypsies won’t be forgiven for how they will have led to your death.
NOR THOSE ROTTEN BELGIES!
Even with a semiotic assault weapon
That was no typo. Let’s spend the rest of the night deconstructing it.
That was no typo. Let’s spend the rest of the night deconstructing it.
Do we need that long? A trained linguist can deconstruct and reconstruct a semiotic assault weapon in 40 seconds.
Rapidly deconstructing your semiotic weapon is one of the first lessons of boot camp.
Steerpike, it was a high concentration crowd of soldiers in a processing facility; a semiautomatic could easily hit a lot of them in a short amount of time. And it was pretty short, according to the commander.
The best part – a female police officer took him down. She was first reported killed, but she also survived surgery, as of this evening. Good for her, and phooey on the manly man chest beating! And there was a question from a reporter about whether the soldiers rushed the guy, durr, so someone’s wet dream was postponed.
Interesting tidbit, the guy was a Virginia Tech grad and I thought I heard he did six years at Walter Reed as a psych intern.
Interesting tidbit, the guy was a Virginia Tech grad and I thought I heard he did six years at Walter Reed as a psych intern.
Yep. VT and Walter Reed. American born, too. Family said he enlisted because “that’s what good Americans do,” or something to that effect. Beyond his name, this just looks like a soldier who did not want to go into the bloodbath after hearing so many horror stories from soldiers he treated. He also, apparently, was harassed due to his name while in the Army.
Can you imagine spending your life running around the globe sucking off pudgy neocon trolls while ALL-CAP thoughts hurtle through your brain at an amphetamine-grade pace? Because Pam can.
I love you. There, I said it.
semiotic assault weapon
with a Bakhtin stock and a Panopticon sight
and socially-constructed recoil reduction.
How long before we hear that “if only the victims had guns….”
I only said that Hasan is probably not the shooter because there is very little chance he could hit 43 people with two handguns. And that’s not accounting for how many bullets almost certainly went astray. By the way, who are these witnesses identifying Hasan as the shooter?
One of Schlussel’s friends types:
Ummm… Speaking of “putrid nonsense,” I’m reading Dogs of God, by James Reston Jr. If you want to talk about putrid nonsense, it would be hard to ignore the Spanish Inquisition, inistigated and “blessed” by the Pope.
Apropos, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I’m no gun geek , but there doesn’t seem to be anything too unbelievable here.. Given that Hasan, like all soldiers, had been trained to do exactly the kind of thing that he did, I don’t really see anything too odd about him doing an efficient job of it.
With 30 injured, there must be at least some who are capable of talking about it, and probably more eyewitnesses who escaped unscathed.
Not clicking there – I already know just how much these Good Wholesome Upstanding Family-Values-Oriented REAL AMERICANS love love LOOOOOOOVE to beat off over freshly-butchered human beings, & don’t much want or need a refresher-course on that charming penchant of theirs.
Psychiatrists are about #1 on the “Professions Guaranteed To Make You Go Totally Batshit Crazy” hit-parade … & yeah, with heavy-duty shells & a dense crowd, you can sure as hell waste a lot of people very very fast.
I’m no theological expert, but as I understand it, if you’re a Muslim (I mean a real one, not one of these medieval Al Queda wannabes) & you murder anyone, that’s an automatic ticket to hell, period … just like all the other major religions.
Pam “But Taking My Meds Would Mean I Want Teh Terrorists To Win” Atlas IS a semiotic assault weapon – able to fire off 25 rounds of brain-piercing horseshit without reloading.
Sockpuppet #47 said,
“I don’t really see anything too odd about him doing an efficient job of it.”
That reminds me of the scene from “Full Metal Jacket” where the Sarge was talking about Lee Harvey Oswald.
[Referring to Lee Harvey Oswald and mass murderer Charles Whitman]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Do any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot?… Private Joker.
Private Joker: Sir. In the Marines, Sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: In the Marines. Outstanding. Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do. And before you ladies leave my Island, you will all be able to do the same thing.
Psychiatrists are medical doctors who took the Oath of Hippocates when they graduated from medical school. There is no way they are trained as marksmen or have even been trained to shoot a gun..
It’s unconscionable that Obama didn’t call for the immediate execution of all soldiers with possibly Middle Eastern names. It just proves Obama’s a Muslim. Just imagine what it would do for morale when soldiers with vaguely Muslim sounding names were hounded out of the service, if they were lucky enough to avoid being shot or hung this very night by righteously furious erstwhile comrades. And for Yaweh’s sake, don’t forget the Navy, Marines and Air Force!
What Jon Stewart just did to Glenn Beck. You must watch it.
The shooter, Major Hassan Malik, is confirmed alive. He is out of the OR and will survive
Where’d you see this?
Here.
By the way, who are these witnesses identifying Hasan as the shooter?
I read that at least one of the cops he exchanged fire with identified him.
How many groups (wingnuts, muslims, peace activists) do you think were watching the tv praying that it wasn’t committed by one of them. Is that a horrible thing to think about?
Pam Gellar? I fucked her.
You know what? I’ll say it. When I first saw this story break, I was thinking “White male. Late 20s. Quiet and aggressively polite but distant. They’ll find a copy of The Turner Diaries in his locker.” The fact that it turned out to be a Muslim American with as yet inchoate and nebulous motives (beyond rage, fear, confusion, cruelty, and the other demons that always seem to drive the clinically broken) just proves to me that my own private script for how the world works doesn’t correspond to reality much better than the scripts other people work from that I mock regularly.
Everyone makes wrong predictions the difference is that you changed your view when it was reported he was pushing 40 Muslim instead of chalking it up to a media conspiracy.
Big Hose fans will be amused to note a less than hysterical take on something that happened less than two yrs. ago. (Tues., actually.)
D to the A to the M to the N.
After dating Psych undergrads almost exclusively in college, I am not surprised in the least. By the time I graduated (BSEE, Colorado ’88) I had concluded that most Psych majors choose the discipline because they’re fucked in the head and are trying to figure out why.
At least, they acknowledged the problem.
And, as one who has studied Foucault, I paused in awe of semiotic assault weapon.
Oh, and a string of white right-wing nutjobs can gun people down, and the neocon/teabag/protofascists among us all sneer “random violence,” when confronted with evidence that they were goaded by eliminationist rhetoric.
But let one “Muzzie” go postal, and it’s a fucking Jihad, just because of his name and the name he calls his God.
What hypocritical, arrogant assholes. I shouldn’t be shocked or suprised… and I’m not really, except by how much it still pisses me off.
Ha ha! Guy just said “semiotic weapon” on CNN.
Or my ears are on their last legs.
I had concluded that most Psych majors choose the discipline because they’re fucked in the head and are trying to figure out why.
It’s a little close to the truth, yeah.
But then, everyone’s fucked in the head somehow. Psych majors just trend towards being the most self-aware about it. Then again, there’s also the neat instances of psych major hypochondriacs.
And yes, when we learned about that in abnormal psychology, everyone thought they had it.
So next week just try to enjoy the show because to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a TV show is just a TV show.
The MST3K theme said it better, Freud.
Your daily PENIS: A-Rod’s boner.
I had concluded that most Psych majors choose the discipline because they’re fucked in the head and are trying to figure out why.
So why did you really say that? Who else in your family was fucked in the head and trying to figure out why?
/ELIZA
“the blood feast to come”
Thank you NOT for reminding me that I missed breakfast.
OneMan said:
“Not it. I visited Lil’ Debbie Snackcakes’ place and I’m all out of brain bleach.”
YOU BASTARD. I went there. Oh dear God, it seems the only thing worse than what she writes is what comes up on her comments. When you gaze long into the abyss…
I thought the semiotic assault weapon was a thing of which Jeff Goldstein was unduly proud of virtually swinging.
I came across this delightful little comment at darkly-dreaming-Debbie’s:
“”This is a terrorist right in our military; plain and simple. The media can spin it whatever way they want. We should round up the muslims like we did the japanese, and put them in camps. Send them back to their countries that they came from, or make them slaves before they kill us all. The muslims have taken over Michigan, and look what happened to the automobile industry. We must have a crusade and push the muslim terrorist religion out of the USA. Islam is not a religion. They do not seperate religion from state. It is a political party like the Nazi is a political party. It is a criminal party. Some religion of peace this is!!! We need to fight before it is too late
infidel on November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm””
I really, really hope it’s a troll.
I dream of the day we beat our semiotic assault weapons into plowshares with which to till the platitudes and make them fruitful.
The worst events inspire the best commentary here, not that I hope for more of that.
“The muslims have taken over Michigan, and look what happened to the automobile industry”
This is true. No muslim country has ever built a decent automobile.
“We should round up the muslims like we did the japanese, and put them in camps.”
So some teabaggers are for the FEMA camps
You know, I thought at first it would be a white dude, but then I realized it wasn’t that likely since white wingnuts pretty much worship the military.
But the more I’ve heard about Hasan’s background, I’m inclined to think this was not so much an act of terrorism as a rather typical workplace/school shooting that happened to happen on an army base — disaffected loner, feeling betrayed for some reason, turns to $AGENDA (jihad, communism (aka Lee Harvey Oswald), nihilism (Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold), that sort of thing) as a way to eliminate his problem. Islam is a red herring here; he may have done it as an act of jihad, but if he wasn’t a Muslim he’d have probably found some other reason to do it.
I wonder if he was a Men’s Rights wanker or a seduction community wannabe. You don’t get to be 39 and single without being either a confirmed manslut or having some serious emotional/social issues. (I’m 34 and single. I have serious emotional/social issues.)
(Oh, and I am not a woman, but “Pass-Around Pammy” sounds appropriate to me. Those who make their bone(r)s using sexual hypocrisy deserve all the crap you can throw at them. Of course, that’s pretty much only Pam and Ann Coulter, and maybe Elizabeth Hasselbeck, but have at you.)
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Why is Google promoting the gay agenda on their logo today?
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In that Pamaluscious vein, Atlas Shags. But she’s very selective, and none of us need apply.
Well, maybe old Vic would make the cut, on second thought.
Also Penis
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/penis#Latin
If our soldiers keep shooting each other, there might not be enough for the Iraqis and Afghanis to shoot. Then where would we be? Blood is the last real export we have.
If you want to talk about putrid nonsense, it would be hard to ignore the Spanish Inquisition, inistigated and “blessed” by the Pope.
Did you know that they once burned a 96-year-old woman at the stake? I mean, think about that shit. How much of a dick would you have to be to burn a 96-year-old woman alive?
I’m thinking you’d have to be pretty much a irredeemable cock to do that.
In other news: Newt Gingrich is the latest Conservative to bow down to Rush Limbaugh.
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fixed tag
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gocart mozart:
You know, you hear something like that, Rush Limbaugh starts to look more and more like Boss Tweed. I wonder how many diamond tie-pins he owns.
Has Pammy’s hairline always started on the back of her head? Just askin’.
And on a serious note, this reminds me a tad of a home-grown psychiatrist shooting, although that one was targeted and revenge-based, apparently: a mental health director here in Adelaide was shot in her office (about 2 minutes walk from my office at the time) by some psychiatrist dude who was piqued that she’d caused him to be temporarily deregistered (for being a loony, as I understand it).
And yeah, who would have expected an act of war in a country that’s already in two wars? Aside from the fact that it seems not so much an act of war as an act of desperation (from the information flow I’ve seen). And funny how right-wing nutcases who go on rampages are ‘loose canons’ while shooters with ME names are jihadists.
Sigh. Why can’t the world be full of rational logical people who aren’t arseholes?
What does Pammy expect the military to do, shoot the evidence or something?
What does Pammy expect the military to do, shoot the evidence or something?
Bomb Ft. Worth to buggery from a drone and risk a few collateral deaths to be sure of taking out the target. It’s good enough for Afghanistan, after all.
I hope you are not suggesting that employees of the US military should be subject to US law.
Pass-Around Pammy: a skanky dress to match a rotten mind.
Now watch the wingnut-o-sphere and the ‘liberal’ media fall over themselves arguing that random shootings by people with Muslim sounding names are terrorism while semi-organized attacks by Republicans are merely random acts of violence. IOKIYAR.
I think we should nuke Texas and kill all those jihadists who murdered are sodiers. They are not proud Americans like us. They hate are President and most want to be their own country. I say go for it. America, love it or kill it.
sleep tight everyone, or sleep loose if you prefer.
For what it’s worth, some schmuck on the tee vee said if it’s a capital case the FBI takes over from the Army CID.
“Law enforcement asshattery.”
Yahweh strike her dead.
Sigh. Why can’t the world be full of rational logical people
Yes, we need more engineers.
who aren’t arseholes?
D’oh.
The fact is, the media can spin it whatever way they want. We should round up the muslims like we did the japanese, and put them in camps. Send them back to their countries that they came from, or make them slaves before they kill us all. The muslims have taken over Michigan, and look what happened to the automobile industry. We must have a crusade and push the muslim terrorist religion out of the USA. Islam is not a religion. They do not seperate religion from state. It is a political party like the Nazi is a political party. It is a criminal party.
What does Pammy expect the military to do, shoot the evidence or something?
She expects them to send in Gibbs, Ducky, Abby, DiNozzo, Ziva and McGee. Then we should have the whole thing wrapped neatly in just one hour. (minus time for commercials.)
Tag, I’m it.
The fact is, I can’t wait for Hopey-Changey’s plans to come tumbling down, so we can take back America for Real Americans. Then there will be payback to the Liberal Left traiters who tried to make us socialist. And paybacks a bitch.
If Obama had the balls to push for Medicare-for-all, it would have been very interesting to see if universal access to mental health care would effect the size of the blog troll population and the number of crazed wingnuts running loose in public.
Most wingnuts are clinically diagnosable. They deserve access to the treatment they need–if only to get them out of our faces and away from the ballot box.
I’d settle for pushing them so far that the dumbfuckistan red states secede, though….
I’m thinking you’d have to be pretty much a irredeemable cock to do that.
Agreed. And The Irredeemable Cocks is a great name for a band. Or a movie.
“Agreed. And The Irredeemable Cocks is a great name for a band. Or a movie.”
Or a magician.
What, not a fan of Khodro and SAIPA? Khodro is sending its first batch to Switzerland.
And don’t forget Proton, who owned Lamborghini for a while.
Semiotic Assault Weapon would be a great band name.
Tonight Only! Tickets Available!
Semiotic Assault Weapon with Irredeemable Cocks
Based on a poster I once saw for “Pretenders with Simple Minds.”
A newer post by Pam.
Cry, Marxist, cry. I long for the days of less than 5% unemployment, American hegemony and robust American pride.
1998?
Proton still own Lotus. Besides, the Proton Wira is a reasonable car. I’d definitely call it “decent”
I don’t think that more easily available mental health services could reduce the wingnut population much, if at all. Most of them just won’t voluntarily start treatment of that kind, or acknowledge they have a problem.
Most of them just won’t voluntarily start treatment of that kind, or acknowledge they have a problem.
What the fuck are you talking about, asshole? I don’t have any fucking problems. Go talk to the fags, the femnazis and the Muslims if you wanna see problems. Fucking asshole!
What the fuck are you talking about, asshole? I don’t have any fucking problems. Go talk to the fags, the femnazis and the Muslims if you wanna see problems. Fucking asshole!
Mom?
By all means, let’s round up all the members of any religion and put them in camps whenever any one of its members goes on a rampage of senseless murder. Pretty soon, all we’ll be left with is the Unitarians. (and all of us heathens, of course.)
Gah.
News reports now have the gunman shouting “Allah Akbar” before opening fire. Which sounds kinda like the thing a Christian fundy might say before shooting an abortion doctor (Something like “It’s God’s will!”). But nothing to compare here. Nope.
Cry, Marxist, cry. I long for the days of less than 5% unemployment, American hegemony and robust American pride.
1998?
Cry “marxist” and let slip the dogs of Clinton/Gore!
Why can’t the world be full of rational logical people who aren’t arseholes?
We’d be out of members. Can’t have that now, can we?
Pretty soon, all we’ll be left with is the Unitarians. (and all of us heathens, of course.)
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Where were John Hinderaker’s armed security guards?
But the Japanese went on to build great automobiles after they were rounded up in the United States during WWII and their homeland defeated, ergo if we defeat the Muslim countries in the middle east and round the Muslims in the United States, the Muslims in the Middle East will go on to build great automobiles. But to do that we need to defeat all Muslim countries so expand the war! That’s what the neocons were really getting at.
That’s what the neocons were really getting at.
That’s what they’re ALWAYS getting at. More wars. BIGGER wars.
As long as they don’t have to fight ’em, of course.
Psychiatrists are about #1 on the “Professions Guaranteed To Make You Go Totally Batshit Crazy” hit-parade …
I work with psychiatrists (at a VA, no less), and…yeah. The stuff these guys have to hear would drive anyone bananas.
As a side note, in my experience the best psychiatrists are the ones who don’t take psychiatry too seriously and are fully aware that we don’t *really* know what the fuck we’re doing when we fiddle around with someone’s neurochemistry.
If I were Obama, I’d declare that we were in desperate need for the wartime expertise of neocons, invite Kristol, Podhoertz, Brooks, Friedman, and the rest of the “Let someone else fight the war for my glory” assholes on a tour of Afghanistan… and then leave them there.
Who is the Call Girl pictured with the fat guy?
Please note WaPo’s astonishingly detailed biography of the shooter in today’s edition. It had to be written well in advance of the incident.
Okay.
Doctors in the Army are still trained on weapons use and are required to periodically update siad training. Unless that doctor is cleared by the Army due to religious reasons, he learns to shoot. Very few, if any anymore, are cleared; Quakers during Vietnam, who were drafted are an example.
Two semi-auto pistols. Berettas? 15 rounds. In a crowded room, without aiming, a person can fire that weapon as quickly as they can pull the trigger. He easily could have emptied both guns in 5-10 seconds. Reloading is quick and simple. He could have fired 30 rounds and reloaded before the majority of people even identified what was happening and where it was coming from. 10 freakin seconds.
And 9mm bullets often pass through a victim. In situations like this, many rounds strike 2 or more people before stopping.
So, conspiracy theorists, shush. Let the investigators investigate without all the blather. You sound like pammycakes.
Also, if this were a rightside forum, my comment would lead to an inevitable flamewar about which caliber was best for home defense or fighting off the coming Obama takeover.
Hey Debbie, what’s with the “G-d” idiocy? Is that like the cool thing for a j-w right now? Just spit it right out like a God-fearing Christian next time: GOD! The foundations will not shake, and the heavens won’t bow.
See, it’s this kind of shit that makes me want to grab right-wing Jews and shake them while yelling “they don’t actually like you! Rightist Christians are not your friends.”
But then, I actually read what Pammycakes and Debbie write, and think to myself, “fuck it. they deserve it.”
So, today is evidently going to one of those days where the Wingnuts get to show their commitment to True Merkin Freedom™ by ghoulishly advocating in earnest for shit that they’ve been falsely accusing Obama of. Made-up FEMA camps for Wingnuts bad; made-up FEMA camps for Muslims good, etc.
Why, you might almost get the idea that their paranoid fantasies about Obama are nothing more that a “tell” for what they would do with unchecked power. Sick fucks.
Who is the Call Girl pictured with the fat guy?
Robert Spencer
Two semi-auto pistols. Berettas? 15 rounds. In a crowded room, without aiming, a person can fire that weapon as quickly as they can pull the trigger. He easily could have emptied both guns in 5-10 seconds. Reloading is quick and simple. He could have fired 30 rounds and reloaded before the majority of people even identified what was happening and where it was coming from. 10 freakin seconds.
And 9mm bullets often pass through a victim. In situations like this, many rounds strike 2 or more people before stopping.
And of course the police who responded had guns, so there might have been folks accidentally shot in the crossfire.
Also, if this were a rightside forum, my comment would lead to an inevitable flamewar about which caliber was best for home defense or fighting off the coming Obama takeover.
Right you are.
We should be getting back to the Mac/PC thing.
Story at Huffington Post says:
Officials are not ruling out the possibility that some of the casualties may have been victims of “friendly fire,” that in the mayhem and confusion at the shooting scene some of the responding military officials may have shot some of the victims.
Seeing as how Hassan himself was shot 4 times, it’s obvious there were other guns at the scene.
And of course the police who responded had guns, so there might have been folks accidentally shot in the crossfire.
If this were a right-wing forum, this idea would be hysterically shouted down immediately, because in perfect Second Amendo-world, bullets NEVER go where they are not intended to, as long as they are fired by good White Christians.
If this were a right-wing forum, this idea would be hysterically shouted down immediately, because in perfect Second Amendo-world, bullets NEVER go where they are not intended to, as long as they are fired by good White Christians.
Speaking of which, isn’t it about time that one of the Second Amendment fanatics declares that it’s a shame there wasn’t a man with a gun at the scene?
If this were a right-wing forum, this idea would be hysterically shouted down immediately, because in perfect Second Amendo-world, bullets NEVER go where they are not intended to, as long as they are fired by good White Christians.
Jesus loves the Christian bullets
All the Christian bullets of the world
As long as you are white
And lean far beyong the right
Jesus loves the Christian bullets of the world
Time to round up all handgun owners and put them into camps.
Speaking of which, isn’t it about time that one of the Second Amendment fanatics declares that it’s a shame there wasn’t a man with a gun at the scene?
Here in Atlanta, that man is Boortz, a true douche of a right-winger.
Here in Atlanta, that man is Boortz, a true douche of a right-winger.
I suspect Boortz had little comment on the recent mass shooting in south Alabama, where I guaran-damn-tee you that everybody had a gun either on them or nearby.
Speaking of which, isn’t it about time that one of the Second Amendment fanatics declares that it’s a shame there wasn’t a man with a gun at the scene?
There we are, right on cue.
I must say, it does seem a bit odd that the soldiers generally don’t have their guns with them. I mean, granted, there are any number of situations in which you wouldn’t WANT them to have them, but as a general rule? These guys are trained.
The military normally only issues weapons when going into a combat zone. Otherwise they are secured in the Armory.
Weapons are more of an accounting/$ issue. Valuable tools to be locked away, and carefully kept track of when in use.
Speaking of Boortz, I listened to his poop when I had a long commute and later start time. Now I’m at work long before his troglodyte show airs. But he had a huge rant about the VTech shootings and how guns woulda saved the day and how universities are full of pussies who can’t be expected to fight back…
Bloggus Interruptus
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Man, you have to know how far out in right field PammTitties is when even FOX News refused to go here!
Little-known fact: Everyone in the room DID have a gun, but Andy would only give each of them one bullet.
This is not the first time American soldiers have been victims of politically correct policies.
So is the idea of keeping weapons in the Armory pretty much SOP for military forces everywhere? And is it a long-standing practice?
Neal Boortz now suddenly thinks that newspapers are valuable and people should consider that they might be worth subscribing to.
It is a complete coincidence that he has been hired by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
There were definitely other guns at the scene, including the woman who shot Hassan. A number of first responders went in with their guns blazing. So it’s highly likely that some of those wounded were shot by so-called “friendly fire.” But yes, Hassan would have also had weapons training, so he could easily have wreaked a lot of the havoc on his own.
Sad case. I’m guessing the guy was driven to despair and went nuts and it had nothing to do with his heritage or background. But time will tell. I just shuddered when I saw his name, though, as I have a number of Muslim, as well as Christian Middle Eastern (who automatically get lumped in with teh muzlins bc of their names and swarthy demeanors), friends in this country and elsewhere.
Yeah: Dr. Tiller is gunned down in church, and the incendiary rightwing @$$holes who support him try to auction off their disgusting anti-abortion paraphenalia on E-Bay to raise money for Scott Roeder’s trial. Roeder has been aided, abetted, funded and encouraged for decades by rightwing hit squads to kill US citizens. But hey: that’s all good! No terrorists here bc we’re all card carrying members of rightwingnutistan. Roeder & his goon squads are good ole boys and girls, Bible-thumpin (even tho they never read it), gun-totin, 2d Amendo WHITE folks!! And don’t forget: IOKIYAR.
Weapons and ammo on military bases are very carefully tracked for safety reasons. Exactly because they want to minimize opportunities for this sort of thing.
Nothing makes the purpose of a weapon (killing) clearer than being trained to use one. Gun safety is so ingrained in you by the time you leave basic that when you aren’t carrying your weapon at the ready, you strictly keep it oriented in a safe direction without even thinking about it.
“This is not the first time American soldiers have been victims of politically correct policies.
So is the idea of keeping weapons in the Armory pretty much SOP for military forces everywhere? And is it a long-standing practice?”
She had to tie it to her book! What a whore.
So is the idea of keeping weapons in the Armory pretty much SOP for military forces everywhere? And is it a long-standing practice?
Absofuckingpositively. French, German, British, I’m sure Warsaw Pact back in the day.
Sad case. I’m guessing the guy was driven to despair and went nuts and it had nothing to do with his heritage or background.
There’s some talk that he was having a hard time reconciling going to Iraq and possibly confronting his Muslim brothers and sisters.
I can buy that, to an extent. He was said to be a devout Muslim, and that is one of the central tenets of the religion, not to kill your fellow Muslim. I would imagine in this instance, it mirrors the whole Amish/Mennonite/Quaker rule about even picking up a weapon.
What I’m having a hard time figuring out is, if this guy was struggling so much with the idea of being deployed…I mean, you know, the guy’s a psychotherapist, why didn’t he just write himself an excuse note?
“Hassan can’t go to war today, cuz he’s sick,
Signed
Hassan’s Mom”
Yes, keeping weapons in a safe place freakin predates the invention of gunpowder!
Anybody else think Hassan looks like Beldar Conehead?
What is it with Virginia Tech students?
Thanks, Rusty. When one squirts coffee out of one’s nostril, it BURNS!
Like thinking of Pammycakes naked…
What I’m having a hard time figuring out is, if this guy was struggling so much with the idea of being deployed…I mean, you know, the guy’s a psychotherapist, why didn’t he just write himself an excuse note?
Or better yet, hire Orly Taitz!
Re: guns in armories.
In the Army every company-level unit keeps its assigned individual weapons (as well as most crew-served weapons) in its arms room. Basically a giant gun safe.
Usually 2-4 soldiers are detailed to maintain the arms room and keep up the inventories, send broken weapons in for fixing, things like that.
All weapons and ammunition are strictly accounted for. Ammunition is not kept in the arms room, but is stored at the ASP (ammunition supply point) which is usually an even higher-security location near the live-fire ranges. From a distance they tend to look like small prisons, with razor wire fences and controlled access.
This is all done because the Army recognizes that lots of people would do stupid shit if they were toting around their assigned weapon on a daily basis. Remember that there are over 550,000 folks in the active Army, and even more in the Guard and Reserve components. Its a microcosm of society as a whole, with probably slightly higher rates of certain dysfunction because of deployments, etc.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers carry their assigned weapons with them at all times, but their ammo load is determined by their mission and whether they are working inside or outside a FOB (forward operating base). FOBs are pretty secure, some are almost like US military posts in the US or Europe.
Operational orders issued by the relevant commanders determine who carries their weapons where, and what ammo load is carried under what conditions.
The only folks who do not carry their weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan are folks who have been identified as having strong tendencies to commit suicide or homicide (well, fratricide, really). Some may have their firing pins removed and carry no ammo load (so they will not be immediately recognizable by their lack of weapon), others, in certain circumstances, will simply have their assigned weapon taken from them.
Back in the US, arms rooms are also used for weapons storage for soldiers who have been identified as high risk for domestic violence/suicidal/homicidal ideation who also own their own weapons. Any soldier living in a barracks who owns his own firearms must store them in his unit’s arms room.
The major who committed this crime probably lived in officer quarters, not barracks, and was therefore not required to keep his weapons in his unit’s arms room.
If the second ammendment fanatics had their way and everybody could carry a gun anywhere and anytime they wanted, I’m guessing vey few would actually do so. After a month or so when the novelty has worn off, the vast majority would not be bothered to carry guns all the time. But even if they did, I still don’t believe it would be an effective deterrent to crazy people acting crazy. Most of them either expect to get shot eventually and don’t care or they believe they are invincible
The US Army – Not As Dumb As You Think We Are
Most 2nd Amendment fanatics also have never spent a lot of time trying to hit small moving targets. Its a special skill, which is why infantry units don’t typically rely on individual shooters, but massed suppressive fire to get the job done.
Really, only snipers are trained to hit moving humans.
After a month or so when the novelty has worn off, the vast majority would not be bothered to carry guns all the time.
For one thing, they’re heavy. For another, they ruin the lines of my tight blue jeans. For a third, they’re smelly, greasy, and leave metal rubbings all over my silk underwear.
Beldar Conehead!! Ohmieffengawd!! Thanks for a giant laff, Rusty. Uh, not to be disrespectful and all, but: hell, yeah! I guess that’s why I was mentally snapping my fingers last night when I saw his photo.
Also, RobNYNY: I almost said the same thing in my first post.
I have relatives who are huskies AND teabaggers of the worst sort. Don’t think for a minute that teabaggers are all ancient and on the endangered species list. Hate to say it, but many a teabagger is a Boomer or GenXer.
But yeah: what the heck is UP w/VA Tech???
For one thing, they’re heavy. For another, they ruin the lines of my tight blue jeans. For a third, they’re smelly, greasy, and leave metal rubbings all over my silk underwear.
Not to mention they muffle your beautifully clear speaking voice.
And what is it with Killeen, TX?
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/18/us/portrait-of-texas-killer-impatient-and-troubled.html
Back when Bill Maher was still on network tv they were discussing the proposal to legalize medical marijuana in California. One of the guests was a police chief from one of the big cities, I think San Francisco, who ststed that if they passed a law that would give some individuals a permit to carry marijuana then it would be impossible for the police to know who had it legally and who was breaking the law. The first thought that came to me when he said that was wouldn’t that same reasoning apply to guns? And if I were to run accross a stranger on a dark street corner I’d much rather he was smoking a joint than carrying a gun.
After a month or so when the novelty has worn off, the vast majority would not be bothered to carry guns all the time.
Probably, but that first month would be quite a mess.
I’m guessing the guy was driven to despair and went nuts and it had nothing to do with his heritage or background.
“his cousin says he was the target of constant harassment from others in the military. His tormentors called him a “camel jockey,” said his cousin, Nader Hasan. He wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney. ” link
So it may have affected him in that it was something he got harassed about.
Most 2nd Amendment fanatics also have never spent a lot of time trying to hit small moving targets.
Yeah Confederate Yanker and all the rest of those morons who think that
a) the solution to everything is to arm everyone, and
b) the day would have been saved if only they’d been there with their desert eagle or what the fuck ever
have, to a person, never been in a firefight.
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to my that these idiots would be trying to spin this for political gain, but… damn.
Most 2nd Amendment fanatics also have never spent a lot of time trying to hit small moving targets. Its a special skill, which is why infantry units don’t typically rely on individual shooters, but massed suppressive fire to get the job done.
It’s not impossible, but few are the men who can bullseye moving targets that aren’t much bigger than two meters.
most Psych majors choose the discipline because they’re fucked in the head and are trying to figure out why
Dunno about most, but I know one for sure.
Probably, but that first month would be quite a mess.
But a banner month for the Darwin Awards.
There’s some talk that he was having a hard time reconciling going to Iraq and possibly confronting his Muslim brothers and sisters.
I can buy that, to an extent. He was said to be a devout Muslim, and that is one of the central tenets of the religion, not to kill your fellow Muslim.
Sure, but…he was a psychiatrist. As far as I know, they don’t get deployed to kill people. They get deployed to put people back together again and to catch people *before* they go on killing rampages. I suppose they might prescribe something to soldiers to get them back out into the field, and that that would have made him feel like an accessory.
I’m just guessing, of course. I don’t really know what goes wrong in a guy like this.
“Sad case. I’m guessing the guy was driven to despair and went nuts and it had nothing to do with his heritage or background. “
NPR had a piece this morning where the reporter (Daniel Zwerdling?) interviewed Hasan’s former co-workers at Walter Reed. They were not complimentary. The piece mentioned that he used his slot in “grand rounds” to expound his crazy fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran and that his co-workers would talk about him in the hallway: “Is he a terrorist?”
They went so far as to call him a “*-bag” to the reporter. Cobag? Douchebag? Couldn’t tell from the story but they did not like the guy.
So he was crazy and not in the good way.
Also, he lived off-base in an apartment.
Sorry, no funny this time.
But a banner month for the Darwin Awards.
Heh, true. ‘Course, if I could be sure that they’d only off *themselves* by accident, I wouldn’t mind so much. As it stands, I think the smart thing to do would be to take a nice long vacation to Canada until the herd thinned itself out somewhat.
“his cousin says he was the target of constant harassment from others in the military. His tormentors called him a “camel jockey,” said his cousin, Nader Hasan. He wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney. ”
This has me wondering if perhaps one or more of his good Christian fellow soldiers had perhaps hinted at the possibility that Nader just might fall victim to “friendly fire” if he were to be deployed to a combat zone.
And what is it with Killeen, TX?
It’s also pretty close to Waco
few are the men who can bullseye moving targets that aren’t much bigger than two meters.
T-16s don’t kill Womp Rats, future voice over actors do.
The piece mentioned that he used his slot in “grand rounds” to expound his crazy fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran….
Oh, God. The crazy fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran is bad enough. Having the absence of mind to do it during grand rounds is a pretty clear sign that something ain’t right. And they were going to deploy this guy?
Also, he lived off-base in an apartment.
By himself. Right. *sigh*
Sorry, no funny this time.
No, not this time either. Damnit.
The piece mentioned that he used his slot in “grand rounds” to expound his crazy fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran.
Now if he had just been expounding crazy fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible he could have been promoted to head of the Air Force Academy.
And what is it with Killeen, TX?
It’s also pretty close to Waco
And Crawford. Even if Bush gave up “ranching”…
But yeah: what the heck is UP w/VA Tech???
I know right? And aeroplane peanuts!
Killer name, brah. Real swingin’.
If only people would express their frustration with acrostics instead of guns.
“If only people would express their frustration with acrostics instead of guns.”
Secret messages embedded in text don’t kill people, people with too much time on their hands kill people.
Via the GOS:
most Psych majors choose the discipline because they’re fucked in the head and are trying to figure out why
Yeah, that would have been me 30 years ago. Then I figured out I was gay, not crazy. But it was still an interesting thing to major in
Oooh it looks like today’s mass shooting is in Orlando! If only there were more guns…
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/orlando.shootings/index.html
T-16s don’t kill Womp Rats, future voice over actors do.
This is not good, gentlemen…
What. the. HELL, America?
Then I figured out I was gay, not crazy.
Was that before or after the DSM III-r?
Can we start calling these episodes “going military” now?
What. the. HELL, America?
It’s that true-blue American frontier spirit, I suppose. *sigh*
What. the. HELL, America?
These episodes may not fit with our image of ourselves as Americans–modern, enlightened lovers of peace and freedom–but it certainly fits perfectly with much of the rest of the world’s image: Angry, ignorant, heavily armed religious fanatics.
These episodes may not fit with our image of ourselves as Americans–modern, enlightened lovers of peace and freedom–but it certainly fits perfectly with much of the rest of the world’s image: Angry, ignorant, heavily armed religious fanatics.
I know, I’m not really deluded enough to think that we’re these awesome, peace-loving people who are all about talking out our differences, but this is making me very, very tired.
These episodes may not fit with our image of ourselves as Americans–modern, enlightened lovers of peace and freedom–but it certainly fits perfectly with much of the rest of the world’s image: Angry, ignorant, heavily armed religious fanatics.
I resemble that!
I may have missed it more recently, but back when I followed this sort of thing it always struck me that law enforcement was not more out front on the issue of gun control. Seeing as cops would be the folks forced to deal with someone with a semi-automatic (or full automatic–it’s not that hard to convert) assault rifle (or various kinds of smaller high-capacity magazine weapons) you would think they would want to limit or decrease the availability of such weapons. I’ll be happy to learn that in fact law enforcement is out front on this issue, but I sure have hell not seen evidence of it.
but this is making me very, very tired.
Yep.
I know, I’m not really deluded enough to think that we’re these awesome, peace-loving people who are all about talking out our differences, but this is making me very, very tired.
Don’t worry. Eventually you become inured to it and end up developing a nice, pervasive, soothing sense of cynicism. Another shooting? Too bad! too bad! those poor people! So it goes! Well, back to work.
Not Beldar the Conehead, Zippy the Pinhead!
Here’s how Pammy is going to spend her weekend.
http://collincountyconservativerepublicans.com/
http://collincountyconservativerepublicans.com/
Goddamn cheap-ass discount goggles. They don’t WORK!
the guy in the Orlando incident got away and is at large. He was a former office worker there. “Disgruntled” say the reports. Oh, and his surname is Spanish. Time for the next RW ragegasm.
Although it being Florida, he might be Cuban, which would make it confusing for them.
Here’s how Pammy is going to spend her weekend.
Texas, eh? Should be interesting. Texans and Pammy have mutually incomprehensible accents, for one thing. Also, they used “moxie” wrong.
Don’t worry. Eventually you become inured to it and end up developing a nice, pervasive, soothing sense of cynicism. Another shooting? Too bad! too bad! those poor people! So it goes! Well, back to work.
I think I’m almost there. I’m not sad or shocked anymore. Just tired of it.
Also, they used “moxie” wrong.
Right? How the fuck do you do that???
I also love that she “strikes fear in the hearts of radicals”…apparently, “radical” is now synonymous with “leftist,” because she’s about as radical as you can get and not be in prison.
Yes, we need more engineers.
I agree, train operators are swell people.
Although it being Florida, he might be Cuban, which would make it confusing for them.
Ah, I doubt it. It’s like that quote from Putnam County Spelling Bee. “Mexican. Noun. A word used by Americans to refer to people from Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Panama, Spain, Venezuela…” And so on. I’m sure somewhere on the tubes, the phrase “They should ship them all back to Mexico where they belong” has already been uttered in relation to this incident.
Government-run health care saves protestor
Teabagger has a heart attack during the protests, is saved by Medical Personnel from the Capitol Physician’s office.
You couldn’t make this up.
And so on. I’m sure somewhere on the tubes, the phrase “They should ship them all back to Mexico where they belong” has already been uttered in relation to this incident.
While also noting that “they all talk Meskin in church. Now iff’n English was good enough for Jesus, ya think these Meskins would believe it’s good enuf for thayem.”
And yes, this was said by a Texas legislator and reported by Molly Ivins (miss her tons).
No, but you see, the Florida Cubans are the “good guys” to the RWers, cuz they’re anti-Castro.
Teabagger has a heart attack during the protests, is saved by Medical Personnel from the Capitol Physician’s office.
Sometimes I wonder if these people freak the fuck out about death camps and shit because they know that they’ll be drains on the system. If the tables were turned, they’d be all about making their parasite asses into Soylent Green.
More to the point, they vote Republican. Or did, until recently…
Although it being Florida, he might be Cuban, which would make it confusing for them.
and like the Fort Hood guy, I would bet he’s born in America, hispanic surname or no.
But you know, why let facts get in the way when you’re getting a good xenophobic ragegasm going?
But you know, why let facts get in the way
when you’re getting a good xenophobic ragegasm goingever?OT, but… This is just lovely. I guess States Rights aren’t important when it comes to regulation, then.
But you know, why let facts get in the way when you’re getting a good xenophobic ragegasm going ever?
What are these “facts” you speak of? They sound downright inconvenient and ornery. Keep ’em away from me or I’ll git ma gun.
Here’s how Pammy is going to spend her weekend.
Jeebus. There are two kinds of tickets to that event: “Patriot,” and “VIP Patriot.”
And they take themselves quite seriously as bastions of freedom and liberty, I’m sure, wrapped in their flags and carrying their bibles.
Fucking fascists.
It names the Virgin Islands, but not specifically the US Vigin Islands. AHA!!! I think I’ve found a loophole that will allow us to have Brittish style health care!
See, I told you that the terrorists were white right wing extremists!
And so was the Beltway Sniper!
(sorry, we’re busy right now)
Liberal Apologists for Islamic Violence said,
November 6, 2009 at 21:57
(sorry, we
’re busyonly exist in fapping wingnut minds right now)Fiksed.
Great, so the Orlando shooter is an engineer (transportation).
I suppose this blows the whole “engineers are all about rationality” meme, doesn’t it?
Hey, don’t forget about us!
Liberal Apologists for Islamic Violence said,
November 6, 2009 at 21:57 (kill)
Stay classy, Troofie!
Hey, wasn’t it my administration who commissioned that there right-wing terrist report anyway?
So now, instead of “going postal” can we refer to a violent, psychotic rampage as “going psychiatrist”, or “going soldier”? I think “going commando” is already taken
most Psych majors choose the discipline because they’re fucked in the head and are trying to figure out why
Yeah, that would have been me 30 years ago. Then I figured out I was gay, not crazy.
Wait…I DIDN’T have to switch to Finance??????
There are two kinds of tickets to that event: “Patriot,” and “VIP Patriot.”
Yea, but “MInute Man” is who she takes home that night…
Oh, and his surname is Spanish
Oh lord, please let this be Mel Martinez…
Look, what do you fucking liberals expect? If you don’t allow us decent Americans to hate Muslims, of course the uppity little shits will start shooting us! That’s not projection, they really are driven by racially ingrained hate towards extreme violence by their very nature, which is only kept in line by the firm smack of the hand of American decency… and you are just making god fearing white guys like me angrier and ANGRIER AND FUCKING ANGRIER by denying us the right to call them on their racial shit. Fucking hippies! FUCK! Did I tell you that the day Barack Obama won the Presidency was the worst day of my life? Go on, keep on electing liberals, and the coming civil war will be ALL YOUR FAULT! Stop making me hit you! Stop making Muslims hit you! Stop making me lie and act like an ignorant asshole! Fuckity fuck! Bastards! I don’t WANT to come here and gloat about the deaths of the service people I claim to worship, no I DON’T, but you won’t fucking stop rubbing your liberalism in my face! FUCK YOU, GRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Orlando shooter has obviously Christian name. You ever met a Rodriguez who wasn’t Catholic? Yet the media remains silent on this very important point. Should Christians be allowed to purchase handguns? Drive cars? Hold jobs? You decide.
Let’s wait and see what Geller and Spencer have to say on this very important matter…
The incident is more blowback from the Bush administration adventurism- we have a none-too-stable guy who is enraged by the broad-based, indiscriminate War on Terror (so called), which has killed innocent civilians as well as the Sunni Muslim extremists we should have fought with an aggressive law-enforcement effort combined with Special Operations units in “surgical” attacks, combined with the bad policies of stop-loss and the dropping of “moral waivers”, and the result of this horrible synergy is a bloodbath.
Some day, I will diagram that run-on sentence, usually being a grammar pedant.
“Semiotic Weapon” FTW- thanks for making a pretty crappy day more bearable!
but you won’t fucking stop rubbing your liberalism in my face!
What about shoving things down your throat? Can we still do that?
You ever met a Rodriguez who wasn’t Catholic?
He could be Jewish, like Juan Epstein
(Twice in one thread with the Kotter reference. That must be some kind of record.)
What about shoving things down your throat? Can we still do that?
Only teabagging, dear.
Yeah, “semiotic weapon” was one of my best typos ever! Just wait until we start talking about syntactical nukes.
I dunno about that. Had there been the definitive pullback from Iraq and Afghanistan after Obama’s election do you think this guy would have gone bonkers? The CIA still fires missiles at whoever it wants in the area.
All speculation on the actions of a crazyman of course.
syntactical nukes
Getting greedy are we? How many Interons does one person need?
Only teabagging, dear.
So, no Hot Carls or Rusty Trombones either, right? I just want to get this straight.
Nym change phail
So, no Hot Carls or Rusty Trombones either, right?
I haven’t been hot since…I mean, no no!
“semiotic weapon”
First fap capability?
That’s short for “semi-autoerotic weapon.”
Dontcha’ know nuthin’?
That’s short for “semi-autoerotic weapon.”
Dontcha’ know nuthin’?
I’m sorry, my arsenal is aged.
Pam Atlas’ tits, on the other hand, are “semi-erotic weapons.”
Pam Atlas’ tits, on the other hand, are “semi-erotic weapons.
And her arsenal is definitely aged…
Pam Atlas’ tits, on the other hand, are “semi-erotic weapons.”
And her arsenal is definitely aged…
Definite missile fap there.
Oh for fuck’s sake. GOP congressional recruit says “The enemy is infiltrating our military.”
I wonder if he’s a regular Schlussssel reader?
Comments are something else too.
9_9
Hey, wasn’t it my administration who commissioned that there right-wing terrist report anyway?
Yes, proving that you, Dumbya, are a LIBERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Hence the crushing defeats of Redoublechins in ’06 and ’08.
“And her arsenal is definitely aged…”
Certainly her fissile material has been through more than one half-life.
And both her rear echelons and forward operating bases (FOBs) are compromised.
I’d say her flanks were a weak spot too.
I don’t think anyone else has pointed this out, so I may as well. Setting aside the fact that Asshatlas is a horrible human being who can only live with herself because of a congenital inability to feel shame, does she realize how impractical her fever dream is? She’s itching for a global war on Islam, right? Well, last I checked, “Islam” comprises over a billion people and at least a dozen countries, one of which has nukes. It’d be like going to war with China if China were spread across the globe. How many American lives, how many American cities would she be willing to sacrifice for her e-peen?
Her only remaining defenses are semantic missiles.
Why do the Repubbies hate the Moozlims so much? They have so much in common!
* They hate gays
* They think women should be chattel
* They think religion should be law, forced upon all within the state
* They think those of other religions should not be tolerated
* They think their God has given them the right to lay waste to civilians in the name of their wars
and, others.
Great, so the Orlando shooter is an engineer.
Yeah. So is bin Laden.
The island of Sodor MUST BE STOPPED.
I heard the Chinese were on the way to developing syntactical nukes with multiple prosodic heads.
If only the V aliens wore masks as plastic-looking and lifeless as the Shrieking Harpy’s, we’d have a much easier time spotting them.
Say, you don’t think . . .
Pam Atlas’ tits, on the other hand, are “semi-erotic weapons.”
Shaped charges. Improvised expletive devices.
Oh for fuck’s sake. GOP congressional recruit says “The enemy is infiltrating our military.”
Hang about, I thought it was “libelling the troops” to compile reports about their capacity for violence and the dangers if they succumb to extremist philosophies.
Why do the Repubbies hate the Moozlims so much?
For crazy Pammy, at least, I’m thinking it’s mental self defense… I mean, it’s not like she goes and talks to a MUSLIM a couple times a week about the meth-amped wheel-hamster she calls a brain.
“Hang about, I thought it was “libelling the troops” to compile reports about their capacity for violence and the dangers if they succumb to extremist philosophies.”
IOKIYAC(hristian)
I mean, you know, the guy’s a psychotherapist, why didn’t he just write himself an excuse note?
A concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind.
It’s the best catch there is.
It’s what Freud called “the narcissism of small differences.”
I dunno about that. Had there been the definitive pullback from Iraq and Afghanistan after Obama’s election do you think this guy would have gone bonkers? The CIA still fires missiles at whoever it wants in the area.
I think the main problem here, which is clearly Dubya’s legacy, is the stop-loss order policy, and the “moral waiver” issue. Specifically, without the implementation of widespread moral waivers, this guy may have been discharged due to his instability.
Her only remaining defenses are
semanticincontinental ballistic missiles.Stolen shamelessly from DocAmazing over at Alicublog.
Good points. We can still, however, assume that because there are people willing to battle American troops there, there might be some willing to battle us here.
Oh for fuck’s sake. GOP congressional recruit says “The enemy is infiltrating our military.”
My bet is that his only evidence for this theory is the burrito that filled his pants when he saw the story on the news.
I am finding the fact that the shooter was a Muslim to be less interesting than the fact that he was a psychiatrist. I wonder if there is any other case out there of a trained psychiatrist or psychologist who has gone on a psychotic shooting rampage. How ironic that someone trained to deal with the trauma and anxiety of both deploying and returning soldiers would succumb to that same stress.
Also, as a Muslim, he would undoubtedly have met and counseled fellow Muslims who were experiencing exactly the kinds of discrimination and outright harassment that apparently made him snap. What advice would he have given them to cope with their own feelings of alienation and hostility from their fellow soldiers?
tag. I’m it.
ZRM, how wide is the average shit moat anyway?
Wide enough to prevent your sign-stealing ways, hippie!
Yes, it is kind of weird that he was a psychiatrist.
However, I’m thinking he wasn’t very good at it.
“Oops” on the whole “doing no harm” stuff.
As a psych major myself, I must protest the stereotypes about crazy mental health professionals.
Only half studied it because of their own dysfunctions. The other half are truly dedicated individuals who care about their clients.
However, it’s a real crapshoot about which kind you’re going to get when you need one.
Isn’t Jerry Pournelle a psychiatrist? That kind of knocks the “guarantee of mental health” thing into a cocked hat, doesn’t it?
However, I’m thinking he wasn’t very good at it.
I wonder if he ever prescribed innacupuncture.
Man, it’s hard to bring the snark today. Two mass murders in two days- it’s like the goddamn country (no offense, Batman) is slipping into a maelstrom of madness.
How the hell did we get to this point?
I’m thinking it’s the desperation and misery.
Just a guess.
Only half studied it because of their own dysfunctions. The other half are truly dedicated individuals who care about their clients.
These are not mutually exclusive. Just sayin’.
Soldiers rescued by a brave woman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/us/07police.html?hp
Charles Krauthammer is also a psychiatrist. I rest my case.
Because if I’m gonna be deployed in a foxhole, if I’m gonna be sitting in an outpost, I gotta know the guy next to me is not gonna wanna kill me.
Y’know, it’s not like Muslims are going to be the only ones in the foxhole that might decide to kill you. Why, we had people fragged all through ‘Nam, with nary a Muslim acknowledged.
How ironic that someone trained to deal with the trauma and anxiety of both deploying and returning soldiers would succumb to that same stress.
Not ironic at all. More of an occupational hazard. If a psych. is treating PTSD, and not experiencing some amount of trauma & anxiety in person, then he or she is not doing the job properly.
I had to say that, for professional reasons. The voices told me to.
Charles Krauthammer is also a psychiatrist. I rest my case.
Krauthammer is a fictitious character, like Hannibal Lecter.
Charles Krauthammer is possibly the weirdest looking person who regularly appears on television. I did not know he was a psychiatrist, and now I’ll have nightmares.
Can you imagine that face asking, “How did you feel when that traumatic thing happened to you?”
I’m getting the whimwhams just thinking about it.
Heh heh:
…and at the bottom of that…
Charles Krauthammer looks like Alfred E. Neuman with the Grinch’s sinister grin. Picture it.
Sunday evening Big Hollywood will publish an exclusive excerpt from Carrie Prejean’s upcoming book, “Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.”
D00dz, give it up, she still won’t go out with you!
Still Standing
Defying gravity, in fact.
Heh heh:
Oh, I see that Orly Taitz left a comment!
Still Standing
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
How dare they violate the sacred contract of BLACKMALE.
Whoa whoa whoa. Since when did Miss Prop 8 get a
boobbook deal? And how many pages of full-color photos does it have?Irony is low in trans-fats – & it’s both both educational & delicious!
Won’t you try some today?
Krauthammer is a fictitious character
Nuh-uh! I just saw a clip of him on The Daily Show – & everyone knows if it’s on the Intertubz, it MUST be real!
Never seen anyone before who so perfectly fits the phrase “crawled up his own ass & died” … if not for the hilariously inappropriate smarminess that oozes from him like slime from an amphibian’s skin, I could almost pity the guy.
My my, cranky tonight and all that, are we?
Dammit. Americans shoot people because Americans have GUNS.
It’s really not that complex. Why did Charles Whitman, why did Jim Huberty, why did Seung-Hui Cho?
The answer is we don’t KNOW. We can’t know. What we do know is as long as there’s a gun floating around for every man, woman and child in the US, as long as we worship the second amendment as the inerrant word of gawd, as long as it’s easier to get a gun than it is to get a girlfriend, what the fuck do you people expect is gonna happen?
Lemme ask you something. Do you know how many violent felonies I’ve been convicted of? Do you know how many guns I have? How secure do you feel?
This is the 21st century USA. Stop thinking it’s an anomaly. It is the necessary outcome of everything we have created since Roosevelt. And the trajectory is easy to measure…
mikey
Actually we do know for Charles Whitman, he had a big ‘ole tumor on the part of his that regulated self-control.
Whoa whoa whoa. Since when did Miss Prop 8 get a boob book deal? And how many pages of full-color photos does it have?
I’ll wait for the video to come out.
They could not understand that I’m a BLACKMALE, and I could never be a veteran.
I can see why the Wingnut lifestyle is so inspiring. You don’t have to be smart, or good looking, or even coherent. And apparently a book deal is just part of the package.
Looking for Joe the Plumber’s opus: Idiocy, a Lead Pipe Cinch, or maybe A Sewer of Dunces.
It is the necessary outcome of everything we have created since Roosevelt. And the trajectory is easy to measure…
Yes, 270 million guns (not counting the ones that made it into the market without documentations) in a country of 300 million people. When you have a hammer, everything can look like a nail.
I’m assuming FDR. More illumination on “the trajectory?”
Don’t mock Pammy. She’s appearing in front of Collin County’s fastest-growing Republican club!
J— said,
November 7, 2009 at 4:10 (kill)
They could not understand that I’m a BLACKMALE, and I could never be a veteran.
Wow, that makes me sad, because it both reminded me that once upon a time Flava Flav was something other than a joke, and made me feel suddenly and terribly old.
I started to say Reagan, but it’s really older and deeper than that, isn’t it?
It’s John Wayne and Billy Jack and Arnold Schawartzeneger and Matt Damon, it’s get a gun and shoot your problem, it’s kill your enemy, it’s duty and honor and country and it’s all just a hammer’s fall, just another gunfight, it’s urban terror and mass death and “no negotiating” and “why should I be the one to compromise” and every goddam American myth from the Red Badge to Platoon.
And now you have scared white people, deranged southern people and angry poor people. With lots and lots of guns. Show me where the logical thing is to stand and argue rather than accumulate an effective arsenal of your own. Show me how this ends peacefully. Tell me how we follow the arc of history to a place where we all just find a way to get along…
mikey
then it ends up in the hands of TMZ (or originated from them) then that is BLACKMALE and a broken legal contract.
I’m guessing that’s someone taking the piss.
Did you guys see the Virgin Ben on the sidebar there? Have they really been bitching about a work of art from 1963? A piece whose very purpose was to rework another piece? Seriously, read the article… ye Gods, he’s the youngest Grandpa Simpson ever, yelling for art older than he is to get offa his damn lawn.
Subsidize Xanax?
Carrie Prejean and BLACKMALE? They’ve gone the full mandingo!
And now you have scared white people, deranged southern people and angry poor people. With lots and lots of guns. Show me where the logical thing is to stand and argue rather than accumulate an effective arsenal of your own.
I guess at this point I’d say what I always thought about living in some of the seedier parts of San Francisco for years: If I need a gun to feel safe, it’s time to move. And maybe that’s what it will come to. Leaving da Homeland. But I’m not there yet (and I know, know, it could take one incident to change my mind.) So there’s that.
Tell me how we follow the arc of history to a place where we all just find a way to get along…
Can’t. At least not now. Maybe that’s why we all contemplate “peak Wingnut” around these parts. Maybe we hope this isn’t the rule, but we are instead looking at exceptional circumstances. And that could be a big, big misread of the situation.
I’m not ready to give into (what I see as) the despair of arming myself to the teeth. Not yet anyway.
But the bad craziness? It hangs heavy out there.
Considerably. Read Richard Slotkin’s trilogy: Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment,andGunfighter Nation. It goes back all the way.
Did you guys see the Virgin Ben on the sidebar there?
Oh, that is too delicious. You can tell that Andrew Breitbart really brightens up someone’s day every time he sends off a letter. Don’t ever change, boys.
Here is the link to make things easier.
Bonus points to Ben for admitting that he knows nothing about art, then proving that he also knows nothing about copyright law.
And the people bowed and prayed to the liberal Hollywood, MSM god they made:
Still Standing, p. 2.
I have never felt more exposed, alone, and vulnerable in my life.
Walking around in a bikini and high heels can do that to you.
So I hear.
I for one am going for the armed to the teeth thing.
Wow. I knew it went back at least as far as the Revolution. I did not know it could be traced back to the very beginning of the colonies.
Yeah. It bugs me that he conflates plagiarism and copyright infringement. I mean, I learned the difference in high school. It’s not that hard.
If a psych. is treating PTSD, and not experiencing some amount of trauma & anxiety in person, then he or she is not doing the job properly.
Seriously. Look, I don’t do this sort of thing anymore, but talking to vets with PTSD really can fuck you up. (Lest someone misunderstand, by “fuck you up,” I don’t mean “turn you into a mass murderer.” Nothing really explains that, and certainly nothing justifies that.)
Anyway, let’s say your job is to treat people with PTSD. Every single one of your patients is spending way too much time in his own personal hell because he saw something that he can’t really get rid of. So you start out at 8 AM with your first patient, and you start talking to him, and he tells you this story about how he was in Iraq and driving down a road in a Hummvee or whatever, and suddenly they hit an IED and he was okay but his buddy got blown up, and as he was cleaning up he discovered that his buddy’s brains and one eyeball were stuck to his uniform. You talk to him for a bit, and maybe you prescribe him a drug or two and refer him to a therapy group, and then his time is up and you send him on his way. So the next guy comes in, and he tells you that he can’t sleep because every time he closes his eyes he sees the innocent Iraqi kid that he accidentally blew away because the kid suddenly appeared around a corner making shooting motions with a toy gun, and sometimes in his dreams it’s not an Iraqi kid but his own son he’s blowing away, and….
And it’s like that hour after hour, day after day, week after week. Yes, each person has his own personal hell, and you get a tour of *all* of their personal hells, and you get to keep a little bit of each one of them, more and more bits as time goes on. There aren’t many people who can put up with this for long.
Charles Krauthammer is possibly the weirdest looking person who regularly appears on television. I did not know he was a psychiatrist, and now I’ll have nightmares.
Point of information: Krauthammer was paralyzed in an accident, which presumably accounts in part for his weird appearance. ‘T’isn’t his fault.
I also knew, or suspected, that I was the front-runner, and if I gritted my teeth and gave the politically correct answer, I could be Miss USA.
This hurts to read because it is also how I lost my chance to be EMPRESS OF THE UNIVERSE. Damn teeth.
I for one am going for the armed to the teeth thing.
Fair enough. I don’t consider my position (as it stands) to be “better” or more “honorable,” to be clear. Maybe I just haven’t been close enough to a situation being armed is the only viable solution (and I understand people can get there much too quickly). I knew people who carried guns as casually as cameras, I just always believed that I could avoid situations where they were used (and did, for whatever reasons). Maybe I was just lucky then and maybe I’m just naive now.
I also knew, or suspected, that I was the front-runner, and if I gritted my teeth and gave the politically correct answer, I could be Miss USA.
Until the inevitable porn-video revelation…
This hurts to read because it is also how I lost my chance to be EMPRESS OF THE UNIVERSE.
I could have been the Duke of Earl.
Yo Carrie, I’m really happy for you, I’ma let you finish masturbating, but Vanessa Williams has one of the best beauty pageant porn scandals of all time!
Without bothering to research the facts, Ben can safely assume that the Beatles followed the law in every respect and that Alma Thomas
iswas a looter and a thief. Just HOW does he arrive at that conclusion?Anonymous, that sounds incomprehensibly awful, and what a serious toll that must take on those empathetic people who try to help. I have nothing but admiration for people who can do that for any length of time.
The rumors of my nonexistence are wholly fabricated from whole, um… ultra-sheer spandex lycra blend.
Carrie and her lawyers are just daring TMZ to upload me to Wikileaks, now aren’t they?
Except that the Beatles, presumably, complied with U.S. copyright law, which requires that re-recordings of songs acquire what is termed a “mechanical license” — a process which calls for the re-recording artist to both notify the original artist of the song and to pay a royalty for using it. Alma hasn’t paid a dime to the Matisse estate to my knowledge.
Commercial music is not different from art. There is no such thing as fair use. Art to make an artistic statement about the work of another artist is invalid.
To be more serious, I thought the post here were well worth reading. The excerpts are choice.
(Dammit. I hate it when I misspell my own damn name.)
“Krauthammer was paralyzed in an accident, which presumably accounts in part for his weird appearance. ‘T’isn’t his fault.”
Well, it isn’t all his fault. He could fix the part that’s the result of his pinched, hateful soul.
“…the Beatles followed the law in every respect…”
“Here come ol’ Flattop…”
Sheesh, “post was,” half changed from “excerpts were.” KLo is my editor.
I read the post and excerpts, and then I read this by Big Hollywood commenter Pontiac:
Makes me wonder what the major was.
Anonymous, that sounds incomprehensibly awful, and what a serious toll that must take on those empathetic people who try to help.
I appreciate the sentiment, but what’s really incomprehensibly awful is what the soldiers themselves had to go through. Never in my life did I dream of the sort of thing some of these guys saw.
How secure do you feel?
Still not insecure enough to buy a gun.
Still not insecure enough to buy a gun.
Cool. I deeply admire both courage and commitment.
Historically, though, you ARE cognizant of the expected outcome of your choice, right?
I mean, you DO get what you are choosing, right?….
mikey
Krauthammer was paralyzed in an accident, which presumably accounts in part for his weird appearance. ‘T’isn’t his fault.
Actually, it was his fault. Entirely his fault.
He dove head-first into an empty swimming pool. Nobody pushed him.
I think it explains a lot.
Nothing accounts for Krauthammer’s bizarre nostrils, which, in the category of faces allowed on our glorious national flatscreen, are matched only by Henry Waxman’s.
Packing/strapping: Not really a good idea unless you’re a diamond courier or there really is someone looking for you: Stalker, bookie, loan shark, cops what have you.
The self-confidence/arrogance/whatever that having a gun may give you will put you into situations you’d probably have the good sense to avoid otherwise.
It’s not the quick-draw Wild West out there. By the time you realize you actually could use that gun the person you want to use it on has you at a big disadvantage. Unless you’re the kind of moron who likes to whip it out before it’s needed, in which case you’re fugged anyway.
Walking around in a bikini and high heels can do that to you.
———————
Major Kong said,
I for one am going for the armed to the teeth thing.
Major Kong’s participation in beauty pageants will liven things up considerably.
Jasper Johns is another shameless plagiarist, but no-one has complained about his painting hanging in the White House.
I mean, you DO get what you are choosing, right?….
Yes, insinuations that I’m welcoming death for not being pragmatic, realistic and expecting death to come around the corner at any moment.
Still haven’t actually *been* killed yet, but that doesn’t stop anyone from arguing with the choice to not pack.
Also, historically, I should probably be more worried about getting knifed.
Also, it is obvious that Alma Thomas even stole her name from Edison. Also.
I mean, you DO get what you are choosing, right?….
17 feet. 5 seconds.
It takes about 5 seconds to cross 17 feet from a standing start. It also takes about that long to draw, aim and fire a handgun (assuming you have it holstered and loaded with the safety off).
For anyone closer to you than 17 feet (the distance from your front door to the sidewalk, say), a handgun carries no advantage. You have potentially five seconds to decide if that person is a threat, draw, and shoot.
I cannot live in a world where I must constantly make that decision.
He dove head-first into an empty swimming pool.
Honestly, it was funnier when it was the dog that antagonized Droopy all the time.
If I understand correctly, one place in the contemporary US that minimises (a) the chance that random passers-by will be carrying handguns and (b) the pressure to carry your own weapon in self-defense, is if you live on an army base.
Becoming a poor shut-in also works. Additional benefit, less chance of home invasion.
If I understand correctly
Yes, & perhaps prisons as well
Heard former four-star (I think) Gen’l & Drug Czar Barry McCafferty say twice on MSNBC (unless it was a recording the second time, wasn’t actually watching) that on-base populations were “disciplined,” what ever the fuck that means.
I’ll just bet the crime rate & types of crimes are about the same as in any socio-economically equivalent community.
Though there is a difference between on-base housing for service members & their civilian dependents (lower middle-class suburbia) & the barracks.
So I just realized that the angles that Ms. Oshry-Gellar-Shrug’s pelvis, shoulders and head take in that picture (you know, the one ‘way up there at the top) are exactly like a Chris Muir drawing.
The angles, the crazy…Ohmygaw! Pammycakes is Chris’ model!
Semi meaning half, so you’re talking about just a single wetsuit?
Also, semiotic blancmange of post-structural teakettle barbecue hatstand fishmonger. Also.
I own several guns.
However, I don’t carry one and have no plans to carry one.
I can’t imagine too many situations so dire that I need the gun, but not so dire that I actually have time to use it.
Time to go home now. Clear it out.
No, it just looks like the clock is fifty minutes fast, but it isn’t. G’wan now.
If it’s ten minutes slow you still have to go.
Maybe the clock is 23 hours and 50 minutes fast.
Palin/Prejean book tour/presidential campaign.
Also, I think there’s a typo on the cover of Prejean’s book. Shouldn’t that say backward by Sean Hannity?
I also knew, or suspected, that I was the front-runner, and if I gritted my teeth and gave the politically correct answer, I could be Miss USA.
So she had unnecessary surgery becuase she felt the natural beauty that God in His ineffeble wisdom saw fit to give her was not good enough in her eyes. She had no problem lying about her genes to win, but could not bring herself to lie about how she felt about other peoples business.
It has been reported that some of the victims at Ft. Hood were NOT shot by the alleged shooter but were shot by the people shooting AT the shooter…
If this proves to be true–and I don’t expect to learn the truth anytime soon–then it is ammunition (you should forgive the metaphor…) with which to rebut the claims by the gun-loons that a well-armed society is a safe society…
Incidentally, you may all be interested to know that our favourite obsessive compulsive also repeats his behaviour here over at Salon.com, especially in Glenn Greenwald’s threads;
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/06/reporting/view/index25.html?show=all
Can you spot him, troll watchers? Can you recognize all the usual little psychopathic tells and tics, if you click “other letter’s” and skim read the 19 pages of posts he’s made since having to swap to a new identity just two months ago?
So to the poster known here as “The Truth”, and today “Victory”, we salute your seriously fucked up alienated ass, every where we find it on the internet… and look forward to the day when we can all act like you, and sit around masturbating over the news of you’re opening fire on a crowd of innocent people, just like you’ve been doing for months over anything which allows you to hate and want to kill entire races of people.
roast beef kazenzakis said,
ROFL ACHEWOOD GREAT OUTDOOR FIGHT!@ ROFL! OVER 9000 LAFFS 4 MORE THAN 100 YRS!
Wow, Troofie’s Kennedy-related trollery sure is revealing. He’s got far more of a hate-on over the immigration bill than anything else. I’m glad they’ve moved on from pretending they cared about Mary Jo Kopechne; nothing more ridiculous than watching wingnuts pretend to care about people who can’t benefit them directly.
Also, historically, I should probably be more worried about getting knifed.
I’m very concerned about being bludgeoned with a candlestick. That bastard Professor Plum has been lurking about….
But where is he? In which room!
Delaware beats Switzerland as most secretive financial center
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/11/delaware-beats-switzerland-as-most.html
Welcome back to Pottersville!
Josh Fulton beats Jurassic Pork as most spammiest blogger
D00dz, give it up, she still won’t go out with you!
She might give a pity blow job. But spit it out.
I don’t think that is our Troofie. The one at Salon can use a spell checker which our Troofie has never been able to master. Plus, there are no LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL’s.
Plenty of crazies to go around for everybody I guess.
Crap!! I mispell my own Nym while mentioning spell checking. *Turns red.*
Plenty of Troofys to go around, you mean.
Well, at least ONE of these “Let’s All Move Boldly Forward Into The 13th Century” neocon dipshits has a valid excuse for their chronic ideological dyspepsia:
He dove head-first into an empty swimming pool.
… & nothing of value was lost.
… & nothing of value was lost.
Dunno bout that. A leadhead like that would have left quite a crater in the concrete.And how do you not notice a lack of water to dive in? I think Pa dangled him by his ankles and let the rug rat go.
I don’t think that is our Troofie. The one at Salon can use a spell checker which our Troofie has never been able to master. Plus, there are no LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL’s.
Plenty of crazies to go around for everybody I guess.
Oh it’s him alright; I linked to that page because it’s an almost word for word repetition of what he posted here yesterday; From above…
“Janet Napolitano said,
November 6, 2009 at 21:56
See, I told you that the terrorists were white right wing extremists!
Police Chief Charles Moose said,
November 6, 2009 at 21:56
And so was the Beltway Sniper!”
Also go through the records; you can match almost down to the day how he posts there what ever he was compulsively driven to say here too… See the gloating towards “you liberals” about “Obamacare” supposedly failing every time current events seem to give him the right dog whistle? Remember when he did that here? See the hatred for Ted Kennedy, how many weeks it goes on for, and remember how he gloated about his death here for weeks too? See how he’s obsessed with supposed black crime against whites, and how the liberal media supposedly doesn’t report it, completely unconnected to what was the subject of debate at either Salon or here? And how liberals are the true racists? The only reason you don’t get the “LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL” as well is because Salon auto formats responses, so there’s no point in him trying to break the comment width with it.
And the only reason he’s “The Uncomfortable Truth Returns” today, and not the “The Truth” or “The Uncomfortable Truth About Liberals” is that the first was already taken, and he’s already been banned for good under the second name. And indeed, has also been banned under a few other similar names too… but if Salon still allowed anonymous commentating, you can bet he’d have tried to repeat that oh-so-inciteful commentary I quoted from this thread above under those two names there too. Because he’s wisdom is such that he’s compelled to share it with every liberal blog he can find. Every single day! Alas, instead he was forced to put them almost word for word into just one comment, and publish it under the name he’s currently using at Salon.
So… really, whilst there’s plenty of crazy to go around, this insane behaviour of compulsively and hatefully repeating the same comments across multiple boards for year after year, all the time giving yourself inflated airs and graces and nymns whilst never listening to anyone else let alone your own inner voices that whisper just how much you’ve wasted your life is indicative of just ONE crazy in particular. And it’s very easy to work out which one.
Troofus; we the sane but addicted to watching insanity soil it’s virtual pants online liberal elitist community salute you!
It’s the missing Lohan sister, Dagny Taggart Lohan.
Four hunnert
I figured you were just going Scottish on us.
Steve Kelso from LGFWatch here. We’ve been keeping an eye on Pammy ever since she made a drunken online play for Charles Johnson, a couple of years back. From this year, we grabbed some frames of her “VLOG” meeting with Robert Spencer.
See them here! —
http://lgfwatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/pam-atlas-lures-robert-spencer-to.html
You guys never fail to crack my shit up. Please keep doing what you are doing.