A Riehly special day at Sadly, No!

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As the South Africans used to point out, blecks just aren’t cut out for rugby either.

Bryant Gumbel accused of racism. Who’s next, Wayne Brady?

Does Wayne Brady need to cut a Dan Riehl?

He has noticed RNC Chairman Michael Steele, correct?

The hard part is ignoring Michael Steele.

+5 Awesome pointers to commenter Lightwave for making this guy the Republican Party’s African-American token standard.

Um, points. 100 point(er)s to anyone who can guess what it is I’ve been spending my days studying.

When was the last time anyone paid attention to me anyway?

Gumbel’s analogy is flawed. Most of the Olympians are under 65.

I thought Greg Gumbel was the sports one?

I think we often forget how much the late 18th century Enlightenment helped establish a place for surviving Neanderthals to succeed in prominent life.

It’s not my frigging fault Negroes can’t ski.

Not getting off the boat, so I have no idea if Dan does the “black people have all the rest of sports to themselves” thing. But it would not surprise me if he went there.

Frozen Caveman Lawyer!

Holding shoddy politics and being self-Riehliant.

Trying to remember if Dan Riehl is the guy who’s been rumored to have committed various crimes against children or not…

Trying to remember if Dan Riehl is the guy who’s been rumored to have committed various crimes against children or not…

Well, he’s committed various crimes against reason, logic, the English language, and humanity in general, so…

Riehl is saving his full fury for Al Roker.

I was never that fond of mangoes anyway. Definitely staying in the boat this time.

Alroker is fat. And he’s a hypocrite and traitor for believing in climate change while he was on the Today Show telling us it was “morning in America”.

As much as I want to get out of the boat, not sure I’m in the mood for mangoes today.

I’ll just assume it’s another example of some wingnut making a racist statement, then acting as if people calling him out for being a racist is worse than actual racism.

Or as I prefer to call it: “Monday.”

Mark D-

I believe what you refer to as “Monday” is in this universe more commonly referred to as “every Bob damned day of every Bob damned week”.

It has been fascinating seeing how fast the changeover was as the critical mass of people who don’t cheer open racism was reached and it became a public “bad thing” to be racist of every open racist immediately moving from a “we rule the world” stance to a “we are victims of the cruel marauding PCs and minorities” stance was.

For a more modern version, we get to see it in real time right around the aftermath of Prop 8 in the context of gay rights. Right before it passed, triumphalism and fags deserve it and we can do what we want cause we’re Christians. Right after and a critical mass of people appalled at that sort of thing was reached and made public, suddenly every talking point is how the Christians need to be protected from marauding gay people by taking away all the gay people’s rights otherwise you’re just persecuting them unfairly.

It’s amazing they don’t get whiplash from it all.

What the fuck, all of these sports are played by rich kids. Not of all us are professional students living off their parents, you DFHs. I’m white but I’m not rich and I sure as fuck didn’t grow up rich.

So fuck off you whitey haters.

Riehl apparently has never heard of Shani Davis. An amazing speed skater and one of the favourites winning the 1000 and 1500 meter events.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shani_Davis

Gumbel’s analogy is flawed. Most of the Olympians are under 65.

Also have some degree of skill and athleticism, and have actually achieved things. Plus, less whining EVEN IN ICE SKATING.

I’m white but I’m not rich and I sure as fuck didn’t grow up rich.

What a surprise – most of us didn’t either.

Kindly bite me on my fundament, sirrah.

For the really good mangoes, take the boat all the way to the reminder before getting out. Ah, 2005 with its hysterical rightblogger hissy fits. I had forgotten.

OT, Evan Bayh retiring with a Friday filing deadline for his possible Democratic candidate replacement.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/evan-bayh-to-retire.html?hpid=topnews

Door. hit. ass. etc.

Ah, 2005 with its hysterical rightblogger hissy fits. I had forgotten.

It’s so much more relaxing now that they don’t get so worked up about things, isn’t it?

Door. hit. ass. etc.

Already, the media narrative is ZOMG DEMS ARE *FUCKED*!!!!111!!!111!

I, for one, am fucking glad that motherfucker is gone.

Black men ski.

ZOMG DEMS ARE *FUCKED*

I’m proud to be a fucked democrat and not a blue-ball republican.

OT, Evan Bayh retiring with a Friday filing deadline for his possible Democratic candidate replacement.

Jesus fucking Christ. Not that he’s going, good riddance. But WTF with his timing? asshole.

But WTF with his timing? asshole.

Yeah, he’s a total fucking douche. He told his staff on Friday that he wasn’t running, but didn’t bother telling Obama and Reid until today. Dick!

OT, Evan Bayh retiring with a Friday filing deadline for his possible Democratic candidate replacement.

Jesus fucking Christ. Not that he’s going, good riddance. But WTF with his timing? asshole.

It gets better. The filing deadline is not this Friday but tomorrow:

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2010/2010pdates.pdf

Black men ski.

Thanks, Willy. “Because the cleansing blood of Jesus could not do a Thoreau job.” Ha.

The filing deadline is not this Friday but tomorrow:

Oh, shit. That motherfucker can go fuck himself.

It takes a certain kind of balls in a Blue Dog to spend an entire year fucking up health care reform by every conceivable angle, then announce your retirement one day before a replacement can be filed for your party.

And by that I mean, the kind of balls I would enjoy imagining a jackboot stomping on forever.

Racism from me is either a joke, or an unflinching look at reality. Come on–can’t we call a spade a spade? All this PC anti-christian stuff is taking America down a slippery slope.

When I get called a racist for being a racist then the real (or Reihl) racist is black people. And liberals. They’re the real racists. This is central to my point. Besides, the fact that my racism is common sense means that I’m right and you’re racist, so nyah. Oh, how I pine for the good old days when it was socially acceptable to be a contemptuous, supremacist piece of shit. The fact that we can’t get away with that anymore (except where faggots and muslims are concerned) just signals a decline in civility and the American way. Now excuse me while I go masturbate to a Sousa march and pictures of a Vietnamese village being wiped off the earth by napalm. And Hiroshima also.

Also, if black people didn’t act so “black” like they do on TV and like Kaney or Conyay or whatever his weird black name is, then it would be easier to allow them into society.

Evan Bayh had to have been a secret republican the whole time. I mean who does that.

He said, “the new sheriff is near”.

In Indiana, Democrats are nearly indistinguishable from Republicans. Don’t forget that Bayh’s seat was once held by Dan Fucking Quayle. Bayh was just focused on staying the intellectual course.

Even if he has no sense of ideology you generally don’t get to the senate without a sense of party loyalty so I’m thinking this was done to spite someone. But I can’t figure out who, his statement says that he was mad about the deficit commision, but that doesn’t seem like it’s enough to make him lose his shit like that.

Last week, we got word that Tauzin, PhARMA’s head lobbyist, is getting the ax. On Monday, we find out that Bayh, one of PhARMA’s biggest tools on the Hill, is giving up his piss-ant government job to “find other ways to serve”.

I’m sure these two events are totally unrelated.

Of course they ski. its a great place to pick up white women.

Riehl gets a gold medal in the “talking tough about black adolescents who ‘sassed’ him on public transportation, hours after he could have confronted them” olympics.

Regarding Bayh, that is a serious ratfucking- is there any way the party can strip his retirement benefits? Yeah, he’s going to be a healthcare lobbyist for sure, but can’t they ding his pension?

Riehl gets a gold medal in the “talking tough about black adolescents who ’sassed’ him on public transportation, hours after he could have confronted them” olympics.

I’m HTML challenged, but apparently Bayh called Reid AFTER the news broke…

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/15/2202271.aspx

Fucker.

Yeah, he’s going to be a healthcare lobbyist for sure, but can’t they ding his pension?

Could they? Maybe, maybe not. Would they if they could? Not a chance in Hell; it might make David Broder sad and then the terrorists win.

I’m fairly certain they can’t touch his pension, since he’s not quitting (other than deciding not to run again) and hasn’t committed a crime that we know of. Regarding all the speculation that he’ll take over for Tauzin, aren’t there now rules about how long you have to wait after you’re out of office before you can become a lobbyist?

Bayh’s ratfucking is because the shameless corporate cocksucker didn’t get the VP nod he felt he was entitled to.

I kinda doubt after pulling a stunt like this that the doors of his former colleagues will be open when he starts his lobbying career. My fondest wish is that his prospective employers will recognize this and he will be seen as damaged goods, having ratfucked himself out of a lucrative lobbying career.

While kingubu’s scenario is plausible, Tauzin has always been a remarkably effective gasbag. Bayh not so much. I’d be surprised if big FFarma couldn’t find somebody better at getting things done. They have really deep pockets.

Oh, and while the deadline for filing in the Democratic primary is noon tomorrow, the deadline for filing to run as an independent in the general election isn’t until June. I can see a pretty high probability of some well-positioned Dem declaring himself as an independent (with the blessings of the state and national Democratic parties) and running in the general election. And in Indiana, you probably have a better chance of getting a good Democrat elected as an independent rather than a Democrat.

I kinda doubt after pulling a stunt like this that the doors of his former colleagues will be open when he starts his lobbying career. My fondest wish is that his prospective employers will recognize this and he will be seen as damaged goods, having ratfucked himself out of a lucrative lobbying career.

From your lips to God’s ears.

It’s hard to type while I do it, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Jennifer’s analysis proves correct.

Evan Bayh had to have been a secret republican the whole time. I mean who does that.

Something seems to happen to people who get elected to the US Senate. I don’t know if it’s the money, or if it’s power corrupting, or if it’s just that the job attracts a certain sort of person, but they just seem to lose any conception of responsibility to others. It’s just ME, ME ME. MY perogatives, MY privileges, MY respectability, MY legacy, ME, ME, ME!

I wonder how long it will be before it happens to Franken.

PENIS. And such as.

Who’s running the pool on why Bayh is quitting? I’ve got (a) dead girl (b) live boy (c) getting his “well done thou good and faithful servant” from Pharma (d) primary against Hussein in ’12.

My $100 goes for (e) all of the above. He’s going to get handed a wad of blood money and spend it on trying to topple Hopey.

(f) Contamination with Palin quitter-cooties.

UPDATE: Yeah, I know that this quote from Gumbel is old

Explanation:

Linked from an email

Chain emails are where they get most of their information.

Thanks for the link, but I’ll just trust the shorter, ‘kay?

(f) Contamination with Palin quitter-cooties.

Maybe we should encourage her to hang around with the GOP more often – maybe it’d spread.

I’m jumping off the boat. Will report back. If you don’t hear from me it will be because I banged my head on my desk one too many times.

Maybe we should encourage her to hang around with the GOP more often – maybe it’d spread.

You obviously are unfamiliar with cootie lore. It’s preventing them from spreading that is a challenge.

Don’t get off the boat. There is raw sewage in the water.

I kinda doubt after pulling a stunt like this that the doors of his former colleagues will be open when he starts his lobbying career.

Right, I’m sure he’ll be totally shunned by the Republicans whom he helped by slow-walking and concern-trolling HCR long enough for their noise machine to beat “ZOMG ITS GONNA KILL GRANNY” into the neurons of the majority of the public who had previously supported it. Also, too, I’m sure PhARMA thinks he’s totally ineffectual for exactly the same reason.

Let’s face it, the whole point of the Winter Olympics is as a kind of Paralympics to let the melanin-challenged community be seen winning things.

the whole point of the Winter Olympics…

…is to bridge the interminable gap between Teh SooperBowl and MarchMadness / baseball season. C’mon, those beer companies need some sort of vehicle to fill the time between commercials!

I mean srsly, “Ice Dancing?” Really?

And I don’t want to hear from you international socialistcommieuniversalhealthcare types, either, you don’t count.

Let’s face it, the whole point of the Winter Olympics is as a kind of Paralympics to let the melanin-challenged community be seen winning things.

SOMEbody just volunteered to be a biathlon target.

XC is on now. OMG LOOK AT THE ASSES ON THOSE GUYS! My heart is racing and I’m just sitting here.

Meh, Summer Olympics are the time for {beef | cheese}cake. Women’s Volleyball, anyone? beach volleyball? Women’s track?

For those who favor the beef: I dunno, greco-roman wrestling? You’ll have to find yer own sport to view, I can’t do everything for you.

Re the skiing sports, at least freestyle and boarding, I’m reminded of a quote from Warren Miller:

In the fifties, Maria Bogner introduced stretch pants and brought sex and romance into skiing. It became glamorous. Today you see somebody going down the hill and they look like a sack of cats on the way to the river.

Ice skating is no more a sport than saxaphone playing or competetive cooking. The fact that most female figure skaters look better in a short dress than either Clarence Clemons or Julia Child is beside the point.

I like womens tennis because they are better athletes than the men also. If this thought is sexist, don’t blame me, blame my PENIS!

Bryant Gumbel, Evan Bayh… can we please talk about somebody on this thread with a goddam normal name?

The fact that most female figure skaters look better in a short dress than either Clarence Clemons or Julia Child

Fact? Objection, your honor, calls for speculation.

Let’s see the photographic evidence.

Mr. Mxyzptlk said,
“Bryant Gumbel, Evan Bayh… can we please talk about somebody on this thread with a goddam normal name?”

Gocart or Mr Mxyzptlk perhaps?

Dude, buy a vowel.

DAMN IT! THAT’S NOT A MANGO! THAT’S A BRIGHTLY PAINTED ELEPHANT TURD!

Mxyzptlk was the superuser password one of my former co-workers used for his boxen. Hey, if Superman couldn’t spell his name this guy figured no hacker could either.

Mxyzptlk was the superuser password one of my former co-workers used for his boxen. Hey, if Superman couldn’t spell his name this guy figured no hacker could either.

What if it was a hacker from Earth-2?

“Fact? Objection, your honor, calls for speculation.
Let’s see the photographic evidence.”

Your honor, I offer this to be marked as State’s exhibit A.

http://hotfemaletennisplayers.blogspot.com/

Latest news on “Not Joe The Not Plumber”: He throws McCain and Palin under the Not Bus.

“Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician.”

“I pointed out he’d just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio — Joe the Plumber wouldn’t exist – without McCain. His response was blunt. “I don’t owe him s—. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.”

“Wurzelbacher said, “McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.”

http://scottdetrow.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/a-few-minutes-with-joe-the-plumber/

“Wurzelbacher said, “McCain was trying to use me.” No shit Sherlock.

Shorter Joe the Plumber:

Just because I’m a tool doesn’t entitle you to use me.

Anthony wins da Intertoobz!

Has my link to http://hotfemaletennisplayers.blogspot.com/ distrcted Wyatt and other Sadly people. I think so. This is a theory and not a fact.

Your honor, I offer this to be marked as State’s exhibit A.
I understood Wyatt Watts to be asking for photographic evidence specifically in the form of Clarence Clemons and Julia Child in short dresses. Not necessarily at the same time.

“He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.”
Ah, the culture of personal responsibility.

Heh.

““I don’t owe him s—. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.””

Didn’t stop you from standing in his shadow for the entire election cycle, Joe. It wasn’t until after he’d lost that you started swearing to high heaven that you’d hated him all along.

Conservatism is the ideology of entitled, sniveling crybabies who suck their benefactor’s teat dry before throwing him out the door. Joe the Plumber’s just the latest example.

Has my link to http://hotfemaletennisplayers.blogspot.com/ distrcted Wyatt and other Sadly people. I think so. This is a theory and not a fact.

This will require further study. In the interests of, ahem, science.

” understood Wyatt Watts to be asking for photographic evidence specifically in the form of Clarence Clemons and Julia Child in short dresses. Not necessarily at the same time.”

I am sorry Smut but that evidence would not be work safe.

“So why Rohrer? He says they share many of the same values – the Second Amendment, states’ independence, “integrity, honesty.””

Someone fill in Mr. Plumber on the distinction between “states’ rights” and “states’ independence.”

McCain gave that loser an undesrved 15 minutes of fame. Asshole! Most people would kill for that 15 minuites.

there’s a new reality out there with a new lexicon. we need to figure out a way to engage with these people rather than jeer at them. i know we may feel superior but we have to learn to find a way to deal with them or it’s just going to be more of the same, forever and ever. i, for one, don’t want that.

“Undesrved” is what I did to a hot female tennis player last night. She liked it a lot.

i know we may feel superior but we have to learn to find a way to deal with them.

There’s no need for you to feel superior to them. Come to think of it, there’s no justification either.

we have to learn to find a way to deal with them

Education, especially civics – but rhetoric, logic, statistics, grammar, etiquette, and personal hygiene wouldn’t hurt.

Unfortunately, they reject the entire idea of education as the work of Satan so there’s a bit of a stumbling block.

Esther said,
“we need to figure out a way to engage with these people rather than jeer at them. I know we may feel superior but we have to learn to find a way to deal with them or it’s just going to be more of the same, forever and ever. I, for one, don’t want that.”

Yes, lets compromise with those that think Obama was born in Kenya. How about the Canary Islands or Jamaica?
The Earth is only 6000 years old. Can’t we all get along? How about 12,000 as a compromise?
Obama is a Fascist/Communist/Nazi/Islamist/Athiest. Lets split the difference and agree on only 2 of the 5.

McCain gave that loser an undesrved 15 minutes of fame.

If you knew anything about what Andy meant when he made the “15 minutes of fame” quip, you’d know that the 15 minutes is, by definition, undeserved.

hotfemaletennisplayers.blogspot

yet lesbian beach vollyball doesn’t get the same lebel of attention, somehow… curious…

also: mangle- wurtzle

we may feel superior

wingnuts cannot be fixed. maybe glazed or basted, but not fixed

wingnuts cannot be fixed.

My cat suggests a way it might be done.

Unfortunately, they reject the entire idea of education as the work of Satan so there’s a bit of a stumbling block.

Along with most of the media, most science, most of the internets (Wikipedia, Google, etc.), and as you said, pretty much all of academia. In short, they have basically rejected the sum total of man’s knowledge as having a “liberal bias”, so I’d indeed be curious as to the best method of engaging them.

I’d indeed be curious as to the best method of engaging them.

I understand the engagement is often skipped and there’s a shotgun involved.

“Along with most of the media, most science, most of the internets (Wikipedia, Google, etc.), and as you said, pretty much all of academia. In short, they have basically rejected the sum total of man’s knowledge as having a “liberal bias”, so I’d indeed be curious as to the best method of engaging them.”

Yeah. The whole Satan stumbling block thing may be funny, but it’s also the literal truth.

my experience with wingnuts has convinced me that they have developed fact-repellant technology to an astonishing level of effectiveness

Let’s just say the wingnuts are content to reap the benefits of the Age of Enlightenment but aren’t too keen on adopting its tenets.

Esther said,
“we need to figure out a way to engage with these people rather than jeer at them. I know we may feel superior but we have to learn to find a way to deal with them or it’s just going to be more of the same, forever and ever. I, for one, don’t want that.”

I’m confused–maybe you can help me understand. Exactly how do you engage with people who were the Tories in the revolution, the slave owners and Confederate sympathizers, the people who fought all of the suffrage movements, desegregation, civil rights, gay rights, people who have nothing but contempt and suspicion for anyone who is not just like them in color, creed and religion, and have evolved into the modern day neocon, who’s answer to everything is war. These people really do see a bogeyman behind every non-white male protestant face.

There will be no engagement. You don’t engage in a debate with people who think that faith is fact, and think that wishing something to be true is grounds for believing it is true. The best you can do is marginalize them by educating your children and fighting for better education for everyone.

The fact is, liberals are stupid.

The fact is, Bush freed 50 million people. Obama inslaved 300 million people into the yolk of socialism. You cant argue with my facts and logic, but then again liberals never engage with reality.

The fact is, if we regulate and tax banks, they will only pass on the fees to there customers. Us. We must not antagonize those who create wealth and value in our society, deniggrating them is liberal left demigoddergy well we give lazy black people using food stamps to buy liquor a free pass.

The fact is, faith IS fact. Faith trumpets over all so-called liberal science with facts and logic. Espeically here in the heartland where we have little use for your biased coastal elitism

Exactly how do you engage with people who were the Tories in the revolution, the slave owners and Confederate sympathizers, the people who fought all of the suffrage movements, desegregation, civil rights, gay rights, people who have nothing but contempt and suspicion for anyone who is not just like them in color, creed and religion…

True enough. How do you engage with people who may as well regard the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as infringements on property rights?

yolk of socialism

egg on your fasces?

The fact is, Bush freed 50 million people. Obama inslaved 300 million people into the yolk of socialism.

Eggsactly!

“The fact is, Bush freed 50 million people.”

By murdering a million and making millions more refugees inside and outside of their country. Oh, and subjecting the 50 million in question to a brutal civil war which he refused to do anything about until after he’d lost both houses of Congress.

And if you’re enslaved, how come you have time to go on the Internet and bitch against your masters? You don’t have a clue what real slavery is, Gary.

Yolk, oh no!

Your comment was a bit too short. Please go back and try again.

And if you’re enslaved, how come you have time to go on the Internet and bitch against your masters?

That’s modern society for you. Defining drudgery downward.

Um, I’ll have coffee, hashbrowns, and the the yolk of socialism.

And some wheat toast.

…the yolk of socialism…
…deniggrating them is liberal left demigoddergy…
…Espeically here in the heartland…

This is what makes Gary fake, and beautiful. He drops these little gifts into the thread whenever things start going a little stale.

Thanks, Gar!

I’d indeed be curious as to the best method of engaging them.

I say we spread a rumor that there is a huge cache of free guns to be had in the bottom of an unsafe, abandoned silver mine in Nevada, and let Darwinism run its course.

the fact is, gary has contempt for the mayonnaise of progress

egg on your fasces?

This comment was better than any mango.

there’s a new reality out there with a new lexicon.

Um, no. Reality is pretty much the same as it has always been, regardless of the efforts of various idiots to claim that this or that has changed the universe and where they were only kind of right before now they are absomuhlutely and undeniamuhbly correct and everybody needs to chuck out everything they ever learned because this new thing means you have to just do what you’re told and SHUT UP! THAT’S WHY!

A new lexicon penned by grifters, charlatans and whores-to-the-powers-that-be is, A) not terribly new, and B) not worth the space on the roll it takes up.

we need to figure out a way to engage with these people rather than jeer at them.

When they start behaving like rational human beings, I’ll be happy to engage with them. As long as they keep up the poo-throwing-chimp routine, I’ll stick to jeering, preferably from outside of poo-lobbing range.

(bows)

mangos r us

When they start behaving like rational human beings, I’ll be happy to engage with them. As long as they keep up the poo-throwing-chimp routine, I’ll stick to jeering, preferably from outside of poo-lobbing range.

How’s that worked out for you? lol

How’s that worked out for you? lol

There is something to be said for getting the Baggers on our side.

I mean, if all 600 of them had been in Florida in 2000 and voted for Gore, that would have swung it.

The fact is, when barney Fag told a Tea Bag Patriot that talking to her was like talking to a table he did what all facesists do — dehumanize her. If you liberals refuse to engage the real people of the heartland we will throw off your yolk.

I mean, if all 600 of them had been in Florida in 2000 and voted for Gore, that would have swung it.

Or if so many “good liberals” hadn’t defected to Nader. Thanks, Ralph.

That’s why it is so important to stay in lockstep behind Obama.

The fact is, I am so glad so many liberals voted fro the fruitcake far left comie Nader, it meant no President Gore and 8 years of awesome USA power. Miss Bush yet? I do.

“True enough. How do you engage with people who may as well regard the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as infringements on property rights?”

…Or perhaps think that the Bill of Rights is reserved for themselves, but may be revoked at any time for suspicion of a crime, not being a citizen, or just because we hate ‘those people’? How do you talk to someone who thinks that compassion, humanity and honor are weakness? One simple foundation of finding truth is the acceptance of the fact that the universe does not revolve around yourself. If you cannot make someone understand “do unto others as you would have done to you”, then reconcilliation and understanding are hopeless causes.

Gary Ruppert said,
February 16, 2010 at 3:14
The fact is, I am so glad so many liberals voted fro the fruitcake far left comie Nader, it meant no President Gore and 8 years of awesome USA power. Miss Bush yet? I do.

The fact is, U S A GODDAMMIT! FUCK YEAH. EAT A DICK LIBTARDS!

You’re funny Gary Ruppert Murdoch.

Miss Bush yet?

I guess I won’t when I no longer feel that this country is in danger of becoming a fascist state. At that time, should we be so blessed to have it come, the unmemorable Dubya and his various assistant thugs will fade completely from my memory.

Miss Bush yet?

Is it back in fashion to admit Bush existed now?

Good to see you back, Xecky!

Thankee, B^4!

Happy to be here. I may drop off the radar again for a while after this holiday weekend respite, but I’ll be around.

Miss Bush?

Which one, Jenna or Not-Jenna?

I may drop off the radar again for a while after this holiday weekend respite, but I’ll be around.

Stupid real world, intruding as it always does…

Stupid real world, intruding as it always does…

Yeah, but at least it’s not the Riehl world. There’s some chance my work will end up benefiting someone someday.

The fact is, thinking about Bush’s pursuit of USA power in the world in the good days gives me a huge hard-on.

According to WP, Gary’s last post was at 420 tee hee hee

Or if so many “good liberals” hadn’t defected to Nader.

Or perhaps if the 90,000 or so legal Florida voters hadn’t been denied their vote by Kitty Harris and her caging lists. Or, hell, even if the Supremes had simply let the counting go on. If, if, if. Nader, while a shitbag, wasn’t the real problem there.

In retrospect, I do shudder at the thought of Vice President Joe Lieberman trying to run the fucking country behind Gore’s back and throwing some sort of tantrum every time his agenda isn’t followed to the letter. I suppose it would be a more palatable bitter memory than currently installed lot, but yeesh.

The fact is, thinking about Bbush…gives me a huge hard-on.

Me too!

In retrospect, I do shudder at the thought of Vice President Joe Lieberman trying to run the fucking country behind Gore’s back

Well, there’s that, but there’s also all the fucking nostalgia for the Gore presidency that never was. Folks, he gets to be all climate changey and Nobel Prizey and anti-war and shit now because he’s not running for office anymore, get it? Please point to a single word he said in the 2000 campaign that bore any relation to anything he’s said since he became an ex-politician and was freed to say and do whatever he wanted. Thanks.

Please point to a single word he said in the 2000 campaign that bore any relation to anything he’s said since he became an ex-politician and was freed to say and do whatever he wanted.

This. I held my nose to vote for Gore – worst campaign except almost every other Democratic campaign in my lifetime, if you could but dig it. I was a politics tard at the time, but I knew I didn’t want Bush in there, but I sure curled my lip at the Lieberman-Tipper Axis of Priggishness.

I held my nose to vote for Gore

Not a damn thing wrong with that–I’ve done the nose-holding thing myself a few times. But I tire of encomiums to the brilliant Gore Presidency which exists only in Special Hindsight World.

One of the things that made me feel weirdest about Gore was a rabble-rousing speech – yes, he was capable of that – during the impeachment proceedings pronouncing Bill Clinton the greatest president America had ever had. It was just weird, even with the new levels of insanity in politics at the time. The guy who helped ensure that people got kicked off welfare was the greatest president ever?

Also, yesterday my naked mole-rat Yosemite died unfaithfully. He fought that decrepit sea lion but couldn’t last. I miss Yosemite so much…

But I tire of encomiums to the brilliant Gore Presidency which exists only in Special Hindsight World.

Likewise.

In a sorta related note, I’m glad that a mere mention of Nader is no longer enough to engulf every lefty blog in a bigass tiresome flame war. Much to the chagrin of trollypants there.

“But I tire of encomiums to the brilliant Gore Presidency which exists only in Special Hindsight World.”

At least he wouldn’t have gone to war with Iraq.

On the other hand, you know the Republicans wouldn’t have rallied around the flag the way we did – they’d have exploited the hell out of 9/11, blamed it all on Clinton and Gore, and raised pure hell (on a scale to dwarf the death panels and birth certificates of today) until the Democrats were out of office and they were back in. So, maybe the war would have happened anyway, just two years later.

I’m glad that a mere mention of Nader

Truthfully, he never amounted to shit. As long as I’m listing things I’m tired of, I might as well add the myth of The Great Spoiler Nader. He’s nothing, and never influenced shit. Republicans actually have a more legitimate beef with Ross Perot.

In point of fact, with all this criticism of Obama from the left we’re getting ready to throw another one to the Repuglicans. It’s best to rally behind him now because excessive criticism is just poisoning the pudding for the next election cycle.

As long as I’m listing things I’m tired of, I might as well add the myth of The Great Spoiler Nader.

Again, likewise. I’ve never bought that one, but not so long ago pretty much every lefty blog had a large cohort among its commenters that would reliably froth about it as though it were gospel.

At least he wouldn’t have gone to war with Iraq.

From the 2000 Gore/Bush debate:

LEHRER: People watching here tonight are very interested in Middle East policy. And they’re so interested that they want to base their vote on differences between the two of you as president, how you would handle Middle East policy. Is there any difference?

GORE: I haven’t heard a big difference right, in the last few exchanges.

GORE: Well, when I got to be a part of the current administration, it was right after I was one of the few members of my political party to support former President Bush in the Persian Gulf War resolution.

And at the end of that war, for whatever reasons, it was not finshed in a way that removed Saddam Hussein from power. I know there are all kinds of circumstances and explanations. But the fact is that that’s the situation that was left when I got there. And we have maintained the sanctions.

Now, I want to go further. I want to give robust support to the groups that are trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein. And I know there are allegations that they’re too weak to do it, but that’s what they said about the forces that were opposing Milosevic in Serbia.

Miss Bush

Worst beauty pageant EVAR.

lmao you guys are still convinced Gore wouldn’t have been that much different from Bush? Wow. Maybe we really do never learn. shakes head sadly

Good, Esther disagrees with me. That means I’m right.

“Now, I want to go further. I want to give robust support to the groups that are trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein. And I know there are allegations that they’re too weak to do it, but that’s what they said about the forces that were opposing Milosevic in Serbia.”

Undermining Saddam was always policy (well, after Reagan and Bush were done stocking him with weapons and he used them in Kuwait, anyway). But just because he supported opposition groups doesn’t mean he would have committed U.S. forces to war, especially after 9/11 with a much more immediate threat on the loose.

I suppose we’ll never know for sure, but I seriously doubt that Operation Iraqi Freedom would have happened on his watch.

Nader, while a shitbag, wasn’t the real problem there.

Yes, but, it should never go without saying: Ralph Nader is a goat-blowing assclown. Also.

they’d have exploited the hell out of 9/11

There is always the off chance that a President Gore might not have ignored every sign pointing to an attack. 9/11 might even have been averted. Had Bush and the boys not been so intent on anti-Clenis-ing every inch of DC, they might even have been able to see it coming.

Haaahhhaaahhhaahhaaaahhh.

Sob.

Yes, but, it should never go without saying: Ralph Nader is a goat-blowing assclown. Also.

Well, I’ve never seen Nader and Kaus in the same room.

I’m feeling kind of stabby, so I’ll feed the semi-false halfbreed troll.

“In point of fact” is a phrase to avoid unless you are a master of double backwards mantis-style irony.
Here are some more: “Indeed,” (always used to preface the big reinforcing argument), “I, myself,” “sheeple,” and of course the unfenusible “central to my point.”

Thank you. I once went to a rehab clinic where the group therapy leader freely used the term “porch monkeys.” This scared me straight and now I am moist in the bosom of Christ.

Hey everybody!
Gary sez: Faith is fact!
I believe he’s a azzhole!

Oooo the yolk’s on him

I’ll leave now.

CNN is announcing we just captured a major Taliban guy. Let’s hope we can make some political capitol out of this.

So, Esther is pretty much nothing more than dancing badgers to me, but the few posts I’ve autopsied are a dead ringer for Center Left Grrrrrrrrrrl, who was just Goober “up on the backstroke” asshat in drag.

Not that it’s important, just making an observation.

Bragging about not feeding the trolls is the same thing as feeding the trolls.

im in ur white house runnign ur party http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html

I’m glad that a mere mention of Nader is no longer enough to engulf every lefty blog in a bigass tiresome flame war.

Ha. Try it at Alicublog.

Not getting out of the boat, but when it goes under the bridge I’ll be drowning some trolls.

Too Short?

Nope, just right.

Dan’s just upset because they won’t let fat, pasty old white men compete in the Winter Olympics.

Ha. Try it at Alicublog.

No, thanks – I’m just saying it’s no longer enough to start a war at every lefty blog, like it used to be.

Not a damn thing wrong with that–I’ve done the nose-holding thing myself a few times.

I expect to be doing so in 2012.

Dan’s just upset because they won’t let fat, pasty old white men compete in the Winter Olympics.

They would if those men were able to DO anything. Perma-kvetching, blogged esprit d’escalier and chest-beating, and declarations that liberals and blacks are the REAL racists are not Olympic events, and too bad, too, because we would totally sweep the medals. USA USA USA!!!

Perma-kvetching, blogged esprit d’escalier and chest-beating, and declarations that liberals and blacks are the REAL racists are not Olympic events, and too bad, too, because we would totally sweep the medals.

You left off belching, and the Moran Combined event: belching and farting.

Indeed, but they are central to my point.

Cheetos eating! If that were an Olympic sport these guys would dominate.

I went over to the Intl Federation of Competitive Eating’s website to see if, in fact, Cheetos had a record.

It’s scary to see how many categories Americans dominate.

Wow, the IFOCE really puts the “fed” in “federation.”

Seriously, people get paid to write things like this? Enough to live off? Is it anything like an internets-realty scheme? I just have mail $150 for the “starter pack” and next thing I know I’m sitting in the lap of modesty. I am totally available to start right away if that means “pound Bud Heavy Tallboys and type bigoted articles for money.”

Seriously, people get paid to write things like this? Enough to live off?

No.

Turns out, Riehl is a marketing manager for “an established technology company” after a stint as a national sales and marketing manager for a Fortune 100 company.

In other words, he crammed his column down the throats of editors, threatening to pull his ads out of their papers.

he crammed his column down the throats of editors, threatening to pull his ads out

I don’t really have a comment about this, just wanted to see it in italics.

he crammed his column down the throats of editors, threatening to pull his nads out

And not so veiled teabagging reference.

And not so veiled teabagging reference.

So could you say he was teabagging all the way to the bank?

Turns out, Riehl is a marketing manager for “an established technology company” after a stint as a national sales and marketing manager for a Fortune 100 company.

In other words, he crammed his column down the throats of editors, threatening to pull his ads out of their papers.

Did he write a column? I thought he just wrote a shitty blog.

Tig,

You’re right. He was a “journalist” before he switched careers.

Altho he was profiled on TruTV, and not as a suspect.

he just wrote a shitty blog.

…phew… i can huff glue in peace now.

he just wrote a shitty blog.

…phew… i can huff glue in peace now.

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