Snope-A-Dope
Now that’s some Con-Yankery, all down in there.
Confederate Yankee, Confederate Yankee.com:
Those Who Refuse to Learn From History…
…Are condemned to misquote George Santayana?1
Every once in a while I’ll get an email or a link to the words of Kitty Werthmann, an Austrian-born naturalized American citizen that watched Austrians give themselves to Hitler’s creeping fascism,
Above: At least equally seductive was Hitler’s high-stepping, howdy-hi-hoing,
boom-shakalaka fascism
only too recognize their mistake after their freedoms were extinguished.
Uh, hold on one single, solitary second here. Did he say Kitty Werthmann?
The wingnuts seemed to be cranking through a turnstile of no return when phrases like “flaming liberal” and “Snopes.com” began to drift together in their speech, following that characteristic wingnut style of reason-by-mere-association that so often resembles the old Electric Company segment with the two silhouettes alternating syllables. And indeed, here’s how Werthmann said our freedoms were being extinguished in 2007, during what you’d have to call a significantly more Bush-influenced period of the Obama candido-presidency:
From her own experience, Mrs. Kitty Werthmann will help you see we are walking the same path as the Nazi’s. She was 12 years old living in Austria. At that time, there was order, prayer and pictures of Jesus. Hitler took over and all that was removed! Unemployment rose to 35%, bank loans rose to 25%, unions called strikes, all this with 98% of the people claiming to be Catholic!
Soon there was massive welfare. Cries went out for equal rights for women.
Cries went out for equal-so-called-rights? Oh my God, it’s literally like a Macy’s parade balloon of a Nazi pulled by a dozen Hitlers all wearing Nazi costumes, while shouting “we love Hitler,” and you’re literally a big Nazi watching this, thinking, “God, moments like this really bring back the great Woman Suffrage marches of 1913-1918 that brought about the 19th Amendment.”
Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories. They took the children away from the family and raised them by the state. The Health department offered training for the elderly but they were killed.
Should’ve done that training then, huh?
Hear her tell how the U.S. is going the same way!
Uh, take it on downtown, Mr. Yankee:
Today, her warning is haunting, and seems to echo what we see unfolding before us.
…If what’s unfolding before us is a summons for guh-hickular bovicide, after the night the junked-out Cordoba full of empties and bagged dog poop somehow caught fire and burned the cows down. Or no, for us, it would echo what we see unfolding if we were unfolding this.2
1 Additionally, many are still unaware that “Black Magic Woman” is a Fleetwood Mac cover.
2 This somewhat famed Jaro Hess print, or rather another copy of it at my father’s house, was where I first noticed the word, ‘dilatory,’ at age 13 or so. (See the “dilatory ship” at bottom left.) Having kind of a rough relationship with time, I imagined that the dilatory person might have a noun prepared for him as a ‘dilator’ (pronounced like ‘dilettante’) for whom time seems to dilate, or to pace itself naturally slower. And pursuant, that their temperamental opposites were ‘contractors,’ since those were observed showing up on job sites at 6AM and running around on rooftops at a red-hided ape lope until dusk, when their pickups began to be spotted at Bennigan’s. Parallelilly, which is not a word, these people were ‘die-earlies,’ based on predicted hour of death (hangover + roofing mishap, etc.). Not normally being vulnerable to accident at such an hour, we die-laters had it granted us to take our fatal powder in the greater dignity afforded by the post-meridian.
Despite all this, I never did find out whether ‘dilatory’ had any such noun attached to it. And with every day being a winding road, life izzing a highway, etc., and things like the Internet having been built in the time since I last saw the Hess print, it seemed two minutes ago to be a good idea to go see whether it did. Currently, eh, not so good of one.
Yes, because the real victims of the Holocaust were the Christians, husbands who wanted their meals regularly, and the German Association of Jesus Painters.
Well, we know what Hitler did to the people who had a lot in common with Jesus. What does the Wickedpedia say when we search Kinder, Kuche, Kirche?
It’s like the way you can look at clouds, and some people see something that looks like a puppy, and other people see a God figure staring down and hating them for that one time what they did in that room with the neighbor, and they think the cloud is following them and then they are afraid to look in mirrors because that is the secret way that the cloud can spy on them that no one else can see, which is clearly why they had no choice but to try to hurt the neighbor’s dog.
In the same way, there are occasions on which sane people see things happening which remind them in significant ways of what fascists and Nazis did, and we are supposed to ignore them, such as declaring over and over that anyone opposing a desired war against a nation not attacking our nation must be a traitor and a terrorist sympathizer, and there are occasions on which crazy people see things like cars waiting outside a public library to pick up kids and OMG THIS IS JUST LIKE HITLERS’ DEATH CAMPS TIMES HIGGLETY JILLION, and for some reason this now makes the news and TV.
O/T in the Georgia part of Confederateland, there is a police search on for a French national who went on line to try and purchase a 5 year old child for sexual exploitation, and his actual name is “Molesti”. This news will settle upon Wonkette with a gentle “ah” sound.
And just to complete the transformation of the nation under Obama to Hitler-Stalin-Pol Pot-Barbra Streisand land, they are now trying to jail the innocent simply for their 2nd amendment rights:
Funny that, it’s not the invasion of two foreign countries that the wingnuts associate with terrorism, but rather it’s equal rights for everyone. How do they keep doing it?
…and his actual name is “Molesti”…
The power of the self-fufilling prophecy. If I ever have a kid, I’m going to name it Professionalsportsplayerwhatshowersdadwithextravagantgiftsi.
The Fascism creeps. On little cat feet. It sits looking &c.
Does anyone have a guess at why 90% of chain email forwards are conservative in nature? Something about liberalism just doesn’t seem conducive to the “OMG THIS IS SCARY PLS FWD!!!”
It’s bad though – people get this crap from people they know, and possibly trust “Oh that’s Joe, he knows politics, if he’s telling me that Obama=Hitler, maybe there’s something to it…” so the influence is higher than it should be.
It’s fitting that TIDOS Yankee is stupid enough to use fictional email forwards as the basis of his writing. Fucking moron.
OMG! here is the pantload, via wonkette, “weighing” in on the health care bill:
But on another level, this legislation is a superconducting super collider of culture-war conflagrations.
that is simply a thing of beauty.
But on another level, this legislation is a superconducting super collider of culture-war conflagrations.
The level boss is Rahm, who can be defeated by shooting tea bags while jumping up and down and dodging left to right. The next level power-up is three brain cells.
I knew it was the fault of women. It always was. We’re always wanting so-called equal rights. Bitches be crazy.
We’re always wanting so-called equal rights
instead of order and prayer and pictures of jesus. which was totally equal rights, in a sort of way, really, the only way weak lady brains can deal with it.
That Wonkette post is full of gems.
The Derb:
See on the liberty side you’ve got the US. But only under Republican presidents. On the despotism side is everything else. Q.E.D.
Btw, no fucking way I’m getting of this damn boat. Water is filled with pirahnas of creeping stupidity.
Also, too: post-Alexander Greeks are despotic, meaning Alexander the Great was the democratic head of “humans in liberty ruled, by common consent.”
Ah, such is the world when looked at through swastika-tinted spectacles.
See on the liberty side you’ve got the US. But only under Republican presidents. On the despotism side is everything else. Q.E.D.
Notice also the subtle (and vaguely racist) way Derb conflates modern despots with ancient cultures, basically (in my reading anyway) suggesting that people who live under such governments are ooga-booga dumbass tribesmen with bones through their noses or dumbass sand nigras etc. etc. u.s.w. and therefore deserve their shitty governance – and since Americans is so stoopid we will go the same way.
Good to see you fighting back, Gavin M.
It’s bad enough that MMfA is horning in on your PammaLammaDingDong turf.
You can’t let them steal Gun Counter Gomer, too.
~
Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories.
Rosey teh Rivetar aws a NAZI’s!!!!!!!
What I like is he points out random 3rd world cultures, but only their own despotism. Colonialism is by common consent too apparently.
yep, staying in the boat. Another iced tea. And have the girl bring me a new pillow please.
Notice also the subtle (and vaguely racist) way Derb conflates modern despots with ancient cultures,
to be fair, he’s old enough to remember them firsthand…
But that would require, like, calculus ‘n shit, since population is not constant. And a fair bit of research to get all those dates and population estimates. Wikipedia and friends almost never have specific historical data like that.
I’m guessing he just ate a sammich and pulled a number out of his ass.
“Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories.”
Yeah, ‘cos you’d never find any capitalist factories doing *that*, would you?
Every once in a while I’ll get an email or a link to the words of Kitty Werthmann, an Austrian-born naturalized American citizen that watched Austrians give themselves to Hitler’s creeping fascism
Apparently, Bobo Wens can’t count.
The Austrian eleciton was held April 12, three weeks after Hitler invaded Austria AND the polling booths were *koffkoff* “protected” by Nazi soldiers who recorded votes.
Austrians no more “gave themselves” to Hitler than Iraqis gave themselves to Saddam or Haitians gave themselves to the Duvaliers.
Notice also the subtle (and vaguely racist) way Derb conflates modern despots with ancient cultures,
to be fair, he’s old enough to remember them firsthand…
The only culture Derb knows about is at the bottom of a Petri dish.
Let’s see…the Nazis were National Socialist who wanted women to be housewives and subordinate to their husbands and gave prizes to women who had more than four aryans. But the Socialists took women out of the home and put them in the industrial labor force and granted equal rights and shit. Americans were heading down that path except that Americans had already been down that path. I want to add up all the person-hours where the town’s bank’s president was also the town’s mayor and where Liberty Valance had free run of the town and divide that by 69.5 million units of liberal white guilt (or “whiguilders”). um…um…fuck this shit, release the Kraken!
um…um…fuck this shit, release the Kraken!
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Also, unions went on strike? How is a segment of the population resisting Naziism a feature of Naziism*?
*That doesn’t look right. One “i”? I don’t know.
Because the Nazis were all about teh labor unions? I’m sure that’s why Henry Ford so admired them.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Winner…that statement best defines the neocon movement–at least of all the other statements I’ve seen.
Release the Kraken!
for too long our Architeuthis American brothers and sisters have suffered under the jackboot of prejudice and deepsea drift nets! How much oppression must the kraken endure? The Kraken is not just some monster to keep chained until we need it to oppress others. The kraken Loves [to eat human flesh] the Kraken dreams [of eating human flesh]! How can you look the Kraken in the eyes and not see the hunger? The hunger to rend humans limb from limb, sure, but also the hunger for justice? Look from a safe distance and see that despite the differences that separate us, there is more to the Kraken than just seething malevolence. How long can we keep our brother the Kraken in chains? (seriously, how strong are the chains?) The only answer is release so that the we can both go forward into the future not as oppressor and oppressed but as brother and brother (predator and prey?)
The Kraken is the Jew of Liberal Squidism
Suffice it to say, FYWP!!!!! Gone my lovingly crafted post about not getting out of the boat. Gone the heavily fruited mango trees, the warm, dry boat. ALL GONE!!!! Now I know how the Jews felt when Hitler took away their Amiga computers.
Yep! If there’s one thing I associate with Nazis, it’s equal rights for the most vulnerable members of society.
Somebody should replace the US right with the million typewriting monkeys. The monkeys would make sense more often.
Comfortable Shoes Wankee is now dancing around a call for ‘armed revolt’ against the g’ubmint … dude is playing around with fire.
pictures of WHITE, BLUE EYED jesus
Fxt for the glory of AMERICA goddammit.
Yeah, the line that the FBI should watch Cornfed HQ has morphed recently from a half-joke to hey, that’s a really solid idea.
Hey, whatever happened to that scientology/gun nut pyramid scheme thingy he was telling all his pals to join?
Let me get this straight: Giving some folks access to mediocre health care coverage is being equated to nazism soon-to-be popping out of the closest (where’s my veil?).
If I were me, which I am, I would think the fascism lies closer to the indefinite detentions, civilian surveillance and the overall ignoring of the Constitution. Granted, the Constitution was written, like, a long time ago so they couldn’t have predicted America becoming The Best Nation Evar® where you can make a boat load of money by only keeping people alive who are willing to pay for it. I mean, if it weren’t for the pesky North we could all have a few “people” to do our dirty work — as well as have access to some warm “human” organs.
Comfortable Shoes Wankee is now dancing around a call for ‘armed revolt’ against the g’ubmint
He might want to pay more attention
Or he’ll end up as embarassed as Hal Turner.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
So how do you screw people over with a hammer? Aim for the head?
Let me get this straight: Giving some folks access to mediocre health care coverage is being equated to nazism
And slavery.
The slavery line, at least, has a long pedigree. That’s Ayn Rand, chapter and verse:
And if any man be forced to work for another man’s benefit (ie: has to pay income tax), then he is that man’s slave, and yea verily, thou art a poopyhead if thou shouldst disagree.
So how do you screw people over with a hammer?
Screwing people over isn’t the problem. The problem is people. Screwing them over is the hammer.
Or he’ll end up as embarassed as Hal Turner.
Those kinda comments just have to be protected, somehow.
I knew it!
“Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories.”
I think that was due to the war, ya know, all the men off fighting. So it really wasn’t socialism as much as patriotism which drove the women from the home. Once them wimmins got a hold of their own paycheck it was hello Virginia Slims!
From the Wanker:
So a program that doesn’t take full effect for FOUR FUCKING YEARS and whose first impacts are non-financial and don’t take effect for SIX FUCKING MONTHS somehow increased this little company’s healthcare premiums now????
LOL! You can’t make this shit up! The woman was probably a lazy redneck hick who was smoking meth in the ladies’ room…
When all you have is a hammer
I have the complete set. Hammer and sickle.
The problem is people.
They’re the worst.
So a program that doesn’t take full effect for FOUR FUCKING YEARS and whose first impacts are non-financial and don’t take effect for SIX FUCKING MONTHS somehow increased this little company’s healthcare premiums now????
This wouldn’t be the first time an asshole employer pointed to an unrelated cause to be able to say, “I’m letting you go because of THEM”, in order to avoid having to just say, “I’m letting you go”.
I was in Rwanda in 1994. It all started when the Tutsis voted to give a modicum of basic health coverage to all citizens. Next thing you knew, the Hutus were talking about Nazis and fascism. It sounded convincing at the time, but we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. You won’t read this in any history book because that is how true it is.
Williard insisted his comments are protected under the freedom of speech afforded by the First Amendment.
Similar comments about G-Dub would land you in Gitmo. But as long as a honkey says it, it’s all good…
BTW, the poll on the Odessa American website could stand a bit of adjusting. Most people said the feds should monitor that stuff, but it seems like too many took the contrary position…
I have the complete set. Hammer and sickle.
I have a hammer and thong.
This wouldn’t be the first time an asshole employer pointed to an unrelated cause to be able to say, “I’m letting you go because of THEM”, in order to avoid having to just say, “I’m letting you go”.
The real subtext here is “I’m letting you go…because I’m not making enough money to support my family, my mistress and my vacation home in Pompano Beach.”
Similar comments about G-Dub would land you in Gitmo. But as long as a honkey says it, it’s all good…
You pretty much read my blog this morning, didntcha? 🙂
Woops, I shouldn’t type with one eye closed. I referenced the wrong part of actors quote..
It should read He might want to pay more attention not “Or he’ll end up as embarassed as Hal Turner.”
My utmost apologies, my friends.
And if any man be forced to work for another man’s benefit (ie: has to pay income tax), then he is that man’s slave, and yea verily, thou art a poopyhead if thou shouldst disagree.
Whereas if anyone works for another man’s benefit because it is that or starve, and he still doesn’t have money to pay the doctor when he falls ill, he is lucky indeed.
Few will believe me, but this is actually an example of TV programming which deals with the worst of the problems that American corporate culture is sloughing onto its poor and working class victims, and how to approach it by helping people respectfully rather than sneering and mockery and, worse, mawkery.
Oliver’s previous series where he visited and lived with various American communities, including some pretty poor and hard hit ones, was better TV sociology than any other recent nonfiction series I’ve seen.
When all you have is a Kraken, all problems look like…dinner!
You won’t read this in any history book because that is how true it is.
What’s a history book if you didn’t write it?
The Kraken is the Jew of Liberal Squidism
Molluscs are a finite good.
So a program that doesn’t take full effect for FOUR FUCKING YEARS and whose first impacts are non-financial and don’t take effect for SIX FUCKING MONTHS somehow increased this little company’s healthcare premiums now????
Oh yes, the powers of liberaltude are frightening and backward-in-timey and stuff. There was a neighborhood near mine in the 1970s that decided to fluoridate its water and the opponents of fluoridation all started getting sick the day it was scheduled to begin – even though there were delays and the actual fluoridation hadn’t started yet. Bodily fluids know when they’re going to be attacked.
Bodily fluids know when they’re going to be attacked.
Purity of essence, Mandrake!
The body thetans have psychic abilities to detect liberal conspiricization.
Oliver’s previous series […] was better TV sociology than any other recent nonfiction series I’ve seen.
I’ve been very impressed with that guy since he kicked Turkey Twizzlers out of British schools. I need to check these series out – thx!
Few will believe me, but this is actually an example of TV programming which deals with the worst of the problems that American corporate culture is sloughing onto its poor and working class victims, and how to approach it by helping people respectfully rather than sneering and mockery and, worse, mawkery.
This and Supernanny return Great Britain to its rightful place as dictatryx of American culture.
Bodily fluids know when they’re going to be attacked.
This is why I talk to my houseplants.
Before I execute them….
Currently, eh, not so good of one.
Hmm, maybe “speculator” also doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
Um, Yanky?
Don’t forget Matty Hale.
And Benny Smith.
They sure showed that stupid federal government.
That stupid federal government has stupid rules and shit to hold a man down.
From Wikipedia’s “On This Day”:
1775 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry (pictured) made his “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, urging the legislature to take military action against the British Empire.
sooo… any bets on whether or not some wingnut’s going to take that as a SIGN FROM HLY GRID and do his own whiny lil’ Patrick Henry thing?
VDH: “Congress and a most unpopular Speaker together railroaded through an unpopular, sweeping piece of legislation without a single opposition vote.”
What is that even supposed to mean? (216 House members + 40 senators opposed) < 1? Or that (imaginary) unanimity is sinister?
What is that even supposed to mean? (216 House members + 40 senators opposed) < 1? Or that (imaginary) unanimity is sinister?
He means not a single vote from the opposing party in favour of the motion. It’s just more of the “bipartisanship” bullshit, in which the party with fewer seats in Congress gets to tell the party with more seats in Congress what they can do; otherwise, they are just ramming their packages down somebody’s throat.
I have a feeling in the next few months a bunch of wingnuts are going to accidently blow up their own basements.
Oh, that makes sense-ish. I blame his awkward wording.
any bets on whether or not some wingnut’s going to take that as a SIGN FROM HLY GRID and do his own whiny lil’ Patrick Henry thing?
Need you ask?
I have a feeling in the next few months a bunch of wingnuts are going to accidently blow up their own basements.
Oooooh, we should start a dead pool to bet on which state it happens in first.
Has Obama signed the bill? Because I just felt a big jolt, and we don’t have earthquakes around here. I think it was the Republic sinking down a little under his massive tyranny.
the opponents of fluoridation all started getting sick the day it was scheduled to begin
Huh, how very peculiar. Did they begin showing similar symptoms, based off what they believed would occur with said fluoridation?
A sudden loss of feeling in their left hand, perhaps, or spots on their bellies? I ask as a diagnostic question, and not at all a suggestion of mass hysteria and deluded psychosomatic responses that might have some bearing in insane “proof” that HCR somehow is responsible for a company lay-off a day after the fucking thing passed.
America is now over. Barack Hussein Al Majlis Arafat Stalin Mao Obama is at this moment going to sign the Un-Constushull Death Panel and Steal All the Money Act right now.
Where is my black light poster of the American eagle crying over the twin towers?
I have a feeling in the next few months a bunch of wingnuts are going to accidently blow up their own basements.
How’re we going to tell the difference from the regular meth labs explosions?
Maybe someone out there could help out with bad recipes so that many of these accidents turn out to produce various foul smelling and skin-staining chemicals rather than taking off their kids’ limbs.
Has Obama signed the bill?
Just about
How’re we going to tell the difference from the regular meth labs explosions?
Tonight, on CSI: Little Rock…
Oooooh, we should start a dead pool to bet on which state it happens in first.
Thirty quatloos on South Carolina.
After all, we started the last one.
You know who doesn’t have a bad knee, and who doesn’t have a charcoal grill? Here’s a hint, he/she doesn’t discriminate according to race or religion, just by who’s closest to the beach. TIDOS Yankee expects to rally teabaggers, the most enthusiastic of which came to DC and complained that there WEREN’T ENOUGH SEATS ON THE SUBWAY. They had to stand for several minutes…in a row! Tentacled or non-tentacled version, I know who I’m bettin’ on. (Did you know that “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” was one of them? True fact.)
How’re we going to tell the difference from the regular meth labs explosions?
Excellent point. Who are YOU to stop a chef?
Huh, how very peculiar. Did they begin showing similar symptoms, based off what they believed would occur with said fluoridation?
A sudden loss of feeling in their left hand, perhaps, or spots on their bellies?
They all simultaneously caught teh ghey.
TIDOS Yankee expects to rally teabaggers
I’d so love to be there. I love the sound of crickets on a quiet mall in Washington.
Maybe someone out there could help out with bad recipes so that many of these accidents turn out to produce various foul smelling and skin-staining chemicals rather than taking off their kids’ limbs.
George Soros has been sent a letter containing baking soda and vinegar, casualties are estimated to be in the hundreds.
Bad riddance to helpful rubbish!
Need you ask?
You mean CY’s come out and callled for armed resistance? WAYULL SLAP ME SILLY AN CALL ME CORMPONE, I never would have expected it.
BTW, yesterday was the anniversary of the Stamp Tax, as well. So many reasons for more AmRev cosplay! Whee!
many of these accidents turn out to produce various foul smelling and skin-staining chemicals
So THAT’s where McDonald’s gets their food!
Did they begin showing similar symptoms, based off what they believed would occur with said fluoridation?
IIRC, they all had different symptoms – must not have been briefed on fluoride’s particular effects, just knew it was BAD.
They all simultaneously caught teh ghey.
A decade later, they might have, but there was no such thing – officially, I’m sure – as teh ghey in Utah in the 1970s.
Few will believe me, but this is actually an example of TV programming which deals with the worst of the problems that American corporate culture is sloughing onto its poor and working class victims, and how to approach it by helping people respectfully rather than sneering and mockery and, worse, mawkery.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve seen conservatives whining about how it condescends to poor and working class people, and who would want a snobby British dude telling them not to eat Twinkies, anyway? (Never mind the fact he grew up in rural England in a fairly working-class family–all Brits are snobs and rich dudes).
just knew it was BAD.
Forgot to say but they did report to the doctors that they were sure the fluoride had caused whatever it was they had. My dad was doctoring near there at the time and got a big laugh out of it all – privately, of course.
VDH: “Congress and a most unpopular Speaker together railroaded through an unpopular, sweeping piece of legislation without a single opposition vote.”
Poor butthurt babies. It’s so crazy that a majority of Democrats would enact legislation they wanted. Because all those people who voted for Democrats really wanted nothing but Republican legislation enacted. The “consent of the governed” only applies to Republicans. Majority schmajority! The Republicans wod certainly take care of the Democrats if the tables were turned!
Thanks in no small part to Republican theories of FEEMAHKET lack of interference in food processing, we actually know a bit of that, and not just for McDonalds, but for every single restaurant or packager of ground beef around the nation.
Uh, *would. FYIphone.
They can go to hell and keep eating their fried pink slime with chocolate glaze. If you’re proud of your town’s death rate from obesity and heart problems, you’re a complete useless piece of shit and you couldn’t die too soon.
I love the sound of crickets on a quiet mall in Washington
I dunno, actor, this guy scares me.
The bill is signed. AMURKA is ded.
I dunno, actor, this guy scares me.
I’d match him up against Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.
The bill is signed. AMURKA is ded.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh beeyootiful for spacious thighs….
I’m listening to Fanfare for the Common Man and crying a single tear.
Did anyone feel that? It’s like the Quickening from Highlander…
First they came for the raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but I did nothing because I don’t have allergies.
Then they came for the bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens and I did nothing because I have Calphalon and Gore-Tex.
Then the came for the brown paper packages tied up with strings and there was nobody left to liberate me except the Red Army.
H. Rumbold, Master Barber said,
March 23, 2010 at 17:42
*polite golf clap*
Very well played, sir.
Martini?
If you’re proud of your town’s death rate from obesity and heart problems, you’re a complete useless piece of shit and you couldn’t die too soon.
Yeah, I personally think it’s condescending to assume that poor people don’t want better for themselves and their children.
Oh, they damn very well know it’s condescending — no one hates the poor and working classes more than the wealthier, more vicious bastards who stir up right wing pseudo-populist cultural hatreds in order to avert any sort of change in politics, economics, or culture which might serve to help the vast majority of Americans and threaten to any degree the greedy bastards’ exalted accumulation of more resources than their neighbors.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texastan) is on C-Span complaining about the 17th Amendment robbing from state legislatures the ability to select Senators rather than being directly elected by the voters. And since 38 states’ are grumbling about helf kur, this pretty much is about the same thing, he a’reckons, as a Constushull Convenshin.
The bill is signed. AMURKA is ded.
I’m going blind!!!!!
Oh, wait, that’s the sun..
Once them wimmins got a hold of their own paycheck it was hello Virginia Slims!
Nex thang ya no, the sherif is a ni……::bells clanging::
Total fascism, with the racial purity and whatnot.
no one hates the poor and working classes more than the wealthier, more vicious bastards who stir up right wing pseudo-populist cultural hatreds in order to avert any sort of change in politics, economics, or culture which might serve to help the vast majority of Americans and threaten to any degree the greedy bastards’ exalted accumulation of more resources than their neighbors.
Don’t forget – all the while whining about lefties and their silly “class warfare” accusations and how we should just shut up ’cause America’s classless and anyone can be Preznit and all that there.
Yeah, I personally think it’s condescending to assume that poor people don’t want better for themselves and their children.
It’s far more than condescending. It’s vicious hatred to paint some sort of picture of lazy welfare queens sponging off of the state in an effort to take entitlements from them and give them to the rich. It is class warfare at the most insidious and evil manifestation.
There are few things in life I find more disgusting than watching these rich golf course subdivision-living big $50K+ car-driving instamansion-dwelling bastards lecturing on how they’re tired of those ay-leet libruls tellin’ the good workin’ folk how to be, and how arrogant it is for these, um, outside agitators to stir up all these folks who’ve always been, um, you know, happy workin’ down here at the mill and working for company credits to shop at the company store, or, at least, they ain’t heard nobody complainin’ recently, eh?, heh heh, nod nod, wink…
I’d match him up against Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud
Damn, actor sure knows his batsmen — if you “know” what I mean. If you do tell me.
It is class warfare at the most insidious and evil manifestation.
It’s a class warfare designed to divide the very class it dismisses.
Should the poor black folk and the poor white folk and the poor Latino and Asian folk ever get together and compare notes, they’ll realize they have more in common with each other than they do with the Rush Limbaughs of the world, and riots will commence.
Damn, actor sure knows his batsmen
I’m all about the innnings and outings.
The bill is signed. AMURKA is ded.
Heh, the death panels work!
Btw, some vintage Doughbob here… hey look, people on Medicare have awesome life expectancy! QED, universal coverage is FAIL.
Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud
That was the law firm in that one Marx Bros. movie, wasn’t it?
Jonah, what would we do without you and your blinders
Um, what is “expanding health-care coverage but providing more healthcare to more people, which expands the pool of money (you know, that people and insurers pay) to expand the research grants (government provided, mostly, altho some private companies do their own R&D) that expand medical care?
That was the law firm in that one Marx Bros. movie, wasn’t it?
You left out a Hungerdunger! In fact, you left out the most important Hungerdunger!
There are few things in life I find more disgusting than watching these rich golf course subdivision-living big $50K+ car-driving instamansion-dwelling bastards lecturing on how they’re tired of those ay-leet libruls tellin’ the good workin’ folk how to be…
You almost have to admire their ability to re-frame class issues so they’re centered around culture and not actual, you know, class…
The bill is signed. AMURKA is ded.
It died years ago. Welcome to Americorp.
“Um, what is “expanding health-care coverage but providing more healthcare to more people, which expands the pool of money (you know, that people and insurers pay) to expand the research grants (government provided, mostly, altho some private companies do their own R&D) that expand medical care?
Socialism, because I didn’t think of it first. **thhhbbbbbt**
I’m listening to Fanfare for the Common Man and crying a single tear.
That’s because you’re a product of the mid-century socialest school system. You probably listened to Woody Guthrie songs on the old classroom 45 RPM wind-up record player, too, and colored in pictures of Pilgrims and turkeys. And once week you got to clap the erasers to get the chalk dust out of them.
Modern libertarian schooling is aimed at results, not feel-good liberal handouts like mimeographs and FREE fingerpaints.
By the way, Anthony, I apologize for dropping trou on you during yesterday’s postular frenzy. I was in a strange mood, because I had a hammer, and I forgot to hammer in the morning.
Everybody else, fuck you.
Should the poor black folk and the poor white folk and the poor Latino and Asian folk ever get together and compare notes, they’ll realize they have more in common with each other than they do with the Rush Limbaughs of the world, and riots will commence.
Hey, there’s a reason why he keeps stoking those flames of racial hatred…
Hey, there’s a reason why he keeps stoking those flames of racial hatred…
Oh, I never said he was insane! Just evil!
Oh, I never said he was insane! Just evil!
I think it’s funny when even liberals think he actually believes what he says. Really, guys? Really?
Truculent, that’s precisely why we libs cultivate a variety of ethnic friendships and participate in amusing traditions from other lands. When the darkies come for the white man, I’ll be hiding behind a large group of Hindus.
Hmm. Definitely an interesting disturbance in The Farce.
This summer, it was “ObamaCare=Teh Final Solution” … but now that it’s a fait accompli & thus immune to hyperbolic hokum, they’re cranking the dial all the way down to “ObamaCare=Anschluss.”
If the trend continues, in a year’s time the analogy will be “ObamaCare=Waterworld” or “ObamaCare=The Next Paris Hilton Album” – or perhaps “ObamaCare=Creed Reunion Tour.”
The Invisible Hand moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. Never mind that it’s the fucking INSURERS who are jacking premiums through the roof (as usual) & not the bill itself … or that a cut-rate company (cf. GEICO) could really clean up in this situation, driving premiums down (as could a little thing like, oh gee, I dunno, the sudden influx of many millions of new policies?) – it’s all about how much The Kenyan Usurper hates America & wants to turn it into the USSA!
In Soviet America, insurance pays YOU!
Gavin, if you’re out there, when you publish your book, please let me know so I can buy 8-10 copies and judiciously spread them around to the cognoscenti in my life, much as I did 25 years ago with the Rubinoos Back to the Drawing Board.
I’ll be hiding behind a large group of Hindus.
Right. Using a group of people as human shields, people who believe in reincarnation and therefore would welcome an honorable death, is a good way to keep yourself safe.
Me, I’m finding the nastiest band of Vikings…
“ObamaCare=Creed Reunion Tour.”
Even THEY wouldn’t stoop this low!
I think it’s funny when even liberals think he actually believes what he says. Really, guys? Really?
I think he means it. I mean if you didn’t know any black people, you wouldn’t have much to go on except TV, and if that’s your only exposure, I can’t really expect anything else.
Even THEY wouldn’t stoop this low!
Don’t count on it. There is no end to the perfidy of the perfidious.
you wouldn’t have much to go on except TV
That’s how I became a lawyer.
In other news, NYT wanker Adam Nagourney somehow gets the Real Michael Steele to admit that Republicans are not Real Americans:
“There is no downside for Republicans,” Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee chairman, said Monday in an interview. “Only for Americans.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/us/politics/23repubs.html?hp
The worst is listening to one of those twunts cry about paying fucking taxes. They make a million a year, pay $100,000 in taxes, and cry about it, despite the entire system being rigged to spring those fucks from paying their fair share. The “Death Tax” that doesn’t actually exist is good example.
Me, I’m finding the nastiest band of Vikings…
You mean Yngwie Malmsteen’s guys?
The “Death Tax” that doesn’t actually exist is good example.
Now that’s a good idea! We should tax death! Maybe if we piss him off enough he’ll go away and we’ll never have to worry about socialismhealth care!
I think he means it. I mean if you didn’t know any black people, you wouldn’t have much to go on except TV, and if that’s your only exposure, I can’t really expect anything else.
I don’t know…even some of the people who I would call benign racists (ie, VERY white, fairly rural relatives) that I know would be/are appalled by some of the things he says.
We should encourage the tards patriots at Comfortable Yankee. I can’t help myself. I am sure there are potential downsides, but the entertainment value is too priceless.
I’m just annoyed in general about everyone talking about paying more taxes this year. 2% of teabaggers know that taxes have been cut. 1 out of 50! For people annoyed by taxes they sure don’t pay close attention to the fucking money they pay.
What’s even worse is that due to our miserable, god-damned, lazy, super-wealthy run media, they and other Americans think these two-bit millionaires are ‘the rich’.
These fuckin’ two-bit insta-mansion jerkoffs might think they’re studs next to the trailer parks and on the interstate and in their vacations and corporate retreats, but they’re pathetic fucking dupe pikers next to the generational centi-millionaires and billionaires and corporate directorate that actually runs the god-damned country.
Anthony said,
March 23, 2010 at 18:25
Tom Tomorrow, or the next day.
Obama’s doing a presser on his having inserted a century-long package down Republican throats, and he’s introducing that greedy bastard 11 year kid Marcelas Owens whose cheap ass Mom died ‘vomiting blood’ (as Glenn Blecch joked) ’cause of her stupid heart condition at her lazy-ass fast food restaurant job which gave her an excuse not to get off her ass and buy health insurance.
Michelle Malkin’s gonna make that little 11 year old pay. PAY, I tells ya. Thanks for exploiting your awful Mom’s death in order to imprison ALL AMURKA to a death panel.
Damn. Obama’s smackin’ the TeaTards bad.
He just said that ‘You all just heard a lot of rhetoric that if this was passed, it’d be Armageddon. Well, let’s come back here in a couple of months, and look around. [PAUSE]’
And there was much laughter in that room, and outside, in the tea-stained DC streets, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jamie Oliver can be a bit of a tool, but this, slightly modified, is my Lazy Man’s No-Effort Totally-Awesome Pasta. After cooking the bacon in the pan, you add the frozen peas and raw pasta, fill the pan most of the way with chicken broth / water, and by the time the liquid is reduced to a nice sauce, your pasta is perfectly cooked. Add a big scoop of creme fraiche and some grated parmagiano reggiano, and you’re done. Takes about 15 minutes total. Suck it, macaroni and cheese.
Does this clown even read the stuff he links to?
So apparently Joe Biden whispered “This is a big fuckin’ deal” about the bill passing, which, according to Fox News means….I don;t know, what?
I want to see how this plays out. Are they going to condemn this as a “gaffe” or bad manners, while simultaneously championing the shouting of “baby killer” on the House floor?
Or are they going to clutch their pearls at the foul language that DFH Biden used?
Or are they going to evoke Ronald Reagan’s suit jackets in the Oval Office, and ask the half-term former governor of Alaska to comment from a backdrop of slaughtered turkeys about dignity in office?
He just said that ‘You all just heard a lot of rhetoric that if this was passed, it’d be Armageddon. Well, let’s come back here in a couple of months, and look around. [PAUSE]‘
‘…And you’ll all see how I KILLED WHITEY.”
Never mind that it’s the fucking INSURERS who are jacking premiums through the roof (as usual) & not the bill itself …
silly jim. You’re just looking at further proof that if you point out the bad tactics of offenders, it’s you who are the bad guy. Just like with racism, pointing out that someone else is a racist means you’re a racist. You made them do it!
Or are they going to clutch their pearls at the foul language that DFH Biden used?
They’ll have Bill “We’ll do it fucking live” O’Reilly decry the veep and immediately follow up with a segment on how awesome Randy Neugebauer is.
Yes, but it’s a shame a celebrity chef can seem to have higher standards of socio-economic-cultural understanding of U.S. communities than any other regular non-fiction television.
I give him a bit of leeway. When I get mah HUUUUUUGE Obamacare check, I’m ‘on fly to Angle-land and go to one of his high-falutin’ snobby restaurants.
Till: If you haven’t seen it, you should watch both the Ministry of Food series and the Jamie’s American Road Trip series. I hear from people I’ve never heard from that they might be available on web torrent sites as DivX files.
From an anonymous commenter on another blog, in response to the filing of lawsuits by states AGs against HCR:
The underlying legal theory is that it is unconstitutional for Congress to pass laws that are opposed by Republicans.
Brilliant.
Actually, I think rush does believe what he says in the moments that he says it, it a 1984 sort of way. At some level he knows it is bunk, on another level he completely believes it, and on a third level he doesn’t really care which it is. Reality just isn’t that important… he creates his own after all, and nothing bad ever happens. He just keeps getting more money to blow on viagra and child prostitutes in third world countries.
People love him for his 3 Minute Hour Hates. That is the reality that matters to him. So does he knowingly lie? What is a lie to a sociopath who has enough money to never face any consequences?
Why does the strikethrough tag work on the preview for me but never on the post itself?
Now that the bill is signed, 13 states will file frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to get activist judges to overturn ObamaNaziCare, and if that doesn’t work – SECESSION, BITCHES!!!
http://washingtonindependent.com/80050/anti-health-care-reform-suits-face-steep-hurdles
Why does the strikethrough tag work on the preview for me but never on the post itself?
You need to use “strike” instead of “s”.
Today’s FYWP has been brought to you by the letter “Green” and the number “Sour”.
The underlying legal theory is that it is unconstitutional for Congress to pass laws that are opposed by Republicans.
Not only is that brilliant, but I also am looking forward to those AGs explaining how fiscally responsible they are in spending taxpayer money to file suits that EVEN TEH CONSERVATIVE LAW EXPERTS say have little or no chance of winning.
From an anonymous commenter on another blog, in response to the filing of lawsuits by states AGs against HCR:
The underlying legal theory is that it is unconstitutional for Congress to pass laws that are opposed by Republicans.
Brilliant.
I’d love to see some federal hardball against the moron states over this. Something along the lines of conceding that states can “opt out” if they like, but because this bill is designed to address all the “moving parts” of the system, opting out of the reform of necessity requires them to opt out of federal funds for Medicaid, etc.
We’d find out that the moron states don’t have that much of a problem with federal involvement in the health care system in their states in fairly short order.
…So what are you going to do now?”
See my last post.
Kitty’s screed about how the most despicable thing Hitler did was allow married teachers to keep their jobs reminded me of this passage in a speech by Joe McCarthy:
Aw, man. I didn’t know Jamie Oliver was dyslexic. Now I feel bad making fun of his poorly-spelled, almost nonsensical posts on Twitter.
you wouldn’t have much to go on except TV
That’s how I became a lawyer.
Ah–you have something in common with Nancy Grace.
What’s even worse is that due to our miserable, god-damned, lazy, super-wealthy run media, they and other Americans think these two-bit millionaires are ‘the rich’.
Well, actually, I wouldn’t define a millionaire as “the rich” either, but compared to my below $40,000/year income, they look awfully rich to me.
You mean Yngwie Malmsteen’s guys?
Hey! They don’t call it an “axe” for nothin’!
Jonah, what would we do without you and your blinders
His argument boils down to, “If you don’t count all the Americans who die young, Americans don’t die young”.
Not to mention, as if we should need to again, the US spends twice as much as everybody else on health care. Even if the outcomes are only “marginally” worse, instead of atrociously worse, how’s that free market efficiency working out?
i knew it wuz soshalisum when they passed that there wimmens suffering act after th’ grrrreat war!
An illustration via song.
Jesus, what an ass-raping of Weimar/Nazi history.
Unemployment fell under Hitler, and a great deal of that was the rollback of women in the workforce that had taken developed before his regime. He co-opted the unions–striking was crushed. Both were suggested by Goebbels–I wonder what he’d think of people like Sarah Palin and Karl Rove?
Nazis were all about women staying in the home, cranking out as many Aryan children as their uteri could produce. Sound familiar? Only in the throes of the war, as Germans started getting their butts beat, were women encouraged to work. They literally tried slavery first.
As for religion? Hitler’s regime disliked it, but didn’t fuck with it too much. They knew exactly how far they could push the deeply-Christian Germans, and exactly when to tailor policy to suit tradition. Hell, the churches often recommended new objects of Nazi persecution, like when they pointed out the passive resistance of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and encouraged the regime to go after their spiritual rivals.
Buy a fucking ounce of intellectual honesty, make a little checklist, and see on how many more points the conservatives match up with the Nazis than the liberals do. It’s shocking.
Or are they going to clutch their pearls at the foul language that DFH Biden used?
Yeah, because Republicans never ever ever use bad language.
I think it’s funny when even liberals think he actually believes what he says. Really, guys? Really?
If the Limbaughs and Becks and Coulters of this world don’t actually believe the nonsense they spew and only say such things for the notoriety and money that comes with it, frankly I think that makes ’em much worse human beings. Pandering to the worst fears and prejudices of society and stoking the flames of hatred and loathing just for a quick buck, even the name of “entertainment”, when you don’t actually believe what you say is, to my eyes, ten times worse than the honest Klansman or gay basher. Just a thought, but every time one of Limbaugh’s or Beck’s verbal catarrhs is dissected on a non-douchebag blog, someone says “Hey, they don’t really mean it, they’re just saying it” and I always have wonder if that somehow makes it less hateful.
It doesn’t, not even in the slightest. It doesn’t matter if Limbaugh believes the dumb shit he says. What matters is that he’s saying it and far too many even dumber people believe it. Man, we’re getting a mediocre health care reform in part because far too many dipsticks in this country actually believe the government is going to start whacking mommaw the first time she falls and is unable to bounce right up.
Doop-de-doo, checkin’ the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler . . .
What say you, Misha?
YAAAAYYY! Deus vult, bitches!
Till: If you haven’t seen it, you should watch both the Ministry of Food series and the Jamie’s American Road Trip series.
Also, dig up “Stephen Fry In America” if you can. Fry drives a British taxi (left hand drive. Go fig) thru the lower 48 and stops at such lovely places as a high school football game in the South, a native reservation in the Southwest, and various and sundry small manufacturing towns.
Really spectacular series.
WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE A SICKLE
fixed
Please, Republicans, run on repealing ObamaNaziCare. Seriously, it’s a winning campaign theme!
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/88473-health-headache-for-gop
“The envy of the world”? That would be the same world where most countries have had socialist healthcare for 40 years or more? Where most people get their health care absolutely, totally free?
If the Limbaughs and Becks and Coulters of this world don’t actually believe the nonsense they spew and only say such things for the notoriety and money that comes with it, frankly I think that makes ‘em much worse human beings.
Wasn’t it Fox “News” that said in a court case that it wasn’t a news network?
That logic applies to these jackasses.
“The envy of the world”? That would be the same world where most countries have had socialist healthcare for 40 years or more? Where most people get their health care absolutely, totally free?
CA,
American exceptionalism. Nuff said.
If the Limbaughs and Becks and Coulters of this world don’t actually believe the nonsense they spew and only say such things for the notoriety and money that comes with it, frankly I think that makes ‘em much worse human beings.
Oh, I agree. I actually think Beck believes *some* of the weird shit he says, and I completely believe that Limbaugh is the vile misogynist he seems to be, and racist to boot, but I don’t think he’s totally for real. I can’t fucking figure out Ann Coulter for the life of me.
And I don’t know why I was chosen to be here in the last
(clangs sword on shield)
Give Us More, O Caesar!
I also am looking forward to those AGs explaining how fiscally responsible they are in spending taxpayer money to file suits that EVEN TEH CONSERVATIVE LAW EXPERTS say have little or no chance of winning.
Several erroneous assumptions I’m afraid… (1) on planet tea-bag, we don’t need no stinkin’ experts; (2) Losing is also winning, see Hoffman, Steve (NY-23); (3) spending money defending our freedumbz and investigating hummers and finding birf certificates is the highest act of patriotism.
I personally recommend the Rude Pundit for a primer on how to respond to the tea-bagger anger and misery.
Wait, what? Billie Dee Williams never told me about that!
I can’t fucking figure out Ann Coulter for the life of me.
1. Her schtick beats working for a living.
2. For a definite 4 out of 10, by playing to the gimp crowd she gets the ego boost of being considered a sex symbol.
Jesus, what an ass-raping of Weimar/Nazi history.
Are you calling that sweet little old lady a liar? But but but…she LIVED through all that made-up history! Have you no shame, sir?
A proposed corollary to Santayana:
Those who forward bullshit right-wing emails are condemned to repeat them endlessly to their children and grandchildren until SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY, GRANDMA!
I can’t fucking figure out Ann Coulter for the life of me.
1. Say the most outrageous shit you can think up.
2. Play the “victim” when somebody actually dares to call you on it.
I gather that Ronald Reagan didn’t beat the commies after all.
You know, I can understand being pessimistic about the prospects of Pax Sinica, but I can’t really see how it could possibly lead to the end of the world unless God gets involved. Which I guess is what they’re expecting.
Ni zhagu nazad!
Is Misha speakin’ Russian?
OOOOOOHHHHH speaking the dark orcish language is just the first step on the road to Communism!
1. Say the most outrageous shit you can think up.
2. Play the “victim” when somebody actually dares to call you on it.
3. Profit!
And unlike the Underpants Gnome scheme, this one doesn’t have a ??? step and it really works.
I can’t fucking figure out Ann Coulter for the life of me.
1. Say the most outrageous shit you can think up.
2. Play the “victim” when somebody actually dares to call you on it.
If I may…
3. ??????*
4. PROFIT
* usually, write long book thought up after five martinis and a marathon viewing of Sam Kinison DVDs.
DAMN YOU, XECKY!
DAMN YOU, XECKY!
Frist!
Substance McGravitas said,
March 23, 2010 at 19:40
Subi, I dare you to go over there and post that comment!
Cut to the chase: I double DOG dare you!
State nullification? Jesus Tittyfuckin’ Christ, it really is the Confederacy all over again.
Somehow I doubt Ann Coulter would commit voter fraud if she weren’t sincere that Newsmax subscribers were the only thing that stood between America and 1,000 year reign of the beast.
When all you have is a Kraken, all problems look like…
dinnerAndromeda!Fizzixed for
great justiceteh sexxeh.American exceptionalism. Nuff said.
Oh, I get it now. They envy our higher mortality rates, higher per capita expenditures on health care, high rate of bankruptcies due to medical bills, and rationing of care based on some insurance company’s bottom line. AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!!
They envy our higher mortality rates, higher per capita expenditures on health care, high rate of bankruptcies due to medical bills, and rationing of care based on some insurance company’s bottom line.
They hate us because we’re beautiful, that’s right.
Too lazy to proxy. I did, however, make something that might make Misha accidentally discharge his, um, whatever…
Soon there was massive welfare. Cries went out for equal rights for women.
Back when I was twelve, growing up in a state that has a Vienna in it, unemployment was high, interest rates were high, poverty was high, there were labor strikes and people on welfare, and once again there arose cries for equal rights for women.
OMG, Reagan was Hitler!
1. Say the most outrageous shit you can think up.
2. Play the “victim” when somebody actually dares to call you on it.
Alternatively: 2. Claim you were only joking and condemn your critics for not having a sense of humor.
For a cheap laugh, mouse over Comfortable Yankee’s title banner.
OMG, Reagan was Hitler!
Worse than that:
http://home.mcn.net/~willfree/coincidence/reagan.htm
Heh:
Wankee’s primary source for Vienna’s history
OHNOES!
Repeal Obamacare immediately because it ruined a nine-year old’s birthday party!
Next in Obama’s sights? My Little Ponies. All of them, dead.
Does Biden get a cut of these?
http://www.zazzle.com/hcr_big_fing_deal_tshirt-235071564353624757
“Hitler took over and all that was removed! Unemployment rose to 35%, bank loans rose to 25%, unions called strikes, all this with 98% of the people claiming to be Catholic!”
If Johnny Reb knew anything about Nazi Germany at all, he’d know that one of Hitler’s first acts in office was to abolish unions and abolish the right to strike (and then destroyed the workers’ rights movement to the extent that a worker required the consent of his previous employer before getting a new job). Thus, there couldn’t have been “unions calling strikes” for very long after Hitler took over.
If Johnny Reb knew anything about Germany, he’d know that it’s been over 500 years since “98% of the people claimed to be Catholic.” It’s the birthplace of Luther; that kind of thing tends to leave a mark, especially when the Kaisers were Lutheran and Bismark waged a culture war against the Catholic Church.
So offhand, I’d say either Kitty has been disgracefully misquoted, or she’s a fucking phony.
“I watched CNN during my son’s birthday party, and when Stupak came on it made the adults sad. OBAAAAAMAAAAA!”
The mass media are now committing un-Constushull acts of aggression against the American people by polling in such a way as to trick them into giving wrong and socialist answers.
Over 432 Confederate States are now planning to sue the Fedrul Gubmit in Fisher Price court for violations of the Wolverines! Amendment to the 400th Annual Reagan Declaration of Supreme Awesomeness and Freedomy Freedom.
Totally unrelatedly is a recent rise in the stock price of Kimberly-Clark, maker of Depends Adult Undergarments and TeaTard Hygienic Aid.
It’s your son’s birthday, turn on some fucking spongebob.
The scene was an eerie replay for me; eight-and-a-half years ago that same boy sat in his bouncy seat while cooing and kicking his legs as his father and I watched the twin towers crumble to dust on live television. The feeling was the same.
Jesus Christ, what kind of monster feels the same about HCR as ACTUALLY WITNESSING THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE?
That Dana Loesch article is great:
YOU ARE A TERRORIST IF YOU ARE NOT TEA PARTYING!
Confederate Wankee would probably be happy about the newly-begun War on Democrat Windows. All credit to the wingnuts for creating jobs for glaziers:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/vandal_attacks_on_dem_offices_nationwide.php?ref=fpb
If Johnny Reb knew anything about Nazi Germany at all, he’d know that one of Hitler’s first acts in office was to abolish unions and abolish the right to strike
Sounds like Reagan to me.
living off the fat of another patriot’s blood, sweat, and tears, if you’ve given up all these fluids while blogging, you’re doing it wrong.
Also, if there’s fat in your tears and sweat, you should probably see a doctor.
Jesus Christ, what kind of monster feels the same about HCR as ACTUALLY WITNESSING THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE?
Well, she gets paid by Breitblart to write that drivel. So, the same kind of monster who thinks that ACORN was the greatest threat to civilization since Hitler.
Fat has blood, sweat and tears?
Huh. I must have missed that part of the human anatomy class.
If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you then you by your inaction and silent voice abet those who seek to destroy it.
See, some of us pay taxes to maintain the liberty that others afforded us…
Sounds like Reagan to me.
Didn’t I tell you? Never doubt the conclusions of someone who was TWELVE AT THE TIME!
Vandals smashed doors and windows at four Democratic offices around the country in the days surrounding the landmark House health care vote Sunday night, and a right-wing blogger in Alabama is taking credit for starting a so-called “window war.”
If the liberals were doing it, it would be the Kristallnacht of Liberal Fascism, but drawing any such parallels to wingnuts would be Wrong.
What the F does this even mean?! “…the last bastion” of what? Corporate greed?
Also, if there’s fat in your tears and sweat, you should probably see a doctor.
“If it floats, you’re full of bloat.”
Everything comes down to poo.
YOU ARE A TERRORIST IF YOU ARE NOT TEA
PARTYINGBAGGING!Fixed for comfortableness.
“I received an email the other day from a woman named Melanie who confessed that she just “doesn’t have time to get involved.” During a conversation about precinct captains with a gentleman at a recent protest, I was told that the commitment “sounds like too much time.” […] If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you then you by your inaction and silent voice abet those who seek to destroy it.”
Right.
It can’t possibly be that the woman might have kids, or a job, or a house to take care of because not everyone has enough money to pay maids. It can’t be that the gentleman has a family to feed or whatnot and that requires him to work late hours. And it can’t possibly be that these people prefer to spend their free time (not as common a commodity as it sounds) with their friends and families, than with a horde of howling banshees who for all their talk about “freedom,” will pounce on them if they fall out of step ever so slightly with The Party Line.
Nope, they’re just unpatriotic traitors, all of them. It’s that fucking simple.
Even worser still:
time travel is not always our friend
Liberty is a God given right, BUT YOU BETTER GIVE US YOUR GODDAMN TEAR FAT.
living off the fat of another patriot’s blood, sweat, and tears, if you’ve given up all these fluids while blogging, you’re doing it wrong.
Well, sweat and tears for a right wing blogger is understandable. After all, with all that inactivity, even typing would raise their heartrate and fixing what typos they actually do find might make them frustrated enough to cry.
The blood? Can’t figure that one out, since most of them are bloodless pricks to begin with.
Nope, they’re just unpatriotic traitors, all of them. It’s that fucking simple.
Or, like us, they looked at the teabaggers and concluded, “these folks don’t need my help in shooting themselves in the feet – they seem to have that covered on their own.”
If the liberals were doing it, it would be the Kristallnacht of Liberal Fascism, but drawing any such parallels to wingnuts would be Wrong.
I’m waiting for the inevitable Republican CongressIdiot to say: “Well, it’s unfortunate, but these were just a few isolated incidents, and that’s what happens when you try to ram a huge, throbbing ObamaNaziCare package down the unwilling throat of the American people.” Like this genius:
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/rep-nunes-on-epithets-when-you-use-totalitarian-tactics-people-act-crazy-video.php
Those are not generally the bodily fluids expended due to internet use.
“Or, like us, they looked at the teabaggers and concluded, “these folks don’t need my help in shooting themselves in the feet – they seem to have that covered on their own.””
Or more likely, looked at the teabaggers and concluded “these folks just spent an entire year screaming their vocal chords out of existence and health care still got passed, so maybe we really should stick to the ballot box to fight the liberals.”
I know we doubt that man can ever achieve Peak Wingnut in the natural universe, but man are we getting close today.
I don’t know if I can stand several hours of being teabagged but I’ll give it a shot.
“Rep. Nunes On Epithets: When You Use Totalitarian Tactics, People Act Crazy.”
‘Crazy’ would account for calling people assholes, dicks, fuckers, whatever, or even throwing fruits or physically assaulting people. That, perhaps.
But politics doesn’t just drive people to call others ‘faggots’ or ‘niggers’ unless they already felt that way about blacks and gays. Our point stands.
Each conservative has within himself or herself his or her own personal Peak Wingnut.
Stop looking for answers out there — the true victory, of craze beyond crazy, has been within you all along…
Aaaah, give Biden a break. He’s just following Rahm’s protocol dicta.
It can’t possibly be that the woman might have kids, or a job, or a house to take care of because not everyone has enough money to pay maids. It can’t be that the gentleman has a family to feed or whatnot and that requires him to work late hours.
I’m always reminded of that scene in “F9-11” when Bush is sitting with a woman on one of his tours to promote whatever tax cut he was promoting and they’re sitting there like it’s The Donahue Show, and the woman casually “lets it slip” that she works three jobs. Bush says something like “That’s, that’s uneeklee Murican.”
Which in and of itself is an idiotic thing to say* but what always gets me is the fucking audience gives that statement an ovation, as if working your ass to exhaustion is a good thing!
…
*see, if I had been President and some woman said that to me, I’d try to help her find a fucking job that pays a living wage.
Stop looking for answers out there — the true victory, of craze beyond crazy, has been within you all along…
The calls! They’re coming from inside the house!
The calls! They’re coming from inside the house!
OUT of my head. I thought of it first but had to do something before typing it. OUT OUT OUT.
The calls! They’re coming from inside
the housemy head!Fixed for the bipolar.
Aaaah, give Biden a break. He’s just following Rahm’s protocol dicta.
Enough with the veiled PENIS references, already.
I imagined that the dilatory person might have a noun prepared for him as a ‘dilator’
You were in the delivery room, weren’t you?
I don’t know if I can stand several hours of being teabagged but I’ll give it a shot.
With all the gnashing of teeth, your scrotum would be lacerated something fierce.
If the Limbaughs and Becks and Coulters of this world don’t actually believe the nonsense they spew and only say such things for the notoriety and money that comes with it, frankly I think that makes ‘em much worse human beings.
Totally.
I see exactly zero difference between these charlatans and tent-revival preachers and televangelists who use well-understood techniques to rip off the poor and the stupid. There’s not much daylight between the teatards and the victims of the tent preachers either. Both rely ‘way more on faith than on facts.
Zen and the Art of TeaTard Maintenance
I can’t fucking figure out Ann Coulter for the life of me
I read one Coulter book. I’m convinced she’s just lying. I believe that she genuinely hates liberals, but I don’t for a minute believe she believes anything she wrote about intelligent design, to take one key example.
If Johnny Reb knew anything about Germany, he’d know that it’s been over 500 years since “98% of the people claimed to be Catholic.” It’s the birthplace of Luther; that kind of thing tends to leave a mark, especially when the Kaisers were Lutheran and Bismark waged a culture war against the Catholic Church.
I believe the statement about Hitler taking over was a reference to Austria, which might very well have been 98% Catholic at the time. Doesn’t change the fact that everything else is false, but there you go.
Jesus Christ, what kind of monster feels the same about HCR as ACTUALLY WITNESSING THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE?
I got out of the boat because I simply couldn’t believe a sane person would say such a thing (we’ll set aside the question of why a sane person would be watching C-SPAN at a child’s birthday party). And yup, she says it.
Man, I can’t even quantify my anger at that. I was living in Arlington, VA, that day. I can’t imagine anybody was fearing for the immediate safety of their loved ones during the HCR vote, or caught in World War Z-level automotive gridlock, or terrified to ride the Metro because it seemed such a ridiculously easy suicide bomber target. Fuck Dina Loesch.
The mangoes actually aren’t that tasty over there, though. The comments don’t even come close to the level of near-Peak Wingnut that you get from, say, the Incontinent Wankee.
Re: creeping fascism, there’s a persistent myth in Austria that the country was passively taken over by Hitler and that the country bears no moral responsibility for fascism-this attitude was a major factor in getting Georg Haider into office.
Looks like someone in the US found some use for it.
I read one Coulter book. I’m convinced she’s just lying. I believe that she genuinely hates liberals
She’s a “friend” of Bill Mahr’s so I doubt she “hates” them. I think she just “loves” the $; and vomiting after meals.
Hey everyone! Take a quick leave from the board and check out Mikey Ramirez’ latest droppings. Classy!
Close but no cigar. Rahm is Jewish. One presumes….
turn on some fucking spongebob.
What is that, like, furry pr0n?
I read one Coulter book.
And you lived to tell the tale? Impressive.
Even brown people can be Nazis!
1. Her schtick beats working for a living.
2. For a definite 4 out of 10, by playing to the gimp crowd she gets the ego boost of being considered a sex symbol.
Oooh, harsh but true.
turn on some fucking spongebob.
What is that, like, furry pr0n?
Spongey.
Close but no cigar. Rahm is Jewish. One presumes
Fuckin’ A he is. I dated one of his admins a couple years back.
Suffice it to say he surrounds himself with like-minded and like-attituded people.
The Dark Ages will seem like a walk in the park by comparison… to the hell on earth that is 35 million more people having health insurance.
Puh-lease.
Soooo…has Cornfed Wankee gone out and kicked his overturned ga-reeel now that it has been revealed that he is basing his “First they came for the …” post on a hoax?
I mean,
Mr. WingnutSgt. Hardrox of the Screen Beret Action Figure League for Great Justice isn’t going to just ignore this is he?You really don’t have to answer, you know.
“The Dark Ages will seem like a walk in the park by comparison… to the hell on earth that is 35 million more people having health insurance. Puh-lease.”
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? The Dark Ages had everything he wanted – a class structure that kept uppity peasants in their place, theocratic governments that regulated every aspect of people’s bedroom lives but never gave them any benefits, a foreign policy where you could go massacre anyone as long as a guy in a robe told you it was the will of God…
it has been revealed that he is basing his “First they came for the …” post on a hoax?
But it’s central to his point! How else do you expect him to rally the troop around his cause if he has to “fact check” everything he “posts” for “accuracy”?
a foreign policy where you could go massacre anyone as long as a guy in a robe told you it was the will of God…
Y’know, all I ever asked for was a latte and to keep your hands off that stupid apple, but you dopes couldn’t even do THAT correctly!
You guys believe you’re so evolved but hey, even a chimp knows when to listen!
The Dark Ages had everything he wanted – a class structure that kept uppity peasants in their place, theocratic governments that regulated every aspect of people’s bedroom lives but never gave them any benefits, a foreign policy where you could go massacre anyone as long as a guy in a robe told you it was the will of God…
Right? Shit, they’re going about re-creating it left and right, and may actually succeed if climate change causes as much disruption as we think it will.
living off the fat of another patriot’s blood, sweat, and tears,
How about just living off their fat? There’s probably enough to supply a few power plants.
they’re going about re-creating it left and right
COOL!
We can re-enact “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”!
do you expect him to rally the troop
He’s down to one?
Revenge is best served without knowledge!
IOW, there is no way we can keep bombing people who look different than us AND pay for unReal Americans to live!
We can re-enact “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”!
Uh, no thanks. I weigh a lot more than a duck–I’m not taking any risks.
do you expect him to rally the troop
He’s down to one?
And even his penis is thinking about giving it up.
Soooo…has Cornfed Wankee gone out and kicked his overturned ga-reeel now that it has been revealed that he is basing his “First they came for the …” post on a hoax?
I don’t believe it’s been brought to his attention yet (hint, hint…).
At any rate, he is currently occupied with making fun of people who are happy that ObamaNaziCare has been signed into law because it means they will be able to get insurance again, after losing it when they lost their jobs, and blaming them for their illnesses:
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/299743.php
do you expect him to rally the troop
That would be F-Troop, wouldn’t it?
Youse guys sure do talk a lot.
The Dark Ages will seem like a walk in the park by comparison… to the hell on earth that is 35 million more people having health insurance.
Puh-lease.
A walk in the park with leeches, because having nine children die of plague has made you melancholic.
Uh, no thanks. I weigh a lot more than a duck–I’m not taking any risks.
I was hoping you’d audition for the role of Zoot.
*plumping pillows on casting couch*
Revenge is best served without knowledge!
Holy crap. The unshaven dude in a tricorner hat and a cheap grey fleece with a teabag hanging over his face in that first photo? Classic.
“”We will be more determined than ever to see that this country is governed the way the constitution intended,” said Brenda Bowen, a tea party organizer in Greenville, Ala.”
Yeah, I think Obama should close Guantanamo too.
No. Really, I am not attempting the establishment of a troop-trope.
It would squadron my time to do so.
But some tea party organizers see the health care debate as a galvanizing force that could stir its followers to greater action and something to rally around with midterm elections this year.
They really don’t understand human nature, do they?
Most Teabaggers will take a look at the behavior of their fellow partiers and take a look at the fact they got their asses whipped on their raison d’etre and give up quietly.
It would squadron my time to do so.
Good, cuz I battalion you over and over, you’ll never outpun me.
The unshaven dude in a tricorner hat and a cheap grey fleece with a teabag hanging over his face in that first photo? Classic.
Fleece jackets were all the rage in colonial times. What an idyllic time… no socialism, paved roads, auto insurance..nothing to worry about besides famine, war and an early grave. Ahhh…
I was hoping you’d audition for the role of Zoot.
Uh, thanks?
I guess it’s a better option than being burned alive…
a class structure that kept uppity peasants in their place
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I’m being repressed!
Good, cuz I battalion you over and over, you’ll never outpun me.
Phalanx for the warning!
What is that, like, furry pr0n?
Spongey.
Which is not far from the extremely creepy loofie scene.
Funny, that’s what your mom said too.
Phalanx for the warning!
My maniples are hard
”We will be more determined than ever to see that this country is governed the way the constitution intended,” said Brenda Bowen, a tea party organizer in Greenville, Ala.”
Yeah, I think Obama should close Guantanamo too.
h/t, *golf clap*, 100bumpz to Chris for making me LOL!
The Republican Party is deeply offended at you condescending libruls suggesting Dark Age-o-philia amongst their membership:
Now, see, if these were the pre-literate demon-mongerers you snobs think they are, that 24% would all be sure that Obama was the Antichrist. Instead they remain scientistically accuratizing in their skepticalismization.
That drift together link is awesome.
Okay, let’s check that one out.
Alrighty then.
Good, cuz I battalion you over and over, you’ll never outpun me.
Colonel you both pipe down, you’re giving me a Major headache.
Fleece jackets were all the rage in colonial times.
As were breeches of polyæƒter.
My maniples are hard
As long as you don’t have legions, that’s OK.
I wrote a comment then deleted it. It needs no help.
Colonel you both pipe down, you’re giving me a Major headache.
Commander make me!
On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he’s a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say “he may be the Antichrist.”
Conclusion: a plurality of your fellow Americans are fucking retarded.
As long as you don’t have legions, that’s OK.
Those only come if you don’t take precautions and have sex cavalry.
Indeed. Here’s an idea, Denise: how about we cut the Pentagon’s budget by 2%? That should take care of not only ObamaNaziCare but also leave some left over for other stuff, like edumacation, or giving everyone a free gun, or whatever it is that matters to your teabaggin’ heart.
“As long as you don’t have legions, that’s OK”
I think that is a private matter.
DKW, did you see the first comment on that thread? 🙂
It’s like a Dick Armey in here.
If you squint you can see Boehner’s orange head.
I think that is a private matter.
KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY LITTLE SOLDIER!
24 percent say “he may be the Antichrist.”
Google “barack hussei nobama”
“
People in the Tea Party movementEleven-year olds are fiercely independent. They don’t like being told what to do. It’s like herding cats,” said Chad Capps, strategy coordinator for a Huntsville, Ala., group.Fiƒqued
Google “barack hussei nobama”
Huh?
Why move the…
6…6…6!
OMG! HE IS THE REINCARNATION OF RONALD WILSON REAGAN!
Here’s an idea, Denise: how about we cut the Pentagon’s budget by 2%
But but but the terrusts are gonna get me! …the troops are fine though.
Tea partiers vow revenge over health overhaul
By Grabthar’s Hammer, this shall not stand in our land! You will be avenged, tri-corner-hat-and-teabag-wearing man!!!1!
I only have rights if someone else does not.
I can only be rich unless someone is poor.
How can I be healthy unless someone is sick?
It’s the wingnut binary universe, we just live it. Or not.
Youse guys sure do talk a lot.
Feh. Nobody ever comes here anymore, it’s too crowded.
DKW, did you see the first comment on that thread?
Ayup. There’s a follow-up that ends with:
Looks like Obama gonna need a bigger tank pretty soon.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Only 20 ways? These guys are really slippin’, huh?
OUR PRECIOUS LIBERTIES TO GIVE RAISES TO RICH GUYS GONE!
19. You will have to pay an additional 0.5% payroll tax on any dollar you make over $250,000 if you file a joint return and $200,000 if you file an individual return. What? You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government?
*GASP*
Why, that extra $1,000 ($1,500 if I’m married) would get me a “round the world” at the local prostitution establishment!
MAN THE BARRICADES! THEY’RE COMING FOR MY PENIS!
From the comments: “Who is the enemy that BHO and company defeated in order to pass this? America is the enemy. Everyone who loves America is the enemy. Everyone who has a job in America is the enemy. I am one of the enemy. I and everyone like me.”
Someone thinks mighty highly of him/herself!
“Who is the enemy that BHO and company defeated in order to pass this? America is the enemy. Everyone who loves America is the enemy. Everyone who has a job in America is the enemy. I am one of the enemy. I and everyone like me.”
I am Spartacus! And this. Is. SPARTA!
Or something like that…
The best is NOW that Ben Franklin quote “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both” is all the rage… but for the WRONG FRIGGIN POLICY DISCUSSION.
Srsly, I am beginning to go insane.
Srsly, I am beginning to go insane.
It ain’t you.
Altho I confess, that whole “Release the Kraken!” meme is starting to make sense to me…
Someone thinks mighty highly of him/herself!
I unnerstan that Peak Wingnut is na ga happen, but is it OK to hope for Peak Drama Queen?
These people and their vapors.
The first repeals a bill that never existed, while the second bans funding to a group that no longer exists. Not to mention that funding had already been banned and a judge had already ruled that ban unconstitutional.
Off to a great start aren’t they?
OMFG! Our freedom to have our premiums jacked up by unreasonable amounts is GONE!
So, eating chicken fat off the floor is bad for you now? Goddamn nanny staters…
Off to a great start aren’t they?
The Footbullet Express has left the station!
5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesn’t allow your employers’ slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Tough. (Section 2714).
Yeah you know it’s not as if, unlike the 60s and 70s, everyone has a friggin college diploma these days. And man is that economy banging on all cylinders these days! What is unemployment down to now?.. oh, it’s still near 30-year-highs? hmm…
Not everyone can be a trustfunder who’s daddy writes Serious Columns for investors.com.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced the first two Republican amendments to the reconciliation bill.
Included is a provision that adult diapers will be covered, but only if the wearer promises to tell his mommy when they are soiled and need to be changed.
14. You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs? Well, maybe you shouldn’t have paid your frikkin’ CEO a half billion in bonuses the past ten years
Fixed for appropriate apportionment of responsibility.
I unnerstan that Peak Wingnut is na ga happen, but is it OK to hope for Peak Drama Queen?
These people and their vapors.
Right? Jesus Christ, for such manly men, conservatives are the biggest babies I know.
Shorter David Hogberg:
This country has been going downhill since the War of Northern Aggression took away our freedom to enslave Negroes.
You will have to pay an additional 0.5% payroll tax on any dollar you make over $250,000
Out of every dollar over a quarter mill I’ll have to pay a ha’penny? Fuck that raise, boss, I can’t afford it.
You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status.
What if the guy who does all that is the healthy one because he visits his doctor regularly and rides his bike fifty miles a day, while YOU are the fat tub of goo munching Cheetos and writing blog comments about how angry you are about healthcare reform?
I love how so very many of the twenty ways end with “think you as an something something executive know better…” Looking back at the debate about HCR, it’s clear that the primary flaw in the system was that corporate excutives were too tightly reined in.
Yeah you know it’s not as if, unlike the 60s and 70s, everyone has a friggin college diploma these days. And man is that economy banging on all cylinders these days! What is unemployment down to now?.. oh, it’s still near 30-year-highs? hmm…
I’ve heard that argument from a few people. You know what? When I was 25, I was married, working full-time, paying rent, and buying my own food and I DIDN’T HAVE FUCKING HEALTH INSURANCE. And that was 4 (okay, 5) years ago during the Glorious Economic Times of the Great Bush Administration.
I, uh, decided to dive deep into the shitmoat to try to find those legendary sea-mangoes that are rumored to exist according to mysterious passages in the eldritch Pnakotic Manuscripts- I checked out the blog of the guy who proposed the “window war”.
Fucker makes Wankee look like Princess Diana. I hope he finds a bill for the damages in his mailbox.
You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs?
you are a health insurer and you make the really big bucks in investing the money paid to you in premiums. if you accidentally lose any significant amount of money on any single group of policies, you cash in your reinsurance on those policies and don’t take much of a hit. you laugh quietly at idiots who think that insurance companies make their money off of balancing premiums against payouts
What if the guy who does all that is the healthy one because he visits his doctor regularly and rides his bike fifty miles a day, while YOU are the fat tub of goo munching Cheetos and writing blog comments about how angry you are about healthcare reform?
Who’s writing blog comments?!
You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs? Well, if that increase is deemed “unreasonable” by the Secretary of Health and Human Services it will be subject to review and can be denied.
If it’s actually to meet costs is there chance in Hell it would be turned down as “unreasonable?” “No, we expect you to go bankrupt HAHA!”
You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status.
Um, yeah. How do insurance pools work again?
The guffawiest thing at that investor butthurt site is the sidebar:
Investing Tip
Admit mistakes to avoid making them again.
SOTFB.
I’ve heard that argument from a few people. You know what? When I was 25, I was married, working full-time, paying rent, and buying my own food and
Sadly, I was one of those people. I had a decent job right out of school (which took me a year too long) thought everything was super! Bought a new car, was about to move out of the “roommates” place then BLAMO! Kicked to the curb. Next thing I know my move-out plans were halted and I’m still there nearly 3 years later. COBRA nearly wiped me out. Luckily, I found another job — after a year of unemployment. Others aren’t so lucky. There will be large portion of coming generations that will be forever affected but this economy.
Oops, left out a part…
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced the first two Republican amendments to the reconciliation bill.
Included is a provision that adult diapers will be covered, but only if the wearer promises to tell his mommy or a qualified, trained professional when they are soiled and need to be changed.
Admit mistakes to avoid making them again.
I admit I made the mistake of visiting Investors.com.
PENIS. Also.
wiksterpedophilia:
Insurance companies earn investment profits on “float”. “Float” or available reserve is the amount of money, at hand at any given moment, that an insurer has collected in insurance premiums but has not paid out in claims. Insurers start investing insurance premiums as soon as they are collected and continue to earn interest or other income on them until claims are paid out. The Association of British Insurers (gathering 400 insurance companies and 94% of UK insurance services) has almost 20% of the investments in the London Stock Exchange.[6]
In the United States, the underwriting loss of property and casualty insurance companies was $142.3 billion in the five years ending 2003. But overall profit for the same period was $68.4 billion, as the result of float. Some insurance industry insiders, most notably Hank Greenberg, do not believe that it is forever possible to sustain a profit from float without an underwriting profit as well, but this opinion is not universally held.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance
Included is a provision that adult diapers will be covered, but only if the wearer promises to tell his mommy or a qualified, trained professional when they are soiled and need to be changed.
That is a reasonable extension of benefits.
So Jammie Wearin’ Fool has insurance but it sucks, but opposed healthcare reform because he didn’t want other people to have better coverage than he did which is going to happen because his insurance was rated the minimum acceptable in the new package, but that’s not what he wanted because it doesn’t cover enough.
Um, what????
Looking upstream, I see that actor already pointed out that CY’s idea of “giving themselves to Hitler’s creeping fascism” is known to everyone else as “invaded by an overwhelming army”. Also that CY achieves this perversion of history by pretending that Austrian resistance to fascism (“unions called strikes… Cries went out for equal rights for women”) was a sign of their acceptance.
Clearly I picked the wrong day to start mixing coffee with my morning shot of nutmeg.
Has CY moved on to citing David Irving yet?
most notably Hank Greenberg
That would be, um, AIG’s Hank Greenberg.
You know, the assholes who got us into this mess in the first place.
Has CY moved on to citing David Irving yet?
Wow.
That one might need some explaining to the younger denizens here, Smut.
The problem is all inside your head, I said to he
The answer is that you can’t think logical-ly
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be twenty ways your column’s stupid.
He said it’s really not my habit to tell the truth,
Furthermore, I hope the facts get lost and misconstrued
But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be twenty ways Obama’s a despot.
Twenty ways Obama’s Hitler.
You can’t just dump the sick, Rick (Cission)
You gotta offer ’em a plan, Stan
And not one filled with shit, uh-something that rhymes with shit.
Just teabag yourself free
Jus’ eat that chicken fat off the floor, boor
And use the word “Tough” much
Just drop your pants, David
And teabag yourself free
I said your article it gives me much pain
I wish there was something I could do so that you never write again
And the world would appreciate that, and we’d be free from the taint
Of Hogberg’s words….
Hogberg’s mom said why don’t we both just sleep on it tonight
And I believe in the morning you’ll have fucked me just right
And then she kissed me as I rammed her throat oh so tight
There must be fifty ways to do Hogberg’s mother
Fifty ways to fuck his mother.
That was the Howard Hughes fraud guy, amirite?
Wait, that’s too old.
Luckily, I found another job — after a year of unemployment. Others aren’t so lucky. There will be large portion of coming generations that will be forever affected but this economy.
Ugh, I’m sorry to hear that. But it’s not uncommon at ALL. The husband was laid off 3 times and I was working for a small business that didn’t offer health insurance. We’ve been lucky enough to be able to get back on our feet after a couple of years, but it’s obvious that the whole “get married, buy a house, have kids” thing is impossible for most people under 30 these days.
And not one filled with shit, uh-something that rhymes with shit.
Mitt.
Repeal Obamacare immediately because it ruined a nine-year old’s birthday party!
More On (see what I do there?) Dana Loesch
Warning: Contains Bill Orally
That was the Howard Hughes fraud guy, amirite?
You know who else had a diary?
Wow.
That one might need some explaining to the younger denizens here, Smut.
The younger denizens do know how to Google, you know. 🙂
get married, buy a house, have kids” thing is impossible for most people under 30 these days.
Agreed, T&U. It probably doesn’t help that I literally am truculent and unreliable.
The younger denizens do know how to Google, you know.
Look, I’m really not interested in your sexual proclivities.
…unless you have a newsletter or website.
unless you have a newsletter or website
Two, please.
Agreed, T&U. It probably doesn’t help that I literally am truculent and unreliable.
Well, me too. More unreliable than truculent.
I’ve only done 1 of those 3 things, and it’s quite difficult enough.
(golf clap to DKW for teh song!)
Look, I’m really not interested in your sexual proclivities.
…unless you have a newsletter or website.
I have a pop-up book…will that work?
I have a pop-up book…will that work?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I think I have that end of things well in hand, but thanks.
(golf clap to DKW for teh song!)
tru dat
More On (see what I do there?) Dana Loesch
Oh, great. They’re trying to find the smoking “Nigger!” I like how she plays the Kenneth Gladney card, too. And, “literally stomping on the Constitution.”
What a piece of work.
I like how she plays the Kenneth Gladney card, too
Exactly. Because a duly elected Congressman should be shown the same disrespect as some random antagonistic fake and charlatan claims he was shown.
Well, if that increase is deemed “unreasonable” by the Secretary of Health and Human Services it will be subject to review and can be denied.
So insurance providers will have to face the same sort of treatment they have been dishing out to their customers?
So insurance providers will have to face the same sort of treatment they have been dishing out to their customers?
I know, right? How rude
So insurance providers will have to face the same sort of treatment they have been dishing out to their customers?
*zing*
Who said zombies were slow?
Esteev and Xecky, teh official version’s updated and all blogwhore.
OT, but we’re having a go at Israel for their part in that whole fake passports Hamassasination thing so WELP GUESS WE’RE HORRIBLE ANTI-SEMITES. Look out for that one.
So insurance providers will have to face the same sort of treatment they have been dishing out to their customers?
:::Stamping feet:::
IT’S. NOT. FAAAAAIIIIIRRRRRR.
::sniff::
You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status.
Well, this is the thing. Health insurance is a stupid business. Yeah, I said it. Sick people are a bad risk. In fact, they are no risk at all; they are a certainty. Buying insurance is placing a bet with the house against yourself. No self-respecting bookie wants to cover your bet if they already saw how the dice came up. As I understand it, this is why Medicare for the elderly exists in the first place. No for profit insurer would have them.
The solution, of course, is just not to have for profit insurers at all, but that would be socialism, so instead you wind up with laws that tell businesses they can’t act like a business.
Of course, if the business in question doesn’t like doing business on these terms, I’m sure they are free to go Galt and start selling policies in Mogadishu.
Altho I confess, that whole “Release the Kraken!” meme is starting to make sense to me…
I’m all for releasing this kraken–and it’s even strong, sweet, and black.
The solution, of course, is just not to have for profit insurers at all, but that would be socialism, so instead you wind up with laws that tell businesses they can’t act like a business.
For some reason, people seem to think that health insurance is no different than car insurance. I expect that Mr. Investor’s Business Daily would have no problem with the old and infirm being denied medical care if they couldn’t afford it. “You’re old, you’ve got diabetes, you eat chicken fat off the floor. No way we’re gonna insure a broken-down clunker like you, pal.”
You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs? Well, if that increase is deemed “unreasonable” by the Secretary of Health and Human Services it will be subject to review and can be denied.
…which is true right now except at the state level.
Fuck, I want to tell all these WATBs to fucking SACK UP.
When the Constitution was written, our Founding Fathers had an understanding that … certain people should not be eligible to be President. Back then, … certain people weren’t voting and getting all uppity.
Also, chicken fat off the floor is the best chicken fat.
I would just like to apologize to Mr Gladney for any injury, real or imagined, he may have incurred when he
fell overwas taken down by Vinny Boombatz after trying to stomp on my head. This goes not only for his weird arm injury but also for his intense butthurt.380th!
Also – a “window war?” No guff? The civic equivalent of holding your breath until your face turns blue?
I’m predicting that soon some “gallant patriots” are going to be in need of some stitches & mercurochrome.
Somewhere, the ghosts of Washington & Jefferson are laughing their ectoplasmic asses off.
(From “The Unwritten” this month, writing about Goebbels and Jud Suss, which, it turns out, is a pro-Jewish novel written by a Jew)
“It takes evil genius to untwist that story and turn it into a fable of wicked Jews and pure, noble Germans — but that was what Goebbels did. Seventy years before the spin doctors of the modern age, he recognized that truth was as malleable as plasticine, and the past like the future, could be unwritten adn rewritten with a stroke of the pen.
(snip)
I’m not sure if this film was the birth of modern media propaganda, but I think it was pivotal because it did something I hadn’t seen before but I’ve certainly seen since — it ascribed to its enemies (the Jews) all of the Nazi’s own negative qualities. It was like watching the Nazi blueprint for conquering and subjugating a country without firing a shot. False imprisonment, torture, destruction by innuendo, rape abuse – it’s almost as if accusing the Jews of those atrocities would serve to mitigate the Nazis’ use of them.”
Somewhere, Roger Ailes is beaming with pride…
D.N. Nation skrev:
Dude(tte), it’s not possible, by our current understanding of the laws of physics, for those mangoes ever to be worth it.
I particularly like the part about Hitler deciding women should be equal to men and taking women out of the home and putting them in the factories. In fact, one of the dilemmas Germany faced during the war was a shortage of male labor at home and the refusal of the Nazi leadership to conscript German women for the labor force. Instead, they brought in an army of foreign slave workers to run the German war industry. The historical ignorance of the right truly has no limits…
Aw, this was an incredibly nice post. Taking the time and actual effort to
create a ttop nltch article… but what can I say… I procrastinate a lot and don’t
manage to get anything done.