Also, We Should Outlaw Dunking In Basketball
Posted on June 20th, 2010 by D. Aristophanes
Kevin McCullough of Townhall.com has a suggestion:
Ok who’s ready for a new federal law?
How ’bout this: ‘No one may run for President of the United States after previously only being elected to a state legislature and U.S. Senate with no chief executive experience.’
But if you were previously only elected to a state legislature but not the U.S. Senate, presumably it’s cool to run for President.
“Also, no-one may run for office whose name rhymes with Froframa.”
What does this guy have against commas? It gives the thing a stream of consciousness Faulknerian idiot manchild vibe that isn’t really helping his case.
Indeed.
Oh hell, why doesn’t he just go ahead and propose a “new federal law” prohibiting African Americans from running?
Did he vote for McCain?
Did he vote for McCain?
*snort*
No, he crossed out his name on the ballot and just voted for Sarah.
Given this new bit of revelation Mr. President I’m not sure how you can sleep at night knowing that your inaction did cost the lives of eleven family men in Louisiana.
And what would this guy’s response have been to the government summarily shutting down the rig before disaster happened?
OT, but if James Urbaniak isn’t a Sadly, No! reader, he totes should be.
And what would this guy’s response have been to the government summarily shutting down the rig before disaster happened?
WOLVER!NES1
And Urbaniak is a long-time S,N! fan! Yay!
And what would this guy’s response have been to the government summarily shutting down the rig before disaster happened?
WOLVER!NES1
I think you’re wrong. I think it’s “Shut up, that’s why.”
Silly lady. You’re assuming there’s any way for Blacky Chicago Thugbama can do anything to win with these people. He loses points with these fucktards for simply breathing correctly. They know it sends more oxygen to his brain and that drives them mad with jealousy.
smart guy. It’s ‘Berkeley.’ Argument disqualified. Next.
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He forgot to add: “Until such time as the Republicans decide to run a candidate with those exact qualifications.”
Mmmhmmm.
Why don’t they have a problem with Sarah quitting halfway through her term as governor? hmmmmmmmm?
How about “no half-term governors?”
He forgot to add: “Until such time as the Republicans decide to run a candidate with those exact qualifications.”
The preferred wording is “Until such time as a REAL AMERICAN with those exact qualifications decides to run.”
I think you’re wrong. I think it’s “Shut up, that’s why.”
A few threads ago, there was discussion regarding proof of Ring Lardner’s genius.
I.e., “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”
“Also, no-one duskily enhued may run for the office of President (see? we didn’t say ‘No Niiiiggggyarsss’, so YOU’RE the racist for thinking that. Also, tee-hee-hee, oh- I just wet myself. MOTHER!!!).
Why don’t they have a problem with Sarah quitting halfway through her term as governor? hmmmmmmmm?
Boobies and/or YOU STOP MAKING FUN OF TRIG!
A few threads ago, there was discussion regarding proof of Ring Lardner’s genius.
I saw that. He was a man before his time, no?
I just wet myself. MOTHER!!!
Are you going to put me in the fruit cellar again, Norman? Do you think I’m fruity, Norman?
I saw that. He was a man before his time, no?
Did you ever read “You Know Me Al”? The guy understood people and yet somehow was not completely disgusted by us.
Did you ever read “You Know Me Al”? The guy understood people and yet somehow was not completely disgusted by us.
Nope. How can that be???
I got out of the boat for just a second.
What the fuck? This guy is claiming that the blow-out is all Obama’s fault because he didn’t take over BP’s operations 2 weeks before the explosion?
This guy is claiming that the blow-out is all Obama’s fault because he didn’t take over BP’s operations 2 weeks before the explosion?
This article is an interesting case study on how wingnuttery rots your brain. It seems like McCullough is trying to make a serious point (a novel concept – he usually works in the “popular culture is sapping our precious bodily fluids” vein), but it’s so ham-fisted and flat out stupid that it’s completely lost.
Nope. How can that be???
YKMA is an epistolary novel written by a decent man who is almost functionally illiterate – a minor league baseball player – and who is blind to his own motives and why people around him act the way they do. If Lardner had written nothing else, that book would make him one of the great American writers.
ham-fisted and flat out stupid
Worst slash fic ever.
The Meme That Will Not Die mango:
I always wondered what it was like to live with no past, just now and the future.
Ouch.
I always wondered what it was like to live with no past, just now and the future.
Have you ever watched gerbils in a cage?
Boobies and/or YOU STOP MAKING FUN OF TRIG!
“or”?
McCullough is saying that Obama should have known this was going to happen based on reports BP gave to MMS. Of coures, If he had shut the well down they would have been all over him for being a socialist taking over private industry and for big government regulating etc. If shutting down the well would have prevented this and the folks at MMS should have known that and did nothing, then heads should definitely roll. Also if that were the case and Obama had been informed that it was then Barry’s head should roll as well. However, I am probably as much an expert on offshore drilling as McCollough is and I have to wonder if shutting down the well at that time would have actually made any difference. Maybe someone here has some experience in this area and can answer this, but if the well is already drilled and the cracks are already forming I’m thinking shutting down the well would only increase pressure on the forming cracks. I suspect the only way this could have been prevented was to not drill in the first place. Which would then have been equal to high treason in the minds of McCullough and his readers. After all, Drill Baby Drill is in the constution.
OH
MY
GOD.
Photoshop is acting like a schizophrenic bitch who hates me. It can’t seem to do ANYTHING right. I’m gonna chuck my computer out the window.
Would you rather be loved by a schizophrenic bitch?
“or”?
I’ve been feeling unusually charitable this morning.
Wait, really, McCain?
HW Bush?
Nixon? (depending on if VP is executive experience)
Ron Paul?
Fred Thompson?
Fucking Idiots- How do they work?
So apparently Kevin McCullough is cool with anybody at all getting elected President — just so long as they don’t satisfy those three conditions. You can get elected if you were just a state legislator. Or a Senator. Either of those without executive experience is fine — but just not together.
Oh, to hell with it, let’s say what he really means: “No darkies. Unless they’re Republicans. Which they usually won’t be anyway.”
So the oil disaster is continuing, getting even worse with tarballs washing up in Florida now, and what is Obambi doing?
Playing golf today. He’s the most incompetent President since World War II. No, not just incompetent. I think he’s purposely doing nothing so it gets worse and discredits the oil industry, so he can get more shakedown money from a private corporation. Why all the outrage and the CEO of BP, but not Obambi? Is playing golf somehow less out of touch than yacht racing?
Dear sweet spreadable Jeebus on a rye crisp! Clown Hall is now plumbing new depths of stupid. They aren’t even trying to appear sentient.
But if you were previously only elected to a state legislature but not the U.S. Senate, presumably it’s cool to run for President.
Actually, I don’t think McCollough would agree with that either. If Lincoln had not been elected then we could still have slavery and the dark-skinned president problem would be solved.
Well if Obama is responsible because he didn’t provide enough oversight of MMS it would seem only prudent for him to go ahead and fire every Bush appointee and anybody they hired.
History suggests the “National Security & Safety Review” not limit itself just to MMS.
Obama Fiddles while Gulf Burns
Whatever. Don’t act like you don’t enjoy thinking about Obama “fiddling.”
cCullough is saying that Obama should have known this was going to happen based on reports BP gave to MMS.
Right, because Presidents read every technical report submitted by industries to regulating agencies and analyze them and then immediately (within 2 weeks) decide to take over the operation.
Clearly, Obama’s not fit to be president because he lacks petrochemical and mineral mining expertise.
So the oil disaster is continuing, getting even worse with tarballs washing up in Florida now, and what is Obambi doing?
Playing golf today.
Yes, and you know what else? He actually ate breakfast this morning!! All that time wasted on two English muffins and a soft-boiled egg, while he could have been scuba-diving down to the blow-out and shoving a giant cork in the well!
Well if Obama is responsible because he didn’t provide enough oversight of MMS it would seem only prudent for him to go ahead and fire every Bush appointee and anybody they hired.
A stellar suggestion, if I may say. As you indicate, the problem here is that the federal bureaucracy is so thoroughly riddled with conservative moles (and it is not just Bush, Jr., this goes back to Reagan) that one almost doesn’t know where to begin. Unfortunately Obama (with whom I have a lot of issues, but this ain’t one of them) sort of had his hands full with other issues when this snuck up and bit all of us on the butt.
You fellows scoff, but I have in on good authority that in January 2010, Obama received a PDB entitled “B.P. Determined to Strike in U.S.”
Unfortunately Obama (with whom I have a lot of issues, but this ain’t one of them) sort of had his hands full with other issues when this snuck up and bit all of us on the butt.
I think we should pass a new federal law saying “‘No one may run for President of the United States unless having demonstrated abilities to see into the future.”
Would you rather be loved by a schizophrenic bitch?
My partner seems cool with it.
Speaking of hellish absurdity, what about the looming health crisis caused by the government ignoring the “dry-anal sex” fad in the gay community? Doctor Hans Bermann has tried to warn us about this for some time. Basically, this new fad is for gay men to stop using lubricant such as ky-jelly when having sex. A growing group of men prefer the roughness and abrasion of dry anal-sex, claiming it gives them more pleasure. Just one problem: dry anal sex leads to 60% more incidents of anal-tearing and the internal bleeding that can accompany this. Furthermore, as Doctor Bermann has shown, dominant partners in gay-male relationships (in the 40% ofgay-male couples where such a sub-dom relationship exists) often impose this “dry-anal sex” on the subordinate partners. The government is not addressing this looming national health catastrophy. Our national school curriculum, starting from middle school, needs to be altered to tell our youth of the dangers of dry-anal sex, and why lubricant is needed to cut down on this damaging anal-tearing.
I think we should pass a new federal law saying “‘No one may run for President of the United States unless having demonstrated abilities to see into the future.”
Under the circumstances it clearly should read, “No one may run for President of the United States unless having demonstrated omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence, unless they are a REAL AMERICAN!!1! (TM) Teabagging Republican.”
Sounds like a ‘States Rights’ issue to me.
what about the looming health crisis caused by the government ignoring the “dry-anal sex” fad in the gay community?
There should be a law! Perhaps we could call it the Republican intern protection act.
R.I.P.A. ??
I think we should pass a new federal law saying “‘No one may run for President of the United States unless having demonstrated abilities to
see into the futurehold their breath and dive below 5000 fet and seal oil wells with their bare hands.”“‘No one may run for President of the United States unless having demonstrated abilities to see into the future hold their breath and dive below 5000 fet and seal oil wells with their bare hands.”
Late 80s Swatch ad: We could have made it waterproof to 1000 meters, but at 1000 meters the pressure would crush your head like an eggshell, so we figured “why bother?”
R.I.P.A. ??
I have been trying to think of two words that start with “s” that would work in this context for the last five minutes…
Why don’t we just make literacy a disqualifying offense?
Can you do that? From memory and a quick glance, I don’t believe the Constitution says “these are the ONLY restrictions on who may be President”. Why not just pass a law saying “no Demmycrats”?
It did take a Constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax.
Why don’t we just make literacy a disqualifying offense?
Wouldn’t do any good. Bush was a liberal, remember?
How about a law that makes ‘oil companies’ really, really afraid to spill oil?
Like say, each time it happens the board members draw lots to see who loses a finger.
Start with the pinky, of course.
Late 80s Swatch ad: We could have made it waterproof to 1000 meters, but at 1000 meters the pressure would crush your head like an eggshell, so we figured “why bother?”
YOUR head would collapse, but Super Sarah’s solid bone skull can take 7200 meter of depth.
Hey, how about a law against murder, assault and battery?
I know, I know, there’s something like that already, but… Iraq, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib…? I feel like we need some tougher laws.
YOUR head would collapse
Too late.
Wouldn’t do any good. Bush was a liberal, remember?
Still serves the purpose of the teabaggers, since they’re the ones calling him a liberal and rattling on and on about how the Earth is flat and Jesus riding a dinosaur into Jerusalem.
Hey, how about a law against murder, assault and battery?
I know, I know, there’s something like that already, but… Iraq, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib…? I feel like we need some tougher laws.
Are any of those offenders black? Ok.
Are any of those offenders black? Ok.
Well, in Britain they would be. Oh wait, are you talking about the guards and interrogators? Never mind.
Shorter logical equivalent of that fucktard’s rant: Obama failed to immediately fir, upon taking office, every MMS employee appointed/hired by GW Bush.
Hmm. Mangoes … & yet they smell like ass.
Sigh.
Like any good little snark-whore, this late in the circus I’ll fisk the tits off of ANYTHING, I suppose.
Yeah … not so much. Making someone who INVADED THE WRONG FUCKING COUNTRY look like Einstein would require a special breed of extreme balls-hanging-in-the-wind raging tardgasm the likes of which Obama has yet to perpetrate, but nice try.
According to this post you seem awful skittish about any solid citations or quotes for any of this shit – perhaps because they don’t “sync with your narrative” as the kids these days like to put it. According to reality, the site was – & is – BP’s responsibility; it’s their fucking lease. Surprise, surprise, after two whole years out of Cheney’s venomous black talons MMS is still a sick joke, but at least the current Clown-In-Chief has had some detectable interest in seeing that improve … whereas the previous one left it much worse than he found it.
“Date of infamy” my fucking sweaty taint, Bub.
Try “Date With Which To Staple Yet More Spin-Dried Alibi-Corsages Onto BP’s Reeking Carcass.”
Because BP has no idea how to decommission or repair its own rigs … let alone enough nickles to rub together to do what needs doing themselves. Jeepers creepers, dude, can I have the roach from that?
Fyxed 4 Akkuricy.
*EPIC NON SEQUITUR WIN!*
Yep. Having a titanic budget surplus on his first day was indeed a genuinely new problem for Bush… & holy fucking FUCK did he EVER solve the arse off it. You poor buggers will be lucky if America EVER unsolves it … because that’s just how hardcore Georgie-Porgie was, maaaaaan.
Hey, come to think of it, the Clown-In-Chief before Bush also had to deal with terrorists attacking the WTC, & he put the perps away in short order. By the by, Osama sends the GOP his warm (& grateful) regards, fucker.
Where you go from here is really your call, but you’d be advised of two options if you genuinely love the country you work for and those of us you report to.
Change your tactics. Appear to care. Attempt to engage and empower Americans who can and will go solve this mess.
Otherwise resign.
So, the subtitles for this huffy sludge are: stop what you’re doing (like, say, getting a hell of a lot more positive changes done in one term than the Republicans have overall in living memory, for instance), fake caring (because after all, sneering through a sickly mimicry of empathy was such great news … for JOHN MCCAIN!), & attempt (as in not succed, pretty pretty please) to get Jack & Jill Sixpack, Esquires all the way up off their massive hairy zit-speckled arses … & organized to boot.
Woot! Move over, Macchiavelli & Hobbes – KMC is in da muthafuckin’ house to wreck you!
I just love the way these guys occasionally take a break from complaining about the Federal Government doing anything or enforcing any law, in order to propose that the Federal Government pass a law that they want, one that otherwise has not reason for being passed.
…………. but “Gushing Well Of Tar” is one bitchen kewl band name!
shoving a giant cork
I see what you did there.
Surprise, surprise, after two whole years out of Cheney’s venomous black talons MMS is still a sick joke, but at least the current Clown-In-Chief has had some detectable interest in seeing that improve … whereas the previous one left it much worse than he found it.
In fairness, MMS was a major clusterfuck before Bush took office (I am familiar with them from their gross mismanagement of Indian trust leases – they are among the parties at the center of the multi-billion dollar Cobell lawsuit settlement now pending before Congress). To his credit, however, Bush took a merely craptacular clusterfuck and transformed it into a veritable supernova of FUBAR.
Alternate shorter: We need MORE government control of private industry!
To his credit, however, Bush took a merely craptacular clusterfuck and transformed it into a veritable supernova of FUBAR.
Hey, everybody’s got at least one talent.
..hold their breath and dive below 5000 fet and seal oil wells with their bare hands.”
Actually, sealing the well would very likely create a more severe problem. The pressure could crack the casings deeper underground, out of reach. The oil and gas would then expand into the area surrounding the shaft.
That is the nightmare scenario.
Ya know, I can’t get rid of the image of an addict; accidentally breaking off the needle, and then watching distractedly as his arm turns black from blood loss.
Beautiful Sunday morning, innit?
….shoving a giant cork in the well!
Can we get a veil over this?
Or else
….shoving a giant hard thick black cork in the well!
In re the dry buttseks, I am not able to verify any of the above claims except maybe to OW. If it is indeed a trend then it is surely a big problem because everybody that what the gays are doing today is tomorrow’s de rigeur.
Everybody knows
Fuck you iPhone
In re the dry buttseks, I am not able to verify any of the above claims except maybe to OW.
Although I am not a gay man, I’m inclined to call bullshit, myself. This claim, coupled with the idea that 40% of gay male relationships are BDSM-based, seems to be the usual “fags are just pervs” horseshit.
I am outraged to see that Kenyan tarball niggar playing golf in OUR country clubs!
Uh, because of the… oil hole, I mean.
seems to be the usual “fags are just pervs” horseshit.
You mean that they aren’t??!? I am so disillusioned, not to mention heartbroken.
Because Mr. President for as insulting and as grossly rude as you were to your predecessor, you’re making him look like Einstein compared to the gang you’ve got looking out for things while you’re “golfing.”
McCullough also declares himself witty, devastatingly handsome, terrific in bed, and the indisputable winner of this argument so GOOD DAY SIR.
what the gays are doing today is tomorrow’s de rigeur.
….
Fuck you iPhone
Hey, I have to try that now!
Yes. Tons of generic bourgeois schlubs golf. Virtually no generic bourgeois schlubs race yachts.
Perhaps life under a rock is not for you after all —- This Is A Point To Ponder!
PS – please, promise me you’ll stick with that BP Shakedown Blues you’re howliing – it sounds simply maaaarvelous, honeypie!
You mean that they aren’t??!? I am so disillusioned, not to mention heartbroken.
Oh, some of them are, I’m quite sure.
Hey, I have to try that now!
Oh, tig. Have I ever mentioned that you crack my shit up?
There’s an app for that!
Oh, btw, Peej, we are committed to moving to Portland in a couple of months, for sure. Husband has already put in his notice and is going to be doing all the legwork on finding a place and all that fun shit that’s involved in moving. (Thank god).
We have a friend of a friend there who is a meatcutter, and Mr. T&U is hoping that he can start up a business with him, so you may see an awesome, local butcher shop in a couple of years!
you crack my shit up?
If cracking is required, you should reduce your roughage intake or increase lube. Have you considered importing bottled Gulf water?
We have a friend of a friend there who is a meatcutter
Veiled Mohel reference.
Have you considered importing bottled Gulf water?
Sounds a little too earthy for my tastes. I’ll stick to mineral oil. Thanks.
Thanks, T&U, from you that’s a real compliment 🙂
cork in the well
What did Teh Gheyz call that mixture of sediment and oil? Santorum?
So McCain would have been barred from running? Cool.
Geez, why doesn’t the motherfucker just say what he means and say, “No ni####s for President?”
Jim – Further it seems you were also apprised six weeks prior to the rig’s fatal explosion that killed eleven of her workers, when a smart guy from Berkley, you know the global capital of intellectualism, announced to the world a near miss on the rig by stating, “They damn near blew up the rig.”
That was my other favorite part of the column. McCullough goes to the Berkeley smart guy (who incidentally probably knows how to spell the name of his town) in order to further smack down Obama … but that teatard just can’t resist also mocking Berkeley at the same time. They really can’t help themselves.
As a society we don’t really seem to care about the looming dry anal sex health-care crisis. It disproportionately effects a marginal group like gay-men, so we look the other way.
Why isn’t this discussed more? Dry anal sex is a looming public health crisis.
T&U- welcome, welcome, welcome.
T&U – there are a couple pdx sadlynaughts WAIT! WTF? iPhone just suggested “sadlynaughting” i never typed that before
Anyway, go to reddit.com/r/Portland and read through the FAQ and also look through the older threads for all the “we’re moving to pdx” advice and info. The SE part of town has a good Ethiopian restaurant.
There once was a smart guy from Berkley,
Who liked to spell it so quirkily,
Sadly, he expired
When his ass caught on fire,
Strawmen shouldn’t buttsex herky-jerkily.
It’s been too long since I’ve had Szechuan food – my eyes keep converting “dry anal sex” to “dry crispy beef.”
Dry anal sex is like dry wit, Sadly No!’s new troll. Either you get it or you don’t. No point in talking about it.
Dry anal sex is like dry wit, Sadly No!’s new troll. Either you get it or you don’t.
Hell, I ain’t getting any sex at all and you don’t hear anybody announcing a new, dire public health emergency involving fat, old, heterosexual men.
a new, dire public health emergency involving fat, old, heterosexual men.
Now THAT would ravage congress.
Thanks, T&U, from you that’s a real compliment 🙂
Well, thank you!
Anyway, go to reddit.com/r/Portland and read through the FAQ and also look through the older threads for all the “we’re moving to pdx” advice and info. The SE part of town has a good Ethiopian restaurant.
Thanks! It helps that we know a few people our age (and about our income level) there, but any extra info is awesome.
Mmmm, Ethiopian! We have a good, um, TGIFriday’s on the southeast side of town…
Hell, I ain’t getting any sex at all and you don’t hear anybody announcing a new, dire public health emergency involving fat, old, heterosexual men.
Does this mean I don’t have to watch those fucking creepy Cialis commercials anymore?
Hey Mr. Dumbass Clownhall Man (and I use that term loosely), how do you plan to “fix” the Constitution with a federal law?
Let’s think who all would have been ruled out by this stupid suggestion: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Q. Adams….aw hell, everyone up to and including Lincoln and most of them since, including Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and GHW Bush.
Why does the Clownhall Assclown man hate the Founding Fathers?
T&U- As a Sadlynaut lurker, I say welcome, welcome, welcome to PDX. Southeast, SoFo (South of Foster- it’s happening, man), North Portland, wherever. Even the Pearl, if you’re obnoxious. I live in a SE neighborhood where I can grow apples and chickens and walk to Powell’s. Life doesn’t get a whole lot better than this.
I checked our dry anal sex troll’s blog, and it’s about as bizarre as you’d expect.
Also, keep Allen Ginsberg’s name out your mouth, motherfucker. Too.
Does this mean I don’t have to watch those fucking creepy Cialis commercials anymore?
On the contrary, they will be forced to redouble their efforts in the face of this emerging public health threat (even though that ain’t the problem).
Does this mean I don’t have to watch those fucking creepy Cialis commercials anymore?
Never mind gold. The smart money is moving to claw-foot bathtubs.
And another thing…suppose for the sake of argument that the day after he took office, Obama had fired everyone at MMS.
The situation would have been just as bad or worse than it was when the well blew, because we’d still be waiting for the new MMS appointees to get a confirmation hearing.
That rule would eliminate these 20th Century Presidents: Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Bush I, and Obama. (as well as Washington and Lincoln)
it would not eliminate: McKinley, TR, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush II
Sees like a wash either way. Good presidents with and without executive experience, bad presidents either way as well.
FYI, by executive experience, I included either Governor or Lt. Governor and Taft was governor-general of the Philippines. I did not include being college president, which would have let in Ike (and Wilson would be anyway as governor).
Jennifer: FYI, Jefferson and Monroe were both Governor of Virginia.,
How can you claim Eisenhower had no executive experience? He was in charge of the European Theatre- Not that I think this is relevant, but a 5-star General is executing all over the place.
Republican Intern Protection Act Stopping Sodomy
empower Americans who can and will go solve this mess.
So the implication is that there are lots and lots of private citizens just sitting by waiting for “empowerment” to plug the oil leak, prevented from doing so by Obama forcing BP to pay into an escrow account?
What, is Sarah holding off on her praying? Does Cheney have some secret solution that he’s sitting on? How about Newtie, is he so intimidated by Obama’s Blackety-Black-Black-Blackitude he can’t offer his intellectual skills?
Or is he talking about Kevin Costner’s centrifuge machine?
My question is – what would any President be able to do? What do you suppose Bush would have done about this? Pretty much the same thing – hope to hell BP can fix it, and give them a stern talking-to if they fail.
What would McCain have done? Plug the hole with Sarah’s bumpit? Does anyone believe that McCain would have changed MMS any faster than Obama did? Does anyone believe that McCain’s Sec’y of Interior would be any better than Salazar?
So the implication is that there are lots and lots of private citizens just sitting by waiting for “empowerment” to plug the oil leak, prevented from doing so by Obama forcing BP to pay into an escrow account?
Don’t forget McCain’s claim that he knew what to do about the wars but would only provide the solution if elected, as an amusing and presumably unintended homage to Tricky Dick.
Or is he talking about Kevin Costner’s centrifuge machine?
I think he is talking about those REAL AMURIKKAN entrepreneurs who are going to build that totally awesomest time machine from Back to the Future so they can fix the problem before it happens.
So the implication is that there are lots and lots of private citizens just sitting by waiting for “empowerment” to plug the oil leak, prevented from doing so by Obama forcing BP to pay into an escrow account?
Waiting to be engaged and empowered by the federal government. Without that necessary government intervention, nothing can be done. Also: welfare destroys incentive.
My question is – what would any President be able to do? What do you suppose Bush would have done about this?
Well, yeah. Which is what makes the “skreee…skreee…Obama’s not fixing it!!!!” shit coming from not just the rightwingers but the entire fucking media and a good portion of the left so fucking maddening.
If all you motherfuckers have the answers, why not send Obama an email? Because YOU don’t know how to fix it either, dumbfucks, for the obvious reason that it’s a big fucking problem and the fix for it is going to have to come from someone who has some actual fucking expertise in the area – you know, a fucking elitist.
But I go back again to my point about all the bitching and moaning about Obama’s “failure” to clean up MMS – suppose he had just canned everyone there first day on the job – by this point, there wouldn’t even be a skeleton crew operating because of the deliberate roadblocks those fucktard Republicans in the Senate put up to appointments and their deliberate strategy of crippling goverment from being able to do the things that they scream bloody murder about it NOT doing whenever the inevitable (the things they claim we need not worry about) happens.
Jennifer –
I don’t fault Obama for “not fixing” this, as frankly, nobody has a fucking clue how to do so. If they did, it would be fixed. I also do not fault him for not focusing on MMS, as in the larger picture most of the time this is a rather minor player on the political stage and would not have been my first (or even 101st) priority. I do fault him for not more aggressively reforming MMS in the aftermath (and yes, I realize that a lot of these folks are civil service and there are rules, etc.) or more aggressively pursuing criminal and civil prosecutions of BP, Haliburton, and everyone else involved in this clusterfuck (or at least threatening to and making visible moves in that direction to focus their attention).
it would seem only prudent for him to go ahead and fire every Bush appointee and anybody they hired.
That would require replacements. And how many Obama appointees are currently twiddling their thumbs because Republican members of congress are blocking their confirmation?
Oops, Jennifer has already said this. CAN’T HEAR YOU CAN’T HEAR YOU
Kevin McCullough: Keep your cold dead hands off my guns! I mean if you take my gun I’ll punch you with my cold dead hands. I mean my cold dead hands are better than YOUR cold dead hands. Hey, where’d my gun go?
DrDick said,
Tom Toles went back in time after you posted this to draw the toon day before yesterday!
Sirius Lunacy: After all, Drill Baby Drill is in the constution.
Are you kidding? To these greedheads, Drill Baby Drill IS the Constitution.
CAN’T HEAR YOU CAN’T HEAR YOU
If you suffer from a loss of hearing, stop taking Cialis immediately.
T&U- As a Sadlynaut lurker, I say welcome, welcome, welcome to PDX. Southeast, SoFo (South of Foster- it’s happening, man), North Portland, wherever. Even the Pearl, if you’re obnoxious. I live in a SE neighborhood where I can grow apples and chickens and walk to Powell’s. Life doesn’t get a whole lot better than this.
Yay! Thank you. Sorry I missed this the first time around.
Re: the Pearl…yeah, I’m obnoxious, but I also have a lot of student loan debt, so that’s not gonna happen.
ZOMG A YARD WITH CHICKENS AND A HUGE BOOKSTORE. Sounds like heaven.
If you suffer from a loss of hearing, stop taking Cialis immediately.
CAN’T SEE PROPERLY EITHER
It’s not enough to simply have had executive experience, a truly remarkable Presidential candidate should also have left an unblemished record of spectacular FAIL all along the trail of his executive career. Bonus points awarded for outstanding use of nepotism, cronyism, and demonstrated mastery of the pointy-haired trifecta of mis-, mal-, and nonfeasance.
T&U, can’t you just smuggle sleeping-bags into Powells and sleep at night hidden in the stacks somewhere? There are precedents.
“suppose he had just canned everyone there first day on the job –”
T&U, can’t you just smuggle sleeping-bags into Powells and sleep at night hidden in the stacks somewhere?
I’ll bet it’s been done…
can’t you just smuggle sleeping-bags into Powells and sleep at night hidden in the stacks somewhere?
“suppose he had just canned everyone there first day on the job –” FYWP
Faster than you could say “White House Travel Office” every wingtard would be screaming that the Communist usurper is persecuting honest civil servents for the crime of voting Republican and or being real Christians. Many references to Stalinist style purges, Night of the Long Knives, etc. Just a hunch.
OT, but; Fucking Magnets, This Is How They Work!
Sheer brilliance.
Lincoln served a two-year term in the US House of Reps, too.
Lincoln not only had no executive experience but even worse he was a greedy trial lawyer who was schooled in Chicago style politics. He also refused to release his long form birth certificate and college transcripts. Rumor has it that his wife once called Stephen Douglas “Whitey” also.
“hey do you guys want to learn about science?”
“your mom”
So it’s just like SadlyNo?
😉
Also, too: Lincoln’s “default setting” was to favor treating black people like human beings instead of property. So you know that moron Rep. King from Iowa would have had problems with him.
Ok who’s ready for a new federal law?
How ’bout this: ‘No one may run for President of the United States after previously only being elected to a state legislature and U.S. Senate with no chief executive experience.’
Because I’m still grieving over the murder of Brian Jones, I cannot, nay, will not be bothered with reading all of the previous comments:
I am to assume that this new federal law will also be applied to conservative half-term governors?
His vice president Hannibal Hamlin said this about Frederick Douglas, “He is the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
If all you motherfuckers have the answers, why not send Obama an email? Because YOU don’t know how to fix it either, dumbfucks, for the obvious reason that it’s a big fucking problem and the fix for it is going to have to come from someone who has some actual fucking expertise in the area – you know, a fucking elitist.
It’s a mark of the right wing’s insanity that they can’t tell the difference between “an elitist” and “a professional.” Doesn’t bode well for the future of the country either. Like it or not, the professionals are the ones who keep things from falling apart in just about any sphere of life.
You can’t ammend the Constitution with a Federal law you asshat!. Maybe he means for the intended law to only ammend the Teabagitution. You know the one where HCR is unconstitutional, Christianity is the official relegion, Due Process and Equal Protection don’t apply to the coloreds, all non liberal white people are required to own a gun, torture is fine and the census is tyranny.
You know what I’m gonna have for dinner tonight? Eggs, bacon and pancakes.
Not that you needed to know about it, but someday I may want to be a twitter twat and I have to practice up for the inanity.
At the very least, there should be a full-on, full-blown research push to find a way to innoculize gay-men against the life-threatening immune reaction against semen in the blood-stream.
The fucking constitution, how does it work?
In Which I Crash a Tea Party
I suggest full-blown research on why you’re so obsessed with gay sexual practices.
Wait…no…I don’t. That would be a waste of time and money, because we already know why you’re so obsessed with gay sexual practices – it’s because you’re an assclown.
Not actually me of course.
it’s because you’re an assclown.
Hey, even assclowns need love, too. Especially hot, sweaty, dry buttseks love.
Mmmm mmmmmm. One Wal*Mart ten pound beef brisket smoked to utter perfection. That’s the second try with that particular cut, and I really think I nailed it this time (not that the previous attempt was inedible, by a long shot.) Around thirteen hours in the smoker in all, which makes for a long day o’ cooking. Fired it up about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, threw the meat on about 7:40. Fat side up. Tried to keep it at about 215 – 225 F with an assortment of charcoals, and about equal parts Mesquite and Hickory (the former smelling quite lovely.) Basted the bottom with Stubb’s mopping sauce after about four hours, then again after another couple, then more frequently until it ran out, and then basted with Stubb’s chicken marinade (which does have a nice tang to it, especially after sitting in the fridge for several months.) After about ten hours the internal temp started to make it up above 120, and after eleven hours it was going through the 130s, at which point I wrapped it in layers of foil and kept the heat steady. Somewhere between twelve and a half and thirteen hours it was finally above 150 and juicy as could be. One guy sez to let it get to 188 F, but that doesn’t seem right to me, somehow, though I may have to try it some time. But, oh boy, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. We ate about a third of the flat just standing there. Worked our way into the point end tonight, and it’s just fabulous. Tender and delicious. Best BBQ we’ve had in this state.
Government-funded abortions for illegal immigrants?
Funny. They keep attempting to cram every bogeyman they can think of together. Not only abortions, but illegal immigrants! Nobama!
“It’s a mark of the right wing’s insanity that they can’t tell the difference between “an elitist” and “a professional.”
This is why their constitutional interpretations always suffer from poor reading comprehension and a lack of reasoning skills. They won’t accept the opinions of constitutional lawyers because that would be elitist and also LAWYERS ICK! also.
neighborhood where I can grow apples and chickens
Ah, no centipedes in Portland that eat your chickens (or apples) after you’ve planted them?
Government-funded abortions for illegal immigrants?
Since life begins at conception, shouldn’t citizenship also begin shortly after ejaculation? This is an issue that I strongly believe should be part of the immigration debate.
How did that dead rabbit make its way into the back yard? Noggs certainly didn’t catch it, and kill it, and eat its head, did she? Sure, she was chewing some part of it when I noticed her, but the thing had been dead awhile, by the looks of it, and Noggs didn’t even care that I took it away.
But that was just a rabbit. Now we apparently have a new tenant, albeit a temporary one, rest assured. Early a.m., Noggs had been barking awhile before we investigated, and found her under the shed with something else, and it didn’t sound pretty. I hooked up the hose and started squirting it under there and Noggs came flying out, looking dishevelled. And she smelled… uh… a little like a …. skunk! Uh oh. She was immediately carted off to the big laundry sink, and lathered up heavily, which did cut the smell back to a tolerable level. It was almost like a bad rat urine smell, if you can imagine it.
I poked around under the shed, trying to see past all the junk that’s been slid in there for safe keeping. Metal roofing panels, fence posts, etc. One of the roofing panels kept moving, so something was on it, but I didn’t want to be reaching under there too much, so I didn’t pursue it.
Of course, Noggs couldn’t let it go, and she couldn’t be kept indoors forever either, and her first trip out she went directly back under the shed, and very quickly came flying back out with a faceful of whatever that thing under there was giving away. Not good. The dog began earnestly trying to cleanse her head with the lawn, making her way around a rather large area in the process. Shortly we got hold of her again, and it was back to the laundry basin. More suds, with peroxide, which we’d heard does a number on skunk. It sorta worked. Noggs’ one eye was redder than a fire hydrant, but she really didn’t seem too bothered, and the smell isn’t overpowering, just kinda subtly rank.
Either the skunk didn’t score a direct hit, or the potency of its spray isn’t fully developed, or something else, because it’s just not what I typically think of as that ol’ skunk smell. Maybe live skunks put out a different product than do busted up dead ones. It’s certainly not pleasant, but its not indescribably horrid, either.
Anyway, I began in more earnest to clear visual pathways to the under shed region, moving one thing at a time and having a lot of looks. Noggs came back out and danged if she wasn’t interested in going back under there. But she knew where the critter was, and kept her distance.
I spent a big chunk of the afternoon trying to aggravate it into taking a hike, to little effect. It let out a big spray at a stick I threw at it, but otherwise didn’t move around a whole lot. It curled up and slept some, even. I figure it will come out sometime tonight, but it hasn’t, yet. Tomorrow will call for sterner measures if it hasn’t decamped on its own.
Sweet Cheeks says I can’t sleep with her if I get a dose of spray, so I’m being extra careful, and laughing maniacly, occasionally.
But that wasn’t the whole day, though it ought to have been. Down at the dock was evidence that a large flock of ducks had camped out overnight, and what a mess they make. Fortunately, it was all on the kayak elevator, which I submerged and let soak. Tonight, I’ve chased the flock away a couple of times, which maybe ought to do the trick. They get tired of having to move when they want to be sleeping.
And then there were those Stanley Steemer guys who came to clean the sofa, but ended up steaming the rugs, too. If that ain’t a racket.
I tell ya, it was one of those days. Even lunch didn’t go as planned.
However, lumber was sawed, and boards joined together, as the official start to building a raised platform for the new woodstove. I’ve got four more days to finish the job, before the stove installer and his helper invade the premises and cut a hole in the roof.
As the odor of skunk wafts past the windows.
“Government-funded abortions for illegal immigrants? ”
I think their minds are torn on this one. On the one hand . . .
shouldn’t citizenship also begin shortly after ejaculation?
Will no one think of the billions of poor spermatozoan Americans brutally murdered every day? We must do something immediately to end this diabolical slaughter!
After labors, we languished by the lake, and at some point became aware that we were hearing what we thought was a kid yelling the same indistinguishable thing over and over. It was a longish phrase, like “yow yow mo YOW!” It sounded like a kid, but a very obnoxious kid, yelling (not screaming) the same thing over and over. Sweet Cheeks wondered if someone was in distress, but I observed that the tone seemed remarkably consistent and repetitious over a relatively long period of time, and that if the situation were dire surely there would be some evidence of it in an evolving tone. Another neighbor, out in the open, closer to the noise, seemed unconcerned.
We eventually toodled back into the house, I, to my computer, and Sweet Cheeks to her reading sofa. But Sweet Cheeks kept hearing the yelling, and said it sounded like, “Help”, so I went out to listen more closely, and she followed. The yells, which we’d originally heard coming from the left end of the next street over, were now coming from the right end of that street, down in the woodsy section. We still couldn’t make out what the yells were about, but they came relentlessly, every six or eight seconds, somewhere in a hyena’s or monkey’s range, rather high. It could have been one long drawn out word, or a couple of muddled words.
But something was amiss, so we moseyed up to the car and drove around. Down the dead end road across the way, we found an old lady leaning on a broom in the middle of a yard next to an uninhabited house screaming, “Heeeeeellllllllllllllp!”, although if I hadn’t seen her yell it, I still wouldn’t have known what she was yelling.
So, we told her we were there to help, that she would be okay, etc., found out she was lost, couldn’t walk any further, etc. Inconsistencies. Not a lot of anything solid, though she proclaimed to know her own name rather forcefully. She claimed to be visiting, but didn’t know the people she was staying with, and that they probably wouldn’t miss her. But she did insist that she was on the right street.
We put her in the car, and I walked while Sweet Cheeks drove, back up the street, looking for clues, until we got to the more main road, and right there a dog came out to bark at us, and the lady said that the people she was visiting had dogs, and Sweet Cheeks said to go knock, and I did, and after about ninety minutes, all the while the tiny dog barking, a man opened the door and I inquired, “I hate to bother you, but are you by any chance missing a lady named XXXXX?”, and the man said, “Yes, we are.”
And so, after another long sixty minutes, he came out and tossed out the word “dementia” more as an admonishment than something informative, and took our charge back in tow.
The remarkable thing is all those people who were occupying their houses on that street this evening. The lady walked past all of them yelling her yell.
Sweet Cheeks says we’re to put labels and tags on all our clothes with our name, address, and phone number. I said that we should have chips implanted, but then remembered that we live in Tennessee.
This is why their constitutional interpretations always suffer from poor reading comprehension and a lack of reasoning skills. They won’t accept the opinions of constitutional lawyers because that would be elitist and also LAWYERS ICK! also.
Yeah, and I’m pretty sure it’s deliberate.
All the hate being peddled towards colleges ensures their base will never listen to economists, scientists, professors of Middle Eastern studies or anyone else who’s dedicated their entire life to exploring a particular field. The hate for lawyers and law professors ensures that they’ll never have to pay attention to the law that governs them. Most especially, the hate for the media guarantees that they’ll never have to “believe” a fact they don’t like.
And in lieu of professionals, they substitute a vast community of hacks obediently parroting the politically vetted “facts.” By the way, the building up of parralel institutions with a political purpose is a hallmark of totalitarian governments – just saying.
Good grief.
Google Chrome is fast. It seems to load pages quickly, and it certainly processes Javascript very quickly.
The interface is uncluttered, but there isn’t a lot to it, yet. No email client, fer instance. Not a lot of Options. Etc.
Chrome’s memory management features are prominently touted, so I opened the same twenty pages I had open in Opera with it, and used Chrome’s own “About: memory” feature to compare the two.
Chrome Total memory: 180,888k.
Opera Total memory: 121,132k.
Chrome Virtual memory: (Private) 266,112k (Mapped) 26,248k
Opera Virtual memory: (Private) 290,016k (Mapped) 3,612k
Taking it at face value, it looks like Opera beats Chrome handily in memory management.
Inneresting. IE is ridiculous, and I won’t even try a new version unless I see months and months of glowing recommendations, and I see the odds on that as rather long. Even in beta, I put Chrome ahead of Firefox (which I’ve never liked) but I’ll keep Opera running for the foreseeable footcher.
It could have been a band of thugs from the DNC, looting Exxon and dispensing free oil, but instead…
The youths, wearing hoods and crash helmets, also scattered leaflets outside the supermarket.
Obviously, in the case of the supermarket adventure, the practice of robbing and dispensing cannot be sustained. If the robberies can’t be stopped, the supermarket will go out of business (Heck, one large robbery like the one described might be enough to kill it outright.) And then, not only will people have to travel farther to find a new supplier of goods, but they’ll likely have to pay more when they get there, too, owing to the overall decrease in supply, not to mention the added costs of being on the alert for youthful Robin Hoods. If the store those kids robbed was the only local grocery, then those idiots really did themselves and their neighbors a great disservice.
Of course, if the 70 youths are committed Socialists, or Communists, or whatever-they-call-themselves-today-Collectivists, then they don’t particularly care about the collateral damage that they inflict as they seek to draw attention to their particular pet set of grievances. Their goal may even be solely to foment discord in general, so as to take advantage of it, either politically or on the ground. In fact, if they can fuel tensions between the haves and havenots to the boiling point, it’s possible that some of them will wind up in positions of relatively great power where people will have to come to them for the most basic favors, which of course they will attempt to dispense with all the wisdom known to acrue to common thieves.
I note that the attempted redistribution of wealth currently being undertaken in this county, differs from the supermarket caper only in a matter of degree. If the youths in Thessaloniki really want a prospectus for a program they can milk for more than a week or two, they should clamber aboard Obama’s chuck wagon of five and ten year plans, and ride the slow bleed.
We seem to have a stream of unconsciousness troll.
Economic fundamentals are things like employment, interest rates, inflation, productivity, and the dollar. And those things are relatively strong. And despite years of Democrats wishing and praying and announcing that the country is in the midst of a recession, the economy still hasn’t fallen into one.
But no one cares about what is, anymore, or what words mean. It’s jibber jabber at a pace I’ve never seen before. It’s the wholesale shortage of the one commodity that no country calling itself free or civilized can do without: honesty.
Dear Buttsecks Obsessed Moron:
Fuck off and die.
Thank you.
It’s the wholesale shortage of the one commodity that no country calling itself free or civilized can do without: honesty.
It’s not that there’s a shortage. It’s that Bush and Cheney murdered it.
I like Gibbon for his style, that 18th century learned style, every phrase alive with it. Churchill is good reading the same way. And I like trying to gauge the context of the time in which Gibbon wrote, with its views from the window of young American independence strewn through. I only know a little about Gibbon outside his “Empire” writing, and have no idea if he hobnobbed with the Philadelphia klatch, but he could have been one of the U.S. founders, from what I can tell.
I wish somebody would pass and enforce a law stating that if people choose to move to Florida or New Orleans or Corpus Cristi or any place along the swath, that they DO IT ON THEIR OWN FUCKING DIME!
That is all.
From the Tea Party crashers link: “I don’t know what you’ve been told, but the news is really not the news and reports things that aren’t true. Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average …”
Hey, they left out the “For example” in that second sentence!
Stinting not, nor sparing, neither half acquiescing, he surpasses himself and then stops, to allow truth’s honorable finish.
Is this thing on? Are the ramparts adequately shored? Have we our wits about us, and are they sufficiently enjoined and bolted to a competent attention span? These are the questions. And worries.
It was somewhat over thirteen years ago that I made my first posts to that conflagration of interests that was alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater, back in ol’ Usenet. I was definitely a neophyte, and during the first year or more was wracked with something akin to fear every time I clicked the send button. Those were my words going out there. They were me, and I would be known by them. The people I admired all seemed more knowledgable and more politically astute than I, and were all excellent writers, and yet I felt compelled to join in with them, to learn what I could, and to add whatever value my voice might carry to the pile.
It was a messy business, but through it all, I learned a lot. I learned ethics and honesty, and saw the flip side of both. I learned to immerse myself in whatever subject I chose to argue, and I learned that quite a few people don’t bother to do that. I learned that there is a right and a wrong and that a little investigation and attention to the essential facts will show which is which. And I learned that there are a lot of incredibly intelligent and thoughtful people in the country and the world, and that virtually none of them hold public office. In many ways, I had my faith in humanity restored via the people I ran into online. I used to be a cynical bastard.
And now here I am, blogging. I have to say that the shadow of the same old thrill was with me the first times I hit the new publish button, but nothing like during my early offerings way back when. I still wonder if I’m getting it, still wonder what new thing there is to learn or understand or fathom on a slightly deeper level. In trying to inject myself into the news stream, I’m reading a lot of people I never read before, and finding many of them enjoyable and informative. I continue to be impressed with the number of smart and capable people out there, even as I realize they are in the minority. I’m not terribly worried about the blog going in any particular direction, or achieving anything of import other than to myself, but rest assured that I will continue to monitor the situation and keep her going forward.
Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average
I’m sure. 2009 was the first year on record, ever, in which there actually were more Democrats than Republicans among college graduates. So it’s not that the notion of over-educated and unintelligent people doesn’t have a basis in fact. It’s just that, as with so many other things, the Republicans are the ones guilty of what they accuse Dems of.
Mike Soja, it is common courtesy to provide a link. I did my own digging and it would seem that this event happened in Greece in September 2008. Don’t try to blame Democrats for the consequences of disastrous conservative economics.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/118279/Greek-youths-rob-supermarket-hand-out-food
Man, these assholes really long for the days of literacy tests and poll taxes, don’t they? I think everything I was going to snark on has already been covered, so I’ll just highlight this from the comments:
I’m going to enjoy all the wingnut QQing when Obama wins re-election.
The fucking economy, how does it work??
Odd, but the troll doesn’t really say anything, just babbles like a meth addict on X. Wonder if it is some weird new kind of spambot.
I stopped reading Yglesias because this asshat troll ruined the comments section.
Odd, but the troll doesn’t really say anything, just babbles like a meth addict on X. Wonder if it is some weird new kind of spambot.
Does it have to be so bloody long every time they babble, though?
And yes, I realize that’s not actually him writing, just a copy-paste.
After labors, we languished by the lake, and at some point became aware that we were hearing what we thought was a kid yelling the same indistinguishable thing over and over. It was a longish phrase, like “yow yow mo YOW!” It sounded like a kid, but a very obnoxious kid, yelling (not screaming) the same thing over and over. Sweet Cheeks wondered if someone was in distress, but I observed that the tone seemed remarkably consistent and repetitious over a relatively long period of time, and that if the situation were dire surely there would be some evidence of it in an evolving tone. Another neighbor, out in the open, closer to the noise, seemed unconcerned.
We eventually toodled back into the house, I, to my computer, and Sweet Cheeks to her reading sofa. But Sweet Cheeks kept hearing the yelling, and said it sounded like, “Help”, so I went out to listen more closely, and she followed. The yells, which we’d originally heard coming from the left end of the next street over, were now coming from the right end of that street, down in the woodsy section. We still couldn’t make out what the yells were about, but they came relentlessly, every six or eight seconds, somewhere in a hyena’s or monkey’s range, rather high. It could have been one long drawn out word, or a couple of muddled words.
But something was amiss, so we moseyed up to the car and drove around. Down the dead end road across the way, we found an old lady leaning on a broom in the middle of a yard next to an uninhabited house screaming, “Heeeeeellllllllllllllp!”, although if I hadn’t seen her yell it, I still wouldn’t have known what she was yelling.
So, we told her we were there to help, that she would be okay, etc., found out she was lost, couldn’t walk any further, etc. Inconsistencies. Not a lot of anything solid, though she proclaimed to know her own name rather forcefully. She claimed to be visiting, but didn’t know the people she was staying with, and that they probably wouldn’t miss her. But she did insist that she was on the right street.
We put her in the car, and I walked while Sweet Cheeks drove, back up the street, looking for clues, until we got to the more main road, and right there a dog came out to bark at us, and the lady said that the people she was visiting had dogs, and Sweet Cheeks said to go knock, and I did, and after about ninety minutes, all the while the tiny dog barking, a man opened the door and I inquired, “I hate to bother you, but are you by any chance missing a lady named XXXXX?”, and the man said, “Yes, we are.”
And so, after another long sixty minutes, he came out and tossed out the word “dementia” more as an admonishment than something informative, and took our charge back in tow.
The remarkable thing is all those people who were occupying their houses on that street this evening. The lady walked past all of them yelling her yell.
Sweet Cheeks says we’re to put labels and tags on all our clothes with our name, address, and phone number. I said that we should have chips implanted, but then remembered that we live in Tennessee!
I stopped reading Yglesias because this asshat troll ruined the comments section.
Didn’t all of New England Redneck’s posts get deleted not long ago on one particular thread? Why don’t we do that every time a conservative babbler goes on autopilot like this?
I certainly hope “Sweet Cheeks” is currently plotting Mike’s murder.
“Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average”
And how was this “fact” ascertained? Was it through self identification during a telephone poll perhaps? Tebaggers would never lie to a stranger would they? The fact that everytime they open their mouths they display utter ignorance of history and economics and law and pretty much every thing else in general should have no bearing on anyones opinion of them amirite because they said they were well educated to a stranger on the telephone. Do I have that about right mike?
Some unnamed neighborhood teen is in the crosshairs for a charge.
3355 Dixon Road is across a field, almost directly behind the house on Merritt Road that I moved out of and sold. Two houses down from me was a fat kid with a noticeable tendancy to misuse guns. When I bought the place, I found several windows with BB or pellet-like little holes in them, all on the side toward where the fat kid lived. Of course, I couldn’t know for sure how they got there — the place had been abandoned for some time — but it was a good guess as to who it was. Over the next couple of years, I noticed the little monster roaming around with increasingly larger guns, mostly when his parents and grandparents weren’t around, and he’d shoot anything, and indiscriminately in any direction. I caught him one time, peering over my fence with a friend, both with guns, eyeing my many bird feeders, which, had they shot, would have been just past the corner of my house. Another time, I got him in trouble with his grandfather when he took a shot at a red-tailed hawk that had flown down at something in the yard between us. The little rat had it in for me, then, though I never caught him acting on it anymore than muttering under his breath when I was around.
Even so, I always figured, just from the general topography, that it was the people out back, across the field, who were most likely to get the bullets whizzing by.
If it’s the same kid, maybe he’ll get it together after this.
For the love of God, delete the troll already.
Mmmm mmmmmm. One Wal*Mart ten pound beef brisket smoked to utter perfection. That’s the second try with that particular cut, and I really think I nailed it this time (not that the previous attempt was inedible, by a long shot.) Around thirteen hours in the smoker in all, which makes for a long day o’ cooking. Fired it up about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, threw the meat on about 7:40. Fat side up. Tried to keep it at about 215 – 225 F with an assortment of charcoals, and about equal parts Mesquite and Hickory (the former smelling quite lovely.) Basted the bottom with Stubb’s mopping sauce after about four hours, then again after another couple, then more frequently until it ran out, and then basted with Stubb’s chicken marinade (which does have a nice tang to it, especially after sitting in the fridge for several months.) After about ten hours the internal temp started to make it up above 120 , and after eleven hours it was going through the 130s, at which point I wrapped it in layers of foil and kept the heat steady. Somewhere between twelve and a half and thirteen hours it was finally above 150 and juicy as could be. One guy sez to let it get to 188 F, but that doesn’t seem right to me, somehow, though I may have to try it some time. But, oh boy, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. We ate about a third of the flat just standing there. Worked our way into the point end tonight, and it’s just fabulous. Tender and delicious. Best BBQ we’ve had in this state.
Using the same m.o. as used at Yglesias, it will post the same drivel OVER AND OVER AGAIN no matter what the TOPIC. With some work, the guy might get runner up at a Bulwer-Lytton writing contest.
I stopped reading Yglesias because this asshat troll ruined the comments section.
Never read him here again! linky
My screen is overrun with badgers. Kewt, kewt DANCING badgers!
“And despite years of Democrats wishing and praying and announcing that the country is in the midst of a recession, the economy still hasn’t fallen into one.”
I have nothing to say, I just picked my jaw up off the floor.
“And despite years of Democrats wishing and praying and announcing that the country is in the midst of a recession, the economy still hasn’t fallen into one.”
Not that the stimulus could have had ANYTHING to do with that, you fucking idiot.
Wot a project. And I’ve hated it every bit of the way. But it’s almost done.
That’s Weave, the Cape Cod Catboat, sitting in her partially dried second coat of bottom primer. In a few hours, we’ll attack with the ablative anti-fouling paint.
It seems like months ago I started sanding that bottom, which was a nightmare in itself. Just crawling around under that boat gives me the heebie jeebies, especially after I witnessed the unloaded trailer crash to the ground once, when the rusty pin locking the front wheel in place snapped. What’s to say some other part won’t snap or sag while I’m under there?
The auxiliary crank stand I ordered didn’t add anything to the safety side of the equation, and wasn’t enough to hike the boat the way I needed, so I ended up ordering a pair of real sailboat stands, but it was veritable heck getting them in place. I ended up tilting the boat and trailer back to make it so. The blue stand there is half the pair, shoved to one side a little, so we could paint. In a little while, I’ll reposition it, crank it up, and lower the other pad to paint that area.
Blisters, holes, and gouges were filled with a couple different 3M marine filler products, tres expensive, but excellent stuffs. Primer prep involved cleaning the whole bottom with a noxious solvent wash (I acquired brand new respirators for both Sweet Cheeks and myself, which were used throughout.) And then the epoxy primer, the Interlux Interprotect 2000E, even more noxious than the 202 solvent, should seal the bottom of the boat nicely. It has micro-plates!
Next up is the Interlux BottomKote, which will keep the algal blooms at bay, theoretically. That stuff is pure poison, apparently, until it dries, and then only poisons marine creatures who land on it. You bet.
So, the boat may end up in the water around about Wednesday, completely missing our lovely Spring. We have to touch up some of the top side paint, too (we’ll leave the major portion of that for another year), and put the red stripe back around at the water line (it’s hung up to dry in the laundry room), but those are things we can do standing up, and we like that.
Asdie from the rather dubious assertion that Fox and the NYT would say the same thing about it, how does this jive* with the all the studies that show liberals are smarter than cons?
* not a Vn_____R
I’ve been seeing my boyfriend over a year now, he is the best lover a girl could wish for and makes me so happy. We’ve always had an adventurous sex life and are both happy to explore new ideas.
Recently he has been pestering me to have sex outdoors, which is nothing new but now he wants us both to dress as badgers!! He has developed some kind of badger obsession and claims that it will be wild to have sex like animals in the woods.
I don’t know what to do, it does sound good fun but I would be so embarrassed if we got caught. Is this normal or is he some kind of pervert, where will it stop if I agree, please help!!!
Sweet Cheeks
Rib Day is always a good day down here abouts. It’s so exciting, in fact, that I always forget to take pictures. Somehow, today, I remembered.
I lit the fuse a little after seven, and it all came up to temperature a little faster than normal, so the meat went on right at eight.
And there it is around three o’clock. At four o’clock, blogging time, those racks of ribs are just about gone. Dee-lish.
If that seems like a long time for ribs to be done, it’s because I had a hard time keeping the temperature up, today, for some reason. I think the bag of charcoal I used was a little dried out, or over-processed. There is a lot of variation between competing brands of charcoal, of course, but also some difference between bags of the same brand and type. One just has to watch it as one goes. I was continually augmenting with chunks of Hickory, also, which I’ve come to prefer over Mesquite.
The two boneless Boston Butts will stay smokin’ for another several hours, until they sort of begin to fall apart right in place there, and I’ll have to be careful not to lose a single morsel of them.
Just a little later: I think those are butts five and six that I’ve done out there this season. Except for feeding the fire, there is absolutely nothing to them, and it’s the best barbecue we’ve ever had.
And almost likewise on the ribs. After a year and a half of trying various rub recipes, applying the stuff one or two days ahead of smokin’ time, and never really being 110% overjoyed with the results, I tried, maybe three times ago, now, putting a little salt, pepper, and paprika on, right before throwing them into the pit, and that’s the way we like it now. For a finishing glaze, I take a commercial barbecue sauce (we keep going back to Sweet Baby Ray’s, even though it’s larded with high fructose corn syrup) and dilute it at least one to one with chicken stock or whatever is tangy and handy, and use that.
So, you’re saying my laundry basket should be its own Congressional district?
So, you’re saying my laundry basket should be its own Congressional district?
So very TMI.
At the very least, bring back disemvowelment.
“Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average mole rats”
fixxorerd
Dear Sweet Cheeks,
Having sex outdoors dressed as badgers is the least of your problems.
tigris –
Thanks for the link to sweet blessed relief. So how do I get badgers?
This one is for Sweet Cheeks.
I miss the guy with the chicken blog. He was my favorite dada poster.
Dr.Dick – getting badgers depends on what browser you use. Which is it?
I am very sorry that Mr. Mike Soja’s crummy & lame blog does not seem to allow any commenting whatsoever.
Very, very sorry.
Pupienus Maximus –
Firefox.
I am very sorry that Mr. Mike Soja’s crummy & lame blog does not seem to allow any commenting whatsoever.
Not nearly as sorry as he would be if it did.
Mike Soja’s crummy & lame blog is indeed crummy and lame, but that is no guarantee that the shitweasel troll doing the DOS-attack spamming is in fact Mike Soja. Obviously spoofing someone else’s identity for spamming purposes would be the action of a total scumbucket, but, um, forgot what comes after ‘but’.
Instructions for installing greasemonkey on Firefox are here. Do that, then read the next page on installing userscripts to install the one at the link tigris(?) posted earlier. You’ll soon be awash in a sea of the cutest lil’ dancing badgers.
What did Teh Gheyz call that mixture of sediment and oil? Santorum?
Santroleum
Pupienus Maximus –
Thanks! I am wall to wall dancing badgers. Much more pleasant.
Completely OT, I found the following to be quite amusing. It’s a craigslist post that has since been flagged and taken down, alas.
I hope that broken nose heals up cleanly.
Obviously, this wasn’t posted in “Missed Connections”.
That’s funny. (Made an audible humor noise, even.) Too good to be true? Or just well-written & polished? Though one must suspect that the hasty departer was more frightened of his closet door popping open than that he’d catch the ghey from close exposure.
(He’s just lucky he was on the balcony. What if he’d been trapped in a small enclosed space w/ the disease vector?)
“I hope you heal up real quick.”
BBBB
Santroleum
Awesome
Don’t miss John Derbyshire blaming the leak on John F. Kennedy’s optimism, or something.
The wingnuts don’t know whether to hit Obama for being too tough on BP, or for not being tough enough. They haven’t been this confused since the Falkland Islands were invaded, pitting their adored Margaret Thatcher against their almost as adored Garibali or Gabardini or whatever that fascist fuck in Argentina called himself.
So how do I get badgers?
Lack of hygiene, failure to use ointment after the first rash appears.
“I hope you heal up real quick.”
Don’t know where that was filmed but I would say from the lack of lasers it wasn’t the BOC show I went to in 1976. Leastways, I *think* there were lasers – my memory of the night *just might* be suspect.
I’d like there to be a law actually passed that the Senate and Congress have to give the American people the same health care they have.
Yep, I’m a Muslim.
Guy in intro sez: “D.C., capital of the universe”(?) so it might be D.C.
Saw ’em on that White Suit Tour in ’75 or ’76, no lasers, but a fluorescent Me-262 was projected all over the backdrop & walls of the Shrine.
Awesome
Awe, shucks!
Leastways, I *think* there were lasers – my memory of the night *just might* be suspect.
Fuckin’ lasers- how do they work?
I’d like there to be a law actually passed that the Senate and Congress have to give the American people the same health care they have.
Yep, I’m a Muslim.
Jesus, atop his Triceratops, would not approve.
Neither would Dog The Bounty Hunter.
One Wal*Mart ten pound beef brisket smoked to utter perfection.
I just threw up in my mouth.
Jesus, atop his Triceratops, would not approve.
Infidel! Everyone knows Jeebus rides a brontosaur!
Infidel! Everyone knows Jeebus rides a brontosaur!
HEY! MY paster speaks DIRECTLY to God. If he says so, so saith the Lord, fool!
**yawn**
Truckin fools on Halo3 is getting boring. Maybe I should try throwing up in my mouth.
One Wal*Mart ten pound beef brisket smoked to utter perfection.
Do not click on that cretin’s name then. He has the naked lunch on display all over his dump.
Infidel! Everyone knows Jeebus rides a brontosaur!
Elasmosaur.
Infidel! Everyone knows Jeebus rides a brontosaur!
Elasmosaur.
Thus necessitating two wetsuits…
Wow. And you just know this dumb fuck spent HOURS coming up with qualifications that would keep Obama out but not disqualify any Republican presidents.
Fxd.
Mickey Mouse advertising methamphetamine (c/o Boing Boing).
Wow, the troll’s copypasta is a cornucopia of VPR’s and the like:
It’s so exciting, in fact, that I always forget to take pictures. Somehow, today, I remembered.
It seems like months ago I started sanding that bottom, which was a nightmare in itself.
Just a little later: I think those are butts five and six that I’ve done out there this season.
After a year and a half of trying various rub recipes, applying the stuff one or two days ahead of smokin’ time, and never really being 110% overjoyed with the results
Ruh-roh, trouble in paradise:
I had a hard time keeping the temperature up, today, for some reason
Yes, McCain, seven years into the War on Terror, saying HE knew how to find Osama bin Laden, Vote Quimby! was just disgusting. If he’s the Great Big American Patriotic Hero that his military service and POW stint are supposed to make him, wouldn’t a patriot and experienced DC insider have told the folks in the White House and the DoD — all from his own fucking party — by that point? Wouldn’t a patriot have told the candidate he lost to?
I’ll just assume it was a lie. But the implications of that insane campaign babble were shocking, and nobody said a goddamned thing.
Vote Quimby!
HOMOSECKS-YOU-ALLS TAKE OVER DEPARTMENT STORE WINDOWS1111
See the comments.
And you just know this dumb fuck spent HOURS coming up with qualifications that would keep Obama out but not disqualify any Republican presidents.
And even then, utterly failed. See Hoover, Herbert; Eisenhower, Dwight; Nixon, Richard; or Bush, GHW.
ALL YOUR MACYS ARE BELONG TO US!!!!
Big Bald Bastard, pray tell—what are “vpr’s”?
So I killed the troll after his first comment, and yes, it felt good, but no, I do not have badgers. I just click on “kill”, it asks me if I really want to kill, I say “Yup”, there’s this little puff of dust, then the victim disappears and stays ded. I think I do not need the badgers.
And what’s up with Portland? Everybody’s all of a sudden moving to Portland. I’ll bet even Yasgur* has a farm there.
* (Ask your parents.)
Can we just ask Mike Soja to STFU?
I was going to mention earlier, when someone noted Ike’s executive experience, that Hoover was the original CEO President.
How’d that work out again?
Leave it to the wingnutz to think of the most unconstitutional means of taking care of their biggest problem–a Democrat in the White House.
Lessee… Tony Hayward’s got chief executive experience (ah, so what if he’s not a citizen–that opens the door for Ah-nult to run).
Still, it’s amazing that these people, most of whom claim to be intimately attuned to and greatly desirous of upholding the Constitution, can’t actually read the fuckin’ thing.
I hope that broken nose heals up cleanly.
Your broken pride, alas–the less said, the better.
scroll down for mickey yelling “You Lie” at the African Witch Doctor
(can’t believe how racist this old crap is)
GUYS!!! The CatholicVoteAction site lets you post
immediately with no filter!Oh shit, it says “awaiting moderation”. Dammit, subtlety is not my strong point.
VeiledpenisReference.
Big Bald Bastard, pray tell—what are “vpr’s”?
I am an unbald bastard and yet I will reply: it’s what Vctrn wmn hd tht md thm fll nt cchs.
“M. Bouffant said,
June 21, 2010 at 5:50
HOMOSECKS-YOU-ALLS TAKE OVER DEPARTMENT STORE WINDOWS1111
See the comments.”
WON’T SOMENE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!!!!!
“Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average”
Fucking conservative elite, ivory tower intellectual morans.
Or “someone”.
Last night I had to go to this thing….really pretty mcmansion out in Maryland. There was a Glenn beck book on the mantle. Couldn’t get outta there fast enough.
“Sirius Lunacy said,
June 21, 2010 at 13:09
“Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average”
Fucking conservative elite, ivory tower intellectual morans.”
Weird that they can be so educated and so dumb at the same time.
Or “someone”.
That’s just so mene.
Weird that they can be so educated and so dumb at the same time.
As GW taught us, just because you went to school doesn’t mean you got educated.
PENIS
PENIS
Worst novelty chess pieces evah.
As GW taught us, just because you’re
went to schoolbreathing doesn’t mean you’regot educatedqualified.fixed for future generations of Republicans.
And you just know this dumb fuck spent HOURS coming up with qualifications that would keep Obama out but not disqualify any Republican presidents.
And even then, utterly failed. See Hoover, Herbert; Eisenhower, Dwight; Nixon, Richard; or Bush, GHW.
Also McCain, Bob Dole, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, lots of these boobs’ actual or preferred candidates in recent elections.
Truckin fools on Halo3 is getting boring. Maybe I should try throwing up in my mouth.
You should try it. I doubt you’ll reach the level of proficiency that I have, but it’s still quite an experience.
Wow, the troll’s copypasta is a cornucopia of VPR’s and the like:
I had a feeling that it was, but I was too lazy to look…thanks for parsing those out. I loled.
PENIS
God bless the Germans.
PENIS
God bless the Germans.
He’s the poster child for that particular phenomenon.
How can you claim Eisenhower had no executive experience? He was in charge of the European Theatre- Not that I think this is relevant, but a 5-star General is executing all over the place.
As I said in the very post on which you were commenting, I counted being Governor or Lt. Governor as being “executive experience.” I did so because I thought this is what I thought the original RW who suggested the law in question would count as “executive.”
Other “executive” experience would indeed include Ike, as well as Hoover (for running relief efforts during WWI).
Weird that they can be so educated and so dumb at the same time.
As GW taught us, just because you went to school doesn’t mean you got educated.
“educated” can also mean they got a business or engineering degree 40-50 years ago and earned a “C” in the single history or political science class they took when they weren’t in the student union arguing in the Brooklyn Dodgers would win a pennant that year.
I had an older student (50-something) in one of my intro history classes last year; the usual freshman “let’s cover what you should have learned in high school but didn’t” class. She got a good grade, did the reading, and had a decent memory for facts. However, she had a terrible time with connecting dots and seemed to rely on what authorities said to make judgments. She also could not wrap her mind around the idea of placing events in the context of their times. Democrats in 1840 were still assumed to be liberals (boo! hiss! bad people!) and the Federalists/Whigs/Republicans were the conservatives (Good guys!) I tried to explain that both parties were much wider coalitions then than they are now and the issues of the time are often best understood often by region. It was for her to make that jump.
She wasn’t stupid by any means, but she was most certainly a black & white thinker with a great deal of difficulty trying to see things from different perspectives.
And yes, this was the only history class she took for her 4 year degree.
She wasn’t stupid by any means, but she was most certainly a black & white thinker with a great deal of difficulty trying to see things from different perspectives.
I have the hardest fucking time with those types of people, and I tend to think they’re stupid pretty much automatically. Which is probably not fair…but people who refuse to see (or can’t see) things from others’ perspectives or within context drive me nuts.
I have the hardest fucking time with those types of people, and I tend to think they’re stupid pretty much automatically. Which is probably not fair…but people who refuse to see (or can’t see) things from others’ perspectives or within context drive me nuts.
Same thing here. I think it seems selfish to me, which isn’t really fair. But I suspect it also pushes a few of my psychological buttons as well.
think it seems selfish to me, which isn’t really fair. But I suspect it also pushes a few of my psychological buttons as well.
Re: selfishness–that’s exactly it. I’m sure it pushes some of mine, too. I’m also probably *too* willing to see things from other people’s perspectives, so I probably shouldn’t judge.
I’m not sure you can go TOO far in that direction.
“Fox News and The New York Times report that Tea Partiers are more educated than average”
Really, not surprising at all. We could translate this as:
“Teabaggers require more education to reach a level of sub-average intelligence and competency than most people require to reach a level of above-average intelligence and competency.”
Re: selfishness–that’s exactly it.
There’s more than a little “I’m the center of the world” attitude about it. “I don’t need X so there the government has no business providing X to others!”
I’m not sure you can go TOO far in that direction.
That depends. Are you understanding the other’s viewpoint or validating it as legitimate? I thought of an example using the Nazi’s but decided not to go all Godwin on you all…
think it seems selfish to me, which isn’t really fair. But I suspect it also pushes a few of my psychological buttons as well.
Re: selfishness–that’s exactly it. I’m sure it pushes some of mine, too. I’m also probably *too* willing to see things from other people’s perspectives, so I probably shouldn’t judge.
Wow, yeah. Yeah. It does seem incredibly selfish and I don’t much care for selfishness. I don’t want to put myself in that mindset. Even as a child I was never one of those “me!me!me!” people.
But I don’t mean to mislead–none of the wingnuts I know are bursting with personality such that you’d excuse the self-absorption. They aren’t self-absorbed… it’s more willfully blind and dense.
There’s more than a little “I’m the center of the world” attitude about it. “I don’t need X so there the government has no business providing X to others!”
Really? I thought it was more along the lines of “Government owes me X but if they give it to those undeserving people there will be less for me!”
Completely sibling rivalry kind of attitude.
I don’t know how an educated, privileged person with a good job can go around with the attitude that the government owes them something. To me it makes them look like less of a man/woman.
And this is different from reality how?
Seriously, the smell of mangoes is the smell of rotten ass.
Really? I thought it was more along the lines of “Government owes me X but if they give it to those undeserving people there will be less for me!”
I agree you see a lot of that as well. I loved the Teabagger meeting report in Kos where the speaker was convinced that the Health Care Bill would provide free abortions for illegal aliens! But I have heard Wingnuts say “I don’t use X” as an excuse to get rid of some government service/function.
Still, it’s amazing that these people, most of whom claim to be intimately attuned to and greatly desirous of upholding the Constitution, can’t actually read the fuckin’ thing.
Skillful selection. They’ve gotten about 2000 years of practice with the Bible.
Health Care Bill would provide free abortions for illegal aliens!
Funny, that. Ask one on the street if he cares if a Mexican baby gets aborted and I don’t think you’ll get a particularly compassionate answer. It’s about the money, see. The greenbacks. The filthy lucre. Fuckin assholes.
Going too far in that direction, satirized:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/aclu-defends-nazis-right-to-burn-down-aclu-headqua,1648/
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