Every Time They Think They Weaken The Nation*
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by Tintin
ABOVE: New bathroom innovation keeps people from pissing all over the
bathroom floor.
Shorter John Hinderaker, Power Failure:
Gitmo, Let Me Stay!
- Hey, Libs, I got proof positive that Camp X-Ray is essentially nothing but a Four Seasons Resort on a lush tropical isle: people would rather stay there than get murdered.
Paul Mirengoff, Power Failure:
A Skunk By Any Other Name
- Groups should be called by whatever name they choose to be called, except for, of course, “Progressives.”
Shorter Scott Johnson, Power Failure:
Busted
- Nanny-state laws are not applicable to me, and I am planning vengeance (of a type I cannot now disclose) on anyone who attempts to enforce such laws against me.
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Altho I was forced by circumstance yesterday to read Big Tunk Johnson’s piece. What a fucking little baby. He says he missed alllllllllllllllllll those “click it or ticket” commercials on the TeeVee because he’s too gooooooood to watch the TeeVee, but I’m betting the Golf Channel is what he faps to, and I know they played the commercials fairly regularly, plus I also know that the highways across America were littered (pardon the pun) with billboards about it.
Meaning Old Trunk doesn’t pay attention while he drives. He’s probably sexting Paul Mirengoff.
Kind of like reinventing the “Republican Party” brand under the “Tea Party” name, you mean?
You know who else started by making Germans wear safety belts? Shoot,I gave it away.
Kind of like reinventing the “Republican Party” brand under the “Tea Party” name, you mean?
Or “racist” as “tax cutter”.
Wait. Seriously? He was complaining about being “forced” to fasten his seatbelt? He must live in some boogan-ass state, because we’ve had seatbelt laws for about 15 years now here. Maybe it just took him that long to catch on.
Dipshit.
You know who else started by making Germans wear safety belts?
Kaiser Wilhelm?
One can only speculate how the decision of two faggy fags to marry each other “concerns” him.
He was complaining about being “forced” to fasten his seatbelt?
Apparently. He claims he had no problem when the law was enforced in conjunction with another infraction, like speeding or running a red light, but has a problem that a cop can now stop you merely for not wearing a seat belt.
So, um, the law demands you wear a seat belt. You have no problem with the law if it’s enforced. You have a problem when the law is enforced thoroughly, however.
Isn’t that the, um, definition of anarchist?
So, um, the law demands you wear a seat belt. You have no problem with the law if it’s enforced. You have a problem when the law is enforced thoroughly, however.
Isn’t that the, um, definition of anarchist?
Or a conservative, if said law affects you directly and that’s the only reason you give a shit about it.
It’s weird, because I know one of the first things my insurance company checks on after an accident was if I was wearing my seat belt or not.
Fortunately, I always do….after I nearly went through a windshield at fifty miles an hour, and thank god I held onto the steering wheel even after it snapped in my hands…but if memory serves, they jacked up the rates the one accident I had where I wasn’t wearing one.
So Big Tunk, take your pick: A $100 ticket or a $500 premium. Oh, but one’s so much better because it enriches a big honking corporation and not the coffers of his little burgh which could probably use the money more.
One can only speculate how the decision of two faggy fags to marry each other “concerns” him.
AHA! He didn’t say anything about being told what NOT to do.
The state has no power to make me wear a seat belt.
Now gestate, pregnant lady!
You know who else started by making Germans wear safety belts?
Baron von Frankenstein.
Waht they do is not actually thinking, but more like brain farts. Wet, vile brain farts.
Isn’t that the, um, definition of anarchist?
An anarchist is a Libertarian who likes that cool circled A symbol that punk rockers used to write all over their leather jackets. They’re generally clueless morons, like most Libertarians.
Seat belt laws are like George Soros to Glibertarians. They hate them SO MUCH but can’t really explain why, except that “you’re not the boss of me”.
Isn’t that the, um, definition of anarchist?
No, just stupid and incoherent (i.e., a libertarian).
If we had a real single payer HC system, then being an idiot who doesn’t wear a seatbelt is just taxing his fellow citizens when he gets forcefully ejected from the car. The death rate is high in these situations, but not 100%; some survive and need extensive medical care for the rest of their broken lives. Big Tunk just wants to either (1) preserve his chance to soak ObamaCare for every penny he can get, or (2) is one of those carping dickheads who see every common sense safety regulation as an affront to his god-given right to have his life end at T-minus 0.1 sec after yelling “hey, watch this!”
While driving to lunch on a city street in the suburb where I work, I was pulled over……I don’t have the option of not driving to protest the new law
Like he would if he could, but he can’t give up driving his SUV to the McDonalds Drive-Thru for lunch. “I’d like to protest the new law by not driving, but I couldn’t possibly ride the bus with all those brown people.”
Also, I love the idea of “not driving to protest the new law.” who would notice? Maybe all those bus-riders are actually seat-belt law protesters!
Wet, vile brain farts.
More of a sauerkraut brain fart than a popcorn brain fart.
“You know who else started by making Germans wear safety belts?”
I hate to have been so right in that diary I did right after the election about the need to defend the Republican Homelands. Sure wish some people had listened. I’m starting to feel like Casandra!
Stay in the boat, folks. No comments over at Power Failure (awesome re-name by the way), so there are no tasty mangoes to be had.
Although I like the Assrocket’s assumption that {no torture used on any of these six Algerian guys} = {no torture used on anyone, EVAR}. That’s some high-class logic, right there.
An anarchist is a Libertarian who likes that cool circled A symbol that punk rockers used to write all over their leather jackets.
Actually they are more like libertarians who do not believe in free markets, socialist libertarians as it were. Libertarianism and anarchism is where the left wing meets the right wing on the dark side of the moon.
The state has no power to make me wear a seat belt.
Now gestate, pregnant lady!
The Win is strong with this one.
If we had a real single payer HC system, then being an idiot who doesn’t wear a seatbelt is just taxing his fellow citizens when he gets forcefully ejected from the car.
Without a single payer system, his fellow taxpayers pay much more for his selfish stupidity. As a father, the idea of dying for such a stupid reason as being too fucking stubborn and stupid to put on a goddamn seat belt is a horrible thing to do to your children. It isn’t much different from killing yourself with drugs and leaving a family behind to pick up the pieces.
“Waht they do is not actually thinking, but more like brain farts. Wet, vile brain farts.”
Genius = Thinks Like I Think
We had this discussion regarding media bias the other day. The media really does NOT think it is biased. Everyone they’ve known since J-school, all their neighbors, work associates, and social contacts think just like they do, and anyone who thinks differently is some sort of extremist. That’s how it is with the Ivies; people from the Ivies have run the government for a very long time and they hire people from the Ivies because they know them and know that they will think like they do.
No Republican officeholder should ever hire anyone from the elite schools unless that person has established solid conservative/Republican credentials demonstrated by actions, not words. That is especially true of lawyers.
In Vino Veritas
Actually they are more like libertarians who do not believe in free markets, socialist libertarians as it were. Libertarianism and anarchism is where the left wing meets the right wing on the dark side of the moon.
I’ve never run into any anarchists that anything more than idealistic teenagers who are so politically retarded that their only hope in life is to take down the system, whatever that system might be. I would bet that like libertarians and conservatives, you could poll them in government and civics and net some pretty disturbing results.
Gah, talk about a recipe for shy bladder in that P-shop.
Assrocket: Also, Africans were better off under slavery in the South than they were running around in West Africa… wait, is this thing on?
That other guy: I guess it’s the conservative in me, but I insist that liberals can’t re-brand liberals, only wingnuts can re-brand liberals… I’m sure we bought the renaming rights, I’ve got the receipt around here somewhere…
That other other guy: I’m not a libertarian, but I insist on my right to have kids bouncing around in the back seat so that, after I wreck my Ford Excretion SUV because I’m texting with one hand while surfing porn with the other, their precious little bodies will be catapulted from the vehicle and their heads will go SPLORTCH on the pavement, which of course will be Obama’s fault. As support, I offer William F. Buckley’s cover of “Bad Motor Scooter”.
Ford Excretion SUV
I’m not sure which has more Win-icholorians, this or Rusty’s comment…
Worst Soundgarden album ever.
If we had a real single payer HC system, then being an idiot who doesn’t wear a seatbelt is just taxing his fellow citizens when he gets forcefully ejected from the car.
Emergency care is required whether the idiot in question can pay for it or not, so he’s exerting a cost on society even in our non-UHC’d country.
Scott Johnson Seat Belt Law Protest Idea #1:
Drive head-first into another automobile, smash through the windshield, and force a socialist government to mop my mortal remains off of their socialist streets and sidewalks!
The dear old mom has a Ford Escape. It’s had one new transmission in 10000 miles of use. Still needs a new transmission.
As a father, the idea of dying for such a stupid reason as being too fucking stubborn and stupid to put on a goddamn seat belt is a horrible thing to do to your children.
But if the wingnuts wear seatbelts they won’t be cool!
Don’t raise their hopes. They never had a chance of being cool.
The dear old mom has a Ford Escape. It’s had one new transmission in 10000 miles of use
I guess the transmission takes the name seriously
No Republican officeholder should ever hire anyone from the elite schools unless that person has established solid conservative/Republican credentials demonstrated by actions, not words. That is especially true of lawyers.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, a true conservative whose credentials were amply proven when he caved in to terrorist demands of arms for hostages, pulled the Marines out of Beirut after a bombing, demanded that terrorism be treated as a law enforcement issue and not a military one, and continued the detente policy of his predecessors with regards to the USSR, would be proud to hear it.
I don’t know how many of you are following the Tour De France, but there is a very exciting battle going on in the Alps right now. I won’t spoil it for the TiVo crowd. Just watch it when you get the chance.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, a true conservative whose credentials were amply proven when he caved in to terrorist demands of arms for hostages
But he totally put Iran in its place by paying them back for taking hostages! He only sold them 80% of what he promised to give them for holding the hostages until the election!
I’m texting with one hand while surfing porn with the other
What’s the point of surfing porn this way?
I don’t know how many of you are following the Tour De France
I’m boycotting until they get spikes on their hubs, a la Ben Hur.
I’m boycotting until they get spikes on their hubs, a la Ben Hur.
So you missed the fistfight on Stage 3?
I thought the Tour de France finally ended when Spain or Not Roger Federer or whoever it was won or whatever they did.
Emergency care is required whether the idiot in question can pay for it or not, so he’s exerting a cost on society even in our non-UHC’d country.
And are much higher under our current system than they would be under single payer (mostly owing to a lack of cost controls for medical care).
I thought the Tour de France finally ended when Spain or Not Roger Federer or whoever it was won or whatever they did.
No, that’s Wimpole of the Bailey.
Unless you’re thinking of the French Open, which is really just the Whore Olympics.
So you missed the fistfight on Stage 3?
Tie Domi’s in the Tour De France?
I’ll admit I’m not up to speed on the Conservative Rogues Gallery, but are we sure these guys aren’t related? Or even the same guy with slightly sillier disguises?
They never had a chance of being cool.
And therein lies the motivation behind their actions: Sally wouldn’t dance with them or Doug didn’t ask them them to “hang,” and now they’ve turned the They All Must Pay! dial up to eleven.
Tie Domi’s in the Tour De France?
Beat the crap out of Chris Pronger.
OT: Mel Gibson fracas exposes the real racists.
“Thank God I ain’t too cool for the safe belt.” – Kanye West, “Through the Wire”
When Kanye (who nearly died in a car accident) shows more reasonableness and humility than you, it’s time to give up the pundit game.
When Kanye (who nearly died in a car accident) shows more reasonableness and humility than you, it’s time to
give up the pundit game.double down on the crazy and step on the gas.Fiqqst for more steering-column impalements.
When Kanye (who nearly died in a car accident) shows more reasonableness and humility than you, it’s time to give up the pundit game.
When rocks are more intelligent and stumps more perceptive than you are (as is the case here), it is time to retire to a hermitage in the Mohave Desert and take a vow of silence.
“They never had a chance of being cool.
And therein lies the motivation behind their actions: Sally wouldn’t dance with them or Doug didn’t ask them them to “hang,” and now they’ve turned the They All Must Pay! dial up to eleven.”
It’s true. Creepy and sad, but true.
OT: Mel Gibson fracas exposes the real racists.
The question Fox poses is “Why aren’t Hollywood libs making more of a stink about Mel Gibson’s racist tirade?”
The answer is, “When your fascist rightwing enemy is drowning, don’t throw him a rope.”
Embarrassed silence, also. It’s not like this was unexpected.
DrDick said,
July 13, 2010 at 16:34
When Kanye (who nearly died in a car accident) shows more reasonableness and humility than you, it’s time to give up the pundit game.
When rocks are more intelligent and stumps more perceptive than you are (as is the case here), it is time to retire to a hermitage in the Mohave Desert and take a vow of silence.
And we can use laid off professors to do the jobs other Americans won’t do –
whether they want to work in the fields or not!
In Vino Veritas
And we can use laid off professors to do the jobs other Americans won’t do – whether they want to work in the fields or not!
Unlike these privileged conservative asshats, I have actually done that, which is part of how I got to be a professor and why I hate conservatives.
Rusty Shackleford said,
The state has no power to make me wear a seat belt.
Now gestate, pregnant lady!
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Love this line from Achance’s link:
Yes, it does. Ever since the Reagan Education department decided to rape children’s minds at the expense of national security and economic stability.
But you’ll never ever hear a conservative admit to that.
I guess it’s the conservative in me, but I’m not fond of name changes. Most of the time, they represent an attempt to gain an unfair advantage, often by attempting to shed an unsavory history with the stroke of a pen.
Unlike the Clean Air Act and the Patriot Act?
Again, you people seem to be handling this issue the wrong way. Conservatives driving without a seatbelt: Good Thing. Conservatives riding motorcycles without a helmet: Good Thing. Conservatives skydiving without a parachute: Really, Really Good Thing.
I can’t think of a better way to teach a bunch of Creationists about Natural Selection.
Again, you people seem to be handling this issue the wrong way. Conservatives driving without a seatbelt: Good Thing. Conservatives riding motorcycles without a helmet: Good Thing. Conservatives skydiving without a parachute: Really, Really Good Thing.
Except for the liberal’s Volvo they hit or the liberal out riding his bicycle or the liberal’s barn they detroy….
Shorter Scott Johnson, Power Failure:
Busted
“Standing by my principles is not worth $105 to me.”
He’s probably sexting Paul Mirengoff.
Ew.
Gah, talk about a recipe for shy bladder in that P-shop.
Here, have some more asparagus, it’ll cure that in no time.
Worst Soundgarden album ever.
WHAT? That was their second best album!
Ever since the Reagan Education department decided to rape children’s minds at the expense of national security and economic stability.
Not to mention the ongoing cuts to public education spending and support to higher education pushed through by Republicans at the state level, as well as Reagan’s elimination of most college grant programs and privatizing the student loan programs.
Also! With respect to (ok, maybe not so much respect, then) to Mel Gibson’s latest spew: when Hollywood is outraged over someone’s racist/sexist/homophobic rant, it’s because they’re trampling on a poor beleaguered conservative’s cherished beliefs and right to free speech. When Hollywood is NOT outraged over someone’s racist/sexist/homophobic rant, it’s because they’re hypocrites.
Conservative logic! It is not at all like our Earth logic.
Reagan’s elimination of most college grant programs and privatizing the student loan programs
This.
I had forgotten about the whole “reform” program he implemented. Imagine all the smart teachers we could have had who ended up working high school level jobs.
It grieves me that less than twenty percent of college age students are actually graduating from colleges in this day and age, when it’s been shown that the more education you have, the further you can go in life.
As seen on a motivational poster in Republican party headquarters:
Every day, ask yourself: Could I be kicking the poor people harder?
I used to be conflicted by helmet laws. I wasn’t for mandatory helmets, nor was I against. I can _sort of_ appreciate his antipathy for the law. Thing is, I never rode helmetless, regardless of prevailing law. Similarly, not fastening one’s seatbelt is just plain st00pid. Idiotic, even. I wonder if he goes without as a deliberate (but pathetic) attempt at iconoclasm or something.
“tsam said,
July 13, 2010 at 16:58
Worst Soundgarden album ever.
WHAT? That was their second best album!”
Badmotorscooter?
I’m with Poopy. I don’t ride motorcycles often (as a passenger, I’m not licensed yet), but when I ride, or even just ride my bike, I’m always with helmet.
I remember seeing a head-on between a bicyclist and a car. Both were making a turn from oppposite directions onto a narrow side street, so fortunately, both were not travelling at full speed at the moment of impact.
The cyclist survived after smashing his head into the curb only because he had his helmet on (he had to abandon riding, unfortunately). He was in terrible pain, but was not bleeding and was conscious. His helmet was flattened where his head hit the curb.
“Thank God I ain’t too cool for the safe belt.” – Kanye West, “Through the Wire”
When Kanye (who nearly died in a car accident) shows more reasonableness and humility than you, it’s time to give up the pundit game.
Oh I don’t know, I think all this shows is that Scott Johnson is cooler than Kanye West. In that same song Mr. West wonders whether his girl will still find him attractive. That’s pretty “metrosexual” if you ask me.
Ok, Fux Noose, here you go. OMFG. Where’s the outrage? Will no one think of the children FFS? THE CHILDREN! While I find his remarks reprehensible, I must stand by his right to say it, and the real racists are the NAACP and Jesse Jackson.
Happy now, you fucking dogwhistle blowing fuckfaced morons? I see through your fucking scummy concern trolling. It only makes me sad that your viewers don’t.
Mel Gibson being a dick proves Jesus didn’t exist, kinda like Al Gore being fat proves there’s no global warming.
Badmotorscooter?
I mean Badmotorfinger, thought you were cleverly referencing that. Shit, I diffused your joke. Sorry.
I had forgotten about the whole “reform” program he implemented.
Grossly compounded by Republican cuts to state funding of higher education. In 1980, states governments funded, on average, 70% of the cost of educating each student. Today that average is about 30-35%.
I used to be conflicted by helmet laws. I wasn’t for mandatory helmets, nor was I against. I can _sort of_ appreciate his antipathy for the law. Thing is, I never rode helmetless, regardless of prevailing law.
I can sort of see it as well, it feels intrusive to be required to use a seatbelt or wear a helmet on a motorcycle. I do think that the justifications for having those laws in place make a stronger argument than the the usual “get outa my face” attitude that pervades our culture.
I had a discussion like this with a guy (my best zinger EVAR), and I told him that we’ll talk about repealing those laws when asshole right wingers stop trying to outlaw gay marriage. Surprisingly, that shut the asshole up.
Grossly compounded by Republican cuts to state funding of higher education. In 1980, states governments funded, on average, 70% of the cost of educating each student. Today that average is about 30-35%.
Somehow, this is the fault of the teacher’s union.
I was, I was. I didn’t know if you thought I actually meant Badmotorfinger or not. I’m off my game…it’s one of those days…
Somehow, this is the fault of the teacher’s union.
It is always the unions’ fault for conservatives. Bad management decisions by US automakers? All the fault of the UAW. Mining disasters and oil spills? Unions are to blame. According to the conservative version of history, unions are what have destroyed American prosperity and innovation, despite the fact that it was strong unions (and government support for higher education) that essentially created the large American middle class following WW II.
Mel Gibson being a dick proves Jesus didn’t exist
D00d, you are on FIRE today.
According to the conservative version of history, unions are what have destroyed American prosperity and innovation, despite the fact that it was strong unions (and government support for higher education) that essentially created the large American middle class following WW II.
And that’s why unions have essentially been destroyed. Education is going down the same road.
Ann Althouse:
And that’s why unions have essentially been destroyed. Education is going down the same road.
For the life of me, I can’t fathom why. You’d think education would be sacrosanct to the right wing.
I mean, I get that the more education you have, the more likely you are to vote liberal. So I can understand wanting to dismantle higher education. Cutting your nose to spite your face, true, but there’s a rationale there that’s obvious and concrete.
But K-12 education? We need people who are at least literate and have a working knowledge of the world to fix the plumbing and work in factories and assemble cars and maybe even invent some new stuff that will actually create jobs and build an economy. That, to me, seems to be the essence of conservative thought: keep people just smart enough to make us some money.
actor212: Altho I was forced by circumstance yesterday to read Big Tunk Johnson’s piece. What a fucking little baby. He says he missed alllllllllllllllllll those “click it or ticket” commercials on the TeeVee because he’s too gooooooood to watch the TeeVee
Here in Massachusetts one of our local conservative talk show hosts got arrested on his way to work. He rolled through a stop sign and the cop who pulled him over discovered his license had been revoked. Guess whose fault that was? That’s right: the DMV’s! Because they didn’t send him enough letters!
Scott Johnson: I have the traditional cussedness that is provoked by being told what to do by others when the behavior only concerns me.
Hmm. So he supports legalizing pot, I guess. Right?
I would say, for example, that Minnesota’s laissez-faire attittude to marijuana use contributes to social disorder that impinges on the freedom of law-abiding citizens
Oh.
I was, I was. I didn’t know if you thought I actually meant Badmotorfinger or not. I’m off my game…it’s one of those days…
I hear ya. Some of my earlier posts were scary.
So… at what rate do convicted felons go Democratic… in predominantly Democratic twin cities?
Amy Winebox is just jealous because they couldn’t cage voters like in 2000 in Florida.
Here’s the thing: the only time a felon cannot vote is when he is still serving his sentence. If he’s been freed, his debt to society is deemed paid WHICH MEANS HE CAN LEGALLY VOTE!
So the assumption is that undereducated malcontents will vote for Democrats? Ya might take a peek at a teahadist rally before you make that call, Annie.
Assrocket: Also, Africans were better off under slavery in the South than they were running around in West Africa… wait, is this thing on?
I’m not sure if Assrocket has said exactly that, but I wouldn’t put it past him. After all, he is the guy who said this:
Make sure to register for Redstate.com early so you will be ready on September 3, to post best wishes to ME, the GENIUS on MY BIRTHDAY.
Sadly, the single greatest victory ever scored by the minions of Satan was turning working class Americans against the unions. It was highly effective and profoundly destructive. Those days of being able have a parent at home to raise small children, while the other earns the bread are long gone, and will not return.
Sadly, the single greatest victory ever scored by the minions of Satan was turning working class Americans against the unions.
In fairness, it didn’t help that every time you turned around, some other union head was being indicted.
You’d think education would be sacrosanct to the right wing.
Why? The Enlightenment and vast widening of literacy and education nearly destroyed conservative type principles. By and large, educated people tend to see through their bullshit and don’t follow the WWJD line of bullshit that they somehow manage to manipulate for the purpose of furthering their agenda to destroy the middle class and return to the system of uneducated, controllable serfs making money for the noble classes.
Assrocket’s other post on the front page is pretty great too.
Shorter:
You’d think education would be sacrosanct to the right wing.
The point has been made, here and elsewhere, that many right wingers support a thing until those people get access to it, then suddenly it’s a bad thing.
And AChance needs to go ride a Hayabusa with no helmet. Y’know, to show us libs.
In fairness, it didn’t help that every time you turned around, some other union head was being indicted.
No doubt about that. It was bound to happen–no rules, big pile of money, political power–almost a matter of course in a situation like that.
According to the conservative version of history, unions are what have destroyed American prosperity and innovation, despite the fact that it was strong unions (and government support for higher education) that essentially created the large American middle class following WW II.
And it’s their demise that’s ensured that wages continued to stagnate for the last thirty years. The line I’ve heard most often from conservatives is “unions were wonderful but they’ve outlived their usefulness.”
In fairness, it didn’t help that every time you turned around, some other union head was being indicted.
CEOs seem to get indicted on a regular basis but working class Americans have not turned against the corporations like they have against the unions.
Sadly, the single greatest victory ever scored by the minions of Satan was turning working class Americans against the unions.
I’m not convinced that they have. There’s still a strong union base in the Northeast and Midwest among working class people, both white and nonwhite. I don’t know what nationwide numbers are, but I seem to recall a blog post from Krugman with electoral numbers showing that working class Americans – including working class whites – were actually no more conservative now than they were back in the day.
The “popular base” of conservatives seems to be in the middle class, not the working class.
Originalist credentials REVOKED.
The line I’ve heard most often from conservatives is “unions were wonderful but they’ve outlived their usefulness.”
There are several factors that have held wages in check the past thirty years, up to and including the fact that more and more women entered the workforce, whether out of choice or out of necessity.
But the dismantling of unions, I think, is the primary cause.
And it’s their demise that’s ensured that wages continued to stagnate for the last thirty years. The line I’ve heard most often from conservatives is “unions were wonderful but they’ve outlived their usefulness.”
Their demise also allowed for this scam called globalization, which further weakened labor. The final straw was in the 90’s, when the Gingrich crowd used guns and abortion to turn the unions to Repukes. They cheered while their jobs were going overseas by the thousands per month. Back to the education argument…
CEOs seem to get indicted on a regular basis but working class Americans have not turned against the corporations like they have against the unions.
The difference is that unions stole workers’ money, while CEO’s stole stockholders money. Them folks is rich, they can afford it.
There are several factors that have held wages in check the past thirty years, up to and including the fact that more and more women entered the workforce, whether out of choice or out of necessity.
Another factor; A massive deluge of cheap, foreign goods available to anyone who wants them, with a high interest credit card you just got in the mail. Welcome to adulthood, 19 year old entry level worker. There was no demand for higher wages when the price of durable goods has stayed essentially stagnant as well. Where those prices rose, a black market of predatory lending rose to take the place of saving up for stuff and actually living within your means.
The difference is that unions stole workers’ money, while CEO’s stole stockholders money. Them folks is rich, they can afford it.
Yeah, those Enron workers who got paid in stock options could totally afford it. We should take a moment and thank the media for making the crime of corporate raidership look like a victimless crime.
Tsam, allow me to introduce you to the Doctor of Doom. He’s done more thinking on this topic than you and I and the entire rest of the world, combined.
Yeah, those Enron workers who got paid in stock options could totally afford it.
The stock market today is very different than the stock market of 1980. Remember, you needed tens of thousands of dollars to even think about buying and selling shares (or you needed to be employed by the company but how much general outrage are a few hundred people going to create?)
Regarding felons voting in Minnesota: linky.
Untrue, but obviously you didn’t get to be a big player overnight. Investment clubs have a long and boring history.
What are the chances that Ann Althouse could be misinformed?
Is Hinderaker the law professor, or is that one of the other guys? Because I question his analysis of the Black Panther thingy (link posted by mark f. above).
The stock market today is very different than the stock market of 1980. Remember, you needed tens of thousands of dollars to even think about buying and selling shares (or you needed to be employed by the company but how much general outrage are a few hundred people going to create?)
The biggest difference I see is that there is no such thing as a pension anymore, and everyone’s retirement is now an IRA or 401(k). Most of those funds go to mutual funds, which generally do a reasonably good job of spreading out the investments so that one Enron or Worldcom can’t destroy the fund. However, those market implosions can destroy a person in their late 50’s or early 60’s trying to retire. Imagine having a third of your retirement evaporate in a few days. The important lesson is that we’re all somehow tied to the stock market, and swift and sure justice for corporate malfeasance might save some retirees a standard of living they spent 30 or 40 years busting ass to build.
Is Hinderaker the law professor, or is that one of the other guys?
I think you’re thinking of Instapundit.
Hindy and Mirengoff are hot shot partners at huge firms. Hindy does construction law out of Minnesota and Mirengoff was a Labor Dept legacy hire who now works in DC making sure guys don’t get their pensions or disability payouts. Johnson is works at a bank in Minneapolis and I think has taught night law classes at some lesser institution.
Just like if you are brown in Arizona.
Hindy does construction law out of Minnesota…
So presumably he went to law school, and understands that the AG wouldn’t have the power to dismiss charges after a prosecution had already “succeeded.”
This means that the case was downgraded to a civil case 11 days before Obama was inaugurated, 26 days before Eric Holder became attorney general, and about nine months before Thomas Perez was confirmed as head of the Civil Rights Division.
Yeah, Harvard, no less.
Imagine having a third of your retirement evaporate in a few days.
Don’t have to imagine it at all. I’m still down about 20%. My new retirement plan? Work until I drop in the traces.
Love this line from Achance’s link:
Let me mince no words. “Education” in the US sucks. Big time. Top to bottom.
Yes, it does. Ever since the Reagan Education department decided to rape children’s minds at the expense of national security and economic stability.
But you’ll never ever hear a conservative admit to that.
At the risk of being drubbed, I did put my had in the ring once for school board, just because of that. And later I was being called a “self-absorbed moron,” but in my mind I am an absolute genius. The people I described as “self absorbed morons” are the real “self absorbed morons.”
But K-12 education? We need people who are at least literate and have a working knowledge of the world to fix the plumbing and work in factories and assemble cars and maybe even invent some new stuff that will actually create jobs and build an economy. That, to me, seems to be the essence of conservative thought: keep people just smart enough to make us some money./i>
Read my post September 8th, a Red State Holiday and you will surely agree that self absorbed moron or not, I deserves the accolades like I receive from the Redstate.com posters.
Please sign up for Redstate.com and add to the chorus. BTW September 3, MY BIRTHDAY is going to be Art Appreciation Day, and there is talk about merging it with the September 8th holiday into one much larger, more significant conservative event. Everyone is invited!
WC – just saw msg on other board. Replying now.
Animated gifs from children’s movies: NSFW?
In 1980, states governments funded, on average, 70% of the cost of educating each student. Today that average is about 30-35%.
Thus allowing Repubs at the state and federal level to talk about how they had lowered taxes while the total tax burden for most people stayed the same because municipalities and counties had to raise taxes. If you don’t know the meaning of “fungible” you shouldn’t be allowed to set tax policy.
Don’t have to imagine it at all. I’m still down about 20%. My new retirement plan? Work until I drop in the traces.
Nauseating. Sorry to hear that. The bigger picture is that the ultimate goal is to have everyone work until they drop dead at their assembly line stations.
The nice part about being alive in this year and knowing I’ll be working when I’m 90 is that one day I’ll be able to bore the youngins with idiocy that starts “I remember back in aught-six…”
Spoken in undersea bubbles of course.
The nice part about being alive in this year and knowing I’ll be working when I’m 90 is that one day I’ll be able to bore the youngins with idiocy that starts “I remember back in aught-six…”
I’m only 40 now, but I intend to torture the shit out of everyone I can with my “good old days when everything was so much more difficult and you kids don’t know anything about blargggghhhhh” anecdotes.
Spoken in undersea bubbles of course.
Nearly everything I say is.
Nauseating. Sorry to hear that. The bigger picture is that the ultimate goal is to have everyone work until they drop dead at their assembly line stations.
Not quite everyone. I very much doubt if the robber barons of our day and age will be similarly affected.
“I remember back in aught-six…”
Uphill. Both ways.
Uphill. Both ways.
You had feet?
Thus allowing Repubs at the state and federal level to talk about how they had lowered taxes while the total tax burden for most people stayed the same because municipalities and counties had to raise taxes.
This worked out very well for California.
This worked out very well for California.
You had feet?
Uphill. Both ways.
Don’t forget these gems:
You call this snow?
You think this is hot?
You call that a car?
Kids were never bad when…
We respected our elders…
Why don’t you spank that kid for crying?
Oh this is fun.
Not to mention the ongoing cuts to public education spending and support to higher education pushed through by Republicans at the state level, as well as Reagan’s elimination of most college grant programs and privatizing the student loan programs.
The *best* thing to me about the recent student loan reforms is the shitfit conservatives threw about rescinding the tax subsidization of private student loans, despite the fact that it will save the government tons of tax money to fund the loans directly. (And will hopefully keep college students from collapsing under the burden of completely unreasonable debt and fucking terrible customer service actually INTENDED to insure that you accrue as many late fees and experience as much pain as possible FUCKYOUSALLIEMAE).
I mean, I guess it makes sense that if you have a publicly-funded program, you should have a private entity administer it so it can cost as much as possible and cost citizens who take advantage of it as much as possible, right?
You had feet?
I remember back in ’52 when the world was so new I burned off my new feet slogging to school through molten magma…
September 8th, a Red State Holiday
Now Mr. T&U is going to have to legally change his birthday. (Can you do that?)
You had feet?
Yes, stinky ones. Not like all these damn kids and their faggy perfumes and $100 sneakers.
The nice part about being alive in this year and knowing I’ll be working when I’m 90 is that one day I’ll be able to bore the youngins with idiocy that starts “I remember back in aught-six…”
I would think the nicest part is knowing you’ll be alive when you’re 90.
Now Mr. T&U is going to have to legally change his birthday. (Can you do that?)
Yes, but there’s a 50/50 chance he becomes a woman in the process. Different day, different sperm gets lucky.
There are some who comment here at Sadly, No.
I’m working at the library today, and I came thisclose to saying “YOU’RE WELCOME!!!” to this kid I spent twenty minutes helping find books about WWII aircraft. He just, like, walked away from me when I was mid-sentence. Kids these days!
Why, when I was a kid, we could only carry twenty songs around with us to listen to on the bus.
And if we wanted to watch a movie at home, we had to walk to the video store to get it.
And when we wanted to pass notes in class, we had to by God write them ourselves, with a pencil.
And if we wanted to call somebody, we needed to have a quarter!
And if we wanted to look at dirty pictures, we had to steal a magazine from somebody’s Dad!
You kids just don’t know what real suffering is.
Now Mr. T&U is going to have to legally change his birthday. (Can you do that?)
He could just celebrate an “official” birthday, like the Queen of England does. (I think she does it because her real birthday comes during the dull, gray, rainy season. Yeah, I know, almost all year round in England…)
I would think the nicest part is knowing you’ll be alive when you’re 90.
I’m not betting on anything, but genetics sez I have a good shot at it. All four grandparents made in past, both parents are still doing okay in their 80s. I can hope.
Yes, but there’s a 50/50 chance he becomes a woman in the process. Different day, different sperm gets lucky.
Doubtful. I’m pretty sure the men in his family only shoot XYs.
I’m pretty sure the men in his family only shoot XYs.
So he’s an XXY? Aren’t they all serial killers or something?
So he’s an XXY? Aren’t they all serial killers or something?
No, those are XYYs.
And I am a fucking idiot.
It brings to mind this heartwarming story:
http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_d61cc109-3492-54ef-849d-0a5d7f48027a.html
In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce.
“It is my choice what type of safety precautions I take,” he wrote.
“There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
…
Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in travelled off an icy section of Interstate 80 and rolled several times in a ditch. Kieper, who was riding in the back seat of the Explorer, was ejected from the vehicle.
He could just celebrate an “official” birthday, like the Queen of England does. (I think she does it because her real birthday comes during the dull, gray, rainy season. Yeah, I know, almost all year round in England…)
Sweet. He’d better not steal my birthday, though. It usually sucks enough already.
Doubtful. I’m pretty sure the men in his family only shoot XYs.
Doesn’t somebody else have a role in this activity? He probably calls her Mom?
Doesn’t somebody else have a role in this activity? He probably calls her Mom?
I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I’M AN IDIOT. I haven’t had much sleep and I’ve spent all morning helping people find Dora the Explorer DVDs.
It would be so awesome if Dora had a video about WWII aircraft, wouldn’t it? “Hola, Nazi bitches!”
Too graphic.
I haven’t had much sleep and I’ve spent all morning helping people find Dora the Explorer DVDs.
This is why you’d be better off in an elementary-school library. The kids just want porn and a place to sleep.
It would be so awesome if Dora had a video about WWII aircraft, wouldn’t it? “Hola, Nazi bitches!”
Tail-gunner Dora wants to deport herself.
This is why you’d be better off in an elementary-school library. The kids just want porn and a place to sleep.
Sometimes you have to read stories, AND you have to get a “media specialist” certificate. Fuck that noise.
In my day the explorers were MEN with names like MAGELLAN
“It is my choice what type of safety precautions I take,” he wrote.
My answer to this is fine, any adult who opts not to wear a seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet should be free to do so. However, in the case of an accident, no matter who is at fault, he or she only recieves what medical care they or thier insurance company can pay for and by opting not to take precautions on thier own behalf automatically waive any rights by them or thier family members to sue for wronful death or dismemberment.
a “media specialist” certificate.
I’m going to regret this, but what are the quals? You know how to advance a filmstrip?
The one where Isa finally fucks Boots is disturbing.
We wanna be free! We wanna be free to . . . to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man. And we wanna travel off an icy section of Interstate 80 and roll several times in a ditch and be ejected from our vehicles.
(Yeah! Yeah! Second the motion!)
And that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna have a good time. We’re gonna have a party.
I’m going to regret this, but what are the quals? You know how to advance a filmstrip?
Yeah. And one of those slide projectors.
You work with teachers to design curriculum that utilize various forms of media, provide instructional materials, and do all the regular school librarian shit.
You work with teachers to design curriculum that utilize various forms of media
Macaroni, paste, and glitter RULE!
I do love the young rednecks who think seatbelts are wimpy and ridiculous, as if True Men are so fucking butch that they can DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
Macaroni, paste, and glitter RULE!
I realized that I couldn’t be a children’s librarian after I discovered how many fucking CRAFTS were involved.
There are some who comment here at Sadly, No.
Unfortunately, they are probably grossly misrepresented by the media and the less informed of their kind. I wouldn’t have known that I was reading comments by any anarchists here.
as if True Men are so fucking butch that they can DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
Hey! Watch this!
Hey! Watch this!
My cousin Dakota’s last words…*sob*
Do not go gentle into that seat belt,
Crackpots should burn and rave at click of clasp;
Rage, rage against the hand that you were dealt.
My cousin Dakota’s last words…*sob*
They’ll likely be mine too.
Both these comments made me giggle.
What did you do, tsam? Try to fly?
Between the dashboard
And the windshield
Between the speed
And the stopping
Between the space inside
And the space outside
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but an ouchie.
What did you do, tsam? Try to fly?
Lots of things I don’t really care to admit.
I have a disturbing fascination with explosions and firearms. When I was much younger I was very dangerous in a car. I was the stupid kid who DID try to jump the car. A close call with death in a rollover (without a seatbelt) stopped that behavior, however.
Were you…a bad boy? *raises brow*
Were you…a bad boy? *raises brow*
I am, yes. Less so since I had daughters, but it’s still there.
Giggity.
Seat belt laws are like George Soros to Glibertarians. They hate them SO MUCH but can’t really explain why, except that “you’re not the boss of me”.
It’s a “survival of the group” thing- fewer head injuries mean fewer Glibertarians.
My cousin Dakota’s last words…*sob*
They found his head over by the Sno-Cone concession.
How much were the Sno-Cones?
I am, yes. Less so since I had daughters, but it’s still there.
Once a bad boy, always a little bit of a bad boy, right? The keeping it in check because of daughters makes me smile and wish I had had a dad like you when I was a wee one. (Never really knew mine until I was in my 20’s.)
Yes, but there’s a 50/50 chance he becomes a woman in the process. Different day, different sperm gets lucky.
The birthday is at the other end of that process. Chinese food and a drive on washboard roads might still shake the male right off him, though, I suppose.
“There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
Indeed.
The birthday is at the other end of that process.
You don’t say. I may have to revisit my methods of birth control.
I suspect that when they go through the windshield at 80 km/h, they die no harder than anybody else.
Belt, I hear you calling
But I can’t wear you right now
Me and the boys are driving
And we just can’t get you ’round
Once a bad boy, always a little bit of a bad boy, right? The keeping it in check because of daughters makes me smile and wish I had had a dad like you when I was a wee one. (Never really knew mine until I was in my 20?s.)
Wow, I can’t describe how much, but that means an awful lot to me. Thank you.
“There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
Not me. I belt hard and helmet hard. Mama di’nt raise no dummy.
Badoodly-Oodly, Loony Libs in the NY Area!
Learning while intoxicated serving up a spread of SCIENCE!!!! tonight:
http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com/
Badoodly-Oodly, Loony Libs in the NY Area!
Learning while intoxicated serving up a spread of SCIENCE!!!! tonight:
Shhhhh! Secret, dude.
Are you guys coming out to Spokane soon?
Are you guys coming out to Spokane soon?
You should see if there’s a Cafe Scientifique in the area.
http://www.cafescientifique.org/
Since the Discovery Institute is in Seattle, you guys gotta take back Washington… FOR SCIENCE!!
Gotta go, gotta slog to Brooklyn on the train.
80 km/h
You ain’t from ’round here, is ya?
80 km/h
You ain’t from ’round here, is ya?
Let me convert to Merkin: 95420 rods/minute.
Metric stupid is measured in kilowuts per hour.
Whoops, math fail. 265 rods/minute.
Let me convert to Merkin: 95420 rods/minute.
That’s more like it.
kilowuts per hour.
Or LOLwuts?
WE R IN UR METRIC SYSTEM CONFUZIN UR MARS PROBES
P.S., I don’t know which is the more pathetic part of the Scott Johnson post: where he impotently implies that he’ll get revenge for his ticket at the end, or just before that where he has to strike out “motorcycle” and replace it with “scooter” in reference to William F. Buckley, thereby downgrading his hero from bad-ass to foppish ass.
Learning while intoxicated serving up a spread of SCIENCE!!!! tonight:
Tonight is the FIRST Tuesday of the month???????
Science is HARD!
Ya gotta…I say, ya gotta watch the short ones. The jokes just go raht ovah they haids.
</foghorn>
Science is HARD!
That’s what she…oh, never mind.
True Men are so fucking butch that they can DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
Isn’t that the whole selling point of 4 wheel drive SUVs? That you can drive 65 in a foot of snow?
Ah, so you have seen DKW’s mom’s sex tape.
Tonight is the FIRST Tuesday of the month???????
In metric, we’re 6.4194 months into the year.
I wonder how many Power Line posts there are about health care costs. What could drive premiums up?
“I remember back in aught-six…”
…telling people how much fun the Seventies were 🙂
I am, yes. Less so since I had daughters, but it’s still there.
Giggity.
Why? Cuz he produced chicks and not stud-muffins?
Why? Cuz he produced chicks and not stud-muffins?
Tsam shoots XX!
Whoops, math fail. 265 rods/minute.
*raising brow*
Indeed…engineer.
Tsam shoots XX!
From his kilojewels.
Milwaukee band Couch Flambeau did a song called “we’ll go through the windshield together”
we had a few drinks
our brains were well done
we got your dad’s Mercedes
to have a little fun
you sped up to read
some stupid bumper sticker
and the guy slammed on his brakes
we couldn’t die any quicker
we’ll go through the windshield together
we’ll fall on the hood together
we’re on the stretcher now
they wheel us through the door
I’m looking at your face
you’re not MY girlfriend anymore
the guy starts taking out my kidney, and I say ‘hey, what are you doing? I didn’t sign the back of my driver’s license!’
we’ll go through the windshield together
we’ll die on the table together
-and it’ll be so romantic
(sounds of car crash and solo)
we’ll go through the windshield together
we’ll die on the table together
no alteration of lyrics necessary.
As I told my boss when I was about 1.3 years into working: I’m multi-talented. I screw things up, then I fix them.
#
N__B said,
July 13, 2010 at 20:02 (kill)
Whoops, math fail. 265 rods/minute.
exactly how high are your E&O premiums?
ZRM,
I’ll see your Couch Flambeau and raise a song people have actually heard outside of honky tonks:
Warm Leatherette – The Normal
No, ‘cuz he’s still a bad boy…although I’ve always been unclear as to what, exactly, a bad boy was.
bite me actor. no honky-tonks; CF was a punk band. you’re stereotyping flyover country again.
See Wikiwakiwoo
Chinese food and a drive on washboard roads might still shake the male right off him, though, I suppose.
Wait, what?
No, ‘cuz he’s still a bad boy…although I’ve always been unclear as to what, exactly, a bad boy was.
I have some etchings that depict them…
bite me actor. no honky-tonks; CF was a punk band
PROTIP: If you have to identify the city they hail from, they’re a bar band.
Keep those things away from me. I’m still upset from viewing the tapes.
PROTIP: If you have to identify the city they hail from, they’re a bar band.
never said they weren’t.
However, if you haven’t heard of them, perhaps you should get out more.
However, if you haven’t heard of them, perhaps you should get out more.
I been to Milwaukee. Milwaukee never heard of them.
“There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
Must have been hard, indeed.
Protip: honky-tonks are usually associated with a narrow range of musical styles.
95420 rods/minute.
Ah, so you have seen DKW’s mom’s sex tape.
F to da T to da W!
OT: How can a company that thinks of this go bankrupt?
Protip: honky-tonks are usually associated with a narrow range of musical styles.
Cuz a fifty five year old song still defines musical styles. Right.
I been to Milwaukee. Milwaukee never heard of them.
yeah, I ‘m sure you stayed at the best hotel near the airport. that’s where ALL the punk bands hung out.
(snerk)
Obviously.
Cuz a fifty five year old song still defines musical styles. Right.
dude, relax. It came out in the mid eighties. 35=/=55
Sheesh. Why does a little affection for a non-New York city threaten you so?
yeah, I ‘m sure you stayed at the best hotel near the airport.
In fairness, Ma Kettle, the ticket agent, is almost as prolific as DKWs mom.
I’ve always been unclear as to what, exactly, a bad boy was.
Fewer underwear changes than the AMA recommendation.
P.S., I don’t know which is the more pathetic part of the Scott Johnson post: where he impotently implies that he’ll get revenge for his ticket at the end, or just before that where he has to strike out “motorcycle” and replace it with “scooter” in reference to William F. Buckley, thereby downgrading his hero from bad-ass to foppish ass.
The why he describes Bill on his motortrike as just dreamy is a little disturbing, if not hilarious.
Why does a little affection for a non-New York city threaten you so?
Me? You’re the one who asked me to bite you!
Ironic, ain’t it?
In fairness, Ma Kettle, the ticket agent, is almost as prolific as DKWs mom.
well, THAT’S true.
Me? You’re the one who asked me to bite you!
Ironic, ain’t it?
not really. I’ve always thought of you as a vampire. you’re sparkly. especially with a fresh coat of wax.
35=/=55
unless, of course, you’re N__B.
So a guy who rides a motorcycle and has skidmarks in his drawers? Sexy.
I’ve always thought of you as a vampire.
Please. Too passive.
No, ‘cuz he’s still a bad boy…although I’ve always been unclear as to what, exactly, a bad boy was.
Unpredictable. I’d say that’s the biggest defining characteristic.
Please. Too passive.
passive-aggressive.
Please. Too passive.
passive-aggressive.
Vampires aren’t liberal enough. They’re not a victim of circumstance. See, now werewolves…
See, now werewolves….
pfft. they’re never house-trained.
OK, that’s an interesting characterization. I always thought true bad boys were guys who like, rode motorcycles or got into fights or treated women poorly or had a brooding, unattainable thing going on (thus proving to be like catnip to the ladeez). I like “unpredictable” better I think.
they’re never house-trained.
And furry.
DFH, if I ever saw one.
P.S., I don’t know which is the more pathetic part of the Scott Johnson post: where he impotently implies that he’ll get revenge for his ticket at the end, or just before that where he has to strike out “motorcycle” and replace it with “scooter” in reference to William F. Buckley, thereby downgrading his hero from bad-ass to foppish ass.
The why he describes Bill on his motortrike as just dreamy is a little disturbing, if not hilarious.
HATERS. The scooter is one of the two semi-human things about Buckley.
Not me. I belt hard and helmet hard. Mama di’nt raise no dummy.
As I often tell folks, I may be crazy, but mama didn’t raise no idiot children.
BTW, Edward and Jacob are both sparkly little boys. Give me Alcide the werewolf from True Blood. Holy fucking hotness, Batman!!!!! If I were Sookie, I’d leave Bill and Eric in the dust and run off with this delicious slice of man-meat.
And furry.
DFH, if I ever saw one.
difference being, I LIKE most of the DFH’s I’ve met…
run off with this delicious slice of man-meat.
veiled cannibalism reference.
Not so veiled, actually.
difference being, I LIKE most of the DFH’s I’ve met…
Because DFHs don’t nom zombs. And they share their pot.
…a brooding, unattainable thing going on
This only works if the fella is incredibly handsome. Then the girlz all want to “get through” to him and make him all better.
If you’re average looking, you’re just “sullen.” *holds hand up*
…a brooding, unattainable thing going on
This only works if the fella is incredibly handsome.
STOP JUDGING ME!
…a brooding, unattainable thing going on
This only works if the fella is incredibly handsome.
STOP JUDGING ME!
Somebody put his head in the Shine-O-Ball-O again…
Somebody put his head in the Shine-O-Ball-O again…
You’ve never seen me
Yeah. I think it’s gotta be an ego thing…”I’m the only woman awesome enough to break through the hard candy shell to get to his nougat center of sweetness.”
Actually I can see it working for men who aren’t model-ish, too.
Yeah, it was kind of vore-y. Gross. On that front, furthest I’m willing to go is a gentle nip.
I’m not like some…zombie or something…
It’s blinding.
The first words that pop into my head when I think of Actor are “brooding” and “unattainable.”
No, wait, the opposite of that.
You’ve never seen me
DKW’s mom had your pic tatooed on her… YES YOU ARE RIGHT.
I’m not quite sure why this struck me as so funny.
actor, you gonna take that?
*chortle*
actor, you gonna take that?
I’m used to the jealousies of males. It usually occurs just before I steal their girlfriends and/or wives.
Obviously.
No libertarian he, Trace Adkins calls for a law against honky tonk badonkadonks.
I’m used to the jealousies of males. It usually occurs just before I steal their girlfriends and/or wives.
keep telling yourself that, Bono.
And by “steal” you mean spying on them and taking their underwear from the clothesline, right?
And by “steal” you mean spying on them and taking their underwear from the clothesline, right?
That’s after we break up.
Don’t you remember????
OK, that’s an interesting characterization. I always thought true bad boys were guys who like, rode motorcycles or got into fights or treated women poorly or had a brooding, unattainable thing going on (thus proving to be like catnip to the ladeez). I like “unpredictable” better I think.
That’s overdone. That’s crossing the line to complete asshole. Remember the other day when someone told you to STFU and I went all internet tough guy on him? You’re a grown, intelligent independent woman, perfectly capable of defending yourself. But I couldn’t help being willing to fight this guy in real life after that. That might not be a bad boy, I don’t really know. I’m not trying to live up to an ideal. That IS a bad boy. I do have the brooding thing down pretty well, but I don’t think I’m nearly hot enough to make it work for me.
If you’re average looking, you’re just “sullen.” *holds hand up*
*holds hand up in agreement*
And by “steal” you mean spying on them and taking their underwear from the clothesline, right?
This has the tone of experience to it.
Trace Adkins calls for a law against honky tonk badonkadonks.
A true statesman, he got his game on.
Come on, people. It’s been like, 5 minutes.
So a guy who rides a motorcycle and has skidmarks in his drawers? Sexy
It is a great summer. I am a bad boy and I’m sexy too!
Gitmo, Let Me Stay!
Go for it! I hear you get used to cavity-searches after a while.
Hell, it’s a great warm-up for national office: in the RNC they call that “Wednesdays.”
A Skunk By Any Other Name
In fact “liberal” was morphed into a dirty word by a bunch of cretins like Coors, Scaife & Gingrich who thought that Mussolini would make a much better ethical & political role-model for America than FDR or MLK, aided & abetted by corporate media with the conscience of a pit-viper. Liberal policies were successful as fuck (see 1950-1980 for details) regardless of how they’re “widely viewed,” much like “seeing” the sun “rise” & “set” fails to make it circle the Earth – but it’s not like the owners of FOX or CNN give much of a shit about the real world. Liberal policies that get diluted into uelessness are “obviously failures on their own merits” while even the 347th consecutive lethal clusterfuck of unhindered neocon policy is “the victim of circumstance” or “mysterious” or even “ironic” – that is, if it gets any extended attention at all.
I much prefer “progressive” to “liberal” as a label, & I always have. If others in the Reality-Oriented Community are getting into doing it now too, well Yabba-Dabba-Whatever.
TL;DR – What you do counts. What you call yourself is at best entertaining.
Busted
What galls is knowing that this peckerhead probably sang the “if you’re not guilty you have nothing to fear” ballad like a canary back when wiretapping & snooping in Americans’ e-mail became legal … but ZOMG SEATBELT LAWS ARE TEH NEW KRISTALLNACHT (when it’s me that gets busted)!
Sweet land of liberty – if you can afford it.
Iknow this is rather late, but that’s wht procrastinating will do for you. This is for all the soccer fans and non-soccer fans who have not had access to the Get Fuzzy comic strip for the last week or so. The soccer theme starts on the 5th and carries on through today.
I know I should be grossed out by that kind of stuff…but I wasn’t. Quite the opposite actually, which is disturbing. Must be some unfortunate primordial instincts at work there.
I have never stolen anyone’s underwear!!
up.
Keep it up.
That’s what she said.
tagfail!
ZOMG SEATBELT LAWS ARE TEH NEW KRISTALLNACHT
Heh
I have never stolen anyone’s underwear!!
Ok, then you’re eliminated as a potential suspect.
I know I should be grossed out by that kind of stuff…but I wasn’t. Quite the opposite actually, which is disturbing. Must be some unfortunate primordial instincts at work there.
This might be the most frustrating thing about women. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why women would ever be attracted to a filthy fucking jerk that treats them like a toy. It’s not just you, it’s relatively common (anecdotally speaking, of course). Not all of us generally nice, but still possessing a dark side guys are ugly.
I have never stolen anyone’s underwear!!
I note that you did not deny the spying. Hmmm?
And for the record, I’d love to take “liberal” back. I don’t want to be “progressive.” Liberal’s a great label, something to be proud of, especially in light of the last 30 years of seeing what a “conservative” looks like. I’m a liberal, damnit, and I’m proud.
“There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
Shorter Scott Johnson: Rapid fire Louie like Rambo got bullets. I’m a die-harder like my man Bruce Willis.
There seems to be a die-hard group of non-consensual sexers out there who simply do not wish to stop raping no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.
And for the record, I’d love to take “liberal” back. I don’t want to be “progressive.” Liberal’s a great label, something to be proud of, especially in light of the last 30 years of seeing what a “conservative” looks like. I’m a liberal, damnit, and I’m proud.
I call myself a leftist. I don’t want there to be any question as to whether or not a fucking conservative will find much in the way of common ground with me. The simple obvious stuff, yes. In policy matters, they can all fuck off until they get some education and face reality.
Oh no. I’m not attracted to jerks AT. ALL. I was saying that when you got all “internet tough guy” that did not bother me in the slightest, even though–as you said–I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Your actions were– of course in a small, non-romantic way–a classic romance novel staple. (The hero is always uber-macho-protective of “his woman.”) What I was trying to say is that I SHOULD find this sort of thing rather eye-rollingly anachronistic…but I sometimes don’t. Bad feminist-BAD!
I have never spied on any of your wives or girlfriends. That’s what it says on my rap sheet, and I’m sticking with that.
This might be the most frustrating thing about women. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why women would ever be attracted to a filthy fucking jerk that treats them like a toy. It’s not just you, it’s relatively common (anecdotally speaking, of course). Not all of us generally nice, but still possessing a dark side guys are ugly.
If you are a nice guy and you go out of your way to help and be nice to others, then you have that one moment of selfishness or cruelty – people will go “oh my God, how could you do that! I thought you were a nice guy.” However, if you are a cruel, selfish bastard and you have that one moment where you actually do something nice for someone else – everyone goes “see he really has a good heart underneath.”
Oh no. I’m not attracted to jerks AT. ALL. I was saying that when you got all “internet tough guy” that did not bother me in the slightest, even though–as you said–I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Your actions were– of course in a small, non-romantic way–a classic romance novel staple. (The hero is always uber-macho-protective of “his woman.”) What I was trying to say is that I SHOULD find this sort of thing rather eye-rollingly anachronistic…but I sometimes don’t. Bad feminist-BAD!
Oh, I see what you’re saying. Well, I seriously doubt that you’re alone there, either. I know you didn’t ask for that and of course didn’t need it, but it is a bit romantic to be protective. Now if you can pull off protective while being respectful and mindful that you are perfectly capable of defending yourself, well, I guess that’s something, right?
However, if you are a cruel, selfish bastard and you have that one moment where you actually do something nice for someone else – everyone goes “see he really has a good heart underneath.”
You’d be surprised how often that works, too.
If you are a nice guy and you go out of your way to help and be nice to others, then you have that one moment of selfishness or cruelty – people will go “oh my God, how could you do that! I thought you were a nice guy.” However, if you are a cruel, selfish bastard and you have that one moment where you actually do something nice for someone else – everyone goes “see he really has a good heart underneath.”
*scribbles down notes*
What else ya got?
Absolutely!
Hey, let’s not get carried away with this meme guys. For every woman who finds the asshole thing hot, there’s one who dump your sorry ass so fucking fast, your head will spin.
For every woman who finds the asshole thing hot, there’s one who dump your sorry ass so fucking fast, your head will spin.
Of course, but we’re not talking about them.
Besides, odds are they put out at least once, so we have that going for us!
Hey, let’s not get carried away with this meme guys. For every woman who finds the asshole thing hot, there’s one who dump your sorry ass so fucking fast, your head will spin.
Yeah, but don’t most strippers fall in the first group?
Yeah, but don’t most strippers fall in the first group?
Until the money runs out. THAT was a painful lesson.
Hey, let’s not get carried away with this meme guys. For every woman who finds the asshole thing hot, there’s one who dump your sorry ass so fucking fast, your head will spin.
Shhh, you’ll ruin my plan. If I can convince all the other guys to be assholes so as to get all teh wimin, then I can be a nice guy and increase my odds with the women who like that.
Until the money runs out. THAT was a painful lesson.
Do tell. Gather rounds everyone! It’s story time with Actor212!
Shhh, you’ll ruin my plan. If I can convince all the other guys to be assholes so as to get all teh wimin, then I can be a nice guy and increase my odds with the women who like that.
**tears up notes**
Son of a…
I can be a nice guy and increase my odds with the women who like that.
Ah yes, the ever-futile “cock blocked friend” character.
Hey, let’s not get carried away with this meme guys. For every woman who finds the asshole thing hot, there’s one who dump your sorry ass so fucking fast, your head will spin.
Yeah, but don’t most strippers fall in the first group?
Or, as our ancestors would have put it: Treat a tramp like a lady, and a lady like a tramp.
(Yes, yes, I’m still going to Hell.)
It’s story time with Actor212!
Well, she was less a stripper than a porn—
HEY!
FUCK YEAH!
“Shhh, you’ll ruin my plan. If I can convince all the other guys to be assholes so as to get all teh wimin, then I can be a nice guy and increase my odds with the women who like that.”
Lulz. My lips are sealed.
Treat a tramp like a lady, and a lady like a tramp.
I modified this a little. “Treat a woman like a lady and a lady like a woman”.
It’s more feminist.
Ah yes, the ever-futile “cock blocked friend” character.
Also, in my baesball-playing days I was a futility infielder.
FUCK YEAH!
A-FUCKING-MEN! Now they won’t have to bleep Jon Stewart!
Also, in my baesball-playing days I was a futility infielder.
D’Oh!
So you played shortsto ?
Also, in my baesball[sic]-playing days I was a futility infielder.
Right before I go out to the goth club on Saturday night I put on my futility belt.
FTR, I do NOT want to be treated like an adorable cartoon dog.
So you played shortsto ?
Nah, I never even made it as far as second base.
Right before I go out to the goth club on Saturday night I put on my futility belt.
That’s the form of birth control for most guys on a Saturday night.
I do NOT want to be treated like an adorable cartoon dog.
So you don’t like being boned?
Shhh, you’ll ruin my plan. If I can convince all the other guys to be assholes so as to get all teh wimin, then I can be a nice guy and increase my odds with the women who like that.
Pity fucks are no fuck at all, regardless of which direction the pity is going.
Until the money runs out. THAT was a painful lesson.
You mean she didn’t love you for your good looks and wit? Who could have known &c?
“So you don’t like being boned?”
I just don’t like to share my spaghetti.
You mean she didn’t love you for your good looks and wit?
Or my massive penis.
Or my massive penis.
Or your heart of gold under the tough guy exterior?
I’m shocked. Shocked.
“Or my massive forehead”
Fixed
“Or my massive forehead”
Fixed
Y’know, there WAS a time I had hair, believe it or not…
Or my massive penis.
Or your heart of gold under the tough guy exterior?
I’m shocked. Shocked.
I know! Right?
There must have been something wrong with that girl.
Yeah, but don’t most strippers fall in the first group?
With strippers it helps to be inventive.
FTR, I do NOT want to be treated like an adorable cartoon dog.
I do!
Dead vid, Sirius
With strippers it helps to be inventive.
I can’t watch youtube at work, but I am very inventive with strippers. I invent a new name, new phone number, new email, new address, sometimes even a new accent.
I am very inventive with strippers. I invent a new name, new phone number, new email, new address, sometimes even a new accent.
They’re strippers. You’re overthinking this.
Dead vid, Sirius
Sorry, I’m at work and they don’t provide me with a youtube friendly browser so I was kinda linking blind. Try clicking on the “first male engineer” from that page, that might work.
I do NOT want to be treated like an adorable cartoon dog.
Baby, you just let me know what kind of dog you do want to be treated like.
They’re strippers. You’re overthinking this.
says the guy who didn’t get knifed in Trieste.
The Volvic water commercial?
OK, yea, that was funny
says the guy who didn’t get knifed in Trieste.
Your company CO warned you.
Well, I guess–if nothing else–there’s lots of hugs ‘n’ kisses in it for ya.
Well, I guess–if nothing else–there’s lots of hugs ‘n’ kisses in it for ya.
No leg humping?
The kind that bites.
But, seriously…lulz.
Adorable cartoon dogs do NOT hump legs, actor. Sheesh.
Adorable cartoon dogs do NOT hump legs, actor.
Brian on Family Guy does and he’s hawt!
I mean that in a totes het way.
Obligatory semi-naked semi-crazy guy video
In my room I want you here.
VS, grab a jar of peanut butter and draw the blinds.
Baby, you just let me know what kind of dog you do want to be treated like.
The kind that needs a master.
VS, grab a jar of peanut butter and draw the blinds.
You two should get a kennel.
rofl!
BAD DOG! BAD! No, wait…no…no…yes, yes…yes YES YES!!! GOOOOOD DOG!
Oh the internet loves me today.
OK, ok. We’ll be good now.
OK, ok. We’ll be good now.
They’re just jealous.
OK, ok. We’ll be good now.
Oh, I wasn’t complaining. I just thought it would be more effective for this fantasy.
They’re just jealous.
Noooooooooooooooooooo!….yes.
The cage thing is working. Excuse me for about 5 minutes.
tsam is half the man that Homer Simpson is.
tsam is half the man that Homer Simpson is.
Someday I’ll be like Homer. In fairness, it’s quicker when you’re doing the work yourself.
It would be so awesome if Dora had a video about WWII aircraft, wouldn’t it? “Hola, Nazi bitches!”
This made me snicker so hard I scared my roommate’s cat out of the room. So, all in all, thumbs up.
Brendan snaps K-Lo.
Y’know, there WAS a time I had hair, believe it or not…
You were just holding it. It doesn’t count as “having hair” when it’s still attached to someone else.
New JanusNode, Mac and Windows:
http://janusnode.com/
Powerwhine?
or Powerlyin?
Decisions, decisions…
I’m only 40 now, but I intend to torture the shit out of everyone I can with my “good old days when everything was so much more difficult and you kids don’t know anything about blargggghhhhh” anecdotes.
I, on the other hand, fully intend to lie. I’m going to say everything went much smoother back in my day, and now you young peoples are all fucked. And I will laugh, LAUGH, at their miseries, compounded by the fact that if I’m saying that now was easy, how truly fucked they must be.
Breaking News!
Laura Ingrahm: Not funny!
I, on the other hand, fully intend to lie. I’m going to say everything went much smoother back in my day, and now you young peoples are all fucked. And I will laugh, LAUGH, at their miseries, compounded by the fact that if I’m saying that now was easy, how truly fucked they must be.
I’ll be lying too. I’ll just watch TV and take notes and then tell everyone that life was just like that. “Always Sunny in Philadelphia”?
Pretty much the same thing that old people do now with “Leave it to Beaver” and “Donna Reed”.
She radiates wounded joylessness and her voice makes animals miscarry.
This is pretty fucking funny, though.
Lulz.
Laura Ingrahm: Not funny!
I’m not so sure that Laura’s audience wouldn’t be in stitches over that shit. What sort of sense of humor does one need to be able to fap off to war footage or photos of the fire hoses and lynchings?
I didn’t click. I thought someone was saying that about Laura. Was Laura saying that about someone else?
You should click.
*!!!!!* Now I know how to get the possum population back to reasonable #’s in the neighborhood.
Another loony lady (Thanks, Green Eagle.) goes off. Note newer, simpler website design, & new banner.
Or just click the Eagle link if you don’t want crazy fucking Pamela to get clicks from you.
We should note that she seems completely unaware that the original “October Surprise” was Reagan’s doing. Good for goose, not for gander.
“I call myself a leftist. I don’t want there to be any question as to whether or not a fucking conservative will find much in the way of common ground with me. The simple obvious stuff, yes. In policy matters, they can all fuck off until they get some education and face reality.”
How does ” mind numbed lefty robot ” work for you?
Crazy Pammy: “But if there is a Second 9/11 attack on America this October…”
OH MY GOD LIEBERALS HAVE BLOWN A WHOLE MONTH OFF THE CALENDAR!!!
Laura Ingraham watches Entourage. Thank you! Good night! You’ve been a great audience. Try the salmon!
How does copypasting, glue-sniffing, right-wing hack and bobblehead work for you?
tigris makes a funny. 😀
How does ” mind numbed lefty robot ” work for you?
How does “fuck off” work for you? I’m not the one who went fucking psycho with the racism, false accusations of socialism/fascism/communism, I don’t think that gays or Mexicans or anyone else should be excluded from the ideal of liberty and justice for all, I don’t think it’s ok to decimate the middle class and ship jobs overseas, and I don’t think that preemptive wars are a good idea. I think that a healthy and educated population is one of the responsibilities of the government. I don’t think being poor shouldn’t mean you ever have to do without basic necessities like health care and education, not to mention food and shelter. What do you think we share in common, AChance? My leftward swing is response to conservatism turning into a remnant of the 19th century robber baron age. It’s a reaction to the Tea Party and it’s delusive politics of racism, exclusion and lies. You people wipe out your intrinsic value as the other point of view when you disregard the intrinsic value of a human life and it’s right to freedom and justice.
I mean to say I don’t think that being poor SHOULD mean you ever…
How does ”mind numbed lefty robot ” work for you?
Not better than “mindless reactionary robot.”
It’s great that he wrote the article on seat belts. It proves without a doubt that he is too idiotic to do the minimum thing to preserve his own health and life. Now everything he ever writes can be simply dismissed as “oh you mean the guy who won’t even use the most minimally safe thing in a car wrote that? You mean that moron?”
It’s not nanny state to require a seat belt. It saves taxpayer money to require it – fewer injury accidents for cops and paramedics to deal with, fewer emergency room situations, more alive people.
It’s not nanny state to require a seat belt. It saves taxpayer money to require it – fewer injury accidents for cops and paramedics to deal with, fewer emergency room situations, more alive people.
To say nothing of the vastly increased insurance payouts for catastrophic injuries resulting from 10 mile/hour collisions.
Not better than “mindless reactionary robot.”
Damn right. I wonder if he’ll respond to my counter measures based on the merits of the arguments…HAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, didn’t think so.
You mean like the people who’ve co-opted the “Party of Lincoln” brand as a fig leaf for their ongoing efforts to stick it to brown people? Or did you mean the people who self-identify as “independent” or “libertarian” and yet support the GOP with mind-numbing regularity? That must really burn the conservative in you.
You mean like the people who’ve co-opted the “Party of Lincoln” brand as a fig leaf for their ongoing efforts to stick it to brown people?
Yeah! Like they’re still pissed about renaming the Department of War to the Dept. of Defense.
righton
This man is still bitter that Lee Iacocca lost the “Seat Belt War”. Hell, even Iacocca today admits that he was wrong to oppose their installation. There is one silver lining about the article though. As a paramedic friend once explained to me, during a rollover accident with an ejection, after you hit the ground the car more often than not rolls over you. So, Scotty. You keep on truckin ya hear! *Thumbs up.*
This theory should be tested.
@JGL:
People like Mr. “Rage Against The Seat Belt Tyrants” make me think that society would be much better off if robots did our driving for us. It disturbs me to imagine him in control (and I use that word loosely) of hundreds of pounds of moving metal.
Damn robots ‘d probably make you put on your seatbelt. Frickin’ Asimov and his frickin’ “laws”.
My latest wicked leprechaun just died unbendingly and with all the brokenhearted shit going on here an odd wicked leprechaun story would make my week. When the surgeon opened Epsom up she found a wire jammed in Epsom’s ear. Just this side of Montreal is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When a wicked leprechaun dies that has been ably close to someone here, that wicked leprechaun goes to Rainbow Bridge.
Got any “volunteers” in mind? How much should we recompense their estates?
http://www.monash.us/muarc/reports/muarc065.html
Okay, my friend was wrong.
Now everything he ever writes can be simply dismissed as “oh you mean the guy who won’t even use the most minimally safe thing in a car wrote that? You mean that moron?
You know who might appreciate it if this moron didn’t die in an accident? His kids.
I know it fucking cramps his style while he’s getting his mack on or whatever, but maybe it’s worth giving up a couple of cool points to keep your kids from having to grow up fatherless (not to mention that if he wasn’t around, his wife would probably start doing a black guy).
–“Hey, small Dickensian child, why are you alone at this father-son picnic?”
–“My dad wanted to make some asinine fucking point about Ralph Nader.”
–“Your daddy was right. Seat belts are a subversion of god’s will, and they make you look like a homo. Take it from me, Joe the Plumber.”
–“Joe the Plumber! Wow! Will you be my new daddy?”
–“Sure thing, little pard.”
You know who might appreciate it if this moron didn’t die in an accident? His kids.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Is it safe yet or is that French or faggot or both cooking up some greater crime against humanity in response to this?
I know it fucking cramps his style while he’s getting his mack on or whatever, but maybe it’s worth giving up a couple of cool points to keep your kids from having to grow up fatherless
Republican personal responsibility demands fatherless children pull themselves up by the fancy solid platinum bootstraps they inherited from their idiot ancestors. Also: NO DEATH TAXES.
Republican personal responsibility demands fatherless children pull themselves up by the fancy solid platinum bootstraps they inherited from their idiot ancestors
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I am literally at the point where I am contemplating assassinations of some of these clowns.
And some of them seem ready to go, so …
Now WP is on the list.
Would they be OK with extending unemployment benefits using the money raised by canceling the Bush tax cuts?
Seriously, these people are flirting with Mme. la Guillotine. They don’t even have divine right to stand on.
And this guy.
“Live Free Or Die, Whitey!”
I just thought of something else that’s been bugging me lately. In the early years of this century, one of the reasons Greenspan gave for the Bush II tax cuts was that the US government was paying the national debt back “too fast”.
How can they stick to their supply side bullshit after that? If they believed their “tax cuts increase revenue” story, then cutting taxes should have made them pay the debt off even faster thus negating Greenspan’s “solution” to the “problem.
is that French or faggot or both cooking up some greater crime against humanity
You mean Andy Pettitte of the Wankees?
If they believed their “tax cuts increase revenue” story, then cutting taxes should have made them pay the debt off even faster thus negating Greenspan’s “solution” to the “problem.
Only if they dilute it 10 billion times. Don’t you even know the basics of homeopathic economics?
How does copypasting, glue-sniffing, right-wing hack and bobblehead work for you?
How the fuck did you know about that
Did you assume it was because of this.
Who told you this? Did I fire you? What else did they tell you?
“The simple obvious stuff, yes. In policy matters, they can all fuck off until they get some education and face reality.”
I suppose they tell you about not finishing a post secondary degree, too? I was smarter than that. I just paid a politician for my job.
http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/achance/2008/mar/25/what_a_long_strange_trip_its_been
Gee whiz this looks awful.
Gee whiz this looks awful.
Needs moar goatse.
Ah-hah! stryx has used the magic thread-killing word, & it worked.
I suppose they tell you about not finishing a post secondary degree, too? I was smarter than that. I just paid a politician for my job.
Um, ok. I have no idea what you’re talking about, but it sounds about right. I think most conservative “writers” have gotten ahead with payoffs, sales of souls, and favors which should not be described in the interest of preserving decorum here at Sadly, No!.
I do like the typical conservative redneck claim that you’re smarter than those college grad dummies. It highlights your inability to accept reality and your inflated sense of self worth. Keep banging out those Red State articles. I’m sure those super educated people appreciate your eternal wisdom.
I do like the typical conservative redneck claim that you’re smarter than those college grad dummies. It highlights your inability to accept reality and your inflated sense of self worth. Keep banging out those Red State articles. I’m sure those super educated people appreciate your eternal wisdom.
I admit that I think a goodly number of the [ ] writers are self-absorbed morons, but I will defend to the death their right to demonstrate their ignorance. Which fact brings me to the subject of this writing.
The loony left [ ] offering their own view of events. To whom does the [ ] welfare program for people who cannot get paid to write or speak – Public Radio serves that function. The paper has a right to express its own view and to publish the opinions of those who have controversial and even divisive views. Where outside a government school is it wrong to be divisive? If I see it one way and you another, have we not established a division? There are only so many verses of Kum-Ba-Ya we should have to memorize.
It is incomprehensible to me that representatives of the most extreme opinions [ ]seek to represent themselves as moderates. I guess it is just the hangover from a time when we could not quite define what is is. I make no pretense of being a political moderate. I believe it, and that settles it, but that is not the subjectivist fallacy that the other side should automatically attack. If I believe it, I have thought about it, not just felt strongly about it. [ ]If you have an opinion, you should be willing, even eager, to subject it to the scrutiny of contrary opinions. It is not enough to have the guts to express your opinion; you must have the guts to withstand others expressing an opinion contrary to yours. After all, if you are a good liberal who celebrates diversity, how can you say I am wrong, am I not just different?
Hey Art, I’m fucking your mom w/ a splintery broomstick. Do you believe that?
Linking to your own letter to the editor to an Alaska newspaper’s website proves what now?
Something about the loony left and how much they love Stalin and Sharia law and so on and etc. Also.
That letter does bring up one thing I’ve been wondering about for a while. The whole “Kum-Ba-Yah” talking point. Where did that come from? I remember singing it in grade school, but I never heard it in any kind of a political context until every conservative commentator started using it as some kind of a dogwhistle for diversity and multiculturalism and tolerance (and all the other things they hate).
It’s not very clever or relevant and it never was.
But I suppose it’s better than the charges of Islamofascism, neo-Stalinism and Hitlerism that have come to characterize deep political thinking in conservative and neo-Libertarian circles.
M.B.
Remember to put that broomstick back where you got it when you’re done. And try to remember to clean it up a bit for the next person!
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Caramba.
I have little to add except this: every time I see power line, it makes me think of the brilliant song of the same name by husker du, also of minnesota. And that makes me deeply, ineffably sad that those moron shit heel jackass fuck wad no talent hemmoroid clowns would dare have the fucking temerity to squat and take a shit all over my memories. Sooth but I hate them so.
But I suppose it’s better than the charges of Islamofascism, neo-Stalinism and Hitlerism that have come to characterize deep political thinking in conservative and neo-Libertarian circles.
Funny you should mention that (though the billboard has Lenin, not Stalin).
The slogan is a beautiful example of Freudian projection in action.
> That, to me, seems to be the essence of conservative thought: keep people just smart enough to make us some money.
You’re missing the *real* essence of conservative “thought”: that it’s better to be *richest* than rich. Those just-smart-enough people would make a certain amount of money for *themselves*, and then there’d be money that the boss class didn’t own. We’re talking about people who would rather be the richest in a poor society than much, much richer than that, but lower on the Rich List, in a wealthy one. They must on some level know that their own prosperity is actually damaged by continually shitting all over the middle and working classes, but they don’t care, because their vanity and their sadism are more powerful than their greed.
I really feel for the parents of the libertarian boy who decided seatbeltz=tyranny. No parent should see their kids die before them. I have to lay this poor boy’s death at the feet of those who decided to take a big shit on America; the current crop of Republicans and all who enable them. Fucktheminthierfuckingasses, with rebar.
> The “popular base” of conservatives seems to be in the middle class, not the working class.
The classic structure of rightwing authoritarian movements is an aristocratic leadership with a lower-middle-class base, united by fear of the workers and contempt / envy for the middle-to-upper bourgeoisie.
The classic structure of rightwing authoritarian movements is an aristocratic leadership with a lower-middle-class base, united by fear of the workers and contempt / envy for the middle-to-upper bourgeoisie.
Corporals are often much touchier about their rank and consequently, bigger dicks to people they outrank than Sergeants.
You might be dirt poor white trash, but if there are people poorer and trashier than you, you will fight to protect your “status” from those that would reduce you to being at society’s bottom rung by raising up those below you to your level.
Linking to your own letter to the editor to an Alaska newspaper’s website proves what now?
Well when it comes to when things are shakin’ up the Empire wants to talk with ME the GENIUS.
“They want to gut our retirement benefits and then give us ice cream and cake,” Ludwig said.
Art Chance, the state’s director of labor relations, tried to force the protesters to leave the building but gave up shortly after Ludwig claimed it was their First Amendment right.
“We don’t let anybody solicit in here, and they know it,” Chance said.
“It’s one more example of state employees thinking they are special and the rules don’t apply to them,” Chance said.
You might be dirt poor white trash, but if there are people poorer and trashier than you, you will fight to protect your “status” from those that would reduce you to being at society’s bottom rung by raising up those below you to your level.
You guys need to leave Art Chance alone. It only encourages him.
Looch –
It works better if you scream into the camera while crying enough to smear your mascara.
“Corporals are often much touchier about their rank and consequently, bigger dicks to people they outrank than Sergeants.”
A HREF=”http://www.redstate.com/achance/2010/02/25/department-by-department-how-government-really-works/”>Today’s American active military is the scariest thing the world has seen since the Roman Legions. I am a fairly serious student of history generally and military history specifically, and I must admit that the leadership of the modern American military is astoundingly bellicose[9].
[9] I have a son who is an Army Infantryman and who has spent quality time in famous resorts such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo,” so this is firsthand knowledge.
Art has been tagfailing throughout the entire thread. You’re supposed to link a word or two, not entire paragraphs, genius. But this last tagfail has gotta be his most embarrassing. Perhaps if the flecks of spittle weren’t wetting your keyboard, you’d be better at this, Art.
YAY Monash Uni
OMG Levi and Bristol are engaged! It will be the wedding of the year!
I wonder if the wedding guests will get Juicy tracksuits…
I can do that , but only because really I’m an imposter. The real Art doesn’t attempt HTML links at all.
And what you were supposed to notice was my apparent inability to comprehend what first hand knowledge really is compared to second hand knowledge,or here say. As a professional Bullshitter, It actually helps to have this inability to comprehend real events and first hand witness as to the stories that can be extrapolated, especially when firing someone, most favorite thing in the world.
Sorry ’bout leaving out a “<."
Get that redstate Account so you can come visit and opine. Sept 3 is the day. The best way is to barrage; open up ten tabs at once all through the archives and have them all ready at once, then post all at once. Frustrates the heck out of Mods.
Cheers!
Now back in character, if that's okay with you mind numbed robots.
BTW, sometimes I wonder if Britney Spears is just some genius performance artist.
OMG Levi and Bristol are engaged! It will be the wedding of the year!
Is Alaska a community property state? Levi may be smarter than we thought.
Igoring seat belt laws, and drug laws, is how I go Galt. There is nothing more exhilarating than flying by a police car at 35 mph without a seat belt buckled and your middle finger up just below the window. One word: badass.
“They want to gut our retirement benefits and then give us ice cream and cake,” Ludwig said..
401Ks are for sissys who care about “the future”. In reality, you should realize you can die at any moment so have your cake… but then again you could develop diabetes and live for a long time without your 401K resulting in mooching off your children. Well, that’s my Future Plan.
Is Alaska a community property state? Levi may be smarter than we thought.
Yep, half and half split. If the wife makes more, she might pay child support, part of her retirement to alimony.
I really think that it is unfair that Scotty had to pay a fine because he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. He is right – he should have the freedom to decide which risks he is willing to take.
Of course, it is impossible to make an informed decision without adequate information so he should have been given the option of either accepting the ticket, or having the ticketing officer hit him hard in the face with a baseball bat, to let him experience what it feels like to impact the steering wheel in a 25mph collision.
Unfortunately, I’m having trouble envisioning a roadside analogue for “breaking through the windshield, getting thrown 50 ft, and having the car roll on top of you” that could fit in the trunk of a police cruiser. Maybe something involving K-Lo in a thong…
Corporals are often much touchier about their rank and consequently, bigger dicks to people they outrank than Sergeants.
You might be dirt poor white trash, but if there are people poorer and trashier than you, you will fight to protect your “status” from those that would reduce you to being at society’s bottom rung by raising up those below you to your level.
Good point.
The original UHC attempt under Truman failed because Southern white were afraid it would lead to racially integrated hospitals, after all.
I really think that it is unfair that Scotty had to pay a fine because he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. He is right – he should have the freedom to decide which risks he is willing to take.
Cheap-ass bastard’s principles aren’t worth 105$? But I do like that you’re willing to give him options. You’re a generous person.
And we can use laid off professors to do the jobs other Americans won’t do – whether they want to work in the fields or not!
Pol Pot: Conservative Hero!
Scott Johnson, consider this: when your un-seatbelted ass plows through your windshield or sideways out your crumpled door, the seatbelt law that you would have go away would be protecting the EMTs from shoveling your glass-shredded body off the pavement.
Damn right. I wonder if he’ll respond to my counter measures based on the merits of the arguments…HAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, didn’t think so.
Of course I would respond, but they won’t let us just exterminate vermin like you.
I’ve never run into any anarchists that anything more than idealistic teenagers who are so politically retarded that their only hope in life is to take down the system, whatever that system might be. I would bet that like libertarians and conservatives, you could poll them in government and civics and net some pretty disturbing results.
Yeah, tsam, so true. What was with that selfish idiot HD Thoreau opposing our noble war to make Meksko part of our divinely ordained property and a new slave state as well by not payin’ his war tax, and encouraging others to disrespect the law as well? Goddamn irresponsible tree-huggin’ teen he was, & politically retarded too. We never woulda had our greatest Preznit GW Bush 43 if Texas wasn’t the most awesomest US state ever brought into the Union.
And don’t get me started on that goddamn naive hippy stooge ML King who was so retarded as to pick up those “anarchist” ideas about resisting unjust laws so the Negroes could sit at lunch counters with the first class citizens and pushin’ for teh Civil Rights and all that bleedin’ heart nonsense.
Or that Marsala eatin’ little brown man Gandhi. I agree with Churchill and Thatcher, if they don’t love empire and Bwana’s Great Western Civilization we should drive OVER ’em with our SUVs and that’ll solve the problem. Whether we’re wearin’ our seat belts or no.