superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now

Must he type like a precocious ten-yr. old? “Superhard?” “Stuff?” Please. Indicates the level he’s working on, of course, but does no one at The Times have an ear?

I want a radical extremist moderate centrist party to man the barricades and calmly and with a neutral, NPR type voice, demand that the bourgeois and proletarians stop their demands on both sides, and try to see that the bourgeois solutions are always pretty much correct.

The further the republicans run off the rails, the more the ‘centrists’ feel that they need to invent some fantasy 3rd party to save them from ever having to back a democrat in any way…

I don’t want even a single standard deviation from the mean, I want the exact mean! That’s the radical center I expect! I want a mean mean to do the super-tough-hard thingies that will change super-bland business as usual into super-awesome average business!

I am totally superhard.

I for one will never tire of quoting “Null-P”.

“I would like to tell you that this ‘normal man’ of yours is no Messiah. All he is, I am afraid, is a bell-shaped curve with ambitions, the median made flesh-”
… Abnego ran for president on the slogan “Back to Normal with the Normal Man!”

Fuck all this! I’m voting for Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain.

Via Crooked Timber (catch it quick while it exists):

High Broderism at its lowest ebb. What none of these jackasses do not seem capable of grasping is that people (probably most) have strongly held values, beliefs, and ideas and that we do not agree. Because we do not agree on very fundamental issues, we can’t just all come together and sing kumbaya. This is why we have politics and political parties in the first place, because we do not agree and have no intention of agreeing.

Hah! I posted on Friedman’s latest batshittery earlier today.

This may be the only time I will ever get to something before Sadly, No!

Sasquatch is Freed! Man!

What Tom wants is either a Republican Party that doesn’t truck with rednecks, or a Democratic Party that isn’t dependent on the poor. Everyone that he knows in both parties agrees, which is why he is so sure of his eminent reasonableness.

Sadly, the only way to achieve that would be to restrict the franchise and return to the pre-Jacksonian era before mass political parties. He is too dense to follow any of the political debates, but is certain that they should be limited to people like him and a random poll of his latest dinner party indicates that a super-majority of Americans agree.

Perhaps he was inspired by the Superconducting Supercollider, momentarily forgetting its eventual fate.

As he’s said before, movies inspire him. This time, instead of “Invictus,” it’s “Waiting for Superman” and thus a column is born pooped.

We need to stop waiting for Superman and start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now. Pretty good is not even close to good enough today.

Pretty good is not even close to good enough today.

Today enough good to close even not good is pretty.

Which one of you posed as Larry Kudlow and wrote this?

Friedman has invented a new kind of sentence: one that makes as little sense backwards as forwards. I would like to name it the palindrunk.

Which one of you posed as Larry Kudlow and wrote this?

Reagan would have snapped Emmanuel’s neck, then turned to the camera and said, “If I do that to my best friend, imagine what I’ll do to you, towelheads!” Then he would have ridden a sidewinder missile off into the sunset.

I am ready to hazard a prediction: Barring a transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties, there is going to be a serious third party candidate in 2012

Bookmark this, etc. Tea Partiers seem perfectly content to work within the Republican establishment, and liberals have been largely shamed into supporting milquetoast Democrats whenever a general election comes around. Those are your only real sources of active, engaged discontent, and neither seems remotely likely to form a third party for a Presidential election.

We have to rip open this two-party duopoly and have it challenged by a serious third party that will talk about education reform, without worrying about offending unions; financial reform, without worrying about losing donations from Wall Street; corporate tax reductions to stimulate jobs, without worrying about offending the far left; energy and climate reform, without worrying about offending the far right and coal-state Democrats; and proper health care reform, without worrying about offending insurers and drug companies.

Change a few words and this could be ripped from an Obama 2008 campaign speech, amirite? Besides the fact that this kind of we-enlightened-centrists-are-better-than-everyone attitude is stupid and dishonest anyway, it would be absurd to trust another politician spewing the same rhetoric.

I am ready to hazard a prediction: … there is going to be a serious third party candidate in 2012

We know he must have some serious evidence, for he would not risk the loss of all his credibility and all his access to outlets for his opinions that would happen if he’s wrong.

without worrying about offending unions… without worrying about losing donations… without worrying about offending the far left… without worrying about offending the far right and coal-state Democrats…

This is a man who envies the freedom of the Chinese government to do what they like without voters hindering them.

You know what happens when you’re in the middle of the road? You get run over by a semi that never even notices your squished corpse in the rear-view mirror.

Except, maybe, that this is the super same shit Tom was offering six months ago, as noted by this very same crappy blog.

So…we’re a Friedman unit into Friedman’s unit? I fear for the space-time continuum.

“I am ready to hazard a prediction: … there is going to be a serious third party candidate in 2012”

Already bookmarked. That does sort of imply that there aren’t any serious 3rd party candidates now. Which makes baby Trig cry.

Watch his every move!
Superconsensus! Superconsensus!
He (only thinks he) can manipulate the action!
Superconsensus! Spuerconsensus!

Nobody talks about my supertheory of supereverything.

The man doesn’t want a president. He wants an emperor!

Which one of you posed as Larry Kudlow and wrote this?

Yes, our enemies, who kiss cheek to cheek as greetings, will be emboldened by our president hugging a valued advisor and friend. That seems likely…

I’m super, thanks for asking.

Yes, our enemies, who kiss cheek to cheek as greetings, will be emboldened by our president hugging a valued advisor and friend. That seems likely…

Now we will have to throw another small country against the wall, just to reassert our alpha masculinity.

Shorter Tom “the mustache” Friedman:

Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a political party that agreed with me about everything? And they had a super-majority? That would be super cool.

(I can haz paycheck nao?)

Admittedly, I’m not a Pulitzer Prize winning expert like Thomas Friedman, but it’s pretty obvious to me that there are only a small number of ways the US can again become “governable”.

1) The Democrats just fold completely and let the Republicans do whatever they want forever, like Grover Norquist though they should do.

2) The Republicans splinter into two warring factions (the social conservatives and the Randites), which allows the Democrats to splinter into two warring factions (the genuine liberals and the bought-and-paid-for corporatists) and the US limps along with four parties and case-by-case coalition building in Congress.

3) The Senate supermajority requirement is abolished or the Senate is reformed to something like proportional representation, so shit can get done if a majority of the population wants it done.

Only options (2) and (3) lead to any of the climate legislation the Mustache and the Olive Tree claims he wants and Option (3) will only happen after Satan takes up curling, so it seems to me that Friedman really ought to be rooting on the teabaggers to secede from the GOP as a necessary first step.

Look, we are all being encouraged to recycle as much waste as possible. Tom Friedman is certainly doing his part by recycling the same old boring shite!

You know, this all makes perfect sense. Here it is laid out logically:
1. Democracy means that the elected government represents the people’s will.
2. The vast majority of the American people think exactly as Tommy Friedman does.
3. Therefore a massive supermajority of extremist moderates is just around the corner.

Friedman must have been the blueprint for the underpants gnomes.

Sadly, Thomas’ columns all seem to come from the same place. (Le trou du cul).

Fucker has been phoning it in for years, but the goddamn media still keeps paying the charges.

Friedman’s writing always makes me think he’s like a guy you might meet in a bar. He’s on his 4th or 5th Stoli and he keeps going to the men’s room to do another rail. He won’t shut up, he keeps going on with his grandiose visions, he’s convinced he’s brilliant, he keeps talking too loud, he’s randomly aggressive, none of his stories make any sense. He’ll go apeshit when you cut him off.

Pathological liar with a substance abuse problem.

Just ask his cab driver.

Fun fact: the bankruptcy of General Growth, the company inheirited by Friedman’s wife, reduced their net worth from somewhere north of $1 billion to $25 million.

As I said at my place, this argues in favor of the existence of a just God.

Really if he wanted to show STRENGTH, Obama should have strolled around a flower garden holding hands with Rahm Emmanuel.

I wouldn’t mind losing most of my money if I were then left with $25M, though.

Doctorb – well, sure, you and I would be satisfied with $25 million.

But we’re mere ants compared to the brilliance that is Thomas Friedman.

But anyways, it’s Sunday night and the guests have gone home leaving me and my bourbon all to ourselves. Let’s humour Little Tommy Friedman, shall we?

…. so much so that I am ready to hazard a prediction: Barring a transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties, there is going to be a serious third party candidate in 2012, with a serious political movement behind him or her — one definitely big enough to impact the election’s outcome.

Or maybe six months after that. But let’s consider what he’s actually saying here – big enough to impact the election’s outcome. Sounds ominous, but in reality – it’s a fucken low bar. Friedman’s big prediction is that a third party candidate (from the middle) might just garner as much support as Ralph Nader.

Firstly, Bullshit. Ain’t. Fucking. Going. To. Happen. An extreme centrist?!?! Why would people vote for him? Someone who is going to diligently hew to the middle of the road – who’s Grand Vision is Compromise. Yeah, that’ll sell.

Secondly. Even if it does, which it won’t, woop-de-fucken-dooo-do. Where’s Ralphie boy now? Third party candidates are entirely a tool used by the established parties to bleed support from each other. I mean Tommy is getting allworked up over the idea that some of his radical centrist buddies might get to be a tool for either the Dems or GOP to steal votes from the other. Yayyys!

Thirdly, I fucked his mother. She is fat.

Fourthly, for a guy that travels so fucken much – you’d think he’d have a better idea about third party politics and exactly how much they hurt established political parties in systems with ,b>first past the fucken post.

Fifthly, wotta fucken douchebag. He HAS his fucken radical centrist extreme moderate party. One that bends over fucken backwards in order to get the right balance of left and right. It’s the fucking Democrats. Radical leftists agenda my ass. A fucking super-majority in the Senate and House, a massively popular preznit, coming off of the most disastrous bullshit Dark Times EVAR which did oh so much to build the GOP brand – we have this wishy-washy middle of the road centrist legislation. It’s radically centrist. It’s extremely moderate.

SRSLY, whuit type of legislation is his magical-pony-party going to come up with? A massive stimulus bill to turn the economy around that is fill to the gills with tax cuts? Expanded health care for the troubled by shelling out huge buckets of money to corporate interests? Sounds like a fucken “centrist” agenda to me.

So Tommy, all your reasons for raging against the machine? They are exactly the things you’d get out of what you want to replace it with.

P.S. Tell your mom I said Hi.

Fucker has been phoning it in for years, but the goddamn media still keeps paying the charges.

Thank you for sharing this. It will be put to further good use soon.

Fuck You WordPress. I did too tag that right. Fuck.

corporate tax reductions to stimulate jobs, without worrying about offending the far left;

Kind of hard to offend something that doesn’t exist.

And corporate tax reductions to stimulate jobs don’t offend people for aesthetic reasons, or because they weren’t mentioned in Das Kapital. They offend people because our “stimulus” policy for the last thirty years has been exactly that, and hasn’t ever come close to actually doing what it was supposed to do.

So please, save that bit of “centrist” wisdom.

you and I would be satisfied with $25 million

Costs me $20 mil/yr. to maintain the yacht. HOW AM I LIVE ON $5 MILLION/YR.? YOU PEOPLE ARE INHUMAN1!1

1) The Democrats just fold completely and let the Republicans do whatever they want forever, like Grover Norquist though they should do.

Exactly what we did during the lead-up to the Iraq war, which was still a hugely polarizing period, because the Republicans chose to use the war as a hammer with which to attack Democrats for holding antiwar positions which they didn’t actually hold. Their type of politics only works with scapegoats. Simply conceding isn’t going to stop them.

Continue the joke.

2) The Republicans splinter into two warring factions (the social conservatives and the Randites), which allows the Democrats to splinter into two warring factions (the genuine liberals and the bought-and-paid-for corporatists) and the US limps along with four parties and case-by-case coalition building in Congress.

One day, social conservatives will realize that they’ve completely been had. They’ll spit out their pacifier and furiously rail against the Objectivist wing of the party that’s been stringing them along since the Reagan years. But it is not this day. It won’t be for decades and possibly over a century.

I’m a lot more interested in the possibility of populists finally taking the Democratic Party back from the corporatists. That’s what W. J. Bryan did in 1896 and it got the ball rolling that eventually led to the New Deal. But this, too, doesn’t seem likely right now.

Continue the joke.

3) The Senate supermajority requirement is abolished or the Senate is reformed to something like proportional representation, so shit can get done if a majority of the population wants it done.

Fat chance of the supermajority requirement being abolished. And partly, that’s because we think we’ll need it the next time a Republican congress wants to try and privatize Medicare/Social Security like in 1995 and 2005. Both of us are afraid of losing our weapon of last resort.

Praise Jesus on the Senate being reformed or weakened (most other democracies make their lower houses stronger because they’re, y’know, democracies). I’d also throw in the complete abolition of the electoral college. Too bad neither of them’s got a prayer of happening.

I’m a lot more interested in the possibility of populists finally taking the Democratic Party back from the corporatists.

It may not be the time right now but…I can see where a Labor party, by that or another name, organized around the basic ideal that work – labor – is at least as important to wealth creation as capital is, if not moreso, might resonate. I think that’s an idea that a lot of people would grasp and agree with. And if you look at things, that’s the heart of what’s gone wrong here – we’ve become a society that undervalues work and overvalues wealth.

I wouldn’t see such a movement becoming a major third party in perpetual competition with the existing parties or supplanting a current party, but it would likely be subsumed by the Democrats and in doing so help pull them back towards the left a bit.

First!

And it turns out the world isn’t flat. It’s an oblate spheroid. Who’da thunk it?

I’m not sure how this new discovery impacts our previous scientific thinking on where the roots of Yggdrasil grow into Midgard, or the exact location of Jörmungandr, but I’m sure they’ll figure it out soon enough.

Methinks Friedman’s commentary is not just fluous, it’s SUPER-fluous.

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I’m not sure how this new discovery impacts our previous scientific thinking on where the roots of Yggdrasil grow into Midgard, or the exact location of Jörmungandr, but I’m sure they’ll figure it out soon enough.

I have it on good authority that it’s turtles all the way down.

Second!

“I have it on good authority that it’s turtles all the way down.”

Turtles are the string theory of cosmology. I’d like to hear Turtle-proponents explain the clear evidence in support of the existence of the Æsir.

I mean, hello people, *thunder*? Where else could that come from other than a big hairy guy hitting giants with a hammer?

But we’re mere ants compared to the brilliance that is Thomas Friedman.

Well, you choose to bow to coherence and reality, so you’ll never reach his Empyrean… uh… Empyrea…

It may not be the time right now but…I can see where a Labor party, by that or another name, organized around the basic ideal that work – labor – is at least as important to wealth creation as capital is, if not moreso, might resonate. I think that’s an idea that a lot of people would grasp and agree with. And if you look at things, that’s the heart of what’s gone wrong here – we’ve become a society that undervalues work and overvalues wealth.

I wouldn’t see such a movement becoming a major third party in perpetual competition with the existing parties or supplanting a current party, but it would likely be subsumed by the Democrats and in doing so help pull them back towards the left a bit.

Here in New York, we have the working families party, which usually ends up endorsing a good, liberal Democratic candidate.

Hey, yesterday was one of those days I left the house at 7:45 AM and didn’t get home until about 1:30 AM today… I had to go to work today, and I only heard one small, non-informative bit on the local “All News, except when the Yankees are playing” station. Was there any serious coverage of the march in D.C.?

Wait, what? He wants an extreme centrist candidate running for president? I thought we already had one of those in office!

I have it on good authority that it’s turtles all the w–

*THWUCK*

ODIN!

Is it any wonder that he and Dr. Phil look EXACTLY ALIKE OMG THEY’VE NEVER BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED IN FLAGRANTE DELICTUS BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY DON’T EXIST

It’s so hard to do the stuff that’s … well … not really that hard …. but mommy.

I want to join the Sleepytime Tea Party, the party that’s run by bears in pajamas and sleeping caps.

Sleepytime Tea Party, the party that’s run by bears in pajamas and sleeping caps.

THAT’S NO BEAR, IT”S A MAMA GRIZZLY!!

Was there any serious coverage of the march in D.C.?

Of course not, silly. Super-Sarah wasn’t there. It was just a bunch of hippies.

Amazingly, nobody seems to have taken any aerial photos. The nearest thing is one shot from the top of the Washington Monument sometime around noon, well before most people were there. You can imagine what the wingers are saying about that.

I don’t think there were necessarily more people than the teatard rally, though there are claims. They’re hardly comparable. The DFHs didn’t have a major network spewing free advertising for months ahead of time, and really only had a month to put the whole thing together. All things considered, it was pretty huge.

So, yeah. There were a few small articles, saying it had little or no real importance. Contrast the coverage of the similarly sized wingnut rally, which got enormous amounts of press claiming a watershed moment. Feh.

Ah, the liberal media.

No flights allowed, esp. over the White House, Capitol, Mall, etc., I think.

…that this is the super same shit Tom was offering six months ago,…

…And if the world had put me in charge then I wouldn’t have to tell the world to put me in charge now, again.

I’ve always wondered the Liberal Media would be like, if there was one.

No flights allowed, esp. over the White House, Capitol, Mall, etc., I think.

I believe there are companies that are allowed to fly either close enough or high enough somewhere near so as to take crowd estimate shots. Major media outlets have been known to commission said shots, when they think counting is vaguely important. Someone mentioned the name of one in a thread I was reading (and can’t find now) and said they hadn’t released anything. Ah well.

Amazingly, nobody seems to have taken any aerial photos. The nearest thing is one shot from the top of the Washington Monument sometime around noon, well before most people were there. You can imagine what the wingers are saying about that.

This http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/liberal-media-concludes-size-doesnt-matter/

“Liberal media” indeed. I live in DC and I didn’t even know it was happening until after it was over.

I’ve always wondered the Liberal Media would be like, if there was one.

Indeed. Might they actually refuse to sell wars? Might they actually fact-check conservative claims during health care debates? Be an interesting America if they did.

Oh yes,

Wait, what? He wants an extreme centrist candidate running for president? I thought we already had one of those in office!

He’s not centrist enough, damn it!

“Radical centre” is a super oxymoron. Super.

“Radical centre” is a super oxymoron. Super.

So’s “liberal fascist.” And “Islamo Marxist.” Welcome to the intellectual desert that is American politics.

No flights allowed, esp. over the White House, Capitol, Mall, etc., I think.

NOW you tell me, after I’ve gassed up the jetpack.

Rand Paul is a gLibertarian moron:

Q: You said at the very beginning, the first issue you mention was the national debt. If you’re so concerned about the national debt, how are you going to pay for a $4 trillion loss of revenue from the tax cuts.

PAUL: I think, first of all you look at whose money it is. It’s the people’s money, who earned the money; we give up some to pay taxes, so I’m not seeing it as a cost to government.

We need to … start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now.

Friedman puts my liberal valley girl persona to shame.

Friedman puts my liberal valley girl persona to shame.

He should start answering emails with “Like, DUHHHH!”.

Who knows? he may be doing it anyway.

Radical.

How’s this as a first sentence?

While carrying water on the latest — and longstanding — talking point: Fox News evil, vast right wing conspiracy, blah blah blah, Krugman has a jaw-droppingly idiotic first sentence.

Yea, Friedman?

Well, what if I told you I wanted a superDUPERconsensus on the next war, huh? Eh? Whaddya think about that, son?

I would like to name it the palindrunk.

Teh Win is strong with this one.

Photoshop candidates.

We need to … start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now.

Can’t fool me…won’t get fooled again. That’s W.

Shorter Doughbob: Anything I don’t understand must be idiotic. Because I don’t understand it.

WHY does he have a regular writing gig, and Noam Chomsky write for charity?

I mean, we know why. I mean why in more of a “screaming from rooftops so loudly that pigeons scatter and soar into the clouds” kind of why.

WHY does he have a regular writing gig, and Noam Chomsky write for charity?

Because Noam Chomsky is a bigot who only surrounds himself with his own kind, while Friedman writes for Jews.

WordPress reminds me of System 6.

Friedman is a visionary. His concept of a 3rd party Radical Center is a brilliant idea that would be made up of people committed to the ideals of violent peace, inclusive racism, gender equality based on whether you’re a man or woman, communal individualism, regulated free markets, and massive new manufacturing and industrial concerns whose furnaces and smelters run around the clock in order to reduce pollution and carbon emissions. He deserves the Nobel Prize for Pulitzer Writing.

Oh sure, you post THAT.

FYWP with a humorless dildo.

Thomas Friedman wrote WordPress.

WordPress reminds me of System 6 Windoze Vista.

FIXED!

How’s this as a first sentence?

That I recognized the Trouserload right away worries me.

We need to … start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now

This is often how dishes and laundry get done.

We need to … start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now

This is often how dishes and laundry get done.

So wifey assigns them to you and you consent?

WordPress reminds me of System 6 Windoze Vista.

And Tom Friedman is Microsoft Bob.

And Tom Friedman is Microsoft Bob.

I suspect he writes his columns with the help of Clippy:

“I see you’re committing intellectual suicide. Would you like help? ¹ Get help with your column ² Just type the column without help ³ Don’t show me this tip again”

And Tom Friedman is Microsoft Bob.

He’s not as cute or useful.

So wifey assigns them to you and you consent?

I have no wife. When I no longer consent to the crushing Superstench of Superbachelorism, I decide to put down the Xbox controller and actually clean something.

I decide to put down the Xbox controller and actually clean something.

Wait a minute–this smacks of extremism. What have I done?

When I no longer consent to the crushing Superstench of Superbachelorism, I decide to put down the Xbox controller and actually clean something.

So it’s by conscentsus?

I anxiously await the day that the rest of us citizens rise to the level of intelligence, objectivity and dispassion that Tom Friedman expects of us.

I know I arise every morning saying, “How can I spin a facile, plague-on-both-your-houses approach to politics into true governance worthy of The Mustache?”

You may ask yourself “My God, what have I cleaned?”

I know I arise every morning saying, “How can I spin a facile, plague-on-both-your-houses approach to politics into true governance worthy of The Mustache?”

And then you smugly fart and realize MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

So it’s by conscentsus?

SuperConscentsus, yes.

You may ask yourself “My God, what have I cleaned?”

“And the days go by…”

“And the days go by…”

Fucking Talking Heads….How do I work this?

“How can I spin a facile, plague-on-both-your-houses approach to politics into true governance worthy of The Mustache?”

Ya know, being too lazy to actually intellectually engage with the issues and just condemning both parties is a gateway to teabaggery. Tom is just one hard night of luggage bearing away from calling for the extermination of the federal government.

Fucking Talking Heads….How do I work this?

You have to give to get.

Fucking Talking Heads….How do I work this?

You have to give to get.

It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full.

“… the guests have gone home leaving me and my bourbon all to ourselves”

I call BS. Guests that leave when there is still booze in the house? Yah, right, sure.

“How do I work this?”

You have make him stay up all night.

Guests that leave when there is still booze in the house? Yah, right, sure.

It can happen if you’ve hidden it well enough.

“How do I work this?”

You have make him stay up all night.

And she was!

I call BS. Guests that leave when there is still booze in the house?

This is why I drink bourbon. None of the folks I’m normally around touch the stuff – it tastes too much of vomit for their tastes, despite my exhortations of “feature not a bug”.

This is why I drink bourbon. None of the folks I’m normally around touch the stuff

You have a point: People drink bourbon usually when there’s no paint thinner around.

And then you smugly fart

How does one do this? Wait a minute. I don’t want to know.

I drink bourbon too. The most fun I have is watching a beer drinker put on his tough-guy panties and drink it out of the glass. They don’t seem to have any concept of pacing themselves.

How does one do this? Wait a minute. I don’t want to know.

It’s a guy thing. You wouldn’t understand.

The most fun I have is watching a beer drinker put on his tough-guy panties and drink it out of the glass.

You mean you don’t warn them that the brown paper bag filters out impurities?

Bourbon is delicious. That is all.

Bourbon is delicious.

So bourbon loses its leaves in the Fall?

So bourbon loses its leaves in the Fall?

I thought she meant it was the main ingredient in Arnie’s Whole Beef Halves.

Because I am bored I am posting a link to some pictures I took at the local “hey it’s fall, we should really get a last big ride and party in” ride on Sunday. See if you can spot the 77south.
http://picasaweb.google.com/114503925468560982057/Fall2010SlimeyCrudRun

Bourbon is delicious.

So bourbon loses its leaves in the Fall?

Decidedly.

“How do I work this?”

And she was!

That’s life during wartime for you.

See if you can spot the 77south.

You can’t fool me! You weren’t there! Not one of those bikes has training wheels.

See if you can spot the 77south.

What a shame – would be a nice bike if it was the right color.

See if you can spot the 77south.

I don’t see any training wheels, so I’m guessing it’s a trick question.

“How do I work this?”

That’s life during wartime for you.

Once in a lifetime, I hope.

So what’s the deal with “la moustache”? How can the word for moustache be a feminine noun? No wonder those French are such losers.

“We predict the arrival of Tom’s Party (TP) in about one Friedman Unit (FU). ”

That’s an uncomfortably long time. Perhaps he needs more fiber in his diet.

How can the word for moustache be a feminine noun?

Same way “little girl” is a masculine noun in German.

Further proof of the hell that is socialist Old Europe!

What a shame – would be a nice bike if it was the right color.
to which bike were you referring? what color should it have been?

How can the word for moustache be a feminine noun?

Because in France, the women are hairy.

Which one of you posed as Larry Kudlow and wrote this? – jas

Shorter Bill McNeal Larry Kudlow: if our enemies think we are gay, they will attack us.

“Perfidious Albion balances its budget on the backs of the rich.

AW, CRAP.

Link

Because in France, the women are hairy.

Many people Mata Hari woman in France.

Sasquatch is Birobidjan

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev made an unprecedented visit this summer, the first ever of a Russian (or Soviet) leader and pointed out the strong Russian state support it has as a Jewish homeland where Yiddish, the secular language of European Jews (not sacred Hebrew), is the state language.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Turkey-and-Russia-Cleaning-up-the-mess-in-the-Mid.html

How’s this as a first sentence?

While carrying water on the latest — and longstanding — talking point: Fox News evil, vast right wing conspiracy, blah blah blah, Krugman has a jaw-droppingly idiotic first sentence.

Credit where it’s due, Jonah KNOWS jaw-droppingly idiotic.

How can the word for moustache be a feminine noun?

Hell, the word for “cock” (queue—literally, “line” or “tail”) is feminine. Gender designations for French nouns never make sense.

And then you smugly fart

You do it under a comfortable reverse robe.

No, wait, that’s a Snuggli fart.

that’s a Snuggli fart.

The reality-show Oompa-Loompa?

Hell, the word for “cock” (queue—literally, “line” or “tail”) is feminine. Gender designations for French nouns never make sense.

La PENIS

“Superconcensus” my eye. What he REALLY gets a chub on for is supertechnocracy. Micromanagement of global economic & social behavior isn’t just kewl … it’s SUPERLICIOUS.

“Don’t fret, citizen – the chip-implants & retinal monitors are for your own good!”

So many wingnuts lose their shit with joy over the idea of creating a nerdgasmically high-tech fascist dystopia IRL … yet so few of them would actually have a hope in hell of lasting a week in it alive.

Thomas Friedman is the sleepy village old used-up brain-cells move to when they’re ready to die.

Because in France, the women are hairy.

That is so hot.

What’s wrong with that? I frequently talk with the Ho to get a supperconcensus. I wish he had more liking for salmon but hey, we manage to work things out.

A fire department goes Galt.

Perfidious Albion balances its budget on the backs of the rich.

Fucking Socialism…how does it work?

I anxiously await the day that the rest of us citizens rise to the level of intelligence, objectivity and dispassion that Tom Friedman expects of us.

Captain, I detect high levels of the soft bigotry of low expectations in this sector.

A fire department goes Galt.

I read about that this morning. Guy doesn’t pay his $75 annual fee. FD shows up at his burning house, and stands around because he didn’t pay the fee. The guy promises to reimburse the town for the cost of fighting the fire (much much more than the fee). FD still stands around.

House burns to the ground. Neighbor’s house catches fire. If the FD had put out the fucking original fire, the neighbor’s house would never have caught fire.

I smell a lawsuit.

Gender designations for French nouns never make sense.

The default position I take is, unless it has balls and scratches them, the object is feminine.

I wish he had more liking for salmon but hey, we manage to work things out.

Salmon day, you’ll get your wish.

high levels of the soft bigotry of low expectations

VPR, VVR, and VSR

People should all see the sense in the super conservatives’ policies. Or more simply put, people just need to come to their Super Con Senses!

Salmon day, you’ll get your wish.
Perhaps on salmon chanted evening?

Salmon day, you’ll get your wish.
Perhaps on salmon chanted evening?

What the hake, he might get lucky.

What the hake, he might get lucky.
I hear he likes it roughy

What the hake, he might get lucky.
I hear he likes it roughy

And that he’s eels-y

And that he’s eels-y
When he’s feeling a-moray-us, yes.

I smell a lawsuit.

God, I hope so. Don’t fire departments have a legal “duty to act?”

And that he’s eels-y
When he’s feeling a-moray-us, yes.

You didn’t hear that from me, tho. I don’t want to be accused of telling tales out of school.

Not THIS again! When it comes to punning I’m totally crappie.

Don’t fire departments have a legal “duty to act?”

Y’know, you’d think…

Not THIS again! When it comes to punning I’m totally crappie.

No need to go on whaling about it. We’ll stop soon enough.

While carrying water on the latest — and longstanding — talking point

Wow, fuckin’ metaphysical dude. What is the newest is also the oldest. The way up is the way down, man. What if like, every bit of cheeto dust caked around my lying-ass face was its own universe, and inside that universe, there is an even smaller version of me eating chee-toes and thinking about a cheeto-dust universe’s cheeto-dust? It’s Jonah Goldberg as Chow Spew, Lao Tzu’s wingnutty brother-in-law:

The Talking Point that can be talked is not the immortal Talking Point.
The supreme Talking Point is like carrying water;
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Fart.

Same way “little girl” is a masculine noun in German.

“Mädchen” is neuter. “Fräulein”, too. Pretty much anything ending in “-chen” or “-lein”, for that matter.

While carrying water on the latest — and longstanding — talking point

Goldberg speaks
Endlessly on
Excellent turds

“Mädchen” is neuter. “Fräulein”, too. Pretty much anything ending in “-chen” or “-lein”, for that matter.

Shows how long it’s been since I’ve re-learned any of my German.

I blame society.

I suspect he writes his columns with the help of Clippy:

“I see you’re committing intellectual suicide. Would you like help? ¹ Get help with your column ² Just type the column without help ³ Don’t show me this tip again”

I laughed until I nearly choked… Of course, I’ll hate you for at least a week for reminding me of Clippy.

“You didn’t hear that from me, tho. I don’t want to be accused of telling tales out of school.”

I think he was just trolling.

I’ve gassed up the jetpack.
I see we’re back at phrases for masturbation.

Except, maybe, that this is the super same shit Tom was offering six months ago, as noted by this very same crappy blog. To wit:

I’ve seen this before.

I think he was just trolling.

And gettign nothing but net.

Superhard, eh? I think that we know what Tom’s been watching lately.

Ya know, being too lazy to actually intellectually engage with the issues and just condemning both parties is a gateway to teabaggery.

And when the Republicans co-opt you, you’re all the way through the gate.

I call BS. Guests that leave when there is still booze in the house?

I never got the call. *sob*

easily manipulated by leftist radicals
Which planet do you live on? Obama has caved to the right wing on every important issue since day one.

easily manipulated by leftist radicals

That’s no way to refer to Mitch McConnell.

Which planet do you live on? Obama has caved to the right wing on every important issue since day one.

They spouted exactly the same B.S. about Clinton as he folded like a cheap camera and giave the Repugs everything they asked for. Just sayin’.

So I’ve been thinking a lot about this website lately and thought I’d come back to see you liberal children are still enchanted by the Cult of Obama…

Gee, I thought it was because you were getting lonely, since you never get out of single digits in comments to any of your posts on your own blog.

Troof-Ass, no one cares what you think or have to say. Even DKW’s mom has you blacklisted, and she’ll fuck ANYthing!

I thought it was because you were getting lonely

Lonely? Why, he always has his faithful lover, Rosy Palms…

Gah!

Troll farts.

The Truth has set Trig FREE!

The Truth has set Trig FREE!

And he wants to SASQUATCH ISREAL!

Did you not get anything you wanted at all?

We got a bunch of racists, idiots, crackers and nativist loons all het up, which is at least fun to watch.

Speaking of farts, peeeeyew, troofie.

You clearly think you should have nominated Hillary deep down inside, huh?

No, he’s still the best president we’ve had in almost 50 years. And I’m sure he accomplished more for the world before breakfast today than you will in your entire miserable, willfully ignorant, crapulent, sister-diddling existence.

Gee, I thought it was because you were getting lonely, since you never get out of single digits in comments to any of your posts on your own blog.

Some of us are okay with relatively few comments. [sob]

So I’ve been thinking a lot

Watch out! You might bruise your think-bone! And then what will you sit on?

Some of us are okay with relatively few comments. [sob]

I told you, dude. You need to post more porn.

Trig likes his thimking time, too.

You need to post more porn.

Buildings are big penises.

From The Truth’s mouth to God’s ear.

I never got the call. *sob*

Lemme know if you’re swinging by LEAFS SUCK. We had pork loin and mixed root vegetables roasted in the oven and mushroom risotto as our starch. Oddly, we also had a vegetarian who hates parsnips so there were veggie burgers and coleslaw on the table as well. Dessert was stinky Camembert, rice crackers and cantaloupe. I’m personally hooked on Masi Modello and will have it even with white meats. Bourbon is in plentiful supply, as are a handful of other spiritous refreshers. But you’ll have to put up with my taste in music.

For Sale; Wingnut brain, never used.

But you’ll have to put up with my taste in music.

I’d rather listen to Vogon poetry.

A fire department goes Galt.

Something similar happened in the suburban village of Rye Brook, New York. The town elders wanted to do some union busting, so they contracted with a private fire-fighting company. Of course, there was no reciprocity agreement with neighboring municipalities, so the neighboring towns didn’t respond to a fire in the village, and a house burned to the ground. The private company was ousted soon afterwards.

The Truth said

Nothing you say is worth any attention at all, proven by your own words and actions. Say hello to my dancing Badgers!

Dance, badgers!! DANCE!!

God I love that troll-killing script.

a vegetarian who hates parsnips

WTF? I would have ejected any parsnip h8ers from the premises.

Some of us are okay with relatively few comments. [sob]

There, there, old shoe… your commentariat is hilarious, and sexy. It’s the quality that counts, not the quantity.

The Truth said

You bookmarked it.

Nice.

Some of us are okay with relatively few comments. [sob]

Thanks N__B for volunteering to be ahead of me for teh Zardoz-ing.

You bookmarked it.

Hey, you can call us many things, but liars we are not.

You clearly think you should have nominated Hillary deep down inside, huh?

That’s hot.

No, we got a health care bill which you strenuously predicted, bookmarks and all, that we would never get. “Go down in flames,” I believe was your prediction. “Finally, mercifully dead,” also.

That alone made my vote worth it.

Well. That and the other bookmark, the one that said Pennsylvania and the entire nation would go for McCain…

I suspect he writes his columns with the help of Clippy:

“I see you’re committing intellectual suicide. Would you like help? ¹ Get help with your column ² Just type the column without help ³ Don’t show me this tip again”

WHO said this? It’s criminally funny.

We need to … start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now.

Friedman puts my liberal valley girl persona to shame.

“Its like, oh my god, we need to make mean people totally Suck. on. This!”

That and the other bookmark, the one that said Pennsylvania and the entire nation would go for McCain…

Troofie’s sort of like the troll version of Bill Kristol: never right, but in his mind, never wrong.

Look forward to hearing your responses.

You can…hear…them?

WHO said this? It’s criminally funny.

While it’s original with me, I owe a deep deep debt of gratitude to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me for the inspiration.

Troofie’s sort of like the troll version of Bill Kristol:

Yeah, he’s like BiLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL KristoLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I have to say, that’s the first time, indeed the only time, I’ve ever seen a nervous breakdown happen in real-time, and end up documented for aLLLLLLLLLLLLL to see.

A fire department goes Galt.

Actually, it’s the people who’s home burned down that went Gault. The fire department in question services the city of South Fulton and is funded by taxes paid by the residents of South Fulton. The department offers their services to the surrounding rural areas, which otherwise have no fire service, as a subscription service. The department would have acted if there had been lives at stake.

There it is!

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/29353.html

I don’t know how to link to a comment, but it’s about halfway down the page and goes like this;

Bookmark it as many times as you want: either Pelosi will cancel the vote, or it will go down in flames, live on C-SPAN.

And then ObambiCare will be finally, mercifully dead. Much like Rasputin it has taken a long time and a lot of effort to finally kill, but we’re 99% there. Just takes nine votes to block it, liberals: nine votes.

Rasputin sends his greetings, Troofus. He’s sorry to disappoint you, but it turns out rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.

While it’s original with me, I owe a deep deep debt of gratitude to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me for the inspiration.

Well, it’s fucking hilarious. *guffaw*

Thanks N__B for volunteering to be ahead of me for teh Zardoz-ing.

If ZRM would update the link on his damned blog, I could live with a few Zardozes.

Well, it’s fucking hilarious. *guffaw*

Thank you, I live to service my clientele with humour. :-/

Rasputin sends his greetings, Troofus. He’s sorry to disappoint you, but it turns out rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.

Just ask Hellboy.

Troofie’s sort of like the troll version personification of Bill Kristol the conservative voter base: never right, but in his mind, never wrong.

Fixed.

The department would have acted if there had been lives at stake.

If I were the paying owner of the house next door that was damaged because the fire-fighters stood there and did nothing, I’d have a difficult time accepting that logic.

I don’t know how to link to a comment

It’s that little time stamp thingy which apparently gives the time in Germany.

Willy said,

October 4, 2010 at 20:56

The Truth said

Nothing you say is worth any attention at all, proven by your own words and actions. Say hello to my dancing Badgers!

What really makes it full of win is the “by, fuckers” in the end. All this serious
goodbye post ending in a typo.

I know I shouldn’t laugh too much, my english is far from perfect, and I make stupid typos just like everyone else (Not on protest signs though).

But What can I say. Laugh at troofie, and the whole world will laugh with you

If I were the paying owner of the house next door that was damaged because the fire-fighters stood there and did nothing, I’d have a difficult time accepting that logic.

If you were the paying owner of the house down the street and watched as they put out a fire for someone who never paid you’d have a difficult time accepting that as well. Not to mention the folks in South Fulton who are paying the taxes. Now if you were the paying owner of the house next door, what you should have done was run for a seat on the county government and then worked to establish fire protection for the county.

But it’s metric time or something. Note that the minutes don’t match.

If you were the paying owner of the house down the street and watched as they put out a fire for someone who never paid you’d have a difficult time accepting that as well.

This is true, plus, it’s a firefighting, not fire prevention, outfit, so you couldn’t even ask them to hose your house down when the sparks started to fly.

Which is pretty fucking stupid, if you ask me. Not that you did, of course.

He’s sorry to disappoint you, but it turns out rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.

Oh, yeah, Rasputin lived well into the 70s and was known to frequent discos.

If ZRM would update the link on his damned blog,

Sheesh. Like my blog sends any serious traffic.

UPDATED ALREADY!

You bookmarked it.

Gigs of space on this here hard drive. I drop bookmarks like Hansel and Gretel dropped bread crumbs.

Besides, it wasn’t hard to figure out that that particular set of words out of Troofie were going to be useful in the future.

Like my blog sends any serious traffic.

It does. It just shambles slowly.

Besides, it wasn’t hard to figure out that that particular set of words out of Troofie were going to be useful in the future.

You know, they’d only be useful if he actually had any… what’s the word? Oh- honor.

If you were the paying owner of the house down the street and watched as they put out a fire for someone who never paid you’d have a difficult time accepting that as well.

No, I wouldn’t. Who the fuck would get pissed off about a $75 annual fee while his neighbour’s house burned to the ground?

This is true, plus, it’s a firefighting, not fire prevention, outfit, so you couldn’t even ask them to hose your house down when the sparks started to fly.

Though the video of them ignoring the burning house and spraying the unburnt one would have been awesome!

“UR DOING IT RONG”

Who the fuck would get pissed off about a $75 annual fee while his neighbour’s house burned to the ground?

Every conservative everywhere.

No, I wouldn’t. Who the fuck would get pissed off about a $75 annual fee while his neighbour’s house burned to the ground?

Call me liberal, but I tend to agree with this.

Who the fuck would get pissed off about a $75 annual fee while his neighbour’s house burned to the ground?

The same fucking teabagger who is pissed off about the existence of minimum wage laws, the same fucking teabagger who is pissed off about indigent people getting food stamps and other welfare benefits.

I guess the thinking is a long the lines
“if we allow people to pay after the fire has started, why would they pay in advance? They could instead wait until a fire starts, and pay then.”

Any comments about paying extra on during fire would be countered by budget handling issues: If no-one paid in advance years, where do you get the money to maintain the fire department and equipment during times when there is no fires. And if you can’t maintain them, how do you get them when there is a fire, even if the person is willing to pay extra for it?

It is sort of understandable and reasonable, with it’s own twisted logic.
But a good idea, but it has logic. Reasonable idea would be to tax people and use the tax money to pay for the fire department, but that would be socialism.

Had I been the neighbour, I would have called the fire department to see if they could come and prevent the fire from spreading to my house (that was covered), even if they didn’t put out the fire on the first house.

I wonder how much money one could make with private fire department, which only offered “after accident coverage” at high price.

Though the video of them ignoring the burning house and spraying the unburnt one would have been awesome!

“UR DOING IT RONG”

*waterspit*

You know, Mysticdog and Chris, you two are really burning my biscuit, you with your quick, lightsome fingers.

Mysticdog said,

The same fucking teabagger who is pissed off about the existence of minimum wage laws, the same fucking teabagger who is pissed off about indigent people getting food stamps and other welfare benefits.

There’s a theme here…I can’t quite put my finger on it…

It is sort of understandable and reasonable, with it’s own twisted logic.

To a degree, but as with insurance of any kind, a significant percentage of people, likely a majority, would pay $75 a year for peace of mind, regardless of the rolling the dice mentality a few neighbors would have. That should be sufficient to fund a fire department.

I wonder how much money one could make with private fire department, which only offered “after accident coverage” at high price.

Personally, I’d like to run the privatized “fire guarantee service”

“It’s a nice house you got here…sure would be a shame if somehow it burnt to the ground in the middle of a hurricane or somethin’….”

I wonder how much money one could make with private fire department, which only offered “after accident coverage” at high price.
Enough to become emperor of Rome. Seriously. Crassus, who was Julius Caesar’s patron, was one of the wealthiest men in Rome for precisely this reason. Later, he became jealous of Caesar’s military successes and took an army off to Syria, where he was killed.

Oh wait, I found my answer – here’s Douchebag Loadpants himself.

Anyways, I can’t believe I’m arguing against shit GETTING BURNED TO THE GROUND. What a strange world this is.

There’s a theme here…I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Is it … the sense of entitlement so thick you can cut it with a knife married to a whiny little bitch-like attitude that they should never have to pay for anything ever?

Here’s the more important part of the story, letting the house burn — while, I admit sad — will probably save more houses over the long haul. I know that if I opted out of the program before, I would be more likely to opt-in now.

Right, because every twenty-something who has had a friend die of cancer or some tragic disease has run right to their employer and signed up for health insurance, which is why our private healthcare system has the highest participation rate in the western hemisphere…

What a maroon!

I’d say put the fire out and worry about who paid the $75.00 later. I’m inclined to think that the insurance company might have an issue with the owners not paying the annual fee.

77south said,

October 4, 2010 at 21:43

I wonder how much money one could make with private fire department, which only offered “after accident coverage” at high price.
Enough to become emperor of Rome. Seriously. Crassus, who was Julius Caesar’s patron, was one of the wealthiest men in Rome for precisely this reason. Later, he became jealous of Caesar’s military successes and took an army off to Syria, where he was killed.

I knew about some Roman doing this, didn’t know who.

So made a forture from the other peoples misery, idolized war, and only managed to get himself killed in pusruit of military success.

Sounds like a wingnut, except they seem to have less balls to try the whole military success part.

Later, he became jealous of Caesar’s military successes and took an army off to Syria, where he was killed.

Not just killed… captured by the Pathians (Iranians) who, the story has it, poured molten gold down his throat in order to stuff him with what he was so greedy for (apparently pillaging was popular among Roman troops).

I just had to add that gruesome little detail. I just read Krugman’s “Roman Projections” post and am going through the comments right now, so it’s a Rome themed day I guess.

I just had to add that gruesome little detail. I just read Krugman’s “Roman Projections” post and am going through the comments right now, so it’s a Rome themed day I guess.

There was a really great show on either History or History International drawing parallels between modern-day America and the collapse of both the Roman and Mayan empires.

The note to take away? When wealth becomes so concentrated that the ostensible middle class begins to disappear, society is doomed.

When wealth becomes so concentrated that the ostensible middle class begins to disappear, society is doomed.

WRONG! Its when teh gays get married!!!!

Bookmark it, lib’s!

“Roman Projections”

I gotcher Roman fuckin’ Projection right here

I think anyone who tries to compare modern anything to the fall of Rome should immediately be beaten over the head with a copy of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

Or forced to read it, whichever is more painful.

Interesting if not especially surprising conclusion. I’m seeing a bunch of different theories being proposed as to why Rome fell (or didn’t).

One that strikes pretty close to home; it’s a well-known fact that towards the end, the Romans increasingly hired barbarian kings to fight in the name of Rome instead of using their own soldiers. As one poster puts it, “the Roman Empire outsourced itself to death.”

In the modern world, our barbarian mercs are the PMCs. And if my guess is right, they’re going to take center stage in future wars.

So made a forture from the other peoples misery, idolized war, and only managed to get himself killed in pusruit of military success.
To be fair, he also put down the slave revolt let by Spartacus and lined the Appian Way with 6000 crucified corpses for miles. He also seized the estates and fortunes of his political enemies.

I think anyone who tries to compare modern anything to the fall of Rome should immediately be beaten over the head with a copy of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

Or forced to read it, whichever is more painful.

I’ve done both.

Hey, the guy tried to mug me in the history section! It’s not like I had far to walk!

When wealth becomes so concentrated that the ostensible middle class begins to disappear, society is doomed.

I am so tired of hearing about the middle class. What’s so special about those guys? They are hardly any better than the lower class; worse if you consider how uppity they get when you need to cut their wages to finish tiling the guest pool.

I am so tired of hearing about the middle class. What’s so special about those guys?

Dude!

Who do you think pays the taxes that keep the higways paved for my limos?????

Not just killed… captured by the Pathians (Iranians) who, the story has it, poured molten gold down his throat in order to stuff him with what he was so greedy for

Dare I say it…?

Dare I say it…?
Poetic justice aside, no one here is advocating the murder of Bill Donohue, or any of the peophile priests for whom he carries water by drowning them in the byproduct of a thousand teenage boys’ wet dreams.

Haven’t read the books about Rome, but my (admittedly simplistic) explanation is this; empires fall because they become arrogant. They get high on their success, rest on their laurels, fail to adapt, fail to believe that the good times could ever possibly end, and in so doing, set themselves up to be destroyed.

My model is China vs. Japan in the nineteenth century. The Chinese empire collapsed; the Japanese one prospered and thrived until it could only be put down by military force. Why? Because the Japanese had enough sense to see the new world as it was and adapt to it. They adopted Western science, technology, economics and military know-how shamelessly; they didn’t sit around asking themselves, “Is this really Japanese?” “Is this what the founding emperors would have wanted?” or “Is Emperor Meiji a secret Christian?”

The Chinese, OTOH, saw only foreign devilry, shut their borders, stuck their fingers in their ears and hummed loudly… until the foreign devils tore their borders open again. The isolation policy cost them dearly; even today China is still significantly behind Europe, North America, Japan and even the smaller Asian powers like South Korea or Taiwan (though they’re catching up).

If we’re doing historical analogy, American conservatives, who promote a navel-gazing, self-congratulatory, insular nationalism, are our version of the Chinese emperors. They refuse to adapt to the world, refuse to learn the lessons of more successful economic and social models (like Germany), and refuse to believe that America could ever possibly end, and ignore pressing concerns in favor of phony issues like socialist conspiracies.

Meanwhile, every other major power in the world is learning, adapting and growing.

Hey, CEOs!

We have a special taste-treat for you here… just close your eyes and open your mouths…

We have a special taste-treat for you here… just close your eyes and open your mouths…

We’ve secretly replaced their Cristal with molten gold. Let’s see if they can tell the difference…

Well, this is depressing!

any of the peophile priests for whom he carries water

Sure that’s water?

My favorite Roman molten-metal story (probably apocryphal) concerns one of the Gracchi brothers (I believe it was TIberius). Because he was a plebe-lovin’ librul reformer, a bounty was put on him- the patricians would pay the head’s weight in gold to anyone who brought it to them. Old Gracchus fell on his sword, and the enterprising capitalist (hee hee hee) who found his head cut a hole in it, and filled it full of lead in order to boost the payout.

They sure had a lot of molten metal just layin’ around Rome, didn’t they?

All aboard the FAILboat!

They sure had a lot of molten metal just layin’ around Rome, didn’t they?
They used lead like we use plastic. They used it mostly for plumbing but also for makeup, and my favorite: On food as an artificial sweetener in the form of Lead acetate.

Our country which should be a Great Progressive Socialist Paradise by now, is still in the dark ages and has been since that eeeveeel white supremacist thug George Washington assumed ascended to the throne and assumed dictatorial powers after ruthlessly murdering the culturally advanced Indians.

And it is all the fault of the theists and their reactionary beliefs. I mean, come on now, we live in the 21st century. The Great Charles Darwin proved that God doesn’t exist way back in Progressive Golden Age of the 1960s. God didn’t create the universe, everyone knows that something has to come out of nothing. It happens all the time. I saw it happen this morining when a magical green leprechaun appeared before my eyes and started dancing to the Beatles Yellow Submarine.

Granted I was totally stoned when this happened but everyone knows that drugs like totally increase your perception of the world around you. So anyway, if it was for those totally evil theists with their mass murdering facistnaziamishbaptistbarbarianhordes then America would be a socialist paradise just like North Korea.

Theists hmf

Who the fuck would get pissed off about a $75 annual fee while his neighbour’s house burned to the ground?

Probably not all that many people, but when next years bill comes around how many people will send in the money? Yes DKW, I know you would, but the $225 from you and the two other reasonable people in the county isn’t going to cover expenses. I’m not saying it’s not a fucked up system, I’m just saying that you shouldn’t be jumping all over the city fire department because the folks in the county can’t get their self-government act together.

Our country which should be a Great Progressive Socialist Paradise by now, is still in the dark ages and has been since that eeeveeel white supremacist thug George Washington assumed ascended to the throne and assumed dictatorial powers after ruthlessly murdering the culturally advanced Indians.

I see someone’s been eating his lead acetate.

I see someone’s been eating his lead acetate.

Tasty in coffee!

I see someone’s been eating his lead acetate.

He who acetates is lost.

In my day, we didn’t pay the firefighting subscription fee. If our house caught fire, we promised to pay the cost of fighting the fire, whatever that would be, and when the fire was put out, we would tell them to go whistle for their money! What are they going to do, start the fire up again? Not come around the next time our house caught fire? What are the odds that my house would catch fire twice within living memory? Well, mine did. And the firefighters were all “you stiffed us last time” an I was all “I paid the firefighting captain, didn’t he give you your shares?” and they were all “um…he’s retired now, we can’t get his side of the story” and I’m all “we’ll resolve all the billing after you put out the fire.” and they were all “um..okay..I guess” and later I’m all “Get it from your mommy, suckers!”.

Lead acetate….non…nom

Face it, something always comes out of nothing. Just ask the Great Political Genius of our time Jon Stewart. He’ll tell you. In fact not only do I not believe that God created the universe, I don’t believe that my house had an arcitect. Cause like I said, we all know that something has to come out of nothing.

I believe what the Great Athiest Thinkers of our time tell me, that life just magically appeared out of nothing. Never mind that everything seems to be so perfectly designed. Thats just the awesome power of the Great Nothingness at work.

Those theists need to stop believing in God and preventing the Great Socialist Paradise that Karl Marx, Joesph Stalin and Kim Jung ll had planned for the world.

Theists hmf

atheist fundamentalist said

Erm… I can’t even tell if this is trolling, fake trolling, or double fake trolling. I’m giving it a 0, and thats only because the knob doesn’t go lower.

“atheist fundamentalist said”

oh, it must be an autorambler.

Evidently lead acetate is what’s for breakfast – especially if you read “Mallard Fillmore” regularly.

oh, it must be an autorambler.

JanusNode Gone Wild!

Theists are the real atheists.

They sure had a lot of molten metal just layin’ around Rome, didn’t they?

The Latin word for lead is the root for the word plumbing, ergo (Latin for rye smut) Joe the Plumber means “Joe who has been exposed to too much lead”. Oddly enough, lead is still used in some “folk pharmacopeia”.

So we’re all supposed to be John Stewart zombies, now? WTF happened to MIcheal Moore?

What – you guys couldn’t have sent me the memo? And how the hell do I know what our new Fearless Leader speaks of when I don’t have cable? Why does being a godless liberal demonaist have to be so friggin’ DIFFICULT?

One last point on the fire department. This is in rural Tennesee, the “big city” of South Fulton has about 2500 people. I’m guessing most folks in the area know one another reasonably well. So if they let someone’s house burn down there’s a good possibility that the owner of the house was the Troofy of the county.

So if they let someone’s house burn down there’s a good possibility that the owner of the house was the Troofy of the county

It’s the opposite of a good old-fashioned barn-raising.

When I think of the troubles I’ve had with Comcast and Sprint billing, the thought of privatized fire departments is extra scary.

“I’m sorry sir, our records show that you let your subscription lapse two years ago”

“You’ve been cashing the checks! I haven’t recieved any cut off notifications!!!”

“Well, I can transfer you over to account disputes if you like.”

“Well, sir, if you can bring in a cancelled check made out to your account number, we will be happy to restore your service at no additional fee…”

“They are IN MY BURNING HOUSE YOU FUCKHEAD…”

“Sir, I am terminating this call…”

Oh, WP ditched the (20 minute wait, 5 minutes recounting everything said to the other customer “service” representitive) line

We have no record of your payment.

FYWP!!!!

And 36 minutes… can I call that a thread kill?

I believe what the Great Athiest Thinkers of our time tell me, that life just magically appeared out of nothing.

And I believe what the Great Religious Thinkers of our time tell me, that God just magically appeared out of nothing.

Never mind that everything seems to be so perfectly designed.

You don’t get out much, do you?

OH GREAT SKY MUFFIN FORGIVE ME FOR USING THE FREE WILL YOU GAVE ME AND DECIDING AGAINST FOLLOWING TO THE LETTER PRINCIPLES THE ANCIENT PALESTINIANS FOLLOWED!

I believe what the Great Athiest Thinkers of our time tell me, that life just magically appeared out of nothing.

You’ve conflated evolution and abiogenesis. To paraphrase an anonymous internet commenter from the other day, I’ll go with the guys in the lab coats who have a damn good record of giving us things like electricity and antibiotics over dressing up every Sunday, to go listen to someone demand that I give him money while he tells me I must apologize for being human.

Know who else wore a lab coat? HIT– oh wait no he didn’t.

Probably not all that many people, but when next years bill comes around how many people will send in the money?

I suspect a helluva lot more than you think – but that’s beside the point.

This is what private fire departments mean – that people’s homes will burn down while firefighters stand around watching and doing nothing. Because that’s the efficiency of the private sector. All hail teh Invisible Hand.

Even in Rural Buttfuck Nowhere, that guy’s home burning down threatened his neighbour’s house. Fires don’t recognize property lines. Fires have a way of spreading. Even if your home doesn’t catch your neighbour’s fire, there’s likely going to be smoke damage. Also, the charred ashes next door probably have an effect on property values.

But that’s all just nonsense and bullshit. A bit of “you help the other guy because it’s better for your own self-interests” argument. But sweet IPU – is there a better example of “you help the other guy because IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO”? The guy’s fucking home was burning. That’s something you wouldn’t wish even on the neighbours you don’t like. Letting the guys house burn down because he didn’t pay his seventy-five bucks? That is fucking sick. Sadistic. Inhumane.

And if your precious system of private market-driven pay-for-spray ownership society assholery requires that it happens – your system is seriously fucked up in its basic fundamental principles. And I don’t mean “seriously fucked up” in the good way.

That said, I am still a huge proponent of BURNING SHIT DOWN.

Great Athiest Thinkers

Athiest: for when Athier just isn’t Athy enough.

Know who else wore a lab coat? HIT– oh wait no he didn’t.

He wore those long Prussian coats, though – almost the same thing, kinda.

And if your precious system of private market-driven pay-for-spray

Market-driven would’ve put the fire out when the guy’s agreeing to pay expenses+ on the spot, or not worry about an agreement and bill or put liens on houses that have used the service but not paid the subscription fee. The fire department is already paying for the fuel and man hours, to refuse to do anything to try to recoup that is not only not capitalistic, but it’s fucking stupid, too.

Hey, CEOs!

We have a special taste-treat for you here… just close your eyes and open your mouths…

I think the colonic irrigation option should be considered.

The Uncaused Cause isn’t special pleading because SHUT UP, he explained.

“When I think of the troubles I’ve had with Comcast and Sprint billing, the thought of privatized fire departments is extra scary.”

AT&T and the cable companies already carry on like the Russian mob as it is…

Hey, CEOs!

I think the colonic irrigation option should be considered.

Stirs up images of the Human Centipede. See, science is useful!

I don’t understand – isn’t insurance just another word for socialism? I thought tea-baggers were all confirmed pay-as-you-go types. This whole “fire protection subscription” thing has me more confused than normal – it sure sounds like a protection racket to me. Seems to me the guy who offered them extra money to put the fire out was just following the conservative code. Are these Tennessee firefighters actually pinko liebrul socialists in disguise? Hey, wait a minute – maybe that’s what “Red State” means!