Citoyens, Aux Tweets!
Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Tintin
Well, yesterday I sent a tweet to Mullah Omar al-Bozell and his butt-boy Timmy Graham suggesting that al-Bozell might want to use my portrait of him in Taliban mullah garb for his picture at Newsbusters Artbusters:
Mullah al-Bozell was too busy dynamiting statues with lady nipples showing to respond personally to my kind suggestion, but that’s what butt boys are for!
Well, that can’t go unanswered, can it?
And, you know, however much I may be offended by Thomas Kinkeade’s dreck or paintings of puppies playing poker, I don’t charge into other people’s houses and take an axe to the stuff they hang on their walls. Just another example of debased liberal values, I suppose.
Oh, and fixed. Also.
Leaving other people alone and not messing with their stuff is totally unAmerican!
Jesus died for somebody’s sins… but not mine.
Psycho art make teh baby jeebus feel all horny?
Jesus Christ died for your sins — including you being totally cool with psycho “art” that makes him porny
…except of course that he didn’t die for sins that include making art you can take a crowbar too, apparently.
Seriously, Timmeh, whatever happened to “turn the other cheek”? Or more pertinent: “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.”
It says nothing about threatening or using a crowbar, Timmeh.
Jesus Christ; a Jew who died for the sins of, among other people, crazy right wingers.
Unfortunately, not the last Jew to die for their sins.
Sadly, Tim old boy, the sins you guys are counting on Jesus’s death-by-torture to deal with no include suborning felonies.
I’m not sure how far down you want to draw your redemption account. Just sayin.
Tom, he probably believes in that old saw about death-bed confessions.
The problem is, you have to be honest and truly repent of your sins. God sort of sees the stuff that goes on beforehand and knows a snake oil salesman when He sees one.
actor212, if that is your real name, you are referencing an effeminate Jesus, not the masculine, sinewy Jesus that forcefully removed the money-changers from the temple, with his bulging biceps, his long, athletic legs, his tight butt………..back in five…………..
the masculine, sinewy Jesus
He spots me on the bench press.
“however much I may be offended by Thomas Kinkeade’s dreck”
Oh, thank god. I spent TWENTY HOURS on that puzzle. I would be pretty sad if you took a crowbar to it.
Unintended Sexual Innuendo?
I swear; everything is either “blow it up” or “ram it down/through” with these guys.
*sigh*
Facebook update from an 18-year-old (no blood relation to me, I might add): “______ sitting in boaring 9 o clock english class!”
sitting in boaring 9 o clock english class
Maybe there’s wild pigs in the class?
Unintended Sexual Innuendo?
Makes me wish I was young enough to enlist.
“______ sitting in boaring 9 o clock english class!”
The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades.
I’m tempted to write “Judging by your Facebook updates, maybe you should pay better attention.”
Oh, btw, this is a college student. (He might be 19?)
T&U, that level of unintended irony makes my spleen hurt…
And as for the art damage, welcome to my neck of the woods. I used to live within walking distance of that gallery.
I’m tempted to write “Judging by your Facebook updates, maybe you should pay better attention.”
Is it worth a) picking the fight or b) distracting him further?
I used to live within walking distance of that gallery.
What is the land speed of a crowbar-laden wingnut?
Is it worth a) picking the fight or b) distracting him further?
Not really. Poor kid. It’s a minor miracle that he’s still alive and has a few functioning brain cells, so Imma just leave him alone.
I’m tempted to write “Judging by your Facebook updates, maybe you should pay better attention.”
Nah; just submit it to Failbook. Although there’s some steep competition over there some days…
“White House rams its radical homosexual agenda through the military”
But I’m sure Obama used lube. He’s considerate like that.
From the Moonie Times editorial
That’s some powerful smut writin’ skillz ya got there.
Leftists are only interested in political points and symbolism here.
How long did Choi serve before he resigned his commission? Talk about scoring cheap points…
OK, here we go:
If memory serves, you attend West Point, you are graduated as a lieutenant. He graduated a full six years before he went after “political points”, serving combat duty in Iraq. He was decommissioned (he did not resign) after he came out on Rachel Maddow.
Notice that: he didn’t resign (as I thought) he was drummed out. He wanted to serve. He probably was even OK with DADT at first. So what the fuck is the WashTims problem?
Leftists are only interested in political points and symbolism here.
Self projection: it’s not just a river in Africa.
Wait, what?
Oh, and one other point of note: Choi is fluent in Farsi. He is one of 59 Fasrsi-speaking interpreters who were caught up in the DADT net.
Think about how that impacts our “mission” in Iraq…
How long did Choi serve before he resigned his commission?
I thought he got kicked out for being openly not-straight.
including you being totally cool with psycho “art” that makes him porny
Being opposed to destructive vigilante censorship is tooootally the same as wanting to hang a work on(or around, in this case) your wall (and also too thinking it’s the best art evar, Bozell!)
Besides which if Jesus were to give even half a shit about this I’d worry about his priorities.
I thought he got kicked out for being openly not-straight.
Yea. I got him confused with the lesbian who was a cadet who just resigned from West Point over DADT
The destructive force unleashed by the Pentagon’s collaboration with the leftist agenda is apparent from the circus created when homosexual activists like Dan Choi sashayed over to the Times Square recruiting center to make a political point in the short period in which the Phillips order was effective.
Well, you’ll never catch a wingnut within miles of a recruiting center.
I’d like Dan Choi to sashay up the spine of whatever overpaid flabby shithead wrote that slander, but wishing violence on people is as wrong as wishing it on paintings.
Dan Choi sashayed over to the Times Square recruiting center…
Well, you’ll never catch a wingnut within miles of a recruiting center.
Makes you wonder how they knew he “sashayed”. He might have minced. Or pranced. Or jéted.
Leftists are only interested in political points and symbolism here. Providing defense to the nation in the most effective way possible is the furthest thing from their mind. Treating military recruitment primarily as a diversity issue opens up a closet full of absurdities.
Providing defense to the nation hasn’t been in the minds of wingnuts since the Cold War (and even then it was more often than not an opportunity to enforce Wall Street interests). Remember the Air Force people on 9/11 who had to call their superiors because they weren’t sure if attacks on American soil were DOD’s purview?
But if you’re so concerned with the efficiency of the military, I should point out that there’s only one army in the Middle East that allows gays to serve openly. That army has repeatedly wrecked the shit of all the armies that don’t. Good enough for you, shit for brains?
Or gadded about there, even.
Or gadded about there, even.
He could even have seductively slinked.
“The destructive force unleashed by the Pentagon’s collaboration with the leftist agenda is apparent from the circus created when homosexual activists like Dan Choi sashayed over to the Times Square recruiting center to make a political point in the short period in which the Phillips order was effective.”
What kind I’d mind thinks like this, writes this shit down, then hits the “send” button. Hey, fucktard, I bet Dan could kick your ass one-handed. So by all means…keep using words like “sashay” in regards to the gay men and women who have the balls to do what you dont.
Also, the military has long been a “social experiment” for decades and decades… So the argument that it shouldn’t be is, well, moot.
Wow, could I have made more typos and grammatical errors?
Wow, could I have made more typos and grammatical errors?
Pwned yourself, huh?
OH WASHINGTON TIMES YOU SO CRAZY
OH WASHINGTON TIMES YOU SO CRAZY
You’d think a newspaper run by a guy who essentially claims to be a god would provoke strident cries of outrage and blasphemy from the fundie crowd.
But you see, he hates liberals. So in their Bible, it’s all good.
You’d think a newspaper run by a guy who essentially claims to be a god would provoke strident cries of outrage and blasphemy from the fundie crowd.
But you see, the people who claim to have been there swear they weren’t there so SHUT UP THAT’S WHY!
Wow, could I have made more typos and grammatical errors?
You could have been Dan Choi.
Wow. Colorado is just weird
Wow. Colorado is just weird
That is freakin awesome.
If it passes, Colorado never ever gets to bitch about government waste again.
If it passes, Colorado never ever gets to bitch about government waste again.
Hell, just for putting it on the ballot and spending all that taxpayer money counting votes…
Speaking of Colorado.
Y’think maybe O’Donnell is a bloodsucking alien Nazi lizard and they’re just preparing themselves?
If it passes, Colorado never ever gets to bitch about government waste again.
Colorado? the state that was built on military bases? The state that only has water because of government dams? Since when have they ever been allowed to bitch about government waste?
Frank Rich got it going on.
Y’think maybe O’Donnell is a bloodsucking alien Nazi lizard and they’re just preparing themselves?
Eh, now, could be (scroll down to #1)
Speaking of Colorado
In NY, I think, you just need to pull in 50,000 votes to be listed on the ballot and then the parties are ranked in terms of number of ballots in the last gubenatorial election.
It’s conceivable that Carl Paladino’s vote total will be so bad here that the Working Families Party or even the Green Party will get listed ahead of the Republicans starting next year.
Besides which if Jesus were to give even half a shit about this I’d worry about his priorities.
He’s busy with appearances in toast and sink stains and such.
Speaking of Colorado.
Wowsers. 9.3%?!?
You’d think in a jobless recovery it’d be an incumbent trailing the national field. I think the Republicans are fucking the pooch a lot worse than the media would have us believe.
If they can’t even take the House, the calls for Steele’s & Boehner’s heads are going to be plentiful, loud, sincere … & totally hilarious!
Speaking of Colorado.
This has made my shit-ass morning vaguely better. Thank you.
I think the Republicans are fucking the pooch a lot worse than the media would have us believe.
oh please oh please oh please
…not as if they would object, either
Speaking of Colorado.
Some unintended hilarity in that link:
*snerk* Where they should be…
state GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams
Really?!
I always figure the GOP would be bottoms.
Sometimes this world is really fucking weird.
“We’ve tried sugar, peanut butter, breathing in a bag, having people scare me,” she said
Well, in all fairness, she DID try everything else before hitting on 1st degree murder as a cure…
Frank Rich got it going on.
Indeed he do.
A mutation that brings sweet raptures of delight to the unclean pulseless thing that replaced Dick Cheney’s heart regularly, I’m sure.
Funny, that – I thought we’d already developed successful gene therapy years ago. Silly me!
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*AROO! BREAKINGunlesssomeoneelsehasalreadylinkedthisNEWS! AROO!*
Meg Whitman locks up the Korean bass-wizard transvestite otaku vote!
Next Whitman campaign ad?
I think the Republicans are fucking the pooch a lot worse than the media would have us believe.
Guess what: You’d be right!
I’ll take “Creepy Things That Should Not Be Said Outside Of Your Basement” for 100, Alex.
I’ll take “Creepy Things That Should Not Be Said Outside Of Your Basement” for 100, Alex.
This is the sheriff who prides himself on humiliating his prisoners, if I recall, by making them wear pink.
Poor Sarah. I didn’t realize the law caught up with her.
Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? The Brentmeister’s back to rip rap at ya about Obama’s socializin’ and radicalizin’, and ya better believe that Da Cool Newsbuster is onto you clowns and your smutty FartArt! The funky fact of the matter is, us real Americans don’t want that lefty loser baloney in our art galleries! Badoodle-boo-yeah!
The Boz-man out.
The Boz-man out.
Don’t let the closet door hit you in the ass.
I’ll take “Creepy Things That Should Not Be Said
Outside Of Your BasementEVAR” for 100, Alex.Fixxored for greater T&U mental health.
He does know I have Dibs, right?
Also, remember to vote next week.
The key point for Democrats, of course, is to counter the media and poll reports that voter unhappiness has given the GOP an edge in enthusiasm, hence a leg up in turnout for the midterm elections. The Democratic fear is that the perception that the GOP is running very strongly in congressional and gubernatorial races will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well, it sure doesn’t help that the media by and large has completely bought the notion of a conservative tsumani and has been repeating it around the clock for months (though of course, whenever anyone indicates that this may not be the case or that things may be a little more complicated, they’re immediately assailed as proof of the media’s liberal bias).
There wasn’t anything nearly like this in the lead-up to the 2006 midterms that I can recall. The media’s default narrative seems to be “Republicans are unstoppable,” no matter how high or low they are in fact riding in public opinion.
In their defense, a lot of Democrats seem to believe it too.
This is the sheriff who prides himself on humiliating his prisoners, if I recall, by making them wear pink.
Partially to humiliate them, claims it’s to keep prisoners from stealing them.
Yes, he’s actually seriously worried about underwear theft. Tightly wound? JUST A BIT.
Meg Whitman locks up the Korean bass-wizard transvestite otaku vote!
First, it’s CA. The Korean bass-wizard transvestite otaku vote is probably quite sizeable (not a fat joke).
Second, that was some wizardly bass playing.
Thirdly, although this has nothing to do with Korean bass-wizard transvestite otaku SCROTIE.
Partially to humiliate them, claims it’s to keep prisoners from stealing them.
If I’m an underwear thief…and I’m not saying I am, she usually gives them to me…I’d be more likely to steal pink underwear.
Correction: Meg Whitman locks up the Japanese bass-wizard transvestite otaku vote.
“Oopsie.”
LOL JOURNALISM
The media’s default narrative seems to be “Republicans are unstoppable,” no matter how high or low they are in fact riding in public opinion.
When, of course, they aren’t busy fellating the Teabaggers as citizen revolutionaries or whatever the hell the merdre d’tareau is lately.
Off topic, but this is very, very bad.
If I’m an underwear thief…and I’m not saying I am, she usually gives them to me…I’d be more likely to steal pink underwear.
yeah, but I’m sure your problem isn’t so much getting them to WEAR…
When, of course, they aren’t busy fellating the Teabaggers as citizen revolutionaries or whatever the hell the merdre d’tareau is lately.
“Merde de taureau,” to be exact.
– Chris, French Spelling Nazi
So, I guess we just got a White Castle here? Someone just brought in a fucking cardboard suitcase of that shit.
It oddly smells like hamburgers and garbage at the same time.
The Korean bass-wizard transvestite otaku vote is probably quite sizeable (not a fat joke)
Take away your mom and they lose half the weight.
I think the Republicans are fucking the pooch a lot worse than the media would have us believe.
oh please oh please oh please
…not as if they would object, either
not them, but what about the poor pooch???
I am so happy that tancredo and maes are both running for governor. This should hand it to Hickenlooper, and he is a smart, pragmatic guy. need to do some GOTV for Bennett this weekend…
Merde
dedu taureauSigned,
French Gender Nazi
Correction: Meg Whitman locks up the Japanese bass-wizard transvestite otaku vote.
“Oopsie.”
Uh, you were right the first time. d00d’s Korean.
It oddly smells like hamburgers and garbage at the same time.
Are they not aware that White Castle burgers are like vampires (e.g. should never be seen after sunrise or before sunset)?
Someone just brought in a fucking cardboard suitcase of that shit.
Uh, that’s a ‘crave case’…or a ‘craver’ as the youngsters here in MN call them…
Are they not aware that White Castle burgers are like vampires (e.g. should never be seen after sunrise or before sunset)?
Or at least while sober?
Uh, that’s a ‘crave case’…or a ‘craver’ as the youngsters here in MN call them…
Whatever it’s called, it’s wrongful.
Gotta buy ’em by the “sack”.
Are they not aware that White Castle burgers are like vampires (e.g. should never be seen after sunrise or before sunset)?
Or at least while sober?
If you’re drunk and it’s daylight…well, that’s what Egg McMuffins are for.
“Merde de taureau,” to be exact.
– Chris, French Spelling Nazi
I’d get in trouble if I lived in Ontario, huh?
Gotta buy ‘em by the “sack”.
Death on a bun, by the sack.
Actually, I’m told the chicken sliders are pretty good. I’m not about to try it, tho. Last time I White Castled I was sick for three days.
Are they not aware that White Castle burgers are like vampires
well that makes this even more confusing…
http://www.whitecastle.com/
Merde de du taureau
Because I feel like being a pedantic douchebag,
Merde de taureau = bullshit, in general, as a common noun.
Merde du taureau = shit of the/that bull, specifically.
Which is best? I’ve reported, you decide.
Merde de taureau = bullshit, in general, as a common noun.
Connerie, you mean.
Austin had a White Castle for about three months back in the Seventies. They must’ve sold dozens before shuttering.
There aren’t many Farsi speakers in Iraq. Iran, on the other hand…
I’d get in trouble if I lived in Ontario, huh?
Actually, les Francophonies de l’Ontario call it “Le Bullshit, de la de la”.
If you’re drunk and it’s daylight…well, that’s what Egg McMuffins are for.
What if it’s 1:00 in the afternoon?
Or do they serve Egg McMuffins all day?
Speaking of le Bullshit, de la de la, Tom DeLay’s trial gets underway this week……
There are enough that it could be worth it, even apart from whatever agency Iran has in Iraqi affairs.
There aren’t many Farsi speakers in Iraq. Iran, on the other hand…
And 50% of the Afghani population.
What if it’s 1:00 in the afternoon?
then you go to the break room and scarf whatever’s in the fridge…
Connerie, you mean.
Good word. One that I always have a hard time finding an exact English translation for. “Bullshit,” “fuckup,” “stupidity,” other words come to mind, none that exactly do it justice.
(To curse in other languages, that’s true fluency).
There aren’t many Farsi speakers in Iraq.
Only the intelligence officers, militia trainers and Revolutionary Guards that the Iranians send over on a regular basis.
What if it’s 1:00 in the afternoon?
Chocolate shake.
Aw, man, I knew I shouldn’t have said anything about Colorado. We’re already being looked at funny, and now you’re talking about the Alien Invader vote in the City of Denver…
Now have a look at three of the ballot issues we’re running – the one’s that’ll essentially strip the state government of the bulk of it’s funding. But hey, it’ll mean cheap tags for our cars, that we can’t drive because the roads are for shit.
Oh, and we’re voting on whether a zygote is a person or not, again…
I’m pretty sure the bureau to investigate alien encounters is the least of our problems…
(To curse in other languages, that’s true fluency).
I played hockey 😉
I played hockey 😉
Ah, that’ll do it.
A man once went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out.
What if it’s 1:00 in the afternoon?
Quarter pounder. Or as le francophonies de l’Ontario referr to it “I’d like a
Royal with Cheesequarter pounder, merci beaucoups.”What if it’s 1:00 in the afternoon?
Quarter pounder.
No. Sausage pizza.
There aren’t many Farsi speakers in Iraq.
Not even down around Basra?
Note that it is “merci” and not “merçi”. After the Common Sense Revolution of the Harris Government, there was a massive cédille shortage that the province still has not recovered from.
Sausage pizza.
note to selves: DO NOT look up on Urban Dictionary.
I’m pretty sure the bureau to investigate alien encounters is the least of our problems…
…said the alien.
I’m disappointed that everyone has overlooked the importance of nachos in addressing the drunchies.
I’m disappointed that everyone has overlooked the importance of nachos in addressing the drunchies.
Your MickeyDees serves nachos?!
Your MickeyDees serves nachos?!
No, but they’re really easy to make in the microwave.
Anything from McDonald’s makes me break out in hives, anyway.
Oh, and in case anyone thought I was kidding about les francophones de l’Ontario – I wasn’t.
Office of Francophone Affairs. Trust me on this: it sounds a lot hotter than it actually is.
I’m disappointed that everyone has overlooked the importance of nachos in addressing the drunchies.
I assumed that’s what you were eating WHILE you were drinking. It’s never a good idea to eat a hair of the dog…
Office of Francophone¹ Affairs
¹VEarsexR
He is one of 59 Fasrsi-speaking interpreters who were caught up in the DADT net.
There are some languages that are stereotypically gay, but Farsi is not one of them.
A man once went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out.
Yea, but I never got an instigator penalty…
I assumed that’s what you were eating WHILE you were drinking. It’s never a good idea to eat a hair of the dog…
It is if it’s nachos.
Office of Francophone¹ Affairs
Vive le Québec libre, also!
“Merde de taureau,” to be exact.
– Chris, French Spelling Nazi
Actually, Alfred Jarry used the word “merdre” throughout all of Ubu Roi. If this was unintentional on Pere Ubu’s part, it was beautifully apropos.
I’m pretty sure the bureau to investigate alien encounters is the least of our problems…
The Tea Baggers will most assuredly vote for anything that looks like it might deter those illegal aliens.
I think Graham has a crush on TinTin, but only because he’s anonymously porny.
Yea, but I never got an instigator penalty…
Liar
Uh, you were right the first time.
*sigh*
Oh, big time. Ewww.
La merde de taureau = bullshit, but literally, not as an expression for nonsense. “Connerie” is, as Actor212 suggests, acceptable as is “du blablabla”
But “c’etait la merde du taureau mais pas la merde du chien” when you are trying to convey that the shit belongs to the bull in question as opposed to a dog.
And “la merde du taureau furieux” if your were trying to associate the shit with the angry bull as opposed to the nice bull (“taureau gentil”) who might otherwise be in question as the possible perpetrator or owner of the poop in question.
When I was in Montreal , I would just say “bullshit!” and never once did any of the French speaking locals not understand what I meant.
Tintin,
Sans vouloir avoir l’air con, on dit “le merde” en Belgique, pas “la merde?”
[Tintin adds: yes, my bad. Fixed.]
In case anyone cares, I was the last couple anonymous posts.
When I was in Montreal , I would just say “bullshit!” and never once did any of the French speaking locals not understand what I meant.
True. I’ve also heard the word “bullshit” spoken in regular conversation by French people, simply with a French accent. More or less everyone knows what it means.
Mais le personne qui fait attention du merde, lui-même soit responsable.
There are some languages that are stereotypically gay, but Farsi is not one of them.
Quel est ton point, M. le P.E.N.I.S.?
Le chat et sur la chaise.
La souris est en dessous de la table.
Et le singe…
… le singe a disparu!!!
Yea, but I never got an instigator penalty…
LiarConnerieRéparée!
Mais le personne qui fait attention du merde, lui-même soit responsable.
Celui qui sentait qu’il lui porte.
Escargot!
voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir
C’est en faisant n’importe quoi qu’on devient n’importe qui.
Aussi.
Hey, if smashing up “blasphemous” art is OK here (never mind the 1st Amendment), then what the Taliban did at Bamiyan is totally cool! Right, Mr. Bozell?
Yea, but I never got an instigator penalty…
Liar
J’accuse!
C’est en faisant n’importe quoi qu’on devient n’importe qui.
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
the Taliban did at Bamiyan is totally cool! Right, Mr. Bozell?
Well, of *course*! Those were Fat Buddha statues, totally unAmerican!
You beat me to it, you bastard. Or as the French say, “Bastard.”
J’accuse!
Je me jette sur la clémence de la cour….
Hey, she was pregnant when I met her!
Or as the French say,
“Bastard.”bâtardRéparée!
It’s ironic that the hardest part of blogging in French is remembering keystrokes…
VS, “bastard” is perfectly acceptable French, assuming you were born in the 11th or 12th century.
It’s ironic that the hardest part of blogging in French is remembering keystrokes…
I would argue that the hardest part is learning French in the first place.
I would argue that the hardest part is learning French in the first place.
Hm. Good point. It’s been a while since I tried.
“Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? The Brentmeister’s back to rip rap at ya about Obama’s socializin’ and radicalizin’, and ya better believe that Da Cool Newsbuster is onto you clowns and your smutty FartArt! […]”–Bozell
Mwahaha. Yesterday I cut a stinky French cheese and set my trap with it. Soon the whole world will be sniffin’ and snufflin’ around De Sade, a-fightin’ and surrenderin’ to the threat he represents!
I can only hope they come across an illustrated edition.
Well I dunno what they say in France, mais pour les francophonies de l’Ontario, le mot juste est “Torontonian”.
mais pour les francophonies de l’Ontario, le mot juste est “LEAFSSUCKIAN”.
Fixed
It’s been a while since I tried.
C’est comme apprendre de rouler une bicyclette: Une fois appris, jamais oublié.
Mwahaha. Yesterday I cut a stinky French cheese and set my trap with it. Soon the whole world will be sniffin’ and snufflin’ around De Sade, a-fightin’ and surrenderin’ to the threat he represents!
I can only hope they come across an illustrated edition.
What?! No scratch & sniff edition?
Fixed
Murky buckets.
Murky buckets.
Pass de quoits.
Tout sonne mieux en français.
Speaking of LEAFS SUCK, I’m off to exercise my franchise.
Sadly, it looks like the city is gripped with nostalgia for having an ignorant embarassment of a jackass for mayor. So it looks like I’ll need to pick up some bourbon for later tonight too.
Tout sonne mieux en français.
C’est vrai.
I swear, Marion Cottilard or Sophie Marceau could read the ingredients in a Big Mac, and if it was in French, it would sound seductive.
I don’t get what the underlying issue is anyway. In my religion we teach that you shouldn’t take the Lord’s name in vain. Nu? We believe that God’s name is actually unpronounceable — so you couldn’t say the Lord’s name vainly even if you wanted to — so problem solved. In my religion we teach that you shouldn’t make graven images of God. Nu? We believe that God is actually formless — so you couldn’t make an image of God even if you wanted to — so problem solved.
If Jesus has such a problem being depicted doing human-type activities like engaging in sex-acts, why did Jesus take human form in the first place?
OTOH, in my religion we are perfectly ok with literary descriptions of God getting it on with the entire Israelite people, so long as that description is an allegorical interpretation of what is actually a depiction of King Solomon getting it on with some hawt harem gal. But then again, isn’t that also part of the Christian Bible as well? So what is Bozell’s problem again?
“What?! No scratch & sniff edition?”
God damn you, you’re brilliant. A time machine is more needed than ever. Suddenly the exquisite engravings of early editions seem not two, but one-dimensional.
De Sade’s descriptions of farts were as lost on me as the floral and arboreal name-checking found in so many classics. I just don’t know what such people are on about. I have smelled and seen, but the essence, the poetry, is as remote as ever.
I callmedre de taureau – “We’re All Juan Williams:
To live in America in the post-9/11 age and not have at least some associations between Muslims and terrorism means something is wrong with you.
I am not suggesting that associating ordinary Muslims with terrorists is either rational or right. It’s neither. But the association arises via a normal aspect of brain functioning, which is precisely why so many people entertain such beliefs—and why those beliefs have proved so resistant to challenge.
“We’re All Juan Williams
That would be the same Juan Williams who said:
(h/t Greenwald)
I have smelled and seen, but the essence, the poetry, is as remote as ever.
in the words of surely the greatest poet, “Whoever smelt it, dealt it.”
Or as the French say,
“Bastard.”bâtardThere you go being a pain again.
Or as the French say, “Bastard.” bâtard
There you go being a pain again.
Stop. This. Now.
I don’t mean to be a boule about it.
To live in America in the post-9/11 age and not have at least some associations between Muslims and terrorism means something is wrong with you.
Obviously, there’s an association. Membership in al-Qaeda is no less related to being Muslim than membership in the IRA is to being Catholic, or membership in the Ulster Volunteer Force to being Protestant.
However, it’s a one way street. All al-Qaeda members are Muslim. All Muslims are not al-Qaeda members; so few of them are, in fact, that Juan and others’ airplane concerns are beyond laughable. That’s the distinction they absolutely refuse to learn, and that’s why we’ll go on proclaiming loudly and clearly that they’re full of shit until such time as they no longer are.
I don’t mean to be a boule about it.
Okay, seriously!!! I still have much work to do and little time to do it…and i can’t keep coming back here all the time to see what the next gem is going to be…
There you go being a pain again.
Well played. Boule for you.
Bouler boule boucher avec moi…
Common sense becomes racism when skin color becomes a formula for figuring out who is a danger to me.
but but but evolution! Doesn’t he understand how the human mind works?
Stop. This. Now.
Here have another – this one’s banh mi.
You people remind me of my days teaching French as a foreign language. It was fun, but more because of being lavishly paid with US taxpayers’ money that I could spend in the many bars of our fine little Midwest university rather than for the job itself.
Here have another – this one’s banh mi
Ach! Stop being such a brot!
Obviously, there’s an association. Membership in al-Qaeda is no less related to being Muslim than membership in the IRA is to being Catholic, or membership in the Ulster Volunteer Force to being Protestant.
But from what I get of the article’s arguement – we don’t fear that Officer O’Shaughnessy is a member of the IRA because he’s not a minority. Evidently we’re supposed to forget institutionalized racism and distorted images of minorities from media and the Very Serious Press and believe that it’s just some evolutionary quirk of our minds.
To live in America in the post-9/11 age and not have at least some associations between Muslims and terrorism means something is wrong with you.
I do have an association between them – I associate Muslim with “Things wingnuts think mean you’re a terrorist.” In the same way, I associate terrorism with fluoridated water, public education, cap and trade, card check, etc.
Ach! Stop being such a brot!
He’s just the wurst.
Meagan McArdle on “Hate Filled Lefty Blogs.
This….Is….Not….A….Shorter. Actual quote.
He’s just the wurst.
This made me groan aloud…
I never sausage a bunch of dumb puns.
Here have another – this one’s banh mi.
The guy did ask you to baguette, you know.
Is there reuben here for another pun?
Stop being such a brot!
You’re saying I should baguette then?
Blast you actor, he said with a rye grin.
Blast you actor, he said with a rye grin.
I was trying to get to the jukebox first, but I’m short five cents. See if you can borrow some change from VS and pumpernickel in…
Is there reuben here for another pun?.
No need to be a hero.
I notice it much more on left wing sites, but that’s because I basically refuse to read angry right-wing sites, so I don’t know what’s going on there.
So Megan sticks her fingers in her ears and goes “LA LA LA LA LA! I CAN’T HEAR ANY HATE!” and that somehow means there is no hate from the right?
The guy did ask you to baguette, you know.
Hey! I’m not a guy!
No need to be a hero.
That joke is rather hoagie.
The guy did ask you to baguette, you know.
Hey! I’m not a guy!
It was meant in a naan-gender specific way.
I was trying to get to the jukebox first, but I’m short five cents. See if you can borrow some change from VS and pumpernickel in…
You sure are a po’boy.
You sure are a po’boy.
Poor poor pita full me.
It was meant in a naan-gender specific way.
That’s very biga you.
That joke is rather hoagie.
It was meant in a naan-gender specific way
You sure are a po’boy.
Why, oh why did I ever join this club?
Why, oh why did I ever join this club?
I know! I can barley stand it! It makes me want to challah.
Why, oh why did I ever join this club?
Cuz you wanted to get your crouton.
That’s very biga you.
I’m a giver. It is bigamy.
I know! I can barley stand it! It makes me want to challah.
Okay, this made me laugh and even snort…i am glad i am an office of one…
It was meant in a naan-gender specific way.
So you weren’t doing roll reversal?
So you weren’t doing roll reversal?
I would never a-kaiser of being a guy!
Okay, this made me laugh and even snort…i am glad i am an office of one…
Yay! I always like to be lavashed with praise.
So you weren’t doing roll reversal?
Most of these pun threads are great, but this one’s just blaa.
The best Paris protest sign I saw:
67 ans? Pourquoi pas 69? Quitte à se faire baiser…”
Rough translation: “67 years old [to retire]? Why not 69? If we have to get fucked…”
Most of these pun threads are great, but this one’s just blaa.
Matzo fast, mister! You’re putting a damper on our fun!
But from what I get of the article’s arguement – we don’t fear that Officer O’Shaughnessy is a member of the IRA because he’s not a minority.
Or rather, we don’t fear him because we’ve stopped considering him a sinister minority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheUsualIrishWayofDoingThings.jpg
The Farsi translator thing is bad, but the Army kicked out all the Polari translators.
The Farsi translator thing is bad, but the Army kicked out all the Polari translators.
Oooh, nice one.
Martini? Bourbon on the rocks? Philly cheesesteak?
Or rather, we don’t fear him because we’ve stopped considering him a sinister minority.
Good point.
Or we might well have suspected him if we had lived in Britain in the 70’s.
It’s all cultural, regardless of what the article suggests. And, like I said, partly due to the media. What else can we expect but pants-pissing at the sight of “Muslimness” when we have a whole media empire dedicated to making the link “Muslim = Terrorist”?
But from what I get of the article’s arguement – we don’t fear that Officer O’Shaughnessy is a member of the IRA because he’s not a minority.
Well, that and he’s not dressed in traditional Irish garb. Now if he’d been wearing a green vest and tophat and curly pointy-toed shoes and gotten onto a plane, then I think it’d be fair to suspect him of something.
I think it’d be fair to suspect him of something.
Certainly, but I still wouldn’t be scared unless he was going to pilot the plane.
You know, I’ve noticed that most of the defenses of Juan Williams seem to be based on the premise that he actually said something like
and I think it’s a very worthwhile discussion to have, you know, where we admit that sometimes skeeery furrin people make us nervous, because what if they blow up the plane or their culture doesn’t believe in showering or they brought some of that cheese with insect larvae in it and are going to sit next to us? But that’s not what he was talking about — he didn’t say “Muslims make me nervous but I don’t think my own irrational prejudices should be the basis for policy decisions”.
Now if he’d been wearing a green vest and tophat and curly pointy-toed shoes and gotten onto a plane, then I think it’d be fair to suspect him of something.
Ach! ‘es after mah Lucky Charms!
Most of these pun threads are great, but this one’s just blaa.
What, we need to poolish our pun chops?
Most of these pun threads are great, but this one’s just blaa.
200+ comments and no jokes about somebody’s mom’s muffaletta ain’t too shabby.
D-KW’s mom’s muffaletta is as shabby as they come. So I have been told.
But from what I get of the article’s arguement – we don’t fear that Officer O’Shaughnessy is a member of the IRA because
he’s not a minoritysociety has decided that being Irish is a subset of being white which is the majority.Fixed. Similarly, society decided that waving Mexican flags on Cinqo de Mayo was refusing integration, while waving Irish flags in Saint Paddy’s is just boys having fun; and that the Catholic and Jewish minorities’ virulent lobbies are just expressions of a deep, heartfelt, respectable faith, while Muslim minorities’ very noninstrusive imitations were an act of subversion.
It’s all completely arbitrary, which is why identity politics is such a giant bag of horseshit.
By the way, did you know that a hundred years ago at Ellis Island, Arabs were considered white and Jews were considered colored? Always rising or falling in America…
Or rather, we don’t fear him because we’ve stopped considering him a sinister minority.
Or, what Anonymous said. I really should read to the bottom of a threat before answering…
“Or as the French say, “Bastard.” bâtard”
Fucking French–how does it work?
These puns are making me hungry.I’ve never had a muffaletta but it sounds fucking yummers.
Also…these tweets don’t have enough man capris in ’em.
But that’s not what he was talking about — he didn’t say “Muslims make me nervous but I don’t think my own irrational prejudices should be the basis for policy decisions”.
Ex-actly. He didn’t – he agrees with O’Reilly that Mooslims are pants-pissing frightening, and then whines when that’s rightly called racism.
Where are the lyrics from, BTW?
Ex-actly. He didn’t – he agrees with O’Reilly that Mooslims are pants-pissing frightening, and then whines when that’s rightly called racism.
Then, he and his ilk go one better and whine about censorship and how they have no freedom of speech. As if the First Amendment guaranteed Juan employment at NPR, or the right to be printed every time he sticks his foot in his mouth.
.I’ve never had a muffaletta
Oh really? The way you talk gave me the impression that you’re intimately familiar with them….
D-KW’s mom’s muffaletta is as shabby as they come. So I have been told.
Dammit! i have been trying to formulate a muffaletta pun ALL afternoon! Nicely done!
I’ve never had a muffaletta
They weigh like 3 lbs, so not for the faint of heart…the first time i had one was in Nawlins in a former slave auction building…weird, so now the whole sandwich/racism discussion has come full circle for me…
Re: the image
It was just this one time, I was drunk, and it didn’t mean nothing.
+ I didnt kno it was a dood.
“Oh really? The way you talk gave me the impression that you’re intimately familiar with them….”
This sounds dirty.
Your questions, answered:
1) Bourbon on the rocks, or actually an old-fashioned.
2) Avenue Q, “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”
3) All night long
When will everyone I meet be jamming in the street?
Fucking French–how does it work?
I don’t know but I very much hope to find out.
These muffalettas are making me thirsty.
Today in Palin muffaletta news.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/10/sarah-palin-gets-gift-of-pink-underwear-from-sheriff-arpaio.html
Fucking French–how does it work?
Aren’t they like all on strike now or sumpin?
RealSheriffJoe “I just got done welcoming Sarah Palin to our County. Had a nice chat and gave her a pair of pink underwear.”
I would think his would be too big for her.
Bâtard!!!
I just got done welcoming Sarah Palin to our County.
Usually you don’t see two gaping assholes like that in such close proximity, at least outside a Christopher Street video store.
Or the goatse tribute site.
My muffalatta recommendation is to show up at the Central Grocery at 4:15 pm and order two in your best yat accent . Even though they may have a few left for tourists, premade and not at their best some good spirit and a mutiple order may get you a couple of perfect made to order by the cheerful mama of sammiches of perfection. I’ve also had good luck at 10:45am when they’re right in the middle of mass-production
Matt T: confirm or deny?
An all afternoon mufalatta experience, with the requisite Abitas and Zapps makes you ready for the crucial 4pm-8pm lie down gathering ones energies for another N’awlins night.
but the Army kicked out all the Polari translators.
I have previously mentioned the Polari Bible but I can’t be arsed looking up the link at the moment.
Fuck. It seems I’ve been lied to.
Apologies to whoever I was debating about Clinton’s attack on Yugoslavia the other day; I now find out a large portion of what I’ve been basing my perspective on, i.e. articles in Covert Action Quarterly and Project Censored, evidently are loads of bullshit.
Truly one of the iconic sandwiches of America, still available in peak form. Central Grocery should be your first, see my tips above about timing. Don’t sneeze at a regular off of of the pile around the noon hour the quality stays remarkable high. There is nothing like a great muffaletta, Zapp’s jalapeno chips and a few Abitas.
Matt T: confirm or deny?
Yup. But that’s a pretty good bit of advice for tourists in the Quarter to get better-than-tourists treatment: don’t act or look like a friggin’ tourist. And get an Abita Turbodog, they’re pretty damn tasty. Bring an empty stomach and plenty of time, though, ’cause a muffalatta is a hoss.
I didn’t know this before I moved here, but New Orleans takes its sandwiches seriously. A roast beef po’boy will kill a man, and there’s a place out in Metairie called the R&O that makes a “special” roast beef po’boy that’s quite possibly the best thing I’ve ever eaten in my entire life.
However, don’t try to fake the yat. The natives can pick that shit out. And if you say “I gay-roun-tee” or speak like an Adam Sandler character, we’re legally allowed to kill you.
So, any predictions on the ultimate fate of Our Lady of the Immaculate Smash ‘n Grab?
-K
FoxNews Senior Political Analyst?
Jesus! Are you trying to kill someone?
1/4 is a decent lunch. 1/2 will settle a pretty serious hunger. Two???
For those unfamiliar, some scale Some more.
I do miss that town sometimes.
Well, all of me but my liver.
Bread pun threads so far: |||
I have experienced the Central Grocery muffasammich, though possibly the tourist version. Still goddam awesome, even if it weren’t their best work.
Boy those Rock Band games are cool.
Welcome Juan!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/24/brit-hume-juan-williams_n_772960.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/torture.html
“Electric sad time”
Also, “Grim Meathook Future” is totes the new band name.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/male-rand-paul-supporter-stomps-head-of-female-moveon-member-outside-debate.php?ref=fpb
Non-violent libertarianism for the motherfucking win.
Speaking of a grim meathook future.
Jeez.
Of course, for the Paultards, that’s a feature rather than a bug.
Meagan McArdle on “Hate Filled Lefty Blogs”
Intentionally making online wingnut culture into her own personal taboo, so as to keep her precious mind free of inconvenient input.
Keep it classy, girl!
Being pissed off & mouthy does not automatically secrete hate.
If “lefty” = “anti-regressive” then eliminationism is an unlikely candidate for lefty action. “Eliminating*” teh stupid via education is not only pretty much the opposite of a pogrom, it can also PREVENT pogroms too. Only a hardened dyed-in-the-wool dipshit would pass up a two-fer like that.
Also, Meagan McArdle is a poopyhead.
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* This item is for Pollyannas only.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/male-rand-paul-supporter-stomps-head-of-female-moveon-member-outside-debate.php?ref=fpb
Non-violent libertarianism for the motherfucking win.
Seeing that I can’t help but think, “What is the address of the local Fox affiliate?”
Fuckin McMegan writes:
It’s one thing to be angry; it’s another when anger is the main force that binds a group together. Call me a vaporing language nanny, but I thought it was pretty creepy when Jon Chait described another liberal journalist, Michael Kinsley, another journalist, as “curb stomping” economist Greg Mankiw for, yes, daring to suggest that higher marginal tax rates might have incentive effects. Woo-hoo!
But why stop with curb-stomping?
Fucking bad timing, how does it work?
Scratch a Randian Paultard, find a Fascist Dickwad.
http://www.bluebluegrass.com/2010/10/25/republican-rand-pauls-brownshirts-assault-and-stomp-the-head-of-a-moveon-org-woman-before-the-ket-debate/
Sorry, owlbeart beat me to it, The KY blog has good photos of the brownshirts.
owlbear1 I mean
I mean Spaghetti Lee. I’m going to bed. Good night.
Non-violent libertarianism for the motherfucking win.
Interesting experiment; see if this case of actual violence garners even a shred of the attention that the New Black Panther case has. I very much doubt if it will.
justme said,
Also, “Grim Meathook Future” is totes the new band name.
18 YEARS TOO LATE
Fuckin McMegan writes:
Call me a vaporing language nanny… But why stop with curb-stomping?
Indeed, this sort of intemperate language could easily escalate to talk of “beating opponents of the Iraq War with 2-by-4s”.
OT,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/25/AR2010102504608.html?wprss=rss_metro
After thirty years systematically destroying wages in the private sector, conservatives are suddenly screaming that it’s unfair the public sector (air traffic controllers excluded) hasn’t been similarly raped.
And of course, thousands of people in the private sector are rallying to it – proof that you can always hire half the poor to kill the other half.
And of course, thousands of people in the private sector are rallying to it – proof that you can always hire half the poor to kill the other half.
It’s the worst kind of aspirational thinking- the idea that they’ll someday be part of the ruling class inspires them to shit on others.
Morning everyone. It was a rough day at the polls for LEAFS SUCK, And even though the city doesn’t have a strong mayor system in place, Council appears to have also shifted rightwards.
Only bright spot – voter turnout of 52% for a municpal election. Sure they didn’t vote the way I’d have preferred, but a respectable number of did people turn out, and that’s good.
Well, I mean, in McTardle’s defense, that wasn’t *actually* curbstomping.
“Only bright spot – voter turnout of 52% for a municpal election. Sure they didn’t vote the way I’d have preferred, but a respectable number of did people turn out, and that’s good.”
Fuckin’ English, how does it work?
Reporter for NYT thinks it’s to Obama’s advantage if Dems lose.
It’s the worst kind of aspirational thinking- the idea that they’ll someday be part of the ruling class inspires them to shit on others.
Ah, the imperialist running dogs…
Reporter for NYT thinks it’s to Obama’s advantage if Dems lose.
Well, it does give him an excuse now for not passing his fucking agenda.
These past two years have been an inscrutable clusterfuck.
Fuckin’ English, how does it work?
Sorta like French, only less orally.
Well, it does give him an excuse now for not passing his fucking agenda.
These past two years have been an inscrutable clusterfuck.
Yup.
Fuck, Republicans are in the *minority* and he and the Dems are using them as an excuse.
Fuckin’ English, how does it work?
No plus goodness morning later than night of the drunkening I DID YOUR MOM MRS. SHAEFFER AND I LEFT MY PREPOSITIONS JUST DRIPPING HER THIGH ALL ALONGST!
Fuck, Republicans are in the *minority* and he and the Dems are using them as an excuse.
I for one am sick of the threat of filibuster. If the republicans are going to threaten a filibuster, make them do it. Make those fuckers stand up there and read until their throats bleed.
Fucking WordPress: how does it work?
Oh wait…it doesn’t.
FYWP.
I have the perfect solution to end the filibuster. It would involve nothing more than amending a small rule, wouldn’t even require a floor vote if I recall correctly. It would guarantee that no Republican would ever call for a filibuster again. It would also double C-Span’s ratings anytime someone actually had the nerve tofilibuster.
Require anyone trying to read a filibuster into the record to have to read gay porn on the Senate floor.
Now that’s more like it!! Come see me in my office…..
Fuck, Republicans are in the *minority* and he and the Dems are using them as an excuse.
I for one am sick of the threat of filibuster. If the republicans are going to threaten a filibuster, make them do it. Make those fuckers stand up there and read until their throats bleed.
Republican Mole(lying jackoff-NV) Harry Reid even gets to vote with Republicans by calling it “procedural.”
I have the perfect solution to end the filibuster.
Have your leadership grow some ballz. Let them filibuster- even procedural filibuster. Schedule weeks of stuff the GOP is up in arms over and make them filibuster each and everything that comes before the Senate floor.
The reason the procedural filibuster was supposed to be acceptable is that neither party wants to be seen as obstructionist. Even the GOP, who wants their base to know that they are doing their best to obstruct the SO-JALL-ESM!!! don’t want to be seen by teh “independent” voter as obstructionist. Problem is that most “journalists” are unable to reconcile the concept of conservatives trying to gum up the works.
Sure the facts demonstrate that whenever the GOP is in the minority, there’s an increase in cloture motions. Makes sense because spineless Senate Dems would be hard pressed to even consider the notion. But facts don’t make the news. Spectacle does.
So call the bluff. Even the GOP leadership has shied away on “shutting down the government”. Get the Dems together, write up a list of top priority things you want to get past the filibuster and then outline a schedule of two or three months of items that the GOP are going to refuse cloture and then shove the package down Mitcvh McConnell’s throat.
I have the perfect solution to end the filibuster.
Have your leadership grow some ballz.
Precisely! Make the filibusterers read gay porn into the record!
Then run against that in the next election: “Senator Nelson is a porn merchant.”
If “lefty” = “anti-regressive” then eliminationism is an unlikely candidate for lefty action. “Eliminating*” teh stupid via education is not only pretty much the opposite of a pogrom, it can also PREVENT pogroms too. Only a hardened dyed-in-the-wool dipshit would pass up a two-fer like that. — Jim
Nicely put. Seems obvious, but then my welfare and/or self-regard do not depend on missing this point… “Brainwashing” comes to mind. I have had to explain how it works to wingnuts, including (unfortunately) my mother.
In their world, brainwashing involves (among other things) reading books spanning over two millenia. (Not bragging, lots of people do it better than me.) But anyway, the brainwashers — Aristotle, Lao Tzu, Emily Dickinson, and Atrios, to name a few — put up a clever front and they never give up. Let’s say I try to wiggle away by reading the Bible, or Adam Smith. (I didn’t get far.) No dice, that plays right into the brainwashers’ hands.
e.g.
“Due to the serious nature of number of vacancies in the federal bench, the Senate will now go through the list of five or six dozen nominees. Let’s get started – Obama nominee to the bench #1, can I have unanimous consent? No? Okay, there’s a cloture motion invoked – we’ll table this and vote on cloture in two days. Obama nominee #2, can I have unanimous consent?”
The Dem leadership don’t have a clue how immensely powerful a tool they have there. Some of them may occasionally talk a good game about how the Repubs are systematically blocking things for no reason at all – but they still treat every single hold or filibuster threat as valid, reasonable and justified.
But anyway, the brainwashers — Aristotle, Lao Tzu, Emily Dickinson, and Atrios, to name a few — put up a clever front and they never give up.
Duncan Black is a brainwasher? Wow. He has more influence than I thought!
Duncan Black is a brainwasher?
Well…he doesn’t precisely post logical arguments, so….
At some point, DKW, we are going to have to conclude that Democratic ineptitude is a feature, not a bug.
In their world, brainwashing involves (among other things) reading books spanning over two millenia. (Not bragging, lots of people do it better than me.) But anyway, the brainwashers — Aristotle, Lao Tzu, Emily Dickinson, and Atrios, to name a few — put up a clever front and they never give up. Let’s say I try to wiggle away by reading the Bible, or Adam Smith. (I didn’t get far.) No dice, that plays right into the brainwashers’ hands.
I had a friend in college who came from a dirt-poor WASP family in the Deep South. After telling me for two and a half years that European health care was inefficient, long waiting lines, everything sucks… she finally studied abroad in the U.K, had dental work done for dirt-cheap that she’d been in need of for years but unable to afford in the U.S, came back furiously outraged that “they [the Republicans and the people her family listen to] lied to me!!!”
So what does her family think? That she’s been brainwashed. Because apparently, actually going to UHC countries and seeing how it works in real life as opposed to on Fox News will brainwash you. Similarly, people who go away to college, people who go to live in the city, people who go abroad… in short, anyone who sticks their nose out of Mayberry, finds out how the other 99% actually live, and then integrates that information into their belief system is considered “brainwashed” in rural America.
At some point, DKW, we are going to have to conclude that Democratic ineptitude is a feature, not a bug.
I wonder if losing the Congress in 1994 spooked them so badly that, in the parlance of sports, they played not to lose once they climbed on top again?
Which, as sport shows us time and time again, is a near-guarantee that you will lose.
Think of the energy the Democrats displayed in 2006 (and thru Obama in 2008). Now think of how they’ve actually governed for the past four years.
So what does her family think? That she’s been brainwashed. Because apparently, actually going to UHC countries and seeing how it works in real life as opposed to on Fox News will brainwash you.
Facts are stupid things, Chris! They interfere with the truthiness of a thing!
Similarly, people who go away to college, people who go to live in the city, people who go abroad… in short, anyone who sticks their nose out of Mayberry, finds out how the other 99% actually live, and then integrates that information into their belief system is considered “brainwashed” in rural America.
I’ve been trying to reconcile this with something: 67% of Americans live within 100 miles of a large urban area (where 75% of the GDP of the nation is generated).
If the vast majority of people live that close to a city, how is it that rural values are still so ensconced in the fabric of America? It’s counterintuitive.
When we arrived there was enormous passion on both sides and it was something where you walked into a daze of lights flashing, people yelling and screaming, bumping up. There was a bit of a crowd control problem. I don’t want anybody, though, to be involved in things that are not civil. I think it should always be about issues. It’s an unusual situation to have so many people, so passionate on both sides, jockeying back and forth and it wasn’t something I liked or anybody liked about that situation.So I hope in the future it’s going to be better.
Oh, fascism is having an AWESOME week.
I wonder if losing the Congress in 1994 spooked them so badly that, in the parlance of sports, they played not to lose once they climbed on top again?
Can’t remember if it was you or somebody else… but someone on S, N! suggested not long ago that in Obama’s case specifically, it might be that he was afraid of doing anything upsetting because he was afraid of looking like an “angry black man.”
As for the Democratic base, a lot of people, as you said, are so relieved that he brought us back to power that they’re afraid that any criticism will undermine him and help the GOP.
Facts are stupid things, Chris! They interfere with the truthiness of a thing!
I keep forgetting.
Or, you know, we’ve completely lost our democracy to moneyed interests and even the “good guys” can’t be trusted?
…a feature, not a bug.
Shhhh, that’s treasonous talk… uh, I mean, but the other guys are way worse!
Or, you know, we’ve completely lost our democracy to moneyed interests and even the “good guys” can’t be trusted?
The difference between the two parties comes down to this, I think: The Republicans are hopelessly entrenched. The Democrats can be persuaded back.
I would settle for higher-grade truthiness, but oh no, we have to go all the way to 2+2=5, probably because that shows who’s on top.
If the vast majority of people live that close to a city, how is it that rural values are still so ensconced in the fabric of America? It’s counterintuitive.
What are we classifying as a city? And a 100 miles isn’t *that* close. In my experience, suburbanites can be just as bad (if not worse) regarding “rural values,” if you read “rural values” as “being a conservative asshole.”
The difference between the two parties comes down to this, I think: The Republicans are hopelessly entrenched. The Democrats can be persuaded back.
Maybe. But not if our political system continues to operate in the fashion it has been, I think.
If the vast majority of people live that close to a city, how is it that rural values are still so ensconced in the fabric of America? It’s counterintuitive.
Idealization by the people in the suburbs of the good old “simpler times” when everything was so much nicer. Having grown up in the shadow of big government, they don’t even notice the degree to which they’ve been sheltered, only notice the “bad” things like their taxes… and therefore, are susceptible to fantasize about the “rugged individualist”‘s life.
I’d also like to know how the fuck “rural/urban” became a synonym for “people/elite.” Most of the people in both city and suburbs are regular folk who work their asses off to make a decent living and, by the way, their contribution to the nation’s wealth easily dwarfs so-called middle America’s. Sure, cities Wall Street and the Gold Coast mansions from the robber baron age, but it’s not like the country doesn’t have its elite aristocracy, starting with the plantations of 200 years ago and ending with the country clubs and Crawford-type ranches of today.
It is, in short, a bullshit narrative… and I’d like a stake driven through it, please, along with the myths of rural values and rural self-sufficiency.
It is, in short, a bullshit narrative… and I’d like a stake driven through it, please, along with the myths of rural values and rural self-sufficiency.
Fuck you and your elitist running water and electricity and highways and corn subsidies, man!
if you read “rural values” as “being a conservative asshole.”
I think that’s the key to it. “Rural values” is really just a label, not necessarily anything to do with how non-fictional people who live in the countryside have ever behaved.
Fuck you and your elitist running water and electricity and highways and corn subsidies, man!
Then, ah, can I have it back, man? My inner cities could sure use it!
I got a flyer on my doorknob last week from the local Republican running against the incumbent Dem in the Legislature. He promises less government, lower taxes, better schools and a fix to the local traffic problem (the Y at Oak Hill). He has not been forced to answer the obvious contradictions in his platform. He has a chance to win.
FYWP!
Let me try again:
What are we classifying as a city?
The top 100 population centers. I may have overstated the distance, since the original author doesn’t go into detail about what boundaries he’s using. I took the outer range of the commute-space as the limits. It could be as narrow as fifty miles.
And I’m hurt you didn’t read this…
…or what Chris said better than I did. h/t.
In my experience, suburbanites can be just as bad (if not worse) regarding “rural values,”
Hey! I live in the burbs. I even got a lawn AND a garage!
I got a flyer on my doorknob last week from the local Republican running against the incumbent Dem in the Legislature. He promises less government, lower taxes, better schools and a fix to the local traffic problem (the Y at Oak Hill). He has not been forced to answer the obvious contradictions in his platform. He has a chance to win.
My uber-wealthy, Christie-adoring, yellow-dog Republican friend who works in a lobby has an obsession lately with the slogan “spend less, do more!” (don’t know if she made it up or got it from someone’s campaign)
Yes, there’s an inherent contradiction.
No, it’s not been addressed or even recognized.
Shut up, that’s why.
My uber-wealthy, Christie-adoring, yellow-dog Republican friend who works for some lobbying group here in Washington
Fixed. Note to self; proofreading is your friend.
I’d also like to know how the fuck “rural/urban” became a synonym for “people/elite.”
50% of the Senators in this nation are elected by 16% of the population.
If you have a country where 1/6 of your populace can hold the other 5/6 hostage, by definition, you have an aristocracy.
So, you have to now flip that “people/elite” trope on its head.
My uber-wealthy, Christie-adoring, yellow-dog Republican friend who works in a lobby
Sounds like an appropriate use of her talents.
Hey! I live in the burbs. I even got a lawn AND a garage!
And I grew up in them. The ‘burbs are fickle, unlike the all-out urban and rural areas. Lots of people on both sides of the fence, lot of the “get government out of my life but keep my trains running on time please!” sentiment that’s gotten the country deadlocked. People tend to be more socially liberal and economically conservative. Lots and lots of contradictions that never quite get reconciled, pretty malleable as an overall demographic.
And I’m hurt you didn’t read this…
Aw, I am a meanie.
A lot of the large metropolitan areas are still in what would be classified as red states. I mean, two in the top 100 are Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Not to mention Salt Lake city and Provo.
The narrative isn’t about population density, but about old divides. I mean, I consider where I live to be more urban and progressive than, say Springfield, MO even though the metropolitan area there is 4 times bigger than my city. But we have a much larger black population and, you know, fewer neo-Nazis.
So, you have to now flip that “people/elite” trope on its head.
Yeah. Only question’s how…
Sounds like an appropriate use of her talents.
Actually, she’s having second thoughts.
She’s one of those people who, in the words of someone I can’t remember, is “engaged in search of a superior moral justification for selfishness…” e.g. very self-centered but also pathological need to believe that it’s right, that all is for the best in the best of worlds and that the people she elects really are nice good moral people. Watching the ugliness of politics and the people who work in it (both sides – that’s what the game requires) firsthand hasn’t been good for that belief, so she’s considering dropping out.
Also, Kansas City doesn’t have fucking curbside recycling. What the fuck is that shit?
But from what I get of the article’s arguement – we don’t fear that Officer O’Shaughnessy is a member of the IRA because he’s not a minority.
“Look out, Itchy, he’s Irish!”
The narrative isn’t about population density, but about old divides.
The author’s extension of the urbanization of the United States was that urban areas tend to be underappreciated by the Federal government.
Hand in hand with that is, I think, the shift of values from rural, self-reliance to urban community ideas: that mass transit (including automobile commutes) is a great equalizer, education has value far beyond a degree, and concentrations of population means concentrations of resources.
It’s easy to be ruggedly individualistic when you’re dancing on a wooden floor above your own basement, it’s harder when the guy downstairs is thumping his ceiling with a broom. It requires tolerance and awareness, to live in conditions like that.
I mean, I consider where I live to be more urban and progressive than, say Springfield, MO even though the metropolitan area there is 4 times bigger than my city. But we have a much larger black population and, you know, fewer neo-Nazis.
I’ve heard that there’s a sizable neo-Nazi/KKK-type subculture in the Midwest and rural Northeast. I was wondering; how do these guys interact with the mainstream conservative/teabagger base?
E.G. the people who also blame minorities but don’t you dare touch Israel or criticize the God’s Chosen People, who are also ultra-nationalist but are disgusted by any overt Nazi imagery if only because Hitler was a socialist and he was our enemy in the Great Patriotic War?
She’s one of those people who, in the words of someone I can’t remember, is “engaged in search of a superior moral justification for selfishness…” e.g. very self-centered but also pathological need to believe that it’s right, that all is for the best in the best of worlds and that the people she elects really are nice good moral people.
Who doesn’t want that kind of moral justification that they’re in tune with their environment? The world provide ample evidence that greed and selfishness are, objectively (as in Randian objectivism), correct ways to live your life.
Her neighbors would beg to differ. That’s her dissonance. If you feel like taking on the project, I’d focus on that aspect of her behavior.
I’ve heard that there’s a sizable neo-Nazi/KKK-type subculture in the Midwest and rural Northeast. I was wondering; how do these guys interact with the mainstream conservative/teabagger base?
Here in New York, they nominate Carl Paladino. They ARE the conservative base.
Her neighbors would beg to differ. That’s her dissonance. If you feel like taking on the project, I’d focus on that aspect of her behavior.
I don’t even bother. Friends much less wealthy and much more articulate than me have tried, and couldn’t even begin to get through. Hard to get someone to understand something when her level of wealth depends on her not understanding it.
However, working in political lobbies puts her in the position where she is the “neighbor,” e.g. the lowly staffer who gets ground underfoot by the people who are assholes enough to survive in politics. That’s already changed her outlook on life quite a bit. Started going to church again, volunteers at a local school occasionally, helped sponsor an orphan at one of the local religious organizations – I mean, she’s never going to vote Democrat, but that’s behavior I would never have seen even a year ago.
Being ground underfoot’s a bitch; it can also be a kind of awakening.
Hand in hand with that is, I think, the shift of values from rural, self-reliance to urban community ideas: that mass transit (including automobile commutes) is a great equalizer, education has value far beyond a degree, and concentrations of population means concentrations of resources.
But in a lot of urban areas, that doesn’t exist. I mean, Houston is basically a gigantic suburb. People drive EVERYWHERE. The same for Atlanta, Nashville, Kansas City, etc. A lot of major metropolitan areas in this country include people who live as they would in the country, but with smaller yards. Sure, there’s public transit and communal living, but the people who take advantage of it are usually either a) poor, or b) DFHs/hipsters/teh gay. Or both. Rent/land are still cheap enough that people can afford decently-sized apartments and cars at the same time. You can park on the street in a lot of places (for FREE!) There are enough resources in these areas that the only people who have to share them are poor people. Things will change, sure, but right now, I don’t see much of a difference between middle-class rural living and middle-class suburban living in moderately-sized cities, aside from access to Whole Foods and museums.
“spend less, do more!”
Nothing sets me off like this kind of bullshit economizing. After 10 years of a “jobless recovery” everyone I know who still has a job is doing the work of two or three people. The American work force is the most efficient it ever has been. The ‘fat’ these people want to cut out hasn’t been there for 30 years.
Almost every big management fad of the last 30 years has been ‘lean’ this and ‘efficient’ that. They want to squeeze blood from a turnip. If instead of squeezing their suppliers and workers and soaking their customers, they had concentrated on making reliable products at decent prices and taking care of their suppliers and workers, they would have all the customers they could dream of, because we would still have a middle class that was healthy and ready to buy.
If instead of racing to the bottom with NAFTA, what if we had had a treaty that guaranteed, minimum wage, working condition, education and environmental standards? You’d have an entire hemisphere of customers to sell to. Now, we have a billion or so peasants in North and South America and only a few hundred million people who are in a position to buy anything at all.
Hard to get someone to understand something when her level of wealth depends on her not understanding it.
Yea, I see your point: kinda hard to remind someone “where they came from” when that was Shangrila….
Houston is basically a gigantic suburb. People drive EVERYWHERE.
Yes, they do. They also spend inordinate amounts of time in traffic. That’s the levelling factor I’m speaking of.
I’ve heard that there’s a sizable neo-Nazi/KKK-type subculture in the Midwest and rural Northeast. I was wondering; how do these guys interact with the mainstream conservative/teabagger base?
I try to avoid both groups, so I do not know.
I should stipulate that I’m basing all of what I say in the post above from my personal experience. I mean, I have relatives who live in Houston whose lives are pretty much exactly the same as they would be if they lived here (a town of 100,000). Only they have access to Five Guys.
Here in New York, they nominate Carl Paladino. They ARE the conservative base.
The reason I’m puzzled is that I know people, including family, who are as far rural and conservative as it’s possible to go – and not one of them would be caught dead at an Illinois Nazi rally. It’s not that they aren’t prejudiced; it’s that their prejudices don’t mix, especially and crucially on “the Jewish question,” which is central to both ideologies, but they come at it from completely opposing perspectives.
The conservatives I know, especially religious conservatives, consider the Jewish people to be sacred, divine, and to be protected at all costs – meanwhile, the Illinois Nazis think the Jews are the evil behind everything. That puts them in the same category as Muslims and liberals as enemies of God.
The conservatives I know, especially religious conservatives, consider the Jewish people to be sacred, divine, and to be protected at all costs
Let me say it this way: The Second Coming and Rapture cannot occur until the Temple at Jerusalem can be rebuilt.
That requires the existence of the state of Israel, so they grin and bear the Jews grudgingly.
The conservatives I know, especially religious conservatives, consider the Jewish people to be sacred, divine, and to be protected at all costs
By the way, Mel Gibson? Rick Sanchez? They weren’t saying anything that Christian conservatives around the nation aren’t thinking.
Not true. At least, last I heard they still had it, and it’s included in trash service (compared to where I live — unincorporated county — where we have to pay extra … which we do).
Totes OT:
Shorter St. Loser’s Own Gatefail Pundfail Jimfail Hofail: Curb-stomping liberal women kicks ass! Code Pink is next!.
That’s actually nearly verbatim.
The conservatives I know, especially religious conservatives, consider the Jewish people to be sacred, divine, and to be protected at all costs – Chris
IME, they feel this way about us Jews only when we are settling in the West Bank and hastening Armeggedon. They also like us when we wear our exotic garb and say “politically incorrect” things about gays, abortion, etc.
When faced with real, live Jews who suggest that maybe a creche should not be placed in front of city hall because not everyone celebrates Christmas, then they tend to get really upset about
the Jews killing Jesusthe secular war on Christmas.Shorter St. Loser’s Own Gatefail Pundfail Jimfail Hofail: Curb-stomping liberal women kicks ass! Code Pink is next!.
That’s actually nearly verbatim.
But remember – it’s US who’re the violent ones.
When faced with real, live Jews who suggest that maybe a creche should not be placed in front of city hall because not everyone celebrates Christmas, then they tend to get really upset about the secular war on Christmas.
You see, those are the upstart
Negroesliberal Jews, not thehouse NegroesJews who oppose abortions.BTW also:
“Woman’s head stepped on”.
Thank you, Very Serious Media, for making it sound so un-upsetting.
merdre
So remember kids, if you don’t sin, Jesus died for nothing.
So remember kids, if you don’t sin, Jesus died for nothing.
Oooh, I see a new T shirt in my future…
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“engaged in search of a superior moral justification for selfishness…”
John Kenneth Galbraith. I’d lmtgfy but I happened to remember the quote.
Good point all on the Jews. Love ’em at arms’ length as long as they stay over there, I guess.
“Woman’s head stepped on”.
Like you said. Love the passive tense, as if being stepped on is something that just happens like thunderstorms and hurricanes. And the choice of the word “stepped on” as opposed to “assaulted,” “attacked,” “beaten,” but I suppose those words would indicate a bias.
“My uber-wealthy, Christie-adoring, yellow-dog Republican friend who works in a lobby has an obsession lately with the slogan “spend less, do more!”
in many ways that sounds like DKW’s mom.
“Woman’s head stepped on”.
It’s her own fault for not keeping her head off the ground!
It really does make it sound like she misplaced her head.
Honestly, how do these people breathe without consulting their Palin-brand hand notes?
“Woman’s head stepped on”.
It’s her own fault for not keeping her head off the ground!
It really does make it sound like she misplaced her head.
OK, in fairness, that’s a direct quote from the woman herself
So remember kids, if you don’t sin, Jesus died for nothing.
Ahem.
Get the Dems together
DKW, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in the past month of Sundays.
Yet, day by day and speech by speech, this President has done more damage to race relations than any combination of Presidents since Lyndon Johnson…
Oh, for the lost harmony of days before the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act! The races were so much more harmonious before they started sitting in front of buses with us and mobbing our voting booths with ballots…
and he, at least, tried to make things better with a sincere heart.
I very much doubt if any of us have a clue what’s in Barack’s heart or what was in Lyndon’s. On the other hand, Lyndon Johnson was a white man from Texas, and thus inherently more trustworthy than a black man from Chicago –
I mean, seriously? What the fuck else are we supposed to draw from this?
Honestly, how do these people breathe without consulting their Palin-brand hand notes?
It’s interesting the
autist“author” took a racial meaning from Obama’s comment.I took it to mean the Republicans are just petulant little children who deserve to be seen and not heard so sit in the back, shut up, and let the man drive.
I took it to mean the Republicans are just petulant little children who deserve to be seen and not heard so sit in the back, shut up, and let the man drive.
Yeah, I agree. The author took it to mean “hee hee, now it’s your turn to ride in back!”
And if that was the subtext (which I don’t think it is), I’d assume the “you” isn’t a reference to their being white, but a reference to their being the same racists who howled with outrage when Johnson took away their privileges (exhibit A; the idiot who wrote that sack of drivel).
Not that I would be amiss to them riding in the back of the bus for awhile.
Possibly under it, even.
This is why conservatives are so paranoid. They’re always projecting. See, most of them are incredibly nasty people…and they assume everyone is just like them…that everyone has a mind that works in the same SICK ways.
It is odd that the people who are “taking the country back” are so full of teh butthurt.
Imagine if the Colonials had been as whiny. We’d still be using shillings and pounds….
Imagine if the Colonials had been as whiny. We’d still be using shillings and pounds….
If the Original Americans had been this whiny, we’d actually have English for a national language and Christianity for a national religion.
But they weren’t and we don’t. In your face, bitchez!
This is why conservatives are so paranoid. They’re always projecting. See, most of them are incredibly nasty people…and they assume everyone is just like them…that everyone has a mind that works in the same SICK ways.
And on the flip side, the loony libs tend to think that all people are similar to them. That they will be nice to you if you are nice to them and that facts and reason will have an impact on them.
And if that was the subtext (which I don’t think it is), I’d assume the “you” isn’t a reference to their being white, but a reference to their being the same racists who howled with outrage when Johnson took away their privileges (exhibit A; the idiot who wrote that sack of drivel).
Well, before he talks about the back seat he tells us that the middle class should be riding shotgun. I believe the middle class is still predominately white in this country, but I’m sure that is actually central to his point.
Well, before he talks about the back seat he tells us that the middle class should be riding shotgun. I believe the middle class is still predominately white in this country, but I’m sure that is actually central to his point.
OMG, the president is suggesting a chinese fire drill! How racist of him!
Malfunctioning, Pointless Literary Affect Robot said,
Oooh, burn. Um, I guess I’ll to back to, like, not contributing to the conversation or, like, whatever. Too.
I like that Red State assumes that the Republicans are all white. No, wait, that’s almost true.
This is why conservatives are so paranoid. They’re always projecting. See, most of them are incredibly nasty people…and they assume everyone is just like them…that everyone has a mind that works in the same SICK ways.
One of many such examples; their obsession with the supposed secret plot by Mexican immigrants to start a revolution, seize control of the Southwest, and then rejoin Mexico.
Why such an obsession with such an unlikely idea? Why, because that’s exactly how their ancestors won the Southwest almost two centuries ago… move to Mexico, refuse to obey Mexican law, start a revolution and then join the Union.
Not everybody’s like them, but try getting that into their heads. And good call to Sirius that liberals have the same problem, in their own well-meaning way…
Houston is basically a gigantic suburb. People drive EVERYWHERE.
Yes, they do. They also spend inordinate amounts of time in traffic. That’s the levelling factor I’m speaking of.
Oh, definitely. But I don’t think it’s enough to shake the narrative of individualism and country folk can survive and shit–at least, not yet.
If we’re talking about a shift from rugged individualistic values to more communal values (which are, oddly enough, the ACTUAL backbone of rural values, even if fucktard conservatives don’t understand it), people in sprawling metropolises aren’t necessarily ready/able to do it. At least, as long as gas stays relatively cheap and water is somewhat plentiful.
50% of the Senators in this nation are elected by 16% of the population.
Surely noone could have anticipated that the terrorists would use America’s electoral disparity to roll back her basic freedoms & destroy the major institutions of a civilized society.
I’m sure some of them were. The Royalists.
Some things never change.
This is why I’m glad I’m a mean lib. I suffer under no such delusions.
77South once again makes me literally LOL.
77South once again makes me literally LOL.
yay!
Don’t suppose all y’all could talk a bit more about Italian motorcycles? http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org/ is down and I need my daily dose of moto-specific rumors and bullshit.
Fiqxsed for relevance to myself.
Curb-stomping liberal women kicks ass! Code Pink is next!
Beatings will continue until our public image improves!
I’m sure some of them were. The Royalists.
Actually the Old Empire Loyalists were just as hardy as anyone else back then. A Teatard would be lucky to survive through an entire year of Ye Olde Colonial life.
If we’re talking about a shift from rugged individualistic values to more communal values (which are, oddly enough, the ACTUAL backbone of rural values, even if fucktard conservatives don’t understand it), people in sprawling metropolises aren’t necessarily ready/able to do it. At least, as long as gas stays relatively cheap and water is somewhat plentiful.
Bingo. All this shit about rugged individualism will only go as far as cheap energy and “free” water. When that inevitably changes there’s gonna be some serious culture shock going on.
If we’re talking about a shift from rugged individualistic values to more communal values (which are, oddly enough, the ACTUAL backbone of rural values, even if fucktard conservatives don’t understand it)
Like Whale Chowder says, bingo. There’s a reason why Democrats used to be the party of the South and were able to reach out to rural Northerners (W. J. Bryan most obviously). Yes, being a more conservative party that deferred to religious and racial passions helped… but if you were a rural American in the 1930s, it was a lot harder to forget the fact that your survival depended on your community and that no man was an island.
Here we are, several generations later, rural America’s become a measely minority and decades of big government have blanketed us, even in most rural areas, from all the indignities our ancestors had to suffer through. So it’s easy to forget what life was actually like and talk dreamily about this bullshit narrative, half-Hollywood and half-Fox News agitprop, about the way things used to be. But if we ever actually went back there, they’d be calling for revolution by the end of the work week.
I like how your photoshop makes twitter look all ransom-notey.