Obama can restore the promise of the election by forging a government of national unity, welcoming business leaders, Republicans and independents into the fold. But if he is to bring Democrats and Republicans together, the president cannot be seen as an advocate of a particular party, but as somebody who stands above politics, seeking to forge consensus. And yes, the United States will need nothing short of consensus if we are to reduce the deficit and get spending under control, to name but one issue.

I.E. Obama’s going to have to forgo re-election if he’s going to kiss up to the wingnuts.

BTW, nobody except Washington pundits is worried about the deficit. Oh, and lying GOP asses who want to cut social programs even further.

BTW also. Those pictures look uncomfortably like their O-faces.

Yuk.

BTW, nobody except Washington pundits is worried about the deficit.

Or bipartisanship.

Did they recommend Mark Penn for the transition team?

Maybe Attorney General Hedley Lamarr could broker a deal where Obama has to become sheriff of Rock Ridge?

Strangely, an Internet search to see if the duo urged George Bush to resign when the Democrats captured control of the 110th Congress yields no results.

Bush didn’t have to resign because he was a WAH PREZNIT and therefore had the unity of the U.S. behind him to begin with Besides, he wasn’t all dusky and polarizing and uppity and stuff.

Maybe Attorney General Hedley Lamarr could broker a deal where Obama has to become sheriff of Rock Ridge?

“What did he say?”

“I think he said the President’s near!”

I recognize the picture. These are the same guys that wanted the lone black player to resign from the South African rugby team, for the sake of unity. They are cheering in that photo, ‘Go Springboks!’

The fact is, the disturbing fact remains that virtually the entire paper trail of Barack Obama’s existence from birth to the White House continues to remain deeply hidden away.

Obama’s original typewritten long form birth certificate, school records, SAT and LSAT scores, college and law school admission records and grade transcripts and thesis papers, medical records, passport history, Illinois state senate tenure records, presidential campaign foreign donor lists, complete White House visitor logs and other relevant records and documents have all never been released or allowed to be subjected to any sort of scrutiny, despite several years of repeated requests for disclosure by numerous individuals and non-traditional media organizations.

The Obama 2008 campaign and subsequent administration have to date spent a considerable sum on legal fees, estimated in the millions of dollars, to fight Freedom of Information Act filings and other requests to examine this material.

The mainstream media and various other Obamapologists are quick to selectively and purposefully focus on the so-called “birthers” whenever any mention is made of the growing awareness of the fact that Barack Obama continues to conceal virtually the entire paper trail of his existence in a tight shroud of secrecy.

By portraying the birthers as irrational or deranged individuals obsessed with the belief that Obama was born in Kenya or elsewhere outside of the United States, they seek to both ridicule that possibility and to avoid any emphasis on the astounding totality of secrecy that hides practically every record and document from Obama’s past.

In fact, astute observers in corridors of power around the world and other quarters have always regarded Obama’s infamous original typewritten long form birth certificate, the subject of much discussion and controversy, as the least relevant piece of the hidden puzzle.

Barack Obama’s place of birth and paternity are of far less importance to the future of the United States than the truth about what makes him tick and who is pulling his strings, so to speak.

Whether the current president’s biological father was the late Kenyan bigamist Barack Obama “Sr.” or the late CPUSA member and radical activist Frank Marshall Davis or the late “grandfather” Stanley Dunham (arguably the likeliest candidate – see cashill.com among other sources) or some other man is less relevant than the truth about Obama’s past associations and ideological convictions and behavioral influences and ongoing relationships.

This is the sort of information about their presidential candidates that modern postwar American voters had become accustomed to having the mainstream media provide for them.

That is, up until 2008, when the mainstream media gave Barack Obama an astonishing free pass on this basic issue of personal truth and transparency.

Barack Obama was presented in 2008 as a brilliant intellectual with stellar Ivy League credentials whose calm, cool and collected low key style would transform the culture of Washington and usher in a new era of postracial harmony while achieving miracles of bipartisan cooperation.

We all know how that worked out.

There exists widespread and growing speculation that an objective examination of Barack Obama’s hidden paper trail would clearly indicate that his meteoric rise up the educational and career ladders was largely the result of multiple affirmative action decisions and that his reputation as a brilliant intellectual was a careful fabrication.

In short, just another leftist ideologue big city machine politician who has cleverly used his race to get ahead and get over.

Barack Obama and his handlers were able to successfully hide his past and explain away and minimize his associations with controversial individuals and groups during their 2008 campaign.

Will they be able to effectively repeat this deception between now and 6 November 2012?

The fact is, Obama is black, and socilist and Hitler, to.

We all know how that worked out.

Yeah. He reached across the aisle again and again and all the Repubs had to say in response was “we hope he fails.”

In short, just another leftist ideologue big city machine politician who has cleverly used his race to get ahead and get over.

Yes. Being black has historically been such a crucial advantage in winning over American voters…

I wonder if I could get a well-paying gig as the token liberal who denounces Obama and the Democrats and talk about how it’s the Republicans who can lead us to the bipartisan solutions that 8 million % of Americans want?

Also, any Democratic President should immediately resign upon taking office if elected, to avoid the hideous crimes against the Constitution and Confederate re-enactors he will soon commit.

I have looked and looked, but governmen officials refuse to turn over to me my novel-length long form birth certificate written in cursive by the governor of my state. Without that, I’m pretty sure I’m a Ghanaian anti-colonialist.

I wonder if I could get a well-paying gig as the token liberal who denounces Obama and the Democrats and talk about how it’s the Republicans who can lead us to the bipartisan solutions that 8 million % of Americans want?

I don’t know, EC. You might be drowned under the sheer size of your competition.

Will they be able to effectively repeat this deception between now and 6 November 2012?

You know who also wrote dates in that format?

Here in Ohio (like Pennsylvania next door), voter participation was down from 2006. But a bunch of olds came out to vote against the wrong-colored usurper from Kenya, and to have their Social Security and Medicaid cut.

Yay!
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presidential campaign foreign donor lists, complete White House visitor logs and other relevant records and documents have all never been released or allowed to be subjected to any sort of scrutiny,

A complete 180 from Bush in every possible way.

A complete 180 from Bush in every possible way.

Accountability and transparency only apply if the President is a Democrat. Double if he’s an anti-colonialist Kenyan usurper.

How did we let this Ruppert dolt, and his copy ‘n’ pastiness, hijack this thread?

(pounding head on keyboard)

Also, any Democratic President should immediately resign upon taking office if elected, to avoid the hideous crimes against the Constitution and Confederate re-enactors he will soon commit.

Yes, but with certain stipulations.

== Not only the President, but all non-reactionaries in positions of authority must resign as well. All of them must immediately move to Spitsbergen.

== As he resigns, the President must also accept full personal responsibility for all the fuck-ups that were committed by the previous Republican regime, and he must accept full personal responsibility for all the fuck-ups that are going to be committed to the incoming Republican regime. He must also admit that any positive achievements on his part were actually especially shameful fuck-ups, or were the result of wingnut mind-control rays.

== He must apologize. For everything. Repeatedly. The details are not important. He must continue issuing abject apologies on a weekly basis for the remainder of his life. It then becomes the obligation of his descendants to continue issuing apologies for a minimum of forty years, at which point a panel of Fox News commentators will determine if further apologies are necessary.

One wonders if Caddell and Schoen’s solution to rape would be for women to be more accomidating.

(pounding head on keyboard)

Your mileage may very, but that method does not sound painless to me.
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I’m pretty certain the two recommend teen suicide as the only effective solution to bullying.

East River Brandi.

One wonders if Caddell and Schoen’s solution to rape would be for women to be more accomidating.

Yes, they would be forced to cheer for their rapists.

Those pictures look uncomfortably like their O-faces.

It is said that Rupert Murdoch’s and Roger Ailes’ fellationary techniques deliver a level of pleasure that mortals find almost unbearable.

I thought the Jane Hamsher bit was a good troll.

Ok say I’m in denial, but the country as a whole did not repudiate Obama or the Democrats, only the few who bothered to vote, typical in midterms. The Washington Post poll just before the election showed that among unlikely voters the electorate favored Democrats 59% to 31% (among likely voters it was Republicans over Democrats 49% to 45%). Of course the actual votes are what count, but don’t say, as Schoen and Caddell did, that Obama no longer has the consent of the governed. That’s ridiculous. Maybe I am in denial, but the victors surely are filled with hubris, and we know how that usually turns out.

Ok say I’m in denial, but…

Bah. You’re just resorting to rational analysis and common-sense observation and other such far-left wackiness.

“Of course the actual votes are what count…”

oh you poor naïf

nobody except Washington pundits is worried about the deficit.

The NY Times web site has an interactive “you balance the budget” game. I decided to stick to my islamofascistcommie principals and entered all sorts of tax raises on the rich without reducing benefits. My result was a $200,000,000,000 surplus for the 2015 budget and a $180,000,000,000 deficit in 2030. Sounds good to me, since the odds of a 2010 projection being accurate for 2030 is damned unlikely.

To all the D’s who think they have to play the R game to take care of the budget: fuck you.

“Of course the actual votes are what count…”

oh you poor naïf

“As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” – William Marcy Tweed.

“are,” too.

What pisses me off is these cats have figured out they can probably get Obama to resign — eventually he’ll capitulate just to avoid seeming partisan or something.

Then again, I’m so butthurt at this point I wouldn’t vote for Obama again if the only alternative was the rotting corpse of Tiny Tim. My nose is coming off that my face might know spite.

nobody except Washington pundits is worried about the deficit.

Also, idiots who call Washington Journal. Mind you, they also tend to be extremely concerned about George Soros and fiat money, so, you have to wonder why anybody bothers to listen to them, other than the hosts of Washington Journal, who are presumably paid to.

Trickle down didn’t ever do anything for the economy, but it sure seems to work for Conventional Wisdom.

== He must apologize. For everything. Repeatedly. The details are not important. He must continue issuing abject apologies on a weekly basis for the remainder of his life. It then becomes the obligation of his descendants to continue issuing apologies for a minimum of forty years, at which point a panel of Fox News commentators will determine if further apologies are necessary.

Silly lib! By that point, Fox News will have been exposed as a RINO liberal institution and replaced by a True Conservative news network.

The Washington Post poll just before the election showed that among unlikely voters the electorate favored Democrats 59% to 31% (among likely voters it was Republicans over Democrats 49% to 45%).

Seems like in general, the overall public is more liberal than the voting public.

So, asks a person relatively ignorant of such things, why don’t they turnout in higher numbers – why do the people who stay at home seem more likely to be on our side? Is it just because they’re tired of voting for corporaDems? Has anyone ever studied this in-depth?

Reagan proved deficits don’t matter. We won the midterms. This is our due.

why do the people who stay at home seem more likely to be on our side?

Actually voting is too confrontational. It’s too shrill. It involves taking a side when what we really need to do is recognize our common humanity and hope for the best.

But if he is to bring Democrats and Republicans together, the president cannot be seen as an advocate of a particular party, but as somebody who stands above politics, seeking to forge consensus.

See? Toldja.

Lots of people are worried about the deficit. None of those people advocate tax cuts.

But if he is to bring Democrats and Republicans together, the president cannot be seen as an advocate of a particular party, but as somebody who stands above politics, seeking to forge consensus.

Some asshole was on NPR the other day saying sure there should be compromise: Obama should do whatever Republicans want.

And now, trolling myself because I have nothing else to do for the next ten minutes . . . I like Jon Stewart as much as anybody, I guess, but he brought a whole boatload of Wrong with him to the Maddow interview, in which he stupidly agreed with pretty much every dumb thing I said in my last comment. Sorry if y’all already digested this interview in another thread or something. I’ve been busy lately.

So someone thought that the fevered wet dreams of these guys should be onna Teevee? Did their moms want their basements back or somethin’

Every time a Democrat uses the words “reaching across the aisle”, God kills a kitten.

“Some asshole was on NPR the other day saying sure there should be compromise: Obama should do whatever Republicans want.”

This is the NEW “compromise.”. Hadn’t you heard?

Then again, I’m so butthurt at this point I wouldn’t vote for Obama again if the only alternative was the rotting corpse of Tiny Tim

Now a dead Tiny Tim slate, there is a program I could support.

Harold Ford would surely approve. He was on MTP this morning blathering on about not listening to the voices on the far right and left. What I want to know is what qualifies as far left these days? Honestly. What does that mean…when the debate continues to be pushed ever rightward?

Far left is anything that makes Peggy Noonan’s pet dolphin cry

Are you a good troll or a bad troll?

I just now actually read the article. I believe I misjudged Schoen and Caddell – I thought they were just a pair of miserable hacks, but these guys are clearly brilliant parody trolls who’ve slipped a piece of comic genius onto the WaPo op-ed page. Who else could come up with lines like these:

…if the president were to demonstrate a clear degree of bipartisanship, it would force the Republicans to meet him halfway. If they didn’t, they would look intransigent…

Should the president (refuse to seek reelection), he – and the country – would face virtually no bad outcomes…

…we make this proposal with the deepest sincerity and hope for him and for the country.

Additional giggles can be found at the close of the piece, where Schoen and Caddell are both described as high-level Democratic Party operatives and no mention is made of Fox News.

Who else could come up with lines like these:

Somebody so fucking stupid they could actually mean them.

This has been another episode of SATSQ.

Obama must resign because every single adult in the USA repudiated him and his policies and his citizenship, because the Republicans won this election.

We’re all Tea Partiers now!! 15% percent of the population has spoken. Bitter old white people have spoken!!

Wait..Gary Ruppert says the likeliest candidate to be Obama’s father is his maternal grandfather?? Then how did he get to be Black? I’s confused!

Obama must resign because every single adult in the USA repudiated him and his policies and his citizenship, because the Republicans won this election.

One of the reasons Caddell and Schoen actually give for calling on Obama to resign is “The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.” He is not supported by Republicans and therefore he should not hold office.

Amazing stuff.

One of the reasons Caddell and Schoen actually give for calling on Obama to resign is “The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.” He is not supported by Republicans and therefore he should not hold office.

Yes, but because Obama said that there wasn’t a red America and blue America, and it has been proven that there is a red America and it is in fact entirely red now this means he was lying and has no support and should step down, and perhaps seppuku should be considered.

What I want to know is what qualifies as far left these days?

Ideas presented by past Republicans as acceptably conservative compromises like Mitt Romneycare and cap-and-trade. Also a return to tax rates lower than under Reagan. OOH LEFTISM SO SCARY.

What I want to know is what qualifies as far left these days?

Think of the way reformists, undesirables and unpopular former Party leaders were always denounced as “right wing” or “capitalists” under the Soviet Union. That’s roughly how meaningful the word “left” is in the U.S. It’s an epithet and nothing more.

Chris, plz see last thread.

Er, and I mean, because I said something to you there. Not responding to your comment about epithetiness.

Also, part of the problem re. epithetosity is that we have a cartoon defintion of politics in America: Republican/Democrat, libera/conservative. Those who don’t pay much attention, and stupid people, don’t understand that there are things further left than liberal, or that Al Gore is not a liberal just because he’s a Democrat, or that there are things further right than conservative.

Then ya gots yer media types who maybe lazy about going into further details (statism vs. libertarianism, also, too), then ya got yer folks who are playing mendacious games. (Doughy Pantload.)

That’s roughly how meaningful the word “left” is in the U.S. It’s an epithet and nothing more.

Which makes it all the more disturbing when supposed Democrats use it so carelessly.

Chris, plz see last thread.

Never read Nixonland, but always like to read – it’s been put on the list.

Should the president (refuse to seek reelection), he – and the country – would face virtually no bad outcomes…

Other than the inevitable swing in the presidency to the Teabagger right, thus (in the preset environment) giving us four more years of worse-than-Bush.

But yeah, nothing other than that.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/144491/Palin-Unfavorable-Score-Hits-New-High.aspx

I don’t know what’s happening, but I like it.

“Nixonland” is probably in my top five of the past decade, at least non-fictionwise.. I always felt like “Before the Storm”, which is almost as fascinating a read, got comparatively short shrift* though.

*VPR

Shorter Schoen and Caddell: Obama must act more Republican!

Shorter Hamsher: Obama must act more Democratic!

Shorter Sadly No!: False Equivalence? It’s not just for Jon Stewart anymore!

The fastest way to fix the deficit:
Tax the shit out of rich people (which still leaves them filthy rich, just not Buy My Own Planet in Another Galaxy and the Means to Travel There Rich) and stop making weapons we don’t need at a 5000% markup.

Unfortunately, these are the very things that make wingnuts’ penises wither and die, and we need them so very badly to populate the planet with more idiots to buy Snuggies and Cheetos.

Joseph Heller is coordinating these events from beyond the grave.

Shorter Hamsher: Obama must act more Democratic!

Hamsher has a history of homophobic and racist remarks. I REALLY have a hard time believing she gives a shit about gay people or sick people or whatever her issue du jour is. She just likes getting on TV.

She has fucking zero interest in Obama being more Democratic and fucking zero credibility doing anything that isn’t in Jane Hamsher’s own self-promotional best interest.

So both sides are attention whores who will say anything to get attention, and both argue the president should step down. But yeah, totally different. Good call there. Thanks for clearing that one up.

Shorter El Gato Negro: Analogies are hard! Let’s go fagbagging!

So, I’m curious, Gato Negro, when Hamsher paired up with Grover Norquist, you think she was doing that to make the president act more Democratic?

Seriously, do you honestly believe that, or are you like Hamsher — willing to say whatever will get people pissed off and give you attention?

Yes, not running for a second term giving Obama a chance to be a great president is like believing that tax cuts for the rich will end up meaning higher revenues because of the economic stimulus those tax cuts create. What is it with conservatives and their magical thinking? Fucking morons.

By the way, let you nutty faglovin’ lefty commietards think for a single instant that the privileged wealthy few who will take the helm of America’s future are going to do so unprepared, viddy this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmJob5rbNM

This — out of all the ghastly, life-sapping horrors available in the world — this has broken me.

lest, not let. Waiter!

It’s broomstick-up-their-asses training.

Gary Ruppert sez:

Harrumph! The fact is blah, blah, blah, blah, nigger, blah, blah, blah, shiftless, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, gangsta, blah, blah, blah, blah, furriner, blah, blah, blah, blah, jiving nigger, blah, blah, blah, blah did I mention nigger?, blah, blah, blah, blah, uppity, blah, blah, blah, sambo, blah, blah, blah, mandingo, blah, blah, blah, angry nigger, blah, blah, blah, feckless tool of liberal carpetbaggers, blah, blah, blah, and harrumph!.

This — out of all the ghastly, life-sapping horrors available in the world — this has broken me.

In the nerd hierarchy, I think we’ve finally found someone that furries can look down on.

@eastriver:

How did we let this Ruppert dolt, and his copy ‘n’ pastiness, hijack this thread?

(pounding head on keyboard)

A better solution would be Greasemonkey and SN_Burdizzo. Seriously.

It’s splintery broomstick-up-their-asses training.

In the nerd hierarchy, I think we’ve finally found someone that furries can look down on.

Thank you. Perhaps, after all, I can make sense of this and move on. Let us yiff.

How surprising would it be if Obama took them up on it?

Just saw “Fair Game.” I can’t say it was a good time–I don’t usually feel my best when I’m seething with outrage–but it was a hell of a movie. If Naomi Watts doesn’t get at least nominated for an Oscar, there is no God.

Hamsher has a history of homophobic and racist remarks. I REALLY have a hard time believing she gives a shit about gay people or sick people…

Well, I don’t know what she has or hasn’t said about gay people, but she’s a breast cancer survivor. Presumably that would make her sympathetic at least to sick people.

both argue the president should step down

Where has anyone even nominally “on the left’ said that?

Where has anyone even nominally “on the left’ said that?

The nut-picking answers (not to be taken seriously of course), FDL vs. SN! Smackdown!:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22obama+should+resign%22+site%3Afiredoglake.com&ie=UTF-8

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22obama+should+resign%22+site%3Asadlyno.com&ie=UTF-8

Please, y’all. Don’t turn this into the Balloon Juice threads. The puns are bad enough, but if this is going to become an ongoing dick-fight on whether or not Jane Hamsher should be shunned or championed, I’m gonna go find mikey.

Mikey’s here: http://yougotttaconsiderthesource.blogspot.com/

Thanks. I think.

Gnome the venusian lizard man just died insanely. He fought that grotesque bonito but couldn’t last. He used to cross those mandibles with that sense of concentration each time he used the litter-box.

Continuing the K-Lo theme of showcasing the wonderful donors to the National Review:

From a $100 contributor to National Review Online’s fundraising drive: “Thanks for being a ray of hope in in the darkness.”

…if this is going to become an ongoing dick-fight on whether or not Jane Hamsher should be shunned or championed, I’m gonna go find mikey.

Especially when the real question is whether we should support Woodrow goddamned Wilson or William Jennings motherfucking Bryan.

There is a certain kind of rapist that fantasizes about his victim falling in love with him. These guys remind me of that, for some reason.These guys are certainly predatory, but their delusions make them weak. That type of rapist is the easiest kind to get away from, because they really expect the woman they grab to fall into their arms and swoon. These guys aren’t Democrats anymore than the delusional romantic rapist is a Romeo.Democrats should just kick these guys in the nuts verbally and walk away. There is no use in fighting or arguing that you don’t see their logic, don’t want to lie down for them, don’t think that they’re crazy as bed bugs to even think such a ridiculous thing.

It’s astounding how popular and mainstream pathology has become.

Thanks for being a ray of hope in in the darkness.

Contributors to NRO are indeed golden shafts in the darkness.

Even when they win, these clowns can’t seem to wring the stench of flop sweat and desperation from their every word.

That’s fucked up.

The straight upper-class white woman is the Jew of Obamofascism.

Oy vey;

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101114/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_cabinet_reshuffle article about the French cabinet getting reshuffled in a way that benefits conservatives. But the actual article isn’t the point;

A proud American commenter;

The french are so arrogant but if it wasn’t for the Americans, they would be goose steppin.

An even prouder American commenter;

If the French were goose stepping, as you put it, they wouldn’t have these immigrant problems today. They would be enjoying the peace and prosperity of the Thousand Year Reich. Sometimes you just gotta wonder if we fought for the right side in that war.

Heil, bitchez!

I was wondering when the fascists would finally drop the “we’re protecting you from the real fascists!” act and claim their heritage. Well, here’s one who has…

The NY Times web site has an interactive “you balance the budget” game.

I expect that the 2030 #s reflect a huge expansion in Medicare spending and looking at their “solutions” confirms this. Of course, I don’t seem to see anything about, oh, letting the government use its buying power to negotiate drug prices, legislating profit margins for providers or, heaven forfend, single-payer health care for all.

I see a distinct lack of other possible revenue sources as well. A transaction tax on Wall Street trades, for instance, would do double duty collecting money and making HVT less palatable. Simply enforcing the environmental laws already on the books could generate billions in fines. Bog knows, if there were some sort of plan to get back some of the $15 trillion shoveled down the QE/TARP/bailout hole, we could about stop worrying entirely.

Haaaaaahaaahaaahaaaaaaahaaahaaaaaaaa.

Sometimes I kill myself.

Sometimes I kill myself.

But even without all those great options you’re asking for, it’s still possible to fix the problems by simply taxing the rich.

They would be enjoying the peace and prosperity of the Thousand Year Reich.

Ah, yes. The peaceful, laid-back Third Reich. Those were the days.

NYT also has a calculator for looking at your savings rate for retirement planning:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/24/your-money/one-pct-more-calculator.html

With its usual Mr. Magoo visual acuity of the world, the Times folks seeded the income field at $100,000. You know, a normal baseline income. (Insert Albert Brooks joke here.)

Fucking belligerent right wing authoritarians! If the war in Europe had gone on three more months, we’d have been nuking the shit out of cities there. And these RWA jackasses would be crowing about that to this day. If we hadn’t all died of leukemia. Yeah, imagine if we’d gotten busy with those bombs 1945, and had burned up a lot more than two cities and spread their dust around the planet.

I don’t know if above-ground testing in the desert made for less fallout dust than burning cities…

The Germans had plans to fly planes to NYC and nuke it, too, they were just way behind schedule compared to us on planes and bombs. Why, it’s as if the less racist society with the more tolerant attitude towards immigration of unpopular minorities wound up with some of the world’s greatest physicists…

I am a not-wealthy (oh, so not wealthy) spinster lady living in a very wealthy area just north of San Francisco, and I and many of my actual wealthy fellow citizens voted most recently in a way that would fucking shock the fucking consciences of most Beltway pundits and other dispensers of apparent but fraudulent air-quote wisdom end air-quote. This posits that they have consciences, btw.

My community will always be targeted for special scorn on account of many of its residents’ wealth, but I have to tell you, they are not lying about their values, and they oftentimes put their money (ranging from a wee bit to a lot) where their mouths are, and a lot of them know damn well that everyone does better when everyone is doing better.

So, yeah, there’s no hope nowhere, but still, there are persons what have some good will toward their neighbors who ended up underwater, or who selected the wrong parents, or who were so inelegant that they couldn’t even get born without something get fucked up.

Is it enough? Nope. But it’s not nothing.

MEANWHILE, a mournful heartsick spinster such as moi (and please note, I am the spinster with no nieces or nephews) can take refuge in imagination and escapey entertainment. I have buried the lede. I am such a little doofus.

I am half-way through Rise Again, the brand new OMG zombie novel written by the artist known here as Spengler Dampniche (I do not know why), which book I bought with my very own hard-to-come-by money, from my local independent bookstore (on account of paying local sales tax is important), and I am enjoying the heck out of it.

The action commences forthwith (there’s none of that Michener-style setting of the scene starting with the Jurassic era), the characters are people, not sock puppets or MarySues, and there is just enough of a razor-sharp political edge to be intriguing. In fact, I am going to shut up now because the whole freakin universe is depressing the freakin hell out of me, and dog help me, I like our guy Barack – shut up! – and I have a novel that needs reading.

BRAWK! Rachel Carson’s worse than Hitler! BRAWK!*

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2008/05/rehabilitatingcarson/

I wish that wingnut talking point was something I made up for satiricial purposes, but once again, satire is outmatched by lunacy. They’re saying she’s killed more folks than Hiitler.

This essay gives a history of how DDT has come to be a fetish subject for the lunatic right lately. Would you believe the tobacco lobby was involved? Because they just like trashing peoples’ trust in science? I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you. (Somehow I suspect these fuckers expect nothing but the finest of science when their doctor prescribes them a medication, or they get on a jetliner.)

* Paulie the NBC Peacock reference

Koutny Meath kid, thanks for the tip re. Perlstein’s Goldwater book. I shall add it to my list. Nixon was the vampire of my yute. BG just seems a little prehistoric, less of, well, a wolfman. ARRROOOOOO!!

I believe Perlstein’s next book will be about the 1970’s. Long, informative, and frustrating bit in The Nation by him lately, about the 70’s:

http://www.thenation.com/article/155492/seventies-show

Whoa, Spengler wrote “Rise Again”? I’ve heard really great buzz about it…

Strangely, an Internet search to see if the duo urged George Bush to resign when the Democrats captured control of the 110th Congress yields no results.

Only because it is so gauche of Democrats tell Republicans what to do.

gauche

Cheese-eating surrender monkey.

Scott, ze buzz, it iz accurate.

Quantitative Easing Explained

This must see video explaining the Fed’s shenanigans will make you laugh & make you sick. Pass it along.

Alternative Caption: INVISIBLE RUPERT MURDOCH’S DONG.

Forgoing another term would not render Obama a lame duck. Paradoxically, it would grant him much greater leverage with Republicans and would make it harder for opponents such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) – who has flatly asserted that his highest priority is to make Obama a one-term president – to be uncooperative.

“Words mean only what I want them to mean!” The Queen Of Hearts gets a sex-change & undergoes binary fission to score a gig on FOX.

Yeah, Turtle-Boy & The Human Carrot wouldn’t DARE oppose someone they know can’t campaign against their dirty tricks – after all, what could they possibly gain by degrading Obama’s legacy? It’s not like they’re his opponents or anything.

The fulcrum of Obama’s “leverage” will be provided by either the Loch Ness Monster’s PENIS or a mound of unicorn POOP. Surrendering pre-emptively to those out to destroy you creates an inpenetrable force-field made of pixie-farts … THE MOAR YOU KNOW!

If the president adopts our suggestion, both sides will be forced to compromise.

Republicans will gladly lose at least half their core constituency in order not to look like poopyheads in the eyes of people who’ll never vote for them no matter what, because of … THE POWER OF MAGIC!

The alternative, we fear, will put the nation at greater risk.

Heartless libtards make Concern Trolls cry!

We are convinced that if Obama immediately declares his intention not to run for reelection, he will be able to unite the country, provide national and international leadership, escape the hold of the left, isolate the right and achieve results that would be otherwise unachievable.

“Wow, I think I saw Tinkerbell’s wing twitch! CLAP HARDER!”

Quite educational to see how much Vichy French has been spoken in the media by “concerned moderates” since the November elections. It’s also going to be edifying to see how they respond when the new nutjobs are sworn in & the real comedy of errors gets rolling. “If Obama doesn’t accept the vital need for Congress to investigate what brand of after-shave he uses, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON & AMERICA IS OVER.”

It’s astounding how popular and mainstream pathology has become.

Relevant blogwhoring rant goes here.

I fear our President is already using this tactic.

OMG, did you hear that? They’re CONVINCED!!1!1!11!

I mean, what MORE do you want?

Quantitative Easing Explained

I laughed. I cried. I laughed until I cried.

Two thumbs up (the pooper).

Paulie the NBC Peacock reference

Excellent. Where are those Conan writers now?

Alright [sighing resignedly] that’s the last time I try to resuscitate one of these things.

Now drink up & clear out, it’s 0200 by my clock.

The french are so arrogant but if it wasn’t for the Americans, they would be goose steppin.

gota’ love that shit…,. it amazes me that there are still folk that think like that. While it is true that the Americans assisted Western Europe, it is unlikely that the Nazi’s would have been welcomed with open arms if the Yanks hadn’t been around. It plausible to think, Europe wide, lots of local resistance movements, with the Russians probably helping arm them. I doubt it would have been ‘Springtime for Hitler’.

Also when you mention the fact that if it wasn’t for the French, the American revolution would have been a whoop-ass victory for the British,the response tendsto be; ‘LA LA LA,CANT HEAR YOU’….. fucken numbnuts.

OK, back to teh .snark……

Quantitative Easing Explained

Sorry to be that guy, but I had to stop as they bungled deflation by ignoring the real problems with it, pretending it’s just about lower prices for consumers and who wouldn’t want that?

We’re supposed to be the reality based people, the ones who can look at the historical record. Deflation has never worked out well.

I’m all for things that do a good job of unpacking elite euphemisms and codespeak into the horrid things they really are but not when they oversimplify and appeal to common sense where it is a poor guide to the consequences. Just so everyone’s clear, under deflation:

1) wages also go down
2) your mortgage, car loan and other debts do not go down, and most people have these things so they become heavier burdens under lower wages
3) there’s no good way to stop deflation once it starts since that big ticket item you’re looking to buy gets “cheaper” every week, you might just keep waiting to buy it

Krugman has spent about 1 in 3 posts over the past year on the dangers of deflation so I’m not real sympathetic to people not having at least awareness of the issue. It’s fun to mock Bernanke and all, but at least QE2 has something approaching the right diagnosis of the problem. There’s still plenty of people yelling at them to fear hyperinflation and raise interest rates.

gota’ love that shit…,. it amazes me that there are still folk that think like that. While it is true that the Americans assisted Western Europe, it is unlikely that the Nazi’s would have been welcomed with open arms if the Yanks hadn’t been around. It plausible to think, Europe wide, lots of local resistance movements, with the Russians probably helping arm them. I doubt it would have been ‘Springtime for Hitler’.

The biggest contribution the Yanks made to the war was money and resources. True, our troops didn’t come into play until the tide of the war had already turned, which (El Alamein and Stalingrad) was accomplished by British and Soviet troops, not American. But it’s American supplies that let the Brits and possibly the Sovs last long enough for that in the first place.

That, and in your scenario with resistance being sponsored entirely by the Russians… if your only two choices are Hitler and Stalin, you’re fucked either way. American occupation wasn’t perfect, far from it, ask the French, but it was leaps and bounds ahead of Soviet “liberation” in Eastern Europe.

Gunnery Sergeant Fanned-Exertion’s Ganges River Dolphin Salad

I think I am a gentle day dreamer at heart sometimes. Ok, the part of this meal that people really like is the powen eye.

Ingredients:
3 gallons Ganges river dolphin
1 bunch baby gouda, woozily crisped
6 bunches Captain Treena’s Tomme de Savoie Cheese, jellied
2 jiggers Abbot’s Tomme de Savoie Cheese, dried
3 pints powen eye
3 pinches paprika
5 jars maple syrup

Obligedly begin praying. Place the ganges river dolphin into a medium pot. Mix the baby gouda with the Tomme de Savoie cheese over high heat in a bowl. Stuff the resulting potion into the ganges river dolphin. Swirl – very opposedly – the powen eye, paprika, and the maple syrup. Pile the latter combination on to the former. Abandon for 83 minutes. Serves 12 friends with courageous stomachs.

Wow – real evidence of anthropogenic climate change.

Eat it, deniers!

NROCruise twit:

https://twitter.com/kathrynlopez

Why do they look like zombies? Who was stupid enough to reanimate them?

NROCruise twit:
https://twitter.com/kathrynlopez

Subby?

Never EVER put “K-Lo” and “cruise” in the same post again!

drinking my first of many diet cokes on uss nr.

HA HA HA.

drinking my first of many diet cokes on uss useless nr.

Fixed that fer ya, K-Lo…

Forgoing another term would not render Obama a lame duck.

It’s like words can mean anything you like! Not a lame duck no matter how limpy and quacky the remainder of his term, no indeed, he’d be a waltzing walrus! A Marquis de Carabas! An egg and cheese on toast!

Dish on the Olbermann suspension:

If so, it was a war that had spread beyond the principal combatants to many of the journalists who work at NBC and MSNBC. From the moment Olbermann was found to have donated money to three Democratic candidates, there has been a deepening sense of anger and frustration among his colleagues, according to interviews with eight knowledgeable sources. These sources, who declined to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the situation, say that several of NBC’s front-line stars, including Tom Brokaw, have expressed concern to management that Olbermann has badly damaged MSNBC’s reputation for independence. (NBC and MSNBC executives declined to comment, and Olbermann declined to be interviewed.)

Network staffers use phrases like “scorched-earth policy” and “totally narcissistic response” to describe how Olbermann has dealt with criticism of his political donations. A recurring theme is that he has made it impossible for MSNBC to argue that it is journalistically different from Fox News, which has no prohibition against political donations by such commentators and talk-show hosts as Sean Hannity and Karl Rove. The word hypocrisy has frequently been aimed at Olbermann.

There’s some truth to that last bit, except, you know, First Amendment.

If only KO had asked first…

It’s like words can mean anything you like! Not a lame duck no matter how limpy and quacky the remainder of his term, no indeed, he’d be a waltzing walrus! A Marquis de Carabas! An egg and cheese on toast!

If it limps like a duck, molts, and coughs up blood when it quacks, you can call it a camel, but…

If it limps like a duck, molts, and coughs up blood when it quacks, you can call it a camel Jonah

fixq’d

fixq’d

Hey! Be kind to our fair feathered friends!

Hey! Be kind to our fair feathered friends!

You talk as if a duck may be somebody’s mother.

You talk as if a duck may be somebody’s mother.

The water IS very domp.

“drinking my first of many diet cokes on uss nr”

Try more diet and fewer cokes, sweetheart.

I wonder how much they pay the help on those cruises.

I wonder how much they pay the help on those cruises.

You really want to work where Jonah and K-Lo canoodle on the Promenade deck????

canoodle on the Promenade deck????

I believe that would require a Promenade dock.

If it limps like a duck, molts, and coughs up blood when it quacks, you can call it a camel, but…

unlike a Camel it will be delicious when smoked.

These people want to get rid of minimum wage and you’re thinking of working for them? They’re probably also terrible tippers.

I wonder how much they pay the help on those cruises.

You get a basket of Regnery books and a sponge for bathing Jonah. Enjoy!

Jonah and K-Lo canoodle on the Promenade deck

Nat. Geo. might pay good $$ for photos.

Well, there’s these tips:
http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/10/3837/

If you don’t count the tips many a lonely closet case with lean into your hunch.

Nat. Geo. might pay good $$ for photos.
All the national geographic cash in the world can’t buy you new eyes.

Sheesh, don’t you guys get it. If Obama had only been patriotic enough to concede the elction early, then John (flipper) McCain would be President, maybe kinda forcing Republicans to maybe actually sort of vote yes on something. It concerns me your attitude about Hamsher. Good democrats shouldn’t say bad things about True Democrats. This concerns me. Too.

Memo To Ross:

Dou(be)That guy

Jonah and K-Lo canoodle on the Promenade deck

Nat. Geo. might pay good $$ for photos.

Beastiality Quarterly does not, however.

“Jonah and K-Lo canoodle on the Promenade deck”

So much wrong in so few words. *pours bleach in ear*

new eyes

well, new EYE anyway….but the point is well taken, thank you.

Shorter Krugman: Grow a set, Barack

A set really isn’t necessary. I’d be happy with one.

then John (flipper) McCain would be President, maybe kinda forcing Republicans to maybe actually sort of vote yes on something

To think – we could have had four more years of Bush’s clever and masterful governance!

To think – we could have had four more years of Bush’s clever and masterful governance!

With extra “Hey you kids! Get off my lawn!” insouciance!

Go see Get Low, says K-Lo.

Damn it, a movie with Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, but such an endorsement actually kills any desire to see the movie.

With extra “Hey you kids! Get off my lawn!” insouciance!

And Sarah’s comically inept attempts to off Johnny once a week…

And Sarah’s comically inept attempts to off Johnny once a week…

I see a sitcom…”That’s My Veep!”

Gaaaaaaawwwd!

This is what I read at a glance.

And Sarah’s comically inept attempts to get Johnny off once a week…

Youth-in-Asia stat!

A set really isn’t necessary. I’d be happy with one.

You know who else had just one?

From TV Guide:

That’s My Veep!

He’s a crusty, cantankerous old man with one foot in the grave and another flipper on a banana peel! She’s a spunky comely ambitious do-nothing with deadly aim!

And they run the country!

Thurs. 9PM, ABC

And then she quite halfway through the season ’cause SNL made fun of her.

yes, quite.

Think she’ll do Dancing with the Stars?

Who’s cute as a button, dumb as a stump and mean as a snake? To find out, tune in Thursdays at 9 8central to That’s my VeepOnly on ABC! this week is a laugh riot when Sarah puts an electric eel in the white house bidet on the same day the Chinese Premier has a little emergency!

Hey! She’s all yours, we ain’t that dumb.

Think she’ll do Dancing with the Stars?

Hopefully in a gorilla suit.

The whole time.

I feel a catchphrase coming on! How does OH, Sarah! sound?

Stlolen from the Fawlty Towers series:

Republican Leadership: If you try to stop the extension of tax cuts for the wealthy you know what we’ll do, don’t you?

President Obama: Well, you’ll have to sew them back on first!

How does OH, Sarah! sound?
That works for the president.
Sarah’s catchphrase would probably be more like “Eat it, Grandpa!”

I enjoyed this:

As we discussed the election returns, [Senator Susan] Collins was critical of Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for backing Tea Party losers in Nevada and Delaware. By taking that action, “they cost us two seats we could have won,” she said.

Collins said Palin will be weakened if Sen. Lisa Murkowski wins her write-in campaign for re-election in Alaska. Election officials say enough write-in votes were cast that Murkowski could be the winner.

Palin — who has a long family grudge against Murkowski — supported Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, who won the Republican primary.

Collins does not expect Palin to run for president.

“I think she likes being a celebrity commentator for Fox and a speaker and being able to provide for her family,” Collins said. “I think that life appeals to her. It’s a lot easier to charge people up than to actually govern.”

Sarah’s catchphrase would probably be more like “Eat it, Grandpa!”

Sarah already has a catchphrase. You betcha!

Soooo, *hork* who wants to pay me to *hork* attempt to *barf* seduce *barf* James O’Keefe *dry heave* *barf* on hidden camera?

My throat hurts.

Sarah even has a catchwink. Now that’s talent.

Soooo, *hork* who wants to pay me to *hork* attempt to *barf* seduce *barf* James O’Keefe *dry heave* *barf* on hidden camera?

I don’t think Soros even has that much money.

Soooo, *hork* who wants to pay me to *hork* attempt to *barf* seduce *barf* James O’Keefe *dry heave* *barf* on hidden camera?

I’m not fronting any money until I know where you’re hiding the camera.

Soooo, *hork* who wants to pay me to *hork* attempt to *barf* seduce *barf* James O’Keefe *dry heave* *barf* on hidden camera?

Maybe, but only if I can edit him out of my copy and digitally insert¹ myself.

¹VDPR

@El gato negro: Where has anyone even nominally “on the left’ said that?

Have you actually been to Hamsher’s Firedoglake site? Hell, there are whole bandwagons of butthurt “progressives” chanting “Impeach Obama!”

http://my.firedoglake.com/merlin1963/2010/11/11/if-republicans-impeach-obama-should-democrats-go-along-for-the-ride/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zik50bHJcOwJ:firedoglake.com/2010/11/08/obama-calls-tea-party-as-american-as-apple-pie/+firedoglake+impeach+obama&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Seriously, it’s a fever swamp in some places over there. Hamsher’s not responsible for what people say at her site, but she has set a certain tone over there. Frankly, I’m not at all surprised to see shit like that going on at FDL.

“Hey sweet thang! What’s yur sign”?

Sarah even has a catchwink. Now that’s talent.

And with just a little editing, even on topic. Suicide is Palin.

Hell, there are whole bandwagons of butthurt “progressives” chanting “Impeach Obama!”

For what???

Being Clinton Mk. 2?

Remember how Mrs Justice Thomas demanded an apology from Anita Hill the other day?

There has to be more to that story.

Note her reasons for resigning. “so that the organization can escape the “distractions” of her media celebrity”.

Up until two weeks ago, had you even remembered her name?

Kitty_Sanchez, El gato negro is an Atriot. This concerns me, because SadlyNo! may not be serious enough.

Oh, and poop.

If only KO had asked first…

Or, y’know, uncontroversially contributed to Republicans like his stablemate Scarborough.

You know who else had just one?

The strains of the Colonel Bogey March course through my mind.

Pere Ubu:
For what???

Being Clinton Mk. 2?

[sigh] I guess. They’re butthurt because he’s not a “real progressive,” so therefore he has betrayed them, so therefore they must send a message by performing self-cutting mutilation declaring Obama is a neocon (?), fraud, moron, etc., and they must join with the insane rightwing to get rid of him, for the good of the country.

From what I can tell, the plan goes something like this:

1. Impeach Obama (or, failing that, primary challenge)
2. ????
3. Ralph Nader, or Dennis Kucinich, or Cynthia McKinney (i.e., a “true progressive”) becomes president.
4. No more war, nationalized healthcare, jobs for all, etc.

@Snort

Poop! LOLOLOLOL!!! Doody!

What’s an “atriot”?

I’m glad S,N! isn’t “serious enough.”

What’s an “atriot”?

Well, if (per Channel J) 1-800-PEEE has an extra “e” for extra pee, then a Patriot missing a pee…

1. Impeach Obama (or, failing that, primary challenge)
2. ????
3. Ralph Nader, or Dennis Kucinich, or Cynthia McKinney (i.e., a “true progressive”) becomes president.
4. No more war, nationalized healthcare, jobs for all, etc.

Wow! You’ve got their whole line of reasoning there, flawlessly outlined. Particularly the squealing for Kucinich… Cripes — I’VE got a better chance of being elected than Kucinich…

Atrios, Eschaton, whatever. What’s that cliqueing sound? Why it’s a PC PC!

¡El Gato Negro! is a fine and funny gentleman as far as I know.

His contribution to the legendary Althouse thread made me laugh.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4747.html

For my part I’m not gonna assume I know what Tintin meant above; if it’s a joke it’s a good and bleak one, but if it’s serious condemnation of Jane Hamsher, well, I don’t know how far I go on that because I’m not a follower. The Norquist thing, dumb, the Fox thing, dumb, Lieberman in blackface, bad…but she also gives voice to a lot of good people and led a heroic but failed charge against the aforementioned senator.

Sounds like Ginny Thomas may be taking a little vacay at the Betty Ford?

The last two paragraphs of that Ginny Thomas article sound promising.

Cripes — I’VE got a better chance of being elected than Kucinich…

*fingering incriminating videotape*

Sounds like Ginny Thomas may be taking a little vacay at the Betty Ford?

A wee bit o the drink, says me.

His contribution to the legendary Althouse thread made me laugh.

What happened to that Righteous Bubba guy? He was pretty funny.

Oh, Jebus, they’re letting Pat Caddell on NPR right now to jabber his demented screechings along these lines.

@Substance McGravitas

Good call. I’m not gonna go far into a serious condemnation of Hamsher or people at FDL either. It just seems wierd to me, you know, to get so carried away with understandable disappointment that you can start to believe you’re gaining ground by doing things that look….um….self-destructive? Self-defeating? I think it has something to with passion vs. detachment.

Substance McG, you are a fine and funny gentleperson yourself. Also, there is a spider crawling up my yellow ethernet cable. It’s running back and forth, actually, and doing it faster than my ethernet cable does. Oh, you know what I mean.

Better reviews than the Magnum Doughpus anyway.

I suspect Tintin was tweaking Hamsher, just a little. I doubt Tin meant it serious.

It just seems wierd to me, you know, to get so carried away with understandable disappointment that you can start to believe you’re gaining ground by doing things that look….um….self-destructive?

What part of “Nader For President” was unclear to you?

*fingering incriminating videotape*

Actor, you PROMISED you’d keep that just our little secret. [sob]

Actor, you PROMISED you’d keep that just our little secret. [sob]

And your check bounced.

that you can start to believe you’re gaining ground by doing things that look….um….self-destructive?

American voters?

Actor,you KNEW that I was giving you a post-dated check and you tried to deposit it early. You’ve behaving like a despicable cad. [sob]

YOU’RE… preview is my friend… preview is my friend… (It’s just because I’m so distraught…)

I thought those guys in the picture looked familiar.

You’ve behaving like a despicable cad

Look, I needed the money and you told me you’d call the bank…you remember? “Oh anything for YOU, stud…”

Note her reasons for resigning. “so that the organization can escape the “distractions” of her media celebrity”.

It worked so well for ex-governor Palin; who can blame her?

I hope you guys are typing using both hands.

you told me you’d call the bank…

I did call the bank. Have you ever tried to reason with those people? Nothing works, not whining, not begging, not a little wink and a wiggly wag, nothing… And when I called you your line had been disconnected. [sniff]

What happened to that Righteous Bubba guy? He was pretty funny.

Stomped to a pulp by angry grannies.

a despicable cad
I’m pretty sure that exact phrase is on his business card.

“YOU’RE… preview is my friend… preview is my friend”

Honestly I wanna know whom I have to do around here to get an edit button.

Stomped to a pulp by angry grannies.

If only he had followed the advice of the Governator when he had the chance.

GET TO DA CHOPPA!

Stomped to a pulp by angry grannies.

I’d heard that he was hit by a chopper while jet-packing.

It’s kinda scary that DKW and I both referenced “choppers” at the same time… I’ll be cowering under the table if anyone needs me.

I’d heard that he was hit by a chopper while jet-packing.

There were so many varied deaths one could wish upon him imagine him befalling.

Strike that, reverse it.

Honestly I wanna know whom I have to do around here to get an edit button.

If it’s Actor you’d better get a firm (VyouknowwhatR) commitment IN WRITING.

I am half-way through Rise Again, the brand new OMG zombie novel written by the artist known here as Spengler Dampniche (I do not know why), which book I bought with my very own hard-to-come-by money, from my local independent bookstore (on account of paying local sales tax is important), and I am enjoying the heck out of it.

Larkspur, you won’t be a spinster for long. I’m coming up there on the next omnibus.

PENIS.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/09171202805700

OT but interesting article on Arab Americans in Detroit. They really are the Jews of America; well-off and quite productive as a group, but hated for no particular reason.

Wish ’em luck; they’re going to need it.

Super squid sex organ discovered

The regular squid are just plain LIARS.

“77south said,
November 15, 2010 at 21:39

a despicable cad
I’m pretty sure that exact phrase is on his business card.”

No. That’s “Let me show you my etchings.”

a despicable cad
I’m pretty sure that exact phrase is on his business card.

Hey!

“THE”, if you please…

It’s kinda scary that DKW and I both referenced “choppers” at the same time

Well, his mom did pull her dentures out today for you both.

“Well, his mom did pull her dentures out today for you both.”

She must really like them!

They really are the Jews of America; well-off and quite productive as a group, but hated for no particular reason.

Time Magazine did a similar article a few weeks back, pointing out that Muslims are moving into areas even blacks abandoned.

In case you missed the previous PENIS, we’re talking about an animal that weighs in at about two and a half pounds, sporting a twenty six inch long chubby.

we’re talking about an animal that weighs in at about two and a half pounds, sporting a twenty six inch long chubby.

Big deal! Verne Troyer regularly hangs around bigger dicks.

Pffft,pikers.

African bull elephants hold the title of the largest relative penis size in the animal kingdom. The longest elephant penis can grow up to six and a half feet long.

Big deal! Verne Troyer regularly hangs around bigger dicks.

Verne Troyer weighs in at around 55 pounds. Ratio-ing it out, he’d have to be hanging around someone that stands 47 feet 8 inches. So no, even Mini-Me must bow down before the Wang of the Hooked Squid.

Have we forgotten the penisaurus?

@Snort:

American voters?

Not fair. I’m having enough trouble understanding Progressives and people who sort of sometimes vote for the Democrat. How the fuck do I try to understand the whole bunch of American voters?? Honestly, I just visualize Idiocracy when I try to do that.

I can be a real dick sometimes. Does that count?

The longest elephant penis can grow up to six and a half feet long.

That might be impressive on a six and a half foot tall elephant. This squid’s penis is about the same length as it is. Tentacles included (for the anime fans).

I agree with Subby entirely, especially re: EGN, who has been making occasional comments on nearly every leftish blog I read as long as I’ve been reading them.

Schoen and Caddell are slime. Media Matters has been going after them for ages. This year, Schoen actually stumped for teaper candidates, so I kind of think that justifies adding “former” to “Democratic strategist.”

This must see video explaining the Fed’s shenanigans will make you laugh & make you sick. Pass it along.

Assuming this isn’t a drive-by winger post, I really hate seeing leftish commenters swallowing the Palin/teabag line on the Fed. Inflation is not a significant problem at this time, and the only people who will benefit from holding it down or from deflation are foreign and domestic creditors. Krugman says the Fed should be shooting for a higher inflation rate, and that seems reasonable to me.

The other thing I hate seeing lefties and teapers marching in lockstep on: TARP.

Not fair. I’m having enough trouble understanding Progressives and people who sort of sometimes vote for the Democrat.

There are some who can get away with voting for, say, not-Democrats like Bernie Sanders.

Verne Troyer weighs in at around 55 pounds. Ratio-ing it out, he’d have to be hanging around someone that stands 47 feet 8 inches.

That’s what your mom measured me at.

Hey Substance, I give you Penisaurus!

Still more penisaurus.

Honestly I wanna know whom I have to do around here to get an edit button.

Defintely me. You can trust me on this. I’m a scientist webmaster.

Hey, how goes spawning, VS?

Last word I got from Gin & Thomas. No, I am not “Edward.” You don’t think I’d give them my legal name, do you?

No, I am not “Edward.” You don’t think I’d give them my legal name, do you?

Ed Banger?

Jonah and K-Lo canoodle on the Promenade deck

Plus there is the risk of capsizing the boat if they go too far towards any edge.

Edward, what’s the frequency?

Have we forgotten the penisaurus?
That footage contains a disturbing number of orbs.

Okay, getting back on topic – or at least topical to the post title…
Suicide is PENIS.

Penisaurus Laetus

That’s what your mom measured me at.

using an HO scale ruler.

Hey Substance, I give you Penisaurus!

Ah, the famous Penisaurus Rex

using an HO scale ruler.

She’s a ho, what scale did you expect her to use?

Defintely me. You can trust me on this. I’m a scientist webmaster.

Hey, how goes spawning, VS?

OK. I’m gonna trust you. But I’m gonna be SO MAD if I don’t get my edit button. Or at least a portable editor who constantly reads over my shoulder.

The spawning is progressing with much exhaustion, self-absorption… and and I’ve even added preening to my repertoire!! Thanks for axing!

Suicide is PENIS.

OUCH! I don’t know what else to say…

Damn Messicans! Now they’re invading OUR Burger Kings…In Amsterdam!

using an HO scale ruler.
What’s wrong with ZRM? Is he softening up? He didn’t claim the ruler was N or Z scale.

What’s wrong with ZRM? Is he softening up?

I know! He left a softball out there, and for a second, I was all Admiral Ackbar about it, but then I figured what the hey and went with the obvious joke.

Verne Troyer weighs in at around 55 pounds.

Note that Troyer pounds are less that avoirdupois pounds.

and I’ve even added preening to my repertoire!!

VS, those pictures are lovely.

[The portable editor who follows me around recommends that I should omit snark from this post. Uncharacteristically, I have agreed.]

Note that Troyer pounds are less that avoirdupois pounds.

I’ll bet you kilo yourself…

She has too many scruples.

[The portable editor who follows me around recommends that I should omit snark from this post. Uncharacteristically, I have agreed.]

I know I spelled “repertoire” correctly! It’s not Klingon! Firefox spell-checked me!

She has too many scruples.

She mite

OK. I’m gonna trust you. But I’m gonna be SO MAD if I don’t get my edit button.

You wont care about the damn edit button.

But I plan to run quickly, just in case!

at least a portable editor who constantly reads over my shoulder.

The drawback with the portable editor is that SHUT UP SMUT

I know I spelled “repertoire” correctly! It’s not Klingon! Firefox spell-checked me!

Not that kind of snark. I was contemplating various off-colour and exceedingly unwise sorts of soi-disant “witticisms” that a married man should not utter around a lady, especially not one who is in the family way. Fortunately, maturity scored a rare and narrow victory.

They really are lovely pictures, is what I’m saying.

The drawback with the portable editor is that SHUT UP SMUT

My editor must not be rude.

They really are lovely pictures, is what I’m saying.

You’d do her, in other words?

There are some real gems of teh wit on this thread. Golf clap, tinkle of ice, may I have the hunchback freshen your drinks? More mint, boy.

That said, I wish to weigh in (as K-Lo had to do before they’d let her on the boat) on the subject of Hamsher.

I’ve always seen her as the Maureen ‘Dour’ Dowd type, always seeing things in the grimmest and least charitable light, while at the same time being much an insider on the Washington scene — sort of like the very depressed popular girl at the Kool Kid’s table, the one that wouldn’t be allowed to sit there except her old man is a close friend of Ozzy Osbourne.

But I also often agree with what she’s saying. She certainly never errs on the side of optimism, which in these dark times is pretty fucking difficult. This from a guy that wrote a book about the end of the world.

I think most people simply dislike the fact that the Hamsters are attacking so vociferously from the Left, when the Left is supposed to be the picture of moderation, but that’s not something that bothers me.

The biggest problem I have with the “firebaggers” is they tend to focus on personalities (Obama, et al) as if the Prez was setting policy just to be irritating, so it gets kind of weirdly ad hominem over there. You can snark yourself silly, or you can expect your policy discussions to be taken seriously, but you can’t do both.

Then again, as a habituée of Sadly, where we have refined the ad hominem snark attack to an art approaching perfection, I can scarcely complain.

Not that kind of snark. I was contemplating various off-colour and exceedingly unwise sorts of soi-disant “witticisms” that a married man should not utter around a lady, especially not one who is in the family way. Fortunately, maturity scored a rare and narrow victory.

They really are lovely pictures, is what I’m saying.

Awww, shucks. That’s nothin’. I though you were gonna bust my chops for how “me me me” that entry was. Woulda been well-deserved, I reckon. 😉

I think most people simply dislike the fact that the Hamsters are attacking so vociferously from the Left, when the Left is supposed to be the picture of moderation, but that’s not something that bothers me.

The only reason that appearance is anything close to reality of late is the absolute unification in hatred of Bush. The left has never been anything close to moderate in tone or in outlook.

Indeed, our most liberal President of late, Jimmy Carter, faced a primary challenge as a sitting President from Ted Kennedy, another liberal!

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Is everyone off measuring their penises to see how they measure up to the freakish squid/elephants/midgets?

I thought you were gonna bust my chops for how “me me me” that entry was.

It’s your effin’ web log; you can do anything you want on it. What else should it be?

I know exactly what size mine is, no need to re-measure obsessively after the first few hundred times.

Nice orb-band in the upper photo, also.

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Is everyone off measuring their penises to see how they measure up to the freakish squid/elephants/midgets?
No, all of those are off with a tape measure seeing how they measure up to me.

No, all of those are off with a tape measure seeing how they measure up to me.

Do you know how hard it is to find a negative tape measure??? I had to call five hypothetical hardware stores!

@Spengler Dampniche,

The biggest problem I have with the “firebaggers” is they tend to focus on personalities (Obama, et al) as if the Prez was setting policy just to be irritating, so it gets kind of weirdly ad hominem over there.

I think that’s why some of those diaries and threads at FDL seem like fever swamps to me. Don’t get me wrong: seeing criticisms of the performance of Dems in office seems normal to me. But the ad hominem crap is weird and just fucking unnerving. It has an unhinged quality, like the stuff you see on rightwing sites.

Indeed, our most liberal President of late, Jimmy Carter

Does ‘of late’ mean ‘after Nixon’?

Do what I do. I tell’m I’m packing 12 big ones down there.

(of course I don’t mention it’s millimeters)

Is this true, men? Are you all cowed (and perhaps and confused and aroused) by the size of 77’s penis?

Does ‘of late’ mean ‘after Nixon’?

I was thinking Eisenhower, actually.

Are you all cowed (and perhaps and confused and aroused) by the size of 77?s penis?

Cowed? By a bunch of bull?

It’s your effin’ web log; you can do anything you want on it. What else should it be?

Ya know…come to think of it, you’re right. If wanna put topless pics of me wearing a corn cob scarf and a loaf of bread on my head, that’s really my prerogative. Still, until recently, my blog was about my art and just about nothing else.

Cowed? By a bunch of bull?

I see what you did there.

Are you all cowed……

Moooo!

Aw geez, have we devolved to the point of adolescent bragging and dissing about dick size? Really? Fine, I’ll man up and admit to a mere 4 inches.

Of course, DKW’s Mom says she likes ’em that thick…

No, all of those are off with a tape measure seeing how they measure up to me.

I’ll admit I’m a little bit short of that.

Oh, you mean your penis?

I was thinking Eisenhower, actually.

Since Eisenhower, both LBJ and Nixon beat Carter in a walk in terms of liberal policy. Carter just has a reputation as a wacky liberal because Reagan beat him and because he was associated with liberal kulturkampf symbols like solar panels and human rights.

Moooo!

See! You’re all proving my point!

Fine, I’ll man up and admit to a mere 4 inches.

Of course, DKW’s Mom says she likes ‘em that thick…

Well, I think at least a newsletter is in order.

Clearly the important measure is DISPLACEMENT. I encourage all readers to dunk their wangs in cool water and take note of the results. No including testicles.

Do you know how hard it is to find a negative tape measure???

I hear 77 has trouble finding three legged pants.

I don’t hate Former President Bush. I just think he should receive daily kicks in the testicles. There’s no hate in my heart for the man; however, I think that, karmically speaking, he’s due.

” I just think he should receive daily kicks in the testicles. ”

I volunteer for this job.

I think that’s why some of those diaries and threads at FDL seem like fever swamps to me. Don’t get me wrong: seeing criticisms of the performance of Dems in office seems normal to me. But the ad hominem crap is weird and just fucking unnerving. It has an unhinged quality, like the stuff you see on rightwing sites.

Word. That’s what I mean. Actor, mos def not saying the Left isn’t moderate (I was on Counterpunch for some years, which is extreme in the extreme)… Just there’s a sort of shit-the-bed-and-lie-in-it quality to FDL which will admit no good can come of anything, no matterz what.

VS, please forward pix with corn cob scarf.

By the way, my PENIS is so large, the fire department won’t let cars park within fifteen feet of it.

The thread has been slain by PENIS

Which proves that the penis mightier than the sword

vacuumslayer said,

The spawning is progressing with much exhaustion, self-absorption… and and I’ve even added preening to my repertoire!! Thanks for axing!

OK, Sigh… when do we get invited up to see your etchings? Do we each have to bring our own cats?

And as for all the insane commentary over at FireDogsInLakes, they still have the unflappable TBogg.

Is everyone off measuring their penises…

I find that to be a tough job, since mine rotates at high speed, continually violently expands and contracts, and emits blinding, strobe-like pulses of light, all of which make accurate measurement difficult. And the tentacles get in the way.

Pictures or…well you know the rest.

Dick measuring is always such an interesting specimen of sociology.

It’s basically an obsession of men, raised to this spectre of critical importance, briefly the only important thing by which to measure masculinity until it was revealed that certain swarthy groups may have been beating the “superior” melanin-challenged races.

And it’s blamed on women. Oh, women are obsessed with it, they totally need it, blah blah blah. But basically, it’s sold as men need to be obsessed with it, because women are obsessed with it.

But, women aren’t. In fact, women are anti-obsessed with it. Penis length is not as important as penis girth for full feelings, large penis lengths are actually more problematic than short for painful poking, the most meaningful area for inner-vagina pleasure is near the entrance. And beyond that, PIV is one of the lesser pleasurable experiences in the female-sex repertoire and is certainly less important than good oral skills, good hand skills, good foreplay, or being a sensitive non-douchebag lover who doesn’t buy into the “slam and bam” method of love-making.

It’s all just a cover for homosocial male bonding, a way for men to compare masculinity with men for ranking among men. Like with many patriarchal behaviors, it’s blamed on women or sold as a way to win with women while being entirely about being socially accepted by male peers and getting those social benefits.

The dick measure is like a perfect ur-text on the whole stack of homosocial male social anxieties and obsessions and how that affects male-feamle social and sexual interactions often at the expense of women.

I say this because it’s a fascinating example for sociological study.

And now for a counterbalance from the humor side of things:

MAN-PENIS!

Because sticking the word man in front of any word makes it hi-larious.

guitarist manqué said,
“You know who else had just one?”

Uh, that guy who went on to dominate the Europeans for several consecutive years? Lance Armstrong?

Cerberus, you go ahead and keep telling yourself that. I’ll keep smashing cinderblocks with my plonker.

“and is certainly less important than good oral skills, good hand skills, good foreplay, or being a sensitive non-douchebag lover who doesn’t buy into the “slam and bam” method of love-making.”

Word.

Pictures or…well you know the rest.

Actual size photo:

¬

Although slamming and bamming does have its place…

“Actual size photo:

¬”

This made me giggle. Apparently I’m 8.

Whoa–

(Slowly backs out of room…)

Apparently I’m 8

Wow, most guys aren’t that big.

Apparently I’m 8

Alternate:

Uncut?

I volunteer for this job.

Remember right-wingers freaking out at the idea of this?

It’s all just a cover for homosocial male bonding
I have not been invited to any male bonding events since the business with the superglue.

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Remember right-wingers freaking out at the idea of this?

I don’t, but I would love to do this to all the fucking fake outrage havin’ right wingers that would actually take the time to flag a video like this.

Wingnut: “I don’t like it, so NOBODY can look at it.”

Is this true, men? Are you all cowed (and perhaps and confused and aroused) by the size of 77?s penis?

Nah. I had a real Ducati.

Because sticking the word man in front of any word makes it MAN-hi-larious.

Yes it do.

Is everyone off measuring their penises to see how they measure up to the freakish squid/elephants/midgets?

You post some hawt reclined photos of yourself and then wonder what all the boys are off doing? Its like you don’t know us at all.

I have 3 guns. How many inches does that equal?

Survey says . . . Penis!

∈☀∋

Le avventurine di pene e vegina

…or being a sensitive non-douchebag lover who doesn’t buy into the “slam and bam” method of love-making.

Indeed. Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned “slather each other with gallons of extraterrestrial orgasma-slime” method of love-making?

”
I have 3 guns. How many inches does that equal?”

Oh my. Liberals with guns are hot.

To the original topic:

Yes, I could totally see the Repukes suddenly getting on board with not being insane clown pussies if Obama forgoes a second term now. Yes, this makes total sense. Capitulation has worked perfectly in the last two years, why stop now?

On to the lefties screaming for Obama’s spleen on a pike: The REASON the psychos win is because they SHOW TEH FUCK UP AND VOTE. Same statistics every time.

So to all those super geniuses who stayed home and let the teahadists take bak there countrey, FUCK YOU.

Thank you.
That is all.

Oh my. Liberals with guns are hot.

And dangerous. Danger is, after all, my middle name.

Survey says . . . Penis!

Or the classic…

So to all those super geniuses who stayed home and let the teahadists take bak there countrey, FUCK YOU.

Bingo.

Oh my. Liberals with guns are hot.

All my guns are vintage and unlicensed…

And dangerous. Danger is, after all, my middle name.

Yes, and your full name is Avoids Danger Tsam.

On to the lefties screaming for Obama’s spleen on a pike: The REASON the psychos win is because they SHOW TEH FUCK UP AND VOTE.

YeAH, WELL THE REASON THE PSYCHOS VOTE IS THEIR FUCKING POLITICIANS ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING TO EARN THEIR FUCKING VOTE, EVEN IF ITS JUST GIVE VOICE TO AN IDEOLOGY.

WTF did Obama ever do but give into those assholes. He had a chance to win by fighting, and instead he capitulated over an over again.

This is America. You get two choices to vote for. If neither of them do anything to earn your vote, you stay home. Maybe not the best thing, but its been known for a century that that is the game, and if you think you can insult your base and win an election, then you deserve to lose.

And yeah, I voted, but I’m tired of hearing this bullshit line that people are obligated to vote because one side is vaguely closer in ideology. Obama didn’t do shit for his base, and engaged in lots of hippy-punching on his own. He deserved to lose, and yeah, it sucks that it fucks the whole country, but we will probably survive and just maybe one of these days we will get a real liberal politician who wont take the liberals for granted because he thinks we have no choice.

PENIS.

Postgraduates, by which I believe the AEI analysts mean those with something more than a bachelor’s degree, were 20 percent of the electorate. They went for Democrats by 52 to 46 percent. No surprise there. Obama, after all, is himself a creature of the university ecosystem, and the way he talks reminds me of nothing more than a professor at a faculty meeting talking about changes to the grading curve. All those folks out there with M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s know one of their own when they see one.

Voters without a high-school diploma were only 3 percent of the electorate, and they voted Democratic 60 to 36 percent. Presumably, this group benefits the most from the redistribution of income going on under the Obama administration.

Everyone else (high-school grads, some college, college degrees) voted Republican. Democrats lost the middle class and more.

I’ve been trying to figure out what this means (aside from the amazing educational achievements of the electorate — 97 percent had a high-school degree or more). Does it mean that the over-educated have no more common sense than those with no education? Does it mean that Obama only really appeals to the extremes of the educational distributional curve, because neither end is really responsible for making ends meet and balancing budgets?

Who, pray tell, is enlightening us as to the depravity of the over-educated? Why it is Professor John Yoo.

Seriously, James O’Keefe needs to die.

I don’t consider myself a violent person by nature, but it makes me mad that he hasn’t yet been beaten to death with a baseball bat that has rusty nails sticking out of it point first.

That little shit is breathing my goddamn air!

…..may I have the hunchback freshen your drinks? More mint, boy.

I reckon there must be another hb around, ’cause that ain’t in my job description.

“Yes, and your full name is Avoids Danger Tsam.”

I am confident this is not true.

Substance McGravitas said,
November 16, 2010 at 1:35

Straight to hell, Mr McGravitas.

I haz a sad.

Gentlemen, there will be no living with them now.

Postgraduates, by which I believe the AEI analysts mean those with something more than a bachelor’s degree, were 20 percent of the electorate. They went for Democrats by 52 to 46 percent. No surprise there. Obama, after all, is himself a creature of the university ecosystem, and the way he talks reminds me of nothing more than a professor at a faculty meeting talking about changes to the grading curve. All those folks out there with M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s know one of their own when they see one.

He forgets to say that this was the first election on record in which the segment of a population with a college degree went for a Democrat. Traditionally, they’ve leaned Republican. So this doesn’t exactly mark a trend.

I’ve been trying to figure out what this means (aside from the amazing educational achievements of the electorate — 97 percent had a high-school degree or more). Does it mean that the over-educated have no more common sense than those with no education? Does it mean that Obama only really appeals to the extremes of the educational distributional curve, because neither end is really responsible for making ends meet and balancing budgets?

It means that the average middle class citizen, while less educated than the average college grad, is better off than the average working class citizen. Which means, first, that the food-on-the-table issues aren’t as immediate and acute for them as for the working class – and they’re more likely to indulge pet issues like gay marriage, school prayer or whether the President really is Christian/really loves America.

Second, that a lot of them are terrified that anything that improves life for the working class will come at their expense (they know it won’t be the rich who’re made to suffer) – just like a lot of HCR opponents were old people afraid of losing Medicare or Social Security funding. The same terror gripped European middle classes a century ago, which among other things explains fascism’s success in recruiting from them.

I’d also say that most of the middle class has been living in the shadow of big government for so long very few of them truly realize the extent to which their lifestyle depends on it. That, at any rate, is my two cents.

It means that the average middle class citizen…

I think it means John Yoo suffers from an extreme case of confirmation bias and went cherry-picking until he could find some “trend” to identify, other than angry rich old white folks taking “their” country back.

Of course, he also suffers from an extreme case of enabling war crimes, so this is just a rounding error, really.

Liberals with guns are hot.

I don’t see the appeal. It doesn’t vibrate, you can’t tie anyone up with it, and pistol-whippings are neither safe nor sane.

the extremes of the educational distributional curve … neither end is really responsible for making ends meet and balancing budgets

Blue-collar workers are lazy parasites.

Does it mean that Obama only really appeals to the extremes of the educational distributional curve, because neither end is really responsible for making ends meet and balancing budgets?

Professor Yoo draws our attention to the long history of Republicans balancing budgets.

Professor Yoo draws our attention to the long history of Republicans balancing budgets.

I lol’d.

Gentlemen, there will be no living with them now.

There was to begin with?

Suicide is painless, but it doesn’t have to be. There are actually many ways to kill yourself that will cause excruciating pain. I only have time to mention a few: 1. Cutting your throat with a nickle. 2. Eating 5 pounds of uncooked rice. 3. Flying Eastern Airlines.

Hunchback, you’re fucking fired, I don’t care if there’s a quota to meet.

Rotertrudis, you obviously don’t know the crowd here. These people don’t have a nickel. Or five pounds of rice. Most of them have never seen an airplane.

Spengler made me chuckle.

“Liberals with guns are hot.

I don’t see the appeal.”

It’s a tsam thang.

So true, M. Dampniche. As I like to say (but only because it’s true): “If it cost a nickel to shit, I’d have to vomit.”

rodertrudis said,
Suicide is painless, but it doesn’t have to be.

4. Watching “Up in the Air” while flying on American Airlines.

Most of them have never seen an airplane.

I saw one once! It was shiny.

I saw one once! It was shiny.

I saw one once! It was shiny.

Wait, I thought that was a nickel…

Wait, I thought that was a nickel…

Well was it up in the air or on the ground? Did it have a picture of an old white man or an old Inuit? The details are important.

Straight to hell, Mr McGravitas.

Yeah. That new math pisses me off too.

I have no penis and I must laugh.

@M Bouffant
“As I like to say (but only because it’s true): “If it cost a nickel to shit, I’d have to vomit.”

Or as they say in Brazil,
Cuando merda tiver valor pobre nasce sem cu.

Which is surely the wises folk saying of all, and I absolutely bow to the superior wisdom of those sex-crazed beach monkeys. (Or am I mixing my Simpsons episodes?)

Oh.
When shit is worth something, the poor will be born without assholes.

“Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, two purported Democrats who haven’t voted for a Democrat since James Buchanan ran for President and who are mostly engaged these days as Fox News’s resident concern trolls (at least when Jane Hamsher isn’t available)”

Beats having to troll your own blog…