Not getting out of the boat, no way. The only thing worse than getting waterboarded is listening to John “I’m Gonna Torture” Yoo perorate about why it’s OK.

Why is he not explaining all of this to The Hague?

This whole “edumacation = bad” thing is certainly going to make for an interesting chapter in poli sci texts thirty or forty years down the road, but, until then, it’s simply baffling and depressing.

Why is he not explaining all of this to The Hague?

Mumbling through a hockey mask, while strapped to a hand-cart.

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Zorro for the Common Good
11/15/10 21:16

Gee, that’s funny. I have an advanced degree, and not only am I responsible for balancing my household’s budget, I’m also responsible for balancing my business’ budget as well. But by all means, Professor Yoo, I would love to hear lectures from a man who’s spent the past two decades in academia and government. Self-loathing much?

Another theory is that those of us with advanced degrees understand the plain meaning of words like “torture”.

Maybe professors like Yoo should be bonking their students on the head with a mallet instead of edumacating them.

Great photoshop. Am hoping, someday to see an album of great sadlyno! wing-nut paintings—they’re marvelous.

Maybe professors like Yoo should be bonking their students on the head with a mallet instead of edumacating them.

“OW! I’m here to have an argument.”

“No, this is being-hit-on-the-head lessons.”

Moving goalposts are the moral foundation of rightwing, um, “thought”.

So that makes law professor who attended Harvard and Yale and votes Republican … Let’s see … Carry the 3. Divide by 16. Got it!

A confused fucknugget.

My alma mater is always hitting me up for money, being a CA University and all. I’ve written the engineering department and informed them that they’ll not receive a dime from me so long as 1) John Yoo is a paid employee of UC, and 2) he’s alive.

You’d think that would stop the letters, but the ijits in EECS don’t understand that the public face of ALL OF BERKELEY isn’t the crazies on Sproul Plaza (and I love those assholes), but John Yoo, Bush poodle and torturer.

This whole “edumacation = bad” thing is certainly going to make for an interesting chapter in poli sci texts thirty or forty years down the road

Waaaaay ahead of you, buckaroo.

Great photoshop. Am hoping, someday to see an album of great sadlyno! wing-nut paintings—they’re marvelous.

I actually would like to suggest a yearly calendar of the same. There’s enough fantastic photoshops to fill a daily desk calendar, and I would totally buy one. Also mugs, T-shirts, bongs, etc.

Seriously guys, consider it. Might be able to get some more beer and condom money at least. Cafepress or similar, y’all.

This Malkin was fun.

Well John, sometimes you have to go with the functional illiterates you have…

John Yoo, Bush poodle and lackey for the torturerers.

Fizzled, to reflect Yoo’s abject personal cowardice.

Zorro for the Common Good
11/15/10 21:16

Maybe that’s where that Righteous Bubba fellow went.

This is the same tired old trope they’ve been pushing for years. Bill Buckley was constantly saying stuff like he could pick people out of the phone book who could do something or other better than the Yale faculty, and the janitors who wanted the Reds thrown out of town were smarter than the whole pack of liberal Commie symp professors, etc. etc.

I say use an animal bladder. Gives the best sound.

Markham first did his “Here come da judge” routine on Ed Sullivan’s show … and repeated it on two other occasions … His humor is a potpourri that relates to his own race. In the particular routine which has captured the fancy of television viewers, he’s a judge who keeps battering the defendants with the bladder of an animal. “It’s a real bladder,” Markham explained. “I can’t tell you where I get them, but someone at a slaughterhouse picks them up for me. I tried many things, but this is the only thing that gives me that real good sound when it crashes on someone’s head.” Typical of the cornball type humor that comes out of the act: “I say, Order in da court,” Markham yells out. A young lady defendant responds, “Did you say order in the court? I’ll have a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee.” The bladder crashes on her lawyer’s head.

– The Milwaukee Journal, July 17 1968

Of the bladders he would say “Funny thing about the beef bladders I used to beat the guy over the head with. Pig bladders don’t get the effect of the beef bladders. So you have to have a connection to get them. The beef bladders I use are kosher. You don’t have to use kosher, but it happens that the connection I got is kosher.” Smith reported that Markham thought that without the bladders – he never would have been successful. “They used to have fresh meat markets in the old days, where you could go and get a pig slaughtered or have a chicken’s head cut off,” says one of Markham’s daughters Kathy Maldonado. “He would bring several bladders home, soak them in water overnight, grease them up with Vaseline. [He] had a pump contraption that inflated the prepared bladder.” Pigmeat Markham was convinced he could never succeed without using beef bladders as props or draping his already black skin in burnt cork. Perhaps what Pigmeat Markham really needed was a therapist.

May be a recipe in there too.

This is the same tired old trope

Unlike what else?

A one-page playbook, if you ask me.

Nothing like feeding the illiterate base the raw meat of anti-intellectualism. Of course in Yoo’s case this is pretty self-serving since any serious academic analysis of his writings would get him disbarred.

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
— Albert Einstein

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Mark Twain

Maybe professors like Yoo should be bonking their students

Most students prefer masturbation. Their hands are smarter and more ethical than Yoo.

The Twain quote should be tatooed on every T-Baggers head with a branding iron.

Well I think it’s great that John Yoo is writing for America’s Shittiest Website, because that’s like the last station on the way down to writing unpaid op-ed pieces and supporting yourself by giving handjobs under the freeway overpass.
At least in a just world. Ha!

This whole “edumacation = bad” thing is certainly going to make for an interesting chapter in poli sci texts thirty or forty years down the road

Nah, that is as old as the country. From Andie Jackson’s faux populism to the Know Nothings to the William Jennings Bryan, this is as American as apple pie and pig fucking.

He would bring several bladders home, soak them in water overnight, grease them up with Vaseline.

TMI

“any serious academic analysis of his writings would get him disbarred.”

I read his unitary executive memo when it was posted online several years ago and the douche cited a paper written by ‘John Yoo’ as authority. Fuckin’ credibility, ‘How does it work?’

Shorter John “Mr. Waterboard” Yoo, America’s Shittiest Website™

That’s “Professor Waterboard, J.D.” to you, Belgian person of indeterminate age.

It’s not The Hague but what the hell, it’s something: the Center for Latin American Studies at UC-Berkeley brought Botero and his Abu Ghraib work to campus.

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?

POOR PEOPLE IS STUPID

or getting all their “budget” from welfare yadda yadda shiftless parasites blart blart never want for anything thanks to nanny state ack gag flooey.

Mumbling through a hockey mask, while strapped to a hand-cart.

so, you drink at my bar…

Nothing like feeding the illiterate base the raw meat of anti-intellectualism.

The reason anti-intellectualism’s so popular is because you get the same thrill out of it that you do from any form of anti-elitism – but without any of the risk that normally comes from that, since intellectuals have no power.

If you piss off politicians, they can beat you, shoot you or lock you up. If you piss off businessmen, they can hire people to do all that to you and they can fire you as a warning to other fools. But what’s the penalty for pissing off an intellectual? Nothing. So of course it draws a wide following, especially from the people who used to beat up kids with glasses during recess.

I actually would like to suggest a yearly calendar of the same. There’s enough fantastic photoshops to fill a daily desk calendar, and I would totally buy one. Also mugs, T-shirts, bongs, etc.

Actually quite easy to do. Took me 4 hours to put together my cuddly toy torture calendar. A great Xmas gift for all the family.

This whole “edumacation = bad” thing is certainly going to make for an interesting chapter in poli sci texts thirty or forty years down the road, but, until then, it’s simply baffling and depressing.

I doubt it. If Texas continues to have undue influence on school textbooks, there’ll just be a page that says “It’s all the blacks’, gays’ and Muslims’ fault. Here’s some blank pages for coloring.”

Off-topic: Just saw this review of Spengler’s book by the entertainment editor of the paper where I used to work. The guy tended to be pretty hostile to horror film, so I’m a bit surprised he read “Rise Again” at all — but he definitely seemed to enjoy it…

There are times when I really want to hang WP from the neck until dead.

Nothing like feeding the illiterate base the raw meat of anti-intellectualism.

I think the reason it’s so popular is that it gives people the same thrill as any other kind of antielitism… but there’s no risk in it, unlike those other kinds.

If you step on the politicians’ toes, they’ll beat you, shoot you or lock you up. If you step on the businessmen’s toes, they’ll hire the politicians or someone else to do that, plus they can also fire you or foreclose on you or whatever as a warning to other fools. But there’s no penalty for stepping on an intellectual’s toes. So the people who grew up beating up the kids with glasses during recess are free to do it to their heart’s content.

If Texas continues to have undue influence on school textbooks, there’ll just be a page that says “It’s all the blacks’, gays’ and Muslims’ fault. Here’s some blank pages for coloring.”

I doubt they’ll use apostrophes properly like that — it’ll seem pompous and faggy at that point, like using the word “you” instead of “y’all” (singular) or “all y’all’s” (plural).

The point is there won’t be poli sci (or any other) texts 30 to 40 yrs. down the rd.

What better novels have, we all know, are a well-told story, characters that progress in one direction or another, few holes, skillful prose and, as a bonus, a tendency to ask questions and make us hunger for answers.

“Rise Again” has all of that.

I like more than a few holes in my books. (Tee hee.) But will it be answers for which we’ll hunger? ‘Cause it’s not much of a cook-book then.

A recent poll shows that the most highly educated people voted for Democrats over Republicans in the mid-term elections. The only thing that this can possibly mean is that more educated voters are dumber than less educated voters.

Check and mate. Done.

And what the hell’s this crap?

It also is the point where Tripp comes close to losing readers, when well-dressed authority come across as comic book characters.

Authority in this nation (no matter how it’s clothed) bloody well patterns itself on comic book characters, from George W. Bush on down. Reviewer Kerns should get out & deal more often, or at least watch an episode of COPS once in a while.

Crap, t (DANGER) sam kept me from stabbing this thing in the heart w/ a three-peat®.

Speaking of balancing budgets, NPR had quite a douche-fest on today including the inimitable Dr. Evil himself, Grover Norquist. They were all commenting on the not-panel-approved-panel-findings of the deficit commission. I felt like I needed a shower afterward.

What’s the fuckin’ deal with Social Security? It’s NOT a fucking entitlement. And what kind of phuktard thinks that raising the benefit age is a good idea? Oh, I get it, let’s keep people in the workforce longer, keeping the labor market flooded with old bastards so that young people can’t find jobs–is this that underclass to fight your wars you were looking for? Everyone needs to shut the fuck up about SS.

Also, too, while I’m at it, BTW, these fucking right wing buttholes got a lot of nerve talking shit about deficits and spending when they cut taxes and start wars at the same time. They all need to STFU about everything.

So, to drag the thread (however briefly) back, kicking and screaming, on topic, this logic Perfesser Wuwuwu is applying, is that the same logic he used to magic up a phony right to torture possibly innocent people?

‘Cause that’s some crappy thinking, there.

Same mind, different crap.

So, to drag the thread (however briefly) back, kicking and screaming, on topic, this logic Perfesser Wuwuwu is applying, is that the same logic he used to magic up a phony right to torture possibly innocent people?

No, he actually tried this time. The torture logic was something like “it’s ok because we said it’s ok and therefore it’s ok and legal”.

Crap, t (DANGER) sam kept me from stabbing this thing in the heart w/ a three-peat®.

Sorry, dude. This kill is yours for the taking, if you’re still there and still have that knife.

Prof. Yoo might want to read up on Albert Speer for strategy in case he ever finds himself in a world court.

But American lives would have been lost if we hadn’t waterboarded some dudes in Gitmo, right? I’m going to be tying my shoe for the next 30 years, you guys go ahead and do what you gotta do.

This is the same tired old trope

A one-page playbook, if you ask me.

and yet we keep losing.

If only our guys HAD a playbook, other then “please dont hit me!”

I’ll choose John Yoo in the Transamerica Pyramid building, one week later.
::rubs palms together, sez “heh, watch this drive”::

If only our guys HAD a playbook, other then “please dont hit me!”

Wait, I thought it was “not in the face!”

Prof. Yoo might want to read up on Albert Speer for strategy in case he ever finds himself in a world court.

Had to look it up…sounds like Speer confessed his crimes and took his medicine. I doubt the good perfesser would have the courage.

In other words, yoo must be kidding.

Well, to be fair, Profeeser Torture did cite a legal authority (himself) as proof that what he wanted to approve had been approved by himself, at an earlier time, to prove that water-boarding was nothing short of a Sunday’s stroll through a park on a sunny day, so it couldn’t possibly by torture, so we can do it anyway, because we wanna, so bite me.

And the bobble-headed dc media did their thing, and waited for their invitations to the next david brooks applebee-themed black-tie BBQ dinner to arrive, because Oh, the Humanity!

“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin cutting throats.”

The fucking vapours, how do they work?

Did he get paid for that?

Wait. I need help with this.

John Yoo sees less educated people as “not responsible for making ends meet” — obviously because he assumes they are welfare-sucking mooches. Okay. And he feels entitled to judge them as such because he has contributed __________*, which proves that he, unlike the uneducated mooches, has not been dead weight on our society.

Do I have this straight?

*What goes in this blank?

Kitty, go somewhere and have an orgasm or something on your bedpost. These things are over your head, which you’re probably giving at this very moment.

If anyone ever deserved the flaming-poo-in-a-bag-by-the-front-door treatment, it’s this guy.

Every time I hear anything about him, I just hope that he trips and falls into a woodchipper.

Every time I hear anything about him, I just hope that he trips and falls into a woodchipper.
Send him a bus ticket from Brainerd to Fargo. It’s cheap, and he might get lucky.

They all talk like a fag, and their shit’s all retarded.

Shorter trollinboca: “IDENTIFIABLE FEMALE IN THREAD! IDENTIFIABLE FEMALE IN THREAD! HALF-ASSED TROLLING TO MAXIMUM!”

This can’t be tortured logic because it didn’t result in organ failure or death… but maybe enhanced interrogation logic? Medically supervised waterboarded logic? Legal euphemism coined by Nazis logic?

Oh no. My bad. Jon Stewart sez we must avoid incendiary remarks even when technically this is all correct and in the realm of crimes against humanity. **Note to self** In future… Must. Be. Civil.

ASW keeps paying for this shit, they’re going to need more fundraisers. Or a bigger boat.

The fact is, poor people are poor because they are lazy. A lot of smart people are poor because they are not smart about reality, only the liberal bias hippy fantasyland that voted for Obama, are nonproducing parisites on Real America, the Heartland that Sarah Palin represents, as well as freedom.

Kitty, go somewhere and have an orgasm or something on your bedpost. These things are over your head, which you’re probably giving at this very moment.

Conservatives are weird.

Oh no. My bad. Jon Stewart sez we must avoid incendiary remarks even when technically this is all correct and in the realm of crimes against humanity. **Note to self** In future… Must. Be. Civil.

Yeah Ted, sheez, here we were having such an engaging debate with Professor Yoo on his well founded and reasoned views on Democrats being stupid stupid stupid and you had to go ruin it all by posting a “conversation stopper” by pointing out John Yoo should spend the rest of his life in a European prison cell for crafting legal causistry used to rationalize atrocities done to prisoners like his Nazi lawyer bretherin did for doing the same thing.

I shall be on my fainting couch if anyone needs me.

you had to go ruin it all by posting a “conversation stopper”

I actually thought I was pulling it back on topic after Dave’s wet-dream threatened a derailment.

But point taken, and having turned over a new leaf since my last post, I will be polite and all. Professor Yoo in his infinite modesty and most pleasant manner is looking at exit polling data and carrying our enhanced interrogation… Oh fuck, there I go again. Look, it’s not enhanced interrogation at all, just stretching and straining the crap out of captured figures until you obtain the answer that best serves your political paymasters.

My sense of humor failure will be here all thread.

Conservatives are weird.

Ain’t they though? I think the little troll is actually fairly enraged at the idea that women can have orgasms. No clue what kind of brain malfunction would make conservatives so angry about something like that…

Scott said,
Ain’t they though? I think the little troll is actually fairly enraged at the idea that women can have orgasms. No clue what kind of brain malfunction would make conservatives so angry about something like that…

Because they would have to admit that women don’t need men to get off — especially manlymen in boca.

Now excuse me, I have to check on some rubbings.

Okay, WP has now shafted me twice. Let’s see if the office computer has any more luck.

Nothing like feeding the illiterate base the raw meat of anti-intellectualism.

Yeah, and the reason it’s so popular is because it gives people the same thrill as any other form of anti-elitism, but without any of the risk that comes from them.

E.G. if you piss off the government, it can beat you, shoot you or lock you up. If you piss off the rich, they can hire the government or someone else to do all those things to you, and fire you or foreclose on you or whatever. But what’s the penalty for pissing off the intellectuals? Ergo, it appeals to a lot of people – especially the bully mentality that doesn’t have the stones to take on someone who actually fights back.

I think the little troll is actually fairly enraged at the idea that women can have orgasms. No clue what kind of brain malfunction would make conservatives so angry about something like that…

Conservatives can’t give orgasms. Orgasms are for DFH leftists.

nonproducing parisites on Real America, the Heartland that Sarah Palin represents, as well as freedom.

People from Paris are called “Parisians,” not “Parisites.” And they produce plenty, thankyouverymuch.

Unlike your precious fucking heartland, which has been drowning in federal money collected in New York and California for the last eighty years.

Fighting for democracy and sovereignty in Afghanistan

In a meeting Sunday morning with Ashraf Ghani, who leads the Afghan government’s planning on transition, Petraeus made what several officials described as “hypothetical” references to an inability to continue U.S. operations in the face of Karzai’s remarks.

People’s Supreme Fearless Leader may take his toys and go home if he keeps getting insulted like this.

Karzai’s a crook, but in this case he’s just telling it like it is. You can’t do counterinsurgency if the population doesn’t trust you, and the population won’t trust a heavy-stick, intrusive presence of the kind the military’s been pushing for.

it’ll seem pompous and faggy at that point, like using the word “you” instead of “y’all” (singular) or “all y’all’s” (plural)

“Y’all” is singular and plural, “all y’all” is emphatic. “Youins” is also permissible.

Pig bladders don’t get the effect of the beef bladders. So you have to have a connection to get them

Something about a comic named “Pigmeat” preferring beef bladders….

Got out of the boat. Noticed that there was an ad for turducken dog food next to the article. Hopped right the fuck back in.

“Y’all” is singular and plural, “all y’all” is emphatic. “Youins” is also permissible.

Don’t you mean “yinz,” as in Pittsburghese?

Or is that too urban, too Yankee, too blue collar for Tex Ass?

“Conservatives can’t give orgasms. Orgasms are for DFH leftists.”

I think they can’t have orgasms, either, unless there’s abuse involved. Or if they’re getting really good head — but strictly the under-stall kind.

Oh, also, if anyone still cares, I am WALKING WITHOUT CRUTCHES today.

I still have the boot on and a bit of a cankle, and my muscles hurt, but I am (mostly) ambulatory!

Or cares at all, as the case may be.

Yay for walkies!

No go git me a sammich. (burps)

turducken dog

I believe that’s known as a caniturducken. You need a big dog, of course.

I still have the boot on and a bit of a cankle, and my muscles hurt, but I am (mostly) ambulatory!

Just pay the fucking ticket already and they’ll take the boot off.

Oh, also, if anyone still cares, I am WALKING WITHOUT CRUTCHES today.

This is change I can believe in.

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

So Yoo thinks education is a dumb idea? He’s a, um, lawyer, right?

So Yoo thinks education is a dumb idea? He’s a, um, lawyer, right?

And a professor.

Oh, also, if anyone still cares, I am WALKING WITHOUT CRUTCHES today.

Funny, I’m walking with a crutch this morning.

Oh, wait…you don’t mean a shot of Jack Daniels…

I believe that’s known as a caniturducken. You need a big dog, of course.

If it’s a weiner dog, you can stick it in the middle and have a turfucken.

So Yoo thinks education is a dumb idea? He’s a, um, lawyer, right?

And a professor.

So he’s a Doctor of Douchery?

Just pay the fucking ticket already and they’ll take the boot off.

Noooooooooo! That’s my sensible shoe money!!!!!!!

Also, thanks, guys.

Karzai’s a crook, but in this case he’s just telling it like it is. You can’t do counterinsurgency if the population doesn’t trust you, and the population won’t trust a heavy-stick, intrusive presence of the kind the military’s been pushing for
See, this is just shallow analysis. The Army is filled with people who joined up so they could drive tanks and shoot guns. Nobody joins the army so they will have the opportunity to learn Persian and Pashto and like 30 more tribal languages. You can do that at a library or university. The Army is designed to defeat either the Nazis II: Electric Boogaloo or the Commies du Jour. Both of whom had the bad manners to either not exist or to fade away without much of a fight. What would ‘win’ in Afghanistan would be a comprehensive economic development plan providing education and medical care, and job opportunities. And the US sure as hell doesn’t have the ‘will to win’ on those terms. So they will keep poking the dog of Afghanistan with the stick of the US Army and keep complaining when it bites.
All we need to do is get the taliban to buy tanks and Jet fighters and the US armed forces will wipe the floor with them.

Look:

http://eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2010/11/waiting-for-godot-zardoz.html

And the US sure as hell doesn’t have the ‘will to win’ on those terms.

We are the nation that invented the Marshall Plan. We can do this.

We are the nation that invented the Marshall Plan. We can do this.
‘Can’ is wildly different from ‘will’.

@ 77South; all perfectly true. The military, for the last sixty years, has been primed to refight World War Two. On the one occasion that someone’s actually been stupid enough to fight us on those terms (Gulf War I), sure enough we kick ass. But we have no idea how to do anything else at all. See Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, in addition to the current troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Like I said and like actor points out, it doesn’t have to be that way. The Marshall Plan’s a case in point for our being able to use non-military power, and better relations with the population would help too. But we’re not interested in either.

Which I think goes back to the belief of modern-day Americans that the military is the only effective and trustworthy part of the government (a belief that holds despite the staggering number of TARFUs they’ve gotten into since WW2). As a result of that, agencies like USAID, the State Department, even the CIA get shoved aside and the military grabs more and more control.

Which I think goes back to the belief of modern-day Americans that the military is the only effective and trustworthy part of the government (a belief that holds despite the staggering number of TARFUs they’ve gotten into since WW2).

This, I think, is in large part the fault of Reagan. He picked “wars” that he was guaranteed to win, since effectively he would be battling a few goats. After the disillusionment over ‘Nam, it perked up the military’s image.

And one more, very important factor I want to add: military spending is immediate and can be widely distributed to reward the entire nation. Spending on programs like espionage and rebuilding, not so much.

If only our guys HAD a playbook, other then “please dont hit me!”

Wait, I thought it was “not in the face!”

I thought it was “ok, I’m sorry I made you do that, but please tell people I just fell down the stairs.”

I thought it was “ok, I’m sorry I made you do that, but please tell people I just fell down the stairs.”

And here I thought it was “I’m sorry I put my face in the way of your fist”

Go T&U! More specifically, since you can walk now, go get me a brewski!

Sorry T&U, got stuck in the mindset there 🙂

How much longer until you can cartwheel?

By the way, the point of relations between the military and the civilians on the ground isn’t shallow, it’s the root of the problem. Sure we need economic aid and all that stuff too, but the problems begin with person-to-person relations on the ground, which we’ve fucked up pretty royally.

http://www.empirenotes.org/october04.html

Copy-pasting a long but good commentary on counterinsurgency from back in October 2004. Rahul Mahajan extensively comments on a Times article about the situation in Iraq, drawing on his own trips there after the invasion.

October 24, 1:53 pm. Interesting article in the Times today by Norimitsu Onishi, Dutch Soldiers Find Smiles Are a More Effective Protection:

“In a neighborhood here without lights, its pockmarked dirt streets and open sewers faintly visible under the full moon, the Dutch soldiers began a foot patrol on a recent evening. After getting out of their soft-top vehicles, the soldiers entered a street, wearing no helmets and pointing their guns down, chatting with Iraqis clustered in front of their homes.

“Hello, Mister!” some boys cried out, and they followed the soldiers to the bend in the road. Driving through the town later, the Dutch called out “Salaam Aleikum” to pedestrians. Many Iraqis, adults and children, waved at them.

Part neighborhood police officers, part social workers, the soldiers managed to practice in Iraq what the Netherlands has come to call the Dutch approach to patrolling. Scarred by national shame over the Dutch peacekeepers who proved powerless to stop the Bosnian Serbs from rolling into the United Nations enclave of Srebrenica in 1995 and killing thousands of Muslims, the Dutch have nonetheless managed to keep a soft touch, honed in Afghanistan and now on display in this small town on the Euphrates.

Instead of armored vehicles, the Dutch drive vehicles that leave them exposed to the people around them. To encourage interaction with local residents, they go bare-headed and are forbidden to wear mirror sunglasses. Making soldiers accessible and vulnerable to their surroundings increases their security, they contend. Making them inaccessible decreases it.”

When I was in Iraq in January, I spoke with a Hungarian journalist who had been there since May 2003. He told me that in Samawah the Dutch went around without guns. They learned the language, shopped in the local shops, were friendly to people, and walked around like ordinary people. At long last, the mainstream media has caught up with this story.

I had assumed that the no-guns policy was a casualty of April’s events and indeed the article mentions that they carry guns now, although they keep them down, not constantly swiveling and pointing at people the way Americans do when on patrol.

The article suggests that it is unfair to compare the Dutch with the American methods:

“Samawa, one of the quietest spots in Iraq outside the Kurdish north, is a world away from the lawlessness that has spread across Baghdad and other cities. What the Dutch face here cannot be compared with what American soldiers must deal with in the capital or in the Sunni triangle, where they are confronted daily with a deadly resistance.

Yet, perhaps unfairly, the Americans do get compared with the Dutch here, in a way that underscores how difficult it will be for Americans to win back some of the popular support they enjoyed after the fall of Saddam Hussein.”

But there is an obvious chicken-and-egg problem here. When the Americans swept into Baghdad, very few parts of the city manifested any violence toward Americans. Shi’a areas like Sadr City and Shuala had many people who hoped that the Americans would be liberators and who were grateful for the removal of Saddam Hussein. There were no attacks on Americans coming from most sectors of the city; there’s little reason to believe that this would have had to change had the Americans acted like the Dutch.

Even Sunni areas like Aadhamiyah that had regular, consistent attacks on Americans starting in the summer of 2003 (actually, this is almost the only area in Baghdad of which this was true) had large numbers of local authorities and notables who were very willing to work with the Americans and only got turned off after repeated indignities.

In Samawah, the biggest security problem is the occasional American trips across the city:

“In Samawa, Chief Zayad and others here said, the American convoys represent the greatest affront to Iraqi dignity. The Dutch and Iraqis say the convoys indiscriminately hit private cars and pedestrians, treating Iraqis only as obstacles to be removed. A few weeks ago, one such convoy struck a car, killing two Iraqi passengers and injuring three, the Dutch said. The convoy never stopped.”

The locals clearly note these things and have a very different attitude to the Dutch:

“Karim Hleibit al-Zayad, the police chief here, made a clear distinction between the Dutch and Americans: “The Dutch have tried seriously to understand our traditions. We do not view them as an occupying force, but a friendly one. The Americans are an occupying force. I agree they helped us get rid of the past regime, but they should not take away our dignity.””

According to the Dutch colonel, even in peaceful Samawah, dislike for the Americans is growing. His attempt at understanding the difference in attitudes:

“Of course, an American is a different type of human than a Dutchman,” the colonel said. “We have our own culture. But I think the Americans could have a way of operating with more respect and more understanding toward the population.”

A British officer in Basra in April expanded a bit on this:

“They don’t see the Iraqi people the way we see them. They view them as untermenschen. They are not concerned about the Iraqi loss of life in the way the British are. Their attitude towards the Iraqis is tragic, it’s awful.

The US troops view things in very simplistic terms. It seems hard for them to reconcile subtleties between who supports what and who doesn’t in Iraq. It’s easier for their soldiers to group all Iraqis as the bad guys. As far as they are concerned Iraq is bandit country and everybody is out to kill them.””

When the final histories of this war are written, look for the word “Untermenschen.”

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It’s always shocking to discover this, but yeah, this “treat people decently” shit really does do wonders in real life. If American troops were to take a leaf out of the Dutch book, that’d already be a giant step in the right direction.

you’re off crutches and the first thing you do is get out of the boat?

How much longer until you can cartwheel?

It’s going to be about three months until I can walk without a limp. I have a feeling it’s going to be about a year until I’m completely normal. Or at least as normal as I will be.

I’m just hoping I can run and wear moderately scandalous heels.

you’re off crutches and the first thing you do is get out of the boat?

I’m a daredevil!

This, I think, is in large part the fault of Reagan. He picked “wars” that he was guaranteed to win, since effectively he would be battling a few goats. After the disillusionment over ‘Nam, it perked up the military’s image.

Agree, that and the all-volunteer force.

Reagan’s “wars” built up militarism by letting people live out revenge fantasies after the “humiliation” of Vietnam.

The all-volunteer force means Americans are more detached than ever from the reality of war, which means they’ll never get the chance to learn what their fantasies look like in real life. (Main reason why I support bringing the draft back, actually).

I’m just hoping I can run and wear moderately scandalous heels.

Y’know, if you don’t stand in them….

(Main reason why I support bringing the draft back, actually).

I used to be adamantly opposed to the draft, but I’ve changed my mind. Actually, I think mandatory service of some sort would be a great idea. Not that that will ever, ever happen.

I used to be adamantly opposed to the draft, but I’ve changed my mind. Actually, I think mandatory service of some sort would be a great idea. Not that that will ever, ever happen.

Course not.

Can’t have us actually paying a price for our decisions (not even in taxes). That’d just be unamerican.

Actually, I think mandatory service of some sort would be a great idea.

Switzerland has this, and of course, it would never fly here.

Of course…it COULD sneak universal healthcare in….

T&U – four weeks with boot, right? You’ll be walking just fine in a couple months IF and ONLY IF you do the PT. It’s when you don’t do the PT that you’re limping a year later. Trust me on this, k?

Trust me on this, k?

I’d take his word on this. He has recipes!

T&U – four weeks with boot, right? You’ll be walking just fine in a couple months IF and ONLY IF you do the PT. It’s when you don’t do the PT that you’re limping a year later. Trust me on this, k?

Actually, we’re going to start to try and wean me off the boot in the next couple of weeks.

And I’ve been pretty diligent about the PT, even if I’d rather be doing something else besides moving a towel and writing the alphabet with my foot.

IF and ONLY IF you do the PT

The Poop Tango?

And I’ve been pretty diligent about the PT, even if I’d rather be doing something else besides moving a towel and writing the alphabet with my foot.

I see PT hasn’t changed much since the last time I needed it.

Which maybe is a good thing, since I start mine tonight.

Pfft, you liberals. John (because the lawyer said it was) Yoo writes a ….um..based upon an …um..by the AEI..in a…The National Review, and you are automatically biased against his…I give up.

It’s printed and he knows big words. Good enough for us in the heartland.

If only our guys HAD a playbook, other then “please dont hit me!”

Wait, I thought it was “not in the face!”

It used to be “please don’t hit me!”, then the centrists thought that was too partisan and they compromised to “not in the face”.

Oh yuck.

When you get to the stretchy bands is when it gets …. um … fun. Funny thing I recall about it is that I really had to think about forming the letters. I could reel them off easily with my right foot – I’m right handed – but to exercise my damaged left foot I had to mentally picture the cursive letters and “trace” the shape.

but to exercise my damaged left foot I had to mentally picture the cursive letters and “trace” the shape.

Doing it in morse code is much easier.

I can’t decide whether I want someone to shoot O’Keefe or whether we should just wait for him to inevitably commit some kind of serious felony — my money’s on either murder, rape, or a convenience store robbery.

Is there a person in the world more punchable than O’Keefe? Seriously.

My list goes:
James
Rush
Newt
Many more

Hard to condone the use of the N-word, but Christie is a monumental sack of shit.

No wonder they love him so much.

Wonder how long before his inevitable run for POTUS…

Actually, I think mandatory service of some sort would be a great idea.

How’s about giving the rich their tax breaks, and if they take them then this applies to their children. With one combat mission.

(i know, but still)

Chris, she only used the word to complain that another teacher had said it.

Is there a person in the world more punchable than O’Keefe? Seriously.

Judge in the cheerleader rape case?

Chris, she only used the word to complain that another teacher had said it.

Memo to me… in depth-reading is your friend.

In other words, O’Keefe once again uses dishonestly edited recordings to smear women. It’s pathological.

It’s a good thing she didn’t say “retard” or Christie would have thrown her to the wolves, literally.

Dumb poor people…voting for all those rich “achievers” to have their money stolen and given to those less worthy…so they can sit on their fat asses, eating bon-bons and getting rich…They have it all figured out!!!! And their plan has worked beautifully so far! Poor people are doing GREAT!

In other words, O’Keefe once again uses dishonestly edited recordings to smear women. It’s pathological.

You know what might hit home? Someone sandbagging his mother into saying some smack about his antics.

Oh yuck.

I’d ahem you from the last thread, but I’m too lazy.

I’d ahem you from the last thread, but I’m too lazy

Yesterday’s article didn’t note that she was a special ed teacher. At least if it did, I missed it.

I smell a new GOP talking points bulletin.

Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak replied: “What do these stories have to do with recent events? What should they have to do with recent events? They are completely separate and have nothing to do with one another

What is actually even more disgusting with this new O’Keefe episode is the fact that she was suspended. I mean, the idiot releases his videos and prompt action is taken. I bet such a loony thinks he’s really influential, but why shouldn’t he?

Plus he got away with a slap of the wrist for attempting to wiretap a federal building.

When you get to the stretchy bands is when it gets …. um … fun.

I’ve been on them a few weeks now. I have to tie them in a knot and shut them in my door to do some of the exercises. Also, I wear a lot of black and that fucking powder gets all over my clothes.

Yesterday’s article didn’t note that she was a special ed teacher. At least if it did, I missed it.

Okay, fair enough. It didn’t.

What I can’t figure out is, if he was doing an “expose” on the teachers unions, what the hell does one teacher saying one word that out of context would be offensive but in context was explanatory?

If you remember Dr Laura, it wasn’t that she said “nigger”, but that she said it over and over and over (eleven times, if I recall). That was the thing that got her driven off the air, PLUS she said it to a couple dozen tens of thousands of people, not to someone in a bar who was faking trying to pick her up.

I think the little troll is actually fairly enraged at the idea that women can have orgasms. No clue what kind of brain malfunction would make conservatives so angry about something like that…

Well, there’s the fear that someone, somewhere, is enjoying herself.

What I can’t figure out is, if he was doing an “expose” on the teachers unions, what the hell does one teacher saying one word that out of context would be offensive but in context was explanatory?

Water it down with Fox News & co, and the story people’ll remember is “unionized teacher says N word,” I imagine.

I mean, the idiot releases his videos and prompt action is taken. I bet such a loony thinks he’s really influential, but why shouldn’t he?

That’s what keeps bugging me. Known Pathological Liar releases a faked-up video; everyone rushes to do whatever Known Pathological Liar wants.

I can’t figure out why everyone seems so keen to get taken in by a Known Pathological Liar and so eager to give him the power he craves.

From Nurse Jackie’s first episode:
Zoey: Do you think there’s a finite amount of pain in the world? Like if I take a thorn out of someone’s hand, does that pain have to go somewhere else?
Jackie: Yes, that’s why there’s drugs.
Zoey: Like maybe God said, here, I want this much suffering to exist in the world. You people can sort it out any way you want, but I want exactly this much suffering.
Jackie: That’s interesting. That would make Him kind of a prick, though, wouldn’t it?

I got really puzzled with this, and then it lit up a few things. The idea that life is a zero-sum game might have perverted the minds of many.

If you remember Dr Laura, it wasn’t that she said “nigger”, but that she said it over and over and over (eleven times, if I recall).

And said it over and over, on the air, to a black woman who had called Laura for help getting her husband to stand up for her against his racist friends specifically because, and she was very clear about this, the use of the word bothered her tremendously.

And said it over and over, on the air, to a black woman who had called Laura for help getting her husband to stand up for her against his racist friends specifically because, and she was very clear about this, the use of the word bothered her tremendously.

I think she also said it bothered her when black people did it, but Laura was monologuing at that point.

Yoo and O’Keefe are both gaining on Kristol and Feith on the Backpfeifengesicht list.

What would ‘win’ in Afghanistan would be a comprehensive economic development plan providing education and medical care, and job opportunities.

That’s soshalism!

I’m just hoping I can run and wear moderately scandalous heels.

You can make up for it by wearing scandalous tops. Send pictures!

Yeah Feith’s been coasting. He doesn’t understand that being “the fucking stupidest guy on the planet” is not a lifetime position you have to earn it every day. He’s got some real competition.

I’m just hoping I can … wear moderately scandalous heels.

I’m sure it’s no problem if you wear them behind your ears.

what?

but to exercise my damaged left foot I had to mentally picture the cursive letters and “trace” the shape.

Doing it in morse code is much easier.

Stamping my foot is also a great way to count.

Yeah, but his face still inspires violence all by itself.

Like maybe God said, here, I want this much suffering to exist in the world. You people can sort it out any way you want, but I want exactly this much suffering.

So overpopulation would dilute the pain?

See, the way I read this story is that the teacher in question was remarking how a heavily unionized teaching force kept her fellow teachers from receiving much punishment whenever they’d do something bad, like call a student the n-word. Now, O’Queef, with the POV that unions are bad, I guess, secretly tapes this woman talking about this, and she gets in trouble (not the teacher in question, not the union). O’Queef declares victory, but for what? Doesn’t she completely look the better in this situation?

Does this putz even know what the hell he’s arguing, anymore? Or does he just like to get his rocks off humiliating women? Do I even need answers for these questions?

Also, it takes about ten seconds on the Googles to find out that everything O’Queef has done is entirely bogus. So, hat tip, public servants: Whenever this DJ Qualls looking doofus shows up to your office with a hot new vid making your employees look like jerks, consider telling him to fuck right off. See? Easy.

I’m sure it’s no problem if you wear them behind your ears.

Not particularly attracted to cross-dressers, but I’ll try anything once.

Okay, twice.

See, the way I read this story is that the teacher in question was remarking how a heavily unionized teaching force kept her fellow teachers from receiving much punishment whenever they’d do something bad, like call a student the n-word. Now, O’Queef, with the POV that unions are bad, I guess, secretly tapes this woman talking about this, and she gets in trouble (not the teacher in question, not the union). O’Queef declares victory, but for what? Doesn’t she completely look the better in this situation?

Ahhh, soo…

was Christie arguing that the person who used the N word should have been fired and was only kept on because of the teachers’ union?

That would make more sense at least…

I can’t figure out why everyone seems so keen to get taken in by a Known Pathological Liar and so eager to give him the power he craves.

STFU, schweinhund! The pay-scale goes down when you ask too many questions.

Ask the wrong one & you win yourself a free airplane “accident.”

I think the little troll is actually fairly enraged at the idea that women can have orgasms. No clue what kind of brain malfunction would make conservatives so angry about something like that…

How about the malfunction that prevents him from actually inducing one in a woman. A real live woman. One he hasn’t had to pay for.

How about the malfunction that prevents him from actually inducing one in a woman. A real live woman. One he hasn’t had to pay for.

Wait, you’re counting the fake ones?

Not particularly attracted to cross-dressers, but I’ll try anything once.

*stripping off slinky back spandex mini*

Okay, twice.

*tugging back on slinky back spandex mini*

Wait, you’re counting the fake ones?

Soft bigotry, low expectations.

Not particularly attracted to cross-dressers, but I’ll try anything once.

Okay, twice.

Diiiiiiibs.

Judge in the cheerleader rape case?

There’s a category of “shoot” and another of merely “punch repeatedly in the face”. Y’know, for after the revolution. O’Keefe is safely in the latter. Those who protect rapists and harass victims, well…

O/T, except really not, the fund drive over at NRO is getting hectic — K-Load’s exhortations for readers to turn their pocketses inside out are priceless, and I almost want to set up an account just to concern troll over there.

By the way, whenever somebody casually mentions my novel on this site, God reanimates a kitten he previously killed. It’s fucking disgusting, all these zombie kittehs staggering around playing with blood-soaked balls of yarn (fixxored in advance). That said, the Lubbock review is my favorite so far, because you can tell the guy set out to dislike it and instead got really involved. TRIUMPH.

My business plan:

1. Write best-selling zombie novel
2. ?????
3. No profit!

By the way, whenever somebody casually mentions my novel on this site, God reanimates a kitten he previously killed.

What’s the name of that book, again?

*crossing fingers, hoping little Pumpkin rises again*

BTW, I plan on contributing to the kitten zombie holocaust. I love a good horror novel.

*crossing fingers, hoping little Pumpkin rises again*

Awwwwwwwwwww, are you trying to make me cry?

Besides, Bad Things happen when you bring back kitties from the dead.

BTW, I plan on contributing to the kitten zombie holocaust. I love a good horror novel.

Novel?

Besides, Bad Things happen when you bring back kitties from the dead.

I’m a professional. I’ve bought many a pussy back to life.

I’ve bought many a pussy back to life.

Wait, you’re counting the fake ones?

I’ve bought many a pussy back to life.

Wait, you’re counting the fake ones?

They’re alive now, ain’t they?

Novel?

What should I call it? Story? Tale? Legend?

I’d better mention Hitler. Destroyed the thread with my selfish vanity.

They’re alive now, ain’t they?

The only responses I have to this sit, vague, in the back of my mind, because they would disgust me just to think about them.

What should I call it? Story? Tale? Legend?

How about history?

I wonder what herstory is.

Maybe degree-holders & the undereducated vote “D” because they’re the ones being fucked over the worst by job-exports & Republicans’ “Punish The Poors” policies? Or maybe those groups were the least exposed to years on end of 24/7 Big Lie agitprop as to Obama’s secret socialist pact with Lucifer?

Naaaaah.

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?

What could possibly show more “common sense” then bringing back the same bunch that just spent most of a decade hog-tying down America so the Banksters could gang-rape it, & promptly “punished” them with truckloads of sweet sweet cash? Who better to fix those complicated economic-type things than the pioneers of the numberless budget?

“Next on FOX: Do tax-cuts cure cancer? A new AEI study brings surprising results!”

Could it be that unilaterally refusing to go after the BushCo crime-syndicate back when most Americans were begging to see them in orange jumpsuits, then spending two years on end constantly wimping out to the GOP 2.0 batshitologists & repeatedly verbally punching the same hippies that elected them WASN’T a recipe for success for Team Obama after all?

IT IS A MYSTERY.

I actually put “Rise Again” in my Amazon cart this morning — I haven’t clicked “Purchase” yet, ’cause I try to buy enough books so they’ll ship ’em by the Post Office and not package-stomping UPS, but the process has been started…

The worst thing about zombie kittens is if one of them scratches you, you end up tied to a bed, delivering a zombie infant. Then again, everybody needs a wee playmate.*

*Vmidgetpr0nR

The worst thing about zombie kittens is if one of them scratches you, you end up tied to a bed, delivering a zombie infant.

Ving Rhames was great in that.

The worst thing about zombie kittens is if one of them scratches you, you end up tied to a bed, delivering a zombie infant.

I thought you just got zombie cat scratch fever.

Ving Rhames was great in that.

Yes he was. And that scene was creepy.

Scott you fucker, pull the trigger. I need to buy plasma for this here zombie infant. That shit ain’t cheap since I had to start getting it from — well, let’s just say I need a receipt nowadays. Anybody want a kitten?

I wonder what herstory is.
Well whatever it is, it isn’t a Michael Jackson album.

I thought you just got zombie cat scratch fever.

TEH ZOMBIE TED NUGENT!!! ONLY CHUCK NORRIS CAN STOP HIM!!!

TEH ZOMBIE TED NUGENT!!!

Wait…he’s not?

I need to buy plasma for this here zombie infant.

I read that as “plasma TV” for a second. For Zombie Baby Einstein.

O/T some more, but Bouffant’s takedown here is well worth the worthwhileness of itself.
http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2010/11/civil-demon-defense.html

I have mixed feelings on whether or not to abide and type the dreaded word. First there’s Mr King’s Pet Semetary which had me have nightmares at the tender age of 11. Plus having such a weird nym when one has a really cool badass name, well, this calls for a visit to the shrink.

On the other hand, 5% of posts mentioning said narrative, with an average of 300 posts per day… How long will it take to drown the West Coast in zombie kittens? Could be fun.

*looks at magically appearing flower* Oh! A rose! Again!

TEH ZOMBIE TED NUGENT!!!

Wait…he’s not?

Unfortunately, eating venison sashimi only gives you a stomach ache. And shrunken testicles.

I read that as “plasma TV” for a second. For Zombie Baby Einstein.

Plasma TVs are made with real human blood plasma. Many people don’t know that. Also, don’t eat the green crackers.

I wonder what herstory is.

Likely to be quite a bit different.

There really is only one weapon against zombie kittens

Unfortunately, eating venison sashimi only gives you a stomach ache. And shrunken testicles.

True story: my maternal grandfather died of brain parasites he contracted by eating undercooked venison. I think he’s the first person to die of that in 180 years.

He could also tie a knot in his pendulous foreskin. Don’t ask.

There really is only one weapon against zombie kittens

STRIIINNNNNNG.

True story: my maternal grandfather died of brain parasites he contracted by eating undercooked venison. I think he’s the first person to die of that in 180 years.

He could also tie a knot in his pendulous foreskin. Don’t ask.

Oh, I’m……sorry? For both?

The first copies of Rise Again arrive kind of slowly, and are occasionally sent to the wrong address or accidentally shelved in the Cookbook section. But then you notice that the newer ones get delivered much more quickly. Eventually they start to order themselves, and put themselves into special end-of-the-aisle displays. Soon they will begin to read themselves aloud. It’s just how they roll.

I finished my copy (Whoa!) and put it on the bookshelf, but this morning it was back out on my nightstand. I can’t wait to see what it’s gonna do next.

Nobody’s interested in the newsletter?

STRIIINNNNNNG.

Made of pendulous foreskin?

I finished my copy (Whoa!) and put it on the bookshelf, but this morning it was back out on my nightstand. I can’t wait to see what it’s gonna do next.

Lock up your encyclopediae and dictionaries.

Don’t worry about your thesauruses. They can handle themselves.

Nobody’s interested in the newsletter?

NO

Larkspur, if that copy of the novel has matted gray fur, boiled-egg eyes, and a weird, mewling cry, I regret to inform you you got the zombie kitten edition. That particular promotional gimmick didn’t work out so well. Destroy the brain.

DO NOT feed it a dish of cream after midnight, and don’t get it wet.

There really is only one weapon against zombie kittens

STRIIINNNNNNG.
*puts away the white phosphorus*

STRIIINNNNNNG.
*puts away the white phosphorus*

Actual audible LOL

Nobody’s interested in the newsletter?

No thanks. I already have a subscription to Boys’ Life.

DO NOT feed it a dish of cream after midnight, and don’t get it wet.

How long do we have to wait to feed it again? Just between the hours of 12 a.m. and 5 a.m., or what? I never understood that.

How long do we have to wait to feed it again? Just between the hours of 12 a.m. and 5 a.m., or what?

And what if it’s daylight savings time?

And what if it’s daylight savings time?

Right? And is it Greenwich mean time, or Eastern time, or what?

Right? And is it Greenwich mean time, or Eastern time, or what?

Or if you travel from, say, New York to Dubuque and you lose an hour?

Was there a remark about nyms, earlier? My nym used to be “A Second Non-Lester The Giant Ape,” which didn’t exactly roll off the tongue. I think Spengler Dampniche has a certain enlève ta croute que je swingue dans l’pus, if you’ll pardon my Belgian.

God knows he needs it.

Hunchback! Cleanup in produce!

enlève ta croute que je swingue dans l’pus

Take out the toast with a scabby swing? Huh?

What would ‘win’ in Afghanistan would be a comprehensive economic development plan providing education and medical care, and job opportunities.

Dude — we can’t even achieve that stuff in our own goddamn country. It’s, like, socialisticfascistastic. So to do so in another nation would be socialisticfascistastic nation building. And the Chimp said years ago we don’t do that. Nation destroying? Yes. But not nation building — including our own.

Or have you not been paying attention?

toast with a scabby swing?

Wait, is that what we’re supposed to feed zombie kittens after midnight? I’m so confused.

Scott you fucker, pull the trigger.

Okay, trigger pulled. Had to go hunt down some more stuff to add to the order — the second Thursday Next novel, plus something called “Shatnerquake,” which apparently features every character ever played by William Shatner trying to kill the real William Shatner.

My nym used to be “A Second Non-Lester The Giant Ape,” which didn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

I got lotsa names.

Suzie Avis
Poyc Dixieland Vita
Ployqudorene Griddle the Final Quillfish
Thea the Saltwater Crocodiles
Reconsider Philip
Soulful Yawner the Financial Adviser
Cursors Zouqufuf
Mildred-Sybil Jicjacragou
Inadequacy Inge
Bronzed-Footing the Parasitic Writer
Cathiquiy An the Peppery Manager
Weeterline Mose
Plib Conveyer
Shakira Susie the Bird-Eating Spider
Delindasam Paging the Sinister Sickstone Golem
Trisha-Olevia Buffy the Delightful Evangelist
Teressa Thufomcidwa the Halibut
Cardinal Sid the Father Batonist
Officer Gigi-Delisa Charlemagne-However the Ugliest Web Developer
Quougtaypnocl Libby the Innkeeper
Putderivation Shuddering-Subscribing the Artistic Torrent Fish

Or, and fuck John Yoo with a broken bottle. Repeatedly.

But only right before it causes the internal organs to fail. Because that’d be torture.

/snark

In the mean time, can someone tell me how in the holy fucking hell this scumbag piece of shit got a teaching gig at Berkley? I mean, fucking Berkley for shitsake!

But, seriously, a question I have been pondering for 23 years: When the fuck are you supposed to feed potential Gremlins, exactly???

“Shatnerquake,” which apparently features every character ever played by William Shatner trying to kill the real William Shatner.

*raising eyebrow*

Somehow I miss the reality of Ionesco…

Or have you not been paying attention?
If you read all of my comment, I suggested it was the only course of action that could be a ‘win’ for both the US and Afghanistan, and I suggested that it would not happen. I have been paying attention.

But, seriously, a question I have been pondering for 23 years: When the fuck are you supposed to feed potential Gremlins, exactly???

It depends on whether or not you’re planning on sexing them up.

When the fuck are you supposed to feed potential Gremlins, exactly???

Don’t feed them Cheetos or they turn into Jonah Goldberg!

Mildred-Sybil Jicjacragou
Hers was a name not to be uttered in my childhood home, and to allude to her existence was to invite a vigorous spanking coupled with a thorough mouthwash with ivory soap.

It depends on whether or not you’re planning on sexing them up.

I’m no Gremlin fucker!

*writes “Gremllins” in “Potential Slashfic Ideas” notebook*

a vigorous spanking coupled with a thorough mouthwash with ivory soap.

I!

W?

N?

Gremlins from the Kremlin.

When the fuck are you supposed to feed potential Gremlins, exactly???
After dawn and before midnight. Th bigger question is, how the fuck are you supposed to wash the little fuckers when they get stinky?

Th bigger question is, how the fuck are you supposed to wash the little fuckers when they get stinky?

Psssssssst!

I!

W?

N?
none needed, you can experience this for yourself
1. go to my parents home,
2 pronounce the forbidden name.

of course, since you are not one of their children they may just run you off’n the property with a 12 gauge dose of rock salt in the keister.

for which again, there is no website or newsletter.

for which again, there is no website or newsletter.

*pout*

Did I miss anything?

Cardinal Sid the Father Batonist

So you do adult men and not boys?

You know what’s totally not fair? I plugged Rise Again in my blogroll…but is there mention ONE of my blog in Rise Again? Hell no.

Hey, Speng, if you need a few more blurbs for your book’s website, I’m sure we could come up with a few here!

“I couldn’t put Rise Again down! Everytime I did, it jumped up and tried to bite my neck!”

“It made me rise again…if you know what I mean.”–John Holmes

“This book will scare the life back into you.” – Lizzie Borden

Rise Again is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be chained down and kept under armed guard.

(with apologies to Abrose Bierce or Mark Twain, whomever wrote the quote which I am ripping offreferencing.)

“I devoured this book” – Jeffrey Dahmer

“I’m recommending it to my entire family” – Charles Manson

“You know who else liked this book?” – A. Hitler

“Evens out tables nicely.”–my father-in-law, who does not read

“Fucking books…how do they work?” – Jonah Goldberg

“This book will grab you and never let you go!” — T. B. Strangler.

“I can’t wait for the next in the series!” – Son O. Sam

These are all gems, Spengler…and they can be your’s for a small fee.

Spengler, I ordered your book, you magnificent bastard. I wish my local had it in stock, but then they aren’t zombie-friendly.

But the zombies in your little story better be treated well, or you and I will have words.

Incidentally, all you zombie interested people, if you ain’t watching The Walking Dead, you should be. the breathers behave worse than the shamblers.

The Walking Dead

I’ve been watching, but it appears to be nothing more than a travelogue of contemporary Atlanta.

the breathers behave worse than the shamblers.

So shamblers=liberals, breathers=conservatives?

“Incidentally, all you zombie interested people, if you ain’t watching The Walking Dead, you should be. the breathers behave worse than the shamblers.”

Yeah, cuz you’re not biased at all.

Is this the first appearance of “You know who else? HITLER.” at this site?

Damned brownskins invading Arizona…again!

AHAHAHAHAHA and other expressions of mirth. I wander off to rinse my mogwai for a few minutes, I come back, and you people have destroyed my living room written my next PR campaign.

ZRM, you appear in the book at one point, but disguised and with a different name. See if you can guess which one.

OPINION: Walking Dead, while well-produced and with good zombies, has already turned into Gilligan’s Island with a bunch of crackers doing laundry 24/7. If I wanted to watch people do laundry with the undead around, I’d exhume the corpse of Michael Landon and watch Little House on the Prairie.

I wander off to rinse my mogwai for a few minutes

VMR?

with a bunch of crackers doing laundry 24/7.

…and occasional wife-beating.

OK, admittedly, ep 3 was kind of weak. But the opening, where Office Friendly shot an extra hole in a little girl zombie, rocked.

See if you can guess which one.

All of ’em?

Look, you breathers are so biased that I bet you can’t tell any of us apart.

Look, you breathers are so biased that I bet you can’t tell any of us apart.

Nonsense! Some of my best friends are zombies!

Look, you breathers are so biased that I bet you can’t tell any of us apart.

That’s what the dogs are for.

I wander off to rinse my mogwai for a few minutes

VMR?

Smegma gets under the foreskin. It smells awful.

Aside: Shorter Bryan Fischer– “We don’t give out enough Medals of Honor for killin’ sandniggers instead of pussy shit like savin’ soldiers!”

http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/11/16/the-feminization-of-the-medal-of-honor/

We have feminized the Medal of Honor.

hang on…Bry-Bry comes to this conclusion *after* a guy takes a bullet in the vest saving one comrade, runs into the enemy lines to rescue the sergeant walking point, gets taken prisoner and somehow manages to secure his release, and this is “feminizing”?

Wow. That article is a boatload of stoopid!

Because the worst thing you can be is a woman. GOD, we suck.

Keep discrimination against women in place!

GOD, we suck.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, yes you do….

Under CEDAW, even private behavior — such as how couples divide household and child-care chores — is subject to government oversight and modification.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

“Hello, UN? Yes, my daddy is making me go to bed at nine PM! That’s inhumane!”

“However, Jesus’ act of self-sacrifice would ultimately have been meaningless – yes, meaningless – if he had not inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy while giving up his own life.:

Please forgive me for having a dumb, feeble, female brain, but I don’t remember the part of the Bible where Jesus inflicts mortal wounds…did I miss something?

Please forgive me for having a dumb, feeble, female brain, but I don’t remember the part of the Bible where Jesus inflicts mortal wounds…did I miss something?

Of course!

Peter fought his way bravely to the cross and tossed up an Uzi to Jesus who laid down suppressing fire, forcing the Romans to drop to the ground. About a hundred guards were killed before Jesus voluntarily submitted to his crucifixion.

“The U.N. monitoring committee routinely censures countries like Denmark, Norway, and Iceland for failing to prevent women from taking primary care of children, a practice it deems “discriminatory.””

Huh?

omfg

“So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?”

Alternate shorter Bryan (Dumbass) Fischer:

The MOH should be used to honor stone killers because that’s what Jesus would do.

Jesus and Chuck Norris: separated at immaculate birth?

Peter fought his way bravely to the cross and tossed up an Uzi to Jesus who laid down suppressing fire, forcing the Romans to drop to the ground. About a hundred guards were killed before Jesus voluntarily submitted to his crucifixion.
No no no. Don’t you know it was a metaphorical mortal blow? Jesus’ noble sacrifice in front of the global press expose to one and all the savagery of the Roman empire and their puppets the Pharisees and Sanhedrin. The resulting popular uprising shattered the empire and led to the universal acknowledgment of the King James Bible as the one true source of morality and wisdom for the whole world. Also the prophesy of George Washington and USA! Freedom Forever! was at this time written in the book of Jesus in in the new testament.

“The U.N. monitoring committee routinely censures countries like Denmark, Norway, and Iceland for failing to prevent women from taking primary care of children, a practice it deems “discriminatory.””

Not so much, it turns out:

Take-up rates by men and women. A critical factor in take-up rates for both men and women is whether or not the leave is paid, and if so, to what extent. In practice, parental leave tends to be taken by the mother once maternity leave is finished, although small or no payments during leave limit the full use of parental leave entitlements. Take-up by fathers is rare in most countries. For example, in Russia, men constituted only 0.6 per
cent of workers taking childcare leave in 2001, for which an allowance is received from state social insurance. The only countries with relatively high take-up by men are Iceland, Norway and Sweden, which provide for relatively high allowances during this period. Also to encourage fathers to take leave, some countries (Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria) provide that some of the parental leave can only be taken by the father and is lost if he does not take it. Box 6 provides examples on how the Norwegian and Icelandic Governments have tried to encourage fathers to take parental leave with a certain amount of success.

Emphasis added.

That NRO article is seriously hurting my brain.

How can you have “MYTH” and “FACT” in your fucking column when your “FACTS” don’t include any citations or references to the actual document?

The thing about Jesus is that brilliant Hail Mary at the end of the game.

an eccentric document that espouses a style of feminism that flourished in the 1970s
United Nations: Keeping David Hamilton’s spirit alive to tingle even the most pure at heart of conservatives.

MYTH: Fascism is fascism.
FACT: Liberalism is fascism.

Not so much, it turns out:

And that has fuck-all to do with CEDAW.

“The UN is makin’ me babysit mah kids!”

The thing about Jesus is that brilliant Hail Mary at the end of the game.

I thought it was the Hail Mary of artillery fire he called down on Pilate when he led the assault on the Coalition Provisional Authority Occupation Government in Judaea.

How can you have “MYTH” and “FACT” in your fucking column when your “FACTS” don’t include any citations or references to the actual document?

A “FACT” is a story told to you by a trustworthy person that you know would never lie to you because he tells you what you want to hear.

And that has fuck-all to do with CEDAW.

That’s the irony. The UN noted that four countries had some portion of policies set aside to encourage more men to take an active participation in caregiving their children, and noted that, gee, it would be nice if all these programs applied to women as well as men.

And this shitkicking moron takes it to mean that the UN wants only men to be the primary caregivers…

Let’s hear what the Bible itself has to say, starting with Matthew 27:33.

“And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
And sitting down they watched him there;
And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
And this pissed off Jesus.
He stretched his limbs and the tree [cross] was cloven;
And smote he then the soldiers of the governor with the broken bits, which were still attached to his hands by the nails.
Smote he the soldiers until three score, six, and a brace of bystanders were slain
Then calmed he down, and allowed the nailing and the hanging to recommence.”

So all jokes aside, I think it’s pretty clear Christ kicked ass as required.

And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
And this pissed off Jesus

Jesus was an anti-Semite.

And a zombie.

Holy Hell, Spengler. Way to get the tards horny.

Also I done bort yer novle.

Actual photo from the event as described by Spengler

This might be my new favorite love note to a Teabagger

Cranial nerves, your blog is a time hole. I must explore it for lulz. This I can do for free, of course, while my book is patently overpriced. So when the zombies do take over, I’ll swing the ol’ battle wagon past your street. Be there.

All part of the service.

Actor, that’s exactly the one! Boris Vallejo on acid. Or vinegar and gall.

Cheers mate. As I hope/expect your novel to be. Hey, it was only £8.60

Jesus was an anti-Semite.

And a zombie.

And what will happen when he comes back? How many kittens will get into a vertical position anew?

And what will happen when he comes back? How many kittens will get into a vertical position anew?

New tattoo ideaaaaa!

‘Oh how my great liberal heart labours,
with the piss in my rivers and gall

For the gleaming ceremonial sabres
Who falls in them falls for us all.’

Augie March were paraphrasing the Bible? Weird.

In my distant youth, my teacher at the Lutheran school which I attended told me that the reason the soldiers gave Jesus vinegar to drink on the cross, was that they were big meanies. 10 years ago I learned that Roman soldiers drank vinegar like athletes today drink gatorade. They gave Jesus vinegar, because vinegar is what they drank themselves and had handy. It was another one of those “those fuckers lied to me” moments. I thought I should share.

Rise Again is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be chained down and kept under armed guard.

(with apologies to Abrose Bierce or Mark Twain, whomever wrote the quote which I am ripping offreferencing.)

It was actually Dorothy Parker. She said it in reference to, no kidding, a book by Benito Friggin’ Mussolini called The Cardinal’s Mistress. Neat, huh.

This might be my new favorite love note to a Teabagger

Jesus loves me, but he can’t stand you. Or Yoo, as the case may be.

And what will happen when he comes back? How many kittens will get into a vertical position anew?

When He returns, the world will fill with kittens.

And unicorns. It will be fun watching the kittens get speared.

Hey, it was only £8.60

Fucking exchange rates — how do they work?

Fucking exchange rates — how do they work?

Well, generally there’s an interplay between interest rates, inflation and trade deficits, but that’s not important right now.

Spengler–is your book available for eBook download? I am a Nook Rookie (my wife gave me one for our anniversary, and I love it for my daily train commute)

I am a Nook Rookie

*sipping herbal tea quietly*

Nook Rookie

daily train commute

now that I want to see.

Neat tidbit about ficitional zombie apocalypses (as opposed, I guess, to actual ones. Hmm.)

Anyhow, y’all know the Smurfs, right? Well, the Smurfs started out as a Belgian comic, a spinoff of another comic by a dude named Peyo. In one of the earlier issues, a “Black Smurf” is infected with a virus that turns him violent, unable to speak and prone to biting other Smurfs. Once bitten, your average Smurf turns a Black Smurfs and your standard zombie apocalypse kicks into high gear, forcing Papa Smurf and the few remaining normal Smurfs to hole up and find a cure. Once this storyline was adapted for the animated series – which I fucking hated, but that’s neither here nor there – “Black Smurfs” were changed into “Purple Smurfs”, undoubtedly because of time-traveling Obama.

Now, the neat part. This particular comic storyline, with all the de rigeuer elements, was published nine years before George Romero basically started the whole “zombie apocalypse” movie craze with Night Of The Living Dead. Makes you wonder, don’t it.

Actual photo from the event as described by Spengler

That is a really fine picture. It might look better with a pancake in it though.

Spengler–is your book available for eBook download? I am a Nook Rookie (my wife gave me one for our anniversary, and I love it for my daily train commute)

Actor, pass me the teapot.

Steerpike, yes.

Nook rookie. Jesus.

“When He returns, the world will fill with kittens.

And unicorns. It will be fun watching the kittens get speared.”

I don’t approve of this. And you know nothing of unicorns.

And you know nothing of unicorns.

What are you talking about? Unicorns are evil. And they’re rapey.

Matt T: love the Lizards. They make fun of all my favorite targets.

I don’t approve of this. And you know nothing of unicorns.

I don’t mean to cast aspersions. I’m all for it being accidental.

Just in case someone hasn’t seen it yet, nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight.

“What are you talking about? Unicorns are evil. And they’re rapey”

Oh, but you want to wear their cologne.

Nook rookie. Jesus.

A line from my favorite comic of all time, “Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman” is ringing in my ears…

Unicorns are evil. And they’re rapey.

Explains a lot. Never thought of it like that.

Better than “nookie Rookie” methinks.

I also discovered, much to my chagrin, when I encountered a lady on the train who was also reading using a Nook, and attempted to strike up a friendly conversation with her, that we do not, as a group, refer to ourselves as “Nookies”.

The trial is in January.

actor is making me hmphy!

Makes you wonder, don’t it.
those foul blue homonculi are the source of the zombie plague? Diabolical!

I also discovered, much to my chagrin, when I encountered a lady on the train who was also reading using a Nook, and attempted to strike up a friendly conversation with her, that we do not, as a group, refer to ourselves as “Nookies”.

Could have been worse. You could both have had iPads and hers being of larger capacity, you enquire about her max iPad…

It was actually Dorothy Parker. She said it in reference to, no kidding, a book by Benito Friggin’ Mussolini called The Cardinal’s Mistress. Neat, huh.

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

FWIW.

actor is making me hmphy!

Hey, that’s not me doing backflips off your spleen…

I don’t nomally read horror stuff but since it’s Spengler’s book, and since they have it at Powell’s I suppose I’ll have to buy it. But I may not read it. For a while – I’m way behind on my list.

Rise Again is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be chained down and kept under armed guard.

This reminds me of the Bitey Necronomicon in Army of Darkness.

Spengler, if I can not sic my copy on breathers like an irate lapdog, I will be sorely disappointed.

I like that quote, M.

Steerpike has caused me to chortle unbecomingly. Anybody want to see my purple smurf? Just be aware, once you’ve had purple, you’ll evermore hirple.

And what will happen when he comes back? How many kittens will get into a vertical position anew?

Something like this.

Anybody want to see my purple smurf?

Between this and Nook rookie, I’m going thru an awful lot of herbal tea…

Something like this.

How in the hell did you get a hold of my MRI????

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is ‘beware’. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

And Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret

What are you talking about? Unicorns are evil.

SCIENTIFIC PROOF.

those foul blue homonculi are the source of the zombie plague?

With the added advantage that if Senor Dampniche’s book is insufficiently lucrative, he can run s/zombie/smurf/ and market the revised version to kids.

They’re fishing them out of the sewers.

Jesus will feed us Barium Sulphate??

And what is that third rat from the left doing?

actor is making me hmphy!

Curious. Actor usually makes me bitey.

Rapey Unicorn. Not quite sure if this is NSFW, or what.

Curious. Actor usually makes me bitey.

But isn’t a zombie’s standard mood fairly bitey?

What are you talking about? Unicorns are evil.

SCIENTIFIC PROOF.

There you go…listening to the Lamestream Media, which has a well-known anti-unicorn agenda. *shakes head*

Killing mimes is beneficent.

Totally OT…but I’ve been wondering lately what my ring size is. I know it’s 6 or 7…so I Googled ring measurers…and look what I found!Neat, huh?

ring size

ring measures

Pass the herbal tea, please.

333rd?

oh VS, that link is full of mangoes:

…take the strip of paper ring sizer…

…This is also a man ring sizer.
Best way to measure your ring is to order a plastic ring sizer…

/sicko

every thread at Sadly, No is a Zardoz.

Is it a man ring sizer? Well, my status as a complete idiot is cemented. Suck it, all you incomplete idiots!!

That is NOT 3.5″ on my screen.

As someone pointed out yesterday, adding “man-” to any word or phrase is automatically funny:

Man-ring sizer: funny
Ring Man-sizer: ever funnier
Man-ring Man-sizer: Goatse!

Whew. Now somebody else can kill it.

Steerpike is bringing funny back.

Man-ring Man-sizer: Goatse!

*adds “ring-sizer” to ever-growing list of ideas for goatse-themed products*

It all started so innocently.

Eventually everything turns into goatse. It’s a scientific fact.

Red wine + sadly = LOL

*pokes thread with stick*

Uh, Rob we’ve got a homicide on the corner of Yoo and goatse.. Yeah, cause of death unknown..

I blame zombie kittens, raping unicorns, and–of course–goatse.

There should be a godwin’s law for goatse

Hey, that dolphin / unicorn shit looked consensual

Oh, I see we have a dolphin-rape apologist on board. Great. Who here is gonna help me help the dolphins take back the night?

zombie goatse would be…distubing

You can’t pull it too far open or it’ll just come apart.

Hard to condone the use of the N-word, but Christie is a monumental sack of shit.

Wonder how long before his inevitable run for POTUS…

If he gets a stomach band, and drops sixty pounds, you’ll know it’s ON!

Eventually everything turns into goatse. It’s a scientific fact.
Play the video in reverse and everything comes out of goatse. Send your animation suggestions to Substance McG.

*crouches in fetal position and thinks of butterflies and rainbows*

*crouches in fetal position and thinks of butterflies and rainbows* emerging from teh goatse

Hey, you knew somebody was going to do it. Might as well be me.

Substance, are you listening?

WC, I thought you were my friend! *sobs*

Kinda like this, right?

I couldn’t help noticing that there are no available orifices on the dolphin at that location for the unicorn to be, er, raping.

So I choose to re-imagine it as a dominance display, or something similar to a terrier humping your leg. Gross but not all that disturbing.

Kinda like this, right?

Gaah!

Is anyone else getting hot? No? Just me?

I didn’t click!!! *so proud*

WC: Aha! Absolution!

WC: Aha! Absolution!

In light of the subject matter…

Ahab’s solution.

Is anyone else getting hot? No? Just me?

And no vs, I’m not getting hot. Yet.

I can think of a few things that might help…

I didn’t click!!!

More disturbing than rapey unicorns or even rainbow goatse.

Ahab’s solution

MOBY CLICK

10 years ago I learned that Roman soldiers drank vinegar like athletes today drink gatorade. They gave Jesus vinegar, because vinegar is what they drank themselves and had handy. It was another one of those “those fuckers lied to me” moments. I thought I should share.

Have you ever tried Manischewitz? Most other wines would seem like vinegar compared to that stuff… I’m surprised that it isn’t more popular than Four Loko with the yutes.

“I can think of a few things that might help…”

Things hotter than terrier leg-humping? *skeptical*

WC, I believe you. *white-knuckles grip on boat*

Is anyone else getting hot? No? Just me?

Remember, you are a roiling ball of hormones. Think of it as a dress rehearsal for menopause. Or a replay of the onset of puberty; YMMV.

Goddammit! Dolphins are not built like that. That’s more like an implantation out of Alien or something.

Olberman v. Koppel
A good rant by Keith on the why today’s MSM sucks.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/15/920896/-Ted-Koppel-And-The-Real-Death-Of-Real-News

And WC beat me to it, natch.

“Remember, you are a roiling ball of hormones. Think of it as a dress rehearsal for menopause.”

Ouch. Well, I think latest blog entry proves I’ve got at least a few good years left.

I couldn’t help noticing that there are no available orifices on the dolphin at that location for the unicorn to be, er, raping.

Unibadism

ooooo, that WAS a good rant.

And WC beat me to it, natch.

There has to be some payoff to obsessively hitting the refresh button over and over and over and over and over…

Unibadism

And I do believe the one it is bad for is the dophin.

Rapey Unicorn. Not quite sure if this is NSFW, or what.

The best part is that flexing that bicep is going to make the image extra graphic.
Someone thought hard about that tat.

Why do You liberals hate dolphins so much? They are G-ds’s creatures sent upon this Earth to save cute Cuban boys. Have you no shame? What would Ronnie think?

I seem to have suddenly lost my appetite…

Dolphins are gluten-free.

Front page at Eugene Delgaudio’s place:

We are not stopping until every patriot sends a flag to this school. Every veteran must send a flag. Every American must send a flag to this school It can be on a stamp or on a box or on a card or in large quanties. We must send them American flags until they are buried with American Flags.

Further attempted terrorism via flag explanation here: http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/news/article.php?article=6325

Oops, fucked up one of the links. Just shorten the damned URL if you give a shit.

What would Ronnie think?

BRRRAAAIIINNSSS

What would Ronnie think?

BRRRAAAIIINNSSS

That’s not how I roll, baby!

Dolphins are gluten-free.

But are they Halal?

What would Ronnie think?

I hope someone changes my pants soon?

What would Ronnie think?

BRRRAAAIIINNSSS

TAAAAXXXX CUUUUUTTTTTSSS

Fixx0red for more Reaganishness.

I just got home, immediately whipped out my Nook (not V Anything R), and ordered “Rise Again”, so I’ll let you know my verdict when I have one. While waiting for it to download, I went on BN.com and checked for other books by our own Spengler, and there’s only one listing, titled “Square in the Nuts”. Just wondering if there are other titles we should be looking for?

And no vs, I’m not getting hot. Yet.

I can think of a few things that might help…

Sauna?

No taxes on capital gaaaaaaaaains?

Jelly beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeansssssssssssssssss?

OOOOOOH BURN.

OOOOOOH BURN
Beautiful.
Refudiate the MSM!!!!!!1111

Tonight, I’ll actually use soap and hot water on the dishes in your honor.

Random zombie mooooaaaaaaaan for no reason.

Steerpike, that’s the early works. Back when I thought I was funny. There is a Dick Van Dyke/dolphin rescue joke waiting upthread somewhere, but I’m going to Goldberg it and just mention it could exist. Putting the cheat back in Cheetos, me.

The Yoo-Hooey title ….took me a while to realize what memory it was prompting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippee,_Yappee_and_Yahooey

Holy crap, ug hunch, now I want to see episodes of Breezly & Sneezly.

Breezly Bruin is a comical, resourceful, polar bear. His friend is Sneezly Seal, a droopy seal with a perpetual cold whose sneezes pack devastating power. They live in an igloo in the Arctic. Many of their episodes deal with Breezly’s ambitious yet ultimately doomed plans to break into the local army camp for various reasons while trying to stay one step ahead of Colonel Fuzzby.

Somewhere is a Sarah Palin tie-in.

Not that this Yoo-hoo® didn’t come to mind.

The image “http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/1/13254/31_2008/unicorn.preview.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

I’ll SAY!

Holy crap, ug hunch, now I want to see episodes of Breezly & Sneezly.

Holy crap, I remember that crappy cartoon! And there was Peter Potamus and Magilla Gorilla and Ricochet Rabbit *bingbingbing*

“We are not stopping until every patriot sends a flag to this school.”

I’ve got some Tibetian prayer flags they can have…

It can be on a stamp
So sending empty envelopes to the school will accomplish …profit. This will lead to trouble of another kind if you don’t explain what your protest is about Ask the Umbrella Man