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Shorter Msgr. Ross Xavier Pius Douthat, S.J., O.P., O.F.M., S.S.J., Th.D+, The New York Fucking Times Pope-Ed Page
Ireland’s Paradise Lost

  • Ireland’s economic woes are the direct result of the country’s abandonment of the Catholic Church which, in turned, caused people in the country to build big, gawdy houses that they couldn’t afford. Ireland’s only hope is to return to the days of perpetually pregnant, home-bound women and thatched-roof cottages.

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Comments: 605

 
 
 

RCC = thatched rooves. Must remember this fact.

 
 

FWIW, outgoing Mayor Richard J. Daley claimed that the success of the Irish in the US was due to their supposed ardent Catholicism. I’m sure that grabbing every political office they could get their hands on had nothing to do with it!

 
 

Yeah!

I like women with thatch!

…..what?

 
 

Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen (she was the Sarah Palin of the 16th century),

Wow, it’s kind of refreshing to read something that is so truly stupid.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

But round every green hill, there’s a swath of miniature McMansions.

Soooo, like, new, normal-sized houses that are so ubiquitous in the Middle American Suburbs you people are always rhetorically jerking off over?

 
 

…days of Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen (she was the Sarah Palin of the 16th century)

Sweet IPU, thers is going to fucking explode.

 
 

Always. Trust. The. Shorter.™

Interesting.

Since he couldn’t blame the n*ggers for the Irish housing boom, he had to go blame the Protestants.

 
 

Sweet IPU, thers is going to fucking explode.

I left him a note. You may hear the explosion up in LEAFS SUCK

 
 

But round every green hill, there’s a swath of miniature McMansions. brassiere.

Fiqqst for the previous thread.

 
 

which, in turned, caused people in the country to build big, gawdy houses that they couldn’t afford

What’s America’s excuse?

 
 

What’s America’s excuse?

Stupidity.

 
 

Same douche to an Irish bartender any-pub nyc: “So what’s this IRA thing all about?”

 
 

Because if there’s anybody who builds humble, unostentatious buildings, it’s the Catholic Church.

 
 

humble

I’m trying to remember Charlotte’s Web. What’s the second meaning of “humble”? Flatulent?

 
 

I left him a note. You may hear the explosion up in LEAFS SUCK

I don’t doubt it. Notice too, the piece is called Ireland’s Paradise Lost. As in John Milton. England’s most vocal poet. As in John “the Irish are filthy stinking barbarians” Milton. As in sweet IPU (blessed be her garishly vibrant unseeability – may the slices of Hawaiian never grow cold) could Douthat(ch) have written a more offensive article if he tried?

 
 

At times, it can seem to deliver everything you ever wanted, and wealth beyond your dreams. But you always have to pay for it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 
Physical Educator NIck Saban
 

Thatcher? I hardly know her.

 
 

So basically this fuckwit Douthat is saying the following:

Chicago School Economics – Jesus = Economic Disaster

But, Ross, you silly fat fuck, the US NEVER lost Jesus in that equation and we’re fucked too.

Epic fail.

 
 

the Irish experience should be a reminder that the waning of a powerful religious tradition can breed decadence as well as liberation.

Yeah, so, as Smut asked above, what’s America (of the 90% god-bothering statistic)’s excuse?

The yoke of the European Union is lighter than the yoke of the British Empire, but Ireland has returned to a kind of vassal status all the same.

Yup. Single currency and economic support in hard times is JUST LIKE occupation and domination by a foreign power which takes all your surpluses and more for itself.

 
 

Hey guys, Glenn Beck isn’t crazy. YOU’RE the ones who are crazy.

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=23020

 
 

Because if there’s anybody who builds humble, unostentatious buildings, it’s the Catholic Church.

HA!

 
Marion in Savannah
 

could Douthat(ch) have written a more offensive article if he tried?

Check back next Monday. He keeps striving for the bottom* and generally succeeds…

VVirginBenR

 
 

Hey guys, Glenn Beck isn’t crazy. YOU’RE the ones who are crazy.

When Jon Stewart parodies Beck with even more outré arguments than Beck– and still makes more logical sense than Beck does!!!!!– that’s when I’m comfortable in my sanity.

Burma

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Hey guys, Glenn Beck isn’t crazy. YOU’RE the ones who are crazy.

Ow. My brain.

Also, somebody doesn’t know what an “open society” is. Too.

 
 

Ireland’s problem is not that people thought they were in the money (because their economy was a honking great bubble) spent the money on conspicuous-consumption houses; that is, after all, the WHOLE REASON for being in the money.

What part of “economy = honking great bubble” does Douthat not get? Is this one of Upton Sinclair’s “when his job depends on not understanding” things?

 
 

Chicago School Economics – Jesus = Economic Disaster

We buy Christmas presents to celebrate the birth of our savior, Free Market Capitalism.

 
 

What part of “economy = honking great bubble” does Douthat not get?

Which part do you think he actually gets, is a better question.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

We buy Christmas presents to celebrate the birth of our savior, Free Market Capitalism.

Gifts of gold, CDOs, and low marginal tax rates.

 
 

in what had been one of the most conservative and Catholic countries in the world.

In 1990, Ireland ranked near the bottom of European Union nations in G.D.P. per capita

Must…not..try..to make..sense..hurts too..much.

 
 

Damn tags. I need to be lashed.

 
 

I need to be lashed.

Hey, what you and Vacuumslayer do on your own time is your own business.

 
 

I was being sarcastic guys.

Hence the link to PW.

 
 

The yoke of the European Union is lighter than the yoke of the British Empire

No, no, no. Category fail. Ireland was not subject to the British Empire… you might as well speak of the yoke of the British Empire oppressing Herefordshire. That’s the whole point of “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”. Ireland might as well have been an imperial possession for the way it was treated, but it wasn’t.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I was being sarcastic guys.

Hence the link to PW.

I know.

Hence the comment about the blog post.

 
 

You’re both wrong. Da Vinci’s Notebook is obviously to blame. Now everybody’s died, so until our tears are dried, we’ll drink and drink and drink and drink and then we’ll drink some more…

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Da Vinci’s Notebook is obviously to blame.

Audrey Tatou is *so good* in that!

 
 

In 1990, Ireland ranked near the bottom of European Union nations in G.D.P. per capita

Right, mostly a combination of the mass migration out after the potato famine and the Troubles. And then Ireland became the “Celtic Tiger”, fueled in large part by dropping the corporate tax rate to 10% (keep in mind there’s a VAT) as well as what about to government aid, not from England but from Germany and France.

This allowed Ireland to market themselves ahead of the dot-com boom as the place for high tech businesses to open back office operations (thus offshoring to an English speaking people who were white…much more palatable) by basically giving companies like MicroSoft subsidies to open companies there.

More critically, it became an investment banking hub. It was even described in 2005 as the “Wild West of European finance”, with particular note made of the Anglo-Irish Bank.

Later dubbed “The Irish Enron”.

Oh, but THAT would have nothing to do with the current crisis, now would it, Rossie?

This was so successful that, just ahead of the banking collapse in 2007, Ireland was as wealthy as the Nordic nations and had one of the highest GDPs in Europe.

 
 

I was being sarcastic guys.

Yea, got that part. That’s why I didn’t ream you and took the article apart instead.

 
 

Me thinks Doughhat is nostalgic to an Ireland he imagines it was, so when he visits, it’s all thatched women and goats that drink too much and green fields and cute accents and cottages that sit by the men and smoke long pipes.

Fookin’ Irish, they went and fooked it all up for him.

 
 

I didn’t ream you

Hey, what you and AJB do on your own time is your own business.

 
 

Fookin’ Irish, they went and fooked it all up for him.

Nah. I don’t think Douthat has spent a day in Ireland for real. I think when he gets a longing, he pops a copy of “The Quiet Man” in the DVD player and wanks to the courtin’ scenes where “the propri’tees must be observed at all times” with little drunk leprechaunish matchmakers and wives who fix th’ suppahr for the husband and the brother, and county-wide brawls and shillelaghs and pubs open at 11…

OK, well, that last part is actually true…

 
 

Hey, what you and AJB do on your own time is your own business.

What happens in the cloakroom gets webcast.

 
 

” men smoke long pipes.”

Yeah they do.

 
 

… Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen (she was the Sarah Palin of the 16th century)…

The both have vaginas. VAGINAS.

 
 

Tammy Bruce & GOProud: Selective Outrage of the Gay Left.

I can’t wait to start calling Black people niggers!

 
 

The both have vaginas. VAGINAS.

You know who else had a vagina?

 
 

Hey, what you and Vacuumslayer do on your own time is your own business.

Theirs and the shareholders.

 
 

Hey guys, Glenn Beck isn’t crazy. YOU’RE the ones who are crazy.

Wherein I learned that Glenn Beck isn’t a crazy conspiracy theorist because George Schwartz changed his last name to Soros which means something in Esperanto.

 
 

So, Doughhat goes to Ireland to smoke pipe,eh? Could that lead to carpal toungal syndrome?

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

Ireland started its moral decline after the death of Rory Gallagher.

 
 

Seriously, guys, the M. link will blow your mind and not in a good way. The stupidity feels like acid on my skin. Well, it’s that or I need to cut down on the PCP.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

You know who else had a vagina?

George Soros?

 
 

You know who else had a vagina?

Had? K-lo?

 
 

George Soros?

Bought and paid for with Communist/Nazi/Socialist/hedge fund money!

 
 

Had? K-lo?

You know how your earring piercing will heal up and close through disuse?

 
 

Had? K-lo?

She still has one, she just can’t find it.

 
The Shambling Mound
 

You know who else had a vagina?

Clitler?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen (she was the Sarah Palin of the 16th century),

Wow, it’s kind of refreshing to read something that is so truly stupid.

Of course, Granuaile was brilliant, multilingual, and had a career which spanned decades. I would personally beat Douhat senseless for this slur.

Best Granuaile bit-Her contempt for cowardice is told in one tale of when she was fighting the Stauntons of Kinturk castle. Apparently in the midst of battle her son Tibbot faltered and drew back to shelter behind his mother. ‘An ag iarraidh dul i bhfolach ar mo tho’in’ (‘Is is (sic) trying to hide behind my backside you are — the place you came from?’) she asked.

 
 

You know who else had a vagina?

Chaz Bono?

 
 

Make no mistake; this is all about destroying Sarah Palin by friends of Obama and by any means necessary

Haz-mat crew, stat! More hysterical foaming righteousness! The cross is overloaded, it canna take anymore! We’re dooooooomed!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Me thinks Doughhat is nostalgic to an Ireland he imagines it was, so when he visits, it’s all thatched women and goats that drink too much and green fields and cute accents and cottages that sit by the men and smoke long pipes.

Dumby O’Shill and the Little People.

 
 

… Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen (she was the Sarah Palin of the 16th century)…

Shot wolf fish from the crow’s nest? Stole all the fancy clothes provided by the Pirate Party for her run for Pirate Queen? Quit pirating half-way through the voyage?

 
 

Chaz Bono?

Oh my. Well…goddess bless.

 
 

The cross is overloaded, it canna take anymore! We’re dooooooomed!

Snorty! I need more power! And if you can’t deliver it, you’re fired!

 
 

Dumby O’Shill and the Little People Chunky Reese Witherspoons.

Fixed

Also, great name for my next band. Also.

 
 

When she was taken to see Queen Elizabeth, the court was aghast that she wouldn’t stop sending tweets about the meeting.

 
 

You know who else had a vagina?

Clitler?

Brazillian philtrum ‘stache.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Of course, this fucker has probably never heard of the Magdalene laundries, and willfully ignores the endemic child abuse. Gadzooks, I’d love to punch Douhat right in his dewlap for this crap.

 
 

Referring to Sarah Palin as a “reality TV star” is mysognistic? But saying “your [sic] such a faggot” is no big deal?

Conservative poutrage at its finest.

 
 

Referring to Sarah Palin as a “reality TV star” is mysognistic? But saying “your [sic] such a faggot” is no big deal?

Oh, you mean that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to you too? Fuckin’ dyke.

 
 

Is there any discussion in conservative circles that since Safire retired, the Times only allows space for dim-witted conservatives for the conservative point of view? I mean, it is the New York freakin’ Times! Or is there such a dearth of intelligent conservative pundits that Douthat is representative of the best the right can offer?

 
 

Me thinks Doughhat is nostalgic to an Ireland he imagines it was, so when he visits, it’s all thatched women and goats that drink too much and green fields and cute accents and cottages that sit by the men and smoke long pipes.

Don’t forget the Irish Spring. Ross gets a little fappy thinking about twinkle-eyed studs soaping up their bare chests down at the local pond.

 
 

Uh-oh. Tagfail. Time for confession.

 
 

this fucker has probably never heard of the Magdalene laundries

I used to use them, but I kept getting stigmata on my shirts.

 
 

I thought that the introduction of a wildly unregulated free market would only bring rainbows and kittens. So it must be the “rejection” of the Catholic Church.
Personally I blame the efforts to can Guinness for Ireland’s fall. And the Brits of course.

 
 

this fucker has probably never heard of the Magdalene laundries
Look what a mess they made of my tea-towel.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Look what a mess they made of my tea-towel.

Just don’t let them make you a grilled-cheese sandwich.

 
 

Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen (she was the Sarah Palin of the 16th century)

I’m pretty sure Sarah Palin is the Sarah Palin of the 16th century. If not the 14th century.

 
 

Meanwhile, The NYT covers the non-Pope world as well.

Breaking News Alert [“AROOO!!”] The New York Times Mon, November 22, 2010 — 3:56 PM ET

Irish Prime Minister to Dissolve Government After Budget Is Enacted

Brian Cowen, the embattled prime minister of Ireland, said on Monday that he would dissolve his government and hold a new election once a new national budget is enacted. He is scheduled to present a proposed budget on Dec. 7.

Mr. Cowen turned aside mounting pressure to resign immediately over the country’s worsening financial crisis, its stagnating economy and the sharp cuts in public spending and payrolls that are likely to be in the new budget.

The continued survival of Mr. Cowen’s coalition government with its narrow majority in the Dail, the Irish parliament, was threatened by the reluctance of independent and Green Party members to back an austerity budget. A financial rescue package from other European nations, which Mr. Cowen’s government agreed over the weekend to accept after resisting the idea for weeks, drew criticism as well, and a major credit-rating agency, Moody’s, said on Monday that it may soon downgrade Ireland’s rating by several notches.

 
 

I’m just sitting here thinking what fun it would be to put Doughhat into a situation where he would have to decide between living in a country full of secular heathen capitalists or a country full of devout Christian socialists.

 
 

I saw a toast Jesus on “Glee” and now I see a towel Jesus on Smut Clyde TV. I assume that this means something

 
 

He’s everywhere.

 
 

I saw a toast Jesus on “Glee” and now I see a towel Jesus on Smut Clyde TV. I assume that this means something

It means that Jesus has learned the value of marketing.

 
 

of course Douchatneglects to mention just WHY the Irish are feeling a bit less favorable to the church these days: i.e. all the boy-buggering going on in the church.

 
 

It means that Jesus has learned the value of marketing.

Why’d He choose such a backward time in such a strange land?

 
 

That’s funny, I was just sitting here thinking what fun it would be to put Douthat into a tank full of sharks with leprechaun hats glued to their heads.

 
 

Sorry, BBB said pretty much the same thing.

 
 

That’s funny, I was just sitting here thinking what fun it would be to put Douthat into a tank full of sharks with leprechaun hats glued to their heads.

Oh, you mean the next bishopric synod?

 
 

Why’d He choose such a backward time in such a strange land?

he’d he come today he’d have reached a whole nation!

Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication!

 
 

Slate rates the hacks. It’s no “30 Hottest ConservaBabes,” but time may be passed complaining about the individual rankings.

 
 

… the only solution is LESS REGULATION! Regulation is to blame for everything that DFH’s and Moslems aren’t to blame for.

The only good Regulation is that of the Catholic Church!

 
 

Slate rates the hacks.

Brooks comes in number 30? Under Matt Bai, who at least has the charm to know he doesn’t know what he’s talking about?

 
 

A little late to this party, but

Ireland’s economic woes are the direct result of the country’s abandonment of the Catholic Church which, in turned, caused people in the country to build big, gawdy houses that they couldn’t afford. Ireland’s only hope is to return to the days of perpetually pregnant, home-bound women and thatched-roof cottages.

Yes, because Ireland’s economy was doing SO MUCH BETTER during the 1,000 or so years back in the Middle Ages when Catholicism ruled absolutely… Enough of this shit already.

 
 

FWIW, outgoing Mayor Richard J. Daley claimed that the success of the Irish in the US was due to their supposed ardent Catholicism. I’m sure that grabbing every political office they could get their hands on had nothing to do with it!

Or those nice little city machine/organized crime setups. You know, those same things that prove Obama and Chicago are full of crooks.

 
 

Oh, you mean the next bishopric synod?

That’d actually be a pit of crocodiles with mitres stapled to their skulls, but I supposed it’s close enough.

 
 

Ireland might as well have been an imperial possession for the way it was treated, but it wasn’t.

The Irish were British the way black people were American, I guess.

 
 

Having your tenses agreed is for squares, daddio.

 
 

Ireland’s economic woes are the direct result of the country’s abandonment of the Catholic Church which, in turned, caused people in the country to build big, gawdy houses that they couldn’t afford. Ireland’s only hope is to return to the days of perpetually pregnant, home-bound women and thatched-roof cottages.

Shorter Douchat: IRELAND! REPENT! THE END IS NIGH!

 
 

OT via teh Kos, Motor Trend defies Rush Limblob.

From there:

I wonder, do you ever ride in anything that’s not German or Anglo-Saxon?

Oh yes, ask around the Dominican Republic.

 
 

So, I guess he’s thinking “like Angela’s Ashes, but without all of the glitz.”

 
 

So, I guess he’s thinking “like Angela’s Ashes, but without all of the glitz.”

It’s like he thinks it’s some Disney version of this shit, like “Song of the South” was an accurate representation of what life was like for the black man in the old South after the Civil War…

 
 

Would a return to the church also mean a return to spending long days using fertilizer and recycled garden implements to blow up their much richer, much better armed and much more tactically savvy neighbors to the east?

The first few centuries of that didn’t work out so well. Strikes me that a debt crisis is preferable to a civil war.

 
 

Awesome treason flier.

I always remember that ad whenever I think the American dialogue has recently gotten over the top.

 
 

I always remember that ad whenever I think the American dialogue has recently gotten over the top.

Well yeah, but I don’t think the nuts back then had hijacked the political scene to the degree they have now – had they?

Or maybe Dems were just better at getting things done (see LBJ forcing his liberal programs down Congress’ throat).

 
 

Well yeah, but I don’t think the nuts back then had hijacked the political scene to the degree they have now – had they?

The bullhorn is much louder now, to be honest.

 
 

The bullhorn is much louder now, to be honest.

Whoever wrote that flier would have his own show on Fox now, and be syndicated by Clear Channel on at least 500 AM stations.

 
 

The bullhorn is much louder now, to be honest.

Whoever wrote that flier would have his own show on Fox now, and be syndicated by Clear Channel on at least 500 AM stations.

Yeah, that’s probably it. Media gone completely haywire and all that.

 
 

Yeah, that’s probably it. Media gone completely haywire and all that.

Someone interviewed me for an article and asked me what I thought would be the biggest change had JFK not been assassinated.

I pointed out that, without JFK’s death, he runs for re-election and wins easily (Missile Crisis and all that). Goldwater decides not to run, and so doesn’t get totally embarrassed by the campaign and so doesn’t decide to exact revenge by forming the proto-neo-conservative movement, which means Reagan stays an actor, which means no Reagan revolution and no Bush.

 
 

Baked Fierce Irish Child with Outer Dressed blueberries

Now, for this one, there is little doubt in my mind that if anyone tries making it on their own just by following the recipe, it would flop. I know because that’s what happened to me. However, I went to the person who made these once, and got all the secrets – just for you! Aren’t I generous?

Ingredients:
4 teaspoons Journalizingmouy Adducing-Backscatters’s Irish Child, stretched
6 jiggers blueberry
1 Porsha Koyhit’s Witches’ mummy
2 bunches Tracee-Lelah Eulalia’s Fierce Sheatfish hoof, fresh
1 stick cinnamon
2 bags sugar

Pre-heat your oven to 56 Celsius. Pick over the ingredients and discard excess tin. Cream the Irish child with a really big knife. Stir the blueberry with the witches’ mummy over medium heat in a saucepan. Pour resulting potion over the Irish child. Find some sour-mash whiskey and drink it. Candy – very unemotionally – the sheatfish hoof, cinnamon, and the sugar. Encrust the latter combination on to the former. Abandon for 135 minutes. Serves 15 tasty friends with weird stomachs.

 
 

That invisible hand of Jesus always makes an economy hum.

 
 

“Homer, I want you to have my lucky hat. I wore it the day Kennedy was shot, and it always brings me good luck!”

 
 

Substance McGravitas said,
November 22, 2010 at 23:58

Needs more modesty.

 
Larkspur, Spinster
 

My father wouldn’t let my mother buy a rocking chair when JFK was in office. Rocking chairs got all trendy because apparently JFK favored them for the relief it gave his injured back. (If there were other reasons, no one talked about them back in those days, for remember, it was a kinder, gentler nation, when men were manly and women were housewives.) My mom wanted one. My father said, “Not as long as that papist is in the White House!” Because, you know, Papists get all of their instructions directly from the Vatican, and presumably the Vatican was conspiring to take over our Christian nation.

Whatever. The weekend after Kennedy was assassinated, my father told my mother she could get the rocking chair.

Happy families are all alike, blah blah blah. Don’t y’all love when I share?

 
 

The weekend after Kennedy was assassinated, my father told my mother she could get the rocking chair.

There were nation-wide rocking chair sales that wknd., as I remember.

 
 

Don’t y’all love when I share?

Um, yes?

 
 

Other JFK in Dallas. (May be linked at Great Orange Satan.)

“Free-thinking and America-thinking citizens.” Parse that one.

 
 

Is linked. Mine’s illegible but actual.

 
 

THATCHED ROOF COTTAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

THATCHEDROOFCOTTAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

 
 

I wish I liked making ugly stuff more.

 
 

Grist for the Photoshop mill.

Sub McG is proposing to GRIND HIS IDEOLOGICAL FOES INTO FINE POWDER.
Another Liberal h8r.

 
 

From subby’s link:

The Professor:

The Critic:

The Warrior:

The Chaplain:

The Historian:

Collectively: The Morons.

 
 

“Sub McG is proposing to GRIND HIS IDEOLOGICAL FOES INTO FINE POWDER.

That makes him manly.

 
 

Who the hell are those people in that link, SMcG? And what is up with wearing your uniform on a freakin’ cruise?

 
 

And what is up with wearing your uniform on a freakin’ cruise?

Duh, silly, it distinguishes you as a manly man and not some arugula eating metrosexual.

 
 

Who the hell are those people in that link, SMcG?

From top to bottom:

Plelani Frankie-Receptivity the Contemptible Dwarf Zealot
Mealskoow Collen the Inspiring Kidnapper
Elanor-Luci Touchiness the Paranoid Notary
Fleet Admiral Rajfej the Bandicoot
Dalton Nayebeeno the Immoral Cartographer

 
Physical Educator NIck Saban
 

The Professor:

The Critic:

The Warrior:

The Chaplain:

The Historian:

When I party, I party hearty. Fun is on my mind.

 
 

Last year Mr. Douchetwat’s claimed Irish Catholic culture was responsible for the Church’s rampant baby rape problem.

Now he claims Irish people leaving the RCC (perhaps because of the baby rape problem) caused the economic meltdown in Ireland.

So the ultimate shorter Douthat runs thusly: “FUCKING IRISH BASTARDS FUCK EVERYTHING UP!”

Does anyone need any further proof that if it weren’t for us brown folks, Irish Americans would be in deep shit?

 
Spengler Dampniche, Famous Fucking Author
 

Not to be on topic or anything, but I married a smoking hot Irishwoman — she has the passport and everything — and consequently we swing on over there fairly often. I mentioned the collapse of the economy to a friend over there, and he had the following gem of fucking wisdom to offer me: “who gives a fleyn feck about the economy. We built a lot of proper houses, improved the roads, and everybody got a good television. And we didn’t tear down any pubs. If things fall apart again, nobody cares. We’re still better off.”

I love that kind of wisdom.

 
 

A few years back, visiting Dublin at the height of the “Celtic Tiger” rubbish, I saw this magnificent piece of wisdom spray-painted on a wall:

Where does the Celtic Tiger shit?

 
 

Now he claims Irish people leaving the RCC (perhaps because of the baby rape problem) caused the economic meltdown in Ireland.

This is comes down to a specific application of the general principle that “Low-tax conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed; thus the prime duty of the conservative pundit is to define exactly how the voters have failed it.”
In the case of Ireland, such was the scale of the failure that it can only be blamed on atheism.

 
 

Spengler Dampniche, Famous Fucking Author said,
November 23, 2010 at 2:57

I freaking love your friend, Spengler.

 
 

OT, but Howie Kurtz wants you dirtyfilthy hippies of the Lamestream Media to leave the poor TSA ALONEEEEEEEEEEeeeee

Only by inducing cancer in our American Travellers, after first taking sexytime photos OR putting the moves on our stacked female inmatespassengers, our infirm or amputees.

FOR FREEDUM

The comments are precious.

 
 

such was the scale of the failure that it can only be blamed on atheism.

So it could also be “God smote the People of X with Disaster Y for Sin Z,” swaddled in a nice thick padding of in DoucheTwatSpeak.

 
 

Anybody else get the subtext from Douthat’s column that the Irish just deserve to be poor? That’s sort of what it amounts to. “They went straight from poor to rich, because they turned their backs on God, so now they’re back to being poor, which is as God intended, because he loves the thatched-roof dwelling, Guinness-swilling leprechauns”.

 
 

Also only irreligious people are capable of decadence. My main take away was what a shoddy fucking thinker and writer Douthat is, though… he’s Jonah Goldberg as a Catholic who occasionally does his laundry.

 
 

Anybody else get the subtext from Douthat’s column that the Irish just deserve to be poor?

Obviously the poor deserve to be poor. How can the rich be satisfied if they aren’t allowed to think they deserve it?

 
Spengler Dampniche, Famous Fucking Author
 

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Chris said,

I freaking love your friend, Spengler.

You know what’s even cooler? He co-produced the movie ‘Once.” I’m the least interesting person I know.

I just learned there’s a cable show about beer making.

 
Spengler Dampniche, Famous Fucking Author
 

Doubtfire is showing distinct “those dirty bogtrots” condescention: the auld folks at home are a bunch of primitives, not like the patrician Catholics of the American Northeast.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

He co-produced the movie ‘Once.”

*sniff*

Excuse me, I have something in my eye…

 
 

From the American Loon blog (Thanks, Smut!):

Apparently what goes on behind the scenes of the Halloween celebrations includes (but is not limited to):
– Sex with demons
– Orgies between animals and humans
– Animal and human sacrifices
– Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
– Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
– Revel nights
– Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
– Release of “time-released” curses against the innocent and the ignorant.

To borrow from VS: I never get invited to the cool parties.

 
 

I knew I was doing it wrong.

 
Physical Educator NIck Saban
 

“Because God Did It” has been the lazy pundit’s friend for over 6000 years now. The old ways are the best ways, if you can’t afford anything better.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I saw a toast Jesus on “Glee” and now I see a towel Jesus on Smut Clyde TV. I assume that this means something

I saw Jesus at McDonald’s at midnight.
Said he wasn’t feeling alright.

 
 

When people you thought of as friends post stupid right wing crap on their FB pages, is it acceptable to bust their chops on their own facebook page? Or is it rude and graceless?

 
 

Oh, I’m after losing a bundle in the real estate market, so I did, and I have t’ tell ye nonetheless, the McMansion name is all about quality.

 
 

You could compromise by busting their chops on your page. Refudiate them w/ your well thought out, carefully researched & linked material.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

“Low-tax conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed; thus the prime duty of the conservative pundit is to define exactly how the voters have failed it.”
In the case of Ireland, such was the scale of the failure that it can only be blamed on atheism.

This is a two-fer for a hack like Douhat.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I got out of the boat… no mangos to be had, just some moldy, blighted potatoes. I’m kinda ashamed of myself, because I’m now thinking of Ross as An Goatee Moron.

 
 

Wait, NRO’s spam guard is not captcha, but an arithmetic problem. No computer could defeat THAT.

 
 

Does anyone need any further proof that if it weren’t for us brown folks, Irish Americans would be in deep shit?

Prior to enslaving the darker hues, America had indentured servitude for poor Celts. (Thanks to English policies in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, there were no other kind of Celts, really.) It was slavery in all but name, but usually with a time limit. The problem came from escapees blending into the local populations, or escaping from “civilization” entirely. Dragging visibly-identifiable persons here as slaves solved the first half; shoving the border westward (a major cause of friction with the Crown, although we tend to ignore this now, for some reason), via as-yet unnamed policies of lebensraum and genocide, solved the other part.

(Although too lazy to look it up, I seem to recall Paul “Bono” Hewson noting that the rest of Europe heartily abused the Irish before exploring in search of other humans to rob, rape, plunder, and otherwise mistreat.)

Seamus McMansion

From one Celt to (hopefully) another, *Golf clap*. Well played, sirraugh!

 
 

OT, but ripe for a future post: Tea Party activists accused of rigging Dancing vote to favour Palin.

Even popular telebision program[me]s can get teabagged! How humiliating for the network, eh?

OK, it’s on-topic because of the word “shenaigins [sic]”, right?

 
 

When people you thought of as friends post stupid right wing crap on their FB pages, is it acceptable to bust their chops on their own facebook page? Or is it rude and graceless?

Last time I did that, I found out just how many friends I have smoke the right wing hog. I was less than impressed, and sorry I engaged at all. I guess you just have to decide if you want to argue with a deaf, shrieking banshee. I usually follow up a post like that with an over-the-top smartassed comment that looks like reactionary bullshit. Funny, none of them seems to pick up on it. I get lotsa “likes” from those comments.

 
 

A vote for Bristol is a vote against nepotism…

Hmmmm…

I do not think that means what you think it does, Bratbutt.

 
 

Tea Party showing it’s Cultural Domination of America.

Remember Bristol, conservatism never fails…

 
 

Just had some perogies with Philladelphia cream-cheese, so I am taking a raincheck on any mangoes.

Douchehat just needs a good dose of old-school shillelagh therapy, Begorra.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Funny, none of them seems to pick up on it. I get lotsa “likes” from those comments.

It’s a post “Poe” world.

 
 

Bristol Palin, on the other hand, is not from a show business family.

Wait, what?

So, they’re saying ,A) that Super Sarah isn’t in show biz, though she’s been making her living from public appearances ever since she quit Governoring. B) that Bristol might somehow have “Star” status as far as Dancing With goes for some reason other than who her mommy is, and C) that having a whole fucking teevee “reality” show centered on your family means that you’re a show biz outsider and not from a show biz family.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Got it.

 
 

Ah. So someone in a public-entertainment competition is not the best candidate, but readers should vote for her anyway, to make up for her lack of exposure to the discipline from an early age and the lack of support she would have received from her family’s sub-culture.

This is an interesting concept and I propose to call it “Active affirmation” or something like that.

 
 

This is an interesting concept and I propose to call it “Active affirmation” or something like that.

STOP MAKING FUN OF TRIG!!1!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I knew there was a reason I dove in and swam to shore to get those rotten mangoes blighted praties- otherwise, I couldn’t have written this.

 
 

Prior to While enslaving the darker hues, America also had indentured servitude for poor Celts.

Fxd.

The “nice” thing about African slaves is you could point at them and say “It’s OK, look! They’re not really human, and they were heathens also too!” and you didn’t have to pretend that you would eventually let them go.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Arky, they really didn’t consider those bog-totters human either. The relevant quote from Charles Kingsley is a racism two-fer:

“I am daunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that 100 miles of horrible country. I don’t believe they are our fault. I believe that there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better and more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much.”

Of course, this charming little piece was written at the height of the Great Hunger.

 
guitarist manqué
 

‘Twas ever thus. I’m reading a history of Roman Britain and find that in pre-Roman times the major exports of Britain were metals (gold, silver, tin and lead) and slaves. Slaves have always been big business for Brits even when they were still Celts!

 
 

Arky, they really didn’t consider those bog-totters human either. The relevant quote from Charles Kingsley is a racism two-fer:

“I am daunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that 100 miles of horrible country. I don’t believe they are our fault. I believe that there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better and more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much.”

The saddest part of the story is still the number of “white chimpanzees” who look down on the “black chimpanzees” even as they resent the high-and-mighty WASPs. The number of Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Greek etc. immigrants who looked down on blacks in the U.S. is an example.

 
 

And I think the money quote was this one;

“It is my opinion that too much has been done for the people. Under such treatment the people have grown worse instead of better, and we must now try what independent exertion, and the operation of natural causes, can do…. I shall rest after two years of such continuous hard work in public service, as I have never had in my life.”

Ruin a country, toss them a few scraps to make yourself feel better, then start pontificating about how you’ve given them too many scraps and it’s about time the lazy peons get some tough love… Sound familiar? Come to think of it, I didn’t think the neocons were smart enough to come up with anything on their own…

 
 

Sound familiar?

Sauron?

 
 

The Professor:

The Critic:

The Warrior:

The Chaplain:

The Historian:

Worst Gilligan’s Island spin-off ever.

 
 

Slaves have always been big business for Brits

Sure would explain the bondage fascination.

 
Physical Educator NIck Saban
 

I blame House of Pain for most, if not all, of this.

 
 

The Professor:

The Critic:

The Warrior:

The Chaplain:

The Historian:

I don’t think this reboot of the village people franchise will have quite the same appeal.

 
 

I don’t think this reboot of the village people franchise will have quite the same appeal.

I agree. Their big hit is “Whine! MSM!”

 
 

Activity is very light in this thread this morning. Where is everyone? Was it two for one night train night at the bus station/liquor store/alley with a barrel where we burn things last night?

 
 

Anybody else get the subtext from Douthat’s column that the Irish just deserve to be poor? That’s sort of what it amounts to. “They went straight from poor to rich, because they turned their backs on God, so now they’re back to being poor, which is as God intended, because he loves the thatched-roof dwelling, Guinness-swilling leprechauns”.

Yeah, I kind of picked that up too, but its typical of a lot of North American attitudes to other countries when they never fucken bother to visit. Scotland is full of drunk caber tossers in kilts, The Netherlands is full of dope smoking liberals, England is full of football hooligans, etc… Its so lazy and dumb, and actually quite widespread in the US and Canada. And sadly, also here, on occasion…

 
 

Breitbart: “one contestant will take to the dance floor who was born into privilege, benefited from her parent’s famous name, and likely would not be where she is today were it not for the immoral practice of nepotism”

Yeah, and the other actually studied dance and apparently doesn’t suck saltpeter-encrusted dog nuggets.

 
 

Breitbart: “one contestant will take to the dance floor who was born into privilege, benefited from her parent’s famous name, and likely would not be where she is today were it not for the immoral practice of nepotism”

Did someone at Breitbart actually decide not to genuflect in the House Of Palin?

 
 

Who is Dimbart talking about?

 
 

Bristol Palin? NRO Cruise headshots? Damn, I was hopin’ that after Dampniche’s comment this thread would grab the WIN of linking hot Irish babes from the FAIL of Ross DooDooHead’s DooDoo-ery. D-KW am disappoint.

 
 

Who is Dimbart talking about?

I searched the riverbanks and found the mangoes at BigHollywood, N__B.

He’s ridiculing Jennifer Grey.

You know, Jennifer Grey, who actually danced in a movie or two, who’s father was esteemed hoofer and showman Joel Grey (and with whom she shares the dinstinction of being the only father-daughter team to appear on House), and who’s talent was fairly apparent nearly thirty years ago.

As opposed to Bristol Palin, who’s only claim to fame was being pregnant at the worst possible time in her life.

 
 

Not to be on topic or anything, but I married a smoking hot Irishwoman — she has the passport and everything — and consequently we swing on over there fairly often.

Holy crap. Dude! Mazel tov!

 
guitarist manqué
 

Was it two for one night train night?

No just the usual vodka and juses, pilz and bongs that are the necessary fortification for a trip to the mother-in-law’s today. I need to stop and get a squeaky squeeze toy for my trou on the way to the airport.

 
 

He’s saying Grey, who can actually dance and has succeeded on her own, is the benefactor of nepotism so wingnuggets should freep the vote for the talentless Palin, who’s only on the show because of who her mother is. That’s Breitbart logic for you.

 
 

Breitbart logic is not like our Earth logic, and respondeth not to the cleansing righteous fire of actual Earth logic. Breitbart logic just won’t burn. You smack it down, but damn, it will rise again. (Hi, Spengler.)

Still, I pity Breitbart. I saw what Joel Grey can do (BtVS, Season 5, oh dear lord, creepy), and would happily buy popcorn for that bit of entertainment.

As to the slowness of this morning, I can only speak for myself: I was perusing today’s Google doodle, which is pretty, and when you click on it, reveals actual recipes for delicious food.

 
 

“…No just the usual vodka and juses, pilz and bongs that are the necessary fortification for a trip to the mother-in-law’s today. I need to stop and get a squeaky squeeze toy for my trou on the way to the airport….”

Yikes, son. But I love your festive spirit in regard to the squeaky trouser toy. Let us know if you get all renditioned. We’re no Tryke Force, but we will come and save you. I say “we”, but I will come alone if I have to. But you know these guys wouldn’t want to miss the thrills and/or chills.

 
 

Breitbart’s point about Hollywood nepotism is accurate. If you look at nearly any major star, some ancestor or sibling of theirs has paved the way or opened at least one door for them.

I’m reminded of an interview Mira Sorvino after winning an Oscar, where she said how hard she had to work to get noticed and roles.

Um, hullo? The name “Sorvino” opened doors, even if you never abused the privilege! Don’t get all “I worked so hard…” when there are a thousand actresses as talented named Smith or Korpakowski who never got a bone-throw PA job that managed to get parlayed into a lead role!

Now, all THAT said, Breitbart is probably hoping that Jennifer Grey breaks a leg, so Bristol can back into the win. Here’s the thing: if not for Sarah Palin and the now-proven vote hacking, Bristol would have been eliminated weeks ago. It’s a cheap win already, and Bristol will go to her grave knowing that’s true.

 
 

From the BH post:

P.S. This endorsement is brought to you with tongue firmly in cheek. We adore Jennifer Grey, refuse to deny her talent, and wish her all the best. We’re still going to vote Bristol, though, if only to make Sally Quinn cry some more and to watch what’s sure to be an endlessly entertaining left-wing freak-out in the event of a Bristol win.

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Democratic Party. It was a political act.

 
 

what’s sure to be an endlessly entertaining left-wing freak-out in the event of a Bristol win.

OK, raise your hands…who here would go into massive overload freakout if Bristol Palin won some dance competition massively fixed popularity contest to cover the fact she couldn’t complete high school because she got knocked up in a moment of ignorant weakness?

*looking around*

As I suspected…

 
 

Yes, because “Grey” is a world-famous name, and anyone with that name is sure to get millions of dollars with Oscar-winning mega-hit movies.

Although, I kinda like the idea that people will be watching Jennifer Grey in movies forever, and this show is literally the height of Bristol’s fame, and the only time that any of the Palin clan will ever show the slightest bit of talent.

 
 

And I’m not even watching DWTS. I’ve only been aware of it because the right-leaning mainstream media won’t shut up about it and the Flying-Monkey-Crazy conservative media thinks Bristol Palin winning a popularity contest means her momma gets to move into the White House.

 
 

the only time that any of the Palin clan will ever show the slightest bit of talent.

Everybody disses Trig. Juses weepsitizes.

 
Unified Thread Theory
 

Maybe “The Whitey Tape” was really former House of Pain frontman’s solo album Whitey Ford Co-Opts a Different Set of African-American Musical Traditions Than Usual.

 
Unified Thread Theory
 

Left-wing freakout? I should get a bookmark ready, and be prepared for the wonder of how somebody was able to call something, shouldn’t I?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Nobody with an IQ over 92 watches Dancing with the Stars anyway. I expect Bristol Palin to be a shoo-in.

 
 

You know who else had a vagina?

Clitler?

Like my life wasn’t hard enough already.

We’re not in High School anymore!

*sob*

 
 

I saw what Joel Grey can do (BtVS, Season 5, oh dear lord, creepy)

Was Joel acting in those episodes? I got the feeling that was just him with his guard down.

 
 

Nobody with an IQ over 92 watches Dancing with the Stars anyway.

No wonder it’s so popular.

 
 

Like my life wasn’t hard enough already.

We’re not in High School anymore!

*sob*
Sheesh. get over it already. pussy.

 
 

I’ve only been aware of it because the right-leaning mainstream media won’t shut up about it

This, I think, more than anything beyond a collective yawn at lefty websites will be what triggers a cascade of “See! You see! Lefty hate Palin!” reactions. They’re so sensitized to anything other than a Palin victory that they’ll go far afield to find the hate should she win.

Rather than bask in the warm glow of accepting even a cheap victory, they’re going to run around paranoid that their victory was not complete unless lefties are cheering too.

That’s what happens when you indulge the soft bigotry of low expectations, tho. You win cheap, and you’re worried that everyone else knows it was a cheap win.

 
 

Dave Clitler said

I remember you! You used to hang around with Jay Cuntler and Charlie Vagler!

 
Roger McSyphilis-rotted-genetalia
 

Like my life wasn’t hard enough already.

We’re not in High School anymore!

*sob*
you think you had it rough?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

No wonder it’s so popular.

Future generations are not going to judge us kindly.

 
 

Sheesh. get over it already. pussy.

Or you’ll give me a licking?

Heard that one before.

 
 

Future generations are not going to judge us kindly.

Which why we try so hard to make sure they will be too busy fighting over food and ammo to mock our television legacy.

 
 

Future generations are not going to judge us kindly.

You flatter ourselves. Future generations are not going to judge us at all. Damn kids are too busy playing on my lawn to notice. And anyways, when was the last time you railed against those blasted flappers of the Lost Generation.

 
 

And anyways, when was the last time you railed against those blasted flappers of the Lost Generation.

Look, I told you, if not for those Teapot Dome banksters, we wouldnt be in the mess we’re in!

 
 

Or you’ll give me a licking?

Heard that one before.

Look at the funny little man!

 
 

Look, I told you, if not for those Teapot Dome banksters, we wouldnt be in the mess we’re in!
There you go Actor, write the alternative history, where there were entirely different financial catastrophes in the 20th century. Like maybe the dust wins the dust bowl, or something.

 
 

When you read the comments at Big Hollywood you find that most there don’t think that Bristol is as good as the competition but are damn sure going to vote for anyway just to piss off the liberals. Which, unfortunately is exactly how they voted in the general elections. The good of the country and their children’s futures are nothing compared to a chance to gloat over the liberals for a couple weeks.

 
 

There you go Actor, write the alternative history, where there were entirely different financial catastrophes in the 20th century.

Don’t get me started on the South Sea Islands bubble!

 
 

Greatest Generation? More like Crankiest Generation, amirite?

Uh, WTF did they do again? Lemme guess – WWII. Big whoop – Black Ops has already moved the CoD franchise outta that tired and stale backdrop. How’s about something relevant.

 
 

Uh, WTF did they do again?

Your mom.

 
 

OT – I am astonished, astonished I say to find no post from America’s Dumbest Homosexual saying please sir, may I have another?. Tea Party To GOProud: Fuck Off

 
 

Nymfail. I need more coffee.

 
 

PM, the new threadslayer!

 
 

I refuse to go to Breitbart’s site, but I hear tell (up in the comments) he’s dissing Jennifer Grey for nepotism.

He’s saying Grey, who can actually dance and has succeeded on her own, is the benefactor of nepotism so wingnuggets should freep the vote for the talentless Palin, who’s only on the show because of who her mother is. That’s Breitbart logic for you.

Hilariously good point Tigris.

However, it’s true that Grey comes from a long line of showmanship, and it’s something for her to be proud of. Breitbart really doesn’t know what he’s talking about here. The reason Jennifer Grey is in show business is because she worked just as hard as her dad did, and was raised in that tradition. And the reason that Joel is in show business is that he started working in it as a kid and working for his dad, Mickey Katz, who was one of the hardest working guys in show business.

Breitbart can call it nepotism, but Jennifer Grey’s family is the real deal of hard-working talented actors/musicians/dancers. NOT “celebrity” but really working performers following a family heritage of talent.

Breitbart couldnt clean Joel Grey’s shoes, let alone Mickey Katz’s.

BTW, the Katz family has also done way more to support our troops than anything Breitbart could squeeze out of his undersized heart and oversized ego :
Maddie’s room and Operation Mend.

 
 

Or you’ll give me a licking?

Heard that one before.

Look at the funny little man!

Is he getting out of the boat?

 
Spengler Dampniche, Famous Fucking Author
 

Re: nepotism, et al… As a Hollywood marginal (by “marginal” I mean a total outsider who has wandered around studio lots in the distant past) I can assure you rubes from the sticks that nepotism is responsible for 80% of all jobs in showbiz. But this isn’t, as people tend to think, a bad thing.

The problem is, there are about 300k jobs in the entire business. And there are six million people in this town who want those jobs. And the methods for getting those jobs have been studied and refined to such a degree that even the least qualified person, by scrupulously following the rules, can (if they’re pretty enough) get one of those jobs.
And fuck everything up.

Nobody wants to take a chance on an unknown, because most of the time the unknown will cause huge problems and you can lose millions of dollars with huge problems. I’ve seen it — especially with actors and directors, you get a hotshot who seems to have what it takes, but the pressure’s on and they fold up like wet cardboard.
If you’re hiring somebody whose dad was on Friends, at least you’re getting somebody who is familiar with the system. That’s the main reason for the nepotism.
The downside of this, of course, is these descendants of royalty are often just as incompetent as the newbies. But at least nobody can blame you for hiring them. Most decisions in showbiz are based on averting blame. Hiring talent is one of the biggest risks.

All of which is preamble to this: Bristol Palin is an attention-hungry dingbat like her mother, and this ridiculous show is probably about as far as she’s going to get in the fame sweepstakes.

 
 

Look at the funny little man!

Is he getting out of the boat?

*whew*

I thought it might be too subtle for this crew of erudite and informed people…

 
 

A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2008 in the rural parish where he worked west of San Antonio was rearrested last week in Dallas and charged with trying to hire someone to kill his accuser.

Ireland’s atheist economy claims yet another victim!

 
 

I thought it might be too subtle for this crew of erudite and informed people…

Nope, not too subtle. Now words like “erudite” (and “informed”)–those are over my head.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Look at the funny little man!

Is he getting out of the boat?

Yes. I believe those are beans he’s flicking, as well.

 
 

I thought it might be too subtle for this crew of erudite and informed peopleand DKW…
FTFY

 
 

Nobody wants to take a chance on an unknown, because most of the time the unknown will cause huge problems and you can lose millions of dollars with huge problems. I’ve seen it — especially with actors and directors, you get a hotshot who seems to have what it takes, but the pressure’s on and they fold up like wet cardboard.

HEY!

That was *DRY cardboard* you saw me do and yes, it was part of the acting exercise!

 
 

Ireland’s atheist economy claims yet another victim!

Tigris wins as usual but I would like to add that I can’t see why anyone would ever leave the RCC with shining examples of Christ-like character as this.

 
 

The downside of this, of course, is these descendants of royalty are often just as incompetent as the newbies. But at least nobody can blame you for hiring them.

I can, particularly when talent is limited to the first generation.

I get that Hollywood is a business and to take a risk on an unknown actor/ress is usually a really bad fucking idea, but the flipside is you end up with this mediocre crap that passes for “entertainment” all based on the inbred DNA of celebrities and “The Meissner Technique” (ohnohedin’t! Ohyeshedid!)

It’s shit and it shits the bed and its the rare exception in Hollywood who is as good as or better than the parent or sibling who got them there. Which means, what? It means that the product is disintegrating right before our eyes.

 
 

“…for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son to rape the children and then kill them when they complained.”

I’m sure it’s somewhere in the bibble.

 
Marion in Savannah
 

Nobody with an IQ over 92 watches Dancing with the Stars anyway. I expect Bristol Palin to be a shoo-in.

Ah — that explains why it’s an ongoing topic for fascinated conversation around my office… [bangs head on desk]

 
 

FTFY

Damn straight. Erudite? Sounds furrin, possibly brown Middle Eastern.

 
 

Erudite? Sounds furrin, possibly Middle Eastern.

It’s an obscure rare earth metal.

 
 

Brazillian philtrum ‘stache

How many is a brazillian?

 
 

How many is a brazillian?

A lot more than a cotillion.

 
 

Most decisions in showbiz the lives of 99% of Americans are based on averting blame.

Fixed for realityness!

I have no clue what this “Something With the Somethings” competition is all about, but I loved this little nugget from BigHollyfail:

P.S. This endorsement is brought to you with tongue firmly in cheek. We adore Jennifer Grey, refuse to deny her talent, and wish her all the best. We’re still going to vote Bristol, though, if only to make Sally Quinn cry some more and to watch what’s sure to be an endlessly entertaining left-wing freak-out in the event of a Bristol win.
–NotveryBrietblart

I don’t agree with the powder blue Satan very much, but he’s right: The entire wingnuts mindset comes down to:

1. Do something that you think will piss off liberals.
2. ??
3. Profit!

That’s it. No actual ideas. Just first-grade-level retribution by a bunch of people with pre-K intellects.

It’s a shame we can’t give them all a timeout for … well, a decade or two might do it.

Maybe.

 
 

Actor is waxing philosophically about a brazillion.

 
Spengler Dampniche, Famous Fucking Author
 

Actor, I didn’t say the system works. Just that that’s the system. I don’t watch movies much any more — new ones, that is — because what used to be a creative fire in the belly is now more like a pilot light. It stays lit, and little else (veiled Lindsay Lohan reverence. Hey, she’s Irish).

What we need, of course, is public financing for the arts like all those socialest communards over in Yurp have. So we could make a bunch of shitty little movies and glean a few good little movies and on the strength of those, make some more good medium-sized movies, and so on up the chain until we have some awesome big movies.

Right now all we have is shitty gigantic movies. TV and cable are just as guilty. Luckily, there are many brilliant writers working in the zombeh field now. Read them.

 
 

It’s shit and it shits the bed and its the rare exception in Hollywood who is as good as or better than the parent or sibling who got them there. Which means, what? It means that the product is disintegrating right before our eyes.

they always go for the most tedious warmed over crap too. If it isn’t formulaic they aint interested. So I can’t explain the lack of response for some of my scripts: my suspense thriller “Swarthy People menacing White woman”
or my kids movie “Some Anthopomorphized Animal saves the day : now with more hijinks”
or my Science fiction opus “Barely disguised world war II movie where we sterotype entire alien races as scary swarthy people”

Or why do they underutilise some of the biggest names in show business by relentlessly typecasting them as scary figures of menace? King knog for instance could do a lot for any movie not just the standard fantasy/adventure crap he’s had to deal with since forever.

 
 

Actor is waxing philosophically about a brazillion.

Well, one should wax after a good shellacking.

 
 

Luckily, there are many brilliant writers working in the zombeh field now. Read them.

I’m familiar with the Brooks books. *zing*

Indeed, I may take a stab at one, myself. I have this idea floating around in my head…

 
 

How many is a brazillian?

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

 
 

I notice that the woman in the airport screening image at actor’s link has a brazillion.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Srsly?

I am never flying again.

 
 

“Barely disguised world war II movie where we sterotype entire alien races as scary swarthy people”

Needs more white woman menacing.

 
 

King knog for instance could do a lot for any movie not just the standard fantasy/adventure crap he’s had to deal with since forever.

I was at the Westbury Music Dinner Theatre for his memorable turn as Edmund Tyrone in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”.

 
 

Srsly?

Ho-lee shit.

 
 

“Barely disguised world war II movie where we sterotype entire alien races as scary swarthy people”

Needs more white woman menacing.

OK, how about “Barely disguised world war II movie where we sterotype entire alien races as scary swarthy people with meter-long two-headed penises?

 
 

Srsly?

I am never flying again.

I have a friend who swears she’s sent into those “puff chambers” anytime she flies wearing a skirt.

 
 

And Jesus, somebody fire that TSA moron; “What do you want to do, get blown up by a goddamn Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts? It’s up to you, the ball’s in your park,” head of the TSA’s scanning department, Rodney Schroeder, told CNN.

Right, because every flight is getting blown up otherwise. Have they caught anyone besides masturbating TSA employees?

 
 

Lobbey said;

England is full of football hooligans

As a retired hooligan, on the sample of one this is 100% correct.

 
 

Oh, it’s SATIRE. Thank you, Jesus, that the world is slightly more sane than I had just worried.

 
 

I know we’re all refresh-stalking Salon’s War Room to find out who beat Kristol on the Hack 30 so you’ve all already seen this but Wash Post tries for a conservative blogger again.

 
 

King Kong for instance could win Dancing With the Stars.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Oh, it’s SATIRE. Thank you, Jesus, that the world is slightly more sane than I had just worried.

Why, yes it is.

I’m going to go take a nap now.

 
 

Oh, it’s SATIRE. Thank you, Jesus, that the world is slightly more sane than I had just worried.

The, um, tell was the “SRSLY?” post. 😉

 
 

King Kong for instance could win Dancing With the Stars.

All the judges are descended from damn dirty apes, so NEPOTISM.

 
 

King Kong for instance could win Dancing With the Stars.

How would you tell the difference between a big hairy gorilla and King Kong?

 
 

Your to air-you-dight.

 
 

I am so going to go buy a copy of Motor Trend after work.

 
 

I was at the Westbury Music Dinner Theatre for his memorable turn as Edmund Tyrone in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”.
His turn as Shylock in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production “Merchant of Venice” was breathtaking in its dramatic range. It really made me wonder why the part wasn’t written for a giant ape in the first place.

 
 

Oh man, money quote!

But, harrumph. In its attempt to force cars that don’t use much gas on us — how un-American/un-ExxonMobil/un-Halliburton is that? — the Obama administration is offering a $7,500 tax credit on the Chevy Volt, grabbing tax breaks and credits right out of the deserving, job-creating pockets of America’s richest individuals. How dare he?

 
 

All the judges are descended from damn dirty apes

Some of us are descended from damn dirty polar bears.

 
 

His turn as Shylock in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production “Merchant of Venice” was breathtaking in its dramatic range. It really made me wonder why the part wasn’t written for a giant ape in the first place

Jennifer Grey as Portia was a bit of a distraction tho, what with all the dancing.

 
 

Some of us are descended from damn dirty polar bears.

So, I hear all that fur is actually transparent…*wink wink*

 
 

Some of us are descended from damn dirty polar bears.

Fucking whorefrosts…

 
 

So, I hear all that fur is actually transparent…*wink wink*

Makes things simpler for the TSA.

 
 

Sarah’s just not that into you anymore Christine. Get over her.
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/11/22/you-never-call-or-twitter-twat-me-anymore/

 
 

Jennifer comes to The Post from Commentary Magazine where, as contributing editor and chief blogger,[her] provocative writing has become “must read” material for news and policy makers and avid political watchers.

“Provocative” – is that what the kids call “untruthful” these days?

 
 

A-HEM!

Well excuuuuseee me for never clicking on any of your links. You know, you could have gone for the “vegetables on that Jennifer Rubin” joke instead.

 
 

Wait. Is this satire?

Sarah Palin reportedly lobbied producers of the ABC hit show “Dancing With The Stars” on Thursday night to bring failed Tea Party-backed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell on as a contestent to the next season of the program.

 
 

gocart mozart said,

November 23, 2010 at 21:48

On the other hand.

http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/23/sarah-palin-christine-odonnell-dancing-with-the-stars/

g said,

November 23, 2010 at 21:50

Wait. Is this satire?

Sarah Palin reportedly lobbied producers of the ABC hit show “Dancing With The Stars” on Thursday night to bring failed Tea Party-backed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell on as a contestent to the next season of the program.

You coulda been a contendah, g, if you hadn’t bothered to type…

 
 

Speaking of the Hack30, Roger Simon is #13. Note not Roger L. Simon of PJMedia fame. And with David Ignatius at #14, David Brooks at #30 and David Broder a sure bet for top ten (not to mention David Frum as a dark horse bet for one of the dozen remaining spots).

I think I’m gonna need a programme to help me differentiate between all these hacks… because it’s not like they’re going to differentiate themselves. *rimshot* Thankyouthankyou, I’ll be here all week – don’t forget to tip bus driver.

 
 

I think I’m gonna need a programme to help me differentiate between all these hacks… because it’s not like they’re going to differentiate themselves. *rimshot* Thankyouthankyou, I’ll be here all week – don’t forget to tip bus driver.

The differential you seek is dx/ddouche

 
 

You know, you could have gone for the “vegetables on that Jennifer Rubin” joke instead.

Yea, but your mom hasn’t been on Rubin.

 
 

“You know, you could have gone for the “vegetables on that Jennifer Rubin” joke instead.

Yea, but your mom hasn’t been on Rubin.”

But Krauthammer has.

 
 

“You know, you could have gone for the “vegetables on that Jennifer Rubin” joke instead.

Yea, but your mom hasn’t been on Rubin.”

But Krauthammer has.

Dammit! I thought I was being more subtle than that…

 
 

Uh, WTF did [The Greatest Generation] do again?

Squeeze out the Baby Boomers? And since apparently nothing important in history happened before the Boomers, the Greatest Generation is Great for making the world safe for the Boomers to be born into.

 
 

Squeeze out the Baby Boomers?

Nonsense. Baby Boomers sprang out of the heads of Madison Avenue.

 
 

I think I’m gonna need a programme to help me differentiate between all these hacks…

I’d recommend Moonbatica.

 
 

See? Now THIS makes much more sense than if mommy did it.

 
 

Just for DKW

Thanks, but no thanks. First, she’s not Irish so you’re way off topic. Second, there is only one Fox News anchor for me. Third, there is no third.

 
 

First, she’s not Irish so you’re way off topic.

She’s not?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Fourth, that doesn’t even look like her.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

And since apparently nothing important in history happened before or after the Boomers…

Fa-hixed for more Gen X-y bitterness.

 
 

Fa-hixed for more Gen X-y bitterness.

I thought the Millennials were getting a lot of press by sheer numbers, even if they fail to be as awesome as Boomers despite many having been born of them.

 
 

One reason for the delay is that my wife will not watch it with me and my daughter cannot be around when I watch it on my own, for obvious reasons.

Aw..GAWD! WTF? Nasty motherfucker.

 
 

I thought the Millennials were getting a lot of press by sheer numbers, even if they fail to be as awesome as Boomers despite many having been born of them.

Ah yes…the boomers. Greatest accomplishment: St Ronaldo the Raygun.

 
 

How’s THAT for some GenX bitterness? mmmhmmmm.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I thought the Millennials were getting a lot of press by sheer numbers, even if they fail to be as awesome as Boomers despite many having been born of them.

I fucking hate them, too.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Did I kill the thread with my pointless generation-hating?

Awwww.

 
 

Aw..GAWD! WTF? Nasty motherfucker.

Right? First thing that went thru my head is the image of that chick with her mouth half eaten off…

 
 

See, now The Walking Dead is ruint for me, because now I’m going to be more terrified of Fudgie wanking to the same show I’m watching than of the zombies on screen…

 
 

Linky dinky doo

The title “The Walking Dead and the Writing Tardy” is telling. He does write ‘tardy.

 
 

He does write ‘tardy.

Win!

 
 

Right? First thing that went thru my head is the image of that chick with her mouth half eaten off…

I just broke a lobe visualizing him sending his daughter away so he can jack off to a zombie tv series.

 
 

Did I kill the thread with my pointless generation-hating?

Nice try, pegleg. Thread killin’ is my domain.

 
 

He does write ‘tardy.

I don’t feel tardy.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Nice try, pegleg.

It’s bioncle. Hmph.

 
 

I just broke a lobe visualizing him sending his daughter away so he can jack off to a zombie tv series.

It just occured to me.

Fudgie’s spawned branched off a bud.

 
 

It’s bioncle.

I had an uncle who wore one of those, along with a deerstalker cap and carried a cane.

 
 

my daughter cannot be around when I watch it on my own, for obvious reasons.

The restraining order?

 
 

my daughter cannot be around when I watch it on my own, for obvious reasons.

The restraining order?

She likes to put small things in her mouth.

 
 

I had an uncle who wore one of those, along with a deerstalker cap and carried a cane.

Your uncle was the Monopoly guy? Are you rich?

 
 

The restraining order?

She likes to put small things in her mouth.

Double awesome. Two double martinis coming your way.

 
 

It’s bioncle. Hmph.

Does it have a machine gun like Rose gots? ….

 
 

Your uncle was the Monopoly guy? Are you rich?

No, he was in an asylum.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Does it have a machine gun like Rose gots? ….

No. Fucking surgeon.

 
 

No Fucking surgeon.

That might be why he left the cool machine gun off.

 
 

I thought the Millennials were getting a lot of press by sheer numbers, even if they fail to be as awesome as Boomers despite many having been born of them.

Boomers greatest accomplishment – getting the drinking age lowered so they could drink and then raising it so their kids couldn’t.

 
 

I have to wear bioncles so I can read.

 
 

And boomers’ greatest accomplishment? Convincing the rest of the world we have to be catered to, throughout our lives.

suckers.

 
 

No Fucking surgeon.
That might be why he left the cool machine gun off.

I made you a picture.

 
 

WC–how’s your weather? Ours is FUCKTASTIC. 8°, howling winds and snow.

 
 

WC–how’s your weather? Ours is FUCKTASTIC. 8°, howling winds and snow.

Sorry to hear that; weather like that is not fun.

It was beautiful and sunny out all day here so of course I sat in my basement “office” and worked. VPNs are a mixed blessing at best. In this part of the country when the terror flakes fall we huddle in our homes and wait for the healing rain to wash it away. We cannot justify snowplows and such for three snow days a year; when it does snow, it is chaos.

Officially it never got above about 28° today but there was enough sun out to melt snow off exposed asphalt. Of course now the sun is going down, it’s expected to reach about 14° (in old money) overnight so tomorrow the streets will be sheets of ice.

Looking forward to it!

Oh wait; no I’m not.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Salt Lake City here is now getting the leading edge of what’s supposed to be a six-hour, fuckton-of-snow blizzard that will send the temperature down to one degree Fahrenheit. Goddam Arctic air.

 
 

Salt Lake City here is now getting the leading edge

…of the crapstorm that passed by us last night, is thrashing tsam now and will beat you up tonight.

Yay weather. I blame Canada.

 
 

Yay weather. I blame Canada.

It was in the mid-teens here today (that’s about 55, to people who still use laughably backward methods to measure temperature). Obviously, our diabolical plan to dig up and burn Alberta’s tar sands until Southwestern Ontario and Seattle switch climates is working like a charm. MUAHAHAHAHA!

 
Turbine Yukon Palin
 

Ross is having the fever dreams again. His inner world is such a nicer place than this inconveniently real one.

Waiting for him to wax rhapsotic about still-Catholic France in 3 . . . 2 . . . . 1 . . .

*crickets*

 
 

I would much rather be in Salt Lake City in 2 feet of snow than Seattle with 2 inches of snow. At least Salt Lake City remains more or less a functional democracy under such conditions. The Safeway truck can’t make it up the hill for a couple of days before Thanksgiving = The Seattle version of Katrina, basically.

 
 

I shoulda said “she’s not Irish enough”. With a surname of Kelly, WTF was I thinking?!

I guess what I’m saying is, now that she has kids and is someone’s mother, I wouldn’t resist her advances – but to be honest, the entire time I would be thinking of Patti Ann Browne.

 
 

P.S. I’m into the Bulleit agin. If we’re lucky, we’ll get one flaming brilliant comment outta me before I pass out – but more likely it’ll be random ejaculations about nothing that are funneh to no one but me. And even then, only when I’m bourboned up something fierce.

 
 

At least Salt Lake City remains more or less a functional democracy under such conditions.

That wasn’t me at the Montlake bridge with a pistol turning people back and you can’t prove it was.

 
 

tigris said,

Oh, it’s SATIRE. Thank you, Jesus, that the world is slightly more sane than I had just worried.

I think that since there have been reports about this, it would be irresponsible NOT to report it, ad infinitum. Besides, with the crack team of well-trained government agents, can someone actually believe that this is NOT happening?

Tankewwww

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

At least Salt Lake City remains more or less a functional democracy under such conditions.

That’s true. SLC does have snow removal equipment and drivers accustomed to the conditions, but it will become a law-of-the-jungle free-for-all when the power goes out and the traffic lights aren’t working. It’s something to do with the authoritarian culture, I think.

WA does go nuts with the snow, for sure. I was in the San Juan Islands area for the great snowdump of ’08, and that was fucking crazy.

 
 

Wait a minute. Does this mean that if anyone under the age of eighteen steps into one of those scanamajiggers, the TSA is guilty of child pr0nographies?

SRSLY though, them child pr0n laws are so broad that a teenager could probably be arrested for their personal diaries.

 
 

The Seattle version of Katrina

No fuckin’ shit, though I can’t say that I really blame Seattleites for that. The whole city is nothing but hills. Imagine San Francisco getting snow.

 
 

K-Lo demonstrates her editing & lay-out skills, as well as the illustrating abilities of an NRO cruiser.

 
 

K-Lo demonstrates her editing & lay-out skills

God damn. Does she ever lose her pencil in her nose or anything? And then she’s wandering around the NRO office going “Where’s my pencil?” and everyone sees it in her nose and nobody says anything because they want her to spell their names properly in the next cash beg and then she trips and the pencil is driven into her brain and then she writes something about how Charlie Sheen is really conservative because he loves women?

 
 

Uh, is K-Lo moderating the top of the ship, because those fingerpaints look teh same to me.

Confession time – I’d probably do Kathryn Jean. SRSLY, she’s so very earnest. I think that on the stupid or evil question, she is fully in the stupid category. And it’s not like she’s brain damaged or dumb as a box of rocks – just plain full up on ignorant. She just needs to have her horizons expanded and her mind totally blown.

That K-Lo keeps at it surrounded by the mob of chauvinistic (and this is me saying that) racist fuckwits that make up the Children of the Corner makes me haz a sad.

Then again, I’m an optimist that tends to think the best of folks, so maybe she really is a fucking evil monster. In which case, I wouldn’t do her – and what a shame for her that would be.

 
 

To clarify, while it would be a tragic shame for K-Lo to miss out on the sweet sweet tast of teh Dragon-King, I was referring to how horribly awful it would be if she wasn’t just duped by conservatism, but actually was enthusiastically for fucking over the poor and vulnerable to benefit the privileged few.

 
 

K-Lo demonstrates her editing & lay-out skills

What the monologue about fucking K-Lo needs is clarification of course, but longer and deeper.

 
 

And it’s not like she’s brain damaged or dumb as a box of rocks – just plain full up on ignorant.

This just after a post appears referring you to a page where she clearly puts up the same pictures in two places with different captions — not just once, oh no, but several times? Are you fucking serious? If that isn’t an example of sheer stupid (not ignorant, fucking stupid) then I’m Trig’s manservant.

I was referring to how horribly awful it would be if she wasn’t just duped by conservatism, but actually was enthusiastically for fucking over the poor and vulnerable to benefit the privileged few.

She’s Catlik, ain’t she?

 
 

Roger Kimball, pannelling

Pannelling?

 
 

What the monologue about fucking K-Lo needs is clarification of course, but longer and deeper.

Mess with the bull and you get the horns. Warning – the following is some serious consideration of fucking K-Lo.

K-Lo doesn’t need longer and deeper. The last thing she needs is to be fucked like conservatives imagine fucking should be – all about how much penetration you can get during your single-minded goal-oriented traditional going at it.

Nor does K-Lo need the ridiculous touchy-feely talky-communicating type sex. Not that it’s some sort of signal or symbol of weakness that traditionalist conservatives and macho douchebag fratboys think it is. Kathryn Jean can’t have this type of sex because she lacks the vocabulary. If you ask if some certain thing “feels good” – she honestly doesn’t know the answer.

What K-Lo needs is some sort of breakthrough sex. The kind where she is brought to the brink over and over again – to the point where she can see the release that rhythymically builds up and recedes and fluctuates at that agonizing threshold until she finally takes the initiative and flings herself over the line in a white-hot screaming crescendo of tangled limbs and near broken bodies with shuddering gasping breaths drenched in the sweat of physical exertion. The kind of sex that empowers and at the same time binds one to the thrill of personal pleasure and understanding of one’s own needs.

Anyways, that’s what your mom did for me.

 
 

(not ignorant, fucking stupid)

We all make mistakes. I though I girl named Megyn Kelly wan’t Irish.

 
 

Then again, none of youse have claimed that I wasn’t just ignorant but rather just plain stupid. In which case, doing K-Lo still works out great for all involved.

 
 

Nordlinger:

Above, I said, “You always learn a lot from [Bernard] Lewis” — which, I’m afraid, put me in mind of a song: about the tattooed lady. “Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?” And the refrain: “You can learn a lot from Lydia.”

Oh yeah, that stripper/hooker from the freak show.

 
 

Bernard Lewis has eyes that men adore so and a torso even moreso?

 
 

When his robe is unfurled he will show you the world, because you know he’s kinda roundish and the tattoos work well.

 
 

See, here’s the thing. So very very earnest? That’s Nerdlinger. But what Jay needs isn’t mind blowing sex. I’m not sure he’d even notice it. The linked bit has him pining for Phyllis Schlafly. That is too far gone even for the reach the ridiculously sexy hawt Wangchuck. Also, I’m totes hetero, so there’s that too.

What Jay Nordlinger needs is to get a hobby that is a lot less dorky. Preferably something that has nothing to do with politics so that he can approach it without assuming that he has to take a pre-defined side. Maybe BASE jumping or something like that.

 
 

Pannelling?

One must include all the Nells.

 
 

“This was the biggest NR group ever — the biggest aboard a ship, I mean.”

I’ll be here all week. Don’t tip your lazy looter Obama voting waiter, and try the veal — it comes from non-USDA approved slaughterhouses where they waterboard the calves to death.

I like how he refers to Fort Lauderdale as “Lauderdale”. Hip!

 
 

We had something like 780 passengers. Passengers in general were something like 2,100. So we NR people constituted more than a third of the ship.

The other passengers must have been SOOOOO GRATEFUL to be on the National Review cruise.

 
 

I was about to forgiveexcuse her because it went up at 1940, until I realized that was 1940 yesterday. And it’s not like she had to rush to get a plane somewhere, she’s left 10 lumps at the Corner today.

Apparently no one does want to call her on it (or mention the pencil she was gold-digging w/) or no one, typists, editors, readers or commentators, actually pays any attention to anything at the Corner, ever.

 
 

Interesting bit of trivia: Megyn Kelly got her start as one of the Schlafly Girls, the dancers for TV’s hit comedy sketch show, The Half-Hour News Hour.

 
 

We had something like 780 passengers. Passengers in general were something like 2,100. So we NR people constituted more than a third of the ship.

More, if you go by volume.

 
 

We had something like 780 passengers. Passengers in general were something like 2,100. So we NR people constituted more than a third of the ship.

Crew doesn’t count. Fucking peasant class servants ought to know their place.

 
 

Roger Kimball, pannelling

Pannelling?

I LOVE my Roger Kimball pannellinng, it really sets off the longhair orange carpeting and white leather upholstering in my ’70’s-style ‘conversation pit’

 
 

Wait. Unless the cruise ship was manned entirely by robots! Holy fucking shit, that would be AWESOME. Robot Shuffleboard Tournament Co-ordinator? How cool is that?

 
 

#

actor212 said,

November 23, 2010 at 21:15

King knog for instance could do a lot for any movie not just the standard fantasy/adventure crap he’s had to deal with since forever.

I was at the Westbury Music Dinner Theatre for his memorable turn as Edmund Tyrone in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”.

ZOMG! I saw that production! Did you see Streetcar with the Smog Monster?

 
 

May not be a parody:

It’s important to emphasize that what is striking about Palin, and what I am talking about, is not just her beauty, but her sexiness, and that these are different qualities. There are beautiful woman all over the media: Megyn Kelly. Dianne Sawyer. Soledad O’Brian. But the raw, fertile, wild Alaska woman sexuality of Palin is of a different degree. When pictures of her in her running shorts were published a few years ago, the reaction from most guys I talked to went beyond the hubba-hubba quips murmured when an attractive woman passes by. It was more like stunned silence. They — and, OK, me — had been seized by not only appreciation, but desire. Going through puberty in the 1970s, I was programmed to think of liberal women like Barbara Streisand and Diane Keaton as the sexy ones — conservatism was for steely Phyllis Schlafly and cold Anita Bryant, who was beautiful but not sexy.

With Palin, everything has changed. The dynamic, explosive, and primordial power of her kind of sexuality explains why some Palin-haters lose control of themselves, even if it hurts their own arguments. The most obvious example of this, of course, is blogger Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan’s hatred of Palin has curdled into something truly bizarre. He doesn’t blast her anymore, but instead has retreated into a state of paranoia. Palin is not an idiot; she is a dark star, a dangerous and manipulative entity who is deeply evil. It has gone beyond sarcasm to the worst kind of fuming high school bitterness. When the newspaper editor hates the most popular girl, it’s hard to get a coherent argument out of him.

And the truth of the matter is that Sullivan, like Frank Rich and the creators of “Sex and the City,” may have a serious problem with women. Especially when it’s a woman who is a cyclone of fertility and sex appeal who has actually, to the dismay of the pro-abortion left, had children. She has become more than merely human. She and her legs have achieved a kind of talismanic power over the hateful, resentful and pathetic.

Quite a joke though.

 
 

King knog : King Kong :: Gojira : Godzilla

 
 

DKW, not the old “I only meant to burn part of his penis” defense. If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one . . .

 
 

Yes, it must be Andrew Sullivan’s repressed latent heterosexuality that is the cause of all his Palin animosity. Brilliant analysis dude.

 
 

From the Bouffant link above:

This more vicious hatred on the left arises from the fact that Sarah Palin is arguable the sexiest woman alive.

My penis arguables agin’ it.

 
 

Thanks for sending me to the Daily Caller for the first time M. (I no longer like you) Has it always been that stupid or is Tucker pissed that he didn’t crack the top ten in the list of hacks and is trying to ramp it up for next year.

 
 

Especially when it’s a woman who is a cyclone of fertility and sex appeal who has actually, to the dismay of the pro-abortion left, had children.

This is true. As soon as I had kids I became adamantly pro-forced-birth and anti-choice. It’s like magic!

 
 

He thinks Diane Sawyer is beautiful so maybe his penis has had a malware attack.

 
 

Liberals don’t have babies, that’s why we support cloning and illegal immigration.

 
 

I think the stupidity/desperation at The Crawler has increased over time. Losing pals through linking, am I? Nothing to lose then …

Another dump I’ve not yet fully explored: RightNetwork, which leans toward moving pictures, perhaps in attempt to get the move-their-lips-when-reading-element.

 
 

Oh lord someone is seeing starbursts, but it sure as hell isn’t me. Sexiest woman alive? Ha! I can think of a dozen or more that leave her in the dust just off the top of my head (so to speak).

 
 

It’s that time of year, where I have to suffer through Christmas muzak at work. A minor change in programming this year, I thought the station was already Secretary Rockish, but now it’s even more mild, and there’s some Faith Hill Xmas song where she bellows at you about Xmas. She’s a nice lady, but fuck, stop bellowing at me!

And then it got worse… yesterday I realized I was hearing that MF’n CHRISTMAS SHOES song. The real one.

Here’s Patton Oswalt’s take down of that song, if you haven’t heard, or, if you need a refresher. For it is that time of year.

 
 

I have luckily never heard the Christmas Shoes song, but this made me taste bile in my throat when I heard it in a store.

 
 

Sexiest woman alive? Ha! I can think of a dozen or more that have bagged my groceries. At the Pig ‘n Whistle.

especially when it’s a woman who is a cyclone of fertility and sex appeal who has actually, to the dismay of the pro-abortion left, had children.

I blame the politically-correct pro-abortion Freudian left, for making me feel weird about wanting to have sex with my mother.

 
 

Bilo, I feel for you. I’ve worked in restaurants and casinos and I would dread the Christmas season. Although I think working at Menards would be even worse – 365 days of “you save big money, you save big money, when you shop Menards…” would have me eating a shotgun.

 
 

Actually, from the Bouffant link above, it’s clear that the writer has a deep-seated hate of Sex and the City. He is especially fearful of the gays involved in its’ writing and production, which gets introduced by this confusing sentence:

Someone who got closer to the matter was Lee Siegel, the writer who aroused the left several years ago…

NOT GAY!

 
 

I was puzzled by the ‘Sex and the City’ reference too. What does it have to do with the Wassilla Snowbilly I said to myself. Now I understand, he masturbates to Sarah Jessica Parker also.

 
 

Wait! That didn’t sound right. HE masturbates to Sarah Jessica Parker AND Sarah Palin. I never would do that thing while thinking of SJP. I mean, she aint no Marie Jon or nothin’.

 
 

Seriously, when did the number of people who have come out of your vagina become the number by which we decide how important somebody is? It used to be an inverse relationship, and now it’s a direct relationship as long as you’re an awful worthless human being.

Is it because the Republicans finally have someone, if you have not in the past six months seen a woman in her 20’s or 30’s in the flesh, be considered sexy, that has had a lot of people come out of their vagina? Women have had lots of people come out of their vagina for thousands of years and nobody gave a shit so the timing seems sort of interesting. I mean seriously, more humans have come out of my mom’s vagina than Sarah Palin’s, and the vast majority of America is just praying that she doesn’t call them for help setting up her internet, not for her to become leader of the free world, to impose her iron mandatory mittens with the string that goes through the coat sleeves so they don’t get lost-related will on the world.

Oh while we’re talking shit about moms, fuck Gandhi’s mom. Gandhi was a shitty dancer, unlike Bristol, so what did she ever do that was good? She sure as fuck didn’t have her own series on TLC, I tell you what. Fuck her. In the metaphorical sense, cause eew.

The history of motherhood goes Abraham’s old lady Sarai, the Virgin Mary, then Sarah Palin. End of story. If you don’t own or didn’t come out of one of those three vaginae, fuck you and the fucking vagina you rode in on, you fucking hippy. You don’t count. In parts of Texas, you’re not even technically considered a human being.

Thousands of years from now, we’ll be recounting which of the twelve vag-spawn of Sarah Palin we’re descended from — Cheeto, Lo-Jack, Hambone, Krispy Kreme, ‘Lauderdale, Kid Delicious, Intrepid, Whiska, Calculus III, Beluga, Precious, or Jizz-Mop (aka J-Mo).

Mitochondrial Eve was a Grizzly Mama, you can damn sure fucking believe it.

I guess what I’m *really* trying to say is, voting for anyone other than Bristol Palin on DWTS is the Enabling Act of 1933 of Liberal Fascism.

 
 

And that, my friends, is how you kill a thread.

 
 

Seriously, when did the number of people who have come out of your vagina become the number by which we decide how important somebody is?

The war between the sexes, per Bryan Fischer: Men are judged by how many they kill, & women by how many they birth. Simple, really.

Slightly more seriouser: Someone typed some mess somewhere (Can’t be arsed to type that I can’t be arsed.) to the effect that S.P. was the only literally nubile woman in nat’l. politics, & this somehow adds to her (Hormonal, anyway.) appeal.

 
 

Sarah Palin / Allen West 2012
They will keep the birth and death rate in harmony.

(For the purpose of this snark, I assume Rep. West has killed no more than five children.)

 
 

Maybe he meant ‘literally nubile’ as in “her tweets are like being fucked by a stupid stick”, at least that would be my only rational inerpretation.

 
 

It occurs to me that I just implied that a sitting U.S. congressman may have killed over 5 children and most peoples first reaction will be “Hmm, it wouldn’t surprise me.” Interesting times people.

 
 

gocart, I first read that as Adam West and immediately I see a vision of Super Sarah and the Mayor of Quahog accepting the nomination. And why not, she’s a cartoon character. Also. Too.

 
 

Alvin Greene got a shit-ton of votes because of his generic name, but how many people voted for Allen West because of his generic-ass name?

Seriously, how many Florida voters would say, yeah, I totally voted for the black guy who hangs out with white supremacist motorcycle gangs? I knew exactly what that dude stood for, and I voted for him with pride?

OK, maybe quite a few.

 
 

a cyclone of fertility

I can only make sense of this metaphor by assuming that someone misspelled “cylon”. Otherwise, the image of some synechouchal manifestation of ‘fertility’ descending from the clouds as a helical hurricane and sucking up anything movable away to Oz is simply too disturbing to contemplate.

the only literally nubile woman
Evidently the literal meaning of ‘nubile’ differs between M. Bouffant’s dictionary and mine.

 
 

In the still breeding, therefore still worth marrying sense. Yes, I’m being kind.

 
 

S.P. was the only literally nubile woman in nat’l. politics

It may be me, but I consider “able to produce children without birth defects caused by you being old as fuck” as one of the necessary conditions of my definition of “nubile”.

On the other hand, I am hard-pressed to cite a counterexample in national politics. The hottest person I have ever bedded is a rather big wheel in the local Seattle political scene, but on the national level? It is Barry O., and failing that, whatever’s on Cinemax. Maybe Sarah does own that Sybian-powered throne of the national politic, and if so, shame on us liberals for not showing a bit more of that ass.

 
 

May even have meant fertile. Some of us & their dictionaries are just waking up, & some of us have been functioningawakeconsciousup for over 12 hrs.

 
 

Nubile. Said of a young woman who seems mature.

You see my problem?

 
 

What makes me throw up in my mouth a little (=a lot) is that the only remotely sexy photo I ever saw of St. Palin of Wasilla was her photoshopped head on a USA-bikini-wearing, gun-totin’ woman.

And even then, I wouldn’t fuck Sarah Palin with ZRM’s dick. And my idea of nubile hotness runs quite a gamut. Quite a gamut indeed.

Hmmmmm, gamut…

 
 

Hmmm — reading my above comment, I realized I made no fucking sense. I need sleep/or a drink/or both.

 
 

Quite a gamut indeed.
All the way from gam to ut.

 
 

If no other female politicians seem nubile, oh wait, there’s “successful politicians elected to high office”, then there’s “Sarah Palin”, who hasn’t joined that club yet. She became governor in an ungovernable tribal region…. once. So the theory’s kinda fucked up right there.

She could run for Senator of AK and win, I betcha. But she won’t. Not a big enough prize for her ego. The bad news is, if she ever winds up in Congress, she’s there for life.

Just like… Hatchet Face Bachmann. *sigh*

 
david gergen is the third lemming
 

speaking of sexy women, did everybody see Jenny McCarthy on “2.5 men” the other night, wearing an assortment of tight minidresses? She’s over 35 and has children and makes SP look like a moose.

 
 

…some of us have been functioningawakeconsciousup for over 12 hrs.

If your erections are lasting for over 12 hours you may want to consult a physician. Or at least an accomodating sexy nurse.

 
 

In M.’s defense, I also associated Sarah Palin with new bile.

 
 

*sniff sniff*

Smells like Teen Spirit in here…

 
 

This more vicious hatred on the left arises from the fact that Sarah Palin is arguable the sexiest woman alive.

In her bathtub.

After the last of the others drowned.

 
 

she is a dark star…

Dark star crashes
pouring its light
into ashes

Reason tatters
the forces tear loose
from the axis

or

Dark star, I see you in the morning,
Dark star, a’ sleeping next to me.
Dark star, let the memory of the evening
Be the first thing that you think of
When you open up your smile and see me, dark star.

 
 

Doughy Pantload weighs in at Number 7. I swear he shoulda been #2*.

*V-POOP-R.

 
 

What is striking about Palin, her beauty, her sexiness. There are beautiful woman all over raw, fertile, wild Alaska woman sexuality of her in her running shorts had been seized by desire.

Going through puberty Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Bryant, sexy.

the dynamic, explosive, and primordial power of her kind of sexuality explains why some lose control of themselves, even if it hurts to blast her anymore, but instead retreated into a state of paranoia. Palin is a dark star, a dangerous and manipulative entity who is deeply evil.

Especially when it’s a woman who is a cyclone of fertility and sex appeal who has actually become more than merely human. She spread her legs and achieved a kind of talismanic power over the hateful, resentful and pathetic.

 
 

Doughy Pantload weighs in at Number 7. I swear he shoulda been #2*.

Beck kept his finger on the scale.

 
 

There are beautiful woman all over raw, fertile, wild Alaska woman sexuality of her in her running shorts had been seized by desire.

Learn to parse a sentence before you post, please.

 
 

So, I went to a local theater production of “Guys and Dolls” and Mechagodzilla was playing the role of Nathan Detroit. He did a bang up job, he’s quite the song and dance man… cyborg… monster… But he seemed a lot shorter in person. I guess you can do lot with platform shoes and funny camera angles.

 
 

But he seemed a lot shorter in person. I guess you can do lot with platform shoes and funny camera angles.

I hear rumours that Mothra is to appear at the Globe in King Lear.

 
 

Awesome rant, A-G. However,

In parts of Texas, you’re not even technically considered a human being after you’re born.

FIFY.

Also,

The hottest person I have ever bedded is a rather big wheel in the local Seattle political scene…

You bagged Jean Godden? You manimal, you!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

“This more vicious hatred on the left arises from the fact that Sarah Palin is arguable [sic] the sexiest woman alive.”

I would like to dispute this point, sir!

OBVIOUSLY Michelle Duggar is the sexiest woman alive.

 
 

I’m a bit late into the Christmas music in the workplace chat but that won’t stop me…

I have sway over what we hear at my workplace. I seldom use that power, but I do insist that we have no Christmas music until after Thanksgiving and when we do have Christmas music I make sure we have songs like this and this included in the mix.

 
 

This more vicious hatred on the left arises from the fact that Sarah Palin is arguable [sic] the sexiest woman alive.

LOLWUT?

 
 

tsam, nice to see you made it through the storm without being eaten by wolves. Hope the dig-out isn’t too awful.

Now to hear from Xecky.

 
 

Rule TSaM331.4.12.a:

Posters shall provide links to images of persons declared to be “hot”.

Just a friendly reminder, T&U.

 
 

tsam, nice to see you made it through the storm without being eaten by wolves. Hope the dig-out isn’t too awful.

Thanks, dude. It’s been an adventure. It was -8° when to emerged from my dudehovel this morning. My car does not like it. Supposed to warm up after tomorrow.

Thanksgiving tomorrow–tsam’s FAVORITEST HOLIDAY EVAR!! WOOHOO! Family, football, and shameful gluttony. Could there be a more perfect holiday?

Hope everyone’s is awesome!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Posters shall provide links to images of persons declared to be “hot”.

Okay, then.

 
 

Learn to parse a sentence before you post, please.

HAHA!. The troll will get right on that. Believe that!

 
 

…Adds T&U to the enemies list…

 
 

…then rethinks that action, and now pities T&U for being burdened with such lousy eyesight and a messed up ankle…

 
 

OBVIOUSLY Michelle Duggar is the sexiest woman alive.

Holy cow lady! It’s a vagina, not a clown car.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

…then rethinks that action, and now pities T&U for being burdened with such lousy eyesight and a messed up ankle…

Look, I’m just using the conservative metric of fertility as a barometer in measuring hotness, here. And mixing metaphors.

*keeps K-Lo joke to herself*

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I just accidentally added SN! to my Amazon wishlist. Did you know it costs $7,500? Dayum.

 
 

Being both unattractive and infertile, I can attest to what that author said: I’m drinking some serious Palin-related Haterade. And I’m about to abort some babies now just to spite her.

 
 

“Sirius Lunacy said,
November 24, 2010 at 17:51

OBVIOUSLY Michelle Duggar is the sexiest woman alive.

Holy cow lady! It’s a vagina, not a clown car.”

LULZ. amen, brotha.

 
 

T&U, really? Okay: $8,000.

 
 

vacuumslayer! How are you doing?

 
 

Yep, “McMansions” everywhere! Every last newly-atheistical Irishman’s got one!

Typical of the shitheads who write right-wing editorials. Neither in Ireland nor in the U.S.A. did “everyone” purchase “McMansions” during the decade or two prior to the investment class collapsing the world’s economy. But the shitheads who write right-wing editorials are always systematically absolutely blind to at least eighty-five percent of the people who live in the country about which they pontificate. You ain’t rich? then you don’t exist. Thus every young person attends college (no degree = you don’t exist), and thus a proposal to raise taxes on the part of annual income above $250,000 becomes a threat against the “middle class” (your family brings in the actual median income of $47,000 a year? the whole lot of you, poof, don’t exist).

Sometimes, of course, they guess wildly on the basis of vague, distorted third- or fourth-hand rumors about that mysterious and elusive “median-income family,” which is how Applebee’s acquired a salad bar.

 
 

*also waves from Arkansas*

 
 

Hello, larkspur, dahlink!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

T&U, really? Okay: $8,000.

Wait, is this an auction now?

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Now to hear from Xecky.

SLC’s blizzard was oversold – we only got a bit of powder and a bunch of that horrible pebbly shotcrete-like ice all over everything. Thanks for asking!

Still, work decided to not require people to come in and the morning meeting is being handled by a really clumsy bit of teleconferencing software and consists mostly of apologies by people who can’t get it to work right. What an age we live in!

 
 

horrible pebbly shotcrete-like ice
Graupel is the term you probably knew but didn’t use for fear of confusing our climactically challenged friends who don’t know their snow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel
This teaching moment is brought to you by a skier who wants some damn snow already.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Graupel is the term you probably knew

…in fact, I didn’t! Thanks for the vocab lesson. Despite being a mostly-lifelong Utahn I don’t ski and really only classify snow into “that which I don’t have to shovel” and “goddam it.”

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

Just a heads-up here people. ( ~VPR)

Remember those that wash dishes on Thingsgiving. Don’t pile up your plate and then leave half of the food to be scraped away (or thrown) by the help. Take a normal portion, then if you want more you can take seconds.

TYIA.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Don’t pile up your plate and then leave half of the food

But if we don’t, what will you eat?

 
 

…in fact, I didn’t! Thanks for the vocab lesson. Despite being a mostly-lifelong Utahn I don’t ski and really only classify snow into “that which I don’t have to shovel” and “goddam it.”
I will have been a skier for 27 years next month. I have taught skiing for 5 seasons. If you live in Utah, aren’t hurting for cash and are reasonably fit, I can’t recommend skiing (or snowboarding) highly enough. True, it is relentlessly bourgeois but simply getting outside and doing something I enjoy, makes the otherwise dreary Wisconsin winters I deal with here, something to really treasure. I used to get sick all of time every winter, till I realized that staying inside with all the sick people especially at the dorms in college really wasn’t helping. Give it a try, you might like it.

 
 

Also votes for Michelle duggar. Having a super-stretchy vajayay is the best indicator hotness, is it not?

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

What will I eat?

My only sustenance is the love of all the Sadly Naughts.

 
 

Going through puberty in the 1970s, I was programmed to think of liberal women like Barbara Streisand and Diane Keaton as the sexy ones

Who were his programmers? Because I seem to remember others swooning over Lynda Carter, Farrah Fawcett, etc, and not giving a shit about their politics.

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

and crystal meth.

 
 

It’s a vagina, not a clown car.

MUMO: Two MISSSSSS
FRUM: ACTAR@!!@

SUBJ: NOO KEEBORD

 
 

My only sustenance is the love of all the Sadly Naughts.

You missed a spot on my boot.

 
 

till I realized that staying inside with all the sick people especially at the dorms in college

Madison does draw the crazies.

Did you mean ‘ill people’? My bad.

 
 

Speaking of having a bite to eat, PENIS.

 
 

Having a super-stretchy vajayay is the best indicator hotness, is it not?

“Help me find my keys and we can drive out of here”.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Give it a try, you might like it.

I have, and it is a very good time (and an amazingly good workout). I’ve only really been into it when I had girlfriends who were into it, though – not enthused enough about it to make the effort otherwise. These days I find meaning in winter through Christmas lights.

Agreed re: sick people indoors. My office now sounds like a respiratory ward, and I reckon I’d be in bad shape if I weren’t active & built up an immune system of steel.

 
 

Madison does draw the crazies.

Did you mean ‘ill people’? My bad.
I actually attended the UW-Platteville campus. So I missed out on the high caliber weirdness of Madison. To my unending sorrow. Sickos are entertaining. Contagious unhealthy people? less so.

 
 

Did you know it costs $7,500? Dayum.

Look at all you get! High-quality snark, industrial grade PENIS and POOP, veiled references of all kinds!

But wait, there’s more!

How much would you pay for these extras: Zombies! Yer mom jokes! Hunchbacks! Flirting! Sexual harassment! Pictures of real, live sleeping beauties!

These are all included in one low, low price!

It’s not a deal, it’s a steal!

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

actor212
weren’t supposed to let on that I was doing your boots, however shabby a job it was.

 
 

weren’t supposed to let on that I was doing your boots, however shabby a job it was.
you DID his boots? I get annoyed with him from time to time too, but I have more constructive ways to show it than making sure he walks around all day with my man batter soaking his toes.

 
 

True, it is relentlessly bourgeois

Skiing? It doesn’t have to be, altho the temptations are surely there. If you avoid the shaped Rossies with the uberLook bindings and the ski poles hammered from the struts of a B1 bomber, you can ski quite reasonably in a decent eco-friendly shell from REI over a couple of layers of thermals.

 
We Are Aware of All Internet Traditions
 

Ahem.

 
 

weren’t supposed to let on that I was doing your boots, however shabby a job it was.

I wanted your services to myself.

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

I get annoyed with him from time to time too, ….

The ‘doing’ was by request. Hey, I don’t judge.

Nice boots too, eminently doable.

Gotta go now anyway.

 
 

you DID his boots?

Hey, hunchie told me that was peppermint lotion from The Body Shop!

WTF????

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

weren’t supposed to let on that I was doing your boots, however shabby a job it was.

Sooooo, I guess I shouldn’t tell people that my boots are hand-sewn by you from the skin of your beloved papillon?

 
 

I actually attended the UW-Platteville campus.

So did my buddy, who after two years transferred out to Madison to party attend with me. I’ve been to P’ville many times and agree it shares nothing with Madison.

 
 

“Madison does draw the crazies.”

I’d resent that, if I weren’t its poster boy.

 
 

It’s not a deal, it’s a steal!

Now with moar ALGORE!!!

 
 

If you avoid the shaped Rossies with the uberLook bindings and the ski poles hammered from the struts of a B1 bomber
I usually go with the high end K2’s and Marker Bindings. Which wasn’t cheap, but I got a great deal. My ski poles on the other hand are the cheapest aluminum poles you can buy. When I was teaching, I had to leave my poles on the side of the slopes too often* to invest in nice poles.
*instructors often need their hands free, I wasn’t littering.

 
 

Sooooo, I guess I shouldn’t tell people that my boots are hand-sewn by you from the skin of your beloved papillon?

Wait. Did you mean butterflies or the anal lining of a French prisoner on Devil’s Island?

 
 

Sooooo, I guess I shouldn’t tell people that my boots are hand-sewn by you from the foreskin of your beloved papillon?

F’q’x’d for more holocaustiness.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Wait. Did you mean butterflies or the anal lining of a French prisoner on Devil’s Island?

You know, I didn’t ask.

 
 

I usually go with the high end K2?s and Marker Bindings. Which wasn’t cheap, but I got a great deal.

Indeed. This is the time of year, second only to March, to grab a deal on ski equipment. Usually I head up to some resort and haggle if I’m buying, and I go in November, because the guy has no clue what the season will bring. I got half off a pair of Sallies doing that. If I waited until March, I either would not have gotten the skis at all, or I would have had to work harder on the deal, because if the season was crap, he’d be looking to protect his margins.

That’s something you don’t get at the big chains. They’re kinda stuck with a price point and a minimum profit. Indies, you can get to come down further, with the promise that you’ll be a customer, not a sale.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Do you need any equipment to stay in the lodge and drink whiskey?

 
 

Hey, now, the only thing bourgeois about XC skiing is the coin I’ll be able to bounce off your ass.

 
 

Do you need any equipment to stay in the lodge and drink whiskey?

A cast. And a dog. That’s usually a nice accessory

 
 

Hey, now, the only thing bourgeois about XC skiing is the coin I’ll be able to bounce off your ass.

Sharight. I got one them already…

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

A cast. And a dog. That’s usually a nice accessory

What about an orthopedic boot and a cat?

 
 

I’d have thought cats would object strenuously to being booted.

 
 

What about an orthopedic boot and a cat?

Cats tend to freak out at ski bars. I don’t know why, but I suspect it has something to do with a) the loud obnoxious bragging about the quadruple diamond trails and b) the fact that cats know that skiing is ultimately one of the stupidest sports mankind ever invented.

Imagine climbing a mountain with two branches strapped to your feet and lethal weapons in each hand, only to fall back down the thing, brush yourself off and do it all over again! No self-respecting cat would ever submit himself to it!

 
 

Actually, I’ve found that a set of knit stretchpants and a rack is enough to keep you in all the whiskey you can drink, for free!

 
 

…if you’re female.

 
 

…if you’re female.

That all depends on which lodge you go to.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Imagine climbing a mountain with two branches strapped to your feet and lethal weapons in each hand, only to fall back down the thing, brush yourself off and do it all over again! No self-respecting cat would ever submit himself to it!

I know I’d rather take a nap, too.

I’ve found that a set of knit stretchpants and a rack is enough to keep you in all the whiskey you can drink, for free!

Oh, fuck that. I may whore myself out for whiskey, but there’s no way I’m going to wear stretchpants to do it.

 
 

I know I’d rather take a nap, too.

Now, if the bar has a fireplace, that might coax the cat in. The problem is, all the humans would be petting him and sitting next to him, and that would probably annoy him to no end.

Unless..does your cat drink pina coladas? I know a few that do.

 
 

That all depends on which lodge you go to.

I can’t get anybody to buy me drinks no matter how I push up my moobs or how tight my stretchpants are.

 
 

Now, if the bar has a fireplace, that might coax the cat in. The problem is, all the humans would be petting him and sitting next to him, and that would probably annoy him to no end.

Actually, now that I think about it, I’ve been going about aprés ski all wrong. Instead of “buying drinks” and “making small talk” and “exchanging numbers”, I should just put on a cat suit and curl up in front of the fire.

 
 

boop

Yes, but Henry’s a fucking loon. He’s not a cat at all, he’s Siamese, which is one step up from homicidal maniac.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Unless..does your cat drink pina coladas? I know a few that do.

No. Nor does she enjoy getting caught in the rain.

Actually, now that I think about it, I’ve been going about aprés ski all wrong. Instead of “buying drinks” and “making small talk” and “exchanging numbers”, I should just put on a cat suit and curl up in front of the fire.

Well, I suppose looking like an insane person could possibly get you laid…

 
 

Actually, cats have good reason to stay away from ski bars. Their tails are low to the ground, and there’s always someone clomping around in ski boots.

 
 

Actually, now that I think about it, I’ve been going about aprés ski all wrong. Instead of “buying drinks” and “making small talk” and “exchanging numbers”, I should just put on a cat suit and curl up in front of the fire.

I didn’t realize there was much overlap between the skiing community and the furry community.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

He’s not a cat at all, he’s Siamese, which is one step up from homicidal maniac.

Tortoiseshells might ski. But they’re the Trigs of the cat world.

 
 

The dynamic, explosive, and primordial power of her kind of sexuality explains why some Palin-haters lose control of themselves

PALIN: But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies. We’re bound to by treaty –

CO-HOST: South Korean.

PALIN: Eh, Yeah. And we’re also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.

 
 

I didn’t realize there was much overlap between the skiing community and the furry community.

You haven’t seen those helmet covers????

 
 

Their tails are low to the ground, and there’s always someone clomping around in ski boots.

Stray Cat Strut, baby.

 
 

The dynamic, explosive, and primordial power of her kind of sexuality explains why some Palin-haters lose control of themselves

Well, of peristalsis, I concur.

 
 

No. Nor does she enjoy getting caught in the rain.

*polite golf clap*

NIcely played. Martini?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

NIcely played. Martini?

I would love one. But the good stuff this time, not that paint thinner you tried to pass off as “gin.”

 
 

But the good stuff this time, not that paint thinner you tried to pass off as “gin.”

But my VOCs gin has ingredients!

 
 

“The dynamic, explosive, and primordial power of her kind of sexuality explains why some Palin-haters lose control of themselves”

I’m about to explode right now.

 
 

Am I the only one who’s kinda curious about seeing WC in stretch pants?

 
 

The dynamic, explosive, and primordial power of her kind of sexuality

I think you can find more of this if you search for ‘mature’ and ‘squirter’ on RedTube.

 
 

Am I the only one who’s kinda curious about seeing WC in stretch pants?

We promised never to discuss it after that incident.

 
 

I think you can find more of this if you search for ‘mature’ and ‘squirter’ on RedTube.

YouPorn is more fun

 
 

Am I the only one who’s kinda curious about seeing WC in stretch pants?

Nobody wants to see my moobs? Sexist!

 
 

“We promised never to discuss it after that incident.”

Well, what you and WC do in the privacy of the ski chalet is nobody’s business.

 
 

Am I the only one who’s kinda curious about seeing WC in stretch pants?

Yes. (satsq)

 
 

“Nobody wants to see my moobs? Sexist!”

Did I say that? No.

 
 

Well, what you and WC do in the privacy of the ski chalet is nobody’s business.

Which is what we told you BEFORE you whipped out the camcorder, but did you listen? NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 
 

“(satsq)”

Not aware.

 
 

“(satsq)”

Snappy answers to stupid questions, in the original Madglish.

 
 

Not aware.

Is that your excuse for getting knocked up too?

 
 

“Which is what we told you BEFORE you whipped out the camcorder, but did you listen? NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

confusing me with DKW’s mom again?

 
 

confusing me with DKW’s mom again?

you could try brushing your toof more often.

 
 

“Is that your excuse for getting knocked up too?”

Guys keep telling me it’s first base.

 
 

Guys keep telling me it’s first base.

Now, I’ve heard of being born on third base thinking you hit a triple, but this is the first time I’ve heard of someone hitting a home run on a single.

 
 

“you could try brushing your toof more often.”

This made me giggle.

 
 

Guys keep telling me it’s first base.

Well yeah, if you’re playing rounders.

 
 

Well yeah, if you’re playing rounders.

I think that’s called “foreplay”.

 
 

Imagine climbing a mountain with two branches strapped to your feet
For tigris.

 
 

Last chance to predict #1 for Hack 30. Here’s the latest
4. Broder
3. Lil Tommy Friedman
2. Halperin

 
 

Hitler?

 
 

For Smut, whom I now totally want to see in stretch pants and for whose ass I will use an ingot* instead of a coin because he’s worth it.

*a small one because large ones are bourgeois. Also bruising.

 
 

What a letdown. Richard Cohen.

Isn’t that the point?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 
 

I suppose I was expecting the worst hack EVAR to be someone with the potential to do serious harm. Richard Cohen is the crazy great-uncle that talks to much at the dinner table and then falls asleep right afterwards. Sure he’s offensively bigoted and says things that are cringe-inducingly pathetic – but he’s really a harmless old coot.

Then again, the title is “worst hack”. Being as totally irrelevant as Cohen and still appearing in both the NYTimes and WashPost op-ed pages is pretty exceptional.

 
 

NO FUCKING WAY.

So they will say when the kid’s old enough to figure out the stunt.

 
 

For the umpteenth fucking time, it is not possible to be “Libertarian” and “Pro-forced-birth-no-matter-what.”

Thank you.

 
 

it is not possible to be “Libertarian” and “Pro-forced-birth-no-matter-what.”

With enough whiskey and Astroglide, anything is possible.

Just ask Douthat

 
 

Too bad they didn’t have an option to put the fetus in a giant helium balloon.

 
 

“With enough whiskey and Astroglide, anything is possible.”

I wish I had said this. It is damn quotable.

 
 

Damn! All I have is rum and Australopithecus.

 
 

The rum’s OK, but yeah, an Erectus would definitely be better.

 
 

As my friend Vicki was wont to say, “Any cavity in the human body is accessible given sufficient lubricant and a strong enough arm”.

 
 

Notable Hack30 omissions:
Anyone primarily associated with teevees or teh intartnewtrons
ME-gan
Krauthammer
Ross Thatched Roof DooDooHat
VD Hanson
Torture Yoo

 
 

Heh heh, Mount Gay and a Home Erectus.

 
 

HomO, dammit.

 
 

HomO, dammit.

Oooh! and she was sooo close!

 
 

I’ve only gotten thru about half the list. I am a-may-hay-hazed that Kraphammer didn’t make the list since he’s George Will plus a really nasty attitude.

 
 

Oooh! and she was sooo close!

Damn carpal tunnel.

 
 

Damn crapal tunnel.

Fixed for moar asstroglide.

 
 

…was it something I said?

 
 

I’ve only gotten thru about half the list. I am a-may-hay-hazed that Kraphammer didn’t make the list since he’s George Will plus a really nasty attitude.

Is there any conservative pundit/talking head/shock-jock who isn’t a hack?

 
 

Um… a wonderful quote from a scholarly examination of Rabbit-Proof Fence that I just tripped over a little bit ago:

“We live in a period where constituencies struggle to occupy the moral highground of the victim. In appropriating the rhetoric of disadvantage, ‘post’-colonial EuroAustralia disavows the restabilising of race categories in Australia and the relicensing of racism…. While avowing a disaffiliation with the morally discredited policies of assimilation, [then-PM] John Howard, for example, ensures an ongoing reconfiguration of white power.”

From here:

http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-March-2002/brewster1.html

Not by any means off the topic of blame-shifting by the shifty.

(By the way, I found The Magdalen Sisters to be one long, incoherent scream of rage. They compressed the narrative until I couldn’t breathe. That does not mean a viewer cannot get the point.)

 
 

Krauthammer has a special wing in hell named after him.

 
 

I object to the inclusion of S.E. Cupp on the Hack 30 list. I’d say that with a little more work, a little luck and a lot more talent, Sippy Cupp could claw her way to hack status, junior grade.

 
 

By the way, has anyone yet made the joke, “I would do anything for God, but I won’t Douthat”?

Er… just checking.

 
 

Douthat to me one more time?

 
 

77south, what do you do through the long winter months not being able to ride your Duc?

I’m starting to go a litle stir crazy and it’s only been a week.

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

Early Bird Dinner for those on the USian East Coast will be served in ten minutes. It’s uh…..lesseee….BBQ Papillon Puppies. Potato salad or coleslaw.

 
 

BAHHAHAHAHAH!

Advice from a trustworthy source.

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

Dinner update: I have been informed that Mr. Tom Delay will NOT be joining us.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/11/jury_convicts_delay_in_money_laundering_trial.php?ref=tn

 
the ugly hunchback that washes dishes and rings the dinner bell
 

Coleman? Coleman?
Not enough Lizard people in AK. I reckon.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

I have been informed that Mr. Tom Delay will NOT be joining us.

The days when that cobag was in charge of the House were some dark ones indeed.

Too bad about dinner, I was going to throw a roll at him.

 
 

I will not get out of the boat. I would do anything for Sadly No! but I won’t Douthat.

 
 

Mr. Tom Delay will NOT be joining us.

It’ll be interesting to see how The Hammer gets treated in prison. I’m guessing he’ll be nailed.

Also, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Too.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Also, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Pretty much. His style is what I expect the next Congress to have, more or less. His name brings to mind this scary episode and the general push early post-9/11 to basically outlaw the Democrat Party.

 
 

What’s all this I hear about monkey laundering? Do we really care what our politicians do behind closed doors? When I was a little girl, we would wash our dog in a large tin washtub, and Mr. Beepers, he loved it! So I don’t see why everybody’s so upset about a man washing his monkey.

 
 

Emily, that’s money laundering.

 
 

Bacevich keeps fighting the good fight. I just saw this headline front and center on the CNN.com front page,

“Is America on the Path to ‘Permanent War’?”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/23/war.afghan/index.html?hpt=C1

They found a professor in CA who had the balls to answer that obvious question. If you’ve read Bacevich in the past, you pretty much know he wants to say it, just not too bluntly.

Prof. Martel has problems finding the nose on his face:

“The U.S. military may fight in Afghanistan “for years.” But it’s also been in Germany and Japan for decades, Martel says.”

Uh, yeah. Exactly. We’re still in Kuwait, we’re still in Iraq, and we’re going to stay in Afghanistan for decades to come, even if we win.

Luvs that Freedom!

 
 

Oh.

Nevermind.

 
 

Bitch.

 
 

You guys are all so adorable.

 
 

I blame Riverdance for a lot of things. Mostly I blame it for making shitty dancing popular.

 
 

You know, there’s a lot to be thankful for.

I blame Riverdance.

 
 

Nothing to do with anything, but:

Libertarian Tattoos.

Have fun.

 
 

Thank you Anonymous. The folks at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute must be awfully proud of Adam Mueller.

 
 

Well, a looky HEAH! Ah say, ah say, there’s NEGATIVITY in the workplace, son!

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/careers/negative-workplaces-and-worker-attitudes/19725665/

 
 

Muscular dudes with tough guy tattoos and guns… what’s next? They going to go beat up a Keynesian?

 
 

I got this tattoo about 2 years ago because I am an economics fanatic. I’ve immersed myself in economics for the better part of a decade and always wanted a supply and demand graph on me somewhere.

 
 

That one was pretty great, but it should have been on his upper lip.

 
 

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/24/palin-north-korea/

CO-HOST: How would you handle a situation like the one that just developed in North Korea? […]

PALIN: But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies. We’re bound to by treaty –

CO-HOST: South Korean.

PALIN: Eh, Yeah. And we’re also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.

 
 

I was bound by Prudence once.

 
 

FRIST! In advance. The next post has to show up sometime soon.

 
 

The next post has to show up sometime soon.

Your child-like trust & enthusiasm amuses me no end.

 
 

Libertarian Tattoos.

This one makes baby Jesus cry.

I got this tattoo about 2 years ago because I am an economics fanatic. I’ve immersed myself in economics for the better part of a decade,,,

The Twain quote about teaching a pig to sing comes to mind for some reason.

 
 

Hey Tintin- finally an available image to do “Art.”

http://www.facebook.com/people/Art-Chance/1359826982

 
 

Libertarian Tattoos.
Have fun.

Goodness me. An awful lot of them have chosen to emblazon their skin with a message in cuneiform. Apparently it is now received wisdom in libertarian circles that this particular lexeme ama-gi[4] is the first known representation of the concept of “freedom” or “liberty”. I am not personally convinced how far the thinking of ancient Sumerians should be taken as a guide to modern economic philosophy, but never mind.

Amusingly, they are all ordering their tattoos form a design on the Whackyweedia which turns out to be misspelled. Some of them even go for a mirror image. SUMERIAN FAIL.

If you go Googling (unaided by the libertarian websites, which all quote one another about the meaning of ama-gi[4] rather than cite an actual Sumerian archeologist) one eventually finds a consensus that it is best translated as “the relief of a debt or burden”, or “remission from debts”. It evolved into the Hebrew concept of “Jubilee”.

Very libertarian.
Someone should write a blog-post about this.

 
Quiet man brings meat
 

Sorry to interrupt, but…want to see something REALLY filthy?

http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/79347/russia-international-arms-dealing

Shorter Melik Kaylan, The New Republic:

WE are principled but realistic. YOU have made unfortunate compromises. THEY are filthy hypocrites.

 
 

I’d say that with a little more work, a little luck and a lot more talent, Sippy Cupp could claw her way to hack status, junior grade.

Or she could just work on her blowjobs.

 
 

Oh, it’s Sumerian. Here I thought that it was just a diagram of a batch of golf tees. After all, what screams “FREEDOM” more than golf?

 
 

After all, what screams “FREEDOM” more than golf?

A bald eagle with a single tear running down its cheek, a la Wonkette?

 
 

FREEDOM

Mel Gibson with half a blue face?

 
 

Mel Gibson with half a blue face?

Mel with one blue ball, of course, screams “FRUSTRATION.”

 
 

A bald eagle with a single tear running down its cheek, a la Wonkette?

I miss Gavin.

 
 

Also an important note for ama-ar-gi[4] Libertarians who are going home to their mothers. Phone first because I’m going to need some time to find my pants.

 
 

Cuneform tattoos? Or looneyform tattoos?

Sippy Cup working on her blowjobs?
I? W? N? V?

 
 

Mel with one blue ball, of course, screams “FRUSTRATION.”

I think you missed a few F-bombs there, my friend.

 
 

What’s all this I hear about monkey laundering? Do we really care what our politicians do behind closed doors? When I was a little girl, we would wash our dog in a large tin washtub, and Mr. Beepers, he loved it! So I don’t see why everybody’s so upset about a man washing his monkey.

Everybody’s got something to hide. Except for me and my monkey.

 
 

What’s the difference between Sarah Palin’s mouth and her vagina?

 
 

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