Why We Call Dan America’s Dumbest Homosexual™


ABOVE: B. Daniel Blatt, America’s Dumbest Homosexual™

Shorter Dan Blatt, The GAY Patriot
Seeing gay people as individual human beings rather than defining us by group stereotypes

  • Gay liberals are always shouting about how gay they are. Gay conservatives, like myself, see themselves as unique individuals rather than as gays. Please pay no attention to the name of this blog.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™


 

Comments: 507

 
 
 

Firstest!

 
 

I’ve always wanted to posses a demon, but the license cost – not to mention the difficulties in spaying – has deterred me.

 
 

From the Althouse post, because I couldn’t resist:

Heterosexuals don’t naturally love all the other heterosexuals. Gay men may need to look for their sexual partners in the pool of gay men,* but there’s no reason why you have to like everyone in your category of potential sexual partners, and, indeed, it’s a good idea to reject the vast majority of potential sexual partners. You only need one (at most).

Someone, clearly, is missing the point of gay sex. Not that Dan would know anything about it either, but…

 
 

To be fair, gay conservatives are forced to see themselves as individuals, in that they’re always being singled out for mockery, ridicule, and general shaming by the rest of the movement. “Is there something wrong with me?” and “Why does everyone hate me?” are both questions that require a certain amount of independent thought…

 
 

So the conservative who wangs about being a PATRIOT also sees himself as a unique individual. Also.

 
 

Shut up, Dan. Just SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

You are a jackass, a Sarah the Surveyor loving self-hater. Deal with your own shit, leave us out of it, shut up you stupid person!

We have real problems that require adults to act, you know, adultish. Your little whining about not quite fitting in with a group that does not want you as a member got old early, tiresome shortly after. Just shut up.

Your happy little cliques, you know, the one you run behind going “Hey, guys, what about me?!? I can hate too! See, watch this! Fags!”, are responsible for much that is EVIL.

FUCK YOU, just fuck you. Damn you.

 
 

By the way, Tintin – one of your best shorters: Please pay no attention to the name of this blog.

Indeed.

 
 

Heh, also, too.

 
The Tragically Flip
 

What a shock that a group vilified by conservatives for the circumstances of their birth as immoral, polluting the nation’s children and actually discriminated against by numerous laws would come to have a tendency to group together to defend themselves against the onslaught.

There’s a reason so many gay youth move to the same two or three big cities to live among other gays, and while I’m sure there’s some attraction to having a larger dating pool, the whole “living near people who won’t beat you to death just for existing” has to be considered as a significant “push” factor.

 
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You are a jackass, a Sarah the Surveyor loving self-hater. Deal with your own shit, leave us out of it, shut up you stupid person!

Yep,B.Dan still hasn’t figure out the reason he got beat up so much in school was because he was B. Dan, not because he’s gay. Self hating is right. He know he’s burned too many bridges to the gay community, so in jealousy he tries to tear down what he doesn’t have, support and protection. Once again he’s on the outside looking in, while enjoying the rights that others have worked so hard to provide.

 
 

One thing I do love about Gay Patriot though – he’s dumb enough to really bring out the stupid in his commentariat. Comments on Gay Patriot generally are almost as erudite as those found on YouTube. Check out this one:

2.it’s true what she says. by self identifying with a group a person forgets how unique he is and begins to think in terms of his group needs and desires rather than his own particular needs and desires.

liberalism depends upon it to promote their ideas.

I can predict with 99.5% accuracy that it’s never occured to Mr. Einstein here that nationalism also depends on self-identification with a group – and here he is, posting this deep thought on a blog whose title proclaims it to be more-patriotic-than-most blogs.

 
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Sooooo, B. Dan, does this mean Conservative Christians are actually just consevatives who happen to be Christians? Just that individual thing, eh Danny-Boy?

 
 

I have never seen anyone use the word “statist” unironically unless they were an idiot.

 
The Tragically Flip
 

I have never seen anyone use the word “statist” unironically unless they were an idiot.

Yeah, because there is no one who would self-identify that way. It’s a caricature of all left wing ideologies not actually what anyone believes. Who the hell advocates for more government for its own sake?

 
 

I can predict with 99.5% accuracy that it’s never occured to Mr. Einstein here that nationalism also depends on self-identification with a group – and here he is, posting this deep thought on a blog whose title proclaims it to be more-patriotic-than-most blogs.

Fact.

by self identifying with a group a person forgets how unique he is and begins to think in terms of his group needs and desires rather than his own particular needs and desires.

Philosophically, he has a point. (Though as a nationalist, and as part of the movement that considers Jews to be race traitors unless they identify fully and unreservedly with the Israeli cause – two things that have far more impact on this country than affirmative action or Malcom X T-shirts – he is the last person who’s entitled to make that point).

Here’s the problem. Homosexuals, in our society, are judged according to their group identity, and most of all by the right – something that goes far beyond “protecting the institution of marriage.” It’s conservatives who denied homosexuals the right to serve in the military, then the right to serve openly. It’s conservatives who deny them the right to adopt children, and it’s conservatives who deny them the right to marry. All because, by virtue of being gay, they are judged to be morally unworthy to adopt or serve their country.

When conservatives tell gays (or any other number of minorities) to “stop identifying by your group, only identify as an individual), what it actually means is “ignore the fact that we identify and judge you according to your group, because if you don’t, you’ll realize that all gay people have a common interest in fighting us.”

 
 

@Chris,

Run for office, any office. I’ll give you my checkbook. Great analysis 2cd to last graf.

 
 

Run for office, any office.

I likes my dual citizenship, and said dual citizenship would probably sink me in most counties in the U.S. even if I renounced it.

However, the checkbook always sounds tempting…

And thanks, mate!

 
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Chris always gets my vote. Hammer-nail.

 
 

Okay, I got out of the boat. Now my feet are all wet. Happy?

B. Dan’s post is deeply silly. Where does he (and Althouse) see gays “acting as a group”? IN POLITICS, where acting-as-a-group is exactly how the game is played. “All those San Francisco 49ers–why are they so deficient in a sense of their own individuality? Why do they insist on wearing the same outfits?”

This “identifying oneself primarily as an individual” is the insight of a ninth grader. (And she wants it back.)

Excellent point, Chris. Excellent, if sputtering, outrage, paleotechtonics.

Next I want to say to Dan, “You think of yourself primarily as an individual? So does every other individual. Why the blind conformity?”

 
 

Also, HTML made a bunch of the same points here last summer;

Wingnuts often whine about identity politics-obsessed leftists, and sometimes they even have a point (though they aren’t the ones to be making it). But the intense identification with Israel, “Jewishness”, and Judaism (and exactly in that order) among right-wing Jews is the single most flagrant and dangerously obsessive form of identity politics in America today, precisely because it so strongly influences foreign policy. Moreover, it is typical of such right-wing American Jews that they pretty much categorically have a “multiculturalism for me but not for thee” attitude, yet it is a fact that random black people (omg scary! unAmerican!) who celebrate Kwanzaa, identify with Africa, and maybe wear dashikis […] have no influence on American foreign policy; the same cannot be said for Ms. Rubin’s cronies.

A large item in the sociopathic mentality of a totalitarian is a desire for Purity Control. In both left and right forms of the disease, ideological purity is of great concern; Rubin’s paragraph, of course, has that in spades in her demand for pure loyalty to Zionism at all costs. But the religious and especially ethnic component makes her ravings — and those of so many others — explicitly fascist: the idea is the nation, the nation is the tribe, the tribe is “chosen” or exceptional or entitled just because it is and also because Yahweh or Moses or History or Mommy and Daddy says it is, anything that dilutes the tribe’s purity – of purpose or otherwise — must be destroyed.

Interesting that this never comes up when conservatives discuss welfare queens, reparations, the race card and uppity minorities.

 
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What’s rather amusing is most of the haters most likely know gay people, and like them, without being aware of the sex orientation. It’s all about symbols and fear of the unknown. “Can’t humanize homosexuality then my hatred and venom says more about me than anything.”

What’s also amusing I can almost guarantee that any straight man who meets a gorgeous transexual/transvestite/drag queen has second if not third thoughts as to what’s right and what’s wrong when it comes to sexuality. “Demons of temptation and curiosity leave my pure mind!”

 
 

N_B, re: the last thread…those are called “happy endings,” and you can’t get them from having a tv thrown on you.

 
 

Happy End is pretty good. Saw it about ten years ago off-off-Broadway.

 
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From comments:

“Coming out” doesn’t mean coming to terms with the fact you’re gay–it means publicly identifying yourself so the Gay Police can find you and kidnap you into the Gay Borg.

This is so blindingly stupid I need sunglasses.

 
 

Now that’s a web site I can entirely relate to!

 
 

2.it’s true what she says. by self identifying with a group a person forgets how unique he is and begins to think in terms of his group needs and desires rather than his own particular needs and desires.

liberalism depends upon it to promote their ideas.

Because no one believes the ideas first, right? Seriously, who could REALLY believe wimmins and colored folks should be treated the same as white men unless they’ve let themselves be brainwashed by the left?! Or that taxes pay for some useful and important things?!! NOBODY, that’s who.

 
 

kidnap you into the Gay Borg.

You will be ass-inundated.

 
 

Tintin, I love you.

 
 

“All those San Francisco 49ers–why are they so deficient in a sense of their own individuality? Why do they insist on wearing the same outfits?”

Hee hee, that’s pretty great.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

This is hurting my fucking head.

There would be no need to identify as a member of the group if people were acknowledged as human beings whatever their characteristics are and weren’t dismissed, stereotyped, and dehumanized based on those characteristics.

In other words, “leftists” aren’t your problem, buddy.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

“Coming out” doesn’t mean coming to terms with the fact you’re gay–it means publicly identifying yourself so the Gay Police can find you and kidnap you into the Gay Borg.

*insert joke stereotyping teh gheys by commenting on what fabulous uniforms they’d have*

 
 

Ann Althouse:

Some people think of themselves as, above all, individuals, and when others think the most important thing is their membership in a particular group, they resist. They don’t want to be defined by a single quality, especially when it’s a quality that makes other people see them in terms of the group stereotype, and not personal uniqueness.

Was this post titled “Why I Won’t Join A.A.”? Or was it titled “Why I Describe Myself As Follows: ‘I’m A Law Professor…'”?

 
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Why do they insist on wearing the same outfits?”

Flag lapel pins baybeee! Makes for the true individual statement!

 
 

and FYWP. Now I have to put all the tags back in for the following repost.

Shorter shorter:
NOT ALL HOMOS ARE FAGGOTS.

 
 

OH, and thanks for blinking in the preview but not in the actual post. DAMN YOU QUEER FAG WORDPRESS!!!

 
 

” . . . movement that considers Jews to be race traitors unless they identify fully and unreservedly with the Israeli Likudnik cause . . .”
Figgst for accuracy and recognition that there are Iraelis that don’t agree with Bibi and his bs. Otherwise, Sasquatch = Isreal!!

 
 

Now, I had a nice looking strikethrough going on in the word “Israeli” there in the preview, but it did’nt pull through on the posting. Oh, well, as one more person victimized (just like a conservative!!! WordPress isreal biased against all true conservatives!!), I say, FYWP sideways and upside down!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Although I’m finding the fact that they use a photo of him volunteering at a book fair to support the premise that he’s a lefty to be incredibly amusing.

 
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Lifelong bachelors? Just can’t find the right gal?

No thanks T&U, not even in a hazmat suit.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

One of the more disturbing things to me about this whole “both sides” rhetoric is that it sounds really fucking familiar. It’s the same kind of rhetoric used to justify victim-blaming and other injustices toward domestic violence victims.

 
 

T&U, word to that. It’s evil. “Not only am I the victim here, you almost broke my fist with your eye socket.”

 
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Very good point. “We wouldn’t have to hate on you if you’d just shut up about your rights.”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

T&U, word to that. It’s evil. “Not only am I the victim here, you almost broke my fist with your eye socket.”

The most infuriating thing to me about it isn’t the rightwingers themselves, but the media who are like the fucking neighbors tut tutting how if she just didn’t have such a *mouth* and they saw her push him once so of course it’s her fault!

 
 

FUCK YOU JONAH GOLDBERG.

Full Metal Retard.

 
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they saw her push him once so of course it’s her fault!

The left wing is too shrill!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Oh, god, you guys. After the Revolution, history is going to be re-written to state that Goldberg was an intellectual giant with a genius idea that defied leftist propaganda and was instrumental in the establishment of the Tea Party States of America.

 
 

Gay liberals are always shouting about how gay they are.

Straight liberals however, never need to point out how totes heterosexual they are. Heterosexually speaking.

 
 

T&U, the phrase is

It is a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 


It is a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.

I’ll bet Goldberg has that tattooed on his belly.

 
 

I’ll bet Goldberg has that tattooed on his belly.

In 400 point font. With shoddily assembled and completely irrelevant references.

 
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I think they did a documentary of that on Discovery Channel.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

In 400 point font. With shoddily assembled and completely irrelevant references.

You don’t want to see the footnotes…suffice it to say, you’ll need a magnifying glass to read them.

 
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Or Animal Planet.

 
 

Dan, Dan, Dan. WE don’t hate you. The conservatives with whom you identify hate you. Many of your commentariat hate you. You hate you.

We hate to see what you are doing to yourself while your con-conservatives laugh at you and enjoy seeing your pain. We hate that you can’t see how you can’t see how your preferred identity group have twisted and warped your view so that you don’t recognize your real enemy. We hate that you _need_ to be the kapo.

Again, we don’t hate you. We hate what those who do hate you have done to you.

 
 

I also hate cilantro. And Brussels sprouts.

 
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you’ll need a magnifying glass to read them.

Yep, most likely not much to work with. Plus he’s Jewish.

 
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Spotlights on them, the roaches a panicking.

(second linky dead end T&U)

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

(second linky dead end T&U)

That’s the point, darlin’.

 
 

When thinking about Liberal Fascism you need to juxtapose Jonah’s boast about the unprecedented awesomeness of his argument and its seriousness with his NRO teammate Michael Ledeen’s review of the book. It’s been disappeared from the internets but you can still find mention of it on other sites. It can be summarized:

Jonah hardly did his homework. Jonah didn’t understand what homework he did do. Jonah thinks he’s polished this turd but on the page it sits more like a shart.

Jonah, of course, took it all as a compliment.

 
 

(second linky dead end T&U)

Feature, not a bug. From link 1:

UPDATE:

Hoft has since tried to scrub his post from the internet without explanation. Here’s a screenshot:

 
 

Damnit, slower than PT avoiding cankled librarians. I blame Obama’s vitriolic rhetoric.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Damnit, slower than PT avoiding cankled librarians. I blame Obama’s vitriolic rhetoric.

My leg may be gimpy, but my typing fingers ain’t.

 
 

Okay, that exhausted my niceness. Dear GayPutzRiot, stop with the victimization shit, just please fucking stop. Go suck a cock, get yourself plooved, whatever, just STOP telling us you are a victim of the left when you are a victim of the right.

Say, maybe you rename your blog to G0yPatriot!

 
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It’s nice to see how the individuals of right wing media are stamping their own take on this tragedy and not doing CYA.

(Doh! duh)

 
 

We thought it would be a boon and it is! NRO commenters’ take on Obama’s moment of silence for Saturday’s shooting victims: “awkward and out of place,” “mainly for show,” couldn’t say anything because he had no teleprompter.

 
 

couldn’t say anything because he had no teleprompter.

Yeah, just like that time a year ago when he got into an actual and very public argument with no teleprompter and managed to wipe the floor with his Republican opponents. LOL.

 
 

Of course the shooter is not a Tea Partier.

he’s not retired, not living on Social Security, and doesn’t (apparently) have a Medicare-supplied Rascal.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

 
 

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TruculentandUnreliable said,

January 10, 2011 at 19:21 (kill)

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

are you new here?

 
 

If individualism is good and group membership is bad, why is the wingnuts always making such a big deal about how they are “americans” or “tea party members” or “silent masses”?

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TruculentandUnreliable said,

January 10, 2011 at 18:54

Oh, god, you guys. After the Revolution, history is going to be re-written to state that Goldberg was an intellectual giant with a genius idea that defied leftist propaganda and was instrumental in the establishment of the Tea Party States of America.

I doubt that. I’m pretty sure that after that any Teabagger revolutions and RINO hunts and other purges, being able to read and write would be capital offense.

 
 

I’ll bet Goldberg has that tattooed on his belly.

In 400 point Comic Sans font. With shoddily assembled and completely irrelevant references.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

are you new here?

Sometimes the insanity of it just strikes me very hard. I’ll be back to mocking soon enough.

 
 

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

The thousands of answers fall into two headings: congenital defects and brain-washing. Each has several sub-headings, and may be cross-referenced by political topic…

 
 

Comic Sans font

The footnotes are in Wingdings.

 
 

Yeah, just like that time a year ago when he got into an actual and very public argument with no teleprompter and managed to wipe the floor with his Republican opponents. LOL.

But the reason they couldn’t win their own game against the dummy who can’t think for himself is that they pretended not to know he was coming. It’s kinda like that time I smoked LeBron in basketball. He didn’t know I was coming so once we hit the court it was a done deal, really.

 
 

Jennifer you bitch. I was going to do that exact same fiqs now that I have a real keyboard. I hate you and it’s your fault – you made me hate you.

 
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Apparently Obama should have flown over Tucson and looked solemnly out the window like a real president would.

(all of T&Us comments from now on will be central to my point)

 
 

Shorter Scott Johnson:

The best part about the Arizona shooting is I get write “nigger” twice more.

 
 

I hate you and it’s your fault – you made me hate you.

That sounded suspiciously like B. Daniel channelling his party’s leadership.

 
 

Claiming to be only individuals means they can’t honestly pretend to be victimized for being white, male, Bible thumpers, gun huggers, you name it.

So, you know, same as it ever was.

 
 

Alternate shorter Scott Johnson:

This really smart reader says blame for Saturday lies with prominent national Democrats like Mumia Abu-Jamal, Sirhan Sirhan and Rashid Khalidi.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

WTF?

 
 

Back from a trip to the john and the latest abandoned copy of The Examiner. Hugh Hewitt has a column about how the media paying attention to the shooter encourages this kind of craziness.

Once again, I have to wonder why this point (a good point in and of itself) only seems to apply when the perpetrator is being tied to the right wing and magically disappears when it’s a Muslim.

 
 

Yeesh, what a horrible way to go. And how awful for her family.

 
 

DKW in last thread:
“Note for right-wing butthurtees and complicit-media fuckbags:
Fuck you and your politicization bullshit. You want to know what “using this tragic event to further your own personal goals” looks like? It looks like this.”

To me, that looks like invading Iraq.

 
 

Rand Paul: ‘Weapons Don’t Kill People,’ Individuals Do

Sure, individuals with weapons. Also: OMG INDIVIDUALS!!!!

 
 

WTF indeed. And here I thought that I had a rough Monday morning.

 
 

Glenn Beck condemns violence against the socialist Islamofascists who are coming to steal your freedoms and put you in FEMA camps on the way to the death panel.

 
 

Hugh Hewitt has a column about how the media paying attention to the shooter encourages this kind of craziness.</i.

Hugh Hewitt using the media to draw attention to the issue of how the media shouldn't draw attention to the issue. Do I have that right?

 
 

To me, that looks like invading Iraq.

Speaking of which, the little girl that got shot? She was born Sept. 11, 2001.

 
 

fully and unreservedly with the Israeli cause

I’d propose ‘the Likudnik, genocidal settlers, and US rapturist cause”. A windy replacement, perhaps, but avoids tarring Israelis who work for peace and a fair settlement. I admire them, especially because they have been swimming against the recent tide.

The US should pull the plug of every nickel of ‘aid’ to the Israel. Not one more protective UN veto, not one more tank sprocket. Check back with us after you stop the apartheid shit.

Also, make US citizenship contingent on renouncing dual-citizenship in another country?

I support a Jewish homeland, but not this ugly little Spartan state. Time to apply some pressure.

 
 

Argh, tagfail (which is bad, unlike fagtail which is good. Very good). Haven’t had my coffee yet.

 
 

Also not one more fucking cluster bomb.

 
 

Meanwhile, ON TOPIC, I have to say that Johnny Weir saying that he’s gay is almost as shocking as when they first found those photos of Adam Lambert.

 
 

I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my earlier remarks. For those not in the know, the reason I suggested that Dan GayPutzRiot Blatt change the blog name to G0yPatriot is here.

 
 

JOHNNY WEIR IS GAY? I DON’T BELIEVE IT.

 
 

HTML made a bunch of the same points

I miss HTML. I was only a lurker then, but always enjoyed his set-ups.

 
 

The US should pull the plug of every nickel of ‘aid’ to the Israel.

It’s important to give them three billion dollars so they can spend money on American planes. Also cut social security benefits because deficit. Or something.

 
 

Lovely. I hadn’t seen this.

 
 

Lovely. I hadn’t seen this.

Okay, that was just a bit too self-referential.

 
 

I’d propose ‘the Likudnik, genocidal settlers, and US rapturist cause”. A windy replacement, perhaps, but avoids tarring Israelis who work for peace and a fair settlement. I admire them, especially because they have been swimming against the recent tide.

OK, agreed. I said “the Israeli cause” because that’s how these guys would think about it – I really doubt if most of them have any grasp of distinctions like Kadima, Likud, Labor etc. But you’re right that even if it’s seen as “the Israeli cause,” it is not in fact the Israeli cause.

I support a Jewish homeland, but not this ugly little Spartan state. Time to apply some pressure.

I don’t necessarily mind the idea of a Jewish homeland, but I’ve never understood why the Arabs in Palestine were the ones supposed to give up their land and make room for a group of transplanted Europeans.

I don’t want Israel gone, not now that it’s been here for fifty years and most of its citizens know nothing else. But I wouldn’t have gone along with creating it in 1947, if it had been up to me. I sure as hell would have pressed for strong civil rights legislation and movements in Europe, and generous immigration policies to the U.S. for Holocaust victims (including non-Jews). But simply jettisoning the problem, at the expense of people who had nothing to do with it (the Arabs) was wrong.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Awwwww.

 
 

Lifelong bachelors? Just can’t find the right gal?

Another peeve, and it ties in closely to ‘assumptions’ about gays: I’m a lifelong bachelor, because I prefer it. Has nothing to do with orientation. I also prefer women as partners. This society is so fucked up about sex and orientation!

I imagine its the same for straight ‘old maid’ women?

Sorry for bringing back stuff that was w-a-y back in the thread. I thought I try changing my MO, instead of consolidating my comments into one post.

Is this against the Rules?

 
 

RE: Johnny Weir coming out

Up next! “Bears! Do They Shit in the Woods? An Expose.”

 
 

Speaking of which, the little girl that got shot? She was born Sept. 11, 2001.

You would think that the right-wing would show some reverence, all things considered. You’d be wrong.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

You would think that the right-wing would show some reverence, all things considered. You’d be wrong.

She’s been scrubbing her Twitter feed, too, apparently.

 
 

Damn you iz fast this morning T&U. I was just going to post the JoeMyGod link on that. http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/openly-gay-intern-daniel-hernandez-jr.html

If only Fred Phelps’ head would actually explode.

 
 

Straight liberals however, never need to point out how totes heterosexual they are. Heterosexually speaking.

See comment earlier about ‘lifelong bachelors.’

 
 

Also too, just to stay on-topic, that hateful lefty Hernandez JUST HAS TO TELL EVERYONE HOW GAY HE IS! Central to GayPutzRiot’s point!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Damn you iz fast this morning T&U

Yeah, my days-long sprint of productivity is ending, I think…

 
Marion in Savannah
 

I imagine its the same for straight ‘old maid’ women?

Not so much. Even back when I was young (when the world was new, and all) the assumption was more “poor girl, couldn’t find anyone to marry her,” and of course she’s got 12 or 14 cats… I don’t know if lesbians had even been invented then. (Even though my 80 year old sister-in-law is one. When her partner of 25 years died her mother brushed off her grief and distress by telling her she could always find another roommate…)

 
 

Also, too, and moreover: I dint get outta the boat today. Or yesterday. Or the day before that. I’ve learned the lesson:

Always. Trust. The shorter.

 
 

Shorter Re-worded Sarah Palin:

If people wanna stop getting hurt they should stop criticizing me.

 
 

We are all individuals!

I’m not…

 
 

If people wanna stop getting hurt they should stop criticizing me.

Hmm, sounds like Imam Rauf’s “if you stop this mosque being built the U.S. will be threatened.”

Channeling the right; you trying to tell us something Sarah?

 
Alkonholics Untie!
 

What an asshole.

 
 

A.D.H.™ not only has a logic chip in a vegetative coma … the 100% Fail & Suck of his writing really shines here. Gack.

There is no shame in turning on Spellcheck if the alternative is something this hurtfully inept.

I had a nice looking strikethrough going on in the word “Israeli” there in the preview, but it did’nt pull through

AMATEURTIP: Unless you put “strike” (not just “s”) in yer pointybrackets, the Unholy Mystery Of FYWP will not provide. Also, know that many innocents before us perished by unspeakable means while battling FYWP in order to give us this wisdom – so use it only for good.

I’m finding the fact that they use a photo of him volunteering at a book fair to support the premise that he’s a lefty to be incredibly amusing.

I’m finding the existence of wingnuts who’d see the posters here & similar ones elsewhere as Hitler’s ideological bastard stepchildren to be …

? ? ? ? ? SWEET ? ? ? ? ? LULZÖRZ ? ? ? ? ? !!

 
 

Christ. From Mark F’s link,

Glenn Beck told his radio audience this morning that Sarah Palin had e-mailed him about the tragic shootings in Arizona this weekend, writing, “I hate violence. I hate war.”

Fine. Let’s readapt the Supreme Court question the next time a reporter interviews her. “Mrs. Palin, name one war in the history of this country that you have disagreed with.”

During his show, Beck also urged Palin to seek extra security for herself and her family.

I can’t even find the words for this.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

“I hate violence. I hate war.”

Sooooo, shooting animals for sport isn’t violence? Huh.

 
 

If people wanna stop getting hurt they should stop criticizing me.
Frank; is that you?

 
 

Also too, just to stay on-topic, that hateful lefty Hernandez JUST HAS TO TELL EVERYONE HOW GAY HE IS! Central to GayPutzRiot’s point!

Too. FYWP And such as.

 
 

Let’s readapt the Supreme Court question the next time a reporter interviews her. “Mrs. Palin, name one war in the history of this country that you have disagreed with.”

That’s clearly a gotcha question since she can only name two of them: 9/11 and Iraq.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I can’t even find the words for this.

I’m going with the alternate universe theory today. It’s the only thing that’s keeping me sane.

 
 

GAWDFUCKINGDAMNYOUWP

From Teh GayPutzRiot: we need develop a conservative message on gays

You mean one that runs counter to the already existing conservative message on gays? The message that, with the exceptions of the Uncle Tom’s Log Cabin Republicans and people like you, is universally accepted. The one that says gays are evil perverts trying to corruopt the children. The one that says gays are unfit for military service. The message that gays shouldn’t be allowed to adopt because …. WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? The message that gets sent when there’s a backlash against ConservativesPAC because they took money from you.

Yeah, it would be great to have a different conservative message on gays but don’t hold your breath.

 
 

Sooooo, shooting animals for sport isn’t violence? Huh.

Man, I have a pic of her talking about being a nonviolent, animal-loving person while her giant bearskin rug was in full view and I can’t find it!

 
 

That’s clearly a gotcha question since she can only name two of them: 9/11 and Iraq.

*GASP*

YOU MEAN THEY’RE NOT THE SAME WAR!?!?!

 
 

If people wanna stop getting hurt they should stop criticizing me.

Well, technically, she threatened people’s children, rather than the adults allegedly being mean to her.

 
Marion in Savannah
 

don’t hold your breath

Why not? That dull blue cyanotic color is so attractive…

 
 

I can’t even find the words for this.

And Chris? While this is minor in comparison, consider that the guy was so desperate to paint himself as innocent he read private emails on the air. Classy!

 
 

“From Teh GayPutzRiot: we need develop a conservative message on gays

See, the problem with that is…

 
 

we need develop a conservative message on gays

You mean one that runs counter to the already existing conservative message on gays?

Not exactly.

When he says “message,” what he means is “narrative.” As in Reagan won the Cold War, we always knew he would and were with him all the way, or as in Bush was a liberal and we were all out protesting against his liberalism. That kind of message, the sort of “message” Winston Smith wrote for a living in “1984.”

What GayPatriot & co need is a message to future generations that conservatives were really always on the side of gay rights and are the real heroes of the gay rights struggle, and that eebil groupthink-Democrats are the real homophobes who just hijacked the narrative.

It’s the same kind of “message” they use today by trying to claim the civil rights movement as their own, or by going “DADT was enacted by Clinton so who’s the real homophobes, hmm?”

 
 

The shooter obviously had nothing to do with the Tea Party because many of the books on his reading list contain words of two or more syllables.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

Lone gunman
Bad apple
Crazed loner
Acted on his own
Who could have forseen?
Fell through the cracks
No warning signs

 
 

Comments on Gay Patriot generally are almost as erudite as those found on YouTube.

Yep. If their shortbus be rockin’ you best not come knockin’ —

6. When Althouse says that most gays are just individuals and many reject stereotypes, I say “You go, girlfriend!” (snap)

Less of this = the REAL reason condoms are a boon to mankind.

Try it with “reject NEGATIVE stereotypes next time, honey.

Like it or lump it, but stereotypes are what lets people deal with a complex & fast-changing environment, & anyone who was able to reject them outright, good ones & bad ones alike, would be in a ƒerious ƒea of ƒhit before long. Misusing them fails to invalidate them, as their ongoing utility & popularity makes quite bloody obvious.

[ crosses fingers toes & tendrils, hoping against hope that FYWP won’t hate-fuck two comments in a row ]

 
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Snort-entirely bonkers said,

January 10, 2011 at 21:11

You mean “white guy”?

 
 

For those not in the know…

For larfs I jumped in the Wayback Machine to find when S,N! first became aware of internet g0ys. July 7, 2008. Also, it turned out to be yet another fucking EPIC S,N! thread – with guest appearance by Mary Grabar’s creative wirtnigs, glistening in the sun.

 
 

See, the problem with that is…

Argghhh!!! Don’t remind me of the existence of CPAC… it’s being held one block down the street from where I live (again).

 
 

It often seems like the gay rights movement is concerned with group rights rather than individual ones. Could that be because Dan does not see the protection against discrimination to be an individual right? WTF is the distinction even? Seriously.

 
 

Well, technically, she threatened people’s children, rather than the adults allegedly being mean to her.

I kind of have to admire a politician who quits her first term and accidentally threatens children and considers herself presidential material. I’d say she’s approaching Gravel territory except that people might actually vote for her.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

Ha!

 
 

We wouldn’t possess Dan if he was the last human on Earth.

 
 

Rand Paul: ‘Weapons Don’t Kill People,’ Individuals Do

So Rand Paul, king of the libertarians, thinks indiduals should be outlawed now? I suspect he’s only taking this postion because he hates gay patriots.

 
 

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

January 10, 2011 at 21:14 (kill)

Thanks for the mammaries! Oops, you’re not vs. Say, what ever happened to that Righteous Bubba fellow anyway? He was funny.

[just FYI n00bs, this commenter was formerly nymmed PeeJ]

 
 

Could that be because Dan does not see the protection against discrimination to be an individual right?

Oh, he sees it as a very individual right. He believes that as a gay and conservative patriot he is the only individual who deserves such protection.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Say, what ever happened to that Righteous Bubba fellow anyway? He was funny.

The zombie looked a little suspicious when I asked that a few days ago. I think he may have eted him.

 
 

A pox upon you, WP.

‘Weapons Don’t Kill People,’ Individuals Do

I know, right? I’ve been demanding my constitutional right to an H-bomb for years.

 
 

So Rand Paul, king of the libertarians, thinks indiduals should be outlawed now?
Indiduals, of course, being individuals who consider their local cultures to be distinctly separate from contemporary Westernized cultures

 
 

Thanks for the mammaries! Oops, you’re not vs.

Boobs are passe. I’m all about hobosexuality* now.

*Totally stole that from B^4.

 
 

CPAC… it’s being held one block down the street from where I live (again).

Your neighborhood needs to hold a Point-&-Laugh Vigil.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

Yo,B. Danny, ifin you need some help.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

As long as you’re not monkeying around with bonobosexuality.

 
 

For vs,
Dwarf pulling a vacuum edition PENIS.

 
 

‘Weapons Don’t Kill People,’ Individuals Do

Individual bullets

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Thom Hartmann is playing a “greatest hits” of rightwing eliminationist rants on his show.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

DKW, where was the banned woman smoker holding the cigarette?

 
 

BWAHAHAHA. I ripped my shorts on the the tholepin as I crossed the gunwale but I found fruits! Er, I mean, oh hell, here:

And yet people striving for group rights have been the cause of arguably this countries greatest strides toward personal freedom. Well, I guess unless you don’t consider Emancipation, Suffrage, and the Civil Rights Movement as great.

Comment by Mack — January 10, 2011 @ 11:34 am – January 10, 2011

Sweet, sweet mangoes!

“Dan, that’s because LEFTISM is devoted to the notion group rights rather than individual ones. It is fundamental to collectivist ideologies.”

Uh huh. Please explain to me how group rights are a fundamental to collectivist ideologies, since I doubt you can even make an incoherent argument supporting this notion, much less one that shows you understand the concept of rights or collectivist ideologies. This may be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. One does wonder, for example, how equal protection under the law would work if construed as an individual right, since the whole point of the equal protection clause is to protect a *group* of people who are being discriminated against. Of course liberals believe in individual rights, but understand that the mechanism to ending discrimination requires advocating for the rights of individuals who make up a larger group. The “individual sovereignty” found in the Constitution is most easily achieved by guaranteeing rights to groups of people who previously didn’t enjoy them.

And keep bleating on about the “socialist agenda”, since it’s obvious you couldn’t explain socialism if your life depended on it. But please, by all means, give me an example of a group right and an individual right, how you distinguish between the two, and an explanation of how the founding fathers didn’t conceive of rights as belonging (or not belonging) to groups of people.

Comment by Dot — January 10, 2011 @ 11:43 am – January 10, 2011

Dare I eat a mango?

I just had a Jonah Goldberg moment. The name of the blog is central to the point Mr. Blatt is trying to make!

You keep a tab on Sadly, No, right? You must. You love the attention. Sir, they are laughing at you, and rightly so.

Comment by Dhalgren — January 10, 2011 @ 2:01 pm – January 10, 2011

Dhalgren, will you marry me?

Um, Mack, all those movements were to remove discriminatory laws which defined individuals by their membership in a group.

Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — January 10, 2011 @ 2:38 pm – January 10, 2011

UGH! I got lulled into eating a poisoned, rotten mango! HELP ME!!!!

 
 

For vs,
Dwarf pulling a vacuum edition PENIS.

You give me such nice pressies. *beams* Now if only I could see a midget having sex with a vacuum!

Also too: WTF?

 
 

Thom Hartmann is playing a “greatest hits” of rightwing eliminationist rants on his show.

Where is he nowadays?

 
 

Your neighborhood needs to hold a Point-&-Laugh Vigil.

Hmm. You think one reason they hold CPAC in the dead of winter might be to deter that?

(For the life of me I just can’t figure out why they don’t hold the meeting in Ohio, Alabama or Kansas, close to the “Real America.” Oh wait, yes I do – because the purpose of the event is to allow dozens of young committed anti-government activists to make the connections they’ll need to work in politics and stay in DC for the rest of their lives. Irony, thy name is CPAC).

 
 

Individual bullets

I have often argued that people should be allowed to have as many guns as they want. This should satisfy all the second amendment rhetoric. I would then allow them to only have three bullets at a time. Any time a bullet is fired and needs to be replaced they would have to go through bureaucracy similar to the DMV, filling out forms explaining exactly what the bullets were used for and why.

 
 

This whole “collective versus individuals” spiel is mucho ripe, too – they both exist & have their own ups & downs, so please stop trying to turn the entire world into Call Of Duty 2 kthxbye.

We wouldn’t possess Dan if he was the last human on Earth.

A sentiment with which Dan no doubt has years of familiarity.

 
Marion in Savannah
 

Thread Bear, I am gobsmacked with awe at your wonderful idea. Think of the thousands of people who could be employed full time keeping up with the paperwork! USA! USA! USA!

 
 

Of course liberals believe in individual rights, but understand that the mechanism to ending discrimination requires advocating for the rights of individuals who make up a larger group.

Well put!

And keep bleating on about the “socialist agenda”, since it’s obvious you couldn’t explain socialism if your life depended on it.

Farm subsidies to red states

Federal highways

Giving contracts through the Defense Department to keep Boeing afloat

Umm, public schools in Southeast DC?

 
 

Forgot this;

Um, Mack, all those movements were to remove discriminatory laws which defined individuals by their membership in a group.

ZING!!!

 
 

A sentiment with which Dan no doubt has years of familiarity.

Anyone and everyone with half a lick of sense knows that Dan REALLY REALLY REALLY needs to get laid.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Matt Yglesias is so dumb.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

What Blatt-Blatt and his straightmeaniewhipmeimavictim masters like to mull the waters with is that the so called groups are looking for special protections. Not so Dan-o, individuals within the groups are looking for Equal Protection afforded them from the laws in the Constitution and on the books. Those protections are meant for each individual American, not just the ones you agree with.

 
 

Althouse runs that same stupid, noxious “gay people define themselves by their sexuality” meme that homobigots repeat over and over. It’s the second cousin of “why do they have to rub it in our face?” Not surprising, but it is pathetic that a gay man like Blatt goes along.

Not to belabor the obvious, but a non-closeted gay person does not “define” himself or herself by sexuality any more than a straight person who talks about his or her spouse, SO, children, whatever, “defines” him- or herself that way. It’s a matter of identity and world view, not just what goes where in bed.

 
 

BREAKING!!!!!

DeLay gets three years!!!!!!

 
 

OP/ED of the day: http://i.imgur.com/0loTa.jpg

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Heheheheheh.

What the hell is Glenn Beck doing holding a handgun in that photo, anyway?

 
 

The logic’s just blowing me away here.

Barry Young, the host of a morning show on KFYI, 550 AM, in Phoenix, said: “They are telling us that we have to make sure our words and phrases don’t incite crazy people. I have one problem with that: They’re crazy.”

Why should I have to take responsibility for anything I say?

 
 

Matt Yglesias is so dumb.

Not dumb, but utterly unwilling to offend anybody who might give him a job someday. Total kiss-ass.

 
 

Matt Yglesias is so dumb.

Is this a repost?

 
 

What the hell is Glenn Beck doing holding a handgun in that photo, anyway?

Maybe he’s trying to…

*puts on shades*

…tease the panther.

YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Not dumb, but utterly unwilling to offend anybody who might give him a job someday. Total kiss-ass.

He’s in a twitter fight with a dude from Grist who is saying that the current understanding of economics, especially as used by politicians, is, you know, craptastic. Yglesias is all like, “Why do you want to ban the study of economics?” Either he’s being deliberately obtuse in the interest of centrism, or he’s an idiot. Or both, I suppose.

 
 

DKW, where was the banned woman smoker holding the cigarette?

Picture NSFW.

 
 

So, Pupienus Maximus you are the artist formerly known as peej? That explains the funny and wise. IT ALL FALLS INTO PLACE!!
Also WTF with the all those movements were to remove discriminatory laws which defined individuals by their membership in a group
The discriminatory laws specifically against those groups should have been repealed without mentioning those groups?
e.g. “It is now against the law to discriminate against someone on the basis of their mumble, mumble, with the mumble and the mumble!”

 
 

What the hell is Glenn Beck doing holding a handgun in that photo, anyway?

Holding it RONG. Fucking gun fetishists ought to know to keep their fingers off the trigger. FFS.

 
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Holding it RONG. Fucking gun fetishists ought to know to keep their fingers off the trigger. FFS.

I know, right? These people are the biggest fakes EVAR.

 
 

The zombie looked a little suspicious when I asked that a few days ago. I think he may have eted him.

Ask the zombie what happened to billy pilgrim.

 
 

Holding it RONG

No, no, that’s Palin.

 
 

Ask the zombie what happened to billy pilgrim.

I also miss the Cool Coach.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Ask the zombie what happened to billy pilgrim.

You! I’m afraid if I keep asking him about all the missing commenters, he’ll eat my branes out of pure self-preservation.

 
 

D-K W – there’s lots of PENIS at that page! Not just of the dwarf-pulling-vaccum-cleaner variety – there was also a link to an interactive map of what British men call their dicks, and where!

Also, too – a PENIS-shaped rock was discovered!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Also, too – a PENIS-shaped rock was discovered!

Better than a rock-shaped PENIS, I suppose.

 
 

Not really new information, but I just came across it: the shooter seems to have been influenced by this crackpot, who believes that the government is practicing mass mind-control through the use of grammar.

This is an entirely new species of right-wing loon that I was unaware of until now.

 
 

I actually PENIS-linked icallmine.co.uk a couple weeks ago (IIRC). Tried to look it up, but googling PENIS site:sadlyno.com returns a shitload of hits.

 
 

,,,returns a shitload of hits.

I blame PeeJ.

 
 

The fact is, America is founded on individual rights. The collective has no place here. We want people who can rise or fall only on their own talents, not people who’re going to sit and whine at the federal government to pull them up because they’re part of some special group or other.

It’s why the western is still our main source of national mythology. We, the people of these United States, tend to admire the day of the quickest draw who rose to the top because of his native skills and hard work. John Wayne and Han Solo are our mythological heroes for a reason.

 
 

We the People is NOT A GROUP.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

That’s perhaps the funniest Gary Ruppert post I’ve seen. Then again, that’s not saying much…

 
 

Han Solo was indeed a great American hero.

 
 

According to the map, 40% of the men in Northern Ireland refer to their penis as “Gandalf”.

 
 

Tried to look it up, but googling PENIS site:sadlyno.com returns a shitload of hits.

Imagine if you’d googled POOP site:sadlyno.com

 
 

“John Wayne and Han Solo are our mythological heroes”

Uh, Gary, John Wayne was (is)real.

 
 

I blame offer my profuse thanks to PeeJ.

PENIS’ed for virility.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

Native skills?

 
 

Anyone and everyone with half a lick of sense knows that Dan REALLY REALLY REALLY needs to get laid.

We tried to get the incubuses on it and they threatened to go on strike.

 
 

You give me such nice pressies.

And me introducing you to The Pearl was what, chopped liver?

 
 

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

January 10, 2011 at 22:18

What the hell is Glenn Beck doing holding a handgun in that photo, anyway?

Holding it RONG. Fucking gun fetishists ought to know to keep their fingers off the trigger. FFS.

In this case I support the wrong way of holding the gun.

With little luck, he might end up shooting himself in the leg.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

Hey, maybe the midget on DKWs link has a spot for Brain Dan in his act.

 
 

SO MUCH FAIL.

We, the people of these United States, tend to admire the day of the quickest draw who rose to the top because of his native skills and hard work.

In your non-collective utopia, the one who rose to the top wouldn’t be the quickest draw in town, it’d be the richest man in town. Because he would be the one who could either hire the quickest draw or hire enough lesser gunmen to overwhelm his quality with quantity.

The notion that the individual can beat the machine all by his lonesome is powerful masturbatory fodder, but untrue.

And before you go there, I’d remind you that half the rich in America today are people who inherited their wealth, rather than earning it through “native skills and hard work.” In a libertopia with no estate tax and no government help to small businesses or the general “little people.” it’d be far more than that.

 
 

OT, but go complain. From ABC news:

Ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

 
 

beat the machine…is powerful masturbatory fodder

C3PO + R2D2 slash. Also, ew.

 
 

“And me introducing you to The Pearl was what, chopped liver?”

Not at all! Unlike the midget vid, The Pearl made me feel funny in my ladyparts.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Uh, Gary, John Wayne was (is)real.

No he wasn’t, but Marion Morrison might have been.

 
 

The Pearl made me feel funny in my ladyparts.

Little VS, sometimes when a man and a women and another woman and another man and some specially made underwear all like each other very much…

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

And a shop vac.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Little VS, sometimes when a man and a women and another woman and another man and some specially made underwear all like each other very much…

We’re not talking about the novella by John Steinbeck, are we?

 
 

No, not Steinbeck.

A repeat of yesterday’s link to Victorian erotica: The Pearl.

 
 

And as a tribute to my own movie nerdness;

John Wayne and Han Solo are our mythological heroes for a reason.

I’ve seen two John Wayne westerns, one where he’s a Texas Ranger and one where he’s a Confederate Army veteran. Both characters would owe their skills to a big, government-run organization, not developed them “natively.”

Han Solo hardly illustrates your point either. He earns his dime working for the Star Wars version of a drug cartel, spends a couple years running from them before he’s caught, and is then saved by rebel friends. In other words, he starts out as a cog in one machine; when he defies it, he’s squashed like a bug and only escapes his fate because in the meantime he’s become part of another “group” (some would even say “collective”).

Shorter me; not only does the real world not conform to your ideology, neither does your fiction.

 
 

FYWP. Try the link again.

 
 

John Wayne and Han Solo are our mythological heroes for a reason.

I wasn’t aware that The Duke also preferred the company of large, hairy men who growl a lot.

 
 

“Little VS, sometimes when a man and a women and another woman and another man and some specially made underwear all like each other very much…”

Are you volunteering to have The Talk with my son? Cuz that’d be GREAT.

 
 

Uh, Gary, John Wayne was (is)real.
No he wasn’t, but Marion Morrison might have been.

At least John Wayne Gacy was real.

 
 

Are you volunteering to have The Talk with my son?

Only if you take part in the foreskin holocaust.

 
 

Also, ew.

I withdraw the reference to masturbation, and will henceforth avoid the topic with the same dedication that my fellow S, N!ers do.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

A repeat of yesterday’s link to Victorian erotica: The Pearl.

Ah, yes. I didn’t read the link, but intended to bookmark, libs.

 
 

“The general unsightliness of the [Arizona state] capitol makes it a fitting home for today’s Arizona legislature, which is composed almost entirely of dimwits, racists, and cranks.”

Heh.

 
 

“Only if you take part in the foreskin holocaust”

I kinda have to; I’m the lead singer.

 
 

henceforth avoid the topic with the same dedication that my fellow S, N!ers do.

You’ll go blind.

 
 

Ancient Brotherhood & Association of Demons said,

And I passed a cup of coffee trough my nose. Damn you demons! You damned demons? Demons, you damn! Damn demon, you. Word combinatorics is fun.

 
 

We want people who can rise or fall only on their own talents,
Perfect.
100% estate tax here we come.

 
 

“100% estate tax here we come.”

Oh, SNA-AP.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

We want people who can rise or fall only on their own talents,
Perfect.
100% estate tax here we come.

Hey, now, them lucky duckies were talented even as spermatazoa.

JOHN GALT ISREAL!!!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Hey, now, them lucky duckies were talented even as spermatazoa.

They pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps! Without hands!

 
 

They pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps! Without hands!
Which also speaks to their advanced nature, at that stage, I didn’t even have boots.

 
 

Y’all are just jealous of The Inheritors The Achievers.

 
 

We want people who can rise or fall only on their own talents,
You’ll go blind

 
 

We want people who can rise or fall only on their own talents,

Why does this bring to mind “up on the backstroke?”

 
 

Why does this bring to mind “up on the backstroke?”

Cuz Gary totally fits the profile of a Parliament fan*

*Not really. Cuz Parliament is the fuckin’ bizomb

 
 

We want people who can rise or fall only on their own talents,

I don’t get it.

 
 

Don’t make me knock the hell out of this place.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

In this case I support the wrong way of holding the gun.

With little luck, he might end up shooting himself in the leg.

Well, if he thinks of his gun the way most right dingers do he’ll probably only end up shooting a urinal.

 
 

They pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps!

I put bootstraps under the stairs and in the cupboard but so far I have not caught any boots.

 
 

Where is he nowadays?

Russki Tee Vee, if he’s not on your radio any more.

 
 

Thanks, M.!

Which station would he be on? I listened to him on Air America, so…

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

They pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps! Without hands!

They pulled themselves up by their flagellae.

VS&MR

 
 

Slayer, you must call your cable or satellite provider if you don’t get RT, or make do w/ the YouTube, which you can, of course, watch on your iPad.

 
 

but so far I have not caught any boots.
I hate that. The fecking thing goes “SNAP!!!” in the night and wakes you up but in the morning there is just a bootlace in it.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I hate that. The fecking thing goes “SNAP!!!” in the night and wakes you up but in the morning there is just a bootlace in it.

You could get the glue traps, but they’re just so inhumane!

 
 

because the purpose of the event is to allow dozens of young committed anti-government activists to make the connections they’ll need to work in politics go to gay bars and stay in DC the closet for the rest of their lives. Irony, thy name is CPAC).

I had to do it. I had to.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

BTW, it took a (terrifying) half-hour for me to drive the mile home in the snow. I miss my Subaru.

(I would have gladly walked if THERE WERE FUCKING SIDEWALKS.)

 
 

(I would have gladly walked if THERE WERE FUCKING SIDEWALKS.)

How’s that Galtian paradise working out now?

 
 

Eeep.

Tear in the fabric of…something.

Oh, sidewalks?

Luxury!

We were just happy to have solid ground to walk on.

Sidewalks!

 
 

NOBODY LIKES DAN! HE’S FAT AND HE’S STUPID

 
 

The Mr. Bath Bear Debacle I confess that this landmark case had passed by my notice.
Did Mr. Bath Bear not perform his duties correctly? I expect he needs smacking!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

How’s that Galtian paradise working out now?

Oh, it’s great. When I rented this place, I thought “Oh, it’s a mile from work! Great!” It’s an un-sidewalked mile from work and I’d have to walk on the shoulder of a four-lane highway, so…not so great.

*pouts again over losing old apartment*

Oooh, badgers!

 
 

Mr Bath Bear! I know it’s called a tug boat but really!

 
 

Wow. Mr bath bear is awfully cute.

T&U I think people who build neighborhoods without sidewalks suck ass.

 
 

So, Pupienus Maximus you are the artist formerly known as peej? That explains the funny and wise. IT ALL FALLS INTO PLACE!!

AK flatters me. STEP UP TO THE PLATE YOU SLACKERS.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

OMFG Joe Klein is such a douchebag.

Yeah, let’s not focus on a) all the crimes committed by people who do *not* have mental illnesses, and b) the lack of support that the mentally ill are provided due to social stigma and underfunding of public mental health services.

Better just to lock up the “nutjobs” that yell about Jesus’ magical dick.

 
 

What is sticking out of the water between Mr. Bath Bear’s belly and the boat?

 
 

I know!! he’s a growing bear I guess.

 
 

*pouts again over losing old apartment*

Please, you had another place to move into. Take some schadenfreude from my former situation … urban camping!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Mr. Bath Bear curves to the right, apparently.

 
 

It’s his teddy bear foot, pervs!

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Please, you had another place to move into. Take some schadenfreude from my former situation … urban camping!

No schadenfreude. Actually, I keep reminding myself that it could be a lot worse.

Still, I miss my washer and dryer. And windows. Those were nice.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

It’s his teddy bear foot, pervs!

I know. It doesn’t even remotely look like his weiner, does it?

 
 

Can I say, it’s that time of year I’m tired of my ‘special right’ to pay ~$9K more in taxes than a non-gay couple?

 
 

PENIS.

 
 

Can I say, it’s that time of year I’m tired of my ‘special right’ to pay ~$9K more in taxes than a non-gay couple?

You can only complain about this as an individual, sez Dan.

 
 

Mario George Nitrini 111 said,

[LOGORRHEA ADVISORY] January 11, 2011 at 0:58 (kill)

I married a lady, (Estranged from me now and now is divorcing me),
who was born in The Phillippines, in March of 2002.

He married an 8 year old mail order bride?? OK. His credibility is solid in my opinion.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

God bless James May. I would’ve pegged (heh, pegged) him to be the puker.

 
 

I find Gordon Ramsay less and less likeable every time.

 
 

You disappoint me Ramsay.

That was badass.

 
 

Sweet IPU, watch to the end.
May: I’m writing a word on top,,,
Ramsay: What’re you putting on top?
May: Cock.

 
 

Ramsey is a self aggrandizing bully, but at least he never put surveyor’s marks on people’s states

 
 

THEY’RE NOT SURVEYOR’S TARGETS.

 
 

I want you… to wire the guv’ner… and tell him I said
*KLANG*
ow….

 
 

We need to put an end to all this geographic rhetoric. Heated measurements with great accuracy and precision can only lead to more tragedy. We must break these Gunter’s Chains of violence.

 
 

I’m officially lost.

 
 

I know they aren’t surveyors marks. I was being all, like, ironic, wasneye.
Actually at my age irony has turned rusty

 
 

THEY’RE NOT SURVEYOR’S TARGETS.

Dude. Don’t go off half-cocked.

Keep your powder dry; don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes.

Above all: don’t retreat, reload!

 
 

I’m officially lost.

Check for hobo marks, I’m sure they’ll point the way.

 
 

Snorhagen, an interesting thing in the vile e-mail is the buls-eye on Giffords meme at Daily Kos. Yesterday I saw that diarist quoted and even I can work out what “she’s dead to me” means in the Two thousand and Tens. Now it has morphed into a bullseye on her?
Those people should lay off the fried food but I fear their blood is too angrified to ever calm down

 
 

Where is the sign forbidding tramps from using mechanical jumping machines in a certain area?
You know, the Hobo Pogo nogo.
The veal is good

 
 

“Check for hobo marks, I’m sure they’ll point the way.”

The hideously-disfigured cats! Of course!

 
 

Sub, if you’re looking for tramp stamps head in the direction of your nearest cheesy bar or dance club where not-very-bright college girls hang out.

 
 

We need to put an end to all this geographic rhetoric. Heated measurements with great accuracy and precision can only lead to more tragedy. We must break these Gunter’s Chains of violence.

We could form a league but it wouldn’t last furlong.

 
 

I can’t help it, I’m just a wiseacre.

 
 

Shal I go on hectareing you?

 
 

Keep your powder dry

Powdered rye. Add water and alcohol to reconstitute.

 
 

Add water and alcohol to reconstitute.

Keep your firkin water to yourself.

 
 

So rood!

Ooooh aren’t we Imperial?

 
 

Tea Party Express Fundraises Off Giffords Shooting.

Good God. It even starts with an indignant complaint that leftists are trying to exploit the tragedy.

 
 

We should excersize our (anti) 3rd amendment remedies: Put on redcoats, kick down their doors, raid their fridges and liquor cabinets, and crash on their couches.

 
 

Twenty-First Amendment solution – sugar and mint dissolved in bourbon.

 
 

This may become my favorite Amendment.

 
 

I’m thinking these wingnut congresscritters need to be addressed with 15th and 19th amendment solutions.

 
 

Sixty-Ninth Amendment remedies!!!

 
 

The sixty-ninth amendment demnds reciprocity between states.

 
 

When ratified correctly, the sixty ninth amendment comes into force simultaneously.

 
 

The 69th comes right after the Mint Julep Amendment, right?

 
 

Only if you like bourbon on your genitals. So yes.

 
 

The 69th comes right after the Mint Julep Amendment, right?

What a cool sensation!

 
 

Honestly I’ve never tried it that way. Intrigued!

 
 

I would then allow them to only have three bullets at a time

It could be called the Barney Fife Act.

 
 

Ask the zombie what happened to billy pilgrim.

he came unstuck in time.

 
 

Hate to be the party POOPer but all amendments subsequent to the 42nd are meaningless. Not that there’s anything wrong with the 69th….

 
 

I dunno, the 34th said pretty much anything could happen…

 
 

What about the 34th? No, wait, that’s a Rule…

 
 

Okay, off-topic, but I was just in a belltower sighting in my new rifle, and it’s defective. The fucking scope has a surveyor’s mark in it.

 
 

WTF is wrong with me? I’m actually interested in a game that has nothing to do with Penn State! And taking sides!!!110ne1

NEED MOAR GIN

 
 

A young lady once floured my testicles with cocaine to enhance the sexual experience. My bag felt like the Matterhorn in February for three hours.

 
Charlton Heston loudly
 

YOU INDIVIDUALS WITH WEAPONS! YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DAMN YOU! GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

 
 

That DOES sound very “lady”-like.

 
 

It was like trying to coax an electric eel into a hot pastrami sandwich.

 
 

Yes, there’s a newsletter for those who are interested.

 
 

Spengler – what a waste of good cocaine. You could have gotten the same thing from a crushed York peppermint patty.

 
 

Was anybody else using this thread? Sorry, just decided to gambol. This is why I can’t have nice things.

 
 

I was using it, just not very well.

 
 


PENIS.”

Not even if it were the last penis-shaped object on earth.

 
 

Not even if it were the last penis-shaped object on earth.

Lies

 
 

Well well well. And where the fuck have YOU been lately so-called Esteev?

Not that anyone gives a shit….

On the upside, I do have a lovely piece of Nuss Schinken to work with. OH LOOK IT UP, it’s not what you think.

 
 

He’s always lurking, sometimes just downstairs,,,

 
 

Spengler – what a waste of good cocaine. You could have gotten the same thing from a crushed York peppermint patty.

Jennifer, I never spew stuff onto my computer, but if I did, I would have done so upon reading this. Kudos.

Also: a similar effect can be achieved, I’m told, by applying Listerine Pocket-Pak Breath Strips to the target (which is marked by neither a bulls-eye nor a surveyor’s symbol) in a découpage-like manner. I am but a simple country spinster, so I can tell you only what I have heard from others.

 
 

So that’s what the powdered rye is for.

 
 

Also: a similar effect can be achieved, I’m told, by applying Listerine Pocket-Pak Breath Strips to the target (which is marked by neither a bulls-eye nor a surveyor’s symbol)…

I’m told that former President Clinton’s is indeed marked. Only a few hundred lucky persons know exactly what the mark looks like. Some were shot in the eye for their trouble.

 
 

Ha ha, bet you wish you could get back all the snoot you wasted on silly crap like that.

Hippies!

 
 

I am but a simple country spinster, so I can tell you only what I have heard from others.

Starting to doubt Larkspur’s self-characterization as “simple country spinster” here.

Indeed, sounds like the opening sentence to a selection from The Pearl.

 
 

Read the Pearl in your yout’ did ya?

 
 

I hear The Pearl was particularly popular in Ytterby in the late 1880s.

 
 

or read the Pearl TO a yout’?

 
 

Read the Pearl in your yout’ did ya?

Depends what you mean by yout’, but my memories were flushed & rosy w/ excitement when someone (WC?) linked to Wiki excerpts last evening.

or read the Pearl TO a yout’?

Not allowed to read for a living. (Currently working to bust the union so scale isn’t more than a mo.’s earning exemption.)

 
 

when someone linked to Wiki excerpts last evening.

The bastard.

 
 

T&U, what kid of car did you replace the Subaru with? Light truck? SUV? Car?

Rear wheel drive?

Front wheel drive?

I may have advice for you about the snow thing.

 
 

The Pearl… the original Penthouse Forum. “I never did think that I should have occasion to write to such a periodical as your own, but nary a fortnight ago I was upon the town, strolling on a clement evening, when I chanced to meet a childhood friend of mine, a lovely girl…”

 
 

someone (WC?) linked to Wiki excerpts last evening.

Tweren’t me. I believe you’re looking for a certain Yankee* engineer.

*VMR

 
 

Very late in getting back to the thread. I was building a longish appreciative comment, but it got eated somehow. Here’s some things I remember:

Clyde: The boots traps joke. Gonna steal it! *mustache twirl*

VS: Thanx for Parliament link!

T-Bear: Your 21:51 was great.

Pup: Ya know, I truly feel sorry for Dan sometimes, as in one human being to another. He’s got to be conflicted inside. And he seriously needs to get laid!

Also, two questions for veteran Nauts:

I understand that Gary Ruppert ISREAL, but does anyone here use his nym for fun sometimes? Some of GR’s comments seem so damn funny— like clever parodies written by a Naut. Is it against the Rules to do that?

Also, anyone have a quick explanation for ‘mangos’? Origin? Are there degrees of mango-tude? Thanx.

All: Excellent thread! I was unable to jump in, but it sure was fun to read!

 
 

No, no, no. All the things you cite, Whiplash, were particularly dull and awful. I’ve seldom encountered a more dreary or lackluster thread.

 
 

Is it against the Rules to do that?

First rule: There Are No Rules.

 
 

A mango is a kind of rock-shaped object of the edible family, similar to a pear shaped like a different fruit; its flesh resembles the inside of a mango, and it can be found only in piranha-infested swamps with boats in.

 
 

Hey Spengler, the Young Chowderette just finished Rise Again and dug it very much. We agree that the last sentence was the most horrifying part of the whole book. Thanks a lot, you rat bastard.

 
 

does anyone here use his nym for fun sometimes?

No. All the Garys (Garies?) are the same person. The same schizophrenic, sophomoric, schadenfreudtastic person. Gary am srs man. This iz srs blog.

 
 

Rules? There are no rules! Or teams!

 
 

There are many Gary Rupperts, but All are as One. Whatever form Gary Ruppert manifests Himself in, He is at all times and in all ways eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely loving, omniscient.

 
 

If Han Solo is such a quick shot, how did Greebo manage to shoot first? Also, Star Trek is stupid anyway.

 
 

Snidely, mango gathering forays from the boat precede my arrival in this asylum, but I’ve always taken it in this context.

http://corky.net/scripts/apocalypseNow.html

Search/CTRL+F for:

Someday this war is gonna end

And start reading.

I believe that compared to the script, the movie involves a lot more panic and screaming about never getting out of the boat, and about the tiger.

Apocalypse Now, quite a far cry from my musical adaptation of a Disney song into, “Shitty Shitty Mango” a few months ago…

 
 

I’m not Gary Ruppert! I’m Spartacus!!

 
 

I was raised to be a saucier. A great saucier.
We specialize in sauces. (Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere)
Then, I was supposed to go to Paris, to the Escoffier School. But then I got orders for my physical.
Hell, I joined the Navy.
Heard they had better food. Cook school. That did it.

You don’t wanna hear about that.

They lined us up in front of a
hundred yards of prime rib. All
of us, you know, looking at it?
Magnificent. Magnifique. Next
thing, they’re throwing the meat
into these big cauldrons.

All of it. Boiling it. I looked
inside, man, it was turning grey.
I couldn’t fucking believe that
one! That’s when I applied for
radioman’s school, but they-

JESUS CHRIST IT’S A TIGER
GET IN THE MOTHERFUCKING BOAT

 
 

There are many rules here, and they are rigorously enforced. Some of the most important:
==Commenters are required to be civil at all times.
==Commenters are required to always show deference and respect to prominent public officials, business leaders, and political analysts.
==Commenters must not discuss immoral or dissolute behavior.
==Commenters must not discuss intoxicating beverages or substances.
==The use of obscenities is forbidden.
==Poop.

 
 

the last sentence was the most horrifying part of the whole book.

ooo, something to look forward to!!

I mean, besides the whole onrushing zombocalypse thing. Although I guess I understand if you breathers don’t really consider it the same way we do.

Except for M Bouffant, of course.

 
 

If Han Solo is such a quick shot, how did Greebo manage to shoot first?

GreeDo, you bantha dropping.

jeez, its like you think there are no geeks around here. Also, I am MANIFESTLY DISAPPOINTED in the rest of you reprobates that I am the first one to make that correction. Shame.

 
 

O come on.

Do all you homos, drug addicts and communists think I will not abuse this free rein? I have an iPod with all kinds of crazy new music, and a fair amount of Sailor Jerry’s rum, so DO NOT test me. Do. Not.

 
 

So, let’s talk about how AWESOME the Mekons are.

IN THE ONCOMING ZOMBOCALYPSE, THEY SHALL BE SPARED. That is how awesome they are.

Of course, considering the far-ranging roster of Mekonistas, we are still compiling the individuals that are qualified.

 
 

Also, there is FINE new album out by the Bouchard bros, former member of Blue Oyster Cult, under the moniker Blue Coupe. It does indeed sound much like some of the Oyster Boyz….

 
 

I am a bit surprised tat after five consecutive comments, WP has not bounced me. Unless, of course, zombies have taken over WordPress, which would explain so much, amirite?

 
 

Gay borg=Brown-I-Robot

 
 

how did Greebo manage to shoot first?
GreeDo, you bantha dropping.

Evidently that comment came from a parallel universe in which Terry Pratchett wrote Star Wars scripts.

 
 

((Spengler:)) similar to a pear shaped like a different fruit

Fucking brilliant.

 
 

There are many Gary Rupperts, but All are as One. Whatever form Gary Ruppert manifests Himself in, He is at all times and in all ways eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely loving, omniscient. — Snorghagen

Quel Frommage

 
 

Alternative Terry Pratchett universe? You look in the box to see if Greebo is alive or not.
Has Snidley got the reading list for Sadly, No?

We all POOP.
Two Wetsuits, a Dildo and a Song
A Year of Lettuce Undies.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

T&U, what kid of car did you replace the Subaru with? Light truck? SUV? Car?

It’s a Ford Focus manual, and I just learned how to drive stick a few weeks ago. (It’s actually Mr. T&U’s old car–he took over the Subaru and the payments about a month ago, so I got his car). It’s compact and front-wheel drive. Not the worst for snow, but not the best.

It’s hairy, driving stick in traffic when you’re not used to it. I hate hills.

I also live at the bottom of a fairly steep hill in my complex and they haven’t plowed yet. There are about 5 inches on the ground, so there’s no fucking way I’m driving out of here. I can take the bus, but I’m honestly a little concerned about getting up that hill in the snow with my bum leg. I fell once yesterday and while it did nothing to my ankle, I’d rather not risk it.

Maybe they’ll plow in the next few hours, but I’m not counting on it.

 
 

You look in the box to see if Greebo is alive or not.
I don’t know if anyone in Terry Pratchett’s universe ever attempted to put Greebo in a box. I suspect that it would not end well.

 
 

The rules:
==No limericks!
==No haiku!
==Commentors are requested not to link to disturbing and only marginally-relevant imagery by artists like Bellmer and Pickman.

 
 

Pimping one’s own tiny, out-of-the-way corner of the blog-o-sphere (This includes use of the URI box.) is right out.

 
 

It’s hairy, driving stick in traffic when you’re not used to it. I hate hills.

There are two tricks for starting out on a hill without burning up the clutch or rolling back into the car behind you. Both require a bit of coordination.

1. If the car has a hand-brake, use the hand-brake to keep the car from rolling backwards and ease off it as you let out the clutch. I consider this to be the easier of the two methods.

2. Angle your right foot so that your heel or instep is on the brake pedal and your toes are on the gas pedal. As you let out the clutch, lift your foot off the brake pedal as you come down on the gas.

 
 

So…it’s hairy driving a stick? Sounds like a veiled SASQUATCH ISREAL reference to me.

 
 

Jeez! I go hiking once with my shirt off and next thing you know everybody’s making Sasquatch jokes.

 
 

T&U, more later, but Kong is right, the handbrake start is handy in dry or sloppy weather. Just hold the button in with your thumb, the goal isn’t to set the handbrake, but when the light turns green, put gearshift into 1st gear, yank the lever up while holding the button in with your thumb, hold the lever up, this will keep the car still and give you time to do the clutch with the left foot and gas with the right foot. As the clutch engages, release the parking brake, and now you can keep on chooglin’.

My recommendation is four snow tires, considerig that you live where WINTER ISRAEL.

A fwd car with snow tires is pretty danged good. Given the hill you live on, you need every chance you have. I live on a steep hill with plowing/icing issues, and it sure helps.

Driving up a steep hill with fwd loses a little of the advantage of the weight over the front tires, as some of the weight redistributes to the rear tires (any day of the year you drive up that hill), but that’s all the more reason to maximize traction.

Which wheels are driven is very nice. Rwd = meh, fwd = good, awd = best.
But the real traction comes from the friction at the tires. AWD with summer performance tires this week? BLARGH. FWD with snow tires would beat that hands down.

Plus, awd only gives you propulsion. It doesn’t help you stop any better or steer or not spin out. All that comes from the traction created by tires.

(Also, are your tires new? Or approaching ye olde? I’m sure they’re probably all-seasons (you didn’t say Focus SVT.))

Four snow tires = your rear end (VBR) doesn’t come around when you don’t want it to. Again, it’s not about just propelling you faster into a crash, it’s about steering, stopping, turning, not spinning out of the blue, AND getting where you want to go.

I’ve been driving an econocar with snow tires since the mid 80’s. (Same one, too, but I’m a paer’ful nerd type. I have nothing to (cough cough) compensate for. (VLPR)

More about snow tires at http://www.tirerack.com

Not cheap, doing nothing is cheaper… up front… but cheaper than a car crash and, as you know, hospital shitte.

I’m a lot more tolerant of folks afraid of wintry conditions, after falling on my elbow and getting the diabetuz, I mean, cellulitis.

 
 

Whew. Slept like a rock last night. Like a thousand dreaming hobos who’d dined like kings on fire-roasted beans in a can.

 
 

Slept like a rock last night.

Gradually eroding and with covered with graffiti?

 
 

“covered with graffiti?”

Hey, I have no idea what Mr. S. does to me while I’m asleep.

 
 

So anyway…I made this homemade creamy tomato soup with fresh tarragon, homemade croutons and aged New York cheddar sprinkled on top, and hubby was like “Wow, this iced tea is REFRESHING!”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Ooh, thanks for the advice re: hills. I know I kinda fucked up my clutch yesterday at a hill. And then the peron behind me stayed about 15 feet away.

Bilo, my tires are all-weather. We’d talked about getting snow tires for the car, but after we bought the Subaru, that went by the wayside. I should probably look into that again.

I’m staying in for now. Apparently, the roads are fine, but they barely plowed my parking lot at all. I feel like a wimp, but it makes me nervous.

 
 

Paul Krugman posts a good summary of his and American liberals’ views on economic morality.

As he points out, it’s very much a pragmatic take on things, not an ideological one. Amidst all the drumbeat accusations of utopian socialism from the right, nice to read a reminder of that.

 
 

how did Greebo manage to shoot first?

I beg your pardon?

 
 

Oh, and a question for those who can answer it; do you find that driving a stick-shift vs an automatic makes any difference in the snow? I’m just idly wondering because I don’t have much experience driving on snow (either kind).

And good luck to any and all living in Winter Isreal conditions.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Chris, I can’t really say. I HATED driving my car yesterday, but I’ve only been seriously driving stick for about two weeks and I haven’t driven in inclement weather like this since high school. I have heard that a manual is better, though, as you have more control.

 
 

Interesting piece in wsj about (loosely) western vs eastern parenting techniques. Seems that this is an exerpt from a book being released today so they may have put up the most inflammatory passage they could find as a publicity stunt.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html

 
 

Has anyone else seen pictures from the flood in Australia? It is seriously scary.

 
 

Ooh, everybody on the West Coast prepare for the invading North Korean hordes!!1!one!

Editorial: OFFS. Even if NK had a couple of nuke missiles, do we really need to start wetting our pants over the “threat?”

 
Grand Moff Cartman
 

Oh my God!
They killed Greedo!
You basterds!

 
 

Slept like a rock last night.

I’m still tired. Especially after much discussion of them on the thread.

Has Snidley got the reading list for Sadly, No?

Sadly, no. Is it a hazing ritual for n00bs?

(BTW, I seem to be settling into a comfortable S,N! role of appeciative reader and set-up man. Let others invent the punchlines….)

 
 

Even if NK had a couple of nuke missiles, do we really need to start wetting our pants over the “threat?”

Seems to me that in an age when you can smuggle a nuke into the U.S. or better yet, hand it over to a terrorist group who’ll do it for you, the range of the nuke missiles isn’t the only way to measure “threat.”

North Korea was already invulnerable; even when the nukes couldn’t reach us, they could still reach South Korea and Japan, which would not be good for the world economy and would also destroy two of our most vital allies on the Pacific Rim and thus considerably reduce our influence. That’s before you even factor in the big deal, e.g. the human cost.

 
 

It’s never too soon to start wetting your pants.

You mean by spilling whiskey, yes?

 
 

Ooh, everybody on the West Coast prepare for the invading North Korean hordes!!1!one!

Not necessary. The authorities put defense plans in place during the Monolithic Communist Conspiracy, the Domino Theory, and Vietnam.

 
Snort-entirely bonkers
 

they could still reach South Korea and Japan

True, but I doubt NKs BFF China would be real happy with a nuke going off on their doorstep. Me sniffer thinks NK is allowed to bark all they want but no serious biting.

 
 

You mean by spilling whiskey, yes?

Well since we’re all Star Wars-y this thread,,,

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooOOO!!11one!!Epsiode3LOL!!11!!!!

 
 

OT, but as there seems to a several foodies around here I have a question that has been bothering me more than it should for quite some time. When you go to a restaurant and order a shrimp dish, why do they leave the shell on the tail of the shrimp? I mean it’s ok if it’s just boiled or fried shrimp, but when it’s something like shrimp with pasta all smothered in some kind of sauce it’s damned irritating.

 
 

OT, but as there seems to a several foodies around here I have a question that has been bothering me more than it should for quite some time. When you go to a restaurant and order a shrimp dish, why do they leave the shell on the tail of the shrimp? I mean it’s ok if it’s just boiled or fried shrimp, but when it’s something like shrimp with pasta all smothered in some kind of sauce it’s damned irritating.

It could be because shells add flavor to shrimp dishes…but I mostly think it’s done for aesthetics.

 
 

400th?

 
 

Hey 77

 
 

Shrimp shells do add flavour to sauces they are cooked in, but I suspect the real reason is to indicate that they are “real” shrimps – i.e. not mechanical-assembly-line skinned and frozen into a block for shipping.

 
 

I doubt NKs BFF China would be real happy with a nuke going off on their doorstep. Me sniffer thinks NK is allowed to bark all they want but no serious biting.

What’s more, NK’s leadership ain’t crazy, no matter what the propaganda says. They have a very strong interest in self-preservation and a gambler’s eye for the odds of surviving the aftermath of a nuclear strike on the US. I’d be willing to bet my family’s life on that.

 
 

The rest of the shell is removed from shrimps so they don’t have all those tiny little legs holding tiny little blasters which they can then use to shoot first.

 
 

I’d take the position that NK, leadership and all, are crazy and that serious biting involves ship-sinking and shelling civilians. Everyone in that country is in a crazy situation and expecting a calculus we think of as rational is over-optimistic.

 
 

do you find that driving a stick-shift vs an automatic makes any difference in the snow?

A stick shift allows you to start out in 2nd gear, which can be an advantage on ice. Makes it harder for the engine to spin the wheels.

Some automatics (Fords I think) let you do this as well.

 
 

A stick shift allows you to start out in 2nd gear, which can be an advantage on ice. Makes it harder for the engine to spin the wheels.

Similarly, you can run the engine in a lower gear going downhill, allowing the engine to provide some braking with lower risk of locking up the wheels.

 
 

I’m disappointed to learn that T&U got a Ford Focus instead of installing snow tires on the knee scooter.

 
 

I’d take the position that NK, leadership and all, are crazy and that serious biting involves ship-sinking and shelling civilians. Everyone in that country is in a crazy situation and expecting a calculus we think of as rational is over-optimistic.

I disagree. Not that sinking ships and shelling civilians isn’t crazy but there’s a calculation involved that has to do with creating an atmosphere that they think will help their negotiations (and they’ve largely been right). They also know they can be recklessly provocative because their Chinese sponsors won’t let things get out of hand.

OTOH, launching a nuke is one of those things that invite massive retaliation and just about nobody on earth would (or could) prevent it, and they know it. They like their comforts (talking about the leadership here) and aren’t interested in becoming martyrs. Or ash.

 
 

snow tires on the knee scooter

Veiled Sarah Palin Reference.

 
 

I disagree. Not that sinking ships and shelling civilians isn’t crazy but there’s a calculation involved that has to do with creating an atmosphere that they think will help their negotiations (and they’ve largely been right). They also know they can be recklessly provocative because their Chinese sponsors won’t let things get out of hand.

Probably true.

Also; a lot of conservatives look at Reagan and things like Able Archer or his off-color microphone joke that the bombs will start falling in ten minutes, and say it wasn’t craziness but a deliberate attempt to look crazy, so that the Soviets would tread carefully. Nixon is on record as wanting to project that same image.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Kim Jong Il were the same way.

OTOH, launching a nuke is one of those things that invite massive retaliation and just about nobody on earth would (or could) prevent it, and they know it. They like their comforts (talking about the leadership here) and aren’t interested in becoming martyrs. Or ash.

Exactly. And the same for the Iranian leadership. They’re not ideological crazies, they just play them on TV for the benefit of their supporters.

 
 

Everyone in that country is in a crazy situation and expecting a calculus we think of as rational is over-optimistic.

But is it unreasonable to expect consistently irrational policy choices? The first “successful” test was 2006, so they’ve had the basic know-how for half a decade. If they’ve used it for anything, it’s leveraging the world community i.e. Six-Party talks, &c.

Sure the testing hasn’t endeared North Korea to anyone, but even before the BOOM, the DPRK was pretty much a pariah rogue state (and a charter member of the Axis of Evil&sup1;).

Yeah, it’s crazy time over there – and with further international shunning, the situation is probably getting much worse. But I don’t know if nuclear terror is consistent with what we do know about North Korea.

TLDR version – Totes agree on the boat sinking/civilian shelling thing. If North Korea goes moar nuts, this is what we’re most likely to see.

&sup1; Yeah, that Axis of Evil thing was a brilliant piece of diplomatic strategizing – screw all the work made towards normalizing relations and opening dialogue &c. &c. Sunshine Policy? Who the fuck needs that?

 
 

FYWP. Betrayed by Preview again.

 
 

FYWP. Betrayed by Preview again.

As of 2/10, I’ll be betrayed by a VZ iPhone*. Let the flame war commence!

As opposed to a VS iPhone, which would be decorated with be-boobed unicorns.

 
 

I’ve often driven in snow / ice conditions. Lake effect near Buffalo. New England. Central Plains. I like FWD automatics because of winter driving. The weight is over the front wheels, the traction comes from the front, and these are the wheels that steer. Automatics mean you can concentrate completely on steering, braking, and accellerating.

Much of the thread comments have been about tires and traction. I believe that steering, smooth acceleration and smooth braking, and judgement of distance and velocity is the key to winter driving.

I’m off to the library. Have fun!

 
 

Should be ‘are’, of course. I keyed in haste.

 
 

Preview is a CRUEL BITCH MOTHER!

 
 

As opposed to a VS iPhone, which would be decorated with be-boobed unicorns.

Sadly, No. 🙁 I wish. My current case is so a very (boring), discreet, plain white one. *immediately searches for unicorns with boobs case*

Also, congrats. iPhones are pretty damn fun.

 
 

Bullshit. There are no “very steep hill”s anywhere near T&U. Anyway, the key to the handbrake trick is to release it slowly, in exact proportion to the clutch gripping.

 
 

iPhones are pretty damn fun.

Given how useful my steam-powered 1st gen iPod Touch has been, I can imagine.

 
 

steam-powered 1st gen iPod Touch

Lulz.

Oh, the world of wonders that awaits you!

BONUS: now we can totally be iPhone fanboys/er, girls together! Maybe start a (very lame) club!

 
 

Much of the thread comments have been about tires and traction. I believe that steering, smooth acceleration and smooth braking, and judgement of distance and velocity is the key to winter driving.

As I told the Young Chowderette yesterday morning, as she got ready to drive in the snow for the first time, take the opportunity to use brakes / gas where you won’t be hurt if you slide, to feel the available traction. Since all snow conditions aren’t alike, you want to get a sense of how much traction you have available today, then season to taste.

 
 

I recommend Hakkepelittas. You don’t fuck with the Finns and the Finns don’t fuck around when itt comes to driving in snow.

 
 

Driving a car with a manual transmission in the snow can be a lot of fun — but only if: a.) you know how to drive a manual really well; b.) it’s real-wheel drive (especially a 2WD truck with no weight in the back).

Used to spend hours doing donuts in empty (and sometimes quasi-empty) parking lots. Lots of funnage. You can also do them in a FWD car, but you have to do them in reverse … which is its own brand of fun.*

So, T&U, once they plow your street, I suggest you find a nice empty parking lot, and mess around with the Focus for a bit. It’ll give you the chance to get used to it, but without being on the road and, thus, a danger to others.

😉

(I now have an AWD CR-V that makes snow its bitch. Responsible? Yes. Fun? Meh.)

 
 

Even I don’t have the words for this.

 
 

Went for my morning exercise and stumbled across this rather odd, misshapen fruit at teh Dumbest Homo’s swamp:

First of all: Great blog you have here.

I have a problem reading some of it though. There is so much spelling errors and you write without flow. Often it dillutes the point of your argument. Please get some assistance.

Sorry. And thanks.

Comment by Marc Denofrio — January 10, 2011 @ 3:13 pm – January 10, 2011

 
 

There is so much spelling errors and you write without flow.

While it’s true that menstruation would improve that sentence, it seems cheeky to suggest it.

 
 

I believe rapid blinking is a sign of lying. If so, that woman is past just lying into full blown pathological.

 
 

That woman is as crazy as a bedbug in a leprosy hospital. The blinking comes from the rapid rotation of her brain inside her skull.

 
 

Someone in comments read my mind-

Maybe God is killing all the birds because of that jacket she is wearing. Or maybe the anal bead necklace.?

seanmatthews 20 minutes ago 6

 
 

That gladdens me. S,N quality heckling.

 
 

You can also do them in a FWD car, but you have to do them in reverse

Yeah, called them iced doughnuts. Fun!

I agree with Whale Chowder, conditions change each day.

 
 

S,N quality heckling.

Your wish is my command. Hey Cindy Jacobs! I totes did your mom! Incidentally, that thing about the birds and fish dying? It’s called a refractory period.

 
 

Even I don’t have the words for this.

Westboro Baptist Trolls versus Hell’s Angels? Someone needs to convince the Phelps clan that they can – nay, MUST – smite those evil bikers with impunity, since Big G will protect them from harm. Oh sweet baby Jeebus, please make this so.

 
 

“Your wish is my command.”

Omg. I thought only my wishes were your command. *sniff*

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I believe that steering, smooth acceleration and smooth braking, and judgement of distance and velocity is the key to winter driving.

Yeah, that’s why I suck at driving in the snow.

So, I got out. They plowed and I was able to make my way out of the driveway. The roads were okay–definitely better than yesterday, so I was fine.

There are no “very steep hill”s anywhere near T&U. Anyway, the key to the handbrake trick is to release it slowly, in exact proportion to the clutch gripping.

Mid-Missouri is somewhat hilly. The Ozarks aren’t that far. Plus, I live right in front of a crick.

 
 

teh Dumbest Homo’s swamp

Bruce actually has the top post right now. It’s about how awesome and pro-peace Glenn Beck is with his Challenge for America. The one about denouncing violence. While holding a pistol. With your finger on the trigger. Violence towards the TIDES Foundation excepted. Buy gold.

 
 

Mid-Missouri is somewhat hilly. The Ozarks aren’t that far. Plus, I live right in front of a crick.

I do find it a little bit amusing that y’all would be recommending snow tires (tahrs?) for a resident of Missouri, who probably sees snow for a week each winter, if that.

Here in Seattle, with similar conditions, we just shut down until the inevitable rain returns.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I do find it a little bit amusing that y’all would be recommending snow tires (tahrs?) for a resident of Missouri, who probably sees snow for a week each winter, if that.

We normally have a lot of sleet and ice, too. I’d say there are usually 4-5 nasty storms a season.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

On the upside, there’s a trail right by my house, so when it warms up, I can ride my bike to work on it!

 
 

Omg. I thought only my wishes were your command. *sniff*

Your wish is my command. No one else’s wishes are my command any more. Although I am a bit confused as to how you came to that idea.

 
 

Maybe God is killing all the birds because of that jacket she is wearing.

… & the living envy the dead.

What benevolent God would allow such an unspeakable abomination to adorn a human being? Also, if this is how people dress in heaven, an eternity trapped in Satan’s Rape Room is looking better all the time … imagine a faux-fur jacket stomping on a human face, FOREVER.

 
 

I do find it a little bit amusing that y’all would be recommending snow tires (tahrs?) for a resident of Missouri, who probably sees snow for a week each winter, if that.

If it’s anything like DC, I imagine the scarcity of the snow contributes to people not knowing how to handle it when it does hit. Even if it’s not that serious.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Oh, fuck me, is she Texan or something?

 
 

Per The Pearl

On the upside, there’s a trail right by my house, so when it warms up, I can ride my bike to work on it!

“…I pedaled the bicycle — a novelty to me, and one with which I have gained some facility despite my voluminous skirts and petticoats — up and down the hills near my abode. The exercise set my thighs to glowing, and the narrow, leathern seat did chafe and fret most insistently at the confluence of my limbs, so that more than once I was driven into a phrenzy of sweet ecstasy that caused me to run the conveyance entirely off the path…”

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

the narrow, leathern seat did chafe and fret most insistently at the confluence of my limbs, so that more than once I was driven into a phrenzy of sweet ecstasy that caused me to run the conveyance entirely off the path…”

And now you know how I *really* broke my ankle…

 
 

Although I am a bit confused as to how you came to that idea.

My narcissism and self-absorption helped!

Your wish is my command. No one else’s wishes are my command any more.

Anyway…hawt.

 
 

Salon points out just how much Glenn Beck cares.

This wasn’t his first response to the tragedy. Earlier today, Beck read the very serious e-mail he wrote to one of the victims. I refer, of course, to Sarah Palin, who has been relentlessly attacked by people armed with criticism of her words and actions.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Salon points out just how much Glenn Beck cares.

That is some fucked up bullshit, even for Beck. WOW.

 
 

I do find it a little bit amusing that y’all would be recommending snow tires (tahrs?) for a resident of Missouri, who probably sees snow for a week each winter, if that.

I do find it more than a little amusing that people who have never been to a place think they have any clue what the weather is like there. (Note: We had nearly three feet in total last winter, including one of 12″+.)

:-p

Sure, we may not handle snow as well as folks who live where ludefisk is what’s for dinner, but we ain’t like those dumbasses in Dallas or numbnuts in North Carolina who see half an inch and freak the fuck out.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

I do find it more than a little amusing that people who have never been to a place think they have any clue what the weather is like there. (Note: We had nearly three feet in total last winter, including one of 12?+.)

You guys got a LOT more than we did last year. We just got lots of freezing rain. WORST. WINTER. EVAR.

 
 

Ever so slightly on topic, sort of, if you squint, the Y2GAY Problem.

 
 

*immediately searches for unicorns with boobs case*

Helping vacuumslayer.

 
 

Jared Loughner should stop picking on Trig.

 
 

I do find it more than a little amusing that people who have never been to a place think they have any clue what the weather is like there.

But but but…you’re in the South! Plantations! Mint Juleps! White seersucker suits!

OK, guilty. *kicks rock* Everybody else does it. *wipes nose with back of hand, shuffles off*

 
 

All I know is that there is no right turn at a tornado crossing.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

OOOH OOOH OOH. I meant to talk about this this morning–I was listening to NPR and they were discussing how a president should/does react to tragedy and how President Obama might react, and what he should say.

So, they discussed the Challenger accident, the Oklahoma City bombing, and 9/11. They said something to the affect of, “Well, the Challenger incident was an accident, and 9/11 was a terrorist attack.” They then classified the OKC bombing as a “tragedy” and an “attack on a federal building,” implying that the OKC bombing wasn’t a terrorist attack. Of course, I’m not surprised that the AZ shooting isn’t considered a terrorist attack, but are we really re-writing history so extensively at this point that the OKC bombing isn’t considered terrorism? What the fuck is going on here, people?

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

But but but…you’re in the South! Plantations! Mint Juleps! White seersucker suits!

No, this is the Midwest.. Sure, Missouri may have been a slave state, and there are Southern influences, but it’s NOT the South.

 
 

WC, you might find this amusing.

 
 

What the fuck is going on here, people?

From digby’s joint,

Adam Serwer has a good post up today about Clinton’s Oklahoma City speech (which I excerpted earlier, here.) I hadn’t realized until this incident that it was an article of faith on the right that this speech was considered a case of political opportunism which wrongly attributed the bombing to the right wing extremism of the time. I should have known. If they don’t feel any responsibility for Tim McVeigh, then they can say and do anything and will never take responsibility for it.

There’s more.

 
 

What the fuck is going on here, people?

Well for one thing, it was Mara “FOX’s kept ‘centrist'” Lyason reporting so start with a whole block of salt right there. Secondly, Tim McVeigh isn’t brown or furrin so therefore NOT TERRIST.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Well for one thing, it was Mara “FOX’s kept ‘centrist’” Lyason reporting so start with a whole block of salt right there.

True, but it’s CLEARLY such BULLSHIT than I can’t believe it even got on the air.

 
 

They then classified the OKC bombing as a “tragedy” and an “attack on a federal building,” implying that the OKC bombing wasn’t a terrorist attack.

Remember all their outrage about Obama classifying terrorism as “man made natural disasters?” Glass houses, mate…

 
 

@ewerickson Atheists are upset with me. But God is upset with them.

The great and powerful LORD Atheismo told me otherwise.

 
 

What the fuck is going on here, people?

OKC as domestic terrorism violates Teh Divine Right Of America To Be Perfect Forever, No Backsies.
OKC as unpredictable & unpreventable lone-nut tragedy does not.

I wonder which meme will be more popular? THE MYSTERY DEEPENS.

 
 

@ewerickson Atheists are upset with me. But God is upset with them.

I sometimes ask myself, what would Jesus do? Then I remember that he got crucified for what he did and I take another tack.

 
 

Seriously, though, God is “upset” because a small group of otherwise decent acting folks haven’t seen strong enough evidence to convince them, but George W. Bush et al using His name as a totem to kill and maim innocents is okie fine by Him, huh? And holy crap, you narcissistic fuck, why do you think God would give a shit about people being upset with you for cause? You say stupid shit, you own it, asshole, don’t try dragging God in. He didn’t make you publish your dumbass bullshit.

 
 

I sometimes ask myself, what would Jesus do? Then I remember that he got crucified for what he did and I take another tack.

Taking another tack beats pissing down your leg as you asphyxiate.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Compare & contrast.

But we had cream pies! And bayoneted signs! And hippies!

 
 

Also,

No, this is the Midwest.. Sure, Missouri may have been a slave state, and there are Southern influences, but it’s NOT the South.

Interesting! We agree on this, but apparently most of America does not –

As a military history (rather than culture or economics) nerd, I always thought of the North/South border as the border between the Union and the Confederacy. Wasn’t until much later that I learned Missouri, Kentucky, West VA, Maryland and DC – were traditionally considered “the South.”

As someone who grew up in Bethesda and then DC, it still don’t feel right. To me, the North/South border is the Potomac – and the symbolism of driving across the bridge from the Lincoln Memorial on one side to Robert E. Lee’s house in Arlington on the other, seems to concur.

 
 

I sometimes ask myself, what would Jesus do? Then I remember that he got crucified for what he did and I take another tack.

Tacks are not the most efficient method to attach youself to a cross.

 
 

@ewerickson Atheists are upset with me. But God is upset with them.

“These meat-toys I designed to be persnickety are still being persnickety*! RAWR! I HAZ AN UPSET NOW! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHH!”
______________________
* “Also, I know the future so I already knew this would happen – which somehow makes them being the way I made them be EVEN WORSE! GRRRRRRRRRRRR!”

 
 

re: OKC

The Biting Sow is a great place for indy blues. Right on the canal in Bricktown. Plus cheap beers.

 
 

But but but…you’re in the South Missouri! Plantations! Mint Juleps! White seersucker suits! Trailer parks! Busch beer and moonshine! Kid Rock concert t-shirts!

Fixed to reflect the Show-Me State.

OK, guilty. *kicks rock* Everybody else does it. *wipes nose with back of hand, shuffles off*

Yeah, I got a fraternity brother who lives in Mississippi, and I always ask him how many teeth he’s lost since we spoke last. It was funny the first few dozen times I did it. Now I think he just finds it annoying.

Oh, and this …

Secondly, Tim McVeigh isn’t brown or furrin so therefore NOT TERRIST.

… is why Nice Polite Republicans and everyone else in the Village refuses to call it terrorism.

Actual Republicans have decided to just ignore the fact McVeigh existed—and was a member in good standing of their cause. It’s kinda like they act as if the 90s were a time of great comity and bipartisanship, Bush wasn’t in office for nine months prior to 9/11, and that they never said WMDs were the reason for invading Iraq.

Sadly, and thanks to our incompetent and corrupt media, all they have to do is repeat it enough times and it becomes true.

So … now that I’ve sufficiently bummed everyone the fuck out, how’s about some poop facts?*

(* Visit from IT staff in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … )

 
 

Irksome has a point. Remember that Teh Lord is a vengeful, jealous, genocidal asshole. He’s obviously upset with anyone who won’t suck on His Divine PENIS.

And this is supposed to make atheists look bad?

 
 

Actual Republicans have decided to just ignore the fact McVeigh existed

But if he HAD existed, he’d have been an atheist, not a Christian. QED religion of peace and love totes unlike dune coon faith.

 
 

I recommend Hakkepelittas

Whackyweedia informs me that this is “a Finnish light cavalryman in the service of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden”. Useful, no doubt, for scattering German infantry during the 30 Years War, but how will they help T&U during bad weather?

 
 

Yeah, I got a fraternity brother who lives in Mississippi, and I always ask him how many teeth he’s lost since we spoke last. It was funny the first few dozen times I did it. Now I think he just finds it annoying.

Your question probably breaks his heart after losing Old Chomper.

 
 

Seriously, though, God is “upset” because a small group of otherwise decent acting folks haven’t seen strong enough evidence to convince them, but George W. Bush et al using His name as a totem to kill and maim innocents is okie fine by Him, huh?

Well, everyone knows that you were reading the wrong Bible.

You see, in the right’s version of the Bible (v4.stupid), all kinds of stuff we (read: sane people) think was truly Christian really isn’t.

In Biblev4.s, Jesus:

— Never said or did anything remotely resembling health care. Thus, the right can actively work to deny people access to health care.

— Helped collect taxes and spent his free time with the money changers. Thus, the poor can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or rot in hell.

— Gave hundreds of sermons preaching the evilness of Teh Gay, even making it central to his point. Thus, any mention of Jesus never saying a word about gaydom can be ignored.

— Turned the other cheek … but only so he could get his hands on his wonderful .9mm Glock with a 31-round chamber*! Thus, they can use JC to justify all manner of violence and hatred.

It goes on a bit, but I think you get the idea.

(* Veiled savior masturbation reference … and yes, I’m going to ach-ee-double-hockey sticks.)

 
 

Re: North Korean and Iranian nukes. Both countries know that if they use their weapons, the entire world, including current allies, will react in horror, and unify to obliterate their regimes, if not their actual geography. Israel, OTOH, knows that if they use their nukes, their allies, especially the US, will not only condemn them, but will most likely jump in to defend them from anyone who threatens to retaliate.

You tell me who’s most likely to nuke whom.

 
 

I refer, of course, to Sarah Palin, who has been relentlessly attacked by people armed with criticism of her words and actions.

God, you people are heartless. What matters in regards to this tragedy is how Sarah Palin feels.

 
 

*immediately searches for unicorns with boobs case*

Helping vacuumslayer.

That’s really cool. If I had a 4, I would so get that.

 
 

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the new chairman of the Homeland Security Committee,

“We should not be funding education” – Virgina Foxx, new chair of House Subcommittee on Higher Education

John “Genesis proves global warming is false” Shimkus was nearly the chair of the House Energy Panel. That was after Joe “We should apologize to BP” Barton shot himself in the foot. The ultimate winner is Fred Upton a big fan of deregulating the energy industry. His top donor is “nuclear waste giant EnergySolutions.”

Incoming House Judiciary chair Lamar Smith on impeaching Obama: “I think we’re on the verge of being there right now…Whatever law they’re not enforcing, I think it comes awfully close to a violation of their oath of office.”

The new House Appropriations Committee is Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), better known as “Kentucky’s Prince of Pork.”

House Budget Committee Paul Ryan has a plan to reduce taxes by raising them on nearly everybody. His plan to balance the budget is to not balance the budget. His plan to reduce long-term health care costs is to ration out vouchers that diminish in value over time, relative to rising costs.

Spencer Bachus, new chair of the House Financial Services Committee:

Spencer Bachus has already declared that he wants to remove Dodd-Frank’s authorization for regulators to liquidate “too-big-to-fail” institutions. Other priorities include defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, heading off restrictions on computerized high-speed trading, and weakening the rules aimed at preventing big banks from conducting proprietary trading on their own behalf at the expense of their clients’ interests. Republicans also plan to use committee hearings to send a message to oversight agencies such as the SEC: “Overzealous” crackdowns on Wall Street will no longer be in fashion.

Moving right along,

Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) has been named to chair the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration issues.

King calls illegal immigration a “slow motion terrorist attack” and is generally in favor of the most drastic measures to curb it. He has some interesting ideas as to how illegal immigrants can be sussed out, involving shoes and ESP. And he’s leading the charge against the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship as well.

It’s going to an … interesting two years.

 
 

Bad flooding in Queensland 77 South. 3/4 of the state is a disaster area. Poor bastards

 
 

Useful, no doubt, for scattering German infantry during the 30 Years War, but how will they help T&U during bad weather?
Some of the worst traffic accidents in Missouri’s history have been caused by poor traction from all of the feuding catholic and protestant German armies.

 
 

Smut Clyde said,

Oops. HakkApelittas. I apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused.

FYWP

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

It’s going to an … interesting two years.

Shorter House Repubs: We’re here to finish the job Dubya started!

 
 

GreeDo, you bantha dropping.

jeez, its like you think there are no geeks around here

The real problem there is that HAN SHOT FIRST. Also, Star Trek is for nerds.

 
 

Re: North Korean and Iranian nukes. Both countries know that if they use their weapons, the entire world, including current allies, will react in horror, and unify to obliterate their regimes, if not their actual geography.

I’m not certain that enough North Koreans understand that to make a difference, but I think Iran is pretty realistic about policies it pursues.

 
 

Hakkepelitta…“a Finnish light cavalryman”…how will they help T&U during bad weather?

Well I suppose she could throw a couple on the bed for those cold nights.

 
 

“This kid thinks the Mars rover, the landing, was faked. He thinks George W. Bush was behind 9/11. He believes in big government solution. His favorite books include ‘The Communist Manifesto’ and ‘Mein Kampf’…. I could tell you right now this guy is a textbook study of everybody I’ve warned against. But I’m not going to do that.”– Glenn Beck.
Hmmm, epic fail for not telling somebody, something. He could try STFU but realise that he has gold to sell.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Well I suppose she could throw a couple on the bed for those cold nights.

There’s no need to encourage actor, WC.

 
 

I hate violence. I hate war.

Now watch me snuff this caribou.

 
 

Never start a Light Cavalryman iffen you don’t mean to finnish him, as me old dad used to say

 
 

What matters in regards to this tragedy is how Sarah Palin feels.

Thanks for asking! That last bong-hit really lit me up. Also, got a bit of a yen for some TacoBell munchies. But you know, the cameras add 20 pounds, and I have to be on next week, so there’s that too, ya know. Not to mention wondering how soon the hot flashes are going to come on, also.

Now THAT’s a tragedy in the making!

 
guitarist manqué
 

I just got called by someone pretending claiming to be an NRA member asking if I was willing to answer some questions about the UN’s plan for our guns.

After the first peals of hysterical laughter subsided I asked if she meant the Onion’s plans for our guns.

 
 

I just got called by someone pretending claiming to be an NRA member asking if I was willing to answer some questions about the UN’s plan for our guns.

Swords don’t kill people – plowshares do! You betcha!

 
 

T&U, I have driven for many winters in northern MN and I prefer a stick. My old 2WD Ranger does just fine with about 200 lbs of sand behind the wheels and a set of these: http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Firestone&tireModel=Winterforce They are seasonable and very good in snow but I would recommend taking them off in the summer or they won’t last. If you don’t want to do that then get cheap all seasons. I say cheap because they are made with softer rubber (why they don’t have a high mileage warranty) and will give you better grip on snow and ice than say an 85,000 mile rated Michelin.

 
 

There’s no need to encourage actor, WC.

No no, I leave that to vs.

 
 

How is it that Blatt has such a large anti-following?

 
 

Can I simply say what a comfort to discover someone that actually knows what they’re discussing over the internet. You definitely realize how to bring an issue to light and make it important. More people should check this out and understand this side of your story. I was surprised you are not more popular because you definitely possess the gift.

 
 

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