Bow tie, eh? All we need to know is right there.

Rich people go to the south of France for a month of vacation, poor people go to the south of France for a month of vacation. It’s the same!

That looks suspiciously like a pre-tied bowtie to me. That doesn’t count, says I.

Mmm! Nutritious delicious cellphones for everyone!

Why do these assholes keep making the cellphone argument? How, pray tell, are poor people supposed to get jobs without their own phone number? A cellphone is no longer a goddamn luxury in today’s world.

This pig looks overfed.
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That picture up there is really bringing me down in a bad way.

Am I gonna have to slap a smug puffed up man-bitch?

backpfeifengesicht alert!

It’s always stunning how many cell phones rich people go through in a week.
Then there is the 85 tons of food an hour and more than 200,000 cars trashed every week.

And the way they brag about it?

Bloodsuckers on a feeding frenzy.

I will keep complaining, rich people, until I get an iPad.

FREE PHONES*, come on down and get your free phones!

*requires long term indentured servitude to trust-fund banksters using publicly built infrastructure.

Hmm. Your content is relevant to my interests!
We got Erickson plopped onto CNN – think we can’t put this smirking putz on MSNBC? Heh heh heh, indeed.

Either that or we could plug him into a cheaper yet less shitty and shapeless version of Palin’s old show.

A reality series can so easily morph into a motherfucking goldmine, and we’re happy to spend as much of consumers’ money as it takes to rip its guts out for every last dime’s worth!

Mmm, dimes.

HEY!!! I don’t even have a cell phone!

You get a cutback! And you get a cutback! And YOU get a cutback!

That guy’s about five scotch-and-sodas away from a burst capillary.

I hear there is a need for my product here?

“What we all witnessed in Madison” was a gigantic flop for the labor monopolies. The legislation they were trying to block got passed, and their effort to block it by electing a sympathizer to the state Supreme Court failed (pending a futile recount).

I hear sombody whistling.

You’re welcome.

I will keep complaining, rich people, until I get an iPad.

A wise old proverb: the squeaky lab-rat gets the touchscreen.

A wise old proverb: the squeaky lab-rat gets the touchscreen.

I dunno know about you rich peoples but here in the Third World a cell phone is a lot cheaper than having a landline installed. And most people do have a cellphone – even if they live on porridge.

A cellphone is no longer a goddamn luxury in today’s world.

Yes, and cheaper than a landline. Especially if you don’t have a home to put a landline in.

Reuben, Esq. said,

That guy’s about five scotch-and-sodas away from a burst capillary.

Barkeep! A scotch-and-soda for the cromulent fellow in the bow tie, please.
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Has he been eating the rich?

HEY!!! I don’t even have a cell phone!

Nor do I. But at least I’ve got a computer again!

Feelin’ fine. Feelin’ frisky. (May not be able to engage here as much as I would like, not for a while.) I’ve missed the Sadlies muchly. I’m glad to be back, even though in semi-lurker mode for a while.

Rich people go to the south of France for a month of vacation, poor people go to the south of France for a month of vacation. It’s the same!

Hell, in the Bronx, poor people can go to The South of France for a beer as many times as they wish.

Fenwick, it’s good to hear from you. I’ve been worried about you since your string of misfortunes.

When I was a lad, poor people didn’t have cellphones, they were lucky to have shoes! Poor people would scuff their toes along the pavement. In those days the pavement was embedded with broken glass,and we would lug burlap bags loaded with cattle droppings…wait, am I supposed to be one of the poor or one of the critics of the poor? Either way, being poor then was noble but being poor now is degenerate.

Hell, in the Bronx, poor people can go to The South of France for a beer as many times as they wish.

But not fine French cuisine, as some people learn the hard way. (I’m sorry, but that review is still making me chuckle.)

In Charleston, you can visit Slightly North of Broad or (S.N.O.B.), but probably not if you are poor. Damn good food there, though.

Being poor doesn’t count unless your suffering is visible AT ALL TIMES.

But not fine French cuisine, as some people learn the hard way. (I’m sorry, but that review is still making me chuckle.)

Yeah, it cracked me up- it’s pretty much a local hangout for people disembarking from the 6 train after work.

If they’d dug up the floor boards, I’m sure they could have found a few snails.

Poor people should eat nothing but ramen noodles and drink water from a ditch.

If they’d dug up the floor boards, I’m sure they could have found a few snails.

Or a beating human heart…

Poor people should eat nothing but ramen noodles and drink water from a ditch.

The mosquito larvae in the ditchwater would be a pretty good protein supplement- and an ironic payback.

Or a beating human heart…

What, is that nouvelle?

Y’know, real life IS starting to get more and more like Mardi Gras: rich white people parading around and throwing cheap plastic trinkets for the adoring masses to scramble after.

What, is that nouvelle?

Nah, the portions are too big- nouvelle would be a poached sparrow’s heart, served with a soupçon of microgreens.

I have to knock off for a few hours, gotta hit the brewery (to get my growler filled), then go to work.

Jesus fuck, these people bitch about the politics of envy any time anyone notices the super rich aren’t pulling their own weight in this damn country by a long shot, but let some broke-ass dude get a 20$ pay-as-you-go cellphone so he can maybe get a call back for a job and you never hear the end of the whining. They’re more spitefully greedy for the poor man’s crumbs than any ever have been for the rich man’s excess.

They’re more spitefully greedy for the poor man’s crumbs than any ever have been for the rich man’s excess.

“Any” excluding other rich men.

Poor people are only to be pitied if they wear used clothing.

No, it’s not the Onion.

Every thirty dollars a poor person spends at Wal Mart on a prepaid cellphone is another truffle that never gets to that bowtied pig’s snout.

when I was a lad, I had to get up a half hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of poison and then go work 29 hours a day in the mill for 5 quid a lifetime and we were lucky but you try telling that to the lazy liberal young people of today . . .

The lone review at BBBB’s South of France link is hysterical. Okay, it’s mildly amusing.

South of France is a dingy dive bar with a few tables where they serve Spanish food

Could the owners of SoF be that funny?

They’re more spitefully greedy for the poor man’s crumbs than any ever have been for the rich man’s excess.

That is Taranto’s beat.

* “Homelessness Rediscovery Watch”:[4] a news report mentioning homelessness preceded by a quote from a WSJ op-ed[5] written in October 2000:

“If George W. Bush becomes president, the armies of the homeless, hundreds of thousands strong, will once again be used to illustrate the opposition’s arguments about welfare, the economy, and taxation.”—Mark Helprin, Oct. 31, 2000

Taranto “never bothered to graduate”, but he’s made a fat living making the monied class (and the politicians they own) feel better about themselves.
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RE: g’s link.

“I never had anything new,” Caswell says. “I got all the hand-me-downs. And my dad, he did a lot of shopping at the Salvation Army, and his comment was — and quite frankly it’s true — once you’re out of the store and you walk down the street, nobody knows where you bought your clothes.”

Second hand clothes! When I was a lad, we couldn’t afford second hand clothes. We used to do odd jobs for the bums down the row and we were paid in 3rd and sometimes 4th hand clothes. One time we dug up corpses and stole their clothes. Rich people would say “Look at those kids in their fancy pants three- piece suits from the early ’80’s, how retro chic. The poor do have it very well.” I guess its true, once you’re out of the cemetary and you walk down the street, nobody knows where you got your clothes. Thanks Caswell for setting the record straight. Foster kids today, they don’t know how good they have it.

I look at that picture and I hear,

“Fock off. I can’t eat another fucking thing.”

“But sir, eet ees just one waffer-theen meent.”

So it is “The Rich” who are responsible for the advance of technology (developed first in 3rd world countries with poor infrastructure) that has given us cell phones ?

OT: Big ol’ shout out to Matt T for some New Orleans tips. Every one we tried worked out amazingly well (although based on another local’s suggestion, we did Napoleon House rather than Central Grocery for the muffaletta).

Thanks, guy. Nice little town you’ve got there. Proper respect for zombies.

Back in the 1960s a computer cost a million dollars. Since I own a computer, I’m a millionaire! I’m rich, beeyatch!

We’d all have platinum bowling balls if capitalists could figure out how to sell them to us on credit and ensure that bowling (with platinum balls) was essential to modern life.

Bowling the platinum balls.

I’m not sure what these morons expect to see poor people doing. Song-and-dance numbers about how poor they are, complete with Dickensian rags?

I actually have an acquaintance who loves this argument. There’s more gizmos than there used to be, ergo there’s no more poverty. Well, duh, fuckface, the gradual expansion of technology to more people is what’s supposed to happen. It’s a historic event when it doesn’t. The point the non-sociopaths are making is that it’s happening more slowly, for a greater price, and with significant losses in the non-gizmo parts of life like health care and education.

“Bowling the platinum balls.”

PERVERT!

Look at these so-called poors, touring around in their fancy cars,

http://www.redriverhistorian.com/images/gr_dep_migrant_car_muskogee_lee.GIF

This woman here has a CHAIR!!!!

http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/dougp3.gif

low sodium hunchback, I like your links.

Filling my growler.

I’ll bet you say that to all the hunchies.

Hey ZRM! I had a (pdf) link for you too.

http://blogs.mcpherson.edu/library/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Library-of-the-Living-Dead-Online-Edition.pdf

“This woman here has a CHAIR!!!!”

She’s got a live baby, too. Those things are expensive to keep.

When are poor people gonna learn to do nothing but work and save until they’re rich? They are liable to destroy the economy, what with the buying stuff and borrowing.

Who knew?

Good lord…is there no end to the zombie menace?

Plus if poor people didn’t have cell phones, they wouldn’t fuck up all the polls that show that they, poor folks, don’t like Republicans. Ungrateful sods

Good lord…is there no end to the zombie menace?

Sounds to me like the breathers are being all homicidal again.

but not to worry. We can usually be distracted by tasty dishes.

VS, WTF is that??? “chesticles?’ “Volvo?” “man scent”
It’s a joke, right, heh heh, yeah a joke, not real, phew.

I bet the zombie alligators did not die due to things connected to the oil spill.

Gocart Mozart – “PERVERT!”

You don’t know the half of it. They haven’t even invented names for half of my fetishes.

tasty dishes.

Droooooooooooooooolll.

VS, WTF is that??? “chesticles?’ “Volvo?” “man scent”
It’s a joke, right, heh heh, yeah a joke, not real, phew.

Hey, now, that’s just how dad rolled back then!

I bet the zombie alligators did not die due to things connected to the oil spill.

That’s axiomatic! BP said so, and why would they lie?

MORE NAT GEO WILD VIDEOS:
* Extreme Dung Ball Racing

I had no idea that the National Geographic film crew had come to NZ.

I am officially creeped out… somebody found my blog with the criteria:
“bald submissive women”.

YIKES!!!

We are accepting of your personal lifestyle choices, BBBB.

I’m not the one who searched for myself…

Searching for myself….

I’m not the one who searched for myself…

I am sure I am not the first one who’s gotten lost in the French Quarter….

I am officially creeped out… somebody found my blog with the criteria:
“bald submissive women”.

I have just looked at my blogger stats for the very first time and I find that over 1/3 of my hits are accounted for by one post that mentions Pokémon.

What about the Zorbs???

Hey, a search for bald submissive zorbs returns a Sadly, No link on the the first page!

The peasants have no bread? Then let them eat cell phones!

So Taranto has a sort of roundup column where he demonstrates weekly that he can neither make nor understand anything resembling a logical argument?

Why?

Recent search terms leading people to Riddled include “blog man in mud”.
I assume they were looking for Another Kiwi.

The most-used search term that directs people to my place is “winner of the homer simpson look-alike contest.” Though there are a disturbing number of “sister cut off my penis” and variations thereof.

Damned paparazzi! I would have got away with it if it hadn’t been for that submissive bald woman

Here am the “nudie pix” stats BBBB asked about.

Search Keywords
tina louise 4,485
tracey needham 2,385
maggie gyllenhaal 2,198
dinah manoff 1,362
lisa loring 962
sophia loren topless 727
jayne mansfield death photos 570
eva larue 510
vicki lewis 416
judy carne 305

I didn’t ask about the stats, I wanted nudie pix.

I can’t seem to find any on the intrat00bz… except for some submissive bald gal.

submissive bald gal

Note extra face/head, which is bald.

I am concerned by the ease with which MB retrieved that image.

My search terms–with one AWESOME exception–were pretty boring.

“ROBOT MAD LIBS,” anyone?

Poor people are only to be pitied if they wear used clothing.

ya know, i am a HUGE proponent of recycled clothing…hell, i visit the local thrift shops and salvation army (my all-time fave) on a weekly basis and have not…nay, refuse to pay full price for any item of clothing, but you have to be fucking kidding me with this one. really? ‘oh, i’m sorry small child. your family life is in the shit, you may have been grievously abused…but you know what? i didn’t have new clothes when i was a kid! and i turned out just fine!’ wtf?!?!

i find it only marginally ironic that a ‘colon blow’ commercial is on as i am typing this…

So even on a doll designed by–I’m assuming–some dude, he STILL chose to make her look like she had fake tits? *shakes head*

I’ve had multiple people finding my site by searching for “desiring rape sex” and “transwoman rapes transman” as well as multiple variations on “bizarre rape”.

I suspect they didn’t find what they were looking for.

Back on topic, the conscienceless are pimping the cell phones angle hard, just as they pimped the microwave and television angle a bit ago because they know their target audience is looking for an excuse to disregard and ignore the plight of the poor and is also old and stupid.

Not too many decades ago, having a cell phone or a reliable internet connection was a luxury good. Go back even more and you reach times that televisions and microwaves were signs of prosperity.

So, they just play on that decade blindness in their target audience and trust that their memories will allow the demonization to commence unimpeded. Yeah, cell phones and internet are a luxury good, because they are new. Never mind that cell phones are cheaper than land lines, every job requires a means of calling you up to get hired, and that the shittier your job, the more your boss wants the ability to reach you anywhere at any time so you can be at the store in 10 minutes even if you’re at your grandmother’s funeral.

Let’s also forget that access to the internet is becoming equally critical for employment since most shitty jobs actually no longer have physical application forms, but make you go online to their web application form.

Given how much effort is spent on essentially hand-waving the destitute, I think we gravely overlook how important it is to shove their face into the starving masses and let them get a good look.

It makes them nervous, that’s why they need constant conspiracy theories about why it’s not really happening or not as bad as it’s made out to be. Because deep in that fetid tissue that was once a human being, there is some tiny small spark of shame trying desperately to find a synapse to latch onto.

It makes them nervous, that’s why they need constant conspiracy theories about why it’s not really happening or not as bad as it’s made out to be. Because deep in that fetid tissue that was once a human being, there is some tiny small spark of shame trying desperately to find a synapse to latch onto.

Oh, I think it makes them nervous but not because of any sense of decency or shame. You give them too much credit. Much too much credit.

Fear. They are nervous because they wonder if at some point these people they piss on so regularly may notice that the warm shower isn’t all that refreshing, nor cleansing.

Whistling by the graveyard, indeed.

Who knew?

OMG…LULZ!!!

I am concerned by the ease with which MB retrieved that image.

Well duh, he’d already googled it off of B^4’s site.

I am sure I am not the first one who’s gotten lost in the French Quarter….

if u are a celebrity and have to be bailed out by dog the bounty hunter, i would say it’s safe to assume that your career is in the shitter…

Frieda Kahlo Terror Monkey

And my blog delivers, darned it!

Mrs. Cat sold separately...
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Back on topic, the conscienceless are pimping the cell phones angle hard, just as they pimped the microwave and television angle a bit ago because they know their target audience is looking for an excuse to disregard and ignore the plight of the poor and is also old and stupid.

Not too many decades ago, having a cell phone or a reliable internet connection was a luxury good. Go back even more and you reach times that televisions and microwaves were signs of prosperity.

The one thing that is heartening is that this argument can’t hold water with anyone under the age of fifty who’s got half a brain- many of us have dispensed with land lines entirely, and I’m sure that most people in their 20’s view the land line as something their grandmothers have. By meme-pimping this, they basically admit that they have lost the youth vote.

Problem is, fuckers are trying to disenfranchise young voters now.

Ahem. Frida works. Also.
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James Taranto is more evidence that we’re done for, finished, circling the drain as a nation. There won’t be enough police to protect the few that do have money and everyone else is just going to suffer while they line up behind the next wave of violent fascism.

I just don’t see a way out of this one via any part of the political process. I’m pretty sure that short of serious social upheaval and civil disobedience of the type that causes a whole lot of pain, our society – the USA – is just about finished. Progressives haven’t been able to put together one single win, because there are just more of them than there are of us and they’ve got all the money and all the power and all the hate. The people that Taranto writes for won’t be able to build walls or fences high enough to keep out the poor pretty soon.

I guess I’ve been reading too much Chris Hedges.

It’s going to get really really ugly here. My daughter’s generation might be able to eke out a living that looks a little bit like what we had, but that’s the end.

It’s ex-patriot time, I think.

Well duh, he’d already googled it off of B^4?s site.

I need the traffic!

if u are a celebrity and have to be bailed out by dog the bounty hunter, i would say it’s safe to assume that your career is in the shitter…

Cage has had a, shall we say, spending problem for quite some time.

Progressives haven’t been able to put together one single win, because there are just more of them than there are of us and they’ve got all the money and all the power and all the hate.

There aren’t more of them than there are of us- they just get the T.V. coverage. The Madison rallies dwarfed even the biggest Teabagger rally (that Beck crap last August), about 10 to 7. The pro-immigration rallies were typically four or five times the size of the Beck rally.

They don’t have the numbers, they have the major media conglomerates on their side.

They’re more spitefully greedy for the poor man’s crumbs than any ever have been for the rich man’s excess. — tigris

We’d all have platinum bowling balls if capitalists could figure out how to sell them to us on credit and ensure that bowling (with platinum balls) was essential to modern life. — CRA

Those are just two sentences that jumped off the screen while I was catching up the thread. (Also the Cerebrus / Looch convo just above.)

I so missed this place during the last five weeks! I don’t recognize some of the new nyms (yet); it is pleasure to re-encoounter other nyms already known to me; it is a blast to be reading the Sadlies’ Rollercoaster again!

I am concerned by the ease with which MB retrieved that image.

Your pal Mick Farren posted it today. (Scroll a little, it’s part of two items.) Never seen it before, although I shall be thinking of it for some time.

many of us have dispensed with land lines entirely, and I’m sure that most people in their 20?s view the land line as something their grandmothers have.

my 70 yr old mother is completely connected to her cell phone…the only reason she still has a land line is because she is convinced the end of the world is nigh…she has recently begun talking about stocking up on food and taking all of her money out of the bank.

the only reasons teh hubby and i still have a landline is a)we belong to a co-op and get money back from our telephone/cable/internet usage and b)we live in a black hole where verizon (our provider by force) does not reliably work…

They don’t have the numbers, they have the major media conglomerates on their side.

Which is all they need.

Via No Mo’ Mr. Nice Blog, a little slice of the future.

Ha! I keep forgetting to pay my land-line, so I just gave up. Then AT&T called me on the non-working (for me) line this a.m. to ask if I wanted to sign back up.

FENWICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then AT&T called me on the non-working (for me) line this a.m. to ask if I wanted to sign back up.

ha, ha…that is good! my favorite was when a sprint rep was repeatedly calling to try to get us to switch…he finally asked me, quite exasperated by this point, ‘but, don’t you WANT to save money?!?’ to which i replied, ‘no.’ he did not know how to respond…

Mick Farren also brings us the Ayn Rand Dating site.

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Google is lying, they recommend my blog. If you do not read my blog, mutant corpse worms from the Stygian depths will devour your eyeballs while you sleep. Do NOT ignore this warning!
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It’s ex-patriot time, I think.

I have been playing with this idea, yet only in the early planning stages since I won’t be going anywhere until The Rotten Little Perisher is out on his own.

But let’s start (or renew, wev) the conversation on this: Where?

Sweden?

Iceland?

Latin/South America?

Yurp?

Seriously, where?

It’s ex-patriot time, I think.

I agree, Your Wholeness. And with everything you wrote before this line, too.

I would escape, except that I’m too old, too poor, and lack vital skills. Now I sorta view myself as an exile stuck in the country of my birth. My real allegiance is to some imaginary places, one of which is the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

B^4: Yup, I’m still commited to doing the blog. I lost all of my previous work on the Duchy when the machine was stolen. And I’ve got a true shitload of Other Stuff to clear before I can take another shot at it. (My e-mail account is all screwed up and must be untangled, for one thing.) But I crossed the Blog Rubicon long before my run of bad luck. [Fun Fact: I was born on a Friday 13th. Born under a bad sign, folks.] It may be down a ways on my priority list, but the Duchy WILL arrive. Eventually.

I find the whole thing amusing. Tax revenues are dropping. Social support systems are being curtailed. Will the poor just starve?

No, they will go over to the black economy where they can get goods, stolen, much more cheaply. No sales taxes. No income taxes. No contribution to society beyond the smallest possible amount. Just like the top 1 percent.

Somehow this makes sense to a lot of economists.

When people go over to the black economy, there are no rules and regulations, each deal is an example of the “perfect market” that most economists believe in. Loans are backed by the body and the blood, not by pieces of paper, so the legal parasites, lawyers, will be out their fees.

B^4: Yup, I’m still commited to doing the blog. I lost all of my previous work on the Duchy when the machine was stolen

Laddie, start doing it- your work is saved on a server, so you can access it from any computer. Trust me, it’s as easy as commenting here, once you get started, and drag Looch and Hunchback into it with you!

Where?

imma go to ireland…

Getting lost in the French Quarter.

…

Man, I really suck at this masturbation euphemism thing.

Wait…

Sucking at this masturbation euphemism thing.

Maybe?

Poor people are only to be pitied if they wear used clothing.

I am wearing used clothing as I type this.
I am fairly sure that the Frau Doktorin had finished with her SHUT UP SMUT

I’ve a recollection that the Alyssa Rosenberg Dating Site is mostly d00ds, if you can imagine that.

Looch:

Here are my choices: Canada (close & I could visit my relatives) … almost any country in Europe … Iceland … Costa Rica … something in the Caribbean … New Zealand … Australia.

Not to make our antipodean friends nervous at the possible influx, but I knew people who were looking into emigration to NZ as long ago as the ’80s. (Quitters.)

At least one of them is in New Mexico now, ‘though. Talk is cheap.

Laughing at Looch.

BBBB,

HMPPH!!!

As a Canadian, I’m afraid our country ain’t doing too well either. Sure our Conservative government is basically to the left of Democrats, but with Harper pimping Reaganomics and other crap in the debate a little while back, it looks like we’re heading into an American-style rightward slide.

I have to second (or third or fourth or whatever) the whole second-hand store thing. I’ve gotten so many awesome suits, ties and other apparel that fit great and cost barely anything from those places. Of course I’m lucky in being perfectly average in height and weight, but still.

On-Topic:

I don’t own a cell phone. Don’t like them at all. Way too intrusive, at least for me. I know they are essential in business, and wonderfully useful in families with lots of stuff going on.

Maybe it’s a Luddite thing. Maybe it’s because my fingers feel fat when using leetle-tiny-teensy-weensy buttons…or that my unaided eyesight can barely handle 14-point now. And I get a landline-internets bundle sort-of-a-thing.

Also I was twice nearly killed or seriously injured by cellphone talkers drifing toward me at high speeds: 70 mph on I-95 and 60 mph on the DC beltway. (No hyperbole. I did some nifty driving with tolerances measured in inches to escape both times.) So, yeah, that might have something to do with why I so dislike cell phones.

B^4: My current target is to put up the blog in 2-3 weeks. Thanks once again for the encouragement; it’s one of the reasons I crossed the Rubicon.

Laughing at Looch.

Line forms to the left, sport.

But I have lost the hope that there is a wake-up event (aka, peak wingnut) in the near future.

Why?

One word: Trump.

At least one of them is in New Mexico now

MB: Funny you should mention that in conjunction with leaving the country:. About three months before my run of bad luck, I decided to sell my house in 2012 and move to the other side of the Mississippi…after having lived in Baltimore for a quarter century.

I made my destination decision during my stay in the post-op recovery ward. I’m moving to Albuquerque.

(Also I larfed plenty much at Adult Barbie!)

But I have lost the hope that there is a wake-up event (aka, peak wingnut) in the near future.

One word: Trump.

appropriate: teh hubby and are watching ‘last days on earth’

and even tho steven hawking just said the possibility of the earth being destroyed by a gamma ray outburst is very low, i find myself rooting for it…finding that preferable to an eminent trump outburst…

I wish Trumpy was running for President instead of Trump.

For those R.’s that think Trump is a joke, what might be the difference between him and W.?

They’re both inherited wealth fuck-ups as far as I can tell.

I am wearing used clothing as I type this.

I am wearing no clothing as I type this.

HMPPH!!!

You misspelled “hump”, as a hunchback, you should know better!

Also, hunchback, are you the Sadlynaught formerly known as tsam, and if not, where did tsam go? He knew how to kill a thread, so we wouldn’t get to 4 digits. I hope he is OK.

Getting 4 digits…

But I have lost the hope that there is a wake-up event (aka, peak wingnut) in the near future.

One word: Trump.

I think Trump is only doing it for publicity, and will lose interest/flame out spectacularly. Plus, is the guy whose catchphrase is “You’re fired” really appeal to the guy who’s in danger of losing his benefits?

I decided to sell my house in 2012 and move to the other side of the Mississippi…after having lived in Baltimore for a quarter century.

Come on up to New York- I’ll buy you a beer at The South of France.

where did tsam go?

A question I have considered asking.

I think Trump is only doing it for publicity, and will lose interest/flame out spectacularly. Plus, is the guy whose catchphrase is “You’re fired” really appeal to the guy who’s in danger of losing his benefits?

Of course he is. I mean, he is anything but substantive or meaningful. I mean, the guy make Dubya look like fucking Jefferson. Trump is transparently a small, churlish shitwad that had he not inherited wealth would have been some small-time hustler annoying the fuck out the regulars at a host of local bars (Mebbe even the South of France).

It’s the fact that Trump is given any credibility anywhere is the “take the stairs in case of fire” alert to me. On top of Palin, Bachman, W, etc.

I mean, fuck.

On top of Palin, Bachman, W, etc

i am now rooting for super volcano to be the cause of the world’s demise…within months it would all be over…

Trump is the Mighty Wurlitzer’s greatest circle jerk.

Each one of them, one upping each other, extolling Trump’s integrity.

I don’t think they could have crafted a more prefect homunculus to huckster their ideology of ignorant greed than a “self-made” inheritor.

I wonder if David Koch is pissed the Donald is stealing his minions?

I wonder if David Koch is pissed the Donald is stealing his minions?

Nah. The Donald is a new shiny thing for them. And Koch knows Trump will never put any of his money into the pot.

Am not tsam.

Initially I was Elephant Butte, but only because my first comments here involved Truthie or Consequences………so it was a lame New Mexico joke. And I discovered how a troll could be so lame that a newby could walk in and ridicule him so easily.
I forget who had the line about ‘hunchbacks ringing the dinner bell’ that prompted the switch. MB? BBBB? PM? I thank you, despite not recalling who it was.

…the guy make Dubya look like fucking Jefferson

See, this is what I’m not convinced of…..

True, and I bet if you followed the money-trail it’s “technically” Koch’s money already.

One word: Trump.
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(Mebbe even the South of France)

Nah, he’d piss off the boricuas and get bounced onto his ass. He’d probably make some sort of “citizenship” joke, unaware that Puerto Ricans are, by definition, U.S. citizens.

Nah. The Donald is a new shiny thing for them. And Koch knows Trump will never put any of his money into the pot.

Also, Trump 1)is small potatoes compared to the Kochs, and 2) serves to distract people from the Kochs, functioning much like
Zaphod Beeblebrox in that respect.

I think this could describe the Kochs to a “T”

there are people at the top, they are hidden far from view
they’re not gonna show their faces to the likes of me and you
you never see them on the street,
but you’ll always see the things that they do.
(yes they know) yes they can get away
(no price) no price is too high for them to pay

Once again, these folks must be “imaginary communists” — or at least check it out with Tintin, the blogging asshat at Sadly No! Maybe he’ll set the record straight, or not:

Because we do in fact hate commies, at least real commies, not the imaginary commies that community college Assistant Associate Professor Douglas sees lurking behind every potted plant.”

More lurkers will be speaking at UCLA on April 29th. See, “A Dialog Between Cornell West and Carl Dix”:

Are you on this, as we speak, Tintin?

The Donalde is a very strange man.

Yeah, the Koch Brothers are in it for the whores not the plaudits. Who cares if the tongue baths are going to someone else? They know that they have to come back and spread their cheeks for them whenever they call.

Thanks, guy. Nice little town you’ve got there.

De nada, I’m glad you enjoyed your visit. Though a bit warm, it did turn out to be a fairly groovy week. With my friends in Chicago and Montpelier freezing and my family and friends in Mississippi and Georgia getting a deluge, I feel almost a little guilty with how awesome, if aromatic, New Orleans is in the spring-to-early-summer time. So glad to have been able to share with the thousands of not-asshole* tourist/morons.** Do come back.

Proper respect for zombies.

Well, look at it this way. The city’s laid out moronically, the roads suck, it’s basically in such a bottleneck that leaving the city in any direction is a major hassle, our city government could give a fuck about looking like it even gives a fuck, the roads really suck, and we’ve all be drinking and eating crawfish*** all day. When the zombie apocalypse comes, we’re screwed on a practical level. On a more metaphysical level, however, we have plenty of folks who might be able to hang y’all up.**** Considering the whole bon ton roulez thing, I figure we might could make a deal.

*My brother the sage says “Not every one who goes to New Orleans to have a good time is an asshole, but eventually every asshole looking for a good time will come to New Orleans.” It’s true.

**Heard in a bar: “tourons”. It fits.

***Seriously, these people love their fucking crawfish boils. This town smells like stale alcohol, horseshit, oil and Old Bay.

****To my knowledge, no one has ever tackled the idea of Romero zombies going up against something like Hatian voodoun or New Orleans voodoo or root doctorism, religion that has pre-NOTLD ties to the concept of the risen dead. Come to think of it, I can’t think of any zombie fiction that addresses the concept of religion. I don’t believe World War Z did, though it should if it didn’t. Reckon why.

Back on topic, the conscienceless are pimping the cell phones angle hard, just as they pimped the microwave and television angle a bit ago because they know their target audience is looking for an excuse to disregard and ignore the plight of the poor and is also old and stupid.

for those of us ol enough to remember, this shit has been going on since the Thatcher/Reagan bullshit of the 80’s. Then it was either vacations or TV’s that moved you up from poverty. The fact that mobile phones cost less than 20 Euros if you go for the pay as you go model seems to ahve escapes this chucklehead.

I don’t own a cell phone. Don’t like them at all. Way too intrusive, at least for me. I know they are essential in business, and wonderfully useful in families with lots of stuff going on.

I’m kind of with you there, but its got to the point where freinds and family think I’m a crank for not having one, so 6 months ago, I submitted and joined the mobile world. But I keep forgetting to charge the fucker.

Not only do they have cellphones, they have a whole new bureaucratic condition. Instead of being “hungry,” they’re now “food insecure.”

Sweden?

Yurp?

imma go to ireland…

Canada (close & I could visit my relatives) … almost any country in Europe … Iceland … Costa Rica … something in the Caribbean … New Zealand … Australia.

Sadly, a lot of these boats have sailed some time ago. Most of the civilized world really doesn’t want our fat, ignorant asses moving in unless we’re bringing plenty of dough, and if you’ve got it, why would you leave here?

Also too, both Actor and T & U have been conspicuously absent of late……….

I believe it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

Actor is blocked at work.

T&U may have a life. (Some people have a lot of nerve.)

nor DKW’s mother either…….. I eagerly await the DVD release

Actor is blocked at work. T&U may have a life.

Not the kinda speculatin’ I was hoping for

The Dragon-Queen gave birth, so the Dragon-King may have been forced to do something around the house.

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We’ve got a lot of work to do. Our poor have too much. They are losing bragging rights to the poorer poor of other countries and to the poor of the past. It is our sacred duty as Wall Street Journal readers to help make America’s poor even poorer. And with God’s help, we will.

Some of us (the less interesting ones, true) got deployed to a middle eastern shithole. I drop by and lurk when I can…

Jeez, O.G. didn’t know you were still in. Best wishes, & keep your head down.

Most of the civilized world really doesn’t want our fat, ignorant asses moving in unless we’re bringing plenty of dough.

I can’t speak for other countries, but the NZ refugee quota is kinda full with people from Afghanistan and Iraq… you would think that they could migrate to the countries responsible for making their homes unliveable, but those countries are emphatic about not wanting swarthy people of uncertain loyalties, so we take them instead.

… which is not to say that NZ belongs to “the civilized world”.

Grilled lamb steaks, roasted spuds & sauteed Brussels sprouts. Pretentious California Merlot. Happy Easter to all!!

/Pupienus mode

P.S. I hear NZ won’t let you in if you’re big & fat. An obvious ploy to keep the Yanks out!

Actor is blocked at work.

Hallelujah!

Actor is blocked at work.

Aren’t actors supposed to work at blocking?

AND on the third day, the thread just lay there, like a lox.

I will meet the lox smith of my dreams on salmon-chanted evening.

Mick Farren also brings us the Ayn Rand Dating site.

No thanks. Wrong kind of crazy, plus hygiene issues. (Both traits that Rand herself pioneered.)

plus hygiene issues.

ewww, so on top of being a reprehensible human being, she was also smelly cat?!?!?

I’m kind of with you there, but its got to the point where fiends and family think I’m a crank for not having one, so 6 months ago, I submitted and joined the mobile world.

I’m in the same boat, minus the submitting 6 months ago part.
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Being poor doesn’t count unless your suffering is visible AT ALL TIMES.

They will not be happy until the poor people lean to be poor in the proper, ostentatious manner, until they are all Sitric O’Sanassa:

There was a man in this townland at one time and he was named Sitric O’Sanassa. He had the best hunting, a generous heart and every other good quality which earn praise and respect at all tirnes, But alas! there was another report abroad concerning him which was neither good nor fortunate. He possessed the very best poverty, hunger and distress also. He was generous and open-handed and he never possessed the smallest object which he did not share with the neighbours; nevertheless, I can never remember him during my time possessing the least thing, even the quantity of little potatoes needful to keep body and soul joined together. In Corkadoragha, where every human being was sunk in poverty, we always regarded him as a recipient of alms and compassion. The gentlemen from Dublin who came in motors to inspect the paupers praised him for his Gaelic poverty and stated that they never saw anyone who appeared so truly Gaelic. One of the gentlemen broke a little bottle of water which Sitric had, because, said he, it spoiled the effect. There was no one in Ireland comparable to O’Sanassa in the excellence of his poverty; the amount of famine which was delineated in his person. He had neither pig nor cup nor any household goods. In the depths of winter I often saw him on the hillside fighting and competing with a stray dog, both contending for a narrow hard bone and the same snorting and angry barking issuing from them both. He had no cabin either, nor any acquaintance with shelter or kitchen heat. He had excavated a hole with his two hands in the middle of the countryside and over its mouth he had placed old sacks and branches of trees as well as any useful object that might provide shelter against the water which came down on the countryside every night. Strangers passing by thought that he was a badger in the earth when they perceived the heavy breathing which came from the recesses of the hole as well as the wild appearance of the habitation in general.

FYWP

Fuck you, Meade. Steal my comment again and see what happens.

An obvious ploy to keep the YanksSamoans out!

Meade, thanks for reminding me of Flann O’Brien and showing why i need to read more of his work.

So nice to see that Mr. Creosote has put his life — and himself – back together and now has a job.

“In Charleston, you can visit Slightly North of Broad or (S.N.O.B.), but probably not if you are poor. Damn good food there, though.”

SNOB is okay. But if you’re going to spend big money on food, you should go to F.I.G. (Food Is Good — stupid name, but arguably one of the best restaurants in the U.S.). McCrady’s is holding its own nicely, too. If you want to break the bank, the Charleston Grill. For more casual but still fancy eating – Rue de Jean. (Don’t bother with the really expensive entrees, just get the moules frites. That way you can afford drinks from their excellently stocked bar.)

If you’re not rich, recommended Chucktown area eats: Boulevard Diner (In Mount Pleasant – this is extremely local and very tasty); Bertha’s (real soul food – it will kill you right there on site, but you’ll be dying very very happy, try the okra soup); Jack’s Cosmic Dogs (Mount Pleasant, way the hell out on Hwy 17 – yes, it’s a hot dog stand, go anyway).

Not so cheap but worth doing once, and you can go in T-shirt and flip-flops: Bowen’s Island. For the all-you-can-eat steamed oysters. Don’t forget to lavishly tip the guy who spends all night shoveling the oysters onto the hot steal, and who spent all day harvesting the suckers.

Avoid like the plague: Hyman’s and Jestine’s. Not just tourist traps, but way sub-par, too. (SNOB’s kind of a tourist trap, as is Magnolia, but both are fine places to eat.)

Don’t s’pose it occurred to this rocket scientist that a lot of people have cells because they CAN’T AFFORD LAND LINES. Or for that matter, land. Wanna get a job? They gotta be able to call you…..

Down here at the bottom of this used up thread, just want to note that if you get Medicaid, Food Stamps or such like, you can get a FREE cell phone with an hour or more of free minutes every month! Whoooo…. loooxooriieeee….

Food stamps and unemployment insurance are the Sitric O’Sanassa’s water bottle of liberal fascism.

I remember that one time when the fat-faced schulb shown above and his pal Barney Rubble tried to sneak out and go bowling instead of going shopping for a sabertooth tiger rug with Betty and Wilma.

It was hilarious.

I will keep complaining, rich people, until I get an iPad.

Actually, despite 173 examples of pure ad-hominem, Taranto’s statement is grounded in economic fact. Given that so many of our so-called “poor” rant-n-rave about not “havin’ thangs” is somewhat credible evidence that their lower brains have had lives in which they are able to avoid delaying gratification and have had pretty much what they want when they want it. Were their frontal lobes in more control they would not be in such a snit when they can’t instantly reach for all the rattles their hard working peers and neighbors earn and enjoy. Obama has only entrenched this sub-moronic culture by encouraging ~ more than hard work and the delaying of reptilian and reactive urges and “wants” ~ instead, an attitude of envy, disdain for success, promotion of sloth, and justifying the notion that we all deserve the same “stuff” whether we earn it or not!

Fenwick?