As African As Watermelon Pie

Another week and we have another column from our favorite wingnut and giraffe impersonator Jeannie Deangelis, fixating yet again on the Negress in the White House who spends her time eating fancypants stuff like guacamole and tamales while passing laws forcing everyone else in America to eat boiled tofu, celery leaves and alfalfa sprouts. Three times a day, seven days a week. Without salt.

This time Jeannie zeros in on the new nutrition chart. You know, the one that the federal government is forcing you to paste on your refrigerator and which will lock the refrigerator door shut forever if you depart in the teensiest bit from those nanny-state rules dictating what everybody must eat.

Everybody but, of course, Michelle.

You may not know this — in fact, few do — but the new chart was entirely the creation of Michelle Obama, who is rumored to have taken off time from noshing on free-range chicken in beluga and lobster sauce just long enough to fire up Adobe Illustrator and create the new chart. Although Jeannie has no direct evidence of this nefarious deed by the First Witch, she has damning circumstantial evidence:

Michelle Obama seems fixated on pie: Pizza pie eaten both in the White House and outside the White House, apple pie, Thanksgiving pie, the Crust Master’s’ “dangerously good” pie, other people’s pie, and now the pie-obsessed first lady may be responsible for dismantling the food pyramid and changing it into….? You guessed it, a pie chart.

Except, it looks like a plate, not a pie, to me, but that’s just because I’m liberal and gay.

Of course, Michelle didn’t draw just any pie. No siree! It’s a socialist pie.

What a coincidence. Remember when Michelle said: “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more?”

Could it be that Mrs. “share your pie” Obama is behind purposely associating food and health with a logo that coincidentally symbolizes what Michelle suggested all Americans volunteer to do for the greater good?

So not only does the new chart force you to stir ground flaxseed into your Jello but also it forces you to give your flat screen TV to hobos.

Now Jeannie ties it all up for the Renoomuhrka readers who might have so far missed her point:

[S]hould Michelle Obama, a “tasting tour” fan who flies pizza chefs from St. Louis to the White House and whom Obama says “can afford to have as many tamales as she wants,” be the one dictating food choices and portion control with a symbol used to promote the “piece of the pie”-sharing cause of Obama-style socialism?

In case you’re wondering what Jeannie’s food chart would look like, here it is:

UPDATE: Jeannie posted this column on her blog, so go here to comment, if you’d like.

 

Comments: 257

 
 
 

The fact is, I LIKE pie!

 
 

Pie > cake.

 
 

Dear Jeannie,

Please note that some of the items left off of the Evil Communist Pie Chart are sulfur, tar, boiling hot lava, and ninja throwing stars. It also says you should never, ever eat three pounds of gunpowder and then top it off with a lit match. Are you gonna let Michell Obama tell you what to do, Jeannie?

 
 

Yes, eat wingnuts. Have that second DQ Blizzard. Pay no attention to calorie counts. We want you slow and sluggish on reckoning day.

 
 

I would comment, but I must now go and arrange colored jello on my plate according to the dictates of Michelle “tasting tour” Obama.

 
 

Michelle Obama seems fixated on pie.

Really Jeannie, fixated? Don’t you think “fixated” would be better applied to someone who, say, writes column after accusatory column about the President’s wife? if I was a suspicious person I might think you have a secret desire to be close to Michelle. Do you get breathless when you think of her? Do your palms get moist when you see her in those fab gowns? Do your lady bits go tingly at the sight of her bare arms? Just asking.

 
 

Don’t you think “fixated” would be better applied to someone who, say, writes column after accusatory column about the President’s wife?

Including known falsehoods every fucking time… Jesus, these people either know the pizza story is bullshit and are lying through their enormous horse teeth or they are so fucking stupid they need a pie/plate chart to remind them to eat at all.

 
 


Jesus, these people either know the pizza story is bullshit and are lying through their enormous horse teeth or they are so fucking stupid they need a pie/plate chart to remind them to eat at all.

I pick both.

 
 

some of them have the earphones with recorded messages; left ear says ‘inhale’, right ear says ‘exhale’.

 
 

Does this dumb woman really think the First Lady came up with this chart by her lonesome? My God, I imagine nutritionists have been working on it for years. And every reference I saw to it yesterday called it a plate, not a pie.

 
 

Just think, every time a Republican Googles “nutrition” they’ll get Jeannie.

 
 

Whatever crazy right wing stuff you write in jest, Tin Tin, is no match for the real thing.

We should take her to business school, where she’ll find a vast Obamasocialist pie chart conspiracy brainwashing the next generation of America’s leaders.

 
 

This is a real first: the new plan actually dares to tell Americans to “eat less” … because a dietary model suited to farm & factory workers is essentially suicide-by-fatty-acids for cubicle drones.

Sorry – I have to call FAKE on Jeannie’s food chart.
No HFCS?

*bald eagle cries*

 
 

“I call this turf ‘n’ turf. It’s a 16-ounce T-bone and a 24-ounce porterhouse. Also, whisky and a cigar. I am going to consume all of this at once because I am a free American.”

 
Paul T. Lazaro
 

Jeannie (Hatsheput) Deangelis can keep her Pyramids! Pie is real good.

 
Paul T. Lazaro
 

Pie Israel Good!

 
 

to be fair, steak, fries, salt and butter are delicious.

 
 

mingo said,

June 4, 2011 at 16:45

I would comment, but I must now go and arrange colored (you mean AFRICAN AMERICAN) jello on my plate according to the dictates of Michelle “tasting tour” Obama.

Fixed.

 
 


arrange colored (you mean AFRICAN AMERICAN) jello

*sneers at politically correct LIBRUL*

 
 

arrange colored (you mean AFRICAN AMERICAN) jello

*sneers at politically correct LIBRUL*

I see your sneer, and raise you an eyebrow.

 
 

Our God-given right to eat glazed donut bacon burgers shall not be infringed.

 
 

well, my plate chart last night included healthy portions of beer, whiskey and bourbon…thank you michelle!!!

 
 


I see your sneer, and raise you an eyebrow.


you don’t want to make me snort.

 
 

mingo said,

June 4, 2011 at 17:53

to be fair, steak, fries, salt and butter are delicious.

Tintin seems to have forgotten one of our major food groups, HFCS.
~

 
 

sharing the pie

 
 

Our God-given right to eat glazed donut bacon burgers shall not be infringed.

I refuse to disclose how many times I replayed that video.
~

 
 

Fat, drunk, and stupid is apparently just how wingnuts like the voting populace.

 
 

You know the whole argument over HFCS reminds me so much of the arguments the tobacco industry made about smoking early on.

“None of our testing indicates a problem. You must have some sort of an agenda and hate America too! Now listen to this expert we hired!”

 
 

You know the whole argument over HFCS reminds me so much of the arguments the tobacco industry made about smoking early on.

Why do you hate FREEDOM?

 
 

No tasty HFCS-enhanced treat would be complete without trans-fats

 
hell's littlest angel
 

The Negroes have been plotting this pie-themed Socialist takeover since the 1970s, when they released their manifesto, the “Jeffersons Theme.”

 
 

you don’t want to make me snort.

Damn, and here I sit, out of that wicked Kochaine.

 
 

Movin’ on up
(Movin’ on up)
to the White House
(Yeah, we’re movin’ on up)
My Sharia-law loving hubby and I.

Yeah, we’re movin’ on up
(Movin’ on up)
Just to bring down whitey
(Yeah, we’re movin’ on up)
Gonna force them all to eat the nutrition-shaped pie.

 
sham - low sodium hunchback
 

dern.. .was almost done with Blatt/Hitler Medicare.

Hitler Pie?

 
 

Our God-given right to eat glazed donut bacon burgers shall not be infringed.

As long as you eat them slowly, with tiger noises.

 
 

China has their tiger moms, and we have ours.
~

 
Judas Peckerwood
 

And there I was thinking that there was nothing more American than apple PIE. More socialist lies, apparently.

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

I gotta say the best times of my life are driving around in town behind the wheel of my Turbo-charged V8 Dodge Ram MegaCharger, chugging the Dew and eating deep-fried tater tots.

FREEDOM~!

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

And with those 30″ off-roaders and THREE American flags waving in the back, I got that bitch down to 3 miles to the gallon

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

And with those 30? off-roaders and THREE American flags waving in the back, I got that bitch down to 3 miles to the gallon

You’re burnin’ it all, you loser! My first car got 8 mpg on the highway and 6 around town—the difference being all the gas that ran over the top of the carburetor and down the engine block when you didn’t suck it in fast enough.

 
Wyatt Watts III
 

I know a lemon meringue pie that’s dying to meet Jeannie Deangelis’ face.

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

You’re burnin’ it all, you loser!

Not even! An extra 5 gallons at every fill-up is reserved for the nearest storm drain.

 
 

“Fat, drunk, and stupid is apparently just how wingnuts like the voting populace.”

I am NOT fat.

 
 

Well, I don’t think it really matters what you eat, just so long as your chew it at least twenty four times, or thirty two, the doctor recommended number, once for each tooth.

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

Deep fried tater tots don’t need to be chewed.

Just saying.

 
 

I am NOT fat.

Not any more.

 
 

“And with those 30? off-roaders and THREE American flags waving in the back, I got that bitch down to 3 miles to the gallon”

Needs MOAR TRUCKNUTZ!!11ONE!1

WOLVERINES1!1!! Also.

 
 

Ha ha. I went to leave a personal message for Jeannie, & all the previous “You are a ninny” messages had disappeared!

Free speech!!

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

Needs MOAR TRUCKNUTZ!!

My damn mudflaps keep kicking them off.

 
 

So I left this, for it’s few minutes of life:

Golly, Jeannie, what happened to all the “you are a very silly person” comments that were here minutes ago?

Why, you’re WORSE than Michelle Obama!!

 
 

All gone now. We should keep her busy all day “moderating” her comments.

 
 

Golly mister. Your truck is so big and powerful. We’re all really intimidated down here.

 
 

Oh darn it, I thought I’d really caught her, because former FDA head Dr. David Kessler is represented by the AEI Speakers Bureau.

Alas, not the AEI w/ which we’re most familiar, but American Entertainment International. Located in Allston, Mass., which I understand is full of weirdos.

 
 

Bells and whistles reverberate from the the depths of my mind; catalyzing a cohesion of words and ideas, equisite and sublime. I rush once again to pen and paper. As I gaze at the blank page, my excitement fades, and my mind becomes as blank as the page before me. Thoughts demand to tumble at me, insistent and growing bigger than my body. They fly away from me, back into the depths of my subconscious and I crawl after them, grasping after them. I don’t catch them in time and I despair that they are eternally relegated to the depths, obscured from the sun. Inspiration gathers strength, takes hold of my being for precious seconds, and creation remains a hostage. P.s. You can’t have one without the other. That’s the one. If you know what I’m saying, if you know what I mean.

 
 

Right, so Jeannie has got the right to eat what she wants and is not going to have some uppity first Lady tell her what to do. So she will not have that healthy Socialist crap. So her death from arterio sclerosis is a kind of suicide, which will make Baby Jebus cry. Also voluntary euthanasia is RONG!!!
It sure is the Double Down of stupidness

 
 

from me. not at. for once. damn you.

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

We’re all really intimidated down here.

What can I say? Freedom ain’t free.

 
 

“We should keep her busy all day “moderating” her comments.”

I’d love to help but it’s the first 80 degree day of the year, and the first rely sunny one too, so I’m off to ride my motor pickle up around Mt. St. Helens environs. WOOHOO! First big ride of the year!

 
 

I’d love to help but it’s the first 80 degree day of the year, and the first rely sunny one too,

And with all the rain before you can actually watch the Roses growing.

First big ride of the year!

Bitch!

 
 

Ah, Pupienus, I’m just saying, trousers on, OK?

 
 

You will take my key lime pie when you unwrap my cold dead tongue from it.

 
 

No tasty HFCS-enhanced treat would be complete without trans-fats

This comment appears to have strayed in from an Amy Alkon thread.

 
 

Mr. Poopy M. is excused from trolling for the day so he may go cruising.

 
 

I’d love to help but it’s the first 80 degree day of the year, and the first rely sunny one too,

it is awesome here as well…i have most of my gardening done…so i had some time to go over to jeannie’s and ask her a question…while i finish the rest of my planting, i will be mulling over more comments i can make over there…and then i am going to fire up the barbie and grill up some spareribs and some pheasant…

 
 

What can I say? Freedom ain’t free.

but its fries are delicious…

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

Freedom Fries and Liberty Tots. Real Americans’ health food.

 
 

I had been a little concerned about Ben Shapiro’s attack on Sesame Street until I saw Hannity’s panel of experts not a brain cell between ’em.
I just love the member from Ohio who’s got his OWN book to spruike, actually

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

What can I say? Freedom ain’t free.

It is a Dom, however.

 
Even more Patriotic Douchebag
 

That DeLuise fella was always a bit iffy in my book but Burt liked him so I guess that made him okay.

 
 

In the Jones’ kitchen, 12:15 p.m., three plates on the table, one with a puddle of green, a brown stick, and a yellow round. The other two plates each have three plump hot dogs covered with chopped onions and a squiggly line of mustard down the middle of the steaming bun. Alongside the dogs is a pyramid of perfectly browned french fries and a stack of dill slices.

What’s this supposed to be?
Your lunch. Eat.
I know it’s my lunch, but what is it?
I don’t know exactly, it’s what was in the tray.
What tray?
Your diet tray.
Shit. I knew this was going to suck.
You haven’t even tried it yet. Try it, you might just like it.
Which one, the green, the brown, or the yellow.
Don’t be smart, just eat. You won’t know the difference after you’ve eaten.
The hell I won’t. I might get sick even. You better have the car ready.

Hey mom. Hey dad.
Hey mom. Hey dad.
Y’all sit down and eat and don’t say anything to your father.
Mom, Jimmy got more fries than me.
No he didn’t, I counted them. You each got twenty.
Dad, did you eat some of my fries?
No, son, I didn’t. I’m on a special diet, don’t you see?
Eeewww. What’s that brown stuff dad?
Don’t ask.
I told y’all not to say anything to your father. Just eat your hot dogs and go play.
Dad ate some of my fries mom.
Mine too, mom. Dad ate four of my fries.
Yeah mom. Dad ate six of my fries. Can I have some more?
No. Now eat.
You boys don’t know how lucky you are.
Yeah dad. I hope I never grow up.
Me either dad. I like hot dogs. Does this mean you cain’t ever eat hot dogs again?
No, it doesn’t. It’s temporary.
How long is temporary Dad?
About twenty pounds.
Children, don’t bother your father. He’s trying to eat.
Well, gee mom, tell dad to quit eating my french fries.
Honey, are you eating french fries?
No.
Mom, can we go in the den and eat.
Yes, why don’t y’all go in the den and eat. You are on a diet mister.
Fries are my favorite food in the world.
I know. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have put them right there in your face.
Hey, you know what this brown ain’t too bad.
Good. See, that’s what the box said. The taste would surprise.
Hmmm. The yellow has a strange taste. Oh, I know, creamed corn.
Here, let me taste. Hmmm. Pretty good. What’s that in your pocket?
Nothing.
Nothing my foot. Those are the french fries!
The boys were playing a joke on me.
Right. Give ’em up.
Awww. Please.
Nope. Give ’em up.
Just one?
Nope, not even one. Eat some of the green.

 
 

You will take my key lime pie when you unwrap my cold dead tongue from it.

Great. Now I want key lime pie.

Dammit, people. I am highly suggestible when it comes to food! Could you be more sensitive?

 
 

Martin Bashir wins the tv tubes. When he was interviewing Ben Shapiro, Ben starts whining about the media trying to tear down Sarah Palin, to which Martin interrupts, “Sir, she has a whole network behind her.” BOOYA!

 
 

I am highly suggestible when it comes to food!

Would it help if I thought about brussel sprouts?

 
 

Brussels sprouts!!!

I’m off to the store.

P.S. Ms. vacuumslayer, of all people I would have though vacuum cat might have your support.

Is it something about a bicycle that the vacuum is still working when he’s finished cleaning?
~

 
 

He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.

Ben starts whining about the media trying to tear down Sarah Palin,

Yep Ben, recording what comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth is nothing short of slanderous.

 
sham - low sodium hunchback
 

Blatt/Hitler Mediscare video in case anyone remembers yesterday.

 
 

I’m surprised no one has come to the “obvious” conclusion yet:

Michelle Obama IS Giblets!

(waiting patiently for the column revealing that the Obamas actually run fafblog.)

 
 

Brussels sprouts!!!

I’m off to the store.

Splitter!!

 
 

Here you had me all quivering with an-

ticipation, and yet Giblets hasn’t posted since March 8, 2010
~

 
 

So the 1940s food pyramid: Combination of chartjunk and junk science, a compromise between lobbyists from different agricultural industries, devoid of facts. Foodstuffs arranged in a hierarchy to convey the message that the top of the hierarchy (meat) is better.

1990s food triangle: loses the hierarchical message but keeps the triangular outline because WHY? Still evident that actual nutritional science was the second-lowest priority for the advertising agency invited to design it… the lowest priority being “effective graphical display of information”. I shudder to think what Tufte had to say about it.

New food circle… I see the NYT consulted a Dr Walter C. Willett, who responded with understatement:
“It’s going to be hard not to do better than the current pyramid, which basically conveys no useful information”.

Then they consult “Robert C. Post, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.”
(1) If dietary / nutritional policy is being set by Agribusiness then you’re fucked.
(2) Post explains that the logo’s purpose is primarily to ensure that people become more anxious about food:

it was meant to be a “visual cue” that would prompt “consumers to say, ‘I need to be a little more concerned about what I choose to build a healthy day’s diet.’ ”

(3) The recommendation that half your intake of grains should be wholemeal is only there to piss off Pupienus.

 
 

I am disappointed that Soylent Green comprises only a quarter of the daily plateful.

 
 

I am highly suggestible when it comes to food!

Would it be helpful to know that in France they are described as ‘Camembert charts’?
Useful history of pie.

 
 

Give us this day our daily plateful.

 
 

My offering over at her place (awaiting moderation):

“There is enough stupidity and dishonesty (not to mention bitterness and envy) to fill several columns. Why did you waste it all in a single entry?”

Not thinking it makes it through, now am I?

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

You know, we’ve had a lot of fun tonight but I’m here to talk about something that’s not funny: Two and a Half Men…

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

You know, we’ve had a lot of fun tonight but I’m here to talk about something that’s not funny: Two and a Half Men…

Yeah, you know Alan is supposed to be a byword for failure with women, and yet he’s slept with 40% of my freebie list. So what does that make me?

 
 

vs et al: I thought you’d object more to the “drunk” part since Sadlynaughts love them some potent potables, but I thought leaving it out might obscure the original quote too much.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Sigh. Another entry in the “if’n libruls r fer it, Am agin it” sweepstakes. How can they so lack self-awareness as to be opposed to nutrition? How can they think it isn’t obvious that the real motivation is sticking it to the Obamas?

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Michelle Obama should go on television and tell everybody not to eat Drano. That would cure all our problems in one swell foop.

 
 

I’m not going to waste this enhanced bonhomie by reading anymore of this silly woman’s scribblings, but I am curious. Does she actually go into detail about what’s wrong with the Nutrition Pie, or is it like 95% of modern conservative complaints with Democratic policies and has something to do with encroaching socialism and the gradual slide into Sharia-influenced debauchery? I bet it’s the second.

I’d love to help but it’s the first 80 degree day of the year, and the first rely sunny one too,

It’s 98 degrees in New Orleans. However, we have had copious sunshine.

 
 

Really Jeannie, fixated? Don’t you think “fixated” would be better applied to someone who, say, writes column after accusatory column about the President’s wife? if I was a suspicious person I might think you have a secret desire to be close to Michelle. Do you get breathless when you think of her? Do your palms get moist when you see her in those fab gowns? Do your lady bits go tingly at the sight of her bare arms? Just asking.

Jeannie is fixated on pie.

 
 

Matt T., the last quote Tintin pulled sums it up.

Nothing to do w/ anything but Jeannie’s sad & paranoid obsession w/ our first lady.

 
 

Here in Hell (A) it’s 68°F & fair.

Suffer in your own hells.

 
 

vs et al: I thought you’d object more to the “drunk” part since Sadlynaughts love them some potent potables, but I thought leaving it out might obscure the original quote too much.

nope, just the fat part…drunk and stupid are basically what my life has become…

 
 

igh. Another entry in the “if’n libruls r fer it, Am agin it” sweepstakes. How can they so lack self-awareness as to be opposed to nutrition? How can they think it isn’t obvious that the real motivation is sticking it to the Obamas?

i was listening to a talk show on thursday when this whole hubbub started and the two guys on the show were all like, “what’s this all about? what’s a food pyramid? what’s its purpose? i’ve never seen one in my life!” and then another guy chimes in and he’s like, ‘dudes, you’ve seen this on a handout your kids bring home from school…it’s been around forever.’ and then the other two are like, “oh…it figures! their go the liberals taking over mom and dad’s role and telling us what we should be feeding our kids!’ and the other guy was like, ‘um, nope…just dietary guidelines that have been around forever…just a reminder, you know, to try to eat healthy.’ and then the other two, ‘oh, of course! we’re too stupid to know what to feed our kids. well ha, ha! mom’s know these things and they don’t need the liberal socialists to make them hang a chart in their home telling them how to feed their kids!’

you know what? i began drinking almost immediately upon arriving at my bartending job…

 
 

Michelle Obama should go on television and tell everybody not to eat Drano. That would cure all our problems in one swell foop.

you really need your own television show, you know that?

 
 

Jeannie is fixated on pie.

hair pie

 
 

100

also, too…my comment by ‘margaret’ (always my code name)…is still awaiting moderation…heh…

 
 

Link:

Here’s a quick trick: Google the phrase “Breitbart Holdings” and you can find domain names for Andrew Breitbart’s media empire that were never utilized.

So far I’ve found:

bigbiology.com
bigstemcells.com
bigfareast.com
bigh2o.com
big23.com

 
 

then the other two, ‘oh, of course! we’re too stupid to know what to feed our kids. well ha, ha! mom’s know these things and they don’t need the liberal socialists to make them hang a chart in their home telling them how to feed their kids!
Obesity figures! Why must you mock us???

 
 

It’s 98 degrees in New Orleans. However, we have had copious sunshine.

In spite of the fact that it was over 90 earlier, right now it’s pouring rain and there is hail ricocheting off the windows.
~

 
 

Does this kind of thing really have any traction with the average schmo on the street? He knows he’s got to drop some weight, and eat something green once in a while… are the revamped food guidelines really something John and Jane Q. Public really care about?

 
 

Dammit, TinTin! I am NOT GAY!

Mostly.

 
 

Imma be thinking Jeannie has a fixation on a little Mandingo action, only Michelle is in the way

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

Women are pretty.

 
 

are the revamped food guidelines really something John and Jane Q. Public really care about?

I’d guess no, considering what a nation of obese oafs (Oaves?) we are, & that includes me, who is never eating anything green again because E. coli, & is too lazy/agoraphobic to leave the bunker for exercise, plus I’m leading the life of the mind in here, quit buggin’ me!!

 
 

considering what a nation of obese oafs (Oaves?) we are

Half an oaf is better than low bred.

 
 

Food porn (for masochism fetishists only)… got four hours of sleep after an all-nighter, didn’t have to to stop anywhere before showing up for another all-nighter on the job, so brought some cooked rice from home, ate it with some briefly blanched wild grape leaves foraged on-site (halfass dolmades).

I plan on sleeping for two days when I get home, then hitting the local Indian restaurant for a gut-busting buffet lunch.

 
 

I’ve made dolmades before with the grape leaves from a jar.

I actually have a grape vine growing on my patio. Do I have to blanch the leaves first if I want to use them?

 
 

Imma be thinking Jeannie has a fixation on a little Mandingo action, only Michelle is in the way

The bitch.

 
Atticus Dogsbody
 

I’m liberal and gay.

No fur pie for you, Tintin, ya big ol’ commie shirt-lifter.

 
 

flatscreen = flaxseed? works for me

 
 

I for one am concerned by the resemblance between the Choosemyplate healthy-diet icon and the Micro$oft Orifice logo.
Product placement!!!

 
 

I actually have a grape vine growing on my patio. Do I have to blanch the leaves first if I want to use them?

Yeah, just a quick blanch, then they’re ready to roll… literally!

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 
 

OT but, a friend who is something of a Supah Sarah fan and is convinced of her certain Presidency waved me over to look at the “Paul Revere” footage. I just laughed, and we watched it. I immediately went, “Whoa! That’s some powerful drugs.” He agreed.

I had seen it before, but very low-res. If you watch it at a decent size, she really looks hopped up on something.

Ah. Teh frontrunners.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Ah. Teh frontrunners.

Well, Mittens is done for, so yeah.

 
 

If Obama keeps listening to his banker buddies’ advice (aka just keep giving more money to JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, etc.), Mooselini might have a chance.
~

 
 

“you know what? i began drinking almost immediately upon arriving at my bartending job…”

I spent a few years behind bars, somewhere in my misspent yoot. Shall we trade coffee drinks? I’ll start with my “Christmas coffee.” in a glass shaker pour a goodly dosage (like a seven count, nowhumimsayin?) of brandy. To which add a nice dose of grand marnier (or Cointreau if you’re at some cheap shit hole), and a hefty glug of Kahlua (again, if in a dive use Tia Maria). Fill with strong coffee. Dump a couple maraschino cherries in and optionally (though I require it) an ample doadage of 1/2 & 1/2. Say “see boss, it’s coffee!”

For the uninitiated: one can not drink behind the bar. One CAN drink coffee. Bartenders know great coffee drinks.

 
 

Oh, right. It’s called “Christmas coffee” because after a couple, it’s fucking Christmas.

 
 

“doadage”?! FYautocorrect and everything else too. “dosage.”

 
 

The chefs take care of the bartender, the bartender takes care of the chefs. CAPITALIST VALHALLA!

 
 

If I sober up a bit I’ll post up a pic from today’s ride. It was suhweeeeeeet. SUCK ON THAT BEYOTCHES.

 
 

One more for the double turkey! WOLVERINES!!!1!

 
 

Liburl Faschizm ISREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111!!!!!ein1!

 
 

………95% of modern conservative complaints with Democratic policies and has something to do with encroaching socialism and the gradual slide into Sharia-influenced debauchery? I bet it’s the second.

Sadly, I think she is trying to be funny (yes, i went foraging for mangoes, again). but like all right wing humour, it is an epic FAIL.

On the subject of humour fail, I was flicking through Hugh Hewitt’s god awful weblog last night, and came across old eliminationist Steyn again 9yes, I have nothing better to do). Another rightie that tries to be funny, but I sat there almost embarrassed for him, even Hugh was forcing his laughs. I’m kind of glad i ditched the old Steynwatch weblog, I feel its wrong to laugh at the afflicted.

 
 

Screw Michelle’s Pie

Well, if nobody else is going to step up, I’ll volunteer for that. Sorry Barry…

 
 

today’s ride. It was suhweeeeeeet.

Yeah, fy. OTOH, I got me a nice table saw to fix the front door with today.

Tomorrow: a little hour-and-a-half recon ride to find better ways out of town than the fuckin’ slab. I’ll take the opportunity to flip my Harley-riding buddy crap about the last Thursday ride which went through town from bar to bar.

Then, later, last rehearsal before the first jazz band performance.

Man, do I know how to live or what?

 
 

But Jeannie, I thought pyramids were African. And ZOMG! Mexican!

 
 

Speakin’ of rides, I took my Kymco People 250 scooter from Nashville to the ass-end of fuck-all, SEMO last weekend, and had one hell of a time. Many challenges… 45mph wind gusts throughout SEMO, three whole miles of gravel roads, homemade wine… what a rough life I live.
.

 
 

I even brought photos. The first two are my learning how to use an atlatl… at which I suck, btw.
.

 
Enraged Bull Limpet
 

My home-soil is finally warm enough to enwomb watermelon seeds for the summer’s growth, but the fruits may yet be thwarted by capricious chills in September.

 
 

The first two are my learning how to use an atlatl… at which I suck, btw.

You’ll never fight off Cortez at that rate!

 
 

If the atlatl is a useful weapon then how come there is no test site named after it devoted to nuclear warheads and missiles? Eh?

 
 

If Obama keeps listening to his banker buddies’ advice (aka just keep giving more money to JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, etc.)

This.

I mean, I knew it was going on, but… fuuuuuuuu

Where are those damned cliff-o-tines?

 
 

If the atlatl is a useful weapon then how come there is no test site named after it devoted to nuclear warheads and missiles? Eh?

By choice, man!

Where are those damned cliff-o-tines?

The design project didn’t receive any stimulus funds.

 
 

Attempt at a Shorter Jeannie Deangelis:
“Michelle Obama seems fixated on pie”, as shown by all these statements and policies emerging from the Obama administration that never overtly mention pie but contain a secret theme of pie underlying everything.

 
 

Alternate shorter Jeannie Deangelis: None dare call it quiche!

 
 

Sarah Palin called it quiche two summers ago.

 
 

The design project didn’t receive any stimulus funds.

Perhaps if we went for building a whole bank of them, it might set off the right funding trigger.

 
 

Michelle Obama is fixated on pie … PI is an irrational number. Coincidence? I think not.

 
 

Sarah Palin called it quiche two summers ago.

Unfortunately for her, no one knew what “kwitchie” was.

 
 

no one knew what “kwitchie” was.

That’s what you say to a babby as you scratch: kwitchie kwitchie coo.

 
 

I think the polite term is “jello of color.”

OK, why is acceptable to call someone “a person of color” but not “a colored person”???

 
 

“coloreds” used to be used quite extensively as a pejorative in “polite” company.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Boy, trying to keep strawberries from cooking down into mush is hard enough…I’m trying to get my head around watermelon pie. Maybe I can practice by nailing Jello to the wall.

 
 

I was once asked by a waitress if I wished to try the quickie Lorain. I asked for rosy wine to go with. True story.

 
 

Juggling the Jello.

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

Nailing the Jello.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

I was once asked by a waitress if I wished to try the quickie Lorain. I asked for rosy wine to go with. True story.

Now we heteros could have asked: “I don’t know…is your name Lorraine?” <wingnut> Further proof God hates gays! Missing such good straight (sic) lines! </wingnut>

 
 

I was once asked by a waitress if I wished to try the quickie Lorain. I asked for rosy wine to go with. True story.

ha ha…i once had a chick ask for white zinfandel (pronounced like sandal) to go with her caesar chicken salad…when i informed her we didn’t have caesar chicken salad, she then switched to chicken strips and fries…wth?

 
 

Did Caesar make the chicken strips?
~

 
 

I made a watermelon chiffon pie last summer. It was pretty darn good.

Wonder why Jeanie’s not showing any comments?

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Did Caesar make the chicken strips?

Seizing the chicken and stripping it.

 
 

More health food from Paula Deen.

(I’m not sure she used enough powdered sugar, though.)
~

 
chimpevil (aka Serj Tankian lead singer of System of a Down)
 

My comment on miss thing’s thing, which will not get through f’in moderation-

GAY NEGRO wrote:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
What is it with your obsession with Michele Obama, Miss Jeannie? Seriously, she ain’t dictating squat to nobody, girl. She’s just pointing out that our collective nutritional habits could be better, don’t you think? And Jeannie, if you ever had the misfortune to have to use public transportation, you would know that many people do not have a clue about proper nutrition and eating habits–they should charge double fare for some people for real. Just sayin’. Another thing, miss thing, is that you can eat tamales and pie and pizza pie or mostly whatever you want if you EXERCISE, as Mrs Obama obviously does. As for your dislike for what you call a nanny state, can you please extend that disdain to advocate that government stays out my bedroom, or out of a woman’s womb? Oh and one last thing, see that acacia leaf way on top of the tree, can you snatch it for me? Thanks, Jeannie!</i?

Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 12:10 pm | Permalink

 
chimpevil (aka Serj Tankian lead singer of System of a Down)
 

oh and being a liberal I blame the tag fail of bbkf

 
chimpevil (aka Serj Tankian lead singer of System of a Down)
 

that would be “on” bbkf- damn who can I blame that on???

 
 

Blatt/Hitler Mediscare video in case anyone remembers yesterday.

well done, you! it took me this long to figure out that you had made another creation…i laffed…

 
 

I’d blame Carl “Tintin”.
~

 
 

oh and being a liberal I blame the tag fail of bbkf

hey!!!

 
 

Shorter John Hinderaker:

Medicare, along with its cousin Social Security, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the wealthiest segment of our society, the elderly.

OH NO WAIT THAT’S A LITERAL QUOTE FROM HIM.

 
chimpevil (aka Serj Tankian lead singer of System of a Down)
 

Shit wait, being gay and black (oh and half and half even better) I can blame almost everybody for my mistakes! So bbkf before I sue you for discrimination do you have anything to say? (And please don’t throw any tags, girl!!!)

 
 

I personally think that the wealthy are the wealthiest segment of our society.

 
 

I personally think that the wealthy are the wealthiest segment of our society.

That’s just like something Hitler would say.
~

 
chimpevil (aka Serj Tankian lead singer of System of a Down)
 

the wealthiest segment of our society, the elderly.

Guess that accounts for their haute coutoure.

 
 

OT on the subject of beards: Oops, they forgot one–the Married to a Republican one.

 
 

When we were down in my home state, Arkansas to end my BIL’s wedding, a waitress at Chilis asked if we wanted something with tor-till-as. TILL.

And the hotel clerk asked us if we wanted a doo-blay (double) room. I shit you not.

I was like “ARKANSAS IS NOT REPREZENTING.” Oh, I was facepalming all over the place.

 
 

Our Can Sass definitely was re-present-ting.
~

 
sham - low sodium hunchback
 

i laffed…

–bbkf

The highest praise.

 
 

Yesterday, at my favorite photo op spot on one of my favorite rides.

http://i.imgur.com/charE.jpg

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

The next episode of Doctor Who will be called Let’s Kill Hitler.

Finally! The Doctor will be fighting against the scourge of liberal fascism.

 
 

” to end my BIL’s wedding”

Or attend.

 
 

Medicare, along with its cousin Social Security, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the wealthiest segment of our society, the elderly.

Wall Street, along with its cousin Financial and Credit Service Industries, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthiest segment of our society, investment bankers.

The Modern War Machine, along with its cousin Pants Pissing Fearmongering, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the wealthiest segment of our society, the military industrial complex.

Corporate America, along with its cousin Wall Street, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the taxpayers to the wealthiest segment of our society, CEOs.

 
 

My personal fave language mash came when I was asking directions to a certain street in New Orleans. Now, NO butchers a few street names, pronunciation-wise. It took the cake though, or pie, when looking for a street out in the stretch where they are named for the muses, the person I was asking couldn’t figure out what I was looking for no matter how I pronounced it. Finally a light bulb went on in her head and she said “Oh! You mean cee-el-ten street.” as the locals knew it. CL10. Clio. I thanked her and walked away, vaguely stunned.

 
 

Hitlerism, along with its cousin Hitlerism, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the wealthiest segment of our society, Hitler.

 
 

Sesame Street, along with its cousin Elmo’s World, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the taxpayers to the wealthiest segment of our society, pre-school children.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Here’s how you destroy social programs:

1) If they are universal, you say “Isn’t it a shame that hard working people are paying taxes to give benefits to rich people who don’t need them. This program should be means tested!”

2) If they are not universal, you say “Isn’t it a shame that hard working people are paying taxes to give benefits to these lazy poor people who expect to sponge off everyone else! We should eliminate this wasteful program and cut taxes!”

3) Cut taxes.

1-2-3 is the traditional approach, but other permutations are also possible.

 
 

Cute kittenism along with it’s cousin, you know the one who got sick at Aunt Mabel’s funeral, the shortish/tallish one, you know. Has perverted our government into one whose principal porpoise is to transfer electrons across a potassium gradient to make entertainment segments that look like news broadcasts about cute kittens.

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

Superman, along with his cousin Supergirl, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the taxpayers to the wealthiest segment of our society, Kryptonians.

 
 

Superman, along with his cousin Supergirl, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the taxpayers to the wealthiest segment of our society, Kryptonians.

I find that ridiculous. He could hold Fort Knox for ransom at will.

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

Beware, this is our future if Medicare can’t be stopped!

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Damn illegal aliens!

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Okay, my last was about Superman, in case that is confused by spearhafoc’s last. Hard to quote on iPhone.

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

Mine was about Superman too. I fail to see the problem.

 
 

“cee-el-ten street.” as the locals knew it. CL10. Clio. I thanked her and walked away, vaguely stunned”

Oh my!

 
 

Medicare, along with its cousin Social Security, has perverted our government into one whose principal purpose is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the wealthiest segment of our society, the elderly.

OH NO WAIT THAT’S A LITERAL QUOTE FROM HIM.

B-b-b-b-buuut, the Republicans are all about saving Medicare, right?

Quoted from his quoted from Andy McCarthy,

Medicare deserves to be destroyed, and destroying it would be better for current and future generations, young and old. So why not make that case? Other than a committed socialist ideologue, no one in his right mind would vote to implement Medicare today — not if we were on a clean slate and knew what we know now about its ruinous operation. Ryan’s essential point is that health care is increasingly expensive because it is not permitted to function as a regular market commodity — one with sentient consumers shopping carefully, spurring competition, driving down prices, and encouraging innovation. That kind of market can never happen with the government as a central player.

I hope the both of them die broke and alone after twenty years of living on cat food and needing medication they can’t afford.

 
Lurking Canadian
 

Also hard to click links on iPhone.

 
 

Oh my!

Right?

Okay. Sans serif font, all caps, on the sign it sort of looks like that, but… sheee-iit

 
 

omg. Oh no they di’in’t. Oh yes, they did

O.M.F.G.

That makes CLIO look like Linus Pauling.

Holy Fuck.

Just Holy Fuck.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Okay. Sans serif font, all caps, on the sign it sort of looks like that, but… sheee-iit

It’s not any stupider than having to add the “10” to OS X 10.6.8 (or whatever’s current) because people kept saying “Oh Ess Ex”. The fact that it followed OS 9 wasn’t a sufficient clue, apparently.

 
 

omg. Oh no they di’in’t. Oh yes, they did

I dunno, looks to me more like one guy just being an asshole and trying to make Palin look bad. As if she needed the help.

 
 

Wading through the tigerpiranha tank of revisions at wikiland, this little mango made me larf.

The historian [[Sarah Palin]] described Revere’s mission thusly:

 
 

<Mickey_Rourke> To all my (Oregon) friennnds! </Mickey_Rourke>

Location is across the street from me. How CONVENIENT!

 
 

Smut Clyde is a tough taskmaster.
~

 
 

moar comic sans
Speaking of typographical atrocities, the main Irish bar in this fair city is currently printing signage in Papyrus to project its Celtic identity.
Imagine the physical pain this causes me.

 
 

Imagine the physical pain this causes me.

I believe sufficient application of Guinness may help.

 
 

Mmmmmm. Cider.

Btw Pup. Does the Hawthorn Bridge still have that wonderful sign of the motorcycle pitching over its front wheel atop wavy lines strategically placed on the on ramp after you can’t get the fuck off?

 
 

Half an oaf is better than low bred.

Yer on a roll there, Kaiser.

 
 

transfering electrons across a potassium gradient

Old Skool euphemisming!

 
Sarah Palin, Double Dip Historosity
 

“You know what? I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere,” she said. “Here is what Paul Revere did. He warned the Americans that the British were coming, the British were coming, and they were going to try take our arms and we got to make sure that we were protecting ourselves and shoring up all of ammunitions and our firearms so that they couldn’t take it.

She went on: “But remember that the British had already been there, many soldiers for seven years in that area. And part of Paul Revere’s ride — and it wasn’t just one ride — he was a courier, he was a messenger. Part of his ride was to warn the British that we’re already there. That, hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. He did warn the British.”

“In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.”

Gotcha back Baby!!

 
 

That’s not the only problem Molly Malone’s has:

and had a back piper playing from the balcony already at 7 a.m.

Also, does every reasonably sized city in the Anglophone world have one?

 
 

and had a back piper playing from the balcony already at 7 a.m.

Awfully early for the buttsecks.

 
Sarah Palin, Double Dip Historosity
 

He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.

See? Exactly the same!

 
 

Do you ever get the impression that Sarah thinks that since she doesn’t read anything, no one else does either?

 
 

She’s reached the pinnacle of Dunning-Kruger: she has no conception* that everyone else isn’t as dumb and ignorant as she is.

*Heh,

 
 

Does the Hawthorn Bridge still have that wonderful sign of the motorcycle pitching over its front wheel atop wavy lines strategically placed on the on ramp after you can’t get the fuck off?

Yup.

 
 

Speaking of shameless pimping for The Ho, if your local PBS station runs The Out in America special this week, AND they don’t do it live (as in, they just run the national pledge tape), you can catch The Ho at work. Show him some love – *somebody* ought to to.

 
 

How will we know who is The Ho?

 
 

She’s reached the pinnacle of Dunning-Kruger: she has no conception* that everyone else isn’t as dumb and ignorant as she is.

That, and I love the discussion at wiki that amounts to “But Sarah said it so it must be credible!”

It’s telling of something that not only would they rather literally rewrite history than have one of their team be perceived as wrong on anything, but that they try to defend that as the correct thing to do. Stunning.

It really is a cult, isn’t it?

 
 

The cult of Mendacious Mediocrity.

 
 

Do you ever get the impression that Sarah thinks that since she doesn’t read anything, no one else does either?

See, the rules are completely different for these people. Everybody on their side just makes shit up as they go along, and when somebody points out that they’re full of shit, they actually get irked, like, “Don’t you know how we do things here, idiot?”

 
 

“But Sarah said it so it must be credible!”

To expound, teh tea-tool said that because the media was reporting on it, it must be a worthwhile alternative view. By that logic, there should be an entry questioning whether Chicken-Of-The-Sea is fish or chicken because Jessica Simpson done asked it on tha tee vee.

Dunning-Kruger, indeed.

 
 

How will we know who is The Ho?

Oh you’ll know. You’ll know.

 
 

OK, then. I have set a reminder on the cable-devil-box.

 
Spearhafoc, who's on first
 

Also, too, Al Gore is fat.

 
 

To also expound, I think that the justification for this crap, inasmuch as there is one, is that the”facts” have to bend to the Higher Good, i.e. Crush the Enemy. We shouldn’t really be upset by this (for one thing, they like that). It’s just another tactic in the hellish Wingnut Toolbox.

Mind you, I’m talking about the upper echelons of wingnuttery. The rank-and file don’t seem to know facts from falafel, or much care.

 
 

KCET or whatever your station is might pledge it live – many of the biggies do – in which case you won’t see The Ho doing his thing. Still an interesting program to watch though.

 
 

The spate of violence over the Memorial Day Weekend has been a hot topic of discussion around the Internet.
American Thinker has a rather daring (for the ‘conservative’ blogging world, at least) article about the subject. The writer poses the obvious question of why this violence has not ‘made it into the conversation about race.’ Good question, until we recall that. Eric Holder, during the early days of the current regime, made his confrontational statement to wayward White America, calling Whites ‘cowards’, scolding us about the need for a ‘conversation about race.’ In response, quite a few pro-White bloggers responded that his comments could be described, charitably, as disingenuous. Perhaps hypocritical was a better word. We all knew that since the 1960s, at least, the conversation was all one-sided, with Whites being denounced, accused, and berated for the great wrongs we had supposedly done to blacks. There was never any intent to have a two-way, open, honest discussion; we were to sit like a condemned prisoner and listen to the judge pronounce sentence.

So in the light of that fact, it’s not at all surprising that the recent violence is downplayed in the complicit media.

A fairly lengthy discussion thread followed, with politically incorrect views included.

However, there were also a few ‘colorblind conservative’ comments lamenting that people were blaming all blacks for the misbehavior of the few bad apples. This is what I call the ”they’re not all like that” argument, so beloved of PC Republicans.

It seems to me that such pleas for patience with blacks or Moslems or Hispanics often go unchallenged by our side. My response, when I’m in such a discussion, is to say ”then why does no one in the [insert minority name] community speak up against those few ‘bad apples’? Silence gives consent.”

However, these commentss also appeared:

Emily [Moderator] Today 11:50 AM This is one reason why it’s so positive to have Herman Cain, Allan West, and other black conservatives speaking out and providing a different image of what black power means. Sadly, this kind of mob violence may be not only tolerated but quietly encouraged by the ruling liberals as yet another way to intimidate the middle class.

drbulb [Moderator] Today 11:18 AM Wouldn’t you just LOVE to see President CAIN or WEST telling these people that they are responsible for themselves? That no one OWES them anything? That having mutiple children out of wedlock will no longer be rewarded with higher welfare payments? That they are responsible for LEARNING in FREE public schools? The list goes on ad infinitum…

Enter the ‘conservative minority’ to save the day. It seems that a great many Republicans and conservatives are eager to follow the example of the multicultists, flocking to a black messianic figure who can lead us into the promised land of racial harmony, and perhaps they see Cain or West as stern father figures who can just assert authority over all those misbehaving ‘youths’, who will then sheepishly obey.

After that, the youths will all be compelled to learn about ‘conservative values’, the work ethic, and the Free Market, and voila, they will be good Republican voters who become young West and Cain clones.

The video to which I linked in the previous post troubles me. I see older White people, who should be elders and who should exert some authority themselves in their families and communities, sitting literally at the feet of Mr. Cain, while they look up to him with rapt faces. I see an older White gentleman who seems to be in tears as he stands face-to-face with Cain.

It reminds me somewhat of the poor people who flock to TV evangelists who claim to be able to ‘heal’ them.
These people are often emotional and weeping as they step forward to receive their ‘healing’.

The Republican faithful seem to want minority saviors to pronounce them healed of their congenital ‘racism.’ They seem to feel that seeking out Cain’s blessing is proof of their ‘faith’, which will save them.

There is also this aspect: many Republicans had to rationalize their decision to vote for McCain by saying that ”it’s nothing to do with race! If a conservative black candidate came along, I’d vote for him in a heartbeat!” So they’ve painted themselves into a corner, as it were, and now have to put their vote where their mouth is. However, it seems the greater number are giddy about voting for their black knight, their dream candidate.

I’ve noticed this on the Christian message board I visit now and then; they are all truly giddy about Cain.

Many people noted during the 2008 campaign the cult-like aspects of The One’s campaign rallies, with young women particularly in tears or in transports of bliss at being in the presence of their idol. This is what I am seeing intimations of in the video, and it’s sad because these are older people, not idealistic young utopians who know no better.

I see it as rather weird that mature adults are moved to tears by a politician. I understand, though, that they have somehow been conditioned to have oddly deep emotions surrounding black people, as if they have begun to identify with blacks more than with their own. It is odd, when we look at it, that many Whites will vociferously defend minorities, when they remain indifferent to their own race. They have been schooled to believe that they have no race, only an unfortunate lack of pigmentation.

If I had fallen asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, decades ago (say in 1965) and woke up today, I would think the whole world had gone mad in the interim.

The main question to be asked is: can this madness be reversed?
Some optimists among us think that people are ‘waking up’ but when you see this Cain-mania or the similar enthusiasm for West, I can only think that we are getting more deluded.

Meanwhile it seems many paleocons are obsessed with stopping Sarah Palin, and I half-suspect a good many of them would choose Cain over Palin. Proposition nation, anyone? Do politics trump kinship?

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

OT, but S.E. Cupp is skinning a bear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sW2fAM22Rs

 
 

Dim bulb at a dinner party, to a bored Groucho Marx: I’m sorry, am I keeping you awake?

Groucho: Oh, no! Just the opposite, in fact!

 
 

KCET or whatever your station is might pledge it live – many of the biggies do – in which case you won’t see The Ho doing his thing. Still an interesting program to watch though

Hah! KCET has left the PBS fold, it’ll be on KOCE (Orange County) this Weds. from 2000 ’til 2130.

Their sked doesn’t indicate if they’ll be grubbing for money during the show.

 
 

Oh they’ll be grubbing for $$ I guarantee. When you hear the money grubbers say “Support this PBS station” or “call the number on the bottom of your screen” that means they are running the “national event.”. Those are prepackaged shows with generic pledge breaks, supplied by whatever station produced the show. In this case, the national event was produced by The Ho at KOPB, and he is one of the money grubbers.

As I said before, it’s a worthwhile show to watch regardless. The Harolds are a hoot.

 
 

What I meant to say is that when there is no mention of the actual broadcasting station, and when they don’t say the actual number, you know it’s a canned program – their studio is dark.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Hah! KCET has left the PBS fold, it’ll be on KOCE (Orange County) this Weds. from 2000 ’til 2130.

My subconscious was trying to read that as dates, and I was going: “Man that’s a long contract!”

 
 

The main question to be asked is: fuck off.

 
 

Did anyone see the Rick Steve’s Iran pledge show a year or two back? Also had The Ho on doing what he does best – getting old ladies to fork over their SS checks.

 
 

Interesting that conservapedia’s page on Revere has NOT been amended.

 
 

Requiem for a thread.

The thread is dead. Long live the thread.

 
 

getting old ladies to fork over their SS checks.

Will not work on me!

Knowing KOCE, which almost went bankrupt a few yrs. ago, & rents one of its digital channels to some Jesus ninnies, there will be shilling.

 
 

some Jesus ninnies

OK, I larfed at that.

 
 

Deadly E. Coli Outbreak Linked to German Sprouts

Gert Lindemann, the agriculture minister in the northern state of Lower Saxony, said in Hanover that Germans should not eat sprouts until further notice, with definitive test results available Monday. Mr. Lindemann said that the authorities could not yet rule out other possible sources for the outbreak and urged Germans to continue avoiding tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.

The German authorities had acted prematurely once before in their investigation, blaming cucumbers grown in Spain for the outbreak after preliminary tests showed that they might have contained toxic E. coli bacteria. Further tests showed that the Spanish cucumbers did not contain the strain making people sick, and investigators then backtracked.

That episode infuriated Spanish farmers who lost tens of millions of dollars in sales and were forced to abandon ripe vegetables to rot in the fields, as demand collapsed.

Spanish Bombs
~

 
 

Interesting that conservapedia’s page on Revere has NOT been amended.

Probably just because nobody actually reads conservapedia.

 
 

You know WHO ELSE blamed Spaniah cucumbers…

 
 

Rumproast notes that Conservapoo has adjusted its entry.

I’ve always been at war w/ bean sprouts.

 
 

W/ this, all further PENIS posts have been made unnecessary.

 
 

EthnoPatriot said,

June 6, 2011 at 1:40

Do politics trump kinship?

Yes, although without kinship the Senator from Illinois would still be Senator (assuming he could he have reclaimed his office in Ill had he lost to McCain).

One way of looking at Cain is to compare his appeal to Republicans to that of Justice Thomas, who lacks the charisma of either Cain or Obama (or Thurgood Marshall), but who has the rock solid bona fides the conservatives demand from their members. What made Thomas the perfect nominee was of course his being a black man, because he allowed Republicans to boast that they were indeed the Party of Lincoln: see, Liberals, you don’t have a monopoly on the blacks, we have one too, therefore you can’t use our Southern Strategy or our Civil Rights votes against us anymore. Mean racist label peeled off and thrown away forever, in spite of the fact that both sides understood that the old label was still there, just a new label had been put on top of it.

But that doesn’t answer the Messianic appeal of Cain to the older white voter. I’m in new territory here and can’t really explain this except to say there are other examples, although in different venues: Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, M.L.K. Jr., Colin Powell, even Jimi Hendrix (at least in Seattle). I believe that Ms Winfrey could easily win a Senate seat now that she has retired from show T.V. show business, and that former Sec of State Powell would have been a better choice for McCain’s VP than Palin.

You’ll have to excuse me now, but I have had a long day (3:00 am) and am slipping off my chair….Thank you for your post.

 
 

Hey, VS, congrats on the wee boy. Burrito away, baby!

 
 

Why is the world not praising me for declaring them all inferior?
They frighten me when they don’t respect my authority!

 
 

The desperation from the Palinites is pathetic.

Watch as Revere’s attempt to scare his captors with an (non-existent) approaching 500 member militia becomes the PROOF that Palin was completely correct despite never fucking mentioning it once.

 
 

Can you imagine the line of shit her professors had to endure after every botched homework assignment?

 
 

WTF moment over at PJM:

As elsewhere, the insurrection was focused on the current leader — in this case, Silvio Berlusconi — took most expert observers by surprise, and was intriguingly leaderless (the winning mayoral candidates in Milan and Naples were virtual unknowns, and while both attracted support from the center-left Democratic Party, they owed it nothing and will likely govern with teams of young mavericks), leaving traditional opposition figures wondering what to do next. As in Egypt, we can expect the usual suspects — here, the center-left, and most importantly the heirs of the old Communist Party — to reorganize, penetrate the new insurrectionaries, and trot out their old dreams of an even bigger state with even more central control, but for the moment, it’s wide open. Meanwhile, Berlusconi has been battered in the most unexpected way — most of us “experts” thought he was unbeatable at the polls, as the public opinion surveys had documented until the eve of the vote — and his party, which is more a cult of personality than a modern political organization, is now looking for a successor for the first time in eighteen years.

In our words, the Italian Tea Party has had a great success.

The biggest rebuke of right wing politics in Italy for… well, quite a while, and all he has to say is that they’re really all just National Review readers on the inside?

“Alan… if it looks like you’ve lost… act like you’ve won! Works for [George Bush] our President!”
– Denny Crane

 
 

Italy is the latest country to be hit with the fury of the global insurrection, whose recent targets include Muslim countries from Arab North Africa and Iran, largely agnostic European nations including France, Germany, Spain. and Holland, and of course that most revolutionary country, the Christian United States.

I live in one of these countries and less than 100 miles from two others, and I hadn’t noticed. Thanks, PJM, for warning me about the insurrection.

Plus, new thread.

 
 

One of those isn’t even a country.

 
 

Watch as Revere’s attempt to scare his captors with an (non-existent) approaching 500 member militia becomes the PROOF that Palin was completely correct despite never fucking mentioning it once.

In 3… 2… 1…

Who knew that any old twit, like this fine gent, can get their articles in Yahoo News. God only knows what the editorial policy is.

 
 

That “article” btw, was linked to in teh wiki talk page. The comment linking it was deleted by the time I was going to reply, after reading the yahoo bit.

Who knows how much similar stuff is being chucked up there and taken down? There’s no history page for the talk page, now is there?

It’s a fucking moronswarm.

 
 

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