What Is The Difference Between Trickle Down Economics And Zombies?
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 by Tintin
ABOVE, David Harsanyi, JD, LLM (Swampitucky School of Law, ’81, ’84)
Shorter David Harsanyi, Real “Clear” Politics
You Want More Equality? Support More Capitalism
- Who cares about income inequality? What we should care about is making sure that the rich gain back the income that they lost during this recession, because if the rich get richer, the poor will get richer too.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Wow, OBS is MAGIC!
ZOMBIES ISREAL?
I promise to only use my power for good.
Probably.
I promise to only use my power for good.
Probably.
Could you conjure me up a ham sammich?
And I swear if any of you fuckers feed the trolls on this shiny new pristine thread I. Will. Cut. You.
I know. There’s no “Trickle Down Economics Rotten Mcdonald” posting on Sadly, No!
On topic(GASP), it’s just more magical thinking from the right. Sure, contrary to what the Laffer curve predicts revenue has gone down when we’ve cut taxes, that just means we must CUT MOAR. So less regulated capitalism has led to the greatest inequality since before we had regulation? Obviously, STOP REGULATING!
we must CUT MOAR
It’s like DenDen: if he just gets a little stoopider, he’ll stumble across wisdom.
Man, I could only get through a few paragraphs of that dreck. I only wish I had brought along my Buzzword Bingo card. It’s like the article was made using refrigerator magnets with right wing talking points.
Could you conjure me up a ham sammich?
D00d, he’s a beer snob, not a sammich snob!
It’s like the article was made using refrigerator magnets with right wing talking points.
*tearing up plans for booth at Netroots Nation 2012*
D00d, he’s a beer snob, not a sammich snob!
Yeesh! OK, fussy, a ham beer.
So, I’m driving from LA to Toronto, where D-KW’s mom awaits, or dad if I’m outta cash. My plan, loosely, is to take I-10 for purty landscapes through Arizona, then hook up to I-40 somewhere in New Mexico and take that at least to Memphis and then go northish. What should I be doing along the way for side-trips or points-of-interest or food? Any and all advice accepted.
As opposed to the board at Bank of America. Steal the house, pay out the multi-million-dollar bonus, etc.
Mmmmmm ham beer…
OK, folks: What’s wrong with this phrase?
Halal whiskey
Man, I could only get through a few paragraphs of that dreck. I only wish I had brought along my Buzzword Bingo card. It’s like the article was made using refrigerator magnets with right wing talking points.
It read better in the original
GermanAscian.What should I be doing along the way
Picking up hitch-hikers and leaving their corpses in culverts. You know, for the real AMERICAN experience.
Geez, Sub. That takes you right through Amarillo! You must get that 72 ounce steak that if you can eat it in an hour, it’s free!
Here you go
Substance, go through Hatch and get some chilies. Real good enchiladas down there.
Type “do a barrel roll” (but no quotes) into Google.
There is no difference: Zombies trickle down too.
if the rich get richer, the poor will get richer too.
This is an absolute article of faith on the right.
I’m still waiting for them to explain to me why while the rich have gotten FABULOUSLY richer in the last thirty years, no one else has, or why when the rich literally got poorer (=/= “poor”) after twenty years of New Deal redistribution, the rest of the country actually got richer and the economy boomed.
Maybe, just maybe, income redistribution doesn’t make everyone poorer. Maybe, just maybe, when you take a little bit of the money from those who can’t even count it anymore and give it to those who’re in the poor house, all that happens is that poor people get richer (“richer” = having a decent and stable life), the world goes on spinning and everybody lives. Just maybe. I know, call me crazy. Just because that policy gave us the longest sustained economic boom in our history and allowed money to “trickle down” like never before or since is no reason to take it seriously.
What should I be doing along the way for side-trips or points-of-interest or food?
Meteor Crater
Petrified Forest
Yeah, I’m a nerd, bay-bee! Santa Fe is also worth a stop… try the pozole.
72 manly oz. of steak, ’cause I’m sure McG can’t resist the challenge..
OT: Keepin it classy,Michigan style.
ham sammich
ANTISEMITE!
Hmm, looks good. That’s this place, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch,_New_Mexico
I’m holding out for Hamschlager.
So, I’m driving from LA to Toronto
Oh yeah! Well your mom’s so fat that even if she were in LA, I could still do her from here in
TorontoLEAFS SUCK.Stop by all the various Occupied cities along the way?
There is a very special place in hell reserved for assholes like this.
Type “do a barrel roll” (but no quotes) into Google.
Only works in Chrome.
My plan, loosely, is to take I-10 for purty landscapes through Arizona, then hook up to I-40 somewhere in New Mexico
I’ve been to Las Cruces a few times (I guess your plan is to catch I-25 there up to I-40), but if I was you I’d take I-17 in Arizona and catch I-40 at Flagstaff.
Then you could see Gallup (heh, it’s a tiny place), and such as.
But the scenery is nice in the higher desert.
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I’m just a small-town girl from the South, so feel free to take my advice with a grain of salt, but I highly recommend checking out Eureka Springs. And Pittsburg was recently voted one of the four “Cities to See” in, like, the whole world, because of the huge renaissance its undergone in the past few decades. Apparently it has this great downtown and art scene and everything.
I know it’s off your route, but if you ever do get a chance to go, Charleston, SC is must-see.
Carl’s Bad-Ass Caverns might be on your way, depending on where you leave the 10 for the 40. And you could go through Roswell, because you can never have enough cheesy alien souvenirs.
I will say the Caverns impressed the hell out of me when I was seven or eight.
Only works in Chrome.
And ….
Erm, I wouldn’t get the lamb chops; they look raw.
I will pat myself on the back and say I already had this in mind, but time is limited as I have to make a flight. I’m hoping to check out a few.
Tucumcari for a re-creation of Route 66 circa 1955.
ANTISEMITE!
HAM SAMMICH ISREAL
Only works in Chrome.
YOU LIE!
Wow, I like a bit of pink* but at some point you may as well just club a lamb over the head and start gnawing on it’s leg.
*You have a dirty mind.
I have played a show in Pittsburgh and I did a long walking tour of the place. I liked it a lot and I tell people about it and they just go glassy-eyed.
It is great. What’s fun is being there early in the morning and watching all the bats zip into the place; they drop down into the cavern with little whiffing noises. And the horizon at sunset on a good night just fades into endless purple.
What should I be doing along the way?
Keep your eyes on the road & your hands upon the wheel, in the 10 o’clock & two o’clock positions. Drive defensively. Whites optional.
Sing truck-drivin’ songs.
That’s the place. Too bad it’s after harvest – I went there once during harvest and the smell of roasting chilies was absolutely incredible.
I will pat myself on the back and say I already had this in mind, but time is limited as I have to make a flight
Kayak recommended driving to Toronto? Maybe you ought to re-search for that on Expedia.
I don’t know how you’re gonna get from Albuquerque to Memphis without going through Oklahoma.
Keep your eyes on the road & your hands upon the wheel
And wake up that morning and got yourself a beeyeah
I drove and rode that stretch of I-10 many times. Definitely have a meal in or near Hatch as there is no good food to be had in El Paso. White Sands in NM is interesting as is Joshua Tree National Park in CA.
I made that trip on I-40 a couple times and don’t recaqll a single interesting thing about it.
Are you thinking of going up through St. Louie or more northeast? I’ve driven through those parts of the country quite a few times.
Ah, been there, done that, have you?
Hey, other than what we all know, which is that Flash sucks, anyone have any ideas why the ol’ devil-box has taken to freezing except for the audio (which becomes horribly digital & apparently slower) when YouTube & the like are played?
The funny thing is I have had someone I trust tell me that Oklahoma was surprisingly interesting. And vast amounts of Texas – see El Paso mentioned above for instance – hold absolutely no interest for me.
Continuing along I-10 until the Mississippi is possible I guess, but I’d need to be convinced that that much of Texas is worth it. And avoid a lotta seafood.
The Flash plugin sometimes fails within the browser maybe. Shut all browser windows and start again.
Right? I’ve never understood the appeal of eating stuff that rare.
Isn’t Austin supposed to be okay? Also might it not be worth it for New Orleans?
Yeah, that’s understandable. I think the word got out about how neat it is only recently. And Netroots Nation had their thing there…
“vast amounts of Texas”
That would be I-10 from El Paso to Junction.
I have never heard a bad thing about Austin. That is one place in Texas I’d love to visit.
New Orleans might be too much South when he needs to be gettin’ North.
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STAY AWAY FROM AUSTIN!11! NO ONE GOES THERE ANYMORE! IT’S TOO CROWDED!
Right? I’ve never understood the appeal of eating stuff that rare.
Did you want a treatise? I like my steaks rarefood, prefer sushi to most cooked seafood, and my lamb underdone. I find the meat is softer and butterier* and the less cooking it undergoes, the less grit from burned flesh. This is particularly true of game meat, like bison or elk, but it works for most red meats.
*VPR
rarefood
Oooh, neologism! I think I just had a neologism thinking about raw meat.
Shut all browser windows and start again.
Well, yeah. Usually it stays in weird mode for a min. or so, then resumes, ‘though this time it admitted that “Shockwave Flash had crashed,” so I refreshed YouTube & it worked, but this has become a regular phenom.
A couple of times I’ve been informed that the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver has crashed. Seems to have started around the time I started stealing a wireless connection, but that shouldn’t make any diff., I don’t think.
To the shop once I get some spending money, I s’pose.
actor, I knew you were French.
Right? I’ve never understood the appeal of eating stuff that rare.
Steak tartare, baby!
Also, cooking removes the nutrition from stuff.
Played this place after running off to find Mexican food. I was relatively happy in Austin, but that strip of clubs was frat-boy zoo.
New Orleans might be too much South when he needs to be gettin’ North.
Probably, but he’s teh one that mentioned it. I know SFA about stuff to do once you cross teh border. Off season in SW Ontario is basically a big load of nothin’ – but there should be some pretty coloured trees by the time you get here.
actor, I knew you were French
Was it the etchings?
…that the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver has crashed.
Do those things have a history of burning out? It was increasingly frequent Nvidia driver crashes that ultimately resulted in the current non-functionality of the winetop.
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Did your show go all right? It seems like a lot of those acts wouldn’t appeal to frat-boy types…but what do I know?
Betcha didn’t know this about Hot Springs.
Oh, I’m moving here in July. Wanna do some recon? Do my recon for me!!!
Went fine. Emo’s is a gigantic barn with multiple stages and big enough to ignore or pay attention to whatever’s going on. I imagine there’s a crowd of regulars no matter what’s going on.
I did NOT know that, smedley. Interesting.
I imagine there’s a crowd of regulars no matter what’s going on.
Did you play “Freebird” as an encore?
Are you really moving to Newport? I’ve been there, it was nice but definitely small town feeling. You’ll like this place.
Hmm…on the list.
Yup. Late this summer.
tigris wants me to look at Tom Wolfe drawings.
The only thing I’ve ever done up there is stay at the beach in Little Compton.
I love the ocean, so mostly all I did was stay on the beach and in the water.
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Substance, make sure you have plenty of water and mylar blankets, and a cell phone. Just get out and walk in the Sonora desert. Don’t collect any cactii, that’s criminal, but find a couple of nice rocks. There are great rocks in the desert, egg-shaped rocks in celadon and mauve that were tumbled by an ancient river. Take pictures, too. There are all kinds of lovely little animals in the desert. Wish I had had a digital camera when I lived in Arizona. I don’t miss the Republican Snow Birds and Libertarian assholes, but the desert tis tres magnifique. It costs nothing to go for a walk in it.
As for the drive, be prepared to be tail-gaited by people driving 80 miles an hour who will pass you, then end up behind you again, over and over and over again.
Those weren’t there when I went, and they’ll be gone by the time you get there, so we are all safe. Thank heavens.
Jesus, I’m so jealous of people who’ve had that desert experience. I haven’t been to the American Southwest since I was a child, and I know I didn’t appreciate it then. *sulks*
Newport has a cliff walk that’s supposed to be nice. Lots of mansions, if you’re into that sort of thing, cute little shops, inns and cafes, narrow streets that will be a nightmare to drive on, water, sailing, music, arts, etc.
As for the drive, be prepared to be tail-gaited by people driving 80 miles an hour who will pass you, then end up behind you again, over and over and over again.
I might regret asking this, but…how does that work exactly?
That’s why I liked I-40 (unlike Pup), wiley.
I recall one time where I stopped at a roadside rest area, crawled under the barbed wire, and just went up some hills in the desert for photo-taking.
I think all those were on the old work pc, though (aka deleted along with the job).
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Yeah, my brother in law had to shoot a wedding there, so he and his wife and MIL visited. They seemed sort of overwhelmed. In that they thought it was so incredibly pretty…and kinda hoity-toity.
In that they thought it was so incredibly pretty…and kinda hoity-toity.
It was the playground of the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Kennedys. JFK got married there, in fact.
how does that work exactly?
It’s a tortoise & the hare thing: Slow & steady wins the race.
It’s a tortoise & the hare thing: Slow & steady wins the race.
I experienced that in the desert near Palm Springs on my way to Barstow (don’t ask)
It’s almost like, someone sees you on the road ahead and has to get past you because, you know, you’re blocking their view, then they drop back to a more leisurely pace.
I b’leeve Johnny Pez lives in RI, if not Newport, perhaps he can advise VS, or she could e-mail him & bug him about it.
Crikey, two moves w/in a yr., w/ spawn? Keeping one step ahead of the law/debt collectors?
WORSE THAN HITLER!
and then go northish
if you are taking hwy. 75 up through minnesota, make sure you stop in and say ‘hey’…
oh, hey! the son is on teh youtubes! he’s been filling in in his roomies’ band…he’s the bass
player
Video of the Oakland Mercedes incident
Yea, those wacky OWSers always rowdying up trouble…
Stay classy, Tea Party.
Also, note Elizabeth Warren’s response. She is non-sarcastically staying classy.
I have to say I really enjoy the desert.
I recall this being a pretty good tiki bar in Tucson.
I’ll admit that Barry Allen is fairly boring, but the art on the current series is incredible.
WORSE THAN HITLER!
The look on the guard’s face is priceless
I suggest finding a big domestic beater car old enough to have an 8-track player, and only listen to 8-track tapes the whole way. Bonus points for using a highway map from 1975. More bonus points if it has no air conditioning and all of the bonus points for driving an AMC.
all of the bonus points for driving an AMC
Dude, he’s gotta catch a flight.
Video of the Oakland Mercedes incident
I know it’s utoob and all but jeez, “He deserved to get run over.” and so on.
I know it’s utoob and all but jeez, “He deserved to get run over.” and so on.
In Noo Yawk, the Merc would be lucky not to have his hood ornament yanked off for that.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 3, 2011 at 22:39
I have to say I really enjoy the desert.
Who was that masked Bubba?
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I know it’s utoob and all but jeez, “He deserved to get run over.” and so on.
Of course: Dirty lazy bum blocking a very important Galtian in a Mercedes! Class warfare!! Self-defense!! HOW DARE HE?
Righteous Bubba is banned for use of Comic Sans.
A half-assed apology is not enough and I sentence him to DEATH. Or having his car pooped on by a hippie or something, which must be equivalent.
I know it’s utoob and all but jeez, “He deserved to get run over.” and so on.
I noticed that meself.
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my brother in law had to shoot a wedding there
Other people get all the interesting jobs.
Other people get all the interesting jobs
Right? I can’t even get the appropriate license for hunting tourists.
Rhode Island cuisine reading.
I shot a wedding once, just to watch it die.
Guns don’t kill weddings, people kill weddings.
Guns don’t kill weddings,
peoplePredator drones kill weddings..
I’m just … I can’t … I don’t even …
http://i.imgur.com/SzAQN.jpg
I saw Kill Bill. I think the guns helped.
I’m just … I can’t … I don’t even …
Ace and Gary!
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I can only assume Sir Mix-a-lot owns that car.
Perhaps their several years on end off record sky-high profits have already made up whatever $$$ they lost in the recession (assuming they were dumb enough not to join in massively going short on all the over-rated “piece of shit” properties they sold to everyone else as AAA? Of course it’s been a bloody nightmare for small businesses who lack the ability to rig the Wall Street Casino in their favor … & I really doubt another fucking tax-cut is going to help: they need customers with money to spend, & I hear that a strange rare substance known as jobs can help with this.
On the outside, I’m all like: o_0 … but on the inside, I’m ROTFLMAO’ing.
“Do a barrel roll” on Teh Gazoogle works great in Firefox – didn’t have to go beyond “Do a bar-” in fact.
The urge to leave my spoor – let me give in to it:
jimdav2002 0 minutes ago
“Who cares?”
Once the wealthy get wealthy enough, they can – & do – buy your democracy right out from under you … as has been happening with ever-increasing speed & thoroughness since 1980. Free Market enthusiasts can never seem to give any real functional solution to that non-trivial side-effect of unfettered greed, perhaps because no such solution is wanted. Bug, or feature?
The corporatist template has already been in place for years – its true nature is just coming into view more nakedly as its victims increasingly lose any ability to stop it. Government can offer a few token crumbs of superficial (& easily overturned) reform to pacify the peasantry, but above all else it mustn’t let those 99% “filth” with the protest-signs interfere with the inherent right of the Owners to continue exploiting or even killing them outright in the name of the One True God of profit.
That this scenario will wind up destroying capitalism bothers them not one whit: it’s pretty obvious by now that the endgame for corporatist culture isn’t some fantasy amalgam of Rand, Adam Smith & Friedman – it is Feudalism 2.0, pure & simple. Capitalism has no more inherent utility or value for them than democracy, other than as a means to that end.
Ooooooh, that felt GOOD.
Thanks, Subby! I will definitely go through that thread, creepily lurking…always creepily lurking.
I can’t do this, though:
It’s just unpossible for me. Unpossible!
(Really, really neat Egypt photos, btw.)
I’m pretty sure these guys own that car.
Hey, owner of that car, I have a small dick too, but I don’t feel the need to broadcast that information…except on here, apparently.
Ha ha, Spearhafoc, I knew you couldn’t get rid of the cat who adopted you.
I can only assume Sir Mix-a-lot owns that car.
I’m thinking its slightly more…phallic.
Hey, I’ve never owned a car. Imagine how endowed I must be!
I was previously unaware of Ace and Gary, and have now been educated.
Hey, I’ve never owned a car. Imagine how endowed I must be!
I had a Harley poseur ask me when I was going to get rid of my “scooter toy,” and step up to an H-D. I told him, “Well, I did apply for financing on a Sportster, but I was rejected ’cause my PENIS was too large.”
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Goddamn you to hell, Jeffraham!
Goddamn you to hell, Jeffraham!
Soon enough, m’deah, soon enough…
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The liberals say, of course, that they’re for equality. And perhaps they are, perhaps we should truly take them at their word that their words aren’t those of class warfare, bitter jealousy, and the support of a wide-reaching, nanny-knows-best state. What we’ve learned countless times, however, is that liberals completely damn the torpedoes and roll full steam ahead, regardless of unintended consequences. Theirs is the mantra of Let’s Be Miserable Together. Poor people in this country? Unfortunate, yes, but even more so if their existence necessitates making rich people poor as well. They wonder aloud why so many Americans accuse them of class warfare, even when the answer continually escapes their lips.
Goddamn you to hell, Jeffraham!
Soon enough, m’deah, soon enough…
What’s the worst curse you can place on an atheist, anyway?
“I hope a red sweater ends up in with your whites!”?
The liberals say, of course, that–
BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I married into Newport aristocracy and can barely stand the place despite never having to pick up any of the (hefty) tabs. OK for gawking and my cousin had one of those arty shops and made large coin.
If you want to hear negative things about Austin I can help. High smugness quotient w/o enough reason, too many singer/songwriters, not enough musicians, my (minority) opinion is that the music is lots better in Dallas. Memphis is excellent. Unfortunately the gzoogle tells me that Earl’s Hot Biscuits in W. Memphis, AR is no more.
Out west the Bryce, Zion, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands circuit is hard to top but this the wrong season. Still good for Big Bend but man is that not on the way anywhere.
making rich people poor as well
As they certainly would be, if ever dollah over the first million were taxed at 90%, AS IT SOON SHALL BE.
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Jeffraham-
It’s funny, again, how little liberals respect unintended consequences. Damn the rich, soak the rich, let us turn the hoses on the rich…and then what? What’s the plan beyond that? How many jobs, I ask, will be lost because Joe Jobmaker was taxed beyond belief above his first million? Do you know? Have you even considered a shred of the possibility? Again, this speaks to the superiority of conservative lawmaking- of realizing the facts, debating the facts, realizing cause and effect, and then passing laws for optimum effect. Meanwhile, the liberal side has their boogeymen to squeal about, and then call it a day. Again, completely ignoring history, ignoring possibilities good and dreadful.
Hmm, might be one in Marion…
jim said,
November 3, 2011 at 23:14
All this, exactly.
How many jobs, I ask, will be lost because Joe Jobmaker was taxed beyond belief above his first million? Do you know?
Thirty fucking years of record-low top marginal tax rates, and you have the balls to ask such a stupid fucking question? Suck my PENIS. NOW.
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Okay, that’s technically not a barrel roll, it’s an aileron roll.
In an aileron roll, the aircraft rolls around its longitudinal axis like a rifle bullet.
In a barrel roll, the aircraft rolls around a point extended off one wingtip (like the hand of a clock) thus the “barrel” part.
It’s funny, again, how little liberals respect unintended consequences. Damn the rich, soak the rich, let us turn the hoses on the rich…and then what? What’s the plan beyond that? How many jobs, I ask, will be lost because Joe Jobmaker was taxed beyond belief above his first million? Do you know? Have you even considered a shred of the possibility? Again, this speaks to the superiority of conservative lawmaking- of realizing the facts, debating the facts, realizing cause and effect, and then passing laws for optimum effect. Meanwhile, the liberal side has their boogeymen to squeal about, and then call it a day. Again, completely ignoring history, ignoring possibilities good and dreadful.
Want to talk about ignoring history? Try this: the longest sustained economic boom in American history occurred in an era when the top tax rate on the rich was at 90%, union power was at its highest at commitment to the welfare state and progressive taxation was an entirely bipartisan enterprise.
Go ahead and preach into the wind about how raising taxes from their lowest point in eighty years to their previous lowest point in eighty years all you like. In fact, I recommend it: that’s all it takes to get a gig on Fox News, where you make a hell of a lot more money than most people with real jobs. History, however, would like a word with you.
How many jobs, I ask, will be lost because Joe Jobmaker was taxed beyond belief above his first million? Do you know?
I can answer that. Red herring. Ergo, none. NEEEXXXT!
Just a couple of blocks from Earl’s Hot Biscuits was a ghetto BBQ place called the Pig’N’Poke that had a surreal mural painted on their outside of a pig with a big handful of poke salad. Really wish I’d gotten a photo.
Just a couple of blocks from Earl’s Hot Biscuits was a ghetto BBQ place called the Pig’N’Poke that had a surreal mural painted on their outside of a pig with a big handful of poke salad. Really wish I’d gotten a photo.
Hoofful?
I miss Nashville’s Fate’s Pig ‘n’ Pie.
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Pigs with hands… that’s beyond surreal, and entering Loony Toons territory.
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I think I want to go to the Pig’n’Poke:
Fate’s Pig ‘n’ Pie used to have a hog’s head on the wall, labeled “Nostrildamus.” Loved that.
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Imagine, if you will, a plump and strangely colored pig cavorting, gamboling even over cartoon fields with a big bunch of poke salad while giving a “come hither” look at the audience. Classic. Inimitable.
You monsters!
Perhaps their several years on end off record sky-high profits have already made up whatever $$$ they lost in the recession (assuming they were dumb enough not to join in massively going short on all the over-rated “piece of shit” properties they sold to everyone else as AAA? Of course it’s been a bloody nightmare for small businesses who lack the ability to rig the Wall Street Casino in their favor
You know, before the Wall Street Casino and before expanding profits and the game of “who can own everything first” became the be all end all of human accomplishment, profit, both on an individual level and a company level was meant to cover the lean times. You took more in during the boom to last yourself the lean. Of course, now, if you aren’t tripling your income while everyone else starves, you might as well kill yourself for how “bad” you are doing.
But yeah, that all aside, it’s also not true. Companies have been having record profits during the recession, the 1% have had the same high bonuses they always have and have actually increased their bonuses despite the fact that many of the Hedge Funds and the like only exist thanks to government bailouts.
The comfortable have been riding out this recession better than anyone else (outside commie pinko countries like Denmark that have functional safety nets and not many entanglements with the US economy), especially here in the US and in many cases have improved their value greatly.
And yet, there are no jobs. Companies have been having record quarters, massive profits off the layoffs of their workers and the general exploitation of their labor force, and yet no one is hiring.
Hence why this shit needs to be written. Because the scam is that the rich are the job creators and need to be showered in coins in order to keep the system running. And if people notice that the coins are showering but they’re not doing anything, then the scam is up.
Hence the rich are being “punished” by Obama, the rich are “hurting”, the rich are “being soaked worse than anyone else” and so on, because that way its someone else’s fault and they’re hoping that this won’t trigger the realization that if it’s always someone else’s fault, maybe the rich really don’t matter at all and there’s no need to protect them under the vain illusion that that will make the jobs come back.
What’s the worst curse you can place on an atheist, anyway?
“I hope a red sweater ends up in with your whites!”?
Jokes on you!
I have color-safe detergent!
I have color-safe detergent!
Why are you liberals always playing the race card?
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At the risk of awaking trolls long forgot, I’ll note with some irony that pointing out that the system is broken and that conservatives fear the danger that places them in if they acknowledge that it’s not about virtue and being a good lapdog and it could affect them, got a troll response of “nuh uh, you just don’t love capitalism enough like I do and that’s why you are unemployed.”
All of these fetishizations of the free market, the naked worship, the many, many articles of faith they spew unto the Golden Cow of Glory be His Name Capitalism are so necessary, because like the rest of the 99% they feel it too. Even when they are lickspittle mooks, trying to stroke the emperor’s cock, they feel it too and it scares them half to death.
Because if it doesn’t work like a God, like a magic spell, like something they can earn entry into for good servitude and groveling, then the solutions are painful, imprecise, chaotic, hard-to-predict, and potentially impossible.
Worse yet, they’ll have been wrong, and wrong in a way that fucked them along with all the queers, feminists, and n****ers they were hoping to fuck alone and that sort of thing may be more frightening than the simple chaos that is our lack of control over our own destinies and survival.
PLAYIN’ POOPIES! POOPY PLAYIN’!
need to protect them under the vain illusion that that will make the jobs come back.
It IS kind of a cargo cult, isn’t it? Always hoping that this bamboo-airplane-tax-cut will appease the Galtian Gods and bring the jobs again! And when it doesn’t, then the bamboo-tax-cut must have been defificent, so if we just make a DIFFERENT bamboo-plane-tax-cut, it will SURELY bring the good times again!
What Is The Difference Between Trickle Down Economics And Zombies?
Zombies are more believable.
Also, considering the number of fervent Norquistian true believers, it seems that trickle down economics has eaten more brains.
There’s no magic tax cut that’s going change the fact that people in China will work for pennies on the dollar (and not too long before a machine will do it for even less).
defificent
well, I don’t know what the hell that is, but let’s put it into Herman Cain’s teleprompter and see if he notices…
So do the trolls on this site have some sort of rotation they follow? I find it mildly humorous how we never seem to get, for example, Denise and Jambrose in the same thread.
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The plague continues unabated, we must sacrifice more of our number on the mountain and throw their bodies into the lake so that the sun god is appeased of his anger and brings back the clear blue water!
Sunk costs is a hell of a drug. Worse still when mixed with religion or similar forces, because there truly is no end where the solution is anything less than: More sunk costs!
Tag Team trolling.
Or dare I say it…a Sadly Troll UNION?!?!
Rarely-
Hell, it’s probably the same 2-3 stalkers and/or regulars posing as trolls just flipping through nyms and trolling strategies.
I imagine the return of old favorites is often just regulars reliving a more entertaining troll, when dealing with whatever current incarnation of Troofie is going on.
Tag Team trolling.
Circular firing jerk trolling.
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Y’all are missing his point.
If you just take the “inequality” part out of “income inequality” you’re left with “income” and its all good!
So just dismiss the fact that upward mobility and middle class income are in a spiral decline and throw in the fact that America’s poor live better that Darfurian refugees or Bangladeshi slum dwellers and jist what de hell R you complainin’ about, anyways?
What Is The Difference Between Trickle Down Economics And Zombies?
You can kill a Zombie?
a Sadly Troll UNION?!?!
Be nice if they went on strike.
The plague continues unabated, we must sacrifice more of our number on the mountain and throw their bodies into the lake so that the sun god is appeased of his anger and brings back the clear blue water!
Kill more cats.
So just dismiss the fact that upward mobility and middle class income are in a spiral decline and throw in the fact that America’s poor live better that Darfurian refugees or Bangladeshi slum dwellers and jist what de hell R you complainin’ about, anyways?
I’m reminded of some of my Government classes that were taught by right-wing nutjobs who thought George W was a great president and were all excited about being hired out to go “nation building” in the third world.
Even though they were fuckwads, they still noted that one of the most dangerous things is essentially people getting used to one standard of living and then rapidly taking that away. While they may be objectively better off than another culture, the loss of what was “promised” to them, hurts much more and is more likely to spark off a revolution.
Not sure how much weight there is to that theory (as I said, taught by nutjobs who liked to play fast and loose with a lot of factual analysis of actual cultures and nations), but it is certainly something the rich should keep in mind every time they simultaneously try and argue “we’re the greatest of the 1st world nations” and “but you aren’t allowed to complain, because we haven’t reduced your life to that of a Somalian peasant quite yet”.
WTF?
roll full steam ahead? Are the torpedoes being fired at a steam locomotive?
That was even less coherent than normal for fakeJay.
Kill more cats.
Shame be the fuck upon you, with great vengeance and furious anger!
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Other than “may you live in interesting times”?
JP: http://habee.hubpages.com/hub/Cats-and-the-Black-Plague
I CURSE YOU WITH RELATIVES.
Oh, I’m moving here in July. Wanna do some recon? Do my recon for me!!!
VS, Johnny Pez lived there until recently, you should read his posts about late night dog walks in the town.
Oh, catching up on the whole Libertarian article of faith clause “Charities could replace government”. Has anyone pointed out that charities, like many of the things that libertarians favor over a progressive tax structure tend to be extremely regressive in that the poor tend to fork over much more as a percentage of income to charities than the rich do even though everyone fawns over the rich and their contributions.
It’s almost like the entire movement is about having those who benefit the most from the system not pay anything back and also their desire to shut and bar the doors behind them so no one else can manage to claw their way up, than an actual desire to do right by people.
As if we couldn’t tell that by all these libertarians who claim that charity is the way to go, seeming never to give money to any charities other than libertarian think tanks and the like.
Oh, I will. Thanks, B^4!
Oh, and SMcG, it’s a big out of the way, but Big Bend National Park is gorgeous.
I did take a poke through that website, but yeah I think I’m gonna skip that one.
If you just take the “inequality” part out of “income inequality” you’re left with “income” and its all good!
Hee hee, that’s pretty awesome.
Ok, working my way through yesterday’s epic troll fight. At the risk of awakening the beast, did the crazy stalker obsessed with actor really try and argue that he was never banned by actor, in spite of showing complete obsession and the compelling need to leap over the banning here to continue his obsession?
Wow, do we just specialize in driving our schizophrenics to LLLLLL levels or what?
Poke poke poke…I’m sensing a theme.
Poke poke poke…I’m sensing a theme.
I’m playing poker. Up to nearly $5M play chips. Zynga.
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Okay, Time to dive for mangos!
I fucking love this setup.
And I mean for real, no snark, because of the deliberate pose and the subject matter. I mean, he’s basically going, doop de doo, my word, I have just seen here on the internets this talk of income inequality that has been going on for decades, I must cease people prattling on about it and silence them for my paymasters.
Combine that naked mercenary with the utter smugness of this. As if he’s proud of finding this, of responding to this “sudden” talk on the intertubes as if that was something, as if that revealed him to be anything other than an out-of-touch goon for those even more out-of-touch than him.
You have to work to create a beginning promising that much fail.
And again, a perfect bit of inhuman slime. Inequality? Hell, ALL inequality? Who cares? When has inequality ever inconvenienced people who matter? When ever has it been a good thing to address inequality or take up arms to try and address the grievances of the wronged?
Why never and that’s why we still bow to the Queen Mother! All hail Brittania!
Huh, I don’t mean to alarm people, but I fear the unthinkable has occurred. A wingnut, proper virtuous and brave in all deeds as is his birthright, born to be right about all relying only on his guts and the lessons beaten into him by his father, may, and I don’t mean to alarm you with this…
But he may, very well, not understand the thing he is arguing against, either by simple ignorance or deliberate bad faith argumentation.
I know, I know, stifle your sobs children, for such a thing is truly unthinkable and unprecedented, but none the less, I fear we may be witnessing this totally out of the ordinary behavior before our very eyes.
This man, (whimper) does not understand what “inequality” means nor what it means when that “grows”.
Be brave, everyone, we will find a way through this together.
With mangos!
Liquor in the front, poker in the…well, we all know how this ends…
Poke poke poke…I’m sensing a theme.
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My word? It has? How?
Oh right, a paid flak mouthpiece for the ultra-rich at one of the Libertarian think tanks “refuted it”. How did he do so? By arguing that real median income improved…you know by ignoring what “real” means with regards to inflation or the actual economics graphs that have been making Libertarians shit their pants of late (i.e. why this article exists).
Oh that and this:
Yeah, you aren’t Somalian peasants…yet. So stop whining. Even though the poorest Americans have medical care death rates consistent with the third world, income inequalities consistent to some of the more infamous cases of the “Second World”, and health risks and starvation problems more consistent to the Third World than the First World…
Um…you could be in the 1% if you weren’t lazy! And stop citing all the statistics that show that class mobility in the US is more consistent with the third world than the rest of the first world nations.
Damnitt, do you people know how hard it is to be a hack when reality keeps on screaming in your face the reality of the scam every second of your life?
Why couldn’t you people continue not to notice so we could just keep saying “We are the richest country in the world” and not have to even acknowledge any other problem.
I’ll also note that there hasn’t been a single follow up to “inequality, who cares” other than the initial complete failure to understand what inequality means.
Like this?
That is not the hot gay sex I ordered.
My posts would prolly make considerably more sense if I actually quoted the people I’m responding to.
B-b-b-butt, the capitalist overlords say we shouldn’t be concerned about income disparity. They say inequality is just a sign that the invisible hand is working its will and the successful are being rewarded with riches and the unsuccessful are not. Why is this Harsanyi fellow now saying moar freedom and capitalism will bring about moar equality of result? Isnt that a huge internal inconsistency in his thinking? Haven’t these capitalists sold each other enough ropes that they should have all hanged themselves by now?
Translation: Yeah, even I’m not believing my own bullshit anymore, so let’s acknowledge that “mistakes were made” and maybe something is happening, that you should stop giving a shit about, especially about who has been arguing it hasn’t been happening for decades, you stupid baby you.
Hey, it’s our favorite modern Republican meme! Okay, fine, shit is happening, but it’s not like we can fix it. Nihilism now, nihilism forever. But seriously, care very deeply over handing over your remaining valuables to the 1%, because that’s the only way we’ll solve CRIPPLING DEBT and the DEMOCRATS TAX AND SPEND PLAN!
Yeah, that decision should be left to the ultra-rich and the “whims of the Free Market” instead of some Buzzword Buzzword Buzzword Hey Do You Watch Glenn Beck Because Buzzword Government deciding, huh, can you believe it, that…my mouth is spitting at the very spot, that everyone deserves to live and that the right to more money than you can ever use in 10 lifetimes doesn’t trump that!
Damnitt, this was so much easier when we could just point at the Soviets and go “give us all your money or they win the national cock measuring contest”
Hey, are you a complete idiot? I really hope you are. Because I’m about to argue that 30 years of letting us have our way and the accompanying fallout is totally the fault of a philosophy we directly rejected and keep on preventing from ever being tried, even though it was responsible for the greatest boom in our time and the reason that tiny Scandanavian countries are kicking our ass in every growing field right now.
Thank Bob for Fox News or this sort of scam might be hard to pull off!
You know, like those 99% folks have been talking about.
Huh, the protests really must be freaking out the owner class, because the right-wing talking points have really been focusing on the initial hand-wave and not so much the follow-through. Ah shit! Abort, abort, abort, don’t worry about income inequality…uh, uh, worry about something else they talk about. Shit, I dunno, I just need to ride this out another week until I can figure out a way to dismiss these fuckers for good!
My posts would prolly make considerably more sense if I actually quoted the people I’m responding to.
Speculation!
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RWW-
Oh, they hanged themselves a good long time ago. Right now, they’re busy taunting the person manning the switch that removes the floor from underneath them.
My posts would prolly make considerably more sense if I actually quoted the people I’m responding to.
You would have the advantage of never having tried it before.
My posts would prolly make considerably more sense if I actually quoted the people I’m responding to.
Lack of lulzzors though.
Right now, they’re busy taunting the person manning the switch that removes the floor from underneath them.
There’s one guy at the Chicago Board of Trade that seems to have a particular death-wish.
Recently, he threw McDonald’s job applications down on the protesters.
Okay, back to mangos.
He goes on some more Libertarian Think Tank and exact opposite of reality arguments about how class mobility has gone up, mostly by comparing a robust economy to a depressed one and arguing that many of the upper rungs got fired, thus lowering the average and the floors dropped down even further over those who stayed the same, so income inequality, what income inequality and will you stop passing around that graph that shows the problem in stark undeniable terms and reveals our bullshit as the hand-waving that it is!
Yeah! Weren’t we so much better off trying to pretend that class doesn’t exist, because thinking it does makes you a communist who must be shunned and dismissed? Now that n****er-in-chief wants you to be all faggy and communistic, and please god keep being too scared to notice how we keep screwing you and trying to distract you with thoughts of black people, women, and gays taking over.
Okay! Maybe some of you are getting fucked so hard in the ass right now by the Free Market that you can see what you had for breakfast, but that’s no reason to start doubting in your God Free Market! Also, the depression was totally due to Obama doing Keynesian procedures Lite, Go TEAM HOOVER!
Okay, so we’ve been poisoning the seed well of white resentment by hurting the white middle class as much as we’ve hurt the poor and melaninated, but if you guys could shut up and suffer in quiet until the God of the Free Market makes it all better or we’ve shut all you bastards up long enough to distract you with the next shiny thing, then maybe we’ll all get through this. And by we, I mean the 1% and their personal courtiers like me. Please God, don’t turn your violent psychopathic rage on us! Please keep killing the hippies and wimminfolk like you are supposed to!
There’s one guy at the Chicago Board of Trade that seems to have a particular death-wish.
Recently, he threw McDonald’s job applications down on the protesters.
I’d bet a whole paycheck that this guy isn’t even in the 1%. The real 1%ers just don’t care enough about the peons to go to these lengths to be antagonistic. Just like our resident trolls- Dave and Chuck have other things to do with their time than to troll blogs.
They are wannabes, and their feelings of inadequacy are what cause them to lose their shit about OWS.
There’s one guy at the Chicago Board of Trade that seems to have a particular death-wish.
Recently, he threw McDonald’s job applications down on the protesters.
There’s been a lot of that lately. It seems the lack of class mobility has allowed our rich to believe they are untouchable God-kings and that the New Deal wasn’t to protect the underclass from them, but rather to protect them from the underclass.
I’d bet a whole paycheck that this guy isn’t even in the 1%.
You’re undoubtedly right. His boss, who is, has probably just gone on a vacation while the hired goon coppers deal with this little ‘unpleasantness’.
the “explosion” of income inequality
Teh scare quotes there imply that this is a suddenly common choice of words. Googling for “explosion of income inequality”, we receive a list of sites that is dominated by copies of this very article (give the Wingnut Welfare system credit, it is good at
astroturfsyndication intended to create the impression of an emerging consensus). Hit #6 was from 2009, and hit #7 was from all the way back in 2001.like the dark smog of capitalistic excess, been choking the life out of this unjust nation.
The Black Air theory has never been convincingly refuted.
Haven’t these capitalists sold each other enough ropes that they should have all hanged themselves by now?
Those ropes are clearly labeled “For erotic self-asphyxiation purposes only”.
Every day I’m….quoting bad songs and delivering fetid mangos.
Technocrats? I missed the origin of this wingnut meme? Is this about Obama being more into technology and tuned into technology than his previous incumbents mixed in with the usual “kids and their technology iz scary and I iz old and cranky” blather or some other fetid swamp of paranoias?
Also, be scared of buzzwords and socialism, damn you Berlin Wall toppling, you have made our scare screeds at least 80% less frightening.
You know, because they never talk about improved health access, an expanded social safety net, real issues that affect them and how to address them, support for Keynesian job relief or monetary aid to the poor, an improved tax system and services for the 99%, and so on.
You know, for all the flak that “unfocused” liberal protests get, the right really has been throwing themselves against the wall trying to figure how to “gotcha” the protests. Every time they try something like this, they just smack into how the protestors spend a great deal of time talking about the plight of the 99% and real solutions that the 1% have been blocking, government reforms, and so on.
The bases have been covered, so the right is stuck just hand-waving one set of grievances into another set of OWS grievances and pretending it hasn’t already been covered to set up next week’s attack of being shocked at the “new grievances” and arguing why aren’t they focusing on the first grievances again. It is remarkably unsatisfying to anyone who isn’t just looking for an excuse to hate the mean old hippies who make their lives of shilling for the types of people who are actively trying to kill them look…ill-spent or something.
PRO-JEC-TION! Hell yeah, we have a quota to meet. Stupid liberals and their “religious belief” in documented economic history and established sociological effects. Don’t they know that any science that isn’t the hard sciences might as well be made up religious blather. Now, listen to this made-up religious blather about how Jesus loves Hedge Fund Managers more than he loves your child’s ability to eat.
Evidence not needed.
I said not needed, and the 30 year track record of failure that has me doing this desperate “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” dance is no reason to give up the religious belief in our dramatically failed system. Capitalism is your God, communism is the Devil. Damn you Soviet Union, it was so much easier to run this scam when you were still around.
Okay, you know I got nothing, I know I got nothing. The income inequality chart is game set match on all our bullshit. So, here’s some more scare-words to trigger the 2-minute hate. I’m going to go out for a smoke and hopefully when I’ve come back they’ve scared you into ignoring your lying eyes.
Cerberus, with all that mango retrieving, have you considered asking Tintin for the keys?
Technocrats? I missed the origin of this wingnut meme? Is this about Obama being more into technology and tuned into technology than his previous incumbents mixed in with the usual “kids and their technology iz scary and I iz old and cranky” blather or some other fetid swamp of paranoias?
Nah, it’s a dig at algoreisfat and those other pointy headed elitists. You know, competent people.
the recent recession — and “stimulus”-induced extension of that recession — and structural and technological changes that often occur in the job market
As far as I can tell from this, a recession is a Good Thing since it forces painful but necessary structural changes on an economy. You would think therefore that somehow extending that recession with a Keynsian stimulus would be an Even Better thing, but Harsanyi does not seem to be congratulating Obama here.
And every time capitalism is hijacked by technocrats and bureaucrats
He is also at pains to point out that the recession is a Bad Thing, but it was the fault of bureaucrats hijacking capitalism with their red tape and their restrictions on bank / sharemarket activity.
The man seems to be too agitated to concern himself with small matters like coherence or internal consistency.
Last mangos, what’s your death call?
Word salad? Oh come on, man, after such a promising start?
You need to truly embrace your hackitude! Something about how inequality has always been the call word of unamerican scoundrels or only communists care about other people or something.
Just ending on a word salad is the limp surrender to the argument, a revelation that you had nothing to counter. That reality has spoken loudly and now even the usual channels of shutting down dissent (media blackouts, rampant demonization, police brutality tactics, paid provocateurs, demonization of minority groups as distraction) have failed, you are starting to get legitimately frightened.
You can feel it too. The social and economic progress that has been stymied for 30 years in this “Glorious Conservative Experiment” is starting to strain on the walls and it’s not certain whether it will explode peacefully in overdue legislative and social reforms or whether it will explode in the blood of the rich and their supporters.
Either way, the end does not look good for those who wanted to roll back the 70s and protect a fictional past that never was with magical thinking and complete ignorance.
Guys like these are the footmen, the dedicated servants of those who own the talking point pipeline, maybe even the most skilled scumbags on the docket. And they got nothing. Nothing they can really work with, no great talking points to shuck and jive.
It’s like they are left to shut their eyes and pretend it all away.
Whatever one can say about the Occupy movements, they’ve got the scum and their mouthpieces paralyzed with fear, unable to respond.
The facts have been clear for awhile. But now they are being listened to. Not just by the DFHs, minorities, and other “unimportant people” but the white middle class. They are suffering, they see loved ones suffering, children suffering, and so on. Those who could be counted on to repeat “welfare queen” and “lower taxes on the productive class” type statements are now talking about how bad it is out there, the greed of the 1%.
That sort of thing tends to stick around. True shifts like that don’t tend to come easily, and when they do, you tend to get all types of DFH behavior.
They all can feel that and they are trembling.
Socialism, let the businessman do their job, deregulation will save you, the buzzwords fly cause that’s all they got left and they’re hoping it will be enough to stay the Axeman’s blade.
Cerberus, with all that mango retrieving, have you considered asking Tintin for the keys?
I’m game if he was. I suspect though that he’s worried I’ll go on a bender and crash the blog into a lake.
The man seems to be too agitated to concern himself with small matters like coherence or internal consistency.
Oh yeah, I caught that big time. He’s frightened. He doesn’t have consistent talking points and reality is not only there, but really loud and being listened to…by real people, not just the various “liberal” types who can be ignored by “proper folk”.
So he’s just throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. Hell, the fact that he’s had to acknowledge reality on and off in this post really drives home how little ground he’s got left to stand on and how frightened he is that the days of easy paycheck are over.
Nah, it’s a dig at algoreisfat and those other pointy headed elitists. You know, competent people.
Ah, which is strange because algoreisfat isn’t all that technology-centered. So that really comes across as, damn science believers, will they not don the twigs and berries and live with us among the trees of the forests where we will design a perfect libertarian utopia as soon as we can find a woman who doesn’t mind being the poorly used sex-toy of a bunch of balding middle aged guys who masturbate to Ayn Rand novels?
(give the Wingnut Welfare system credit, it is good at astroturf syndication intended to create the impression of an emerging consensus)
I tend to agree but how do you explain this?
Did I read this evening that Occupy Portland chased Jamie Dimon all over Portland, even walking behind him at one point?
GOOD ON YA!
Took a quick peek at the tigers in the jungle that are the comments.
It’s basically Dennis.
A bunch of people shutting their ears and going lalalala while repeating stuff from the article as if it was common knowledge which was everywhere psshaw.
There are a lot of frightened people who know they’ve hitched themselves to a train that’s already gone over the cliff and are hoping that by never acknowledging that, they’ll never hit the ground.
It is amazing that for so many people the fear of acknowledging they are wrong is so perfectly able to trump everything else, including their own self-preservation or the ability to acknowledge a reality that every action you have shows that you fully believe in and know.
I’ve seen it in non-wingnut contexts and it still baffles me that so many will defend a worldview that just makes it worse and that you don’t really even believe in just to try and hide the reality you already know from yourself and the Hell you think would be so much worse than the constant Cognitive Dissonance you already suffer.
Power of the Fear of the Unknown, I guess.
Oops. Seattle. But hey, still good news
Seriously, though, the comments are almost tragic. They are so triumphant and loud and self-satisfied in desperate self-delusion to avoid a truth they know as well as the article man. It’s all, Clinton is bad, Capitalism is good, the same dance the Stalker Troll had yesterday with everybody, because they really do know the score and which side they picked, but they fear that to admit it would be to break themselves and never recover.
I’d cry for them if these weren’t the assholes who keep the scum in power and prevent us from peacefully resolving our issues with a functioning government.
If they were interested in spreading wealth, they would support lifting barriers that inhibit markets and make life difficult for entrepreneurs and businesses
Um, someone remind me again exactly what barriers there are in this country to entrepreneuring and marketing and making shitloads of money? ‘Cause from what I hear there’s a bunch of guys out there making shitloads of money even with People’s Commissar Joseph Stalin Obama’s iron-fisted rule of socialism.
And no, they are no less pathetic when they have the majority in a discussion. Same nuh uh, I’m doing great and I refuted you and you’re scared because you’re not responding and la la la, it’s all going okay, reality is disappearing, it’s all okay.
I don’t even know if they can hear the other inmates at all, each so trapped in their personal hell of cognitive dissonance.
make life difficult for entrepreneurs
As an entrepreneur, you know what’s making life difficult?
NOBODY HAS ANY FUCKING MONEY TO SPEND ON MY SERVICES. BECAUSE HIS PRECIOUS GALTIAN ‘PRODUCERS’ BUSTED THE ECONOMY, DESTROYED THE MIDDLE CLASS, AND SENT THE JOBS AWAY.
Not fucking regulations. Get the fucking guillotines; everybody out of the pool.
Did I read this evening that Occupy Portland chased Jamie Dimon all over Portland, even walking behind him at one point?
I dunno – I just sort-of-heard something on OPB about it but I didn’t catch any details.
Pere Ubu-
Um, someone remind me again exactly what barriers there are in this country to entrepreneuring and marketing and making shitloads of money?
Ironically, enough?
Not enough socialism.
Shockingly enough, people feel safe to take risks and start new ventures or new companies when there is a strong safety net, because most new ideas fail and its nice to trust that if that happens, something’s got your back and you didn’t just lose what little you had pursuing a dream.
Thus, the only people who can really “innovate” in America are either people so desperate or brave to completely risk their livelihood on an idea that’ll probably be crowded out of the marketplace by one of the big companies or people who come from such moneyed backgrounds that they can trust their family to be their “safety net” if shit goes pear-shaped.
Regulation, safety standards, government oversight, has never been a barrier to any “innovation” or “entrepreneuring” that wasn’t completely illegal, immoral, or both.
Sure, I could innovate by selling meth to middle-schoolers and probably have a wildly successful profit margin, but that’s why there is “regulation”.
Actual innovation? Actual entrepeneurship? That takes actual safety nets. And actually caring about the economy and capitalism. Which these people don’t.
Because the people who own everything and found a way to have people give them money for nothing, sure as shit don’t want actual entrepeneurship and competition getting in the way. Anymore than they want a pathway for the poor to crawl out of the gutter.
But they want people to continue to believe in those things, because otherwise they might start asking hard questions about why don’t they just start killing the rich and selling their stuff instead of this “working hard for no reason” thing.
How the fuck did I manage to do that? That’s byond tag fail – that’s like … total internetzing fail.
But let’s concede that, thank goodness, some inequity will exist and will as long as we remain a largely meritocratic society.
And he knows as well as I do no one’s complaining that some level of income inequality exists, they’re complaining that the gap is so fucking huge, larger than could ever be explained by merit even by those who actually think that professional gambling with other people’s money could be meritorious, larger than could ever be addressed by the sickly social mobility that has come to be the norm, but mostly they’re complaining because those at the top are using their inordinate wealth to distort politics in their favor, and that enormous power inequality is undemocratic and against everything this country supposedly stands for. But who cares, right?
zrm-
Also that. Unless you are planning on starting a business selling gold-plated yachts with personalized fuck you notes in blood diamonds to rival rich people, there just ain’t any blood in that stone to support yourself.
Another thing the rich should keep in mind is that there comes a point of one small group owning all the wealth where wealth ceases to matter at all. If one person or group has everything, then it basically becomes nothing, because you’ve killed the very idea of commerce and set us all back to the barter system again…
And you got nothing of any real value to barter.
Yeah, the lack of survival-instinct in the rich is the real reason why “punitive taxes for success” become necessary. Because there is no other good way to tell someone to stop before they ruin it for everyone/start a violent revolution looking for their throat.
as long as we remain a largely meritocratic society.
Yeah. Show me more than five members of the 1% who got there because they DESERVED to, rather than justfucking their way into wealth or being born there. Entertainers and athletes don’t count.
to stop before they ruin it for everyone/start a violent revolution looking for their throat.
Half the time these days, I’m leaning toward the latter. Hey! Where’s that tsam fella? I heard he has some pointers!
One moar suggestion for Substance McDrives-a-lot-for-a-bus-rider. If you’re going across on I-40, stay out of Oklahoma City. Unless things have really turned around in the past coupla years.
Brand new skyscraper being built two blocks from where the commercial unit vacancy rate must have been close to 90%. Talk about disparity – empty storefront, empty storefront, boarded up storefront, empty storefront, brand new skyscraper.
If you end up in OKC anyways, the Biting Sow after dinner might make up for the depressiveness of the hollowed out city. Also too, the Field of Empty Chairs is pretty poignant at night, despite the yet-another-reflecting-pool.
tigris-
Yeah the small concessions to reality is really where he sweats the most.
Okay, fine, there might be a little inequality…related to meritocracy and its a good thing, and please god don’t shoot me, keep hating the hippies and don’t shoot meeeeeee.
They really have nothing for, “okay, we robbed you all blind, demanded an extra pound of flesh, deliberately blocked any relief for our victims, openly taunted our victims for months, refused to deal with the ineqaulities in any other way, and have openly tried to attack the very idea of democracy itself by outright buying political power and the suppression of “rival” voters, but um….er…look over there.”
But Bob bless them, they are certainly trying to hand-wave it all away. As fast as their flabby arms can flap.
Um, someone remind me again exactly what barriers there are in this country to entrepreneuring and marketing and making shitloads of money?
Mainly right now, it’s that banks won’t loan us our money back.
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Um, someone remind me again exactly what barriers there are in this country to entrepreneuring and marketing and making shitloads of money?
Well, patent trolls, former employers demanding you pay them for developing “their” idea, and venture capitalists oh so generously under-valuing your work so they can own over 50% of your company for as little money as possible. So yeah, TOTALLY the government’s fault and fixable by getting government out of the way.
Regulation, safety standards, government oversight, has never been a barrier to any “innovation” or “entrepreneuring” that wasn’t completely illegal, immoral, or both.
Ah. So what they’re aiming for isn’t so much Bill Gates & Steve Jobs as a proliferation of Goldlines and colloidal silver scams.
Apparently they want the freedom to rip each other off. I’m not so sure I’d object to that…
it’s that banks won’t loan us our money back
But how are those poor oppressed penniless banking CEOs supposed to scrape together enough change to buy hot dogs at 7-11 if we don’t give them unlimited power over our money?
Yeah. Show me more than five members of the 1% who got there because they DESERVED to, rather than justfucking their way into wealth or being born there. Entertainers and athletes don’t count.
SERIOUSLY, after all the complaining about the poor getting undeserved, unearned money and not paying taxes on it, righties will turn around and demand inheritance be tax-free.
Show me more than five members of the 1% who got there because they DESERVED to
In this context, how are you defining “deserve”?
He doesn’t have consistent talking points and reality is not only there, but really loud and being listened to
1. I never borrowed your kettle.
2. Anyway I returned it undamaged.
3. Anyway it already had holes in it when I borrowed it.
Took a quick peek at the tigers in the jungle that are the comments.
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It is amazing that for so many people the fear of acknowledging they are wrong is so perfectly able to trump everything else, including their own self-preservation or the ability to acknowledge a reality that every action you have shows that you fully believe in and know.
I was wondering about the Herman Cain phenomenon. I mean, he clearly has a number of serious negatives… like not being able to stick to a single story about sexual-harassment charges which he (a) has never heard of, (b) Oh that pay-out and (c) described at length to an advisor a few years ago before his Senate bid… or having executive experience in the form of asset-stripping and corporate raiding. Even if someone disbelieves the sexual-harassment charge, they must be aware that Cain is damaged in a presidential election, there are so many advertisements pre-written against him.
Yet the Republican primary voters are still picking him in polls. They would rather damage their chances in the presidential race than accept that their earlier enthusiasm for Cain was misguided. It is almost as if their main criteria for choosing a candidate are “Who will piss off the liberals most?” and “Don’t change your mind, the liberals would like that”.
In this context, how are you defining “deserve”?
Worked for it?
Rose to the top of their fields by being the best (you know, ‘meritocrati’! for the kids!)
I am happy to consider other ways of defining it, as long as it still allows for plenty of guillotine action.
Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t know what ANYBODY could do that qualifies them to make 300 or 500 times the wage of the people that work for them.
All we are saying,
Is give wealth a chance!
Why – Why aren’t you all singing along?
Rose to the top of their fields by being the best (you know, ‘meritocrati’! for the kids!)
Fair enough – I just wanted to make sure we were at least starting on the same page. The following list are people who come to mind who (1) didn’t inherit, (2) played the game and made a shit-load of money. Doesn’t mean I admire them or think they deserve the ridiculous amount of dough they’ve got, just that they meet your criteria.
It pains me to say it, because I’m no fan, but Bloomberg makes your cut.
Excluding entertainment excludes Winfrey and Stewart, I guess, but they’re both very good at whatever the fuck it is they do.
Heh: Frank Gehry.
David Bouley.
There are others, similar. I’d happily slap them all with a 90% tax rate, but at least they actually did something other than be members of the lucky sperm club.
Yet the Republican primary voters are still picking him in polls. They would rather damage their chances in the presidential race than accept that their earlier enthusiasm for Cain was misguided. It is almost as if their main criteria for choosing a candidate are “Who will piss off the liberals most?” and “Don’t change your mind, the liberals would like that”.
I can’t remember if it’s Dennis here or another troll at BJ who said this and I’m not inclined to go looking, but one of them said several times “we should still have Cain as vice-president, nothing sets off liberals like a strong black conservative.”
So as ludicrous as the motive is, yes, “pissing off liberals” literally is something they vote on and they’ll admit it happily.
I would argue against Frank Gehry, for many of the same crimes you leveled against Wright; in a true meritocracy, someone at the top of the architectural field should be able to produce buildings that leak a fuck of a lot less.
I will concede that out of the 1%, it will be possible to find more than five. I got a bit too wound up.
zrm-
Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t know what ANYBODY could do that qualifies them to make 300 or 500 times the wage of the people that work for them.
Fuck that’s just the iceberg. Yeah, it’s hard to imagine someone who is so inherently valuable that they are worth 300 times what someone on minimum wage makes, but let’s deabstract the wealth.
What person is worth so much that people deserve to die so that they can have more wealth than they could use? That needs thousands to suffer miserable agonizing lives so that they could afford a Forty-second mansion? That is worth so much that they need more money that they could even use living in the lap of luxury?
Not only are these people not worth that much, not only is no one worth that much, but they often work from completely abstract points. If it’s in their salary, they are worth X, where X is a lot of money.
Without realizing that a lot of these Xs are basically all the money in the world or the right to have more than they could ever hope to use, just to hoard it and have more than the next guy while people starve and die from preventable causes.
How many people are worth a hundred-thousand lives for money they won’t even get to because they don’t have anything to spend it on after the first couple of million dollars?
And anyone who could be couldn’t possibly live with the horror of that and thus would never seek it or accept it, instead devoting his wealth to being that safety net.
I would argue against Frank Gehry, for many of the same crimes you leveled against Wright; in a true meritocracy, someone at the top of the architectural field should be able to produce buildings that leak a fuck of a lot less.
If you’re looking for people in the 1% who rose to the top of their professions by doing demonstrably good work, you’re going to be lonelier than usual.
A friend is at MIT, took me through the Gehry building shortly after it opened. There were planters in odd locations in the very wide halls. I asked. Each planter was below a leak.
CEO pay is evidently a tautology – they’re paid that much because they’re worth that much because they’re paid that much. Lather, rinse, repeat.
A friend is at MIT, took me through the Gehry building shortly after it opened. There were planters in odd locations in the very wide halls. I asked. Each planter was below a leak.
Green Building technology! Interior Auto-irrigation!
Interior Auto-irrigation!
Zombie water sports!
I just get tired of that ‘meritocracy’ bullshit. In a meritocracy, would Ross Douthat be writing for the times? Would Jonah Goldberg be… umm, doing anything?
zombie Reagan / zombie Jesus 2012
Vote Zombie not Romney!
Batman’s pretty good at what he does.
I prefer my tocracies to be merry. Morosetocracies get on my nerves.
In a meritocracy, would Ross Douthat be writing for the times?
If you’re suggesting that Douchehat slept his way to the top, I will use my finely-honed FPS reflexes and shoot you in the head.
Gehry is responsible for what everyone considers Portland’s ugliest/goofiest building.
Continuing the simple, way unfancy, damn tasty cuisine motif this week I am making chicken paprikash. Chix thighs sauteed, lots of diced onion, sauteed, garlic (guess what happens to it), some secret speeces, chix brodo, a metric fuckton of sweet Hungarian paprika, some half-sharp Hungarian paprika, and a soupçon of smoked Spanish paprika. And don’t forget the fucking sour cream! Homemade egg pasta. Peas and carrots (fresh, not frozen) with butter. Green salad.
NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE ENGINEER! COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE ENGINEER!!
,,,actually, I would suggest Douchehat got his position by some god-bothering kiddy-diddler’s intercession, or in an effort to suck up to the PanzerPope.
I am sure old Ross is even crappier at the sexytime than he is at the writey-time, so he still wouldn’t merit his position.
NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE ENGINEER!
Fucking-A bubba.
In a meritocracy, Ross Douthat would be paid to shut the hell up.
Vacuumslayer, check this out http://tickets.amtrak.com/itd/amtrak/selectpass. You can take a husband and a babbie on the train. I took a three week vacation with three stops and went to D.C. to protest the war, to NYC cause I had to see it and spent a day shopping for presents for family members (the rent is high, but I booked a hotel for one night in Manhattan for 100 dollars, and you can find lots of beautiful stuff for low, low prices. Or pay 300 dollars for a key chain. Your choice.)” Then I stopped in Indiana to stay with my dad, see my grandma, and to meet all my nieces and nephews. Had a layover in Chicago so walked around a bit there before heading home, watching the mid-west unwind into the mountains the Pacific West. Got a good look at Glacier National Park, too. If I remember correctly the whole fare was $450.00—it was a special promotion.
It’s not too hard to sleep on the train. A meal or beer and a sandwich now and then is not too pricey. I carried a doctor’s bag, a small backpack, and a purse. Plus, I had a great, hard-shelled suitcase with casters that had 350 degree rotation. I locked my bags up with a cable lock and a U.bolt. You could push that suitcase across any surface with two fingers. I locked my bags up with a cable lock and a U.bolt.The suitcase I filled with food and drink, and vodka. I restocked at stops.
You can see the whole country roll buy from any window. There are great observation decks, the chairs are comfortable enough to sleep in, and the bathrooms are adequate. It probably doesn’t cost too much extra to get a room once in a while, or to get a hotel room at a great rate from price-line or expedia Did you say your husband is in the military? If so, you might be able to get a military discount and a nice big chunk of leave.
It should be a rite of passage for every American to travel across the country by train, and to see the sun rise on the Atlantic, and set on the Pacific. That would open some eyes and give Americans the true picture of what a huge and various country this is.
A small family can better serve themselves by traveling together, taking pictures, and buying two dollar souvenirs than by buying a bunch of junk that everybody is going to bored with a month or two and that will just be taking up space that costs money when you stop and think about it.
IOW—TRAVEL!!!!
OK, zrm, is this your doing?
We were warned, but we always thought it could never happen in our lifetimes.
Think again.
IT HAS BEGUN. (h/t metafilter)
gocart mozart said,
November 4, 2011 at 4:47
In a meritocracy, Ross Douthat would be paid to shut the hell up.
His are small potatoes when compared to the atrocities committed by the likes of David Brooks and Charles Krauthammer.
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and Jonah, Beck, Rush, G. Fucking Will, Coulter, An Outhouse, Spew Spewit, K-Lo, ad infinitum and so forth etcetera et al.
Feel the Newtmentum!
“If Cain’s candidacy does implode in the coming weeks our numbers suggest the candidate poised to benefit the most is Newt Gingrich. In North Carolina he’s the second choice of 29% of Cain voters, compared t0 16% for Romney, 15% for Perry, and 10% for Bachmann. In Maine he’s the second choice of 26% of Cain voters to 17% for Romney and 15% for Perry.”
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/11/cain-was-still-going-strong.html
Second Choice 2012!
LouisTheCat: I KNOW ITS PERFECT
LouisTheCat: CAPS LOCK IS HOW I FEEL INSIDE RICK
LouisTheCat: ALL THE TIME
omg…that really made me laff…
Incidentally, thanks for the invite, but I’m probably heading east of there.
I think Bizarro Romney is the guy they are looking for.
Perhaps the leak was Santorum. Of course, he is still stuck on the bottom of the second tier.
Second Choice 2012!
Whatever the outcome, it is clear that the Republican nominee will be #2.
Pierce on Newt v. Romney.
“And he loves — L-O-V-E-S — to cause trouble just for the sake of causing trouble and, if these numbers hold, and Herman Cain finally does flame out in a spectacular blaze of old writs, there will be lots of trouble for Newt to make because Newt has the brain of a vandal, the instincts of an arsonist, and the heart of a born saboteur. This is exactly the kind of thing that engages Mitt Romney’s inner corporate dickhead. He doesn’t like pranks from the lesser orders. He would prefer that those people know and keep their place. And that 19 percent for Romney in North Carolina — which is, after all, the Halfway Normal Carolina — is pretty damned ominous. His only real hope in the South appears to be all those transplanted Yankees in Florida and, since half of the Republican base thinks it’s voting for the president of the Confederate States of America every four years, that doesn’t bode well for Willard.”
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/newt-gingrich-poll-numbers-6539895#ixzz1chxoBlK2
Perhaps the leak was Santorum.
Ewwww. Brown-eye gravy!
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at least to Memphis
You like barbecue? Go to the Rendevous and eat the best ever. Also, if you’ve never been there, go to Graceland. It’s pretty neat.
Thanks Matt!
No matter what the ultimate result of the Republican primaries is, coming in last, at the bottom, sticking to the end, will always be santorum.
That’s the one?
http://www.hogsfly.com/
And if anyone is thinking of coming to New Orleans, now is the perfect time. The weather’s phenomenal, if trending toward the cool and windy side some days. VooDoo Fest this past weekend* marks the end of our calender for another two months, so besides the yay-hoos who come to home Saints, LSU and Tulane football games, we’re pretty much asshole free. This is a convention month, but those boogers are cheap and basically harmless until the last day. Apparently, November is a big month for restaurant and food contests, so we show it out a bit. There’s also apparently some deal here in Algiers Point, where I just moved, about pretty houses contests going on, and we do have some neat looking houses. The locals are relaxed ’cause we know we got some breathing room, though the damn Saints are driving them nuts. We just had a state election, so that bullshit’s over for a while.
So, yeah, y’all come.
*The Meters reunited for a show and I had to work. The original Meters, including Ziggy and George. I’ve seen ’em before and I’ve come to where I absolutely loathe music festivals, I could not get out of work in time, even if I felt like dropping the seventy bucks just to see one band. Still, dammit.
Interesting interview I found in the LGM comments of Jimmy Carter. .
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/JimmyCarterChristianRightIsntChristian.html
Dig the hate: Serious & disturbed foaming at the Twit.
ftfy.
I can’t imagine he’s any good at that either, but someone would make a few bucks by holding his head in the toilet frequently enough that he couldn’t type.
The rest of them too.
There is an “upper decker” joke in there somewhere.
I figured I wouldn’t be alone in that.
Good news (maybe) on the Afghan front.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577014303354145714.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
There is an “upper decker” joke in there somewhere.
Maybe a Sadly Insomniac can think of one.
“Upper deck”, upper dick? I don’t know.
Upper Decker
I bow to your greater knowledge of shit.
The Romney random flip flop generator.
http://mittromneyflipflops.com/#javascript:void(0)
with one of us working and a baby, just picking up and leaving is pretty difficult. But, yeah, I’ve heard about those cheap fees to NY from our area and it’s damn tempting. Next year this time we’ll be in Newport, RI. I’ll have to see where NY is in relation…and how far away it is, cuz yearly trips to NYC have become a *thing* for hub’s parents.
I just bought this. :D!!!!!
Incidentally, thanks for the invite, but I’m probably heading east of there.
d’oh…well, you will miss out on the best steak cubes…and we have a big lake…that’s about it…
also, too…in consulting a map, which i rarely do and which would go far to explain the fact that i am continuously lost, i can see where you would not be on 75 at all…
Strong second for the Rendezvous. Somewhere on the toobz a guy has reverse engineered their rub and technique perfectly. Hint: it’s not what they sell as their rub at the place.
Yeah, I told him to go to a place that’s prolly way further north than he wanted to go. I just love that town and like to talk it up.
it’s either falling apart or having to resort to violence
You truly are entirely reality-free, aren’t you?
And without a serious drug addiction, I presume. Miraculous.
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Dennis-
I am as much anti-capitalism as was Teddy Roosevelt and as much pro-union as was Abe Lincoln.
Now that you have been fed, do you have anything amusing to say?
Sorry, Cerbs, none of those comments is ‘basically Dennis’, not even remotely.
He’s right, Cerbs. Those comments have an internal structure and logic that’s got a basis in some morality, even if we can’t really fathom how a people can fuck their fellow man so easily.
I’m just trying to imagine Dennis working seven days a week, sixteen hours in a day in a mine at age seven, planting TNT charges.
And why he won’t get on his knees and thank us libs that he never had to.
You truly are entirely reality-free, aren’t you?
Right? 49 days in, and only a handful of violent confrontations, most instigated by the cops and one instigated by a right wing cretin.
But hey, we resort to violence. Even tho its the cops who show up wearing riot gear without provocation.
DenDen ass kicked up and down cyberspace? Check
Oh, and DenDen?
NOTE: Your ass has just been kicked by Actor212™*
* a wholly owned subsidiary of Actor212 Enterprises LLC, a Cayman Islands corporation.
But hey, we resort to violence.
Well, even simpler to call into question Pennis’ mental status is the statement that the movement is “falling apart.”
Is there a single city where the numbers aren’t growing — and in the case of cities with arrests and worse, growing rapidly?
I mean, we’re beyond wishful thinking and into the thorazine territory with that one.
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Didn’t think so.
The longer the Republican presidential hopefuls battle over sexual harassment claims against Herman Cain, the better things look for President Barack Obama as he mounts his campaign for re-election.
This is so perfect that part of me wonders if there isn’t a Democrat ratfucking somewhere, just to get them to tear each other to shreds while we watch and pass the popcorn. I don’t think so, but on the off chance there is, props to the Dems. I didn’t think they had it in them.
It’s a shame that our government can’t devote .001% of the resources devoted to protecting property from OWS to investigating the banksters who ruined our economy.
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But hey, we resort to violence. Even tho its the cops who show up wearing riot gear without provocation.
Yeah.
And the wingnuts are the ones who constantly have to remind everyone “who has the guns”. But not violent, oh no.
just sitting at your breakfast nooks behind your computers … is all pretty cowardly stuff
And you sitting at your computer to regurgitate the morning’s Drudge points at us is…even more cowardly.
Heck, you’ve made me sympathetic toward actor, and I never thought THAT was possible.
thudner haven’t you heard? We’re BROKE!.
…unless of course, the money is being spent on freedom bombs or stimulus in Cantor’s or Boehner’s district. Or more tax refunds for rich fucks.
POLLIN’ POOPY! POOPY POLLIN’!
Sharing
Yep, that makes me a tax cheat.
Does Dennis realize that Obama is not actually going to run against The Senate?
In any case, I think I shall Bookmark That.
Dennis, we can’t be your therapist.
You need some professional help.
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Real People also spent their Real Money on Pet Rocks and Goldline, Dennis.
So using the tax code the way it was designed is cheating now?
Or is it only if you’re not a multi-billion dollar corporation?
In any case, if that is true, actor, like Soros and Buffett, seems quite willing to see the rules changed in a way that might be a slight disadvantage to him, if it will be applied fairly to the richest among us and is used to the benefit of the country in general.
That makes him a patriot and you a sociopath, Pennis.
that was awesome, tigris. Did you get it from that tigrismus fellow?
“What an odd thought!”
Zombie, make sure you forward it to billy pilgrim.
Zombie, make sure you forward it to billy pilgrim.
That asshole.
Nicely done, though.
Zrm, I said you love that stuff, that even though he was evading paying more taxes by using a Cayman Islands shell address
Read for comprehension before someone slits your throat, dipshit. I said he was using the tax code the way it is written. Hey, so do I. Never said I loved it.
When actor has a negative tax rate of 30%, like Verizon and GE, you MIGHT have a point. But even then, those corporations are costing billions, while I suspect actor’s shenanigans do not amount to that much.
Face it, DenPen, you need help to get over this obsession with actor.
Isn’t that a better use of one’s money than buying a cool pair of desk speakers?
Not to me. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how awesome the Mekons sound through these babies.
When Dennis is not broad brushing, he’s pigeon-holing. OWS isn’t just about banksters, you goddam idiot. Really Dennis? Freddy and Fanny really? You’re just a buzzwords spewing mess. Seriously dood. Freddy/Fanny came very late to the whole sub prime thing. Freddy/Fanny didn’t originate any loans, they just got stuck with the ones Countrywide, etc originated thanks to the idiots Bush appointed to head up Freddy/Fanny, obviously small government Dennis types who didn’t believe in the mission of those agencies to begin with, and presto, tanked them from inside in order to benefit their too-big-fail masters and to destroy semi-govt agencies that had a mission to help people not just rack up obscene profit by any means necessary. Dennis needs to crawl back into that pile of GOP maggots and stop spreading his filthy lies.
Filtering Mekons through babies is a sign of decadence.
Filtering Mekons through babies is a sign of decadence.
Betcha ass, bubba!
…wait, are you implying that’s a BAD thing?
What if I used fetuses?
Of course, in Mississippi , it’s the same thing.
Second round of OWS polling out and boy, is it confusing. Quinnipiac releases its first numbers based on polling conducted Oct 25-31 (Oakland context – after the shooting of Scott Olsen but before the General Strike) and have it as 30 favourable, 39 unfavourable. CNN had ORC International conduct their poll Oct 28-31 and they have it 36 to 19.
There was an intermediate Oct 19-24 poll for NYTimes/CBSNews that has it at 25 to 20 – basically the same as Gallup’s numbers from the week earlier at 26 to 19.
The unfavourables are all over the place. That second half of October either saw the anti-Occupy numbers not change or double – although let me note that we still don’t have follow-up polling from orgs that polled earlier (IOW apples-and-oranges caveat since all of these polls are conducted by different outfits). I’m thinking there is a shit-ton of granularity (geographically speaking) to attitudes. i.e. the tendency to unfavourable is very tied with how close you live to the drum circles. I don’t know because that data isn’t available, but this would be my guess as to the reason for the discrepancy.
Anyways, in case you start hearing about OWS support tanking based on teh Quinnipiac numbers – the answer is that it isn’t and the situation is more complex. Also too, the favourable/support number is actually higher than earlier polling – it’s solely a case of the unfavourables. IOW, if you accept those numbers and the validity of comparing them to previous polls, support has actually increased – but opposition has increased a heckuva lot more.
Citation needed. A credible one. I keep hearing reports that say the EXACT OPPOSITE.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
I have to call bullshit on your assertion that we aren’t willing to attend to OWS rallies. I have a 5-month-old son who is, let’s just say, high maintenance. Jetting off to things like protests is a pretty iffy proposition for me. Getting to the store is often iffy. I have a phobia of driving on busy highways. But were it not for my son, I would HIRE A TAXI to take me to my local protest.
Heh. Dennis is not a true music-lover. Is anyone surprised?
So, I’d also like an explanation of your use of the word “cowardly.” Cowardly? Howso? So, EVERY SINGLE PERSON who supports OWS but does not attend a rally is cowardly. I anxiously await your explanation as to how you arrive at this conclusion.
He can’t. In a situation as tragic as any of Shakespeare’s plays. Actor212 and DenDen are both mortal enemies and inseperably conjoined twins.
He can’t. In a situation as tragic as any of Shakespeare’s plays. Actor212 and DenDen are both mortal enemies and inseperably conjoined twins.
i have some hemlock!
oh…wait…
i have dennis pegged as either being donalde or the douchebag trader d00d who is going to take all of joe mainstreet’s jobs because he can landscape and wash his car with a garden hose…
DO NOT WANT.
But were it not for my son, I would HIRE A TAXI to take me to my local protest.
actually, pookietronic would make ows better…who can resist that little face? i daresay mini_b would have the same effect…and if ultra ninja were to attend, well i think even those being protested would have to give in…
if i have forgotten any sadly babbies, please accept my apologies and talk about yer kid moar so i don’t forget…
DO NOT WANT.
ewww…gross! not THAT kind of pegging…although pegging him with a pellet gun might be kind of fun…
Obama’s still trading below 50% on Intrade, Chris. Real people betting real money, not pundits’ wishful thinking and blowing smoke up other people’s arses.
I know I look to gambling junkies for my political wisdom. Everyone knows gamblers just brim with rationality and sober reasoning.
kg has a pretty darn cute babby, too. We sadlies make pretty babies. What can I say?
BTW, speaking of babies, I watched the vid of your son–awesome!
Dennis is far too inane and boring to merit the attention he is getting.
Try some D r i f t g l a s s.
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although pegging him with a pellet gun might be kind of fun…
Perhaps someone could shoot him in the head with a tear-gas canister.
BTW, speaking of babies, I watched the vid of your son–awesome!
cool! thanks…i adore him…
I rate for driftglass.
Friday is Professional Leeft podcast day! Get the weekend started with some violent leftist propaganda!
Dennis can spell, Donalde can’t. The quality of argument is about the same.
Dennis can spell, Donalde can’t. The quality of argument is about the same.
dennis may not type while fapping…
OK. I don’t know what your point is.
She swears she’s not romantically involved with her new friend.
The most incredible part of all of this, according to people who find all of this incredible, is that her husband is a banker. The odds! Fox News, who picked up the Post’s story, says that Hessler is “keeping herself warm at night with the help of a young waiter from Brooklyn.”
ahhhhhh, yes…that’s all we women can do with men…always with the fucking…and yeah, we don’t have minds, opinions, feelings, thoughts or anything of our own…
The following are a series of colorful terms and adjectives from the Post article used to describe Hessler, who will clearly inspire your wife to leave you and live in a park with a Brooklyn waiter:
all a person can say to that is FUCK YOU…
You could buy the world’s best desktop speakers and this song would come through as a sappy, embarrassing mess. As it does through any other source. It’s the kind of crap people who secretly hate music listen to.
That’s good driftglass, thanks thundra.
OK. I don’t know what your point is.
his point is that he is linking to a misogynist turd of an article that he probably thinks along the same lines as…
OK. I don’t know what your point is.
also, too that ALL liberals are EXACTLY THE SAME and do the EXACT SAME THINGS!!!
When Herman Cain began singing “Amazing Grace” at the National Press Club on Monday, some believed he was trying to distract attention from the sexual harassment charges that had surfaced against him. But, as he explained, “My faith is a big part of who Herman Cain is.” In fact, though he’s decided to campaign on his background in business, Mr. Cain is an ordained minister and deeply religious man.
Like President Obama, Mr. Cain belongs to a mostly black congregation with a black pastor. But that is where the similarities end. Stark differences between the political philosophies of these two men may be rooted in their profoundly different theological heritages. The churches both men are (or in the case of Mr. Obama, were) longtime members of are known for liberal activism, but with notable differences in their views of scripture.
Mr. Cain’s church, Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, Ga., is theologically conservative, affirming the inerrancy of scripture and historic Christian creeds as literally true. It was founded in 1877 as eight freed slaves banded together in prayer. During its 134 years, it has hosted many civil-rights activists, and today it has 14,000 members.
The Chicago church where President Obama belonged for 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ, is theologically liberal, eschewing scriptural inerrancy and taking apostolic creeds as “testimonies” of faith, rather than literally, unchangeably true. The scriptures are seen more as “living documents” than permanent anchors and pillars of faith.
Trinity United Church of Christ was formed in 1961, on the heels of the civil-rights movement. It was started by 12 middle-class black families who came north during the Great Migration, but from the beginning it has been part of a denomination that, nationwide, is majority white.
While Mr. Cain’s economic views are likely more conservative than those of many of his fellow congregants, his views on social issues are consistent with his denomination—the National Baptist Convention—and with the majority of black Americans. Mr. Cain, like most black Americans, believes life begins at conception and that marriage is a sacred covenant between one man and one woman.
Mr. Obama, by contrast, has said that his views on redefining marriage to include same-sex couples are “evolving.” This evolution has been clearly visible in his policies, including his vocal stance against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and his open opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act. His budgets and health-care plan have included taxpayer funding for abortions both domestically and abroad. These policies are consistent with the views of the United Churches of Christ.
Perhaps it’s easy to see how the two men’s theological differences inform their views of family, but they also yield different understandings of the path to economic advancement.
Mr. Cain’s church subscribes to traditional Christian theology, which sees the black experience in light of scripture. Mr. Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, on the other hand, is known for teaching black liberation theology, which sees scripture in light of the black experience. It seeks to create a direct correlation between the black condition and the light of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. The freedom they gained from whites is a part of the freedom Jesus promised.
According to Antioch’s website, its early leaders “stressed the dignity of work and honest labor.” By contrast, Trinity’s website emphasizes God’s displeasure with “America’s economic mal-distribution.” It’s not surprising, then, that President Obama would see a government-run jobs program as the key to ending the current economic recession whereas Mr. Cain would look to private industry.
An Obama vs. Cain contest couldn’t be cast as a referendum on a black man’s qualification to hold the highest office in the land. Instead it would be a choice between two black men who see everything—from the role of government in a free society, to the very definitions of life and family—almost completely differently.
For at least two generations, blacks have been taken for granted by Democrats and ignored by Republicans. Most blacks have looked the other way regarding their convictions about life and family when they have cast their votes. They have flocked to the polls for figures like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, whose liberal views on social issues have little relation to their own. The option of Mr. Cain on the ballot might cause them to think twice.
OK. *sigh*
I really don’t have the TIME to go canoodle with some hipster or hippie or rich brat or drug addict or drum circlest or anarchist or rapist or whatever the OWSer label they’re being tagged with now.
What if I used fetuses?
Then you’d have a smoothie.
Mr. Obama, by contrast, has said that his views on redefining marriage to include same-sex couples are “evolving.” This evolution has been clearly visible in his policies, including his vocal stance against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and his open opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act. His budgets and health-care plan have included taxpayer funding for abortions both domestically and abroad. These policies are consistent with the views of the United Churches of Christ.
ucc is pro-choice, dumbass, not pro-abortion…also, we believe that every person has worth and that god doesn’t discriminate…and we also believe that like obama’s ‘evolving’ view of same-sex couples, our faith is also evolving and that god is still speaking…we have more of a let’s work with god to bring social justice and good to the world and not the the bible is literally true, let’s bow our heads in prayer and in the sand to what’s going on around us…
Then you’d have a smoothie.
omg, u r so disgusting…
If by, “differ,” you mean, “one has a plan and the other doesn’t give a crap,” then yes, they do.
NOT A BROOKLYN WAITER! Heavens to Betsy, I need a fainting couch!
we believe that every person has worth
Dennis challenges this part of your beliefs, no?
The option of Mr. Cain on the ballot might cause them to think twice.
Suuuuuuurrre.
These nice men have a nice new jacket for you. They are going to take you to a nice place where everybody is friendly and the days will go by quietly.
Oh, and Imma definitely bookmarking that one.
omg, u r so disgusting
I’m simply imaginative. The diaper I took off Mini__ B this morning was disgusting: Mrs__B has introduced liver into his diet.
Shorter Steven Hayward:
Dennis challenges this part of your beliefs, no?
Dennis serves as a counter-example.
It’s the kind of crap people who secretly hate music listen to.
Fuck all of you Imagine haters. You fundamentally don’t get it.
Good thing the “mainline” churches are dead and dying (with the ones accept homosexuality dying the fastest!) Growth is in the Evangelical churches and Roman Catholic Church.
Mrs__B has introduced liver into his diet.
I approve.
…wait. You’re probably not talking about human livers, are you?
How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2011 at 18:03
Mrs__B has introduced liver into his diet.
I approve.
…wait. You’re probably not talking about human livers, are you?
I have no idea where she shops.
The RCC isn’t a ‘mainline’ church?
What does ‘mainline’ mean on YOUR planet, bunky?
Mainline means mainline protestant–the liberal churches like UCC, TEC, PCUSA, etc.
I have no idea where she shops.
If she frequents the places BBBB does, then it’s a definite possibility.
Catholics OTOH have a traditional view of marriage, family, and abortion one in line with the historic Christian faith, not the sexual revolution.
Mainline means mainline protestant–the liberal churches like UCC, TEC, PCUSA, etc.
Then why didn’t you just say Liberal churches? Simplicity in writing!
Although then it probably would have been more obvious that you are lying through your last remaining tooth. Liberal churches are doing fine, it’s the RCC that is declining. And the evangelical churches are running out of money, the money-siphoning scam they’ve been running on their flock for all these years doesn’t work so well when everybody is losing their houses.
Yes, it is traditional to transfer your pedobear priests to another parish to solve the problem.
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Bwahahahah! What universe are you living in? TEC, PCUSA, UCC, ELCA, are all dying fast. The UMC not so much though they recently reaffirmed traditional sexual morality so that’s probably why. The RCC added ONE MILLION members last year, while the Episcopal Church for example has halved since they ordained a gay “bishop”.
and abortion one in line with the historic Christian faith, not the sexual revolution.
THAT’S gonna come as quite a surprise to the large numbers of American Catholics who take a cafeteria approach to things like pre-marital sex, birth control, women’s rights, and kiddy-diddling.
And the few hundred million people left alive on the entire planet would be ever so grateful to live in a radiation blasted hellscape. Heck we’d be halfway through a century of hideous birth defects already. I hear you can just get used to thyroid cancer. We’d have cool new cities in interesting places because we sure as shit couldn’t live in the blackened craters of the cities we currently enjoy. But don’t stop there, there’s no reason the russkies and the US wouldn’t have used chemical and biological weapons too! We’d have the joy of smallpox and weaponized anthrax to keep us on our toes. But we would bask in the warm glow of freedom and the megadeaths of communists would make it all worth it.
IIRC Catholic priests in the scandal were, by far, homosexuals invovled in relationships with teenagers. The problem was in being too generous in ordaining gay clergy.
And to prove that point, notice how the Evangelicals don’t have the same problem the RCs did.
Fuck you Dennis. You introduced yourself here with the lie that you basically agreed with us but were concerned about the tone here; your level of comment has sunk lower from that submerged start. Like all libertarians, you live in a fantasy world where you’re a manly manly man who lives by his own wits and hard work, carefully ignoring all the societal resources that you, like everyone, takes advantage of. Like all republicans, you attempt to hide your cowardice and bigotry behind arguments about opportunity and success.
Since I’m not playing Internet tough guy, I’m not going to threaten you with anything but your continued existence as a piece of scum. On the other hand, I rest easy knowing that I’d say exactly this to your face, seeing as how I’ve said the same type of thing to scum who were annoying me in person.
Dear God, please don’t ask Dennis what he thinks about anything or why, because 1) he doesn’t and 2) WHO CARES. Where the fuck is Gary Ruppert? Or The Buttocks guy? I DEMAND QUALITY TROLLING.
Come on, are you guys so desperate for new posts that you’ve resorted to feeding trolls? That’s just depressing.
that’s probably why. The RCC added ONE MILLION members last year
yeah, that’s what teh Church says.
But Maybe not so much.
IIRC Catholic priests in the scandal were, by far, homosexuals invovled in relationships with teenagers. The problem was in being too generous in ordaining gay clergy.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA your own damn self, you kiddie-diddlying apologist.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/04/14/what-about-the-girls.html
And it has often, often been pointed out that pederasts and pedophiles are not related, at all to sexual orientation. They like diddling kids.
Your right. Dennis is on ignore.
Also, BUTTOCKS. Too.
Perhaps the problem with The RCC isn’t so much screening for gay priests, as it is that they covered up all the kiddy-diddlying that was going on, in order to protect their own damn profits?
Then why were by far the vast majority of cases involved boys?
Anyway I’m a Baptist so ask someone else to be an apologist for “celibate” homosexual clergy. I was just pointing out they, along with the Evangelicals, believe marriage is between one man and one woman, are against abortion, and believe sex should only be in marriage.
Not to mention Hayward’s apparent inability to contrast the long-run and short-run, even looking backwards. You’d think the fact that the USSR collapsed 20 years ago would be an indicator that Kennedy’s removal of the Turkey missiles was not such an existential blunder after all.
And TEENAGE boys at that, not so much children.
And to prove that point, notice how the Evangelicals don’t have the same problem the RCs did.
GOOD DOG, you’re funny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_involving_evangelical_Christians
OK, you’re right, they don’t have the SAME problems the RCC does. They came up with ENTIRELY NEW ONES.
OK, I’ll stop now. A new contestant on Dancin’ With The Badgers!
Then why were by far the vast majority of cases involved boys?
Dunno. Why don’t you ask teh FUCKING KIDDY-DIDDLERS?
Because homosexuality and pedastry are linked, that’s why.
I DEMAND QUALITY TROLLING.
True story – the filter ate my response to Lawnguylander’s comment about crappy music. Imma see if it’ll get past teh filter this time:
Because homosexuality and pedastry are linked, that’s why.
In your sick little mind.
And that’s it, you’re as boring as Dennis (assuming you aren’t Dennis). No more trool food for you.
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“So, I’m driving from LA to Toronto, where D-KW’s mom awaits, or dad if I’m outta cash. My plan, loosely, is to take I-10 for purty landscapes through Arizona, then hook up to I-40 somewhere in New Mexico and take that at least to Memphis and then go northish. What should I be doing along the way for side-trips or points-of-interest or food? Any and all advice accepted.”
Subby, it is probably way too late, but go north through arizona to I 40 near flagstaf, then head west. north-central AZ is beautiful, as is western NM.
Foreskins are hideous unsightly useless bits of skin that help spread AIDS.
Mysticdog, I told him the same thing.
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HIGH quality, not that sorry ass crap. Sorry if I was not explicit enough.
That was to DK’s link, I am ALL IN on foreskin holocaust blogging.
I may be taking advice en route, but thus far we’re sticking south for cactusy goodness.
Then why were by far the vast majority of cases involved boys?
I dunno. Certainly couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it’s far more socially acceptable for a man to be alone with a boy than a girl. No siree bob, must be those durned fags again.
I mean, really, of all the arguments…
How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?
I am pro apendectomy too but I have never witnessed one. In fact there are literally thousands or more likely millions of medical procedures that I have never witnessed that I am in full support of.
may be taking advice en route, but thus far we’re sticking south for cactusy goodness.
Also giving Zombieville a wide berth, I can see.
Good plan, actually.
I mean, really, of all the arguments…
O wait, those were supposed to be ARGUMENTS?
I thought he was here for getting-hit-on-the-head lessons.
there are literally thousands or more likely millions of medical procedures that I have never witnessed that I am in full support of.
HYPOCRAT!!!!
Every time I hear the word “foreskin” I reach for my gun.
…as long as it still allows for plenty of guillotine action.
ZRM, are you sure you’re not just wanting to set up a cafeteria for teh zombeez? All those rolling heads being full of branes, and all…
Lion OS/X is like a big toe fashioned of foreskins over a cilantro core with Don Surber’s face on its underside and wearing a Yankee hat while it’s on the deck of a cruise ship typing “this” and “FTW” into a blog comments section while I zoom by overhead in an airplane tweeting away while listening to punk and rap on my Windows machine. Suckers.
I will go further and add that full support would include ticket purchases.
Constitution News
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I am pro apendectomy too but I have never witnessed one. In fact there are literally thousands or more likely millions of medical procedures that I have never witnessed that I am in full support of.
I’m pro-apendectomy too, but for some reason, they wouldn’t let me in to the surgery when I went to view one. Something about not being medical staff. Typical liberal red tape bullshit, I say!
I am pro apendectomy too but I have never witnessed one.
Yeah. Generally, surgical procedures are not spectator sports.
Having said that, given the numbers of people here, odds are pretty good that there are at least several that have accompanied women to have a pregnancy terminated, or been a woman having a pregnancy terminated.
Although maybe not as many as in a like number of evangelicals or Catholics, because liberals tend to be more willing to avail themselves of effective birth control, rather than ‘pull out and pray’.
Good thing the “mainline” churches are dead and dying (with the ones accept homosexuality dying the fastest!) Growth is in the Evangelical churches and Roman Catholic Church
if you show me your proof of this, i’ll show you my proof that will refute it…and even if it is true, from what i’ve read, i suspect lots of ‘christians’ are flocking to some of these churches because they offer more convenient service times, they have a brand new spiffy over-sized crystal building (sorry zrm, n_b and tsam) or they offer coffee during services or many other amenities just to get people’s butts in the pews, iow people aren’t going necessarily to hear the word of god…yeah, my church IS dying, but only because of an aging congregation and a stagnated population…
furthermore, during difficult times, people tend to go where it’s easier…it’s much harder to question, grow or test your faith and god’s word than it is to have someone preaching black and white *facts* telling you exactly what to do…which always includes a nice tithe…
and dennis, not bs, not tongue tied
ZRM, are you sure you’re not just wanting to set up a cafeteria for teh zombeez? All those rolling heads being full of branes, and all…
even if the melons are not so well supplied with brains, or the brains are somewhat inoperative, I say there’s no reason we can’t call this a win-win!
Also, as a side note, there is a small group of people in my area that protest in front of the local Planned Parenthood once a month. I drive right by there on my daily commute. Last week they were there but there were also three guys, looked to be in their 20s, who joined with them, the signs that they were holding up simply said “IDIOT” with an arrow pointing to the anti abortion protester next to them.
He said he only continues his role because he believes his client has not done anything illegal and should not have to pay $445 of hard-earned money.
I think that $445 fine should be built into the sale of TrukNutz.
Every time I hear the word “foreskin” I reach for my gun.
HOT.
Lawnguylander said,
November 4, 2011 at 18:43 (kill)
*swoon*
How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?
how many have witnessed a live colonoscopy? or heart surgery, or an appendectomy? possibly because you don’t send out invitations to medical procedures…
and yes, i have…and yes, it was…
The RCC added ONE MILLION members last year, while the Episcopal Church for example has halved since they ordained a gay “bishop”.
i guess from all the procreational only sex? is the rhythm method really that hard to calculate or are catholics bad at math?
and even if it is true, from what i’ve read, i suspect lots of ‘christians’ are flocking to some of these churches because they offer more convenient service times, they have a brand new spiffy over-sized crystal building (sorry zrm, n_b and tsam)
No need to apologize. For some indecipherable reason, I am not the church’s ‘go-to’ guy for design. Although speaking of the Crystal Cathedral, it is kind of odd that they went to an ex-Nazi gay architect for the design work.
But churches, and the RCC in particular, have been prone to counting their new parishioners twice, while not deducting the ones who leave. In that article I linked, it indicated that the RCC has been losing 4 people for every one it gains, so if whoozit’s number of 1 million up there is correct, they lost 4 million during the same period, but never took them off the rolls. Once a Catholic, always a Catholic, I guess.
I see you avoided hot button topics like Brussels sprouts, Mister P.C.
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IIRC Catholic priests in the scandal were, by far, homosexuals invovled in relationships with teenagers. The problem was in being too generous in ordaining gay clergy.
who were supposed to be celibate anyway, so…
Anyone care to take odds on T.C.o.C.a.O. having a working uterus?
Because those not so blessed need to sit down & STFU as regards what those who ARE so blessed do with theirs.
There is no fascism as profound & total as that which dictates what you can or can’t do with your own fucking giblets – & where, pray tell, are the laws criminalizing all the dudes who fiendishly wank away countless “pre-babies” every day? Smells to me like somebody’s double standard is showing.
Making abortion illegal kills women. Thousands & thousands of them, year in & year out. It has NO other signifigant result – it most certainly does sweet bugger-all to prevent females who want them from having abortions.
Want the state to mandate fewer abortions? Get it to subsidize free prophylactics & sterilizations. THOSE reduce abortions.
Not willing to go there? Congratulations! YOU are pro-abortion.
I see you avoided hot button topics like Brussels sprouts, Mister P.C.
and raisins…
and i have mentally ahemed myself…
Because those not so blessed need to sit down & STFU as regards what those who ARE so blessed do with theirs.
st. jim, i totes wish i was catholic cuz i worship you!
Chief Fuda said he does not see the humor in this eight inch life-like simulate of the male anatomy.
i thought these things got started with cowboys and they were simulated bull sacks…?
chief fuda maybe mistaken about is own little chief…
Nicely-said, Jim.
Anyone care to take odds on T.C.o.C.a.O. having a working uterus?
I’m sure he owns one, st. Jim.
His wife’s.
AND RAISINS ARE THE DEVIL’S CANDY!
Constitution News
If you want to see the future, imagine a set of plastic gonads hanging from a pickup truck bumper … FOREVER.
I-10 is not ‘purty’ through Arizona. It’s broad and wide and everythign pretty is far away. You’ll see the worst parts of the Arizona and New Mexico deserts. Get to I-40 before you get out of California if you want pretty views.
The Devil has all the best candy.
I mean…RAISINS ARE POOP!
i worship you!
About TIME those fucking miracles paid some dividends!
*PROTIPS*
The high holy day of St. jim is April 1st.
Tithing involves regularly reminding posters on FreeRepublic that Ken Mehlman is gay, & that J. Edgar Hoover liked to wear frilly dresses.
Sacrificial offerings are strictly forbidden under penalty of facepalming.
“How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?”
Yo. An illegal abortion. In Athens, Texas. In 1971. There was much bleeding and pain afterward.
while the Episcopal Church for example has halved since they ordained a gay “bishop”.
Citation anywhere? All I know is that my parish’s average weekly attendance has increased by 30% in the last year… And it probably frosts your ass that our Presiding Bishop is one of them wimmin, right?
I mean…RAISINS ARE POOP!
Those aren’t raisins. Stop eating out of the rabbit cage.
Bad news, libtards: an intrepid journalist has finally blown the lid off the horrifying sea of rape, dope, chaos & depravity at OWS!
“Before and After Salad” was one of our standards back when I was a Boy Sprout, zrm.
Carrots, raisins, and dressing.
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I mean…RAISINS ARE POOP!
Aww, c’mon. They’re not THAT bad.
You know trolling is working when a thread about trickle down economics somehow morphs into abortion.
You know what causes a lot of abortions? Women in the 99% who fear that having a child will just doom them and the child to a life of miserable poverty in a world where for those not born into wealth, “opportunity” is at best a flickering candle that can be snuffed out by the slightest ill breeze. Make a mistake or get sick? No college for you! No college for your children! Full time minimum wage work is your new ceiling.
Now let’s talk about gross inequity and gaping societal disparity. The 1% and the 0.1% are taking more and more and leaving less and less for everyone else to survive with. Fucking sophists, quit trying to change the subject.
Substance, If you do go by Tuscon check out the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum south of town. You can also hit Saguaro National Park at the same time. If you are in town there is a great little Guatemalan restaurant near the U of A called Maya Quetzal.
I’ve been there. Who knew that hummingbirds fought all day?
It’d be nice to do some walking around. We’ll see what can get done.
Do you think that James O’Keefe feels bad that a tween is showing him how to do his job?
Tee hee.
Do you think that James O’Keefe feels bad that a tween is showing him how to do his job?
i think he feels bad about a lot of things about himself…
“Before and After Salad” was one of our standards back when I was a Boy Sprout, zrm.
Carrots, raisins, and dressing.
also, no church potluck is complete w/out it…
I’m sorry, but I just can’t take anti-choicers seriously. Far, far, far too many of them are also anti-contraception. Which tells me that their main beef with abortion is that women will get to have
sort-ofconsequence-free sex.Once a Catholic, always a Catholic, I guess.
Now canonically true. Used to be you could write a formal letter and request to be annotated out of the baptismal register. This is no longer the case. Even if you publically and formally declare voluntary apostasy, you’re still Catholic.
You know trolling is working when a thread about trickle down economics somehow morphs into abortion.
Well, c’mon, this is Sadly, No. Even without trolls, a thread tends to morph into food pr0n, a pun war, a discussion of zombies, or a Mac/PC flame-fest.
Although the Pr0n Sitcom thread was lulzzors. It’s kind of surprising how many sitcoms don’t need to alter their titles for a pr0n remake.
James O’Keefe has a job?
Carrots, raisins, and dressing.
There’s a birthday carrot cake out in the kitchen that is weighing heavily on my mind. Yes, it has raisins. And nuts!
Even if you publically and formally declare voluntary apostasy, you’re still Catholic.
Suppose a Roman Catholic formally converts to Judiasm? Just morbid curiosity here… Would Jesus’ foreskin grow back or something?
POTLUCK POOPIES! POOPY POTLUCK!
Well, c’mon, this is Sadly, No. Even without trolls, a thread tends to morph into food pr0n, a pun war, a discussion of zombies, or a Mac/PC flame-fest.
That’s natural conversation evolution. I’m complaining about unintelligent design here though. It’s such a common tactic, they have no answer for the 1% taking 40% stuff, so they change the subject. But even most of the subjects they want to discuss are exacerbated by the 1% thing. Crime, immigration, abortion, whatever conservatives are upset about gets worse the more the 1% are allowed to get away with.
Also eventually Mormon.
Even if you publically and formally declare voluntary apostasy, you’re still Catholic.
IT’S A PONZI SCHEME!!!
Breaking news.
Herman Cain? Sheep?
Shocking!
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James O’Keefe has a job?
RUN OHSNAP.EXE
…well shit, that means missus Zombie is still a Catholic? Or a Mormon, I guess, which is hardly an improvement.
ewwww.
Reading some moar, the thousand or so formal defections that the Church has officially acknowledged? Might still be counted as Catholics. People that the Church has excommunicated? Still Catholic:
Being a stylist to right-wing pimps is a job, no?
DKW, that’s some grudge holding there! I’m gonna kick yer ass outta da pew because you’re the suxxors, but YOU’RE STILL A MEMBER. So there. Dayum…
It’s such a common tactic, they have no answer for the
1% taking 40%(PICK A TOPIC) stuff, so they change the subject.Subject Tango: the dance of my people’s dipshit third-cousins.
Being a stylist to right-wing pimps is a job, no?
not the way he does it.
Being a stylist to right-wing pimps is a job, no?
Being a wingnut fluffer would qualify, I guess; but only if he joins the union.
damn you zrm, now your carrot cake is weighing heavily on MY mind…
also, fluffernutters…
damn you zrm, now your carrot cake is weighing heavily on MY mind…
the piece kind of fell apart when I put it in the plate. I may need to repeat the process to determine if it is the cake or my technique at fault.
What’s great about wingnut welfare is that, yes, you can get paid simply for BEING AN ASSHOLE. That’s it. You just have to go around being yourself…and you can get a check from Andy Brightfart. Must be nice.
Why can’t I get a job a perky misanthrope?
being a
That was for zrm.
4…3..22…
“fluffernutters” sounds dirty.
WE WERE ALL THINKING IT.
Why can’t I get a job being a perky misanthrope?
Self-respect.
dammit. Not only did I not get my comment in right after vs’s, but I fucked up the numbering, too.
Stoopit Friday, wasting waiting for Time Warner. If I didn’t have carrot cake in the kitchen, the day would be a complete waste.
fluffernutters
$445 FINE!!!
Yes, I reckon I have about as much as your mom has. That’s lots and lots, right?
Why can’t I get a job a perky misanthrope?
From Rupert Murdoch’s
mindto-do list to your keyboard.Pookietronic is being pretty angelic and self-entertaining today so I am procrastinating doing things around the house before my inlaws get here.
Yes, I reckon I have about as much as your mom has. That’s lots and lots, right?
Even that paltry amount prevents one from taking wingnut welf,,, I mean, YOUR MOM’S THE WHORE!
Oh, fuck me…I need something good and off-the-beaten path to do with a pork tenderloin. Taking suggestions…NOW!
An even bigger attention whore than I!
Pookietronic is being pretty angelic and self-entertaining today so I am procrastinating doing things around the house before my inlaws get here.
HORRIBLE WOMAN!!! you should be at ows!!!
Oh, fuck me…I need something good and off-the-beaten path to do with a pork tenderloin. Taking suggestions…NOW!
Wow, is this ever the wrong crowd to ask that question in that manner.
Beating the Pork.
You say Toe-may-tos, I say Poe-tay-tos; you say “trickle-down”, I say, “Oh look – it’s raining piss!”
need something good and off-the-beaten path to do with a pork tenderloin.
you know what goes good with pork tenderloin? raisins…
And makin’ out with a smelly hippie!
zrm wants me to pork myself with my pork and bbkf wants me to put turds on it. I think I’d prolly do zrm’s thing first.
WE WERE ALL THINKING IT.
We used to call stuff like that “clirties.” Clean things that sound dirty…
“clirties.”
also sounds dirty…
@zombieperky McDonalds (or whatever): “..when I put it in the plate.”
Well, there’s your problem – it is indeed technique. Most non-zombies put it _on_ the plate. Less ‘falling apart’ that way.
I need something good and off-the-beaten path to do with a pork tenderloin
Dried apricots work pretty well. I’m not at home, so I don’t have any of my cookbooks with me.
bbkf wants me to put turds on it. I think I’d prolly do zrm’s thing first
i s’pose you could use craisins…
also, too…i like a raspberry chipotle combo going w/pork…
Well, there’s your problem – it is indeed technique. Most non-zombies put it _on_ the plate. Less ‘falling apart’ that way.
ha, ha…i now have a *frustrated zombie keeps trying to put cake in the plate and not succeeding* cartoon bubble going on…
What you do is order a McRib and put it between the two other McRibs you already have and then you eat it.
I was gonna say…
Stacey Hessler is a big-time liberal hero
That’s hilarious. I love the way right-wing knuckleheads elevate such obscure people as Ms. Hessler and Ward Churchill to celebrity status. Shit, I’d never even heard of Saul Alinsky (every time a rightie mentions his name, I hear the dogwhistle jewy jew jew, he’s the Emmanuel Goldstein of the Fox News 2-minutes’ hate) until he became the movement’s bete noir.
People that the Church has excommunicated?
You know who WASN’T excommunicated?
Sure, I’ll do that…if I can watch you eat it.
OK, that sounded pervier than I meant it to.
I need something good and off-the-beaten path to do with a pork tenderloin
Jerk it.*
*You betcha!
Taking suggestions…NOW!
Whatever it becomes, it should involve the more or less subtle inclusion of nuts, in honour of Le Freedom-Fighter TruckNutz™ Mademoiselle corageux!
VIRGINA TICE – NEVAR FORGET.
Teh Sadlyloin sleeps deep beneath the dead city of R’lyeh, dreaming.
VS,
I’m going to eat here tonight and hear that the pork is amazing. No recipe but here’s their menu to salivate over…
http://www.ruxbinchicago.com/site/?page_id=8
I mean doesn’t everyone have “coffee chili salt” in the cabinet???
OK, that sounded pervier than I meant it to.
You know, I think most of us no longer believe you when you say that.
i now have a *frustrated zombie keeps trying to put cake in the plate and not succeeding* cartoon bubble going on…
Just for that, I am now EATING THIS SECOND PIECE OF CARROT CAKE DIRECTLY AT YOU!!
Yes…it’s time for passive-aggressive snacking. Fuck, I need a drink.
Do you eat in her general direction?
Yes…it’s time for passive-aggressive snacking. Fuck, I need a drink.
Wow. Add a mention of the Mekons and I think I just shortered my entire blog.
Do you eat in her general direction?
also sounds pervy…
Just for that, I am now EATING THIS SECOND PIECE OF CARROT CAKE DIRECTLY AT YOU!!
sorry, i was hoping you were too busy baiting the cable guy to be paying close attention here…
Ah, kg, you got me beat. Beat by a mile.
Your restaurant sounds divine.
Right next to the Tea-Scented Angel Farts.
Any place with hanger steak on the menu is good by me.
sorry, i was hoping you were too busy baiting the cable guy to be paying close attention here…
I have to eat all the carrot cake before he gets here so I don’t have to offer him any.
I’m catching up with this thread and I find this hilarious:
The Churches of Cain and Obama
Fuck it, I’m a member of the Church of Ledernacken.
It’s funny how these guys think that the squeaky clean family man is somehow less morally upstanding than the serial sexual harasser.
Cognitive dissonance, a prerequisite for conservatism.
I mean doesn’t everyone have “coffee chili salt” in the cabinet???
arguably…just not in the same container…
Right next to the Tea-Scented Angel Farts.
No, BEHIND the Bunny-Raisins.
apparently everyone loves the food and the decor is supposed to be a bunch of cool reused junk steampunk type whatever. I like that its byob. will report back on the food.
have fun jerkin the pork
I keep mine next to my tiny sarcophagus of teriyaki style alien mummies.
Not only are they not raisins, those rodents rent bunnies.
Any place with hanger steak on the menu is good by me
thats how I was able to convince Mrs.g to go there!
Feckin iPad. Aren’t.
Related. To lots of things.
Rentbunny.com. Herman Cain.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Feckin iPad. Aren’t.
Perhaps if you had human sized fingers, rather than those deformed bear claws… we can’t design EVERYTHING for those mutants at the 99.7th percentile of human scale.
TOO LATE! You made a mistake! I noticed it! With disgust.
You see, I never make mistakes.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2011 at 20:44 (kill)
I’m a cultist myself. And I’m burnin for you.
Although the idea of rodents renting bunnies is kind of intriguing.
Another thing that can’t accommodate my brain. *le sigh*
AHEM, vs. Ahem.
I’m a cultist myself. And I’m burnin for you.
Wow, there’s a lot of that going around today.
Ahem vs. Ahem was a pretty important court case, wherein one annoying person pointed to something upthread that was related to what the other annoying person said. The judge decided for Ahem.
<I.I’m a cultist myself. And I’m burnin for you.
Quoting BOC (can’t be arsed umlauting it) lyrics is theft!
Specifically from these fine people.
Another thing that can’t accommodate my brain.
No problem. I have a food processor, and anything we don’t eat tonight can be frozen.
I, on the other hand, am burning from you. But my doctor assures me that an intensive course of penicillin ciproflaxin and sulfa should take care of it.
Quoting BOC (can’t be arsed umlauting it) lyrics is theft!
it also causes tagfail…
Well, dammit, BBBB. That was what I said, but I was more subtle and didn’t use the link. Pup needs to learn to find these things on his own.
You and VS are both trying to give me an aneurysm before I finish my carrot cake, aren’t you?
Related.
How interesting – the side bar at utoob had lots of the the Reverend and at the very top, an Echo and the Bunnymen vid. I just cued up all the Bunnymen I have on my iPod.
RentBunnymen.com?
Like, it’s all interconnected and shit, man…
You and VS are both trying to give me an aneurysm before I finish my carrot cake, aren’t you?
The cake is a lie!
I just cued up all the Bunnymen I have on my iPod.
That’s always a sound course of action.
And I’m now wondering why I don’t have any Echo & Teh Bunnymen in my collection.
As are the rest of us, OBS.
What’s WRONG with you?
And I’m now wondering why I don’t have any Echo & Teh Bunnymen in my collection.
hubbkf wondered this about his own collection recently…he has rectified that sitch…
You and VS are both trying to give me an aneurysm before I finish my carrot cake, aren’t you?
dibs on what you don’t finish!
Ahem vs. Ahem was a pretty important court case,
yeah, I noticed how stupid that looked right after I hit “submit”.
Shooting bunnies.
TIL that IS Ray Manzarek playing on Bedbugs and Ballyhoo. I had always wondered.
No Bunnymen in my collection. I recall them being one of those groups that was always on my periphery that for whatever reason I never listened to.
Why can’t I for once have this big THING in common with someone musically here? UGH.
Well, see, it all started when I was born a ginger…
You and VS are both trying to give me an aneurysm before I finish my carrot cake, aren’t you?
Zombrains au jus.
Hi vs!
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Come on! You like tons of stuff that sucks, just like everyone here. Except me.
“Hi vs!”
No, that doesn’t count. We have to both be big fans of, like, The Tea-Scented Angel Farts.
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! rentbunnymen.com is AVAILABLE!
No Bunnymen in my collection.
vs, there’s this thing called the iTunes Store…
You like tons of stuff that sucks, just like everyone here. Except me.
Oh, you do too suck. So DK-W’s dad has told me.
“Substance McGravitas said,
November 4, 2011 at 21:15
Why can’t I for once have this big THING in common with someone musically here?
Come on! You like tons of stuff that sucks, just like everyone here. Except me.”
VS VERY ANGRY NOW. AND LAUGHING. WHICH DILUTES ANGRY.
GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! rentbunnymen.com is AVAILABLE!
Alert Ian McCulloch.
“zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2011 at 21:17
No Bunnymen in my collection.
vs, there’s this thing called the iTunes Store…”
I’ve recently added some really neat stuff, mr. Deadpants.
As is rentbunnies.com…
Come on! You like tons of stuff that sucks, just like everyone here. Except me.”
Substance is right. He sucks and nobody here likes him.
We all prefer that Righteous Bubba fellow.
Shooting bunnies
I’ve recently added some really neat stuff, mr. Deadpants.
I’ll bet Substance has the Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration. Right up his alley, from the sound of it.
Mr. Deadpants was a leading character in the abandoned sequel to Nightmare Before Christmas.
“I’ll bet Substance has the Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration. Right up his alley, from the sound of it.”
I was curious about that. Gonna poke around and see if I like any of it.
Mr. Deadpants was a leading character in the abandoned sequel to Nightmare Before Christmas.
Oh, the sequel in which Santa gets his revenge by dumping a foot and a half of snow on Mr Skellington’s ass two days before Halloween?
GO ON.
I stand together with Hitler.
…Right up his alley….
someone’s dad something something..
I was curious about that. Gonna poke around and see if I like any of it.
It sounds like it’s better than Metal Machine Music. But barely.
Sorting by number of plays in iTunes I get Taj Mahal, Frank Zappa, and Floater.
That’s not what I expected (except for Zappa).
“Awesome. But no Lou Reed.”
*snigger*
“What would Cliff say….”
Top 20 at-work plays seem driven by the need to kill people. Or myself. Or just chill out.
Cow | The Melvins
On Suicide | Art Bears
La Migra (Cruza La Frontera II) | Brujeria
I Get Wet | Andrew W. K.
An Ending (Ascent) | Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
Pandemonium | Killing Joke
Manky | Melvins
Fucking Hostile | Pantera
Mouth for War | Pantera
Cotton Bolls | Killdozer
Abolish Government/Superficial Love | Slayer
Filler/I Don’t Want To Hear It | Slayer
Guilty Of Being White | Slayer
In The Club | 50 Cent
Joan Of Arc | The Melvins
Verbal Abuse/Leeches | Slayer
Very Very Hungry | Brian Eno – David Byrne
Spinning Away | Brian Eno & John Cale
It’s Shoved | The Melvins
Night Goat | The Melvins
Substance hates his job.
slayer? rlly?!?
Do I wanna know what this is about?
Yes and no. As a Minor Threat song it was well-meant but easy to misinterpret. As a Slayer song it is misinterpreted. Which is odd because the singer is Chilean, but you know, metal guys are not that smart.
Eliminationist rhetoric from someone who professes to believe that every person has worth.
Inspirational.
pellet. gun. dennis. if you died from being shot in the ass a couple of times with a plastic bb, then i think you may have a serious medical problem…
any gwar fans out there?
I bet Dennis likes gwar.
I believe I can recite most of that Gwar NWA rip-off from many years ago…
Substance hates his job.
I thought he was getting the band back together and touring the Southwest?
~
Eliminationist rhetoric from someone who professes to believe that every person has worth.
Pearls are being clutched.
It’s Friday, man. Give that fainting couch a rest.
Why can’t I for once have this big THING
Modesty prevents me from answering.
<i.I bet Dennis likes gwar.
don’t say that! the son was just at their concert wed. at first ave…he’s pretty bummed about mr. smoot…and as he heard that news, he found out that a dude on his delivery route offed himself…erp…he’s going to have a lot on his mind while he’s out sitting in his deer stand this weekend…
d’oh…obs, there it is!
It was bound to happen eventually, bbkf.
And I kid about the gwar. Personally their schtick isn’t my thing, but I can understand certain people’s attraction to giant spiky foam penises and blood and gore and such. And if I’d have known they were going to disembowel Sarah Palin on stage, well, I might’ve paid to see that.
Personally their schtick isn’t my thing, but I can understand certain people’s attraction to giant spiky foam penises and blood and gore and such.
i hear you, there brutha…and yeah, when you’re 22 and get to see them at first avenue and you’re on some vip list for the concert, it had to be some heady stuff…
Nerf darts are murder!
Eliminationist rhetoric from someone who professes to believe that every person has worth
Passing over that this is said by someone who doesn’t know what “eliminationist” means, even if true this wouldn’t actually be inconsistent as “zero” is a worth.
sorry, i was hoping you were too busy baiting the cable guy to be paying close attention here…
Anyone here want to take a guess at how THAT went?
Oh yeah, forgot…..it’s a snark blog.
yes, it is! and as such, sometimes things are said in jest, for comic effect, to illustrate a point or just to keep some lame ass pun and/or limerick riff going…
and as such, i hardly see where it’s eliminationist to talk about shooting you in the ass with a pellet gun…
We only have to deal with Dennis virtually. Imagine how badly everyone that knows him must hate him.
Anyone here want to take a guess at how THAT went?
badly, i’m guessing…
<i.We only have to deal with Dennis virtually. Imagine how badly everyone that knows him must hate him.
right? imagine believing that every single thought or utterance was to be acted upon or held as scripture…dennis must be exhausted by day’s end…
LOL
One MILLION members…
</Dr. Evil>
Oooooh. Let’s see. Over a billion members. Shuns birth control as a sin. Hmmm. All of a sudden a growth rate of 0.1% per year doesn’t look so hot.
Sorry. I just found the math amusing.
Why is Dennis always trying to bore lefties to death? ELIMINATIONISM.
if you died from being shot in the ass a couple of times with a plastic bb
Better be careful. You might cause a brain injury that way. Not that anyone would be able to tell.
Why not troll in verse or something?
There once was a troller called Dennis
Whose rhetoric hardened his pennis
But we sent him to camp
His head UPC stamped
And a pellet gun shoved up his ennis.
Or was that not what bbkf meant by pegging? And what are you all wearing anyway?
and as such, i hardly see where it’s eliminationist to talk about shooting you in the ass with a pellet gun…
Well, his head is up his ass, so it’s much more lethal…
To be fair… wait, I have no interest in being fair. But I suggested that someone could shoot Pennis in the head with a tear gas canister, since he is so disdainful of the #Occupy protesters. I do understand that a Marine from Wisconsin is likely to be much tougher than him, so I expect him to view that as eliminationist also.
Guilty! he moaned cheerfully.
Why is tigris always trying to make me laugh myself ’til I poop? POOPISM.
Oh the usual, two wet suits and fluffy bunny slippers. You?
Oh sure, Major Kong. I waste time with a lengthy response while I am also rescheduling an appointy with a TWC rep, and you slip that joke right the hell in there.
Opportunist! Eliminationist!
Poopism = bowel eliminationism.
How do you feel about drool? And spit-up? Because if you like them, it’s about to get hot in here.
thanks v s
And what are you all wearing anyway?
Wearing? You mean like clothes? Why would I be doing that?
Well, after that episode of Install Interruptus, I NEED another piece of carrot cake.
How do you feel about drool? And spit-up? Because if you like them, it’s about to get hot in here.
Rule 34
I am wearing my special belt again.
Oh the usual, two wet suits and fluffy bunny slippers. You?
me too, but instead of the bunny slippers, i went for these
it is casual friday, you know….
Do leopard print manties count?
POUNDIN’ POOPIES! POOPY POUNDIN’!
Mr. One-Eyed Monster?
Really?
Hey, that’s nice. Not many men can pull off a “v” that low. And BANGS!
Do leopard print manties count?
They pretty much count twice.
.
I had a bowl but I broke it so now I can only use the biggest piece.
Passing over that this is said by someone who doesn’t know what “eliminationist” means, even if true this wouldn’t actually be inconsistent as “zero” is a worth.
uh, dennis…that was tigris’ comment, not mine…
I think I can safely say that we are unsexiest group of pals on the net. Awwww. [[[[[[HUGS]]]]]]], you guys! We are awesome!
I am wearing my special belt again.
zomg…that always makes me laff…
So, that’s the codpiece.
Unsexier than the MRA “people” really?
I mean I am a ginger, but come on.
If you’re writing that you’re bored, you just might not be bored.
okay, this sounds totally like something the asshat who married my mom would say…eff…what if he is dennis?!?!
Mr. One-Eyed Monster?
Really?
the daughter does not think stompeez are funneh…
I have nothing against red-headed guys. Why do they always get such a bad rap?
I mean I am a ginger, but come on.
mmmmmmm…ginger beer…
the codpiece.
Heck, use the whole fish.
uh, dennis…that was tigris’ comment, not mine…
Can I LOL that?
Because it’s not eliminationist when you shoot YOURSELF in the ass.
“zero” is a worth.
Substance has pretty hair. I bet he irons it.
It’s only way to get it that shiny. Unless you let me paint it.
All things said here proving one to be a hypocrite can be explained away easy enough with the snark blog card.
umm, you’re the one who keeps bringing that up…and also,
.
.
.
.
i think you are worth a couple of bbs in the buttocks, dennis…see! i do think you have worth!
There’s a specific sound, a sound in music, a sound I hate. I try to put it into words, and it’s really hard for me to. But I found a song that sums it up. It’s THIS SOUND I hate. There are lots of songs that sound like this, that make me feel violent. Tinny, hollow, wimpy, jangly guitar CRAP!!!!
disembowel Sarah Palin
That was wild – I can see how the kids get into them. Hell I was in the Kiss Army back in the day, Destroyer was the first album I ever bought.
I’ve expanded my tastes since then.
The guy made out of rocks seems to like what he sees.
It’s only way to get it that shiny. Unless you let me paint it.
Don’t do it. That shit never washes out.
The guy made out of rocks seems to like what he sees.
?
also, i was just in the can and wondering where you’ve been…don’t ask me why…as the daughter would say, ‘for no odd reason’
Ooooh, Genius knows me so well!
Come on! A few white anime streaks!
There’s a specific sound, a sound in music, a sound I hate. I try to put it into words, and it’s really hard for me to. But I found a song that sums it up. It’s THIS SOUND I hate. There are lots of songs that sound like this, that make me feel violent. Tinny, hollow, wimpy, jangly guitar CRAP!!!!
is the word *hipster*?
Nah, it’s not hipster. There are some hipster groups (i guess) that I like. It’s just this SOUND. This particular sound. UGH!
iTunes classified those guys as up-and-coming ROCK. That makes me sad.
There are lots of songs that sound like this, that make me feel violent
OK, I see what you mean about this band.
But if your definitions “whiny jangly guitar crap” extends to Sarah Records and The Field Mice, We are going to have WORDS.
I have a cod piece but I’m not sure how to wear it. Will it make my halibut look big?
Serious words! Like Constantinople and juxtaposition!
Con…stantiNOple…
Pork tenderloin; one T each minced ginger, garlic, habanero or other chili, lemongrass, two generous T’s fish sauce, marinate at least 1 hour. Grill hot till 145F, interior temp, tent with foil in a warm place for ten minutes and serve. Optional glaze of equal amts soy and honey with one t sesame oil brushed on during grilling.
Oh jeepers, the google won’t directly link you to that file. It’s just an mp3.
meh. never heard of them. Sounds like I would hate them, though.
Oh yeah. Just listened to a Field Mice song. It’s the prototypical SONG I HATE.
Sorry. I am ready to receive your words.
Thanks, this sounds delicious. And I’m pretty much only wanting Asian things these days. It’s insane.
Oh yeah. Just listened to a Field Mice song. It’s the prototypical SONG I HATE.
Dead.
To.
Me.
I fully support red-headed guys. Without them, we wouldn’t have natural red-headed women, and the world would be a far worse place in which to live.
That’s a compliment coming from you!
two wet suits and fluffy bunny slippers
In New Zealand we use real bunnies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05GTWKu4uU8&feature=related
Don’t click, vs!
also, i was just in the can and wondering where you’ve been
I’ve had some problems lately. Unable to be here much.
I was referring to Sub’s comic book picture.
WordPress….
HAD to be built by a conservative.
In New Zealand we use real bunnies.
Harvey?
Tell me about the rabbits George, are they soft?
There are lots of songs that sound like this, that make me feel violent.
That song makes me feel five kinds of violent toward their drum machine. I hate drum machines to an irrational degree.
Oof. Quotefail.
I hate drum machines to an irrational degree.
Ever hear Too Much Joy’s song “Drum Machine”?
vs probably hates it.
Now I have. That is glorious.
Here’s a song about Constantinople that vs probably hates.
Damnitt I summed the denis. Seriously though, when’s the mop job on this IP address before he bounces to the next?
Oi, how I managed to be roped into his psychosexual stalking of actor, I’ll never know. Probably the acknowledgment that his disingenuous concern troll routine annoys the fuck out of me. Well, that and my life experiences prove that everything he’s ever held to be true is wrong and so must destroy or find a way to delegitimize me to continue believing the things he does. But hey, thanks for putting the illustration to my point on willful disconnect, projection, and the palpatable change the subject fear.
If you understand what you did, you’d probably be shamed, but luckily for you, that is not a concern.
Also, I love the Stacey Hessler thing and him bringing it up.
I mean, there’s so much there. The misogynist assumptions galore in the article and apparently shared by the denis! I mean, we got women don’t really have political opinions because they are mental children and are just in things for the sex, men and women can’t be friends and can’t possibly just be sharing a tent, they must be fucking, even if there is no evidence and in fact no story, that liberal women (i.e. “free-spirits”, “uppity feminists”) are essentially the “whores” of the virgin/whore complex, and of course the fact that women are the property of their husbands who must be kept under tight leash, so that anything a woman does must be clandestine and a betrayal of marriage vows (I’m imagining William H Macy in Pleasantville wandering around the kitchen not sure where dinner is).
But then we get the cascade of fail surrounding it. Ooh, he’s a banker, thus he must be the natural enemy of OWS, you know because a not 1% bank worker couldn’t possibly agree with OWS or approve of her actions or hell even be protesting for both of them, even though it seems he knows about everything and is pefectly fine with it. You know because the OWS are just about smashing banks and being hippies and aren’t actually protesting a long list of economic crimes by the ultrarich against the 99%, which last I looked include a lot of people who otherwise work for “The Man”. Ooh, hippies are all about free love and we’re all about repression, so obviously she’s giving it up to her friend. Not to mention the weird disbelief in sexuality. If there ain’t chemistry, there ain’t ever gonna even be the opportunity for oops and all parties have pretty much said there’s no chemistry, fuck, we don’t even know the friend is even straight for there to be the remote possibility of fucking.
And then there’s all the stuff on top of even that. I mean, let’s look at the argument at its base. The argument by Dennis is that sex, sex that there is no evidence is occurring and a lot of evidence is not, is such an inherently naughty, dirty, filthy thing that it trumps 1) legitimate concerns of grievances by those who are not the ultra-rich, 2) crimes committed by such people unto both the people in general and the protestors in specific, and 3) Is such a horrible possibility that one’s only response is to be horrified, more horrified than any other crime or issue.
The idea that a woman is having sexuality for itself, without any connection to reality, but the merest possiblity that that is occurring without the approval of douchebag moral scolds is the greatest crime and something worth bringing up.
Think about the mindset that betrays. Especially if said person ever wants to claim to be a heterosexual with interest in pursuing a romantic and physical relationship with women.
Yeah.
And on top of that is the simple fact that if we granted them a bullshit story, there isn’t really anything to feed on from the husband.
So let’s say they are right, Mrs. Hessler is fucking her friend’s brains out as her husband takes over some shifts taking care of the kids so she can support something close to her heart. Maybe he doesn’t even share the same politics. Well, okay, even if we said that happened. How does that matter?
The husband seems pretty damn okay with everything and even the sleaze merchants couldn’t provoke him into a “that slut, I’ll rip out her eyes for the glorious Patriarchy” type comment. So, let’s say they are fucking, when they very much aren’t and it so very much isn’t news except in how it reveals our fixation on the control of female sexuality and how we still think wives are the property of husbands and shouldn’t be “doing things” by their selves without the approved male protector.
Assuming that it wasn’t yet again a case of trying to invent a case and revealing more about the psychoses of the author and those who think its proof to shove the liberals faces in. Assuming it was actually true. That it was actually connected to reality?
You’d still be wrong, because what you would have found would be a run-of-the-mill poly couple. Whoop-de-doo, big boy and welcome to the 21st century. Not all couples are really big on mono-paranoid and find romantic structures that work better for their needs.
Again, this isn’t the case with Stacey, she isn’t fucking anyone except in the fevered imaginations of perverts who think “slutty hippie women need to be punished for their insolence”, but if it was, they would still have nothing. And even if they didn’t have nothing, it wouldn’t matter, because it’s so far from “who gives a damn” to even be funny and reveals more about the obsessions of repressed sociopaths than the purported subject.
It’s a beautiful gobstopper of fail, each layer only revealing more fail to admire and learn from.
That this came up isn’t surprising. The denis is a concern troll and thrives on “look where my hand was”. But what it says, oh you could write a thousand textbooks on that.
But I’ve rambled on enough.
Nah, I love TMBG. Oddly that’s one of my favorites by them, and it’s not even their’s.
Cerb, that was amazing.
One thing to add; Pennis made sure to mention the tent-partner’s name, which was vaguely Muslin-sounding. But not a dog-whistle, not at all.
Cerberus, I agree with some of the other people here that you should ask Tintin for the keys. You could be a great front pager.
I’m back from pittsfield’s finest saloon. Anything happen?
Agreed. Your “longers” could be a good balance to all the shorters…
We took a trip to Constantinople. It was beautiful.
For Smut and Kiwi
Constantinople, Texas?
anything happen?
VS exhibited an alarming lack of appreciation for jangly twee British bands.
Is “jangly twee British bands” a euphemism for your testicles? If not, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Twee is…not me.
Twee is…not me.
What about Twucks? Are you OK with them?
Or Twains?
and it’s not even their’s.
How did I miss that one?
How did I miss that one?
Pretty fucked up place for an Oxford comma!
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Whatever. You be all perfect punctuation after someone wakes you up every 45 minutes from 10 to 5 in the morning. EVERY. 45. MINUTES. I know. I kept checking the clock.
after someone wakes you up every 45 minutes from 10 to 5 in the morning
That’s precisely why LarryElvis is forever banished to the other side of the bedroom door.
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Drum machines can be badass. Ministry, Depeche Mode…
Ease up a bit, yo.
Good god, that’s a cute cat. Even blurry. Also…the name “LarryElvis?” It’s too funny.
I once knew a woman who called her cat “LarryBear.”
To an irrational degree…
Hey, what did the other troll leave behind so long ago?
How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?
Ooh, me, me, pick me.
Yeah, it is. It really is. It really is so much nothing and so removed from a human being it is a joke in the medical and biological circles. I have examined developmental stages, I’m currently helping a lab (for free, because hey “networking’) better image their time-slices of development to look at morphology. I’ve seen your precious “womb baby” as a time-lapse of evolution. I’ve been behind the medical looking glass and seen just for myself how disconnected from our anthropomorphic hopes and dreams it all is. I’ve looked at the horror show that requires those oh so “horrible” third-trimester abortions. The fetii with half-absorbed twins growing out of their pre-development proto-brains, deformed sacks of flesh that are the birth of Cthonic nightmares, poisoning the very wombs they reside in, a zombie infection (sorry zrm) already gone, but now risking the life of the woman because of the hangups of people who couldn’t care about medical reality when they are too busy shoving their religious issues with female autonomy into our culture with all the subtlety of a serial killer.
Can it be horrifying? Sure.
You know why?
Because medicine is horrifying. Nature is horrifying. Take a look at a step by step open heart surgery, the resetting of a bone after removing 12 bullet fragments, or hell the removal of an appendix. It’s bloody and disgusting. Because it’s surgery. Because we have an aversion to our insides being on the outside. Look into a mouse’s brain, slimy and gray, and oozing. Look at a flower, a pretty little flower….in the microscope, the tiny fibrils of the stem, the yawning opening of the spread, the tiny hairs on the stamen, the alien landscape.
Fuck watch a woman give birth, as her vagina tears itself asunder, spilling blood and foul smelling liquid, as her ass prolapses as she shits everything she ever ate in the last couple of days in the exasperated cervical contractions of labor. Covered in sweat and grime, possibly opened up by surgery, cutting open her stomach, like it was preparation for that one scene in the Thing.
We call this a miracle and it can be beautiful. But it is because it is glorious messy humanity, not its dry cleaned and made-up Hollywood version where all labor happens off screen and the sweat doesn’t even run the makeup. And we only show the reactions to hide the naked real humanity.
But do go on about how watching a propaganda video about how abortions kill womb babies trapped in featureless white expanses makes you so much better poised to be the expert on a subject you couldn’t even begin to understand. A subject long since settled in the only important field to the question (medical and biological ethics based on actual research).
And frankly, chances are that answer is also yes to a lot of people you know, because they had them. 1 in 3 women will have an abortion in their life. Your mother, your sister, any female friends who haven’t run in horror, a friend’s wife…one of them has been there, made that decision and keeps silent due to social stigma. While you trample over the decisions they had to made because you couldn’t begin to understand.
Think about that.
Every day.
Good god, that’s a cute cat. Even blurry. Also…the name “LarryElvis?” It’s too funny.
Thanks. The shelter named him “Elvis,” and as I had a Curly already, in keeping with the Three Stooges theme… well, two cats were more than enough for me, so no Moe. 🙂
This, btw, is the photo of him that raised $1000+ for Humane Society of North Bay (San Francisco area), and made him the 2012 calendar cover boy. Taken with an HTC Incredible 2. I was pretty surprised, too.
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And if I’d have known they were going to disembowel Sarah Palin on stage, well, I might’ve paid to see that.
Ah, fuck, now Palin has been transformed into a Manananggal.
Has Pennis accused GWAR of being hateful leftists yet?
Who’s working her way down, this girl, this girl.
That’s hilarious. I love the way right-wing knuckleheads elevate such obscure people as Ms. Hessler and Ward Churchill to celebrity status. Shit, I’d never even heard of Saul Alinsky (every time a rightie mentions his name, I hear the dogwhistle jewy jew jew, he’s the Emmanuel Goldstein of the Fox News 2-minutes’ hate) until he became the movement’s bete noir.
They really can’t stand. Like it literally eats them up and consumes them with frothing hatred that the left isn’t like the right. That it really is a disjumbled mess of anti-authoritarians and we really don’t just follow our marching orders from X person who speaks for the entire movement because he’s paying the bills of this astroturf outfit.
Worse yet, if someone manages to claw their way up to “prominent person” they are much more likely to be torn apart every day by liberals on a thousand different liberals before the conservatives are even aware they should be hating the person.
As such, they grab random people, call them our ideological leaders, crucify them as a warning to others and go about their day. Which leads to the hilarious dynamic we have now of “You liberals need to stop worshipping Ward Churchill!” “Who?”
Palin has been transformed into a Manananggal.
I always wondered where the diminutive “gal” came from. Hm.
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Helmut:
We only have to deal with Dennis virtually. Imagine how badly everyone that knows him must hate him.
He has devoted huge amounts of time to evading bans to stalk one man because of a perceived insult against his hero. Trolling us and stalking us because we are perceived to be related to the man who insulted his hero. Going to great pains to overcome bans just to do so.
In real life, that’s exactly the type of personality that restraining orders were invented for. Sad as it is, I kinda hope he is a friendless man in his mother’s basement, because that means there aren’t any real people foolish enough to follow their pity into a mess of red flags and having to change all their phones and locks for months afterwards.
How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?
I’ve never witnessed a live appendectomy either. Doesn’t mean I don’t think they’re necessary sometimes.
Does watching Rick Perry speak count as watching an abortion? There were internal organs and brain gobbets splattered everywhere.
now Palin has been transformed into a Manananggal.
Ah, the pananananananangallan, one of my favorite AD&D Fiend Folio monsters. That’s Palin for you, right down to the corrosive poison dripping off her bared internals.
Also, I realize you guys have already undoubtedly been all over this, but those goddamn nanny-state government regulators strike another blow against the free market.
Oh yeah. Just listened to a Field Mice song.
Lil’ Rabbit Foo-foo?
Oh
mah
gah
That is one cute cat…and a gorgeous photo.
Dear Michigan GOP:
Fuck you, too.
Does watching Rick Perry speak count as watching an abortion?
That was the best stand up performance art since Robin Williams was doing cocaine.
As such, they grab random people, call them our ideological leaders, crucify them as a warning to others and go about their day. Which leads to the hilarious dynamic we have now of “You liberals need to stop worshipping Ward Churchill!” “Who?”
The shit ceases to be cute when a Frances Fox Piven wakes up on fine morning and finds her mailbox stuffed with hate mail and death threats.
But hell, troll distraction issues aside, the real problem is that it’s kinda all coming down at once.
They tried to strengthen and ride out a lot of problems by mixing together all the nutjob right-wing obsessions together. Get the Patriarchy-fetishists on the gay-bashing team on the worshipping Capitalism like a god team on the Tax Cuts and Deregulation Forever team bandwagon and so on.
Mixing the force of it all to create a big pause button on the world to slow down progress a few decades.
And it’s kinda all going bust. People have been spinning their heels for so long, so much progress has been stymied that people actually kind of are ready for all of it all at once. Bring on gay marriage, bring on socialist reforms to capitalist systems, bring on socialized medicine, heavy reforms on banking, 50s era tax rates on the rich, bring back strong regulation, green energy, and a robust safety net. Bring on women no longer treated as rebellious property and allow them to just be the capable humans they’ve proven themselves to be in the last 40 years and before, bring on a black man in the white house and in the CEO seat, and so on. Even the Republicans have had to pretend that women and blacks can rise to real positions of power in the Party maybe, possibly, thus admitting that these groups aren’t some mythical other we need to chain up and keep hidden.
Yeah, the bubble is holding…barely. But a lot of people are ready for history to lurch forward on a shit ton of issues and hell, the sheer pressure of holding it back this long may only have the effect of lessening the inevitable blowback because how do you get riled up over n***er dykes marrying your rebellious daughter when the point anyone gave a shit in anywhere that matters has come and gone.
And so many institutions lended their credibility, everything they had to this conservative experiment. How many churches threw away everything to be “those guys who hate abortion, evolution, and queers”? How many “business owners” and “community leaders” burned through all the fear straight into naked populist anger?
They completely poisoned words like family and patriotism. Like capitalism.
Those are things that are going to have generational changes, that relied almost entirely on the status quo and people not being so offended they left the tribal pressures and said to hell with all of it.
And you can see it in the kids.
And you can see it in the fear of the wingnuts. They keep brining the big guns and the bubble just keeps stretching and they aren’t entirely sure what of theirs will survive that breaking and for how long the damage will continue.
They can’t just distract with “what about the babiezzz!?!” anymore. It’s in the fold and we’re angry about that too.
I can’t imagine how terrifying that is for them.
BTW, Jeffraham – beautiful meezer!
That is one cute cat
He’s a looker, but like most lookers, also very high maintenance. A stark contrast to my fat tabby, Curly.
It all pays off when he seeks daily (well, when weather is such that I am wearing a shirt) to replicate our first meeting, climbing up over my left shoulder for cuddles and skritches, though.
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I think I can safely say that we are unsexiest group of pals on the net
Not anymoar. D-KW in teh house.
BTW, I’m wearing your mom.
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She’s never looked moar satisfied.
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Oh, YEAH, if you want to do it the BORING way.
B^4-
Well yeah, their habit of literally snuffing out or threatening into submission any random nobody also has been part and parcel of their tactics to make themselves look big and permanent and like it was safer to side with them than the attacked.
Pretend like you are conflicted about a medical ethics question they are too stupid to know was already settled decades ago, or else they might come after us too.
It can be really successful, as we see with the dwindling abortion access thanks to threats, unchecked terrorism, and so on. But again, even that is starting to glitch out. People are starting to care when Mary Edgeworth 212 Maple Rd is getting death threats, starting to notice “hey, um I was told that the lefties were the violent ones, but how come all them protests is clean as a whistle and the right-wing seems to be the one cheering on the murder of kids?”, even against a media apparatus whose only purpose to keep them blind and angry at the random target for this week’s cross burning.
It really does seem like they’ve doubled down on all of their favorite tactics, but all of those tactics are starting to creak with “God damn you all to Hell” genuine, earned righteous rage.
Maybe it’s just false hope, but…well, these may be interesting times, but they might not necessarily be negative times for us in the end.
BTW, I’m wearing your mom
I hesitate to ask…
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Like Buffalo Bill?
Dear Michigan GOP:
Fuck you, too.
If they did that here, I’d beat the living shit out of the next conservative teabagger bigot I found. ALL DAY LONG.
Now you’re just BAITING Dennis. And those pearls aren’t gonna hold much longer.
beautiful meezer!
Thank you, He is, however, a handful.
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I get the feeling Dennis prefers baiting himself. And he’s a master at it.
Then why is he in such a foul mood?
You’re saying Dennis isn’t master of his own domain? Not king of his own fief, as it were? No sensechal of his desmene?
Now you’re just BAITING Dennis. And those pearls aren’t gonna hold much longer.
Guilty.
Dennis is master of logic:
Five fingers on your hand, five fingers on a glove.
You can’t explain that.
They completely poisoned words like family and patriotism. Like capitalism.
Heh, I **WARNING:BLOGWHORE** wrote something almost exactly like that recently.
People are starting to care when Mary Edgeworth 212 Maple Rd is getting death threats, starting to notice “hey, um I was told that the lefties were the violent ones, but how come all them protests is clean as a whistle and the right-wing seems to be the one cheering on the murder of kids?”, even against a media apparatus whose only purpose to keep them blind and angry at the random target for this week’s cross burning.
Yeah, just try demonizing a young veteran who’s been critically injured by out-of-control riot police. The authoritarians are losing control of the narrative.
“My boys can swim!”
“Bieber’s lawyers have been equally adamant that the rumors that he brought Yeater backstage during one of his concerts and had unprotected sex with her in a bathroom are untrue. “While we haven’t yet seen the lawsuit, it’s sad that someone would fabricate malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claims,” Bieber’s people said in a statement. “We will vigorously pursue all available legal remedies to defend and protect Justin against these allegations.”
http://www.zimbio.com/Justin+Bieber/articles/JE0vt2Dk6F0/Justin+Bieber+Paternity+Suit+Update
Odd that she is “accusing” him of being raped by her.
http://www.ageofconsent.com/california.htm
Like Buffalo Bill?
Okay, I’m stumped as to what this means. Is it a reference to teh big bushy mustache?
What’s a Justin Bibble and why do I give a good goddamn who he’s had sex with?
Dood. Think of those poor lambs.
“What’s a Justin Bibble and why do I give a good goddamn who he’s had sex with?”
I think he’s an Alabama congressman.
Good post B4, Spot on.
DKW – think coonskin.
Zombies are attacking P.Z. Myers. Where’s ZRM?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/11/04/zombie-invasion/
DKW-
As the hints before, it’s about Silence of the Lambs.
Sorry, bit of a dark joke.
Didn’t Buffalo Bill wear that wide-brimmed monster? Is this a refence to someone’s mom being fat?
Gosh I love you guys and I hate you guys. I think that you people here are the smartest, snarkiest people on the internet. I LOVE reading you. So much so that I have stopped reading you at work (yeah I finally got a job) cuz I laugh too much. But every time I log on and see 500+ comments I am SURE that Dennis has been here, and you guys have entertained him. I know it’s easy bait, but gosh – that’s what he wants.
Sorry, bit of a dark joke.
Ohhh, teh creepy suit thing. Well it kinda feels like that with all teh enfolding flaps of skin. Uhhh, Maybe I’ve said too much.
Well it kinda feels like that with all teh enfolding flaps of skin.
At least they’re still warm!
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How do you know teh post count isn’t due to a lotta folks with good travel suggestions for a cross country drive?
Also, I perved on redheads at least once! Doesn’t that count for something?
But every time I log on and see 500+ comments I am SURE that Dennis has been here
Back-handed defense: Not necessarily, could just be that Tintin, HTML & Sadly, No!, himself (Where’s Aristophanes? He could type something.) are busy working/living their lives, while the sadly lonely set here has nothing better to do, & no new post to move to.
Also, I perved on redheads at least once! Doesn’t that count for something?
Oh, lordy loo, Spearhafoc, I was totally drooling all month over a contract worker who was on a jobsite all month. Flame red hair, dancer… wabooli!
No Bunnymen in my collection.
I have almost no Pere Ubu whatsoever, & I think they’re purveyors of epic spiffiness.
Ich kann habe Musicfreitag-Verbindung jetzt, bitte?
I have almost no Pere Ubu whatsoever, & I think they’re purveyors of epic spiffiness.
Scary, jim, I’d just been listening to this.
It can be really successful, as we see with the dwindling abortion access thanks to threats, unchecked terrorism, and so on. But again, even that is starting to glitch out. People are starting to care when Mary Edgeworth 212 Maple Rd is getting death threats, starting to notice “hey, um I was told that the lefties were the violent ones, but how come all them protests is clean as a whistle and the right-wing seems to be the one cheering on the murder of kids?”, even against a media apparatus whose only purpose to keep them blind and angry at the random target for this week’s cross burning.
There’s some local color happening here in DC, I’ve just heard: apparently, a couple protestors may have been hit by cars, and there’s a LOT of rage about it. (Washington Post blog claims there were fights breaking out before that between the protestors and other people, “possibly residents.”)
I think they’re purveyors of epic spiffiness.
Why, thank you, I don’t know what to… say…
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oh wait, you’re talking about THOSE OTHER GUYS, aren’t you!? Shitr!
Dennis is really a pathetic creature, isn’t he? You can get a glimpse of his loneliness when he complains, whenever the conversation veers from where he wants to divert it, about S, N being nothing but a “hot-tub club”. Obviously his ideological compadres are worthless for companionship, and he’s reduced to pushing his nose against the foggy glass and wistfully peering inside, like an abandoned puppy.
I can kind of understand—I’m not enough of a regular to really engage in all the back-and-forth*, but dropping a huge stinking turd in the hot tub just to see people’s reactions is not a tactic that would occur to me. Poor Dennis.
(Protip, though, DenDen: You really need to update your buzzword list. CRA, seriously? The one government program actually forbidden to participate in this frantic speculation in worthless paper crashed the economy? That’s so…2008!)
*Being comedy-impaired has nothing to do with it, of course.
Last night, Mike Flannigan published the Liberal Manifesto. Today, came the conservative answer.
Today, came the conservative answer.
Not getting out of the boat (hasn’t been the bestest day). Any intrepid souls?
Dennis is really a pathetic creature, isn’t he?
As are we all betimes.
The monotony drove me to trundle him off to Killfiletown a while ago. Running through the same couple of tired rhetorical Flashdance maneuvers turns weak mighty fast. The more a comment resembles the output of a bot, the less I want to read it, let alone waste precious 0’s & 1’s responding to it.
On second thought, fukkit. I already know what it says.
VS, on the outside chance that it isn’t WAY too late to provide pork tenderloin recipes, I propose the following, which I found when looking for something Polynesian:
1 (15 1/4 oz.) can pineapple slices
4 to 5 lb. pork loin roast (have butcher loosen backbone)
1/2 c. honey
1/3 c. Kikkoman soy sauce
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. ginger
Drain pineapple slices and blend syrup with rest of ingredients. Roast in 325 degree oven for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. (I use meat thermometer.) Brush pork with marinade every 10 minutes and last 1/2 hour of cooking.
Heat remaining marinade and serve with roast. Serves 8.
The only change I made was to roast the pork on a bed of pineapple slices. What it did to the pineapple ought to be illegal.
The Churches of Cain and Obama said,
November 4, 2011 at 18:05
How many of you that are pro “choice” have ever witnessed a live abortion? Why not? It’s just a lump of tissue, right?
I have. Asshole.
I held my girlfriend’s hand while they vacuumed out what could have been a baby. We cried.
Fuck you with a chainsaw.
No M.B. If the post is only a day or a day and a half old, it’s Dennis. If the posts are few and far between you guys give up after a while. And how wonky/geeky am I that I know that?
Thanks so much, LC. I love stuff lIke that.
I wound up sautéeing some strips of onion and bell pepper in oil, then stirring in some Thai red curry paste , coconut milk, fish sauce and brown sugar. I cut the loin into really thin medallions then added them to the mixture. Cooked them thru then stirred in some fresh basil. It was…yum.
Helen: yeah, you’re right……………….I cringe a bit when I see a whole buncha comments on a newer thread, because it’s a sure sign that some troll is up in here rattling cages, and that I’m gonna have to wade through a lot of ad hominum crap to get to the tasty snark.
And yet, wade I must. I’m a snarkaholic!
(have butcher loosen backbone)
It helps if your butcher does yoga.
I wound up sautéeing some strips of onion and bell pepper in oil, then stirring in some Thai red curry paste
I just bought a 2 pound tub of red curry paste yesterday. I still had some green curry paste, so I cooked up some chicken hearts (best part of the chicken) and vegetables (onion carrot, cabbage, serrano peppers) in a green curry/coconut milk melange. I also picked up a black pudding and a white pudding and a sfogliatella (which I ate on the way) on the walk home from the bank.
That’s the report from the “hot tub”. Sheesh, he’s a wanker, isn’t he?
Slice pork tenderloin into inch thick ‘steaks’, brush sparingly with oil andsprinle with salt and pepper. Sear at very high heat, then set aside. Yeah it’s still rawnin the middle.
Turn heat to medium high. Sauté 1 onion diced fine wih two sticks celery also diced fine. When onion begins to turn golden o edges, add two minced cloves of garlic and 1 tbs of minced Ginger. Stir for 30 seconds. Add Haf a cup of raisins, 5 thinly sliced sundried tomatoes. Add 1 tbs garam masala, and 1 tsp sriracha sauce, stir for 30 seconds, add 1 cup white wine. Reduce mixture to sludge, add 2 cups heavy cream, reduce by half, return seared pork to pan, cover and simmer for ten minutes. Slop it over rice or pasta. Yum.
If it’s hard to read this recipe, it’s because I drank a whole bottle of 1985 smith woodhouse with some really nice local cheese and some day old bread. So I’m kind of drunk and I really want to punch that church and Cain guy in the throat.
Two pounds Big Bad????????? JFC please tell me you live with 23 people. WTF are you gonna do with 2 pounds of curry paste.
WTF are you gonna do with 2 pounds of curry paste.
It lasts a while, to be sure, but I do love my curries.
i’m trying to harsh anyone’s mellow here, least of all my own, but 750 comments? What.The.Fuck.[
has it occurred to the proprietors of this fine website that perhaps not being so fucking half-assed about it might be called for? you do have a few fans here and about. i’d say 2007 vintage sadly no would be called for.
FORFUCKSSAKE
Robert go see me at 4:05.
BB – I am not a real cook. How hot is red curry paste?
I’ll wash it as long and as often as I want to, Mom!
Give up? I think not. We’re desperate.
Cerberus said,
November 5, 2011 at 1:16
yeah…what cerbs said…
so…
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am i the only one up?
ehhhhh…work was kinda brutal tonight…we went from 15 customers to 90 in a half an hour…lots and lots of city hunters…had two of our groups who come back every year and are awesome, so that always helps…but then we get the locals who we haven’t seen all fricking year decide to show up out the the blue with a dozen or more people and are SHOCKED that they can’t get a table right away…and the always ask, ‘why are you so busy?!?!’ and i always want to say, ‘uhhhh, yeah…have you noticed all the people with guns and blaze orange or camo on? and it’s the first weekend of november? and the same fucking thing happened last year? and the year before? and the year before that?’ grrrrrr…
Hey bb i’m up too. bad nite?
I’m up. I show for my next flight in about an hour.
just physically and mentally exhausting…and hubbkf is not home, so i always have a hard time sleeping…hows about you?
I’m up. I show for my next flight in about an hour.
where are you off to?
I go Memphis -> Huntington WV -> Fort Wayne
Only 2310 here in the civilized world.
Only 2310 here in the civilized world.
i am pretty excited about setting the clock back this weekend…
Thanks for the reminder. Had to check if my public service post on falling back was ready to go. It was. I’m so efficient.
Having a four year old takes all the fun out of fall-back day. He gets up when his internal clock says to get up. The time change just means it happens at 5:30 instead of 6:30.
I can’t wait until he’s a lazy teenager.
Thanks to everyone for trip suggestions.
I can’t wait until he’s a lazy teenager.
O yes you can.
There are entire days that go by when we are able to even forget we have a son. I am going to start calling him Schrodinger, because until the door of his room is opened, it is just a POTENTIAL teenage boy….
until the door of his room is opened, it is just a POTENTIAL teenage boy….
Schroedinger’s fap.
Had two abortions. Witnessed one. It was a bloody piece of tissue with potential. Fuck off, fetus-lovers.
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