Benghazi!
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Damn, I just left a comment on the last thread wondering how Ben Shapiro can live with himself while having conservative holocaust deniers posting comments on his blog posts.

Not for nothing, but I would imagine most employees of the IRS would get pretty winded even a quarter of the way through Kristallnacht.

He just cashes his check and says whatever the Hebrew is for “non olet” is when he does so.

Also, just making that comparison made my brain go “fuck you, you fucking martyr-wannabes!” Motherfuckers want to compare tax audits with getting their places of work, home and worship smashed open and burnt down, as cops look on impassively and actual paramilitary thugs beat people to death and hang them from lamp posts.

Eat dicks, Reaganites.

but but but these Teabaggers had to fill out additional paperwork!

PAPERWORK!

And perhaps this limp-dicked crony would say “I don’t mean to make an explicit comparison to the Nazi party’s pogroms against the Jews when I talk about destroying political enemies without regard for the law”, but then I must ask who then are you meaning to compare to? Because I know your fuckwit crew would never allow your heart to bleed for Rosa Luxumbourg or her compatriots, since she was a dirty rotten red and all.

You can call me Meyer!

No really, go ahead, I won’t give a shit. Unlike that fat and effete fuck who famously said it first.

Someone should hit him over the head with a hardcover copy of Rise And Fall of the Third Reich because then maybe he would retain some of it.

“Wake up, sheeple!”

Funny, I just said that.
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You can call me Meyer!

My Pupienus has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R. My Pupienus has a second name, it’s M-E-Y-E-R.

Wait, I suspect this is going somewhere terrible fast.

oh boo fucking hoo already. I got problems, REAL problems. There’s no gin in the house and I just kicked the Islay single malt. WHAT SHALL I EVER DO??!!!??

We have some box wine….

JP,
I have had occasion to use Teh Ho’s N7 (WHICH I GAVE HIM FOR XMAS AND DOES HE EVEN FUCKING APPRECIATE IT?) and each time I soon find myself looking up what 1st Gen iPads are going for on CL. I like my ippadee but damn, after using the N7 it just seems so fucking slow.

And then … And then … And gentlemen and then … when our iPhone contracts expire at the end of the summer we might get Android phones and we will be FREE AT LAST FREE AT LAST THANK GOD AWMIGHTY FREE AT LAST!

I know quite a few Jewish Republicans, so I have a few observations about what’s going on in their heads:

* My grandpa got beat up for killing Jesus, but somehow (due to the hard work of my parents and my white colored skin, but I won’t admit it) I am rich. Therefore it’s wrong of big gummint to take my hard-earned money in taxes to help out the poors

* I have some serious psychological issues with repressed emotions and as a kid I saw black kids not care about social norms (from a society that didn’t care about them) and I’m envious and wished my penis were bigger. Therefore it’s wrong of big gummint to take my hard-earned money in taxes to help out the poors

* Many leftists have a huge double standard when it comes to Israel and some leftists are clearly anti-Semitic. On the other hand, Fundie Christians love a strong Israel. What’s that you say? Fundie Christians are egging Israel on to start an Armageddon in which they believe all but 144,000 Jews will get killed? Why do their beliefs matter — everybody knows that’s naarishkeit … the important thing is that they support what I want Israel to do. Notice I’m not hurrying up to sign up for the IDF or anything. I just want Israel to act strong because I worry about the size of my penis. BTW, I don’t actually know any fundamentalist Christians personally: the only Christians that live anywhere near me or that I have known growing up are upper-crust WASPS or ethnic Catholics or African-Americans, so I don’t even think these fundie Christians you are talking about exist … they are just liberal strawmen. Therefore it’s wrong of big gummint to take my hard-earned money in taxes to help out the poors.

* The commies hated Jews even if we got blamed for being commies. In actuality the commies signed a treaty with Hitler. Since commies are obviously lefties, it’s wrong of big gummint to take my hard-earned money in taxes to help out the poors.

* I used to be a commie until I realized that the commies hated Israel. Then I realized that I could still think like a commie but call myself a neo-con instead. And the best part is that by calling myself a neo-con rather than a commie, I can oppose big gummint taking my hard-earned money in taxes to help out the poors.

* Liberals want to turn us into ‘Yurp. Yurpeans spent almost 2 millennia trying to kill us. Therefore it’s anti-Semitic for big gummint to take my hard-earned money in taxes to help out the poors.

I think that covers it …

* I have some serious psychological issues with repressed emotions and as a kid I saw black kids not care about social norms (from a society that didn’t care about them) and I’m envious and wished my penis were bigger.

That black kid envy is really something.

Oops. Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_jD8K3p6Y

Pupienus,

Forgot to highlight that particular explanation as a precis of “My Negro Problem and Ours”. Of course, the corollary to that is “I am a Republican because James Baldwin took a better offer for a piece I suggested he write”: IOW, if any minority does anything to slight me, that’s why nobody who is less than privileged deserves a leg up, even as I remember every slight any Jew has ever received.

“I am a Republican because James Baldwin took a better offer for a piece I suggested he write”:

Too spifflicated for details … that was the hilarious NPod thing, right? The one where he really really really wanted Ralph Ellison to fuck his lights out with his big black PENIS.

Teh Ho is hosting the GAY GAY GAY pledge event tonight – about Stonewall and shit. Last year someone said how brilliant it was to have two lesbians and a straight guy begging for money hosting the show. Exactly wrong. So I hafta go watch – catch up witchall later. Peace out.

Too spifflicated for details … that was the hilarious NPod thing, right? The one where he really really really wanted Ralph Ellison to fuck his lights out with his big black PENIS. – Pupienus

If your referring to that rotten yet somehow irresistible mango “My Negro Problem and Ours: At 50”, yes. That’s to what I am referring. And I think you have that about right.

Pup, I hate to admit it, but for most of what I need doin’ with the intertronz, the Nexus 7 is the Shiznizzle,
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“Time and again he’s insisted that Republicans aren’t merely wrong, but evil.”

Oh, really? Dang, I missed them. List the times and agains when Obama insisted Republicans are evil.
Hell, I settle for one time.

I am a terrible human being. I apologize to all I have offended here at Sadly, No!

I think that covers it …

I feel like we could condense all of those into one statement:

“Being Jewish doesn’t mean you can’t be an asshole.”

Meanwhile, the NOM’s French homies have straight-up dropped the pretense and started peppering their anti-gay-marriage hate rallies with goddamn FASCIST SALUTES.

Do I even need to mention whatever the fuck Fidesz in Hungary and Golden Dawn in Greece are up to? Here, let this video tell you everything you need to know – even if you keep the subtitles off and don’t speak a word of Greek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cevalqf5o1Q

If the GOP takes another electoral hit in 2014, expect the brown shirts to come out of the closet along with the white hoods.

“Study history, and you will understand . . . ” By “history” he means “Jonah” .

Bonus bonus mango bonus bonus: He is the recipient of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the intelligence community’s highest honor, and the author of How to Analyze Information and The Cure for Poverty.

If Dalaks show up, I think there’s a chance they’d say: Benghazi!

Someone should hit him over the head with a hardcover copy of Rise And Fall of the Third Reich because then maybe he would retain some of it.

If retention is the goal then surgical insertion might be preferable.

Talking to yourself is not so bad. Answering yourself, however…
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The fact is, Obama is worse than Hitler, because at least Hitler was white.

Sorry, Dennis, I have nothing to apologize for.

Thanks for getting up early in the morning to troll here.

I feel like we could condense all of those into one statement:

“Being Jewish doesn’t mean you can’t be an asshole.” – St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon

Good point. And many of them all but say something related (which does, admittedly, have a bit of truth to it):

“The goyim have been assholes for thousands of years, and few people did anything to help us, so it’s our turn, in fact our sacred duty, to be assholes now and anyone who says otherwise is an anti-Semite”

No one suspected the parallels between Moore’s Law and Godwin’s, that, in any discussion, the time it takes to invoke Nazis would halve every 18 months.

Bonus bonus mango bonus bonus: He is the recipient of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the intelligence community’s highest honor, and the author of How to Analyze Information and The Cure for Poverty.

I wonder if his book “How to Analyze Information” book resembles my experience of how data is used in my corner of corporate America. Here it goes like this 1.Pick a conclusion 2.ask for data that supports that conclusion 3.refine data request to exclude contradicting data 4. mess with the graph data points and scale until the results you want appear. 5. Triumphantly announce the conclusion is supported by rock solid data and do what you wanted to do in the first place Step six is “wonder why it’s not suddenly raining puppies and unicorns like the data said it would”, but that rarely makes it into the meetings.

Helmut Monotreme,

You also forgot step 7 (which happened, e.g. when Reinhart and Rogoff get caught doing steps 1-5): deny that the conclusion you made in step #5 was as strongly worded as evidence of your statements at the time shows it was — “we weren’t advocating for complete austerity, all we said is that some cherry-picked data said that debt is not healthy”

It rarely gets to step 7 here, the reason being is that this company is so reluctant to spend money that our most audacious failures cost us only a couple day’s revenue. I work at a 75 year old company that has long ago passed from the hands of the entrepreneurs that founded it to the grandchildren and great grandchildren of the founders. They are happy to have the company plug along like it always has, giving them steady returns and never risking any serious innovation.

This is a two sided coin, on the one hand, we’ll never produce industry-shaking innovation, but barring fundamental changes in a pretty steady industry, our jobs are secure.

Our company is privately held, that is the only thing that has sheltered it from business as usual in the 21st century. Which is to say, we have employees that have been here 30 and 40+ years, we own our buildings, facilities and our employees are mostly full time. If we were publicly held, we would have been bought out, our assets would have been sold off, manufacturing would have been moved out of the country and we would have been loaded down with debt, and driven into bankruptcy the first time we have a rough quarter.

“don’t you know that Obama will never relinquish the presidency, he’ll stay!!!!! as Presinent for LIFE could be by burning down the capitol, could be by declaring another state of emergency maybe to do with the budget we’ll have to wait and see But this is how Satan gains control of america!!!! Wake up Sheeple”

He’ll force everyone to ride solar powered bikes built by Solyandra and funded by Soros and require everyone to wear those gay tight bike uniforms and ride to Planned Parenthood twice a month for a gay abortion: even the guys. This is the plan called Agenda 22. Wake up Sheeple!

Karl Rove defends warrantless spying.

Now doesn’t everyone feel better?
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I’ll vouch for the Nexus 4.
Seriously thinking about getting the 7 too.

Easy check on whether any politico can be compared to Hitler, even pre-1932 Hitler. Does he or she have a goon squad that goes around beating up opponents?
If yes, the Hitler comparison could be apt (big if, further research needed).
If no, don’t even think about it. If you do, you need a long-term beating with a clue stick.
-Just a PSA from your friends at the Godwin’s Law Society and the Committee Against Stupid-Ass Historical Analogies, with additional consideration from the Alliance for Historical Accuracy.

Does he or she have a goon squad that goes around beating up opponents?

Clearly you haven’t heard of a little goose-stepping jamboree called AMERICORPS.

@ histrogeek.

ACORN. ACORN. ACORN.

I don’t seem to remember Obama looking at all of our neighbors and deciding that medieval war boundaries were some insult to his race and deciding that they must all be annexed by the fatherland. Maybe it’s cuz the liberal media licks his balls non stop.

NEW BLACK PANTHERS!

This guy was actually in the CIA? What did he do, run the paper shredder or something?

For no reason at all, cute GIF of the day: Dog retires for the night.

Hey Cerb, Looks like your post got truncated. It all fits on one screen.

ANYway, I can’t help wondering what this fuckwit had to say about the Reagan administration’s well documented scandals or the Bush 43 admin’s fast-and-loose play with the Constitution.

Oh wait, I think I already know. *crickets.*

Aww!

Scribe; Your link wants me to sign into your Gmail.

Yet another reason Texas needs to be nuked

Or at least sent a strongly worded reprimand for their cave dweller type behavior…

Scribe; Your link wants me to sign into your Gmail.

Oops. OK, everyone, ignore.

Fucking Internet. How does it work?

Original: “I am merely pointing out that President Obama has been going about the business of demonizing his political enemies, and then hiring thugs to destroy them without regard to the law, in precisely the same way that Hitler and his fascists did it in Germany.”
Translation: “I am merely pointing out that I am clinically insane and off my meds. Thank you and whee!”

DAS: “I think that covers it …”
I think you missed one – “The Beaver’s parents were mean to my parents and wouldn’t let Dad join the country club, so we blended in like we were made by Waring. Therefore, it’s wrong, etc.”
The “asshole” summary works too, although being an asshole is an ancient and honorable human right, hallowed by tradition.

Paul Avery: “List the times and agains when Obama insisted Republicans are evil.”
Why, everything he’s ever said. You just have to read between the lines, but it’s plain as day!

histrogeek: “Does he or she have a goon squad that goes around beating up opponents?”

Those vicious and savage verbal beatings are the very worst kind. Just look at these psychic scars!

Fucking Internet. How does it work?

1) Post link to own GMAIL account
2) Provide Sadlies with your password
3) Profit!

Fucking Internet. How does it work?

Series of Tubes

DAS: Be careful, my friend. You comment describes perfectly many aspects or symptoms of the Ziocaine Syndrome. There is also, I must remind you, a ‘Ziocaine Syndrome by proxy’ which affects many people.
Please have compassion for the sufferers of this syndrome.

“Hot pursuit” was legally defined in 19th Texas as 3 days’ horseback ride, which was the time-frame where one could kill the thief and take back ones’ stolen property.

“The fact is, Obama is worse than Hitler, because at least Hitler was white.”

Now, that’s succinctness like Mother used to make. And if Obama is so freakin’ smart, why hasn’t he figured out he’s the guy who’s gonna be left holding the bag?

“Does he or she have a goon squad that goes around beating up opponents?”

Of couirse he does, it’s called the US military. The difference is that the military (and intelligence and contracors etc) used to be at pains to keep a degree of seperation between their law-breaking and atrocities, and the CinC. But now, all they say is ‘Obama told us to do this, Obama makes us do this’.
And good old Obama, a Diogenes in silks, lifts his lamp beside the golden D’oh.

gynecologist fishing guide

I am speechless.

“so it’s our turn, in fact our sacred duty, to be assholes now “

Combined with, of course, our much-vaunted +15 Ahskenazi IQ (sorry, Sephardim) used very judiciously (no pun intended, but I don’t blame you for suspecting) in picking who we will be assholes too. The Palestinians, of course, qualify.

And you can’t seriously not know why loyal American Jews are Republicans? Because they feel the Republicans will do better by Israel. And as loyal Americans, they know that’s the most important thing of all. Cause it’s only a matter of time until the boxcars keep a’rollin, they’re plannin’ out a route real soon.

Helmut, those six steps are exceedingly well formulated. It’s a viscous cycle down a sloppery slip.

Mooser,
He only got his goons after he was elected president. If McCain had won in 2008 (shudder), the goons would have been his until the Palins killed him off and which point HEAD FOR THE HILLS!!!
Every president and prime minister on earth (OK except Costa Rica for the picky) has a national goon squad. It’s the personal or party goon squad that makes the difference.

Now Aril Fleischer is defending Obama.

Can Dick Cheney be far behind?

P.S. Lest we forget, the DHS coordinated spying on and then shutting down Occupy.
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Oh give it a fucking rest already.

I shoulda wrote, “a series of tubes, now with 50% more Black Commie Muslim Hitler.”

Oh give it a fucking rest already.

Seconded.

gynecologist fishing guide

He’s a professional fishing guide; gynecology is just a hobby.

No thanks, pupie.

Why don’t you go fuck yourself, instead?
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Boy, that sure is a big fat slow one right over the plate though, isn’t it just.
Ooooh, they’ll actually let me reply?

BIG mistake:

Nothing in black & white connecting Hitler to the Holocaust?

Sounds like someone never heard of a little book called “Mein Kampf.”

“I am merely pointing out that President Obama has been going about the business of demonizing his political enemies, and then hiring thugs to destroy them without regard to the law, in precisely the same way that Hitler and his fascists did it in Germany. This isn’t an accusation; it’s an observation.”

Precisely the same way, you say?

The murders of Boehner, McConnell, Romney, Ryan et al are surely shocking news, as is the law requiring all registered Republicans to wear identifying patches at all times in public. As is the law forbidding them to own real estate or trade stocks. As is the law forbidding them to marry anyone from outside their strictly enforced ghettos. I also seem to have missed exactly where & when Obama referred to conservatives as vermin, or degenerates, or traitors, or demonic subhumans, or bourgeois crypto-Bolshevik parasites whose very existence is a dire threat to America.

It’s been more than four years: my “observation” is of no purges, no Kristallnacht of nationwide destruction, no laws singling out conservatives for systematic discrimination – not even the dreaded mass seizure of guns that was being stated as a given by the usual suspects from the day Obama became POTUS. In fact, Obama’s one & only change to gun-owners’ rights has been to expand the scope of the Second Amendment to allow people to have guns in National Parks.

The conservative groups that were singled out for special attention by the IRS – how many of them were then actually denied special tax-exempt status?

If you think a real ruling fascist regime would give its opponents anything better than a one-way trip to the border or an unmarked grave, you don’t know the first thing about fascism – ask one of the few Europeans left who remember Hitler if Obama is cut from the same cloth. I’m sure they’d appreciate a little low comedy in their twilight years.

Interesting to see that the deranged ravings of Lyndon LaRouche & his ilk are fast becoming mainstream thought among the American Right, though hardly shocking – decades after William F. Buckley discredited them enough to finally expunge them from the mainstream of the GOP, the Birchers recently got their very own invitation to CPAC, & even their gibberish about the dire menace of fluoridation is suddenly coming back in style again.

After enough “Purity Purges” – & enough zealous belief in its own agitprop – any political movement (Left or Right) eventually becomes indistinguishable from an unsupervised psych ward.

Godwin Wept.

/trollspoor

Seconded.

Another boot-licker boldly steps forward.
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Subtext of the neocon defense of Obama:

This shit is WAY bigger than all you fuckers know, so just pretend it isn’t happening, k?

thx.

Wake up, sheeple!

Another boot-licker boldly steps forward.

Called out by another fucktard who can do nothing but pout and whine that yet another Democratic president—one of those evil, corrupt, compromising bastards who has actually managed to, you know, get elected—has failed to come up to his august standards.

As will the next one. And the one after that. And so on, unless he, I don’t know, grows a brain or something.

“It’s the personal or party goon squad that makes the difference.”

The first duty of any goon squad is to keep you, their paymaster or leader, a couple of degrees of separation apart from your gooning. If you can’t do that, as a goon, it’s your obligation to fall on your sword. That is a privilege which will not be extended to Obama.
But as I said, what leaves me flabberghasted is that Obama didn’t know this. He doesn’t remind me of Hitler, he reminds me of Urkel. “Did I do that?”

Just watch. I was right about the sun this morning, and I’m right about this. Oh, it was two minutes or so earlier then I predicted, but it came up, just the same!

Don’t make me remind you that I am right about the time, too, Sometimes twice a day!

Why don’t you go fuck yourself, instead?

If I could do that you think I’d spend all my time intrawebbing?

C’mon guys, our old friend Thundra is just edumacating us. He’s helping! That tendentious and condescending tone is his way of telling us how much he cares! OK, he thinks we’re stupid but really, he cares.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia told reporters the program is long-standing and legal and hormonal.

fixxed for more outrageosity or sumthin…

Well now the NSA has petaflops of cat pictures and pr0n.

histrogeek: “Does he or she have a goon squad that goes around beating up opponents?”

Worse – he has a goon squad that goes around asking people ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS before approving their special tax exemptions!

ZOMG JUST LIKE HITLER

Well now the NSA has petaflops of cat pictures and pr0n.

Therefore the NSA is guilty of hosting kitty pr0n.

QED

“Why don’t you go fuck yourself, instead?”

Say, Thunder, did I ever tell you what happened when I asked my Dad (I was all of seventeen) if he would buy me a Jaguar XKE, a car I was quite taken with? It was after all, “the greatest crumpet collector known to man”

I wish America were a socialist paradise where the work week was 20 hours, where there was national health care, where everyone above the age of 18 was granted a basic income stipend, where world class education was free, where minimum wage and living wage meant the same thing, where we were more interested in renewable sustainable energy than in sustaining the American post WWII global hegemony another freaking minute, where about 10 of our aircraft carriers were repurposed into fast response mobile roller derby stadiums, where getting a good job was achievable by anyone qualified and not just the grandchildren of the global elite, where cancer was being beaten back every day, where public health and public transportation were a higher budget priority than making up another reason to shove half a trillion dollars at ever more creepy and malevolent defense contractors.

But I don’t live in that America. I live in the America where 27% of the voting public wants every bloodier circuses and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the bread. I live the America that enables one to maybe die with a positive bank balance if you live like a monk and save every nickel you ever see working two full time jobs, and have the good luck to get hit by a bus instead of dying from cancer. I live in the America that still can’t figure out the metric system, that thinks snake handling is good old time religion and atheists are crypto-Muslims and Muslims are satanists. I live in the America that can suffer the deadliest surprise attack since Pearl harbor, and attack a country that had nothing to do with it.

What I’m trying to say is, for a country stuffed to the gills with murderous greedy ignoramuses, we haven’t been doing too badly lately. On the national level, we have inched back from the brink. We aren’t invading Iran or getting involved in a proxy with Russia in Syria. The constant drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, kill fewer people than the cruise missiles Bill Clinton wouldn’t have hesitated to use, or the full scale invasion preferred by the George Bushes. Gay marriage is seen as an inevitability, even in those states that haven’t legalized it yet. Pot is legal in 2 states and medical marijuana is legal in more. We are closer to a national health care system. It really isn’t perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the system it replaces. While banking reform is no closer than ever, we aren’t in the great recession part 2. Even the scandals are freaking boring. Who cares if some anti tax loudmouths are given a slight about of extra scrutiny by the very organization they claim is their sworn enemy. Benghazi isn’t a patch on Iran_Contra or Watergate or Gulf War part 2.

No one here is claiming that Obama is the apotheosis of liberal hopes. He’s just another ambitious guy trying to keep the ship of state off the rocks. Maybe he enjoys handing out key regulatory positions to executives from the very industries they are supposed to regulate. Maybe he is as eager a hippy puncher as the most hateful senator from the ass end of nowhere Arizona. Maybe he enjoys the live feed from the drone strikes half a world away. But he has been lucky in that his opponents from the Republican party have been the worst bunch of fourth string bench warmers this country has seen for quite awhile. I loathe the underhanded totalitarian ubiquity of surveillance in the US today, but…

But I understand that the neo-cons would gleefully have launched airstrikes at Pyongyang and Tehran. I understand the conservative national health care plan is “hope you die before you run out of the savings you won’t have cause you spent all that money on a college education that isn’t opening the doors the salesman from the university of Phoenix said it would”. I understand the republican plan for social security opens it up for plunder on a scale not seen since the conquistadors let smallpox do the heavy lifting.

Which, I guess, makes me an Obot? So, go team, and this half lets see if you can suck about 30% less?

We have fucking GOP reps quoting the fucking Scriptures to justify letting people go hungry.

‘Nuff said.

Never heard the crumpet euphemism before. Thats my new favorite. Can’t wait to try that out at some inappropriate venue this weekend.

Helmut Monotreme said,

June 7, 2013 at 21:46

wow, it’s like you know me or something!

Never heard the crumpet euphemism before. Thats my new favorite. Can’t wait to try that out at some inappropriate venue this weekend.

as should we all…

“I keep on hearing about Jewish Republicans and then I read posts like this and I’m left wondering… Why?”

Oh, that’s easy to explain! Most of those “Jewish Republicans” (your construction) are actually Americans, and for better or worse, many Americans are Republicans. What might be even more shocking is that almost all those “Jewish Republicans” are human beings, too, and therefore, about the same as anybody else in their situation.
But now I’ve put myself in a position of having to claim that Republicans can be people, too, and frankly, I don’t believe that my own self.

Yet another reason Texas needs to be nuked

By the by, you did see that the chick who mailed ricin to Obama and Bloomberg is from Texas, no?

Fuck’m. Just let ’em secede at this point.

“Never heard the crumpet euphemism before.”

Well, you gotta ask yourself: ‘Am I a Manney or a mouse?

John You is in.

The latest Obama administration eavesdropping controversy will not prove as bad as it first seems. Apparently, the administration has been asking Verizon for all of the “metadata” on all of its customers’ calling — the phone numbers called and received, but not the content of the calls themselves.

Nice company you keep, Opologists.
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A “crumpet” for those not au courant with early 1900s British motoring slang, is a dent in a fender, caused by an inability to account for the length of the front bonnet.
And I had no freakin idea, for years and years, what the hell they meant by “bonnet” or “boot”. And I’ll be damned if I tell you. I’ve got a part-titanium dog to attend to. Google it.

okay, by now you all know that i can get sucked into mango threads like none other and the stinker comments are a delectable bunch…aside from their atrocious spelling, grammar and frankly, quite troubling mass psychoses, i have made a startling discovery that just clicked whilst typing my last comment…crumpet collector is quite humorous and i, like many of us here, are not immune to humor or the spreading of it…

over at the stinker, a commentor posted to the effect that being the grandson of a jew who survived the holocaust, he found their flippancy about fema camps and equating them with concentration camps and by extension the whole ‘bronco is hitler’ and our gubmint is nazis offended him…well…

first off, the rest of them said, fuck you if you are such a lily-livered progressive and fuck you for thinking we are ignorant about the holocaust…because we know ALL about the nazis and germany and bronco is JUST LIKE THAT…

and then one commentor said that they were not being offensive, just using gallows humor because, yes, our lives are such living hells here in teh good ol’ us of a under the boykingmuslimtraitorhitler…and all their joking about concentration camp conditions is just to relax everybody…

i just find these people to get weirder and weirder all the time…

By the by, you did see that the chick who mailed ricin to Obama and Bloomberg is from Texas, no?

Just saw that a few minutes ago. Imagine my surprise to learn that a domestic terrorist attack was launched from Texas.

A “crumpet” for those not au courant with early 1900s British motoring slang, is a dent in a fender, caused by an inability to account for the length of the front bonnet.

well, i for one prefer to think of it in the ‘swinging your kitten around’ sense, so there…

By the by, you did see that the chick who mailed ricin to Obama and Bloomberg is from Texas, no?

Just saw that a few minutes ago. Imagine my surprise to learn that a domestic terrorist attack was launched from Texas.

but by gum, the gubbmint better not be looking (spying) on us!

Called out by another fucktard who can do nothing but pout and whine that yet another Democratic president—one of those evil, corrupt, compromising bastards who has actually managed to, you know, get elected—has failed to come up to his august standards.

To build on this, I mean, I understood that in 2008, I was voting for a center-right Democrat heavy into “Third Way”-ism and suck up to the corporate will. Mostly because all American politicians are the latter, and aside from the black skin, Obama just looked like the Clinton I remembered from my blissful 90s childhood.

I also remember all the not quite wars, not quite assassinations Clinton was engaged in for eight years. I remember the NSA existing in the 90s and doing pretty much the same shit it’s doing now, except with cellphones and AOL.

So, frankly, I understood this was the route things were going to head.

All I voted for in ’08, and in ’12, was to keep psychopaths away from the WH desk. The typical craven politicians with blood on their hands aren’t something I can prevent. The blood is unfortunately compulsory, all we can do as voters is limit how many coats of it cover the hands.

I have relatives in TX, so no nukes please. I’d just be satisfied with if everything labled “Lone Star” there was torn down and recycled for the benefit of mankind.

“where getting a good job was achievable by anyone qualified”

You were doing pretty good, Helmut, until you entirely exposed yourself with that “qualified”. I’m just going to pretend I didn’t see the word, so we can remain on good terms. But I must tell you it reveals very dangerous tendencies.

and also, imma object to the suffix ‘tard’ being stuck on stuff…i prefer ‘stick’ or ‘wad’…or just not name calling at all…

That tendentious and condescending tone is his way of telling us how much he cares!

Oh thanks, El Manquecito (IF that is your real name!):

I’ve actually been remiss, and welcome your reminder.

Income Inequality has grown much faster under Obama than George W. Bush

And why is that happening?

A revealing new examination of the top 1 percent in a variety of countries brings into focus how the American government’s tax, union bargaining, inheritance and other rules widen the growing divide between those at the top and everyone else.

But just keep on shouting down the people who won’t cheer the new boss. You’ll shirley get pie in the sky in when die.
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Hmm…

Why don’t you go fuck yourself, instead?

Not bad. Pithy. Straight to the point.

Another boot-licker boldly steps forward.

This one is a bit week.

Nice company you keep, Opologists.

“Opologists”? Ok, now you’re really not even trying. You may want to go back to just calling people “stupid” and not shooting for such elevated rhetoric.

Also, too, etc: What Helmut said.

but by gum, the gubbmint better not be looking (spying) on us!

They are–and look how well it’s working.

s/week/weak/g;

They are–and look how well it’s working.

well, that just calls for doubling down then!

Look, sheeple.

You want a blog where the slightest criticism of Our Hope And Change President™ is deleted within a minute of its appearance?

Here you go.

You can type out your happy horseshit to your heart’s content, secure in the knowledge that no facts will ever challenge same.
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So, a semi-serious question, thunder.

You understand what Sadly, No! commentary is, right? You’re not under the labored belief common to all of our troll, that we somehow give a fuck, or are desperate for serious consideration and contemplation of just how brutally useless the democratic process in America is for those of us who wish we didn’t have a standing army that needs blood sacrifices, a heath care system violently resistant to any hope of socialized medicine, and so on, right?

You’re not hoping we’ll awaken and anoint you our glistening god of truth, for which all answers come streaming from your lips and taken as gospel, right?

You understand you are currently a troll, splashing in your own shit, demanding we take you seriously or you’ll just keep splashing?

I’m here to laugh at right-wing paranoids, not watch left-wing paranoids.

“Never heard the crumpet euphemism before.”

Of course, you already know what my Dad said when I asked him to buy me a Jaguar. Or rather, what he said when I attained the condition prerequisite to him considering the proposition.

Anyway, Obama? He sucked me in but good. It never occurred to me that with all of us behind him, he wouldn’t have the power to defy the psychopaths, or that he wouldn’t know he had absolutely no choice if he didn’t want his legacy to become a lynching. He had his chance, and he chumped.

You want a blog where the slightest criticism of Our Hope And Change President™ is deleted within a minute of its appearance?

Oh, my, yes. Thanks, that’s clearly exactly what we want. What would we possibly do without you?

Related: via this comment at Rumproast we find out that St. Glenn was for illegal wiretapping before he was agin’ it.

Oh the ironing.

Note: I didn’t like it when Reagan did it, I didn’t like it when Clinton did it, I didn’t like it when Bush 1 and 2 did it and I don’t like that Obama does it. I wont’ like it when the next guy does it. Even if he’s (or she) is a Green. M’kay?

Then again I am just a stupid Obot or something, so whatever.

But hey, you know the people at the blog that is the actual subject of Cerb’s post might just welcome you with open arms. You can have a blast over there calling Obama worse than eleven Hitlers plus a robot Cheney.

You want a blog where the slightest criticism of Our Hope And Change President™ is deleted within a minute of its appearance?

and has this happened? i admit, i don’t comb the threads as i used to, but i don’t recall this ever going on…and as you well know, most of us here have a wide range of disappointment concerning bronco bama so why all this getting up in the grill?*

*again, not as diligent in the thread reading and may very well have missed something along the way…

A semi-serious answer, Trots.

How long have you been on this blog? Certainly, there are people who believe, “If Obama Does It, It’s O.K.”

But Sadly, No! has been around much longer than that.
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How long have you been on this blog?

Oh, geez, ages now, I suppose. Since the days of annieangel, Brad constantly on the ledge saying he was going to jump, and about three or four alternative names to HTML Mencken ago.

And frankly the only alteration in the commentary’s desire to give a fuck has been the Old Guard constantly going off the Brad-ledge and turning into trolls. Usually sadly.

It happens at that blog, bbkf. Which is why I mentioned it.

What we have here is the standard Opologist response to all his sellouts of the people who voted for him.

1) The Republicans/Right-wing Dems made him do it.
2) You knew he was a right-winger to begin with!
3) Most importantly: Just shut up about all that.
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“You’re not under the labored belief common to all of our troll, that we somehow give a fuck, or are desperate for serious consideration and contemplation of…”

Damn those stupid Explorer ‘bookmarks’! I thought I was at TPM Prime!

That’s it, that’s what’s needed! A Sadly, No! Premium! site. Where the serious people go, you gotta pay to get in. And have your ID verified! And there better be some vitality in your ol’ curriculum vitae, cause “fishing guide gynecologist” won’t make it.

Oh, you guys. Just because thunder’s got a rampaging case of vasocongestion/priapism over Obama’s failing to be his dream man doesn’t mean you have to obligingly relieve it for him. Just toss him an icepack and let him go someplace comfy and private.

Certainly, there are people who believe, “If Obama Does It, It’s O.K.”

[citation needed]

Note: holding our noses and voting for the mere stink of Obama over the foul, reeking stench of death and evil wafting vigorously out of the Republican party doesn’t mean “If Obama Does It, It’s O.K.”

Oh, you guys. Just because thunder’s got a rampaging case of vasocongestion/priapism over Obama’s failing to be his dream man doesn’t mean you have to obligingly relieve it for him. Just toss him an icepack and let him go someplace comfy and private.

Yeah, good point. I should be doing productive things, like dreaming about beer, instead anyway.

It happens at that blog, bbkf. Which is why I mentioned it.

What we have here is the standard Opologist response to all his sellouts of the people who voted for him.

but it doesn’t happen here…and won’t happen here…and ‘opologist’? what is up with you, dude?

Reader, take a deep breath. Nowhere in this essay will I suggest, or even imply, that President Obama plans the mass murder of his opponents the way Hitler murdered his. That’s absurd. I am merely pointing out that President Obama has been going about the business of demonizing his political enemies, and then hiring thugs to destroy them without regard to the law, in precisely the same way that Hitler and his fascists did it in Germany. This isn’t an accusation; it’s an observation.

Yep, all that reaching across the aisle, those “beyond red states and blue states” speeches, that “look forward not backwards we’re not going to prosecute you” speeches, that time he gave them a stimulus whose single biggest piece was tax cuts and a health care reform plan dreamed up by their own Heritage Foundation, the nomination of Republican after Republican to key cabinet positions… yep, sounds like demonization to me!

On the other hand, don’t you dare point out that an entire coast-to-coast media apparatus calling for “Second Amendment Solutions” could possibly be compared to inciting Brownshirts.

Note: holding our noses and voting for the mere stink of Obama over the foul, reeking stench of death and evil wafting vigorously out of the Republican party doesn’t mean “If Obama Does It, It’s O.K.”

He’s not running again. So exactly what is it that you are doing now?

Here’s another reminder: Something good Obama did.

Did the gay community get this by running around on the internet and telling Obama critics to just shut up?

No. They said, listen you fuck, give us this, or you don’t get our money.
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Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He is the recipient of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the intelligence community’s highest honor

I’m beginning to see why it’s so difficult to get any facts from the intelligence community…

“What we have here is the standard Opologist response to all his sellouts of the people who voted for him.”

Because some person says it on a comment thread under a nym? Now wait a minute, I thought taking random comments seriously and making them stand as facts was a Republican or wing-nut pre-occupation, but let it pass.

Meanwhile, the NOM’s French homies have straight-up dropped the pretense and started peppering their anti-gay-marriage hate rallies with goddamn FASCIST SALUTES.

Yes, I find the European far right refreshing as hell for that reason alone: they actually own the fact that they’re fascists. As opposed to teabaggers who will show up with Confederate flags and slogans and then mewl about the “party of Lincoln” the moment you call them on it.

“What we have here is the standard Opologist response to all his sellouts of the people who voted for him.”

I’m sorry, I got irritated for a minute, sorry, I’m under a lot of stress. Anyway, I’m myself again, so please, let me know what kind of a response you do want, and I’ll have it submitted within five minutes, and as many as you want. I aim to please. Of course, you do understand I can’t threaten to shoot the President, or any other kind of violence towards his, or any other person. And no racism or aspersions about him being Indonesian and the spawn of Sukarno. But other than that, just let me know, and I’ll serve it up hot and crisp.

You want a blog where the slightest criticism of Our Hope And Change President™ is deleted within a minute of its appearance?

No, I want a blog the stated intent of which is to point our fingers at and laugh at idiot reichwingers, where people make clever snarky comments, deliciously bad puns, inject useless yet interesting bits of trivia, figuratively poke pointy objects into whingnutz’ eyes, and most of all, NOBODY TAKES ANYTHING TOO FUCKING SERIOUSLY. IOW, I want Sadly,No! except without your pouting and whining.

You can type out your happy horseshit to your heart’s content, secure in the knowledge that no facts will ever challenge same.

Boring troll is boring.

so, pup, did teh ho bring in record amounts of $$$ and donors during his gay, gay, gay pledge night? i did not have to pitch for hubbkf’s june drive…they wimped out and only had 2 live nights…crazy…

Imagine my surprise to learn that a domestic terrorist attack was launched from Texas.

Now, now, there’s no such thing as “domestic terrorism” unless it’s by an MusloFascist American.

Just a valiant patriot exercising her God-given right to mail poison to her government.

Just a valiant patriot exercising her God-given right to mail poison to her government.

under a brooooooaaaad reading of the sacred 2nd amendment…

“No, I want a blog the stated intent of which is to point our fingers at and laugh at idiot reichwingers, where people make clever snarky comments, deliciously bad puns, inject useless yet interesting bits of trivia, figuratively poke pointy objects into whingnutz’ eyes, and most of all, NOBODY TAKES ANYTHING TOO FUCKING SERIOUSLY. IOW, I want Sadly,No! except without your pouting and whining.”

Would you prefer that in bronze with raised letters, or carved into finest Carrera marble? At any rate, you don’t mind if I call my epitaphist and tell him I’ve finally settled on something I can, er, live with?

“Just toss him an icepack and let him go someplace comfy and private.”

Now you’re going way too far. Nobody deserves to be treated like Trotsky.

It was the American Experience show “Stonewall Uprising.” This morning he said it ranked fourth among all shows so far (one week in) so that’s pretty damn good. He waited until the second to last break to pull out the “We have people calling to say they’re cancelling their membership because of this show.” That set the phones ringing. They actually did have two people call in to say that* so he wasn’t just being manipulative.

*The vast majority of people who say “I’m never giving you any money again” and such never gave any money in the first place. Sheesh, they think he can’t tap a few keys and see the records going back 10 years or more?

What, no tattoo or scarification option?

a valiant patriot

there’s a dude over at the thinker who’s tagline is ‘best to a fellow patriot’…it always makes me giggle that they really, really think they are ‘patriots’…they certainly are full of empty threats and make tsam look like a piker with their eliminationist talk…

but on the upside, i found this mango over there:

People cannot envision right now death trains with jewish people riding on cattle cars (since no railroad cattle cars are in commercial service any more), dying in ovens, being experimented on. They don’t know (apart from, as Rush Limbaugh pointed out yesterday) how vicious the Nazis were at the Normandy beachheads (let alone understanding what it took to dislodge them). People don’t understand what’s ahead (nor, fully, do I) because A) they don’t know history and B) we still don’t fully know the plans of this administration and their allies.

How can we warn people what’s ahead when, in spite of all the signs, we don’t fully know ourselves in this digital age?

*The vast majority of people who say “I’m never giving you any money again” and such never gave any money in the first place. Sheesh, they think he can’t tap a few keys and see the records going back 10 years or more?

so sad and so true…my other favorites are the ones that call in all pissed off because they can’t watch ‘their show’ and when is it going to be on again?!?!? uhhhhhh, if you were a member, you’d get the schedules and you’d know?

Helmut, don’t think I ever said: congrats on your nuptials and many happy returns.

Provider_UNE, finally listened to the TK material. Not bad for not having played together for over 20 years.

Thundra, I don’t think anybody is exactly happy that Obama has his blind spots and failings. Most of us, however, are adult enough to recognize that he was always a DLC-style centrist and faced with poo-flinging opposition that makes moving in a completely (or even slightly) new direction pretty damned difficult. If that makes me an Obot, so be it. (Soviet?! *looks around suspiciously*)

Do not listen to this speech. It will poison your mind. Listen to Fox News and only Fox News.

“The Beaver’s parents were mean to my parents and wouldn’t let Dad join the country club, so we blended in like we were made by Waring. Therefore, it’s wrong, etc.” – JohnR

My great-grandparents (at least on my father’s mother’s side) were the sort of “people of the Hebraic faith” whom the Beaver’s grandparents would let into the country club (they were in fact Republicans, but they didn’t like Reagan at all): maybe that’s why I’m liberal? (At least some of) my family would have been allowed to join the country club?

how vicious the Nazis were at the Normandy beachheads

Um, not to be a dick, but the Nazis at the Normandy beachheads were about as vicious as you’d expect any group of soldiers ordered to hold a position would be. Nothing particularly egregious about that.

Trying to kill our soldiers in the middle of a war? How dare they – don’t they know we’re trying to kill them first?

Nobody deserves to be treated like Trotsky.

Oh, it’s not all that bad. I just have to keep my mouth closed on windy days so there isn’t a whistle.

Wow Thunder, I gotta ask what you are attempting to achieve here. Berating your comrades about insufficient displays of anguish and rending of garments at a humor blog, is not gonna kick start the revolution.

/just sayin…
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Thanks WC, we actually have a rehearsal tonight. I look forward to a bit of Rock and Roll therapy. 🙂
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Another day, another shooting.
Four wounded, two critically, in shooting at LA-area community college near Obama event
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18831196-four-wounded-two-critically-in-shooting-at-la-area-community-college-near-obama-event?lite

No. They said, listen you fuck, give us this, or you don’t get our money.
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You might think about getting a blog setting your own terms and starting the Revolution from there…Oh wait, or get the keys to a place with a larger readership…Oh wait…Or start Diaries at Kos…Or you could continue to employ a tactical Jujitsu nearly guaranteed to result in a downward spiral of diminishing returns.

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“(At least some of) my family would have been allowed to join the country club?”

You know the rules DAS, if you’re half-Jewish, you can go in the pool up to your knees.

Later Haters, of to Rock and Roll related program activities.

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“Oh, it’s not all that bad. I just have to keep my mouth closed on windy days so there isn’t a whistle.”

Hey, if you want to be a Stalinist, you must be prepared to give your awl to the Party.

“My great-grandparents (at least on my father’s mother’s side) were the sort of “people of the Hebraic faith” whom the Beaver’s grandparents would let into the country club”

So they were allrightniks? That’s nice. But I too, have a distinguished ancestry. In fact a man very likely to be one of my direct predecessors was the subject of an biography.

“Thanks WC, we actually have a rehearsal tonight. I look forward to a bit of Rock and Roll therapy. :)”

With lots of organ?

This so wierd! I mean, speaking of Trotsky and all, I was just sitting here going over the instructions for my dog’s rehab, and it says I should apply an icepick to her knee twice a day! I really don’t see how that could help.
And now I’m feeling the compulsion to open a Alpine-sports-for-infants web site. I wonder why?

Hey, if you want to be a Stalinist, you must be prepared to give your awl to the Party.

I have a bone to pick with that pun.

I have a bone to pick with that pun.

Best to lev it where it lies.

I lev you,
A bushel and a peck.
A bushel and a peck,
and…

Helmut, I used your corporate math formula in the comments on a website run by a psychiatrist who likes to question and analyze data on drug studies. I attributed it to “someone else” commenting “somewhere else”— that’s you.

It’s kind of beautiful to think of the cheating and lying that goes into those studies as being corporate math, or “marketing math.” There’s more truth than euphemism to it, actually. Corporate math is not scientific. Scientists should be required to use maths appropriate for their medical studies. Corporate math should be punished as fraud, should not be published in journals, and should— upon discovery— require any paper or report that uses it to be retracted and publicly shamed.

Wiley, I could be wrong about this, reading comprehension is not my long suite.( With me, it’s more of a SRO) but the neat part about Helmut’s most excellent exegesis is that (if I’m reading it right) it’s the math they use to cheat themselves and I would guess, their stockholders.
And I don’t think it’s exactly an exegesis, but Jesus, these days, what is?

Good point. Perhaps the billion dollar fines some of the companies have been fined fit that, but still, all the others are exactly what they’re doing.

That shooter at the community college in L.A.? It’s hard to tell from the stories whether or not all the victims were women. It seems, that if that were the case, that what should be said is that “The gunman killed seven women.”

Thread is awfully low on Hitler. I give it only two and a half Adolphs.

SRSLY sheeple. Teh Hitler references are Fuhrer and far between.

You’re reich about that.

I’m Goering up for it.

Well, it’s nazi hard to fix, just start writing comments. It’ll be a gas.

And nobody’d better tell me to hit the showers, either.

Whale Chowder- thank you, it was great wedding with wonderful guests, a stunningly beautiful bride, on the kind of day you picture when you think about mild spring days. At nearly three weeks and counting, I am still happily married.

Mooser, I’m not sure exegesis is the right word. (now that I have looked it up) I was aiming for jeremiad, but I suspect it only rises to the level of rant.

I don’t know if the math is being used to cheat ourselves unless you consider not making every single dime we possibly could as cheating ourselves and our stockholders. It is math in the service of “lets keep doing the same thing we’ve always done and this time it’ll totally work”. Their stated goals of growing the business don’t line up with the approach they’re taking. We are a bit player in a mature market. We aren’t going to exhibit signifigant revenue growth without trying something different.

And suddenly a blitz of puns.

I Hess a sad.

buzz. buzz. buzz buzz BOOM

Buzzbomb, get it?

Are you ready to ROMMELLLLLLL?

Pup, stuka on pun mode…

Ar least I’m not like pennis, leaving a Messerschmidt in here.

When is someone Goering to put an end to this?

Well, really, we’re just Stalin for time.

These puns are affecting my concentration.

See! I told you the liberals were the real fascists!

Much better Sadlies. Seig heil easy it is.

I was just sitting here going over the instructions for my dog’s rehab, and it says I should apply an icepick to her knee twice a day!

Better her knee than your frontal lobes.

Or something.

Um, not to be a dick, but the Nazis at the Normandy beachheads were about as vicious as you’d expect any group of soldiers ordered to hold a position would be. Nothing particularly egregious about that.

Trying to kill our soldiers in the middle of a war? How dare they – don’t they know we’re trying to kill them first?

That’s American Thinker: so batshit crazy you end up having to defend the Nazis from unfair slander.

Now there’s another thing I want you to remember. I don’t want to get any messages saying that “we are holding our position.” We’re not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We’re going to hold onto him by the nose and we’re going to kick him in the ass. We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we’re going to go through him like crap through a goose!

Now, an army is a team – it lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap.

There’s a show on Discovery about a hair stylist named Ossa undergoing orthopedic surgery. It’s called Operation Barber Ossa.

It’s a very short progam though – you can miss it in Treblinka an eye.

V2 have seen zis program.

Look what they’ve done to my dog, Ma!

That’s not a vetgerinary surgeon, that’s a goddam frustrated F1 mechanic working on a suspension!

HAHAHAHAHA Becky is a one-trick troll.

Becky is a Dennis/Sally spinoff. There are several voices involved.

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Dennis sets up a FYWP site to pose as trans, so he can attack Cerb.

I am on to your machinations friend. You are a piece of work.

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Oddly enough one of the voices in his head can compose a sentence.
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I don’t think she’s Dennis. I think she’s just a sad little whiner who’s insanely jealous that there’s another trans blogger out there who is wittier and more popular than she’ll ever be.

I don’t think she’s Dennis.

Of course this could be a possibility, but given that I was stalked by all three in a very similar fashion would indicate either a samesuch individual, or like minded crowd sourcing. William of Ockham and his razor might suggest the former.

Let’s see if Becky attempts to refute the charges…
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But Becky has an actual blog, which implies more actual effort than Dennis seems willing to make.

Becky said,
June 8, 2013 at 20:18

*PLONK*

I love my badgers.

But who knows? Miserable maladjusted individual who is what she says she is, or miserable maladjusted right wing hack creating a persona to make trans people look bad? The results are equally irritating either way. Trollz iz trollz.

Anne Frank-ly, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Please to send me an e-mail if you want to see my short feature. I promise you, it’ll be almost 37 minutes of your life you’ll never get back, should you e-mail me @ jprestonian gmail communist to request the link to the private UTube.
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…I’m holding YOU accountable until you do.

Hear that, Cerb? YOU have been held accountable!

I’ve got something that can be held… until it fills with blood, anyway. Then, heavy equipment may be required.
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Dennis, apologies, was listening to the baseball game earlier, I am happy that HMP is looking good and while the possibility of a trip downtown that might result in a picture of the both of us that we could share with all, I tend to think it will not happen on this night.

I do appreciate the offer of all the bacon and beer that I can consume on your tab, while I doubt that the offer is entirely sincere, I would hope that you leave at least a 20% tip.

If you are actually in my town, see if you can find a soup place on the square. I will be there tomorrow and your lunch will be on me. The only cost to you will be a picture of both of us of which I will have carte blanche to share.
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Prestonian, send me your ears…consider this a signoff of whatever reservations you have in mind.

I’d suggest that if you really do know as much about the Normandy landings as you claim to know

Buggrit, I must have missed the part in Chris’ comment containing the claim to special expertise in the history of the Normandy landings. Perhaps I need a FF plug-in to show it.

UNE — You will receive the link. It has to finish rendering, and once I’m happy with it and get it uploaded, I’ll send it to ya!
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Trek Babies III it is not, btw.

I saw Trek Babies II last night, in 3D (my first!), and I WAS IMPRESSED. Low expectations going in, of course.
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Hell, it ain’t even Gummo.
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Thanks JP. look forward to the screening.
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Thanks JP. look forward to the screening.

What I hope you like is the music, by ErinPDX’s kid and his pal.
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What I hope you like is the music, by ErinPDX’s kid and his pal.

I definitely look forward to that. The kid has some chops.
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I’ve spent the last week repaving my patio. I feel like I lost a bar fight.

It’s going to take another day or two to finish the job – and my back.

I’ve spent the last week repaving my patio. I feel like I lost a bar fight.

If it’s any consolation, at least you didn’t get any teeth knocked out.

Uh, you didn’t get any teeth knocked out, did you?

Uh, you didn’t get any teeth knocked out, did you?

Patio

Uh, you didn’t get any teeth knocked out, did you?

Patio repaving is a nasty business

AND FYWP

the Nazis at the Normandy beachheads were about as vicious as you’d expect any group of soldiers ordered to hold a position would be

Rumours like “Canadians like to eat their prisoners” probably didn’t help much either, although surely the brighter Germans knew that was pure hokum. Also, this was in mid-1944: a lot of those who defended Normandy were SS & Waffen-SS units – the real hardcore fanatics – &/or veterans of the Eastern Front … exactly the folks you’d never want to have to fight to take a beach. Part of the reason D-Day almost became Dieppe writ large was that where regular green recruits might’ve raised white flags or thrown their guns away & run for the hills in the face of the initial bombardment, they just dug in & waited, with no intention of retreat or surrender.

Omaha Beach could’ve been a little easier to take if only one guy had called in sick that day.

Imagine how I feel.

Uh, you didn’t get any teeth knocked out, did you?

No, and I only hit one finger with the sledgehammer.

Tap
Tap
Tap
Ow!
!*%&$!!!!

Rumours like “Canadians like to eat their prisoners” probably didn’t help much either

The secret ingredient that gives poutine its richness!

I am left wondering how a sledgehammer is used in paving. also, why anyone would pave a patio.

What’s Irish and comes out in the spring?
Patio furniture.

Too, if the gay guy is questioning your landscaping / decorating / stuff, you’re not going to have a good time.

Rumours like “Canadians like to eat their prisoners” probably didn’t help much either

Everything tastes better with butter and maple syrup!

Rumours like “Canadians like to eat their prisoners” probably didn’t help much either

Everything tastes better with butter and maple syrup!

Mancakes

Back bacon!

Also, too, you may find the blog that’s linked to my name amusing. I sure as fuck do.

Also, too, you may find the blog that’s linked to my name amusing. I sure as fuck do.

“I did not feel that this was mere satire”.

SNERK.

Also, thumbs for the Hothead Paisan stuff.

“Canadians like to eat their prisoners”

Now you know where Canadian Bacon comes from.

I am left wondering how a sledgehammer is used in paving. also, why anyone would pave a patio.

After setting a row of pavers you can use a length of 2×4 and the aforementioned hammer to line everything up. Hold the 2×4 along the edge of the pavers and lightly tap it with the sledge hammer.

Otherwise you’d use a rubber mallet so as not to split the paver.

It has a patio because it came with a small, fenced-in one. Over the 40 years since it was built the original pavers had settled quite a bit and were badly discolored. I’m just going over the top of what was already there with gravel, sand and new pavers.

“Over the 40 years since it was built the original pavers had settled quite a bit and were badly discolored. I’m just going over the top of what was already there with gravel, sand and new pavers.”

I will never, ever even drive past the airport again, let alone fly. You are aware, Major, that the activity you describe above can be generally classified as “landscaping”? Or, worse yet,
“home maintenance”?

BTW, a “rubber mallet”? Throw that out, and use Maxwell’s silver hammer” (at 3:28)

What’s worse, in the amount of time it’s taking me to do this project I could have just picked up an extra trip and earned enough to pay someone else to do it.

Not sure what got into me.

“Cerberus: I suggest you quit lounging around on your own ego, grow a backbone and remove the above two posts on your blog as they are way out of order and I’m holding YOU accountable until you do.”

So you’re holding Cerebus accountable? Well, I’m holding Holly Near, and it feel great! It’s nice work, if you can get it.

“What’s worse, in the amount of time it’s taking me to do this project I could have just picked up an extra trip and earned enough to pay someone else to do it.”

While you, properly ascotted, cognac’ed and watered-silk dressing-gowned, could have directed from the sliding-glass door, indicating your desires with an imperious, scepter-like use of a long onyx cigarette holder. You know, sorta like this

If I hold you any closer I’ll be behind you.

Remember, Black God, we are fighting for this blog’s honor….

Wait a minute, my love of Marx and Bernstein is inspiring me to poetry:

Lydian, oh Lydian,
Oh have you heard Lydian, the mode
used in “West Side Sory?
You sharp the ‘elevenths’
and use odd-metered time…

Actually, I liked “East Side Story” better:

Nikita!
I’ve just met a Red named
Nikita!
And suddenly that name…

I’d suggest that if you really do know as much about the Normandy landings as you claim to know

Buggrit, I must have missed the part in Chris’ comment containing the claim to special expertise in the history of the Normandy landings. Perhaps I need a FF plug-in to show it

I check too infrequently, so I didn’t see the original post, which I assume’s been deleted by now? Regardless, thanks.

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill”

So did Mill fight it out along those lines and win his case? Restitution, punitive damages, pain and surfing, and all that?

No, he did not, he was laughed out of court, and sent away with a stiff warning from the judge about frivolous lawsuits, as I recall. You can look it up.

Look, I hate to say it, Dennis, but I have found it to be entirely axiomatic: The first thing someone who is in the wrong, and moreover has no legal resources whatsoever does is threaten to sue.
You might as well parade around with a sandwhich board saying “I got nothin’ bow and stern.

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction…”

Yes, but later on J. S.Mill rejected corporal punishment as a neccesity in education. You can Google it.

Got Time?

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

“Mooser, your god, the black god of time, considers J S Mill to be God. His only God.”

I think you are laboring under a misaprehension. I happen to be Jewish.
(Without, of course, making any claims as to the gender or color of God, except that if The Almighty One (praised be He or She, As The Case May Be)) is a woman I bet She looks a lot like my Mom. Probably has the same way of slicing you into little pieces with a look, too.)

Accept no substitutes!

If Mooser is worshiping me, he’s in arrears on the sacrifice thing, for starters…………..

I already know what the Black God of Time looks like.

So Jewish mothers are the real perpetrators of Niewertian Eliminationism?

Well-played, Dennis

{golf clap}

“Your mom was Eliminationist, too?”

Dennis, a good digestion supports overall good health.

“So Jewish mothers are the real perpetrators of Niewertian Eliminationism?”

And I do not recall mentioning my Mom’s religion, Dennis, nor do I see what the hell business it is of yours. I mentioned my own religion, not my Mom’s.
Remember, Dennis (Whew, there’s an awful thought!) I am fighting for my Mother’s honor…

That is, I agree with BGOT’s deconstruction of Dennis’s comment.

Wait a minute, my love of Marx and Bernstein is inspiring me to poetry

Whatever it is, I’m against it.

I am a terrible human being. I apologize to all I have offended here at Sadly, No!

Celebrating the Jewish Moose:
http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/790169/jewish/Bruce-the-Hanukkah-Moose.htm

It’s inconceivable that you ever would.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

It’s the best Hanukkah moose story ever told

I’m sure it is.

P.S. watch out for the DAMN AUTOPLAY SOUDTRACK.

I fucking hate it when websites do that.

Get me outta here
For the love of God
Get me outta here
Mixed up law
Get me outta here
Here and now
Get me outta here
Here’s the plan
Help a brother out
Get me outta here
… Help a brother out
Get me outta here
Help a brother out
Help a brother out
Get me outta here
Right here, right now
Get me outta here
Here’s the plan
Mixed up Stan
Mixed up Stan
Get me Outta here
Black horse death
Get me outta here
Here’s the plan, Stan
Get me outta here
Now and now
Get me outta here

Oh, the snot has caked against my pants
It has turned into crystal.

i can see spending the day netflixing ‘grey’s anatomy’ hasn’t been a total waste…

Late last night when we were all in bed,
Mrs. O’Leary left her lantern in the shed.
Well, the cow kicked it over, and this is what they said:
“There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight!”

When you hear those bells go ding-a-ling,
All join ’round and sweetly you must sing.
And when the verse is through, in the chorus all join in:
“There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight!”

“It’s the best Hanukkah moose story ever told.”

You’re kidding, right? “Bruce went to school, all the kids
Laughed at him ‘cause he had all the answers
Bruce was really smart
But he wasn’t very cool” Reeks of Ziocaine. And the +15.

No, in my humbert estimation the best Moose-Hannukah story was the one on the Rocky and Bullwinkel and Friends Holiday Special.

Pegamoose! Because, why not?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoeblunt/6279650182/

Peg a moose?

I’d think that’s a job for his wife.

Coincidentally, “Salty Peg” was my pirate name, when I used to go a-pirating.

Arrrrrrrrr I’m looking for Dennis arrrrrrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=NfcSwP5LvzU

This here vid features a juvenile bald eagle just hanging out on a porch railing trying to figure out what the two cats on the porch are, and later another Bald eagle shows up.

This lady has a bunch of videos, some times the cats are on the railing within a couple feet or less of the bald eagles and one video features two bald eagles on the railing and two cats and a fox within close proximity on the porch.

The shit kills me. two cats, or was that three, a fox and two eagles occupying a cubic meter and a half of space, oh and there is a human on the porch at the same time.

Wonderful stuff.
…

I already know what the Black God of Time looks like.

OEOEO.
.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJj142drtJA

Two cats eating tuna on the porch and a bald eagle alights on the railing. This one is from 2011 the previous one was from may 10th of this year, so apparently this shit has been going on for a while.

Also, too, I have been sucked into a Rodman hole, Dennis that is. That fucker was the Honey Badger of Professional Basketball. Just watched highlights of an Eastern conference Championship game where (the dude is like 6’6″) he scores 13 points, grabs 21 rebounds, has a number of assists, guards and frustrates Shaquile Oneil (a man fully 6 inches taller and a hundred pounds heavier and in his prime.)

I was once a sportsman, and have always been extremely competitive If I find out there is a production record in a job, I have worked, I break it. If not, then I make one up and challenge anyone to up the ante. If upped (and I have been) I will take it to the next level and will put up numbers that will not be challenged (into the – “do you really whant to bust your ass that hard again?” territory, ’cause that dude is fucking nuts’.)

Now that we are entering TMI/:tl/dr territory my five favorite Sportsmen of all time:

Eddy Merckx. The greatest cyclist of all time (and my best sport)

Jackie Robinson. Nuff said.

Oscar Robertson. His Crispuss Atticks teams that won the Indiana High School state championship in 55 and 56 single handedly introduced integration in our state (the northernost south of the Mason Dixon line.) Also nearly averaged a triple double in his professional career.

Dennis Rodman. A six and a half foot dude that won multiple rebounding titles and at least one, if not more defensive player of the year awards. Tenacious and Mercurial and could not asked to give a damn, Honey Badger!

Zinedine Zidane. Possibly the best midfielder to ever play the game of Football. If you want to get into a soccer hole on utube check his highlight videos. The guy he headbut in the 2006 worldcup in the final is a fucking goon. Zidane was always a class act.

Imma gonna look at more multi animal vids hanging out on an Aleutian porch. And more Rodman, and possibly fire up some moer Zinedine (what a fucking brilliant name, to boot!)
…

[Boundary Issues deleted]

Where is the now and why is the how, how is the now and wow is the how, now is the why and why is the how, how is the what and why is the how, what is the why and why is the now.

Sitting on a hillside, watching all the people die, I’ll feel much better on the other side, I’ll thumb a ride.

There ain’t no cure for the Summertime blues.

There ain’t no cure for the Summertime blues.

… that doesn’t involve condoms and a 55-gallon drum of pudding.
.

You got a problem with the management of this fine website deleting your comments, Dennis, please take it up with them. Except for the Patton quotes on this thread, I’ve been the black god of time in all my other comments. Please e-mail Cerberus if you need confirmation that your baseless accusation is, in fact, baseless.

I addressed DA, DA. Not the black god of time. Make up your mind who you are.

Sometimes I’m the black god of time, sometimes I’m DA. It just depends on a lot of things.

No wonder Cerb sympathizes with you, you aren’t all that bright, are you?

Gee, Dennis, are you saying that it doesn’t take brains to write comments here that Cerb won’t delete? Because that’s almost self-evident, isn’t it?

There was a post here, but it’s gone now.

Lemme get this straight. Conservative CIA-bootlickers are the brake on possible executive “security” overreach?

Sigh.

Finished the patio.

My neighbor took one look at it and offered to pay me to fix hers.

I told her to ask me in a couple months after I’ve forgotten how much it hurt.

I told her to ask me in a couple months after I’ve forgotten how much it hurt.

I refer to this stage of life as the time the “warranty” runs out. I can do donkey’s work for a whole day, or fight like hell for a whole morning, but I feel it the next day.

I can do donkey’s work for a whole day, or fight like hell for a whole morning, but I feel it the next day.

True.

At 51 years old I can work as hard as I ever could – but it takes me a lot longer to recover than it used to.

Also, too, I have been sucked into a Rodman hole, Dennis that is. That fucker was the Honey Badger of Professional Basketball. Just watched highlights of an Eastern conference Championship game where (the dude is like 6’6?) he scores 13 points, grabs 21 rebounds, has a number of assists, guards and frustrates Shaquile Oneil (a man fully 6 inches taller and a hundred pounds heavier and in his prime.)

He always was and remains a fool, but the man could flat rebound.

At 51 years old I can work as hard as I ever could – but it takes me a lot longer to recover than it used to.

Today I was trying to remove a stripped bolt from a toilet at my sister’s place and was gushing sweat in five minutes.

My sis came in to check on me—“Oh damn, now the toilet’s leaking!”

“No, honey, that’s me.”

At 51 years old I can work as hard as I ever could – but it takes me a lot longer to recover than it used to.

The same applies to drinking.

Wait- our Ambassador to North Korea used to be a basketball player?

”Oh damn, now the toilet’s leaking!”

“No, honey, that’s me.”

So, she asked me, “Boxers or briefs?”

I said “Boxers or briefs? Depends!”

He always was and remains a fool…

BS, we’ll have to agree to disagree on this point, the difference betwixt genius and insanity lie on both sides of the razors edge.
…

It’s so humid boys. Maybe Iceland was right about USA?

North Korea should become a parking lot. What a shithole.

Zinedine Zidane.

Sounds like a pharmaceutical to me.

“Is Zidane(tm) (zinedine sulfate) right for you? Ask your doctor!”

North Korea should become a parking lot.

The Pentagon estimates 50,000 US casualties in a Korean conflict. South Korean civilian casualties in the millions. Seoul destroyed by DPRK artillery in the first hours.

You really don’t want to go there.

Sounds like a pharmaceutical to me.
Pere Ube,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7mXGMcpA0g

They have yet to get to any goals (still watching) but the footwork is phenomenal. In short the dude should be bottled up and distributed as an elixir of some kind.
🙂
…

I wouldn’t of said it if I didn’t want to go there. Why are 50,000 there and not paying taxes to US? Pull any military and people who are really US citizens out of N and S. Korea and hit them with a dirty baby!!! Next head to all those towel heads and sand niggers in Middle East. Drop them like the smelly heeb bastards that they are

Bro, Mom says come back home and don’t play with the Jötnar like you did last week.

I suggest the SeaMonkey browser,.

It’s open-source, it can remember many alternatives for a given field, and it can automatically update itself, so what’s not to like?

OT: one for the odd names file:

Dick Eells (P. Richard Eells went by Dick)

OT:

Not a moment too soon.

North Korea should become a parking lot.

North Korea should stop delaying the inevitable, which is removal of the Kim family and reunification on the South’s terms.

I prefer to think the phrase “Dick Eells visited Mr. Pelikan” is figurative, not literal. And that’s the last I’ll say about this otherwise boring information.

BS, we’ll have to agree to disagree on this point, the difference betwixt genius and insanity lie on both sides of the razors edge.

I guess so, but I just have to observe that there have been basketball players every bit as great as Rodman who managed not to gratuitously insult entire religions (“asshole Mormons”), much less ignorantly suck up to one of the world’s worst tyrants.

And then there is the matter of Rodman’s first name. Coincidence, or…?

“At 51 years old I can work as hard as I ever could –”

“Why, this ain’t work!”

Parking ain’t cheap!

Oops, can’t stick around. Gotta go write ‘Becky’ in the sand with my big toe and give the dog a pill.

She seems to be recovering well. Of course, I had an old sofa that did that, too, so… anyway it makes me wish Summit had done my wrists, instead of Virginia Mason. Maybe then they wouldn’t be so damn limp.
Anyway, it’s Rimadyl time. Wait a minute, does this canine analgesic pill contain an actual opiate? And I’m gonna waste it on a dog? Perhaps a mutually beneficial arrangement can be worked out…

“not to gratuitously insult entire religions (“asshole Mormons”),”

Wow, I lived in SLC for many years, and I did not know that! I mean, I knew it was something but I’m not sure “religion” is the mot jus.

I’m no fan of Mormonism, but none of the Mormons I’ve met were assholes. Maybe some of the assholes I’ve met were Mormons on the down-low. Wait, that came out wrong. Anyway, Mitt Romney is an asshole.

North Korea should stop delaying the inevitable, which is removal of the Kim family and reunification on the South’s terms.

South Korea wants nothing to do with reunification as far as I know.

The DPRK would be such a great sucking black hole on their economy that it would be much, much worse than German reunification (which is still causing problems).

Well, clearly the answer is to reunite the DPRK with a country chosen at random. My completely serious, random, and not-at-all-chosen-for-comedy-value selection would have to be: Canada.

Insulting a whole religion is fine. Mind you everyone should buy Low records – they’re nice! – and I still have a soft spot for the Osmonds.

Rodman on that Dr. Drew show: PURE FUCKING GENIUS, PEOPLE. Genius. True story.

My mix-tape is back to back Osmonds and GG Allin. Makes road trips a schizophrenically fun time.

“and was gushing sweat in five minutes.”

Oh yes, happens to me, too, Also nose runs. Here’s a tip: Withdraw from the fray for just a bit, throw some cold water on your face, and the good ol’ ‘second wind’ kicks in. At that point, between the fever and the flatulence, I can usually claim illness and leave.

Good, the Rimydal’s kicked in. But maybe I should go check on the dog, too. I think they gave her some tranqs, too.

“I’m no fan of Mormonism, but none of the Mormons I’ve met were assholes.”

I never met one who was. They were all very nice, and most were eager to engage me and point out the way.

“Only Barack Obama knows all my different nyms. And so far, he’s keeping it to himself.”

Well, “duh” as the saying goes. Of course only the leader and High Priest of the cult know the manifold and powerful names of the Deity. After all, he is responsible for the performance of the intricate rituals of State Ebonics.

Nyms, rims and pins.

Why does one of the above bother someone not named Dennis?

And for the last time, Tetragrammaton isn’t the Greek version ofTetris.

Ah, SLC! In the 70s! The very name ‘Salt Lake City’ is like the savor of kreplach in a bowl of chicken broth, bringing the remembrances of things passed pushing to the fore like the crowds at the LDS Visitors Center. Yes, there’s no denying the name ‘Salt Lake City’ is a lot like the name ‘Salt Lake City’!
Twas there, in SLC, at the University of Utah Hospital Cardiac Research Center, that I spent a memorable evening sharing nitrous oxide with a calf with an artificial heart. And had mine own well-broken, too. By another pair of smooth calves, but that’s another story.

I am a terrible human being. I apologize to all I have offended here at Sadly, No!

Dick Eells.

An erratic eel wriggled its way up a man’s penis and into his bladder following an accident during an unorthodox beauty spa treatment in China.

What makes an eel erratic? Also, GROSS.

during an unorthodox beauty spa treatment in China.

In the orthodox treatment the eels are circumcised first.

Pupienus, I assumed your link was gonna be about the Candiru fish. First brought to my attention, if I recall, by William Burroughs. Legends and anecdotes go back to 1829, or earlier among natives, but —

Only one documented case of a candiru entering a human urinary system […] claimed a candiru “jumped” from the water into his urethra as he urinated while thigh-deep in a river.

I’ll bet Alex Jones has a SICK collection of wetsuits.

In the orthodox treatment the eels are circumcised first.

Oh that’s droll. I almost laffed.

What makes an eel erratic?

It never seemed important to know until now, did it?

What makes a Chinese man seek out beauty spa treatments, orthodox or non-? I blame their new wealth and culture of gauche, conspicuous consumption. Dick eels are just a symptom of the malaise.

If I am not mistaken (odds stand at about 17-to-4 now, or you can wait until the SP to place your wagers) the Candiru fish can be a problem for women. It’s not like the piranha which eat poodles in the Rio sewers, but precautions are taken against it in certain places on the river. I believe they are barbed, and it can take surgery to get them out.
I really don’t like to think about it.

Well, clearly the answer is to reunite the DPRK with a country chosen at random. My completely serious, random, and not-at-all-chosen-for-comedy-value selection would have to be: Canada.

I beg to differ. Only merger with AMERICA! AMERICA! AMERICA! can bring bring peace socially advance reunite Kim Jong Un with his Tea-Party soul-brothers.

Sorry, but I forgot to say “thanks” for the ‘Pegamoose’ picture. Thanks!

Perhaps, if I am forced by events to fly, prayer and that picture will help me to overcome the fear that I am putting my life (such as it is) in the hands of someone who would rather be doing patio-maintenance.

I always figure if my butt gets there in one piece, yours will too. And I have a very strong self preservation instinct.

South Korea wants nothing to do with reunification as far as I know.

Srsly?

The DPRK would be such a great sucking black hole on their economy that it would be much, much worse than German reunification (which is still causing problems).

Undoubtedly this is true. But I can’t imagine that the status quo is acceptable to South Korea indefinitely. Who can live with that kind of never-ending threat? Plus, AFAIK, the ROK’s position is that they are the only legitimate government on the Korean peninsula.

What is this killfile you speak of, Earthling?

I approve of the above message.

I don’t think anyone has an answer to that one scribe.

War would be disastrous.
The status quo is untenable.
Reunification would be an economic catastrophe.

…not to gratuitously insult entire religions (“asshole Mormons”),

Wow, I lived in SLC for many years, and I did not know that! I mean, I knew it was something but I’m not sure “religion” is the mot juste.

Phil Jackson at the time, in an attempt at damage control, said that Rodman probably didn’t even know that Mormonism is “a religion or a cult or whatever.” IIRC, that just made matters worse.

Actually I’m a USAF/ANG O-5 (retired).

I’ll let you look up what that rank is because I’m not your fucking research assistant little boy.

My namesake was a character in a movie. I’ll let you look that one up too.

I am a terrible human being. I apologize to all I have offended here at Sadly, No!

go find a job

If you’re typing this from work – you’re misusing the company network and if your IT staff was on the ball you’d be fired already.

If you’re not typing this from work – that would imply a certain lack of employment on your part.

So Kong, it’s just in the blogo-sphere that you are a Major? IRL, you actually were even a higher rank?

Don’t people usually pretend to be more important than they are? You must be a really humble person.

I am not at work today, but when I do type from work, I have an excuse: you know I’ve actually gotten useful advice about both science and academic politics on this and other lefty blogs?

Icemark, anyone on this board will trade resumes and W-2s with you anytime.

“Major Kong” was the Slim Pickens character in Dr. Strangelove.

I’m a retired Lt. Colonel, which isn’t quite as big a deal as it sounds. Lt. Colonels are dime-a-dozen in the Air National Guard.

Aw, lookit all the cute little dancing badgers!

Of course I know who “Major Kong” was. I just somehow figured you were a major when you were in the ANG, not one pay grade above.

Meanwhile, there happens to be a self-admitted “delirious” person ranting and raving here in the library where I am working. It’s a shame he seems to have some paranoid conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jews (while not realizing that the people he’s talking to are actually Jewish and from Israel): if he would only clean himself up a bit and learn to love Israel, he could get a high paying job writing for NRO or Clownhall. His anti-Obama ranting makes about as much sense as what they are saying, and his attempts at describing the theory that Moses was an Egyptian sound just about how wingnuts sound when they are trying to be “intellectual” about religion.

“I always figure if my butt gets there in one piece, yours will too. And I have a very strong self preservation instinct.”

And when that preserving instinct moves you to stuff the cargo-hold full of pavers and concrete mix you got wholesale? And then at the last minute you stuff Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly and the Big Mooser in, too?
Nope it’s terror fiero for this ungulate. I will never get any further off than ground than my ideas do!

I really don’t like to think about it.

You’re welcome.

“W-ww-w-ork?” Go to work? You mean like, get a job? Me?
Are you trying to kill me?

“that Moses was an Egyptian sound just”

Ridiculous, as you say. How the hell could Moses be an Egyptian when his grandmother was a well-noted American?

The crazy thing about this new troll is that he references a commenter who nobody could recall, probably one of his own sockpuppets.

“You unemployed, govt’t tit sucking losers who sit on the Internet all day bloviating about stupid fucking shit”

Icemark, old buddy, it is indeed a hard, unrewarding life. But when I see just how much it bothers you, wow, it’s all worth it! Thanks man, and you’re inspiring me to get even better at it. Somebody go get me another phony Social Security card! More benefits here I come!

Batman with an Egyptian sound, OTOH………….

WORK?!?

OH COOL–I made the troll’s “fuck off” list.

I have like 4 Cadillacs and 33 children. And I’m black and collect about $ 134,000.00 per year in welfare alone, and probably another $ 230,000.00 from my crack sales. How ya like me now, son?

Don’t forget the food stamps tsam.

Get a life douchebag, off the Internet and go find a job, LOSER

Says the troll, on the internet, from his mom’s basement…

Don’t forget the food stamps tsam.

Well, 134k is the aggregate of all of my welfare collections.

Light Kernels were quite the bigshots in the Army.

“It’s a shame he seems to have some paranoid conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jews”

That suff is everywhere. Where on earth do people get those crazy ideas?

For a pilot to make Lt. Colonel in the ANG requires little more than sticking around long enough and staying out of trouble.

It’s a bit tougher on active duty.

Light Kernels were quite the bigshots in the Army.

unpopped kernels are really a pain…

Lt Colonels in the Army were usually battalion XOs and shit. Well on their way to being self aggrandizing, scumbag generals. They begin to display these characteristics when they make Major.

Moose the douche? Once you are deriving your epithets from the titles of classic be-bop, you’re only a few tri-tone substitutions away from HELL!!!

unpopped kernels are really a pain…

That being said, I prefer the half-popped kernels. Even better is maiz cancha, a South American popcorn that pops, but doesn’t break the “shell”.

“Even better is maiz cancha, a South American popcorn that pops, but doesn’t break the “shell”.”

Thanks, I’m a half-popped fan too. I like many half-baked things too.

My dad retired as a Lt. Colonel in the Army. I didn’t notice much in the way of self aggrandizing or scumbaggery.

Should be able to get maiz cancha at the Latin market just a few blocks from Moosehall, too. Safeway might even carry it.

That being said, I prefer the half-popped kernels. Even better is maiz cancha, a South American popcorn that pops, but doesn’t break the “shell”.

oh, that sounds delish…as does the pastel de choclo recipe further down…

Lt Colonels in the Army were usually battalion XOs and shit

I think even a Captain in the Army is usually a Company Commander and in charge of around 200 people.

A Captain in the Air Force is probably just a line pilot or maybe a flight lead once you had a little bit of experience.

I think even a Captain in the Army is usually a Company Commander and in charge of around 200 people.

A Captain in the Air Force is probably just a line pilot or maybe a flight lead once you had a little bit of experience.

There’s a classic Bill Maudlin WWII cartoon of a kid in an Army Air Force uniform greeting the main-character GI: “Uncle Willie!” The gag was that the kid looked about 12 but had insignia for a major or something like that. Apparently moving forward in rank fast was a thing before there even was a separate Air Force.

During WWII, especially in bombers, it wasn’t unheard of to see a 27-year-old full colonel.

The reason they moved up so fast was because the attrition rate was so high. They’d end up having to promote you because you were the only one who’d survived long enough.

The gag was that the kid looked about 12 but had insignia for a major or something like that. Apparently moving forward in rank fast was a thing before there even was a separate Air Force.

It might have as well been snark about the REMFs being damn kids (egghead college boys?) while the dogfaces who actually had to do the fighting were older men.

The U.S. wasn’t scraping the bottom of the recruitment barrel as badly as the Germans were by the end of the war, but damn near.

Apparently moving forward in rank fast was a thing before there even was a separate Air Force.

Yes, yes it was.

The reason they moved up so fast was because the attrition rate was so high.

Good point as well.

I think there’s always been some antagonism towards the airmen from the infrantry even before they were seperate services as well.

“infantry”

me fail ytping? Unpssoible!

Babe Ruthless said,

June 9, 2013 at 23:13 (kill)

Pegamoose! Because, why not?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoeblunt/6279650182/

I wonder if the Pegamoose’s mortal enemy is the Pirahnamoose?

My dad retired as a Lt. Colonel in the Army. I didn’t notice much in the way of self aggrandizing or scumbaggery

Must be he was no fan of Schwartzkopf, Franks and Petraeus?

During WWII, especially in bombers, it wasn’t unheard of to see a 27-year-old full colonel.

Enlisted guys made Staff Sergeant and Platoon Sergeant in a big fat hurry too. Being in direct engagements made lots of room for quick advancement.

It was a real hardship for these young beardless RAF officers to grow those handlebar mustaches they switched to after Hitler appropriated the original RAF mustache style. (Nothing past the nose, so it wouldn’t get caught in machinery.)

“I wonder if the Pegamoose’s mortal enemy is the Pirahnamoose?”

Well my only enemies are eagles, and of course, their ilk. But we compete for a lot of the same things, so a little antagonism is natural, I guess.

And Pegamoose o’ my heart, I love you.

I always figure if my butt gets there in one piece, yours will too. And I have a very strong self preservation instinct.

Hm. I suppose the converse is true as well. One hopes the psychological screening is thorough and accurate.

“original RAF mustache style.”

Wasn’t there a belief that a moustache made you a better marksman in the British Army?

When I clicked on that Pegamoose link, why was I expecting Pomplamoose?

Wasn’t there a belief that a moustache made you a better marksman in the British Army?

Could be. I’d rather have really hairy eyebrows to soak up the sweat that might get in my eyes. That might actually help.

Enlisted guys made Staff Sergeant and Platoon Sergeant in a big fat hurry too.

IIRC, it became policy for all bomber crew members to rank Sergeant at least, because the Germans treated captured NCOs better than privates.

Wasn’t there a belief that a moustache made you a better marksman in the British Army?

It hides an upper lip that’s not stiff.

“That might actually help.”

I think (always a dangerous word with me) it was thought to do with blocking the glint or glare due to the sun’s reflection on the polished metal of the gun? If only there was some way to look this up! Oh well.

From what I heard, Hitler wore his mustache that way to fit into his WWI gas mask better. (He was gassed anyway but the nine-lives fucker pulled through.)

I am a terrible human being. I apologize to all I have offended here at Sadly, No!

If only there was some way to look this up!

I feel your pain. I remember when I first read about dazzle camouflage back in the dead-tree era, they said there were several cases of Royal Navy ships colliding with each other because it was so effective.

In the Wikipedia era, the wisdom is that it was just to make it hard to bring the two images together properly in a split-prism rangefinder. Naturally, I can’t remember the title and author of every book I ever read, and good luck finding them if I could….

Major Douchebag. Fuck you and your repack rider wanna be service. You were nothing more than a janitor.

So…like George W. Bush, then?

Sorry, Major—he said it, not me. I know the National Guard used to always be the first to get sent anywhere, because they were ready.

It’s been way too long since I’ve seen a decent troll. This is a quite subpar group. Let’s get with the program, children.

It’s been way too long since I’ve seen a decent troll. This is a quite subpar group. Let’s get with the program, children.

I really miss the up-on-the-backstroke guy.

Hey Big Pussy bastard,

This is not how you ask someone to hookup with you.

This has been a PSA from the SFL.

Sorry, Major—he said it, not me

Yeah, I never did anything (rolls eyes)
Gulf War Diaries – Part 1
Gulf War Diaries – Part 2
Gulf War Diaries – Part 3
Gulf War Diaries – Part 4
Gulf War Diaries – Part 5

Major, why are you bothering to defend yourself against this gibbering fuckwit?

(But thanks for posting those links again—maybe I’ll go back for another read)

Aww, I missed the troll and it even called me out. Fucking jobs, how do they work?

It’s been way too long since I’ve seen a decent troll. This is a quite subpar group.

Yeah, even the fake Gary Rupperts suck nowadays. The crowning achievement of all the Gary Rupperts who ever existed was the comment:

“The fact is, fuck you!”

Terse, nonsensical, stupid, aggressive… perfect.

The fact is, fuck you!

That’s going to be the GOP 2014 platform.

Well, given the analysis that the trolls are all the same guy, more or less, the statement that it’s a subpar group could really be condensed to “you (whoever you are) suck as a troll.”

I mean, really, members of the commentary going through nervous breakdowns are more disruptive and a pain in the ass than the guy actually trying to be a disruption.

The fact is, fuck you!

That’s going to be the GOP 2014 platform.

And 2016, 2018, 2020…

It’s been way too long since I’ve seen a decent troll.

The badgers are kinda worth it, though.

That’s going to be the GOP 2014 platform.

Hasn’t it been pretty much EVERY platform since Saint Reagan?

Hasn’t it been pretty much EVERY platform since Saint Reagan?

Oh, hell, it’s been their platform since at least Harding and the move away from “progressivism” and on to pawning off the White House silverware to pay off poker debts. Reagan was just when they deginerated from fuck you to “fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, fuck you and I’m out”

A well-dressed Droid has its uses… the compass, clock, temp & batt level indicators all work in real time.
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The badgers are kinda worth it, though.

As is the generic “Usual Suspect” post that shows up every time Cerb mops the floor.

“Well, given the analysis that the trolls are all the same guy, more or less”

Less I would think. I doubt all of him even adds up to a whole person. He probably buy his suits cleaved in twain.

And now, as the sun sinks slowly into the vest, giving me a sensation akin to heartburn, another day of Dora’s recovery passes.
Okay, now that they’ve done one leg, it’s easy to see the other knee (“stifle”, it’s called) is way out of alignment, and it’ll go, to. There goes my B3 mkII and 3300!

“Mot juste”

I looked it up, and you are right. Turns out “mot jus” is an applesauce you dip pork-chops into.

“And Pegamoose o’ my heart, I love you.”

Rutting season already? Hang on, I’ll be right there.

I am a terrible human being. I apologize to all I have offended here at Sadly, No!

I do love crackers. Especially this buttery Ritz kind with cheese. I’m hungry. Where are my food stamps?

Mmm, Viva Puffs. Time for a beer.

New post.

Rutting season already? Hang on, I’ll be right there.

Great! So come fly with me! If you can use some exotic booze
There’s a bar in far Bombay!
Come fly with me, let’s float down to Peru
In llama land there’s a one-man band
And he’ll toot his flute for you.
Perhaps we could fly united?