Frost.

The first thing that struck me was the caption “Question Liberal Authority”. Right wing authority must be obeyed at all costs, even one’s fourth amendment rights.

Bush’s drones were great, Obama’s are Hitler X10.

Thirst.

Froth

“One person alone cannot fill the void that Brietbart left behind”? He wasn’t that fat.

“One person alone cannot fill the void that Brietbart left behind”? He wasn’t that fat.

It means that Ben Shapiro now serves as a catamite for several d00ds.

I thought I met Andrew Breitbart once. Well, to be accurate, I once watched a bearded man inhale a pile of coke the size of my ass. He then asked me if violet sounded the same to me as it did to him, called out for a Virgin Ben, some drink, presumably, and started licking a dvd, the Director’s Cut of Spy Kids.

The whole situation seemed odd, actually.

The whole situation seemed odd, actually.

I thought that was “just another Saturday night” for you.

Why are they trying to make him look so much like Che?
I’ve got very little use for Guevera, but at least he died as a result of doing something. Breibart died because he was a fat fuck and bile poisoning.

“I want you to be Andrew Breitbart!”

What, dead?

“One person alone cannot fill the void that Brietbart left behind”? He wasn’t that fat.

okay, that made me snort my iced coffee nearly out my nose…

Dennis, why don’t you follow Mr. Breitbart’s excellent example and kill yourself with illegal drugs?

because tools gotta be tools…that has been reinforced a few times this morning…we are undergoing week 9000th of road and/or sidewalk construction in the metropolis i commute to for my day job…poor flag dude this morning was getting seriously dissed because of toolish drivers thinking they are THE only drivers on the road and that they have to get to wherever the fuck they are going right the fuck NOW! granted, today’s construction clusterfuck is right here at the junction of us hwy 75 and us hwy 12, so it’s a bit problematic…still not big goofy flag dude’s fault…he was quite pleasant and polite, actually…although if i would have known i would be waiting 10 minutes to cross the junction, i might have risked the other evil construction zone that is hwy 7 and main street…

Let’s be fair. Andrew Breitbart, an allegedly healthy man of 40+ years keeled over and dropped dead in the middle of an afternoon stroll. It makes no difference whether this was caused by shotgunning lard with a gravy chaser, a colossal appetite for cocaine, or some kind of rage induced brain aneurism. Maybe his rage against, and contempt for anything decent, was the only thing that kept him moving for the last wasted decade of his life? Are we judging him too harshly? Perhaps like some twisted variant of the movie ‘Crank’, 10 or fifteen years ago, Andrew was poisoned with a sinister concoction, that would kill him if he didn’t spend his every waking moment trying to destroy anything and everything that wasn’t evil. I mean, in the same circumstance, would you have the strength of will to carry on, trying to make a comfortable living and support your family by shitting on every value you used to pretend to embrace?

Why are they trying to make him look so much like Che?

Because they have no original ideas and even less sense when it comes to graphic design.

Why are they trying to make him look so much like Che?

more importantly, whats with the shepard fairey-like poster?

The Voice of Reason said,
July 19, 2013 at 15:57

Dennis, why don’t you follow Mr. Breitbart’s excellent example and kill yourself with illegal drugs?

Whatever happened to laying off for a week?

The quoted sentence sounds a Dunning-Kruger afflicted borderline personality trying to imitate William F. Buckley

The quoted sentence sounds a Dunning-Kruger afflicted borderline personality trying to imitate William F. Buckley

The funny thing is that Buckley wasn’t really that smart. He was basically a thug with a thesaurus, a chimerical creature combining blue blood and red neck.

My response to the old “Question Authority” graffiti I used to see on campus was “says who?” What’s the response they’re expecting to “Question Liberal Authority,” “sir, yes sir…”

Just dropping in to say that I haven’t and will never post as “The Voice of Reason”, because the whole experiment is to see what happens if I don’t post here for a week. Cerb or Provider can confirm that the ISP of whoever left the billet doux above wasn’t the one for this comment.

I swear on my mothers’ grave I won’t be back here again, until next Friday.

Later, taters.

The quoted sentence sounds a Dunning-Kruger afflicted borderline personality trying to imitate William F. Buckley

Heh. It’s also wrong, “sheeple” doesn’t refer to the folks either ostensibly or actually in charge, ever. It’s always and only a derogatory name for unthinking followers.

Isn’t it sort of unusual for a private blog to commonly get 400 to 600 comments for each post? Most get only a few. Am I right about this?

Isn’t it sort of unusual for a private blog to commonly get 400 to 600 comments for each post? Most get only a few. Am I right about this?

Not really, “Lawyers Guns and Money” and “Balloon Juice” get a lot of comments, as does “Pharyngula”.

“Not really,”

Thanks. It seemed like a lot to me, but I don’t read blogs as much as I used to.
Why spend time reading comment threads when Sally Fields was so cute!

The conservatives are revolting!

The conservatives are revolting!

Yeah, they stink on ice! – Mel Brooks, History of the World Part 1

Why spend time reading comment threads when Sally Fields was so cute!

She still looks good. I think she looked best in Norma Rae. Don’t hurt yourself when you watch it.

“He was basically a thug with a thesaurus, a chimerical creature combining blue blood and red neck.”

The kind that stands athwart the straits of history, yelling “Stop!”?

Not really, “Lawyers Guns and Money” and “Balloon Juice” get a lot of comments, as does “Pharyngula”.

Bad Astronomy gets some incredibly lengthy comment threads, too—at least if the post gets climate science denialists or antivaxers in an uproar. And the sheer malignant idiocy makes the most troll-infested thread here look like the Algonquian Round Table.

“She still looks good.”

Oh yes, beautiful, but cold. She never answered a single one of my letters, and neither did Linda Ronstadt. And they wonder why blondes have more fun!

The conservatives are revolting!

hahahahahaha!

cont. From previous thread, after ‘Long Days Journey Into Spite’ we can look forward to ‘Spite in August’, and, of course, ‘Look Back in Anger’.

With no link, (I missed it?) I have to go with “Duh Consoivative Treehouse” as the the slophole in question.
If so, it’s a treehouse…made of BRICKS!!!

Score one for right-logic!

Plus; ‘Tender is the Spite’, ‘Spite of the Locusts’

First comment on the random post I perused:

it is obvious that these marches are organized by companies because their signs are professionally made and have websites on the bottom.

Yes, because…spelling.
…and artistic talent.

it is obvious that these marches are organized by companies because their signs are professionally made and have websites on the bottom.

Pay no attention to the “Freedomworks” bus, sponsored by Koch Industries.

My documentary on the history of the drill, (“Look back in Auger”) bore witness to the truth.

My documentary on the history of the drill, (“Look back in Auger”) bore witness to the truth

The Pun Also Rises

If only there existed computer programs one could use to design signs or copy/print shops where one could produce them, then individuals could fight the power with style instead of being forced to scrawl their messages on the backs of stolen “live bait” signs

And neither, come to think of it, did Christi Yamaguchi, or the young Catherine Zeta-Jones of “The Darling Buds of May” Habba-hubba! Yuasa! They all handed me the mitten.

it is obvious that these marches are organized by companies because their signs are professionally made and have websites on the bottom.

this morning, hubbkf was perusing some raydio stations on the ipad and i heard a woman, trying to sound smart actually say, ‘you would almost think that some companies are in cahoots with the government! i mean, it seems the bigger they get the more they receive…’ that’s all i heard before he either moved on to a different station or my jaw slammed against my desk…one or the other…and that was your ‘water is wet’ news of the day!

“If only there existed computer programs one could use to design signs or copy/print shops”

If only there was something called “screen printing” or even wide-format printers available so cheaply almost anybody can buy one! If only the tools of democracy were available to all!

and neither did Linda Ronstadt

I always liked Linda Carter. My younger sister never could figure out why Dad and I always showed up when she was watching Wonder Woman.

hubbkf was perusing some raydio stations on the ipad and i heard a woman, trying to sound smart actually say, ‘you would almost think that some companies are in cahoots with the government! i mean, it seems the bigger they get the more they receive

Let me guess, she thinks that deregulation would be a good thing.

Speaking of deregulation, I finally heard Lewis Black’s epic anti-Texas rant.

A Spite To Remember

I always liked Linda Carter. My younger sister never could figure out why Dad and I always showed up when she was watching Wonder Woman.

Best supported actress…

Spite of the Living Dead is more like it.

They’re coming to get you, Barbara Boxer.

boy crushin’ on breitbart*

*you may want to be near a bathroom while reading…

“We shall shed blood, sweat, and septums
We shall fight them in the bistros
We shall fight them in the exhibit halls
We shall never be sober.”

– Andrew Breitbart, Potsdam Conference

Oh I dunno, I like sheeple. I positively love everyday sheeple. Sheeple who need sheeple are the luckiest, or so I’ve heard. They would be well-advised to get ready for the train a-comin’. What? –No, you don’t need no ticket.

Is Katie O’Malley an instruction or a warning or what? (Beside the depiction of Uncle Spam.)

Andrew Breitbart, Potsdam Conference

More like the Cokesdam Conference!

But we refused to throw in the towel and do nothing. We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt.

No, you don’t need no ticket.

I can just get on board?

I always liked Linda Carter. My younger sister never could figure out why Dad and I always showed up when she was watching Wonder Woman.

Hoping her costume would fail to appear when she came out of her spin?

Dare you to listen to more than twenty seconds of this crap.

“I always liked Linda Carter.”

Unfortunately, any admiration for the embroidery-hoop-waisted heroine was PTSD’ed out of me by either “The Fifty Foot Women” or maybe it was “She”. Anyway, there was a rather tall (six stories, if an inch) gal who was as modest as she was destructive, and made a bikini out of large American flags to cover her nakedness. She was in the intro to “Chiller Theater” and haunted my dreams for years. There was also a closeup of her face, and she looked sort of like my Mom, when she was angry.
She ruined me for Linda Carter. Lemme see, at risk of my long-sought equanimity, if I can find her.

Best supported actress…

while shopping with my niece earlier this summer, i came upon a wonder woman swim suit in hottopic…it was pretty badass…younger bbkf would have been all over that…

stupid tagfails! wth?

let’s try it again…

also… cringe/gagworthy…

Dare you to listen to more than twenty seconds of this crap.

Even if you didn’t know who wrote it you’d listen to and say “Hey! Don’t you think those lyrics were written by BigFurHat?”

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan uhh, sorry?

“I can just get on board?”

We’re going where the wicked will cease from troublin’ and the weary will be at rest! You can get on board and ride this train.
Or would you rather rock the boat?

also… cringe/gagworthy…

I could see Breitbart biting an usherette’s leg in the dark, or killing his prom date.

Wouldn’t be SN! without an appearance by the FUCHING FURHATS.

I could see Breitbart biting an usherette’s leg in the dark, or killing his prom date.

He’s just an excitable boy.

This lady, but I remember her in ragged AF bikini
My goodness, that movie is true-to-life. Just how I felt as a kid.

Even if you didn’t know who wrote it you’d listen to and say “Hey! Don’t you think those lyrics were written by BigFurHat?”
obligatory…

This lady, but I remember her in ragged AF bikini
My goodness, that movie is true-to-life. Just how I felt as a kid.

That’s not a horror movie, that’s fetish porn!

This, Provider. 1/100th of that, even.

yeah, provider…quick being a dick and going to work and not paying attention to the snark blog…or being so flabbergasted and disappointed by recent events that you just didn’t have the schpadoinkle to enlighten us…just try to be as prolific, lyrical and substantive as bronco bama, already…jeez!

“That’s not a horror movie, that’s fetish porn!”

That’s exactly what I mean! There’s fetish porn, but is there fetish cheese? If they can make cultured dairy products from bungalows, I mean, why not?

One must needs wonder, of course, if toe jam can be fetish cheese?

Kiss me, I’m fetish? My, you’re looking a little, well, fetish today, do you feel all right?

When it comes to fetish cheeses, where there’s a will, there’s a whey

“I WANT YOU … TO CHOP ME A FATTER RAIL THAN LAST TIME”

but is there fetish cheese?

What’s got the biggest holes?

“1776 WAS AN INSIDE JOB”

but is there fetish cheese?

What’s got the biggest holes?

Knock it off, buddy, it ain’t Sementhaler!

bbkf said,

July 19, 2013 at 15:05 (kill)

i let hubbkf drive my zamboni this morning…it was anything but rude…

I was working on the motorcycles until midnight so this is late. But it is relevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFtwwCOmmo

“WAR MEANS WORK FOR ALL”

That’s actually off Frank Zappa’s delectable sophomore album Absolutely Free, but if the foo shits, bear it, I always say.

“TODAY MOM’S BASEMENT, TOMORROW THE WHITE HOUSE”

Would you like to try the fetishini…Wait, I knew this was leading me someplace, now I remember: Dora (the dog) was given a big “paws up” at her six-weeks-after-TTA-surgery-x-rays. Now we have to rehab muscles, so she doesn’t look like Kimbra.
And my wife is attending the funeral of her Mom’s sister today. It’s been expected due to terminal illness, but is very sad for all, none the less. It’ll be a trying day for my wife, first, because she liked her aunt quite a bit, and second because of our MIL’s tendency to treat her 24 years married 50 year old daughter like she’s a child when MIL is under stress or grief. But then again, MIL is from the generation which holds you’ve never really grown up until you’ve raised a brood of children. God, I hope she’s right, not having had any, partly for that reason.

“UP AGAINST THE WALL, HUMANIST BOURGEOIS ANTI-CORPORATISTS”

You know, I’ve been at a lot of blogs where you wait around for the comment posts to pile up. But I’ve never before been at a blog where I wait so eagerly for posts to disappear! I feel like I’m witnessing an act of ‘creative destruction’ every time. Almost like a miracle!

Would you like to try the fetishini

Drink or pasta dish?

Pup, I think I first heard that song on a side of Elektra’s “The Folk Box” (one of the “Smith’s Compendium” imitators, probably.

“ASTROTURF SHALL OVERWHELM”

“We need thousands of Andrew Breitbarts”

Soylent Green is Breitbarts!

derpderpderpderp…

Pupienus said,

July 19, 2013 at 18:26

i’m a bit afeared to click on that link…

Ya gotta love Alberta Hunter. Her bio is astounding.

And my wife is attending the funeral of her Mom’s sister today.

oooh, these things are never easy…give the mrsmooser a hug and be nice to her…

It’s perfectly safe, bbkf. And wonderful.

“THE PENIS IS EVIL – THE DOLLAR IS GOOD”

“Sheeple is an oft used word when people describe the manipulations exhibited the current Executive Branch and POTUS administration.”

Inappropriately, too. The term is never apt when applied to the people who lead. It;s only apt when applied to the people who follow. People like you. “Being” Breitbart goes beyond following, it’s right into psychoville.

Also too, what is the difference between the POTUS administration and the current Executive Branch. Aren’t they the same fucking thing? Oh, wait, I get it – you’re being Breitbart by MAKING NO FUCKING SENSE JUST SPEWING OUT WORDS WORDS WORDS.

Again, Dennis, based on your input here, you’re lazy-minded and unimaginative. It’s always somebody else that’s supposed to answer your questions, address your concerns, write things that meet your standards. Others give freely of themselves (thanks, Cerberus, Provider, and the good-faith commentariat), but you’re just an ungrateful parasite.

“oooh, these things are never easy…give the mrsmooser a hug and be nice to her…”

Thanks. It’ll probably be one of those days she will need to talk out for a while, either tonight or, if she’s too tired, tomorrow. Tears may, enter into it, and why should they not? Her natural empathy is both quick and deep.
I handle it as any loving husband should, by getting loaded with the guys today, falling into bed with my clothes on, and muttering “Shudthefukup, I’m sleeping” when she comes home seeking an understanding helpmeet. Then she see’s the condition the house is in, and rage displaces grief and subsides into dejected irritation. Problem solved.

“CRY HANNITY & LET LOOSE TEH MOBILITY SCOOTERS OF WAR”

“REALITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN’T HANDLE RE-EDITING”

“ACORN DID 9/11”

“WE FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT TO KEEP YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS PURE, YOU DECIDE”

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT’S ON THE NEWS, GO OUT & FABRICATE SOME OF YOUR OWN”

“WE HAVE TO DESTROY LOGIC IN ORDER TO SAVE IT”

“PATIENCE, MY ASS … I’M GONNA DISCREDIT SOMEONE”

“HAPPINESS IS A WARM SANTORUM ATTACK-AD”

“THINGS GO BETTER WITH GRIFTING”

“YEA THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE SIDEWALK OF THE VALLEY OF THE INFORMATION AGE, I WILL FEAR NO INFARCTIONS, FOR I AM THE MEANEST DIPSHIT IN THE ENTIRE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT-HEADED BRIGADE”

“BEAR STEARNS, BCCI, NUGAN HAND, WACHOVIA, NORTHERN ROCK … HONOR THE FALLEN”

“HISTORICAL AMNESIA, FUCK YEAH”

“IF I CAN’T GRIFT, I DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR CO-EVOLUTION”

“SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT ABOUT NIHILISM, BUT AT LEAST IT ISN’T LIBERAL”

WARNING: President Obama (who is rumored to be not-white) is on the TVs discussing race and violence. Prepare ye for stunning exhibits of synchronized butthurtism.

This is the late-summer of my winter of discontent. I’m down to seeds and stems, again, too. Those long weeks before the growth phase gives way to the bud phase. What a lucky old sun he is, to be sure, shedding its lumens on such a wonderful process.

“QUESTION CAUSALITY”

“QUESTION CAUSALITY”

What makes you say that?

“SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT ABOUT NIHILISM, BUT AT LEAST IT ISN’T LIBERAL”

Moosie like that. Like a bunch of Aryan Groucho Marxes, singing “Whatever it is, I’m against it!”

“I AM SPURIOUS (INFRARED)”

“I AM SPURIOUS (INFRARED)”

Now that were funny.

Uh, yeah, about that Breitbart stencil?
I don’t think that’s just ordinary spray-paint there, folks.

Collectivist necrophilia for a sociopath, just like the Founding Fathers intended!

It’s perfectly safe, bbkf. And wonderful.

LOVE IT! just emailed it to hubbkf…who has been sexting me all morning…and that’s been your ewww!/tmi moment for today…

“We need thousands of Andrew Breitbarts”

Of what utility is a stack of overweight dead conservatives?

Am I the only one who thinks this hysteria over the Rolling Stone cover with Tsienshiklenahy on it is on par with the Janet Jackson boob outrage?

That’s a rhetorical question. I know I’m right.

Of what utility is a stack of overweight dead conservatives?

We can insert it into the lawyer joke: A good start?

DEFY! REBEL!

SUPPORT A DICKLESS LITTLE COWARD OF A PRESIDENT AS HE BLOWS THE MOTHERFUCKING SHIT OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST BECAUSE THAT’S FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKERS.

I always question political correctness. Like when conservadicks call shafting the poor and smoking Richie Rich cock “Fiscal Responsibility”.

say, jim, you’re pretty good at that…keep it up…

I see my thread killing skills are intact and functioning with extreme prejudice.

I handle it as any loving husband should, by getting loaded with the guys today, falling into bed with my clothes on, and muttering “Shudthefukup, I’m sleeping” when she comes home seeking an understanding helpmeet. Then she see’s the condition the house is in, and rage displaces grief and subsides into dejected irritation. Problem solved.

is there some sort of playbook y’all follow? cuz this seems familiar…

We are all Andrew now. Except for people who aren’t Andrew.

huh…snark blogs, what are they? how do they function? what do they mean? or is it the theory that, ‘if it’s on the internet it must be true cuz they can’t put anything on the internet that’s not true…?’

We are all Andrew now.

eck…DO NOT WANT. also, i just got my hair done and it’s FAAABulous!

Also too, what is the difference between the POTUS administration and the current Executive Branch. Aren’t they the same fucking thing? Oh, wait, I get it – you’re being Breitbart by MAKING NO FUCKING SENSE JUST SPEWING OUT WORDS WORDS WORDS.

When I learn a new term, I try to use it a whole bunch of times so I remember it. It’s way easier than learning the definition of it, see?

eck…DO NOT WANT. also, i just got my hair done and it’s FAAABulous!

YAY! Let’s see!

Waitaminute tsam, could you be more specific? Which president? cause while the current one is blowing the hell out of parts of the middle east, I wonder if he’s freedom* enough. The previous one seems to have brought more freedom by your definition. Although the two presidents ago one, was no slouch about slinging cruise missiles around when it suited him, and three presidents ago was pretty freedomtastic as well.

*If we reverse the 2003 transformation, that turned french fries into freedom fries, as we should to compensate for the fact that the current president is from the opposing party, since 2008 blowing up the middle east is not freedom but… French!

They put Nickleback on one of their covers so there is some precedent for RS glorifying evil people.

“is there some sort of playbook y’all follow?”

Just call me Babra Hutton.

*If we reverse the 2003 transformation, that turned french fries into freedom fries,”

We get fetish fries, of course! Don’t we?

YAY! Let’s see!

click the nym and have at it…

A cold front has moved through, It rained like a monsoon, I cooked popcorn for din-din, had a 97 minute nap with Monty Python blaring out the window,…and I used to be a nickelback (dimeback in long yardage situations) in High School.

Nice hair.

click the nym and have at it…

Fabulous INDEED! Rowr.

Which president? cause while the current one is blowing the hell out of parts of the middle east, I wonder if he’s freedom* enough

Pick an scumbag tyrant. Any scumbag tyrant.

I mean–fuck. How sociopathic do ya gotta be to start or prolong or escalate a fucking WAR so you can look like a tough guy?

It’s the Zimmerman syndrome, writ large. Globally, even.

“I mean–fuck. How sociopathic do ya gotta be to start or prolong or escalate a fucking WAR so you can look like a tough guy?”

In an act of self-sacrifice only exceeded once by any other son of man, Obama has graciously consented to be the one to end up holding the bag for the Bush crimes, the Bush military and the Bush intelligence frauds.
He’s a prize chump.

In an act of self-sacrifice only exceeded once by any other son of man, Obama has graciously consented to be the one to end up holding the bag for the Bush crimes, the Bush military and the Bush intelligence frauds.
He’s a prize chump

I don’t think he’s a chump at all–at least not in that sense of the term. He has let 5 years worth of opportunities to get the fuck out of Afghanistan go by without so much as a thought to putting an end to it. He has escalated some of Bush’s Un anti-Constitutional surveillance and hit squad programs. I’m not buying the chump act for a second. He’s don’t little else besides legitimizing those fucking cuntbag neocons and asshole republicans.

“He’s don’t little else besides legitimizing those fucking cuntbag neocons and asshole republicans.”

That’s what I mean. What did they tell him, that he was the Cn’C which could make something good out of what so obviously contained within itselfr R.L. Jackson’s “acculmulated evil of the whole”? Does Obama think that the military capable of endorsing and carrying out the War on Iraq had any desire to see anything but escalating chaos and fear, the only thing which might cover its crimes.
Yes sir, that’s gonna be one military which will be soooo eager not to compromise the President.
He’s a fool, a chump.

Once again I marvel at one’s tireless efforts to “white-spain” shit to me, purely for my benefit, see.

Unfortunately for you, dear sir, you are not my audience. I do dig driving the Zamboni, though, so thanks for that.
…

Obama and his team do seem to think that anything can be legitimized by putting different people in charge, from him on down. Usually this type of belief is discussed in terms of his apologists, the voters and pundits who think it’s OK now that their guy is doing it. So for ex., force-feeding Gitmo prisoners is torture, as was waterboarding. It comforts me very, very little to think that Obama’s in charge of it — we should stop. I suspect, though, that Obama and his circle don’t quite see it that way … they figure they’re lots smarter, better faux-centrist technocrats, less-ideological than the last crew, so they’re gonna demonstrate how showing no moral compass (on many issues) is done right. I suppose if anyone can do it, they could, but why not just begin the difficult work of not being a rogue nation of selfish, jingoist fuckwits?

Dang, that shouldn’t have been a “St.” comment.

“anything can be legitimized by putting different people in charge, from him on down.”

Maybe it could have, if only they’d actually done that.

“Just in Time,
I got here just in time,
To see the ice machine
Scrap off the slime!

I was lost,
My cookies, almost tossed,
I’m thinkin’,
‘Where’s the boss?’
to clean this thread.

Gosh, wouldn’t I feel impotent if my responses had just been turned into non-secreters. But I’m saving it for the trolls I parry.

I do dig driving the Zamboni, though….

Duh.

You can do more than that if you put your mind to it, though.

Absolutely nothing.

Can you believe that Breitbartpocalypse was over three years ago! Good times.

Gosh, those “n”s are slippery little things. They tend to slither away on their own.

Ever try to teach a dog to fetish a ball? This is not a gag.

“Ever try to teach a dog to fetish a ball?”

Fetish is a word I use to describe, all the erotic things I that I feel for the objects I desire. You don’t know how many times I wish that I had told you, you don’t know how many times I wish that I had shown you…

Anyway, Dora had a stuffed dog which she “fetished” quite a bit. We took it away. My wife came home the other day (nice in itself, cause I was worried) with a stuffed tiger from a garage sale. Dora immediately started fetishing… wait a minute I don’t think “fetish” is the right word. Okay, remember I said they make cheese out of bungalows? Well what kind of cheese would you make from a French bungalow? That’s what I’m talking about, but I can’t quite remember the word. Oh well.

Dogs are not capable of fetishism. They just like things.

Fetish is a word I use to describe, all the erotic things I that I feel for the objects I desire.

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside

I see what you did there.

“I see what you did there.”

Brother, you don’t know the half of it. I talk mostly in song lyrics, too. It was the only way I could cure my stutter.

Fried cottage? Well whatever it was she was doing to that poor stuffed tiger, we made her stop.

My younger cat just likes to carry stuffed toys around on occasion. It’s interesting when said stuffed toy is almost bigger than she is. Also, her definition of “stuffed toy” can be fairly loose.

Stuffing the toy

Dora ends up literally, on her head with her hind quarters, err stuttering away at poor tigger. She puts a lot of joie-de-viver into it. Lot of elan, espieglerie, and diablerie, too.

No, those ain’t it. It’s more like how many feet you have along the road.
Forget it. It’ll come to me some day.

Fetish is a word I use to describe, all the erotic things I that I feel for the objects I desire. You don’t know how many times I wish that I had told you, you don’t know how many times I wish that I had shown you…

Relevant.

Cerb? P-UNE? Fresh meat at the end of this link

When we were kids we played a game called I Am Andrew Breitbart. We’d get drunk, yell at people and then fall over in the street.

When we were kids we played a game called I Am Andrew Breitbart. We’d get drunk, yell at people and then fall over in the street.

Ring around the griefers,
A pocket full of reefers.
Cocaine! Cocaine!
We all fall down!

Hehe … I thought I caught all the slogans on the brick wall behind Uncle Sam Breightbart … just noticed “EXCUSE ME WHILE I SAVE THE WORLD”

Oleg Atbashian lives in a rich fantasy world, I’ll give him that much.

just noticed “EXCUSE ME WHILE I SAVE THE WORLD”

Oh Jesus. Was that the flipping off the kids protesting forced child soldiers or yelling at seemingly non-raping CPAC protestors to stop raping people?

All conservatives should strive to be me. A festering, bloated corpse.

Cerb? P-UNE? Fresh meat at the end of this link

“And while they don’t get much respect for now, House Republicans, like Rodney Dangerfield, will have the last laugh.”

I Am Andrew Breitbart! No wait, I Am Rodney Dangerfield! I’m like both guys. Now I get no respect, but later I’ll have the last laugh! That’s how Rodney’s act worked, right? Oh who cares! No respect, I tell you. And [screams]: STOP RAPING PEOPLE! STOP RAPING PEOPLE! [Makes bug eyes, tugs at his tie.]

My wife isn’t very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, “Did you see the racist negro that did it?”

I found there was only one way to look smart: hang out with dumb people.

If I had a city

It would look like Detroit.

The fact is, liberals are raping america up the ass. We need Britebart back to save us from the socialests, and stop freedom from being assbanged by terrorists and there best friends the Liberals.

I want to find a house full of liberals and hope that it catches fire.

You seem quite taken with the notion of forcible ass sex. Anything you want to tell us, Gary? You know, while you’re waiting for the house to spontaneously burst into flame.

My congressman’s gay, he went to Washington only to find out that Dick Armey was a homophobe.

You know, while you’re waiting for the house to spontaneously burst into flame.

And if the house ever does burn, and Gary’s found lurking nearby, after weeks of living on raw housecats and heirloom tomatoes, the police will totally believe the raving, feral wingnut apparition that claims he just waited, hoping.

Couldn’t some else at least try a Randy Dangerbart joke? I know it’s a stretch, but the source material’s at your fingertips. You get extra points if it isn’t funny.

Hurley Stokes had given up counting after he’d logged a thousand trips riding shotgun for the R&R stagecoach line between Tucson and Phoenix. He couldn’t tell one trip from the next after a couple of years: they all rolled into the same jolting, hot, dusty ride. Only one trip stood out in his memory, for only once did he have to raise his shotgun, against the feared bandit, Bart.

In a savage bend in the road where the four horse team slowed to a walk, Bart jumped out from behind a big rock, fired his six gun once, and hollered “Throw down the cash box, that’s all I want, and you can ride on out of here, alive.” Hurley was caught unawares, but remembered that Bart the Bandit, ruthless killer though he was, loved to talk politics. So Hurley took a chance and said, “Who you gonna vote for?” Bart lowered his pistol slightly, squinted hard at Hurley for a second and replied, “I ain’t made up my mind yet, how ’bout you?” Hurley relaxed a bit and appeared to think about the question, then continued, “I’m a law and order man myself, so I’m voting for Bush, the only one who’s a gonna make it safe for regular folks to travel.”

Bart the Bandit screwed up his face and spit and, his voice full of spiteful anger, cursed, “Bush is full of shit. Hell, it was him that helped me do the Silverado job. He kept going on about borrowing the money, no need to use guns to steal it. No way I’d vote for that dumb sonofabitch!” Hurley was stunned. He had heard the rumors, but this was straight from the horses mouth. “No shit” he said to Bart. “No shit” Bart replied, and repeated his demand “Now, throw down that goddamn cash box ‘afore I shoot your ass off!”

Hurley shifted on the bunk board, wondering if he could keep Bart talking while he thought of some way to get out of this pickle. After a second he plowed on, “Bush done pretty good then, at the Silverado, leaving you high and dry, bought hisself a nice little spread over to Crawford”. “Yeah”, Bart hurled back, “That’s what I heard too, he’s over there making out like he’s some kind a goddamn cowboy when the truth of the matter is he’s afraid of livestock. That’s right, don’t look so damned surprised. His old partner Vicente Fox told me that one evening in a little cantina down Laredo way. When I finish up here with you fuck ups, I’m a good mind to go over to Crawford and pay that yellow livered pansy pissant a visit. I figure he owes me a piece of that ranch action he’s got going.”

“Well, that’d be the bright thing to do Bart, just go on over there and get what’s coming to you and leave us alone, we ain’t got enough here to make robbing the line worth the trouble.” Hurley crossed his fingers Bart would see the reason in this.

“Well”, Bart lowered his gun, pushed his hat back, “You got a pretty good point there. People wouldn’t think I was a very bright Bart if I stole what? Fifty dollars and a bunch of stupid letters? So yeah, I think I’ll just go on over to Crawford and pay old shit lick a visit.”

And with that, Bart the Bandit, thence known as Bright Bart, mounted his horse and rode off in a cloud of dust.

rodert rudis, how have you been? It’s been a while. Still living in Latin America?

Fuck yeah.

Howdy BBBB, it has been a while. How have y’all been around these parts? And yes, ‘m still hanging out on the Isthmus.

Eureka! That’s where I am. Had to put the liner in my jacket and switch to insulated gloves, coming down on 299. That after sweating my brains out in southern OR and all along the Klamath River Hwy.

Hey! Welcome back robert rudis!

You biotches need to know: I HAVE MY EYE ON Y’ALL!
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No, no…

Good and lovely cats!
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Kitties!

DEFY THE ESTABLISHMENT
FIGHT THE SYSTEM
REBEL

Alright. That’s about enough of that. I mean, wtf? The very concept of a “conservative rebel” is silly. The whole fucking ideology is based on keeping the existing system as it is. Resisting change, if not actively undoing it. Standing athwart history yelling stop, as it were.

Sorry, fucknuggets. You do not get to claim the mantle of revolutionary when your most rubber sheet worthy wet dreams revolve around keeping the status quo power structure intact and expanding the privilege of the moneyed class.

It’s even more stupidly cognitive-dissonance-soaked than the assholes who festoon themselves and their surroundings with with both the American Flag and the stars-and-bars.

Fuck.

This video is funny — U2 should do a concept album and tour that resurrects this look and sound.

Pup, are you in C.A.?

What other blog can say that?

The vast majority, actually.
You don’t get out much, do you?

why not just begin the difficult work of not being a rogue nation of selfish, jingoist fuckwits?

Because television still exists, and as long as that particular dangerous drug is still in use, the Brain Caste will be able to keep the masses drip-fed their preferred unreality.

This video is funny — U2 should do a concept album and tour that resurrects this look and sound.

jesus h…they were babbies! bono was still effing hot though, in a prepubescent, dorky way…

rodert! thank you for blessing us upon with your return with that yarn…

The hotel I’m staying at in Huntington WV not only looks like something built in Soviet days, it’s starting to feel like something built during Soviet days.

There are only two elevators, and one has been out of service for at least a month. The place is full this weekend, with two high school reunions.

I just walked the 10 flights of stairs up to my floor because it was quicker than waiting for the one remaining elevator to stop at every floor in both directions.

Oh well. I’m renting a car and driving home for the weekend anyway. It’s still annoying.

i just finished chopping up 10 lbs of onions for the brat and burger feed at our little celebration this weekend…eyes, burning…

hubbkf and i have come to a decision: we are NOT going to we-fest but instead are going to this here deal instead…cool!

“Standing athwart history yelling stop,”

Really, this is moo touch! I mean, two mulch! Anyway, get it right:

“Standing athwart the straights of history, yelling stop” is the correct quote.

Okay, I’m a little picqued this morning. No, it’s more of a feeling of tragic inevitability, like when there’s too much humus, which offends the Gods!
Anyway, the idea that somebody would skip a Sat. morning lesson with me to attend a concert given by a 70-year-old ex-Beatle and a bunch of grungy grungists torques my shorts. And sat out in Seattle’s night-time miasma to do it. At least here you’ve got a roof over your head which isn’t constantly trundling hither-and-thither like a flapper in a flivver playing the zither.
Aww, screw ’em, if he wants to whither and blither, instead of coming hither with vim and vigor.

I want my money back! Phooey! Cripes! Nuts! Cancel my rhumba lessons!”

“Because television still exists, and as long as that particular dangerous drug is still in use”

And now, with those goddam giant flat-screens, what’s on TV is larger, better focused, better lit, and has better continuity than real life. Especially for older people.
And America drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright.

“Standing athwart the straights of history, yelling stop” is the correct quote.

Language nerd here. It’s straits. As in the “Straits of Magellan,” strait-laced, strait jacket, straitened means, etc., all referring to narrowing or confining.

Above, “straights” is funnier (what a mental image), but “straits” is correct.

“Above, “straights” is funnier (what a mental image), “

“The Straights of Megellan” huh? What a great title for my next movie!

I’ve got it! “The Straights of Megellan meets Capt. Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates” Shooting starts tomorrow, and I hope I’m first.

Sad Lee Needs Mending said,
July 20, 2013 at 19:41

It could have been me.

So, you could have been Richard Nixon? Good to know.

“Strait’s” huh? I mean who’d a thunk it? I fugured it was just another example of hetero dominance, having a lot of stuff named after them, and most of it so appropriately. “Dire Straights”? Go to any singles bar after midnight. “Living in straightened circumstances”? I guess that’s what happens after one of them pray-away programs. “He got put in a straight- jacket?” That’s what happens when your girl-friend ends up preggers and you make a humus woman of her. Richard, of course, got married to a figure skater..

Oh, forget it, I’m just very irritable, I’m gonna go thrash at some brush.

“Dire Straights,” huh? Is that like [trigger alert for ungulates!] Dire Wolves?

“What’s the point of reading about all the stupid details on the George Zimmerman trial when I can learn all I need to know right here at Sadly No?
It’s quick reading, easy to understand, and as far as I can tell, never wrong because I have yet to see even one correction. From anyone. What other blog can say that?”

Thanks for that. You have just summed up, in words as simple as they are eloquent, exactly why, as the case reached it’s inevitable debacle I restricted my self to reading about it here. I thought it would be just a little to, well, fanny to write them a thank-you note, but you did it for me.

“Dire Wolves?”

Language merde here. Don’t you mean “Dyer Wolves”, wild canines that have evolved methods of camoflaging themselves with the juice of berries and pine-sap? No, that’s all right, don’t thank me, happy to steer you strait.

“So far he’s been FDR. He’s been Ronald Reagan. He’s been Lincoln. And before he was them he was The One. And now he’s Trayvon. So maybe soon he’ll be Nixon. Try and be patient.”

Wow, poor Mitt never had a chance, did he? Imagine trying to run a suit filled with sour treacle against all those people.

“Dyer Wolves”, wild canines that have evolved methods of camoflaging themselves with the juice of berries and pine-sap?

Do they holler “Wolverines!!11!” a lot?

But what it could not have been is me breaking a man’s nose while I was on top of him and beating his head against the concrete because he asked me what I was doing in a neighborhood that had seen a rash of robberies. I’ve never done that.

Hey Dennis/Justiceisserved/Moresockpuppets:

I notice you’re still ignoring the videos of Zimmerman a few minutes after this imaginary nose-breaking and head-bashing without a fucking mark on him. Why is that?

I mean, if butthurt has become (I’m way too polite to type “white butthurt”) such a valuable commodity, why waste even a smidgin of it? So here’s what to do: We turn up the butthurt to “11” and talk about how ruthless attackers like Trayvon don’t look into your background before they attack, so background checks unconstitushinal! ‘Just because I’ve had a couple of domestic-violence charges, they want to make me unable to protect myself!’ And of course, it’s not even yourself you want to protect, it’s all for the cherub-cheeked, curly-blonde-haired children. You know, like your own, the ones you have a no-contact order for.

“Very strange. Being led. Told what and how to think. How to respond. Being told not to respond, or else. But then still being led to believe you’re an independent thinker. Fascinating, but strange.”

My Gosh, what a horrible way to live! Why I’d almost rather be a wild ungulate. Did I ever sing you my theme-song? Gee, I’m sorry, let’s correct that right now: (To the tune of “Yankee Doodle Dandy”)

“He’s a big tremendous Mooser,
Weighing up to fifteen-hundred pounds!
With palmate antlers stretching seven feet,
The largest member of the North American Deer Family!

He eats nuts, and hay, and berries,
But doesn’t mind a juicy steak once in a while
And if you think he’s going to sit around,
And listen to arrant bullshit like yours, you are sadly mistaken.”

There’s more, but without the costumes, ritual movements, and the ikons, it loses some of its effect. But you get the idea.

“very last paragraph of Provider’s post that Trayvon was lynched.”

Don’t you mean “linched”? I’ll say one thing for Google Spel-chek not being available. It shows you exactly what kind people you are dealing with!

“Very strange. Being led. Told what and how to think. How to respond. Being told not to respond, or else.”

Yes, yes, any reaction except white-butthurt (and I bet your alabaster titties gleam, fella) just can’t be real. Or of any worth.
I’ve been listening to assholes like you and your elk for forty years, heel, more like fifty. I didn’t buy it then, and I sure as hell don’t buy it now.

(connects generator to badger arms)
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“Do they holler “Wolverines!!11!” a lot?”

Do they holler? Just listen!

(connects generator to badger arms)

You’re right. There has got to be some way to harness all that energy. Something along the lines of the way hybrids/electrics capture energy from braking?

“You’re not someone who’s easily manipulated. You have a very strong independent streak.”

Oh God, I remember this line. And you’re gonna help me discover where my independent streak is leading? Fortunately, I know how to handle this without a whole lot of fuss.
Usually a polite, “Nothin’ doing, bub” or “Look, I’m saving myself for the man I marry” takes care of it.

I keep asking you again because you keep saying the same fucking thing.

There was not a fucking mark on the motherfucker minutes after he was supposedly getting his nose broken and his head bashed!

“Face cleaned up, your ass! His nose was broken and his head had been bashed against the pavement, and they “cleaned him up” and didn’t even apply a fucking band-aid? Are you high? How do you think anybody’s going to swallow this shit?

The pictures the jury were shown were taken later when Zimmerman figured he needed an excuse as to why he shot an unarmed teenager, and the Sanford PD needed an excuse as to why they didn’t arrest him when he shot an unarmed teenager. I have no theory as to whether they were photoshopped or actual deliberately inflicted injuries, or on whom the injuries in question were inflicted.

The one thing we know for sure is that moments after he was supposedly getting the shit beaten out of him (and broken noses and scalp wounds bleed like a motherfucker) THERE WAS NOT A GODDAMN MARK ON HIM!!! You can refuse to deal with that obvious fact, but it just makes you look like a fucking moron.

“Mooser, Pupienus and P-UNEy weren’t patronizing you when they told you what you needed to do”

Thanks for reminding me, they told me to ignore the troll, and in my irritability, I forgot. Of course, it’s very easy to see his constant nym-changing and nym-jacking is the result of our obsession with him. And I fart argon, too. It’s a noble gas!

“The one thing we know for sure is that moments after he was supposedly getting the shit beaten out of him (and broken noses and scalp wounds bleed like a motherfucker) THERE WAS NOT A GODDAMN MARK ON HIM!!!”

It’s a Jewish herditary condition. Some of us are real slow bleeders.

You want me to argue with you when you refuse to believe the undisputed facts of this case.

Not a mark on him, asshole. Not a mark on him. You can shuck and jive all you want, but the video is there. Naturally nobody was allowed on the jury who were awake and saw that at the time, and the rest of us are just supposed to forget about it in favor of the new narrative, but there was not a fucking mark on him.

Yeah, asshole? Come up with at least a lame attempt at an explanation of why there was not a mark on him minutes after his nose was “broken” and his head was “bashed”. Just the slightest pathetic attempt at a rationalization of why they wouldn’t at least have put a band-aid on these horrendous “injurie”s. Come on, at least try!

Anybody notice how Dennis/Justiceisserved/ZimmerJUSTICE/Sadly Lacking doesn’t even try to deny that he’s all the sockpuppets, when yesterday he was all butthurt at the very suggestion?

“Youre mistaken. Broken noses don’t always bleed.”

What about hemorrhoids? We’ll pay you for your time and travel, and all medicines will be provided at no cost in this study. Broken noses may not always bleed, but butt, no, ‘the tragedy of butthurt’ is often a lifetime affliction. If you call that living.

And thanks for the frank admission and demonstration of the nym-changing and stealing. I mean if that doesn’t prove you’re the go-to guy for all political and ethical advice, I can’t think what would!

“Anybody notice how…”

Yup, two thoughts with but a single mind on that one, Reverend.

Yup, two thoughts with but a single mind on that one, Reverend.

Two mammals, one brain?

Sorry Rev we didn’t notice cause we’re not paying any attention. You know, trollz.

“Yeah, Mooser. The guys who followed…/… up you’re so racist11!! like most everyone here

Yes, I notice that you care soooo deeeply about this you have to change-nyms, steal-nyms, and go into your Tourette’s act. (My apologies to real sufferers)
So you figure you can call me “Jew bag” (Jesus, at least get it right) one day, and appeal to my “independence of thought” the next?
Suree, I know, you didn’t do any of that. Well, after last night and this morning, that’s a little hard to deny convincingly, huh “Denis”.

“Two mammals, one brain?”

There’s nothing in here except next year’s antlers.

“Standing athwart the straights of history, yelling stop” is the correct quote.

[citation needed]

“At this point it’s the Lady doth protest too loudly.”

Don’t they usually supply a lens cover along with the extra bulbs, empty reels and instruction manuals?

“anyway but I’m not justiceisserved or ZimmerJUSTICE, nor ever posted under that nym.”

And I bet you’ve never posted under “Denis” or “And Sadly Needs Mending” or “Sadly Lacking” either, huh? Not then, not now, not ever.

Protesting that you never use a phony nym, while posting under a phony nym? Why I can’t understand why you aren’t the very model of credibility.

Sadly, yes — too many regulars in teh Badger Bag.
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“Mooser, I’m not trying to ‘appeal’ to your anything.

Well, then, you are doing a bang-up job, one of the best I’ve ever seen.

“The last thing in the world you are or could ever be is an independent thinker.” 22:38

You’re not someone who’s easily manipulated. You have a very strong independent streak. 21:18

Well, then, none of the hobgoblin of little minds for you!

And this is what, about the sixth or seventh time we’ve gotten to the denial stage “I didn’t”, “I never”, stage, and (checks watch) how the hell did this crystal get scratched, Rolex’s don’t have a plastic crystal…

Anyway the tsunami of profane, bigoted crap under a host of different or stolen nyms should be along any time now.

What part of “you asked for it” don’t you understand?

“Youre mistaken. Broken noses don’t always bleed.”

Broken and profusely bleeding noses are part of my cultural inheritance. Still, I am willing to consider the possibility that the correlation is less than 1.00, and I invite volunteers for the Riddled research program into this issue.

(Weather Porn Alert)

Ahhh. 57 beautiful degrees by the shores of Gitchee Gumee.
Low tonight in the 40s.
Blankets on the bed. Oh joy.

Zimmerman confronted Martin gratuitously, provoked a fight, and was apparently losing it when he shot Martin. I don’t know what other “facts” could possibly be relevant.

“What part of “you asked for it” don’t you understand?”

Not enough, I guess. I’ve never seen anything quite like it before.

“There’s no evidence that Zimmerman either confronted Martin or provoked a fight.”

Oh, I agree, Zimmerman came as close as he could to simply murdering Trayvon in cold blood.
I see this a lot on blogs. A person’s fingers are actually more truthful than their mind.

Can’t tell whether anyone in Florida bashed anyone else’s head on concrete, but I guarantee I can tell that there a few people here who are bashing their own heads against a brick wall.

“You didn’t follow the case, remember? “

Yeah, but I know what my own name is. When you know what yours is you can start instructing me on the law and ethics. You are so basically dishonest, not cognizant of it, and willing to show it, and ever-eager to assign responsbility to someone else. You’re insane.

Great googly moogly can’t you people talk about anything else!!!!

Broken and profusely bleeding noses are part of my cultural inheritance.

Ah, yes, a congenital pub-goer… one of my people.

Great googly moogly can’t you people talk about anything else!!!!

Sadly, yes — too many regulars in teh Badger Bag.
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Are you an Avenger? Get In THE BAG.
Do you use a troll’s name? Get In THE BAG.
Do you use anything approximating a troll’s name? Get In THE BAG.
Do you spend 90% of your timke responding to trolls? Get In THE BAG.
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Tell ’em JP.

“I wondered what that was supposed mean coming from someone…”

…from someone who has just used about six different nyms in this very thread?

It gets in THE BAG or it gets THE HOSE!

“I wondered what that was supposed mean coming from someone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife”

Oh look! The Model Boy is back. I gotta ask, is that what qualifies as a barbed remark among the fundementally-challenged home-schoolers?

My posts may soon be the only ones not swimming with badgers.

However, fuck it.
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The fact is, Detroit is bankrup because of socialism, lazy black people, free ride, race baiting, blacks, lazy pubic employees, the free lunch crowd, anda bad climate for business because blacks and lazys shooting everyone. They deserve it.

Not much going on here. I’ve managed to escape Huntington WV for a few days.

My posts may soon be the only ones not swimming with badgers.

Are you against justice for bays? Do you harbor hatred for all inlets or am I being too littoral?

And perhaps Gary could share more about his personal experiences with pubic employees, lazy or otherwise.

“Do you harbor hatred for all inlets or am I being too littoral?”

That have a horrible tradition of littoralectomy here. They believe it will increase waterfront properties.

My posts may soon be the only ones not swimming with badgers.

You could even killfile yourself… now that would be weird.

Man, this Zimmerman trial, now complete with verdict, is the season’s hottest wingnut plaything. I don’t get it … I keep turning this thing over in my hand, squinting at it, and it still appears to be an offensive turd. The “police work,” [add more scare quotes throughout] the fact that a trial was never supposed to happen, Zimmerman himself, the trial, the prosecution, the defense, Florida’s laws. Taken as a whole, I can’t back away faster, yet this is where they’ve planted their victory flag: next to Mark O’Mara. Talk about myopic. A Pyrrhic victory for the ages.

This isn’t a Dennis thing; he’s mostly content to fuck, with little skill or variation, whatever pet chicken he brought to the party three days ago. No, there’s millions of better blindered po-faced scolds going on about what wasn’t admitted or admissible and therefore shouldn’t be mentioned, right before they pivot to just the type of subjective points that they earnestly insist their opponents mustn’t raise: what does this mean? What’s the story? What conclusions shall we draw? Right and wrong?… They’ve got subjective stuff out the ass, and it hasn’t changed much (if at all) since before the bestest trial ever. But don’t you dare stray from the designated playing field, or criticize it. The jury has spoken.

But really, the legal system is not our primary arbiter of meaning. Not even the tertiary one. True stories are made and told, not god-given then uncovered by means of the bizarre, heavily circumscribed ritual that’s being hoisted on wingnut shoulders and paraded about as the benchmark, the cornerstone, the alpha and omega of due process.

Now, knowledge of the Trial That Answered The Questions is required to be taken seriously on the right. Since the verdict, it fills their field of vision with the glorious light of justice — they can’t make out anything else. So when Provider wrote about the big picture, and events prior to the trial, the supposed problem was that he admitted not paying much attention to the trial. When he proceeded to reference facts and make points not remotely dependent on his knowledge of the trial, it was too late — the wingnuts were already busy fucking that decoy chicken, after the first sentence.

One specific example: Provider brought up Zimmerman’s successful fundraising prior to any substantive findings. “In the six weeks following Zimmerman’s arrest, he raised more than $200,000.” Wingnuttia always knew where it stood. They did not, in fact, withhold judgment, or limit themselves to the facts and authoritative judgments then at hand. They proceeded to back Zimmerman, and lynch Trayvon (in the modern, high-tech sense). NOW we are piously instructed that one mustn’t make such leaps.

Might be interesting to compare what certain commentators say about the Zimmerman verdict, and what those same people said about the O. J. Simpson verdict. That might be interesting. Of course, that’s if they are writing under the same name.

You’re not alone in wondering that, Mooser. I wouldn’t pose it as an S,N! question, though. And the cases are dissimilar, but public opinion re: OJ does come to mind.

” I wouldn’t pose it as an S,N! question, though.”

Sorry. I must not have been thinking clearly when I did it. Won’t do it again. Can’t help thinking that everything they applaud about Zimmerman case, they deplored about OJ case. Everything which allowed Simpson’s Not Guilty verdict was awful, and a sign of a justice sytem on the brink of dissolving, and every reason why Zimmerman wasn’t convicted shows freedom and democracy.
But the OJ story wasn’t over with the trial, and I sort of doubt this is all over, too.

Well put … I’m gonna try to practice for another hour, or until is start to feel queasy.

The OJ verdict is a great mirror to hold up to this trial. In both cases a guilty man was acquitted of murder. That’s the risk you run when you require evidence to punish someone for a crime, and depend on untrained citizens to evaluate that evidence. It’s an imperfect system, but it’s the best we’ve got.

In the case of OJ, the prosecution had one, and only one, piece of real evidence: the famous bloody glove. All the rest was just day after day of people speculating about what time they heard something, or how long it would take somebody to do something, ad nauseam.

Their one and only piece of physical evidence they allowed to pass through the hands of an animal like Mark Fuhrman. The people in the police department who allowed that to happen should have been fired, the prosecuting attorneys who tried to introduce this tainted evidence into the record should have been disbarred, and the judge who allowed it should have been removed from the bench.

The jury did exactly the right thing: they realized that the only piece of evidence they had been shown was irretrievably tainted, and voted to acquit. This is the system working exactly as it should.

The Zimmerman trial is the mirror image of that. A guilty man went free because no one questioned the obviously fabricated evidence. Of course, anyone who was paying attention at the time and remembered Zimmerman’s totally unblemished state the night of the murder was prevented from serving on the jury. This is what can happen in the current media environment, when Minitrue Fox News can change history on a dime, but ironically, the current situation was largely created by the OJ trial (and the Clinton impeachment), so it’s probably predictable.

I’ve often wondered, in reference to the OJ case, if the LAPD tried to frame a guilty man.

I’ve often wondered, in reference to the OJ case, if the LAPD tried to frame a guilty man.

That’s what Bill Maher kept saying.

The question now is how to navigate the moral sewer that is “Stand Your Ground” provisions in self-defense laws… or rather, how to disassemble all of the toxic legislation that ALEC has been passing on the state level for the past decade or so.

This video is funny — U2 should do a concept album and tour that resurrects this look and sound.

That’s awesome. When I had hair, it used to look exactly like Adam Clayton’s hair in that video.

“When I had hair…”

Those were the days, were they not? When I had teeth, too, things were lovely. And when I could see without glasses? Life was one grand, sweet, song! And before the hot flashes, I was quite a guy. Or so I told myself. A regular boulevardier, All the girls promised to trifle with me in the conservatory when they could evade their duennas.

“the moral sewer that is “Stand Your Ground” provisions in self-defense laws”

Moral sewer? Well yes, but what I’m waiting for is the legal sewer we’ll have when the ground-stander and his victim, or vice versa, have the same social and economic standing. Then what does it come down to, a popularity contest in which one of the finalists is dead?

And of course, the standing of public property as “your ground” vs. the States obligation to protect its citizens will be very interesting, when a bystander is killed.

So if, as these laws imply, the State has no interest in preventing any dispute, or perceived slight, from turning into mortal combat, or just plain murder, state-sponsored duelling-grounds are probably the answer.

Moral sewer? Well yes, but what I’m waiting for is the legal sewer we’ll have when the ground-stander and his victim, or vice versa, have the same social and economic standing. Then what does it come down to, a popularity contest in which one of the finalists is dead?

I suspect the legislators didn’t think of such things, or, if they did, assumed it would always be some variety of “little people” getting killed. As for the NRA, the actual writer/proponent of these laws, why, it’s all good. More arms to be sold, and that’s all the arms makers care about.

Aileen Wuornos: the NRA’s martyr.

There we go.

Kittehs named neither Tunch nor Boss.

Feeling a little lazy about being Breitbart today, how about if I have 15-20 Arnold Palmers and listen to baseball. Is that defying liberals enough?

“or, if they did, assumed it would always be some variety of “little people” getting killed.”

Who needs facts or the sad statistics of ballistics to make laws. All you need are sellable scenarios. Our discourse has become a Hollywood script conference conducted by a second-rate producer desperate for a blockbuster.

Is that defying liberals enough?

I’ll pretend to be outraged, if that helps.

It’s a simple algebra they use: The lowest common denominator means the highest number of suckers.

BTW, that “Bad Credit Questions” link? It’s no good. And what a thing to do to a guy! For a second, I thought there might be a way out of the Marshalsea, but no, 404’d. I just come here and pun when I’m not being dunned.

Sometimes I wish I had grandkids, so I could dandle them on my knee and tell them: “Kids, your old’ Granpappy has lived quite a life. Why, I was witness to the greatest lowering of the common demoninator in America’s history! But ain’t that America, something to see? Ain’t that America, for you and for me?”

Not, I want to stipulate, if ‘dandling’ is prohibited by state or local regulations, of course.

By the time I have grandkids, I’d expect the common denominator to have dropped another notch or three. It’d have to.

” It’d have to.”

I guess it never dropped enough to create any issue for me.

how about if I have 15-20 Arnold Palmers and listen to baseball. Is that defying liberals enough?

Perhaps, but it also sounds like a good way to go into sugar shock.

Is that defying liberals enough?

I demand you have a different number of a different beverage! OK, now you are.

30000 times font

Times New Roman is good for body text, maybe a subhead. For something that big you want a display font.

“For something that big you want a display font.”

It’s one hell of a display, all right.

Perhaps, but it also sounds like a good way to go into sugar shock.

Dood. Cold brewed jasmine tea with lemonade I squoze with honey. Keep your HFCS dreams to yourself. Also, too, unsweetened vodka. Two games down, Sox on in 90.

I have it at second hand that AP himself insists that a real AP is made with unsweet tea.

I can’t eat honey. It makes me feel like I’m taking candy from a larva’s mouth.

unsweetened vodka

Are you tellin me that some vodka has sugar added? I coulda drunk it by accident.

“Are you tellin me that some vodka has sugar added?”

Well, the “flavored vodkas” must, but I’d be very reluctant to imply you touched that kind tref.

No, sir. In itself, vodka should be simple. That’s really all I know about it.

I insist on vodka flavored vodka. Quaint I know.

I can’t eat honey.

That’s probably for the best, real honey is expensive. Stick to HFCS, nothing weird to think about there. And cane sugar, well that’s easy.

The staghorn sumac “berries” are at their peak now, as are the wineberries. The sumac is good for making a lemonade substitute and the wineberries are good for just about anything.

Do NOT ask my band about the sumac punch.

Do NOT ask my band about the sumac punch.

Did you put on a glove, wrap some poison sumac around your hand and give them poison punches?

A couple of years ago, I made a sumac-infused vodka, which was okay, but not great. I also like using the fruits to make a dry rub, or a zata’ar.

Pardon my intrusion, but I find myself out of leads, and so I beg your assistance. I am a punch-man and amateur vibraphonist. Some months ago, while socializing with a group of musicians, I was treated to the most arresting punch I’ve ever had, which is saying something. It tasted of sumac and moon-dust. I didn’t catch these revelers’ names, but I distinctly recall them mentioning their absent comrade — he of the unforgettable punch — one “El Manquecito.” I must have his recipe at any cost.

I’m afraid it was too good. Ripe staghorn berries in a honey vodka infusion, all those anthocyanins, the pale carmine color, well, you know.

Uh-oh, it looks like I might be replaced! My wife just came home with another old crock! A six (!) gal. Red Wing Pottery crock, to be used in the making of sour, saer, …krout? …kraut? Oh hell, brined cabbage.

Uh-oh, it looks like I might be replaced! My wife just came home with another old crock! A six (!) gal. Red Wing Pottery crock, to be used in the making of sour, saer, …krout? …kraut? Oh hell, brined cabbage.

With all that sauerkraut, she’s probably planning to gas you out of the house.

I hit a local Ukrainian butcher shop last week and picked up some kielbasa and some store-made slab bacon in order to make some bigos. Could you send some of that extra kraut to Yonkers?

I remember a promise I made to my wife, the morning after our nuptials. “My dear”, I said, rising grandly, if unsteadily from the breakfast table, “our lives will not be cluttered with a surfeit of material objects, but those we do have ” (and here I paused to pitch face-forward into my cornflakes,) “will all be, I promise you, of the cheapest quality!”
And from this I have never, septum-like, deviated.

And from this I have never, septum-like, deviated.

Yesterday I started composing a Randy Dangerbart joke involving his deviated septum, but it ended up on the cutting room floor.

“will all be, I promise you, of the cheapest quality!”

Is there a way to request extra-melamine in your non-dairy creamer?

Look! Laundry’s done and it’s nowhere NEAR bedtime!
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“that extra kraut to Yonkers?”

Who will help me grow the kraut? And who will help me gather in the kraut? And who will help me chop the kraut, and salt it, let it do the double trouble, boil and bubble thing while weighted with a wood cap?
The sauerkraut is a long way off. Or maybe, which I suspect, she just likes old crocks and wanted another one around.
I should write a play about it, and call it “The Old Crock and the Alter Kocker” The scene where I deliver a soliloquy to a ceramic cylinder will wring tears from a heart of clay. “Looks like you ‘n me have spent a lifetime making things turn out sour for people, huh, old crock?” And then my salty tears of real repentance miraculously causes the crock to turn out the crispest, sharpest, kraut ever in record time, and Klausens offers me beacoup de pelf for the recipe. “Take back your filthy lucre!” I cry “Take back your mink, take back your pearls! What made you think I was one of those!” girls!” And in a scene of renunciation, after draining the sauerkraut, me and Ol’ Crocky march off, arm in arm, with trepidation (he was willing to go, and is handy to have around) to confront an uncertain future, me munching from Crock’s depths.

Do NOT ask my band about the sumac punch.

Ground sumac is a pretty common ingredient in Turkish recipes. I always try to keep some around.

The way you anthropomorphize that kraut crock is disturbing.

I’m a Mooser
And you can’t compare a deer to me
I’m a Mooser
‘Cause a deer can’t play this here B3

Sure Major, but you have to harvest it to get it. Sticky, red, tart and complicated it was an important source of C for Amerindians. Za’atar is using the big anthocyanins (plus sesame and some desert aromatics) as a way to make things taste like they used to in the old days.

“Yesterday I started composing a Randy Dangerbart joke involving his deviated septum, but it ended up on the cutting room floor.”

I’m sorry, but it’s a chuckle, not a choice. My right-to-life principles, when it comes to humor beings, are absolute: A joke, once conceived, should be delivered.

After all, that joke could grow up to be President! It’s not like it hasn’t happened, look at Bush. And that one wasn’t even a funny joke.

I won’t deliver it, Mooser. The three or four jokes in that vein that saw the light of day took alot out of me, and probably fell on a very narrow audience.

“I won’t deliver it, Mooser.”

Probably, in the end, the most compassionate decision.

I’ve got your “your barn theatre figure” right here, bub! Dershtikt zolstu veren!

I should write a play about it, and call it “The Old Crock and the Alter Kocker”

MAKE! IT!! HAPPEN!!!

Then submit it to the Fringe festival.

I’ve got your “your barn theatre figure” right here, bub! Dershtikt zolstu veren!

Those Ross sisters were real humdingers! This is present-day, Moose, but I figure you’ll dig it- it has that old-timey vibe.

I like where this thread is going.

Thanks B4

OT- I survived my sixth Moondance Jam and it was a blast as usual. bbkf, paleo, if you have never been there the vibe is like one big family with a giant fucking stage with people like Slash jamming in the backyard. Highly recommended.

Of course, sometimes a joke miscarries, and it just has to be accepted. You can make up another one, or if circumstances forbid that, adopt an unwanted or orphaned joke. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m glad my wife and I decided to have as many jokes as possible. We’ve enjoyed watching them grow, seeing then mature, spending time with them, and I look forward to having them all around us in our golden years.

Mooser, not to be a drag, but I aborted the joke. It was unviable.

You could spawn one for yourself, though. Here are just a few Rodney Dangerfield one-liners.

All you gotta do is wingnutize one, with a side of Breitbart.

This booze-addled notion was further inspired by tsam. I was gonna slink away and let it die, but Mooser keeps riffing on it.

I feel that we are very different people who share a vanishingly-short fuse when it comes to free-association.

“Mooser, not to be a drag, but I aborted the joke.”

It can’t be helped sometimes, even if you use boff control to avoid bigoted or sexist jokes.

“vanishingly-short fuse when it comes to free-association.”

Association is free, but my wife paid $75 for that old crock? What a world.

Mooser, is this the kind of crock you bury kimchi in? Would a moose head fit in it? Just wondering….

U2 should do a concept album and tour that resurrects this look and sound.

Only if they find the kid who posed for the cover of their first album, take a photo of him shirtless as the new album cover and call it “Man”.

Zerohedge

25 Facts About The Fall Of Detroit That Will Leave You Shaking Your Head

She ruled that Detroit’s bankruptcy filing violates the Michigan Constitution because it would result in reduced pension payments for retired workers. She also stated that Detroit’s bankruptcy filing was “also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy”, and she ordered that a copy of her judgment be sent to Barack Obama. How “honoring the president” has anything to do with the bankruptcy of Detroit is a bit of a mystery, but what that judge has done is ensured that there will be months of legal wrangling ahead over Detroit’s money woes.

It will be very interesting to see how all of this plays out. But one thing is for sure – the city of Detroit is flat broke. One of the greatest cities in the history of the world is just a shell of its former self. The following are 25 facts about the fall of Detroit that will leave you shaking your head…

Must reading.

candians out-nice minnesotans during the world’s nicest concert…

The fact is, Obamacare is terribkle and Americans hate it, because it takes freedom away and is biased towards poor takers and will punished hard wotrking makers instead. Why should I pay for more crack babies for a poor black lady who is not working and on drugs and is fat, like they all are?

candians out-nice minnesotans during the world’s nicest concert…

No surprise there, Minnesota nice is still American nice. The Canadians are in a class of their own.

FUCK THAT SHIT.

FUCK THAT SHIT.

Nice try, nice guy!

Only if they find the kid who posed for the cover of their first album, take a photo of him shirtless as the new album cover and call it “Man”.

This project is really coming together. I hope U2 is paying attention. I’m pretty confident whatever else they’ve got in the works should be scrapped.

i think my favorite part about the u2 clip was bono’s combination elvis and mick jagger…

I’m pretty confident whatever else they’ve got in the works should be scrapped.

I’ve been saying that since the one after The Joshua Tree.

i think my favorite part about the u2 clip was bono’s combination elvis and mick jagger…

I liked Larry Mullen’s red plastic jacket.

I’ve been saying that since the one after The Joshua Tree.

**SNORT**

I liked Larry Mullen’s red plastic jacket.

right? his outfit totally matched his drumkit…and the flipped up collars…!

right? his outfit totally matched his drumkit…and the flipped up collars…!

Those flipped-up collars signified insouciance, who’d a thunk they’d become so earnest later in their career?

I don’t think I’ve heard an entire U2 album since The Joshua Tree. I did see Rattle and Hum in a theater.

The thing that struck me about the teenage U2 video was the Edge’s standard rock guitar solo. Does he ever do that, since roughly then?

Larry Mullen. Le Sigh. Le Rrrrow!

Larry Mullen. Le Sigh. Le Rrrrow!

It’s the plastic jacket, isn’t it?

The thing that struck me about the teenage U2 video was the Edge’s standard rock guitar solo. Does he ever do that, since roughly then?

Gotta start somewhere… he musta developed his own style before the release of “Boy”, lotta harmonics, lotta effects pedals.

I did see Rattle and Hum in a theater.

i worked at the local movie house when this came out…i had the hugest crush on bono at the time…guess how many times i watched it…

Hush! (OK, he looks a li’l doofy in that video but he would have been … 16, 17?)

re: The Edge’s (and everyone else’s performance) in that video, I suspect some timid TV exec took his pedals away and told the sound man not to get creative. Compare it to 11 o’clock Tick Tock and Touch, which were released two years later. (Yes I was a huge fan, don’t mock me.)

Credit certainly goes to the producer (can’t remember his name) but I find it really hard to believe they stumbled on that style within a really short window of time.

“Those flipped-up collars signified insouciance”

I’ve always wanted some of that, but learned early I shouldn’t try and evince qualities I can’t pronounce.

I suppose if a crock will make kraut it’ll make kimchi. But others here are much foodier than I, and will know exact details.

Does anybody know why I’m reminded of this hoary old jest?

The Jr. High School receives a phone call, and the caller says: “Johnny won’t be coming to school today, he’s sick”
“Who is this speaking?” asks the traunt officer.
“Oh, this is his mother”

This is the original of 11 o’clock. Despite the art shown, it was released on a single, not on Boy.

(Anyone who objects to me wonking about this can blame whoever brought them up.)

There are shit streaks on my screen from all the Dances With Badgers.

It’s a 2 Step. It should be a 2 Stop.

Kthx.

it was released on a single, not on Boy.

And awesomely included on Under a Blood Red Sky

(Yes I was a huge fan, don’t mock me.)

I was and am a huge fan–all mockers: Junk punch inbound.

I was and am a huge fan–all mockers: Junk punch inbound.

hear, hear!

Shake, I’m with you and tsam. U2 had a really distinct sound back in the day, and even their later efforts reveal a desire to move on musically, rather than sitting on their laurels.

Can’t be hatin’ on Boner and the boys.

U2 had a really distinct sound back in the day

3 chords and the truth…

Didn’t this “Bono” person attempt at one time (we all have our lapses) to sing “standards”? Or do I have him mixed up with Rod Stewart?
It would not behoove me to mock that which I know so little of.

I suspect that I would really like at least parts of U2’s more recent albums, if I got around to them. And I’ve never minded earnestness, in art or otherwise, when the material is good.

“And I’ve never minded earnestness, in art or otherwise, when the material is good.”

In some cases, it’s wildly important to be earnest

I knew I wouldn’t be the only one who thought they were dancing. (Who does calisthenics anymore?)

Signed, Epstein’s Muddah.

Credit certainly goes to the producer (can’t remember his name) but I find it really hard to believe they stumbled on that style within a really short window of time.

Martin Hannett.

If you kind of suck at guitar and you get a delay pedal, you quickly notice that you can fill in a lot of space that might otherwise be mistakes. If you stick to a regular tempo (and you can maintain that tempo) you sound better and bigger. Is it Twilight on Boy where there’s a regular-ish guitar solo? It kind of sucks.

The triplet echo he eventually relied on is easy to notice when you’re fooling around, but the crucial step is being clever enough to write songs around it.

Eric from Star Pimp did good echo.

Shake, I’m with you and tsam. U2 had a really distinct sound back in the day, and even their later efforts reveal a desire to move on musically, rather than sitting on their laurels.

I lost them after The Joshua Tree (and like most of Rattle and Hum–especially the appearance of BB King who is undisputable a GOD). It’s not that I had an issue with what they were doing, I just didn’t like it much.

“U2 had a really distinct sound back in the day”

During my combat missions, just before going into bad-guy territory, I’d put the earphones from my cassette player up under my headset and play “New Years Day”.

Didn’t this “Bono” person attempt at one time (we all have our lapses) to sing “standards”?

He did a recording with Sinatra, though I’m pretty sure they were in separate studios. The band also did a cover of Night and Day.

“During my combat missions, just before going into bad-guy territory, I’d put the earphones from my cassette player up under my headset and play “New Years Day”.”

Gosh, can’t help thinking (please forgive me for it) that “combat” usually refers to a situation in which the two sides have comparable resources.

and “bad guy territory”? Is that where Zimmerman was? Well, if that’s all the distinction you need, have at it.

During my combat missions, just before going into bad-guy territory, I’d put the earphones from my cassette player up under my headset and play “New Years Day”.

No Ride of the Valkyries?

If you kind of suck at guitar and you get a delay pedal, you quickly notice that you can fill in a lot of space that might otherwise be mistakes. If you stick to a regular tempo (and you can maintain that tempo) you sound better and bigger. Is it Twilight on Boy where there’s a regular-ish guitar solo? It kind of sucks.

The triplet echo he eventually relied on is easy to notice when you’re fooling around, but the crucial step is being clever enough to write songs around it.

While it’s fun to improvise with delay, the real potential is in composing with it, like The Edge does … I can’t imagine how people like him muddled along before the devices had a foot-tappin’ button to capture the tempo. Twisting a knob to get synchronized echoes sucks balls.

I bought myself one of these for Christmas and I’m happy with it. Need to fool around with the looper more.

Is it Twilight on Boy where there’s a regular-ish guitar solo? It kind of sucks.

A ton of his solos (minus the slap back delay) were pretty bad. But I think he did a fantastic job of learning how to use that delay (especially on Unforgettable Fire–my personal fav). It made a sound all his own and I love it. I swear guys like Tom Morello (Rage) and Adam Jones (Tool) were influenced by that.

I bought myself one of these for Christmas and I’m happy with it

JEALOUS! I love tc’s gear. Good SHITE.

One of my x-country teammates turned me on to U2’s first album as a Junior in high school. Still love that shit. Was the soundtrack for a couple of seasons in the early eighties.

Just got a proper laptop to replace the basket-case, (the tablet not being a proper blogging platform) so I am stoked….efficiencies will be maximized…Mockery, junk-punching, satire, hyperbole, and Zambonie driving as well as Mangoe collecting forays will prove more fruitful.

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I am firmly in the “No sir, I don’t like it” post-Joshua Tree camp. It didn’t help that my first encounter was the video of Desire. What the flaming pox infected fuck was that?

Since then, they have released a couple of songs that I will listen to, but I don’t see buying anything else.

No Ride of the Valkyries?

No “Seconds”?

It didn’t help that my first encounter was the video of Desire. What the flaming pox infected fuck was that?

Video was awful, but I loved the song. They got all manner of hell offa the gun nuts over that one.

“It takes a second to say goodbye, say goodbye, oh oh oh…push the button and pull the plug…” GREAT song.

Also loved Refugee from War.

“combat” usually refers to a situation in which the two sides have comparable resources

1. There’s no such thing as a fair fight.
2. If you get hit over Baghdad you’re just as dead as if you were hit over Hanoi or Berlin. It just takes one idiot to get lucky.

They got all manner of hell offa the gun nuts over that one.

“It takes a second to say goodbye, say goodbye, oh oh oh…push the button and pull the plug…”

Just watched Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss. It’s a good counter to an “everyone needs weapons” argument. Nearly nobody in the film should be trusted with one.

1. There’s no such thing as a fair fight.
2. If you get hit over Baghdad you’re just as dead as if you were hit over Hanoi or Berlin. It just takes one idiot to get lucky.

No shit–justified or not, war is war.

Just watched Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss

Just looked at the Wiki page for that film. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.

over Hanoi or Berlin

Or nailed by friendly fire…

Or nailed by friendly fire…

One of my greatest fears was the 18-year-old kid manning the Patriot missile site going “Aw heck. Shoot ’em all down and sort ’em out on the ground”.

Having never served, learning second-hand about the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan taught me about friendly-fire type incidents. A real wake-up call for somebody raised on TV and movies. Who knew a cake-walk* could nearly ruin your life, or get you killed? There’s no end to the anecdotes, it seems … met a guy recently whose foot got run over by a US tank. Did a real number on it. Then there’s Gulf War Syndrome. My cousin had that. Or getting electrocuted in the fucking shower because a contractor cut corners.

* Disclaimer — I don’t mean any of those wars was all cake, I’m just noting how many servicepeople get messed up under what might seem like safe-ish conditions.

Ha. They have to label the keyboard “keyboard”.

I’ve got this one. The real bonus is watching the tape spool.

There’s a lot of dead soldiers in my beer cooler – every last one of them killed by friendly fire!

Who knew a cake-walk* could nearly ruin your life, or get you killed?

Our aircraft loss rate in Desert Storm was roughly equal to that in Vietnam. The war just didn’t last long enough to rack up a large tally.

One of my former students was shot down while flying an A-10 and was a POW. He parachuted right into a bunch of tanks he’d been strafing – they beat him up pretty bad.

“combat” usually refers to a situation in which the two sides have comparable resources

Verily?

Since when and in what dictionary?

HAHA! I have all that shit in a Floor Pod Plus

Excellent tone, all sorts of delays, chorus’, noise gate, compressor, wah pedal…

It rules.

He parachuted right into a bunch of tanks he’d been strafing – they beat him up pretty bad.

I think I would have ridden the plane into the ground, rather than land on my target.

No “Seconds”?

Seconds always reminded me of Stiff Little Fingers’ cover of Bob Marley’s Johnny Was a Good Man.

Mooser said,

It would not behoove me to mock that which I know so little of.

Excuse me, but aren’t you always behooved?

There’s a lot of dead soldiers in my beer cooler – every last one of them killed by friendly fire!

*snort*
…

HAHA! I have all that shit in a Floor Pod Plus

I’ve got a Korg A2. A little hissy, but a good pawn-shop find at the time and somehow I found the floor pedal and a cable (some ridiculous seven-pin thing) to connect both.

The Edge had one!

I think most mockery is a by product of an inability to understand something. We mock right wingers because they are so incomprehensibly insane. I mock Country because I don’t get it.

Holy crap, the amount of time that has passed since I last heard of SLF can be measured in decades.

Feelin’ old and farty.

May your dog never die.

Holy crap, the amount of time that has passed since I last heard of SLF can be measured in decades.

You should visit B^4 more often, as should I.

I’ve got a Korg A2.

That looks like a pretty serious operation.

That looks like a pretty serious operation.

It’s kind of funny in its way…you can plug more pedals into the pedalboard (switches and expression).

You should visit B^4 more often, as should I.

Yeah, I know where there’s a baby biergarten.

Mmm. Nah. I like my beers full-sized. The kids today can have the baby ones while they get off my lawn.

I dunno … smallish electronic devices that can do alot of things are kindof a pain in the ass. It seems like every knob or button has more than one function. When they do that, you can’t quite “play” the device anymore.

Take synths … if you had a minimoog, you had alot of dedicated controls. You could play those and the keys in real time.

I’ve got one of these wah pedals. It’s cool that it has 8 overdrive/distortion options built-in, and they sound fine (like the Boss pedals they are, duh) but switching from one type of distortion to another is a counterintuitive pain. You have to unplug the input, turn it off, read the instructions on the back, press and hold buttons.

Broken link to a Boss PW-10 wah. Not gonna fix it.

Also: Orson Scott Card is still a miserable fascist piece of shit and needs to go eat a bowl of fuck.

That is all.

When they do that, you can’t quite “play” the device anymore.

Ah, but you can change the mode of the Floor Pod to switch effects on and off, and use the volume/wah as an expression pedal.

I also have about 30 presets of my own in there, with room for another 100 or so. Once I RTFMed, I was all set. I can set a volume for each channel, so my leads punch through, set groups of presets for a particular song (I have 3 for With or Without You by U2)…

For me, at least, this unit kicks all the shit out of a pedal board.

I am so old.

Eminently fixable on the road.

…and no, I have no idea where it ended up.
Probably in the same trash heap as the old Teac reel to reel.

HEY YOU GUYS!

Princess Kate is about to have her baby!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who knew a cake-walk* could nearly ruin your life, or get you killed?

i hear that even playing prep school football can get you devastating injuries…

SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES.

I must be really old too cause I had an echoplex.

It does look pretty good, tsam. My point about playing the devices only applies to certain situations, anyway. Your presets plus the ability to switch their sub-effects on and off is better of course.

The closest thing I have to a multi-effects jobber like yours is this thing, which has gotta be 20 years old. I’d say it’s worth the $20 that ebay seller is asking (if it works).

That is all.

A gay co-worker asked me to boycott “enders-game” OWTF, yesterday. I thought that it should not be a problem. Though I will admit that I rarely visit the movie theater, so not exactly a stretch for me.

Probably in the same trash heap as the old Teac reel to reel.

A dumpster I would have enjoyed plundering…
…

i hear that even playing prep school football can get you devastating injuries…

So your saw Tammy Whats-her-name tearing that fucker a new asshole, huh?

Wow, the echoplex is pretty much rocking my analog world right now.

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A gay co-worker asked me to boycott “enders-game” OWTF, yesterday. I thought that it should not be a problem. Though I will admit that I rarely visit the movie theater, so not exactly a stretch for me.

Me too. I also signed the pledge, which does nothing other than beef up the numbers. I encourage you all to sign it as well. (OR ELSE)

you killed ted, you medieval dickweed!

WYLD STALLYNS!

orson scott card gets pwnd…by a d00d in entertainment weekly…burn!

I didn’t realize EG was being moviefied. Can I skip it because I think it is going to stink worse than Card’s shorts after he’s been bothering goats?

So your saw Tammy Whats-her-name tearing that fucker a new asshole, huh?

indeed…and it was most excellent…

Most artists and writers instinctively dislike the idea of cultural boycotts, and for good reason. The scales should always tip toward freedom of expression — even disagreeable expression

Grrr. Meaningless and conterfactual warbling about freedom of expression. Grrrr. Just because individuals don’t want to buy what you’re selling doesn’t mean freedom of expression is being harmed. Grrr. Apologetics for boycotts not needed or necessary.

Grrr.

I don’t see how you could even make a decent movie out of Ender’s Game.

If you’ve read the book, you already know the plot twist at the end, which would kind of spoil the movie.

If you’ve read the book, you already know the plot twist at the end, which would kind of spoil the movie.

I don’t know, why read the same book twice, or watch a favorite movie more than once? Knowing how it turns out didn’t stop anyone from seeing Titanic. The more important question is, having read the book, and knowing what a turd it is, why would anyone line up for seconds?

said something worthy of derision.

Except in this case, almost the whole point of the book is the plot twist.

That’s why I’ve never watched one of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies – by the time I would have gotten around to seeing them I already knew the ending.

That’s true of a lot of books that people reread. If you’re saying there’s nothing else along the way in Ender’s game, fine.

Except in this case, almost the whole point of the book is the plot twist.

I thought the whole point of the book was excusing genocide? The book clearly showed Ender had no problem with killing people if he felt threatened. Even without the plot twist, it’s not a leap to believe that Ender might have hesitated and stayed up nights worrying about it later, but he would have pulled the trigger, or gotten close enough that someone else could have done it for him.

You may be right. I read the book a very long time ago.

I think I read two of the sequels and then gave up on Card more out of boredom than anything else.

Crazed murderer does a good deed and gets in the news. It’s enough to make you wonder about the timing.

Crazed murderer does a good deed and gets in the news.

In the Air Force we used to say –

One “oh shit!” cancels a hundred “attaboys!”

Spoilers ahead:

If Mr Card had wanted to write a novel that was more than an adolescent power fantasy, Ender would have seen through the space navy’s clever ploy early on, and either A) outright refused to go through with it or B) figure out a way to turn the tables on the people running the ‘simulation’ and save the aliens. Ender turns out to be remarkably gullible in ways that were very useful for the space navy.

Breaking News: Kate Middleton Gives Birth to Baby Boy

well, she got THAT out of the way…

One “oh shit!” cancels a hundred “attaboys!”

Precisely.

Grrr. Meaningless and conterfactual warbling about freedom of expression. Grrrr. Just because individuals don’t want to buy what you’re selling doesn’t mean freedom of expression is being harmed. Grrr. Apologetics for boycotts not needed or necessary.

Grrr.

It’s an especially weird intro as the whole piece is why he’s not going to see the movie, and the reasons are all non-artistic and not even about the film and book themselves.

This:

having read the book, and knowing what a turd it is, why would anyone line up for seconds?

Although I realize opinions will differ, perhaps quite loudly and with throwing of rotten fruit. Maybe if I’d read it when it came out it would have been exciting. And if I didn’t prefer character driven story lines. And I didn’t have a really hard time with people who can’t write believable child characters but insist on attempting to do so… Anyway, the book made me yawn and now Card is a puke so skipping the movie is a no brainer.

That’s why I’ve never watched one of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies

You had exactly one chance to see a MNS movie worth the cost of the ticket. That was the first one. Some of his later ones were OK, but not by much.

One “oh shit!” cancels a hundred “attaboys!”

That reminds me of this:

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/09/28/mean-and-regressive/

and more specifically this:

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/09/28/mean-and-regressive/comment-page-1/#comment-333273

I like to wait for news stories to develop. It saves me alot of trouble.

Take this babby. Kate Middleton’s infink (as Popeye would say) will have my attention as soon as he starts killing everyone in the line of succession. Waste no time, little guy, and nobody will suspect you.

Breaking News: Kate Middleton Gives Birth to Baby Boy

I think this would be a good time for Janusnode to helpfully offer the royal family a list of names.

I bet this baby is gonna get a super-boring name.

odds are…

Hmm, I notice the names Adolph, Ludwig and Croesus didn’t make the short list.

Baby names: Monaco Rolande, Compartmentalizehoy Julia, Mush Ions-Greasy, Reductions Dedawe, Kurides Squall, RukDenny, Elisha Tammara, Sweeperslo Sherwood, VequFruition, Bruna-Liliana Partridges, Fritz Cris, Varied, Genevieve-Shari Magnum-Sharply, Voohid Jav, Skirmishing Jenna, Michael, Scheduler, Simone Fishdajo, Kanisha-Shelley Tessie, Hipem, Cherri See, Master Sergeant Dulceheeb Kaygizo, BegKit, Woyoklees Prescott, Katelin Dinnerware, Font Despatch, Gladys-My Tenaciously, KabeAndes Crescent-Inheritors, Quickeningmeel Eve, Shifsnuggles Burst-Kiwanis, Goupasquale Croutki, Bee, Deane Croyle, Tiffani Slogans-Limped, Apparatus Renames, PewNetherlands Crossers, Miacquitting Lars-Sprawls, Shenika, Scowling Felecia, Pamila Teaspoonfuls, Eladia Alleghenies, Fishzouqu Graff, Maranda Sheequkib, Dentedmit Zoysbem, Yocornfield Eyelash-Rescuing, Tracie Teach, Kendal, Lord Nicolas, Clay Ardelia, Oppression Madalene, Devoid Badgering, Sherman-Marquita Mabdoyx, Chandeny Reddest, Coowo, Roma Statuette-Instigate, Elsie Stephany, Dieleanor Cottons, Manes Loon, Vice Chancellor Culevishe, Vita Ferdinand, Al Counselling-Rebelled, Obstructing-Frivolously, Quiycosine Carlita, Mexicanize Repleex, Keturah Grilled, Boulevardshet Cherilyn, Ines Jayvaych, Thennumberer Processor, Xayrxayy Chantel, Shoyltige Elvera, FavShapo, Alaine-Rosalia Abhorred, Lieutenant General Hemlocks-Decently, Refuels Xa, Unquoted Red, Stragglersjot Sausage-Kirkpatrick, Mikarren Ploydkuw, Vavca Kristina, Girestrainers Lavonia, Appointing Midwinter-Calamities, Roulette, Shiftykooch Lo, Thojkle, Railing Penny, Klosyoub Annett, Plaqumayv Thooqu, Outwittingzokle Coy, Juliannebol Temporarily-Operas, LahFec, Cucit Devastation, Saint Catalina-Clarine Relaxer-Smallness, Doybfa Mastery, Grant-Norris Goy, Jed Zutjo, Tractability Nilda, Dislikes Victims-Ballplayers, Sonjahaj Cleyoos, Jegpluce Ominousness-Apocalyptic, Generousness Cukib, Liberty Toney, Manufacturers Boyployd, ClooSulema.

douche

Tractability Nilda…

i’m also becoming a fan of ‘shiftykooch lo’…

This one has the zing a future monarch needs:
Manufacturers Boyployd

If God has mercy there will be an Unquoted Red who lives up to the name.

If the royals pick “Michael,” substance can claim the win. Or JanusNode can.

not the reverend, just our nymjacking fiend.
…

Meanwhile, some CNN dipshit is praising Middleton for extruding a male heir first go. Methinks I am going to miss coverage of Zimmerman’s trial.

If God has mercy there will be an Unquoted Red who lives up to the name.

Due to severe untreatable Tourette’s syndrome.

Meanwhile, some CNN dipshit is praising Middleton for extruding a male heir first go.

Brilliant I guess, uh, because now they don’t have to pass the “Succession to the Crown Act” for a long time. No reason to. Purely symbolic. Take the rest of the afternoon off, lords and ladies, this one can wait decades.

Is he a hunchback? I was hoping for a Richard the Third the Second.

Is he a hunchback?

He can be pretty much any shape they want, if they start right in on deforming him.

WRT the new baby, hope he grows up healthy, kind, and bright. Me, I knda hope they name him Richard (why, yes, I’m a Ricardian, why do you ask?)

As for OSC and EG, haven’t read it, don’t plan to, as I wanderd into an OSC panel at a con years ago and swore a mighty oath that I would never read any of his stuff because he was such an asshole. Everything I’ve read about EG has made me glad for that. The only thing that makes the movie even remotely tempting is it has Harrison Ford in it, and I’ve had a soft spot in my heart/head for hime ever since I saw him in Star Wars (before it was ANH).

All the cool people will click this link.

I’m glad that Zimmerman did the decent thing (if that’s indeed what happened) but it still doesn’t take away from his previous actions. Some people think this event gives them a reason to crow as if they won a point in some sort of game. Such people are best described as sociopaths.

Substance McGravitas said,

July 22, 2013 at 22:49

I will not be tempted. I will not be tempted. I will NOT be tempted!

Why did I click that? The horror! Oh the humanity!

I will not be tempted. I will not be tempted. I will NOT be tempted!

I almost didn’t click, because a peek at the url revealed words like “selfie,” “Glenn Beck,” and “towel.” I clicked anyway, not due to any desperate desire to be cool, and GB is safely swaddled in many layers of clothing, in a towel, in a pretentious-looking bathroom. Since the stubble makes him look disturbingly breitartian, you might still want to hold off.

All the cool people will click this link.

Am I still cool if I read hovered over the link first and read the URL?

Geraldo: “70 is the new 50”

Me: He’d better hope “racist” is the new “sexy”

Somebody tweet that for me, I don’t have a tweeter

Pics or it didn’t happen.

It’s day eight of this ten-day contest, and I haven’t won nothin’. The world is officially overpopulated … Anyway, grats to whoever scored that Way Huge Swollen Pickle.

(I would prefer a guitar, but the name, you know.)

And: wow, several years back somebody gave me a fancy knife. I didn’t pay it much mind, and lost it in the basement until just now.

It’s a cool “rescue knife” but the name seems tasteless: the Smith & Wesson Border Guard

(How the hell do I close this damned blade?… Later, folks.)

Contest? Pfft.
HERE’S a contest!

More strange pussy needed to counteract the badgers!
.

I can honestly say I’ve never read anything by Orson Scott Card, so skipping the movie will be a piece of cake. He was after my time, really—I remember his name as being one of those incredibly prolific SF writers who kept winning awards and whatnot (C.J. Cherryh is another one that springs to mind) that swept in after the New Wave™ swept me out. Never read any of them.

Rescued a victim of a traffic accident killed an innocent person in the past week or ever

George Zimmerman: 4
The entire George Zimmerman prosecution team: 0
Barack Obama: 0
Eric Holder and the entire Department of Justice: 0
Al Sharpton: 0
Jesse Jackson (total for junior AND senior): 0
Jeremiah Wright: 0
The entire Nation of Islam including Louis Farahkan: 0
The entire New Black Panther Army: 0
All “Justice for Trayvon” protesters”: 0
Piers Morgan: 0
Entire staff of MSNBC: 0
All Sadly! No commenters and bloggers, past and preset: 0

oh feck…obviously there should be a 1 after zimmerman’s name…aaargh, please to excuse my premature submission…

Well, bbkf, I’m sure he aspired (or aspires) to more justice-dealing than he’s yet accomplished — there are still alot of black kids just walking around Florida, willy-nilly. And some nice wingnuts are gonna buy him a new gun and whatever other “gear” he needs, for self-defense you know.

False analogies are the stock-in-trade of liars, idiots, and lying idiots.

Kittens, for the love of all that is holy!

you weren’t in Air Force asshole.

Well, they didn’t even have “don’t ask don’t tell” in those days…

Sorry folks, Dennis is off his meds again. I have the whole staff out with butterfly nets, and we should have him snaffled and tranqed pretty good any minute now.

Badgers are boring now. I want Pine Martens.
…or Meerkats. They would be cool.

Replacing the badgers should be pretty easy, as long as you have the animated gifs to do it.

Where would one find those, I wonder?

Amish country, Substance. Animated gifs like great-grandma used to make. They’re vastly more expensive than the mass-produced ones, but each file is different — one download per.

I’ve never been in the Air Force asshole either. Yuck

I’ve never been in the Air Force asshole either. Yuck

You suppose it’s in Colorado Springs?

you weren’t in Air Force asshole.

If I was going to make a story about being in the Air Force I would have picked something a bit more glamorous than being a B-52 driver.

I’ve never been in the Air Force asshole either. Yuck

There were many Air Force assholes. Most of them worked at Headquarters.

killed an innocent person in the past week or ever

Umm, does euthanasia count? AFAF.

The best thing ever written about “Ender’s Game”, by the person with the Disqus handle “anuran”:

It’s a “classic” because it provides buttloads of fanboy fanservice. A socially isolated emotionally crippled pathological introvert saves the world from buggery (why are the aliens “Buggers”, hmmm?) by playing video games. Meanwhile his sociopathic brother and doormat of a sister (complete with borderline incest subtext) take over the world in Internet chatrooms.

That is too perfect.

Sockpuppeting in chartrooms no less. But it was for The Greater Good Because Puny Minds Need Guidance, so totes legit.

I had forgotten the sibling subplot (perhaps because it was more tedious than the main plot). That has either been cut from the film or the film stinks worse than Card’s shorts after a solid week of goat bothering.

I had forgotten the sibling subplot (perhaps because it was more tedious than the main plot). That has either been cut from the film or the film stinks worse than Card’s shorts after a solid week of goat bothering.

I think Card added it later to pad out the original novella. That portion of the novel, along with the “simulation game” part, was virtually unreadable.

Is there anything left once you take those bits away?

snark, stupidity, snark, stupidity, snark, snark.

Charge Nurse at (Redacted) Laughing Academy said,
July 23, 2013 at 4:43

Sorry folks, Dennis is off his meds again. I have the whole staff out with butterfly nets, and we should have him snaffled and tranqed pretty good any minute now.

DA, you swore on your mother’s grave that this whole week was a ‘No DA’ week.

Your mom. Her grave. How could you?

That nurse will have to try harder to catch me again!

I belong to the 1st Church Of Breitbart the Martyr.

Is there anything left once you take those bits away?

There’s the zero-G laser tag.

The producers of the movie should add George Takei to the cast. Disqus user “Kotargnskit” suggested that, after the big twist at the end, George could come out and say, “Oh, my!”

I’m sorry I brought up irrelevant statistics, folks. Please still read my pointless ramblings here.

I’m always fear-struck whenever I see a black teenager in the street.

DA, you swore on your mother’s grave that this whole week was a ‘No DA’ week.

Your mom. Her grave. How could you?

That was me, you imbecile. Just fuck of permanently and you won’t get your pwecious widdle fee-fees hurt all the time.

Isn’t using child soldiers supposed to be wrong? Taking children from their homes, making them fight to the death to survive and and then using them as more or less expendable soldiers in a desperate war is what makes Joseph Kony of the LRA in Uganda an evil person. What freaking genius decided depending on 12 and 14 year old children was a winning strategy?

I considered the laser tag part and parcel of the sim. games. Oh well. Somehow discussion of this book moved me to start re-reading Varley’s Wizard, which Card would hate for a number of reasons. Heh.

The county I reside in has 23% black population. The city I work in, 50%, Reverend Al

If that was something that was scary to me, I’d have moved a long time ago. I don’t expect you to know that or care, but it amazes me how you assume things without knowing. These blogs basically train you to do that. Challenge you to do that.

Well, the one thing we know about you is that you’re a lying sack of shit, so I assume this is 100%, no-money-back, spun-glass bullshit.

However…even if the “Dennis” persona doesn’t find that “scary”, the frequent emergence of the “justiceisserved/ZimmerJUSTICE/etc.” persona(e) proves that they obviously do. How many of them have you got in there, Sybil?

Seriously, try to use your brain and come up with a theory for that.

My “theory”, which is a little more solid than the round-earth theory, is that you are a lying sack of shit, every fucking thing you say is the exact opposite of the truth, and as has been verified more than once, you and “justiceisserved” and all the other murder-apologists are one and the same.

Aaaaaand….poke Dennis and one of the other personalities pops out.

Dennis/Zimmy2016: If you think I would give you any way to identify me in the real world, you’re even crazier than I know you are. You are a completely psychotic fucknozzle. How many bodies have you got buried in your basement?

You guys are forcing me to post here on my iPhone. How am I suppose to get any production going if I have to defend myself here all the time?

Yeah, check out my IP, I’m not this DA loser whoever he is.

Dennis/Zimmy2016: If you think I would give you any way to identify me in the real world, you’re even crazier than I know you are.

I don’t want to identify you. I want you to come up with a bet or some way for you to put up or shut up and I’m telling you whatever it is I’ll agree to it. Any bet, any amount, any terms, even any odds.

You’re a guy that makes claims but runs away when challenged, Reverend

You guys are forcing me to post here on my iPhone. How am I suppose to get any production going if I have to defend myself here all the time?

DA, what do you suppose your mother’s grave is thinking right now?

Oh, and hey, would you mind going over to The DB and giving me a few up votes on all your various and sundry Disqus identities. Already have a few Fromm the libs there, yours would be icing on the cake.

Just die in a fire, asswipe. I don’t care who you are or how many personalities you have, I just want you to fucking go away. If all you murder-apologist trolls are not the same, take it up with Provider or Cerberus. They have verified more than once that you are, and I’ll sure as hell believe them before I’ll believe you.

Badger replacement possibility: https://imageshack.us/a/img8/1133/kenya.gif

We care a lot, little troll.

They have verified more than once that you are, and I’ll sure as hell believe them before I’ll believe you.

And I’ve called bullshit on them both and would make the same bet with them and/or supply any information. I guess, I mean, I know nothing about this stupid phone, but I figure someone here knows something.

First

Badger replacement possibility

Is that a self-portrait, tig?

Nah, it’s from weebl’s Kenya video, though it is a pretty fair likeness.

Just die in a fire, asswipe.

No, Dennis, don’t do that! I have a special dynamite-packed dildo here for you.

So when you go fuck yourself, you can be ‘coming’ and ‘going’ at the same time.

I like that the gif is labeled Kenya.

We care a lot, little troll.

Hmmm. I wonder what that will link to…?

Well, it’s my day off, so I think I’ll be heading to Manhattan to see this. They’d better have some X-Ray Spex on the soundtrack.

“Anti-art was the start.”

Kittens.

I don’t have a life. Please be nice to me because of my limited mentality and my insistence that my iPhone can’t be traced back to the same source as Denny baby.

I wish some of you fuckers would get a room.

Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’
Though their heads are swollen,
Keep the badgers rollin’
Rawhide!

Good lord. It’s badger city up in this joint.

Y’know, with all the exercise the badgers are getting, you’d think they’d be skinnier.

It’s badgerific!

♬…about Transformers cuz there’s more than meets thuh eye…♫

you libs are full of compassion for fags and darkies, yet you have zero empathy for the morbidly obese.

It’s no joke when even crack-addicted hookers refuse to sleep with you.

I think I’m going to back to the topic of all the poutrage of Tsaenaheiubdleijv on the cover of Rolling Stone. If you’re not a complete moron, the idea of that pretty boy turning into someone who planned and executed a terrorist attack is fucking terrifying.

I’m going to have to proclaim that everyone who is throwing a BF over that cover is stupid and needs to shut the fuck up.

I’m in Greenville SC today. Seems nice enough.

I got “bumped” off a Boston trip (they needed to train somebody) so I picked this one out of the open trips.

Normally I wouldn’t be able to hold this trip because it goes pretty senior.

Can’t speak for anyone else, but I would think a “healthy relationship” with someone you know only online would consist of interacting with them in a normal, conversational way rather than following them around from blog to blog, pasting the same moronic diatribe over and over, and making childish speculations that say more about your own sexuality than it does about theirs. I suppose there may be more to it than that, but that would be a good start.

Mornin’ tigris

(it’s morning for me, I just got up)

Hellboy speaks.

Only been to Greenville for shows at the Handlebar (good sound, good space). It’s not as bad as large swaths of SC.

Howdy, Major. You should get some brunch before it’s time for brinner…

Linky no workee, Substance. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/07/23/pacific-rim-star-issa-punch

There are some chuckle-worthy mangoes at that link, and more are bound to ripen. The consensus is that Ron Perlman is ugly and stupid, or maybe even stupid because he’s ugly. I say he’s laffin’ all the way to the bank, and seems unafraid of a wingnut boycott.

Another cowardly liberal citing violence. Hehe.

Wow. Imagine if the pampered punk had received a few visits from the IRS?

Imagine that conservative groups received visits from the IRS. Or were singled out or inconvenienced in any way.

Hellboy speaks.

Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Niewartian eliminationism (mouth-punchism at least!) at its worst. Shame on you libs.

Also any program that didn’t involve punching EVERY Republican congressman in the mouth would be woefully incomplete.

If you’re not a complete moron, the idea of that pretty boy turning into someone who planned and executed a terrorist attack is fucking terrifying.

Sorry, are we just now realizing that people (regardless of how they look) can turn into some nasty fuckers? Malvo and Williams. Tim McVeigh. Please rank their prettiness and then discuss how that relates to their propensity to commit mass murder.

And America hasn’t been exactly stuffed for serial killers has it?

Maybe I’m just old, but I’ve seen too much nasty shit to feel terrified by one more nasty fucker.

Ted Bundy is said to have been very charming and handsome. That made it easier to approach his victims.

I think people’s bad reaction to the cover had two facets: one was visceral, which can’t be helped and most people recognized was irrational, the other was worry about the glorification aspect, in that folks think that the glamor shot RS cover might provide that much more incentive to the next guy. At least that’s the impression I got hearing the talk about it on Boston radio.

OT (hah!); evidently it’s National Hot Dog day, foodie friends are posting some tasty looking pups.

Well, the one thing we know about you is that you’re a lying sack of shit, so I assume this itis 100%, no-money-back, spun-glass bullshit.

While personally I find this hilarious, and understand the acrimony that inspired it, a goat has been seized, a pelt placed upon a wall as a trophy….I hope a drift has been observed and targeted for acquisition.
…

Re: National Hot Dog Day

The other day I ordered a chili dog from a food truck, and it came with a very generous helping of mayo on top. I like mayo, but that wasn’t necessary, and how was I supposed to know to read the fine print, or whatever, and say “no mayo”? (But I’m the type of guy that has trouble giving anything back, so I thanked them and ate it.)

Provider_UNE said (July 23, 2013 at 21:10)

Oooh, cryptic

You’ll never find me coming out of any of Dennys’ smelly orifices.

mayo on a chili dog seems a bit over the top…sour cream i could prolly go with, but not mayo…

At least that’s the impression I got hearing the talk about it on Boston radio.

So the thinking boils down to “But for putting that bad guy on the cover of Rolling Stone (versus all of the other places bad guys get press) the next bad guy would have stayed at home playing video games.”

Which, makes no sense of course. When dealing with triggering events, any coverage is enough to make the next person move from planning to execution. Mental health professionals’ were concerned that coverage of Kurt Cobain’s death would trigger more people who had been thinking about committing suicide to do so. Did it? I would bet on it. Do we want to say RS shouldn’t have covered his death? I don’t.

OT (hah!); evidently it’s National Hot Dog day, foodie friends are posting some tasty looking pups.

Didn’t know that before I hit Papaya King. Two dogs, one with kraut, one with NY hot onions, washed down with a mango drink

Papaya King is a remarkably iconic place to find yourself on NHD.

I guess it’s too scary to acknowledge that all sorts of things can push a disturbed person over the edge into self-harm or violence toward others. Nobody knows what does it, and if we did, we wouldn’t suppress all those triggers anyway … The biggest trigger, the typical last straw, is this cruel, unfair, and uncaring world we keep creating. But people would rather talk about video games, or magazine covers. Or, you know, how Islam or freedom-hating led to 9/11.

FWIW, Shakezula, it has been shown that little changes can stop suicides, but I think it’s a particular virulent kind of stupidity to think that a handsome face is all that is needed to convert someone into a terrorist.

I don’t think anybody was saying RS shouldn’t have covered it, just that they shouldn’t have put the rock-star glamor shot on the cover. Or one lady suggested they have that photo plus a custody or courtroom shot, to emphasize the “from this to this” story they were telling. We do know copycats occur, and people were debating how to continue to inform while minimizing that risk. Obviously there’s not one clear cut answer, I just don’t think people who disagreed with the cover choice are stupid and need to shut up.

Papaya King is a remarkably iconic place to find yourself on NHD.

Damn straight… quintessential New York dog, eaten standing up while watching passersby on 3rd Ave before catching the 4, 5, or 6.

If their main objection is the fear of ‘glorifying terrorists’ on a magazine cover that labels said terrorist as a monster, then, yes, they probably should shut up.

…in that folks think that the glamor shot RS cover might provide that much more incentive to the next guy.

I have heard and read this belief espoused numerous times, yet has it *ever* been shown to be the case?

I don’t know, but can see why some folks might think getting on a Rolling Stone cover might provide incentive. I found this interesting though non-conclusive. At any rate, I don’t think saying “you’re stupid and should shut up” is conducive to anything other than pissing people off.

At any rate, I don’t think saying “you’re stupid and should shut up” is conducive to anything other than pissing people off.

Hee hee–I know!

Forget who you’re talking to?

Forget who you’re talking to?

Why you little, you, you, you, you … gasp!

I can believe the RS cover could inspire a copycat. We should all do what we can to discourage / not promote violence. As a society we don’t do nearly enough, but I guess choosing a different cover might count as a step in the right direction. It doesn’t get at the heart of the problem.

I’m kinda surprised McVeigh has come up several times as handsome. He wasn’t ugly but none of the pictures I saw were in the least glamorous. Had a sort of methy appearance to him.

I have heard and read this belief espoused numerous times, yet has it *ever* been shown to be the case?

If someone is planning to do X and hears about someone else doing X, the second person becomes more likely to do X. It could be news coverage, it could be direct knowledge, it could be something they hear from a friend.

Where people get a little confused I think is when they believe that there’s a particular way to disseminate this information that will cause the person who is willing to commit an irrational and violent action to stop and think like a rational person.

We’re not dealing with rational people. This line of thought never happens: “Wow, even though I really want to shoot a bunch of people and I have several guns and lots of bullets and I’ve been going to the shooting range every day just so I can really shoot the shit out of a bunch of people, the last guy who did that looked really goofy in his mug shot so I’m going to stay home.”

It isn’t that the first person is being glorified or demonized or anything other than the person who is still planning hears about it and decides to go ahead and with their plan.

The point is that there is no “look” for a serial killer or terrorist. I don’t know why that representation on the cover of Rolling Stone strikes such a nerve with some people. The whole thing seems dumb to me.

I find the idea that anyone is capable of that sort of shit terrifying. It’s not about the looks, it’s about the fact that he was a seemingly normal young boy–college student, had friends, etc, turned into (their words) a monster.

I find the idea terrifying, personally.

Me summarized: The event triggers other people to act, not coverage of the event.

New Granite Countertops single released today. It’s good, it’s cheap, and we’re donating 50% of sales to the Trayvon Martin Foundation, which is more useful than arguing with dipshits on the internet, however fun that can be.

Me summarized: The event triggers other people to act, not coverage of the event.

No event, no coverage, so okay, sorta, but I maintain that there are people stupid/crazy enough to be so influenced. Nevertheless I don’t object to the RS cover. I mean, George W. Bush was on a lotta magazine covers…

I seem to remember Charles Manson made the cover of Rolling Stone shortly after being convicted of conspiring to commit all those murders.

Well, no one who does these things is what we’d call normal. Especially Dubya.

tigris said,

July 23, 2013 at 22:27

Forget who you’re talking to?

Why you little, you, you, you, you … gasp!

OMFG marry me.

Not exactly glamorous, I don’t think, but then I was like 2 when this came out

And…

George Zimmerman seems to be around when people are injured or killed.

Me summarized: The event triggers other people to act, not coverage of the event.

That’s kinda what I’m saying. Coverage matters but formative events moreso.

The other day Substance linked re: serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Terrible experiences made her that way, though they didn’t force her decisions. If (when) we see another Wuornos, it won’t be because of the Charlize Theron movie Monster, or the more glamorous Natural Born Killers. It’ll be because another young girl was abandoned and abused and started prostituting herself as a teen (or earlier) to survive, and endured violence and exploitation, and ended up quite a bit more violent than mere self-defense would require. And nobody knew or gave a fuck until long after it could’ve made any difference for her. Even dumb people pick up on when they’re considered worthless except as a commodity, a monster, a spectacle … Good, nuanced media coverage and artworks have endless potential to help matters, along with more limited potential for tragic misinterpretation.

Let’s see, if someone who perpetrated an outrage is good-looking, and makes the cover of the Rolling Stone, then someone else might be moved to do a similar act of terrorism because of the coverage the good-looking terrorist received, even if they aren’t good-looking themselves, or weren’t sympathetic to Islamic extremism before.

But, hey, let’s use the RS cover to talk about scary copycats, it’s more acceptable than saying that one looks under ones’ bed for Islamic terrorists every night.

Thank God that George Zimmerman is not good looking.

And…

That reminds me, Marilyn Manson is not a handsome man (over or under the makeup). But he must be smarter than I like to give him credit for, since he’s done much better with the ladies.

Don’t mind me, I’m just the fat straight guy passing judgment on all the other dudes. Nothing to see here.

Courtesy of Balloon Juice:

Iowa conservative Republican Congressman Steve King said in an interview with Newsmax that for every valedictorian DREAMer who has been brought to this country by his or her family, “…there’s another 100 out there who, they weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.”

Steve King’s a weird guy. So often these days, they’re not just bad, but really fuckin’ strange … I like this quote, because it makes it look as if King dislikes people with freakish musculatures brought about by repetitive exertions. Remember, folks, the influx is 1% Dreamers, 99% leg-Popeyes, and if you let them in, that 75 lbs. of grass is the last one they’ll carry over. Think about it.

Steve King doesn’t understand that the legs of these Super Smugglers can drive turbines to provide a cheap source of energy.

I bet those cantaloupe-calves are good eating. Mexican food, you know.

I kid, Latino Leg-Popeyes. Bring me your burdens.

got calves the size of cantaloupes

Some people have a real thing for melons.

Yep, if they ain’t valedictorians, them illegals are all bringing in the weed to get real Amuricans stoned and helpless before an onslaught of chili verde, chili colorado, and other dangerous Mexican cuisine.

Steve King doesn’t understand that the legs of these Super Smugglers can drive turbines to provide a cheap source of energy.

I assume he would view that as a threat to the fossil fuel industry.

they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.

Hm, wouldn’t they just drive the Subaru like everybody else bringing pot out of Mendocino?

If only Steve King could legalize the carrying of 75 pound cantaloupe-calves across the desert of marijuana while dreaming of 130 pound Mexicans.

Thank God that George Zimmerman is not good looking.

But he sure seems to make some people jizz in their pants.

Underage melons are called melonitas or charentaisettes, not calves.

And a wall won’t keep the canteloupe-calved out, they’ll just hop right over it.

Lost in the immigration debate is TERROR BABIES–WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???

I don’t see why they need to haul 75 pound bags of pot across the border. There’s plenty of the stuff being grown down in Southern Ohio.

Tigris wants to meet one of these cantaloupe-calved persons, to bounce quarters off various taut muscular, um, quarters.

With a canteloupe calf you go anywhere.

I remember a personal trainer (not mine) complaining that he couldn’t get his calves buffed up. They looked fine to me. The rest of him just made them look skinny.

DC

Hm, wouldn’t they just drive the Subaru like everybody else bringing pot out of Mendocino?

Snerk. I remember, in the 1970s, hearing about some official in Mendocino County who got in trouble for admitting the no. 1 agricultural product was pot, with grapes as the no. 2.

Tigris wants to meet one of these cantaloupe-calved persons, to bounce quarters off various taut muscular, um, quarters.

Darn tootin. The marijuana is for lagniappe.

I don’t see why they need to haul 75 pound bags of pot across the border. There’s plenty of the stuff being grown down in Southern Ohio.

They are an inscrutable people. Nobody really knows why they come here.

Or: There’s plenty of stuff being grown down south, too, and the means to ferry it.*

*Many years ago (my standard intro.), I was relaxing (as in Relaxin’ at Camarillo) on the porch at Lost Heads Ranch in Desert Hot Springs, California. A fellow reprobate pointed to a skinny speed-freak, newly possessed of a pot-belly upon rediscovering food, moving about in the dusty sunlight before us.

“Look at the getaway sticks on that bird!”, he exclaimed, not at all ironically.

CRA said,
July 24, 2013 at 1:42

I remember a personal trainer (not mine) complaining that he couldn’t get his calves buffed up. They looked fine to me. The rest of him just made them look skinny.

I was always told that the reason I had no calves was my 1/8 (1/16?) Choctaw ancestry—the muscles form a flat sheet instead of a round bundle.

Of course, your average Latin American has more Native American blood than that, so could it be King doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Naahh…..

my 1/8 (1/16?) Choctaw ancestry—the muscles form a flat sheet instead of a round bundle.

That — and nothing else — explains my arms. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

It was the Agricultural Commissioner who made that pronouncement about pot being the #1 crop in Mendicino County, AFIAK he didn’t have to resign or had any action taken against him for being honest about the subject.

CRA said,
July 24, 2013 at 3:17

my 1/8 (1/16?) Choctaw ancestry—the muscles form a flat sheet instead of a round bundle.
That — and nothing else — explains my arms. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Ha! Never occurred to me! Unfortunately, the trait only applies to the calves as I understood it. But most people won’t know that….

It was the Agricultural Commissioner who made that pronouncement about pot being the #1 crop in Mendicino County,

It’d be interesting to know how many County Ag Commissioners could say the same thing, if they were honest—especially in California.

Of course, if it were legal it wouldn’t be nearly so valuable. Makes you wonder how much money the industry plows back into keeping the drug war going to maximize their profits.

Yeah, even in the boondocks we can do better than Mexican schwag. Shit, you can get Canadian hydro-weed easier (and MUCH better) than that.

Kittens.

Kittens.

Kittens.

Kittens.

Kittens.

Please, pay no attention to me. The nights are the worse, when I’m alone and suicide seems like a reasonable option.

The marijuana is for lagniappe.

Who’s he?

The marijuana is for lagniappe.

Google Translate strikes again—that should read: “The long nap is for Mary Jane.”

Kittens.

Friends, I remain a bit knackered by the fusillade of racist bullshit triumphalism that has transpired recently, though try my best, in the interim, to keep the place fit and trim.

There is a sociopath among us. Please to be pretending that it doesn’t exist. There may actually be two, as well as the numerous sockpuppets employed by he who not only has no job of any real character, but must not be named.

Feeding it is a form of masturbation at this point, and while I have no truck agin’y ‘bation, I imagine that if I wanted to enjoy content in that context I might pony up the skrilla for a password…
…

Sorry, Dennis, I’ve decided you are no longer worth the effort to respond to anymore.

Have a good life, if you can.

I can only speak for myself but I’d be perfectly happy with a dumb photo of a wingnut (BIRM) and a request for captions.

I can only speak for myself but I’d be perfectly happy with a dumb photo of a wingnut (BIRM) and a request for captions.

Wouldn’t **hint hint** tumblr **hint hint** be the perfect platform for that?

I have no truck agin’y ‘bation

Yar, it’s like that time an open-minded pirate caught me “walkin’ the plank.”

The post! She is new!

Wouldn’t **hint hint** tumblr **hint hint** be the perfect platform for that?

By gum old chap it would!

Ahem.

Caption Contest at my place. Guest of honor: Victor Hanson Davis.

Trolls … should really think carefully before they come to my house to play.

Sorry, Dennis, I’ve decided you are no longer worth the effort to respond to anymore.

If only.

That implies that the last five years you’ve been obsessed with every sentence I’ve ever written anywhere, that you felt it had been worth the effort. As P-UNEy correctly termed what it is for you, you’ve essentially made a vow to quit masturbating. What do you think the odds of that happening are?

With a canteloupe calf you go anywhere.

How can that be when you can’t elope?

“I want you to be ANDREW BREITBART”

Funny, I kinda want the same thing too – since his two notable accomplishments were (1) being an utter dickbag and (2) dying of a heart attack, AND the average Breitbart reader already has (1) on lock… 😉