Do You Even Know How to Analogy?
Joe Nocera, the Motherfucking New York Times:
Obama’s Bay of Pigs
I don’t know why I didn’t do this ages ago. I mean, the New York Times is a distinguished newspaper with a long track record and while their conservative pundits might be embarrassing at best, they are at least trying to look semi-coherent. For those who’ve been seeking shelter from the ever-shrinking tide of Endless Obamacare posts, this seems like a safe harbor.
Now, of course, as I write this, I haven’t done more than look over the title and I haven’t even selected my image for the post yet, but I’m sure that’s not at all a foreboding warning of what’s to come.
So what’s today’s post about anyways?
Shorter:
- The Obamacare rollout is exactly like the Bay of Pigs invasion. When it’s not worse.
Son of a diseased congressman.
Of course, because apparently blocking Obama from having literally any accomplishment, no matter how small, compromised, or based on old Republican wishlists is literally the only thing conservative money men care about anymore.
Trying in vain to retroactively tarnish the first black president in the hopes that it will wind back the clock and make it so it never happened and prevent it from ever happening again.
Listen, you deluded nutcases. Obama is here to stay and Obamacare is done and passed. And the longer you try and pretend that there is a massive movement of people who are furious that they can’t get ripped off anymore or that an online service on launch day is acting like an online service on launch day, or that major medical programs have a processing time thanks to all your “are you absolutely sure you’re not secretly a rich person” poor person dicking laws are some global evil on par with MechaHitler, the more you guarantee that your bankrupt philosophy will be tossed into the dustbin where the Whigs reside.
Which, on that thought, yes, keep whining about Obamacare. It’s super terrible bad and people will totally agree with you if you just repeat the same talking point another four trillion times.
Oh, and just in case you thought the shorter couldn’t actually be his entire point?
Read it and weep:
So far, at least, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has been President Obama’s Bay of Pigs. Led to believe that the preparation for Obamacare was on track, Obama was blindsided when that turned out not to be the case. The website where people are supposed to enroll, HealthCare.gov, is a train wreck. People with individual policies saw that they were set to be canceled — and then couldn’t enroll in Obamacare because the website had collapsed. In other cases, people discovered that even the least expensive plan available to them under Obamacare cost more than their old plan. And on and on.
He makes at least a six figure salary to produce work this hacktacular. Meritocracy, bitches!
Also?
Eighteen months after the Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy was confronted with the Cuban missile crisis. Once again, the generals in the Pentagon wanted him to respond militarily, a route that was likely to lead to war with the Soviet Union. But this time, he trusted his own judgment, took a different path and defused the crisis. He had applied the lessons he had learned from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban missile crisis.
Bay of Pigs : Obamacare :: Cuban Missile Crisis : ?
I’m going with a stuck drawer in the White House filing cabinet.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. All Your Obamacare Is Belong to Obamacare. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
On the “Republican wishlists” point — there have been some good threads about this recently at LGM, this one being the most relevant.
Oh, and let’s see:
Bay of Pigs : Obamacare :: Cuban Missile Crisis : BENGHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH(!)ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Wait, no, that doesn’t work… I have no idea.
Alex, I’ll take “Incredibly bad analogies” for $500.
Joe, lissen up here: Not only did you make the worst analogy EVAH you used incorrect and misleading information to do so.
The website where people are supposed to enroll, HealthCare.gov, is a train wreck
Report: HealthCare.gov Enrollment Continues To Accelerate
People with individual policies saw that they were set to be canceled by the insurance companies.
A few People discovered that even the least expensive plan available to them under Obamacare cost more than their old plan. Many more people have gotten better coverage for less.
And on and on.
Yeah, you do go on and on with the bullshit, Joe.
Readying for Snowpocalypse 2013 OBS?
Bill Clinton’s PENIS.
Health-care related blogwhore in tribute to a dead friend and her mate: http://houseofsubstance.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-repost.html
I always have beer, so I’m always ready for Snowpocalypse. How ’bout you? You’ll probably have a good view of the inevitable traffic carnage, huh?
OBUMMER WENT ALL HIROSHIMA ON THE HEARTLAND REAL AMERCIANS.
That’s how you do a hyper-hyperbolic analogy, bro. Get your head in the game.
I’ve been guilty of comparing Obama to JFK, too. Both had a big mandate, which they weaseled out of by claiming the conservatives kept blocking them (bullshit), they pussy-footed around for their first terms, and seemed content to rest on their laurels once elected. (JFK vindicated his Irish tribe and kept the seat warm for Bobby, Obama ran the bases for the next black contender) Beyond that, neither had a plan for what came next. They both had issues with inexperience, too: Jack was scared shitless by that old fox Khrushchev; Obama is easily muscled around by Netanyahu.
You’ll probably have a good view of the inevitable traffic carnage, huh?
Camera is ready.
But it can’t possibly be as good as this epic scene. That’s me and Vasco on the right at the ten second mark.
That was awesome. It’s like the car is stolen and they just don’t give a shit.
That could have been a clip from The Simpsons.
Oh man, I remember seeing that at the time! I especially like the subie wagon “Meh, I got this… OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITICANTSTOPWTFBBQ!”
Magnificent.
It is particularly pleasant to watch ice storm vids on an 80F degree day.
Aw, man, Madiba just died. We’ve been expecting it and he was 95 after all. But he was probly the only politician I ever really loved. The whole country will be in mourning tomorrow but it is also a personal sadness for a lot of people, like me. So yeah, grieving.
So sorry for your/our loss. It won’t be just SA mourning him.
He had a good run.
Seconded. The world lost a great man.
Thrid.
To what? Operate a server?
Good thing those generals gave up dispensing bad advice.
He had applied the lessons he had learned from the Bay of Pigs
This explains why the US stayed out of the Vietnam quagmire.
It is as if brain-scan researchers are trying deliberately to piss off Cerberus.
I told my Ethopian roommate about Mandela’s death and she was non-plussed. I expected more of a response, but then again, she isn’t even close to South African. (but on the other hand, I’m a white American and I cared)
He had applied the lessons he had learned from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban missile crisis.
Since those two things were such similar lessons, it’s GOOD DAMN THING.
He had his problems, but JFK knew how to supervise web designers.
Pup: I stll remember that epic vid from the first time. It has lost none of its lulz six years later.
Suezboo: He was beloved around the world and inspired people everywhere. I especially loved his smile.: Instead of bitterness and anger, he embodied reconciliation and looking to the future. A great man with endurance in prison … and now endurance in the world’s memory.
Dennis: The moritorium is a decent act … in keeping with the spirit of the man. Sadlyburg–well me at least–thanks you.
But he was probly the only politician I ever really loved.
He was one of the very few in history that earned it.
Yes, I agree the whole world should be mourning – I am/we are grateful for the empathy.
He was almost the last of our Founding Fathers – only one still ticking over is the Arch – Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Dennis : That is a nice thing to do. Appreciated.
I’m truly amazed he lived to be 95 years old after the way he was treated in prison. He was made of tough stuff.
Hmm, did my only arrest involve being hauled off for trying to get certain investments out of South Africa? Why yes I believe it was, and I’ve gotten away with everything else.
Presidential vetoes don’t get overridden often in the US, but when Reagan vetoed sanctions against South Africa, congress stepped up and got the job done.
That felt really strange to say–Congress doing something.
Reagan called Mandela a terrorist and furnished arms to the Contras.
Fuck him with a rusty chainsaw.
Good for you, Sub! (Fwiw, Hampshire was the first US college / university to disinvest. In 1977. Buncha libruls.)
tsam: I was ecstatic when the override happened. A rare bright moment in the Reagan years.
Scribe: Cheney, too. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/dick-cheney-nelson-mandela-terrorist_n_4394071.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
The only time I’ve ever been arrested was in 1987, protesting my college’s (the University of Colorado’s) investment in companies with large holdings in apartheid South Africa.
Not that that was the only illegal thing I’ve ever done, but the only time I was arrested… and in fact, I don’t think staging a “die in” in the CU Admin building was truly illegal, just annoying. (Intentionally so, I admit.)
Oh, and one of the protest signs I created for the event made the front page of the Denver Post, and was labeled “Orwellian.” It had a crudely drawn picture of a dark-skinned leg and foot, and an unshackled ball and chain, with the slogan “Slavery is Cheap; Freedom is Priceless.”
Really? Orwellian?
Fuck you, Denver Post.
Anyway, the whole protest campaign, which included some rather large marches on campus in Boulder that brought out armored police and tear gas, ended with the “cool kids” of the protest storming the conference table at a Regents’ meeting, decimating any chance of negotiating with them. I learned a few lessons there.
1) The press *always* gets key facts wrong in any story, no matter how simple the story is. And very few people realize this.
2) The most charismatic person in a rebellious group is likely a government plant. It was this time… the guy graduated and went to work for the FBI.
3) Most of the “cool kids” weren’t in it for any principles, unless you count politicking and social ladder climbing as principles. I’m convinced this applies to most everybody practicing and covering politics from PTAs and school boards up to the US Congress and White House.
4) “Hippie chicks” dig men who are passionate about causes. To this day, I have an uncommon appreciation for female axillary hair.
Mandela, your devotion and vision made the world a better place, with the epicenter in the country you love, by freeing your own people. I can’t imagine a more beatific legacy than that. You’ve earned a preeminent place in history many times over. Bob bless you.
Bill Clinton’s PENIS.
Looks to me like he drew more assholes* than penises.
Vonnegutian assholes, notably.
I can see the leader of the free world sitting in a meeting, wishing he could use the word, but can’t. Instead, he doodles the symbol…
Wonder who the asshole[s] [was|were]…
The fact is, Obamacare is teh worls worst diasster worse than Hitler and even Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS Targeting Conservatives Scandal and his creation of the NSA to spy on patriots.
Read the whole thing, folks.
What a strange comment!
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Not as strange as this one, Jeff:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rick-santorum-nelson-mandela-obamacare-apartheid
By the way–despite being a preening, ostensibly pretentious weirdo, we DO have Bono to thank for raising awareness about the issue worldwide and playing a role in ending apartheid.
I know he raised my awareness of the issue and got me on the right side of history.
Since when is doing something about poverty communism?
Obamacare = apartheid in terms of the struggle because a ton of repigs have died in all the armed conflict (which is not to say that more than a few of them aren’t willing to go there), amirite?
Conclusion: Santorum, go to hell and die, k?
I assume you’re referring to the “armed conflict” part, not the “die” part, since Santorum and his ilk seem to be quite happy with the idea of other people dying.
Santorum and his ilk seem to be quite happy with the idea of other people dying.
Yes, but he and Obama are similar chickenhawk snatchfaceassholes.
how do the fox news studios contain all of bill’s goodness and ego?! i’m sure mandela would be just overjoyed to hear that bill still ‘respected’ him even though he was a ‘communist’…i’m sure the decades in jail were worth knowing that bill respects him…even tho…
magnanimity, thy name is bill o’reilly…what an a-hole…
Is Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum taking lessons from Joe Nocera? I recall America’s Dumbest Homosexual™ once likened the struggle of the conservatives to the struggle of Jews in pre-war Germany. Perhaps they really, deep down, feel so oppressed. Fucking loons – put them all up against the wall then let Dog sort it out.
likened the struggle of the conservatives to the struggle of Jews in pre-war Germany. Perhaps they really, deep down, feel so oppressed.
i get so confused by them because i thought conservatives were NEVER oppressed or victims…it’s always just the liberals who continually play the victim/oppression card? it’s almost like you can’t believe anything they say!
it’s almost like you can’t believe anything they say!
It took you this long to figure that out?
It took you this long to figure that out?
i’ve never claimed to be a quick-study…
Well I guess this means we can lock up anti-ACA Republicans for 27 years?
Well I guess this means we can lock up anti-ACA Republicans for 27 years?
their reactions to that would be highly amusing…they certainly wouldn’t show mandela’s dignity…
it’s almost like you can’t believe anything they say!
Nope. I’m still holding on to the hope that they aren’t all disingenuous martyrs. I don’t know why, maybe it’s cuz im dum
their reactions to that would be highly amusing…they certainly wouldn’t show mandela’s dignity…
I figure we have to lock up Santorum so he won’t be embarrassed by his incredibly insane analogy. I mean, what good is a persecution complex if you don’t have a real reason to have one?
bug: Good for you! Your conclusions seem dead-center to me, btw.
At least since Tailgunner Joe. The Ruling Class (aside: terribly funny movie starring Peter O’Toole btw) needs their starving, ill, peons desperate to work at any wage to feed their families. Any attempt to overcome that state must be met with full force.
hee hee
Tailgunner.
ObamaCare is a bold surprise attack against totalitarianism that’s being systematically FUBARed by the usual cast of inept arse-clamped fuckwits?
AFAF.
Tell you what, Yanks: solemnly promise you’ll steal our chartered banking system from Eh to Zed (& promise you’ll be very very careful not to break it) & we’ll let you have the blueprints to our fucking national Medicare system at absolutely NO! EXTRA! CO$T!!!!!
That’s a double-double we can believe in, my neighbours.
jim: Sounds good! But will you throw in some steak knives?
Or a least some stakes? We have many zombies in our legislative branch. For that matter, can you ship us your entire governmental system, so we can replace this idiotic Rube Goldberg nonsense with rational government?
Throw in a couple pounds of pea-meal bacon while you’re at it. I miss my Toronto pea-meal bacon sandwiches.
Snowpocalypse 2013 update: It’s 25 degrees and there are six to seven inches (obligatory “that’s what he said”) on the ground and everybody is completely losing their shit. It’s hilarious, and very, very pretty. We don’t get this kinda thing very often.
Although I’m not looking forward to the projected 8F temperatures that are s’posed to follow this weekend. WTF nature? This isn’t the midwest!
Did you get any snow up north in Portlandia, Pupienus? Any traffic hilarity to report?
The banking thing is mysterious. How is it that they rake in guillotine-worthy profits and yet they haven’t tried to destroy Canada? (Helping America destroy itself, through banking subsidiaries and Nickelback, is a Canadian mission.)
The fact is, America has the greatest form of government ever conceived by the mind of man inspired by our God. The Declaration of Independence and our Consitiution guarantee freedom and we invented the free market system which is ecomonic liberty. But you lie-berals cntinously run tdown the greatest government in the world,m the United Snakes of America!
Glad I’m not on the schedule this weekend. Both Memphis and Indy are getting hit with freezing rain. Wrench, meet works.
Notwithstanding what Bourdain’s LEAF SUCK Layover, peameal sammies aren’t what Hogtown is aboot. Plain peameal onna kaiser with nothing on it has really only come back because of that show. Not that we don’t eat a lotta peameal here – we most certainly do – but calling it lEAFS SUCK “iconic sandwich” is pretty fake.
The true iconic sandwich of LEAFS SUCK is getting black-out drunk – smoking some crack – and then getting black-out drunk some more.
The true iconic sandwich of LEAFS SUCK is getting black-out drunk – smoking some crack – and then getting black-out drunk some more.
Rob Ford, is that you?
It’s already 8° here in Spokane, but only a dusting of snow. You guys keep that snow, k?
Every day for lunch I’d walk down to the St. Lawrence Market and get one of those sandwiches with hot peppers and spicy mustard.
Iconic or not I thought they were pretty damn good. And that was even before Bourdain had them on his show.
I want the fucking snow already. BRING IT!
80 with balmy zephyrs here in teh Okefenokee.
Yeah, I don’t think we have much choice. Not s’posed to get above freezing for a while.
We’re supposed to get 4 inches of snow today. Since it’s the first real snow of the season it’ll be Snowmageddon!
By February nobody will give it a second thought.
We got barely enough to coat the ground here in PDX. Which, being Portland, was enough to freak everyone the fuck out and bring every freeway to a standstill. Also something about a witch’s tit.
St. Lawrence South Market is pretty sweet. There, you can get the best perogies available in LEAFS SUCK outside of Roncy/Parkdale.
We get nothing until maybe Tuesday.
Annoying.
Oh, noes! I hope the crappy Oregon weather doesn’t prevent air travel! My geology professor brother and his wife are flying from Eugene–very near OBS’s in Corvallis–to KC for a Sunday memorial service for Dad, who died two weeks ago. My other brother and I are flying from Albuquerque tomorrow. (Actually we are his step-kids.) Our KC sisters were with him at the end.
He was 94. His death was a blessing in a way; he had Alzeiheimer’s and was spiralling down very rapidly; he was very, very frail physically. I think he was ready to leave; he refused food toward the end. Mercifully his end was peaceful: He went to sleep and never woke up.
I hope I die in a similar fashion; I am blessed with a wonderful and vivid dream life. I would like to die under the sky somewhere. I have sworn to myself that I will NOT die in a hospital.
Geez, I need to lighten up. Us old geezers think about death sometimes, specially old geezers with depression. S,N snark is an excellent antidote!
Mmmmm. South Market perogies…
It’s a bit of a nightmare down there right now. Union Station construction has borked up a pretty huge chunk of downtown.
ABQ had a coupla inches two days ago., Wasn’t bad except for the frigid, windy weather. It was c-o-l-d until the storm moved off! But my brother and I will catch up with it again: It’s due to hit KC about the time we land.
bbkf prolly laughs her head off when we complain about snow and cold, or try to impress one another with how bad our Snowmeggon is!
That plus I’m totes a suburbanite now. My sandwich touchstones are the shawarma at Shirin Kebab House, Falafel at Chef’s Door and Heroes at the Quarry Diner. Broadview and Gerrard still has the best Banh Mi though.
Indeed a Rob Ford special. I’m glad you call it peameal though because those of out west know that ain’t really bacon no matter what you folks back east think, it’s just tarted up ham 🙂
86 degrees, feels like 94, or so they say because it doesn’t.
Where are you that it’s 86 degrees? I’m guessing it’s not in the lower 48 United States.
77, expected to get to 81, later. No snow expected, of course.
I’m living in the tropics, Major. It’s lovely but the XC skiing is crap.
Just a quick note about White Bronco – all of the juicy wiretap info that we’re getting is because it was all included as supporting documentation to get warrants for Project Brazen 2. That process is called “Information to Obtain” and is actually referred to as ITO.
I don’t know how a glove is going to fit (or not fit) into this drama, but I am totally expecting one any day now.
Really hard to grow great lettuce too.
If it’s one white glove it’ll be the BEST SCANDAL EVER.
We get nothing until maybe Tuesday.
Annoying.
we were on STORM WATCH!!! earlier this week and didn’t get much…school got out early, but that was about it…now, THAT’S annoying…i LOVE snow days and will go home early/not come in at the drop of a snowflake…cleon can kiss my ass…
bbkf prolly laughs her head off when we complain about snow and cold, or try to impress one another with how bad our Snowmeggon is!
ha! yes…right now we are at a balmy 0 degrees (but it feels like -17!!!) and tonight’s low is projected to be -15, so with the wind, it will be about eleventybillion below* or something…thank dog that hubbkf is finally beginning to not enjoy freezing his nuts off…i keep speculating on which warm weather climate i would like to live in…
*i heard on the weather channel or it could have been one of my bar patrons talking about someplace/some year that was hellaciously cold…at one point, the actual temp was -56 below…that did not include the wind chill index…that’s just fucked up…
If it’s one white glove it’ll be the BEST SCANDAL EVER.
the hamburger helper guy?
I don’t know how a glove is going to fit (or not fit) into this drama, but I am totally expecting one any day now.
dude’s gotta keep his crack somewhere and maybe he didn’t have a balloon handy…rubber glove = next best thing!
I brought seeds for mignonette and celtuce. We’ll see!
Try anuenue; best hot weather lettuce there is.
Thanks, I’ll order some seed before my next trip up and sneak them back. NOT REALLY, GOVERNMENT! But yeah, really.
It’s nut-picking weather.
I’m living in the tropics, Major. It’s lovely but the XC skiing is crap.
guest room?
Indeed! Bring your snorkel gear!
Indeed! Bring your snorkel gear!
hey, now! i only snorkel with hubbkf…oh…wait…
It’s nut-picking weather.
indeed, but i found the first part of the comment ever so intriguing:
hey, at least the blacks had jobs and weren’t raping the white wimmen…amirite? where have we heard that noxious shit before?
XC skiing is crap.
It’s crap everywhere, not just the tropics.
It’s nut-picking weather.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Totally unironicle and junk, but the comment that follows:
Should I bring my scuba equipment? Cuz, if so, I’m like totally there.
I just measured 7.5 inches* at home and it’s still coming.**
*What?
**down.
The inmates are now fully in charge of the asylum. From “V the K” (is that one of the most absurd nyms EVAH?) at GayPutzRiot:
Should I bring my scuba equipment? Cuz, if so, I’m like totally there.
I ALREADY HAVE DIBS ON THE GUEST ROOM MISTER!
Mandela through his words showed the world what he was….a revolutionary Marxist.
Not exactly true: his words.
The diving is supposed to be pretty good.
Oh, B, you guys can all fit, it’s a big bed!
I went there to see what they had to say about Madiba but unsurprisingly they don’t seem to care.
From “V the K”
my mango hunting has led me to believe that this ‘v the k’ thing is perhaps the most odious, inhuman, icky, pukey, egotistical jackwad* of all time…
*i really wanted to call it a cocksucker, but didn’t want to insult cocksuckers in general…
Oh, B, you guys can all fit, it’s a big bed!
ooooh! pillow fight!
perhaps the most odious, inhuman, icky, pukey, egotistical jackwad* of all time
I don’t know. There’s an awful lot of competition for that title.
There’s an awful lot of competition for that title.
No shit. Even the Biebs is in the hunt on this one. Also Kanye, his wife Kum, etc…
I have a secret stash of pillows. You’ll never guess where!
I don’t know. There’s an awful lot of competition for that title.
Most of the competition are regulars at that site.
I have a secret stash of pillows. You’ll never guess where!
THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS!
Most of the competition are regulars at that site
they are awfully oogy over there…sad what self-hatred does to a person…
I have a secret stash of pillows. You’ll never guess where!
Fancy a cup of tea?
I have a secret stash of pillows. You’ll never guess where!
I might not, but I have infinite monkeys making infinite guesses.
I have a secret stash of pillows. You’ll never guess where!
They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Sometimes it’s just better to say that something totally sucks, rather than to have to come up with a lame analogy.
Dragon-King
Dragon-King Wangchuck – at least someone other tha the crack dealers is making money off of Ford 🙂
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/inside-the-satanic-rob-ford-bus-tours
Um – where gerbils are rumoured to be found?
Dr. BLT really sucks even though he enabled me to avoid laboring at analogies.
Vampires suck too, but who doesn’t love a great vampire flic? Vacuum cleaners suck, but we all need them.
Victims of vampires, you heartless bastard.
I was just asking.
at least someone other tha the crack dealers is making money off of Ford
Are you kidding? Loads of folks are making payola offa White Bronco. City’s budget is pushing 11 figures and Ford ran on a platform of changing up everythings in the budget, sometimes with privatization and sometimes with consultants who will suggest privatization. The first couple years was totes loot-a-palooza.
Sorry about that. Didn’t mean to be so negative. What I really meant was Hail Satan!
The first time I ever heard of the White Bronco was when D-KW was going ballistic over Leafs Suck mass transportation plans a few years back. Ford is turning into an epic buffoon character.
How did he get elected? What is his political base? Is it a free base?
The fact is, mandela was a Communist Socialist Fabian Marxist African and hated the USA, yet we are forced to lower are flag by his grandson.
When will real americans rise up and take there country back?
by the way, Rob Ford brought freedom and fiscal restraint to liberal biased Toronto and all the brew-ha-ha is brought by fabian Marxists Social USA haters in the media. The Real People of Toronot, the productive class not the taker artists and street people downtown, voted and hed win again if election is tomorrow. Liberals always try to ram things down are throtes and have no respect for the rule of law
Fabian was fun in North to Alaska. Didn’t know he hated the USA!
Of possible interest to locals, Georgia O’Queef, meet Slutvomit: The year in band names 2013.
That wuz fun, Pup!
Interesting post about “Real Americans”
Real Americans
Here’s an excerpt:
Disclaimer- I work at CMS so I’m biased. ACA is more than healthcare.gov which admittedly had way too many issues. A number of these provisions have been in place for almost 2 years to little fanfare.
O’Reilly had opened the conversation by saying that, though Mandela was a “communist,”. O’Reilly didn’t get the memo that he was actually a terrorist.
The Ruling Class
everybody is completely losing their shit Fenwick can confirm – the refrain in Merlin is “Bread, Milk, and Toilet Paper”
i LOVE snow days I have one wish each year and that is to wake up look out the window and know I can go back to bed
It’s a nice feeling. Since weather has gone crazy and we are getting big snowstorms more often work is less forgiving about snow days. Jerks.
When I worked near DC there was a bigger picture to consider namely how to deal with the sheer volume of Federal workers and the impacts on the roads and public transportation. Operations tended to err on the side of safety for the workers and close down. I now work near Baltimore and the criteria is whether they can get the parking lot plowed. There are quite a few people that live in PA or in more western MD counties that this needlessly puts at risk. I happen to live about 5 miles from work (and that is what say to myself when things get crazy) so it isn’t always a big deal.
Analogy:
From the root words anal and ogy, an analogy is something you pulled out of your ass that, once posted on your website, will elicit an “oh God, yeah!” or ogy response from
the rubesyour readers.See if you can tell which one is Dragon-King Wangchuck in this video:
WOOHOO! Fogo de Chao is finally opening a restaurant in
Portland. I fell in fucking love with the one in Sao Paolo but I never go to Sao Paolo anymore. Nor to any of the US cities that have one. Sooooooo excited!
I’ve been offline for a couple of days, so this is belated, but to Suezboo and any other South Africans who post or lurk—my condolences on the loss of President Mandela. (Are your presidents addressed that way for life, like ours? Well, if anybody deserves it….)
I can’t help but think the reaction from the RWNM might shock a few fencesitters into realizing what morally bankrupt assholes they are. Particularly their attempts to brand him with the “terrorist” label when all of them were such vocal supporters of Menachem Begin! (Well, Reagan was a RINO—I suppose Begin was a LINO by now.)
Fogo de Chao is finally opening a restaurant in
Portland
Is that one of those “death by meat” Brazilian restaurants?
Coach Urban Meyer – the real one – looks worried. Good. Go Spartans!
Speaking of, Leafs are going to overtime vs. the Sens in about 50 seconds.
Ottawa unable to convert overtime 4-on-1. It’s time for a shootout.
Yayyy LEAFS! Giving the fans the suspense they want by giving up a two goal lead in the third. Everyone loves shootout victories!
Reimer had 47 saves.
Go Ohio State poisonous nuts!
Go Ohio State poisonous nuts!
You talking about John Boehner?
Yesssssss! Suck on it Ohio State. Suck it Urban Meyers.
Rev Battleaxe skrev:
Anything’s possible. If you’d asked me, in 2003, whether John Cole would ever come to his senses, I’d have laughed in your face. And I certainly wouldn’t have entertained the idea that Charles Johnson might figure out what sort of star he’d hitched his wagon to. (Or rather, as the hospital porter said to Inspector Grant, I’d have found the idea entertaining all right, but not what you might call plausible.)
In the Book Shakespeare’s Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects, 19 of the pieces are from the early to mid 17th century, but the last object is a copy of Shakespeare’s complete works known as “The Robben Island Bible” (Robben Island was the notorious S.A. prison where Mandela and the leaders of the ANC were imprisoned). Sonny Venkatrathnam, a member of the ANC, was allowed only one book during his imprisonment, and he chose Shakespeare, disguising it by pasting Hindu postcards all over it, and pretending it was a religious book. He is quoted:
“About six months before my due release date, I circulated The Complete Works of Shakespeare and asked my comrades there to select a line or passage that appealed to them and sign it. All of them chose lines or passages that inspired them and strengthened the resolve for the struggle.”
There’s a photographic image of the page where Mandela marked a passage in Julius Caesar that was most meaningful to him:
“[Caesar]: Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
It gave me goosebumps. And brought tears to my eyes. I hadn’t known this story, and I literally read it for the first time a week before Mandela’s death. He was a truly great man, and Bill O’Reilly and all the other Rethugs can suck it.
(In late weather news, it’s icing down here in delightful Nowhere, VA, and I’ve filled the bird feeder twice already today. The squirrels aren’t getting it (though the raccoons have made off with the suet feeder, which I forgot to take in last night), it’s just birds, birds, birds, snorking up food as fast as they can.)
There’s a good baseball thread at LGM about Cano and Ellsbury.
Yep, they have one in Chicago. Seems odd but they actually have an amazing salad bar!
There’s a good baseball thread at LGM about Cano and Ellsbury.
damn! everybody is ditching for lgm…their comment thread boggles me, so i rarely go…one of these days i’m going to be just a lonely old lady sitting in an empty hottub…
at least if i make any bubbles, nobody will know…
This old lady who doesn’t give a shit about baseball will know, bbkf.
So, watch it, kiddo !
There’s a good baseball thread at LGM about Cano and Ellsbury.
Not a big fan of baseball. It’s been described as “three minutes of action packed into three hours”.
That’s why baseball announcers have to sit there and spout statistics at each other all day – because there’s nothing else going on.
They get a higher class of troll over there, besides the usual that’s everywhere. Not enough snark though and a total absence of TEH BUTTOCKS.
The banking thing is mysterious. How is it that they rake in guillotine-worthy profits and yet they haven’t tried to destroy Canada?
Because destroyed goods go for a much lousier price on the market, for starters.
Also I think that as yet, Canuck plutocrats are more Ferengi than Fundamentalist.
Not a big fan of watching sports, especially on TV. I’ll go to a baseball game voluntarily (but not very often), while the only two American football games I’ve been to were because a) a dorm mate was playing, and the rest of the dorm went to cheer him on (UC Davis was not a big football school – I think the only sports scholarships granted were for horse polo); and b) a HS game in Texas, to which I was dragged by family. Come to think of it, the religion of American football, with its emphasis on head injuries, could explain a lot.
I very seldom watch sports. I have the attention span of a mayfly, which makes it hard for me to sit through an entire sporting event. If I do happen to watch something it will probably be (American) football.
Major, try being forced to watch a cricket match (one game=5 days). My brother played both cricket and rugby in HS, so I have been forced to sit through both. At least I know the rules and can understand what is going on which is definitely not the case in US football or baseball. In fact, I take pride in the fact that I Was A Teenage Rugby Coach when I taught junior school.
The only sport I will watch voluntarily is tennis – fastpaced, obvious rules and not too long-winded.
Snow!
How will she have the time to run for president and save America?
I prefer her talking about the outdoors and leaving politics alone. She probably actually knows what she’s talking about in that field.
I guess “red, wild and blue lifestyle” means that anyone who doesn’t hunt, fish or shoot isn’t a real ‘merican.
Snow!
it’s about time…have fun freezing your nuts off!
This old lady who doesn’t give a shit about baseball will know, bbkf.
So, watch it, kiddo !
d’oh!
p.s. god just interceded in my aunt’s computer problem via my mom…although that caused asshat husband to go over and actually fix it, so…no, it won’t actually be fixed any time soon…
The Sportsman Channel said Monday it has hired Sarah Palin to be host of a weekly outdoors-oriented program that will celebrate the “red, wild and blue” lifestyle.
The program, “Amazing America,” will debut next April
uhhhh…didn’t she already have an outdoors show about alaska that was short-lived?
Everybody in Alaska has a TV show these days.
Between the ice truckers, the bush pilots, the state troopers, the gold prospectors, the crab fishermen and the “last frontier” people.
There are something like 15 people in the whole damn state and they’re all on television.
I’m a vegetarian but I feel eating hunted wild animals is better than factory-farmed ones. Factory-farmed animals live incredibly horrible and unnatural lives while hunted animals at least get to live a decent life before getting shot. I hate carnivores who are squeamish about eating “Bambi” but eat other cute animals. I also hate that I’m not vegan. Feels rather pointless to stop eating meat animals and still be torturing egg chickens and dairy cows.
and the “last frontier” people.
i can watch any of the alaska shows if i have to except for these ones…they are always going on about how difficult and sub-zero their lives are…then don’t live there you fucking moron…
Is that a relative of “Squirrel!” or “Ooh, shiny!”?
There are no Alaskan liberals?
Moving just isn’t always an option.
A lot of people seem to live in Alaska because they’re trying to get away from somewhere else.
My friend from the Alaska ANG always went on about the “Fortress Alaska” people as he called them.
Moving just isn’t always an option.
trust me…if i had the finances and/or a job awaiting me, i would be in warmer climes in a heartbeat…hubbkf is finally getting a little tired of the cold as well, so there is a chance that i may not die as frozen as a fishstick…as it is, i’m going to have to start saving up all my tips so i can bunk in tigris’ guest room and hope she doesn’t eventually notice that i’ve actually moved in…
A lot of people seem to live in Alaska because they’re trying to get away from somewhere else.
that is one thing i’ve noticed from the little bit of those shows i’ve watched…also, they apparently like working really, really hard for everything…right before thanksgiving we watched one about some family that lives up there and the whole show was about how their thanksgiving dinner was produced from breaking ground or hatching eggs or whatever to the finished product…i have no desire to be a pioneer…
Dennis has really run out of things to be offended by.
I hate the way you liberals “always go on about how our country sucks here in this blog”. Why can’t you talk about patriotic subjects like how the American government sucks and how a majority of the American people suck and how most of the individual states suck, too?
What was the question?
There are something like 15 people in the whole damn state and they’re all on television.
Except for the Palin family. (This week.)
A friend of mine just transferred to Anchorage. His next door neighbors in Wasilla? Guess who.
Mind you “next door” in this case means “1/2 mile down the road”.
Oh man, how could you not knock and say hi?
I can see it now:
“Knock Knock”
“Hi, I was wondering if I could borrow a cup of moose blood?”
“Knock Knock”
“Do you have any birth-control?”
Surely it can’t be long before she drops by with a hot dish or some rice crispie squares.
She’s “just folks” like that.
“It’s very important to have somebody of her stature as a personality on Sportsman because it validates the whole category for everybody,” said Gavin Harvey, network CEO.
Heh. You mean it validates illiterate assholes who wear camouflage while not being in the military. But yeah. Everybody works too, I suppose.
“knock knock”
“DRILL BABY DRILL”
Oh boy, bowchickbowbow….
Shorter LILL
DERRRRRRRRRP.
derp.
That is all.
Derp.
Here’s a nice little stocking stuffer for the junior tea-partiers in your family.
Ted Cruz Coloring Book – Yes Really
Awesome comment on the source article:
The road that we are on today is too many of those angry atheists armed with attorneys would try to take away that freedom to express faith. It’s going to end in ruin unless we do something about it.
After being reduced to a shorter, Crusty Conservative stinkyhole skrev:
I’m gonna trust the shorter on that one.
Also too:
Is that an actual Caribou Barbie word salad or a smuntfunching together of two or more of her vowel movements?
The Palin quote is real, it’s from her book on how Christmas is under attack from all sides except for the majority of the people in America who believe in Christianity.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/09/sarah-palin-atheist-joe-mcscrooges-trying-to-take-away-that-freedom-to-express-christmas/
It’s bad enough reading her in print. Actually listening to that grinding-wheel-on-metal voice of hers will have you clawing your face off.
Ya we don’t get quite so cold as y’all minnesotans here in ellenois but damn if I’m not sick of this shit
The road that we are on today is too many of those angry atheists armed with attorneys would try to take away that freedom to express faith
The only way to fight a bad atheist with an attorney is a good atheist with an attorney.
Who are we kidding? I can’t even LIFT an attorney, let alone fight with one.
I saw an EPIC Facebook flame war today.
things I learned:
America is just like Germany when that Hilter guy was taking elderly out of there homes and putting them in gas vans.
It is immoral to get Town coffee but moral to have your baby ripped out limb by limb. (ed note; No, I have no clue what town coffee is)
all us liberal fashists should mail our guns to Obama so he can “store” them for us.
Apparently liberals are low information persons
Why worry about us athiests? You can laugh at us when we’re burning in hell and you’re having sexytime with you 72 virgins and junk
If I can convert somebody TO atheism does that mean I can have his allotment of virgins as well as my own?
Hmm, on second thought, spending eternity with 144 women that nobody else would touch may not be all that great. Also, I don’t see anything in the contract that says these virgins will nescesarrily be female.
I don’t see anything in the contract that says these virgins will nescesarrily be female.
Is this Paradise you’re referring to or a SIG at PAX?
Yeah, quotin’ her words like they isn’t from a real Amurican, and makin’ fun of her war for Jesus and Christmas………..
As a last resort, dying blogs always resort to Sarah Palin for resuscitation
She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
One can only imagine the skreee! that Bamz shaking hands with Raul is gonna provoke.
Sarah’s just another Republican who can dish it out but can’t take it.
On the attack she’s the “pit bull” or the “mama grizzly”.
Come back at her and you’re picking on the poor little housewife from Wasilla.
do what she does
What’s that? Community organizer?
Still trying to figure out what she does…..
Half term governor of a state with the population of Akron?
Failed Vice Presidential candidate?
That’s the best you’ve got? Must be a slow morning over there.
And yet here you are Dennis. Here you are.
Not sure what that says about you that you have to hand out with a bunch of people that you don’t even like.
If this blog is so pathetic, why are you spending so much time and energy on it? Can’t make it trolling in the big leagues? Don’t tell me you want to reform us.
Sorry, I’m not interested in you. Maybe we can just be strangers?
She’s just so gosh darned mavericky don’t ya know.
At least I don’t think it’s still 1980 like most conservatives seem to.
If she’s so irrelevant why does Fox have her on so much of the time?
You can’t have it both ways.
If she’s relevant then she’s fair game.
If she’s not, then that’s self explanatory.
You pick.
Well let’s see, how many web hits do I get on “Cruz” and “Reagan”, oh my that’s a lot. Sure glad they’re not stuck in 1980 or anything.
You’ve changed my mind, obsessed troll! I’m going to stop having fun on a website and become the next Sarah Palin!
Just watching the Mandela funeral and reminiscing… I remember how Reagan and Thatcher insisted Mandela was a communist and refused to consider sanctions against apartheid South Africa…
I remember how Canada’s Brian Mulroney was THE ONLY prominent conservative willing to take a stand, support sanctions and condemn apartheid.
Your ignorant, racist conservative tribe has a lot to be ashamed of, Pennis.
She doesn’t beg for money yet you call her a grifter.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/02/sarah-palin-s-donors-don-t-care-where-money-s-going.html
Well, I guess grifting for others is a bit better than for doing it just for herself.
“Why is Ted Cruz the only serving US Senator at the Mandela funeral?”
Yeah, why, especially when we already sent our leader? Surely Cruz and Mandela were close friends, is all.
No, on reflection I see that he’s just seeking attention of idiots like myself, and getting it.
Hey Pennis, I think you’ve missed an email. Today’s talking point is about how us loony libs are stealing your freedum to stare at womens’ BOOBIEZ.
Do try to keep up.
Obama shaking a paw with Uncle Fidel?
RUN MEDIAGASM.EXE
What?
Really?
It was RAUL Castro?!?!?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh please.
http://youtu.be/yE8e3IVM1Xk
Seasonal depression CONQUERED.
I hate carnivores who are squeamish about eating “Bambi” but eat other cute animals I really don’t like the taste of “Bambi” or most varieties of “Nemo” either.
I’m not responsible for what may happen when you smile at me and wish me a merry…anything. #justsayin #Grinch #hashtag
It’s wonderful to see Sarah take on the War Against Christmas with such boldness, it’s wonderful that she can make money at doing the right thing and protecting American Christianity against the atheist/librul haters out there.
Speaking of Mandela analogies.
Pupienus Maximus, That clip was facepalm worthy for sure
Many of those waiting in line wore a pin that read “It’s OK to Wish Me a Merry Christmas”
On December 6, no less. However, in the spirit of the season, I retroactively wish them a Krampusnacht of not being stuffed into a sack and eaten. Also, have a joyous Epiphany.
GM gets a female CEO. Said female actually worked her way up through the company
Cheers, GM.
People also flock to Stephanie Meyers and E.L. James book signings. That doesn’t mean their work is any good. I know you’ll say it’s unfair since I haven’t read the book, but the book is probably just a rehash of the War on Christmas talking points that pop up every year. Nothing ground-breaking.
Time to link this REAL Americans entry from a few years back. I saw it again recently – was it linkeed from here maybe? My neurocognitive disorder is having a good day so whatever.
White Bronco was suppose to have a press event a few minutes from now, but it’s been delayed half an hour. I guess they are hoping that a couple cups of coffee will make him look less drunk.
He will be again doing the presser from his office, forcing the hordes of media folks to cram into a dangerously crowded hallway. And they will cram themselves there so as not to miss it when he finally resigns or makes comments about oral sex.
My guess is that he is going to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and then some pre-campaign electioneering.
Well, another half hour delay. Presser at 4. On the plus side, the delay is likely because they are moving to a better location with more room.
Apparently, he needed a presser to announce that he is still opposed to the Land Transfer Tax – one of the dreaded new taxes that evil Mayor David Miller imposed upon the taxpayers of LEAFS SUCK and White Bronco has not yet managed to vanquish.
Whoa. He’s admitting defeat. But only against the dreaded Land Transfer Tax. He’s no longer pushing for killing it since he now faces the reality that no one is listening to him. Now he’s only looking for a 5% cut to it.
BTW, you know what always accompanies conservatives talking about cutting taxes? More spending! If White Bronco gets his way, my Scarburb will be blessed with an outdoor skating rink! Um,,, w00t?
Okay, some background. This weekend Rob Ford had a sit down interview with convicted felon Lord Black of Crossharbour. During that interview he accused one of the Toronto Star’s reporters of being a pedophile. Well he got a couple questions about it, doubled down (“I stand by every word”) and then left in a huff.
Maybe they weren’t stolen. It’s been so cold they probably died of exposure then ascended into heaven.
So Christmas gives people who were going to be dicks at any time of the year a whole new seasonal way to be dicks. I’m waiting for the evidence of some organized “War on Christmas” (other than the war on the teachings of Jesus that Christians have been waging ever since the sainted Emperor Constantine), but I’m not exactly going to hold my breath.
I have some Internet friends who are “vandalizing” nativity displays. They’re adding dinosaurs to the menagerie.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that without stealing the baby Jesus you cannot maim and mutilate him.
Eeewwww, Pup is internet friends with Kirk Cameron.
Pup: I think it was linked in the comments of a Charles Pierce post that was linked in comments of a post here, but I can’t remember enough of the comment to ctrl-F it. That makes me a sad panda.
Some neighbors down the street from me have an oh-so-twee snowman nativity they put up (not yet, but soon). I keep fighting the evil temptation to add a caganer to it (the “soft serve ice cream” gag).
I just had lunch damn you OBS!
Awww, you’re welcome!
Could be worse, the baby thieves could have left a changeling.
All my liberal friends on the Internet are truthful.
Not me, everything I post on here is a lie. Including this post.
The dinosaur idea has merit.
Couple things:
This particular form of “high spirits” has been going on for a looong time – it certainly predates “Teh Librul War on Christmas.”
Second, as my mother liked to point out, the baby Jesus has no business in the cradle of a Nativity scene until Christmas Day, anyway. She was raised “foot washin’ Baptist,” (though, as she liked to say, it didn’t take), and she knew whereof she spoke.
And, yeah. What Austin said.
An idea from David Brin
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/
Um, what? Where is all this mysterious unclaimed “property” right now?
I call dibs on Manhattan.
I own Santa Barbara. All of it.
As long as we are giving away property, I claim Jackson Hole WY, Kaikoura NZ, and Ross Island, the royal society range of transantarctic mountains and the dry valleys of Antarctica. Don’t worry, I’m not greedy, I’ll share.
I also really like Byron Bay Australia, so if no one else wants it, I’ll take that too.
I’ll take large parts of the Red Rocks; Capitol Reef and Zion would do.
Act quick or you’ll get stuck with Newark.
I’ll have the Peninsula part of Cape Town but I think maybe the Khoisan have prior ownership – they found caves with evidence of human habitation from way back. Mussel shells and paintings and so forth.
Lawd, land reform and restitution in SA is such a bloody awful mess, we should all just emigrate.
I’d also like a slice of Antarctica, if that’s OK with you, Helmut
I call dibs on the North Beach area of San Francisco. Just keep making pasta dishes and focaccia and nobody gets hurt.
HAWAII IS MINE.
First order of business: Expel all the honkies.
OK, I read his bit and it goes into more detail after the quoted passage. Apparently he thinks that people won’t be willing to actually claim all their illicit shit, stuff owned by more-than-three-levels-deep shell corporations, etc., and would somehow rather let that revert to the state than claim ownership.
I find that… unlikely at best.
Anyway, his heart’s in the right place at least. He did tack this bit on the end too:
Nice idea. Who collects this tax?
Also, I have clear claim to Oregon and all its beer, obviously.
A financial transactions tax is too obvious and logical to ever be considered.
Nice idea. Who collects this tax?
Oh boy–the coincidence of this question during an Obama administration is almost certain to spin out more than a few of those John Bitch Society fucks.
I dunno WHO would object to using jackbooted UN thugs to collect taxes…
The long hard smooch of the law
http://www.theonion.com/video/bloomberg-defends-nypds-controversial-stop-and-kis,34731/
He said the nine Twitchy staff writers, disparately located around the country,
WOW! NINE staff writers! NINE writers to, as Wonkette put it, To copy-paste the code for “embed tweet” and then add SNAP.
Must be a hugely successful site – worth hundreds of millions if not billions!
Imma thinking those contributing editors aren’t, like, full time paid employees. Let’s take a look at them.
Jacob Bunn @jacobbunn
Jacob’s passion is his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and is studying Public Relations in college. He is a sports reporter, writer, and podcaster, primarily covering college football. He is a member of the Football and Basketball Writers Associations of America. He owns and publishes http://www.BunnSports.com. Additionally, he is involved in various other sports media projects.
I see, a slacker godbothering student with delusions of grandeur.
Such an impressive bio leads me to wonder who his whingnut sugar daddy is. Name does sound familiar … Oh yeah, Adam Brickley explains how he influenced the direction of American politics from his mom’s house. (starts at about the 5:30 mark)
tl;dr: LOSER
awshit.
New post.
Dennis, with his bare face hanging out, solemnly stated:
Which explains the tumbleweeds whistling through comment threads once the mods have come and swept up all your mango pulp. In the words of a great American philosopher, “Is that really what they believe on the planet you’re from?”
So the analogy was less than optimal. Do any of you have a more apt analogy to offer, or are we just looking for reasons to beat up conservatives? I’m not a conservative, BTW, I’m just not into scraping the bottom of the barrow looking for reasons to beat them up.