I’m on vacation. 🙂 I’ went to the Opryland and saw the vine lady, and tomorrow I’ll be in New Orleans.

Suxxors!!!

Will there be Allende earmuffs available for Christmas?

“Usually, we only hear about corporations caving into left-wing demands for sensitivity.”
Hmmm.
Corporations are for-profit entities. They go where the money is.
Ergo, if we take Malkin’s theory of a higher capitulation to “left-wing” demands, it would therefore indicate that the left-wing is where the money is.
Given that Target is not, per se, an “upscale” merchandisery (I coined that. $.50 per use licensing fee) the money the Corporation is after is not large, sporadic sums, but in a steady income of small increments. Or rather, quantity over quality.
Taking this into account, Malkin just admitted that “right-wing” must be the minority demographic in America, and not “mainstream” at all.

I can see why she’s spending time these days on the “Abe Simpson” brand of political punditry, and not things that require great thought.

That’s so Hugo!

Wah wah!

Abe Simpson, you say?

“We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ’em stories that don’t go anywhere — like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.
“Now where were we? Oh yeah — the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.”

About as relevant as Malkin.

I’m still looking for a Chernyshevsky T-shirt.

Where does Michelle sit on this one, I wonder:

http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff/269321

I hear the Alexander Litvinenko tee shirt glows in the dark.

While I feel obviously strong emotional and political bonds with Walmart on several levels I don’t like the fabric blends nor the workmanship in their clothing. Rather, I get all my clothing made by an old tailor in Argentina. He has a nice selection of conservative patterns and old style fabrics and provides “Old Europe” style workmanship.

Regards,

Reinhard

Hugo Chávez action figures for the kids!

Frankly, the best way to OFFEND a Marxist is to sell a Che Guevara T-shirt. If you want to make them happy, sell a Ronald Reagan T-shirt, and massively jerk up the price. It will conform better to a Marxist conception of the world.

This is the closest I’ve ever come to owning a Che T-shirt. It’s kind of fun, because no one ever gets it when I wear it. Apparently, no one knows who Groucho, Harpo, and Chico are anymore. And Zeppo gets all the love of a Leon Trotsky. It’s a sad world out there.

Don’t have it anymore and can’t find a pic on the web, but I once had a t-shirt with the image from this album (which was a great listen, by the way). Very few outside my demented band of college pals had a clue what either the shirt or the LP were all about.

OT: Anyone besides me feel really old when required to talk about pre-CD audio recordings? The very terminology places me in, well, Abe Simpson territory.

That’s ok, I like this one better, anyhoo.

The from the NRA’s graphic novel would make an awesome shirt.

P.S. Smiling Mortician, I still have all my Led Zeppelin albums.

I know I closed that tag, fer Jebus’ sake!

I’ve discovered why Gary Ruppert is so scarce these days… it’s because he’s been helping write Investor’s Business Daily editorials.

It’s true!

The fact is we do not hear many of President Bush’s critics bemoaning the exit of Hussein or arguing against the desirability of a free Arab state in the Middle East.
…
The invasion is therefore only a mistake if Bush’s objectives are not achieved.

OT completely, but I’m spending entirely too much time in hospital. I’m back, now, and quite grouchy… or is that Groucho? [rimshot] I am also older by one year, and feel snitty about that, too. So, almost Merry fucking Christmas to all… except for the Christmas Guy.

In Re: Smiling Mortician: Shoes for Industry!

I don’t know islmfaoscist… While that argument is a fallacy, I’m not sure it would worthy of Ruppertia. Arguing that because liberals view Bush’s mid east plan as a failure = bemoaning the exit of Hussein and hating democracy is more like Gary’s “reasoning.”

Poor Che. His idealistic photographer gave his portrait to the world and the world used it to get a buck off of stupid teenagers who know nothing about him.

Well if nothing else Wal-Mart is helping to ID the Pukes to cap first.

For extra Ruppertia, the argument should have concluded: ….and if Bush’s objectives are not achieved, it will be the fault of the liberalfascicommiecrats.

Then again, if embarrassment affected her, she’d already be living behind the water heater, scratching her arms with a pushpin with a blue tarp over her head.

Whoa, Gavin, the imagery, the imagery….

mikey

Smiling Mortician, since we’re talking about Malkin:

“Oh, my God! That woman’s trying to killme!!”

Exit, stage left. Fast.

Bah! It’s not even a ‘totenkopfe’ – the skull has a lower jaw in this graphic.. makes it specifically not a ‘totenkopfe’ but a plain old skull and crossbones.

Oooo

3rd SS Division Totenkopf.

Off the topic of Malkin and controversial merchandise but on the topic of Christmas, Pamela of Atlas Shrugs has drafted her own version of “The Night Before Christmas.” My favorite stanza:

Now Murtha! Now Al Gore! Now Obama! Now Kerry!
And your first woman speaker, oh, this could get hairy!
Our soldiers stand strong as you cut off their funds,
They leave behind their blood, as you cut, turn and run.

Y’know, I’ve been thinking about this. It must have to do with the indoctrination of gender roles and expectations growing up in 20th century America, but I react with a much stronger visceral loathing to war-mongering bloodthirsty women than I do to men. Sure, a part of it is I suppose I expect a woman to be more nurturing and less willing to encourage killing and destruction on a grand scale, but if I was going to be honest, I’d have to admit that a part of it is my anger that a woman in America or Western Europe is very unlikely to ever have to live through the consequences of a “kill ’em all” policy.

I suspect there are far fewer pro-war women in war zones from Palestine to Baghdad to Kandahar to Somalia to Sudan…

mikey

marq, feel better soon! Happy Holidays of your personal choice to you and yours.

Jillian, I was in a Marx Brothers tribute vaudeville-type troupe (Marxmaniacs) with a couple of my brothers and some friends in my younger days. I played the Thelma Todd parts! One of my brothers was Harpo. He still has the costume with the special coat to enable silverware-dropping.

Are you on the whyaduck.com list? Or http://www.marx-brothers.org? My brother is in a bunch of the photos, and he contributed the photos of his Neshobe Island pilgrimages. I’m not sure if Frank is still keeping the sites updated, but there’s some good Marxian stuff there.

I think many of the female warbloggers overcompensate and go more batshit to fit in with the guys, mikey. Instapundit, just as an example, might be bright enough to know he’s always lying, but Pammy believes herself. Vaguely reminds me of rabid sports moms who don’t really understand the sport but care to an insane degree about their kids winning.
Princess isn’t here to call me sexist, but I’m not saying girls don’t get war. Just some of them.

“The fact is we do not hear many of President Bush’s critics bemoaning the exit of Hussein or arguing against the desirability of a free Arab state in the Middle East.”

Ya don’t hear us bemoaning against free milk shakes and gold bars every weekend, either; buit that doesn’t make the goal any more acheivable.

I dunno, I’m still stuck with all the I”m an Eager Weaver” tshirts I had made last year with James Weaver on them. I just don’t get kids today…

arguing against the desirability of a free Arab state in the Middle East.

Actually, see, we already knew that you cannot create a truly free western-style democracy from an authoritarian dictatorship at gunpoint. Instead of trying to kill your political adversaries, you invite them into the process. The risk, of course, is that they may win, but that is the nature of a true democracy (see America, November 2006, or Palestine, January 2006). Probably bush/cheney’s ultimate hypocrisy was to punish the Palestinian people for freely and democratically electing people we don’t like…

mikey

Steve T. and Smiling Mortician:

My school spirit’s in the rumble seat. Want a snort?

I hope your health improves soon, Marq. Happy holidays to you and everybody here.

Hey, Gavin, how about a told-you-so T-shirt for the holidays? Pictures of 2 or 3 famous lefties (Michael Moore, etc.) with their prescient quotes about how attacking Iraq would be a disaster, and “WE WERE RIGHT” in big letters. Or a pic of the big demonstrations before the war and “WE WERE RIGHT,” “maybe next time you’ll listen to us” or something similar.

I just feel a not-very-nice urge to rub it in these days.

STH, haven’t you heard? We’re only a tiny SURGE from total victory in Iraq. Goddam defeatocrat…

mikey

Why o why do I hate America???

Probably bush/cheney’s ultimate hypocrisy was to punish the Palestinian people for freely and democratically electing people we don’t like…

You forgot Venezuela.

The Revolution will not be Televised:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144&q=chavez

Do I get a car with my order of the “powered by Hugo” bumper sticker?

Hey, Gavin, how about a told-you-so T-shirt for the holidays?

Can do!

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