Ugh
So the possibility or maybe even probability of Syrian and Iranian sideshows in the Bush-Cheney war-cineplex is inspiring wingnuts to queue up en masse. No, not for enlistment, silly, but in anticipation of beating off to war porn.
The first of the would-be Pee-wee Hermans is Michael Ledeen, who is closely followed by Cliff May.
Then we hear from Larry Kudlow, who is so lubed and ready he blurts his pet name for beloved Dear Leader: ‘President Backbone.’ Wow. I mean, not Peter-North or Dirk-Diggler ‘wow,’ but still, it’s a star’s name.
But these are amateur wankers; the dedicated war porn-masturbators, Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn, cut the line, sending many a KY tube, blow-up doll and fellow wingnut sprawling. They’re hard-core, and expect the same of their war porn; and like all such people, they confuse exactly who is the producer and who is the consumer of the product. Put another way, they eagerly anticipate beating off to the exploits of rugged Murkin sojers whom they believe they closely resemble.
Above: Mark Steyn, soulless masturbator to the spectacle and tally of carnage.
Still, something new is in the air and the excitement is palpable. Where Mark and Hugh believe they have been in the front lines all along fighting al-Qaida and Iraqis, ‘President Backbone’ has perhaps added fresh starlets, Persian and Syrian, to the cast.
MS: Well, you know, the reality is that the President has a very good line. He says, when he’s asked to justify the war in Iraq, he says we’re fighting the terrorists over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here. Well, why not extend that thought a bit farther, and say instead of fighting them in Iraq, which is perceived as home turf for the United States Military at the moment, why not actually take it to them in Syria and in Iran? I said, you know, when I met with the President a couple of months ago, I said to him well look, Iran and Syria have been subverting Iraq for three years now. Why not subvert them in return? Why not exercise the right of hot pursuit? And he said now you’re thinking, boy, and gave a big laugh, and I didn’t see what was quite such a joke about it, and I’d hope that he’s at least considering it.
Mark has talked over the script with the star! He’s, like, a gonzo director or something!
HH: They rolled up another half dozen Iranians in, I believe, Mosul today, Mark Steyn. It seems to me that perhaps we are going to focus in on exposing the Iranian connection for all to see. And there were large explosions yesterday at various places in Iran. I suppose we might do things and not say anything about it.
MS: Yes, and I do believe that’s the best thing to do. I’m not…I think one of the lessons, really, of the last five years is that it’s very hard for democracies, multi-cultural democracies in a media age, to fight wars if everything has to be, you have to hold a press conference about everything. And the example I always cite is the so-called action in Indonesia that the British conducted after Malaysian independece, when the Indonesians were trying to subvert Malaysia. British and Australian and Malay troops just crossed the border and started sticking it to the guys in Indonesia causing them all trouble, and they settled that thing, and hardly a word made the papers. And I do think that that’s actually, if anything is done against Iran and Syria, that’s the way it’s going to be. I’d be very surprised, for example, if American forces took action across the border in Syria, I don’t think Bashar Assad would be keen to call a press conference and let CNN film his summer palace with a big hole in it. So I think actually doing it on the quiet is the best way to do it.
To hell with ‘gonzo’, Mark’s an auteur! See, Mark has cleverly recommended that President Backbone’s money shot be a surprise to the audience, but most importantly to those philistine producers who pay for the project! Genius!
HH: That’s true. Now Mark Steyn, the President warned that there will be many images of carnage coming up, and I think in that warning was an implicit rebuke to the mainstream media in America, that they can either be with us or they’re going to be against us. And if they fall for the style of Hezbollah-engineered atrocities, they will be against us.
Hugh has just upped the ante: If the producers don’t like the action, too bad! Who do they think they are, film critics? You either like — and pay for — President Backbone’s style of steamy hetero action or, well, you’re a fagg0rt and you can go watch or produce Falcon Films with Chad Whatshisface! Mark agrees:
MS: Yes, I think that’s true as well. But I would say something else on that, that I think it would be useful for us to know what carnage we’re inflicting on the enemy. And again, this was something that came up when I saw the President, because people were wondering why we don’t release casualty figures for the other side. In other words, we only hear about the American troops who die, and Iraqi civilians who die, and he pulled a piece of paper from his side, and said that in some little bit of action that very morning, that I think it was something like 1,000 terrorists had been killed. Well, I think Americans would be quite heartened at the number of bad guys being killed by coalition forces in Iraq, and that it would be worth, actually, getting that side of the equation. There’s no point in releasing a score if you’re only giving one team’s score.
HH: You know, I asked Tony Snow about that, and he said well, for example, in a recent month, 103 Americans had died, and more than 5,000 terrorists died. And he said we tend…the Pentagon doesn’t like to put that out there. I don’t know why not, Mark Steyn.
MS: No, I don’t know why not, and I think it does make a big difference, because I think that actually tells you the scale of things.
They want close-ups, dammit, close-ups! But we lose sight of these two Pee Wee Hermans as they buy their ticket and get ready for the show. They are annoyed to be jostled in queue by the even more eager Jules Crittenden, who babble-quotes on and on about technical matters. The line of wingnuts is hushed as Jules mentions something interesting along the technical, geeky side of war porn enthusiasm:
“I don’t think they are fighting for the regime. I don’t think they are fighting for the freedom of Iraq. But make no mistake about it. They will fight,” Wolford said. “Like I told you a thousand times, they put one round on you, you put one thousand rounds on them, until those pajama-wearing motherfuckers stop firing. They put one AT (anti-tank) round on us, you blow the whole block up. There is no collateral damage concern that will stop us carrying our mission out. When we’re done, we’ll rename the place Assassin town, because we’ll own it.
Ooohs and ahhhs from the crowd. ‘Pajama-wearing motherfuckers’ is awesome, but ‘blow the whole block up,’ in a heavily urban environment, after HH and MS have mentioned the massive scale of casualties, and that can mean only one thing: think ‘civilians’ and ‘gangbang’.
This show is gonna be a blockbuster!
“…more than 5,000 terrorists died.”
“…that I think it was something like 1,000 terrorists had been killed.”
In a day’s work here or there? If you want to promote numbers like that, why argue against a study that suggested that the number of Iraqi dead exceeded 100,000? Think of all those terrorists (and future terrorists) we’ve killed!
America, FUCK YEAH!
All those 3 year old terrorists! I’m sure many of those 1000 in a day or 5000 in a month were NOT terrorists.
I’m a peaceful person, but the things I’d like to do to all these warmonger pundits. They are evil, evil shriveled little bastards. If I believed in Hell it’d be great to know they would get the treatment they deserve. The only problem is that they’d probably enjoy the company of Hitler, Stalin & Pinnochio.
I remember seeing one of the new Twilight Zones a few years ago. Aliens came to Earth & wanted to talk to us about our warring ways. In anticipation of the visit by King Alien, all nations make peace. Then King Alien gets on the stage & says “We put you on this planet to evolve into warriors. You keep doing an okay job, but then declare peace. You’re a big disappointment. Demo begins tomorrow.” Right now, I actually think the aliens would be pretty impressed with us…
And just how many of our soldiers had been involved in killing 1,000 terrorists? How long did it take? How many of our boys and girls in uniform won’t be coming back from that?
What a delightfully detail-lacking statement.
Look, I’m not standing up for Mark Steyn’s viewpoint, but why publish a photo of him sitting in front of a bookcase full of innocent books? What have the books to do with this? Also, he’s wearing a tie his mother gave him.
Please do the decent thing and remove that photo.
No, not for enlistment, silly,…
Ace is going to have another hissy fit. I mean chickenhawk Ace.
i thought “pajama-wearing motherfuckers” was a reference to pajamas media. a not so subtle request that they fact-check more in future, but then i realised it said wolford not wolcott. now i’ve no idea what he’s gibbering about.
what the fuck is it with these days with all these bearded wingnuts? shouldnt they all be clean shaven with a slight dusting of manly stubble? and not just ordinary beards, they’re fucking ginger! that’s definitely a no-no. and i certainly don’t want all us normal beardies suffering guilt by association. maybe we can club together and buy steyn and trevino a couple of razors.
This Wolford chap sounds like a real prize. Prize idiot, to be accurate. He’d have done well at Dujail, though…
what the fuck is it with these days with all these bearded wingnuts?
Many of them can only grow peach fuzz, so their faces remain smooth as a baby’s behind. The hairy ones grow beards to appear manly. Like, “Whoa, I look like a bearded lumberjack. I’m going to let this grow out to impress the ladies and let the bigger guys no they can’t push me around.”
That’s my condescending theory. Apologies to non-wingnut bearded men and bears.
I’m sure many of those 1000 in a day or 5000 in a month were NOT terrorists.
What are you talking about? Of course they were terrorists. We know that because they’re dead, and we only kill terrorists. It’s a simple rule: If you’re killed by the American military in the Middle East, you were, by definition a terrorist. Sort of like how we’re only detaining people in Gitmo who are guilty, so we don’t need to give them lawyers and trials and stuff.
If you’re killed by the American military in the Middle East, you were, by definition a terrorist.
There is, however, and exception for Italian journalists.
i thought “pajama-wearing motherfuckersâ€? was a reference to pajamas media…
Wait, does that make My Pet Jawa’s name choice more or less comprehensible?
Is a Jawa something from Star Wars? It sounds familiar.
Jesus. These guys and their embarrasing mancrushes. Kudlow’s buttcheeks were trembling when he wrote that.
Oh it was a wingnut term for middle-easterners — more pc than “raghead,” “camel jockey,” or “sandnigger.” It’s because in the wingnut mind they all live in the desert and wear robes. Go fig.
he said now you’re thinking, boy, and gave a big laugh, and I didn’t see what was quite such a joke about it
When your ideas are too crazy for Dubya, it’s time to quit punditin’ and get a job modeling Thorazine and straightjackets.
Oh it was a wingnut term for middle-easterners
Really? Man, I’ve been giving the wingnuts too much credit. You’d hardly have thought it possible.
Yes, that would be the decent thing. After all, that picture reminds me and my cat of happier times reading his theatre reviews. Take it down for me, will you? Not for him, but for me!
Why not exercise the right of hot pursuit?
Finally, a geopolitical strategy that Bush can understand — the Roscoe P. Coltrane Doctrine.
That’s what California gets for not electing Dick Mountjoy.
“Like I told you a thousand times, they put one round on you, you put one thousand rounds on them, until those pajama-wearing motherfuckers stop firing. They put one AT (anti-tank) round on us, you blow the whole block up. There is no collateral damage concern that will stop us carrying our mission out. When we’re done, we’ll rename the place Assassin town, because we’ll own it.
Ummm, waitaminute. I’m confused. The wingnuts have been telling us for years that we had to go get Saddam because of the atrocities, the mass graves, the brutal killings of civilians. But now we’re supposed to proudly, patriotically out-saddam Saddam? Maybe we could break out the Sarin?
mikey
That picture is so lo-res that nobody can identify the works behind him so I say it stays. They look pretty old too so I don’t think that bookbinders worried their disticntive styles are easily identifiable are alive enough to show up here and ask that they be kept out of this. If their heirs show up then you might have an ethical issue, Retardo.
One other thing. Tough guy here says:
they put one round on you, you put one thousand rounds on them
Like this is some kind of special. Does it sound special? Think about it. Your platoon comes under fire. You’ve got about 30 guys with 30 round mags of 5.56. You’ve got 10-15 guys with 203s. You’ve got at least 3 guys with SAWs with hundred round boxes. Your platoon has put about 1200 rounds downrange before anybody even reloads once. Hell, the doctrine forty years ago to break an ambush was put out boocoo rounds. I get the impression this guy’s primary real-world experience is at paintball, but he ends up all orange…
mikey
Those books look to me like the kind of cheap 19th century bindings you buy by the linear foot at antique stores, to line your shelves with and demonstrate how cultcha’d ya are.
I have no idea whether there’s anything actually printed in them, but I’ll bet Steyn couldn’t tell you either without checking.
Why not exercise the right of hot pursuit?
Especially since Steyn won’t be the one receiving a face full of pepper spray when the “talent” gets pissed.
Those books are a painted backdrop. Fake, non-existent, figments of imagination.
Like Steyn’s understand of his own worth and the world around him.
Poor tie, having to be strung around the neck of that walking pile of dog shit.
“Like I told you a thousand times, they put one round on you, you put one thousand rounds on them, until those pajama-wearing motherfuckers stop firing. They put one AT (anti-tank) round on us, you blow the whole block up.
Ohhh…look…the wingnut can make veiled referneces to The Untouchables. I’m impressed….NOT!!!
There is no collateral damage concern that will stop us carrying our mission out. When we’re done, we’ll rename the place Assassin town, because we’ll own it.
And when Wolford is done masturbating to butchered Muslims, I shall rename him Assclown, because he is one.
Actually the books look a lot like a flat Olan Mills backdrop for “your professional portrait.”
And I almost did a spit-take at the Roscoe P. Coltrane Doctrine
Coo coo.
i really think they should start publicizing the number of iraqis they’ve placed beyond the reach of tyranny.
And I almost did a spit-take at the Roscoe P. Coltrane Doctrine
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
OMG, I finally got it: Peter North! Only took me twenty years.
I will say, however, that I got the wink-wink “Mr Hardwick” reference in Debbie Does Dallas by the tenth viewing.
bow-chicka-bow-chicka-bow — Mister Greenfield! — bow-chicka-bow
[i]And I almost did a spit-take at the Roscoe P. Coltrane Doctrine[/i]
Same here. Dubya is like Roscoe’s dimwitted, less-athletic younger brother.
Ech, President Backbone? Could that be any more gay-porn?
Who knew the Hussein hanging video was just foreplay?
I happen to know those books are not innocent, that they contain WORDS such as “peace”, “Islam” and worst of all “de-escalation”. No, those books belong in the Guantanamo library, which is undoubtedly where the photo was taken.
Pantload: At least Bush wants to win, not like those dirty hippies who won’t clap loudly enough.
That’s a steaming load of grade z poop from the spawn of Lucianne.
“I get the impression this guy’s primary real-world experience is at paintball, but he ends up all orange…”
They won’t let him play anymore. The first time out, he shot his full magazine at a guy who tripped, and it wasn’t until he stopped giddily laughing at the yellow mass on the guy’s back that he realized it was his own team mate. Then he got shot by the enemy and got a big painful bruise, and from then on he couldn’t walk out on the field without soiling himself.
Now he contents himself to stand outside the nets and pretending he is ordering strangers into battle, like “President Backbone” would.
Sperm?
*iggit*
Dubya is like Roscoe’s dimwitted, less-athletic younger brother.
That would explain why he pronounces it nuk-u-lar.
Re: backdrop, maybe Mark Steyn has the library study carrel next to Chris Flickinger.
[H]e said now you’re thinking, boy, and gave a big laugh. . . .
Because what could be funnier than the Middle East going up in flames?
Anyone seen the post Retardo put up at baseballthinkfactory.org?
That’s the only dog I have in this hunt anymore, exposing as spectacular moral cretins all those who continue to defend such a despicable person.
That Barry Bonds is a psychopath and a cheater and otherwise a horrible horrible human being, as everyone who is sentient and decent knows. Everyone else deserves scorn and humiliation as the relevations continue and their defenses of Bonds’s depravity continue.
It’s not enough to say that such people are, like Bonds, menaces to the health of baseball: they are, like Bonds, in their defences continually giving evidence to what awful human beings they are.
I’m serious. Stupidity of the intellectual and moral sort that comes from and with Bonds defences doesn’t come ex nihilo, nor is it likely to be an isolated thing for them. Such a sustained defence in the face of all evidence and moral logic strongly implies that these people are probably depraved idiots in other aspects of their lives, in other facets of their weltanshauung.
And whatta you know, Nieporent’s still shilling.
QED.
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/bonds_blamed_failed_amphetamines_test_on_teammate/P200/
Sheesh…I agree with his politics, but this is a bit nutty.
Would it be nutty if Bonds was a congressman and his fans were voters? He sounds like a perfect candidate for a hack job in the Bush administration.
Bonds has way too much integrity to work in the Bush admin.
until those pajama-wearing motherfuckers stop firing
The little guys in black pyjamas? I thought that was a war or two ago. Oh well, jihadis or Viet Cong, what’s the difference… The Enemy is faceless and interchangeable.
And what the hell, if hating them for their ideology, or their religion,or the color of their skin gets old, we can always hate them for what they wear. And who better to loathe the fashion choices of the jihadi set than American Wingnuts?
mikey
You know, I asked Tony Snow about that, and he said well, for example, in a recent month, 103 Americans had died, and more than 5,000 terrorists died. And he said we tend…the Pentagon doesn’t like to put that out there. I don’t know why not, Mark Steyn.
Even using wingnut logic (i.e. remove all feeling for your fellow humans and focus on very, very hard figures), that’s extemely discouraging. You get a 50:1 kill ratio and you still can’t control the country? What does that say about how out of control the situation is? Maybe that’s why the Pentagon didn’t say anything.
And body counts are so out of style.
I thought the wingnuts HATED that Preznit Backbone Mountain movie.
You know, when I see pictures of Steyn, I start to think Eric had a point.
America will invade Canada when it finds out we have a new show called Little Mosque on the Prairie, a Canuckistanian comedy that ridicules racists and fear-mongers and the corrupt Canadian police authorities (first episode had an extended Arar bitchslap). Go Canada.
The American wingnutosphere is already up in arms (not literally of course, not yet) about it. ‘Course they haven’t seen it. They will never see it because the word “mosque” sets their eyeballs on fire.
Finished your lunch? Good. Now, just for grins, lemme tell you how body counting works. First, everything thats dead is the enemy. Enemy soldiers, enemy goats, enemy chickens. If it’s still alive, it might be a civilian, unless it’s wounded in which case it’s the enemy and you either finish it or take it prisoner. Kind of depends on who’s watching and how you want to spend the next couple hours. Got it? Ok, next, counting. A body is one dead. If it’s blown in half, it’s two dead. After a lot of artillery or air, this can become a little more dificult. A torso is clearly one, but if you find a leg by itself, well, that’s gotta be one too. Lumps and chunks require a little common sense. Some entrails are clearly one dead. Hunks of flesh probably don’t each count as one, so you kind of eyeball them and round up. Eight lumps of flesh? Let’s call that three dead. After napalm it’s easier, with every large roasted thing counting as one dead. This can be tricky if there are animals in the area. A pig is one enemy dead, a water buffalo is three. After a firefight, blood trails each count as at least one. Lots of blood without a body is probably two or three, right? Then everybody gets together and gives their number to S2 without a lot of checking to see if anybody counted the same bodies.
See? With a little practice, its not hard at all to get to absurd ratios like 103:5000…
mikey
You see Little Mosque, Lesley? I enjoyed watching the premier. Seeing as the Muslims in it were portrayed as ordinary everyday fallible humans (like the rest of us), I can see why the rabid right wouldn’t like it. Unless it was Little Concentration Camp on the Prairie, they’re going to hate it.
Body counts don’t mean anything in war. Even in a conventional war, kills can get counted several times. One soldier shoots and sees an “enemy” crumple and assumes he or she was responsible. Another shoots in the same direction and thinks that they did it. And seeing as war ain’t nothing like the movies and human beings get torn into God knows how many parts (and sometimes less than parts), getting anything resembling an accurate number is impossible. To this day, historians argue over casualty lists for World War II. Factor in an insurgency and, hell Mikey said it better than me. If there is any measure of “victory” in war, it sure as hell ain’t body counts.
Who knew the Hussein hanging video was just foreplay?
Best line on this whole sorry phenom. Just when someone might suspect we’re being too hard on the Reichtards, they produce another load of rancid, death-worshipping shite. And the Bush League is viral-marketing directly to his target audience now…
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Otto Man said,
January 12, 2007 at 18:36
Why not exercise the right of hot pursuit?
Finally, a geopolitical strategy that Bush can understand — the Roscoe P. Coltrane Doctrine.”
I was thinking more like Benny Hill?
His Grace,
You see Little Mosque, Lesley?
I watched it last night and quite enjoyed it. As you say, fallible humans and stupid senseless redneck rightwing humans, too. Canada has it all, but at least we’re not asceered to laugh at ourselves. In this way, we are indeed very British.
Corner Gas and Little Mosque should get together for a hoe down. 🙂
Ooh-la-la boss, this invasion of Russia you have planned has me totally pumped. I just know it’s gonna turn out great.
Little Concentration Camp on the Prairie
You mean Hogan’s Heroes?
Speaking of 🙂
Bush polls lowest evuh at Rassmussen.
Rassmussen has consistently had him higher than everyone else (I think they use a larger number of Republicans in their samples).
The fact is, Laura Ingalls Wilder was found murdered in an Arizona flea-bag, amidst a raft of home-made war porn.
“Good evening, I’m Mark Steyn and I’m sitting in front of a bunch of books…. don’t let them eat me.”
Man alive, and I thought I was an evil fucking sociopath. I’ve got nothing on Steyn.
You mean Hogan’s Heroes?
I have often wondered whether or not wingnuts believe if Hogan’s Heroes was a realistic portrayal of WWII. I mean Rambo explained Vietnam and honestly I think their ideas of fighting terrorism come from too many episodes of GI Joe. Still, I have to wonder, how cartoony is the world they live in? (I probably don’t want to know that answer).
I got this great video that explains everything
http://www.celebhead.vh1.com
And when can we finally move into Red China?
And when can we finally move into Red China?
When we pay our bills?
Re Hogan’s Heroes. Although I was born in Canada, I spent my formative years in Germany because my father, an airforce major, got stationed there. Both of my parents became fully bilingual and sent us kids to German kindergartens. We had airforce brat friends in our little airforce neighbourhood, as well as German friends. Our nanny, who I remember fondly still, was German. When we returned to Canada, my new Canadian schoolmates called me a Nazi because I spoke German, said the Lord’s prayer in German, had pierced ears (as all little German girls did), and bragged about how much better the primary school in Germany was.
My mother refused to let us watch Hogan’s Heroes because she said it not only stereotyped Germans as stupid, but completely misrepresented and trivialized the nature of war.
My father fought in the second world war for the RAF, and later the RCAF. Both my parents detested the Nazis, but they appreciated the complexities of culture and had many close German friends who detested the Nazis and who went through hell, like many other civilian victims of war.
I watched Hogan’s Heroes when she wasn’t looking and got the same laugh out of it as everyone else. I never forgot what she taught me though.
Werner Klemperer, who was Jewish, didn’t seem to mind playing Colonel Klink. Of course, he didn’t know about Bob Crane’s home-made porn collection…
In other matters – I checked Jules Crittenden’s bio, and he makes no mention of any wingnut relatives. However, the name isn’t particularly common, and David Frum’s wife (of “my husband invented the Axis of Evil” fame) is a Crittenden…coincidence?
Interestingly, Danielle “Mrs Frum” Crittenden’s stepfather is batshit crazy Toronto Sun columnist Peter Worthington. So is propensity for right-wing lunacy nature or nurture?
What really bothers me is that I get the feeling that when you read the absolute worst, lowest bits of wingnuttery, what you are getting is a look into George Bush’s naked soul.
Of course, they read books and can form complete sentences, so Bush actually has more excuse for his foulness.
On a personal level. On the practical level, he’s the one with the nuclear football. Future generations will not understand why we let that happen.
Jules Crittenden is Danielle Crittenden’s cousin. Jules states that here.
Wingnut incestuous daisy-chains. *shuffle shuflle…slurp slurp…fap-fap-fap…”No, no, move that leg…no move…ouch”…fart…Danielle!*
>>HH: They rolled up another half dozen Iranians in, I believe, Mosul today, Mark Steyn.
It was Irbil, and those rounded up were part of a diplomatic consolate mission. Even our closest allies in Iraq, the Kurds, are in an uproar over the abductions
>>I don’t think Bashar Assad would be keen to call a press conference and let CNN film his summer palace with a big hole in it.
I lived in Syria for half a year. Assad doesnt have palaces. Hes a very modest man. He doesnt even have a driver according to a NYT Magazine article about him from 2005. Im not praising the dictator, but his country is >nothing
And there were large explosions yesterday at various places in Iran. I suppose we might do things and not say anything about it.
Well, if you have some kind of a problem with blowing up a whole building on the hush-hush then you just don’t understand what terrorism is all about.
Wait, did I say terrorism? I meant fighting terrorism, of course!
I laughed all the way through Little Mosque. CBC comedy series are hit or miss, if you ask me, though I continue to harbor a hope that all of Made in Canada will be out on DVD eventually. But this one, I suspect I’ll stick with. Plus, half the cast fits my admittedly loose definition of “eye candy”, which is a far better ratio than the increasingly annoying Intelligence. Not that that’s relevant or anything….
Sheesh…I agree with his politics, but this is a bit nutty.
Sure it is if you don’t know the context.
Argue for years against a bunch of fanboy libertarian fuckheads who’ve been proven wrong RE: steroids cheaters (especially Bonds) and sooner or later you come to loathe such people who argue from bad faith (and dogma, too).
And the worst of them also happen to be ‘libertarians’ of the Glenn Reynolds variety in other subjects more germane to Sadly No.
As the public and HOF voters have come to the anti-cheating stance, and the cheaters’ reputations rest deep in the bottom of the trash pit, all that’s left for me is to gloat to such horrible fuckheads. Cos it’s easier to gloat about that than to gloat about the state of the same fuckheads’ beloved Iraq War, right?
In order to accommodate various books, cat owners and bookbinders I put forth a motion to add Rick, Donny and Marie to the picture. It’s the only decent thing to do, really.
Dr Fegg, I also find it fascinating how Syria has been tacked on to Iran in the new Axis Of Evil, as if there’s any similarity between the two. It’s somewhat reminiscent of the way WMD lumps together chemical weapons and nuclear weapons as if their mass destruction capabilities are at all similar. And of course in both cases the incessant repetition of the phrase lends the smaller threat some of the gravity of the bigger one.
The wingnut idea of war comes from many many allnighters spent playing Desert Strike on the SNES. With Game Genie codes on.
“Why would we need more than one helicopter?”
“Infinite ammo–sweet.”
Now, just for grins, lemme tell you how body counting works. Mikey
Any chance that scene from Apocalypse Now where Duvall’s throwing playing cards on bodies for the count – i.e. 1 body=10 if the card is the ten of spades – was accurate?
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D. Sidhe: I have the DVD of Made in Canada. Another similar, and even better Canadian comedy – at least, the first season – was The Newsroom. That show might have inspired The Office (British version). It’s out on DVD and definitely worth the investment. (Forget the second season, though. It sucked!)
missing link: The News Room
I spent two hours stuck in a doctor’s waiting room today, and was reduced to reading Mark Steyn’s back columns for the past year and more. Desperation, what can I say. In one memorable bout of wisdom-giving, Saint Steyn spent a full two-page spread explaining why Ann Coulter’s logic in her last book is simply irrefutable on all counts. Two pages. Ann Coulter. Right about everything.
Nuf said about Mark Steyn.
Most telling moment about Coulter: she was on the Crappy Morning Show X Yaaaay! with Matt Lauer, doing her “9/11 victims’ families are SUCH pussies” thing. Matt was asking her, with the intensity of a slightly doped up manatee, if she felt this was in poor taste, and Ann started screeching about him getting “testy” with her.
I’ll make a deal. We’ll let them deport Micheal Moore if Ann Coulter has to go with him.
Bush is getting beat up so badly by bullying bloggers that, in the end, this political underdog will rise again simply due to the sympathy he begins to draw.
Come ON! Are you moderating out of existence the true speculation about “President Backbone” as a good nickname for Bush?
It should obviously be President Bonerz. That is true nickname for Bush among the wingnuts, and the name that future world-conquering right-wing programs will recognize.
If Bush doesn’t demonstrate the biggest political comeback of his career by the end of 2007, my name is Donald Trump.
I’ve got the Made In Canada DVD too, but only the first season is out. I don’t know what the hell they’re thinking–one presumes the same brilliant marketing decision that puts Red Green out on DVD in every fashion other than, you know, by season. Canadian TV: Never start watching a new show till it’s been on the air at least three seasons. Otherwise, you’ll be annoyed when we cancel it just for fun. (Yes, a DaVinci’s City Hall fan.)
What were we talking about again?
Whoa, was that really Donald Trump?
At least the original SCTV is now available!
A little OT, but the Hogan’s Heroes reference calls a friend to mind, a very intelligent, well educated and superbly talented musician who grew up in Austin, Texas. (He denies he is a Texan, he says he is a recovering Texan.)
He spent many years living in Germany, speaks German like a native, has recorded many times as a pianist – jazz, ragtime, and classical – and as conducter with German orchestras. Some years ago he married a young German woman and brought her back to the US, where they are raising their two small children.
And when he was visiting maybe twenty years back, I found him happily watching Hogan’s Heroes on TV. I asked him, how can you enjoy this mindless drivel???
He said, “I turn that on … [pointing at TV] … to turn this off … [pointing at his head].
If anyone has better explanation for the existence of the TVLand channel, I haven’t heard it.
Hehe. Red Green. There’s a whole slew of analogies between Possum Lodge and the Bushco WH.
Dr. BLT is going to steal my name? I demand that Sadly, No! remove his posts immediately!
Desert strike was much better on the PC.
“In order to accommodate various books, cat owners and bookbinders I put forth a motion to add Rick, Donny and Marie to the picture. It’s the only decent thing to do, really.”
I also put forward a motion, can Colonel Kurtz be introduced next to Steyn.
Sure it is if you don’t know the context.
I guess I just find it odd that you get so worked up about Bonds and steroids. What’s the big deal? Esp. in the context of this post — with everything else that’s going on in this country, worrying about steroids seems like a waste of time. so some guys bulked up with drugs…eh.
I hope he does steal your name, Donald. After I’m through with it, your name will be mud anyway.
Sure, mikey! It’s all OK, as long as you don’t bury anyone! No mass graves = no atrocities. Kill all you want, bomb all you want, it’s all good Booyah!
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