More Fire!
The Naughty Girl, citing the highly reliable and not at all ideologically biased Middle East Media Research Institute, is busting her last remaining gasket over Hamas-educated Arab children who wield toy machineguns and chant out slogans about dying for Allah.
There are only four appropriate reactions to this horrible news, and I went through all of them today: first, I thought “those kids are hilarious”. Then, I thought, “those kids are adorable”. After that, I went through a long period — I think about six and a half hours — of thinking “those kids are adorably hilarious, or hilariously adorable”. But finally, by focusing my vision on a spot directly between Michelle Malkin’s eyes, I was able to come to my senses and arrive at the most proper conclusion: “those kids are horrible menaces to freedom and truthficality”, I thought. “Surely this is just further proof that all Arabs are bad and should be blown up with cluster bombs.” Why, when I was a boy in parochial school, and I’d take a break from playing with toy guns on the playground to come into class and sing “Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war” with my little chums, never did I dream that someday I would live in a world where children would be exposed to such violent religious rhetoric!
Michelle has a solution, of course: we must become as cruel and brutal as the evil ragheads. We need to gather our kids together and hand them fake guns and make them sing songs about destroying the vile serpents of Mahomet! “And how are we preparing the children of the West to defend themselves against these little soldiers of Allah?”, asks Michelle, showing her familiarity with the device known as the ‘rhetorical question’:
In New York City, one nursery school dragged 3-year-old toddlers to the office of Rep. Eliot Engel, where they sang “It’s a Small World” around a 12-foot “Tree of Peace.” The children’s teacher, Valerie Coleman-Palansky, defended the stunt thusly: “I think it’s appropriate for 3-year-olds to know that the world needs to be a peaceful place for everybody to live in and a safe place for everybody to live in.”
You see the problem here, folks? While in so-called Palestine, children are being told to grow up into human hand grenades, we here in pussified America are teaching our kids nonsense like ‘the world should be at peace’ and ‘people need a safe place to live’! Good grief, why don’t we just wrap ’em all in a hijab and throw them in the East River?
I have a pet peeve. It goes beyond the antiwar indoctrination rampant in American schools. At the playground and at the mall, I see 5-, 6- and 7-year-olds walking around with pacifiers in their mouths. Kids old enough to feed and dress themselves. Kids old enough to figure out the remote control and cell phone. Standing upright, suckling on brightly colored binkies.
Also, what’s with all the colored people chewing gum? And the so-called music they play on the radio! It’s just a bunch of noise!
Teacher asks: “How do you feel?” The sheeple answer: “I’ve been feeling optimistic about the future.”
You see what I mean? While the Muslim terrorists are breeding a generation of go-getters who are energetic and peppy enough to think of themselves as hopeless from birth and with no greater aspiration than to end up smeared across the roof of a bus, here we are in America, raising kids who feel good about themselves and who are optimistic about the future! We’re doomed!
British educators have now determined that “asking pupils to put their hands up when they think they know the answer to a question in class could make quiet children fall behind,” according to the London Telegraph. To spare students from this awful terror, the British Department of Education is now recommending that children be given 30 seconds of “thinking time” before being asked to answer or told to discuss questions in pairs before answering.
Encouraging our children to think before they answer a question? That’s the last thing we need! Do you think the jihoddlers are thinking before they speak? For Allah’s God’s sake, people! Listen to Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza! If we’re ever going to conquer the violent, irrational prejudice and hatred of Islamist indoctrination, we have to learn to start copying the violent, irrational prejudice and hatred of Islamist indoctination! What puts out a fire, after all? Water? NO! It’s MORE FIRE!
D. Aristophanes adds: Disheartening to hear that the toddlers were “dragged” to the “stunt” of singing a song for Rep. Engel and his staff.
I am told that little Billy Thompson only attended under formal protest. The precocious Olivia Jones put it bluntly: “Bad peas song! Bad for Mare-ka! Don’t wanna sing!”
And wee Mandy Applebaum was furious that her precious time was wasted, time that could have been spent taking a nap, playing blocks or live-blogging Fox News’ pre-show runup to the Republican presidential debate.
I’m with Malkin on the pacifiers, however the only place I’ve seen that is in Europe. Here at home, I haven’t seen too many inappropriately old kids with pacifiers.
I think she was referring to the candy pacifiers that were popular a couple of years back.
Count on ol’ Michelle to turn a candy craze into an existential crisis. Man, her worldview must be d-a-r-k
I can’t imagine what it must be like to see everything with such fear. Fear and Hatred. How bleak.
MEMRI?? Isn’t that the source footnoted on every page, behind every argument in everyone’s favorite Magnum Doofus?
Man, her worldview must be d-a-r-k
Whatever do you mean? I think it must be wonderfully comforting to have such an all-encompassingly paranoid worldview. After all, anyone or anything that scares, offends, enrages, or even annoys her can be blamed on Islamocommunofascists! Someone disagrees with her on politics? They’re a terrorist-loving traitor to America! She gets cut off in traffic? The other driver must be a jihadi! Wrong change at the supermarket? The clerk is obviously skimming money to send to Al-Qaeda! Raccoons broke into her garbage cans last night? It must have been spies for the Muslim-coddling One World Government! And so on.
Man, I would love to get me a worldview wherein everything that went wrong in my life was the direct fault of sleepless, insidious, ever-plotting enemies, rather than being a case of, you know, shit happens.
I think she’s talking about candy ravers.
“Jihoddlers,” brilliant.
Up until that last video they translated they were a good translating service. They had a nasty agenda and I don’t think an outfit that cherry-picked Hebrew media to translate and diseminate anything that made Jews sound like bloodthirsty animals would be given a platform the way MEMRI was given, but they didn’t just make things up.
I was suprised by the clumsy mistranslations they have started using.
Roy got there first and, in my opinion, better.
I was suprised by the clumsy mistranslations they have started using.
Oh, I’m sure there’s a perfectly innocent explanation for that.
Yuck. Seriously,can you imagine being stuck in the house with her? Or on vacation,in a car? At a party? Anywhere?
Malkin is a prime example of who the wingnuts are at heart. Mean,small,petty people who simply hate everything and find”evil”in children being taught about peace. Everything is either liberal or conservative to her,most likely right down to what she has for dinner.
Oh,and the binky thing? I’ve never seen a kid past age two with one,unless you count those gnarly candy things,and even those fell out of fashion awhile back. I’m around kids every day, older and younger, and it just doesn’t happen. And really,does anyone think for a minute that Michelle spends time around other people outside her little hamster cage? She’s full of shit. It’s not some trend,she likely saw one kid and went with that.
I don’t know about anyone else,but I’m fucking sick and tired of being made to pay for all these assholes who weren’t cool in school and most likely got bullied or stood up for prom or whatever the fuck. The whole fucking realm of politics has become all about unresolved high school issues. Malkin needs to grow the fuck up.
Michelle has a solution, of course: we must become as cruel and brutal as the evil ragheads.
Send ’em to Jesus Camp!
Sorry, Steve! I didn’t mean to let you down. I’ll endeavor to be funnier and more timely than Roy in the future.
Michelle Malkin = Bat Boy
What’s this with you guys constantly stepping on Roy Edroso’s toes?
Shorter Malkin Thing (should serve for every thing she ever writes or says in the indeterminate future):
“I hate all Muslims. There is nothing Muslims can do to make me hate them less. When they talk of jihad, I hate them. When they talk of peace, I hate them more. The way they raise their children, treat their women, speak that foreign language, pray, eat, shop, live, work, BREATHE!! I hate Muslims. Oh, and we should kill them in great numbers. Camps, gas chambers and ovens ought to do the trick. Yep, we need to preserve American values, and that’s the way to do it.”
Well, it’s a LITTLE shorter…
mikey
You guys are all wrong. The National Parks Service estimates that approximately 30,000,000 children between the ages of 5 and 10 regularly suck on binkies every day in this country. My solution?
1. Build a fence between the U.S. and Canada.
2. Nuke Mecca.
3. Arrest and deport to Gitmo all MLB executives who authorize Spanish-language uniforms on Cinco de Mayo.
Is it not smarter to encourage speaking out in class and a realization that being wrong is okay, that it is a pathway to learn? Those that are quiet have adopted a detrimental position not out of envy or feelings of inferiority but out of cautiousness. And where is the proof that their falling behind comes from the fact that they are quiet – we always hear about nasty boys taking over all discussions in school because they want to, I dunno, penetrate everything – even the acoustic surroundings.
Yet girls do better academically in most stages of education throughout the western world. I don’t think Malkin is onto anything here (apart from an indignation-drenched going-to-the-dogs roll) but whenever you subject a group of kids to a system of behaviour some may be hampered in realizing their potential and developing an identity…
“asking pupils to put their hands up when they think they know the answer to a question in class could make quiet children fall behind�
Notice the ‘could’. Should decisions regarding children be made based on what ‘could’? Iran ‘could’ nuke our Judeo-Christian forefront in Israel any day now! I demand action!
Forgive me if my communication has connotations I have not considered or if I seem antagonistic – as long as no one is a knee-jerker I am ready to eat my words facing superior argumentation…
How’s this for superior argumentation?:
BAT BOY!!!
What’s this with you guys constantly stepping on Roy Edroso’s toes?
You think there are limits to the war on toerror?
“How’s this for superior argumentation?:
BAT BOY!!!”
I can’t catch that reference. Is it sports related? I live in Sweden, and thus I on a continent where people don’t have to wear padding in order to play Rugby.
God, that makes me sick. Who is this liberal freak? She should be showing these children looping footage of bodies falling out of the WTC while haranguing them over a crackly speaker about Islamofascism.
I’ll be checking out Edroso’s post shortly, but damn, this is good stuff. “Jihoddlers” – excellent. “…a generation of go-getters who are energetic and peppy enough to think of themselves as hopeless from birth and with no greater aspiration than to end up smeared across the roof of a bus…” – excellent, and ballsy like I wouldn’t dare.
Nicely done. Snark, condemnation, it’s all there.
Shit, I didn’t know Wingnut Watching was a race. This changes everything! Who’s in charge of the start gun?
Xel: Go here and scroll down. The reference should become clear.
Good stuff, Mister Pierce.
Lesly beat me to it. The Malkin was clearly being ghostwritten by Becky Fisher.
I too would find a 7-year old with a pacifier upsetting if I’d ever seen one; Michelle is just so much more observant than the rest of us, I conclude. She can’t be just making shit up, can she?
She has pet peeves. Another news flash for her readers!
J-
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Seriously, I couldn’t have even said it because when I embed links, they don’t work.
But, Xel- Beware of the celery. Be very wary.
Shit, I didn’t know Wingnut Watching was a race. This changes everything! Who’s in charge of the start gun?
I’m not saying only one person is allowed to make fun of a given wingnut post – obviously, every day is a pile-on in the blogosphere – but if you aspire to comedy, you at least have to find an original hook. Otherwise, you end up like Carlos Mencia.
Notice the ‘could’. Should decisions regarding children be made based on what ‘could’? Iran ‘could’ nuke our Judeo-Christian forefront in Israel any day now! I demand action!
Yeah, and the Earth could get hit by a giant meteor tomorrow, so you better give me all your money. That’s kinda silly, isn’t it?. For one, a subtle change in the UK’s education policy based really isn’t the same thing as conditions for friggin’ war. I’m sure there was a bit of thought put into it, as well, a little bit of research, not just a gut feeling.
Now, I don’t know about the original story, but Malkin didn’t go into those details. However, stuff like this, reporters tend to gloss over the details, and cranks like Malkin do even moreso. Don’t mistake the simplification of journalsim for similar acts in policy, and never believe a word a conservative pundit says without checking and double-checking, because they will lie.
Frankly, if everyone took 30 seconds to consider their answer before they opened their big yaps, I think this world would be a much easier place to deal with.
Michelle Malkin seems perpetually enraged that our culture is not more aggressively militarized. Did she serve in the military herself?
My reaction to Malkin’s view of what we should be teaching our children: God, I pity her children (who I’m certain are easily identifiable decked out in their camo, packing their little mini-Mausers)!
“they sang “It’s a Small Worldâ€?”
Waitaminnit… I thought peacenik hippie liberals were supposed to be anti-torture.
Damn. That was quite cool.
“For one, a subtle change in the UK’s education policy based really isn’t the same thing as conditions for friggin’ war. I’m sure there was a bit of thought put into it, as well, a little bit of research, not just a gut feeling.” Sure. I just don’t want to take this lightly. That is, I can’t take it for faith that the change is benevolent or malevolent. Y’know. I wan’t trying to position myself, just point out that Malkin may have been…
…
more correct than incorrect (urgh)
sorry Steve, but you’re just wrong. “Jihoddlers” alone makes this post worth it, never mind the rest of the funny.
Ha ha ha ha alicublog rulez Lennerd Peerce DROOOOLZZZ one one one!
Now shut up while I make a prediction (hand to brow; silence) I predict… Michelle Malkin… will soon… say something stupid! I called it, I own it, you can’t write about her ever again! One one one one one one!
(shimmy-leg dance; waves fire-damaged, naked Barbie)
Christ, isn’t it five o’clock yet?
That’s it. I challenge you to a duel.
This is off-topic, but I feel I can’t let this pass without comment.
A few weeks ago, when the Democrats caved on Iraq, I made a cheap joke that if Nancy Pelosi were an NBA draft pick, she’d be Chris Washburn. In other words, that Pelosi is a bust. I was half-kidding, as I’ve always sort of liked Pelosi.
Well, today I see on DailyKos that Pelosi and the House leadership has passed a bill that funds the stupidest, wingnuttiest Bush policy of all: abstinence education. Here’s a direct quote:
“The most appalling aspect of this sell-out is that that the Democrats will not only fully fund the worst of the failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs—they’ll give them a $27 million increase—the first in three years!”
Then the money shot:
“Lawmakers say the olive branch extended to Republicans increases the likelihood that the bill will pass the House with a veto-proof majority. It also sends a strong signal that Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis., will avoid controversial social policy changes this year in the interest of moving bills.”
Yes, the Democrats suck. Yes, Nancy Pelosi sucks. Olive branches? Are you fucking kidding me? The Chris Washburn comparison was too kind. There is only one grade I can give Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House– F. A big, fat, fucking F. These people have spent the last six years being completely shut out of the government. We wanted lions and we got lambs. We are well and truly fucked.
David Obey has a very appropriate surname. Obey whatever the fuck the Republicans tell you to do. Fucking sell-out cocksucker motherfucker.
“more fire”?
i’d say oil is what crazy michelle moronkin wants to add to this particular fire. and yes, erdroso is right–she makes the opposite point of what she thinks she’s making.
she takes the “i don’t think you know what that word means” riff to new levels of intellectual incoherency.
Xel,
Well, I don’t see how on earth she could come anywhere close to making a sane point rational, intelligent people thought wasn’t total gobbledygook. Here ’tis: Michelle is basically saying the whole 30-second thing is merely PC balderdash that makes us LESS MANLY than those evil, disgusting Muslims. She’s arguing that the only reason it’s being done is not because UK educators have done the study and research, pondered upon the results and decided, as a group, to maybe give this a shot – since because the old way might could do with some change, most folks argue – but because, essentially, we’re pussies. That, in a nutshell, is friggin’ stupid. It’s right up there with the idea that the whole climate change deal is just a scam to destroy capitalism. Or that UFO’s are demonic apparitions designed by Satan so as to fool people into think there might be aliens, thus…something about God not existing or something.
She’s so far from having a point to make, it’d make Wolfgang Pauli’s head swim. You don’t have to take it “on faith” that this decision is benevolent or malevolent; you can actually look up the whys and wherefores. For Johnny Paycheck’s sake, don’t take Michelle Malkin’s word that the grass is green without looking first.
And hell, I’m curious…why would adopting a rule that there’s 30 seconds of “thinking time” before a pupil can answer a teacher’s question, based around the idea it’ll give shy kids a better chance, make for a “malevolent” change (however you’re chosing to define “malevolent”).
Hey, who beat whom on the Haddick bit? The guy that said journalists need to be threatened with death if they don’t toe the line. I can’t tell from the time-stamps. Granted, roy’s entry had a bit more meat to it, but one has to admit that the Sgt. Slaughter pic goes a long, long way.
There’s less than two weeks of pre-k left but that’s plenty of time for my kid and his classmates to learn to fashion IEDs and suicide belts. Fuck all that artwork he brings home. How is he going to take out a sidewalk cafe with a finger painting or some stupid dinosaur cutout? I’m tearing all that shit up right in front of his face tonight and marching straight into the school director’s office first thing in the A.M. to demand some changes. Now, you might ask me why I sent my kid to a progressive preschool in the first place if I didn’t want him to grow up with progressive ideals but I’ll just answer by saying fuck you you fucking commie.
And I manage a t-ball team so there’ll be no more practicing grounders, throwing drills, home run trots, etc. We’re going to blow a huge fucking hole in the roof of the field house and claim it’s not even damaged because denial of the obvious takes practice. You haven’t seen cute until you’ve seen a bunch of 5 year olds working up a full mouth of foam trying to discredit news stories.
Malkin has the right to say whatever nuttiness is on her asian mind. This is all about the First Amendment. Let’s not follow the gov’t down the path of censorship. After all, censorship is becoming America’s favorite past-time. The US gov’t (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like “America Deceived” from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (even for Malkin).
Last link (before Stark County District Library caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
Well, Malkin will be pleased to know that, yes, there are people in America who believe that it’s necessary for their 4, 5, 6 year olds to know how to handle automatic weapons. Sure, they’re just pussy 9mm now, but they’ll work their way up to 5.56 and 7.62 eventually.
Now, if we could just make Pipebombs and required course to graduate from elementary school…
She’s so far from having a point to make, it’d make Wolfgang Pauli’s head swim.
Matt, that’s rockin’.
I would have left it at that, but then you went on to mention Johnny Paycheck and obliquely reference Erma Bombeck, all in one frenetic paragraph. Now that’s something. I’m not sure what exactly, but it is.
What the hell goes on inside her head?
“Children being taught to parade around with guns and chant violent slogans–I am appalled! I also admire this practice deeply and wish Western schools would do it! Glargle munfum buzz buzz ftang dood I’ve decided there are 7-year-olds somewhere sucking on pacifiers!”
Malkin has the right to say whatever nuttiness is on her asian mind. This is all about the First Amendment. Let’s not follow the gov’t down the path of censorship. After all, censorship is becoming America’s favorite past-time. The US gov’t (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like “America Deceived� from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (even for Malkin).
Last link (before Stark County District Library caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
Oh, Thomas. Oh Thomas, Thomas, Thomas.
I’m sure you’re proud of your theories about September 11 but they are, how you say, not correct.
Tinfoil hats make strange bedfellows.
Hey, waitaminute, Lawnguylander. Wait one cotton picking minute. Every time I see video on my teevee of a terrorist training camp, they always show the terrorists-in-training on the monkey bars. Now, your kid spends some time on the playground, right? So just make sure he gets on the monkey bars, and that’s real jihadi training. If it’s good enough for Osama’s boyz, it oughta be good enough for you.
And what is it with the whole training “camp” deal, anyway? They’re hopelessly stuck in the early nineteenth century, before we had electricity and indoor plumbing? Not to mention plasma screens and ethernet. They need to update their nomeclature. How about “Hi Performance Jihadi Training Center”? Or maybe “Organized Resistance Education Systems”. Something a little more twentyfirst century, y’know?
mikye
they sang “It’s a Small World…â€?
Oh, that’s just great. Now I have to listen to that stupid song playing in an endless loop in my head.
because no one else said it:
Michelle has a solution
is it “final”?
She has pet peeves.
Hell, Davis, she has a whole freakin FARM of peeves. She’s the Crazy Peeve Lady of her neighborhood.
Her psyche qualifies as a world-class Zoo of Peeves, and she’s the foremost Peeve Biologist.
She’s got striped Peeves, Flying Peeves, amphibious Peeves, not to mention the Screaming Peeves and the Killer Peeves.
Matter of fact, she’s BREEDING them; After a few generations, now most of ’em are downright MEAN, and some of ’em are getting LARGE….
I have a pet peeve.
This really pisses me off. Here she is gloating about her exotic livestock, when I can’t obtain a mere snake.
Also, I hate Billy Pilgrim.
and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings.
Wow, he conclusively proved, with no doubt, that thermite took down the WTC. I’ll be awaiting a link to his peer-reviewed study any time now.
He made what is called a hypothesis. A hypothesis is not proof of something. Please choose your words more carefully, lest you look silly.
You know what’s really scary? Last December at my kid’s pre-school, the teacher had them ALL singing “Peace on Earth/Goodwill toward man.” The Islamofacistdefeatocrats are tryng to brainwash my son!
“I see 5-, 6- and 7-year-olds walking around with pacifiers in their mouths.”
Weird! I’ve never seen such a thing, but then again I live in Australia and by age five most kids are normally seen sucking on an icy-cold can of Victoria Bitter.
Aww, jeez, these assclowns make my ass tired. Dood. I don’t know what you were doing that day, but we SAW those planes hit those buildings. We KNOW that happened. Now, why anybody would want to find an alternate explanation for why the buildings fell down, because, oh I dunno, a HUGE airliner full of jet fuel flying at over 500mph isn’t fucking good enough, dood, you don’t need science, you need a long, quiet rest and some righteous meds. Sheesh, we don’t have enough problems with stupid, mindless bigots in power in DC, we have to have idiot CTs too….
mikey
Don’t get me started on the local playgrounds, Mikey. Filled as they are with moms who are constantly going on about not hitting or biting, encouraging their little ones to wait their turn for the slide, blah, blah, blah, I’m getting nowhere trying to replace the carefree joys of (much of American) childhood with xenophobic paranoia and murderous resentment.
Yes, Michelle is kind of spittle-flecked these days, but she doesn’t hold a candle to the shrieking harpy. Pam has always been bad, but she is now all-out batshite insane. After I spend a few minutes over there I need a shower to wash off teh dirty.
Also: I hope that Our Little Michelle is not going to start preaching to us about pedagogical technique now–“wait time” after questioning is and has always been a big issue, and it’s definitely real.
If I had talent and less to do in my life, I’d rewrite Cosmic Thing as Malkin Thing.
But I don’t, so I won’t.
I will note that many here forget she is also deathly afraid of spanish speakers.
Mikey, it’s amazing how the 9/11 theories fall apart at the slightest hint of scrutiny. This Steven Jones guy is the most science-y “expert” the tinfoil-hatters have. Here’s a few tidbits from his wikipedia page:
Jones has always maintained that the paper was peer-reviewed prior to publication, though it has never been published in an independent peer-reviewed journal.
Umm, yeah, that’s what I thought.
Jones: My paper was totally peer reviewed!
Critics: Umm, can we see that peer review?
Jones: Umm, no. Dog ate it.
But people like our friend Thomas D will tell you that it’s censorship that got Steven Jones fired– that his bold truth-telling was just too hot to handle. He’ll have no explanation for this:
“The university cited its concern about the “increasingly speculative and accusatory nature” of Jones’ work and the fact it had “not been published in appropriate scientific venues” as reasons for putting him under review.”
In other words, he was too chickenshit to submit his paper for legitimate peer review, the university got sick of the embarrassment, and they canned him, but not before he walked away with a nice, fat retirement package. Censorship, my ass. Jones has the right to peddle his crap wherever he wants, and the university has the right to lance embarrassing boils. See, the system works.
My peeves/
mypeevesmypeevesmypeeves/
My lovely lady heaves…
I don’t know about anyone else,but I’m fucking sick and tired of being made to pay for all these assholes who weren’t cool in school and most likely got bullied or stood up for prom or whatever the fuck. The whole fucking realm of politics has become all about unresolved high school issues. Malkin needs to grow the fuck up.
Hey, that was me in high school, and while I was a wingnut back then, I, oh, how you say, grew up. Wingnuts were mistreated in high school, but they also hold a grudge. Hint: it ain’t worth your time. Move on.
All my papers are peer-reviewed too, you know.
Is it my fault that the reviewers keep sending them back with “The author was clearly a credulous moron who has baked his own brain in the microwave” scrawled in red ink all over every closely-written page?
So just make sure he gets on the monkey bars, and that’s real jihadi training. If it’s good enough for Osama’s boyz, it oughta be good enough for you.
Thanks, mikey. That cracked me up. Every time I see those videos I say to myself, “The fuck they doing on the monkey bars?” And then they go and jump over something like a cross between the steeplechase and the vault, and I say, “Which is, track and field or gymnastics? You can’t have it both ways!”
Which is it
MCH,
It was something. While for legal reasons I won’t say exactly what it was, but it did share two letters with your moniker. In other words, I don’t have any control over it and I do thank you for the kind words.
Johnny Paycheck ruled. The real deal, boy, perhaps maybe the pure-dee meanest shorenuff redneck in country music.There’s not a picture of him where he don’t look like he was about to whup someone’s ass. And his music was killer, too. His early stuff, if you haven’t heard it, man, dig it up. And I’d call his ’70s heyday Billy Sherrill’s finest accomplishment, and I’ll stand on George Jones’ coffee table in my tennis shoes and say that. The beer joint avatar.
Never ever get me started on country music from the ’70s. Bobby Bare or Tompall Glaser particularly. Ruined more dates that way.
country music from the ’70s
I was in Fort Worth and Austin in the mid ’70s. Rusty Wier, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Willie and Waylon, It’s a good night for singin, Aqua Dulce, the Razoback saloon in FW, Dear John Letter Lounge in Austin. Dude, that was so much better than this. It might have been heaven.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Iowa….
mikey
All my papers are peer-reviewed too, you know.
Is it my fault that the reviewers keep sending them back with “The author was clearly a credulous moron who has baked his own brain in the microwave� scrawled in red ink all over every closely-written page?
Hey, Dok, you just got the wrong peers…
And if Malkin-magic doesn’t like weeny children feeling optimistic about the future, does that mean she wants a great big dollop of bebby suicide? Isn’t that a bit, you know, cruel? Does she plan on tormenting the poor tykes until they’re weeping their widdle eyes out? Calling them nasty names and suggesting they cack their pants on a regular basis, until they get so mad they fly at her in a temper tantrum?
Parents would just love her for that. But hey, at least she’d be stirring the populace to violence. Against herself, true, but we’ve all got to make sacrifices.
What struck me from the link is the absence of her picture. Does she think her wingnut followers really care about her ideas? Conservative ideas come from corporations and right-wing think tanks (see: Iraq, occupation of). She is just their public face. (See: Bush Jr., Saint Reagan, Fred Thompson, et al.) However, a public face without the face just doesn’t work.
And hell, I’m curious…why would adopting a rule that there’s 30 seconds of “thinking time� before a pupil can answer a teacher’s question, based around the idea it’ll give shy kids a better chance, make for a “malevolent� change (however you’re chosing to define “malevolent�).
Thinking, like reality, has a well-known liberal bias. Teaching children to think is political indoctrination.
I don’t know what kind of people frequent the mall in Michelle Malkin’s neighborhood, but I’m not seeing 5 year old kids with pacifiers in their mouths where I live.
And to add to that, I think Michelle Malkin could use a pacifier.